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Thieves rob foreclosed homes
RICHMOND, CA
There are homes that look relatively new with nice upgrades, including granite countertops, that is if you can look past the massive holes in the walls.
"As you can see the copper pipe in the walls, they take out too," said Realtor Bon Nguyen.
Nguyen is trying to sell this three-bedroom bank-owned home in North Richmond. His job got a lot tougher after a visit from some very destructive thieves.
"They just rip the walls out. Property doesn't really matter to them at all. They just know what they want. They come in, they take it and they leave," said Nguyen.
Nguyen's listing on Chesley drive is one of 11 homes in /*North Richmond*/ where police say thieves have done virtually the same thing, since the first of the year. All of them are vacant, and in /*foreclosure*/.
"This is sort of a new phenomenon for us," said Sergeant Paul Beard.
Sergeant Beard is investigating the burglaries for the Contra Costa Sheriff Department.
"When our patrol folks go in there, we are finding complete sheet rock walls ripped down to the studs, in all areas where you'd find typical plumbing. In at least one case they found a water heater was also stolen and was attempted to be recycled at a recycle shop," said Sergeant Beard.
"In at least one case, a water heater was stolen and was attempted to be recycled at a local recycling shop," said Beard.
One house was broken into last week where a neighbor interrupted the thief, who left behind his tools and a duffel bag of freshly-cut /*copper*/.
Alicia Ortega is another realtor in North Richmond.
"What helps is the neighbors, when they watch the houses and call police," said Alicia Ortega, a realtor.
Besides copper, thieves often rip out sinks, brass fixtures, and whatever they can sell to scrap metal dealers.
In most of these cases, the thieves have done tens of thousands of dollars in damage to get to maybe a few hundred dollars in metals.
In this case, the asking price for the house on Chesley went from $250,000 before the burglary to $215,000 after, as is.
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Motivations for Animated Documentary Films by Lawrence Thomas Martinelli, Lecture as part of Anima Festival 2015
A few years ago now, but none the less, a fantastic lecture by academic Lawrence Thomas Martinelli, Uri Kranot and Soetkin Verstegen.
Martinelli introduces us to the various motivations for making animated documentary, through a series of case studies, whilst Kranot and Verstegen round up the lecture with some insights into the practicalities of making such animated films.
Martinelli investigates the “re – creating and re -constructing” of animated documentary, he talks about filmic hybrids and the need to complete in complete material, which is one of the motivations for using animated documentary.
Martinelli is also the founder of DOCartoon, Animation and Non Fiction Comics festival, Italy. http://www.docartoon.it/
A brilliant watch, rich with content – I know I will be sharing this with my students in their studies of animated documentary.
September 14, 2018 by Ellie Land Categories: Festivals | Tags: 2015, 2D, commission, drawing, Edmunds Jansons, history, Irina Pilke, Jonas Odell, lecture, Little birds diary, memory, politics, ryan, Soetkin Verstegen, Uri and Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot, war | Leave a comment
A view of Ecstatic Truth 2017
The 2017 Ecstatic Truth Symposium took place on May 27 and explored the field of animated documentary. Presentations by scholars and practitioners from around the world covered topics including memory, trauma, visual and verbal language, industry structure and new technologies.
The day kicked off with a keynote by Bella Honess Roe, who expanded on the idea of ‘absence and excess’ that she put forward in her monograph Animated Documentary. Using the examples of two short films – Abuelas and Irinka and Sandrinka – Honess Roe demonstrated that animation can be used both as metaphorical wish fulfilment and as an exploration of memory, both memories of events directly experienced and memories passed down through families and cultures. Honess Roe spoke about how animation studies academics strive to pin down animation in theoretical terms, but find that definitive conclusions are elusive. She suggested that this is due to the vastness of animation as a discipline: “Very few animated documentaries look alike”. Perhaps this resistance to reductive conclusions is one of animation’s strengths.
In her presentation “Traversing the terrain of space, time and form”, Rose Bond gave an insight into her research and production process when making large scale architectural animations. Her work interprets the histories of buildings into narratives and symbolic motifs that are then projected back onto the windows of the building itself. Her storyboarding process was particularly interesting to see, as she boarded the different narratives that played out across the different windows – a more lateral process than traditional storyboarding. She referred to this “multiscreen” boarding as “a different kind of editing, composing”. The process of storyboarding was the moment of ‘parataxis’, the juxtaposing of individual visual and narrative elements together to create new meaning for those elements. Bond explained that in her work it is important that the audience do not see all the material when they watch – they are required to chose which images to focus on throughout, so the experience is different with each viewing.
Broadsided! (Exeter, UK) from Rose Bond on Vimeo.
Next up I presented a paper about animated documentary and virtual reality, proposing that the absence and excess (Honess Roe, 2013) of animated documentary is complemented by the dual qualities of immersion and alienation present in VR. I supported my argument with the analysis of two recent animated VR documentaries – Nonny de la Peña’s Out of Exile and Michelle and Uri Kranot’s Nothing Happens.
Vincenzo Maselli’s presentation on “Deeper strata of meanings in stop-motion animation: the meta-diegetic performance of matter” explored ideas of performance and materiality of stop-motion, referencing the work of Marks, Sobchack and Barker in an analysis of the relationship between the human body and the texture of filmed material.
