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About Fonn Group
Mediability hires new CEO
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Mediability today announced changes in the management team, with Knut Alfred Andersen taking over the role as company CEO.
Knut Alfred Andersen has extensive background from the TV and media industry. He has held key positions in both Mosart (CCO) and Vizrt (EVP Sales) and has a background as a TV-director at TV 2 Norway and from local news.
As of today Andersen will hold he position as CEO in Mediability and also continue is his role as CEO in software start-up 7Mountains (founded 2018). Both companies are part of Fonn Group and work in close collaboration and with a common vision of delivering the best-of-breed professional solutions for the media and entertainment industry.
With his knowledge of the broadcast and media industry in the Nordics and beyond, Andersen will be an important resource in developing Mediability further and with the launch of 7Mountains.
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xfu replied to GhostWhoWalks's topic in Gaming
it's only got about an inch or so behind it, but a few above and plenty on either side. It starts almost silent, but after about 10-15 mins becomes quite noticeably audible. From there (especially in BF4), it eventually winds up to such a loud noise that I need to turn the volume on the TV up significantly to compensate and comfortably hear things like quieter dialogue moments in a cutscene for example. My PS3 slim is almost silent most of the time. At it's absolute peak (which is only an occasional occurrence) when it gets a bit hot, I can hear it but not at a level that bothers me too much. My PS4 is magnitudes louder at peak and seems to get there faster. It's also a lot louder than my 2007 fat PS3 ever was. Yeah I don't know if mine is defective. I was quite surprised because I'd read the PS4 was a fairly quite machine. It's otherwise working fine so I don't know if Sony/JB would even take it back under warranty. It seems to be sitting flat, no wobble. Maybe I could try to get some space underneath it. ---- on another note... DO NOT GET BATTLEFIELD4 ON PS4. (yet). I tried to go back and resume the campaign, and my data is totally gone (again). I have no campaign. I have no chapter select either. It's literally like I've just inserted the disc for the first time (except for the trophies for completing the chapters I beat). MP is working ok so far, SP is kind of dead to me now unfortunately since I can't stand to forcibly redo a big chunk like that. On the flipside, Resogun which is free with PS+, is an outstandingly awesome PSN arcade game. Beautiful to look at and excellent game design. Bastard hard too.
ok, day one experience... I plugged the system in and was up and running rather quickly. the update seemed to take about 20 seconds to download and then 5 minutes or so to install (roughly, I think). The initially settings prompts were painless and fast. The first time I loaded up the new interface, the predominant experience was surprisingly a kind of vague confusion. Lots of sections were empty, had actionless button presses, and were generally unintuitive in my opinion. The PS3's XMB, by comparison, was never unclear to me that I recall. After briefly watching a couple random live game streams, I went into the playstation store. "Free 14 day ps+ trial" is written all over the place, along with plenty of "claim now" dangling carrots, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I spent about 10 minutes trying to understand what I was missing in not being able to get these free 14 days, and then gave up. I can only guess that after choosing one of the paid options, I'll get credited 14 days and have an optionally cancellation period maybe. or something. It's a shitty guess, and it left me frustrated. So single player only for now. next I signed into my existing PSN account. All good, no issues. The trophy info is much improved. The friends list seems better presented. As the UI gets more familiar I think there's a lot of good things to say about what they've done. sidenote: I could already be mentioning the dual shock 4 at this point, but I'll wait. Onto BF4... It seemed to me like it instantly loaded. If there was some kind of installation, I didn't know about it. After the intro vid rolled I jumped into the campaign. Graphically, I'd say it feels like half a generational jump most of the time, with the high def and high framerate striking me as the most noticeable differences - much moreso than lighting or post processing (I dig that stuff more). I think the big graphical jumps (I'm yet to see KZSF) are still on the way maybe next year. That said, a few moments in BF4 were graphically exceptional. What I really noticed most though when I jumped into BF4 was the controller. The Dualshock 4 is really, really nice. Everything about it feels excellent, and leagues ahead of the DS3. I also plugged some headphones into the controller just to test that out (just normal ones), and that worked great. You have to go into the controller's options and enable the headphones output, which simultaneously turned my TV sound off. When I pulled the headphones out of the controller, the TV sound automatically switched itself back on. So I finished chapter 1 of the campaign, and then BF4 crashed. After declining the error report due to the impatience of wanting to jump back in, another nasty surprise... "resume campaign" lead to the very first intro scene, as in, back to the start of the game. Where the shit is my save data? Who the hell knows... I think I would have probably rage quit then and there, but fortunately going into the chapter-select (or whatever it's called) menu let me start at the next part of the game. Lucky. By now though, my biggest PS4 gripe had just begun to annoy me to the point of distraction... It's loud. and when I say it's loud, I mean it's SERIOUSLY FUCKING LOUD. It's unreasonably loud. It's louder than any PC I've ever owned and I've built myself some super dodgy PCs with super dodgy CPU fans in my time. Throughout the whole second chapter of BF4 it got louder. I could hardly believe the noise it was filling the room with. I finished chapter 2 and powered down. I stuck my hand on top of the console and I would say it felt "hot-ish". Didn't feel like crisis-level heat. Not sure what to make of it. so all in all, it's fun and has a lot of great stuff, but I seriously hope there's a solution for that noise. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get this PS+ thing happening and can test out the multiplayer stuff. Also worth noting is at some point I hit the share button on the controller just to check it out, and the video recording seems great. I started looking into sharing it but the only option available was a facebook login which I'm not really interested in. Will investigate that further.
BF4 it is! thanks everyone.
Picking mine up in the morning. Having trouble deciding though whether to get Killzone or BF4. I've played: Killzone 2 (really awesome), Killzone 3 (not bad) Battlefield BC2 (really loved this), Battlefield 3 (not blown away) based on this track record I'm totally on the fence. Shadowfall has gotten very meh reviews, not sure if partly a result of adjusted generational expectations, or if it really is worse than both predecessors. and Battlefield is Battlefield.. solid online team warfare mechanics, but has anyone played and can comment on whether it's game breakingly unfinished/unpolished or anything like that? In both cases I would primarily be buying into the multiplayer. Some one get me off this fence...
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xfu replied to NukeJockey's topic in Gaming
I've never really liked the playstation controllers, the josticks have always felt to loose for me. That is the one downside I can kind of see - or rather that's the thing I noticed and liked about the 360 controllers. That, and in BF3 I get driven MENTAL when trying to mark enemies (select btn) because I have a 50/50 chance of simultaneously throwing a grenade as the soft left trigger slips while I grapple my thumb awkwardly off the left stick. I don't know if marking is easier on the 360 controller but I figure it HAS to be.
I wish I could understand the 360 controller preference. Not because it matters, it's just one of those curiosities. You and millions of others have such an active preference (so much so you'd seek the shape for PS3), so there really must be something to it. Personally, and maybe this is because I had a PS3 so many years earlier than my 360, the 360 controller's physical form feels strange. I can't for the life of me understand why I would ever want my thumbs in different locations when they perform essentially the same simultaneous function (in an FPS at least) but maybe there's some point I'm missing with shoulder button configurations. That said, I really don't mind either. I will say also that when I finally did a big run through the backlog of Halo titles, I could tell there's some kind of analogue stick voodoo they're figured out for really excellent aiming precision. Also side note: Anyone tried an Xbox One controller? I only got a brief hands on so far so can't make too much of a comment yet, but I did get a really good session on the PS4 controller and IMO it feels a lot better than the DS3. Hopefully they're both a step up. (ps sorry for this rambling rather than contributing to what you're asking for - got zero knowledge there unfortunately)
xfu replied to SquallStrife's topic in Gaming
actually based on the symbol I wonder if the third announcement is a dedicated online multiplayer service... xbl-like for steamOS. probably with a subscription model.
Steam Machines announced. http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/ I was pretty certain this would be the second announcement. I wouldn't expect many happy PC/Steam gamers to rush to put a SteamOS rig under the telly (SOME, but not mass adoption).. It makes much more business sense to position SteamOS to living room as Android is to Smartphones. Pair with lots of hardware partners and the market gets hit with a wide range of media-center/psuedo-console machines with a dedicated, customizable TV-OS. I think it's pretty smart actually.
The Vita TV seems like big news at the moment, it's plastered all over major gaming sites as a potential "game changer" that no one saw coming. It's a direct competitor to Apple TV and also for the microconsole market the Ouya et al hoped to establish. Personally I'm sold on the idea alone that I can walk into another room of the house with a DS4 controller and keep playing something on another TV. Between that, and potentially making the Vita software library more viable, it seems like a smart move.
xfu replied to sonofjorel88's topic in Gaming
I guess since I can't be bothered with PC gaming anymore (even though I still think it's great, just lifestyle wise less suitable), the consoles are keeping my gaming alive nicely. I can understand the day one hesitations, I've had a PS3 bluray drive die on me twice(..!), my 360 is super late in the cycle so hopefully no RROD to worry about but I'm sure most early 360 adopters can remember well how much crap people went through. But screw all that. I'm in.
Anyone picking one up at launch? I think I'd be sold if Titanfall was a launch title, but without that I'm trying to work out if there are enough exclusives up front to justify not waiting a little while. I keep hearing that the Xbox One has "by far" the best games at launch but I'm not seeing it - what are the most anticipated? I don't dig racing or sports games and am not much of a Killer Instinct fan. I'm getting a PS4 at launch and will be all over Killzone, but other than that I think an overwhelming majority of the things worth playing in the new gen are so far multiplatform. I'm definitely getting both consoles, it's only a matter of timing.
Bought a ps3, tell me what games to get
xfu replied to PointZeroOne's topic in Gaming
All of these suggestions are based on genre preference, etc... but my list would be: Dark Souls - IMO totally unmatched action-RPG combat. Best in class no contest. The Last of Us - really awesome TPS / survival combat. Excellent production values, among the top rated games of the gen on any platform. Uncharted 2 - Pinacle of the series for me. #3 is good as well but I think #2 is the one to pick, unless you'd pick up the whole trilogy. Journey - I can't even describe why I like this game, which is one of the reasons I like it. I played it start to finish in about 4 hours and was thoroughly transfixed the entire time, and absolutely loved it. Ni No Kuni - Visually really nice (Studio Ghibli doing their thing), fairly childish which I didn't mind, but might not be for everyone. It's also very grindy in the mid game but again I didn't mind. Liked it a lot overall. Pixeljunk Shooter (and part 2) - this is a 2D shooter with excellent puzzle mechanics, and just all round fantastic game design and absolutely highly recommended. Resistance: FOM - this is a kinda funny addition to the list, but what I love about FOM is that it's so exceedingly SIMPLE, that I just find it really enjoyable. The graphics look dated as hell, and there's really nothing outstanding to say about it, it just kinda harkens back to simpler times, where linear FPS titles could just give you loads of strange weapons and have you blast everything to hell.
So what's covincing you more so far?
xfu replied to 17's topic in Gaming
I'd say things are not looking so promising for existing peripherals. Would be good to get a complete definite answer still... http://gigaom.com/2013/06/27/microsoft-mak...ild-off-kinect/
xfu replied to Ezkaton's topic in Gaming
I wasn't holding Halo up as a shining example of PC gaming, although I did love it like hell on PC truth be told. Also, I think I liked to tell myself that it wasn't actually a console port, since it had a PC/Mac code base before Microsoft's acquisition. Which, ironically (in this context) was another reason I got it on PC - a rebellion against the xbox thievery that took it away from desktop platforms. That was when I was well and truly a PC gamer. From this list, which I haven't played all of, I think I can best remember JKII, which had an excellent and very memorable SP campaign. Didn't play too much of its multiplayer, but from what I did I would have ditched it in an instant for a good Halo server. Personal taste I suppose. I've still enjoyed console games just as much though. No, it's like saying that where consoles don't quite exhaustively fill my gaming needs, I can find other ways. I wouldn't play Total War on a touch screen, but on iOS I've got a decent library of strategy games I've sunk hundreds of hours into in what can only be called addiction. I can also play the odd PC game too, for that matter, without that devaluing how much I enjoy consoles. On a side note though, there is one thing I've been thinking about recently which could shift my gaming back to PC a little, which is the Oculus Rift. I don't know what people are planning with it but I'm loving the demos, and in the last few weeks it's made me rethink some of my own game development. I'm working on several mobile projects, but I've got a few Rift ideas too and could possibly see myself refocussing some stuff I'm doing. It always comes back to what's personally best to game on at any particular time. There are definitely good points about PC vs consoles (including even more I could list, like better/more indie games), but don't hate on us too much.
I dunno, I still don't buy that price argument. Brand new PC games are pretty expensive too. In both cases you can wait for price drops, in both cases you can get very low cost (but high quality) indie games. On PC you have things like humble bundles which do lead the way for clever offerings, but who knows what we'll see in that way from the consoles. They do slowly learn. And as for DRM, what's left now? We have no disc DRM, so what about digital. How is a PSN game different from a Steam game? (not a rhetorical question - I'm actually not sure). In any case, while you make plenty of very good and valid points for how great PC gaming is, it doesn't solve the problem that a lot of people just aren't into gaming at a desk as opposed to a couch with a pretty sweet tv and more comfort. So I take the good with the bad. Entire genres are missing, you're right, but the ones that aren't are still as enjoyable to me as anything I played on PC. My years of playing Halo:CE and other FPS games on PC weren't more enjoyable to me than my years of playing Killzone, BF3/BC2, etc... For the one itch that consoles don't scratch for me - the likes of Total War, Civ, and other deep strategy titles, I've taken to tactical and strategy games on iPad, which I can take even more places and get better use of my time. All of that said... pretty soon it'll all converge into one condensed superunit, so it's all academically moot.
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We created a new McGraw-Hill brand to engage college students.
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Getting College Students Excited to Connect
The challenge of branding Connect, McGraw-Hill Education’s digital learning assistant, may best be summed up in the first line of the video spot Garfield created for the product: ‘“My favorite hobby is reading my textbook,” said no one ever.’
Going to college is an exciting time for many reasons — it’s a transition into adulthood, into independence. You make new friends, join organizations, and learn about yourself in the process. But one aspect of college life that doesn’t tend to thrill students, from 18-year-old freshmen to parents taking evening classes, is textbooks. Even if those textbooks provide the same personalized, adaptive, high-tech experience students get from their favorite gadgets and apps.
McGraw-Hill Education decided to change that — and enlisted the help of Garfield to make students excited to use Connect. It was July, and the first day of school was coming up in just a few short weeks. Would that be enough time to Create Brand Action and deliver A+ results?
When the grades came in, the answer was a resounding “yes.” Let’s take a look at how this campaign graduated summa.
Connect: College Smarter, Not Harder
A month isn’t a long time to create a new logo, look and feel, landing page, email campaigns, social ads, SMS messages, long-form content, a video storyboard, multiple print pieces, and swag options. But with teamwork, determination, and plenty of coffee, Garfield conceived and executed a concept we believed would communicate the Connect value prop in a way that resonates with a diverse group of students: College Smarter, Not Harder.
In four words, all the technical benefits of Connect — from time-saving ebooks highlighted to signify the most important parts of each reading, to algorithms generating custom study guides, to alerts reminding students to head to class or study for exams — were summed up in one, powerful benefit. Connect is a more efficient way to learn, giving you more time to live your college life. Whether that entails joining your SGA, trying out for the rugby team, packing the kids’ lunches, or diving into a new novel, Connect frees you to be you while making it easier than ever to get the grade.
Students who received these marketing materials were encouraged to sign up for Connect, download the ReadAnywhere app, participate in sweepstakes, opt into text messages, and engage with the brand across multiple forms of media. Once campaign metrics started coming in, it was clear that students were engaging big time.
The Connect College Smarter video combines educational content with fun, entertaining video content.
The landing page uses youthful language, fun photography, and multiple points of engagement to get students signing up for and talking about Connect — and how it makes their college lives better.
The Connect landing page uses bold design, product demos, student testimonials, webinar signups, a social sweepstakes, and grade statistics to drive adoption.
The 26 College Life Hacks poster shows college success tips and eye-catching photography and design as part of a first-day-of-class package to get students excited about Connect.
Garfield designed College Smarter t-shirts with clever branded statements as part of a first-day-of-class package to appeal to a wide variety of students and make Connect relevant to their college lives.
The Brand Action
1M Ad Impressions and 50K App Downloads in 4 Weeks
It took the Garfield team more than a few long nights, a handful of productive weekends, and even working through a holiday to hit the ever-important back-to-school deadline, but the effort paid off in a huge way. In a mere four weeks of running the campaign, Connect garnered:
More than 1,000,000 social ad impressions
More than 70,000 opt-ins to receive SMS communications
50,000 downloads of the ReadAnywhere app
An unthinkable 45% open rate on one email campaign
More than 10,000 clicks on 15-minute study skill webinars
Connect managed to eclipse its YOY conversion rates in just 30 days, proving that College Smarter, Not Harder was a motto students from any university could rally behind.
“We couldn’t be more pleased with the outcomes we’ve seen as a result of the College Smarter, Not Harder campaign. The branding, voice, and content managed to reach a wide swath of students from a variety of different backgrounds and walks of life. Garfield helped us position Connect and digital platforms as the future of learning, not just secondary supplements to traditional course materials. Changing mindsets and encouraging people to be open to transformation is no easy feat, but Garfield made it happen.”
Betty Nelson
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On Friday I will be going to see Slade. Yes – Slade. Without Noddy Holder but the rest of them including slimy Dave Hill will be playing. I didn’t much like Slade back in the 1970’s. I was into the more gentle magic of Marc Bolan and T.Rex and Slade seemed raucous and too down to earth. There was no magic, no white swans or Wizards with Slade – just poor spelling and loud music. I moved from T.Rex to Status Quo. Corkscrew hair and spandex was replaced by greasy hair and denim. Fantasy was replaced with a gritty, monotonous reality of life in the north. Of course, now I look back and enjoy a lot of the music of that era. Even stuff I detested at the time now
Blackfield and Moon Whispers
I have enjoyed the music of Steven wilson (Porcupine Tree) for many years now and have all four albums from Blackfield, a project in which Steven wilson partnered with Aviv Geffen to create some of the most melodic and listenable music I heave ever heard. Tunes like Pain and Where is my love? have haunted me for years. Recently, however, I got a hold of Blackfield II and this is almost heaven. The songs 1000 People and The End of the World are incredible and send me to aural heaven immediately. About 3 months ago I started listening to this record over and over again finding that each time I did I had to write. 1000 People in particular seems to make my creative juices spurt in vast quantities and
Thinking of Poetry
Just recently, I have been popping a lot of rhyme. Poems have been and continue to spill out of me and you know, thats just fine and dandy. I enjoy poetry. I enjoy playing with words and sounds. Somehow, poetry gives us the flexibility to play and joke with words and structures without having to worry too much about whether the result is correct or not. There surely in no correct in poetry – no right and no wrong. Poetry just is and it either works for you or it doesn’t. It doesn’t even have to rhyme! When I write a poem I usually start with just a feeling. Not an idea. There is no plot, no characters to develop, no story line. Just a feeling. Poetry is, or should
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 (UPI) — Melissa Benoist’s husband, Blake Jenner, has joined the cast of “Supergirl.”
The 27-year-old actress confirmed the news by sharing a photo of the 23-year-old actor on set Wednesday on Instagram. “Coming soon to National City,” she wrote.
TVLine reports Jenner will play Adam Foster, a “handsome stranger” with ties to Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart). He immediately forms a connection with Kara Danvers (Benoist), aka “Supergirl,” but his appearance tests her relationship with Cat.
Benoist and Jenner previously co-starred as Marley Rose and Ryder Lynn, respectively, on Seasons 4 and 5 of Fox musical drama Glee. The actor will appear on multiple episodes of “Supergirl,” and make his debut as Adam in early 2016.
“Supergirl” premiered in October, and airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. The series follows the titular DC Comics character as she embraces and begins to use her powers, and co-stars Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan and David Harewood.
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My Opinions on How Texans Fans React to Other History Making NFL Teams
First off I was born and raised a Dallas Cowboys fan so my comments are coming from the thoughts of a Cowboys fan. If you know how I like to voice my opinions on shit like this….Amy…..I would say don’t even bother continuing to read this post.
i got a shitload to say about Texans fans. for one….its pre-season and they are acting like its regular season. They play their starters while other teams play their 2nd and 3rd string players. of course you will see better performance. they are seasoned players. Dallas has won 5 super bowls yes. Texans have NO room to talk on that aspect of history because they have no history when it comes to post season play. Last year the Texans were HOPING that another team would win or lose i cant remember off-hand but instead of EARNING their spot in the playoffs they sat around hoping for another team to allow them to SLIDE into the playoffs. Thats not how it works. You earn your spot then you have something brag about. Then i hear fans say we got the best QB, RB, CB or whatever…..You may have the best QB but who won the super bowl? Aaron Rodgers did! SO all that we got the best this and that doesn’t mean shit if they cant prove it on the field. ANother thing…..Wade Phillips did NOT invent the 3-4 defense so Texans fans stop saying its HIS defense because frankly…..you folks hate the Dallas Cowboys and yet your team is using a defense that Bud Wilkenson invented. So stop taking credit for something that you didnt create. Another thing…..you all say you have the best tailgating parties. heh…..ever been to a Green Bay or Pittsburgh one? probably not. Houston doesn’t have shit on their parties.
Texans fans are always quick to say we are going to the super bowl and playoffs. The season hasn’t started yet. Let your team do their job first before you talk. I also remember the Texans doing well in their pre-season games and look what happened in the regular season……you guys gave up so many games to stupidity. Your player bats the ball into the opponents hands and lets them score at the end of the game….WOW…thats something a Pee-Wee player would do! You guys/gals also praise this name Texans. Dont forget the DALLAS TEXANS first had that name. You all just added a stupid horns logo. Dallas is no where near being considered America’s team anymore but the history speaks for itself. True history means nothing to the current season but if history didnt mean shit at all then why do commentators mention the MANY super bowls Pittsburgh has won? Or the first one Lombardi won with the Packers…..exactly! History does matter in some context. If history never mattered in any given situation then why are kids made to study it? Why do we base our current Government on past events to make it better? History will always be there. You can hate on people for bringing it up but look at it this way. When Los Angeles gets a team in the near future and those fans start to talk shit to you, well they have no room to talk….Why? Because if your a Texans fan your team has history behind it and theirs doesn’t.
The Texans can keep trying to make history. Ill give them that but until that team can have something to show for it like an AFC Title or Super Bowl…you really dont have much to brag about. All those numbers dont mean shit in the end. Its the BIG game that matters to the players. They play for the super bowl. Not to get a halfway decent season. Nothing wrong with a little harmless shit talking between opposing fans but the reason you guys get shit talked about you is because you dont give credit where it is due. The only team to accomplish anything in Houston is the Rockets. Well and the Aeros. Astros cant even have a winning season because they dont know how to keep or get good players. Let the players do the talking on the field but when you diss teams that have won titles, your really just jealous because your own hasn’t achieved that….yet….Historic teams create historic players. Just because one guy is the best in his college and is the highest paid player to enter the NFL Draft does not mean he will be the best player on the field. You earn it. Thats how you get respect.
#22 of the Atlanta Falcons Jacquizz Rodgers is new to the NFL yet he has shown promising results in pre-season. Thats not regular though. He might not do well at all against pro veteran starters. Then again he might. I remember years ago how David Carr was the starting QB for the Texans. When people criticized him the fans went nuts. Then before the season started he was let go and sent to another team. Immediately fans started saying he sucks and that he was a worthless player. Few days or weeks before they was praising him now they was talking shit about him. What kind of attitude is that as a true fan? Look at Mike Vick. People dont like him because of the dog fiasco yet he goes in and does his job quite well and the fans can appreciate that even if they didnt like him. I cant say I am a true fan of the NFL because I know I talk shit. A true fan appreciates the game in all aspects and can appreciate the teams for their respective accomplishments. To attend a game like the Super Bowl and still stay in your seat well after your team might have lost shows you appreciate the game. your pissed cause your team lost yet those guys on both sides of the field are champions. They made it through the season to the finale.
The shit talking from Texans fans pisses me off. Yet Dallas fans do it too just as much as any other fans from other teams. Its one reason I dont pay much attention to the game anymore. I get my opinions out like now and I let it be. Ive praised players from the Texans but in the end they still fell short. As did Dallas last year. Last year the Texans fans were saying Dallas was going to be the worst team in the league. They came back with a new coach and new attitude that Wade Phillips didnt have. He didnt get after his players. Instead he hung his head down low and pondered over what could have happened. He didnt belong there. Im sure for the Texans he will be the fit they was looking for. Of course in the end of that season last year Dallas and Houston had 8 a piece at the end. So you can add up the numbers and say Shaub was better but for a 2nd string QB to come in under a new coach and end the season with 8 wins and tie the Texans in wins is not too shabby if you ask me. Pre-season is an evaluation period. If your going to look at those games as “wow we won 3 games to none and you Dallas fags lost one” then your full of shit. Pre-season means nothing. Once a team gets past regular season and earns their spot in the post-season then that regular season doesnt mean shit anymore. Its over. The only thing that matters is how you play those next set of games. You either want it or you dont. Dallas isnt the team they once was. There is something called the Ring of Honor in Cowboys Stadium. It honors players that have surpassed what others accomplished within the team. It doesnt matter that Dallas has numerous people in the Hall of Fame or on that Ring of Fame but their performance and numbers didnt lie. They went beyond what others did. Emmitt Smith is a legend as is Walter Payton. They are historic figures in the game. If they didnt matter then why even honor them? I was never an Oilers fan yet I give respect to Earl Campbell, Bruce Matthews and Ray Childress because even though the Oilers didnt attain a Super Bowl, they became iconic figures in Houston sports. So let your Texans create icons first before you start talking down about other teams iconic players. Those players on the Texans im sure had icons of their own and im sure some of them were former Cowboys players. Remember there was such a thing as the Doomsday Defense. Now you all go enjoy your football because NHL is all im ready for! haha
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Trump Visits Troops Overseas, Mainstream Media And DNC Scream In Agony
.@FLOTUS Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! pic.twitter.com/rDlhITDvm1
Click here to see how the dying magazine, Newsweek, gets hysterical about Trump being photographed with troops in Iraq. It is a long, long article of whining about this and how this endangers the troops who might be blown up because of this! The goofiest part of this hysteria on the left and the Bilderberg gang’s naked attempt at spooking everyone is…the ‘terrorists’ can easily see where US troops are all over the planet!
Duh! The troops are often people who are foreigners who look and talk and act different from the ‘natives’! Figuring out who they are is ridiculously easy! This whining, whinging article pretending that the writers who are liberals, are genuinely worried about our troops (or anyone who is military/police) is fake as well as nasty.
Here is proof the troops loved Trump and wanted to take pictures of him with them and share these with the world which is how Newsweek got a photo here:
A pool report during Trump’s visit said the details of the trip were embargoed until the president finished giving his remarks to a group of about 100 mostly U.S. special operation troops engaged in combat operations in Iraq and Syria.
The pool report went on to say that Trump paused to take a selfie with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee, who said he was the chaplain for SEAL Team Five, based out of Coronado, California. The chaplain said Trump told him: “Hey, in that case, let’s take a picture.”
HAHAHA. So, the pool of fake reporters itching to find something, anything they could report that would be nasty were told to wait…until Trump was done talking to the troops…before they could be unleashed to squawk at him!
While being photographed at the troop meeting, surrounded by happy men (yes, nearly all people fighting in dangerous places are still males!) one of them said he re-enlisted because Trump won the election!
Newsweek, being run by people who hate America with a passion, didn’t mention this business, either:
Please retweet this for our Troops and for @realDonaldTrump so everyone sees this.
President Trump and Melania were welcomed in Iraq by our troops on Christmas.
The USA chants will bring pure tears to your eyes. What a Christmas moment. pic.twitter.com/AlaVcUhLF9
— Anna Paulina (@realannapaulina) December 26, 2018
The horror! The troops were very happy and enthusiastic. Why is this? Oh! Trump is finally winding down all these fruitless invasions created by the former gang who ran America! The Bilderberg gangsters tangled our troops into ridiculous and quite illicit wars based on naked lies to the UN and the world.
Meanwhile, back in the good old USA, another police officer was murdered by an illegal alien.
Trump’s staff is very clever. They included in the tweet the fact that Obama (as well as old Hillary) ran for office while claiming they would stop the flood of illegal aliens. Yes, I have some memory left even though I am an old creature. It amazes me how the entire DNC and their voter base has Alzheimer’s disease.
About insanity: Canadian Muslim immigrant, Younus Kathrada gave a sermon about how the Muslims plan to integrate into society:
Those Muslims who congratulate Christians on the Christmas holiday are committing crimes which are even worse than murder, according to Sheikh Younus Kathrada from the Canadian province of British Columbia.
During his sermon at the Muslim Youth of Victoria, which came ahead of Christmas celebrations across the globe, Kathrada expressed regret over Muslims’ perception of what he described as a “false holiday”, claiming that they “must be offended” by the beliefs of Christians.
Kathrada went further by arguing that if a person commits such major sins as adultery, lying or murder, “they are nothing compared to the sin of congratulating and greeting the non-Muslims on their false festivals”.
A viper at the breast. This is a problem that has to be faced. Europe is on the verge of social and economic collapse while millions of hostile Muslims invade. Not all of them are terrible people but the majority of them are young men who are blatant invaders. Very dangerous people, all armies are made of young males, not females, not little children and not the elderly. Young men are the troops and this is the vast majority of the invaders of Europe: military age young men,
This Imman in Canada is a foreigner who should be deported for trying to start a religious war. Here is the evil NY Times whining about Trump and accusing him of treason:
So, he will be impeached for bringing the troops home instead of treating them like servants of Saudi Arabia and Israel and kept in danger for these foreign powers. He will be impeached for having a rousing stock market…oh, the panic over the Fed raising rates has shifted now and stocks have shot upwards as smart investors take advantage of the Xmas present of the mainstream media and DNC spreading panic.
Here is one stupid story about how the ‘right and left’ both want troops stuck in Iraq and Syria:
Note the photo here that the NYT used: the troops are silent and not smiling! The ‘message’ this photo is making is pure propaganda. What the NYT wants readers to think is, ‘Those troops are UPSET with Trump and angry they are being brought home.’ Seriously! This is straight out of Pravda propaganda.
WASHINGTON — President Trump managed to do something remarkable with his abrupt order last week to withdraw all American troops from Syria and half from Afghanistan: unite the left and right against a plan to extract the United States from two long, costly and increasingly futile conflicts.
HAHAHA. So, the NYT even admits the wars Obama and Bush Jr. created are costly and futile! So, what is the solution?
So chaotic was Mr. Trump’s decision-making process; so transparent his appeal to his political base; and so lacking in a cogent explanation to allies or the public that the president’s move short-circuited what many say is a much-needed national debate about the future of America’s wars.
HAHAHA. Again: Trump ‘short circuited a MUCH needed debate! Wow. What we are supposed to do is debate these futile, stupid and very expensive wars…forever and ever. Not do anything sane. Yup, that’s the trick. Hang out and talk while US troops die for nothing.
The case for pulling out, military analysts and diplomats said, is stronger in Afghanistan than in Syria, where the United States is abandoning its Kurdish allies, leaving a vacuum that could allow the Islamic State to regroup, and ceding a strategically vital country to Iran and Russia.
Funny how this stupid story refuses to mention Turkey here. Turkey is nearly totally at war with NATO over the Kurdish issue. It is Turkey that wants to stop the Kurds! Our NATO ally wants this stopped. The neocons want it to roll onwards. Russia doesn’t give a hoot about the Kurds. Neither does the US, Israel does, though, to weaken both Syria AND Turkey!
Yet even in Afghanistan, where American troops have fought a pitched battle for 17 years, those who believe the United States should get out are not speaking up. With the exception of a few vocal isolationists like Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, Mr. Trump’s handling of the issue has been condemned across the ideological spectrum.
Note how the ‘experts’ want our troops who have been in a futile battle for 17 years which is longer than the equally futile and stupid War in Vietnam…well, why don’t these stupid ‘experts’ go to Afghanistan and fight since they are such smarty pants? Eh? EH???
Nope. They want to have poor people who want a job to be sent there to be blown up. This reminds me to visit the Go Fund Me site to see how our wall funding by citizens is going (Congress refuses even now to pay a penny for this!):
According to Go Fund Me, the American patriots raised nearly $18 million. This shatters all previous ‘go fund me’ records. At 6am, a patriot got up I presume on the East Coast because if that person was in California, it would be 3am, to donate $25 to the wall building project.
Reading all these articles attacking Trump for protecting our troops and our borders reminds me of what pure evil looks like. The same clowns pissed off in Congress about bringing our troops home are the exact same clowns who refuse to stop invaders at our own borders. Ergo: they are traitors.
Meanwhile, the horrible people in Congress sneer at voters and said, they will compromise with Trump and build a wall but only with half of what he is asking, less than $3 billion. Wow. A trillion for futile wars against Muslims and a pittance for border security. Way to go, mainstream media and our political ‘leaders’ who hate America.
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27 responses to “Trump Visits Troops Overseas, Mainstream Media And DNC Scream In Agony”
Petruchio
I noticed while browsing today that CNN is supposedly reporting a new poll which allegedly shows that a majority of Americans support a Trump impeachment. Who did they poll? The DNC? Are phony polls all these guys have left? Also, Drudge reports that Trump has told Congress to fund the Wall or he will close the Border AND cut aid to Honduras and Guatemala.
KHS71
The same phony polls from two years ago that showed that b*tch winning. Polls are made up to drive a “news” article and a political agenda. Does CNN even have people watch them any more?
Buffalo_Ken
So I took an informal poll from some folks I know in Texas. They told me the people there don’t wan’t a wall. What credence do you give to that?
If you want to know the truth, then get some boots on the ground.
Lets start out with boots in Central America. To help of course.
Lets please forget about the spent idea of a wall. Walls do not work. Duh.
Nice video.
They disarmed the troops for it. Guys in full battle rattle with flak and Kevlar and loaded magazines but no sidearms or rifles?
I bet Assad can (and does) visit his troops without official security, and without disarming them.
Makes sense. It would only take one disgruntled or unstable person deliberately or by accident to do major damage. Like in chess, don’t risk your high value back rank pieces unnecessarily.
I’m guessing you don’t have any military leadership experience.
The human factors and the show involve some risk, however small. Patton used to visit trench lines where troops were hunkered down with continuous shelling. He’d walk right out there without crouching, knowing he’d only be there a short while, as opposed to day in and day out, and that this slight risk would place him in high esteem by the troops.
By disarming them he’s signaling mistrust, that he’s not really their man, and not really their leader.
True. If you are a leader then you have to put yourself out there in the line of fire.
If you would like to make public your military leadership experience, feel free to do so.
I’ve read Patton’s wartime memoir, “War As I Knew It.” In it he states unabashedly that he would stand up partially outside above in his command vehicle with his telltale revolvers, etc. to be readily recognized and cheered and to encourage his troops. He further unashamedly states that when riding back from the front he would hunker down in that same vehicle so as not to be seen by the troops. Read the book; it’s an interesting read.
He knew more a than almost all of his contemporaries – the acting useful in the “Theater of War.”
Trump is a divisive character and it would be a mistake to think that the military is monolithic.
He has no military leadership experience; nor any military experience. “Cadet Bone-spurs” got a draft exemption under dubious circumstances.
The daughters of the treating bone-spur doctor just recently made some revelations. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/daughters-late-podiatrist-claim-diagnosed-donald-trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war-favor-134618527.html
Back to the point – it’s probably SOP for any president for safety reasons. Although there are many generals; there is only one president at any given time. They don’t even come close in high value or risk.
Reagan and JFK were put out there in the line of fire. Big mistakes.
If you spend all of your time worrying about getting shot then you are basically already a failure. Patton didn’t achieve a real level of leadership because he was basically a jerk, but Bradley wasn’t and there are many others who put themselves in the line of fire willingly.
Bottom line is if you want to lead the country then you must know possibly getting your brains blown out is part of the deal.
Just to elaborate a bit about a great man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley
Yes, Platoon commander and company commander (infantry).
It’s a leadership failure.
His security guy is supposed to make the disarm recommendation.
Then, he’s supposed to say no, how would of it look if he forced people to disarm who are standing in harms way on his orders, military service members, subject to the UCMJ, brace professional soldiers who have dedicated their lives, and then leave the only armed people in the room as civilian secret service employees of the Treasury Department. No, he was safer on Al Assad airbase than with the likes of Peter Strock’s counterpart lurking in the Treasury department. Lol.
As far as generals go, last time I was on al Assad airbase a general visited my company inside the wire, to give us a speech about being his linebackers, and the cheeseball had a private contractor guarding him with an FN 5.7 submachingun, rather then his own uniformed MP unit, or whatever. So, this shit is pervasive. And, was not lost on anyone.
Yeah, they’re in the military, they’re armed and they have armed staff, they’re generals and there are a lot of them.
There is only one president at a time.
Whoever the president is, he or she must be protected from even outside minimal unnecessary risk. Consider ‘calculus of risk.’
The military is not a monolith. McVeigh, Oswald, Walker family,
Marine guards at US Embassy in Moscow, Randy Cunningham, that monster who struck at Ft. Hood, and
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2003/03/uncle_sams_jihadists.html
and on and on.
BO probably had the same deal. Who the heck would have a president exposed, walking along trenches for showboat reasons.
Protection makes sense; it’s prudent.
That’s not “part of the deal” and that’s an execrable thought.
Will not further respond no matter what is said.
Anyhow, Zeke, I used Patton not because I am a fan, but rather to show that even a cynical, mediocre at best military leader will at least put on a show of being a real leader.
My recommendation is the World War I platoon commander’s notebook entitled: Attacks, by Erwin Rommel. He kept winning battles at extreme odds and the Wehrmacht eventually put him in charge of a regimental sized unit modestly called “the Rommel detachment” because of his low rank. Father of modern combined arms maneuver warfare. Father of modern small unit machingun tactics. And, probably one of the three best military leaders of all time.
Zeke,
Just read your last. Oswald was not active duty and had pretty much expatriated before being picked up by rogue elements of our national security apparatus to play patsy to an assassination.
Fact is 10% of sitting US Presidents have been assasinated; none of them by any active duty service members.
By those odds I stand by my assertion that Trump is safer on a carrier or a marine base than in DC.
Russia builds a “wall” along Crimea/Ukraine border.
Just completed.
Our military no longer has any ‘dress uniforms’ for special events for our soldiers. Just inside the Pentagon which is a zillion miles from the fighting except on 9/11.
So our soldiers wear ‘fighting gear’ when ‘dressing up’ for events. I am against this, keeping form is important here and wearing these camo suits is unsuitable but then no one ever listens to my advice.
Where do you get that? It’s wrong. I have a closet full of dress uniforms (stuff without camo), from the civilian equivalent of business-casual to black-tie.
Yeah the service uniforms look like garbage, literall, I agree.
Overseas deployments like Iraq require troops to wear service uniforms (camo or one-piece jumpsuits) and have weapons with them at all times, including exercise and dining, even inside the wire. A real pain. Showers are overlooked. Maybe that has changed a bit?
At any rate, I guarantee you that special-ops unit planned to bring their weapons when they got ready for that photo-op. Because, I have never seen a team photo of operators without their weapons. And, that photo without them is going to look a bit lame because of it.
As I said, at HOME yes, overseas, no. Note that people like the Nazis did have ‘proper uniforms for officers during WWII. This is how my father penetrated deep into Nazi Germany wearing the formal Navy uniform that looked very much like a Nazi naval uniform.
What you said was “just inside the pentagon”, not just overseas. Ever attend a military ball? Anyhow, besides checking into new units, you’re not that far off base. Touché.
Sigh. Look, the idea behind ‘uniforms’ is to project an image of power. The general gear worn by everyone these days in the military is not ‘power inspiring’ stuff.
Better to be subtle with your power and only display as necessary and then display it with Gusto so there can be no uncertainty.
Hey Central America – do you want some help?
As you pointed out…
They can’t impeach him due to not having the votes in the senate but this language on the first of the job by this house democrat is not something you will tolerate in your blog and I feel embarrassed to have to mention this latest story–
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/tlaib-trump-impeach-1080825
Tlaib was raised in a Muslim household of 14 children. No more needs to be said,
First day on the job and she projects her radical perspective.
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Thalattosuchia
Thalattosuchia is the name given to a clade of marine crocodylomorphs from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous that had a cosmopolitan distribution. They are colloquially referred to as marine crocodiles or sea crocodiles, though they are not members of Crocodilia.
Temporal range: 195–125 Ma
Sinemurian - early Aptian[1]
Dakosaurus, a metriorhynchid.
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Neosuchia
Suborder: †Thalattosuchia
Fraas, 1901[2]
†Metriorhynchoidea[3]
†Teleosauridae
The term Thalattosuchia was coined by Fraas in 1901.[2] Various authors considered Thalattosuchia an infraorder or a suborder within "Mesosuchia". However, the term "Mesosuchia" is a paraphyletic group, and as such is no longer used. For consistency, the Thalattosuchia are here placed at suborder rank, although the order that contains it is unnamed.
Pelagosaurus, a teleosaurid.
Since Buffetaut (1982) demonstrated the shared characteristics of the early forms of Metriorhynchidae and Teleosauridae, Thalattosuchia has consisted of these two families.[4]
Some of the early members of Teleosauridae have been discovered in non-marine deposits. The systematics of the genus Pelagosaurus are confused, with differencing topologies placing it as either a teleosaurid,[5] or as the sister taxon to a Teleosauridae + Metriorhynchidae clade. Others considered Pelagosaurus to be a basal metriorhynchid.[4]
List of thalattosuchian-bearing stratigraphic units
List of marine reptiles
^ Alfio A. Chiarenza, Davide Foffa, Mark T. Young, Gianni Insacco, Andrea Cau, Giorgio Carnevale, Rita Catanzariti (2015). "The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia". Cretaceous Research. 56: 608–616. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.001. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
^ a b Fraas E. 1901. Die Meerkrokodile (Thalattosuchia n. g.) eine neue Sauriergruppe der Juraformation. Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde, Württemberg 57: 409-418.
^ Fitzinger LJFJ. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Wien: Braumüller et Seidel, 106 pp.
^ a b Buffetaut, E. 1982. Radiation évolutive, paléoécologie et biogéographie des Crocodiliens mésosuchienes. Mémoires Societé Geologique de France 142: 1–88.
^ Gasparini Z, Pol D, Spalletti LA. 2006. An unusual marine crocodyliform from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary of Patagonia. Science 311: 70-73.
Fraas, E. (1902). "Die Meer-Krocodilier (Thalattosuchia) des oberen Jura unter specieller Berücksichtigung von Dacosaurus und Geosaurus". Paleontographica 49: 1-72.
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Tornado in northeast China kills 6 people, injures 190
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BEIJING: A tornado blew through a city in northeast China, damaging factories and buildings, killing six people and injuring another 190, state media reported Thursday.
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Liaoning resident Li Yuan said he owns a factory just 500 metres from where the tornado struck. His workers told him they initially thought it was “just a large cloud.”
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Our mailbag keeps on rolling as the staff tackles football, volleyball and baseball questions. Brandon Vogel, Greg Smith, Jacob Padilla and Derek Peterson are back to share their thoughts.
What non-premium yet insider things are you guys hearing about the QB race and who else is standing out in other positions? Who do you all predict will win the QB starting job? (@thawildbunch)
JP: I’ve been saying Tristan Gebbia the whole time, and I’m going to stick with him for the time being. I think he offers the best combination of all the traits Scott Frost needs in his quarterback, at least until Adrian Martinez is fully up to speed. He’s an incredibly hard worker, he is a quick decision-maker who can make all the throws they need him to and he’s fast enough to gain yards on the ground and be a threat there.
GS: I also started off with Gebbia as my pick and nothing has really happened to change that yet. However, it would be mighty tempting to go with Martinez to get a potential 4-year starter that you hand-picked for the offense. I do hear whispers that the staff would like the eligible quarterbacks to be further along in their development and think the talent at the skill positions is good enough to win a good amount now. So because of that, don’t close the door on the grad transfer market despite what Frost has said publicly. At other positions, Greg Bell, Stanley Morgan Jr., Mike Williams, Jerald Foster, Will Honas, Deontai Williams, and Breon Dixon are some of the names getting a lot of praise.
BV: The off-the-record reviews of Martinez are pretty glowing. There seems to be every indication that he’s the quarterback of the future, but there’s still the adjustment to this level that can’t really be sped up. (He hasn’t played a football game, other than the Under Armour game, since his junior year, either.) That said, I bet he starts the most games for Nebraska in 2018, but he won’t be the starter in Week One.
DP: Things have looked rough for the offense regardless of who’s been the quarterback so far, but I have this feeling that Martinez gets the job. I was very surprised to hear from him Tuesday given the last staff’s rule of keeping freshmen off limits and just reading between the lines I think he’s the guy they are trying to steer into that role. I agree with Brandon that Martinez starts the most in 2018, but I think the benefits of getting him live action against the likes of Akron and Troy before Michigan far outweigh the risks when the other option is throwing him straight into the fire in conference play.
If you had to pick a current Husker to narrate your life who would it be? (@tklim2430)
JP: Will Honas. My life is pretty boring and not a lot happens, so Honas would be perfect. Seriously, though, give me Mick Stoltenberg. Deep, booming voice and he’s one of the best communicators on the team, so I think he has strong qualifications for the job.
GS: Stanley Morgan. He’d have a lot of fun questioning many of my life decisions in an entertaining way.
BV: Michael Decker. That guy is super smart. He doesn’t need to be to narrate my life, but I would appreciate it nonetheless.
DP: My pick was going to be Stanley as well, but since this particular question comes with rules, I’ll go Mohamed Barry. He’s an entertaining guy and I’ve always enjoyed listening to him talk. That’s a good attribute in your life narrator.
What is John Cook's Plan B if Nicklin Hames goes down with an injury? Transfer setter before the season begins? Did Densberger set in Club/High School? (@knapplc)
JP: Densberger was actually an outside hitter in high school, so no she did not. I don’t believe Kenzie Maloney has setting experience either. I don’t think Cook has any other option besides adding another setter to this roster. He’s not going to get a transfer mid-season, though; that’ll have to happen sometime in the near future I’d imagine.
BV: I don’t think Nebraska has much choice but to aggressively pursue a transfer setter, and I think that’s the plan. I don’t know who is potentially available, but you would think Nebraska would have plenty of interest in any such opening.
Any updates on Coach Frost’s desire to boost roster size? I know AD Moos was on board but needed to research how to make it compliant. (@md_schmidt)
JP: I don’t have any updates necessarily, but there are currently 149 players listed on the roster including all of the guys who should get here in June. That includes 89 scholarships by my count, so we know somebody is going to be leaving after the spring (or not arriving in the summer). Even so, that would leave the team with 140-145, which isn’t quite 150, but it’s close and a heck of a lot more than the 129 on last year’s roster.
GS: No update but there are Title IX issues that would need to be worked out with that. Going from 129 last year to 150 is the equivalent of adding another sport so I would think they have to work those issues out which is why it’s not as simple as Frost just getting what he wants.
How hot is Darin Erstad's seat? (@knapplc)
BV: Man, I was hoping this one wasn’t in here, but here we are. (Kidding, mostly, this is a pertinent and good question, just not a fun one to answer.) Like most everyone else, I like Erstad a lot. Hearing him talk about baseball is like getting a graduate degree in the sport. But so far that grind-it-out approach to baseball hasn’t produced consistent results. I don’t fully know where the breakdown is, either. Recruiting? Pitching? Hitting? Defense? All of those things have seemed good for Nebraska at times and rough at others. There’s just something missing. How hot is his seat? I think he’s OK for now––largely because football has already made a change and basketball is, well, interesting––but missing a Big Ten Tournament held in Omaha might crank the heat quite a bit.
DP: Brandon hits the key points so I’ll just add this: I think last season’s success coupled with the injuries they’ve dealt with in the pitching department has him currently sitting in better standing than most think. This is a team that scored a combined 35 runs on March 10, I think part of their issue right now is just cold hitting. Lots of season left. Plus, it'd be pretty awkward to fire a guy and then invite him back in September to induct him into your school's Hall of Fame.
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200-year old village in Hanoi
Ancient Nom village in Van Lam district, northern Hung Yen province, about 30km from the capital city, remains intact with its natural beauty of a traditional village.
Nom Village in Dai Dong hamlet, Van Lam district, Hung Yen province lies just over 30 kilometers east of Hanoi. The village was formed at the beginning of the Common Era, according to a stele preserved in Nom Pagoda.
As is the case with many other Vietnamese villages, the history of Nom Village’s origins are associated with legends of spirits; among them many that contain fabulous mythical elements. According to hagiographies extant in Nom Village’s communal house, during the Western Han Dynasty, a girl surnamed Pham was famed for her beauty but refused to marry. Since she was enchanted by Buddhism, she went to Phap Van (Dharma Cloud) Pagoda to reside. Once, when she went out to bath in Nguyet Duc River, which lies adjacent to the village, the sky suddenly turned dark and a tempest broke out. A river serpent jumped out and coiled around her. Terrified, she ran off to the pagoda and fainted. In her delirium, she dreamed that she swallowed the moon down into her belly. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son of uncanny ability and countenance, whom she named Tam Giang. Tam Giang grew up to become a general for the Trung sisters in the rebellion against Han Dynasty domination in 40 C.E. After the successful rebellion, Tam Giang returned to Nom Village, where he had garrisoned, and established a livelihood. Three years later, the Han army invaded. Tam Giang gathered together an army and went to battle, but was defeated and retreated back to Nom Village. As the enemy pursued him, Tam Giang committed suicide along with his mother and wife at Nguyet Duc River. Learning that Tam Giang had died, the villagers built a shrine for him and venerated him as the village tutelary spirit.
Thousands of years may have passed, but Nom Village retains its image as a traditional Vietnamese village.
The arched village gate is made of bricks, on which are inscribed Confucian characters and the image of two dragons encircling the moon. The villagers say that previously two dark wooden doors closed the gate, but they no longer exist. The gate is where villagers greet and send off guests.
The center of Nom Village is the communal house. Before the road leading into the communal house is a pond several decameters wide and approximately 200 meters long. In the village over a dozen ancient houses and seven altars of the various families remain. Most prominent is the home of Phung Van Long, which was built about 200 years ago, according to documents from Hung Yen province’s department of culture, sports and tourism. The house includes fully intact wooden pillars and columns, on which exquisite carvings remain.
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Schwarzenegger's Harley Davidson up for auction
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After traveling through time completely naked, the T800 needed – first and foremost – some clothes. After – rather conspicuously – entering the nearest watering hole, the humanoid cyborg appropriated pants, a T-shirt and a leather jacket. Still not happy, he rather domineeringly throws a leg over a beautiful Harley Davidson and, before cranking over the engine, he decides to put on a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, despite the night hour. And then he’s off with a twist of the throttle, rear tire smoking and the huge twin-cylinder roaring.
If you haven’t caught on yet, this is the opening scene of Terminator 2, Judgment Day, starring Austrian former Mister Olympia, Arnold Schwarzenegger who, in that second blockbuster movie, played the part of the “good” robot – the one tasked with defending the human race instead of trying to exterminate it.
After acquiring his objective – young John Connor – the T800 begins to show off his riding style, made up of huge spinouts controlled with only one arm (in the other hand, Arnie was gripping a Winchester 1887 lever-action shotgun), incredible late braking, scraping the footpegs of his freshly heisted black Harley Fat Boy with its flashy, polished chrome.
The “bad guy”, or rather, the BADGUY T1000 tried everything to stop Arnold who, dressed like a hardened redneck, used his body to protect young Connor, riding two-up on the passenger portion of the wide upholstered saddle.
Sci-fi and Harley enthusiasts alike, or anyone else for that matter, can now own the bike that Schwarzenegger rode to the Los Angeles city limits: the Fat Boy is up for sale. Purchased by Carolco Pictures, which produced the film, the legendary and iconic Harley has some scratches and minor dings (understandable: the T800 even jumped it off a bridge, with a jaw-crunching land), a few tears on the black vinyl saddle and the side mirrors are missing. It may need a thorough tune-up, but in any case, the sale price ranges from $200,000 to $300,000 as the starting point for bids.
Live auction bidding starts in just under two weeks, so if you want to own the bike that played a key role in a revolutionary and legendary film, here is the link to follow.
But before you start feeling like a Hollywood star, remember: like he promised young Connor, the T800 never killed anyone, going against his killer instinct.
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City to Enter into MOU with Galvan for Senior Center
The Common Council passed a resolution last night that, in one fell swoop, abandoned the plan to construct a new building for the senior center next to the Youth Center on South Third Street and made a commitment to locate the City's senior program in the Armory, now being called the Galvan Community Learning Center.
The discussion of the resolution started with Alderman Wanda Pertilla (Second Ward), who chairs the Youth & Aging Committee, telling the Council that she had taken thirty seniors on a tour of the space last week and they had been "very impressed." "They saw the vision of the Galvan Foundation," said Pertilla. The floor plan for the space, distributed at the meeting by Daniel Kent, executive director for the Galvan Foundation, seemed, however, to show a vision for the space not shared by all of Hudson's seniors.
Although the fine print indicates that the larger room, identified as the "Meeting Room," will accommodate 10 people doing yoga or 21 people exercising, the floor plan shows four big round tables, seating 10 each, designated "Bingo/Lunch." The smaller room, identified as the "Classroom," has three tables, seating 6 each, for "Cards," and there are two tables for 4 in the southeast turret marked "Puzzle."
Several things about the MOU (memorandum of understanding) worried some of the aldermen. Alderman John Friedman (Third Ward) noted that it made no mention of parking. Alderman David Marston (First Ward) stated that the new MOU was "tremendously different" from the one presented just last week and included, in the item about Project Financing, the expressed expectation that the City would turn over the money intended for a new building that the City would own to this project: "City shall make a good faith effort to facilitate the transfer of project development financing previously allocated for the purpose of developing a Senior Center, including the $400,000 grant from New York State Office of Community Renewal (OCR) and the $100,000 grant from Hudson Community Development Planning Agency (HCDPA)." Alderman Nick Haddad said of the new MOU, "It sounds like we're losing control of every aspect of planning," and expressed the opinion that "for $500,000, we should have more than just a cursory say."
Encouraged to speak by Pertilla, Doris Moore, the City's commissioner of aging, dismissed concerns about parking, saying of the seniors, "Most of us park on all the side streets, and we walk," and expressed impatience with the length of time the senior center has been under consideration, "We're tired of it, and we want it." Alderman Robert "Doc" Donahue (Fifth Ward), in his fashion, adjured the aldermen concerned about the terms of the MOU to "stop stonewalling."
The vote was taken, and all but Friedman, Haddad, Marston, and Alderman Chris Wagoner (Third Ward) voted in support of the resolution. Haddad voted no; Friedman and Marston abstained, with Friedman commenting before he voted, "The MOU changed in the week between the informal and the formal meetings. This is not the way we should be doing business"; Wagoner was absent from the meeting.
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Yoda Patterned after Spencer W Kimball: Fact or Fiction?
July 13, 2011 in Uncategorized
Over the years I’ve heard rumors that the Star Wars character, Yoda, was patterned after the LDS prophet, Spencer W Kimball. For those of you who are not familiar with Spencer Kimball, here is a picture of him:
Compare that picture with Yoda and you can see a slight resemblance (minus the green face!):
Recently, we took my niece, who is a huge Star Wars fan to the local Art Museum for a Star Wars Exhibit. I learned there that this myth was false and that Yoda was actually patterned after Einstein as shown in the picture I took at the exhibit:
So next time you hear that rumor floating around, now you know the true story!
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Hmmm, those of us who know Pres. Kimball think he seemed way more like Kimball than Einstein. Not only was it looks, but there was a kind, gentleness plus strength going on. And he was short. Especially when Kimball was really old the similarity was striking.
Head shape, facial features seem all wrong for Einstein.
Hi JKS,
I don’t know if that’s a compliment or not to be compared to looking like Yoda! : )…One thing is for sure…neither Kimball nor Einstein were green!
Tyler Lazenby
HEY HEY HEY, just remember that “when 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not!”
This is another example of the Mormon tendency to think that everything is about them.
We are a rather small religion that most of the U.S. and world really doesn’t care much about. I doubt that anyone around Star Wars had the foggiest idea who the elderly LDS prophet was or what he looked like.
Even today, President Monson is virtually unknown outside LDS circles.
Unless one can prove that the person who crafted the character was LDS, which no one ever has, then this is in the category of an urban myth.
Exactly my point!
But one of the producers(?) was LDS ………. and right at the very last scene of one of the movies when Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were looking out the front window of the ship one of them said ‘As man is God once was, and as God is man will be’ ……… i saw it when it was on TV one saturday night, and people were talking about it the next day at church. They have since removed that ending from the movie.
teotwawkisos
Wikipedia: “he battled recurring throat cancer. This led to one and a half vocal cords being removed in 1957; as a result, he was thereafter barely able to speak above a hoarse whisper.”: Yoda’s voice.
Kimball was prophet from ’73 through ’85, i.e. during the years in which the Star Wars characters were likely being formulated.
Though previous prophets are unknown outside LDS circles, it’s not too far-fetched to believe that a philosophically oriented person like Lukas knew something of the LDS church and of the prophet at the time. If Kimball was the charismatic, short, wise, friendly ‘Yoda’ to the world that so many sources suggest, the fact that he is otherwise an unknown figure (outside LDS) makes him an ideal inspiration.
There may never be ‘proof’, but ‘reading between the lines’, this hypothesis appears acceptable. Reading Wikipedia on Yoda, i found a reference to Kimball missing but reading Wiki on Kimball, all i found were MORE references that suggest the Yoda connection.
I’m not LDS (but was once).
clue1: Kimball was prophet from ’73-’85, the very years Lucas was developing the characters for his movies;
clue2: Wikipedia on Kimball: “he battled recurring throat cancer. This led to one and a half vocal cords being removed in 1957; as a result, he was thereafter barely able to speak above a hoarse whisper.”, i.e. a clear reference to Yoda’s voice;
clue3: the fact that Kimball is not well-known outside LDS makes him a good source of inspiration. The fact that he was prophet of LDS, makes it plausible that he was known by a man like Lucas, a person clearly interested in spiritual and social developments;
the other clues: short, known to be wise, easy-going, old, and frail.
I’m not even LDS and i think it’s plausible. Wikipedia would probably not accept adding the reference but reading between the lines, it seems wholy acceptable.
graceforgrace
Teotwawkisos,
I can see why you think that and why many people think Yoda is patterned after Kimball. I’m just saying that officially, no one claims it and Lucas hasn’t publicly stated that either, so theories are just hearsay
In 1939 there was no PROOF that Hitler was going to murder 11,500,000 of his own people… yet thousands who read between the lines got the hell out of town!
What has been “publicly stated” or ‘proven’ isn’t necessarily superior to what data, logic, and common sense will get you. Actually, it’s usually quite inferior to it. No authority figure needs to verify for me what is staring me in the face.
I guess only George Lucas will truly know and until he makes some sort of statement on that we’ll never truly know.
karenwindness
I’m with Steve on this. Why fight about it? It’s not like it’s doctrine or anything. And it really rubs me the wrong way when Hitler comparisons are made. Not the same thing at all.
Karenwindness,
Amen to all you said!
who’s fighting? And WW II just serves as a clear example of how relative demand for ‘proof’ are. I can’t speak for anyone else but as far as i’m concerned, it’s just a friendly harmless debate. No one was making more of it than that so far. Do i have to justify having an opinion and voicing it best as i can now? NOW it’s starting to sound like fighting…
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What’s coming up for The CW’s Supernatural.
SciFi Wire talks to Supernatural creator and producer, Eric Kripke, about the upcoming(and final?) season. If you will recall, last season ended on a cheerful note with Sam and Dean releasing Lucifer from hell. Oops. Season five will be all about the Apocalypse and the battle to return Lucifer to the dark pits from which he emerged. Plan on seeing alot of familiar faces says Kripke:
“”That’s always so much more fun than trying to break a new character. Rufus [Steven Williams] and Ellen [Samantha Ferris] come back as a hunter duo now. He insisted on hunting, and Ellen insisted that he’s hunting with her. Meg is back, just not in the meat suit of [actress] Nicki Aycox. I would have loved to have had it in the meat suit of Nicki. We literally spent out the logic of how that could happen, and we couldn’t. But she’s in the body of the talented actress Rachael Miner. We are trying to bring back as many as we can: Chuck [Rob Benedict], Zachariah [Kurt Fuller]. I love our recurring cast of players.”
One person not confirmed to return is the Winchester’s dad,Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who was killed at the end of season 2. Kripke says with Jeffrey being a big movie star and all now, it may be a challenge. Hopefully he can make an appearance before the show comes to an end.
The new season starts on September 10th. Read the rest of the article here for more details.
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01Task description
LG X power is a highly efficient smartphone the charge of which is enough for a long trip. In anticipation of the Christmas holidays, we developed thematic layouts.
Our goal was to develop them in such a way that a reader would not want to flip through the page of the magazine with advertising as soon as possible, but on the contrary, that he or she would feel enthusiastic about getting acquainted with the creative idea in more detail and would be eager to unravel the story.
02Christmas Flight
The first advertising layout of LG X power is created for the in-flight magazines that can be found in the backs of the aircraft seats, for example, Aeroflot and Vestnik Pobedy (Victory Herald) publications.
Almost all the passengers will anyway flip through the suggested press during the flight. The developed layout presents the product effectively and puts the emphasis on its main features.
The opposite parts of the world and various travel formats are included in the dynamic collage. The illustrations are made in sepia tones, so as not to distract attention from the protagonist.
The image of the airplane in the air space evokes the emotional involvement of the in-flight magazines’ readers. Symmetry is made up of flying deer, pulling the cart of Santa Claus (or of his colleague Father Frost) against the background of the Moon.
Semantics of the advertising layout covers a wide audience of potential customers, from those who are puzzled searching for a special gift for their loved ones, to the travellers themselves, who are flying to the remotest places of the world, for whom a powerful battery of LG X power smartphone will be an indisputable advantage.
03The Journey of Santa Claus
The advertisement page is created mainly for travelling magazines. For example, these publications include Vokrug Sveta (Around the World), National Geographic, GEO. The layout embodies the joy of New Year's holidays and the idea of a great journey.
The journey is made by Santa Claus, identified by his traditional cap, and LG X power smartphone stands as a long-awaited gift. The route, shown by the dotted line, covers a wide geography and a lot of various hobbies of different people for whom a modern smartphone with a powerful charge turns out to be a welcomed helper.
The atmosphere of a dream-like night is unobtrusively maintained with the help of typical attributes, small details and a snowy background. At the same time, the central element of design is still the smartphone itself, the attractive external view of which, together with the festive atmosphere, motivates to discover more about it.
04Client's Review
Natalia Mikhailova
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Thanks to the guys from GreenMars! First of all, thanks for being ready not only to listen, but to hear; secondly, for quick work execution and strict adherence to all the guides (even the most complicated ones); thirdly, for the professional recommendations and sensible advice; and of course, for the quality of work, which is superb. Together we worked on the design of banners, POP, outdoor and print advertising. We stayed happy with everything!
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"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time"
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
"Silver Blaze"
Doyle (Holmes) didn't make it on my circle's top ten list of best non-Japanese mystery novels ever, but to be honest, I too didn't vote for Doyle either (despite me being the one who nominated him in the first place). Partly because other people from other circles will probably nominate something out of the Holmes canon, partly also because I am not sure whether I can truly claim that I don't know of ten other detective novels that I would deem better than any work in the Holmes canon. I am not talking about historic importance, just as a work on its own. But enough of small talk.
Both the editor of Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo and Amagi Seimaru (who actually writes this series under a different pen name) have been promoting Sherdock the Detective Dog on their Twitter accounts lately, so I tried the first volume, despite the description on the back. I am fairly sure I would never ever had bought it otherwise. For the premise is: Sherlock Holmes is for some reason reincarnated as a dog. Called Sherdock (Sherlock + Dog). In Japan. And his owner is a young teenager called Wajima Takeru, who is also the only person who can actually communicate Sherdock. Because Takeru also happens to be the reincarnation of Watson (in fact, the name Wajima Takeru can be read as Watson thanks to the complexities of the Japanese language). In Japan. And together, they fight crime!
And nobody in their right mind would have picked this up without some pushing, right?
But to be honest: this is a surprisingly fun series! Of course, you really have to accept first that Sherdock is not even remotely similar to the real Holmes, only spouting misquotes like 'Elementary, my dear Watson'. And imagine you being a teenager, only to have Holmes teasing you about a classmate by saying the following: I can see you're in love with her. And it's one-sided too. No, not likely. But it is funny though. Just imagine Holmes being all smug about it. Anyway, accept the premise of a talking, detective dog who might or might not be Holmes, and you will actually have a fun time.
The series consists of semi-inverted stories. At least, in the first volume. You don't actually see the murderers commit their crimes, but it usually quite clear who the guilty party is: the problem is to prove how he did. It's like when you tune in on an episode of Columbo just after the murderer has commited his crime (which for some reason, is something that happened to me quite often). Unlike Reizouko Tantei, the hints are fairly available to the reader (and they don't rely on specialist knowledge like Kuitan). The stories aren't what I would call classics, but they are not bad and I did like the emphasis on visual hints, an element that is usually not present at all in books.
Visual hints are definitely a reason why I like detective manga. I already sorta mentioned it in a review of an audio drama, but there are a wide variety of hints that rely on the human senses, that just don't translate well in written words. If one reads manga like Conan and Kindaichi Shounen, you'll see that the authors make great use of the visual element of their stories, burying hints in the art. And unlike video, you can easily go back a few pages to confirm things (like normal books), which removes the problem of visual hints in video that are either to hard to detect (short screen-time, too small to see at one glance), or too obvious (with the director trying too hard to convey the fact that something is a hint).
And of course, one of Sherdock the Detective Dog's charm points, or at least, that's what the writer probably aims at, is that Sherdock has the problem of being a dog and not being able to do everything he would like to do himself, thus needing Takeru to act as his human proxy. As of the first volume, this dynamic mimics that of the main dynamic in Conan by the way: Conan has at one hand the freedom to do a lot because he is an 'innocent' child, on the other hand there is a lot he isn't allowed to do himself, thus needing an adult partner to do things for him. The same holds for Sherdock, with the difference that he can just ask Takeru to do things for him, while Conan usually has to act and slyly lead adults to do the things he wants to have done.
