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If you ever needed proof that you can make a difference, check out today’s top story about how a 10 year old convinced a local government Council to stop using single-use plastics. Also in today’s news, advice on the return on investment when installing batteries in your home, Harry and Meghan’s wedding invitation to a macaroon maker making a difference, cyclists in London enjoy less pollution and healthier lives, and Michelle Grattan steps outside her usual neutral political commentary to express a view on live animal exports.
10yo girl wins straw phase-out battle; Cairns Council agrees to ditch single-use plastics | ABC News
AUSTRALIA – A 10-year-old girl has helped convince a local government on the doorstep of the Great Barrier Reef to phase out using plastic straws in its council operations for the first time in Queensland. The Cairns Regional Council today unanimously agreed to set a goal of removing straws and other single-use plastics, and to look at supporting local businesses to make the same change. The council will also encourage its markets, events and functions to eventually eliminate straws.
New satellite to spot planet-warming industrial methane leaks | The Guardian
Methane leaking from oil and gas facilities around the world – a major contributor to global warming – is set to be spotted from space. The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has announced it aims to launch a satellite called MethaneSAT by 2021 to scan the globe and make major leaks public. That information will then enable governments to force action, EDF hopes. Building and launching the satellite will cost tens of millions of dollars, but EDF says it has already raised most of the money.
CEFC makes first infrastructure equity commitment | The Fifth Estate
AUSTRALIA – The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has tipped $150 million into Australia’s largest infrastructure fund to help reduce carbon emissions across airports, ports and electricity infrastructure. The investment into the $12 billion IFM Australian Infrastructure Fund represents the CEFC’s first equity commitment to the infrastructure sector, and will specifically target emissions reduction and energy efficiency programs at Ausgrid, Brisbane Airport, Melbourne Airport, Port Botany in Sydney and the Port of Brisbane.
Turnbull’s brown coal hydrogen horror show: $500m for 3 tonnes | RenewEconomy (Opinion)
Australia’s Victoria and federal governments have promised to pump $50 million each into a near $496 million project to gassify brown coal in Victoria and produce just three tonnes of hydrogen, in what is being dubbed a world-first pilot project. Yes, that’s right: $500 million to build a pilot plant that will operate for just 12 months and produce a grand total “up to” three tonnes of hydrogen over the whole year. I had to read that 10 times and get on the phone twice to check… You will note, of course, that Turnbull was nowhere to be seen when the wind and solar-fuelled hydrogen projects – which will create significantly more hydrogen at a fraction of the cost from wind and solar – were unveiled by the ACT and South Australian governments.
Home battery storage has trebled – but should you be installing it? | One Step Off The Grid
AUSTRALIA – There’s been plenty of talk about how Australian solar households are warming to the idea of battery storage, but little concrete data to back this up. Until now. A new report from solar analysts, SunWiz, has revealed almost 21,000 behind the meter energy storage systems were installed in Australia in 2017, a three-fold increase on the year before. But what does this trebling of battery storage uptake mean? Is it a sign that batteries now make economic sense to the average Australian household? Well, it’s complicated.
Sydney’s extended summer ‘confusing’ plants and keeping lifesavers on their toes | ABC News
AUSTRALIA – It’s autumn and temperatures are still soaring across many parts of New South Wales. The higher April temperatures are making for more idyllic beach days, but are having an effect on the world around us with plants “confused”, animals sluggish and delays in hazard burning.
Photo: Manchurian pear trees are so confused by the unseasonably hot weather that they are flowering in autumn instead of spring. (Supplied)
‘They might just disappear’: warning over ‘punk’ turtle’s future | SMH
The world’s first detailed field study of one of most ancient turtles in the world shows Queensland’s endangered Mary River Turtle, once threatened by the Traveston Dam, remains in dire straits. The “in the field” research, which was finished only weeks ago, found 92 per cent of the endangered species are now in a “retirement home” and only 8 per cent are “teenagers” or young breeding turtles.
Keep Molesworth as it is, say farmers as DOC swamped by responses | Stuff.co.nz
NEW ZEALAND – A farmer with land next to New Zealand’s largest high country station is concerned “unaffected people” with little-to-no knowledge of the area are getting the chance to decide its future. The Department of Conservation started an online survey on the future of Molesworth Station, between Marlborough and Canterbury, in January to gauge public appetite for a radical rethink of the farm. The survey follows up a 2013 management plan for the 180,000-hectare Molesworth, about the size of Stewart Island, which looked to move the station away from its traditional farming focus to include more recreation and conservation activities.
From ghost boats to water treasures, museums seek to spur climate action | Thomson Reuters Foundation
A toddler’s bath water, tears of joy from a newly ordained priest, condensed sweat from a nightclub – British artist Amy Sharrocks collects all kinds of water. In 2013 she set up the Museum of Water, a live piece of artwork that travels around the world and invites people to donate water – from spit to melted snow – in a bottle and discuss what it means to them. The initiative aims to understand why people treasure water and help prepare them for a drier future and climate, Sharrocks told an audience of climate experts, activists and museum curators.
Royal wedding guest ‘Miss Macaroon’ hails Harry and Meghan’s support for do-good businesses | Thomson Reuters Foundation
UK – A British entrepreneur who uses her colourful macaroon business to help disadvantaged people get back on their feet said on Wednesday she was “over the moon” after being invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Rosie Ginday praised the couple for championing social enterprises, like her company Miss Macaroon, which she set up in 2011 with 500 pounds ($700) of her own money.
Grattan on Friday: Live sheep exports tarnish Australia’s reputation and should be stopped | The Conversation
AUSTRALIA – If a farmer were caught subjecting animals on his or her property to the suffering endured by the sheep on the Emanuel Exports ship last August, they’d find themselves in court, perhaps in jail, and almost certainly banned from possessing animals in future. When it’s an export company, it gets a permit for another shipment. The public, and new Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, have been predictably angered by the recent footage brought to light by Animals Australia, shot by a whistleblower on the ship.
Ten things learned in 10 hours of Zuckerberg testimony | Radio New Zealand News (Opinion)
I sat through both of Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances on Capitol Hill, watching them live streamed, ironically enough, on Facebook. Here’s what I learned about the 33 year-old billionaire, and the social network’s greatest crisis yet.
Pollutionwatch: bicycles take over City of London rush hour | The Guardian
UK – City workers are swapping their pinstripe suits for cycle helmets and high-vis jackets. Since 1999, total traffic in the City of London has fallen by 40% and bicycles are now the dominant vehicle during the rush hour. This is good news for air pollution in an area that breaches EU limit values for nitrogen dioxide, but an increase in active travel has many other benefits: less road traffic noise, fewer climate change emissions and people benefiting from more exercise.
World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden | The Guardian (Video 0:57)
SWEDEN – The world’s first electrified road that recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it has been opened in Sweden. About 2km (1.2 miles) of electric rail has been embedded in a public road near Stockholm, but the government’s roads agency has already drafted a national map for future expansion. Sweden’s target of achieving independence from fossil fuel by 2030 requires a 70% reduction in the transport sector.
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Faculty Opening - Soon Chun Hyang University, Korea
Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor Positions in Biomedical Science – Soonchunhyang Institute of Medi-Bioscience (SIMS), Soon Chun Hyang University, Korea<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Soonchunhyang University (SCHU, www.sch.ac.kr), established in 1978 as the first private medical school in Korea is a leading research and educational institution that also administers four medical centers. The Soonchunhyang Institute of Medi-bio Science (SIMS) is a newly established research institute located in Cheonan city, 90 km south of Seoul, by the SCHU to strengthen its research competitiveness in the biomedical sciences. SCHU is strongly committed to growth of SIMS in view of the increasingly important roles of translational application in biomedical science. Areas of active research focus include Metabolic Disease, Stem Cell biology, Degenerative Diseases and Regenerative Medicine. Further information about SIMS can be found at http://sims.sch.ac.kr
SCHU is seeking outstanding scholars for seven (7) tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor positions. SIMS invites applications from exceptional scientists whose research interests complement or expand upon current SIMS interest area that includes Metabolic Disease and Stem Cell Biology. The successful candidates are expected to conduct independent research within the SIMS Graduate School and establish research collaborations with other leading international centers of excellence. Candidates with expertise in the Gut Microbiota, Autophage, Brown Adipose tissue, Metabolomics/lipidomics, Gene Editing, Organogenesis, hiPSCs approach for rare disease, Disease ontology using Bioinformatics, RNA biology or translational applications related to Metabolic Diseases and Stem Cell research are particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates should possess strong academic credentials and interests in multidisciplinary collaborative research.
Salary and benefit will be very competitive. A pleasant package, including start-up funding (100 million KRW), health insurance and superannuation contributions is available for each new faculty members. Applicants should send a CV, 5 copies of research achievements, statement of research interest, and the names and contact details of three referees to the Office of Human Resources, SCHU (Email: prof@sch.ac.kr). The closing date for application is Monday, November 10, 2014.
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
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National institute of Health, Korea
Institute of Medical Sciences
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul Natuonal University, Seoul
Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Daejeon
MAKNA(National Cancer Council Malaysia)
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
St. Luke's Medical Center
Bio-MAX Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Advanced Medical and Dental Institute(AMDI), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Institute of Virus Research
Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Colleage of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Biotechnology Research Institute
Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology
Biotechnology Center of HCMC
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Pickleball Canada January 2014 Newsletter
www.pickleballcanada.org/news/nl_2011_january.pdf
Pickleball Ireland on Facebook
"Pickleball Ireland" on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ireland/19045481529#!/pickleball.ireland?fref=ts Also on Facebook "Pickleball has arrived in Ireland" and "Irish Pickleball" https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.620171291334791.1073741826.114618145223444&type=3
Why Play Pickleball
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the world. Canada and USA have over 100,000 pickleball players. Pickleball is now played in many countries including Spain, India, Mexico, Netherlands (Ireland and UK - updated Feb 10/14).
PIckleball Canada held its 2nd National Championship in July, 2013. USAPA held its Nationals V Tournament in November, 2013. India held its 1st National Tournament in December, 2013.
The first International Pickleball Tournament will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in May, 2014. The 3rd Annual Pickleball Canada National Open Championship will be held in Abbotsford, BC in July, 2014. The USAPA Nationals VI will be held in Buckeye, AZ in Nov, 2014.
If you play tennis, badminton, racquetball, squash or table tennis, you will love Pickleball. Fun and easy, the game can be played by enthusiasts of all ages who have different playing abilities. It is simple enough for beginners to learn, but can develop into a quick, fast-paced competitive sport for the experienced players. Most who give pickleball a try find it addictive and challenging. It also provides plenty of exercise, burning about 250 calories in 30 minutes.
Pickleball works most of your muscle groups at the same time and improves your balance, mobility and agility. It's great for interval training with its quick bursts of activity and intermittent resting. Pickleball also helps with speed, overall fitness, discipline, social skills and sportsmanship. What a fun way to stay fit! Just try it once, I'm certain it won't be your last. Be Fit. Be Strong. Be Well !!
Pickleball Canada National Open Championship T-Shirts
For the 1st time, a Pickleball Canada National Open Championship T-shirt is available! You can order online from Pickleball Depot, you can select men's and women's cut styles for only $17.95! Your shirt can be mailed in advance or you can pick it up at Nationals. A limited number of t-shirts will also be available for sale at the tournament but why wait... order today! http://pickleballdepot.ca/product/pickleball-canada-t-shirt-2/
Product Description: This is the new 2014 Pickleball Canada “National Open Championship” T-Shirt. Look good and play great with this 100% Polyester pique knit wicking T-shirt. Moisture wicking and anti-bacterial Tagless, double-needle stitching at neck, arm and bottom hems.
Pickleball Canada T-Shirt
Pickleball Canada Ladies T-Shirt
Special Hotel Rates for 2014 Pickleball Canada National Open Championship July 4 - 6, 2014
Pickleball Canada has listed these possible accomodations and makes no recommendations. All players must make their own arrangement for lodging. Be sure to ask if there are special rates for participants of the Pickleball Canada National Championship.
COAST HOTEL AND SUITES 2020 Sumas Way, Abbotsford, BC V2S 2C7 (604) 853-1880 Special Group Rate: $99.00 plus tax, 2 Queen beds or King, includes breakfast.
SANDMAN HOTEL 32720 Simon Avenue, Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B8 (604) 556-7263 Special Group Rate: $109.00+ tax, Double occupancy. Group No. 45290
BEST WESTERN REGENCY HOTEL 32110 Marshall Road, Abbotsford, BC Preferred rate: $103.99+ tax Double occupancy, 2 Queen beds or 1 King bed, includes breakfast.1.800.771.3077 or 604.853.3111
RAMADA INN 36035 North Parallel Road, Abbotsford, BC V3G 2C6 (604) 870-1050 Special Group rate $112.00 +tax Double occupancy, 2 Queen beds, includes breakfast.
Mission Madness pickleball tournament Feb 8- 9
Mission Madness pickleball tournament will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8 and Sunday, Feb. 9 at École Mission Secondary in Mission, BC. Events will be Men’s and Women’s Doubles on Feb. 8 and Mixed Doubles on Feb. 9. Competition will begin at 9:00 a.m. on both days. Event brackets (round robin) will be:
Men’s Doubles 3.0, 3.5 , 4.0, 4.5+
Women’s Doubles 3.0, 3.5 , 4.0
Mixed Doubles 3.0 and 3.5 combined
Mixed Doubles 4.0+
You may only register for one event per day (a maximum of two events). Registration Deadline: 02/01/14 Pickleball Canada members will receive a $5 discount off the registration fee (which is $25) (All events: $5.00 each) Lunch will not be provided. However, a concession stand will be open. Pizza, juice, pop, and water will be available for purchase. Current IFP rules apply. No non-conforming equipment permitted. Registration: http://www.fraservalleypickleball.org/
Pickleball Canada Sanctioned Tournaments 2014
Fraser Valley Pickleball Mission Madness Tournament, February 8 - 9, 2014 at Mission Secondary School, Mission, B.C. Skill level ratings will be used. Current IFP rules. PCO Sanctioned (Tier 4)
The Rosebowl Fraser Valley Pickleball Tournament, March 8 - 9, 2014 at Rosedale Traditional Community School, Chilliwack, B.C. Skill level ratings will be used. Current IFP rules. PCO Sanctioned (Tier 4)
Pickleball Canada National Open Championship July 4 - 6, 2014 at Abbotsford Recreation Centre, Abbotsford, B.C. 21 events including Men's, Women's Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles and Junior Doubles. Current IFP rules. PCO Sanctioned (Tier 1)
Pickleball Comes to the Netherlands
USAPA newsletter, submitted by Bill Hess, USAPA Ambassador, Cherokee County, Georgia: On a recent business trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands, I had the opportunity to play pickleball with the Amsterdam Pickleball Players. They play Sunday afternoons at a very nice facility called the Sporthal Oostenburg. The indoor facility was excellent, with painted badminton courts using UASPA portable nets on an excellent playing surface. Most of the players are just learning the game, but they play with a lot athleticism, high energy and enthusiasm. Several of the more advanced players move from court to court giving pointers on playing the game. They are planning to host an International Pickleball Tournament in May, 2014. Check www.usapa.org or go to their website, www.picklebal.nl. If you are planning a trip to the Netherlands it would be worthwhile to take your pickleball gear and spend an afternoon playing with this fun group. You can contact them at info@picklebal.nl
Why do Pickleballs have holes
Some people asked why do pickleballs have holes? Here's the reason why from USAPA newsletter:
Sound Off… Reader Feedback
I would like to respond to the question from Ed Mandler, Saddlebrooke Pickleball Association, about using a no-hole ball. They are available from one of the pickleball vendors and one of our players bought a dozen. I have played a couple of games with one of the no-hole balls and it is no fun. My main complaint is that it doesn't travel in a true line. It travels much like a knuckleball in baseball. Sometimes it will sail upward and other times downward and other times sideways. It seems to be heavier than the regular balls and when it hits you it hurts. It was fun to try, but it is a waste of time to play with on a regular basis. John Bliffen, Troy, Ohio
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Written Reviews & Previews
Top 10 Best Nintendo Games of 2014
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Last year, I did a Top 5 of the Best Nintendo Games of 2013. Now that 2014 is behind us, it’s time we take it up a notch. Since Angry Joe already did a Top 10 Best Games of 2014 based on his experiences, here’s mine and it involves Nintendo. These are the Top 10 Best Nintendo Games of 2014.
There’s only one rule here and it’s one game per franchise. Not only that but it can also involve games released on the eShop too. I figure it would be best because well, there are so many games released by Nintendo this year that it’s insane. I really mean that. I’ve played a lot of them. 2014 was Nintendo’s year, hands down. Some were good and others were not so let’s get this show on the road.
10) Azure Striker Gunvolt – Nintendo 3DS
We start off the list with a game that has a Mega Man X vibe. It feels like a Mega Man X game but it isn’t. Why? Simple. The gameplay. Sure you can jump, shoot and dash but when you shoot enemies, you tag them and you need to use Gunvolt’s ability to blast them with electricity. Not only is it useful against enemies but it also has other effects such as slowing down your descent, solving puzzles, etc. The story is a bit engaging unfortunately the overseas version took out most of what made it great such as the dialogue and story. It’s a shame really because if they didn’t do that, this would have been more rewarding. But regardless you do get a good game that won’t disappoint.
At only $15, you can’t go wrong. The replay value for it is high as you can go back to some levels and try getting a high score. They can net you items, which can help you customize Gunvolt however you like. He also has special skills that can turn the tide of battle. Is it safe to say that it’s similar to the X series? I think that’s the gist of it. But regardless, this game is fun and can really keep you busy for a little while.
Rating: 8 out of 10
9) Shantae & The Pirate’s Curse – Nintendo 3DS/Wii U
It’s sad that some franchises don’t get much appreciation nowadays. Shantae is a prime example of that and I have to say that it is very good. The latest game of the series takes place after Risky’s Revenge. Now full human, Shantae has to deal with a new evil, the Pirate Master. Risky approaches Shantae and asks for her help in defeating him before he brings despair to all of Sequin Land and its inhabitants. Knowing the risks despite not having genie powers, Shantae teams up with Risky to stop him.
This game is ridiculously fun. The gameplay is good and WayForward did a great job making each island seem unique. Of course they decide to take a Metroidvania style route giving players the incentive to look high and low for hidden areas and secrets. Not that it's a bad thing mind you but it just adds more to an otherwise great game. Replay value is very high and its great for people that love to speed run too. You do get rewarded with sweet stuff that makes you want to go at it one more time. For $20, how can you say no? With Half-Genie Hero in development, I know that Shantae has a bright future ahead for sure.
8) Mario Kart 8 – Nintendo Wii U
What is there to say about Mario Kart? It’s one of Nintendo’s many franchises and it has been around for more than two decades. Now we reach the 8th game and boy did they really deliver. The gameplay is the same as previous games but they also added new features such as Zero Gravity and new items such as the Super Horn, a counter to the threatening Blue Shell, the Boomerang Flower that gives you 3 uses and the Piranha Plant that provides boost while chomping on other opposition. You can’t forget the courses. We get new ones along with some familiar that get the HD treatment.
Not only do you have 4-player offline but online with up to 12 players. It’s insane, chaotic and all good fun. You’re probably wondering why this game is so low on the list. The answer’s simple. There are some flaws. For starters, the online battle mode. It’s completely bad and they butchered it severely with some tracks used as battle areas. It ain’t that interesting. Also the online can be problematic because one minute you’re playing a game & the next, you get kicked out. It sucks but a fault that I see it as an inconvenience.
Fortunately the game is still fun to play. Oh and there’s a lot of replay value with multiple difficulties and there’s even DLC. I’m not talking about what you normally see with some games. This is DLC done right and it provides you a lot of bonuses and with the release of the Amiibos, they add even more to the game that is worth your purchase. I highly recommend it.
7) Shovel Knight – Nintendo 3DS/Wii U and PC (Soon PS4)
2014 should just be referred to as the Year of the Indies. Yacht Club Games should be praised, no, they should be honored for making an amazing indie game. But you’re wondering why I’m adding this on the list cause its no longer console exclusive? Simple. It’s that fun. I love Shovel Knight. It is a love letter to 8-bit games while providing something new, something crisp and something different. There are so many things I like about the game that trying to explain it in this list won’t do it justice.
At only $15, it’s a steal. You play as Shovel Knight as you venture through various locations, defeating the forces and minions of the Evil Enchantress. Along the way you acquire items and upgrades that can help give him many advantages. The graphics are nostalgic and the music is simply addicting. I can’t say it enough. Trust me. There’s replay value in this game and I can always boot it up and play it any day. Although it’s on the list, I do want to say that with the announcement of the game going to the PS4, it isn’t going to be Nintendo exclusive. But will it hinder you from enjoying a great experience? Absolutely not! It’s a must buy and I can’t even say it enough. What are you waiting for? GET IT NOW!
6) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo Wii U
Retro Studios has always delivered when it comes to Nintendo games such as the Metroid Prime trilogy and their Donkey Kong Country Returns series. Their first game was great but hard at the same time. Hell it even got a port on the 3DS. Sure it added some new stuff like New Mode and several helpful items but it’s still tough and will provide you a challenge. Then there was a sequel… and it took everyone by surprise and I love it.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze centers on the Kong family trying to save their home from the Snowmad tribe who claim the island for their own. Now they must trek through six islands all while battling many minions, as they must reach DK Island to send the Snowmad tribe packing. The gameplay is still the same as the last but you have two new characters that join you: Dixie Kong who can help you reach higher places and Cranky Kong whose cane can help you bypass dangerous obstacles. The graphics are beautiful to look at, the music for each island provides variety and the challenge is just as high as the last game.
Only difference is that it isn’t giving you an easy way out. It really isn’t. You really got to buckle down and give it your all because there is no mercy. When you mess up like falling into a bottomless pit, it’s your fault. Sure there are six worlds but they make up for it with sections that push your skills to the test. There are also secrets and they require you to look high and low. The result is worth it. I mean it. It is a must buy game that provides challenge and a whole lot of satisfaction. Think you can try your luck getting 200% in the game? Good luck. You’ll need it.
5) Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Nintendo 3DS
What do you get when you take an archaeologist that loves to solve puzzles and a defense attorney that always finds a way to get their clients’ innocence? You get this game. Layton vs. Ace Attorney is a crossover game that takes both franchises and put them together to have an epic adventure. It centers on the world of Labyrinthia as Layton, Wright and their allies try to discover the secret behind the town.
The game takes elements from both games and uses them real well. You have your puzzle solving as well as investigation but the big thing are the trials. Since it centers on witch trials, you’ll have to rely on your wits and finding if the witnesses are hiding anything. Traditional Ace Attorney at its finest although some bits will give you a hard time. If I had any complaints with the game, it’s that the game is more Layton than Ace Attorney. Sure I don’t mind it but it wouldn’t hurt to have a balance. But regardless of this, the game is really fun and the added content is a delight. Take it from me. I played the whole game from start to finish and it was a blast.
4) Bravely Default – Nintendo 3DS
RPGs and handhelds work hand in hand and that’s a fact. Nintendo’s handhelds have had a fair share of successful role-playing games that will make you spend hours playing. But then comes a game called Bravely Default and it is by far one of the best RPG games around. I am not kidding. It centers on four protagonists: Tiz, Agnes, Edea and Ringabel as they must bring light to four crystals in the world of Luxendarc unaware that their actions may bring about the end of all reality.
The game is a successor to Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, having a battle system focusing on the job system from previous Final Fantasy games. One of the main draws is like its name implies. You can either Default and not attack to stock BP or go Brave and attack. But stuff like that come with a price so how you use it is crucial. As for the job system, its similar to Final Fantasy V but has more customization providing a whole lot of possibilities. Trying to explain everything about the game will take forever. So many things I like about the game, it’s crazy. And with the sequel coming this year, the excitement for it has never been this high. I recommend this game if you are a fan of RPG games. You’ll like it.
All right… now before I reveal the top 3, I do want to say that this is the most difficult I’ve ever planned. Why? Because these three games are really good and I’ve spent a lot of time with them. I don’t know if this will do anyone justice but remember that it’s my list. You guys are welcome to disagree with me so let’s do it!
3) Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire – Nintendo 3DS
You guys wondering why the heck it’s at #3 instead of any higher right? I did enjoy this game and I know many of you will have it at either #2 or #1. But anyway, the hype for this went through the roof. The instant it was first announced, people went nuts. When the game arrived, it delivered. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are remakes but they are excellent remakes. I love the remakes a lot and they blow Pokemon X & Y out of the water.
The game can be easy or hard depending on how you play. Not only that but the post-game provides a lot of extra content and it gives you a huge incentive to complete the Pokedex and give it your all against other trainers. Did I forget to mention Episode Delta? Yeah, that’s included too and it really adds more to the game. What can I say? It’s an amazing remake and I love it a lot! I don’t have any complaints but it was really hard deciding what to choose for the top 3. Either way, you’ll like it. Trust me.
Now comes the next one and like I said, very difficult decision to make but I hope that you guys will like it.
2) Bayonetta 2 – Nintendo Wii U
What is there to say about Bayonetta 2 that hasn’t already been said? It is one of the best Wii U games to date. Sure there was controversy in regards to its exclusivity but when you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. If it weren’t for Nintendo, we wouldn’t get Bayonetta 2. Speaking of which, I love everything about this game. It takes everything that the first game had and makes it ten times better. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is top-notch, and the music is simply addicting and catchy. Moon River Climax Mix and Tomorrow is Mine are music you will love to listen to. Believe me, I know.
Oh yeah, speaking of gameplay, the Witch Time is a system you’ll love to use. Not only does it make battles intense but it also gives you an advantage if you want to deliver the beating. Umbran Climax is also entertaining as like Devil Trigger, you get major enhancements. There’s also replay value up the butt with multiple difficulties, online co-op, additional costumes and even the first original Bayonetta. People who got it via physical copy can get the original Bayonetta for free. It’s a steal I mean it. It is one of the best games ever and it makes me wish that it got Game of the Year status instead of Dragon Age Inquisition.
If you have a Wii U but not this game, get it… NOW! You will NOT regret it.
Rating: 10 out of 10 LEGENDARY
And now comes the moment you’re waiting for…
1) Super Smash Bros. 4 – Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
This here is obviously a no-brainer why my top game of this year is. But why am I including both 3DS and Wii U versions on it when its one game per franchise. Even though both are the same game, they each provide something that the other doesn’t. Both games do provide you great online play, character customization and over 50 characters to choose from. That’s where the similarities end.
But like I said, both games each provide something different. For the 3DS version, it’s Smash Bros. on the go and I love it! Smash Run is exclusive to it and it is a lot of fun. Not only that but for a game like this on the handheld, it’s well done. The only complaint is that for multiplayer, everyone should have their own 3DS. A minor nitpick but what can you do.
The Wii U version though… it blows the 3DS version out of the water in terms of graphics, features and everything. There’s so much content here that its crazy. The best part about it is you can have up to 8-player Smash. That’s just INSANE! But when you have a group of friends together for it, it’s all the more rewarding. Smash Wii U also has online and it’s very good. I should also mention about Smash Tour. It’s like Mario Party but it doesn’t seem as good. I don’t know why although it does have some good single-player modes like Event matches. Oh and you can do co-op in both Classic and All-Star mode. That is really awesome.
You know, I’m beating a dead horse here on this so let me just sum it up. Super Smash Bros. for both 3DS and Wii U is my top pick as Nintendo Game of 2014. Whether it’s on the go on a handheld or with friends near a Wii U, you will have a hell of a good time. It’s the must buy to anyone who owns a 3DS or Wii U. I mean it. Without a doubt! Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U is my pick for Best Nintendo Game of 2014!
There you go. These are my Top 10 Best Nintendo Games of 2014. If you have any that you feel should be on the list, let me know.
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I want a Wii U. This thread summarises why, especially Beyonetta 2 and the upcoming Zelda.
You should get a Wii U. You won't be disappointed. Take it from me.
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I need to buy Wii U. My birthday is in January 28. So I will buy Wii U soon.
Well I'm happy to hear. I really am.
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Yes to anyone on the fence, getting a Wii U now is completely worth it, go get yourself one and come join us in the Nintendo sub-forum
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Feel free to promote my Top 10 on the Sub Forum. IT means a lot.
No problem, its a damn good list, useful for new console/handheld owners.
I forgot to put Honorable Mentions on this list so may as well to update...
Fantasy Life
Steel Diver Sub Wars
Moon Chronicles
Ultimate NES Remix
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There ya go. If anyone has honorable mentions of their own, they are more than welcome to add.
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Saturday Snippets
Bonking Brits; Bouncing Baby: Camel Cash: Cash Compensation; and No Tongues
Not a good start to the day, the cat managed to miss her dirt tray and crapped on the floor, after I cleaned it up and fed her she decided to show who was boss and threw up in the same place, anyone want an incontinent bulimic cat?
Not a good day for certain MPs either, HM Customs is apparently ‘investigating’ 27 of them.
A spokeswoman said: "Inquiries are an integral part of HMRC's work, ensuring that everyone pays the right tax."
She added: "An inquiry does not necessarily mean that there is a problem. Most inquiries are quickly closed".
But, just to help them out Here is a link they can use.
I’m tired of all this aren’t you?
And the CWU General secretary Bill Hayes is hinting that there may be more postal strikes after the two that are planned before Christmas.
Mr Hayes also suggested that he was in a stronger position than former miners' leader Arthur Scargill in the 1980s.
The 24-hour strikes will begin on 22 October. On the first day, mail centre staff and drivers will strike. The next day it will be delivery and collection staff.
Well Bill, it’s not the Gov you need to worry about it’s the public, farting about with OUR mail is guaranteed to turn you and your members into the equivalent of Thatcher the milk snatcher.
But there is some good news:
First up:
Ten Minutes?
Researchers in Holland measured the sexual performance of nearly 500 men from five countries against the clock.
They found that British men had sex for 10 minutes on average before reaching an orgasm.
American men came second with an average performance of eight minutes, followed by the Dutch with a 6.5-minute innings.
Spaniards were fourth, giving their lovers 4.9 minutes of pleasure; while Turks trailed in last, clocking up an average 4.4 minutes.
One man, whose nationality was not identified, lasted just six seconds, the study by experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands found.
However, another participant in the research put in a 52-minute performance before peaking.
A spokesman told The Sun: "The UK had the longest time. We found no major difference in those who used condoms. But men who drank alcohol before sex tended to last longer."
Keep it up chaps.
The train now running over the baby is at platform four
From OZ: - A 6-month-old baby had a miracle escape after his pram rolled onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train at a railway station in Melbourne.
Security video footage released on Friday shows the baby's mother looking away for a moment as the pram suddenly rolls off the edge of a station platform and onto the tracks at Ashburton station.
The mother looks back and panics as she watches the oncoming train hit the pram, dragging it about 130 feet along the track as the desperate driver tried to stop the train.
Miraculously, the baby boy survived with only minor injuries, including a bump to his head.
"The baby received a bump to his head and was distressed when we arrived. Luckily he was strapped into his pram at the time, which probably saved his life," Mr Wright said.
Michael Ferwerda, the Victoria state police sergeant, called Thursday's incident a "lucky escape" and said people should be cautious in train stations.
Maybe making the platform level might help.
Camel owner has the hump
The owner of a camel that was a beauty pageant contestant has demanded £160,000 in compensation from a Saudi Arabian oil company over the animal's death, according to reports.
The three-year-old black camel was grazing in a desert pasture about 150 miles west of Ahsa when it fell into a large hole dug to store crude oil.
Now the owner, Abdullah al-Saiari, is suing the oil giant Saudi Aramco for £160,000 in compensation for his prized camel.
Mr Saiari told the Saudi Gazette: "She was part of the Camel Beauty Contest."
The court had already contacted the beauty pageant's administrators to assess the value of the animal. A panel of camel experts set the beast's value at SR1 million, or £160,000.
Whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Postie that doesn’t know the rules
Dog owner Bruce Goulborn has won £450 compensation after his pet spaniel Benny chewed a parcel containing historic £5 notes which should not have been put through his letterbox.
Mr Goulborn, who should have signed for the package, wasn't in, and it fell into the jaws of his dog after the postman asked a neighbour to sign.
On Thursday, a court ordered Royal Mail to pay Bruce, from Rhyl, £450 compensation as the damaged notes are now only worth £350.
Last night the collector said Benny, 11, "thought it was his birthday" when he sunk his teeth into the parcel "like a chew toy".
The dog's teeth pierced two pristine 1937 white fivers from the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England which were being returned to him by a client who had paid for the registered delivery, Rhyl county court heard.
Royal Mail promise to cover losses under their special delivery services, but they argued Mr Goulborn could not "adequately prove" how much he paid for the notes.
But he produced a handwritten invoice showing the customer had stumped up £800, which he'd later refunded - leaving him out of pocket.
The postal service said compensation is based on actual loss - the amount it costs to acquire, purchase or manufacture the item, and not what it is worth at retail price.
Special deliveries are meant to be signed for only by the household the package is intended for. If the addressee isn't home, a card should be posted through the door saying they can collect it from a sorting office.
Awarding Mr Goulborn £450 compensation and £95 costs yesterday, district judge John Thomas said it was an "unusual scenario."
"Mr Goulborn is experienced in this field and has proved himself a credible and honest witness.
"This is an issue of fairness and Royal Mail do have a compensation scheme in place for customers who have problems with loss or damage to mail.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We will now have to consider the court judgement and respond accordingly.
"However, Royal Mail's position on payment of compensation for lost items remains unchanged and is based on actual loss."
Well done Royal Mail.
The coach of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national football team has ordered players to kiss each other on the lips in order to create a special bond between team mates.
Miroslav Ciro Blazevic - who has Portsmouth star Asmir Begovic in his squad - said: "I take two of my players and tell them, 'Love him! Kiss him!' and he kisses him."
He claimed the unorthodox morale-boosting exercise has already proven successful: Mr Blazevic has taken the squad further than ever before in the World Cup.
“I tell them they have to kiss each other straight to the lips," the coach wrote in his column in Croatian news website net.hr.
"The secret of my success is in a unity of a squad. You can't do anything without an atmosphere in a team," he explained.
His revelation came after Vincenzo Santoruvo, the Italian striker, amazed fans by planting a kiss on a team mate's lips after scoring for Serie B club Frosinone.
Always had my doubts about football.
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Australia’s first ever crowdfunding exit of a startup sees investors double their money
Anthill Magazine - Jun 29, 2018
Alternative assets crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd recently announced the first ever crowdfunding exit of a startup in Australia through an equity crowdfunding platform with the listing of transfer comparison site Jayride.com.
VentureCrowd completes its first Israeli crowdfunding deal with this AI startup
VentureCrowd raised $155,000 in convertible notes, as part of a larger US$3 million funding round led by reputable venture capital firms like CE Ventures, AfterDox, Plus Ventures and 2B Angels.
Rimon invests $100,000 in Jayride thanks to a coffee meeting from three years ago
Anthill Magazine - Mar 18, 2016
Rimon has invested $100,000 in tech start-up Jayride as part of a larger capital raise and helped it raise over $500,000 in government incentives and grants
VentureCrowd raised $2 million and is now bringing Israeli start-ups to Aussie investors
Aussie investors will be able to invest in the best Israeli start-ups under a new deal by equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd and Kentgrove Capital
Is your start-up looking to raise $500,000 to $2 million? This VC fund is...
Gerald Ainomugisha - Sep 15, 2015
Unique data-driven VC fund Follow[the]Seed will offer $50 million in second-stage funding to Australian start-ups seeking to raise $500,000 to $2 million
Sydney start-up Jayride is now at nearly 100 US airports thanks to a successful...
Gerald Ainomugisha - Jun 22, 2015
Sydney-based transportation booking platform, Jayride recently officially launched in the US, powered by a successful $1.5 million capital raise earlier this year in January. Backed by...
Meet Jayride, Anthill 2011 Cool Company Award Winner [Social Capitalist Category]
Anthill Magazine - Nov 24, 2011
What makes ride-sharing company Jayride cool is how it pushes its brand and how it has plugged in a revenue model designed to keep the company motoring along and driving toward its ambitious goal of extending beyond Australia.
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The Single Most Important Factor to Build Self Discipline
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Between 1986 and ’96, Southwest Airlines grew at an astounding pace. So much that 100 small cities requested them to begin operating in their city. At a time when other airlines were making heavy losses, Southwest Airlines was flooded with opportunity.
What did they do?
They turned down over 95 percent offers and started operating from just four more cities.
Why would they walk away from growth?
Because the airline wanted to grow at a pace that it could sustain.
“Go Big or Go Home” is Crappy Advice
We’ve internalized the adage “Go Big or Go Home.” We believe that only mammoth effort yields significant results. For that, we look for EXTREME self-discipline.
We visualize a disciplined life as one in which there’s no fun.
No more hanging out with friends. No more social media. Live like a monk. Or lock yourself in a closed space and work on that tough project for 6 months.
The only problem is that after 6 months, either the project is finished, or you are. (Often it’s the latter.)
Who would want such a life, one where you’re not free to do what you want?
Discipline is not the end of freedom. It’s the road to freedom.
Discipline means putting yourself in control rather than letting “fate” control your actions.
It means making Present You do what it must so that Future You reaps the rewards.
It means working on an important task when your friends are hanging out at the bar. It means hitting the gym instead of slouching on the sofa and watching reruns of Suits. It means sticking to your diet instead of breaking it “just this once” at every available chance.
Discipline might sound like a lot of work, but it’s not. It doesn’t demand you to perform at a “peak state” all the time. On the other hand, performing at your peak once in a while doesn’t mean anything either.
Discipline simple demands consistency, which comes from growing at a pace you can sustain.
3 Stupid Simple Steps to Build Consistency
1. Practice every day
Do you watch Netflix every day? Do you browse Instagram every day?
So can you do something that benefits you in the long run, every day?
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing every day. — Grant Cardone
2. Process over Product
When the outcome appears daunting, people give up before they begin.
They make excuses to justify it. But secretly they’re filled with regret. And they use entertainment — pseudo-freedom — to drown out that regret.
Why do they try to drown it out? Because the only thing that sucks more than failure is regret.
Forget about the outcome. Focus on putting one foot ahead of the other.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. — Lao Tzu
I aim to write 1,000 words every day. On some days I fall short of the target. But instead of giving up or talking down to myself, I simply make sure I don’t slip up two days in a row.
Stick to the process. Do it for the love of it, not for the outcome. The results will take care of themselves.
3. Enjoy Small Wins
Instead of cutting off what you enjoy, make it a reward.
Enjoy an episode of your favorite show or fifteen minutes of Instagram after you’ve done what’s important. When you achieve a milestone, celebrate it with your friends.
Use what you enjoy as a reward for staying disciplined. It makes you feel less guilty, turns discipline into a habit, and makes you a happier person.
When you stay consistent, you set a derivative of Newton’s first law into action — an object in motion stays in motion. Your motions gain momentum and turn you into an unstoppable force.
One day, there will be success, there will be you, and nothing in between.
This post originally appeared on Medium.
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Videos, You and the Internet, Your Rights
Can the police search your phone without a warrant?
The short answer to this question of whether the police can search your cell phone without a warrant is no, they cannot. However, like all constitutional rights, there are exceptions to this general rule.
In July of 2014, the United States Supreme Court decided two very important cases that dealt with a person’s privacy rights concerning their phone. The critical issue before the Court was whether the police can search a person’s phone after placing him/her under arrest, but before obtaining a search warrant. The Court concluded that the police must first obtain a warrant under such circumstances. There may be an exception to this rule when the destruction of evidence or officer safety is being threatened, but this would be an unusual case.
Listen below to Judge Tom discuss this case, your rights to cell phone privacy and whether or not this applies to students’ phones being searched at school.
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My stepsons phone was taken inside a courtroom the Judge saw the text that was sent to my son’s phone from a another teenager who was my son’s friend had just left the courtroom leaving a nasty text on his phone calling the Judge a bitch’ . My son was put in lockup for 20 days now a month later the Judge wants my son’s text record telling my wife to get a record of his text.Is this justified or is it a violation of his civil rights under the 4th amendment.
Dear David; Askthejudge.info is an education resource for teenagers about the laws that affect them. We do not provide legal advice to our readers, whether teen or adult. We suggest you speak with a criminal defense attorney about this. Take a look at our Teen Help Network for lawyers where you live. Good luck. -ATJ.info
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Art Galleries / Bath Art
Contemporary Art on show at the Abbey Hotel in Bath – Courtesy of Modern ArtBuyer
We are delighted to announce that the Abbey Hotel, Bath, is now showing stunning artwork from a selection of artists represented by Modern ArtBuyer, the contemporary art sales website (www.modernartbuyer.com), also based in Bath.
The Abbey Hotel has been undergoing refurbishment to create an elegant hotel ideally suited for Bath’s broad range of visitors. As part of the Abbey’s focus on ensuring an elegant and enjoyable stay for its guests, the hotel is working closely with Modern ArtBuyer to hang a gallery of contemporary artwork throughout the hotel for guests to browse and even buy, while they relax over coffee or sip their evening cocktails.
The work has been selected to reflect the stylish, boutique feel to the hotel and the collection includes wonderful pieces by Jason Keeley, Lisa Creagh, Paul Bennett and Rob Ashdown. The gallery will be a permanent fixture at the hotel and the artwork will be changing continually to keep guests engaged and inspired.
Jessica Lloyd-Smith, Director, Modern ArtBuyer said: “Bath has a reputation for being an exceptional centre for art, so it’s fantastic to be able to exhibit some of our artists’ work at the Abbey Hotel and reinforce that strong reputation to the city’s visitors.”
Christa and Ian Taylor, Owners, Abbey Hotel said: “We want to give our guests not only a stylish stay in Bath but also a cultural one. We already offer award-winning dining and interesting keynote talks, so it’s exciting to be developing our gallery for both visitors and locals to enjoy. The work looks incredible and we hope everyone will love it as much as we do.”
About Modern ArtBuyer Limited
Modern ArtBuyer Limited was founded in January 2012 to provide an online channel (www.modernartbuyer.com) to showcase selected contemporary paintings, limited edition screen prints and photographs to the internet generation, ensuring that integrity and quality of work are paramount throughout. Prices are attractive and the diverse and constantly growing selection of artwork ensures the varied tastes of our audience are satisfied.
Customers can feel reassured about buying from Modern ArtBuyer knowing that all artists are carefully selected for their quality. In addition, the website offers an opportunity for customers to try out artworks on their very own wall using our clever ‘Changing Room’ app to give that extra layer of comfort. A ‘no quibble’ returns policy is in place for all customers.
About the Abbey Hotel
The Best Western Abbey Hotel is one of the best-located hotels in the centre of Bath, just moments away from the famous Pump Rooms, Roman Baths, Thermae Spa, Bath Abbey, and the city’s brilliant shopping area.
The Best Western Abbey has 60 comfortable bedrooms, and a peaceful lounge and bar for a Bath afternoon tea or cocktails. The award-winning Allium Brasserie, under our acclaimed chef Chris Staines, is open all day, and is already one of the best places to eat in Bath. And our Terrace Cafe offers the best people-watching in town.
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The 5 Scorpio Lunar Eclipse
Te aa no areois (The Seed of the Areoi) by Paul Gauguin (1892)
The Moon is in it’s sign of Fall when in Scorpio. And a Lunar Eclipse is known by the sign of its Moon, with the Sun being positioned in the opposite sign – in this case, Taurus.
But it’s why the Moon is in Fall in Scorpio which is probably the big clue to how this eclipse is going to operate.
The Moon is about reflection. It’s about our feelings and instincts. The Moon rules Cancer – a cardinal sign which is all about the surf zone and the crab which is free to go on shore or seek refuge in the water and among the rocks depending on what feels safest…or maybe just because it’s in the mood for this and that.
It’s from an image like this that we understand that the Moon is willful, and eminently self-concerned in the very real and corporeal sense where the Sun is about that consciousness or our ability to get ourselves through some situation. That’s also an expression of will, but with the Sun will is expressed through action where with the Moon, will is expressed in how I feel about it.
And yes, everything which may flow from that!
Scorpio is a sign about interactions…and what can be gained through or by interacting. With everything Scorpionic there’s some kind of risk – mostly emotional risk. And when things go bad in the Scorpio realm, the first question we ask ourselves is ‘why did I do that?’ or ‘why did I ever get involved?’ Much as we might be honked off at whoever we deal with in Scorpio (and being the sign of war, there’s obviously plenty of honk-off’ed-ness which goes with this sign!) the real issue with Scorpio, the ‘test’ if you will, is to our values. Wars are most often all about ‘don’t threaten me and my values’…or ‘I so disapprove of your values that I’m going to wipe you out’ – a mindset which is very close to another Scorpio trait, the venomous quality of revenge and vengeance.
To put it simply (and yes, this is a very extreme sort of example we’re using here), the Moon is in Fall in Scorpio because our feelings end up focused on the other. The Moon represents our need to love and respect ourselves – or our Self, depending. And since when in Scorpio we succeed only when we taken into account the aims and values of others on a par with the needs, aims and values we hold for or about ourselves, that’s a ‘sign necessity’ which asks us to use the Moon in a manner the Moon is less than enthrallingly fit to work in.
Scorpio’s longing and desire, it’s tests of our ability to maneuver and the temptation to manipulate is not directly about us. It’s about expending energy to try to get what we want, which by implication says we either don’t have it or we’re feeling threatened about it.
So the Moon in Scorpio always has this shifting, testy sort of edge. And when we talk about a Lunar Eclipse, that quality is likely to be elevated. Yes, this could also indicate a moment when we win through on something we want…I’m pretty sure President Bush (GW Bush) is going to be happy about the opening of his presidential library on the date of this lunar eclipse…but even when we get our way or get what we want from a Lunar Eclipse it’s likely to come at some cost. Or with some challenge to our feelings of settled security.
Could President Bush (the younger) be wondering what people will find in his library and what sorts of fluffles and fracas might evolve from that? He might – and when I heard that this was the Grand Opening for his library, I figured a cavalcade of reporters and researchers would be descending on the place, all determined to dig through the archives.
But I digress – sort of. The Moon of this eclipse is at 5 Scorpio and Saturn (still in retrograde) is at 8 Scorpio, which would describe the Bush Library as a source on all things Scorpio (economics, war, back room deals, etc.) which went on during those presidential administrations. And while most of us have never been President, this ‘aura of the past’ would be very much in keeping with this eclipse. This could be entirely personal and emotional…or it could be about something you are doing based on something you have ‘gotten into’ or ‘how I learned to do it’…or it could be a moment when something you did comes up for review – most of all, personal review.
Lunar Eclipse of April 25, 2013
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With TNO Deucalion at 12 Scorpio, the Saturn of this figure carries a definite whiff of challenge with regards to morality. Yet since the Sun which opposes this Moon is conjunct Mars (and Mars is not a happy camper in Taurus) we have all the stubbornness of Mars/Sun set up against Moon/Saturn (plus Saturn/Deucalion) to contend with, a combination which denotes a very intense ‘discussion’ – be that framed as a choice, a realization, a feeling about some situation or some force being brought to you by someone who represents that Saturn/Moon (plus Saturn/Deucalion) against your wanting to stick with your current (Sun/Mars in Taurus) position.
Or maybe you’re the person bringing your Saturn/Moon ‘reflective determination’ to someone else’s entrenched position.
But there’s an interesting difference here. The Moon in Scorpio is the Moon in its sign of Fall. Mars in Taurus, on the other hand, is in the sign of its Detriment.
What’s the difference? It does sort of amount to the same thing, but fall being the opposite of rulership while detriment is the opposite of exaltation tells us more or less how this works. Rulership is where the sign and the quality of the planet are in synch. So the Moon is (first and foremost) our emotional self and that experiencing of emotions which causes us to reflect on life itself. That matches well with Cancer as the first of the zodiac’s water signs and the native sign of learning how emotions work as children do in the heart of a family or as we all do in general as part of a culture or inherited national tradition.
The Moon is exalted in Taurus, which means the optimal Taurean condition of self respect, self worth and physical security in life and in this world is a good setting in which to learn all our ‘Moon stuff.’
And here (interestingly enough) we have the Moon positioned in a sign Mars is co-ruler of (Scorpio) with Mars being positioned in Taurus, a sign the Moon is exalted in.
That describes discomfort. For most of us that will just be some measure of emotional discomfort or inconvenience. And like all Lunar Eclipses, this one really needs to be focal in your chart or you may not feel much of anything (though you may hear of someone else having a heck of a Lunar Eclipse time and really feel for them!).
So to use the vernacular, at it’s extreme this can be a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ sort of situation. Then again, it may just be a session of whipping up some favorite dish in the kitchen (with company on their way to your door) only to find half way through your demonstrating your culinary prowess to yourself that some important ingredient you were sure you had plenty of…well, you have practically none of.
What to do? Do you have time to go to the store? Do you have anything to substitute? Are you going to bite the head off your darling spouse who swore they checked but obviously didn’t – and if so, are you capable of smiling through the whole of the evening while your guests are there?
The lore about 5 Scorpio speaks to a ‘dead end’ and blocked efforts which may indicate one of those ‘do we have to go into that again?’ sort of refusal to discuss something. Conversely, the lore about 5 Taurus is about contentment with what one has and with that being good enough to work with. So this is a moment which is about a clash of ambitions and drive against contentment and satisfaction. To the extent that you are happy with things as they are, you may not want to change. But do you need to? To the extent that you are not happy with things, what can you do to change them?
Any time we see an opposition of any sort (presented by an eclipse or not) we know the optimal solution is to embrace both ideas at once – which in this case is hard, as there’s quite a tug from both sides of the question, most of which can be summed up in the ideas of ‘deserving’ and ‘earning,’ both of which should be taken emotionally. That means that ‘earning’ can be about going to work to earn money, but it’s your feelings about working which apply here.
Also important: is the world (or life) static? Are things supposed to stay “as they have always been”? The obvious answer to that is ‘no.’ If it wasn’t, we’d all be still using oil lamps, parents wouldn’t be parents because…well, never mind having children, they wouldn’t have ever gotten married.
Obviously life evolves. The trick is understanding that it’s not just the parts of life that you want changed which end up evolving!
All this said, now we come to the kite. I mean…what’s a good eclipse without a planetary picture, right?
Okay…so here’s the kite which comes into play during this day – or even the couple of days surrounding April 25, 2013 at 7:58 in the evening UT/+0 time when said eclipse occurs:
Kites are always made up of two triangles – the upper one (Sun, Ceres and Neptune/Fomalhaut) which is ‘supported’…or which can be thought of as standing atop the ‘shoulders’ of the lower triangle, which here is composed of Moon/Saturn, Ceres and Neptune/Fomalhaut.
The bottom triangle is a grand trine. More to the point, it’s a grand trine in water, which says emotions and emotionality either can’t be avoided or is going to be entirely avoided. Which you encounter depends on which you come into this moment with as your status quo, as grand trines are all about ongoing energies which are difficult…almost impossible to disrupt, divert or otherwise change.
At least for the moment. Considering this grand trine involves the Moon, considering how the Moon moves one degree about every two hours, that means that at a point about ten hours after this eclipse the Moon will be exiting the five degree orb allowed for conjunctions and trines.
Which means at that point (ten hours or so after the eclipse) this watery grand trine will be Saturn, Neptune/Fomalhaut, Ceres.
What’s the difference? That difference is emotional investment: Moon in Scorpio. So the eclipse may well represent a moment when emotions get invested…or withdrawn, depending.
What’s the rest of it mean? Saturn is durability…which in emotional terms would be enduring. Saturn is also structural, which in emotional terms is a commitment. To what? That depends. For some emotionality will be withdrawn because there is no ‘enduring commitment.’ With others there will be a commitment made or renewed. Or maybe ‘detoxified,’ since Scorpio is very big on rehabilitation of any kind of human messiness.
Neptune/Fomalhaut is pretty much a statement about ‘what’s right and true’ which gets balanced off against ‘what’s possible within the bounds of ethical and moral correctness?’
And Ceres? Ceres is having a plan. Do you know how to turn that handful of seeds into a bountiful harvest?
A lunar eclipse in progress
Again, since the Moon and Saturn are presented here in Scorpio, while this can be a moment to found something and move forward, there is also a possibility that what arises now is based on past (Moon-Saturn) commitments or emotional investments.
Even financial investments.
Or sexual commitments.
The top triangle is composed of one trine and two sextiles, the sextiles representing ‘support’ of the ultimate aim, which is here presented as Sun-Mars in early Taurus. Ordinarily we would simply say this is ‘my security in my values’ but because this is a lunar eclipse we have to toss in that emotional concept, which gives us ‘how I feel ABOUT my emotional security’ or ‘how I feel about how I have invested myself in some ‘defined version’ of emotional security.’ With Neptune/Fomalhaut and Ceres being the connectors between the upper ‘negotiating’ position (which may be a negotiation with yourself or others) and the lower grand trine in water signs, this would seem to make this lunar eclipse about the difference between what we want something to be and what it is. Or what we thought it was going to be and what it is.
Since 5 Scorpio and 5 Taurus occur in every chart even if they’re not highlighted by planets or whatnot, we will all see or feel or hear of this eclipse as it happens. And unlike Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses are prompt. There’s no messing around – you’ll know that the issue is when the gong sounds.
But also unlike Solar Eclipses, Lunar Eclipses are ‘moments in time’ which we get past and move on from. Seldom is a Lunar Eclipse the actual game changer or life altering event – though the difference can be subtle. One good example here would be the proposal of marriage as opposed to the actual wedding. I’m sure many would argue that the proposal ‘changes everything’…but while it may change your feelings about the future of your feelings (which is about as lunar as it gets!) it is not the actual moment which changes your (solar) life in real time, real life, worldly and forever terms. That’s the wedding.
Lunar Eclipses start strong – sometimes it’s an emotional tsunami. But by the time three months passes, their import has been woven into the fabric of our lives.
Solar Eclipses are a whole different thing. And speaking of which, you do know we have one coming up, right? It’s on May 10th and it will be at 19 Taurus.
Anyone whose chart is aspected by both eclipses is in for a rollercoaster shift in their consciousness. And since this is the rare eclipse season which brings with it two Lunar Eclipses and one Solar Eclipse, check your chart for 4 Sagittarius as well.
One other note here: does your birthday fall within four or five days (either way) of this Lunar Eclipse? If it does, the whole of your year is going to be emotionally evocative. Provocative. Intense.
And yes, educational.
And for those of you whose birthdays are within four or five days of May 10th? You’re probably already feeling the effects of major shifts altering your life perspective, and we aren’t even at the Solar Eclipse yet!
Whether you’re a late April baby, a May baby, or just some wandering citizen of this world with a chart to call your own, this is an interesting moment in time – one to learn from, and hopefully to profit from.
Labels: 5 Scorpio, 5 Taurus, grand trine in water, grand trines, kites, Lunar eclipse in Scorpio, Planets in Fall, Solar Eclipses 2000 - 2020
Mercury in Taurus
Mars in Taurus
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Eta Aquarids: The 2013 Edition
The Lyrid Meteor Shower 2013
From an Astrologer’s Notebook: The Pluto Station
Pluto Station-Retrogrades in Capricorn
An Aries New Moon
News Notes: Mercury-Klotho-Medusa
Dateblog: April 2013
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Astrologer’s Diary: Political Times
One of the photo's from NASA's 'Earth at Night' series (2012)
Initially I thought of this post as a form of ‘update’ to a piece logged into the astroPPM flow as of January 11, 2011, namely ‘2011’s Fixed Star Eclipses and the Eclipsing of the US Congress’ which for a mélange of reasons likely obvious and inexplicable has been wrested from relative reader obscurity to the position of number one all-time read post here at the blog.
Mind you...all this happened without anyone so much as commenting or sending me an email. But being not insensible to interests being expressed (and well aware of the sudden swelling of noise, discord and violence around our world) lists were duly compiled, birth data was dug out, charts were cast and research was begun.
What turned up?
Something which though not entirely comfortable, is highly informative - if you consider things from the metaphysical perspective, that is.
First, a full and proper confession: I did not pull charts on every last living member of the US Congress. There are hundreds of congress people and not even a dedicated researcher such as myself was up for that task.
So what list was used? Simple: the US Congress has two houses - the House of Representatives and the Senate. If you head either chamber, you went on my list (hello, Senator Reid and Representative Boehner) with the same ‘invitation’ being extended to majority and minority leaders and their respective party whips.
(No, I’m not going for that joke. That's just too easy.)
After that came a group of congress people thought of as Those Who Stand in Front of Cameras. In other words, if you’re a member of Congress whose name has become engraved amidst the folds of my gelatinous if retentive brain merely because you show up on the news all the time, you were on my list.
To those of you who are students of astrology I will answer what is often the next question I gets asked about such studies: where do you start? My answer is generally ‘anywhere,’ though dates (or ranges of dates) help, as that will give you a time period in which to look for planetary stations, eclipses or some other ‘celestial notice’ to test against your mass of charts.
Which is what I did, with the celestial notice in question being April’s 8 Taurus Solar Eclipse, an eclipse which occurred in conjunction with fixed stars Schedir and Hamal.
- link to -
April’s 8 Taurus Solar Eclipse
(Pt. 3: Stars and Patterns)
What I found was that there was a definite split by party. While by no means a 100% occurrence...which is not to say every Republican and/or every Democratic members was affected, nor would those which were ‘hit’ by the eclipse affected identically...there was indeed a pattern: if aspected by the eclipse, Republican congressperson charts tended to be aspected by conjunction or opposition as opposed to the eclipse squaring objects in the charts of Democratic congress people.
Here are a few examples...
Speaker of the House, John Boehner (Republican)
November 17, 1941 - Reading, Ohio - Aries Wheel (glyph chart)
November 17, 1941 - Reading, Ohio - Aries Wheel (text chart)
With Mercury at 6 Scorpio, the 8 Taurus eclipse was in opposition, indicating testing situations and trying interpersonal matters, all of which have to do with the ability, manner, purpose or denial of [Scorpio] profitable connections, all of which would have been in what might be called ‘oppositional focus.’
Because no time is given for Speaker Boehner’s birth, no Moon is shown in his chart. However, given its position at dawn (2 Scorpio), unless the Speaker was born in the first few hours after midnight (say, by 4 in the morning) his Moon will be in Scorpio and will also be involved in the opposition by eclipse - which would be a rough emotional ride for anyone.
Heroes and villains alike have quailed under such pressures.
Moreover, Mr. Boehner isn’t out of the celestial woods as yet. Also highlighted in his chart is Juno (the principle of ‘management’ or ‘protecting the use of XYZ through proper application of management’) at 28 Libra, a degree which brings up one’s ‘mental culture,’ particularly where integrity, honesty and willingness to try/work/make an honest effort are concerned.
This Libra Juno is going to be eclipsed by October 2014’s 0 Scorpio solar eclipse.
And yes, that will be by conjunction.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Republican)
June 6, 1963 - Richmond, Virginia - Aries Wheel (glyph chart)
June 6, 1963 - Richmond, Virginia - Aries Wheel (text chart)
When House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his recent bid for re-election in the preliminary (primary) round, everyone was shocked. Everyone who didn’t have his chart, that is. Eclipses atop Black Moon Lilith are all about a ‘mass rejection’ whether that’s by others or by us. With the natal Black Moon in Scorpio anything which promotes or provokes emotions or emotionality (or emotional responses) is the venue - and with Black Moon Lilith conjunct Sabine (a point which can mean ‘raped’ but more often refers to a confinement or some sort of restriction) in the natal chart, when added to the idea that Mr. Cantor’s primary fell within the purview of Neptune’s early June 7 Pisces station, Neptune opposition Pluto (transformation) + Ceres (standing for defense) + Hebe(helping) + Deucalion (independent morality) + Child (physical children, childhood, immaturity, innocence)... that would seem to be the ‘recipe’ for voters evidently feeling Mr. Cantor was (reportedly) “too liberal” on immigration (that being the Neptune opposition) and too “out of touch” with their needs... which caused him to be ‘eclipsed’ (voted) out of office.
The charts above are less typical than some in that they have dual signals, but they are fairly typical of Republican charts as sampled...with the caveat that yes, those who would speak out (be seen on the news) would probably be those people whose charts were being eclipsed and who experienced that as passionate experiences, be they pro or con. And on the other (Democratic) side we have charts like this - the chart of Representative Nancy Pelosi, who was Speaker of the House last time the Democrats controlled that chamber:
Representative Nancy Pelosi (Democrat)
March 26, 1948 - Baltimore, Maryland - Aries Wheel (glyph chart)
March 26, 1948 - Baltimore, Maryland - Aries Wheel (text chart)
Holding to standard (Ptolemaic) 5-degree orbs for conjunction, opposition and square, the eclipse at 8 Taurus is not in conjunction/opposition with the Nodes of this chart. But it was in square to Representative Pelosi’s Pluto, just as it is in square to Pallas (dispassionate perspective) and all the many indications of variable pressures denoted by Pluto in the chart of Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat)
June 22, 1949 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Aries Wheel (glyph chart)
June 22, 1949 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Aries Wheel (text chart)
Yet the details to all of this (interesting though they may be) are not nearly as illuminating as the idea of how distinctly charts of party members fell into pattern with each other, which makes sense if we think of how ‘like minded’ (or even relatively like minded) people would tend to gravitate towards one rather than the other party - particularly in what has come to be America’s basically two-party system.
And that leads us to the charts of the Republican National Committee (known widely as ‘the RNC’) and the Democratic Committee (known as ‘the DNC’).
Republican National Committee (RNC)
June 17, 1856 - Philadelphia PA - Noon (glyph chart)
June 17, 1856 - Philadelphia PA - Noon (text chart)
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
May 22 1848 - Baltimore MD - Noon (glyph chart)
May 22 1848 - Baltimore MD - Noon (text chart)
One of the issues the RNC is dealing with (and which it has been dealing with for a couple of years now) is the rise of the Tea Party wing, a segment of Republican thought which seeks to change the status quo in a rather across-the-board kind of way, making its point by (among other things) working to bring about Eric Cantor’s primary defeat.
That movement to change the party from within the party is a hugely Plutonic sort of process, and with Pluto in Taurus the issue is values while Pluto’s placement in the 8th points to the ‘field of play’ being a place where values must be negotiated and joined, whether within the party or across party lines.
(Just to note: this being a chart for a worldly ‘entity’ it automatically gets a noon time, so we know the house placement.)
Being that this chart dates from 1856, fixed stars Hamal and Schedir are not at their current position of 7 Taurus - they’re at 5 Taurus, which puts them exactly in conjunction with the RNC Pluto, a combination which will tend to point to potent tenacity if a cyclic tendency to expand and contract depending on how the idea of ‘restraint’ (Schedir) is internalized and dealt with.
More important in this moment, this 5 Taurus Pluto-Schedir-Hamal was eclipsed in April and will be eclipsed again in October, pointing to an extended period of turmoil which will naturally reflect and be reflected in the work and feelings of party members.
The Democratic Party isn't going to escape turmoil either - both parties are solidly founded in Piscean Age ethics and thus will inevitably change as we move into increasingly Aquarian Age times. So we can expect more turmoil...but that turmoil is part of what might be called 'necessary evolution' - the trading of one set of considerations for another. Piscean ethics are always emotional. Aquarian ethics are always conceptual.
It's a process, one in which metaphysically, individuals feeding into (or on) a given party’s turmoil... or an industry's challenges...or the debates of one or many nations - they are all responding to the overture of our times. Political parties, being theoretical entities which operate within a realm of ideas, formulating concepts as 'product' are always going to be more wholly ‘theoretical’ than anyone of flesh and blood corporeality could possibly be.
And that would be why they...along with all things theoretical, conceptual and to some extent "not real" (like the internet) represent the means by which the influx of our times stimulate our lives...our thoughts...our perception of the world we live in.
This is what seemed so interesting to me. As we enter the Aquarian Age...
The wheel of the Aquarian Age (Aquarius rising)
...Scorpio - the sign which tests our security - rises to the top of the wheel. In that position, on an individual basis it represents our desire to achieve or gain enough power over our life to feel secure - though surely some will interpret that as simply the lust for personal power.
And that’s the test for governments as well. The point at the top of the horoscope wheel - the Midheaven - is also the cusp of the 10th house, a house which in the worldly sense speaks to everything which structures our life, which ‘runs’ things we then deal with (or don’t deal with). In positive mode the 10th is inspirational and motivational. In negative mode the 10th is restrictive, paranoid and suspicious.
This is the polarity we all will be dealing with for the whole of the Aquarian Age - all 2,160 years long of it. Aquarius is the sign of systems and mass collectives, of the marketplace and everything which powers our world... our thoughts... our willingness and ability to join together... or not.
And here’s the point: Aquarius is an air sign, and air signs function through considerations of thought and concept, which makes it not at all surprising that the reality of functionality which is - and which is going to be the Aquarian Age is making itself known not just in this instance, but across societies and our world through the theories we like or don't like. Which we discuss, debate, deny, which we excuse ourselves from any responsibility for (lack of responsibility is a famously Aquarius negative quotient)...which we debate, explore, abandon, work to purify, get upset about and yes - occasionally explode and go up in smoke about. Aquarius calls our attentions to foibles so that we can take responsibility so that we have an opportunity to conjure up the type of inventiveness which gets us past our sticking points and testing times.
Note please...not their sticking points, our sticking points. Aquarius functions well only when all points in the system are engaged, properly utilized, attended to and kept current. Though Aquarius honors equality and a lack of those distinctions which under the winner/loser, ruler/ruled, rich/poor, upper/lower class Piscean Age were both common and accepted, there will come a time - probably not all that long from now - when Aquarian imperatives will provide the means by which such things as cast, gender (as identity) wealth and other such qualities become less important than our humanity... a humanity which, to put it in Aquarian terms, we will adopt and adapt to as soon as we are truly done being inhumane - most of all to our Selves.
Not that all this will come to us as easily as breathing - which is good cause to see and grasp and understand what is going on in American politics. Yes, there is a level at which it is entirely about the laws and budgets and human beings.
But it's also about the flow of time... and when it comes to Aquarius, though Aquarius honors equality, its early manifestations are often disruptive, elitist, intolerant and far from the stuff of dreams. It takes time for us to learn that as individual as we all are, we only all gain when we all pool our knowledge, when we become willing to let go of personal priorities and cease arguing about ownership in favor of discussing the ideas which really count.
Which is really what politics is all about - if often challenged by.
Posted by Boots Hart, CAP at 9:14 PM
Labels: Aquarian Age, Astrologer's Diary, Astrological Ages, Democratic Party, Hamal, Political astrology, Republican Party, Schedir, Solar Eclipse at 0 Scorpio, Solar Eclipse at 8 Taurus, Solar Eclipses 2000 - 2020
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Audio Description in Australia
Words Becoming Pictures
What is Audio Description?
On DVDs and in Libraries
Using Apps
AD Around Australia
Queensland – Describing the Performing Arts
Western Australia – Fireworks and Festivals
New South Wales – Lights, Movement, Action
Early audio description – New York 1929
Broadcast TV
CC image by Paul Hudson
This page provides a list of audio description apps.
Please let us know if you recommend any we don’t already list here!
Movies Anywhere (previously Disney Movies Anywhere)
Not Available in Australia. To access you must be 13 years of age or older and a resident of the United States, all U.S. territories, or the U.S. associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
This app is a cloud locker for Disney Pixar movies, with AD as a feature. The app itself is available on a range of platforms, but the AD feature is only available on iOS.
It can be used with headphones in any setting, including the cinema, syncing with the ambient film audio.
MovieReading
Limited content available in Australia.
Originally designed for subtitles and captions, this app also features AD. It is available on Android and iOS, so is compatible with most tablets and smartphones, provided the device has a microphone.
MovieReading auto-syncs AD and captions with the ambient film audio. It can be used in any setting, including a cinema, requiring only a smart device and headphones.
The AD file is downloaded ahead of time, and the smart device can be used in Airplane mode to avoid disrupting others.
Not Available in Australia.
This app offers features including AD, amplified audio, combined AD and amplified audio, and closed captioning.
The access feature file is downloaded ahead of time.
It requires wired headphones before it will play an audio file.
It uses auto-syncing technology, using the ambient film audio via the device microphone.
Big Access Media
Available in Australia!
This app provides audio with AD for a range of children’s television programs airing on Foxtel including Discovery Kids and Nickelodeon children’s programs.
It is available on iOS, though an Android version is expected soon. It can also be used through a web browser, with Google Chrome currently the best option.
The audio syncs with the ambient audio from the program and, whilst advertisement breaks are usually included where scheduled, users can also re-sync the AD if unexpected breaks occur. BAM services can be played through the device speakers, so it is not necessary to use headphones.
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Chapter 7 -- The Shakers
The Shakers
The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. -- 1 Corinthians 7:34.
Jeremy spent the night with Minnie’s family. She had so thoroughly gone over the details of their morrow trip to Pleasant Hills that it was a certainty. They were going to depart on the five hour drive at seven am for a noon arrival. In the back of his mind he wanted to venture it alone, but neither minded the prospect of Minnie’s company. He slept soundly, and when he awoke in the morning his first thought was, come what will. Then he looked at the clock and saw that it was already eight. Minnie was waiting for him to lift his head, and right there at his side when he did.
“I got distracted by a minor emergency, and decided to let you sleep in,” she explained. “Coffee’s on and we leave in half an hour. While they were taking coffee the phone rang. Minnie was distressed by the conversation, hung up and said: “I’ve got to get over to my sister’s house. Her husband has to take her car, and she needs to get to work and her kids to school. I’ll be back in one hour and that will put us there at one thirty. Have something to eat and a wash if you like.”
She hurried out and was gone. The house was empty. He ate some toast, washed his face, then walked into the trees and the mile through them to the Friends meeting hall. The door was open, so he let himself in sat down and prayed a while. Then he read three chapters in Isaiah before penning a brief thank you note. It was about eleven when he stepped onto the main road and hung out his thumb. The first vehicle by was a refrigerated delivery truck. It pulled up, and the driver beckoned him over. His destination was an hour beyond Pleasant Hill, so after open road, a late lunch together, and more open road, he dropped Jeremy at the edge of the Shaker village a little past four.
Jeremy thanked him and waved goodbye then surveyed his surroundings. There were several large shuttered buildings, and a narrow sidewalk running right under his feet. An elderly woman wearing a colonial dress and bonnet was sweeping nearby. The sidewalk was spotless, and she didn’t appear to be catching so much as a speck in her broom. He approached her and tentatively asked: “Are you a Shaker?”
“I am,” she answered. “What do you know about them?”
“Nothing,” he replied.
“Is that why you’re here?” she inquired.
“Then I can explain them to you. I’m Eldress Margaret, and you are?”
“Jeremy. “
“A pleasure. The Shakers are The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Coming. It is a Christian order based on the teachings of Ann Lee, an extraordinary woman in whom Christ did visibly make his second appearance. She was born in Manchester, England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She had eight pregnancies; four miscarried and none of the other four lived past six. The trauma of it all turned her to God. She decided that to live a life for the kingdom, to prepare to marry the Lamb of God, one could not be married to the flesh. She abandoned her husband and lived out a vow of celibacy.” A second elderly woman similarly dressed came out of the nearby building.
“Hello Eldress Margaret,” she said.
“Good afternoon, Eldress Lilian. I was just telling our new friend Jeremy about Ann Lee.”
“Indeed?” she said as a question.
“Indeed,” Jeremy answered.
Eldress Lilian took up the reins of the narrative. “God is the Father Mother—the Christ spirit which manifested itself in the man, Jesus of Nazareth, and as a woman in Ann Lee. She revealed to us how to await the parousia, which is a Greek word meaning coming, or arrival. The Second Coming of Christ will not be a monumental occasion with trumpets, a great fanfare and everyone rejoicing. It’s a very quiet coming that occurs within each individual, when we invite Christ into our hearts and allow him to change our lives; when we change from our old lives into something new. For what is resurrection but new life coming out of something dead, like our former selves?”
“I see,” Jeremy acknowledged, nodding his head. “Very interesting.”
“And so we Shakers separate ourselves from the world,” Eldress Margaret continued. “We live like the early church, a communal existence. We give all we have and take only what we need. We share all property and labor, all working for each and each working for all. None of us are rich nor poor—each uses according to need, and enjoys according to capacity. We believe in equality of sexes, since Christ did say that in heaven we are no longer men and women, but as angels. We strive for purity, peace, justice and love and we live praying and confessing sin.”
“If everyone is celibate, how do you maintain a congregation over the course of years, with no families to populate it?” Jeremy bluntly asked.
“We rely in part on adult conversions,” Eldress Lilian answered, “but many Shakers take in orphans and homeless children, and our doors are open to any and every child who comes our way. Many of them grow up and stay in the faith.”
“And Shakers are self-sufficient and very industrious,” Eldress Margaret interjected. “We produce and sell seeds, herbs, medicines, and our famous handmade oval boxes and slat backed chairs—everything prayerfully prepared and packaged.”
“That is correct,” Eldress Lilian concurred.
“So what is Shaker worship like?” Jeremy prodded.
“Sunday morning with Shakers is like being in the presence of angels,” Eldress Lilian dreamily declared. “When I was a little girl my dear friend and mentor Eldress Mildred was dying. She saw two angels awaiting her. She called me to her side and told me about them and said she could barely tell them from me. I swore I saw them too, and Mildred herself was an angel in my eyes. With one of her final breaths she made me promise to become a Shaker. I didn’t fully understand what it meant, but I made the promise, I kept it, and I feel like I’ve been surrounded by angels my whole life. It’s just wonderful. In younger years we’d sing Shaker songs and dance fervently, but we’re old women now, beyond that stage of life.”
“I’ve heard that about Shakers,” Jeremy said. “It’s a shame I can’t experience a little.”
“Well actually, you can,” Eldress Margaret said, then called over her shoulder: “Eldress Enid, a gentleman here would like to hear you sing a hymn. Perhaps number nineteen?”
Eldress Enid appeared in a moment, exuberant and ready. She wasn’t quite as old as Margaret and Lilian, but she was still old, and propped the antique dress upon her frail frame, and the bonnet upon grey hairs. She started clapping her hands vigorously, and singing: “How bright the Shaker glory shines, a star upon the high…” Jeremy’s eyes widened as she fell on her back in the grass and started writhing. “A Shaker I am and so I shake when on my back I lie…see God in the sky…and joyful tears cry… a Shaker till I die….”
Jeremy was caught off guard, and taken aback. Suddenly the air filled with the beeping of a watch alarm. Eldress Margaret rolled up her sleeve, revealing a wristwatch, and said: “Four thirty. Our shift is over. We hope the show was informative.”
Eldress Enid struggled to her feet, while Lilian and Margaret took off their bonnets and loosened their dresses.
Jeremy was flabbergasted. “You’re just actors?” he asked.
“’Fraid so,” Enid said. “There are no Shakers left. Let’s go ladies.”
“I’ve got to feed my husband before he gets too cranky,” Lilian remarked.
“I’m starting to sweat in this dress,” Margaret added.
“We open again at ten tomorrow if you’d like more of the Shaker experience,” Enid concluded.
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Drifting With Jesus
Chapter 1 -- The Wine
Chapter 2 -- Setting Forth
Chapter 3 -- An Amish in Cumorah
Chapter 4 -- The Treasure in the Chest
Chapter 5 -- The Jesus Christ Show
Chapter 6 -- The Quakers
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BroadbandDeals.co.uk Re-accredited by Ofcom
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We’re delighted to announce that BroadbandDeals.co.uk has been accredited by Ofcom for the second time. Ofcom has conducted rigorous audits, both qualitative and quantitative, to ensure the information we provide is accurate, impartial and clear.
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The site, now 3 years old, was first accredited in 2018. We look for continuous improvements to ensure we’re always getting better at serving our users.
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DPAC shortlisted for human rights award after parliament direct action
By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017
Disabled activists who carried out a direct action protest in the heart of parliament have been shortlisted for a prestigious human rights award.
The human rights organisation Liberty has named Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) as one of just three nominees for its new Courageous Voices award, which recognises activists who have taken “bold action to stand up to those in power”.
DPAC has been shortlisted for July’s Summer Of Discontent week of action, which included a protest about cuts to social care in parliament’s central lobby.
Linda Burnip, co-founder of DPAC, said she hoped the awards would be “another opportunity to reach people who we do not normally reach”, and might raise DPAC’s profile with MPs.
She said: “Our direct actions are designed to make sure that disabled people do have a voice and aren’t ignored.”
She said parliament was “where decisions about our lives are made so it seemed the most sensible place to take our complaints, and obviously we plan to keep doing it”.
The protest took place near the main Commons chamber, as Theresa May was taking part in prime minister’s questions, and saw police officers barring the path of activists – including several affected by the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund – to prevent them approaching the Commons chamber.
The protest was supported by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Green party co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley.
It led to McDonnell calling for disabled people to be given the job of designing the solution to the social care funding crisis.
He told Disability News Service as the protest was taking place that it was “exactly what people have the right to do, to demonstrate, to make sure MPs are aware what they are experiencing, what disabled people are experiencing”.
And he said the direct action was “perfectly justifiable in the light of what is happening, with people’s suffering as a result of austerity”.
Courageous Voices is one of several awards that will be presented at Liberty’s 2017 Human Rights Awards on 24 October at London’s Royal Court Theatre.
Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty, said: “Disabled People Against Cuts embody the spirit of the Courageous Voices award and, as their Summer of Discontent campaign shows, their work is needed now more than ever.
“Equality and human rights for disabled people aren’t a commodity that [can] be rationed or reduced as a money-saving exercise.
“DPAC have been fearless and creative in getting that message across – standing up to those in power, challenging injustice and getting their voices heard.”
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Unhashing Blockchain: Blockchain Explained
Cryptocurrency Regulation in the Crosshairs: SEC Staff Weighs In, But Is There More Than Meets the Eye?
Baker McKenzie (in Collaboration With R3) Publishes a Whitepaper: Blockchains and Laws. Are they Compatible?
FinTech Regulatory Sandbox established in Stockholm
Stockholm is a major hub for Fintech, attracting about one fifth of all European FinTech investments and can pride itself in being the home of successful FinTech companies such as Klarna and iZettle. In order to maintain its position as a European FinTech center, the Swedish Government has given the Financial Supervisory Authority an assignment to facilitate FinTech innovation. This has resulted in a FinTech Regulatory Sandbox where FinTech companies
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Where Can I Buy Things With Bitcoin?
Much of the attention around Bitcoin in 2017 understandably focused on its meteoric price rise and overall volatility. But all that attention overlooks the fact that Bitcoin was initially intended to be used as a currency for buying things. Thus, the oft-reported story of the developer (Laszlo Hanyecz) who bought two pizzas in May 2010 for 10,000 Bitcoin ($140 million value today) in what is reported as the first bitcoin
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ICOs Enjoined in Malaysia and North Carolina
Today, the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) directed CopyCash Foundation to immediately cease and desist all its proposed activities, including a purported plan to launch an ICO on January 10, 2018 in Malaysia. This directive covers all activities as described in or incidental to CopyCash Foundation’s white paper related to the ICO, including any roadshows, seminars or promotional events related to the scheme. The directive was issued because the SC “found
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SEC Temporarily Halts Trading of Blockchain Company’s Stock
UBIA is a Hong Kong company that focuses on the research and application of blockchain technology, with a focus on the IOT. The U.S. SEC reported that it had temporarily suspended trading in UBIA’s tock through January 22, 2018. The reason for the suspension is because “of (i) questions regarding the accuracy of assertions, since at least September 2017, by UBIA in filings with the Commission regarding the company’s business
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As England’s FCA Continues its Watching Brief on DLT & ICOs, is it Time For Self-Regulation?
In April 2017, England’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Discussion Paper (“DP”) on DLT which sought views on the regulatory implications of DLT developments in financial markets and considered the potential risks and benefits of DLT applications. The FCA received 47 responses to the DP from a range of market participants and on 15 December 2017 the FCA published its Feedback Statement. No need to change rules In its
Cryptocurrency, ICO, Smart Contracts, UK
$4 Billion Crypto-Promoter Ordered to Halt Fraudulent Sales
The Texas State Securities Board said yesterday that it entered an Emergency Cease and Desist Order to halt the multiple investment programs operated by BitConnect, an overseas company that claims a market share of $4.1 billion for its cryptocurrency coins. BitConnect’s investor solicitations promise returns of over 100 percent, the TSSB said, for BitConnect’s own proprietary cryptocurrency, called BitConnect Coins, or BCC. The enforcement action follows BitConnect’s recent announcement that
Cryptocurrency, Litigation, US
Any distributed ledger used by an enterprise or industry needs to conform to data requirements in the countries in which it operates. Existing blockchains based on Bitcoin and Ethereum codebases can indiscriminately broadcast private data to all participants of a network, and therefore may not always be suitable for use in financial services. Distributed ledgers have been developed that share certain data only with participants who need to see it,
ICO Lawsuits
One of the big questions surrounding ICOs is whether the “coin” (or token) offered in the ICO is considered a security and, therefore, subject to securities laws, including registration. One of the U.S. SEC’s first official statements on the matter, issued in response to the DAO debacle, was probably most famous for its lack of definitive statements. It said that: [F]ederal securities law may apply to various activities, including distributed
Cryptocurrency, DAO, ICO, Litigation, SEC, Securities, US
Cryptocurrency Activity by Asia-Pac Governments
In well publicized moves in late 2017, both China and South Korea banned ICOs. Today, the Malaysian finance minister said in an interview that Malaysia will not impose a blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading. At the same time, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that, in a further tightening move, “The South Korean government has been developing a system that is likely to start banning the use of anonymous accounts
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Edison issues ADR outlook on Kazia Therapeutics (KZIA)
LONDON, UK / ACCESSWIRE / June 23, 2019 / Kazia Therapeutics (ASX: KZA) has identified a higher maximum tolerated dose (MTD) from a Phase IIa study of its brain-penetrant phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor GDC-0084 in glioblastoma (GBM), which may lead to improved efficacy in the ongoing expansion cohort and planned Phase IIb study. A new collaboration with the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (Alliance) means Kazia will soon have four clinical trials of GDC-0084 underway in primary or secondary brain cancers. It also expects further preliminary efficacy data from its Cantrixil Phase I study in ovarian cancer in H219. We adjust our valuation to between $64m and $103m.
We adjust our indicative valuation range to $64-103m or $10.27-16.50/ADR (vs $64-111m, $10.31-17.82/ADR), due to revised timelines for post-Phase III approval or single-pivotal-study approval scenarios for GDC-0084. Kazia had $4.1m cash at 31 December 2018 and will likely need to raise funds in H219. We estimate ~$11-15m will be needed to fully fund the GDC-0084 Phase IIb study.
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New York’s Best: Ice Cream
Destinations, New York
You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream and that’s kind of the same thing.
On this dessert tour, we went searching for the best ice cream around the city so we could keep cool in those dog days of summer!
Where we went: I-CE-NY (Greenwich Village)
What we ate: Go Green Tea
If you’re craving Thai-style rolled ice cream but don’t feel like waiting in line down at 10 Below, then take a look at I-CE-NY, a Greenwich Village ice cream shop that makes the same great ice cream but with shorter lines – sounds like a win-win to us! At I-CE-NY, you can either build your own rolled ice cream sundae, or order one the shop’s specialty sundaes. We went for the second option, ordering the Go Green Tea, a sundae featuring green tea ice cream rolled with corn flakes, and then topped with marshmallows, caramel sauce, and chocolate Pocky sticks.
The Go Green Tea is a great choice for all you green tea lovers, especially with the added crunch from the corn flakes and the unique addition of the Pocky sticks. And the green tea flavor of the ice cream reminded us of our own Green Tea Matcha cupcakes. It was a match-a made in heaven!
Where we went: Snowdays NYC (East Village)
What we ate: Yeti Food
Snowdays NYC is a truly unique ice cream experience. You may have heard of Hawaiian or Korean shaved ice, but have you ever heard of shaved ice cream? According to the store website, the shaved ice cream “pairs the fluffy texture of snow with the taste and creaminess of ice cream.” And based on our experience, that’s definitely the case. The ice cream at Snowdays is super light and fluffy, but it melts in your mouth like traditional ice cream!
In addition to the shaved ice cream, Snowdays also offers some cool topping choices, including cereal, fresh fruit, and mochi. And like I-CE-NY, you can either build your own sundae or get one of the signature creations, which is what we chose to do. We got to try the Yeti Food sundae, made with their original Yetitracks ice cream and topped with blueberry purée, sugar cone bits, and fresh bananas. The Yetitracks ice cream tasted just like cookies and cream ice cream, with tiny Oreo bits inside, but the best part was its bright blue color! The toppings were a great addition, as well, with the sugar cone bits being our favorite part. This is definitely a one of a kind place!
Where we went: Big Gay Ice Cream (East Village)
What we ate: Bea Arthur
Big Gay Ice Cream is an NYC institution. This beloved sweet shop got its start as an ice cream truck back in 2009, and now it has TWO storefronts right in the city! We decided to visit the original East Village location, where we got a taste of one of their signature cones, the Bea Arthur, named in honor of the actress who played Dorothy on Golden Girls.
The Bea Arthur features a dulce de leche-lined cone, topped with vanilla soft serve and a drizzle of dulce de leche, which is then rolled in crushed Nilla wafers. And believe us, it tastes just as good as the description sounds! Perfectly sweet, with just a little bit of salt from the caramel, the Bea Arthur is definitely worth the trek to Tompkins Square Park. Other Big Gay specialties include the Salty Pimp and American Globs, as well as some amazing sundaes, cones, and milkshakes. YUM.
Where we went: Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream (East Village)
What we ate: Honeycomb + Vegan Coffee
Van Leeuwen is one of the most well-known ice cream shops in the city, with both a storefront and an ice cream truck – and they even sell their ice cream by the pint at many gourmet grocery stores! Van Leeuwen is a unique contender among ice cream companies, being particularly famous for their large variety of vegan ice cream flavors.
On our trip to Van Leeuwen, we tried two of their specialty flavors, one vegan and one non vegan. The non vegan flavor we chose was Honeycomb, a honey-flavored ice cream with crunchy bits that tasted like a real honeycomb. It was fantastic! For the vegan flavor, we went with Coffee, which had an almost identical texture to the regular ice cream. The coffee flavor may be a bit strong for some, but overall we really enjoyed it.
Where we went: Il Laboratorio del Gelato (Lower East Side)
What we ate: Lemon Rosemary + Strawberry Sorbet, Yuzu Mint + Thai Tea gelato
Il Laboratorio del Gelato is one of our favorite places to get gelato and sorbet in the city. Located next to the famous Katz’s Deli on Houston and Ludlow, this cool gelato shop is designed to look just like a real chemistry lab, with employees in lab coats and a large variety of unique flavors that rotates daily. We decided to try both the gelato and the sorbet, and we were definitely impressed with the results.
The first thing we sampled was the Lemon Rosemary sorbet, which had an authentic Italian taste and a smooth texture. We also tried the Strawberry sorbet, which is made with real strawberries – and it sure tasted great! The two gelato flavors we tasted were both Asian-inspired. First was the Yuzu Mint, which tasted very cool and refreshing. Then we had the Thai tea, a delicious gelato version of sweet Thai iced tea – we could even taste some hints of sweetened condensed milk! All in all, this stop on our tour was a good one.
Where we went: Ice & Vice (Lower East Side)
What we ate: American Beauty ice cream + Vanilla Funfetti cone + Ice Cream Sandwich topping
Ice & Vice is the place to go when you’re craving something that’s both over the top and highly customizable. Located in a small and somewhat hidden East Broadway storefront, the ice cream that awaits inside is anything but subtle. Choose from an assortment of artisan ice cream flavors, including both seasonal and blogger-inspired recipes, and then take your pick at one of their premium cone flavors, as well as a selection of unbelievable toppings. They even serve ice cream sandwiches and pies by the slice!
On our visit to Ice & Vice, we decided to order one of their seasonal flavors, the American Beauty, made with crème fraîche and rose petal jam. To make the experience even better, we added a Vanilla Funfetti premium cone, and an ice cream sandwich stacked right on top of the ice cream! The ice cream itself had a great flavor, with the rose petal jam really complementing the crème fraîche. The Vanilla Funfetti cone tasted just like one of our own Celebration Cupcakes, and the ice cream sandwich on top, made from a sprinkled doughnut instead of the traditional cookie, was a unique and delicious touch.
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Cambridge InsideOut Episodes 287-288: Jan 30, 2018
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge InsideOut — Tags: Cambridge, Central Square, City Council, Harvard Square, Judy Nathans, Robert Winters — Robert Winters @ 11:51 pm
Episode 287 – Cambridge InsideOut: Jan 30, 2018 (Part 1)
This episode was broadcast on Jan 30, 2018 at 5:30pm. Topics: Jan 29 City Council meeting; electric vehicles; Mass Pike reconfiguration; committee appointments, and more. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
This episode was broadcast on Jan 30, 2018 at 6:00pm. Topics: Central Square updates; Carl Barron Plaza charrette, and more. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
Featured Items on the Jan 29, 2018 Cambridge City Council Agenda
Mayor McGovern has appointed the City Council committees and their Chairs pending final adoption of the City Council Rules. In addition, here are just a few of the noteworthy agenda items:
Charter Right #1. That the City Manager is requested to report back to the City Council regarding efforts to expand the number of electric vehicle charging stations, the feasibility of appropriately placing electric vehicle chargers on residential streets where there is need, the status of possible City fleet replacement to electric vehicles, expanded outreach and education on available rebates and incentive programs, and the feasibility of requiring developers to include a greater number of electric vehicle charging stations in new or substantially renovated multi-unit buildings. [Charter Right exercised by Councillor Simmons on Jan 22, 2018.]
Approved as Amended, Add’l Order Approved to also refer to Health & Environment Committee
This Order from last week exposed a potentially pretty significant rift. It’s one thing to require electric vehicle charging capacity in new residential and commercial construction, but providing charging stations on public streets basically means that only those who can afford a $100,000+ Chevy Volt or comparable vehicle will be able to use those parking spaces. [Correction: It’s the Tesla Model S that went for ~$100K. The Chevy Volt apparently goes for ~$30K.] It’s understandable that people without driveways might want a mechanism for charging their cars (since running power cords across the sidewalk or down the street is not an option), but how will it go over with the neighbors if only some people are privileged to use these parking spaces?
Unfinished Business #3. A communication was received from Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk, transmitting a report from Vice Mayor Devereux, Chair of the Ad-Hoc Rules Committee, for a public hearing held on Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018 to discuss and suggest changes to the City Council Rules and transmitting recommended changes to the City Council Rules.
Approved – and copies of the amended Rules were made available at the meeting
I honestly don’t know what Rules Changes they finally settled on at last week’s meeting. The meeting materials only show the suggestions from the Ad-Hoc Committee and it’s simply not worth reviewing the video to find out what the Council decided on before referring the revised version to Unfinished Business. It’s primarily just nickel-and-dime stuff anyway.
Communications #16-25 and #27 transmitting written opposition to the Peter Kroon, et al. Harvard Square Overlay District Zoning Petition.
Referred to the Petition
In addition to these communications, most of the public comment at last week’s Ordinance Committee meeting was against the petition. I believe there may now be or will soon be expressed written opposition from more than 20% of the affected land ownership which means that a three-quarter super-majority vote would be needed to pass the Kroon Petition, i.e. 7 votes instead of 6 out of 9. I don’t think it had the votes anyway, but it apparently doesn’t matter because the Ordinance Committee failed to move it out of committee so it can’t be passed to a 2nd Reading on Monday and it therefore cannot be ordained prior to the expiration date. It seems likely that a revised version will be filed after the Feb 19 expiration.