Sally Pearce’s paper entitled “Can I draw my own memory?” focused on her work tracking memory, and the problems presented by this. She showed a piece of work in which an animated horse wanders through bleak live action landscapes that represent her fractured memories from a time of serious illness. This record of illness is, she explains, “straight from the horse’s mouth”. She discussed her process of trying to capture and visualise memory, and the frustrations that come with this: “I try to use my pencil as a scalpel to extract a memory whole, but the memory will not be drawn out like a lump of tissue, instead it changes as soon as the pencil touches it. As my memory changes under the pencil, I am changed, I redraw myself.” Pearce particularly noted that her drawings can feel trapped in the language we commonly use about memory and illness and bound up in accepted metaphor, frustrated that “my drawing mind remains locked into the forms of the spoken and written word”.
Barnaby Dicker’s paper “A Quivering Terminus: Walerian Borowczyk’s Games of Angels, animated documentary and the social fantastic” analyses how Borowczyk uses ‘fantastic topography’ to play with tropes of both documentary and fiction, in order to a explore disturbing historical subject. Dicker’s analysis of Borowczyk’s disturbing and powerful short looked at how both imagery and structure worked to create meaning for the audience.
He commented on the clues the filmmaker’s uses to guide the audience, such as the inclusion of a title card providing assurance that characters and events portrayed in the film are not intended to resemble characters living and dead. Dicker noted that the film is highly abstract and would not in any way invite an assumption that it was portraying real characters – so in fact the title card may be working inversely, to suggest to an audience that what they are watching does, in fact, reflect reality.
The afternoon sessions included a talk from Chinese artist Lei Lei who offered a lively tour of the process behind his compelling and visually stunning artwork. LeiLei uses found materials and processes of enhancing and degrading images to interrogate history, memory and culture.
Recycled from RAY on Vimeo.
Guli Silberstein’s presentation of his work “The Schizophrenic State Project“, gave an insight into the personal context which led him to appropriate and adapt media footage of violence to specifically explore conflict in Israel, Palestine and the region. The presentation offered an intimate view of an artist striving to find a voice to communicate his complex relationship with a disturbing subject matter which is both deeply personal and boldly political. In processing and re-presenting footage of war and protest Silberstein recontextualises it, challenging a viewer to watch and consider it in a new way.
Becky James’ paper “Expanding the Index in Animated Documentary” considered the subgenre of animation about mental states through a close reading of Betina Kuntzsch’s Spirit Away. James also offered insights into the culture around animated documentary production in comparison to the fine art industry where she previously worked, suggesting that there is an absence of critique and serious professional support for emerging filmmakers through canonical institutions in the field of experimental animation.
Susan Young’s presentation “Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma” showcased her PhD research on psychological trauma, in which she reflects on her own experience. Young showed her visceral short film The Betrayal and discussed her process, sharing the ways in which she managed the risks associated with conducting any research on trauma.
The Betrayal (Trailer) from Susan Young on Vimeo.
The 2016 Ecstatic Truth symposium had concluded with a sense of agreement that the arguments around the legitimacy of animation as a documentary form which have dominated much of animated documentary scholarship have reached the limits of their usefulness, and that we can progress better if we start from a working assumption that animated documentary can exist as a valid form. The 2017 event followed on from this, taking a broad perspective on animated documentary that allowed for an open, discursive atmosphere in which diverse ideas could be raised, considered and challenged. There were no definitive answers but, as Honess Roe suggested at the beginning of the day, maybe animation’s ability to elude the finality of concrete definition is at the heart of its charm.
June 28, 2017 by carlamackinnon Categories: News & Events | Tags: Barnaby Dicker, Becky James, Bella Honess Roe, Betina Kuntzsch, Carla MacKinnon, Ecstatic Truth, Guli Silberstein, Lei Lei, Nonny de la Peña, RCA, Rose Bond, Royal College of Art, Sally Pearce, Susan Young, The Schizophrenic State Project, Uri and Michelle Kranot, Vincenzo Maselli | Leave a comment
ANIDOX:LAB 2016
I recently returned from the second module of The Animation Workshop’s ANIDOX:LAB in Denmark. This development lab, supported by Creative Europe, brings together animators, documentarians, artists and producers from across Europe, all united by a common interest in exploring the form of animated documentary. Each participant enters the lab with a documentary idea which is then developed across three modules. At the end of the lab, the participant is expected to have a strong pitch package supported by a two-minute promo for their project. The team behind the programme then continue to support a selection of these projects, bringing them to European film markets where finance may be secured to take the project further.
Anidox is put together by filmmakers Uri and Michelle Kranot, and has emerged from their own practice and research in the field of animated documentary. The Kranots were originally animators, drawn to non-fiction through “a desire to make films politically”. Their work has gained international acclaim and continues to compel audiences with its combination of fluid, poetic imagery and strong political meaning.
Still from ‘Black Tape’ by Uri and Michelle Kranot
ANIDOX launched in 2013, with the original aim of bringing documentarians and animators together to find out what differences there are in their practice, and what challenges this brings to the production of the animated documentary. Over time common challenges which have been identified include:
Communication issues stemming from differences in use of language and terminology between the animation and the documentary community;
A lack of understanding in the documentary community of the production processes, timelines and budgets necessary to produce animation;
A mutual lack of understanding of the very different editing and post-production processes in documentary and animation production; and
Other difficulties with effective communication between animators and documentary directors and producers.
In response to these and other challenges, ANIDOX aims to foster dialogue between documentarians and animators, while providing business opportunities and a rich environment for creative development, helping filmmakers to develop the essence of their project and visual approach.
As well as being an excellent opportunity for project development, ANIDOX offers a diverse programme of talks from and about filmmakers, commissioners and other players working across animation and factual film production.
