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5 Reasons Why Clemson Will Win the College Football Playoff
College Football /
By Jon Kinne, 12/4/17, 9:30 AM EST
Clelin Ferrell and the Tigers are ready to defend their national title
It wasn't a completely smooth ride during the course of the season, but here we are in December and the defending national champions are the No. 1 seed going into the College Football Playoff. After dismantling Miami to win the ACC championship, the Clemson Tigers are primed to take home the big prize this year as well.
The Tigers will once again tangle with Alabama, and either Oklahoma or Georgia will be a formidable foe in the title game. But here are five reasons why Clemson will become the first school since Alabama in 2011 and '12 to claim consecutive national championships.
1. Defensive line
Mounds of praise has been heaped upon the Clemson defensive line over the past two years and the dominating performance against Miami on Saturday night proved that all the gushing reviews are justified. Tackles Christian Wilkins and Dexter Lawrence (above, right) were nasty once again and Clelin Ferrell was his usual disruptive self. Austin Bryant barely showed up on the stat sheet, but the senior end has had a huge campaign and also boasts a postseason pedigree. While the big four play the vast majority of the snaps, there is some depth waiting their turn. This is arguably the best defensive line in America. and if someone beats Clemson it will be by limiting the damage done by the Tigers' defensive front.
2. Defensive versatility
Defensive coordinator Brent Venables is not married to one scheme and the diversity of his game plan is always hard to crack. Of course, for his system to work, Clemson has to have defenders that can do many different things. Safeties Tanner Muse and Isaiah Simmons have the size to sneak up close to the line of scrimmage, but also are solid in coverage. Dorian O’Daniel emerged as a star this year by not missing tackles, showing an ability to rush the passer, and being an effective cover linebacker. The Clemson defense’s ability to show multiple looks — and to be so effective in every situation — is a primary reason why the Tigers are No. 2 in the country in scoring defense (12.8 ppg).
3. Kelly Bryant’s development
The junior quarterback capped off a very strong season with a sensational performance in the ACC Championship Game. He has always been a threat running the ball, but he is now becoming a dangerous passer as well. Bryant (right) completed his first 15 throws against the Hurricanes and those completions accounted for 164 yards. In total, Bryant was 23 of 29 for 253 yards and a score. The Clemson pass catchers are a dangerous bunch and he is now getting them the ball in ideal spots. Everyone is aware that Clemson’s worst games this season — highlighted by the loss to Syracuse — occurred when Bryant was banged up. He is healthy now and has the look of a championship quarterback.
4. Offensive line
The 26 sacks allowed is in the middle of the pack nationally, but the protection has been much better since the loss at Syracuse. Tiger quarterbacks were sacked just four times in the regular season’s final five games and though Miami got to the quarterback four times in the ACC Championship Game, Bryant had time when he needed to make plays. Beyond giving their quarterback upright, the running game became a force in the latter part of the regular season. The Clemson offense has become well balanced and that is due in large part to the success of the offensive line in both pass and run blocking.
5. It’s the playoff and this is Clemson
It’s the Tigers' time of year. Clemson not only knows what it’s like to be in the playoff; the Tigers know what it takes to win it all. But really, it’s more than just the championship they won last year; it’s how the coaching staff pieced things together after midseason slumps. After the loss to Pittsburgh late in 2016, head coach Dabo Swinney righted the ship and Clemson played their best football leading into the four-team tournament. A similar scenario unfolded this fall as after falling at Syracuse, Clemson has ascended to the top seed in the playoff and is now the team to beat. With their top-end talent combined with high-level preparation, the Tigers will take home the third national title in program history.
— Written by Jon Kinne, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network and a college football fanatic. Kinne has been writing about recruiting for the Irish Sports Daily for 10 years. Follow him on Twitter @JonRKinne.
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Disney cruise offers a magical experience for children of all ages
February 12, 2013 February 9, 2013 by Jackie Scheckler Finch
Mason Muldoon discovers a water spigot in the Disney Magic children’s pool.
ABOARD THE DISNEY MAGIC – Nicole Muldoon wanted to take the family to Disney World Resort. Her husband preferred a relaxing ocean cruise.
The couple reached a great compromise – they booked passage on the beautiful Disney Magic.
“It’s wonderful. Just what we needed,” Marc says of the family’s first Disney cruise.
Getting away from wintery weather at their Cape Cod home has been a welcome break. “It was really cold at home when we left,” Marc says. “And there’s still a lot of winter left.”
The family’s two sons, 6-year-old Marc and 1 ½- year-old Mason – are splashing around in Goofy’s Pool on this sunny day. While big brother Marc is enjoying the bigger kid’s section, little Mason has discovered his favorite spot – flat on his stomach while a wading pool spigot sprays water in his face.
An oilfield worker, Marc spends three weeks away from his family on his job and three weeks at work. “We wanted to get away and spend some time together as a family,” he says.
Another thing he likes on the Disney Magic, Marc says, is the complimentary use of a Wave cellphone so he and his wife can easily communicate on the cruise. Each cabin has two of the portable phones for free shipboard calls and text messages. The phones also work on Disney’s private island Castaway Cay.
Logan Peters tries out one of the complimentary WAVE phones aboard the Disney Magic.
“If Nicole is on another part of the ship, I can call her,” Marc says. “The kids’ activities also can call us when the activity is done and they are ready for us to pick up our kids.”
Folks who have a tendency to lose things might not want to carry these phones. Guests are charged $250 per phone that is lost, damaged or not returned to the stateroom prior to debarkation.
Although I don’t have a little one on my family cruise, I did check out the Magic’s special kiddy spots. Designed for children ages three months to 17 years, the ship offers youth activities that are supervised by trained counselors and feature some of the longest operating hours at sea.
The Little Mermaid-themed Flounder’s Reef Nursery lets infants and toddlers ages three months to three years enjoy life “under the sea.” As an added convenience, all baby products needed for a Disney cruise can be pre-arranged and delivered directly to a guest’s stateroom upon arrival.
It’s not an official port of call but children feel like they’ve been transported to Peter Pan’s Never Land at the whimsical Oceaneer Club. This child-friendly oasis, themed to Captain Hook’s pirate ship, contains a play area with slide and rope bridge, a “captain’s closet” filled with costumes and toys and an open seating area for arts, crafts, games, storytelling, musical fun and dancing.
Kids go to “infinity and beyond” at the space- and science-themed Oceaneer Lab. Twinkling star-like lights and giant planetary spheres fill the room along with an oversized Buzz Lightyear figure. Computers with video games and music stations begin the exploration and kids can participate in crazy experiments at the interactive science lab, as well as enjoying karaoke jams, pajama parties, sports challenges and more.
A tiny princess meets Disney’s Belle from Beauty and the Beast aboard the Disney Magic.
One of the things I like about the Magic cruise is that children can become involved in hand’s-on activities that appeal to a child’s sense of creativity and invention. The next great celebrity chef could be discovered at Ratatouille Cooking School where children work together to bake tasty chocolate chip cookies. Or a budding dancer could be learning the do-si-do with Snow White.
During the Animal Tracking Series, children discover that conservation can be fun as they learn about endangered animals and create an animal tracking device. In Flubber, children join the Professor in creating magical green goo and other interesting concoctions.
Vibe (ages 14 to 17) and Edge (ages 11 to 13) are ultra cool teen- and tween-only hangouts. The areas are the perfect chill-out spots with comfy couches, computer games, plasma-screen TVs, MP3 player and other tech necessities. Activities include dance parties, trivia games and sports contests to keep teens and tweens engaged and entertained.
“Children have changed very much in the last five or six years,” says Cruise Director Darren McBurney. “They are very different from when we started 15 years ago.”
Today’s young people have grown up with technology and expect it to be part of their lives. So Disney Cruise Line tries to integrate today’s technology with yesteryear’s more simple pastimes.
Children of all ages are delighted by Disney characters aboard the Disney Magic.
“Children do want technology but some of the greatest programs we have for youth have nothing to do with technology,” Darren says. “It’s a fine balance nowadays.”
Although I have cruised with Disney several times I am always surprised to see how much the youngsters enjoy interacting with Disney characters. Children of all ages collect Disney autographs and wait in long lines for photos with their favorites. Some little girls even dress up like their favorite princesses.
Sitting behind a couple of little girls in their princess finery waiting for the live production of “Villains Tonight” in the Walt Disney Theater, I watched as the youngsters scrolled through their parents’ cell phones to admire photos of themselves with Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and others.
Seems somehow appropriate that these teeny gals consider it quite natural to combine high-tech with fairy tales. The Disney Magic does have a way of spreading pixie dust aboard its magical cruises.
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Craft Collecting Hobbies
Politics of the Joy of Printing
Author(s): Danielle Aubert (Editor)
A timely exploration of political organizing, publishing, design and distribution in 1970s Detroit
In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit with wife and partner Lorraine Nybakken, Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a Chicago dealer, transported it, in parts, back to Detroit in their cars and the Detroit Printing Co-op was born.
Operating between 1969 and 1980 out of southwest Detroit, the Co-op was the site for the printing of the first English translation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle and journals like Radical America, produced by the Students for a Democratic Society; books such as The Political Thought of James Forman printed by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; and the occasional broadsheet, such as Judy Campbell's stirring indictment, "Open letter from 'white bitch' to the black youths who beat up on me and my friend."
Fredy Perlman was not a printer or a designer by training, but was deeply engaged in the ideas, issues, processes and materiality of printing. While at the Detroit Printing Co-op, he radically rethought the possibilities of print by experimenting with overprinting, collage techniques, different kinds of papers and so on. Behind the calls to action and class consciousness written in his publications, there was an innate sense of the politics of design, experimentation and pride of craft.
Building on research conducted by Danielle Aubert, a Detroit-based designer, educator and coauthor of Thanks for the view, Mr. Mies, The Politics of the Joy of Printing explores the history, output and legacy of the Perlmans and the Co-op in a highly illustrated testament to the power of printing, publishing, design and distribution.
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| Allegiance = [[House Stark]]<br>[[House Lannister]] (through marriage)<br>[[House Arryn]] (as Alayne Stone)<br>[[House Baelish]] (as Alayne Stone)
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Later recounting the tale to Joffrey's father, King [[Robert I Baratheon]], at [[Darry]], Arya tells the truth while Joffrey lies, saying that Mycah, Arya, and Nymeria attacked him without provocation. Sansa, not wishing to betray her future husband, lies and refuses to verify either story, pleading that she does not remember. Cersei uses the opportunity to insist that the direwolf that attacked her son be killed. Arya, having anticipated this, had driven Nymeria away. To assuage the queen, Sansa's direwolf Lady is killed by Eddard instead.{{Ref|aGoT|16}}
In King's Landing, Sansa feuds with her sister, placing the majority of the blame on Arya for her direwolf's death. She remains infatuated with Joffrey, largely overlooking his violent mood swings, and develops a close relationship with Queen Cersei as well. Attending the [[Hand's tourney]] celebrating her father's appointment, she finds many of her notions of [[knight]]ly valor and chivalry reinforced, seeing the events as worthy of one of her favored stories. [[Sandor Clegane]] tells Sansa the story of how his brother burned his face, to warn her about the dangers she faces. She also develops a crush on [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers; when he gives her a red rose, she is certain she is living in a romantic song.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}
In King's Landing, Sansa feuds with her sister, placing the majority of the blame on Arya for her direwolf's death. She remains infatuated with Joffrey, largely overlooking his violent mood swings, and develops a close relationship with Queen Cersei as well. Attending the [[Hand's tourney]] celebrating her father's appointment, she finds many of her notions of [[knight]]ly valor and chivalry reinforced, seeing the events as worthy of one of her favored stories. [[Sandor Clegane]] tells Sansa the story of how his brother burned his face, to warn her about the dangers she faces. She also develops a crush on Ser [[Loras Tyrell]], the Knight of Flowers; when he gives her a red rose, she is certain she is living in a romantic song.{{Ref|aGoT|29}}
[[File:Sansa-ANobleCause-DrazenkaKimpel.jpg|thumb|350px|Sansa kneels before the [[Iron Throne]], pleading for the life of her father, [[Eddard Stark]]. Illustrated by Drazenka Kimpel, © Fantasy Flight Games.]]
After her father discovers the truth of Joffrey's parentage and tells his daughters that he is returning them to [[Winterfell]], Sansa, in an act of defiance, runs to the queen and tells her of her father's plans, pleading that she might be allowed to stay and marry Joffrey. Her doing so unwittingly aids Cersei's plot against her father.{{Ref|aGoT|44}}{{Ref|aGoT|50}} After Lord Eddard's arrest, Sansa is forced to call her father a traitor. She pleads in front of the king and his retainers for mercy. Joffrey, now king after Robert's death, promises to be merciful,{{ref|AGOT|57}} but on the steps of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] he orders Ilyn to execute Eddard as Sansa helplessly looks on.{{ref|AGOT|65}}
After her father discovers the truth of Joffrey's parentage and tells his daughters that he is returning them to [[Winterfell]] on the ''[[Wind Witch]]'', Sansa, in an act of defiance, runs to the queen and tells her of her father's plans, pleading that she might be allowed to stay and marry Joffrey. Her doing so unwittingly aids Cersei's plot against her father.{{Ref|aGoT|44}}{{Ref|aGoT|50}} After Lord Eddard's arrest, Sansa is forced to call her father a traitor. She pleads in front of the king and his retainers for mercy. Joffrey, now king after Robert's death, promises to be merciful,{{ref|AGOT|57}} but on the steps of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]] he orders Ilyn to execute Eddard as Sansa helplessly looks on.{{ref|AGOT|65}}
Even after Eddard's beheading, Cersei declares that Joffrey should still be [[Marriage|married]] to Sansa upon her flowering. Sansa, horrified at the prospect and only wanting to return home, has no choice but to remain in King's Landing during the deteriorating situation, as a hostage, and denounce her father and brother as traitors. Joffrey shows Sansa her father's head, which has been placed on a spike on the Red Keep. This prompts her to consider an attempt to kill him, even if it means she will die, but the action is prevented by Sandor, who sees her intention and subtly stops her.{{ref|AGOT|67}}
During a meeting of the new [[small council]] of King [[Tommen Baratheon|Tommen I Baratheon]], Queen Regent [[Cersei Lannister]] is angered that Sansa, whom Cersei believes she tried to mentor, helped to [[Purple Wedding|murder her son]].{{Ref|aFfC|17}}
Sansa, still in the guise of "Alayne Stone", becomes the ''de facto'' Lady of the [[Eyrie]], comforting her sickly young cousin Lord [[Robert Arryn|Robert]] while being tutored by Lord Baelish in some of the finer points of courtly intrigue. She tells Lord [[Nestor Royce]] that Marillion killed Lysa Arryn, not Littlefinger, and she deduces that Petyr grants the [[Gates of the Moon]] to Nestor to gain his political support.{{ref|AFFC|10}}
Sansa, still in the guise of "Alayne Stone", becomes the ''de facto'' Lady of the [[Eyrie]], comforting her sickly young cousin Lord [[Robert Arryn|Robert]] while being tutored by Lord Baelish in some of the finer points of courtly intrigue. She tells Lord [[Nestor Royce]] that Marillion killed Lysa Arryn, not Littlefinger, and she deduces that Petyr grants the [[Gates of the Moon]] to Nestor to gain his political support.{{ref|AFFC|10}} Lysa's jewels and wardrobe of silks, satins, velvets, and furs are given by Petyr to Alayne, although most of the clothing is too large for her.{{ref|AFFC|23}}
When Ser [[Lyn Corbray]] draws his sword during a parlay at the Eyrie between Petyr and the [[Lords Declarant]], Littlefinger leverages the breach of etiquette to demand a trial period of regency over the little Lord Robert, whom she calls Sweetrobin. Alayne correctly surmises that Lyn is under Petyr's employ, which Littlefinger confirms.{{ref|AFFC|23}}
The Arryn court departs the Eyrie for the Gates of the Moon because of the onset of Winter. Preparing for departure, Alayne lets Sweetrobin kiss her, but when his lips touch hers, she remembers Sandor kissing her. Alayne befriends Lord Nestor's daughter, [[Myranda Royce]], and helps Robert during the journey down the [[Giant's Lance]]. Once at the Gates of the Moon, Alayne is introduced to three hedge knights, among which is Ser Shadrich. Petyr later reveals his plan to Alayne for the eventual marriage of Sansa to the heir of the Vale of Arryn, [[Harrold Hardyng]], and to reveal her true identity to the Lords of the Vale and to reclaim [[Winterfell]] in her name.{{ref|affc|41}}
The Arryn court departs the Eyrie for the Gates of the Moon because of the onset of Winter. Preparing for departure, Alayne lets Sweetrobin kiss her, but when his lips touch hers, she remembers Sandor kissing her. Alayne befriends Lord Nestor's daughter, [[Myranda Royce]], and helps Robert during the journey down the [[Giant's Lance]]. Once at the Gates of the Moon, Alayne is introduced to three hedge knights, among which is Ser Shadrich. Petyr later reveals his plan to Alayne for the eventual marriage of Sansa to the heir of the Vale of Arryn, Ser [[Harrold Hardyng]], and to reveal her true identity to the Lords of the Vale and to reclaim [[Winterfell]] in her name.{{ref|affc|41}}
===''The Winds of Winter''===
For the historical figure, see Sansa Stark (daughter of Rickon)
Artwork © Isabel Westling
Alayne Stone
Lady Lannister
House Stark
House Lannister (through marriage)
House Arryn (as Alayne Stone)
House Baelish (as Alayne Stone)
In 286 AC[1], at Winterfell
Book(s)
A Game of Thrones (POV)
A Clash of Kings (POV)
A Storm of Swords (POV)
A Feast for Crows (POV)
A Dance with Dragons (mentioned)
The Winds of Winter (POV)
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Sansa Stark is a member of House Stark and is the elder daughter of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark. She has three brothers: Robb, Bran and Rickon; a younger sister: Arya; and a half-brother: Jon Snow. Sansa Stark is one of the major POV characters in the books. In the television adaptation Game of Thrones, she is played by Sophie Turner.
1 Appearance and Character
3 Recent Events
3.1 A Game of Thrones
3.2 A Clash of Kings
3.3 A Storm of Swords
3.4 A Feast for Crows
3.5 The Winds of Winter
4 Quotes by Sansa
5 Quotes about Sansa
7 References and Notes
Appearance and Character
See also: Images of Sansa Stark
Sansa is traditionally beautiful, taking after her mother's family (the Tullys) with her high cheekbones, vivid blue eyes and thick auburn hair. She is eleven years old at the start of the series. As she has grown up, her figure has been described as tall, graceful and womanly.[2]
Sansa was raised a lady, and possesses the traditional feminine graces of her milieu, with a keen interest in music, poetry, singing, dancing, embroidery, and other traditional feminine activities. Like many girls her age, Sansa is enthralled by songs and stories of romance and adventure, particularly those depicting handsome princes, honorable knights, chivalry, and love.[2] Initially those song and stories were Sansa's vision of the world beyond Winterfell, a world she desperately wishes to experience, but she is later disabused of such innocent romanticized notions. She keeps faith with both the old gods and the Seven.
Sansa's relationship with her sister Arya is often strained, and the two are opposites in most respects. She is fond of lemon cakes.
Sansa is the eldest daughter and second child of Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard Stark, head of House Stark and Warden of the North. She was born and raised at Winterfell. In her eleven years, she learns the duties of a noble daughter and is tutored by Septa Mordane in the traditional womanly activities. Sansa has a younger sister, Arya, an older brother, Robb, and two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon. Sansa also has a bastard half-brother, Jon Snow.
Sansa with Lady. Illustrated by Smirtouille, © Fantasy Flight Games.
Sansa names her direwolf pup Lady.[2] With her father Eddard Stark's appointment as Hand of the King, Sansa is delighted at the prospect of life at court in King's Landing and is thrilled by her betrothal to the handsome Prince Joffrey Baratheon.
On their journey to the capital, Sansa is frightened when she meets Ser Ilyn Payne at the crossroads inn. Joffrey courts Sansa at the insistence of his mother, Queen Cersei Lannister. The two are walking together near the ruby ford when they come upon her sister Arya playing at swords with the boy Mycah. Joffrey draws his sword and threatens Mycah, but Arya fights with him; her direwolf Nymeria disarms and superficially wounds him.[3]
Later recounting the tale to Joffrey's father, King Robert I Baratheon, at Darry, Arya tells the truth while Joffrey lies, saying that Mycah, Arya, and Nymeria attacked him without provocation. Sansa, not wishing to betray her future husband, lies and refuses to verify either story, pleading that she does not remember. Cersei uses the opportunity to insist that the direwolf that attacked her son be killed. Arya, having anticipated this, had driven Nymeria away. To assuage the queen, Sansa's direwolf Lady is killed by Eddard instead.[4]
In King's Landing, Sansa feuds with her sister, placing the majority of the blame on Arya for her direwolf's death. She remains infatuated with Joffrey, largely overlooking his violent mood swings, and develops a close relationship with Queen Cersei as well. Attending the Hand's tourney celebrating her father's appointment, she finds many of her notions of knightly valor and chivalry reinforced, seeing the events as worthy of one of her favored stories. Sandor Clegane tells Sansa the story of how his brother burned his face, to warn her about the dangers she faces. She also develops a crush on Ser Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers; when he gives her a red rose, she is certain she is living in a romantic song.[5]
Sansa kneels before the Iron Throne, pleading for the life of her father, Eddard Stark. Illustrated by Drazenka Kimpel, © Fantasy Flight Games.
After her father discovers the truth of Joffrey's parentage and tells his daughters that he is returning them to Winterfell on the Wind Witch, Sansa, in an act of defiance, runs to the queen and tells her of her father's plans, pleading that she might be allowed to stay and marry Joffrey. Her doing so unwittingly aids Cersei's plot against her father.[6][7] After Lord Eddard's arrest, Sansa is forced to call her father a traitor. She pleads in front of the king and his retainers for mercy. Joffrey, now king after Robert's death, promises to be merciful,[8] but on the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor he orders Ilyn to execute Eddard as Sansa helplessly looks on.[9]
Even after Eddard's beheading, Cersei declares that Joffrey should still be married to Sansa upon her flowering. Sansa, horrified at the prospect and only wanting to return home, has no choice but to remain in King's Landing during the deteriorating situation, as a hostage, and denounce her father and brother as traitors. Joffrey shows Sansa her father's head, which has been placed on a spike on the Red Keep. This prompts her to consider an attempt to kill him, even if it means she will die, but the action is prevented by Sandor, who sees her intention and subtly stops her.[10]
Sansa sending a letter to her family at the behest of Cersei Lannister. Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve, © Penguin Random House.
Now effectively a hostage in the Red Keep, Sansa armors herself in her lady's courtesies as she dutifully goes through the motions of denouncing her family as traitors and pleading to them for peace.
Joffrey frequently orders her to be beaten by his Kingsguard[11] as punishment for actions taken by her rebellious brother Robb, who has been crowned King in the North.[12] At the tourney on King Joffrey's name day, Sansa realizes she has lost her romantic notions about knightly and courtly love. At the tourney, Ser Dontos Hollard disgraces himself by showing up too drunk to compete. Joffrey decides he should be killed, causing a horrified Sansa to make up a convincing lie which Sandor backs up. Sansa pleads successfully with the king to spare Dontos, and a placated Joffrey instead strips him of his knighthood and makes him a court fool, as Sansa suggested.[11]
When Tyrion Lannister arrives in the city and assumes the position of acting Hand of the King, he sees an end to the more overt abuses directed at Sansa, including stopping Ser Meryn Trant from stripping the girl naked and beating her.[12] Sansa develops a unique relationship with Sandor, who despite his brusque words and hideous demeanor treats her gently, protects her, and refuses to beat her at Joffrey's command. He privately mocks her for her naive nature but also displays sympathy for her predicament.[13]
One night Sansa finds a note in her room, directing her to come to the godswood if she wants to go home. It is from Dontos, who promises that a plan is in place to free her from the Lannisters and bring her to Winterfell. Wary of a trap, she agrees to Dontos's promise, who in turn counsels patience and perseverance. Feigning a newfound piety to the old gods, Sansa makes frequent trips to the godswood to meet with Dontos, at first seeing him as a gallant rescuer who seeks redemption for the shame he brought upon himself, though she eventually comes to doubt his competence. They refer to each other as Florian and Jonquil.[13][14]
During the riot of King's Landing after the departure of Princess Myrcella Baratheon to Dorne, Ser Mandon Moore abandons Sansa to protect Joffrey and the girl is separated from the royal party. Sandor rescues the wounded Sansa from the mob and returns her to the Red Keep.[15]
Sandor takes a song from Sansa during the Battle of the Blackwater. Illustrated by © Luaprata91.
As Stannis Baratheon's army approaches the city, Sansa experiences her first flowering, making her officially a woman.[14] During the Battle of the Blackwater Sansa takes refuge with many of the other ladies of the court in the sept of the Red Keep. She remains strong and attempts to calm many of the other frightened women, despite the bitter and cynical words of a drunk Cersei, who spends her time sniping at Sansa and the other attendant ladies before storming out.[16][17]
When Sansa returns to her chambers, she finds Sandor hidden in her room, broken from the threat of wildfire. He drunkenly offers to take Sansa with him as he flees the city. She refuses, and he makes her sing for him at knifepoint.[17] After he leaves, Sansa puts on Sandor's bloody cloak, then keeps it in a chest with her summer dresses. Later on, Sansa remembers something else happening, she believes Sandor kissed her that night. Dontos later informs Sansa that Stannis was defeated by the arrival of Lord Tywin Lannister and House Tyrell.[17]
After the Lannister victory, it is announced that Sansa's betrothal to Joffrey is at an end, for the Crown's alliance with the Tyrells includes a marriage pact between Joffrey and Lord Mace Tyrell's daughter, Margaery Tyrell. Joffrey assures Sansa he will still get to have her sexually, stating as a king he can take whomever he wants to bed. Sansa remains in King's Landing, still a hostage to the Lannisters; Dontos assures her the plan to get her home is still in place after the wedding, giving her a hairnet adorned with dark purple amethysts.[18]
Sansa Stark with her amethyst hairnet. Illustrated by Natascha Röösli, © Fantasy Flight Games.
Sansa remembers the night Sandor left, and she wishes he was still there. Sansa is asked to sup with Margaery Tyrell and her grandmother Olenna Redwyne. Ser Loras Tyrell takes her breath away with his beauty and compliments, but he does not appear to remember her or the rose from the Hand's tourney. When Olenna tries to find out more about Joffery, Sansa confesses that the king is a monster and begs Margaery not to marry him. Margaery insists that she will be safe with her brother Loras's addition to the Kingsguard, and brushes off the concerns. The Tyrell women raise the possibility of Sansa being taken to Highgarden to be married to the Tyrell heir, Willas, who is crippled, but kind, intelligent, and capable. Sansa readily agrees, anxious to be free of the Lannisters, and she becomes friends with Margaery for a time.[19]
Sansa shares with Ser Dontos the Tyrell plot, and Dontos advises her against it, fearfully noting that the Tyrells are not as gentle as they seem.[20] Sansa, frustrated with the apparent lack of progress in Dontos's own supposed plans, disregards his warnings. However, he informs his employer, Lord Petyr Baelish, of the plot, who in turn informs the Lannisters.
Sansa's wedding to the Imp, Tyrion Lannister. Illustrated by © Algesiras.
Not wishing to lose their hostage, Lord Tywin Lannister acts quickly to marry Sansa to Tyrion Lannister against the wishes of both parties.[21] Sansa, now thirteen, does her best to hide her feelings toward her disfigured dwarf husband, remaining courteous despite her disgust with his appearance, and her deep unhappiness with the marriage. Tyrion does not require that she consummate the marriage, for which Sansa is grateful,[22] particularly after learning of the deaths of her mother Catelyn and brother Robb at the Red Wedding.[23]
Dontos insists that Sansa wear the hairnet he gave to her earlier to the wedding between Joffrey and Margaery, which she does. When Joffrey chokes and dies at the wedding feast, Sansa flees and meets with Dontos. He escorts her to a boat that takes her to a ship, where she is greeted by Lord Baelish, known as Littlefinger. He explains that Joffrey's death was due to a poison that had been smuggled into the feast, disguised as the amethysts on her hairnet, and shares with Sansa some of the details of the plot between himself and Lady Olenna to kill Joffrey. Littlefinger also has Dontos killed and dumped overboard, explaining that while he had played his part well, a drunk such as Dontos could never be entrusted to keep such sensitive information secret for long.[24]
The Merling King takes Sansa to Petyr's meager personal holdings, the original 'little finger' of land of the Vale. Because Sansa is wanted as Tyrion's accomplice in connection with Joffrey's death, Petyr coaches her on a story to pass her off as his bastard daughter Alayne Stone, so as to avoid detection. At Petyr's holdfast along the Fingers, Sansa's aunt, Lysa Arryn, meets with them and weds Petyr. While her aunt and Petyr are intimate after the bedding ritual, Sansa muses on her own unpleasant wedding night with Tyrion and wondering what has become of Sandor. Upon returning to her bed for the night, she is accosted by Lysa's singer, Marillion, who tries to rape her. Sansa is saved by the intervention of Lothor Brune, Littlefinger's personal guard. After briefly thinking that it is Sandor and not Lothor who rescued her, Sansa dreams of Sandor in her marriage bed, as well as the deaths of Joffrey and Robb. In the morning, Lysa reveals she knows Sansa is her niece. Lysa agrees to assist in the deception, providing the girl with hair dye to color her most obvious Tully feature, her auburn hair. Lysa also proposes to wed Sansa to her sickly son, Lord Robert Arryn. Sansa is appalled by this, but keeps her true feelings to herself.[25]
Sansa as Alayne Stone, building a snow Winterfell in the gardens of the Eyrie. Illustrated by Michael Komarck, © Fantasy Flight Games.
Later in the Eyrie, Sansa finds herself having to comfort young Robert, who is no longer able to share his mother's bed, since Petyr is in it. Robert frequently crawls into her bed and she is disgusted by his shaking sickness, which often leads him to wet her bed. Increasingly resembling a grown woman, she denies the sexual advances of Marillion. Sansa is homesick in the Eyrie, and when snow falls in the courtyard where the godswood would not grow, she makes an elaborate snow fort, which eventually takes the shape of Winterfell. She is surprised when Lord Baelish helps her and kisses her. Before she has time to digest what happened, Robert comes out and destroys the castle which upsets her even more. She rips his doll and he goes into a shaking spell.[26]
Lysa witnessed the kiss and in a fit of jealous rage attempts to kill Sansa by shoving her out of the Moon Door. Littlefinger arrives in time to intervene, however, and instead shoves Lysa out of the Moon Door to her death, framing Marillion for the murder and involving Sansa in the cover-up.[26]
Brienne of Tarth is sent by Ser Jaime Lannister to find Sansa. Along the road to Duskendale she meets Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen, a hedge knight also seeking the girl.[27]
During a meeting of the new small council of King Tommen I Baratheon, Queen Regent Cersei Lannister is angered that Sansa, whom Cersei believes she tried to mentor, helped to murder her son.[28]
Sansa, still in the guise of "Alayne Stone", becomes the de facto Lady of the Eyrie, comforting her sickly young cousin Lord Robert while being tutored by Lord Baelish in some of the finer points of courtly intrigue. She tells Lord Nestor Royce that Marillion killed Lysa Arryn, not Littlefinger, and she deduces that Petyr grants the Gates of the Moon to Nestor to gain his political support.[29] Lysa's jewels and wardrobe of silks, satins, velvets, and furs are given by Petyr to Alayne, although most of the clothing is too large for her.[30]
When Ser Lyn Corbray draws his sword during a parlay at the Eyrie between Petyr and the Lords Declarant, Littlefinger leverages the breach of etiquette to demand a trial period of regency over the little Lord Robert, whom she calls Sweetrobin. Alayne correctly surmises that Lyn is under Petyr's employ, which Littlefinger confirms.[30]
The Arryn court departs the Eyrie for the Gates of the Moon because of the onset of Winter. Preparing for departure, Alayne lets Sweetrobin kiss her, but when his lips touch hers, she remembers Sandor kissing her. Alayne befriends Lord Nestor's daughter, Myranda Royce, and helps Robert during the journey down the Giant's Lance. Once at the Gates of the Moon, Alayne is introduced to three hedge knights, among which is Ser Shadrich. Petyr later reveals his plan to Alayne for the eventual marriage of Sansa to the heir of the Vale of Arryn, Ser Harrold Hardyng, and to reveal her true identity to the Lords of the Vale and to reclaim Winterfell in her name.[31]
Alayne Stone. Illustrated by Drazenka Kimpel, © Fantasy Flight Games.
This information has thus far been released in a sample chapter for The Winds of Winter, and might therefore not be in finalized form. Keep in mind that the content as described below is still subject to change.
Finding a means of meeting her betrothed, Alayne suggests that a personal guard be formed to protect Robert Arryn, named the Brotherhood of Winged Knights, whose initial members would be selected in a tourney. She meets the newly-knighted Harrold Hardyng when he comes to the Gates of the Moon to compete for a position in the brotherhood. When he first meets Alayne he treats her with contempt for her bastard status. Sansa recognizes this despite his attractive exterior, remarking Joffrey's terrible treatment of her despite his good looks compared with Tyrion's good treatment of her, in spite of his "ugly" outward appearance. She successfully attempts to beguile Harrold during a feast held that evening at the behest of Petyr Baelish.[32]
Quotes by Sansa
There are no heroes ... In life, the monsters win.[10]
- Sansa's thoughts after the execution of Eddard Stark
The Hound is right ... I am only a little bird, repeating the words they taught me.[10]
- Sansa's thoughts
Once, she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.[11]
I would be gladder if it were the Hound, Sansa thought. Harsh as he was, she did not believe Sandor Clegane would let any harm come to her.[33]
I wish the Hound were here. The night of the battle, Sandor Clegane had come to her chambers to take her from the city, but Sansa had refused. Sometimes she lay awake at night, wondering if she’d been wise. She had his stained white cloak hidden in a cedar chest beneath her summer silks. She could not say why she’d kept it. The Hound had turned craven, she heard it said; at the height of the battle, he got so drunk the Imp had to take his men. But Sansa understood. She knew the secret of his burned face. It was only the fire he feared. That night, the wildfire had set the river itself ablaze, and filled the very air with green flame. Even in the castle, Sansa had been afraid. Outside… she could scarcely imagine it.[19]
My skin has gone from porcelain, to ivory, to steel.[24]
No one will ever marry me for love. But lying came easy to her now.[25]
Petyr: Trust no one, I once told Eddard Stark, but he would not listen. You are Alayne, and you must be Alayne all the time. Even here. In your heart. Can you do that? Can you be my daughter in your heart?
Sansa: I ... I am Alayne, Father. Who else would I be?
Petyr: With my wits and Cat's beauty, the world will be yours, sweetling.[29]
– Petyr Baelish and Sansa
As the boy's lips touched her own she found herself thinking of another kiss. She could still remember how it felt, when his cruel mouth pressed down on her own. He had come to Sansa in the darkness as green fire filled the sky. He took a song and a kiss, and left me nothing but a bloody cloak.[31]
Quotes about Sansa
Sansa Stark. Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve, © Fantasy Flight Games.
You're like one of those birds from the Summer Isles, aren’t you? A pretty little talking bird, repeating all the pretty little words they taught you to recite.[5]
– Sandor Clegane to Sansa
Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.[6]
– Petyr Baelish to Sansa
Sansa was a lady at three, always so courteous and eager to please. She loved nothing so well as tales of knightly valor. Men would say she had my look, but she will grow into a woman far more beautiful than I ever was, you can see that. I often sent away her maid so I could brush her hair myself. She had auburn hair, lighter than mine, and so thick and soft... the red in it would catch the light of the torches and shine like copper.[34]
– Catelyn Stark to Brienne of Tarth
And she sang for me. You didn’t know that, did you? Your sister sang me a sweet little song.[35]
– Sandor Clegane to Arya Stark
She is just as comely as the Tyrell girl. Her hair was a rich autumn auburn, her eyes a deep Tully blue. Grief had given her a haunted, vulnerable look; if anything, it had only made her more beautiful. He wanted to reach her, to break through the armor of her courtesy.[36]
– Tyrion Lannister's thoughts
A proper little lady. Not like her bloody sister.[37]
– Sandor Clegane about Sansa
You have your mother's eyes. Honest eyes, and innocent. Blue as a sunlit sea. When you are a little older, many a man will drown in those eyes.[29]
- Petyr Baelish to Sansa
She is not dead ... but before I am done with her, I promise you, she will be singing to the Stranger, begging for his kiss.[28]
- Cersei Lannister to the small council
Beron
Lorra Royce
Donnor
Lyanne Glover
Melantha
Berena
Lysara
Karstark
Alysanne
Errold
Rodrik
Arya Flint
Benedict Royce
Edwyle
Marna Locke
Benjen
House Royce
Lyarra
Catelyn Tully
Eddard
Lyanna
Jeyne
Robb
Rickon
↑ See the Sansa Stark calculation.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 7, Arya I.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 16, Eddard III.
↑ 5.0 5.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 29, Sansa II.
↑ 6.0 6.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 44, Sansa III.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 50, Arya IV.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 67, Sansa VI.
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 2, Sansa I.
↑ 12.0 12.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 32, Sansa III.
↑ 13.0 13.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 18, Sansa II.
↑ 14.0 14.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 52, Sansa IV.
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 41, Tyrion IX.
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 60, Sansa VI.
↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 62, Sansa VII.
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 65, Sansa VIII.
↑ 19.0 19.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 6, Sansa I.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 16, Sansa II.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 28, Sansa III.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 59, Sansa IV.
↑ 24.0 24.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 61, Sansa V.
↑ 25.0 25.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 68, Sansa VI.
↑ 26.0 26.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 80, Sansa VII.
↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 4, Brienne I.
↑ 28.0 28.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 17, Cersei IV.
↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 10, Sansa I.
↑ 30.0 30.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 23, Alayne I.
↑ 31.0 31.1 A Feast for Crows, Chapter 41, Alayne II.
↑ The Winds of Winter, Alayne I
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 57, Sansa V.
↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 55, Catelyn VII.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 47, Arya IX.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 60, Tyrion VIII.
↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 74, Arya XIII.
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Chett
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Merrett
Cersei
Areo
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Victarion
Varamyr
Quentyn
Melisandre
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NASCAR Rulebook Section 12: Actions Detrimental to Stock Car Racing
L C David
Laura is an freelance writer living in Florida. She has a Master's degree in English.
Why is rule 12 applied to every mishap? | Source
Rule 12-1 in the somewhat secret-but-not NASCAR rulebook simply states that a driver can face appealable penalties for actions detrimental to stock car racing.
But the interpretation of that rule is nefarious at best and seems to be applied to a wide range of infractions from minor to race-altering.
If you review the driver and team infractions over the past few years, nearly every one of them has this rule included among the list of infractions.
The overuse of the rule has made NASCAR look silly and afraid to get its feelings hurt.
Here is a look at some recent incidents where a driver faced the 12-1 penalty and what it means.
Actions Detrimental to Stock Car Racing
Each of the incidents below originally had the "actions detrimental to stock car racing" penalty attached to their infractions.
Note the wide range of incidents and issues that this rule covers.
Clint Bowyer, September 2013
At the final 2013 race before the Chase, Clint Bowyer, in an attempt to secure a spot in the Chase for the Cup for his teammate Martin Truex Jr. spun out his car, causing a late race caution that reset the lineup and gave the Chase spot to Truex. After reviewing the footage, Nascar determined that Bowyer had caused the wreck on purpose and his action was deemed detrimental to stock car racing.
Truex was removed from the Chase, and Ryan Newman took his spot.
Do all NASCAR's penalties and sanctions violate the spirit of the sport?
Yes, we need to get back to old fashioned racing.
No, it's necessary for the integrity of the sport.
Matt Kenseth, April 2013
During a post-race inspection, Kenseth was discovered to have an engine that did not meet NASCAR standards.
One of the engine rods was a few grams lighter than it was supposed to be.
The team and owner were to face race suspension, major points loss and pay monetary damages.
The team countered that the engine had actually been created by Toyota and the team had nothing to do with the engine part, not meeting inspection.
They also claimed the minor amount of difference could not have been the determining factor in his win.
Denny Hamlin criticized the Gen 6 Cars. NASCAR penalized him. | Source
Denny Hamlin, March 2013
After a frustrating finish at the Phoenix race, Denny Hamlin had the audacity to criticize NASCAR's new Generation 6 cars.
“I don’t want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our Gen-5 cars; this is more like what the Generation 5 was at the beginning,” Denny noted.
NASCAR cited him with the rule and fined him $25,000.
Hamlin refused to pay the fine, and it was taken out of his winnings.
However, when Keselowski levied complaints against NASCAR's treatment of his team (which cost him race position), NASCAR indicated that there would be no penalties against Keselowski because he had freedom of speech and freedom to criticize.
Kurt Busch, November 2011
After Kurt Busch lost his transmission early in the race, he is heard repeatedly cursing and caught on camera flipping off the reporter before an interview in the garage.
After NASCAR applied the penalty, Busch's team released a statement saying that his emotions got the better of him.
Curse word laced rants are nothing new in NASCAR but apparently, Busch's rant crossed some line to raise the bar and incite the penalty.
Bobby Labonte, David Reutimann, Martin Truex Jr., October 2011
Each of the drivers at the Talladega race were discovered to have modified windshields that did not meet the NASCAR standards.
The teams were all fined, a crew chief was suspended, and the drivers had to change out windshields before the race.
Clint Bowyer received a major penalty for what he contends was a minor infraction. | Source
Clint Bowyer September 2010
Clint Bowyer received a 150 point reduction and $150,000 fine after NASCAR cited that his car was improperly mounted on the frame.
According to the team owner, the winning car was off a fraction of an inch and passed post-race inspection. It was only later that the problem was discovered.
According to ESPN, Bowyer noted that Kyle Busch had a similar issue with his car the week before and did not receive penalties.
"He got a slap on the wrist, and we got a season-ending penalty," Bowyer said. "But it doesn't matter what I think."
The Rule to Use When You Don't Know What Rule to Use
So this rule's catch-all nature seems to allow it to be applied to everything from equipment violations to cursing.
But breaking down the very words of the rule itself makes one wonder what is actually detrimental to the sport?
Controversy is good for NASCAR views and ratings, and one thing all these infractions have is controversy.
If people think that a frustrated driver may get caught in a moment of temper loss, they are going to tune in.
Part of the appeal of sports are the uncensored moments, the moments of passion, the moments of emotions: they make a sport human and connect the audience with the athlete.
This rule should be held in reserve for only the most grievous of infractions, when the defamation is majorly exaggerated, false or the infractions threaten the safety of other drivers and fans.
Is NASCAR getting too picky? Do all these rules violate the true spirit of the sport? | Source
Needs Clearer Definition
The major criticism of the rule is its interpretation and application.
Drivers and fans don't seem to know what is acceptable and what is "detrimental to the sport."
Sometimes the same infraction can cause one driver to receive no penalties, one to receive a minor one and one to receive major penalties.
According to Matt Weaver of SB Nation, the nefarious nature of the rule makes it frustrating. His suggestion of clearer guidelines being set is a good one.
But for now, NASCAR seems to enjoy having rule 12-1 as a catch-all for offenses they don't like but aren't sure what to call them.
Do you think that NASCAR applies Rule 12 too often?
Carl Edwards "Actions Detrimental To Stock Car Racing"
Clint Bowyer feeling good despite 2010 New Hampshire mishap - ESPN
Clint Bowyer was kissing the finish line the last time we visited New Hampshire. A few days later, he wanted NASCAR to kiss something else. How does he feel now back at the scene of the crime?
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In Major League Baseball, players often know what a brawl, intentional beaning and bumping an umpire will warrant. NASCAR fines are not as clear cut and often erratic to the real detriment of stock car auto racing.
Yes, race fans, there is a NASCAR rulebook. - NASCAR News | FOX Sports on MSN
Penalties for breaking any of the guidelines are somewhat subjective, the rules are designed with one purpose in mind, maintaining a level playing field. Yes, race fans, there is a NASCAR rulebook.
© 2013 L C David
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Liz Elias
15 months ago from Oakley, CA
Very interesting, indeed! I believe NASCAR has traveled too far from its roots! To wit:
1) NASCAR means, National Association (for) Stock Car Auto Racing
2) It is not only this rule, but the wide assortment of nit-picky rules that have come about to govern what engines may be used, what frame sizes and spacings of suspension components, ad nauseum.
Many fans do not realize it, but NASCAR, in its infinite "wisdom," has seen fit to specify that all the engines and chassis have to be virtually the same. So, it does not matter whether the body of the car is a Ford, Chevy, or (ugh) Toyota, their engines and bodies are all interchangeable.
3) NASCAR began as a competitive sport, and much of the competition has been taken out by this engine nonsense.
4) Many improvements, whether of performance or safety, have come to us from the race track. If drivers are so restricted that they cannot use any variations, then that avenue of improvements or discoveries is now closed to consumer-level vehicles.
5) Related to 3 & 4, While driver skill certainly still comes into play, the so-called 'leveling of the playing field' takes away a good deal of the enjoyment for the fans, who now know they are not watching for which is the better car in the hands of the best driver.
6) NASCAR had its beginnings in the 'bad old days' of prohibition and outrunning the sheriff while running stills in the backwoods. It was always AMERICAN automobiles. The fact that they are now allowing Toyotas, (despite the aforementioned engine clones), is an outrage to many long-time fans!
So, it's not only "Rule 12-1" that's a problem with the "New NASCAR," but many of its ill-advised new rules.
Thanks for a great read! (I side with the drivers!)
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After joining, more and more young fighters flee ISIL
More and more young fighters to flee ISIL
Updated October 27, 2015 at 6:15 PM
Thousands of young men have joined ISIL, the terrorist group spreading throughout parts of the middle east. They’re hoping to find something promising, however the reality is extremely different, which causes more and more members to defect.
CCTV’s Michal Bardavid brings us a story which will provide valuable insight in to why people initially want to join and, shortly after, are desperate to flee ISIL.
Shvan Latif Nasrulla, a 23-year-old ISIL defector who spent 3 months with ISIL, contacted Peshmerga forces and was allowed safe passage to defect. He explained that once he became a member of ISIL, driven by the obligatory jihad, he began to realize the how brutal and inhumane the group really was.
Harsh realities:
Islamic State seems un-Islamic in itself.
Living conditions are tough: the promised luxury was discovered to be a myth.
No room for noncompliance: any dispute is physically punishable.
There were many who want to leave, but were terrified of the consequences. “If they flee and get caught, they would be considered as spies and be killed,” said Shvan. “My message for the young people who are willing to join ISIS, to not make this mistake, do not go. There’s no Islam and love to Islam there.”
Thousands of young men joined ISIL, the terrorist group in hopes of finding something promising. However, the reality is extremely different, which causes more and more members to defect.
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Popular founder of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, Perry Noble, who was fired in July 2016 for alcohol abuse and other “unfortunate choices and decisions,” announced Wednesday that after 17 years of marriage he is getting a divorce from his wife, Lucretia.
In a statement shared with The Christian Post through his publicist, Hunter Frederick, Perry said he “never imagined” himself in this position.
“This is one of the most difficult things I’ve ever communicated and I understand it will be even more difficult for many of you to read. After being married for 17 years I have found myself in a place I never imagined I would be — as no one who has ever been married ever dreams in a million years that their marriage will one day end in divorce,” Perry wrote.
“However, that is where I find myself at this point in time. I am doing my best to walk through this deeply personal and painful process with as much grace as possible,” he continued before asking that the privacy of his family be respected at this time.
“I would ask for your prayers in this season as well as [I] humbly ask for privacy for my family in this matter as we work through this deeply personal situation,” he said.
Commenting on Perry’s firing last summer, NewSpring Executive Pastor Shane Duffey said they were forced to relieve him of his post at NewSpring.
“Over the course of several months our executive pastors met with and discussed at length with Perry these concerns regarding his personal behavior and his spiritual walk, Perry’s posture towards marriage, increased reliance on alcohol and other behaviors were of continual concern. Due to this the executive pastors confronted Perry and went through the steps of dealing with sin in the church as outlined in Matthew 18,” said Duffey.
“Because Perry chose not to address these ongoing issues and didn’t take the necessary steps toward correcting them, he is no longer qualified as outlined in I Timothy 3 and the church’s bylaws to continue as pastor of the NewSpring Church,” he added. Full Report
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Architecture & Design In this issue
Be Authentic: Offer Clay Pavers to Enhance Curb Appeal
Set your new homes apart with dramatic walkways that define space and offer both ease in maintenance and design options that define outdoor living spaces
By Walt Steele
The point to building houses is to sell houses, and a key factor in selling houses is how the place looks when a potential buyer drives by.
Conventional wisdom would suggest that a contrasting front door would mean a real “wow factor” during the day, while at night, dramatic lighting can be used to play up the front of the house.
One way that builders can set their homes apart would be to go more permanent than merely a coat of paint and setting out a few exterior lights. Choose instead to install a walkway, or walkways, out front, made of genuine clay pavers.
Laura Schwind, a registered landscape architect on the staff of Pine Hall Brick Company, America’s largest manufacturer of clay pavers, points out that today’s clay pavers come in a wide variety of colors beyond the classic reds. That means they can be incorporated easily into the exterior design of the home.
“You can look at the trim color or at the roof color,” says Schwind. “Sometimes, people will go lighter to simulate concrete. Sometimes, they will match it to the roof, if they have a roof that lends itself to that. Sometimes, they will go with the traditional red colors, because that’s what they have seen most often.”
Schwind says that builders should not be afraid to use their imaginations. To start, go big. Laying out a walkway that is, at minimum, four feet wide—wide enough for two people to pass—or even wider, will make a statement. Everybody else’s walkway on the block will look tiny by comparison.
“It makes even an economical house look like a million bucks,” says Schwind. “It adds so much to curb appeal—it makes it look richer and more impressive—it just makes your house a step up from all the neighbors.”
In terms of design, Schwind noted that a straight-on walkway works well for a formal Colonial house, while a curved walkway might be a better choice for a cottage or bungalow style.
Schwind also says that a common sense, intentional approach works best for functionality. If there’s a driveway to one side or the other, consider installing one walkway from the street and a second one from the driveway, both ending at the front door.
“It really does make it more functional and you have more visual appeal, because it helps define the space,” says Schwind. “You could also build in an additional garden area in the front with two walkways as well.”
One of the biggest benefits is that the look will last. With clay pavers, the color goes all the way through and never fades. Leave it as it is and the color will become a rich patina over time; clean it with a diluted solution of bleach and water and a nylon brush and it will look identical to the day it was installed.
Maintenance is easy, as well. Should a tree root heave several pavers out of place, take out the pavers, set them to one side, dig down and cut the root out, then replace the pavers. Contrast that with a concrete walkway, which will have to be dug up and patched—or replaced entirely—to repair the damage.
After figuring out what kind of pavers you want, the next step is to choose a pattern. A herringbone pattern is effective but will require a lot of cuts, as opposed to a classic running bond or basketweave. Finally, before installation, find and mark where your underground utilities are located. Don’t stop there: offering a clay paver patio out back effectively adds an outdoor room to the living space.
In addition to the benefits that clay pavers add to a residence, they also provide a benefit to those who build them: They add authenticity that helps set your business apart from your competitors.
“Clay pavers give a character and uniqueness that will set the houses you build apart,” says Schwind. “Your opportunity for originality is pretty limitless.”
Walt Steele is a paver business manager for Pine Hall Brick Company, America’s largest manufacturer of genuine clay pavers. He may be reached at (800) 334-8689 or at
waltsteele@pinehallbrick.com.
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BeatTips Sample Flip Award: Eric “Vietnam” Sadler: Leaders of the New School – “Sobb Story”
Poly-Sample Sound Collage Laced with Agreeable Rhythms
James Brown’s album Black Caesar (the sound track to the motion picture Black Caesar) is a staple in many DJs and beatmakers record collections. (I have three copies of this album myself). And no matter how many times I listen to it (every once and a while, I take it for a straight-through spin), I always learn and hear something new. I suspect this has been the case for many beatmakers over the years, as the songs on this album have been sampled and flipped numerous times.
Now without mentioning the name of the actual song that was sampled (find the album and listen for the song), this BeatTips Sample Flip Award goes to veteran beatmaker (producer) and Bomb Squad (Public Enemy) alum Eric “Vietnam” Sadler for his beatwork on the Leaders of the New School song “Sobb Story.”
Sadler’s beat features the Bomb Squad’s signature poly-sample collage sound. There’s the ever-present break-beat running in the background , sound effects, ruptures, and cuts. And, of course, there’s the primary sample for which the beat is built around. True to the Bomb Squad’s signature, Sadler combines the primary sample and the backing break-beat in a way that has
two distinct rhythms merging as one. This is DJ style beat matching at its best—no software program correcting the tempo (“Sobb Story” was released in 1991) and stretching everything to fit neatly, just Sadler’s great sense of timing and a knack for blending or creating cross rhythms.
Leaders of the New School – “Sobb Story”
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Home News Samsung Galaxy A6+ vs Nokia 7 plus: The Mid-Range Specs Battle
Samsung Galaxy A6+ vs Nokia 7 plus: The Mid-Range Specs Battle
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Anmol Sachdeva
Up until last month, Nokia 7 plus had no real competitor in its price bracket, which made the device stand out from the lot. But, Samsung has today taken the wraps off its latest mid-ranger, the Galaxy A6+ and it comes for the same asking price (Rs 25,999) as the Nokia 7 plus.
The Galaxy A6+ features Samsung’s proprietary Infinity display, dual rear-camera setup and a whole lot that’s likable about the device. But, if you are looking to buy a device in this price segment then here’s a quick comparison between the Galaxy A6+ and Nokia 7 plus that should clear up any confusions that you may have:
Kicking it off with the design, both the Galaxy A6+ and Nokia 7 plus bring a metal unibody design to the table but are quite different in aesthetics. While the former will provide a cold metallic in-hand feel, the latter is coated in six layers of ceramic paint that makes its back panel analogous to the Pixel 2 in terms of feel.
Galaxy A6+ has the familiar Samsung A-series design with the curvy antenna lines and a center-aligned camera module, but the Nokia 7 plus with its copper accents looks a class apart.
While both have a 3.5mm headphone jack and a fingerprint scanner on the back, the A6+ sports a microUSB port at a time when USB Type-C has been widely adopted by most phone makers. The Nokia 7 plus uses a Type-C connector which is certainly a step-up in terms of usability.
If you’re against the ‘copycat’ notch trend coming to Android then you’ve come to right place. Both of these devices feature a 6-inch Full-HD+ display, with no notch, and minimal top and bottom bezels. The one thing that makes more Samsung’s phone more attractive is the much-lauded Super AMOLED Infinity display.
The Nokia 7 plus, which I’ve been using for around 3 weeks now, also has a magnificent display, except for the adaptive brightness feature that may prove to be a little annoying. And there’s no hiding the fact that A6+’s AMOLED display will offer you more saturated colors, deeper blacks and great contrast as compared to the LCD panel.
The camera is possibly the most important factor in the buying decision these days.
The Nokia 7 plus features with a 12MP (f/1.8) primary sensor, coupled with a 13MP (f/2.6) secondary telephoto lens on the rear. And in my opinion, the dual-Zeiss cameras on this device are quite good, and can offer you great color reproduction and details in daylight but it suffers quite a bit in low-light.
Nokia 7 plus may have an edge here with its ‘Live Bokeh’ and ‘Pro Mode’ but Samsung is not far away and has included a ‘Live Focus’ mode to let users control the bokeh and set unique blur patterns such as hearts, stars and more.
Galaxy A6+, on the other hand, sports a dual 16MP (f/1.7) primary sensor and a 5MP (f/1.9) secondary sensor on the rear. Here the wider aperture could allow the A6+ camera to capture more light and detail for crisper photos under low-light conditions. We’ll, however, have to test the camera ourselves to confirm the bold claims made by Samsung.
As for the front camera, the Nokia 7 plus boasts of a 16MP lens that may look a bit diminished in front of the 24MP selfie camera of the Galaxy A6+. The latter also comes with an LED flash on the front that would be greatly appreciated for those night selfies.
Hardware And Performance
I believe this could be the deciding factor for many prospective buyers. Talking about on-paper specs, the Nokia 7 plus features a more powerful Snapdragon 660 processor with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage (expandable up to 256GB) in tow. I haven’t noticed any major frame drops or lag on my device, the multi-tasking experience has been top-notch and it even handles my PUBG needs quite well – though on medium settings by default.
Sadly, the Samsung Galaxy A6+ features a, wait for it, Snapdragon 450 chipset backed by 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage – expandable up to 256GB. There’s a huge difference in raw power here, with the Snapdragon 450 paling in comparison to the 660 SoC but we cannot conclude anything without testing the A6+ ourselves.
Let me start out by saying that Nokia 7 plus is the obvious winner in the software department. Many users prefer a ‘stock’ Android experience, with new updates, and security patches delivered to them on time. HMD Global will offer you just that with the Nokia 7 plus – which comes with Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box and is part of the Android One Program.
Galaxy A6+ will offer you additional features and customization options, which may not be the case with the vanilla Android experience on the Nokia 7 plus.
On the other hand, the Galaxy A6+ comes with Android 8.0 Oreo that’s topped off with the Samsung Experience UI. It’s still the feature-rich Samsung UI that we know, with Bixby Vision, app pair, and other refinements, but it’s also likely to get bogged down over time, especially with the low-powered CPU.
Both the devices pack decently sized battery packs, with the Galaxy A6+ and Nokia 7 plus boasting of a 3,500 mAh and 3,800 mAh units respectively. While the latter usually provides me up to 7-8 hours of screen-on time, I’m expecting to get a little less than that with the Galaxy A6+.
Another plus point that lands the ball in Nokia’s court is the availability of quick charge support via the Type-C charger, which can juice up the device from 15 to 75 percent in around 35 minutes. This will, however, not be the case with the Galaxy A6+ which doesn’t have any fast charging capabilities.
Specs Sheet Comparison
To sum everything up, here’s a complete look at the specs sheet for both the devices:
Dimensions 160.2 x 75.7 x 7.9 mm 158.4 x 75.6 x 8 mm
Display 6-inch Full-HD+ Super AMOLED panel 6-inch Full-HD+ IPS LCD panel
Processor Snapdragon 450 Snapdragon 660
RAM 4GB 4GB
Storage 64GB, expandable up to 256GB with microSD slot 64GB, expandable up to 256GB with microSD slot
Primary Camera 16MP (f/1.7) + 5MP (f/1.9) with LED flash 12MP (f/1.8) + 13MP (f/2.6) with PDAF, EIS, dual-tone LED
Secondary Camera 24MP (f/1.9) + flash 16MP (f/2.0)
Operating System Android 8.0 Oreo-based Samsung Experience 9.0 Android 8.1 Oreo (under Android One program)
Battery 3,500mAh 3,800mAh
Sensors Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Geomagnetic, Hall, RGB Light, Proximity and rear-mounted fingerprint sensor Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Compass and rear-mounted fingerprint sensor
Connectivity Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, microUSB port, GPS and GLONASS Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5,0, USB Type-C, NFC, A-GPS and GLONASS
Colors Blue, Black And Gold Black and White
Price Rs 25,999 Rs 25,999
Samsung Galaxy A6+ vs Nokia 7 plus: Conclusion
Even though the Samsung Galaxy A6+ is shaping up to be a great smartphone with a striking design and feature-rich software, it lags behind on the performance front on paper, when compared to the Nokia 7 plus.
We all know that Nokia 7 plus is one of the best available smartphones in the Rs 25,000 range, and competing with it will be an uphill task for Samsung. Still one would be foolish to write off Samsung as it has established a great distribution network and has a bigger marketing budget to push its new phone.
Now that you know everything about both of the devices, which one would you be willing to buy and why? Let us know in the comments down below.
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Home News Windows 10 Catching Up to Windows 7 With 35% OS Market Share:...
Windows 10 Catching Up to Windows 7 With 35% OS Market Share: Netmarketshare
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While StatCounter believes that Windows 10 finally went past Windows 7 last January in terms of total usage, Netmarketshare is still reporting that Microsoft’s latest OS is some distance away from grabbing pole position. The latest figures released by the latter, however, suggests that Windows 10 is fast catching up with its illustrious predecessor with a 35 percent market share, even as Windows 7 remains the most-used Windows OS with 43 percent of the market.
Desktop Operating System Share June 2018 https://t.co/ToJ5oGxAih
Windows 7 43% 📈
Windows 10 35% 📈
Windows 8.1 5% 📉
Windows XP 4% 📉 pic.twitter.com/fCcVHL3PTa
— Tero Alhonen (@teroalhonen) July 1, 2018
Interestingly, though, both Windows 7 and Windows 10 received a slight bump in June, while the once-beloved Windows XP and the much-reviled Windows 8/8.1 continued their slide downward. While XP user base has now hit a low of 4 percent, 8/8.1 is now believed to be installed on around 5 percent of all PCs.