Sherdock the Detective Dog is still running, with the fourth volume recently released. For some reason I never really got into Q.E.D. Shoumei Shuuryou (and I haven't even read the spin-off C.M.B.), but I might follow this series because a focus on inverted stories does make it feel different (even though they are also present in both Conan and Kindaichi Shounen). I have no idea how this series is going to develop further though. At least with Conan, there is the whole Black Organisation storyline that keeps everything together. Are we going to find out more about why the heck Holmes is a dog? Is Moriarty going to appear as a dog too? I think I am more afraid than curious to how this series is going to develop in the future, but there is only one way to find out. At least, only one that doesn't involve driving in DeLoreans, blue police boxes and other machinery that might mess up the space-time continuum.
Original Japanese title(s): 安童夕馬（原）、佐藤友生 （画） 『探偵犬シャードック』第１巻
Cross-references Amagi Seimaru | 天樹征丸 , Andou Yuuma | 安童夕馬 , Detective , Inverted , Manga | 漫画 , Satou Yuuki | 佐藤友生 , Sherdock the Detective Dog | 探偵犬シャードッグ
Too Many Suspects
"The curious incident of the dog in the night-time...
Zero Focus
The Japanese Fan Mystery
「愛せなくていいから、ここから見守ってる」
"Objection!"
「Justice for True Love 君だけのために」
Prescription: Murder
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Law on Ram temple if all options fail: UP Dy CM
Ayodhya, June 15 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya has said that if the two options for a solution to the Ayodhya dispute fail, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will bring in a legislation for the construction of Ram temple.
He said the matter was being heard in the Supreme Court and efforts were also being made for a solution through mediation. “If these two options do not work, we will enact a law,” he said.
Maurya was speaking at the Dharam Sansad organised in Ayodhya to mark the conclusion of the birthday celebrations of Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, the head of the Ram Janambhoomi Trust, which was attended by saints an seers form across the country.
Maurya said the BJP had returned to power with the blessings of the saints and the party will follow the diktat of the holy men. “The dream of a grand Ram temple will be realised soon,” he said.
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Chinese Medical Journal. 131(12):1472–1479, JUN 2018
Muscle Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Various Clinical Subtypes of LMNA-Related Muscular Dystrophy
Hui-Ting Lin;Xiao Liu;Wei Zhang;Jing Liu;Yue-Huan Zuo;Jiang-Xi Xiao;Ying Zhu;Yun Yuan;Zhao-Xia Wang;
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1Department of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China2Department of Radiology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing 100034, China
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Background:LMNA-related muscular dystrophy can manifest in a wide variety of disorders, including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD), limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), and LMNA-associated congenital muscular dystrophy (L-CMD). Muscle magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a useful tool in the diagnostic workup of patients with muscle dystrophies. This study aimed to investigate whether there is a consistent pattern of MRI changes in patients with LMNA mutations in various muscle subtypes.Methods:Twenty-two patients with LMNA-related muscular dystrophies were enrolled in this study. MRI of the thigh and/or calf muscles was performed in them. The muscle MRI features of the three subtypes were compared by the Mann-Whitney U-test. The relationship between the clinical and MRI findings was also investigated by Spearman's rank analyses.Results:The present study included five EDMD, nine LGMD, and eight L-CMD patients. The thigh muscle MRI revealed that the fatty infiltration of the adductor magnus, semimembranosus, long and short heads of the biceps femoris, and vasti muscles, with relative sparing of the rectus femoris, was the predominant change observed in the EDMD, LGMD, and advanced-stage L-CMD phenotypes, although the involvement of the vasti muscles was not prominent in the early stage of L-CMD. At the level of the calf, six patients (one EDMD, four LGMD, and one L-CMD) also showed a similar pattern, in which the soleus and the medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscles were most frequently observed to have fatty infiltration. The fatty infiltration severity demonstrated higher scores associated with disease progression, with a corresponding rate of 1.483 + 0.075 × disease duration (X) (r = 0.444, P = 0.026). It was noteworthy that in six L-CMD patients with massive inflammatory cell infiltration in muscle pathology, no remarkable edema-like signals were observed in muscle MRI.Conclusions:EDMD, LGMD and advanced-staged L-CMD subtypes showed similar pattern of muscle MRI changes, while early-staged L-CMD showed somewhat different changes. Muscle MRI of L-CMD with a muscular dystrophy pattern in MRI provided important clues for differentiating it from childhood inflammatory myopathy. The fatty infiltration score could be used as a reliable biomarker for outcome measure of disease progression.
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Urban photography: An Italian Instagramer and her American Photographic Journey
by Phil González | Feb 15, 2015 | News |
By Ilaria Vangi @lili76photo
Translation by Morena Menegatti @morenaemme
Jack Kerouac, one of the most visionary American writers, opened the foreword he wrote for his friend Robert Frank’s “The Americans” saying “That crazy feeling in America, when the sun beats down on the roads and you hear the music of a JukeBox or that of a funeral passing by”.
Pictures in this book narrate the story of a young photographer travelling across 48 Nations, using his second hand camera to tell the story of America in the Fifties, when its status symbol was an apparent wealth, while racial strifes were overwhelming it.
Robert Frank, as well as Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand poured their photographic genius in as many great images.
While Frank realized both pictures of social protest and images presenting details from his daily life, such as highway signs and storefronts, Friedlander developed his work focusing on portraits, self-portraits, on the representation of the urban environment and its impact on human evolution. Winogrand instead pursued a comprehensive documentation of American society by taking an impressive number of photographs so as to be almost compulsive.
Ilaria, a photographer from Florence (Italy), also working as the account manager for the official Instagram account @igers_firenze (Instagramers Italia community), inspired by these and other great American authors, has decided to take a photographic and social journey in the deep South of the United States, animated by her passion and also supported by a new Leica T Camera, designed to communicate with all iOS mobile devices through a specific app, allowing the photographer to shoot and share all his/her pictures in real time.
Leica and the Igers share the same philosophy highlighting how people should not be in a hurry when taking street photographies but wait and capture the right moment, seizing an emotion and balance all the picture’s elements. Aspirational photographers should then not be afraid of taking pictures and the camera (which should be invisible) had better become their best friend.
On January 30th, a new photographic story is being told on Ilaria Vangi‘s social media accounts thanks to a partnership between Igersitalia’s website (www.instagramersitalia.it) and Leica Italia, also narrated on the Travel section of Fanpage Magazine, which Ilaria is a freelance contributor of.
From Atlanta, the capital of American news, through the vibrant New Orleans to get to the bright Miami: a 30 days long photo-story whose main characters will be the street photos and much more.
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POWER with WATER WHEEL
Additional work-power for productive task capacity has been a need since the beginning of civilization. First effort in this direction was the wheel for easing the movement. But to push or pull greater loads large number of human beings or animals were required. To concentrate such massive power deployment, ropes (for pulling) and structures (for pushing) were required. The wheels, ropes and structures were employed to move loads on level grounds or lift them against the gravity. Other power needs were more stationary such as moving the potters’ wheel or the grain grinding stones.
The power concentration was aided by series of pulleys arrangement, and distanced leveraging. Power movement continuum was also devised by flywheel system. Water and wind were harnessed for power by Roman times. Water and wind were unpredictable or intermittent sources. For days the mills could remain useless for grinding grains or minerals. Till the end of middle ages, the size and scale of the mechanical apparatuses were capable of offering power equal to few horsepowers whereby a wind mill could draw water from an average well, or a water wheel could turn a grain grinding system. These were mostly made of wood structures and even moving wooden parts. Iron parts were rare in rural areas. Both, wind and water system required possible production facility to be located near the sources, usually away from urban settlements. Everywhere rivers were diverted, reservoirs built and pipes or channels laid to operate the water wheels.
There were number of industrial processes that required consistent power, such as forging, spinning, weaving, grinding, usually supplied by human labour and animals. But by the beginning of 18th C steam turbines began to offer uninterrupted industrial power in urban locations where better transport connection brought in fuels like wood, charcoal, coal etc. The animal, water and wind powers, yet remained economic options till the beginning of 20th C.
The Burden Iron Works on the Hudson River and Wynantskill Creek in Troy, New York area is an example how the quest for power manifested in super-size water wheel plant. It has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful water wheel power plants. It was designed in 1838-39. It was 18.50 metres in diameter and 6.70 metres wide. The water wheel weighed 250 tons and could produce on average 500 horsepower when spinning 2.5 times a minute. The wheel was called ‘the Niagara of water-wheels.’ In 1851, it gave place to a larger one (the present 1,200 horsepowers). The wheel was like a cycle wheel 0f suspension type with rods forming the tensile spokes. It was made of iron, except for the drum (soling of the wheel) and its buckets. To make the water wheel viable for all seasons, Burden formed a system of reservoirs along the Wynantskill Creek.
The water wheel was part of one of the two separate estates, which together had sixty puddling furnaces, twenty heating furnaces, fourteen trains of rolls, three rotary squeezers, nine horseshoe machines, twelve rivet machines which each produced eighty rivets a minute, ten large and fifteen small steam engines, seventy boilers. It produced stoves, horseshoes, rivets, railroad spikes. It also produced parts of the USS Monitor and replacement for the Liberty Bell.
April 4, 2015 by Gautam Shah Categories: Architecture, Buildings, Interior Design, Technology, Tools | Tags: Burden water wheel, Industrial Power, Power | Leave a comment
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Migrant farmworkers
Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrant workers
By Alexandra Hall/Wisconsin Public Radio | March 20, 2017
DURAND, Wis. — Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Jiménez and her husband, Manuel, 36, used to do the grocery shopping together. They would take the kids and make a day of it. But, lately, Manuel goes alone. Read on in this new report from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Missouri couple paves way for American Dream
By Francisco Vara-Orta/For The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 7, 2016
Gabriel and Sara Ruiz, husband and wife, were neighbors who fell in love and moved from Michoacán, Mexico, to California in the early 1990s to work on farms with hopes of realizing the American Dream. They brought with them their two children, Gabriel Jr. and Maria.
Migrant worker finds home among Lexington’s orchards
Mexico isn’t home anymore for Agustín Chavarria — Lexington, Missouri, is.
Couple finds a home, work in Missouri fields
Newlyweds Alvaro Porras Loza and Maricruz Martinez Hernandez moved in early June from the Kansas City area to work the farm fields of New Haven, a town that hugs the banks of the Missouri River and stationed about an hour west of St. Louis.
Advocates ease fears, growing pains of Missouri’s migrant families
By Francisco Vara-Orta/For Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | November 7, 2016
While Latinos make up less than 4 percent of Missouri’s population, the number of Latino residents in the state grew nearly 80 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Still Harvesting Shame
By Robert Holly | September 22, 2016
An investigation by In These Times and The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reveals how today's migrant farmworkers are still living in deplorable housing reminiscent of "Harvest of Shame."
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Virginia Reclaims “Top State for Business” Title in CNBC Ranking
Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam
Contact: Alena Yarmosky
Email: Alena.Yarmosky@governor.virginia.gov
RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that CNBC has named Virginia America’s “Top State for Business” in 2019. CNBC unveiled Virginia as the top state for business this morning during a live broadcast from Shenandoah River State Park, and Governor Northam was on location to discuss the announcement. The top ranking is determined by CNBC following an extensive study of all 50 states based on 64 metrics in 10 categories of competitiveness. Virginia is tied with Texas for most years named top state for business by CNBC, with wins in 2007, 2009, 2011, and now 2019.
“I am proud to bring the title of America’s top state for business back to Virginia,” said Governor Northam. “One of my primary goals has been to make Virginia the number one place to do business, and to do it in a way that benefits all Virginians and every region of the Commonwealth. This recognition underscores our work to build an inclusive and diversified economy, invest in our workforce, and create quality jobs—and is proof that companies of many different sizes and industries can find a home in Virginia.”
Since Governor Northam took office in January 2018, the Commonwealth has secured more than $18.5 billion in statewide capital investment and created 50,000 new jobs. Governor Northam has announced $2.5 billion in new capital investment in Virginia’s distressed communities, including significant projects with Volvo and Microsoft. Virginia has attracted major investments from leading companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Micron, and many other prominent businesses are choosing to deepen their roots in the Commonwealth.
In its 2019 ranking, CNBC highlights Virginia’s highly educated workforce, strong economic growth, and stable business climate. The study also gives Virginia top scores for education, access to capital, and technology and innovation.
CNBC debuted its Top States for Business ranking in 2007. Information about the methodology used by CNBC to determine America’s Top States for Business in 2019 is available here.
Read more about Virginia’s business ranking here. Watch Governor Northam discuss how Virginia reclaimed the title of Top State for Business in this video.
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HomeEnvironmenttackling climate change with small, sensitive interventions
tackling climate change with small, sensitive interventions
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posted on Apr. 12, 2019 at 11:37 am
Search online for “climate change” and “tipping points” and you’ll find some scary results. Melting ice sheets, the collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation , the permafrost methane “time bomb” and the die-back of the Amazon rainforest threaten to exacerbate the climate crisis and send global warming spiralling out of control.
But what if we could leverage similar tipping point dynamics to solve the climate problem? Like physical or environmental systems, socioeconomic and political systems can also exhibit nonlinear dynamics. Memes on the internet can go viral, loan defaults can cascade into financial crises, and public opinion can shift in rapid and radical ways.
What climate ‘tipping points’ are – and how they could suddenly change our planet
In an article just out in Science, we outline a new approach to climate change that tries to find areas in socioeconomic and political systems that are “sensitive” – where modest but well-timed interventions could generate outsized impacts and accelerate progress towards a post-carbon world.
Sensitive Intervention Points (SIPs)
These “Sensitive Intervention Points” – or SIPs – could trigger self-reinforcing feedback loops, which can amplify small changes to produce outsized effects. Take, for example, solar photovoltaics. As more solar panels are produced and deployed, costs fall through “learning-by-doing” as practice, market testing and incremental innovation make the whole process cheaper.
Cost reductions lead to greater demand, further deployment, more learning-by-doing, more cost reductions and so on. However, the spread of renewables isn’t just dependent on technology and cost improvements. Social dynamics can also play a major role. As people observe their neighbours installing rooftop solar panels they might be more inclined to do so themselves. This effect could cause a shift in cultural and social norms.
Financial markets are another key area where SIPs could help accelerate the transition to post-carbon societies. Many companies are currently failing to disclose and account for climate risks associated with assets on their balance sheet. Climate risk can entail physical risks, caused by extreme weather or flooding. They can also entail the risk of assets such as fossil fuel reserves becoming stranded as economies transition to limit warming to 1.5℃ or 2℃, when such resources are no longer valuable.
Oil and other fossil fuel reserves could become stranded assets.
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Most of the world’s current fossil fuel reserves can’t be used if the world is to limit warming and they become effectively worthless once this is acknowledged. By not accounting for these risks to fossil fuel assets, high-emission industries are effectively given an advantage over low-carbon alternatives that shouldn’t exist. Relatively modest changes to accounting and disclosure guidelines could make a significant difference.
If companies are required to disclose information about the climate risks associated with their assets – and if such disclosure is consistent and comparable across companies – investors can make more informed decisions and the implicit subsidy enjoyed by high-emission industries is likely to rapidly disappear.
Opportunities for triggering SIPs in a given system can also change over time. Sometimes “windows of opportunity” open up, where very unlikely changes become possible. A key example in the UK was the political climate in 2007-2008 which enabled the 2008 UK Climate Change Act to pass with near unanimous support. This national legislation was the first of its kind and committed the UK to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% relative to 1990 levels by 2050.
The act also created a regular ratcheting cycle which encourages more ambitious future climate action. Since 2008, emissions in the UK have fallen dramatically. However, the UK Climate Change Act’s influence beyond the UK is also significant as it encouraged similar legislation in other countries, including the Paris Agreement, which contains the same self-reinforcing ratcheting mechanism.
Using SIPs for rapid change
Thinking about SIPs in policy and business could accelerate the post-carbon transition – but much work lies ahead. The first step is to systematically identify potential SIPs and the mechanisms by which they can be amplified.
Unfortunately, traditional economic models commonly used to evaluate climate policy are poorly equipped to do this, but new analytical methods are increasingly being used in policy.
These new methods could provide more accurate insights into the costs, benefits and possibilities of SIPs for addressing climate change. As SIPs could be present in all spheres of life, experts in social and natural sciences will need to work together.
The window to avert catastrophic climate change is closing fast, but with intelligent interventions at sensitive points in the system, we believe success is still possible. Since the stakes are so high – and the time frame so limited – it is not possible to chase every seemingly promising idea. But with a smart, strategic approach to unleashing feedback mechanisms and exploiting critical windows of opportunity in systems that are ripe for change, we may just be able to tip the planet onto a post-carbon trajectory.
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Port of Rotterdam puts IoT into operation
A new Internet of Things platform has been developed for the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The first application for hydro/meteo has recently been put into operation. With this application, the Port of Rotterdam is taking safety and efficiency a step further. The system uses an extensive network of sensors to provide accurate and up-to-date water (hydro) and weather (meteo) data particularly for the planning and management of shipping.
The construction of the IoT platform was announced a year ago by the collaborating partners IBM, Cisco, Esri and Axians, and has now been delivered under the Port Authority’s direction. “It’s a fantastic step in the development of Rotterdam as ‘smartest port’,” stated Ronald Paul, the Port Authority’s Chief Operating Officer. “Just as important, however, is that the cloud platform and the generated real-time information, which includes infrastructure, water and weather condition data, enable us to further improve mission-critical processes in the service to our clients.”
The generic building blocks that have now been implemented offer the Port of Rotterdam a safe and reliable basis for rapid innovation with access to the latest technologies, including edge computing, real-time analytics, artificial intelligence, hyper-precise data and blockchain. And that’s very much needed, because the port area is always developing, with such things as new physical infrastructure being given an increasingly greater digital aspect. For instance, sensors incorporated on and in quay walls, dolphins, waterways, roads and traffic signs generate continued measurement data and these can communicate with other autonomous systems. This lays the foundation to facilitate autonomous shipping in the Port of Rotterdam in the future.
The proof of the pudding of the IoT platform was the completion of the hydro/meteo application. It is the first time that the generic IoT platform was used for a mission-critical application. Of course, this needed to satisfy the highest safety, reliability and standardisation requirements. The application is actually essential in decision support during the safe and efficient handling of shipping.
The delivered hydro/meteo system obtains height of tide, tidal stream, salinity, wind speed, wind direction and visibility data via a combination of 44 sensors in the port, many prediction models, data from Rijkswaterstaat and astronomical calculations. This enables the application to contribute to reductions of waiting times and optimization of berthing, loading/unloading and departure times. The technology allows, for example, to more precisely predict the best time to berth and depart, depending on water conditions, while guaranteeing maximum loads.
Users of the hydro/meteo system include the Pilotage Service, Rijkswaterstaat, DCMR and various departments within the Port Authority. It is expected that the number of users will increase further. The use of global and open standards means that it has never been easier for external parties to connect with this real-time data. Each day, the platform is already processing some 1.2 million data points for models, systems and users.
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Sunday, May 06, 2012 - 00:46
May 6 - Frontrunner Socialist leader Francois Hollande and President Nicolas Sarkozy cast their ballots in a close runoff that Hollande is tipped to win. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
(ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION) President Nicolas Sarkozy and rival Francois Hollande cast their votes in France's presidential election run-off on Sunday, amid predictions the incumbent is heading for defeat. The vote could make Sarkozy the 11th European leader to be swept from office by the economic crisis and crown Hollande as France's first Socialist president in 17 years. As Sarkozy arrived to vote with his wife Carla Bruni, crowds of supporters turned out to greet him, chanting "president!". But, buoyed by a tide of anger over Sarkozy's inability to rein in rampant unemployment during his five-year term, Hollande was between four and eight points ahead in final opinion polls for a vote that could mean a shift in direction for Europe. Despite shaving a couple of points off Hollande's lead in the last days of a frenetic campaign, the conservative's own aides privately admitted it would require a miracle for him to turn the odds in his favour and clinch a second term. In two further blows in the last days of the race, both far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who came third in an April first-round vote with 17.9 percent, and centrist Francois Bayrou, who came fifth with 9.1 percent, refused to endorse Sarkozy. While Sarkozy spent Saturday in the privacy of his home in Paris with his wife Carla Bruni, Hollande and his journalist partner Valerie Trierweiler were out shaking hands with supporters, signing autographs and sampling cheese and strawberries in rural France.
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KSL Cleantech to launch 10 electric two- and three-wheelers in India
04/07/2019 - 17:12 | Electric vehicles, Announcements, Electric vehicles | Suvil Susvirkar
Kolkata-based KSL Cleantech Ltd, formerly known as Kirti Solar Limited, plans to launch new electric vehicles in the Indian market.
KSL Cleantech will introduce as many as 10 new electric vehicles within the next 12 months.
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The company plans to introduce as many as 10 electric vehicles, which will include two- and three-wheelers, within the next 12 months. Regular readers would know that GoZero Mobility had joined hands with Kirti Solar for the development and manufacturing of electric bikes. GoZero Mobility would launch the "One" and "Mile" e-bikes in New Delhi at INR 32,999 and INR 29,999 respectively.
Apart from electric two- and three-wheelers, KSL Cleantech will also focus on small commercial and passenger vehicles. The company already offers electric three-wheelers in the Indian market and has a dealership network across India. The upcoming electric vehicles would be manufactured in India, and thus we expect to see aggressive pricing. Local manufacturing will help the products qualify under the FAME-II scheme. The company plans to invest more than INR 200 crore on the new vehicles.
Speaking about the company’s growth plans Dhiraj Bhagchandka, Managing Director, KSL Cleantech Ltd:
The entire market for land transport will switch to electrification in the near future. The government wants to bring in EVs swiftly to tackle pollution, and this gives us an opportunity to address a market looking for quality and performance and show an EV can outperform. We have set an ambitious target of entering the EV space in a big way. We are considering and evaluating opportunities for setting up a manufacturing facility in India.
Meanwhile, the Government of India has aggressive plans for mass electrification of two- and three-wheelers. With an aim to reduce the prices of the electric vehicles and boost their sales, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed to remove registration fee from electric vehicles. More details will be available at the Union Budget that is scheduled to take place tomorrow (July 5). The exemption from Registration Fee has been proposed for all categories of electric vehicles.
KSL Cleantech Ltd, formerly known as Kirti Solar Limited, has also partnered with GoZero to manufacture electric bikes (pictured).
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However, the short timeline proposed by the government for mass electrification of vehicles under 150 cc of displacement has been met with concerns from several two-wheeler manufacturers. Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor Company have called the deadline of 2023 and 2025 for mass electrification of three- and two-wheelers respectively as unrealistic and impractical.
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TL;DR – Last Week’s Container News (1/27/17–2/3/17)
Tutorials & How-Tos: Docker on Triton
Docker on Triton Tutorial — Joyent’s “Triton” allows containers to run on bare metal, bypassing the need for VMs. According to Joyent, benefits of this approach include easier application management, quicker scaling, and more optimal resource use. However, according to Joyent, the “prevalence of VM-based infrastructure” may cause users to “think within the limitations and confines of the VM.” Their 2/2/17 blog post, “Optimizing your Docker operations for Triton,” is a guide to help users escape the VM mindset, and navigate the transition from Docker in VMs to Docker on Triton.
Products & Features: Twistlock, Platform9 Managed Kubernetes & Fission, Photon Kubernetes
Twistlock — A 1/31/17 episode of The New Stack Makers podcast featured Twistlock, a container security platform. Twistlock features “environment checks, policy enforcement, and role-based access control,” and can check images to alert developers when an aspect of their image is non-compliant.
Managed Kubernetes & Fission — Platform9 has launched a managed service for Kubernetes (meant to simplify Kubernetes) and an “open source serverless framework” called Fission. The latter helps escape “single-source vendor lock-in” by providing an alternative to AWS Lambda. Check out the 1/27/17 episode of The New Stack Makers for insight into both of these products.
Photon Kubernetes — Last week, VMWare said they were launching, “a beta of a project that will link [VMWare’s container host] Photon to the Kubernetes container orchestration engine by way of Kubernetes’ own Container Network Interface,” according to The New Stack. This means, “Kubernetes should be able to support network microsegmentation directly,” and, “through the Kubernetes interface, you are now able to create networking and segmentation policies, which are delivered by [VMWare’s network virtualization platform] NSX.” Check out The New Stack’s coverage here: VMWARE PHOTON KUBERNETES NSX
Insight & Analysis: APMs and Microservices, Joyent + Hart, Conductor Suggests Scalability Limits
APMs and Microservices — Can traditional Applications Performance Management (APM) platforms be extended to support microservices environments? That’s the focus of a 2/2/17 episode of The New Stack Context. The podcast delves into the differences between the simple applications typically supported by APMs, and the much more complex architecture of a cloud-native system.
Joyent + Hart “Fireside Chat” — Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill recently sat down with Mo Alkady and Christopher Dickey, (both from Hart — a company in the healthcare space), to discuss challenges and new technologies. The discussion covers the practical problems of technological innovation in the healthcare industry, the problems of technological innovation broadly, and some concerns specific to both Joyent and Hart. Watch the whole video here: JOYENT AND HART
Conductor Suggests Scalability Limits — A recent The New Stack editorial wonders if, “Netflix’s Open Source Orchestrator, Conductor, May Prove the Limits of Ordinary Scalability.” According to the article, “at the turn of the century… the orchestration argument centered around the nature of business transactions,” and, from the perspective to SOA architects, “a computing function could map to a business transaction.” However, the approach Netflix has taken with Conductor suggests that, “for computing processes to be more effective and viable at huge scales, they have to behave less and less like anything a rational businessperson would expect.”
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CT-3 indicates 1′,1′dimethylheptyl-Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol-11-oic acid.
Figure 2. Effect of CT-3 on Reduction in VAS and VRS Scores
CT-3 indicates 1′,1′dimethylheptyl-Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol-11-oic acid; VAS, visual analog scale (range, 1-100); VRS, verbal rating scale (range, 0-4). The figure shows the effect of CT-3 on reduction (week 2 − week 1 and week 5 − week 4) in VAS and VRS scores. The CT-3–placebo sequence group received CT-3 in week 2 and placebo in week 5. The placebo–CT-3 sequence group received CT-3 in week 5 and placebo in week 2. Medians are represented by horizontal bars, interquartile ranges by boxes, ranges by error bars, and extreme values by circles. For differences over time, the reduction in the VAS scores was significantly different (P = .02) in the 11 AM measurements. No significant differences over time were observed in the VRS scores.
Table. Demographic Characteristics of the Study Groups*
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Karst M, Salim K, Burstein S, Conrad I, Hoy L, Schneider U. Analgesic Effect of the Synthetic Cannabinoid CT-3 on Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2003;290(13):1757–1762. doi:10.1001/jama.290.13.1757
Preliminary Communication
Analgesic Effect of the Synthetic Cannabinoid CT-3 on Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Matthias Karst, MD, PhD; Kahlid Salim, MS; Sumner Burstein, PhD; et al Ingomar Conrad, MD; Ludwig Hoy, PhD; Udo Schneider, MD, PhD
Author Affiliations: Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Clinic (Drs Karst and Conrad and Mr Salim), Department of Biometrics (Dr Hoy), and Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Dr Schneider), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester (Dr Burstein).
JAMA. 2003;290(13):1757-1762. doi:10.1001/jama.290.13.1757
Context 1′,1′Dimethylheptyl-Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol-11-oic acid (CT-3), a potent analog of THC-11-oic acid, produces marked antiallodynic and analgesic effects in animals without evoking the typical effects described in models of cannabinoids. Therefore, CT-3 may be an effective analgesic for poorly controlled resistant neuropathic pain.
Objective To examine the analgesic efficacy and safety of CT-3 in chronic neuropathic pain in humans.
Design and Setting Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover trial conducted in Germany from May-September 2002.
Participants Twenty-one patients (8 women and 13 men) aged 29 to 65 years (mean, 51 years) who had a clinical presentation and examination consistent with chronic neuropathic pain (for at least 6 months) with hyperalgesia (n = 21) and allodynia (n = 7).
Interventions Patients were randomized to two 7-day treatment orders in a crossover design. Two daily doses of CT-3 (four 10-mg capsules per day) or identical placebo capsules were given during the first 4 days and 8 capsules per day were given in 2 daily doses in the following 3 days. After a washout and baseline period of 1 week each, patients crossed over to the second 7-day treatment period.
Main Outcome Measures Visual analog scale (VAS) and verbal rating scale scores for pain; vital sign, hematologic and blood chemistry, and electrocardiogram measurements; scores on the Trail-Making Test and the Addiction Research Center Inventory–Marijuana scale; and adverse effects.
Results The mean differences over time for the VAS values in the CT-3–placebo sequence measured 3 hours after intake of study drug differed significantly from those in the placebo–CT-3 sequence (mean [SD], −11.54 [14.16] vs 9.86 [21.43]; P = .02). Eight hours after intake of the drug, the pain scale differences between groups were less marked. No dose response was observed. Adverse effects, mainly transient dry mouth and tiredness, were reported significantly more often during CT-3 treatment (mean [SD] difference, −0.67 [0.50] for CT-3–placebo sequence vs 0.10 [0.74] for placebo–CT-3 sequence; P = .02). There were no significant differences with respect to vital signs, blood tests, electrocardiogram, Trail-Making Test, and Addiction Research Center Inventory–Marijuana scale. No carryover or period effects were observed except on the Trail-Making Test.
Conclusions In this preliminary study, CT-3 was effective in reducing chronic neuropathic pain compared with placebo. No major adverse effects were observed.
A recent qualitative systematic review of the effectiveness of cannabinoids in the management of pain advised against their widespread introduction into clinical practice because of limited relative efficacy in acute pain and common adverse effects.1 However, it was suggested that cannabinoids may have some beneficial effect in spasticity and in neuropathic pain, for which a therapeutic need is greater than in postoperative pain. In addition, the authors stated that new safe and effective agonists at the cannabinoid receptors may dissociate therapeutic effects from psychotropic effects, which makes randomized comparisons in neuropathic pain and spasticity worthwhile.1
1′,1′Dimethylheptyl-Δ8-tetrahydrocannabinol-11-oic acid (CT-3) potentially possesses the efficacy to treat neuropathic pain and spasticity without the psychotropic liabilities of cannabis. CT-3 is a synthetic analog of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-11-oic acid, one of the endogenous transformation products of THC, in which a dimethylheptyl side chain is substituted for the pentyl side chain.2 In preclinical studies, CT-3 was found to be a potent anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antiallodynic agent without psychoactive properties.2 Although the exact neurobiological mechanism of action is still unclear, some evidence exists that apart from the known cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2), 1 or more undiscovered cannabinoid receptors are involved in mediating the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of CT-3.2 In addition, other studies suggest possible postreceptor mechanisms, including inhibition of eicosanoid synthesis and down-regulation of cyclooxygenase 2.3 Recent data suggest that the peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor γ (PPARγ) may serve as an intracellular receptor for CT-3.4 The activation of PPARγ is directly linked to anti-inflammatory and antitumor processes.4
The aim of this preliminary study was to examine the analgesic efficacy and safety of CT-3 in chronic neuropathic pain.
Newspaper advertisement led to 196 telephone contacts. Only 48 of the contacted individuals appeared to have neuropathic pain and were invited to an interview. Among these, 24 had both neuropathic and somatic pain and were therefore excluded. Three patients were denied participation because of the long distance from their homes to the study site. Inclusion criteria were pain for at least 6 months, stable levels of pain medications for at least 2 months, age 18 to 65 years, and consent to participate in the study and follow study procedures. Concomitant pain-relieving medications allowed were antipyretic and opioid analgesics, flupirtine, anticonvulsants, and antidepressants. Not allowed were N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists and cannabinoids. Other specific exclusion criteria were severe organic or psychiatric disease, pregnancy or attempting to conceive, lactation, use of any investigational drug within 30 days prior to first dose of study drug, and non–German speaking. The selected 21 patients (8 women and 13 men) aged 29 to 65 years (mean, 51 years) had a clinical presentation and examination consistent with chronic neuropathic pain with hyperalgesia (n = 21) and allodynia (n = 7).
Diagnoses in the study group included neuropathic pain of the left arm (n = 5) and right arm (n = 1) due to traumatic cervicobrachial plexus lesions, mainly at C5 to C8; neuropathic facial pain (n = 3) due to traumatic lesions of the left maxillary nerve, left trigeminal nerve, and mental nerve bilaterally; neuropathic pain behind the left ear (n = 1) due to traumatic lesion of the left great auricular nerve; neuropathic pain of the left forearm and hand (n = 1) due to traumatic lesion of the left radial nerve; neuropathic pain in the left leg (n = 3) and right leg (n = 1) due to lumbar disk protrusion or intraspinal scar tissue after lumbar disk surgery, mainly at L5/S1; neuropathic pain in one or both of the legs (n = 3) due to traumatic spinal cord lesions at L1; neuropathic pain of the sole of the left foot due to compression of the tibial nerve (tarsal tunnel syndrome) (n = 1); neuropathic whole-body pain below the shoulders due to tethered cord syndrome after surgical removal of an intrathecal ependymoma at C4 to T1 (n = 1); and neuropathic left facial pain (n = 1) of unknown cause. The study protocol was approved by the Hannover Medical School institutional review board, Hannover, Germany, and the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
Study Design and Assessment
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study was conducted from May-September 2002 and lasted 5 weeks (Figure 1). Weeks 1 and 4 were baseline weeks, weeks 2 and 5 were intervention weeks, and week 3 was a washout period. Patients were randomized either to CT-3 or to placebo. During the first intervention week, 2 daily doses were given (four 10-mg CT-3 capsules per day) during the first 4 days and 8 capsules per day in 2 daily doses during the following 3 days; placebo was administered in the same amounts and with the same appearance of capsules. After a washout period of 1 week, the patients crossed over to the alternate group for another 7-day treatment period. For measurement of pain, during each baseline week and each intervention week, patients completed a visual analog scale (VAS) and a verbal rating scale (VRS) twice per day (11 AM and 4 PM, 3 and 8 hours after the morning dose, respectively) for 1 week and recorded the values in a patient diary.
The VAS consisted of a 100-mm horizontal line with 2 end points labeled as 0 (no pain) and 100 (worst pain ever). The VRS consisted of a series of verbal pain descriptors ordered from least to most intense (none = 0, weak = 1, moderate = 2, severe = 3, and excruciating = 4).
The CT-3 was produced by Creapharm, Le Haillan, France. The drug substance was mixed with an appropriate amount of lactose and filled into No. 2 hard gelatin capsules at 10 mg each. Placebo capsules were identical in all respects except for the absence of CT-3. Randomization, labeling, and packaging in high-density polyethylene bottles were performed at Creapharm, which dispensed the study medication under blinded conditions through computer-based randomization.
Study investigators were blinded to the randomization method. All study bottles were labeled with numbers from 1 to 21 pertaining to each of the 21 patients. Each study day (14 in all) was indicated on the bottles, each of which contained either 4 or 8 capsules. Altogether, 21 sets of 14 bottles each were numbered. According to the sequence of their inclusion, participants were assigned consecutive numbers that were then correlated with the numbers on the bottles. All persons involved in the study were unaware of which treatment was administered. Assessments were performed by graduate medical students and the medication was dispensed by the attending physicians. Treatment assignment codes were not available to investigators until all patients completed the study and the data had been entered.
In addition, the baseline screening evaluation included a review of concomitant pain medication, which was allowed if patients had been receiving stable doses for at least 2 months prior to entry into the study. A neurological examination, vital sign measurements, an electrocardiogram, and hematologic and blood chemistry studies (chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine, total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, γ-glutamyl transferase, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, and whole blood cell count) were performed, and the Trail-Making Test (TMT) and Addiction Research Center Inventory–Marijuana (ARCI-M) scale were also used in the baseline assessment.
To determine impairment of cognition, part B of the TMT was used, consisting of a 1-page worksheet of scattered, circled numbers and letters. Patients were asked to connect consecutively numbered circles and lettered circles, alternating between numbers and letters, without lifting the pencil from the page, in as little time as possible. The test was scored by time to completion and number of errors.5
Subjective drug effects were determined using the 12-item ARCI-M scale, which derives from a 53-item version of the ARCI6 plus 4 items specific to marijuana.7 These 4 items are "I have difficulty in remembering," "My mouth feels very dry," "I notice that my heart is beating faster," and "My thoughts seem to come and go." The items are answered as true or false, and each true response is scored as 1 point.
Response was assessed with a pain diary in which the patients completed the VAS and VRS at 11 AM and 4 PM at each day, 3 and 8 hours after the morning intake of the capsules, respectively. In addition, spontaneous adverse events were collected in the diaries. On the first and last days of the treatment week, the TMT and ARCI-M scale were administered along with an electrocardiogram. On the first, fifth, and last days of the treatment week, hematologic and blood chemistry measurements were taken. Vital signs were measured daily. All measurements were performed at least 2 hours after intake of the morning dose of the study drug. Furthermore, at each appointment, compliance was assessed by collection of the study medication bottles. Patients were not asked to guess which treatment they had received during each period; some patients commented on this point but no responses were made regarding these comments.
We assumed that there would be no carryover effect after the washout period of 1 week (week 3). The α level was .05 with a power of 90%. Using a 2-sided test with a 2-period crossover design resulted in the need to enroll a total of 21 patients.
Results are presented as means (SDs). Demographic data, duration of pain, and pain intensity were analyzed with the unpaired t test; sex, type of neuropathic pain, presence of allodynia, and regular use of concomitant pain medication were measured as frequency data. Categorical data were analyzed with the Fisher exact test. Pain scores, the TMT, the ARCI-M scale, and vital signs were computed for treatment effects, period effects, and carryover effects by the method reported by Hills and Armitage8 for 2-period crossover clinical trials. These quantitative data were analyzed using the unpaired t test to evaluate between-group differences in the 2 sequence groups. For the analysis of pain-reducing effects of the intervention period, the differences between each intervention week's results and the corresponding baseline week results (week 2 − week 1 and week 5 − week 4) were computed. For the analysis of the difference over time, the difference (week 2 − week 1) − (week 5 − week 4) was computed. Statistical significance was determined as P<.05. Analyses were conducted using SPSS, version 11.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill).
Patient Characteristics and Disposition
Of the 21 patients, 10 were randomly assigned to receive CT-3 first then placebo, and 11 were assigned to receive placebo first, then CT-3 (Figure 1). The 2 groups were well balanced with respect to age, sex, duration of pain, type of neuropathic pain, and regular use of concomitant analgesics (opioids, anticonvulsants, antidepressants, antipyretic analgesics), and mainly central-acting compounds (diazepam and zolpidem) (Table 1). In 10 patients, the following pain medications and dosages were in regular use: 1 patient each took metamizol, 1000 mg every 6 hours; metamizol, 750 mg every 4 hours; controlled-release morphine, 90 mg, and diazepam, 10 mg, every 24 hours; controlled-release formulation of oxycodone, 100 mg every 6 hours; zolpidem, 10 mg every 4 hours (abusively); doxepin, 25 mg in the evening, imipramine, 20 mg twice per day, and sublingual buprenorphine every 6 hours; controlled-release tramadol, 100 mg every 8 hours; celecoxib and citalopram once per day, flupirtine, 100 mg every 6 hours, and gabapentin, 200 mg every 8 hours; controlled-release tramadol, 100 mg every 12 hours; and controlled-release tilidine/naloxone, 100/8 mg in the morning, amitriptyline, 50 mg in the evening, and gabapentin, 300 mg every 8 hours.
At both baseline weeks, mean (SD) pain levels on the VAS were between 56.00 (20.93) and 68.07 (14.25) for the entire group. With the exception of the 4 PM VAS assessment in week 1, both sequence groups differed significantly in their baseline VAS scores (11 AM in week 1, P = .03; 11 AM in week 4, P = .002; and 4 PM in week 4, P = .03) (Table 1).
Two patients dropped out on the second day of the first intervention week. Therefore, their small amount of data was not considered for further analysis or imputation methods, which led to a modified intention-to-treat analysis. One of these patients, a placebo patient with no history of cardiovascular disease, experienced elevated blood pressure (214/105 mm Hg) and tachycardia (122/min). The patient was referred to a cardiologist. One patient treated with CT-3 experienced severe drowsiness, which interfered with his work. This patient was also taking a controlled-release preparation of oxycodone, 100 mg every 6 hours.
Pain Measurements
Morning results (3 hours after intake of the study drug) of the CT-3 intervention weeks (weeks 2 and 5) showed significant reduction in pain scores and a strong tendency toward significant pain reduction as measured by mean (SD) VAS and VRS differences over time ([week 2 − week 1] − [week 5 − week 4]), respectively. For the CT-3–placebo sequence, the difference in VAS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −13.07 (13.76), for week 5 − week 4 was −1.52 (12.98), and the difference over time was −11.54 (14.16). For the placebo–CT-3 sequence, the difference in VAS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −3.14 (13.11), for week 5 − week 4 was −13.00 (22.14), and the difference over time was 9.86 (21.43); P = .02 by independent t test (Figure 2A). For the CT-3–placebo sequence, the difference in VRS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −0.36 (0.47), for week 5 − week 4 was −0.11 (0.40), and the difference over time was −0.25 (0.49). For the placebo–CT-3 sequence, the difference in VRS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −0.19 (0.55), for week 5 − week 4 was −0.61 (1.01), and the difference over time was 0.42 (1.05); P = .10 by independent t test (Figure 2B).
The afternoon results (8 hours after morning intake of the study drug) showed less marked effects. For the CT-3–placebo sequence, the difference in VAS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −15.56 (23.38), for week 5 − week 4 was −5.91 (14.82), and the difference over time was −9.65 (29.15). For the placebo–CT-3 sequence, the difference in VAS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −8.26 (11.39), for week 5 − week 4 was −12.39 (14.48), and for the difference over time was 4.13 (10.43); P = .21 by independent t test (Figure 2A). For the CT-3–placebo sequence, the difference in VRS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −0.57 (0.95), for week 5 − week 4 was −0.25 (0.55), and the difference over time was −0.32 (1.13). For the placebo–CT-3 sequence, the difference in VRS scores for week 2 − week 1 was −0.29 (0.38), for week 5 − week 4 was −0.62 (0.74), and the difference over time was 0.33 (0.66); P = .14 by independent t test (Figure 2B).
The effect size for CT-3 was somewhat greater in the CT-3–placebo sequence, with less pain intensity at baseline (Table 1) than in the placebo–CT-3 sequence. The VAS and VRS reductions in the CT-3–placebo sequence at 11 AM were 28.84% and 18.89% and at 4 PM were 26.75% and 23.76%, respectively. In contrast, the VAS and VRS reductions in the placebo–CT-3 sequence at 11 AM were 18.40% and 21.49% and at 4 PM were 16.59% and 20.13%, respectively.
All patients used the opportunity to increase the dosage on day 5 of each intervention week, but no significant dose response or increase in adverse events was observed. No carryover or period effects were observed.
Reported adverse events were mainly tiredness and dry mouth but also included limited power of concentration, dizziness, sweating, and more pain. These adverse events were reported significantly more often when CT-3 was administered (mean [SD] difference over time, −0.67 [0.50] for CT-3–placebo sequence vs 0.10 [0.74] for placebo–CT-3 sequence; P = .02 by independent t test). In the CT-3–placebo sequence, during the CT-3 period, 6 of 9 patients reported such adverse events vs 0 of 9 in the placebo period. In the placebo–CT-3 sequence, 6 of 10 reported adverse events in the CT-3 period vs 5 of 10 in the placebo period. Neither the TMT nor the ARCI-M scale scores showed significant differences over time between the 2 treatment groups. The mean (SD) difference over time for the TMT score was 35.89 (112.80) seconds in the CT-3–placebo sequence and was 3.15 (63.45) seconds in the placebo–CT-3 sequence. On the ARCI-M, the mean (SD) difference over time for the number of items answered as true was −0.67 (3.61) in the CT-3–placebo sequence and was 0.22 (2.59) in the placebo–CT-3 sequence. However, there was a carryover effect observed with the TMT (P = .03). No significant differences were found with respect to changes in vital signs, weight, temperature, electrocardiographic findings, or hematologic and blood chemistry studies.
Understanding of the etiology and pathophysiology of neuropathic pain has increased over the past few years, particularly on a molecular and genetic level. Activation of intracellular signal transduction cascades results in changes of receptor and ionic channel function, which may remain active following initial trauma (long-term potentiation).9 There is still much to be understood between the etiological findings and the therapeutic possibilities.
Neuropathic pain cannot be totally eliminated by means of preventive measures, and there is no completely effective medication available with an acceptable therapeutic ratio of efficacy to safety. Apart from inhibiting sodium-ion channels (by use of anticonvulsants or local anesthetics) and assisting endogenous noradrenergic and serotonergic mechanisms (by use of antidepressants), an increasing number of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists have been introduced in the past few years. Many of these have produced favorable therapeutic results.10 Nevertheless, their use is restricted by a poor adverse effect profile; thus, there is a need for effective alternatives with acceptable adverse effect profiles.
Cannabinoids for Chronic Pain
Preclinical studies have shown that cannabinoids reduce the hyperalgesia and allodynia associated with formalin, capsaicin, carrageenan, nerve injury, and visceral persistent pain11; therefore, exogenous cannabis or cannabinoids may work as an analgesic in poorly controlled neuropathic pain. In addition, humans have cannabinoid receptors in the central and peripheral nervous system,12 although the functions of these receptors and their endogenous ligands remain unclear.
Although a large number of case reports and letters suggest the benefits of cannabis or cannabinoids in chronic pain and other conditions, there is little research-based evidence.13 Oral THC, 5 to 20 mg, was found to have an analgesic effect compared with placebo in 10 patients with pain related to advanced cancer.14 In this study, a dose-response relationship was shown for analgesia and adverse effects. In a further study by the same research group, THC, 10 mg, was found to be equipotent to codeine, 60 mg, and THC, 20 mg, was equipotent to codeine, 120 mg, but the higher dose was associated with unacceptable adverse effects.15 In a patient with neuropathic pain and spasticity secondary to a spinal cord ependymoma, THC, 5 mg, and codeine, 50 mg, were equianalgesic, and both were superior to placebo. Only THC, however, had a beneficial effect on spasticity.16
Tetrahydrocannabinol has psychological adverse effects including psychomotor and cognitive impairment, anxiety and panic attacks, and acute psychosis and paranoia17 and adverse physical effects including dry mouth, blurred vision, palpitations, tachycardia, and postural hypotension18 in doses as low as 10 to 20 mg.
Pharmacokinetics and Pain Reduction
CT-3, a synthetic analog of THC-11-oic acid, has been shown in animal tests to have potent anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antiallodynic effects without psychoactive properties.2 The following findings recently have been corroborated: The absence of psychoactive properties was confirmed in 24 human volunteers with a dose of up to 10 mg of CT-3 (S.B., unpublished data, 2001). After a single oral administration of CT-3 in 6 human volunteers, the time to highest plasma concentration (tmax) was reached in most participants 1 or 2 hours after absorption from the empty gastrointestinal tract, but some participants had a delayed tmax of 4 to 5 hours. Furthermore, plasma concentrations of CT-3 demonstrated a strong linear relationship to dose. The peak plasma concentrations of CT-3 increased in ratios of 3.7, 6.2, and 12.6 for CT-3 doses of 3, 6, and 10 mg compared with 1 mg. Similarly, the extrapolated area under the curve (AUC0-8) of CT-3 increased in ratios 3.6, 5.5, and 11.0, respectively. Moreover, in rats and dogs, concentration of CT-3 in plasma reached peak levels 1.5 to 6 hours after dosing and declined thereafter with apparent half-lives of 4 to 13 hours, although longer half-lives may have occurred in some female dogs at high doses.
Our investigation showed that CT-3, given in daily doses of 40 and 80 mg, is more effective than placebo for neuropathic pain, with greater pain-reducing effects at 3 hours after intake than at 8 hours. These findings may confirm the pharmacokinetic data regarding CT-3 known in humans and animals, with main clinical effects observed in the first 6 hours after intake of the drug. The observation of prolonged effects in animal studies2 could not be confirmed statistically in this study; nevertheless, even 8 hours after intake of the drug, there was a tendency toward more pain reduction during the CT-3 intervention. Considering the small sample size, this result may have more weight than the statistical analysis indicates. Furthermore, the amount of pain reduction by the study drug was generally more marked in patients with lower baseline pain levels. This finding may be an indication of a limitation of the pain-reducing efficiency of the compound and a general observation that mild pain is easier to reduce than severe pain. Elevation of the dose increased neither pain reduction nor adverse events, which may be a strong argument for 20 mg as a single dose for this compound.
CT-3 appeared to be free of psychoactive properties as measured by the TMT and the ARCI-M scale, though the assessment of the TMT was restricted by the observed carryover effect. The TMT is often used for screening for cognitive impairment in marijuana abusers.19 We restricted the use of the TMT to part B because only part B is a general indicator for brain dysfunction. Its cognitive demands include visual scanning, visual-motor coordination, and visual-spatial ability adequate enough to understand on an ongoing basis the alternating pattern of numbers and letters.5 In addition, in terms of construct validity, there are several factors that make part B more difficult.20 The ARCI-M scale was used as an outcome measure for subjective effects because in previous studies of THC and marijuana,7,21 increases on the ARCI-M scale were observed together with prototypic subjective experiences with marijuana use.
In our study, tiredness was the main adverse psychological event and dry mouth was the main adverse physical effect; major physical adverse events were not observed. Only 1 CT-3–related dropout occurred (because of severe drowsiness) when CT-3 was used in conjunction with a high dosage of oxycodone (400 mg/d).
Because this preliminary study showed the effectiveness of CT-3 in neuropathic pain and did not find clinically relevant adverse events, and because in animal studies no signs of strong dependency after withdrawal of the drug have been found,2 further clinical studies with CT-3 are warranted. Future studies with this agent should be conducted over weeks or months and should consider a shorter dosing interval, such as 6 to 8 hours.
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Jelly Lam
By Tricky | December 3, 2014 | Add to Favorites
Categories: abalabanovich, browser, flash, free, game, physics, puzzle, rating-g, simpleidea
Have you tried other translucent fruit-spread based works like Jelly Escape or Jelly Blocks, and still feel, as of yet, insufficiently prepared for this jelly? Well, Jelly Lam, a simple idea physics puzzle game by Alexander Balabanovich could be just the solution! It the game, you play as a cute lil' jelly named Jelly, and you'll be stretching, swinging, slicing, and coloring him across a trio of themed worlds, grabbing keys and stars and hoping against hope that you'll make it to the exit in one piece.
Click on the platforms in each level to extend a jelly tentacle to that point, anchoring yourself in a new position. Clicking a currently extant tentacle or "slicing" it while holding the mouse button will making it disappear. There will be reels you can attach yourself to in order to wind up for a "sling", buttons you'll need to press to activate doors, and a whole bunch of spikes and spinning blades to avoid. Later levels will require you to paint yourself different colors to attach to certain platforms. Regardless of the other elements, though, in each level, you must use your tentacles to pick up the key, which will then unlock the exit. Also, there are three stars to collect which, while generally only serving as a ranking system, a certain number of are also required to get to unlock further worlds. There are 12 levels in each world, making for 36 in all. With its warm color palette, intuitive physics engine, and lightly challenging puzzles allowing for multiple solutions, Jelly Lam hits that sweet spot of visual appeal with pick-up-and-play simplicity... except for level 18, but thankfully there's a "skip level" option in the pause menu. Honestly, while the first two worlds are enjoyable, it's the third, based around the color change mechanic that contains the best levels of the game. It would be great to see a sequel based entirely around that section. But even if it is a little back-loaded, it isn't too much of a stretch to say that Jelly Lam is an enjoyable romp, even if the only Jelly you've ever enjoyed with Lam was Mint.
Play Jelly Lam
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Learn More About Our Progress
A Message from Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson
A LETTER FROM MAYOR KAREN
Hello Gary Residents!
One of the greatest honors I have enjoyed is the ability to serve the citizens of my hometown. I have worked to serve with transparency, integrity and honesty. I have also worked hard to protect our city’s interests while developing key partnerships at the local, state and national level.
I am the first to acknowledge that challenges remain. Our deficit remains a concern. We have to do better in cleaning our city. We are working to continue reductions in violent crime. The good news is that we have a plan to address these issues.
With the progress we’ve made and all that is on the horizon, I am asking that you support my re-election efforts. You can help us win!
Thank you for your vote and for your help!
KAREN FREEMAN-WILSON
Mayor, City of Gary
Karen About Gary
Indeed, the upcoming mayoral election is very important. It’s more important than promises. It’s bigger than personalities. And while yes, it’s certainly about the city’s finances, prevailing crime rate and our educational system, in my opinion it is about significantly more than that.
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Books You Should Read: "Heroines"
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Kate Zambreno's book Heroines comes out today! And you should read it. It is fantastic. It is basically How A Book Should Be.
Heroines (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)
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You should also read Kate Zambreno's blog. How good is Kate Zambreno's blog? I just typed her blog URL into the URL-making thingee of this idiotic CMS from memory, is how good - and you could list the personal blogs whose URLs I know and can type by heart on the fingers of a one-handed man who lost a couple in a knife fight down in Reno.
Kate is everything: smart, insanely prolific, invested in exploring female subjectivity, and engaged by topics as diverse as Robert Pattinson/literary theory/Gramsci. Her Marie Calloway essay is basically the best thing ever. Zambreno's is the kind of omnivorous intellect that writes things like, "I want to read books on outsider art and magic. I want figure out how to grow sprouts. I would like to read more disability studies, and history of medicine. Performance studies. Anarchism. Ecofeminism. Animal rights. Witches. Etc." And, "Disgust for Anais Nin is a disgust for the girls with their Livejournals." And:
I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.
Heroines is a sort of hybrid memoir and literary scavenger hunt in search of what you might jokingly call the WAGs of Modernism - the women whose papers weren't archived, whose oral histories weren't recorded, whose lives aren't accorded any kind of public memory apart from their men. Even though they were writers in their own right. Olive Moore. Vivien(ne) Eliot. Zelda Fitzgerald. Anna Kavan. Jane Bowles. Although Zambreno's interest in the neglected women writers of the Modernist movement is longstanding, the book draws on blog posts she wrote while living in Ohio, where she had moved to follow her husband to a tenure-track job. That's an experience many coupled women have: you stack up the professional opportunities, you weigh the respective earnings, and you find that, no matter how the two of you do the math, he wins. And when you move to Akron or wherever he takes you, you start to question your own ambition, your own capabilities, the extent to which your identity is or should be subsumed into his. I think men are much more rarely in a position to ask those questions of themselves; they always seem to get offered the tenure track. It's no coincidence that Zambreno found her topic just as her own life was beginning to resemble her subjects'.
The book is startlingly insightful. Zambreno writes of Zelda Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzgerald's relationship, "She played the parts so he could immortalize her."
He draws almost verbatim from her diaries and letters-turning down an offer to publish her journals. They were his material he insisted. She was all raw and intense emotion. "I am not going to write you anymore. I am too unstable."
In a mock-serious review of The Beautiful and the Damned, Zelda writes:"It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."
Yet of course the flapper or Surrealist femme-enfant is not a writer. She might write loveletters or keep a journal (whatever happened to Zelda's teen-dream diary?) but she is not a serious writer or taken seriously, even when she eventually longs for this. Even if she could write her own life better than he could.
Over at the Paris Review, there's an excellent interview with Zambreno in which she says of writing the book:
I didn't know whether all these notes I was hoarding were criticism or experimental biography or memoir or a novel. I started rereading novels during the long spaces of the day, the times in between teaching-Madame Bovary, Tropic of Cancer. Meditating on these male authors who I found so ecstatic to read but I also kind of hated, if that makes sense. I started a blog. I didn't know anyone who blogged. I think I was trying to notebook these ideas. I thought, Maybe what I'm doing is essaying.
I was surprised to find this community out there, of writers with similar obsessions. I went from invisible community-the wives, my regular seance-to another invisible community-online. Sheila Heti told me she thinks of Heroines as a novel. Maybe it is a novel. I don't know.
Anyway. Heroines. You should totally read it.
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Lady Gaga Reveals The Only Controversial Thing About "Judas" Video
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In the video for Lady Gaga's "Judas," Jesus has cornrows. The disciples are a leather-clad motorcycle gang. Gaga wears a bikini top featuring nipple-hiding crosses, and folks are anointed with holy water and beer. But as Gaga tells E!:
See Lady Gaga As Mary Magdalene In New "Judas" Video
We were told that Lady Gaga's new video, "Judas," would be premiering on E! tonight. …
"In my opinion, the only controversial thing about this video is that I'm wearing Christian Lacroix and Chanel in the same frame."
Lacroix, sweetie darling. Lacroix. The rococo maximalist fashion designer known for experimentation and opulence, in the same shot as Chanel, the brand known for simple elegance. Cue the clutching of pearls!
Gaga also says: "This video is not meant to be an attack on religion. It's not meant to be an attack on anyone's beliefs. I respect and love everybody's beliefs. My fans know that about me. I consider myself a strong and devoted Catholic, and a religious and spiritual person who's obsessed with religious art."
Her statement seems to be fairly genuine, and unless you are very conservative and very easily offended, there's little blasphemy in the clip. Twenty years ago, when Madonna kissed a black saint in "Like A Prayer," Pepsi canceled a multimillion dollar promotional contract with the singer and the Vatican condemned the song. But Gaga's clip — which hit YouTube yesterday and already boasts more than 2 million views — is fairly reverent of the New Testament. Jesus is a nice, well-liked, handsome guy; Judas sexy, but a jerk. The real shocker is that "Judas" is not shocking. Pop music may be known for pushing boundaries and flirting with shocking concepts, but if you're looking for some unholy hellfire type shit, you're going to have to haul out your old Slayer cassettes. Gaga really is just a nice Catholic girl who likes shoes. The clip is beautifully shot, visually arresting and fun, however, and if you have a Biblical Boogie playlist on iTunes, this song can go after Hammer's "Pray" and before Army Of Lovers's "Crucified."
Earlier: See Lady Gaga As Mary Magdalene In New "Judas" Video
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Laparoscopic resection of retroperitoneal lymphangioma around the pancreas: a case report and review of the literature
Takafumi Sato1,
Yoichi Matsuo1,
Kazuyoshi Shiga1,
Kenta Saito1,
Mamoru Morimoto1,
Hirotaka Miyai1 &
Hiromitsu Takeyama1
Lymphangiomas are rare, benign tumors. An intra-abdominal location of these lesions is rarer still and there are only a few reports describing laparoscopic resection for retroperitoneal lymphangiomas, especially in tumors that mimic pancreatic tumors.
We present the case of an asymptomatic 30-year-old Japanese woman in whom a cystic tumor was found incidentally in close approximation to the pancreas. Because the tumor was located in the retroperitoneal space and the body of the pancreas was compressed, we were unable to distinguish a cystic lymphangioma from cystic pancreatic tumors. We started the procedure laparoscopically with five ports. The tumor was in fact separated from the pancreas and was dissected free from the body of the pancreas using scissors and laparoscopic coagulating shears. The left gastric vessels, which were compressed by the tumor, were preserved. As we realized that the tumor was connected to the retroperitoneal lymphatic tissue, we completed the procedure by performing a cystectomy without rupture. The specimen was extracted using a plastic bag. Our patient was discharged on postoperative day 7 without any complications. There is no evidence of recurrence during a >2-year observation period.
In addition to the therapeutic significance in differentiating between a cystic lymphangioma in close approximation to the body of the pancreas and a pancreatic cystic neoplasm, the laparoscopic approach is feasible and effective.
Lymphangiomas are rare and benign tumors, which are caused by a malformation or a blockage of lymphatic vessels [1]. While in most cases the lesions are located superficially on the body, on rare occasions they can occur in the retroperitoneal space [2, 3]. There are two types of lymphangiomas, namely cystic and cavernous. If the tumor is located adjacent to the pancreas, it is very difficult to diagnose through preoperative imaging alone [4]. Because recurrence after drainage of a cystic lymphangioma has been reported [5], complete surgical resection is preferred for a cure [1]. However, some authors argue that an adequate resection for lymphangioma is a cystectomy and that extended resection should be avoided [1, 2]. Here we describe the case of a patient with cystic lymphangioma, which arose from retroperitoneal lymphatic vessels around the superior edge of the pancreas.
A 30-year-old Japanese woman presented to our hospital with chronic cough and had a workup in the internal medicine department. She had a past history of hyperlipidemia. A chest computed tomography scan showed a cystic lesion attached to the body of her pancreas, and a diagnosis of cystic pancreatic tumor was made. Blood tests showed neither inflammation nor anemia. Her serum amylase, lipase, aminotransferase, and bilirubin levels were within normal limits. Tumor markers including CEA, CA19-9, and AFP were not elevated. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of her abdomen showed a 5 cm tumor (Fig. 1). The lesion was attached to and compressing the body of the pancreas, the left gastric artery, the body of the stomach, and the abdominal part of the esophagus superiorly. The wall of the mass was thin and not enhanced. Magnetic resonance images showed a multilocular tumor. Neither an internal nodule nor septations were noted. There was no abnormality in the pancreatic duct, and the main pancreatic duct was not in communication with the lesion. Endoscopic ultrasonography showed that the cyst content had iso- and hypoechoic density with a thin wall and no mural nodules. A fine-needle aspiration biopsy was not performed. Differential diagnosis included a mucinous cystic neoplasm, a pancreatic cyst, or a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma. She was thus referred to the surgical department for evaluation. At this stage, we could not determine whether a pancreatectomy was necessary, thus we proceeded with a diagnostic laparoscopy.
Preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography images. a and b are axial images. c is a sagittal image. The arrows show the cystic tumor. The wall is not enhanced and the tumor is abutting the lesser curvature of the stomach (a and c), and the body of the pancreas (b and c)
The surgery was performed 1 month after the first visit to our hospital. Under general anesthesia, the operation was started laparoscopically with five ports (5 mm × 3 and 12 mm × 2). The tumor was within the lesser sac, which was incised and a window created. Because the left lateral segment of the liver was large and obscured the surgical view, we added a 5-mm port to elevate the lateral segment. The tumor was located in the retroperitoneal space and was attached to the body of the pancreas. We began the dissection of the tumor from the opposite side of the pancreas using laparoscopic coagulation shears (LCS, Harmonic ACE®; Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Cincinnati, OH, USA) and scissors. Branch vessels from the left gastric artery and vein were divided and the compressed left gastric vessels were preserved. The dissection was done easily and bluntly. We dissected the tumor from the pancreas gently using a lymph node dissection technique similar to that in gastric cancer, and were able to separate the mass from the pancreas. Eventually, the tumor was connected only to retroperitoneal lymphatic tissue around the celiac axis. At this stage it became clear that this was a case of cystic lymphangioma; as such, we finished the operation with cystectomy only. The specimen was extracted using a plastic bag (Endo-pouch®; Ethicon Endo-Surgery). An additional movie file shows this image in more detail (see Additional file 1). The postoperative course was uneventful and our patient was discharged on the sixth postoperative day. As the postoperative follow-up, our patient received an abdominal computed tomography examination at 3 months after surgery and then every 6 months. Our patient had no signs of recurrence for a 2-year period after the surgery.
Laparoscopic resection of retroperitoneal lymphangioma around the pancreas. Movie file of our procedure. (M4V 20211 kb)
A histopathological examination showed that the cyst was lined by flattened endothelium. Immunostaining was positive for CD31, D2-40, AE1/AE3, and SMA. Other markers including CD34 and calretinin were negative. The diagnosis was made of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma (Figs. 2 and 3).
a Resected specimen, gross view. Cyst fluid was serous and clear. b Internal aspect of the formalin-fixed specimen
Hematoxylin and eosin staining and immunostaining for D2-40. Internal aspect of the wall is lined with D2-40-positive endothelial cells
A cystic tumor in the retroperitoneal space has many potential diagnoses, particularly when located adjacent to the pancreas, in which case the decision to operate is more difficult [4]. Lymphangiomas generally require only cystectomy; pancreatic tumors, on the other hand, usually require pancreatectomy, which is a far more involved operation.
Lymphangiomas are benign lesions characterized by proliferating lymphatic vessels, and are classified as either hamartomas or lymphangiectasis. Since lymphangiomas are tumors that develop before birth, in most cases they are discovered when patients are young [6]. Adult cases are rare and retroperitoneal lesions are rarer still [4]. In the present case, the tumor was located in the retroperitoneal space and abutting the pancreas; we were therefore unable to make a preoperative differential diagnosis between pancreatic tumors, such as a pancreatic pseudocyst or a mucinous cystic neoplasm, and a lymphangioma based on radiology alone.
Makni et al. espouse the concept that an extended resection should not be performed for benign lymphangiomas [2]. In the last 10 years (since 2005), 31 cases of retroperitoneal lymphangioma were reported. Cystectomy was performed in 21 cases, pancreaticoduodenectomy in one case, distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy in four cases, adrenalectomy in two cases, and miscellaneous abdominal operation in one case (two reports did not describe details of the surgical procedure). If surgery is undertaken for a retroperitoneal mass of unknown cell origin, the surgeon must be able to modify the extent of surgery based on the nature of the tumor as observed intraoperatively in an attempt to preserve the integrity of any adjacent organs. To that end, a laparoscopic approach is useful for diagnosing and sometimes treating such lesions.
The first report of laparoscopic resection for retroperitoneal lymphangioma was published by Targaroma et al. in 1994 [7]. Subsequently, another case was reported in the setting of the advancement of laparoscopic techniques and instruments. To date, there are only eight reports describing ten cases with laparoscopic resection and two reports describing retroperitoneoscopic resection for retroperitoneal lymphangiomas in adult patients [2, 7–15]. Table 1 lists all of the reported cases, including our report. The median age was 45 years old (range; 25–79) and median size of the tumor was 10 cm (range; 3–18). The male to female ratio was 2:11. These reports showed the usefulness of a laparoscopic approach for retroperitoneal lymphangiomas; this approach can also be useful for diagnosis. For example, when the tumor is located on the superior border of the pancreas in the retroperitoneal space, as in our case, we can resect the tumor using the same technique used for lymph node dissection for gastric cancer without damaging the tumor and pancreas. In patients with lymphangiomas, more precise techniques than those of lymph node dissection are required because the wall of the lymphangioma is weak and fragile. For this purpose, the magnification inherent in laparoscopy makes for easier identification.
Table 1 Previous reports on laparoscopic/retroperitoneoscopic resection for retroperitoneal cystic lymphangiomas
A retroperitoneal lymphangioma in close approximation to the pancreas is easily and safely resected laparoscopically. In addition to the therapeutic significance in differentiating between a cystic lymphangioma in close approximation to the body of the pancreas and a pancreatic cystic neoplasm, the laparoscopic approach is feasible and effective.
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Singh S, Baboo ML, Pathak IC. Cystic lymphangioma in children: report of 32 cases including lesions atrrare sites. Surgery. 1971;69:947–51.
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Mansour NM, Salyers Jr WJ. Recurrence of a pancreatic cystic lymphangioma after diagnosis and complete drainage by endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration. JOP. 2013;14:280–2.