In the first Module of the programme, Uri and Michelle Kranot were joined by filmmaker Paul Bush to lead several days of workshops. Kicking off with an overview of animated documentary, Uri Kranot and Paul Bush discussed the history and current state of the field in broad terms. Bush voiced his opinion that while drama has always been influenced by documentary, animation is only now catching up as part of a “coming-of-age for the animation form”. Bush acknowledged that the ‘contract’ with an audience is different in an animated documentary from a live action one, since with animation the audience is clearly aware that what they are watching is not an indexical record of real events, but he claimed that this is a strength of the form. In his opinion the British documentary industry has given up on ethically trying to present any kind of objective reality, although audiences will still automatically believe live action documentary and assume it is ‘real’. In this way, he claimed, animated documentary is less ethically problematic than its live action sister – through it’s transparently constructed nature it is more honest in its complex truth claim.
While documentary often uses animation as a way to limit the damage of missing or poor quality live action footage, there are also many other approaches and opportunities for the form. Bush specifically mentioned the power of animation to show alternative viewpoints, stories told from perspectives other than the point-of-view of the traditionally empowered. This ability of animated non-fiction to challenge hegemonic power structures has been discussed by various scholars and the potential of the form to weave alternative histories to those recorded and presented by the mainstream is widely considered one of its key creative strengths.
In a presentation about the history of animated documentary, Uri Kranot showed a range of films spanning a century and discussed the merits of each, in the context of their time. Kranot believes that we are seeing a coming-of-age not just for animation but also for documentary – an age of creative docs which can question as well as represent reality.
This pit-stop tour of animated documentary took us from Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), through WW2 propaganda films to the more personal work of John and Faith Hubley and Aardman Animation, whose pre-Creature Comforts short films Conversation Pieces (1983) used the conventions of documentary alongside stop-motion to reenact mundane and amusing scenes and situations. Kranot showed how over time the animated documentary moved from telling big political stories to smaller personal stories, such as Chris Landreth’s Ryan (2004) and Jornal Adele’s Never Like the First Time (2007). With this came a plethora of ethical and creative considerations that continue to challenge contemporary filmmakers. The animated documentary form has shown itself to be a powerful medium for exploring these ideas, with films such as Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy (2013) deconstructing itself even as it tells its story, raising questions of transparency and authorial voice.
Still from ‘Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?’
Kranot also touched on the importance of technological novelty in animation trends, showing how many of the most successful short animated documentaries have found their success in part through the innovative use of new creative technologies.
Presentations on the first ANIDOX module also included talks by alumni filmmakers including Martina Scarpelli, who presented her recently commissioned work-in-progress short EGG, a poetic documentary about an anorexic woman’s complex relationship with food.
The second module of ANIDOX took place in Copenhagen with guest tutors including: Swedish-Italian documentary director Erik Gandini; animated documentary producer Andy Glynne (Mosaic Films); Katrine Kiilgaard, Head of Industry at CPH:DOX; Ane Mandrup, Head of Documentary and Shorts at the Danish Film Institute (DFI) and Cecilia Lidin, Documentary Film Consultant at DFI.
Gandini, who works predominantly with live action, screened his feature film The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) and talked about his relationship to documentary. After growing up in Italy, saturated as it was with flashy, misogynistic, Berlusconi-controlled media, Gandini then moved to Sweden where he had the life changing-experience of stumbling upon Claude Lanzmann’s 9+ hour long Holocaust documentary Shoah (1985) on television. He describes this encounter with documentary as a “reconquering of reality”. Gandini went on to study film and make many documentaries including Videocracy (2009), an indictment of the Italian media and its social context.
At film school Gandini leant the rules of documentary storytelling, which at the time favoured a journalistic approach: an invisible filmmaker interfering as little as possible in the action, no music and closeness to character identified as the most important element. Gandini believes that this approach is “gone now, thank god”, destroyed in part by the rise of reality TV.
Gandini’s own work moved towards an essay-film approach, focusing not on recording objective fact but rather building personal arguments: “Taking command of storytelling… not showing reality as it is, rather showing reality as I feel it”. His work uses manipulation of sound, image and situation to construct a representation of the filmmaker’s subjective perspective on a subject, and he believes that the concept of authenticity in film should include being true to your own thoughts and feelings as well as your objective observations. Despite this, he strongly identifies as a documentary filmmaker, believing that documentary contains an unpredictability which isn’t present in fiction or animation and that documentary storytelling should be open to including representations of fantasy and internal life as well as hard fact – an area in which animation can be a useful representational tool. It is this co-habitation with unpredictability that makes documentary magical for Gandini, and his challenge to animated documentary filmmakers is “to what level can we keep unpredictability a friend even when using animation?”
Producer Andy Glynne brought some good practical advice to his talks. At Mosaic Films approximately 30% of the documentary output is animated docs, usually with subject matter that deals with the internal and psychological world as well as subjects and situations that are inaccessible for various reasons, or that demand anonymity. Glynne spoke about Mosaic’s process for engaging contributors, through which they have placed safeguards to ensure the story they tell remains authentic and respectful to the contributor despite the mediation process of editing and animation. He also offered some valuable insights gleaned as a result of the development of Nothing to Envy, a feature length animated documentary about North Korea, currently in very early production. Originally conceived as a foreign language documentary, the film’s development process has seen it take on more fiction qualities as well as becoming an English language production – changes that were made partly in response to the requirements of the feature film industry.
Both Glynne and the representatives from DFI spoke at length on the issues that can arise when pitching animated documentary. A recurring challenge is the expectation in the documentary industry of having a promo to show of the film being pitched – relatively straightforward for a character based live action documentary but more complex for an animated documentary, where each second of footage incurs significant expense and visual development.