While Windows 10 adoption has taken its own sweet time, most users are eventually switching to the new OS, and have also been installing the latest updates, much to the delight of Microsoft. Within just a month of its rollout, the April 2018 Update was reportedly installed on more than 50 percent of Windows 10 PCs last May.
It’s interesting that Windows 7 adoption has remained steady, given that Microsoft has already ended mainstream support for Windows 7 in January, 2015, which means the OS is already deprecated, and is not receiving any new features anymore. However, extended support, meaning security patches and bug-fixes, will continue until January 2020.
Microsoft has also ended mainstream support for Windows 8, but has pledged to provide extended support till January 2023. As for Windows 10, it is the only Windows OS right now to be in the mainstream support phase, which means, the company is still rolling out new features to the software. Now, if only it can roll out ‘Sets’ without any more postponements.
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Gertrude’s Jazz Bar
One of the best music scenes on the Big Island, Gertrude’s Jazz Bar is known for high-end cocktails, classic comfort foods, and a vintage atmosphere, all in an open-air, tropical setting. With the Pacific Ocean breezes gently drifting from stage left, and live jazz playing almost every night, Gertrude’s Jazz Bar is treasured for its talented musicians and wonderful 1930’s vibe fused with a tropical twist.
The club debuted in 2016, and is the creation of artists Marlina Lee, Greg Shirley and Kira Kamamalu. In search of an island lifestyle, Marlina moved to the Big Island in 1979 from California and Greg from California and Washington state in 1999. The two met at a Tango Geisha Dance event at Kona Coffee and Tea and that’s when the music started.
Located along Ali’i Drive in historic Kailua Village, once a fishing community and retreat for Hawaiian royalty, Gertrude’s is a zenith of culture, art, music and dance. Marlina had always wanted to open a bar but not a ‘typical’ one and Greg always wanted to open a jazz club. When Greg saw that the location was available, united with Marlina knowing the building’s owner, it was Gertrude’s at first sight!
As you enter the second story oasis, you feel transported to a sexy, jazz club along Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans’ historic, French Quarter. It’s no wonder why they named their club after Gertrude Stein, and her Paris salon, where leading figures in art, literature and music flocked. Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all sat at her round-table. As an American in Paris in the 1920’s, she was considered the “mother hen” of leading art figures during the modernism era.
Gertrude’s vintage, inspired interior is graced with original art work by Marlina’s daughter Kira Kamamalu, who also coordinates all of Gertrude’s art events and openings. Kira’s renditions in oil capturing subjects in muted colors, light and shadows are reminiscent of the great Impressionists.
Both Marlina and Greg have a long-established kinship in the arts: Marlina is a dancer and Greg is a musician. While you are savoring Angles on Horseback and sipping a Picasso Espresso Martini, you may see Greg playing the bass, then later, dancing the Tango with Marlina “cheek to cheek”, like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!
The joys of owning Gertrude’s is the “opportunity for musicians to play, where dancers can dance and learn how to dance and for new artist development.” Surprise guest musicians who have graced Gertrude’s center stage are notables such as guitarist, Bruce Foreman who performed with Ray Brown and Eddie Duran and Manhattan jazz singer, KT Sullivan who has performed at the Laurie Beechman Theater and the Oak Room at New York’s Algonquin Hotel.
If you’re looking to take a load off your feet from dancing, delight in Gertrude’s culinary offerings and libations. When selecting items for the menu, Marlina, Greg and Kira curated a menu of delicious tapas style foods such as: Angels on Horseback (applewood bacon-wrapped dates, stuffed with crème de gorgonzola), Mediterranean Meze Platters, and Kalua Pork Sliders.
Gertrude’s House Libations are all custom created craft cocktails with fresh-squeezed ingredients and unique recipes such as the Ginger-Lychee Caipirinha (Brazilian Cachauca, fresh lime and lychee); the Hemingway Whiskey Smash (Buffalo Trace Kentucky Bourbon, fresh mint and lemon) or The Green Fairy, the non-conventional vehicle for artistic transformation made with La Louche Absinthe.
Marlina, Greg and Kira have “raised the bar on bars, creating an adult, classy atmosphere with live music, real musicians and no machines.” To explain Gertrude’s Jazz Bar to someone who has never experienced it, “Gertrude’s is a place to experience live, danceable music in an oceanfront, artistic atmosphere, enjoy hand-crafted cocktails and classic, comfort foods.”
Closed on Mondays, Gertrude’s has theme nights throughout the week, as well as, special events at the jazz bar including such recent favorites as: Kahulanui Hawaiian Swing, Latin Dance Nights, and Midnight in Paris. Gertrude’s also hosts a fun happy hour Tuesday thru Saturday from 5-6 pm and offers happy hour deals all night on Tuesdays (current when posted – subject to change).
Gertrude’s regular schedule is also chock-full of entertainment including partner dance nights, open mic nights that feature local artists as well as new talent, Latin nights with live music, live jazz, dance lessons, art events, and even comedy nights.
As the music of Gertrude’s Jazz Bar echoes through Kailua Village’s historic avenues across the rippling tides of Kailua Bay, artists congregate celebrating self-expression, making this one-of-a-kind establishment an atmosphere for which even Gertrude Stein would say, “Ooh La La!”
Event Nights at Gertrude’s
Live Jazz – Guitar or Piano Jazz for Dancing
Jam Night, Comedy Night, Art Events
Live Music – Latin Dance Night
Live Music – Jazz, Blues or Rock
Eclectic Live Music – Hawaiian, Jam…
Tues-Sun 5-10:30pm
Average Dining Pricing
Gertrudes Jazz Bar Location and Map
5 Must Visit Beaches on the Big Island of Hawaii
While Hawaii Island offers a huge variety of beaches to enjoy, several Big Island beaches regularly make the ‘best beaches in the world’ lists.
Attention bird lovers, the Hawaii Island Festival of Birds is a fun event featuring a film festival, hands on activities, expert speakers and guided birding excursions.
Whether you’re craving local seafood, poke or simply a delicious fish taco, Umeke’s is the ideal local style dining destination in Kona.
The cultural and historical significance of the Kailua-Kona area simply can’t be missed. Make sure to see these historical sites on your stroll through town.
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November 2, 2011 November 2, 2011 by tgriffith
Elon Musk: The Man and His Dream
We at CarGurus Central are big fans of Tesla Motors.
The company, led by determined businessman Elon Musk, is one of contradictions. It is scrappy yet innovative. It’s an underdog yet a major player in a new automotive era. By all rational reasoning, the company shouldn’t exist. A startup business chasing a theoretical auto market shouldn’t have a chance at success when competing against the big, established players in the automotive business.
An electric-only carmaker could easily be laughed straight off the assembly line.
But this is Elon Musk. This is Tesla. This is the company that took all kinds of criticism and then delivered the Tesla Roadster to around 2,500 people for over $100,000 each. This is the company that said it could mass-produce an electric sedan, make it beautiful, and give it a range of up to 320 miles while keeping the starting price at around $50,000. Many people rolled their eyes.
But Mr. Musk didn’t care about the people who didn’t think his company could do it. He focused instead on the people who did believe, going to Daimler, Panasonic and Toyota (not to mention the U.S. Government) and securing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and investments. Tesla proceeded to develop the Model S sedan, put it in pre-production, and now, all 6,500 copies that will be built next year are already sold. Can any other car company claim a complete sell-out before production even starts? Well, Ferrari and Lamborghini maybe. The bigger question is: Can Tesla keep up the success?
The odds are looking pretty good. Musk says of the pre-orders, “They’re mostly new buyers. Only about 600 people who have ordered Roadsters have also bought the Model S.” That means so far, the Model S has already brought in around 5,900 new customers. And the car doesn’t even officially exist yet.
But Musk still wasn’t done dropping the good news.
The tech startup mogul also said that Tesla could see an annual profit by 2013, much faster than many analysts expected.
That’s good news for investors and, if it happens, should finally silence the critics.
Do you believe Tesla will become profitable in the next two years and continue developing new electric vehicles, or will Elon Musk follow in the footsteps of Preston Tucker?
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Randy on November 4, 2011
IMO, Tesla is a scam bubble that will soon burst. He’s already taken our government for millions to build cars here (which he’s building instead overseas) and much of what is promised for Tesla is based on non-existant battery technology.
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Home » To Your Health Blogs » Pellet hormone therapy: Is it right for you?
Pellet hormone therapy: Is it right for you?
Pellet hormone therapy provides a steady trickle of hormones over the course of several months.
Pellets are inserted underneath the skin via a small incision.
It is ideal for women who have undergone early hysterectomies or patients already on hormone treatment and want to feel even better.
If you are a woman who is feeling good on hormone replacement therapy, but would like to feel even better, then pellet hormone therapy may be right for you. Instead of injections, creams or patches, hormones are delivered in a unique way, says Elizabeth Stegmaier, ND, a naturopathic physician with Providence Women’s Care and Family Wellness in Missoula, Montana.
“Generally, pellets of estrogen and/or testosterone are placed under the skin in a roughly 3mm-4mm incision at the top of the buttocks area during a 15-minute, in-office procedure,” Dr. Stegmaier says. “Those pellets are then absorbed over the course of three to six months; the average is about four months. The pellets act like little ovaries, and women have a small trickle of hormones every day as the pellets dissolve. That’s different than a cream, troche or patch that needs to be reapplied more frequently.”
Because pellets mimic ovarian hormone function, this therapy is especially beneficial for women who have had early hysterectomies, Dr. Stegmaier says. “Women in their 30s who have had their ovaries removed need estrogen therapy, because they need to have high doses of estrogen — it’s important for bone, brain and heart health. Those patients do exceptionally well on pellet therapy.”
Pellet therapy can also work for women who are going through traditional menopausal hormone changes, too. Dr. Stegmaier notes that generally these women have already been on other types of hormone therapies and know they work. “For example, a woman may come in just after menopause, and she’s been taking small doses of estrogen and testosterone, and she’s doing great,” Dr. Stegmaier says. “There are two reasons for her to switch to pellets. The first is to see if she can feel even better, because generally what we see is that a pellet is the best delivery method. The second reason is that she is tired of applying creams and patches and wants an easier delivery system.”
Dr. Stegmaier adds that pellet therapy may not be as ideal for some women if they are highly sensitive to estrogen, because they can start spotting or bleeding. Dr. Stegmaier may adjust the therapy with an increase in progesterone or a decreased dose of estrogen, or both, but that can sometimes result in complications.
Another interesting note is that the therapy isn’t limited to women. In fact, Dr. Stegmaier treats many men for testosterone issues. Like women, men should already have tried other hormone delivery systems before embarking on pellet therapy. Pellet therapy for men is FDA-approved. Although for women it is considered “off label” use and is not FDA-approved, pellet therapy has been used for women in the United States since 1939.
If a patient opts for pellet therapy, the dosage and timing of insertions are calibrated for maximum effectiveness during the course of the first year. Because the pellets can’t be taken out once they are inserted, Dr. Stegmaier favors a conservative approach to dosing to avoid potential side effects from overly high hormone levels. This is another reason why Dr. Stegmaier recommends patients have already been on another form of hormone therapy before switching to pellets. “For instance, if someone is wearing an estrogen patch, the dose in the patch can help me determine the proper pellet dose,” she says.
In addition to ease of delivery and an improvement in how patients feel, pellet hormone therapy has other pluses. Estrogen patches, which are a common form of hormone delivery, can cause an allergic reaction triggered by the patch adhesive. With testosterone, the only ways women can get that hormone is through an injection or cream, and Dr. Stegmaier says in her experience pellets are far superior in how women feel. In some cases, pellet therapy may help alleviate postmenopausal vaginal dryness and painful intercourse, to the point that women can stop using vaginal creams. And depending on a patient’s insurance plan, it can be cheaper than other therapies.
With pellet therapy, Dr. Stegmaier says her patients have seen improvement in practically every symptom of menopause. “The reported benefits have included fewer or no hot flashes or night sweats, mood improvements, less anxiety, increased libido and sexual response, increased ability to exercise — everything from ‘I got my life back’ to ‘I’m a new person.’”
When it comes to any kind of hormone therapy, Dr. Stegmaier takes seriously the process of having a thorough discussion of the risks and benefits with each patient. “There are risks to taking hormones, so finding a provider who can have a thoughtful conversation about this is important,” she says.
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Rosedale Center is getting a Crave restaurant
The restaurant and sushi bar opens this month.
Josette Elieff
Rosedale Center in Roseville is getting a new restaurant. Crave will be opening a spot in the Upper Level Plaza near AMC Theaters on Tuesday.
The restaurant and sushi bar will include a private dining area that can seat more than 50 people. It'll also offer valet parking during peak shopping seasons, like around the winter holidays.
“We knew that Roseville would be a great place to open a Crave restaurant, and we’re very excited about Rosedale Center with their major investment in recent upgrades and addition of Von Maur department store,” said Kam Talebi, founder and CEO of Crave.
Rosedale is currently undergoing a major makeover. It's halfway through it's two-year renovation to expand the shopping center and make it more of an experience. You can read more about the project here.
Crave has seven locations in Minnesota – all around the Twin Cities – as well as a few other restaurants around the U.S. You can find one near you here.
foodwhere you spendmallshoppingwhere we eat
Rosedale Center's getting bigger and more like the North Shore
Rosedale Center started its two-year renovation that will make shopping there an experience, inspired by North Shore trails and forests.
First a food hall, now Rosedale Center is getting an aquarium
The Roseville mall is really stepping up its game.
'Revolution Hall' at Rosedale Center opens this fall
It'll feature 13 new dining options, and none of the fast food chains.
Rosedale Center's food hall closes suddenly, will re-open as new concept
Revolution Hall only opened this past fall.
Shake Shack opening 2nd restaurant in the Twin Cities
It's holding a soft opening Monday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Eat Street's Quang Restaurant is getting a facelift
The restaurant faced a choice of remodeling or opening another restaurant.
Rosedale's PieCaken releases a festive 3-in-1 pie: the PieLogen
It's one of several festive treats available at Revolution Hall until New Year's Eve.
St. Paul is getting a second Naughty Greek restaurant
The first one opened less than a year ago.
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All posts tagged "UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association"
A Q&A with Simon Howard, Chief Executive of UKSIF
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UKSIF praises Church of England for move away from Wonga
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UKSIF appoints HSBC exec Lesley Alexander as new chair
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Half of parents say financial services ‘not socially responsible’
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UKSIF rebrands National Ethical Investment Week as Good Money Week
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UKSIF’s Simon Howard on investing the right way
Simon Howard, chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), talks to Blue & Green Tomorrow about the key investment risks – and...
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WWE Royal Rumble 2014 Thoughts
By Meagan G
The other night watching the Royal Rumble, the fans made sure to let their voices known about some of the stuff that they were seeing in the ring such as the match with Randy Orton and John Cena, the Royal Rumble itself and also seeing Batista win the Royal Rumble as well. While watching the show and seeing that Twitter was basically erupting and nearly crashing with everyone going crazy on how bad the whole show was, I noticed that I need to talk about a couple of things regarding the whole show which will lead to my first ever opinion blog for Camel Clutch. Please be advised that this is my first opinion blog that I’m doing here and these are just my views on certain stuff regarding what I stated above.
Randy Orton vs. John Cena’s match was like watching paint dry and I kind of feel the pain of everyone that was in the crowd that had to watch this match. I jokingly said on my twitter account that they should start a “We want Meagan” Chant because I would bring more entertainment then the both of them. Over the past couple of years, Randy Orton going against John Cena has been outplayed too many times here and I really think that was one of the reasons why the Pittsburgh crowd let their voices known. The only good thing that happened in the match was Randy Orton working the crowd and getting them worked up even more, but the rest from there went down hill until the Wyatt’s came out and cost John Cena the match along with another shot at history. I was relieved that it was over and that it was time to move on from this whole situation and let John Cena lay low for the title.
The Royal Rumble match was the one match I was looking forward to which the surprises, but not the rumored winner was going to be, however, my eyes were glued on the numbers the most to actually see if Daniel Bryan was going to be in the rumble despite reports not being in. I was in a twitter pool, with my number being 30 (I wanted to play it safe just in case) as well as my forum’s Royal Rumble game where my numbers were 10, 17, 21 and 27. My picks were decent as the surprise return I got was Sheamus coming back. Glad to see Sheamus come back after some serious surgery on his shoulder, but the numbers were closing in. When number 30 was about to come up and seeing that I was the only one left. I was really disappointed with the person I got, but was happy when he was eliminated in the ring. I also feel that some of the spots like JBL and El Torito were wasted on having Daniel Bryan to be in this match, especially seeing a bull for child entertainment being in this match.
Batista winning the Royal Rumble had me really disappointed as well, but then with news reports these days and reporting who is going to win the match, it was expected. Remember back in the day before we had twitter and facebook, we would predict to see who would the winner of the Royal Rumble would be before stuff online would come out, though I really thought after the show went off the air was really disrespectful and messed up how he got in the face of a fan and flipped the fan off. I don’t like Batista for many of reasons and I really don’t know why to this day, that my mom roots for him (That’s another story, but she will see the light). I think that punishment should happen, but then again, I don’t see it happening. I wished someone else like Roman Reigns could’ve won the Royal Rumble, but then again, I didn’t see it coming as well. I feel like WWE has a weak main event going into Wrestlemania season because with a hostile crowd coming in, this match is going to be the fans voices and how they feel about this.
So that’s what I have to say on this whole situation. Like I said before, these are just my opinions I had on this. I want to know what you guys thought of the Royal Rumble and leave some of your opinions about it below.
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By Road from Eastern Docks
From the Dock exit road keep to the left hand lane. Approaching the roundabout take the slip lane signposted for the A2 and Canterbury (Jubilee Way). This bears left and up hill and crosses over the top of the Eastern Docks.
At the next roundabout take the 2nd exit, signposted A2 Canterbury. You will pass the junction for the A256 to Eastry and Sandwich.
Approach the next roundabout in the left-hand lane. Take the 2nd exit signposted River, Temple and Dover (North) and proceed down Whitfield Hill. At the mini-roundabout at the bottom of the hill turn left towards Dover.
After about a mile there is a set of traffic lights. Turn right at these lights (signposted River and Crabble Athletic Ground). Coach drivers should refer to the "Directions for Coach Drivers" page at this point.
Proceed down the hill, under the railway bridge. Take the 2nd turning on the right into Lower Road - there is a sign pointing to the Mill at this junction. About 300 metres along this road you will find the Mill on the right.
Free parking is available in River Recreation Ground, which is on the left just before the Mill.
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Russian military choppers hold drills off the Syrian coast
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Home Celebrity Fitness Celebrity Fitness: Deeran’s Revenge Body Journey Ends With a Major Coming Out...
Celebrity Fitness: Deeran’s Revenge Body Journey Ends With a Major Coming Out Announcement to His Family
Celebrity Fitness:
Forget physique for a second. The best revenge? A strong spirit. An empowered mind. A life you feel proud of and know you deserve.
Take it from Khloe Kardashian. Much like Kris Jenner expressed during Sunday’s season three premiere of Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian, her daughter has strength and self-efficacy down to a science and a knack for inspiring it in others too. That’s not a surprise, since the emotionally intuitive Renaissance lady makes a point to lead by example.
“You’ve shown the rest of us how to be comfortable in our own body. Because at any shape or size, you have this amazing confidence,” the Kar-Jenner matriarch beamed, chatting with Khloe from the Revenge Body couch’s host seat about her latest post-baby transformation. True Thompson‘s mom was still in the midst of it during their conversation and said she hadn’t “lost it all” since giving birth last year. But as Kris went on to remind her, that’s not really what all this is about, anyway.
“When you have happiness, your light is shining,” she said wisely, adding that Khloe is “always trying to show someone else how to turn on their light, too.”
And that’s exactly what she did this week. When it seemed like new participant Deeran might not see his 12-week journey through to its finish, the reality star and Good American face went to bat for him a little extra. Which mostly meant giving him the tools to go to bat for himself.
“You need to believe that you’re deserving of the life that’s right here for you,” she told him during an impromptu poolside meeting several weeks into the program.
As far as showing up for himself is concerned—in the gym and also in life—Khloe’s advice was spot-on.
“This journey is not just about the working out and the food,” said Deeran, obviously overwhelmed, during one of his vlog updates. “It’s a lot about the psychological. Stuff that’s coming up spiritually, daddy issues, the sexuality thing. And I’m just like, don’t crack. Don’t crack.
Initially, Deeran told Khloe he’d come on the show seeking revenge against his father, a “manly man” whose past judgments stuck him with a whole lot of shame about his sexual orientation and prevented him from ever really coming to terms with them. The desire to please his father even drove Deeran to join the navy, “to make him happy and show him I could be a man.”
To supplement the guidance and approval he didn’t receive at home, Deeran started going to church. But finding a sort of refuge in religion pretty much only made things worse, since his experience with it taught him to treat his attraction to men as a “spot” or “blemish” that might never be wiped clean.
“You think being gay is a sin?” Dr. Sean McMillan (one of two pastors who Khloe arranged to speak with Deeran inside an actual church in L.A.) asked him seriously.
“I would hope not,” Deeran replied. “But I don’t know.”
“Is love a sin?” the pastor tried again. When Deeran responded “no,” Dr. Sean could only shrug.
After that, Deeran’s progress flourished. Thanks to celebrity fitness instructor Simone De La Rue‘s butt-kicking workouts and “trust, love, respect” motto, he walked into his final training session looking and feeling like a brand-new man.
“My first time working out with Simone to now feels completely different. I feel like an evolved person,” he told the Revenge Body camera. “Through this process, I learned so much from learning food, religion, my sexuality…and my truth is that I fancy men and women.”
Owning his truth was a huge step in its own right, and Deeran hoped the next one would involve sharing it with his father.
“I’m at a point in time now where I want to be my real self,” he said. “But I am afraid that my father will not be able to receive the message I want him to receive in the way I want him to receive it.”
With more encouragement from Khloe and additional words of wisdom from his stylist, Queer Eye‘s Tan France, Deeran went ahead and spoke his truth anyway. On the day of his big reveal, he stood before a crowd of friends and family—both parents included—and performed original poem called “Man Enough.”
“I am a bisexual man and I am proud of it,” he read. And in that same moment, his father Dennis was very literally out the back door.
“12 weeks ago, if my daddy would’ve walked away from me, I would have been devastated. I would’ve put blame back on myself,” Deeran narrated, as audiences watched him watch Dennis leave before swiftly and triumphantly carrying on with his performance. “But now as I’m watching my daddy walk away, I’m realizing it’s not me. I’m not the problem. I’m not a problem.”
See Deeran’s emotional transformation for yourself in the full recap video above!
Watch a brand new episode of Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian Sunday at 9 p.m., only on E!
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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven – Compatibility
Posted on September 26, 2017 by ElbinoBunny
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Title Screen
Operating System: Windows 95
Processor: Intel Pentium compatible 133MHz
Memory: 32MB RAM
Video: 1MB PCI Graphics Card, supports DirectX
Sound: “All major sound cards” says it right on the packaging. Not sure what “major” means in this case.
Optical Drive: 4x CD-ROM
Hard Drive: 170MB
Installs – Yes
Runs – Yes
Uninstalls – Yes
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven appears to run flawlessly in Windows 10.
Posted in 1998, 3DO, C0/S100, Compatibility, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), New World Computing, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0009, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven – Windows 95 Game First Impressions
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven is a Windows 95 role-playing game released in 1998. It was developed by New World Computing and published by 3DO. The game has a Doom-like 2.5D graphics engine the player may use to traverse and interact with the in-game world. The beginning cutscene’s story is simple. All sorts of monsters are invading and terrorizing the land. Some heroes run away from certain doom and are aided by a wizard. These are dire times, and those who are able to stand must somehow be part of the Mandate of Heaven. Obviously I will need to play further into the game to unveil the mystery of these things.
Create Party Screen
After character selection is completed, the party begins their quest in front of a town. There are a great number of townsfolk there that can be talked to as in most RPGs. I went to talk to a peasant who said they didn’t want to talk to my party and I discovered there is a “Beg” mechanic. Apparently you can beg a person to talk to you. Even stranger was that while I was having Serena, my party’s most diplomatic and charismatic member do all the talking, she often had to beg too. With a goddess-like personality rating of 18, she did receive far more positive responses. Funny enough, whenever she would approach anyone she would say, “Hey you!” I guess when you have a personality of 18 you can just say anything and people will want to please you.
Talk to this guy in the local inn. He’ll give you some gold.
The first thing you will want to do when playing Might and Magic VI is enter the local inn. It is to the right just as you enter town. There you’ll want to talk to a Andover Potbello and tell him about a letter. He will give you 1,000 gold pieces and tell you to scram. Spend this money quickly, because you will lose it when you die.
I decided to adventure around the outskirts of town to check out the goblin critters the townsfolk had been complaining about. Once an enemy is triggered to spot and follow you, I don’t know how you can get them to ever stop following you unless you have killed them or they are dead. I went a little too close to the goblin camp outside of town and around ten goblins followed me back into the city. I did what any sane role-playing game adventurer would in my predicament and hid behind the peasants hoping the goblins would be distracted and attack them. No dice. I ran all over town trying to get away from the goblins. They would completely ignore the townspeople and come directly for my party. Even ducking into a building for a few minutes and then coming back out had no effect. The party vs. one goblin has an easy enough time. Three goblins on an open field are not too great a challenge for the party either. But much more than that and the party is overwhelmed and succumbs to death. When you die, the grim reaper himself greets your party and says (I’m paraphrasing), “You’re done when I say you’re done!” and the party is resurrected to the entrance of town penniless.
At least Alexis is having fun.
I went out the north, south, west, and east sides of town, and found them all covered by goblins. The only theory I have to adequately begin this game is to get the 1,000 gold pieces and figure out how to smartly equip the entire party for battling a small army of goblins. There are those in the town who will allow you to join the local spell casting guilds for 100 gold each and others who will sell some items to the party.
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven Game Disc
Might and Magic VI has been an almost comical experience for me thus far. This game is polished and really what I would expect from an early role-playing game from the first person 2.5D game engine perspective era. From what I have read, this game was originally released to critical acclaim. The graphics are decent for 1998, and it seems to have in many ways aged quite well. But it seems like I fumble through the game at every turn in ways that I haven’t experienced in any other RPG. It makes the experience feel so terrible it’s great. This is a title I will need to explore further in a Twitch stream segment. To be continued.
Posted in 1998, 3DO, C0/S100, First Impressions, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), New World Computing, Role-Playing Game, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0009, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – Compatibility
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Title Screen
Processor: Pentium 166MHz
Video: SVGA 16-bit compatible graphics card
Sound: Sound Blaster compatible sound card
Uninstalls – Kind of. Creates an Uninst.isu file for uninstallation via the Windows operating system that works with varied success. Files are copied to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Abe’s Oddysee\”. If you delete this directory and the shortcuts in the start menu, you will have uninstalled the game.
Posted in 1997, C0/S100, Compatibility, Digital Dialect, GOG.com Download, GT Interactive, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Oddworld Inhabitants, Platformer, Puzzle, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0008, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – Windows 95 Game First Impressions
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is a cinematic platformer developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and Digital Dialect and published by GT Interactive for the PC in 1997. This is one of the games I got excited about and played nearly right when it first came out. I put a lot of time in on this game back in my middle school days, and it’s been a treat to play it again after so long.
Abe’s wanted for his meat. Help him escape.
A friend of mine informed me that GOG.com is currently handing out free copies of the original Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee to promote the newer remake Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! that came out in 2014. At the time this article was published, there were several more hours left on the GOG.com promotion, so go to their site to see if you can pick up a free copy for yourself. If you have the original disc, it does work natively in Windows 10, but the GOG copy is DRM free and will run without the original CD-ROM.
“We used to make Meech Munchies, till the Meeches were through.”
Having run both versions, I found it interesting that the cutscenes in Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee are manufactured to run off of a slower CD-ROM drive and as a result a lower frame rate. I thought I would get a significant boost in cutscene frame rates by running the GOG version, but it appears the development team realizing the limitations of running cinematic high-resolution video off of a 4x CD-ROM drive opted instead to simply display a dark slide show with fade-out effects and sound superimposed. The result is a cutscene of superb graphics and sound quality for the time that you can’t understand why your computer can’t handle to make it less choppy 20 years later.
Chanting a Mudokon to freedom.
In the game’s first cutscene the player meets Abe, the lovable Mudokon protagonist, who narrates the story and around whom the story is based. While working late one night at Rupture Farms, a meat processing facility, he pokes his head into a corporate board meeting to satisfy his curiosity. The player learns from Abe’s narration that Rupture Farms had been harvesting the ingredients of their products to extinction and are running low on sources of revenue. Their solution to get profits back up was to make Abe and his fellow Mudokons into a new snack on their product line. When Abe hears the news, he is understandably frightened and works to make his escape.
Scoreboards are spaced throughout the game to show you how you’re doing.
The objective of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee then is to help Abe and as many of his fellow Mudokons escape Rupture Farms. The first level provides a tutorial for the player to help them learn how the game is played. Following the tutorial’s instructions to the letter will not give the player a perfect score in the beginning level, however. The player is scored positively by how many Mudokons Abe is able to free from Rupture Farms. The player is scored negatively for each Mudokon Abe kills throughout the game. This final score will determine Abe’s fate at the end of the game. Abe has the ability to chant to possess Sligs, the guards that keep the Mudokons captive, and to open portals to send fellow Mudokons home to safety. The tutorial goes over all of these mechanics, but if you want to play a perfect game, it is best to study the controls prior to beginning the game.
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee Game Disc
While Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is a cinematic platformer, more emphasis is placed on puzzle solving than jumping and action. Many situations will call for quick action, but each time the player screws up resulting in death, they are respawned back to the safest location at the beginning of the immediate puzzle area. The game is very much like the classics Flashback: The Quest for Identity or Another World both by Delphine Software. The graphics and sound are impressive for the time it was released, and while the game can be quite challenging and frustrating, there is a intense satisfaction from figuring out how to solve the immediate puzzle and moving on to the next screen. The game can be saved on any screen, so once you have gotten past a difficult spot, save early and save often. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is one of the gems of the late 90s. If you’re reading this on the day I published this article, head over to GOG and pick up a free copy of this game for yourself.
Posted in 1997, C0/S100, Digital Dialect, First Impressions, GOG.com Download, GT Interactive, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Oddworld Inhabitants, Platformer, Puzzle, Single Player, T - Teen, W95-0008, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Lemmings Paintball – Compatibility
Lemmings Paintball Title Screen
Processor: 486 DX2 66MHz
Sound: Sound Blaster or compatible, or Gravis Ultrasound
Video: 256 color VGA graphic capability
Uninstalls – There is no uninstall utility. Just delete game files in C:\Games\LemBall
This game works nearly flawlessly on Windows 10. It runs at a low resolution in windowed mode. Attempting to make the game full screen will not work.
Posted in 1996, 2 Player, C0/S100, Compatibility, E - Everyone, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Psygnosis, Puzzle, Single Player, Visual Sciences, W95-0007, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Lemmings Paintball – Windows 95 Game First Impressions
Few games have left a more lasting impression on me than Lemmings, the puzzle sensation that came out on nearly every platform starting with the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST in 1991. My dad got one of the early Atari ST copies through the Atari User’s Group he was a member of. Lemmings was a game of great fun and great frustration for me. I loved and hated how hard the puzzles were.
I was just starting to learn how to read in grade school at the time, so reading manuals was a struggle. Lemmings had a manual that was in comic book format, so it was pretty easy to read for children like me. It didn’t matter if you had no manual though, Lemmings started you off easy. Level one taught a simple concept; just dig. Each level built on the one before it, spoon feeding you as you went. By the time you beat Lemmings you were ready for the expansion pack, Oh No! More Lemmings! that came out in the same year. That was the puzzle game that really kicked my butt.
Pull the lever Kronk!
When I first saw Lemmings Paintball in the stores in 1996, it was at a time when paintball was becoming a popular sport. My friends and I would go play paintball in the new paintball arenas that were popping up at the time. There were all sorts of other video games attempting to simulate paintball; though they were primarily first person shooters. Judging by the box, it looked like Lemmings Paintball was an isometric action title departing from the spirit of Lemmings games past and Lemmings games to come. I recall attempting to bill it as a puzzle game to my parents to get them to buy it for me as an edutainment title. I thought if I could associate it with its Lemmings heritage, they might purchase it for me. But based on the same packaging, they also believed Lemmings Paintball had to be an arcade action game (a.k.a. a waste of my parent’s money).
You can fly a balloon over obstacles.
This was a real shame because in the brief time I have played Lemmings Paintball I have found it has offered me an experience that was closest to the fun I had playing Lemmings on the Atari ST. Playing Lemmings on the Atari ST now isn’t the same as it was. I have been spoiled by better computer mice on the PC. Going back to the Atari ST mouse is cumbersome and frustrating. Playing Lemmings on MS-DOS isn’t the same experience either. The graphics are far inferior and the sound quality is abysmal in comparison to the rich MIDI music of the Atari ST. Lemmings Paintball seems to be the compromise. With the release of Windows 95, the PC had finally come into its own for gaming. This game seems to showcase this for me, acting as a bridge between the Atari world I came from and the PC world I entered into.
Lemmings Paintball Main Menu
After Lemmings Paintball’s initial opening cutscene, the game enters a menu system that is modeled after the ones familiar to Lemmings players complete with large square buttons and the lemmings hand used as the mouse cursor. It appears there is a two-player mode, but I have yet to try it. Entering single-player mode starts the game at the first level. Just like Lemmings games past, Lemmings Paintball has a password system by which you can jump to any level using its password.
Great success!
The levels start out easy, teaching a new concept each level. The controls are a little different from past Lemmings games, however. Whereas in the original games you would click on an ability and assign it to a lemming to lead all the lemmings to the promised land, in Lemmings Paintball all lemmings have equal ability and the objective is to take the flag in each level without losing your last lemming. The puzzle is in guiding the lemming or lemmings to interact with their environment to get to the flag instead of changing a lemming here or a lemming there to enable a certain percentage of lemmings to exit the level.
Mmmm, right in the face!
Each level starts with the available lemmings being dropped into the puzzle just like in the original games, but this time in a three-dimensional, isometric view. When a player clicks on a position on the playfield, the activated lemmings will walk in a line as straight as possible to that location. If there is fire in the path they are walking they will walk into it and burn up, so if there are dangers it is best to carefully avoid them by clicking with small baby steps where the lemmings need to go. If there are multiple lemmings available to the player at the beginning of the level, then each lemming can be selected individually and moved separately from each other. Sometimes a player will find that they no longer have enough lemmings to complete a level because the lemming or lemmings they needed died or got stuck. When this happens, you can click the pause button to pull up a menu to restart the level.
Click pause button in lower left corner to restart.
There is paintball ammo that may be picked up to equip the lemmings’ paintball guns. Lemmings shoot at the position of the mouse cursor when the right mouse button is clicked. In a sense, given that the lemmings do have enemies in the level, this component to the gameplay is an action game element. However, the action game element I experienced was never any more reflex dependent than being absolutely ready to click on the bridge-builder lemming at just the right time to keep him from shrugging his shoulders and stepping off his bridge into oblivion as I have already experienced many times in the original Lemmings game.
Lemmings Paintball game disc.
Lemmings Paintball is truly a puzzle title. The player must flick switches, figure out how to raise and lower platforms, avoid dangerous obstacles, ride balloons away from danger and effectively neutralize enemies between themselves and the flag they are attempting to seize. On one hand, there are paintballs and paintball guns in this game, so it is aptly named. On the other hand, it is a shame they named the game the way they did, because I am certain more people would have given this game a second look if it had been advertised more as a Lemmings title and less like another mid-nineties action title. Given that it works well in Windows 10 as a desktop game, maybe fans of the older lemmings games will take note and give this one the shot it deserves.
Posted in 1996, 2 Player, C0/S100, E - Everyone, First Impressions, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Psygnosis, Puzzle, Single Player, Visual Sciences, W95-0007, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 – Compatibility
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Title Screen
Processor: Pentium or compatible
Memory: 16MB
Hard Drive: 45MB
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 seems to work flawlessly on Windows 10.
Posted in 1998, 2 Player, 2 Player Cooperative, C0/S100, E - Everyone, Epic Mega Games, First Impressions, Gathering of Developers, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), Local Area Network, Platformer, Single Player, W95-0006, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 – Windows 95 Game First Impressions
As I alluded to in a recent “Ask Me Anything” article, my parents did not allow me to own a video game console when I was growing up. Atari made computers, of which my father was a big fan. I still have the Atari 800 and Atari ST I played on when I was little. When Atari got sold off in 1995 after the failure of their Jaguar console, my dad purchased a new PC that ran Windows.
Gaming between PCs and consoles has always been a separate experience. While my friends at school were talking about Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Donkey Kong Country, there was no significant Atari counterpart. I used to pass Rick Dangerous 2 off as a contender; I’ll get around to reviewing that one later. When I finally started getting into PC gaming, there were a few well known shareware titles: Commander Keen, Jill of the Jungle, and Duke Nukem. All were worthy titles for the IBM compatible computer, but with awful sound and graphics in comparison to the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis.
One day in the lunch room at school, the new kid in our class revealed himself as a PC gamer. He talked about a game called Jazz Jackrabbit and said it was faster than Sonic the Hedgehog and had better graphics too. I had never heard of this Jazz Jackrabbit before. I really didn’t know whether to defend him or join in the mob that had formed against him because he had publicly blasphemed Sonic. Eventually he invited me over and I got to see it. A little while later I got my own copy of the shareware episode.
He wasn’t wrong. Jazz Jackrabbit was top notch gaming for the time. It was so good it may have contributed to its designers being recognized for their achievement and going on to create more great games. You’ve probably heard of their company; they are now called Epic Games.
But in 1998, when Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was released by then named Epic Mega Games, they were attempting to answer a many years long call to create a Cadillac platforming experience, the last word in platformers. When I first got my copy and played Jazz Jackrabbit 2, it seemed like it was all I had hoped for in a computer platformer. The designers made full use of the expanded screen resolution available to them on modern computers. There is so much real estate to play in, the game feels huge. When Jazz is running fast, I can still see what’s in front of him and have more time to react than I ever did with Sonic. The graphics are crisp and I don’t think I would be wrong to say this title has the most impressive parallax I saw during the era.
Yo dawg, I heard you like parallax.
I stayed in contact with my PC gaming friend and we talked on the phone about Jazz Jackrabbit 2 after we both got it. We talked smugly as if we had finally been vindicated. If only all of those kids around the lunch table could see this game, they’d finally agree PC gaming is better. We were such losers.
It was 1998. The N64 had come out in 1996. We had all played Super Mario 64 by then, a great platformer in 3D! The last great 2D platformer of the era, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! came out in 1996 as well. Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was too late; it was the last word in a debate most no one had broached for two years.
These walls are filled with hidden spikes, and this hoverboard sucks.
It was exciting for me when I reinstalled Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and realized it runs successfully on Windows 10 without any additional tweaking. I had so many fond memories surrounding this platformer. After all, it was the chosen one to save us from the PC platformer darkness those few decades ago. It was in playing through this time that I suddenly had some objective clarity.
You can choose to play as Jazz or Jazz’s brother Spaz, or if you want to play with a friend you can play with Jazz and Spaz locally or over LAN. Both Jazz and Spaz have slightly different abilities that get triggered when pressing the jump button immediately after jumping. Jazz’s ears turn into helicopter wings and help him glide down softly at a reduced rate of descent. Spaz can jump an extra half jump into the air. Spaz is fun to watch when left idle. He shoots UFOs out of the sky and eats birds that land on his finger.
The first level is a tutorial of sorts, helping you get familiar with the character chosen. So far so good. Everything is as colorful, bright, and fun as I remembered it. The catchy chiptunes that were such a staple of PC gaming are here. I’m in my happy place. I jump, skip, and most importantly hop through the first few levels and past the first boss. On to the rest of the game.
I found a friend.
It was at this point I realized Jazz Jackrabbit 2 isn’t the bed of roses I remembered. While the increase in screen resolution was welcomed as it makes the game feel bigger and easier to navigate, the collision detection was not increased to compensate. It seems like pixel precision is required to land on some of the tiny platforms. This is not a complaint about the game being too hard, it’s more a complaint of the game not allowing me to progress until I have jumped perfectly across these in game objects that I won’t land on or grab on to if I am not at the precise position and angle to do so. It often looks like you are falling through objects because you are just slightly off from them. It’s time consuming and greatly frustrating. Also, given that the characters move quickly, there are some places they will not occupy when jumping from a particular starting position. Imagine a knight moving in the game of chess. A knight will only move in an “L” shape and all at once when it does. This is the same idea with Jazz. Just because there is a platform right next to him, this does not mean the game intended for you to jump on that immediately close position. I think the game developers strategically placed many platforms in many places so you could hop over some to easily get through to others further beyond in the places you wish to go. If you are having problems hopping onto something directly next to you, try to hop onto something beyond it instead.
Jumping to the hook on the immediate right may be impossible, but easy for the one beyond it.
There is not much original in Jazz Jackrabbit 2. There are two or three similarly themed levels and a boss for each episode for six episodes. The episodes are all a parody of something that was pop culture relevant in the 90s. The game itself appears to be a parody of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, though it seems to flatter rather than to poke fun. They even included their own pinball level. Jazz and Spaz can swim, however, so there are water levels as well.
There are a lot of collectible edibles strewn throughout all of the levels. Eating carrots will restore health. But eating enough of the other foods will make the Jazz’s sugar level increase. Once enough foods have been eaten, Jazz enters a Sugar Rush and becomes invulnerable for a countdown of seconds. Use this time to kill off as many enemies as you can, and don’t simply discount the collectible items throughout the game, they can be used to your advantage.
Sugar Rush!
Be careful about what you do collect, however. Some of the items you pick up will provide power-up ammo to your weapon. I got really frustrated because I would pick up flamethrower ammo at the worst time to be using a flamethrower. It got to the point in some levels where I wish I hadn’t picked up any ammo at all and I could have just stuck with the default weapon with infinite ammo.
C’mon, don’t be a loser. Be a stud.
Despite being let down by my outrageous expectations of nostalgia, would Jazz Jackrabbit 2 be worthwhile to a newcomer to PC gaming as a stand-alone platforming title? Yes, yes it would. It’s not the savior of the PC master race, but it’s a really good game that holds up today. It won’t win a modern or even historical beauty contest, but it is a clever platformer that offers a new challenge to fans of the genre who may have missed this one when it first came by provided they can get their hands on a copy. I was shocked to discover copies going for around $25 on Amazon and Ebay on the cheap end. I’m not sure I would pay that much. If I grabbed a working one for $15, I’d say I would have received my money’s worth at this point. I suppose I need to take real good care of my copy so I won’t have to replace it.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Game Disc
As I am already starting to come out of my nostalgic stupor, I’m seeing Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in a new light. It really is a charming game. While I probably placed greater stock in it when I was younger than I probably should have (so much was at stake!), I realize this game still resonates with me and, judging by the demand for it among PC gamers online, others as well. Like a good joke where you just had to be there, I can’t guarantee everyone will see this one with the same rose color glasses I do. The more I realize I have lots more to say about it, the more I’ll have to leave this first impression article stating that it’s certainly a wonderful game filled with wonderful memories for me.
3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent – Compatibility
Posted on August 25, 2017 by ElbinoBunny
3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent
Uninstalls – No, not automatically.
Requires CD-ROM to play.
Surprisingly, this game from 1997 installs and runs nearly flawlessly for me in Windows 10. There is some flicker or transparent artifact that can be seen surrounding the border of the video cut scenes, but the cut scene itself is unaffected and so is game play. This game requires the CD-ROM to play, even when installing the full game to the hard disk. Its consistent polling of the CD-ROM drive can cause the game to lag slightly. You will want to reconfigure the controls prior to playing this game since the default controls will trigger a “Sticky Keys” dialog to appear in Windows 10. The Sierra provided uninstaller program does not seem to work correctly in Windows 10.
Posted in 1997, 2 Player, 3 Player, 4 Player, C50/S50, Compatibility, Dynamix, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), KA - Kids to Adults, Mac OS, MAC-0002, Pinball, Sierra, Single Player, W3X-0002, W95-0002, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent – Computer Game First Impressions
Title Screen
It has probably been years since I last played a pinball game, let alone one on a computer. The last time was probably when I played Space Cadet Pinball as a pack-in game for Windows XP. Its 2D visuals were nice and crisp. Its sounds were sharp and futuristic. And it was fun. Computer pinball games in general have always been fun for me. The first computer pinball game I recall playing was Crystal Caliburn by Little Wing for Windows 3.x. Even though it came out in 1993, its sharp higher resolution bitmap artwork kept me enthralled with its medieval theme. I would play for hours as a grade school student when I should have been doing my homework.
For those who don’t know what pinball is, I’ll have to write a later article to do the subject justice. It should suffice currently to just imagine that there is a ball, falling down at an incline, and that the player can push it back up using one of two paddles on either side of a hole in the middle. If the ball falls into the hole too many times, the game ends. The object is to keep the ball up in the air and score points by knocking the ball into objects within the inclined playing field.
Jewel Case Art
While working my way through my game collection, looking for games that will run natively in Windows 10, I found 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent. It is the second in a series of pinball games created by Dynamix and published by Sierra in 1997. While I was impressed with how well the game runs on Windows 10, what is most impressive about this game is how cheezy it is.
CD-ROM Art
The game’s plot appears to be that a passenger plane is damaged in a lightning storm and crash-lands on a deserted island filled with dinosaurs and a mad scientist. In the beginning cut scene, as the plane is going down, you can see the pinball playing field on the island. It looks like the plane actually crash-landed into a pinball table. The intro cut scene looks like something designed by my high school buddies using Microsoft Movie Maker. It was 1997 and Movie Maker did not come out until 2000. You can decide if I should cut them more slack. It looks like they had fun making this game what it is, and honestly its most redeeming quality is that it does not seem to take itself too seriously.
Pinball Table Lower Right
I can only imagine begging for my parents to buy me this game in the store when it was retailing upwards of 20 dollars and then getting it home and being incredibly disappointed. I got my copy for 3 dollars at Goodwill. That price was probably worth it just for the laughs I have gotten from watching the intro cut scene and listening to its terrible one-liners. I’m actually somewhat surprised that Sierra released this game at all.
While Sierra released some duds over the years, they generally kept the bar for their releases relatively high. A potentially little known fact about Sierra is that they provided a one hundred percent money-back satisfaction guarantee on all of their games, one that they stood behind. If for any reason you didn’t like the game, you could send it back within 30 days for a full refund. I wonder what percentage of these they received back after people complained demanding their money back.
T-Rex with Some Happy Little Trees
The game play in my initial play-through was mediocre. Balls seemingly sometimes unfairly fall out of the play field immediately after being released. When this happens, the game would often toss me a free ball as if it knew it gave me a cheap shot. The free ball seems to come in at random though and blends in too much with all the dinosaurs moving across the screen. It’s hard to tell what the ball is doing when it’s doing it, or why I received certain points and bonuses. I read in another review that 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent has 16 pinball table levels. When I hit a game over, it allowed me to continue. Hypothetically, if the player were to have unlimited continues, there is nothing stopping them from playing all the way through the game provided they had the patience to do so. 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent can also be played by up to four players, so play with people you hope to bore that you don’t want coming to see you very often.
Multiball!!!
Apparently Windows 10 retained another pinball buzzkill I remembered from my Windows XP days. Whenever you press the shift key too many times in a row, a dialog box pops up asking if you would like to turn on Sticky Keys in Windows. Of course the shift key is a standard paddle key for most computer pinball games. It sure would have been nice if Microsoft had provided a checkbox on their dialog that said something on the order of, “Don’t display this dialog again.” Control keys can be configured in 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent and game pads can also be enabled, but when all you have is a keyboard, using the shift key just feels natural.
Reconfigure Controls to Avoid this in Windows 10
Another frustration I have with 3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent is the way it continuously checks the CD-ROM drive for the disc during play. This is a game from 1997, and yet it is lagging on my computer from 2017 because it’s continuously polling the CD-ROM drive even after I chose the option to install the entire game to the hard disk. I figure this is some form of late nineties DRM. Someone at Sierra had a lot of pride in believing anyone would want to make pirated copies of this game.
T-Rex says, “Hi Guys!”
3D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent really does have a lot of charm. It’s worth installing and loading just to see the cut scenes if obtained at a reasonable price. As far as pinball games though, this just isn’t as fun as a lot of pinball titles that I recall playing prior to its release and pinball games that came after it hit the bargain bin and was largely forgotten.
Posted in 1997, 2 Player, 3 Player, 4 Player, C50/S50, Dynamix, First Impressions, ISO 9660 (CD-ROM), KA - Kids to Adults, Mac OS, MAC-0002, Pinball, Sierra, Single Player, W3X-0002, W95-0002, Windows 10 Compatible, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 | Leave a comment
Figment – Linux, Mac OS X 10.12, and Windows 10 Game Compatibility
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Splasher – Linux, Mac OS X 10.12, and Windows 10 Game Compatibility
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NAB Consumer Behaviour Survey Q3 2018
Anxieties around future spending and savings plans, household finances, the economy, financial concerns and how these are impacting spending behaviours and levels of financial hardship.
Consumer anxiety rises a little further in Q3.
Australians have loosened the reins on spending, but remain conservative.
Australians perceive their standard of living today only moderately better than their grandparent’s generation and not much better than their parents.
On average, consumers believe they need a gross household income of $102,000 to have a ‘reasonable’ standard of living.
NAB’s Consumer Anxiety Index increased slightly in Q3 to 59.5 points (58.8 points in Q2), underpinned by higher concerns over job security and government policy. Consumer concern over the cost of living, retirement funding and health expenditure moderated.
Cost of living is still the biggest driver of consumer anxiety, and job security is still causing the least stress. But anxiety over our jobs has now risen to its highest level since late-2016.
Anxiety was highest for Australians in the lowest income group, house renters, women aged 30-49 and for consumers with children. It was lowest for widows, consumers living in Tasmania and men over 50.
Consumers were less worried about their household financial position in Q3 and its impact on their future spending and savings plans. Concerns about the general economic situation in Australia and its impact on future spending and savings plans were also basically unchanged.
Against this background, NAB’s overall spending indicator recorded its strongest result since this data was first compiled in Q3 2014. However, the net number of consumers that cut back their spending still out-numbered those that increased their spending.
Overall, more consumers said they increased spending on ‘essentials’ during the quarter, but fewer also spent less on ‘non-essentials’, particularly eating out, entertainment and personal goods.
Over the next year, we expect to spend more on holidays, home renovations & school fees and less on major household items, cars, investments and residential property.
For the first time, we asked consumers to judge their standard of living today against other generations. It was ‘moderately’ better than their grandparents, a little better than their parents and about the same than their children’s generation.
On average, Australian consumers said having a gross annual household income of around $102,000 would help them have a ‘reasonable’ standard of living. This is around $16,000 higher than full time average total earnings of around $86,000 per year. It may also help explain why cost of living pressures still weigh most heavily on consumers and why they don’t think they’ve made strides in improving their standard of living against other generations.
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Politics & Current Events / Political Asylum
URL: https://boards.fool.com/sorry-but-according-to-most-polling-data-and-30646147.aspx
Subject: Re: Ah, No AR-15, Cowering Boston Libs?? Date: 4/21/2013 2:59 PM
Author: JoelCairo Number: 1872357 of 2264172
Sorry, but according to most polling data and other info, the bombers were more Liberal than I am.
Polling data? Of two people? What utter nonsense.
My saying you are responsible is as stupid and empty as you saying it about others.
Sorry you don't get that. I guess that's what is part fo being a bully.
More liberal? No one knows what they were. And even if they were, that doesn't make liberals (a) terrorists, or (b) applauders, or (c) in any way shape or form responsible.
However, claiming that some sector of society was responsible is the kind of bogoted language you like to use, with glee, I might add.
This is what you wrote. "The Boston Liberals were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
Is that bigotry? Let's try some substitutes, and we can see:
"The Boston Indians were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
"The Boston Irish were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
"The Boston Jews were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
"The Boston Muslims were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
"The Boston Russians were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
"The Chechen nutjobs were the ones who were guilty of bombing."
You get it? The language of a bigot, pure and simple.
Once again, the killer du jour's politics are more aligned with you, than with me.
The only thing that is "once again" is your boring droning on an on with this.
Even if the killer and I had the same exact politics, that wouldn't place blame on me, would it? And it wouldn't change anti-woman policies in your home state of Virginia, nor teacher layoffs, nor idolization of slave-loving treasonists of a 150 years ago. So what? Putting two ideas in a sentence does not connect them, nor is there even coincidence. There is just the anger and resentment of the author.
But you don't get that. You see all this as justification of your moral superiority, and your place in a higher class of people, who should get special treatment. You should really drop that kind of elitism. We all could do so, and this country would be a better place.
Insults and recs from you won't change that.
Maybe you can tell me how your insults change anything.
Nor will it change the next teacher layoffs in Paris or Caliphornia.
As Ronald Reagan said "There you go again."
And as Joe Welch said to a man you emulate, whether you know it or not,
"At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
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Straight Dope Message Board > Main > The BBQ Pit > Shodan, HurricaneDitka, and George Zimmerman: Three Racist Peas in a Racist Pod
Chisquirrel
Originally Posted by Helmut Doork
To not meet the definition of aggression, you would have to believe Zimmerman instigated the physical confrontation, yet got no punches in- possible, yes, probable no.
Ah, so only Zimmerman gets to stand his ground. Not the kid being followed by a dude with a gun. 151
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Kobal2
My understanding from the reading the court transcript, years ago so I could be wrong, is that Zimmerman denied doing this and claimed he was attacked by Martin from behind. No witnesses to the attack to confirm or deny.
Oh, well if the only survivor of the confrontation said so, that's gotta be hammered into lead as the fifth Gospel. 152
I'm not sure how to respond to this, but that's never stopped me before.
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Location: Milky Way Galaxy
Originally Posted by Czarcasm
So pointing a gun at someone doesn't qualify as instigation?
It would, so we would need to examine the evidence to see if Zimmerman instigated the incident by pointing a gun at Martin. There is no evidence that he did, and circumstantial evidence that he did not. Namely, that if Zimmerman had been pointing a gun at Martin, it is unlikely that Zimmerman would wait until Martin knocked him down, broke his nose, blackened his eyes, and sat on his chest pounding his head into the ground, to fire.
Originally Posted by Kobal2
Oh, well if the only survivor of the confrontation said so, that's gotta be hammered into lead as the fifth Gospel.
Only if it's backed up by evidence (see above), even apart from the presumption of innocence.
Shodan 153
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Helmut Doork
Originally Posted by Chisquirrel
Ah, so only Zimmerman gets to stand his ground. Not the kid being followed by a dude with a gun.
Stand your ground is invoked where a physical confrontation takes place. Zimmerman roaming the neighborhood looking for crime was stupid, racist, all that, but has zero to do with stand your ground laws. 154
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Plus, it is difficult to stand your ground when someone is sitting on your chest.
How on Earth can you say Zimmerman for certain instigated the physical confrontation when there is zero physical evidence to back it up, and there are no witnesses? Just because he is a horrible human being does not mean he instigated the physical confrontation. Bad people can be the victims of crimes as well as good ones. 156
From where do you even get the notion that this happened? 157
Superdude
Location: The Fortress of Solidude
Originally Posted by Shodan
- I must be a racist racist who is racist too.
I've been posting on this board since 2001, and this the first thing you've ever said that was actually correct.
I get that.
Kudos, sir! Admitting there's a problem is the first step. 158
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When I click on the View Post link in your quote of me, I go to some thread about flea control. I assume this is not meant to be ironic.
My apologies. I was posting from my phone, and must have transposed a number or two in the link. It was supposed to show your first post in this thread.
Try here. 160
George Zimmerman posts here? I didn't know the fucker could even read, but good to know. What's his user handle? 161
How on Earth can you say Zimmerman for certain instigated the physical confrontation when there is zero physical evidence to back it up, and there are no witnesses?
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Stand your ground is invoked where a physical confrontation takes place. Zimmerman roaming the neighborhood looking for crime was stupid, racist, all that, but has zero to do with stand your ground laws.
By the time Zimmerman drew his gun and murdered Martin, he was probably acting within his legal rights.
He should have been charged with "depraved heart homicide" (or whatever the legal rendition of this charge is in Florida). Carrying a gun and stalking, with evil intention, an innocent man is ... inappropriate, whatever the lawyers may say. 164
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No, Martin wasn't committing any crimes while Zimmerman was pursuing him. That came later.
A summary of the evidence that Martin was committing aggression against Zimmerman would include that Martin punched Zimmerman in the face (evidence: marks on Martin's knuckles consistent with having punched someone, Zimmerman's facial injuries, lack of any damage to Martin apart from the single gunshot wound), Martin knocked Zimmerman down and sat on his chest bashing his head on the ground (evidence: lacerations to Zimmerman's head, grass stains and moisture on Zimmerman's back and Martin's knees, witness testimony stating that Martin was on top of Zimmerman),
and that Martin did so because Zimmerman asked him "what are you doing around here" (evidence: Dee Dee's testimony on what she heard Martin and Zimmerman say to each other).
You are assuming Martin attacked Zimmerman because of a question?
Isn’t in more likely Martin attacked him because Zimmerman had been stalking Martin for some time before the encounter? Why was Zimmerman pursuing him? To arrest him? At least it was to harm him in some way. Zimmerman could have asked the question from many yards away when he first saw him from his vehicle.
Compare what the two were doing before Martin beat him up. Martin was being pursued by someone with intent to harm him. Zimmerman was pursuing Martin with intent to harm him in some way.
From Zimmerman's perspective, his reason to follow Martin was that there had been multiple break-ins in the neighborhood and at least one shooting, and Zimmerman was the neighborhood watch.
Unfortunately Zimmerman was wrong. He erred in his judgement of Martin. If Zimmerman has been pursuing someone who was committing break-ins, he would have been stalking him legitimately. He wasn’t stalking Martin legitimately.
The fact that humans can be wrong is why police are trained to not approach the situation the way Zimmerman did. Zimmerman must be held accountable for his error that resulted in Martin’s death.
If by "legitimate" you mean "legal", it is legal to follow someone and to ask what they are doing.
It is both legal and legitimate to defend yourself from someone wishing to do you harm. This we can agree with. Zimmerman meant to either arrest or kill Martin when he pursued him. Therefore he had intent to harm Martin. Martin was justified in attacking Zimmerman. If someone is stalking you with intent to harm you, when do you believe it is justified to defend yourself? When they pull out the gun?
Trials are about what's legal. Thus following somebody is legal, attacking them and smashing their head into the ground is not.
Arresting someone is not legal. Zimmerman was intending to arrest Martin. Martin defended himself from unlawful arrest. A killing that occurs during the commission of a felony (unlawful arrest here) is a felony murder. 165
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Originally Posted by WillFarnaby
Isn’t in more likely Martin attacked him because Zimmerman had been stalking Martin for some time before the encounter?
I don't see what difference that makes. Zimmerman was following Martin, lost sight of him, Martin was right by his father's house, then Martin doubled back and confronted Zimmerman and attacked him when Zimmerman asked Martin what he was doing. (According to the evidence of where the fight took place, where Martin's father's house was, and Dee Dee's testimony of what Martin said.) The question was the triggering event, but it's really beside the point - it is illegal to attack someone on the street even if they were following you.
Why was Zimmerman pursuing him? To arrest him? At least it was to harm him in some way.
There's no evidence of this, and some evidence that it is not the case. If Zimmerman wanted to harm Martin, why did Zimmerman not have his gun in his hand when he confronted Martin? If Zimmerman wanted to arrest Martin, why did he call the cops and arrange to meet with him? That's what was happening when Martin confronted and attacked Zimmerman - Zimmerman was looking for a house number or street sign to give his exact location to the police so they could meet up.
Again, there is no evidence of this. If Zimmerman wanted to harm Martin, why did Zimmerman immediately call the police?
If Zimmerman has been pursuing someone who was committing break-ins, he would have been stalking him legitimately. He wasn’t stalking Martin legitimately.
If by "stalking illegitimately" you mean that Zimmerman was doing something illegal, that is not correct.
The fact that humans can be wrong is why police are trained to not approach the situation the way Zimmerman did.
Zimmerman isn't a police officer.
Zimmerman spotted what he thought was someone acting suspiciously. He then called the police, or more accurately, the police non-emergency number, and gave a description. The police NEN operator tells Zimmerman not to follow Martin. Zimmerman loses sight of Martin, then eventually gets out of his truck to look for a street name or house number, and then Martin confronts and attacks him on his way back to his truck.
It is both legal and legitimate to defend yourself from someone wishing to do you harm. This we can agree with. Zimmerman meant to either arrest or kill Martin when he pursued him. Therefore he had intent to harm Martin.