Bhavsar T, Saeed-Vafa D, Harbison S, Inniss S. Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma in an adult: a case report and review of the literature. World J Gastrointest Pathophysiol. 2010;1:171–6.
Targarona EM, Moral A, Sabater L, Martinez J, Luque P, Trias M. Laparoscopic resection of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma. Surg Endosc. 1994;8:1425–6.
Jung HI, Ahn T, Son MW, Kim Z, Bae SH, Lee MS, et al. Adrenal lymphangioma masquerading as a pancreatic tail cyst. World J Gastroenterol. 2014;20:13195–9.
Black T, Guy CD, Burbridge RA. Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration. Clin Endosc. 2013;46:595–7.
Yagihashi Y, Kato K, Nagahama K, Yamamoto M, Kanamaru H. A case of laparoscopic excision of a huge retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma. Case Rep Urol. 2011;2011:712520.
Liu B, Li Y, Wang S. Adrenal lymphangioma removed by a retroperitoneoscopic procedure. Oncol Lett. 2013;5:539–40.
Celia A, Breda G. Laparoscopic excision of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma: an insidious case. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2007;17:315–6.
Trindade EN, Trindade MR, Boza JC, Von Diemen V, Ilgenfritz RB. Laparoscopic excision of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma in an elderly patient. Minerva Chir. 2007;62:145–7.
Tsukamoto T, Tanaka S, Yamamoto T, Kakinoki E, Uemichi A, Kubo S, et al. Laparoscopic excision of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma: report of a case. Surg Today. 2003;33:142–4.
Kasza J, Brody FJ, Khambaty F, Vaziri K, Wallace B. Laparoscopic resection of a retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma in an adult. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2010;20:e114–116.
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SADIQABAD: At 20 people were killed and more than 80 were injured when Quetta bound Akbar Express collided with a freight train at Walhar near Sadiqabad on Thursday morning.
According to DPO Rahim Yar Khan Umer Salamat, rescue operation is underway. Hydraulic cutters have been called at the site to retrieve the dead bodies. The army rescue also reached the spot and started rescue operaton.
Injured were shifted to the hospitals in Sadiqabad and Rahim Yar Khan where emergency has been declared.
The freight train was standing on the loop line when the passenger train instead of running on the mainline went on the wrong track. Three to four bogies of the passenger train derailed while the engine of the passenger train was completely destroyed.
According to initial reports, 11 people had lost their lives while, over 60 had sustained injuries in the accident.
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Meanwhile, President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed deep grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives in the train accident near Sadiqabad.
In their separate messages, they directed to provide best possible medical treatment to the injured.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he has asked Railways Minister to take emergency steps to counter decades of neglect of railway infrastructure and ensure safety standards.
Meanwhile, Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid said investigation has been ordered into the unfortunate accident.
Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan has also expressed grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives in the train accident.
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Startseite > More from Laimburg > Performance of seed mixtures containing tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) for permanent meadows in mountain areas
Performance of seed mixtures containing tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) for permanent meadows in mountain areas
G. Peratoner
Laimburg Research Centre, Laimburg 6, Pfatten, 39040 Auer, (BZ), Italy
R. Resch
Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein, Raumberg 38, 8952 Irdning-Donnersbachtal, Austria
U. Figl
C. Florian
A. Bodner
L. Vitalone
Abstract: Suitable strategies are required to face the recurrent drought periods in the southern region of the Alps. Because of its tolerance against drought, tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) has been targeted as a desirable component of seed mixtures for the establishment of permanent Meadows under mountain environment. In a four year field experiment at two drought-endangered sites at altitudes of 835 and 1,200 m a.s.l., four seed mixtures (two seed mixtures already in use in practice and two seed mixtures containing respectively 40 and 60% seed weight of tall fescue) combined with three cutting frequencies (2, 3 and 4 cuts y-1) coupled with increasing fertilisation rates (1, 1.4 and 2 livestock units ha-1), were investigated. Dry matter yield and forage quality, including in vitro digestibility, were assessed for the trial's duration. Only small differences between the seed mixtures were ascertained across the observation period. For the seed mixtures containing tall fescue, a slight reduction of the in vitro digestibility at higher management intensity for one of the two seed mixtures and different content in Magnesium and manganese were detected. It is concluded that the seed mixtures including tall fescue perform similarly to those already in use.
Schlagwörter: altitude, drought, dry matter, dry matter accumulation, grasslands, in vitro digestibility, magnesium, manganese, meadows, mountain areas, mountain grasslands, permanent grasslands, seed mixtures, seed weight, digestibility in vitro, Mn, permanent pastures, Festuca, Poaceae, Poales, commelinids, monocotyledons, angiosperms, Spermatophyta, plants, eukaryotes
Veröffentlich in: Grassland Science in Europe, Vol. 23 - Sustainable meat and milk production from grasslands. Proceedings of the 27th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Cork, Ireland, 17-21 June 2018
Publikationsort: Fermoy, Irish Republic
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Methodology article
Validity of an algorithm for determining sleep/wake states using a new actigraph
Kyoko Nakazaki1,
Shingo Kitamura1,
Yuki Motomura1,
Akiko Hida1,
Yuichi Kamei2,
Naoki Miura3 and
Kazuo Mishima1Email author
© Nakazaki et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
Accepted: 5 September 2014
Published: 4 October 2014
This study aimed to develop an algorithm for determining sleep/wake states by using chronological data on the amount of physical activity (activity intensity) measured with the FS-750 actigraph, a device that can be worn at the waist, allows for its data to be downloaded at home, and is suitable for use in both sleep research and remote sleep medicine.
Participants were 34 healthy young adults randomly assigned to two groups, A (n =17) and B (n =17), who underwent an 8-hour polysomnography (PSG) in the laboratory environment. Simultaneous activity data were obtained using the FS-750 attached at the front waist. Sleep/wake state and activity intensity were calculated every 2 minutes (1 epoch). To determine the central epoch of the sleep/wake states (x), a five-variable linear model was developed using the activity intensity of Group A for five epochs (x-2, x-1, x, x+1, x+2; 10 minutes). The optimal coefficients were calculated using discriminant analysis. The agreement rate of the developed algorithm was then retested with Group B, and its validity was examined.
The overall agreement rates for group A and group B calculated using the sleep/wake score algorithm developed were 84.7% and 85.4%, respectively. Mean sensitivity (agreement rate for sleep state) was 88.3% and 90.0% and mean specificity (agreement rate for wakeful state) was 66.0% and 64.9%, respectively. These results confirmed comparable agreement rates between the two groups. Furthermore, when applying an estimation rule developed for the sleep parameters measured by the FS-750, no differences were found in the average values between the calculated scores and PSG results, and we also observed a correlation between the two sets of results. Thus, the validity of these evaluation indices based on measurements from the FS-750 is confirmed.
The developed algorithm could determine sleep/wake states from activity intensity data obtained with the FS-750 with sensitivity and specificity equivalent to that determined with conventional actigraphs. The FS-750, which is smaller, less expensive, and able to take measurements over longer periods than conventional devices, is a promising tool for advancing sleep studies at home and in remote sleep medicine.
actigraphy
sleep/wake scoring algorithm
sleep estimation
Polysomnography (PSG) is regarded as the gold standard in the objective evaluation of sleep/wake states. On the one hand, PSG can distinguish between sleep and wake states and determine the depth of sleep with high accuracy, while on the other hand, evaluating sleep in natural settings with it is difficult because people are mainly evaluated in a laboratory setting while wearing surface electrodes to monitor their brain waves. In addition, investigations for diagnosing circadian rhythm sleep disorder or to ascertain an individual’s sleep habits require continuous monitoring of sleep/wake patterns over the course of a few weeks or months, which is not possible with PSG.
Methods other than PSG for monitoring sleep/wake states include both subjective and objective measurement methods. Although subjective measurement methods such as self-kept sleep diaries are easy to administer, they are less accurate than objective measurement methods since record keeping is retrospective and sleep state misperceptions are possible. The objective method of actigraphy has been attracting recent attention as it can make continuous recordings over long periods in natural settings and places little burden on the subject. Actigraphy uses an actigraph, a lightweight device that can be attached to the wrist or waist, to continuously monitor the amount of physical activity (activity intensity) of the subject. This device can determine the sleep/wake states in epochs of a few seconds to a few minutes by processing the activity data using a unique algorithm. It is reported that the agreement rate between PSG and actigraphy for sleep/wake state determination is in the range of 85% to 96% [1–6]. Actigraphy is a useful method for evaluating an individual’s sleep/wake pattern over the long term, and it has been widely used in clinical studies targeting patients with insomnia or circadian rhythm sleep disorder, as well as in research studies targeting healthy general populations including children [7–10]. Although actigraphy is less expensive compared to PSG, the equipment it requires is still relatively expensive, which has prevented it from being introduced in epidemiological studies targeting large numbers of participants and from being widely used in clinical practice. Its use is also restricted by the fact that a specific interface is needed to download the device’s recorded data, which requires participants to regularly visit a specific research facility or facility specializing in sleep medicine. It is expected that solving these issues will promote its use in large-scale studies and also in remote sleep medicine, and consequently expand the scope of use of actigraphy in research and clinical settings.
The FS-750, distributed recently by Estera Corporation, is an inexpensive device that is worn less obtrusively at the waist than other actigraphs worn at the wrist. It also produces fewer artifacts from movements limited to the upper extremities. Another plus is that the FS-750 can determine the subject’s posture (that is, standing, inverted, supine, lateral (left and right), and prone) from information about the direction the device is facing, which means it can be applied for sleep/wake state determination. The memory capacity is 40 days and it functions for about 6 months with commercially available batteries (CR2032). It uses near field communication (NFC) technology to transmit data and can download its data to a PC using a commercially available NFC reader/writer device.
In this study, to determine whether the FS-750 can be used for monitoring sleep/wake states, we developed an algorithm that estimates sleep/wake states using data on the amount of physical activity (activity intensity) measured with the FS-750 and tested its validity. In addition, following previous studies [2, 11], we developed an estimation rule to optimize the scoring of sleep parameters by the FS-750 and then examined its effectiveness.
Forty-one young adults (31 men, 10 women; mean age 22.0 ± 1.8 years) participated in this study. Questionnaire and medical examination results confirmed that the participants had no serious mental, physical, or sleep disorders, were not working nightshifts constantly, had not traveled to a destination with a >6-hour time difference within the 3 months prior to the study, and were not taking medications that might affect the experimental results. To avoid the possibility that abnormal movements of the extremities or trunk would affect the estimation of sleep/wake (S/W) states, data from participants with a periodic limb movement index (PLMI) score of ≥5 on PSG (five participants) and those with an apnea and hypopnea index (AHI) score >15/hour (one participant) were excluded. In addition, data from a participant who had extreme difficulty falling asleep (sleep latency: 207 min) was excluded from the analysis. This left 34 participants (25 men, 9 women; mean age 21.9 ± 1.7 years) as the targets for analysis, and they were randomly assigned to Group A (17 participants) and Group B (17 participants).
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, and written consent was obtained from all participants.
The study was conducted in the sleep laboratory unit of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry.
The participants arrived at 19:00 and after PSG electrodes and the FS-750 were attached, they went to bed at 24:00. Wake-up time was set at 8:00 (maximum 8 hours of sleep), and the participants were directed that if they woke earlier than 8:00 they should not get up and should try to get as much sleep as possible until the lights were turned on. Inside the unit, the temperature was maintained at 25°C and humidity at 50% relative humidity (RH).
PSG recording was made using a Neurofax digital EEG system (EEG-1200, Nihon Koden, Tokyo, Japan) and included an electroencephalogram (EEG) with a conventional montage (F3, F4, C3, C4, O1, O2) based on the contralateral mastoid (A1, A2), an electrooculogram (EOG) at the outer canthus of each eye, a submental electromyogram (EMG), an electrocardiogram (ECG), an EMG at the left and right tibialis anterior muscles, and monitoring of respiratory signals (oronasal airflow, movements of the chest wall and abdomen, and O2 saturation of arterial blood). During the recordings, EEG, EOG, EMG, and ECG signals were digitized at 200 Hz, and the signal was filtered using a high-pass filter with the following time constants: EEG 0.3 s, EOG 0.03 s, submental EMG 0.03 s, and ECG 1.0 s. The signal was filtered using a low-pass filter with the following data: EEG 60 Hz, EOG 60 Hz, submental EMG 60 Hz, and ECG 60 Hz.
EEG recordings from a monopolar lead at C3 were assessed visually in 30-second epochs according to the method of Rechtschaffen and Kales [12] and categorized into one of the following sleep stages: Stage Wake, Stage REM, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, or Stage 4. Four consecutively judged sleep stages (1 epoch =30 seconds) were reclassified as sleep (sleep epochs determined by PSG, SPSG ) or wake (wake epochs determined by PSG, WPSG) state every 2 minutes so they corresponded with the activity intensity data measured by the FS-750 (1 epoch =2 minutes). In accordance with a previous study [5], if there were two or more occurrences of Stage Wake in four continuous epochs, this was defined as WPSG; otherwise, SPSG. SPSG was subdivided into Stage REM, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, and Stage 4 according to the sleep stage that was most frequent in the four consecutive epochs. However, for epochs that contained different sleep stages occurring at the same frequency, this was categorized according to the order of Stage REM, Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, and Stage 4. (For example, if there were two occurrences of Stage REM and two of Stage 1, SPSG was sub-categorized as Stage REM.)
Activity recording with the FS-750
Activity during the night while the lights were off was recorded with the FS-750 (Estera Corporation, Saitama, Japan), which is worn at the waist. This small and light, rectangular device (external dimensions: 75 × 33.5 × 10.8 mm (width × height × depth); weight, 26 g including the battery) records the amount of activity by using an internal three-axis accelerometer (electrostatic capacity sensor). Every 0.125 seconds, the number of times that acceleration exceeded a reference value was summed, and the value was recorded as the activity value over 2-minute bins. The activity intensity is calculated from the activity value as a value from 0 to 31 (32 levels). An activity intensity of 0 means the subject did not move, and larger values indicate higher amounts of activities.
Formulation of an algorithm for sleep/wake scoring
To develop an algorithm for the FS-750 that determines the S/W states, following previous studies [5], a five-dimensional linear model was hypothesized that utilizes activity intensity at an evaluation epoch as well as two epochs before and two epochs after (total 10 minutes). Using the activity intensity at 4 minutes and 2 minutes before the evaluation epoch, at the evaluation epoch, and at 2 minutes and 4 minutes after the epoch (x-2, x-1, x, x+1, x+2), each with a weighting coefficient (a-2, a-1, α, a+1, a+2), the following equation gives composite variable z, which is the discriminant score:
z = a - 2 x - 2 + a - 1 x - 1 + α x + a + 1 x + 1 + a + 2 x + 2
Here, SPSG (=0) and WPSG (=1), which are obtained by PSG (one epoch =2 minutes), are taken as a baseline. Score z classifies the activity intensity obtained from the corresponding epoch by the FS-750 into sleep (SACT) and wake (WACT). The above equation was obtained by discriminant analysis using the data set containing activity intensity data and PSG data (total 4080 epochs) for the 17 participants in Group A. Because data during the 4 minutes before and after the evaluation epoch were needed for the development of an algorithm, activity intensity data staring 4 minutes before and ending 4 minutes after the PSG recording were used in the study.
Sleep/wake agreement rate, sensitivity, specificity
Using the S/W scoring algorithm developed, the overall agreement rate, sensitivity, and specificity were calculated for the entire recording period as well as for each sleep stage (Stage Wake, Stage REM, Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 + 4) for each participant in both groups. The overall agreement rate indicates how closely each and all epoch determinations (SPSG, WPSG) by PSG match the activity intensity score (SACT, WACT) for each corresponding epoch. The agreement rate for each sleep stage determined by PSG (Stage Wake, Stage REM, Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 + 4) is the percentage of how closely the activity intensity score (SACT, WACT) matches that calculated for each sleep stage. Sensitivity is the ratio of SACT to SPSG during the entire recording period. Specificity is the ratio of WACT to WPSG during the entire recording period.
Optimizing the definitions of sleep parameters
Sleep latency (SL), total sleep time (TST), wake after sleep onset (WASO), and sleep efficiency (SE) were calculated using the S/W data obtained from PSG and activity intensity data for each 2-min epoch [13]. Calculation was performed using the S/W data obtained during time in bed (TIB), where TIB was defined as the recording period, starting at 0:00 when the lights were turned off and ending at 8:00 when the lights were turned on next morning.
The definitions of sleep parameters calculated from the PSG data are as follow:
SLPSG - The interval between the time lights were turned off and the time of the first epoch when any of the sleep stages appeared (sleep-onset time).
TSTPSG - The total period of time when sleep (SPSG) appeared, from the time of sleep-onset to the time when lights were turned on.
WASOPSG - The time in bed (TIB) from which SLPSG and TSTPSG were subtracted.
SEPSG - The ratio of TSTPSG to TIB.
The definitions of sleep parameters calculated from the activity intensity data are as follow:
SLACT - The interval between the time lights were turned off and the time of the first SACT (sleep-onset time) among the sleep states that appeared continuously for more than n epoch for the first time after the lights were turned off. n ranged from 1 to 15 (2 to 30 minutes), and SLACT was calculated for each. When SACT appeared continuously for more than n epochs for the first time after the lights were turned off, the epochs between lights-out and the first SACT were defined as WACT.
WASOACT - The total time of WACT that appeared continuously for more than n epochs after sleep onset. n ranged from1 to 10 (2 to 20 minutes), and WASOACT was calculated for each. When WACT appeared continuously for more than n epochs, the epochs were defined as WACT.
TSTACT - The amount of time in TIB from which SLACT and WASOACT were substracted.
SEACT - The ratio of TSTACT to TIB.
For the calculation of SLACT and WASOACT, the values obtained from the criteria applied above to the values of SLPSG and WASOPSG were compared, and the epoch numbers that would optimize the calculated results were sought. The optimization rules were to minimize the difference between average parameter values obtained by PSG for the 34 participants and the average parameter values obtained from the S/W algorithm so that the difference was not significant, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was considered significant when ICC was ≥0.4 [14].
Unpaired t-tests were used to compare, between Group A and Group B, the sensitivity, specificity, and agreement rates for both the entire recording period and each sleep stage. Paired t-tests were performed to compare sleep parameters determined from PSG and activity intensity data as well as sensitivity, specificity, and agreement rates obtained before and after the application of the optimization rules. Furthermore, ICC was calculated to analyze the correlation (agreement rate) between sleep parameters determined from PSG and activity intensity data. All data are expressed as mean ± SE. All statistical analysis was performed with IBM SPSS Statistics version 22.0. Statistical significance was set at P <0.05.
The S/W scoring algorithm below was obtained by performing discriminant analysis using the activity intensity and PSG data (total 4,080 epochs) obtained from the 17 participants in Group A.
z = 0.24669 x - 2 + 0.2562 x - 1 + 0.408771 x + 0.155046 x + 1 + 0.136728 x + 2
Here, z ≥1 denotes wake (WACT) and z <1 denotes sleep (SACT). x-2, x-1, x, x+1, and x+2 indicate the activity intensity at 4 minutes before the evaluation epoch, at 2 minutes before, at the evaluation epoch, at 2 minutes after the evaluation epoch, and at 4 minutes after, respectively.
Validity of the sleep/wake scoring algorithm
Table 1 shows the agreement rate, sensitivity, and specificity for each group between the S/W scoring algorithm using the activity intensity data and the S/W states determined visually from the PSG data. The agreement rates for the entire recording period for Group A and Group B were 84.7 ± 3.0% and 85.4 ± 2.8%, respectively, with no significant difference between the two groups (t(32) = -0.157, P =0.876). Similarly, there was no significant difference between the two agreement rates calculated for each sleep stage.
Accuracy of sleep/wake determination using the FS-750 actigraph
Group Aa
Group Ba
Agreement rates (%)
Stage W
Stage 3 + 4
Stage REM
Sensitivity (%)
Specificity (%)
aValues are expressed as mean ± SE.
Likewise, there was no significant difference in sensitivity and specificity of S/W determination between the groups. Therefore, equivalent score accuracies were obtained not only for the data in Group A, which were calculated using the S/W algorithm, but also for the data in Group B, which were independent sample sets.
Optimizing the calculation of sleep parameters with the FS-750
Since there were no significant difference between the agreement rates for Group A and Group B for the entire recording period or each sleep stage, the data were analyzed by merging the data for both groups. Among the four sleep parameters, total sleep time (TST) and sleep efficiency (SE) are dependent on the values of sleep latency (SL) and wake after sleep onset (WASO), and therefore the optimization of SLACT and WASOACT was attempted.
For the continuous number of epochs n =1 to 11 based on the definition of SLACT (see the Methods), there was no significant difference between SLACT and SLPSG. The difference was minimal when n was set to six epochs (Figure 1.) There was a significant intraclass correlation (ICC) between SLACT and SLPSG when n was set between 6 and 11 (P <0.05), with ICC being ≥0.4 when n was 7 to 8. Therefore, the number of continuous epochs was chosen to be seven for SLACT.
Optimization of sleep latency determined by the FS-750 (SL ACT ) . SLACT is the interval between the time lights were turned off and the time of the first SACT (sleep-onset time) among the sleep states that appeared continuously for more than n epoch for the first time after the lights were turned off. The horizontal axis shows the n defined above. The vertical axis shows sleep latency (min) defined for each n. *P < .05 and **P < .01, significant intraclass correlation between sleep latency determined by polysomnography (SLPSG) and SLACT. †P < .05, significant difference between SLPSG and SLACT (paired t-test). Values are expressed as mean ± SE.
The optimization of WASOACT was examined setting SLACT to seven epochs. In the range of one to six continuous epochs based on the definition of WASOACT (see the Methods), there was no significant difference between WASOACT and WASOPSG. The difference was minimal when n was set to four epochs (Figure 2). For a range between one and seven epochs, there was a significant intraclass correlation between WASOACT and WASOPSG (P <0.01), with ICC being ≥0.4 in the corresponding range. As a result, the number of continuous epochs chosen for WASOACT was four.
Optimization of wake after sleep onset determined by the FS-750 (WASO ACT ). WASOACT is the total time that wake epochs determined by the FS-750 (WACT) appeared continuously for more than n epochs after sleep onset. The horizontal axis shows the n defined above. The vertical axis shows wake after sleep onset (min) defined for each n. *P < .05 and **P < .01, significant intraclass correlation between wake after sleep onset determined by polysomnography (WASOPSG) and WASOACT. †P < .05 and ‡P < .01, significant difference between WASOPSG and WASOACT (paired t-test). Values are expressed as mean ± SE.
The sleep parameters calculated by PSG and the activity intensity using the most optimal criteria (SLACT: n =7 epochs, WASOACT: n =4 epochs) are shown in Table 2. For each item, no significant difference was seen between the sleep parameters calculated using the PSG data and those calculated using the activity intensity, and there was a significant intraclass correlation between the two.
Optimized sleep parameters determined by the FS-750 actigraph
Before optimization
After optimization
Mean ± SE
Sleep latency
0.403**
Wake after sleep onset
-2.360*
Total sleep time
424.2 ± 13.0
Sleep efficiency
*P < .05, **P < .01.
Table 3 shows overall agreement rates, sensitivity (agreement rate for sleep state), and specificity (agreement rate for wakeful state) before and after the optimization of SLACT and WASOACT. Despite a reduction in specificity between before optimization (SLACT: n =1 epochs, WASOACT: n =1 epochs) and after optimization (SLACT: n =7 epochs, WASOACT: n =4 epochs), overall agreement rates and sensitivity were improved significantly.
Overall agreement rates, sensitivity, and specificity for sleep/wake states before and after the application of optimization rules
Before optimizationa
After optimizationa
aValues are expressed as mean ± SE (n =34).
It became clear that by using the S/W scoring algorithm developed in this study, the sleep/wake states of healthy adults could be determined from the FS-750 actigraph data with sensitivity and specificity equivalent to that determined with conventional actigraph data. Although the agreement rates in Stage Wake and Stage 1 were relatively low (about 65%), the agreement rates were high for stages 2 to 4 (≥90%). As a result, the overall agreement rate for the entire recording period was equivalent to that obtained using conventional actigraphs (about 85%) [1–6, 15]. The S/W scoring algorithm was developed in this study by using discriminant analysis that optimized differentiation between the sleep/wake states measured simultaneously by PSG. However, it should be pointed out that it would be difficult to determine the sleep states from the activity intensity data alone because mixtures of stages occur, such as when subjects are awake but motionless (silent awake) or during the early sleep-onset period when they are in light sleep and make some body movements. Accordingly, the agreement rate in Stage 1 or Stage Wake is generally lower compared to the agreement rate in other stages. According to a previous study [5], there is a tendency for the agreement rate to decrease during the light sleep stage, and the FS-750 shows a similar trend. The sleep/wake determination method thus appears to have acceptable determination accuracy given that the agreement rate for determining wakefulness by the FS-750 (specificity about 65%) is more than equivalent to that of conventional actigraphs [2–5, 15, 16].
The method was also optimized for calculating the sleep parameters SL, WASO, TST, and SE from the sleep/wake data for 2-minute epochs recorded by the FS-750. As a result, the values of these parameters could be predicted from the data obtained by the FS-750 and were very close to the values obtained by PSG (with no significant difference between them); there was also a significant intraclass correlation between the two. In addition, overall agreement rates were improved significantly after optimization. When looking at the values of the sleep parameters predicted by the FS-750 before the optimization (that is, when the number of continuous epochs for SLACT and WASOACT were defined as n =1), there was a tendency to underestimate SL and overestimate WASO (Figure 1, Table 2). By examining the criteria that minimized the differences between using PSG and activity intensity data, it was determined that SLACT ≥7 epochs (≥14 minutes of continuous sleep state determination) and WASOACT ≥4 epochs (≥8 minutes of continuous wake state determination) were optimal to apply to the estimation rule for sleep parameters. Large individual differences are apparent in the activity intensity data, as actigraphy tends to misjudge a subject who moves a lot while sleeping (restless sleep) as awake and, conversely, misjudges a subject who is awake but motionless (silent awake) as sleeping. In fact, application of the optimization rules improved sensitivity significantly. On the other hand, as this rule attaches importance to the duration, because a short wake state (<8 minutes) is misjudged as sleep, specificity is reduced. Specificity and sensitivity can be considered trade-offs, and as such the rules developed in this study are among the most appropriate evaluation indices for maximizing overall agreement rates.
There are some limitations to this study in that the evaluation epoch periods and the wearing positions of the device are different from those used in the previous studies and the sleep/wake patterns of restless sleep, silent awake, and short wake state are difficult to classify. Moreover, 30-second PSG data were re-scored as data for 2-minute epochs in this study to enable the algorithm to be developed. A longer epoch is more likely to contain different sleep/wake states and therefore tends to have lower agreement rates. Indeed, we forcibly converted data for each epoch determined by FS-750 (1 epoch =2 minutes) from 34 subjects into data for the corresponding four 30-second epochs, and compared the obtained results (30-second FS750 scores) with 30-second PSG scores. The overall agreement rate (85.0% versus 84.8%) and specificity (65.4% versus 59.9%) were significantly lower when comparing 30-second FS-750 scores and 30-second PSG scores than when comparing the corresponding 2-minute epoch score sets. On the other hand, there was no significant change in sensitivity (89.1% versus 89.2%). These results suggest that judgment errors related to the relatively low time resolution (2 minutes) need to be taken into consideration when using the FS-750 actigraph in clinical and research studies.
Additionally, the subjects of this study were healthy young adults. The relationship between sleep conditions and activity intensity might be different for elderly individuals who have difficulty achieving good quality sleep as well as for those with sleep disturbances [17]. As a next step, the accuracy of sleep/wake determination by the FS-750 needs to be verified in a larger sample and in various populations so that its utility can be determined. Its use by individuals with medical conditions and in other age groups should be further investigated. In the meantime, however, given that the FS-750 has a large memory that can store recordings over a long period, as well as capabilities to download the recordings at home, the device should help to push forward objective sleep evaluations for the elderly who find it difficult to visit healthcare facilities regularly, for individuals with circadian sleep disturbances who need longer term sleep studies, and for those who live in remote areas. As such, it is anticipated that the device will be utilized widely in both epidemiology studies and clinical practice.
This study verified the accuracy of the sleep/wake states determined from the data obtained by the FS-750, an inexpensive device that has capabilities to download its data at home and which is a promising tool to use in large epidemiological studies and in remote sleep medicine. In addition, the algorithm developed can determine the sleep/wake states in 2-minute epochs using the activity intensity data measured by the FS-750. The agreement rate between the results calculated with the FS-750 and those calculated with PSG was high (85%), and the sensitivity and specificity of measurement using the FS-750 were equivalent to those determined with conventional actigraphs. The device’s application to future sleep research and sleep medicine is expected.
AHI:
apnea and hypopnea index
EEG:
EMG:
electromyogram
EOG:
electrooculogram
PLMI:
periodic limb movement index
PSG:
RH:
SACT:
sleep epochs determined by the FS-750
SL:
SLACT:
sleep latency determined by the FS-750
SLPSG:
sleep latency determined by PSG
SPSG:
sleep epochs determined by PSG
S/W:
sleep/wake
TIB:
WACT:
wake epochs determined by the FS-750
WASO:
WASOACT:
wake after sleep onset determined by the FS-750
WASOPSG:
wake after sleep onset determined by PSG
WPSG:
wake epochs determined by PSG.
This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for the Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences (Understanding of molecular and environmental bases for brain health) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and an Intramural Research Grant (23-3) for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders from the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. We thank Ms. Sayaka Kohtoh and Mr. Yujiro Taguchi at KISSEI COMTEC Co. for assisting with data analysis.
40101_2014_81_MOESM3_ESM.docx Authors’ original file for figure 4
KN conducted the study, performed the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript. SK conceived and designed the study and contributed to drafting the manuscript. YM, AH, and YK conducted the measurement of data and contributed to drafting the manuscript. NM contributed to the discriminant analysis. KM organized and supervised the study, and contributed to drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Department of Psychophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi, Kodaira Tokyo, 187-8553, Japan
National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi, Kodaira Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan
Structural Materials Sector, Materials Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 2-6-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka Kanagawa, 240-0196, Japan
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How Mino Raiola's transfer ban started with a young striker from Sassuolo
16 May / autty
'A storm in a glass of water' is the Italian equivalent of the British phrase featuring a teacup. That is exactly what the latest Mino Raiola story is.
Noise, juicy headlines, plus a bit of inconvenience and irritation for the man himself. But, essentially nothing.
Infamous, plain-speaking agent Carmine 'Mino' Raiola, who represents megastars including Paul Pogba, Mario Balotelli and Matthijs De Ligt, has been banned from working in Italian football for three months. His cousin and collaborator Vincenzo is also barred for two months.
The Italian FA, known as the FIGC, imposed the sentence last week and it became a worldwide story. FIFA upheld the decision which made it a global ban, due to end on August 9, the day after the Premier League transfer window closes.
The man himself claims not to know what he has done wrong, and has ordered his lawyer Massimo Diana to investigate.
Observers in Italy believe it stems from an innocuous incident last summer. It surrounds a player, but not one of Raiola's superstars, or even the next big thing. Indeed, it's a guy that the Dutch-Italian broker no longer represents.
Gianluca Scamacca, 20, is a decent but unproven striker at Sassuolo. He is yet to make a league appearance this season. Up until spring 2018 his agent was a man called Dario Paolillo.
Scamacca was called into the junior Italy sides last summer, and he allegedly began chatting with some of his international teammates who were in Raiola's stable.
Scamacca, already frustrated by his lack of first team football at club level, was impressed by the big salaries that the lads under Raiola's wing were earning. So he decided to join the charismatic agent's group.
At the end of his agreement with Paolillo the striker did just that, hoping for a bright future or at the very least some first team matches somewhere. Scamacca didn't want to drop down to Serie B and asked Raiola to find him a suitable club outside Italy.
There was nothing illegal about that switch because the deal between the centre-forward and Paolillo had ran its course. But Paolillo was convinced that the player had been 'tapped up' by Raiola or someone from his organisation.
Paolillo allegedly presented evidence to the Italian FA of negotiations and conversations between Scamacca and people from Raiola's team, while the attacker was under contract to the former. The FIGC upheld the complaint, so Raiola and his cousin were banned.
As for Scamacca, he had an unsuccessful loan spell at Zwolle in the Netherlands, and is now back in Serie A. He has failed to break into the Sassuolo first team.
He was a reserve nine months ago, and still is. And for the record, Raiola is no longer his agent. He has changed management again.
It's a minor embarrassment for Raiola, little more. It's nothing that he can't handle thanks to his thick skin and endless resources.
Nicolo Schira, an Italian journalist specialising in the transfer market, says: 'It will not affect his transfer business. It's only damaging to his reputation. Fans will read the story and think the usual negative thoughts about Mino. That's it.'
Schira continues: 'Three months is nothing. It's a very light punishment. Two of those months are May and June, when very little happens anyway. He'll be back in August.
'In the meantime he can still work during the ban, he'll conduct his business through a trusted lawyer. Nothing really changes, his clients will still be able to move.
'All it means is that he won't be able to appear in any unveiling photos with his clients until August.'
It's a measure of Raiola's reputation that this episode has sent shockwaves through European football. It's a big kerfuffle over nothing.
He will still be able to shift his stars around the top clubs, including in the Premier League thanks to advisors who can operate on his behalf.
There will be groans of 'not him again, what's he done now?' from club boardrooms, pubs and bars. The fact his cousin is called Vincenzo will make fans of the brilliant 1992 Joe Pesci film 'My Cousin Vinny' chuckle.
But it's just a storm in a glass of water.
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Did Gov. Robert Bentley access critics' medical records, and did such tampering date to last fall and the appearance of "delusional disorder" in my records?
Gov. Robert Bentley and Rebekah Caldwell Mason
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley might have unlawfully accessed the medical records of at least one critic, according to an article yesterday at the Alabama Political Reporter (APR). The article, by publisher Bill Britt, focused on former state law-enforcement chief Spencer Collier, and it hints that Bentley's interference with private records might be a relatively recent occurrence. But we've seen evidence that Bentley's snooping might date at least to September 2015.
Britt already has reported that Bentley improperly accessed federal and state criminal databases to seek damaging evidence about two citizen journalists--attorney Donald Watkins and me--who first brought the governor's extramarital affair with former senior advisor Rebekah Caldwell Mason to public attention. Britt's article yesterday states that Bentley used his status as a physician to access a prescription-drug database.
If that proves to be the case, it might not be the first time Bentley, or someone associated with him, tampered with medical records.
My first experience with odd events related to my medical history came last September 29 and 30 when my brother, Paul Shuler (almost certainly with the help of my lawyer brother, David Shuler), filed a petition seeking to have my wife, Carol, and me declared "incapacitated and disabled," essentially trying to make us wards of the state. This came just three weeks after we had been unlawfully evicted from an apartment in Springfield, Missouri (my hometown), a process that included sheriff's deputies brandishing at least one assault rifle and multiple handguns in our direction--with one deputy assaulting Carol and shattering her left arm.
During the course of the "INP and DIS" case, which was nutty from the outset, my brother's attorney ordered copies of our medical records. Carol had never been served, so she was not an official party to the case--and I remain baffled that her medical records could be produced. (Can we say "invasion of privacy"?) I had been served, so I was a party to the case, but I'm still not sure it was proper to have my medical records produced when the other side had not come close to even making a "prima facie" showing that they had a case. For example, they could have deposed my health-care provider, who told me he would have testified that he had seen no signs we could not take care of our personal or financial affairs.
We still have never seen the records, but Dan Menzie, our court-appointed lawyer, said mine included a notation about "delusional disorder." The nurse practitioner I've been seeing for more than a year had never said a word to me about delusional disorder. When I asked if he actually had diagnosed me with a serious disorder, without telling me, he hummed and hawed and said it was just a notation he had made in the file. He also admitted that he would have to follow me around for an extended period of time to know if events I had spoken about were real or not, and he had not done that, so he had no grounds for making such a diagnosis. Given that, I said there was no reason to believe the notation was accurate, and that it was unfair (and potentially damaging) for me to have such information in my medical records. The nurse practitioner agreed and recently told me it had been removed.
Did Dr. Robert Bentley, someone associated with him, or someone else from Alabama play a role in getting false information placed into my medical records? What better way to discredit a journalist--the one who broke the story of the extramarital affair that threatens to bring down your administration--than to have him declared "delusional"--with zero facts to back that up?
It remains unclear what, if any, role Bentley played in the placement of curious notations in my medical records. But my brother recently asked the Missouri court to dismiss his "INP and DIS" case, and it's worth considering the following timeline:
March 23, 2016--Audio surfaces that confirms the Bentley/Mason affair, which I broke last August here at Legal Schnauzer, just nine days before our eviction;
March 28, 2016--Reports surface that Bentley pressured law enforcement to use criminal databases in order to gather dirt on me and fellow citizen journalist (and lawyer) Donald Watkins;
March 28, 2016--Paul Shuler's attorney files a motion to dismiss the incapacitation case.
What does this tell you? It tells me that once audio surfaced confirming the Bentley/Mason affair, my brothers lost interest in the incapacitation case. Perhaps they said, in unison, "Damn, Roger was right all along."
News flash to siblings: Roger has been right about a lot of things all along.
As for signs that Bentley is messing with Spencer Collier's medical records, this is from Bill Britt's article:
Former members of Gov. Robert Bentley’s administration say the Governor is obsessed with his authority as Chief Magistrate. Bentley has been accused of ordering law enforcement agents to target critics, especially those who have exposed his relationship with former senior adviser Rebekah Caldwell Mason. And now, it is believed, that there is at least one instance of a former associate’s medical records being violated, in order to launch a whisper campaign against that individual.
There is suspicion that Bentley, who still holds an active medical license, may have accessed or ordered others to search the State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) database to find information that could be used against Spencer Collier, former head of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA).
Several former associates close to Bentley are fearful that he is accessing their most private information, in an effort to destroy their lives and reputations as well.
Bentley has shown signs of having the kind of paranoia that drove Richard Nixon from the White House. Writes Britt:
In late March, this publication found that according to high-ranking officers and staff, Bentley pressured law enforcement officers to use federal and state resources to target those critical of his relationship with Mason.
In an effort to find potentially damaging information on those who spoke out against the couple, Bentley instructed top law enforcement agents to investigate private citizens, in direct conflict with the law, said those close to the matter.
(All of these individuals spoke on background to alreporter.com, because of a criminal investigation surrounding this and other matters.)
Two individuals with detailed knowledge of the incidents say Bentley ordered the use of the National Crime Information Center, (NCIC) and the Law Enforcement Tactical System (LETS) to find any incriminating evidence that might be used against attorney Donald V. Watkins and Legal Schnauzer blogger, Roger Shuler.
Is the same being done with the controlled substance database?
If the answer proves to be yes, Bentley might have stepped in some serious "doo doo""
According to Alabama code Section 20-2-214-3: “A licensed physician approved by the department who has authority to prescribe, dispense, or administer controlled substances may designate up to two employees who may access the [PDMP] database on the physician’s behalf.”
When asked if he thought Bentley or his surrogates had accessed his medical records, Collier declined to give a direct answer saying only, “It is a matter best left to law enforcement.”
Speaking on background, a Birmingham physician said any doctor could easily enter the database to determine what controlled substance medications an individual had been prescribed, but without the person’s consent, it would be a crime.
Under Section 20-2-216: “Any person or entity who intentionally obtains unauthorized access to or who alters or destroys information contained in the controlled substances prescription database shall be guilty of a Class C felony.”
What if Bentley or his associates tampered with medical records in Missouri, where he apparently is not licensed to practice medicine? What if Rebekah Mason directed the tampering on the governor's behalf. What if individuals in Missouri knowingly participated in such a scheme?
The ramifications, given use of the word "felony" above, could be serious.
Posted by legalschnauzer at 12:33:00 PM
Labels: Alabama Political Reporter, Bill Britt, Dan Menzie, David Shuler, Donald Watkins, incapacitated and disabled, Legal Schnauzer, Paul Shuler, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, Robert Bentley
Bentley reminds me of the dog who dug himself into a hole and won't stop digging.
You really think Bentley cares about your medical records?
Based on the evidence presented in this post, and the investigative work of Bill Britt, I think he probably is, yes.
That whole incapacitation business was strange. Makes me think your brothers were up to no good. I've got a crappy sibling myself, so I know what that's like.
Have you got any insight or sources in Missouri to help you with your last question? I would thank that would be a trail to follow...if you can find where it starts.
How horrible is this to do this to someone? Roger, please write a book so others can learn from your experiences.
They have so much power and control over our lives. If you don't buy into their ideas and beliefs then be prepared to face the consequences no matter how unjust.
Law enforcement stop bowing down to these folks. Come on lets grow a pair and do the right thing for a change. Life isn't all about a paycheck.
This crowd of criminals probably got their start with Lee Atwater's dirty tactics and they will not stop destroying people's lives if it helps them maintain and gain more power and money. Roger you were lucky that the governor finally was exposed. For all your truth telling on the internet, you would never have been exonerated of all the false accusations against you if Spencer Collier hadn't had the integrity to be an honest citizen in this matter.
Many who have suffered at the hands of crooks in power struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome: The shock of knowing 'respectable' Americans in power are doing these things to people and getting away with it–– this is AMERICA - RIGHT?" Sometimes you're afraid to live, afraid to write, afraid to go outside your house because you never know the next plan they might have for your destruction; to silence you or intimidate you.
The problem is few if any could even imagine how bad it is unless they actually live and experience the situation you've experienced. The tragedy is that most people don't care and don't want to know the details.
Geez the corruption is so deep. Thank you and DW for your continued reporting of these dirty ass dogs! Think about the timeline tho. RB probably used his influence or whatever around the time Rob was called out or perhaps Luther? Watch your back and your records LS ad DW!!!
You're both paranoid and have delusions of grandeur if you think the governor of a state is going to personally ask for your medical records to be forged.
Also can you explain what possible motivation your brothers would have for wanting you to be made wards of the state, except that perhaps they think you are danger to yourself and your wife?
Karl Rove took up where Atwater left off - nasty boys that they all are.
A few comments, 7:07 --
(1) Where did you get the notion that the governor was going to personally ask for my medical records to be forged? This is from the post above: "Did Dr. Robert Bentley, someone associated with him, or someone else from Alabama play a role in getting false information placed into my medical records?" I didn't say Bentley personally did it, although it seems clear the guv has plenty of free time on his hands--when he isn't squeezing Rebekah Mason's butt or fondling her boobs.
(2) You'd have to ask my brothers about their motivations, but they asked for their own case to be dismissed, so it seems pretty clear they knew they had no case.
(3) You apparently know nothing about an "INC and DIS" case. It is about whether someone allegedly can take care of basic needs (eating, personal grooming, etc.) and whether they can manage their finances. There was nothing in the petition, which I read and you obviously have not, even hinting that I was a danger to anyone.
Roger, you do tend to be a bit paranoid -- we see it in your blog from time-to-time -- so I'm not surprised someone might note "delusional disorder" in your records if you were under stress. Don't get me wrong -- that doesn't mean the governor wasn't out to get you. But I don't see why he would bother with a passing notation like that in your records -- there are much better ways to hurt you, and much more damaging things to put in someone's medical records.
I think your brothers are or were legit concerned about you. Why bother otherwise? Doesn't mean they were right, but just my $0.02.
I hear you @1:45. But when you consider my role in BentleyWorld--the journalist who broke the story about Mason sex scandal, a "delusional disorder" notation (combined with my brothers' ward of the state case) would be a prime way to attack my credibility.
Keep in mind, too, that it's possible someone in Alabama already helped harm Carol and me here in Missouri--in the form of an unlawful eviction that left her with a shattered arm. All of that came about nine days after I broke the Bentley/Mason story.
I know timelines don't always explain everything, but until you really get to the bottom of things, they can be a useful investigative tool.
It's always funny when someone sees paranoia in my posts when I see fact-based reporting that, in many cases, is supported by public records.
You sound like a reasonable person, so I hope you will remember that I was essentially kidnapped from my home and thrown in the slammer for five months--and that action had zero grounding in fact or law. I suspect an experience like that would leave most people appearing at least a little paranoid.
As the old saying goes, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you." Various individuals and entities have been out to get Carol and me for about 16 years, and for anyone who cares to check it out, the public record shows that.
Have to disagree with you, @1:47. For one, I know a lot about what my brothers have been up to, which I haven't reported yet, so my knowledge base on this subject is much more expansive than it might appear.
Also, if you are concerned about someone, there are a lot of ways to show that besides filing a petition to basically have someone declared kooky. Going back to the timing of things, I find it curious that my brothers' petition (and supposed concern) appeared only after we had been evicted, Carol had been beaten up by cops, and her arm was broken. Their actions, in my view, suggest "concern" when it's possibly to their advantage, or they want to help cover up something. But as for genuine concern, I don't see it. And I know of some behind-the-scenes actions that certainly don't suggest real concern.
I should say that my brother Paul, the medical technician, might have OK motivations. Perhaps he's being led around by the nose by my lawyer brother. But it's also possible that "the nose thing" has gone on for so long that even Paul's moral compass has gone badly out of whack.
e.a.f. said...
I'm still laughing about your brothers thinking they could make you and Carol wards of the state...............Like what planet did those boys come from. If you can't get suicidal, drug addicted, schizoid relatives into hospital how were your brothers ever going to have you "declared".
In my opinion it was always about something else which had little to do with your mental state, which has always appeared to be just fine.
The Governor having access to your medical records. that is easy. Anyone in a position such as governor of a state can access just about anything. if not personally, they can certainly have it done for them.
I suspect this is going to be one of those things which may come out in the wash at some future date, when they get around to arresting the Governor.
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“In Sickness and in Health”: New Novel!
Drumroll, please… I’m announcing the release of a new novel, a sweet romance/women’s fiction with some inspirational overtones, In Sickness and in Health. It’s available at the Kindle store and will be on sale for 99 cents for a while, so grab a copy by clicking on this link!
Here’s the story: Ava Fulton moves to Bethany Beach, Delaware to lick her wounds after a DC scandal sent her into hiding. There, she decides the best way out of her problems is to marry a millionaire, and she just so happens to remember one from high school, John Baylor, now a very successful man who’d shyly tried to court her as a teen. When she reconnects with him, though, she finds he faces grim health news and she tries to be a good helpmate through his medical crises. Only after they marry and his prognosis changes does she realize she’d wed him planning to be a widow, not a wife. They struggle to make a go of their union and a new life in general, eventually heeding an inner call to something greater than either of them together.
And here’s a Q and A about the book and its characters:
Where did the character of Ava Fulton come from?
She originally came from the character of Sheila in my romantic comedy Fire Me! In that book, the heroine spends a day trying to get laid off to snag a generous severance package. She discovers she has some competition in coworker Sheila. I’d envisioned In Sickness and in Health being a sequel to Fire Me, following Sheila’s life. Something happened as I was writing, though–I kept thinking of the heroine as Ava! That name just dogged me as I wrote, and I realized I wasn’t writing Sheila at all but some other woman and her story. So I abandoned the idea of a sequel and wrote this standalone novel instead. As soon as I did this, the novel flowed more easily, the writing became a joy instead of a chore.
The first part of the novel, which you subtitle “Dying,” is about John’s struggles with a serious diagnosis. Was that hard to write?
Sadly, I think many people have experiences similar to John’s, either dealing with a serious diagnosis or being helpmates/friends to people who face such a fate. I’ve dealt with the Big C myself and know the anxiety one experiences during testing, etc. Although I’m a ten year survivor now, I do find myself writing more stories that incorporate some of those health experiences in one way or another. Maybe I’m far enough away from it now that it’s easier for me to explore as a writer.
The second part of the novel is subtitled “Living,” however. What happens when things change for John and Ava?
I don’t think I’m giving away any spoilers to mention that John’s prognosis takes an upward turn…and that’s when he and Ava have to figure out how to live together! Previously they’d been focused on the possibility of him dying, of being in declining health. Once they realize that fate might not be in store, they have to do some heavy lifting in their relationship. This creates a comic moment or two as they struggle with the “in health” part of their marriage vows.
Do they make it as a couple?
Well, readers will have to read the book to find out! 🙂 They have a bumpy road, to be sure, but they do eventually find peace and fulfillment…in a surprising way. I hope readers enjoy discovering how their stories end.
Is In Sickness and in Health an inspirational?
Yes, no, maybe. 🙂 The term “inspirational” covers Christian books–fiction or nonfiction–with faith themes. In Sickness and in Health is…something in between. Like all inspirational fiction, it’s clean and sweet. No sex scenes (the curtain closes even with a married couple like Ava and John in the bedroom), no bad language (or if there is, it’s scant), but, yes, some mentions of faith. I’ve written before on this blog about how general fiction, for the most part, has mentions of faith blanched out of books, but this isn’t the way a lot of people live. Even non-churchgoers can have rich faith lives, can believe in God, and they can even pray often. So I think a book like In Sickness and in Health probably reflects more of an average person’s connection with things spiritual than a lot of general fiction, even literary fiction, does. In my novel, Ava and John start out as good people who don’t even realize they are searching for something more in their lives until they discover ways to put their spirituality into action. It’s not a preachy book at all, and I must admit I hesitated to put a discussion of this aspect of the book on the blog for fear it would turn some away. Ava and John’s faith journey actually has some comic moments in it, and, though it shapes their eventual path, it is a gentle and tender path, not a judgmental one.
This book is set primarily at Bethany Beach, Delaware. Why Bethany?
Bethany Beach is one of my very favorite places, and we go there often. It is a small, quiet resort on the many miles of coastline that make up Delaware’s eastern border, and we vacation there every summer, and visit several times throughout the year. I have several other books in the works that are set there, so watch this space for news of those novels!
In Sickness and in Health by Libby Malin is available at the Kindle store. If you read and enjoy a book, consider leaving a review. Indie authors in particular are helped by reviews. They aid in bringing books to the attention of other readers!
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The Deconstruction of Humorous Fiction in a Reactionary Postmodern World, or, From Chaos to Conformity: How to Write the Comedic Novel
(Note: This post first appeared on Fresh Fiction’s blog on April 7 of last year, or maybe the year before — well, some year — during a blog tour promoting My Own Personal Soap Opera. It has been updated to shamelessly try to sell promote my new comedy Aefle & Gisela.)
By Libby Malin
When I was a graduate student at the University of Gussberry-on-Hornsplat reading for my doctorate in “Humor and Humorlessness in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Proto-European Monographs,” my professors often referred to a theory they loosely called “The Banana Peel Slide.”
A great humorist, Mark Twain. Unfortunately, he's dead.
This meme postulated that a humorous trope—such as the man-falling-on-banana-peel— loses its ability to trigger amusement after it becomes part of the greater eco-social-spiritual consciousness, leading to a revolt by sophisticated elites against populist humor grounded in laughing at another’s misfortune, and eventually coming round to popularity again throughout the entire societal continuum when the joke takes on a wry postmodern irony encapsulating the laughing-at-the-laughter-of-those-who-laugh at such simplistic slapstick (See I.M. Gully-Bull, “They’re Laughing With Me, Not At Me, an essay on the struggles of a stand-up comic in the world of spelunking,” Psychiatric Journal of the Criminal Mind, Jan. 09, 43-57).
In other words, slipping on a banana peel was HIGH-LAIR-EE-YUS when first viewed by Cro-Magnon Man, until his momma rapped him on the knuckles for laughing at another Cro-Mag hurting himself, and then became funny again when Momma started giggling about it herself.
But humorous tropes grow stale, so the banana peel gag loses its luster (or “lustre” as we were instructed to write at UGH) when viewed too often.
Another great humorist, Ambrose Bierce. Unfortunately, he's also dead.
Humor, of course, varies from place to place and generation to generation (see Habe R. Dashery, “A Most Dreadful Hat: Materialism and Comedy in the Works of Jane Austen,” Oxford Community College Press, 1998, 90), but one thing remains constant—laughter usually accompanies surprise. One expects the man walking down the street in his fine new suit and boater hat to find his path smooth and journey uneventful. Then—surprise!—banana peel, meet foot. What’s not to love?
Nonetheless, humor writing is more than the mere description of slapstick moments which are, in reality, difficult to capture succinctly while retaining the laughter-inspiring elements. Written humor, in fact, depends a great deal on the effect of the words themselves, their groupings, their compilation, if you will, into a contextual image that ignites some inner Jungian childhood-pleasure-memory within the reader (see Diep Krappe, “Syntastic—Grammar, Puns, and Humor from Iambic Pentameter to ‘Yo Momma’,” Journal of Polska Witticisms, Aug. 01, pp. 3-87).
This is not to say one can’t describe slapstick effectively on the written page. As the great humorist J.P. Sartre (not to be confused with her more well-known and morose second cousin Jean-Paul), once wrote: Je vais chercher du bon vin a la cave, which, loosely translated, means: “It is possible for anything to be funny as long as the writer knows how to effectively communicate the core elements of the humorous situation, whether they be a physical action, a tres amusent observation a la ‘but other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln,’ or even, perhaps, the acting out of despair in a completely unexpected way. It is not the full bottle of wine in the wine cellar that makes one smile. It is the empty bottle of wine in the . . .” (the rest was lost to posterity, but the major components of Sartre’s take on humor appear in the brilliant essay by Dom. Pear I. Gnon, “The Banana Peel and the Descriptive Verb: Physical Comedy in a Linguistic Setting,” Wine, Laughter, and More Wine, Lots More Wine, More Wine . . . Please, June 02).
What luck! This humorist, Libby Malin, is alive! Buy her books - help her put food on the table!
So, what, aspiring authors ask, is the secret to writing a successful humorous novel? Good spelling and grammar help (see Strunk N. White, “Spats, Spoofs and Spelling: The Dialectics of Inter-Class Dialogue in the Works of George Bernard Shaw,” Auckland Council Kanberry, ACK Journal of Pedants and Proofreaders, Sept 1910). But beyond that, a funny story is really any one that makes people laugh or smile. If it does so for you, the author, you might be on the right path toward igniting the same reaction in others.
Humorous fiction comes in all varieties, from the zany (L. Malin, My Own Personal Soap Opera, Looking for Reality in All the Wrong Places, Sourcebooks 2010) to the zanier (L. Malin, Fire Me, a Tale of Dreaming, Scheming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Sourcebooks 2009) to the apex of zaniness (L. Malin, Aefle & Gisela, Istoria Books 2011) and more.
There’s no telling what will tickle any one particular person’s funny bone at any one particular moment. There is no formula for success, in other words, just a keen power of observation—keep your eye on that banana peel, sweetie—and the ability to write characters readers care about even as they face unrealistic situations that could make them laugh or cry (see Gloria Steinmart, “That’s Not At All Funny,” Feminism Yesterday, April 1971).
If you’d like a peek at my latest oeuvre, Aefle & Gisela, go to Amazon, BN.com or Smashwords to download free samples (after which, of course, you will buy the book. Right? Right? Right? Oh, please, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please….) It tells the story of a timid college professor, an expert on an obscure poetry-writing medieval monk named Aefle, who stops a wedding on a dare…and ends up, well, slipping on a banana peel….
Hope you like it—or that degree from UGH was a total waste of time!
Did I mention that Aefle & Gisela is only 99 cents for a limited time only? Yes, I know, it’s a steal — go on over and steal it for 99 cents! Don’t wait! Who knows when the price will go up to its true value– a case load of gold doubloons! Think how hard it will be to send that to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Smashwords. Better get it now while the price is manageable in every way!
Libby Malin did not attend (nor go anywhere near) the University of Gussberry-on-Hornsplat. In fact, she holds a bachelor’s and master’s from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. When she finally turned to her first love, writing, she began penning women’s fiction and young adult mysteries (which she writes as Libby Sternberg). Her first YA mystery, in fact, was an Edgar nominee. Her three previous humorous women’s fiction books (Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Fire Me!, and My Own Personal Soap Opera) garnered critical praise. Here’s a sample of some of it:
MY OWN PERSONAL SOAP OPERA by Libby Malin:
Malin creates a world of wit and chaos that is …smart and insightfully written. – Booklist
Malin’s latest is heavy on humor… (she) coaxes plenty of laughs…- Publishers Weekly
I wholly recommend this romance… You’ll not be disappointed. Trust me! Rating: 5 Stars. – Love Romance Passion
FIRE ME by Libby Malin:
This fast-paced, humorous book kept me giggling throughout the night. – A Novel Menagerie
Fire Me …had this reader chuckling out loud. – Jo-Anne Greene Lancaster Sunday News
Libby Malin pens a tale that is hilarious while still being poignant and introspective. – The Romance Studio
LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT by Libby Malin:
The love story is charming and will be appreciated by any woman with bad taste in men who somehow inexplicably ends up with Mr. Right. – Washington Post
A whimsical look at the vagaries of dating… an intriguing side plot adds punch and pathos to the story… – Publishers Weekly
Malin’s clever debut toys with chick-lit stereotypes and offers quite a few surprises along the way. – Booklist
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Top 5 Most Controversial Cricketers
November 3, 2016 by Sathish Leave a Comment
While cricket may be the ‘gentlemen’s’ game, it sure has had a plenty of controversies involved in it – courtesy of some very controversial cricketers which if aptly defined can be termed as the ones ‘we loved to hate’ since it’s to their due credit that sure they were controversial and often faced criticism for the same; their art of playing cricket never compromised and perhaps that’s what always made them standout – not always in the good sense though.
This is a list of 5 such controversial cricketers that have left a mark on the game – both with their play on the field and with their antics on and off it – they sure are liked and disliked among cricket watching masses but these are players that you CANNOT IGNORE.
We start off with:
1) Chris Gayle:
The Jamaican dynamite has had his fair share of controversies. It all began after the 2011 world cup when Gayle refused to take up a central contract with the West Indies and decided to shift his priorities from playing for his nation to playing t20 leagues all around the world. He faced severe criticism from West Indian greats like Michael Holding and Viv Richards but to say that he hasn’t entertained cricket fans all around the world will be an unfair statement. He may have opted out of playing some matches for West Indies and prioritize t20 cricket but can one be judged for giving priority to money over playing for nation! You decide.
Further, the more recent controversy involving Gayle was in the recently concluded Big Bash, where he asked out Channel 10 reporter, Mel McClaughlin and this all happened on a live telecast which was even more embarrassing for McClaughlin who stood her ground and reported the same to Cricket Australia, which fined Chris Gayle and let him off, McClaughlin also requested to move on from the matter.
But, in came some more allegations from the 2015 world cup, with a woman accusing Gayle of inappropriate behavior with her during her visit to West Indies dressing room and this all concluded with Gayle’s rant on Instagram, reverting to those who criticized his “sexist” remarks, he wrote
The past cricketer who say I make myself look like a chop, the other who claim I was no good to the youngsters while playing for the thunder, the next one who said he expect that sort of behavior from Chris – Y’all can kiss my ‘Black Rass’ I love Australia and I will be back again even for the ?????? oioi ??????.
2) Harbhajan Singh:
while “Bhajji” as he’s referred to by his teammates has been an asset to the Indian bowling line up for the last 12 years, making less frequent apperances for India in the last few years; he still is the 2nd highest all time highest wicket taker – in terms of an off-spinner, behind the highest ever wicket taker MuttiahMuralitharan.
Harbhajan’s tryst with controversy started during the 2007 tour of Australia, wherein he referred to Symonds as “monkey” or so was the claim from the Australian cricket team. The whole saga was referred to as “MonkeyGate” and gained the game of cricket a great deal of negative controversy with Indian legend in Sachin Tendulkar stepping in to defend Harbhajan Singh and Australian cricketers defending Andrew Symonds. The Indian cricket team even threatened to leave the tour mid-way and all these years later the then Indian captain, Anil Kumble regretted having not opted for a much composed discussion between the 2 cricket boards, which could’ve avoided this whole saga.
Only a few months later; Harbhajan Singh was again in a controversy after slapping his fellow team-mate Sreesanth, during an IPL match. Harbhajan sudden controversies were more shocking, having never seen the turbanator striking any wrongful cords with any fellow playersuptil the point of 2007 Australian tour, by which he was already 7-8 years old in international cricket.
3) Mohammad Amir:
This Pakistan cricketer has faced perhaps the most severe controversy by someone as young as just 23 years old. In 2010, the world of cricket was shook by the emerging allegations of corruption and spot-fixing during the Lord’s cricket match played between England and Pakistan. Amir was found guilty as charged of bowling deliberate no balls and earning money for the same. The co-accused in the case was his fellow Pakistan team mates in Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif.
All 3 were sent to jail and banned from cricket for the next 5 years. To everyone’s surprise; Amir has made a return to the Pakistan cricket team and was recently seen playing against New Zealand – becoming a key bowler in their XI, perhaps some cases are best forgotten and everyone deserves a second chance. The tainted cricketer from Pakistan is rigorously working hard and trying to win back his lost fans.
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4) Chris Cairns:
The New Zealand cricketer acclaimed by many as the finest all rounder that the nation has produced has found himself in court trials for the last 4-5 years and in a legal battle with the brain behind the emerging of the revolutionary Indian Premier League, Mr. Lalit Modi. Modi in a series of tweets accused Cairns of fixing matches and approaching his team mates for the same during his international cricket days and ICL, these allegations were then reverted by Cairns who filed a lawsuit against Modi and won.
In less than 2 years, Modi filed a counter lawsuit and accused Cairns of lying under oath, his former teammates in McCullum and Vincent were called upto court, with both speaking against Cairns and agreeing that he had approached them to fix matches. McCullum even went on to call Cairns an “idol” and explained that he was shocked to note that he fixed matches. However, it all ended well for Cairns who was not found guilty of the charges and was let free. This whole case though has raised some serious allegations over the way the game of cricket is played, wherein cricketing legends are accused of match fixing.
5) ShoaibAkhtar:
The Rawalpindi express from Pakistan has been perhaps one of the most celebrated cricketer of Pakistan and equally the most controversial that the nation has produced. Akhtar is a man who doesn’t mince his words and speaks his mind very bluntly. He openly claims that his seniors in the team (no prizes for guessing) were jealous of him and openly told him that they were apologetic of their behavior towards him during his international days.
Akhtar has been accused of ball tampering, drug scandals, his party attitude and the inadequate fitness regime due to which he was not selected for Pakistan XI, inspite of being in the XI. Akhtar explains that during 2011 cricket WC semi-final against India, Akhtar was left out of the team as he was deemed unfit by the captain Afridi at the toss, even though Akhtar claims that he cleared all the fitness tests on the morning of the one-dayer and was fit to play. It’s controversies such as this that have marked his career but no one can complain about the kind of impact that he had over the cricket of his nation and he shall always be known as the “fastest” from Pakistan.
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Posted: August 19, 2012 in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Serial, TheOnlyCityLeft, Writing
Tags: adventure, cats, decisions, lantern coil, lies, mystery, quantum tunnels, relationships, underground
Welcome to my serial science-fiction/fantasy adventure, The Only City Left. This is the story of Allin Arcady and his adventures through a dying, planet-sized city called Earth.
If you are new to The Only City Left and want a quick catch-up, you can read a synopsis of Parts 1-24 and then start from Part 25. You can reach an individual part of the story by browsing the Table of Contents.
At the end of Part 26, Allin was feeling the pressure to agree to Banshee’s mission, so he told Tyena he would think about it. But while she slept, he just ran the same arguments for and against over and over in his mind, without coming to a conclusion.
Tumble woke us up the next morning and suggested I might want to return to my apartment to clean up before going down to the Skunkworks.
I ran a hand through my hair and turned to Tyena, who sat next to me. We both looked worse for having slept on the couch instead of a proper bed.
“What do you think,” I asked. “After we get ready, do you want to see what I’m working on down in the Skunkworks?”
Tumble coughed politely into his hand and cut in, “I am afraid the lovely Miss Branch does not have the Emperor’s permission to enter the ’Works. Perhaps you would like me to inquire about that?”
Before I could reply, Tyena answered, “That’s okay, boys. Allin, you can show me what you’re making when it’s done. I have some chores to do this morning anyway.”
She leaned over and gave me a peck on the cheek.
“Don’t stay down there all day today, huh?”
That tiny kiss left me flustered—it certainly didn’t help that Tumble witnessed it—but I assured her I wouldn’t.
“Your reunion seems to be going… well,” Tumble said as he walked with me to my place. “Do you even need a room of your own anymore?”
I stopped in my tracks and I’m sure I blushed as I protested, “It’s not going that well, you pesky cat! Geez, we’ve barely had a few hours together awake. You don’t have to rush me!”
He gave me a sideways glance, twitched his whiskers, and said cryptically, “Time waits for no-one, young man,” before walking ahead with a chuckle.
In his curious feline way, Tumble was all too right. The next few days were some of the best of my life but they passed in a blur as I alternated between spending time with Tyena and tinkering in the Skunkworks. The only power outage in the sector was that I had a tough decision ever-present in the back of my mind: would I or wouldn’t I accept Emperor Banshee’s mission to infiltrate the Garden and assassinate my uncle?
No matter how hard I tried to avoid it, the question dogged me. In Pudlington Above, Tyena and I spent our days exploring the city, making our way through and between ancient buildings, marveling at hanging and rooftop gardens, and getting lost in the immense maze of platforms and rigging. In Pudlington Below, I continued to craft whatever useful gadgets I could fit into my cocoon bag, and I kept track of Professor Copper’s progress in analyzing the lantern coil.
As much as I tried to live in the moment and enjoy myself, it seemed that around every corner there was some reminder of what was at stake. While out exploring with Tyena, a wayward kitten ambushed us, keeping us at bay (and in fits of laughter) with his clumsy ferociousness, until his mother came along, cuffed him behind the ears, made him apologize, and carried him away. The kitten stuck his tongue out at us over his mother’s shoulder and I returned the gesture, laughing. When I looked to Tyena, though, her face had grown serious.
“I miss my mom,” she admitted, and then was quiet the rest of the afternoon.
Down in the Skunkworks, Professor Copper put her search for the lantern coil’s moonlight mode on hold.
“It’s like there’s a password, but I don’t even know how to input it, much less what it is,” she explained in frustration.
I commiserated with her, but couldn’t help but think that this meant I only had one option left now if I accepted the mission: give myself up to the wolves and hope for the best. It wasn’t a prospect that filled me with much hope.
Copper distracted me from my worried thoughts with her theory about how the sun- and moonlight were emitted by the coils in the first place. She was sure that the coils contained one end of a quantum tunnel, the other end of which was in orbit around the moon.
“Satellites, most likely,” she confided in me. “The light, either straight sunlight or reflected first off of the moon, enters the tunnel and is instantaneously co-translated into the coil, which diffuses it.”