Representing the fast-growing documentary festival CPH:DOX, Katrine Kiilgaard spoke of the festival’s focus on hybrid and interdisciplinary work. With larger audiences than DOK Leipzig and Sheffield Docfest (though smaller than IDFA and Hotdocs) CPH:DOX is a force to be reckoned with on the documentary festival circuit. It is significant that it demonstrates a progressive attitude to form, with a programme that includes industry forums for art-documentary projects, some of which are intended for gallery exhibition rather than theatrical or broadcast. Despite this embrace of alternative forms, Kiilgaard noted that only a small percentage of work screened at the festival is animated – estimated at less than 5%. When asked why this was she responded that the animated documentaries they receive are often at odds with the larger programming direction of the festival. Hans Frederik Jacobsen, a programmer for CPH:DOX also present on the module added that animated documentaries “often don’t fit our understanding of what a film should do”, although he indicated that this was changing, partially due to the work of programmes such an ANIDOX, which help to develop innovative productions that exploit the potentials of both the documentary and animation form.
Through these and other talks, the ANIDOX programme offered its participants a rich insight into thought and industry process related to the animated documentary field. It also provided a fantastic forum for project development, in which ideas could be presented and worked on in a supportive environment with the help of tutors and participants with a great diversity of experience. Ultimately, as with most training programmes, it is this rich peer network which offers the strongest and most lasting benefit. Through this network, participants are able to draw on each other’s knowledge and experience across the spectrum of the industry, in order to develop and strengthen their own creative voices and professional acumen as filmmakers pushing the boundaries of the animated documentary.
More information about ANIDOX:LAB and other residencies the initiative offers can be found at anidox.com.
June 27, 2016 by carlamackinnon Categories: News & Events | Tags: Aardman Animation, Andy Glynne, anidox, anidox:lab, Cecilia Lidin, Chris Landreth, communities of practice, Conversation Pieces, CPH:DOX, Danish Film Institute, DFI, erik gandini, Hans Frederik Jacobsen, John and Faith Hubley, Jornal Adele, Katrine Kiilgaard, Mosaic Films, Nothing to Envy, Paul Bush, The Animation Workshop, The Sinking of the Lusitania, The Swedish Theory of Love, Uri and Michelle Kranot | Leave a comment
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Last autumn I had to travel to the US for work and we chose to add a week of holidays afterwards. And we decided to spent the week in the City of Angels - Los Angeles. The perfect spot for some November sunshine, especially when it is grey and miserable at home. The Californian sunshine never disappoints...
We decided against a hotel on this occasion, booked our apartment via AirBnB and chose Silverlake as the place to stay. Our apartment was on a hill and out from the deck we had an excellent view of this huge city. The apartment was part of a house where the owners also lived. It was easy to park on the street, in the summer there was a pool and it was walking distance to all the cool Silver Lake hang outs on Sunset Boulevard. Perfect starting point to explore this huge city.
I have to admit that I was never a big fan of Los Angeles and didn't understand the appeal besides the weather. I have been a number of times, but most of the time I travelled there for work. But as it is Alex's favorite city, he led the way and showed me his LA and why he likes it some much. After only five days there I have to say I get it more and more. Here are some of the reasons why... And I guess I have to keep coming back for more...
For breakfast, we chose some of the many great restaurant on and around Sunset Junction. What a beautiful treat to have breakfast outside in the sun in November. And personal favorite of mine when in America, is to start the day with a delicious I let, fresh juice and a cafe latte. And none of the restaurants we chose, disappointed. Try Millie's on 3524 W Sunset Boulevard or Sunset Junction Coffee Shop on 3916 Sunset Boulevard
Sport is such a big thing in the United States, so we thought we should watch a game, any game really. We had a look and found that the LA Clippers, one of the basketball teams in town, had a game on Monday night. They play at the Staples Center in downtown LA and we managed to buy us tickets. We sat really high up on the ranks and watched the Clippers play and win against the team from the Memphis Grizzlies. The Staples Center is home to many different sports teams as well as concerts taking place in LA and it fits over 19.000 people during a Basketball game. The game is everything, from great sports, cheerleaders, excited fans and oversized food and drink portions. Just everything you would expect. Very cool experience and definitely one to recommend.
We made a day trip out to Santa Barbara to visit this picturesque coastal town. The city has just under 100.000 inhabitants and is the main city on the American Rivera. It is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the whole of the USA and the Spanish and Mexican influence is still visible very much. We had lunch at the seaside and afterwards walked along the water, watched the skateboarders in the park and took photos of the beautiful palm trees that line the streets. On our way back we stopped at the outlet mall "Camarillo Premium Outlet". For me, a visit to the mall is a must when in the US and this one didn't disappoint. Great choice of shops and great discounts to be found.
Our last stop on our return from Santa Barbara was Malibu as we wanted to visit Point Dume during sunset. Absolutely spectacular! Point Dune is a sand dune in the Point Dume State Beach Park. You park by the water and climb up the dune for the most in incredible view of Malibu, the whole coastline and a beautiful sunset. Stunning scenery, romantic setting and absolutely fabulous photos afterwards.
LACMA and the Berlin Wall
On our way back to Silver Lake and our AirBnB one night, we drove by the LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which we recognized from the movies. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard in Hancock Park. We parked our car and when we got off we stood outside a piece of the Berlin Wall. You can imagine our surprise to find this here, so far away from home. But this is actually the longest piece of the original Berlin Wall and it was part of the "Wende project" during the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We then walked to the museum to take pictures of the beautiful light installations which have been shown in many movies before. We didn't make it back to the museum during their opening times, but if you go during the daytime, this museum is the largest in the western United States with over 130.000 objects from antique times until the present day.