Again, there is no evidence that this is so, and some evidence that it is not.
Martin was justified in attacking Zimmerman. If someone is stalking you with intent to harm you, when do you believe it is justified to defend yourself? When they pull out the gun?
You are justified in defending yourself when you are attacked. Zimmerman did not attack Martin, and there is no evidence that Zimmerman intended to attack Martin.
You are assuming facts not in evidence.
I agree it is illegal to attack someone for following you. It is not illegal to defend yourself from unlawful arrest. We agree it is illegal to protect yourself. It is relevant because you said Martin attacked Zimmerman because he was being questioned. If Martin attacked Zimmerman because he believed himself to be in danger (which he was because Zimmerman had the intent to unlawfully arrest him), his attack is justified. We know from Martin’s phone call that he believed/knew Zimmerman was intending to harm him in some way.
If Martin did not believe Zimmerman was going to harm him and he attacked him for asking a question, that would be an assault by Martin. This is why I believe Martin’s reason for attacking Zimmerman is relevant.
There's no evidence of this, and some evidence that it is not the case. If Zimmerman wanted to harm Martin, why did Zimmerman not have his gun in his hand when he confronted Martin? If Zimmerman wanted to arrest Martin, why did he call the cops and arrange to meet with him?
Zimmerman had his gun and was pursuing who he thought was a burglar. He doesn’t need to have it out to intend to harm Martin. If Zimmerman had his gun out, would you believe Martin was justified in attacking Zimmerman?
In any case the harm we know Zimmerman intended was the arrest of Martin. We know this because if he simply was looking for an address to meet with police, he could have stayed at the mailboxes. His intent was not to meet with police, it was to apprehend Martin himself.
That's what was happening when Martin confronted and attacked Zimmerman - Zimmerman was looking for a house number or street sign to give his exact location to the police so they could meet up.
Zimmerman called the police so that they could arrest Martin. Once he had lost sight of Martin, he didn’t think the police would be able to find him, so he set out to get Martin himself.
Is it illegal to unlawfully arrest someone? If it is, it is also illegal to stalk them with intent to arrest them. It’s illegal to shoot someone. It is also illegal to raise a loaded gun and aim it at someone. The illegal act doesn’t begin with the pull of the trigger and anyone would be a fool to allow someone to get that far in the act before defending himself.
He isn’t but he should be held to the same standard. We can’t have vigilantes running around without consequences. We can have vigilantes running around with consequences.
[QUOTE¥]Zimmerman spotted what he thought was someone acting suspiciously. He then called the police, or more accurately, the police non-emergency number, and gave a description. The police NEN operator tells Zimmerman not to follow Martin. Zimmerman loses sight of Martin, then eventually gets out of his truck to look for a street name or house number, and then Martin confronts and attacks him on his way back to his truck.[/QUOTE]
You don’t get out of a truck to look for an address. You can see street names and numbers from a vehicle, they are designed for that purpose. He got out of the truck for another reason. If it wasn’t to get an address and it wasn’t to apprehend Martin, what was it?
Are you justified in defending yourself from unlawful arrest? If so at what point in the following scenario are you justified in doing so?
1)A man gets out of his car.
2)He pursues you for 15 minutes straight.
3)He confronts you with a holstered weapon and questions you.
4)He unholsters the weapon.
5)He aims it at you and tells you to lie on the ground.
Please keep in mind that if you wait for number 4 to occur, there’s a good chance you die. 168
I agree it is illegal to attack someone for following you.
It is not illegal to defend yourself from unlawful arrest.
We agree it is illegal to protect yourself.
I assume you meant "legal" rather than "illegal". If so, I agree.
It is relevant because you said Martin attacked Zimmerman because he was being questioned.
That was the last thing that happened before Zimmerman attacked, if that is what you mean.
If Martin attacked Zimmerman because he believed himself to be in danger (which he was because Zimmerman had the intent to unlawfully arrest him), his attack is justified.
We don't know that Zimmerman had that intent. And again, if Zimmerman's intention was to arrest, why did he call the police? Wouldn't that mean Zimmerman was taking the rather large risk that the police would show up and see him illegally arresting Martin?
We know from Martin’s phone call that he believed/knew Zimmerman was intending to harm him in some way.
No, we don't know that. There is nothing in Dee Dee's testimony that establishes this.
And, if Martin was afraid of Zimmerman, why would he double back, after he and Zimmerman lost sight of each other, and seek Zimmerman out to confront him?
I also agree with this.
Martin attacked Zimmerman - that is, he initiated violence - because Zimmerman had been following him, and also because Zimmerman asked him (according to Dee Dee) what he was doing. Following someone, and asking what they are doing, is neither harm nor the threat of harm. And to repeat, if Martin was afraid of Zimmerman harming him, why did he double back from his father's house and confront Zimmerman?
If Zimmerman had his gun out, would you believe Martin was justified in attacking Zimmerman?
Yes, it would be justified. It would be stupid, because punching people with guns in their hand is a bad idea, but legally it would be justified.
But the evidence indicates that Martin did not know that Zimmerman had a gun, because he doubled back and confronted and attacked him. Therefore, it is unlikely that Martin feared harm from Zimmerman, since he could have walked into his own living room. He didn't - he went back and sought Zimmerman out.
In any case the harm we know Zimmerman intended was the arrest of Martin. We know this because if he simply was looking for an address to meet with police, he could have stayed at the mailboxes.
No, we don't know that, because there is no evidence that it is so, and some evidence that it isn't so.
Again, there is no evidence that this is so.
Zimmerman spotted Martin acting (in his opinion) suspiciously. Zimmerman then calls the NEN operator and follows Martin. The NEN operator advises Zimmerman that they don't need him to follow Martin. Zimmerman and Martin lose sight of each other, Martin makes it back to his father's house, Zimmerman then tries to find a house number or street name to arrange an exact location to meet up with the police. (You can't see house numbers from the back, which is why Zimmerman went between the houses to look for them), and then was confronted and attacked by Martin when Zimmerman was coming back to where he arranged to meet the police. Martin comes back from his father's house, finds Zimmerman, they exchange words, and Martin attacks.
Is it illegal to unlawfully arrest someone?
Yes, by definition whatever is unlawful is illegal.
If it is, it is also illegal to stalk them with intent to arrest them.
As mentioned, there is no evidence of Zimmerman's intent to arrest Martin. That's something you are assuming, and there is evidence to suggest that the assumption is incorrect.
It was to get an address. You can't see the street names from the back. The back is where Martin confronted Zimmerman and attacked him.
Please keep in mind that if you wait for number 4 to occur, there’s a good chance you die.
Somewhere between 3 and 4. But you have left out a couple of intervening steps, which are
2a) You are a few steps from a place of perfect safety
2b) You do not have any reason to believe he has a gun
3a) It is illegal to attack people for asking you questions whether you know they have a gun or not
3b) If, because he followed you and then asked you what you were doing, you knock him down, break his nose, blacken his eyes, and sit on his chest smashing his head against the ground, it is likely to lead eventually to step 4, and he is legally justified (all other things being equal) in doing so.
And again, if Zimmerman's intention was to arrest, why did he call the police?
He called the police to come get Martin. Then he pursued Martin so he wouldn’t get away.
Wouldn't that mean Zimmerman was taking the rather large risk that the police would show up and see him illegally arresting Martin?
For all I know Zimmerman thought he had found a burglar and he would be applauded for nabbing him.
Creepy-ass cracker?
There’s no evidence that Martin sought to confront and beat up Zimmerman. If his doubling back is evidence he was looking for Zimmerman, than why isn’t Zimmerman’s pursuit evidence he was looking to nab Martin?
I don’t know why he doubled back. He may have wished to carry on his conversation with Dee Dee in private instead of in the home.
If you are within arms reach of someone with a gun out, depending on the scene it may be more advisable to initiate a close confrontation than to run and be shot point blank in the back. But ok.
He may have noticed the gun once confronted. There is no way to know what Martin knew immediately before the fight.
Zimmerman spotted Martin acting (in his opinion) suspiciously. Zimmerman then calls the NEN operator and follows Martin. The NEN operator advises Zimmerman that they don't need him to follow Martin. Zimmerman and Martin lose sight of each other, Martin makes it back to his father's house, Zimmerman then tries to find a house number or street name to arrange an exact location to meet up with the police. (You can't see house numbers from the back, which is why Zimmerman went between the houses to look for them)
He wasn’t in the truck in the back. He was already out of the truck and in pursuit of Martin when he claimed he started to look for an address. By this point he had already left the spot he was to meet police and had walked around back. My question was why did he leave the vehicle. The answer can’t be that he got out to look for an address. The best place to look for an address is from a vehicle not by walking around back.
We know that Zimmerman was interested in law enforcement. He had probably daydreamed of catching a bad guy. This also helps us to know what Zimmerman May have been thinking when he got out and pursued Martin because his own reasoning makes no sense.
Martin attacked Zimmerman between steps 3 and 4. Zimmerman escalated the situation to step 3 at minimum according to his own testimony. Martin may have escalated it to step 3b and 4. At the very least Zimmerman is guilty of manslaughter because he behaved in such a reckless way as to endanger life. We can’t have people in society bumbling around escalating conflicts with loaded guns at the ready.
If people want to pursue bad guys, they should learn how to do it. Just like someone who wants to start parasailing. If some newbie kills someone while parasailing, they should be held responsible. 170
Zimmerman made no statement stating or implying that the police should arrest Martin. And, according to Zimmerman's and Dee Dee's testimony, Martin did get away. Then Zimmerman called the police to arrange a meeting in an exact location.
"For all I know" is not evidence of Zimmerman's state of mind.
Calling somebody a racial epithet is not evidence that you are afraid they are going to illegally arrest you.
Because there's no evidence of a desire on Zimmerman's part to "nab" anybody. The location of the fight and the house numbers is evidence that Zimmerman was looking for house numbers. The location of Martin's father's house, the location of the fight, and Dee Dee's testimony, are evidence that Martin was close to his father's house, and doubled back. The injuries to Zimmerman are evidence that Martin attacked him. The attack is the illegal part.
Then obviously Martin didn't feel threatened by Zimmerman. And, of course, "I don't know" is not evidence.
Sure there is. Martin doubled back and confronted and attacked Zimmerman. This is evidence that he did not know that Zimmerman had a gun, and also evidence that Martin was not feeling threatened by Zimmerman.
He wasn’t in the truck in the back. He was already out of the truck and in pursuit of Martin when he claimed he started to look for an address.
He was no longer in pursuit of Martin - he and Martin had lost sight of each other. He was looking for an address in order to give his exact location to the police.
By this point he had already left the spot he was to meet police and had walked around back. My question was why did he leave the vehicle. The answer can’t be that he got out to look for an address. The best place to look for an address is from a vehicle not by walking around back.
The house numbers are not visible from the back. That's why Zimmerman walked around to the front.
Zimmerman did not endanger anyone's life before he was attacked by Martin. And he did not have a loaded gun at the ready - the fight lasted long enough to break Zimmerman's nose, blacken his eyes, and get his head smashed into the ground before Zimmerman fired.
Acting in self-defense is not manslaughter. Attacking someone because they ask you what you are doing in their neighborhood is assault and battery, and having your head smashed into the ground tends to put a reasonable person in fear of his life, or serious injury. Therefore, as far as the evidence can determine, Zimmerman acted in self-defense.
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WillFarnaby, there is no point in debating this with Shodan. I'm telling you this now. There is no defense for Zimmerman that doesn't necessitate being unfairly biased against the kid he killed. You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
This is a question that anyone remotely familiar with this case should agree is a good one. If a big strange guy was chasing after a skinny teenaged girl, no one would be questioning her conduct. We'd all get that she was afraid, and thus, take it as a given that all of her actions should be judged through the lens of a panicked person.
But Martin is not afforded that consideration because it's treated as a given that he was the bad guy in this scenario. Not the big strange guy with the arrest record, whose main accomplishments in life include stalking and felony assault charges. 172
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WillFarnaby, there is no point in debating this with Shodan. I'm telling you this now.
You should listen to ywtf. She speaks from experience. Except what she found out is "there is no point in debating this unless you don't mind looking stupid". She doesn't; you might.
There is no defense for Zimmerman that doesn't necessitate being unfairly biased against the kid he killed.
So the jury was unfairly biased against Martin?
Apparently you still don't mind.
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Zimmerman did not endanger anyone's life before he was attacked by Martin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.aff53d13d1c1
In July 2005, he was arrested for “resisting officer with violence.” The neighborhood watch volunteer who wanted to be a cop got into a scuffle with cops who were questioning a friend for alleged underage drinking. The charges were reduced and then waived after he entered an alcohol education program. Then in August 2005, Zimmerman’s former fiance sought a restraining order against him because of domestic violence. Zimmerman sought a restraining order against her in return. Both were granted. Meanwhile, over the course of eight years, Zimmerman made at least 46 calls to the Sanford (Fla.) Police Department reporting suspicious activity involving black males.
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This is your definition of "life-threatening"? Do you think it is roughly equivalent to knocking someone down and smashing their head into the ground?
Zimmerman's actions pre-fight don't need to be defended. They were biased, racist, dumb, etc. etc, but completely within the law, unless disobeying a directive from a 911 operator is a crime.
Being an asshole isn't a crime. Following someone who you claim you think is committing crime isn't a crime. Jumping that person and beating them and bashing there head on the ground IS a crime. The only crime committed that day was by Martin, and sadly, his life was lost a result. The impetuousness of youth, if you will.
Surely you recently read about Apartment Alice or Condo Cathy who approached a black gentleman who lived in her building, demanding proof he belonged there? Surely he was upset at this, but instead of beating her, as a rational adult, he documented her behavior via camera phone. If she had had a holstered gun on her hip, it would be almost the exact same scenario. Yet surely all would agree if he had responded by bashing her head in the ground, he would be in the wrong, yes? And if she had then responded by shooting him, it would be justifiable? 176
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The only crime committed that day was by Martin, and sadly, his life was lost a result.
We don't know this. Martin wasn't prosecuted and didn't have a chance to defend his conduct in court (or in any other fashion). We don't even know that Zimmerman didn't commit a crime -- just that the jury didn't find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
Sad to me that so many are so quick and willing to assert that a dead child is guilty of criminal behavior, when he's had no chance at all to defend himself. 177
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Sad to me that so many are so quick and willing to assert that a dead child is guilty of criminal behavior, when he's had no chance at all to defend himself.
Gf of Martin claims on the phone he said 'get off get off', meaning Zimmerman on top of Martin, beating him, yet not a single mark on Martin to substantiate this. Gf claims after this, phone went dead while she thought a man was attacking Martin, but does not call police, "assumed he would be ok"?
Martin justifiably pissed, sizes up Zimmerman, thinks he can take him in a fight, doesn't know Zimmerman is armed, doesn't know Florida law, and sadly dies as a result.
If the KKK grand wizard is minding his own business, pumping gas, when someone recognizes him and assaults him for no other reason than who he is, that is a crime. You can be liberal and rational at the same time to get that. 178
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I'm always a little surprised by the true believers on both sides of this particular tragedy. Believing any particular version of how the fight went down means disbelieving some sworn testimony at the trial. Obviously, someone is lying or mistaken. But in those circumstances, a reasonable person reserves more than a smidgen of doubt and humility about which witnesses, exactly, testified correctly. Fundamentally, there just wasn't much reliable evidence about who started what or who was defending themselves. Everybody is forced to rely on bankshot theories based on who screamed what and what an average human would do in different situations.
So when I see people come in with metaphysical certainty about one version of the story or another, I just kinda shake my head. You can call yourself a neutral judge of the evidence, but when you display that level of certainty about inherently uncertain facts, that's a tell. It's a tell that your view of the facts is being determined by your views, and not the other way round. 179
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If the KKK grand wizard is minding his own business, pumping gas, when someone recognizes him and assaults him for no other reason than who he is, that is a crime. You can be liberal and rational at the same time to get that.
Maybe this is what happened, or maybe not. We just don't know. All we know with any certainty is that the jury didn't find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was guilty. 180
Originally Posted by Richard Parker
Fundamentally, there just wasn't much reliable evidence about who started what or who was defending themselves. Everybody is forced to rely on bankshot theories based on who screamed what and what an average human would do in different situations.
In a case of he said she said with absolutely no other factors or evidence involved, this is correct.
Forget this case and think of this hypothetical- one person has black eyes, bashed back of head, and other obvious, real injuries. Nothing on hands or knuckles to indicate he has hit anyone. The other has no injuries of any sort- none, other than bruised knuckles. If your life was at stake, who would you guess initiated the confrontation? 181
Maybe this is what happened, or maybe not. We just don't know. All we know with any certainty is that the jury didn't find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman was guilty.
Is it possible to punch someone multiple times yet have no marks of any kind on your hands or knuckles? Are we to think Zimmerman jumped Martin and proceeded to slap and tickle him? 182
Forget this case and think of this hypothetical- one person has black eyes, bashed back of head, and other obvious, real injuries. Nothing on hands or knuckles to indicate he has hit anyone. The other has no injuries of any sort- none, other than bruised knuckles. If your life was at stake, who would you guess initiated the confrontation?
This is missing my point. "What would I guess" is very different from "what will I self-righteously declare must have happened." I mean, you think people never lose fights they start?
ETA: And if you're gonna post the question correctly, you might note that a bullet hole counts as an injury. 183
Is it possible to punch someone multiple times yet have no marks of any kind on your hands or knuckles? Are we to think Zimmerman jumped Martin and proceeded to slap and tickle him?
I don't know, and neither do you. Some things remain mysteries, and this is one of them.
It's also a mystery why so many are eager to (possibly) slander a dead child. 184
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Based on this, how could I possibly know? The person would more injuries could absolutely have initiated the confrontation. People pick fights with the wrong people all the time. The injuries alone do not tell the story, because they cannot provide a timeline. 185
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It's also a mystery why so many are eager to (possibly) slander a dead child.
Constantly referring to a near eighteen year old as a child, while legally correct, is prejudicial to the jury. If he were standing behind you at Wal-Mart, would you dare say to the cashier "I can't find my wallet, let this child go ahead of me?" No, so why here? 186
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Based on this, how could I possibly know? The person would more injuries could absolutely have initiated the confrontation. People pick fights with the wrong people all the time. The injuries alone do not tell the story, because they cannot provide a timeline.
Agree, you cant know some things with 100% certainty. But reasonable doubt, preponderance of evidence, all that, which is more likely? Not to mention that Zimmerman was a total pussy and Martin was enraged, and Martin clearly was the better fighter. I am a weenie as well, me attacking an enraged young man very angry with me and stronger than me is simply not going to happen.
And I am sure not going to engage him in hand to hand combat if I have a gun. 187
Constantly referring to a near eighteen year old as a child, while legally correct, is prejudicial to the jury. If he were standing behind you at Wal-Mart, would you dare say to the cashier "I can't find my wallet, let this child go ahead of me?" No, so why here?
I feel no need to participate in this change of subject.
If you want to continue to slander this dead kid who had no chance to explain and defend himself, feel free, but don't expect others to retain from criticizing you for it. 188
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If you want to continue to slander this dead kid who had no chance to explain and defend himself, feel free, but don't expect others to retain from criticizing you for it.
Also- you cannot slander the deceased, kid or adult. 189
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Exactly! I remember during the trial visiting a friend in FLa and I mentioned Trayvon and his right to defend himself. I was blindsided when my friends husband who up to that point was his typical quiet self turned on me and defended Zimmerman vehemently against the little potsmoking thug. Wo wo wo, I turned on him and said what would you have Trayvon do, what would you have any of us do, your wife or daughter if they were being followed and acosted by a stranger? I asked him what if the stranger had a gun? what would you do? I told him i would take my middled aged ass who harbors enough resentment and rage towards strange men who acost me in the dark and I would turn banshee and jump that motherfucker before he popped a bullet in my head. You might find me hammering zimmermans damn head against the pavement too. Lets ask Trayvon what happened, oh we can't because he's dead. Lets ask Georgie, can't ask him he didn't take the stand.
That shut my host down, and shut down the argument but i didn't change his mind. 190
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In theory, sure. My old sensei used to say "hard target, soft weapon; soft target, hard weapon". Noses are soft targets and fists are hard weapons. Unfortunately, temples and jaws are hard targets and tend to damage the fist. So in practice, the more you punch someone, the more marks on your knuckles.
Could have, sure. And therefore, in a court of law, the presumption of innocence means if you can't prove he was the initial attacker, the accused goes free.
Outside a court of law, you go by the best evidence available, which is that the person starting a fight usually suffers fewer injuries than the one being attacked - usually, not always - and that people are more likely to start fights if they think they can win them.
So there is non-definitive evidence that Martin was the first to use violence, and no evidence that Zimmerman was the first.
Add to that the other circumstances that are pretty definitely established - that Martin was definitely on top of Zimmerman and Zimmerman was never on top of Martin (grass stains and moisture on Martin's knees, grass stains and moisture on Zimmerman's back, no grass stains or moisture on Martin's back or Zimmerman's knees, the witness who saw Martin on top of Zimmerman bashing his head into the ground), that Martin did punch Zimmerman (Martin's knuckles, Zimmerman's nose), that Martin did bash Zimmerman's head into the ground (the gashes on the back of Zimmerman's head) - the balance of probability tends to shift.
Originally Posted by chela
Wo wo wo, I turned on him and said what would you have Trayvon do, what would you have any of us do, your wife or daughter if they were being followed and acosted by a stranger? I asked him what if the stranger had a gun? what would you do?
Which course of action would you recommend -
Walk into your own living room and give your little brother his Skittles, or
Turn around and go looking for the guy?
Because "what if the stranger had a gun?"
If it was simply that folks like Shodan were agnostic about whether Zimmerman (and Martin) acted lawfully, that would be one thing. It’s that they feel the need to put the kid on trial and conclude he was worth executing in cold blood that has me convinced this case is a great litmus test for racial bias.
See post above mine. Allowances are made for Zimmerman to prowl all over the goddamn place in the dark, huffing and puffing after Martin like an armed mad man. But we’re not supposed to read malicious intent in that. Nay, we are urged to see it as his god given right to chase after whomever he wants, when he wants, and not even consider the fear this probably caused in the person he hunted.
But let Martin not rush home right away—perhaps so he could hide until Zimmerman gave up looking for him—and that alone is treated as evidence of his malicious intent. Martin isn’t given any allowance to do anything except flee, while Zimmerman is allowed to kill.
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Both? And tell brother to call cops, mom would hop in the car to give chase Dad would grab his bat and the both of us would take a walk around the neighborhood. Because that’s just what we did once many years ago when a fiend followed me home and tried to bust in my house. 194
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Also- you cannot slander the deceased, kid or adult.
You can't be sued for it, but you can certainly slander a deceased person. 195
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You can't be sued for it, but you can certainly slander a deceased person.
That's not entirely accurate, either. Some jurisdictions allow the surviving relatives to sue. 196
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... So when I see people come in with metaphysical certainty about one version of the story or another, I just kinda shake my head....
Which part of my version is uncertain?
(1) Zimmerman was a wannabe cop, self-appointed protector of the neighborhood. IIRC he'd applied to be police; police said "No thanks."
(2) Zimmerman called the cops on Martin, and was advised NOT to follow Martin. (That's "NOT" with an N.)
(3) Zimmerman followed Martin anyway, with a concealed handgun.
(4) Zimmerman's behavior alarmed or upset Martin, as Martin reported via telephone.
(5) When this super-star vigilante hero was confronted by his "suspect," he was unable to talk or fight his way out, and instead delivered a fatal gun shot.
Which one of these statements do you shake your head at, Richard?
I can't be bothered to study Florida Case Law to determine a precise definition of "murder." IIUC, there are "depraved heart" rulings to criminalize behavior like Zimmerturd's. 197
Disregarded again because I never said that Trevor Martin was an angel. As accusations in domestic violence incidents against Zimmerman included a gun threat, you bet "life-threatening" is an appropriate thing to say. Also it is not a good idea for Zimmerman to use a confederate flag as an avatar on the internet, so one can say also that it is really dumb to defend a guy like that still.
And of course, having say that, it does not follow that one automatically believes that Martin did a sensible thing that night, it is more likely that this was a case where both people made mistakes, but one more than the other had the power to defuse the situation and instead forced the issue. You ever considered that there is the positivity that a stupid violent racist bastard induced a fight with a black guy that turned to be a reckless dumb hothead? 198
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And of course, having say that, it does not follow that one automatically believes that Martin did a sensible thing that night, it is more likely that this was a case where both people made mistakes, but one more than the other had the power to defuse the situation and instead forced the issue. You ever considered that there is the positivity that a stupid violent racist bastard induced a fight with a black guy that turned to be a reckless dumb hothead?
Please. Shodan would like to believe Zimmerman was the only one in danger. Not, you know, the kid being followed home in the dark by a guy with a gun. Again, black kids don't get to stand their ground. 199
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Please. Shodan would like to believe Zimmerman was the only one in danger. Not, you know, the kid being followed home in the dark by a guy with a gun. Again, black kids don't get to stand their ground.
Not surprising. I refer you to the last paragraph in post #61 of this thread. 200
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By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There: A Memoir
Tom Sizemore, Anna David
A harrowing, deeply personal memoir of the acclaimed actor’s wild ride through Hollywood, fueled by his crippling addiction to methamphetamines, exposing the darkest side of fame and how one man found a path to recovery.
Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug-addicted. In reality, he’s all of them. He’s a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. He’s also now sober, after his addiction took his life as far down, arguably, as any human being could go.
Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when his drug problem was widely known, directors such as Steven Spielberg offered him roles and begged him to stay sober for them. Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him. But the same man who once romanced Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis was accused of domestic violence by the world’s most famous madam and moved from Beverly Hills to solitary confinement in state prison.
For years, Sizemore’s days were filled with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness. By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There is a harrowing journey into the heart of his addiction, told in riveting and often shocking detail. By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one man’s look at a particular moment in entertainment history—a window into the drug-fueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr., to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Chris Farley, and many others far before their time.
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Tom Sizemore rose in prominence as an actor throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy character. Born in Detroit, he got his start in Born on the Fourth of July and has since starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, Strange Days, Wyatt Earp, Natural Born Killers, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, and Black Hawk Down, among many others. Sizemore recently costarred in Fox's television pilot Exit Strategy and had a recurring guest-star role on Hawaii Five-O. Sizemore has counseled both teens involved in substance abuse and recovering addicts and is actively involved with the Hollenbeck Youth Center in East Los Angeles.
Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl and Bought, the anthology Reality Matters, and the memoir Falling for Me. She is the executive editor of the addiction and recovery website The Fix, is doing graduate work in drug and alcohol counseling at UCLA, and speaks at colleges across the country on addiction.
Title By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There: A Memoir
Authors Tom Sizemore, Anna David
Contributor Anna David
Edition illustrated, reprint
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Unitrends unveils direct backup to cloud with Unitrends Cloud Backup
by Mark Cox • May 3, 2019
The new Unitrends offering is designed to allow both MSP and traditional business customers to back up straight to the Unitrends cloud without needing to use a local appliance.
Mike Sanders, Unitrends’ General Manager
Backup provider Unitrends, a Kaseya company, has announced a new Unitrends Cloud Backup (UCB) offering. It is designed to allow customers to back up data to the Unitrends cloud that they are either storing on their own local backup, or on a Unitrends appliance.
“Unitrends Cloud Backup fills a gap that we have had in our portfolio,” said Mike Sanders, Unitrends’ General Manager. “We have not had a direct to cloud backup. In addition, while Spanning [another Kaseya company] does cloud to cloud backup for Office 365, we didn’t have a direct to cloud capability from workstations. This is something that customers have asked for consistently, and this completes our story.”
The target market for this is the significant amount of critical data that continues to be created and stored outside the cloud, notwithstanding the growth of cloud-hosted applications like Salesforce and Microsoft Office 365.
“Our appliances already create a backup into the cloud, so that secondary backup capability is not what this is for,” Sanders said. “That’s already there today. UCB is really to give customers an affordable way to back up workstations without having to use valuable space on their appliances. This is the first time we have allowed backup directly to our cloud without needing an appliance locally.”
That capability adds a couple of new use cases, Sanders indicated. One is workstation deployments where customers have seen a local deployment as overkill. Another is users who have not been Unitrends customers at all before.
‘We would expect a lot would use this where there are no appliances locally at all,” he said. “There is demand for that. There is a healthy percentage of people who aren’t customers at all today.”
Unitrends started out as an on-prem vendor, but following their acquisition by Kaseya have built up a base of business among MSPs as well.
“We expect that this will play well among both Unitrends MSPs and our traditional business,” Sanders said. “We are seeing demand on both sides of the market.”
Sanders acknowledged that much of the demand for this will be from very small customers, or small locations of larger ones, but said that while individual deployments would not make partners much money, in bulk, they would.
“Most of our partners have some sort of service organization today, and many of them see the potential in using this capability as part of a service,” he said. “If they have one client doing this, it’s not very exciting. But if they have a lot of them, then it is very exciting. Some partners will sell it to larger customers to support smaller remote or branch locations, and that is inherently a strong opportunity. That, and the aggregation of services using this technology will be the primary use cases, and we do expect to see some of both.”
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The Chanute Police Department Firearms/Archery Park opened to the public on April 15, 2012. There are currently 10 lanes set up for targets. The Firearms/Archery Park allows for handguns, shotguns, and rifles to be shot at a distance of 100 yards and under. At this time, the archery range is still a work in progress, however, members may bring targets in to practice.
The range is open from 9:00 a.m. to sun down with the following schedule:
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This is a tentative schedule and will change once the Archery Park is complete,
or at the authority of the Chanute Police Department.
The Firearms Range is Closed whenever the farm ground around the range is
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The Firearms Range has one pistol shooting lane which is designated for handicap use. Any member/guest may use this lane when it is not in use by a person requiring this station.
Membership fees for gun range use
$55 per family/household members
Range Members may allow guests with them at the range. Guest costs are $10 per person per day, and guests must fill out an application before responding to the range. Card holding members are responsible for the actions of their guest. Guests will follow the range rules and instructions of the card-holding member hosting them.
All members/guests MUST sign in at the Municipal Court Clerk's office before reporting to the gun range.
Safety is our #1 priority. If anyone observes an unsafe condition while at the Firearms/Archery Park, immediately call for firing to cease. Report safety violations to the Chanute Police Department Range Master, or Chief of Police. If an officer or emergency personnel is needed to respond to the Firearms/Archery Park, call (620) 431-5768 or 911.
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Coast Guard forward operating base established for Hurricane Matthew response
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Air Station Savannah crews ready two MH-65 Dolphin helicopters for flights Oct. 8, 2016 on the air station’s tarmac. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher M. Yaw
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Coast Guard aircrews from around the country are staged Saturday at Hunter Army Airfield, which is serving as a forward operating base for the Coast Guard’s response efforts following Hurricane Matthew.
The Army has opened the airfield and its facilities to the Coast Guard as part of the unified effort.
“The support we’ve received from Lt. Col. Squires and the Hunter Army Air Field Garrison command team has been phenomenal,” said Cmdr. J. Marshall Branch, the commanding officer of Coast Guard Air Station Savannah. “Through their support to the interagency in response to the devastation of Hurricane Matthew, Hunter Army Air Field has assumed a leadership role in protecting our citizens here in the Low Country in addition to their support of our operations abroad.”
Fourteen additional Coast Guard aircraft from air stations throughout the country are operating out of Hunter Army Airfield. The aircrews are positioned to provide search and rescue assistance and to conduct shoreline and port damage assessments. This information is used by Coast Guard commanders to consider the reopening of area ports and waterways.
For information on Hurricane Matthew’s progress and hurricane preparedness, please visit the National Hurricane Center’s webpage.
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Palu mayor denies ‘deviancy’ in his city in response to Malaysian politician blaming disasters on LGBT
Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. PHOTO: Facebook/Zahid Hamidi
Many of us probably expected the more conservative of Indonesia’s politicians to rally behind Malaysian opposition leader Zahid Hamidi’s attempts to score cheap political points by blaming last month’s earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi on the rise of LGBT activities, specifically in the province’s capital of Palu.
But that, thankfully, has not turned out to be the case so far. Instead, Palu Mayor Hidayat has come out to debunk Zahid’s theory (albeit in his own insensitive way).
“I think deviant activities exist in every region, but I have never seen it in Palu. Maybe there are, but I ask everyone to be introspective, ask for direction from Allah,” he told Kumparan yesterday, implying that he still believes in divine punishment regardless.
“Maybe there are different views held by politicians and experts. Some might say it was divine punishment, but then there are also expert opinions from those who performed extensive research.”
National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Spokesperson Sutopo, who has tirelessly updated Indonesia and the world with news about natural disasters that have hit the country recently (despite being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer), similarly refused to be brought down to Zahid’s level.
“To a geologist the earthquake and tsunami in Palu were initiated by the shift of tectonic plates. To a layout expert the disasters in Palu were caused by lack of disaster mitigation in spatial planning,” he told Kumparan today.
“For someone in religion, they may see this as divine punishment and a warning from Allah so people do not sin. Everybody has the right to perceive [the cause] of disasters as they see fit.”
On Tuesday, the embattled Zahid, who is currently facing 45 corruption-related criminal charges, said the twin disaster that struck Central Sulawesi was divine punishment and warned that Malaysians could face something similar if they don’t forsake their sinful ways.
“If we look at the situation in Malaysia, we are concerned over the incident of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Indonesia, recently, where it is believed more than 1,000 of them were involved in [LGBTQ+] activities,” he said.
“But the whole area was destroyed as part of God’s punishment.
“I would like to ask, as part of Malaysian Islamic Development Department’s (Jakim) task, (for them) to implement the Mukhayyam outreach program to help the LGBTQ+ community, and other steps taken by government agencies and other states, and to state the effectiveness of such program so we can avoid similar punishment from God, including those who clearly reject the LGBTQ+.”
The Mukhayyam program mentioned by Zahid has been described by LGBT activists as a “brainwashing” program that attempts to get transgender individuals to change their identities.
Zahid is far from the first to describe the twin disaster in Sulawesi as the result of God’s wrath. Hardline Islamic preachers in Indonesia have spread conspiracy theories that they were the result of idolatry and extremist groups have threatened several traditional Javanese cultural ceremonies, saying their animistic origins could anger God and lead to more disasters.
But it is truly appalling to see a politician from another country try to connect the earthquake and tsunami that hit Sulawesi — killing over 2,000 people and displacing nearly 90,000 — with Indonesia’s treatment of its LGBTQ+ community.
Although homosexuality is not criminalized throughout Indonesia as it is in Malaysia (not yet at least), the LGBTQ+ community has been increasingly persecuted here in recent years due to politicized moral panics, with vigilante raids, police arrests, and state-sponsored discrimination causing many LGBTQ+ individuals here to be terrified for their safety. To further stigmatize them by asserting that they are the cause of natural disasters is an insult to all logic and humanity.
But Zahid didn’t exactly have much credibility in those departments before. Last week he was officially handed 45 criminal charges relating to the former DPM’s abuse of power, including criminal breach of trust and money laundering in connection to a charity run by members of his family.
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With the help of a Thrivent Action Team and Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity, five congregations repaired houses and landscapes in their community. Photo from Thrivent Facebook
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Fortune 500 company thrives through pursuit of generosity
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — As CEO for Thrivent Financial, a Fortune 500 membership organization of Christians, Brad Hewitt eagerly awaits his annual two-week getaway in Colorado with his family. Together they spend two winter weeks cuddled up in a time-share style townhouse in the Rockies.
“I count on it to sweep me into God’s presence and renew an appreciation of all His good gifts,” Hewitt said. “But even as those wonders fill me, they can also put my heart into a frenzy faster than I like to admit. One minute I’m thanking God for his blessings. The next I’m gawking at new, bigger and better vacation homes and thinking, I want one.”
Hewitt admits, though, he doesn’t need a bigger, better place to vacation.
“At the moment those misguided desires well up inside me, I face a choice,” he said. “I can continue to stare at the thing I want. I can obsess over it all the way home. I can calculate what a fancy new place costs. I can loudly convince myself and my family (that) I need it. Or I can act to break that cycle.”
Generosity is how he breaks the cycle. Serving alongside his wife, the couple volunteers for a nonprofit that repurposes blighted properties into homes for people in need.
“One day we were assigned the task of removing soiled, wet mattresses from an old building. Needless to say, it wasn’t much fun, but it was necessary,” Hewitt said. “Not one time while I was volunteering that day did I ever stop to think about buying a new vacation home. Instead, I left the day feeling grateful for God’s provision in my life, and asking how I can do more to help others.”
That is a living motto for the not-for-profit Thrivent, which provides insurance and other financial services for its owner-members. Founded more than a century ago as a fraternal benefit society serving Lutherans, the organization voted four years ago to extend its offerings to the broader Christian community.
“We believe all we have is a gift from God, and we are called to be good stewards,” Hewitt said.
By the end of 2016, Thrivent’s assets were more than $116 billion, with $9 billion in surplus.
“This is an incredibly exciting time for our organization because we truly believe we can help Christians make wise money decisions that reflect their Christian values, which is really important during a time when the world tells us we always need more in order to be happy,” Hewitt said. “It’s easy to start to think money is a goal in life. After all, our society measures success by how much money you have—but at Thrivent we believe money is a tool to live out our faith; it’s not a goal for our lives.”
Last year, Thrivent and its members tooled more than $217 million to churches, nonprofits and individuals in need. Also in 2016, its members volunteered more than 11.3 million hours.
“For Thrivent, generosity is an important component of being wise with money,” he said. “I often say generosity is both the prescription for and evidence of a healthy relationship with money.”
Much of that volunteerism comes through two of the organization’s generosity programs, a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and Thrivent Action Teams, where members apply to lead a one-time fundraiser, service activity or educational event that responds to unmet community needs and can be completed in 90 days.
Thrivent’s mission to help people have a healthy relationship with money prompted Hewitt to partner with Jim Moline, a leadership consultant and psychologist, to write “Your New Money Mindset.”
“I have found most financial planners give advice about the mechanics of money management and tactical goals, such as debt repayment, retirement planning, college funding and the like, without talking about the heart motivations,” Hewitt said.
Over time, the CEO noticed that Christians, including himself, often struggled with the concept of money and joyful generosity.
“It became clear to me we need to talk about money in a different way,” he said, adding that marketing messages often derail best intentions.
“Our hearts establish our motives and priorities,” Hewitt said. “Without examining our relationship with money from a heart perspective, we run the risk of continuing to make financial decisions that don’t align with our faith and values. The heart often illuminates the void we are hoping money will fill more than the head does.”
Hoping to further model the concept of the generosity, all proceeds from the book will be going to Thrivent’s fraternal programs, including Thrivent Builds.
— by Lori Arnold
Arnold is an award-winning freelance writer from San Diego, Calif. Contact her at storylori@gmail.com.
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Michael Giacchino May Have Just Hinted He's Scoring Robert Pattinson's Batman
By Kofi Outlaw - June 26, 2019 01:37 pm EDT
After a few years being stuck in development limbo, Matt Reeves is finally set to start shooting his Batman reboot film The Batman in early 2020. With that confirmation we also got the biggest and most important piece of news about the film: Robert Pattinson is playing the new Batman.
Now that we have confirmation about The Batman's production and Pattinson as the star, we've been waiting to hear more confirmations about who will be filling out the cast and crew of the film. Well, the casting is still being kept under wraps, but we may now know one important member of the crew, as composer Michael Giacchino seems to be hinting that he will be composing the score for The Batman!
A post shared by Michael Giacchino (@m_giacchino) on Jun 21, 2019 at 4:10am PDT
While this is, admittedly, just a picture of a Batman statue over in Dublin, Ireland, there is fair reason to believe this image from Giacchino is a legitimate tease for his involvement with The Batman. The connection that fans quickly spotted is that Michael Giacchino has worked on nearly all of Reeves' major directorial efforts, including Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and War for the Planet of the Apes. It stands to reason that the pair would collaborate again on The Batman - especially with the films Giacchino has scored in the last few years.
The Oscar-winner just completed work on Spider-Man: Far From Home, and has handled major blockbuster genre franchises like Jurassic World, Star Wars, Doctor Strange, Star Trek, and the Pixar films (The Incredibles), that first made him famous. In short: in this post-Hans Zimmer Batman era, Giacchino is pretty much one of *the* "it" composers working in the industry - and a good pick for someone who can create the next hit Batman movie theme.
The Dark Knight's theme music in movies has become as iconic and important as the Batman costume or the Batmobile. No one thought that Chris Nolan would be able to top Danny Elfman's theme from Tim Burton's Batman '89 movie, then Hans Zimmer came along and blew fans' eardrums with his percussion-pounding theme to Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. Now that sonic score for the Dark Knight is the one to beat - and unfortunately Zimmer's work with Junkie XL scoring Ben Affleck's Batman in Batman v Superman didn't quite hit the mark. The door is open for Giacchino to step in and claim this next era of Batman sounds - and we're betting he will do just that, if he truly is attached.
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An authenticated attacker in SAP E-Commerce (Business-to-Consumer application), versions 7.3, 7.31, 7.32, 7.33, 7.54, can change the price of the product to zero and also checkout, by injecting an HTML code in the application that will be executed whenever the victim logs in to the application even on a different machine, leading to Code Injection.
(Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection'))
Vendor: SAP
Product: E-commerce
CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
CVSS Base Score Impact Subscore Exploitability Subscore
Exploit range Attack complexity Authentication
Single time
Confidentiality impact Integrity impact Availability impact
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2773493
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=521864242
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Next-Wave Innovation in Sherry
Bodegas revisit old techniques to help bring sherry into the future
Chantal Martineau
Photo courtesy of Ramiro Ibanez and Williams Humbert.
“There is nothing new in sherry,” says Ramiro Ibáñez Espinar of Cota 45. “The past is so impressive that it is very difficult to do something that has not been done before.” He’s not the only one who feels this way; today’s most iconoclastic sherry makers and capataces (cellar masters) are taking cues from the early days. In doing so, they’re challenging conventional views on the identity of sherry, shining a light on the influence of soil compositions, resuscitating indigenous grape varieties, and reviving long-defunct winemaking practices, all in the name of reconnecting with the history and terroir of the Jerez wine region.
Sherry has an amazingly long history. Jerez has been producing wine since Phoenician times, for more than 3,000 years, which means that many of today’s most common winemaking techniques are relatively new—only a few hundred years old—including the solera system, which was developed during the 18th century. But even the solera, designed to help the region keep up with foreign demand while maintaining consistency in the wines, is now being questioned. Has the solera eroded sherry’s connection to its terroir? And is the terroir of sherry, a fortified, often nonvintage wine, derived from the land or from the bodega?
Among the first to initiate these sorts of discussions was Equipo Navazos, a project established in 2005 by Eduardo Ojeda, the former technical director of Grupo Estévez (which produces the Valdespino sherries), and Jésus Barquín, a professor of criminology. Without a bodega of their own, the two source rare casks from bodegas all around Andalusia and release some of the most groundbreaking wines in Jerez, including La Bota de Fino Macharnudo Alto, selected from the oldest fino soleras at Valdespino, and several editions of Palo Cortado Viejísimo, which contain sherries that are up to 80 years old.
Equipo Navazos Florpower is a series of unfortified wines, which began to be released in 2013, aged under flor, the creamy layer of yeast that blooms on the surface of certain wines in Jerez, sealing the wine off from oxidation and imparting its own nutty, briny flavors. Before fortification was introduced, around the 17th century (to prevent spoilage when sherry traveled to distant export markets), the wines of Jerez were all unfortified. Florpower marks a return to that method and proposes that, left uncompromised, sherries will more clearly express the influence of the vineyard.
One hiccup with these wines is that they defy regional regulations, which means that for now, Florpower cannot be legally labeled sherry. There’s an ongoing discussion about such experimental wines, however, with the Consejo Regulador (Regulatory Council) for sherry paying close attention to emerging doctrines in Jerez and revisiting its regulations accordingly. An updated framework is planned for next year.
At the same time Equipo Navazos was beginning to get attention for its outside-the-box bottlings, a number of bodegas were trying their hands at making sherry in the en rama style. These “raw” sherries are bottled straight from the barrel and left unfiltered in all their rich, leesy splendor. Although most capataces carbon-filter their wines today, it hasn’t always been that way. In the last few years, en rama bottlings have become the darlings of the sherry world—especially Solear en Rama from Barbadillo, which was a pioneer of the style, in 1999. It’s bottled once each season to showcase the nuances imparted by climate and weather. In 2010, Tío Pepe debuted the first fino en rama, and many other producers have followed suit. All of Equipo Navazos’ sherries are made en rama.
After such innovation was initiated, producers like Romero Ibáñez Espinar began delving even deeper into particulars of the past. Working as a consultant for various bodegas over the years, including Juan Piñero, Primitivo Collantes, and Viña Callejuela, Ibáñez started Cota 45 in 2012. One of his most discussed projects, Pitijopos, comprises six unfortified wines dedicated to albariza, Andalusia’s chalky white soil that’s composed of clay, calcium, and sea fossils. (Ibáñez named his bodega for the altitude at which the best albariza is found—45 meters above sea level.) He makes each of the wines from Palomino, the most common grape variety used to make sherry, sourced from six different pagos, or vineyard sites. The idea is to showcase the nuances of the region’s terroir by exploring the impression single, distinct plots could leave on a wine made from the same grape, in the same way—and then not covering up those nuances with added alcohol. The Carrascal bottling shows an elegant salinity; the Miraflores Alta is richer and chalkier.
Another of Ibáñez’s wines, Encrucijado MMXII (the name, meaning “crossroads,” alludes to palo cortado, a style of sherry that starts its life aged under flor that begins to die off early, when the wine is set aside to age oxidatively), is made using indigenous grape varieties no longer recognized by the region’s regulatory body, including Mantúo Pilas, Mantúo Castellano, Beba, Perruno, and Cañocazo. The varietals weren’t chosen on a whim; Ibáñez found several references to their regional importance during the mid-19th century, when the palo cortado style emerged.
Another bodega putting the pago first is Viña Callejuela, founded by Francisco Blanco, a viticulturalist who began trading grapes for barrels in the late 1980s with the aim of one day building his own solera. His two sons, Pepe and Paco, now run the business and bottled their first wine in 2015 with the help of Ibáñez. What sets their sherries apart is that they’re made solely from estate-grown grapes. A couple of months ago, Kerin Auth Bembry of La Luz Selections, a brokerage company in New York City, was searching for a groundbreaking bodega to take on as the first (and only) sherry producer in her portfolio. She was introduced to Callejuela through Ibáñez and is expecting her first pallet of their manzanilla and manzanilla en rama this month, along with an unfortified single-vineyard Palomino. By year’s end, she’ll be importing an unfiltered manzanilla, called Blanquito, aged over 10 years.
Says Auth Bembry, “They’ve created a new category: 100-percent estate-bottled grower sherry.” She adds that Blanco increased his vineyard holdings to a total of 29 hectares spread across the pagos of Callejuela, Macharnudo, and Añina, where the oldest vines can be found. Añina is the most influenced by the sea because of its exposure to the levanter, the region’s easterly wind; Macharnudo has the least humidity. Having plots across different pagos allows the bodega to showcase the effects of terroir. “Almost no other producer in Jerez,” says Auth Bembry, “has a solera of wines made entirely from their own grapes.”
And then there’s Paola Medina. At 39, she’s one of the youngest winemakers working in a major house in Jerez, Williams & Humbert, and the first woman in her family to hold such a position. Medina has embraced organic farming and will launch the first-ever certified organic fino from the bodega in 2018. She’s buying grapes for now, but soon a part of Williams & Humbert’s vineyard will be certified organic. And though sherry’s identity has long been tied to the solera, Medina has become a major proponent of añadas, vintage sherries from rare casks that were intentionally left out of the solera system to age unblended. Although Williams & Humbert has preserved vintage sherries for posterity since 1920, it was the first to launch a vintage fino, in 2006. More añada releases have followed, made from old vines in the Añina and Carrascal pagos. Medina has come to view them as tools for uncovering useful insights into the nature of sherry wines.
Medina is careful not to pit vintage sherries against those aged in solera, however, giving credit to what she considers Jerez’s greatest contribution to world of winemaking. By better understanding each harvest individually and how it evolves in the barrel, she says, a winemaker is able to better understand the dynamic of a given solera and how its moving parts work together—“These wines are an invitation to reflection.”
A Montreal native now based in New York, Chantal Martineau writes about wine, spirits, food, travel, and culture. Her writing (sometimes accompanied by her own photography) has been published in Vogue, Food & Wine, Departures, Saveur, and The Atlantic. She is the author, with Ron Cooper, of Finding Mezcal: A Journey Into the Liquid Soul of Mexico and the author of How the Gringos Stole Tequila.
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Columns, Opinion
Max vs. Media: Dear Fox News, tell your viewers the truth about tax cuts
October 19, 2017 3:46 pm by Max Berman
We’ve all heard the concept of being in a partisan or media “bubble.” However, the term bubble doesn’t really do justice to the phenomenon. Bubbles imply something is loosely contained and visible; however, these partisan and media bubbles are more like prison cells, ranging from minimum security to solitary confinement. Since I am left-of-center, I’ll make my point using the Fox News “prison.”
I still remember a time in high school when a teacher was discussing what newspapers and other objective news sources we could use for an assignment. Someone mentioned Fox News and I scoffed, remarking that it clearly favored Republicans. That person didn’t argue with me, they just said two words: it does?
A YouGov CBS poll found that only 58 percent of responders believed the current tax reform plan being discussed would favor the wealthy. While the plan is far from complete, one thing is clear: The tax reform bill will favor the American aristocracy.
Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, details all the lies in a Oct. 14 New York Times column — yes lies, not “falsehoods” — that Trump and the Republicans have been spewing to ensure a tax break for their campaign donors. Trump claims we are the highest-taxed nation, but we are actually the fifth-least taxed among developed countries. Republicans love claiming the Estate Tax is a death tax, but it only affects the wealthiest 0.2 percent of estates.
Cutting taxes doesn’t help workers, giving them raises does. Letting corporations pay less taxes and offering a repatriation tax holiday doesn’t mean they will decide to change their business strategy, it just means they will spend that money on stock buybacks and dividends so upper management fills its deep, vast pockets; this isn’t simply my opinion, this is what happened after the last tax holiday in 2005.
The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that the lowest 90 percent of workers will see a tax cut somewhere around one percent. Those ages 95–99 will receive a two percent cut, and the richest one percent will see an eight percent cut. Republicans will cite some version of trickle-down economics which argues that “job creators” will use the extra money to hire more workers and invest more, thus helping the economy as a whole. This idea is very flawed. Flaw one — job creators could just pocket the money. Flaw two — the wealthiest could invest the money overseas. Flaw three — giving money solely to the middle class could also help the overall economy.
But all of the lies and flaws in trickle-down economics don’t keep Fox News from letting lies go unchecked on its website. Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens, argued in a Fox news article/op-ed (I honestly can’t tell the difference on Fox) that “another perfectly sensible proposal is killing the death tax, which unceremoniously celebrated its centennial last year. A Gallup poll last year found that 54 percent of Americans want it eliminated. The tax has a devastating impact on the economy by increasing costs on small businesses.”
Remember how I said the estate tax only affects 0.2 percent of estates? I failed to mention that just one percent of that 0.2 percent (.002 percent overall) of those taxable estates are small farms or businesses. And even these are just the wealthiest small businesses, not mom-and-pop shops struggling to get by.
Weber also claims that “the president’s tax reform framework further aims to help American businesses regain their competitive edge in a globalized economy increasingly stacked against them. It advises considering methods to reduce corporate double taxation, eliminating the corporate alternative minimum tax, and lowering the top corporate tax rate to 20 percent from the current 35 percent.”
The United States already has low levels of taxation, and the top corporate tax rate of 35 percent is rarely paid, thanks to a plethora of deductions and tax breaks. Low tax rates don’t give countries competitive edges in the long-run, just ask Ireland — but technological advancements do.
But the real issue I have with Fox News isn’t an explicit support of tax cuts, it’s the fact that I can’t find a source anywhere on Fox News that points out that the tax cuts benefit the wealthiest Americans almost exclusively. How do you think only 58 percent of Americans believe the tax cuts will favor the rich? My guess is the Fox News high security prison plays a factor in keeping out the truth.
I spent a dreadful night on Monday watching Tucker Carlson argue that immigrants are bad, that law and order is a western value (apparently those foreigners just love anarchy), debate a leftist economist who would not answer any questions, and relish in the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Carlson loves to argue that immigrants help the rich while they are “shafting” the middle class — but has he even mentioned how great the tax plan is for the wealthy?
Hopefully I’ve missed something. Perhaps Fox News is providing journalism and not just clickbait for those on the right needing affirmation. Point me to an article, a news clip, something that demonstrates that Fox News is truly honest about these tax cuts. If you can’t, it’s time to tell Fox News its fly is open, and its aristocratic bias is showing.
Author: Max Berman
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Lincelles
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The Convict Ship Lincelles 1862
Duncan Dunbar 1803-1862
Lincelles was one of many ships owned by Duncan Dunbar II. The ‘first’ Duncan Dunbar was a brewer and wine merchant. His son, Duncan II, owned the biggest sailing fleet in the world in the mid-19th century – mostly built in his own shipyard in Moulmein, Burma. Dunbar was a great believer in India-built ships and the vessels built in his yard were of teak cut from the forests that lined the banks of the river surrounding the yard. His fleet was mainly utilised as convict and immigrant transports and troopships in the Crimean War. As well as administering his great fleet, Dunbar founded the London Chartered Bank of Australia in 1852; he was on the committee of Lloyd’s Registry for 16 years and deputy-chairman for five. In fact Dunbar was chairman of many influential boards relating to the marine industry.
Dunbar death
Lincelles was a 904 ton ship that left Deptford after its fitting on September 9, 1861. She stopped off at Sheerness on 13th September where the first convicts embarked. The next stop was Portsmouth where more convicts embarked, and finally Portland. Lincelles took on the last of her human cargo on 23rd September but lay-to until 5th October when she finally sailed bound for the Swan River Colony and the port of Fremantle, stopping at the Cape of Good Hope on the way. She carried the 24th of 37 shipments of male convicts destined for Western Australia. The voyage took 115 days and the Lincelles arrived in Fremantle on 28th January 1862 with 80 passengers and 304 convicts.
Lincelles Perth Gazette 31 Jan 1862
Edwin Gooch and William Crawford MD, RN were the captain and surgeon respectively. Rev. William Irwin travelled as the ship’s religious instructor. This voyage on the Lincelles was to be the first for both Crawford and Irwin. Crawford would make another four voyages on convict ships to Western Australia and another to Gibraltar. Irwin also made many other voyages on convict ships. Assistant Warder at Portland prison, Alexander Armstrong, a Crimean War veteran, embarked at Portland to take up an appointment at Fremantle prison, as did Assistant Warder James Persee.
Of the 80 passengers mentioned above, 78 were pensioner guards and their families, the number being
made up of 30 pensioner guards, 17 wives, 17 sons and 14 daughters. The ship’s report for the Port of
Fremantle authority differs in its passenger count: 30 guards, 17 wives, 40 children and two warders;
while the newspaper account of Lincelles’ arrival states 70 guards and their wives and children!
The authorities were far from slap-dash in their watchfulness of every detail of the voyage and we are fortunate to have a legacy of details from most of the journeys by way of surgeon superintendents’journals. On this voyage he recorded that 94 convicts had been on the sick list, two of whom died on the journey and two were admitted to the Colonial Hospital upon arrival. Ten convict guards had reported sick, but all had recovered.
Port of Fremantle Report on Lincelles
William Crawford’s surgeon’s journal for the voyage is preserved in the National Archives in Kew. Researchers can view a copy on the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) microfilm reel 3181 which is held in most major libraries and archives throughout Australia. It can also be accessed by subscription on the ancestry.co.uk website.
Lloyds of London Registers 1854-1881.
Surgeon Superintendents’ Journals of Convict Ships, National Archives Kew.
Perth Dead Persons Society (DPS) Website.
Newspaper clippings from TROVE, National Library of Australia and
British Newspaper Archive from Findmypast.com.
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“Wow… I believe Gayle King and R Kelly had a ‘Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’ moment when Gayle King said so calmly that -now infamous word -“Robert!!!” Gayle King could actually become R. Kelly’s salvation and rescue him from this downward spiral like Uncle Charlie’s woman did for him when he was down and out… Do you feel me???”
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Wow… What a week Gayle King has had and she did it all on her own…
Now ‘little girl blue’ probably feel like the words of this great song by R Kelly – I Believe I Can Fly
(LP Version) (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/GIQn8pab8Vc
Gayle King can now call her OWN shots with @CBSThisMorning and probably any network she chooses… I believe Gayle King and R Kelly had a ‘Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’ moment when Gayle King said so calmly that -now infamous word -“Robert!!!”
Wow… I felt it then and I feel it everytime I hear her say it in reruns – it was a genuine moment of concern for the black man “Robert…”
I believe R. Kelly, like most black men of our generation, are suffering from the PTSD of slavery and the hardships of growing up in extreme poverty…
From acclaimed author and researcher Dr. Joy DeGruy comes this fascinating book that explores the psychological and emotional impact on African Americans after enduring the horrific Middle Passage, over 300 years of slavery, followed by continued discrimination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLCm421oCOI
From the beginning of American chattel slavery in the 1500’s, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy asked the question, “Isn’t it likely those enslaved were severely traumatized? Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?”
I believe as a coping mechanism R. Kelly did what most of us black men learned to do ‘Back-N-Da-Day’ is live out of our right brain; tap into all that creative energy using it to sing our way out or ball our way out or run our way out of poverty… Where does the world think the LeBron James’s and the Michael Jordan’s and the Michael Jackson’s (and the list goes on) came from???
SANTA MARIA, CA – JUNE 1: Michael Jackson arrives for his child molestation trial on at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse arrives for his child molestation trial on at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse June 1, 2005 in Santa Maria, California. Jackson is charged in a 10-count indictment with molesting a boy, plying him with liquor and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. (Photo by Aaron Lambert-Pool/Getty Images)
Now unlike Gayle King, who was a diplomat’s daughter (The R&B Singer and the Diplomat’s Daughter), R. Kelly had to hustle and fight his way to the top; therefore all he had was his dreams of reaching the top; where his right brain imagination imagined…
I am sure R. Kelly heard it and felt it too… The one thing a black man absolutely crave is to hear a beautiful black woman call his name… Hell Prince wrote song about “Call my name!!!” https://youtu.be/MdPXM-p7IFY
Wow… What a moment for all times… Gayle King could actually become R. Kelly’s salvation and rescue him from this downward spiral like Uncle Charlie’s woman did for him when he was down and out
R&B artist Charlie Wilson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September, 2008 after his wife, Mahin, urged him to have a prostate screening. Today they are working with the Prostate Cancer Foundation to raise awareness for the disease and funding for research. Photo: Kevin Winter
… Now that would be a great story because sometime, instead being a Misandrist, a black woman has to be a ‘Good Samaritan’ (Luke 10:25-37 KJV) for a black man…
Now that would really be a different “Shade of the Color Purple…”
Except in this story of “Humpty Dumpty” a (Gayle) King does come along and puts R. (Humpty Dumpty) Kelly back together again…
“Do you feel me???”
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16 May 2018 / Money
Would you be affected if your local ATM was shut?
Ged Killen MP Labour MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
With bank branches closing across the country, there has never been a more pressing time to look at the future provision of cash and access to financial services. Ged Killen MP explains more.
Let’s start with a startling fact: there are now more ATMs in the Houses of Parliament than there are in centre of Cambuslang – the major town of the constituency I represent. The ATM machines that are there regularly run out of cash.
Like many small towns, Cambuslang has faced challenges in recent years. The town centre is not as busy as it once was and as more services like banks leave the area, footfall continues to drop and it becomes more difficult for local businesses, many of whom rely on small cash transactions, to survive.
In the constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West overall, we have lost six bank branches in recent years and there are now very real concerns that free-to-use ATM machines are at risk of closure.
A cashless society?
We may be moving towards a cashless society, but we are not there yet. Many people still rely on cash, particularly those who are living on a tight budget and people who are not as confident using modern technology such as digital banking and contactless payments.
I think it crucial that we do not allow banks to force the pace of change to suit their own profit margins at the expense of consumers who are at risk of being left behind by advancements in technology.
I believe LINK’s decision to cut the interchange fee paid to ATM operators by the banks when you withdraw cash from a machine is an example of a forced change that will put thousands of free-to-use ATM machines at risk. If machine becomes unprofitable as a result of LINKs decision, the temptation for operators may be to introduce charges on what were previously free-to-use ATMs.
This is a particular risk in more deprived or rural communities, meaning the most vulnerable could be asked to pay more. That is why I want to shift the risk and the burden away from consumers. If we are moving towards a cashless society, we must ensure that we do not arrive there via fee-charging ATM machines that penalise consumers.
A right to cash
My Private Members Bill would ban ATM charges and establish a right to free access to cash based on a full market review by the Payment Systems regulator to establish demand for cash.