“How can knowing that help you stop the werewolves?”
“Well, if we can’t destroy all the coils, which are the output end of the tunnel, perhaps we can destroy the satellite that harbors the input end. Then the coils are useless!”
It seemed like a good idea to me, if you didn’t let the fact that a satellite in orbit was even more unreachable than the roof of the world itself. Copper read my expression and nodded her head sadly.
“I know, there is little chance of success,” she acknowledged. “But I must continue to try. Did you hear? The wolves took another settlement today. The humans fought valiantly, but hundreds died and hundreds more were taken. I fear if we don’t stop the wolves soon, even the walls of Pudlington will not stand against them.”
With that heavy load on my chest, I had Tumble escort me out of the Skunkworks and I went to find Tyena to talk things over with her. When I reached her window, I heard indistinct raised voices from inside. I slipped through the window as quietly as I could and made my way through the cluttered floor until the voices grew loud enough that I could make out the words.
“I’m doing everything I can,” Tyena said, her voice pleading. “He has to understand that!”
“He understands that you’re playing around while lives are at stake!” came a male voice I didn’t recognize. “Do you understand the cost of any further delays?”
“I understand. Now let me go,” Tyena cried.
Her distress shocked me out of my curious eavesdropping. I rushed to her defense and was surprised to find her in the grip of a Pudlington Guardsman.
I yelled out and the pair of them looked at me in surprise. The guardsman pushed Tyena’s arms away and stalked past me.
“I was just leaving,” he said brusquely.
“Hey, you wait!” I yelled lamely at his retreating back, but Tyena came up to me and put a hand on my shoulder.
“It’s okay, let him go.”
I spun around to face her.
“It’s not okay. What’s going on? Who was that?” I demanded.
“A client,” Tyena said. “I mean, he works for a client. A rich, nasty client. I’m late on his portrait.”
I didn’t believe that story for an instant.
“Tyena, why are you lying to me?”
8/19/12 News: The Only City Left is now listed on the Web Fiction Guide, a wonderful place to find all sorts of online fiction. If you are so inclined, I would appreciate any ratings/reviews/recommends on that site to help get TOCL noticed. Thanks!
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“The Lifeboat Station Project: About the lifeboat volunteers, for the lifeboat volunteers.”
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“I never embarked in any one thing to which I have so entirely devoted myself, and to which I have devoted so much time, thought, and labour, and on the success of which I have staked so much reputation, and to which I have so largely committed myself and those who were disposed to place faith in me.” — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Lifeboat Station Project is about the lifeboat volunteers, for the lifeboat volunteers.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the incredible charity of brave volunteers who save lives at sea in the UK and Ireland. Amazingly, the organisation has been entirely funded by voluntary contributions for nearly 200 years.
Photography has been in Jack Lowe’s blood since he was a young boy. Aged 8, he received a Kodak Instamatic camera from his grandmother, a turning point from which he’s never looked back.
Jack Lowe at Dover, 30th September 2018 (Photograph by KT Bruce)
The earliest seeds of this project were sown in Jack’s childhood, when his love for lifeboats began. Much later in life, after a career in photography, Jack found himself searching for a change in direction — something that would take him away from sitting in front of computers all day!
He considered what he felt most passionate about and wrote these words on a piece of paper:
That scrap of paper — along with a lot of thinking, dreaming and planning — led Jack to the idea of travelling to all 238 RNLI lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland to photograph them, in order to preserve a vital aspect of our island nation’s culture for generations to come.
And there’s a twist! Jack works as the Victorians used to, making the photographs on glass from his mobile darkroom — a decommissioned ambulance called Neena.
Behind-the-scenes making the Ilfracombe RNLI crew portrait
Ilfracombe RNLI Crew, 25th June 2015, 12×10 inch Ambrotype — click to purchase a Limited Edition Print
By visiting every RNLI Lifeboat Station in the UK and Republic of Ireland, Jack is creating an unprecedented archive, preserving a vital aspect of our island nation’s culture for future generations. The Project is the first time anyone has tried to create a complete photographic record of every single lifeboat crew, so it will have enormous historic significance.
The photographs will ultimately be showcased in a stunning exhibition and book, both of which are set to be huge fundraisers for the RNLI.
The Lifeboat Station Project is currently scheduled to be completed in 2022. A selection of the work has already been acquired for a National Collection.
WHO’S BACKING THE PROJECT?
For the first two years of its life, the Project was entirely funded by Jack and what he could raise under his own steam through the The Shop — in essence, his own form of crowdfunding.
Since Autumn 2016, Jack’s been fortunate enough to receive a small contribution from the RNLI in return for the charity using the images to promote their work. This contribution covers less than half the costs of making the photographs but goes some way to smoothing out the (sometimes terrifying) financial peaks and troughs.
So, Jack still relies on the support of the people who love following the journey and appreciate what it takes to keep it on the road.
Learn how to become a supporter by clicking here or you can now become a patron for the price of a monthly coffee using this button:
Using a process known as Wet Plate Collodion, Jack is crafting unique photographs on glass, capturing the view from each station and the waters protected by the RNLI crews.
As well as the view from each station, he also makes photographs of each Coxswain, the Helms, the crew and — when time and resources allow — the women and mechanics.
Patrick ‘Patch’ Harvey, Penlee RNLI Coxswain, 22nd September 2015 — click to see more…
Jack’s ultimate vision is to show the photographs in geographical order around a huge gallery; as the audience stands in the middle of the venue and looks around, the sensation of seeing the entire coastline of the UK and Ireland captured on glass will be extraordinary.
Each glass plate — known as an Ambrotype — is a beautiful standalone artwork. However, the true glory of such an endeavour will be realised in bringing around 1000 photographs together as one exhibition.
Never one to think small, Jack would love a high-profile London venue to house the work — somewhere large enough to accommodate an RNLI all-weather lifeboat as a centrepiece along with Neena (his mobile darkroom) so that people can see where the photographs were made.
As part of his contribution to the RNLI community — and in exchange for their help on the day — Jack gifts each station two limited edition prints: Print No.1 of the crew photograph and Print No.1 of the Coxswain/Helm portrait.
Helvick Head RNLI Helms, Waterford, Ireland, 10th September 2017 — click to see more…
TRACKING THE PROJECT
The Lifeboat Station Project began on 12th January 2015.
At some point on the journey, Jack will be coming to an RNLI Lifeboat Station near you!
Keep track of his movements on the Mission Map and via the usual Social Media channels:
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terry butti 3 years ago /Reply
Already been to us at Walton & Frinton L/B Station lovely man wish him well on his journey.
Jack Lowe 3 years ago /Reply
Thank you, Terry.
Peter Kerr 3 years ago /Reply
Hope you enjoyed your visit to Lerwick today guys. Many thanks for your fantastic efforts, and best wishes on your travels.
We really did, thank you, Peter! Great to meet you all. Best wishes, Jack
Alistair Bruce 3 years ago /Reply
Thank you for all the stunning pictures that you have taken, and look forward to seeing them in the future.
Thank you, Alistair.
steve mee 3 years ago /Reply
Hi Jack, we met you on the cliffs in shetland and you were kind enough to show us the development of the picture you had just taken. At the other end of the photography spectrum (in more ways than 1!) I took a digital picture of your camera looking out over the cliffs. Love your work.
Thank you for taking the time to write. It was great to meet you! Best wishes, Jack
Irene Double 3 years ago /Reply
A fantastic project both from a photography and supporting the RNLI aspect. . All the best Jack.
Thank you, Irene.
Luke huggins 3 years ago /Reply
Hi Jack great work! Fantastic photos! When are you coming to Rye Harbour East Sussex?
Luke Huggins RNLI Rye Harbour crew member
Hey Luke, Congratulations on buying the last available keyring for 2016! Not sure on a date for Rye — maybe as soon as next year. Looking forward to it! Jack
Hi jack
thanks for your reply..glad i got the last keyring of 2016!..Merry Christmas to you and your family and all the best for the new year and we hope to see you soon in Rye Harbour..
You too, Luke! Best wishes for Christmas and 2017, Jack
TIM BAKER 2 years ago /Reply
I’m overwhelmed by the idea, the quality of the photographs and the tenaciousness of Jack. I was chairman of the Exmouth Lifeboat until May last year and its wonderful to see the pictures of the people I know, like, respect and trust.
Thank you so much for making the time to write such kind words, Tim — it was a truly fantastic day at Exmouth back in September. Happy memories. Best wishes, Jack
Mat 2 years ago /Reply
Just wondered if you completed your photographs at Newquay today / 09/03/2017
I did indeed, Mat. Look out for them in the Galleries over the coming weeks… Jack
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daverossofframgrandpappy 2 years ago /Reply
Really amazed Jack! Good luck with your worthwhile project.
Thank you very much for your kind words! Best wishes, Jack
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Carl Wilson 1 year ago /Reply
Splendid work, I take my hat off to you. I would like to meet you one day for a chat.
Jack Lowe 1 year ago /Reply
Thank you, Carl. I’m often in Poole, so I’m sure we could meet up for a coffee one day… Jack
Carole jones 8 months ago /Reply
Hi could I ask would you not be able to do the same thing to help raise funds for the independent lifeboat stations,I have 2 sons on the Hemsby lifeboat in Hemsby,I also do voluntary work at our lifeboat shop to also raise funds for this amazing crew of men and women… I think what you do is great but although they aren’t RNLI they do the same job and rely on other people to raise funds for all there equipment and work hard at everything else for the village … Carole n Mark Jones
Jack Lowe 8 months ago /Reply
Dear Carole & Mark, I completely understand and agree with your sentiments. However, the project is set to take 8 years to complete as things stand. There are over 60 independent lifeboat stations carrying out a fine job around our coastline. That’s a further two years’ work (!), so I’m afraid I don’t think it’s going to happen. But never say never… Best wishes and keep up the good work, Jack
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Its Marine Environment and Ecosystem Dynamics Influenced by Global Change
Nikolai Filatov
Ola M. Johannessen
Dmitry Pozdnyakov
Leonid P. Bobylev
Lasse Pettersson
Part of the Springer Praxis Books book series (PRAXIS)
Chapters Table of contents (11 chapters)
Pages i-xliii
Geography of the White Sea and its watershed
A. V. Litvinenko, N. N. Filatov, V. A. Volkov
White Sea watershed hydrology and anthropogenic impact
V. V. Ivanov, V. A. Brizgalo
Climate of the White Sea catchment and scenarios of climate and river runoff changes
N. N. Filatov, L. E. Nazarova, Ju A. Salo, A. V. Tolstikov
Oceanographic regime
N. N. Filatov, D. V. Pozdnyakov, Ju. I. Ingebeikin, R. E. Zdorovenov, V. V. Melentyev, A. V. Tolstikov et al.
Aquatic ecosystem profile
P. R. Makarevich, Ju. V. Krasnov
Satellite oceanography: New results
D. V. Pozdnyakov, L. H. Pettersson, O. M. Johannessen, P. Bobylev, V. V. Melentyev, N. N. Filatov et al.
Economy of the White Sea watershed area
A. Yu Terzhevik, A. V. Litvinenko, P. V. Druzhinin, N. N. Filatov
Geographic Information Systems for managing the ecosystem and living resources of the White Sea
V. V. Rastoskuev, V. K. Donchenko, A. N. Filatov, E. V. Shalina
Water quality assessment and the problem of marine ecosystem stability
V. V. Denisov, A. V. Shavykin
Numerical simulations of the White Sea hydrodynamics and marine ecosystem
I. L. Bashmachnikov, O. M. Johannessen, L. H. Pettersson, G. Evensen, I. A. Neelov, O. P. Savchuk et al.
This unique book written by Russian and Norwegian scientists is an analysis of studies based on extensive data analysis and numerical modelling simulations of the White Sea and provides a quantitative assessment of vulnerability of the White Sea marine ecosystems of future anthropogenic and, to some extent, climate change forcing. The authors address a wide range of issues, including geographical position and the paleogeological background of the White Sea Basin. They provide the most recent data on the White Sea bathymetry, examine the White Sea ecosystem profile, and provide extensive historical marine and riverine data records. An integrated assessment of the state of the ecology, vulnerability and sustainability of the White Sea is presented. They look specifically at the applications of satellite Earth observation (remote sensing) oceanographic investigations into changes in regional physical oceanography and ecology, provide extensive coverage of the problems of multi-faceted data assimilation in ocean modelling and conclude with a look at the present state of the art and future developments in this area of nature conservation.
Climate ChangeRemote Marine Sciences Ocean Oceanography Remote Sensing ecology ecosystem ecosystem dynamics environment hydrodynamics hydrology marine
1.Northern Water Problems Institute (NWPI) Karelian Research CentreRussian Academy of SciencePetrozavodsk KareliaRussia
2.Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography Geophysical InstituteUniversity of BergenBergenNorway
3.Nansen International Environmental and and Remote Sensing CentreSt. PetersburgRussia
4.Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing CenterBergenNorway
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27695-5
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Teiji Ito: Music For Film
Fri, 12. Oct 2018(Add to Cal)
Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA
Stanley Place
Liquid Architecture and Brisbane International Film Festival present a world first performance of film scores by singular Japanese-American composer-performer Teiji Ito.
Teiji Ito (1935-1982) collaborated widely with key figures of the New York underground culture from the mid 1950s to the early 1980s, perhaps most significantly with legendary experimental filmmakers Maya Deren (to whom he was married from 1960) and Marie Menken. After meeting Deren aged 20 in 1955 his career as a composer and performer was radically accelerated. Ito creating the soundtrack to Deren’s 1958 film The Very Eye of Night, and their collaboration arguably culminated with his incredible score to Deren’s best known film, Meshes of the Afternoon, composed 16 years after the film was made but applied retrospectively to it.
Much of Ito’s work was not rigorously scored to paper, but rather driven by a set of guiding ideas that would be collected and later recorded directly to multi-track tape. For this reason, performances of his music today are incredibly rare. For this unique event, researcher and musician Michiko Ogawa has transcribed Ito’s original recordings in detail, and assembled a group of musicians to realise a world first live performance of 6 of Ito’s most well-known film scores set to the 16mm films of Deren and Menken.
Michiko Ogawa is a Japanese clarinetist, and a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, where she she is undertaking research on work and life of Teiji Ito. She is in the beginning stages of writing a biography of Ito’s life.
Teiji Ito: Music For Film will be performed by Ogawa and her long-term collaborator Samuel Dunscombe, a performer-composer who works in a diverse range of areas, from field recording to Romanian spectral music. They will be accompanied by Nat Grant, Kaylie Melville, Sam Pankhurst, James Rushford and Kim Tan. Film prints from the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
Passage to Nirvana
solo clarinet (no film)
Passage to Nirvana for solo clarinet is rare amongst Ito’s output for being fully, meticulously notated. The origins and function of this piece are not clear - a note at the bottom of the score reads “for film,” but there is no surviving evidence for what film it was to accompany, who the director was, or if a film was ever made in the first place.
Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943
dir. Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
Meshes of the Afternoon is perhaps the most significant work that forms both Ito and Deren’s ouvre. Ito’s composition was added to the film, in 1959, 16 years after it was made. Deren’s circular narrative structure repeats visual motifs which question reality through what appears as hazy, dreamlike recollections of the unconscious. Ito’s score, a set of leitmotifs tie individual instruments to specific visual elements of the film. The instrumentation and musical materials of the score reference traditional Japanese music such as Gagaku.
Bagatelle for Willard Maas, 1961
dir. Marie Menken
Bagatelle for Willard focuses mainly on details from the fountains, wrought-iron fences, and sculptures in the gardens of Versailles. In Ito’s score a naive elegance is created between guitar and clarinet, interrupted by lively gestures from cymbals and zither highlighting the drama of Menken’s cinematography.
Dwightiana, 1959
In Dwightiana Teiji Ito’s upbeat soundtrack accompanies a 16mm stop motion animation of dancing everyday objects, such as pebbles, beads, shells, and rice over colour pencil drawings from the artist Dwight Ripley. This extremely light-hearted short film was made to cheer up a sick friend. The soundtrack matches the films playful imagery both in the improvisatory way Ito combines musical influences from North and South America, and the Caribbean; and in the way that sections of improvised material were then formed into a larger composition in a cut-up fashion.
The Very Eye of Night, 1958
dir. Maya Deren
The Very Eye of Night was Maya Deren’s last completed film, her first collaboration with Ito and the most celebrated of his compositional works. This film, shown in photographic negative, depicts a group of dancers reenacting a series of astrological relationships against a starry sky in solo, duo, and group scenes. Within the soundtrack individual instruments give voice to the characters on screen directly mapping a one to one relationship between body and composition.
BIFF is presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) with thanks to Principal & Founding Sponsor, Screen Queensland and Major Government Partner, Screen Australia.
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5 Ways To Check A Vasectomy Reversal Clinic
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Here are the top 5 things you need to look at when researching a clinic for your vasectomy reversal
A Surgeon's Testimonials
These should be dated and regularly updated. There should be an indication of whether records are kept of the testimonials. Were they written of an individual's own free will or were they solicited (asked to write them).
A Surgeon's Credentials
At a basic level, check to see if the surgeon is actually a surgeon. Do they have surgical qualifications? In the UK, the minimum is the FRCS (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons). This is a rigorous exam to ensure that surgeons learn their anatomy and skills to be safe.
Check and ask questions. If the "surgeon" refers to themselves as "Mr" or "Ms", this is a good start. But still check. The "Dr" suffix is for all non-surgically qualified doctors.
Surgeons become "Mr" after passing the exams for the FRCS.
A Surgeon's Experience
Is Vasectomy Reversal Technique Important? Yes, vasectomy reversal technique is important in so matter as the surgeon must show competency through consistent positive, genuine testimonials and pregnancies. What Technique Does Mr Harriss Use? Method After performing a scrotal incision, Mr Harriss explores the anatomy to find the ends of the vas deferens and then uses the single layer technique to rejoin both sides.
A Surgeon's Outcomes
There are 2 aspects to this. What they say they do and evidence to support what they say they do.
All surgeons in the NHS are expected to audit their surgery. A proficient vasectomy reversal surgeon will provide evidence of their outcomes for all to see. This should be readily accessible.
Independent Feedback
Following on from the dated testimonials, there should be evidence of independent reviews.
These are obtained via a third party so are truthful and indicate clearly how others found the clinic.
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Physical Therapy is such an important part of injury recovery which often is taken for granted. Here at LSMC, we use therapy methods specifically established for your needs to decrease pain, increase range of motion, and increase strength. Our goal is for you to return to your maximum functional potential of physical health, fitness, and athletic performance.
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Good Parma rises to the top(ping)
by Allison Saunders
When a shoulder injury took Ryan Spence away from organic farming, he wanted to find a way to keep his connection with good, clean food. A vegan for nearly a decade, Spence was no stranger to experimenting with flavour in the kitchen, but it was a Christmas gift from his mother that pushed him to try and make a superior cheese substitute topping.
“I took inspiration to try and make something better,” he says. “On the market today most vegan products or dairy alternatives are filled with chemicals or additives, and have plastic packaging that’s not reusable. It doesn’t really reflect the values of the target market.” And so Good Parma was born. After being tested by “picky siblings” and at vegan potlucks, Spence debuted his product at Halifax Veg Fest back in September—now 12 retailers in town carry his product.
“It’s really addictive. People are like, is there MSG in this?” he says, laughing. With a main ingredient of organic walnuts, he says Good Parma (which comes in glass containers, in original and spicy flavours) doesn’t really taste like parmesan, but provides a texture that’s more satisfying than a typical nutritional yeast topping.
And Spence is getting some karma for his parma: He’s donating 10 percent of profits to the Annapolis Valley’s North Mountain Animal Sanctuary—a rescue for abused or neglected farm animals. “They’re pretty much the forgotten ones,” he says. “I’ve seen first-hand the care they give those animals.”
Find Good Parma Saturdays at the Halifax Forum Farmers’ Market (1209 Marginal Road)and this weekend at the Dalplex Christmas Craft Market (6260 South Street).
Remember, it's entirely possible to disagree without spiralling into a thread of negativity and personal attacks. We have the right to remove (and you have the right to report) any comments that go against our policy.
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Comparing The Mortal Instruments: City of Fallen Angels to Shadowhunters
I swear I’ve been restraining myself from posting these back to back, but considering I got through each of the books in around a day I’ve really drawn out posting these. Anyways, I’ve finished the fourth installment of The Mortal Instruments called City of Fallen Angels and as I have decided to do with this entire series I’m going to compare it to the show. Now the first three books made up the first two seasons, with the second and third more or less creating the second. Considering there is only one season left and three books I went into this knowing a lot was going to be different. Which I was actually excited about since up until this point the surprise was already gone from the show. I mean things were different but ultimately led to the same point where a finale occurred.
But seasons only have two finales not three, so I knew it was going to be wildly different at this point. Check out my previous posts on how those books compared to Shadowhunters below. I’m not going to repeat minor differences (even if they are major) in this post since I’ve already mentioned them in previous ones:
Comparing Mortal Instruments: City of Bones to Freeform’s Shadowhunters
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones | Which One was Closer to the Book: Movie or TV Show?
Comparing The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes to Shadowhunters
Comparing The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass to Shadowhunters
In the show, Camille is the vampire who turns Simon and is his sire. In order to find the Book of the White they needed to use Simon to track her down. They go to one of her many estates where he ends up getting her grave dirt but doesn’t realize it until after Raphael points out how to get the box open. After Camille has been turning more vampires that are creating an issue in New York City, Magnus sends her away to the Clave to be locked up for her crimes. Raphael though not always the best, helps Simon out with making sure the Shadow world is a secret when Simon’s mom finds out.
In the book, Camille approaches Simon and asks him to join her clan after assisting her in overthrowing Raphael. She gives him five days to decide if he will join her and hands him grave dirt to summon her when he’s made his choice.
In both the show and book, after Jace is brought back to life he starts to have nightmares in which Clary ends up being killed by his hands. In the show, Jace most of the times ends up hallucinating that Jonathan is there and as he tries to protect Clary from Jonathan ends up killing her. However, he does not push her away. In the book, fearing he might hurt her by accident due to the nightmares pushes her away and becomes more distant. Even going so far as avoiding her. But he of course can’t stay away from Clary and during one of their makeout sessions he ended up cutting her with a knife unable to control himself. Clary takes Jace to the Silent City where the Brothers inform them that Jace is being influenced by a demon but not possessed. In order to protect him, they need to perform a ritual on him with an Iron Sister which would make the demon influence vanish.
In the show, he brings up the idea but is stopped by Lilith’s possession over him so he never ends up making it there. He is also fully possessed and has been used by Lilith to get followers. Clary has to learn from an alive Ithuriel that Jace is vulnerable to possession after he was brought back to life just before Lilith kills the angel and steals some of Clary’s soul to use in an anti-love potion to allow her to have full control over Jace.
In the book, he makes it to the City with Clary but leaves before getting treatment. Before he leaves the Silent Brothers state he is vulnerable as somehow the right every infant Shadowhunter gets when born that protects them from possession is gone. Since he was reborn in a way when he was brought back to life. At this point, Lilith gains control over him but doesn’t use him to get followers as she’s got a whole cult of mundanes for that.
Credit: Freeform
Resurrection Rune
Both the book and show feature Clary creating a resurrection rune, but for two completely different reasons. In the show, Clary creates the resurrection rune to bring Valentine back to life as a means to get a stay on her execution for using The Wish for personal gain of bringing Jace back to life. In the book, Clary creates the rune to bring a dead Shadowhunter back to life to figure out who killed him… which turns out to be Camille.
Simon Gets a Roommate
After Simon gets the Mark of Cain his residence in the book and show both fall apart causing him to need somewhere else to crash.
In the show, he had been staying at the Jade Wolf but was kicked out as the wolves thought he overstayed his welcome. Simon goes apartment hunting and almost gets run over by Jordan Kyle, going by just Kyle at the time. He offers Simon the spare room in his apartment, which when Jace comes over questions how Simon could get so lucky to find an apartment with literally everything he could want. Then he breaks into Kyle’s room to find Wolfsbane and informs Simon that his roommate is a werewolf. Later when Maia stops by she informs Simon that Kyle is actually Jordan Kyle, the ex-boyfriend who turned her into a werewolf.
In the book, Simon left after telling his mom he was a vampire then made her forget. His band mate, Kyle, offers him the spare room at his place. Jace, who happened to be following Simon after he lost track of Clary trying to give back her phone, runs into Simon after two guys tried to kill him. Jace follows Simon back to the new apartment where Simon makes him eat some soup. When Kyle comes back home, Jace asks Simon why he didn’t mention that his new roommate was a werewolf. Later at a gig, Maia informs Simon that Kyle is actually Jordan Kyle, the ex-boyfriend who turned her into a werewolf.
Church of Talto
This location appears in both the show and the book, but the how a character gets there in each are for very different reasons. For starters, Church of Talto is where Lilith is with her followers as she’s trying to resurrect Jonathan Morgenstern (she considers him a son since he has her blood).
In the show, Lilith is using mundanes to corrupt the ley lines using The Owl (possessed Jace) to find her 33 disciples that kill an individual they love then uses their blood as nourishment for Jonathan. Luke and Simon end up going to the church and are attacked by three of the disciples. Simon with the Mark of Cain turns them into salt.
In the book, the Church of Talto is a location Clary got using a rune on a deceased baby who had black eyes and claws for hands. Jocelyn claims the dead baby looks eerily similar to Jonathan did when he was born. Clary goes to investigate and is attacked by a demon after seeing a women injected with blood. Isabelle comes to the Church of Talto at Clary’s request for assistance since she doesn’t want to be benched by the Clave or upset her mother while she’s out ring shopping with Luke. Also Jace is not the Owl (a greater demon or demon) of Lilith in the book nor leads to 33 mundanes becoming possessed.
Jonathan Reborn
Other than all of the characters being the same, there’s little to no similarity between the book and the show on how Jonathan Morgenstern comes back to life.
In the show, Clary is almost executed but Jace comes to steal flesh of Valentine as well as collects Clary for her heart when he’s completely possessed by Lilith. He brings them to her apartment and Clary has a rune drawn on her that makes her life-force connected to Jonathan. Simon comes up to help Clary and attacks the coffin Jonathan is stored in. Lilith goes to attack him causing the Mark of Cain to go off. Lilith explodes just as Jonathan comes back to life which sends the apartment away. Simon was knocked out of the building, and Jace now free of Lilith’s possession thanks to Magnus Bane rushes in to see the apartment is gone along with Clary and a now alive Jonathan. Simon presumes he killed Clary in the explosion.
In the book, Jace is taken over by Lilith in his dreams and uses a rune to knock out Clary so he can take her to Lilith’s apartment where Jonathan is. Lilith also turns Maureen into a vampire and uses her to bring Simon to the apartment. She wants Simon to feed on Jonathan/Sebastian then give Jonathan his blood in return. Lilith also uses the rune on Jace to connect him with Jonathan. One reborn into the Light, must allow for one to be reborn into the Dark to maintain balance occurring to Lilith. Clary is merely there as a bargaining chip to get Simon to do as Lilith wants. Clary cuts the rune on Jace which temporarily frees him from Lilith’s control. Simon however ended up drinking Jonathan’s blood but didn’t give him his blood in return. As Lilith goes to torture Clary in front of Jace, Simon steps in the way so the Mark of Cain kills her. Clary and Jace talk briefly before everyone but Jace goes downstairs to wait for the Clave. While waiting alone the rune heals and he is under Jonathan’s control. He gives Jonathan his blood thus completing the ritual that brings Jonathan back to life. The two vanish before the Clave comes upstairs.
Minor Details/Differences
Simon is dating both Isabelle and Maia at the same time. Both break up with him when they find out about the other.
Clary lives with Luke and Jocelyn, but trains full time at the Institute.
One representative from each Downworlder clan has a seat in the Clave council.
Simon is in a band with his friends who know he’s a vampire.
Magnus and Alec have really just started getting serious.
Maryse is the head of the New York Institute.
Jocelyn and Luke are engaged, set to be married in a matter of a week at the start of the book.
Simon’s first human he feeds on is Maureen, he drinks her blood suddenly overcome with a thirst for blood during the band’s performance. Maureen is killed by Lilith and turned into a vampire because of her. Not because of Simon.
Alec is off on a romantic getaway with Magnus after Valentine is killed, and doesn’t question Clary or Jace about what happened at Lake Lyn.
Jace cuts Clary’s arm when they are being intimate just as he does in his dreams. He can’t really control himself but it’s not an accident either. After he admits to her about the dreams he has been having.
Jace does go to the Silent Brothers but is not treated as he has fallen under the control of Lilith and leaves the City of Bones.
The Silent Brothers are the ones who find out about Clary making a wish to bring Jace back. Nothing is done about it at least in this book.
Jace and Jonathan disappear after Jonathan is resurrected. Apartment is left as it was.
Simon is dating just Maia. They break up mutually after Maia took some time for herself after learning Jordan Kyle was back in town.
Clary lives at the Institute, she is a full Shadowhunter (i.e. no longer in training)
Alec has cabinet meetings with Downworlders (Meliorn, Magnus, Raphael and Luke).
Simon is a solo band.
Magnus and Alec have already been serious, broken up and gotten back together.
Alec is the head of the New York Institute.
Jocelyn is dead. Luke starts flirting with a now single Maryse, who divorced Robert Lightwood after he cheats on her.
Maureen was an ex-bandmate but not his first human he drank on. That designation goes to Heidi who also drank his blood before she is killed by another vampire.
Alec is highly suspicious of what happened at Lake Lyn between Jace, Clary, and Valentine due to the Parabatai rune vanishing.
Jace never hurts the real Clary on purpose, he accidentally cuts Clary during training. Later after being possessed he drops her off a building.
Jace never goes to the Silent Brothers for help as Lilith gave him an anti-love potion which allows the demon inside him to fully take over.
The Clave interrogates Clary after Jace kills Imogen Herondale on what Jace was doing, Clary under the influence of the Soul-Sword admits she brought Jace back to life using the Wish and he is possessed by Lilith. She is sentenced to death for this.
Clary and Jonathan disappear along with the apartment in a way that makes it look like they were killed in the explosion.
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Twitch doubles its society and monetization
As TwitchCon 2018 is going full today, Amazon's live streaming division Twitch is looking forward to claiming its appreciation for its community by doubling interaction tools and monetization. Emmet Shear, CEO of Twitch and other development leaders talked about the rapid dynamics of the live streaming service and the involvement of both streamers and fans. On average, over one million people match Twitch at any time. Every day nearly half a million streamers go to Twitch. By 2018, more than 235,000 streamers have taken their first steps by earning Affiliate status and over 6,800 streamers achieve the Partner level. Over 18 billion messages have been sent in 2018 over chat and Whispers features. Fans have shown support with more than 85 million "Cheers" and subscriptions this year. More than 1 50 million clips have been created to show the most memorable moments at Twitch this year. Earlier this year, Twitch introduced Community Marriage, which gives viewers the opportunity to gift subscriptions to other viewers in a channel. In nine weeks, streamers have earned over $ 9 million through this feature. An individual even gave 6,600 gifts to viewers of $ 33,000 in a single night. On the scene on Friday, Shear said twice the amount of money paid to affiliates and partners during the past year. In a conversation with Thursday's developer, Shear and his development-related vice president Amir Shevat said the theme of the TwitchCon show in San Jose, California is "growing, connecting and enjoying." Twitch releases new tools…
As TwitchCon 2018 is going full today, Amazon’s live streaming division Twitch is looking forward to claiming its appreciation for its community by doubling interaction tools and monetization.
Emmet Shear, CEO of Twitch and other development leaders talked about the rapid dynamics of the live streaming service and the involvement of both streamers and fans. On average, over one million people match Twitch at any time. Every day nearly half a million streamers go to Twitch.
By 2018, more than 235,000 streamers have taken their first steps by earning Affiliate status and over 6,800 streamers achieve the Partner level. Over 18 billion messages have been sent in 2018 over chat and Whispers features. Fans have shown support with more than 85 million “Cheers” and subscriptions this year. More than 1
50 million clips have been created to show the most memorable moments at Twitch this year.
Earlier this year, Twitch introduced Community Marriage, which gives viewers the opportunity to gift subscriptions to other viewers in a channel. In nine weeks, streamers have earned over $ 9 million through this feature. An individual even gave 6,600 gifts to viewers of $ 33,000 in a single night. On the scene on Friday, Shear said twice the amount of money paid to affiliates and partners during the past year.
In a conversation with Thursday’s developer, Shear and his development-related vice president Amir Shevat said the theme of the TwitchCon show in San Jose, California is “growing, connecting and enjoying.” Twitch releases new tools to make it easier for streamers to be detected. And it will enable new types of revenue generation, including department stores and advertising on extensions, or overlay on the Twitch interface.
I talked to Amir Shevat yesterday after his main talk at TwitchCon Developer Day on Thursday. Here is an edited transcript of our interview.
Above: Amir Shevat is Vice President of Development Experience at Twitch.
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
SpelBeat: What do you think were some of the bigger things that devs here cared for?
Amir Shevat: I think there are two things. One is that there is a trend towards more developers coming on the platform and more brands come on the platform. Today we launched Design of Humans merch integration. We see more common brands, and not just game integration, but more tools for streamers and viewers to engage.
We talked a little about it in the panel. We redefine how we interact and how communities interact with each other in the channel. It’s a message. This is a big move, and it’s not just for games. It is for all types of entertainment. It will be commonplace. The brands and developers go along.
The second is that we see many developers to join and we want to help them with what they have given us feedback on. Build better tools to make it easier to build on Twitch and help with the discovery. I do not know if you were in the streamers panel, but the discovery is very important. And then monetization. When we began to talk about monetization, everyone in the audience was silent. It’s amazing, because it’s important to us. We want to make this a flourishing business for people.
GamesBeat: What has been turned on so far for monetization, and what is the message of things coming?
Shevat: ] This year we launched Bits in extensions. Bits are a virtual good you can put in and exchange for interactions. Say I have a game with some lives and I want to get more lives. I can use Bits to get it. Or I want to play a sound like an audio alert. There is a split between streams and developers on the value of that bit. Viewers spend bits and there is a tear splitting.
GamesBeat: Is this really taking away?
Shevat: Yes. Things like sound warnings – I talked to a developer who left his job and started doing it full time. That’s a good sign. What happens next is things like – we will enable different levels of value that developers can provide to different types of subs. Tell me I’m a streamer. I have people who are not subscribers, and then I have people who are subscribers at different levels. Developers will be able to be aware of the tier arrangement, the status and provide different experiences to different subs. They will be able to provide value for the voter’s account to their subs.
GamesBeat: Do you have some examples of how to compare that type of service?
] Shevat: Right now this is the future, so we’re just thinking about experiments. But I could have emoji in chats. I can say that a tier gets the general channel emoji, and then gets tier three streamer’s chosen emoji. You can think of benefits like things in goods, or in game integrations, with things like free keys. As a streamer, my top level can get free games every month. Game developers can participate in the value exchange. They could say to streams: “We’re launching a new game. Here are 100 keys to give your best subscribers.” Think of it as a way to truly match the incentives for all players and hopefully make everyone’s experience happy and productive.
We are launching merch today. It is in collaboration with Amazon Pay. People can actually sell things. We have seen it as a big request from both streamers and developers. Finally, we are thinking of ads. Imagine I’m playing a game and I’m on my last life. I can see an ad saying “See here to play another game with a life extension.” Again, I see the ad and revenue splits between streams and developers.
Above: Streamer Panel at TwitchCon Developer’s Day
GamesBeat: And that advertiser reaches the crowd’s audience?
Shevat: Exact. There is much commitment. There is also a lot of intent.
Shevat: The interaction between moving viewers to be active participants may be painful. For example, if you look at Fortnite, it has been watched in 17,000 years in the past year. You have so much dedication that you can turn out to be passive involvement, or a little passive plus chat, to be active involvement. That’s the great opportunity there.
GamesBeat: ShadowFox mentioned that you want it to be a positive interaction and not an obstructive. You do not want the audience to make it impossible for you to play.
Shevat: Exact.
SpelBeat: Developers must really think about what kind of interaction they will put into these things.
Shevat: I mentor many startups. That’s always the case. You always need to think about how to make your users right. I have done it in mobile apps and other places. Here is the case too. How can you encourage people to do the right thing and create positive interactions?
SpelBeat: An extra life is a good example.
Shevat: An extra life, a chance to strengthen your shield, an ability to make the lights in a dungeon lighter. All of these things can be part of an amazing experience. I’m talking to some developers who just want to put graffiti on the wall. They were willing to create this crazy game integration where the streams pay for spraying on the walls of the game.
SpelBeat: Is it possible that you may pile a group against another on a stream? Anyone who wants to make it harder for you to play against someone who wants to make it easier.
Shevat: There is a Japanese developer who already does. Depending on yes or no in the chat there is a sound playing, like “YEAH!” And their choices are playing. Another aspect that is interesting is the viewer of the viewer’s interaction. What we’ve heard from streamers is that they are sometimes very engaged with the chat, but sometimes they want the chat to take care of themselves. An extension that helps viewers to engage with other viewers is crucial to the health of a community.
SpelBeat: Right now, what’s the money in one way that earns money?
Shevat: ] The two most popular ways are through subscriptions on their channels and through advertisements. But we also have a full range of ways. They can earn money by biting, or by selling goods.
One of the most effective ways to make money is through Twitch Prime. Twitch Prime is a free advantage for Amazon Prime, as long as members join their accounts, they get a free portion every 30 days. It has been very beneficial for our partners. They saw a huge increase in revenue based on all the subs that come through. When using the free Twitch Prime sub, it’s the same as turning on the subscribe button. Just by being a partner, they also earn a lot of incremental income from influenza programs and sponsorship.
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Although the former Soviet republic might seem remote, Uzbekistan once sat at the very center of the world. In the first millennium, no traveler could pass from Asia to Europe without stopping in the Silk Road strongholds of Bukhara and Samarkand, and as a result these cities evolved into rich cultural centers. For intrepid travelers, today’s Uzbekistan is a promised land: a Muslim-majority nation that’s both safe and affordable, with few tourists and an abundance of well-preserved mosques and harems. And since the death of authoritarian president Islam Karimov last year, the new regime has taken steps toward reform that have given both Uzbeks and the international community reason for optimism. Improving relations with Iran could soon bring a rail link to the Persian Gulf, and in 2016, the Afrosiyob high-speed-train line began connecting the country’s major cities. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan should benefit from the so-called Iron Silk Road, or Trans-Asian Railway — a Chinese-funded network of routes knitting together Beijing and Europe — once a segment connecting the country through Kyrgyzstan is completed. Book a customized journey with Exeter International, which specializes in the region. —Heidi Mitchell
The Big Easy turns the Big 3-0-0 this year, and in this city where the good times roll, the parties will be epic — think citywide art shows, supersized Mardi Gras parades, and a festival of lights using landmark buildings as backdrops. Thirteen years after Hurricane Katrina, there is much to celebrate: The Central Business District, once a dead zone after dark, now crackles at all hours thanks to four new hotels (the Ace, Troubadour, Catahoula, and NOPSI), each with its own rooftop bar. The neighborhood is also home to new restaurants like Maypop — a Vietnamese-Creole joint from acclaimed chef Michael Gulotta. Another area coming to life is the three-mile riverfront, where a renovated Spanish Plaza will reopen this spring. More riverfront updates, including a new Four Seasons Hotel, will roll out in the next few years. Toast the tricentennial at the Sazerac House, a French Quarter museum dedicated to the official cocktail of New Orleans, opening later this year. —Allison Entrekin
In an interview with Exclaim!, Nick Thorburn explained that the overhauled lineup was a product of his desire to try new things. "That's important to me ― to be able to constantly try new things. That's why this record's largely informed by electronic stuff like drum machines, sequencing, and programming, which really scales it back from the last record." [2] Thompson once again left the band prior to the summer 2010 tour, and was again replaced by Aaron Harris.
Almost all of the Earth's islands are natural and have been formed by tectonic forces or volcanic eruptions. However, artificial (man-made) islands also exist, such as the island in Osaka Bay off the Japanese island of Honshu, on which Kansai International Airport is located. Artificial islands can be built using natural materials (e.g., earth, rock, or sand) or artificial ones (e.g., concrete slabs or recycled waste).[14][15] Sometimes natural islands are artificially enlarged, such as Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0.5 km in the construction of the Passenger Port of St. Petersburg.[16]
Of all the islands that make up Italy’s Aeolian archipelago, Salina is arguably the most alluring: it is not yet a celebrity haven like its neighbor Stromboli, where Giorgio Armani, Domenico Dolce, and Stefano Gabbana have homes; and it’s not yet overrun with the luxury yachts of affluent soccer players like nearby Panarea. That the isle has stayed blissfully unspoiled for this long eludes those who know of its imposing natural beauty — steep mountains blanketed in blossoming trees and wildflowers, small villages speckled with olive and lemon groves, fig trees, and miles of terraced Malvasia vineyards. The Relais & Châteaux property Capofaro Malvasia & Resort is one of Salina’s finest places to check in to, thanks to its secluded location, private beach, Tasca d’Almerita wines, and restaurant spotlighting local flavors (think wild fennel, orange, and caper leaves). Once you’ve settled in, skip on over to the town of Lingua to watch the sun set on the Marina Garibaldi, and order the best almond granita of your life at the Da Alfredo waterfront café. —Rocky Casale
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Mac investigates a mass arrival of Travelers, while also trying to repair his marriage with Kat. Philip is given assistance with his addiction from fellow Traveler 4514, Jenny. Marcy treats David for PTSD, but is dealing with feelings of detachment and disassociation herself. Carly and Jeff try and clean up their act for Child Protective Services and regain custody of their son. Trevor and Grace bond in the hospital while recovering from their injuries.
On May 28, 2006, it was announced that Thompson was leaving the band. Islands decided to continue on without Thompson, and a European tour was scheduled, and further recordings confirmed. The band later emerged the following month for two surprise appearances in Montreal, performing with a new lineup including new drummer Aaron Harris and multi-instrumentalist Kate Perkins, before departing for Europe the following week.
In January 2007, Travelers agreed to pay US$77 million to six states to settle a class action suit and end investigations into its insurance practices.[36][37] The charges involved paying the insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Companies contingent commissions to win business without the knowledge of clients, thus creating a conflict of interest.[38] Additionally, the investigation examined whether Travelers had created the illusion of competition by submitting fake bids,[39] thus misleading clients into believing they were receiving competitive commercial premiums.[40]
The city has cemented its reputation as a must-visit destination with its most recent honor: it’s been named 2018 World Design Capital, the first ever in the Americas. It’s no wonder: despite challenges like the recent earthquake, young Mexican creatives are no longer searching for opportunities abroad but staying to build something meaningful at home. Their success is evident in arts initiatives like Zonamaco and the Material Art Fair in February, Design Week Mexico in October, and the Condo Fair, which will debut in Mexico’s capital in April. Aesthetes have plenty of design-forward places to stay and eat, too. Bed down at Downtown Mexico, the newest hotel by Grupo Habita, which plans to open another property, Catedral M X, nearby in 2018. Or book a room at the Four Seasons Hotel Mexico City, which unveiled an ambitious redesign by Gilles & Boissier in 2016. Dine at Enrique Olvera’s world-famous Pujol, which relocated last year to a mid-century house and has a fresh, pared-down look. The new space is outfitted in natural materials — a fitting design for a restaurant that celebrates wood-fired cooking. —Laura Itzkowitz
The Quisby $50+ Wyndham Garden Hotel Baronne Plaza $93+ The Whitney Hotel $99+ B on Canal $106+ Pelham Hotel New Orleans, La $116+ International House Hotel $118+ Royal St. Charles French Quarter/Downtown $119+ Royal Crescent Hotel $120+ Holiday Inn New Orleans-Downtown Superdome $122+ Chateau Hotel $122+ Holiday Inn Express New Orleans - St Charles $122+ Wyndham New Orleans - French Quarter $126+ French Market Inn $136+ Bienville House $141+
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Often overlooked in favor of more-developed, splashier neighbors like Hvar or Brač, Šolta’s under-the-radar nature has proved a boon: The stony islet has become synonymous with pristine nature (pebbly beaches, turquoise waters, lush greenery), medieval villages, winemaking (try the indigenous Dobričić variety), and family-run olive oil purveyors like Olynthia, a fourth-generation producer. After watching the sun set at Maslinica bay, check out the island’s peppering of stylish beach clubs, seaside bars, and open-air restaurants — then drop your bags at the Heritage Hotel Martinis-Marchi, built inside an 18th-century Venetian fort-castle and ideally situated for those who want to explore Šolta’s ancient villages and crystal-clear bays. —Kate Springer
In October 2015, Travelers acquired a majority interest in the property casualty business of its J. Malucelli joint venture in Brazil. J. Malucelli commenced writing property casualty business in 2012.[27] The property casualty business operates under the Travelers brand and focuses on property, general liability, construction and financial insurance products. The business is based in São Paulo.
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Actors, Crew, Stand-Ins,
Captain America: The First Avenger Actors
Spider-Man: Far From Home Crew Members
Crew Members with Roles in Comic Book Adaptations outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Fictional Adolf Hitler
James Payton portrayed the actor who played the fictional version of Adolf Hitler that appeared in Captain America's USO Shows in Captain America: The First Avenger.
He was also a stand-in for Jake Gyllenhaal and Jon Favreau in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
James Payton also portrayed the real Adolf Hitler in the 2014 film The Monuments Men.
James Payton previously stood-in for Jake Gyllenhaal in Life.
James Payton was also a stand-in in the DC Entertainment production Justice League.
James Payton on IMDb
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Tag: Arthur Conan Doyle
July 15, 2019 ~ marzaat ~ 2 Comments
This week’s piece of weird fiction being discussed over at LibraryThing was Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Parasite”. It’s a somewhat unsatisfactory tale – Doyle omitted it from later editions of his collected works, but it sounded interesting after reading Paul M. Chapman’s “The Dark and Decadent Dreams of Doctor Doyle” in issue 31 of Wormwood magazine. So I nominated it for discussion.
Review: “The Parasite”, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1894.
This is a story told through the journal entries of Austin Gilroy, a self-described “materialist”, even a “rank one” according to his fiancé Agatha Marsden. He lectures on blood and circulation at a medical university.
Chapman speculates that one reason Doyle came to dislike this story was because he regarded it as too erotic and decadent. It’s pretty tame by modern standards, but there is an element of sexual desire in the opening entry from March 24 where springtime and its “work of reproduction” is implicitly linked to Gilroy’s eagerness to marry Agatha and have sex with her. Continue reading ““The Parasite”” →
The Ghost Club
January 29, 2019 January 30, 2019 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
This one got downloaded to my Kindle because it contains several stories using the Meikle Mythos of Sigils and Totems.
Review: The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror, William Meikle, 2017.
Cover by Ben Baldwin
Recently the Criterion Club in London found itself placed in receivership and selling its assets off. In a hidden bookcase, this journal, a collection of lost literary works by club members and visitors transcribed (and perhaps touched up a bit) by Arthur Conan Doyle was found.
The quality of Meikle’s imitations of those writers I can’t, for the most part, speak to. I haven’t read all these authors, and some I have only read a few works by. (I’ll put the putative authors of each story in parentheses next to the relevant title.)
I do think I’ve read enough of H. G. Wells to say that “Farside” is a convincing imitation in style and theme. Its narrator tells us about a demonstration of a Chromoscope, a machine of spinning colored plates that light is passed through and projected onto a wall. It’s a creation of his inventor friend, Hoskins. Hoskins and friends find out, by putting their hands between the projector and the wall, that they have rainbow auras about their hands. Well, all except Dennings who has a “sickly glow, all green” around his. Perhaps its no coincidence that he dies three days later. But why is that green glow now around Hoskins’ hand? Being a Wells’ fan, I was inclined to like this.
I enthusiastically liked so many stories (nine out of 14) that I can’t really call them favorites. Continue reading “The Ghost Club” →
Home From the Sea
December 13, 2018 December 18, 2018 ~ marzaat ~ 3 Comments
I think I got this one free in a giveaway from Meikle’s newsletter.
It’s way cheaper than Meikle’s novels on kindle which, I suppose, means my preference for short stories over novels is not shared. It serves as a good sample of a major strain in his work.
Review: Home From the Sea, William Meikle, 2017.
Unlike Meikle’s collection Samurai and Other Stories, this story has only one type of story: entities and creatures that don’t know their place. There’s boundary breeching, lockpicking, and mangled spacetime membranes. Things are roused that shouldn’t be and invade our earth from the ether, the briny depths, and the spaces between atoms.
Surprisingly, for such a tightly focused collection, none of it was stale or boring when reading it straight through. There was only one story I had a very minor gripe about.
“The Doom That Came to Dunfeld” is the one original tale here and quite an effective horror story. Its narrator tells us what happens when the British government tries to repeat the legendary Philadelphia Experiment off the coast of Newfoundland post-WWII. They want to make a warship invisible. What they get is a dissolving warship and a killer fog.
Meikle has a real knack for the sea horror story and shows it even better with “Home From the Sea” which has a group of Irish men on a rescue mission to take men off a whaler floundering off shore. But they’re already dead, and their killer still on board. Continue reading “Home From the Sea” →
Stealing Other People’s Homework: “Literature’s Arctic Obsession”
December 25, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
In my part of the world, the temperature has gone below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.
And that means it’s time to do some polar reading.
This year, I’ll probably read Jules Verne’s The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, and, maybe, Ernest Shackleton’s South.
However, given how far behind I am in reviews, it will be awhile before I talk about them.
In the meantime, you get this from Kathryn Schulz. There’s a lot of famous writers who mentioned the poles in their work: the Brontes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens.
Stealing Other People’s Homework: “Literature’s Arctic Obsession“, Kathryn Schulz.
May 10, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ 2 Comments
H. P. Lovecraft gets mentioned a lot here — but in relation to other people’s works. I haven’t talked about Lovecraft’s own fiction.
Part of that is that I’ve read a lot of his work multiple times and often — but not always — made notes on each reading. I’ve talked a bit about my reading history with Lovecraft in “Yog-Sothothery“.
Putting those notes together in a coherent form is time-consuming. And I have to do multiple index entries each time.
However, some regular followers of this blog are interested in weird fiction and Lovecraft, so I’m going to start covering individual Lovecraft stories between reviews of new and mostly unrelated books.
All these entries on Lovecraft’s fiction will use S. T. Joshi’s corrected texts.
Raw Feed (2005)eview: “In the Vault“, H. P. Lovecraft, 1925.
This 1925 story is a biter-bitten tale.
A cheap, but not malicious, undertaker is maimed by the man whose ankles he cuts off to put him in a cheap coffin.
The story is set in New England, and I find it interesting that Lovecraft not only adopts a characteristic framing device — the story is told by a narrator in contemporary times and related second-hand by the doctor who treated the protagonist’s injuries after he was accidentally locked in a burial vault — but that Lovecraft’s antiquarian interests cause him to set the story in 1881 — nine years before he was born.
The beginning two sentences
There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude. Mention a bucolic Yankee setting, a bungling and thick-fibred village undertaker, and a careless mishap in a tomb, and no average reader can be brought to expect more than a hearty albeit grotesque phase of comedy.
reminded me of Sherlock Holmes admonitions about the crimes committed in lonely rural areas in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”.
It is also a self-conscious opening by a horror theorist who is deliberately going against what he regards as common prejudice.
More Lovecraft related entries are indexed on the Lovecraft page.
March 16, 2017 March 17, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ 3 Comments
Being a fan of Stableford’s work, I immediately requested a review copy when I saw it on Netgallery.
Review: Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction, ed. Brian Stableford, 1917.
Before America colonized science fiction with its conquistador John Carter in 1912 and made it into a genre concerned with space and adventure, it was something different. It was, argues Stableford, a stream of literature interested in “the adoption of the scientific outlook and the attempt to employ the scientific imagination as a springboard for speculative fiction”.
Just as the Vikings colonized the New World before Columbus’s voyage, Francis Bacon and Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac discovered new frontiers for literature when they wrote scientific romances. And, just as the Viking colonization inspired no immediate imitators, no writers imitated Bacon and de Bergerac for a while. Bacon’s New Atlantis was unfinished and published posthumously in 1627. De Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde ou les Etats et Empires de la lune [The Other World] wasn’t published until the 1920s.
It wasn’t until the 19th century that authors in France, America, and England began producing work that was noticeably something different and that stuck in the public mind. These were stories about the drama to be made out of new scientific discoveries, new technologies, and the peculiar psychologies of inventors and scientists. Continue reading “Scientific Romance” →
Down from the Attic
March 1, 2017 March 1, 2017 ~ marzaat ~ Leave a comment
And it’s another review with a tie-in to the 1920s.
I don’t normally read books about movies, and I’ve only reviewed one other movie book, Joe Bob Briggs’ Profoundly Erotic, though I do have some reference books about science fiction movies about the house.
Review: Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s, John T. Soister and Henry Nicolella, 2016.
This one came free from LibraryThing, and the only reason I picked it up was the section on the various movie adaptations of Bernhard Kellermann’s 1913 novel Der Tunnel. I first came across reference to it in John J. Pierce’s Foundations of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution which described it as giving “epic scope to industrial sf” in its tale of constructing a transatlantic tunnel for rail travel.
I did like the opening chapter which covered the four movie adaptations of that novel. (And I watched the 1935 British adaptation Transatlantic Tunnel aka The Tunnel on YouTube afterwards. It’s mostly of historical interest though it has one memorable moment of unintentional humor and some interesting set design.)
Soister and Nicolella cover a movie or group of movies in each chapter. They do it with wit and engaging asides as well as covering a lot of film history. Films are always placed in a larger context be it biographical, the development of a genre, a nation’s film history, or accounts of certain film series and remakes. Continue reading “Down from the Attic” →
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Every Godzilla monster wreaks havoc in his new game
By Adam Rosenberg 2015-04-16 22:27:29 UTC
He might be "King of the Monsters," but Godzilla's reign is hardly safe when everything from magic-spewing giant moths to cyborg space monsters with chainsaw hands are trying to break off a piece of the action.
This latest trailer for Bandai Namco Games' Godzilla goes seriously deep cut, digging up everything from Jet Jaguar to SpaceGodzilla to Final Wars' chainsaw-handed Gigan.
Can you name them all?
The game's central story mode pits Godzilla against an assortment of human and monster threats as he lays waste to a series of maps, growing in size and power as he goes. There's also a six-round gauntlet of boss fights against other monsters and (only on PS4) online multiplayer with up to three players duking it out as the monster of their choosing.
Godzilla was released in Japan on December 18, 2014. The U.S. and European versions arrive on July 14 and 17, respectively.
Someone made a Bob Ross painting in 'Minecraft' and it's absolutely delightful
'Dr. Mario World' is Nintendo's next mobile game coming in July
A teaser of 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' sequel dropped at E3 and no one is calm
Watch Nintendo's jaw-dropping E3 2019 compilation
Topics: bandai namco games, Entertainment, Movies, Gaming, Godzilla
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In Praise of Guilty Pleasures
by David Zahl on May 29, 2012 • 10:18 am 13 Comments
I brought two books with me on vacation last week: the new collection of Jonathan Franzen essays and the new Dark Tower prequel by Stephen King. One guess as to which one I read. That’s right: both books stayed shut as I inhaled 20 or so Batman comics on my iPad and caught up on Beach Boys message boards. Guilty pleasures in other words. So upon returning to the world of ‘serious’ reading I was pleasantly surprised to discover a wonderful little piece in The New Yorker last week by critic Arthur Krystal, tracing the history and appeal of literary guilty pleasures. He touches on a number of familiar themes, e.g. identity/self-justification aspect that often informs what we want to consume vs. what we feel we should consume, the palliative quality of story, our collective desire for escape/transcendence, the discovery and parsing of genuine (objective?) beauty in the midst of the neverending ebb and flow of cultural Law/trends, etc. At several points, Krystal even employs religious language to describe how we relate to fiction. And if you can get ahold of the article (not available online), I loved Martin Amis’ slightly embarrassed praise of Elmore Leonard as “a literary genius who writes re-readable thrillers”:
It’s one thing for a poet who contains multitudes to become a literary dude; it’s another for writers who deal with lawmen, criminals, private detectives, spies, aliens, ghosts, fallen heroines, and killer cars. Such writers–commercial and genre novelists–aim at delivering less rarefied pleasures. And part of the pleasure we derive from them is the knowledge that we could be reading something better, something that, in the words of Matthew Arnold, reflects “the best that has been thought and said in this world.”
For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good. You could either go to an amusement park or trundle off to a museum, ride a roller coaster or stroll among the Flemish Masters… Readers who seek out mystery novels are looking to escape not from life but from literature, from the “pluperfect tenses of the physical novel.”
Skilled genre writers know that a certain level of artificiality must prevail, lest the reasons we turn to their books evaporate. It’s plot we want and plenty of it. Heroes should go up against villains (sympathetic or hateful); love should, if possible, win out; and a satisfying sense of closure and comeuppance should top off the experience. Basically, a guilty pleasure is a fix in the form of a story, a narrative cocktail that helps us temporarily forget the narratives of our own humdrum lives. And, for not a few readers, there’s the additional kick of feeling that they’re getting away with something. Instead of milking the cows or reading Meno, they’re dallying somewhere with “Fifty Shade of Grey.”
The guilty pleasure label peels off more easily if we recall that the novel itself was once something of a guilty pleasure. In the mid-eighteenth century, there was a hovering suspicion that novels were for people not really serious about literature. Instead of laboring over “An Essay on Man” or some musty verse drama, readers could turn the pages of an amusing French novel or even one by Richardson or Fielding. Unlike works of moral or religious instruction, novels were diverting. Of course, if they proved too diverting, how good could they be? Hence Dickens, with his enormous audience, was considered to be more of a sentimentalist and caricaturist than a serious artist.
Modernism, of course, confirmed the idea of the commercial novel as a guilty pleasure by making the literary novel tough sledding. Far from delivering easy pleasures, modernist fiction could be an exercise in aesthetic and psychological subtlety; it was written not for people with time on their hands but for those willing to put in the time to master it. Indeed, fiction in the age of modernism became as much identified with literature as poetry or plays, and its complexities required a new class of expert readers, a secular clergy capable of explaining its mysteries. Serious fiction was serious business, and a reader might tire of it.
The reason that Wittgenstein eagerly awaited his monthly copy of Street & Smih’s Detective Story is the same that prompted Nadezhda Mandelstam to aske visitors to bring her Agatha Christie’s latest. Neither one was after startling revelations about nature or society; they simply wanted the comfort of a familiar voice recounting a story that they hadn’t quite heard before. Call it a vice (Edmund Wilson does), call it an addiction (Auden’s word), a guilty pleasure in book form simply means time off from heavy lifting or heavy reading. Auden, in truth, didn’t do [Raymond] Chandler any favors by admonishing prospective readers that Chandler’s books should be “judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art”–because it’s only as models of escape literature that they work as art.
Apparently, we’re still judged by the books we read, and perhaps we should be. Preferring Ken Follett’s “On Wings of Eagles” to Henry James “Wings of the Dove” is not a negligible bias. Nonetheless, we shouldn’t sell short the likes of Follett, or, for that matter, Ross Thomas, John Grisham, James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, Rovert Crais or George Pelecanos, all of whom consistently deliver entertaining works in serviceable prose. Such writers have a gift that is as mysterious to nonwriters as plucking melodies out of thin air is to nonmusicians. Plotting, inventing, creating characters, putting words in their mouths and quirks in their personalities–it all seems pretty astonishing to me. The prose may be uneven and the observations about life and society predictable, but, if the story moves, we, almost involuntarily, move with it. And, if we feel a little guilty about getting swept up, there’s always “The Death of Vigil” to read as penance.”
Alright people – what are your guilty pleasures this summer?!
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R-J says:
Been watching a lot of Buffy lately, but not sure that that counts, since it’s a cult classic. My true guilty pleasure is video games: Gran Turismo (racing game – my son and I recently completed the Indy 500), or Super Mario Galaxy, which I have been playing through for the THIRD time. Ugh. I am ashamed:)
Kory says:
Love Super Mario Galaxy….second one is even better
I know – I’ve played that one through twice, too(!). I’m lucky there’s a fellow slothful sinner out there…
David Zahl says:
Let’s be clear: Buffy is not a guilty pleasure. Neither is Angel or Firefly. Maybe the first few episodes of Dollhouse. If anything, Whedon loves dressing up his output as guilty pleasure and then socking you in the face with substance and “heaviness.” In fact, maybe that’s where his true gift lies.
James Fishwick says:
Clive Cussler.
Eric B. says:
Gonna read The Walking Dead compendium. Also, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter before the movie hits. Love those zombies and vampires! Oh, and video games.
Like last summer, I imagine Falling Skies is going to be a guilty pleasure.
We clearly need a video game editor.
And automotive.
Jim McNeely says:
Lounge Crooner Classics! I really like the PZ renditions, that is one fun man. I like MacArthur Park, especially that cake in the rain part. I confess! I also like that song about Brandy and the sailor she loved. I feel bad about admitting that. Grace gives us the freedom to have an aesthetic based on what we actually like, instead of what we are supposed to like. It goes both ways – I honestly like Bach, something grooves deep inside me with the counterpoint and complex organic form. Mozart – not so much.
Jesus died for our rotten taste I suppose.
“In His right hand are pleasures forever.” I bet those pleasures are actually pleasant, right?
honeybee says:
Ok, confession time: I plan to read “Dead Until Dark” by Charlaine Harris. I’m reading it in Dutch, telling myself it’s for my language learning, but I really know better.
Of course, I’m also going to watch “True Blood”— with the Dutch subtitles, of course! 😉
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July Playlist
Run the Engines Up High
One Way Ticket (To Nowhere)
Tuck (How It Feels Away)
Another Century
Way Out Jesus
She Believes in Me
Tomorrow Never Comes
More to Life
Like Humans Do
Eighth Day
Lonely Days
I Can't Make It Alone
Oh God (Prayer)
The Promise of Scripture “to Come”: Qumran, Derrida, and Unfulfilled Desire, Part 2
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Good Luck with Your Marriage Strategy
Boys, Please, No Ties on a Thursday
I Deleted My Social Media and Didn’t Tell Anyone (Except You)
When Football Is Over, It Begins
Hopelessly Devoted: Romans Chapter Eight Verses Thirty-One and Thirty-Two (Devotion #2 – Larry Parsley)
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Nice short paper in RBI’s Monthly Bulletin of July-2019. It is written by Atri Mukherjee, Priyanka Bajaj and Sarthak Gulati:
This study examines the influence of demographic changes on macroeconomic outcomes in India using generalized method of moments. The estimation results show that population growth and age dependency ratio have inverse relation with the growth in real GDP and
per capita income, and positive relation with inflation. Increase in working age population, on the other hand, contributes to higher economic growth. An aging population is deflationary in nature though improves the current account balance. While the declining age dependency ratio offers a demographic dividend for India, the realisation of the same would require an environment empowering the labour force with right skills and enabling their gainful employment in productive uses.
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Bank of England announced that Alan Turing would be the new face of their GBP 50 banknotes.
Alan Turing was chosen following the Bank’s character selection process including advice from scientific experts. In 2018, the Banknote Character Advisory Committee chose to celebrate the field of science on the £50 note and this was followed by a six week public nomination period. The Bank received a total of 227,299 nominations, covering 989 eligible characters. The Committee considered all the nominations before deciding on a shortlist of 12 options, which were put to the Governor for him to make the final decision.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, commented: “Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today. As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far ranging and path breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.”
Alan Turing provided the theoretical underpinnings for the modern computer. While best known for his work devising code-breaking machines during WWII, Turing played a pivotal role in the development of early computers first at the National Physical Laboratory and later at the University of Manchester. He set the foundations for work on artificial intelligence by considering the question of whether machines could think. Turing was homosexual and was posthumously pardoned by the Queen having been convicted of gross indecency for his relationship with a man. His legacy continues to have an impact on both science and society today.
This is quite ironic. Turing’s work laid the foundations for not just computers science but also today’s digital world. The digital world has spread its tentacles to the world of money with cryptocurrencies and digital payments challenging physical banknotes. And we have Turing as the face of the GBP 50 banknote!
Turing was chosen from a list which included Ramanujan too:
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Group of economists in the piece say central banks should go back to their original mandate of financial stability:
Some observers say central banks can best mitigate risks to their independence by returning to the narrow price-stability mandate that served them so well prior to the global financial crisis. But this advice is misguided: central banks must revive their original role as guardians of financial stability.
Protecting central-bank independence requires adaptation. In the post-crisis world, governments and citizens will continue to delegate increasingly broad policymaking powers to an unelected independent institution. Central banks must therefore become increasingly accountable in order to maintain their legitimacy. We need a public debate to forge agreement on a framework for central banks’ objectives, tools, and communication mechanisms. Failure to have such a discussion would pose a risk not only to central-bank independence, but also to financial stability and overall social welfare.
I doubt this will help. Take the case of European central bankers which are part of the Eurosystem. As monetary policy is given to ECB. most of these central banks look at financial stability. Yet are under pressure from Governments.
Unless, we have better rules to prevent firing of the central bankers autonomy would always be in the hands of the government.
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Rekha Mishra and Anwesha Das of RBI in this new EPW paper:
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Jakob Brøchner Madsen, Peter Robertson and Longfeng Ye present new evidence showing Malthus was right:
The econometric evidence for the Malthusian trap in pre-industrial Europe has been weak. The column presents a new Malthusian model that, combined with new historical data for 17 countries, provides evidence of a much stronger Malthusian trap than the one found by previous research. This helps to explain the economic stagnation from the dark ages to the industrial revolution.
This supports the claim of unified growth theories that claim that overcoming Malthusian forces was critical for the transition to modern growth (Galor 2011).
This result is also important because Malthusian population theory informs fertility policies in developing countries – specifically, whether technological progress can outrun population increases in the absence of population policy.
Hmmm..
The full paper is here
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When central bankers speak about cloud services instead of the usual monetary policy stuff..
Central bankers/policymakers use the metaphor of looking up to clouds/skies for saying how economic growth is likely to be in future. Some say dark, some say blue and so on. In India (and South Asia), policymakers actually look at skies to figure state of monsoons.
With technology, using the word cloud means something much more. Mr Burkhard Balz of Bundesbank in this speech looks at how digitisation means central banks also have to change and look at their cloud services:
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It is just quite unbelievable to run your mind through the scenes of last night. I mean what a match! It seemed to have taken inspiration from the semi-final of 1999 played between Aus and South Africa and take it couple of levels higher.
Hearts weep for NZ which fought and fought despite not being most people’s favorites. Before the match, most experts said heart says NZ but mind says England as latter is a better team. And what a shame that they lost in such a fashion despite being a better team on the day with limited resources and challenging England on all fronts which had superior resources.