Viewpoint - Griffiths Observatory
The city has a number of viewpoints to visit. And I would suggest visiting at least one, to get a feel of just how big this city really is. And most viewpoints also have something else on offer. We visited the Griffiths Observatory, which located on the south side of Mount Hollywood within Griffith Park. People come up here to enjoy the views of Los Angeles, to see the famous Hollywood sign and to visit the planetarium and the hall of science. This building was also used for many movie sets like Terminator and Charlie's Angels.
Viewpoint - Getty Center
The second view point we chose was the Getty Center. It is located on a hill and when you get there, you park your car and take the Getty tram to get up to the museum. The Getty Center was opened in 1997 and is home to a part of the collection from the J. Paul Getty Museum which consists of approximately 50.000 pieces of art. They range from classical art to sculptures and photography. Located within this complex are the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Leadership Institute. The complex also has a beautiful garden area and on a clear day you can see as far as the Pacific Ocean, the mountains of Big Bear City and downtown Los Angeles.
Venice and Abbot Kinney
On our last day we visited Venice. It is located in the western part of LA with many different canals crossing though it, just like the original Venice in Italy. This part of town is famous for it's artist community and the beach live. We parked our car to visit the famous street Abbot Kinney Boulevard first. In 1990, the street that was formerly called West Washington was renamed to Abbot Kinney, named after the man who built the Venice canals. Now this street is a big attraction to locals and tourists alike. There is a fantastic selection of shops, restaurants, wine shops and galleries and a street that has history and relevance for today at the same time. Abbotkinneyblvd.com After some retail therapy, we walked to Venice beach for some last sunshine before heading home to winter in Germany. Beautiful large beachs where many people spend their days with sporting activities, reading, playing with their kids or just relaxing while listening to the Pacific Ocean.
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The rationale behind this one is construct a text list. Thus, instead of merely collecting email addresses, it is possible to get people on a listing with their phone numbers. This might be incredibly valuable especially with the younger generation that’s more likely to text than email.
Leadlinks are links which you add into your Broadcast emails by your email service provider.
When the recipient clicks on that linkthey are Instantly enrolled. They won’t be required to enter additional information. This is particularly practical for webinar registration and the like.
After a quick registration process, you’ll input The dashboard and also be invited to create your very first campaign. By default, you’re taken to Leadpages at which you can make a landing page. You are able to access the site’s other attributes through the navigation bar.
To start your first landing page, click on the Let’s Do It button. The site will walk you through the procedure by asking you questions about the essence of your landing page. You’ll be granted access to all of the available templates provided after. Alternatively, you can get the templates directly through the navigation bar.
At this point, It’s important to note that there Are two kinds of templates available. First, you’ve got drag-and-drop templates which are more customizable and modern. Then you’ve got your regular templates that are tried and tested to ensure high conversion rates.
How you create a landing page depends on which Kind of template you choose (drag-and-drop or regular ).
Standard templates are simple with small Room for modification. You’ll have the ability to edit the text and replace the sample images but won’t have the ability to transfer any of the components around. You may elect to conceal any component you have no use for but users will need to do this with caution. Hiding elements can lead to apparently empty spaces.
You can toggle the navigation buttons to preview What the landing page would look like on a tablet computer or telephone.
To include SEO and monitoring information, simply click The Lead Page Options button located on the left sidebar sidebar. Use this to add metadata information in addition to tracking codes.
Once you’re done, you can go ahead and save your Operate or have it published. If you haven’t connected your email service provider together with your Leadpages accounts by this point, you will be prompted to do so. You won’t be able to save the emails you accumulate otherwise. Contact Leadpages
Drag-and-drop templates work a bit differently. Right off the bat, you will see that you have more options. The sidebar houses four buttons: widgets, page design, page style, and page tracking.
By dragging and dropping widgets to your landing Page, you are ready to insert new components to edit. It’s possible to add headlines, text, images, videos, buttons, and more. It is here where you’ll encounter among Leadpages’ most notorious kinks. The site’s drag-and-drop performance is faulty.
Putting elements where you want them may be a pain. For starters, you may only set them in areas that the template permits you to. You will find grids where widgets can be inserted while some other places are off limits. Then there’s the matter with precision. The widgets tend to snap into place. And as is the case during our testing, they end up nowhere near its planned destination.
Editing the text and images, nevertheless, is a cinch. Simply click on any placeholder text and substitute the present one with yours. You may resize and move elements around.
Page Layout enables you to make changes to every part of your landing page. Here You can fine-tune the looks of your page as you would through CSS just simpler.
If you want to change the background, click on “Section Style” and make the required changes out of here.
Page Style lets you play your font in Addition to add custom CSS for more Advanced users.
Page Tracking works the same manner as in standard templates. Only this time, you Can integrate it using Facebook and Google Analytics.
You’ll find All of Your saved landing pages in the dashboard. You may go back and make further edits, rename the file, produce a split test (A/B testing), duplicate the landing page, or have it deleted.
Split testing is only available for Guru and Advanced plan members.
Customer service does exist but priority is given To innovative subscribers. They’ve got access to a 1-on-1 Quick Start Call in addition to free virtual workshops. Those below the standard plan will have to make do with chat support (9 AM to 5 PM Central time during weekdays) or start a support ticket.
You can publish your landing pages by themselves or under your domain name. But, publishing under a Subdomain can potentially turn off your viewers. It’s advised that you print under your own domain.
To do that, click on the user icon on the top-right Part of the screen to open the drop-down menu. Pick”Domains” to load the page at which you are able to connect your domain.
From here, Leadpages will guide you to the Procedure Of linking your own domain name.
The dynamic HTML options Allow You to publish the Landing page on any website. However, there are ways to integrate the instrument in other CMS like WordPress, Squarespace, and other popular content management systems.