Change should be driven by consumer use, not by banks acting in their own interest. So long as there remains a demand for cash, access to that cash should be freely available no matter where you live.
This is a guest post by Ged Killen MP. All views expressed here are Ged’s own and not necessarily those also shared by Which?.
Do you use cash for the majority of your purchases? Are you reliant on ATMs? How would your life be affected if they were to close?
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Maybe other shops, pubs, and retailers that take in cash could also be persuaded to join a cashback scheme. We would, I suggest, be far more likely to get better coverage than we could ever hope for with ATMs.
I agree – and with local bank branches closing it could be a useful facility for traders who mainly deal in cash. Some traders can reciprocate, for example sub-post offices often need more coins than they take in so welcome other shops exchanging their notes, or will use cheques to buy cash from adjacent traders. My hairdresser helped the nearby betting shop which collected too much in coin but he needed more coin than he acquired.
Dr Ron Jameson says:
I am 90 years old and rely on cash from the ATM 1/2 a mile away for all my cash for my nearly full time Housekeeper and my Gardener, also for many other items.
I use internet banking and cards for the rest of my money, but closure of this ATM would greatly affect my life.
David Saunders says:
Yes indeed I share your views ! I’m 85 years old and am disabled. I have a Blue Badge for parking and I have to find somewhere to park for a short time to access the ATM. Because I am a widower I have to employ a cleaner, gardener and a personal assistant to cope with all the ‘Lady Things’ . For this I need cash. Local traders are sometimes unwilling to give you cash-back in excess of £50.00.
My credit cards have been seriously hacked (£2500) and I like to be careful where I use them.
Christine Capewell says:
I use internet banking but I also regularly use atms. My son tells me that we are also heading towards a card less society where all transactions will be done on smartphone. I am certainly not ready for this. I find it difficult to keep up with modern technology. As a senior citizen I still believe that there are a lot of my contemporaries who would find it very difficult to manage without the ability to use cash.
I’m not ready for phone payments or banking but expect that these will become increasingly popular, Christine. Smartphones are portable computers and are increasingly used for tasks we used to use computers for. I have friends in their 60s and 70s who rarely turn on their computers these days, relying instead on their phones.
I don’t have a problem with people using phones for transactions, using cash or cards. I feel that we might be pushed towards paying for parking by phone.
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New Pennsylvania Map Is a Major Boost for Democrats
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On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted a new congressional map for 2018 that's close to a best-case scenario for Democrats. The map, drawn by a court-appointed special master, doesn't just undo the gerrymander that's produced a 13-5 seat GOP edge since 2012. It goes further, actively compensating for Democrats' natural geographic disadvantage in the state. Under the new lines, Democrats have an excellent chance to win at least half the state's 18 seats.
In redistricting, fairness is always in the eye of the beholder. Democrats see the new plan as fair because it proactively helps them win an even share of seats. Republican see the new plan as a Democratic gerrymander issued by a partisan court majority. But no matter how you look at it, the ruling is a big boost to Democrats' chances of winning a House majority. If Democrats pick up four seats — essentially breaking even in Pennsylvania — that's a sixth of the 24 seats they need.
Apoplectic Republican state legislators are evaluating their options for appeal. But the U.S. Supreme Court has already declined once to intervene in the Pennsylvania case, so it's likely the new map will be in place this November (although the March 13 special election in PA-18 will take place under the old lines). The filing deadline for the May 15 primary is March 20, so incumbents and candidates in drastically altered districts have about a month to plot their next moves.
Any discussion of the partisan impact of the new map must begin with the caveat that Democrats already had great opportunities to win five GOP-held seats in 2018 under the old lines. Under the new lines, all five Democratic incumbents still have safe seats to run in, and Democrats still have great opportunities in five GOP-held seats. But new districts have dramatically increased the quality of those five pickup opportunities.
Under the new lines, retiring GOP Rep. Pat Meehan's open seat becomes a safe Democratic district anchored by Delaware County, and retiring GOP Rep. Charlie Dent's open seat in the Lehigh Valley gets about five points more Democratic. In the Philadelphia suburbs, GOP Reps. Ryan Costello and Brian Fitzpatrick get less favorable lines. And in the Pittsburgh suburbs, GOP Rep. Keith Rothfus's seat moves from safe to very vulnerable.
The new map also gives Democrats two new long-shot targets in case 2018 is a wave: it reconfigures GOP Rep. Scott Perry's York district to include Harrisburg, making it much more competitive. And it also reunites Erie in GOP Rep. Mike Kelly's district, making it a slightly more enticing target for Democrats. The only GOP winner in the new map may be Lancaster GOP Rep. Lloyd Smucker, whose GOP-leaning seat becomes safe Republican territory.
Interestingly, both PA-18 special election nominees, Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone, are drawn out of the reconfigured 18th CD in the new plan. If Saccone wins on March 13, he'd likely need to file in the much more Republican 14th CD (which includes most of the current 18th CD) to keep his seat. But if Lamb wins, he'd likely need to run in the new, highly competitive 17th CD, where GOP Rep. Keith Rothfus lives, to stay in Congress.
Both Lamb and Saccone would only have a week between the March 13 special election and the March 20 filing deadline to decide where to run in November. There's no requirement that candidates live in the district they seek to represent, but all candidates are required to file 1,000 signatures for November ballot access.
Several incumbents are also caught in this game of musical chairs. For example, Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle's district was split in half, and he could run in either the open 2nd (in Philadelphia, where he lives) or the open 4th in suburban Montgomery County (where most of his current constituents live). If he were to run in the 2nd, it could open up the new 4th CD for former Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz to reclaim her old congressional seat.
Adding to the confusion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court essentially threw out all the old district numbers and renumbered all but one of 18 seats. To help make sense of it all, here are the old and new maps as well as old and new Cook PVI scores and race ratings for the redrawn seats. Subscribers can click here to read the new bottom lines in these districts.
New Map
Pennsylvania District Changes
Pennsylvania House New Pennsylvania Map: Bottom Lines David Wasserman February 20, 2018
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Lawrence Weiner, 5 Figures of Structure, 1987. Dia Art Foundation; Partial gift, Lannan Foundation, 2013. © Lawrence Weiner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
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Lawrence Weiner, CADMIUM & MUD & TITANIUM & LEAD & FERROUS OXIDE & SO ON . . ., 1991. Detail view, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York, 2016. © Lawrence Weiner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Eva Deitch
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Cops warn #dating app #users to be on the #lookout for #sex #workers after #feds seize #Backpage
April 13, 2018 Category: In The News
For years, investigators have perused the profiles of Backpage.com looking for sex workers.
Federal authorities recently seized Backpage’s domain. The company pleaded guilty Thursday to human trafficking charges in Texas.
Backpage’s founder and five others are facing federal charges for what prosecutors say was a scheme to facilitate prostitution.
The Backpage shut down is seen as a victory for those fighting sex trafficking, but it has also prompted fear of where prostitutes and pimps will look to advertise their services.
“We’re just going to have to wait and see how they’ll adapt and we’ll adapt with them,” Utah Attorney General’s Office Assistant Chief Nate Mutter told 2News. “The demand is going to be there, what this will do is slow the supply side down a bit.”
Law enforcement sources tell 2News they expect to see an increase in prostitution on the streets and on online dating apps.
“My guess is a lot of advertisement from Backpage will find its way to more applications,” Mutter said. “People need to be aware of that they can accidentally find themselves being involved in trafficking.”
Mutter says sex traffickers are manipulative and may try and extort online dating app users. If that happens, he says, app users should save the conversations and contact police.
“Even if it might be embarrassing, it’s better to report that stuff,” Mutter said.
Another fear in the wake of the online sex trafficking crackdown is that the sex trade may be pushed into the ‘dark web’, making it more difficult for law enforcement and sex trafficking rescue organizations to monitor.
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‘Entire nation knows Rahul Gandhi was born and brought up in India’: Priyanka Gandhi on nationality row
By DB POST Digital // April 30, 2019
Amethi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has said the entire nation knows Rahul Gandhi was born in India and brought up here.
She was reacting to the government’s notice to Rahul Gandhi asking him to reply to a foreign citizenship allegation.
The Congress president has been asked by the home ministry to reply within 15 days to a complaint by BJP lawmaker Subramanian Swamy, who has asserted that Rahul Gandhi declared himself a British citizen in the documents of a UK-based company he was affiliated with.
“The whole nation knows that Rahul Gandhi is Hindustani. Everybody knows he was born, raised here. Everyone knows. What rubbish,” Priyanka Gandhi told media persons in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, where she is campaigning for her brother.
The home ministry notice comes midway through the national election, after the fourth round of voting. Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Amethi as well as Wayanad in Kerala.
The notice from BC Joshi, the home ministry director in charge of citizenship, is based on Subramanian Swamy’s documents on Backops, a company with which Rahul Gandhi was associated.
According to Swamy’s complaint, Backops was registered in the UK in 2003 with Rahul Gandhi as one of the directors and the secretary. The complaint alleges that in the company’s annual returns filed in 2005 and 2006, Rahul Gandhi had declared his citizenship as British.
The dissolution application of the company dated February 17, 2009 also refers to Rahul Gandhi’s nationality as British, the letter says.
Congress called it a sign of the BJP’s growing desperation, questioning such a notice when their chief has been contesting polls since 2004.
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Vice-President for International Affairs, member of The General Council, head of the Department of International Affairs of All Russia Public Organization «Business Russia»
Born on December 16, 1978.
Married and has two daughters.
EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:
Graduated from Moscow State University, The Faculty of Journalism with qualification "the Journalist-editor on TV and radio"
Graduated from State University of management, The Faculty of "State and municipal management"
Holds PhD in political science from Moscow State University
Professor at the Faculty of sociology and Faculty of global processes at Moscow State University.
PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIZATION
Management in the sphere of social and economic policy, strategic planning, crisis management, public administration. PR-communication. GR-communication. International affairs
PUBLIC AND EXPERT ACTIVITIES
Member of the Expert Council of ANO (autonomous non-commercial organization) "Agency for strategic initiatives".
Expert of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Expert of the Civic Chamber of Moscow.
Business coordinator at the Eurasian Economic Commission.
Member of the working group «On implementation of the “Single Window” mechanism within the System of Foreign Economic Activity Regulation»
Board member of the International Business and Enterprise Academy.
The member of the Project committee for the main direction of strategic development of the Russian Federation "International cooperation and export" at Public Business Council (the executive secretary).
Member of the working group, responsible for the preparation of the passports of the priority projects International Cooperation and Export in Industry
Member of the working group "On measures to be taken to increase investment appeal in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” at the State Council of the Russian Federation.
Member of the working group (Road map) "Support of access to foreign markets and export support" of the National entrepreneurial initiative.
Member of the interdepartmental working group on export promotion through the development of electronic commerce.
Member of the working group on elimination of excessive administrative barriers at the BRICS Business Council
Member of the non-commercial partnership "Leaders’ club" on methodological and organizational maintenance of carrying out "control purchases".
Expert member of Public Advisory Council under the Federal Migration Service of Russia in Moscow
Deputy head of the center of national politics at Moscow State University
Member of the Expert Council under the State Duma Committee on family, women and children.
Public civil service Adviser of 1 class.
2012-present time – Vice-president, member of The General Council, head of the Department of International Affairs of All Russia Public Organization «Business Russia». The purpose of the Department of International Affairs is creation of mechanisms of support and promotion of interests of the Russian business community abroad and foreign business in Russia.
2014-present time – Director of ANO “Agency of Information Strategy Development”
2010 -2013 – Head of the Center of information strategy, author of a number of all-Russian social projects including "The social card of the Russian Federation", "the Social Forum of Russia", the All-Russian festival of the social programs "Assistance", "Social and Legal Educational Program" (legal education of socially vulnerable segments of the population, publications on topics: "Disabled people", "Children", "Family policy", "Pensioners", "Military personnel"), " the Housing and Public Utilities -TV", etc.
Author of the report "The social portrait of the youth of the Russian Federation" (2011). Author of information and analytical publications, including. "The sociocultural reference book of regions of Russia" (2012), "New social policy of Russia. Growth points" (2012). Coauthor of "Concept of social upgrade of the Russian Federation" (2011).
2000 – 2012 – Adviser of Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Department for work with the public and religious organizations, political parties and media (creation of a common information space, information maintenance of activities of the Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the CFD, the CFD coordinator of social and political advisory council, the CFD coordinator of the commission on questions of women, families, motherhood and the childhood; CFD coordinator of the commission on information policy).
Since 2007 – the deputy manager of the Commission on creation of the fundamental principles of positioning of Russia in the modern world and forming of image of Russia in the country and abroad.
Since 1998 – organization and holding of the election campaigns, including the election of the President of the Russian Federation, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, deputies of regional and municipal General Courts, heads of subjects of the Russian Federation and heads of local government bodies.
1999 – Press secretary –co-director of the youth union " Otechestvo" (Fatherland), press secretary of the Social and political organization "Otechestvo" (Fatherland), the vice-president of "Fund of youth initiatives’ support" ("Youth of the Fatherland").
1998 – Correspondent of the “Moskovskaya Pravda” newspaper; deputy manager of district studio "TELEVIK" in Moscow east administrative district; PR director of “TV-Stolitsa” television channel; correspondent, editor, presenter of the program “Utro” at the TV channel RTR.
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Korbel Faculty and Staff Open Letter against Trump, Nazi, KKK violence
Charlottesville / 2 years ago
Trump is an odious racist and authoritarian, from his KKK youth to his latest pardon to Arpaio being but another example of hatred for the rule of law and adoration of Nazis. David Duke and Richard Spencer tweet him love notes. Duke and Spencer are also in love with Russia, styling Putin “the greatest white leader in the world.” Duke has an apartment in Moscow, shared with Heimbach, head of the Traditionalist (the word is Alexander Dugin’s, about destroying the modern world i.e. the world since the Knights Templar) Worker’s Party and assaulter of a black woman, cheered on by the orange toupee, at a rally during the election. Spencer was married to Nina Kouprianova, the translator of Dugin’s 2014 book on Martin Heidegger: a new beginning (Nazis past – Heidegger was in love with “Hitler’s beautiful hands”; Nazis present love Putin and forget the 20 million or so murdered in Russia by the Nazi invasion of “the Wild East.” That these are intellectual monsters and clowns is exhibited in the Nazi?!? adoration of Putin and Putin’s fostering of it.
Anti-fascism, here and in Russia and in Europe, is their enemy.
No wonder Trump and Spencer and Miller (Spencer’s co-worker on hoping to kill immigrants at Duke) and Duke and Heimbach and Breitbart are all on the same page about Charlottesville. White Supremacy means killing and driving out every one else.
Congratulations to my colleagues on the faculty and staff of Korbel who circulated and signed the letter below. It salutes a letter from the Law Faculty as well – and any one of you, please feel free to develop it further in your own context.
To prevent fascism here will take every kind of action, from writing letters to talking person to person to every one of those who are still under the influence of racism and fascism, and to getting out as the heroes in Charlottesville did, Heather Heyer in the forefront, and Susan Bro, her mother, speaking for all of us…
An Open Letter to Our Students and Our Community:
As members of the faculty and staff at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies we join our colleagues at the Sturm College of Law in feeling both excited at the prospect of engaging with you in the new academic year and horrified by the recent events in Charlottesville and the growing number of racist and white supremacist hate crimes around the country. Acknowledging that white supremacy is not unique to our time should not diminish our outrage. We are researchers and teachers of global politics, committed to fostering an environment for sharing ideas, exchanging views, and debating in an open fashion. We are here to support you as we continue our efforts toward creating such an environment and resisting actions that undermine it.
We therefore endorse the words of our Law School colleagues denouncing white supremacy:
“We are outraged to learn of white supremacists wielding Confederate and Nazi flags; chanting blatantly racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic slogans; and violently assaulting those protesting their actions. We are devastated by the killing of Heather Heyer, a woman peacefully exercising her right to free speech to protest white supremacy and racism.”
… we write to make absolutely clear our views on these events. We condemn white supremacy in all its names and forms. The white nationalist and Nazi ideologies promoted by the group in Charlottesville are abhorrent. Such views should have no place in our society, in our community, on our campus, and in our classrooms. We stand united against bigotry and racism wherever we find them. Frankly, many of us did not think we would ever find it necessary to say these things that should be obvious truths. But given recent events, we find it vitally important to say them now.
As should be the case at a world-class institution such as ours, we as faculty members hold a wide range of viewpoints. We often disagree with one another. This is as it should be; disagreement sharpens our understanding of the world around us and leads to the advancement of knowledge. But, on some fundamental issues we see no room for disagreement. Condemnation of white supremacy is one.”
Though likely in different ways, these events have affected us all. As a faculty community, we reiterate our mission to support you – and each other – in finding the tools to cope with these effects. As the school year begins, we will find ways to reach out to you but we also want to encourage each of you to reach out to us and to use resources and support systems available on campus and in the community. We are deeply disturbed by recent events, but we also find comfort in many of reactions to them. We look forward to working with you to create an inclusive environment in which to study and exchange ideas about how we can best move forward together.
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Colorado Deaths Stoke Worries About Pot Edibles
Filed Under:Al Bronstein, Brian Vicente, Colorado Drug Investigators Association, Edibles, Jim Gerhardt, Kristine Kirk, Levy Thamba Pongi, Marijuana Edibles, Marijuana Legalization, Richard Kirk, Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, THC
(credit: CBS)
DENVER (AP) – A college student eats more than the recommended dose of a marijuana-laced cookie and jumps to his death from a hotel balcony. A husband with no history of violence is accused of shooting his wife in the head, possibly after eating pot-infused candy.
The two recent deaths have stoked concerns about Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry and the effects of the drug, especially since cookies, candy and other pot edibles can be exponentially more potent than a joint.
“We’re seeing hallucinations, they become sick to their stomachs, they throw up, they become dizzy and very anxious,” said Al Bronstein, medical director of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center.
Studies are mixed about whether there is any link between marijuana and violence. Still, pot legalization opponents said the deaths are a sign of future dangers.
Twenty-six people have reported poisonings from marijuana edibles this year, when the center started tracking such exposures. Six were children who swallowed innocent-looking edibles, most of which were in plain sight.
Five of those kids were sent to emergency rooms, and two to hospitals for intensive care, Bronstein said. Children were nauseous and sleepy, and doctors worried about their respiratory systems shutting down.
Supporters of the pot law and some experts counter that alcohol causes far more problems among users, and the issues with pot can be largely addressed through better regulations.
The deaths occurred as Colorado lawmakers are scrambling to create safety regulations for the largely unmonitored marijuana snacks. On Thursday, the Legislature advanced a package of bills that would lower the amount of THC that could be permitted in a serving of food and require more extensive warning labels.
“It really is time for regulators, and the industry, to look at how do we move forward more responsibly with edible products,” said Brian Vicente, who helped lead the state’s legalization campaign.
Thamba Pongi (credit: Facebook)
An autopsy report listed marijuana intoxication as a significant contributing factor in the death of 19-year-old Levy Thamba Pongi.
Authorities said Pongi, who traveled from Wyoming to Denver with friends to try marijuana, ate six times more than the amount recommended by a seller. In the moments before his death, he spoke erratically and threw things around his hotel room.
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Toxicologists later found that the cookie Pongi ate contained as much THC – marijuana’s intoxicating chemical – as six high-quality joints.
Kristine Kirk, left, and Richard Kirk, right (credit: CBS)
Less is known about Richard Kirk, 47, who was charged in Denver with shooting his 44-year-old wife, Kristine, to death while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher. Police said his wife reported that her husband had consumed marijuana-laced candy, but no information has been released about potency.
The public defender’s office has declined comment on the allegations against Kirk.
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“Sadly, we’re going to start to understand over time all of the damage and all of the problems associated with marijuana,” said Thornton police Sgt. Jim Gerhardt, speaking in his capacity as a board member of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association. “It’s going to dispel the myth that there’s no downside, that there’s no side effect, to this drug. It’s sad that people are going to have to be convinced with the blood of Coloradans.”
State lawmakers last year required edible pot to be sold in “serving sizes” of 10 milligrams of THC. Lawmakers also charged marijuana regulators with setting potency-testing guidelines to ensure consumers know how much pot they’re eating. The guidelines are slated to be unveiled next month.
For now, the industry is trying to educate consumers about the strength of pot-infused foods and warning them to wait up to an hour to feel any effects before eating more. Still, complaints from visitors and first-time users have been rampant.
“One of the problems is people become very impatient,” Bronstein said. “They eat a brownie or a chocolate chip cookie and they get no effect, so then they stack the doses, and all the sudden, they get an extreme effect that they weren’t expecting.”
Last year, the poison center run by Bronstein received 126 calls concerning adverse reactions to marijuana. So far this year – after pot sales became legal on Jan. 1 – the center has gotten 65 calls. Bronstein attributed the spike to the higher concentrations of THC in marijuana that has become available.
Although millions of Americans have used pot without becoming violent, Bronstein said such behavior is possible depending on the type of hallucinations a user experiences. Toxicologists say genetic makeup, health issues and other factors also can make a difference.
“With these products, everybody is inexperienced,” Bronstein said. “It’s the first time people have been able to buy it in a store. People need to be respectful of these products.”
– By SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press
Associated Press writers Kristen Wyatt and Nicholas Riccardi contributed to this report.
(© Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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2011 Tour - Day 2: St. Augustin's Church Service and The Priory
How refreshed everyone felt after just a short night of sleep! After a 7:00 AM breakfast at the hotel (the rooms meet our needs very well), the buses brought us back to lovely Bournemouth. We attended the Sunday morning worship service at The Church of St. Augustin's, which is part of the Bournemouth Town Centre Parish. The church building is considered Victorian, built in the early 1900's with a barrel vault ceiling offering wonderful acoustics. The church is beautiful with exposed beams, wood carvings, and brilliant stained glass windows. Our youth sang two songs - "If Ye Love Me, Keep My Commandments," and "One Faith, One Hope, One Lord" with trumpet accompaniment by RossThompson. They truly sounded amazing, and this was their first performance in England! An elderly gentleman jumped to his feet, excitedly clapping his hands. Barbara, a church representative, expressed heartfelt thanks, and the congregation responded with a standing ovation. This church felt very special to us, particularly as Cameron directed the second number. In 1995, Cameron was a Page Boy in the wedding of his aunt and uncle in this very church.
A short drive away, lunch was served on two floors at the historic Riverside Sopley Mill Restaurant. Aptly named, this was once a mill with a water wheel to grind grain for the local farmers. We enjoyed a light buffet of sandwiches, quiche, and chicken. Today is Derek Klahre's 16th birthday, and we celebrated his milestone with a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday." Outdoors on this pleasant afternoon, we saw the restaurant sits astride the River Avon, with a gurgling stream running under the mill structure. Families of ducks were swimming in the calmer waters above. This was a lovely and quaint scene with speckled chickens near the river and a view of green fields dotted with red poppies.
As we left the restaurant, we began to notice the many houses with wonderful character due to their darling thatched roofs. The ultimate statement that spans centuries was a sign advertising a company that builds thatched roofs. Their internet web address was prominently posted.
Back on the buses after lunch, "Fork Stories" were shared and voted upon. Peggy Edmonds won her first-ever Fork Award in over 40 years of tours, for frying her hair AFTER burning a towel using a USA curling iron in a British wall socket. She was proud to receive the award, saying she was just glad she wasn't trying to curl her bangs!
Having driven to the town of Christchurch, we spent this sunny afternoon at the Christchurch Priory, a Church of England with amazing history. First built as a Saxon church in the 7th century, the original church was demolished and replaced by a great Parish Church in 1094 using the Norman style with heavy columns and rounded arches. The structure has been expanded through the years and is now 300 feet long. We saw the "Miraculous Beam," a huge wooden beam that was accidentally cut too short to serve its intended purpose. Overnight, the beam lengthened and a carpenter who had been very involved in the work disappeared. With the hand of God so clearly and directly a part of the construction, the church was renamed Christchurch Priory. It continues to be a living church, evidenced by a baptism service being held at the back of the church while we toured. A handful of lucky people from our group were led up 176 tiny circular stone steps to the top of the bell tower, seeing ancient bells that weighed over 1000 pounds each. The view from the top on this blue-sky day was spectacular of the comminity below and the English Channel.
Dinner was "on your own" in the town of Poole, which made for an adventure in exploring and spending British pounds. Afterwards, all came together to attend a symphony concert of the "Rusty Musicians" at the Lighthouse Theater. This is an annual summer project that combines professional and amateur musicians, and they are over 150 stong. Their youngest member is only age 12 and plays percussion. At 86 years, their oldest musician plays viola. Our clarinetist Brian Simon was thrilled to feel the personal connection of learning their 1st clarinet player is one of his favorite musicians. Pieces from Fantasia and other familiar works were played beautifully, but many in our group were lulled into a drowsy state after such an active day. We felt God's blessings upon us as we happily headed back to the hotel.
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I was lucky enough to be taken up into the tower at the cathedral, along with Josh and Jesse Boulden, my sister, Abby James, Margaret Amy and Christina Rekeibe. I feel like there were two others but I can't remember!!
The view was absolutely amazing from up there, and we missed the section check because we were up there so long. That was not good, because almost all of us were section leaders...yeah.
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Business News›Industry›Energy›Power›IDFC infrastructure fund set to buy First Solar’s India portfolio for $300 million
IDFC infrastructure fund set to buy First Solar’s India portfolio for $300 million
In India, First Solar has supplied over 1gigawatt (GW) worth of panels while globally its supplies are worth over 17 GWs, according to the company's website.
Arijit Barman
MUMBAI: The infrastructure fund of multi-asset manager IDFC Alternatives is set to make its biggest acquisition till date by taking over the entire 200 megawatts of First Solar’s operational portfolio of solar power projects in India for around Rs 1,950 crore ($300 million) as consolidation picks up momentum in the renewable energy sector.
These projects — seven in all — are located in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The definitive agreements between both parties have been signed and a formal announcement is expected today (Monday). The transaction is expected to close by December.
Arizona-headquartered First Solar is an American photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer of rigid thin film modules, or solar panels, and a provider of utility-scale PV power plants and supporting services like finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. In India, it has supplied over 1gigawatt (GW) worth of panels while globally its supplies are worth over 17 GWs, according to the company's website. Its current market cap is $5.1 billion. It also develops greenfield solar parks and sells them once fully operational. This is the first such divestment by the firm in India. A clutch of under-construction assets have been kept out of the ambit of this transaction for the time being as they lack operating and payment history but may get added subsequently.
"We are evaluating various deals across wind, solar and mini hydro. We continue to have access to significant amount of capital to invest but are interested in deals where there is a clear intent to consummate a trade," Aditya Aggarwal, partner, Infrastructure, IDFC Alternatives told ET.
IDFC Alternatives is IDFC Ltd's alternative asset management vertical managing over $3.4 billion on behalf of leading institutional investors from across the world. With three distinct asset classes — private equity, infrastructure equity and real estate — the firm has become the largest homegrown money manager that pools and deploys capital in unlisted Indian companies and projects.
Platform approach
The First Solar acquisition will be carried out by a platform company wholly owned by IDFC's infrastructure fund called Vector Green. Vector Green in the past has acquired a 24 MW wind asset from Naveen Jindal's Jindal Steel and Power and another 40 MW solar project from Punj Lloyd. This would be its most ambitious takeover. The plan, said IDFC Alternatives officials, is to own and manage around 500+ MW by this year end of diversified and derisked projects with at least 12 months of operating and payments history with regulatory approvals.
Margins have been squeezed in wind and solar energy on account of competitive bidding, having a direct bearing on EPC or turnkey project developers, said Debasish Mishra, senior director, consulting, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
“I do expect consolidation going forward between smaller generators or equipment makers. Ownership with predominantly rest with bigger players like Greenko, ReNew, Tatas and maybe even Softbank or the larger financial sponsors,” said Mishra.“In the 50-200 MW capacity bucket there are at least 15-20 players and they will be prime candidates for takeover. Valuations though are getting stretched.”
In the past, the fund had twice attempted to take over large portfolios. In 2014, it had teamed up with Abu Dhabi's Taqa and Canadian pension fund PSP Investments to buy two hydropower plants from Jaypee for Rs 10,500 crore but the deal collapsed after Taqa pulled out. Again in 2016, Tata Power pipped the fund to buy the renewable portfolio of Welspun for Rs 10,000 crore ($1.4 billion).
M&A fever
The next 12 months will be interesting for wind and solar sectors from a regulatory and competitive intensity standpoint, said IDFC's Aggarwal.
“The same will also determine as to how much incremental capital will keep flowing into these sectors and more importantly on basis of what sort of capital cost, financing and receivables assumptions especially in the new builds being approved by the boards and the investment committees,” Aggarwal said. “As in the past, rather than chase capacity indiscriminately, we would rather grow our renewables portfolio in a calibrated manner.”
IDFC's infrastructure fund has raised close to $2 billion across two funds of $1 billion each, in 2008-9 and in 2014, to become the only one to have raised a second India dedicated follow-on infrastructure fund in the country.
Within the fund, so far there are three platforms — roads, telecom and renewable. The roads platform known as Highway Concessions One Pvt. Ltd owns seven assets where all barring one are National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) toll roads. In telecom, the fund has invested Rs 600 crore for a 33 per cent stake in mobile tower company Ascend Telecom with an eye on a majority stake. The renewables play is through Vector Green.
In fiscal 2017, India added 5,526MW of new solar capacity (up 83 per cent from the previous year) and 5,400MW of new wind capacity (up 63 per cent), according to consultancy Bridge Io India.
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Red cell glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase genotypes of the population of two West African villages (1978)
Welch, S. G. ; Lee, J. ; McGregor, I. A. ; [et al.] Williams, K.
Human genetics 〈Berlin〉 43 (1978), S. 315-320
Topics: Biology , Medicine
Notes: Summary Blood samples from 1109 individuals, residents of two villages in The Gambia, West Africa, have been examined for red cell G6PD. Using both starch gel electrophoresis and a spectrophotometric assay, preliminary phenotypes were assigned to the 519 males and 590 females. The G6PD genotypes were established by reference to the family trees of the two village populations. In addition to the G6PD alleles B+, A+ and A-, a fourth allele, representing a new variant of human G6PD was discovered. A significant difference in the frequency of G6PD deficiency was discovered between the two villages, despite their being of the same tribal origin and only five miles apart.
Serum protein polymorphisms in a village community from the Gambia, West Africa (Hp, Tf, and Gc) (1979)
Welch, S. G. ; Swindlehurst, C. A. ; McGregor, I. A. ; [et al.] Williams, K.
Human genetics 〈Berlin〉 48 (1979), S. 81-84
Notes: Summary Serum samples from 857 inhabitants of the village of Keneba, The Gambia, West Africa, were examined by means of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In 203 cases no haptoglobin could be detected, whilst in the remaining 654 samples the three common haptoglobin phenotypes were found with gene frequencies of 0.651 (Hp1) and 0.349 (Hp2). The D1 transferrin variant gene was found with a frequency of 0.025. In the serum Gc system the fast variant Gc-Ab was detected, the gene frequencies being: Gc1, 0.943; Gc2, 0.044; and GcAb, 0.013.
α1-antitrypsin (Pi) phenotypes in a village population from the Gambia, West Africa (1980)
Welch, S. G. ; McGregor, I. A. ; Williams, K.
Notes: Summary A total of 701 individuals from a village in The Gambia, West Africa were tested for serum α1 - antitrypsin phenotypes by isoelectric focusing in thinlayer polyacrylamide gels (pH 4-5). A new variant allele, Pi GAM , was discovered at a polymorphic frequency (0.0642), and the inheritance of the variant phenotype was confirmed by family studies. The variant was not found to be associated with any decrease in serum α1 - concentration. The only other allele found within this population was the common allele Pi M (0.9358).
Heterogeneity and distribution of fast myosin heavy chains in some adult vertebrate skeletal muscles (1992)
Williams, K. ; Dhoot, G. K.
Histochemistry and cell biology 97 (1992), S. 361-370
Notes: Summary Three monoclonal antibodies, LM5, F2 and F39 raised to chicken fast skeletal muscle myosin, specific for myosin heavy chain (MHC) subunit, were used to study the composition and distribution of this protein in some vertebrate skeletal muscles. These antibodies in immunohistochemical investigations did not react with the majority of the type I fibres in most muscles. Antibodies LM5 and F39 stained all the type II fibres in all the adult chicken skeletal muscles studied. Antibody F2 also stained all the type II fibres in most chicken skeletal muscles tested except in gastrocnemius in which a proportion of both the type IIA and IIB fibres either did not stain or stained only weakly. Antibody F2 unlike LM5 and F39 stained most of the type IIIB fibres in anterior latissimus dorsi (ALD) and IB fibres in red strip of chicken Pectoralis muscle. Antibodies LM5 and F2 in the rat diaphragm reacted with all the type IIA and IIB fibres, while antibody F39 stained only the type IIB fibres darkly with most IIA fibres being either not stained or only weakly stained. In the rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and tibialis anterior (TA) muscles, antibody LM5 stained all the IIA and IIB fibres. Antibody F2 in these muscles stained all the type IIA fibres but only a proportion of the IIB fibres. The remaining IIB fibres were either unstained or only weakly positive. Antibody F39 in rat EDL and TA muscles did not only distinguish subgroups of IIB fibres (dark, intermediate and negative or very weak) but also of the IIA fibres. These three antibodies used together therefore detected a great deal of heterogeneity in the myosin heavy chain composition and muscle fibre types of several skeletal muscles.
Isoelectric focusing of human red cell phosphoglucomutase (1978)
Notes: Summary A total of 637 individuals from the rural village of Keneba in The Gambia, West Africa, have been typed for red cell PGM using isoelectric focusing (pH 5–7) in polyacrylamide gels. Eight different phenotypes have been detected. The frequency of the four alleles at the PGM1 locus was found to be PGM 1 1+ 0.795, PGM 1 1- 0.053, PGM 1 2+ 0.133, and PGM 1 2- 0.019. A study of the PGM phenotypes in 89 families confirmed the simple Mendelian codominant inheritance of the four alleles. Comparative population data suggest that red cell PGM typing by isoelectric focusing might prove to be a useful genetic marker in anthropological studies.
A new variant of human erythrocyte G6PD occurring at a high frequency amongst the population of two villages in The Gambia, West Africa (1978)
Notes: Summary During the course of a large survey of red cell G6PD genotypes in The Gambia, a slow electrophoretic variant with reduced enzyme activity was found to occur at a high frequency. This variant, G6PD Gambia, was found in the following genotypic combinations: males; G6PDGam, females; G6PDA+/Gam, G6PDB+/Gam, and G6PDA-/Gam. From the electrophoretic mobility and kinetic characteristics it was concluded that G6PD Gambia was a hitherto unreported variant of G6PD. The frequency of the G6PDGam gene amongst the 1109 individuals examined was 0.024.
Identification and mapping of a gene conferring resistance to the spot form of net blotch (Pyrenophora teres f maculata) in barley (1999)
Williams, K. J. ; Lichon, A. ; Gianquitto, P. ; [et al.] Kretschmer, J. M. ; Karakousis, A. ; Manning, S. ; Langridge, P. ; Wallwork, H.
Theoretical and applied genetics 99 (1999), S. 323-327
Keywords: Key words Hordeum vulgare ; Disease resistance ; Genetic mapping ; RFLP ; QTL
Notes: Abstract Spot form of net blotch (SFNB) (Pyrenophora teres f maculata) is an economically damaging foliar disease of barley in many of the world’s cereal growing areas. The development of SFNB-resistant cultivars may be accelerated through the use of molecular markers. A screen for SFNB resistance in 96 lines identified four new sources of resistance, including a feed variety, ‘Galleon’, for which a fully mapped doubled haploid population was available. Segregation data indicated SFNB resistance was conferred by a single gene in the ‘Galleon’בHaruna Nijo’ cross, positioned on the long arm of chromosome 7H. This gene is designated Rpt4 and is flanked by the RFLP loci Xpsr117(D) and Xcdo673 at distances of 6.9 cM and 25.9 cM, respectively. The marker Xpsr117(D) was validated using another population segregating for Rpt4, correctly predicting SFNB resistance with more than 90% accuracy.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001220051239
Characteristics of Parker's rat coronavirus (PRC) replicated in L-2 cells (1990)
Percy, D. H. ; Williams, K. L. ; Bond, S. J. ; [et al.] MacInnes, J. I.
Archives of virology 112 (1990), S. 195-202
Notes: Summary Parker's rat coronavirus (PRC) is a naturally-occurring viral infection of the laboratory rat. On the first passage, ATCC strain 8190 of PRC replicated in L-2 cells. Using the tenth passage of PRC in L-2 cells, the characteristics of the virus were compared with previous studies of sialodacryoadenitis virus (SDAV) replicated in L-2 cells. Based on light and immunofluorescence microscopic examination of control and inoculated cell cultures, PRC-associated CPE was frequently confined primarily to individual cells, and there were relatively few syncytial giant cells. Maximum titers were recovered at 36h post inoculation (pi). Infectious virus was demonstrated at pH values ranging from 6.0 to 9.0 and a pH of 7.5 was determined to produce the highest titers of PRC. The optimum temperature for viral replication was 33°C. Up to 15 passages of PRC in L-929 cells failed to produce detectable virus. However, after adaptation in L-2 cells (20th passage), PRC replicated to high titers in L-929 cells. Previously, in vitro studies of rat coronaviruses have been hampered by the lack of an identified continuous cell line to replicate these viruses in the laboratory. L-2 cells represent a readily-available continuous cell line that can support the replication of relatively high titers of PRC.
A comparison of the sensitivity and specificity of sialodacryoadenitis virus, Parker's rat coronavirus, and mouse hepatitis virus-infected cells as a source of antigen for the detection of antibody to rat coronaviruses (1991)
Percy, D. H. ; Williams, K. L. ; Paturzo, F. X.
Notes: Summary Sialodacryoadenitis virus (SDAV) and Parker's rat coronavirus (PRC) are two recognized viral strains which cause spontaneous disease in the laboratory rat. Currently there is no recognized practical procedure which will accurately differentiate infections with these strains. Using SDAV- and PRC-infected L-2 cells as the source of antigen, and sera from rats collected post inoculation with either of these viral strains, the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) procedure was used to determine whether antibody titers could be used to differentiate infections from the homologous and heterologous virus. There was no detectable difference in the sensitivity or specificity of these systems in detecting antibody to the homologous or heterologous virus. Thus there was no evidence that SDAV- and PRC-infected cells would serve to differentiate antibody to the homologous virus using the IFA technique. In addition, antibody titers were similar when mouse hepatitis virus (MHV)-infected cells were used as the source of antigen for the IFA technique. However, using MHV or SDAV-infected cells as the source of antigen, there was a significant difference in antibody titers to the homologous virus detected using the immunoenzyme technique.
Identification of RFLP markers linked to the cereal cyst nematode resistance gene (Cre) in wheat (1994)
Williams, K. J. ; Fisher, J. M. ; Langridge, P.
Keywords: Restriction fragment length polymorphism ; CCN ; Genetic mapping ; Triticum aestivum ; Heterodera avenae
Notes: Abstract The cereal cyst nematode (CCN) (Heterodera avenae Woll.) is an economically damaging pest of wheat in many of the worlds cereal growing areas. The development of CCN-resistant cultivars may be accelerated by the use of molecular markers. The Cre gene of the wheat line “AUS 10894” confers resistance to CCN. Using a pair of near-isogenic lines (NILs) that should differ only in a small chromosome segment containing the Cre locus, we screened 58 group-2 probes and found two (Tag605 and CDO588) that detect polymorphism between the NILs. Nulli-tetrasomic and ditelosomic lines confirmed that the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers identified were derived from the long arm of wheat chromosome 2. Crosses between “AUS 10894” and “Spear” and the NIL “AP” and its recurrent parent “Prins” were used to produce F2 populations that gave the expected 3∶1 segregation ratio for the resistance gene. Linkage analysis identified two RFLP markers flanking the resistance gene. Xglk605 and Xcdo588 mapped 7.3 cM (LOD=6.0) and 8.4 cM (LOD=6.7), respectively, from the Cre locus.
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Three promising new technologies could help send stormwater to taps in thirsty cities
Capturing and reusing urban stormwater could be a boon for water-stressed cities — if we can find a way to clean it up.
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Writer Lindsey Konkel
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January 4, 2019 — Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Environmental Health News and is printed here as part of a republishing partnership. Read the original here.
In March, residents of Cape Town, South Africa stood in line for hours to buy drinking water at supermarkets or pump it from springs amid severe water shortages.
Cape Town isn’t alone: One in four big cities worldwide already has overstretched its water resources, and climate change may increase the likelihood of prolonged dry spells in some regions.
Facing a future of increasingly erratic rains, water-stressed cities are looking for solutions. One alluring possibility? The capture and reuse of stormwater. But the water infrastructure of most cities was built with a single problem in mind: flood prevention. In Los Angeles, for instance, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed a massive network of concrete channels to divert stormwater to the ocean after a massive flood in 1938 killed more than 100 people.
Urban water jockeys now are changing their views of stormwater. Some see it as an untapped resource. As dry regions and even some wetter ones deplete their surface and groundwater supplies, researchers are investigating ways to replenish underground drinking water aquifers with urban runoff.
“We want to reuse stormwater in a way that’s not going to introduce drinking water contamination.” –Richard Luthy
In cities especially, using the subsurface as a giant rain barrel makes sense, because it saves space. It also may be the only alternative in cities with Mediterranean climates where rainfall only comes during a few months of the year.
But there’s a problem: The water that runs from a city’s roadways and rooftops is dirty. Urban stormwater can contain trace amounts of harmful contaminants from pesticides, asphalt, vehicle exhaust, road salts, grease and oil, consumer products and human and animal waste.
“We want to reuse stormwater in a way that’s not going to introduce drinking water contamination,” says Richard Luthy, an environmental engineer at Stanford University.
Tom Ballestero, director of the University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center agrees. “We have to go into this with eyes wide open. Prevention is so much less expensive than the cure,” he says.
Luthy, Ballestero and others now are making headway on solutions to scrub pollutants from urban stormwater before putting it into underground reservoirs.
How to Replenish an Aquifer
Those underground reservoirs are called aquifers. They fill naturally with rain or snow that seeps into porous ground — a process called aquifer recharge. When people drain an aquifer faster than nature can replenish it, it dries up.
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Water utilities have practiced managed aquifer recharge — intentionally sending water underground to refill aquifers that are running low — for decades. Managed aquifer recharge can be done with injection wells or infiltration ponds that help direct water underground.
In California, for instance, large basins in Los Angeles infiltrate hillside runoff into aquifers.
But hillside runoff is different than urban runoff. For starters, hillside runoff is a lot cleaner and carries fewer of the pollutants that urban stormwater can pick up. Small-scale green infrastructure arrangements such as rain gardens, permeable pavement and vegetated swales now are common in many cities. Still, “we don’t have a lot of experience capturing and percolating large quantities of urban runoff into the ground,” Luthy says.
But three promising new technologies could help make it a reality.
“Mineral” Sands
Permeability is key when it comes to infiltrating an aquifer. Water moves much more freely through porous, sandy soil than clay, for instance. But while sand might physically capture or filter out bigger particles that could clog up a drinking water aquifer or well, it won’t chemically purify or treat the water.
Researchers at University of California, Berkeley now are experimenting with engineered mineral-coated sands that could break down some chemicals. They’ve coated sand with a thin layer of manganese, one of the most common elements in Earth’s crust.
The idea is to make the sand particles much more reactive, U.C. Berkeley environmental engineer David Sedlak says. A manganese coating alters the surface of the particles so that they can bind to and break down organic chemicals found in herbicides and consumer products.
Researchers are testing mineral-coated sand’s ability to break down chemicals and help filter urban stormwater. Photo courtesy of Kara Manke
Sedlak and graduate student Joseph Charbonnet recently showed in an experiment using simulated stormwater that the mineral sand could remove low concentrations of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from the stormwater. The research was conducted as part of the National Science Foundation-funded engineering research center for Re-Inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) program.
Over time, the sand became less effective as it lost its charge. Sedlak and Charbonnet knew that having to dig up and frequently replace the spent sand would limit the real-world utility of this new technology. “We needed a way to regenerate the sand in place,” says Sedlak. They found that they could get the sands to recharge by adding a tiny amount of chlorine — 25 parts per million, a concentration similar to what’s used to treat most drinking water.
The next step is a small-scale field project in Los Angeles using actual stormwater. “We want to see how well it performs over time under several different stormwater conditions,” says Sedlak.
Luthy and others are experimenting with biochar to scrub out some types of stormwater pollutants. He’s teamed up with Sedlak to create a system that combines biochar and manganese-coated sands to see whether the combination can further enhance the removal of organic pollutants related to automotive use and insecticides and herbicides from urban stormwater. Biochar is plant or wood material that’s roasted at high temperatures until it turns into charcoal.
“Think of it as a big carbon drinking water filter for stormwater.”–Christopher Higgins
There’s been a lot of buzz in recent decades about potential uses of carbon-rich biochar to simultaneously boost soil fertility and store planet-warming carbon dioxide in the ground. But it turns out biochar may also be good at absorbing heavy metals and other trace organic pollutants from urban runoff.
“Think of it as a big carbon drinking water filter for stormwater,” says Christopher Higgins, an environmental chemist at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
Higgins now is experimenting with biochar to remove a particularly tricky family of drinking water pollutants, called perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) from urban runoff. These man-made chemicals are found in, among other things, stain repellants, paper coatings and firefighting foams.
Plant Biofilters
In some water-stressed regions, scientists and engineers are working to optimize the use of plants to remove nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus from stormwater. High levels of these nutrients in ground and surface water can lead to algal blooms and harm drinking water sources.
Ana Deletic is a water-engineering expert at the University of New South Wales in Australia. She has helped to engineer massive rain gardens in Australia, Israel and China — some up to an acre in size — to help filter these common pollutants out of urban wastewater.
Large rain gardens, such as this one in Israel, can help filter pollutants from urban stormwater. Photo courtesy of Ana Deletic
“These are simple-looking systems, but they are not [simple]. They are living machines that must be tailored for local conditions,” Deletic says.
Many urban environments have a history of contamination with toxic metals including lead and cadmium. Deletic says that zinc from rusting metal roofs has become a public health concern in some cities in Australia and New Zealand. Plants may be able to help remove heavy metals, too. “Plants need small amounts of metals to grow, so over time they will suck up some of these contaminants,” says Deletic.
Finding the right plants and right soils to remove pollution can be challenging. “In general, what we’ve found is that plants with long, fine root systems tend to work best for nitrogen and phosphorus removal,” she says.
No One-Size-Fits-All
There’s no one type of urban stormwater, so what works might differ from city to city or even between locations in the same city. “You’ll find different chemicals in stormwater runoff depending on the type of land use,” says Higgins.
For instance, runoff near a major highway may get more petroleum-associated pollutants and metals while stormwater from near a city park may contain more pesticides and fertilizers.
The goal, says Ballestero, is to create a “menu of technologies,” that can be implemented together — or separately — under different scenarios to match the needs of a particular environment.
These solutions are part of a more holistic approach to managing water in the urban environment. “Stormwater is just one part of that,” he says.
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From the very first verse of Scripture, God reveals himself as the Creator, an Artist. Everything within the universe is a magnificent element of the Great Artist’s masterpiece. As works of art created in God’s own image (Gen 1:27), people are endowed with the ability to create as well. We can choose to join the Master Artist by being artists ourselves.
Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ...
"If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. Bible Scripture Verse Crafts
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Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ...
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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward. It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, and on the borders which were between the frames were lions, oxen and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side. Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round. The four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around. He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin. Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD: the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; and the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands; and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained. Solomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Thus all the work that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. Scripture Verse Crafts
David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; ... Share Your Faith Products
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Scripture Verse Crafts
19 designers and 31 writers invested their energy and creativity to this collection, each riffing on the timeless, inspired words of Scripture. Each designer worked hard to capture the essence of each verse in its historical and cultural context, and to design in a way that makes clear the way in which the original readers would have understood it. Then, after each design was complete, a writer reflected on each piece of art and the verse that inspired it. The result is 100 pairs of art and devotional that illuminate the words of Scripture. Bible Verse Crafts
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Scripture Verse Crafts
King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more.
and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Scripture Verse Crafts
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A team of scientists from Georgia State University (GSU), funded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have presented a new way of MRI scan that can detect early stage hepatic tumors. The method was already proven to be effective in studies on mice
A NEW MRI CONTRAST DETECTS TINY HEPATIC TUMORS IN MICE
A team of scientists from Georgia State University (GSU), funded by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have presented a new way of MRI scan that can detect early stage hepatic tumors. The method was already proven to be effective in studies on mice. Recreation a disease in an animal model is one of important steps for later implementation of the method in human medicine practice. The goal of the method is to detect small scale primary or secondary (metastatic) liver tumors.
When the cancer is detected at an early stage, the odds of successful treatment and actually surviving it are much higher. This is very important, as liver cancer is usually detected at a pretty advanced stage, and is accounted for almost 25,000 fatal outcomes throughout US every year.
The article, published on May 11, 2015 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the senior author Jenny Yang, prof. of biochemistry and biophysics at GSU (also an associate director of GSU’s Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics) and his team introduced their enhancement for the MRI, a specific proteinbased contrast material.
The MRI creates highresolution images of tissue using a magnetic field and radio ways. To carefully study the liver, a contrast medium is administered into the patient’s system. This allows a more detailed look onto the organ’s structure. However, the existing contrast solutions are not sensitive enough to highlight the small tumors and are quickly flushed out of the organ’s bloodstream. This is extremely important, because the smaller the tumor is, the better are the odds of successful treatment and recovery.
Prof. Yang says that MRI is an effective and safe method, based on nonionizing radiation. It allows to examine small details of the soft tissues in high resolution. Thus, enhancing the MRI contrast allows the custom imaging for diagnostics, treatment and imageguided procedures.
Dr. Yang’s team has synthesized the entire new class of proteinbased contrast agents. One of them, ProCA32 has already been tested in mice and enabled much earlier detection of hepatic cancer. The new contrast is capable of highlighting a tumor .24 mm in diameter, which is close a grain of sand. The current limit for tumor detection was about one centimeter. Dr. Yang believes that this method will be an unprecedented breakthrough in liver cancer detection.
The researchers modified the ProCA32 chemistry for detectable metals to hook up with Ca molecules on specific proteins, exclusive to cancer cells. During the trial, the team used the contrast to take liver images in mice with melanoma.
Further enhancements allow to keep ProCA32 in the patient’s system for a longer period of time, which dramatically increases the window for tumor detection. The contrast also has lower effective dose in comparison to known solutions, which results in lower possibility toxic effect induction. Both positive and negative images can be obtained using this contrast, so the accuracy of the imaging is significantly increased.
Richard Conroy, Ph.D., director at NIBIB’s Division of Applied Science and Technology, says that the authors found a very sensitive and specific way of in vivo liver diagnostics and distinguished a specific molecular signature indicative for a liver tumor in an early stage. He pointed, that specificity and sensitivity are the key for an early stage diagnostics.
Dr. Yang and her team hope, that this new solution will help the specialists to diagnose various liver diseases, such as cancer, cirrhosis and fibrosis and also provide guidance during their treatment. The team is now cooperating with radiologists to make these solutions available for use in patients, who need it, and are hopeful that their product can meet the standards of the US Food and Drug Administration.
The study is supported in part by NIBIB grant EB007268, and NIH grants GM62999, CA118113, CA176001, and S10RR023706. Xue S, Yang H, Qiao J, Pu F, Jiang J, Hubbard K, Hekmatyar K, Langley J, Salarian M, Long RC, Bryant RG, Hu XP, Grossniklaus HE, Liu ZR, Yang JJ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 May 26;112(21):660712.
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Why we need a radical new framework for media ethics
By Stephen J. A. Ward | October 1, 2015
In “Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach” I declare that the only way to rescue media ethics from sinking into oblivion is to think radically.
We need to rethink the basis of media ethics from the ground up. The tweaking of ideas and re-formulation of rules, as seen in recent revisions of codes of ethics, is a temporary, localized fix. It does not address the larger conceptual swamp in which we find media ethics.
The most serious problem is not irresponsible journalists. The most serious problem is not differences between legacy and citizen journalism. The most serious problem is the sorry state of the framework of ideas we call media ethics.
Framework in a mess
This framework, inherited from a non-global, pre-digital journalism, portrays the journalist as a professional gatekeeper who serves the public by informing citizens truthfully, impartially, objectively, and independently. She uses time-consuming verification procedures.
Given this interpretation, we have a means of evaluating practices.
The media revolution undermined the framework.
Principles, such as impartiality, are rejected. Instead of consensus we have a clash of values. Many new practitioners prefer an interpretive, engaged journalism far from the “straight” reporting admired by traditional media ethics. If time-honored principles such as truth-telling are maintained, there are disputes as to their meaning. For instance, what does accuracy mean in an era of instant updating? Where reinterpretations of principles are not available, we are left with a conceptual ‘hole’ in the middle of our ethics.
The result: We lack an agreed-upon framework for evaluating stories. Media ethics is like Humpty Dumpty after his big fall; it’s a mess.
What I’m advocating is a radical rethinking of media ethics for digital, global journalism, a new framework for others to build upon. I look for principles that might re-integrate media ethics. I put forward a code of global digital ethics.
Are you a radical, really?
Some people are puzzled or worried by my use of “radical.”
When I was growing up amid the Cold War, radical was a dangerous, negative word. It referred to Trotskyites and others who would replace capitalism with communism.
I was never a political radical.
My radicalness is one of idea. The first entry for “radical” in The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary says the word means “going to the root or origin … affecting what is fundamental; far-reaching; thorough.”
My radicalness is philosophical, but it is not divorced from the world. I have little patience for those who think philosophy is an abstract activity by elite thinkers detached from life. I follow Dewey and other pragmatic philosophers in defining philosophy as social and reformist.
Philosophy is engagement with the urgent issues of our time by critiquing assumptions and proposing alternatives.
When the winds of change blow, fundamental thinking is needed to overcome old beliefs that have atrophied into what J. S. Mill called “dead dogma,” and stand in the way of progress. In media ethics, the old ideas of news objectivity as just the facts, balance as always giving equal space to all sides, and impartiality as emotional detachment, are dead dogma.
Four imperatives
A radical attitude can be summarized by four imperatives for thinking, which are developed at length in my book:
Imperative #1: Think big, not only small
This follows from what I have said. Addressing specific dilemmas is important but at least some of us need to spend time thinking big. We need to propose a reinvention of media ethics that integrates the values of many types of journalism and has a chance of gaining the support of many types of practitioners.
Imperative #2: Think public, not personal
The reintegration of media ethics starts with broadening the political philosophy of journalism for digital media. This means rethinking, not abandoning, the public justification for journalism – the formulation of norms that apply across platforms and individuals. If we think of media ethics as only what each individual journalist embraces, no media ethics is possible. Moreover, the public will lose whatever faith they have left in journalism once they learn that journalists, despite their impact on society, think they can make up their own values.
We must never lose sight of the social nature of journalism. Its norms must be justified according to how they contribute to democracy and fulfill public responsibilities. The trouble is that traditional media ethics says too little about how new forms of journalism contribute to the public aims of journalism.
Imperative #3: Think discourse, not fixed principle
Traditional media ethics places a high importance on honoring pre-established content, such as the principles that occur at the start of most codes of ethics. Often such principles are considered to be absolute. Ethics, it is thought, needs unchanging foundations. Disagreement on principle is a sign of a weakness in our ethics.
At a time of media revolution, we should emphasize the process by which we assess media values. Principles are not absolutes but our best attempts to articulate our values for this period in journalism. Media ethics should be an open-ended discourse across platforms and borders. Ethics has always evolved, and we should expect, and welcome, criticism. Ethics is naturally, and rightly, contested.
Imperative 4: Think participation, not exclusion
As media ethics moves beyond professional newsrooms, it becomes ethics for everyone. The maintenance of good journalism is a society-wide responsibility. It requires that the public be part of ethical regulation. For example, the public should be able to participate meaningfully in the revision of codes of journalism ethics.
Applying the imperatives
The radical attitude, then, is one that thinks big and seeks reinvention, thinks of media ethics as evolving discourse without absolute principles, and stresses the public nature of practice in terms of justification and participation.
So, let’s adopt this attitude. What should we do with it?
For one thing, we should use this attitude to develop norms for increasingly prevalent areas of journalism:
Ethics of new media ecologies: Future media ethics should guide journalists working in non-traditional environments from nonprofit web sites to investigative centers within academia. Future media ethics should say useful things on the responsible use of new media, and how to deal with integrated newsrooms.
Ethics of interpretation and opinion: Interpretive and avocational journalism grows. Ethicists need to fill this gap by distinguishing between better and worse interpretations. They need to provide a specific meaning to such key concepts as “informed commentary,” “insightful analysis,” and “good interpretation.”
Ethics of activism: Activist journalism will also proliferate. But, when are activist journalists not propagandists? Rather than simply dismiss activist journalism on the traditional ground of objectivity, how can we develop a more nuanced understanding of this area of journalism?
Ethics of global democratic journalism: New thinking in ethics will need to reconstruct the role of journalism in global terms.
My book is only one attempt to start rethinking media ethics from the ground up. May there be other books, other attempts.
Stephen J. A. Ward is an internationally recognized media ethicist, author and educator, living in Madison, WI. He is Distinguished Lecturer in Ethics at the University of British Columbia, Courtesy Professor at the School of journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, and founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin.
This post originally published at MediaShift. Reposted here with permission.
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Proving Ground: Pre-beta Information
This is a timeline of images and information presented to us prior to the Endgame (Proving Ground) closed beta opening to the public. Nothing here is 100% fact and most is speculative at this moment. That being said, this is likely the most complete source of pre-beta information.
If you have some information to add that we have missed or presented inaccurately, please leave a comment with as much detail as you can.
Ingress announces Endgame, stating it will be complimenting a series of books by James Frey with a “… mobile augmented reality game that will bring ENDGAME to life in the real world.”
John Hanke mentions that “…we think this idea of real world games is viable” while flashing this image at the 2014 D.I.C.E Summit. This is our first glimpse at the Endgame interface, though most had originally over looked it thinking it was just concept art.
A media kit was released for sites like The Verge, giving more coverage to the Endgame project. There was little mention of the app itself, but the image below was shared in the article. Notice the same buildings as shown in the D.I.C.E teaser image? The major difference here being what look like coins representing some of the ancient lines from the book / ARG.
This image shared at the 2014 D.I.C.E summit was further validated when Endgame Polska on Facebook shared three new images. There is that city block again, familiar buildings and all. Though now we see what appear to be red holographic pillars and buildings with the label “ANCIENT SITES”.
In another one of the images, we see new variations of the ancient lines logos. In columns to the right of each logo are various symbols unique to each line. As far as we know, these are unidentified at this time.
In the last image we are presented with Stonehenge (which might excite those who had read The Calling). In the lower right, we also read “66% AMPLIFIED”.
Endgame also had a panel at San Diego Conic-Con 2014. Between John Hanke and James Frey talking about the game during the presentation and questions during the Q&A, many aspects of the game were revealed. Prior to this, we really had no real idea of what the app version of Endgame would entail outside of being a location based game.
“… will be released on iOS and Android.”
It was mentioned the game will be on iOS and Android. We do not know if they are building both at the same time, or if it’ll be for Android first and iOS down the road. Regardless, it was confirmed it will be on both platforms.
“You will get to be one of the characters in the book… You’re a warrior, you’re training to compete.”
Prior to this, it was undetermined if you will play as someone from a line, one of the actual Players from Endgame, or some sort of impartial side character. This makes it sound like we can all be Chiyoko’s and fight for the Mu. The mention of “training” also point to in-game milestones, such as a leveling system.
“You’ll walk around and see other players on a map, and if you are close enough to them (just like in Endgame when the Players are close enough to each other, they fight each other) you fight other people.”
“… all about competition, and fighting, and duels with others players… And you will do those solo but also within groups.”
So the game is all about duels. They mention fighting and duels with other players separately, so it is safe to say there will be NPC characters that you can fight (likely for leveling), as well as player vs player. These fights also will be proximity based (of course, GPS game!). They also mention solo and group play, but we’ll talk more about group play below.
“You will have to visit places in the real world to collect items and skills that you can use in these duels.”
Like Ingress, you will need to visit locations to collect items. Ok, on-board with that concept, we do it every day in Ingress via hacking portals. What is interesting though is the mention of collecting skills. Unlike Ingress, it sounds like you can diversify yourself outside levels and items.
Back to items, in a slide show during the presentation, we see an “Olmec dagger”. As far as we know, this is the first image where a weapon is shown in-game.
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the greatest collection of Sumerian weapons on earth. So if you go to the “Met” and stand in front of the Sumerian weapons they become a part of your arsenal in the game.”
See it, own it. This is a pretty amazing concept that might further add to the immersive aspects of the game.