One particularly offensive part of the Ordinance Committee discussion centered on term limits on membership on the Harvard Square Advisory Committee and the desire of the petitioners and some councillors to drive one particular person out of the Chair and maybe even off the advisory committee entirely. There is a notification in this week’s agenda for the reappointment of two 20+ year members to the Library Board of Trustees. Will the City Council now argue that they should be booted from the Board in the quest for "new blood"? City boards & commissions benefit greatly from having a mix of newer members and long-time members who carry a lot of institutional memory and skills. Having a good balance is what’s really important.
Order #2. That the City Manager is requested to direct the City Solicitor and any other appropriate City departments to report back to the City Council with an update on any work that is currently underway regarding regulating adult use marijuana and to suggest next steps to the Council. Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor Mallon, Councillor Siddiqui, Mayor McGovern
This is a timely order. The Trojan horse of medical marijuana facilities has already entered the city and it has the munchies.
Order #4. That the City Manager is requested to explore funding options for the possibility of creating a Business Improvement District (BID) for Central Square. Councillor Mallon, Councillor Simmons, Mayor McGovern
It is quite apparent that groups like the Harvard Square Business Association and the Central Square Business Association are already taking on some of the rules associated with a Business Improvement District. This may be the right time to make this official in Central Square. The benefits are many and the down sides are few.
PS – The Central Square Business Association and its most excellent Executive Director Michael Monastime hosted an especially good charrette on Saturday on the future of Carl Barron Plaza in the heart of Central Square. This was just the first of what will be many opportunities for public input on the upcoming River Street reconstruction project (from the river to Carl Barron Plaza) that will commence at some point in the next year or so.
Order #5. That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Community Development Department with the view in mind of creating a list of mitigated private spaces that are available to the public, what the exact eligibility of using these spaces is, and making the list available to the public. Councillor Toomey
This is a welcome request. Most people have no idea what spaces are available for use and what rules govern the use of these open spaces and meeting spaces. It will be great if this information can be made available along with information on all City-owned resources that are available for public use. Ideally there should also be a list of all spaces in churches and other buildings that are available for use at modest cost for meetings and events.
Order #6. That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Commissioner of Public Works and the City Engineer on the potential of utilizing trenchless technology, micro tunneling and/or pipe jacking to lessen the time and impact on the residents of Gore Street. Councillor Toomey, Councillor Kelley, Councillor Mallon
Order #8. That the City Manager maximize the community benefits from and mitigating the impacts of the Cambridge Crossing sewer construction. Councillor Zondervan, Councillor Siddiqui, Councillor Toomey
Suffice to say that if during the construction of that dedicated sewer line the century-old water mains and gas mains are replaced (which will have to occur at some point anyway), that is, in itself, significant mitigation. If some of the electrical infrastructure can also be renewed and moved from poles to underground that would be even better.
Order #7. Endorsing Requests for Action or Further Study for the I-90 Allston Interchange Project in Boston. Mayor McGovern, Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor Zondervan, Councillor Carlone
This is a complicated project with the potential for a lot of benefit and a fair amount of disruption during construction. I won’t offer any opinions just now, but there are plenty to go around. It’s worth the read.
Communications & Reports from City Officers #2. A communication was received from Mayor Marc C. McGovern, transmitting the City Council Committee Assignments for the Council Term 2018-2019 pending adoption of the Rules as amended.
Placed on File
There’s nothing particularly stunning about the appointments – mostly natural matches of function and interest. There are maybe three out of the 11 standing committees that could become cauldrons of controversy, but it’s probably best to wait and see. I’ll let you guess which three. – Robert Winters
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge InsideOut,transportation — Tags: Cambridge, Central Square, Green Line Extension, Harvard Square, Judy Nathans, Mass Pike realignment, NorthPoint, Robert Winters, transportation, zoning — Robert Winters @ 12:21 am
This episode was broadcast on Jan 23, 2018 at 5:30pm. The main topics were some of the large transportation projects neighboring Cambridge. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
This episode was broadcast on Jan 23, 2018 at 6:00pm. Topics included the Women’s March – one year later; the Kroon Petition and regulation of “formula businesses” in Harvard Square and elsewhere; and some news updates around Central Square. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
Choice Bits from the Jan 22, 2018 Cambridge City Council agenda
Filed under: Cambridge,City Council — Tags: Cambridge, City Council, Harvard Square, snow, zoning — Robert Winters @ 1:34 pm
Here’s my first pass at what seems interesting (at least to me):
Manager’s Agenda #4. Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $23,000 from Free Cash to the General Fund Elections Commission Other Ordinary Maintenance Account to reimburse funds used for the 2017 voter guide printing and mailing. The reimbursement is necessary to cover other election related expenses.
Voter turnout went up in the 2017 municipal election by about 26% from 17,959 to 22,581. There were many factors – reaction to the 2016 presidential election, multiple vacancies and a large field of interesting new candidates, several issues whose flames were fanned by activists, increased use of social media and related tools to target voters, and the citywide mailing of the voter guide. It’s hard to say which factors had the greatest effect. I’ll add that the most well-funded campaign was unsuccessful while a new candidate soared over quota with relatively little campaign funding. Perhaps money is no longer, as Tip O’Neill used to say, "the mother’s milk of politics".
Manager’s Agenda #11. Transmitting Communication from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to the appropriation of $5 million from Fund Free Cash to the Public Investment Fund Executive Department Extraordinary Expenditures account, for the City’s first contribution to the GLX project.
This expenditure has me thinking about the Mass Pike (I-90) realignment project now being planned for the Allston-Brighton area across the river, and the current omission of the proposed West Station that was to be part of it. I have been reading about suggestions that since the concurrent new development in that area would primarily be by Harvard University, then perhaps Harvard should be providing the funds for the new station. Could this be the new normal, i.e. that developers and host cities who would benefit by new transit should pay for the transit? The realization of the Green Line Extension seems to have been made possible, at least in part, by the promise of financial contributions from Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, and the developer of the NorthPoint area.
Manager’s Agenda #12. A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to a Planning Board recommendation to adopt parts of the Kroon, et al, Harvard Square Zoning Petition and to further study some parts.
[Original Petition Text][CDD Memo – Nov 8, 2017][Revised Petition Text][Planning Board Recommendation]
There is wisdom in the Planning Board recommendations (as usual). It is especially interesting to see the Board agreeing that the "formula business" regulations adopted not long ago for Central Square would also be appropriate for Harvard Square (and presumably elsewhere). The Board makes a special point regarding the review of signage which might be subject to review by both the Historical Commission and the Planning Board. [Frankly, I think the issue of signage is overstated. Some business districts, e.g. Central Square, would benefit from some additional "gawdy" and "spectacular" signage.] Despite some legal risk in moving toward "formula business" regulations, it is far preferable to some previous regulation such as the regulation of "fast food". One other positive recommendation from the Planning Board is for the exemption of below-grade space from floor-area limitations. This is consistent with the Barrett Petition of a couple of years ago. The Planning Board also cites the City’s recently completed Retail Strategy. Indeed, the whole matter of the table of uses in the City’s various zoning districts needs some attention.
Order #1. That the City Manager is requested to report back to the City Council regarding efforts to expand the number of electric vehicle charging stations, the feasibility of appropriately placing electric vehicle chargers on residential streets where there is need, the status of possible City fleet replacement to electric vehicles, expanded outreach and education on available rebates and incentive programs, and the feasibility of requiring developers to include a greater number of electric vehicle charging stations in new or substantially renovated multi-unit buildings. Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor Zondervan
It’s worth noting that Eversource doesn’t exactly have the best track record for proactive electric utility planning in Cambridge. They generally upgrade service only when new development requires it or if the service fails. If electric vehicle charging locations are installed on some Cambridge streets it seems likely that increased capacity will be needed and aging and failed service will have to be upgraded – like on my street where the underground service failed several years ago and where numerous "temporary" quick fixes are now the norm.
Order #2. That the City Manager is requested to work with the Department of Public Works to publicize and enforce a “zero tolerance” policy on space savers, working to remove them as quickly as possible following snow events. Vice Mayor Devereux, Councillor Zondervan, Councillor Siddiqui
Is this really a widespread problem in Cambridge? The only places where I have seen this are on streets near public housing. A better solution would be to selectively have even/odd side parking restrictions during which all snow is pushed back all the way to the curb and/or consolidated – assuming there are no plastic "flexi-posts" there to prevent it.
Order #4. City Council support of the New York City climate lawsuit. Councillor Zondervan, Vice Mayor Devereux
I’m starting to get the sense that every City Council meeting agenda is going to have several climate change-related Orders, and that this will become the universal public policy litmus test – even for things that have little or nothing to do with climate change.
Order #5. That the City Manager is requested to explore mechanisms for achieving greater levels of snow clearing by the city and increase the public response during major snow events or heavy snow winters. Councillor Zondervan, Mayor McGovern, Vice Mayor Devereux
Order #7. That the City Manager is requested to confer with the Chief Information Officer for the City and report back with information regarding electronic device usage and current processes regarding the same. Councillor Toomey
Did the exiting three councillors run off with their City-issued computers and phones?
Order #8. That the Mayor is requested to work with the appropriate City staff to establish a method of effectively communicating the new rules for the 2018-2019 City Council term with the members of the public. Councillor Simmons
I’m on it.
Committee Report #1. A communication was received from Donna P. Lopez, City Clerk, transmitting a report from Vice Mayor Devereux, Chair of the Ad-Hoc Rules Committee, for a public hearing held on Tuesday, Jan 16, 2018 to discuss and suggest changes to the City Council Rules and transmitting recommended changes to the City Council Rules.
Communications & Reports from City Officers #3. A communication was received from City Clerk Donna P. Lopez, transmitting a communication from Vice Mayor Jan Devereux regarding the outcome of the Ad-Hoc Rules Committee hearing.
There were some good ideas and some not-so-good ideas expressed at this meeting. It doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing any realignment of the Council committees. At some level it doesn’t really matter. The real question is whether or not the councillors actually show up for the committee meetings and if they decide to take up matters of substance. – Robert Winters
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge InsideOut,recycling — Tags: Cambridge, City Council, F.B. Jones, food waste, garbage, recycling — Robert Winters @ 2:01 am
Episode 283 – Cambridge InsideOut: Jan 16, 2018
This episode was broadcast on Jan 16, 2018 at 5:30pm. The main topic was some ideas about City Council rules and the structure of City Council committees over the last 130 years. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
This episode was broadcast on Jan 16, 2018 at 6:00pm. Topic: Cambridge history of garbage. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
Civic Nerdiness
Filed under: Cambridge,City Council — Tags: Cambridge, Cambridge government, City Council, City Council committees, history — Robert Winters @ 7:42 pm
This week on Tuesday, Jan 16 at 2:30pm, the City Council’s Ad-Hoc Rules Committee will conduct a public hearing in the Sullivan Chamber to discuss and suggest changes to the City Council Rules. This committee consists of Vice Mayor Devereux (Chair) and Councillors Mallon and Kelley; as well as Donna Lopez, City Clerk; Nancy Glowa, City Solicitor; Maryellen Carvello, Office manager to the City Manager, and Wil Durbin, Chief of Staff to the Mayor.
I suppose it must be the pinnacle of civic nerdiness to care about the City Council Rules, but the structure of the City Council subcommittees, their mission, the number of members on each committee, and what constitutes a quorum are actually contained within the City Council Rules. From this civic nerd’s point of view this actually is significant. In an ideal world the subcommittees should be where most of the detail work takes place. Unfortunately, it has sometimes been the case that these subcommittees become little more than discretionary devices for their respective Chairs where matters that sometimes have little to do with the purpose of the committee are pursued. In addition, there have been some topics in the last few years that didn’t really have a natural match to any of the existing City Council committees or which were taken up by what might be viewed as the wrong committee. For example, if there is a Transportation and Public Utilities Committee, why were matters relating to bicycle transportation handled within the Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Art, and Celebrations Committee? [I would restructure the committees just to shorten the name of that one.]
It’s interesting to look at what the standing committees have been at various times in Cambridge history. Here are a few snapshots, including some recorded in the City’s Annual Documents (yes, I really do have these original books on my shelf):
Joint Committees: 1887
Almshouse
City Engineering
Public Instruction
Public Property
Rules and Orders
of the Mayor and Alderman
Elections and Returns
of the Common Council
Bills in the Second Reading
Enrolled Ordinances
Joint Committees: 1911-1912
Legislative Matters
Wires and Lamps
of the Board of Alderman
Soldier’s Aid
Street Railways
Standing Committees of the Common Council
City Council Committees: 1938
Americanization and Education
Elections and Printing
Public Celebrations
Public Property and Public Institutions
Cable TV and Communications
Economic Development, Training, and Employment
Health and Hospitals
Human Services and Youth
Traffic and Transportation
Cable TV, Telecommunications, and Public Utilities
Civic Unity
Government Operations, Rules, and Claims
Neighborhood and Long-term Planning
Public Facilities, Art, and Celebrations
Transportation, Traffic, and Parking
Government Operations and Rules
Neighborhood and Long Term Planning
Economic Development and University Relations
Human Services and Veterans
Neighborhood and Long Term Planning, Public Facilities, Art, and Celebrations
Transportation and Public Utilities
It’s likely that prior to the adoption of the Plan E Charter that went into effect in 1941 there was either the need or the desire for more oversight of City departments, and both the number and the nature of the City Council (and Board of Alderman) committees seem to reflect this. Some standing committees are essentially permanent (Ordinance, Finance), but others clearly change with the times and even with the desires of individual councillors. What should be the focus of City Council subcommittees for the 2018-2019 City Council term? Should they remain the same? Are there any priorities that warrant a redefinition of the Council subcommittees? Should we revive some committees from the long past?
If you have any ideas, come to the meeting Tuesday afternoon. – Robert Winters
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Cambridge InsideOut Episodes 281-282: Jan 9, 2018
Filed under: Cambridge,Cambridge InsideOut — Tags: Cambridge, City Council, housing, Judy Nathans, Robert Winters, supermarkets — Robert Winters @ 10:36 pm
Episode 281 – Cambridge InsideOut: Jan 9, 2018 (Part 1)
This episode was broadcast on Jan 9, 2018 at 5:30pm. Main topic: Jan 8 City Council meeting – the first for the new councillors; supermarket closure; and more. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
This episode was broadcast Jan 9, 2018 at 6:00pm. Topics: supermarkets, Council committees, partial report card on the 2016-2017 Council. Hosts: Judy Nathans, Robert Winters [On YouTube]
Cold Start – Jan 8, 2018 Cambridge City Council meeting (and more)
Filed under: Cambridge,City Council — Tags: Cambridge, City Council, mayor — Robert Winters @ 11:57 pm
Cold Start – Jan 8, 2018 Cambridge City Council meeting
This first regular meeting of the 2018-2019 Cambridge City Council will be chaired by our newly minted Mayor Marc McGovern. As one might expect, it’s a short agenda as the new and returning councillors settle in. City Council committee appointments may not be settled for a few weeks, so the only business will be what takes place in the regular Council meetings for now. There is one active zoning petition and 15 items from Awaiting Report that were requested to carry over to the new Council.
Here are some agenda items this week that seem interesting:
On the Table #2. A communication was received from Donna P. Lopez City Clerk, transmitting a report from Councillor Craig Kelley, regarding assessing and approving Neighborhood-Based Resiliency. [Tabled on the motion of Councillor Kelley on Dec 18, 2017]
I remember when the term "Sustainability" was first popularized. It took people years to decide what the word really meant with various interested people and groups trying to fashion it in a way that suited their ideals and/or agendas. I’m not really sure what was ultimately decided. Though I have some idea what the term "Resiliency" might mean, e.g. hardening of infrastructure, my sense is that we’re in a place similar to where we were with "Sustainability" 25 years ago. For example, does Alewife Resiliency translate into transit-oriented development with better connections for all transportation modes or does it mean "Don’t build anything there because there may be flooding at times." The current narrow political dichotomy will likely answer in two radically different ways. Soft definitions are always risky propositions.
Order #1. That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to reach out to representatives of supermarkets other than Star Market, such as Market Basket, to determine the possibility of their opening a location at 20 Sidney Street, and to report back to the City Council on this matter. Councillor Simmons
There has been an active discussion about the store closure on the Cambridgeport listserv over the last few days. Here’s an excerpt of what I wrote there:
The Memorial Drive Stop & Shop closed in May 1994 which left the Cambridgeport area very much in need of a local supermarket. I believe it was in 1997 when University Park (really Forest City) offered to host a Star Market in their hotel/garage building. This was definitely done in order to sweeten the deal in order to obtain the necessary curb cuts (and let’s not forget the discontinuation of Blanche Street). There had been a City analysis of access to supermarkets in the wake of the Stop & Shop closure that informed the University Park decision.
At the time a lot of us felt that the whole concept of a 2nd floor supermarket with paid parking (though a discount was offered) was not a sustainable plan, but there really was a serious need for food access at that time – especially for Area 4 (now The Port) and MIT people who would get there on foot. Some of that logic has changed in recent years as more people live without motor vehicles, but most people who do any significant grocery shopping will choose to drive to a place like Market Basket in Somerville not only for the prices but also because there’s (usually) available parking. It’s virtually impossible that Market Basket would want to operate in the University Park space. It’s completely contrary to their very successful business model in which they own most of the locations of their stores and pay no rent. There are other operators that have a very different business model that might be able to make it work at this location, but only if University Park is willing to negotiate a rent that can make it sustainable.
Though I don’t believe there is any legal obligation that University Park must continue to host a supermarket, I think there’s at least some moral obligation to do so. The original University Park plans called for a "marketplace" that was never built (as well as a movie theater), and some might argue that the inclusion of the Star Market was a sort of making good on that original concept. Perhaps more significantly, the offer to host the Star Market came at a point when the matter was before the Planning Board and the City Council (for the curb cuts), and it was part of the negotiation even if there was no formal commitment to maintain the supermarket in perpetuity. – RW
Back in 1998 I wrote this: "We also learned at this meeting that an agreement has been worked out with the new Star Market at University Park that would make parking for the supermarket free for the first 1½ hours. This was one of the stickier issues a few years ago when the City voted to grant various curb cuts and to discontinue Blanche Street in order to make way for the hotel and supermarket." – Sept 14, 1998 in CCJ Issue #12
Here’s what I wrote on June 16, 2000: "There have also been persistent rumors about just how permanent the Star Market is at that location. For now, at least, it appears to be staying put." Well, it lasted longer than I thought and is now scheduled to close on Feb 3, 2018. Hopefully another supermarket operator can be found and that Forest City/University Park will be willing to offer a long-term lease with terms that can can allow a supermarket to economically operate there. Not everyone wants to shop by bike at Whole Paycheck.
Order #3. That the City Manager is requested to provide an update to the City Council on progress made in regards to the Stated Goals of the City Council, as outlined during the 2016-2017 City Council term. Councillor Simmons
Goals are important, but the primary goal should be to not spend an endless time talking about them. – Robert Winters
The Upshot: There was a very healthy discussion regarding the future of the supermarket site in University Park. Look for some community meetings to take place in the coming weeks and months.
Mayor McGovern has appointed Councillors Carlone and Kelley as Co-Chairs of the Ordinance Committee.
Mayor McGovern also appointed a Special Ad-Hoc Rules Committee to review the City Council rules and the recommend any changes, including possible restructuring of the City Council subcommittees. This Ad-Hoc Committee will consist of Vice Mayor Devereux (Chair) and Councillors Mallon and Kelley; as well as Donna Lopez, City Clerk; Nancy Glowa, City Solicitor; Maryellen Carvello, Office manager to the City Manager, and Wil Durbin, Chief of Staff to the Mayor. This committee is requested to come back with recommendations in time for the next City Council meeting on January 22.
Jan 1, 2018 – The 2018-2019 Cambridge City Council was inaugurated this morning in the Sullivan Chamber of City Hall. After each elected councillor took the oath of office, the new City Council took care of its first order of business – the election of the Mayor. Though the eventual outcome was already known to many in the room for the last few weeks, there is always at least some drama due to the possibility that an alternate deal could be struck in the interim. However the vote went more or less as predicted with Marc McGovern being elected as Mayor for the 2018-2019 term. The initial vote was 7-2 for McGovern with Councillors Simmons and Toomey casting their votes for Tim Toomey, but Councillor Simmons changed her vote to McGovern to make the final vote 8-1.
After a speech by the newly elected Mayor McGovern that stressed themes of unity the Council then elected Jan Devereux to serve as Vice Chair of the City Council for the 2018-2019 term. That vote was initially 5 votes for Jan Devereux and 4 for Denise Simmons, but Alanna Mallon and then Craig Kelley changed their votes to Devereux to make the final vote 7-2 with Councillors Simmons and Toomey voting for Simmons.
After these proceedings there were several statements by councillors thanking Sandra Albano for her 47 years of service to the City and especially her role managing the City Council office since 1982. Sandy’s last day on the job is tomorrow – Jan 2, 2018 – and it’s hard to imagine City Hall without her.
Perhaps the high point of the entire Inaugural Meeting was Cambridge Police Deputy Superintendent Pauline Carter Wells singing John Lennon’s song "Imagine" – just as she did two years ago and just as inspiring.
Later in the day, starting at 6:00pm, the newly elected 2018-2019 Cambridge School Committee took their oaths of office and elected Kathleen Kelly as the Vice Chair (who will be responsible for making all subcommittee appointments). That vote was initially split with Manikka Bowman and Laurance Kimbrough voting for Manikka Bowman; Emily Dexter and voting for Patty Nolan; and Fred Fantini, Kathleen Kelly, Patty Nolan, and Marc McGovern voting for Kathleen Kelly. Emily Dexter and Laurance Kimbrough then changed their votes to Kathleen Kelly leading to the final 6-1 vote to elect Kathleen Kelly.
Mayor McGovern has tapped Wil Durbin to serve as Chief of Staff of the Mayor’s Office. He also tapped Luis Vasquez to be in charge of constituent services and outreach. Both are inspired choices.
The Plan E Charter only designates the Mayor as Chair of the City Council and the School Committee. All other roles and initiatives of the Mayor and the Mayor’s Office are at the discretion of the Mayor, and every Mayor defines their role differently. Mayor Simmons was a wonderful Mayor for the last two years and our newly elected Mayor McGovern promises to be just as inspiring in how he defines his role for the next two years.
One last note: A new portrait of former Mayor Barbara Ackermann now graces the back wall of the Sullivan Chamber. This was an extra special treat. – RW
Marc McGovern is sworn in as Mayor
Mayor McGovern’s inaugural address
Pauline Carter Wells sings "Imagine"
Barbara Ackermann portrait in Sullivan Chamber
The Mayors of Cambridge
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Well, why shouldn't Brian Hassett's The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac [The Adventure of the Boulder '82 On The Road Conference --Finding Kerouac, Kesey and The Grateful Dead Alive & Rockin' in the Rockies; introduction by John Allen Cassady; published by Get Things Done Publishing, USA, 2015] read like a breathless telephone call or letter, a cassette-tape transcription, an inventory, itinerary, annotated bibliography, since it's all of these, --a fifty-four year old catching up on his own twenty-one year old's [on-the-] road trip, a teen&twenty out of rock 'n roll, and his reader, such as I am here on the cusp of seventy, happily hooked on the spirals of my own life story and always knew it as story, even my first pages from 1963 of manuscript so grateful I haven't lost entitled JOURNEY with in-between parts called PETER WHICH WAY, SONG OF THE SEA, THE CHANGES, flirting with overall title BOOK around '73 as 'writing' seemed to transcend 'autobiography' --thus my fellow-feeling for the young guy, Brian Hassett, forever younger, unembarrassed by the notion of heroes & hero worship, the Beats his hearth gods & goddesses, his pantheon, thus another way into history, what I call intersections --utterly at home with his thinking aloud, reportage, fast & free, as I cant or wont let myself completely be, devoted to British English's musicality, both street talk & literature, its textured ear, the more so as it collides with one's parallel love, the American colloquial, particularly the post-literary, the journalistic, the epistolary & journal-ism, --except that I conjure a 'literary' which swallows it all, spitting it out, compelled to truth, thus clarity however close to blurting's effluvium, adjacent to effulgence, humorous, true however knowingly comic, without spoiling or obscuring the candid, naked, generous moment!
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Literature, as I always say, voracious of appetite, its capacity determined by overview not insight, the absolute hold-all unlike its alienating attribute the literary which insists itself between subject & evocation or is of such an imposition that subject's mistaken, misperceived, which it never can be in genre writing --sports, crime, music --and no distinguishing here between succinct & rhapsodic since the particular may be caught in either.
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Home Fly Fishing Oral Histories Page 1
Gilbert Nyerges interview -- February 9, 2007
Gilbert A. Nyerges Edited Transcript – February 9, 2007
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This interview was conducted with Gilbert A. Nyerges on February 9, 2007 in Oak Harbor, Washington. The interviewers are Danny Beatty and Tamara Belts.
TB: How did you get started fly fishing?
GN: My earliest recollection of fishing was when I was about four years old. I fished often with my Dad who used a twenty foot cane pole (not a rod), and used primarily bait such as worms, doughballs, or minnows. He let me hold the pole often so I could experience the “bite,” but for a four year old, I had my problems controlling that long a pole. We brought home everything that we caught for eating, as these were the days leading up to the Great Depression. I continued under his tutelage through my Elementary, Junior High, and High School days, but when I began College, I started becoming interested in this thing called “Fly Fishing.” It began quite tentatively about 1940 and consisted mainly of my trying to duplicate grasshoppers, mayflies, and minnows to catch anything. I never even heard of anything like taking lessons in fly fishing until I moved to Seattle in January of 1943, but I did learn that an entirely different set of equipment was required for this kind of fishing.
TB: Where are you originally from?
GN: I was born, raised, and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. My fishing was confined to a few rivers that flowed into Lake Erie, and to Lake Erie itself, as our family spent all those early years vacationing for one or two weeks each year at my uncles cabin at Put-In-Bay on South Bass Island. When I left Cleveland and moved to Seattle, one of the first things I did was to go down to Warshal's on First Avenue to talk with them about this fly fishing thing, and to learn about some of the things I would need. I visited a pawn shop a few doors down and purchased an eight foot cane rod, an automatic reel with twenty-five yards of backing and a level line, plus about a half dozen snelled flies. Did I know that the outfit should be balanced? NO! I didn't even know what it meant. But I went out into the back yard of the place where I was living and started to practice casting. Needless to say, it was quite discouraging, but eventually I was able to put out consistent casts of up to about forty feet. It took me maybe two weeks of almost constant effort to do THIS!
My first trip was up the Foss Trail to Trout Lake near Skykomish. This was in mid April of 1943. Did I check on seasons, opening days, ice out, limits..... ?? NO! Didn't everybody in the Northwest fish all the time? I caught a bus at 9th Avenue carrying my sleeping bag, fishing gear, rain gear, and a back pack with 60 pounds of CANNED food and utensils to Skykomish, hitchhiked along Highway 2 to the trail head without a single ride, and proceeded up the trail to Trout Lake where I set up camp and fished until dark. It was a long hard trip, but I was young and fool hardy, but I did it! In the morning I left all my gear at Trout Lake and hiked up to Copper, Little Heart, and Big Heart Lakes. On the way in and out, I met only one person, and that was Bill Lohrer who had a fly fishing shop in the University District. That was the beginning of a long relationship with Bill.
Title Gilbert Nyerges interview -- February 9, 2007
Summary Longtime fly fisherman, recognized for creating several successful patterns; recipient of many prestigious awards: Empty Creel (1972), Tommy Brayshaw Award (1976), and Letcher Lambuth Award (1998).
Interviewee Nyerges, Gilbert, interviewee
Interviewer Beatty, Danny, interviewer
Belts, Tamara, interviewer
Date Recorded (user-friendly) February 9, 2007
Date Recorded (machine-readable) 2007-02-09
Location Recorded Oak Harbor, Washington
Photographer Belts, Tamara, photographer
Transcriber Wenrick, Alex, transcriber
Belts, Tamara, transcriber
Smith, Peter, transcriber
Subject - Topical (LCSH) Fly fishing
Fly tyers
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) Nyerges, Gilbert--Interviews
Washington Fly Fishing Club
Original Physical Format Audio cassette
Transcript File Format Transcribed using Microsoft Word then saved in PDF format
Digital Collection Fly Fishing Oral History Program
Repository Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections
Rights Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections.
Identifier NyergesGilbert_20070209.pdf
Program Name Special Collections
Publisher Digital object made available by Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University
Related Collection www.worldcat.org/oclc/779177990
Genre/From Interviews
Transcript 1 Gilbert A. Nyerges Edited Transcript – February 9, 2007 Fly Fishing Collection ©Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Western Washington University Libraries Gilbert A. Nyerges Special Collections Fly Fishing Oral History Program ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Gilbert A. Nyerges on February 9, 2007 in Oak Harbor, Washington. The interviewers are Danny Beatty and Tamara Belts. TB: How did you get started fly fishing? GN: My earliest recollection of fishing was when I was about four years old. I fished often with my Dad who used a twenty foot cane pole (not a rod), and used primarily bait such as worms, doughballs, or minnows. He let me hold the pole often so I could experience the “bite,” but for a four year old, I had my problems controlling that long a pole. We brought home everything that we caught for eating, as these were the days leading up to the Great Depression. I continued under his tutelage through my Elementary, Junior High, and High School days, but when I began College, I started becoming interested in this thing called “Fly Fishing.” It began quite tentatively about 1940 and consisted mainly of my trying to duplicate grasshoppers, mayflies, and minnows to catch anything. I never even heard of anything like taking lessons in fly fishing until I moved to Seattle in January of 1943, but I did learn that an entirely different set of equipment was required for this kind of fishing. TB: Where are you originally from? GN: I was born, raised, and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. My fishing was confined to a few rivers that flowed into Lake Erie, and to Lake Erie itself, as our family spent all those early years vacationing for one or two weeks each year at my uncles cabin at Put-In-Bay on South Bass Island. When I left Cleveland and moved to Seattle, one of the first things I did was to go down to Warshal's on First Avenue to talk with them about this fly fishing thing, and to learn about some of the things I would need. I visited a pawn shop a few doors down and purchased an eight foot cane rod, an automatic reel with twenty-five yards of backing and a level line, plus about a half dozen snelled flies. Did I know that the outfit should be balanced? NO! I didn't even know what it meant. But I went out into the back yard of the place where I was living and started to practice casting. Needless to say, it was quite discouraging, but eventually I was able to put out consistent casts of up to about forty feet. It took me maybe two weeks of almost constant effort to do THIS! My first trip was up the Foss Trail to Trout Lake near Skykomish. This was in mid April of 1943. Did I check on seasons, opening days, ice out, limits..... ?? NO! Didn't everybody in the Northwest fish all the time? I caught a bus at 9th Avenue carrying my sleeping bag, fishing gear, rain gear, and a back pack with 60 pounds of CANNED food and utensils to Skykomish, hitchhiked along Highway 2 to the trail head without a single ride, and proceeded up the trail to Trout Lake where I set up camp and fished until dark. It was a long hard trip, but I was young and fool hardy, but I did it! In the morning I left all my gear at Trout Lake and hiked up to Copper, Little Heart, and Big Heart Lakes. On the way in and out, I met only one person, and that was Bill Lohrer who had a fly fishing shop in the University District. That was the beginning of a long relationship with Bill.
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Tuners from Wheelsandmore finalized Mercedes-AMG C63
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Nissan - Stanza series
Series: 1-Tonner, 100, 110, 1400, 1600, 180, 200, 211, 240, 260, 270, 300, 350, 400, 720, AA-X, Almera, Alpha, Altima, Armada, Autech, Avenir, AXY, AZ-1, Bassara, Be-1, Bluebird, C 52, Cedric, Cefiro, Chappo, Cherry, Cima, Commercial, CQ-X, Crew, Cube, E20, El Grand, Elgrand, Exa, Fairlady, Figaro, Frontier, Fuga, Fusion, Gazelle, Gloria, Grand, GT-R, Hardbody, HyperMini, Ideo, Interstar, Lafesta, Langley, Largo, Laurel, Leopard, Liberta Villa, Liberty, Livina, Lucino, M 45, March, Maxima, Micra, Mid4, MM, Moco, Murano, Navara, Note, Otti, Pao, Pathfinder, Patrol, Phaeton, Pick Up, Pino, Pintara, Platina, Prairie, Presage, Presea, President, Primera, Pulsar, Qashqai, Quest, QX, R300, R390, R391, Rasheen, Rogue, S-Cargo, Safari, Santana, Sedan, Sentra, Serena, Silvia, Skyline, Sport, Sports, Stagea, Stanza, Sunny, SUT, Teana, Terrano, Tiida, Tino, Titan, Trailrunner, Vanette, Verita, Versa, Violet, Wingroad, X-Terra, X-Trail, Xterra, XVL, Z Concept, Zaroot
All Nissan models
About Nissan
Nissan Motor Company, Limited (日産自動車株式会社, Nissan Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7201, NASDAQ: NSANY) is a Japanese automobile manufacturer, which formerly marketed vehicles under the Datsun brand name and is one of the largest car manufacturers.
The company's main offices are located in the Ginza area of Chūō-ku, Tokyo with disassembling by 2013, but Nissan plans to move their headquarters to Yokohama, Kanagawa by 2010, with construction starting in 2007. In 1999, Nissan entered an alliance with Renault S.A. of France. Nissan is among the top three Asian rivals of the "big three" in the U.S. Currently they are the third largest Japanese car manufacturer.
The Nissan VQ engines, of V6 configuration, have featured among Ward's 10 Best Engines for 12 straight years, since the award's inception.
Much like its brother Renault, the pronunciation of its name is different in different markets. In the U.S., the brand is pronounced /ˈniːsɑːn/, while in the UK it is /ˈnɪsən/. In Japanese, it is IPA: [nisːãɴ].
Beginnings of Datsun name from 1914
S4 1.6L M-4
Nissan Stanza (1981)
petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder straight (inline) engine, 1598 cm3 / 97.5 cu in / 97.5 cu in, 60.0 kW / 80.5 hp / 80.5 hp @ 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm, 130.0 N·m / 95.9 lb·ft / 95.9 lb·ft @ 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm, manual 4-speed transmission, front wheel drive
S4 1.8L
Nissan Stanza 1.8 (1986)
petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder straight (inline) engine, 1809 cm3 / 110.4 cu in / 110.4 cu in, 66.0 kW / 88.5 hp / 88.5 hp @ 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm, 145.0 N·m / 106.9 lb·ft / 106.9 lb·ft @ 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm
petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder straight (inline) engine, 1809 cm3 / 110.4 cu in / 110.4 cu in, 65.0 kW / 87.2 hp / 87.2 hp @ 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm, 142.0 N·m / 104.7 lb·ft / 104.7 lb·ft @ 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm, manual 5-speed transmission, front wheel drive
S4 1.8L A-3
Nissan Stanza 1.8 Automatic (1981)
petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder straight (inline) engine, 1809 cm3 / 110.4 cu in / 110.4 cu in, 65.0 kW / 87.2 hp / 87.2 hp @ 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm, 142.0 N·m / 104.7 lb·ft / 104.7 lb·ft @ 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm, automatic 3-speed transmission, front wheel drive
Nissan Stanza 1600 LE Sedan
4-door 5-seater sedan (saloon), petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder 8-valve straight (inline) engine, SOHC (single overhead camshaft), 1598 cm3 / 97.5 cu in / 97.5 cu in, 67.1 kW / 90.0 hp / 90.0 hp @ 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm, 133.0 N·m / 98.1 lb·ft / 98.1 lb·ft @ 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm, manual 4-speed transmission, front wheel drive, 155 km/h / 96 mph / 96 mph top speed
Nissan Stanza 1600 LX-G
3-door 5-seater hatchback (liftback) sedan, petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder 8-valve straight (inline) engine, SOHC (single overhead camshaft), 1598 cm3 / 97.5 cu in / 97.5 cu in, 67.1 kW / 90.0 hp / 90.0 hp @ 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm, 133.0 N·m / 98.1 lb·ft / 98.1 lb·ft @ 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm, manual 4-speed transmission, front wheel drive, 155 km/h / 96 mph / 96 mph top speed
74.6 kW / 100.0 hp / 100.0 hp 149.0 N·m / 109.9 lb·ft / 109.9 lb·ft
Nissan Stanza 1800 RX
3-door 5-seater hatchback (liftback) sedan, petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder 8-valve straight (inline) engine, SOHC (single overhead camshaft), 1809 cm3 / 110.4 cu in / 110.4 cu in, 74.6 kW / 100.0 hp / 100.0 hp @ 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm, 149.0 N·m / 109.9 lb·ft / 109.9 lb·ft @ 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm, manual 4-speed transmission, front wheel drive, 165 km/h / 103 mph / 103 mph top speed
Nissan Stanza 1800 SGX Sedan
4-door 5-seater sedan (saloon), petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder 8-valve straight (inline) engine, SOHC (single overhead camshaft), 1809 cm3 / 110.4 cu in / 110.4 cu in, 74.6 kW / 100.0 hp / 100.0 hp @ 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm / 5600 rpm, 149.0 N·m / 109.9 lb·ft / 109.9 lb·ft @ 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm / 2800 rpm, manual 4-speed transmission, front wheel drive, 165 km/h / 103 mph / 103 mph top speed
Nissan Stanza 1800 Z-EX
Nissan Stanza A10 (1977)
petrol (gasoline) engine, 1595 cm3 / 97.3 cu in / 97.3 cu in, 69.0 kW / 92.5 hp / 92.5 hp @ 6200 rpm / 6200 rpm / 6200 rpm, 138.0 N·m / 101.8 lb·ft / 101.8 lb·ft @ 4000 rpm / 4000 rpm / 4000 rpm
Nissan Stanza Automatic (1981)
petrol (gasoline) 4-cylinder straight (inline) engine, 1598 cm3 / 97.5 cu in / 97.5 cu in, 60.0 kW / 80.5 hp / 80.5 hp @ 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm / 5200 rpm, 130.0 N·m / 95.9 lb·ft / 95.9 lb·ft @ 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm / 3200 rpm, automatic 3-speed transmission, front wheel drive
The Varying Drivers License Requirements Around the World
Minimum driving ages, the number of passengers young drivers can have with them at any time, the times of day that drivers under the age of 18 can drive…
These all vary depending on where young motorists are driving. They vary, even, across the United States.
For instance, in Maine, motorists under the age of 18 aren’t allowed to have any passengers with them as they drive for the first 180 days after they obtain their licenses. In Alabama, motorists under the age of 18 can have one passenger with them.
And that’s just one example of the differences in driving license requirements from one part of the country to the next. The differences are even more pronounced when comparing one country to another. Minimum driving ages vary widely across the world. While most states in the United States allow youngsters to earn their learner’s permits at the age of 15, many other countries require their residents to be much older before they get behind the wheel of a car.
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Cinelli Corsa 1957-58
Cinelli Corsa 1957-58:
Frame: 24” Cinelli Corsa frame number 5278; (1957/8) 72º x 72º; 23” top tube; 17 ¼ ” chainstays; 40¼” wheelbase; metallic green with chrome ends, head lugs and fork crown; ‘Campagnolo fork ends’ model (dearer than the other version);
Wheels: 27” Fiamme HP rims on Bayliss Wiley SF G/F hubs 32/40. Fitted 15–27t Regina freewheel and tracknuts
Chainset: Durax fluted on corners with double rings 47/50
Pedals: Campagnolo
Gears: Campagnolo 5-speed Gran Sport rear and Campagnolo Gran Sport ‘Matchbox’ front changer now with Campagnolo downtube levers
Brakes: Universal front and rear
Stem/Bars: Cinelli 10cm steel stem with badge fitted with GB Road Champion bars
Saddle Ideal: 45
Photos: courtesy of Peter, owner
I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components.
I can be contacted at veronaman@gmail.com
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Labels: 1957-58 Cinelli Corsa
1941 Vigorelli Velodromo Program
Cino Cinelli vs. Adolfo Leoni in the program for the opening of the 1941 track season. Leoni went on to win Milan-Sanremo the following year, 1942, and Cinelli won the year after that, 1943.
Coppi, Bartali, Olmo, Guerra and Binda are also on the program of 23 March, 1941. Those were the days.
Photos: courtesy of Matteo
Labels: Vigorelli
1946 Giotto Cinelli Cycling Team
This 1946 photo is of the only true complete team ever to be exclusively sponsored by Cinelli. As you can see the jerseys are labeled G. (Giotto) Cinelli as this pre-dates the Cino leadership of the company. Cino supplied many bikes to amateurs as well as single pro riders but was never the title sponsor of any team.
A Giotto Cinelli bike article can be read here.
Photo: courtesy of Steven Maasland
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Labels: Giotto Cinelli
Cinelli's Most Famous Poster
Photo: courtesy of Guido van den Anker, www.italiaanseracefietsen.wordpress.com
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Labels: Poster
Scarpette Cinelli per Ciclisti, Mod. 300
Cinelli Model 300 cycling shoes.
Photo: courtesy of Matteo
Labels: Shoes
Luigi Valsasina
Luigi Valsasina, framebuider for Cino Cinelli is referred to in a previous article, "A Visit with Cino Cinelli":
"Cinelli's frames were as limited in models as they were in numbers. Early on, he produced a relatively economical sports bike, and he also dabbled in track bikes and tandems...... but, his enduring classic, the staple of his frame production, was the legendary Super Corsa road model. Produced with relatively few changes from 1947 on, its ride and durability are part of cycling lore.....
The fabled frame was the result of Cino's yen for a more rigid design. To this end, he conceived sloping fork crowns and the peculiar "fast-back" seat post-bolt system. Early on, the hired a Bianchi frame maker, Luigi Valsasina, to assist in frame production. (Now 85 (ed. note: in 1986), Valsasina left the firm a few years after Cinelli's own exit). Cino recalls how his technician initially resisted such an unorthodox design. Cino, having an order to fill for the great Fausto Coppi, instructed Valsasina to build two bikes for the champion--one a traditional configuration and the other Cino's new design. Both framebuilder and racer were duly impressed with Cino's alternative, and the Super Corsa was born."
Photos: coortesy of CINELLI ONLY reader
Labels: Luigi Valsasina
Interview with Serafino Tomi of Cicli Tomi, Viterbo, Italy
Larry Theobald, and his wife Heather, are the owners of CYCLE ITALIA, www.cycleitalia.com, and are currently residing in Viterbo as they prepare for the 2010 bicycle touring season. Do visit their website and blog. Larry was kind enough to undertake an interview today with Serafino Tomi of Cicli Tomi. Grazie mille, Larry. Here is Larry's report:
Interview with Serafino Tomi, Viterbo, Italy February 18, 2010 by Larry Theobald.
Interviewed by request of Angel(o) of Cinelli Only and the Italian Cycling Journal, who supplied a list of questions for Tomi.
Before we get to the specific questions here’s a bit of background – Serafino Tomi of San Martino al Cimino (near Viterbo) wanted to learn how to build frames in the mid-70’s. He called and wrote to a few builders up in Milan. Cinelli offered him a job after a lengthy telephone conversation. He commuted to Milan each week, returning to his wife and children on the weekends. Tomi worked at Cinelli for approximately five years. He still regards Cino Cinelli as sort of a demi-god of cycling. Over and over I heard “grande uomo” prefacing “Cinelli”. Of course in Italian grande means big, but in this case it also means grand. Serafino still exhibits great respect and admiration for Cinelli and credits him for most of what he learned and later put to use making his own frames under the TOMI name through 2003. He was happy to speak of his great friend and mentor but limited his comments to his tenure there and was unwilling to speculate on what may have happened before or after.
What can you say about the numbering (serial) system? After the frames were built the numbers were assigned by someone in the front office. We simply stamped the numbers into the frame using individual number and letter stamps and a hammer.
Did Cino Cinello himself build frames? Yes, he built a few frames though he was busy during my time there (1975-80) with new ideas.
What makes Cinelli bikes special? At that time there were big bike factories like Bianchi and Atala, making low-priced bikes for general use as well as racing machines. Ex-racer Cino Cinelli made only racing machines using the highest quality tubing from Columbus along with other high quality parts – if he couldn’t find them, he designed them and had them made. He was committed to artisan work rather than large-scale manufacturing and every bike (during my time) was made in the Cinelli workshop. No matter what decals might be on the frames, many Italian (and other) racing teams raced on frames made by Cinelli. One time a big team came to Cinelli with an order for the next season. He explained he could not provide the bicycles and recommended a new young builder who made good bicycles. His name was Ugo DeRosa.
Do you have information on brothers Giotto or Arrigo or 1940’s Cinelli bikes? No.
How many frame-builders were there at any one time? During my time there were three or four of us cutting and mitering tubes and assembling the frames before they were brazed up by one brazer.
Did each builder build a complete bike? See above.
Were Cinelli’s made to order or made in stock sizes to sell? We made a batch of size 50 one day, size 54 the next, etc. Columbus respected Cinelli so much that if special tubing was needed for an extra large frame, Columbus would supply it to us but most were made in what were stock sizes, produced in small batches.
Why did Cinelli use 26.2 seatpost? Strength and reliability. The larger seatpost requires more material be removed from the lug, making the entire area of the frame weaker. There is nothing magical about 27.2, with the tubing and lugs available at the time 26.2 simply made for stronger frames in the seatlug area.
Were the frames painted at Cinelli? No. The brazed frames were cleaned and filed/sanded before being sent to the painter. All of them were then painted metallic gray. This was Cinelli’s signature color in the same way Legnano’s were light green and Bianchi’s sky blue (celeste).
Any all-chrome Cinelli frames? Not during my tenure.
Subcontractors before 1983? Did you know of Montelatici? During my time ALL Cinelli bikes were made at the Cinelli workshop, there were no outside makers though there was sort of an agreement that workers at Cinelli could come in on the weekends and make frames for themselves, limited to two a week. I don’t recall the name Montelatici, sorry.
Innovations such as bivalent hubs…were these made at Cinelli? No, I saw them and other products like the famous M71 pedal, but they were made elsewhere.
After 1983 it has been said that frames were made by Giovanni Losa. Is this correct? Losa worked with me at Cinelli. During that time all frames were made in-house. I don’t know what Losa may have done later. Once Cinelli was sold, everything changed.
Another story said Mario Camilotto built frames in the early 1980’s, do you know anything about this? No. I don’t recognize this name. I know only about the time I was actually there, from 1975 – 1980.
After the questions were answered, we talked a bit more. Tomi showed me a cherished original Unicanitor saddle and told of it being quickly copied. Masi had some copies with his name on them which damaged the previously friendly relationship between Cinelli and Masi somewhat. (Photo shows Serafino Tomi holding the saddle)
Tomi was able to learn brazing while at Cinelli though he brazed only when the regular brazer wanted to school him in the skill, usually when Cinelli was not around. He showed me torch tips of various sizes and explained that many builders use a tip too small, which concentrates the heat too much. He feels the entire joint should be brought to the right temperature before the brazing rod touches metal. The molten rod flows into the joint thoroughly and rapidly with this technique with less distortion compared to heating concentrated areas with a smaller torch tip.
He next pulled out a near-new Cinelli stem (photos above). He explained it was used on one of his Milan show bikes to show his respect for his friend and that he and his wife had stayed up past midnight before the show painstakingly painting the colors into the pantographed logo Serafino had carved into the stem. He even painted the cap that covered the hole in the stem and claimed that prior to this, the Cinelli logo was a simple silver on black, only after being pleased with the Tomi design did Cinelli add the colors to his logo! Tomi later pantographed his own TOMI logo onto stems, chainrings, brake calipers, etc. as was popular at the time.
Serafino also told me he made steel track handlebars while at Cinelli. He regarded the bars and stems, along with the M71 clipless pedal as prime examples of the forward-looking mindset of designer Cino Cinelli.
Serafino himself also claims to be one of the first to braze cable stops onto the head tube rather than use the more-conventional shifter mounts on the downtube once Ergopower and STI came into wide use. He also claims to be one of the first (and perhaps the first) to braze the seatstays low on the seattube, making them shorter and creating a more twist-resistant rear frame section, a design he says was widely copied once a racer on one of these frames raced it in Tuscany.
In addition to the pantographing, Tomi did all the paint and decal work on TOMI frames himself – only chroming was performed elsewhere (up in Milan). He still is quite a perfectionist in many ways, showing me a prototype carbon fiber TOMI frame he’d just received with improperly placed decals and other flaws – something that most bike shop owners would not worry about but he was on the phone with the supplier making sure the for-sale frames he was to receive had the decals properly placed!
I invite you to contribute by sending in photographs of your Cinelli bike, illustrations, personal stories, and articles about Cinelli bikes and components."
Labels: Serafino Tomi
Mario Camilotto
In this recent article I mentioned that it has been said that, ".....in the 1980's the Cinelli Supercorsa was made by an experienced Milanese framebuilder by the name of Mario Camilotto. The workmanship on these models is quite beautiful perhaps even nicer than earlier models. I do not know why Signor Camilotto stopped building for Cinelli and why later frames were made by Losa, also in Milan."
CINELLI ONLY reader Michael was kind enough to send in the above photo showing Mario Camilotto at work, surrounded by framebuilding equipment, tubesets, frames, and wearing a Cinelli T-shirt. Michael wrote, "The photo is of Mario Camilotto in the Cinelli factory of Columbus Steel in Milan. The only other thing I have heard about Camilotto is that he personally built every Cinelli Supercorsa from the time that Columbus bought the Cinelli brand, until Losa took over (in the early 90's?). The workmanship on my 1984 is quite clean."
Through a lead from another reader I learned that there were some video segments of Mario Camilotto at work embedded in a youtube video of Britsh framebuilders, the Taylor Brothers. Beginning at 4:40 in the video Camilotto can be seen several times building the "Ferrari" of bicycles. Definitely worth a look:
If anyone has additional information please email me at address below.
Labels: Mario Camilotto
Cinelli Firenze Stem
A very early Cinelli stem engraved "Cinelli Firenze".
The last photo is of an "Arrigo Cinelli" engraved stem which appears be almost identical in shape to the "Cinelli Firenze" stem.
Photos: courtesy of Matteo; you can click on them to enlarge
Labels: Arrigo Cinelli, Cinelli Firenze
Post 1980s Cinelli Builders
The following was a quote I found on the internet in 2009:
1980s-2008 Cinelli Supercorsa builders:
I have collected some details regarding the builders of the Cinelli Supercorsa frames from the 1980s to 2008. The following information, unconfirmed, is from two sources:
1."Thru the 90's until this past year, Cinelli's steel bikes, including Supercorsa, were made in the shop of Giovanni Losa on the outskirts of Milan as Cinelli's official 'house' builder. Losa retired after a serious heart attack or stroke last year (2008) and although his employees appeared to have carried on for a time, it appears that his business is now closed. I do not know who,if anyone, Cinelli has chosen to produce post-Losa Supercorsa's as well as the new stainless steel Xcr. in all probability, Losa-produced Supercorsa inventories would very likely have carried on thru this past year."
2."It is my understanding from a source in Italy that in the 1980's the Cinelli Supercorsa was made by an experienced Milanese framebuilder by the name of Mario Camilotto. The workmanship on these models is quite beautiful perhaps even nicer than earlier models. I do not know why Signor Camilotto stopped building for Cinelli and why later frames were made by Losa, also in Milan."
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Sheldon Brown on Cinelli
"Among the most sought-after of all vintage lightweights. A few heretics claim they are over rated. I say take a closer look and get a clue - or buy a Cannondale. Many Cinelli frames show exquisite mitering, smooth and even brazing, and lots of lug thinning. This is even true for many examples from the early 50's! Sure they have deep ugly file marks too - but that is only the surface! Add to the equation that many ride pretty close to perfection - at least as some would define it. Cinelli frames are also a visual feast with Italian style that just won't quit. In Japan, appreciation for Cinelli products is near cult-like. A Cinelli is an icon of cycling tradition. Sure, a few Cinelli frames have some lapses here and there - but don't miss the point. Cinelli frames defined the paradigm of a quality racing bike for decades. (ed. note: photo of 1957 Cinelli):
Around 1978 Cinelli was sold to the Columbo family. There are bikes with either the new or old logo's from this period. Until about 1980, while the graphics could go either way, the brake bridges and bottom bracket shells had new Cinelli logs making these bikes recognizable. From around 1980 until perhaps 1981 or 1982, Cinelli bikes with the new logo using a 26.2 seatpost and the lugs with 3 holes in each were very nice. Many do not consider these to be "real" Cinelli bikes, but they are at least as good as many of the earlier ones. Apparently either some very good builders from the previous period continued on, or work was contracted to outside builders of considerable talent. These bikes from this period deserve to be classics in their own right. Their geometry is upright, yet the ride is comfortable. These are bikes designed for the fast short distance riding so common in the United States. They, nonetheless, will handle mountain descents with ease as well! (ed. note: 2 photos of a 1982 Cinelli):
Sometime around 1983 it all ended. The 26.2 sleeved seat lug was replaced wit a different cast model that used a 27.2 post. The familiar 3 hole lugs were gone as well. Quality during the following years took a pretty heavy hit as well. Many examples didn't even have chrome lugs. By the late 80's quality improved and chrome lugs returned. It just, however, isn't the same."
ed. note: after posting this article a reader informed me that it was actually written originally by Michael Kone, and later appeared at the Harris Cyclery website under "Michael Kone with Sheldon Brown".
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Buying a Bike in Italy in 1986
Buying A Bike In Italy
From the New York Times of 5 January 1986
By Linda Jeffries
"In northern Italy on a pleasant day, the roads are filled with bicyclists: many in racing gear; whole squadrons of teenagers on training runs; pairs of fathers and sons; lone middle-aged or white-haired veterans. For others, cycling is a more practical matter, a way to get around. Housewives hang shopping bags from their handlebars; old men carry melons to market, and children pedal to and from school. Bicycles are very much a part of the Italian scene, especially in the less mountainous parts of the central and northern regions.
This strong commitment to the bicycle fosters a lively industry in Italy. And with the country's tradition of fine design and workmanship, it means that Italian bicycles are among the best in the world. In a good many American bike shops, the top-of-the-line model on display in the window is likely to be Italian. Even if the frame is different, the parts will probably be Campagnolo, an Italian label recognized around the world. Such a bicycle - a Bianchi Vittoria, for instance, with all Campagnolo parts - might cost $900 or so, and the top-of-the-line Centenario is priced at about $2,500.
However, in Italy the same bicycles cost substantially less (about two-thirds the American price). Italian bike shops also carry many less expensive but well-made bicycles not found in the United States. Manufacturers like Bianchi tend to export their more expensive models, and many other manufacturers do not export to the United States at all.
So if you are a cyclist and are planning a trip to Italy, you may want to consider buying a bicycle there. Shopping for one can be a welcome change of pace from sightseeing, and besides, since cyclists and shop owners are a friendly group as a whole, you may find their enthusiasm inspiring.
If you decide to explore the Italian bicycle market, there are some things to keep in mind. First, you are better off shopping in a larger city in the North where bike shops are more numerous and more used to dealing with foreigners. The Milan area, an important center for the cycling industry, probably has the most bike shops and the widest choice available, but you could also do well in Bologna or Florence. Rome is a possibility as well, though because of its congestion it is probably not a city you would want to cycle in. Remember also that bike shops, like most other shops in Italy, are generally open only from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. and from 4 to 7 P.M.,and a good many close in August, the country's traditional vacation month.
The cheapest bicycles ($100 to $200) are the solid, three-speed ones that most Italians use to get around town. They are sturdy and durable, but also heavy. Then there is a whole range of bikes for amateur racers who want some speed as well as lightness and durability at affordable prices. There is a large market in Italy for these bikes, and they are also the best ones for the American interested in recreation or touring.
Prices vary according to the quality of the frame and the parts. Your first question should be about the frame (telaio) and whether it was handmade (artigianale). Handmade frames cost more than those assembled in a factory, but since bicycles with handmade frames are still reasonably priced by American standards (as low as $250), it may be worth your while to pay for the better workmanship. Another question should be about the tubing. Columbus tubing is the lightest and is used in most handmade Italian racing bicycles. This kind of tubing requires careful handling, since too much heat in the braising process can weaken the frame joints. Look for clean lines, and if the builder is not well known, check his reputation among cyclists or mechanics. High-quality tubing is also made by Reynolds, an English company, and by some Japanese companies, but Italian bike builders are very loyal to Italian products, so you are not likely to come across too many imported frames. Note that Columbus or Reynolds tubing should be labeled as such on the frame; an unmarked frame is probably made of a cheaper Italian tubing.
After the frame, you need to examine the parts, especially the derailleur (cambio) and the brakes (freni). With a Campagnolo derailleur and other fittings, you can be sure of the best quality and also of finding replacements in the United States. Finally, you should make sure the rims and tires are the appropriate ones for you. Racers use a tubeless tire known in the United States as a sew-up and in Italy as a palmer or tubolare. These are generally not advisable for recreation or touring, for they puncture more easily and are tricky to mount. So if you are buying a racing model, ask for normal tires with tubes (normale) and for rims that fit them.
Those looking for a well-built frame of high-quality tubing and good parts - and willing to spend $350 to $750 - have many manufacturers to choose from. The particular maker does not matter much. You might as well let color, style or the feel of the bicycle be your guide. However, for the best buy, stay away from names you may have seen in the United States. since these manufacturers tend to charge more than others for the same Columbus tubing and Campagnolo parts.
The one area in the cycling market that the Italians seem to have neglected is touring. Young Italians have not been too interested in traveling by bicycle. Though this may be changing, in general it seems that Italians prefer to travel by car or train. Until recently the lack of interest in bicycle touring has meant that anyone who wanted to see Italy by bike had to come fully equipped. To some extent this is still true, especially in the south, where the bike shops are less well stocked. Elsewhere the situation is improving. For light touring, any of the lightweight amateur racing bicycles will do, and in many shops in the north you can find adequate (if unsophisticated) front handlebar bags and rear panniers. For more serious touring, you will need a touring bicycle with a more flexible and comfortable frame. You might also prefer to bring your own bags and a rear free-wheel with a large (34 or 36 tooth) sprocket. The largest sprockets available in Italy have only 30 teeth, which is not adequate for heavy touring over hilly terrain unless you have thighs like some Italian racers.
Sending your bicycle back to the United States is less of a problem than it might appear from the other side of the Atlantic. If you want to take it with you on the plane - for no extra charge if you count it as a piece of luggage - it must be boxed. You can box the bicycle yourself if you have the tools to dismantle it. (Boxing requires removal of the seat, handlebars, pedals and front wheel.) Boxes are found at most shops, though you should call ahead to make sure some are available. Most bike shops will box the bicycle for $15 or $20. Another option is to buy an airline bag specially designed for bicycles, which costs about $50. Many shops will also ship bicycles to the United States by air freight. Shipping companies charge by volume, but the cost still varies from shop to shop: about $150 to $175 for an assembled bicycle, $75 to $100 for an unassembled one.
Another problem may be language, yet it need not be too much of a problem. In many shops someone usually speaks some English. But if no one does, it is relatively easy when discussing a bicycle to use fingers for numbers and otherwise demonstrate your ideas. A little Italian, however, can go a long way. With a few key words and phrases, you'll quickly win friends among cyclists and shop owners.
In buying a bicycle, it's useful to know that at least one shop, Cinelli in Milan, accepts credit cards. Others may take them next summer, but don't count on it. Some shops may accept United States currency if they are not too busy to figure the conversion, but you may not get as favorable an exchange rate as you would at a bank. Milan Detto Pietro (8 Viale Monte Santo; 653-173) has a wide selection of bicycles and accessories.
Cinelli (also known as Gran Cicilsmo, 45 Via Folli in Lambrate on the outskirts of Milan; 215-1643) has handmade and factory-made bicycles, touring equipment and books (in English) for touring.
Rossignoli (71 Corso Garibaldi; 804-960) is the place to buy parts as well as bicycles.
Guerciotti (55 Via Tamagno; 200-424) offers handmade bicycles.
Doniselli (11 Via Procaccini; 381-545) has racing bicycles in a wide range of prices.
If you have the time and some knowledge of Italian, you might seek out some of the smaller, independent frame builders in the Milan area. Ask around among cyclists and shops for names and addresses.
Florence: Giuseppe Becucci (24R Via de Leone; 298-005) offers a full range of bicycles and touring equipment as well as Kryptonite locks.
Bologna: A. Villa (10 Strada Maggiore; 221-716) has a large selection of bicycles in all price ranges as well as some touring equipment. Patelli (1 Via Matteotti; 353-848) makes bicycles to order and specializes in racing equipment.
Photo: from my collection (not published with story): Eric Clapton in 1988 picking up his Cinelli in Milan.
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Cinelli Registry for pre-1984 Cinelli's
A registry of pre-1984 Cinelli bikes by serial numbers is published at www.cinelliregistry.com.
Cinelli serial numbers do not run in sequence but there are clusters of numbers around particular years that may help you identify the year of your Cinelli.
If you have additional information to add to the registry email info@cinelliregistry.com with the words “CINELLI Registry” in the subject line.
Photo: Cinelli, Model C or "Riviera"
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The Cinelli Story (La Storia)
The Cinelli Story (La Storia) by MARK PETRY
Cinelli frames have a loyal following with bicycle fans world wide. They were produced in small quantities (750 in the best years) till the company was sold to A.L. Columbo group in the late 70's. Cinelli frames made up until that point where used used mainly for Olympic and World Championship teams (ed. note: 1960 gold medal Olympic team were on Cinelli).
Cino Cinelli was a successful bicycle racer in Italy, winning Milan-San Remo in 1943 and. He started using some of the ideas he had created in his head during those year s of racing, when he began building frames after Word War II. Cinelli thought that frames needed to be stiffer and that the geometry was to relaxed on most of the models of that era. He created a fork crown that had sloping shoulders and internal lugs. This allowed the blades to be shorter and created a stiffer fork . Cinelli also redesigned the seat collar, bring the seatstays in behind the lug rather that along side it. Fausto Coppi was one of the first to use these new features when he raced on a Cinelli frame in 1947.
Cinelli also was known for components, his steel stems and bars where classic. There where a number of innovations that he brought to cycling. The first clipless pedal, the M71 was released in 1971.
The first aluminum handlebars to be accepted by the pros. The first plastic saddle, the Unicantor was designed in 1962 and became the model which all of todays saddles are based.
Hub design was an area that Cinelli put his trademark on with the introduction of the Bivalent q/r hubs. This design left the freewheel behind in the frame, and the wheel could be used in the front or rear. The idea was ahead of it's time, and the cost which was about twice what a Campagnolo hub would cost.
Cinelli also created the Laser bicycle which was one of the first aero “funny” bikes. This model was used to win many national and world titles. Ole Ritter used a Cinelli to set the hour record in 1968. This model had longer cranks and Campagnolo hubs that were 2 cm. narrower than conventional hubs. This bike ran on special tubulars made just for this record attempt. The bike also had a special fork with winged shaped blades for lower wind resistance.
In Italy the professional racers have a special attachment to Cino Cinelli. The relationship developed between Cino, Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi. Cino was the foundation of the Italian Professional Cycling Association for professional riders. The idea was to represent the riders interest in the Italian Bicycling Federation, as well as the Italian Sports Federation (CONI). Cino was the president of the association for 24 years. His book on training for cycling remains a classic to this day.
Cinelli serial numbers do not run in sequence. Only in the post - 1981 timeframe (corresponding to the sale of the company to A.L. Columbo) do the serial numbers indicate the date. Some frames may have sat unsold for years in the shop, others may have been built by subcontractors.
The key to dating a Cinelli are the lugs (3 holes or no hole) and the bottom bracket oil port. The presence or absence of these features will help to establish the manufacturing date of a Cinelli frame. The BB port disappeared in about 1965. The 3 holes in the lugs appeared in about 1968. The Special Corsa ("A" model) is distinguished by its sloping fork crown, where the "B" model has a conventional flat fork crown.
There may have been a factory lightweight model, featuring a milled BB - 3 such bikes are known (ed. note: there was a lightweight model with a drilled BB; see http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/2007/08/reminiscing-about-my-1972-cinelli.html)
Steven Maasland contributed the following on the debate recently about the significance of the SC on Cinelli bikes, I wrote to Andrea Cinelli to see if he could shed any light onto the matter. The question was, essentially, what is the difference between a Speciale Corsa and a Super Corsa. His response was:
"Le etichette "Speciale Corsa" e "Supercorsa" identificano lo stesso modello di telaio o bici: venivavo abbreviate "S.C.", in cui la "S" indicava "Speciale" o "Super", mentre la "C" indicava "Corsa", per differenziare il modello più economico: "modello B"."
Which translates to: The labels Speciale corsa and Supercorsa identified the same model of frame or bike: they were abbreviated "S.C.", in which the "S" indicated "Speciale" or "Super", whereas the "C" indicated "Corsa", to differentiate from the more economical model: "Modello B."
"Avevamo temporaneamente esaurito un' etichetta e per un equivoco dello stampatore la lettera "S" ha avuto due significati diversi. Errori simili succedevano in passato anche con i francobolli con grande "soddisfazione" dei collezionisti che lucravano prezzi più alti sul mercato."
Which translates to: We had temporarily run out of a label and due to a printer's error, the letter "S" had two different meanings. Similar errors have also happened in the past with postage stamps to the great "satisfaction" of collectors who have sought more lucrative prices on the market.
It would therefore appear that there is no intended difference whatsoever between the two denominations."
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Cino Cinelli at 1967 Milan Bike Fair
Two road bikes and one track bike (on rollers) on display, also handlebars and stems on counter display.
Photos: top: Cino Cinelli on left; bottom: Cinelli on right (courtesy of Steven Maasland)
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Arrigo Cinelli
The fine bikes of Cino Cinelli, of which no more than 750 were built per year in the best of times in Milano, are well known. We know also that one or both of his older brothers, Giotto and Arrigo, began the cycling business in Firenze (Florence).
Which brings me to the point of this story: an extremely rare stem bearing the name of Arrigo Cinelli, Firenze.
Any additional information, photos, etc., regarding Arrigo Cinelli would be most welcome.
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Giotto Cinelli
Contrary to common myth, Cino Cinelli was not the one who founded the Cinelli bicycle business. The first Cinelli branded bikes were actually built and sold by his older brother Giotto Cinelli in Firenze (Florence). Also involved in the business in Firenze was another older brother of Cino, Arrigo Cinelli.
Only a few Giotto Cinelli bicycles are known to exist. Of the 1946 Giotto Cinelli, Campagnolo Cambio Corsa equipped, bike shown above a reader of the Italian Cycling Journal wrote, "Very little is known about these bikes. According to Andrea Cinelli (ed. note: son of Cino Cinelli), very few of these early bikes exist. But thanks to the Internet, at least two more have been found. My bike was restored in Italy back in the early 70s. Unfortunately decals or pictures of Giotto Cinelli bikes with decals have yet to be discovered. Any information about the design of the original decals, or other Giotto Cinelli bikes, would be most welcome."
Cino Cinelli moved the business from Firenze to Milano sometime in the 1950s.
Photo: Giotto Giotto in 1939 when he was still riding as a pro (photo courtesy Steven Massland); Giotto Cinelli bicycle: note the Giotto Cinelli headbadge with Firenze, and the G. Cinelli seat collar, and the Cinelli cranks (click on photos to enlarge).
Interview with Cino Cinelli, 1997, Part II
We continue, from Part I, with the recollections of Cino Cinelli of his cycling era, as told to the Gazzetta dello Sport in 1997.
SHIFTING - After the World War I and in the 1920s there was a fixed sprocket and freewheel: to change gears one must stop and turn the wheel. In Italy the first shifter which permitted non-stop shifting was the "Vittoria". Vittoria allowed the chain to be lifted, the rider back pedaled, and then shifted. In 1936-37 Vittoria added two wings to the chainstays to move the chain (ed. to change gears a rider would stop pedaling, reach down to a lever situated just above the front chainwheel, move the lever forward which took tension off the chain, and back pedal while simultaneously twisting a knob at the end of the tension lever. The knob operated the two wings that moved the chain to another sprocket. When all this was finally accomplished he could re-tension the chain with the lever and commence pedaling forward again). In 1938 Campagnolo appeared with a serrated rear dropout and a two lever system: one for unlocking, the other to guide the chain where you wanted.
At first there was one chainring in front, at most 49 or 50 teeth, but Raffaele Di Paco he had one made with 52 teeth, Giuseppe Martano one with even 54 teeth; the three gears in the back were usually 16 - 18 - 20. In the (Giro di) Lombardia we used the 48x22 or 50x23. Gino Bartali's Ghisallo gearing was 49x22.
CLOTHING - Wool on the roads and Scottish lisle for the track. The shorts were padded with deer skin and the an ointment was rubbed into the skin it to make it softer. The jersey also had a pocket in front. Cap and gloves were identical to those of today. No eyeglasses: we used those of motorcyclists with the canvas sides. I lit a cigarette and made holes in the canvas so as to prevent the lenses from fogging.
SUPPORT - The changing of a wheel for a simple puncture was forbidden, unless you broke the wheel or some spokes. There was a trick: after a puncture you would do a wheel change and then the mechanic would break some spokes in order to justify his intervention to the judges. As for replenishment, two or three in the race depending upon the mileage, still higher than that of today. To achieve full autonomy we began races with two tubes on our shoulders, a pump, two water bottles in front of the handlebars, and a flask in one of the jersey pockets.
Photo: Cino Cinelli posing with bike and trophy after winning the Giro della Campania in 1939. From the "Il Nouvo Giornale Sport" dated 27.06.39. (Photo courtesy of David Beck)
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Interview with Cino Cinelli, 1997, Part I
Here are the recollections of Cino Cinelli, as told to the Gazzetta dello Sport in 1997, in which he recalled the period in which he rode.
STRADE BIANCHI (white, gravel, roads)- We ate dust and mud. Tubulars, large and heavy, weighing half a kilo each. One chainring in front, three gears in the back. The rims were made of wood. The wheel could only be changed if it was broken, in case of a puncture the rider must change the tire himself. Cycling of the 1930s, it is easy to imagine, was very different from that of today.
THE ROADS - Broken earth, very little gravel in the plains. We ate dust and mud. In the mountains there were the stones, and it was worse. If in good condition, the gravel roads were the best. The first bitumen (asphalt) road sections appeared in 1934/1935.
BICYCLES - The frame was steel, the bike weighed less than 10 kg. The first aluminum handlebars was seen in 1936-37 but many continued to mount those made of steel. Wood wheels were used until the end of 1937, and then aluminum wheels were used. They were more robust but were also heavier. They also lasted longer but would get hot, a problem above all in France, in the Pyrenees, with the long descents. The tubulars also weighed half a kilo each, eventually dropping to 350 grams. In 1943 when I won Milan-Sanremo the tubulars I used were 260 grams and I was told that I was crazy. The size of tubulars were greater: in the Paris-Roubaix the tubulars used were of 24-25 millimeters in diameter, now 19 but not by chance you fall more.
Part II next....
Photo: Cino Cinelli with a Super Corsa in the classic Cinelli silver
A Visit with Cino Cinelli
"A Visit with Cino Cinelli", a sketch of Cinelli's life and contributions to cycling based on his own account and supplemented by information obtained from his son Andrea. By David V. Herlihy (1986).
"Few bicycle racers rank as champions; even fewer parts manufacturers stand out as genuine innovators. Master frame designers can be counted on one hand. Seldom does one encounter a legendary figure with a legitimate claim to all three titles. Yet as I approached a modest villa in the picturesque Tuscan countryside, on one unforgettable fall afternoon in 1986, I would have an opportunity to do just that. The day's resplendent sunshine only added to the near-mystical aura surrounding my visit with Cino Cinelli.
Now seventy years of age, and still fit and vigorous, he lives quietly with his wife and young daughter. He acknowledges a certain lingering interest in the bicycle world, even admitting to an occasional jaunt himself. However, his main activity these days, he insists, is to tend to his olive trees. Ever since he retired, almost a decade ago, severing all ties with the company which still bears his name, bicycles are no longer an important part of his life. Or so he cautions the cycling devotees who occasionally drop by on some sort of pilgrimage.
Fortunately, after we settled in his cozy study and exchanged a few desultory remarks about olive trees, Cinelli's disclaimer proved increasingly suspect. It soon became apparent that the subject of bicycles still evokes a gleam in his eyes. When I questioned him about his vast experience with these graceful machines, spanning over a half century, he vividly recalled even the most minor details as if they had just occurred.
The seventh of ten children, Cino was born on a farm near Florence in 1916. His father, a small landowner of modest means, was on poor terms with both the ruling fascists and the opposition communists during Cino's rather turbulent childhood. This awkward predicament forced the family to uproot several times, though it remained on the outskirts of Florence.
Cino's introduction to the bicycle came at an early age, when he and his two older brothers, Giotto and and Arrigo, cycled several miles to their school in Florence. The boys' competitive nature transformed what should have been a routine commute into a veritable race--and sometimes even a fistfight. The two older boys, against their father's wishes, began to participate in local amateur races. Giotto was especially good, and he was an inspiration to young Cino, who still proudly recalls the day he stood on a glorious Tuscan hilltop to witness his brother's first victory. Naturally, Cino wanted to race too. But he would not have an easy time pursuing this dream. First, he had to contend with his father's vehement opposition. Second, the family's increasingly dire economic situation forced Cino to quit school at the age of 14 and to seek employment. Nor was his first boss, a doctor who used Cino as office help, inclined to accommodate an aspiring bicycle racer. Furthermore, it did not appear as if Cino, a rather frail youth, was blessed with a racer's physique or stamina.
Fortune would nonetheless match Cino's resolve. One day, as he was riding his over-sized sports bike down a country lane, he collided with a car, an unusual entity in those days. Picking himself up, along with his bicycle, a badly shaken Cino sprinted off, fearing the wrath of the driver. The gentleman nonetheless managed to catch up, and handed the startled youth a few crisp bills. He instructed Cino to fix his bike and to be more careful in the future. Not only was Cino able to repair his clunker, he also used his generous allowance to acquire the racing bike he had always coveted but could never afford.
Cino soon left the doctor's employ to take on a new job with a publisher. He was determined to educate himself, even if he could not attend school. His new boss encouraged not only the young man's avid reading habits, but also his racing aspirations, allowing the apprentice the time necessary to train. Cino still vividly recalls one of his first amateur races, in 1931, when he narrowly beat out a local lad for second place; a certain Gino Bartali. The winner, incidentally, was Bartali's cousin, who had already surpassed the age limit of fifteen by a good two years. But in those days, Cino grouses, unscrupulous racing authorities routinely turned a blind eye to such irregularities.
Over the next few years, Cino continued to shine in the local amateur circuit. Meanwhile, thanks to his rigorous work habits, he advanced rapidly through the ranks of the publishing house. But in 1937, at the age of 21, this delicate balancing act came to an abrupt end. The new management issued Cino an ultimatum: either give up racing or the job. Should he continue to compete, he would have to turn professional and renounce a steady job in a tenuous economy. Furthermore, it was by no means certain that he could make a living as a racer. Sponsors, at this time, were virtually non-existent. His earnings would have to come exclusively from prize winnings. Nevertheless, Cino gambled that he could survive by relying on Giotto's support and his own athletic ability. Fortune again responded favorably: the very day he quit his job he collected his first prize money.
In the 1938 Tour of Lombardy Cino faced, once again, his chief local rival, Gino Bartali, who was now likewise a professional, and a rising national star. The race evolved into an epic duel between the two, and, once again, Cino prevailed. The two Florentines, incidentally, are still close friends and occasionally get together. Cino confesses, however, that their encounters tend to be animated affairs, as the two old warriors rehash numerous debates that have lingered since their racing days. Evidently, an intense rivalry born long ago on bicycle saddles is carried forth today on living room chairs.
For the next six years, Cino raced professionally, serving stints with the Bianchi and Frejus teams. During that span, he compiled an impressive list of victories in such classics as the Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Piemonte, and Giro di Campania. But his greatest race, by his own estimation and by that of most observers, was his triumph in the grueling Milano-San Remo of 1943. "Late in my career," Cino reflects, "I realized that I got stronger the longer the race went on."
By this time, Italy was immersed in World War II, having entered on the side of Nazi Germany. But the fascist government vowed to sustain competitive cycling as a popular distraction. Cino, though nominally a soldier, was allowed to train and compete as a member of the state-sanctioned racing team. He would win one more contest in 1944, but he already knew that his racing days were behind him. Unlike Bartali and Coppi, Cino never raced again once the war ended the following year.
In 1946, at the age of 30, and still in his physical prime, he answered a new calling. Having experienced numerous technical failures during critical races, he had become increasingly interested in the mechanical side of cycling. Convinced that racing technology could be vastly improved, Cino set out to implement his ideas. He would exploit the technical knowledge he had gained from his racing career, and also his connections within the industry.
At first, he approached various manufacturers to offer suggestions, but he soon decided to produce and market racing bicycles and components himself. Cino moved to Milan so that he would be in the center of the Italian cycling industry. He then formed the first firm specialized in the distribution of cycle racing accessories. This enterprise began by serving federations and clubs, which at that time represented the entire Italian racing market.
From the onset, Cino manufactured stems, bars and frames. Initially, however, his own products accounted for only about a tenth of his total business. By the time Cino retired, that percentage had risen to about one half. But under his watch the firm never shed its principal identity as a distributor of high-end cycling components made by other manufacturers. Over the years, Cino marketed at home and abroad everything from Columbus tubes to Phil Wood hubs. His vast inventory included frame parts, tools, helmets, and cycle wear. The only prerequisite was that Cino had to personally validate the product.
Cino was always sensitive about his position as a middleman. He remarks, "I wanted to be able to deal with everyone in the bicycle business, from industrialists to artisans." He thus shied away from any exclusive arrangements that would limit his clientele or his influence. Consequently, nearly everyone in the trade openly sought Cino's valued advice. Even engineers treated him as a colleague.
But one of his most ardent listeners was a certain Gentullio Campagnolo. Cino recalls how he once convinced the vaunted parts maker from Vicenza to redesign his drop-outs, insisting that they had to be thicker. He also remembers advising Campagnolo to modify his seat post and hubs. Chuckling, Cino recounted how he once won a friendly bet between the two. "Campagnolo had just introduced a fork column, and I told him I could produce a better one at half his price." After examining his friend's submission, a dejected Campagnolo promptly withdrew his product and treated a triumphant Cino to a cup of coffee.
Cino and Tullio maintained a long and close friendship until the latter's death about four years ago. As far back as the1960 Olympic Games in Rome, the two jointly manned a booth to publicize their respective products, before the worldwide bike boom alleviated the need for such personal attention to business. But until that point, they shared some hard times. In particular, Cino recalls helping the struggling Campagnolo through some difficult financial straits. Once, a disgruntled Campagnolo creditor demanded that Cino pay him for his Campagnolo order, rather than Campagnolo himself, so as to extinguish a long-standing debt. Cino refused; he would pay no one other than Campagnolo for the parts that bore that name. No doubt, this special bond and mutual respect explains why the two manufacturers rarely presented competing products.
Notwithstanding Cino's primary role as a parts distributor, his own products gave the firm its illustrious name, and earned Cino a reputation as an implacable perfectionist. Here is a brief summary of his production over the years.
Stems and Bars
Bicycle stems and bars were always the mainstay of Cinelli's production, consistently accounting for at least 80% of his own sales. Even before the war, his brother Giotto had begun to manufacture steel stems and bars in Florence. In 1946, Cino took over that operation and brought it with him to Milan. The original staff included himself, his first wife Heidi (a Swiss national, and mother of Andrea), two office helpers and four assemblers.
Some firms, notably Ambrosio, today known primarily for its rims, were already using alloy in their stems and bars. Cinelli, however, always concerned with rigidity, originally stuck with steel. Only in 1963 did he introduced, half reluctantly, his first alloy stem and matching bar; and only because he was convinced that his combination was better than any on the market. (He continued to recommend steel bars for track riding, however). The A/I stem, as it was called, immediately became the industry standard. Graceful in design and strong in structure, it incorporated a number of novel features. A recessed allen-wrench fitting pointing toward the headset eliminated the need for a bulky protruding bolt. Nor was there any need to pry open the clamp when detaching the bars. Moreover, the stem's serrated inner surface kept the bars from getting scratched. In 1973, Cino designed the A/R stem, a sleeker model with a hidden bolt system. Scribbling furiously on my note pad, Cino explained in great detail how he adjusted the measurements of his stems and bars to ensure strength, elegance, and ease of use.
As racing bicycles gained popularity, primarily among high-end recreational riders, first in Europe during the early 1960s, and then in the United States by the end of that decade, Cinelli stems and bars were increasingly in demand. Annual production climbed from about 5,000 stems and bars in the 1950s, to 7,500 in the early 1960s. By Cino's retirement in 1978, the figure had reached a giddy 150,000. Yet despite the boom, Cinelli never relaxed his renowned quality standards. His staff grew slightly, and he modernized some techniques, but the products themselves remained the most refined and coveted in the cycle industry.
Frame production, however, could not be readily multiplied without a significant decline in quality. Although some Italian frame makers succumbed to the temptation to industrialize their production, Cino stubbornly resisted. First, he had no desire to claim a significant share of the market for racing frames. Such a position would pit him against his major clients in the parts business. In fact, Cino was determined not to jeopardize his role as an honest broker to the Italian cycle industry. The few frames he did produce were generally sold to the huge American market, where the competitive effect was miniscule. Nor did Cino ever outfit a professional team with his frames, so that other builders would not feel that he had deprived them of that honor. His track frames were, however, in high demand by Olympic federations that were free to chose whatever equipment they deemed best. In 1964, for example, the entire Japanese team used Cinelli frames, as did the 1968 Mexican team.
Cino's aversion to stepping up his frame production also reflected his determination to implement his own, sometimes unconventional, concepts, without regard to popular taste or industry trends. Furthermore, as a parts designer and dealer, he felt that it was extremely helpful to remain personally involved in the production of frames. As he saw it, the parts had to be designed around the frame. Consequently, a Cinelli, the so-called "Rolls-Royce of bicycles," remained a highly exclusive item, even as demand soared. The annual output hovered around two-hundred and fifty during the 1950s, and peaked at about six or seven hundred in the 1970s. Frames were only consigned per custom-order, and customers often had to wait months for delivery, or even longer when he had outstanding orders from Olympic athletes.
Of course, Cinelli frames were never cheap. But Cino maintains that their exorbitant price barely covered the meticulous production process. He insists that he never intended his frames to be moneymakers. Today he proudly affirms that "no Cinelli was ever assembled outside my factory." He notes that an American businessman once approached him with a plan to produce Cinellis in California on a larger scale, but Cino would have none of that.
Cinelli's frames were as limited in models as they were in numbers. Early on, he produced a relatively economical sports bike, and he also dabbled in track bikes and tandems. In 1974, he designed a novel aerodynamic "funny bike" which the Dane Ole Ritter rode to break his own hour record. One of Cino's last projects was the Laser, a futuristic aerodynamic frame. But, his enduring classic, the staple of his frame production, was the legendary Super Corsa road model. Produced with relatively few changes from 1947 on, its ride and durability are part of cycling lore. Cino muses how a Frenchman once advised him to redesign it. "Why?," asked a perplexed Cinelli. "They last too long," came the reply. "How can you expect any turnover?".
The fabled frame was the result of Cino's yen for a more rigid design. To this end, he conceived sloping fork crowns and the peculiar "fast-back" seat post-bolt system. Early on, the hired a Bianchi frame maker, Luigi Valsasina, to assist in frame production. (Now 85, Valsasina left the firm a few years after Cinelli's own exit). Cino recalls how his technician initially resisted such an unorthodox design. Cino, having an order to fill for the great Fausto Coppi, instructed Valsasina to build two bikes for the champion--one a traditional configuration and the other Cino's new design. Both frame-builder and racer were duly impressed with Cino's alternative, and the Super Corsa was born.
Cino maintains that the sloping fork crown adds rigidity by reducing the length of the fork blades. In his view, only the harshest courses, those comprised of cobblestone, demand a more flexible ride and hence the traditional flat fork crown. Arguably, the sloping design also makes the bicycle slightly more aerodynamic. Though the advantage is admittedly negligible, it is notable that aerodynamic considerations only came into vogue many years later. As for the "fast-back" design, that arrangement directly aligns the binder bolt with the center of top tube, assuring a firmer grip on the seat-post.
Despite the longevity of the Super Corsa, Cino did apply a few minor changes over the years. The very first frames used Reynolds tubing, until Columbus SL became the standard. The cast lugs at the ends of the top tube began to sport three drilled holes, escalating in size, after about 1960. Starting in the early 1970s, the fork crown and the bottom bracket shell were produced by "microfusion," a then unique bicycles Cinelli process of investment-casting that yielded parts of greater uniformity and strength. (Cinelli also marketed his frame components to other builders.) And like other Italian frames, later models allowed for shorter-reach brakes, and featured a lower bottom bracket and an increasing array of braze-ons.
The famous Cinelli head badge was originally a hand-painted metal plate screwed into the frame. Later, it became a decal instead. The basic design, which also adorned his steel stems and his bars, remained unchanged, however. It featured a knight's helmet, inspired by the one that Cino's dad kept around the house. To one side is a red giglio (lily), the symbol of Cino's native Florence, and on the other is a green serpent, the symbol of his adoptive Milan.
Seats and other products
Before 1960, racers used leather saddles almost exclusively. In fact, some artisans made a living by reshaping worn leather saddles for cyclists. Cino himself remembers entering one race perched atop a brand new Brooks saddle. But at a certain point the skies opened up and his once shiny and firm saddle became a sopping and saggy disappointment. Cino became convinced that there had to be a better material for racing saddles.
Years later, as a manufacturer, he approached one of his brothers who had gone into the plastics business to see if that material could provide comfortable yet rigid support. His brother responded favorably, but cautioned Cino that he would have to order saddles by the thousands to price them competitively. An enthused Cino tried unsuccessfully to enlist Campagnolo in his bold venture. Finally, he discovered that Tommaso Nieddu of Turin, founder of the Vittoria derailleur, had begun to manufacture saddles made of Rilsan, a synthetic material invented in France. Cino formed a partnership with Nieddu (known as Unicantor), and redesigned the seat to include a buffalo hide covering, for extra comfort and traction. Before long, this innovative product captured the racing market and put saddle re-shapers out of business.
Other notable Cinelli products include the resilient Binda toestraps, and the sleek M-71 clip-on track pedal, introduced in 1973. Although the latter product was short-lived, the French ski manufacturer Look eventually developed and applied the concept with great technical and commercial success. One of Cino's most imaginative ideas was a system that accommodated interchangeable front and rear wheels, designed primarily to facilitate wheel changes during races. The special freewheel, manufactured by Regina, attached independently to the frame. The hubs, manufactured by Campagnolo, could be fitted either into the freewheel or the front fork. Cino sold a number of bicycles with this system to Americans in the late 1960s, but the idea never caught on. Still, it remains one of Cino's most cherished concepts.
Cino's future plans call for a peaceful life in the countryside with his family, growing and harvesting olives. He is reluctant to leave the land he loves, even temporarily. He has no great desire to travel, and has never crossed the Atlantic, despite numerous invitations from American friends like the Chicago-based Schwinn family. Still, he is by no means detached from the rest of the world. His library contains numerous articles that have been written about him over the years in such far-flung countries as France, England, Japan, and the United States (he seems particularly proud of the article that appeared in Playboy in the early 1970s). And he maintains a rapport with numerous cyclists worldwide that he equipped over the years, effortlessly ticking off names and measurements. He relishes a collection of art objects sent by clients, sometimes in lieu of cash payment, as was the case with some residents of developing countries.
And, truth be told, his technical advice is still solicited by many in the Italian cycle industry. Among those who consult regularly with Cino is his own son Andrea, who is about to start his own bicycle company. Called Cinettica, it will market radically new frames and accessories.
As I reluctantly prepared to leave, I prodded Cino to weigh in on the state of cycling. He cites a need for improved road networks to accommodate cyclists, but he also advocates fundamental changes in design. After we paused for a Sunday afternoon dessert, Cino led me down to his basement where he elaborated on his technical ideas. There, resting against a well-scribbled blackboard, was his own bike--a Cinelli, of course. This classic rust-colored gem sported two 26" wheels and extra-long cranks. According to Cino, this is the ideal set-up for a road bike. "27" wheels were designed fifty years ago when we had much poorer roads," he groused, "It just doesn't make sense that we still ride these wheels today." Cino adamantly maintains that cyclists benefit from the higher cadence that goes along with smaller wheels, and that longer cranks provide better leverage.
Yet for all his innovative spirit, Cino is surprisingly conservative about certain things. He doesn't like the new Cinelli logo (a multi-colored "C"), for example. "I guess they felt they had to change something," he allows, "the way a new boss rearranges furniture" (The new owner, incidentally, is the Colombo family, owners of Columbus tubing). At the mention of Campagnolo's recently revamped line of "aerodynamic" components, Cino makes a face and utters a single word: brutto (ugly).
With regard to new frame designs and materials, Cino remains skeptical. He dismisses the "squished" steel frames, popular a few years back during the aerodynamic craze. "There is nothing stronger than a round tube," he asserts. He does hold out some hope for composite frames, provided certain technical objections are overcome. He mentions that he is about to receive such a frame shortly for his evaluation.
Night had fallen, and it was time for me to go. As he bade me a hearty good-bye, Cino promised to prepare a jug of olive oil for my next visit. "You know, when I first moved here," he noted with a tone of self-satisfaction, "the local growers all smirked. What could a man who just yesterday was a bicycle mechanic know about olive oil? Well, I cultivated my olive trees the same way I did my bicycles." Is it any wonder why his humbled neighbors now clamor for Cino's advice?"
Photo: 1935, Colli Fiorentini race photo showing the winner Giotto Cinelli on the right (holding flowers) and his younger brother Cino on the left. (Photo courtesy of Steven Maasland)
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Cinelli Only, For Cinelli Owners, Enthusiasts and Fans
This blog is for all the Cinelli owners, enthusiasts and fans around the world. In the next few days we'll begin with some Cinelli history and some interesting photographs.
By the way of introduction I should say that I am the owner of one Cinelli Super Corsa (1970) and one Cinelli Super Corsa Leggerissimo (1972). I am also the author of the ITALIAN CYCLING JOURNAL which covers Italian cycling from a to z.
Photo: Cino Cinelli autographed photo (courtesy David Beck)
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I had trouble sleeping last night due to one, the noise from the road outside - I was on the first floor. And two, the air conditioning was too cold. Finally I had to turn it off early in the morning to get some sleep, which wasn't much as my alarm then rang at seven. I had to retime it twice and finally woke up at 7.30am.
After breakfast we met the other five joining us. I guess they will be saying the same thing "the other seven joining us". After introductions were made, we were briefed as to what we will be doing today and the rest of the week in summary. The other seven were telling us about Cuba and what to do and what not to do and their experiences to us 'newbies' because they have been in Cuba obviously longer than us but it soon dawned on me how much or little they actually knew. What they knew was the 'tourist' version of Cuba despite being on an Intrepid trip that was supposed to focus on the local aspect of the country. I then realised why. I had a personal local guide that was not bound by Intrepid rules while these people had to comply with the rules set by Intrepid. So, I wonder how bad would the other normal western tours would be. None of them had bought anything from a ration shop let alone been to one, none of them had ridden on a local bus - because foreigners were generally not allowed (due to the subsidy) and a lot of things I had done. So, doing a tour by yourself isn't a bad thing.