In a way NZ did not lose to England but to ICC whose stupid rule that in case of a tie in Super over, the team that scores more boundaries wins?! One can say, no one imagined that any match could be stretched this far, but you cannot have a more stupid rule than this. It is like these two tennis players who tie the scores in the last set, and the rulebook says in such a case the player who hit more aces will win. Or two sprinters with same timing seperated based on someone taking less steps than the other. Incidentally, if tennis had such a rule, Federer would have won yesterday’s iconic match against Djokovic.
The rule was so unjust that is difficult to digest. Loss and win is part of sports and one always sulks for the team which loses despite playing like a champion. Think about South Africa all these years whoch loses as somehow it chokes when it comes to crunch matches. But there is no injustice there. So, if NZ had lost either in terms of runs or wickets one would be fine. This is how all cricket matches are won or lost.
But NZ lost because they scored 17 boundaries compared to England’s 25. I mean what kind of a rule is this? Is ICC saying that those who run all these runs did a worse job than those who just hit fours? How unfair is that for a rule?
I mean football, hockey, tennis etc all have tie-breakers to sort out the winner in such even matches. Cricket has a super-over but just like tie-breakers it should continue till we do not have a winner.
In the end, all one can say is NZ fought against all odds and even Gods. It is as if Gods had decided that come what may, England will win. NZ challenged this saying how can you decide this without playing and challenged this in all possible ways. So many things went against them: Ross Taylor given out when he was not, Jason Roy was out first ball but was not, Stokes was caught but Boult stepped on the line and finally that last over throw which deflected from Stokes bat to give additional four runs to England! In all of these, they could not do anything but just move on with the game.
In Super over, they were given a steep target of 16 runs. Even then, NZ did not give up, surprised by sending Neesham who almost pulled off scoring 14 of those (including 1 wide) runs.
If there was one thing ICC got right it was awarding NZ captain Kane Williamson, the player of the tournament. I mean what a player. To be he is the best captain I have seen, as he just marshaled his limited resources like no one else could. He scored most runs as a captain in all World Cups, he scored 30% of team totals which was again highest and never complained. His press conferences are a delight and he is such an amazing ambassador for both NZ and the game.
Kane defies the usual thing that captains should be aggressive and show it on the field. He always does things quietly but with lots of mental aggression and strategy. He made both India and England which had top batters earn ever run. Those who thought Semi Final was a fluke, Williamson made them chew their words.
Kane is even an economist’s delight as he shows how one can optimally utilise the limited resources, the definition most commonly used by economists to define economics.
The ending of the drama made me recall a novel written by Jeffry Archer: Kane and Abel. In the book, the two protagonists named Kane and Abel fight for the supremacy in the corporate world. Abel always thought Kane as a villain whose bank denied the early funds to Abel’s hotel leading to bitter frictions between the two. Abel was saved by an anonymous benefactor. In the end, Abel learns that Kane was that anonymous benefactor who seeing passion of Abel decided to fund the hotel from his own pockets. Abel wins the corporate battle at the end yet ends like a loser.
I had a similar feeling watching yesterday’s matches. Infact, the name of Kane in the novel was Kane Lovell Williams not very different from Kane Williamson of NZ. The WC Final mattered to both the captains but perhaps a bit more to Eoin Morgan, the English captain.
After being humiliated in 2015, English under Morgan completely changed plans and became the number one side. They wanted to play a game which brings English pride back in the game and inspire the nextgen of English cricketers. They started the World Cup as favorites only to come to a stage where they could be knocked off before semis, fought back like champions and thrashed Australia in a semi-final. Only to meet NZ in a final which just competed and competed and gave nothing.
Just like the novel, the gracious Kane Williamson like the gracious Kane Lovell William, was like an anonymous benefactor of the prized trophy to Eoin Morgan.
He saw how Eoin Morgan and his team have fought all kinds of demons to emerge as number one team. NZ will still pick up from here but England would have been more devastated with the loss given how much they have wanted this result. But then just like Abel, Eoin will know and remember the gracious Kane who saw life beyond cricket and gave Eion a chance without telling him about it! He owes as much to Kane as to anybody.
How else does one explain this result?
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Should the Bank of Japan issue a Digital Currency?
Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, in this speech says BoJ has no such plans. However, it is studying these ideas for two reasons:
Today, I have had the pleasure of sharing with you my understanding on retail payments in the digital age, focusing on the relationship between central bank money and private money.
Now, I would like to give you my own answer to the question I posed at the beginning: “Why are many central banks, including the Bank of Japan, committed to researching and studying into CBDCs even though they have no plan to issue them in the near future?” I have two reasons. First, since technological innovation evolves rapidly, the retail payments market structure could suddenly change dramatically, pushing us toward a cashless society.
In some cases, the need for CBDC issuance may suddenly increase. To be able to adapt to such a situation, central banks need to deepen their understanding on the latest developments in information technologies and their applicability to CBDC. Second, as I have discussed in the latter half of my speech, through research into CBDC — or through the CBDC lens — central banks examine more fundamental questions such as: “What are the required functions of money?”; “What ways do we have of improving the complementary relationship between central bank money and private money?”; or “What ways do we have of enhancing the functionality of private digital currency?” This process can offer clues for ways in which payment and settlement systems as a whole can be improved.
The Bank will continue to examine CBDC with these two aspects in mind. In this respect, allow me to introduce two of our recent initiatives. On the technological front, the Bank is continuing research into distributed ledger technology — DLT. Project Stella, a joint research project with the European Central Bank is part of these initiatives.5 This project has resulted in three reports so far, exploring, for example, the applicability of DLT to payments using central bank deposits — that is, wholesale CBDC.
On the legal front, the Bank’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies set up a study group on legal issues regarding CBDC in November 2018. It identifies potential legal issues that would arise if the Bank were to issue CBDC in response to rapid developments in technology and their possible interpretations. The report will be released in due course.
The Bank will continue to work to improve the efficiency and safety of payment and settlement systems. It will examine, from various perspectives, the desirable nature of these systems, including the issue of CBDC. And this brings me to the end of my speech.
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50 years of Bank Nationalisaton: Why Indira Gandhi Nationalised India’s Banks
It was 50 years ago on July 19, 1969 that then PM Indira Gandhi nationalised 14 of the largest private sector banks.
Bloomberg Quint is doing a series on 50 years of bank nationalisation. Mr DN Ghosh, one of the main persons who wrote the nationalisation legislation wrote the first piece saying: Bank Nationalisation the original sin?
In the second article, yours truly explores the political economy of several factors which led to nationalisation.
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England and NZ: trying to be best in ODI cricket and central banking
Reflecting on my recent piece in Business Standard where I argued how England is trying to revive fortunes in One Day International Cricket and Central banking.
I wrote the piece when England was struggling to make it to semi-finals having lost to Pakistan, Australia and Sri Lanka. Somehow, England figured a way out and won the next matches against India and NZ to qualify for Semifinals.They also beat their arch rivals Australia in semis, in a manner Australia will always remember. It was as if firtunes had reversed as Aussies gave that kind of treatment to Englisy be it Test matches or ODIs. England were tested and proved critics wrong and showed their reign to top was not a fluke but years of preparation.
It is interesting that they will be playing the final against NZ which somehow puffed into semis and beat favorites India to enter the final. It has to be seen whether NZ which were favorites to win in 1992 and 2015 but lost both, win the cup without being favorites at all. They will take lot of inspiration from India’s own win against WI in 1983 final against all odds.
In the BS piece, I also argued how Bank of England is trying to regain its top position as well. For long, it was seen as a role model for central banks but stopped being one. Now it is trying to pick the tempo by ushering in several policy changes and innovations.
What is interesting is that Bank of England is also competing with its counterpart in NZ for becoming this “role model for other central banks” title. RBNZ was the first to start inflation targeting in 1989 and has pioneered quite a few things since 1989. I wrote about RBNZ here.
RBNZ no intends to become the best central bank. Its Governor Adrian Orr in a speech highlighted this statement of intent:
Over the recent period we have committed to our vision to be ‘a great team and the best central bank’, and we have embedded our new Monetary Policy Committee and policy mandate. In addition, we have reorganised our operating structure, and have been investing in our people, our stakeholder relationships home and abroad, our supervision capability and activities, our digital capability, and our payment systems and the future of cash.
Change is now business as usual for the Reserve Bank and I sincerely thank my colleagues for managing through this period of renewal. There is of course more change to come.
Just over two weeks ago, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance made some important announcements about progress with the government’s review of our statutory framework for financial system regulation. They announced some in-principle decisions – including introducing a deposit insurance scheme – and set out further questions for a consultation, which is going on now.
So this is a good time discuss the future of the Reserve Bank, and how the changes under consideration might promote the prosperity and wellbeing of New Zealanders and contribute to a sustainable and productive economy. Those phrases, by the way, are not my own. They come from the Reserve Bank Act and express the overarching purpose of the Reserve Bank’s many functions.
Interesting how the competition between the two is in both the fields, cricket and central banking!
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Inflation Co-Movement in Emerging and Developing Asia: The Monsoon Effect
Patrick Blagrave of IMF in this paper looks at the monsoon effect on inflation in developing Asia:
Co-movement (synchronicity) in inflation rates among a set of 13 emerging and developing countries in Asia is shown to be strongest for the food component, partly due to common rainfall shocks—a result which the paper terms the ‘monsoon effect.’ Economies with higher trade integration and co-movement in nominal effective exchange rates also experience greater food-inflation co-movement.
By contrast, cross-country co-movement in core inflation is weak and the aforementioned determinants have little explanatory power, suggesting a prominent role for idiosyncratic domestic factors in driving core inflation.
In the context of the growing literature on the globalization of inflation, these results suggest that common weather patterns are partly responsible for any role played by a so-called ‘global factor’ among inflation rates in emerging and developing economies, in Asia at least.
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Download Handbook of Cliometrics for free!
Just fascinating resource for students of all kinds of economics history.
Springer allows you to download Handbook of Cliometrics for free! Crazy stuff. Download all before they decide against it and drown in the fascinating chapters…
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What drives demand for banknotes? Swiss edition
Interesting paper by Katrin Assenmacher, Franz Seitz and Jorn Tenhofen:
Knowing the part of currency in circulation that is used for transactions is important information for a central bank. For several countries, the share of banknotes that is hoarded or circulates abroad is sizeable, which may be particularly relevant for largedenomination banknotes. We analyse the demand for Swiss banknotes over a period starting in 1950 to 2017 and use different methods to derive the evolution of the amount that is hoarded.
Our findings indicate a sizeable amount of hoarding, in particular for large denominations. The hoarding shares increased around the break-up of the Bretton Woods system, were comparatively low in the mid-1990s and have increased significantly since the turn of the millennium and the recent financial and economic crises.
Well, the results are just opposite of what central bankers and government will tell you. They say people hoard money for all kinds of illegal transactions, black money and so on. They never tell you that most of the time common people hoard money for all the policy problems created by the government and central banks.
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How NZ just upset India..
It is something about World Cup (WC) Semi Finals and NZ (or Black Caps) that we get such matches. Whether it was 92 against Pak (which NZ lost) or 2015 against South Africa (NZ won) or the 2019 against India (NZ won), all these matches have been absolute classics. Though the one between Aus and South Africa in 1999 is going to take something to beat.
NZ comes across as an interesting team, a team which usually punches above its weight. It had played 758 matches on the even of the 2019 World Cup and won 343 and lost 370 of them (6 ties and 40 no result). It has a win-loss ratio of 0.924 which is 9th in the list of countries that have played ODI cricket since 1971. Infact, it has lower Win/Loss ratio than Afghanistan! Even Nepal which has played 6 ODIs, has a better W/L ratio of 1 (3 won and 3 lost).
But come to WC, NZ is a different ball game.
Cost-benefit Analysis of Leaning against the Wind
Should central banks increase policy rates to mitigate financial instability?
Trent Saunders and Peter Tulip of RBA look at the evidence from Australia:
Setting interest rates higher than macroeconomic conditions would warrant due to concerns about financial instability is called ‘leaning against the wind’. Many recent papers have attempted to quantify and evaluate the effects of this policy. This paper summarises this research and applies the approach to Australia.
The papers we survey see the benefit of leaning against the wind as avoiding financial crises, such as those that affected Australia in 1990 or other countries in 2008. Most of the international research finds that interest rates have too small an effect on the probability of a crisis for this benefit to be worth higher unemployment. Using Australian data, we find similar results. We estimate the costs of leaning against the wind to be three to eight times larger than the benefit of avoiding financial crises. However, research has not yet quantified the increased resilience of household balance sheets, which may be an extra benefit of leaning against the wind.
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Bank of England completes 325 years: An anniversary exhibition showing 325 objects
Bank of England formed on 27 July 1694, will soon be celebrating its 325 years!
Jennifer Adam, Curator of the Bank of England Museum in this article points how the museum plans to celebrate the event:
The Bank of England officially came into being on the 27 July 1694, with the signing of its Royal Charter. Over 300 years later the Bank of England is the United Kingdom’s central bank, at the centre of a complex financial system, with well‑established roles in maintaining financial and monetary stability and regulating other parts of the banking system. It is also an employer, a body of staff, a workplace, and a building that has evolved through periods of industrial, technological and social revolution.
In July 2019, the Bank of England Museum will mark this anniversary with a new temporary exhibition, 325 years, 325 objects. Each section of the exhibition will provide a glimpse into an era of the Bank’s work and its social history, featuring many objects that haven’t been displayed before. At the centre of the exhibition is a new and unique artwork commission, which will become a permanent part of the Bank of England’s collections.
This article looks at some of the exhibition’s key themes, including changes in the way payments are made and aspects of life at the Bank. It is not a comprehensive catalogue of what is on display but a selection of highlights from the social history of the Bank since its foundation.
One of the key aims for this exhibition was to show a more diverse cast of characters from the Bank’s history. In particular, we wanted to include stories that reflected the presence of women at the Bank as both investors and, later, as staff. Developing this exhibition has revealed some lesser known stories within our collections and has highlighted gaps that we hope to address in future.
Those in London, should make visiting BoE museum part of the itinerary…
SEBI employees oppose government’s involvement in its finances
I wrote about how the Budget has proposed that SEBI should transfer 75% of its surplus each year to the Government.
Hindu Business Line reports that SEBI’s employees are opposing the move:
SEBI employees are up in the arms against Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. In a strongly worded letter to FM, the association of SEBI employees have opposed a proposal in the Budget that seeks to transfer 75 per cent of the regulator’s surplus funds to government coffers by terming it as additional tax on market participants.
Also, the letter calls FM’s proposal to subject Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to seek government approval for its annual expenditure as regressive. BusinessLine has the copy of the letter.
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ECB’s new chief economist Philip Lane answers questions on Twitter
This is really cool stuff from ECB. Earlier chief economist Peter Praet also engaged in similar Twitter conversation, but I think the new chief economist Philip Lane does better at it.
May be RBI could try this as well…
Lagarde as ECB head: Germans are divided on the appointment..
Nice piece by David Marsch in OMFIF:
In the drawn-out annals of Franco-German wrangles over economic and monetary union, last week’s deal over top European posts, including the presidency of the European Central Bank, stands out as a landmark French triumph. President Emmanuel Macron has exploited Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political weakness by pushing through a solution that gives France strong levers of control over European money – and provides Germany with only scant rewards in return.
There are some constructive aspects. The nomination of Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund managing director, to succeed Mario Draghi on 1 November has been greeted by some in Germany as providing a much-needed boost to the ECB’s status.
A high-profile policy-maker with a brisk collegiate organisational style brings to Frankfurt a track record in handling crises. In contrast to Draghi, who has kept a low profile on the wider Frankfurt scene, Lagarde will install glamour and a touch of show business in the German financial capital. She will add to the city’s appeal to international financial firms after Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Other interpretations, for the Germans, are less positive. Officials point to the unbalanced nature of last week’s agreement. Lagarde’s appointment, scotching German hopes that the job would go to Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, looks certain to go through the political approval process. The other important part of the deal, nomination as European Commission president of Ursula von der Leyen, the trouble-plagued German defence minister, is not secure, since she could fall victim to an increasingly strong-willed European Parliament.
Lagarde’s policy stance at the IMF, supporting both quantitative easing through ECB asset purchases and growth-boosting German fiscal activism, will now be enshrined and enhanced at the centre of European decision-making. The view from Frankfurt is that Lagarde will put on hold indefinitely much-heralded monetary ‘normalisation’. So there will be no end to ultra-easy policy and no interest rate rises to alleviate what German economists say are dangerous ECB-induced distortions in the financial system.
Safeguarding the euro in times of crisis: The inside story of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
In the backdrop of European sovereign debt crisis, the leaders first established European Financial Stability Facility in 2010 followed by European Stability Mechanism in 2012.
ESM has released a book (free pdf available) reflecting on the experiences of establishing the facility and so on:
Global financial leaders and ESM insiders provide a rich stock of perspectives and anecdotes that bring to life the urgency of the euro area crisis as well as the innovative solutions found to resolve it. As Europe strives to further strengthen its financial architecture, this books provides important lessons for future crisis management.
Should be a good read…
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2011 Mugello MotoGP Sunday Round Up - We Had Some Racing, For A Change
Submitted by David Emmett on Sun, 2011-07-03 22:49
What a difference a track makes. At the fast, flowing Mugello circuit, we had three pretty interesting races, two tense duels and a full on battle in Moto2. After a season full of races decided in the first few laps, to see a race day full of overtaking brought some much-needed relief to those suffering with the racing bug.
The 125cc race only saw two passes for the lead, Johann Zarco passing Nico Terol, and then Terol taking the Frenchman back to take victory, but the two protagonists maintained the tension all the way to the end. Never separated by more than a couple of tenths, the race became a case of two men trying to pressure the other into a mistake. Fresh back from having a tendon reattached in his little finger, Terol was the first to crack, running wide in San Donato, the wide, uphill hairpin that comes at the end of the straight. But Terol kept his head, latched onto the back of the Zarco, and waited for the long drag towards the finish line to make his move.
A smart race by Terol, and a strong and smart race by Zarco too: Terol looked to be on a planet of his own, but Zarco came along and joined the party. A strong race, too, by young Spaniard Maverick Vinales: at a track which is as notoriously difficult to learn as Mugello is, Vinales ended his first race at the track on the podium. The rookie sits 3rd in the championship, with big things expected of him in the future. He is, after all, just sixteen-and-a-half years old.
The Moto2 race turned into bit of a knock-down-drag-out four-way fight, with Stefan Bradl, Marc Marquez, Bradley Smith and Alex de Angelis all joining the fray. They were briefly joined by the ebullient Andrea Iannone, but the Italian had asked too much of his tires to come all the way forward from 14th on the grid, so by the time he actually arrived at the front, it was time to back off and nurse his protesting Dunlops home. Marquez eventually came out on top - after a hard but clean move on Bradley Smith to take the lead on the last lap - and the Spaniard took the win. Now that he has found his feet in Moto2, he could yet come to dominate the championship - assisted by the absence of pre-season favorite Julian Simon. He has only finish four races so far this season, but he has won three of those, and finished 2nd in the other.
We even had a relatively exciting MotoGP race. It was not exactly one for the ages, but there was a pass for the lead, more overtaking at the front, and tension throughout the race. Jorge Lorenzo came out on top after Casey Stoner looked like walking away with it, stopped in the end by the wrong choice of tire pressure. The Australian even had to let his Repsol Honda teammate by, though he put up a ferocious fight to prevent the Italian from passing. Ben Spies battled Marco Simoncelli all race long for 4th, while Valentino Rossi gave the Ducati fans something to cheer about - perhaps not as much as they would have wanted, but more than they had feared - by taking 6th, after an entertaining battle with a large group scrapping for the position.
The tire pressure question proved deeply frustrating for Stoner: the team decided to use a particular tire pressure based on the recommendations from Bridgestone - Stoner did his best not to throw his tire tech under the bus, but was visibly struggling with the effort - and that proved to be too high. As the heat got into the tire, the tire pressure increased further, reducing the contact patch and drastically reducing grip. The rear wheel of Stoner's Honda was spinning drastically - so much so that both Lorenzo and Dovizioso commented on it, and identified that as a factor that helped them get past. The rear also affected front grip, however: a lack of edge grip meant a lack of drive, and that meant Stoner lacked the ability to put pressure on the front by using the throttle and helping the bike to turn.
No such problems for Lorenzo, however. "The Hammer was not working," Lorenzo said after the press conference, "but now I have the performance to fight." And fight he did, putting the hammer down in the final stages of the race, setting the fastest lap and leaving Dovizioso and Stoner with no alternative but to submit to his will. The mixture of 2010 and 2011 parts - exactly which parts are being used where is as closely guarded a secret as the recipe for Coca Cola - has worked, and Lorenzo believes he has a weapon which will allow him to fight with the Hondas for the rest of the year.
They even found something at Ducati, as Valentino Rossi's ride through the pack demonstrated - still 26 seconds off the pace, but some of that time lost to having to get past so many people. Rossi's crew raised the entire bike 20 millimeters, while keeping the same wheelbase, giving a lot more weight transfer under braking and acceleration. The change improved the front-end feel, but it sacrificed rear grip, but the most important thing about it is it gives Rossi's crew another dimension to play with.
This is the most important reason for the switch to the GP11.1 with the revised rear end. With the previous bike, raising the bike caused the rear to pump dramatically, negating any benefit of the better weight transfer. The new machine has virtually no rear pumping, and the raised center of gravity does not provoke any. With another variable to throw into the setup mix, Ducati hope that they can make the bike a good deal more competitive than it has been so far.
Watching Rossi barely improve on the GP11.1 has given Nicky Hayden pause for thought. Ducati will have a couple of the new bikes ready for Hayden at Laguna Seca, but Hayden is less than enchanted at the thought of going into one of his home races at a track he loves on a bike he has not yet ridden on. That the bike is no magic bullet is obvious - the bike has not given Rossi the second or so to battle with the Hondas - and Hayden would prefer to face Laguna on a bike he is familiar with. The ideal solution would be to have the bike at the Sachsenring in two weeks' time, but the timescales needed to produce the carbon fiber parts mean this is very tight indeed.
A part of the paddock will return to the Mugello circuit on Monday to do a little more testing at what was scheduled to be the first public outing of the 1000cc machines. However, with Ducati having used up 5 of its quota of 8 days of 1000cc testing already, and first Honda and then Yamaha pulling out, the test was redesignated as an 800cc test, with the 1000cc testing pushed back to after the Brno round of MotoGP in mid-August (originally scheduled to be the last test for the 800s). So instead, the Hondas and the satellite Ducatis will be out on track, the rest having packed up and headed for home.
An interesting rumor/conspiracy theory currently doing the rounds of some parts of the paddock is that the factories decided against running the 1000s for fear of espionage. One unnamed team is rumored to have got a hold of software that can analyze the sound of a MotoGP bike and calculate the bore, stroke, and firing order of the engine being used. That this is possible is well known - back at the beginning of the 990 era, a Spanish magazine asked a local university to do just that, and the tools to do so have moved on immensely in the past 10 years. Whether the rumor is true is another thing altogether, but true or not, the only 1000 lapping the track with the BMW-powered Suter, being run by the Marc VDS team. Once we have times for that, then we will have an idea of just where the CRT teams stand.
Brno, Czech Republic
Nicky Hayden
Nico Terol
Casey Stoner
Dovi was noteworthy
Oscar replied on Sun, 2011-07-03 23:03
for really starting to display some tiger this season, in a very well-controlled and effective way - his pass on Stoner was pretty wild, and it looked as if Stoner anticipated him getting it wrong and moved left to give him room to make the mistake but he gathered it beautifully and hung on for the position. He may not be a potential team leader (yet) but his value as a team rider is going way, way up.
I agree completely.
clx replied on Sun, 2011-07-03 23:07
Will HRC keep him for 2012?
mbccohen replied on Sun, 2011-07-03 23:48
". . . at a track which is as notoriously difficult to learn as Mugello is . . ."
David - what makes Mugello more difficult to learn than any other new track? The answer may be hidden in your wonderful descriptions of each race track, which we read often in 2008 and 2009, but I had trouble finding searching through the archives. (I miss them).
Damo replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 00:56
It was great to finally see some racing. Typically I am not too worried about Stoner skipping off to an early lead (comes with being an Aussie no doubt!), but seeing the Lorenzo/Dovi battle play out and then seeing them lay down the gauntlet to catch Casey was really great to see, tyre problems or not.
Lorenzo will have his hands full for the rest of the year, especially once Pedrosa finds some form. If he manages another world championship this year he will have definitely earned it and his talent and consistency would have got him there.
The same will go for Stoner. He may be on the same machinery, but sitting atop the pile with Pedrosa, Simoncelli and a refreshingly formidable Dovizioso is no easy task.
With Yamaha now taking the battle to Honda and hopefully some dry weather ahead, there is plenty of this story to be written yet.
dudulalah replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 01:17
did you watch the race? nobody, i mean nobody ever pulled almost 1 sec from stoner in a lap in normal conditions!!!! did you hear how many times he said he lost the front? did you see his tires spin up so badly? lucky day for lorenzo and dovizioso. without the tire issues, stoner would have done what he knows how to do best...lead and manage the gap at the front. especially as lorenzo and dovi were battling, there would have been no chance in hell of ever catching stoner!the constantly increasing gap stoner was pulling on lorenzo early on and setting that early fastest lap was awesome to watch once again!stoner is undoubtedly the fastest rider/bike combo and the man to beat!
"without the tire issues,
grahamb replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 02:11
"without the tire issues, stoner would have done what he knows how to do best...lead and manage the gap at the front."
That may be very true, but one of the reasons Casey was able to pull away so fast in the first few laps was due to his tyres coming up to temp very quickly because of the higher tyre pressure. Unfortunately, the tyre temp kept on rising and caused his troubles later in the race.
Now if he had the correct pressures and the tyres stayed cooler, it would have been more interesting/closer in the early laps. He may then have been able to pull away later as he's wont to do, but Lorenzo may have kept him honest.
Actually no
fanatic replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 02:26
It's the opposite actually. Running lower pressures increases sidewall flex and causes the tyre to heat up faster, so with Stoner starting with pressures that were too high, his tyres would actually have taken longer to get up to temp, so your argument is not correct.
I don't think getting up to temp was an issue though, considering Stoner broke the lap record on lap 2. The warmer track temp cured the problems they've all been having with heating the tyres up.
The issue was that once they were up to temp they kept getting hotter and that increases the pressure in the tyre, changing the profile. So rather than his tyres having too little pressure, they had too much
Stoner himself said that the
motogpmd replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 03:48
Stoner himself said that the higher tire pressures allowed him to get away early at the front, but created the problem with overheating later in the race. He's the expert, so maybe we should listen to him. In any case, in my experience with race tires, higher pressures create a smaller contact patch so the tire heats up faster. It's a balance. Lower pressures give a bigger contact patch so are ultimately faster in normal conditions, but higher pressures can be an advantage in cool conditions when it is difficult to get tires to their optimum operating temperature.
I believe you have the tire
tttom replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 02:29
I believe you have the tire pressure/heat buildup relationship backwards... with higher initial tire pressure Stoner's tires would have taken longer to build heat. He had no early lap advantage there.
Two wrongs make a right
ipso replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 03:59
As I read it, grahamb’s post ^ is exactly correct – and rather astute.
Casey stated they kept the tire pressure recommended by Bridgestone from the warmup (even though they [Casey’s team] thought the tire temps were getting to high, or rather, projected to be too high for a warmer track later in the day.) By implication Stoner's team did not adjust the tire PSI (i.e. increase PSI to reduce flex and effectively decrease working temp – they ran the race with too little PSI.)
Since Casey ran with too little PSI, the increased temp made the tire too hot – and thus too slippery. I’ve had this exact problem many times at trackdays.
So Casey’s word-for-word explanation in the post-race interview is misleading. The “decreased tire patch” resulting from increased PSI is relative only to the start tire temp (vs. tire temp that would have resulted if they had chosen to use more PSI to begin with.) Too much temp does increase PSI, but not more than it would have been with more PSI to begin with.
I believe Casey’s problem was too little PSI – not to much.
I think you and Graham have it arse about. Stoner himself said they ran too much pressure, so when the tyre got hot and the pressure increased further, it reduced the efficiency of the tyre.
Stoner did not say the tyre overheated, it just had too much pressure in it when it got hot.
There's a big difference between a tyre losing grip because it has overheated and gone off and a tyre that loses grip because it has lost it's shape due to overinflation, which is what he is complaining about. You are confusing an overheated tyre with one that was simply overinflated. Don't assume that the tyre would have stayed cool enough for the pressure not to increase if they'd had a higher pressure in it at the start. You've seen Stoner ride... you really think a tyre is gonna stay cool underneath him, no matter what pressure is in it?
So they had too much pressure, not too little.
N.O. Nuh-uh
"Stoner himself said they ran too much pressure"
No he didn’t - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/92825
acidraine replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 08:57
Not sure if he said the exact words in the podium interview but he did say that in the after race interview, in his opinion they started with too much tyre pressure and grip just got worse as the tyre pressure increased due to the heat, probably only available if you have a MotoGP subscription.
"they started with too much tyre pressure"
No - he did not say that.
The link above is a faithful rendition of the post-race interview.
I see you are having a laugh, I obviously did not pick up on your subtle humour.
Stoner said "too high" to Matt Roberts of the BBC
paulj replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 10:32
That article says the pressure was wrong, but not which way. That's not at all a basis to then assert here that Stoner never said "too high". In actual fact, Stoner *did* say that, to Matt Roberts of the BBC, in the winner's enclosure pit-lane interview immediately after race. If you're in the UK (or can arrange connectivity via an IP the BBC thinks is in the UK) you can check for yourself.
Stoner also said in the
Stoner also said in the official press release that the tire pressures were too high:
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/Repsol+Mugello+race+Dovi
Casey Stoner may be confused more than us
”I think this is why we were able to be so fast in the beginning of the race, as the tyres were able to warm up very quickly, but then the tyre overheated and I lost all grip.” - Casey
I think Casey Stoner is either confused or simply misspoke when he said just before that “should have probably reduced them a little”. If confused, he needs to talk to a tire tech – preferably a different one than the one he used for Mugello – so he can sort out his contradictions, and that is that reducing tire pressure would have compounded what he describes here.
This is exactly why riders need to tell engineers what they are feeling, and not try to provide technical solutions (to engineers or journalists), because otherwise miscommunication can very easily happen if they haven’t grokked the full details, and more often than not issues are nested three or more deep, and solutions can be counterintuitive as all hell. (e.g. “…but we reduced rear spring for the race – so compensated rear tire pressure is slightly higher – so to shoot for slightly less tire temp we increase pressure, but only half of that which is called for after having compensated for changing the spring.” I completely made that up, and it’s nonsense, but I think it’s illustrative of potential complexity and ease of misunderstanding/miscommunication.)
I believe Casey just misspoke when he said “reduced”, given his otherwise completely consistent description within that interview and elsewhere.
Of course, I could be wrong.
And you base that on what?
thecosman replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 19:42
Stoner is a professional rider, has a WC and lots of wins. He speaks bluntly and honestly at interviews and has used BS tires for years. Why would you think he is confused or misspoken? As you point out how issues can be complex why do you think you have a greater understanding of the issues than a top rider that actually deals with them does?
http://moto2-usa.blogspot.com/
There is nothing the
There is nothing the slightest bit confusing about what Stoner has said, and anyone who knows anything about race tires would easily understand his comments. Quite small variations in tire pressure can make quite a big difference to tire performance, especially over a race distance. Slightly higher pressure can give a short term advantage because the tire comes up to operating temperature quicker, but the risk is that the tires will overheat as the race goes on. All standard set up stuff that any race rider knows.
Stoner is correct
BoB-DoG replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 22:20
I've been reading all the above comments kind of amused but also a little shocked with peoples logic.
More tire pressure will lead to hotter tires quicker because there are more air molecules in the tire with higher pressure. This means more collisions between the molecules when they get energised (heated) and that means even more friction and heat, probably exponentially so. With too much tire pressure, they will overheat quickly. It has nothing to do with side wall flex or whatever.
I read a RdP interview before and he said the bridgestone sidewalls are so stiff and strong that they could run the bikes with no air in the tires. They only put in air (or nitrogen or helium or whatever) so the tires heat up to a proper temp.
If you pump up a balloon or a football or a condom or anything with air, it will behave the same as these tires.
My slick kart tires take around 9.5 psi on a cold day and 8 on a hot day (not that it ever gets that hot in Ireland), while I usually put in 22-25 psi into the rain tires. RdP said they typically use 6.5 psi in Moto Gp tires if memory serves. Your car tires would have somewhere in the region of 35-40 psi, for comparison.
The arguments about whether there was too much or too little tire pressure are interesting, and both sides are correct. On street tires (with a relatively soft carcass) putting less air pressure in will bring the tire pressure up more quickly, because the tire is deforming more and heating up faster. But the racing Bridgestones have such an incredibly stiff carcass that they don't deform that much more with lower pressure, so the opposite is true. The greater mass of air in the tire then stores more heat.
Thanks for the clarification
v2rider replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 12:17
Thanks for clearing up how street and race tyres differ. I couldn't make sense of Stoner's comments before.
You would expect the
Hugelean replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 11:24
You would expect the bridgestones advice to be consistant across all the hondas, would be interesting to see if there were differences from rider to rider and to know why they run different temps if they do..and whether Casey just used his tyre up too quickly on what was a very hot and abrasive track.
These days the rider have got used to race tyres being at their best for 40 laps nevermind race distance. Would be a welcome change that the tyres do actually go off and make the riders work more.. though not without prior notice of course..
There is no issue about him using the tyre up. That's pretty much impossible with these hard compound Bridgestones.
Why are you guys speculating about this stuff? He simply had too much pressure in it. Casey said it himself. He didn't have too little pressure and he didn't destroy the tyre... it was overinflated.
Can we put that to bed now?
As for why he had issues and others appeared not to, maybe the riding style that he has used for so many years to put so much work in those tyres on the Ducati to get them working properly worked against him a bit? He obviously knows how to make a tyre work and bring it up to temp better than anyone who has ever ridden the Duc, including the current riders. maybe his inherent sideways style generates a bit more heat on the Honda too. It makes sense.
Sounds like this is one problem they will be able to fix very easily though. I doubt it will continue to be an issue.
As for your suggestion about tyres that do wear out or "go off" providing better racing, while I can see your point, I don't agree with that. There's nothing worse than watching a rider lose a race through tyre problems. I like having control tyres.. It's one less variable that can skew results towards those that don't deserve them.
And I don't consider Stoner's issue at Mugello a tyre problem... it was a setup problem
I agree. Just watched the
Ed replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 07:53
I agree. Just watched the interview, Casey says too much pressure at the start of the race. Not verbatim, but I understand spoken English so it is pretty clear to me. Quite simple. All else is speculation.
harumph replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 01:22
Not a classic but today was at least engaging throughout. Worth noting that alongside Stoner fading was Lorenzo setting fastest lap. That should give him enough credibility for winning rather than it having been gifted to him. While I'm not Stoner's biggest fan, the way he can pull podiums out his butt even when he's having trouble should not be ignored.
I so want Rossi running at the top again, even if he loses he usually makes a race more exciting.
with stoner having no tire
with stoner having no tire issues, what was to stop him setting an even faster lap time than lorenzo and getting into the 1.47s or 48 flat if needed? judging by dovizioso's pace in running with lorenzo and passing him in the middle stages, stoner had a faster pace than dovi throughout practice! much as i am a fan of JL99 and celebrated his championship win last season, simple facts suggests that its highly unlikely he would have caught up to stoner!!
Well.. What could have been,
What could have been, should have been, or any other possibility doesn't really matter does it? Tyres, tyre pressure, excursion through a gravel trap, technical difficulties.. the possibilities are endless.
Yes Stoner is fast. Real fast. But credit to Lorenzo for riding the race he did, same with Dovi, and it rounded out a well deserved podium for all three.
This really isn't the place for heated 'he said, she said' type arguments. There's always the more mainstream choices for that sort of banter, and you'll always get alot more bites over there.
It starts with C, ends in T, and everything in between is generally utter tripe.
Well said Damo. You can't win
ajd replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 04:28
Well said Damo. You can't win um all.
Really enjoyed that one, Lorenzo's two passes were epic. Such bravery & SO much corner speed. These kids really are far from being "pussies".
I do believe spies took a
I do believe spies took a second out of stoner last week mid race...
stoner saw the crash of
stoner saw the crash of lorenzo first hand and made a decision immediately to settle for the points!!! he didnt have to push to win but did enough to keep dovi at bay!!!
Not to say you're wrong, because nobody really knows for sure, but I saw Spies checking out and Casey trying to catch up, then I saw Spies respond every time and Casey realize he didn't have his number that day.
Point being, these things aren't always objective reality.
That's exactly what Stoner said after the race, he wasn't sure that he had the pace even if he didn't blow the start of that race.
You can't expect a bike - rider combo to dominate every single race.
I basically want to know what the tech was thinking when he recommended the higher pressure. That would be rather interesting.
Exactly, even in the most
Exactly, even in the most dominant years of Doohan and Rossi on the Honda they never came anywhere near winning every race in the season. And the difference between the Honda and Yamaha this year is not much in reality. Expect a very tight championship battle.
Actually 1997
In 1997 Doohan won twelve races, got 2nd in two, and one DNF at Phillip Island (while leading by a country mile). Utter domination. :-)
Yep that year and in 1998 the
Yep that year and in 1998 the top 5 where all on Hondas.. The fact that Dovi who couldn't hold a candle to Lorenzo last year yet has been fighting with him nearly all season would suggest that the Honda is still quite a bit better. I suspect Danis return to fitness will exaggerate it further, considering you wouldn't expect Stoner to make the same mistake twice..
Not so simple
yello13 replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 16:43
It might suggest the Honda is a still quite a bit better this year, or it could suggest the Honda was quite a bit worse last year.
There are too many variables to make sweeping assessments in MotoGP. All we know for sure is how the bike+rider+team packages stack up. The expression is not easily separable.
Krop – what happened?
Did anyone else follow Bridgestone’s "Stoner recommendation"? Why didn’t anyone else have similar problems? Are the Bridgestone recommendations standardized or unique to each team? Do teams calculate their own PSI, only informed by Bridgestone recommendations, and thus not blindly reliant – integrating it into their own program? WHY is Stoner effectively blaming Bridgestone for the loss when he is using spec tires that everyone is using, and that his team is ultimately responsible for??!!
Similar problems
Bridgestone recommends a pressure, but the pressure is only one factor in an entire setup package. If you are using a rear spring and rebound setting to put more pressure on the rear than another rider, then your tire pressure may be different. The team tells the Bridgestone tech what they need, the Bridgestone tech makes a recommendation. Sometimes they get it wrong.
There are two differences between Stoner and the other riders. Firstly, a tire pressure difference will only be noticed if it affects one of the top 6 riders. If, say, Randy de Puniet has a problem with his tire pressure, you won't hear it. Secondly, Stoner is very good at telling the media exactly what the problem was. Were another rider might say "the bike didn't give me the feeling I need," Stoner will say "we got the tire pressure/weight distribution/ride height wrong." Always very interesting, but it does sometimes make him look like he's the only rider with these problems.
Stoner's brutal honesty rubs
Stoner's brutal honesty rubs alot of people the wrong way.
Personally I find the detail refreshing. There is no doubt that he takes his racing very seriously, and it doesn't surprise me that his team is so supportive and dedicated to him. Having that level of feedback must make their job easier (or alot harder when they get it wrong!)
Like Rossi's, his team is
cyclop replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 11:16
Like Rossi's, his team is willing to follow him from one manufacturer to the other, gotta mean something.
raffles replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 11:44
I agree entirely, the major difference with Stoner is he will give us an insight into what has actually gone on, not just the usual thanks to the team, fans etc (although he makes a point of saying "WE" when good things happen)
The thing is with Casey is that he is both honest (it was my fault, it was my call/mistake) and technical in responding to perceived failures (tyre pressures, ride height etc)
I think an extended interview in the off season should be near the top of the "to do" list
After a little race reflection, I finally remembered that this is Stoner's first year on a 800cc Honda, little hiccups like this are bound to occur and be quickly committed to the team knowledge banks. The tyre tech's credibility within the team has probably gone down a notch or two. After the morning warm-up Stoner's garage door was pulled down, at the time I wondered why, maybe that was the tyre pressure discussion underway?
That was also the best ride I have seen by Rossi on the Ducati, totally earned with no hint of being gifted anything. Pity about Hayden's run off he was looking quite good all weekend.
Overall, a good race by all in the top 6.
A question also for David: Are the factory Hondas testing or satellite only?
The best?
Screamer replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 13:47
He qualified 12th because he was slow, and in the race he barely beat Hector Barbera who was riding on a non-factory GP10! How could you call that the best? I thought it was embarrassing.
Rossi's best ride was in
Rossi's best ride was in Catalunya, where he finished just over 7 seconds behind Stoner. Since then Rossi's performance has gone downhill, and dramatically so. He should have done a hell of lot better than finishing over 26 seconds behind Lorenzo at Mugello, considering the number laps he had done on the GP12 only a couple of weeks earlier. The GP11.1 is essentially the same bike as the GP12 apart from the de-stroked engine, as Ducati has acknowledged. Very surprising really, expected a lot better. Finishing sixth is meaningless if the rider is so far off the front running pace. A rider with Rossi's credentials should be running with the leaders, not fighting the backmarkers. A poor result.
The Best II???
beating a fellow ducati rider using 2nd rate machinery/outdated chassis; or pedrosa who would always have finished ahead of rossi if he were fit doesnt seem like "the best" result to me. matter of fact, his results have progressively deteriorated and i am beginning to wonder about all his shoulder excuses at the beginning of the season where the gap to the front has gone from 16s to 26s in mugello!
+16 secs in qatar, +16 estoril, +14 le mans, +7 catalunya, +30s in assen, +26s in mugello.
now we know better!!!!
tire bleeders
blister replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 09:57
Are tire pressure bleeders illegal in motogp? They have been used for years in American sprint car racing to relieve pressure build up as a tires heat up. Simple and cheap.
I'm guessing they've been
tdi-rick replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 11:02
I'm guessing they've been banned for years by the FIM.
The FIA banned them worldwide for four wheels back in 1995 or so.
Ticked me off no end as I had twos sets fresh from the US to fit to rims .
Ended up selling them to a Sprint Car team.
RDawg replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 13:33
I can't ever remember there ever being such a big deal about a guy who finished on the podium and retains his championship lead. A championship leader who finishes on the podium and protects his title lead has never been a big deal in any form of motorsports or has never been any cause for alarm and yesterday was no exception. No one will win all the races so all of this whoopty doo about Stoner placing 3rd is much ado about nothing.
Far Canal replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 14:02
Back to the Stoner tire pressure thing, wouldn't that be considered a rookie mistake? He always comes across as blaming somebody / something else for his issues so it's hard to tell but the guy has been racing for years and I would think that seeing as how he's the one riding it, he should have the final say - taking all other opinions into account of course but ... maybe Tony Elias just needs less tire pressure to get his bike sorted :)
Are you kidding? Your talking
ajd replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 05:11
Are you kidding? Your talking about the guy leading the world championship, therefore THE fastest motorcycle racer in the world right now.
Stoner is just straight up honest. I can recall plenty of times when he has put his hand up, the thing is, he will then go into detail about why it happened. Example "I crashed because I was pushing too hard on a cold tire." You would probably say he was blaming the tire, i'd say he was admitting his mistake & telling us how it came about.
Just look back at Assen
lemmy replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 20:13
In his interview with Azi (BBC) after the Assen race he clearly says "I couldn't match the pace of Ben". He says he couldn't match Marco's pace either. He doesn't blame the bike, he doesn't blame the tires, he doesn't blame the team. He said "I". And then he goes on to say he is very happy with the podium position.
Smoke screen or conspiracy
proc replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 14:48
Is it possible that the tyre remarks are just a smoke screen and Casey was actually slowed down by the electronics saving fuel. Hot temps giving less fuel ? Did he go off too quickly and miss judge the race distance ? I often though he did that with the Ducati !
lorenzo and dovizioso have
lorenzo and dovizioso have pointed out in separate interviews that stoner's rear tires were spinning up dramatically!
post race press debrief
Paul G replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 14:55
Can I just point out to all the guys praising Stoner's precision press feedback on problems with the bike, this is likely because he's using his first language and the others are not. Most of them are just focussing on saying something coherent in the post-race press conferences and tend to rely on stock phrases that they've heard fellow riders use in press conferences (this is why you often hear non-English-speaking riders saying "I push and push" even though you'd never hear Hayden, Spies, Edwards or Stoner saying such a thing.
Dani Pedrosa has lived in London and he'll sometimes try to go beyond stock iterations to say something a bit more specific and substantial. Jorge's English is crap and he doesn't have enough confidence with it to say anything substantial.
Rossi will usually give a very objective and precise explanation for what has gone wrong in a race even if it's expressed in Italianglish.
for surely away by sure
Stinkwheel replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 15:18
Are you saying that there is nothing supernaturally special about Stoner's assessabilitous nature?!!!
Brave brave Lorenzo
calablanca replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 16:15
Please stop wasting your time on the tyre pressure affair. Just simply reckon that Jorge was giving today a master class in riding a motogp bike. He increases his lap times as the race goes on, and the two passes on Dovi & Stoner where aggressive but inmaculate. Apart from a luxury to see. Let's hope he ( and Spies ) keep the mood and we can have really fun for some races. That's the good news. Add Dovi and Pedrosa ( and Simoncelli if he is to race in a clean way ) and the show will be epic. For our joy.
By the way, inmense overtake from Spies on Sic on the last corner. !
You mean they only thought of this now?
synnae replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 18:16
"the factories decided against running the 1000s for fear of espionage. One unnamed team is rumored to have got a hold of software that can analyze the sound of a MotoGP bike and calculate the bore, stroke, and firing order of the engine being used. That this is possible is well known"
It has been common practice in F1 (pre-season) testing for a number of years. Most teams place a team member with a microphone at the end of the pit lane to record all the cars as they leave and go up to full speed. I asked some F1 techs what they were doing there and it was exactly for the reasons laid out above.
Monday test
scamax replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 19:55
Find it surprising Rossi did not attend the Monday test at Mugello. Thought they needed all the dry track time they could get to understand how to set up the GP11.1 for the short term, until the next big update comes along. But maybe they think giving the current GP11.1 any more testing is like flogging a dead horse?
Engine shortages?
scwirral replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 21:35
Could be that Ducati dont want to put another test day into the short supply of engines they have left? I don't know how far they think they can get before they hit the pitlane starting issue, but until they've had chance to look in detail at all the data comparing the 800cc GP12 (11.1) with the long stroke GP12 I'd guess they want to limit the miles they put on the engine?
Much further up there is some discussion about Nicky Hayden perhaps choosing to stick with the GP11 rather than riding an unfamiliar machine at Laguna. I guess if he's not certain that he'll have a substantial performance advantage, he's better to stick with the 'old' bike until he needs to unseal more engines, as avoiding some of the penalties might make more difference to his championship position than riding the 'better' bike.
Lorenzo and Dovi can be happy
gsvrfan replied on Mon, 2011-07-04 21:54
Lorenzo and Dovi can be happy with the fact that they dealt with Stoner's/Bridgestone's tire situation perfectly but somewhere in the back of the Honda and Yamaha pit there is a technical guy sitting there with a knot in his stomach knowing that they got lucky. The same guy that goes home later than everyone every day and you never see on camera.
Yamaha made strides against Honda? If they think that they are fooling themselves. Dovi straight up beating Stoner? Never happen. Lorenzo, maybe, but he better not get delusional at this point or he will just make it harder on himself. At this level it seems a strange kind of mind game whereby you celebrate your good fortune claiming it as superiority, whilst fooling only yourself. It's dangerously hollow and the last guy you want to do that against is Stoner.
just the point i've been
just the point i've been making...well said!!!
The post-race interview
was interesting. Dovi was, quite rightly, elated to have put one on his illustrious team mate on the last lap, and was clearly buzzing with enthusiasm and confidence. Then Stoner spoke next, saying how disappointed he was and how slow he had to go at the end etc etc. From my late night recollection, Dovi's reaction was priceless. He's either thinking what a jerk Stoner is, or he's coming down to earth with a thud (or both). Regardless, he's doing a good job this year, and it only requires another twist in the plot for him to be a real contender. Has happened before...
27caat replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 00:28
Considering that Stoner's worst race lap was still better than Pedrosa's best race lap (incidentally, Pedrosa ran the 6th fastest lap of the race), I'm inclined to think that this is much ado about nothing. Whatever difference to the race the tire pressure drama made, IMO it couldn't have been a very big difference if every lap Stoner ran was still better than the best laps of 11 riders in the field.
Besides, who knows? If he had started with different tire pressure, it doesn't mean he would have done better.
Just look at the post race test
geddyt replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 02:32
Stoner: 1:48.034
Dovizioso: 1:48.694
Post-race test
Stoner: 1:47.326 (holy crap!!)
Dovizioso: 1:48.061 (+.735!!)
some more proof where stoner
dudulalah replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 17:51
some more proof where stoner would have ended that disappointing race if not for the tire issues!!!
Right... those are all times
Right... those are all times that he got for one lap bud--not times that he got for 23 laps in a row. Running 23 laps in a row is a little different than running one lap, and running one lap faster than everyone else is not necessarily indicative that you will run 23 that way.
Rossi's subtle dig on the GP12
While watching the post race interviews on MotoGP.com, I was surprised to hear Rossi let the cat out of the bag. Did anyone else catch that?
There's been a lot of discussion about the long stroke motor fixing the front end problems, and next year is going to be a lot better. Rossi subtly put the kibosh on that notion and called out his factory in the process. Here's a rough transcription:
"With the 1000 I was quite fast, but not enough for, uh, for win. Eh... so it mean that we have to fix the problem that this bike have. So for this reason is good to use the bike from now and try to understand for work also on the next year."
That's pretty unambiguous. Although we don't know Rossi's times from the Mugello test, he certainly does. And he's saying even on the 1000 he wasn't winning this race. In fact, from how down about it he seemed, I'm guessing it might not have been that close, either.
Seems the boys in red have some serious work to do...
I read somewhere else on here that Ducati claimed the 1000cc engine should be worth about 0.5s each lap. So it is likely that other manufacturers should gain at least 0.2-.3sec lap or more when they go to the 1000. Yet Rossi says here (and I read it somewhere else too) that his times on the 1000cc wouldn't have been good enough to win yesterday's race. So him on the 1000cc GP12 can't even beat the top 800cc guys. So unless they have some break through, I see them at least 0.5sec off the pace next year.
Yep also read that, serious
Hugelean replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 10:00
Yep also read that, serious work to do at Ducati.
Though it is worth noting that the race time this year was some 40 seconds quicker than last years race, what this does highlight is that even factoring in the new tarmac Rossi was around 20 seconds quicker this year than the no.1 duke was last year but still miles behind.
You have to wonder how much longer Ducati can afford to waste on the cf frame, 2.5 years and they still haven't sussed it out.
Can Ducati afford to go into next year in the same boat?? Not if they want Rossi to stay and have any chance of having a competitive rider, once that happens they will spiral into obscurity the way suzuki has,no top rider to showcase the bikes abilities no results even when it may be relatively good to attract a top rider..Ducati really need to have a serious think about what they are doing sooner rather than later.
Casey's comments do make you think about the races where the other top riders struggle but just say we just weren't strong enough today..
And again brilliant ride from Lorenzo.
I'll agree with your last two short paragraghs Hugelean
Nostrodamus replied on Tue, 2011-07-05 17:46
Stoners tyre woes have been well overblown here, and should not detract in any way from a brilliant ride by Lorenzo. The thing with racers and losing is there is always a reason why, and whilst I empathsise with Stoner due to the fact he knew exactly what his issue was and had enunciated his thoughts to his team post warm up, who's to say Lorenzo also didn't have a small issue of some description to deal with? Winners normally just say "my bike was brilliant today" and leave it there. Over and above which perhaps a slight pressure drop for Stoner wouldn't have changed his spinning up at all? Some talk as if a Stoner win was a fait au complit if he had the PSI he wanted - please.... As for the genius' who state that Stoner should've been able to deal with the spinning rear since he's supposedly got the best throttle hand in the business. Errr steering the rear deliberately to turn the motorcycle is one thing, scrabbling for grip you'll never find because of the tyre condition is another all together.
All speculation, like saying the sixth place rider this year would've won last year at that pace. Pointless comparison ignoring so many variables I cannot be bothered listing them.
Overblown
jvd replied on Wed, 2011-07-06 22:15
Agree with you Nostrodamus, overblown (Kiwis are always spot on: have I got that right?), but some interesting observations along the way.
If I can make one tiny comment. The "reason why" - reason IS why - my old school teacher use to say why is a wheelbarrow word, carted around unneccessarily.
BTW your insightful posts are one of the reasons I subed to MM.
Thanks JVD
Nostrodamus replied on Thu, 2011-07-07 07:40
Very kind of you to say, although there are many extremely insightful posters on this site - least not the site creator Mr Emmett, which is why I'll be signing up once he answers my e-mail from pre Assen (Extremely busy man these last two weeks I know, so just a small dig!).
Grammatical point clearly stated & taken on board. I doubt that we Kiwi's are always spot-on but perhaps we're a little closer to our trans Tasman cousins with our bluntness than we care to admit!
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Power Rangers (2017)
Growing up in the mid to late 1990s, I felt like the only kid not going ga-ga over the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993), a live-action television show adapted from the long-running Japanese Super Sentai series, chiefly Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger — though, I must admit, I did eventually jump on the morphin’ bandwagon, this partly due to my mild infatuation with the then pin-up star Amy Jo Johnson, who played the Pink Ranger Kimberly. Americanized by Haim Saban and his partner Shuki Levy (founders of Saban Entertainment), who seamlessly (and ingeniously) integrated stock footage from the aforementioned Super Sentai series with newly shot American material, these color-coded, super-powered high-schoolers, known as the Power Rangers, became a global overnight sensation, this re-packaged U.S. version running for three seasons (some 145 episodes) and spawning two theatrical features, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997), both films part of the same ongoing storyline. Needless to say, the Power Rangers were a campy, cheese-coated distraction, and, as a child, I could see the appeal — besides, who didn’t love pretending to be their favorite Ranger ‘kicking ass’ in the schoolyard!
Capturing the same manic energy and harmless silliness of its ’90s counterpart, Saban’s Power Rangers, despite being advertised as an angsty and gritty revamp, is sheer turn-your-brain-off entertainment, this mega-budget Hollywood reboot holding true to that charmingly goofy spirit that made its small-screen ancestor such a towering success, the film never shying away from what it’s supposed to be — a rip-roaring good time.
Can you fight with all the colors of the wind …
This new Power Rangers basically follows the same narrative structure as its ’90s incarnation and opens with a brief prologue set in the Cenozoic Era, where we see an ancient humanoid alien, Zordon (Bryan Cranston), and his team of Rangers, battle against a villainous vixen named Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks) — seriously, this has got to be one of the worst bad guy names ever! When a meteor hits the Earth, Zordon’s allies are killed, his conscious swiftly being uploaded onto his spacecraft’s computer system, where he must wait until he is re-awoken, this only possible by a bunch of powerful stones that enable Ranger superpowers. Rita, however, winds up being hurled into the ocean, her body sinking to the depths of the sea.
Cut to present day, where we meet the once idolized football star of the rural Californian town of Angel Grove, Jason Scott (Dacre Montgomery), a popular jock who’d fallen from grace after a humiliating prank went south — filmmakers assuming that the best way to introduce audiences to our protagonist is via a gag that sees a teenage boy indivertibly masturbate a bull. Alas, what starts out as a ‘bit of cheeky fun’ ends up plunking Jason in a rather serious spot as he’s forced to live under house arrest and attend daily detention with a bunch of high school rejects. It’s here that he forms a connection with badass ex-cheerleader Kimberly Hart (Naomi Scott), who’d been cast out of her own clique after a mean-spirited act lands her in hot water. Jason also befriends the whip-smart, antisocial weirdo Billy Cranston (RJ Cyler), who constantly feels the need to explain how difficult it’d be to ‘cram a bunch of Crayons up his butt.’
I think we’ve hit a wall with all the ‘Breaking Bad’ puns.
This trio eventually wind up at the same decrepit gold mine, where they meet a couple of other outcasts, Zack (Ludi Lin), a rebellious tough-guy with an even tougher life at home (looking after his ailing mother) and misunderstood loner and perpetual ‘new girl’ Trini (Becky G.), the outsiders stumbling onto five explicitly colored alien discs, one for each of the kids, along with a hidden spaceship. After awakening the conscious of Zordon, who is now trapped inside the walls of his craft, the teens learn that they have been chosen to become the next Power Rangers — stronger, faster, accelerated versions of themselves — tasked with the impossible mission of stopping the evil Rita, who has conveniently re-awoken from her 65 million year slumber, hell-bent on destroying all life on the planet.
With screenwriter John Gatins, Real Steel (2011), seeking to make sense of a story penned by four writers, Saban’s Power Rangers goes for a kitchen-sink approach, the flick too jam-packed for its own good. Let me explain. The first two-thirds are a tad too leisurely paced, particularly the middle section, the narrative attempting to familiarize audiences with this latest band of varicolored would-be champions, most of whom are struggling with real-world troubles and weighty internal flaws (think identity, family and redemption), these juvenile delinquents trying to come to terms with their new-found strengths and abilities whilst attempting to bond together as a unit, most of the Rangers (thankfully) gifted with big, unique personalities.
Fortunately, South African filmmaker Dean Israelite — having previously helmed the found-footage time-travel thriller, Project Almanac (2015) — does a bang-up job in bringing this hot property to the 21st century, Israelite expanding on the Ranger mythology whilst ensuring that the teens are kept relatable and sympathetic through both the drama and action, even if this character-building and origin stuff feels a dash drawn-out and cliché. Sadly, I couldn’t help but feel there was a missed opportunity here, with Israelite and writer Gatins failing to even remotely explore the diversity of the mixed race cast. Moreover, the lingering, straight-faced set-up, more often than not, falls into the predictable ‘superhero genesis’ trap, with scenes of Repulsa’s resurgence working as a bit of a saving grace, these fleeting moments hinting at the craziness and loopy gusto of its telly incarnation.
‘Let’s flip for it!’
When the third-act does drop, the tone shifts entirely, the picture (at long last) hitting the right zany stride. We see the Zords — pilotable mechanical beasts-turned-assault-vehicles, which have all been wonderfully modernized — charge into battle as the ‘Go Go Power Rangers’ theme song makes its long-awaited return, the ludicrous, wickedly-wacky fight scenes matching the flash, funk and daffy pep of the TV series, the visuals (thanks to a hefty 105 million USD budget) finally reaching the large-scale ambition of the Power Rangers narrative. Remember those tacky primary-colored spandex suits? Well, they’ve all been updated (working more so as a kind of protective armor now), so too have those cheap rubber-looking monster-of-the-week outfits, these replaced with digital nasties; the faceless goliath Goldar, made from flowing molten gold, and Rita’s army of golem-type putties are clear highlights unto themselves. And if that’s not enough, the climax set piece, with its Marvel-esque avalanche of city-crumbling CGI and madcap mecha mayhem (oh, and shameless Krispy Kreme product placement), provides a wealth of clamorous eye-candy — granted, some of the VFX don’t appear to be quite up to ‘blockbuster’ standards, though.
While I’m sure many of you might be thinking that all of this sounds ‘hella cool,’ there is a slight setback, and that is, most of the awesomeness arrives way too late, with everything feeling overly contrived. For one, the eleventh hour entrance of Megazord (who, like the Zords, has also been excellently redesigned) comes off as jarring — how can these kids operate the mountainous mechanoid so seamlessly without ever testing it out first? — while the captaining of the individual Zords suffers from a similar hiccup, the biomechanical beasties literally popping up out of nowhere, the Rangers (again) expertly handling these colossal dino warbots with ease. It just doesn’t add up, especially given that it takes our heroes days upon days to ‘morph,’ then all of a sudden the world is their oyster! It’s all a little too far fetched if you ask me, even for a Power Rangers film. Where’s the build up, where’s the gadget trial and error?
The Zords going for Oscar nom-noms!
Lead, Dacre Montgomery, Safe Neighborhood (2016), is quite likable as Jason Scott, aka the Red Ranger (head of the team), the Australian-raised actor exemplifying that unifying strength required to band the entire gang together. Naomi Scott, The 33 (2015), isn’t bad as the Pink Ranger Kimberly either, the former siren of Angel Grove High; though, the half-Indian actress never quite surpasses the pull of ’90s Pink Ranger Amy Jo Johnson (who appears in a cameo alongside fellow ex-Ranger Jason David Frank). The clear standout of the teens, however, is RJ Cyler, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), who brings a ton energy to the role of the Blue Ranger, Billy, Cyler essentially becoming the heart of the group, his charisma and spirit really standing out. Singer-songwriter Becky G. is a little one-note as the Yellow Ranger, Trini, regardless of a short scene that reveals her same-sex orientation, whilst Chinese-Canadian actor and martial artist Ludi Lin, Monster Hunt (2015), does his best as the Black Ranger, Zack, bringing a reasonable amount of depth to a slightly underwritten role.
Good ol’ Bryan Cranston, Argo (2012), bless his soul, plays former Red Ranger Zordon with a straight face, the galactic sage — who exists merely as a visage in a glowy, oversized pin-pression-style wall — now working as the Rangers’ mentor, whereas Bill Hader, Inside Out (2015), feels right for the part of Zordon’s shipwrecked cyborg, Alpha 5, Hader bringing his own quirky nuances to the crack-pot robot — Aye-yi-yi! Last, but certainly not least, we have the talented Elizabeth Banks, Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), who appears to be having the time of her life as the cackling space sorceress, Rita Repulsa — her scenes definitely among the flick’s best.
It’s Go Go Time!
Cycling back to the beginning while paying homage to the original series, Saban’s Power Rangers is a serviceable effort, Israelite ushering the rainbow-colored Rangers into the modern era, re-launching the franchise for a brand new generation to enjoy, the flick paving the way for a proposed cinematic ‘six-movie’ saga — but let’s not get too ahead of ourselves, shall we? Sure, proceedings are a smidgen too origin-y, a dab convoluted and a wee bit chaotic; but I guess that’s all part of the fun, right? Unlikely to win over any new fans, this spankin’ new Power Rangers, while coming off as a bit dated, should at least give long-time enthusiasts an explosive fix of nostalgic feels!
I’m predicting that some will, no doubt, be shouting ‘It’s morphin’ time!’ as the picture’s ridiculous final-act drops, while others will, instead, be wishing it was ‘morphine time!’ Me, I’d say I’m leaning more toward the former.
3 / 5 – Good
Reviewed by S-Littner
Power Rangers is released through Roadshow Entertainment Australia
Tags : Alpha 5, Amy Jo Johnson, Angel Grove, Becky G., Bill Hader, Billy Cranston, Bryan Cranston, Dacre Montgomery, Dean Israelite, Elizabeth Banks, Go Go Power Rangers, Goldar, Good, Haim Saban, Jason David Frank, Jason Scott, John Gatins, Kimberly Hart, Krispy Kreme, Ludi Lin, Megazord, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Naomi Scott, Power Rangers, Rita Repulsa, RJ Cyler, Saban’s Power Rangers, Shuki Levy, Super Sentai, Trini, Zordon, Zords
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3 thoughts on “Power Rangers (2017)”
Jay on March 25, 2017 at 9:32 am said:
I have no particular interest in this movie but I sort of think this review might be the most interesting thing about it!
Mr. Movie on March 25, 2017 at 9:38 am said:
Hahahaha! Thanks, I caught this one at the media screening here in Melbourne. I actually enjoyed it more than I expected to!
MovieManJackson on April 5, 2017 at 11:07 pm said:
Agree pretty thoroughly. Didn’t go into depth on the plot like you did, but I agree, for all the time they take to morphin, it’s a little farfetched that they can operate their Zords so quick and effortlessly.
Did like the cast though, and even the basic story and kids had heart. Much worse could be done with a franchise opener. Nice review.
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Britain turns against Theresa May on Brexit, Sky Data poll finds
Some 64% of Britons do not trust the PM to run Brexit negotiations and just 22% now trust her to get the best possible deal.
By Harry Carr, head of Sky Data
Tuesday 10 July 2018 02:10, UK
Image: Just 22% trust PM to get the best possible deal
The British public no longer has faith in Theresa May to negotiate Brexit, with two in three saying they do not trust her to get the best possible deal, a Sky Data poll reveals.
Some 64% of Britons do not trust her to run Brexit negotiations - up 31 percentage points from when we last asked the question in March 2017.
Just 22% now trust her to get the best possible deal, down 32 points from last year, with 14% unsure.
In March 2017, some 54% trusted her to get the best Brexit deal possible and just 33% did not trust her.
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Each Friday is Pulp Fiction Friday. Authors will contribute a post discussing the writing of pulp, mystery, spies, and whodunits in the realms of science fiction and speculative stories. Welcome to Sean Taylor to Pulp Reports for some Q&A!
What is pulp? What makes it different from other genres?
Pulp is about writer’s shorthand. It’s a way of bypassing the intellect and going straight to the gut. It’s about impact, not thought. It’s about action and characterization more than it is about symbols and deeper meanings. That’s not to say that pulp doesn’t have symbolism and deeper meaning and thought and intellect. It just doesn’t wear it on its shoulders like a club membership patch. Pulp hides it hoity-toity in its back pocket and decides to speak to the common man and woman instead.
Why do you write pulp? What do you enjoy about it? Love about it?
At the heart of it, I like to tell stories about people doing things. Pulp is a logical extension of that for me. It takes all the stuff I learned from reading Hemingway as a literary major in college and smashes it up with all the sci-fi and adventure reading I did as a kid. Because of my background, I probably approach even pulp with a broader literary sensibility, but I don’t see the two as mutually exclusive. Writing pulp just gets me closer to the reader ultimately, and as a writer, that’s where I love to be.
Who inspired you to write?
Writers who have influenced and inspired me to write are numerous and varied, ranging from the folks like C. Lewis to Shūsaku Endō to Annie Dillard, but the one’s I’ve learned the most from would be Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, and H. Rider Haggard.
As for who really and truly inspires me, it would have to be my wife Lisa. She has always believed in me, and even convinced me to write early on, championing me into my first few writers awards for fiction at the college level (I was a non-traditional student when I graduated.) Between her support and my own ego—that demands I keep going in order to justify it—I have no choice but to keep creating and telling stories.
What’s next in terms of pulp fiction? Where does the genre go from here?