“The key sites in the game have been crowd sourced through Ingress… So these exist even in small towns. Things like historical markers, museums, libraries, even a library in a small town. Those are key sites in the mobile game of Endgame. So you can just go to the library and that’s a place you can acquire objects. Now there will be some really really special sites (like the “Met”) where there may be very rare objects that are only available at those locations…”
The question came up asking about folks who are location bound and can’t visit places like The Metropolitan Museum of Art with ease or at all. Hanke mentions that because of location data glimpsed by Ingress, the game and places to play the game will be available world wide, even in the smallest towns. However… Going to special locations like The Metropolitan Museum of Art may net you VERY RARE objects. As to if obtaining objects like these will be game breaking or not has been undetermined, but the vibe we get is that most items can be obtained regardless of where you are at, and that very rare objects/items will only give a minor edge.
“There are going to be opportunities in the game where you can have a clan essentially, where you could ban together with 8 or 10 or 500 people and do battles with other groups of people, or gang up on people… Do whatever you want. The game is going to encourage socialization and group game play”
Even though you can play solo and be a lone wolf, it sounds like you can have a clan/guild with other players. Be this temporary party or a established organization is undetermined.
“So image if you’re sitting in a restaurant and your phone gets pinged saying someones attacking you. You will have to deal with that”
Like Ingress, things appear to be in real time. Will you be vulnerable to attacks at all times? Or only while in the game itself?
Endgame The Calling – Official Trailer 2014 is released on YouTube. Though this is trailer for the movie, they give us the first video footage of the app to make it’s way to the public. This video visits the same ancient site we keep seeing, along those familiar red holographic structures as well. This is also the first time we get to see a duel initiated between two players.
A gun hilt is teased showing us a training weapon (suggested by the image title “mu_train_weap5”). Unsure if this is concept or in-game art.
Another in-game weapon is revealed in a media kit, shown on sites like Venture Beat. As far as we know, this is the first in-game weapon image that has been shared via wide spread media. This weapon was teased 10 days prior to the media kit release in the Ancient Societies post, Swirl.
The training gun teased in December 2014 now shared in full.
A new training weapon is reviled via Ancient Societies. This time an axe / tomahawk.
First training weapon reveal of the month, being a Semi-Auto gun.
Second training weapon reveal of the month, a short sword / blade.
Third training weapon reveal of the month, a rifle.
Forth training weapon reveal of the month, a recurve bow.
Later the same day as the recurve bow release, the LIVE: From Las Vegas – Ancient Societies event took place. No new images were shared, but a tiny bit of new information was given, further validating some concepts shared last year.
“…Fight over our version of portals, which will be called key spots”
You know those red holographic builds / structures we’ve seen various times in teaser images in 2014? We can finally put a term to them: Key spots. This term was also offhandedly mentioned in the Comic-con 2014 panel as well, but overlooked.
“You’ll be able to collect weapons, you’ll be able to collect armor, you’ll be able to build up strength, and you’ll be able to fight each other”
We have known for some time about weapons, but the new mentioned here is armor and strength. Now, the term strength can be used very loosely and could mean levels, or skills… Which has already been mentioned. What is new here is the mention or armor, which we have not heard of or seen at this point.
“John Hanke, Nils, and I (Frey) will be in the game called Keplers, and we will have god buttons…”
Though this was said in a joking manner during the event, it might be safe to say that GMs (game masters) in Endgame will be titled Keplers.
New month, new weapon reveals! First training weapon reveal of the month, a shield? A disk? We’re not really sure to be honest
Second training weapon reveal of the month, a shuriken.
Geek Wire released an article after an interview with Niantic Labs which finally gives the game an official name, shows player characters for the first time, shows a new in-game weapon, and gives some new information about the game itself.
Leading up to this point, all we knew the game by was “Endgame” or “Endgame mobile app by Niantic Labs”. Finally, we can give it a proper name, Proving Ground.
We see several variations of a few player characters, showing that either armor will alter your looks, or that there will be vanity clothing items as well.
We are also given some validation on a a few terms:
Key sites: The “portals” or locations you will defend in Proving Ground.
Tokens: Remember the image below from one of the 2014 media kits? We had originally guessed at calling these “coins”, but this article finally puts an official name to them, Tokens. It is also mentioned that players can place these on sites when slots are available, defining that there is a finite amount of tokens that can be placed. Something we didn’t mention at first sight of this image in 2014 was that there is a number 5 next to the stack of blue tokens.
A new training weapon is also shown, making this the second pistol we’ve seen.
“Combat doesn’t require both players to be present at one of the sites – the defender will get a notification on their phone, and if they’re not available, the game will get one of their teammates to step up and fight or fall back to an AI in the event nobody is free to battle. The game is designed to offer support for a variety of playstyles, and the amount of combat someone runs into will be based on how they play.”
Some new information on defense and combat of key sites you or your team may own. If you’re not free to fight, one of your teammates are asked to fight. If you and your teammates are not free to fight, an AI is used to fight instead. This new information provides some very interesting dynamics to the game! In Ingress, if you and your team mates all go to sleep, and your opponents come after, you will not be able defend the portals you own. In Proving Ground, your last line of defense is an AI, likely shadowing your level, skills, weapon, and armor.
“People who complete challenges in the alternate reality game will get bonuses in the mobile game when it launches. Top players will even get early access to the ‘Proving Ground’ invite-only beta.”
Now this is very interesting news… We’ve known for some time that participating in the Ancient Societies ARG would net you early access to the Proving Ground beta. However, this suggests that they will also be given “bonuses” in Proving Ground when it launches. Going off award systems other video games, this could mean a gear kit when starting, exclusive items which can only be obtained via participation in the ARG, in-game currency, or stat/level boosts. Only time will tell on this front, but if you want a chance at in-game perks, you can start participating in the ARG today.
The same day as the Geek Wire post, Wired UK also made a post after an interview with Anne Beuttenmueller of Niantic Labs. This post shows us more player character designs, more weapons, a new item type: trinkets, as well as some additional information about the game.
Here we see more player character designs and outfits. Something we noticed here after overlooking it in the Geek Wire player image is that it appears that each line will offer either female or male sexes. This disproves the previous notion that you will be playing as one of the characters from the book, which would lock you to a specific sex.
Two new training weapons were presented, another pistol and sword.
A new item class is announced: Trinkets! A ring (Horned Bull Artifact) and a necklace (Shiva bomb). First weapons, then armor, now trinkets… This is starting to feel like a Diablo game! We can only guess that these trinkets give some sort of stat boosts or special skills when wore.
“To help you coordinate with other players from your line, there’s an in-game chat feature that is built directly into the mobile game and will allow teams to plan missions.”
Not a surprising feature announcement, but one none the less. This is the first mention of in-game chat, and it sounds like it will be similar to Ingress in that it’ll have a secure chat for chatting with your line / teams. It can only be assumed that there will be an All Chat as well.
“Also new to Endgame is an in-game buying system, which will let people purchase weapons. “We don’t want to have a pay-to-win situation, so you also get them when you go to key spots and find them…”
Before we say anything on the quote above, let us rewind to last year. Connor Tumbleson’s Ingress APK down articles [1.43 / 1.65] point out that Google Wallet and features surrounding micro transactions were added to the framework. Fev Games approached Niantic Labs, fearful of what this meant for the game we had been playing “free” for years. Niantic Labs assured us that Ingress would never see micro transactions in-game. It was also explained that the framework Ingress was build upon would be used for other games (even by other developers eventually), so adding these features were necessary.
The “other games” Niantic had mentioned appear to include Proving Ground, the first to leverage the framework features of micro transactions we unearthed last year via Ingress. Now, whenever we hear the phrase “micro transactions”, we are fearful of pay-to-win situations that have killed many games with good potential. Though you may be able to buy a weapon, armor, etc in Proving Ground, you can also get them from key spots. This makes us believe that we’ll see a pay system as in games like League of Legends. You can naturally earn in-game currency to obtain any character in the game. However, if you want special character skins, altering the way your character looks, you can pay real money. See all those players model characters above? It might be safe to say the “coolest” outfits will cost you real money.
A payment system would also leverage the needed items to progress in the game vs players grinding for them at key spots for hours. As they say, “time is money”, and if I can spend $5 on a sword I’ve been eying vs spending 10 hours of game play to find it… I may elect to buy the sword early to further my players progression more swiftly. This would also benefit casual players who don’t have the time to grind for items like a hard core player could.
And if we couldn’t pack more information into this day, here is the sixth training weapon reveal of the month. A shotgun perhaps?
Here is the seventh training weapon reveal of the month, a bottle of poison. This certainly is an interesting weapon as most the weapons prior were either blades or projectile based. This add a deeper layer to the idea of weapons, as poison might not be something you wield, but maybe something you apply to another weapon or ammo.
(Thanks for the heads up Jay Howard, forgot it was Monday!)
During the end announcements of the Shonin Ingress anomaly, Stella showed us a peek of what the game play looked like.
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Home Drama Higher Ground – Film Review
Higher Ground – Film Review
James Dawson
Aug 24th, 2011 @ 8:20 pm EDT
Corinne (Vera Farmiga) © 2011 Sony
This split-personality spiritual saga tries its damnedest not to offend born-again conservative Christians for most of its running time. But you just know dat ole debbil “Rational Thought” is going to raise his blasphemous head before the credits roll, making every no-fun fundamentalist who’s still hymn-singing and amening by then look like a self-deceiving fool. ‘Twas ever thus.
First-time director Vera Farmiga stars as Corinne, a Bible-believing, Bible-quoting and basically Bible-bananas young mother in a suburban community that’s culturally somewhere to the right of Big Love, but without the polygamy and Mormonism. The women wear long dresses and pressure each other to be submissive to their men. Families go to church every Sunday, seem to spend most other nights of the week studying the Good Book in each other’s homes, and pray so long and so loud that you know they surely to God mean it.
There’s supposed to be a chick-flick dramedy in here about Corinne’s lifetime of trials and tribulations. As a young girl (played by McKenzie Turner in pigtail braids), Corinne pretends to hear Jesus knocking on the door of her heart in order to get special attention from her pastor. As a 1970s teenager (played by Farmiga’s real-life 16-year-old sister Taissa Farmiga, and the family resemblance is amazing), she gets knocked up by a rock-band guitarist and married in a maternity bridal gown. As an adult, she’s tested by marital strife and a friend’s medical tragedy.
The problem is that it’s hard to find any credibility in Corinne’s unreasoning acceptance of her cult-like lifestyle, because she never comes across as gullible, stupid or crazy. (The Lord of vengeance will smite me for that remark, I realize.) As a child, she’s smart and inquisitive enough not only to use the library regularly, but to try checking out the above-her-grade-level Lord of the Flies. Which counts for something.
Ethan (Joshua Leonard) and Corinne (Vera Farmiga) © 2011 Sony
Adapted from the memoir This Dark World by Carolyn S Briggs (who co-wrote the screenplay with Tim Metcalfe), Higher Ground includes so many small moments it often feels “bitty.” Some scenes last only long enough to deliver a joke. Many of the early segments are as disjointed as a less artsy-pretentious The Tree of Life: Corinne feeding a piglet with a baby bottle on a kitchen floor, rolling in the rust of an empty swimming pool, sitting hidden on the stairs hoping dismissive dad will tell mom she looks pretty and he loves her.
The filmmakers’ apparent intent to be respectful (or at least not openly disrespectful) of evangelical fanatics is a losing game. No matter how non-judgmental the movie tries to be, it’s hard to make talking in tongues and casting out Satan seem like mere eccentricities. And any dad who angrily objects to letting his son practice soccer instead of learning his “memory verses” can’t help looking like a flakey Flanders.
Some of the intentionally comic scenes actually are funny, including a men’s group meeting devoted to learning the audiocassette-taught techniques of “Christ-Like Sex” (“clitoral stimulation is part of God’s plan”). And Corinne’s session with an Egg McMuffin-minded marriage counselor named Dick (Jack Gilpin) who considers himself a prophet is hilarious. Dick is so earnestly self-righteous we’re clearly supposed to laugh at him and not with him, making him almost unique in such an otherwise excruciatingly tolerant movie.
Corinne’s earthily extroverted friend Annika (Dagmara Dominczyk) offers some broad and hammered-in comic relief of her own, such as charming a cop out of writing Corinne a ticket by using the bizarre excuse that she had a front-and-back wedgie. But a weird scene in which Corinne sexually fantasizes about having her toes sucked by Annika leads nowhere — neither to shamed penance nor to any sort of questioning doubt.
Similarly, a handsome Irish mailman (Sean Mahon) who pops up near the end to read Yeats to Corinne while she’s gardening seems flown in from a Harlequin novel.
In an eventual conscience-clearing confession to her congregation, Corinne uses the “it’s not you, it’s me” excuse to admit her lack of genuine spiritual feeling. Based on the hypocrisy and injustice she’s seen by then, however, it doesn’t wash that she still would want to pay even lip service to the concept that everything is part of God’s mysterious plan, much less apologize for not “getting it.”
The unwaveringly devout will take comfort in Corinne’s words. Godless secular humanists will read between the lines and do the same. Hallelujah, everybody wins!
[Rating:2]
This movie will be released on Friday August 26, from Sony.
Carolyn S Briggs
Dagmara Dominczyk
Jack Gilpin
McKenzie Turner
Sean Mahon
This Dark World
Tim Metcalfe
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GD - General Dynamics Corporation
As of 3:10PM EDT. Market open.
Bid 187.16 x 1100
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52 Week Range 143.87 - 207.72
Avg. Volume 1,221,079
Market Cap 54.028B
Beta (3Y Monthly) 1.52
PE Ratio (TTM) 16.86
EPS (TTM) 11.09
Earnings Date Jul 24, 2019
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Reuters•7 days ago
General Dynamics' IT unit wins $2 bln contract from US Department of State
General Dynamics Corp said on Tuesday it won a $2 billion contract to continue supporting global security, engineering and supply chain missions for the U.S. Department of State. The contract was awarded to the company's information technology unit and includes a base period of five years. Under the contract, the unit will provide the State Department with technical security systems, hybrid supply chain management and a global logistics and transportation network.
General Dynamics Awarded $2 Billion U.S. Department of State Global Supply Chain Contract
GDIT wins competitive rebid to continue supporting the State Department's global security, engineering and supply chain mission. FALLS CHURCH, Va. , July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Information ...
Lockheed Martin Wins $41.3M Navy Deal to Aid F-35 Program
Lockheed (LMT) will design, procure and integrate flight test instrumentation and data processing solutions for F-35 Lightning II development test aircraft.
Are You Looking for a High-Growth Dividend Stock? General Dynamics (GD) Could Be a Great Choice
Dividends are one of the best benefits to being a shareholder, but finding a great dividend stock is no easy task. Does General Dynamics (GD) have what it takes? Let's find out.
U.S. State Department approves possible $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan
The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of M1A2T Abrams tanks, Stinger missiles and related equipment at an estimated value of $2.2 billion, the Pentagon said on Monday. China's Foreign Ministry said last month when the possible sale was first reported that it was seriously concerned about U.S. arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan. The sale of the weapons requested by Taiwan, including 108 M1A2T Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger missiles, would not alter the basic military balance in the region, the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.
Barrons.com•12 days ago
Trump’s Fourth of July Parade Is Also a Showcase for Boeing, General Dynamics, and More
The military equipment on display for President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” is more costly and complex than war machines from earlier eras. Here’s what investors will see on July 4 in Washington, D.C.
Zacks•13 days ago
Lockheed Martin Wins $348M Navy Deal to Aid F-35 Program
Lockheed (LMT) secures deal to produce non-recurring, special tooling and special test equipment for the F-35 jets.
American City Business Journals•15 days ago
Gulfstream's newest jet is ready for production, if you're in the market for one. Here's a look.
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) is adding a new Gulfstream to its inventory. The Gulfstream G600 has earned both its type and production certificates from the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing for the first deliveries to customers later this year, General Dynamics announced. Flying Magazine previously reported the jet will sell for $54.5 million.
TheStreet.com•18 days ago
General Dynamics Could Frustrate Bulls and Trade Sideways for Several More Weeks
has been in a largely sideways trading range since February. In this daily bar chart of GD, below, we can see a mixed picture between the price action and the technical indicators. Prices have been stuck in a $160-$180 or so trading range.
PR Newswire•18 days ago
General Dynamics Announces Gulfstream G600 Granted FAA Certification
FALLS CHURCH, Va., June 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics (GD) announced today the all-new Gulfstream G600 earned both its type and production certificates from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). "Getting both authorizations on the same day is evidence of the maturity of our G600 production processes and speaks to the safety and reliability of the aircraft's design," said Gulfstream president Mark Burns. "Even more remarkable is the fact that we achieved these simultaneous certifications less than a year after completing another major program, certifying and delivering the Gulfstream G500, another testament to the engineering expertise and manufacturing excellence that are hallmarks of Gulfstream.
Three-building industrial portfolio in Triad sells for $49.3 million
McConnell Center Associates LLC, consisting of veteran developer Pete Goria and Windsor Commercial's Buddy Seymour, sold the McConnell Center buildings, which total 670,536 square feet, to New York Life Insurance Co. The buildings are at 4751, 4755 and 4754 McConnell Center Drive. McConnell Center is located at the intersection of Interstates 85 and 40 and the Greensboro Urban Loop. Tom Townes of Triad Commercial Properties, which represented the sellers, told Triad Business Journal that the remaining building in the 1.1 million square foot portfolio sale is under contract to New York Life and expected to close late in the year after Windsor completes construction of a 130,000 square foot expansion for General Dynamics.
General Dynamics Awarded Air Force Intelligence System Support Contract
GDIT will continue 20-year legacy as the sole network support provider for the Air Force's Distributed Common Ground System. FALLS CHURCH, Va. , June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics Information ...
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Iran's Barley Imports at $600m Last Year
Iran imported barley worth $603 million from 23 countries in the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show.
Russia was the biggest exporter with $155.48 million. Other major exporters of the grain to Iran during the period were the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Turkey, Switzerland, the UK, Scotland and the UAE, Mizan Online reported.
Iran was the biggest importer of barley from Kazakhstan in September-March 2018/19, accounting for 1.4 million tons or 93% of its total exports of 1.5 million tons, UkrAgroConsult reported.
The United States Department of Agriculture says Iran is estimated to have produced 2.8 million tons of barley in 2018-19, indicating a 9.67% decrease compared with the year before.
The USDA put Iran’s barley imports at 3 million tons in 2018-19, registering an 11.11 % rise year-on-year. It forecast the figure to remain the same for 2019-20.
Iran’s total barley consumption was put at 6 million tons in 2017-18, which is estimated to increase to 6.1 million in 2018-19 and further rise by 3.27% to reach 6.3 million in 2019-20.
Director General of the Agriculture Ministry's Grains and Essential Goods Department Faramak Aziz Karimi said more than 3.3 million tons of barley are estimated to be produced in Iran in the current year (March 2019-20) to register a 10% increase compared with the previous year.
“Every year, barley is cultivated on over 600,000 to 700,000 hectares of rain-fed and 900,000 to 1 million hectares of irrigated land across the country. We will owe this year’s ample yield to increased levels of precipitation in most of our provinces,” the official was quoted as saying by IRNA.
USDA: Iran Barley Production Falls Nearly 10%
Barley Production Expected to Rise
USDA Forecasts Growth in Iranian Wheat Output
Agribusiness to Prosper Post-Sanctions
Opportunities in Barley Malt Industry
Barley Import Up 129%
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Iran's Q1 Tea Exports Top 1,600 Tons
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#Kickstarter
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DWARVES INCLUDED • by John Peters II
December 23, 2013 Every Day Fiction 18 Comments
Joe stood on the corner of Fair Oaks and Main fretting over the crumpled Christmas list in his hand. It was 8 p.m. Christmas Eve and his last hope of finding the Lego set his son so desperately wanted, the 841-piece Goblin King Battle Set, had just disappeared. He’d been looking for weeks.
No, that wasn’t right. His wife had been looking, but couldn’t find it. When he asked Maria if she had checked online, she launched into a diatribe about online shopping nightmares and then slapped Timmy’s list on the arm of Joe’s recliner and stormed off into the kitchen.
You do it your way, I’ll do it my way, he thought. He searched the local retailers’ inventory on his iPhone. She was right, no one had it. He was about to admit defeat when, like a Christmas miracle, he received a text stating there was one left at the local Target.
“See, honey, all you had to do was a web search and you would’ve found it two blocks away.”
“Go get it then.”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
Feeling pretty smug, he put on his Wolverine work boots and Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt and jogged down to the store. But fifteen minutes later, he found himself standing on a street corner with only Timmy’s list in his hand. The tired-eyed salesclerk with big Mayan-plug earrings had said that they had sold their last set a week ago and that Target doesn’t text their customers inventory updates.
Now what? He didn’t want to go home empty-handed and get that I-told-you-so look from his wife. He stared at the list in his hand.
“It’s about time,” said a deep guttural whisper.
Joe snapped his head up. Normally, four-lane Main Street was choked full of cars and pedestrians, but now, nothing. “Who said that?”
“Down here,” the whisperer said.
Joe looked past the list at the sidewalk beneath his feet. Only it wasn’t concrete, but a steel sewer grate. The darkness within shifted.
“Jesus!” Joe jumped off the grate, iPhone in hand, ready to throw it at whatever or whoever it was.
“I’ve got what you need.”
Joe turned to run, but stopped when it said, “I’m the one who sent you the message.”
“You? But how?”
“Data mining is our specialty,” it hissed. “Now come to the curb.”
Joe felt the thing move away from him and towards the street. He looked left and right; still no one. The stoplight changed from green to red.
“Hurry up.”
Joe’s curiosity about what was in the sewer, guardian angel or devious devil, and not wanting to go home empty-handed overwhelmed his desire to get the hell out of there. He took a deep breath, clenched his phone and followed.
A three-foot-wide strip of concrete between the curb and the grate effectively covered whatever lurked below. Just when Joe could see into the gutter, the end of a box popped out. It was the Lego set he had been looking for. A picture of the goblin king wielding an enormous war hammer stood on the front of the box ready to smite a dwarf.
“Take it,” the creature said. “Timmy will be so surprised. It’s a special edition.”
Sweat caked Joe’s body. How could it possibly know? Maybe it was an angel. Joe looked around again. The streets were still empty.
“Just take it,” the creature growled, dispelling any notion of it being an angel. It shook the box from side to side.
For Timmy, he thought, then reached down and snatched up the box, pretending not to notice the green leathery hand and long black nails that released it. He protectively squeezed the Lego set against his chest and backed away from the curb.
The creature gave a slobbery laugh and then said, “Merry Christmas.” Joe’s breath didn’t return to his lungs until he felt the weight of the creature’s presence disappear back down into the sewers.
And then the world returned to normal. Cars zipped by. Pedestrians appeared. One of South Pasadena’s green parrots even cried out a solitary caw above him.
With trembling hands, Joe inspected the Lego set. The box was intact, but was heavier than expected. It also felt a little moist. Probably from being in the sewer, Joe thought. It should be dry tomorrow if I put it by the heater. With a sigh of relief and gift in hand, he walked quickly home.
“You got it for me!” Timmy exclaimed as he tore off the Grinch wrapping paper Christmas morning. “The Goblin King Lego set.”
Joe sat in his recliner with a satisfied smile. Maria squeezed his hand. When he had returned with the gift last night, her “I-told-you-so face” had changed to one of relief.
“Funny, Dad”, Timmy said, bringing Joe back from his moment of triumph.
“What’s that son?”
“The tag.” Timmy held up the box.
That’s when Joe noticed a green tag on the front of the box. With a sinking feeling, he knew that tag was not there yesterday. It read, “To: Timmy, From: The Goblin King,” and in bold red letters beneath the salutation, “DWARVES INCLUDED.”
Timmy opened the end of the box and turned it over to dump its contents on the floor.
Joe jumped out of his recliner. “Timmy, don’t — ”
But it was too late: out rolled the corpses of thirteen six-inch dwarves, bound, gagged — and cooked from being placed beside the heater overnight.
Amidst his family’s screams, Joe realized they had just become another online-shopping-horror story.
John Peters II has completed UCLA’s Certificate Program in Creative Writing and is a top contributor at Trip Advisor as happytravel14. His primary literary interests are historical and military fiction.
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Book - The Early Embryology of the Chick
Patten BM. The Early Embryology of the Chick. (1920) Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co.
This historic 1920 paper by Bradley Patten described the understanding of chicken development. If like me you are interested in development, then these historic embryology textbooks are fascinating in the detail and interpretation of embryology at that given point in time. As with all historic texts, terminology and developmental descriptions may differ from our current understanding. There may also be errors in transcription or interpretation from the original text. Currently only the text has been made available online, figures will be added at a later date. My thanks to the Internet Archive for making the original scanned book available.
By the same author: Patten BM. Developmental defects at the foramen ovale. (1938) Am J Pathol. 14(2):135-162. PMID 19970381
Those interested in historic chicken development should also see the earlier text The Elements of Embryology (1883).
Foster M. Balfour FM. Sedgwick A. and Heape W. The Elements of Embryology (1883) Vol. 1. (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan and Co.
Modern Notes
The Early Embryology of the Chick: Introduction | Gametes and Fertilization | Segmentation | Entoderm | Primitive Streak and Mesoderm | Primitive Streak to Somites | 24 Hours | 24 to 33 Hours | 33 to 39 Hours | 40 to 50 Hours | Extra-embryonic Membranes | 50 to 55 Hours | Day 3 to 4 | References | Figures
Bradley M. Patten
The fact that most courses in vertebrate embryology deal to a greater or lesser extent with the chick seems to warrant the treatment of its development in a book designed primarily for the beginning student. To a student beginning the study of embryology the very abundance of information available in the literature of the subject is confusing and discouraging. He is unable to cull the essentials and fit them together in their proper relationships and is likely to become hopelessly lost in a maze of details. This book was written in an effort to set forth for him in brief and simple form the early embryology of the chick. It does not purport to treat the subject from the comparative view point, nor to be a reference work. If it helps the student to grasp the structure of the embryos, and the sequence and significance of the processes he encounters in his work on the chick, and thereby conserves the time of the instructor for interpretation of the broader principles of embryology it will have served the purpose for which it was written.
In preparing the text, details have been largely omitted and controverted points avoided for the sake of clarity in outlining fundamental processes. While I would gladly have avoided the matters of cleavage and germ layer formation in birds, a brief description of them seemed necessary. Without some interpretation of the initial phases of development, the student has no logical basis for his study of the already considerably developed embryos with which his laboratory work begins. The treatment which it is desirable to accord to gametogenesis and maturation as processes leading toward fertilization would vary so greatly in extent and view point in different courses that it seemed inadvisable to attempt any general discussion of these phenomena.
The account of development has not been carried beyond the first four days of incubation. In this period the body of the embryo is laid down and the organ systems are established. Courses in general embryology rarely carry work on the chick beyond this phase of development. More extensive courses in which a knowledge of mammalian embryology is the objective, ordinarily pass from the study of three or four day chicks to work on mammalian embryos.
While the text has been kept brief, illustrations have been freely used in the belief that they convey ideas more readily and more accurately than can be done in writing. Direct labeling has been used in the figures to facilitate reference to them. Most of the drawings were made directly from preparations in the laboratory of Histology and Embryology of Western Reserve University School of Medicine. However, figures from other authors, particularly Lillie and Duval, have been used extensively for comparisons and for schemes of presentation. Several figures have been reproduced directly or with only slight modifications. These are designated in the figure legends.
I wish to acknowledge the assistance I received in the preparation of material by Mrs. Mary V. Bayes, and in the drawing of the figures by Mrs. Bayes and Dr. Louis J. Karnosh. I am "also indebted to my father, Prof. Wm. Patten of Dartmouth College for criticism of the figures, and to Dr. F. C. Waite of the School of Medicine, Western Reserve University for his helpful interest and cooperation in all phases of the preparation of the book and especially for his reading of the manuscript.
Bradley M. Patten. Western Reserve University, School of Medicine. Cleveland, Ohio.
The Gametes and Fertilization
The Process of Segmentation
The Establishment of the Entoderm
The Formation of the Primitive Streak and the Establishment of the Mesoderm
From the Primitive Streak Stage to the Appearance of the Somites
The Structure of Twenty-four Hour Chicks
The Changes Between Twenty-four and Thirty-three Hours of Incubation
The Structure of Chicks Between Thirty-three and Thirty-nine Hours of Incubation
The Changes Between Forty and Fifty Hours of Incubation
Extra-embryonic Membranes
The Structure of Chicks from Fifty to Fifty-five Hours of Incubation
The Development of the Chick During the Third and Fourth Days of Incubation
The Early Embryology of the Chick: Introduction | Gametes and Fertilization | Segmentation | Entoderm | Primitive Streak and Mesoderm | Primitive Streak to Somites | 24 Hours | 24 to 33 Hours | 33 to 39 Hours | 40 to 50 Hours | Extra-embryonic Membranes | 50 to 55 Hours | Day 3 to 4 | References | Figures | Site links: Embryology History | Chicken Development
Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2019, July 16) Embryology Book - The Early Embryology of the Chick. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Book_-_The_Early_Embryology_of_the_Chick
Retrieved from ‘https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?title=Book_-_The_Early_Embryology_of_the_Chick&oldid=335112’
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Duo Gelland
Duo Gelland is a Swedish-German violin duo on the international classical scene. The members are Cecilia and Martin Gelland. The duo was founded in 1994.
4.1 Duo Gelland
4.2 Violin duo and history
Duo Gelland was founded in 1994. Their early recordings of Cantus gemellus by Dieter Acker and the fiercely demanding one-hour-long cycle for two violins (1951) by Allan Pettersson showed the true potentials of the violin duo, inspiring many composers to turn to this medium. Duo Gelland received over 200 dedications, among them duos by: Giorgio Netti, Bernd Franke, Samuel Adler, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Alexander Keuk, Madeleine Isaksson, Birgitte Alsted, Kerstin Jeppsson, Ingvar Karkoff, Maurice Karkoff, Olov Franzén, Gunnar Bucht, Carin Bartosch Edström, Rolf Martinsson, Erika Förare, Miklós Maros, Gerhard Samuel, Saman Samadi, Britta Byström, Johan Ramström, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Marie Samuelsson, Peter Schuback, Victoria Bond, Anders Hultqvist, Peter Lindroth, Max Käck, Cecilia Franke, Gunnar Valkare, Fredrik Hagstedt, Ole Lützow-Holm, Nikolaus Brass, Michael Fiday, Andreas F. Staffel, Simon Christensen, Justin Henry Rubin, Gunnar Valkare.
Duo Gelland also premiered duos by other composers - never performed due to lack of permanent violin duos - by Werner Wolf Glaser, Gunnar Berg, Hans Holewa, Erika Förare, Oleg Gotskosik, Ture Rangström. Further important duos belonging to their repertory are those by Luigi Nono, James Dillon, Olga Neuwirth, Giacinto Scelsi, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Jacqueline Fontyn. Duo Gelland's performance of Traumwerk by James Dillon was filmed by Johan Ramström. It was awarded the Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2008. Another award is the Interpreter’s Prize of the Society of Swedish Composers (FST). The inscription reads: They take on the new music with an overwhelming empathy and a virtually feverish intensity, catching the audience in a bubble of absolute presence.
Duo Gelland received dedications of works for violin duo and orchestra or ensemble by Harold Blumenfeld (premiered 1996), Ingvar Karkoff (premiered 2009), Alexander Keuk (premiered 2013), Olov Franzén (premiered 2014), Olof Lindgren (premiered 2002). Håkan Larsson (premiered 2002). January 2003 Duo Gelland premiered Håkan Larsson's Angesicht in Angesicht - inspired by Ingmar Bergman's films - for violin duo and orchestra in the Berliner Philharmonie. Spring 2003 two works for violin duo and choir by Hans-Erik Dahlgren and Olof Lindgren were premiered together with Dresdner Kammerchor and Hans-Christoph Rademann. In Berliner Philharmonie 2006 together with the RIAS Kammerchor and Hans-Christoph Rademann, Duo Gelland premiered works for violin duo and choir by Sunleif Rasmussen, Peter Schuback and Håkan Larsson.
The dramatic and physical qualities of Duo Gelland's stage presence has been cultivated in cross over productions e.g. in provocatively moving The donkey on Mars, text Kasëm Trebeshina (Albania), in collaboration with choreographer Britta Hanssen and composer Birgitte Alsted. Here the synthesis of emotion, motion, word and sound is explored in a mode which could be referred to as violin theater.
Duo Gelland's growing historic repertory involves research in archives and libraries. The musicologist Ulrich Mazurowicz points out that the second half of the 18th century into the beginning of the 19th century was a period when string duos were printed more often than any other constellation including songs, operas, string quartets, music for orchestra or piano. Of all these string duos the major part was violin duos. Duo Gelland's continuous study of historic literature on music performance, theory and philosophy is a source of inspiration facing both their old and their new repertoire. Characteristic for Duo Gelland's work with new music is the close collaboration with composers and the search for an individual world of sounds for each new composition approached. As artists in residence 2002 - 2011 in the municipality of Strömsund, Jämtland, northern Sweden, Duo Gelland developed their interactive and mutually artistically stimulating work with children and teens referred to as The Strömsund method.
The teachers of the violinists were Max Rostal, Walter Levin and each one of the other members of the LaSalle Quartet, Ricardo Odnoposoff, Gerhart Hetzel, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Ingeborg Scheerer, Josef Grünfarb, Machie Oguri-Kudo and for shorter periods Valery Klimov, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Pierre d'Archambeau, composition and theory Allan Sapp.
Allan Pettersson, Seven Sonatas for Two Violins (1951), 58 min.
Werner Wolf Glaser, Duo (1966), 17 min.
Dieter Acker, Cantus gemellus (1973) 9 min.
Erika Förare, Duo op. 1 (1976-79), 27 min. and Duo no. 2 (2002), 12 min.
James Dillon, Traumwerk (1995-96), 26 min.
Olof Lindgren, Jieleden Vuilie (Chant of Life) (1995) and other works (1995-2002), 67 min.
Olov Franzén, Autumn Duo (1997), 16 min.
Anders Hultqvist, Apricot trees exist (1998/2000), 9 min.
Birgitte Alsted, Zweigeigen (2001), 13 min.
Gunnar Bucht, Partita (2001), 15 min. and Tre per due (2004), 16 min.
Peter Schuback, del altro al altro (2001), 14 min.
Max Käck, Aonia terra (2001), 12 min.
Håkan Larsson, När intet blir allt (2002), 14 min.
Kerstin Jeppsson, Canto cromàtico (2002) 18 min.
Hans-Erik Dahlgren, Imagines Memoriae (2002) and other works (2002-2004), 32 min.
Rolf Martinsson, Symbiosis (2003), 19 min.
Ingvar Karkoff, Largo (2004) 7 min. and Gelland Suite (2004), 8 min.
Bernd Franke, "in between (IV)" (2007), 11 min.
Oleg Gotskosik, From the Jewish Folk tradition (1990), 23 min.
Cecilia Franke, Febris (2005), 11 min.
Johan Ramström, KAKEL (2002), 13 min.
Johan Ramström, Vallombrosa (2008), 7 min.
Hans-Erik Dahlgren, Imagines memoriae (2002), 12 min.
Sanna Ahvenjärvi, Fingers to the Bone (2004), 12 min.
Tapio Lappalainen, Violin Duo (2004), 7 min.
Alexander Keuk, Bagatelle (2003), 11 min.
Aron Hidman, Chaconne (2001), 12 min.
Johan Samskog, Al cielo (2001), 13 min.
Jonas Asplund, Forms of the floating fragments (2007), 11 min.
Justin Henry Rubin, Three Chorales (2009), 7 min.
Justin Henry Rubin, Samuel Greenberg Constellation (2009), 10 min.
Fredrik Hagstedt, Depurazione (2002), 29 min.
Fredrik Hagstedt, Sinfonia per due violini (2011), 46 min.
Giorgio Netti, inoltre (2006), 18 min.
Ole Lützow-Holm, Terra 8-band version, 15 min.
Peter Lindroth, Para dos violines (2014-15), 21 min.
Justin Henry Rubin, There were three Ravens (2011), 8 min.
Jämtlands Landstingets Kulturpris 2011
Nutida Sound 2011
Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2008
Rosenborg-Gehrmans Ensemble Prize 2005
The Society of Swedish Composers’ Interpreter’s Prize (FST) 2003
Västerbotten County Council Great Award 2002
Västerbottens-Kurirens Kulturpris 2000
Duo Gelland[edit]
Das große Lexikon der Violine, Laaber 2015: Duo Gelland.
Stefan Drees, 'Experimentierfreude und Repertoireerkundung. Zur Arbeit des Duo Gelland', in: Die Tonkunst 4, 2008, 466f
Stefan Drees, 'Until the singing of the spheres brings us together', in: Die Tonkunst 3, 2008, 419f
Stefan Drees, 'Engagement im Dienste einer vernachlässigten Gattung', in: Dissonanz 93, März 2006, 43f
Anna Rudroff, Ästhetische Erfahrung als Ziel von Musikunterricht - Fragen an ein musikpädagogisches Praxiskonzept aus Schweden, Leipzig 2008
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), Kassel 1994-2008: Duo Gelland
Gunilla Petersén, Hyllad violinduo har fötterna i jämtlänsk jord, Kammarmusik-Nytt, 2009.
Jonas Asplund, ...det rör om i hjärnan på något sätt: En beskrivning av en interpretationsprocess inom samtida konstmusik ur ett kommunikationsperspektiv, Örebro Universitet, Örebro 2007
Ylva Nyberg, 'Duo Gelland', in: Nutida Musik 47, 2004, H. 1, 38f
Gustaf Jilker, 'Kulturambassadörer', in: Samefolket 2002, H. 9, 46
Henrik Martén, 'Duo Gelland - en färgstark ensemble', in: Kammarmusik-Nytt 19, 2002, H. 2, 9
Stefani Ragni, 'I violini del grande nord', in: Studi e documentazioni 20, 2001, Nr. 41, 37f
Cecilia Gelland, 'Tystnaden är utrotningshotad', in: Coniunctio 2008
Martin Gelland, „... um etwas davon plötzlich aufleuchten zu lassen“, Darstellungsprobleme individuellen Erlebens, Zeitschrift Ästhetische Bildung, Jg. 6 Nr. 2 (2014)
Martin Gelland, 'Erzwungene Kunst: Schmerz und Freiheitserlebnis, Allan Pettersson und Jean-Paul Sartre im Wechselspiel,' in: Musik-Konzepte Heft 162, July 2013
Martin Gelland: 'Sprunghaftes im gelähmten Stillstand. Allan Pettersson (1911–1980) zum 100. Geburtstag,' in: Die Tonkunst 4, 2011
Violin duo and history[edit]
Ulrich Mazurowicz, Das Streichduett in Wien von 1760 bis zum Tode Joseph Haydns, Eichstätter Abhandlungen zur Musikwissenschaft, Band 1, Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1982
Walter Kolneder, Das Buch der Violine, Antlantis, 1972 and 1993
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, Die Violine und ihre Meister, 1868, 4th edition Dresden 1927
website of Duo Gelland.
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Alliance, 'Memphis' co-pro top 2015 Suzi nods
Sep. 2, 2015 - by Kathy Janich
The awards, Atlanta professional theater’s more-or-less equivalent to Broadway’s Tonys, will be handed out Nov. 2.
THIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: March 5
Mar. 5, 2015 - by Kathy Janich
Last call for “Silent Sky” at Theatrical Outfit as well as “The C.A. Lyons Project (Alliance), “Detroit ’67” (True Colors), “Rigoletto” (Atlanta Opera), StinkyKids the Musical (Synchronicity), the national tour of “Wicked” at the Fox and the Center for Puppetry Arts’ “Anne Frank: Without and Within.”
THIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: Feb. 26
Feb. 26, 2015 - by Kathy Janich
This weekend’s your last chance for “4000 Miles” at Aurora. Also recommended: Theatrical Outfit’s “Silent Sky,” the Kendeda-winning “C.A. Lyons Project” at the Alliance, “Detroit ’67” at True Colors and the always entertaining Libby Whittemore at Actor’s Express.
The best of this week’s best bets: “The C.A. Lyons Project” at the Alliance, “Silent Sky” at Theatrical Outfit and “Detroit ’67” at True Colors. What’s on your must-see list?
Outfit's 2015-16 season: 5 shows, 3 musicals
Theatrical Outfit’s five-show 2015-16 season – dubbed the Season of Courage — will feature three musicals, one world premiere and a regional premiere. The titles: “Memphis”; “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe”; “A Little Princess”; “Moxie”; and “The Light in the Piazza.”
The winter season is definitely in full swing. New this weekend: “4000 Miles” at Aurora Theatre, “Detroit ’67” at True Colors, “Silent Sky” at Theatrical Outfit and “StinkyKids the Musical” at Synchronicity Theatre. At the Alliance this year’s Kendeda winner, “The C.A. Lyons Project,” begins previews and “Tuck Everlasting” continues its world premiere run.
THIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS: Feb. 5
Feb. 4, 2015 - by Kathy Janich
Say hello to “fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life” at 7 Stages; Theatre du Reve’s “Jane, the Fox, and Me”; and Atlanta Ballet’s “Roméo et Juliette.” Say goodbye to “Private Lives” at Stage Door Players, which closes Sunday.
THIS WEEKEND'S BEST BETS | Jan. 29
Jan. 29, 2015 - by Kathy Janich
Our top picks among the best bets this week: the world premiere musical “Tuck Everlasting” at the Alliance Theatre and those very nasty “Bad Jews” at Actor’s Express. Enjoy!
This weekend: Take in the raucous “Bad Jews,” opening at Actor’s Express and previews of “Tuck Everlasting,” the world premiere musical at the Alliance Theatre. And make plans now to hear the people sing in the reprise of “Les Misérables” at Aurora Theatre through March 8. All shows until Feb. 18 are sold out.
Starry, starry nights await with Theatrical Outfit's luminous 'Silent Sky'
Silent Sky, the true story of American astronomer Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), plays out against a landscape of fierce sisterly love, early feminism, universe-revealing science and a time when human beings were called …
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5 Ingredients or Fewer
Beet Ice Cream
by: Emma Laperruque
Photo by Bobbi Lin
Review Print
Store-bought beet juice does all the work here. (You can find it at more and more supermarkets, like Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. But if you can’t find it, here’s a quickie guide on how to juice without a juicer.) The ice cream’s bright fuchsia color speaks for itself (just look at it!). And the flavor is just as eye-opening—earthy and juicy, but not so vegetal that you forget you’re eating dessert. While corn syrup doesn’t appear in most ice cream ingredient lists, if you ask me, it should. It sidesteps any crystallization, which is a fancy way of saying: Get ready for the creamiest ice cream of your life. (Frozen dessert Genius Max Falkowitz turned me on to this smart technique years ago and it’s been upping my summer game ever since.) Like any other flavor, beet ice cream is very good with hot fudge on top. But it’s just as good with a plop of tangy crème fraîche or sour cream, sweetened with a spoonful of sugar, or not. Assuming this makes you a vegetable ice cream convert (it will!), try these flavors next: carrot and corn. —Emma Laperruque
Prep time 6 hours
Makes about 1 quart
2 cups beet juice
In This Recipe
Plan ahead: Make sure the bowl of your ice cream machine is in the freezer for at least 24 hours before you churn.
Combine the beet juice, heavy cream, corn syrup, sugar, and kosher salt in a blender. Process until the mixture is smooth and the sugar has dissolved. Chill in the fridge until completely cold.
Right before churning, stir in the cider vinegar, and taste. Adjust the salt and vinegar as needed.
Churn in an ice cream machine according to the manufacturer’s instructions, then freeze for at least a few hours before serving.
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Recipe by: Emma Laperruque
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FG and Labour vow to reopen probe into killing of priest
November 17, 2010 by Bill Maher in Fr Niall Molloy and tagged Alan Shatter, brian lenihan, Fr. Niall Molloy, Irish Independent, pat rabbit | Leave a comment
Wednesday November 17 2010
Fine Gael and Labour last night pledged to order a full review into the killing of Fr Niall Molloy after reading a devastating Irish Independent file on the case.
Alan Shatter and Pat Rabbitte, justice spokesmen for the opposition parties, said it would be a priority if they were in power after the next election.
They made their promise after being shown details of this newspaper’s investigation into the brutal slaying of the Roscommon priest, who was beaten to death in the home of his friend Richard Flynn in Clara, Co Offaly, in 1985.
The killing occurred in the wake of Mr Flynn’s daughter’s lavish wedding whose guests included the late Brian Lenihan, former Minister for Justice and father of ministers Brian and Conor Lenihan.
The post-mortem on Fr Molloy’s body found that he had been violently beaten and died as a result of brain swelling resulting from multiple blows to the head.
A year after the priest’s death, Mr Flynn stood trial for his manslaughter, but the judge, Mr Justice Frank Roe, acquitted him after less than four hours on the grounds that Fr Molloy may have died of a heart attack that occurred prior to the beating.
It later emerged that Mr Roe knew Richard Flynn and should never had heard the trial.
A subsequent inquest confirmed that the priest died as a result of head injuries.
Last night, the family of Fr Molloy said they were overjoyed by the opposition pledge to reopen the case.
As pressure mounts on Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to order an immediate review of the killing, the Irish Independent has learned that the minister has requested a new report on the case from gardai on foot of our investigation.
Today, he will face questions on the matter in the Dail from FG TD Alan Shatter.
Deputies Shatter and Rabbitte said they were shocked by the new revelations which include:
A damning statement by former circuit court Judge Gerard Buchanan about the late Mr Justice’s Roe decision to hear the Flynn trial.
A witness testimony from the friend of a prominent surgeon. The surgeon told his friend that he was in the house where Fr Molloy was killed on the night of his death. The surgeon died six months after Fr Molloy’s death.
An interview with Sgt Kevin Ford, the first officer to inspect Fr Molloy’s body on the night of his death. He states that the watch on the priest’s wrist was cracked, its hands stopped at 10.40pm. Sgt Ford’s station was not contacted about Fr Molloy’s death until 3.15am.
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Volunteers work hard to bring Ferris Fest to campus
Posted by Tyler Hanan on April 30, 2014 in Lifestyles.
Karmin, Reel Big Fish and a variety of local talent took the stage Saturday on Ferris’ West Campus Intramural Fields.
Before Ferris students could enjoy the show, a number of volunteers worked long hours to prepare for the event. Music industry management (MIM) freshman Josh Olszewski was one volunteer who worked with the stage crew.
“On Friday we showed up at 2 (I showed up late because I had to work) to set up the stage,” Olszewski said. “It essentially folded out of a trailer. Then on Saturday we showed up bright and early at 6:30 a.m. to set up all of Karmin’s gear as well as loading in all of the backline gear.”
MIM junior Bryan Hinrichs, stage crew co-head and next year’s Ferris Fest co-coordinator, had glowing praise for his crew.
“The stage crew was fantastic,” Hinrichs said. “The stage crew worked extremely hard and they all did a wonderful job. Without all their hard work, the festival would not have been as great of a success, and I am very grateful for everything they did.”
The work extended well into the night, though it was wrapped up both ahead of schedule and well before last year’s post-midnight finish. According to Hinrichs, the crew finished under both the 60-minute scheduled time for Karmin’s load-in and the three-hour time for tear-down. This was facilitated by having a stage that folded out from a trailer, making for more efficient tear-down.
The crew was put together and run by MIM students, a traditional collaboration between the Music Industry Management Association (MIMA) and Entertainment Unlimited. This year’s crew was co-headed by Hinrichs and sophomore Daniel Leusink.
“I jumped on board when [Hinrichs and Leusink] told the MIMA membership that they were looking for a dozen people to be a part of their stage crew,” MIM senior and second-year crew member Katelyn Opperman said.
“Setting up the stage is hard work, but during each band’s set we had some down time to actually listen and enjoy the festival. I even got to go in front of the stage and throw swedish fish into the crowd during Reel Big Fish,” Olszewski said. “So yeah, stage crew is a lot of work, but in the end you build a lot of cool relationships with fellow students, as well as the stage professionals and artists. I will definitely help out again next year.”
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Isobar trends report_2019
Marketing Media Review
‘Augmented Humanity: Isobar Trends Report 2019
Aleksandr Smorodinov , Project manager at Freelance
Максим Годлевский , Графический дизайнер at max. creative studio
1. Augmented Trends Report 2019 Humanity
2. 2 Over the last year we’ve witnessed the rise of a concept that centres on the relationship between technology and humans and the way in which this impacts our daily lives. We call this concept Augmented Humanity. So, what do we actually mean by this? Augmented Humanity is what happens when humans work in harmony with technology and machine intelligence to expand and enrich life, helping us to experience more and in deeper ways, to make better decisions and to fulfil our potential as humans. More and more, intelligent machines are dramatically transforming how we imagine our relationship with technology. The dramatic speed of development in areas such as AI and machine learning means that the master and servant relationship is shifting and we’re increasingly moving to a point where we as humans work in harmony with the technology that surrounds us. Augmented Humanity This has impacts on everything from how we work and play, to how we experience art, to how we travel, shop, spend our leisure time and engage with our favourite brands. Crucially it also has major implications on the time we spend on repetitive manual tasks that can be automated, optimised or digitised. These changes fundamentally impact key aspects of our existence. As a result we believe that this state of Augmented Humanity is another key stage in our evolution as humans. We see this development as a potentially hugely positive step for humankind. But we acknowledge that there are potential risks – some of which we’re already beginning to see in our daily lives, played out in the current political climate and the emergence of a backlash against technology companies. After all, technology amplifies the good – and the bad. Throughout this report we aim to highlight the benefits that technology brings to our lives, but we won’t shy away from the challenges. We’ll explain why we believe that this is an important moment in human history, outline some of the myriad opportunities that these developments open up and shine a light on some of the challenges posed by these developments. Crucially we’ll also highlight why businesses can’t afford to close their eyes to change and we’ll offer advice on navigating this new landscape in order to benefit in the future. “2018 has been another year of enormous, constant change. With major developments in areas like voice technology, unattended retail, extended reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning, our world continues to evolve. Technology today plays a key role in driving relevance, scale, and elevating human experiences. The changes we’re seeing have the potential to transform fundamental aspects of our human existence, helping us to live better lives. It is our job to harness its wonderful power and potential for businesses and brands, in serving people better. Our 2019 trends report shines a light on key themes for the coming year – and highlights the role that businesses and brands can play in the age of Augmented Humanity.” – Jean Lin, Isobar Global CEO
3. 3Augmented Humanity Digital as a force for good? While the digital economy has driven growth and brought benefits to many, technological change also brings major challenges. As part of Dentsu Aegis Network’s Digital Society Index Report from earlier this year, 20,000 people from around the world were surveyed to determine their openness to technological change. The report found that just 45% of respondents believe that digital will be a force for good. A further 57% of people believe that the pace of technological change is too fast. Digging further into the stats revealed intriguing differences by country. China emerged as the most optimistic country with 73% seeing digital as a force for good - perhaps explaining why the country leads much of the major advances in this area. The US on the other hand was more cautious, coming joint 6th on 41%. The UK finished in 8th on 40%. Overall, the report concluded that while people are generally confident that the positive impacts of digital technology will outweigh the negative over the next five to 10 years (65%), when it comes to the more specific measures of its ability to create future jobs (29%) and to address societal challenges such as poverty, health risks, or environmental degradation (42%), people are more pessimistic.1 The context for change If we look back 60 years and consider where we thought we’d be in 2019, it was a widely held belief that by this stage robots would now be rolling around our houses doing the housework and releasing us from domestic drudgery. Like the Jetsons. But that didn’t happen. Instead, it’s become obvious that a large, multi-purpose robot isn’t as effective as taking the components that make a robot useful and incorporating them into our own lives. The features that those robots would have offered now become part of our indoor environments or integrated into everyday things. And so, instead of a single machine that does many things, we have many machines that each carry out small tasks, essentially turning our environments into their own connected ecosystems. This modular, mix and match approach is much more appropriate for humans with very individual needs and demands – rather than a one size fits all solution. This approach now means that as a species we’re living in a state of Augmented Humanity where technology scales our most human attributes – both good and bad. As a result we now have faster access to information that can help inform our decisions. More and more, technology also enhances our life experiences and allows us to interact and engage in ways we didn’t know were possible. In the right hands, technology increases our capacity as humans – and indeed has the potential to redefine what it means to be human.
4. 4 The evolving interface How the intersection between humans and technology is changing. The human algorithm How data can help us to better understand ourselves and enable better decisions. The fluid vs the collective self How the digital world enhances personal and collective experiences. The trust paradox How technology can help – or hinder – our understanding of the increasingly complex world around us. The transformed experience How Augmented Humanity enables us to feel and experience the world differently and in deeper ways. Our five themes for 2019 We will be exploring five key themes which we believe demonstrate how the relationship between humanity and technology is evolving. Each of these has implications for businesses and brands in the coming months and years. In each chapter we’ll cover evolving trends and developments alongside key learnings for businesses and brands – and showcase some of the best examples of these trends. Augmented Humanity
5. 5 The evolving interface How the intersection between humans and technology is changing. Augmented Humanity
6. 6 First, we look at the starting point of our interactions with technology – the interface between humans and technology. This is a key point in any evolutionary journey – learning how to use tools more effectively. Developments in voice and gaze as human machine interfaces allow people to go hands free when interacting with machines. The removal of this physical layer reduces friction, opening up the possibility that we can access information as quickly as we can think about it. Undoubtedly the key discussion point in this space over the last year has been the growing importance of voice technology. However we will also be discussing major developments like unattended retail which rely on technology such as facial and retina recognition to change the way that we interact with technology in everyday life. The guiding principle behind these changes is the ambition to remove friction from our interactions with technology and brands. As ease of access continues to improve, this will undoubtedly impact on our behaviours as consumers – something that should be of interest to all brands. 61. The evolving interface
7. 7 1.1 Voice 71. The evolving interface
8. 8 It has been impossible to avoid talk of voice technology in 2018 and there’s no sign that this trend will slow down throughout 2019. Research now suggests that already 20% of the US population2 has access to smart speakers. The popularity of technologies such as Alexa, Google Home and Xiaomi’s Xiao AI smart speaker are starting to make voice assistants a common feature in many households across the globe. Elsewhere, we’re finally seeing podcasts deliver on their early promise with the medium now firmly in the mainstream.3 We’re also seeing news media experimenting by moving from print straight to voice, as in the case of the recently launched Guardian Voice Lab.4 While this doesn’t necessarily mean that as a species we’re ready to abandon screens – some voice assistants now incorporate screens after all – the move from visual to verbal represents a fundamental shift. The development of this trend will require a new way of thinking about brand identity, and calls for a new level of creativity in voice search. Tellingly, Gartner Research5 suggests that voice- driven search queries are on track to become the dominant search mode for mobile users. 1.1 Voice Case study: Commerce-enabled voice solution for Bonafont Isobar Group Brazil created the country’s first commerce-enabled voice solution for leading water brand, Bonafont. The application, called Bonafont Em Casa, allows customers to purchase water supply to their homes by voice command. Each customer is served by the distributor closest to their home address. Delivery is made within one- and-a-half hours after the order has been placed, or by appointment if the customer prefers, with payment also being made through the platform. In addition to practicality and convenience the voice solution provides customers, Bonafont Em Casa was also designed to give more transparency to customers, giving them the option to schedule the orders, monitor the status of delivery, and enabling them to evaluate the quality of service of more than 85 registered dealers in Greater São Paulo.
9. 9 Amongst other things, brands now need to consider how easily product names translate for voice. The importance of this can’t be understated. Many brands have several different pronunciations. Brands must now consider how they can standardise pronunciation. Beyond this, tech providers need to resolve how to deliver results in a medium where multiple search results don’t work. More and more we’re entering a world where the first result returned will be the default decision – resulting in the equivalent of the screen- based Google “I’m feeling lucky” search. Voice technology is already fundamentally changing the way we search. As consumers become more used to having conversations with assistants, so searches will likely become more conversational. Microsoft research shows that we’re already seeing an increase in questions as part of search phrasing. The use of queries Case study: Voice-enabled cocktail solution for Diageo Isobar worked with Diageo to create The Bar, an Alexa skill designed to help customers work on their cocktail skills at home. The Bar enables people to create their favourite cocktails and learn new techniques using the Amazon Echo Show, tapping into the latest voice technology and the visual functionality of the device. Users are presented with three different options for a complete 360 degree cocktail making experience. The Bar is also enabled with commerce functionalities, allowing users to order the right ingredients directly through Amazon Prime. Case study: Voice-enabled mobile banner for Godrej Security Solutions Isobar collaborated with Godrej Security Solutions (GSS) to launch India’s first voice- enabled mobile banner promoting the brand’s latest security camera. On Mother’s Day, GSS created an emotional digital video, #MomsJustKnow, focusing on maternal instinct. Isobar created a digital media campaign for GSS that leveraged the mother’s lullaby in the form of a ‘Voice Driven Banner’ ad to trigger a video, which was executed for the first time on a mobile device. The Conversational Canvas: A tool for businesses and brands The world of chatbots, digital assistants and smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon Alexa is rapidly maturing. More and more brands are using these platforms successfully, the number of applications is growing exponentially and the user experience is getting better. But how do you design a good conversational interface? To help businesses and brands understand how to do this better, Isobar Netherlands has developed The Conversational Canvas7 , a free template that helps you to design a digital assistant that really adds value. 1.1 Voice starting with “who”, “what”, “where” and “how” has increased by 6% in the UK since 2015.6 This development will make natural language search increasingly important. It’s also important to note that voice technology will allow brands to have their ‘own voice’ for the first time. In this new world, brands will be forced to consider what they should sound like. This presents a great opportunity, but also a challenge.
10. 1010 1.2 The retail interface 1. The evolving interface
11. 11 When considering the evolving interface, one of the most interesting areas of development is in the physical retail space. Here, changes in how we interact with technology and brands are being driven by developments in facial, retina and finger print recognition, driving us increasingly towards the cashless society. Facial recognition is already playing a growing role in the mobile space. Counterpoint Research predicts that more than one billion smartphones will include facial-recognition features in the next two years – that’s 64% of all smartphones in 2020, up from 5% in 2017.8 This is a trend which is set to impact many sectors. Earlier this year, Amazon opened its first Amazon Go9 store in Seattle. The launch brought to mainstream attention the concept of unattended retail. Here, shoppers pick up items in the store and leave without paying. Amazon later bills the shopper’s credit card based on the items they selected. While Amazon Go is the most high- profile unattended retail launch in the west, a number of retailers – particularly in China – are trialling similar systems. From a retail perspective, this development has huge implications for the store of the future, with the capacity to transform all aspects of shopping as retailers look to introduce increasingly frictionless experiences. 111.2 The retail interface
12. 12 As a result of these trends, at Isobar we’re seeing increasing demand for physical retail innovation from our clients. One particular area of interest to us is in the global trade environment. In airport retail, it’s common to find a broad mix of shoppers from different cultures, all speaking different languages. They might also be unfamiliar with brands that don’t exist in their home countries. To address this, clients with physical retail spaces often engage brand ambassadors to explain their products. However, the ambassadors can’t be there 24/7 and they can’t all be master linguists. To help with problems like this, we’re investigating ways to augment physical retail shelves with computer vision and multi-lingual product knowledge bases. With these, the ‘shelves’ can recognise what products you’ve just picked up. Case study: ‘Shop as a design’ prototype for Clarins Isobar Taiwan created an experimental space to accelerate the idea-to-launch process. The team launched a ‘shop as a design’ prototype in their NowLab space – Isobar’s global innovation accelerator – to simulate customer experiences, collecting data, behaviour insights and experimentations to develop an innovative business process. In this space, clients can experience the brand commerce process and learn how to use digital technology to stimulate sales and optimize brand engagement. Case study: Voice-enabled ordering for KFC Isobar used Baidu’s NLP & UNIT to create a system designed to configure multiple scenarios based on users’ information. KFC’s brand templates, corpus, and Q&A library were integrated to enable AI ordering. The platform allows consumers to interact with the brand using voice and text through mobile devices. The AI barista then delivers a quick service and user-experience, such as selecting food from a personalised menu, adding food to a shopping cart, confirming orders and making payments. They can introduce, cross-sell or up-sell you in a language you understand. They can also temporarily remember your face and offer you a coherent brand or product narrative as you move between physical displays and product portfolios within the retail environment. 1.2 The retail interface
13. 13 A word of caution Despite the hype, it’s important to note that adoption rates of voice technology in the home still aren’t the runaway train that many would have us believe. True mainstream acceptance is still some way off. Another important consideration is that most of the development from the major tech companies in this area has so far tended to focus on the big international languages, meaning that there is work to be done to make this a truly global trend. Businesses and brands now need to focus on testing and learning so that they are geared up for success when mass adoption occurs. Don’t lose sight of the visual While it’s true to say that we’re beginning to fall back in love with the medium of voice and its ease of use, as a species we still love screens. After decades of training ourselves to use screens, our brains are now very conditioned to screen life. Humans are also very visual animals. The idea that we’re desperate to untether ourselves from the bondage of screens is perhaps stating the case too strongly. So while it’s vital to keep ahead of evolving interface trends, brands should be wary of losing sight of the visual element of their branding efforts. A new canvas Consumer adoption of voice technology opens up a rich new canvas for brands looking to communicate with customers in new ways. Interactive narratives for example offer a glimpse into the future of this evolving space. As the role of voice technology develops, there’s no doubt that it’s creating new opportunities for brands looking to tell stories in different ways. Convenience versus data privacy When thinking about developments in the retail interface, a key issue that will drive future conversations is the protection of personal data. Retailers still have a long way to go to convince consumers that the sacrifice of increasingly personal data in the name of convenience is an acceptable trade off. Legacy brands are finding it hard to gain a level of digital trust simply because they are an unknown quantity when it comes to gathering personal data from sensors. Starting off on the right foot is therefore essential. What it means for businesses and brands: 1. The evolving interface
14. 14 The human algorithm How data can help us to better understand ourselves and enable better decisions. Augmented Humanity
15. 1515 As we become increasingly reliant on digital technology, a necessary by-product is the data that these interactions produce. In this chapter, we’ll focus on how we’re finding ways to put this personal data to use to augment our understanding of ourselves and to make our lives better. A key development in this space is the way in which personal data is now used across the health and wellness sector. We’ve seen a recent explosion in the number of companies with an interest in healthcare. As advances in digital technology have transformed the sector’s ability to develop services which are designed to inspire behaviour change, new entrants, often more associated with the tech sector than healthcare, have entered the market. Alongside digital healthcare start- ups, tech giants such as Google and Apple are increasingly seeing health as a growing area of their business and bringing disruptive thinking to the sector. The use of personal data also has the potential to transform our experience of a range of services we make use of in our daily lives. As a result we’re seeing service providers across a range of sectors offering services tailored to an individual level based on our behavioural data. 2. The human algorithm
16. 16 2.1 Wellness 162. The human algorithm
17. 17172.1 Wellness A key example of this disruptive thinking has been the wearables space where a wide range of companies offer customers the opportunity to access and analyse their own personal data, making them better able to monitor all aspects of their physical health from measuring sleep patterns to monitoring fitness and self-diagnosing illness. What we’re seeing in this trend is the ability for consumers to take control of their health data to make more informed decisions about their personal care. More and more, people are taking their own personal health seriously and using technology and the internet to bypass doctors. The future will see chronic health problems being solved by rigorous accession of data which will encourage changing health habits, diets and exercise routines, the lowering of stress and the ending of addictions – which people often don’t even know they have. Wearables help in the process of getting to root causes. Faced with financial and resource constraints, healthcare professionals (HCPs) have been relatively slow to this trend, but alternative healthcare and the health and wellness movement is tuned in to these new technologies. Illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and chronic pain conditions are all best solved with changes in lifestyle, diet and exercise. It may be the case that the giant leap in progress is the technology to measure, diagnose, and recommend made possible by wearables, IoT devices and machine learning. With the rising costs of healthcare, and an increasingly elderly population, wearables of course offer a cost- effective solution to a growing problem.