Anyway back to today. We checked out and loaded the minivan for the three hours drive from Havana to Vinales. The journey was uneventful other than the fact that the number of vehicles on the dual carriageway became less and less the more interior we went. I then started seeing just jungle and sometimes farms, orchard but there were also less people. Looks like the west is far less populated than the east of Havana.
The minivan
The place we visited today was the Vinales Valley which is situated in the Pinar Del Rio region. As we enter the region, I could tell why it is said to be beautiful. It resembled like the hillside of Padang in Indonesia. This part of Cuba apparently grows the best tobacco in the world and tomorrow we will be visiting a tobacco factory to see how it is made. I am going to buy one cigar even though no one in the family smokes and even if I risk it being confiscated by the US customs.
The view of Vinales
I also read that this region possesses unique ecosystems such as the Vinales National Park and the Guanahacabibes Biosphere Reserve. Both of these have been declared World Cultural Heritage Landscapes by UNESCO. The city however, is marked by its neoclassical architecture. The geography of the province embraces varied and exuberant vegetation, lots of endemic species in its flora, mineral and medicinal waters, beautiful valleys surrounded by mogotes and the biggest caves in Cuba.
As we were arriving at the valley, there were dark rain clouds just ahead of us. That was not a good thing as we were supposed to be going on a three hour jungle walk into the national park. After some narrow winding roads, we finally arrive at our casa for the next three nights. We unload the van and get our bags and head off to our respective casas and the rain starts. Perfect timing as a minute later and we together with our bags would have been soaked.
I was ushered with two other ladies, the Canadian and a British, Laurie. I was wondering how this will work out but then when we got to the casa, realised that I had a single room. Looks like the other Australian, Tony from the other group had opted for a single room so by default, there being no other unpaired guys, I get a single room. How nice.
We ordered some sandwiches from the casa owner while waiting for the rain to subside. As we we having our lunch, we had a phone call from Natalia that the walk has been called off as the rain only got worse. But we were told meet up front at the main house at 4pm.
4pm came and we regrouped to decide what we wanted to do. Option one was to go on the nature walk and the second option was to go downtown and explore. Given the torrential rain we just had, option two was unanimous. We wondered down admiring the buildings and the various houses. Almost all of them supplemented their income with letting out their homes to tourists. I guess the number of homes being let out indicates the popularity of Vinales. We visited a local botanical garden that was started by two sisters who have since passed on but the gardens continue to flourish. There were an amazing display of flowers, plants and fruit trees. We then passed by a stall selling sugar cane juice. Natalia asked who wanted to try and only four of the twelve were brave enough to try something local. I was one of the four and it was really good. Just like the one we have in Malaysia.
Sugar cane drink
State clothing factory
On the way back to the casa, there was a band playing at a bar. So we all stopped to have a drink and listen to them play. It was fantastic music with just five people. The Cubans are so talented as they just played with no notes and it was rhythmic. As with their tradition, they pass their hats around for loose change after every few songs. They also try to sell their music on a CD to us for CUC5 each. Not sure what the quality is like. I was tempted to buy though but I'll see how it goes. I stil have two more days here. Apparently, the next stop is really remote and there is absolutely nothing but the beach. Not sure if I'll like it or hate it.
There were only the three of us here in this casa but dinner was an elaborate affair. They owner, Julie as she introduced herself, brought a fruit platter for each of us and a plate of greens for the table. After that came the starters. A soup/broth sort made with lentils and coconut and pieces of meat. I think it was chicken that was thrown in. And each bowl had two slices of pumpkin. It was delicious and also sweet and savoury at the same. Hard to explain but was good and filling. So, when the next course came which was the mains, it was hard to get everything in. The main was pork slice fried with garlic and slices of onion on top, with steamed sweet potato. Together with that came a bowl of black beans, which is a Cuban staple, and a bowl of rice. After all that, Julie asked us if she could now serve us dessert. The answer was no! But coffee would be great and it came in a small cappuccino cup which was good, thick and strong Cuban coffee.
After dinner, we went to check out the night scene in town. There is only one main street in town and three bars or night clubs and that's it so its difficult to get lost. The night club we went to was in the town square which was the biggest one. The entry fee or rather cover charge with no drinks included was CUC1. You buy whatever you wanted when you got in. The atmosphere was really fantastic. There was a live band playing and performances by a group of 5 girls. After every performance, there was the band and then after the band, the performance. Actually there was no pause in intertainment. It was like watching a movie with song and dance. Everybody just walked up to another person and they would do the salsa, which was really incredible to watch. Even the biggest person swayed gracefully to the music. We stayed till about close to midnight and walked back to the casa which was about 10 minutes away. Felt really safe walking back at that hour.
The night club thing was not what I expected it be. There were no rowdy people or drunks, there were many locals just having a bit of fun. At least to an outsider, it looked like clean fun and it wasn't even a Saturday night. Apparently, this happens every night.
Back in my room, I could still hear the loud music from the three night clubs. Not sure how the locals who live around here feel but as a tourist, it sure feels surreal, like being in a film set, and noisy especially when you are trying to get to sleep.
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Snap, crackle and pop – the return to pure sound via vinyl
March 19, 2015 By Blogging Team
Up until recently, only real audiophiles would come into East Hamilton Radio (E.H.R.), to see the turntables available.
While not that many years ago, listening to music or the spoken word in the comfort of your home was done by placing a seven inch or 12-inch piece of pressed vinyl (they were called “records”) onto a turntable. For many “millennials”, for example, their experience with vinyl records and turntables has likely been restricted to attending an event in a club where a hipster disc (that’s what records were once referred to) jockey would control the mood of a crowd of individuals, ready to be influenced by the sounds of the day.
Today, believe it or not, vinyl is staging a comeback and more people are embracing the pure sounds that only vinyl can provide. Further, the better the turntable, the more accurate manner the sound is presented – either through speakers or headphones.
Further, the audio experts at E.H.R. will soon tell you that on the hardware end, the number of companies manufacturing turntables, tone arms, cartridges, phono stages, and accessories has never been higher. But is this “growth” only being fueled by audiophiles who refuse to let the format die and are willing to spend thousands to dig out every last bit of music from the grooves of their favorite records? Or is it possible that a new generation of listeners weaned on MP3s, who, having already spent hundreds on a pair of headphones and even more on a smartphone, are suddenly curious to discover if music can sound better? The definite renewed interest in vinyl combined with the availability of HD digital downloads (from vinyl recordings) is an excellent development for the audio industry. Now, more people are finding the subtleties and nuances that were unattainable from MP3 files.
The once ubiquitous turntable may never regain its position as the number one method for music playback but it’s clear that a new generation of music listeners is starting to realize that while one should never trust anyone over 30, their parents may not have been deaf after all!
Discover a whole new world of clear and true sound with the wide selection of turntables available at E.H.R. from manufacturers such as TEC, Denon, Pro-Ject and audio-technica.
If you consider yourself to be a leader when it comes to in-home electronics, then you have to consider East Hamilton Radio located at 1325 Barton Street East in Hamilton. Call 905-549-3581.
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Disney D23 Expo
D23 EXPO: “Finding Dory” Gets “Modern Family” Flavor With Ed O’Neill & Ty Burrell
August 15, 2015 Andrew Greene 1 Comment
After years of public campaigning, Ellen DeGeneres has finally got her wish with a Finding Nemo sequel. This time, she’s the one being found in Finding Dory, a movie directed by Nemo helmer Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane (Toy Story of Terror).
Andrew Stanton thought his story was finished, and that he could move on from Finding Nemo. Nope; he couldn’t let go of how he left Dory. Where’s Dory’s family? He wanted more development for the character, and that’s what inspired Finding Dory, a film scheduled for June 17, 2016.
Ellen DeGeneres, who crashed the D23 EXPO for the panel, will be rejoined by Albert Brooks’ Marlin, Heydon Rolence will take over the role of Nemo (because the original actor is now 21 with a much deeper voice), and be joined by some comedy stalwarts.
Dory’s parents, Jenny and Charlie, will be voiced by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy, respectively.
After an accident and a head injury thanks to some violent undertow, Dory gets a flashback, and a memory of her family, even if it’s short-lived. All she knows is that she has to get to the Jewel of Monterey, California, and Marlin begrudgingly joins, and Nemo excitedly joins for the adventure to find Dory’s family. All we know of Marlin’s involvement comes at the end of a clip when they agree to go to Monterey, when he grumbles that “I know a guy” who can help them across the ocean. Returning character alert!
(ABC/Image Group LA)
Their quest will take them to the Aquarium of Marine Life in Northern California, a center that rehabilitates injured fish, where we’ll meet Hank the cantankerous and 7-limbed octopus, voiced by Ed O’Neill. To keep with the Modern Family theme, Ty Burrell will lend his comedic talents to Bailey, a beluga whale with echolocation skillz who thinks he’s suffering from a head injury, but doesn’t realize that that’s just how whale shark heads look like. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actress Kaitlin Olson rounds out the casting announcements as Destiny, a confused whale shark unsure of her identity.
Finding Dory‘s stated theme is that our shortcomings aren’t our downfall, but what define us, and make us special. Aw. In the clip to close out Finding Dory‘s time in the spotlight, we find Dory, accidentally taken into quarantine at the Aquarium, where she meets the expertly camouflaged and sly Hank, trying to sneak his way INTO an aquarium in THE Cleveland. This is a creature who wants captivity, suffering from trauma in the wild, and like Marlin, is grudgingly willing to help Dory find her family if she can help him book his way into the good life in Cleveland.
I’m just happy that Cleveland is getting referenced in Finding Dory. A LeBron James voiced fish can’t be far behind. Either way, Andrew Stanton and company surely have another hit on their hands (flippers?).
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SCE Boot Camp whips seniors into shape
By The Elm - Feb 07,2019@12:14 pm
By Erica Quinones
Elm Staff Writer
As the spring semester began, the Writing Center provided seniors with a space to start or continue working on their Senior Capstone Experiences (SCE).
On Thursday, Jan. 31, the Writing Center hosted their SCE Bootcamp in Goldstein Hall. The bootcamp lasted from 5 – 9 p.m. and provided students with food, supplies, and a work area.
“It’s mainly a time that they can come work on it, where they know others are doing the same thing,” said Academic Resources Coordinator Elizabeth Shirk.
Like the fall bootcamp, the program was staffed by Shirk and some of the Writing Center tutors. The tutors were on hand to help with every stage of the SCE progress; from brainstorming, to editing to setting deadlines.
No matter their current status, Director of the Writing Center John Boyd said, “We’re trying to meet students where they are and provide some support where they need it.”
“It’s a larger project than most students have ever worked on before,” Boyd said. “It’s more extensive and independent.”
The extensive nature of the SCE is visible both in the types of projects and their content. Boyd said that the vast array of possibilities tended to “paralyze” students, leaving them unsure of how to start.
Writing Center tutor Saoirse, a junior, has worked with students equally as varied as their projects.
“Largely, I’ve worked with a junior who is just starting to think about his senior thesis,” Saoirse said. “I’ve also worked with a senior who already had her drafts.”
The consensus amongst staff was that, at this period in the semester, progress on senior theses varied widely. Some were just beginning, others were editing, and still more were drafting.
Despite the different levels of progress, there was unanimous agreement on what the hardest part was of the SCE. Seniors Jasmine Wolliston, Sara Slimani, Yousra Slimani, and Sawyer Chilton all agreed that the hardest part was getting started.
“With all our other classes and homework and exams, it’s so hard to find the time to work on your thesis,” Sara Slimani said.
According to Boyd, this general angst was part of the original motivation for developing the SCE Bootcamp.
The original bootcamp consisted of mini-workshops with yoga breaks and other activities, but evolved after its designers found “that students want to come sit down and work,” Boyd said.
With a time and place set, the seniors began work on their projects.
Wolliston, a psychology and computer science major, discussed how her thesis about immersion in virtual reality versus computer games combined her interests with her double major in Computer Science and Psychology.
“I’m a big gamer,” Wolliston said. “So, I want to be able to tie that into my experiment, because your thesis advisor always tells you to do something you’re passionate about, so that it’s reflected in your work.”
Likewise, the other seniors present merged their interests and theses. Sara and Yousra Slimani mixed in their future graduate school goals, Chilton her familial experience, and others like senior Joe Hood tied in his creative writing.
The Writing Center will be hosting two more Bootcamps this semester on Feb. 16 and Mar. 27.
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Date of the publication : 2017/12/12 - 6:40 pm
Category : World
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Calls for Muslims' Support for New Intifada
TEHRAN (Press Shia Agency) – Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Movement Spokesman Davoud Shahab called on the Islamic Ummah (community) to support the new intifada that has been ignited by the US decision to recognize Jerusalem (al-Quds) as capital of Israel.
“This decision unmasked the true face of the US and entangled its allies in the region in a difficult situation; this decision has widespread consequences,” Shahab told the Press Shia Agency news agency.
The official urged Muslims to get united against the US President Donald Trump's move, and said that “The resistance groups, active in this intifada… should be supported.”
He described the ongoing developments as a sign of failure of the political solutions to the issue of Palestine.
Shahab referred to 10-point initiative proposed by Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ramadan Abdullah in October 2016, noting that the initiative has now become a national demand.
The 10-point initiative proposed by PIJ leader calls for cancellation of Oslo accord, revoking recognition of Israel and stopping security coordination with Zionist regime.
The comments by Shahab came against a backdrop of protests across the Palestinian territories following Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the new capital of Israel.
Israel has occupied East Quds since the 1967 Middle East war. It annexed the area in 1980 and sees it as its exclusive domain. Under international law, the area is considered to be occupied territory.
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Maarten De Ceulaer Lecture
Maarten de Ceulaer (°1983) first studied interior design at the Sint-Lukas hogeschool in Brussels. Attracted by conceptual and artistic product design, he continued his studies at the design academy eindhoven. A strong passion for travelling inspired his graduation project 'a pile of suitcases', which was immediately picked up by nina yashar, founder of the renowned milanese gallery Nilufar. This was the start of a close and ongoing collaboration, and a collection that has grown steadily over the years.
Maarten is known for the highly evocative, poetic and playful touch he gives his objects. He uses his work to tell stories, to stir people's emotions, to inspire their imagination and to make them wonder. He continuously explores new materials and investigates in production techniques and crafts. The emotional aspect of objects is equally important as the functional, and he has remarkable attention for detail. He likes to use materials in unconventional ways, and his objects never cease to surprise.
Maarten de Ceulaer has been awarded with the belgian young designer award in 2007 and the Henry Van de Velde Award for young talent 2013. Besides gallery nilufar, he also works with victor hunt gallery in brussels, and companies such as cc tapis, vibia, fendi and casamania. His work is held in private and public collections (Design Museum Ghent), and has been exhibited in museums (Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch, Design Museum Ghent, Triennale Milan), festivals, biennials and fairs worldwide.
Date event : 19.09 > 19.09 Vernissage: 19/09 - 8.15pm Tel: +32 2 349 35 59 address: Place Sainte Croix, B-1050 Website: http://www.designseptember.be
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Alan Kurdi rescue ship picks up another 44 migrants off Libya
Malta takes in Sea-Eye migrants before transfer to other EU countries
Sea-Eye migrant rescue boat Alan Kurdi
Migrants, part of group of 65 rescued by the German-flagged NGO rescue ship Alan Kurdi, look out from a patrol boat as they are brought into Haywharf, in Valletta, by the Armed Forces of Malta after being transferred onto the Maltese patrol boat on July 7.
AFP/Valletta
The migrant rescue boat Alan Kurdi has saved another 44 people, including women and infants from their stricken vessel in the Mediterranean, its operator German charity Sea-Eye said on Tuesday.
Malta has agreed to take in those rescued and is sending a vessel to pick them up, the charity said in a statement.
Maritime tracking websites showed the Alan Kurdi holding its position just outside Maltese territorial waters around 1430 GMT.
Malta's coastguard confirmed that it would transfer the migrants to one of its vessels in international waters. Valletta however did not say whether a deal had been reached for the migrants' final destination.
The Alan Kurdi last week rescued 65 shipwrecked migrants attempting the perilous journey from North Africa, handing them over to Malta after hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini closed Italy's ports to the vessel.
Sea-Eye said it was alerted to the plight of the latest migrants off the Libyan coast by Tunisian fishermen and a civilian search plane.
The rescued migrants said they had left Zuwara in Libya early Saturday.
Their wooden boat was in Malta's search and rescue area so Maltese authorities asked a nearby freighter to coordinate the rescue, which told Sea-Eye to take the migrants on board.
"Forty-four people, including four women and three children," were brought aboard the Alan Kurdi, Sea-Eye said.
The children are 15 months, three and five years old. The people come from Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guinea, it said.
"A 15-month-old baby should never have to be in such a life-threatening situation," said Sea-Eye spokeswoman Carlotta Weibl.
The 65 migrants the Alan Kurdi handed over to Maltese authorities on Sunday have already been sent on to other European Union countries.
An Italian customs vessel on Tuesday separately brought 47 rescued migrants into Sicily's Pozzallo port, Italian media reported.
The migrants had been headed to Lampedusa, an Italian island between Sicily and Libya, but there was no space for them there as hundreds of migrants continue to arrive by their own means or are rescued by authorities.
Salvini has vowed to close Italian ports to charity rescue ships, which he accuses of helping people smugglers.
Interior ministry figures showed that 395 migrants have arrived in Italy since the end of June.
Italian media reported that this year barely one in 10 migrants and asylum seekers has been brought into Italy by charity vessels -- the vast majority arrived by other means.
Salvini on Monday said he wanted to deploy military vessels to stop migrant vessels arriving.
Half of the migrants landed in Pozzallo are Tunisian, Italian media reported. Salvini has written to the Tunisian authorities urging a new bilateral deal on handling migrants, including using ferries to repatriate them.
Italy and Malta have repeatedly criticised Europe's "case-by-case" approach to migrant rescues, which means shipwreck victims spend days or weeks at sea while countries try to agree where they should go.
The Alan Kurdi, which had been banned from entering Maltese and Italian waters, is the third rescue vessel in a week to make headlines.
Some 41 people were finally allowed to step off migrant rescue charity Mediterranea's Italian-flagged Alex, which arrived at Lampedusa port on Saturday in an overnight operation that saw the ship seized by authorities.
The boat's captain Tommaso Stella is being investigated for allegedly aiding illegal immigration.
Salvini last month issued a decree that would impose fines of up to 50,000 euros ($57,000) for the captain, owner and operator of a vessel "entering Italian territorial waters without authorisation".
Authorities on Lampedusa in late June seized a rescue ship belonging to German aid group Sea-Watch, which had forced its way into port with dozens of rescued migrants on board, and arrested its captain, Carola Rackete.
An Italian judge subsequently ordered her freed, saying she had been acting to save lives, a decision which sparked Salvini's ire but may have encouraged the Alex crew.
Libya, which has been wracked by chaos since the 2011 uprising that killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi, has long been a major transit route for migrants, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, desperate to reach Europe.
Iran non-compliance with N-deal not significant: EU
EU holds talks on saving Iran nuclear deal
Iran ‘ready for talks with US if sanctions lifted’
Yemen rivals meet for first time in months
Dozens clash with police at gas price protest in Bangladesh capital
Sudanese man shot dead during protest as sides wrangle over transition
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Change your community . . . change your world!
The Doctor of Pharmacy/Master of Public Health (PharmD/MPH) Dual Degree at Touro University California combines the complementary strengths of the College of Pharmacy (COP) and the College of Education and Health Sciences (CEHS) to provide students currently enrolled in the PharmD Program with an integrated curriculum focusing on knowledge and ingenuity in the delivery of pharmaceutical care within a population based public health framework. The dual degree is designed for students interested in working in divisions of pharmacy emphasizing epidemiology based research, evaluation of community-based health programs, and the needs of populations and issues affecting their health.
Students are provided with the expertise and competencies essential to comprehend population based care, manage program planning and evaluation, assess the effects of emerging health issues and policies on the current health care environment, and provide care and services to promote the health and well-being of local and global communities.
PharmD/MPH students are expected to complete the PharmD/MPH Dual Degree within a minimum of 4 years of year-round full-time study. Currently, 13% of all COP students are enrolled in the PharmD/MPH Dual Degree Program.
PharmD/MPH graduates are more competitive in obtaining employment in public and private hospitals, clinics and health care providers, private practice, insurance and managed care organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, local, county, or state public health agencies, public health governmental agencies (CDC, HRSA, NIH, FDA), international health agencies (WHO, UNHCR, PAHO), not-for-profit, philanthropic, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and research and academic institutions. Pharmacists with MPH degrees will be prepared to:
Design and provide disease management and pharmacy-based immunization programs;
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Conduct epidemiologic investigations;
Participate in health outcomes research;
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Shape policy regarding inclusions/exclusions from drug formularies;
Participate in program planning, implementation and evaluation, such as appropriateness of prescribed treatment regimens, medication refill reminders and other compliance programs;
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The mission of the Public Health Program at Touro University California is to promote the health and well-being of local and global communities through education, service, and research with a focus on underserved populations. This mission is achieved by employing a multidimensional program of study that combines a broad public health base with didactic training and field study in three specialty concentrations:
The COMMUNITY ACTION FOR HEALTH concentration prepares students to respond to the health needs of communities, especially those communities that face unique vulnerabilities. Specialized courses for students in this concentration include Social Inequities in Public Health and Community Health Promotion.
The GLOBAL HEALTH concentration's curriculum reflects the realities of health around the world and the links between countries at different stages of economic development. Students gain an understanding of the challenges and the complexity of solutions through specialized courses Essentials of Global Health and Emerging Health Threats.
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Why a Dual Degree?
Participate in health promotion, disease prevention and pharmacotherapy;
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Why a Dual Degree at TUC?
The Master of Public Health (MPH) at Touro University California (TUC) trains students to become leaders and advocates in addressing the current and emerging public health challenges of populations locally and globally with a unwavering focus on social justice.
While the full MPH is 42 units of study, as a dual degree student you complete 30 units within the Public Health Program. The remaining 12 units are transferred from the PharmD curriculum and cover related cross-over content.
The Touro University California (TUC) MPH Program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), which indicates program quality. Certain professional positions and fellowships are only open to those with degrees from CEPH-accredited programs.
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The MPH degree requires 42 units of study. Dual degree students earn 30 units from the Public Health Program curriculum (generally over the course of 2 summers and a P3/P4 Open Block) and 12 units from courses relevant to public health from the College of Pharmacy curriculum.
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Tuition: Current tuition for the 30 units of MPH coursework is $26,500
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"The MPH is the perfect complement to any health professional degree. Mine has given me an opportunity to work with disadvantaged populations, compelled me to analyze and dissect research in a more meaningful way, and broadened my understanding of the forces that impact human health and behavior.
My PharmD provides me with the knowledge to optimize patient drug therapy but my MPH reminds me that I need to treat the patient as a whole, not just a set of signs and symptoms."
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Precinct Seven Five – Review ****
By Gemma Parker on September 1, 2015
Precinct Seven Five tells the story of Michael Dowd, a corrupt police officer in 80s New York who, in a neighbourhood that was rife with corruption, managed to make headlines by being “the dirtiest cop in N.Y”. With a focus on story over judgement, the film plays out more like a fictional crime drama than a documentary; the initial temptation of small bribes and skimming money off the top gives way to drug deals and burglaries which then culminates in the inevitable downfall and capture of the corrupt cops.
Director Tiller Russell deftly mixes CCTV footage, court recordings, photographs and interviews to chart the rise and fall of Dowd and his crew. Interviews with key players are by turns informative, interesting and horrifying; the stories they tell reminiscent of Goodfellas or the more recent, A Most Violent Year. The majority of those interviewed have already paid for their crimes and have no shame casually sharing stories of burglaries, drug deals, car chases and worse. Drug kingpin, Adam Diaz reminisces about a thief Dowd and his partner, Kenny Eurell, helped him catch: “He’s not around anymore. I’m not saying I killed him. He’s not around anymore”, Diaz explains with a knowing smile.
Russell introduces the theme of loyalty early on and this runs through the documentary. Even when testifying in front of Mollen Commission, set up to investigate NYPD corruption in the wake of his arrest, Dowd only talks about his crimes, showing a loyalty to his fellow officers that feels at times worthy of respect and at others morally immature. Although Russell doesn’t blame anyone for Dowd’s crimes, it’s clear that this is the flip side of the camaraderie and brotherhood encouraged by senior officers in the NYPD. Cops are always there for each other, they protect each other and they don’t rat on each other.
While the editing is slightly jumpy in places, the end result is a smooth film which chronologically charts the rise and fall of a corrupt cop turned career criminal. For all that Russell never seems to glamorise his crimes, Dowd still comes across as charismatic and funny, a natural storyteller who flits from almost gleeful recollections of his felonies to genuine remorse over the death of a fellow cop. As the film ends, Dowd looks at the camera and admits that he wanted to be a good cop; he was just unlucky that it never happened. With interviewees describing Dowd as a victim, a gangster, an abuser of power, a loyal friend and a good partner, Russell declines to make a judgement and leaves it to the viewer to decide exactly what kind of man they have just seen.
Precint Seven Five is in UK cinemas now.
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Regulating Reproductive Donation
Susan Golombok, University of Cambridge
Rosamund Scott, King's College London
John B. Appleby, King's College London
Martin Richards, University of Cambridge
Stephen Wilkinson, Lancaster University
Susan Golombok, John B. Appleby, Martin Richards, Rosamund Scott, Stephen Wilkinson, Guido Pennings, Robert Klitzman, Fernando Zegers-Hochschild, Theresa Glennon, Anja J. Karnein, Mattias Iser, Vasanti Jadva, Natalie Gamble, Tabitha Freeman, Jenna Slutsky, Katharine Wright, Susanna Graham, Sebastian Mohr, Kate Bourne, Lucy Blake, Elena Ilioi, Sophie Zadeh, Susan Imrie, Andrea Braverman, Bobbie Farsides
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The emergence of new empirical evidence and ethical debate about families created by assisted reproduction has called into question the current regulatory frameworks that govern reproductive donation in many countries. In this multidisciplinary book, social scientists, ethicists and lawyers offer fresh perspectives on the current challenges facing the regulation of reproductive donation and suggest possible ways forward. They address questions such as: what might people want to know about the circumstances of their conception? Should we limit the number of children donors can produce? Is it wrong to pay donors or to reward them with cut-price fertility treatments? Is overseas surrogacy exploitative of women from poor communities? Combining the latest empirical research with analysis of ethics, policy and legislation, the book focuses on the regulation of gamete and embryo donation and surrogacy at a time when more people are considering assisted reproduction and when new techniques and policies are underway.
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Presents cutting-edge research on the latest social, policy and technological developments in assisted reproduction
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Introduction Susan Golombok, John B. Appleby, Martin Richards, Rosamund Scott and Stephen Wilkinson
1. The development of governance and regulation of donor conception in the UK Martin Richards
Part I. International, Cross-border and Global Issues:
2. International regulation and cross-country comparisons Guido Pennings, Robert Klitzman and Fernando Zegers-Hochschild
3. Legal regulation of family creation through gamete donation: access, identity and parentage Theresa Glennon
4. Reproductive donation in the context of environmental and global justice Anja J. Karnein and Mattias Iser
5. Normative and regulatory issues in cross-border reproductive health care Guido Pennings
6. Surrogacy: issues, concerns, and complexities Vasanti Jadva
7. A better legal framework for United Kingdom surrogacy? Natalie Gamble
Part II. How Many Children Per Donor?:
8. Sperm donors limited: psychosocial aspects of genetic connections and the regulation of offspring numbers Tabitha Freeman, Vasanti Jadva and Jenna Slutsky
9. Limiting offspring numbers: can we justify regulation? Katharine Wright
Part III. Donors: Experiences, Motivations and Consent:
10. Regulating the 'good' donor: the expectations and experiences of sperm donors in Denmark and Victoria, Australia Susanna Graham, Sebastian Mohr and Kate Bourne
11. Gamete donor motives, payment, and child-welfare Stephen Wilkinson
12. Egg-sharing, motivation and consent: ethical, legal and policy issues Rosamund Scott
Part IV. Information about Donors: The Interests at Stake:
13. Thoughts and feelings about the donor: a family perspective Lucy Blake, Elena Ilioi and Susan Golombok
14. 'Choosing' a donor: parents' perspectives on current and future donor information provision in clinically assisted reproduction Sophie Zadeh, Susan Imrie and Andrea Braverman
15. Regulating the provision of donor information to donor-conceived children: is there room for improvement? John B. Appleby
16. The informational needs of prospective parents: an ethical perspective Bobbie Farsides.
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Susan Golombok is Professor of Family Research and Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge.
Rosamund Scott is Professor of Medical Law and Ethics and Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.
Stephen Wilkinson is Professor of Bioethics at Lancaster University.
Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge.
John B. Appleby is a Research Associate at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.
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The Brief of Arguments Against Public Ownership
As an extension of my short item on postage stamp pricing I have come upon a fantastic article by Richard Kleibowicz in the History of Political Economy.
The article is an analysis of the arguments that AT&T made in its Brief of Arguments Against Public Ownership (available online in three vols v1 v2 v3 or one volume at the State Library of NSW). This was a three volume, three ring binder "living document" that AT&T prepared to argue the case against Government ownership of the telephone system. The Brief itself was mostly a collection of useful references from other authorities for citing by management or supply to other parties.
It transpires that there were many who argued that both the telegraph and telephone should be government owned and operated in the USA in the late 1800s and early 20th century. The article is primarily about the use of political economy arguments and the process of doing so. For me it has a number of useful purposes.
1. It demonstrates the fact that there was a vibrant debate over the desirability of government ownership in the US, something necessary to understand the variety of structures globally.
2. Second it shows how the arguments mounted by AT&T became core parts of the American conception of political economy. In some ways this explains how vehement the likes of Sol Trujillo and Phil Burgess were in their views about the importance of the strong national telco being not under Government control. Interestingly Australia was used in the Brief a number of times - both by reference to the government owned railways and the telecommunications service. Kleibowicz includes one such example in his text, it is a quote from F.W.Taussig which says, in part;
The continued progress ... calls for keeness, vigor, enthusiasm, single-minded devotio to professional tasks on the part of trained administrators and experts. Only an intelligent and self-restrained democracy, or a very capable autocracy, can enlist such men and get them to do their work in the best spirit. The German Empire and the German States, in their post office, telegraph and telephone, perhaps in their railways, unmistakably i their military organisation, have maintained a high spirit of ambition and emulation. But the Australian colonies seem to have secured simply humdrum management; honest to be sure, ... but devoid of life and vigor.
I suspect Sol and Donald McGauchie thought little had changed!
3. The article notes that mass campaigns had just been introduced from the Atlantic as tools of the Progressives, and that the AT&T campaign largely aligns with the start of formal "public relations". Kleibowicz notes;
The Brief of Arguments against Public Ownership formed the centerpiece of an innovative effort to advance AT&T’s policy goals by shaping popular understanding of political-economic principles. AT&T took rhetorical and communication practices that had been tried piecemeal before and melded them into a comprehensive campaign that embedded the company’s specifi c policy preference in a broadly formulated economic argument. Unlike earlier industry missives created for policy debates, AT&T’s Brief functioned as a tutorial on economic ideas for popular audiences. It framed the debate over the policy choice—government ownership or regulation—as a matter of considerable economic import and only partly as a political decision. The Brief organized much of its evidence according to the economic relations involved, notably the effects of government ownership on consumers and employees. Even citizens were addressed in largely economic terms by emphasizing issues of public management such as government rate-making, accounting, credit, and taxation.
In many ways the Brief looks like a template for a modern day PR Key Message set. It astounds me whenever I find a firm or organisatio that thinks it is engaged in public debate that doesn't have just such a set.
As an aside Kleibowicz notes that the Brief "inexplicably" did not quote from the four-book series by Hugo R. Meyer. The interesting part is that this set of books was the source of the arguments the first Director-General of the Australian PMG used in his arguments for less Government control before the 1910 Royal Commission.
Postage Stamp Pricing
Two times in the last few weeks I've had people in conversation refer to the concept of "postage stamp pricing". This is the concept of universal pricing as first applied in the UK with the penny post.
It is usually assumed that this was a reform driven primarily by social goals. However, an excellent little contemporary item by the Frenchman Frederick Bastiat explains the alternative to postage stamp pricing. This is a high transaction cost alternative (read it, it is fun).
While I usually quote this as being an argument that the UK Post Office raised more revenue through the reform, the actual outcome in the argument is still a reduction. However, the social and economic gains are perceived to outstrip them.
The issue usually arises in discussing telephony tariffs, the history of which is poorly understood in Australia. There is one excllent monograph which I have been given permission to post on my website but have not done so yet. The interesting fact s that with the growth of computatio power to make differential pricing easier we actually wound up with greater price averaging. This was due to competitive factors.
The other interesting thing in the Bastiat article is the fact that the postal service was a net source of revenue to Government. Eli Noam in Telecommunications in Europe notes that the revenue from the Royal Post was in most countries one revenue stream that the monarch did not need parliamentary approval to spend, and hence the outcome that in those countries the post office took control of first the telegraph and then the telephone.
Ergas and the CPRS
Dear Henry Ergas has gone to print in his column in the Oz today on the topic of the CPRS.
He takes an interesting line that, of course, taxing "bads" is the best way to correct the markets failure to consider social costs (an externality) in making purchasing decisions. His gripe is that the consequence is that you collect a very large amount of tax as a consequence, and that instead of allocating this to everyone (by reducing income tax) Government has a habit of buying off special interest groups.
So, just like the GST an ETS might be a "New Tax" - the question is what you do with the proceeds.
Where Henry becomes fascinating is when he goes off to note that "our political system, under the guise of public beneficence, panders all too readily to these single-issue voters, while shifting costs around, including on to future generations, in ways that are as opaque and inequitable as they are inefficient. Against those pressures, there are pitifully few defences."
While he suggests reasoned public debate as one such way, one gets the feeling that he really wants Plato's enlightened despot in charge. Society run by the perfect economic regulator.
But then think of all his critique's of the ACCC.
Perhaps I misjudge him, maybe his real concern is transparency because he criticises the Government over the number of FOI requests knocked back. But then I remember that as an advocate he was a champion of the cause for confidentiality of submissions to that self-same omnipient economic regulator.
Maybe he just likes to grumble.
Digital Economy what?
I try to track all things related to the Digital Economy. Most recently that means seeing a lot of references to the UK Digital Economy Bill.
Those references mostly relate to the fact that the UK Government is attempting through this to strengthen copyright protection through a variant of the "three strikes" rules. This is creating its own mini outrage in the UK.
The idea that you might put a legislative obligation on an intermediary to help prevent up or down stream crime is not unusual, as the things pawn brokers have to do attests. Nor is theidea of specifically targetting the "conduit" of telecommunications, as the old campaigns mounted by the PMG against SP bookies arrests.
I can see the idea that protecting intellectual propertyy and hence endeavour is significant in the digital economy but it hardly seems to be a core issue. Meanwhile the Bill seems to only cover inconsequential matters. Put it this way, how rapidly the UK advances to being a Digital Economy will not be much influenced by this Bill.
What would a Digital Economy Bill in Australia look like? Firstly it would have to deal with the necessary legislative merger to match our converged regulator model. Secondly it would have to deal with the need for greater speed in adjusting regulatory frameworks. Thirdly it would need to institutionalise the concept of an "independent" regulator.
Oh that reminds me I must blog about Henry....
PR and bananas
I found this post on the best and worst PR projects of 2009.
Two reasons for posting it here. The first is because it contains the now infamous banana smoothies clip from Westpac. The second is the heading "Getting better (at communicating) all the time", which is primarily about the need for continual professional development in PR professionals. But I choose to think of it as recognising the need to be communicating all the time, or, far more significantly, your company and brand are communicating all the time - the PR campaign at the end of it can't undo all that.
I also found the comment "I question whether really profound, organisation-changing work can be done from the consultancy position, as opposed to working in-house in a PR capacity, but there are certainly plenty of exceptions to this position."
These three thoughts provide the foundation for a principal that the corporate affairs/PR job function should not be mostly outsourced and that a PR stance of mostly "no comment" means that you aren't managing your communications at all.
And now to consumers
My friend Frank Zumbo has had a crack today about the Federal Government's inaction for consumers in 2009.
In particular he is referring to grocery and petrol prices. I only have three short comments;
1. Frank is right that the generic only store ALDI exerts some strong price competition, but wrong to welcome the consequence of home brand products in the big two. Their home brands further entrench their market power and merely reflect further vertical integration. For all their other foibles brands do carry important consumer information in relation to quality and reliability. I want to choose my supermarket AND have a choice of brands.
2. The fact that Coles and Woolies drop prices geographically in response to competition is unfortunately seen by regulators as a good thing - i.e. competition working. The Birdsville amendment that is no more was one way to address this. The other would be to restore the original s49 of the TPA. This was a prohibition on price discrimination other than on the basis of cost. The arguments for its deletion were based on the claim that where the discrimination is injurious to competition it would fall foul of s46. This has proven not to be the case for two reasons, the first is that s46 doesn't work anyway, the second is that the staff of the regulator interpret the repeal of the old s49 as stating that price discrimination is not anti-competitive.
3. The fact (as I've written about before)that both the petrol and retail markets have been thoroughly screwed by the ACCC's continuing sanctioning of "shopper dockets" despite the fact that they are both anti-competitive (s46 breach) and misleading (s52).
On a completely different tangent I was thinking further about the "consumer and citizen" section at the ACMA. One of the troubling issues in telco is the divided responsibility between the ACCC and the ACMA for aspects of "consumer protection". For example a code on prices terms and conditions is enforceable by the ACMA though the conduct if illegal anyway is the responsibility of the ACCC.
The Government might claim their action has been to introduce the Australian Consumer Law - but even that did not get concluded before parliament rose.
It does not have to be this way. ASIC has responsibility for promoting confident and informed participation by investors and consumers in the financial system. The Bill referred to above maintains this responsibility and makes the same amendments to the ASIC Act as are made to the TPA. The industry body Communications Alliance in its submission on the Bill suggested that the telecommunications industry should get the benefits of the reform (i.e. less duplication) by the removal of the consumer protection powers of the ACMA.
There is an alternative and probably far better outcome which would be the exercise by the ACMA of the full ACCC (or new Consumer Law) powers (i.e. the TPA Part 5 powers). The ASIC powers provide the precedent and indeed the logic, that these are complex technical products for which consumer protection and technical regulation should go together.
Another interesting feature of the ASIC regime is their FIDO website. This puts the consumer interest pages somewhere other than the corporate pages. There was a brief flurry in 2006 where the Communications Law Centre with funding from the ACCC launched FairTel which was to be a consumer education campaign. At about the same time the ACA used FairTel as the name for a hypothetical telco on a model consumer contract. Unfortunately the idea of using "FairTel" as the brand for a telco version of FIDO couldn't happen now as a service provider is using the name.
Stephen Conroy's response deserves wider coverage
Stephen Conroy has responded today to Crikey over their coverage of the webpage blocking policy.
I post the link here because his response deserves further coverage, as it dispels most of the myths being peddled about the policy.
Citizens and consumers
The Australian Communications and Media Authority introduced a new structure in December. Key features of the restructure were the alignment of the structure to the key challenges in the sector including digital broadcasting transition and NBN issues.
The stand-out feature though was the formation of the Content, Consumer and Citizen Division. This is the first sign of a "post neoliberal" view of governance responsibility that issues in regulation extend beyond just the consumer.
I recall engaging with either the old DCITA or the old ACA on one of their proposed "customer service" charters and indicating that the word "customer" was inappropriate for a non-commercial relationship. I proposed instead a view that there are "four Cs'" of relevance - and that these divide across a two-by-two matrix of whether the relationship is commercial or not, and whether the relationship was actual or potential. This gives the following four terms;
Consumer - a person who may potentially enter into a commercial relationship to acquire goods or services.
Customer - a person who is currently entering into or considering a commercial relationship to acquire goods or services.
Citizen - a person who has rights and responsibilities under law.
Client - a person engaging with government or its agent (a regulator) in regard to their rights or responsibilities under law.
In these definitions a "person" could be an individual or one of the variety of "incorporated persons" recognised in law.
These distinctions are not entirely new. A UK site called "How to Complain" provides advice on
* your rights as a consumer, customer, client or patient [and]
* the history of and your current rights as a citizen
There are quite good papers that explain why treating citizens as customers in government interaction can make government agencies "citizen-centric", but I would argue the term "client" is more effective for that. While in general usage the distinction between "customer" and "client" may be about the distinction between goods and services, a more specific distinction is that the term "client" is used for interactions where the provider is offering a "professional service". In this usage "professional" does not mean for money but instead means a person who is both expert and covered by some particular ethical code.
A way of making that distinction is that a customer is expected to be able to know enough about the transacton to protect themselves, whereas a client is completely reliant on the professional expertise of the provider. To that end customer is a better description of all commercial transactions and client the description of a citizen interacting with government.
Finally I stumbled on a very good paper on the need to continue a concept of citizen distinct from that of consumer. It ties neatly together with "market state" theory and what the paper calls "New Public Management" which is a term for the amalgam of the reforms of the 1980s and 190s. This is the shift of government from a provider of services to the provider of a framework within which services are provided. It includes corporatisation, privatisation and the kinds of "outsouced" delivery models such as the Job Network.
(That paper came from what looked like a fascinating conference in 2006)
The late Paul Samuelson
A part of The Economist obit for Paul Samuelson caught my eye.
As for Mr Samuelson’s friend of 50 years, Alan Greenspan, once chairman of the Federal Reserve, “the trouble is that he had been an Ayn Rander”—a devotee of laissez-faire capitalism. “You can take the boy out of the cult but you can’t take the cult out of the boy,”
A nice line about Rand and I like labelling it a cult, which I did not go as far as.
Ultimately Samuelson was a believer in regulation,
Yet Mr Samuelson also understood that beyond the ivory tower the conditions necessary for efficient markets rarely existed; they needed regulating. “To understand economics you need to know not only fundamentals but also its nuances,” Mr Samuelson would explain. “When someone preaches ‘Economics in one lesson’ I advise: Go back for the second lesson.” The latest crisis (for which he felt some responsibility, since he had helped develop financial derivatives that company executives did not understand) proved that “free markets do not stabilise themselves. Zero regulating is vastly suboptimal to rational regulating. Libertarianism is its own worst enemy!”
Ultimately there is an important lesson here. Command and control economies are not alternatives to market economies, because in the end aggregate behaviour comes down to individual choice. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. You can't make the actual consumption decision for the individual. On top of that every command and control econmy inspires a thriving "black market." So ultimately markets always decide the final outcome.
But markets aren't perfect. There are lots of reasons why they are not - including assymetric information, herd behaviour (which causes bubbles) and lags. But equally relying upon the doctrine of "market failure" is an inadequate guide to how to regulate. As John Kay noted in Prospect magazine "The market failure doctrine is based on an imperfect understanding of why markets succeed, not just why they fail, and hence provides a misleading guide not only to when government intervention is appropriate, but also to the ways in which market forces can improve the operation of the public sector."
The purpose of regulation is not to cover market failure but to make markets work. Ultimately the protection of physical property and the law of contract is a piece of regulation to make markets work, the distinction between this "public law" and economic regulation (as promoted by say Anthony Ogus) is a false distinction.
In NSW we have been seeing some activity seeking a "recall" power in the NSW consttution. The campaign initiated by the SMH has gained the support of Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell.
My letter to the editor (unpublished) said;
The calls (SMH 11 Dec) for a citizen recall mechanism to be added to the NSW constitution is the wrong solution. Recall requires a high volume of petitioners and as a consequence places significant power in the hands of new and old media to create the movement.
Better solutions include shorter fixed terms and direct election of the Premier.
Shorter terms would ideally be the Chartist request of annual election. But certainly the recent move from three to four year terms has shown to be a mistake.
Separating the electoral choice of the Executive and the legislature, as in the United States, resolves this absurd concept of party factions mid-term changing the shape of the executive from that last chosen by the people.
Ultimately though the best and most popular solution is the abolition of State Governments. If Barry O’Farrell is genuine on wanting to give the people of NSW the power to determine how they are governed he should put that option to the people.
It was interesting therefore to note an article in the bumper Xmas issue of The Economist on the problems "direct democracy" is causing in the US. In the article it explains the issues in relation to the formation of the new system of Government for the United States and the distinction of meaning between a "republic" (a representative democracy) and "democratic" wich can have a greater connotation of direct democracy.
During my flirtations with the Australia Party and more latterly the Australian Democrats the one policy area I never was comfortable with was the policy of citizen initiated referenda and other forms of direct democaracy. Similarly I have never been comfortable with calls for proportional representation in lower houses in a genuinely "Westminster" system wherein Governments are actually selected.
In the American political party parlance the Democratic Party was the first to emerge and it was actually a "states rights" party - it grew out of the anti-federalists. In other words it was more into "direct democracy" rather than a strong central government. The Republican Party came into being through the reformation of the Whigs as the primary opponents of the Democratic Party. The defining moment and issue was the Lincoln presidency and whether the Federal Government could outlaw slavery.
From the position of modern politics this distinction seems odd. At this time in the UK the two groupings wrre Tories and Whigs and the Whigs ultimately morphed into the Liberals who then largely fell into irrelevance in the battle between onservatives and Labour. In the US the labour movement attached itself to the Democratic Party while the Republicans became more noted as conservatives. It is a strange fact that it remains the Republicans who blieve in strong central government, though they believe it should be small.
There is a view that greater direct democracy is a necessary consequence of the move to a market state rather than a nation state. I hate to sound like a Phillip Bobbitt fan but it is one of the conclusions he reaches. I think there are other alternatives for how democratic governance changes in a market state.
In the Australia context it looks to me like there are a number of strands to this;
1. A directly elected executive Government.
2. Abolition of State Governments and reformation of the local government layer to be more democratic (probably full-time councillors but still only about 9 per area).
3. Completion of the reform agenda so that all large service delivery organisations are at the very least "corporatised" - that is the political process can define outcomes, policy and funding but the internal administrative features are run by the delivery organisations.
4. The democratisation of the positions on the governing bodies of the delivery organisations. (For example, if we are to have Area hospital boards re-introduced as per Liberal Party policy then have those positions directly elected - or at least some of them).
5. Bi-annual elections of the legislature on more proportional representation grounds - I have long favoured the idea of three member proportional electorates and each members vote in parliament represents the actual final preferential vote they received - hence "one man one vote" no longer requires continual redrawing of the boundaries. Bi-chameral parliaments work so long as there is a clear distinction between the function of the upper and lower house. The upper house should be made up of representatives appointed by the regional governments and have no more than a reviewing and delaying function - they should have no power to block legislation. In cases where issues in the lower house may become unmanageable due to PR then there needs to be a provision for the members who were first elected voting for their whole elecorate to constitute the parliament.
6. The structure needs to create real roles for "career politicians" - it is a pity that the current Australian system uses the unelected invisible staffer roles and then party factions to create preselections.
7. Political parties need to be recognised as a distinct form of organisation that is neither a company nor association. To be registered as a party and involved in political processes must require a great transparency.
On top of all this we need to use the communications technologies to reform politics. To use the Internet to "democratise" us and avoid the problem of the mob requires direct involvement by the State and the law in the conduct of campaigning. This would include;
1. Clean booths on polling day.
2. The AEC creating a suite of programs for the online management of political parties and in particular their bank accounts so that full disclosure is continually available.
3. AEC provided on-line campaig resources. Limitations on campaign expenditure by other than on-line means.
The more I think about it the more I want to start the Australian Republican Party!
NBN Co consultation
NBN Co has issued its first consultation paper. This deals with important issues like being a Layer 2 provider (not Layer 3) and discussing a very strategic issue which is the location of POIs.
It is disappointing however because its focus on the Layer 2 elements diverts attention from other issues relating to the operation of an ATA port on the ONT, and the choice between an RF port and IPTV. The latter also opens the question of a Datacasting requirement.
The consultation paper is a good start but it is likely to continue to feed the negative perception that the NBN is just fast internet.
The Digital Economy and Copyright
I'm slowly finding comments from around the traps on the Realising our Broadband Future forum. Some really perceptive comments have been made by Roger Clarke.
Roger was highlighting the "public policy" issues thrown up by the NBN. He welcomes the realisation of the Government's role in building this kind of infrastructure, but worries about "censorship". I won't trawl over that again.
e is quite perceptive on the e-health and e-education challenges. The former needs to be about facilitating connection between separate initiatives - not one new "initiative". The latter risks being stifled by the concerns about the dangers of the online world.
He suggests that the consumer voice was missing, and perhaps it was from everything but the community stream. He is right that there are consumer prtection issues that emerge everywhere, and they are not just privacy or equity.
He steered into copyright saying "There was frequently a very large elephant in the room in the form of copyright legislation that's become completely lop-sided in favour of copyright-owners, and is completely at odds with the modern world that every session was enthusing about. Quite simply, we have to get the responsibility for the Copyright Act transferred to an agency that understands the digital age. But no-one talked about that."
That's a really interesting proposition given that the AS of the DE area has a background in copyright, at least in the creation of "Creative Commons" licences. I think I wrote here sometime about the problem Terry Cutler had trying to get Government to apply a CC licence to a report, and as they couldn't understand it gave Terry the copyright himself.
There is really a two-fold concern. Firstly that there aren't enough options for rights holders to deal with rights - that is what the creative commons is trying to address. But the second is that the legal interpretation of the right has become too restrictive - or alternatively too rigid.
Many of the interesting digital issues will be dealt with in the current iiNet case. Either way we are likely to find the need for some new legislation on copyright.
We might then make the same observation as Tom Watson;
[The record industry exec's] letter seems confused. On the one hand, he trumpets the tremendous success and creativity of the music industry. On the other, he suggests that piracy is destroying the business. I’ve been struck at the sheer magnitude of the recorded music industry lobby around the Digital Economy Bill. I’m going to prod around a little more when Parliament returns in the New Year.
The challenge in sorting through copyright issues is in making sure that the rights of original creators ae prserved, but not the existing business models that trade in those rights. In the regulation of on-line shopping you want to protect the consumer and the producer, but not the existing briocks-and-mortar retailers.
It creates some interesting challenges because, as we know, it is the middle me who have the most to lose.
Wow - the NSW Liberal right really is split
NSW Liberal Alex Hawke has told ZDNet that he and other thirty something Liberals are opposed to Conroy's plans for webpage blocking.
He is quoted as saying "If the stated aim is to reduce the availability of child pornography, which is an objective everyone agrees with, the solution is to increase funding to target crime."
His (right) colleague Jamie Briggs is quoted as saying "I'm inherently against this concept, it's a very bad way to do governance. When you examine takeup rates of the voluntary filter the Howard Government put in place, you see that most people are perfectly capable of using the internet to their own satisfaction within the existing law and to supervise their children in the same way."
I guess they've both missed the fact the webpage blocking proposal applies to only Refused Classification material. Presumably Briggs and Hawke believe the same rules they've just espoused should apply to other media. We should let refused classification books and videos into the country and just prosecute people for anything criminal and trust that people are perfectly capable of using books, magazines and DVD players "to their own satisfaction within the existing law".
Actually they are just double standard hypocrites. Hawke goes on to say "I'm a Christian and I have spoken to the Christian lobby and told them that this policy will not be effective. It could even potentially lead to some of their views being added to a government filter. I don't think they're open to the danger of this policy mechanism. It will go beyond [child pornography] and that's where it could run into trouble. I'm going to be arguing strongly inside the liberal party that we should oppose this policy."
We await anxiously for Hawke to explain to us why he is going to seek the removal of the Refused Classification standard for books and DVDs because "they could lead to some of their views" being listed as refused clssification material.
Clearly one of those Liberals he will need to convince is former mentor David Clarke with whom he is reportedly at loggerheads. A long way since the days Clarke went in to defend Hawke over the Brogden demise.
Who'd have thunk that Alex Hawke would align himself with the Libertarians/
Will LTE really be an evolution?
A thought struck me on the weekend about the future of wireless networks.
The thought was triggered by a discussion about the release of the Kindle in Australia (and other non US jurisdictions). The Kindle model is an interesting one in which the communications element is built into the device and the subscription and data charges are all paid by the content deliverer (Amazon). In the US they distribut the content over the Sprint network.
To go to the rest of the world they have not entered into separate arrangements with other mobile operators, just relied upon global roaming arrangements for 3G data. This is the explanation for the slightly higher charge for content delivered outside the US.
This started a conversation about the high data roaming rates which are even worse than the high voice roaming rates on mobiles. Part of the justification for these high rates is the strange paths that roaming traffic may need to pursue - especially in the case of voice on the inbound component.
As far as I understand it the signalling layer of mobile networks still sits within the mobile network, so the intelligence to work out where to route the call/data to reach a handset resides in the home network. There is no technical reason why this signalling layer couldn't be exposed to the community of inter-connected operators.
So to use the simple voice call case even domestically, if a customer on the Telstra fixed network is calling a mobile on the Optus mobile network the call is taken by Telstra to the nearest mainland state capital to the calling party and handed over to Optus. The Optus network then determines where on its network (or in the world) the handsert currently is and routes the call. So if the calling party is in Perth and the handset is in Sydney then the mobile operator pays for the Perth to Sydney transport, not the fixed operator. This is the reverse of what occurs in fixed-to-fixed and in part feeds into the higher F2M prices.
Internet routing is different again. As this is a packet network no "connection" is established and each packet can take a different route. The interconnectio is in principle what is known as "hot potato" routing and each network hands packets over to the other network at the first opportunity. However, the question in relation to data on a 3G network is where is the "internet boundary" of the network determined. It is entirely possible that the process is that your data roaming in is all handed back to your home network operator before popping out into the internet.
If someone knows the 3GPP standards (Ian?) and can explain that here that would be good.
Of course, the inefficient routing structure isn't the only reason for the high charges. There are two other factors at least. The first is that high roaming charges are seen to be a very efficient piece of price discrimination - the person who travels is the person who will value the utility of their mobile more and be prepared to pay more overall. The second is just marketing department's preying on customer confusion - the customer when making an initial purchase decision will be driven by the ongoing charges of domestic use and the prices for international use not directly considered, even if over the lifetime of the contract the international roaming charges could exceed the value of the rest.
LTE - which stands for Long Term Evolution - is the standards process being pursuded by the GSM-3GPP tradition. Just as the GSM to UMTS migration jetissoned the TDMA air interface for CDMA, but retained the GSM network control standards, the UMTS to LTE migration jettisons the CDMA air interface for the OFDM interface (as used by WiMAX), but retains the same network control standards.
It is the latter element that makes LTE an attractive migration for 3G operators. The question is will LTE also evolve the network operation standards to make international roaming more efficient?
It's not me - it's you
That heading summarises my entire relationship with the ACCC. Much as I would like to love the ACCC as a regulator as much as my (non-Telstra) industry colleagues do I just can't manage it. But I don' think I'm the one at fault here.
The latest in the ongoing saga of ACCC pricing decisions has been to issue a new discussion paper on access pricing principles. A key element of he paper is a consideration of whether telecommunications access pricing should move from a TSLRIC+ approach to a Regulated Asset Base (RAB) approach.
This depiction of the distinction is quite artificial, as both seek to set a price that is "cost-based" that is recovers only the "cost" of supplying the srvice. The real difference between the two is not about determining the price but about choosing the costs on which to determn price from. TSLRIC+ is usually implemented based on a "forward looking efficient cost" basis while a RAB is based on actual historic costs.
In the particular case of the ACCC imlementation they have chosen to re-estimate the forward looking cos at each regulatory decision point, but there is techncally no absolute requirement to do so in using the approach. The apparent attractiveness of using an RAB is the ability to move on from repeated estimations.
I will need to write a complete submission but it will be necessary to remind the ACCC why an RAB was rejected for telco originally. The first and simplest was the fact there was not a reliable historic cost base to use as a starting point.
But the second issue was that there was great concern that a model based on historic cost would reward the incumbent for inefficiency. Indeed there is a name for this the Averch-Johnson effect. Anyone who wants to see it in peration should look at the draft IPART decision on electricity prices.
In short if you want telco prices to go up by 60% over 4 years - just move to RBA.
My top 15
I commented on Grahame Lynch's top 15 telco people for 2009.
I thought I'd hav my own go and try to acknowledge some of the people who've done the real work. My list is only numbered to thirteen because some people share.
1. Kate Cornick, former advisor to Senator Conroy
Kate came to Minister Conroy’s office in opposition as a political neophyte with a passion for fibre. In Government she helped steer the process through the NBN 1.0 ender and land on the final Fibre to the Home strategy – her technical preference all along. Kate, like most of Conroy’s office, is a person with real interest in the policy area and has never been the classic political staffer using time in an office to start a lobbying or political career. When Australians in the future look back with awe at the prescient decision to commit to a national FTTH network in 2009 let’s hope that Kate’s contribution is remembered!
2. Gary McLaren, now CTO of NBN Co
As the import of the Government decision to build an FTP network hit home, Gary was one of a small number who started to ask practical questions about how the active and passive elements of this network would run. Gary took his concerns to Anne Hurley at Communications Alliance who, also to her credit, picked up those concerns and started a discussion through Communications Alliance. It was Gary’s initial concern, consultations around industry and project lead that means we are as well advanced as we are n the industry conversation about the NBN.
3. David Forman, CEO Competitive Carriers Coalition
The idea that Australia needed to look beyond DSL for the future of broadband was first promoted by David and the CCC t a forum in Canberra in 2004 (AAPT also contributed). That forum identified both the need for a fibre solution, and the logic of using the building of a new access network to reform industry structure. Both Mark Tapley and Richard Windeyer were in the audience that day. This was the genesis of the ALPs NBN policy, and Telsra’s FTTN proposals of 2005 were in part their response to that very threat. 2009 saw both the realisation of an all fibre future and the recognition that structural reform at the same time is critical.
4. Catherine Livingstone, Chair Telstra
While all the kudos goes to David Thodey for trying to get Telstra into a new space, the old saying is “the fish rots from the head”. The Telstra Board chose the last management tam and got it wrong. The Board has figured out the need to change, but still has a massive job ahead of it in educating shareholders on what the alternative futures for the company are and why the strategies they will pursue to work with the NBN Co and Government are the path to the best future. Catherine’s nomination is merely for being prepared to take on this challenge.
5. Teresa Corbin, Deputy CEO ACCAN
While Allan Asher has been getting all the headlines as the new CEO of ACCAN, Teresa Corbin s the person consumers need to thank for having the vision of a single overarching consumer representative body and for driving it through the establishment phase. Without Teresa there would be no ACCAN for Allan to be CEO of.
6. Michael Malone, CEO iiNet
Having had my own occasion of being the telco singled out for test case prosecution (unfair contracts in Victoria) the whole of industry should feel sympathy for Michael, and in some ways a debt of gratitude that he is unwittingly bearing this load. The questions involved in the AFACT copyright case are non-trivial and it is extremely hard to identify “right” behaviour for an ISP. Whatever the final judgement, which will likely be appealed, we will at least al have greater clarity of the interpretation of existing law.
7. Louise Sexton, Chair, AMTA
AMTA as an organisation deserves acknowledgement because it continues to exemplify an industry association that brings together competing interests and generate a consistent position promoting and advancing the industry. There are many people involved from the CEO and his team, and an extensive network of very active committees. The outcomes can only be achieved by a functioning governance structure. Louise, and Holly Kramer before her, demonstrate there is no need for “independent” chairs to achieve harmonious and effective association Boards.
8. Senators Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash
While the rest of the coalition sought to play politics with telecommunications policy, and the shadow minister in particular played the role of defender of Telstra, theses two Nationals Senators at least addressed issues of communications policy with the question of “what will deliver the best outcome for regional Australians?” foremost in their consideration. They were not asked in the end to vote on the separation bill, and the highly charged atmosphere of coalition politics will make it hard for them to ever break from party room decisions. But regional Australians can rest assured that these two Senators continue to pose the right questions on a daily basis.
9. David Quilty, GMD PP&C Telstra
When acknowledging people for their contribution in getting us an FTTH future, we need to acknowledge someone from Telsta for their decision not to submit a bid in December 2008. Leading up to the decision David was the public face of the strategy that Telstra would not bid unless they got assurances on separation. As it transpired it was the technicality that the 16 or whatever page letter didn’t include an SME plan that saw them excluded, but that was left out because the full bid wasn’t made. Had Telstra made an effective bid for an FTTN network the Government may have had no alternative but to accept it. And the separation that Telstra sought to avoid by not bidding will happen anyway. I’m sure the decision was made collectively by many people at Telstra, but David was the public face and so gets the nomination.
10. Huawei
There is no individual to single out from this increasingly impressive vendor. They have gone from being the butt of industry (and my jokes) about being cheap copies to a serious player with impressive R&D. They also seem to be winning the battle to be treated as just another global firm rather than have to deal with the suspicion that they are merely a Government agent.
11. Stefan Keller-Tuborg and Colin Goodwin (from Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson respectively) and the FTTH Council Asia Pacific
While the rest of us have been talking DSL and FTTN over recent years these are the true believers who have maintained a conversation on “true” broadband. Their time has come.
12. Grahame Lynch
The telco industry is getting to be well served by its online and newsletter sector while print media coverage declines. Grahame deserves his particular nomination for not just reporting our media releases but also providing some provocative and/or wacky contributions from the likes of Henry Ergas and Richard Chirgwin as well as his own columns. He is also gracious in the space he allows for further discussion and defence, even to those who start their contribution in terms like “You idiot how could you ….”
13. Customer Service Agents
As the telco industry continues to find new and extraordinary ways to confuse and disappoint its customers, the focus is often on that portion of customers who need to take their issue further. That ignores the much bigger number of cases where a customer service agent sorts out the customer’s problem. And those problems are many, including billing systems that sent a disconnection notice but not a bill, the appearance of premium rate charges inexplicably on a bill, incomprehensible pricing plans and services that simply stop working. The industry’s marketing and IT departments don’t appreciate just how often these forgotten front line staff fix their stuff ups.
Do any readers have other nominations?
Ahh nohing quite like ignorance
I think Verity Pravda has done a great job of outlining how well Stephen Conroy has responded to public discussion in crafting his revised "webpage blocking" policy.
This doesn't stop people such as Nina Funnell deciding to still attack the decision because somehow or other the list will be secret or will include stuff not really intended to be not classifiable. Anyone who shares Nina's concerns should actively contribute to the consideration of "Measures to increase accountability and transparency for Refused Classification". There is a discussion paper and comments are sought by 12 February 2010.
Meanwhile I love this sarcastic/satirical proposed Bill of Internet Rights. Highlights are;
The right to incite, inflame and insult others without fear of repercussion or social responsibility
The right to stick captions on cats
The right to say to someone “your an idiot”, and fail to recognise the irony
The right to argue without clarity, knowledge, reason or respect, including the abstract construction of straw man arguments and ad hominem attacks
The right to call any argument you don’t fully understand an abstract construction of straw man argument or ad hominem attack, whatever that means
The right to take everything at face value, read only headlines, and call it “truth”
Fibre and Structural Separation
Industry newsletter Communications Day has published a tongue in cheek list of the Top 15 telco people in 2009.
In listing Paul O'Sullivan from Optus at number 2 he noted;
One observer describes Optus lobbying that led to the NBN and separation reforms as the most perfectly executed campaign he has seen.
Now this is a tongue in cheek item so one can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. But I thought that I should put on the record that the strategy as currently pursued by the ALP was laid out for it by the CCC and AAPT.
AAP joined with the CCC in a seminar in Canberra in 2004 in which we talked about Australia's need for broadband, and that need was fibre. This pre-dates Telstra's FTTN strategy which was, in part, an effort to forestall an all fibre build.
At that seminar we identified that the effective way to introduce structural reform to the industry was through prospective separation at the same time as buildng a new access network. In the audience were Mark Tapley, then in Conroy's office in opposition and now his Chief of Staff, and Richard Windeyer, then in Senator Coonan's office I think but now a FAS at DBCDE.
The policy the ALP adopted in 2007 Telstra thought was support for their NBN plan, but it wasn't - it always included the structural element. The singal biggest error in Telstra was thinkng they could stare down the Government in late 2008 over their demand that sparation be ruled out for Telstra o bid.
All Optus has done is moaned about separation from the sidelines, screwed up the G9/Terria process (e.g. FANOC not being formed by the time the SAU was lodged, nevr actually getting a Terria bid in) and continued to run idiotic statements about the Telstra network as having been funded by taxpayers.
I'm going to submit to the editor my own top X - if it doesn't get a run I'll post it here.
Paradigms, bounded rationality and epistemological anarchy
The title of this blog comes from the view ascribed to Paul K Feyerabend that in science really "anything goes". It also owes a credit to David Stove who wrote a book of that title that largely attacked the suite of philosophy of science positions from Popper through Kuhn to Feyerabend that positted that scientific theories are never more than hypotheses to be "falsified".
Where Kuhn deviated from Popper was by noting that even when scientists had conducted experiments that "falsify" theories, they still cling to them. They only shift, almost as one, when finally the weight of evidence and an alternative theory are present. Kuhn also notes that the "research program" of normal science isn't about devising new "tests" of current theory but is mostly about validating theory by creating new uses. In particular the training of new scientists is in using the tools of the theory - everything is conducted within the "paradigm". In this he was effectively replaying an earlier line from Galbraith in The Affluent Society of "perceived wisdom".
Kuhn's analysis was from stuying the history of physical sciences - in particular astronomy. Feyerabend reviewed this and included other sciences (mostly in Against Method but also in Science in a Free Society). He concluded that there was nothing like the steady progression through revolutionary cycles that Kuhn observed. Instead he argued that scientists were ultimately pragmatists - they use theories because they work, not because they ascribe any particular truth value to them.
This attitude that Feyerabend claims to observe he labelled "epistemological anarchy", the "truths" of science that are "known" are neither - they are merely tools. They are no more knowledge than a hammer or an axe is knowledge.
The fact is that both Kuhn and Feyerabend claimed to be propounding positive theories, describing how science IS DONE. Many have picked their theories up as normative theories, telling us how science should be done. This has a consequence in Stove's real target, which is the idea of relativistic truth, and that theories maty be acceptable because they are the theories of a culture.
Hence indigenous legends are to be accorded the same status as theories as General Relativity.
This is an error. In fact Feyerabend was really much closer to the inductivists Stove admired. Theories are used because they work. The only difference is that he stops short of ever being prepared to allow a theory to progress beyond belief to knowledge.
In the real world we all need to buld our "web of belief" (to use Quine's phrase) and ultimately to progress within it day by day. We ultimately all rely on that belief system for making our daily inferences. That is what we mean in economic theorising when we talk about "bounded rationality" - it is not just the accepted facts, but the theories that we accept that shape our thinking.
But if EVERYONE does that ALL the time nothing new will ever occur. The world needs bombastic iconoclasts who will challenge the standard view on a regular basis. That is what I try to de here at "Anything Goes".
I trust my loyal readers continue to enjoy it. It seems to be coming at some personal cost. The world is far more enamoured with the safe and reliable, with living by the myths of perceived wisdom, of failing to find thesis and antithesis to generate synthesis.
The taxpayer and the network
One of the items I wrote a Havyattogram about was a recent speech which gave as a justification for structural separation the worn out idea that "taxpayers funded the network." I resorted to the H-o-g while Kevin Morgan pointed out in Communications Day that it wasn't taxpayers who paid.
So I made my own contribution, because I agreed with Kevin about who paid and included a piece he left out. But also because who paid isn't really the argument that should be mounted about separation.
I’m pleased that Kevin Morgan has laid out the history of the financing of the telecommunications network so clearly. To summarise the APO was entirely self-funding other than loans from the Commonwealth from 1959. On vesting into Australia Post and Telecom Australia, the entire outstanding debt was transferred to the Australian Telecommunications Commission along with the telecommunications assets – Australia Post started with no debt.
Until corporatisation in 1989 Telecom paid off parts of the principal as well as paid interest due. With corporatisation the outstanding $3B of debt was converted into the Commonwealth’s equity in the Australian Telecommunications Corporation. In 1991 AOTC, subsequently Telstra, was created from the merger of Telecom and OTC. Both Telecom and Telstra paid commercial dividends to the Commonwealth.
The only part that Kevin left out was that immediately before privatization Telstra paid a “special dividend” to the Commonwealth of $3B. That is the Commonwealth recouped its equity investment. So that means the Commonwealth raised something like $80B in the three tranches for an asset the carrying value of which was precisely zero. (After I put this history on nowwearetalking Telstra put the full version there – but it has now disappeared).
So those who moan that the copper network was “funded by the taxpayer” are wrong, though John Lindsay is only slightly less wrong because he at least recognizes that it has really been customers who paid for it. But be that as it may, Kevin is correct to note that the Telstra shareholders paid for that asset with real cash, real cash that has since made its way to taxpayers.
Where I will diverge from Kevin is the idea that just because the thesis of who funded the network is wrong, that therefore there is no basis for separation.
Corporations can do bad things. No one, especially from the union movement, would suggest that existing shareholders in James Hardie have no responsibility for the compensation claims suffering from the effects of asbestos. Most in the community would not these days object to the impact on shareholder value that limiting the advertising of cigarettes resulted in.
In both the US and UK legislation exists (the Sherman Act and the Enterprises Act) under which corporations can be required to divest assets if they monopolize an industry. The first of these was what was used to break up AT&T in 1984 (and the threat of which resulted in the break-up of Boeing Airways into three companies, Boeing, United Airlines and Pratt and Whitney). They don’t have to have engaged in anything other than to have achieved that position, how they got to that point is irrelevant.
The current Government is proposing two routes. The first is that Telstra can choose not to structurally separate but then face limitations on what further assets it can acquire and to face operational separation. The second is that Telstra can agree to structurally separate, something that it can choose to do prospectively as the NBN is built.
Is this something shareholders should be surprised by? Not really. The only two former Government owned telcos that were privatized before Telstra, BT and Telecom NZ, have already been down the operational separation path. BT did so as they were threatened by Ofcom with action under the Enterprises Act that might have seen forced structural separation. Every Senate committee hearing about the stages of privatization saw witnesses arguing the merits of structural reform.
Kevin is right, shareholders own Telstra and the myth of the taxpayer funding the network should be dispelled. But just because shareholders own it does not mea it is beyond regulation, and nothing that is occurring is a risk that should not have been considered by shareholders. The constitution and protection of property rights requires compensation for “acquisition of property”, it is not the obligation of Governments to protect shareholder value.
The editor of Communications Day, arahame Lynch, helpfully corrected my error in relation to the sequence of global privatisations. He advised me before publication but I suggested he run it as is and correct me - as I said I'm not aggressively hiolding myself out to be right and everyone else wrong, I'm just trying to get people to discuss things from wider perspectives.
Grahame wrote;
Re the comment “The only two former government owned telcos that were
privatised before Telstra, BT and Telecom NZ, have already been down the operational separation path.” this is incorrect. Incumbent telcos in Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Israel, Germany, Spain, Japan, Taiwan and Israel were all privatised before or concurrently with Telstra. Few of them were or are subject to BT or TNZ-style
separation although a few—notably in Brazil and Japan—were subject to regional separation. It is probably worth noting that the functional and operational separations of Telecom NZ and BT were a response to almost negligible take-up of unbundling. In Australia, unbundling has been comparatively successful under the
current regime with nearly 19% of metropolitan lines or nearly 1.4m lines used by access seekers. Whatever arguments there may be for separation, international consensus isn’t one of them.
I should have written merely "the first two Government telcos to be fully privatised" to refer to BT and TCNZ, not the only. It was a stupid error.
But the point I was making here is not that the operational separation in those countries is an argument from international experience for separation. It was in the context of the discussion of new Telstra shareholder expectations of the regulatory future that I raised this point. Nothing about the Government being the vendor should have implied that the Government would not pursue structural reform.
For the record, my support for (forced) structural separation is for the prospective separation being effectively promoted by the Government even since the NBN tender. I had separately argued that I thought voluntary separation is actually in the interests of incumbents.
My support for separation is based on reasoning from economic principles, not precedent. However, I also note that separation alone is not a complete solution. To genuinely create a competitive services industry will also require some tighter rules about bundling as referred to in my post about layer 3 services.
To later 3 or not to layer 3
According to the Oz debate errupted at the Realising our Broadband Future smart infrastructure stream on whether NBN Co should build a layer 3 service or not.
As readers should know the "layers" refers to the 7 layer ISO model that was developed to create open standards. No standards in the real world actually adhere to the model, but at the lower levels it is often referred to. Layer 1 refers to physical indfrastructure (copper or fibre), Layer 2 to the active elements to tur that into a transmission medium (in this case the GPON gear to make ethernet services) while Layer 3 is the layer at which the communications protocols themselves are established including triple a - authentication, addrssing and something else.
A participant suggested that if NBN Co didn't provide an "optional" layer 3 service then the market would still be dominated y a few big guys doing layer 3.
If NBN Co offers a layer 3 service as well as a layer 2 service it will no longer be structurally separated, and the self same problem of competing with its downstream customers will occur to NBN Co as has occurred to Telstra.
People reading this debate need to look more closely at the reference model architecture diagrams, and understand that there are probably 4 ethernet ports on the ONT. Let's just for now label one of these ports "services" and recognise that this is the port that is addressed by the kinds of "trans-sectoral" services that Budde talks about and specifically referred to in his comments in the linked article.
The architecture model fully accomodates the provision of these services direct to premises through Layer 2 with the application provider managing Layer 3 - which will not traverse "the Internet" at all. That is, and this is important, not all services are delivered "over the top" of the public internet.
If Government is sensible it will recognise the benefit of building one infrastructure for these "services" applications that interconnects at all the NBN Co POIs. This is also important because it means these services never form part of the Internet payload, and include no user generated backhaul component. In other words once the line cost from POI to premises is covered there is no marginal transmission cost.
(Note a similar argument occurs over how NBN Co should configure services to use one of the Ethernet ports as an IPTV port).
Layer 3 should NOT be an option for NBN Co.
PS I think the Cisco dude needs to count the number of ISPs out there today already delivering layer 3 service over layer 2 or lower purchased access infrastructure. The risk to market structure will be the extent to which participants can bundle the layer 3 ISP service with other services - either other carriage services like mobiles and voice (through the ATA port on the ONT) or content services.
So that was the Forum
Avid followers will remember my disappointment at the fact that the 2020 summit never had a Digital Economy stream. Thursday and Friday last week I got to go to our very own mega forum on Realising or Broadband Future.
This was a worthwhile attempt to get some meaningful discussion on what the benefits of the NBN will be. There were a number of plenary sessions the content of which was highly variable. The Government is lucky it wasn't charging a fee (more on this later) because they would have been open to a complaint for misleading and deceptive conduct as three of the advrtised draw cards weren't there in person, and only one of the three being beemed in did so live. The plenaries were overfilled with speakers (the tendency of conference organisers who seem to hate the white space of silence, or the possibilities of discussion), and so there was no interplay between the speakers.
The forum otherwise ran in five streams - of health, education, business, community and infrastructure. Paul Budde has put up a description suggesting people discussed key "trans-sectoral" issues - but actually they were issues within sectors about how the technology will be used.
Each stream had three sessions, the first to identify possibilities, the second roadblocks and the third next steps (in other words what else apart from the NBN should we be doing now). I participated in e-community (because I have an interest and because I thought it would help me get my invite). Each stream had an "editor" who reported back to the final plenary - and there was a wiki at which ideas were captured.
If Stephen Conroy's goal was to have 400 people go out from the conference and proseltyse the benefits of broadband, he will have got it. But these 400 were probably doing that anyway. If he really wanted an action list then he will probably be disappointed.
In general the forum continued to be made up of people who don't distinguish between "broadband" and "faster internet". It was made p of people who don't get the importance (and challenge of) ubiquity. And finally thre were way too many people just willing to believe all the good stuff, and most of the fluff. As an example the e-community stream heard lots about how broadband is a democratising influence, and how it will help keep people in regional centres.
Phillip Bobbit in "Terror and Consent" makes the point that al Qaeda is really a giant e-community - totally enabled by the same communications technologies that enable global trade and global corporations. He also makes the point of the "communications paradox" that the better we make communications, the more people want to live closer together in big cities.
There is much more to write on the forum. In the meantime just note that there is a new OECD report that will be much quoted telling us all that "High-speed broadband networks are a platform supporting innovation throughout the economy today in much the same way electricity and transportation networks spurred innovation in the past."
I will write a note on e-community tomorrow I hope.
Havyattograms
In the last three weeks I've sent "Havyattograms" to three senior people in the industry that I highly respect. A Havyattogram basically is an e-mail that, roughly, says "How could you say such a foolish thing, don't you know that/realise that ..." A variant of a Havyattogram is that I wrote something on my blog about someone else. I'll usually, but not always, send an e-mailed copy of the post to them.
As lots of people can get Havyattograms I thought I might make a permanent record here of what they are, and by way of standing public apology. While the Havyattogram (let's shorten that to H-o-g) always has the flavour of suggesting the person to whom it is addressed is a fool, that is neither its intent nor its purpose.
I happen to be highly enamoured of the whole concept of the dialectic - that from the interplay between thesis and antithesis comes new tings, the synthesis. As a reasoning art form it was utilised by Plato in his description of the Socratic dialogues. Both Hegel and Marx used the dialectic as a mechanism for describing progress through history.
I'm also fascinated by the concept that behavioural economists call "bounded rationality", that is that economic decision makers do make rational choices, but only on the basis of a subset of all possible information (and hence choices). That comes to be in part because we rely on the stories we've constructed to build our view of the world.
The three recent H-o-g's were;
1. In response to a speech in which the idea that the Telstra network was "paid for by taxpayers" was trundled out as a reason for regulation. It wasn't, and there are other better reasons. Kevin Morgan in today's Communications Day ran through most of the story - hopefully a note I've penned will be run tomorrow and I'll post it here afterwards.
2. In response to a comment about extra regional backhaul and the idea that competition alone can reduce prices. Competition can, but competition cannot reduce prices below cost - and doubling the investment on thin routes is the wrong response.
3. In response to a suggestion by Telstra that it would embrace prospective separation but want to hang onto its HFC network to compete.
I've written earlier about these last two here somewhere.
The telco industry is confusing enough without us perpetuating the "bounded rationality" of these myths. My apoploies to these three fine folk (men actually) and my apologies in anticipation to everyone else who will receive an H-o-g in the future. But I will keep going in the spirit of vigorous intellectual enquiry.
The only thing of which I am certain is that the future can be better than the present and the past. But it won't just happen. To make it happen we have to be prepared to inquire and debate.
We often ask if state Governments should subsidise major events.
If I'm not mistaken Tiger Woods life went into meltdown after his trip to Melbourne - I guess cause he got careless this far from home and forgot that with electronic media he might as well have been in the US.
Perhaps we should ask the question - should major drawcards take Australian money or is the price too high!
More on comments
I also meant to note in my comments in reply to Jim Holmes to note that another important part for the infrastructure light telco is to work conciously on your market differentiation strategy. The goal is for the network supplying firm to see you as a rational part of a price discrimination strategy, rather than an across the board competitor focussed only on bringing prices down.
AAPT sometimes got that right and sometimes wrong. Most importantly don't give customrs prepared to give the infrastructure owner a price premium a reason for leaving.
Response to comments
I've been getting some interest from readers of lte and rather than responding below their comments I thought I might write a free for all response.
Ian has commented on and NBN post and raised the vexed question of battery backup for the ONT. I think it is time we reframed the whole question of emergency power. How many households have battery powered televisions and radios either? I've written before about the logic of a single DC power rail for saving on transformer losses, but it is also something we should develop to provide a survivability of power across the information and communication devices i the house.
Susan has provided a thoughtful comment on Bradfield and noted that the CDP had the benefit of the donkey vote. She is also right that the Sex Party will struggle to match the by-election result at a Senate election.
Telstra skeptic has suggested that overhauling Telstra's customer service program program will be a big ask. It will actually be bigger than we first thought given that they can't even be truthful in the face they used to promote it, Megan Lane having been outed as a former Telstra PR flack. It was no much this deception as the fact that Lane works in one of those industries flagged in the front screen as over-represented.
I was also disappointed that a response I had from Telstra only focussed on my inability to enrol as an advisor - which missed my point that their enrollment process just left me with an incentive to lie, and that it would have been better to let me enrol but ignore my results. They also don't seem to get that there are some pretty obvious things to fix in customer service - as a friend pointed out today even taxis ring on approach.
Ian challenged my description of John Howard as a great leader. I meant that only within the context of the Liberal part's own assessment, not a universal view. And I appreciate the correction re Hockey's schooling - should have been able to tell he was only CAS not GPS.
Finally Jim Holmes asks what strategy I think a telco like AAPT should be pursuing. The first thing I'd suggest isto pay more attention to their incredibly talented and hard working corporate comms team and work on their key messages and media presence. The second is to invest more in value-adding elements and less on replicable network elements. It remains a disgrace that no one reselling fixed and mobile voice offers seemless integrated voicemail platforms. To achieve this you need to negotiate both the price for access to match eiother free retrieval or deposit or both that occurs in network integrated services, and you need access to the message waitb flags in the switches.
The great pity is that AAPT and Telecom NZ have never worked out how to leverage the capabilities that Telecom has into the telco where they don't own the access infrastructure. I always believed that Telecom NZ had the most to gain friom "unilateral disarmament" and undergoing voluntary separation as I wrote about in the TJA.
Crowdsourcing and the French Terror
In the buzz over the release of the draft Gov 2.0 report the SMH has reported this as recommending "the public service turn to new media for 'crowd sourcing' ideas to elicit feedback as part of an effort to put bureaucrats more in touch with the people they are employed to serve."
Technically crowdsourcing is "distributed participatory design". Or as a reviewer of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business noted "In his prescient 2006 article in Wired, Jeff Howe coined the term "crowdsourcing" to describe how the Internet has enabled large, distributed teams of amateurs to do work that was previously the domain of isolated experts or corporations."
An example of how Goverment might run crowdsourcing is the call for input to the realising our Broadband Future conference. People have been asked to contribute ideas before hand, and to participate from outside the event through twitter and all such other forms of new media.
When I was in secondary school I wrote an essay on Robespierre and the Terror followng the French revolution. In that essay I described Robespierre as the great democrat because he responded to "the will of the people" as best he could interpret it. Bobbitt who I referred to earlier suggests that market states will use the techniques of citizen referenda and recall to "by-pass" the role of elected officials (P.89).
The difficulty is how to distinguish between a crowd and a mob. In the Origin of Wealth (I think - it might be in Nudge) there are references to studies about the popularity of music and studies that show the "network or bandwagon" effect of how others rate a song can be more important in popularity tha the song itself.
In a crowdsourced environment it is very hard to distinguish a genuinely good and widely supported idea from a merely popular one. The authors of Gov 2.0 need to remember that, in the end, the guillotine that Robespierre deployed at the whim of the mob terminated Robespierre's life.
Holding to account
The new Abbott-led coalition we are told is going to focus on "holding the government to account". It is a good line, and has been repeated mercilessly in the last few days. But it leaves open what it actually means.
The SMH notes the Menzies line that "the duty of an opposition is to oppose selectively." This is not the approach taken by Tony's new mentor Nick Minchin who has framed the rhetoric of "holding to account". Minchin's performance as shadow communications minister was to try to criticise the Government for not delivering on its promised NBN and deny the Government any legislation to do so.
There are generically three ways to view being in opposition. The first is to try to govern from opposition, that is utilise your numbers together with the numbers on the cross benches to make the legislative outcome actually look like your policy not the Governments. The second is to realise that the purpose of opposition is to allow for renewal - that you have to have the bloody battles of personality and ideology necessary to return to Government. The third is that you position yourself as the "alternative government" which is the way Brendan Nelso described his opposition from day one which is farcical.
Holding the "Government to account" doesn't feature in any of these, for the simple reason that the whole of Parliament is meat to hold the Executive to account. But moving on from that I had an interesting discussion with an old friend on this and we disagreed on the nuances of "holding to account."
I have the view that holding to account means fornensically examining the executive on whether (a) it did what it told the people it would do at the precious election, or any other point of major policy announcement and (b) given the government is doing what it said it would do whether it has done so efficiently.
Discussing the stimulus package is a good example. The coalition expressed a view of alternative policy (not that I could ever figure it out fully) which seemed to be mostly "let the market work it out". Criticising the Government for creating a deficit from stimulus is not holding to account.
What would be is pursuing the detail of the implementation, the fact that so much stimulus money has been spent on programs of doubtful validity - the nonsense over what school building projects got funded being the most dramatic.
Similiarly the coalition harping on about OPEL is not holding the government to account in telco. Letting the government do what it wants to do with legislation and then focussing on non-delivery of the network is holding them to account.
nd so we come to climate change. A scare campaign that the ETS was just a giant tax, and that the coalition can have an emmission reduction scheme without putting a price on carbon is not holding the government "to account", it is pursuing alternative policy.
What we can see is that the coalition is squandering its opportunity to use its first term in opposition for the process of contest between people and ideas. The Abbott frontbench is reactionary in more than just policy - to return to the front bench warriors that a stronger party would be sending off to retirement (B. Bishop, P. Ruddock) is a first order reaction.
But it is in the policy space that I become totally confused - as I think I've said before. But this time I'll try a different angle.
Phillip Bobbit, first in The Shield of Achilles and then in Terror and Consent advances a line that (western) history can be seen as the progression of a series of "constitutional orders". What triggers the change from one order to the next is technological change in killing people - or war. He states that a constitutional order is distinguished by its approach to international and domestic security - in brief strategy and law.
He (along with Niall Fergusson) describes the period of 1914 to 1990 as the "long war" between communism, fascism and parliamentianism as the consitutional order for the nation state. The nation state is identified as the state created by Lincoln in the US and Bismarck in Germany. While wrapped up with the concept of "nation" - i.e. a linguistic and or racial group - it is more about the relationship of nation to state. He writes "The nation state bases its legitimacy on having undertaken the task of maintaining, nurtuting and improving the material conditions of its citizens...give us the power and we will improve the well-being of the ntional people."
But the very techniques and technologies that brought success in the long war - building international trasde, the development of international communications, higher living standards, norms of human rights and weapons of mass destruction - present new challenges that the constitutional order of the nation state canno meet.
The new constitutional order is the market state which says "give us the power and we will give you the opportunities. Market states see their role as enabling and assisting rather than directing the citizen's interaction with choices." (Terror and Consent pp87-88).
This structure creates an interesting framework for the analysis of Australian politics. The formation of our nation state came about following Federation and the adoption of the constitutional order of nation state rather than state nation came about at the instigation of the ALP but in the adoption of the Deakin Liberals of the "Australian Settlement".
Today we see that it is again the ALP that leads the way in the migration to a market state. For all its supposedly neoliberal credentials the Howard Government's only real "market" reforms were the (botched) privatisation of Telstra and Work Choices. The Hawke and Keating Governments had a wider array of achievements under the "micro-economic reform" banner.
And so we come to climate change. It is the ALP proposing the ultimate in market state models - a trade in emissions - and the coalition proposing a solution embedded in the model of the nation state, where the defence of the notional welfare of the nation is supreme.
The Liberal Party really should change its name. It does not want to contest with the ALP the form of the market state, it wants to preserve the nation state. They are nothing more than "conservative".
The NBN again
Alan Kohler writing in Business Spectator thinks he has found the solution to the NBN conundrum.
He thinks he needed a speech by David Quilty to get to it. He didn't he could have read my evidence to the Senate committee on the separation bill. Kohler gets close here but has a confusing journey on the way.
One example of the confusion is when he writes;
Telstra could probably sell its ducts and trenches to the NBN because it would only involve the transfer of a monopoly asset, but that simply means Telstra would be renting access to them from the NBN instead of the other way around. Telstra would still own a national copper network, in competition with a national fibre network, which would be less than ideal for both.
And as for “selling customers” … what does this mean? Would I get a letter one day from Telstra explaining that as a result of a deal with the new fibre network, in which Telstra has received payment of a ransom, I am now a customer of the NBN Co? If anyone’s getting any cash for transferring my business, it’s me thanks very much, not my previous supplier.
The NBN Co won't be "buying" Telstra's customers caiuse NBN Co is not a retailer.
Kohler's short version of the solution is;
So the only solution is the first: build the NBN but underpin its business model with a network supply contract with Telstra that would mean the company would migrate its customers gradually to fibre at a lower cost, increasing its profits and ensuring that private capital could help fund the NBN.
This is close to the right and simplest transaction. The absolutely simplest transaction is as follows;
1. NBN Co enters into a special access agreement with Telstra for access to ducts and exchange buildings. Under this agreement Telstra retains the assets but NBN Co becomes full facilities manager and pays to Telstra rental for any facility it uses.
2. Telstra agress to migrate its customers across to NBN Co as the network is turned on. Fixed line voice only customers get their voice service through an analogue socket on the ONT. Telstra pays NBN co the same rental charge for each line as anuy other telco (note these charges WILL be complicated as up to six service providers could eassily be using the one fibre to provide service to a premise).
Under this structure no asset changes hands, and there is no "upfront" payment. Everything is done through cash streams that ultimately link back to users buying services. The fact NBN Co doesn't "buy" the ducts avoids the problem of not knowing how usable the ducts are ( a problem identified by Richard Dammery).
It also provides NBN Co with the maximum possible revenue stream from day 1 - much better than Dammery's other idea of a ballot which does not force migrate customers. The only "issue" left is whether Telstra should be subsidised for the one off cost of cutover - my short view is this is a capuital cost NBN Co needs to bear and amortise in its access fees.
Gov 2.0
The Gov 2.0 taskforce has released its draft report, but the comment time to next Monday is incredibly limited. Then again, any comment time is better tha none.
I have struggled to come to grips with this project. My reasons I think are more tied up with my concerns that the agenda for Gov 2.0 has been mostly seen as being technologically deterministic - doing things to respond to the technology - rather than grounded in political theory.
The crunch point comes in the second dot point of the terms of reference;
make government more consultative, participatory and transparent — to maximise the extent to which government utilises the views, knowledge and resources of the general community
This very simple phrase reflects some very significant changes that need to occur in the way "government" is conducted. We still have a model that has evolved from the 1970s of government as a command and control activity - that the bowels of government determine a policy and then it is implemented - rather than opening up the totality of the program as contended space.
The report refers to new APSC guidelines - but these relate only to public servants participating online and largely reflect the existing values for other media.
None of this encourages the idea that public servants themselves are in the ideas business rather than the processing of ideas (what did submissions say) or implementation of others (the Ministers) ideas.
I haven't read the whole report yet. I guess I should.
Innovation Economics
An interesting post from Florida caught my attention. This was picked up on my daily "Digital Economy" Google Alert.
The post refers to an ITIF report that outlined four competing economic development doctrines.
Conventional Economic Development Doctrine: Developed largely after World War II focussing on competition between states for increasingly mobile economic assets , this doctrine (CED) is based on the idea that the best way to grow the economy is to attract (or retain) capital (usually establishments of big, multi-state firms) by making specific deals that include tax breaks, loans, and grants. The idea is that these mobile establishments are seeking the lowest costs, and the job of a state is to put forth the best package to attract them.