I think for starters the genre has outgrown being simply a genre. I think pulp is a style of writing, a way of thinking about storytelling, and that because of that, it has already infiltrated almost other genre already. Where would summer thrillers be without pulp storytelling? Dead in the water. And your favorite sci-fi stories? Same fate. The pulp sensibility to cut through the 30 pages of describing the beautiful mountains, and the 16 paragraphs of how warm his hand felt on her shoulder… that way of thinking about stories has gone viral inside other stories to the point that it no longer can be constrained by the term genre.
Who is your favorite pulp character? Why?
I’m going to have to answer this one two ways. My favorite classic pulp character is probably the Golden Amazon or Armless O’Neil. And boy, are those two vastly different characters. What attracts me to the Golden Amazon is that she’s in a position to do the right thing for the whole world, whether people like it or not. She has to deal with issues of dictatorship and wondering is a benevolent dictator is just as bad as an evil one. As for O’Neil, he’s a quintessential grumpy ol’ drunk with a solid hook for the bad guys who get in his way. He’s the classic white man lost in another culture without all that Tarzan BS to deal with.
As for my favorite newer pulp character, I’d have to go with ego here and say it’s Rick Ruby, the private dick Bobby Nash and I created for The Ruby Files. Rick’s a throwback in a lot of ways, but he’s also a way of dealing with some current issues in an older setting. He’s also one of the most complicated “heroes” I’ve every had a hand in creating because he’s not out to be a hero as much as to get the job done and get paid and get back to taking care of the people he made his family.
Find out more about Sean Taylor here:
a. Twitter-/seanhtaylor
b. Facebook-/seanhtaylor
c. Instagram-/seanhtaylor
d. Website-www.taylorverse.com and seanhtaylor.blogspot.com
e. Tumblr-https://www.tumblr.com/blog/seanhtaylor
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Comparative Religion, Free Speech, Human Rights, Politics, Radio/Podcast, Scientology, YouTube
Keeping Up w/ Scientology: Tony Ortega Joins us
Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.'
He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs.
We discuss the various celebrities that are currently in the cult and how they got involved. You may be surprised as to who these celebrities are. We also dug into the recent murder that took place on an Australian Scientology establishment. Tony also told us about the potential elderly abuse charges that Scientology may be dealing with surrounding fraudulent credit card applications.
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Tagged: scientology, leah remini, mike rinder, david miscavige, Ron Miscavige, scientology and the aftermath season 3
Atheism, Comparative Religion, Humanism, Radio/Podcast, YouTube
Recovering From Addiction w/ Derreck Bennett
Derrick is both a recovering alcoholic and an independent student of comparative religion and biblical criticism--an amateur philosopher of religion, so to speak, who's dedicated over a decade of study to the field. Having extensive experience with both addiction and religious studies, he felt that he was in a unique position to share his story of secular redemption in "Addictus: A Nonbeliever's Path to Recovery."
Tagged: recovering from addiction, podcast, Milwaukee Humanism Atheism Secularism
Atheism, Bible, Comparative Religion, Free Speech, General Religion, Human Rights, Islam, Mormonism, Radio/Podcast, YouTube
Life After Islam and Mormonism With J.A. Miraj
J.A. Miraj is a former Mormon and Ex- Sunni Muslim who is just finishing her first book, " A tale of two faiths" about being raised a Mormon and converting to Islam, living under Shariah law in Islamic countries, becoming an extremist, leaving with her kids and the pains and joys of deprogramming.
She makes videos about life in and out of Islam and speaks locally at community and religious events and to share her stories, opinions and to educate about and humanize Muslims and other religious fundamentalists. Check out her "Ask and Ex-Muslim" YouTube channel here.
Tagged: islam, mormonism, atheist, ex-muslim, milwaukee podcast
Atheism, Bible, Comparative Religion, Skepticism, Radio/Podcast, YouTube
Lalo Dagach on Atheism, Islam, Identity Politics and Culture
Lalo Dagach is a Chilean Palestinian that does commentary on international politics, religion and culture . He is the host of @LaloPodcast, and does weekly interviews with religious people and atheists.
Tagged: islam, regressive left, youtube, Milwaukee Humanism Atheism Secularism, culture, Richard Dawkins Foundation
Atheism, Bible, Comparative Religion, General Religion, Mythicism, Radio/Podcast, Skepticism, YouTube
We Analyze the Christian Hymns w/ Hymnalysis
We are joined by YouTuber Hymnalysis to discuss his analysis of the Christian hymsns as well as his transition our of Christianity into atheism. On his channel Hymanysis provides critical analysis of Christian worship music and culture from an alternative perspective. We had a lot of fun in this conversation. You can checkout Hymnalysis' YouTube channel here.
Tagged: christmas, christianity, christian hyms
Atheism, Comparative Religion, General Religion, Mythicism, mythcon, Skepticism, YouTube
The Myths that Surround Jesus and Christmas w/ Dr. Richard Carrier
Brian Edward and Kristyn Whitaker Hood interview Dr. Richard Carrier on the Mythinformed podcast, where they delve into the myths that surround Jesus and the Christmas holiday. Christmas does not belong to Christianity. People have celebrated winter solstice in many areas around the world through many religions that date back to the ancient world. This is a fgantastic discussion that covers some of those celebations.
Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism. His books and articles have received international attention. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history, he specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman empire. He is also a published expert in the modern philosophy of naturalism as a worldview.
He is the author of On the Historicity of Jesus, Proving History, Sense and Goodness without God, Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Not the Impossible Faith, Why I Am Not a Christian, and Hitler Homer Bible Christ, and a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, and Christianity Is Not Great, as well as copious work in history and philosophy, online and in print. He is currently working on several projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at The Secular Academy, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes, as well as his past in the military and his current life in polyamory. To learn more about Dr. Carrier and his work follow the links below.
Tagged: Christ Myth Theory, jesus mythicism, christmas, pagan holiday, winter solstice
Atheism, Comparative Religion, General Religion, Human Rights, Humanism, Islam, Radio/Podcast, YouTube
Respecting Prayer as an Atheist w/ Andy C. Ngo
Andy Ngo is a freelance writer and journalist in Portland, Ore. who writes about free speech, secularism, Islam and women’s rights.
Find him and his work on Twitter @MrAndyNgo
Tagged: Wall Street Journal, Quillette Magazine, Portland State, Mythcon Milwaukee, islam, Milwaukee Humanism Atheism Secularism
Atheism, Bible, Comparative Religion, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Mythicism, Radio/Podcast
Jesus Mything in Action w/ David Fitzgerald
David Fitzgerald is a writer, public speaker and historical researcher who has been actively investigating the Historical Jesus question for over ten years. He has a degree in history and was an associate member of CSER (the former Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion). He is the author of “NAILED: Ten Christian Myths that Show Jesus Never Existed at All”, “The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons” and "Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I" (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion) (Volume 2)
David is an LGBT activist, feminist, and a voice for others to feel stronger about themselves in this harsh world we live. David Fitzgerald has been called "one of the busiest atheist activists in the Bay Area." In addition to serving on the board of San Francisco Atheists and Center For Inquiry-SF, he is also the Director/Co-Founder of both the world's first Atheist Film Festival and Evolutionpalooza!, San Francisco's oldest annual Darwin Day celebration.
Tagged: Did Jesus Exist?, Mythicist Position, Milwaukee Atheists Secularism Humanism, milwaukee podcast
Atheism, Bible, Comparative Religion, General Religion, Human Rights, Islam, Judaism, Mythicism, Radio/Podcast
Author Mike Lawrence: The Jesus of the Gospels Did Not Exist
Author Mike Lawrence is an atheist author and activist that is a proponent of the separation of church and state and opposes childhood religious indoctrination. Mike also writes and produces videos on the mythicist position arguing that the Jesus of the gospels did not exist. We discuss his work in the UK as an atheist activist as well as hes many years of research into whether or not Jesus existed. Mike has a slightly different take on the mythicist argument than we have heard from the likes of Dr. Richard Carrier, Dr. Robert Price and David Fitzgerald. Don't miss this interview!
Tagged: Notori UK, Author Mike Lawrence, Jesus Did Not Exist, Separation of church and state, UK
Comparative Religion, Radio/Podcast
Psychedelic Suburbia -- David Bowie and The Beckenham Arts Lab w/ Mary Finnigan
Mary Finnigan was born in Manchester, UK. She moved to London in the early 1960s to take up a career in journalism.
She worked for national newspapers including The Daily Mirror and the Sunday Times and also spent many years in broadcast journalism -- as a correspondent, editor and documentary maker. In 1969 she met the rock star David Bowie, who introduced her to Tibetan Buddhism.
Her practice continues to the present day. Mary has also published a range of investigative material on power, sexual and financial abuses in Tibetan Budhhism, mostly for The Guardian newspaper.
In particular she has exposed abuse perpetrated by the lama Sogyal Lakar aka Rinpoche. Mary's book Psychedelic Suburbia -- David Bowie and The Beckenham Arts Lab was published in January 2016. It is available on Amazon.
Tagged: Budhhism
Atheism, Comparative Religion, Debate, Skepticism, Radio/Podcast, Mythicism, General Religion, Bible
Did Jesus Exist? Price/Ehrman Debate- Who Won? Who's Next?
On Friday October 21, 2016, Dr. Robert Price and Dr. Bart Ehrman finally debated on whether or not Jesus existed. The Mythicist Milwaukee team held the debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Turner Hall. After the debate many people in Milwaukee and online were already discussing who won and what the main takeaways were from the debate.
We decided to invite the experts on a podcast to get their opinion on this debate and where the mythicist position is headed. Matt Dillahunty, Dr. Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald and Kristyn Whitaker Hood join hosts Sean Fracek and Jason Lawson to discuss the debate.
Matt Dillahunty explains why he feels at this point the mythicist position is not ready for the spotlight. But is it getting there? Also, If you are in that camp that feels Dr. Richard Carrier should be the next to debate Dr. Bart Ehrman, you will get a sneak peek of what that would like in this interview.
Tagged: Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, dr robert price, David Fitzgerald, richard carrier, Matt Dilahunty, Atheist Debates, Did Jesus Exist?, was there an historical jesus?, kristyn whitaker hood, Mythicism, mythicist position, Dr. Robert Price
Atheism, Comparative Religion, Debate, Radio/Podcast, General Religion
Bart Ehrman Robert Price Debate Preview
We had a chance to speak with all of the speakers that will be present at the Mythinformation Conference III to hear what the are looking forward to at the event.
We spoke with Allie Jackson CEO of Atheist Republic, Dan Barker Co-President of FFRF, Matt Dilahunty of the Atheist Experience Show, Miguel Conner host of Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Thomas Smith host of the Atheistically Speaking Podcast, Kristyn Whitaker Hood social media director of Mythicist Milwaukee, and of course Bart Ehrman and Robert Price.
Listen to the podcast to get a sneak peek on what each speaker will bring to the table at the conference and what they are looking forward to during the debate. Did Jesus exist? We will finally witness the best possible arguments on both sides of this debate live in Milwaukee! If you haven't purchased tickets yest, you can get the in person tickets or live stream tickets here.
Tagged: Matt Dilahunty, Allie Jackson, Thomas and the Bible, dan barker, Freedom from religion foundation
Atheism, Radio/Podcast, Humanism, Human Rights, Comparative Religion
A Satanist Group that Doesn't Believe in Satan
Co-founder Doug Mesner and chapter head Nikki Olden Moungo join us for a discussion on the The Satanic Temple (TST). They explain the mission of the organization and how they utilize the Satan figure as a way to promote reason and secularism.
The mission of The Satanic Temple is to encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will. Politically aware, Civic-minded Satanists and allies in The Satanic Temple have publicly opposed The Westboro Baptist Church, advocated on behalf of children in public school to abolish corporal punishment, applied for equal representation where religious monuments are placed on public property, provided religious exemption and legal protection against laws that unscientifically restrict women’s reproductive autonomy, exposed fraudulent harmful pseudo-scientific practitioners and claims in mental health care, and applied to hold clubs alongside other religious after school clubs in schools besieged by proselytizing organizations.
The Satanic Temple announce headquarters opening in Salem, MA The Satanic Temple will open its doors to the public on September 23rd, 2016 at its Salem, MA headquarters, which also serve as an art gallery/witch-hunt museum SALEM, MA September 14, 2016 – The Satanic Temple (TST) is announcing the opening of its international headquarters in Salem, MA on September 23rd, 2016. The headquarters resides at 64 Bridge Street in an old Victorian house built in 1882 that was once used as a funeral home.
Tagged: Satanic Temple TST, atheism, secularism
Atheism, Comparative Religion, General Religion, Mythicism, Radio/Podcast, Human Rights
Tibetan Buddhism 101 W/ Dr. David DiValerio
Dr. David DiValerio is an Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies program and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His major publications include "The Holy Madmen of Tibet" and the "Life of the Madman of Ü".
His primary research interest is the history of Tibetan Buddhism, with a focus on the Kagyü sect. He is also interested in the institutional and literary histories of the other sects of Tibetan Buddhism, the tantric traditions of India, religious asceticism, and sainthood. He works mainly in classical and modern Tibetan.
He is currently working on a monograph about long-term meditative retreat in Tibet. This study focuses on individual yogins’ relationships with society, with each other, with the material world, with food, and with their own bodies, and the ways those relationships are transformed in the course of undertaking extreme ascetic trials. This study is built upon close readings of Tibetan retreat manuals, descriptions of tantric practices, religious biographies, poems relating meditative experiences, letters, and more.
David takes us through his firsthand experience with Tibetan Buddhism and his experience of living in India, Nepal, and Tibet. We discuss the difference between Buddhism in the west vs. the East. We also get a glimpse into not well known tantric practices. Don’t miss this interview!
Tagged: UWM Religious Studies, Buddhism, Atheist Radio Milwaukee
Comparative Religion, General Religion, Mythicism, The Red Goddess, Video
Local Promotion at the Newaukee Night Market
“Answer a question, win a prize! Free bubbles!”
This is not the sound of a carnie recruiting customers. It is Mythicist Milwaukee promoting Batman & Jesus and the upcoming Buzzed Belief debate. The team regularly steps out onto the streets of downtown Milwaukee to meet the community for trivia and prizes.
Newaukeeans answered questions about Batman and Jesus to win a prize from the mystery bag. Participants enjoyed the option of taking bubbles over the mystery prize. It was a tough choice, but the bubbles prevailed as the more popular choice. The team receives a lot of positive feedback from the people at the market, especially considering that they are spreading the Jesus Myth theory.
Of course, Mythos the Minotaur was in full force, dancing most of the night and taking pictures with fans. He is popular!
For everyone in the area, find us during the next Newaukee Night Market.
Tagged: Mythicist Milwaukee, batman and jesus, buzzed belief debate series
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The Bully Society
School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools
by Jessie Klein
· “A coherent, heartbreaking narrative of how bullying works.” – The Boston Globe
· “The author writes with clarity and compassion… offers an opportunity for us to examine, discuss, and consider the world.” – Kirkus Reviews
· “Resists pop-psychology profiling… a searing indcitment of the cultures of cruelty, entitlement and indifference.” – Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland
· “Exceptionally readable, abundant examples, and full of salient suggestions.” – James W. Messerschmidt, author of Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics
· “Riveting and powerful… Amazing and hopeful… Poignant and timely… A must read.” – Liz Murray, author of Breaking Night
· “This powerful, necessary book… Illuminates a very dark problem, and proposes solutions.” – Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
· “A compelling case.” – Publishers Weekly
· “An exceedingly thorough analysis.” – New York Journal of Books
· “Destined to emerge as an important text.” – CHOICE
· “A scholarly, insightful commentary… highly recommended.” – VOYA
“A remarkably accessible book and… An important tool.” – Metapsychology
Introduction: The Gender Police
1 Social Status Wars
2 Masculinity and White Supremacy
3 Violence against Girls
4 Gay Bashing
5 Girl Bashing
6 Cyber-Bullying
7 Adult Bullies
8 The Bully Economy
9 America Is from Mars, Europe Is from Venus
10 Creating Kinder Schools and Cyberspaces
Conclusion: From a Bully Society to
Compassionate Communities
Appendix: Methodology
Jessie Klein is Assistant Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at Adelphi University. Over the last two decades, she also led and administered high school guidance programs. She served as a supervisor, school social worker, college adviser, social studies teacher, substance abuse prevention counselor and conflict resolution coordinator. Her writing appears in scholarly journals as well as popular media. She is available for speaking events; and offers consultations for schools interested in building compassionate communities leading to more peaceful, effective and productive education environments.
"Readers wanting an in-depth explanation of what’s behind school bullying will get that and much more in The Bully Society. Professor Klein has rendered an exceedingly thorough analysis of the bullying and hate crimes and shootings that have shocked America in the last decade or so.
In addition, Dr. Klein makes a compelling argument that the causes of bullying are rooted in the American culture itself—an obsession with masculinity and hyper-individualism that promotes competition over collaboration and denies young people the kinds of authentic bonding experiences that encourage the development of healthy self-esteem."-New York Journal of Books
"Written for a diverse audience, this is an important read for higher education as a teaching tool, for training educators in today's schools, and for helping to appropriately respond to the phenomenon of bullying in today's schools. Destined to emerge as an important text."-CHOICE
"Klein, a former school counselor who now teaches sociology and criminal justice, forms a coherent, heartbreaking narrative of how bullying works."-The Boston Globe
"In this thorough examination of the connection between bullying and three decades of school shootings in America, Adelphi University professor Klein presents a compelling case that the strict gender rules by which American children and teenagers are unfairly forced to live are the driving factors in school violence."-Publishers Weekly
"A scholarly, insightful commentary on aggression and violence within peer groups....this title is highly recommended for professional shelves and teacher training courses."-VOYA
"Taking the horrific rampage school shootings as a starting point, Jessie Klein resists pop-psychology profiling, and instead lets the events ramify outwards, to a searing indictment of the cultures of cruelty, entitlement and indifference in which those acts take place."-Michael Kimmel,author of Guyland
"The Bully Society is riveting and powerful—Jessie Klein uncovers the roots of depression, school shootings, and other despair in American schools and offers brilliant and doable solutions. This amazing and hopeful book is a clarion call to all concerned about children; parents, professionals, anyone working with youth should read it. Jessie Klein led the team that helped launch me from being homeless to Harvard University; and she got everyone from my class (from an at-risk public high school) into a 4-year college—most with full scholarships. Surely her book can spearhead a movement for peaceful schools in America and her successes can be replicated. The Bully Society is poignant and timely at a moment when everyone should be listening. Frankly, we can't afford not to. The stories Klein tells are heartbreaking. She knows what it takes to create compassionate communities where students thrive—and what must be done to dismantle the more common school bully cultures. A must read for everyone who wants to see American students move from a sea of fear, anxiety, and rage to flourish academically, socially, and psychologically. The Bully Society points the way for students (and schools) to develop their full potential."-Liz Murray,author of Breaking Night: A Memoir of My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
"The author writes with clarity and compassion... she offers an
opportunity for us to examine, discuss and consider the world we have
created for our children."-Kirkus Reviews
"Exceptionally readable, abundant examples, and full of salient suggestions for social change; no future discussion of this topic can afford to ignore The Bully Society."-James W. Messerschmidt, author of Hegemonic Masculinities and Camouflaged Politics
"This powerful, necessary book shows how the epidemic cruelty of young people generates many of the social problems that are undermining American society. In pondering what it means to be a bully and to be the victim of a bully, Jessie Klein shows why our schools are failing us, explains crimes long viewed as inexplicable, and offers a stunning indictment of laissez-faire attitudes toward children. Her book illuminates a very dark problem, and proposes solutions that, if we are brave enough to adopt them, might be transformative not only in the lives of suffering individuals, but also in the health of the nation. I wish everyone around me had had this book to read when I was bullied as a child."-Andrew Solomon,author of The Noonday Demon
"[C]arefully researched, well written, and compelling read...It offers important evidence that can offer deeper understandings of the issues influencing youth violence in American culture and valuable recommendations for future research and action to reduce these harmful factors in our schools and communities." -Men and Masculinities
"The Bully Society is a remarkably accessible book and can be read both by students, teachers, and parents. It is an important tool to use when combating bullying in high schools."-Metapsychology
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Sam Barney-Gibbs|May 14, 2019
Alex Labrecque will join the Marine Corps.
Photo courtesy of Alex Labrecque
Life after high school can on average be defined by brick-walled university buildings and cavernous lecture halls.
But, senior Alex Labrecque, who junior Aidan Schnurr describes as “definitely patriotic,” has decided to divert from post-grad collegiate norms by joining the United States Marine Corps. Labrecque plans to serve his country by enlisting in the marines.
Why did you decide to go into the Marine Corps?
The military has always been a part of my life plan. If I’m gonna serve I want to choose the most elite and motivated branch.
Were there any specific experiences or people that helped you make that decision?
People that helped me make this decision was my dad instilling a deep love for this country.
What stood out to you about the Marine Corps?
The Marine Corps has the highest physical standards and out of all the recruiters that I’ve met the ones that seem the proudest to be a part of their branch were the Marines. I want to feel as proud as they do, develop myself physically and mentally, gain real-world experience and serve this country.
What are your plans after you enlist, both short term and long term?
I want to either go to college for either civil or mechanical engineering. If not, UTI [Universal Technical Institute] for automotive engineering. Long term [goals] would be either getting a job as an engineer at a company or opening up my own body shop along with getting married and having a family.
What’s one thing that you think separates you from the rest?
I don’t really feel like I’m separated from “the rest” I just really love this country and want to serve it in my own way.
What is your spirit fruit?
Do you have any fun facts about yourself?
My car is so bomb that General Motors discontinued the brand that made it. I was [also] born in my current bedroom because I was too cool to be born in a hospital.
Sam Barney-Gibbs, Ombudsman
Sam Barney-Gibbs is a junior at Oak Park High School. He is currently the 2018-19 Ombudsman.
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Really Beachy-Keen News Around OB
by Staff on March 24, 2014 · 0 comments
in Culture, Economy, Environment, History, Media, Ocean Beach, Sports
Annual Wisteria Party: A ‘Who’s Who in OB’
It was a virtual “who’s who” at this weekend’s Annual Wisteria Garden Party held by the OB Historical Society. Great food and desserts, a live auction, and drawing of raffle tickets satiated the gathering. Plus the old time tunes of “Billie Lee and the Swamp Critters” were great, and “Dreamin Mimi” our favorite O.B. clown made 20 Year Anniversary Celebration extra special. The event was hosted by Susan and Pat James who live in the infamous Titlow family garden house on Niagara. (For more photos, go to the end of the article.)
The Old Dover Is Gone as Construction Nears for Sunset Plaza
Yup, the old Dover building is now gone – near the intersection of Voltaire and Sunset Cliffs Blvd.
The former plumbing place had been boarded up for years and its demolition is part of World Oil’s plan to construct their Sunset Plaza on the site. Of course, the original Dover Plumbing business is still in OB.
Mission Beach Celebrates One Hundred Years
By Peter Rowe / U-T San Diego
MISSION BEACH — Elaine Harris Robbins was born in 1923 inside her parents’ home, a duplex marooned on a sandbar. Neighbors were scarce. So were roads, indoor plumbing and electricity. The girl loved this lonely place, but not the muddy beach outside her front door.
“It was awful,” said Robbins, now 90 and living in Houston. “I mean, compared to what it is now.”
The comparison is startling. Officially christened Mission Beach 100 years ago, this sandbar wedged between the Pacific and Mission Bay is now one of San Diego’s most densely populated neighborhoods. Robbins, the first girl born in the community and the oldest living native, addressed more than a hundred people gathered just south of Belmont Park Saturday, there to launch the community’s centennial celebration.
As she spoke, her old neighborhood was hosting its usual weekend of surfers and swimmers, volleyball players and roller coaster fans, tourists and residents like Phillip Prather, the 88-year-old centennial committee’s historian. (For the balance of article, go here.)
Knife Attack on Host by Party Crashers in Mission Beach
MISSION BEACH, Calif. — A Mission Beach man was stabbed early Sunday by one of two men who crashed a get together outside his house.
The victim and a few of his friends were hanging out around 3:45 a.m. on the private patio of his residence on Ocean Front Walk, just north of Belmont Park, when two men in their early 20s walked in and asked to join them, San Diego police Officer Dan Lasher said.
As the resident was asking the uninvited guests to leave, one offered a handshake, Lasher said. However, the suspect used the usually friendly gesture to pull the man close and stab him four times in his wrist, shoulder and back, according to the officer.
The assailant and his companion then walked away on Ocean Front Walk, Lasher said. The victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries, which Lasher said were not life-threatening. Police described the attacker as white and in his 20s. He was wearing a baseball cap and a gold jacket. Fox5
Car Plunges Into Mission Bay
A vehicle plummeted over a bridge and into Mission Bay Sunday morning, March 23, trapping a man upside down under water for several minutes before rescuers were able to pull him out. The accident happened around 11:07 a.m. in the 1200 block of East Mission Bay Drive near Fiesta Island Drive. People who saw or heard the accident rushed to the scene, some even jumping into the water.
Sharp rocks and murky water made it difficult for them to reach the victim. He was underwater for several minutes before the good Samaritans were able to free him from the front seat and pull him out the back door. One of the rescuers said:
“I grabbed his belt, and we pulled him up the embankment so we could get him flat on his back,” Kahillane said.
Rescue crews arrived and transported the victim, described as a 31-year-old man, to the UCSD Medical Center. His condition has not been released. No other passengers were inside the car. Lifeguards first received reports of a strong diesel fuel smell in the area. It is unclear what caused the driver to lose control. The San Diego Police Department Traffic Division in investigating. 7SanDiego
That Time SeaWorld Tried to Slash Its Rent by 70 Percent
By Lisa Halverstadt / Voice of San Diego / Mar 20, 2014
A decade ago, SeaWorld asked for something most renters can only dream of: A roughly 70 percent reduction in its annual payout to the city. The marine park, which paid the city about $7.4 million to lease 190 acres in Mission Bay in 2003, argued the following year that it should fork over just $2.1 million despite growing profits.
City leaders weren’t having it.
They assembled a cadre of attorneys and consultants to argue the city deserved far more, an effort that experts on both sides agreed cost taxpayers more than $100,000.
A panel of three independent arbitrators largely ruled on the city’s side, deciding that SeaWorld should pay at least $7.6 million annually. The park’s rent payments have ended up exceeding that figure every year since, because the city gets a cut of various SeaWorld revenue streams. (For the balance of the article, go here.)
Daily Transcript Continues Mainstream Media History of Not Knowing Where Ocean Beach Is
Recently San Diego’s Daily Transcript, the town’s main journal on business and property transactions, ran a headline and article describing a sale of apartments in Ocean Beach. “Apartment in Ocean Beach on Sapphire Sold”.
The obvious problem here, of course, is that the sale was of property on Sapphire Street in Pacific Beach. And in doing so, the daily continues a mainstream media trend of not knowing exactly where the community of Ocean Beach is.
… More photos from the Annual Wisteria shindig (all photos by Frank Gormlie):
That’s Susan James at the head of the middle row of tables.
“Billie Lee and the Swamp Critters”
Deb Greene getting a hug from Mini the Clown. Joan Jenkins on left looks on, while Kathy and Ray Blavatt are in the background.
Gretchen Newsom, President of the OB Town Council.
Katie Elsbree with red hat in foreground. Katie owns the Elsbree House, a bed and breakfast in OB. Susan – the head of the Point Loma Democratic Club is to the upper left of photo. That’s Jane Gawronski standing with sunglasses at head of the table.
Pat James, head of the OB Historical Society.
The back yard – that’s Ray Blavatt in brown sitting right below tree.
A crazy scene in the backyard.
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Toronto police name suspect in naked swim with sharks; man also sought for Medieval Times assault
Police have linked the swim to the unsolved assault and issued a clear photograph of the suspect, apparently taken at the Medieval Times dinner show
A man got naked and jumped into the shark take at Toronto's Ripley's aquarium on Friday night.YouTube
Adrian Humphreys
WARNING: Video contains graphic nudity.
TORONTO — A manhunt is underway for a man who jumped naked into the massive shark tank at Ripley’s Aquarium, swimming among the 14 sharks to cheers and jeers before barely escaping.
After his one-man show Friday night, he was told police were on their way and then yanked on his pants, held his shoes in his hand and fled with a woman — leaving his hoodie and T-shirt behind.
Police issued an alert and a photo of the man, although only showing his face. His naked stunt also revealed other distinguishing features: tribal tattoos down his calf and a bicep tattoo.
While the stunt was greeted largely with merriment by onlookers and on social media, the aquarium is not amused.
“We hope to have this gentleman apprehended and charged to the fullest extent of the law, because what he did was foolish and dangerous. And it was definitely premeditated and intentional,” said Peter Doyle, general manager of Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada.
They looked more afraid of him than he was of them
The stunt fired up social media with mirth over the weekend, by Monday night, however, it took an unpleasant turn when police said the swimmer is believed to also be a man wanted for a serious assault two hours before and five kilometres away from his dip.
Police said David Weaver, 37, of Nelson, B.C., is wanted for mischief for the nude swim as well as assault causing bodily harm after a man was attacked outside Medieval Times dinner and show.
The aquarium’s internal security video shows the man arriving at around 10 p.m., an hour before closing. Although the downtown attraction was hosting a jazz night with a cash bar, the swimmer pretty much headed straight for the “Dangerous Lagoon,” which is a recreation of a tropical lagoon with rockery, foliage and nearly three million litres of water.
The man made his way to the overlook at the exhibit, disrobed, climbed over a security barrier and jumped into the water, Doyle said.
Suspect David Weaver Toronto Police Service
Videos on social media show the man swimming calmly around in the pool. One video, through glass from under the water, captures several sharks nearby. Rather than showing any interest in his flailing legs they quickly scooted away.
The man returned to the edge of the pool where he first jumped in and paused. Looking up he says: “I can’t get out.” He looked for another egress and backstroked to an easement where aquarium staff stood. Onlookers are heard exclaiming: “He’s completely naked.”
At the easement, he started to climb out, revealing a full moon to an outcry from onlookers. As if in response, just when he is almost out he suddenly did a high back flip into the water, revealing his underbelly prompting even louder uproar.
He then climbed out, about 10:25 p.m.
As he climbed back over the security railing, he offered one last guffaw: still wet from his swim he slipped and fell off the smooth steel railing, clattering onto the floor, surrounded by amused onlookers.
A woman is then seen handing him his clothes.
That’s about when security informed him police had been called and he darted out of the building partially clothed.
“We have a policy about a swimmer and this was our first time ever; we’ve been open for five years,” said Doyle.
Doyle said the man did not appear to be intoxicated.
The shark tank, the aquarium’s primary exhibit, houses sea turtles and various tropical fish along with 14 sharks, a mix of Sand Tiger, Sand Bar and Nurse sharks.
Although these shark breeds are not typically aggressive, they are carnivorous and Doyle said it was a dangerous stunt.
“Whenever you surprise or corner any type of animal, whether it is a dog or a shark, it could potentially bite back, but these are not aggressive sharks like you see on TV.
“They looked more afraid of him than he was of them.”
One patron was in the tunnel that views the tank from under the water when he saw a man plunge in.
“I thought he was a worker at first until I notice he was naked,” he said, declining to provide his name. He started videoing the stunt on his phone.
“We filmed the whole thing. It was hilarious. Sharks were swimming under him, they seemed angry but also frightened of him. They are fed daily so I guess they had no reason to attack him.
“Once the cops showed up the man was nowhere to be seen.”
Toronto police issued an alert midday Monday seeking the public’s assistance identifying the swimmer, wanted in a mischief interfere with property investigation, said Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu.
Police distributed a blurry photo, a frame grab from a video of the incident, to help aid in his identification.
By 9:15 p.m., police had linked the swim to the unsolved assault and issued a clear photograph of the suspect, apparently taken at the Medieval Times dinner show. Police believe he is driving a green Dodge Caravan with B.C. license plates.
Because of the later hour of Friday’s swim, police do not believed young children were present during the skinny dip.
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This year's best master’s thesis award was given to Maud Oïhénart for her work entitled "Lichens and bryophytes from the canton of Geneva’s old stonewalls - a floristic and ecological study ", conducted at the University of Geneva and the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques of the city of Geneva.
Surveys were conducted on 46 stonewalls from the canton of Geneva. The laboratory work that followed data collection allowed for the identification of 30 bryophytes, 114 lichens and 12 vascular plants, for a total of 156 different species. Among those species, four bryophytes and 15 lichens were new to Geneva, and nine lichen species were new for Switzerland. These floristic results were published in the journal Herzogia in 2018, with Maud as the lead author. Her study also highlighted the environmental (inclination, orientation, exposition, humidity, light, etc.) and structural (type of wall, of rock, or mortar, etc.) factors that influence the number or the type of lichens and bryophytes species present on walls. Her work provided an important contribution to the knowledge on these little studied organisms.
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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Strangely restrained
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September 30, 2016 September 26, 2016 Bob Leeper527
On its surface the latest quirky Tim Burton movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, appears to be a not-so-subtle rip off of Marvel’s X-men comics and the 20th Century Fox films (i.e. Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters) – the basic concept is certainly the same. Peregrine, however, is set apart by Burton’s eccentric and often fun filmmaking style.
This movie works best when it is at its strangest, but at times it feels like Burton was either asleep at the wheel or, potentially, being restrained from going spectacularly weird (or peculiar, add it were.)
Maybe the studio (Fox) was holding him back, or perhaps the filmmaker was simply trying to stick closely to the source material, the young-adult novel with the same name by Ransom Riggs. I can’t speak to that possibility – as I haven’t read the novel – but in any case I think this would have been a much better film if Burton had gone full Burton, a la Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. (Anything…?)
This movie tells the story of young Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield of Ender’s Game), whose grandfather, Abraham (Terence Stamp), is killed under unusual circumstances, with his eyes plucked out by a tall slender-man like monster called a “hollowgast.” As you might have already guessed, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is not necessarily for children, especially of the squeamish and easily-frightened variety.
Jake, with the help of his psychiatrist, convinces his parents that a trip to a dreary island in Wales will help the young man overcome the grief of losing his grandad, who visited the island during World War II and often told stories about a mysterious home located there.
Wacky creatures, kids and time-altering adventures ensue as Jake discovers Miss Peregrine (Eva Green from Penny Dreadful) and her infamous mansion, but in doing so he’s inadvertently led the evil Mr. Barron (Samuel L. Jackson) and his band of hollowgasts to the secret location, where they intend to kill the Peculiars and feast on their eyeballs – thus gaining immortality.
I love time-traveling films and this one has a pretty fun take on that sci-fi standard, but I have to admit I got lost with some of the time-looping activity going on here and finally just gave up on keeping track of it and just went with the flow.
Miss Peregrine has some very spectacular and inventive imagery, but I have to say I think I would have enjoyed it more in 2D format, versus the (as usual) dark and muddy 3D experience. There are some underwater sequences in particular that are awesome cool and that got me excited to see what the special effects industry does for the upcoming Aquaman movie.
The film also stars Judi Dench as Miss Avocet, who, like Miss Peregrine, is a shape-shifting, time-looping falcon. The other standout is Ella Purnell, who plays Emma Bloom, a peculiar teen with the ability to control air. (Purnell also played the uncredited body-double for the young Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan.) The screenplay adaptation was written by Jane Goldman of Kingsman: The Secret Service and X-Men: Days of Future Past fame.
Unlike its winged titular heroine, this film never really soars in the way it could have. Burton, for whatever reason, did not appear to be firing on all cylinders, although when he hits the right mark, he can still wow an audience, and this movie does have its moments. Grade: 6.5/10
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The 10 places global finance professionals most want to work. - And why
by Sarah Butcher 25 April 2018
Investment banks and financial services firms talk a good talk when it comes to corporate social responsibility. Goldman Sachs runs 10,000 Women, its program for female entrepreneurs, J.P. Morgan aims to source all its corporate power sustainably by 2020, Morgan Stanley runs a global volunteer month each June. Similarly, banks today place a lot more emphasis on flexible work, manageable working hours and perks like gym membership.
While these initiatives might be good for current employees, our research suggests they won’t do much to attract new ones: when most people in finance assess their Ideal Employer, they’re interested in five things: money, prestige, opportunities for promotion, how interesting the work is, and how “positive” the culture is. Working hours and corporate social responsibility may feed into culture, but they’re not exactly front of mind when finance professionals are choosing where to work.
For the 3rd year running, we asked 6,000 eFinancialCareers users globally to vote on their preferred employers. The 2018 top ten are shown in the chart below. The number one spot went to Goldman Sachs, followed in second third and fourth places by J.P. Morgan, Google and Morgan Stanley respectively. Eight of the ten top slots went to banks. One went to the world’s largest asset manager (BlackRock). Google is clearly the anomaly. European banks like Barclays and Deutsche Bank are conspicuous for their absence. By comparison, the Swiss banks – UBS and Credit Suisse – have better employer brands among our users than their European rivals, but are trumped by the likes of Citi and HSBC.
The employer brand behemoth
Goldman Sachs’ presence at the top of the 2018 Ideal Employer list marks a return to pole position for the firm, which ranked first in 2016 but was trumped by J.P. Morgan in 2017. Goldman’s resurgence follows its year of declining market share in fixed income trading and is testimony to the enduring power of its employer brand. In the investor letter accompanying the 2017 Goldman Sachs annual report, CEO Lloyd Blankfein said over 80% of people offered jobs at the firm accepted, and that Goldman has been working hard to diversity its intake. Getting into Goldman Sachs is becoming harder though: the firm hired more than 6,000 people in 2017, down from 9,700 two years earlier.
Scarcity aside, what makes jobs at Goldman Sachs so popular? People who named Goldman Sachs their Ideal Employer valued the five features mentioned above (money, prestige, promotion, interesting work and positivity), but they considered the firm particularly strong in two key dimensions: pay (salaries and bonuses) and executive leadership. By comparison, the perception among respondents was that Goldman ranked comparatively weakly for manageable working hours, transparent communications, and corporate values. This didn’t matter: our respondents wanted to work there anyway.
Why finance professionals think they want to work for Google
Ranking behind Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan was considered to have more manageable working hours and more flexible working options, but lower pay. In fourth place, Morgan Stanley was perceived to offer more flexible working options than both Goldman and JPM, but lost out on the more important dimensions of pay, opportunities for promotion, and interesting work.
The cuckoo in the nest of Ideal Employers named by our respondents is clearly Google, the only tech firm on the list. Google owes its inclusion to its perceived strength in terms of pay (salary rather than bonus), prestige (81% of respondents ranked Google an industry leader; just 73% ranked J.P. Morgan similarly), interesting work (81% for Google versus 69% for Morgan Stanley), and its positive culture (73% for Google, 43% for Goldman Sachs). Google was rated comparatively highly, too, for its innovation, its office environment and its working hours. Despite Marissa Mayer’s famous claim that 130 hour weeks were what got Google off the ground when she was the firm’s 20th employee in 1999, 60% of the people who named Google their ideal employer thought the working hours there are manageable (compared to the just 17% who thought similarly for Goldman Sachs). – If millennial employees start ranking innovation, office environment and working hours more highly, Google can be expected to rise higher up the Ideal Employer list in future.
Where does this leave other banks and finance firms? Our respondents suggest the big universal banks (Citi, HSBC and Bank of America) that have retail arms alongside brokerage and advisory businesses, are less aspirational than the historically ‘pure investment banks’ of Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley (of course, all three also have retail operations now, but it’s the legacy brand that seems to matter). European banks don’t get a look in – except for HSBC (which is strongest in Asia) and the two Swiss banks of UBS and Credit Suisse, which rank eighth and tenth and are perceived to offer less interesting work, fewer opportunities for promotion and to pay less - despite some indications to the contrary, particularly when it comes to pay.
Perceptions and reality
More than anything else, then, the 2018 Ideal Employer Ranking suggests employer brand is like an oil tanker: a cumbersome mass of sometimes misconceived perceptions which, once pointing in a particular direction, can be tough to turn around. Goldman Sachs, for example, scored very highly for bonuses in this year’s survey – despite cutting compensation spending by 32% quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of 2017. Similarly, some people might question Goldman’s high score for executive leadership following a year in which the firm was criticized for failing to invest quickly enough in electronic trading or diversity away from institutional clients, and in which a new CEO-in-waiting emerged after a long battle between the current CEO’s lieutenants.
If finance firms want to attract top staff, the 2018 Ideal Employer Survey suggests the merits of communicating clearly across a few key narratives. Pay remains the deciding factor. Prestige (being seen as an industry leader), promotion and interesting work, are all key too. It’s hard to imagine that the work done by bankers at Bank of America is that much less interesting than the work done by bankers at Goldman Sachs – and yet BofA ranks a full 15 percentage points lower. If BofA wants to rank ahead of Goldman this year, it might want to encourage its employees to broadcast the excitement and challenge of their daily routines. Employer brand can be changed, but it takes time. With 11 months until next year’s survey there’s not a moment to lose.
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Prosecution makes Wetherby pet shop owner ‘paws’ for thought
Leeds City Council environmental action enforcement officers were not barking up the wrong tree when they prosecuted a Wetherby pet shop owner who failed to ensure he was managing and disposing of his business waste legally.
Chris Jones of 7 Cross St Wetherby, the former proprietor at The Wetherby Pet Store (now closed) was fined £385 and must pay £695 costs and a £38 victim surcharge after being found guilty of 4 offences under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Mr Jones failed to turn up to two previous court hearings which resulted in him being arrested and bailed to attend court on 18 October 2016.
Environmental action officers received complaints in August 2015 that waste from Wetherby Pet Store was being illegally deposited in skips belonging to Wetherby Town Hall.
As the waste was clearly labelled as coming from the local pet store, environmental action officers served a legal notice Mr Jones requiring him to produce his business waste contract.
The legal notice wasn’t complied with so a £300 fixed penalty notice was issued to Jones. At the same time, Jones was served another legal notice requiring him to obtain a bin and have regular waste collections so he could dispose of his business waste legally.
Even after this notice was served, officers noted several instances where loose waste was found at the rear of the premises. Mr Jones failed the pay the fixed penalty notice.
He also failed to comply with the second legal notice and did not have a contract in place for his business waste.
Councillor Lucinda Yeadon, executive member for environment and sustainability, said:
“Businesses need to be really clear that they have a duty of care when it comes to how they dispose of their rubbish.
“Any reputable business – large or small – will ensure that the rubbish produced as they go about their daily work is disposed of properly and safely and does not create a blight for other business owners and members of public.
“Disposing of your business waste in a lazy and selfish way could ultimately end up hitting your bottom line and reputation when you end up in court.”
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Tag: antinomianism
From DGH on Resolutions for the New Year Submitted on 2014/12/30 at 1:45 pm
Published on December 30, 2014 by D. G. Hart4 Comments
Really zany stuff, brah.
But how are people supposed to take you seriously about antinomianism when it is so hilarious? Haven’t you learned in all of your studies that the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Protestant divines were not doing stand up at the Globe? Remember what H. L. Mencken taught us, that Puritanism is the haunting fear that somewhere someone may be happy.
Categories Adventures in Church History, Application of Redemption, Piety with Excitement•Tags antinomianism, H. L. Mencken, Mark Jones, Puritanism
What To Do about Church Law
Published on September 26, 2014 by D. G. Hart35 Comments
If you are worried about antinomianism, then what do you do with those rules and structures that regulate the ministry of the word? In the OPC, for instance, ministers must answer in the affirmative to the following questions (among others):
(3) Do you approve of the government, discipline, and worship of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church?
(4) Do you promise subjection to your brethren in the Lord?
(5) Have you been induced, as far as you know your own heart, to seek the office of the holy ministry from love to God and a sincere desire to promote his glory in the gospel of his Son?
(6) Do you promise to be zealous and faithful in maintaining the truths of the gospel and the purity, the peace, and the unity of the church, whatever persecution or opposition may arise unto you on that account?
If you are a Presbyterian or Reformed Protestant minister and take vows like this, should you be careful in aligning yourself with parachurch ministries that replicate the means of grace that God has given to the church? Of course, life outside the church would not be possible without a parachurch organization. Everything from a non-denominational Christian college to National Public Radio qualifies as a parachurch organization. But there are parachurch organizations and then there are parachurch organizations. And if you are in one that has a mix of Reformed and non-Reformed church officers and that engages in work that resembles the teaching and preaching of the church — that even claims to support the church — have you engaged in antinomianism? What about the oversight that should accompany the ministry of the word? Isn’t the biblical model of oversight presbyterian? And even if you belong to a parachurch agency that is comprised entirely of Presbyterian officers, shouldn’t your organization be overseen by an assembly of the church? Does ministry ever happen without oversight by the church? Doesn’t the church matter? Doesn’t church law matter?
Before you answer, be sure to keep in mind (if you are a Presbyterian) that system of doctrine that includes a set of theological affirmations on oaths and vows (though why we need that chapter or whether anyone pays attention to it is beyond me):
1. A lawful oath is a part of religious worship, wherein, upon just occasion, the person swearing solemnly calleth God to witness what he asserteth, or promiseth, and to judge him according to the truth or falsehood of what he sweareth.
2. The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used with all holy fear and reverence. Therefore, to swear vainly, or rashly, by that glorious and dreadful Name; or, to swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred. Yet, as in matters of weight and moment, an oath is warranted by the Word of God, under the new testament as well as under the old; so a lawful oath, being imposed by lawful authority, in such matters, ought to be taken.
3. Whosoever taketh an oath ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he is fully persuaded is the truth: neither may any man bind himself by oath to anything but what is good and just, and what he believeth so to be, and what he is able and resolved to perform.
4. An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation, or mental reservation. It cannot oblige to sin; but in anything not sinful, being taken, it binds to performance, although to a man’s own hurt. Nor is it to be violated, although made to heretics, or infidels.
5. A vow is of the like nature with a promissory oath, and ought to be made with the like religious care, and to be performed with the like faithfulness.
6. It is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone: and, that it may be accepted, it is to be made voluntarily, out of faith, and conscience of duty, in way of thankfulness for mercy received, or for the obtaining of what we want, whereby we more strictly bind ourselves to necessary duties; or, to other things, so far and so long as they may fitly conduce thereunto.
7. No man may vow to do anything forbidden in the Word of God, or what would hinder any duty therein commanded, or which is not in his own power, and for the performance whereof he hath no promise of ability from God. In which respects, popish monastical vows of perpetual single life, professed poverty, and regular obedience, are so far from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself.
Categories Because Someone Has to Provide Oversight, High Church Presbyterianism, Reformed Protestantism•Tags antinomianism, church government, Confession of Faith, neonomianism, Norman Shepherd Complex, parachurch organizations
There is Antinomianism and then there is Antinomianism
Published on July 16, 2014 by D. G. Hart34 Comments
Protestants wouldn’t seem to have to worry too much about lacking moral fiber.
Here is how H. L. Mencken perceived moralism in the United States circa 1920:
The man of morals has a certain character, and the man of honour has a quite different character. No one not an idiot fails to differentiate between the two, or to order his intercourse with them upon an assumption of their disparity. What we know in the United States as a Presbyterian is pre-eminently the moral type. Perhaps more than any other man among us he regulates his life, and the lives of all who fall under his influence, upon a purely moral plan. In the main, he gets the principles underlying that plan from the Old Testament; if he is to be described succinctly, it is as one who carries over into modern life, with its superior complexity of sin, the simple and rigid ethical concepts of the ancient Jews. And in particular, he subscribes to their theory that it is virtuous to make things hot for the sinner, by which word he designates any person whose conduct violates the ordinances of God as he himself is aware of them and interprets them. Sin is to the Presbyterian the salient phenomenon of this wobbling and nefarious world, and the pursuit and chastisement of sinners the one avocation that is permanently worth while. . . . Every single human act, he holds, must be either right or wrong – and the overwhelming majority of them are wrong. He knows exactly what these wrong ones are; he recognizes them instantly and infallibly, by a sort of inspired intuitions; and he believes that they should all be punished automatically and with the utmost severity. No one ever heard of a Presbyterian overlooking a fault, or pleading for mercy for the erring. (The American Credo, 51, 52, 53)
Forty years later when a Protestant (Robert McAfee Brown) looked at Roman Catholicism and a Roman Catholic (Gustave Weigel) looked at Protestantism, Weigel’s impression was similar to Mencken’s:
The Reformer’s strong rhetoric against the value of works could be interpreted as a form of antinomianism. “Sin valiantly and believe more valiantly.” Yet all the Reformers were against sin in all its forms and shapes. Calvin’s Geneva was no place for sin or worldliness. Virtue was the strongly enforced law of the city. In the history of Protestantism we do not find antinomianism as a practice except perhaps in some exotic little groups not recognized as genuine by the mass of Protestants. In all Protestant communities it does make a difference whether you behave yourself or don’t. Works are important, very important indeed. Catholic cultures are rarely as strict as communities where a strong calvinism prevails. Strangely enough, Catholicism always is more concerned with the faith of its members than with their works. For the Catholic the loss of faith is the greatest loss. With faith alive, pardon is possible. Where faith is absent, there is no pardon. (An American Dialogue, 177)
Postscript: the observations of Roman Catholics and Protestants in the Brown-Weigel exchange are striking for showing how different the Christian landscape is today in the U.S. On the theme of moralism, Weigel also had this to say:
When the Catholic hears a Protestant sermon he notes a number of things. In most cases the sermon is on a moral theme, and could be heard without much, if any, change in a Catholic church. (135)
There is of course a Protestant prudery just as there is a Catholic prudery, but I am not referring to either. It seems to the Catholic that the Protestant is not too worried about birth-control, obscenity in the theatre or in print, and exhibitionism in public. Here the Protestant stands for liberty while the Catholic considers it license. These different attitudes produce friction in the national community. The Protestant thinks the Catholic immoral because he drinks and plays Bingo — and it gives the Protestant satisfaction. The Catholic thinks the Protestant immoral because he will not fight birth-control and it makes the Catholic feel morally superior.
These attitudes to drinking, gambling, and sex are very conspicuous but somehow they are not too significant. The real difference between the two communities is their distinctive conceptions of virtue. The Protestant esteems the natural virtues while the Catholic makes more of the supernatural virtues. The Protestant thinks highly of truthfulness, sobriety, simplicity, reliability, and industriousness. The Catholic most esteems humility, mortification, penance, chastity, poverty, and abnegation. Both admire charity, but Catholic charity is warmer and more personal, while Protestant charity is more efficient and better organized. . . . The result of the different tempers of moral conception will be Protestant reserve, stiffness and gravity in contrast to the Catholic’s tendency toward spontaneity, Baroque display and even Rabelaisian earthiness. (143-144)
Categories Application of Redemption, Forensics, Roman Catholicism, sanctification•Tags antinomianism, bingo, Calvinism, Gustave Weigel, H. L. Mencken, Presbyterianism, Protestantism, Robert McAfee Brown
No Need to Apologize to Me
Published on May 21, 2014 by D. G. Hart158 Comments
Though a short note to Tullian Tchividjian (hereafter Double T because who can spell that?) may be in order.
Mark Jones apologizes to me — 15 seconds of my 15 minutes? — in his double-dare to Double T to debate sanctification:
Commenting on what typically happens after times of revival – sorry, D.G. Hart – James Stalker wrote: “it is no unusual thing to find the initial stage of religion regarded as if it were the whole. Converts go on repeating the same testimony till it becomes nauseous to their hearers as well as unprofitable to themselves. In the religion of many there is only one epoch; there is no program of expanding usefulness or advancing holiness; and faith is only the constant repetition of a single act.” Indeed.
If I read this right (and I am still feeling a little foggy after the flight to Dublin), Jones is saying that revivalism tends to lock converts into a certain pietistical predictability. That sounds negative. Isn’t this one more strike against revivalism? Shouldn’t Jones be thanking me for leading the charge against revivalism?
But aside from (all about) me, I do wonder about a couple of matters in this kerfuffle between opposite points on the North American Presbyterian compass. First, we have yet another theological imbroglio among PCA pastors in which the courts of the church seem to have little or no bearing. No one seems to think of this as a denominational problem even though both men are part of the same communion. Could that be because the PCA has no real theological center, even avoids striving for one? To be sure, the Federal Vision was another theological problem on the PCA’s watch and some did try to remedy that situation. But it has apparently been left to presbyteries to decide. In the meantime, ministers can talk, act, and teach what they want with seemingly little sense of obligation to what will pass in the wider communion. (What happens in NYC, stays in NYC.)
Second, the conversations about sanctification are long, historical, sometimes exegetical, and incredibly abstract. Consider Paul Helm’s reflections on the controversy surrounding Double T:
Summarising, the idea that the law is no longer to be the moral guide, a point often insisted on by those dismissed as ‘antinomian’ (rather unjustly it seems to me) is clearly mistaken. The relevance of the moral law is a view endorsed by Christ and spelled out by the apostles. So in the most extended discussion of the nature of sanctification in the New Testament, Romans 12 and 13, the command to love one’s neighbour (12.9), and not to remain indebted (13.7), the laws forbidding adultery, stealing, covetousness are summed up, as Christ himself taught, as particular instances of ‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself’. (13. 8-10) But the law in not thought of primarily as obligations, duties, but as structural directions for the new life.
And this may be thought of as providential given the varieties of circumstance that the New Testament international church of Christ may find itself in. Without being relativistic, there may be across the world and down the centuries very different ways in which the injunctions are to be taken to apply to one thing and another. We must never forget that New Testament church is an international jurisdiction, by comparison with the Old Testament theocracy. . . .
All these forms of language in themselves strongly imply that Christian moral character is formed from the inside out, by means of the renewal of the mind, by the development of those seed-graces planted in regeneration. Morality is considered not of a code of separate acts of obedience which then develop in the agent corresponding habits of mind, but as an inner renewal which brings about the practice of the appropriate actions in a properly motivated manner.
This is useful, especially the point about the varieties of circumstance that confront believers. And it is these varieties that are so far from view in the shoving contest between alleged antinomians and neo-nomians. No one really asks a simple question like: so I am home from a not-so-hard day at work and it is the customary hour for an adult beverage and maybe a little ear-time with Phil Hendrie. Should I or should I not do this in my life of sanctification? Should I instead turn to Scripture with a time or prayer? Or maybe I should try to earn a little extra money with some on-line sales scheme in order to give more to foreign missions. Or maybe I should cut the grass a couple days early so that I can spend my entire Saturday in preparation for the Lord’s Day. Can I get a little help here?
Or to give the problem even greater concreteness, can someone claim to be more sanctified now than she was ten years ago even while being impolite — interrupting someone else who is speaking — to make this claim?
Which makes me wonder if we should postpone all talk about sanctification until the talkers are willing to mention specifics. The only people allowed to talk about it, in the meantime, are pastors who are preaching on texts related to the topic, church officers and parents who are catechizing children, and church officers doing the rounds of family visitation. I will grant an exemption to scholars who are writing commentaries or works of theology, but they must confine their remarks to the manuscript. Otherwise, sanctification may be a subject best left alone lest it become something so ethereal that we can affirm it without ever having to talk about how the dying to self goes in real time.
Categories Application of Redemption•Tags antinomianism, Mark Jones, neo-nomianism, Paul Helm, PCA, sanctification, Tullian Tchividjian
Would You Give Up Whiskey for Lent?
Published on March 14, 2014 by D. G. Hart33 Comments
It’s a curious post for early in a period some call Lent, but Robert Christian thinks Roman Catholics have a drinking problem:
From parishes to parochial schools to university classrooms, the Church is failing in its responsibility to talk about the pernicious impact of alcohol (and even drugs) on so many people in our society, along with the detrimental impact it has on achieving the common good. One is more likely to see devout Catholics being flip about drinking—or even romanticizing and glorifying it—than confronting the nihilism, escapism, and despair that are a big part of our nation’s drinking culture and the wreckage that it leaves in its wake. The Church takes a harder line on drugs, but how often is the topic really discussed? How often does the Church address why people turn to drug use and explain its incompatibility with human flourishing? The Church provides some assistance, but most often it comes after people have already had their lives and the lives of their loved ones (and possibly strangers) devastated by the ruinous costs of addiction. The Church can and should do better. . . .
It is strange that those who identify the emptiness of materialism, consumerism, the sexual objectification and exploitation of others, the lust for power, and other false paths to happiness are failing to address the illusory nature of the “happiness” generated by drugs and alcohol. It is downright embarrassing when one compares the Church to the world’s other religions. Buddhism, Taoism, Mormonism, Sikhism, Islam, the Baha’i faith, and various Hindu sects and protestant denominations either teach that alcohol should be avoided entirely or used in moderation (defined in such a way that many Catholics would find fairly extreme). While engaging in interfaith dialogue, the vast majority of thoughtful, virtuous young people I have met from other faiths have been teetotalers (those who abstain from alcohol entirely), while I have witnessed many of my fellow devout Catholics, who are otherwise morally serious, acting foolishly due to their consumption of alcohol. The contrast is cringe-worthy.
Not to be overly low church, but the habit of giving up something (it used to be sin) for forty days a year may not be the best way to live a life of moderation and restraint. At the same time, comments like Christian’s reveal the dark side of the old charge that Protestantism was just a cover for antinomianism. No one can outmoralize a Protestant. Even so, Rome’s version of the gospel is no barrier against taking the law lightly.
The human predicament may be that we love the law when it makes us superior, and we love grace when we are feeling low. Protestants of the good sort know that we are only superior in Christ.
Categories Are the CTCers Paying Attention?, Reformed Protestantism, Roman Catholicism•Tags antinomianism, drinking responsibly, neonomianism
Does the L in TULIP Stand for Living in Denial?
Published on March 5, 2014 by D. G. Hart52 Comments
A while back Bill Smith, Presbyterian in exile, made this observation about the ongoing debates in Reformed circles over antinomianism and sanctification:
I think I understand the problem the “obedience boys” have with the “grace boys.” It is that the “grace boys” can seem to teach grace in such a way as to make people indifferent to sin: “Sin is not such a big deal. It happens. No need to get all worked up about it. Just accept that you are a sinner and that God loves you no matter what. Bask in the knowledge you are a child of God.” I get the problem the “obedience boys” have with the “grace boys.” As far as taking exception with that portrayal of the life of grace goes, I agree.
What I don’t think the “obedience boys” get is how normal sin is. Perhaps they really do not know this reality in terms of their own experience. It could be that for them there is a regeneration-created night and day before and after story. Or, it may mean that there has been a steady upward trajectory to their sanctification without harrowing nosedives into sin or wearying discouragements of slow or no progress. Or, it may be that they do not know themselves very well. Or, it may be that their theological understanding of regeneration and conversion does not allow them to acknowledge that believers can have messy lives – chronic struggles and frequent defeats. That believers can by their messy lives inflict great damage and hurt on other believers and can be badly damaged and hurt by the messy lives of other believers. That the church is a messy place where messy lives are intertwined with and sometimes disillusioned by other messy lives.
Smith recommends that SNAFU makes more sense of how Christians should understand the presence of sin in this world (which would also apply to the neo-Calvinists and Roman Catholics prone to talk about “human flourishing“):
SNAFU – situation normal, all messed up. A National Guard radioman may have invented the term just before World War II, but it became standard, if unofficial, military jargon during the War. It was an apt description of reality as soldiers and marines experienced it. Supplies and equipment did not get where they were needed when they were needed. Battle plans went awry. Stupid orders were issued. Men found themselves in desperate situations. Usually the “human element” was in part or whole responsible. Military men came to expect mess-ups as normal.
A further indication of how few “conservative” Christians (Roman Catholic and Protestant) are willing to apply the category of SNAFU not only to persons but also to the United States, is to consider the degree to American exceptionalism resonates with self-professing believers. Defining American exceptionalism is tricky, but it generally involves a belief that the United States is singularly blessed by God, has accomplished untold good in the history of the world, and even if it has declined the nation was truly great because of its divine sanctions and virtuous performance.
It would be one thing, say through the extra-confessional idea of definitive sanctification, to argue that the individual Christian has broken definitively with sin and so now lives a life that should not be characterized by SNAFU. But to view a nation as on balance wholesome or even as an exceptional force for goodness, truth, and beauty is downright inconceivable given what we know about human depravity (think Woodrow Wilson) or about human politics (think The Wire or Homeland).
To avoid the dark thoughts that follow from Total Depravity is truly gullible. Non-believers tend to think that Christians are remarkably prone to believe all sorts of nonsense. A pronounced understanding of human wickedness should function as a hedge on such gullibility. If it does not, it explains the appeal of the “obedience boys” and the Salem Radio Network.
Categories Application of Redemption, Christian politics, Otherworldliness, Roman Catholicism•Tags American exceptionalism, antinomianism, Bill Smith, human flourishing, sanctification
Court of Sanctification?
Published on January 27, 2014 by D. G. Hart40 Comments
While wading through the snow yesterday during my Sabbath constitutional, I listened to the Reformed Forum’s interview with Mark Jones about his book on antinomianism. Again, questions surrounding justification and sanctification are still in play. At one point in the discussion, in relation to the notion that good works are filthy rags, Jones remarked that good works, of course, will not stand up in the court of justification. He stopped there but that had me scratching my head. Is there a court room of sanctification? If the problem with Lutheranism and its Reformed friends is an overly forensic understanding of the gospel, then where on earth did court of (the renovative) sanctification come from?
Richard Sibbes to the rescue (from Jones’ book):
I say there are two courts: one of justification, another of sanctification. In the court of justification, merits are nothing worth, insufficient; but in the court of sanctification, they are ensigns of a sanctified course, so they are jewels and ornaments. (45)
This may help to raise the stakes of sanctification for those who for some reason want to see a grander account of salvation than justification alone, though Sibbes sounds more like the counting house than the court room. But is it not the case that the only way you get into the court of sanctification (if such a court does exist) is through the court of sanctification justification? And at the end of the day, isn’t the court of justification the one where perfection is required and where good works cannot
merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come; and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom, by them, we can neither profit, nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins, but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants: and because, as they are good, they proceed from his Spirit; and as they are wrought by us, they are defiled, and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God’s judgment. (CF 16.5)
Categories Application of Redemption, Forensics, The Hinge•Tags antinomianism, good works, Mark Jones, Richard Sibbes, sanctification
Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Moralism
Published on August 28, 2013 by D. G. Hart57 Comments
While away this summer I read Mary Gordon’s Final Payments, a story about a Roman Catholic women, with a strongly plagued conscience, who figures out to do with her life after her father dies, a man whom she had offended and to whom she tried to make amends by taking care of him (a stroke incapacitated him) for eleven years. It is a novel about growing up in pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism and whiffs of what the new order are like emerge. But it is not a heavily religious novel. It does, though, have this observation about Protestantism in comparison to Roman Catholicism:
Protestants, it said, thought about moral issues, drank water and ate crakcers, took care to exercise and had a notion that charity was synonymous with good works. Catholics, on the other hand, thought about eternity, drank wine, smoked cigards, were somtimes extravavgant, but knew that charity was a fire in the heart of God and never confused it with that Protestant invention, philanthropy.
It is an odd take on Protestantism since one of Trent’s major objections to the Reformation was the idea that one could be saved apart from good works (of course, I’d need to qualify that as the Reformed confessions did). For Rome, Protestantism was an open invitation to licentiousness and antinomianism. Now, Gordon, among others, is telling us we are moralists.
Ross Douthat’s recent post on Jody Bottom’s switch on gay marriage (Bottom was formerly editor of First Things) reminded me of this passage from Gordon and my plan to comment on it:
In the longstanding, not-unjustified stereotypes of Western religious conflict, Roman Catholicism was generally seen as far more accommodating and tolerant — or, alternatively, more decadent and lax — than its Protestant rivals on matters related to the human body and the human heart. The structure of Catholicism, with its elevation of religious life in all its varied forms above the family unit, was always friendlier to what today we might call non-heteronormative aspirations, male and female, than many other churches (and, indeed, than many other civilizations). The emphasis that the church’s sacramental life placed on the cycle of confession-sin-repentance, as Bottum notes, tended to create a moral economy in which fallenness was taken for granted, and wider latitude extended to people who persisted in their sins than was sometimes the case in the sterner, Calvin-influenced precincts of Christendom. (The old Protestant image of Jesuitical confessors performing elaborate logical contortions to minimize the gravity of moral faults — and has — some basis in reality.) And then of course the deeply carnal nature of Catholic liturgy and art and culture created a broad religio-aesthetic landscape in which a wide diversity of enfleshed desires could be projected, expressed, sublimated, channeled, fulfilled.
This historical and cultural backdrop helps explain several things about how the gay marriage debate has played out among American Catholics. (And elsewhere, as well.) First, it’s probably one of the reasons why Catholics as a demographic have tilted somewhat more strongly in favor of same-sex marriage than other major Christian groups.
Of course, Rome was not always tolerant of all form of deviancy. It did give us the Inquisition, the Index of Books, and bishops at Vatican I were excommunicated for not endorsing papal supremacy and infallibility. Why the church would fudge on morality but not on words, ideas, or authority, or not see how looking the other way on morality might actually jeopardize authority is another matter.
What I find intriguing about Douthat’s piece is this kind of admission about Roman Catholic laxity in the context of a major sex scandal. Again, I don’t like going after the child abuse business because it is a case of hitting a man when he is down. But would the kind of leniency Douthat describes account in part for a culture that covered up what priests did? Wouldn’t that also explain why Vatican officials ignored the enormous indiscretions of the Renaissance popes? Might it not also explain why the Vatican was cozy — too much at times — with fascist governments? Sure, you could say that the fascists were anti-Communist. But John Lukacs has long argued that Communism is closer to Christianity than fascism. In other words, rather than a strength, Douthat’s depiction of Rome is a weakness (some would say major).
Meanwhile, the church did advocate celibacy, poverty and other forms of self-abasement as the surest way to salvation for monks, nuns, and clergy. Maybe they needed to be forgiving of sexual shenanigans since the laity didn’t have a clear guide for life in the secular world.
One last thought concerns the severity of Calvinism. I have no doubt that Calvinism draws its share of moralists — just say hello to the theonomists. But if you read through the registry of Geneva’s consistory — at roughly the very time when Englishmen were being inspired to be Puritans (as in purify church and society) — you see remarkable patience with the sins of the Genevans. One case, for instance, involved a man who had gotten his married chambermaid pregnant through fornication. This fellow’s penalty: he was admonished and sent to the city council who imprisoned him for 9 days. (Registers of the Consistory of Geneva, Vol. 1, 388-89). If this example is any indication — and I’ve only skimmed the Register, the moralism that afflicts contemporary Reformed Protestants may have less to do with Reformation theology than the spread of middle class virtues and an egalitarian intolerance of difference.
Bottom line: I’m not sure why Douthat finds this side of Rome appealing. Nor am I certain that moralism is inherent to Calvinism.