18. 18 Case study: Empowering millions of older adults to live healthier lives Tivity Health, a leading provider of fitness and health improvement programs, wanted to increase new enrolments, member engagement and brand advocacy for their lifestyle brand, SilverSneakers, the nation’s largest fitness program for older adults. SilverSneakers is a lifestyle brand that “gets” active seniors. Their core offering is a free fitness benefit included with most Medicare plans. Membership includes access to more than 15,000 fitness locations with specialised exercise classes for all abilities led by SilverSneakers trained instructors. Using proprietary Emotional Science techniques, we developed creative campaigns specifically designed to empower the target audience, a key emotional motivator to start a fitness habit. The result: Isobar increased the number of SilverSneakers sign-ups by 792% year over year. Campaigns were tested using Isobar’s proprietary research tool MindSight®. Biometric analysis showed how to further maximise engagement and optimise messaging impact. Our solution included development of a customer data platform for audience segmentation, with feedback loops to update propensity scores based on campaign analytics and attribution data. Isobar’s Consumer Engagement Management strategy also guides the brand experience to drive sustained engagement with members. SilverSneakers marketing communications, as well as the website and blog, were redesigned to enable true omni-channel integration for a multi-touchpoint full lifecycle experience. Aligned with this, AI-powered chatbot technology is transforming the way in which people interface with HCPs, putting less strain on public services and allowing patients to take more regular control over their own health decisions. Machine learning is also being used more and more in the health sector, helping to improve patient diagnosis and care. Meanwhile, biometric data has multiple applications in the healthcare sector. For example, biometric patient ID allows HCPs to quickly access medical histories and ensures that they are pulling the right data for the right patient. This cuts down on time consuming administrative work, allowing patients and HCPs to focus more attention on healthcare solutions. At Isobar, we’re seeing more and more demand for this type of work across a range of clients. As an example we recently worked with Tivity Health in the US on a campaign to encourage seniors to lead more active lifestyles. We also worked with Australian brand Sleeptite10 to develop a product that can help understand movements and key biological factors in the elderly when sleeping. 2.1 Wellness
19. 1919 2.2 Personalised services 2. The human algorithm
20. 20 The connected car offers the opportunity to make use of a multitude of data to augment our experience of driving, from providing advice on improving fuel efficiency to remote coaching to prevent accidents and unnecessary vehicle wear and tear. 20 Case study: AI-based distracted driver tool Nine people per day die in the US because of preventable distracted driving, and 60% of teen crashes involve driver distraction. In answer to this issue, Isobar in Detroit prototyped ‘Third Eye Drive’, an AI-enabled distracted driving assistant. The solution recognises faces and actions, tracks behaviours and rates level of distraction, provides metrics, scores and videos of distracted moments in the mobile application. ‘Third Eye Drive’ uses machine learning to impact and celebrate long-term behaviour change of drivers. A key development as part of this trend is the use of data by the financial services and insurance sectors in order to tailor packages for the individual. The increased availability of real-time data is beginning to help insurers tackle the uncertainty involved in assessing risks and premium levels. There are also benefits for consumers who can take control of their premiums and decrease their costs by adapting their behaviour. Connected to this, the use of driving data to improve personal performance, efficiency and safety – and to improve the collective experience of driving – is a key area of development in the connected car space. 2.2 Personalised services
21. 21 The growth of connected devices We’ve witnessed steady growth in the uptake of wearables as a means of tracking personal fitness and wellness. According to Statistica Consumer Surveys, 30 percent of US consumers own a fitness wearable and 44 percent use them daily.11 The future of this space will see more and more of the devices in our day to day lives being used to provide useful data about our daily routines. As more devices become connected, expect to see the growth of services built around understanding this data in order to help people live better, healthier lives. What it means for businesses and brands: Accurate predictions Dramatic advances in AI and machine learning technology will see this area experience rapid growth in the years to come. Developments will make predictive analysis much more accurate across a range of the services that we make use of. As a result, in the healthcare space we’ll see an increasing interest in prevention rather than cure, cause rather than effect. Data ownership Very real concerns exist around the security and ownership of this hugely personal data – especially when thinking about how it can be used to assess health insurance and life insurance premiums in the future. Trust issues around data are sure to continue to be a major concern throughout 2019. As an example of this, Tim Berners Lee’s new project Solid is an attempt to give individuals more control over their data in an effort to create a fairer internet for all.12 2. The human algorithm
22. 22 The fluid vs the collective self How the digital world enhances personal and collective experiences. Augmented Humanity
23. 23 A feature of the development of digital technology is the extent to which it has enabled two very different realities to flourish. On the one hand, humans can now enjoy more and more choice in almost everything they consume. From products to music, we are now able to choose at the click of a button things which previous generations would have had to work hard to hunt down in the physical world. Factors such as widely available computer components and manufacturing efficiencies have driven the rise of the maker movement which has also benefited from the availability of 3D printers, affordable microprocessor platforms and open source software. Companies that previously couldn’t scale up to actually produce goods, prototypes or other hardware and software applications quickly are now able to do so – and much more cheaply. A knock on effect of this is a growing interest in personalised products, services and experiences which is driving a movement away from the mass production which drove the industrial revolution. Instead we’re moving towards a future of bespoke production at scale. As a result of this drastically expanded range of choices, we now have the opportunity to behave in much more fluid ways – making us increasingly hard to categorise and therefore hard to target. For those who seek out unique experiences, old, easy tribalism is 23 no longer so pronounced as people are increasingly more able to explore different aspects of their character through combinations of many different decisions and choices. On the other hand however, digital technology has also enhanced the human ability to enjoy group experiences, making it easier for us to connect with large, like-minded groups wherever they may be in the world, to come together and share a tribal, collective experience. This powerful capacity to appeal to the human need for a sense of belonging allows big, established brands to reach a mass market seeking to rally round a central concept and enjoy and be part of a collective experience. Further, we’re beginning to witness a movement from individuals being fixated on personal computers and personal computing to a new world of collaborative computing – especially with the advent of 5G, cloud computing, and easier access to Augmented Reality. In this world, all interactions with technology can be social and offer a deeper connection to people and things within the ecosystem. The fact that digital technology enables these two very different realities poses major challenges for all brands from a strategic and tactical perspective – and leaves serious questions to be asked about the right approach on an individual brand level. 3. The fluid vs the collective self
24. 24 3.1 Embracing the individual 243. The fluid vs the collective self
25. 25 The proliferation of digital channels has made it more possible for small, niche players to target an interested audience with segment-specific marketing messages – instead of using the mass scale ‘spray and pray’ method of old. As a result, we’re seeing a growth in small brands which focus on issues such as their environmental impact, organic credentials and authenticity which are growing in importance for modern consumers. Connected to this, new business models made possible by digital technology allow smaller players to disrupt existing models. Membership schemes and crowdsourcing now play a bigger role in the creation of what feels like an exclusive, unique, authentic experience for consumers. The guarantee of orders through these schemes also allows smaller players to produce the right amount of product for the right time, cutting down on waste and the need to store unprofitable stock. We’re seeing similar changes in product discovery with new digital tools helping us to discover these more niche products. This trend can be seen across all aspects of the CPG space for example. In the drinks sector, discovery apps like Hello Vino13 offer consumers the ability to specify wine characteristics that they like and are then matched with a wine tailored to their requirements. 253.1 Embracing the individual
26. 26 This focus on creating personalised products and experiences at scale does of course open up myriad challenges for brands – especially those used to operating in the mass market. 26 Case study: AI chatbot to recommend hotels HowRU is an AI chatbot delivered through WeChat to help users save time finding and booking hotels in China. Based on voice recognition and NLP technology, the HowRU chatbot is able to understand customers’ commands via multiple rounds of dialogue. Users trigger the chatbot by selecting HowRU in the WeChat menu or by saying “Hello HowRU”. The bot responds with a greeting, and asks for details on where the user would like to stay, check in and check out dates. Using these parameters, the HowRU bot serves recommendations on where to stay, including images of the hotels. Alternatively, if the user knows exactly where they want to stay, the dates and how long for, HowRU can complete the full booking process using voice or text-based dialogue. Artificial intelligence is also playing a key role in personalised product development – at times in the most unlikely places. In the drinks sector for example, artificial intelligence is now being applied to the brewing process with companies like IntelligentX offering what they describe as the world’s first beer brewed by artificial intelligence. The provision of personalised products is an especially developed trend within the Generation Z audience who are increasingly open to giving up personal details in return for personalised brand experiences.14 The growth of personalised shampoo products is a good example of this trend. In these cases, personalisation becomes a form of social currency – a way of obtaining something personal which others don’t have. 3.1 Embracing the individual Increasing levels of competition The Dentsu Aegis 2018 CMO Survey was published in July, drawing on a survey of 1,000 CMOs from around the globe and across industries. CMOs were asked: “What are the key barriers you face when building better relationships with consumers over the next 2-3 years?” At 56%, “increasing levels of competition” was the biggest barrier to better consumer relationships. CMOs were also asked to name what they thought was their key strategic opportunity. “Using data to reach real people” emerged as the number one opportunity with 29% saying that the ability to use data to reach real people, rather than proxies or customer segments was the biggest strategic opportunity over the next 2-3 years.15
27. 2727 3.2 Augmenting the collective experience 3. The fluid vs the collective self
28. 28 This opens up major questions for brands about what side they want to be on, but creates enormous potential for reaching individuals strongly invested in a collective cause. 28 Case study: Re-imagining China’s cultural history for KFC KFC wanted to create a collective experience for young people in China. The Awaken History with Technology campaign tapped into young people’s love of their country, drawing on China’s rich cultural history, while re-imagining it for a tech-savvy audience. Collaborating with the National Museum of China and acclaimed new media artist Junting Lin, KFC sought to use technology to bring history back to life. The other side of the coin is the extent to which digital technology can help create and augment mass movements, where the internet is a tool which creates increased tribalism. We have of course witnessed this trend in recent political campaigning tactics. This in turn has resulted in the growth of more politicised marketing campaigns. The ability to rally the millions is still a key ambition of the biggest brands. In essence they’re aiming to create a crowd experience. Think of a major music festival as an analogy. If the whole event took place as a silent disco and everyone had a unique performance tailored to their own personality, would it not be boring? From a brand perspective then, digital technology makes it possible to tap into and – in some cases – create mass movements. Case study: A cutting-edge art installation for Shiseido The Nuit Blanche festival’s 2018 program sponsor Shiseido partnered with Isobar Canada to bring a cutting-edge art installation to life that fused face-mapping technology, reactive artwork, gesture and play to create a multi-sensory interactive experience. The installation was fuelled by audience gesture interaction, inviting visitors to manipulate a world of colour, pattern and sound and demonstrated the extent to which evolving technology can enhance artistic experience. 3.2 Augmenting the collective experience
29. 29 Personalisation at scale As consumers continue to search out unique products and experiences, personalisation as a trend is set to continue and develop throughout 2019. This poses new challenges and opportunities for all brands – big and small. In extreme cases it will involve a fundamental shift in supply chain processes. What it means for businesses and brands: Increased polarisation The power of digital tools to help create and shape collective experiences and movements has helped fuel increasing polarisation within society. This means that brands are increasingly facing a choice about the extent to which they want to be involved in important cultural discussions – and indeed what side of the discussion they want to be on. Striking a balance Brands are facing fundamental questions about their operating and marketing strategies. Marketing may be moving to individualised spaces, but brands need to think about how this fits with their ambitions to create collective experiences. Will hyper personalisation lead to the erosion of the brand? Will humans soon have too much choice? Are the majority of people really unique – and do they want unique offerings? Brands need to understand where they sit when considering the balance between doing things for everyone and engaging in personalisation at scale. 3. The fluid vs the collective self
30. 30 The trust paradox How technology can help – or hinder – our understanding of the increasingly complex world around us. Augmented Humanity
31. 31 The rise of fake news and content alongside developments like deepfake technology and advanced audio spoofing is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between the fake and the real. To help humans decipher the truth, in the future machines will need to assist humans by augmenting our own ability to recognise the small details that make us human – identifying patterns that act as signals of a false reality that perhaps we can’t identify ourselves. As digital technology has made it possible for us to manipulate the truth, so we will also need to use it to verify the truth, leveraging machines to see through the false veneer that has been delivered as a mask to false realities. Of course, advertising used to be about building myths – for example the idea that buying a certain deodorant would make us more attractive. We are still prone to buying into these myths – but only until we can prove them to be objectively false. Digital technology gives us increased ability to lift the curtain and see the truth behind these myths. After all, we live in a world of online reviews and platforms such as Trustpilot which offer us quick access to opinions. However, just as we live increasingly in a world of fake news, the problem of fake reviews is growing just as fast. Recent research by Which?, the UK’s largest consumer association, shows that 97% of people use online customer reviews when researching a product, meaning that £23bn a year of UK consumer spending is influenced by online customer reviews. However, the Which? research revealed that 31% of people had bought a product because of excellent customer reviews and had subsequently been disappointed by it.16 31 In an increasingly connected world, a brand’s advertising, products and services are now more and more interconnected and, as a result, our relationships with brands have changed. Brands are now more than what they say. Brands are what they do. Consumers are now more cynical about brands – and the stories that they tell. As a result, the brands that will flourish in the future will be those which move away from unattainable mythology and instead focus on purpose in order to create experiences that talk meaningfully and truthfully about the brand. To ensure authenticity and truth in the digital world, we’ve come up with mechanisms to keep us honest and leveraged new concepts such as digital certificates of authenticity enabled by blockchain to do so. The public ledger serves as a means to track transactions, but also any type of data that humans can benefit from auditing – locations, movement and ownership – leading us to assurance of authenticity. In short, blockchain offers an opportunity to provide the essential checks and balances on our new digital reality. There are now a number of ways for us to check the authenticity of brand claims. Blockchain is one of these. We’ll explore this technology in more detail throughout this chapter – and assess the extent to which it can also revolutionise the very business of marketing. 4. The trust paradox
32. 32 4.1 Augmenting authenticity 324. The trust paradox
33. 33 Similar technologies are being deployed across the food sector where food fraud is a growing concern. The ability to track and trace products from paddock to plate, allowing consumers to verify the provenance of food products, will therefore be a key trend to watch in the months to come. 33 Case study: Track and Trace solutions to ensure supply chain integrity Isobar Switzerland helps ensure full compliance and supply chain integrity, bringing over 10 years’ experience in helping preserve brand integrity. Since 2004 the team has deployed the Track and Trace solution in 105 countries, on 400 production lines, across 1,600 tracking locations. The solution offers packages and services to deploy, operate and manage track and trace technology in the Tobacco, Luxury, Pharma, Beverage and FMCG industry verticals. Our tracking technology identifies, authenticates, tracks and traces finished goods across entire supply chains – from factory, warehouse, third party logistics providers, up to point of sale. As products travel in the supply chain, movements are scanned by warehouse operators and logged in the journey history recorder. Our expertise includes serialization, aggregation, traceability, product authentication, application development, business intelligence and analytics, IoT, blockchain, ITIL service management, integration, training, and more. With the continued growth of the global economy, luxury and FMCG brands including alcohol, fashion and tobacco companies are increasingly seeking to protect their brand and develop systems that ensure local market compliance and product protection. There is also a need to tackle fraud head on to ensure brand security. As an example, the global tobacco company, Philip Morris, uses a suite of solutions with digital serialisation, Track and Trace17 and authentication built in and deployed across over 400 production lines, across 1,600 tracking locations in 105 countries. With over 10 billion items to trace, PMI is working with Isobar to ensure the full transparency and integrity of its supply chain, and then deliver exceptional customer service. 4.1 Augmenting authenticity
34. 3434 4.2 Blockchain 4. The trust paradox
35. 35 Supply chain transparency Beyond proving authenticity of products, we’re increasingly seeing companies turning to blockchain technology in an effort to improve the transparency of their product offerings. A good example of this trend is the online clothing retailer Everlane.com18 which uses blockchain to provide a more transparent breakdown of how much it costs to manufacture and sell their clothes. This allows them to provide greater pricing transparency to customers. Security of payments Blockchain has the potential to transform the world of online commerce, bringing with it the promise of a future of increased security – and improved efficiency – for online payments. As the adoption of bitcoins and cryptocurrencies grows, traditional payment methods and operators are facing disruption. One disruptor is OpenBazaar, an open-source, peer-to- peer network developing decentralised blockchain utilities to connect buyers and sellers, without an intermediary and the associated charges, and with no restrictions on goods sold. Elsewhere, CyberMiles offers a blockchain platform for e-retailers that claims to be 20,000 times faster than Ethereum19 , has a smart contract template for ease of development, and is free of charge for standard use. It’s worth noting that many of these early bitcoins may fail. But many more will come in their wake. 35 Blockchain in media and marketing There is much discussion within the digital marketing and media industry around the potential of blockchain to help solve issues of transparency, privacy and fraud. It’s still early days, but a number of start-ups are making progress on solutions to advertisers’ challenges, and 2019 will be a year of testing and learning. The programmatic ecosystem is the primary area where blockchain has the potential to offer most benefit, with the opportunity to increase the transparency of processes that can involve many third parties. Due to the inherent relationship with cryptocurrency, it’s also being considered to bundle payment facilitation across the different programmatic players. Identity management is another area of interest for marketers, as blockchain has the potential to assist companies comply with privacy laws. Blockchain playbook In our recently published Blockchain Playbook, Isobar unpacks blockchain’s potential beyond value stores and currency replacements, and in areas such as Supply Chain, Commerce, Transparency and Identity Management. The playbook looks at blockchain in practice, and how it’s developing in high growth markets including Brazil, India and China. Isobar’s experts dive into its impact on the Media and Marketing industry, including looking at Media Supply Chains, Transparency, Brand Management and Creativity. For more information, download our Blockchain Playbook here.20 4.2 Blockchain
36. 36 The future’s now To an extent, blockchain still feels very much like an “on the horizon” type of development. But what should savvy businesses be doing now to make sure they stay ahead of this trend? Brands should be aware that the mythologies that they may have relied on in the past aren’t going to be enough to convince consumers to buy their products any more. Instead, embracing blockchain technologies has the potential to help them prove the truthfulness and authenticity of their product claims. What it means for businesses and brands: Revolutionising marketing Blockchain has the potential to change fundamental elements of the business of marketing. The likely common denominator is that it will be used to verify components of the advertising ecosystem across the supply and buy sides. The verification element will focus on the presence of desired outcomes like human browsing, attention, viewability and the validity of sites or audiences. An omnichannel revolution The world of online commerce is set for dramatic upheaval. There is potential for traditional online payment systems to be transformed as blockchain moves more into the mainstream. One knock on effect of this is blockchain’s impact on online to offline brand experiences. Instead of retailers relying on cookies and other customer identifiers to track shoppers across channels, blockchain, with its non-repudiable logging attributes, could help retailers identify customers easily regardless of channels. 4. The trust paradox
37. 37 The transformed experience How Augmented Humanity enables us to feel and experience the world differently and in deeper ways. Augmented Humanity
38. 38 Beyond the practical applications of technology which help to make our lives easier, there are very real – but harder to quantify – impacts that technology can have on the way that humans experience the world. As part of this, we anticipate a growth in the uptake of hologram-like 3D objects or content. For example, the start up HoloMe21 works with fashion brands to allow consumers to test out items of clothing in 3D visual space from the comfort of their own home. We will also see technology playing a bigger role in enabling and improving real world interactions. Hellofriend22 is one such example, a decentralised shared economy for real life activities such as meeting new people over coffee. The company’s stated goal is to tackle social isolation by connecting people in real life. Another key area of future development will be in the telepresence and copresence space. As barriers to international business continue to be broken down, the need to communicate more effectively across continents and time zones has become ever more urgent. As a result, telepresence and copresence technology is developing dramatically, allowing individuals to be “present” in multiple places at the same time. Spatial23 is a good example of the possibilities in this sector. 385. The transformed experience
39. 39 5.1 Extended reality (XR) 395. The transformed experience
40. 40 As augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) have moved increasingly more mainstream, at Isobar we’ve adopted the term extended reality (XR) to more accurately capture the possibilities offered by these technologies. XR demonstrates how advanced technologies and creative processes are changing our own realities.24 XR allows users to temporarily inhabit and experience a world that may normally be closed to them – or indeed be impossible to imagine otherwise. From a creative perspective this is genuinely revolutionary, opening up the possibility of truly augmented art forms. Case study: A fully immersive experience for William Patrick Corgan New technologies have transformed the creative landscape – from how we design new experiences, to how we consume content. Musician and artist, William Patrick Corgan wanted to debut his 2017 solo album ‘Ogilala’ with a launch that could support his creative vison, so we created a first-of-its-kind VR experience that could bring his unique visual art to life. Case study: Transforming experience with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Isobar partnered with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Tilt Brush artist Teek Mach to create a live, large-scale, staged collaboration between music and room-scale 3D painting in VR. The Concerto for Tilt Brush and Orchestra was a brand new concept for the presentation of classical music. It combined music and art with the latest in VR technologies to immerse the audience in both sound and light. The project pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in live classical music performance, demonstrating how technology can transform music. As an example of the possibilities of this technology, Isobar recently worked with the musician William Patrick Corgan to create Aeronaut, a fully immersive experience which invites users into a unique world allowing them to experience the music in a deeper, more personal way than ever before. Staying in the music space, another Isobar project points to a future where technology and art can fuse to create new experiences. By joining together the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Conductor Allen Tinkham and artist Teek Mach, the Tilt Brush Concerto project created an additional layer to traditional performance by using VR to invite people to experience sound in a new way. 5.1 Extended reality (XR)
41. 41 While this technology opens up revolutionary opportunities for mankind and brands seeking to create more meaningful experiences for customers, until now brands have been hesitant to invest without a way to measure effectiveness and justify the cost. As a response to this, at Isobar we recently launched the world’s first virtual reality emotional measurement and analytics platform – which resulted in Fast Company naming us25 one of the top 10 most innovative companies in AR / VR. In collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, we co-developed a way to capture and analyse behavioural data in virtual reality with the aim of furthering the understanding of the emotional response to content delivered in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. These developments offer precise methods to measure ROI from VR brand experiences. Case study: An immersive multi-platform showcase of Australia In awe of the depth and diversity of Indigenous Australian culture, Isobar partnered with Red Dogs VR to create Carriberrie, an immersive multi-platform showcase of Australia that celebrates indigenous song and dance. Nine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultural groups welcome us on a breathtaking journey through their land, encompassing the traditional and contemporary, giving us a deeper understanding of Australia’s Indigenous people. Carriberrie is the biggest and most advanced 360 degree documentary VR project ever produced in Australia, using immersive technology to transcend cultural boundaries. Case study: AR and facial mapping app for Philips The Philips Beard AR Grooming App is a proof of concept that uses AR and facial mapping to enable users to try a range of trending beard styles in real time and learn how to pull them off. In addition to AR, the service creates personalised advice with AI-enabled facial analysis that assists men on an on-going basis to track their progress, and provide tips and tricks on maintaining the desired facial style. 5.1 Extended reality (XR) A Dutch Masterclass The opportunity we have in retail interfaces is to make emerging technologies seamlessly integrate in the user experience. The challenge is to not force people into a technology-enabled experience, but to look at ways technology can enrich the customer experience. The starting point is to think of real human needs. Fundamental needs don’t often change, the technology through which they can fulfill those needs will. In one particular case in the Netherlands we’re putting this thinking into practice. For a Dutch retail / construction store, we’re building an interactive touch experience that helps people envision how they can style their interior in their home. What we learned from consumer research is that customers are insecure about making design decisions. They don’t have problems collecting interior inspiration, but they have a lot of difficulty envisioning what this inspiration will look like in their home. This is a fundamental need we can solve through 3D rendering of people’s personal spaces, styled with their own interior inspiration. Another way we integrate technology in the user experience is through the use of RFID. What we learned is that texture and feeling physical samples is very important for people when it comes to interior decoration. By adopting RFID technology in our integrated touch experience, we allow people to feel physical samples before they add them to an interactive moodboard.
42. 4242 5.2 AI and machine learning 5. The transformed experience
43. 43 AI and machine learning provide the hard computational rigour that runs throughout most of the exciting innovations in the digital space. From a creative perspective, these technologies now offer enormous benefits to help us make better work by understanding human impulses and responses. Indeed, these technologies open up the possibility that some of the work involved in the creative process can be outsourced to machines. There are many examples of how this can be applied. One example is Tensorflow26 which uses machine learning to remove some of the repetitive tasks from the design process. Of course these developments are not without their dangers. But, as the title of this report suggests, we believe that technology has the capacity to augment human creativity, rather than replace it. Case study: Using deep machine learning to create AI Zimmy At Isobar’s NowLab in Shanghai - one of 16 global Isobar innovation spaces - multi- disciplinary teams wanted to analyse famous songwriters’ lyrics by using deep machine learning to see whether the technology could mimic signature styles. There were many great lyricists to choose from but the team elected to analyse lyrics written by Bob Dylan between 1962 and 2012. By entering keywords, the intelligent algorithm then generated new sentences that mimics Dylan’s style. The project showcases the power of intelligent algorithms, and how they can be applied across industries. As a result, we foresee a future where humans work in harmony with intelligent technology to create work that truly impacts on a human level. Advances in AI and machine learning lie at the very heart of this discussion, allowing us the capacity to test and learn from creative executions, helping us to create work which truly impacts on its intended audience. 5.2 AI and machine learning
44. 44 Measuring effectiveness Understandably, brands need to be able to measure the effectiveness of XR as a marketing tool. We believe that our work with MIT Media Lab will help to prove the value of this technology for brands. As a result we expect to see some revolutionary work in this space throughout 2019. What it means for businesses and brands: Web AR A key developing area in this space is Web AR. In essence, this is exactly as it sounds, augmented experiences accessed on your mobile device through your web browser, with no need to download an app or scan a snapcode. An example of this trend is the recent RBG for Good campaign27 created by Isobar in the US designed to encourage voter turnout in the recent mid term elections. AI We’re increasingly seeing the application of AI and machine learning in art, from JWT’s Next Rembrandt28 work to Christie’s sale of ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’.29 It’s worth noting that – so far – this tech is being used to mirror existing styles. In this way it’s reminiscent of how synthesisers were introduced to mass public consciousness in the late 1960s. Initially synthesisers were used to play classical music. Once society got used to the simulacrum, it was then possible for synths to be used in much more interesting ways. Expect to see a similar pattern develop when applying AI to the visual arts. 5. The transformed experience
45. 45 Conclusion Augmented Humanity
46. 46 manner that is defined by our devices. We are stuck to our screens and our computing time is active and inefficient. It is active because we must initiate our interactions with content and inefficient because the apps we use and the data they deliver or the information that we create hide behind their icons and live inside folders. We must seek them out, call them up and use them one at a time – an order mandated by the very nature of binary computing. In the coming years, we will continue to see humanity evolve through the applications of technology – and these will reveal how the augmentation of humanity progresses and is refined. Regardless of the rise and fall of companies, the launch of new products and services or the creation of entirely new industries, it is certain that the machines on which we rely start to aid us continuously, while, in parallel, 46 continue to disappear into our environments. The information and digital tools that we rely on today become integrated into every moment we encounter and every space that we occupy. We will see a bubble of digital information surround every human, from our health records, to favourite entertainment choices and family calendars to the things necessary to do our individual jobs. This sphere of content – our digital space – will be able to be recalled based on our context. Today, Augmented Reality is used largely as a way to engage consumers with a display of a product, or as an entertainment experience. But as our digital evolution progresses, so will the way we leverage today’s emerging technologies. Mixed Reality will become the norm, a world where digital content lives within and interacts with the world The future will see a revolution in computing that is far more impactful than what we’ve seen to date with our mobile devices. Mobile phones allowed untethered access to information and communication. We no longer needed a corded telephone or to sit behind a computer in order to access the internet. This ability to be mobile had a profound effect on humanity and created fertile ground for the growth and global reach of things like Amazon, Facebook, Uber and other businesses built on top of always-on, contextual and flexible digital interactions. Today, we are able to feed our hunger for information just about anywhere, but we still do so in a around us – our homes, our vehicles, our places of work. Our personal lives will bring relevant content to us when we need it and where we want it. When in our households, our favourite recipes and family information will surface. We’ll be provided with information on how to care for our lawn, or a reminder to take the recycling out. Our garage will surface content related to our vehicle (if we still have one). These content experiences will vary, and will replace the archaic notion of today’s mobile phone – the app stores of the future will better our lives by providing software that understands us and both our individual needs and shared spaces. Content will surround us – at museums, stadiums, schools, public monuments – everywhere. Audio, video, images and data will surface as needed in context to our own experiences. Spatial computing – A vision of the future
47. 47 We will control the access to and interact with all of this with our eyes, voice, hands – just as we do with other humans. This new paradigm of computing will be commonly known as spatial computing – and we all need to be ready for it. 47 These future experiences will also be critical components of our places of work. We will reach a point in time where isolation will dissolve in favour of group experiences – even if nobody else is physically present there with you. We will say goodbye to the day of the personal computer, and instead relish the value that collaborative computing brings. Together we will learn, solve problems, act, measure. As the physical computers disappear, their output will become omnipresent. Hardware will fade away, replaced by software as the primary enabler. Content will live in three dimensions and interact with our physical environments. What was once only imaginary will become real – and designers’ imaginations will be the only limitations to how we interact with one another. Spatial computing – A vision of the future
48. 48 1 Challenge your interface design 2 Continually monitor the speed of change 3 Pay attention to data privacy Six Strategies These strategies will help to keep you ahead of the curve for 2019 and beyond. The conversations about voice are only going to increase in 2019. This is a key trend that brands need to be aware of, but there are also a number of developments in human machine interfaces that should not be ignored such as those seen in the physical retail space. At Isobar we deliver and launch cutting edge technology solutions to solve your challenges. We do this through our global innovation accelerator, NowLab, where teams rapidly prototype new ideas and product concepts. We then deliver these digital products and services to market to accelerate the growth of your business. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform fundamental aspects of our existence in the coming years. The speed of development has the capacity to revolutionise how brands seek to engage with current and future customers, and make it easier for brands to test and learn, as well as make sense of the vast amounts of data that our connected future will generate. At Isobar, we help brands to unlock the value of that data, and drive complex and strategic digital transformation programs for large enterprises. We consult, create and build solutions that leverage the power of data, harness AI and access the speed of the cloud. Applications that rely on personal data to improve our lives and help us make better decisions offer a tantalising glimpse of a future of better healthcare and improved services. With these developments comes huge responsibility around data privacy and security. In an increasingly regulated, post-GDPR world, companies with data at their core are rightly expected to uphold the highest standards of data privacy and security. At Isobar we have wide experience of helping companies understand not only how they can best use data, but also what their responsibilities are, meaning that brands can establish robust, GDPR-ready data processes that enrich audience experiences and create business value. Augmented Humanity
49. 49 4 Measure the effectiveness of every interaction 5 Remove friction 6 Think human first Six Strategies These strategies will help to keep you ahead of the curve for 2019 and beyond. The continuing development of Augmented and Virtual Reality opens up exciting possibilities for brands looking to engage customers in innovative and immersive ways. For brands to get the most out of these experiences, it’s essential that they can measure their impact. At Isobar, we not only work with you to create appropriate KPIs to generate meaningful measurement, we go one step further: we design ways to test emerging technology, such as the world’s first VR Emotional Measurement tool, so the impact of every touchpoint and experience can be better understood. The world of commerce is changing dramatically. With the growth of cross border commerce and global shopping days such as China’s Singles day and new developments such as unattended retail emerging, commerce is becoming a key disruptive force for all businesses and brands. We are seeing rapid developments offering more convenient ways of paying for goods and services. As retailers and brands increasingly seek to remove friction from the point of sale, this is a space that will continue to move quickly throughout 2019. At Isobar, we bring brand inspiration and transaction closer together, delivering innovative brand commerce solutions. This report’s vision of an Augmented Humanity offers huge potential benefits for brands and society as a whole. However, it’s vital that we don’t lose sight of the thing that make us unique as humans – our emotional intelligence and our empathy. At Isobar, we help brands identify human truths, to solve human problems and to serve fundamental human needs. Technology and tools such as our emotion science tool MindSight help us do this better, but our understanding of emotional connections play a critical role in the process. Today, the experience and the brand have become interconnected, so we partner with our clients to transform businesses, brands and people’s lives. Augmented Humanity
50. 50 1 Digital Society Index 2018 (Dentsu Aegis Network) 2 Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018 (Voicebot.ai) 3 The Infinite Dial (Edison Research) 4 Guardian News Media Announces Launch of Guardian Voice Lab (The Guardian) 5 Top 5 Marketing Predictions (Gartner) 6 The Future is Voice Activated (iProspect) 7 Conversational Canvas (Isobar) 8 More than one billion smartphones to feature facial recognition in 2020 (Counterpoint) 9 Amazon Go (Amazon) 10 Sleeptite 11 Fitness & activity tracker - Statistics & Facts (Statista) 12 Solid 13 Hello Vino 14 Generation Z expects digital personalisation, but that comes at a price (Verdict) 15 2018 CMO survey (Dentsu Aegis Network) 16 The Facts About Fake Reviews (Which?) 17 Track & Trace (Isobar) 18 Beyond Bitcoin: Blockchain Continues to gain a foothold in retail/cpg (Little Black Book) 19 CyberMiles Blockchain Network Releases ‘Travis’ Mainnet for E-Commerce (BitcoinExchangeGuide.com) 20 Blockchain Playbook (Isobar) 21 HoloMe 22 Hellofriend 23 Spatial 24 Using neuroscience to successfully transform the XR experience (Mobile Marketing Association UK) Sources
51. 51 25 Fast Company names Isobar Top 10 Innovation company (Isobar) 26 Tensorflow 27 RGB for Good: Web AR Experience 28 JWT’s Next Rembrandt (YouTube) 29 Christie’s sale of Portrait of Edmond Belamy (Christie’s) Sources
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Fran Dorf, LCSW
Psychotherapy, Bereavement
Psychotherapy, Grief Counseling
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# 2 Grief on Film – The Visitor
Grief is both the thematic underpinning and the overarching aura in this low key, but absorbing and powerful film. Although “The Visitor” is humanistic and realistic, memories of the dead loom over the characters here like silent watchful ghosts. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy, “The Visitor” explores issues of identity and place, belonging and connection, as well as immigration and other post 9/11 issues, but it primarily revolves around a bereaved economics professor named Walter Vale, played by Richard Jenkins, the subtle actor who so memorably played the ghostly Fisher father in my favorite television series of all time, “Six Feet Under.” Jenkins literally inhabits the character, and while the circumstances of the wife’s death are never specified, he carries the weight of grief in his hunched shoulders and furrowed brow, in his every moment, movement and nuance.
When circumstance forces Vale to present a paper at NYU, he finds a pair of young, undocumented squatters at his long unused Village apartment, Tarek, a Syrian musician and his Senaglese girlfriend, Zainab. He begins a kind of comeback, as a warm and paternal relationship develops between him and Tarek, and when Tarek introduces him to the New York City jazz scene. Particularly powerful is a scene in which this balding white man joins in an African drumming circle in Washington Square Park, and the scenes between Vale and Tarek’s mother, who arrives when Tarek is detained by the authorities. This woman is also burdened by grief over the death of her government-murdered Syrian husband, and the relationship is believable and adult, the rare vision of an astute director who although young understands these two grieving people who reach out to each other.
“The Visitor” is memorable for its deep understanding that the journey back from grief is composed of small, often unexpected steps rather than a giant leap, but also for its remarkable embrace of life in all its complexity, ambiguity, and possibility.
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Free hors d’oeuvres, beverages, parking, Champion magazine cover photo and Women's Final Four back-of-the-house tour.
Whether Tampa is your home-town or is where you now live and work, come meet up with your “next team” — former college athletes from all NCAA schools, sports and professions, who are eager to connect professionally.
You'll hear from Colleen Healy, the first ever women’s basketball player walk-on to be offered a full scholarship at UConn (guard, team captain in her final season). Healy will briefly share her life after sport journey since graduating from UConn in 1994 and how her college classroom and on-court experience helped her rise through a career in the industries of pharmaceutical, digital health education and information sciences.
Based in Tampa, Florida, Healy served as senior director of medical education at Medscape Education by WebMD before launching ORCA Leadership, LLC in 2019 with co-founder and former Duke women’s basketball student-athlete Missy West. Healy is lead consultant and motivational speaker in areas of career transition, personal branding and sales strategy and co-director of Beyond the Game basketball academy.
Brought to you by NCAA After the Game, each networking event attracts a diverse mix of the larger former college athlete community. Professionals from all industries and career levels find career and business-to-business opportunities. Others reconnect with fellow teammates and former athletics conference foes, as well as discover shared interests in working out together, joining recreational sport teams and volunteering together in serving their local community
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Itadaki Street
Thread: Itadaki Street
So I heard about this game "Itadaki Street Special" for PS2 and PSP, but I've never seen it in stores. I think it might even only be in Japanese. It's a bit of a board game kind of like Mario party, but it's got characters from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and I'm like, "WHAT!?"
Why is this not in English!? I would totally buy this game if only I could get a chance to! Please Square Enix, make this game into English and distribute it globally!
Timmei
There is Fortune Street for the Wii, which I'm sure is Itadaki Street. It's actually a game like Monopoly, and the word itadaki means go, so it's kind of like Go Street.
Unfortunately, Fortune Street/Boom Street does not include any of the FINAL FANTASY characters featured in Itadaki Street Special, Itadaki Street Portable and Itadaki Street Mobile. However, it still contains characters from the DRAGON QUEST series.
Website: fortunestreet.nintendo.com/
Special: www.square-enix.co.jp/games/ps2/itastsp/
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Mobile: www.square-enix.co.jp/mobile/sem/itast-s...
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A question: Are you a lone flyer or do you move with friends?
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Un1k0rn
I've been doing a lot of soul-searching in ED lately, as to what kind of pilot I am.
For the longest time I thought I would be a social CMDR. You might think that would be the case with the amount I've posted in this community.
But no. I just can't play this delightful game unless I'm on my own. It's reached a peak. I deleted my entire friends list just now in the game, and as such, nobody can see where I am unless they share an instance with me.
And I'm much happier for it.
I've even gone so far as to clear all my wing/MC related bindings: I've never used them, and at this point it's clear I never will.
But I would ask of you, CMDRs, are you, like me, a person who prefers to control his own destiny, or would you seek out allies and forge an empire?
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I work alone. Sometimes by choice
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Zieman
Usually fly alone.
Do enjoy occasional co op session too.
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Jaggid Edje
I am a very goal-oriented person, in that I set myself a whole slew of longer term goals in games that give me the ability to do so.
Sadly, that means I am mostly content to fly alone, Other people tend to just slow down goal progress from what I've experienced in most online games. Even when a game is set up such that doing things in groups SHOULD make progress faster....people just screw around alot; the more people you're doing things with, the harder it seems it is to maintain forward momentum. Like herding cats.
I do like getting together and doing stuff with other folks once in a while though, you know...to be sociable. Just can't do it too regularly or I get fixated on lack of goal progression and start to get bitter toward the people hampering it.
My goals in this game at the moment (I'm still very new) is a HUGE list. A few of the things on it include some ridiculously long explorations (set bookmarks for a Colonia expediation, as well as another one out to a nebula that's 5,000 Kly away in the other direction)....I imagine exploration is generally a solo experience in ED.
I can see wanting to experience more group play in the game, eventually....but still alot of things to knock off the todo list that aren't really suited for groups. Aforementioned exploration and unlocking the rest of the engineers being the two big ones.
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Vardaugas
I'm on Moebius, so I'm pretty much all alone most of the time. Maybe that will change with the new initiatives.
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Phisto Sobanii
A small, devoted tribe is one of the best parts of my life.
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jnTracks
Vardaugas said:
I’d love to see more people, maybe I’ll look up a squad just for folks to talk to and fly with if our goals happen to align; but I’m going to remain focused on whatever I am on at the time so that’s never lead me to have lots of people around me.
Stasis Wolf
99% of the time I fly alone. I'd like to fly with others more often but social anxiety is a real PITA sometimes. But that's only a part of it. I have 30+ contacts on my friends list and nearly 200 followers (xbox player) most all of them a result of Elite Dangerous. However very rarely do I see anyone playing Elite, even more rare that any of them contact me. I joined a squadron that quickly became a PMF and even that didn't change things much.
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Vedmo
Lone wolf.
Main reason being I have zero interest in integrating Discord or some other such thing into my game play, and these days in online gaming it seems the first step to doing anything with others is Discord.
There have been some occasions in ED where I've met someone and joined up to accomplish something in game, and that was nice, but I don't need it or look for it.
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I should point out that I do fly exclusively in Open. But all my jobs are one-man.
Raumfahrer Spiff
Both. Decidedly. There is strength in numbers and sharing a common cause does wonders for motivation and sense of purpose. I'm a Fleet Commander in a player group so naturally I spend a lot of time sharing and teaching and learning in my free time on discord, and then we occasionally coordinate in-game operations or events with anywhere from 3-15 of us together messing around with something, or band together when there's an important BGS war to win. But more often than not I'm just hopping around our sector doing my own thing off my list of to-dos, and running into people when it rarely happens organically, or taking weekend trips to do engineer loops for a new ship, or taking a month long "vacation" on some solo expedition. I value my alone time as much as I value all of the great moments I've had with my various wing-mates over the years.
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War Eagle
Well I just started about 2 weeks ago, had one offer to show me a couple of things so I sent an invite(Accepted) but haven't seen them online. I am however trying to get my brother to join- we both played OGame together and had a good time and it helps us keep in touch seeing that we live in different States.
Old Duck
Un1k0rn said:
I'm a lone flyer because I have no friends. That is, friends who play Elite. I'm not a big fan of Discord, INARA, and other social media tools used to build these connections out-of-game, so I probably never will. I'm lucky to randomly encounter strangers in this game, let alone friends, so I'm a lone pilot desperately wanting an NPC crew, because NPCs make the best friends!
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Vedmo said:
Old Duck said:
I feel the same way as Vedmo and Duck about Discord. In the past I used IRC, Raidcall, TeamSpeak, and Skype. I'm tired of playing follow the leader to a different site/app all the time because it's the "HOT" new thing. If it can't be communicated to me in game or on the forums then I don't need it.
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picommander
Always solo from day one. From experience I know I have a strong tendency to easily burn out on human communication. Whenever I did that in a game I lost interest in the game in no time. Maybe the main reason why I'm avoiding player interaction in ED like the devil and why I sometimes really enjoy a CQC session in all its anonymousness.
I don't care much about this community, but I definitely care about the game!
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Vasco Sapien
Solo act that often craves social exposure, but its typically very difficult because of my terrible personal hygiene.
My current Squad mates make excuses to avoid me, apparently i have a kind of peaty, earthy aroma.
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Vasco Sapien said:
That's why I always keep the helmet on. I say it's safety, but, really, it's the smell.
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Northpin
Jaggid Edje said:
What he said, basically all of it
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You know considering there isn't a single Cmdr that's been allowed out of their pilot seat in 4-5 years to take a bio-break let alone a shower a "peaty, earthy aroma" is the least offensive thing I can imagine right now.
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Exactly. I don't want to mess with outside communication programs. In other MMOs I met players and made friends through in game communication channels. Despite the addition of squadrons, E: D seems designed to keep us isolated. I've gotten to know some players through an Elite Facebook group but that hasn't carried over into the game. The one thing I truly miss from my wasted years of playing Eve Online is the multitude of in game communication channels.
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Lafayette for Young Americans - Rupert Holland
The book follows the fascinating career of the Marquis de Lafayette from his youth in France, through the years of his heroic service to Washington during the Revolutionary Wars, to his ill-fated service the Revolutionary cause in France. The story of Lafayette's life provides a fascinating juxtaposition between the successful and laudatory American revolution, and the far more blood-thirsty French revolution. The author does an excellent job of presenting complicated political events in terms comprehensible to middle school ages students.
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Much of the material in this book has already appeared in Lafayette, We Come.This new volume omits the part that dealt with the War of 1914-1918, and adds new chapters dealing with Lafayette's adventures in the United States from the arrival of the French fleet under Rochambeau to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — "Miss us?" Twitter tweeted from its official account as the Great Twitter Outage wound down.
We did, apparently.
For nearly an hour Thursday, the service we use to keep up with everything and nothing appeared inaccessible for people around the world, regardless of celebrity status or follower count. We reloaded and reloaded. Some turned to Instagram, Facebook and even LinkedIn to express outrage over the outage.
But it was just not the same.
Then, shortly before 1 p.m. PT, it was back for many of us. Twitter posted an explanation on its status page blaming an "internal configuration change" that it was fixing.
The model Chrissy Teigen phrased the collective sigh in all caps, tweeting "OH THANK GOD." Earlier, she turned to Instagram to post what looked very much like a tweet: "TWITTER IS DOWN I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO SAY THIS AHHHHHH." How serious she was is in the eyes of the beholder.
The hashtag "TwitterDown" was trending as users recalled their experiences. Some were too young to remember a time when such an outage was a common occurrence.
Outages were so widespread in Twitter's early years that a cartoon "fail whale" the company displayed during outages came to symbolize Twitter almost as much as its little blue bird icon. The whale was retired in 2013, largely because Twitter didn't want to be associated with what it represented any more. After all, outages had become far less common.
This time, Twitter's home page read in part, "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing." The disruption appeared to affect both web and mobile app users. According to Down Detector, a website that tracks outages, problems were reported from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.
Facebook and Instagram have also experienced outages recently, during which time users turned to Twitter to joke and complain. But for the politicians, celebrities and other public figures who use Twitter as their main communications platform — and for the people who follow them — nothing quite compares with the immediate, public nature of the service.
The outage came as President Donald Trump convened a White House conference of like-minded critics of Big Tech. Tech companies such as Twitter weren't invited.
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Among manufacturers, especially closely-held companies in the $5 million-$50-million range, there’s a widespread belief among top and senior management that social media is irrelevant to them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
As a younger generation increasingly populates the executive and managerial ranks of manufacturing companies, those individuals want to get their information through LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter because they have “lived” online for most, in not all, of their lives. Put another way, Digital Natives are replacing Digital Aliens, and industrial marketers ignore this shift at their peril.
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The Wolfman (2010)
Petting “The Wolfman” (2010), dir. Joe Johnston
What keeps a fun monster movie from being a bad movie? How about a handful of well executed classic elements? The savvy police inspector (played with panache by Hugo Weaving) making himself at home in a pub while the locals all stare in provincial fear. Or creepy underground shrines awash in candlelight while Anthony Hopkins delivers half-baked lines as if they were Shakespeare. Or a werewolf designed in a classic mold, but far more real and far scarier. Joe Johnston’s modest but entertaining The Wolf Man has all of these elements, along with some terrific action scenes and a certain measure of “Ohhh!” inspiring gore.
Yet all is not roses. Benicio del Toro occasionally seems to be reading from que cards, and there are jumps in plot development that you just have to take for granted. Fortunately, Hopkins as the father and Weaving steal the show and raise the level of the picture. They realize that they are performing in a werewolf movie, and so they add a little ham to the cheese, and they do it well. In fact, Weaving as the Wolf Man would have been a much better movie. Del Toro’s squint-for-emotion act doesn’t work here, and neither does his “American” accent. He’s just trying too hard on both accounts. But the makeup and effects crew who did the werewolf and the action scenes did a phenomenal job. Rarely do you see fully fleshed out wolf attack scenes that are as expertly choreographed and exciting.
I have other qualms, none of them a deal-breaker. I could have done without the werewolf vs. werewolf showdown near the end. I’m sure it seemed like an excellent opportunity for some serious fighting acrobatics, but really, werewolves are a lot scarier and more interesting when contrasted with regular human beings, who cannot fight back with superhuman strength and claws. And werewolves should never attempt to speak, even in romantic moments. It’s squeamishly silly.
Emily Blunt is appropriately pretty in a 19th century kind of way, and the cinematography is clean and lit like a good graphic novel. Watch it for a (simple) good time.
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Integrated Green Infrastructure and Water Visioning - Five Design Studies Within the Glasgow and Clyde Valley
The Green Network Integrated Urban Infrastructure Project demonstrates best practice in sustainable urban drainage and inclusive urban planning by developing a series of exemplar design studies for five sites across three local authority regions in South West Scotland.The project was commissioned by Glasgow City Council and chaired by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in association with the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership. The stakeholder team included South Lanarkshire Council, Renfrewshire Council, Scottish Natural Heritage, and the Forestry Commission.A strategic surface water management strategy and associated site arrangement were developed for each site through collaborative working between stakeholders, local authorities, the architect and the strategic drainage engineer to inform an integrated approach towards site development.The exemplar sites vary significantly in size, topography and hydrological constraints ranging from a rolling greenbelt site within East Kilbride (2500 new homes, parkland and primary school) to an urban quarter in Glasgow City Centre (live-work units, new cultural area, river walk). The resultant proposals described within the design studies create new and distinct neighbourhoods with a range of residential and community facilities with unique characteristics relevant to their individual site's constraints and opportunities.Integrated urban design and visioning is a harmonious sequence of built and landscape components, with placemaking at its core. It explores contemporary urban design challenges brought about by sustainable design ambitions to support the health and well-being of people along with maintaining the natural equilibrium in the face of climate change.The key project principles are as follows:• Plan integrated infrastructure to inform future development;• Consider topography, local context and the water journey in parallel with one another;• Establish partnership working;• Create holistic water environments;• Ensure a multi-benefit approach towards open space (health, ecology, recreation, flood alleviation);• Prioritise safe walking and cycling above vehicular movement.The presentation will provide an overview of the principles of integrated urban design and water visioning and outline the process undertaken by the Project Board and design team to realise the design study proposals. This will be demonstrated through a detailed description of the approach taken for two of the five study areas under the following themes:- Multi-disciplinary working and stakeholder collaboration;- Hydrological strategies that respond to site topography;- Forming blue-green routes and quality open space, and- Enhancing wildlife habitats and ecological benefits.
Grierson, J, N McLean, P Robinson, J Barber, and A Corbett. "Integrated Green Infrastructure and Water Visioning - Five Design Studies Within the Glasgow and Clyde Valley." In Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice (IAPS 22 Conference, Abstracts of Presentations). IAPS. Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde, 2012.
Reall Eco-Village
Clark, G. Reall Eco-Village In Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice (IAPS 22 Conference, Abstracts of Presentations). IAPS. Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde, 2012.
Landscapes of Hope: the Role and Value of an Urban Brownfield Site for Community and Town
Mosler, S. "Landscapes of Hope: the Role and Value of an Urban Brownfield Site for Community and Town." In Human Experience in the Natural and Built Environment: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice (IAPS 22 Conference, Abstracts of Presentations). IAPS. Glasgow, UK: University of Strathclyde, 2012.
How Green is Our Environment? the Role of Urban Green Spaces for Flood Mitigation
Ebert, A., and E. Banzhaf. How Green is Our Environment? the Role of Urban Green Spaces for Flood Mitigation In Urban Diversities, Biosphere and Well-Being: Designing and Managing Our Common Environment (IAPS 20 Conference Proceedings on CD-Rom). IAPS. Rome, Italy: Aula Magna Sapienza University of Rome, 2008.
Interdisciplinary Research: Obstacles and Solutions
Adams, Mags. "Interdisciplinary Research: Obstacles and Solutions." In Urban Diversities, Biosphere and Well-Being: Designing and Managing Our Common Environment (IAPS 20 Conference Proceedings on CD-Rom). IAPS. Rome, Italy: Aula Magna Sapienza University of Rome, 2008.
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Welcome to Anfield? Chelsea left stunned as Liverpool set to complete £70m Pulisic deal
by Iomie · Published 29th December 2018 · Updated 29th December 2018
Liverpool are set to sign Christian Pulisic ahead of Chelsea after the American reportedly decided he wanted to join Jurgen Klopps side.
With the January transfer window just a few months away and speculation increasing about whom Liverpool could bring in to help improve their chances of winning the Premier League title, Pulisic has become a top transfer target.
Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp had been chasing Pulisic for several seasons, as he looks to continue building a title winning side, and reports suggested he was open to the idea of working with the former Borussia Dortmund boss at Anfield.
However, recent reports claimed that it was Chelsea who were set to win the race for the lads signature as they saw him as the idea replacement for Eden Hazard, who is keen to leave the club and make a move to La Liga giants Real Madrid.
But according to reports on the Sun website, it is Liverpool who will be signing the young man in a deal worth around £70 million, after Pulisic decided against extending his stay at Dortmund.
Will Pulisic be a good buy for Liverpool
As one of the brightest and talented players currently plying his trade over in Germany, it is a shock to see that Dortmund are ready to cash in on such a prized asset, but with the emerging Jadon Sancho taking all the headlines, it is easy to see why they want to take the money and run.
Pulisic is only 21-years of age and has a lot of developing to do, but for the £60 million that is being talked about, it could be seen as a real transfer bargain for Liverpool.
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Aurex Closes Natural Gas Acquisition
Anwesha Sengupta - February 20th, 2019
Aurex Energy Corp. (TSXV:AURX) announces that it has completed the acquisition of a privately-held US company (the “Subsidiary”) with substantial natural gas reserves in the Barnett Shale, Texas.
Aurex Energy Corp. (TSXV:AURX) announces that it has completed the acquisition of a privately-held US company (the “Subsidiary”) with substantial natural gas reserves in the Barnett Shale, Texas. AURX has acquired all of the capital stock of the US company in consideration of AURX’s issuance of 12,705,000 shares of its common stock to the shareholders of the Subsidiary. The acquisition is an arm’s-length transaction and has received conditional acceptance from the TSX Venture Exchange.
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The Subsidary’s primary property consists of 10 shut-in natural gas wells (8 horizontal wells and 2 vertical wells) on 1,400 acres located in the Fort Worth Basin. The Company intends to re-work and re-fracture the shut-in wells with the goal of generating significant cashflows to expand and develop an asset base of both producing oil and gas and mineral properties. Total Proved Plus Probable Reserves are 24.6 Billion Cubic Feet (“BCF”) of natural gas. The estimated Net Present Value (“NPV”) of the net revenue (after all operating costs, royalties and taxes) from the Proved Plus Probable Reserves, using forecast pricing, is US$22.0 million. Peak operating cash-flow (before income taxes), after reworking all wells, is estimated at US$10.8 million per year. Estimated reserves and economic valuations are from a NI51-101-compliant report prepared by a Qualified Reserves Evaluator (“QRE”), MKM Engineering, dated December 28, 2018 and effective Jan 1, 2019.
Gary Billingsley, President, comments “We are pleased to have finally completed this acquisition and look forward to advancing both the natural gas and mineral projects as a restructured company under a new corporate banner. Our goal is to focus on developing a diversified portfolio of resource assets geared to meeting the demands of current and future energy producers. This means developing natural gas resources to meet the demand for products like Liquefied Natural Gas (“LNG”)” and developing mineral resources like copper, zinc and cobalt to meet the demand for metals critical to “green” technologies and the move to electrification. Building a solid base of natural gas assets means generating internal cash-flow reducing the reliance on equity funding moving forward, and helping support mineral project development.”
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Presidency explains why list of Board appointees include dead people
Charles Igbinidu December 30, 2017 Politics Leave a comment
The Buhari presidency has acknowledged and apologised for the errors made in listing late Senator Francis Okpozu and two others among chairmen and members of boards of government agencies and parastatals.
The President’s spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu admitted the errors and said “no human undertaking can be free of mistakes”.
He said the errors identified with the list were not enough to describe the exercise as scandalous, insisting that “there is no scandal”.
The President’s spokesman explained that the names of dead appointees in the list came about because the list had been compiled by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal.
Garba Shehu said “the list has a history” which explained the controversy around it.
He said, “In 2015, Mr. President requested all state chapters of the party to submit names of 50 party members for board appointments,” Shehu said.
He said the names where compiled by the national secretariat of the APC and forwarded to the then secretary to the government of the federation, Babachir Lawal.
“However, complaint arose from some governors who felt they were not carried along in the process. To answer this, the president constituted a committee under the vice president to review and reflect the interest of the governors”.
Shehu said action was delayed on the report of the committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as President Muhammadu Buhari took ill.
“The president’s trips for medical attention slowed down completion of the process.
“The current SGF was only directed to complete that process by releasing the list which he apparently did without altering it,” Mallam Shehu explained.
Three names of dead persons were contained in the list. Among them was Senator Francis Okpozo. He was appointed chairman of the Nigerian Press Council.
Okpozo, a Second Republic Senator from Delta state died in December 2016 at the age of 81. President Muhammadu Buhari sent a letter of condolence to the family and eulogised him for championing social justice in the Niger Delta, during his long history of service to the people.
Chief Donald Ugbaja, appointed a member of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC), died on the 29th of November, 2017.
Reverend Christopher Utov who was appointed member of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, died in March of 2017.
President Muhammadu Buhari had set up in October 2015 a Presidential Committee headed by the former SGF, Babachir Lawal to recommend people to be appointed to government boards and agencies. Members of the board were drawn from the six geo-political Zones of the Federation.
The members were Alhaji Mai Mala Buni (northeast), Alhaji Zakari Ede (northcentral), Alhaji Inuwa Abdulkadir (northwest), Chief Hillard Etagbo Eta (south-south), Chief Pius Akinyelure (southwest), Chief Emmanuel Eneukwe (southeast) and Mr. Gideon Sammani, a senior special assistant to the president as secretary
In November 2016, President Buhari removed Babachir from headship of the committee, following some allegations made against Babachir.
Vice President Osinbajo was asked to take over. The chairman of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agencies (NDLEA) Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah was also appointed to head the secretariat of the committee.
Part of Osinbajo’s mandate was to meet all the stakeholders, including the Senate President Bukola Saraki, House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Chairman Abdulaziz Yari, APC Governors Forum Chairman Rochas Okorocha and representatives of the governors in each of the six geopolitical zones.