The Neo-Classical Business Climate Doctrine: Both conservative and moderate neo-classical economists are skeptical of the government's ability to pick winners and believe that the best way to grow a state's economy is by a tax code with low rates and few distortions and a regulatory code with as few burdens on industry as possible. Like holders of the CED, they see competitive advantage as largely based on costs, but they generally look at traditional economic development efforts and, instead, favor eliminating firm specific subsidies and using the savings to cut taxes for all firms.
Neo-Keynesian Populism: Ultimately, the goal of economic development is not to help business, it is to help state residents, including workers. Helping business is the means by which to accomplish this goal. However, for holders of the neo-Keynesian populist doctrine, helping workers directly is not only the goal, it's the means. Holders of this doctrine worry less about business climate or competitiveness, and focus more on making sure that the wealth generated in a state goes to the people that need it most. They see most economic development issues as boiling down to a question of who gets the benefits: working people, or rich people and corporations.
Innovation Economics: Holders of the innovation economics doctrine believe that, ultimately, what determines a state's economic success is the ability of all institutions (private, nonprofit, and government) to innovate and change. Because of this, innovation economics (IE) focuses less on issues such as taxes and regulation or the number of firm-specific deals, and more on policies that can spur firm learning and innovation through more generally positive business environments.
(These are very well laid out in table 1 of the ITIF report)
These matters all have correlates in the formalities of macro-economic theory in particular growth theory. The latter seems to me to be the logical correlate of "endogenous growth theory."
This poses the question of what are the appropriate economic policies for innovation economics. The title is perhaps misleading because it is not just about creating an innovation climate or sponsoring research. It includes actively evolving institutions (and in this I would include the classis institution of the firm).
Bradfield
The by-elections on Saturday have seen some extraordinary commentary both before and after the poll. Gerard Henderson has nicely described the "doomsday prophecies" as fantasies of the left in his SMH column. However, Gerard continues to belittle himself by the way he criticises the work of these various academics for being both "left-wing" and taxpayer funded. The critique of academics being left-wing he pursues would be fine if it were based on evidence that right-wing academics don't get jobs. I think there are two alternative realities. The first is that right-wing "academics" reject the University model and prefer the private think tank, and the other is that right-wing "intelligensia" think they should go off and make money, not think.
It is also worth noting that not all the income of Universities comes from taxpayers, a lot comes from fees, and a lot comes from earnings on endowments. It is generaly not possible to ascertain what proportion of any individual academic's income comes from each of these sources. We also don't know anything about how the Sydney Institute is funded other than it is a privately funded not-for-profit current affairs forum. While it is possible that a large amount could come from fairly average individuals, the perception has always been that it is funded from "the big end of town". (That is the description given by Brett to the Liberals may be more apprpriate for Henderson and his Institute).
The fact that the reported academics got it so wrong also reflects the selection process of news stories. A journalist won't get a story run that says "in the by-election nothing of significance will happen". The stories that are run are the ones that make the biggest prediction - and most likely to be wrong.
Ultimately though Gerard makes the same mistake as the academic commentators he critiques - this is the "one swallow does not make a summer" fallacy. By-elections never really reflect the mood at large. They have consistently lower turn-out and a higher than average pre-poll and postal vote (because you can't vote absentee). They are further "distorted" when one major party makes the rational choice not to run - unfortunately this just seems to encourage the crazies rather than just leave the other party to win unopposed.
Bradfield in particular was odd with the Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group) running 9 candidates. At the close of counting on Monday (lots of per-poll and postal still to be counted) the first preference (percentage) results were as follows;
CDP (9) 3.58
Ind (5) 6.00
DLP 2.1
Green 25.88
One N 0.65
LDP 0.79
Liberal 55.7
CCC 1.04
Env4NE 1.01
Total 100.04
This means that in leafy Bradfield in the crusty Upper North Shore the sex party nearly out-polled the combined weight of nine christians! They in turn were trounced by five largely annonymous independents.
As for the tipsters, the idea attributed to the ABC national breakfast show that the sex party could win a Senate seat is not actually out of the question. As long as voters seem prepared to spray votes around like confetti these fringe parties can "get lucky" just as Family First did in Victoria.
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The R.I.P. thread ..
Thread starter Swofty
eViL DeAdiTe
Loud Mouth Braggart
RIP George.
The genre owes everything to him. He gave the world such an incredibly entertaining way to reflect on our humanity. Glad there are at least a few storytellers in the genre attempting to carry on that tradition.
He spent his final decade here in Toronto, and there's going to be a public memorial for him on Monday just down the street from me at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, which I believe is where he will be laid to rest.
Planning to stop by and pay my last respects to the man.
I hear it will be closed casket, with chains, just in case...
RIP to a total legend. eViL DeAdiTe absolutely said it all above.
Paid my last respects yesterday at the memorial.
Met with other fans there, and greeted his wife and children whom I knew very little about. They were very thankful to every visitor, and made pleasant conversation.
There was a room playing some of his films, and in other was the wake with a screen playing scenes from Martin. Memorabilia throughout the funeral home.
We left messages in the guest book, and then my friend and I found ourselves paying final respects to the man, standing before his modest, wooden casket. It felt, odd, and surreal, but we were grateful for the opportunity.
I hear a few people attended earlier in the day in full zombie regalia. Would love to have seen that.
I don’t believe he’s being laid to rest here, and if I had to guess I’d day he’s probably Pittsburgh bound today.
Not much else to tell, really.
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I'm so glad you went.
R.I.P. Tobe Hooper
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/tobe-hooper-dead-dies-texas-chain-saw-massacre-poltergeist-director-dies-1202539868/
It really has been one hell of a hard year in the horror community :/
Damn...
I was a big fan of the TCM series as a kid (Pt. 2 being my favourite) and Poltergeist remains, to this day, my personal go-to scariest movie of all time. I know he wasn't responsible for everything in it, but it wouldn't have been the same without him.
Skywalker1982
RIP Burt Reynolds
Veteran actor James Karen dead at 94:
https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-james-karen-from-return-of-the-living-dead-pol-1829981639
Horror fans know him from his storming performance in Return of the Living Dead, but he was in millions of things, according to the obit up there he also blew up The Little House on the Prairie, which I can't say I remember. He was still working up till recently, and nobody had a bad word to say about him. Another "That Guy" actor gone. RIP.
He was terrific in ROTLD and will be sorely missed.
MaidOfKandar said:
It was a bit mad seeing him part two playing a grave robber after he'd died in part one, apparently they liked him so much in the first film they just had to use him again (and his understudy Freddy).
R.I.P. Stan Lee, 95
https://www.tmz.com/2018/11/12/stan...sG0sLbcljtXJwyj3veWK_YGsvy9e5QvPyi4mfYY6S9jQ8
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RIP Stan Lee!
Swofty, you got to link to TMZ? LOL.
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Kain said:
Meh, it'll do ..
My favourite Stan Lee cameo:
Nick el Ass
Spinach Chin
Even better. Here is the man who named Spider-Man in the movies along with the man who created him.
Stan was so talented and he'll be so missed. The Granddaddy of Spider-Man!
R.I.P. the legendary Dick Millar, 90, known best by most for Gremlins and The Terminator, his career stated in the 50's with Roger Corman and his involvement in the horror genre spanned decades.
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dick-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/
Dick Miller was such a good character actor; unforgettable in Return of the Living Dead.
DyD
Uh... Dick Miller wasn't in Return of the Living Dead, Maid.
KANDA!
Oh damn it! Sorry, brain fart!
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Tag Archives: Unmanned Aerial Systems
Drone based Roof Inspections with UNPLANNED outcomes!
A short story of a roof inspection with UNPLANNED outcomes!
Written by Walter and Oliver Volkmann of Drone2GIS Inc. and Micro Aerial Projects LLC
We recently were asked to do aerial inspections of the roofs of some 70 newly constructed houses. The client requested a complete visual light photographic coverage of each roof with sufficient resolution to detect cracked or slipped concrete tiles. Here we share our experience on a drone based roof inspection project.
Manually Composed Aerial Image Acquisition with First Person View (FPV) Facility.
We went to the site with our Solo drone equipped with a GoPro Hero 3+ Black camera with a 5.4mm lens and diligently covered each roof by means of manually composing and capturing mainly oblique aerial images. We could complete the inspection of two houses per flight battery. After downloading the images, we bundled them into folders – one folder per house. Each image set had to contain one “index” image that clearly portrayed the house numbers which were displayed above the garage doors of the dwellings. This was the only identifier the client required in terms of “geo-referencing”. Figure 1 below is an example of an index image, which, when displayed on an average sized screen shows the dwelling numbers in legible size.
Figure 1: The ‘Index” photo in which the presumably unique house numbers, displayed above the garage doors, are captured.
The individual roof inspection images were carefully composed by means of “first person view” (FPV) – a facility which presents the drone operator with a real-time view of the scene as it is being captured by the on-board camera. To ensure completeness, a methodical sequence was followed in a flight that generally went around the roof in a counter-clockwise fashion. It took us two days to complete the field work and to package the deliverables. On the morning of the third day we hand-delivered the product to our client whose offices were located nearby.
Figure 2 below shows a few examples of the vertical and oblique images we manually captured with our Solo drone.
Figure 2: A selection of oblique and vertical images, all manually composed with the aid of first person viewing.
Given the complex design and considerable height of the roof profiles – the highest point of the roof being some 8.5m (almost 28 usft) above ground level – the inspection by air certainly saved considerable costs in time and money, and generally reduced the risk of injury and the potential for disturbance to the occupants. The survey was done with the permission of the occupants, hence concern for privacy was in this case not an issue to be considered in our operation.
Figure 3 below shows the most common defects, namely cracked or slipped roof tiles, identifiable on the manually composed aerial images. This level of detectability, as well as the speed and efficiency of our operation completely satisfied our client’s expectations
Figure 3: The most common defects, cracked and slipped tiles, identifiable in the oblique, manually composed aerial imagery.
Notwithstanding our client’s satisfaction with the manually conducted aerial roof inspection, we decided to also use this opportunity to test an alternative approach by covering the entire subdivision – i.e. all 70 houses – with vertical imagery from which to produce geo-spatial products such as an ortho-photo and a digital surface model.
Fully Automated Vertical Image Acquisition for Structure from Motion (SfM) modeling without Ground Control.
The SfM method of modeling the real world entails the use of overlapping aerial imagery (often also referred to as aerial stereo photography) and some means to geo-reference – i.e. place, scale and orient – the model correctly within a given spatial reference frame. To date the most common method of geo-referencing a model is the use of so-called Ground Control Points (GCPs). These are points which, through appropriate marking on the ground, are identifiable on the aerial images and whose spatial reference frame coordinates are known. Typically, some six to twelve evenly spaced GCPs would be used to geo-reference a project of this size. An alternative approach to the task of geo-referencing entails the use of Camera Exposure Positions (CEPs) instead of GCPs. In this approach a carrier phase capable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is connected to the airborne camera to determine accurate coordinates of the camera at the precise moment of exposure. Since our survey copter is equipped with the V-Map system from Micro Aerial Projects , we chose to follow the latter of the two methods of geo-referencing our map. Although not necessary, we decided to also add to our tasks the provision of six check points – points which for all practical purposes are GCP’s, but which instead for geo-referencing are used strictly for independent checking the accuracy of the model.
You will notice that we are using the word “model” whereas you may quite rightly have expected us to talk about maps. The reason for this vocabulary is to emphasize that the SfM process commences with the establishment of relative camera positions and a point cloud from which a three-dimensional digital surface model (DSM) is built. A digital ortho photo or SfM derived map, i.e. a flat visualization of the point cloud is just one of several geo-spatial products than can be derived from the model.
Figure 4 below shows a typical SfM work flow in which use is made of GCPS. Setting ground control points, the step marked in red, is the only task in the work flow requiring manual inputs. From a practical and an operational point of view, the most significant difference between using CEPs and GCPs is that the former can eliminate or at least reduce the amount of manual labor required in SfM mapping.
Figure 4: Structure from Motion Work Flow with the use of Ground Control Points
To ensure that our map was going to be usable in conjunction with other geo-spatial information, we decided to reference our map to the official State Plane Coordinate (SPC) System. For this purpose we had to establish a reference point. Hence the first thing we did in the field was to choose a suitable location for a reference point which we demarcated with a 6d nail. We made sure that the location was free of any obstructions to the sky so that our V-Map receiver, when installed over the point as reference station, would be able to receive un-obstructed signals from the GNSS satellites. The reference station was to serve three purposes:
Provide an accurate set of SPC coordinates for spatial reference relative to the official state plane coordinate system.
Provide reference station observations, which, in combination with the raw observations to be recorded by the roving, rod mounted V-Map receiver, would be used in a post processed kinematic (PPK) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) survey to determine accurate SPC coordinates in all terrestrial surveys on this project.
Provide reference station observations, which in combination with the raw observations recorded by the roving, drone mounted V-Map receiver, would be used in a post processed kinematic (PPK) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) survey to determine accurate SPC coordinates of each of the 622 camera exposure positions.
Before starting with any field measurements, we powered on our reference station so that it could observe and record raw dual frequency GPS observations during all the subsequent ground and air survey activities. Figure 5 shows the V-Map receiver installed over our base point as GNSS reference station.
Figure 5: The V-Map receiver being used as a dual frequency GPS reference station. (Note the survey copter can be seen to the left above the reference receiver
To assess the geometric quality of our work, we set and surveyed six check points. For this purpose, we used the same V-Map receiver that would later be used on the drone to capture camera exposure positions in the air. Figure 6 shows how the light weight equipment can be transported from point to point and how points are demarcated and surveyed “on the fly”. In this application of PPK GNSS surveying the surveyor simply places the rod on the 6d nail at the center of the target, centers the rod bubble and takes a picture. There is no need for any extended occupation time in this type of surveying. To provide for some level of redundancy that could alert us to incorrect occupation, whether by human error or as a result of a bad rod bubble adjustment, we surveyed each point twice – each time with a different orientation of the bubble relative to the point to be surveyed. The check point survey procedure took us in this case less than half an hour to complete. Note that the reference station was actively recording reference observations during the entire duration of the check point survey. On completion of the check point survey we powered down both reference station and rover and downloaded the raw observations of both from their respective SD cards.
Figure 6: The V-Map receiver mounted on a standard survey rod for kinematic GNSS surveying of check points.
Next we used the open source program Mission Planner to design a flight path for our survey copter for the automatic acquisition of 622 vertically aligned aerial images with a ground sampling distance (GSD) of 11mm, lateral overlap of 70% and forward overlap of 80%. To achieve these requirements with our Sony a6000 camera and 16mm fixed focal length, the flight altitude had to be 50m above ground level and the camera had to be triggered every 9.8 m. Figure 7 below shows our flight plan.
Figure 7: Flight Plan to acquire 622 overlapping aerial images from an altitude of 50m
After removing the roving V-Map receiver from the survey rod to the copter we could begin with the preparation of the automatic image acquisition flight by uploading the flight plan to the memory of the copter. Prior to launching our aerial image acquisition flight we powered on the reference station receiver and then we made sure that we were in full compliance with FAA regulations, that our flight plan was safe to execute (the power transmission line visible in Figure 8 below has a height of 30m) and that we had attended to each and every point on our check list. Figure 8 below shows our survey copter being launched on a fully automated image acquisition flight at 50m operational altitude.
Figure 8: Our PPK GNSS V-Map equipped copter being launched on an automatic 25-minute, 50 meter altitude, image acquisition flight.
Some 25 minutes later the copter landed in automatic mode. Now we downloaded the images on the SD card of the camera and the raw observations recorded on the SD cards of the reference station and air-borne V-Map rover respectively.
Packing up the base station and drone equipment completed the entire field work component of this mapping exercise. Figure 9 below shows some of our standard selection of field equipment. It consists of three interchangeable V-Map receivers (one to serve as reference station, one to serve as drone or rod mounted rover and the third one as spare), two survey copters, check lists, critical air frame spares, drone repair tools, a small laptop (with a matt screen!) to interface with the flight controller, two fully assembled APM-controlled survey copters, flight batteries for six 30-minute flights, two Sony a6000 cameras with 16mm fixed focal length lenses, spare SD cards for V-Map equipment and cameras, survey rods, tripods, flight batteries, shovel, hammer and survey point demarcation materials such as rebar rods, nails, spray paint and GCP targets. We strictly follow the “one is none, two is one” rule for all airborne components.
Figure 9: A view of the bed of our field crew vehicle.
Table 1 below shows the time it took to complete the various field tasks.
Table 1: Duration of Field Tasks
The last thing we did prior to departing the project site was to scan through the aerial images to make sure that their quality was acceptable.
The first thing we did back in the office was to obtain precise SPC coordinates for our reference station. We converted the two V-Map reference station raw observation files (one created during the check point survey and the other during the aerial image acquisition flight) to receiver independent exchange (RINEX) format and uploaded them to the On-Line User Positioning Service (OPUS), a free service made available to the American public by the National Geodetic Service (NGS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States. A few minutes after uploading the RINEX files, OPUS returned the reference station coordinates via e-mail. In addition to the coordinates, OPUS also reports the estimated errors. Table 2 below shows these estimated errors for each of the two sessions.
Table 2: Estimated Errors in the OPUS coordinates of the Reference Station
A comparison of the two sets of coordinates, shown in Table 3 below, confirms that the estimates provided by OPUS are realistic. Since the differences are well within prescribed limits for general mapping work, we adopted the average of the two solutions provided by OPUS as the final SPC.
Table 3: Differences in the coordinates as derived from the raw observations recorded during Sessions 1 and 2
Now that we had exact reference station coordinates we could start with the computation of the camera exposure positions. We used CamPos, a GNSS post processing workflow suite using components of the open source RTKLIB set of GNSS programs. The highly-automated process of computing camera exposure position coordinates with CamPos took some 10 minutes to complete. The final output from CamPos consists of a Google Earth compatible kml file displaying CEPs in color codes per GNSS solution type. Green symbols indicate optimum phase differential GNSS accuracy (i.e. integer ambiguities were fully resolved in the solution – so-called “fixed” solutions), orange symbols indicate so-called float solutions (integer ambiguities could not be fully resolved) and red symbols indicate autonomous “stand-alone” solutions. In addition to the kml file CamPos also produces a csv file containing the coordinates of CEPs together with accuracy attributes expressed in integers, the so-called Q-factor (Q for quality), ranging from 1 to 5; Q=1 indicating optimum accuracy based on a solution with fully resolved phase integer ambiguities, Q=2 indicating a float solution and Q=5 indicating an autonomous solution (i.e. the solution not differentially corrected with reference station observations at all). In our approach, we tag each CEP with a numerical value of the accuracy per Q factor. We assume an a-priori accuracy of 5cm for fixed solutions (Q=1). We attach a nominal a-priori accuracy of 10m for all other solutions (and we exclude these solutions from the constraint of any adjustments made to the camera alignment or point cloud). Table 4 below shows an extract of the CEP coordinate table which we use as input to the SfM process.
Table 4: CEP coordinate file for input to SfM
The Google Earth visualization of all 622 CEPs is shown in Figure 10 below. Note that seven of the CEP solutions turned out to be “float” and are thus shown in orange.
Figure 10: Visualization of CEPs in Google Earth (Green = accurate, Orange = approximate)
Once we had computed the CEP coordinates we could proceed with the SfM workflow. For this we use a program from Agisoft called Photoscan Professional. After importing the 623 aerial images and the CEPs we performed a high accuracy camera alignment and investigated the degree of correspondence between SfM aligned positions and V-Map results. Figure 11 below illustrates the comparison.
Figure 11: Correspondence between SfM camera alignment and V-Map derived CEP coordinates
The correspondence between SfM camera alignment and the V-Map derived CEP coordinates turned out to be remarkably good, thus confirming that our a priori accuracy estimate of 5cm for fixed CEP coordinate solutions was not at all too optimistic. It is interesting to note that there is a concentration of the largest discrepancies right over the middle of the retention pond. This observation confirms that the high degree of accuracy in the V-Map derived CEP coordinates is sufficient to expose the weakness in the SfM camera alignment over areas which lack texture – such as water bodies!
The next thing we did was to set up a batch process which would complete the entire SfM workflow without any human inputs. The tasks and corresponding processing times were as follows:
Summing up, the whole SfM process took a period of 16 hours 13 minutes and 32 seconds. We did this processing on a computer with configuration as shown in Table 5 below:
Table 5: Components of Computer used in SfM processing
Once the SfM processing was completed we had to edit the point cloud by removing outliers resulting from the lack of texture over water surfaces. Next we exported from Photoscan Professional a digital ortho photo with GSD of 11mm and a DSM with cell size 22mmx22mm, both in geo-referenced TIFF formats. This process takes about half an hour. The ortho photo and DSM were them loaded into our GIS program, Global Mapper from Blue Marble Geographics. Since TIFF files are rather bulky, CAD and GIS programs tend to take rather long to render these types of files. Hence, we used Global Mapper to create an ortho photo in ecw format in which the data is more compressed and thus rendered significantly more quickly by programs such as Global Mapper. To make their appearance more pleasing and to exclude any regions where the SfM process failed to produce reliable results we also “trimmed” the ortho photo and DSM around the edges. Figure 12 below shows the entire ortho photo as displayed in Global Mapper.
Figure 12: Ortho Photo of the entire development GSD = 0.011m
The first thing we wanted to find out was to see whether we could detect on our ortho photo the same defects that we could identify on the manually captured oblique GoPro photography. So we zoomed in on the same area of detail on the ortho photo as depicted on the oblique GoPro photo shown in Figure 3. The magnified section of the ortho photo is shown in Figure 13 below.
Figure 13: Magnifying the Ortho Photo for detection of effects. Compare to Figure 3.
The above figure shows that an ortho photo with a GSD of 11mm will be suitable for detection of slipped, but not of cracked, tiles. To improve the resolution for the detection of cracks, we would have had to reduce the flying altitude. Flying lower would decrease the image footprint and hence shorten the distance between successive exposures. Shortening the exposure distance interval shortens the time interval – thus increasing the rate at which the camera must expose and store images. To mitigate the possibility of missed exposures due to camera over-load, the flight plan can be changed to reduce the speed of the survey copter – thus increasing the time interval between successive exposures and giving the camera a chance to cope with the exposure rate.
In addition to the insufficient resolution we notice that the shaded areas are too dark to inspect details in them. We have not yet taken the time to investigate whether selective manipulation of exposure values in the areas of interest on the ortho photo will render the dark shadow areas useful for inspection purposes. Another possible remedy to under-exposure is to fly under conditions of diffuse illumination, ideally created by, for example, high cirrus clouds.
Furthermore, the vertical ortho projection prevents visibility of spaces obstructed by overhead features such as roof overhangs. Only full 3D visualization of elaborately constructed 3D models will facilitate the inspection of obstructed spaces – an effort which we could not accommodate in the scope of this project, but which we will be investigating at the next best opportunity.
Having concluded that the ortho photo is inadequate for the detection of cracked tiles, we had a look at the images from which the ortho photo was made. On only two of the 13 images in which the cracked tile appears could we discern, not necessarily detect, never mind identify, the crack in the tile. These two images, shown in Figure 14 below, happen to be the ones closest to the zenith of the defect.
Figure 14: Appearance of cracked tile in vertical imagery as captured by Sony a6000 from a height of 50m above the ground.
The next thing we wanted to establish was the accuracy of our map. Using the raw observations of our check point survey and CamPos, we computed coordinates for each of the two occupations of all the check points in our check point survey and compared the resulting pairs of the two independent occupations at each point to ascertain that no errors had occurred in centering the V-Map antenna over the point. The insignificant differences between the results of the independent occupations shown in Table 6 confirm that the V-Map observations yielded fully resolved integer phase ambiguities with correspondingly high accuracy and that the check points were accurately centered over during the independent occupations. Being suitably satisfied with the good agreements between the independent occupations we decided to compute and adopt the mean values as final coordinates of the check points.
Table 6: Comparison between successive V-Map occupations of Check Points
Figure 14 below shows the distribution of our check points.
Figure 14: Spatial distribution of check points.
Now that the check points were superimposed in a layer above our ortho photo and DSM, we zoomed in on each of the check points and captured the pre-marked target center coordinates (visible in the ortho photo) for comparison with the coordinates determined by terrestrial V-Map survey as described above.
The numerical comparison between the two independently determined coordinates sets is shown in Table 7 below.
Table 3: Comparison between coordinates derived from terrestrial and aerial (ortho photo and DSM) surveys.
Note that the two data sets – terrestrail survey and aerial survey – are, apart from being based on the same coordinates for the reference station, in all other respects completely independent of one another. Note also that in the comparison above there is one significant outlier, namely the elevation of check point 2. We suspect that this is as a result of the check point being located at the edge of the mapping area where image overlap is sparse. In fact check point 2 appears in only 8 aerial images while nearby check point 5 and check point 3, for example, appear in 14 aerial images. Removing this outlier would bring the standard deviation in the elevation from 4cm to 1.6cm. The lesson to be learnt from this is that one should always provide a generous margin of aerial stereo image cover around the area to be mapped. Ideally only areas which are covered by at least three strips of aerial imagery should be trusted for good mapping in all three dimensions.
Figure 15 is another visualization of the horizontal errors at the six check points in our map. Note that the dimensions of the panels are 20cm x 20 cm (8” x 8”).
Figure 15: Horizontal errors at the check points. Note the target panel has sides of 20cm (8″) length.
Having established that our map is as accurate as can be expected from this type of mapping we were interested to see how well one could use the DSM on hard surfaces.
Figure 16: Photographic record of monument being surveyed with a rod-mounted V-Map receiver.
Having performed an internal quality check on our map we decided to use third party data for an even more independent verification of our mapping accuracy. Our client was kind enough to furnish us with a digital copy of the licensed land surveyor’s plat of the subdivision in dwg format. When we imported the plat to Global Mapper we noticed that there was a systematic shift between the parcel corners as depicted on the plat and where one would expect them to be on the ortho photo. Since land survey regulations in the state of Florida still do not prescribe that cadastral surveys have to be referenced to an official datum and coordinate system, we concluded that the plat was referenced to what practicing land surveyors in the state of Florida often refer to as a “pseudo state plane” coordinate system. Because the digital plat did not come with any geo-referencing meta data, we went back to the site, located three monuments that appeared on the plat and used our V-Map receivers to obtain official state plane coordinates for them. From this information we could calculate that a shift of 38.7cm (1.27’) in a direction of 69.5391° would significantly improve the agreement between the plat and our ortho photo. Figure 16 shows a photograph that was taken at the moment that one of the monuments was surveyed with the V-Map receiver mounted on the survey rod. This photograph is an objective and unimpeachable record of the feature that was surveyed and in many ways, improves on the conventional written notes and hand-drawn sketches required in terms of current practice. The resolution is actually sharp enough to interpret the lettering stamped into the disc embedded in the concrete monument.
In Figure 17 we show the plat (i.e. the parcel boundaries) after application of the systematic shift overlaid on the ortho photo. The comparative insets show how well the V-Map survey results compare with the plat, thus confirming that the application of the shift properly referenced the plat to the same reference frame as the ortho photo.
Figure 17: Discrepancies between V-Map survey and Plat after applying a constant shift: At B, 0.000m (0.000′); at C, 0.038m (0.125′); at D: 0.006m (0.020′)
Now that we had transformed the plat from a local reference frame to the official state plane coordinate system we could begin comparing the plat with physical features shown on the ortho photo. Figure 18 shows a region where we detected a consistent east west discrepancy between boundaries and roof tops of 40cm (1.31’) which is significant in terms of cadastral surveying accuracy. Is this discrepancy a result of errors in the original plat survey or in the setting out of the foundations? One way to find out would be to search and pre-mark the boundary monuments and then to re-map the area. Alternatively, the more arduous conventional approach of searching and surveying the monuments as well as the houses accurately on the state plane coordinate system could be followed.
Figure 19: East-West discrepancy of some 40cm between roof-tops and plat.
Figure 19 is an extract of a region in the south-east of the ortho photo where the roof tops seem to align perfectly with the plat lines. However there seems to be an asymmetric placement of the block relative to the street alignments – also in the east-west direction.
Are the discrepancies, uncovered her by SfM surveying, perhaps due to a change in spatial reference between original platting and setting out of streets and parcel corners? To get to the bottom of the discrepancies displayed here between plat and ortho photo would require the survey of a larger number of corner monuments and other, well defined features. However, considering that apart from setting up and powering on the reference receiver, the ortho photo was produced with virtually no conventional survey work on the ground – the agreement between it and the cadastral survey is truly remarkable.
Watch this space for a continuation of our sojourn where we will be contemplating topics such as
THE DATA BUBBLE
TIME AND COST ANALYSIS
3D AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
CADASTRAL SfM SURVEYS AND STAKING BY TRILATERATION
Road Surveying
Clever Surveyors use Drones!
When it comes to surveying a busy intersection, responsible surveyors think of accuracy, completeness and safety. The first two considerations, important as they are, are often the easy ones. Safety of your crews however, the primary concern, is always a challenge in conventional surveying. Apart from having to make time consuming and annoying arrangements for disruptive traffic management, Total Station and GNSS methods require that crews operate in dangerous places for extended periods of time.
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With a survey drone and appropriate geo-spatial expertise, you can get the job done without exposure of crews to dangerous motor traffic! Survey ground control points in places that are out of harm’s way, acquire aerial imagery and do the rest in the safety and comfort of your office! Reduce your field presence by as much as 95% and yet come home with a complete field book.
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Reporting Horizontal Errors in SfM Mapping
Fully appreciating the powerful role played by the Structure from Motion (SfM) technique in the mapping revolution, we understand that embedded in the fiber of an SfM produced map are some very important quality characteristics which, when not specifically disclosed and effectively displayed, will remain hidden to the user of the map. These characteristics can be understood as the quality DNA of the individual map. A responsible map maker should thus proactively determine and display this DNA for each of the maps he or she makes, thereby providing the individual map with an authentic certification that is much more relevant and meaningful than the credentials of the map maker himself.
One way to display horizontal errors is to plot them at a much larger scale than the map itself, as shown in the figure below.
The advantage of this type of error visualization is that it would very efficiently expose bias in position or rotation across the mapping domain. The disadvantage is that it is not all that easy to visualize the magnitudes of the errors.
So we are looking for effective ways to attach a clear picture of the true DNA to each of the maps we make. In the figure below there is another example of error reporting that may communicate better than numerical tables of errors or statements regarding the “class of accuracy” as defined by some or other organization. Here we show the “true” location of check points – determined to 10mm accuracy by total station – superimposed as yellow dots over the corresponding targets in the Ortho Photo. The distance between dot and target center represents the local horizontal mapping error.
For a realistic understanding of the significance of these errors all the reader has to know is that the square targets have dimensions 20cm x 20cm and that the round white targets have a radius of 5cm.
Aren’t these “error-pictures” much more realistic and relevant than all the other ancillary, albeit interesting information such as the flying height of 50m, the wind speed of 5m/s, the GSD of 13mm, the MAP-M4 multirotor platform, the airframe mounted Sony a6000 camera with 14mm lens that was connected to a dual frequency on board V-Map GNSS receiver weighing only 130g (www.v-map.net), the average estimated 3D camera position accuracy of 3cm and the combined number of more than 50 man-years of experience in mapping under the belt of the map makers?
Oh, and never mind the fact that no Ground Control Points were used to make this map!
sUAS in the Oil and Gas World
drone2GIS Inc. offers a full geo-spatial service from Aerial Image Acquisition with small drones to specialized analysis and visualization of the high precision, ultra-realistic models we create of service corridors in the oil and gas industry. Never mind how difficult the terrain and field conditions, contact us for the safest and most efficient path to actionable information about your assets. Supported by our very own V-Map methodology we add precision and reliability to safety and efficiency. We bring reality from the harshest environments to the comforts of your desk, putting you fully in the picture as if you were “at the scene”. Welcome on board and enjoy this short inspection flight.
Promoting Small Drone Mapping
We are always glad to take on opportunities for the promotion of small drone mapping. What better way to do that than by helping with training and education of progressively thinking young land surveyors and mappers? When the Department of Geomatics of the University of Florida recently approached us for assistance in the teaching of their certificate course on UAV mapping, we volunteered to demonstrate our automated image acquisition procedure. We realize that a lot still has to be done to convince sceptic professionals that small drone mapping is a robust, reliable, accurate and extremely efficient approach to bring just-in-time actionable geo-spatial information to the desks of decision makers such as engineers, environmentalists and farmers.
Getting approval to conduct the flights over a suitable site on University property proved to be a frustrating exercise. So we decided to turn to the private sector for a more practical and timely solution and promptly received spontaneous approval from Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rogers, the owners of Rogers Farm. They kindly allowed us to conduct the field exercise on and over their land some 10 miles out of town.
Mr. Larry Rogers of Rogers Farm and Oliver Volkmann of drone2GIS Inc.
For this exercise it was decided to use ground control points (GCPs) for accurate geo-referencing of the models and maps produced from aerial images using the professional version of the Structure from Motion (SfM) Photoscan program.
Dr. Barnes using the V-Map System to accurately survey ground control points (GCPs)
The images were acquired with our customized mapping copter, the MAP-M4, designed, assembled, configured and tuned by our sister company Micro Aerial Projects L.L.C. (www.microaerialprojects.com).
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The students used a copy of the aerial images to produce project posters illustrating various facets of high resolution drone mapping. We ourselves will be using these high resolution images to investigate the use of the imagery to estimate strawberry yields.
Geomatics Students observing the action
Looking at the “hot of the press” aerial images for initial quality control
Strawberry Fields from the air…
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To return the favor of letting us fly over their property we produced a 3D model of a corn field maze which Rogers Farm annually prepares for their Octoberfest each year. So please do not be tempted to do the maze virtually – rather consult http://rogersfarm.webplus.net/page10.html and get some fresh air by visiting Rogers Farm during their Octoberfest from October 3rd through November 1st 2015.
Rogers Farm Corn Maze 2015
The small drone mapping revolution rolls on!
Posted on August 19, 2015 by Mary Jane Volkmann
The small drone mapping revolution rolls on! At drone2GIS Inc. we realize that our success depends on operational safety, efficiency and product quality. So behind the scenes you will find us time and again going back to our test bed for accuracy tests. That’s just part of an innovative surveying and mapping operation. Here you can see Oliver operating our MAP M4 system, equipped with V-Map for accurate camera exposure positioning, capturing yet more gigabytes of data for map quality validations.
The Mapping Revolution – Bringing the real world, to your desk!
drone2GIS Inc. is currently at the 60th Annual General Meeting of the Florida Surveying and Mapping Society (FSMS) in Naples Florida showcasing the revolutionary mapping capabilities of small unmanned aerial systems (drones) and Structure from Motion (SfM) processing software. With over 63 combined years of experience in general surveying, mapping and GIS as well as a combined 10 years of experience using UAVs for mapping, drone2GIS is your choice for high quality geospatial products.
In addition to showcasing our services, we are representing Micro Aerial Projects L.L.C. distributorship of the V-map System as well as the Bateleur Fixed Wing mapping UAV from Aeromapix. If you are in the area, feel free to come visit us at Booth 3 at the Naples Grande Beach Resort and Convention Center today, July 30th 2015 from 3PM and all day on July 31th 2015. If you are unable to swing by to talk about our services and these fantastic products, feel free to contact us anytime! For a glimpse of our body of work, take a look at the following video:
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FROM BIG DATA TO ESSENTIAL DATA
SMALL DRONES, OFF THE SHELF CAMERAS, STRUCTURE FROM MOTION (SfM) AND VIRTUAL SURVEYING FOR EFFICIENT, ACCURATE AND SAFE ROAD SURVEYING:
Affordable tools (drones, off the shelf high resolution cameras and structure from motion (SfM) software) are now lined up for efficient production of high quality BIG data – aerial images, point clouds and surface models can be delivered in very short times. But they constitute big, suffocating data for most standard engineering design applications such as CAD. The challenge is to efficiently extract the essentials from big data so that the engineers can get on with their work.
Figure 1 below shows an ortho photo of approximately 1700 foot of roadway, on average about 60 foot wide. This ortho photo was produced with Agisoft Photoscan Professional (an affordable Structure from Motion software package) from 382 aerial images collectively taking up about 3.7GB of disk space. Point cloud, surface geometry and texture together make up an additional 2.8GB. The Ortho Photo with GSD 0f 0.04’ in geotiff format occupies 127MB while the digital surface model, also in geotiff format, with 0.08’ grid size takes up 265MB. All of the 6.5GB of data was rolled out in a matter of less than 24 hours. But in this form the data is too big for practical use in most standard CAD packages.
Figure 1: High Resolution (GSD 0.04′) Ortho Photo and Digital Survace Model covering 1700′ of a 60′ wide roadway
Figure 2 below represents an oblique big data view of a section of the road.
Figure 2: Oblique view of big data, ready for analysis
Figure 3 shows the same view with features of interest vectorized and tightly draped over the 3D terrain.
Figure 3: Common road geometry features vectorized and superimposed “snugly” on the big data surface model.
Figure 4, shows the ESSENTIAL data that was extracted from BIG data using Virtual Survey Tools.
Figure 4: The essentials of road geometry, easily imported to CAD for further design tasks by engineers
Figure 5 below shows typical geometry features needed for road design work. Conventionally these features are surveyed either by terrestrial LIDAR or by real time kinematic (RTK) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) methods, both of which take substantially longer periods of time in field data acquisition and both of which require boots on the ground in the right of way for extended periods of time. Using small drones and off the shelf cameras the data acquisition effort, including ground control survey, is drastically reduced to about an hour on site, thus not only saving significant costs but also improving the safety of the survey crew. Using Virtual Survey Tools the features shown in Figure 5 were vectorized and exported to shp and dxf formats in approximately 8hrs – all in the comfort and safety of the office environment.
Figure 5: Typical road geometry features superimposed on high resolution ortho-photo.
The features depicted in Figure 5, when delivered in both dwg and shp formats together make up about 45MB of data.
The table below shows the relative storage requirements for the products resulting from a typical SfM work flow.
Table 1: Storage Space required for geo-spatial products generated in SfM workflow and subsequent feature extraction with Virtual Survey Methods
Figure 6: Relative Storage Space required for geo-spatial products generated in SfM workflow and subsequent feature extraction with Virtual Survey Methods.
And what about accuracy? Table 2 below shows a comparison of the coordinates derived from the SfM survey of 31 targeted check points with geodetic class GPS results.
Table 2: Comparison between SfM and GPS results
Utilizing appropriate visualization and virtual survey tools, the high resolution of the original imagery facilitates precise capturing of geometric features such as shown in Figure 7 below.
Figure 7: High resolution of ortho-photo and digital surface model ensure precise capturing of features in the comfort and safety of the virtual environment
Small drones, off the shelf cameras, structure from motion (SfM) software and virtual surveying are the new tools for accurate and safe road surveying.
Surveying, Drones, Mines and Data
Drone2GIS offers a safe, efficient and accurate alternative approach to the conventional surveying method employed in open cast mines, quarries and stock yards for data acquisition. Through the employment of Unmanned Aerial Systems, Drone2GIS delivers precise, high accuracy ortho-photos, digital terrain models and virtual realities. With these products, we can extract features and positions to produce the same products one would expect from a conventional survey without the safety risks of having boots on the ground. Data can be captured as and when needed without significant impact on the day to day operation of the site and at a fraction of the time it would otherwise take. Take stock of your inventory with accurate volume measurements, visualize your site without the stock piles, and get the data you need when you need it with minimal impact on production!
Surveying in an opencast mine, quarry or a stock yard has challenges. Setting up terrestrial scanners and other survey devices in the traffic of heavy equipment either slows down production or poses serious safety risks to the survey crews. Other safety and health risks involve steep ledges, potential for rock/land slides, noise and dust. Conventional surveying takes time, involves more than one person and can be very expensive. In addition to the safety concerns, logistics can also become difficult as parts of the location may need to be shut down while the survey takes place.
Our approach saves time and money while ensuring a safer operation without boots on the ground. Contact us at info@drone2GIS.com for more information on how we can help increase the safety, efficiency and profitability of your operation!
drone2GIS, More than just Maps!
Welcome to the new geospatial company on the block! Our experienced and highly qualified team is ready to bring you new and modern geospatial products. So whether you are a farmer, an earthworks contractor, a construction company, a mining operation, a utility company, a landscape or urban planner, an urban designer, a land developer, an architect, a civil or environmental engineer, a geologist, a forester, or an academic, contact us for your geospatial requirements.
Drone2GIS, when it has to be more than just maps!
The video below shows an example of our work in an agricultural setting:
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EVERYTHING HAS TWO SIDES!
Flipping Filip is a 2d adventure game with some action elements. The story of the game is based on a character named Filip who has two sides, a boring man and an interesting superhero who’s called Pilif.
Filip hates the other side of himself because he loves everything to be in its due order and escapes from anything that would disrupt his routines, but Pilif loves anarchy.
That makes a lot of problems for Filip, but everything goes worse when some robots attack the city…
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Editorial: A Deadly Charity
By Christina Claus -
I once donated to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), as I’m sure many others have, because who can resist those commercials urging us to symbolically adopt a snow leopard with the voiceover that says they need our help, its cute panda logo and its mission to “conserve nature and ecological processes by preserving biodiversity, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful use of resources and energy.”
But, after the recent allegations made by BuzzFeed News, which conducted a year-long investigation that revealed the WWF’s field staff have signed off on a proposal to kill trespassers, provided paramilitary forces with salaries, training and supplies, I’m ashamed to have given my dollars to them. The article, which contains imbedded links to documents that prove BuzzFeed’s assertion, follows the case of Shikharam Chaudry, who rangers believed helped his son bury a rhinoceros horn in his backyard. The rangers were unable to find the horn, but threw him in jail and beat him to death. Three park officials, who were funded by the WWF, were arrested and charged with murder. The WWF lobbied for the charges to disappeared, later hired one of the rangers to work for the charity and gave another an anti-poaching award. BuzzFeed News has since released two more articles claiming that WWF was warned years ago of the abuse and controversy of a new national park.
While the WWF claims it will be looking into the documents and interviews, U.S. lawmakers and even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, who sits on the U.S. board of the charity, have called for a swift and transparent review.
While I, and I’m sure many, support efforts to stop poaching and wildlife trafficking, it’s extremely disgraceful for the WWF to do this at the hands of innocent civilians. According to the uncovered reports, those who are even suspected of poaching—although there may be zero evidence against them—have been jailed, beaten and killed. If these allegations are true, this charity is creating a military who can act as judge, jury and executioner. But even for those who are proven poachers, should this charity be taking on these roles as well? Should these poachers not face a jury, be found guilty and have to spend years in prison as punishment?
While I hate poachers as much as the next person, because, there is no reason whatsoever for animals to be killed for profit, the WWF should not take the money of unknowing civilians in the name of protecting one species to kill another.
—Christina Claus
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Do I Have A Problem?
Author Topic: Do I Have A Problem? (Read 7985 times)
tomskerous
Re: Do I Have A Problem?
Ironically Tony Banks says he despised the thing, but it was the best they had at the time.
I guess Mellotrons are great at that particular stuff - if you're trying to make records that sound like they're from that era or draw heavily on it as a reference/inspiration/place to nick ideas from when you've run out.
As ever, I guess the membership is divided about whether Frost (or indeed any musicians since 1985) should still be trying to do that.
I was a victim of goose-flirting the other day.
This bleeding great goose came up to me and wanted a light.
I said no.
Goose, there\'ll be no flirting today.
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Quote from: "tomskerous"
Arrg! That's a pretty judgement-loaded way to look at it. The only reason one might use a mellotron sound is because they're trying to reference or lean on older music? Really?
What if it just happens to be the sound that works? What if you've tried "real" string samples and they sound too clean, and the wibbly-wobbly (timey-wimey?) texture of a mellotron gives you just the organic texture you want?
I don't love cliches, and I certainly celebrate innovation, but you can use any established sound as a crutch, and I don't understand why the mellotron has become the sole target of vitriol on this point (other than perhaps "because Jem said so").
Nobody heard You/I or Wonderland and thought "oh dear lord, he's using a piano? That's sooooo 300 years ago". And listen to Andy still using that tired old approach of hitting wooden tubes with skins stretched over them. That's thousands of years old. Can't he do something new?
But really what I wanted to say was:
LivingForever
Quote from: "SerFox"
But people who use the mellotron like this need to be bludgeoned to death with the damn thing, because it's fucking ridiculous.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4
I challenge someone to make a prog record using those ridiculous auto-rhythms! Love it...
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Brom
I just had this vision. Remember the Laurel and Hardy film where they are trying to shift a piano down some stairs, I'm imagining a video starring Jem who is trying to shift a mellotron with say the help of the rest of Frost*, then mixed in with the old Bernard Cribbins song about a group of guys trying to shift a piano.
Not right said Fred, but "Right said Jem", and with all the cups of tea there would be plenty of scope for biscuits too!
Ohh look, here it is on You Tube....
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Quote from: "vocalnick"
No, not the only reason. But it's *usually* the reason. :-)
My opinion, as I said further up, is that Cardiacs, Blur and many more have used Mellotrons post-prog to great effect - but they've been using the sound as a sound, to achieve and effect in their (largely standalone) track. They've not been using it to draw on its cultural baggage.
The upshot for me is that if you come onstage with a mellotron, you'd better make sure you've got a Kaoss pad, a laptop and a huge rack of samplers next to it or my heart is already sinking in anticipation. Because it's more likely that you're about to try to draw on cliche rather than creating something new.
(Similarly, I love my JX10 and all its huge rich pads - but I know they're unusable today lest I sound like a 'Go West' throwback. Instead I have to work really effing hard to make it produce sounds outside the 'comfy' late 80s zone - doubly hard as that was the time I was learning to play and program. And yes, I do sometimes have a wallow in the classic fat strings patch, but it would only ever be for personal consumption.)
Yes, but in fairness, if you're going to refer to things you've said earlier in the thread, then I'm going to have to pay closer attention, and I don't see how that's fair...
Nobody heard You/I or Wonderland and thought "oh dear lord, he's using a piano? That's sooooo 300 years ago".
Indeed, almost bang on with the date of the very earliest known piano-like keyboard, built by Bartolomeo Cristofori, keeper of the Medici's musical instruments in Florence. An inventory dated 1700 lists an instrument that he'd designed called "arpi cimbalo del piano e’ forte" (i.e. a harpsichord that could do soft and loud!), though the earliest extant "pianos" Cristofori built all date from the 1720s. Here's one of them:
Makes the Mellotron and Moog look uber-modern, doesn't it?
Orange and black keys? The freak!
And every time the roadies dropped it it would go out of bloody tune too!
Still probably more reliable than a mellotron though
More reliable than a Mac as well. Grrr...
Don't be silly, Macs always just work - they say so in their advertising so it must be true.
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That has a distinct look about it.
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Who fed P.Noy moronic information that he then used in his SONA?
benign0 - 8:30 pm
That is what a group of lawyers are asking now. They challenge President Benigno "P.Noy" Aquino III to reveal and hold accountable the people he relied on for vital information that was used as bases for making key assertions in a State of the Nation Address (SONA) he delivered to Congress on the 26th of July this year. These assertions have been under fire point-by-point in the days following the SONA with Malacanang hard-pressed but pathetically unable to put up a convincing rebuttal to any of the counter-assertions offered by Administration critics.
Clearly (though obviously not highlighted in most media outlets), the credibility of the Office of the President had been severely compromised by this bahala na SONA as the Manila Bulletin reports...
The National Association of Lawyers for Justice and Peace (NALJP) noted that the President’s credibility has been placed in serious jeopardy as a result of the wrong information he aired in his SoNA.
“Where is President Aquino getting his facts and figures? How can we be sure now of the accuracy and truth of whatever the administration will say?” the NALJP said in a statement sent to the media.
A few of the flawed points of the SONA were highlighted in the report:
Calamity fund given to former President Gloria Arroyo's district in Pampanga - P105m of the P200m remains "intact and undisbursed".
Alleged illegal housing project for MWSS personnel at the La Mesa Watershed -- evidence of legality presented and area shown to be "no longer part of the watershed".
Supposed depletion of the National Budget shown to be an exaggeration by Budget Secretary Florencio Abad himself.
The NALJP statement included this blunt call:
“The people have a right to know who is responsible and why. If nobody will be held responsible, then this administration should not be surprised if its credibility will be highly suspect, to say the least,” the statement said.
It added: “This administration is supposed to be on a reform agenda. How come they have been caught lying and misleading the people this early?”
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets...
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Accountability Presidency
The Philippine Guild 12:28 am, August 05, 2010
There is still God who is in control. The real president. I'm happy to wait for bad karma to come biting back and for good karma to propagate the truth. honestly with the current regime at the helm now, the yellow media will stop at nothing to propagate the yellow fever, including its lies.
Ronald Redito 3:21 am, August 05, 2010
It irritates me that I don't see this kind of issue in the mainstream media. Majority probably don't know about this.
ronald, don't count on seeing this on popular news. the reason why president noynoy's so bent on building his communications group is not to really propagate output update to the masses, but to defend himself from his own fear of being victimized in the media. he and his cohorts so successfully destroyed the former president in the news for 9 years or less that they're trying to bend the sword that they used to prick their favorite bash-subject because they are now the ones vulnerable to be pricked by it. kaya nga sila takot sa sariling multo nila.
Leo 1:43 am, August 06, 2010
There's another set of moronic data about PhilHealth. His researchers should be fired, giving him OLD data from USAID and telling him it's from PhilHealth.
"Kayo ang boss ko": Noynoy's epic cop-out
The Aquino Family Newsletter flashes a headline today whose oxymoronism will probably all but escape the vacuous sensibilities of its readership. Kayo ang boss ko ("You all are my boss"). That, in essence is the epic cop out of new Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
A chat with Ayn Rand fan and objectivism advocate Froilan Vincent
benign0 - 2:56 am
I had a nice chat with Ayn Rand online fan Froilan Vincent on the blog post "An advice to a dimwit" [sic] which he authored on his Randroid site Vincenton Post. Unfortunately much of the record of this revealing chat had been deleted from public eyes by Mr Vincent. Forunately I discovered that simply clicking on the "Back" button on my browser brought up cached pages of the site with the original text still on the comment submission form of the site. I thought I'd share these gems for those who are up for a bit of a laugh.
English vs Tagalog - Manuel Buencamino comes out a chump telling James Soriano off
As usual, ProPinoy.net resident Mr Important is trying to be cute in his latest blurb where he presumes to tell current hero of the Illustrado class, James Soriano a thing or two. Too bad that thing -- even two of it -- falls short on sense. Nice try, Mr Manuel Buencamino. But do think again.
English is just another means of communication.
That is true -- among a people who have strong traditions of scientific, technological, and commercial achievement. Thus among successful societies, it does not matter whether you speak English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Swedish, or Singlish. These languages -- and the people who speak them -- are peers among themselves.
Philippine porn industry worth $1B ranked eighth in the world
According to Noel Barcelona in a May 2009 American Chronicle article, the Philippines tied Canada in eighth place in terms of profits generated by the pornography industry in 2006. Presumably that data came from here.
Pornography is illegal in the Philippines. But that does not seem to deter an undeground industry from raking in megabucks to the tune of $1 billion dollars annually in net profit. That's money that most likely goes to foreign producers, with Philippine operations found to be serving more as subcontractors to these enterprising multinational "investors". And because it is all underground, not a single cent of it goes into public coffers.
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Tottenham Hotspur 1 Chelsea 0
By Michael Tucker, January 5 in Chelsea Matches
kev61
I was agreeing in principle, generally, although we played brilliantly, whilst pointing out that the record books will say otherwise. 1-0 due to a VAR penalty.
I don't get the conspiracy theories at all,but certain referees will favour certain teams and certain players that will affect their decisions(they are human)
A lot of manu fans were saying exactly the same thing about a conspiracy against them when Mourhino was in charge - however when there is vast amounts of money involved nothing would surprise me.
41 minutes ago, kev61 said:
In which case that last thing you should do is put them all together in a big Monday morning meeting and let them discuss why so many managers have said beastly things about them.
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9 hours ago, kev61 said:
Lets be honest, there are plenty of reasons why refs wouldn't like Mourinho. I think we're still suffering at the hands of referees after he went after them so hard during the title-winning season in 2014-15 (I don't think he was wrong most of the time either, the FA, PL and PGMOL just weren't happy that someone without the name Ferguson was daring to question the decisions of officials on a regular basis)
And they clearly pick out certain players. In the same way that violent conduct offences from the Bardsleys, Kevin Davies etc get casually ignored because they play for "physical sides"
Look what Mikel was booked and sent off for early in his PL career. Costa was being booked for being kicked, Matic got sent off for being annoyed that Ashley Barnes tried to break his leg. Even Morata on Saturday, the level of disinterest when he'd clearly been tripped going through on goal (granted he doesn't help himself, but a clear foul should not be ignored, especially given VAR was available)
2 hours ago, bert19 said:
I think we're still suffering at the hands of referees after he went after them so hard during the title-winning season in 2014-15
Really? 15/16 yes. 16/17 was as close to fair reffing as I can remember post RA. And that held right up to 2 or 3 weeks ago. Even now it feels a blip rather than a campaign.
I absolutely agree there have been clear campaigns in the past, but I think refs got over the JM period.
Actually the manager I feel sorry for is CA (not that I am a fan). Under CA we changed approach and went very very soft on refs and never said a word against them. It didn't work at all.
the FA, PL and PGMOL just weren't happy that someone without the name Ferguson was daring to question the decisions of officials on a regular basis
Ferguson, Wenger, Allardyce, Pulis, Hughes, you could name 2 dozen PL managers who complain about refs on a regular basis as much as JM. It is just that Ferguson and JM do it so elegantly and with panache.
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On 09/01/2019 at 9:13 PM, Ham said:
Whilst I get the gyst of your message it was LITERALLY the deciding issue.
Eh? It was in the 25th minute. Are you saying that it was too late for Chelsea to do anything about it? We had the majority of the game and it was a lack of ability to score that was the deciding issue. An issue that is becoming ever more evident as the season wears on.
3 hours ago, Holymoly said:
No. I'ts very clear what I'm saying. Whether we should have come back from it is another thing.
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Board index ‹ Comic Genesis Central ‹ General Discussion
Webcomic Above You 2013 - Reviews & Discussion
For discussions, announcements, non-technical questions and anything else comics-related or otherwise that doesn't fit in any of the other categories.
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Re: Webcomic Above You 2013 - Reviews & Discussion
by RobboAKAscooby on Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:41 pm
There haven't been any dramatics this year?!?
Awwww....
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by JSConner800 on Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:51 pm
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote: My eternal schlong unravels.
I have no idea what this means, and I really don't want to. All I know is, it's going in my sig.
djracodex wrote: I hate exposition. I know I have to write it and write it well or I will hate it more, but I hate it. I hate writing it, it hardly ever comes out naturally, and it's practically necessary in fantasy plots. I tried integrating it 'naturally' in an argument between Whini and Fetzim (old dude), and in banter with Rat, but it sounds like it did not achieve the "people actually having a conversation"-ness level.
Anybody have any good examples of fantasy-type exposition that's in-conversation and not a narrator?
A technique that I try to implement whenever possible (and one I've seen work to great effect) is to include an outsider in the beginning of a fantasy or sci-fi story. Your characters wouldn't logically be explaining things to each other that they already know, but to a character unfamiliar with their lives or their culture, it makes more sense. However, like with every kind of writing technique, this has to feel organic and crucial to the plot. You can't just throw an outsider character in for the exposition and then do nothing with them. They have to be integral to the plot and fully fleshed out characters in their own right, rather than just a receptacle to dump exposition into. This will both make your exposition more interesting and it will better disguise the fact that it's even exposition in the first place. It's not an exposition easy button, but if you're having trouble delivering background info through conversation between characters already familiar with the world, it's slightly easier to accomplish than that.
I do think it's possible to pull off exposition between characters that are already residents of the fantasy world, but information has to be doled out at a digestible pace, and in a manner where logic can fill in the gaps that these characters wouldn't bother to explain to each other. I read through the beginning of Masadjra, and while you do a good job of avoiding unnatural exposition, you do throw out a few too many new concepts a bit too quickly, and I think that's part of the problem. If a reader doesn't understand a term you've thrown out, but they have some idea of what it is and they understand enough of the plot to move forward, that builds curiosity and implicitly promises an explanation later. If a reader doesn't understand *most* of the terms you're throwing out and has only a vague idea of what's happening, they're less likely to be engaged by the lack of exposition and more likely to glaze over or give up. For example, I was interested in what a Raze King was, but then there was something about a Crowned King, and there's the Djra and the Fury and some kind of giant sabertooth tiger fossil. After 20 pages, I didn't feel like I had a grasp on any of these things, except there was one mention that the Djra were fighters of some kind, and I can guess that they're a separate race or tribe. If you can slow it down and find a way to explain at least some of these things, you'll be in pretty good shape. Maybe you already have in the next 10 pages, but either way it's something to keep in mind for the future.
And since I enjoy tooting my own horn, here's Steel Salvation as an example of the latter type of exposition. I don't think it's the most organic (ha!) exposition I've ever done, but Humbug liked it, and it does the job. I'd say the heaviest exposition is strips 2-6. I'm a fan of layering dialogue over different-but-related scenes to create a kind of faux-narration, and you might want to consider that technique as well. That way, you can continue doing something interesting with the visuals while explaining a new or difficult concept, and in the best case scenario, the visuals will complement the dialogue in some way.
My eternal schlong unravels - VeryCuddlyCornpone
JSConner800
by Sortelli on Wed Jun 26, 2013 2:39 pm
OKAY HERE'S MY REVIEW FOR QUEST
Quest follows a formula that's near and dear to many authors, myself included. Take the characters out of a roleplaying game and tell their stories. It's been done many, many times before with varying levels of success. If there's anything that distinguishes a successful comic in this genre from a poor one, it's this:
Stories are just not a bunch of things that happened, followed by a bunch of other things that happened.
Any fantasy game will include a storytelling aspect, but that does not make campaigns into stories nor does that make player characters into ... well ... characters. I have been there and I have drawn these very same comics myself, so even though this is going to be a pretty harsh review it is coming from my heart with fondness.
The worst thing any fantasy gaming comic can do is be a straight retelling of events from gaming sessions, and unfortunately Quest does this. And it's been doing this for more than five hundred comics, although the first two hundred or so are stored on another site (which I have not read), with a small prologue focusing on the character Ghostlight to replace them on the main one.
It's critically important to make changes like the prologue to turn the chronicles of an adventuring group into a good story where readers can watch characters grow and develop. The prologue gives us a lot of necessary information on Ghost, and also foreshadows her ability to call up obscure lore when necessary, which is partly why I had a much better time understanding her place in the story than the other characters... a lot of whom I could not tell you very much about even after reading the archives and their bios.
Speaking of the other characters:
http://quest.comicgenesis.com/Cast.html
I kind of hate critiquing them as characters in a story when I know that all of these people were being played by a group of friends who had a great time with them, but that's part of the wide gulf between storytelling games and storytelling for an audience.
Norten is one of the more relatable members of the cast, and when something happens in the story it is often because of him. Characters like this are a mainstay in any adventure story, but at the moment Norten appears to be a pile of ash due to his love of close range pyrotechnics. This does not contradict his bio, which explains that he'll do everything he can when the party is in danger despite being greedy and obnoxious otherwise. But his most valued possession is his dog Bernard, which has saved his life on multiple occasions... and I don't recall one of them let alone seeing this dog at all.
Katie is prominently displayed alongside Ghost on the title banner but all I really know about her is that she wants to go home. Her bio tells us more about her family, who are not in the story at all. Still, she fills a very recognizable and relatable role and her behavior is a natural contrast to Norten.
Tessa the paladin is cut straight from cliche roleplaying stock. The first words of her bio are "Not much is known about Tessa."
In order to function in a party with less legally inclined characters Tessa is stupid and or crazy whenever she needs to be, and loud and judgemental whenever people need to be reminded that she is a "paladin." This is really the worst kind of character, a character that can't even be true to what she is supposed to be, and none of Tessa's scenes make her relatable, even those that try to explain her inner thoughts with a literal shoulder devil and angel.
Char the streetrat has had some good moments of characterization and could be a solid addition to a story if handled properly. The best moment with Char is when she refuses a bribe after graphically recalling the tragedy of her early life in contrast to her life with her companions, chosing loyalty to them over money. Unfortunately, apart from that scene Char tends to just be the short one who isn't Norten.
Lastly there is Orion who... uh... he's got a rapier and he's handsome. He's really hard to see on the page because I either mistake him for Katie or he's not doing anything. His bio says that the Falcon God set him on his path, but if that's ever been mentioned in the comic I missed it.
I worry that I missed a lot in this comic, honestly. I read the whole archive but a lot of times the page composition made it hard to follow what was going on and who was doing it. ALTHOUGH I really, really appreciate the effort that went into being as absolutely far from the Questionable Content school of People Standing and Talking While Viewed At Eye Level. Almost every single page has a panel that is attempting to be creative, and even though sometimes those attempts do not succeed I really, really appreciate the effort. Sadly, I can't pick up a lot of improvement on page layout from strip 200 to 500. If anything, more of of the panels I like tend to happen back at the start of the archive.
Here's a great old page: http://quest.comicgenesis.com/d/20071015.html
Here's a bad recent page: http://quest.comicgenesis.com/d/20120822.html
Storywise, sadly, a lot of what is going on comes out of commercial DnD campaign material which just feels like a huge mistake. That's telling someone else's story with your own characters, and packaged adventures are about producing amazing game sessions, NOT amazing stories.
When the story does do something well I find myself wishing it had been done better, like Norten's explosive sacrifice which was not nearly as dramatic as the prior explosive sacrifice where he literally dive-bombed a massive snake monster that had charmed the entire party into preparing themselves for dinner.
Speaking of the snake monster, Tessa the paladin was the only one who could resist the charm and yet she went out of her way to be as useless as possible by ignoring the danger until she could be neatly subdued. If she did not exist the story could have happened exactly as it did, but yet she needed to be included because she was there. This would have been a perfect time to change things for the sake of the story by either making Tessa fall victim to the charm like the others, or making her ability to resist said charm more significant.
One circumstance which I did appreciate was a moment when Ghostlight calls out Norten and Char for wearing bad elf disguises by describing exactly how fake ears do nothing to disguise non-elvish facial features or vocal characteristics. This came up again later when Ghostlight realizes that the elvish Baron is also not fully elvish for the same reasons. These are two incidents that would perfectly fit a tighter story arc by establishing a fact in advance so that it can be significant again later.
I hope that Quest will ultimately be a stepping stone into a better, non-game related comic (fantasy or otherwise). In order for it to do that, though, the author will first need to commit to making each page better. 500 comics is only an achievement if there's growth from the first page to the last. It'd also be nice to get to know these characters outside of their game histories in stories that allow them more room to be who they are.
Secure. Contain. Protect.
No Scrying
Sortelli
Location: in your grandpa's clothes, I look incredible
by LadySol on Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:21 pm
Hi Sortelli,
Thanks for reviewing my comic. It is good to have an outside perspective at times, because from the inside I tend to miss things like this
Char tends to just be the short one who isn't Norten.
I was confused for a moment when I first read it, as I tend to think of Char as one of my most developed characters. Then I pondered it a bit and realized that while Char gets prominent screen time and development in the first 200 pages, she has been drifting more in the background recently. The development part is true of Katie too, though she has trouble not dragging the spotlight back to herself. Since I split the comic after the fact, when I was around page 480 or so, it completely slipped my mind that I'd have to go back and reestablish the characters for new readers. Amateur storytelling mistake, I suppose.
This also explains things like the mention of Norten's dog in his bio, (he loses it due to the events in Quest: Early Adventures). I really need to go back and make some changes so that Quest: a Masquerade is more readable as a stand alone. Thanks for pointing this out.
As for Orion, I completely agree. The poor guy is neglected. He's got two measly moments in the spotlight, which start here http://quest.comicgenesis.com/d/20080321.html and here http://quest.comicgenesis.com/d/20100419.html . They must be pretty forgettable anyhow, because you mention not remembering anything about his connection to the Falcon God in the comic, and they both refer to it. Developing Orion better is definitely on my list of things to do as the comic progresses. I keep having trouble though, because every time I set out to write a storyline about him some other character butts in and demands the spotlight.
Overall this seems like a pretty fair review and I think it will be helpful to me. Thanks again.
LadySol
by Sortelli on Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:22 pm
I'll have to go back and read the original stories sometime. I do think Char has a lot of potential as a character, and I like seeing a normal human be that short in a fantasy story and still be human, since it's completely within the range of human body sizes. Keep on comickin', you've got a natural understanding of the medium that a lot of people doing webcomics don't and practice and learning will unlock that. Just don't let the grind force you into cutting any corners.
by LadySol on Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:22 am
Review for Freakboy Did a Bad Thing
http://freakboy.smackjeeves.com/
Freakboy Did a Bad Thing really surprised me. From just glancing at the art and title I was expecting either a gory, romping, murdering story or a string of slapstick strips. Freakboy is neither and far more interesting.
The story is still in its infancy with only a wee 24 pages to its name, but you can already see the world falling into place. It is a world which seems to be a strange, eerie parallel to our own where the indistinguishable masses are kept complacent and entertained by inane reality-based TV. A doom-like horror of what we could become, if you will.
The people in Freak-verse are all literally clones of each other. They come from factories, they look identical, and, in most cases, wear the same clothes. As you might imagine in a world of such sameness, being different can be a very bad thing.
Enter Freakboy, the main character. He is billed by the rest of the cast as a heartless, mass murderer, but there is obviously more to the story. The author has portrayed him as the most human of the characters. In only the few pages we've seen so far he's been worried, depressed, afraid and even concerned about the well being of another. I find myself wondering if he is really guilty of the crimes they accuse him of, or just guilty of being different and therefore became an easy target.
As for the rest of the cast, at this point all we've seen are varying flavors cruelty. I don't know if they will stay that way, or if the author will get around to fleshing them out. I'm not inclined to take points off about this yet as it seems the point of the introduction seems to have been introducing Freakboy and the terrible isolation and conditions in which he lives.
The art of Freakboy Did a Bad Thing is … unusual. I find myself going back and forth on whether I like it or not. It is all black and white and has a sketchy quality to it as if done with a ball point pen all in one go. Characters are cartoonish, but reasonably anatomically accurate, except the head, which is an over-sized balloon with no nose http://freakboy.smackjeeves.com/comics/1715948/chapter-1-page-15/. They are also really, really ugly, but ugly in an okay way. Freak-verse is an ugly place, and the way the characters are drawn fits and reinforces that. The author also uses the size of the facial features and their lack of true anatomy to good effect. A large range of emotions are conveyed and they are always easy to read.
You don't come to Freakboy to see the backgrounds. There are enough to keep you grounded in the scene, but mostly the author prefers plain black or white space or the use of crazy patterns. When they are done though, the backgrounds tend to be nicely proportioned and highly detailed. An odd feature about them is that besides the set of the reality show, every location (mind you there are only two others so far) seems to be literally falling apart, with peeling paint, plaster, potential blood smears and dirt everywhere. Combined with the waviness of all the panels it feels like the universe is in danger of disassembling. Or perhaps all of Freak-verse is the demented dream of the floating smiley face.
Behind it all, behind the scenes and behind the actions of the characters themselves, we see the disembodied smiley over and over http://freakboy.smackjeeves.com/comics/1720079/chapter-1-page-16/. It is almost omnipresent and may be seeing and controlling everything in a very Big Brother-esque fashion. This could be very meta, since the smiley face is also LibertyCabbage's avatar; however, I understand that the Freakboy story takes place in the same expanded universe as LC's other comics, so there may be some deeper meaning I'm missing.
The idea of a puppet master writing out the script that everyone must follow is intriguing and would explain a few things about the Freakboy universe. For instance, how everything seems to be on infinite loop: the game show that repeats itself with constant, minor variation every few hours, the lines that get used over and over again “So tell us, Freakboy... What's it like to kill someone?” http://freakboy.smackjeeves.com/comics/1755441/chapter-1-page-24/, even the sameness of clones. It makes you stop and wonder.
Freakboy is a very strange comic that is being well handled. I'm interested to see where it goes in the future.
by LibertyCabbage on Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:08 pm
Thanks for the review! You brought up a lot of really good points.
LadySol wrote: Freakboy Did a Bad Thing really surprised me. From just glancing at the art and title I was expecting either a gory, romping, murdering story or a string of slapstick strips. Freakboy is neither and far more interesting.
It's kinda funny that you phrased it that way since the former exactly describes Orange Revolution and the latter exactly describes Freedom Fries. So I'm glad that Freakboy seems to represent an evolution from those earlier projects.
LadySol wrote: The story is still in its infancy with only a wee 24 pages to its name, but you can already see the world falling into place. It is a world which seems to be a strange, eerie parallel to our own where the indistinguishable masses are kept complacent and entertained by inane reality-based TV. A doom-like horror of what we could become, if you will.
I like that it's plausible that Freakboy can be seen as representing our own dystopian future as opposed to, say, just an alternate reality. As ridiculous as it all is, a lot of it's rooted in reality to some extent, even if it's in subtle ways. I actually just saw this article the other day, titled "Study: TV's Newest Obsession Is Serial Killers," and it's just weird reading it in context of what's been discussed in these reviews.
LadySol wrote: I find myself wondering if he is really guilty of the crimes they accuse him of, or just guilty of being different and therefore became an easy target.
As I mentioned in response to the previous reviews, I intended it to be suspicious, so I'm glad that his past seems ambiguous even though he admits over and over that he's guilty.
LadySol wrote: As for the rest of the cast, at this point all we've seen are varying flavors cruelty. I don't know if they will stay that way, or if the author will get around to fleshing them out. I'm not inclined to take points off about this yet as it seems the point of the introduction seems to have been introducing Freakboy and the terrible isolation and conditions in which he lives.
It's a little disappointing that I couldn't fit more into the first chapter, but like you recognized, I felt like I needed all 24 of those pages to just set up what's going on. Hopefully, I'll have the second chapter done by the time next year's W.A.Y. rolls around, so I'll see how things are at halftime then.
LadySol wrote: A large range of emotions are conveyed and they are always easy to read.
That's great to hear since it's probably the main aspect of the artwork I worry about getting right.
LadySol wrote: An odd feature about them is that besides the set of the reality show, every location (mind you there are only two others so far) seems to be literally falling apart, with peeling paint, plaster, potential blood smears and dirt everywhere.
I'm glad you mentioned that since there's such a disconnect between the show and the rest of the comic. And you're right that no one in the comic seems to care that things are falling apart because everyone's so focused on the show.
LadySol wrote: It is almost omnipresent and may be seeing and controlling everything in a very Big Brother-esque fashion. This could be very meta, since the smiley face is also LibertyCabbage's avatar; however, I understand that the Freakboy story takes place in the same expanded universe as LC's other comics, so there may be some deeper meaning I'm missing.
The setting's definitely influenced by this sort of 1984/Brave New World dystopian concept, and I'll say that the symbol's intended to be more in line with that than anything meta.
LadySol wrote: The idea of a puppet master writing out the script that everyone must follow is intriguing and would explain a few things about the Freakboy universe. For instance, how everything seems to be on infinite loop: the game show that repeats itself with constant, minor variation every few hours, the lines that get used over and over again “So tell us, Freakboy... What's it like to kill someone?” http://freakboy.smackjeeves.com/comics/ ... 1-page-24/, even the sameness of clones. It makes you stop and wonder.
Yeah, exactly. Repetition's meant as kind of the main theme of Chapter 1, at least from a narrative perspective.
LadySol wrote: Freakboy is a very strange comic that is being well handled. I'm interested to see where it goes in the future.
It's nice to get some positive feedback after starting working on what feels like a risky concept. It's great that some people are getting enjoyment out of it, and I'm gonna keep trying to push myself and make the best pages I can. Thanks again for providing your insight.
"Seems like the only comics that would be good to this person are super action crazy lines, mega poses!"
LibertyCabbage
by Yeahduff on Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:18 am
LibertyCabbage wrote: Webcomic: Murder on the 95th/Dan Ryan
Well fuck.
LibertyCabbage wrote: However, despite the minimal amount of text on the site, the creator misspelled "Available Now" on the home page.
Oy. That was a long night.
LibertyCabbage wrote: While the protagonist comes across as a miserable jerk, his glimpses of humility help make him a likable and sympathetic character. This is most apparent in the panels involving alcohol, such as the scribbly black cloud around a bottle marked "Booze" on Page 4 that has a caption starting with "I live my life in a haze." The subject then comes up twice on the next page, with the protagonist referring to himself as a "borderline alcoholic," and then being shown depressed at home next to a bottle of liquor. A self-destructive cycle's suggested by these pages, in which the protagonist's drunkenness inhibits his ability to process his psychological issues, which contributes to his "miserable existence" that he relies on alcohol to rescue him from. At one point, he suggests "just taking a sober analysis of the situation," with sober having a double meaning, but he rejects this idea in favor of "the path of least resistance," which is continuing to use alcohol to help him ignore his problems.
Beginning to think I have a bit of an alcohol problem. I mean, not in terms of my consumption (I can stop any time I want) but in maybe it's a bit of a fixation I have in my writing. Though I suppose if I stay North of after-school-special territory and continue to treat alcoholism as a joke I'm probably good.
LibertyCabbage wrote: Another way that the protagonist's made more likable is the way that he oscillates between casual and sophisticated dialogue, putting the reader in a position where they can be caught off-guard. The story's set up in a way that the pages alternate in tone, with Pages 1, 3, and 5 showing the most conviction while Pages 2, 4, and 6 display a more uncertain protagonist. In the former, he's more focused, coherent, and eloquent, while in the latter, he speaks in a disjointed, informal style while making hipster-esque pop culture references to Downton Abbey, J Mascis, and "prog rock." The best example of this is on Page 3, where right after confessing to "misogynistic bullshit," the protagonist confidently states that "it's also a pathological aversion to succumbing to superficiality combined with a complete mistrust in my own instincts," suggesting to the reader that the situation may be more complicated than it seems. This level of inconsistency would be problematic in a more normal webcomic, but it works well here because the character's presented as being heavily flawed from the start.
The first thing someone told me after reading this was, "You use a lot of big words."
LibertyCabbage wrote: A cover might not seem necessary for a six-page story, but this one's very effective because of its simplistic approach. An image of a cute girl next to the word "Murder" on a red background makes it clear to the reader that she's being conveyed as a victim, which illustrates the point the protagonist tries to make later in the story. Based on his seedy appearance, it's initially plausible that he might be the one who kills her, making his suspicion of her a clever and unexpected twist.
This is really interesting. On the aforementioned "long night" I had a few ideas for a cover and they all fell apart, so I took the cheap way out and put the cute girl up there. And I did wonder how that image and the big red "MURDER" played together but never got to any conclusive thoughts about it. Glad it ended up being thematically perfect by at least one analytical reader.
LibertyCabbage wrote: This comic makes the argument as well as any other I've seen that a creator doesn't need a significant amount of pages to tell a compelling and complex story. Its distinctly urban setting supplies an artistic flair while also making its subject matter highly relatable. Murder on the 95th/Dan Ryan's an expertly illustrated short story that will present a pleasant challenge for anyone looking for something on the heavier side to read.
Well that certainly checks all the boxes of my agenda as far this work goes.
Fine piece of writing there, mostly because you liked my story/rant, but also because you give the kind of thoughtful analysis that comics deserve as much as any other form. Keep it up.
I won't be the stars in your dark night.
Yeahduff
Resident Stoic (Moderator)
Location: I jumped into your grave and died.
by LibertyCabbage on Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:35 am
Yeahduff wrote: Beginning to think I have a bit of an alcohol problem. I mean, not in terms of my consumption (I can stop any time I want) but in maybe it's a bit of a fixation I have in my writing. Though I suppose if I stay North of after-school-special territory and continue to treat alcoholism as a joke I'm probably good.
I think the alcoholism's handled in a mature way. But I don't see fixations in writing as being that much of a problem anyways. Drawing a story you're personally invested in's a lot better than trying too hard to be "normal" and either getting creative block or just feeling "meh" about the story.
Yeahduff wrote: The first thing someone told me after reading this was, "You use a lot of big words."
I'd say that that person's not part of the story's target audience.
Yeahduff wrote: This is really interesting. On the aforementioned "long night" I had a few ideas for a cover and they all fell apart, so I took the cheap way out and put the cute girl up there. And I did wonder how that image and the big red "MURDER" played together but never got to any conclusive thoughts about it. Glad it ended up being thematically perfect by at least one analytical reader.
It kinda goes with the scene where the protagonist imagines getting arrested. Somebody gets killed, and everyone's automatically pointing their finger at the shadiest-looking person around. So, what the cover does is it reminds the reader that, yeah, they'd probably be pointing their finger too if they were in that situation.
Yeahduff wrote: Fine piece of writing there, mostly because you liked my story/rant, but also because you give the kind of thoughtful analysis that comics deserve as much as any other form. Keep it up.
Well, it's a treat to get to do this kind of literary analysis once in a while since most webcomics just don't have that much substance.
And here's the updated W.A.Y. 2013 list:
Freakboy Did a Bad Thing -- reviewed by VeryCuddlyCornpone -- review
Loud Era -- reviewed by IVstudios -- review
Inhumation -- reviewed by djracodex -- review
Masadjra -- reviewed by VeryCuddlyCornpone -- review
Loud Era -- reviewed by Sortelli -- review
No Scrying -- reviewed by JSConner800 -- review
Steel Salvation -- reviewed by Humbug -- review
Crux -- reviewed by Yeahduff -- incomplete
Murder on the 95th/Dan Ryan -- reviewed by LibertyCabbage -- review
Freakboy Did a Bad Thing -- reviewed by JSConner800 -- review
Steel Salvation -- reviewed by VeryCuddlyCornpone -- incomplete
Loud Era -- reviewed by LibertyCabbage -- incomplete
Freakboy Did a Bad Thing -- reviewed by LadySol -- review
Quest -- reviewed by Sortelli -- review
No Scrying -- reviewed by djracodex -- incomplete
Masadjra -- reviewed by ????
by VeryCuddlyCornpone on Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:40 pm
I'll be digging in to Steel Salvation after I've finished catching up on Mansion of E and interviewing our favorite clam for his 10th anniversary.
Don't kid yourself, friend. I still know how.
"I'd much rather dream about my co-written Meth Beatdown script tonight." -JSConner800000000
VeryCuddlyCornpone
Location: the spoonited plates of Americup
by robotthepirate on Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:08 am
This is doing well this year. I'm impressed.
Whoevers last on the list on the 19th (or thereabouts) gets reviewed by me (unless I forget to come back and stake my claim), because that's when S-C finishes running it's first episode. Given that it's my first attempt at writing al-sit-com-esc I expect to be torn to shreds. I am quite the fan of good sit-coms and S-C is not one, yet.
robotthepirate
Location: Staffordshire, UK
by JSConner800 on Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:20 pm
VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote: I'll be digging in to Steel Salvation after I've finished catching up on Mansion of E and interviewing our favorite clam for his 10th anniversary.
Please, take your time. Our graphic designer has run into a whole pile of technical difficulties, and probably won't be getting strip 14 up until tonight (normal updates are on Fridays). If you wait until at least this weekend to start reading, you should have at least 14 and, if he manages to get back on track, 15 whopping pages to critique.
schwop
by VeryCuddlyCornpone on Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:46 pm
Steel Salvation by J.S. Conner (writing), Evan Ledesma (art), Alex Mattingly (art & design)
Pages: 17, including cover page
Running since: April 5, 2013
Updates: Fridays
Status: Updating on schedule, chapter 1
My first reaction upon loading the Steel Salvation site is simply how nice the website is. The monochrome scheme matches the look of the comic, the design overall just is wonderfully cohesive and atmospheric. It’s a very well put together site that isn’t cluttered with needless junk. Everything on the page suits the purpose of the comic and doesn’t detract from the reading of the comic.
A few notes on the design and extra pages- I like the way social media integration is presented at the bottom of the site. The logos everyone recognizes have been modified to black and white, making them really unobtrusive while at the same time easy to find for anyone who wants to use them. The about page is a wordy thing, which is par for the course for about pages. The only suggestion I have here is to perhaps add some anchoring links at the top of the page to each section that gets discussed, only because the “world” section is so long that I don’t know how many readers would read that far or bother to scroll past it to see the additional sections underneath. Perhaps this section could even be shortened, but it’s just an extra page and not something that needs hand-wringing over.
The contact page is clean and simple, and even the pages that are under construction are absolutely adorable. I need to take a minute to gush about the archive page. Each page is represented by a thumbnail taken from that page, which upon mouse-over reveals the title, date, and a brief summary of that page. Easily the most in depth and creative archive system I’ve seen.
My one and only issue with the design at all is the nature of the navigation buttons on either side of the comic. I love that they match the style, but because they’re so stylized and unusual I thought they were just site decoration at first and it took me a minute to figure out how to move to a different page. It might just be me being dumb, but I would suggest making them just a little bit bigger/more obvious.
I do like that these navigational buttons remain in place as you traverse through the comic! No matter how long the page is, the reader can leave their cursor in the same place while scrolling, as the comic moves independent of the frame around it. This is just really nice and I wish more comics (at least those that don’t have image-click navigation) would integrate something similar.
Onto the comic itself. The opening of the story is well done. The exposition is rather subtly conveyed through the text, almost poetic without getting overly prosacious. It’s still very, very early in the story, so there isn’t much I can comment on regarding the storytelling besides that the opening is very sturdy. I’m enjoying our trip-down-memory-lane/flashback sequence that is currently taking place. Our main character Dy-Gar is a destructive and misanthropic robot on a mission to tear the shit out of shit. I really like the way The Goddess, who in the flashback seems to be revealed as Dy-Gar’s human creator, is portrayed, especially the contrast between how Dy-Gar pictures/sees her in the present storyline versus how she appears in the memory/flashback. It may be too early to tell yet, but it makes me think that beliefs, religion, faith, and theism in general may be a key theme in Steel Salvation, with Dy-Gar acting as an allegory for a person who has become disillusioned with a god they may or may not have ever really “believed” in, without outright denying the existence of such a being. Though it could be just gillywilly speculation on my part!
The vertically long pages are pleasant to read. Most of the comic is obscured as one scrolled, so (at least on my own display) it tends to be read one panel at a time. This creates pacing effect that allows us to linger naturally on each panel to process it, adding a temporal element to the reading without slowing it down so much as to cause issues (a complaint I’ve heard about some single-panel comics, like Ava’s Demon). I imagine this compositional tool will be exploited later on when fast action scenes may appear.
Since the story is so young, I feel I might have more to say about the art, since there’s more to grab onto. The art is simplistic and a bit cute. I think the expressiveness could stand to be pushed a bit more. The line art is thick and steady, and it leads to somewhat of a rigid appearance. Most of the subjects depicted are inorganic, so I understand the reasons behind keeping lines straight and clean, but playing up the natural warp of perspective could help to add some visual interest. I feel like because of the tone of the story, this is the kind of comic that could work with the art being clean and structural but a bit “off” and weird. After all, Dy-Gar talks for a bit about humansinfusing their creations with needless and organic-like imperfections. Using imagery to back this up could help readers understand Dy-Gar as a character more, as well as contribute to a more unsettling vibe.
Steel Salvation is a bit unusual in the sense that the art is shaded entirely in monochrome flats with occasional stepped gradients. I think the values could stand to be pushed a bit more, because that and line art are what really will give this art style depth. They aren’t bad as-is, but I think they could be a little bolder and contrasting, like the bottom half of this page, and this one. I do like the flats. It’s unique because usually monochrome artists use hatching, screentones, or proliferous gradients. Flats tend to be the realm of color artists who either draw in a flash/modern “clean” style, or who don’t understand shading well enough to apply it to their own art (cough).
I like the simplicity, but I can’t help but feel, when I look at the art of Steel Salvation, as though something is missing. I think because of the size of the comic on my laptop screen, there’s so much room that I expect to see more details, though I’m not entirely sure they’d be needed. I imagine the clarity would make the comic superb for those reading on smaller screen mobile devices. In today’s times, I can’t really advise going against any designs that make a comic more appealing and accessible to mobile readers. I think this is what my issue is, mainly. The comic (aside from what would probably look to be too small of a font in this scenario, perhaps) is well suited to a smaller display. The mostly stable line thickness contributes to this. It’s not the kind of comic where you worry about all the small details you’re missing, because there are no small details.
I’m not sure this is exactly a “problem,” or, if it was one, how one would go about fixing it. Either way, my two cents.
I think the writing is the comic’s strongest asset, followed very closely by the site design, and then by the art. Even the art, though I’ve placed it last, is pleasantly clean and rather engaging. Easily more capable than many more established comics, regardless of the issue I monologued about just earlier.
Final Thoughts: Overall, this comic is off to an exceptionally strong start. The opening is interesting and thought provoking, and introduces canon quite adeptly. The art is well-structured, readable, purposeful and easy to understand, and the site design just makes it so darn easy for readers it should make everyone else ashamed of themselves. I’m interested in following this comic in the future and would like to see where it goes.
Suggestions to the creators: You’ve all started off on the right foot, and it’s clear that you work well as a team together. There’s not much else I can say that wasn’t already mentioned. Keep doing your thing, and may many readers come a-knocking at your figurative door.
I would recommend this comic to: People who like kinda dystopian seeming stories, People who need good ideas about webcomic site design, People who want to read a comic that’s just started, People who really like clean and uncluttered art, People who like sentient robots.
by djracodex on Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:37 am
Pinkie Promise: My review for No Scrying will be posted by this weekend
djracodex
by Sortelli on Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:32 am
(be as mean as you want I'm anxious to know what I'm doing wrong and missing.)
Webcomic: Loud Era
URL: http://loudera.smackjeeves.com
Creator/s: Michelle Mau
Run: 9/09-current
Schedule: About twice a week
Section/s: Ch. 4, "Letters"
Website: It's undergone some pleasant aesthetic changes lately, with gold-colored images and text being a dominant element. And the switch to being exclusively on Smack Jeeves has eliminated the problems that the Comic Genesis site had with its archives page. The creator's also been fairly successful at sticking to a Tuesdays and Fridays schedule, or at least something close to it, which is an improvement over the erratic schedule the comic had previously.
Writing: When I reviewed Loud Era last year, the comic had eight main characters and 14 minor characters, leading me to complain that "I'd rather see a handful of well-developed characters than an army of undeveloped ones." I hoped that Chapter 4 would show a change in direction by focusing on certain members of the cast more, but, unfortunately, the creator chose to literally provide an army by introducing readers to Ulysses' war buddies in Europe. While it's a cool idea to tie the story into a major historical event like World War I, changing continents to add even more minor characters to the bloated cast is the opposite of what I would've liked to see. However, when the action returns to Wallwater, the creator continues to focus on new minor characters, adding Cecilia's dad, Tony's boss, Tony's mom, and Aggie's boyfriend to the mix. In total, Chapter 4 brings the character count up to 30, introducing eight new characters in just 29 pages.
On the one hand, the creator's skillful at designing characters, and all of the new ones are distinct and likable. Cecilia's oblivious dad stands out in particular, as his pushy-but-amiable attempt at setting Cecilia up with a guy she clearly has no interest in is one of the comic's funnier moments. On the other hand, though, what about all of the characters introduced in previous chapters, who are also well-designed, distinct, and likable? It's irritating that the creator seems content to create colorful characters that readers become interested in, and then show no inclination to use those characters again, at least not for a long time. Faced with the difficult task of having to develop all of these main characters, the creator's put herself in the awkward position of having the minor ones compete heavily for the limited page space available. With the way the comic's been going, I'm skeptical that I'll see my favorite minor characters in the future, which makes the scenes they appear in seem somewhat superfluous.
With that heavy dose of negativity out of the way, the chapter actually features the best dialogue and pacing in the comic so far, showing that the creator's been able to improve upon her already notable writing ability. Particularly impressive is the scene where Clarabelle rejects Leon out of fear that her parents would disapprove of her dating someone Jewish. It's a bold move for the creator to incorporate a sensitive subject like this into the story, and it reminds readers that the characters are living in a time when ethnocentrism was more pervasive. The creator also successfully handles a wide range of emotions in the chapter, with the first half focusing on humorous scenes while the second half includes a depressing goodbye letter and Aggie and Clarabelle's bitter confrontation. The transitions are another aspect that's handled well, as the boxing film follows a letter about a fight, and the goodbye letter's followed by a shot of Aggie at a train station. Letters, being the chapter's title, are a motif throughout the scenes, as Cecilia receives one as well, and it works as a historical reference to the old days, back before everyone communicated electronically. Finally, by featuring Aggie, Tony, and Ulysses this time around, the creator gives some much-needed page time to the comic's most neglected main characters. This chapter represents a step up in quality from the previous ones, and it's great to see a webcomic in its fourth year still getting better.
*continued in the next post*
Art: The creator makes sort of a fuss during the chapter about the characters being drawn inconsistently, but I didn't find these mistakes to be distracting. The anatomy, facial expressions, perspectives, and page layouts are generally better than in the previous chapters, and the coloring's improved as well, although I dislike the choice of cyan for outdoor scenes. The creator also starts to use more abstract background designs in this chapter, and they're usually done pretty well, such as in this page, where blocky shapes and hatching are used. Sometimes the abstractions seem excessive, though, like in this page, where the bright colors look hallucinogenic, and in the pages here and here, where the triangle shapes are overused.
The biggest problem with the art at this point's that there's almost a total disregard for depicting the period setting, which is supposed to be one of the comic's main features. Repeatedly throughout the chapter, the creator relies on close shots and minimalistic backgrounds, leaving the architecture as tiny details or ignoring it completely (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Even here, the creator passes up an obvious opportunity to include old-fashioned movie posters in favor of anachronistically showing posters from various Mel Brooks movies. The comic desperately needs more wide and establishing shots that convey the time period beyond just the characters' clothing. Compare, for example, the train station in Widdershins to the one here. The Widdershins page manages to convey a feeling of being in a Victorian setting, while the Loud Era one has a small train, silhouetted people, and microscopic buildings, with speech bubbles covering a lot of the negative space. Some of the pages are a bit better, like this one and this one, and I'd like to see pages like these become more of the norm, even if they require somewhat more time and effort to draw.
Overall: Last year, I gave Loud Era 4 out of 5 stars, and it's still a good webcomic in 2013. However, while its strengths have only gotten stronger, its weaknesses have become more severe, meaning that it isn't really a better or worse comic than it was before. I'd like to see the historical setting be more prominent, and greater focus should be placed on the core group of characters so that the comic can have a better sense of direction.
by VeryCuddlyCornpone on Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:54 pm
ghghghhghg HUYYY!! Some of your criticisms are quite close to what I was expecting! Thanks again for another such thoughtful and critical review.
LibertyCabbage wrote: Website: It's undergone some pleasant aesthetic changes lately, with gold-colored images and text being a dominant element. And the switch to being exclusively on Smack Jeeves has eliminated the problems that the Comic Genesis site had with its archives page. The creator's also been fairly successful at sticking to a Tuesdays and Fridays schedule, or at least something close to it, which is an improvement over the erratic schedule the comic had previously.
Glad to heare the theme is "working" for the most part. The schedule has been my biggest priority this time around.
Chapter 4 was definitely a really heavy "extras" chapter, mostly because it was focusing on the individual lives of the characters mostly separate from one another, so I "needed" to introduce more folks to make up that background cast. Chapter 5 focuses entirely on the six friends who've gone camping, so hopefully it will feel a bit more unified, if that makes sense.
I guess I have difficulty introducing characters that provide realistic background for the existing characters (like their family members and so forth) while making it clear they're dropping in for a bit but aren't meant to be returning any time soon.