Categories Adventures in Church History, Reformed Protestantism, Roman Catholicism•Tags antinomianism, Jody Bottum, Mary Gordon, moralism, Ross Douthat, virtue
Can We Get A Little Love-the-Law Street Cred Here?
The shelf life on Tim Tebow is rapidly decreasing now that the Broncos ran into the Patriots’ capacity for cheating. So before Ricky Gervais completely eclipses Tebow in water-cooler banter, a point needs to be made about the charges of antinomianism that two-kingdom theology continues to receive. (The latest comes in a post about Martin Luther King, Jr. that uses the Civil Rights leader to cast aspersions on your humble — all about me — blogger; on the eve of MLK Day no less. The lack of charity among the lovers of the law continues to dumbfound.)
I have been rooting for the Broncos’ QB even if Tebow’s wear-it-on-your-cheek piety is not an Old Lifer’s preferred demeanor. Tebow appears to be genuine in his devotion even if he could benefit from the oversight of a Reformed pastor. But how can he possibly be a poster boy for evangelicals and the Religious Right when he flagrantly violates one of the Ten Commandments that many born-again Protestants want posted in court rooms and public school classrooms? I get it. How to interpret OT law is something that divides many Christians — and boy can theonomists be divisive about it. But Tebow’s actions are hard to square with any traditional reading of the Decalogue. In fact, U.S. Protestants used to be Sabbatarians through and through, and the NFL had to clear all sorts of Blue Laws in order to get its franchises off the ground (Saturday was already taken by college football, which was, and still is in some parts of the country, more popular than professional gridiron play.
Evangelicals may be inconsistent — which of us is not (except of course for the epistemologically self-conscious)? But the disparity between public statements and actions goes beyond the hobgobblin that afflicts small minds. The Religious Right lauds traditional Christian morality and seeks it for the nation at large. This is partly the rationale behind arriving at Rick Santorum as the evangelical alternative to Mitt Romney. Never mind that Roman Catholics like Santorum were the object of some of those Protestant Blue Laws governing the Lord’s Day. A recent column in the Washington Post (touted by the Baylys) attempted to put a positive spin on the evangelical notion that righteousness exalts a nation. It tried to extend the appeal of Tebow to his opposing QB last weekend — Ben Roethlisberger — who appears to be on the mend morally after recovering his evangelical roots. The piece also argued that evangelical piety is much more important than evangelical politics.
Tebow and Roethlisberger point to the essential aspects of evangelicalism, the ones that make it persist — its missionary, proclamatory character on the one hand, and its private, searching piety on the other. The former wants to appeal to the whole world, which is why Tebow’s family raised him not only to preach, but to persuade others with a winning demeanor. The latter wants a changed life; Roethlisberger, in evangelical parlance, rededicated his life to Jesus after a period of backsliding, because he knew no other way to break his pattern of misbehavior.
In Iowa, Santorum’s evangelical “surge” grossed him about 30,000 votes. That may constitute an evangelical moment, and it may inspire some observers to define evangelicals by their political behavior. But it is not a particularly large group from which to draw conclusions about the movement as a whole. Most evangelicals, like most Americans, don’t show up to the voting booth at all. Their political commitments are not nearly as strong as their faith commitments.
Odd that this column says nothing about forgiveness of sins through the work of Christ as being crucial to evangelical piety. Instead, it points to evangelicalism’s life-changing character and how its adherents lead moral lives. If that is so — and there is some obvious truth to this — what about the elephant in the room of the way that evangelicals (in worship and on Sunday) seem to disregard the first table of the law?
What does this have to do with 2k? Well, the critics of 2k never seem to notice that 2k advocates do care about the law and have defended especially the first table. 2kers are invariably Sabbatarian, defend the regulative principle of worship (derived from the Second Commandment), condemn the creation of images of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and fear the ways in which informality in worship may breach the Third Commandment’s call for avoiding profanity. Meanwhile, the critics of 2k, who invariably want the entire nation to follow God’s law, look the other way when it comes to the church following all of God’s law. Some of 2k’s biggest critics are advocates of contemporary worship and praise Christian football players who profane the Sabbath.
So it is false to say that 2k leads to or promotes antinomianism. 2kers follow God’s law and defend it — all of it. What seems to be 2kers problem is that we don’t apply the law selectively to public life. That selectivity may not qualify as antinomian. But it hardly constitutes the love of God’s law that 2kers allegedly lack or qualifies as honest.
Categories Adventures in Church History•Tags antinomianism, Ben Roethlisberger, David Bayly, David Kuo, Patton Dodd, Rick Santorum, theonomy, Tim Bayly, Tim Tebow, Timothy J. Harris, two-kingdom theology
Forensic Friday: Antinomianism, False and True
Published on March 26, 2010 by D. G. Hart5 Comments
One of the more arresting claims in recent theological discussions is that an emphasis on the forensic nature of justification can nurture antinomianism. This claim looks amazingly unreal given the traction that various forms of transformationalism have among conservative Reformed Protestants – from Doug Wilson’s defense of Constantinianism, the Baylys’ war with Reformed “pacifists†in the culture wars, to Tim Keller’s conception of word and deed ministry. If anything, the conservative Reformed world is awash with various expressions of neo-nomianism and legalism – not antinomianism.
What is even more amazing is that the concern with antinomianism would ever classify Lutheranism as a wing of Christianity that disregards the law. In point of fact, the real antinomians around the time of the Westminster Assembly were not Lutherans but Quakers. I know conservative Presbyterians (myself included) don’t get out much. But it is important to remember sometimes the wider setting in which the Reformed faith has grown. The people who believed they had the Spirit so truly – in Luther’s words, swallowing the Holy Ghost “feathers and all†– were not his followers in Germany but on the radical fringes of the Puritan movement.
For this reason, it may be useful to remember what Lutherans actually profess about good works and their importance for the Christian life, and compare those teachings with the musing of the Quakers.
How One is Justified before God, and of Good Works.
What I have hitherto and constantly taught concerning this I know not how to change in the least, namely, that by faith, as St. Peter says, we acquire a new and clean heart, and God will and does account us entirely righteous and holy for the sake of Christ, our Mediator. And although sin in the flesh has not yet been altogether removed or become dead, yet He will not punish or remember it.
And such faith, renewal, and forgiveness of sins is followed by good works. And what there is still sinful or imperfect also in them shall not be accounted as sin or defect, even [and that, too] for Christ’s sake; but the entire man, both as to his person and his works, is to be called and to be righteous and holy from pure grace and mercy, shed upon us [unfolded] and spread over us in Christ. Therefore we cannot boast of many merits and works, if they are viewed apart from grace and mercy, but as it is written, 1 Cor. 1:31: He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord, namely, that he has a gracious God. For thus all is well. We say, besides, that if good works do not follow, faith is false and not true. (Smalcald Articles, XIII [1537])
And now for something completely different. This is from the 1655 letter of John Lilburn, a Quaker, held captive in England for the better part of a decade for his religious convictions and their legal and political implications.
. . . the contrariety is so great between the foresaid two Kings and Masters, that whatsoever in the King, or Ruler in the Kingdom of the world, (or fallen, or unrenewed man) and the Subjects thereof, is esteemed highly or excellent, is an abomination in the sight of God: And therefore this spiritual King having purchased all his Subjects and Servants with a glorious price, (as the greatest demonstration of love) of his own blood, by his spiritual Command requires them not to be the servants of men, but to glorify him both in body and soul; and therefore his grown up servant Paul, declares himself to be no man-pleaser, avowing himself that if he were a man-pleaser, he should, nor could not be the servant of Christ.
And therefore the same apostle, by the infallible spirit of the Lord, requires the spiritual Subjects of this spiritual King Jesus, to present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which (says he) is your reasonable service; and do not be conformed to this world (the kingdom of the Prince of darkness, but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable and perfect will of a God; and therefore when any man once becomes a spiritual subject of this spiritual King Christ, and dwells in him, he becomes a new creature, and old things in him are passed away, and all things in him are become new, spiritual and savoury, yes even his very thought and his words are found few and divine, his behaviour righteous and solid, his deeds upright, and free like God from all respect of persons: and although there be such a perfect and absolute contrariety between all the laws and constitutions of these two Kings or Masters, and a continual and perpetual war between the Subjects thereof, yet the weapons of the warfare of Christ’s Spiritual, Heavenly, and glorious Kingdom, handled and used by his Servants and true Subjects, who although they do walk in the flesh, yet do they not war after the flesh, and therefore their weapons of warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and brings into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. . .
Of course, this doesn’t sound very antinomian. In fact, it reads a lot like those anti-2k folks who wail and gnash their teeth over the moral failings of the United States, and also insist that Christians need to take back the nation for Christ because the antithesis between believers and non-believers is so great, and the moral gulf between the saints and pagans so wide, and the denial of Christ’s lordship so great, that we cannot trust civil affairs to the likes of Obama, Kerry, or Gore.
But what does make this quotation antinomian is that Quakers like Lilburne (along with Anabaptists) renounced by the sword and believed any government that used force was of the Devil. As such, they did not recognize the existing government as legitimate, thus making them antinomian (as in, against the established law and order).
Looks to me like there are lessons all around on the contrast between the true and false antinomians. In fact, it is hard to miss the irony that those who criticize 2k the most for being antinomian may harbor a good dose of the antithetical reading of humanity and civil authorities that put Quakers like Lilburne in jail.
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Important Results For Brain Machine Interfaces
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Data from Mental Work project, conducted as an experimental artwork at EPFL’s Artlab, indicates that BMI is robust and accessible to the general public, spurring new research collaborations in Switzerland on user experience.
Brain-machine interfaces are rarely found outside of medical clinics, where the disabled receive hours or days of training in order to operate wheelchairs with their minds. Now the largest-ever BMI experiment Mental Work, conducted as an experimental artwork at EPFL’s Artlab, has provided preliminary evidence that training time can be shortened, the use of dry electrodes are a robust solution for public BMI and that user performance tends to improve within a relatively short period of time. The still-to-be-published results suggest that BMI may soon reach a much larger and more diverse population. A new collaboration between the Foundation Campus Biotech Geneva, the EPFL and the HEIG-VD in Yverdon will build on the promising results will build on the promising results of Mental Work to further develop user-friendly and publicly accessible interfaces to interact with the physical and digital world using only one’s mind.
“This is the first demonstration that installation art can be used as an experimental platform for breakthrough science,” says Jonathon Keats, the artist and experimental philosopher who conceptualized Mental Work.
According to Professor José Millán, the EPFL scientist whose lab developed the BMI system for the exhibit, “The initial results from Mental Work show that it is possible for a large portion of the population to successfully use BMI to interact with their environment and with a much shorter training period than was previously thought necessary.” The team has collected a unique dataset with almost 800 subjects, each contributing with around one hour of brain signals during an interaction experience of increasing complexity. This dataset will be shared with the BMI scientific community once the scientists finish a basic analysis of its integrity, primary outcomes and standardization.
Successful training for BMI at 30 minutes instead of hours
One of the most significant challenges for any BMI integration into an exhibition or the daily lives of its users is the relatively long and tedious training period, where the user learns to interact with the system and the system learns the user’s unique brain pattern for a specific activity, often for hours over a period of days and weeks. “To our great satisfaction, we achieved a significant reduction in training time needed to use a BMI to 30 minutes during the exhibition,” says Millán. This reduction was achieved through a robust feature-selection algorithm, streamlined on boarding process as well as a systematic implementation of rigorous protocol over hundreds of users.
BMI is difficult, but it’s possible to quickly improve
Mental Work visitors, who answer a standardised questionnaire that was embedded into the exhibit and coupled to the brain-activity data, constantly reported that the mental tasks required were very demanding—contrasting with a widespread assumption that BMI controls effortless. And while more than one-third of the users were able to deliver commands more than 55% during their first try continued to improve, the data also shows that many Mental Workers who failed upon the first attempt eventually acquired robust BMI skills as they progressed through the exhibit. “We are now studying how brain patterns vary, with a particular focus on exploring how these patterns evolve during this learning process in order to uncover principles to enhance and accelerate the acquisition of reliable brain control,” says Millán.
Dry electrode technology in a public space
An enabling technology for the Mental Work exhibit, and for a greater use of BMI in general, is the advent of dry electrode technology for measuring EEG. Dry electrodes avoid the time consuming and off-putting ordeal of using conductive gel to obtain the signals. Mental Work producer, Michael Mitchell says that “When we first had the idea for the project in 2012, the dry EEG technology wasn’t robust enough for a public exhibit. Then the Wearable Sensing system of dry electrodes with research grade signals was developed and the company came on board as a commercial sponsor. Our ideas finally matched up with the reality of the technology.” According to the lab’s preliminary analysis of 530 participants in Lausanne, 23% of their EEG recordings exhibited a high signal quality, while 47% presented medium-to-high quality, and only 12% presented low signal quality—an extremely encouraging finding as it supports the validity of using these new technologies in real-life settings.
Future of Mental Work
Mental Work is now becoming a collaborative, cross-disciplinary platform for neuroengineering and user experience research in Switzerland. Campus Biotech in Geneva will host one of four Mental Work machines for the next three years in collaboration with EPFL and HEIG-VD in Yverdon, offering the opportunity to develop and test both the BMI back-end technology and front-end user interface at two different centers of excellence in French-speaking Switzerland. In addition, clinical discoveries and improvements to the machine-learning algorithms that drive the BMI will continue to be developed within the Human Neuroscience Plateform operated by the Campus Biotech Foundation in an ongoing collaboration with José Millán at the University of Texas in Austin. Those with severe disabilities will not only benefit from better control of their neuroprosthetics, but the increased ease of use and potentially shorter training periods will reduce the overall effort needed to take and maintain control—a significant advantage for those whose lives are dominated by their handicap and where each additional effort multiplies the risk of frustration and rejection of the technology.
“Mental Work was always intended to be a research platform, artistically, philosophically and scientifically. With this new phase, the three areas of research will be fully integrated, reenforcing Mental Work’s value as an engine of discovery,” says Keats.
Author: Mediacom
source: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Brain Machine Interfaces dry electrode technology Dry Electrodes Jonathon Keats José Millán Mental Work 2019-07-07
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AMERICANS, YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR TRUE HISTORY! RESOURCES FOR LEARNING
Posted on August 25, 2014 by Nancy B. Detweiler
AMERICANS, YOU NEED TO KNOW YOUR TRUE HISTORY!
RESOURCES FOR LEARNING
George H. Scherf(f), Jr.
The “Bush” family was created to destroy America.
Deathbed Confessions, Photos Support Claims That George H. Scherf(f), Jr., Was the 41st U.S. President
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm
***OTTO SKORZENY WAS HITLER’S PRIVATE BODY GUARD***
The Revelations of Otto Skorzeny, Part 1
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VEIL OF INVISIBILITY
Alexander Putney
“Tesla’s financial and legal interests were managed by George Scherf Sr., whose administrative work included bookkeeping, legal filing for patents and ex- tensive litigation regarding patent infringement cases. The indolent thefts of George Scherf Jr. in Tesla’s lab earned him the nickname ‘Curious George’, but were, in fact, the acts of a Nazi child spy executing Hitler’s orders. In a series of deathbed confessions in 1995, Hitler’s personal bodyguard and CIA co-founder Otto Skorzeny exposed dark truths about his lifelong partnership with fellow Nazi espionage agents George Scherf Sr. and ‘Curious’ George Scherf Jr.”
http://www.human-resonance.org/veil.html
http://www.human-resonance.org/Veil_of_Invisibility.pdf
THE CURIOUS GEORGE CHILDRENS’ BOOK SERIES
“Before the murder attempt, Tesla was often bothered in his laboratory by the petty theft of the younger Scherf, even remarking on the teenager’s invasions to friends. Apparently Tesla took the trespasses quite personally, for young George’s incessant meddling in the labs earned him the nickname ‘Curious George’, bestowed by Tesla as a way of mocking his intelligence. Likening the younger Scherf to a conniving monkey, Tesla retold the story of George’s invasive behavior to Margaret Rey, who later created a fictional character for children’s books with the same memorable name.
The Scherf/Tesla origin of the character was undoubtedly to be a topic of much interest during the ‘Curious George’ international film debut on February 9, 2006–a topic that would never again be discussed by the books’ co-author, Alan Shalleck (below), because he was murdered on February 6 just days before the film premiere and interviews. The identity of ‘Curious’ George Scherf, Jr. was a secret that had already been revealed years before Shalleck’s murder by one of Scherf’s Nazi cohorts, Otto Skorzeny. Interestingly, both Skorzeny and Shalleck had lived for many years in Boynton Beach, Florida, where Shalleck’s body was found in his driveway. The two men who committed the murder were unwitting agents of the CIA, whose conflicting confessions suggest they were hypnotically controlled.” (page 17)
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DID BUSH MOVE AMERICA’S PRESIDENCY OFF-SHORE?
Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor with PressTV-Tehran
Rather than allow President Obama to assume a “real” presidential office, sources now tell that “handlers” who, with the help of Vice President Cheney, kept George W. Bush medicated and sober as possible, directed him to facilitate efforts that would guarantee that no subsequent American president would ever be able to enact policies unfavorable to Israel or powerful criminal interests….
Like so many American corporations, even the US presidency is moved “offshore,” considered too important to be left in the hands of elected officials.
President Obama has had less power than any American president in history. Nominations are blocked, his decisions are never enacted because of lack of funding and many departments under executive authority simply ignore him. There is a reason for this. The American presidency was relocated, “offshore,” by George W. Bush….
This project was undertaken by the Bush administration, literally “burning down the White House,” leaving the executive branch of the US government powerless on its own, subject to the Supreme Court, now the chief lawmaking branch of government and the similarly crippled legislative branch….
Before Bush left office, “line item” rules were established that made any effort to enact executive policy subject to financial oversight and approval by the House. Bush, in agreeing to this, virtually eliminated the Executive branch of government.
Any presidential initiative, let’s say, closing Guantanamo for instance, depends on spending funds. Travel, administrative planning or even moving prisoners requires spending. If funds are spent, even when approved by the president, without the now necessary approval of the House, always a “Republican” house, the president is violating law and subject to impeachment. This is the basis for the current proposed impeachment of President Obama now.
However, what has been done has abrogated all constitutional structure through what had been sabotage of the American government, what in reality is an act of “constitutional terrorism.”
READ MORE: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/21/did-bush-move-americas-presidency-offshore/
The article below was published in April 2007 Idaho Observer and still in late August of 2014 Americans continue to sleepwalk while their government is taken down by the New World Order folks. Instead of Americans waking up and doing their own research, they gang together in ignorance and now all 50 states are seeking to impeach the one man who has stood up to the cabal—President Obama! Turn off the TV news and search the internet. The Truth is on the internet and has been for years!
DEATHBED CONFESSIONS-PHOTOS-SUPPORT CLAIM GEORGE H. SCHERF WAS THE 41ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
By Don Nicoloff
“What we are taught about history in American schools is not history, but a fairy tale. Better yet, it is propaganda designed to hoodwink an unsuspecting society about its true heritage and the treasonous acts and sabotage that were conceived in order to bring about a New World Order. You are about to learn the real identities of those who have infiltrated your nation on behalf of secret societies intent on bringing about the total slavery of mankind.”
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DEATHBED CONFESSIONS, PHOTOS SUPPORT CLAIMS – GEORGE H. SCHERF WAS THE 41ST PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
DEATHBED CONFESSIONS, PHOTOS SUPPORT CLAIMS THAT
GEORGE H. SCHERF(F) WAS THE 41ST U.S. PRESIDENT
Article from the April 2007 IDAHO OBSERVER
In the U.S., deathbed confessions are permissible as evidence
in a Court of Law.
George H. Scherf(f) – center right in German Navy uniform
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Inside PIPPIN: Filling the Space with Brenda Didier
Photo: Kayla Boye, Sawyer Smith, Iris Lieberman, Donterrio Johnson, Nicole Armold, Adam Fane, Michael Rawls and Koray Tarhan in Mercury Theater Chicago’s PIPPIN | Brett Beiner
PerformInk’s “Inside” series takes you behind the scenes of productions with blog posts written by the artists in the trenches.
By Brenda Didier, Lead Choreographer
Brenda Didier
As everyone that is familiar with the theater knows, every show has its own scale – the space that the story is allowed to span, the room that the actors have to work in. For some shows, space is a given – the production can spread to the wings of a stage, complete with sprawling sets and dozens of actors or dancers. However, when space is limited, every movement counts, every motion means something towards the larger scope of the show as a whole. Transforming PIPPIN, a show which has traditionally been presented as a grandiose production, into a musical fit for the Mercury Theater Chicago’s Venus Cabaret – a room that seats no more than 65 people, was a unique and thrilling challenge.
As the lead choreographer for the production, I was tasked with capturing the art of motion used in PIPPIN. How do you take a giant and sprawling show and move it to a small space while still maintaining the magic of the original production? The answer: the ultimate spacial awareness. The Venus Cabaret Space is unique in that audiences are brought into the story right along with the actors, so their ability to be honest, with both themselves and those watching, is crucial. Within the space, the cast has mastered when to be big – to fully embrace a dance number, and when to be small, paying attention to the seemingly minute movements that more fully make up a character. In space like the Venus, a small flick of the wrist or a turn of the head can mean so much more than it would in a larger theater, which adds to the depth and intensity through each act and scene. With numbers like “Glory,” which follows Pippin’s journey into being a soldier, we were able to craft the themes of violence and the horrors of war into a very expository piece of motion. In combination with the background videos, it becomes an incredibly powerful point of the show.
With PIPPIN opening this week, I couldn’t be more excited for audiences to experience Pippin’s journey firsthand – to follow along with this moving, magical production. As the movements of each character more fully support the story that Walter [Director L. Walter Stearns] is telling, I hope that audiences can take the journey through the motion of each scene – and perhaps walk away a small bit closer to their own “Corner of the Sky.”
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Vol 14 No 4 (2016): Oct-Dec /
Assessment of pharmacists’ delivery of public health services in rural and urban areas in Iowa and North Dakota
Mark Strand
Teri Undem
Gabrielle Anderson
andrea clarens
Xiyuan Liu
Keywords: Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical Services, Professional Role, Public Health, Rural Health, Rural Population, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States
Background: The profession of pharmacy is expanding its involvement in public health, but few studies have examined pharmacists’ delivery of public health services.
Objective: To assess Iowa and North Dakota pharmacists’ practices, frequency of public health service delivery, level of involvement in achieving the essential services of public health, and barriers to expansion of public health services in rural and urban areas.
Methods: This study implemented an on-line survey sent to all pharmacists currently practicing pharmacy in Iowa and North Dakota.
Results: Overall, 602 valid responses were analyzed, 297 in rural areas and 305 in urban areas. Three practice settings (chain stores [169, 28.2%], independent community pharmacies [162, 27.0%], and hospital pharmacies [156, 26.0%]) comprised 81.2% of the sample. Both chain and independent community pharmacists were more commonly located in rural areas than in urban areas (P<0.05). For some public health services, pharmacists in rural areas reported higher frequency of delivery than did pharmacists in urban areas (P < .05) that included: medication therapy management, immunizations, tobacco counseling, and medication take-back programs. For some essential services, pharmacists (particularly independents) in rural areas reported more frequent delivery than did pharmacists in urban areas (P < .05), these included: evaluate the services the pharmacy provides, partner with the community to identify and help solve health problems, and conduct needs assessments to identify health risks in my community.
Conclusion: Rural pharmacists more frequently deliver public health services than urban in both Iowa and North Dakota. These findings should be interpreted to be primarily due to differences in the role of the rural pharmacist and the quest for certain opportunities that rural pharmacists are seeking.
Department of Pharmacy Practice and Public Health
Department of Pharmacy Practice
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Luján scheduled to speak at DNC
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U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján’s campaign announced that Luján will speak at the convention. Luján is the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a key position when it comes to electing Democrats to the U.S. House.
“This week in Cleveland the American people saw House Republicans put Party ahead of country by officially nominating Donald Trump, whose campaign has been defined by dangerous national security policies, harmful economic proposals, and rhetoric that divides Americans against each other,” Luján said. “These are not the values that I was raised with and these are not the values that will build a brighter future for the people of New Mexico and our nation.
“Next week, Democrats across the country will join together to unite behind Hillary Clinton, whose first priority will be the hard-working people of our country as she fights to keep us safe and expand opportunities for every American,” he continued.
Previously, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who represents the Albuquerque area, will speak at the convention.
At the Republican National Convention, the only New Mexican to speak was Dr. Lisa Shin, an optometrist from Los Alamos.
Shin criticized presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and said Clinton was “a direct threat to the American Dream.”
Gov. Susana Martinez helped with presenting the New Mexico delegation ahead of the delegations’ vote for Donald Trump, though she did not give a speech at the RNC as she did in 2012, when Republicans nominated Mitt Romney.
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Thinking into the post-public school era: Ending control of the cartel
Local economy Schooling's decline August 24, 2012 0 David Tulis
Education, Local economy
1204 Darthy Allen and her son Quisk Palmer work on the billboard at Greater Tucker Missionary Baptist Church, with Brainerd high school nearby.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
— G.K. Chesterton
For local economy to succeed, it will have to suggest ways to reform the educational marketplace in Chattanooga. The local market is run by Hamilton County under authority of the 1870 constitution and the 1909 general school law creating a system of statewide free schools.
Nowadays when people hear the word cartel they think of the Mexican drug cartels, such as the Sinaloa and the Los Zetas gangs. The word cartel isn’t exclusive property of these vertically integrated enterprises delivering cocaine to denizens of American night life. Government schools are also a cartel. They are union-controlled clubs of managers and hangers-on who maintain prices at a high level and restrict competition. As a cartel that survives by use of force, the school is not required to be responsive to the needs of the consumer.
Market failure has always been one of the public school’s main intellectual defenses. The premise of the cartel in Hamilton County is that the civil magistrate has had to take on the job of education as a benevolent rescue operation. The magistrate’s intervention is marketed as a service to residents who, as victims of an injustice or malfeasance long ago forgotten, are incapable of tending to their own interests. The evidence of incompetence has been rolling in since the look-say reading crisis of the 1920s. The owners of the system hope to continue the profitable game a few more years if they can find ways to forestall a revolt.
The Sunday edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press puts us in the hallways of Brainerd high school, a so-called “inner city” facility marked by a dysfunctionality that no tinkering can mend.
Under the headline, “Young and black in black and white [;] Brainerd High School principal warns of a threat more sinister than gangs,” journalists Joan Garrett and Kevin Hardy tell of an atmosphere of despair in which indifference is held forth as the chief villain.
APATHY IS SAID to be more perilous than gangs, whose baggy-panted membership adds up to 35 percent of homeroom roll. The story reveals chronic problems that haven’t changed since President Johnson’s Great Society welfare program:
➤ Parental involvement is minimal. The school’s heroic principal, Charles Joynes, says 5 percent of moms and dads are daily involved with school activities. Six hundred students are enrolled, but 35 parents have shown up for meetings. No involved parent figured in the story.
➤ Meals at home are rare. Lacking the civilizing gift of a family table, students act so badly that much time is spent at the school on their discourtesy rather than math or reading.
➤ Sexual relations are common. At any one time, a dozen girls at the school either are pregnant or cuddling tots born out of wedlock.
➤ Group bonding and turf violence are widespread. “[Joynes] wants to reach teens sooner, before they build the relationships that could kill them. He wants to tell them to stop having sex if they don’t want to be parents. And if they father children, he wants them to own up to it. He wants to tell them that gangs will use them up and spit them out. He wants to tell them that if they look like thugs people will be afraid of them.” The school resource officers made 50 arrests in 2011.
Short-term time horizons are a characteristic of many students at Brainerd high school. Edward Banfield, in his 1970 book The Unheavenly City, analyzes the lives of inner city people and finds that their short-term horizon and self-seeking orientation keep them in poverty and liable to use unlawful means to earn livings or attain their ends. The long-term time horizon is one of the great benefits of Christianity, which encourages a man to temper his desires, think of the advancement of others and pursue rewards that can’t be stuffed into one’s pants’ pocket.
THE NEWSPAPER’S EXPOSE seeks to create a sensation in the claim that apathy is the most powerful force at Brainerd high. Yet paralysis is a rational response to life in the factory school. Paralysis is not aberrant, but a natural condition. The people who exhibit it have at least ordinary wits and probably more than a lick of common sense, and their dozing off at school assemblies and ignoring a chemistry experiment are eminently human but (perhaps) hardly a sin. If you were stuck in their situation, you would probably do the same thing, and mutter the “never mind” of the dejected rock star Kurt Cobain under your breath.
Until the cartel is broken up and we can welcome local economy in education, the deadness will persist. More Friday pep talks, more pleadings from Mr. Joynes to use good grammar and leave the pistols at home, new programs to peddle graduation and diplomas will make no difference and will just annoy the very worldly wise students at Brainerd.
Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching,” says John Taylor Gatto, former New York public school teacher of the year, “ — confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance — all of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses people deprived forever of finding the center of their own special genius. And over time this training has shaken loose from its own original logic: to regulate the poor. *** Young people are indifferent to the adult world and to the future, indifferent to almost everything except the diversion of toys and violence. Rich or poor, school children who face the twenty-first century cannot concentrate on anything for very long; they have a poor sense of time past and time to come. They are mistrustful of intimacy like the children of divorce they really are (for we have divorced them from significant parental attention); they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction. All the peripheral tendencies of childhood are nourished and magnified to a grotesque extent by schooling, which, through its hidden curriculum, prevents effective personality development. *** Nobody survives the seven-lesson curriculum completely unscathed, not even the instructors. The method is deeply and profoundly anti-educational. No tinkering will fix it. In one of the great ironies of human affairs, the massive rethinking the schools require would cost so much less than we are spending now that powerful interests cannot afford to let it happen.
Local economy envisions a closing down of the jobs program called state-certified teaching. It envisions an unshackling of the smart people in Brainerd and throughout Hamilton County, an eventual return to self-government. It sees nonprofit groups, charities, churches, religious associations, trade groups, for-profit technical teaching and certifications systems, individual tutors such as David Bird at Foundations Collegium in St. Elmo — all offering their services to the poor families of Brainerd’s 600 inmates.
Capital consumed by government operations would be available to families to spend once more on their own charges. As the city learns how to inhale the air of liberty, parents mentioned in the newspaper story can stop working two and three jobs; they can come home for supper, take charge of their folk, make their life-changing decisions and dream big dreams for the coming generation.
The many troubles at Brainerd high school are the fruit of a long road the U.S. has taken to national economy.
Sources: Chattanooga Times Free Press; John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down; the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, pp. 17-21, New Society Publishers, 1992; Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited, 1974, Little, Brown and Co.
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NREL’s Communications & Public Affairs Office is seeking an experienced Content Editor to organize the editorial activity that communicates the lab’s science, people, and mission to the world in a way that inspires, engages, and informs.
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1.3: The Bernoulli Effect
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Supplemental Modules (Classical Mechanics)
Contributed by Michael Fowler
Beams Professor (Physics) at University of Virginia
Suppose air is being pumped down a smooth round tube, which has a constant diameter except for a section in the middle where the tube narrows down to half the diameter, then widens out again. Assume all the changes in diameter take place smoothly, and the air flows steadily down the tube, with no eddies or turbulence.
where in the tube do you expect the pressure to be greatest?
Most people asked this for the first time predict that the pressure will be greatest in the narrow portion of the tube. But in fact, if we actually do the experiment, by putting pressure gauges at various points along the tube, we find, counter intuitively, that the air pressure is lowest where the air is moving fastest!
Figure 1: The difference in heights of the dark liquid in the two arms of the U-tubes measures the pressure difference between that point in the flow tube and the outside atmospheric pressure.
To see how this could be, we will apply the techniques we developed to find how pressure varied in a stationary fluid. The way we did that, remember, was by drawing a free body diagram for a small cylinder of fluid. Since this small cylinder was at rest, the total force on it was zero, so the net pressure balanced the weight. Now consider a steadily moving fluid. It’s helpful to visualize the flow by drawing in streamlines, lines such that their direction is the direction the fluid is moving in at each point.
Actually, these streamlines not only tell you the direction the fluid is moving in, but also gives some idea of the speed—where they come closer together, the fluid must be moving faster, because the same amount of fluid is flowing through a narrower region. Imagine now a cylinder of air moving along the pipe, its axis parallel to the streamline. Obviously, it must speed up as it enters the narrow part of the tube—since the same amount of air is flowing through the narrow part as the wide part, it must be going faster.
But if the small cylinder of fluid is accelerating, it must be acted on by a force pushing it from behind.
Its weight is irrelevant here, since it’s moving horizontally. Therefore the only force acting on it is the pressure, and we have to conclude that the pressure at its back is greater than the pressure on its front. Therefore the pressure must be dropping on entering the narrow part. To make clearer what’s going on, we’ll draw a rather large cylinder:
The fluid is flowing steadily and smoothly along the pipe. The thick blue lines are streamlines, in fact you should imagine rotating the whole diagram about the central axis to get a three-dimensional picture, and the blue lines would become a cylinder, with a narrower “neck” section, echoing the shape of the pipe.
Now consider the body of fluid within the streamlines shown, and capped at the two ends by the circular areas A1 and A2. The rate of flow of fluid across A1 must be the same as the rate of flow across A2, because in steady flow fluid can’t be piling up in the middle (or depleting from there either). The volume flowing across A1 in one second is v1A1. (To see this, imagine a long straight pipe without a narrow part. If the fluid is flowing at, say 3 meters per second, then in one second all the fluid which was within 3 meters of the area A1 on the upstream side will have flowed through.)
So, flow across A1 equals flow across A2, \[ A_1v_1 = A_2v_2 .\]
(Footnote: It’s perhaps worth mentioning that we are implicitly assuming the velocity is the same at all points on area A1. Any real fluid has some viscosity (friction) and will be moving more slowly near the sides of the pipe than in the middle. We’ll discuss this later. For now, we consider an “ideal” fluid, the term used when one ignores viscosity. In fact, the result we derive is ok—we could have taken a tiny area A1 far away from the sides, so that the velocity would have been the same for the whole area, but that would have given a much less clear diagram.)
We’re now ready to examine the increase in kinetic energy of the fluid as it speeds up into the narrow part, and understand how the pressure difference did the work necessary to speed it up.
Suppose that after a time Dt, the fluid that was at an initial instant between A1 and A2 has moved to the volume between A′1 and A′2. As far as the chunk of fluid we’re tracking is concerned, it has effectively replaced a volume \( A_1v_1 \Delta t \) moving at v1 with a volume \( A_2v_2 \Delta t \) moving at v2. But remember \( A_1v_1 = A_2v_2 \), so if the density of the fluid is \( \rho \) , we’re talking about a mass of fluid \( \rho A_1v_1 \Delta t \) which has effectively increased in speed from v1 to v2. That is to say, the increase in kinetic energy is just
\[ \Delta(K.E.) = \dfrac {1}{2}(\rho A_1v_1 \Delta t)(v_2^2 - v_1^2) .\]
The only possible source for this increase in energy is the work done by pressure in pushing the fluid into the narrow part.
Taking the pressure on area A1 to be P1, the total force on A1 is \( P_1A_1 \). In the time\( \Delta t \), this force acts through a distance \( v_1 \Delta t \), and hence does
\[ work = force \times distance = P_1A_1v_1 \Delta t .\]
So this is work done on our chunk of fluid by the fluid pushing it from behind—but that’s not the end of the story, because our chunk of fluid itself does work pushing the fluid in front of it, so to find the total increase in our chunk’s energy, we must subtract off the external work it does. That is, the total work done by pressure on our fluid is
\[ P_1A_1v_1 \Delta t - P_2A_2v_2 \Delta t = (P_1 - P_2) A_1v_1 \Delta t \]
remembering that \( A_1v_1 = A_2v_2 \).
This work done must equal the change in kinetic energy, so
\[ (P_1 - P_2)A_1v_1 \Delta t = \dfrac {1}{2} ( \rho A_1v_1 \Delta t)(V_2^2 - v_1^2) \]
from which
\[ P_1 + \dfrac {1}{2} \rho v_1^2 = P_2 + \dfrac{1}{2} \rho v_2^2 \]
This is Bernoulli’s equation.
There is a further easy generalization: we could have the pipe sloping uphill. In that case, the fluid would gain potential energy as well as kinetic energy, so the pressure would have to do more work. If we take the center of the area A1 to be at height h1, the area A2 at h2, and take \( \Delta t \) very small, the increase in potential energy in time \( \Delta t \) will be \((\rho A_1v_1\Delta t)g(h_2 - h_1) \), and Bernoulli’s equation becomes:
\[ P_1 + \dfrac{1}{2} \rho v_1^2 + \rho g h_1 = P_2 + \dfrac{1}{2} \rho v_2^2 + \rho g h_2 \].
Michael Fowler (Beams Professor, Department of Physics, University of Virginia)
1.2: Boyle's Law and the Law of Atmospheres
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Michael Fowler
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The Eagle Has Landed: Massive Fried Chicken Food And Beer Hall To Open In Pittsburgh
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A well known Ohio based restaurant known for their fried chicken will open in downtown Pittsburgh.
Our news partners at the Post-Gazette say ‘The Eagle’ has signed a lease to bring a 6,000 square feet restaurant and beer hall to a space downtown at Eighth & Penn.
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The Eagle’s Pittsburgh location will be the restaurant’s fifth location, with the original opening in Cincinnati in 2013, and other restaurants in Columbus, Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky.
The Eagle is well-known for their fried chicken, but the restaurant is also known for its Southern-fare of sausage and kale dip, pickled vegetables, mac and cheese, spoonbread, succotash and biscuits.
The restaurant will reportedly open in October or November of this year.
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What are the hadiths of the Prophet about commerce and commercial ethics?
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- How is profit rate and price determined in trade?
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- According to our religion, what is the maximum profit rate?
Submitted by Editor (editor) on Mon, 01/10/2018 - 16:25
Dear Brother / Sister,
The religion of Islam did not introduce a certain profit rate. What determines the profit is the market conditions. Goods can be sold at a price a bit higher or lower than the market price. It is not permissible to sell something at an exorbitant price to deceive the customer.
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) saw a man selling wheat. He asked the man,
"How do you sell the wheat?"
The man told him how he sold it. Meanwhile, the Messenger of Allah received a divine inspiration:
"Plunge your hand in the wheat.”
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) plunged his hand and saw that the wheat was wet. Thereupon, he said,
“Why did you not put the wet part on top so that people would see it? He who deceives us is not one of us.” (Muslim, Iman, 164)
As it is stated in the hadith, Islamic economic system based trade on honesty and the understanding of serving the individual and the community.
Commercial activity, which means transferring goods from the producer to the consumer, which necessitates both capital and labor and which can end in profit or loss, was rendered halal and even encouraged since it increased the benefits of goods. If it is take into consideration that the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Nine-tenths of profit come from trade” (Munawi, Faydul-Qadir, 3/220), the degree of this encouragement is understood better.
On the other hand, two of the most important of the five basic principles of Islamic belief, hajj and zakah, are peculiar to rich believers; they are also like encouraging people to be rich through legitimate ways. The hadith “the hand that gives is superior to the hand that takes” (Muslim, Zakah, 106), which is a decree that encourages people to give, can be evaluated in the same context.
However, the following hadith should not be forgotten in trade, which is the most important means of obtaining goods and wealth:
“Every ummah has a fitnah (means of testing). The fitnah of my ummah is wealth.” (Tirmidhi, Zuhd, 19)
For, the greed to make money in trade is one of the handicaps that the soul is addicted to. A greedy person is like a pitcher; even if its belly is full, its mouth does not close. Even if you try to pour the sea into a pitcher, it cannot get more than its capacity. A greedy person is like a stove or brazier; as fuels like wood and coal are put in it, it does not go out but its flames and heat increase. The Prophet states the following about a greedy person:
“If the son of Adam had two valleys of money, he would wish for a third, for nothing can fill the belly of Adam's son except dust.” (Bukhari, Riqaq, 10; Muslim, Zakah, 116)
Because of this greed, man resorted to incalculable tricks and deceptions in trade. That is why, many tribes were destroyed. The world is full of so many incorrigible people. There have always been rich people who devoured the rights of the poor, the homeless, widows, orphans and the needy like a vampire instead of taking care of them by giving them zakah, sadaqah, etc. despite their wealth.
The issue of the religion is spirit. The body is a burden for spirit. The religion does not aim to bring happiness to the body. On the contrary, it aims to make spirit dominant over the body. In trade, we should restrain our greed at a certain level lest we should go to extremes and be unhappy both in the world and the hereafter. It would be a dream beyond reach to seek peace in a society that is full of profiteering merchants, thieving administrators and bribe-takers.
Allah Almighty states in the Quran that the people of Madyan and Ayka, who were the tribes of Hz. Shuayb, were ruined because of their corrupt behaviors in trade and wants the people to come after them up the Day of Judgment to take lessons from them. Therefore, it is a very big crime that will destroy a nation to deceive people in trade, to earn haram money and to crush the weak. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) states the following:
“May Allah perish the slave of gold coins, silver coins and thick soft clothes! If a greedy person is given what he wants, he is pleased; otherwise he is dissatisfied.” (Bukhari, Riqaq, 10; Jihad, 70; Ibn Majah, Zuhd, 8)
When somebody was praised, Hz. Umar asked the person who praised three things:
“Have you been his neighbor, travelled with him and done business with him?”
When the man said that he did none of them with him, Hz. Umar said,
“I think you saw him nodding his head while reading the Quran in the mosque.”
The man said,
“O Umar! Yes. I saw him like that.” Thereupon, Hz. Umar said,
“Then, do not praise him because sincerity is not in the neck of a person.” (see Kharaiti, Makarimul-Akhlaq, 1/185)
The criterion given by Hz. Umar here is not to be deceived by the appearance and to have a view about a person based on his deeds and social relations. It indicates the danger of acquitting a person who has not been tested for his material interest.
As it is seen, trade reflects the inner world of a person. That is, the inner world of a person is like his trade. Therefore, the Prophet stated the following in a hadith:
“Allah does not look at your prayers and fasting but at your financial relationships.” (see Kanzul-Ummal, h. No: 8435, 8436)
In the hadith, it is indicated that it is necessary to evaluate a person based on his practices related to social life, which are called muamalat. This does not mean that deeds of worshipping like daily prayers are unimportant. However, what is essential in social life related to shopping, trust and reliance is a person’s attitudes and deeds related to them.
According to Islam, a buyer and a seller should not criticize an article deliberately when buying it and should not praise an article more than it is when selling it. One should not ask a higher price than the market price by making use of the weakness of the buyer. The seller should not deceive the customer by overcharging; one should not black-market, practice usury, cheat while weighing and measuring goods, should avoid vowing and selling haram things that will harm the community.
The Prophet (pbuh) introduced the rules of trade in a nice way:
“Unnecessary words and vows are uttered in trade; Satan and sins intervene. Purify your trade with sadaqah.” (Abu Dawud, Buyu 1; Tirmidhi, Buyu 4; Nasai, Ayman 7)
“Merchants will be fasiqs (sinners) on the Day of Judgments except those who acted honestly.” (Tirmidhi, Buyu, 4; Ibn Majah, Tijarat, 3)
It is necessary to inform a seller who does not know about the value of his goods. It is regarded as ghabn (deceiving) to benefit from his ignorance, lack of experience and gullibility. Those who fear Allah and who want to attain His consent act very carefully and sensitively regarding the issue.
Abu Hanifa asked a woman who brought him a silk dress that she wanted to sell the price of it. The woman said,
“O Imam! One hundred dirhams.” He objected:
“No, it is worth more.”
The woman was surprised and increased the price one hundred dirhams. Abu Hanifa did not accept it. The woman increased one hundred dirhams again and another one hundred. He said,
“No, it is worth more than four hundred dirhams.” This time, the woman said,
“O Imam! Are you mocking me?”
Thereupon, the Imam summoned somebody who was good at fabrics so that the woman would find out the real price of the dress. The man determined the price of the dress as five hundred dirhams and Abu Hanifa bought it at that price.
For, he knew that to give up honesty, to hide the faults of the goods and to ignore weighing and measuring truly would lead man to bad consequences.
The Ottoman community was brought up based on this high ethics and the community attained peace and happiness in a way that would impress even the unbelievers. The following incident, which took place when two priests wandered in Istanbul after the conquest in order to inspect the Ottoman shopkeepers, reflects it very well:
The priests went to a grocer’s early in the morning and wanted to buy something. The grocer said to them,
“I have made my first sale today. Go to my neighbor who has not sold anything this morning.”
Thereupon, they went to the other grocer’s. He said the same thing.
Thus, the priests went to the next shop. They heard the same statement. Finally, they went back to the first grocer’s and bought from him.
Our ancestors were brought up and lived in such an altruistic and self-sacrificing environment. People think of one another in this environment, which consists of Islamic ethics. Cheating is a big crime for a Muslim. A Muslim cannot lie and deceive people. Being deceived is a sign of stupidity. It does not fit a Muslim. The prophets, who are guides for humanity, have the attributes of “honesty” and “wisdom”. A Muslim who follows them has to be wise and alert. Allah Almighty states the following to warn us to be careful about those who try to deceive:
“To those weak of understanding Make not over your property, which Allah hath made a means of support for you...” (an-Nisa, 4/5)
As for those who deceive people, they are warned by the following hadith:
“Three are three people with whom Allah would neither speak on the Day of Resurrection, nor would look at them nor would absolve them, and there is a painful chastisement for them.”
When Abu Dharr heard that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) repeated this statement three times, he asked,
“O Messenger of Allah! They failed and they lost; who are these people?”
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) answered:
“They are: the dragger of lower garment, the recounter of obligation and the seller of goods by false oath.” (Muslim, Iman, 171)
On the other hand, it is regarded a very bad deed to black-market, that is, to stock goods and wait until the price goes up to sell them. It means to exploit the community. The Prophet (pbuh) damned those who black-marketed. He said,
“He who supplies to the market gains; he who waits in order to sell at a higher price is damned by Allah.” (Ibn Majah, Tijarat, 6)
Islam shows its rule related to trade in earning and using activities. The Quran regards the commercial transactions in which both parties give consent halal and others haram and says, “Eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities.”
The full verse in question is as follows:
“O ye who believe! Eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: But let there be amongst you Traffic and trade by mutual good-will: Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves: for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.” (an-Nisa 4/29)
The statement “Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves” includes an important subtle point. It warns us against being people of Hell by destroying spiritual life. On the other hand, attention is drawn to the fact that some of the fights and murders originate from eating up property in vanities and the greed to make money. One can be saved from those dangers by acting in compliance with the rules of trade imposed by Islam. To avoid interest is the most important issue here.
Interest is the manifestation of exploitation since it does not include any risks or efforts. It helps the rich to be stronger and causes the needy to be oppressed more. There are frightening hadiths of the Prophet (pbuh) about interest. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) stated the following in the Farewell Sermon:
“All kinds of interest (usury) are under my feet.” (Darimi, Manasik 34)
Thus, he rendered all kinds of interest (usury) haram. The verses express the divine threat regarding the issue as follows:
“Those who devour usury will not stand except as stand one whom the Evil one by his touch Hath driven to madness. That is because they say: "Trade is like usury," but Allah hath permitted trade and forbidden usury. Those who after receiving direction from their Lord, desist, shall be pardoned for the past; their case is for Allah (to judge); but those who repeat (The offence) are companions of the Fire: They will abide therein (for ever).
Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity: For He loveth not creatures ungrateful and wicked.” (al-Baqara, 2/275-276)
The threat stating that divine wrath will be manifest due to interest (usury) in the following verses is terrible:
“O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what remains of your demand for usury, if ye are indeed believers.
If ye do it not, Take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger: But if ye turn back, ye shall have your capital sums: Deal not unjustly, and ye shall not be dealt with unjustly.” (al-Baqara, 2/278-279)
Who can win the war against the Creator of the universe and the Messenger of Allah, for whom the universe was created?
If a believer deals with interest, he will lose either his wealth or his belief. When a fasiq (sinner) deals with such wrong ways, his wealth increases so that he will be fit for the penalty he will be given. That is, that way becomes profitable for him. For, Allah Almighty gives respite but never neglects. Such people will have some respite up to the time when they will be punished. It is necessary to be careful about the divine threat in the verse. Otherwise, it will be very bad. Hz. Jabir states the following:
“The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) cursed the accepter of interest and its payer, and one who records it, and the witnesses and he said, ‘They are all equal.’” (Muslim, Musaqat, 106)
The state of Abu Hanifa is so nice. He did not even sit in the shade of the tree that belonged to his debtor so that there would be no doubt of interest.
There are definitely many reasons for the prohibition of interest. The most important ones are increase in unemployment, causing artificial increase in prices, weakening humane and ethical virtues like helping, solidarity, love, mercy and compassion, increasing egoism and boosting the greed to make money and to be influential.
Having prohibited interest due to those reasons, Islam encourages people to lend money without interest for the sake of Allah if they can; it regards lending money to a person who is in need better than giving sadaqah.
However, honest, truthful and trustworthy businessmen are always in minority. The Prophet (pbuh) mentions great rewards for honest businessmen probably for this reason. The following is stated in a hadith:
“An honest merchant (businessman) is in the shade of the Throne on the Day of Judgment.” (Ibn Majah, Tijarat 1)
“An honest, truthful and trustworthy businessman (merchant) is together with prophets, loyal people and martyrs.” (Tirmidhi, Buyu, 4)
Abu Hanifa was a very rich person who bought and sold goods. However, he had a deputy to look after his business since he himself was busy in ilm (religious studies); he checked whether his trade was carried out legitimately or not. He was very sensitive regarding the issue. Once, he sent his partner, Hafs bin Abdurrahman, to sell some fabric and said to him,
“O Hafs! This fabric has such and such defects. Therefore, tell the customer about them and sell it at this price.”
Hafs sold it at the price that the Imam said but he forgot to tell the customer about the defects in the fabric. When Abu Hanifa learned of this, he said to Hafs,
“Do you know the customer who bought the fabric?”
When Hafs said he did not know the customer, the Imam gave away all of the money of the fabric to the poor as sadaqah. For, he always acted in compliance with the following statement the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said to Amr:
“O Amr! Righteous goods are so nice for a righteous person.” (Ahmad b. Hanbal, IV/197, 202)
He acted based on the criteria of taqwa related to halal and haram. For, being careful about halal and haram is an obligation for the cleanliness of the wealth entrusted to us and for being able to give an account of it on the Day of Judgment.
My father, Musa Efendi, narrated the importance and blessing of halal food and the issue of not including any haram things in trade as follows:
“We had an Armenian neighbor who had become a Muslim. Once, I asked him why he had become a Muslim. He narrated me the following incident:
"I became a Muslim due to the high ethics of Rabi Mulla, who owned the field next mine, in trade. He earned his living by selling milk. One night, he came to our house and said,
"This milk is yours. Here you are." I was surprised. I said,
"Why? I did not want any milk from you." That elegant person said,
"I saw that one of my animals entered your field and grazed there. Therefore, this milk is yours. In addition, I will bring you her milk until the grass she ate from your field completely leaves her body.” I said,
“Do not mention it. She ate only some grass. I do not demand anything from you about it.” However, Mulla Rabi said,
“No. Her milk is your right.” Thus, he brought us the milk of that animal until all of the grass she ate from my field left her body.
This act of that blessed person affected me very much. Finally, I was awakened and I felt the sun of guidance in my heart. I said to myself,
“The religion of a man with such high ethics is definitely a lofty religion. It is not possible to doubt the trueness of the religion that brings up such an elegant, rightful, perfect and pure person.” Then, I uttered kalima ash-shahada and became a Muslim.”
Along with such beauties, it is sad that the heedlessness mentioned in the following hadith is unfortunately seen everywhere:
“A time will come when one will not care how he gains one's money, legally or illegally.” (Bukhari, Buyu, 7, 23)
In fact, the penalties caused by the violation of the rules imposed by the religion are individual and most of them are given in the hereafter but the penalty for haram earnings will affect the offspring of a person. Besides, the penalty will be given in this world before the hereafter.
It is a fact that those who receive inheritance from haram wealth do not usually follow the right path. For, there is a secret in money; it goes from the way it comes. An inheritor who receives haram money is dragged by that wealth to bad ways. Such wealth resembles a snake. A snake enters into the hole from which he comes out. Wealth is spent based on the way it is earned.
It is expressed in a verse by the tongue of Hz. Musa (Moses) that a wealth that is not used in the way of belief and taqwa will be dragged to sins and unbelief:
“Moses prayed: "Our Lord! Thou hast indeed bestowed on Pharaoh and his chiefs splendour and wealth in the life of the present, and so, Our Lord, they mislead (men) from Thy Path. Deface, our Lord, the features of their wealth, and send hardness to their hearts, so they will not believe until they see the grievous penalty.” (Yunus, 10/88)
It is strange that some people act as if one cannot make money if he acts honestly in trade. They are nonsensical words of those close their eyes to the truth and deny the divine program of distribution. According to those who make this mistake, Hz. Abu Bakr, who gave away all of his wealth several times and who never abandoned honest trade, would have been among the poorest of the Companions. However, it is a historical fact that he was always among the richest ones of the Companions. Although he gave away all of his wealth for the sake of Allah and His Messenger, he gained wealth again through divine blessing so many times.
Therefore, we have to make money through legitimate ways and spend it on legitimate things. A conscious merchant should not ignore the profit of the hereafter, which is bigger than the profit of the world, while dealing with trade in the world; he should think of the eternal bliss and should not leave the divine way. The following verse reflects the cordial life of such people in a nice way:
“By men whom neither traffic nor merchandise can divert from the Remembrance of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, nor from the practice of regular Charity: Their (only) fear is for the Day when hearts and eyes will be transformed (in a world wholly new).” (an-Nur, 24/37)
The people who do deal with trade like that are those who act in accordance with “tijaratan lan- tabur” (a commerce that will never fail) mentioned in a verse, that is, those who deal with real trade. As a matter of fact, Allah states the following about real trade:
“Those who rehearse the Book of Allah, establish regular Prayer, and spend (in Charity) out of what We have provided for them, secretly and openly, hope for a commerce that will never fail:
For He will pay them their meed, nay, He will give them (even) more out of His Bounty: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready to appreciate (service).” (Fatir, 35/29-30)
May Allah Almighty enable us to live in accordance with those verses! May He enable us to read the divine book with the eye of the heart, to prostrate with an awe that will elevate us to Miraj, to make money legitimately, to spend it without extravagance and to spend the boons He gave us in His way!
O Lord! Enable our brothers who deal with trade to be among the people “from whose hands and tongues believers benefit from” mentioned in the hadith and to be good people for our country and nation! Enable them to do righteous deeds that will be a means of mercy and blessing in the world and the hereafter! Amin!
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To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it.
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An insurgent's greatest strength: he doesn't have to win.
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Comrades, in remembering the glorious battles of long ago do not forget how they were won. They were won not only by courage and skill with arms but by prudence.
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Sometimes the best move is no move.
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No MovestrategyStay PutWait It Out
I am running away but I prefer to call it just a 'strategic retreat'.
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Running AwayfleeingEscapingstrategic retreatLifestrategy
This 'brilliant' success is in reality a case where strategy not merely paved the way for a victory in battle but executed it—where indeed, the victory was merely the last act of the strategy approach.
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The spectator and historian of his exploits has observed that amidst the perils of war he was daring without rashness, that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.
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— Napoleon, The Military Maxims of Napoleon
At the commencement of a campaign, to advance or not to advance is a matter for grave consideration, but when once the offensive has been assumed, it must be sustained to the last extremity.
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With Maduro Wins the Progressive Humanity, says African Diplomat
Havana, Apr 15 – The Ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, said today that Nicolás Maduro’s victory in the presidential elections in Venezuela is also a triumph of all the progressive and revolutionary mankind.
In an interview with Prensa Latina, the diplomat stressed that Africa must learn from this election result as it has shown that capitalism has no future.
“Africans must understand that Venezuela clarified the confusing situation that existed after the collapse of the socialist arena, because Hugo Chavez arrives and puts socialism in place,” said the headof the African Diplomatic Corps accredited to Havana.
According Onguemby, Chavez acted in an incredible way for he was not afraid, he did not fear imperialism.
He also considered that Maduro gives continuity to the project undertaken by Chavez, who died on March 5.
“Maduro’s victory is a great victory for the working class, and from that Europe also has to learn, because they destroyed the working class,” he said.
The diplomat explained that Chavez created the cooperation forum South America-Africa (ASA), which first summit was held in November 2006 in the city of Abuja, Nigeria. The second took place in September 2009, on the island of Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. The third was held last February in the city Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
Therefore, the diplomat stressed, Maduro’s victory is also the victory of Africa because it gives the dimension, gives way to human dignity.
Capitalism is wrong with its neoliberalism, the ambassador stressed from the Cultural House of Alba in Havana, where part of the diplomatic corps, Cuban government officials, artists, and people in general expected the results of the elections this Sunday.
Today, Venezuelans elected, with 50.66 percent of the votes, Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela, who will govern until 2019 and will carry out the project initiated by Chávez.
Source: Prensa Latina
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Deploying to Afghan
Current RAF
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I just wanted to share something with you…
Well, I am back from Afghanistan. One adventure over, and wondering what the next one will be. But I am starting to reflect a little on my time out in Afghan.
And of course when you do that you start to look at what you did and how you did it, and for me that’s when the doubts creep in. Did I do it well enough? Was I good enough? I wanted to go and test myself…how did I fare in that test?
But then on Wednesday we had our medals parade. And the OC of our deployment gave a short final speech at the end of the parade just before we fell out and rejoined our families. They are not his own words – they belong to Theodore Roosevelt – but to hear them…well, they made me feel a lot better about how I tackled the deployment itself.
And here they are:
It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
I think they’ve replaced Kipling’s ‘IF’ as my favourite quote now.
Posted in Current RAF, Deploying to Afghan, Life
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neill on September 30, 2011 at 12:04 pm said:
Glad to hear you are back safe, noticed you mention it on Twitter.
This blog has been an eye opener to me in so many ways so thank you so much for keeping it going during your tour and good luck with the future, whatever it may hold……will keep reading 🙂
Morsleib on September 30, 2011 at 12:14 pm said:
Those who can – do. Those who can’t – criticise.
Chris on September 30, 2011 at 12:22 pm said:
Thank you! Makes me put the daily politics of school life into perspective!
evilscot on September 30, 2011 at 12:27 pm said:
A very inspirational speech. Fitting for service personnel.
I wish you good luck for the next month doing the most challenging and rewarding jobs known to man.
Sharon on September 30, 2011 at 12:34 pm said:
When we test ourselves we are our own worst critic’s and we question every move we nade as you did.
You have no need to think back questioning yourself, for you went over there in the first instance. Therefore you are already a brave and courageous man and everything you did was above question.
Mike Binnix on September 30, 2011 at 1:13 pm said:
We can all learn from every endeavor great or small and find ways to do better next time. But Teddy’s got it about right. Learning where one could do better should never inspire regret or shame for having tried.
To you and your unit… well done and thank you. Enjoy some time with your family before you embark on your next adventure.
Kerry Maria Lawson on September 30, 2011 at 1:39 pm said:
Everything u do is perfect 4you, no more no less. Never b in any doubt That u could’ve done more. U’re a true perfect Hero. X
Marie Mann (@MarieMann1) on September 30, 2011 at 6:04 pm said:
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; ”
You did well, very,very well! xx
Rob... on September 30, 2011 at 9:38 pm said:
Welcome home and thank you for your blog posts whilst out there.
gail on November 2, 2011 at 6:48 pm said:
glad your back, your post moved me,i came across this site by mistake really , my Dad was RAF and am trying to trace his records,found myself here!
would just like to add Thank you to you all for the work you do.
Gail.
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Surviving tough times, emergencies AND wearing hand-me-downs!
Wealthy is the man who can live on what he has.
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Hand Me Downs-What are Those?
When I was a young lad few of us knew what designer labels were…other than owning a pair of Levis, we never heard of so-called designer labels, Nike’s or other nonsensical $100 and up articles of clothing, toys or much of anything else in our neighborhood.
I’m not sure when society became so affluent that kids were spoiled with designer duds and over priced toys which frequently substituted as babysitters.
Some kids became so obsessed certain name brands that they killed each other over shoes named after some athlete…talk about a shallow life!
All the kids in my area wore hand-me-downs which were often mended by mothers who knew who how to sew and/or even make clothing from scratch from patterns.
As our Middle Class continues to decline and folks look for ways to stretch a buck in light of rising prices and shrinking product sizes here’s a peek at the ancient art of hand-me-downs.
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Essential Outdoor Survival Skills
Learn outdoor survival skills and you won’t be caught unprepared.
Regardless of your physical state, knowing a few basic outdoor survival skills gives you an edge if a survival situation were to ever arise. It is far better to know such skills and not need them, rather than the other way around.
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More than anything else, survival in the outdoors is directly linked to common sense and awareness of self, others, and the surrounding environment — train your brain to help you out. Add to that the following seven skills, and the chances of a positive outcome increase.
Key outdoor survival skills include: (1) building a fire; (2) sheltering yourself in extreme heat and cold; (3) staying hydrated; (4) signaling and increasing your visibility; (5) taking care of injuries and wounds well enough to help yourself return to safety; (6) knowing where you are and knowing how to get where you’re going; and (7) knowing your skill level and when to back off, retreat, etc.
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The Working Class Lament: "I Never Have Enough Time"
"An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation -- more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty."
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Shadow Work and the Rise of Middle-Class Serfdom
Brett and Kate McKay
Everyone’s Lament: I Don’t Have Enough Time
Never before in the history of the world has there been so many labor saving devices, yet everyone whines they don’t have enough time in the day.
Since the 1960s, work hours have actually decreased by almost eight hours a week, while leisure time has gone up by almost seven hours. Many will likely find this hard to believe, and that’s partly due to the fact that people routinely overestimate how much they really work by 5-10%. We also greatly underestimate our available leisure time; Americans think they have, at the most, about 16.5 hours of it a week. In actuality, nearly all of us have anywhere from 30-40 hours of leisure time at our disposal. And this includes both men and women, singles and marrieds, those with children and those without, and the rich and poor alike; in fact, lower income Americans have more leisure time than higher earners.
So what exactly is going on? What accounts for the gap between how our lives feel and how they’re actually structured?
How is it possible that we ostensibly have 40 hours of leisure time each week, and yet most of us feel we can’t even spare 20 minutes a day to read a book?
The reality is most people waste a lot of time on non-productive activity such as taking selfies, surfing the web, shopping, etc.
Working women have long complained of having to hold down “the second shift” — i.e., having to do the bulk of childcare and housework after putting in time at a paid job. While it’s true and often reported that women continue to do more of these second shift chores than men, total working time for men and women these days is actually close to equal. That is, while working women do more housework, working men put in more hours at the office, so that the total working hours for each is close to the same.
Amidst the debate over which sex does more, few have noticed the fact that all of us — men and women alike — are working not only unpaid second shifts, but third, fourth, and fifth ones as well.
As author and professor Dr. Craig Lambert explains, we all increasingly “find ourselves doing a stack of jobs we never volunteered for, chores that showed up in our lives below the scan of awareness.” Lambert calls these tasks “shadow work” and in his book of the same name, he describes this labor as “all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations.”
You perform shadow work whenever you do jobs that used to be done by a paid employee, but have now been outsourced to the consumer: pumping gas, booking a travel itinerary, bussing a table, and so on. We likewise do shadow work whenever we bank online or use an ATM instead of a teller, check-in to flights or a hotel using a kiosk rather than a human, and wait on hold for an hour to talk to a scarce customer service representative. When we can’t find a knowledgeable salesman to talk to and get a recommendation from at a big box store, and instead must take over his job and shop online, spending hours comparing model features and reading reviews, we’re doing shadow work then too. When we follow through on these online transactions, entering in our credit card number and address for the umpteenth thousandth time, we do yet more shadow work — this time as DIY cashiers.
We’ve all taken over a wide variety of jobs that used to be done by others, not only in the wider marketplace, but even just a few desks over; many paid positions have been subject to “job creep” in which a worker must perform the tasks that used to be done by three other people, and are not included in his official job description. Support staff — secretaries, assistants, and the like who used to make your coffee and copies, answer your mail, and keep track of your schedule, have largely been resigned to the dust bin of a bygone era. And yet the requirement of becoming a jack-of-all-trades has not been accompanied by an increase in wages.
Shadow work also includes tasks that have resulted from new practices and expectations, and which you must perform if you wish to use a particular service or simply keep your job. Think of kowtowing to the shoe-removing rituals required by airport security, filling out endless paperwork when you visit a new doctor, and of course doing your taxes, a chore which takes the average 1040-filer 23 hours of shadow work a year. Suppressing any normal, negative feelings, and putting on a consistently upbeat, friendly face — which more and more employers require of workers who interact with the public — constitutes tiresome shadow work too.
ut perhaps the most taxing shadow work of all is managing our information intake. In times past, magazine, book, and television editors controlled the flow of information to the public. This restricted the media being put out, but also filtered it for quality and importance. The web has radically democratized this process, so that anyone with a computer can create their own videos, books, articles, films, and so on. This has left the consumer with the enormous and never-ending job of wading into the torrent of media online and sifting the wheat from the chaff.
This ever-increasing mountain of shadow work tasks has placed a unique burden on the modern citizen. Lambert argues that while shadow work has hardly put us in the position of medieval peasants, it has in fact created a new kind of middle-class serfdom. We are all Bill, logging hours for corporations we don’t realize we’re employed by, and working around the clock without pay.
Life as a Middle-Class Serf
Lambert calls shadow work such, because it takes “place in the wings of the theater while we are absorbed in the onstage drama of our lives.” Had it dropped into our routines all at once, we would have noticed, and may have howled in protest, but instead it has arrived slowly in dribs and drabs. It’s become our new normal and we’ve gotten so used to it that the phenomenon has largely gone unnoticed and unrecognized.
Taken alone, the tasks of shadow work seem laughably trivial. But it’s serfdom by a thousand cuts; together, our shadow work chores have shredded our days into what the author of Overwhelmed calls, “confetti time.” Rather than experiencing long, unbroken stretches of time in which we concentrate on completing tasks for a single role in our lives, we are constantly changing the hats we wear — toggling from husband to cashier, office worker to news editor, father to travel agent.
And while we were formerly forced to largely work during regular work hours and shop during regular business hours, technology allows us to produce and consume 24/7. We never fully clock out from our “real” jobs, nor do we ever fully take a break from the marketplace. Even when we’re not actively engaging in shadow work, in the back of our mind there’s that ever present niggling: Is there something I need to buy? Is there something going on I should know about? Should I check my phone? We’re always “on” and constantly mentally switching between roles.
The Hidden Thieves Stealing Your Willpower
It isn’t the time that shadow work tasks require that ends up being so draining (they may even save you time over the traditional route), but their effect on the psyche. Willpower is a finite resource. You only get so much of the fuel that allows you to focus and gives you the mental energy to tackle the world each day. And what saps this fuel is making decisions, weighing options, and exercising self-control.