Users may register on a monthly, yearly, or Two-year basis with all the two-year plan being the most cost-efficient provided you’re in for the long haul. There are 3 tiers to pick from: standard, pro, and innovative.
At $25/month, Leadpages is cheap enough for startups and one-man showrunners. The benefits of being able to install and design landing pages for lead generation compensate for the price. However $48/month could be a steep price to cover the tiny perks you unlock at the level. Unless you have a real need for online sales and payments and A/B testing, then you are better off using the most elementary plan. It also ought to be enough to help you get more with your blog or website.
Leadlinks and Leaddigits are also unavailable If you don’t subscribe to the expert or innovative plan that’s really a bummer.
Benefits and Pitfalls OF Selecting Leadpages
Honestly, there’s a lot to enjoy about Leadpages. However, the tool is far from perfect. Let’s break down the pros and cons. Contact Leadpages
For the average user, Leadpages will be more than Enough to fulfill your lead generation goals. At the conclusion of the day, all you will need is a searchable landing page that will wow your audience. Leadpages is much more than capable of getting the job done. It does not need any prior design or coding experience.
Benefit #2: amount of available Templates
The absolute number of templates that are available will be More than enough to get you started on the right path. There is a template for almost every circumstance. Options vary from webinar pages, thank you pages, product launching webpages, checkout pages, and even 404 pages. Leadpages assert they’ve at least 160 free templates within their library.
Benefit #3: quick and effortless integration
You can use Leadpages regardless of what CMS you are using. It may support WordPress, Joomla, Squarespace, and more.
Benefit #4:: Leadboxes
The bulk of the Leadpages review was focused on The landing page builder however let’s not forget that subscribers also get access to Leadboxes. There’s no denying that pop-up boxes are effective and can lead to conversions that would otherwise be overlooked if not for Leadboxes.
The drag-and-drop functionality issues Will Need to be addressed. Individuals who are very particular about their landing page designs can struggle with the tool’s interface. The instrument can also slow down every now and then which can be troublesome particularly for people that are on a tight deadline.
Leadpages themselves encourage users not utilize their standard templates. There is hardly any customization options. The lack of drag-and-drop attribute is inaccessible for regular templates. So even if you do locate a template worth using in their outdated selections, you would be not able to customize them as you see fit.
Weak place #3: A/B testing only for pro users and above
There is no denying the importance of A/B testing. It is the only way to determine that pages are working and which ones need refinement. Regrettably, standard users don’t have any access to A/B testing and need to update to a higher plan to generate use of the feature.
Leadpages is a Fantastic bargain for startups given the Reasonable $25 entry point. Should you want sleek, responsive landing pages quick and would help you better your conversion funnel and earn more money, the tool will be capable of delivering exactly that. However, there are plenty of choices out there which do pretty much the same thing. Not on the exact same degree, but you really do have choices.
Large-scale businesses are likely to have in-house Solutions to developing landing pages for their lead generation campaigns. The $199/month innovative plan appears too steep of a price point even for large corporations.
The good thing about Leadpages is that they have a Free 14-day trial period so you can check the tool out for yourself (even though you Do need to supply your credit card info ). While Leadpages does have its Merits, the prosperity of landing page alternatives out in the market along with The quirks of all Leadpages’ builder tool makes it challenging to recommend. Contact Leadpages
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America Walks Receives 2018 Road to Zero Grant
March 20, 2018 NewsHeidi Simon
America Walks, in partnership with UNC Highway Safety Research Center, is honored to have been selected to receive one of the 2018 Road to Zero grants awarded by the National Safety Council earlier today.
The grant will be used to fund and implement a new technical assistance pedestrian safety program for midsize cities. The program will help selected communities assess, plan, and prioritize effective and context-sensitive safety treatments to reduce the growing numbers of pedestrian fatalities and injuries. Following a year of implementation, America Walks and its partners will share the results of the technical assistance and provide an outline of lessons learned and cultivate inspiration for other cities looking to address pedestrian safety.
“This work to improve safety and evaluate interventions is important now more than ever as we continue to see the rate of pedestrian fatalities rise in communities across the US,” said America Walks Executive Director Kate Kraft. “We are grateful to the National Safety Council for providing us with this grant to work with communities on this urgent issue.”
“Pedestrians remain one of the most vulnerable roadway users and face the greatest risks,” said Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council. “America Walks is making our cities safer and these efforts are critical as we work to achieve zero deaths.”
America Walks and the UNC Highway Safety Research Center will launch work on the grant project later this year.
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Paul Tsahakis, MD, family practitioner in Waxhaw, NC
Paul Tsahakis, MD
Dr. Tsahakis is a family practitioner in the Waxhaw area.
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By Kyle Kensing, 2/14/19, 11:00 AM EST
USC has a clear advantage when it comes to talent but that didn't translate to on-field success last season
The 2017 and '18 seasons were not particularly kind to Pac-12 football. The conference endured a historically woeful postseason to cap the 2017 campaign, then faced a variety of off-field concerns amid a turbulent '18 regular season.
Pac-12 football isn't lacking for talent. The conference sent the third-most invitees to the NFL Scouting Combine among the Power 5 conferences, ahead of both the Big Ten and Big 12. However, roster strength's most accurately reflected in the teams' records.
Some of the Pac-12's uncertainty — which has admittedly resulted in as much entertaining parity as it has disappointing national performance — is owed to the combination of some programs overachieving based on recruiting rankings, while others underachieved. That's worth bearing in mind heading into a pivotal 2019 for the conference.
Below are the national recruiting ranking averages for Pac-12 schools over the last five (2015-19) classes according to 247Sports' Composite Team Rankings and each team's record over the last five (2014-18) seasons. Obviously, this doesn't take into account attrition but, over time, this should be considered relatively even across the conference.