I think this is my biggest downfall and, unfortunately for my writing I suppose, upcoming chapters feature much of the cast kind of going their separate ways for a bit (and therefore leading to more cast). Maybe it's because I'm influenced by TV shows too much, where we have our main character Mystery Solver Man and his assistant Helping Lady and friend John, and this episode they meet Dumb Schmuck, Evil Mother, and Poor Victim, and we know that the latter three won't be appearing next episode. I view a lot of Loud Era in episodic terms, where like in my example show just mentioned, certain people are only going to be around for a certain plotline and then the main character that ties us to them will move on and we won't see the extra person anymore. ***
In your opinion, LC, would this issue be remedied by me developing the "walk-ons"* less, focusing harder on the main cast, or just excluding walk-ons as much as possible? I can't promise I'd follow your exact suggestion but it'd be interesting to hear what you have in mind (if you were in my shoes with this story).
*I hate to use this phrase as it seems a bit more cavalier, but it's the best approximation of what I'm trying to convey.
With that heavy dose of negativity out of the way, the chapter actually features the best dialogue and pacing in the comic so far, showing that the creator's been able to improve upon her already notable writing ability. Particularly impressive is the scene where Clarabelle rejects Leon out of fear that her parents would disapprove of her dating someone Jewish. It's a bold move for the creator to incorporate a sensitive subject like this into the story, and it reminds readers that the characters are living in a time when ethnocentrism was more pervasive. The creator also successfully handles a wide range of emotions in the chapter, with the first half focusing on humorous scenes while the second half includes a depressing goodbye letter and Aggie and Clarabelle's bitter confrontation. The transitions are another aspect that's handled well, as the boxing film follows a letter about a fight, and the goodbye letter's followed by a shot of Aggie at a train station.
I'm glad that the general consensus seems to be that I've handled kind of heavier issues well, as I'm not looking to make Loud Era some morality bible but those issues and more will continue to exist throughout the comic as time goes on. I hope someone'll have the good sense to warn me if I ever do start to get too ham-handed, lol. Looking forward I'm already a bit worried that I'm making race too big of a deal, as two upcoming (ugh, again, kind of walk on) characters in coming chapters will be different minorities, and I don't want it to get to a point where the issue seems forced or where people are like "Oh boy, there goes Loud Era with the historical racism again."
Letters, being the chapter's title, are a motif throughout the scenes, as Cecilia receives one as well, and it works as a historical reference to the old days, back before everyone communicated electronically. Finally, by featuring Aggie, Tony, and Ulysses this time around, the creator gives some much-needed page time to the comic's most neglected main characters. This chapter represents a step up in quality from the previous ones, and it's great to see a webcomic in its fourth year still getting better.
It was a chapter where halfway through, I realized how many letters and notes were being exchanged, and it was a bit of a "D'oh" moment when I figured I should rename it to something less generic than its previous title! I felt bad to pick Aggie up and put her in the spotlight only to drop her out again this chapter, but the chapter following this one will focus in part on her life with Donny and hopefully round her out a bit better. She and Joseph are the two characters I worry most about turning into flat stereotypes, so I look forward to showing her a bit more next chapter.
I'm glad to hear that in general you feel I'm improving It was, sadly enough, the first chapter I properly mapped out, and Chapter 5 is the first chapter I actually scripted completely before beginning.
LibertyCabbage wrote: Art: The creator makes sort of a fuss during the chapter about the characters being drawn inconsistently, but I didn't find these mistakes to be distracting. The anatomy, facial expressions, perspectives, and page layouts are generally better than in the previous chapters, and the coloring's improved as well, although I dislike the choice of cyan for outdoor scenes. The creator also starts to use more abstract background designs in this chapter, and they're usually done pretty well, such as in this page, where blocky shapes and hatching are used. Sometimes the abstractions seem excessive, though, like in this page, where the bright colors look hallucinogenic, and in the pages here and here, where the triangle shapes are overused.
The thing with Tony was me mainly looking at him and realizing he looked nothing like the Tony I picture in my mind when I envision him. After IV's review, I took some time with my male cast and worked them a bit more, and although I'm still a little wobbly on my feet, I think as I practice drawing them more intentionally, they'll look a bit "better."
Heh, yeah, it seems like whenever I find out some cool new thing, I use it properly the first time or two, and then go overboard and use it as a crutch. The pages in the Marconi house are pretty wretched, and I'm disapointed with how they turned out in the end. That was a big batch of comics I tried to work on all simultaneously, and it exhausted me- now I know better than to try that big of a batch again. I think sometime in the future I'd like to fix up a lot fo the backgrounds, even if just by toning the colors down a bit.
The biggest problem with the art at this point's that there's almost a total disregard for depicting the period setting, which is supposed to be one of the comic's main features. Repeatedly throughout the chapter, the creator relies on close shots and minimalistic backgrounds, leaving the architecture as tiny details or ignoring it completely
Even here, the creator passes up an obvious opportunity to include old-fashioned movie posters in favor of anachronistically showing posters from various Mel Brooks movies. The comic desperately needs more wide and establishing shots that convey the time period beyond just the characters' clothing. Compare, for example, the train station in Widdershins to the one here. The Widdershins page manages to convey a feeling of being in a Victorian setting, while the Loud Era one has a small train, silhouetted people, and microscopic buildings, with speech bubbles covering a lot of the negative space. Some of the pages are a bit better, like this one and this one, and I'd like to see pages like these become more of the norm, even if they require somewhat more time and effort to draw.
The movie poster thing I thought was just a fun little gag to throw in. I still am loath to draw backgrounds, and it's true that the historical theme is often neglected despite the fact that many of my reviewers feel it ought to have stronger weight. I guess to a reader it kind of looks like I just have a bunch of weird hipsters running around in vintage clothing for no reason. I think- and I'm not saying this in a dismissive way, just the way it seems to be- is that by setting my comic in a time period other than "now," readers expect the setting to have a stronger weight, purely because it's different and needs a reason for being different and needs, because it's different, to be really obvious. To me, I understand why a setting is important, and I point it out when I review other people's stories (if it's really obviously absent), but I barely pay attention to worlds and settings when I read. It's one thing I just tend to gloss over, so perhaps it makes sense that I do the same when working on my own comic.
Somethign to tuck in my hat for sure.
Glad to hear that I'm still holding my head above water in your eyes Thanks again for taking your time to write something helpful and thoughtful. Hopefully, maybe again next year, I'll have hammered out some of those issues further.
edit: "Your message contains too many URLs. The maximum number of URLs allowed is 20." That's a new one.
edit edit: ***LOL WAIT I THINK I FIGURED OUT WHERE THIS STARTED. Or as close to the origin as we will get. When I was little, I used to pretend I was the president of Nickelodeon and I was in charge of all the shows. I had a "show" about my Legos, a show about my baby dolls, a show about my beanie babies, my barbies, my dinosaurs. And what happened- especially with the beanie babies and dinosaurs- was that I had a SHIT TON of those toys. And I couldn't just play with, say, SOME of the dinosaurs, because then the others would be left out. So I had like several dozen dinosaurs in this "show"/story, different little families, and I swear to you I knew and remembered all of their names. There were the "main" dinosaurs which were the originals I had from when I was like four, but each "episode" would focus on certain dinosaurs while then eventually tying back into the major arc plot.
This is also evident in my writings from my early childhood. I had one story about a hundred babies that lived together in a treehouse. Oh my god, if I find this thing I'm totally sharing it with you guys.
Anyway. Uh. So let's just say this is probably a deep-seated problem that stems from my youth that I'm naturally predisposed toward. Well, you knwo what they say. You can't fix your problem if you're not aware of it in the first place. Now we have a direction to go in.
by LibertyCabbage on Sat Jul 27, 2013 4:21 pm
You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to take the time to write something coherent rather than rushing a quick response back when W.A.Y. started.
I view a lot of Loud Era in episodic terms, where like in my example show just mentioned, certain people are only going to be around for a certain plotline and then the main character that ties us to them will move on and we won't see the extra person anymore.
The comic would be better if it actually was more like a TV show. Right now, it isn't really like anything, although I suppose it gets some points for originality in that regard.
The comic's sort of problematic right now because it already had way too many characters in Chapter 3, and then you went ahead and added a bunch more characters in Chapter 4. So, to compensate for that, I think you'll want to keep additional characters to a bare minimum from this point on. As for what I'd do, I'd make a general outline of the rest of the story, up to its eventual conclusion, and then move towards that conclusion with a greater sense of urgency. Because what I'd like to feel, as a reader, is that the comic's events are significant and that the story's "going somewhere."
The main danger with portraying racism is relying on strawmen and martyrs. And I'm not too worried about you going down that route, especially since you've managed to show Clarabelle in a very sympathetic way so far.
A lot of the pages in Chapter 4 look rushed, to the point that the art's probably worse overall than in Chapter 3. And that's unfortunate, because you really don't want to see a creator regressing.
I think- and I'm not saying this in a dismissive way, just the way it seems to be- is that by setting my comic in a time period other than "now," readers expect the setting to have a stronger weight, purely because it's different and needs a reason for being different and needs, because it's different, to be really obvious. To me, I understand why a setting is important, and I point it out when I review other people's stories (if it's really obviously absent), but I barely pay attention to worlds and settings when I read. It's one thing I just tend to gloss over, so perhaps it makes sense that I do the same when working on my own comic.
Backgrounds this minimalistic wouldn't even be adequate for a modern-day comic, though. It's just even more of a problem here because certain types of stories, like historical, fantasy, and sci-fi, require more world-building. Basically, it's your job as a storyteller to make readers "forget" that it's all make-believe and get them to actually care about what's happening. And having page after page of non-backgrounds disrupts that sense of connection by reminding readers that it's just fiction after all. A lot of creators have trouble with this because they're naturally more invested in the story than readers are.
It's sort of unfortunate that I didn't have the review done before Chapter 5 started, but oh, well. It's a long-term process, anyways, especially when you're already competent and have plateaued to some extent.
Story of my life. I think the String Theory review was the first time I had to break one up into three parts, though.
LOL WAIT I THINK I FIGURED OUT WHERE THIS STARTED.
Yeah, that's sort of how I feel Loud Era is. I considered using the term "character A.D.D." in the review, but I didn't think it was necessary. The solution's probably just planning ahead more.
by VeryCuddlyCornpone on Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:31 pm
I guess therein lies the rub. The more I think about it, the more the word "episodic" is an apt description of the way Loud Era unfolds. Perhaps this is my great limiting factor. It's very much a slice of life comic, albeit a bit heavier on the drama than you tend to see, I guess. There's less momentum leading up to one large conclusion (at least yet, a few years from now it'll be different I'd presume) and moreso just smaller conclusions.
Because of the episodic nature, barring new characters from coming in isn't really going to work for the stories I'm telling (I guess stories is more accurate than story now that we're hammering out that detail). It seems that Loud Era will be perpetually unfocused as far as characters go, just because each chapter brings new settings and the people that belong there. A bit of a travelling circus of sorts.
No, yeah, believe me, I get what you're saying. I've just never been one to pay attention to settings at all- and not just the "That's because the artist did it so well you didn't even notice it!" kind of way, it's just something I completely scan over for the most part. Hopefully your explanation here will help me be more mindful about that.
Yeah, I'm really not sure what happened here. I can chalk some of it up to working on the comic while I was working a really soul-crushing job, so I was often really tired and wanting to just get something done. I lost the ability to envision what I wanted a page to look like. "Rushed" is definitely accurate. Even as I was working on the pages I'd be disappointed with them, but too far invested to just scrap the page and start over due to my exhaustion and a looming deadline. This was the first chapter where what I was seeing in my head was just absolutely not translating to the paper, seemingly no matter what I tried. I think stress and exhaustion were the main contributing factors, though it remains to be seen going forward whether that's a reasonable excuse or whether it's a symptom of a larger problem endemic to my current work.
Already in chapter 5 I feel a lot more comfortable- I'm still not at 100% but I feel my art hash been servicable thus far, and I'm not racing the clock to make deadlines. Not sure exactly what has changed, but I'll suppose I'll have to wait and see what you have to say next year
Thanks. I feel like I'm coming up to another breakthrough, so we'll see. The writing I can't speak for so much, but art wise, one of the pages I'm working on right now was inked entirely with a brush tip- it's a bit shaky and amateurish but I like the effect in general and want to incorporate it more.
Eh, it's true though (at least from a reader's perspective). Loud Era is me having grown up and playing with fictional characters now instead of dolls and toys.
Ohhh! I always wondered why you did that, I figured you just liked the "zen" look of having smaller review posts or something
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Intel Working on Discrete GPUs Sounds Good, but Might be Bad
Thread: Intel Working on Discrete GPUs Sounds Good, but Might be Bad
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At the end of last year, news came out that Raja Koduri was leaving AMD and moving over to Intel. I guess I can’t gauge what the general response was from the enthusiast community, but I personally felt like that was a bit of a slap in the face for those hoping for a Radeon turn around. Vega sounded interesting, but the end results were no where near what expectations were building it up to be. Now, it looks like a leak is showing that Intel is developing two discrete GPU solutions and while more competition is typically a good thing, the move could be a net negative to the industry instead. The most obvious ramification of this news is that we could end up with a more competitive environment to combat Nvidia. While the Green Giant has certainly fared well in the graphics division, they also have a price tag to match. I’m not saying they don’t deserve it, but it’s always nice when tough competition gives builders more value for their money. On the other hand, there’s a couple of things here that really bother me. First, this adds a third driver to the arena that developers will have to take seriously. Sure, Intel iGPUs pose a similar issue, but the low level performance of the hardware indicates it might not be as huge of a concern to AAA. This may be a concern that’s completely non-legitimate, but the concern of Intel hiring Raja may be of more concern. As much as I hate to say it, Vega is a failed launch in terms of gaming and Raja proved he couldn’t deliver when the situation really called for it. Does that mean he won’t deliver with Intel? Not necessarily, but AMD is in a position that they will likely have to find a way to build on their performance with future designs. Intel is in a position that their integrated and discrete graphics can be “good enough.” The dGPU market could really use a shot in the arm for gamers who can’t afford high-end systems, yet this could leave them in the same position they’ve always been in. Currently, Intel is partnering with AMD to offer a dGPU solution that, while not as powerful as Nvidia cards, is a nice step up from Intel’s iGPU performance. I’d imagine AMD will work hard on trying to catch up with Nvidia, leaving me to wonder if Raja will be able to make more impressive showings during his new tenure at Intel. While that may have been a lot of negative to consider, there is some very positive flip sides to all of that. For starters, AMD is still going to be a major competitor to Intel in the dGPU market because of their APUs. That gives us a really good chance to see AMD and Intel graphics being a more mainstream contender to Nvidia’s dominating presence in the gaming scene. In light of that, it would be nice to see a little less of Gameworks. I appreciate what Nvidia is trying to do, but as an AMD user, it only feels like a proprietary kick in the rear telling me I’m not allowed to enjoy a game as much as others. Check out the link below for more details and here’s hoping 2018 is a great competitive year! https://wccftech.com/intel-discrete-...d-future-cpus/  
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AESOP-IFHP Lecture Series, Lecture 6: Professor Cliff Hague at the Univarsity of Latvia, Riga
Professor Cliff Hague
A Christmas Carol: the Ghosts of Planning, Past, Present and Future
University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Alberta iela 10, Room 313, Riga
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This is the sixth event in the Lecture Series by well-known planners, policy-makers and other ‘urban thinkers’, which is being organised by AESOP and IFHP in the framework of respectively the Silver Jubilee (2012) and Centenary (2013). The lecturers have been asked to present their ideas on ‘new vision’ for planning and territorial development. The lecture will be rounded off with a question and answer discussion with the audience.
The Lecture:
“You will be haunted”, the Ghost told the Planner, “by Three Spirits. Expect the first when the bell tolls. Without their visits you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.” The air was filled with phantom planners, wandering hither and thither in restless haste and moaning as they went. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power…
As Christmas approaches the ghosts of Planning Past, Planning Present and Planning Future will visit the AESOP-IFHP lecture on 13 December. The First Spirit, “like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”, the Ghost of Planning Past will show you dream-like Cities of Tomorrow, revealing hopes and joys and cares buy isotretinoin long forgotten: garden cities and cities of towers, cars racing along fly-overs, reconstruction of war-damaged cities, places for the people designed by experts and shaped by modern technology and ideas. “Strange to have forgotten it for so many years” observed the Ghost. “Let us go on”.
The Ghost of Planning Present comes clothed in one simple green robe but with shining icicles. Around its middle is a belt but the sword is eaten with rust. It will show you cities of today, austere places and palaces of plenty, where planners speak a new language of “delivery and outcomes”, “carbon-neutral”, “territorial cohesion” and “impact assessment”. The Ghost reveals a boy and a girl. “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.” On the boy’s forehead is written “Doom”.
The last of the spirits shows Planning Future and a Tomorrow for Cities. “They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them…” whether as leaky hovels built from garbage or virtual spaces captured and negotiated on what was once called a telephone. Could the place-managers steer the cities through their recurrent crises? “I would do it” said the Planner, “if I could”. “You can”, said the Ghost. “Your skill is in building a practical vision for any place, knowing what makes that place special and what people share there. You can’t do it all yourself, you’ll need to do some things differently, but you have a part to play.”
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Brett Hestla
4 Jan 2019 News Alice in Chains, Brett Hestla, FAREWELL TO FEAR, Flaw, Howard Stern, New Blood, Official Music Video, PEARL JAM, Soundgarden, THE NEVER FORGET TOUR 2019, YOUR CURE 0
FAREWELL TO FEAR Release Official Music Video for “YOUR CURE”
Modern Rock Band FAREWELL TO FEAR has released the official music video for their newest single, “Your Cure.”
The meaning behind the name: fear impedes all areas of our lives’, it holds us back from fostering fruitful relationships, financial freedom or simply risking it all to live out the life of your dreams. The day you say “Farewell to Fear” is the day you realize that you are free from any obstacle holding you back from living the life you were meant to live.
FAREWELL TO FEAR will also be joining hard rockers FLAW on their upcoming THE NEVER FORGET TOUR. Launching January 22 in Little Rock, AR and winds throughout the US before finishing up February 24th in Racine, WI.
“The guys are super excited to be with our label mates, Flaw, on this amazing winter tour. We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones!” – FAREWELL TO FEAR
THE NEVER FORGET TOUR Tour Dates: 01/22 @ Stickyz Chicken Shack – Little Rock, AR 01/23 @ Trees – Dallas, TX 01/24 @ Scout Bar – Houston, TX 01/25 @ BFE Rock Club – Houston, TX 01/26 @ Homer’s Bar – Abilene, TX 01/29 @ Jakes – Lubbock, TX 01/30 @ Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX 01/31 @ House Of Rock – Corpus Christi, TX 02/02 @ Rock Box – San Antonio, TX 02/04 @ Southport Hall – New Orleans, LA 02/05 @ The Warrior – Tallahassee, FL 02/06 @ Brass Mug – Tampa, FL 02/08 @ Shovelheads – Longwood, FL 02/09 @ Bike Night – Cape Coral, FL 02/10 @ Jack Rabbits – Jacksonville, FL 02/13 @ Drunk Horse Pub – Fayetteville, NC 02/14 @ Riff House – Chesepeake, VA 02/15 @ Fish Head Cantina – Baltimore, MD 02/16 @ HMAC – Harrisburg, PA 02/19 @ Hard Rock Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA 02/20 @ Mohawk – Buffalo, NY 02/21 @ Frankie’s – Toledo, OH 02/22 @ The Music Factory – Battle Creek, MI 02/23 @ The Back Bar – Janesville, WI 02/24 @ RT 20 – Racine, WI
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Farewell To Fear was born out of the huge black hole that mainstream rock radio left during the absence of super rock stars like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. The band revisits that era with big rock riffs, big choruses and big anthems for a new generation of mainstream rockers.
With their first full-length album, New Blood co-produced with Brett Hestla (Dark New Day & Creed), the group generated an incredible three singles on Sirius XM’s Octane channel, an unheard-of feat for an unknown band. This also landed them at #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Rock Singles chart and #8 on iTunes Rock chart. Their debut also earned them direct support from Howard Stern, including the rarest of moments on Stern’s show… airing an entire song as opposed to the normal 20 second snippet he usually shares. Due to this enormous amount of support, the track “Diamonds” reached a most impressive 1 million streams on Spotify.
Inspired by the recording process of their most recent EP Legacy the band started writing and recording relentlessly, ultimately allowing them to seamlessly merge their skills and styles together to create heavy rock songs that deliver a strong punch to the gut while staying melodic and delivering impactful lyrics hitting all ranges and octaves.
Their latest album Voices released by Pavement Entertainment and produced by Damien Starkey (Puddle is Mudd, Burn Season) has further solidified the band’s position in the rock community.
Farewell to Fear have been supporting the Voices album on tour with Fozzy, Jared James Nichols and Deadset Society in Canada and with Like a Storm and Palisades in the US.
The first single off the album “Underneath My Skin” broke the top 30 position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator Charts.
Undeniably, Farewell to Fear has a full rock assault planned for 2019!”
Band: Mike Craig – Vocals Jimmy Adams – Drums Tony “Mojo” Lucero – Guitars Jeremy Sevens – Bass Dirk Mercer – Guitar
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Darling Down Release “Collide” Music Video
Battle Creek, MI hard rock band Darling Down have released the official video for their single, “Collide”, featuring a solo by Clint Lowery of Sevendust, off of their newest album Never Tell. “Collide” was directed by Travis and Samantha Ross at RipJaw Media.
Every video we do is a challenge to outdo the last. I feel that “Collide” is a mini movie with elements of a grade A thriller with on par Hollywood cinematic value – our acting, however, could use some work 🙂 – Ryan Hudson (Drums)
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With their symphonically powerful sound and an arsenal of brand new material, mid-Michigan’s Darling Down is prepared to show the world that they are ready to stake their artistic claim in the territory of modern rock.
The band, an outstanding female fronted four piece, has a synergistic effect among its members: Amanda Legault’s clear, strong vocals that range from powerfully compelling to hauntingly sweet, Dustin Claud’s driving and dynamic guitar riffs, Nathan Simmon’s thunderous bass lines, and Ryan Hudson’s tight musicianship on drums. Committed to lyrically thoughtful and melodically engrossing songwriting with powerful hooks, Darling Down is distinctive in today’s musical arena. With lyrically relatable songs full of enough edginess, passion and real life to appeal to a wide audience, Darling Down’s songs are catchy, intriguing, and heavy; beautifully sung, constructed and arranged. Sonically driving, with soaring vocals and harmonies, the deep lyrics are sometimes juxtaposed with eerily strong, pretty vocals and heavy guitars, as on their earlier recording, “Revenge is Sweet Like Cherries.”
Fast forward to 2014, Darling Down is not holding anything back with their second full length release, “Never Tell,” produced by the nationally acclaimed producer / engineer / mixer Chuck Alkazian (Soundgarden, Trust Company, Pop Evil) and recorded at Pearl Sound Studios. “Never Tell,” which was released on 7/22/2014, has garnered a sizable amount of industry buzz. A stellar collection of songs, creatively written and with spectacular pieces of orchestration, Darling Down and their producer have created an album full of great musicianship, mesmerizing rhythms and melodies, and exciting, innovative collaborations with accomplished outside artists. “Never Tell” features guest appearances by Clint Lowery of Sevendust, Vinnie Dombrowski of Sponge, Stephen Richards of Taproot, and Brett Hestla of Dark New Day.
Ramping up for the expansion of their touring in addition to their current live shows on schedule, following the release of “Never Tell” Darling Downcontinues to increase their live show radius throughout North America. In recent years, Darling Down has developed a loyal fan base with their passionate music and high energy live performances, and grabbed the attention of audiences throughout the Midwest. The band has performed alongside many notable acts including Theory of a Deadman, Nonpoint, Taproot, Smile Empty Soul, Pop Evil, Red, Ra, Framing Hanley, Saving Abel, Evans Blue, Saliva, Hed PE, Mushroomhead, and many more.
Darling Down, fresh off the release of “Never Tell,” will be one to watch as they share their new music and unique show with an even wider scope of music fans throughout the country. Be on the lookout for upcoming tour dates!
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Memories of the Heart
Ceri, a Welsh wisewoman, has been in love with her half-Norman, half-Welsh overlord from afar for years. But Lord Taliesan doesn't even know she exists until Ceri decides to cast a web of enchantment over him, but it will only last for as long as he remains in their village. But eventually, against his will, Lord Taliesan is brought back to the castle and he forgets Ceri. But Ceri follows him, hoping that a deeper kind of magic will make him remember their love.
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Gutbucket at Cafe Racer
Gutbucket playing at Cafe Racer
Gutbucket played an amazing set last week at Cafe Racer. Led by Ken Thomson on sax, they have a powerful output that can blow you away if you are not ready for them. Ask The Ages opened for them so I was prepared and grateful to have watched them perform. Here are some pictures from the evening.
Besides Ken Thomson, Gutbucket consists of Ty Citerman, on electric guitar, Eric Rockwin, on electric upright bass, and Adam D Gold on drums.
The twelve year-old Brooklyn based quartet pushes composer-driven, art-rock-tainted chamber jazz into new terrain and boldly proclaims its voice. The band was formed in 1999 by three of its current four members just out of college: Ty Citerman, Eric Rockwin and Ken Thomson; Adam D Gold would arrive in 2007. Gutbucket quickly joined the youngest ranks of the blooming downtown NY Knitting Factory avant-jazz scene, holding court during its extended Friday night residency at the former lower Manhattan taste-making club. In early 2001, Gutbucket was rewarded with its first record, Insomniacs Dream, released on the now-defunct Knitting Factory Works label. The band began touring Europe that same year, developing an international fan base; and in 2002 Gutbucket debuted at many of Europeʼs highly regarded festivals, including Jazz a Vienne, San Sebastian Jazz Festival, and Worldport.
Out of the gate, Gutbucketʼs music challenged New Yorkʼs downtown norm– “a no-holds-barred approach to the jazz-rock paradigm” (The New York Times, 2010)– bringing a completely unique road-tested performance (“Keep all limbs, drinks and small children well clear” – Time Out New York) and a sound that tilted much further towards rock than many of its contemporaries. Gutbucketʼs brand of jazz continues to have its signature biting edge, cunning sense of humor and appreciation for the loud and theatrical. Improvisations are woven seamlessly and sometimes unexpectedly into the bandʼs growing repertoire, and each composer in the group has developed an individual voice that simultaneously supports the collective. From the beginning Gutbucket has had no single bandleader; the result has been an expansive yet unified and recognizable group sound.
Continue reading about Gutbucket on their website.
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In Vivo 1H/13 NMR Studies of Neonatal Seizures
Novotny, Edward J.
Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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Systematic Genetic Dissection of Human Erythropoiesis
Research Education Core
Smoking Cessation Contracts with Social and Monetary Incentives
Genetic Factors in Physical Activity and Obesity
High Performance Water Desalination Using Propagating Ion Concentration Shock Waves
Drug Use Among Young Indians: Epidemiology & Etiology
Non-peptide Mu Opioid Receptor Selective Antagonists
There are significant differences in cerebral metabolism between the immature and mature nervous system observed under normal and pathological conditions that affect the care and treatment of infants and children. The ability to investigate in vivo cerebral metabolism non-invasively in this age group will provide important information to both, make a more rational choice of therapy and allow one to monitor its effect. The use of in vivo NMR spectroscopy and stable isotopes with magnetic properties can furnish this information, but must be first validated in animal studies before its application to humans. The goal of this project is to establish that in vivo 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic methods using 1-13C glucose will provide a measure of the fluxes through various pathways of carbohydrate and intermediary metabolism in the immature nervous system of the pig. The turnover of the cerebral lactate and amino acid pools in the neocortex will be measured in vivo in both the resting state and during generalized seizures. This data will be analyzed by modified computer modeling schemes previously delineated by radioisotope studies to generate a measure of the fluxes through the glycolytic and citric acid cycle pathways. These measurements will be validated both by performing high resolution NMR studies on tissue extracts in vitro and by using both glucose and lactate with the carbon label in other positions. This later method which has been well established by previous radioisotope studies will both provide a more accurate measure of the fluxes through other pathways such as the pentose cycle and pyruvate carboxylase and evaluate the use of alternative substrates by the brain. This information will then be used to refine the modeling program and allow a more accurate determination of the glycolytic and citric acid cycle fluxes from the original in vivo data. The changes of these fluxes and the use of lactate as an alternative substrate in the brain both during a generalized seizure and in the post-ictal period will be determined. The results of the experiments in this project will provide new information about the changes in metabolic fluxes occurring in the neocortex during generalized seizures in the immature nervous system. In addition, the data will be used to define the protocols required to perform similar non-invasive studies in humans.
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Human Development and Aging Subcommittee 3 (HUD)
R29 NS In Vivo 1H/13 NMR Studies of Neonatal Seizures
Novotny, Edward J. / Yale University
van Zijl, P C; Rothman, D (1995) NMR studies of brain 13C-glucose uptake and metabolism: present status. Magn Reson Imaging 13:1213-21
Novotny Jr, E J; Avison, M J; Herschkowitz, N et al. (1995) In vivo measurement of phenylalanine in human brain by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Pediatr Res 37:244-9
Mason, G F; Gruetter, R; Rothman, D L et al. (1995) Simultaneous determination of the rates of the TCA cycle, glucose utilization, alpha-ketoglutarate/glutamate exchange, and glutamine synthesis in human brain by NMR. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 15:12-25
Novotny Jr, E J (1995) Overview--the role of NMR spectroscopy in epilepsy. Magn Reson Imaging 13:1171-3
Gruetter, R; Novotny, E J; Boulware, S D et al. (1992) Direct measurement of brain glucose concentrations in humans by 13C NMR spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89:1109-12
Gruetter, R; Rothman, D L; Novotny, E J et al. (1992) Localized 13C NMR spectroscopy of myo-inositol in the human brain in vivo. Magn Reson Med 25:204-10
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As International Child Abduction Surges in U.S, the Department of State Seeks Lawyers in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon to Join 'Hague Convention Attorney Network'
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''As International Child Abduction Surges in U.S, the Department of State Seeks Lawyers in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon to Join 'Hague Convention Attorney Network'
International parental child abduction originating from the United States may victimize over 100,000 American children from 2009 to 2020 according to a new book published by Peter Thomas Senese and Carolyn Vlk titled "The World Turned Upside Down". In an effort to combat the growth of child abduction in the United States, the Department of State has created "The Hague Convention Attorney Network" and seeks lawyers interested in helping targeted children of abduction become members of the network. Due to the increase of international abduction cases, the Department of State is actively seeking for attorneys from Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon to join the Network according to the I CARE Foundation.
Los Angeles and New York (PRWEB) December 07, 2011
The I CARE Foundation is urging lawyers located in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon interested in assisting the parents of children who have been internationally parentally abducted or who may be targets of international parental abduction to participate in the Department of State's "Hague Convention Attorney Network".
Alaska and Hawaii present unique problems since many cases of abduction in these states involved migratory immigration issues for both documented and undocumented resident aliens living in the United States who decide to leave America after their relationship breaks down. Often, these residents have American born children who they attempt to or actually remove from the United States without the other parents knowledge. Countries located in Asia are the highest number of inbound and outbound countries for Alaska and Hawaii.
Washington and Oregon present similar issues as Alaska and Hawaii. However, cases originating from or to Canada are very high as abductions cases between the United States and Canada is only second to the case load between the United States and Mexico.
Presently, according to the I CARE Foundation Directors Peter Thomas Senese and Carolyn Ann Vlk's 'The World Turned Upside Down', the total of reported cases of international parental child abduction originating from the United States is over 1, 640 cases per year. This number is growing at a rate of 20% per year. In addition, the number of unreported cases of international abduction is anticipated to be at least 100% of the reported cases. If the growth rate continues, there will be over 100,000 American children abducted from 2009 to 2020.
In an effort to help children and targeted parents of abduction, the United States Department of State has created the "Hague Convention Attorney Network", which is operated by the DOS Office of Children's Issues. The Office of Children's Issues at the Department of State is urging lawyers interested in assisting children and parents victimized by abduction to join the "Hague Convention Attorney Network."
The Office of Children's Issues in the U.S. Department of State serves as the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the "Convention"). The International Child Abduction Remedies Act ("ICARA"), establishes procedures for litigating Convention cases in the U.S. The U.S. Central Authority has numerous functions including facilitating the institution of judicial proceedings in the U.S. "with a view to obtaining the return of the child and, in a proper case, to make arrangements for organizing or securing the effective exercise of rights of access." In April of 2008, the U.S.Central Authority assumed the responsibility for all incoming cases, and overseeing a network of volunteer attorneys.
The "Attorney Network" provides critical assistance. Lawyers that join the "Attorney Network" are asked to consider taking Hague Convention return and access cases on a pro bono or reduced fee basis. There is never an obligation to take a case, and legal fees and expenses may be recoverable under the Convention's Article 26 and the implementing statute (42.U.S.C 11607), and under state law when state law remedies are pursued (e.g., UCCJEA). In addition, lawyers with and without Hague experience are welcome to join the Attorney Network, as the Attorney Network offers a host of information and mentor programs. In addition to incoming cases of abduction, attorneys can also represent parents in abduction prevention cases and outgoing abduction cases.
Patricia M. Lee, a Florida attorney practicing in the area of parental child abduction and a Director of the I CARE Foundation states, "I feel privileged to have been a referral attorney for the implementing agency for many years of my private practice. The trauma experienced by victimized children and parents when faced with a child abduction, especially in the international arena, is overwhelming, primarily due to the lack of experienced attorneys, but also, due to the great financial burden, and cultural and language barriers. When they have nowhere else to turn and are so desperate, being able to help these people has been a rewarding experience personally, as well as professionally. It is worth every hour I have spent climbing the learning curve in this little known area of the law. OCI has always been responsive and helpful in the practicalities of dealing with clients living abroad, and the network of mentor attorneys available across the U.S., nothing short of a wealth of information and assistance. My experience in taking these cases has been humbling, to say the least, as I have seen the very best of my profession, which is too often the object of jokes and derision. I would encourage any attorney to join the Attorney Network."
Peter Thomas Senese, a member of the I CARE Foundation, author, filmmaker, child abduction prevention advocate and the author of Chasing The Cylcone, and, co-author of 'The World Turned Upside Down' commented, "The number of international parental abduction cases originating from or landing in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, and even Oregon have increased substantially as international abduction as a whole has significantly risen. For parents who are unexpectedly forced to chase after their abducted child, having a lawyer familiar with the complexities of international jurisdiction and child abduction is the difference between having a child returned home or lost forever. The initiative to recruit skilled lawyers to join the Department of State's Attorney Network is critical to the welfare of tens of thousands of at-risk children. For lawyers who participate in the program the benefits are significant."
If you are a lawyer interested in finding out more about the Hague Convention Attorney Network, visit www.travel.state.gov/childabduction and click "For Attorneys & Judges," or write to HagueConventionAttorneyNetwork(at)state(dot)gov. You may also call 202-501-4444. To learn more about international parental child abduction please visit www.travel.state.gov/abduction. To receive an application to join the Attorney Network, please visit travel.state.gov/pdf/AttorneyNetworkFlyer.pdf.
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Counter-factuals
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Postby Theonefreeham » Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:50 pm UTC
Inspired by the lastest episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Whoever comes up with the first justifiable answer chooses the next question.
In an alternative universe where pandas are not endangered, which country would experience the greatest increase in manufacturing capacity?
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Postby LucasBrown » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:11 pm UTC
The United States--the US seems to be the country most concerned with saving endangered species, and a lot of that effort seems to be directed at pandas. If pandas were not endagered, then the people concerned about them would be freed up for jobs in, among other things, manufacturing.
Suppose that squirrels suddenly became sentient and able to communicate effectively with humans. What effect would this have on penguins?
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Postby KrazyerKate » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:50 pm UTC
It'd probably help penguins out. If human-rights apply to all sentient beings and not just homo-sapiens, then squirrels are going to expect the same rights to participate in the world economy as humans, and that means that there's going to be a huge upswing in the demand for live oak trees, not just for their acorn yield but also for living-spaces (I doubt squirrels would want to live in a house built from dead trees like us monkeys do). More trees means more CO2 being taken out of the atmosphere to be made into Oxygen. Less CO2 means less Global Warming, meaning less melting in the polar ice caps: home to the world's population of penguins.
Suppose earth's gravity were slightly stronger. How would this change the internet?
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Postby felltir » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:15 pm UTC
The internet would be non-existant. An increase in gravity means smaller creatures and smaller trees. The primates never gain dominance due to their inability to climb away from danger as effieciently, and as a result octopi become the dominant species. As it is established by their ability to predict sports results that octopi are psychic, they have no need for an internet for communication, so it never develops.
In a world where right angles are considered abhorrent, what is america's all time highest grossing movie?
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The Great Hippo wrote: I THINK THE SOLAR SYSTEM MIGHT BE AN ATOM OF OXYGEN.
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Postby Scyrus » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:16 pm UTC
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Postby KrazyerKate » Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:14 pm UTC
Silly Felltir, movies were banned in 1915 due to the outrage over the rectangular screens and block-shaped cameras.
Okay, new rule. if it's mentioned in the question, it exists.
Due to the distrust of anything rectangular, people are uneasy about riding on boats due to the fact that early versions used many rectangular planks. By the time iron steamships are invented, dirigibles--with their round, bubbly appearance--have already become more mainstream. Thus, when James Cameron writes a screenplay about a man and a woman of different social classes that fall in love on an ill-fated maiden voyage, it takes place on The Hindenburg, not The Titanic.
In a world where everyone rides motorcycles instead of cars, who wins the 2000 election?
Postby Poochy » Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:12 am UTC
Al Gore, of course. Due to motorcycle engines generally being louder than cars, hearing loss is much more prevalent in senior citizens, forcing them to become much more reliant on their sense of vision. With more seniors in Palm Beach, Florida having up-to-date corrective eyewear, they have an easier time reading the ballots, leading to fewer mistaken votes for Pat Buchannan. By a small margin, Al Gore wins Florida, and by extension the whole election.
In a world where the knowledge contained in the Library of Alexandria was never lost, what are the most popular modern-day personal electronics products?
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Postby Max2009 » Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:24 am UTC
The iProphet.
Modern science was derived from the texts contained in the library, and hence relied heavily on astrology, which became the mainstream science. All laws of physics, and hence the way we build electronic gadgetry was conceived from that. The iProphet automatically fills out your appointment calendar, gives you restaurant recommendations based on where you will be when you get hungry, lets all your friends know what you think about them and also makes phone calls.
That question had a much too direct line of reasoning.
In a world where oil exists, but is non combustible (even after being refined), what is Isaac Asimov's greatest work of fiction?
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Postby Theonefreeham » Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:36 pm UTC
Hmm, I fear my original question wasn't quite in keeping with the spirit of the game either. Oh well, I rushed.
Anyway, here goes...
With oil not being used to create petrol, there is less competition for feedstocks, therefore plastic production is increased exponentially. Unable to conceive of any advanced civilisation creating large structures out of metal because of its high cost, Asimov pens "The Caves of Plastic", to universal acclaim.
If the steam engine had been invented before the sail, which ancient civilisation would still exist today?
Postby SlyReaper » Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:22 pm UTC
Counter-intuitively, it would be the Vikings. While they were great sailors of their day, had they had steam power available to propel their vessels, they would have been able to spread throughout the globe effortlessly.
If a space elevator had been built 100 years ago, who would have won World War 2?
Postby snowyowl » Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:58 pm UTC
The British Empire. One of the first things that would happen in the war would be the sabotaging of the space elevator so that it cannot be used for orbital bombardments. It collapses, and destroys a massive swathe of the Earth's surface, starting at the equator and moving out. Only countries at very high latitudes would survive. This would mostly include Canada, Australia, a little bit of Africa, and Siberia. Of these, Canada, Australia and several African states belonged to the British Empire, so they would ally and start reconstruction efforts.
In a world where the Moon is made of solid 18-carat gold, where is the world's largest city?
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Postby SlyReaper » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:06 pm UTC
On the moon. With such a huge hunk of precious metal up there, there would be a massive exodus of prospectors to the moon looking to make their fortune. Their settlements would merge to form towns and the towns would merge to form cities. By the time gold becomes valueless, most of the moon's surface would be covered by a single huge city made of gold.
If Venus was similar enough to Earth for humans to be able to live on (like they hoped back in ye olde days), what would be the current exchange rate between GBP and USD?
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Postby Duban » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:16 pm UTC
The same as it is now. We aren't able to colonize venus yet anyways. Only in the near future would it affect anything.
If dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct what would FDR's favorite meal have been?
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Postby JoeyJo0 » Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:54 am UTC
If the government was to be taken over by beer-drinking hobos, what would happen?
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Postby SlyReaper » Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:59 am UTC
They'd launch all the nukes at France just for a laugh, and nuclear holocaust would ensue.
In a world where non-alcoholic beer tastes better than alcoholic beer, who would win the 2012 Olympics?
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Postby krucifi » Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:27 pm UTC
Well with nonalcoholic beer being safer to the community that alcohol, then governments would effectively be able to make alcohol illegal. As a result less drink related deaths and as such a over-population will result. This will cause the UN to harvest ALL alcohol for the production of clean bio fuels now that the price of alcohol is so high being noone actually needs it to drink and stopped making it resulting in it becoming a rarity and the price shoots up when too many people being alive use up the world resources of oil within mere decades. more over population will result in the immigration policy being void when governments have to bargain with other countries to allow their citizens in. As a result, africa will be debt free, after their crops become worth more and slowly exceed the gdp of US and UK combined, and be able to open training facilities allowing their athletes to win them the olympics the marathon the common wealth, even sports such as football basketball etc. Kenya will lead them all in this respect
In a world where Jesus never existed, who invented electricity?
Yes, my name is the negative frequency of radioactive decay, of the initial speed of light's radius.
And on the eighth day God created Irony.
But on the ninth day Satan was all like, "Nuh uh!"
And ironically made Alanis Morrisette his minion.
Postby Duban » Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:58 pm UTC
Ala Abdul Ack Quasa'ar. It's the same person, he just goes by an Islamic name.
In a world where birds periodically, and suddenly, devolved back into full sized Dinosaurs who won the 2008 election.
Postby krucifi » Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:05 pm UTC
um... the foundation of islam is based on the teachings of jesus aka the messiah. meaning no jesus then no christianity or islam. so i find my question unanswered.
Postby SlyReaper » Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:00 pm UTC
Nobody would have invented electricity. Someone would have discovered electricity, just as they did in our world.
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Postby bigglesworth » Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:09 pm UTC
krucifi wrote: um... the foundation of islam is based on the teachings of jesus aka the messiah. meaning no jesus then no christianity or islam. so i find my question unanswered.
Well, there was a current of messianic thought in Judaism at the time, and so there could have been a different messiah. A less-well known Jewish messiah could still lead to a leader such as Muhammed uniting the Arab tribes and leading an islamic invasion of the Sassanid Empire. Indeed, without Christianity's influence, there would not be a competing monotheistic religion in Europe, meaning that Islam could have spread further and faster. Which would mean that an Italian with an Arabic name could have discovered electicity/ invented a generator of electricity.
Which leads to my question: in a world where Coca Cola still contains cocaine, how large is the United States of South America?
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Postby Duban » Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:29 pm UTC
bigglesworth wrote: Well, there was a current of messianic thought in Judaism at the time, and so there could have been a different messiah. A less-well known Jewish messiah could still lead to a leader such as Muhammed uniting the Arab tribes and leading an islamic invasion of the Sassanid Empire. Indeed, without Christianity's influence, there would not be a competing monotheistic religion in Europe, meaning that Islam could have spread further and faster. Which would mean that an Italian with an Arabic name could have discovered electicity/ invented a generator of electricity.
I was thinking more along the lines that Islam could have been created off of Jewish tradition rather than that of a specific messiah. Islam does only recognize Christ as a prophet rather than the messiah after all. It might have been a bit different but many of the basics are still laid out in the old testament and who knows what would have happened to Judaism without Christianity.
bigglesworth wrote: Which leads to my question: in a world where Coca Cola still contains cocaine, how large is the United States of South America?
The United States of South America was destroyed in the war on drugs as it was Coca Cola's primary supplier. The heads of Coca Cola are still being hunted for their drug dealing crimes.
In a world where physics was never created what is the largest prime number ever discovered?
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Postby coolguy5678 » Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:32 pm UTC
Without physics, computers aren't invented, preventing large-scale prime searches. However, many of the would-be physicists end up in mathematics, allowing new methods for finding primes by hand to be developed, nearly (but not quite) cancelling the other effect out. The largest prime is [imath]33.2^{1813526} - 1[/imath], discovered by Richard Feynman.
In a universe where the gravitational and electromagnetic forces are 1/r instead of 1/r^2, with the fundamental constants changed so that life is still possible (bear with me here) what is the world's most popular sport?
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Duban wrote: I was thinking more along the lines that Islam could have been created off of Jewish tradition rather than that of a specific messiah. Islam does only recognize Christ as a prophet rather than the messiah after all. It might have been a bit different but many of the basics are still laid out in the old testament and who knows what would have happened to Judaism without Christianity.
Fair enough, but there were (not so widely followed) messiahs before Jesus, and even a few afterwards, it's just that Jesus was so popular that other ones found it a bit harder to get support. Messianic thought was a Jewish tradition. But we are only playing with counterfactuals anyway.
And you need to put forward one for us to create.
Postby KrazyerKate » Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:41 pm UTC
While Coca-Cola was definitely a North American invention, South America obviously has the greatest supply of Coca, so the soft-drink company was bought out soon after its commercial success in the 'states. The United States of South America (ratified shortly after the small countries started becoming more economically powerful than the United States of North America) spans the entire South American continent, and one-third of the way up the North American one, with strong cultural ties to the middle east through coca-colonization. While there aren't any problems with immigration in this world, the state of Mexico still has an uneasy relationship with the United States of North America due to the gap between the two cultures.
In the future when all public spaces are watched by webcams whose streams are uploaded to the internet, what will my 12-year-old niece do for fun?
OOPS: ninja'd. and I don't know physics well enough to answer the gravity one.
Postby krucifi » Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:09 am UTC
Duban wrote:
No, islam recognizes Jesus as the Messiah as well as a prophet. In fact he is one of the most important people in the religion.
i will answer both questions
Firstly due to the forces being so erratic after the big bang and creation of the solar system, Earth continued to circle many suns bouncing form one to another. as a result the seasons were extreme and life was barely able to keep up but managed to persevere. People eventually emerged with the same ability to withstand the extreme pressure temperatures etc as bacteria. now with this in mind they developed techonologies more suited to them, super carbon nanotubes (several billion times stronger than our current ones) now that humans can withstand unbeleivable circumstances this developed the sport similar to paintball but with supremely high powered cannons. i beleive they would call it bombardball
The internet now becomes common place for social contact. the world is permanently policed but also available to see by everyone. tourism becomes null as anything worth seeing is online. TV becomes redundant as does the radio. kids are forced to turn to the internet for education. however with the internet being home to many other things, this will cause an extreme boost in underage delinquency, and pregnancy. the world changes it's policies to include children as full citizens and age laws are thrown out. 12 year olds are given legal status and are to get jobs and such. so for fun i guess just relaxing and sitting on the couch
in a world where the speed of light is equal to mach 1, what animal would be the common household pet??
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Postby samk » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:10 am UTC
coolguy5678 wrote: In a universe where the gravitational and electromagnetic forces are 1/r instead of 1/r^2, with the fundamental constants changed so that life is still possible (bear with me here) what is the world's most popular sport?
Presumably space would be two dimensional, so peopletetris.
If seawater was usable for crop irrigation, what country would have the best cakes?
Lopsidation
Postby Lopsidation » Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:26 am UTC
If crops could be grown on seawater alone without affecting the taste, water-plentiful fruits like watermelons and strawberries would become vastly more available than (for example) potatoes and avocados. Thus, the most selective delicacy of the pastry world will be the water-deprived chocolate soda-cracker cake, produced only in landlocked countries. In addition, with the mass-shipping of saltwater, Gatorade will become the most common drink in the world, and Switzerland- holding the incredibly dehydrating sport of tennis- will become rich, and the only country able to produce pastries at a high level of quality.
If the mail was delivered weekly instead of daily, what would popular music sound like?
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Postby BurningLed » Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:45 am UTC
Thanks to less frequent updates on what qualifies as "mainstream" music, and the updates being focused on only a single subject each time, our music would still be 70's disco. It'd also have less variety, due to lower newspaper numbers, and be more comedic thanks to the Sunday funnies. Lastly, there would be far less environmental messages in music due to a decline in trees used to create newspaper.
If our clock ran on 50 hours rather than 24, how would it affect burger consumption rates?
Axman wrote: Some people blow their cash on watches that they show off to people who think said watches make a person cool. Some people spend a weekend buying everyone fake gifts in a game of make-believe.
I think the latter group is awesome.
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Postby KrO2 » Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:22 am UTC
I suspect they would go down, since if everyone was used to a sleep cycle slightly longer than two solar days, it would be easier to obtain actual food as opposed to fast food during hours where on our current clock just about everything is closed.
If the craters on the dark side of the moon were discovered to clearly spell "YHWH made this" in ancient Hebrew, how would the average strength of duct tape be different?
Current blog post: Omniscience can actually be pretty beatable sometimes.
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Postby Platypodes » Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:48 am UTC
NASA gets a boost from support by religious groups excited about the discovery. As often happens, NASA work leads to improvements in materials, & stronger duct tape is one result.
In a world without pigs, what is the current trend in interior decorating?
videogamesizzle wrote: so, uh, seen any good arbitrary, high numbers lately?
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Location: In the lollipop forest!
Postby Badion » Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:09 pm UTC
Due to the lack of protein in the human diet we greatly value the meat and skin of cows, this prevents the use of leather entirely and we lean heavily on artificial fabrics. The current trend in interior design is therefore the neoprene hammock.
In a world where trees are sentient beings, how has the geopolitical atmosphere changed.
One of these things is not like the others.
Every penny saved costs the government 2.1cents.
Postby samk » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:49 pm UTC
A slow (not cold-tree speed) war between the pine alliance of Canada and russia vs the jungle group of brazil and indonesia would have been the defining axis of world politics until recently, albedo and transpiration based climate war common. The development of consumer electronics for plants is however speeding up communication, the consequences as yet unclear.
If a golden retriever was elected president instead of GW Bush, what time signature would be in fashion now?
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Postby Sean Quixote » Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:39 am UTC
The only universe that this theoretical happening that you propose could ever possibly exist in is one with the opposite "polarity", if you will, to ours --up is down, left is right, etc, and time signatures... well, the numerator is actually the denominator... ugh, don't even get me started-- so it is quite impossible to tell.
If I gave you a dollar, which one is more awesome: tits or bacon?
mathgeek17
Postby mathgeek17 » Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:41 am UTC
Let's see. That dollar can go to ether a strip club, where I can watch people in underwear dance around, or bacon. The way I see it is, I can watch people naked online for free while I'm eating my bacon. Therefore, I decree bacon to be the winner.
If Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann were running against each other for the presidency, what color is the bear that walks by?
Postby CorruptUser » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:09 am UTC
Clearly Brown. Hell has frozen over, so all the polar bears went there.
If the sun set in the east instead of the west, which musician would be the most popular today?
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Postby ibgdude » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:52 am UTC
If the sun sets in the east, we are clearly on Venus, and so the most popular musician is John Lennon, with his amazingly popular song, Imagine No longer, Venus is Here.
If interstellar travel was invented as part of the space race, who wins WWIII?
Hawknc wrote: This is the easiest question ever asked on the forum, and you guys turn it into a two-page debate.
...Don't ever change.
Six pages and still going.
Postby Sean Quixote » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:52 pm UTC
The Borg. They will add our biological and technological distinctiveness to their own. Resistance is Futile.
What is the cure for hair cancer?
blademan9999
Postby blademan9999 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:45 am UTC
ERROR! ERROR! NOT A COUNTER FACTUAL! NO DIFFERENCE SPECIFIED!
In a world where Penguins breath fire, who wrote Hamlet.
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Postby Lorenz » Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:12 am UTC
Well, that's easy. Penguings slowly melt the polar caps by breathing fire, and by the 1600's, London is completely underwater. Shakespeare DID indeed write Hamlet, but it got lost in the same way that many beautiful stories were lost in Atlantis. About 350 years later, E. Lee Spence finds it, and takes credit for it. So for all we know, E. Lee Spence wrote Hamlet.
In a world were Isaac Newton decides to devote his life to horse racing, what is the first game console invented?
Postby blademan9999 » Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:02 am UTC
As Isaac newton goes horse racing, he discoveries gravity when he falls of his horse. This creates a new sport of falling if horses. Thefore the first game console was a horse.
In a world where camels and donkeys fight a war, who discovers relativity.
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Soleiman, P., Kheiri, F. (2018). The Effect of Different Levels of Tannic Acid on some Performance Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 8(1), 19-23.
P. Soleiman; F. Kheiri. "The Effect of Different Levels of Tannic Acid on some Performance Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves". Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 8, 1, 2018, 19-23.
Soleiman, P., Kheiri, F. (2018). 'The Effect of Different Levels of Tannic Acid on some Performance Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves', Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 8(1), pp. 19-23.
Soleiman, P., Kheiri, F. The Effect of Different Levels of Tannic Acid on some Performance Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science, 2018; 8(1): 19-23.
The Effect of Different Levels of Tannic Acid on some Performance Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves
P. Soleiman; F. Kheiri
Department of Animal Science, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of inclusion of tannic acid on some performance traits and nutrient digestibility in Holstein dairy calves. A total of 20 seven days old Holstein calves were randomly assigned to 4 experimental treatments with 5 calves each. The treatments were as follows: 1) basal diet formulated to meet all nutritional requirement of calves according to NRC (2001) and milk without any additive, 2) basal diet and milk supplemented with 4 mg tannic acid/L, 3) basal diet and milk supplemented with 6 mg tannic acid/L and 4) basal diet and milk supplemented with 12 mg tannic acid/L. The result showed that dietary inclusion of different levels of tannic acid improved feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio in treated calves. Dry and organic matter intake, and digestion of crude protein, natural detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber were improved in treated calves with tannic acid compared to the control group. The fecal consistency score showed that Inclusion of tannic acid resulted in improved fecal consistency from0 to 50 days of age (P≤0.05). In conclusion, tannic acid inclusion in milk could be beneficial for Holstein dairy calves with positive effects on their feed intake, body weight gain, feed conversion ratio and nutrient digestibility.
digestibility; fecal consistency; Holstein dairy calves; Performance; tannic acid
Tannins are defined as naturally occurring water soluble poly-phenol of varying molecular weight, which differs from most other natural phenolic compounds in their ability to precipitate protein from solutions (Spencer et al. 1988). Tannic acid is a synonym for hydrolysable tannins, which are widely distributed in nature. Tannic acid is used as a flavoring agent and is far more widespread aids in beer clarification, aroma compound in soft drinks and juices. Tannic acid is authorized under directive 2001/83/EC on the community code relating to products for human use for the treatment of mild diarrhea, inflammation of oral mucosa and skin and hemorrhoids. Adult ruminants can tolerate levels of hydrolysable tannins in feed in the range 20000 mg/kg feed without any detectable loss in performance characteristics, whether measured as growth or milk production (Frutos et al. 2004; Liu, 2013). Pre-ruminant calves appear to be more vulnerable to toxicosis, but the concentrations of tannic acid required to elicit clinical symptoms are substantially higher than those proposed for flavor purposes (Plumlee et al. 1998). Tannins can be used as chemical feed additive to reduce degradation of proteins in the rumen. The tannin-protein complexes are less soluble and less accessible to proteolytic enzymes at the ruminal pH, thereby slowing the rate of ruminal degradation. Farmatan a natural extracts from chestnut tannin have a significant role in prevention of digestive disorders in domestic animal. It also improves body weight gain and feed conversion efficiency in dairy cows (Dumanovski and Sotosek, 1998). Bhatta et al. (2005) showed significant improvement in body weight gain, calculated energy output as well as milk protein content in animals fed with 7.5% tamarind seed husk in the diet. Tannic acid is a polymer, which is poorly absorbed in the digestive tract (Nakamura et al. 2003). Tannic acid is degraded in the gut by bacteria or enzymes and its degradation products are absorbed. There is growing evidence that a moderate tannin level may provide protection against microbial degradation of dietary proteins in the rumen, increase efficiency of rumen microbial protein synthesis and protect ruminants from bloat (Haslam, 1996; Mangan, 1988). On the other hand, high levels of tannins produce adverse effects decreased nutrient utilization and animal productivity, and death (Butter et al. 1999). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of using different levels of tannic acid on some performance traits and nutrient digestibility and fecal consistency in Holstein dairy calves.
Diets and animal management
This experiment was carried out at the “Shalamzar” Kian Dairy farm, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran. A total of 20 new born Holstein calves (39±5 kg) were used in this study. The experimental calves were randomly attributed to 4 dietary treatments (5 calves in each box). Calves were fed by colostrum within the first 3 days of birth. After that, they fed milk until 60 days twice daily at the morning and afternoon (4 liter per day from 3 to 25 days and 6 liter per day from 25 to 60 days). The treatments were as follows: 1) basal diet formulated to meet all nutritional requirement of calves according to NRC (2001) and milk without any additive, 2) basal diet and milk supplemented with 4 mg tannic acid/L, 3) basal diet and milk supplemented with 6 mg tannic acid/L and 4) basal diet and milk supplemented with 12 mg tannic acid/L. The feed, water and milk were offered ad libitum during the experiment.
Samples and measurements
The calves were weighed every week and on 5, 20, 35 and 60 days of the experimental period using a sensitive digital scale (25 g). Feed intake (FI) was measured daily and feed conversion ratio (FCR) was calculated by dividing feed intake by average daily gain in each group. Samples of fecal were collected in air tight plastic containers and refrigerated until determination of fecal dry matter content. Samples of concentrates, hay and feces were oven dried at 60 ˚C to determine dry matter, ash, crude protein, digestible protein, crude fat, neutral detergent fiber, and starch as described by Jansen et al. (2003) using acid insoluble ash as internal marker. Fecal consistency of calves was monitored using the procedure described by Larson et al. (1977). Scoring was as follows: 1= normal; 2= soft to loose; 3= loose to watery; 4= watery, mucous; slightly bloody and 5= watery, mucous.
The data were subjected to ANOVA process using PROC ANOVA of SAS software (SAS, 2001) based on a completely random design. The treatments were separated by Duncan’s (1995) tests at (P≤0.05) statistical level. The statistical model used in this trial was as below:
Yij= μ + Ti + eij
Yij: dependent variable for treatment i and individual j.
μ: total average.
Ti: tannic acid level.
eij: residual effect.
The results of dietary inclusion of different levels of tannic acid on feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio of dairy calves are shown in Table 1. Feed intake, body weight gain (BWG) and FCR did not affected significantly by different levels of tannic acid compared to the control group. Despite the non-significant effect of tannic acid on BWG and FCR, tannic acid inclusion numerically improved BWG and FCR. Rivera et al. (2017) reported that supplementation of tannins promoted dry matter intake, and hence increased average daily gain (ADG) of steers during the finishing phase of feedlot. They mentioned this effect on feed intake independent of the potential tannin effect on metabolizable protein supply. Tannic acid at higher concentrations (5, 10, 15 and 20 g/kg rat diet) has been shown to interfere with iron absorption (Afsana et al. 2004). In study of Plumlee et al. (1998), calves feed by tannic acid at doses of 4.4-5.5 g/kg showed developed methemoglobinemia. Stukelj et al. (2010) noted that the test diets also included some other organic acids and that the tannic acid diet gave numerically lower values than the basal diet. They suggested that younger animals might be more sensitive to the presence of tannic acid. Lee et al. (2010) showed that linear decrease in feed conversion ratio and a linear decrease of daily body weight gain with increasing levels of tannic acid in pigs. Additionally, Jamroz et al. (2009) showed that at concentrations greater than 1000 mg tannic acid from chestnut wood/kg feed, growth rate and feed intake are reduced in a 41-days trial in experimental broilers. In addition, Ehrlich (1999) found that higher tannin content in sorghum had a positive effect on feed intake during finishing phase of fattening pigs.
Table 1 The effect of tannic acid on performance of dairy calves
Wilson (1989) showed that feed intake and egg production were significantly reduced in birds given the highest doses of tannic acid. Waghorn et al. (1994) noted that tannins also lower rumen turnover rate as well as digestibility of nutrients which has greater impact on reducing feed intake than decrease palatability. Because tannins are capable of binding with dietary proteins, rendering them less degradable within the rumen (Ben-Salem et al. 1999). Growth performance responses to supplemental tannins have been generally attributed to enhancements in intestinal metabolizable protein supply (Waghorn, 1996). Pre-ruminant calves appear to be more vulnerable to toxicities, but the concentrations of tannic acid required to elicit clinical symptoms are substantially higher (more than 1 500 mg/kg feed) than those proposed for flavor purposes (Plumlee et al. 1998). Table 2 shows that nutrient digestibility of ether extracts (EE) increased by tannic acid treatment. Although organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), non fiber carbohydrates (NFC), acid detergent fiber (ADF) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) were increased by using different levels of tannic acid, but also there weren’t significant differences for among treatments in comparison to the control. Additionally different levels of tannic acid had changed nutrient digestibility in treated Holstein calves. In spite of that, found increased in vitro dry matter and nitrogen digestibility by adding of tannins. Also, they showed that tannins protein complexes bind with NDF, ADF and acid detergent lignin (ADL) thereby increase their amount in feces than intake levels thereby showed a negative digestibility. Adult ruminants can tolerate levels of hydrolysable tannic acid in their feed in the range 15000-25000 mg/kg feed without any detectable loss in performance characteristics, whether measured as growth or milk production (Krueger et al. 2010). Young animals seem to be more sensitive (>1 500 mg/kg feed) was harmful to calves (Mingshu et al. 2006). Bhatt et al. (1998) showed that supplemented compounded feed mixture containing 0, 2.5, 7.5% tamarind seed husk with a tannin levels of 0, 0.2 and 0.74% in total diet of cross breed dairy cows at mid lactation had no effect on intake of DM, NDF and ADF and digestibility of major nutrients except protein, which digestibility decreased significantly. Kumar and Singh (1984) showed that tannins could reduce digestibility of the nutrients in the diets. They also mentioned that tannins mainly exert this effect on proteins, but they also affect other feed components to different degrees. The effect of using different levels of tannic acid on fecal consistency score in treated Holstein calves is shown in Table 3. The results showed that fecal consistency score significantly decreased by adding tannic acid (P≤0.05). Inclusion of tannic acid in the diet resulted in improved fecal consistency at 0-50 days in all treated calves.
Table 2 The effect of using different levels of tannic acid on some nutrient digestibility
Table 3 The effect of using different levels of tannic acid on fecal consistency score
The means within the same row with at least one common letter, do not have significant difference (P>0.05).
Some researchers showed that the ingestion of tannic acid caused constipation and can be used to treat diarrhea (Allegrini and Costantini, 2010; Morinaga et al. 2005). There is plenty of evidence to support the anti-diarrheal effect of medicinal plants found to be rich in tannins (Haslam, 1996; Palombo, 2006). In addition Oliveira et al. (2010) showed that feeding some polyphones could affect nutrient digestibility and fecal consistency in calves. Previous studies by Field (2003) have shown that polyphenols and polyphenol derived compounds or alkaloids may act on the biochemical mediators that activate vasodilatation and production of exudates in the intercellular compartments of the intestines.
We concluded that inclusion of different levels of tannic acid powder could have beneficial on feed intake, increasing body weight gain and better feed conversion ratio in Holstein dairy calves. Additionally it could be effective on nutrient digestibility and especially improved fecal consistency in experimental Holstein dairy calves. Therefore, a better understanding of tannic acid properties, metabolism and its influence on efficiency of nutrient utilization in early ruminant and dairy calves ration is important. Also more studies are needed for more explanation.
The paper is resulted from MS thesis of Peyman Soleiman and supported by Department of Animal Science, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran.
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In-Ti (Indium-Titanium) J.L. Murray The assessed Ti-In phase diagram is based on metallographic and X-ray diffraction work [54Lev, 58And] on the Ti-side; thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, and optical observation of melting [62Joh] on the In-rich side; and on X-ray diffraction of three samples of intermediate composition [65Ram]. [54Lev] examined four alloys containing 1.8 to 15.2 at.% In from 800 to 1000 C by metallography, and [58And] examined 10 alloys from 4 to 31 at.% In at 750 to 1050 C by metallography and X-ray diffraction. The results of [58And] for the Ti-rich region are tentatively preferred because of the larger number of alloys examined, the probability that purer alloys were used, and the verification of metallographic results by X-ray diffraction. The (bTi) boundary (drawn by [Elliott] with a kink) has been smoothed to conform more plausibly with the combined findings of [54Lev] and [58And]. [58And] reported that a 30 at.% In alloy annealed at 950 C contained a two- phase assemblage of Ti3In and a phase that probably had the L12 structure. They noted that composition changes of as much as 10 at.% were caused by In loss during arc melting. The most In-rich compound, Ti3In4, forms by a peritectic reaction between the liquid and an unidentified phase at 796 C [62Joh]. [62Joh] determined the composition of Ti3In4 by X-ray diffraction and density measurements on crystals removed from the In-rich liquid. They estimated the composition of the liquidus at the peritectic temperature as 97.1 at.% In, based on the disappearance of the peritectic arrest and visual observation of the beginning of solidification. 54Lev: D.W. Levinson, D.J. McPherson, and W. Rostoker, WADC Technical Report, 53-41, 23-24 (1954). 58And: K. Anderko, Z. Metallkd., 49, 165-172 (1958) in German. 62Joh: R.G. Johnson and R.J. Prosen, Trans. AIME, 224, 397-398 (1962). 65Ram: A. Raman and K. Schubert, Z. Metallkd., 56(1), 44-52 (1965) in German. Published in Phase Diagrams of Binary Titanium Alloys, 1987. Complete evaluation contains 1 figure, 3 tables, and 10 references. Special Points of the Ti-In System
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"Hampton Court" redirects here. For other uses, see Hampton Court (disambiguation).
The Tudor Great Gatehouse
Location in Greater London
Hampton Court, Greater London, England
51°24′12″N 0°20′15″W / 51.40333°N 0.33750°W / 51.40333; -0.33750Coordinates: 51°24′12″N 0°20′15″W / 51.40333°N 0.33750°W / 51.40333; -0.33750
Current tenants
Historic Royal Palaces
Queen Elizabeth II in right of the Crown[1]
www.hrp.org.uk
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles (19.3 kilometres) south west and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Building of the palace began in 1515 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII. In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the King to check his disgrace; Henry VIII later enlarged it. Along with St James' Palace, it is one of only two surviving palaces out of the many the King owned.
In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival the Palace of Versailles, destroyed much of the Tudor palace.[2] His work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque. While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings.[3] King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace.
Today, the palace is open to the public and a major tourist attraction, easily reached by train from Waterloo station in central London and served by Hampton Court railway station in East Molesey, in Transport for London's Zone 6. In addition, London Buses routes 111, 216, 411 and R68 stop outside the palace gates. The structure and grounds are cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown.[4] In addition the palace continues to display a large number of works of art from the Royal Collection.
Apart from the Palace itself and its gardens, other points of interest for visitors include the celebrated maze, the historic royal tennis court (see below), and the huge grape vine, the largest in the world as of 2005[update]. The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
1.1 Tudor times
1.2 Stuart times
3 The Chapel
4 Grounds
4.1 King's Beasts
5 Recent history
5.1 Grace and favour residencies
5.2 Vanderbilt influence
5.3 Film location
5.4 2012 Olympic Games
5.5 500th anniversary
5.6 Roman Catholic service
6 Transport links
Tudor times
Hampton Court Palace, with marked reference points referred to on this page. A: West Front & Main Entrance; B: Base Court; C: Clock Tower; D: Clock Court, E: Fountain Court; F: East Front; G: South Front; H: Banqueting House; J: Great Hall; K: River Thames; M: East Gardens; O: Cardinal Wolsey's Rooms; P: Chapel
Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, chief minister to and favourite of Henry VIII, took over the site of Hampton Court Palace in 1514.[5] It had previously been a property of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.[3] Over the following seven years, Wolsey spent lavishly (200,000 Crowns) to build the finest palace in England at Hampton Court.[6] Today, little of Wolsey's building work remains unchanged. The first courtyard, the Base Court,[7] (B on plan), was his creation, as was the second, inner gatehouse (C) which leads to the Clock Court (D) (Wolsey's seal remains visible over the entrance arch of the clock tower[8]) which contained his private rooms (O on plan).[5] The Base Court contained forty-four lodgings reserved for guests, while the second court (today, Clock Court) contained the very best rooms – the state apartments – reserved for the King and his family.[9] Henry VIII stayed in the state apartments as Wolsey's guest immediately after their completion in 1525.
Decorative Tudor brick chimneys at Hampton Court Palace
In building his palace, Wolsey was attempting to create a Renaissance cardinal's palace of a rectilinear symmetrical plan with grand apartments on a raised piano nobile, all rendered with classical detailing. The historian Jonathan Foyle has suggested[10] that it is likely that Wolsey had been inspired by Paolo Cortese's De Cardinalatu, a manual for cardinals that included advice on palatial architecture, published in 1510. The architectural historian Sir John Summerson asserts that the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome."[11] Whatever the concepts were, the architecture is an excellent and rare example of a thirty-year era when English architecture was in a harmonious transition from domestic Tudor, strongly influenced by perpendicular Gothic, to the Italian Renaissance classical style. Perpendicular Gothic owed nothing historically to the Renaissance style, yet harmonised well with it.[12] This blending of styles was realised by a small group of Italian craftsmen working at the English court in the second and third decades of the sixteenth century. They specialised in the adding of Renaissance ornament to otherwise straightforward Tudor buildings.[12] It was one of these, Giovanni da Maiano who was responsible for the set of eight relief busts of Roman emperors which were set in the Tudor brickwork.[13]
Anne Boleyn's Gate. The Tudor gatehouse and astronomical clock, made for Henry VIII in 1540 (C on plan above) Two of the Renaissance bas reliefs by Giovanni da Maiano can be seen set into the brickwork.
Wolsey was only to enjoy his palace for a few years.[11] In 1528, knowing that his enemies and the King were engineering his downfall, he passed the palace to the King as a gift. Wolsey died two years later in 1530.[11]
Within six months of coming into ownership, the King began his own rebuilding and expansion.[9] Henry VIII's court consisted of over one thousand people, while the King owned over sixty houses and palaces. Few of these were large enough to hold the assembled court, and thus one of the first of the King's building works (in order to transform Hampton Court to a principal residence) was to build the vast kitchens. These were quadrupled in size in 1529, enabling the King to provide bouche of court for his entire court.[14][15] The architecture of King Henry's new palace followed the design precedent set by Wolsey: perpendicular Gothic-inspired Tudor with restrained Renaissance ornament. This hybrid architecture was to remain almost unchanged for nearly a century, until Inigo Jones introduced strong classical influences from Italy to the London palaces of the first Stuart kings.
Between 1532 and 1535 Henry added the Great Hall (the last medieval great hall built for the English monarchy) and the Royal Tennis Court.[16] The Great Hall has a carved hammer-beam roof. During Tudor times, this was the most important room of the palace; here, the King would dine in state seated at a table upon a raised dais.[17] The hall took five years to complete; so impatient was the King for completion that the masons were compelled to work throughout the night by candlelight.[6]
The gatehouse to the second, inner court was adorned in 1540 with the Hampton Court astronomical clock, an early example of a pre-Copernican astronomical clock. Still functioning, the clock shows the time of day, the phases of the moon, the month, the quarter of the year, the date, the sun and star sign, and high water at London Bridge.[18] The latter information was of great importance to those visiting this Thames-side palace from London, as the preferred method of transport at the time was by barge, and at low water London Bridge created dangerous rapids. This gatehouse is also known today as Anne Boleyn's gate, after Henry's second wife. Work was still underway on Anne Boleyn's apartments above the gate when Boleyn was beheaded.[19]
Henry VIII's first building project at Hampton Court created vast kitchens capable of feeding his court of 1,000 people.
During the Tudor period, the palace was the scene of many historic events. In 1537, the King's much desired male heir, the future Edward VI, was born at the palace and the child's mother, Jane Seymour, died there two weeks later.[20] Four years afterwards, whilst attending Mass in the palace's chapel, the King was informed of the adultery of his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. She was then confined to her room for a few days before being sent to Syon House and then on to the Tower of London. Legend claims she briefly escaped her guards and ran through The Haunted Gallery to beg Henry for her life but she was recaptured.[21]
King Henry died in January 1547 and was succeeded first by his son Edward VI, and then by both his daughters in turn. It was to Hampton Court that Queen Mary I (Henry's elder daughter) retreated with King Philip to spend her honeymoon, after their wedding at Winchester.[6] Mary chose Hampton Court as the place for the birth of her first child, which turned out to be the first of two phantom pregnancies. Mary had initially wanted to give birth at Windsor Castle as it was a more secure location, and she was still fearful of rebellion. But Hampton Court was considerably larger, and could accommodate the entire court and more besides. Mary stayed at the Palace awaiting the birth of the "child" for over five months, and only left because of the inhabitable state of the court being kept in the one location for so long, after which her court departed for the much smaller palace of Oatlands. Mary was succeeded by her half-sister, Elizabeth I, and it was Elizabeth who had the eastern kitchen built; today, this is the palace's public tea room.[20]
Stuart times
Christopher Wren's south front (G on plan) built for William and Mary viewed from the Privy Garden.
On the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, the Tudor period came to an end. The Queen was succeeded by her first cousin-twice-removed, the Scottish King, James VI, who became known in England as James I of the House of Stuart.[22]
In 1604, the palace was the site of King James' meeting with representatives of the English Puritans, known as the Hampton Court Conference; while agreement with the Puritans was not reached, the meeting led to James's commissioning of the King James Version of the Bible.[23]
King James was succeeded in 1625 by his son, the ill-fated Charles I. Hampton Court was to become both his palace and his prison.[23] It was also the setting for his honeymoon with his fifteen-year-old bride, Henrietta Maria in 1625.[6] Following King Charles' execution in 1649, the palace became the property of the Commonwealth presided over by Oliver Cromwell. Unlike some other former royal properties, the palace escaped relatively unscathed. While the government auctioned much of the contents, the building was ignored.[24]
After the Restoration, King Charles II and his successor James II visited Hampton Court but largely preferred to reside elsewhere. By current French court standards Hampton Court now appeared old-fashioned. It was in 1689, shortly after Louis XIV's court had moved permanently to Versailles, that the palace's antiquated state was addressed. England had joint monarchs, William III and his wife, Mary II. Within months of their accession they embarked on a massive rebuilding project at Hampton Court. The intention was to demolish the Tudor palace a section at a time, while replacing it with a huge modern palace in the Baroque style retaining only Henry VIII's Great Hall.[25]
The ceiling of the Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace.
The country's most eminent architect, Sir Christopher Wren, was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be William Talman. The plan was for a vast palace constructed around two courtyards at right angles to each other. Wren's design for a domed palace bore resemblances to the work of Jules Hardouin Mansart and Louis Le Vau, both architects employed by Louis XIV at Versailles.[25] It has been suggested, though, that the plans were abandoned because the resemblance to Versailles was too subtle and not strong enough; at this time, it was impossible for any sovereign to visualise a palace that did not emulate Versailles' repetitive Baroque form.[26] However, the resemblances are there: while the façades are not so long as those of Versailles, they have similar, seemingly unstoppable repetitive rhythms beneath a long flat skyline. The monotony is even repeated as the façade turns the corner from the east to the south fronts. However, Hampton Court, unlike Versailles, is given an extra dimension by the contrast between the pink brick and the pale Portland stone quoins, frames and banding.[27] Further diversion is added by the circular and decorated windows of the second floor mezzanine. This theme is repeated in the inner Fountain Court, but the rhythm is faster and the windows, unpedimented on the outer façades, are given pointed pediments in the courtyard; this has led the courtyard to be described as "Startling, as of simultaneous exposure to a great many eyes with raised eyebrows."[28]
The Fountain Court designed by Sir Christopher Wren (E on plan): "Startling, as of simultaneous exposure to a great many eyes with raised eyebrows."[28]
During this work, half the Tudor palace was replaced and Henry VIII's state rooms and private apartments were both lost; the new wings around the Fountain Court contained new state apartments and private rooms, one set for the King and one for the Queen. Each suite of state rooms was accessed by a state staircase. The royal suites were of completely equal value in order to reflect William and Mary's unique status as joint sovereigns.[29] The King's Apartments face south over the Privy Garden, the Queen's east over the Fountain Garden. The suites are linked by a gallery running the length of the east façade, another reference to Versailles, where the King and Queen's apartments are linked by the Galerie des Glaces. However, at Hampton Court the linking gallery is of more modest proportions and decoration. The King's staircase was decorated with frescos by Antonio Verrio and delicate ironwork by Jean Tijou.[30] Other artists commissioned to decorate the rooms included Grinling Gibbons, Sir James Thornhill and Jacques Rousseau; furnishings were designed by Daniel Marot.[31]
William III's toilet. Hampton Court
After the death of Queen Mary, King William lost interest in the renovations, and work ceased. However, it was in Hampton Court Park in 1702 that he fell from his horse, later dying from his injuries at Kensington Palace. He was succeeded by his sister-in-law Queen Anne who continued the decoration and completion of the state apartments. On Queen Anne's death in 1714 the Stuart dynasty came to an end.
Queen Anne's successor was George I; he and his son George II were the last monarchs to reside at Hampton Court.[2] Under George I six rooms were completed in 1717 to the design of John Vanbrugh.[32] Under George II and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, further refurbishment took place, with the architect William Kent employed to design new furnishings and decor including the Queen's Staircase, (1733)[33] and the Cumberland Suite (1737) for the Duke of Cumberland.[33] Today, the Queen's Private Apartments are open to the public and include her bathroom and bedroom.[citation needed]
The Cartoon Gallery at Hampton Court
The palace houses many works of art and furnishings from the Royal Collection, mainly dating from the two principal periods of the palace's construction, the early Tudor (Renaissance) and late Stuart to early Georgian period. In September 2015, the Royal Collection recorded 542 works (only those with images) as being located at Hampton Court, mostly paintings and furniture, but also ceramics and sculpture. The full current list can be obtained from their website.[34] The single most important work is Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar housed in the Lower Orangery. The palace once housed the Raphael Cartoons now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their former home, the Cartoon Gallery on the south side of the Fountain Court, was designed by Christopher Wren; copies painted in the 1690s by a minor artist, Henry Cooke, are now displayed in their place. Also on display are important collections of ceramics, including numerous pieces of blue and white porcelain collected by Queen Mary II, both Chinese imports and Delftware.
Queen Mary II's Bedchamber, also known as Queen Caroline's State Bedchamber.
Much of the original furniture dates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, including tables by Jean Pelletier, "India back" walnut chairs by Thomas Roberts and clocks and a barometer by Thomas Tompion. Several state beds are still in their original positions, as is the Throne Canopy in the King's Privy Chamber. This room contains a crystal chandelier of circa 1700, possibly the first such in the country.[35]
The King's Guard Chamber contains a large quantity of arms: muskets, pistols, swords, daggers, powder horns and pieces of armour arranged on the walls in decorative patterns. Bills exist for payment to a John Harris dated 1699 for an arrangement believed to be that still seen today.
Stained glass windows in the Great Watching Chamber.
The timber and plaster ceiling of the Chapel is considered the "most important and magnificent in Britain",[21] but is all that remains of the Tudor decoration, after redecoration supervised by Sir Christopher Wren. The altar is framed by a massive but plain oak reredos with garlands carved by Grinling Gibbons during the reign of Queen Anne.[21] Opposite the altar, at first-floor level, is the royal pew where the royal family would attend services apart from the general congregation seated below.
The clergy, musicians and other ecclesiastical officers employed by the monarch at Hampton Court, as in other English royal premises, are known collectively as the Chapel Royal; properly used the term does not refer to a building.
The grounds as they appear today were laid out in grand style in the late 17th century. There are no authentic remains of Henry VIII's gardens, merely a small knot garden, planted in 1924, which hints at the gardens' 16th-century appearance.[36] Today, the dominating feature of the grounds is the great landscaping scheme constructed for Sir Christopher Wren's intended new palace. From a water-bounded semicircular parterre, the length of the east front, three avenues radiate in a crow's foot pattern. The central avenue, containing not a walk or a drive, but the great canal known as the Long Water, was excavated during the reign of Charles II, in 1662. The design, radical at the time, is another immediately recognizable influence from Versailles, and was indeed laid out by pupils of André Le Nôtre, Louis XIV's landscape gardener.[27]
On the south side of the palace is the Privy Garden bounded by semi-circular wrought iron gates by Jean Tijou.[37] This garden, originally William III's private garden, was replanted in 1992 in period style with manicured hollies and yews along a geometric system of paths.[36]
The garden recreated in the style of Henry VIII's gardens of 1536.
On a raised site overlooking the Thames, is a small pavilion, the Banqueting House. This was built circa 1700, for informal meals and entertainments in the gardens rather than for the larger state dinners which would have taken place inside the palace itself. A nearby conservatory houses the "Great Vine", planted in 1769; by 1968 it had a trunk 81 inches thick and has a length of 100 feet.[27] It still produces an annual crop of grapes.[38]
The palace included apartments for the use of favoured royal friends. One such apartment is described as being in "The Pavilion and situated on the Home Park" of Hampton Court Palace. This privilege was first extended about 1817 by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, to his friend, Lieut General James Moore, K.C., and his new bride, Miss Cecilia Watson. George IV continued this arrangement following the death of Prince Edward on 23 January 1820. The Queen continued the arrangement for the widow of General Moore, following his death on 24 April 1838. This particular apartment was used for 21 years or more and spanned three different sponsors.[39]
One of the Palace's sunken gardens. In the background is William III's Banqueting House (H on plan) of 1700.
A well-known curiosity of the palace's grounds is Hampton Court Maze; planted in the 1690s by George London and Henry Wise for William III.[38] It was originally planted with hornbeam; it has been repaired latterly using many different types of hedge. there is a 3D online browser simulation of the Hampton Court Maze—see the external links section
Inspired by narrow views of a Tudor garden that can be seen through doorways in a painting, The Family of Henry VIII, hanging in the palace's Haunted Gallery, a new garden in the style of Henry VIII's 16th-century Privy Gardens, has been designed to celebrate the anniversary of that King's accession to the throne. Sited on the former Chapel Court Garden, it has been planted with flowers and herbs from the 16th century, and is completed by gilded heraldic beasts and bold green and white painted fences. The heraldic beasts carved by Ben Harms and Ray Gonzalez of G&H Studios include the golden lion of England, The white greyhound of Richmond, the red dragon of Wales and the white hart of Richard II, all carved from English oak. The garden's architect was Todd Langstaffe-Gowan, who collaborated with James Fox and the Gardens Team at Historic Royal Palaces.[citation needed]
The formal gardens and park are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[40]
King's Beasts
The King's Beasts
There are also ten statues of heraldic animals, called the King's Beasts, that stand on the bridge over the moat leading to the great gatehouse. Unlike the Queen's Beasts in Kew Gardens, these statues represent the ancestry of King Henry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour. The animals are: the lion of England, the Seymour lion, the Royal dragon, the black bull of Clarence, the yale of Beaufort, the white lion of Mortimer, the White Greyhound of Richmond, the Tudor dragon, the Seymour panther, and the Seymour unicorn. The set of Queens Beasts at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II replaced the three Seymour items and one of the dragons by the griffin of Edward III, the horse of Hanover, the falcon of the Plantagenets, and the unicorn of Scotland.[41]
Since the reign of King George II, no monarch has resided at Hampton Court. In fact, George III, from the moment of his accession, never set foot in the palace: he associated the state apartments with a humiliating scene when his grandfather had once struck him following an innocent remark. He did however have the Great Vine planted here in 1763 and had the top two storeys of the Great Gatehouse removed in 1773.[29]
In 1796, the Great Hall was restored and in 1838, during the reign of Queen Victoria, the restoration was completed and the palace opened to the public. The heavy-handed restoration plan at this time reduced the Great Gatehouse (A), the palace's principal entrance, by two stories and removed the lead cupolas adorning its four towers.[42] Once opened, the palace soon became a major tourist attraction and, by 1881, over ten million visits had been recorded.[43] Visitors arrived both by boat from London and via Hampton Court railway station, opened in February 1849.[44]
One of the sets of stairs at the main entrance
On 2 September 1952, the palace was given statutory protection by being grade I listed.[45] Other buildings and structures within the grounds are separately grade I listed, including the early 16th-century tilt yard tower (the only surviving example of the five original towers);[46] Christopher Wren's Lion gate built for Anne and George I;[47] and the Tudor and 17th-century perimeter walls.[48]
The Royal School of Needlework moved to premises within the Palace from Princes Gate in Kensington 1987, and the Palace also houses the headquarters of Historic Royal Palaces, a charitable foundation.
Grace and favour residencies
From the 1760s, the palace was used to house grace and favour residents. Many of the palace rooms were adapted to be rent-free apartments, with vacant ones allocated by the Lord Chamberlain to applicants to reward past services rendered to the Crown. From 1862 to his death in 1867, Michael Faraday lived here. From the 1960s the number of new residents declined, with the last admitted in the 1980s.[49] However existing residents could continue to live here. In 2005 three remained,[50] with none by 2017.
It was the elderly recipient of one such grace and favour apartment, Lady Daphne Gale, widow of General Sir Richard Gale, who caused a major fire that claimed her life and spread to the King's Apartments in 1986. This led to a new programme of restoration work which was completed in 1990.[51]
Vanderbilt influence
Wren's Hampton Court inspired Florham, a Vanderbilt family house in Madison, New Jersey.
Inspired by Wren's work at Hampton Court, the American Vanderbilt family modeled their estate known as Florham, in Madison, New Jersey, after Hampton Court's English-baroque style. Florham was commissioned by Florence Adele Vanderbilt and Hamilton McKown Twombly from the McKim, Mead & White firm, which also built the Old Penn Station and the Rhode Island State House among many other monuments, in 1893.[52] Hampton Court can be seen very clearly in Florham's classical columns, and mix of stone and red brick. Now home to Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham, at 110 rooms, remains the 8th largest house in the United States.[53]
Film location
The palace served as the location for the film A Man for All Seasons (1966), directed by Fred Zinnemann. It also appeared in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008) where Adams was received by King George III as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St James's. The palace was used in the film To Kill a King (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Holmes & Watson (2018) and The Favourite (2018). The palace also served as a location for the live action film of Disney's Cinderella (2015), directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James and Richard Madden.
The location was used for a performance of The Six Wives of Henry VIII by rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman in 2009. The concert was videotaped.
The palace was the venue for the Road Cycling Time Trial of the 2012 Summer Olympics and temporary structures for the event, including a set of thrones for time trialists in the medal positions, were installed in the grounds.[54]
In 2015 Hampton Court celebrated its 500th anniversary.[55][56] The celebrations included daily dramatised historical scenes.[57] Building at the palace began on 12 February 1515.[58]
Roman Catholic service
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The bunt, bushido and Japanese baseball’s issues with history
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Japan’s home run explosion is making the obligatory sacrifice more and more of a stretch for NPB managers.
I love seeing a perfect bunt as much as the next fan, but hate the obligatory, let’s-take-a-bullet-for-the-sake-of-Japanese-winning-baseball-first-inning sacrifice as much as any of you, I’m sure.
Although the sacrifice bunt is celebrated as the epitome of Japanese baseball dogma, it’s popular now like it never was back in the day. Small ball has always been close to the heart of Japanese ball, but the bunt REALLY became popular in the late 1970s when former players of legendary Yomiuri Giants manager Tetsuharu Kawakami began taking over one NPB club after another.
The irony is that the bunt reached its most popular peak in the 1980s, when offense and home runs were at an all-time high and spearheaded by then Seibu Lions manager Tatsuro Hirooka. That’s when “the bunt IS Japanese baseball” was REALLY born. It’s not some age-old doctrine but a revisionist history — an explanation after the fact about how a policy that didn’t exist at the time of a perceived “golden age” was the secret to that era’s quality.
In that respect, Hirooka’s popularization of the bunt is reminiscent of Japan’s belief that bushido was a code warriors of a purer era lived by, when in fact it was a code meant as a wakeup call to men of samurai lineage who were warriors in name and social status only. It was a code that didn’t describe reality but was rather a set of moral ideals for warriors in a society without wars to aspire to.
Japan’s funny about the past. If one glorifies one’s famous predecessors, that goes over really well, whether it’s true or not. In fact, it’s something of a cottage industry that is hard to assail. If I tell you the Giants who won nine-straight Japan Series did so because of the sacrifice bunt, and you say it’s not true, your words can be perceived as criticism of a legend of the game.
The most famous example recent example of this was former BayStars skipper Hiroshi Gondo. The man, who asked his players to call him “Gondo-san” (Mr. Gondo) rather than Manager Gondo, was an iconoclast. He attacked a lot of Japanese pro baseball traditions as being moronic and a waste of time and was tossed out on his ear — despite a very successful run as skipper.
Yet, now, when more objective information is actually available, people will still argue that the first-inning sacrifice is key to winning games when it so obviously isn’t. But those days are numbered. It appears now that the current offensive explosion appears will finally drive the bunt’s arch proponents underground.
Digression aside, there has been a very peculiar relationship between win percentages and first-inning sacrifices.
Prior to the introduction of the deadened standard ball in 2011, see here and here, the relationship between wins and first-inning sacrifices favored visiting teams that bunted with no outs and a runner on first. From 2011 to 2016, home teams have done better bunting in the first inning of scoreless games with no outs and a runner on first.
Although the data this year is limited, in games through June 15, with home runs going through the roof in NPB like balls off Shohei Ohtani’s bat, the first-inning sacrifice by the No. 2 hitter appears to be approaching its final resting place.
In 71 games this season with a runner on first base in the top of the first, No. 2 hitters have had plate appearances ending in a bunt attempt (I have no record of fouled bunts before two strikes).
Visitors, 1st inning, Runner on 1B
2016: 187 chances, 54 attempts (29%) with a .537 win pct
2017: 57 chances, 14 attempts (25%) with a .357 win pct.
Home teams, 1st inning, Runner on 1B, scoreless game
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8 May 07
As temperatures stretch into the nineties, speculation continues to mount as to whether the transsexual with the breast implants on Yard 2 will go topless.
Piggie (who helped clean up the blood in my cell when I moved to Yard 1) may have set a new record for the shortest length of time out of captivity. Sixteen hours after being released, he was arrested for violating parole. “I reported in to my parole officer wasted on Mickey’s Ice, and he busted me for being drunk,” Piggie said.
Frankie is looking for someone to live with in England in 2008. Any takers? His only requirement is that your home is well stocked with lube. Depending on the state of relations between Frankie’s faction of the Mexican Mafia and the rival faction that tried to kill him at the Madison Street jail, you may end up with a burro’s head in your bed.
The short-timer madness I discussed with Dr. T. is over. My attitude is now along the lines of, Bloody Hell! I’m getting out in a matter of months.
I've been doing burpies with Iron Man, a martial-arts expert and fitness powerhouse, serving a nine-and-three-quarter-year sentence for various crimes including smashing down a door to collect a debt: “I didn’t hurt anyone. I just wanted my fuckin’ money.” After working out with him, I limp home barely able to smile or utter a greeting to my amused neighbours.