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European multilateral defence procurement
European multilateral defence procurement refers to the collective armaments purchasing policies of European nations.
Traditionally European countries have either developed their own weapon systems or bought 'off the shelf' systems usually NATO-sponsored from the United States or from the Soviet Union, now from Russia. In the modern era, reduced military budgets and increasing complexity make it difficult for most countries to develop their own weapon systems. Furthermore, identical projects in differing countries were recognised as a waste of resources. However the same countries often do not wish to purchase American systems because of the perception of a loss of sovereignty and the profits (and jobs) going to American companies.
Therefore, some European nations are attempting to pool their resources to create multinational programmes to create a more independent and competitive capability. The European Defence Agency was established in 2004 to create such a stronger European market for military equipment.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is the latest in a line of joint aircraft projects between the Western European powers. Previously the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy had cooperated in producing the Panavia Tornado in the 1970s, and the UK and France had cooperated in producing the SEPECAT Jaguar. The Eurocopter Tiger is developed by France and Germany and was also bought by Spain. Franco-Italian naval projects include the Horizon class frigates and FREMM multipurpose frigates.
European countries also purchase a great deal of hardware from the US, and many former Eastern bloc countries have a great deal of legacy equipment produced by the USSR and other Warsaw Pact regimes.
While European military budgets remain fragmented and massive duplication in research and development exists, the European military industry has made some moves towards consolidation. British Aerospace was widely expected to merge with Germany’s DASA to form the first major European military-industrial giant. Instead in 1999 BAe merged with another British company, GEC's military-industrial businesses (GEC-Marconi), to form BAE Systems which has tended to focus on the Anglo-American market. As a result, in 2000, DASA merged with Aerospatiale-Matra to form EADS. Further consolidation of the smaller military-industrial firms cannot be ruled out.
In 2002 the formation of MBDA brought together the product portfolios of Aerospatiale Matra Missiles (of EADS), Alenia Marconi Systems missiles, and Matra BAe Dynamics to form Europe's No. 1 missile manufacturer and No. 2 globally after Raytheon.
Other major players include
AgustaWestland (merged into Leonardo-Finmeccanica since 2016)
Diehl BGT Defence
Eurofighter GmbH
IDV (Iveco Defense Vehicles)
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
Krauss-Maffei
Leonardo-Finmeccanica
Patria (company)
Saab Group
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
Below are some examples of European products and the previously used weapons they may replace.
Aircraft and missiles:
A400M – replacing C-130 and Franco/German Transall
Eurofighter Typhoon – replacing F-4 Phantom II, F-16s, Mirage F-1, Tornado F.3
Eurocopter Tiger – for France, Germany and Spain
EH101 and NH90 – largely replacing European helicopters
Meteor – replacing AMRAAM as long-range AAM
ASRAAM and IRIS-T – replacing AIM-9 Sidewinder as short-range AAM
Land vehicles:
ASCOD IFV equipping the Austrian, Spanish and British armies, Puma IFV equipping the Germany army
Patria AMV and GTK Boxer APCs equipping various European armies
ATF Dingo, Fennek, Iveco LMV tactical vehicles used by various countries
PzH 2000 – replacing M109 Paladin
Naval vessels:
F-100 Class Frigates replacing US designed Knox frigates in Spain, Oliver Hazard Perry frigates in Australia and Dealey class frigates in Norway.
Type 212 submarine, equipping the German, Italian navies, Type 214 submarine equipping the Greek and Portuguese navies, S-80 class submarine equipping the Spanish Navy
Horizon class frigate and FREMM multipurpose frigate both for the French and Italian navies
Rotterdam and Galicia class LPD, replacing Newport class tank landing ships in the Netherlands and Spanish Navies.
There are several examples where one country continues to pursue purely national programmes because collaboration would be unacceptable or undesirable. For example, both the UK and France continue to develop and operate independent nuclear deterrent. Likewise France's desire for military and industrial independence has motivated its continued pursuit of high-technology projects, e.g. Dassault Rafale.
Multinational programmes can fail because of disagreements about price or capability. For example, while the UK terminated its collaboration with France and Italy on the next generation frigate (Horizon CNGF) and started a national Type 45 programme. However the warships will share some systems, primarily the MBDA Aster missile.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair came under pressure from President Bill Clinton to select Raytheon's future missile to arm the Eurofighter,[1] however the UK government selected the European Meteor air-to-air missile. The Meteor could be deemed riskier, however the Meteor armed Typhoon will not be subject to U.S. export controls and MBDA now has a missile product with no real competition from American manufacturers.
Likewise European governments were actively dissuaded by the US Department of Defence from continuing the A400M project, the Pentagon argued that the Lockheed C-130J and Boeing C-17 provided all the capability European governments needed and were already flying. The DOD also argued that to spend limited budgetary resources on such duplication was foolish. The previous generation American fighter plane (F-16) was widely sold throughout Europe.
Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders has called the difficulties in coordinating European investment in the A400M program a "horror", and said "I am determined, at least for my company, not to ever again walk into such a program".[2]
Code of Conduct on Defence Procurement
The European Union has adopted a code of conduct[3] with the objective to inject transparency and competition into the military procurement. It is administered by the EDA and under its scope are contracts under Article 346 of TFEU, of at least €1 million and with the exclusions of weapons of mass destruction, cryptographic equipment and other procurements.
As of 2009 the code is adopted by Norway and all EDA members except Romania, who may join later.[4]
OCCAR
Common Security and Defence Policy
European Defence Agency
↑ Baumgardner, Neil (1999-09-16). "Raytheon Offers Joint Development of New Missile with UK". Defense Daily. Phillips Business Information, Inc. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Bruno, Michael (2 May 2014). "A400M: The Horror, The Horror". aviationweek.com. Penton. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
↑ The Code of Conduct on Defence Procurement
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Towards a European Defence Market, Edited by Daniel Keohane, Chaillot Paper No. 113, November 2008, European Union Institute for Security Studies
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Energy Community
Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly
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Euro-Mediterranean free trade area
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
Economic Partnership Agreements
EU CBRN Risk Mitigation CoE Initiative
Neighbourhood Policy
Northern Dimension
Mediterranean Union
Stabilisation and Association Process
Andministration and policies
Foreign and Security Policy
Everything but Arms
Security and Defence Policy
Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department
External Action Service
Foreign Affairs Council
High Representative (Federica Mogherini)
Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
Foreign Policy Instruments Service
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Special Representatives
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Defence Initiative
Synchronised Armed Forces
Defence Procurement
Petersberg tasks
Helsinki Headline Goal
Political and Security Committee
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Tag Archives: Alt-Right
by Kareem Caliente
Symbolism in Leaked Kendall Jenner Photo
Earlier this week, a photo began making the rounds on Twitter showing model Kendall Jenner running in the nude on a beach. Jenner looks quite fit in the image, although some clueless people criticized her body on Twitter, unaware that smaller female breasts are becoming increasingly fashionable.
Closer inspection of the photo reveals another fashionable trend. Jenner has shaped her body into a swastika, embracing the growing mainstream acceptance of alt right politics.
The swastika is highlighted below in red:
Of course, this may simply reflect the perspective of the photographer. Still, the subconscious effect on the viewer, in appreciation of the subject’s beauty, cannot be overstated.
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When Post-Libertarianism Becomes the New Libertarianism
I noticed a while back Cyberpig Paulie Frankel expressed a desire to cede the “Libertarian” name to the Alt-Right. He feels the strong Alt-Right presence in the Libertarian Party and its support of President Donald Trump has caused the term to be too closely associated with the Right. Cyberpig now wants his views to be labeled as “Liberal.” This makes perfect sense since “Liberal” fits best with the weird hybrid SJW/Anarchist views he espouses under his IPR persona.
This all got me thinking. A few months ago, I declared Libertarianism dead. I saw many previous libertarians like Stefan Molyneux, Richard Spencer, Chris Cantwell, and Augustus Invictus take the logical step after libertarianism to the Alt-Right. But if many post-libertarians remain part of the Libertarian Party, doesn’t that mean they actually become the libertarians?
I am now rethinking my decision to leave the Libertarian Party. If being Libertarian now means accepting reality, i.e. people have equal rights but not all races, cultures, religions or genders have equal value, then count me back in. I am currently a member of the American Freedom Party and the Modern Whig Party, but these parties don’t seem to be going anywhere. I am seriously considering rejoining the Libertarian Party and perhaps, once more, seeking its presidential nomination. We’ll see how it goes.
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by Moses Austwin
Light a Torch
I am sick and tired of left wing idiots trying to erase White people from history. It was White men who established Western Civilization. If you want to go back to the caves and huts then continue to follow left wing idiots.
Most of the left wing idiots don’t even realize the ultimate plan of those from whom they receive their orders (George Soros) is to reduce the political power of White people to weaken society so that Marxists can easily take over. This is also why they promote homosexuality and “transgenderism”, which creates effeminate men who can easily be conquered (voluntarily or not). The election of Obama was a major step toward the accomplishment of their takeover. But now there’s been a change in tide. The election of Donald Trump was a major blow to the Marxist agenda and so now they are doubling down. BLM is an example of this at work.
Another recent trick of left wing “useful” idiots is to remove monuments celebrating historic White figures and accomplishments. In Virginia and Louisiana they are trying to remove statues of great figures like Robert E. Lee, an admirable American and Confederate general. Luckily we have a man on the ground organizing torch rallies to stand up for White people and our civilization.
Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer of AltRight.com is doing great work on this issue through torch rallies. Let’s participate in his rallies and make it clear to the Marxists that this country is still ours and always will be.
Light a torch, lift it high!
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Richard Spencer Taps Group as “Official” Alt-Right Band
In an interview yesterday, before he was so rudely removed from CPAC, AltRight.com founder Richard Spencer playfully pegged Depeche Mode as the “official band”of the Alt-Right.
In a later Tweet, Spencer clarified he was only joking but identified himself as a fan of the band.
@JefferyXMartin
I was joking obviously. I'm a lifelong Depeche Mode fan.
— Richard 🥛 Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) February 23, 2017
In the comments for the AltRight.com article covering the story, readers described Depeche Mode’s latest single as “pandering to SJWs” but provide much acclaim for the band’s 1990 release “Violator”.
So what do you think?
Personally, I see David Bowie, particularly his “Thin White Duke” persona, as more representative of Alt-Right culture. AltRight.com, for the most part, seems to agree, having published an article last month recognizing Bowie as such. However, that’s not to take away from Depeche Mode in any fashion. There’s no contradiction in any way. Apparently Bowie was a big influence on Depeche Mode.
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Sarwark Sees Justification for Violence at UC Berkeley Riot
Libertarian National Committee chairman Nicholas Sarwark says the rioters at UC Berkeley were justified to use violence last week to prevent “dangerous faggot” Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking due to Milo’s “despicable” speech. Sarwark said this after believing a fake news report that Milo was going to use his speech to list the names of UC Berkeley students in the country illegally. He tried to save face by double-talking and calling the use of violence to silence speech as also “despicable”, but Sarwark is wrong to argue moral equivalency between violent riots and peaceful speech. Even though Sarwark’s premise is all wrong, his defense of the violence shows his priorities, priorities shared by many in the now-dead libertarian movement.
Sarwark and his “Weekend at Bernie’s” followers favor protecting illegal aliens over protecting free speech. Apparently that’s what it means to be Libertarian now days. That is one reason libertarianism died. The Libertarian Party is no longer the party of the White man. It is the party of illegal aliens and homosexuals.
Many let Sarwark know what they thought of his comments on Facebook. Breitbart published an article displaying a few of them.
Shane Trejo:
Milo is not a coward like so many Libertarians clearly are… because of smug full-of-shit pussies like Nicholas Sarwark, no self-respecting person can call even publicly themselves a libertarian these days without feeling embarrassed.
Chad Chaderson:
It seems like ‘libertarian,’ for many, is just a code word for social justice warrior.
Milo Yiannopoulos:
this idiot should stick to what libertarians actually know about — weed, Bitcoin and hacking — and leave slanderous rumor where it belongs. On CNN.
Here’s some more comments taking Sarwark to task.
Duke Becher:
So is the chairman for or against free speech and liberty? Getting hard to tell…
Robert Woods:
The fact that you are trying to excuse violence is despicable behavior. You can denounce Milo’s rhetoric while also denouncing the violence. You could then speak on proposals for immigration reform and not toss out the heart tugger about “destroying people’s lives,” which points to flaws when it comes to libertarian foreign policy. Will sending a undocumented person back to their home country actually destroy their life?
You are unpacking the box from the wrong end. We must first remove negative incentives for immigration before reverting immigration laws. Are you ok with undocumented students using federal tax dollars for their education?
Steven Sadowski:
The one thing I could always count on from the libertarian party was a sense of principle. It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s human, but to continue to deny that you got the story wrong, or more accurately, cannot prove your allegation is troubling. Aren’t you a lawyer? Please, just apologize, and let’s move on.
Pete Walker:
Not that, that particular outlet would have been the best option but you damn right he should call out illigals, there is a legal way of entering this country, and by undermining that process you essentially are telling the o es that came here LEGALLY “oh well, too bad you obeyed the law of he land sucker, you should have done it illigally and saved the money and paperwork!” And by using violence to disrupt the speech is atrocious ! Anyone who supports that behavior should be imprisoned along with the perpetrators. You fuckin morons still don’t understand why Trump got elected in the first place. WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF YOUR BULLSHIT !! WE THE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF !! Paul Stanton stop supporting this ideology, if you ever want to ACTUALLY be elected into office in ANY capacity……
Patrick Bermudez:
Time for you to go Nicholas Sarwark, you are pushing the wrong agendas.
you are part of that group who calls themselves libertarians while guzzling subsidies, earmarks, monopoly, and corporatist crony partnerships from the hated “gubmint” then turn around and demand that the taxpayer bail out any fall out from these violations of market theory. You are turning the LP into a laughing stock.
The new “Libertarian Party” has a confused history on what libertarianism is. They have previously had individuals run for president like Bob Barr, a former Congressman who voted for the USA PATRIOT Act and the invasion of Iraq. Given this fact, it’s not entirely surprising that the party had a Hillary Clinton apologist run for vice president.
National LP policies have driven away many
normal intelligent common sense libertarians,
and is starting to resemble a cult.
Garion Ford:
The LP does seem to have been highjacked by SJW. it makes debates rather interesting with friends when I have crap thrown at me from my own party that sounds like it came from Sen Bernie Sanders.
its one thing to not be a prick to immigrants. its another to spew baseless horseshit in a desperate attempt to virtue signal to leftists, which is what sarwark did with this post. and of course, he’s too much of an arrogant prick to admit how full of shit he is.
Your pathetic joke a political party won’t be getting any better, coward. Especially with lousy, worthless activists like yourself. That’s for sure.
you guys keep defending tranny bathrooms and siding with SJWs and we’ll stick to fighting for causes that actually matter.
Israel Anderson:
I sure hope this will be your last term as LNC Chair.
Scotty Sedlak:
Mr. Sarwark, I applaud you as a person who is doing (from what I can see) an excellent job of leading the Libertarian Party. But while I identify most as a libertarian, one of the main reasons I will not have anything to do with the LP is the stance on open borders. I totally agree that people should have freedom of movement to and from the country, but to ignore the threats that most certainly exist from foreign countries and individuals in order to inflate that idea of free travel to utopian levels is dangerous and foolish. There must be a border, they must be secure, and there must be knowledge of who is entering and why. To do otherwise is to wholly ignore the mandate of national defense which is one of the main reasons for the mutual union of States. With that said, a law stating that entering the country without proper authorization is a crime must also be enforced. Otherwise, the rule of law in a nation of laws does not exist. No matter how you personally feel, the law must be followed. If you don’t like the law, change it, don’t ignore it. And the law prescribes that those entering the country illegally must be deported. You can despise Mr. Yionnopoulos all you like, but I will not subscribe to a feel good system where government is based on emotion instead of logic.
Matt Nichols:
What an embarrassment for Libertarians. Take this SJW crap back to Tumblr and let’s get someone who won’t peddle this cultural Marxism under the guise of Liberty anymore
Sarah Copeland:
Are you intentionally ignorant, or is this purely by accident that you are spewing fiction that you’re trying to pass off as fact in a blatant attempt to gain favor with the progressive social justice warriors? Either you don’t have a clue what you’re doing, or you understand perfectly what you’re doing which makes it even worse. Step down and let someone with a spine and a set of balls lead the party.
David Larmore:
So, the libertarian party is engaging in spreading fake news, rumor and innuendo now?
No, it doesn’t explain violence. There’s no excuse for violence. Fake news, rumor and innuendo is no justification and/or logical reason for violence.
Bryan Burns:
Ok…let me try to follow. The guy who wrote this post, used unsubstantiated rumors in order to justify, or give a picture to feeble minded people of an “explanation” to riot in order to disrupt the free speech guaranteed in the constitution of these United States…
After using these rumors as an “explanation” to riot to stop free speech, his answer is that government has too much power. Apparently not caring that there is no protection of the free speech of the person he disagrees with, calls the person an asshole… because he is going to rat out people here illegally. After all, borders are imaginary lines.
Then I see someone on this thread using the fact that native Americans lands were stolen from them as a defense of some libertarian cause. Apparently, people came here across imaginary borders, stole their lands, infected them with various diseases, and they were relegated to second class citizens in their own land. Those open borders always worked out great for the white oppressors…didn’t it? Lol.
Some things are great in principle but leave results that are less than idea when implemented in the real world. There has to be some common sense. Free speech has to be protected or you give government the means to orchestrate riots in order to shut people up. Don’t think it would happen? Read the history books…the ones written before being rewritten for left wing agendas. Protest is GREAT. But never try to “explain” the destruction of others property and the denial of free speech to defend someone else’s right to be someplace illegally. It may be against libertarian principles to require any person to be denied entry for any reason (whether to farm or to blow up a city) but to destroy the very foundations of freedom of speech and property rights in order to obtain that imaginary unobtained principle is a dangerous thing. Work to make sensible immigration laws by reasonably swaying people, but not through unsubstantiated rumors and “explaining” away people’s violence ad destructive behavior. You will definitely lose those who have common sense
Joe Bonner:
This is why the libertarian party will never go anywhere. No, scratch that, this is why the libertarian party will remain a running joke.
“I mean look guys, its understandable that someone would throw Molotov cocktails at a Milos event over an unsubstantiated rumor made up after the fact, but like, what they should really so is vote against immigration laws.”
They did, they voted democrat. And no, they will never switch over to you because of your stance on cutting healthcare and welfare.
Greg Wainwright:
Sweet. Hey what’s your address? I think I’m going to move in to your house without asking. I’ll eat your food, use your utilities, and I’m going to hop on your health insurance plan. Oh, and I don’t speak your language so I’m going to have ask you and your family to change your customs and language to match mine. Sound good? I’ll be there by morning. You won’t even know I’m there. I’m not going to harm anyone.
Gage Czajkowski:
This is exactly why I left the libertarian party because of leftists like you who care more about the rights of illegals than the rights of American people
Parker G. Ward:
This is our Chairman folks. 1. Defends Bill Weld 2. Criticized Dr. Ron Paul, while defending Bill Weld. 3. Post a lie. 4. Defends the violence of the riots
Richard Dunkin:
I guess I know why I’ve never seen you discuss your absurd position with Stefan Molyneux. You don’t factor in the presence of a welfare state in the US. You also don’t factor in the lower average IQs of most 3rd world immigrants. The libertarian utopia you seek will never exist if you lower the nations average IQ by just a few points to the low 90s. I am amazed how the LP has changed to full on globalist. If you keep this up, you will never get my vote for president again, and I’ve voted LP for president 5 times in my life.
Doris D’Antonio:
Oh my God, I thought they were extinct. I guess they’re not. As per this, there is at least one total asshole left on the planet.
Make your voice heard. Tell Sarwark what you think about his comment.
Then, do your country a favor and report any illegal aliens you know to ICE at 866-347-2423 or report them online.
Libertarians, it’s somewhat sad that libertarianism is dead, but there are ways to move on. Bury the libertarian corpse and join us in the Alt-Right. The American Freedom Party is a good place to start.
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by Lazarus Mudd
Music Monday: Lazarus
On September 19, 2014, I wrote the following on IPR:
New York City — my old stomping grounds — a modern day $odom and Gomorrah — the sewers are cleaner than the streets — the Republican Party owns a suite in Trump Tower where they put on Burlesque shows every Thursday night. It’s nothing to worry about. Libertarians are fine.
“Come on up for the rising”
Years later, David Bowie released this song, with the title of my name (Lazarus) and a passage mirroring what I wrote above:
By the time I got to New York (my old stomping grounds)
I was living like a king (a suite in Trump Tower)
Then I used up all my money (a modern day $odom and Gomorrah)
I was looking for your ass (Burlesque shows)
This way or no way (It’s nothing to worry about)
You know, I’ll be free (Libertarians are fine)
Just like that bluebird (Come on up for the rising)
Now ain’t that just like me (Lazarus)
Did I inspire Bowie to write this song? Maybe. The thematic similarities between the song and my blurb on IPR cannot be denied. Plus, the blurb was written before Bowie wrote the song. Perhaps most telling, I used the name “Lazarus the Great” as the author of the blurb, while the title of the song is “Lazarus” even though this name is not mentioned in the song (it is an allusion to the story in the Gospel of John of Jesus rising Lazarus of Bethany from the dead). There is a strong possibility Bowie read my post and then wrote the song (or at least the passage above) in response.
Kareem Caliente calls my 2014 blurb “prescient” not only because of its foreshadowing of “Lazarus” but because I made the connection between the Republican Party and Donald Trump before anyone had any idea he would run for President, much less become the Republican Party presidential nominee and President itself. Perhaps with the sarcastic tone of the final two sentences I foresaw the death of Libertarianism (as Nathan Norman declared last week), and then with reference to the Springsteen song “The Rising,” I saw the rise of the Alt-Right from the corpse of Libertarianism, just like Lazarus.
Maybe I’m a prophet. Or maybe I’m just lucky.
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Fascism Forever
Wow, Gorsuch … is fash? A shitlord on SCOTUS? #FascismForever😄🤣
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) February 2, 2017
it's just a joke guys… 😉😉😉 https://t.co/Ic3pSJ3d6A
— Reactionary Tree (@ForeverTree3) February 2, 2017
Apparently, Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, was red-pilled long ago. In High School, he founded and served as president of Fascism Forever. The alliteratively named club, presumably supporting the fashy cause, is something many of us would have joined if given the chance.
The pick for Supreme Court shows just how in tune President Trump is with his strongest allies in the Alt-Right. In his brilliance, President Trump can subtly throw red meat like this, with a wink and a nod, while normies buy in to the mainstream fiction the club was “just a joke.”
Believe me, it’s no joke.
We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town.
#FascismForever
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Elon Musk on Tesla's self-driving capabilities
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc revealed its self-driving plans during an investor day on Monday, with Chief Executive Elon Musk predicting the launch of an autonomous robotaxi service next year in some U.S. markets. Musk has touted the electric car maker’s self-driving capabilities over the years, highlighting its semi-autonomous Autopilot system. Tesla began offering a feature described as “Full Self-Driving Capability” in 2016. The company instructs drivers to keep their hands on the wheel when those systems are engaged, sparking some criticism of the term. Following are the comments made by Musk and Tesla related to the topic in the past few years, including during Monday’s event: 2019 April 22 – Musk predicts that Tesla will have autonomous robotaxis without drivers in some U.S. markets in 2020. April 22 – Musk predicts that “probably two years from now we’ll make a car with no steering wheels or pedals.” April 22 – Musk says that in 2020, Tesla will have “over a million cars with full self-driving, software, everything.” April 22 – Musk says it is “financially insane to buy something other than a Tesla” today because Tesla is the only company to have a full self-driving suite of hardware. April 15 – Musk says that buying a car that cannot upgrade to full self-driving is like “buying a horse instead of a car in 2019.” April 11 – Tesla says that Autopilot, the company’s advanced driver assistance system, is now standard on all vehicles. April 3 – Tesla says it is making “significant progress” in development of its autonomous driving software and hardware, including the FSD (Full Self-Driving) computer, saying the computer is in production and will enable full-self driving through over-the-air software updates in future. Feb. 28 – In response to a media question whether it is problematic that Musk uses the term “full self-driving,” Musk replies: “I think we’re very clear when you buy the car what is meant by full self-driving. It means it’s feature complete. Feature complete requiring supervision … There’s really three steps: feature complete of full self-driving but requiring supervision, feature complete but not requiring supervision, feature complete not requiring supervision and regulators agree.” 2018 Oct. 5 – Tesla introduces software version 9.0 with a number of features including ‘Navigate on Autopilot’ – intended to guide a car from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating highway interchanges and taking exits that would still require driver supervision [bit.ly/2IFfMMN] June 11 – Musk tweets that Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system will get full self-driving features following a software upgrade in August May 23 – Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla’s “deceptive and misleading” use of the name Autopilot for its assisted-driving technology Feb. 2018 – Musk says Tesla can do a coast-to-coast autonomous drive in three months, six months at most Oct. 19 – Musk says he expects that by the end of 2017 a Tesla would be able to drive in full autonomous mode from Los Angeles to New York “without the need for a single touch” on the wheel. (reut.rs/2Pk7RYI)] Oct. 2016 – Tesla begins to sell a “Full Self-Driving Capability” option in its vehicles for $3,000, on top of the $5,000 price for “Enhanced Autopilot.” Musk says full self-driving features will be rolled out in future via over-the-air updates when available. The option was removed in October 2018, then reinstated in February 2019. Oct 2016 – Musk says all new Teslas built have the hardware required for full self-driving. 2015 Oct. 15 – Tesla launches an advanced driver assistance system called Autopilot, with Musk cautioning that drivers should keep their hand on the wheel. (reut.rs/2VS8gnB)
U.S. President Trump to visit UK in June: Sky News
Soccer: Chelsea's Hudson-Odoi suffers Achilles injury in draw with Burnley
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January 9, 2019 / 11:02 AM / 6 months ago
UPDATE 1-Italy's Astaldi gets approval for 75 mln euro bridge loan
(Recasts with official statement)
ROME/MILAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Astaldi has received court approval to take out a bridge loan worth 75 million euros ($86 million), the Italian builder said on Wednesday, confirming what a source told Reuters earlier.
The Rome-based builder filed for court protection from creditors in September after being hit by delays to plans to sell a bridge in Turkey.
The loan will be provided by alternative lender Fortress. Astaldi had asked for court permission to take out the loan in December.
“This loan is functional to the pursuit of the business continuity objective up to the deadline for filing the final proposal of composition with creditors,” Astaldi said in a statement.
The loan carries an interest rate of around 16 percent, a source familiar with the matter said.
The loan could be increased by a further 125 million euros if required, although the builder has not yet made a request to the court, the source said.
Astaldi shares were up 9 percent at 1030 GMT.
Italian construction group Salini Impregilo and Japan’s IHI Corporation have made non-binding bids for Astaldi.
The source said binding bids were expected by the end of January.
$1 = 0.8724 euros Reporting by Domenico Lusi and Stephen Jewkes; editing by Jason Neely
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Male characters, Forwards, Midfielders,
Outei Tsukinomiya
Inazuma Japan (Orion)
Ares characters
Orion characters
野坂 悠馬
Heath Moore
Unnamed mother
(Forward)
(Midfielder)
10 (Outei Tsukinomiya)
14 (Inazuma Japan)
Outei Tsukinomiya (captain)
Inazuma Japan (secondary captain)
Fukuyama Jun
Nosaka Yuuma (野坂(のさか) 悠馬(ゆうま)) is one of the three protagonists in Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin, along with Haizaki Ryouhei and Inamori Asuto. He's a forward and captain for Outei Tsukinomiya. Later that, he plays as a midfielder and becomes the secondary captain for Inazuma Japan in Inazuma Eleven Orion no Kokuin.
Nosaka has pale skin tone and is quite tall in height. He also has a messy, spiky, reddish-pink hair that is swept to the left, dreary lightless-gray eyes and a crown-looking burn scar on his back. His casual clothes consists of a black short-sleeved t-shirt, dark-blue pants and white shoes. He's also seen wearing a pendant around his neck and a black bracelet on his right wrist.
In Orion season, his casual clothes has almost same style but a burnished brown t-shirt with higher collar, yellow shoes with white strip and strings.
Nosaka is shown to be a cool and calm character, but also sarcastic, dares to play ruthlessly and use any means, even risk his own life to achieve his goal. At first, he's calculated and depended on the Ares system to think of his strategy, prefer quick and effective result than the fun and enjoyment of playing soccer. However, as the series goes on, it's revealed that his goal is to help children who are in the same situation as him. He was abandoned by his parents, which results in his existence dilemma. He sees his existence as meaningless and tries to give himself a reason to live by following the Ares system. Deep inside, Nosaka really longs for affection, but he doesn't want to admit that himself, so he acts as if he weren't interested in interacting with other people. However, meeting Inamori Asuto and Haizaki Ryouhei has changed him, made him realize the joy that soccer can give people and that it's not only the tool for him to achieve results, and admit that he actually loves soccer. He's later seen to be more playful and friendlier to his friends. Even though acting modest, respectful to his seniors, he can be contemptuous and insolent to his foes, mock them that they are the weak eaten by bigger fish. This includes Haizaki during Ares season, where he supposes his team is more superior and undefeatable with a polite attitude, which makes Haizaki even more annoyed.
Nosaka seems to be a food holic, which he always enjoys eating many kind of food when spending his free time on hanging around gourmet food stalls, or while watching a match and comparing his soccer sense with food that he simply bought just to explain it, usually gives Nishikage to eat the weird one. He also becomes serious and more positively talkative when being asked about his top favorite gourmet food, describes how tasty it is by a confusing way that no one understands him.
When Mikado Anna went to see Nosaka after the match between Outei Tsukinomiya and Seishou Gakuen, Nosaka told her a bit about his past, that his mother had a breakdown and his father was always busy with work. They decided to leave him at a childcare institution, saying to Nosaka that he would have a better life there, but he knew that his parents just wanted him out of their lives. Some years after he was abandoned by his parents, an apartment went up in flames and despite the huge flames, Nosaka still went in to save a little girl. He wasn't able to go back down due to the flames, so he decided to jump down from the balcony which caused him some injuries and he also burned some parts of his back, but managed to save the girl when he jumped. He was brought to the Municipal General Hospital to get treated and he revealed to Nishikage Seiya that he lived in an institution after his parents left him.
Nosaka was watching the match between Inakuni Raimon and Seishou Gakuen, alongside Nishikage. After Kozoumaru Sasuke scored Raimon's first and only goal with his Fire Tornado, he said that their eyes made it look like they were having fun while playing soccer. Nishikage then replied that it was impossible, to which he agreed. After Inakuni Raimon lost by 1-10, Nishikage said that the result was as expected and Nosaka agreed with him, but asked him if he could investigate Inakuni Raimon a little for him. At the start of the match between Inakuni Raimon and Minodouzan, he was seen in the stands with Nishikage and they met Haizaki Ryouhei there. After a small conversation about their interests in Inakuni Raimon, they went to their own way. He was later seen watching the match between Seishou Gakuen and Kidokawa Seishuu, commenting over the match about the actions of Haizaki and Kidou Yuuto. After the match, he visited Miyano Akane and presented her flowers, which she accepted. He then talked to her about the match he watched that day and said that it was worthwhile since there were things that caught his interest. Sometime after the match between Inakuni Raimon and Mikage Sennou, Nosaka and Nishikage stopped at an ice cream shop and Nosaka bought ice creams for both of them, giving Nishikage the larger ice cream. While eating their ice creams, they were talking about Teikoku Gakuen's data that Nishikage obtained. The duo later watched the match between Inakuni Raimon and Teikoku Gakuen, Nosaka said that it was going to be an interesting one since both coaches were hiding their unknown abilities.
The duo later went to watch the Seishou Gakuen match and while looking for seats, they met Haizaki and Inamori Asuto. Nosaka said that Takemi Kousuke was at his limits, but there was no reason to be worried about him since he could easily be replaced. Haizaki overheard the conversation and became angry at Nosaka, also giving him the blame to what happened to his childhood friend Akane. Before they parted ways, Nosaka stated that it was impossible for Haizaki to beat him at the level he was. Because the opponents of Seishou Gakuen and Inakuni Raimon withdrew from their matches, both teams ended up facing each other again and the duo went to watch that match as well. Inakuni Raimon ended up winning the match and Nosaka was looking forward to see both teams at the nationals. Nishikage got a message about Takemi causing trouble and he told Nosaka that he was going to head back first, to which Nosaka responded to take care of it. When Nosaka tried to stand up, he fell down and Anna ran towards him as she saw him falling down, asking if she needed to call an ambulance. He replied that he was fine, stating that he just felt a bit dizzy and he asked her name before he left. He went to the Municipal General Hospital and visited Akane again after Haizaki left, saying to her that everything went according to plan and that she had to play along a bit longer.
Three days before the opening ceremony, Nosaka was showering, revealing a burn mark he has received some years ago and was thinking about the match between Inakuni Raimon and Seishou Gakuen. When he went outside, Nishikage came to him and said that Takemi had escaped. They managed to capture Takemi and Nosaka wondered what he was doing. He gave Takemi another chance by devoting his life to the team, but Takemi refused since he didn't want to be a part of the Ares no Tenbin program anymore, stating that he wanted to see some girl he loves. Thinking back at the encounter that Nosaka had with Anna, he let Takemi go, stating that he was useless to the team and letting him stay wouldn't change a thing. A day later, Nosaka went to Raimon and watched Inakuni Raimon train while having some thoughts. Anna saw him and he thanked her once again when she helped him back then. Goujin Tetsunosuke became angry at him for spying on their training, but Michinari Tatsumi stopped Goujin before he could do anything wrong. Nosaka stated that they didn't understand his soccer and said that the soccer they were playing was just an eyesore when Asuto started to talk to him before leaving.
Outei Tsukinomiya was present at the opening ceremony of the Football Frontier national block and Nosaka had an interview where he stated that they didn't do anything special to win and that they'll show how wonderful the Ares no Tenbin program is. Their match was against Seishou Gakuen and their coach stated that they were going to monitor every movement of them and anyone doubting the Ares no Tenbin program or disobeying orders would be punished. The match started and Nosaka quickly stole the ball and scored the first goal after the kick-off. When Haizaki became mad at Outei Tsukinomiya playing dirty, Nosaka stated that it was just logical strategy by aiming the ball for the legs to prevent them from running. After Outei Tsukinomiya scored their third goal, Nosaka stated to Haizaki that he won't be able to beat them and that he'll be changing the world with his own hands. Haizaki was able to steal the ball from Nosaka and Kidou revealed that he figured out their attack pattern, saying that Nosaka should show his abilities too. Nosaka then responded that he was not playing around, not having any seconds to waste and a flashback happened where a doctor revealed that Nosaka only had three months left to live to which he responded that it was enough to achieve his goal. During half time, the coach wasn't satisfied with the three goals they scored, saying that they should be able to score more. Nosaka then asked if Seishou Gakuen was just a normal team, but the coach didn't respond and the team returned to the field with Nosaka stating to Nishikage that his coach was the normal one here. Nosaka decided to use their forbidden tactic, Grid Omega, which caused Seishou Gakuen's coach, Kudou Michiya, to forfeit the match for the safety of his players, causing Outei Tsukinomiya to be victorious with 3-0.
After the match, Anna went to Nosaka asking if that was his soccer and he left with Nishikage after saying to Anna that it was his real soccer. He later encountered Haizaki who was angry at him for what he had done and Nosaka stated that the world needed to be changed for what happened to the children who grew up in loneliness, remembering what had happened to himself. The next day, Anna went to see Nosaka, still wondering about how he played that match and said that she could see that he loved soccer like the players from Inakuni Raimon. It made Nosaka laugh since he couldn't see himself that way and told Anna something about his past and the Ares no Tenbin program. The childcare institution he was left at used the Ares no Tenbin program to raise those children to make them high-level people with advanced abilities, having an easy life with nothing to care about. He then revealed to Anna and Asuto as well who was overhearing their conversation, that his time was running out since he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor, but that he'll accomplish his goals before his time was up.
After the match between Outei Tsukinomiya and Seishou Gakuen, Nosaka and Nishikage went to watch the match between Inakuni Raimon and Hakuren. Nosaka bought some food and shared some with Nishikage. He also wondered if Inakuni Raimon was able to figure out the strategy Hakuren was using for their coordinated teamwork. Inakuni Raimon won the match and faced Eisei Gakuen next, the duo watched that match as well. Kira Hiroto didn't show up at the start of the match and Nosaka stated that the team still shouldn't have any problem since Hiroto didn't get along with his team. After Kiyama Tatsuya injured his ankle, Nosaka wondered why he kept going despite his injury and the possibility to make his injury worse. He also wondered why both teams were getting so heated up when the end of the match was near and he was surprised that the rest of his team showed up. Sometime before the match between Inakuni Raimon and Tonegawa Tousen, Anna asked Nishikage about Nosaka's illness after seeing him leaving a store, but Nishikage stated that he had nothing to tell her since he didn't know anything about that. Nosaka visited the doctor once again and the doctor told him to not play soccer anymore due to his illness, but Nosaka refused saying that his next match will be the last one. After returning from the hospital, he ate some of his medicine while Nishikage was watching him from afar. Nishikage later confronted Nosaka about his illness, but he responded that he shouldn't be concerned about it since he'll play until the end. Nosaka went to speak with Midouin Munetada and said if Outei Tsukinomiya wins the next match, they should be allowed to leave the Ares program, reflecting back to when his team went to see him during the match between Inakuni Raimon and Hakuren. In the end, Midouin agreed with his suggestion and he stated that Outei Tsukinomiya better win their match. Nosaka made a surprise visit to Raimon, surprising the Inakuni Raimon members and he gave them the data of Outei Tsukimoya's players to make it fair for their final match. Before he left, Asuto stated that Inakuni Raimon will defeat Outei Tsukinomiya to which Nosaka responded that he was looking forward to. Anna went to him to ask if he was going to play in the match and he said that he's the captain and asked Anna to watch his final plays.
The day of the match arrived and Nosaka gave a speech to his teammates to win the match for their freedom. Before leaving the dressing room, his illness hurt him and caused him to scream. Nishikage waited for him and he said that he'll stay with Nosaka till the end to which Nosaka responded that he was counting on him a bit longer. The match then started with Nosaka's kick-off. Nosaka wanted to use Grid Omega, but Haizaki prevented it by stealing the ball. Nosaka quickly stole the ball back and used Grid Omega once again. With the whole opponent team being affected by Grid Omega, Nosaka scored the first goal for Outei Tsukinomiya, but he was surprised how quickly Inakuni Raimon got up. Outei Tsukinomiya revealed their new tactic, Rogue Press and Nosaka was able to bring the ball near Inakuni Raimon's goal net before it was stolen by Asuto. Nosaka got the ball and clashed several times with Haizaki before getting a headache from his illness. He was brought off the field and continued to suffer from his headache with Anna at his side. He later returned to the field and warned Nishikage about the feint shoot, but Nishikage failed to react on time, causing Inakuni Raimon to tie the score 1-1. Nosaka later approached Inakuni Raimon's net and used King's Lance, breaking through Iwato Takashi's The Wall and Umihara Norika's Mermaid Veil, scoring the second goal for Outei Tsukinomiya. The first half ended and Asuto gave a speech to Haizaki and Nosaka about their plays, causing them to think about it and Nosaka went to talk to Midouin and later to his team. The second half started and Nosaka used Sky Walk to dodge Okuiri Hiro. He used King's Lance twice, but both attempts were stopped with the first attempt by Norika's Mermaid Veil and Haizaki, the second one was by Asuto and Kozoumaru's Counter Drive. When Goujin was about to use his hissatsu, Nosaka stole the ball, but Asuto recovered the ball and passed the ball back to Goujin, who scored the winning goal for Inakuni Raimon with his Fire Lemonade. Outei Tsukinomiya lost the match and Nosaka went to see Midouin again, saying that the Ares program will stop with all the data he had obtained. Exiting the room with Haizaki, Anna confronted Nosaka about his illness, but he stated that she had nothing to worry about since he was going to have the surgery. Asuto, Haizaki and Nosaka then went to a nearby tower and promised each other to play soccer again fair and friendly.
Asuto and Haizaki visited Nosaka in the hospital sometime before the ceremony where the members of Inazuma Japan were announced. While Nosaka was packing his bags for heading to America for his surgery, he was selected as a midfielder of team, with Nishikage as a goalkeeper as well. He later parted ways with Nishikage at the airport. Nosaka flew back to Japan, saying that his surgery was successful and went to the stadium where the match between Inazuma Japan and Eternal Dancers was held. He went to his locker room where he changed his clothes into Inazuma Japan uniform. While he was slowly walking towards through the tunnel, he met coach Zhao Jinyun, who said to him he should start warming up, before he entered the field. The team was very excited, when they saw Nosaka. The coach told him that he would replace Endou Mamoru during this match. Anna approached to him with captain's band in hand, which Nosaka took with smile. Haizaki asked if he was alright and Nosaka ensured that he was ok now and could play. When the match was resumed he comforted Nishikage who was worrying about conceding two goals. He started to give instructions to his teammates and the quality of their play increased significantly. With Nosaka on the field the team easily managed to score their first goal. Eternal Dancers knew that he was team's current pillar of support and destroying him would break down the team, their morale would fall as well. They started to attack him but Nosaka easily avoided all rough plays, stating that he was used to that kind of game, besides he watched the first half of a match and knew what should expect of them. In his flashback he was seen talking with his doctor in the hospital. It was revealed that his surgery was succeeded but now he couldn't overwork his body because he wasn't in the same condition anymore. The doctor advised him to give up participation in the tournament. Nosaka was seen later at the park, sitting at the bench worrying about his play and thinking that the team would manage somehow without him. Suddenly he noticed a rolling ball and a young boy who apparently was a patient in this hospital as well. They started talking about playing soccer and the boy said that despite his illness he didn't give up soccer, he loved to play and he knew that one day he would again enjoy the real game. He loved to watch Japan's team and decided to support them while playing. Thanks to the soccer, he didn't lose hope for healing. Nosaka snapped his pessimistic thoughts. He loved soccer and wanted to play as well, despite the illness and restrictions imposed on him. Nosaka started to train hard to be again in good form to join his team and fight for victory. As he said, he didn't have to be an emperor, he just wanted to play soccer and enjoy it.
When Nosaka back to reality, he was able to create new hissatsu technique Gekkoumaru Tsubame Gaeshi and scored the third goal for Japan. The hard game of the Uzbekistan began to be troublesome for Inazuma Japan, they were slowly loosing strength instead of Eternal Dancers who were known for their infinite stamina. When Dost Gales was trying to shot again with Diamond Dust, Nishikage managed to create new technique Artemis Ring and easily stopped the ball. When Eternal Dancers kept pressure on Inazuma Japan, Nosaka asked Kazemaru about special training he requested. It was revealed that Nosaka called earlier to Kazemaru and asked him for favour to conduct a special practice with the team. According to the training, they initiated a new tactic that turned out to be Grid Omega version 2.0. Uzbekistan's players were swallowed by powerful air whirls and then thrown to the field. Nosaka kicked the ball gently which was rolling slowly and no one was able to stop it. Inamori Asuto seemed to be stunned by what happened, the same as Haizaki. Nosaka explained that if they knew that they were training for the Grid Omega, they wouldn't be putting it in practice. In this situation it was the only solution. Onakhon Ims was overwhelmed by their tactic and considered it unfair. He was looking for help from the referee, but the previous one was changed after the coach's intervention. Nosaka explained that with his own hands would change the world and was ready for anything if someone attacked his country.
When the match was resumed, the Uzbekistan initiated their Eternal Run tactic but they were unable to finish it because of their exhaustion. Asuto got the ball and scored the fourth goal for Inazuma Japan. After the match ended everyone praised Nosaka for his play, he humbly thanked because he didn't think it was only his merit. Later, he talked to Asuto in their locker room, when suddenly a man from the FFI office appeared and said he must check his locker. When he found only a small box with chocolate candies, Nosaka revealed that he liked to eat something sweet after match ended. Later he confronted with Ichihoshi Mitsuru who kept asking what he's done. Nosaka explained him that he accidentally put candies into Ichihoshi's locker but somehow he found it later in his locker. He wanted to share candies with Ichihoshi, but he was furious. When Endou came back from the arrest, Nosaka greeted him, stating that it was an honor to meet him finally. He said that would really try to become a player like Endou was, which irritated Haizaki because he didn't think he was someone who played up to seniors. But Nosaka responded that everything what he said was sincerely. Later coach Zhao revealed to the team true about the Orion Foundation and the tournament. He confirmed that Ichihoshi was like a spy sent to Inazuma Japan. Nosaka understood that if they kept winning the Orion organization would begin to come apart. When the team agreed that Ichihoshi should be eliminated from them, Endou revealed them that Ichihoshi lost his father in a car accident and the Orion Foundation took care of him. That's why he was now unable to go against their wishes. The team was divided, some wanted to help Ichihoshi, and others disagreed stating that all what he's done so far was unforgivable. Then Iwato Takashi revealed that Ichihoshi had a younger brother who was serious ill and Ichihoshi cooperate with the Orion Foundation to cure him. Nosaka agreed that there were different ways to help his brother for example set up a fundraiser to cover his surgery. Now they should focus on saving Ichihoshi's soul, but in the way that wouldn't raise suspicions of Orion, otherwise they could target on Ichihoshi. Nosaka stated that he had an idea.
Before the match with Saudi Arabia's team Phoenix Army of Arab started, Nosaka and Nishikage prepared training with the special device, so the team could learn how to avoid fouls. Nosaka revealed to Kazemaru Ichirouta and Fubuki Shirou that there was an important role that he wished for them to play in the next match. During the meal he was interested in coach's home made fried rice. He was wondering how it tasted since Li Kobun didn't like it at all, saying it was nasty. Then Nosaka put a portion on his and Nishikage's plate. When the match began, Saudi Arabia's players started to play rough and quickly injured Kazemaru and Fubuki. They had to be replaced by Iwato and Mansaku Yuuichirou. Despite all of the troubles Inazuma Japan managed to score their first goal. Ichihoshi couldn't believe what was going on, he thought that team would immediately fall apart after they lost two players. Nosaka looked at him and thought that Ichihoshi was the only one who fell into a trap.
The match was resumed and Nosaka was watching at Ichihoshi who seemed to be more and more impatient and struggling with his doubts. He stated that Ichihoshi would be the only one who decided how this scenario ended. Later he passed the ball to Asuto, saying that he could change Ichihoshi. When Ichihoshi got the ball, despite himself started to run towards the goal. However he didn't score which caused him more frustrated. After that he got new orders from Andreas Bebo that he should now target Nosaka and aim at his head. When Nosaka stole the ball from the opponents and used an overhead, the team was surprised because it wasn't something usual for Nosaka. But Hiura Kirina revealed that if Nosaka got more hits at head, he might not be able to play anymore. Ichihoshi heard their conversation and felt like he was trapped. When later Nosaka jumped into the air to catch the ball, Ichihoshi approached him with his leg really close to his head. He kicked the ball and they both fell on the field. Nosaka came to Ichihoshi with his hand and smiled, saying that he chose to face with his real self. He had so many feelings hidden inside, now he should be honest with his heart and it would show him the right path. Ichihoshi felt relieved and with Nosaka's help stood up. Hiura explained to Asuto Haizaki that Nosaka's plan was to give Ichihoshi choice. He could kept lying himself and played corrupt soccer or be honest and pursue real soccer. Nosaka trusted Ichihoshi, that was why he risked and put his own life at stake. Coach Zhao stated that it was something what could be expected from the man who wanted to change the world.
Later when Ichihoshi got hit by the falling meteors from Red Hot Chili Meteor, Nosaka with Asuto helped him to leave from the field. While Ichihoshi was worrying that he was trying to hurt people, Nosaka stated that he didn't hurt anyone, in any case not during this match. When Kazemaru and Fubuki appeared at the team, everyone was shocked. It was revealed that they had special training prepared by Nosaka, so they could pretend that got injured if they were fouled. Nosaka thanked Ichihoshi that he protected him earlier and revealed that he didn't need to worry about him because he bluffed about problems with his head. It was the part of his plan to change Ichihoshi. When Kira Hiroto proposed that his father would loan money for surgery of Ichihoshi's brother, Nosaka stated that it wouldn't be necessary and coach Zhao revealed that in a hospital, where Ichihoshi's brother supposed to be, there was nobody. Nosaka explained to the team that Ichihosi had older brother earlier and Zhao added that he died with their father in a car accident years ago. Kudou Michiya revealed that now Ichihoshi had a dual personality, which shocked Iwato who was wondering with whom he was writing letters. Nosaka said that it was Ichihoshi himself, who behave like younger brother Hikaru while he was in a hospital, and outside the older brother Mitsuru was taking control. The team decided that Ichihoshi would play in a match in order to help him. Everyone were trying to pass ball to Ichihoshi and protected him from the opponent's players. While he was playing, he managed to resign himself to the thought that his brother was dead and united with him. Nosaka smiled and said that he finally met Ichihoshi Hikaru. He stated that with his true abilities Ichihoshi was able to figure out all features of his opponents and their weak points. The match ended when Inazuma Japan scored two goals and the team celebrated their winning. In the evening Ichihoshi disappeared and was found by Asuto and Haizaki while he was going to leave the camp. Nosaka came to him, stating that he was interested in Ichihoshi and because he caused a lot of trouble to his team, now he should take responsibility for that. That was why Nosaka, as an tactical emperor, wanted Ichihoshi to be his supporter. He admitted that Ichihoshi had an extraordinary abilities of analytical thinking and it was necessary and very useful for the team.
Nosaka gave an interview to Kimura Yousuke, who was going to prepare special feature for the Monthly World Soccer. Kimura asked him to mention about the best three that left the biggest impression. Because Nosaka liked to walk around places and eat something good with his teammate Nishikage, Kimura asked him about the best outdoor gourmet foods. Nosaka listed ice cream with unusual flavor of habanero pepper, sweet rabbit manjuu and yakisoba with sandwich set. The second question concerned three best hissatsu techniques that he wanted to object to. Nosaka mentioned five: Overhead Penguin, Moja Catch, Mokkori Oka no Moai, Flash Dance and finally Fire Lemonade. Before Kimura left, Nosaka told that he was looking forward to reading his article.
During the meeting before the match with Chinese team Soccer Acrobatic Troupe, coach Zhao revealed to the team true identity of Li Kobun. In fact he was Li Hao, a forward from the Chinese team and Zhao's supporter since he became the coach of Inakuni Raimon. When Nosaka heard that he said with smile that this certainly involved a lot more than mere spying. Li explained that his intention was to level up the Japan's team and they had bigger goal than winning the FFI tournament. Later he told the team about his past and when he left Nosaka kept asking what was their main goal, that Li mentioned before. Coach Zhao confirmed that they wanted to destroy the Orion Foundation from the roots and free soccer. Nosaka together with Ichihoshi were preparing for the upcoming match with China, analyzing data about that team. Nosaka praised Ichihoshi as an emperor supporter, to his teammates. Everyone was really impressed of his current work and deeply commitment.
Nosaka and Ichihoshi watched Goujin who was very excited before the upcoming match with China. When Ichihoshi was worrying if he should pushing himself like that, after Goujin felt pain kicking with his leg, Nosaka confirmed this with smile, stating that his abilities were necessary. Later when Nishikage and Saginuma Osamu entered the field and were trying to protect the goal with three players, Nosaka had to kick the ball off because their technique wasn't completed yet. Nishikage said sorry for that but Nosaka didn't mind. He promised Endou to watch them until they succeeded. Nishikage wasn't sure about that, stating that Nosaka wouldn't be able to participate in attacks if he focused on protecting the goal. However Nosaka explained that in that situation the more important than attack was preventing points. He did as he said and helped them several times until they finally united and created new hissatsu technique The Asura, thanks which they blocked Li Hao's shot. Now Inazuma Japan could concentrate their efforts on the attacks. Tao Lu was trying to steal the ball from Nosaka, but he passed her easily and kicked it to Haizaki. However The Penguin God & Devil was blocked by Kung Fuche and his technique Ryuujin Tessen. Li Hao passed by Nosaka stating that all their hissatsu have been accounted for, what first seemed to affected Nosaka, but later he smirked.
When Chinese team used their tactic Shourinji Kousoku Juuhachijin Nosaka started to worry how to outsmart them. He stated that this technique caused optical illusion due to the enormous speed of the players. According to Nosaka, they had to train in kung fu and thanks to that they sharpened their abilities on master level. When Ichihoshi wasn't ready with his analysis and asked for more time, Nosaka agreed but at the same moment he wasn't sure if it wouldn't determine the match's fate. Nosaka was seen later in Goujin's flashback, when he was about to enter the field. Nosaka told him that Fire Lemonade indeed had its speed and the explosive power but there wasn't weight in it. It wasn't enough to beat the world players as well. When Goujin was wondering how to improve it, Nosaka revealed that he had a plan. He told Goujin that he should climb the Mount Fuji while dribbling and had 10 hours to do it, before the sunrise. After the match resumed and China used again their tactic Shourinji Kousoku Juuhachijin, Nosaka told Asuto to use his Inabikari Dash to mark the Chinese captain. Thanks to this the illusion disappeared. When Goujin scored a goal for Inazuma Japan using his Fire Lemonade Rising, Nosaka gathered with the others and watched Goujin's joy with smile.
When China used their tactic Minna de Jiangshi which completely blocked Japan, Nosaka looked at Ichihoshi who kept analyzing Chinese team. Later they used again Minna de Jangshi and Nosaka ordered to the team to gather around Asuto. Although they didn't understand his plan, they did what he said. Thanks to his strategy they managed to score second goal, after Ichihoshi ran away and passed the ball to Fudou Akio. Later Ichihoshi informed Nosaka that his analysis of the Chinese team was completed, making Nosaka happy. When China used again Mouko Shuurai Japan initiated their new tactic The General with Ichihoshi sending all data to Nosaka who passed it further to players, leading them through the exact path. This strategy was succeeded and Inazuma Japan scored the 3rd goal with Haizaki's new shot Shark The Deep. Everyone was excited but the match wasn't over yet. Chinese team attacked one more time and Li managed to steal the ball from Goujin, using with Zhou their new technique Tenhou Chiretsu. The power of this shot started to push Endou through the goal. Nosaka, Asuto and Haizaki immediately came to him and supported the three goalkeepers to protect Japan's goal. The match ended with Inazuma Japan winning with a score 3-2. Later both teams thanked each other for play, with Nosaka stating that soccer they played was really satisfying and honest. At the end he told that they would never forget this match.
The team was invited for the send-off party on the luxury ship, held by the World Soccer Association. Japan's managers, Kino Aki and Kazeaki Yone dressed up and made a huge impression on the players, who were used to their sportswear and casual clothes. Nosaka smiled and praised them for their resplendent look, which made Anna blushed. Later Nosaka joined Kidou and Gouenji while they were talking about Gouenji's injury and his shot Last Resort. When Kidou denied possibility to inherit Gouenji's shot by the other player, Nosaka explained that it could be done by three people.
When coach Zhao told the team to back to their schools before the departure to Russia, Haizaki asked Nosaka what was he going to do since Outei Tsukonomiywa had no longer a soccer club. Nosaka stated that he would think about what to do next, after Inazuma Japan finish playing. Later while they were on the bus, Nishikage asked what was the point of going back to school. Nosaka replied that in fact, since the school doesn't have a soccer club, the return is irrelevant. Instead, they should go to the restaurant in the area and eat something good. Than he looked at Nishikage and asked with smile if that was the meaning of his question. Nosaka explained that they were still Outei students, no matter if there was soccer club or not, they should come and say hello to the old teammates. When they came at the stadium Nosaka stated that this was the only place that they could come back to. When Nishikage told that only thanks to Nosaka Outei became one of the top teams in Japan, Nosaka didn't agree that it was his merit, stating that the team achieved everything thanks to their special skills and abilities. He added that would like to play with them again. To their much surprise suddenly the whole team appeared before them. Mitchiba explained that the soccer club was rebuilt since Midouin lost his position and Ares system was cancelled. Now they could play like the other teams, without any restrictions. They warmly welcomed Nosaka and Nishikage and congratulated them their winning in the preliminaries. Michiba Atsunori asked about Nosaka's health and he confirmed that everything was good now. Unexpectedly Takemi appeared saying sorry to Nosaka for his return to the team. He explained that he couldn't restrain himself since he heard that the team was different now. Nosaka stated that gaining power at the expense of our own humanity didn't make sense and Takemi Kousuke was right before. It was now Nosaka's duty to apologize him first. Later watching the players practicing, Nosaka stated that now the team finally discovered its true self. Nishikage was wondering if the same happened to Nosaka, who was the only person that could change the world. Nishikage promised to support him in every matter he would take and Nosaka smiled that if necessary he would use his help.
During the flight, Nosaka was talking with Nishikage about their opponents and confirmed that Spain was considered the strongest team in their group. He was also wondering about the data of the Russian team, which were contrary to the official informations from the tournament. Yuri Rodina, for example, played as a goalkeeper in a friendly match, and now was mentioned as a forward. As always Nosaka took care of Nishikage and gave him a solid portion of satsuma-age. At the airport, they met Spanish team and American Star Unicorn. Nosaka introduced himself to Ichinose Kazuya and praised him for his abilities and skills, thanks which he was appointed for American team, although he was a Japanese player. When Froy Girikanan revealed that the Russian players could freely change their positions and techniques depending on the current situation on the field, Nosaka stated that they wouldn't be able to use The General against them. Later Froy denied that the Russian team had something common with The Orion Foundation, which shocked everyone. When the team was waiting for the bus, the players talked about the first match between Raimon and Spain, in which they were badly defeated. However, thanks to this, they started fight to raise the level of the Japanese soccer, they all improved their skills and strengthened the teams which later they joined. Nosaka was very proud of being a member of Inazuma Japan, stating that this team had a chance of winning the tournament. He knew that Haizaki thought the same way, even though he tried to pretend to be indifferent.
When they arrived at Kazan city, Nosaka went to buy some specialities of the region. Nishikage was shocked when he saw the huge amount of snacks. They were wondering once again about the teams they were going to face with. The most unpredictable was Russia since they were able to change their positions any time during the match. Nosaka stated that Russian team was just like those dishes, even he who bought them didn't know now which was which. There were things that you couldn't say anything about them, before you tried them. Nishikage asked if Nosaka bought food only to say that but he laughed that they should try local goodies. During the dinner at the restaurant Inazuma Japan met some members of Spanish team. Endou and Clario proposed to organize an eating contest and Nosaka persuaded Nishikage to join them. However, finally Nishikage was dropped out and Clario drew with Endou. Later at the Kazan Soccer Center the team was practicing with their new physical trainer Sekiya Tomoari who prepared for everyone personalized exercise schedule which Nosaka considered as a reasonable. When they finished practice, Gouenji revealed Nosaka, Haizaki and Asuto that they were chosen to inherit his Last Resort. Nosaka explained that with three people they were able to attain that goal. However, later they were grappling with this technique and they couldn't succeed it. Their ordeals were stopped by unexpected appearance of Fubuki Atsuya who intercepted the ball and scored the goal instead of the trio. Later Sekiya noticed the huge leak of data about Inazuma Japan and for everyone it was obvious that they had another traitor in their team.
The match with Spain started badly for Japan. Clario easily scored the first goal after Endou wasn't able to stop his shot Diamond Ray. However Nosaka stated that maybe Spain was on the world's top but they were still humans like Japan's players, they had certainly some weaknesses. When Atsuya shot with Hissatsu Kumagoroshi Zan Nosaka noticed that Spanish goalkeeper Alonso Fibiano moved to the right corner like he knew where the ball would go. It looked like he anticipated Atsuya's shot course. Later Japan outsmarted Alonso when Fubuki shot with his brother first goal using Hyouketsu no Gungnir. When Ichihoshi finished the analysis of the Spanish team, he stated that their weakness was actually their physical strength. Nosaka said they could use it to gain an advantage. He told the coach that he wanted Haizaki to continue playing in the match. Haizaki kept insisting that he could still play and with Sekiya's help he recovered quickly. Nosaka wondered why Alonso wasn't able to stop the Fubuki brothers' shot, he must have had a secret that helped him do this. Later Ichihoshi explained him that Alonso could predict where the ball would go just looking at the player's eyes. Nosaka stated that if so, it might be surprisingly easy to outsmart him. He told the other players that he had a plan and soon after along with Ichihoshi initiated tactic The General and sent instructions to the team. The strategy turned out to be a success when Atsuya scored the second goal for Japan, tying with Spain. However, when the match was resumed, Spain in the blink of an eye scored another goal using a technique Twin Lancer that blinded the Japanese players, not giving them even a chance for any reaction. Clario explained that they also analyzed Japan's team and their weaknesses, so Japan had no chances to win.