Ranking the Pac-12's College Football Rosters in 2019
Rk Team '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 Avg W/L Conf.
1 20 4 4 8 2 7.6 43-23 31-14
2 7 16 19 28 16 17.2 42-24 26-19
3 44 18 20 12 12 21.2 31-32 20-25
10 64 45 44 55 41 49.8 40-24 28-17
12 68 69 49 46 61 58.6 14-46 6-39
Talented USC must deliver in 2019
Speculation surrounding coach Clay Helton's job security ran rampant over the final month of USC's dismal 2018 campaign — to such an extent, Helton himself had to address his future multiple times. Athletic director Lynn Swann implicitly deemed firing a coach with a Rose Bowl championship and Pac-12 title in two of the last three seasons hasty, but the pressure will be on USC to deliver in the coming campaign. The Trojans' repeated recruiting success, particularly since NCAA scholarship-reduction sanctions expired, have packed the roster with potential.
Worthy favorites in Eugene
Very early indicators point to Oregon being a runaway favorite to win the Pac-12's 2019 title. Inherent with such designation, the Ducks will be deemed the conference's best bet for ending a two-year College Football Playoff drought. Oregon's 2019 roster boasts the most impressive mix of established veterans and promising youngsters. Head coach Mario Cristobal's previous tenure as an assistant at Alabama seems to have had immediate influence, evident in Oregon bringing in the conference's top-rated recruiting class.
The start of a worrying trend at UCLA?
No one could accuse former UCLA head coaches Rick Neuheisel and Jim Mora of not recruiting well. The Bruins were routinely fixtures near the top of the Pac-12's annual recruiting rankings. Their success on the recruiting made the on-field misfires all the more confounding. Underachieving on gameday may not be as perplexing as UCLA's poor finish on National Signing Day to start coach Chip Kelly's second year, though. The incoming group ranks No. 44 nationally, marking the first time since 2011 when the Bruins failed to finish in the top 20. The low-rated class set a fittingly bad tone for Neuheisel's fateful final season.
Pete picking up steam
Living up to his reputation coming into Washington from Boise State, Washington head coach Chris Petersen's teams have outperformed their star ratings. The Huskies now boast two conference championships in the past three seasons, and the recruiting successes are beginning to match up with the on-field production. That should terrify opposing Pac-12 coaches. Petersen and his staff landed their first two top-20 classes since arriving at UW in 2014 during the past two recruiting cycles. That translates to a lot of blue-chippers who will be freshmen and sophomores on the defending conference champion's roster in 2019.
What's next for the overachievers?
Although the Pac-12 collectively took its licks from national pundits and commentators, 2018 marked a banner season for Utah and Washington State. Both have routinely exceeded expectations based on star ratings, particularly in the past half-decade, but each reached new milestones in the past campaign. Utah won its first-ever divisional championship, and reaching the program's first Rose Bowl had quarterback Jason Shelley and running back Zack Moss not both been injured is a lingering what-if. Likewise, Washington State came a win (and possibly a missed targeting call at USC) away from its first Pac-12 Championship Game appearance. All the same, the Cougars won a program-record 11 games. Utah and Washington State must continue to buck trends heading into 2019 still ranked on the lower half of the conference's star ratings. With Utah a likely favorite in the South and Washington State again poised to contend in the North, both should continue to be the standard-bearers for overachievement.
The Pac-12 has its examples of overachievement, but reigning two-time last-place divisional finishers Colorado and Oregon State have each lived up to expectations based on recruiting rankings. This is a longstanding issue for both programs, vexing Colorado dating back to its latter days in the Big 12; while Oregon State's success under Mike Riley is something of a historical aberration that defies conventional wisdom. Buffaloes first-year head coach Mel Tucker and second-year Beavers head man Jonathan Smith won't reverse these trends immediately. Both Colorado and Oregon State head into 2019 with the lowest-rated rosters, and by extension, will presumably both be picked last in their divisions. In order to gain ground on the recruiting trail, Tucker and Smith must first outpace projections on gameday.
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Foundation Files Amicus Letter in California Supreme Court in Case Involving Standards for Expert Evidence at Summary Judgment Stage
12 Sep, 2013 in News / Sound Science by Sean Casey
Atlantic Legal Foundation filed a friend of the court brief, joined by the International Association of Defense Counsel, in Marion Liu, etc., et al., v. Superior Court (Janssen Research & Development, LLC, et al.), Case No S211042 in the California Supreme Court. This is an important case on the admissibility of expert testimony evidence when determining whether to grant summary judgment if the testimony would not be admissible at trial. We argued for statutory and policy reasons that the California Supreme Court should grant the petition for review to hear the case and allow courts to exclude such evidence when granting a summary judgment.
The action in the case arises from a hospital-based clinical study of a long acting version of Risperidone, an approved and long-used antipsychotic drug. Augustine Liu (Liu) was admitted into the study by his psychiatrist. Liu suffered from an undiagnosed heart condition characterized by an enlarged and malfunctioning heart. Lius lab studies showed elevated liver enzymes shortly after being admitted to the study. Liu was transferred to an emergency care facility six hours after the confirmation of the lab results. He died approximately eleven hours after being admitted to the emergency care hospital.
Plaintiffs alleged that defendants were negligent by failing to transfer Liu to an emergency room following the initial lab results, and the delay diminished his chance of survival. Several defendants moved for summary judgment based on expert testimony that the care provided did not contribute to his death because there was no available treatment for his heart disease and his overall health condition precluded a heart transplant. Plaintiffs responded with a declaration from Dr. Jay Schapira stating that Lius earlier transfer would have given him a greater than 50% chance of survival, but his expert testimony lacked explanation or substantiation. The trial court excluded the evidence as conclusory and granted summary judgment because Dr. Schapiras declaration did not contain a reasoned opinion on why any actions of defendants caused decedents death.