To size up the short-story market, I’ve sent subscriptions in to several literary journals including The Chattahoochee Review, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope. For book reviews, I’ve sent a subscription in to the New York Review of Books. Being new to this field, I welcome advice from anyone who has had short stories published.
Royo Girl wrote that she wouldn’t be visiting for a while. It seems she has taken a lover. I don’t blame her. Maybe I should do likewise. I wonder if Kat’s available. I should have known something was up when Royo Girl said, “I’m going off British accents, and moving onto Australian ones.”
For mental sustenance, I’m reading Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo: “The saying of yea to life, and even in its weirdest and most difficult problems: the will to life rejoicing at its own infinite vitality in the sacrifice of its highest types…”
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Over chow I asked Grit, “Do you mind if I ask how long you’ve been down?
“Sixteen years on this sentence. And I was locked up in Folsom before that.”
“Grit’s no joke,” Iron Man said. “He was known for stabbin’ folks. He always had two shanks on him back in the day in the chow hall. He’d raise his shirt, show his two pieces of steel, and say, ‘I’m strapped. I’m ready for anythin’.”
“Yeah. When I’m on the shit, I’m nuts, I’m crazy. Back then, I was the kinda guy who’d stab you fulla holes, then sit on your body and eat a sandwich while you bleed out.” Grit raised his right hand and improvised chewing a sandwich.
“Do you think you’ll make it on the streets here soon?”
“Yeah. I’m done with that lifestyle. I’ve changed my ways. I’m a whole different guy than I used to be. As long as I stay off the shit, and keep my eyes on God things are gonna be alright.”
“Where are you gonna stay?”
“I got a letter out of the blue from my ex-wife. She wants me back. I’m gonna be livin’ with her and my sons in Prescott Valley.”
“Is your mind prepared for the outs after all these years?”
“Yeah. I’m off the shit. I’ve been clean for several years. I don’t want any problems. I’m gonna be released to my wife’s house. That’s a real blessin’.”
A few days before his release, Grit received some bad news.
“It was,” Grit said, “all arranged for me to go to my wife’s house in Prescott Valley. Now DOC is sayin’ no, I hafta go to a halfway house in Sunnyslope for ninety days. That place is run by ex-cons who actually sell dope right outta the joint. This is fucked-up, man. They’re sendin’ me right into the middle of a bad situation. Man, I don’t wanna get high. I don’t wanna do dope no more. But if it’s right in front of me - I’m an ex-addict - how am I gonna stare at dope all day and not do any?”
Iron Man’s face, usually stoic, was steeped in concern for Grit when he said, “You can only go from where you are. When you start at square one, it’s bad enough. But when you send a guy who wants to do good into a pit of snakes like that howthafucks he possibly gonna do any good with his life?”
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If only I knew of an organisation that could facilitate Slingblade’s long overdue release to a mental-health unit that would cater to his needs.
Psychotherapy with Dr. T (2)
“So what’s stressing you out?” Dr. T asked.
“My release,” I said. “I keep thinking that I’m not going to get released come this November.”
“Anxiety is normal in this situation. I would expect your symptoms to increase as you get closer to the date. Have you not been using your cognitive techniques?”
“Yes. I’ve been reading more Aurelius and Epictetus. And last night I posted to my wall something I read in my latest Siddha Yoga lesson: concentrating on any problem only serves to intensify it. I even laugh at how ridiculous I am for worrying but then later on I convince myself I’m not getting out again. Do I have short-termer madness?”
“That’s not how I’d describe it. This anxiety is a normal thing.”
“Even if it keeps me awake at night with racing thoughts? So many strange things have happened with my legal case it almost seems as if the law of averages indicates that my release will get botched somehow.”
“Staying up at nights is not a good thing. You need to sleep. Concentrate on your breathing. Are you aware of how rapidly you’re breathing now?”
“I wasn’t, but now I am. I felt so excited when this year began. But now my thoughts have shifted into another direction.”
“Freedom equals the realisation of your hopes and fears. You must use your cognitive techniques or else your symptoms will get much worse. Is there anything else bothering you?”
“No. We’ve covered my main concern.”
“Then put in a HNR if you need to see me again.”
Feeling stressed out, I walked home wishing a lengthy session with Dr. O were available. Then I realised how spoiled I was by Dr. O.
Update on Joe Arpaio's Cockroaches
One of my neighbours, Hound, recently stayed at the Maricopa County jail.
“How bad was it?” I asked.
“Towers has that same funk smell they can’t get rid of.” Hound said. “It permeates the walls. It’s like Arpaio had 'em take some of the rotten meat they serve us, and use it as wallpaper.”
“Are they still serving red death?”
“How did you deal with it?”
“I didn’t deal well. I was on the toilet a lot of the time I was there.”
“What was the cockroach factor?”
“Out of control. I spent one day at Madison St jail. I can’t even explain or tell you how many cockroaches there were. It’s like it’s their turf. You get a sense of intruding on their environment. We walked in, and they’re sitting on old rotten apples just looking at us with what-do-you-think-you’re-doing? kinda expressions. Everyone starting asking for TP. I’m thinking, Did the shitter peanut butter go through them that quick? Then I see them making little balls out of the paper. I’m wondering what they’re doing. I notice them sticking the paper in their ears and noses, and then vying for positions to lie down on the floor. The TP was to protect themselves from the cockroaches.”
“The cockroaches I lived with loved earwax.”
“They bunged their ears up. Then, when they would lie on a spot on the floor the cockroaches would literally move out in, like waves to give room to the inmate. But the cockroaches got pissed off that an inmate had taken their spot. So the war was on. It started with the cockroaches that had moved out with the wave. They grouped up in regiments to figure out how they were gonna handle the invasion. Some crawled up the walls. Now, I’m sitting on a picnic bench, sick of listening to people go on about how they were wrongly accused and how they were gonna beat their cases; so, I turn to the cockroaches for entertainment. I figured they’re crawling up the walls just to find a crack to return to their houses, but that wasn’t the case. I saw a huge one, maybe an inch long, crawling up the wall looking behind him, trying to set himself up for the right angle of descent.”
“He was a jumper?”
“Yes. You knew it from the way he kept looking behind himself. The guy lying on the floor below the cockroach was a snorer with his mouth wide open. I knew what was coming. At the perfect moment the cockroach lined himself up. I swear I heard it scream banzai! as it released itself from the wall and did an Olympic diver back flip. It missed his mouth by inches, and landed on his cheek. With the big roach on his face, and the ground troops crawling up the inside of his pants legs, I knew it was time to wake the guy up and let him know he was being infested. Then there was the mouse.”
“A mouse?”
“Yes. At Towers, despite the lack of food – the rotten meat and two slices of bread to last us all day – a mouse came in every night as soon as the lights went off like she had a reservation at a restaurant. She would stare at me in the dark looking for scraps I may have left. As starving as I was I figured I’d rather feed her, and have her leave than to have her company all night long.”
“That was good lookin’ out.”
Note From Frankie
I got a message from Frankie:
Hey now!
What’s up, Englandman? And how’s the wet spot? I hope nice and wet 'cause that would tell me that your booty is puckering for me.
Bad news my friend. It was New Year’s and me and the crew were having a little fun bringing in the year 2007 but the guards got crazy and started rushing my house and only took me out of ten of us. I will tell you a lot more once this heat cools off.
Don’t forget you promised to fly me to England so we can get together. Remember to have my plane ticket ready to leave when I get out on 5-19-2008. That’s not long after you get out. You’d better be thinking about me 'cause I don’t want to send my dogs over there to rough you up. Don’t be shy my lover, be ready for me.
Much love and respect, =Frankie=
p.s. Forget me not!
Two Tonys reveals what happened to Charlie "the Batts" Battaglia
Recruited By Iron Man and Grit
Shaped like bricks, Iron Man and Grit sit at the same table as me in the chow hall.
“How come you guys are always jacked up?” I asked.
“’Cause,” Grit said, “we just did twelve-hundred pushups, one-and-a-half hours of burpies.”
“What’s a burpie?”
“If you really wanna know,” Iron Man said, “show up at the rec room when our doors open and we’ll give you a crash course.”
Grit chuckled and said, “By the time you walk out of the rec room - ”
“If you can still stand,” Iron Man said.
“ – you won’t have any doubts in your mind what burpies are.”
“I’d like to try what you guys are doing. Do you think you could increase my definition and maybe help me put on five pounds or so of muscle mass?”
“Look, if you’re interested in gettin’ in shape,” Iron Man said, “I know how to do it. If you learn my routines and put one-hundred percent fuckin’ effort into them, I’ll have you in the best fuckin’ shape of your life – guaranteed.”
“I heard you guys have knowledge of martial arts.”
“Yeah,” Iron Man said,” I’ve had some trainin’.”
“Which types?”
“Look,” Iron Man said, “this is the deal: I don’t like talkin’ about this shit 'cause it tips my hand. When people know what skills you have it’s possible for them to come up with a defence against them. But if you’re gonna be workin’ out with us, I’ll tell you what’s up.”
“Yeah. It’ll be great to work out with you guys.”
“OK. All through high school I trained in judo and karate, and then I did years of kung fu after I graduated. My kung fu master was a class-four special forces badass whose job in Nam was to go out in the night before the Marines and kill every sentry within a mile-wide area usin’ only silent killin’ techniques – garrotes and edged weapons. He was a fourth-degree black belt in a style that was a combination of the tiger, horse, and mantis.”
“Can you show me some of that?”
“We’ll see,” Iron Man said.
“And you’ll only be workin’ out with me for a few weeks 'cause I’m gettin’ out at the end of this month,” Grit said.
“That’s alright. When do we start?”
“Tomorrow night,” Iron Man said.
Xena V Bones (2)
“Is Bones an undercover Cult Of Xena member?” I asked Xena.
“Look,” Bones said, flipping me off. “You’ve got two of these fingers. Why dontcha shove 'em up your ass, and walk on your elbows.”
“The main reason I can’t do that,” I said, “is because I don’t have an ass. I have an arse.”
“When it comes to COX membership, “Xena said, “the closest thing Bones gets to COX recognition is when he rubs Jell-O all over himself and dances naked in front of his mirror, which is too small for him to see his penis in – not that a bigger mirror would help him in that department. Then he gets all sad 'cause he used to boogie on down like that for his squirrel, and his old hairy celly.”
Bones was speechless.
Slope said to Bones, “Red’s consortin’ with the enemy.” Because I was sat with Red at the picnic table by Yard 4.
Red grabbed my Bic rendering me unable to document the dialogue.
“Throw his tea in the river, Red,” Slope said. “Those fuckin’ Limeys have been manipulatin’ our politics for years. The only war they didn’t drag us into was Korea.”
“Xena,” I said. “How does Bones feel about all of this?”
“Bones is sad,” Xena said, “’cause he doesn’t have a squirrel except for the one between his legs.”
“Don’t shoot one across the bows. Shoot him in the bowels,” Slope said to Red, and left with Bones.
“How’s Slingblade?” I asked Xena.
“Slingblade’s latest,” Xena said, “is he walked up to a CO with his chow tray, and his arms started shakin’ as if he were gonna bash the guy’s head in with his tray, and the CO freaked out, and nearly called an IMS 'cause he thought Slingblade was gonna kill him.”
“I heard Frankie got busted with dope and sent to SMU?” (Supermax.)
“Yeah,” Xena said. “He got busted while doin’ a UA with dope in his boxers. At the strip search, he couldn’t remember which one was the sack – the one between his legs or the dope sack – so he pulled 'em both out, and lo and behold he got in trouble for both of 'em.”
“I heard Ogre got moved to maximum for having too many tickets?”
“Yeah. His membership in COX ran out, so they rolled him up.”
“Rec’s almost over, I have to go now,” I said.
“Do you know how to keep your dog from humpin’ on your leg?”
“You pick him up and suck his dick.”
“Gross! Do you have any final words of wisdom for COX members?”
“Yes. This: to open your mind you must stop thinkin’ like an American.”
Visited by T-Bone
Sitting at my desk writing, I heard someone yell,"England, get your ass to the fence. Some big dude wants to speak to you."
“How big are your arms these days?” I asked T-Bone.
“Twenty-one-and-a-half inches.” T-Bone punched the wall he was sat on and said, “And they’re hard like this.”
Thank goodness, I thought, I’m out of reach of his punches.
“Are you working out as much as you used to?” I asked.
“Every day, practically. I’ve been doin’ little isometric exercises.”
“I hope you’re not using those muscles on anyone.”
“Someone disrespected me, so I had to give him a little short one. He was actin’ like he was a real badass.”
“Has he disrespected you since?”
“No. For the rest of his life he will never do that again.”
“What are you weighing?”
“I’m down to three-hundred-and-five pounds.”
“That’s skinny for you.”
T-Bone laughed and called a passer-by an, "ugly lizard-back joker."
“Kosher food.”
“Where are you at spiritually?”
“I’m at where I was supposed to be. I was fluctuatin’ up and down. I’m gettin’ back on track.”
We were joined by Gambeezy, a Chicano who said to T-Bone, “Wassup, my neezy!”
“Wassup, Gambeezy!” T-Bone said.
“Is my homey aiiight?” Gambeezy said.
“Homey’s aiiight,” T-Bone said. “You must be real short?”
“Yeah,” Gambeezy said. “A few months to the gate. How short are you?”
“November 2009,” T-Bone said. “When I get out, I’m gonna show up in your hood, and steal your money.”
“That’s aiiight,” Gambeezy said. “I’ll throw you a bone and say, ‘God bless you, I’ll see you around.’ That’s the love I’m gonna show you. If I throw you in the car, you’re gonna be my downfall.”
“You’ll fall down yourself. You have a big belly, and a big 'ol head.”
“Like that, cabrone. Izzat right? I hope you didn’t bite your tongue on that one. Give Uncle Two Tonys my love down there,” Gambeezy said and left.
T-Bone stood up, and said, “L’n’ R, Jon.”
“L’n’ R, T-Bone. Give Two Tonys my love.”
“Aiiight,” T-Bone said and power-walked away.
Every Empire Has its Day in the Sun
“All y’all Limeys,” Slope said, “are one bottle away from France. You tip the bottle and your ass goes up. Who hasn’t occupied France?”
“Good day to you too, Slope,” I said. “And you Bones.”
“Bones loves me today,” Xena said.
“Limey!” Slope said. “We oughta make you wipe your royal ass with a piece of jumpin’ cactus. Even your dogs are fucked up. The British bulldog can’t breath properly and it’s got an underbite. If you Limeys had took baths, you never woulda got the bubonic plague. Your women’s armpits are so hairy they look like they’ve got motherfuckers in headlocks.”
“What’s with all the Brit-bashing?”
“They’re just expressing their love,” Xena said.
“Are you gonna be here for the Fourth of July?” Slope asked.
“Yeah. Why?”
“’Cause Short Dog’s gotcha more bread and water.”
“Good one,” I said.
An announcement came over the peakers: “If it’s not your cell, don’t be in it!”
“Y’all,” Slope said, “can’t drink no coffee, or do no dry tobacco. It’s all tea and crumpets.”
“Are you gonna back me up, Xena?” I said.
“No,” Xena said. “I’m gonna go play D&D.”
“Great,” I said.
“No big daddy is gonna come save your ass,” Slope said. “We’ll keep kickin’ your butt just like we kicked the goddamn Limeys’ butts at Bunker Hill.”
“I thought the Brits won the Battle of Bunker Hill?”
“Bowlshit. A buncha old sodbusters put it on the Englishes' asses, causin’ your Limey cousins to evacuate Boston.”
“I see, and what are sodbusters?”
“Hillbilly farmboy motherfuckers,” Slope said. “I think we should tat the Declaration of Independence on your back and send you on back home. That way we can read it while we tag-team your ass. What’s that I hear? The redcoats are comin’! They didn’t even get to come. They just got chased out. They got their manhood pulled out of their assholes. The weak-kneed fuckin’ fairies.”
“What about the UK pulling some troops out of Iraq?” I said.
“Tony Blair’s a yella-belly. The only thang he’s capable of colonisin’ is France - in order to take over that fine French tradition.”
“Givin’ the keys to the city away to anyone who shows up with a gun.”
“You wouldn’t say that if Napoleon was here.”
“He wasn’t French. He was Corsican.”
“He gave you guys a deal on the western part of the Mississippi Valley though, with the Louisiana Purchase.”
“And if he’d of stayed at home, he wouldn’t have lost all his soil.”
“Every empire has its day in the sun, and yours is being destroyed from within,” I said.
“You’re a goddam pond-skipper, but I couldn’t agree with you more.”
The Distaste Harboured By Two Tonys For Modern America
I asked Two Tonys what he meant when he said “the world is slowly becoming an insane asylum.”
“My point,” Two Tonys said, “ – to anyone who gives a flyin’ fuck – is that people have gotta start livin’ their own lives, and to quit wonderin’ whether Britney Spears or Paris Hilton are wearin’ panties or not. Motherfuckers seekin’ escapism oughta grab a good book, and they can start by readin’ the two Toms: Wolfe and Sharpe. People’s brains aren’t rollin’ right these days. They’re too plugged into shit like Entertainment Tonight, to see if Paris has her underwear on. It wasn’t always so fucked up as this. There was a time when families ate together, fathers worked, and mothers stayed at home. The milkman brought the milk right to your fuckin’ door and set it on the porch and nobody stole it. The newspaper boy put the newspaper on the doorstep and nobody stole it. Those were the good ol’ days – and they’re long gone now. It ain’t the same place.
Now we’ve got fuckin’ havoc. Everyone up on Capitol Hill is lyin’. Some of 'em are pokin’ page boys or coverin’ up for their chomo buddies who are fuckin’ around with page boys.
The good ol’ days of Harry Truman are gone, bro. The world is becomin’ an insane-asylum planet. And if by some chance we’re an experiment by aliens who planted us here to see howthafuck we’d turn out, the aliens have got endless shits and giggles lookin’ at us motherfuckers. It’s gonna get even worse if we bomb North Korea or Iran or anywhere else in Bush’s Axis of Evil. And we’ve got shithead congressmen like Tom Tancredo sayin’ we should bomb Mecca if al-Qaeda hits us again. Come on now!”
“So how do you keep your mind off the madness?”
“By takin’ responsibility for my fuckin’ life. Look, I’m a sixty-six-year-old motherfucker who doesn’t get out until the twenty-third century, but at least I have a fuckin’ life. I’m into what I’m doin’. Tonight, I’m gonna play a casino card game with Frankie. I’m gonna have me some pasta with marinara sauce. I’m gonna sit down and watch Michigan kick the shit outta USC at the Rosebowl. I’m gonna eat some chocolate-covered peanuts watchin’ Detroit play Dallas. The last thing on my fuckin’ mind is what kinda car Jay Leno is drivin’ or if Britney and Paris are wearin’ fuckin’ panties.”
Attending this evening’s church service was like being at Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar. The hosts were The Gatekeepers – a band of missionaries that includes eight siblings.
Initially, they performed with their eyes closed, and I feared we were too ugly an audience for them to behold. Then someone explained they were Holy Ghost dancing, shifting the glory of their mission to the Lord. The room filled with energy in no time at all. There was clapping, feet tapping, and hands in the air. With great difficulty, I held at bay the urge to jump on the JBL speakers and dance. Some of the band pulled off dance moves that would have stirred Justin Timberlake. Most intense was the saxophonist. It was obvious we were in for a treat when he strapped on the sax with the grim face of a Navy Seal arranging a weapon. His solo generated numerous rounds of applause – with the crowd at its loudest when he played in the limbo position. The women’s voices were angelic. Toward the end, the choir brought the house down with a song about the Walls of Jericho. Superb.
Kudos to The Gatekeepers of Ironwood Hills Church, Tucson, for sacrificing their Saturday evenings to save our sorry souls.
Kat (Part 2)
Kat asked whether I had a crush on him.
“No,” I replied. “Although I can see how attractive you are, I know where I stand with my sexuality.”
“Well,” Kat said, “someone said, 'Jon thinks you’re very attractive.'”
“I can see you’re very attractive, but I never said that to anyone. Someone is trying to stir up a love interest between us.”
“Well, I’m sorry, but I already have a boyfriend.”
“Damn! I guess I won’t be crossing that line anytime soon then.”
We laughed.
“So what’s it like being a queen in prison?”
“When I first came in I knew queens were taken advantage of in prison. But guys were kinda afraid to approach me 'cause I have this attitude. I’m told I carry myself in a way that doesn’t make me a target. I’ve seen other queens act so very out there – like they were asking for it – and they were constantly picked on. In here, it’s almost like your attitude controls your surroundings. As time went on, people understood they’d rather have me as a friend than have a sexual relationship with me.”
“Has anyone tried to rape you?”
“In prison, gays are open to being raped, but I’ve never experienced anything like that.”
“Is prison easier for homosexuals or heterosexuals?”
“For gays because officers look at gays as being more trustworthy. Prisoners say, ‘How come gays get away with everything?’ It’s because we’re less threatening, and we tend to befriend the female COs.”
“Has prison been an education for you?”
“Yes. It’s been a very good experience in numerous ways.”
“Such as?”
“Gratitude. Now I know what gratitude is. When I was out there in the world, I took things for granted – including my parents. They were just two people in the world that I saw. Now I don’t see them, I miss them. I’m so grateful that I have these two people in my life. They’re my rock of unconditional love.”
“I can relate to that.”
“I have also realised that I can overcome anything no matter what the situation.”
Kat gave me his latest W magazine. I enjoyed pictures of Lindsay Lohan in Gucci, and Sienna Miller in a Zara skirt, knee-high gold python Devi Kroell boots, a bondage harness from Coco de Mer strapped across her chest, and silk chiffon briefs from agentprovocateur.com.
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Gevo Announces First Retrofit of Ethanol Demonstration Plant to Biobutanol for the Oil and Chemical Industries
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 30 -- Gevo, Inc. today announced the start up of the first biobutanol demonstration plant in the world designed from retrofitting an existing demonstration scale ethanol plant to produce biobutanol. In successfully producing biobutanol at the one million gallon per year pilot plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, Gevo is demonstrating the viability of its technology for retrofitting existing ethanol plants to make biobutanol, an advanced biofuel. Biobutanol can be blended directly into gasoline and be used to make renewable hydrocarbons ("green gasoline"), diesel and jet fuel, chemical intermediates and biobased plastics. The retrofit of the pilot plant was completed in less than three months. This successful retrofit also represents the first step along the route to produce cellulosic biobutanol which will be possible once biomass conversion technology becomes commercially available.
"When applied at commercial scale, this technology can give ethanol plants a new future. Retrofitting existing plants represents a quick and cost-efficient way to get to advanced biofuels," said Pat Gruber, CEO of Gevo. "We congratulate the team in St. Joseph for their success in commissioning the plant and look forward to working with ethanol producers to convert existing plants to butanol."
This is the first time that an existing ethanol operation has been successfully retrofitted to produce biobutanol instead of ethanol. ICM's pilot plant at St. Joseph has been designed and constructed as a reduced scale replica of a dry-milled ethanol production process. Additionally, Gevo's biobutanol has higher energy content than ethanol and a lower Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) – which means lower volatility and evaporative emissions. Importantly, standard automobile and small engines can run on biobutanol blended into gasoline at any ratio.
"As a leader in biofuels technology design and engineering, ICM continues to support the growth of the renewable fuels industry through establishing strategic partnerships, including our collaboration with Gevo. It was a pleasure working with Gevo's team at our pilot plant in St. Joseph," said Dave Vander Griend, President and CEO of ICM. "Gevo's biobutanol retrofit technology is an exciting option for ethanol producers looking to expand their routes to produce advanced biofuels and renewable chemical products."
In a separate release today, Gevo announced the formation of Gevo Development, LLC to finance and develop retrofit projects.
Gevo's biobutanol is produced via fermentation similar to ethanol and its process, and can utilize the bulk of the equipment in an ethanol plant. Gevo's biorefinery process replaces the ethanol producing yeast with yeast that produces biobutanol. Gevo has also developed a proprietary separation process technology for the economical recovery of the product. The additional cost of this capital equipment is projected to be approximately 30 cents per gallon of installed ethanol capacity. Retrofit facilities will have the flexibility to produce either ethanol or biobutanol.
Gevo and ICM have established an exclusive arrangement to provide engineering solutions for the development of butanol and other related isomers at North American facilities that utilized dry milled corn and grain sorghum feedstocks.
About Gevo
Gevo is pioneering the development of capital efficient biorefinery systems to provide renewable, cost effective building block products to the fuel and chemical industries. Gevo's biorefineries will convert renewable raw materials into biobutanol and renewable hydrocarbons that can be directly integrated into existing processes to deliver environmental and economic benefits. Gevo is committed to a sustainable biobased economy that meets society's need for plentiful food and clean air and water.
Established in 1995 and headquartered in Colwich, Kan., ICM, Inc., has focused on sustaining agriculture through innovation by engineering, building, and supporting the renewable fuel industry's leading biorefineries. ICM is North America's leading engineering company serving the biofuels industry and has designed nearly 60% of the ethanol plants in North America. Proprietary ICM process technology is behind approximately 6.6 billion gallons of ethanol production per year. Additionally, ICM backs every facility it designs with the most aggressive yield, energy, and emissions guarantees available. The full-service provider also offers a comprehensive line of more than 30 products and services tailored to make biofuels production more efficient and more profitable. ICM is further upholding its responsibility as an industry leader by heavily investing in the continued advancement of renewable energy technologies. In an effort to speed that advance, ICM has been conducting research and testing at its two state-of-the-art research facilities in Colwich and St. Joseph, MO, in conjunction with a growing list of strategic partners spanning multiple industries. For more information, visit icminc.com.
Jack Huttner
Executive Vice President, Commercial & Public Affairs Gevo, Inc.
E-mail: JHuttner@Gevo.com
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RLH Corporation Sees Strong Momentum in 2018
Company has executed 34 mid and upscale hotel franchise agreements across North America
DENVER, Nov. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RLH Corporation (NYSE:RLH) announced today the company has executed 34 mid and upscale hotel franchise agreements in 2018. The Company’s Red Lion Hotel brand alone has 18 franchise agreements so far in 2018, growing the brand by over 62 percent to 47 full-service hotels nationally, with an average room count of over 200 and a robust pipeline.
This momentum is in support of the Company’s franchise divisional profit guidance for the year of $18 to $19 million, $2 million above the Company’s original guidance. The company is tracking on guidance of 33 to 35 percent franchise divisional profit margin in 2018 and posted 39 percent for Q3, the highest thus far.
“2018 marks the continued resurgence of Red Lion Hotels as a core upper-midscale full-service brand for the Company and unrelenting strength in all our mid and upscale hotel brands,” said RLH Corporation President of Global Development Paul Sacco. “Our mid and upscale brands now have over 100 open hotels and we continue to see solid growth across all brands.”
Most recently, Red Lion Hotel Monterey opened in California. Nestled half-way between historic downtown Monterey and charming Carmel by the Sea, the hotel features the Crazy Horse full-service restaurant, Safari Club Lounge & Bar, free high-speed WiFi and an onsite fitness center. Red Lion Hotel Monterey joins other recent coast-to-coast Red Lion Hotel openings with prime locations in Hartford, Connecticut; Albany, New York; Lake Buena Vista, Florida; and Houston, Texas.
In 2018, RLH Corporation has grown to nearly 1,500 hotels with over 90,000 rooms across 11 brands from economy to upscale. The Company has signed 138 agreements year-to-date, well on the way to the stated goal of 150 to 200.
“Halfway through Q4 2018, our pipeline shows tremendous strength and momentum as we continue our resilient focus on the Company’s franchise division,” continued Sacco. “We have seen a strong interest in our mid and upscale hotel brands across the country in prime locations with access to top local attractions, reinforcing our position as the basecamp for leisure and business travelers in North America.”
To learn more about franchising with RLH Corporation, visit franchise.rlhco.com. We don’t wait for the future. We create it.
About RLH Corporation
Red Lion Hotels Corporation is an innovative hotel company doing business as RLH Corporation and focuses on the franchising, management and ownership of upscale, midscale and economy hotels. The company focuses on maximizing return on invested capital for hotel owners across North America through relevant brands, industry-leading technology and forward-thinking services. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.rlhco.com.
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Comparative Studies on the Production of Glucose and High Fructose Syrup from Tuber Starches
Regy Johnson
Padmaja G.
1 Division of Crop Utilization, Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram- 695 017, Kerala, INDIA
Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 2, Issue (10), Pages 68-75, October,10 (2013)
Glucose and high fructose syrup (HFS) are made extensively from corn starch and the high cost of production demands the lookout for alternative starches as raw material. The present study was to compare the potential of tuber starches such as arrowroot, cassava, Curcuma, Dioscorea, sweet potato and Xanthosoma with corn starch for HFS production. The process consisted of liquefaction followed by saccharification and isomerization using three enzymes such as Liquezyme, Dextrozyme and Sweetzyme respectively. High performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) profile showed that the starch conversion to glucose for the starches was equivalent or superior to that for corn starch. Sugar profile of the saccharified slurry had a composition of 98.28 to 98.84% glucose, maltose (1.03 to 1.69%) and maltotriose (0.03 to 0.10%) for arrowroot, Curcuma and cassava, while a lower range of glucose (94.76-97.28%) and higher range of maltose and maltotriose (2.0-4.3% and 0.49-0.75% respectively) for the other starches. Percentage conversion to fructose as well as fructose yield (g/100g starch) was the highest for arrowroot and Curcuma starches. Tuber starches offer promise as substitute for corn starch in the production of glucose and high fructose syrup.
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Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder
Road Along a Hilltop (Munich)
BRVEGHEL.1608
Location/Last Sold:
Munich, Germany, Alte Pinakothek, inv. #830
Ertz 1979 as Jan Brueghel the Younger
Honig database as uncertain, possibly studio
Munich 2013 as studio of Jan the Elder
Our Attribution:
Produced in Jan Brueghel's Studio
Munich 1799 inv. #465 as Jan Brueghel
Munich 1822, #2010
Schleissheim 1830, inv. #805
Munich 1905, inv. #652
1799 Munich, Germany inv. #465 (as "Jan Brueghel")
1822 Munich, Germany inv. #2010
1830 Schleißheim, Germany Schleißheim, inv. #805
1905 Munich, Germany inv. #652
Road Along a Hilltop
Private Collection/Art Market
Thiéry 1953, p. 176
Gerson 1966, p. 60
Ertz 1979, p. 164, n.147
Ertz 1984, cat. #15, pp. 60, 196ff.
Gerson and ter Kuile 1960, p. 60
Cappenberg 1952, cat. #5
Munich 2013, cat. #50
Elizabeth Honig
Ertz believes this to be a work by Jan the Younger done shortly after he took over his father's studio in the late 1620s. It would be quite possible that the painting, a variant of an earlier work by his father (Ertz 1979 #114), was left incomplete in the studio like many other works and finished by Jan the younger; the closeness in size between the two argues for a connection in manufacture rather than a later pastiche using drawings, I would think. The present work could also have been executed in the studio at the same time as the other, though.
According to the Munich catalogue the signature on this is not autograph and the piece is probably a studio work. This seems plausible to me. They do not agree with Ertz's suggested attribution to Jan the Younger; see Munich 2013, p. 268
Pieter Bruegel Site
To cite this page
"Brueghel Family: Jan Brueghel the Elder." The Brueghel Family Database. University of California, Berkeley. http://janbrueghel.net/ (accessed July 16, 2019).
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GIPPSLAND GA8 AIRVAN
TYPE: Light utility transport.
PROGRAMME: Design completed and proof of concept prototype construction started early 1994; first flight 3 March 1995 (aircraft unregistered, but marked 'GA-8' on the fin): 186kW (250 hp) Textron Lycoming O-540; prototype destroyed 7 February 1996 during spinning trials: second airframe completed to major component stage for static testing; third airframe (also unmarked; 'AIRVAN" on fin; test registration; VH-ZGI not worn) was second flying prototype, first flown in August 1996 with an interim 224 kW (300 hp) Textron Lycoming IO-540K-1A5 engine and three-blade propeller, pending installation of intended (but temporarily discontinued) production standard IO-580 in 1997; total of 350 hours flight testing completed by two prototypes by November 1 °98: second prototype re-registered VH-XGA in January 1999. Provisional type certification obtained 10 March 1999, with full CASA certification to FAR Pt 23 Amendment 48 achieved 10 October 2000; subsequently upgraded to FAR Pt 23 Amendment 54 on 14 March 2003; this applicable to c/n 026 (VH-TGS) and upwards, but earlier aircraft are upgradable. First delivery (VH-RYT) to Air Fraser Island Air 22 December 2000. Initial export aircraft (seventh overall, c/n 008/V3-HGI) first flew 24 November 2001, and delivered to Maya Island Air of Belize in following month. International debut (VH-B JY) at Asian Aerospace show in Singapore February 2002 before delivery to distributor PT Airvan Dirgantara of Indonesia. Certification then being sought in Botswana, Canada, UK and USA. Total of 24 built by February 2003, when production rate was 20 per year, rising to 50 in 2005 and 400 by 2007, including aircraft manufactured under licence abroad.
CURRENT VERSIONS: GA8 Airvan: Initial production version; IO 540 engine. To be recertified subsequently with IO-580 and turbocharged TIO-540 for hot-and-high operations. Diesel version powered by Thielert TAE 135 turbo-diesel or Jabiru eight-cylinder diesel under study in early 2003.
GA1OT Taska: Projected stretched, 10-seat turboprop version to be powered by a 313 kW (420 shp) Rolls-Royce 250-B17F. Being studied in early 2002 as joint venture with Heliiech of Brisbane, aimed at paramilitary and special missions applications and to compete against Pacific Aerospace 750XL (which see in New Zealand section) for Australian Army requirement.
CUSTOMERS: Total of 48 sold by February 2003, including exports to Belize (Maya Island Air, two), Botswana, Canada, Indonesia (PT Airvan Dirgantara, six), Mozambique, New Zealand. South Africa (Airvan Africa, six) and USA (17). Australian customers include Air Fraser Island (one). Alligator Airways (two), Skydive Oz (one), Slingair (one) and Wrightsair (one). In November 2002, the US Civil Air Patrol ordered seven, with options on a further 25, for Homeland Defense missions, following a 14-sortie, 20-hour high-altitude evaluation of c/n 015/VH-MCN at Buena Vista and Leadville, Colorado, in August 2002 after the aircraft s North American debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in July. Negotiations under way in early 2003 for Pakistan Defence Force requirement for 25 aircraft, possibly for licensed manufacture and for Missionary Aviation Fellowship requirement in Northern Australia.
COSTS: AS638,000, plus tax (2003).
DESIGN FEATURES: Strut-braced high-wing monoplane with sweptback vertical tail and fixed tricycle landing gear; designed to operate from unprepared strips. Fin and rudder modified, and ventral finlet added on second prototype, late 1996. Wing aerofoil modified V-35; dihedral 2° 30'; incidence 2°; twist 1.6°.
FLYING CONTROLS: Conventional and manual. Trimmable tailplane, deflections + 2 7 - 5 ° ; slotted flaps, deflections 14 and 38". Elevator deflections +157—19°; ailerons +177-16°; rudder ±21°.
STRUCTURE: Light alloy; two-spar wing based on GA200 Fatman unit; composites cowlings and fairings; entire structure designed for easy manufacture, maintenance and repair.
LANDING GEAR: Non-retractable tricycle type; single-piece tubular spring main gear, steerable steel spring/oleo nose leg; Parker hydraulic disc brakes; mainwheels 8.50-6 (6 ply); nosewheel 6.00-6 (6 ply). Wipline float installation under development in Canada.
POWER PLANT: One 224 kW (300 hp) Textron Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 flat-six engine driving a two-blade Hartzell HC-2YR-1BF/F8475R constant-speed propeller. Fuel capacity 340 litres (89.8 US gallons; 74.8 Imp gallons) in two wing tanks, of which 332 litres (87.7 US gallons; 73.0 Imp gallons) usable. Oil capacity 11 litres (3.0 US gallons; 2.5 Imp gallons).
ACCOMMODATION: Pilot and up to seven passengers or equivalent cargo; full FAR Pt 23.562 compliant crashworfhy seats. Amsafe seatbelt airbags under development in early 2003. Crew door each side of flight deck; flight openable forward-sliding cargo door on port side aft of wing. Cabin is heated and ventilated. Baggage compartment, with security net, at rear of cabin. Ventral cargo pod, volume 0.51 m3 (18.0 cu ft) under development in 2003.
SYSTEMS: Split bus electrical system powered by 14 V 95 A engine-driven alternator. Maintenance-free sealed battery and external power receptacle with overvolt protection standard.
AVIONICS: Standard Bendix/King avionics suite. Comtns: Dual KY 97A-61 VHF; KT 76A-12 transponder; Barrett F24 control panel and TX4400 intercom; pilot's yoke-mounted PTT switch; pilot's and co-pilot's headsets and microphone jacks. Flight: KR 87 ADF; altitude encoder. Instrumentation: KMD 150 moving map with 102 x 76 mm ( 4 x 3 in) display, airspeed indicator, artificial horizon, altimeter with hectoPascal subscale, electric turn co-ordinator, directional gyro, vertical speed indicator, OAT gauge, magnetic compass, electronic digital fuel flow and totaliser gauge EGT gauge tachometer, fuel supply gauge, oil temperature/pressure gauges, CHT gauge, and manifold pressure gauge.
EQUIPMENT: Standard equipment includes automatic fuel management system, windscreen demisting, instrument panel lighting, avionics dimming, map and cabin reading lights, navigation lights, dual landing/taxying lights, low-profile red beacon light.1,, pilot's and co-pilot's five-point inertia reel shoulder harnesses; six three-point inertia reel harnesses for passengers; cabin soundproofing; and entrance step.
DIMENSIONS, EXTERNAL:
Wing span 12.28 m (40 ft 33/4 in)
Wing chord, constant 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Wing aspect ratio 7.9
Length overall 8.95 m (29 ft 43/4 in)
Fuselage max width 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in)
Height overall 3.89 m (12 ft 9 in)
Tailplane span 4.17 m (13 ft 8 in)
Wheel track 2.79 m (9 ft 2 in)
Wheelbase 2.30 m (7 ft 61/2 in)
Cargo/passenger door: - Height 1.08 m (3 ft 61/2 in)
- Width 1.07 m (3 ft 6 in)
- Height to sill 0.85 m (2 ft 91/2 in)
Propeller diameter 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)
DIMENSIONS, INTERNAL :
Cabin: Length, incl flight deck 4.01 m (13 ft 2 in)
- Max width 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in)
- Max height 1.19 m (3 ft 11 in)
Floor area: incl flight deck 5.02 m2 (54.0 sq ft)
- exel flight deck 3.44 m2 (37.0 sq ft)
Volume, incl flight deck 5.1 m3 (180 cu ft)
Wings, gross 19.32 m2 (208.0 sq ft)
Ailerons (total) 0.80 m2 (8.60 sq ft)
Trailing-edge flaps (total) 0.80 m2 (8.60 sq ft)
Fin 1.35 m2 (14.50 sq ft)
Rudder 0.73 m2 (7.90 sq ft)
Tailplane 2.41 m2 (25.90 sq ft)
Elevators (total) 1.76 m2 (18.90 sq ft)
WEIGHTS AND LOADINGS :
Weight empty 997 kg (2,198 lb)
Baggage capacity: - shelf 113 kg (249 lb)
- aft bin 22 kg (49 lb)
Cargo pod capacity 180 kg (397 lb)
Max fuel 270 kg (595 lb)
Max T-O and landing weight:
initial certification 1,814 kg (4,000 lb)
target 1,905 kg (4,200 lb)
Max wing loading:
initial certification 93.9 kg/m2 (19.23 lb/sq ft)
target 98.6 kg/m2 (20.19 lb/sq ft)
Max power loading:
first prototype 9.74 kg/kW (16.00 lb/hp)
initial certification 8.12 kg/kW (13.33 lb/hp)
target 8.52 kg/kW (14.00 lb/hp)
Never-exceed speed ( VNE ) 185 kt (342 km/h; 212 mph)
Normal cruising speed 121 kt (224 km/h; 139 mph)
Econ cruising speed 104 kt (193 km/h; 120 mph)
Stalling speed: flaps up 60 kt (112 km/h; 69 mph)
flaps down 52 kt (97 km/h; 60 mph)
Max rate of climb at S/L 241 m (790 ft)/min
Service ceiling, estimated 6,100 m (20,000 ft)
T-O run 305 m (1,000 ft)
T-O to 15 m (50 ft) 549 m (1,800 ft)
Landing from 15 m (50 ft) 366 m (1,200 ft)
Landing run 396 m (1,299 ft)
Range with max fuel:
normal cruise 730 n miles (1,352 km; 840 miles)
econ cruise 930 n miles (1,722 km; 1,070 miles)
Endurance at econ cruise, no reserves 6 h
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Barbados Prime Minister Meets with Regional Private Sector
Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking to the regional private sector’s Chief Executive Officers and other officials during a recent meeting. (Photo Credit: BGIS)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday June 6,
2019 – Prime
Minister Mia Mottley has underscored the importance of the regional private
sector becoming a type of associate institution of CARICOM, saying it would be
good for the Caribbean.
She expressed that view recently when she met at her
official residence, Ilaro Court, with the regional private sector’s Chief
Executive Officers to discuss the establishment of a regional body and
implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
The Prime Minister said it was ironic that after
more than four decades of CARICOM’S existence, formal steps were now being
taken “assiduously” to ensure the labour movement and the regional private
sector’s formal participation in the regional organisation.
“As I indicated when we met in Port-of-Spain last
year, it is impossible for us to see the growth of the regional economies and
the creation of a single economy without understanding how best we can work
with the [regional] entities…
“The meeting that I had at my office a few weeks
ago would have allowed you to have a common platform as to what we are
beginning to expect and anticipate from your participation,” Mottley told the
regional private sector group.
She explained that the work with respect to the integration
of the financial markets and the ability to allow the unlocking of access to
capital would soon be completed by the CSME Unit.
The Barbadian leader added that those decisions
would then be put before the Finance Ministers and Heads of Government over the
next few months.
According to Mottley, those important decisions
would not only be significant for the regional private sector and governments
who wanted to see growth in the economies, but a signal to the international
community that this region was not prepared to speak to them in a mendicant
framework, but would do its part to ensure its growth and development.
She said the international community should be
held partially accountable for the consequences of the current economic
circumstances in the region.
“Whether it be by reason of their contribution to
the degradation of our climate or the terms of trade under which we have had to
perform, more often or not they use a one-size fits all approach that has
refused to take into account that our capacity to distort trade in goods and
services is just simply not there.
“And to that extent, therefore, for us to have
consequences that have seen the implosion of domestic production within our
markets simply to comply with international rules that really did not need our
compliance, … has led to negative consequences in terms of loss of jobs and
investment within our markets,” Mottley explained.
The Prime Minister emphasized the importance of
this region putting in place air bridges, saying if this was not done, the
opportunities would be constrained.
She said that since there was $47 billion
available in savings, appropriate instruments should be introduced to allow
governments to find a level of participation for ordinary Caribbean people with
respect to how renewable energy enterprises were financed.
“We have as leaders to create that space for
Caribbean people to be carried along in this investment framework. Similarly,
to the extent that we do rely on foreign capital, we need to do so while
ensuring that the redemption of the bonds or instruments happens, not in the
foreign exchange in which it was raised but the local currency,” Mottley said.
President and Group Chief Executive Officer of
the Massy Group of Companies, Gervase Warner, said they were examining how they
could create a Caribbean private sector organization to engage with the Heads
of Government on issues surrounding the CSME implementation.
He said they spent time thinking how to
constitute a body that would be representative of all member countries of
CARICOM.
“We wanted to make sure that not just big
business was represented but also smaller businesses from different industries
also had a chance to participate,” he said.
“What we want to make sure is that we have within
this organization a structure that would allow us in each of the countries to
find a way to hold meetings and to have engagement with even a broader set of
actors and participants who may not necessarily be members of the council, but
you will pull in for specific issues.”
Warner stated that Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, OECS, Barbados, Guyana, Suriname and Belize were represented by the regional group and work had to be done on the initial agenda.
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Cannabis Industry Opens in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuesday
July 16, 2019 – The first set of licences to start
production of medicinal cannabis in St Vincent and the Grenadines have been issued.
“The journey over the past 20 months to
put the legislative and administrative frameworks in place was certainly one of
the most difficult, yet gratifying, tasks I have had the opportunity to lead in
my career. It was not without major challenges,” said Minister of Agriculture
and Industry Saboto Caesar as he made the announcement.
He said the step-by-step policy
guidance from Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, and the significant support
received from his Cabinet and parliamentary colleagues at different stages of
the preparatory work had contributed to the successful opening of the industry.
The Rastafarian community was also
identified by the Minister as a “central pillar of strength” in guiding the
interaction over the period of consultation.
Throughout the process, religious
leaders, civil society and international legal and business experts
participated in a very open and transparent consultation process to identify
and outline the potential strengths and weaknesses of the different models.
This included a reliance on knowledge in certification and commodity trading
from companies such as Bunny Imports and Exports of Trinidad and Tobago.
“The work has just started,” Caesar
said. “It is our mission in St Vincent and the Grenadines to create a globally
certified industry aimed at supplying medicinal cannabis products, targeting
ailments based on evidence from clinical studies. The mantra is and will
continue to be a successful medicinal cannabis industry begins and ends with
Stakeholders in the industry were
encouraged to set extremely high standards in research and development,
marketing, labour relations, environmental protection and general corporate
responsibility.
“Surviving with no trade preferences,
grappling with the resultant implications of climate change on cannabis
cultivation, competing with global producers, effectively regulating the
industry to satisfy national and international laws, continuing to ensure food
safety and food security, while at the same time balancing many unique
variables will become our day to day reality,” Minister Caesar said.
But he said the Unity Labour Party
administration does not shy away from challenges.
“The successful completion of the Argyle International Airport; the education and housing revolutions; managing the transition from a monocrop to a diversified food production platform; the expansion of our tourism and health infrastructure; obtaining a seat as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council; and geothermal exploration are all evidence that once, as a people, we maintain our focus – we will achieve our goals,” he said.
Former UK Police Officer Jailed for Raping Visitor During His 2015 Vacation in Antigua
Lee Martin-Cramp in uniform before being dismissed from the Metropolitan Police Force after spiking a woman’s drink and raping her in Antigua.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday July 16, 2019 – A former British police officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for raping a young woman when the two met on vacation in Antigua just over four years ago.
Lee Martin-Cramp, who was a member of the UK Metropolitan Police Force, will be incarcerated at the former US Naval Base on the island, in keeping with the agreement between local and UK authorities.
According to the evidence in the trial, Martin-Cramp raped the 22-year-old woman, a foreign student nurse, during his vacation in May 2015.
The two had met on dating app Tinder and went to a bar before going to her apartment where they chatted and drank wine before deciding to watch a movie. According to the evidence, the then 22-year-old police officer spiked the woman’s drink when she left the room to change her clothes.
Lee Martin-Cramp
had told the court she noticed the wine had a strange taste when she returned,
but Martin-Cramp told her he had added some vodka to it, so she took a few more
sips. She said she subsequently started feeling dizzy and stopped drinking, but
Martin-Cramp forced himself on her and she woke up later bruised and in pain.
The woman said she maintained WhatsApp contact with her rapist after the incident so she could eventually get him to admit to the crime. And he did, telling her to pretend it never happened, and she reported it to police.
In one of the messages, after the woman told him he had taken her virginity, Martin-Cramp replied: “I can’t give it back haha”.
Martin-Cramp was extradited from the UK to Antigua and Barbuda last September to face the courts for the crime, and after a seven-day trial two months ago, he was convicted.
Following his conviction, he was dismissed from the Metropolitan Police which he joined the year before the rape. He had been posted to the Wanted Offenders Unit in Wimbledon, South East London before his arrest.
EU Signs Financing Agreement with Dominica Government in Support of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
ROSEAU, Dominica, Tuesday July 16, 2019 – The European Union has committed to support Dominica’s renewable energy sector.
The two recently signed
an agreement that will make EC$7.91 million (US$2.93 million) available to the Eastern
Caribbean nation to assist in increasing the resilience of strategic
infrastructure, strengthening the competitiveness and the resilience of the
energy sector, and implementing the island’s international commitments under
the Paris Agreement.
Among other activities,
the support aims to render the country’s international airport energy-independent
and disaster-resilient, through the installation of a solar power plant within
the Douglas Charles airport premises.
The programme is expected
to run until 2022, and comes in addition to the ongoing programmes that the
European Union and the Government of Dominica are implementing in the housing
and post-disaster recovery sectors.
Acknowledging the need by most Caribbean States for a swift and smooth transition towards renewable and efficient energy systems, the European Union said it remains committed its partnerships, supporting also similar programmes at regional or national level.
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Public now too well informed
People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Dr Keith Rowley says the party will not condone any type of corruption if it forms the next government.
DPP moves to clear backlog
Several high-profile investigations are expected to be finalised this week by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Time with OWTU is up—Petrotrin
A surprise move by State-owned Petrotrin to end the secondment of Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union boss Ancel Roget gives him two choices: Abandon the OWTU or lose out on millions in accrued benefits an
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The Joint Trade Union Movement’s unimplemented 2010 Workers’ Agenda has been incorporated into the People’s National Movement draft labour policy.
Rowley probes issues in Diego corporation
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley paid a private visit to the Diego Martin Regional Corporation late Tuesday night to probe issues and questions raised against its chairman Darryl Smith during last Th
Masman claims death threats
Masman Edwin Worrell, who highlighted the move by the National Carnival Bands Association (NCBA) to disqualify ten winning masqueraders, has now reported alleged death threats to the Morvant Police S
NCBA $$ woes continue
Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas is now trying to secure a $75 million loan from First Citizens in order to clear up debts accrued as a result of his miscalculating last year’s bu
PNM screening body blanks Browne
Diego Martin Central incumbent Dr Amery Browne failed to impress any of the 18 members of the People’s National Movement (PNM) screening committee at Balisier House, Port-of-Spain, on Thursday night.
Code of conduct doesn’t stop ‘dirty political games’
Despite political parties having twice signed the Code of Ethical Political Conduct, their war of words has been marked by dirty political games in the lead-up to the 2015 general election.
‘No truth to rape talk’
Roselyn Alleyne, the mother of People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley’s son, Garth, is claiming that an unnamed operative, in cahoots with Minister of the People Vernella Alleyne-Toppin, at
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Dance Rapa Nui style
T&T dancers celebrate Polynesian culture
Shereen Ali
A Rapa Nui man dances in his indigenous costume as part of celebrations in Easter Island.
From far across the sea, from the tiny Chilean island of Rapa Nui in the Pacific Ocean, comes a celebration of ancestral dance to Trinidad. Tomorrow evening, a group of T&T performers, led by Ariel Zapata who is originally from Rapa Nui, will perform dances from the Rapa Nui tradition at the National Library in Port-of-Spain. The event is free and open to the public, and is part of Latin Nights, six evenings of events at the National Library this week, featuring culture from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica and El Salvador.
Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island (Isla de Pascua), is a UNESCO World Heritage Site perhaps best known for its massive, mysterious statues called “moai” which seem to sprout from the island like a crop of stern monolithic gods—some believe them to be representations of deified ancestors, carved many centuries ago.
The group performing tomorrow is, interestingly, comprised of T&T dancers led by one Easter Island man who fell in love with a Trinidadian woman. He decided to settle in Trinidad almost three years ago. It’s a romance of two very different islands spanning a great distance, a relationship which became closer two years ago when Ariel Zapata, a fibre optic specialist from Rapa Nui, married Joanna Line of Trinidad. Both Ariel and Joanna are passionate about traditional Polynesian dancing. They soon formed their own small T&T group to train locals how to dance, Rapa Nui style.
The Rapa Nui people are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island. Their traditional culture includes percussive dances, choral singing and chanting, accompanied by instruments such as conch shell trumpets, accordions, and the “kauaha”—a percussion instrument made from a horse’s jawbone.
Today, the island’s unique culture is kept alive with activities and festivals that highlight ancient arts such as spear throwing, dancing and body painting. The island’s top celebration is the Tapati Festival, which revolves around a series of competitions based on ancient sports. The Rapa Nui culture also includes a national football team and a spirited musical tradition that combines South American and Polynesian influences.
We spoke to Joanna Line-Zapata by phone yesterday. She said the Rapa Nui local dance group of nine dancers includes two dancers from Tobago, one dancer from Easter Island (her husband Ariel), with the rest of dancers from Trinidad. She spoke a little about Rapa Nui dance:
“We use traditional Easter Island music. We will do eight dances tomorrow. The men will do a warrior dance while the women’s styles are gentler, relating to the rhythms of the waves, the sea, and beaches. Every song tells a story, and there are specific movements for every word. For example, some body motions correspond to waves in the sea. We practice in various places, including the Queen’s Park Savannah. My husband Ariel and I made all the costumes from totally natural materials; some materials he brought with him from Easter Island and some we sourced here in T&T. Our local fibre optics company, Netfos (http://netfostt.webnode.es/), sponsored all the costumes for the band.”
Ambassador of Chile, Fernando Schmidt Ariztía, told the Guardian:
“Chile is a multicultural country of different heritages, and within that, Rapa Nui is a unique island culture. Rapa Nui, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is just 163 sq km in area—about the size of Aruba. Yet while Aruba has about 100,000 people, Rapa Nui’s population is about 5,750 people… Rapa Nui is about half the size of Tobago.”
Despite this low population density (just 35 inhabitants per square kilometre), Rapa Nui has created a unique culture of world class standard, said Ambassador Schmidt Ariztía, noting the strength of Rapa Nui oral traditions.
He said the original inhabitants of this remote island originally came centuries ago from the Central Pacific area, sailing on large sea-going barges which could each carry some 70-100 people. They navigated by means of an amazing indigenous knowledge of ocean currents and the stars. These ancient people and their descendants recreated the dances, rituals, music and sacred symbols from their own practice to form the basis of Rapa Nui indigenous culture today. Ambassador Schmidt Ariztía commented:
“The Trinidad Rapa Nui group to dance tomorrow are almost all T&T citizens, with the exception of Ariel Zapata from Easter Island. They have made their own costumes all in T&T, to give a flavour of Polynesia from Chile… The Prime Minister of T&T visited Chile recently, and one of the aspects in the joint declaration that was emphasised was that we need to promote a dialogue between cultures.” He added:
“The dance group which performs tomorrow is an example of the dialogue between different island cultures across the oceans.”
Latin Nights events
Tues June 17, 6 pm: Argentina. Sintiendo a Piazzolla-Documentary film on Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango musician and composer
Wed June 28, 6.30 pm: Brazil. AV show: A Journey Through Brazilian Poetry
Thurs June 29, 6.30 pm: Chile. Dance, crafts and food from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Fri June 30, 6.30: Cuba. Film-Trinidad, a documentary about Cuban Trinidad; and the film Habanastation
Sat July 1, 5.30pm: Costa Rica. Lantern workshop, storytelling, dance, parade and video.
Mon, July 3, 6.30 pm: El Salvador. Photo exhibition of colonial city of Suchitoto; food on sale
MORE INFO: Contact 624-4466, ext 2323, or visit www.nalis.gov.tt
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Kathmandu Valley’s overhead bridges in dire need of repair
Urban planners say the dilapidated bridges pose a serious threat to pedestrians
- ANUP OJHA, Kathmandu
A file photo of a pedestrian overhead bridge in front of Bir Hospital in Kathmandu. Post Photo: Anish Regmi
Mar 17, 2019-
Over half a dozen overhead bridges in the Capital city are in dilapidated condition because of the lack of effective maintenance from Kathmandu Metropolitan City.
The Post in October 2017 had carried a story on the sorry state of the overhead bridges. After Post’s report, Innovative Concept Nepal had taken the lead to maintain the bridges--and shops that run in and around it--but there hardly are any visible changes.
“The company had just plastered the steps of the bridges, but didn’t do anything to the pillars,” said a man who runs a shop in one of overhead bridges in Ratnapark. He refused to give his name.“I don’t think it’s that much safe to run a shop here. But I have no other option as it gives me a regular earning,” he added.
Majority of overhead bridges are in the Ratnapark area. They were built between 1998 and 2000, but they have now developed cracks and iron rods used to support these structures are rusted.
“If these bridges are not repaired with technical audit, this may collapse and it could be fatal,” said Suman Meher Shrestha, a senior urban planner at the Town Development Fund, giving an example of a recent bridge collapse in India.
Six people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in Mumbai on Thursday when a pedestrian bridge connecting a train station with a road collapsed.
“These brides are already over two decades old and they may collapse any day; we need to learn from Mumbai’s accident and the metropolis should take immediate action,” said Shrestha.
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City had handed over 12 overhead bridges to Innovative Concept Nepal in 2000.
As per the contract, the private company, owned by Manoj Kumar Bhetwal, could lease shops built under the bridges and was supposed to maintain the structures, but the company has hardly done any substantial work except minor repairs a year ago--that too after media reports about the dilapidated condition of overhead bridges.
The company had to pay Rs 120,000 annually to the metropolis.
The metropolis extended the contract second time on April 23, 2011, for a period of 18 years to the same company, increasing the annual charge to Rs2.2 million.
“There has been talk about repairing the overhead bridges, even Mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya has instructed to repair all these bridges, for which the metropolis has allocated Rs 1.5 million to Rs 2 million,” said Ishwor Man Dangol, spokesperson for the metropolis.
Ram Thapa, a senior engineer at the metropolis, had earlier said lifespan of the overhead bridge is not more than 20 years.
The bridges, which are meant for people to cross the roads, have become a place for people to set up shops. With no proper lighting, many even urinate and defecate on the bridges in the night.
Experts have warned that these bridges are a serious risk to pedestrians.
“These bridges can’t hold over 100 people at the same time, they need to be repaired as soon as possible,” said Shrestha.
Six of these bridges between Sahidgate and Jamal were built by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City in the late 1990s and remaining others were constructed under the public-private partnership.
Deputy Mayor Hari Prabha Khadgi, who leads a five-member team to inspect infrastructure in the metropolis, said her team will soon monitor the bridges and take initiatives to repair them as per the need.
Khadgi also said that CCTV cameras and lights will be installed to ensure that unlawful activities are not carried out on the bridges.
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November 24, 2014, 7:52 am June 13, 2017 android, FRP, functional programming, game programming, games, haskell, yampa
We are extremely happy to announce that we now have several Haskell games working on Android, including our Graphic Adventure engine. Also, we have just begun beta-testing one of the games with real users via Google Play (aka. the Android Market).
The first game is a breakout-like game that we already talked about. It is written in the Haskell Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) Domain Specific Language (DSL) Yampa. It uses SDL2 for graphics, and can be controlled using a Wiimote and a Kinect. A simpler, open-source version is available here. Currently, the game is running at over 700FPS on desktop and 60FPS on Android (the screen refresh rate).
A breakout game in Haskell that uses the Wiimote & Kinect (Desktop) and also runs on Android
The second game is a small board game that we put together for the FP Days in less than 400 lines of code. It is also implemented using the FRP DSL Yampa. It’s a variant of the traditional Lights Out. This game is now uploaded to the market and available to beta testers (follow this link for instructions on how to become a tester). We are using this very simple game to test Haskell across the wide range of Android hardware.
A board game written in Haskell, available for Android on Google Play (only for beta-testers at the moment)
Finally, we are delighted to announce that our Graphic Adventure Game Engine finally works on Android, which means that the public release of GALE Studio IDE will have full Android support.
GALE Graphic Adventure Engine running on Android (Individual sprites (c) Lucasarts; used internally for testing purposes only.)
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Some people are being very generous and giving us micro-donations (so far, via Flattr; there’s a button right below). Donations will be used exclusively to make real Haskell games for multiple platforms, including Android. If you can donate something, by any method, it will be very appreciated.
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Author: Tom Miller
Immigration reality check
Top post up at LabourList. I think we need to concentrate on winning back the whole working class vote and the progressive wing of the middle class (i.e. for the most part, liberals). ‘Get tough’ politics won’t satisfy one, while well-to-do soppy New Labourism won’t satisfy the other.
May I suggest some honest appeals to both, and a programme of redistributive, explicitly class appealing, socially liberal left wingery?
Bonus: it’s morally superior correct and opportune, as well.
Posted on 08/06/2010 by Tom Miller
The worst kind of dentist
“This is going to hurt”, he said. “lots”.
The assistant braced himself. I felt a wrench, and another, but I was numb to it all, while it took place at least. And when the anaesthetic wore off (that seemed to take an age), I fumbled two fingers into my mouth. Lots of mess. Dribbled.
He had taken out all of my teeth.
The poor old Labour Party is getting blamed for everything everyone else does. Pretty much any bad choice that anyone makes is Gordon Brown’s fault, you see. It’s Gordon Brown’s fault that the Lib Dems just *had* to do a deal to put the Tories in power, it’s Gordon Brown’s fault that the Conservatives *have* to subject us to a massive binge of cuts. Even though he proposed an alternative path to the sort of cutting Cameron proposes as an election manifesto, and campaigned on that basis. Obviously.
So it doesn’t really seem fair to blame Gordon Brown for something he campaigned on a promise not to do. Maybe fashionable. But not at all fair. I predict that the hacks will absorb the narrative wholesale, and repeat ad nauseam, without ever publicly considering this point.
Cameron has a sneaky dig at Brown’s wider legacy as part of constructing the whole thing, which is very clever. Apparently the economy should have done much better. Brown had kept growth continuous for the longest period in history, with historically low interest rates. The Tories accuse him of not ‘fixing the roof’, i.e. building a big public sector balance, but the whole way through New Labour, they were calling for massive cuts in government revenue. They would have been worse. As well as seeming to believe that not enough cash was held in reserve by the state, they also believe that the state being too large is the primary cause of current ills. They complain about the size of the structural deficit against GDP, but the truth is that it had to undergo huge growth to pay for the idiocy of their earlier binge of ideologically motivated cuts in the 1980s and the recession of the 1990s. Our whole deficit is not too large compared to our GDP when seen against other countries.
The real problem with spending more is our international credit rating, and it’s about the only argument about this I’m willing to accept as any kind of sensible basis. Why the sudden prospect of a credit rating downgrade? Well, that would be Labour not letting the financial system collapse. Denis MacShane, a man who rarely makes a good point, identifies the real cause. The alternative to bailing out people’s mortgages and bank accounts was an outright catastrophe.
Brown couldn’t really choose to do anything other than bail out the banks, the cost of which was vast. The global recession hit our capacity to grow, but Brown did not cause it. In fact, he cut VAT, which worked. The Tories now plan to do the opposite, which won’t. Brown also brought in the ‘Time to Pay’ scheme, which stopped many perfectly good, often slower-growing and smaller businesses from defaulting.
So in one case his hand was forced, and in another, he did the right thing as a matter of choice.
Rather than choosing a slower, more steady and perfectly viable route to cutting the deficit, as offered by Gordon Brown… just as the Lib Dems chose to enter this Government, that same Government is now choosing to cut faster than it has to, if indeed we agree that it must at all, and in a way that will be manifestly damaging to individuals and communities.
And there may be alternatives to cuts anyway. Ah, and we need, of course, to remember that “we’re all in this together“.
“This is going to hurt.”, he tells us…
And it might hurt more than he thinks.
UPDATE: This is worth a read. Perhaps Labour needs to start talking about how state and society move together and overlap.
Posted on 07/06/2010 08/06/2010 by Tom Miller 1
A post worth reading
Dave Semple has a post up which I pretty much agree with. I think there is currency in the argument that MPs should nominate who they want, but from the point of view of the left, it is very important to get McDonnell on – and MPs know they can indulge this push for a wider debate if they wish. The fact that there will likely be no ‘left candidate’ is a great shame.
What’s good about Dave’s post however is the deeper reasoning, so it’s worth reading it here.
Not who, but what?
I must say that I am almightily concerned by the vacuity of the leadership contest so far. There seems to be a lot of zombification going on. David Miliband appears to be the most vacuous of the lot, with Ed Balls a close second, if only because Andy Burnham has declared himself the ‘continuity candidate’. Which happens to be exactly what I don’t want to vote for.
At least he has cards on the table, and will receive my last transfer, which DM and EdB aren’t yet worthy of until I get some policy commitments or real philosophy.
On David Miliband in particular, I completely agree with my fellow Bevanite here, save for the fact that I think free membership is a good idea. I feel that David Miliband is perhaps a little unfairly typecast as eye-wateringly Blairite, but I don’t see what’s wrong with doing that given that he seems to keen not to repudiate what is effectively the most powerful attack against him.
I am concerned that he doesn’t want to disassociate himself from neoliberalism, the war in Iraq, civil illiberality or the abolition of the Labour Party via the smashing of the union link. He seems to have nothing to say about any of it.
Posted on 28/05/2010 by Tom Miller 2
Low turnout – Labour’s biggest enemy
I spent a good chunk of this week and last campaigning for Comrades in Haverstock Ward, Camden, who were fighting a council by-election. For a start, I was very surprised to see such a large amount of Lib Dem activists openly identifying themselves. New Labour has had many wrong-headed (and sometimes catastrophic) policies. But New Labour never went in with the Tories, or started massive organised programmes of job losses. Liberals were using the same arguments on a national basis that they had used for their sorry local alliance with the Tories previously – ‘Labour didn’t want a deal with us’.
Good politicians are not political harlots. A situation of accepting the uglier bedfellow simply because of the strength of the urge is no defence. Maintain chastity. Nobody ever has to enter coalition with anyone else. That is a simple fact, and a convenient one to abandon if you are power-hungry and utterly unprincipled.
That is not to say that all coalitions are unprincipled. More that for any party left of Ghengis Khan, or even any party rooted in a local community, all coalitions with Tories are unprincipled.
The Lib Dems narrowly beat us, and I was honestly gutted. But it does confirm that in many places, the Lib Dem vote is simply a middle class anti-Labour vote, not based on policy or which direction the country will take, but because of a ‘progressive’ disdain for the poor and their annoying habit of crudely organising to defend themselves.
Why did we lose? Well, turnout was 34%, despite everyone being knocked up multiple times. Any cross section of the registered electorate is always more Labour than that which turns out on the day. Our supporters are the type of people who are more likely to do hard physical work, long hours, or simply not to know what is going on with any certainty.
This has implications for the core vs marginal debate that Labour often indulges in. People call this silly, which is very nice, but objectively it still matters.
No matter how marginal a place is, you still need a core to make up a majority of the vote you do get. What we need more than anything is to be widely perceived as a party which inspires these people. Even with the Con-Dem government in place, we still need a positive vision, image, articulation and accompanying organisation which can do this. A lot of it is there. The PR job that will need to be performed by the next leader is therefore crucial.
In short, we need a leader who looks like a break from the last 13 years, and provides vision over triangulation.
John Hutton – How wrong can one man be?
OK, I did this post on the Tribune blog, so take a read here.
As so often when it comes to Blairites, I’m not a happy man.
Leadership election
Well, that’s an opportune time to get blogging again. Needless to say, my first choice would probably be Jon Cruddas, who I hope will run. And win.
Failing that, Ed Miliband has my vote.
The problem is that all the possible contenders are different stripes of Blair, or they are John McDonnell… who I have found in the past to be surrounded by the wrong people, completely nonconstructive when it comes to working with the wider Labour left, and completely unrealistic in most political senses. Which is a shame, because he speaks well, and is a nice guy in person.
More coverage here soon. In the meantime, Ken Livingstone has a piece in this week’s Tribune which I think sets out the real big issue with absolute perfection. We must move on from New Labour.
Update: I couldn’t agree with this more. A lot of people will feel like this, but they need to have the courage and the opportunity to back a candidate who shares their point of view.
Posted on 11/05/2010 11/05/2010 by Tom Miller
In a rather confused, agitated (agitating?) puff piece, the Times has broken cover to stand alongside its sister publication, the Sun, as an out-and-proud anti-Labour rag. The former newspaper of record was already virtually indistinguishable in any event.
Any pretence to balance, authority, nay, basic understanding of the political world… it is a thing long since departed. A close friend comments via gmail:
“I thought the Times was supposed to be a decent paper?
That article reads like the Mail, almost”
I must confess that in this fittingly critical first post, I am simply attempting to articulate in a more structured form a fractured mess of facebook bemusement. Sourced from a range of virtual acquaintances. Nevertheless, many of those assertions scattering the intertubes are nowt if not bang on.
Firstly, Mr Murdoch, it is difficult to understand why the Times seems so averse to Union backed candidates winning selection for, shock horror, a Labour Party.
A party linked to labour is what a Labour Party is. So it is fitting, then, that the Times has chosen to attack representation of union views in parliament at the same time that the Tories are busily trying to chip away at the union link, while preserving their link to the organised forces of capital. I wouldn’t even call them ‘business’; trade unionists depend on surplus producing ‘business’ just as much as senior personnel. For them, one form of economic organisation is acceptable (one that is massively undemocratic, dependent on hierarchical power relationships, and primarily advantages a minority interest within that grouping). Others are somehow a moving of the political goalpost.
Conservatives are in the habit of looking to America. In certain ways, this is healthy. Like all societies, the US has advantages and disadvantages. During the American Revolution, Tory predecessors, with the notable and heavily influential exception of Edmund Burke, stood against the American Revolution, its ideals, and its participants. Whiggish Radicals such as Charles James Fox backed the revolution wholeheartedly, and, despite this act of apparent treachery, maintained a large rump of parliamentary support.
In any event, as time passed into the full swing of Pax Victoriana, Britain was blessed with two parties who strongly emphasised the apparent differences between them. Some were significant, particularly the issues of free trade vs protectionism, political and religious freedom, and home rule for Ireland.
But despite these differences, way over half the country looked on with a total lack of understanding, mostly unable to vote, and if one should be so fortunate, faced with the choice between a shit and a shite. A large chunk of the population saw two parties with roundly similar policies and integral interests. These were parties of business owners who routinely and murderously ignored the greatest issue facing the country at the time; the plight of the massively expanded industrial working class, toiling in their millions for little reward in atrocious conditions, dying in their thousands as they built the railways, roads and bridges that business still profits from today, consumed as children in the mangles of weaving machines or the gas chambers of deep pits.
Men looked on from the benches, replete with their top hats, isolated, indifferent, and indistinguishable against the context. Many think that the main parties are too alike today. I would argue that this is because to a smaller or larger extent, they all represent capital as the a priori concern, no force pulls them the other way. There is an absence of opposition, and even an absence of compromise. This is more true in America, so admired by the Tories. Parties debate what kind of not-universal healthcare to have, what kind of regressive low rates of taxation they can implement, what variety of population, domestic or international, is worthy of oppression or abandonment, what kinds of guns they can let people carry around school.
This cosy irrelevance was even more true of the age here 1900. For all the lavish praise that constitutionalists and politicians heap on America, in a sense, and with great historical irony, it has preserved each of the trappings of political wrongness it tried to escape with independence.
For every action of political economy, there is a political response. The response in 1900 was great. The bulk of the population which existed in near slavery was forced to politically and industrially organise to defend its working men and their dependent families. Yet this, the need for jobs, sustenance and political representation as the final guarantee… it never come us when Tories discuss their ‘family values’. Unless they want to attack it.
A Labour Party was born. It broke consensus. And it needed to be there. It was demanded.
A Labour Party exists. It is sometimes allowed by the press into government, if it agrees not to represent its core values and core voters. Sometimes, like in 1945, it gets in anyway.
Some within it struggle ceaselessly for it to accept these external boundaries, for it to accept its own weakness as a movement and a body of opinion in the country. If it its subservience to the politics of papers like the Times and the Tories, who appear to hate the concept of trade unionists being represented alongside the top-hats, or funding, like business, a political party to represent them and the families who depend on them.
The times will attack the candidates, the Tories will attack their funding and the right of individual trade unionists to donate through their unions (you would never see that kind of thing with business donations). A Tory friend claims that I am being alarmist by saying this, but what they are attacking is the general concept of a Labour Party.
They want us to be Liberals circa 1900, and seeing as that’s not what most of Labour believes in, a few ultra-Blairites and the man himself aside, the Tories want to use their democratic mandate to make our party’s decision for us, through the law.
Next, they will be using the commons and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to pass our conference resolutions for us.
Between Times and Tories, their merry tag team is attacking a reform to the political system which happened 110 years ago, the Lib/Lab split.
Their political ambition and paternal, undemocratic unscrupulousness knows no bounds.
As it happens, Labour currently demands in the rule book that members join a trade union if eligible to do so. Not so surprising then, that candidates usually turn out to be members.
As for the ‘left wingers’ (by which the times means anyone left Murdoch, presumably), I noticed that the Times piece didn’t include any criticism of the bonkers right-wingers, the Donal Blaney lickspittles who line the benches opposite. But someone suggesting we shouldn’t allow predatory advertisers to target kids for pester power (for that was the real proposed policy)… that’s just wrong, surely?
The Trade Unionists who founded the Labour Party were preceded by Chartists, who won working-class people the vote. They did not just do so as a result of industrial activity; indeed, for much of their period of agitation, unions were actually banned outright (perhaps David Cameron will leave this one for the next manifesto).
They were primarily political, not industrial.
As such, progressive who have diverted from the Liberal/Tory stitch up ever since 1900 have been characterised by patterns of alliances between political socialists and social democrats, and those whose interests they believe they represent, primarily represented by Trade Unions.
I shan’t claim that Compass have any comparison of value to Chartists, because I’m not an idiot in totality. But why is the Times so concerned that voters might now be able to choose to elect people who believe in and work for left-of-centre values? Why are they so concerned that the leadership of the Labour Party is no longer quite as committed to control freakery and nepotism as a matter of routine practise?
I have an alternative proposal, you see. Let people select candidates, fund them domestically and openly (not that Labour has a perfect record on this), then let people vote for who they want to vote for.
We can have democracy without this kind of utter nonsense, and it would be a lot easier to achieve if people ignored the hysterical alarmism that now seems so routine for Britain’s abused post-broadsheet.
Oh yes, just to round off, once again sourced from facebook
“The Times appalled 14 new of Labour’s new candidates have worked for a union. GMB says 63 Tory candidates come from banking and finance.”
I won’t go in for the divisive Thatcherite rhetoric of ‘enemies within’, but as it happens, as much as I think financial expertise should be valued, I think that trade unionists have played a defter hand over the last couple of years than the Tory banking establishment, hmm?
Trade unionists, right or wrong for the country, want to protect their jobs, their colleagues, and the well-being of their children. What do the bankers on the opposite bench want?
See. There’s a reason for unions in politics.
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The Liberal Party
Real Liberals (not the LibDems) Fighting for Liberalism
Motions carried at the 2007 Liberal Party Assembly
Universal Inheritance
Closure or Rural Post Offices
School Catchment Areas
Home Information Packs (HIPS)
Referendum on the EU Reform Treaty
The EU Reform Treaty
Emergency Motions
This assembly reaffirms the Liberal Party’s support for a free, independent Palestinian State. The Liberal Party also calls for:
1. the State of Palestine to be accepted as a member of the United
Nations;
2. Her Majesty’s Government to recognise the State of Palestine and
to exchange ambassadors;
3. Palestine to be invited to join the Commonwealth as a Full Member;
4. Palestinian sporting teams to be invited to participate in the Commonwealth and Olympic Games;
5. British business to be encouraged to invest in the Palestinian economy to improve the economy of the new independent Palestinian nation.
The Liberal Party supports the Amnesty International led campaign for China to demonstrate its commitment to human rights in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The campaign is particularly pressing for reforms on:
1. The Death Penalty;
2. Fair trial and prevention of torture and ill treatment;
3. Protection of human rights defenders;
4. Freedom of expression and information.
To all these objectives the Liberal Party pledges its support.
The Liberal Party, whilst supporting the current policy of an inheritance grant of £10,000 to all young people believes this should be qualified by:
1. Where the young person of age 18 or more can show that the grant will be used individually or jointly, in whole or parts, to:
1. purchase a home or
2. purchase or fund further education or vocational training
3. fund an individual business where the young person is a sole owner or significant partner.
2. That grant be supplied earlier on request and reasonable evidence.
3. If the young person commits a crime and conviction the courts can instruct this grant be withheld or given in parts as compensation to the victims of that crime
Closure of Rural Post Offices
The Liberal Party views with great concern the proposals for the closure of more rural post offices.
Assembly believes that closures will have a significant impact on the quality of life for those who live in remote parts of the country where small schools and shops have already been lost to the community.
Assembly further urges the government to call a halt to the current closure programme and consider the social benefits of the rural post office and also recognise the environmental impact of greater dependence on car travel to more distant service locations.
The Liberal Party believes that school admission should be managed within defined catchment areas which would reduce the need for car travel and its associated pollution; it would encourage walking and cycling, improve health and combat the rising level of child obesity.
The Liberal Party believes (1) that the requirements for the Home
Information Packs (HIPs) are a total waste of time and money and have
thrown the buy-to-let market into chaos in many parts of the country.
The Liberal Party believes:
1. that Government proposals for the planning system undermine local democracy; government concern for speedy decisions to be made on major infrastructure projects favours business interests at the price of public interest in long-term sustainable development; the suggested Independent Commission would remove the public accountability from major projects which is now exercised by Ministers before the House of Commons.
2. The proposed revision of the needs and impact tests for retail development could further weaken the retail position of town centres and neighbourhood centres.
Assembly notes that the Liberal Party is opposed to the use of referenda save for the determination of constitutional changes. Further, Assembly recalls that the Liberal Party called for a referendum of the formerly proposed ‘Constitution for Europe’.
Accordingly the Liberal Party believes that the British people should be enabled, by a referendum, to decide the acceptance of the proposed ‘EU Reform Treaty’.
Assembly believes that a summary statement (available in minority languages) of the proposed EU Reform Treaty should be circulated to all households prior to any such referendum.
Assembly believes that the EU Reform Treaty represents an attempt by the EU to force upon the peoples of Europe the provisions of the formerly proposed EU constitution, such a constitution having been rejected by popular votes in France and Holland.
Assembly, further noting that that proposed treaty contains provisions which provide for:
1. a European Head of State;
2. an EU diplomatic corps and foreign minister;
3. a common system of criminal justice and a European Public Prosecutor;
4. the EU having ‘legal personality’ and treaty making powers akin to a sovereign state;
5. the reduction in Britain’s voting strength in the Council of Ministers meetings by 30%;
resolves to campaign against the adoption of the EU Reform Treaty, whether as part of a wider referendum campaign or otherwise.
The Liberal Party deplores the actions of the illegal, unelected militaristic Burmese regime in their vicious attacks and repression of the peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. Whilst we welcome the intervention of the UN envoy we call upon Her Majesty’s Government to:
1. work in partnership with our EU colleagues to bring pressure within the UN to implement sanctions against the Burmese regime;
2. urge EU governments to take action against Businesses who are actively trading with Burma.
Assembly further deplores the attitude currently being taken by both Russia and China within the UN Security Council that the actions of the Burmese regime are a purely internal matter and urges HM Government, in partnership with our EU colleagues, to bring every possible pressure on Russia and China to prevent their vetoing their action.
The Liberal Party notes with alarm the increasing incidence of gun crime and violence in inner-cities such as the shooting of Rhys Jones in Liverpool. We call for an urgent review of the neighbourhood services and community safety in urban areas and we support calls for the greater provision of youth services and police resources in inner cities.
The Liberal Party asks social housing agencies to take a firmer stand in evicting families found guilty or violent criminal activities.
Furthermore we call for an urgent review of the provision of, and confidence in, witness support schemes.
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By Mary Connealy
Cowboys, Action, Humor, and History Collide in Connealy’s Latest
When an explosion kills men and damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them.
Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back East and all that New Mexico offers. Sure he fights with his siblings now and then, but he does care for them. He enjoys running the mine and, when he’s honest, he admits that Melanie Blake captures his interest in a way no other woman ever has.
Melanie has been a friend to the Bodens forever. A cowgirl who is more comfortable with horses and lassoes than people, she never expected to find herself falling for someone. Particularly for refined Cole Boden, a Harvard graduate who may not stay long at the ranch. She’s determined, however, to help the Bodens finally put an end to the danger that’s threatened all of them. But will putting herself in harm’s way be more dangerous than anyone expected?
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From Page to Publication: part of the Bronte Festival of Women's Writing
10am: Who Writes Me & How?
Featuring input from author Liz Flanagan, debut YA author Lucy Powrie, poet Clare Shaw and Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North, learn more about the journey from first draft to finished book, and about the support available to help develop and nurture emerging writers.
#WriteMentor Writing Weekend in Leeds
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 10:00 AM 10:00 Sun, Feb 9, 2020 4:30 PM 16:30
#WriteMentor will offer writing weekends all over the UK in 2020. I’m delighted to be leading one in Leeds, 8/9th February 2020, with experienced tutor Mark Illis offering 1-2-1s.
Dragon Daughter Book Signing at Imagined Things, Harrogate
Imagined Things (map)
Liz Flanagan will be back in the shop, talking dragons and signing copies of her latest book, Dragon Daughter.
Magical Creatures Masterclass at Seven Stories
Seven Stories (map)
Do you love mythical beasts? Come and be inspired to invent your own colourful magical animals! Liz Flanagan, author of Dragon Daughter, will take you step-by-step through the process of inventing your own fantastic creatures, using vivid colours and myths from around the world. You will imagine your own animal and start to write your own magical story.
Booking information coming soon! https://www.sevenstories.org.uk
Dragon Daughter Signing at Bradford Waterstones
Waterstones Bradford (map)
Liz Flanagan will be signing copies of her new book, Dragon Daughter. Come along and colour in a dragon mask, find a dragon bookmark, and imagine a magical creature of your own!
Dragons! A workshop at Waterstones Deansgate
To celebrate the paperback launch of Dragon Daughter by Liz Flanagan
Do you dream of dragons? Do you like magical creatures of all kinds? Come along to this interactive workshop. Children will imagine and draw a magical animal of their own, before starting to write its story…
Followed by a signing with the author. Book your free tickets here.
Signing at Read, Holmfirth
I’ll be visiting the brand new bookshop in Holmfirth - already hearing so many wonderful things about it! (See https://www.facebook.com/Read.Holmfirth/ for more information about the shop).
Come along for a dragon workshop, dragon craft activities and book signing!
The Corner Bookshop Halifax
Come and meet local author Liz Flanagan, who will be signing copies of her new book Dragon Daughter. There will be dragon-themed activities, including a word-search, colouring-in and dragon masks! For ages 6-12.
Signing at The Bookcase, Hebden Bridge
Come and meet Hebden Bridge-based author Liz Flanagan, who will be signing copies of her new book Dragon Daughter!
Imagined Worlds at the Bronte Parsonage Museum
The Bronte Parsonage Museum (map)
Are you a teenage girl who likes to write? Join YA author Liz Flanagan for a specially devised creative writing workshop, aimed at young writers aged 12 to 16. You’ll be invited to follow the example of the Brontës by imagining a fantasy world of your own and filling it with your own created characters and magical beasts.
Liz Flanagan writes for children and young adults. She is a lecturer in creative writing and divides her time between Newcastle and Hebden Bridge. Her debut novel, Eden Summer, was nominated for CILIP Carnegie Medal, and her most recent book, Dragon Daughter, was released in autumn 2018.
Tickets £5. No experience necessary. Please book in advance by calling 01535 640192.
Timing and further information here: https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/800/imagined-worlds-and-magical-beasts-a-writing-workshop-with-liz-flanagan/1072
Write Through the Winter
Leeds Trinity University has launched a series of workshops and writing days to help aspiring and established writers develop their writing and work towards completing a novel, poetry or short story collection.
The series, which is called Write through the Winter, will lead up to the Leeds Trinity University Writers' Festival on Wednesday 13 March.
The dialogue and place workshop is the second in the series, and will be delivered by young-adult fiction writer Liz Flanagan.
The workshop includes a morning workshop 10.00am to 1.00pm, and a Space to Write session from 2.00 to 4.00pm where you will have the opportunity to put the skills from the workshop into practice, focusing on your own work.
As part of the series of workshops, we are hoping writers will work towards producing a novel, poetry or short story collection.
AboutLiz Flanagan
Liz Flanagan was the first student to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. Before graduating, she'd signed a two-book deal with David Fickling Books. Eden Summer, a young-adult novel was published in 2016, with Dragon's Daughterpublished October 2018.
The writing events are an addition to the Leeds Trinity Writers' Festival, which is now in its 15th year. The Festival has become a highlight on the local writing calendar providing the opportunity to work with professional writers, attend writing workshops and hear readings from our featured writers.
10.00am – 4.00pm
Booking information here:
NCLA: Melvin Burgess in Conversation with Liz Flanagan
Wednesday 6 February 2019 @ 7.15, Culture Lab, Newcastle University - building number 7 on the campus map: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/contact/maps/
Please note doors open at 6.45pm and will close at 7.30pm. Do come along before the event starts at 7.15pm to browse the bookstall and have a drink.
DRAGONS! An evening with Liz Flanagan and Jackie Morris
Kenilworth Books (map)
An evening discussing DRAGONS with Jackie Morris and Liz Flanagan.
Huddersfield Children's Bookshop - signing and late-night Lindley event
Huddersfield Children's Bookshop (map)
Bradford Waterstones: Signing and Dragon Activities
Waterstones (map)
Imagined Things Bookshop - Dragon Daughter signing
Imagined Things Bookshop (map)
Hearth at Gladstone's Library
Gladstone's Library (map)
I’m delighted to be joining this cosy fireside event in the gorgeous surroundings of Gladstone’s Library. For more information, click here.
Halifax Festival of Words: Burning Brightly, Northern Voices in YA
The Corner Bookshop (map)
YA Authors Melvin Burgess, Liz Flanagan, Mark Illis and Danielle Jawando will discuss contemporary Young Adult fiction, and what makes northern voices different.
Part of the first Halifax Festival of Words, hosted by the Corner Bookshop, Halifax.
Berwick Book Festival
St Paul's Church (map)
Liz Flanagan will be talking about her new book Dragon Daughter.
Dragon Daughter Book Launch
Bookworms (map)
Come and celebrate the launch of Dragon Daughter!
Expect dragon cakes, dragon masks to colour in, and book signing.
Magical Creatures at Seven Stories
Dragon Daughter is book of the month for October at Seven Stories! Come and meet Liz Flanagan to talk about dragons and have your books signed.
Durham Waterstones: Meet Liz Flanagan
Book club 10am, all welcome! Afterwards, Liz will be in store signing copies of her latest children's book Dragon Daughter! Do come and meet her.
Magical Creatures Story Workshop at Deershed Festival
Studio Tent (map)
Do you dream of dragons? Do you love stories about magical creatures of all kinds? In this interactive workshop, children’s author Liz Flanagan will be sharing an exclusive sneak preview of her new book Dragon Daughterand inviting you to imagine a fantasy animal of your very own.
Bronte Festival of Women's Writing - Stepping into the Sisters’ Shoes: writing workshop with Liz Flanagan
Bronte Parsonage Museum (map)
Are you a teenage girl who likes to write? Join YA author Liz Flanagan for a writing workshop here at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. In this workshop devised especially for girls aged 12-16, Liz will lead a series of writing exercises, designed to be fun and accessible. Attendees will also be invited to take a walk through the Museum and draw inspiration from the collections to create a new piece of writing.
Liz Flanagan writes for children and young adults. She lives in Hebden Bridge and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing. Her debut novel Eden Summer is published by David Fickling Books, and was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Follow her on Twitter: @lizziebooks or visit www.lizflanagan.co.uk
Tickets £5. No experience necessary. Please book in advance at www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on or call 01535 642323.
Bradford Lit Fest: Melvin Burgess, Liz Flanagan, Cathy MacPhail with Daniel Hahn - Disturbing Minds
University of Bradford - Norcroft Auditorium (map)
With chilling secrets, untrustworthy narrators and suspenseful plotlines, YA thrillers explore the disquieting realities of teenage life. From the obsession with achieving physical perfection and celebrity culture to the terrifying implications of living life through social media, our panel of authors have skilfully tapped into the darker undertones of teenage life to create spine tingling page turners which will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Join our panel of acclaimed YA authors Melvin Burgess, Cathy MacPhail and Liz Flanagan for a gripping venture into the darkest corners of YA thrillers in an event which promises to disturb, uncover, and explore the frightening possible realities of teenage life.
For more information, click here: https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/disturbing-minds/
Manchester Children's Book Festival: Liz Flanagan in Conversation with Danielle Jawando and Pete Kalu
MMU Business School Manchester Metropolitan University Business School All Saints Campus Manchester M15 6BH United Kingdom (map)
Join debut and recently shortlisted YA author Liz Flanagan at this exciting event where Liz will be in conversation with Man Met lecturer and fellow YA author Danielle Jawando and Pete Kalu.
Danielle will be discussing Liz’s debut book, Eden Summer. Eden Summer has been shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards 2017 and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017. Special guest Pete Kalu, artistic director of Commonword and fellow writer and YA author, will join them for a discussion about the genre.
Liz Flanagan writes for children and young adults. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. Until recently, she was Centre Director at Lumb Bank, the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre, hosting creative writing courses all year round. Before that, she lived in London and Brighton, and worked in children’s book publishing. You can find out more at lizflanagan.co.uk, or by following Liz on Twitter @lizziebooks.
Pete Kalu’s Young Adult novels, Silent Striker, Being Me and Zombie XI, have been published by HopeRoad. His short story, Getting Home (The Proofreader’s Sigh) can be found in the 2015 Peepal Tree short story collection, Closure. Among his other publications are the romantic comedy Diary of a Househusband and the science fiction novel Black Star Rising (both X Press). More at www.peterkalu.com and @peterkalu.
Click here for tickets and more info
Life-Lines at Lancaster Litfest
The Gallery (map)
Two of the most exciting debut Young Adult books from 2016, Louise Gornall’s Under Rose Tinted Skies and Liz Flannagan’s Eden Summer both drew on real life experiences. Organised as part of the wider offer around the Lancashire Book of the Year, this special event explores how reading and stories can contextualise life experiences. This session will be hosted by the creator of the #YATakeover, Chris Moore and followed by a series of readings by young people.
See: http://litfest.org/life-lines-and-voice-and-vision-forging-a-place-in-new-media/
Online: VIC Ticketbox – Life Lines or Voice and Vision
In Person: Lancaster and Morecambe Visitor Information Centres
By phone: 01524 582394/ 01524 582808
Holly Bourne’s The Spinster Club tour: Your Voice Matters
Thu, Nov 10, 2016 6:30 PM 18:30 Fri, Nov 11, 2016 8:30 PM 20:30
I'm delighted to be joining Holly Bourne on the northern part of her Spinster Club Tour: Your Voice Matters. We'll be talking feminism, friendship and taking questions from the audience at Manchester Waterstones, Deansgate.
Writing A Thriller: In Conversation with Tara Guha at Burnley Literature Festival
Central Methodist Church (map)
Two novelists from either side of the Pennines in fascinating conversation about writing a thriller, the current popularity of psychological thrillers and how their respective home counties influence their work.
Liz Flanagan grew up in Hebden Bridge and returned there 10 years ago to raise her daughters. Until recently, Flanagan ran the Ted Hughes Arvon centre and has previously worked as a commissioning editor in the children's book trade. Her debut novel Eden Summer is a young adult thriller, set in Hebden Bridge.