Shadow work requires all three behaviors, and is thus a huge willpower drainer.
I have long felt that this is one of the single most overlooked facts in modern life; even Lambert largely misses it. I think it gets to the heart of why people feel overworked, worn out, and harried — why they just can’t be bothered to be civil or to socialize or to have hobbies, even though on paper they don’t seem to have that much going on. The stuff that’s eating away at their willpower aren’t the things you’d put in a planner, but the overlooked shadow work in the wings.
Shadow work does frequently give the average consumer more autonomy; you can do things when and how you’d like. But 100% autonomy is actually not a desirable state. “Submission” is a word with negative connotations, but times of psychic submission are in fact a mental necessity. Our minds need periods of rest where we can say to someone else, “You take care of all the details on this. I just want to enjoy the result!” It’s true that the rich have always enjoyed this kind of delegated caretaking the most, with their coterie of maids and servants standing by to fulfill their every need. But as recently as 50 years ago, everybody, from the overwhelmed housewife to the working class bloke, got to regularly enjoy at least a few brief moments of respite at stores, gas stations, and the like; nearly everyone had times both of serving and being served. Now we’re always waiting, and never being waited upon.
Most wearying of all, is that one of the things which is supposed to act as our servant — the web — often becomes our master instead.
Condensed from: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/08/31/shadow-work-and-the-rise-of-middle-class-serfdom/
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20 Handy Uses for WD-40, Airlines to Weigh You as Well as Baggage
If you'd know the power of money, go and borrow some.
- Ben Franklin
20 Unusual but Handy Uses for WD-40, Indoors and Out
I use a case a month of this wonderful product on various business projects and thought these additional uses worth sharing...
WD-40 is perhaps best known for its ability to lubricate, loosen and drive water out of various parts and tools. But these lesser-known uses can prove just as helpful in your daily life.
WD-40 is marketed as a “multi-use product.”
It’s known for the capabilities for which it’s usually enlisted — such as lubricating squeaky hinges, loosening rusted parts and driving out moisture. (In fact, “WD” stands for “water displacement.”)
But WD-40’s uses extend well beyond those roles.
WD-40 Co. offers thousands of uses for its namesake product on its website, including 2,000-plus uses contributed by the product’s devotees. Pros and amateurs alike have been discovering more uses since the original WD-40 product was developed in 1953 after 39 failed attempts. (Thus, the “40” in its name.)
We’ve rounded up some of the least known but most helpful uses below.
If your instinct is to save a buck by buying a generic equivalent, we applaud you. But following through on that instinct might be more challenging than usual in WD-40’s case.
The product has few competitors, equity research analyst Joseph Altobello, currently of Raymond James Financial, told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2013. Liquid Wrench, a brand-name product, and a few store brands could be the closest things to knock-offs.
The newspaper noted the following about the San Diego headquarters of WD-40:
The company keeps a room filled with knock-off brands that have tried and failed to mimic the product. Some of the cans look uncannily like regular WD-40. [Chief Executive Garry] Ridge calls that room the mortuary.
If you try a new use for WD-40 or a knock-off, test it in a small inconspicuous area first. WD-40’s list of fan-submitted uses notes that the company has not tested those suggestions, and that “customers should exercise common sense whenever using WD-40” and read the label.
http://www.moneytalksnews.com/20-unusual-but-handy-uses-for-40-indoors-and-out/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=email-2015-08-31-pm&utm_medium=email
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Insurers Win Big Health-Rate Increases…Consumers come out on the short end of the Obama stick – Again!
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I warned of this in several previous issues...you can't trust government or Wall Street...
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Comedy Central’s Wednesday night looking bright
BY TROY PHILLIPS
Comedy Central’s yearly lineup is a lot like the revolving doors at a busy restaurant. Sandwiched between syndicated reruns and late night staples like The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are a rotating cast of half hour scripted slots that change guard every few months. When you compare that to mainline network comedies, which have the opportunity to air from September to May, it becomes much easier to understand the brevity of Comedy Central’s approach.
For now, Wednesday night belongs to the fifth season of Workaholics and the inaugural campaign of female buddy comedy Broad City. If the first go-around was any indication, this pair could be tag teaming for many winters to come.
Before you even press play on an episode of Workaholics, you already know what’s going to be on tap, give or take a few degrees. It’s part of what makes the show great. Sit down, absorb the shaky premise, and then chuckle your way through the misguided shenanigans and awkward exchanges that has won over legions of loyal viewers.
In a shocking development, last night’s episode was much the same way. This particular iteration involved Montez, Molly (the drug, not a character on the show you can’t seem to remember), a baby shower, an EDM concert and a hot tub. America’s favorite working-class triumvirate pulls down another solid performance, America cries bravo and then proceeds to twiddle their thumbs to make pass the same time next week.
“The Raver’s Prayer”, as this episode was called, doesn’t measure up to classic installments like “Fourth And Inches” or “The Lord’s Force”, but the overall the content grades out as B work and is worth a small investment of time. After several successful seasons on air, it’s safe to say that the Anderson/DeVine/Holm/Newacheck (Kyle Newacheck, who plays Karl and came up with the concept of the show along with the three main characters) brain trust has navigated the treacherous road from the internet to television.
Broad City should keep the guys from TelAmeriCorp in mind as they brave their own transition from YouTube to boob tube.
Creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer ran an online show of the same name for the last two years before it caught the eye of now Executive Producer Amy Poehler and made its way to primetime. With support from one of the hottest names in comedy at their side, the sky’s the limit for this pair of UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade) alums.
The first episode didn’t grab me hook, line and sinker, but it delivered enough amusement to pique my interest and tune in again next week. Abbi and Ilana (yes, they go by their real names) are a pair of twenty something friends with crummy professional lives and a penchant for implausible capers in pursuit of money, sex, stress relief, or any combination of the three. The girls seem to traverse half of The Big Apple by the end of the half hour, but by the closing credits our heroines are essentially identical to who they were before, save for aging a day or two. Nothing won, nothing lost. Watching Jacobson and Glazer fall flat on their faces looks like it will become a weekly theme, but they’ll be plenty interesting while doing so.
Sound like anyone you know?
It’s impossible to predict how long any show will stay on air, since so much is dictated by scatterbrained audiences who won’t give new content a seal of approval unless their neighbors are doing the same. Even so, Broad City has the makings of a great caboose to Workaholics’ locomotive. As the smoke clears and opinions become more radical, I encourage you to stay tuned.
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Why the U.S. Is Targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iran’s premier military force. It’s also much more. As the official protector of the 1979 revolution that ...
Arkansas community braces for flooding impact on Memorial Day weekend: 'Keep everybody in your prayers' Historic flooding in Northwest Arkansas has residents and business owners preparing for the wors as the National Weather Service warned of a "dangerou...
| Hong Kong braces for mass rally on China handover anniversary Hong Kong braced for another mass rally Monday as the city marks the anniversary of its handover to China, with attendance at an annual pro-democracy ...
Hong Kong Braces for Big Protests on Anniversary of Return to Chinese Rule Protesters and police clashed just hours before a mass rally—likely to be the largest in the former British colony’s history—on the anniversary of Hon...
Mount Everest, World's Highest Peak, Braces For One Of The Busiest Years The tented city at the foot of Mount Everest is bustling as mountaineers brace for potentially the busiest year yet on the world's highest peak, promp...
All Eyes on the Levees: Amid Flooding, New Orleans Braces for a Potential Hurricane The streets of New Orleans were flooded Wednesday night as a slow-moving storm system approached the city. But with even more rain expected to deluge ...
Rahul Gandhi Asks Workers To Provide Help As Gujarat Braces For Cyclone Congress president Rahul Gandhi has appealed to all party workers to be prepared to help out in areas that get affected by cyclone "Vayu", which is ne...
India evacuates 800,000 people as country braces for Tropical Cyclone Fani Emergency crews deployed to Odisha state as storm packing 205km/h winds bears down on the east coast India has begun the evacuation of 800,000 people ...
3 Lakh Evacuated, 70 Trains Cancelled As Gujarat Braces For Cyclone Vayu The Western Railways cancelled 70 trains and curtailed the journeys of 28 others as Cyclone Vayu inched closer to the Gujarat coastline, growing stron...
Rationing Begins, as Cuba Braces for Economic Impact From Venezuela Crisis Fallout from the power struggle in Venezuela can be felt far beyond its borders, perhaps nowhere more than in Cuba. The U.S. has said Havana’s s...
Hong Kong Protest Live Updates: City Braces for More Demonstrations A march was planned against an unpopular extradition bill, one day after the government agreed to postpone a vote and less than a week after protests ...
Odisha Braces For Fani, Worst Since 1999 Super Cyclone That Killed 10,000 With Cyclone Fani expected to make a landfall in Odisha anytime after tomorrow afternoon, authorities are carrying out evacuations on a war footing in...
Hong Kong braces for second mass rally as protesters keep pressure on Carrie Lam Chief executive’s suspension of work on extraditions bill rejected by protest leaders as not enoughHong Kong is bracing for another mass rally on Sund...
Why those ICE raids are being announced in advance Starting Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to resume its previously announced plan to apprehend thousands of illegal immig...
English nature's 'jewels in crown' threatened by cuts, says watchdog Natural England chair bemoans budget cuts that have left conservation body ‘massively depleted’The reserves and protected places that are the “jewels ...
Family Threatened by Phoenix Police Rejects Apology as a ‘Sham’ A department with a record number of shootings last year was shown on video aiming a gun in a shoplifting case. Critics say officers routinely blame r...
Ex-U.S. marine held in Russia on spying charge says he's being threatened: TASS An ex-U.S. Marine held in Russia on suspicion of spying on Friday accused a security service investigator of subjecting him to threats and asked a cou...
"Feel Safe": BJP Leader's Daughter, Husband, Threatened Over Marriage The daughter of a BJP lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh, who had posted a video on social media claiming she was in danger from her father for marrying a man ...
U.S. mulls delaying threatened tariffs on Mexican products: Bloomberg The United States is considering delaying the imposition of tariffs on Mexican products that President Donald Trump has threatened to put in place on ...
Baby mama threatened to kill me before murdering her beau: witness “She said that she would kill the baby, she would kill me and that no one was going to have him if it wasn’t her,” recalled Elizabeth Matos, who was p...
Staffers at ‘out of control’ Brooklyn school threatened, injured by students A highly regarded Brooklyn school has become a zoo where students threaten teachers and roam the halls, injuring each other and adults, desperate staf...
Off-leash dog kills threatened seal pup in California national park Authorities at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County are seeking information about the dog's owner after a Guadalupe fur seal was killed....
Trump's threatened Mexico tariffs could cost automakers billions Faced with President Trump tariff threat on Mexico, major automakers are planning to delay some vehicle shipments from Mexico, people briefed on the p...
Automakers say Trump's threatened Mexico tariffs would cost billions Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to slap tariffs on Mexican-made goods could cost its major suppliers $1 ...
Health Officials Reportedly Threatened Air Travel Ban for Individuals With Measles Eight individuals thought to be infected with measles reportedly canceled their air travel plans after they learned they could be placed under a healt...
American accused of being a spy says he's being threatened, abused in Russian prison Accused of espionage, Paul Whelan says he is being threatened and abused in a Russian prison and that his continued detainment is akin to political ki...
LeSean McCoy isn’t threatened by all the running backs Bills brought in LeSean McCoy isn’t bothered by a few fresh faces in Buffalo. McCoy, who hill turn 31 in July, struggled through the worst year of his illustrious care...
Mexico’s prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling m...
Ethics panel examining if lawmaker threatened Trump lawyer WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee is investigating whether a Florida congressman tried to intimidate Michael Cohen before the former person...
Man fatally stabs teenager listening to rap because he felt ‘threatened’ by music Michael Adams of Arizona allegedly stabbed Elijah al-Amin, 17, in the neck because he said hip-hop music made him feel ‘unsafe’An Arizona man has told...
Man threatened to ‘kill every gay person’ at St. Louis pride parade: cops A Missouri man was busted by cops for threatening to shoot up a gay pride parade next weekend in St. Louis, according to court documents. Edward Terry...
Jogger spat on, threatened groups of Orthodox Jews: cops A Florida jogger was busted this week after allegedly attacking two groups of Orthodox Jews as they returned home from temple after Sabbath services. ...
Feds: Man aided Hamas, threatened to kill Israel supporters Federal authorities say a man sought to aid a terrorist organization and threatened to "shoot everybody" at a pro-Israel march and bomb Trump Tower in...
Varanasi Voters Being Lured, Threatened To Ensure PM's Victory: Mayawati Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's men were bribing and threatening voters in Varanasi and q...
Colombian soccer player threatened after missed Copa penalty Colombia national soccer team player William Tesillo told local media that he has been threatened via social media after his missed penalty kick in a ...
Kellen Winslow Jr. rape accuser claims ‘he threatened to kill me’ VISTA, Calif. — A female hitchhiker who accused former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. of raping her after he picked her up testified Tuesday that she d...
Pelosi and Schumer Slam President Trump’s Threatened Deportations WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Donald Trump’s threatened coast-to-coast deportations of migrants “outside ...
OHCHR report: Venezuela regime has killed, threatened opponents A new United Nations investigative report said Friday the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has attacked and killed opponents and take...
| Dutchman swims epic ice-skating course threatened by climate change A Dutchman has completed a marathon swim along the route of the country's most famed ice skating race -- which has not been held for two decades as cl...
Opinion: India's Hedge Funds Threatened by Higher Taxes The Securities and Exchange Board of India, or SEBI, has always been suspicious of the source of capital for hedge funds investing in India from Singa...
Mexico's prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion Tourists looking for sun and sand in Mexican resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum ...
Specially trained dogs try to save threatened turtle species Conservation groups in the Midwest are taking an unconventional approach to tracking rare and threatened turtles on their lands by using a John Rucker...
Russia Is Targeting Europe’s Elections. So Are Far-Right Copycats. Digital fingerprints link pro-Russian and anti-European websites, part of an online ecosystem that is sowing discord ahead of European elections this ...
Ransomware attacks targeting US cities on the rise https://pmd.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big/us/2019/05/10/ransomware-attacks-marquardt-dnt-tsr-vpx.cnn_2603699_768x432_1300k.mp4 _____ Crippling ransomware att...
Chantelle Cameron targeting Katie Taylor Chantelle Cameron is eyeing a clash with her old amateur foe, writes Matt Bozeat, but she must win eliminator in Brentwood The post Chantelle Cameron ...
Facebook now tells you where brands are getting your ad targeting data Facebook will now begin to show you more information about the ads you see on the social network. The tech giant has announced a series of updates to ...
A new approach to targeting tumors and tracking their spread The spread of malignant cells from an original tumor to other parts of the body, known as metastasis, is the main cause of cancer deaths worldwide. ...
Could targeting this enzyme halt ovarian cancer? Scientists have identified an enzyme that promotes cell proliferation in the most common and lethal ovarian cancer and could serve as a treatment targ...
Report: Yankees ‘targeting’ Luis Castillo Could the Yankees be gearing up to call the Reds about a starting pitcher? To stop you right there, Sonny Gray is not the guy. @yankees targeting Lui...
Hong Kong braces for huge protests on anniversary of China handover – live Anti-Beijing protesters block key streets as key date marking 1997 transition coincides with anger about controversial extradition lawFull story: Anti...
Cyclone slams into Indian temple town, Bangladesh braces with evacuation order A cyclone barreled into eastern India on Friday, damaging houses in the tourist town of Puri and wounding 160 people after a million people were moved...
India Braces To Face Price Shock As It Stops Buying Iran Oil Tomorrow India has to stop importing oil from Iran from tomorrow after the US ended its waiver to friendly nations on dealing with Tehran, a move that is likel...
Central US braces for severe storms, flash flooding as some parts see tornado warnings States throughout the Central U.S. and parts of the Midwest are bracing for extreme weather this weekend as they expect to see severe thunderstorms, f...
Hong Kong braces for more protests as China extradition bill moves forward Society organizations, labor unions and small businesses are rapidly mobilizing despite warnings from Hong Kong’s chief executive not to take “radical...
New Orleans braces for flooding, Trump declares emergency ahead of Storm Barry New Orleans braced for severe flooding with residents told to hunker down as a growing tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico headed for landfall l...
ICE raids spark fear, protests Immigration advocates took to the streets in protest Friday ahead of mass deportation raids planned this weekend in ten major cities. President Trump ...
Dad allegedly impregnated teen stepdaughter, ‘threatened to kill her family’: cops A San Antonio man impregnated his 14-year-old stepdaughter and then “threatened to kill” her entire family if she told anyone, cops allege...
Rush Limbaugh: 'European elites' threatened by 'Make America Great Again' The "European elites" are threatened by President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' mantra because they view it as a threat to their "world order," c...
In ‘urgent letter’, six premiers tell Trudeau national unity would be threatened if bills C-48, C-69 become law The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories have told Trudeau that two pieces of federal legi...
Trump’s Threatened Tariffs on Mexico Are Already Wreaking Havoc With American Companies The surprise announcement by President Donald Trump of an escalating tariff regime against Mexico sent ripples through almost every economic sector in...
Lebanon rugby league players threatened with jail over planned protest Robbie Farah and teammates plan to cover up LRLF logoDispute over governing body’s board electionsThe Lebanon Rugby League Federation has threatened C...
Teacher allegedly threatened to ‘shoot up’ school, had signal to warn some colleagues An elementary school teacher in North Carolina threatened to “shoot up” her school — and plotted a secret message to warn colleagues before she was to...
O.J. Simpson’s Twitter allegedly threatened parody account using knife emojis O.J. Simpson’s Twitter account allegedly sent a series of menacing direct messages — including a string of 16 knife emojis and the warning that “I WIL...
One million species threatened as global extinction rates speed up, U.N. report says The "unprecedented" loss of biodiversity around the globe is a growing threat to humans, according to a first-of-its-kind report by the United Nations...
New Jersey man tried aiding Hamas, threatened to bomb Trump Tower, feds say A New Jersey man allegedly sought to help the terror group Hamas and threatened to bomb Trump Tower in New York City as well as "shoot everybody" at a...
Man Who Threatened to Kill Boston Globe Employees Will Plead Guilty, Lawyer Says In a series of phone calls, Robert D. Chain called The Boston Globe the “enemy of the people” and threatened to shoot employees, court documents show....
Police: Man Abuducted Juvenile At Gunpoint From Louisville Kroger, Threatened Witnesses LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Police in Louisville arrested a man who they say abducted a juvenile Tuesday afternoon at gunpoint from a Kroger as witnesses...
Woman armed with two machetes allegedly threatened to kill owner at ax-throwing bar She shouldn’t have ‘axed.’ A homeless woman with a machete in each hand made the mistake of her life when she sidled into an ax-thro...
Dad accused of letting daughter burn alive threatened murder-suicide: mom The twisted dad who allegedly left his 3-year-old daughter for dead inside a burning car threatened a murder-suicide an hour earlier — sending the tot...
Man pleads guilty in $30M mail scam targeting elderly CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty in a direct-mail scam that stole more than $30 million from the elderly and others by pro...
Crippling ransomware attacks targeting US cities on the rise Targeted ransomware attacks on local US government entities -- cities, police stations and schools -- are on the rise, costing localities millions as ...
More states targeting teen vaping by raising the buying age to 21 Virginia and Illinois have joined six other states, the District of Columbia and hundreds of municipalities in restricting the sale and use of tobacco...
Tajikistan regime targeting families of political activists From surveillance to outright threats, Tajik authorities are making life difficult for the families of political activists who have fled abroad. DW sp...
22 caught in Michigan sting targeting child sex solicitation Authorities in Michigan say they've arrested 22 people as part of an online child sex sting targeting suspects who are accused of soliciting sex with ...
‘Electricity Shutoff’ Phone Scam Targeting Area LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18)– Better Business Bureau serving Central & Eastern Kentucky has heard from local businesses this week that received calls...
Bills targeting China's Huawei introduced in U.S. Congress Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced bills on Tuesday to keep tight restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, amid con...
Is targeting brain inflammation the key to beating Alzheimer’s disease? The past decade of Alzheimer’s disease research has been fraught with disappointment. Years of focus on one hallmark of the disease ultimately r...
Pipeline opponents challenge Louisiana law targeting protesters Environmental groups and demonstrators arrested near an Energy Transfer LP crude pipeline filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging a 2018 Louisiana st...
NC becomes first state to sue e-cigarette maker Juul over targeting teens North Carolina’s attorney general is asking a state judge to bar popular e-cigarette maker Juul Labs from selling to minors and force it to end slick ...
Could targeting this heart hormone help control blood pressure? The heart releases a hormone that has a key role in blood pressure. Now, a study of rats shows that its function depends on a sugar molecule attachmen...
Cadillac Targeting Coveted Dead Person Market with XT5 Given that I’m just barely experiencing my first quarter-life crisis, I haven’t given much thought to what I’d like to happen when I finally kick the ...
Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests In one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers’ revenue, researchers at three universi...
This new ransomware is targeting network attached storage devices NAS devices are often used to store critical data and back-ups - but many are exposed to the open internet and the cybercriminals behind eCh0raix are...
Yet another cryptocurrency mining botnet caught targeting China It seems we can’t go more than a week without news of a new cryptocurrency mining malware or botnet being discovered. This time, security researchers ...
VW targeting F1 Goodwood Festival of Speed record with evolved ID. R Volkswagen aims to break the 20-year-old Formula 1-established overall Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb record with its updated ID. R electric pro...
Chess: Magnus Carlsen in Scotland and targeting yet another new record The world champion could break his previous high rating of 2903 in rapidplay if he is on form at the Lindores Abbey StarsAnother week, another record ...
Cybersecurity report: Hackers targeting U.S. power grid A group of hackers has targeted the U.S. power grid over the past several months but has so far been unable to trigger any outages or other incidents,...
Tracking Tropical Storm Barry: Louisiana coast braces for season's first hurricane Barry storm tracks: Where is Barry now?Tropical storm Barry is expected to become a hurricane right before landfall in Louisiana Saturday morning. &#...
West Coast braces for heat wave, raising fears of wildfires in Northern California Near-record high temperatures are expected to roast the West Coast next week, with gusty winds raising the danger of fire in a region still coping wit...
European heatwave 2019: UK braces for hottest day of the year as deadly heat sweeps continent The UK is bracing for the hottest day of the year so far as a heatwave gripping Europe is expected to cause temperatures to hit an "exceptional peak" ...
Dow, stocks pare losses in midday trading after Trump threatened tariffs on Mexico The Dow pared earlier losses, but stock investors remain spooked by President Trump's unexpected tariff hikes on Mexican goods. ...
Ex-college soccer player threatened to kill 45 athletes over gambling losses: feds A former Massachusetts college soccer player who was a prolific gambler sent death threats to 45 professional and amateur athletes he blamed for his l...
Federal procurement minister wishes Irving hadn’t threatened reporters with lawsuit Public Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough said the government is reviewing its policies on divulging journalists' names and other personal informat...
Volunteers rush to transport shelter animals threatened by Barry out of storm's path A multistate rescue effort helped secure and transport more than 120 cats and dogs to safety on Friday, removing them from shelters in Louisiana in an...
Bustle raids Elle for new editor-in-chief Bustle Digital Group, where longtime editor-in-chief Kate Ward resigned mid-April, has raided Hearst-owned Elle for its newest EIC, Emma Rosenblum. Sh...
Terror mastermind's family 'blow themselves up' in raids Police have raided the headquarters of the banned group NTJ as sources said the father and brothers of the suspected mastermind of the Easter bombings...
Immigration raids to take place across US starting Sunday Raids are likely to occur in 10 major cities and would target at least 2,000 immigrants who have been ordered deportedUS immigration officials have sa...
Mass immigration raids set to begin this Sunday By Julia Ainsley WASHINGTON — Nationwide immigration raids that were postponed three weeks ago are now scheduled to begin on Sunday, two senior Depart...
Trump Now Says He’ll Delay Massive ICE Raids For 2 Weeks Just hours after he defended his order for nationwide raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of families on Sunday, Don...
U.S. cities brace for immigration raids, say they will not participate U.S. cities expecting to be hit by a wave of immigration raids intended to deport recently arrived families who are in the United States illegally sai...
Trump Confirms Immigration Raids Set For The Weekend US President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will launch raids across the country this wee...
Trump says immigration raids coming 'fairly soon' President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin "fairly soon" as U.S. migrant advocates vowed their communities would be "...
Officials Claim ICE Raids Have Started, but the Worst May Be Yet to Come By broadcasting for weeks that massive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in 10 cities across the nation were imminent, the Trump adm...
Trump says weekend deportation raids were 'very successful' President Donald Trump said on Monday that raids over the weekend aimed at immigrants who had been ordered deported were "very successful" even though...
| Egypt raids businesses over funding plot Egyptian authorities have raided 19 businesses allegedly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and accused of funding a plot to overthrow the state, the inte...
Twitter revises rules on hate speech targeting religions Twitter has technically banned hate speech based on religion before, but it should now be easier for the company to clamp down on that behavior. The ...
Trump signs off sanctions targeting Iran's supreme leader US President Donald Trump has signed off "hard-hitting" sanctions against Iran which he says will target the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kh...
Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran targeting supreme leader US President Donald Trump has signed off on a new round of "hard-hitting" sanctions against Iran amid heightened tensions between the two countries. T...
| 13 Nigeria civilians killed in air raid targeting jihadists - sources At least 13 civilians were killed in an air raid as the military repulsed a jihadist assault in northeast Borno state, residents and a security source...
Water Innovation Prize goes to startups targeting methane and wastewater A startup with a cheap technology for purifying textile wastewater and another with a system to help reduce methane emissions from cattle were named c...
More states are targeting teen vaping, but health advocates say it’s not enough to curb use Virginia and Illinois have joined six other states, the District of Columbia and hundreds of municipalities in implementing Tobacco 21 policies, which...
Suicide bomber targeting police rocks Tunis; 5 hurt TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting a police patrol has struck a busy commercial street in central Tunis, injuring at least five people i...
Shanghai Summit Meet Not Aimed At "Targeting" Any Country, Says China The SCO summit in Bishkek this week would discuss economy-related issues and security cooperation with a focus on counter terrorism, but it is not aim...
G20 to progress digital tax plans targeting tech giants: Report According to Reuters, the group of 20 finance leaders have agreed to draft plans to close international loopholes used by tech giants to reduce their ...
San Francisco ‘IPO Tax’ Targeting Tech Giants on Track for November Vote Happy IPO day to Uber, the Silicon Valley giant whose long-term plan to deal with unhappy drivers is to replace them with robots that won’t worry abou...
Sudan committee to investigate targeting of protesters: military council Sudan's Transitional Military Council formed a joint committee with the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces opposition alliance to investigate th...
Bomb targeting Pakistani police at shrine kills 4 in Lahore LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a powerful bomb has exploded near security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in the eastern city of La...
U.S. senators offer bill targeting Russia-Germany pipeline A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Tuesday seeking sanctions targeting the Nord Stream 2, a planned gas pipe...
Trial set to begin in case targeting Virginia abortion laws RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A trial is set to begin in a lawsuit filed by women’s health groups seeking to overturn restrictions on abortion providers ...
North Carolina Accuses Juul of Targeting Teens in Lawsuit North Carolina officials are suing Juul Labs, accusing the e-cigarette maker of targeting teenagers and misrepresenting the strength and health risks ...
North Carolina accuses JUUL of targeting children in lawsuit North Carolina filed a lawsuit against JUUL on Wednesday, accusing the e-cigarette maker of targeting children in its marketing and failing to clearly...
IS claims bomb attack targeting US-backed force in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — A spokesman for a U.S.-backed force in Syria says a suicide bomber from the Islamic State extremist group detonated his explosives on a ...
Marines to field enhanced handheld targeting system later this year The U.S. Marine Corps plans later this year to integrate new technologies into the existing Common Laser Range Finder-Integrated Capability handheld G...
California braces for feet of snow from storms; 'significant severe weather event' to impact Plains Parts of California still resemble a scene out of winter, with a series of storms bringing several feet of snow to mountain areas, ahead of a "signifi...
Extreme heat continues to scorch Europe; France braces for possible all-time record high Friday High heat again blazed across Europe Thursday as several countries braced for what could be the hottest day yet on Friday. &#...
Hong Kong braces for more protests as political pressure builds to delay or scrap extradition bill As Hong Kong braces for another round of protests, there were signs among the city's political leaders that the proposed extradition bill that h...
Law student threatened to launch terror attack in Westminster when HMRC refused to return his passport A law student threatened to carry out a terror attack in Westminster when HM Revenue and Customs refused to return his passport after he had applied f...
Trump's threatened tariff hike to 25% on Chinese goods would hurt consumers, the economy President Trump's plan to Increase tariffs on Chinese imports from 10% to 25% would hurt US consumers and economy. Hit to U.S. growth would tripl...
Sitaram Yechury Questions CBI Raids On Indira Jaising CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday accused the government of "targeting" former additional solicitor general Indira Jaising and her ...
ICE deportation raids set to being Sunday after Trump delay, report says Nationwide raids targeting thousands of illegal immigrants who are facing deportation or who have overstayed their visas will reportedly begin Sunday....
Report: Syrian air raids hit crowded residential area Syria's White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel's last stro...
Donald Trump: Immigration raids could start July 4 President Donald Trump said his postponed immigration raids in 10 major cities could start on Independence Day unless "something pretty miraculous" ha...
De Blasio says Trump wants to ‘make America hate again’ with ICE raids Mayor de Blasio blasted President Trump for announcing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would carry out raids nationally as a political ploy t...
Embattled Baltimore mayor resigns following federal raids Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, whose home and offices were raided by federal law enforcement last week amid questions over her financial dealings, ab...
Pakistan arrests 3 suspects in 2 raids on militant hideouts MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s provincial counter-terrorism department says security forces have arrested three suspected militants in two s...
Impending immigration raids across US spark anxiety and protests Raids expected to target 2,000 migrants in nearly a dozen citiesVigils held from Los Angeles to BerlinImmigration raids conducted by the Trump adminis...
Raids Expected to Begin in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operation (WASHINGTON) — A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this ...
US To Launch Massive Raids On Undocumented Migrants: Report US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are planning to launch sweeping deportation raids this weekend as the Trump administration expands...
Tax authorities mount raids on 19 German banks and homes Investigation is linked to Panama Papers and part of money laundering allegationsEleven banks and eight private homes and offices across Germany have...
ISIS Claims 3 Of Its Terrorists Blew Themselves In Sri Lankan Raids The ISIS group has claimed responsibility for three men who blew themselves up in clashes with Sri Lankan police, the militant group said in a stateme...
Trump says ICE raids coming, border facilities are ‘incredible’ Trump again threatened that ICE would soon start rounding up illegal immigrants for deportation — and praised the detention centers holding illegal im...
Germany: Dozens of raids over online hate speech Police have said they carried out searches in 13 federal states over crimes like incitement and the use of banned symbols. Authorities have struggled ...
China police raids rescue 1,100 trafficked women BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say they have rescued more than 1,100 abducted foreign women in police raids coordinated with five Southeast Asian ...
Starting "Fairly Soon", Says Donald Trump On Immigration Raids US President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin "fairly soon" as US migrant advocates vowed their communities would be ...
Trump’s acting DHS secretary appears wary of his ICE raids. That says a lot. The acting Homeland Security chief apparently isn't hiding his feelings — perhaps because he's seen what happened when his department had to make the ...
Australia PM to meet national broadcaster after police raids Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he will meet with executives from the national broadcaster on Tuesday as he sought to calm tensions foll...
Donald Trump Says Immigration Raids Coming "Fairly Soon" President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin "fairly soon" as US migrant advocates vowed their communities would be "re...
Trump says ICE focused on getting MS-13 gang ahead of expected raids President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the U.S. immigration enforcement agency ICE was focused on getting the MS-13 gang out of the United State...
Pokémon Sword And Shield Will Have Co-Op Raids (And Everything Else We Learned Today) Pokémon Sword and Shield, the long awaited new entry in the Pokémon franchise for Nintendo Switch, is coming out November 15th. Now we finally know mo...
Mayawati, Haryana's BS Hooda Under Scanner As CBI Raids 110 Locations The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday carried out searches at 110 locations in 19 states in connection with cases related to corruption, arms...
Loose online lips sink hack targeting governments and embassies Enlarge (credit: Frank Lindecke / Flickr) Security researchers gave mixed grades to a recently discovered hacking campaign targeting government fina...
Tourism Suffers In Sri Lanka After Bomb Blasts Targeting Hotels, Churches Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka tumbled 7.5 percent in April from a year ago, as travellers shunned the island nation after the deadly Easter Sunday bom...
French lawmakers pass draft law targeting online hate speech France's National Assembly approved a draft bill on Friday which would require social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to remove any hateful ...
U.S. senators plan bill targeting Russia-Germany pipeline: source A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators will introduce legislation as soon as Tuesday seeking sanctions targeting the Nord Stream 2, a gas ...
North Carolina Attorney General sues Juul for targeting youth North Carolina's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Juul Labs Inc on Wednesday, piling more pressure on the biggest U.S. e-cigarette maker that ...
Court rules against Apple, allowing lawsuit targeting App Store to proceed The 5-4 decision could spell serious repercussions for one of Apple’s most lucrative lines of business, and open the door for similar legal action tar...
Rights Groups Sue After DeSantis Signs ‘Poll Tax’ Bill Targeting Former Felons Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into law a bill that equates to a poll tax on former felons whose voting rights were restored last year by ...
Lockheed nets $106.1M for Apache night vision targeting sensor systems Lockheed Martin was awarded a $106.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Army, Netherlands and Britain with night vision sensor systems for the Apache...
REFILE-Colony Capital's LatAm arm plans $5 bln investment, targeting Mexico Private equity firm Colony Latam Partners, part of Los Angeles-based investment group Colony Capital Inc, will invest up to $5 billion in Mexico, Chil...
Cops hunt gray-haired burglar targeting Queens homes A silver-haired thief has robbed at least six homes in Queens — with the polo shirt-wearing perp pushing in A.C. units to break into residences,...
Factbox: Attacks and thwarted plots targeting New York's Times Square A New York man will appear in federal court on Friday after his arrest the previous day on allegations that he discussed buying grenades and using the...
G20 agrees to push ahead with rules on corporate tax targeting tech giants Group of 20 finance ministers agreed to push ahead on compiling common rules that will close loopholes that global technology giants like Facebook use...
Donald Trump Orders Immigration Sweep Targeting 2,000 Families: Report US President Donald Trump has ordered border agents to begin a mass roundup as early as Sunday of some 2,000 migrant families that have received depor...
Operation targeting MS-13 gang in Texas nets nearly 2 dozen arrests, officials say Three MS-13 gang members charged with the killing of a rival gang member who was hacked to death were among nearly two dozen recently arrested in the ...
France to Ban Destroying Unsold Goods, Targeting Amazon, Luxury Brands France's prime minister on Tuesday announced a crackdown on the destruction of unsold or returned consumer products, a move that will affect online re...
ICE Is Expected to Begin Operation on Sunday Targeting 2,000 Immigrant Family Members The operation will focus on undocumented migrants in at least 10 major cities across the country and who had their cases expedited and were served dep...
Inside the Stryker Turret: New targeting tech destroys drone swarms When a Stryker gunner released the so-called “dead man’s” switch on the vehicle’s 30mm cannon, a slow-moving ground drone target exploded into a cloud...
China's police targeting 'lawful' behavior to detain Muslims: report Authorities are collecting data on legal behavior in order to investigate Muslims, says Human Rights Watch. Activists believe that 1 million Uighurs a...
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AustraliaBoy's long road to recovery after dad killed in crash
17:36 30 june 2019
17:36 30 june 2019 Source: 9news.com.au
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There are major traffic delays along one of Brisbane city's busiest thoroughfares after a car crashed into a pole and took out traffic lights this morning.
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He will undergo at least three months of rehabilitation.
Khan with his mother Kay and brother Oden.
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Shane, Kay and baby Khan.
A six-year-old boy will spend months recovering from a fractured spine after being involved in a crash which killed his father.
Khan Chambers was celebrating his birthday and on the way to the movies with his dad Shane, when their car collided head-on with a Toyota LandCruiser in Bridgetown, about 270km south of Perth.
Khan’s mother Kay and 18-month-old brother Oden decided at the last minute not to go.
A decision which may have saved their lives.
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After the boys passed out, Husted said Spielman woke him from his sleep and beckoned him to his room. He came close to telling his mother after that flashback because she could tell something was wrong. But each time, he buried the memory, not telling his Mom or Dad until decades had passed.
“That’s one of the thoughts that first went through my mind and then it just would have been Khan just by himself no family basically,” Ms Chambers said.
Khan suffered bleeding on the brain, a fractured spine and collarbone along with internal injuries. He has at least three months of rehabilitation ahead of him at Perth Children’s Hospital.
The family is now facing the financial burden of living away from home while Khan is in hospital, as well as Mr Chambers’ funeral costs, the mortgage, and modification to the house to accommodate Khan’s injuries.
A fundraiser has been started to help get the young family back on their feet.
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A Complete Breakdown Of America’s 61st Week With Donald Trump As POTUS
The Great Generation
by: Ahmed Baba on March 27, 2018
March For Our Lives. Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C. — March 24, 2018 (Photo Credit: Adam A/Co-Founder Rantt Media)
The excitement in the air was palpable. You could feel the winds of change and see the dawn of a new era. It was hard not to be inspired while brushing shoulders with America’s future leaders on stage, and in the crowd, as they bravely marched for what they believe in.
18-year-old Emma Gonzalez silenced the most powerful country’s capital for six minutes and twenty seconds.
11-year-old Naomi Wadler became a voice for the “African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper.”
9-year-old Yolanda King (Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter) painted her dream of a great generation.
Countless young people registered to vote.
The March For Our Lives was powerful, intersectional, and downright historic. The march was focused on gun control with a major emphasis placed on voting. One thing was for certain: if these organizers keep this up heading into the midterms, we could see historic youth turnout and the effects will go far beyond gun reform. Needless to say, the Republican Party should be very worried.
Meanwhile, in Trump world, there were legal team shakeups as the Mueller investigation continued to consume the president. And in perhaps the most consequential foreign policy appointment of this presidency, Trump selected John Bolton as national security adviser.
In other news, Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin — a hostile authoritarian leader who interfered in American democracy — for his unfair election win, slapped tariffs on China, and the DOJ indicted 9 Iranians.
As all this was occurring, Cambridge Analytica was exposed for committing potentially illegal acts, and Facebook was under fire for mishandling user’s data.
In spite of a week that felt like business as usual, the March For Our Lives brought with it a glimmer of hope. Although some of these kids may be too young to cast a ballot, they have proven they aren’t too young to lead.
As you may have noticed, I switched up this week’s headline a bit. As I’ve said before, with each passing week Unpresidented becomes less about the shenanigans of Donald Trump and more about the resilience of the American people. And by the end of this week, Donald Trump seemed even smaller.
Here’s a complete breakdown of Donald Trump’s 61st week as POTUS:
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61st Weekend (March 17–18)
“Trump’s About To Fire Mueller” Round 1,000
Special Counsel Robert Mueller (AP)
After a week rattled by the undignified firings of Rex Tillerson and Andrew McCabe and reports of President Trump feeling empowered, many people began to speculate who Trump had his sights on next. Trump’s lawyer John Dowd gave a not so subtle signal as to what his boss might be thinking.
Over the weekend, Trump’s lawyer John Dowd told The Daily Beast reporter Betsy Woodruff that it’s time for Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein to shut down the Russia probe.
John Dowd has called for the end of Mueller's probe It's now clear @realDonaldTrump no longer believes he'll be exonerated Mueller's subpoena into the Trump Org may have triggered him Either Trump ends the investigation or the investigation ends him https://t.co/Fg3RYASG4j
— @RanttMedia
Our analysis was later confirmed. Trump was triggered by the Trump Organization subpoena.
Trump was livid this week over the Times report that Mueller had subpoenaed his corporate records, one person close to the White House tells NYT. https://t.co/h4xKh1aNyj
— @kylegriffin1
Soon to be in mine and @nytmike's story, Trump's lawyers recently received a list of questions from Mueller's team that the special counsel would seek answers to in an interview. Adds to the portrait of what took place today.
— @maggieNYT
This precluded a series of tweets where President Trump explicitly attacked Mueller for the first time on Twitter.
By the end of the weekend, as backlash mounted over the comments and fear that Trump may move to fire Mueller, GOP Senator Lindsay Graham had a stern response.
If President Trump fired Robert Mueller, "that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency, because we are a rule of law nation," says GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham #CNNSOTU https://t.co/YGW17KN74f
— @CNN
Whether or not @LindseyGrahamSC will stand by this statement when the time comes is unclear. But what I can say is it's incredibly important for Trump to hear this kind of pushback from Senate Republicans while he is essentially trial ballooning the prospect of firing Mueller. https://t.co/uoZ6SeXKhr
— @AhmedBaba_
WOW. Trey GOWDY addresses Trump's lawyer this AM: "if you have an innocent client Mr. Dowd, act like it.
— @kyledcheney
By Sunday night, John Dowd — who had already tried to walk back his initial statement and say he was speaking for himself — released this statement.
New statement from President Trump's lawyer Ty Cobb says "the president is not considering or discussing the firing of" Robert Mueller
— @stevekopack
And then, The Daily Beast reported this…
Multiple aides and Trump confidants tell The Daily Beast that this weekend will not be the last time Trump attacks Mueller-that he's determined to more directly confront the Russia probe, even if it means exacerbating his legal standing. https://t.co/wmbXGccXLV
I’m of a different opinion than many people on Twitter. I personally think the next step will be some kind of “review” of Rosenstein’s role. The administration didn’t even move to fire McCabe until after the IG probe. But still, anything can happen — especially if a wild new indictment comes along and scares Trump (Probably hacking — fancy bear, Cozy Bear, Wikileaks and potentially American co-conspirators/Roger Stone perjury — will be next up on Mueller’s list).
Who knows? It’s 2018. The only thing I’ll predict with 100% certainty is that Donald Trump will continue to become gradually more unhinged with each passing day. One could make a fortune betting on that.
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Reuters reported:
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony that he opposed a proposal for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign team to meet with Russians has been contradicted by three people who told Reuters they have spoken about the matter to investigators with Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional committees.
The Associated Press dropped a damning exclusive on Jared Kushner:
When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.
But that’s exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, and with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold all three buildings for $60 million, nearly 50 percent more than it paid.
Now a clue has emerged as to how President Donald Trump’s son-in-law’s firm was able to move so fast: The Kushner Cos. routinely filed false paperwork with the city declaring it had zero rent-regulated tenants in dozens of buildings it owned across the city when, in fact, it had hundreds.
On Friday, Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that worked with the Trump’s 2016 campaign, was exposed. After a professor claimed to be running a survey for academic purposes, close to 300,000 people gave permission to access their Facebook data, and apparently all their friends’ data. Cambridge Analytica allegedly then acquired what would be 50 million Facebook users’ data from that professor.
DEVELOPING: Facebook is suspending Trump-affiliated political research firm Cambridge Analytica. Story to come.
— @lizzadwoskin
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Over the weekend, there was more.
Cambridge Analytica presented Russian oil company Lukoil (which is now on the US sanctions list and has been used as a vehicle of government influence) with election disruption strategies. Read these 👇👇👇 @nytimes: https://t.co/jl2xqipZeX @guardian: https://t.co/u4ULt8fiBn
The same year they met with Lukoil, they surveyed Americans about Russia. @nytimes: "Cambridge Analytica also included extensive questions about Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, in surveys it was carrying out in American focus groups in 2014" Why? https://t.co/z73FVrbYCQ
This was far from the end of the story…
61st Week (March 19–24)
Data Firm Or Dirty Trick Operation?
(Unsplashed/Hack Capital)
After the news of Cambridge Analytica’s alleged Facebook data collection, their reported outreach to Wikileaks, and meetings with a Russian oil company, it seemed it was impossible to get any more bad press. Well…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's election consultants secretly filmed offering to use Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians. https://t.co/Swdr4jL0NA #CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered
— @Channel4News
Must watch Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix admits that they have entrapped and bribed politicians Needless to say, this is illegal in the US & the UK Important note: This is the Data firm that helped Trump's campaign, is funded by the Mercers, & Bannon was the former VP https://t.co/CrVTFsoBDq
I highly suggest you watch for yourself.
As Facebook’s stock plunged 7% (losing $37 billion in value), Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) collaboration with Cambridge Analytica during his presidential campaign came under scrutiny.
Under fire for his connections to a voter-targeting firm that used data taken from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz insisted Tuesday that he was unaware of any impropriety.
The Cruz presidential campaign touted its collaboration with Cambridge Analytica as a sign of a cutting edge run for the White House, allowing the Texan to carefully identify likely supporters. The firm shifted allegiance to Donald Trump once the Texan dropped out of the GOP primaries.
Wow. Britain's Information Officer announces she is seeking a warranting to raid Cambridge Analytica and seize servers
— @carolecadwalla
This was far from the end of the story. There was more to come the following day. But, as expected, the House Intelligence Committee saw it as the end of the story.
Rep. Mike Conaway said tonight he has no plans to call Alexander Nix or any other Cambridge Analytica officials back to HPSCI to testify, reiterating that the Russia investigation has ended. Said it's Nunes' call, per @jeremyherb
— @mkraju
Dereliction of duty https://t.co/0Yj8gcCDDi
Donald Trump started his morning off with what we’ve come to expect from this president: Claims that an investigation — which has yielded indictments of 13 Russians, plea agreements from 3 of Trump’s associates, and just had sanctions based on it — is a WITCH HUNT.
A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!
— @realDonaldTrump
@realDonaldTrump Donald Trump-the president with the most conflicts of interest in history, who refused to divest from his business, and is vulnerable to foreign countries playing to his business interests-falsely claims the Russia investigation has conflicts of interest https://t.co/rPU31eVOAX
The Washington Post reported:
President Trump’s attorneys have provided the special counsel’s office with written descriptions that chronicle key moments under investigation in hopes of curtailing the scope of a presidential interview, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Trump’s legal team recently shared the documents in an effort to limit any session between the president and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to a few select topics, the people said. The lawyers are worried that Trump, who has a penchant for making erroneous claims, would be vulnerable in an hours-long interview.
President Trump hired Joseph E. diGenova, a lawyer who has made several appearances on Fox News spouting false “deep state” conspiracy theories about how the Trump-Russia investigation began as a covert op to exonerate Hillary Clinton and launch a “coup d’etat” against Trump. The status of this hiring would prove to be uncertain by the end of the week.
SCOOP: Trump close to hiring longtime Washington lawyer Joe diGenova to bolster his legal team. diGenova has pushed theories on television recently that Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials. w/@maggieNYT https://t.co/WyfDu0O5Gy
— @nytmike
Trump ended his day the same way he started it: With a false tweet.
The Democrats do not want to help DACA. Would be so easy to make a deal!
@realDonaldTrump President Trump-who rescinded DACA in the first place and subsequently shot down multiple bipartisan legislative efforts to protect Dreamers-falsely claims that Democrats are to blame for the lack of a deal on DACA https://t.co/P2MYTuTkjV
Speculation surrounding another shakeup of Trump’s legal team was sparked by a New York Times report.
Dowd wants to quit. Trump's talking about firing Cobb. Another lawyer – who says FBI made up evidence against Trump – was hired today and more new lawyers may be on the way. w/@maggieNYT https://t.co/ctooDFGU5h
First they told him the probe was going to end by Thanksgiving Then they assured him he'd be exonerated It was only a matter of time until Trump realized his lawyers have been lying to him-Unfortunately, we're there Now he'll rely on himself…which means unhinged waters ahead https://t.co/7w1ySpK2fj
DO NOT CONGRATULATE
During an oval office press briefing with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Trump told reporters that he spoke to President Vladimir Putin and congratulated him on his election “victory.” A victory which was deemed “controlled” and unfair by election watchdogs.
President Trump: "I had a call with President Putin and congratulated him on the victory … We'll probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control." https://t.co/JGk9V2biwX
— @NBCNews
As if the congratulations wasn’t bad enough, President Trump made some glaring omissions in his call with Putin.
As the Senate Intelligence Committee briefed reporters on recommendations to prevent future Russian election hacking, Trump tells reporters that he congratulated Putin for winning re-election. No mention of the 21 people Russia poisoned in the UK or Russian election meddling. https://t.co/klkQKWN7X9
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) responded.
McCain: "An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
Later in the day, it was reported that President Trump ignored the advice of his advisers ahead of this call.
Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Putin on his reelection, including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating "DO NOT CONGRATULATE," officials familiar tell WaPo. https://t.co/AaTcJ5m7DI
Ahead of his call with Putin, Trump received explicit warnings from his national security advisers saying "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" His aides also gave him talking points condemning Russia for the UK poisoning He ignored both POTUS acts like he's compromised Plain and simple https://t.co/kQ8mN7eCWw
President Trump’s supporters, as well as some reporters, correctly pointed out that President Obama called to congratulate Putin after his 2012 election win. But of course, they omitted some crucial context.
People tweeting "Obama congratulated Putin too!" 🤔 Let's put that in context That was in 2012, before Russia: -Annexed Crimea -Enabled Assad to commit human rights abuses -Interfered in 2016 election -Aired animation of missiles headed to Florida -Poisoned 21 people in the UK
The following day, President Trump chimed in.
I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…….
Whataboutism without context-Typical Trump Obama called Putin in 2012, before Russia -Annexed Crimea -Enabled Assad to commit human rights abuses -Hacked US infrastructure -Interfered in the 2016 election -Aired animation of missiles headed to Florida -Poisoned 21 people in UK https://t.co/6l88UFsVEl
Simply put:
Donald Trump doesn't shy away from confrontation. He's attacked everyone from gold star families to America's own allies… But never Vladimir Putin. If you objectively examine his conduct over the years, it's incredibly difficult to argue that Trump isn't compromised by Russia
And if you don’t want to take our word for it, take the word of Former CIA Director John Brennan.
Ex-CIA Dir. John Brennan: "I think he is afraid of the Russian president. They may have something on him personally… the fact that he has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin… I think continues to say to me that he does have something to fear." https://t.co/WKf6nwSfXq
How could Trump be compromised you ask? 👇🇷🇺👇💰👇 https://t.co/sqV866xJ9d
I know. Dire stuff. So here’s a meme.
— @themaxburns
The Senate Intelligence Committee made recommendations to protect the integrity of the vote heading into the midterms.
Channel 4 News dropped yet another bombshell.
EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge Analytica bosses say they "ran all the digital campaign" for Donald Trump – including potentially illegal activities. https://t.co/YzCJIPZser #CambridgeAnalyticaUSA
Channel 4 News reported:
In a different meeting, Mr Turnbull described how the company created the “Defeat Crooked Hilary” brand of attack ads, that were funded by the Make America Number 1 super-PAC and watched more than 30 million times during the campaign.
Coordination between an official election campaign and any outside groups is illegal under US election law. Cambridge Analytica deny wrongdoing, insisting a strict firewall separated out their activity and that they were transparent about their work on political campaigns and PACs.
Last week-we learned Cambridge Analytica wrongfully harvested data from 50 million Facebook accounts to target American voters Yesterday-Video shows CEO Alexander Nix admitting to entrapping & bribing politicians Now-They may have broken election law while working w/ Trump camp https://t.co/Z37rvBrr5I
After this report, Alexander Nix was suspended as CEO.
Bribing politicians. Planting fake news. The allegations against Cambridge Analytica, and those discussed by now-suspended CEO Alexander Nix, paint a damning picture: It appears their data product is overhyped and their main service may be dirty tricks.https://t.co/ZcScqa6u25
Oh, and there’s this.
Conservative strategist Stephen K. Bannon oversaw Cambridge Analytica's collection of Facebook data, according to former employee https://t.co/RnFlh6YG3G
— @washingtonpost
As news of the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into Facebook rattled their stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg did not attend an all-hands meeting about this ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The New York Times reported:
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will go before a House panel on Tuesday to defend her agency’s budget, including a sweeping overhaul of the Education Department that has strained relations within her agency and with Congress — and defies the White House’s budget office.
In recent weeks, Ms. DeVos has clashed fiercely with department staff members over the plan, which they say she tried to withhold from Congress as she imposed on the department what they call an illegal collective bargaining agreement.
A day after Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a law banning abortions after 15 weeks, District Judge Carlton Reeves temporarily blocked it.
NBC News reported:
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels underwent a polygraph exam in 2011 about her relationship with Donald Trump, and the examiner found there was a more than 99 percent probability she told the truth when she said they had unprotected sex in 2006, according to a copy of the report obtained by NBC News Tuesday.
Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, took the lie detector test at the request of a magazine that interviewed her in 2011, but didn’t publish the content at the time.
Karen McDougal has decided to tell her story once more, this time with a reveal of The National Enquirer’s role. The New York Times reported:
A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement restricting her ability to speak, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies’ efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships.
The model, Karen McDougal, is suing The National Enquirer’s parent company, which paid her $150,000 and whose chief executive is a friend of President Trump’s. The other woman, the adult entertainment star Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, was paid $130,000 to stay quiet by the president’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. She filed a lawsuit earlier this month.
In more women will take down President Trump news, “New York Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter — citing court precedent that ultimately led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998 — said that ‘a sitting president is not immune from being sued in federal court for unofficial acts.’” So, this allows Summer Zervos to move forward with her defamation lawsuit regarding alleged sexual harassment on the part of Donald Trump when she was an “Apprentice” contestant.
A Fox News Contributor and retired Lt. Col. made quite the exit…
Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law… Fox has degenerated…to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration"-retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters' statement as he resigns from @FoxNews PREACH https://t.co/zT5UP0wBaw
Long-Suspected Perjury
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Intelligence Committee — June 13, 2017 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Remember this March 2017 exchange between then-Senator Al. Franken (D-MN) and Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)?
As news breaks of Jeff Sessions' campaign-related talks w/ Kislyak…Here is his sworn testimony claiming he had no communications w/ Russians https://t.co/3A1qHY5OJp
Yeah, me too. After it was revealed that Attorney General Jeff Sessions did indeed meet with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak on multiple occasions during the 2016 election, many speculated that Sessions might be susceptible to perjury charges. Well, it appears that the FBI felt it was worth looking into.
EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say – ABC News – https://t.co/G0CqoDfW7g via @ABC
— @JustinFishelABC
ABC News reported:
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.
Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.
By then, Sessions had recused himself from the FBI’s probe of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, giving Rosenstein oversight of the growing effort.
Within weeks, Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to take over the investigation and related inquiries, including the Sessions matter.
Two months ago, Sessions was interviewed by Mueller’s team, and the federal inquiry related to his candor during his confirmation process has since been shuttered, according to a lawyer representing Sessions.
“The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress,” attorney Chuck Cooper told ABC News on Wednesday.
According to the sources, McCabe authorized the criminal inquiry after a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote a letter in March 2017 to the FBI urging agents to investigate “all contacts” Sessions may have had with Russians, and “whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred.”
Although the article indicates that Sessions was not aware of this investigation before he fired Andrew McCabe less than 30 hours before he was set to retire, it does raise some questions.
CNN reported more details about the topics Mueller has been discussing with Trump’s lawyers:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has so far discussed with President Donald Trump’s lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President.
According to two sources, the areas that the special counsel investigators have indicated they want to pursue with Trump are the President’s role in crafting a statement aboard Air Force One that miscast Donald Trump Jr.’s campaign June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower, the circumstances surrounding that Trump Tower meeting as well as the firings of FBI Director James Comey and national security adviser Michael Flynn.
According to CNN, “President Donald Trump was infuriated after it quickly leaked that he had been directly instructed by his national security advisers in briefing materials not to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent election victory during their call Tuesday morning, a source familiar with the President’s thinking said.”
The Guardian kept the Cambridge Analytica news coming.
BREAKING: Cambridge Analytica story worked with hackers who stole emails from two current heads of state. My latest. https://t.co/0MnUaHNCW3
More info about the Austin bomber was revealed after he blew himself up.
Mark Anthony Conditt blogged about hating homosexuals, opposing abortion, and ironically, being against Islamic terrorists. https://t.co/xtGUJvXnSr
— @eugenegu
Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke out about the need to protect Facebook user’s data and tried to explain what happened in regards to Cambridge Analytica.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions executed on his boss’ wishes by instructing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in drug-related cases “whenever necessary.”
As we got closer to the March For Our Lives, it was clear that these kids have successfully reshaped public opinion.
A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that for the first time since at least 2000, Americans hold a net unfavorable view of the NRA." @Emma4Change @cameron_kasky @davidhogg111 @JaclynCorin @Sarahchadwickk This is because of you. It's working. https://t.co/sH3ZQPOf9L
The Nuclear Stache
I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9.
Thursday brought with it a flurry of breaking news stories, but by far the most consequential was the ousting of National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Trump’s choice of John Bolton to replace him.
Bolton is a known warmonger who has a history of wanting war with Iran and North Korea.
@realDonaldTrump @AmbJohnBolton In one of the most dangerous moves of his presidency, Donald Trump announces neoconservative extremist John Bolton will replace National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster. Buckle up. https://t.co/dljYTEk7NQ
A quick montage of his greatest hits.
John Bolton, Trump's reported pick for national security adviser, has a record of warmongering, bigotry, and pushing conspiracy theories https://t.co/Brfp4vp6rA https://t.co/TBwUEe0TLu
— @mmfa
Bolton in a WSJ op-ed last month: "It is perfectly legitimate for the United States to respond to the current 'necessity' posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons by striking first.
— @ryanstruyk
Just reminder that China has explicitly stated they will intervene on North Korea's behalf if the U.S. conducts a preemptive strike. https://t.co/Dj9PhXz8PO
— @aalali44
The ousting of H.R. McMaster, btw, is yet another example of the White House’s complete lack of credibility.
The White House has denied for weeks that McMaster was on his way out. After we reported in late February that his departure would happen soon, I was told by White House officials that it was an unsubstantiated rumor, a disgrace to reporting, etc, etc. Yet here we are.
— @kaitlancollins
With Mike Pompeo at the State Department (awaiting a likely confirmation), we will likely see the death of the Iran Deal shortly, and increased tensions in the region exacerbated by nuclear proliferation.
The Rantt team stands by what we believe is the best way to prevent his hiring.
Our @RanttMedia slack just came to the conclusion that in order to prevent nuclear war we need to push harder on convincing Trump that Bolton's moustache is hideous https://t.co/DlJwcio0us
— @TaiRagan
@TaiRagan @RanttMedia It's a brilliant political strategy and clearly the only route. It's worked before https://t.co/02L9Loisz1
John Dowd, Trump’s lawyer who earlier this week called for the firing of Mueller, resigned.
BREAKING: John Dowd, top Trump lawyer for special counsel investigation, tells @NBCNews that he is resigning – https://t.co/XN9soITpq0 "I love the president and wish him very well," Dowd tells @kwelkernbc.
— @NBCPolitics
Well, looks like we won’t get any more moments like these.
Here's a photo of Ty Cobb & John Dowd casually & loudly discussing details of Russia investigation at @BLTSteakDC while I sat at next table.
— @kenvogel
But most importantly, this, along with the hiring earlier this week and the direct attacks on Mueller, mark a shift in Trump’s strategy.
Trump's legal team shakeup mirrors his Cabinet shakeup. Trump doesn't want to hear dissenting advice-he only wants to hear from people who echo his ridiculous ideas. We're about to see an even more unhinged Trump, as his worst impulses are not only enabled, but amplified.
And amid this day of shakeups, it was reported that Trump considered firing John Kelly this month and then operating without a Chief of Staff. And we think the White House is chaotic now?
The Daily Beast reported a bombshell confirming what we’ve long suspected: The identity of Guccifer 2.0, whom Roger Stone admitted to being in communication with, is a GRU intelligence officer.
But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.
Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. (The Daily Beast’s sources did not disclose which particular officer worked as Guccifer.)
https://t.co/7IIvgSwpjR
— @NatashaBertrand
CNN reported:
Donald Trump once tried to offer Karen McDougal money after they had been intimate, the former Playboy model told Anderson Cooper Thursday in an exclusive interview on CNN.
“After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, and I actually didn’t know how to take that,” she said of their first alleged sexual encounter.
When Cooper asked if Trump tried to hand her money, McDougal said, “He did.”
“I don’t even know how to describe the look on my face,” she said. “It must have been so sad.”
President Trump signed new tariffs, tanking the Dow. Bloomberg reported:
The trade conflict between China and the U.S. escalated, with Beijing announcing its first retaliation against metals levies hours after President Donald Trump outlined fresh tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and pledged there’s more on the way.
On Friday, China unveiled tariffs on $3 billion of U.S. imports in response to steel and aluminum duties ordered by Trump earlier this month. The White House then declared a temporary exemption for the European Union and other nations on those levies, making the focus on China clear. Though Beijing’s actions so far are seen by analysts as measured, there may be more to come.
Oh, and how could I forget the playground back and forth between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would take President Trump "behind the gym" and "beat the hell out of him" if they were in high school over the President's crude comments about women https://t.co/LAeLLQn1vY
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn't know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don't threaten people Joe!
The march was coming.
The new cover of @TIME. https://t.co/qredn4SqI3
The Omnibus Bill
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington — Jan. 9, 2018 file photo (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
On Friday, President Trump tweeted this:
I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats (not even mentioned in Bill) and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defense, is not fully funded.
This came as a surprise to many. Apparently even his White House staff and members of the Republican leadership. This tweet came a day after…
OMB Director Mulvaney yesterday: "Let's cut right to the chase: Is the president going to sign the bill? The answer is yes." https://t.co/YV2zs6NDmn
Of course, Trump signed the bill anyway. But not without complaining first.
President Trump, hours after threatening to veto a $1.3 trillion spending bill and throwing the capital into turmoil, signed it into law on Friday, yielding to advisers and Republican leaders who urged him against manufacturing a government shutdown crisis.
Even as he signed the bill, the president seethed about being forced to swallow legislation that broadly repudiated an agenda that once foresaw the reshaping of the federal government into his “America First” image.
“There are a lot of things that I’m unhappy about in this bill,” Mr. Trump said during a hastily called event at the White House, where the president placed his hand on a foot-high copy of the 2,232-page bill he said he had just signed. “There are a lot of things that we shouldn’t have had in this bill. But we were, in a sense, forced — if we want to build our military — we were forced to have. There are some things that we should have in the bill.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced new indictments against Iran for state-sponsored hacking campaigns.
DOJ announces charges against 9 Iranians in what federal officials say was one of the largest state-sponsored computer hacking campaigns ever prosecuted by American authorities. https://t.co/jH7Q1r8imA
Although John Bolton’s ties to Cambridge Analytica have been previously reported, The New York Times shined additional light on it.
John Bolton's political committee was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees https://t.co/IGEfMOlBpy
— @nytimes
Bolton bragged about his PAC's use of "advanced psychographic data modeling" at CPAC last year. "We will continue to expand our activities in 2018 in order to achieve a filibuster-proof national security majority in the Senate." https://t.co/Ai4Nilm0aW https://t.co/seElPKVT9x
Politico reported:
President Donald Trump’s decision to abruptly fire national security adviser H.R. McMaster surprised senior White House aides who had been preparing a single statement announcing the departure of multiple top Trump officials, according to two senior administration officials.
White House chief of staff John Kelly and other top aides were waiting for inspector general reports that they believed would deliver devastating verdicts on Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who have both been accused of racking up extravagant expenses. They were also debating whether several senior White House aides, including McMaster, should go with them.
The March For Our Lives
The March For Our Lives was an event for the history books. In a protest of massive proportions, young people from around the U.S. gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue with one message: enough is enough.
The first speaker was Cameron Kasky, who knocked it out of the park. And the choice for the second speaker showed how brilliant and aware of the issues these kids are: It was a black kid from Chicago.
Everyone needs to hear this Chicago native explain how city, state, and federal governments are enabling gun violence #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/n3cagOwS12
— @nowthisnews
Every speaker was incredible.
I represent the African-American women who are victims of gun violence, who are simply statistics instead of vibrant, beautiful girls full of potential." -Naomi Wadler, 11 #MarchforOurLives https://t.co/r8ZjbLxR1J
— @KamalaHarris
I'm going to start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student's life in Florida," Parkland survivor David Hogg says at #MarchForOurLives. https://t.co/i54QSygI4C
— @BuzzFeedNews
We are survivors. Let me say for you: We are survivors. We are survivors of a cruel and silent nation. A nation where freedom, justice, equality and purpose is upheld," says Chicago student D'Angelo McDade https://t.co/jujbxM0M4i #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/R3kL4fzHi5
— @CBSNews
55 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech Today, his granddaughter Yolanda King gave the equivalent of a "We Have A Dream" speech "We…are going to be…a great generation!" #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/AyborpxSmG
Emma Gonzalez stayed on stage at the D.C. #MarchForOurLives rally for 6 minutes and 20 seconds – the duration of the Parkland shooting. https://t.co/B7yFTn23Nz https://t.co/jdyYagtZCO
— @ABC
The D.C march had hundreds of thousands in attendance, including the Rantt team. We had a blast registering voters.
900 voter registration forms ready to go Let's do this @theAWParty 👊 #MarchForOurLives
Nearly 1 million people gathered. Thousands registered to vote. Countless young leaders began their journeys. The #MarchForOurLives was paradigm shifting. We registered voters and met so many inspiring young people. This movement is the start of something truly historic.
Step 1: Protest Step 2: Register Step 3: Vote like your lives depend on it…because they do #MarchForOurLives via @_Rachel_Helen_ @risingorganizer https://t.co/a09Zypz0gm
Oh, how could I forget. D.C. was only the beginning. It swept the country and the world.
Aerial footage shows the turnout at various March for Our Lives across the US today https://t.co/50KflY3S4X https://t.co/MVxCufnaIQ
This movement is far from over.
SO what date in the next couple of weeks should we have a town hall in every congressional district? If you would please Comment your suggestion of the date with reasoning below thanks
— @davidhogg111
Register. Educate. Vote. That's what it will take to create real change. Add your name to be a part of what's next: https://t.co/2m7ItdfFjV #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/qhuMZzFPDf
— @AMarch4OurLives
Unpresidented // Donald Trump / Government / Journalism / Politics
by: Ahmed Baba
Ahmed Baba is Co-Founder and COO/Editor-in-Chief of Rantt Media. Writer of Unpresidented, Ahmed documents and analyzes every day of the Trump presidency. He publishes op-eds in The Independent and his work has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, Blavity, Newsweek, The Telegraph, and more. He can be reached at [email protected] or found on Twitter @AhmedBaba_.
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