Japan's players were dismayed after what had happened. Nosaka stated that they were a team that always relied on a teamwork and trusted themselves 100%. However they didn't take into account that during such a difficult match fatigue and stress would significantly reduce the quality of their game and their passes wouldn't be as accurate as before. Both Nosaka and Ichihoshi noticed it too late. Nosaka stated that currently none of them had skills to precisely calculate the level of fatigue of each player individually. When all of them stood up worrying that they had lost their advantage so quickly, Endou called Nosaka and Asuto, informing them that it was time to use their trump card. Nosaka was so taken over by the current troublesome situation that he misunderstood what Endo was saying and thought they should use Gouenji's technique to score a goal. Nosaka approached Ichihoshi and explained what they were planning to do. Although Ichihoshi understood that this technique wasn't yet refined, it had a great strength so it could succeed. Nosaka told Asuto and Haizaki that if they use Last Resort at the end of the match, they shouldn't strain their legs too much. They could either shoot or miss, there was only one chance. They started to pass themselves the ball, running towards the Spanish goal and to everyone's surprise they shot. Although the shot looked powerful Domelgo Dominguez, Rufino Avalos and Clario stopped it using new technique The Shelter. As Nosaka stated their Last Resort in its present form could be just a prototype. Endou called them again and said that they left too early before he could explain anything. Nosaka apologized for his behavior and Endou told that their secret weapon was Asuto himself. Even though Nosaka hesitated and wasn't sure if it would be effective, they decided to use Endou's idea. While they were playing before using perfect teamwork, now they trusted Asuto and his amazing dribbling skills thanks which he wasn't stopped during the whole match. While he was passing the ball to other teammates, he was able to adapt to their skills and different styles of play. His ability to control the ball has improved significantly. Ichihoshi was amazed how Endou could accurately judge the situation from the goalkeeper's position but according to Nosaka it could have been more intuition than analytical sense. Finally no one was able to stop Asuto, Spanish players were completely surprised by his individual play and even more so when he scored the third goal, tying 3-3. As it turned out later, none of the teams had a chance to improve the result because the match soon ended. Despite the draw Japan was still able to leave the group.
The news about Russian team who lost with America, clearly shocked everyone. Nosaka stated that now American team was the leader in the group A. Asuto proposed to go their camp to spy them. When they arrived Endou introduced formally Nosaka, Haizaki and Asuto to his old teammates. It turned out that Ichinose and Domon Asuka knew already some facts about them. Later Dylan Keith and Mark Kruger appeared and challenged them in a mini-game. Finally friendly match ended with Japan's winning when Endou scored directly from his position. Inazuma Japan's members were watching Endou, Domon and Ichinose with smile and Nosaka stated that the old bonds with Endou's friends didn't change at all. Later unexpectedly three helicopters flew with a group of people dressed in military uniforms. The events which took place later shocked everyone. First American coach Mack Scride was arrested and replaced by Bahat Descom. Soon after Navy Invader challenged Star Unicorn for the match which would settle who would be the representative team for America in the FFI tournament. The match began and Nosaka suddenly realized that the opponent's moves were precisely planned to decoy America into the ambush. First Michele Jacks was hit by the laser when the goalkeeper used unusual technique Gunji Eisei Phobos to stop the ball and later initiated tactic Jiraigen which injured all players by series of the explosions. When the match ended Bahat told that they were looking forward to playing with Inazuma Japan. Everyone stood in disbelief what just has happened. Nosaka stated quietly that apparently they all were the disciples of Orion. Later they came back to the campground and informed everyone about the last events. When Ichihoshi was wondering if Navy Invader was the team affiliated with Orion, Nosaka explained that in fact they haven't seen any seals. However considering their unique style of play and coordinated moves there was high possibility that they were all disciples.
During the match with Navy Invader, everyone realized that their abilities were really strong, even without using dirty tricks. They quickly scored the first goal and when Japan later tied 1-1, America initiated their tactic Jiraigen which completely barred Japan's way. Watching them Nosaka remembered their match with Star Unicorn and strange opponent's moves which overwhelmed American team. Later Fudou was hit by the explosion of mine and Nosaka stated firmly that it wasn't possible that they activated real explosives on the field. When the same happened to Hiura, Nosaka ordered everyone to make fine passes and not let them to be surrounded. This strategy was effective only for a short time. Nosaka was frantically searching the answer and when Sakanoue Noboru was hit by the explosion, Nosaka suddenly noticed the true about mines on the field. He approached to his teammates and understood that Aphrodi figured it out as well. Nosaka explained that when Navy Invader set up Jiraigen, it looked as if they were running randomly. However doing this they crashed the wind and created the tornadoes. Ichihoshi asked how they were able to notice it. Nosaka stated that when Sakanoue was hit, the mine exploded even before he touched the ground. The name of this tactic suggested that something was set up underground but in real it was three-dimensional. Later Aphrodi scored the second goal for Japan and although they were in the lead, Navy Invader soon used another dirty tricks and quickly tied 2-2. Nosaka asked Aphrodi if they completed their technique and the latter confirmed it. Later Nosaka passed the ball to Aphrodi, who rushed towards the goal with Hiroto. When Iwato joined them Nosaka explained that he was spinning around with huge speed, although he seemed to stand without moving. Finally Japan scored the third goal after the trio used their new technique GGG Senjou no Aria.
When unexpectedly Bahat Descom was replaced by Star Unicorn's coach Mack Scride, Navy Invader didn't know what to do. Left by their commander and without his orders, they stood helpless on the field, unable to think for themselves. Nosaka stated that they could be excellent soldiers, but they weren't perfect soccer players. It was a chance for Japan, so Nosaka rushed through the field, passing the ball to Haizaki who shot using his technique Shark The Deep. However, to everyone's surprise, Ichinose, Domon and Mark appeared in front of the goal and blocked the shot. Then Ichinose revealed his plan, telling the members of Navy Invader to destroy him with the ball. Nosaka was listening to him in disbelief and watched how they focused their attack on Ichinose, aiming at him directly with a huge strength. This tactic turned out to be successful when America scored the 3rd goal, tying with Japan. In the last minutes of the match, both teams kept fighting fiercely for another point, but in the end Inazuma Japan won with the result 4-3, when Aphrodi scored the winning goal.
Before the next match against Russia, Inazuma Japan were watching their match with Spain. As it turned out Perfect Spark won with the score 6-0. Nosaka stated that Russia has changed their positions from the last match, according to Froy's words they could play any position. He agreed when Ichihoshi stated that Russia wasn't playing dirty. Froy's movements were extraordinary and Nosaka suspected that he must have been going easy so far. It was even possible that they lost intentionally in the match against America, but if they weren't the members of Orion, why would they do so. When later everyone was wondering what happened to Asuto and why his father appeared just like that in Russia, the team decided to find him. Nosaka stated that it was worth to check, the more that it seemed to be very suspicious. The next day at breakfast coach announced that Asuto contacted him and now he was staying with his father, he would probably return later but everything was all right. Nosaka didn't believe in these assurances. When he was leaving he asked Zhao if he was lying talking about Asuto. Coach denied and Nosaka asked him to confirm at least whether Asuto was safe, which Zhao confirmed. Nosaka was wondering if there was something else they should worry about. During the training a new member appeared before the team and it was a huge shock for everyone. Kozoumaru Sasuke grew up, became serious and looked like a Gouenji's clone. After the mini-game with Saginuma and Atsuya, Nosaka stated that Kozoumaru achieved a significant growth, which Gouenji confirmed. Later Nosaka along with Haizaki were practicing to master Last Resort, but without Asuto they couldn't finish it.
As Nosaka stated Russia wasn't an easy opponent to beat. They all could change their positions depending on the situation on the field. Soon after the kick-off Japan lost the ball and Russia attacked, with Froy scoring the first goal with his technique Innocent Drive. When the match resumed the team got new orders to apply super aggressive tactics, Nosaka used Sky Walk and passed Shamil Trubetskoy easily. Watching later Kozoumaru, Japan's members judged his abilities as average, although he played with great confidence. Nosaka didn't agree with them, stating that his plays were good, however now he was more static the dynamic. Soon Kozoumaru scored the first goal for Japan and everyone appreciated his abilities. Lataer Ichihoshi stole the ball from Froy using Blue Stardust and Nosaka wondered if they could counterattack. He passed the ball to Hiura who shot using Koori no Yari, but Russian goalkeeper protected the goal without any problems. When Russia iniated their tactic Aurora Wave everyone understood that something was wrong. Later Inazuma Japan realized that the opponent used tear gas against them and Nosaka explained how Aurora Wave worked. As he stated it obstructed the opponent's view and thanks to this players were able to get through the defense, using passes and dribbling. Ichichoshi added that this tactic was like a cover to do something else and it turned out that Russia used tear gas. Because Aurora Wave created wind, gas didn't affect Russian players' positions.
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He's known as The Emperor of Tactics or The Tactical Emperor (戦術(せんじゅつ)の皇帝(こうてい), Senjutsu no Koutei).
His dub title is Tactician's Tactician.
Nosaka (野坂) means field (野) and hill (坂), which is based on Outei Tsukinomiya's name motif nature, as well as other players in his team.
According to Nishikage Seiya in Orion's episode 1, his most favorite food is watermelon.
In Yo-kai Watch: Puni Puni, his favorite is ice cream.
According to Akihiro Hino's interview in Animage November 2018, Nosaka's parents probably divorced and never came back to meet him, after leaving him at Eisai Children Center (英才(えいさい)こどもセンター).
According to Nosaka's Licenses, he had to take an intense training so that he can comeback to play healthily for Inazuma Japan, by his blindly love for soccer.
According to Hino's developer blog, bald Nosaka was planned to be animated, which was what he would've looked like after surgery. However, it was strongly opposed by female staff, so they introduced it as an April Fool's joke.
According to Inazuma Walker, Akihiro Hino revealed that his weird sitting posture is not an original concept, but from a random sketch of an animator staff.
In the fifth blog, Hino said that it was difficult to adjust Nosaka's sitting from normal pose to his well-known Emperor's Sitting style, which he wanted to recreate in-game to keep character's image.
In the Italian dub of episode 25, Nosaka erroneously states that his name is Heathcliff Moore.
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Nishikage Seiya • Michiba Atsunori • Kousaka Ranto • Sakuraba Haruki • Hanasaki Taizen • Okuno Hosomichi • Tanizaki Yoshiya • Okano Kousuke • Kusaka Gen • Nosaka Yuuma • Haoto Ichiya • Takemi Kousuke
Takemi Kousuke (Moved to the first team)
Arashi Shinjirou
Endou Mamoru • Sakanoue Noboru • Fudou Akio • Fubuki Shirou • Kidou Yuuto • Kazemaru Ichirouta • Hiura Kirina • Inamori Asuto • Kira Hiroto • Gouenji Shuuya • Haizaki Ryouhei • Goujin Tetsunosuke • Ichihoshi Hikaru • Nosaka Yuuma • Kiyama Tatsuya • Afuro Terumi • Iwato Takashi • Mansaku Yuuichirou • Saginuma Osamu • Nishikage Seiya • Kozoumaru Sasuke • Fubuki Atsuya • Umihara Norika
Zhao Jinyun • Kudou Michiya
Mikado Anna • Ootani Tsukushi
Kazeaki Yone • Kino Aki • Li Kobun • Raimon Natsumi • Sekiya Tomoari • Pampietta Scoglio
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social media platform for kids
Rajul Kadakia & Michael Adair: Creating a social media platform called PixyKids
Update: On July 24, 2012, the company announced the launch of an open beta and in a change in name from PixyKids to Kazaana.
About PixyKids, think pixels, not fairy dust. That’s because the Menlo Park-based start is about digital content curated and created by kids, not what rains down from Tinkerbell’s magic wand.
The company, which is launching with a closed beta this month, aspires to become the go-to social platform where kids age six through 12 can create their own content — photos, videos, artwork and projects — through interactive tools and apps, connecting and sharing with family and friends along the way. Founder and CEO Rajul Kadakia, whose inspiration for the company came from memory books she created for families while running another company, likens kids being active on PixyKids to neighborhood play.
“I’m a parent and as long as I know and approve of who my kids are playing with I’m ok,” she said. “I don’t need to be on the playground — I already trust the friends.”
That said, the kids who are interacting on PixyKids are not completely unsupervised. COO Michael Adair explained that there are three levels of moderation: “There’s machine moderation, which monitors text and flag anything inappropriate, human moderation by a community manager, and the kids themselves, who can flag inappropriate content.”
Continues Rajul: “While kids are free to interact and create their own digital presence that is curated by them, parents have a dashboard where they can manage the friends. What we’re attempting to do is build quality relationships.”
The site, which features customizable 3D avatars and backgrounds in addition to offering text, video chat, email and a personal URL, is compliant with COPPA, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
“Today’s kids are aspirational and tech-savvy,” said Rajul. “Both kids and parents are demanding a digital platform where they can share their everyday personal experiences, express themselves creatively, and build the lasting bonds that are so critical in these formative years.”
Note re the popcorn in the photos: How do you make a start up office space on the second floor of a downtown building as fun as the product they’re working to create? Make sure there’s a popcorn machine, which photographer Scott R. Kline took advantage of as a prop!
Photos by Scott R. Kline
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How Exercise May Make Us Healthier
Deja un comentario 22 enero, 2019 institutoflash786
People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bloodstreams than those who are generally sedentary.
People who exercise have different proteins moving through their bloodstreams than people who do not, according to an interesting new study of the inner landscapes of sedentary and active people.
The proteins in question affect many different aspects of our bodies, from immune response and blood-sugar levels to wound healing, so the new findings may bring us closer to understanding just how exercise enhances our health at a deep, molecular level.
By now, we can all agree, I hope, that being physically active is good for us. It raises fitness, reduces disease risks, lengthens life spans, improves heart health and, in multiple other discrete ways, makes us stronger and more well.
But scientists have surprisingly little full knowledge of just how exercise accomplishes all of this. They can see or measure most of the desirable outcomes of being active. But many of the underlying, intricate physiological steps involved remain mysterious.
In the past several years, though, there has been growing scientific interest in delving into the various “’omics” of exercise. In broad terms, “’omics” refers to the identification and study of molecules related to different biological processes and how they work together. Genomics, for example, looks at molecules related to the operations of genes; metabolomics at those involved in our metabolisms, and so on.
But one of the more compelling ’omics fields is proteomics, because it focuses on proteins, which are expressed by genes and subsequently jump-start countless other physiological processes throughout our bodies.
Proteins are at the heart of our busy interior biology.
But almost nothing has been known about the proteomics of people who exercise and whether and how they might differ from those of people who rarely move and what it might mean if they do.
So, for the new study, which was published in November in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, set out to look at various people’s proteins.
They first gathered 31 healthy young men and women, about half of whom exercised regularly, while the rest did not. They also recruited an additional group of 16 healthy middle-aged and older men, half of whom were physically active and half of whom were sedentary.
They measured everyone’s aerobic fitness and markers of their health, including blood pressure and insulin control. Then they drew blood and sent it for proteomics analysis.
In this study, the analysis looked for the presence or absence of about 1,100 known proteins and also for complicated, teensy physiological indicators showing that certain proteins had or had not been expressed, or activated, at about the same time as one another or otherwise were interrelated.
The analysis found that, over all, about 800 of the proteins in the volunteers’ blood bore marks showing that they were interrelated.
The analysts grouped these proteins together based on how related they seemed to be. Ultimately they wound up with 10 different “modules” of proteins that they concluded were likely to be working in tandem with one another to perform various physiological tasks.
Each module contained anywhere from 14 to more than 500 related proteins, although the amounts of each protein within a module could vary from person to person.
Interestingly, the 800 proteins included many that already are known to be involved in health-related processes, such as starting or slowing inflammation and other immune-system responses.
Finally, the analysts checked to see whether the makeup of the 10 modules differed in people who were active.
And many did. In five of the modules, in fact, levels of certain proteins varied, sometimes substantially, if someone exercised compared to if he or she were sedentary. Many of the differences were apparent both in the younger participants and those in middle age.
Perhaps most important, the researchers also found correlations between the makeup of people’s modules and their health. People who exercised and had similarities in various protein levels also tended to have desirable blood pressures and insulin responses, with the opposite true for the inactive volunteers.
These data suggest that changes in protein levels are likely to be integral to the complex process by which a workout becomes wellness.
But many of the intervening steps remain elusive, says Douglas Seals, a professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who oversaw the study.
It still isn’t clear, for instance, what molecular messages within the body cause it to produce any particular proteins after exercise, he says, or precisely how those proteins begin the biological chain reactions that lead to other changes.
This study also looked only at people who had been exercising for some time. It cannot tell us whether different proteins would be found in sedentary people who start to exercise, or if any or all such proteins would be different after an acute workout. It also cannot distinguish between proteins that might make people healthier and those that people may have because they are healthy.
Those are all issues that exercise scientists will grapple with in the coming years, Dr. Seals says.
“Exercise does so many good things,” he says. “The next frontier is to understand how.”
Link Original:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/well/move/how-exercise-may-make-us-healthier.html?mc=adintl&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&subid1=TAFI&fbclid=IwAR2ucvEkre1XzgogsOEKQQuWouzAb4xuxLPp_MDByVjt-69c1LkVtueYK5k&dclid=CJSN1YihguACFU-JwAodI9kPMA
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Six exciting things from E3 2014 | Opinion | Gaming
June 14, 2014 James Michael Parry Leave a comment
We’ve been going on about E3 for years (seriously, it’s our most rambled about subject…) but this year’s show was something different and exciting – it wasn’t a disappointment.
After the tough time Microsoft in particular had last year, the general air of positivity to come out of this year’s show is genuinely astonishing.
Seriously, game announcements were tumbling out of people’s mouths so quickly people’s eyes started to bleed from all the shiny new-ness…
And so what do we make of all of this? We make precisely six (totally not a random arbitrary number) things which we’ve decided to tell you a little bit about, in no particular order.
It’s like Crackdown on crack
It’s always nice to see a game resurrected from the dark corners of the past (OK, that may cease to be the case if they release an HD remake of phone game phenomenon Snake), and Crackdown brought a smile to many a gamer’s face when it exploded on screen – multiple times – at Microsoft’s conference.
The original game in the series proved a hit, but its sequel didn’t set the world on fire. Now MS are bringing it back, with the number three conspicuous by its absence and complete with the original voiceover announcer.
Destruction made up a big part of the game’s reveal, suggesting it could be a big part of the game, which could make reaching the highest buildings tricky, knowing how trigger happy the title makes you – here’s hoping the buildings respawn, or at least there’s something to bring them back, perhaps a weapon in the vein of Red Faction‘s nanoforge…
Lots and lots of Halo
Over 100 maps. One hundred. That’s how many multiplayer battlegrounds are included with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
It seems ungrateful to complain, but we’ve never been much of a fan of re-releases. The plus side is that not only is this a re-release done well, the first to make us sit up and take notice since the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil.
All multiplayer modes, vehicles and quirks of each iteration are included, with both Halo 1 and 2 benefiting from a visual clean-up, but the Halo series isn’t just about multiplayer, unlike other shooters we could mention.
The clever way in which 343 have pulled this together is impressive. The release not only includes a Halo 5: Guardians Beta (and a TV series produced by Alien king Ridley Scott), but serves to tool up the protagonist of the new game as they begin their quest to find Master Chief following the convoluted events of Halo 4.
It is your Destiny
Though Bungie, developers of Destiny, may always be remembered as the team who originally gave the world Halo, they are going to great lengths to set themselves apart from their past with this new title.
There might be a few visual and gameplay similarities, but the ambition drives the genre forward into new territory. There’s a strong emphasis on coop play, though it isn’t essential for most of the modes, as well large, expansive worlds and exploration.
It might not be far-flung from the heights reached by games in other genres (Skyrim is no doubt a frequent reference point), but this is the first time on console where an MMO – or Massively Multiplayer Online – title has really captured people’s imagination.
Defiance caused a stir with its own route into the world in 2013, but failed to have the staying power demanded by a lot of players. Destiny has got an awful lot packed in, and though we haven’t had our hands on it yet, everyone who has agrees it’s an experience difficult to put across in words.
WiiU may have been down, but it’s not out
Nintendo has had a rough time the past few years, and with the release of the WiiU failing to reach the benchmark set by the Wii they were left feeling like Metallica after their unfortunate 2003 album St. Anger, treading water with a sad look on their faces.
Unlike Metallica (who, coincidentally, took five years to hit back with another, better album), Nintendo didn’t let the bad publicity around the WiiU stop them from doing what they are good at – making games.
So finally this year we are seeing the fruits of those efforts with more Super Smash Brothers, more Zelda and the already very tempting Mario Kart 8.
Thanks to this strong first party showing, something Nintendo can be relied on when they get their act together and focus on their core franchises, they have shown that they aren’t worth forgetting about just yet.
Colour comes to next gen
Let’s face it, there’s a trend in media these days across the board to be gritty, realistic, dark and suspenseful. Don’t we all miss how it used to be? A giant ‘pow’ for every Batman villain foiled? (scroll down for more of that)
Apparently, we do, and our prayers have been answered in the form of another Xbox exclusive (or Xclusive…) – Sunset Overdrive. The beginnings of this game last year were just as colourful sure, but now we’ve seen some actual gameplay, and it’s looking even more fun.
The E3 reveal trailer began by a nice bit of fun poking at the FPS genre in general, and the fourth wall-breaking protagonist is a refreshing change of tact from some of the other new protagonists shown off through the week.
Focusing on momentum, there’s wall running, rail grinding, and a crazy array of weapons to take down mutants in a game which, clearly, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and, in an industry which is supposed to be about entertainment, all too often that gets lost in translation.
The Dark Knight rises (sorry…)
We all knew Batman was back, and in fact it almost looked like a misfire out of the gate when it was revealed the game had slipped from the end of this year to next almost immediately.
Luckily, we have nothing to worry about with series heavyweights Rocksteady back at the helm for their conclusion to the series Arkham Knight.
Despite showing up in the Sony press conference, the game is also making its way to Xbox One (as is GTAV, not that Sony would appreciate me pointing that out), and is looking very very good.
The Batmobile sounded like a bit of a gimmick when it was first announced, but the gameplay videos shown off for the game show how slickly it compliments the gameplay (and, as if on purpose or something, here’s some gameplay).
So, there you have it, some stuff like what you should get excited about. Sadly it won’t all be with us in 2014, but there’s a fair chunk of good stuff on the way. Expect more game reviews and stories going forward (for Xbox One at least) and possibly some video reviews too, once we’ve worked out how to bully the computer into editing.
For now, run along and play.
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Gaming: E3 2011 the aftermath for Microsoft
June 20, 2011 James Michael Parry 1 Comment
So the Electronic Entertainment Expo came and went once more and with a shiny new Xbox design in 2010 it was going to be difficult to top Microsoft’s press briefing.
…and sure enough it didn’t. In fact the whole spectacle was a collection of fairly obvious announcements and some more detail of the games we already know something about.
The big M got the obvious Call of Duty piece out of the way early, and luckily the negative rumour surrounding the possibility of having to pay for Call of Duty Elite was dispelled quickly as we were taken through the service’s suitably simplistic titled features: Connect, Compete and Improve.
Largely it boils down to a very similar service to that offered by Halo Waypoint, combined with a few nifty things lifted from Bungie.net (the true Lords of the Halo Rings) such as kill heatmaps for deathmatch games.
Other big franchises flexing their muscles included Gears of War, which was a fairly standard affair compared to the later released details of Horde Mode 2.0 (which you should definitely take a look at in the latest OXM).
One franchise TIE is eagerly looking forward to is the climax of Commander Shepard’s adventures in Mass Effect 3. After the tragic news of a delay to the release date until 2012, fans, including myself, were understandably upset. The reason for the move became clear a few days before E3 when this packshot leaked out:
The box’s shiny purple logo said it all: Kinect will be energising Mass Effect 3. There isn’t a complete breakdown of how it will be implemented yet, but from what was shown at E3, it will allow you to select dialogue options verbally (slightly obvious), but more interestingly it allows simple commands of your teammates such as ‘move up’ or ‘use overload’.
Presuming that these functions are implemented correctly, and BioWare’s care and consideration over the series to date, combined with the slipped release date would suggest that is the case, then it could prove to be the most engaging RPG/shooter ever released on the platform.
It may all sound like Pip Dreams, but after so many hours invested by players over years, BioWare will be making sure their loyalty pays off once the final game hits shelves in the first half of next year.
No E3 would be complete without children being trotted out on stage to perform and Massivesoft obliged in its usual style, getting some kids to show off some new kid-orientated Kinect titles, before some burly men played American football on stage and messed it up on their first try, though the entire show began with a ‘Please recconect controller’ message so it was a case of start as you mean to go on.
The ‘shock’ reveal was the completely predictable Halo 4, which sees Master Cheif return, though it will be created by 343 Industries, which leads us to wonder what Bungie are getting up to, they have been remarkably quiet since Halo Reach launched with rumours of RPGs and other exciting possibilities so far revealing nothing, we’ll keep you posted.
There was also news of 100s of more partnerships between Xbox and other outlets this year, but the only one which was actually named was YouTube, which itself is surely in decline compared to a few years ago. Come on Xbox, hurry up and get iPlayer on there so I can justify getting a new TV!
All in all a slightly underwhelming show, not the usual crash, bang, wallop you might expect from possibly the biggest gaming platform at the moment. Conspicuous by their absence were things like Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which debuted last year and has not been heard from since, as well as the likes of Grand Theft Auto, surely not a franchise Rockstar are ready to leave well alone…and in fact there have been whispers but no concrete facts, it would seem E3 would be the best place for a big announcement?
And finally after the show is over, Microsoft hints that a lot of Xbox features may be stored online as part of their new Cloud service, which could see gamertags, saved games and even the games themselves stored online and streamed to you, read all about it here.
In the meantime, take a look at Red Faction: Armageddon, it might not be the greatest game ever but the single player is infinitely more playable than its predecessor and the Magnet Gun is an experience every destruction-lover should have in their life.
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Volunteer Spotlight: Sabrina Lau
Written By: Morgana Diamantopolous, JGI Canada Volunteer
Category: Our Champions
Sabrina Lau, a fourth year student at the University of Toronto, is our first Roots & Shoots post-secondary chapter leader! Sabrina has been an active volunteer with JGI Canada for two years and her passion and commitment to JGI’s mandate to make a positive difference in the world shines through in everything she does.
Not only has Sabrina helped organize Roots & Shoots on U of T’s downtown campus, she plays an advisory role to support the launch of groups at other universities and colleges across Canada.
The Roots & Shoots program has also allowed Sabrina to take her work global. JGI Canada selected her as the Canadian delegate to attend a conference of Roots & Shoots youth representatives from around the world at Windsor Castle with Dr. Jane Goodall in attendance. While there, Sabrina and her group developed the No Waste November campaign, which asks people to pledge to cut out one wasteful habit for the month of November. No Waste November received more than 2,000 pledges!
Recently, JGI Canada nominated Sabrina for the Ontario Council for International Cooperation’s Global Changemaker Ambassador award. We were delighted to hear that she was one of the winners! Sabrina recorded a podcast with OCIC and received her award during International Development Week along with four other remarkable young people who are also working to improve their communities.
Sabrina will graduate from the University of Toronto this year and plans to continue to use the memories, lessons and skills acquired through her time working with JGI. When asked where she sees herself next, Sabrina quotes the mission of Dr. Jane herself. “I want to inspire individual action by young people of all ages to help animals, other people and to protect the world we all share.”
Learn more about Roots & Shoots
Whether you're a youth or an educator, we'd like to help you bring Roots & Shoots to your community.
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Home / September 2007
· Monday, September 24, 2007, 7:30 pm ·
When Leopold Met Lena: Marriage, Divorce and Deception
in 1892 New York – Pamela Weisberger
First came love, then came marriage — but on the heels of the baby in the baby carriage came accusations of adultery and two trials in New York City’s Court of Common Pleas. The discovery of a divorce decree in the 1890s New York Times “News of the Courts” leads to scandal-ridden transcripts held at the municipal archives and revelations of a family secret. Beginning in Czestochowa, Poland and Cracow, Austria and continuing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Little Rock, Arkansas — the tumultuous, romantic and litigious world of our immigrant ancestors is brought to life in court records, graveyard inscriptions, newspaper articles, city directories and more. As Besser v. Besser is deconstructed, learn how present-day genealogical research can be used to solve 19th century mysteries Pamela Weisberger is the program chair for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, Research Coordinator for Gesher Galicia, and is active in the Hungarian and Sub-Carpathian JewishGen SIGs. Documenting her family’s history for over twenty years, she has traveled throughout Eastern Europe visiting ancestral towns and villages and conducting research in Polish, Ukrainian and Hungarian archives. A special area of interest has been late 19th to early 20th century city directories, newspapers and court records. She has also produced the documentaries, “I Remember Jewish Drohobycz,” and “Genealogy Anyone? Twenty-Five Years in the Life of the JGSLA,” and coordinated the IAJGS Conference’s 2006 and 2007 film festivals.
Location: Skirball Cultural Center, Magnin Auditorium, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. , Los Angeles, CA. Exit the San Diego Freeway at Skirball Center Dr. Right onto Sepulveda Blvd. and right again into Skirball parking, opposite Center entrance; or turn left on Herscher Dr., north of the Center, to the underground parking lot. Library: The JGSLA’s Spiszman Traveling Library, with its collection of genealogical books and member volunteers to assist you, will be on the Magnin Auditorium mezzanine from 7 p.m.
Attendance Fees: Free to JGSLA Members; $5 for guests. No reservations necessary and parking is free.
We extend our condolences to the family of Dorothy Dellar Kohanski, who passed away on July 17 at 86. Dorothy served for many years as the president of the JGS of Orange County. She is survived by her sons, Ron and Dan, their wives, and five grandchildren. “Mom brought many of us together through her genealogical work. For this, and her abilities to live her life to its fullest, she will be missed,” said Ron and Dan.
Molly Breton passed away on August 10 at the age of 80. We extend our condolences to her sisters, Victoria and Sylvia, her four children, Neil, Rhonda, William and Jana, and her “other” five children, Ronnie, Laura, Martin, Amy and Jane, her 15 grandchildren, and to her many friends in our Society.
Our best to Manny and Adaire Klein who celebrated their 50 th anniversary on Aug 12, 2007.
Research in Belarus
Bobbe Mootchnik writes that she is looking for someone to do research in Gomel, Minsk, Belarus. If anyone has had success and can give her a recommendation, please e-mail her at [b.mootchnik@att.net].
Canadian Research
Arnold Schwartz
British Colombia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia are 4 out of the 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories that have vital events indexes available on line. Their archives contain births of over 100 years, marriages over 75 years, and deaths of over 20 years:
[www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/ v_events.htm]
[web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php]
[www.novascotiagenealogy.com/Start.aspx]
[vsgs.health.gov.sk.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx]
Rona Becker
Saralee Kaufman & Gary Francesconi
Len Shenkin
Holocaust Research
Barbara Algaze, JGSLA Librarian
We have recently re-catalogued a number of Holocaust related books in our JGSLA Library. This way, they are together on the shelves and easier for you to find. Check them out the next time you are at the Family History Center.
1938 Census of Jews Enumerated by the Nazis 940.53 F2n
Archives in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein [in German] 1995 940 J54 ai1995
Artists of Terezin 940.53 G822a
Auschwitz Chronicle (1939-45) 940.53 F2a
Bibliography, Books, Publications on the Holocaust 940 A3gg
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (3 vols.) 940 H 29ss
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 940.53 F26j
Everyday Remembrance Day: a Chronicle of Jewish Martyrdom 940.53 W637E
Guide to Unpublished Materials of the Holocaust 940.5318 A3g V.4
How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust 940.53 F2mo
Holocaust Educational Resources Kit (1933 – 1945) 940.53 D27ws
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (2 vols./English and Polish) 940.5318 F2jhi 2 Vols
Indestructible Spirit, The: the “1939” Club 940 H29 zc
Jewish Holocaust Survivors 940.5318 F24jh 1992 Part 1, 2, 3.
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 940.53 F2md
National Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 940.5318 F24jh 1991
Register of Jewish Survivors 940.5318 F2ja
Rumors and Stones: A Journey 940.53 F2kw
Schindler’s Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors 940.53 F2be
World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 940.5318 F2 wo
Yizkor Books contained in Los Angeles Libraries 940.53 F23Ly
Yizkor Book of Teachers Who Perished in the Holocaust (Yiddish) 940.5318 F2yb
Ron Arons’ recommended links
Ron Arons gave a talk at the recent IAJGS conference entitled “Using the Internet beyond Jewish Gen and Steve Morse’s Website.” In conjunction with the talk, he provided the following website, which lists many of his favorite links: [http://www.netcom.com/~reaxprs/InternetGenLinks.doc]
New Jewish resources from FamilySearch.org
FamilySearch has announced the addition of three new resources to aid Jewish genealogical research, including:
Knowles Collection . The Knowles Collection contains information for thousands of Jews from the British Isles. Building on the work of the late Isobel Mordy, the collection links individuals into family groups. More names are added continuously.
Finding Jewish Records . In-depth guide to tracing Jewish ancestors from the U.S. to Europe between 1850 to 1930. Follow the steps to identify a birthplace or place of origin.
Jewish Genealogy Research Outline (revised). Helpful guide to records and research strategies focusing on Jewish family history.
Member News Input
Please help us acknowledge our members’ major life events, such as births, marriages, illnesses and passings. Send your tips and member news to Hal Bookbinder, Dates & Updates editor [hal@jgsla.org].
A visit to the vault
Hal Bookbinder
Many of us have heard of “The Vault,” in which the Genealogical Society of Utah stores the masters of nearly 3 million microfilms. But few have had the opportunity to visit the facility carved into the side of a granite mountain in Little Cottenwood Canyon, 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Tours were discontinued years ago.
Thanks to the persistence of Robert Neu, president of the Utah JGS, a tour was arranged for a number of international archivists who participated in the 27 th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy this past July. As conference co-chair I was certainly not going to miss this!
On entering the facility, one sees a long hallway which runs along the edge of the mountain. In it and some attached short tunnels, workers produce copies for distribution, create new masters, catalogue films, and conduct a massive effort to digitize the films they possess. Their goal is 60 million digitized frames this year increasing to 200 million next year as they increase the number of digitizing workstations to 15. They have set aside space for 25 stations. So, they should eventually be able to digitize well over 300 million frames per year. But, with an estimated 3 billion frames of film, and more coming in every day from over 100 photographic teams around the world still using conventional photography it will be many years before the whole collection is digitized. So, they first focus on the films most in demand. The digitizing technology is amazing.
On leaving the work area, one passes through a 17-ton steel bank vault type door to enter the storage tunnels. There the temperature remains constant near 57 °F., and humidity hovers between 40% and 60%. Six tunnels are set aside for storage of microfilm and currently hold over 2.8 million rolls neatly stored in long rows of ten-foot-high cabinets. When the facility opened in the late 1960’s the projection was to run out of space in 30 years. But with digitization this has been repeatedly set back. Over 40 filming teams are currently capturing their images directly into digital format and as time goes by more of the teams will switch to digital technology. They now project that it will take at least 40 more years to fill the available space. And, in all likelihood, this date will continue to be set back.
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Home » Land
JHARKHAND STATE INDUSTRIAL POLICY 2001
6.0 LAND
6.1 LAND/ SHED IN GROWTH CENTRES/ INDUSTRIAL AREAS, ETC. :
6.1.1 Land/ Sheds in growth centres, Industrial areas, etc. would be allotted to entrepreneurs for setting their industrial units on lease of 30 years on annual rent with the facility of renewal. The rent payable for land so allotted would be subjected to revision after every 10 years. The land/sheds allotted for the purpose of setting up of Industrial unit shall not be allowed to be used for any other purpose other than the purpose for which the land has been leased. It would also be ensured that the land is allotted as per the actual requirement. However, the terms and conditions of the lease deed shall be determined by the Industry department.
6.1.2 The State Government shall constitue a "Land Bank" at District level to make available the required land to intending entrepreneurs to overcome the delay in land acquisition process.
6.1.3 Waste land/ Degraded forest land may be made available by the State Government on long term lease basis after taking prior approval from the Government of India under section '2' of Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 wherever required, for plantation development/ tourism purposes which will encourage forest based/ tourism industries.
6.2 LAND FOR INDUSTRIES OUTSIDE INDUSTRIAL AREAS/GROWTH CENTRE.
6.2.1 The State Government will assist the entrepreneurs in providing land and also in acquiring land for locating industrial units outside industrial areas / growth centres. Enabling amendment in Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act 1908 has already been made to facilitate setting up of any unit for industrial purpose or for the purpose of miniing (Bihar Act 2 of 1996). Similarly, enabling amendments have already been made in the Bihar Tenancy Act authorising conversion of agricultural land.
6.2.2 The Government shall encourage such entrepreneurs by providing approach road, in case of those industries where minimum investment in plant and machinery in Rs. one crore. However, the cost involved in providing such communication facility shall be subject to a limit of 20% of such investment or maximum limit of Rs. 25 lakhs whichever is lower.
6.3 ALLOTMENT OF GOVERNMENT LAND
6.3.1 Allotment of Government land at times get delayed mainly on account of the fact that the competent authority is required to make references to a number of departments before taking view in the matter.
6.3.2 To expedite te process, number of inter departmental references would be minimised along with decentralisation of powers to the level of Collectors.
6.3.3 Collectors would maintain detailed information regarding all available Government land in the district in the form of 'Land Bank', out of which, while the Collectors would be authorised to lease up to 5 acres of Government land for industrial purpose, Government land in excess of 5 acres would be leased to entrepreneurs by the Collector with the approval of the High Level Empowered Committee headed by the Member, Board of Revenue. The land would be allotted at predetermined rates.
6.4 PRIVATE INDUSTRIAL ESTATES
6.4.1 Government would encourage establishment of Private Industrial Estate by acquiring and making available such land at the acquisition cost.
6.4.2 The Government in turn will also provide infrastructure facility such as water, electricity and road at the doorstep of such private industrial estate. The extent of such private industrial estate shall not be less than 100 acres. Such private industrial estate shall be allowed to install a Captive Power Plant to generate and distribute power directly within such industrial estate.
6.5 SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
6.5.1 Social infrastructure in close proximity of industrial areas/estates would be developed. The Government would encourage private participation in putting up well planned and systematic residential facilities, quality residential/ non-residential schools, hospitals etc. Large industries would be persuaded to establish such facilities individually or to pool their resources to set up these facilities collectively. The State Government shall endeavour to provide land and other facilities at concessional rates for this purpose.
6.6 GROWTH CENTRES
6.6.1 The State Government has formulated an ambitious plan to set up and promote 3-Tier Growth Centres, namely at Mega, Mini and Micro levels.
6.6.2 Mega Growth Centres at Barhi, Hazaribagh have been taken up for providing modern infrastructure facilities for rapid industrialisation. These growth centres envisages an investment of Rs. 30 to 40 crores and shall provide quality infrastructure inputs like land, water, power, communication, etc.
6.6.3 Industry specific Mini Growth Centres are being contemplated to be set up by the Government at different location in the State where specific industrial activity needs to be boosted. The location of these growth centres has been selected keeping in mind the inherent locational advantages with respect to availability of raw material, manpower, connectivity and market.
6.6.4 The Government shall provide following facilities at such growth centres :
Highest slab of capital investment and interest subsidy. Highest slab of other relevant subsidies Quality infrastructure support, which includes, good road connection to the nearest highway.
Priority in power allocation to such growth centres.
6.6.5 These Growth centres would shift the focus of growth of industries into rural areas, yet ensuring that these growth centres are located near main highway and the district head quaters. This would help in generating employment for the local population, and the nearest town would provide residential/ schooling facilities for the families.
6.6.6 The following Mini Growth centres are proposed to be set up at the following locations :
Tasar/Silk Park at Chaibasa and Godda Agro based Food Processing Park at Ranchi and Dumka Plastic Park at Koderma Electronic Park at Namkum/ Tatisilwai Chemical Park Export Promotion Industrial Park(EPIP) at Dhanbad. Software Technology Park(STP) at Ranchi/ Jamshedpur
Biotech and Herbs Park.
6.6.7 To give boost to village based industries, the Government intend to set Micro Industrial Areas/Park at each block level shall provide basic infrastructure facilities to the rural entrepreneurs, artisans and craftsman. This shall give a fillip to employment and rural growth.
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Viral Sport
Island Games
Jeux des Iles
Tardif ‘99%’ sure of his final choice
Sport | Published: May 15, 2019
BEFORE training at Victoria Avenue tomorrow evening Chris Tardif will take aside one of either Jason Martin or Josh Addison and, in a nutshell, say ‘sorry mate, but you will be on the bench this Saturday’.
Guernsey Muratti boss Chris Tardif. (Picture By Peter Frankland, 24661885)
The Guernsey manager yesterday spoke about how he has yet to fully make up his mind on who will keep goal. Although he spent 10 years as a fully professional keeper and seven years as GFC’s No. 1, he remains unsure as to which way to go with his choice of keeper.
‘I’m 99 per cent sure of where I’m going,’ he added a year on from choosing himself to take the keeper’s gloves for one more Muratti and leave Martin disappointed.
Although he subsequently gave away a decisive penalty, Tardif still doesn’t see it as a mistake to have gone with himself.
‘I thought long and hard about that and it was a big decision and it was one I almost let go of to allow the other guys [assistants] to make the decision for me.’
He will court the views of his assistants again on the Martin v. Addison issue.
‘I’m going to incense either Saints or Rovers this weekend and it is a big call for me. I will be judged quite heavily on that one because it’s my natural position and down to me.
‘Both are more than capable of playing and both have fantastic qualities and both play in a different way with different strengths and weaknesses. It’s making sure I pick the one to help us win the scenario.
‘It’s making sure that not only I’m comfortable with it, but making sure the players in front of them are comfortable.
‘“Doddie” is our captain, our centre-half, and he has to be comfortable with what is behind him.’
The keeper issue seems to be his last remaining big decision as he prepares to announce which two players of the 18-man training group don’t make the match-day 16.
‘I will name the starting side on Thursday to the players and so we can then work at training with the selected team.
‘I have one decision left to be made on my last substitute and I’m still running through several scenarios in my mind as to who I will put in.
‘I’m close and I have got two players to fill that last substitution role.
‘But before training on Thursday I will speak to those who haven’t made it face to face. It’s the only fair and proper way to play it.’
Sport Football
By Rob Batiste
Aurigny chairman warns of impact of subsidising rivals
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The Trial Of A Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet)The Trial Of A Time Lord (Mindwarp)The Trial Of A Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids)The Trial Of A Time Lord (The Ultimate Foe)
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What does the addition of a shield to a small loop accomplish?
A small shielded loop is an antenna with a loop of wire, smaller than 1/10th of a wavelength in diameter, also surrounded by a shield. Often, they are constructed from coax. There is a gap in the shield somewhere. Feedpoint arrangements differ among implementations. Here's an example from the 1988 ARRL handbook:
Here are more examples, these actually designed as magnetic field probes for compliance testing:
Such antennas are said to be quieter than ordinary small loops, and thus ideal for receiving, and popular for HF direction finding.
However, why? Why does the addition of a shield actually do, and why is it desirable?
antenna equipment-design antenna-theory small-loop
The short answer is that the shield becomes the actual antenna. It's addition makes it easier to construct a balanced loop which has deep nulls broadside to the loop. These nulls would obviously be helpful in fox hunting / direction finding.
The long answer follows:
First of all the picture included from the 1988 ARRL Handbook has been shown to be a flawed design. Current balance is critical to the performance of the antenna and that one has the shield gap next to the feed point. So any current flowing on the outside of the feedline flows into one side of the loop where it is coupled to the inner conductor.
The best location for the gap is opposite the feed point as shown here:
The antenna works when EM fields excite on the shield's surface. Skin effect isolates the outer shield wall from the inner shield wall. Across the gap, the current on the outside of the shield produces a voltage, and that voltage in turn excites a current flow on the inner wall of the shield.
The current flowing on the inner wall of the shield creates a current in the inner conductor through induction field coupling, and that current (and voltage) is coupled to the receiver feedline.
EDIT: to clarify the use of the shield.
At HF frequencies loops are subject to what is know as the antenna effect because their size is a only a fraction of a wavelength, and they can pick up interference from a signal that is derived from the electric, rather than the magnetic, field. This distorts the loop's directional pattern, making shallow side nulls, if any.
To reduce the antenna effect, the loop can be shielded as discussed here and shown in the illustration I linked above. This electrostatic shield balances the loop by making sure that all parts of it will have the same capacitance to ground.
The shield also protects the loop from the induction field created by wires and other metal objects in the antenna's near field (up to λ∕2π away). These items can take energy from a passing wave and produce magnetic fields that can induce spurious voltages in the loop. This energy is reactive (not radiated) and a product of the transformer effect; it fades rapidly with distance (inverse cube-power law).
This is in contrast to the radiation field, which is the part we are interested in, made up of electrical and magnetic fields at right angles to each other and originating in the antenna's far field (> 2λ). The power of this field always varies according to the inverse-square law.
The shield over the loop antenna will not appreciably decrease the amount of magnetic flux that passes through (and links with) the loop when a wave goes by as long as it is not complete (i.e., shorted to itself). A gap must be left or the shield would form a shorted turn and it would reduce the magnetic field linking to the loop so that no signal could be received by the center conductor. Using the gap, alternating currents can be induced in the metal shield, and voltages will be induced in the internal wire.
You can also use the antenna effect to intentionally detune the loop with second small antenna (usually a vertical). This creates a pattern where there is only one null. This would be in the plane of the loop, off one of the ends, rather than the sides. This is also useful for direction finding.
ARRL Extra Class License Manual (2008)
Radio-Electronics Magazine (June 1983)
Wikipedia - Near and Far field
Wikipedia - Electromagnetic Radiation
OSHA Field Memo - Electromagnetic Radiation
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$\begingroup$ Why does the shield make obtaining deep nulls easier? $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 3 '13 at 2:21
$\begingroup$ Edited the answer to clarify the use of the shield. $\endgroup$ – WPrecht Dec 3 '13 at 15:22
$\begingroup$ I don't really follow the reasoning. Aren't all antennas sensitive to electric fields? What does this have to do with being electrically small? How does the shield "protect the loop from the induction field created by nearby disturbances"? It seems that now the induced currents are in the shield, which is then coupled to the feedline, so what's the point? I can see how the shield with the gap opposite the feedline is balanced, but isn't this also possible without a shield? $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 4 '13 at 14:16
$\begingroup$ How is it possible that the shield protects the loop from nearby disturbances, but not also far away disturbances (which is the objective)? I mean, isn't the whole point of this antenna to detect the magnetic field from a distant source? How can the antenna know the difference? $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 4 '13 at 14:19
$\begingroup$ Right, but still, why? I know the difference between induction and radiation fields, but I still wonder: how can the antenna know the difference? Whether the source is in the near or far field, the magnetic flux through the loop changes, and induces a current, which creates a voltage across the gap, which is coupled to the feedline, and the receiver. Faraday's law of induction doesn't distinguish between changing magnetic fields, and changing magnetic fields which also happen to have changing electric fields with them. $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 4 '13 at 15:59
This is extensively and accurately covered in a great page by W8JI. It starts:
Small Receiving Loops
Small loops are often referred to as "magnetic radiators". Folklore claims a small "shielded" loop antenna behaves like an electrical sieve or filter, sorting "good magnetic signals" from "bad electrical noise". Nothing is further from the truth! At relatively small distances a small magnetic loop is more sensitive to electric fields than a small electric field probe.
Phil Frost - W8II
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A "shielded loop antenna" is a very misleading name. It isn't an antenna, with a shield. It's an antenna made from a shield, with a feedline inside it.
It's commonly stated that the shield blocks electric fields and not magnetic fields. But that's false: it's physically impossible. That's not to say that a shielded loop antenna has no merit beyond an unshielded loop antenna, though. The "shield" makes an excellent, broad-band, low-loss, easily fabricated balun.
There's an analogous problem with dipoles also. If we want to feed a dipole with coax, we need a balun to prevent common-mode currents on the feedline, because if there are common-mode currents on the feedline, the feedline is part of the antenna.
We could build a magnetic loop antenna like this:
The feedline is balanced, and the antenna is symmetrical. Like a dipole with a balanced feeder, there are no common-mode currents and the feedline will not radiate, provided the surroundings are also reasonably symmetrical.
But we want a coax feedline.
There is only one place to connect the coax that won't result in common-mode currents: immediately opposite the feedpoint. If we do this, then any common-mode currents will cancel at the feedpoint. With any other arrangement, common-mode currents can couple into the feedpoint, so the feedline will be part of the antenna.
But then how do we get the end of the coax to the feedpoint? The solution: make the antenna from tubing, and run the feedline inside the antenna. Because RF currents travel on the surface of the antenna, what happens inside the antenna is irrelevant to the operation of the antenna. Electrically, it looks like an ordinary loop antenna made from fat wire.
Modern Antenna Design by Thomas A. Milligan describes this as a natural balun (though, I've never seen that terminology used elsewhere):
A natural balun feeds the coax through a loop antenna to the feed point where the outer shield is split and the center conductor jumps the gap to connect to the outer shield of the coax. At this point the currents flow on to the outer shield and radiate. By moving an equal distance along the coax until the two halves meet, we can connect the feed coax and not have current flow down the outside. The currents flow in opposite directions along the loop and cancel at the connection. From a circuit point of view, the connection point is a virtual short circuit to the balanced mode similar to a folded balun at its connection point. In a similar manner, on a folded dipole we can connect the feed coax to the middle of the shorted dipole and form a natural balun.
If we simplify the construction a bit and double the coax shield as the tubing, this type 2(d) from the question.
As it is, this design has a coax feed and no problems with common-mode currents. However, if one wants to add a capacitor to resonate the antenna at the operating frequency, or a matching network, one must be careful to preserve the current balance of the antenna. The ARRL design is notably horrible at this. However, we are getting away from the topic of the question, so I will suggest reading W8JI on small magnetic loops for a more detailed discussion.
$\begingroup$ This has nothing to do with infinite baluns. We are talking about loop antennas which are electrically small - only 1 percent of the wavelength (or so). Infinite baluns need to be of a size of the same magnitude as the wavelength... (1/4$\lambda$ or more) $\endgroup$ – jcoppens Dec 23 '14 at 14:26
$\begingroup$ @jcoppens Aren't they similar in that they each solve the problem of common-mode currents by making them an intentional part of the antenna? In an infinite balun, the idea is to make it long enough that the common-mode currents diminish to some negligible level. In a shielded loop antenna, the idea is to take them to a zero-voltage point, at which the feedline can exit. $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 23 '14 at 21:06
$\begingroup$ @jcoppens antenna-theory.com on infinite baluns says: "This balun can be used whenever a separated ground region is available to merge the coaxial cable outside shield with one region of the antenna. Care must be taken when exiting the coaxial cable from the structure, so that the lead of the coaxial cable to the radio (transmitter/receiver) does not detune or negatively affect the antenna." Sounds very similar to what's described here, no? $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Dec 24 '14 at 14:53
$\begingroup$ books.google.com.ar/… means that the infinite balun has to act in the region where it blocks the current. A shield in an electrically small antenna evidently does NOT act as a choke. It is too small for that. $\endgroup$ – jcoppens Dec 24 '14 at 20:07
$\begingroup$ And, look at the reference you gave, @Phil. The article itself says "This balun works wonderfully. It has no bandwidth problems and is a very clever design. In addition, since the spiral antenna is a good radiator, the currents die off quickly as the spiral winds away from the center." This means that the antenna has to be large compared to the wavelength. In this thread, we're speaking about low percentages. $\endgroup$ – jcoppens Dec 24 '14 at 20:42
The shield prevents (or greatly reduces) influence of the electric field component of the received signal, making the loop effectively a "pure magnetic" antenna. Shielding makes the antenna "quieter" than an unshielded loop or whip antenna by preventing the capacitive coupling of localized noise sources. It is particularly effective in shielding against the intrusion of impulse noise from power line arcs, light dimmers, fluorescent lights and television "buzz".
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$\begingroup$ How does the shield attenuate the electric field while allowing the magnetic field to pass? Doesn't a time varying magnetic field near a conductor induce currents in that conductor that cancel the magnetic field? $\endgroup$ – Phil Frost - W8II Jun 12 '14 at 11:10
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The Difficult Dilemma Of Dragon Quest XI’s Post Credit Sequence
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Dragon Quest XI is a very long game full of tragic twists and turns, so when my journey finally came to an end, it felt like a real accomplishment. The credits rolled. I’d defeated the main villain and brought peace to the land. I actually felt sad that my time with my companions was coming to an end because I liked them so much. There was a “The End” screen marking the quest’s conclusion. I was about to turn the console off when to my surprise, another line of text followed that read “to be continued...”
That’s when the post-credit sequence began. I thought maybe it’d consist of a few new bonus quests, some extra dungeons, and a chance to find treasures I’d missed in my first playthrough. But I was wrong as there was an entirely new journey awaiting which had me question everything I’d done up until then.
The second half of Dragon Quest XI was remarkable. I put it on the same level as the moment Kefka succeeds in decimating the world of Final Fantasy VI and the Kingdom of Zeal being destroyed by Lavos in Chrono Trigger.
That’s because it’s so rare when villains succeed. In Dragon Quest XI, not only does the Lord of Shadows, Mordegon, corrupt the Sword of Light, but he destroys the Yggdrasil Tree. Your party barely escape with their lives. When the main character wakes, he’s transformed into a fish and is hiding in the underwater city of Nautica. A massive monster called Alizarin, who’s one of Mordegon’s Spectral Sentinels, commences his attack on the underwater city. When you do escape, you immediately see that Mordegon has wreaked devastation on the land. The sun hasn’t been seen since the fall of the world tree. The land is corrupted; there’s poisonous patches all over the place and vicious forms of monsters are roaming everywhere. It was especially depressing because I’d felt such a deep connection to the world with its likable NPCs.
From there, the quest becomes an emotional and physical struggle to regather the party and destroy Mordegon. There’s a lot of character building after the fall of the tree, from the desperate situation at the Last Bastion, to Hendrick’s joining your side and the friendship you build, to the revelations Erick undergoes with his sister. A world of ruin, suffering from the consequences of the Luminary’s failure to stop Mordegon, makes every act more grave. I felt the second act was even more poignant than the first.
Things do become more hopeful as you meet back up with your companions, especially Sylvando, whose Smile Brigade tries to bring cheer, and rhythm, to the land. But the party’s search for their last member, Veronica, takes a tragic turn. You find her in the Grove of Repose in Arboria. At first, her sister, Serena, thinks Veronica’s sleeping. But when you touch Veronica’s staff, you get a vision of the past, jumping to the moment the tree was destroyed. You learn that Veronica did her best to save the party from destruction. “You’re the only ones who can save this world. Don’t let me down!” she yells as she transports everyone to safety. The tree is engulfed in a blast of fire that fatally wounds her. Veronica’s body evaporates soon after you see the memory. The whole party is both saddened and angered. Serena gains Veronica’s powers, who lives on through her sister.
I took out Mordegon’s sentinels one by one. Then I stormed his castle and finally defeated him. Game over, right?
An Elusive Age
I’m always talking about how underrated I feel Yuji Horii’s contribution to Chrono Trigger is and in many ways, Dragon Quest XI has themes that reminded me so much of what I loved about the classic time travel JRPG.
That’s thanks to the post credit sequence. A few days after the party defeats Mordegon, they gather in Arboria in a memorial to their fallen companion, Veronica. They share a drink, mourn their friend, and marvel at Yggdrasil being in full bloom again. “It still hasn’t sunk in, you know. We really did it. We really saved the world,” Sylvando states.
Serena states somberly, “We survived. We have to make the most of that. We have to laugh and smile for those who can’t.”
While the people of Arboria partake in a festival to celebrate their victory over Mordegon, the Luminary decides to sneak off on his own. The rest of the members catch him and they agree to set off on some new adventures, starting with investigating a shining light south of Octagonia. They find the remains of one of the floating islands that the Watchers lived on and discover there might be a way to save someone “lost to eternity.”
In other words, Veronica.
The party finds their way to the Tower of Lost Time where they encounter a being called the Timekeeper. The Timekeeper informs them that the Luminary can actually jump to the past using Time’s Sphere to the moment where Mordegon is going to destroy the tree. The Luminary can stop him there, preventing the destruction of the Yggdrasil, and saving Veronica’s life in the process.
“But to lose time is to lose much,” the Timekeeper warns them. “To take a sword to the Sphere would be to erase those moments.” Only the Luminary can go back, but if he does, everything that happened afterwards would be erased. The whole second act wouldn’t have happened. The new memories, new bonds, and character growth I’d had would be wiped clean. There is some debate among the party members, but the choice seems like a no brainer.
I made the jump, stopped Mordegon, and saved Veronica, which was awesome. If the game ended here, I would have been super satisfied. But as you quickly learn, since Mordegon is defeated, it has a ripple effect that isn’t all good. In the original timeline, one of Mordegon’s Spectral Sentinels prevents the summons of an evil monster called Calasmos. With Mordegon out of the picture, Calasmos is free to enter the universe and wreak havoc. A whole new quest begins.
I appreciated the way Horii shows that the consequences of a time jump like this isn’t all cheery. Horii is always playing with morality in his games, showing subtler nuances that make for uncomfortable truths. In this case, one terrible evil wards of an even greater evil. Stopping Mordegon has unintentionally unleashed the potential for even greater mass destruction.
What I didn’t like was that it pretty much erased everything that had happened in the second half of the game. That made the dozens of hours I’d spent fighting Mordegon feel empty. I had invested so much of myself into that journey, that this new quest didn’t feel as important. While your party does regain all the experience and skill points from the second quest that had been erased with the time jump, the events I remembered had pretty much never happened.
In Chrono Trigger, there’s that moment where you can change time to save one of your companions. But that doesn’t erase the experiences that happened previously between the team members. Even in Avengers: End Game, the time jump doesn’t erase what Thanos did. It was as though I’d undergone an arduous trial where I’d lost so much, but only gotten through thanks to my companions who’d stood by my side. Then everyone around me forgot it ever happened. I felt isolated, lonely, and frustrated.
What was a gripping narrative with really dark moments in Dragon Quest XI had turned into a fairy tale. Bad things happens in fairy tales, but for the most part, the consequences are minimal as good triumphs. I’d jumped from two different types of stories; the grim, but quirky, quest of the Luminary with bittersweet consequences in their journey to defeating Mordegon, to one where good completely triumphs over evil and even some of the more tragic NPC sidequests get happy endings once you switch their original fate.
So I stopped. I turn off my PS4, removed Dragon Quest XI, and moved onto a new game.
My stopping isn’t an indictment of the game. It’s actually the opposite as it’s a testament to how much I loved the second act of Dragon Quest XI (I consider Dragon Quest XI, along with Persona V, to be my favorite JRPGs of this generation). I felt a strong attachment to the characters in ways that made me relate to them as much as humanly possibly to people with magical abilities who fight fantasy monsters.
Will I go back? Maybe one day as everyone tells me how good the post-credit scene is. But for now, I’ll leave it unresolved, stuck in a Time Sphere of its own. I’m not the kind of player that needs to experience every ending to feel satisfied (even though I often do, like with Nier: Automata). But in this case, the Timekeeper was right. To lose time was to lose too much.
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Filed to: The legend of zelda: link's awakeningFiled to: The legend of zelda: link's awakening
For the longest time, I’ve been telling people how special Link’s Awakening is. I had to explain that even though it was for the original GameBoy, it’s one of the best Zelda games Nintendo made. Similar to Super Mario Bros. 2, it was part of a dream world, but that was what made the game so distinctive. Gone were the familiar Ganon, Zelda, and Hyrule. In their place was the Wind Fish, Tarin, and Koholint. Link wasn’t collecting triforce pieces, but special musical instruments so he can awaken the Wind Fish. Enemies from the Mario games made cameos, the humor was tongue-in-cheek and very self-aware, and there was fishing too. This iteration of the legend was partly inspired by Twin Peaks and “had quite an influence over subsequent Zelda games” according to the developers. The game had challenged what a Zelda game could be and as Eiji Aonuma stated, “If we had proceeded from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past straight to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time without The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening in between, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time would have been different.”
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I was ecstatic when Nintendo announced Link’s Awakening was being remade for the Switch. The visual style was gorgeous and toy-like. The fact that it’s getting a dungeon-building feature means you can create your own sandboxes and play within them.
With the Final Fantasy VII Remake also getting a release date and having enjoyed the remakes of Duck Tales, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill (in Shattered Memories) and Metroid: Samus Returns, I got to wondering, what other games would it be cool to see remade? I don’t mean just remastered and re-released, but actually getting an entirely version of the game using current technology and building on what made the original games so good. Off the top of my head, a bunch of games came to mind; Brave Fencer Musashi, Crystalis, Sword of Vermilion, Snatcher, the original The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Dragoon, Suikoden II, and so many more.
So Kotaku, what game would you most like to see remade?
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