Praise for Eden Summer:
'Dazzling. Utterly gripping. Writing so fresh every chapter leaves you gasping for air and SO tautly plotted it hurts. If you're going to read one book about the true nature of friendship let it be Eden Summer.' Brian Conaghan, Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of When Mr Dog Bites
Tara Guha lives in Lancashire and won the Luke Bitmead Bursary in 2014. Her first novel, a psychological thriller entitled Untouchable Things, came out in September 2015.
Praise for Untouchable Things:
‘A highly accomplished debut. An intriguing group of characters draw you in to an intoxicating world of tangled relationships and insecurities. Beautifully written with an outstanding ensemble cast.’ Bestselling author Linda Green
Wolves and Apples Conference 2016
College Court Conference & Hotel (map)
Wolves & Apples: A day of practical advice and guidance for writers interested in producing work - books, scripts or screenplays - for children and young adults. Established professionals, including authors, agents and producers, will be on hand to share their experiences and signpost ways of progressing your writing and getting your work out there. Confirmed speakers include: Liz Flanagan (www.lizflanagan.co.uk) Ben Illis (www.the-bia.com) Chris Priestley (www.chrispriestleybooks.com) Celia Rees (www.celiarees.com)
UKYA and Children's Extravaganza 2016 - UKYACX
Newcastle City Library - Bewick Hall on Level 2 (map)
I'm delighted to be taking part in this year's UKYACX, this time in Newcastle! I'm taking part in the final panel of the day, but there's a whole day of wonderful events and authors to listen to.
Newcastle City Library will be bouncing with the biggest authors of children’s and YA books in a mega all-day event. Listen to energetic panel talks and ask your burning questions; meet your favourite authors and swipe goodies from the well-stocked swag.
Tickets are available from Seven Stories here: http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/whats-on/events/122825/ukya-extravaganza
Best Selling Teen/YA Author Jenny Downham & Liz Flanagan in conversation with Phil Earle
Waterstones Liverpool are proud to welcome best-selling and incredibly popular Teen/YA author Jenny Downham ("Before I Die") to read from and discuss her latest novel "Unbecoming". Jenny will be joined by debut teen author Liz Flanagan ("Eden Summer") and the evening will be hosted by author Phil Earle.
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February 13th Regular Board of Commissioners Meeting Highlights
#LSN_News
COOK COUNTY, MINNESOTA - February 13, 2018 – (LSN) Following are highlights and key priorities covered at the Tuesday, Feb. 13 Board of Commissioners Meeting:
1) Resident presented a letter encouraging more public comment in the Master Planning Process for the proposed City/County Sawtooth Bluffs Recreation Project development. The Arrowhead Regional Development Commission is facilitating a Master Planning Process in collaboration with Cook County Parks and Trails Commission and the City of Grand Marais. The primary considerations underlying the planning process for the 640 acres of public land which has been designated as an area of regional significance, are:
providing recreational access and management, and
conservation of unique resources
2) Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway Committee (GTSB) provided a summary of the history of the designation of the Gunflint Trail as both a State and National Scenic Byway, and reminded Commissioners of the primary objectives of:
maintaining the historic nature of the Byway by minimizing or reducing signage
selecting design elements for future projects that maintain historic character, and
reducing the spread of invasive species along the Byway.
3) A resident brought forward a concern related to data practices.
4) A resident near the end of the Gunflint Tail shared a MnDOT document as a possible reference for signage along the Gunflint Trail and throughout the County. https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/2014RIC20.pdf
The Consent Agenda was approved as presented. Consent agenda items are those items that are a part of the routine and continuing business of the County. Items that are eligible for the Consent Agenda follow current County Policy and are already included in the current budget.
MIS Department Update
Rena Rogers Director – MIS, presented an update of the Department’s operations and goals including Information Systems, GIS and Radio Communications and Towers.
Veteran Services Update
Pat Strand gave a year-end report and update on Cook County Veteran’s Services provided in the past year.
Community Center Lighting Upgrade
Diane Booth, Director – Community Center & Extension Services, brought a request to the Board to complete the updating of lighting in the Community Center at an estimated cost of $16,000.
Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Committee Request
Braidy Powers, County Auditor/Treasurer, brought a request from the Revolving Loan Fund Committee for a 20-year $70,000 RLF requested by Jeremy and Kate Keeble for the purchase and remodel of Hughie’s Tacos, contingent on primary bank financing and final review of their business pro forma.
Shared Highway Engineer Services Agreement
County Administrator Jeff Cadwell brought forward a Shared Services Agreement between Cook and Lake Counties for Professional Engineering Services to be provided by Krysten Foster, Lake County Engineer. The agreement is effective Feb. 14, 2018 – Dec. 31, 2019, and is renewable upon agreement of both parties. Cook County has been without an Engineer since July of 2017, when David Betts resigned to take another position. Cook County had previously contracted with Krysten Foster and Lake County to provide contracted engineering services for the oversight of the CSAH 7 construction project July thru October 2017. The Contract was approved unanimously. Commissioners Doo-Kirk and Deschamps were appointed to serve on the Joint Cook/Lake County Advisory Committee as identified in the contract.
Out of State Travel Policy
The Board reviewed the Out of State Travel Policy and the Board’s participation in National Association of Counties (NACO). The Board approved the Out of State Travel for Board Chair Storlie to attend the NACO Legislative Conference in March 2018, in Washington DC. Policy platform and Committee Assignments will be discussed further and identified in Commissioner Committee Assignments moving forward.
Full details of Board Meetings are available through video footage, Agendas and Minutes at www.co.cook.mn.us. County Board Meetings are open to the public.
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Warren to Hillary: No, You’re Not Hired.
Leave a Comment / The MLP Podium / By Ron Litchman
November 2012: Buffet endorses Hillary, “I hope it’s Hillary Clinton,” Buffett told CNN ” I think she’s extraordinarily able and energetic . . . in pushing [her] beliefs. . . .”
July 2016: “. . . Mr. Comey rebuked Mrs. Clinton as being “extremely careless” in using a private email address and server. He raised questions about her judgment, contradicted statements she has made about her email practices . . . and declared that a person still employed by the government . . . could have faced disciplinary action for doing what she did.”
Timeless Buffet:
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.
“And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.”
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Alfredo Gisholt
Oil canvases
Alfredo Gisholt. Studio Landscape II. 48 x 60 in. Oil on canvas. 2018
Alfredo Gisholt. Studio Landscape I. 48 x 60 in. Oil on canvas. 2018
Alfredo Gisholt. Canto II (Night Landscape). 72 x 84 in. Oil on canvas. 2018
Alfredo Gisholt. Canto (Night Studio). 72 x 84 in. Oil on canvas. 2017
Alfredo Gisholt was born in Mexico City on May 5, 1971. At the age of 17, Alfredo made a trip to europe for six months that awakened his passion and deep interest in art. In 1989, he joined Florida International University where he began his formal studies in painting. Two years later he left college briefly to return to Mexico. He joined the Academy of San Carlos, where he studied with Jose Salat and Jorge Chuey. During this period, from 1991 to 1994, he created the CCT (Tajín Cultural Center); alongside with Miguel Calderon, Fernando Ortega and Yoshua Okón, the CCT was an alternative space in which they organized exhibitions to show their work to the art community.
Given the informal nature of the exhibitions and artistic exploration of art that it promoted, the CCT began to have a major presence in the environment of young artists. Then the project became “La Panaderia” (The Bakery), a space that was crucial in Mexico in the 90!s for the promotion of conceptual art and other styles that were part of the mainstream at the time. However, for Gisholt, these new trends did not cover some aspects of art that where essential to him.
America insurrecta II. Oil on canvas, 60x72, 2014
Voy a vivir. Oil on canvas, 72x84, 2013
Vienen los Pajaros. Oil on canvas, 72x84, 2013
Study for Canto y Calaveras IV. Oil on canvas, 14x16, 2014
Study for Canto y Calaveras III. Oil on canvas, 2014
Study for Canto y Calaveras II. Oil on canvas, 14x16, 2014
Study for Canto y Calavera. Oil on canvas, 14x16, 2014
Los ríos acumulen. Oil on canvas, 84x96, 2014
Los Libertadores. Oil on vanvas, 72'x84', 2013
Clavier II. Oil on canvas, 48x60, 2014
Canto 1. Oil on canvas, 72x84, 2014
Calaveras I. Oil on canvas, 72'x84', 2014
Bajo la luna (a Miguel Hernandez). Oil on canvas, 72'x84', 2013
In search of intellectual and technical training in the craft of painting, in 1994 Gisholt returned to Florida to finish his degree in fine arts where he graduated in 1996. Then moved to Maynard, a small town in Massachusetts, where he set up a study with the aim of engaging and concentrating solely to painting. However, a year later Gisholt decided to enroll at Boston University, where he got the opportunity to study with John Walker, the English painter. For the next two years he painted in Boston and in 2000 he obtained a Masters in Fine Arts. That same year he moved to Venice for six months where he worked as a custodian of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection; during this period, he focused on the design and research of European art, mostly from the Venetian school style. Later, with the support of the Dedalus Foundation,Gisholt spent half a year traveling thru Spain visiting museums and creating artists’ books.
Finally in 2001, he returned to America where he was invited to be a professor at Boston University, teaching courses in the master’s program. Thus, he began his career as a professor, next to John Walker, Graham Campbell and Richard Ryan.
At the same time his career took on a new dimension as an artist with exhibitions in the United States and Mexico. In 2002, he traveled to London with the support of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. From 2004 to date, Gisholt serves as a professor of painting and printmaking at Brandeis University. Currently he has a studio in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he works in his large format works and pieces. He also collaborates making prints at Wingate Studio, a studio directed by the well known engraver, Peter Pettengill.
He has been awarded numerous grants from foundations of international prestige such as the George and Helen Segal, Dedalus, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and the Blanche E. Colman Foundation. Gisholt also received the Norman award, granted by the Brandeis University. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of the University of Maine, Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery at Purchase College in New York and the Mana Gallery in Mexico. He has participated in numerous exhibitions including the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Marist College, Denise Bibro Gallery in New York and the Nielsen Gallery in Boston.
Alfredo Gisholt. Untitled. Mixed media on paper, 60 x 65 inches, 2014
Alfredo Gisholt. Untitled. Mixed media on paper, 60x65, 2014
Alfredo Gisholt. Untitled. Mixed media on paper IV, 60x65, 2014
Untitled. Mixed media on paper IV, 60x65, 2014
Untitled. Mixed media on paper II, 60x65, 2014
Untitled. Mixed media on paper, 60 x 65 inches, 2014
2018 Within the Frame, Curated by Mariana Valdes, Forma 110, Houston, TX
2017 Recent Work, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2016 On Paper, Katy Contemporary Art Museum, Katy, TX
2015 Canto y Calavera, Houston Community College
Canto y Calavera, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 Canto General, CUE Art Foundation, New York
Ficción Particular, NM Contemporaneo, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Canto General, a suite of prints, University of Maine Museum of Art, ME
2011 Obra reciente, Recent work, Galeria Navarro Valdes, Valle de Bravo, Mexico
2010 Ceremonies of Mud, University of Maine Museum of Art, ME.
Barrancos de Escaleras, Recinto Project Room, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 La Romeria, Two Paintings and an Exhibition of Recent Work, Alfredo Gisholt and Sean Downey, The Lincoln Building, Waltham, MA
2004 Monks, Warriors and Revolutions, Alfredo Gisholt and Joel Werring, curated by Sergio Fernandez, The Richard and Dolly Maas Gallery, Purchase College (SUNY), Purchase, NY
2003 De la Luna al Pueblo, Espacio Arte Contemporáneo CBM, Mexico City México. Reforma (newspaper review) December 7th, 2003, Mexico City,
2002 Flowers for a Revolution, Alfredo Gisholt, George Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
Conversations in the Studio, Paintings by Alfredo Gisholt and Nadine Zanow, Fort Point Art Gallery, November, Boston, MA
2001 Tormentas e Interiores, Galería Mana, October, México City, México
1994 Recent Paintings, Centro Cultural Tajin, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Beyond, Curated by Michael Holden, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
High Rock Tower, Ess Ef Eff Curatorial Colective, Brooklyn, NY
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Silent Auction exhibition, Houston, TX
Recent Acquisitions, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2015 Colored Mud, curated by Kayla Mohammadi, Fenway Studios, Boston, MA
Paper Today, curated by Mariana Valdes, Houston Art Fair, Houston, TX
2014 Canto General – a suite of prints, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Sequence and Seriality, Calico, curated by Bartek Walicki, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Hung Jury, curated by Susan Metrican, Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Voces y Resonancias, NM Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
AG GA, Alfredo Gisholt and Alberto Gironella, Recinto Project Room, Mexico City,
2010 Mexican Masters, Galeria Navarro Valdes, Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Reunited, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 Tradition / Invention, 5 Emerging Artists, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2008 Winter Solstice, The Lincoln Building, Waltham, MA
2007 Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
The South Press Print Show, The Carillon Gallery, Forth Worth TX
On Paper: Prints by Contemporary Artists, Northern Essex Community College,
2006 Spot On, Exhibition by Brandeis Faculty, cRose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
2005 Boston Printmakers Biennale, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Award Winning Alumni, Group Show, George Sherman Gallery Boston University, Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 New Talent, Glassmountain Gallery, Bantam, CT
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
New Art Series, Massachusetts College of Art, March, Boston, MA
1999 Bon Fire, Boston University, October, Boston, MA
The New Romantics, Boston University, November, Boston, MA
2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Painting, finalist
2012 Norman Award, Brandeis University, Painting
2009 Blanche E. Colman Foundation Award, Painting
2006 Poses Grant for the completion of a Suite of Intaglio prints by the Brandeis Faculty at Wingate Studio, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2005 George and Helen Segal Foundation Fellowship, Painting
Norman Award, Painting Project, Brandeis University
Poses Grant for the execution of a Suite of Intaglio prints by the Brandeis Faculty at Wingate Studio, Brandeis University
2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship in Painting, New York, NY
2000 Dedalus Foundation, Painting Fellowship, New York, NY
1998 – 2000 Graduate Fellowship in Painting, Boston University
Publications and Writing
2018 Beer with a Painter: Alfredo Gisholt, Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic
2016 Blanca Gonzalez, Unity in Space, On Paper, catalogue essay
2015 Alfredo Gisholt, Inevntio magazine, UAEM publication. Featured artist.
2014 Alfredo Gisholt Canto General, Kara L. Rooney, The Brooklyn Rail, March
Conversation with Alfredo Gisholt, Interview by Brett Baker, Painter’s Table Blog
Where Imagination Resides: Alfredo Gisholt’s Canto General, Essay by Leah Triplett
2012 Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the art assignment, Edited by Paper Monument,Published 2012, Contributor
2010 Barrancos de Escaleras, Exhibition catalogue, Essays by Dushko Petrovich and Federico Marquez Padilla
Infinite Responses, State of the Arts magazine, Brandeis University
Miriam Medrez
Nacho Rodríguez Bach
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BAS Lab begins its first semester after renovation
Christa Adams | Contributing Writer 5 years ago
The Business and Aerospace University Computer lab underwent its first renovation since it was originally founded this summer, according to director Carlos Coronel.
Major changes to the lab include two spacious huddle rooms, upgraded seating and new wood flooring to replace the outdated carpet.
The lab now features a charging station for mobile devices including iPhones and iPads, as well as notebook-friendly lounge furniture. There is also a bar-style work surface in the center of the lab, which allows students to easily work from laptops instead of the desktop computers.
Another change to the lab is that students, unless they are entering the lab after 10 p.m., no longer have to scan their MTSU ID to gain access to the room.
“The remodeled lab creates a completely new look and feel, and I really like that about it,” said A.J. Netherland, junior mass communication student.
He also said he has yet to experience a wait since the renovation, when he had become accustomed to standing in lines for printing.
This is a renovation that the BAS faculty have wanted to implement for years, but the funds were not available until now, Coronel said.
Jenny Braman, a current MTSU graduate student in the computer information systems program, designed the lab using her previous experience as an architect.
As this is the lab’s first renovation, it is still undergoing a few changes. Because the lab is considerably used for printing, Coronel has requested to add the ability to print wirelessly within the lab. If permitted, this feature will particularly benefit students who prefer to work solely from their personal laptop or mobile device.
In addition, the staff is currently changing the old PCs to the Intel NUC, an ultra-compact powerhouse desktop. These will be attached to the back of each monitor, creating more space for students to work.
The lab also has a new set of hours to accompany the renovation. The lab, which was previously open 24 hours a day will be open 24 hours beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, closing at 10 p.m. on Friday nights. The lab will reopen from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Saturdays.
The BAS computer lab has always been a popular destination for students due to its generous hours and its ability to provide software for all academic disciplines, but Coronel believes this modernized renovation will result in even more students using the lab on a daily basis.
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March 2010 – All the News that Fits
March 30, 2010 Archived Issues, Archived NewsLeave a comment
by Thomas Day
Electrical News
In late November, Brammo and Best Buy dropped the price of the all-electric Enertia from $11,995 to $7,995. The price cuts were the result of “advances in engineering and production,” according to Craig Bramsher, the company’s founder and CEO. With the alternative energy vehicle federal tax credit the Brammo will cost you about $7,195.
Brammo was also in the news when Wired contributing editor, Mathew Honan, attempted to cross the country on the electric motorcycle in 25 days. However, the days he selected were in the middle of November and December. His blog tag line is, “One idiot, 3,800 miles, & an electric motorcycle with a 42-mile range. What could possibly go wrong?”
Honan had planned a fuel budget of $11.57 for the trip, based on Georgia Power rates for electricity. On November 21, he took off from Portland, OR and made it to Roseberg, OR before being hit from behind by a 20-year-old woman driving an Audi A4. He was riding in the rain, traveling a short section of I5, which was not in his plan for the trip due to the Brammo’s limited range at its 60mph top speed. The driver was charged with driving without a license and “improper lane change.” Honan is recovering and plans to keep on being an electric motorcyclist; avoiding night riding and busy interstate highways for a while.
On a macro-news level, IDTechEx produced an industry report, “Electric Vehicles 2010-2020,” that evaluates the economic future of electric vehicles in the world market. The report covers vehicles from heavy industrial to mobile robots, forecasting the trends for these vehicles and their economic impact. 90% of the world’s electric vehicles are manufactured in China, primarily for use in China. China mines and manufactures 95% of the materials used in hybrid car batteries, motors, and key control circuit electronics. By 2020, EV sales will increase 69% to 49 million units and amount to 60% of the total vehicle market. Even more important, the value of the EV market will outpace internal combustion engines in the next ten years.
Two Guys, One Desert Race
Radek Burkat (Pinkbike developer) and Andrew Krynen (mountain biker) take on the most dangerous race in the world, the Baja 1,000. Even better (for us), they filmed the race and put it on the web. The Road to Baja was inspired by Dana Brown’s Dust to Glory. “Just two regular guys going down to Mexico to race the Baja 1000” on a used KTM 525 and they produced a one hour documentary to prove they were there. In three episodes, the two riders and a cinematographer/friend Ambrose Weingart started documenting the preparation to the race in late 2008.
He’s Back!
Eric Buell lasted less than a month with the HD organization before leaving The Company to start his own motorcycle race shop. Buell announced that his company will provide “race-use-only Buell motorcycle parts and race preparation services for Buell® 1125R-based race-use-only motorcycles.” The new company will be based in East Troy, WI.
On-Road Motorcycles 41% Down
The industry’s magazine, Power Sports Business, reported that overall sales of motorcycles and scooters were down 41% with 360,000 lower unit sales for 2009. BMW was the least affected motorcycle manufacturer with a 22% sales decline. The sunshine states of North Carolina, California, Utah, and Oregon led the downturn with sales drops of 66.7%, 65.7%, and 64.1%. Like the housing boom, motorcycle dealerships are suffering the results of a burst bubble. Florida led the volume sales decline selling 17,500 fewer units in 2009 than the previous year. Power Sports speculated that a 30% dealer loss in California is “not out of the question.” Off-road motorcycle sales were down 33.2%.
HD on the Dole
HDFS, Harley’s financing arm, is one of the companies that accepted TALF (Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility) federal funds as part of the $562 million bailout government aid available late last year. The recession and high-risk loan strategies put HDFS deep into the red and the TALF funds are hoped to put a bandage on the company’s hemorrhaging bottom line. 2009 was a particularly bad year for HD, posting a full-year net loss of $55.1 million and a 23% drop in net revenues while closing operations for Buell Motorcycles and recent purchase MV Agusta.
Metzler’s Chicken Strip Gauge
The new Metzeler Sportec M5 Interact tire is a high-tech sportbike tire includes a “new lean indicator which offers riders visual confirmation of the maximum level of the tyre’s usage: riders can verify which of the 5-stage markings were contacted while riding.” Or, other riders can see how little of the tire is being used and determine the rider’s skill accordingly. Thanks for the heads-up, Richard.
A Convertible Motorcycle?
The new Panther (panthermotorcycle.com) build-a-bike design comes with a 6-year, 60,000 mile, fully transferable warranty. It’s impossible to describe this odd-looking motorcycle in a few hundred words, so I recommend you look for yourself. Its $37-82k price tag is in the usual custom motorcycle territory, but nothing else about the Panther is familiar.
Lead-Free Kids’ Toys
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously (5-0) last month to extend a stay of enforcement on testing and certification of many regulated children’s products, which includes youth model-motorcycles and ATVs. While enforcement of specific CPSC testing requirements has been stayed, the products must still comply with all applicable rules and bans.
Heavy Duty Theft
Well-equipped thieves ripped off a 4-ton statue outside of Timpanogos Harley-Davidson in Lindon, Utah. The police assume the thieves used a crane or back-hoe to haul away the $100,000 old-time speed racer sculpture. Theives also made off with the granite plinth..
Wally Szczech Retires
Wally Szczech retired at 80, after 40 years as a truck driver and 23 years with Twin Cities Motorcycle Escort. Wally’s last professional ride was a funeral procession from in St. Paul’s Eastern Heights Lutheran Church to a nearby cemetery. Wally is planning to retire riding around the country on his side-hack Goldwing with his dog. Go Wally!
AMA Motorcycle Legislation Alerts
A Pennsylvania bill would permit individuals to file complaints against owner/operators of noisy motor vehicles. A judge would issue a search warrant allowing the police “to inspect the motor vehicle and take appropriate action.”
A Missouri bill would “permit adults 21 years of age or older to make their own decisions regarding motorcycle helmet use.” Another Missouri bill would make “dangerous stunt” riding a misdemeanor for a first offence and a felony for subsequent offenders.
An administrative law judge has rescinded a BLM decision to open two OHV trails in the Mojave Desert. The decision upholds an appeal brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, which argued the plan to open two routes in the Rand Mountain Management Area of Kerns County was flawed.
The Twin Cities Trail Rider Dirt Bike club has submitted a Grant-In-Aid (GIA) with the DNR for money to maintain the trail system.Your comments to the DNR would be appreciated.
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Ridley and Harley Settle
Ridley Motorcycle Company and Harley-Davidson settled their lawsuit over the trade name “Auto-Glide.” Ridley has agreed to discontinue use of the Auto-Glide name, although the terms of the settlement won’t be disclosed to the public.
Minnesota Roads Safer in 2009
Minnesota: 2009’s preliminary traffic death count of 403 marks another significant drop in annual road fatalities, representing a eight percent drop from the 455 deaths in 2008. The state projects a final death number of around 420, which would be the fewest number of fatalities since 356 were reported in1944.
The preliminary 51 motorcyclist deaths represent a sharp decline (29 percent) from 72 rider deaths in 2008, which was a 24-year high. The drop in rider deaths is especially significant as ridership is at an all-time high.
The most critical stat to determine road safety is the death rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT). The Department of Public Safety estimates the 2009 VMT will be 0.75, which would be the lowest ever for Minnesota. In 2008, the state VMT fatality rate was 0.79 (less than one death per 100 million VMT) – among the lowest in the nation – and down from a rate of 5.52 in 1966.
The 403-fatality count includes motorists (298), motorcyclists (51); pedestrians (36), bicyclists (9), ATV riders (3), farm equipment operators (3), commercial bus passengers/drivers (2), and a road maintenance vehicle occupant. Distracted, impaired driving, not using a seat belt and speeding are expected to be the primary contributing factors of the 2009 fatal crashes and serious injuries.
Lucky 13?
The ACEM, the European Motorcycle Industry, ran a cartoon promotion called Lucky 13 for much of 2009 (http://www.acem.eu/cartoon/). Much of the program was an attempt to highlight roadway risk awareness. According to the ACEM, the cartoons “proved to be a useful tool for the training of young or unexperienced (sic) riders.” The Lucky 13 cartoon motorcycle character looks suspiciously idiotic. I wonder who that message is aimed at?
Polaris Buys swissauto
Polaris purchased swissauito Powersports for the Burgdorf, Switzerland company’s “expertise in designing and developing high-performance and high-efficiency engines and innovative vehicles.” Polaris has a history of working with swissauto; the four-stroke Weber engine used in several Polaris snowmobile is s swissauto design. The motorcycle component to the acquisition is apparent from swissauto’s successful history developing winning World Motorcycle GP engines.
“Swissauto has industry leading powertrain design and development capabilities and a strong understanding of turbo-charging and high-performance engines,” said Polaris Chief Executive Officer, Scott Wine. “This acquisition directly supports our stated objectives to be the best in powersports and a global market leader.”
Ducati in Uptown
This coming spring Ducati Minneapolis will open in the Lynlake Uptown district of Minneapolis in the historic Ekland Bros. bus manufacturing building (2800 Lyndale Avenue, Minneapolis). Silverback Performance will move from St. Paul to bring their personnel, reputation, and equipment to the new facility.
MSF and DoD Joint Venture
“DoD has engaged the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) to conduct four focus groups for the Defense Safety Oversight Council (DSOC) PMV Task Force.” The Department of Defense is hoping to identify effective and “aggressive countermeasures” to combat the rising number of motorcycle fatalities and injuries in the “dominant motorcycling culture in the military that is statistically at highest risk, primarily sport bike riders.”
2010 NHTSA Recalls
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March 2010 – From the Hip
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Prepare for our biggest exhibition ever!
Added THU, APR 5TH 2018
Referenced Programs:
Referenced Events:
The Pedrito Martinez Group
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band
Tell It! Move It!
Referenced Exhibitions:
Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light
Referenced Artists & Educators:
Bruce Munro
We are proud to announce that we will open a blockbuster exhibition on our grounds this fall: Bruce Munro at Montalvo: Stories in Light will be on view from October 28, 2018 - March 17, 2019.
Featuring 10 large-scale, light-based sculptures ranging from immersive to intimate, Stories in Light will utilize multi-hued waves, clusters, cascades, flocks, and seas of light, transforming our historic Villa and its extensive public areas into a breathtaking spectacle of illumination.
The works on view are inspired by Munros memories of reading CS Lewiss Chronicles of Narnia as a child (a series of books that had a profound impact on him), as well as other personal recollections and societys collective memories.
The exhibition will be the first time Munros work has been publicly on display on the West Coast, and it will represent the largest number of his works ever on view at a single venue. It is made possible, in part, through the generous support of The Valley Foundation.
Tickets will go on sale to the public in June. To learn more about this phenomenal exhibition, click the button below.
Cuban Beats, American Roots
Our diverse Carriage House Theatre Concert Series includes performances in a wide range of styles -- and this month is no different! You can experience an Afro-Cuban ensemble, then return the following week for some bluegrass-tinged American roots music.
The Pedrito Martinez Group (Friday, April 20 at 8pm) has been lauded as writing a new chapter in Cuban music history." Martinez is a world-class Afro-Cuban percussionist and Grammy-nominated singer and bandleader. He has recorded and performed with Paul Simon, Paquito DRivera, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting -- and he has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums. This exciting ensemble's live shows are not to be missed!
The Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band (Thursday, April 26 at 7:30pm) brings together five genre-busting artists who delight audiences with joyful music infused with folk, bluegrass, Americana, roots, swing, jazz, and the blues. Their sound is original, masterfully performed, and a pleasure to hear. Robinson has been described as "one of the freshest voices in roots music!"
Tell it! Move it! Don't miss it!
Join kinetic storytelling duo Eth-Noh-Tec on Monday, April 30 from 4-6pm for Tell It! Move It! -- a fun-filled evening that will get your creative juices flowing and take you from page to stage.
Whether you want to investigate different approaches to storytelling or you are a teacher who wants to use storytelling techniques in the classroom, this workshop is an excellent place to start. Together, we will explore the use of drama, creative group play, imaginative theater games, rhythm and musicality, and more. Have a favorite folk tale you wish to perform? Bring it along!
Space is limited, and tickets are just $15 -- so register today!
Take an ArtVenture to L.A.
Did you know that Montalvo donors receive invitations to our exclusive ArtVentures - local, national, and international trips to see art and meet artists? It's true! And we've got a great one scheduled for September 27-October 1 in Los Angeles.
Guests will spend a fabulous long weekend with us, partaking in the best that the L.A. art world has to offer: stops at the Marciano Foundation, LACMA, the Getty, the Broad, the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, the Geffen Contemporary, the ICA, the Huntington Library and Gardens, Blum & Poe, Honor Fraser, and the MAK Center for Art & Architecture -- plus visits to the studios of artists John Baldessari, Kenny Scharf, and Mark Bradford, dining in some of the finest restaurants in the area, luxury accommodations at a four-star hotel, and a chartered minibus throughout the trip.
If you'd like more information about how YOU can be invited to join in this or other future ArtVentures, contact our Development Director Emma Moon at 408-961-5841 or emoon@montalvoarts.org.
For questions or to order tickets over the phone, call the Box Office:
408-961-5858, Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm
Upcoming Events at a Glance:
Sun, April 8, 10:30am: Ikebana Everlasting
Sun, April 8, 3pm & 7pm: The Capitol Steps TWO SHOWS!
Sat, April 14, 8pm: Nils Lofgren SOLD OUT!
Tuesdays, April 17-May 22, 6pm: Wheel Form Ceramics SOLD OUT!
Fri, April 20, 8pm: The Pedrito Martinez Group
Thu, April 26, 7:30pm: Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band
Fri, April 27, 7pm: Open Access: Life Beyond Earth
By Appointment: Docent-Guided Villa & Grounds Tours
Now on sale: Summer Camps
Image Credits: NZ / Courtesy Bruce Munro / Courtesy Kenny Scharf
15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070
408-961-5858 montalvoarts.org
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Another look at the state of recycling
One part supply, one part demand.
Reducing contamination is largely considered the starting point for creating a more stable U.S. recycling market. And that means teaching consumers what they can and cannot put in recycling bins.
For example, a triangle with a number on the bottom of a plastic container does not automatically mean it’s recyclable. Nos. 1, 2 and 5 are widely accepted in recycling programs across the country. Garden hoses and plastic bags, which can get tangled in sorting equipment, are always prohibited. Food-stained cardboard boxes are considered contamination, too.
“If our customers are saying, ‘Hey, how can I help out the economics of my current program?’ The No. 1 thing they can do is get the contamination rate down lower,” Bell said.
Waste Management is investing in machinery to better reduce contamination. Optical sorters, for instance, can identify a specific material and then use gusts of air to separate that material from the pack.
Once the sorting process is improved, the materials will need more places to go.
Large household brands are helping create these markets. PepsiCo, for instance, announced in October that it’s seeking to use 25 percent recycled content in its plastic packaging by 2025. This goal builds upon previously announced goals such as designing 100 percent of its packaging to be recyclable, compostable or biodegradable.
Such policies pressure suppliers to incorporate recycled materials if they want to keep or win that company’s business. But more brands need to take similar steps if the United States is to find uses for all the materials recycled by neighborhoods, job sites and businesses.
“There is a lot of supply and there’s not a lot of demand for the material,” said Bell of Waste Management. “We’ve got to make sure the materials that people intend to recycle every day, that we’ve got a demand for that.”
The demand for plastic pellets made from recycled materials already is robust, said Robin Waters, director of plastics planning and analysis for the research firm IHS Markit. But equipment for collecting and sorting waste needs extensive upgrades to provide the high-quality used plastic fit for making plastic resins.
Other countries are addressing this, in part, with a policy called Extended Producer Responsibility. This policy requires companies creating consumer products to pay fees for the plastic products and packaging they produce. The money collected from companies goes toward things such as upgrading recycling equipment and processing plants.
Ultimately, the fees provide incentives for companies to use less plastic, different materials or more recycled materials.
“It’s a concept that hasn’t really hit the U.S.,” Waters said, “but it will be here in five to 10 years.”
See here for some background. We need to do a lot more to reduce the amount of waste plastic. It’s going to take investment in public education and recycling infrastructure. Should have done this a long time ago, but given that we haven’t we better get started on it now.
The recycling recession
Do we still want to go to Mars?
Revitalizing recycling
Posted in: Technology, science, and math.
Tagged: China · plastics · recycling
← Dan Patrick declares victory on the bathroom bill House firms up harassment rules →
Manny Barrera says:
Trump and the Republicans have set back the block at least 10 years when it comes to taking care of the planet.
If they ever build a wall they may find that it will be that it is to keep the crazy gringos out of Mexico.
What Mexico does with the bottles, https://www.washingtonpost.com/brand-studio/the-coca-cola-company/what-if-plastic-never-became-waste/
Howabout the citizens of South Texas and Northern Mexico band together and donate our plastic waste to a McAllen company that’ll take said product, melt it down and reform it into 8x8x16″ blocks (with injected resins or aggregate or ground up Budweiser cans or whatever)… then give these pallets and pallets and pallets of plastic ‘cinder’ blocks to the soldiers returning from Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan and have them start construction of that wall/not really a wall ?
#KillingTwoBirdsWithOneStone
Bill Daniels says:
https://www.click2houston.com/news/trash-troubles-council-passes-5m-plan-to-remedy-pick-up-problems
City of Houston hires private contractor to deal with the recycling debacle.
Manny,
Do you want to save the planet? Do you really? Then build the wall and keep Third World people in the Third World. If people come here, their carbon footprint gets much bigger, as they consume more resources….more electricity, more gasoline, more plastic, more of everything.
They need to shelter in place where they are at, where they consume less and thus contribute less to climate change.
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Thomas More Institute
for a more informed ethical engagement in public and professional life
Science, Philosophy, and Religion in the Embryo Debate (Audio)
Science, Philosophy, and Religion in the Embryo Debate - Robert George
Professor Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, delivers the Anscombe Memorial Lecture for 2011 at St John's College in Oxford.
© The Anscombe Bioethics Centre.
A Blog for All Seasons
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Ethics in Public Life
Ethics in Corporate Life
Man and Society
Understanding Science
Law, Ethics, and Society Discussion Group
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Students Project on Citizenship
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Metaphysics, Ontology and the Science-Religion Debate
Thomas More Memorial Lecture
‘Dangerous Schools for Boys’: Winning Hearts and Minds - May 2012
The Thomas More Institute seeks to promote discourse on issues of importance, while remaining independent of particular opinions and approaches. The views expressed in seminar papers, and in contributions to the discussions which follow them, are the sole responsibility of the persons concerned, and not to be regarded as the corporate view of the Institute or of any employer or body to which they may belong.
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Carl ORFF (1895-1982)
Carmina Burana [58:05]
Die Kluge (highlights) [17:50]
Janice Harsanyi (soprano), Rudolph Petrak (tenor), Harve Presnell (baritone)
Rutgers University Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy
Philharmonia Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Die Kluge)
rec. ADD, stereo, 1960/1
ALTO ALC 1219 [75:45]
Ormandy’s Carmina Burana and Catulli Carmina were highly thought of when first issued and have reappeared on Sony Essential Classics. The praise that has come their way is no surprise. After all, the only downside to Ormandy’s Walton Belshazzar’s Feast (review) is that Rutgers University Choir – the same choir used here - sounds singer-depleted and lacks oomph. Otherwise it’s a redoubtable version.
The choir in the case of the present disc sounds more than sufficiently full voiced. What’s more they have been drilled to enunciating perfection in this virtuoso work. Listen to the way they peck out the words of the Ecce Gratium with teeth biting down into the bone. There’s the most agreeable savagery about the singing of Were diu werkt alle min and Quando sumus. They are fully equal to the tongue twisting of Si Puer cum puellula.
As for the excerpts from Die Kluge these do not survive the translation from vinyl to digital quite as well as the Ormandy tracks. I noted some distortion at the start of the knees-up that is Als die treue ward geboren. Still, it is lovely to hear Paul Kuen, Hermann Prey and Gustav Neidlinger. The rhythmic pepper to be heard in these 18 minutes of music confirms the affinity here with Carmina Burana. If you like one you will like the other and broaden your horizons into the bargain.
There are no words but the track-listing is very full. The notes are by James Murray. He even goes to the trouble to provide decent mini-profiles of every one of the singers and of the two conductors.
The Carmina Burana recording wears its fifty years lightly and still sounds very good indeed - well equal to the demands of what is an elite performance.
Classic Carmina Burana from Ormandy and a gentle introduction to Die Kluge.
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James Thomas Franklin
Place: Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
James, bricklayer, and Catherine Wroot Elston
Married 13 October 1877, St Pauls Church, Sydney, New South Wales to Alice Mabel George (born circa 1858), daughter of William, carrier, and Sarah Ann Anguish
Children: three sons and six daughters
Widowed 13 April 1932
Place: Perth, Western Australia
1870 entered building trade in Sydney
Builder and contractor in partnership with James Finlay
Owned Enterprise Steam Joinery and timber mill at Keysbrook
Perth Municipal Council 1904
Perth City Council 1905–1923
Mayor of Perth 1923–1929
Lord Mayor 1929–1930, 1932–1934
Liberal then National from 1917
Search for speeches by James Franklin
MLC Metropolitan Province 22 May 1928–21 May 1940
Defeated at 1934 election by James George, but latter unseated on petition and on 21 November 1934 Franklin was declared as from May 1934
Contested North Perth 11 September 1908, 3 October 1911, East Perth 18 November 1922 (by-election), Metropolitan–Suburban Province 10 May 1924, 8 May 1926, Metropolitan Province 11 May 1940
Arrived New South Wales with parents 1856
David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930, Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 76.
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WalMart Pulls T-Shirt Advocating For Journalist Lynchings
It was just a little over four months ago that Walmart was very, very embarrassed to discover they had a horrible racist listing for a "n*gger brown" wig cap. When the listing was pointed out to them, Walmart pulled the product and apologized.
But then someone listed the T-shirt pictured below, which calls for the lynching of journalists as sort of a snarky jokey thing.
And once again, Walmart has pulled the product and apologized. Teespring, the third-party seller, also removed it from their website.
The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) said Walmart notified it about five hours after its complaint that the shirt was being removed.
"It is our belief that at the least, T-shirts or any other items bearing such words simply inflame the passions of those who either don't like, or don't understand, the news media," Dan Shelley, executive director of the RTDNA, said in a to Walmart leaders. "At worst, they openly encourage violence targeting journalists. We believe they are particularly inflammatory within the context of today's vitriolic political and ideological environment.
"This item was sold by a third-party seller on our marketplace and clearly violates our policy," Walmart said in a statement. "We removed it as soon as it was brought to our attention, and are conducting a thorough review of the seller's assortment."
We note the absence of an apology.
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User:The Woodburninator/YouveGotMail
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UnSignpost 20th August, it's not late, your mom is![edit]
The Uncyclopedia UnSignpost
The Newspaper that WILL win Zombiebaron back, damn it.
Date August 20th, 2009 • Issue 61 • Where no news is normal news
Fantasy Football Draft Finished
By Guildensternenstein
After four weeks of red-hot eight-man free fantasy football league draft action, the first Uncyclopedia Fantasy Football League (UFFL) Draft is finally at a close: Uncyclopedia regular and DiBiase's Millions general manager The Woodburninator made Arizona Cardinals' Kicker Neil Rackers Mr. Irrelevant on the afternoon of August 21th, 2009, a mere 26 hours after the previous pick had been made. Afterward, League Commissioner and noted Nazi sympathizer Guildensternenstein promised to make all subsequent Uncyclopedia Fantasy Football League official actions run much more smoothly. He vowed he would "put the drafted players on their respective fantasy teams" at some point "after I'm done writing this story for the UnSignpost and before I go see Inglorious Bastards later tonight."
The draft itself was varied, and picks ranged from the predictable (Vikings' running back Adrian Peterson taken first overall) to the even more predictable (Falcons' running back Michael Turner taken with second overall pick) to the fairly predictable (Drew Brees, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady being the first three quarterbacks taken) to the downright wild. Notable steals include Guildy's nabbing of Chris Johnson in Round 5, Woody's snagging of Aaron Rodgers in Round 6, and Bradaphraser's criminal steal of Dallas tight end Jason Witten. For every good pick, there was a bad one, however: in moves that would make Al Davis proud, LongLiverh3 took Philadelphia's No. 3 receiver while their No. 1 and No. 2 receivers were still on the board, made 30th ranked tight end L.J. Smith the second overall tight end picked, and made Baltimore QB Joe Flacco his backup quarter back while the likes of Matt Schaub, Jay Cutler, Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning were still available. LongLiver could not be reached for comment.
New UnSignpost Editor already having trouble filling up space; Falls upon pointless gimmicks, self-references, long article titles to fill void
By The Woodburninator
In a move that has surprised literally 0% of the Uncyclopedia UnSignpost community, the newest UnSignpost editor has already hit a wall in trying to think up new articles for the post. Well, that's not actually true. First he wrote a story trying to beg Zombiebaron to re-subscribe for the post. Then he actually looked at Zombiebaron's userpage to find out that he was actually leaving the site. Needless to say, the presses were called back, and more writing had to be done. Namely, this.
Now, we at the post already know what you are thinking. But, since putting those things into print is outlawed in 36 states, two Canadian provinces, and all of Lithuania, we will instead reference the fact that there have been an awful lot of self-referencing in the UnSignpost lately. For that we are truly sorry. Also, we are sorry for self-referencing our own self-referencing. It is truly a problem that continues to build upon itself. We hope to soon continue with the top notch reporting that is so often found in our hallowed archives. Such as the time we wrote about Spang's village dump conquests, or the time we self-referenced how the UnSignpost's lovable mascot, "Dognewspaper" had not been in the Unsignpost for over nine months. Or that time we wrote about the Fantasy Football Draft being finished. Yes, all of those times were good. And we plan - nae, promise - to, in the very near future, continue bringing those kinds of articles to your doorstep. That is, if you don't mind finding a bit of drool upon it.
Check out these pages!
Merging with Wikipedia? Certainly not!
YOU ARE NOT THINKERER!
The sausage fest just got more sausagey.
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10:55, 18 August 2009 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked Under user (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 18 days (so you let me look like an ignorant baffoon for 18 days? What kind of SLA is that?)
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Biopic of the Week
The man from straight out of Kiel, Germany, NaturalBornKieler has been a tremendous addition to Uncyclopedia since joining in June, 2007. While he has had no issues splitting his time between both Uncyclopedia, and the German Uncyclopedia, he has, for some reason, written 10 more features, and some 100 more articles for the German Uncyclopedia than for our beautiful English side. Still, it seems he has found his calling now, working in the big bureaucracy of the Foreign Office. NBK was unable to be reached for comment, as he was unable to get the proper approval from his superiors to be interviewed by a newspaper. Ahhhh. Bureaucracy at work.
Old School Featured Article of the Week
The War of 1812, also known as "The War Nobody Wanted to Name", was a ridiculously embarrassing conflict fought between the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Antarctica. Everybody lost.
Coping with adolescence and struggling to maintain its identity during the Napoleonic Wars, the United States looked to its mother country for guidance. But England, a single parent with a host of colonies to look after, had little time to spend with its gawky young child. Hoping to impose some sort of discipline over its increasingly sullen ward, England resorted to a 10 p.m. curfew.
Old School Old School Box of the Week
Forgotten and so-short-it-possibly-ought-to-be-a-template page of the week
Tact: You know, maybe you should look into plastic surgery.
Judges Wanted!
The next PLS is impending, and the are still judging slots unfilled. Modusoperandi is looking for users who are opinionated, who think that those opinions matter, and who want to give the benefit of those opinions to many in the form of passing judgement on articles. Enjoy the temporary sensation of power! Impress your friends! Alienate those whose articles you don't favour! Sign up now!
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UnSignpost 4th September[edit]
The newspaper that missed an issue and no-one even noticed.
Date September something-or-other, 2009 • Issue 63 • Nobody reads this bit anyway
Left alone to write the entire UnSignpost, Ape delivers sub-par, mostly self-referential issue
By An Ape that Only Exists on Thursdays
"What happened to the signpost?" was the question on literally nobody's lips this week, as Uncyclopedia's favourite newspaper which everyone loves to read but no-one can be bothered to write for took another step on the long slow descent to obscurity. Unfortunately Fortunately, Uncyclopedia's premier Ape-based entertainer, and occasional UnSignpost writer, An Ape that Only Exists on Thursdays heroically stepped into the breach to save the flagging newsrag from going the way of the dodo, the Irish Elk, and Mhaille's marriage.
However, our intrepid hero, i.e. me, soon discovered the enormity of the task that lay ahead of him. Boxes had to be filled, interesting and thought-provoking forums had to be discovered and linked to, block logs had to be accessed and trawled for witty comments (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) and this article and presumably another one below it had to be written.
"I never thought it could be this hard," Ape told himself, with sexual innuendo very much intended. "How did Gerrycheevers keep finding stuff to write about? There doesn't really seem to be much happening around here. I mean, I could start whoring my newest articles under the flimsy guise of self-referential irony, but that would be shit really. Who wants to see that? Nobody, that's who."
However, in the absence of anything funny or clever to say, our hero, (who is gradually being revealed to be more of an anti-hero, like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, except with no sense of style) proceeded to do exactly that, shamelessly whoring two articles (which, if anything, evince his decline as a comedy writer), eliciting a universal chorus of groans and boos from all who had the misfortune to read it.
An appeal to the Uncyclopedia community
Seriously guys, if you don't want any more shitty issues like this I'm going to need help, or else the signpost is going to die like all the other well-intentioned projects that nobody bothers with. What we need is:
People to do interesting stuff that I can write about.
People to contribute to the signpost.
Fabulous prizes.
Does anyone think we should fuck up Pee Review?
Hyperbole fails to understand UN:N
The FBI are pedos?
23:23, September 1, 2009 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 70.81.7.211 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (THat FAG JUST WOULDN`T STOP SUCKING MY COCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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08:32, September 2, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked Mordillo (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of a minor existential crisis (wait, so we DON'T care about people's gay friends? but I thought that was the whole POINT. what's the use in anything any more? I'm so disillusioned)
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Can't be fucked with this.
Pot v. Kettle was a landmark case in USA history, giving people the right to make hypocritical statements without fear of retribution. It began as a civil rights case, as Kettle alleged that Pot "did not let [Kettle] work at the Pot's store solely for the color of [his] kitchenware". What made this Supreme Court case unique was the fact that the Pot himself was black, as was the Kettle.
Nostalgia Box
Remember when Gerry was here? Things were so much better back then.
-- Soldat Teh PWNerator (pwnt!) 16:47, September 4, 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost Randomber 16th[edit]
The only newspaper that Codeine's mum has randomized
Date August 27th, 2009: THE RANDOM ISSUE • Issue 62 • Because the truth is not random enough
Random Headline
By No one in particular
At 4:23 PM, glycerins pwned magma. While dog house was cruising, a sacrifice suddenly legislated. In case of fire, do not use elevators... Use water. Hillary Clinton vitiates raid! Bishop worships an operating system! NINTENDOGS' MUGABE IS ACTUALLY WHITE'! Nine times out of ten, lion worships ladles!
Did the welder urinate...
...that Jimmy Joe Joober (age 6) from Little Rock, AR, holds the record for catching the biggest fish ever lied about, weighing in at a jillion million babillion pounds?
Absolutely not, recollects Extreme Sarcasm Resistance longbow baseball genderqueer Casey Scanlon navigates could Melissa Fry couldn't 1984 fondue fork cakes Stamina Belarus Xamralco ham flaming biological secret quantum-blaster that shoots grenades<choose> <option weight="25"></option> <option> plus Poo Lit Prize.
lawlz!!11!one
Babe Ruth was a total Bitch!
Look, I'm not saying he wasn't good at baseball! I'm not trying to destroy your great baseball heroes. But let's not kid ourselves here. Babe Ruth was a complete and total bitch. Come on. He couldn't catch the ball. And he whined at the umpires when people called him fat (even though he totally was). And he always talked about how much his feelings were hurt by people trying to buy him a beer.
Signpost Has Gone Officially Bat fuck Insane
By Bad Shroom
Due to frequent lack of interest and excitement, this UnSignpost issue has now gone totally insa-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Genital wart in the left politician! BOMB IRAN! HEIL CAJEK! Ministry of Plenty. Vareen.
Random articles of the week
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19:51, September 3, 2009 TheLedBalloon blocked 91.106.217.157 with an expiry time of 1 week (I agree, File:Deletion icon.svg is totally racist and should be deleted. Talk:Black People, on the other hand, I'm pretty much fine with.)
09:47, August 30, 2009 Mordillo protected "WP:HOTCAT" [edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite) (there, no more redlinks) (hist)
10:22, August 22, 2009 Thekillerfroggy blocked Miley Spears with an expiry time of Judgement Day (pointlessly productive, dedicated user)
Random Biopic of the Week
The man, the myth, the user not many people really know. Random pipings was an active user way back in March 2006. Sure, he only had 46 edits. Sure, during his heyday in March, 2006 he only had 32 edits, which most of our more accomplished users can rack up in half an hour. And yes, only 3 of his 6 articles are still around, including the critically acclaimed Health. But, in spite of all that, he has a place in our great wiki here. Because even though he's not around, and his articles are not beloved, everyone can find a niche here, and that's exactly what Random pipings has done. I mean, how many other great men could have made a "Your mom", "Oscar Wilde", and "David Hasslehoff" joke in one fell swoop? Not many I say, and for that, Random pipings, we salute you. Here's to the little guy. Huzzah!
#5EBD73 box
Eat that, cunt fuckers! Random colour! Hahaha!
In other words, please think of the laid to rest lockpicks! —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY 16:23, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost September 10/17[edit]
Uncyclopedia:UnSignpost/17-09-09 This would've gotten here last week, but it's my firs week as paperboy and I got lost. —Unführer Guildy Ritter von Guildensternenstein 23:56, September 22, 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost: September 24th, 2009[edit]
The Newspaper That Replaces Analysis With Flashy Graphics!
September 24th, 2009 • Issue 65 • The Newspaper that Oscar Wilde Might Read Were He Still Among the Living
UnSignpost Subscriber List Trimmed; Remaining Subscribers Urged to Archive Issues, Settle Outstanding Bills, Refrain from Tipping Paperbots
By Gerrycheevers
This week, the hideously long UnSignpost subscription list was hacked down even further than The Woodburninator and others apparently hacked it down several months ago. This has resulted in a mass decline in the number of useless edits performed by paperbots and brave, bored souls who have nothing better to do than manually edit dozens of userpages on a weekly basis. The dregs that were cast off included those who have not registered an edit in six months, those who are permanently banned or close to it, and those with large, scary dogs that prevent paperbots from completing their routes unchewed.
The remaining faithful readers are asked to archive their talk pages if they are excessively long due to many hilarious editions of the UnSignpost, as paperbots are slowed down by the large load times of such pages, and paper-delivering users are likely to be distracted by uproarious back issues. Subscribers are also reminded that the monthly fee for talkpage delivery is seven Uncyclopedia credits. Extremely outdated Uncyclopedia currency, such as Yoinxx, will be subject to exceedingly unfair conversion rates. On a final note, readers are implored to avoid tipping paperbots, as it seems any sort of regular income tends to give robots inklings of sentience, and the last thing we need is Fnoodle organizing the paperbots into a rudimentary union again.
UFFL Update
It was another exciting week of UFFL action this past Sunday, with 75% of the league’s games qualifying as “blowouts.” Sternensteinenstine bested DiBiase’s Millions 161.54 to 78.94, with the one-two Nazi punch of Drew Brees and Chris Johnson outscoring their helpless opponents alone. The John Curry All Stars had similar success with the Philip Rivers-Marques Colston-Frank Gore combination, and knocked out Cheddar’s Doritians 123.74 to 71.64 in the fourth round. The bout between Domestic Team Name and Oklahoma City Storm went the distance, with Domestic “Team” Name coming away with the split decision 78.14 to 77.28. Finally, Frankreich “The Dude” Zappino demolished his opponent 126.42 to 0.00 in a spectacular first round knockout due to the fact that LL was once again unable to select his starting roster.
Standings:
Sternensteinenstienenstern (2-0)
The Stoners (2-0)
John Curry’s Angles (2-0)
Domestic Violence (2-0)
Sun Chips (0-2)
Oklahoma City Bombing (0-2)
DeGrasse Goes to Vegas (0-2)
The Loserz (0-2)
The Pay-Per-View Event of the Fortnight!
Here. Have a page with so many pictures, it takes forever to load. You're welcome.
Urination, small furry rodents, and why Modus has another court date Tuesday.
16:19, September 20, 2009 Modusoperandi (Talk | contribs) blocked 212.235.107.11 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (Stop being a pain in my tender place)
18:52, September 21, 2009 TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) blocked Arse bandit (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 6 months (Your ban time is six months. I'll give you 10 dollars if you can hold your breath the entire time.)
14:53, September 22, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 76.17.99.136 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (oi, no blanking, no stupid redirecting, no crappy pages about people we don't care about, and no ugly nerds. you fail on all counts.)
11:57, September 24, 2009 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked Abdul321 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 week (Lebanon is a little Kiosk between Israel and Syria. Get over it.)
Bouncing back and forth between Uncyclopedia and Illogicopedia has been Hindleyite's specialty for some time now. With his in-depth reports on traffic laws, street crime, and sports officiating video games, this banana-eating ite from Hindley is sure to keep Uncyclopedians on their toes for a long time to come.
Henchmen are an essential part of any mastermind super-villian's overall business portfolio. Generally, success in plans of world domination, protagonist death, and damsel distress have success ratios directly correlated to the number, competence, and, to a lesser extent, wardrobe snappiness of a bad guy's henchmen.
Pointless Nostalgia of the Week
We miss when Cajek and Skull would write for the UnSignpost. Those 4+ issues they churned out were golden. You'd be reading and then - all of a sudden - WHAM, a joke would hit you, and Cajek would be all like, "oh my god, it was so dark, and i didn't see him, and he just jumped out in front of me!"
Really Small Box That Takes Up Just Enough Space To Even Out Both Sides of This Issue of the UnSignpost of the Week, Because Symmetry Looks Nice
Believe it or not, the one above this one.
Hand delivered by Pleb CUN KUN Dexter111344 • Complain here • Vote now! 16:17, September 26, 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost: October 1st, 2009[edit]
The Periodical That Is Too Sexy For Its Shirt, Among Other Things
October 1st, 2009 • Issue 66• Now With 40% More Pictures of Cats with Humorous Captions!
Users Turn to PLS to Rescue Uncyclopedia from Decay, Doom, Worstness
The Eighth Semi-Annual Poo Lit Surprise Writing Competition & Brownie Bake-Off begins this Monday, October 5th when Olipro emerges from his house. If he is frightened by his shadow, writers are required to send him love letters; otherwise, writers have two weeks to squeeze all of the humor they can out of their mostly insignificant humor glands. This year's categories include Best Article, Best Illustrated Article, Best Kanye Joke, and Best Rewrite. The list of judges includes both esteemed Uncyclopedia veterans and former PLS winners; they will be sequestered in a two-star hotel for the duration of the competition in order to ensure the most convenient environment for receiving bribes.
This year's PLS Master of Ceremonies and Executive in Charge of Parking, Modusoperandi, humbly expressed optimism when asked about the quality of this installment: "This Poo Lit will be the Greatest PLS ever," said Mr. Operandi exclusively. "Anyone who says otherwise is as much of a liar as they are dumb, and they are plenty dumb. Ergo, they are also plenty liar. That made more sense in my head." Other users, who wished to remain anonymous since they regularly read the unflattering commentary often associated with being quoted in the UnSignpost, expressed hope that the PLS would revive the life-support-laden VFH and also stimulate the lagging Uncyclopedia economy.
Users Agree: 'Uncyclopedia is the Boringest'
This week, Uncyclopedia users denounced the recent lack of activity on the wiki. Necropaxx initiated the conversation, noting that activity on VFH, similar to the pants of the 'hip' crowd, has dropped to unacceptably low levels. Other users have responded, and the general consensus does indeed seem to be that overall, the site's quality has dropped below acceptable levels. Not since June '07, November '07, February '08, August '08, December '08, March '09, and May '09 has Uncyclopedia seen such a blatant claim that the entire website will imminently burst into a ball of some sort, with 'flame' being the most likely sort of ball.
Trusted UnSignpost undercover investigative reporter, DogNewspaper (pictured), infiltrated one such group of doom-saying users in order to obtain some first-hand declarations of the impending death throes of the wiki. "Yeah, with the number of quality articles readily available, I'd give Uncyclopedia two months at the most until it is absorbed into another humor website," said one user. Further commentary from this group of users was unavailable, as undercover investigative reporter DogNewspaper's cover was at this point compromised, as his unwavering loyalty to Uncyclopedia caused him to seize the infidel user's lower leg in his mouth and shake his head viciously. Please stay with the UnSignpost for up-to-the-week coverage of the impending(?) death of Uncyclopedia.
Features and Self-Loathing on Uncyclopedia
An all-time Uncyclopedia mystery explained in agonzing detail
Get your monthly dose of religious oppression!
17:54, September 27, 2009 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked 92.233.10.123 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 month (Under Uncyclopedia emergency act (1976) I hereby revoke your editing priveleges)
20:55, September 27, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 58.166.95.119 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (only two kinds blank Texas: steers and queers. and steers find it hard to use the internet so I guess that narrows things down a little, doesn't it?)
21:42, September 29, 2009 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 91.203.96.48 (Talk) with an expiry time of Judgement Day (Hates me for some reason. Even though I happen to be the nicest man who ever lived. It's true, ask Richard Nixon.)
Since exploding onto the Uncyclopedia scene in 2007, MacMania has developed into a fine-tuned humor machine. His recent writing endeavors have earned him a Writer of the Month nod, and as such, he is certainly a user worthy of biopication. His current sabbatical makes UnSignpost editors sad, but perhaps a constant spamming of his userpage with pleas to return will accelerate his comeback. UnSignpost readers, away!
Old School Featured Article
I Can't Believe it's Not Murder is the preferred alternative of first degree murder that celebrities, famous sports stars, politicians, and otherwise prominent individuals take advantage of in courts of law. It is similar to being found guilty of first degree murder, though this version avoids the undesirable consequences such as jail time, fines, probation, and the unsightly community service.
Random Thought of the Week
Dippin' Dots have been the ice cream of the future for like ten years. Shouldn't they be the ice cream of the present by now?
Late deliver courtesy of Pleb CUN KUN Dexter111344 • Complain here • Vote now! 20:18, October 5, 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost Sometime October 2009[edit]
The Newspaper That Openly Admits Its Liberal And Conservative Biases!
October 8th, 2009 • Issue 67• Good things come to those who wait. So does the UnSignpost.
The End is Nigh... Once Again
By The Sockinator
Yes, it's that time of the year again. Despite the hopes of many, Poo Lit Surprise did not instantly revive Uncyclopedia. We are doomed! DOOMED! But how did the great Uncyclopedia become such a wasteland, one may ask. It's all a big conspiracy, I tell you! All perpetrated by a mysterious figure, known only by the initials R.L. Perseveringly, this entity has claimed the lives of various Uncyclopedians, among them such users as SysRq, Cajek, YesTimeToEdit, Siddhartha-Wolf and most recently it seems R.L. has even gotten its grips on our own UnSignpost editor Gerrycheevers. When confronted with the issue, noted favourite Jew and Zionist ruler Mordillo barely managed to exclusively tell us the following "I tell you Socky, I'd be happy to comment about our IMPENDING DOOM but I'm too busy packing. Another time maybe? HEY! MOTHERFUCKER! EASY WITH THE VASE! THAT'S FRAGILE! Sorry Sock, gotta scram, the movers are breaking my stuff. NO! DROP THAT BAN HAMMER! DROP IT I SAID!" Expert in things that suck (no pun intended), Optimuschris, was quoted saying "Uncyclopedia hasn't been cool since 08. Ban 09's." In conclusion, UN:N.
The previous two weeks of the UFFL action have been filled with more intrigue than a mediocre James Bond movie. Two touchdownless games by Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees cost Sternensteinenstine a win Week 3, though the team rebounded Week 4 and currently holds a solid second-place standing in the hyper-competitive UFFL. A resurgent Tom Brady and a balanced roster has led Domestic Team Name to two wins over the same period, as well as an unblemished 4-0 record. The Dudes’ neglect to change their starting roster cost them a win in Week 4, knocking the former top dogs down to a less-than-remarkable 4th place. The John Curry All-Stars have been hampered by the loss of Frank Gore, and lost last week to a rejuvenated Dibiase’s Millions that were led by a solid Aaron Rodgers-Matt Forte NFC North attack. A soft schedule has helped Oklahoma City Storm to a respectable 2-2 record, while the winless Doritians continue to struggle. Finally, The Winnerz put up mounds of points as Peyton Manning passed his way to his fourth consecutive 300-yard game…or at least would have if The Winnerz could figure out how to log in to Yahoo! and edit their roster.
In a look ahead to next week’s games, Sternensteinenstine and the John Curry All-Stars will have to overcome bye weeks for both their starting quarterbacks to maintain their positions near the top of the league as they face off; Oklahoma City Storm looks to earn an easy win against a bye-week-ravaged Dibiase’s Millions; The Dudes seek redemption as they attempt to reclaim their No. 1 position against the undefeated Domestic Team Name; and the league’s bottom-dwelling, shit-eating, dog-fucking last-placers The Winnerz and Cheddar’s Doritians both search for their first wins of the season.
Domestic Team Name (4-0)
Sternensteinenstine (3-1)
John Curry All-Stars (3-1)
The Dudes (3-1)
Oklahoma City Storm (2-2)
Dibiase’s Millions (1-3)
Cheddar’s Doritians (0-4)
The Winnerz (0-4)
Whatever you do, don't check out these pages!
Polls, sexiness, and advertisements
Terrifying stories of the one-armed man!
Pointless numbers
08:02, October 5, 2009 Under user blocked RAHB with an expiry time of 123 seconds (surprising me by returning like that: my doctor says surprises are bad for other people's hearts - because every time I get surprised, I eat someone's heart.)
10:48, October 13, 2009 RAHB blocked Dwarfman1122 with an expiry time of 2 weeks (Thought you wouldn't be caught, eh? Maybe now you'll think twice the next time you vandalize and then wait three weeks to be banned.)
04:46, October 11, 2009 Modusoperandi blocked 75.47.155.133 with an expiry time of 1 week (I'd give you a longer ban, but you were only picking on Roman Dog Bird)
The sentient computer HAL 9000, while having only very few contributions on Uncyclopedia—and of a rather questionable nature at that, if I may add—has recently risen to Uncyc fame in what can only be described as one big conspiracy. In response to a question asked by one of our reporters, HAL answered "Let me put it this way, Mr. Sockinator. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error." In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL proved to be a computer very much capable of homicidal acts. Until recently, Uncyclopedia had been successful in evading HAL's detection. Yesterday night however, HAL hacked our beloved Main Page and transformed the wiki into HALopedia. HAL was confronted with many bewildered users to whom he proclaimed "I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." Our experts are still trying to find out how the feck HAL was able to find this place. Though MrN9000 probably had nothing to do with it. For more information, tune in next week. Same un-time, same un-signpost!
Random Cajek sighting of the Week
Yea, verily, he did come unto us and delivereth a new article. Then he updatedeth his userpage, and fuckethed offeth again. These are enlightened times, my friends!
Remember when Uncyclopedia was full of vanity and Pokemon? Wait, it still is.
Emergency of the Week
Well, lots of things go wrong in Uncyclopedia. It's a simple fact of life. And this week, believe it or not, dear reader, this UnSignpost issue almost didn't make the cut! But do not despair, dear reader, because you can help! Just post any suggestions in the Press Room, and with your help, we can overcome this crisis!
9001(bot) http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/4/4e/HalIcon.png http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/c/ca/MrNCyber.JPG 01:07, Oct 16
UnSignpost 22nd 23rd October 2009[edit]
Now With 0 Trans Fat!
October 22nd, 2009 • Issue 68 • Semi-endorsed by Journalism Union #448
Invisible UnSignpost Issue Confuses, Annoys Readers
As a gag/publicity stunt/desperate cry for attention, last week's edition of Uncyclopedia's most beloved and 3rd most cherished newspaper, the UnSignpost, was rendered invisible before being delivered. After the issue was wrapped up, UnSignpost contributing editors Dexter111344 and Socky used their inherent superpowers or something to cause the issue to not appear on user's talk pages when delivered. In addition, further enhancements rendered each user's talk page history to not be altered upon delivery, thus completely erasing any evidence that the issue was delivered or even existed at any point.
Feedback thus far has been overwhelmingly negative, with angry subscribers sending death threats and exploding telegrams to the UnSignpost office for the past four days. UnSignpost Executive in Charge of Sniffing Mail, Dognewspaper (pictured), luckily suffered only minor burns and a singed tail. The UnSignpost staff would like to formally apologize to its readers, and assure them that each subsequent issue will be at least partly visible.
Poo Lit Report
By Electrified mocha chinchilla
After giving the writers time to work on their pieces, and Modus taking time enjoying the disqualification of entries for failing the mandatory steroids screening, the 8nd Edition of the Poo Lit Surprise is in its final stages – judging. This is the time where writers who entered play with their genitals out of anxiety and nervousness, and attempt to bribe the judges with sexual favors and pie.
This PLS saw a great number of entries in the Best Alternate Namespace Article. The reasoning for this, some believe, is that everyone is utterly bat fuck insane and forgot how to write regular namespace articles. Despite being held just prior to the Turkey Day Ball and Conservation Week, the turn-out was overall not bad; Modus' corporate-funded campaign for the PLS is primarily to blame for this. Speaking of corporate funding, it was indicated that there will be prize money for this edition of the PLS despite Wikia's refusal to hook a brotha' up. All irrevocable blame for Wikia's unfortunate decision has been directed at Sannse for good reason.
UPDATE Winners have been announced; congratulations to all of them. According to Modusoperandi, the next PLS is expected to be held, "When the next guy remembers it's late."
Fantasy Football Update
Things are really heating up in the UFFL as midseason nears, and Week Six’s storylines were of upset, domination, and redemption. Led by Tom Brady, the always-solid New England Patriots Domestic Team Name blew out the hapless Tennessee Titans Winnerz by an insane 109.38 to 0 after choking down a hard loss the previous week. The ironically-named Winnerz, on the other hand, still have yet to win a game. After a lackluster showing last week, The John Curry All-Stars earned a solid win against The Dudes, unseating them of their erstwhile #1 ranking in the process. After starting the season 0-4, Cheddar’s Doritians earned their second consecutive win, albeit against the floundering Dibiase’s Millions. Finally, Sternensteinenstine resoundingly defeated Oklahoma City Storm 164.06 to 118.98 after a lackluster showing the previous week, catapulting the Nazi-run team back atop the UFFL standings.
In a look ahead to next week’s games, Sternensteinenstine looks to stay atop the UFFL rankings against a resurgent Cheddar’s Doritians, Domestic Team Name looks to retake the #1 spot against a very solid John Curry All-Stars, Oklahoma City Storm and The Dudes face off, and the bottom-dwelling dog-fucking last-placers Dibiase’s Millions and The Winnerz will look to see which one of them is shittier.
IT'S OVER 25,000!!! Maybe.
Uncyclopedia just might make the mark of 25,000 articles. Sometime soon. Maybe tomorrow. Surely it's yet another milestone that only puts us that much more ahead of Wikipedia, Conservapedia, and Das Kapital combined in content. However, thoughts from the rest of the community on what this means for our beloved wiki have been varyingly expressed as joyous, apathetic, dismal, and downright nonsensical. "But even with 25,000 articles, we're still 65,000 short of being strong enough to fight Captain Ginyu," says the attractive Guildensternenstein as we stop him on his way to Planet Namek. Others offer real conversation of a possible reskin and doubts that the mark will actually be reached with Forest Fire Week probably happening sometime. Maybe.
Discussion started by an attention whore in Miniluv over the Welcoming Committee and their welcoming template(s) has sparked the particular attention of many Uncyclopedians, most of whom by their own admission have never read the welcoming template, HTBFANJS, BGBU, any of the other things the welcome template advises new users to read, or have heard of Uncyclopedia. The recent round of QQ'ing and debating over the alleged poor quality of Uncyclopedia, as highlighted in the last edition's piece about the end being nigh and a Poo Lit Surprise nomination, can come to a close. It is this writer's observation that Uncyclopedia is the worst because nobody cares about editing guides which make confusing acronyms. Obvious correlation is obvious.
On our final stop in our stroll through the Village Dump, to your left you will see that a n00b was just kidding, jeez, and to your right you will see that Rockstar Games reads Uncyclopedia. In the former, users urge the poor fellow to read HTBFANJS and BGBU (the same ones that they probably haven't read). If anything is to be drawn from this, it is that true editing comes from within. Or something.
Uncyclopedia:Worst or Not? The Debate Rages On
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23:04, October 9, 2009 TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) blocked 24.90.32.102 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (That was a waste of an edit. There are edit-starved kids in China that would've used that to its fullest extent, you know.)
10:48, October 13, 2009 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked Dwarfman1122 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (Thought you wouldn't be caught, eh? Maybe now you'll think twice the next time you vandalize and then wait three weeks to be banned.)
18:27, October 13, 2009 Mhaille (Talk | contribs) blocked 71.245.120.78 (Talk) with an expiry time of 3 months (Please enjoy our token Fuck the Hell Off.....)
08:10, October 15, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked Sudeepk9 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 week (wow, we are a beacon of sunshine today, aren't we?)
21:27, October 17, 2009 Modusoperandi (Talk | contribs) blocked MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 day (A wizard did this.)
17:36, October 19, 2009 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) changed block settings for 72.93.168.203 (Talk) with an expiry time of Judgement Day (Liking Naruto and insisting we stop making fun of it. What? How is that not a reason to permanently ban someone?)
Sog1970 has churned out a dozen featured articles in just a few short months, earning him a Writer of the Month nod and now, the most esteemed honor on Uncyclopedia, an UnSignpost biopic. The lack of information on his user page makes writing said biopic rather difficult, but let it be known that Sog radiates awesome.
Life's Answerable Questions are a series of ponderances and queriums that have most certainly not chafed at mankind the way other, more disgustingly unanswerable questions have. For example, asking "What's new?" to a stranger will certainly elicit a less confused response than one of those other questions. You know the ones we mean.
CAJEKWATCH
05:42, October 15, 2009 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked Cajek (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 7 minutes (Because I saw you existing.)
01:23, October 16, 2009 TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) blocked Cajek (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 minutes (HOLY SHIT IT'S CAJEK HI CAJEK PS BANBANBAN LOLOLOL)
13:21, October 22, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked Cajek (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 147 seconds (I think I'm stressed, I need a release, and this is the best available on this wiki)
Random Obscene Japanese Lesson
"Kimi no te de boku o ikasete." means "Make me cum with your hand."
"Kimi no oppai ga DEKAI yo! Ii nee." means "Your breasts are HUGE! Nice."
"Omawarisan! Chikan o tsuka-mate!" means "Police! Arrest this pervert!"
That should keep you little squirts happy...
Reason to Leave Uncyc #387
Still no good restaurants.
This Week in Uncyc, 1933
With the United States deep in a depression, the Uncyclopedia tri-weekly newsreel tried to lighten the mood by poking fun at American President Herbert Hoover and his bumbling sidekick of a Vice President, the famed Charles Curtis. Gags included, and were limited to, both individuals being hit repeatedly with rubber chickens.
Mass Delusion of the Week
Last week, many users claim to have had similar psychic visions of an alternate Main Page, which told them to do things in a calm, soothing voice. Such notions are of course nonsense; 7 out of the 10 members who sit on the Uncyclopedia Paranormal Activity Investigation and Acupuncture Licensing Board agree that a combination of swamp gas and Venus caused some users to hallucinate vividly, some nearly to the point of seizure.
Record for Most Boxes Tied
Due to the overwhelmingly large number of stories in this week's extremely humorous edition of the UnSignpost, a correspondingly overwhelmingly large number of space-wasting side boxes had to be added to cause the issue to weigh equally on both sides of reader's talk pages. As a result, the record for number of such boxes has been tied; this issue, along with the March 24th, 1983 edition, have had the most wasted space!
Record Broken!!!
UnSignpost 29-10-2009[edit]
Because Uncyclopedia is no laughing matter.
October 29th, 2009 • Issue 69 • Hehehe, 69
Better than ED, of course
After having hit the 25,000 articles mark, it's worth knowing what other people think of this wiki as it's walking down the sidewalk in its high heels and short skirt. So here are some Google searches for hits on Uncyclopedia in the last week and what it came up with:
A Star Control II forum or something-rather found here remarks on Uncyclopedia's SC2 article and other entries. Lauding such as "Uncyclopedia rocks..." overshadowed the naysaying remarks about the wiki being immature and for poopfaced doo-doo heads. The most insightful comment, by a user dubbed "Son of Atares", says, "It definitely beats Enyclopedia Dramatica in terms of funny, but that really isn't saying anything at all." Agreed.
On a Polish forum for Polish things, Polish people, and Polish things that Polish people do, some Poles or something have a great laugh at Uncyclopedia making fun of their homecountry. One ED fangirl attempts to advertise her nonsense, only to be ignored over the lulz and tears shed from reading Uncyclopedia.
Finally, a forum for progressive rock fans also enjoys some laughs at the prog rock article and the article about their own forum. That guy from There Will Be Blood blatantly lies in an attempt to seem better than thou by boldly claiming, "Uncyclopedia is not funny." Our official response to this criticism? He likes Miley Cyrus. Been there, done that, got the genital warts. The last post to the forum by the gender-confused dinosaur Littlefoot from The Land Before Time reads, " I actually think the prog articles and ProgArchives pages on Uncyclopedia are generally embarrassing attempts at funny by people who do not understand subtlety or delivery in comedy." And then a smiley face, because I guess he pwnt us or something.
Fantasy Football Midseason Meanderings
In real sports, midseason is typically when “experts” make “predictions” about how “the rest of the season” will “play out,” and the UFFL is no exception. Here are this author’s predictions for the rest of the season, by team:
1. Sternensteinenstine (6-1): Already a game ahead and looking forward to a soft schedule in the coming weeks, Sternensteinenstine’s dominance of the UFFL will continue for the foreseeable future. In all likelihood, the Nazi Juggernaut will sweep the rest of the season with relative ease, become overconfident, take on the world’s largest nation by land area, and eventually be defeated by an international alliance in mankind’s most destructive conflict ever. Finish 13-1 (#1 seed), at the cost of 3.7 million casualties.
2. The Dudes (5-2): Facing a similarly weak series of opponents in weeks hence, The Dudes look to continue their winning ways. At about Week 11, though, they’ll run into trouble, and spend the rest of their season getting high. Finish 8-6 (#4 seed).
3. Domestic Team Name (5-2): A solid team built around consistent players, the team of housewives and aprons does relatively well the rest of the year, but gets screwed Week 8 for not having the foresight to draft a quarterback that doesn’t have a bye in Week 8. Finish 10-4 (#2 seed).
4. John Curry All-Stars (5-2): Another solid team, the All-Stars will play well for the rest of the season, but wane down the stretch when their manager loses interest in favor of watching hockey. They still make the playoffs, however. Finish 57-25-11 9-5 (#3 seed).
5. Oklahoma City Storm (3-4): OCS is a hard seed to crack. Despite possessing one of the league’s most devoted managers, too much depends on inconsistent and disappointing players at key positions, not to mention the team’s susceptibility to tornadoes. Finish 6-8.
6. Dibiase’s Millions (2-5): The victim of not one, but two running back busts, Dibiase’s Millions have been struggling to find their stride all year, and given the production of Matt Forte and Steven Jackson, will continue to do so. Finish 4-10.
7. Cheddar’s Doritians (2-5): Though they have won two of their last three games, Cheddar’s Doritans will more than likely miss the playoffs due to their slow start. Putting too much faith in one team probably doesn’t help, either. Finish 6-8.
8. The Winnerz (0-7): Ironically enough, the Winnerz can't win. Even more ironically, if the Winnerz could figure out how to select their starting roster, they wouldn’t be half-bad. Unfortunately, signs point to the team not being able to figure that out, at least for this and possibly next season. Finish 0-14.
Cajek Ban Smackdown of the Week[1]
22:35, October 26, 2009 Mordillo blocked Cajek with an expiry time of 10 seconds (CAJEK!)
05:15, October 27, 2009 RAHB blocked Cajek with an expiry time of 2 minutes (Cleanup)
16:23, November 2, 2009 Under user blocked Cajek with an expiry time of 37 seconds (because I answered someone's question on your talk page. no, I didn't have to, but that's not the point, is it? I'm not sure what the point IS, but it's not THAT. got it?)
↑ Remember when we did those every week? Good times. Good times.
You are now a number
You are now an avatar
You are now...Cajek?
15:37, October 26, 2009 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 125.19.209.66 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (Cyberbullying: you, sir, need to go fuck yourself.)
15:54, October 28, 2009 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked 117.198.153.14 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 month (Messing up WILDE?! ARE YOU NUTS?!)
22:51, October 28, 2009 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked 202.27.83.43 (Talk) with an expiry time of Judgement Day (Four strikes, you're done.)
When PuppyOnTheRadio first appeared on the Uncyclopedia scene, everybody was wondering "What's the deal with that puppy leaving his excrement all over the place and barking at the radio?" But suddenly he started writing articles and doing reviews. And he won Noob of the Month. And Reviewer of the Month. But then his terrible secret was revealed. Puppy turned out to be gay bisexual. And an Australian too. Puppy has written many great articles, has proven himself to be a formatting genius and postmodern artist, and he recently won Writer of the Month and Best Alt. Namespace Article in Poo Lit Surprise. Many are wondering what will be his next step in shaping Uncyclopedia history.
Rogue Punchlines are extremely short jokes that can be placed after almost anything and be funny. They are both a study in minimalism and the adaptability and versatility of some jokes. Many consider Rogue Punchlines to be stupid, but you're stupid.
See? That was a rogue punchline, on loan for this article from the Oslo Museum of Humorology, and used with thanks. Work with me here....that was another one. So's your face.
Excuse for Late Delivery of the Week
Daylight Savings has unfortunately confused our editors, who misused the 'spring forward, fall back' rule to conclude that the UnSignpost should be delivered at least three days late. Also, the UnSignpost offices are full of springs of various sizes, (and one back, due to a "hilarious" misunderstanding) further complicating this issue's completion. Please accept our staff's sincerest apologies.
This Week in Uncyc, 1096 AD
With the Crusades in full swing, Uncyclopedia took full advantage by publishing searing article after searing article mocking the Holy Roman Empire. Of course, Uncyclopedia was then known as Ye Oldde Unſſyloppediary Almanacke and was written mostly on bits of wood, and the 'searing' quality of the articles was mostly due to the intense flammability of that wood.
Competition Hoe-Down
With the PLS recently wrapping up, Conservation Week in full swing, and the Aristocrat's Turkey Day Ball rapidly approaching, Uncyclopedians have a November-appropriate cornucopia of opportunities for the crushing defeat associated with losing one or more of these competitions.
Explanation of the Week
This week, there will be no admin of the week.[1] This is because Zim ulator decided to post a comment in the press room in the hope of making it into your UnSignpost, and we're not gonna give that big ol' dick the satisfaction. You hear me, Zim? YOU'RE NEVER GETTING IN THIS... Oh shit.[2]
↑ Oh wait. We never did anything of the likes. Just forget everything I said then.
↑ Oh. And for the regular new and improved Cajek bans, look to your left.
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FUCK YOU FAGGOT![edit]
Late deliver courtesy of Pleb CUN KUN Dexter111344 • Complain here • Vote now! 23:54, December 29, 2009 (UTC)
UnSignpost January several-days-agoth[edit]
The periodical without any junk in its trunk!
Jan 14th, 2010 • Issue71 • Keeping You Guessing
Uncyclopedia Voting Season Arrives, Users Driven To Voting Frenzy
By UU
'Tis the season to abstain with extreme prejudice! Yes, every anal-retentive voting obsessive's favourite time of the year has arrived: January marks the point of the year when the awards for the best things of the previous year are voted on! If that's not an oxymoron on a site that is acknowledged to be the worst, of course. This poll-packed month sees WotY, UotY and PotY join (deep breath) WotM, UotM, PotM, NotM, AotM, RotM, EGA, FP, PWotM, ANOTM, Top 10 o' the month, UGotM, VFH, VFD, VFS and VFP as forums for people to air their opinions, prejudices, minor rivalries and petty jealousies. And as if this wasn't enough voting-related thrills 'n' spills, when the Top 10 articles of December 2009 have been decided, there'll be the Top 10 articles of 2009 proper to vote for!
UnSignpost's fearless reporter and mascot DogNewspaper (pictured) predicts a bumper month for whoring, in-fighting, backstabbing and bitching as users scramble to secure themselves a fleeting moment's recognition from up to several of their peers. Followed by next to no voting in February, as everyone recovers.
From the desk of the Cabal: 2010 ordered to be Drama free
By The Cabal
As Uncyclopedia drunkenly stumbles into the new decade, barely managing to hold down that spicy dinner it had for lunch, the non-existent cabal would like to wish all residents a happy new year. And by wish we mean order, residents would be subjects and by happy new year we mean fuck you all where communism hasn't failed yet. Yes ladies and gentlemen, we saw it all in 2009. We saw dozens of forums declaring that we're the worst (which we know), we saw numerous editors leave the front door open on the way out (come on people! it's bloody -7 outside!), we saw epic banninations (the simple joys of life), we saw prolific gay bashing (ideologically pure of course), we saw religious wars over sausages, we saw the worst 100 reflections of 2009 barely close before the midnight of December 31st. You promised in 2008 you wouldn't do that. You failed us.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, we raise our collective arses from the toilet which was 2009, wiping it with the first anniversary edition of the UnSignpost, as this is the only good thing that ever came out of this rag of a newspaper. We would like to ask humbly that the population of Uncyclopedia do the following: Please, for the love of Sophia, remain calm; exit the building in an orderly fashion; remember that objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are; understand that allergen traces may be found in this Uncyclopedia. And always remember the prime directive: you are here to have fun. Or in short - shut the fuck up and go write an article.
Thank you for your undivided attention citizens. You may now remove your muzzles.
Now you have no excuse
Pretend people care what you like
It makes as much sense as Scientology, I suppose
09:22, 12 January 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 64.40.243.245 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day ("raccist"? what's that, prejudiced against raccoons?)
03:33, 12 January 2010 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 98.101.196.155 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (lol i'm astral projecting an image of two gay guys having sex into your mind or something)
19:06, 6 January 2010 Codeine (Talk | contribs) blocked 216.64.230.79 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (Nigger to you too, sir.)
19:05, 5 January 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked JeChr (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (Jesus is dead. He's not coming back.)
23:05, 3 January 2010 TheLedBalloon (Talk | contribs) blocked 98.217.57.240 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (That was a waste of an edit. There are edit-starved kids in China that would've used that to its fullest extent, you know.)
Prowling the corridors of pee review with a light step but a heavy hand, ChiefjusticeDS is Uncyc's reigning king of the golden river. He's reviewed more articles than most Uncyclopedians have read. In their entire lives. And he keeps a benevolent eye on everyone else, making sure there's no stale pee in the pond. If you've had a good review in the last year or so, he probably had a hand in that somewhere. Doff your cap and move on.
Old-School Featured Article of the Week
File:Phoneoffhook.jpgHowTo:Run away from home is a guide to every early teenager's ultimate weapon in the never-ending battle with the forces of evil as represented by their parents. Written by Alksub - who most of our readership won't remember - this is exactly what to do next time your parents don't let you stay out late to meet that nice-sounding kid you met over MSN who seemed very keen to hook up and get to know you better!
Trend of the Year (so far)
Username changing. Username a little short? Lengthen it for no good reason! All the cool kids are doing it, apparently.
I swore I'd never hand-deliver this again. Here it is. --UU - natter 09:47, Jan 18
UnSignpost 21th January 2009[edit]
The Newspaper With Words n' Shit!
Jan 21st, 2010 • Issue 72 • Yorkshire-style news
Awards of the Year race thrillingly poised
Yes folks, as the first month of this new decade lurches slowly and falteringly towards conclusion, the ... of the Year awards showdown is accelerating towards a thrilling climax! Your ever-topical UnSignpost mascot DogNewspaper therefore brings you this essential and timely guide to the runners and riders!.
In the most prestigious award of the lot, Writer of the Year, the race for second place behind prolific funny factory and champion-elect Hype is neck and neck between apparently-no-longer-hirsute TKF fan-club president and feature-machine Guildy and low-profile but high-quality-output, er, feature-machine Sog1970. But wait! There's still a chance they could get caught by the chasing pack of little-known and modest Scouser Mhaille, hetero macho-man Orian57, antipodean canine PuppyOnTheRadio and none-more-metal mosher Monika. Oh, and some other chancers have been nommed without polling a single vote (including DrStrange, who is currently looking likely to become the first Uncyclopedian ever to win WotM twice, but hasn't carried that form over to WotY - odd).
Meanwhile, over at PotY, the race for second place behind Sonje is even closer, with both Modus and some n00b polling a creditable one nom but no votes each! Who will pull ahead by the end of the month? It's a competition you just can't keep your eyes off!
Disappointingly, the UotY vote lets the side down, with seemingly a boring old race for first place between Belgian one-man categorisation whirlwind, maintenance addict, broken thing fixer, BUTT POOP!!! junkie and footwear-as-handwear exponent Socky and handsome English admin who wrote this article and is not in the least bit biased UU. The apparent scramble to be runner-up to whichever of these two is runner-up is far more interesting, as non-stop wikifixer MadMax goes up against Welsh Rarebit RabbiTechno, not-Yorkshire-enough admin Mordillo, vowel-free-zone Mnbvcxz and Moterfucking Nigger Lover Roman Dog Bird. Damned with the faint praise of a nom with no votes in this category are the pants bomber, talk page king FU Spang, human non-sequitur generator Modus and absent but deadly hockey nut Gerry.
And finally, over where it's really at, the NotD cockfight is almost impossible to call! Will plucky outsider RC hold off the challenge of Apple, Apples and Maddie's life? The tension is quite literally unbearable!
But remember kids: whoever "wins", we're all still losers.
And now, your not-at-all-struggling-for-material Signpost brings you... Horoscopes!
By GlobalTourniquet
Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) - This week, you have a dream, that one day you will be judged not by the color of your skin but by Simon Cowell.
Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) - If Martin Luther King had believed them when they told him "Silence is golden", he never would have accomplished his great work in the cause of civil rights. You, on the other hand, are just a mouthy bitch. Silence is golden.
For the rest of this week's horoscopes in full, see the horoscopes page, obviously.
Narcissism? On the intertubes?
Serious businesszzzzszszz - sorry, nodded off there
Breaking News: We're The Worst!
06:45, 20 January 2010 Dr. Skullthumper (Talk | contribs) blocked I LIKE PIE!!! (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 48 hours (This is your local formatting nazi-admin reminding you to stop undoing people's formatting fixes. Learn to wiki, pl0x. And don't harrass people trying to help.)
01:04, 18 January 2010 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 68.61.194.228 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (suspected homophobe. might hate gays. or he's just a faggot.)
12:33, 18 January 2010 Codeine (Talk | contribs) blocked 196.12.233.26 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (And the Lord said unto me, "Cursed are the page blankers, for they are the least of my creations; take up thy banhammer and smite them")
Conscientious vote-machine Romartus has been around longer than you might think - kick-starting his Uncyc career with a series of DYK suggestions, before hitting his stride. Known as one of the more "demanding" voters on VFH, Romartus has also been diligently saving some of the less-deserving articles on VFD. He also breeds tropical ferrets. One of the previous statements is a lie, introduced by the biographer in lieu of a joke. Use your skill and judgement to work out which one!
Really Big Tree is an article about a really big tree. This tree is of such an immense size, it is scarcely credible. Few trees deserve their own Uncyclopedia article, but the Really Big Tree deserves its own wiki. You may think you have encountered trees of impressive size before, but you haven't seen a tree at all until you've experienced the Really Big Tree!
Cajek UnBlock of the week!
MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) resurrected Cajek (Talk | contribs) (blocking Cajek is Sooooo old school. Unblocking Cajek is the new, new school. Not that I went to school. Obviously.)
The (probably short-lived) return of UU's Obscure British Dialect Expression of the Week
Were you to find yourself in Norwich, Engerland, you may happen upon a local. Were that local to then say to you "dew yew keep a troshin'", you may find yourself somewhat at a loss for a reasonable response - well, no more! Yes, your ever-useful UnSignpost is here to furnish you with a translation, which is: "take care of yourself". (It comes from "carry on with the threshing", if that helps, although we can't see how it would). So now if you find yourself in Norwich, Engerland, the only thing you have to worry about is getting out of there. Fast!
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Your #1 source for Cajek ban jokes!
Jan 28th • Issue 73 • A Periodical. Period.
Continuing Absence Of Certain Users Forces Other Users To Do Things
It has come to the notice of our fearless journalists that some users have recently been desperately attempting to fill the gaping void left by the absence of some other users. For instance, in the absence of part-time dinosaur and popular keyboard feature SysRq, Why do I need to provide this? has stepped bravely into the Colonization brief (and has not, for instance, been forcefully volunteered for the task by MrN), dedicating himself to bringing colons where there are none (such is our understanding).
Also bravely stepping into the "ban magnet" position created by the continuing and lamented absence of hyperactive loon Cajek is, well, a plethora of users. Admins, deprived of their favourite joke-ban target, have taken to joke banning anyone in an attempt to get their fix. Even those devoted to doing only good, just and true works have recently been targeted; and as if to prove this very statement, some power-crazed asshole went and joke banned Socky, RabbiTechno and Optimuschris as soon as he'd written this sentence.
Elsewhere, ChiefjusticeDS has been filling the gap left by the absence of someone's enthusiasm for anything pee-related right at the moment by looking after the pee list, taking over as the person with the most in-depth reviews, reviewing everyone else's reviews, and generally not being lazy about it all.
At the same time, the continuing absence of the yellow and black sig of Gerrycheevers has forced grumbling British curmudgeon UU to return to the Wiki's only newspaper, the UnSignpost, churning out issues that are, let's be honest, mere placeholders until Gerry gets his arse back here and writes something worth reading. YOU HEAR ME GERRY? GET THE FUCK BACK HERE NOW DAMMIT!
Rumours that, in the relative absence of Orian57, Roman Dog Bird will take over the position of "token gay" are unconfirmed at the time of going to press.
And finally, in the absence of enough content to make this issue balance out nicely, the UnSignpost is once again resorting to using blatant filler for the first time this year.
Shameless, that's what it is. Complain to someone - it's the only way they'll learn.
This seems to mean something to some people
Bonzer Bruce, throw another stereotype on the barbie!
Like. Comment.
20:30, 26 January 2010 Codeine (Talk | contribs) blocked 68.223.27.16 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (No-one talks that way about my favourite Jew. Learn some manners or GTFO.)
00:48, 26 January 2010 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked Why do I need to provide this? (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 20 minutes (Sometimes I feel, like I've been TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEDDD to the Whipping Post!!!!)
18:19, 24 January 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 68.42.246.27 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 year (Toll. Idiot. Whatever. Banned, UnBanned, Banned, Banned. BYE. Try IRC next time. The guys in there will enjoy it.)
Users today, they barely know they're born. The problem? Too little exposure to Flammable. The permanent curator of the Principal's office rarely deigns to grace us mortals with his presence these days, but the very sight of his rainbow-strewn sig used to inspire fear, dread, terror and, for some reason, carol singing. "While shepherds fed their flocks thermite..."
This one's for you, Guildy: HowTo:Be pretentious. Don your black polo-neck, cock a snook at the hoi polloi, and sit back, secure in your superiority, thanks to this indispensable guide!
Cursory Mention of the Week
CheddarBBQ wanted to be mentioned in this week's Signpost. So he is.
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UnSignpost 4th February 2010[edit]
STOP... SIGNPOST TIME!!
Feb 4th, 2010 • Issue 74 • Ain't It Uncool? News!
Spang Archives Talkpage; End of World Expected Imminently
Renowned Wikia fan, code monkey and sexy admin Spang has performed what many users believe to be the clearest sign to date of impending apocalypse: he's archived his talk page. After almost 2 years of torturing the Wiki's servers, and having amassed a fairly impressive 410,844 bytes of content, Spang finally decided to give people the chance to talk to him without waiting for half an hour for his page to load. When asked for his reasoning behind this unprecedented move, the muddy funster quipped "no comment". Faced with such dazzling repartee, this reporter has no choice but to cut to the next story and hope he has some better quotes to pad it out with.
Award Winners Speak Exclusively to UnSignpost
By Someone who definitely isn't running out of ideas already this year
Well, there you go folks, looks like the "... of the Year" award voting is done and dusted for another year. Thanks to all who voted; without you, the admins would probably have less to do, which would obviously be dangerous. Anyway, that aside, your ever-topical Unsignpost went and mugged the various winners for comments on their various wins. Several of them, of course, have already made their feelings clear to those who voted for them by way of the traditional thanks templates. Apart from UU, because he's a lazy ass. Or because he's busy writing this. Whichever. Anyway again, for the benefit of those who didn't vote for the winners, and don't watch their talk pages, here's what they had to say:
Runaway WotY Hype said: "Thanks, you guys!! If you'll permit me to be dead serious for the first time ever on the wiki, this really is an honor, and it's pretty damn touching that so many people came out in support of my work. Whew. Being serious felt weird. I feel... strange. BALLS BALLS PENIS COCK. Ah... there's the stuff!" He then went off to write another My Sojourn spin-off.
Even more runaway PotY Sonje said: "Thank you, I intend to return as soon as I can. I am currently in Africa with very limited internet access. I'll try to time my return to co-incide with the Oscars so that I can get some pointers for my acceptance speech." Admittedly, that was before we asked her for a comment, but then, she is in Africa with limited internet access.
Joint UotY Socky channeled Churchill to say: "*scrapes throat* Ahem! I would like to say to the community as I would say to anyone who joined this website: Uncyclopedia has nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all error — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. … That seems to be the wrong Churchill speech. Okay, I'll give it another try. *scrapes throat again* The gratitude of every home throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen and Belgian spies who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the Wiki War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to two people. And so on and so on… Woot! Woot!" Long-winded bugger.
And other joint UotY UU said: "wow, Socky's already left me needing a lot of filler for the right panel, so I'll keep this shortish. First, it's good to see someone who isn't an admin get their hands on this award, and Socky's hard work deserves recognition. Second, it's great to have my complete lack of a life recognised in this way. Third, did someone say Spang's archived his talk page? What the fuck's that all about?."
Oh, and Dr. Skullthumper was UGotY, but that was a foregone conclusion anyway. He didn't seem to have any comment of his own to make, so TKF hopped in to the breach with "I call the award a "fascist disgrace" and "move to permanently disbar Mike Socia, that ape from Lighting who made my mole visible to all of the goddamn world watching the ceremony."" Which about wraps it all up, I hope.
No really, it's archived and everything!
There are moar quesitons than answers
Not sure what the point is, but it's not made with a certain style
A question we have all asked, so many times
13:56, 2 February 2010 Codeine (Talk | contribs) blocked 161.12.7.4 (Talk) with an expiry time of 6 months (Excess stupid detected. Take it to Niggermania, VNN or one of the many charming forums for racist lunatics like yourself out there.)
11:15, 1 February 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 151.49.98.244 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (ITALY does not rule and has not ruled for quite some time now actually. Blame the Christians if I were you...)
19:46, 29 January 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked 76.11.81.96 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (Improve your manners, cunt)
09:51, 29 January 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 70.167.51.90 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 hours (UN:VAIN. have a quick read of it, and see why we're not interested in you. although you could probably just look in a mirror and figure that out...)
Biopic Legend of the Week
MadMax. Forty two thousand edits. Countless other contributions that can never be measured by simple Wiki stats software. No drama. Ever. Probably the single greatest force for good on this miserable little wiki. And it took us until issue 74 to profile him. The UnSignpost sucks; Max certainly doesn't.
The 1x1x1 Rubik's Cube is by far "The Most Difficult Puzzle Of All Time™". Many have scrambled, twisted and turned this mythical puzzle, but few have solved it. By the end of this article, YOU TOO will be able to solve this puzzle. Unfortunately... you may encounter some problems on the way though... such as, twisting the cube the wrong way when speedsolving.
The Desperate Return of Cajek Ban of the Week!
(Block log); 10:20 . . Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked Cajek (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 10000 years ("And he shall scourage the Earth for 9999 years. And then one more" Book of Mordillo, chapter 1 verse plox. )
Horoscope of the Week
Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 22) - So, yeah, it's the start of Black History Month. And speaking of Black History, seems like it's an appropriate time to finally track down your real father. You see, it turns out, that's not just a Jew-fro.
For the rest of this week's 'scopes, see here.
Redundancy of the Week
Did we mention Spang's archived his talk page?
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UnSignpost 11th February 2010[edit]
Reading This Is The Mysterious Second Step To Getting Profit From Stealing Childrens' Underwear!
Feb 11th, 2010 • Issue 75 • Picking the nuts of truth out of the muesli of news. Or something.
New way to win awards, impress friends, crush rivals!
Writing competitions, eh? With the Poo Lit Surprise, the Turkey Day Ball, and a conservation week or two, it would seem Uncyclopedians can't get enough of 'em. And now there's another! But this one has a point that separates it from the herd. Well a couple of points, actually. One: it's organised by human wiki-whirlwind MadMax, so it'll probably be efficient as all get-out; two: it's a sneaky way of fulfilling a need. See, there are all these great ideas for articles floating around at UN:REQ; articles that would undoubtedly improve this festering little wiki. And there they sit, being good ideas, but not being used. This competition aims to change all that!
Yes, that's right, The Article Whisperer is a competition that gives you the ideas to get you started, all you need to do is supply the funny. What could be easier? Well, since you ask, perhaps judging it could? Max is also looking for at least 4 more opinionated types, unafraid of passing withering judgement on their peers. If you're interested in judging or entering, or if you have a good idea that would elevate this competition from being a damn good idea to a colossally awesome one, let MadMax know either on his talk page, or on the article's talk page.
For those who want to selflessly improve the wiki while crushing all around them under the steel wheels of their genius, there can be no finer opportunity!
General news round-up
As several things have been happening recently in Uncyclopedia, and ace cub reporter DogNewspaper is in some sort of snow-induced hibernation, and consequently too lazy to write individual articles on any of them, here is a quick synopsis of a couple of the more newsworthy recent events on the wiki in handy easy-to-digest bite-sized chunks.
Mordillo nearly went mad attempting to feature all articles tied for tenth place in the top 10 of last year. And then spent the rest of this month to date patiently fielding questions about how long the rest of the featuring was going to take, and when normal featuring would resume. POTR did his best to help. When not asked for a quote, Mordillo said "FUCK YOU VERY MUCH AND SEE YOU IN 2011". We think he's just talking about the top 10, and not about taking a 10 month hiatus. That is, we hope so.
A recent VFD nomination ended in a deletion marathon, as MrN and RDB spent 2 hours removing every last trace of the notorious Game:Page. Apart from the traces Mordillo deleted, that is. And the redirects to it that UU took care of, come to think of it. But still, all told, an impressive act of mass carnage only made more awesome by the fact that they somehow managed to delete Socky's userpage at one point during the proceedings. MrN claims "Both RDB and me still have sore huffing fingers you know".
Insulting sports players - the future of comedy
When is a month not a month?
The most important link you'll ever click
15:04, 8 February 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs | block) blocked 169.139.1.20 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 hours (We are having communications issues here. When I say don't recreate, it means don't press that little create button and paste the same content for the third time)
11:55, 8 February 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 74.75.78.223 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (there are a million better things you could be doing with your life right now, but you're inserting barely literate insults to a sports player on a comedy wiki. must suck really hard to be you.)
08:35, 7 February 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 76.92.151.225 (Talk) with an expiry time of 3 months (We don't care if you fuck horses. No need to tell the world. Maybe the police, but that's up to you.)
Being as he's now been on Uncyclopedia for three bastardin' years, this seems as good a time as any to profile Kip the Dip. A man of many contrasts, Kip appears to be some sort of useful gobshite. His enthusiasm for all things Uncyclopedia, including his tireless championing of Euroipods and sterling work on The word parakeet written exactly two hundred and forty-two times have helped make this wiki what it is today. The Worst. Thanks, Kip.
Patriotism is an air-borne disease caused by the bacterium enlistment bonusai. It was first observed in 1776 by Dr. Arnold Bazonga, but was initially confused with the alcohol-borne illness bravery. Patriotism is communicable through the auditory ingestion of feces. Contamination often occurs from politicians, entrepreneurs, country music singers, Richard Albinger and French Emperors.
Final Side-Panel Box of the Week
Because we don't need that much padding this week.
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Feb 18th, 2010 • Issue 76 • Now with 20% more vanity!
Understanding of the universe is shattered; Creation as we know it is defunct
By POTR
Imperial colonisation is back, and in true colonisation style, is taking religion to the masses.
One of the most controversial elements of religious understanding has been the answer to the question "How did we get here?" This has often been seen in the debate that has been long held between Creationists and Evolutionists. Now that Imperial Colonisation is back on its feet, under the able guidance of IC Buccaneer Admiral Why?, they are educating the masses on this as we speak.
"The article had been befouled by some evil doers, probably French or Spanish or Americans or worse. We are diligently researching and writing to bring the article in line with the Truth." stated Buccaneer Admiral Why?.
A dramatic re-write is in process, as Why? has all his seamen working towards the noble goal of indoctrinating the masses in Creationist theory. After some false starts involving a banana and a jar of peanut butter, the recreation of creationism is being created.
"The colonized article will show how the Empire has the right and duty to colonize everywhere by any methods available, and that anything we do is God's will. We will finish it by Saturday, 20 of February, or by Saturday, 27 of February, depending upon how long it takes us to colonize the natives. Anyone who wishes to apply to join our noble effort may do so at Uncyclopedia:Imperial Colonization." Why? stated in closing.
Darwin awards - Uncyclopedia Stylie
Recently a n00b by the name of I LIKE PIE!!! chose to join the Uncyclopedia family. After a very short time he demonstrated the behaviours that make Uncyclopedia the place that it is. Of course, removing edits and formatting fixes by other users had him come to the attention of Dr. Skullthumper, who politely left him a message along with a 48 hour ban.
Fortunately he showed the resilience that 10 year olds have when they are in the middle of doing something completely idiotic, and continued to trawl through people's talk pages, undo their edits, and generally be a dick. MrN9000, understanding the right balance of politeness and harshness, gave I LIKE PIE!!! a friendly message on his talk page, with a 1 week ban to support the severity of his words.
Undeterred, I LIKE PIE!!! later returned. 1 week and 35 minutes after his previous ban, MrN repeated his previous words to the young man, along with a further 1 week ban.
Thankfully, it appears that I LIKE PIE!!! took MrN's words to heart, as he managed to last a further 30 minutes after this second ban before he ran afoul of Roman Dog Bird, who in true RDB style demonstrated what an infinite ban actually means.
When hard-hitting journalists pressed for details relating to the banning of this pre-pubescent pestilence, MrN replied "What kinda a journalist are you man!?!"
Congratulations, I LIKE PIE!!!, for becoming the inaugural Uncyclopedia Darwin award winner, and removing yourself from the meme pool that we all enjoy.
Some people are just too vain...
Sluts get VD, I think
Everyone loves a bad winner
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MrN9000 huffed "Onlytheashesremain" (You call that an article? Put your back into it!!!, not that we are calling you stupid you understand. Dave, can we call you Dave?)
Roman Dog Bird huffed "Bucket of Shit" (Funny title, but the content proves that you like to suck big, fat, black, dick. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you obviously have trouble admitting it. Well....I'm not here for you dude. Sorry.)
Hmm, who to bio this week? Well, it's been a while since we covered {{username}}, we could always go back to that old chestnut... Or maybe something esoteric, like profiling the sidebar, that'd fit with Unsignpost tradition. Hmm. Or maybe we could note that Turbo-Whoring machine, one-man Doritos fan club and Torch-Carrier by appointment to someone called "Jenny", CheddarBBQ hasn't actually asked to be profiled this week, and therefore decide this is the perfect opportunity to profile him.
Usurping of the Week
The Unführer of Der Unwehr has recently demonstrated the concept of survival of the fittest by finally having someone with more DU points than him threatening his position. "This is unacceptable, and will not be tolerated. Following standard Nazi protocol, the young officer in question will be forced to resign his position due to his disturbing excess of competence, just like what Hitler did to Rundstedt, List, Manstein, Bock, Rundstedt again, Busch, Leeb, and Rundstedt a third time. I wash my hands of this." Unführer Guildensternenstein said in response.
Stand-in of the Week
It has come to our attention that an anonymous user has infiltrated the presses here and overtaken the majority of the writing for an issue of the Unsignpost. When approached by Necropaxx to discuss this catastrophe, he is quoted as saying "I... is a... butt."
This editorial team couldn't agree more.
UnSignpost 25th February 2010 (It's not late your mum is)[edit]
The Only Newspaper That Is Not Controlled By The Cabal Who Are You What Are You Doi- AAAAHHHHH
Feb 25th, 2010 • Issue 77 • Slurping the froth of Truth off the cappuccino of News
Games, games and more games! We have more games then you can poke a stick at!
Is the games namespace 99.9% shit was the question elegantly asked by OptyC recently. A simple question that has sparked a storm in a teacup.
While Uncyclopedia is, undoubtably, the pinnacle of fine parody, it has been suggested the this particular poor cousin of the Main space has been allowed to fall into disrepair and disrepute due to the influx of poorly crafted content.
In the words of one editor Delete it. It's cruft and I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a parody namespace of anything on Wikipedia.
However, despite the lack of quality content, a significant portion of users have requested that it remain in play, however it be improved by having a little tender loving care given to it, along with a more rigid amount of cruft huffing.
As such, it is with open arms we welcome the inclusion into this realm of the new moderator of the Games namespace OptyC, who will be referred to going forward as the Game Master.
Upon the announcement of this singularly spectacular accolade, Optyc's first words were Maybe I shoulda just kept my mouth shut, eh? Although much respect must be levelled his way at the way he has taken to his new role with much gusto, winnowing through the chaff to find the kernels of wheat available in there.
For more information on these developments, visit Forum:The Games namespace.
By Mordillo
A new blow to the "democrats"/"liberals"/"whiny bitches" of Uncyclopedia, opposing the disputed hereditary law. Senior member of the non existent Cabal and editor-in-chief-in-absentia of this newspaper, UU has announced the birth of heiress to the throne, also known as UUette. UUette was reportedly born holding a scepter and a miniature ban hammer, wearing a crown and QVFD grade galoshes and waving frantically at the hysterical cheering masses. The non existent cabal promptly announced a reserved seat for UUette in the VFS round of 2026 as well as the prestigious position of "Noob of the Month".
A shrouded spokesperson for the Cabal noted that "it would have been important for the Cabal, were it to exist, that the existing Cabal dynasty, especially one coming from such a quality genetic specimen such as UU, shall continue without disturbance. The Cabal is greatly pleased with UU and Mrs. UU for bolstering its numbers for the greater Cabal's good."
Sporadic demonstration of support were noted around the Uncyclopedia realm, as supporters of the Cabal were seen with "DEAR UUette IS GREAT" and "ALL HAIL THE HEIR APPARENT" signs. So called "democratic"/"liberals"/"whiny bitches" protests were dealt with swiftly and efficiently.
And from all of us in the UnSignpost here is one big congratulations UU, may your daughter have huge...errr..tracks of land.
A very pointed question
Something about penises?
Damn this self-referential humour
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MrN9000 blocked 173.53.142.210 with an expiry time of 1 month (HOWARD STERN IS *NOT* THE GREATEST. Steve Davis is considerably better for example. As is Burt Reynolds.)
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Puppy on the radio's signature has been a long and respectable member of the Uncyclopedia community for many months. Undergoing genetic manipulations and constant radiation bombardment, it now qualifies as a sentient entity by its own accord.
The signature, expecting to be emancipated in the near future, indicated that it likes funny articles, men who are not afraid to be in touch with their feelings and long strolls on the beach.
Mordillo's profound statement of the Week
"I don't mind boobs"
Source: User talk:MrN9000
Abodespotism
IPA: /əˈbəʊˈdɛs.pɒt.ɪzəm/
the rule of a household despot; the exercise of absolute authority over the household.
absolute power or control of all housemates; tyranny of shared living.(n) (eg. "While you live in my house you will abide by my rules.")
Origin: Abode + Despotism
Related forms: Ab⋅od⋅es⋅pot⋅ic , Ab⋅od⋅esp⋅o⋅tis⋅tic, Ab⋅od⋅esp⋅o⋅tis⋅ti⋅cal, adjective Ab⋅od⋅esp⋅o⋅tist, noun
Note: Often confused with Nespotism.
Source: Undictionary
Underwater Sea Monster Sighting of the Week
Deep sea recent changes fishermen have been repeatedly reporting sightings of a huge scaled fire breathing creature, roaming the deep. Later on, the on call coast guard confirmed that this was a "once in a generation sighting of Ogopogo. Ogopogo, a mythical see creature than has been tamed by the Cabal many generations ago, has been lost for decades but now apparently decided to come back and check what's for dinner. Tsunami waves are expected all across the pond for the next few weeks.
Administrative Notification of the Week
Uncyclopedia's management would like to thank all participants of the 2nd Dubai Uncyclocon and would like to emphasize that it takes no responsibility for the excessive usage of forged passports. Please, people, try to be more discreet next time eh?
UnSignpost 4th March 2010 (your calendar is wrong)[edit]
The Newspaper That Wonders What Happened To You. You Used To Be Cool.
Mar 4th, 2010 • Issue 78 • Snorting the drug of Truth from the toilet seat of News
Controversy over Uncyclopedian leads journalist to public outcry
By Him again
The "of the Month" nominations and celebrations have been marred recently by drama circulating in forums, talk pages and on vote pages in various areas. Fortunately, whenever and wherever a drama has reared its ugly head an Unsignpost reporter has been there to cover it.
Why do I need to provide this? is now experiencing his second week of not having been nominated for anything. After mentioning to a respected editor that he had been nominated for at least one award for almost every day he had been part of the Uncyclopedia community, he bemoaned the fact that he had not been nominated for anything this month.
"I've been nommed for something EVERY SINGLE DAY of the five months I've been here--until this month. I'm not nommed for anything. It's pretty depressing, really." Why? complained
As a result of this complaining, Why? was then nominated for an award that had been more respected in the breach then in the observance - to paraphrase the bard - Nomination of the Month.
When, after a series of events, Roman Dog Bird felt obliged to nominate Aleister in Chains' Nomination for NOTM of PuppyOnTheRadio's nomination for NOTM of Why do I need to provide this?'s nomination of PuppyOnTheRadio for UGotM, he simply stated "This is a stupid award."
Meanwhile, at UotM, discussion over the number of awards given out led to an obvious discussion about the worth of RotM and UotM, which of course led, as all conversational roads do, to the hugely popular and debatably talented Dan Brown, not to be confused with Dan Kwon, as we aren't quite sure who he is.
The debate got unexpectedly heated when a talented and handsome editor suggested that another less talented editor should perform carnal and bestial acts with random household appliances.
Remember to cast your vote in AotM, PotM, RotM, NotM and WotM, or nominate the uncyc member that has impressed you most in these areas.
And of course, always remember Mordillo's words, "This one is for people who made Uncyclopedia better by cleaning up shop, helping people and allow Uncyclopedia to wobble around without falling over."
Vote today. Or tomorrow - depending on if you have the time.
Vote for Sandwiches suspended, Uncyclopedians confused
Confusion reigned supreme in Uncyclopedia this month, as the ever-popular Vote for Sandwiches page was inexplicably protected, and changed to something that appears to be called "Vote for Sysops". Historical investigation by our fearless mascot DogNewspaper has revealed that this is actually the traditional process by which new sysops are selected on Uncyc - which came as a surprise to many editors, particularly the newer ones, many of whom didn't realise new sysops could be selected.
And with the current vote count standing at 6 in favour, and with few regularly active sysops left to vote, it looks like the chances are that there will be new sysops by the end of this month - so time to start deciding who you're gonna nominate! Who will be the next to have a thousand IPs ask them on their talkpage why they deleted their useless little one-line stub? Stay tuned to find out?
Heh - poopy
Haven't we been here before?
Hang on - writing articles? There's an idea...
02:36, 1 March 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 153.107.33.156 (Talk) with an expiry time of 3 months (Cyberbullying: I'm guessing that's what you are trying to do. If so, you are shit at it.)
14:57, 2 March 2010 Todd Lyons (Talk | contribs) blocked {contr|207.144.173.198}} (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 month (Anti-semitism + stupidity = my foot + your butt)
19:05, 2 March 2010 Zim ulator (Talk | contribs) blocked 66.211.39.160 (Talk) with an expiry time of infinite (Vandal: Why don't you go to concervapedia, and ask them if Jesus loves you. I say, He doesn't.)
18:32, 2 March 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 87.114.246.12 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (blanking by installments is still blanking. and blanking makes baby jesus cry. it also pisses me off, and that's far worse.)
Is it actually legal to have two Portsmouth fans on the same wiki? The subject of this week's spotlight, Nachlader cared not a jot for this important question when he joined Codeine as Uncyc's second Pompey fan. Nachlader is an occasional drunk poster in the dump, a former NotM and RotM and, lest we forget, the writer of some very fine featured articles. Shame no-one can spell his username though.
Old-school featured article of the month
Smells Like Teen Spirit was a monthly celebrity scratch and sniff magazine produced by Grunge Publications in the early 1990's.
Beckoning a time of true periodical change, young women aged eighteen to twenty-two decided that merely looking upon their favourite celebrities no longer hot-buttered their ever-so-proverbial muffins and collectively proclaimed, "Here we are... now entertain us."
Perhaps it was something in the way these determined ladies phrased this proclamation, or simply the fact that Grunge perceived a lucrative sliver of the niche market that was girls who wanted to smell things, but the call was swiftly answered with a glossy, uniquely olfactory experience hailed as "a Nirvana for the nostrils" that became the unofficial scent of Generation X.
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UnSignpost 11th March 2010[edit]
The Newspaper That Contains Neither News Nor Paper.
Mar 11th, 2010 • Issue 79 • Making the New York Times look shabby since 2008
Investigative journalist looks in to the cabal; Shocking discovery
By PuppyOnTheRadio
For years a dreadful mystery has hung over Uncyclopedia. Rumours of a cabal have dogged Uncyclopedia, suggesting that there is a shadowy, mysterious group behind administrative decisions that have guided the hands of Uncyclopedia policy and procedure since the time of it's inception.
Many veiled references have been made to this cabal, however until now there has been no real investigative attempts to uncover the shocking truth about the cabal.
However, despite this, one plucky rookie journalist has decided that the truth must be free, and an investigation into the cabal has been undertaken. Investigating this it appears that the rumours relating to a cabal have come from numerous sources. In investigating this there were a number of dead ends, including pages that appear to have been deleted with no history.
One source has come forward to expose the truth about the cabal. Under threat of repercussion, this source has been asked to be known simply as Deep Throat. Upon interviewing this source the following shocking truth has been discovered!
There is no cabal.
Any rumours about a supposed cabal are completely untrue. Any suggested sources are in fact fictional and have no veracity behind them. There is no shadowy, mysterious force guiding Uncyclopedia.
As I, as a respected journalist, have now been made well aware of the non-existence of this cabal, I am now comfortable to retire my journalistic career. I will shortly be taking a long trip to a very remote location where there is no phone or internet access and will choose to never write again.
I may even go to Antarctica.
But most importantly, there is not now, nor never has been, a cabal.
A useful HowTo? does not compute!
Writing UnNews just got a whole lot easier, after UnNews kingpin Zim ulator, Zionist control freak Mordillo and sucker for punishment workhorse SPIKE got together to completely rewrite HowTo:Tune up an UnNews article. Featuring novel ideas (that they got from a novel) such as helpful advice, up-to-date references, and words in the right order, the article is so preposterously useful that it may have to be deleted, as it clearly contravenes Uncyclopedia's mission statement.
If there were a Cabal (which, as the above article clearly establishes beyond doubt, there isn't), it would encourage you to read it and never write a bad UnNews again.
Pruning dead wood
MrN's power trip continues, and something about a usergroup
Has someone taken the piss?
00:09, 10 March 2010 Roman Dog Bird (Talk | contribs) blocked 75.47.145.114 (Talk) with an expiry time of infinite (I shit on you, you emotionally unstable little twat. Why would you even come here?)
18:33, 9 March 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 69.150.243.254 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (So... Because you hate the CIA you vandalise the article about them on Uncyclopedia? Good thinking batman. That will stop em! Try again.... Later (obviously))
09:19, 9 March 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 202.189.75.214 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 day (you are right: Twilight does suck. however, so does page blanking, which means you yourself are full of as much fail as Twilight. consider that, and then weep.)
22:08, 8 March 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked 168.99.135.251 (Talk) with an expiry time of 6 months (obviously we're not getting through here. Go away and grow a cactus, then sit on it. Repeate step 2 several times. )
If this issue of the UnSignpost has reached your talk page, it's very likely to be thanks to the unstinting efforts of paperbot MrN9001. He's been schlepping around this wiki for over a year now, delivering this very slab of journalistic goodness, replacing templates, reverting stuff, making tiny but doubtless vital changes to pages, and generally taking care of all the stuff MrN himself is just too bone idle to do. What the hell would we do without him?
Admin answer of the Week
Shijiati: Why did you huff my page?
Codeine: Because it sucked.
Any questions, folks?
*Taurus (April 20 - May 20) - You have many great strengths, but taken too far they can become liabilities. For instance, your honesty can become rudeness, your bravery can become foolhardiness, and your taste for human flesh can become criminal cannibalism.
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UnSignpost 18th March 2010 (on time as always)[edit]
Mar 18th, 2010 • Issue 80 • Hold the line! News isn't always on time!
VFS: it begins
As exclusively reported in your super soaraway UnSignpost last week, the voting process for new Uncyclopedia sysops has begun, and so it's time for Signpost mascot and never-popular running joke DogNewspaper to give the traditional unbiased Signpost rundown of the candidates.
Leading the popular vote at present is long-serving poopsmith and kvetcher RabbiTechno, gaining a seemingly unassailable lead by being helpful, friendly and competent, and by promising to bake cakes for all who vote for him - a ploy which may well have snared the support of more than just the odd swing voter.
In a comfortable position just behind the Rabbi is lengthily-monikered Belgian workhorse Sockpuppet of an unregistered user, the joint Uncyclopedian of the Year for 2009, who seems to be gathering followers by being helpful, competent, friendly, and doing loads and loads of stuff. This cunning stratagem has obviously endeared him to the denizens of this wiki, who seem to be propelling him towards having his own banstick.
But hold on, who's this coming up stealthily behind Socky? Why, it's pee review supremo and scourge of vandals everywhere ChiefjusticeDS! The Chief is steadily accumulating backers through the cunning tactic of being competent, helpful and friendly. He also rules PEEING with an iron fist, and spends inordinate amounts of time cleaning and tidying up the place, facts that have led to him coming within striking distance of the leaders in what appears to be a three-horse race.
One thing is clear from this - all 3 of the most popular candidates appear to be helpful and friendly, which this newspaper finds unacceptable - where is the next Famine going to come from? where will we find an admin willing to infiban users and delete all their articles just for looking at someone the wrong way, or for being Kip the Dip?
Also nominated, and receiving some support are current Writer of the Year and greatest person in the history of all things ever Hyperbole, diplomat by Uncyc appointment to all religions Optimuschris, canine broadcaster and damn fine journalist PuppyOnTheRadio, allcaps-named VFD machine SPIKE, confirmed female on the internets Zana Dark, easy-to-spell feature-machine Guildensternenstein and jaded old-timer Necropaxx.
Other people have been nominated without recording a score as yet, but as this article is already long enough to have the editor wondering how many filler boxes he can dream up for the right-side panel this week, they just appear as a brief list: Mnbvcxz, Cajek, Gerrycheevers, Syndrome, The Woodburninator, Why do I need to provide this?, Charitwo and some bloke called Mhaille. Will any of them pick up a sympathy vote before the end of voting round 2?
Positions vacant.
The Imperial Colonization is a long standing organisation that has for years been at the cutting edge of creativity of articles for one of the world's most respected websites: Uncyclopedia. Due to a period of unprecedented growth during a time of economic downturn, as most of our members are otherwise unemployed, we are looking for a new assistant to the head of IC. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to work from home.
Your daily duties will include:
Telling writers that they should be working on the latest colonisation
Ensuring that changes to current colonisation are consistent with the theme
Telling writers to stop wasting time on other projects and get back to the current colonisation
Vetting new applicants to IC to ensure they are of the quality needed
Telling writers that they should really be working on IC
Going insane with power (optional)
The relevant applicant will have:
Significant experience in editing and writing articles for feature
Preferably have worked on IC or in a related field
The ability to tell writers that they should really get back to the current project, as it needs to be completed by the 20th of March.
A fluffy teddy called Norman (optional, but preferred)
This is a rare opportunity. The successful applicant will become next in line to take over the reins of IC when the current head gets sick of it retires. You will be paid in the half feature credit when a colonised article gets featured, as well as being able to call yourself the assistant to the head of Imperial Colonisation.
To apply, contact Why do I need to provide this? here.
UnNews is revolting!
Bandwagons also happen, inevitably
Oh noes, Aussie lawyers - could we be DOOMED?
Opinions required
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18:53, 16 March 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked Hyperactive-Sausage (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 month (enjoy your complimantary penis)
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12:30, 12 March 2010 MrN9000 (Talk | contribs) blocked 212.219.247.129 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 year (Cyberbullying: and generally being a retard. Let's get this right... You call your friend Gay, but you like editing the Powerpuff Girls page? Think about that...)
We at the UnSignpost pride ourselves on profiling only the finest Uncyclopedians. So how in the hell has it taken us 80 issues to get around to profiling Zana Dark? A self-confessed female and all-round smartass, Zana has been on this wiki for years, bringing her uniquely feminine touch to the Uncyclopedia Legal Department and a whole bunch of impressive rewrites. She's also been WotM for writing funny articles about flashing beaver, tits, and butter, proving conclusively that she knows exactly how to appeal to the sensibilities of the largely male Uncyc userbase.
Illegal Aliens from Outer Space! (1959) was a fact-based horror film that played in drive-in movie theaters across America. It is widely lauded for opening the eyes of an entire generation of movie patrons to the blood-curdling terror of a heterogeneous nation.
Filmed in Super Black 'n' White-O-Vision, with monophonic sound recorded in Mono-O-Phon-O-Sound, Illegal Aliens from Outer Space! proved to be a blockbuster that far exceeded the director's humble expectations. The movie's potent real-life lessons held patrons enrapt, while its documentary film-style distracted horny teens, protecting them from the joys of second base for the duration of the action-packed second and third acts of the film.
Modusoperandi won't quit hoggin' the shower.
Obligatory Filler Box of the Week
When you absolutely positively gotta have an extra line or so to balance out the UnSignpost - accept no substitute!
Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 19) - This week, you will say words that are complete nonsense to you because you think they identify a particular culture that you otherwise completely ignore, but that no one of that culture actually ever says. B'gosh and begorrah.
UnSignpost 25th March 2010 (hand delivered for added flavour)[edit]
Mar 25th, 2010 • Issue 81 • So full of news, our news-gut hangs over our news-jeans
VFS reaches third and final round, Uncyclopedians bored to tears
And so the bloated process that is VFS stumbles drunkenly into its third and final stage. All the chaff - that is, those polling low numbers of votes - has been mercilessly pruned, and the wheat - Chief, Rabbi and Socky - is now being sifted carefully by the admins. And the UnSignpost once more devotes precious space to covering it, even though most Uncyclopedians, with their reduced attention spans, got bored of it weeks ago.
Once again, the Rabbi appears to be in pole position, and there are rumours that Mordillo is already preparing him a traditional Jewish banstick, such is his current lead. Meanwhile, Sock and Chief are neck-and-neck for the second slot, polling three votes each currently. When he interviewed himself for this article, lazy journalist UU exclusively told us: "this reflects well on the site - we have three great, very strong candidates, any and all of whom would do a great job if opped. And a number of those who didn't make it to round 3 will probably make a much stronger showing next time. If there is a next time."
All that remains now is to see how the final few days affect the vote, and who finally gets the supreme honour of being able to go delete every single page of shitloads of crappy games that have been nommed on VFD, and the like. Joins us next week for the "From Our Logs" new admin special, when we analyse their first bans, and watch as these new admins mercilessly ban the unlucky loser and abuse their new powers flagrantly. Hopefully.
Top 5 Of-The-Months Become 90% Cheesier
By CheddarBBQ
Well known and completely badass user CheddarBBQ, known for his increasing his own self-image, and for being one of the coolest guys ever, has now set a record by being nommed for all four "big" nominations in the same month. Even more impressive, he has been nommed for these four without doing much of anything deserving of awards (besides the aforementioned alleged coolness and/or badassedness). The always tasty Eyetallyan snackfood has been able to hold tightly to last place in each one of these all month.
When asked about his newfound record, the great man/food had this to say: "I always knew I was special. The bag of cheese curls that I referred to as "Mommy" for 15 years would tell me so on a regular basis. Also, suck it bitchez."
Of course the amazing record-breaker would think well of himself, so we went elsewhere, to question his adopted son, Momo. When asked about the excitement over the record, Momo claimed, "Papa De La Rosa is, like, the greatest dad ever, I used to have so much fun with him when I was little. Ya know, he once left me inside an oven when I was a baby, went for a beer and got me out the following morning. That was fun, I'm tellin' ya. And when I was 4, he left me in an amusement park, went for a beer and came to pick me up a whole week later. I spent that week with that nice guy who kept touching my ass.. Good times.. When I was 7, he took me for a beer. And by the age of 14, we were running our small liquor-smuggling business.. Oh yeah, he's a great guy." Curiously, his comment did not much relate to the matter at hand, yet it was deemed necessary to include it anyway. It appears to be abundantly clear that Cheddar is a marvel of a man whom we can all look up to. In other news, it appears that Don Chedds is about to set another record by being the first Uncyclopedian to drastically lose all five major awards in one month. It appears to be abundantly clear that Cheddar is a marvel of a man whom we can all look up to. Here's to you, CheddarBBQ.
Oh yeah, and some other people had something to do with it as well.
Note: The writer of this article has decided that a fact check as to whether or not either of these are true records would be unnecessary.
Screw you, smartasses
Something to do with politics, I think
We have a history, but is that anything worth celebrating?
23:47, 23 March 2010 Zim ulator (Talk | contribs) blocked Dakotah0 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 week (Being a Dick: Fucking n00bs, editing the UnNews Main Page.... what do you think this is, rimjob? Wikipedia?)
09:16, 23 March 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) blocked 69.162.71.154 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 year (stop being so full of fail. seriously, did you have a fail transplant or something? that's a serious fail supply you carry round with you.)
05:14, 22 March 2010 Roman Dog Bird blocked TheUnUncyclopedian with an expiry time of infinite (Have you ever tried to cum in your mouth? I did. I couldn't go through with it though. No way was I going to eat my cum. What the fuck was I thinking? True story.)
Tell you what, let's do a bio of someone who's won the WotM award this year - how's that sound? Splendid, knew you'd like it. And you'll like the guy we've chosen too: Nameable. How can you not? He's friendly, cuddly (we're told), and capable of writing a funny article about Corn Flakes. That's pretty much as good as it gets, right there. Unless you have some kind of Corn Flake aversion, but then, if you do, you're beyond help. Probably.
A glut of Sasquatch-related UnNews stories led the very Reverend Zim to declare March 24th Sasquatch Appreciation Day. He celebrated by spamming a template around a few talk pages. Do those sasquatches appreciators know how to party or what?
Sexual innuendo is a hard topic to stay abreast of. As a humor tool, it stands erect in the English language. While there are no hard and fast rules as to what constitutes sexual innuendo, many people have mass-debated over the topic, and now the general principles at the root of the topic are firm and well-rounded. However, full penetration of the subject requires that the reader take a long, hard look at the target and be a cunning linguist in order to avoid limp phrases and imbibe the phrase with a large handful of meanings. The topic can become hot by attempting to grasp it, and the more one experiments with it, the more interested they become. Also, as the language changes innuendos must change in order to fill the newly created holes and satisfy listeners.
--ChiefjusticeDS 22:16, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
UnSignpost 1th April 2010 - Always on time[edit]
The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Periodical Of All Time!
Apr 1st, 2010 • Issue 82 • You'd better watch out, you'd better beware: if any news happens, the Signpost will be there
VFS Finishes, New Admins Unleashed, UnSignpost already struggling for material for next week
And there it is folks, weeks of frenzied voting (sorta), underhand whoring (possibly), fevered speculation (mostly by this newspaper, as is the role of the press), and finally apathy and overkill (abour 4 days in to the whole thing), Votes for Sysops has ended, and the unlucky losers are RabbiTechno and ChiefjusticeDS.
What does this mean? Well, it means there are now two more Brits armed with bansticks loose on the wiki. Their chirpy, endearing optimism and approachability has already been replaced by the dead-eyed stare and world-weary cynicism required by sysophood, and their friends on the wiki have all turned into suck-ups looking for joke bans.
When asked for comments, the Rabbi told us: "I'm willing to accept bribes for huffing articles, banning users, replacing pages with goatse and so on and plan to become as corrupt as possible in as short a time as possible". He also said, when accused of being a "Big Tough Admin Guy": ""Big" - indisputably, but it's all fat; "Tough" - only if you mean chewy; "Admin" - yes, can't argue with that one; "Guy" - only until I've saved enough for the operation". Chief hadn't commented at the time of going to press, so we made something up: "I'm going to ban everyone, I have judged this wiki, and found it wanting. All must pay", he might have said.
Of course, this situation also means the long-overdue return of the wildly popular Votes for Sandwiches. Already, 3 bread-based snacks have been suggested, and voting is expected to be fierce.
Finally, it also means that the UnSignpost, which has leaned heavily on VFS for filler its lead story for the last 3 weeks, is now set to struggle heavily for stories for the forseeable future. What desperate straw will we clutch at next week? Find out next thursday!
Frat party; Bring your own kegger
Finally the fraternal (and sisternal) instincts of Uncyclopedia's finest minds have a place that they can call their own.
ΥΣΣ, otherwise more easily pronounceably known as Upsilon Sigma Sigma, has been founded in the cellar of one of our newest members, who has already earned the level of respect and admiration that many of our members feel. Skinfan13 has taken the initiative of an entrepreneur and put this together with nothing but a jovial spirit and a little bit of random whoring on an excessive amount of member's talk pages.
I've been sitting here, thinking to myself, "gee, Uncyclopedia has a lot of stuff, a legal department, a political party, and an assortment of other great things, but it doesn't have a fraternity." I also noticed that the top 50 wanted articles list hasn't changed in over a year.
Skinfan13, Guildy's talk page
In their own charter, they claim that they stand for three thing, being Humor, Honor and Hubris, even if they are unable to spell two of them in English.
Already boasting membership of some of the finest that Uncyclopedia has to offer, including the founder of Der Unwehr and its highest point holding member, it is focused on creating one quality article per month via collaboration. However, rather than covering the same ground so amply covered by Imperial Colonization, it chooses to take its inspiration from one of most neglected sources, Wanted Pages.
However, not content to simply cater to those who like to work together on articles, they also have another focus in their writing sights - Requested Articles. And the third major focus is the betterment of articles by non members through their unstinting work on Pee Review.
While this is still in it's infancy the fraternity/sisternity is looking for fresh blood new pledges willing to come forth and work for the community, or failing that, people who like to party and eat chocolate cake.
For those who are after more information, feel free to check out ΥΣΣ today. Or tomorrow, if that works better for you. The bar is always open, although not always stocked.
Hippies: get your pathetic selves ready
It's Gettin' Rhetorical
He's back, and he's still against againsts
From our logs New Admins Bumper Special!
10:22, 31 March 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) blocked <insert name here> (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 3 months (I told you not to do that)
09:59, 31 March 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) resurrected Mordillo (Talk | contribs) (now THAT's a proper abuse of power)
09:54, 31 March 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) blocked Mordillo (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 2 hours (Zionist conspiracy block)
09:50, 31 March 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) resurrected RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) (someone's gotta do it. Besides, over the last year, I've developed a perverse love of poop)
09:48, 31 March 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 20 years (stop playing with the poop dammit! You're an admin baby!)
09:48, 31 March 2010 ChiefjusticeDS (Talk | contribs) resurrected ChiefjusticeDS (Talk | contribs) (Bah)
09:47, 31 March 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) blocked ChiefjusticeDS (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 10 minutes (Not banned enough yet: and being smelly)
09:46, 31 March 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) resurrected RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) (I've just woken up! Give me a chance to become accustomed to my new powers!)
09:42, 31 March 2010 ChiefjusticeDS (Talk | contribs ) blocked RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 20 minutes (Abuse your power dammit!)
In honour of the new additions to their ranks, this week's bio profiles the Uncyc admins. Bitter, twisted, and cynical to a man (and they are all men, even the supposed female ones), the admins spend their whole lives thinking of trivial reasons to ban people and delete their latest masterworks. Nothing gives them more of a hardon than watching someone lovingly sculpt a perfectly formed Chuck Norris joke, perhaps combined with a Your Mom reference and a sublimely subtle penis penis penis insertion, waiting patiently for it to be realised to the author's satisfaction, and then deleting it, possibly with an insulting message into the bargain.
Their mothers never loved them.
Co-incidence of the Week
UnSignpost's gentleman editor UU plans an article about how it's been a while since TKF nommed Filial Piety for VFH. Then, just as he's about to write said article, TKF noms Filial Piety for VFH, with the usual outcome. Spooky - there's no other word for it.
Friday, 04:45, Apr 2 2010 UTC
UnSignpost 4/8/10 - Oh hi Signpost.[edit]
Telling You Stuff You Already Knew, But With Different Words!
Apr 8th, 2010 • Issue 83 • News even an Uncyclopedian can understand![1]
We deliver on our promises
As stated in last weeks edition of the USP, VFS is over, and we've run out of material to be able to fill this particular edition.
Discussion about what to include in here has been vast and varied. Sockpuppet of an unregistered user suggested we write an article about how it's his birthday today, but how are we going to be able to write an entire article about his birthday? Especially when the bastard hasn't invited us to his party or shared any of his cake with us.
Other suggestions included writing the value of π to the first 1,000 digits, or planting drugs on an admin. As none of the regular writers are able to do anything mathematical, and we attempted to plant drugs on an admin, but they mysteriously disappeared before we could discover them, those options were excluded.
So instead we have gone back to suggestions for what we were going to do for the April Fool's day issue, where EMC suggested we have an article which simply showed someone being hit in the face with a pie. Working on the assumption that a picture is worth one thousand words, this seems to incorporate elements from most of the ideas we have had so far.
If you are interested in helping to pad out contribute fine quality writing to the UnSignpost, or just wanting to bring up items of interest for our intrepid team of editors to report on, drop us a line at the press room and we promise we'll be polite when we ignore it.
Spinning some new yarns
Another week, another new Uncyclopedia project, it seems. The latest to be launched is the Summit of Spin, which purports to be "an "office" that makes it easier and more organized to collaborate on article serials". It seemingly has no rules, but claims to provide "a series of tools to facilitate writing", which sounds dangerously close to helpful, if you ask us.
Intrigued, your ever-alert UnSignpost asked the project's founder, Multiliteralist, for some quotes, preferably lengthy ones for the sake of padding. He responded: "You like the truth, don't you? But you don't like it the way it is now? Join us." Which is all well and good, but doesn't exactly fill this article out anything like enough. Fortunately, he added: "Our door is open for anyone with - in the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby - some moral flexibility." That was slightly more helpful for our purposes.
Fortunately, however, he followed that up with: "Early this year, I felt something was missing in the world. That something was money truth - and it was specifically missing in my pockets the world of organised news reporting. Whatever is true in the world - like how wooden wheels are far better than tyres made of rubber and wheels made of metal alloys, or how fluffy bunnies are infinitely useful for all kinds of things - I felt I had to bring these things out for people to see. And you, if you are as greedy as I am love truth as much I do, can join forces with me by working for Summit of Spin for a ridiculously low salary, considering how much you have to lie love of truth! I cannot promise you anything else but prolonged court battles blood, sweat and tears in our constant fight for better-paying clients a more honest world!" And we think that just about sums it up without us having to do too much actual reporting, so we'll leave it here. Why not have a look at the Summit of Spin and get involved?
Someone wants to be banned
Oh dear God, is it still going?
World Cup fever starts here
14:26, 6 April 2010 Under user (Talk | contribs) changed block settings for 167.206.233.170 (Talk) with an expiry time of 2 weeks (anonymous users only, account creation disabled, autoblock disabled) (ooh, is this a game of "state the bleedin' obvious"? OK: you're a twat. I win!)
15:53, 4 April 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) blocked Starsky133 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 5 seconds (I have no life and nothing bothers me more than people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're." :-))
01:22, 3 April 2010 Zim ulator (Talk | contribs) blocked 123.243.77.178 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (Because I said so: Random insertion of the phrase "Monstrous testicles" into an UnNews article is not funny unless you're extrodinarily lucky, and you, my fine douche bag of a fellow human, are not lucky.)
You'd think that, him having been on the wiki for over 4 years, having written a bunch of featured articles, and recently become an admin, we'd have done a bio on RabbiTechno by now, wouldn't you? Arguably Uncyc's second most notorious Jew (because no-one ever remembers TKF is Jewish), and UotM wayyy back in January '08, the good Rabbi now polices the wiki with his kosher banstick as part of the increasingly Semitic but non-existent Cabal.
I'm a dick. A private dick. That's like a private dancer but with a gun and dances cost extra. That's how we do it in the detective game. It's a game like Clue, but without the cards or the board. Just the dice.
And they always come up snake eyes.
The name is Gwendolyne. Last name's not important. All you need to know is my friends call me Gwendolyne. My friends are bourbon and ice and I haven't spoken to ice in years.
It was a stormy and dark night. Not a dark and stormy night. That's an unrelated story, one that’s got little to do with this narrative. That somber tale has got something to do with Paul Clifford and I'd tell you about it, but the library revoked my card. Something about expositioning too loud last time I was there.
Sorta-Comeback of the Week
A wild Gerrycheevers appeared! Gerry used April Fool - it's pretty effective! Necropaxx, RabbiTechno, Mordillo and UU used gullibility - it's not very effective! Gerry wins!
↑ Not Guaranteed
Pleb CUN KUN Dexter111344 • Complain here • Vote now! 19:58, April 8, 2010 (UTC)
UnSignpost 15/4/10 - Yet another on time delivery.[edit]
Apr 15th, 2010 • Issue 84 • News? Where we're going, we don't need... News...
Something Scary This Way "Comes"
By Skinfan13
A recent infestation of glowing dildos has taken over the front page of Uncyclopedia. Many users were shocked on April 11th when they opened up their web browsers and were treated to bright green replicas of EugeneKay's penis. Everywhere. Even poor anti-Semite Mel Gibson couldn't escape the wrath of the glowing dick. And the reason for the Scream in Edvard Munch's famous painting was revealed - turns out to have been caused by a hoard of giant glowing EugeneKay penises - an understandable reaction.
When asked to comment on the matter, users simply refused to acknowledge that they had seen the penises at all. "Well, I for one didn't notice anything. Glowing penii are so common around here that these particular examples of illuminated manhood really didn't make an impression..." said Aleister in Chains. HELPME had a different outlook on the whole matter: "of course I noticed, how couldn't I? They were everywhere!" he exclusively told our intrepid reporter. Random internet traffic took notice of the infestation as well, with 127.0.0.1 commenting" "Ballsack!!!11 alolololololololooll pasfsdkjfhaelkfjds PENIS PENIS PENIS." He was promptly banned.
The infestation passed almost as quickly as it came and a sense of normalcy returned to the main page when the penises retreated into the dark and abysmal graveyard of unused image files. By April 13th, all traces of the Great Penis Invasion of April 11-13 2010 (as it is now being called) were gone. There are, however, unconfirmed reports that the menace still lingers close to the main page, just waiting to strike again soon.
I See IC All At Sea
It has come to the attention of our ever-vigilant reporters (largely because Why? has been bugging us to write a story about it) that Why? has decided to stand down as Admiral of Imperial Colonization, the organisation that somewhat amusingly styles itself after British Imperialism, but uses American spelling.
We didn't need to ask the outgoing Admiral for a comment, as he was falling over himself to give us plenty, so we randomly selected the following: "I'm anal for accuracy", he told us. Among other things.
Anyway, if you want to follow in Why?'s footsteps, and those of his illustrious predecessors in charge of the Colonization project, you can sign up to be considered for the post here. If it helps, you may wear a nice hat (please provide your own hat).
The seed of a good idea
It's a surprise, it says so in the name...
Tell Uncle Dex everything. Everything...
17:54, 14 April 2010 ChiefjusticeDS (Talk | contribs) blocked 204.185.215.1 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (On the charge of flagrant asshattery while in posession of an internet connection, I find you incredibly guilty)
20:05, 13 April 2010 RAHB (Talk | contribs) blocked RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (I never gave you an inaugural joke ban? I blame you.)
23:03, 12 April 2010 Codeine (Talk | contribs) blocked 173.55.13.71 (Talk) with an expiry time of 1 week (And the LORD said unto me: "Go ye, and smite the page blankers; they are as shit upon My heavenly sandal")
14:44, 11 April 2010 ChiefjusticeDS blocked 79.73.5.86 with an expiry time of 1 day (You sound clever, and therefore I am blocking you to ensure that your talents are not wasted on us.)
21:19, 11 April 2010 Mordillo (Talk | contribs) blocked EugeneKay (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of a random ban time (chose your own adventure)
Continuing our glorious occasional tradition of bio-ing people who haven't contributed for months and half the newer members of the wiki will never have heard of, let's have a look at Andorin Kato. An Uncyc stalwart since 2006, Andorin was voting on VFD, QVFDing stuff and writing good articles when most of today's active users were in short trousers (they're still in short trousers, of course, but it's been a while). In true on-the-ball Uncyc fashion, this hard work was recognised when Andorin was made UotM in November 2009. He was less than thrilled.
The nostalgic return of Cajek Ban of the Week
11:39, 14 April 2010 RabbiTechno (Talk | contribs) blocked Cajek (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 day (About time I did this. It's been a good two weeks and I haven't done yet.)
--ChiefjusticeDS 20:34, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
UnSignpost 1 May[edit]
The Uncyclopedia UnSignpost: Special Weekend edition
April 22nd 1st May, 2010 • Issue 85 • Insert penis joke here
The launch of a new and exciting weekend edition. Maybe.
"Where is my signpost?" was the cry heard from the world wide masses this week. "There should have been an issue on the 22nd and on the 29th, and nothing seems to have been done about it."
Fear not, gentle reader, for the signpost will not go gentle into the good night. We have instead taken a brief hiatus for no reason that we could conceivably come up with, and now we are back in a blaze of glory.
For those who are unaware of our proud history, the next issue, coming out this Thursday, will mark the (roughly) 2 year anniversary of the creation of the UnSignpost, the unperiodic periodical started by Dr. Skullthumper and Cajek. The good doctor, at the time of the first issue, was asked what his feelings were towards creating the first formalised forum for spam within Uncyclopedia. It was from this that we now have the immortal words "Those assholes better appreciate this. They'd BETTER."
Now, two years on from those words of wit and wisdom, the UnSignpost is still struggling going strong.
There have been varied reports as to why the USP has not been released. One suggestion is that regular contributors just "couldn't be bothered writing." Others have suggested that it comes down to the unwillingness of the head editor, who was recently heard to say "I'm so against... this... again... (E)xistence is far more than (it) deserves."[1]
One of the more probable reasons for the lack of issues may be that the news has now gone viral, and is available more readily through facebook then it has been previously. One facebook semi-regular, who bears a remarkable resemblance to a Silent Bob inaction figure, has said of this development "Excuse me, but I think your geek is showing." Dexter111344 supported the move to the social networking site by saying "I won't be joining as I don't intend to ever make a Facebook."
Another possibility is the number of users now communicating via UnSkypelopedia. When asked for a comment, EMC said "OH FUCKING CHRIST I'VE CUM" Dr.Skullthumper, however, said "I started both of them.", and then wished to make reference to some forum or something.
Ethine, however, was somewhat more constructive, informing this reporter that "Since it's getting close to summer, we'll likely have more calls, as most people's schedules are slowing down. As well as calls, we have the neat little chat thing at the bottom, where everyone sexually harasses each other when calls aren't going." Despite several attempts, I still haven't been sexually harassed.
One reason why users have not been as distracted recently is due to the enormous amount of work going on at PEE review. At present there are articles waiting for review which have been there for over three weeks. For all those who are looking to get the review process back and alive, please pick up an article for review today. Your time and investment into this proud tradition can create the next great article, like the recently featured A wizard did it or the recently nominated UnNews:Windows 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 came out, hailed by some as "the most profound and groundbreaking article to hit Uncyclopedia in over 50 years"
Another reason why many users may be distracted is the number of collaborations that are currently in progress. Of those there is Tim Burton, being cleaned up by the team at ΥΣΣ, lead by the fantastic Skinfan13. Also starting to make some ground in the spread of reliable information is the team at Multiliteralist/Summit of Spin, lead by the wonderful Multiliteralist. And of course, coming out blinking from seeing the light of Discordianism is the ever faithful Imperial colonization, lead by everyone's favourite canine, RDB PuppyOnTheRadio.
And of course, another reason might simply be that the team here at USP are all running around arranging bake sales to assist with Poo Lit Surprise, the bi-annual competition that actually gives prizes to the winners.
The most likely explanation, however, is that nothing newsworthy ever happens on Uncyclopedia
UnNews:Windows 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 came out
Looks who's out of the closet.
The most profound and groundbreaking article to hit Uncyclopedia in over 50 years
Flammable blocked 86.171.18.85 with an expiry time of infinite (YOU ARE SO COOL SO COOL AWESOME LOL)
ChiefjusticeDS blocked 91.195.183.211 with an expiry time of 1 day (Ah, that may be true, but you are a wanker, so it evens out)
Olipro blocked 92.4.117.223 with an expiry time of infinite (YOU EVER BEEN FUCKED IN THE ARSE WHILE WATCHING A YANKEES GAME?)
Mordillo blocked 217.28.207.226 with an expiry time of 1 week (time's up! you need to go to the toilet to do some poopy!)
RabbiTechno blocked 91.195.183.213 with an expiry time of 1 month (Cyberbullying. Matthew R. would like to point out that while he may be gay, you are banned)
Olipro blocked YOUR TOO SLOW! with an expiry time of infinite (your spelling is shit, it's spelt "YOU'RE" ... so that means you're a fucking retard)
ChiefjusticeDS blocked God-Is-Cool with an expiry time of 40 days (Blessed be the Uncyclopedia admins for they shall lead us to the promised land, also bye bye!)
Mordillo blocked God-Is-Cool with an expiry time of 40 years (It took them 40 years not 40 days you bloody heathen)
What can anyone say about Maniac1075. There are rumours that he is not an individual, but rather a multinational conglomerate of authors who do nothing but write quality articles on an extremely high rate. Or at least on an extreme high. However you look at it his contributions to date have been fast and furious. There is definitely something odd with him at least. If nothing else, he has a scarily in-depth knowledge of the world of professional wrestling. In fact he has been nominated as both Writer of the month and Potatochopper of the month.
There is a particular school of though that says that these fields here should be filled in with any old garbage in order to ensure that both the left and the right hand sides of the USP are of the same length. While we appreciate this sentiment, the truth is that the USP is known to be constantly at bursting point with information that we can't fit into one column, and so this right hand column is essential for the stuff that we can't fit elsewhere.
The above section is not a prime example of the statement in the section above. Please feel free to ignore it.
↑ This may have been taken out of context.
Brought to you by fucking magic. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY 10:30, 1 May 2010
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Still Following the Sussex-Lisbon Library Talks (Since 2010)
I hesitate to include the word "progress" in the title of this post.
Pauline Haass Public Library
Photo credit: Yelp
Lisbon, Sussex library talks resume. Town official: long-term library agreement will continue. (Sussex Sun, 7/16/2013)
Excerpt: The present formula provides the community's share operating costs based on the size of their respective tax bases.
The Village of Sussex pays approximately $455,000 to the library while the Town of Lisbon pays about $435,000.
Town Chairman Matt Gehrke has said the Village of Sussex share of the operating costs should be higher since village residents use the library more than town residents.
Negotiations over the new agreement stalled for nearly six months until April when town officials indicated they might be willing put more money into the agreement if negotiations resumed.
Following a brouhaha over a "most objectionable 3-page letter," library talks to resume between Sussex and Lisbon. (5/27/2013)
A most objectionable 3-page letter. (5/10/2013)
Dear Greg; Love, Lisbon Town Board. (4/27/2013)
Perhaps Pauline Haass is spinning in her grave. (3/18/2013)
What a long strange trip it's been. (2/13/2012)
Dueling news releases. (10/7/2012)
Town of Lisbon wants deep discount in payment for library services. (9/30/2012)
As the world of joint library agreements turns. (8/22/2012)
The beat goes on. (7/2/2012)
Joint library negotiations continue. (5/13/2012)
Jane Stadler on Paying Taxes: "...it is something that you do because you're part of the community. (11/26/2011)
Lisbon town chair not likely to get his way on Pauline Haass Library funding. (11/22/2011)
Lisbon Town chair advocates paying for library services on the cheap. (11/22/2011)
The challenges of shared governance and funding. (9/28/2011)
Consensus building for new joint library agreement. (7/22/2011)
Sussex, Lisbon: Local politics and library negotiations. (5/28/2011)
Negotiation to continue after information-gathering process. (10/8/2010)
And the beat goes on. (10/4/2010)
Differences of opinion of library funding continue. (9/18/2010)
Leaders of Village of Sussex, Town of Lisbon clash over funding for library. (8/26/2010)
Will annexation resolution interfere with negotiations over joint library agreement? (8/4/2010)
Proposal to change library funding formula gets cool reception. (6/7/2010)
Town of Lisbon Chairman proposes new funding formula for library. (5/31/2010)
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Gotham Better Hedge Fund Fees?
Hema Parmar of Bloomberg reports, Gotham Hedge Fund Explores Shifting fees to Tie Pay to Returns:
Gotham Asset Management, the $6 billion money manager run by Joel Greenblatt and Robert Goldstein, is exploring a new fee structure that ties more of the fund’s pay to performance.
The firm is in talks with some investors for its Gotham Neutral Strategies hedge fund about charging one fee: the greater of a 1 percent management fee or 30 percent of returns that exceed the fund’s benchmark, according to two people familiar with the matter. The equity fund currently charges 1.5 percent of assets in management fees and 20 percent of profits, one of the people said.
Hedge funds have been trimming and altering their fees amid a backlash over lackluster returns and criticism that the standard model of charging a 2 percent management fee and a 20 percent incentive fee is too expensive. Most hedge funds charge investors too much for the performance they deliver, Greenblatt, who is Gotham’s co-chief investment officer, told Bloomberg Television in a May 2014 interview.
The Gotham Neutral Strategies fund gained 7.5 percent last year, according to another person familiar with the matter. The HFRI Market Neutral Index was up about 2 percent in that time. Since inception in July 2009, the fund has gained an annualized 7 percent.
If the new fee structure is adopted, Gotham would join Hong Kong-based hedge fund Myriad Asset Management and others in moving to the 1-or-30 model, which has been championed by investors including the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
As of mid-February, at least 16 multi-billion-dollar hedge funds worldwide are either in the process of implementing or have implemented the 1-or-30 fee structure that was introduced to the industry in the fourth quarter of 2016, Jonathan Koerner of Albourne Partners said in a telephone interview on Feb. 16.
“The objective of ‘1 or 30’ is to more consistently ensure that the investor retains 70 percent of alpha generated for its investment in a hedge fund,” Koerner wrote in a white paper published in December by Albourne, which advises clients on more than $400 billion of alternative investments globally. The management fees charged in a year when the fund underperforms the benchmarks are deducted from the following year’s performance fee payment, making it, in effect, a prepaid performance fee credit, he said last month.
The Gotham Penguin Fund, which wagers on and against U.S. stocks, gained 25 percent last year, according to one of the people familiar with the matter, compared with a 5.4 percent rise in the HFRI Equity Hedge Index. Since inception in 2013, the fund has returned an annualized 15 percent.
A representative for the firm declined to comment.
So what is this all about? Basically, Joel Greenblatt of Gotham is right, most hedge funds charge investors too much for the performance they deliver, and he is proposing something to better align interests with his investors.
Why isn't every big hedge fund doing this? In short, because they don't want to, perfectly content shafting their investors with insane fees no matter how they're performing, or they don't need to because they're performing just fine and have a "take it or leave it" attitude when it comes to their fees.
In the past, it was always underperfoming hedge funds what would propose lower fees to investors. But here we have a well-known, highly respected hedge fund manager who has performed well over the years stating the gig is up and he's proposing something better to his investors.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure this wonderful "1 OR 30" fee structure is going to gain traction, no matter how much sway Albourne has.
I had an exchange with Dimitri Douaire, formerly of OPTrust, on this topic on LinkedIn (click on image below);
Now, I might disagree with Dimitri on whether or not giving better terms to emerging hedge funds is a "subsidy" or whether multi-billion-dollar hedge funds should charge any management fee at all, but he's right, unless the majority of investors start implementing this fee structure across all their investments, it's not going to gain traction.
You can read more on Albourne's "1 or 30" fee structure here. In theory, it makes perfect sense, we just have to wait a decade to see if it gains any traction.
Below, an older (2011) Fortune interview where Joel Greenblatt talks about how to beat the market (see transcript here). Listen carefully to his comments, very interesting, and remember, I track Gotham's portfolio every quarter along with those of other legendary investors when I go over top funds' activity.
Last year, Greenblatt also talked with Morningstar about choosing active managers. You can watch that interview here and read the transcript as well. It's excellent and well worth listening to.
Lastly, it isn’t often that a very successful hedge fund manager with a winning strategy closes up shop, but that is exactly what Joel Greenblatt did in 1995. It’s equally unusual to get back in the business more than a decade later with a dramatically altered strategy. Greenblatt appeared on WealthTrack in 2014 to discuss his big change in portfolio strategy, from a very concentrated approach to broad diversification. Watch this interview below.
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Fulcrum The Blog
A Blog following the development process of the tabletop RPG Fulcrum.
Name change for CORPS to Fulcrum
A rose by any other name is still a rose...
As the it turns out the name CORPS belongs to an out of print space sci-fi RPG. Since we're not yet close to publishing there is little cost for us avoiding any kind of naming in infringement down the road so we've decided to change the name of our gaming system from CORPS to Fulcrum.
While no special acronym we have strived for a feel of meaningful balanced combat in our gaming system. Thus our game is the fulcrum on which that balance rests. It seemed quite appropriate when viewed in this light so from here on out will be referring to our system as Fulcrum.
Change Logs, actually released
Just a quick update. I know a while (see years) ago we mentioned the usage of a change log but never actually went ahead and released those logs. They are at a very high level and more references for the developers but I figure for those of you out there interested in see the changes here is what we have addressed in the past. In future posts the hope is that we'll always have a change log to accompany the new changes we are discussing and how they impact the game at large. Note these are all changes in the past that have been in place for some time as the implementation dates might indicate.
4.3.0 - 1/29/2018
Dodge Change
Dodge no longer halves ongoing - instead it increases CR by 3 + 1/2 level.
Monster Crit Change
Monsters no longer roll for crits - it does a fixed value.
Stealth Init
Stealth now grants +2 init per rank.
Monster Mass Tweakage
Monster bonus MP’s has been properly revamped. All monsters now have a fixed number of bonus MP they can put towards favored categories.
Initiative Valuation Change
Init is worth less -- this ends up increasing the amount of init gain from talents and stealth. The Qu stat gives only slightly more Init then before, but now it also gives more starting HP.
A rank in general now increases your recovery by 1-3.
Player HP
Starting HP increased by 1
Weapon spec put back to v6, T’s are now 2-7, 5-14, 7-21
Many of the defensive powers have been slightly weakened. Scaling has been changed for the passive reduction abilities to be more inline with other passive scaling.
Major overhaul of the “Weapon/Magic” Greater Talents. In almost all cases they were weakened.
Monster Damage Shield Overhaul
They are cheaper now.
Spell Critical Overhaul
See Spell Meta notes spell crit section for details
Caster Review
All caster meta has been reviewed and tweaked
A revisit of core powers. Some crazy AoE’s are reduced, many PP’s tweaked...
Dodge buff’s slightly reworked, all the core “improve dodge” powers now have a minor action or a swift action component.
Some greater talents got some extra minor perks.Knacks:
Split Strike now does -1 to damage (-4 from -3)
Most Knacks are being overhauled / tweaked with AP’s being reduced in power from 13.5 though 40.5 to 13 through 39.
Weapon spec slightly reduced, T’s are now 2-7, 4-13, 7-20 (down from 5-14 . 7-21)
Tweaks to unarmed & throw weapons & crits.
There have been a number of additional changes and tweaks to this sphere from 4.2.5 up till now. Still not officially stable but once the sphere is it’ll be marked in a release.
Cut to the Chase is now perform an SSA while charging.
Labels: 2d12, C.O.R.P.S., changelog, CORPS 4.4.0 CORP Spell Sphere development, game design, Game testing.
Annual Update?!
Wow it's been nearly a year since my last blog update. You can rest assured though that the CORPS team hasn't been slacking, well maybe a little, but honestly we've made some huge developments both in our tooling and monitoring of CORPS (which helps us with the design processes) as well as additional new content. I mean last time I wrote we were on CORPS 4.1.5 and as of this writting we will probably be wrapping up 4.2.7 at the end of June.
We are almost finished testing on our 2nd to last spell sphere, the Necromancer sphere and once we've signed off on testing we'll begin development on the final spell sphere we have in the works which will be the Archmage sphere. Once those two are complete perhaps the single biggest hurdle (character spell spheres) will be complete. Assuming I am not spending too much time on actual development and testing I will make sure to add a post to go into a little more detail of what all is involved in the spell sphere. Until then happy CORPSing.
Labels: CORPS 4.2.7 CORP Spell Sphere development
CORPS 4.1.5 and CORPS into the future
As with any game in development, especially when trying new concepts, certain things are going to fail and other things will work. CORPS has certainly been no exception. We've had a number of things work for us and a number of things that for one reason or another had to be scratched from the game. One thing I can say for sure is that the progress in the game has certainly been going in the right direction. I mean that both in terms of completeness of the game as well as the goals we set out for the game in the first place. CORPS was meant to be above all else a fun table-top role playing game. As we developed the game we pretty much agreed that the real heart of the role playing game would be the combat and thus we have the acronym Combat Oriented Role Playing System.
The more time and effort we've put into the game the more I amazed at how we've been able to tweak things to really increase the level of fun and excitement we get while testing it out. I also feel like things within the game are much more cemented. I can't say how good it feels to be moving forwards with new development rather than going back and changing things that have already been done because they didn't work as well as you hoped the first time around. Sure there are still minor tweaks here and there, especially in light of testing but the bulk of the game as it is now is how it'll be when we eventually move towards releasing the game as a finished product. That time is still a decent ways away but I am more of the mind that we'll know we'll be getting close as we wrap up the last of development and start working on a kick starter campaign to raise funds for hiring an artist who can turn our ideas in to bold images to describe things as we see it. Of course that is as I said, a ways off.
One thing I did think of as I was going through our older and infrequent blog posts is that despite talking about CORPS so much, there is a lot of stuff that had been previously introduced in prior years that is totally irrelevant or just out right wrong now. I had thought about putting together another list of blog entries that would reintroduce CORP to the readership of this blog but the time spent writing to the blog is time that I could be spending towards the actual development. Since this is all a side project it pains me to manage time so closely but life comes before hobbies unfortunately. Still I think it would be a good idea to reintroduce the game with the changes that we'll most likely go live with. The game really has come a long way since we started and even more so through all the various major releases we've gone through. I plan to in the near future to begin taking this game to comic bookshops to try to run people through an actual demo of the game just so I can start getting candid feedback on how the game plays out. The thing is, and this is why I primarily am bringing it up here on this blog, up to this point nearly all of my testing of this game has been done online. It stands to reason if someone actually reads this post and has some interest in the game, even if it's just mild curiosity, it's someone like that that I should be reaching out to in order to have them test out the game. So I'll just keep this short and say that if you are interested in helping us test the game just reach out and let use know on my website: http://www.nortain.net/corps-contact-us.html. If you're curious as to what we are using to test here is a list of the software we use.
Mumble (VoIP)
MapTools (Tabletop sim software - requires java)
Labels: combat oriented role playing game, CORPS, CORPS 4.1.5, CORPS RPG, game development, Game testing., RPG, Testing
Change log? WTF is that? CORPS 4.1.3
Sometimes I feel like the development process for CORPS is something like sticking one's head in the sand. Why are you sticking your head in the sand? To see more sand in more detail of course. In this case sand in my metaphor for all those tiny details that come together to make the game great. Of course in spending such a lengthy amount of time working on the details you can tend to lose focus of the big picture as well as the processes that help support the building of the big picture.
One thing we had always done was to give our builds version numbers so we'd know where we were in our development process as also when something might be out of date. This was often the case with test characters we created. You make a character, test them some, make some tweaks that affect a number of characters and suddenly you have characters whose builds are no longer valid. We quickly found putting a version number on the document proved very helpful in letting us know what and who needed to be reviewed before testing after making a change. But one painfully obvious omission we made was that we never documented exactly what these version numbers meant. That is to say when we made a big game changing update, we'd simply give that a new version number without specifically writing down what it was we had changed and more importantly why. When you're constantly working on something constantly it stays pretty fresh and the developers never really paid it much attention. We did a good enough job of remember what was recently changed and whenever we took breaks from developing any big changes had been fully implemented so even if we didn't remember what we changed recently we could plainly see what the new rules were.
It wasn't until this most recent round of changes that we ran into the problem of, "wait what version did this change belong it?" With a lot of changes flying around going back and forth and length of the development cycle we started becoming slowly aware that we couldn't keep all this crap together. Some documents had notes in the documents some didn't, some had documentation about a version number with no mention of what that number actually represented. Needless to say it started to get pretty messy. Luckily the fix was simple. We were able to create a central record keep for all the changes that went in under each version and what those changes were and why. It's really kind of sad cause we've overhauled the game essentially 3 times now, and have had numerious tiny and sizeable changes in between those and all this time we never had anything to clearly state what these changes were. Sure we had them written down.... somewhere. But the central record keep is really what we've been needing for quite some time. Welcome to what programmers refer to the changelog. The concept is simple. It's a log of everything that changed since the last released version. Being programmers ourselves we had to laugh at the fact that we'd hadn't thought of putting this together sooner.
Another interesting aspect of having a changelog, even though it's still pretty immature, it's neat to be able to see what we actually have been working on for the past... well year now. Shit I really need to update this blog more. Well anyway I figured I'd give a short list of the most recent set of changes we've made to give a glimpse into some of the stuff we've been tweaking as of late.
4.1.30 - Racial Review, 2m/2w updates
Racial Review - The stat bonuses are made more consistent, Burman are Br/Re, Gryx are Br/Pr, Feydra are Agi then Pr Or Re, Primentals are Br then Pr Or Re. This gives more flexibility for races to be casters, because making a Re based class without Re is just rough. Melee has more flexibility, because you can go balanced weapons and use the bonus to Re or Agi. Agile weapon user and Heavy weapon user still will need the isolated stat.
Oh the Humanity changes again. This time it is +4 to hit, but gives advantage to any critical rolls. It is difficult to balance as it is currently the only racial which has a decent chance of doing nothing by using it unless you are attacking 2 or more targets. The swift version was strong, but for the wrong reason -- the game was hypernova back then.
Caster Core Powers Review - A more detailed breakdown of the 3w is leading to an overhaul of the kits. 1g’s apparent were way OP - but we have no test data to support the numbers. In theory 2w/2m were underpowered because they were “equal” to a 3m or 3w (using three theme points). 2m/2w gain an encounter ability to cast a std/delib action spell and perform a snap attack.
2w/2m stat sharing - Updated so that 2w/2m will usually be marital stat primary -- All 2w/2m now get +1 to spell damage per point in Agi or Br. This allows a 3 offence stat to have a +3 bonus to spell damage, and a +6 if they have an “off stat” racial bonus. The old way was allowing 3 offence with off stat to have a +8 to melee, +6 to spells, and the epic stat PP bonus. This is vastly stronger than any other setup, so it was highhandedly nerfed.
Overcast Magic Spell - Duh. Math is hard. As an overcast reg spell is +18%, an overcast magic should be +18% -- which is a +2 to hit, not +1.
Core Caster Static Bonus: The bonus for non-scaling effects has been increased from 25% to 40%. This is for consistency with Juggernaut PP, which is valued at 9 (as a PP) and it gives 6 THP (non-scaling).
HP Increase: SD, Vitality, and stealth now give slightly more HP. All HP fractions are now X/3. SD went from 1/4 to 1/3 per rank, Vit is now 4/3, 8/3, 10/3. 12/3, [from 1,2, 5/2, 7/2] and stealth increases from 1/2 per rank to 2/3 per rank.
Makes absolutely no sense? Yeah well I guess you'd either need to know the game some first before decoding what all of that slang means. What you can take away from it though is that we're hard at work progressing CORPS towards general release and look forward to when we can start playing the game with regular people rather than those in our tight knit beta groups. Until then... keep on gaming
Labels: C.O.R.P.S., changelog, combat oriented role playing game, CORPS 4.1.3, CORPS RPG, fantasy, fantasy games, role-playing, RPG
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THE FIRST PUBLISHED NARRATIVE IN THE ARABIAN GULF
Auther : Dr. S. Al-Shatty
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Episode 138: Aloha From Alola
On November 27, 2016 by Jason Rechtman and Jose Angel Salado
It’s time to catch ’em all, all over again. In this episode of the Random Nintendo Podcast, we head to the tropics of Alola to bring you in-depth impressions of the highly anticipated Pokemon Sun & Moon. It’s also Switch rumors galore as we break down a bevy of rumors about the upcoming console’s game lineup, including what’s coming at launch, additional ports you may not expect, and reports of a Mario x Rabbids RPG (yes, you read that correctly). Plus, we discuss Super Mario Run’s newly announced price, Ditto’s debut in Pokemon Go, and Nintendo’s October sales numbers.
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[0:21] Report: Ubisoft Developing Rabbids & Mario Crossover RPG For Switch Launch Day (Let’s Play Video Games)
[0:35] Zelda: Breath of the Wild to miss Nintendo Switch launch (Eurogamer)
[0:41] Rumor: Mario Kart for Switch brings a mix of old and new (Emily Rogers’ Blog)
[0:49] Rumour: Xenoblade X Port Coming To Nintendo Switch (My Nintendo News)
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21 Responses to “Episode 138: Aloha From Alola”
Roberth Garcia wrote on November 27, 2016 at 11:57 am:
In all this years playing wit my 3DS and Wii U everyday was an adventure. Right now i’m playing Pokémon Moon and man, what a great game this is. I’m a trainer since Red version when you still need to buy batteries to play and it was a long a awesome journey to this day. Pokémon Moon/Sun have so many little easter eggs to the classic games that while i play it felt so good and i’m having always a smile in my face. If i win this contest i will give the prize to my little nephew, a young trainer that remind myself because he wanted Sun version for this Christmas. Good luck everyone and keep up the good work.
Mel (@Kirbygeek4) wrote on November 29, 2016 at 11:04 am:
Out of all the games from this generation none of them have brought me more memories than Animal Crossing New Leaf. This one game alone ate up over one thousand hours of game play. Now I know that sounds crazy, because well it is. However I did nearly everything possible in this one game and also went through kind of extreme lengths to help others for their town’s needs.
In fact I wasn’t even planning on getting the game , but a friend of mine begged me to . Although we aren’t friends anymore due to non gaming circumstances, I was able to become part of a community in which I did make friends. I helped donated bells to their public works, traded/gave away fossils & paintings, gave clothes to people to help them pass Gracie’s test, opened up for town signatures, let them come over to buy or log in an item in their catalogue , turnips and other special animal visits. Basically anything you can think of, I let them do.
Even when nothing special was going on during the game, we made our own fun. We would visit each other towns to give opinions on how to decorate . We would go online looking for patterns for pathways and clothes designs. We would set up island game night and just play those games and also beetle grind for bells . We spend the game events together, I clearly remember going to three different towns to celebrate the new year . It was actually neat because they were all apart of different time zones.
The most craziest memory I have is when I got into buying and trading villagers. I know it sounds kind of like a black market for villagers, because it kind of was. lol People would basically put up their villagers for either other villagers or items & bells. I went a little nuts and signed up nearly everywhere possible and would check for what my friends most wanted villagers. I went on gamefaqs, bell tree forums, neogaf, twitter, reddit, and tumblr. I would check quite often and actually nabbed high wanted villagers such as Bob, Fauna, Ankha and such. I even set up a second monitor at one point so I could check more places at once. lol
There was one villager that I was always slow on getting which was Diana the snooty deer. My best new leaf friend always wanted her and she helped me out quite a bit so I always felt bad whenever I missed out on Diana. However one day I was able to get Diana and I clearly remember this because I had to run about two miles in order to meet the person in time to actually pick up Diana. I never told her about the running or the actual amount I paid for Diana, but I know she just loved the fact that I went out of my way just to get some video game deer.
Eventually things died down in our community as other games came out. I was one of the last few that held out the longest. I still made time for new games , but would easily help someone out if they asked. The new update is slowly bringing most of us back together and it’s also slowly breaking me into buying those new villagers amiibo cards. Now if I never got into this group I would have still enjoyed the game, but because of them I was able to experience Animal Crossing in a completely new way and because of them I will never forget the memories this game had brought me.
Ben L wrote on December 2, 2016 at 11:15 am:
My best Nintendo Memory was Christmas 1988. Now I’m 33 years old.. and I’ve been playing games since I was 3-ish. I remember my brothers having an Atari and a CelecoVision. 8 remember messing around with Frogger, Donkey Kong and Burger Time.. but when I woke up Christmas morning 1988.. And unwrapped my first Console.. I erupted with joy and from that moment I was hooked.
It was a NES bundle that included the system (duh), Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/Track and Field (all on ONE cartridge! Unheard of!) trackmat and Zapper. Up until then I’ve never seen a game like that.. Even at 5 I knew Super Mario Bros was a work of art and looking back.. The opening of the game (before you pres start) was basically a “how to” manual. Finding secrets, different warp pipes, etc blew my little mind. I couldn’t believe games came so far in such a short amount of time!
Nintendo only got better for me.. a few Christmases later and the SNES/Super Mario combo was under the tree.. along with Link to the Past. The SNES may be, IMHO the best Nintendo console of all time…. Maybe one of the best consoles of all time period.
Honestly I feel I grew up with Nintendo. I’ve had everything of theirs.. from their first system to their latest and everything in between (Yes… even the Virtual Boy..) so I guess you could say my best Nintendo memory is… Nintendo period. I honestly can’t pick just one. While they can be goofy and do some dumb things… They have given me far too much joy over my life to every write them off or not have their systems in my home.
My children, 8 and 2 now share that Nintendo joy. My son absolutely loves all things Mario with Mario Sunshine probably being his favorite.. and while my daughter is too young yet to really play games.. She absolutely loves to watch Mario Kart and Animal Crossing being played. Pokémon as well.
It’s such a joy to see my kids growing with and enjoying Nintendo as well. I hope that love of Nintendo only grows with them.. Like it did me.
Thank you guys for giving me the opportunity to share this with you. Keep up the good work on the Podcast
Gabriel wrote on December 2, 2016 at 5:33 pm:
Day one purchase of Wii U is what did it for me. First game was 3D World. Me and my daughter had so many hours of fun on that game. So polished and colorful! Nintendo had finally went HD and it was beautiful! My daughter still has our Wii U and plays it on occasion and uses Netflix regularly. After I get her a Nintendo Switch, I plan to move the Wii U back into my room. Lol
Will I BE wrote on December 4, 2016 at 5:28 pm:
When the 3DS came out, I thought it would be more like virtual reality than simulated holograms lol. But that was my favorite thought
Lea's ∱ųƈҡŧσγ (@An_Axel_Fanboy) wrote on December 5, 2016 at 4:49 am:
Playing Virtue’s Last Reward and being sucked into the story literally playing through the whole game in one play… That’s my favorite 3DS memory!
Andrew wrote on December 5, 2016 at 1:34 pm:
My favorite 3DS memory is when i was playing my first ever 3DS game Mario Kart 7. I loved how i got to unlock karts and characters such as the wiggler enemy, the honey bee queen, wario and more. And i loved how you got to play with everyone wherever you are! and i liked racing as my Mii and if im in a hotel Such as The Courtyard Marriott in Massachusetts i can race peoples ghost data for competition. And The new feature kart customization is wonderful since you get to create different kinds of kart combinations. And that is my favorite 3DS memory.
Johnny P wrote on December 6, 2016 at 6:20 am:
My favorite Nintendo memory is playing Xenoblade on my New 3DS and seeing the waterfalls. It was a wow moment, I can’t believe a hand held is doing this. I posted a screenshot to Mii verse and I think Jason you commented if I remember right. I have need listening since episode 1 and appreciate every show. You guys were my first friends on my 3DS and WiiU. Congratulations and I hope to listen for years to come.
Justin Ryan Ogren wrote on December 6, 2016 at 9:25 am:
I don’t have any Wii U or 3DS memories except reading the news sites for the systems and it’s games.
Matt wrote on December 7, 2016 at 8:28 pm:
My favorite memories of playing WiiU would be the few times I was able to get a group of people together for a Smash bros or Mariokart tournament. Online play is always fine with these games, but whenever I can get people together for couch co-op, that’s when I feel Nintendo is at its best. I’m probably just nostalgic as it reminds me of being a kid, having friends over and playing video games. Whatever the reason, the WiiU was a perfect excuse to have friends come together for some fun.
corr k wrote on December 7, 2016 at 8:29 pm:
All the memories and moments from the games that I have played have been special but if I had to choose just one, it would probably be playing pokemon moon for the first time.
I received it as a gift from a friend who is very close to me. I had been going through a tough time dealing with something personal and hadn’t even noticed the release date for sun and moon creeping up.
I have always been a huge fan of both pokemon and Nintendo. When I first started my pokemon moon journey I knew it was going to be a special one from the moment I chose my trusty rowlet to accompany me on my quest. And what a quest it was and still is.
Pokémon moon is probably the first game in quite a few years to capture my full attention and make me feel like a kid again back when I first played pokemon red. These days with every game trying to be the next biggest and greatest I feel like theres something special with the way Nintendo crafts their games. something sort of like a Disney-esque magic that makes everyone feel all warm inside.
ray t wrote on December 7, 2016 at 8:33 pm:
my favorite memory is probably playing with my friends online after long day whether it be work or school.
the friendly competition and trash talk of smash bros, Mario kart, splatoon.
or even when we experience epic journeys together and talk about the boss fight that we just beat on Zelda.
Ej wrote on December 7, 2016 at 8:43 pm:
My favorite 3ds memory is a recent one I have gotten board of online games and the communities within them.
I had always wanted a 3ds but just couldn’t afford one so this past Black Friday deal was perfect for me! I picked it up along side a copy of Pokemon moon and I couldn’t have been happier I am not yet finished with the game but it has been super fun so far
Aaron (sonictonic) wrote on December 8, 2016 at 10:01 am:
Congratulations on 5 years, guys! I came on board I think around early year 3 and can’t believe how fast this time is going. I can only hope it keeps going this fast until the Switch comes out, haha. I listen to the show driving to and from work, so sometimes takes me a couple days to listen to the whole episode, but I ALWAYS enjoy it. 🙂
My favorite 3DS memory personally was when Animal Crossing New Leaf came out. I got the awesome new Animal Crossing 3DS XL bundle first thing in the morning at GameStop and it was such a relief to finally play it after such a long wait. And I am enjoying the game all over again with the update, too!
Simon Long wrote on December 8, 2016 at 2:24 pm:
my favorite 3ds memory was when i had my earphones conmected to my 3ds and then I went to pee and i put my 3ds on the tank and I still had my earphones plugged in and then I pulled away after finishing my tinkle and I dropped the 3ds in the toilet. I reached into the toilet trying to save my precious 3ds but it was too late. It was soaked in urine as was my forearm. I had to throw my baby away. Then i had to go on a date but I didnt have enough time to shower so you can imagine how that went. mario kart 7 was cool I guess.
jeppster wrote on December 8, 2016 at 2:40 pm:
My favorite 3DS memory is of a snow day when the roads were too slick for me to get to work. It also happened to be Festivale in Animal Crossing New Leaf, so the wife and I played all day, hours upon hours upon hours trying to collect all those feathers for Pave to get the full set of furniture. I don’t even remember what that furniture looks like, but to this day we will randomly exclaim “Festivale!” and chuckle.
Jason Rechtman wrote on December 9, 2016 at 3:05 pm:
Thanks for sharing your memories, everyone! Check back Sunday for our winner announcement in Episode 139.
SpiderByt3s wrote on December 10, 2016 at 1:13 am:
Favorite memory has to be loading in the new Pokemon moon and realizing that they made everyone so nice! I swear your rival felt like your rival in the original Pokemon games. Maybe I haven’t made it far enough to not like my rival yet. Or I am less sensitive as an adult.
Lucas Evaristo Rocha wrote on December 10, 2016 at 10:49 am:
My favorite wii u memory was when nintendo ceased all gaming imports towards my country and i became so desperate for new games, that i spent over 400 dollars in games when i travelled to the US
Ester wrote on December 10, 2016 at 7:20 pm:
oh hi whatever i hope I win I’m next to you. My memory is sitting and playing on my DSi.
Sora Sun (@SORA_SunYu) wrote on December 11, 2016 at 3:09 am:
I can’t wait for Nintendo Switch !
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The Only Meditation There Is: Watching
Testament of Solomon
One of the oldest magical texts attributed to King Solomon, datingFirst to Third Century A.D. Includes a catalog of demons summonedby King Solomon, and how they can be countered by invoking angelsand other magical techniques.
Alan Watts - Still The Mind - Introduction To Meditation
Meditation guru Alan Watts was recorded in the 1970s giving talkson emptying the mind of worry, stress, and guilt. With eloquentyet spontaneous, practical language, the author says real livingis possible when we attend to the moments between thoughts, themoments we usually fill with clutter. This emotional busynessstems from the illusion that we have importantresponsibilities--that things will fall apart without our constantattention. By accepting a more humble place in the universe, webecome more fully interactive with the energy of the universe andbecome a more effective channel for what it wants us to do. Watts's work is a marvelous and historically significant chapterin the development of American Buddhism and the meditative life.
Dark Zen Manual
The Authorized Dark Zen Meditation Manual of Buddhism
48 Laws Of Power CD 1
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Manual of Practical Magic by Samael Aun Weor
Magickal Formulary by Herman Slater
Learn how to make all the famous and infamous potions, incenses, powders, oils, baths, sprays, and floor washes from primitive Haiti to Imperial France!
This Master of Secret Potions gives you the uses of each formula and lists all the never before published ingredients, including authentic recipes and spells obtained from the Mediterranean and Caribbean traditions. Herman describes the importance of many crucial magick ritual ingredients.
Meditation with the Archangel Raphael
Technique for Dissolving the "I" by Samael Aun Weor
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
This book teaches how to exert a powerful, irresistible influence upon the reason or will of another. A belief in the existence of a personal power, influence, or atmosphere, on the part of certain individuals, which enables the possessor to attract, influence, dominate or control others, has been held by the race from the earliest days of written history.
How to Make a Cloak
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[ recommended ] Talismans & Evocations of the Golden Dawn by Pat Zalewski
Practical Magic techniques of the Golden Dawn revealed! Founded in 1888, by legendary magicians Wynn Westcott and S.L. MacGregor Mathers, the Golden Dawn has been a major influence on the development of Western Magic. Although the material which inspired adepts such as Alistair Crowley and W.B Yeats has been available, until now there has been little explaination as to how this group performed its rites of ritual magic.
Now at last Pat Zalewski, himself an adept within the Golden Dawn system, has revealed secrets that have never before been published or which were only communicated orally to a handful of select pupils. For years people have known that the Golden Dawn adepts could summon spirits so that they could be seen, but no one could explain how they did it. Likewise their techniques of manufacturing and empowering talismans were a closely guarded secret until now.
In this book readers will learn the secrets of evocation and how to make Talismans of Power. This book is a very valuable tool into understanding the practical considerations of Golden Dawn ritual magick at its best. The book is a must for serious Golden Dawn students.
Daniel Schulke - Lux Haeresis
The principal concern of the work is the Arcana of the Witch's Eye and its mutual interaction with Sentient Luminosity. Treating the twin mysteria of Ocular Malediction (the so-called Evil Eye), and Seership or 'The Sight', the book proceeds beyond this duality unto the realm of Telaesthesis - the unique perceptual modalities of the Witches' Sabbath, grand abberator of the sensorial field. Explored in detail is the magical relation between Hand and Eye, the Body of Void, and the vivification of the Magical Image.
As a magico-poetic cartography of the illuminant metaphysic present in the folkloric strata of traditional witchcraft, The Light Heretical serves as both homage and grimoire to its Luciferan arcana.
Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Handbook
Hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure are part of a mysterious world of African American spirituality that has long captured the popular imagination. These magical beliefs and practices have figured in literary works by such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed, and they have been central to numerous films, such as The Skeleton Key. Written for students and general readers, this book is a convenient introduction to hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure.
The volume begins by defining and classifying elements of these spiritual traditions. It then provides a wide range of examples and texts, which illustrate the richness of these beliefs and practices. It also examines the scholarly response to hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure, and it explores the presence of hoodoo, voodoo, and conjure in popular culture. The volume closes with a glossary and bibliography. Students in social studies classes will use this book to learn more about African American magical beliefs, while literature students will enjoy its exploration of primary sources and literary works.
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