The Court of Appeal reversed 2-1, holding it an error to exclude Dr. Schapiras expert declaration. The majority said that the lack of reasoned explanation could be a basis for cross-examination. The dissenting justice opined that Dr. Schapiras opinion was merely speculative because it provided no explanation for how Liu could have been treated.
The question before the California Supreme Court is whether to grant the petition to hear the case so as to determine whether speculative expert witness testimony is admissible to rebut a motion for summary judgment. In our amicus letter on behalf of defendants, we advanced six reasons why the Court should review and reverse the decision.
First, we stressed that the governing statutes provide no basis for allowing speculative expert testimony. The summary judgment statute states clearly that both supporting and opposing declarations shall set forth admissible evidence, and provides no statutory basis for singling out expert declarations opposing summary judgment for lower admissibility standards. The California Evidence Code expressly requires a court to exclude such evidence.
Second, denying summary judgment based on evidence not admissible at trial frustrates the purpose of summary judgment. Expert evidence should not be admissible on summary judgment unless it would be admissible at trial because a reasonable trier of fact could not find for a party that does not offer admissible evidence.
Third, lowering the admissibility requirements for expert testimony submitted in opposition to a summary judgment motion serves no sound policy. A rule that a plaintiff opposing summary judgment need only show that evidence may exist, not that it does exist, does not provide a reasonable basis to believe the experts opinion will ever be admissible at trial, and there is no reason to lower the bar on summary judgment.
Fourth, lowering admissibility requirements for expert testimony allows for abuse that harms defendants and the court system. By paying an expert to make a vague unsubstantiated declaration, a plaintiff could avert summary judgment, creating pressure on defendants to settle to avoid the cost and risk of trial, even if the case lacks merit. Additionally, cases that go to trial further burden Californias overburdened trial courts.
Fifth, experience in federal courts, which apply Daubert, demonstrates that the normal standards of admissibility can safely be applied to expert evidence submitted in opposition to summary judgment. In fact, the Daubert criteria were first announced in the setting of an expert opinion opposing summary judgment, and they fully apply to such opinions.
Finally, there is a conflict among different California Court of Appeals decisions. This Court of Appeal opinion adds to the conflict on a recurrent issue that greatly affects a large number of cases, and the California Supreme Court should resolve the conflict.
We urged the California Supreme Court to review and reverse the decision.
To see our amicus letter, click here.
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Apple shuts App Store affiliate program, imperiling recommendation sites
TouchArcade: "Apple extending a massive middle finger" to third-party linkers.
Kyle Orland - Aug 2, 2018 3:15 pm UTC
Enlarge / The note sent to affiliate program members letting them know a major source of revenue will be going away.
TouchArcade
Apple is shutting down an App Store affiliate program that shared a small percentage of revenue generated by third-party links to purchase apps or in-app content. The move will likely have an outsized impact on sites that provide editorial reviews and recommendations of mobile games and other apps, which rely on that affiliate revenue for much of their budget.
The announcement, which will become effective October 1, comes just over a year after Apple cut the program's revenue sharing rates for mobile apps from 7 percent to 2.5 percent. Affiliates will still continue to earn a commission on linked sales for iTunes movies, TV shows, music, and books, as well as subscriptions to Apple Music.
In a note sent to affiliate program members, Apple said the long-running program is shutting down because of "the launch of the new App Store on both iOS and macOS and their increased methods of app discovery." The implication, it seems, is that Apple's own built-in app discovery algorithms are now so good that it no longer needs to encourage actual humans to recommend and link to specific apps and games via the Web.
In 2016, Apple introduced its own "Search Ads" program that lets developers pay for prominent placement on App Store search results. That move has led to some adverse consequences for app discovery, though, as direct searches for popular games and apps on iOS now often return ads for completely different apps as the top result.
Apple brought in an estimated $16.3 billion in mobile gaming revenue in the first half of 2018, according to a recent Sensor Tower report, up from $14.2 billion a year ago. It's hard to say how much of that revenue was driven by affiliate links, but Apple's decision to shut the program down suggests it doesn't feel it's a major revenue driver.
Google Play has never offered a similar revenue-sharing affiliate program.
“I have no idea what we're going to do”
Apple’s decision comes as a sucker punch to outlets like mobile gaming news and reviews site TouchArcade, which has long relied on the App Store affiliate program for a significant chunk of its revenue. As TouchArcade editor Eli Hodapp writes in a despairing post, the loss of the "reliable" affiliate revenue stream could very well kill the site, which will now lean more heavily on Patreon donations and Amazon affiliate links to stay afloat.
"I genuinely have no idea what TouchArcade is going to do," Hodapp writes. "It’s hard to read this in any other way than 'We went from seeing a microscopic amount of value in third-party editorial to, we now see no value.' ... I don’t know how the takeaway from this move can be seen as anything other than Apple extending a massive middle finger to sites like TouchArcade, AppShopper, and many others who have spent the last decade evangelizing the App Store and iOS gaming."
Hodapp isn't alone. "So disappointed with Apple’s decision to remove apps from its affiliate program," AppShopper Editor-in-chief Marianne Schultz tweeted. "Third-party sites have always done a better job of highlighting great apps and deals. Not to mention, I’d rather have a trusted third-party recommend apps to me over Apple, who has a vested interest in selling you every single app in the App Store, regardless of quality or usefulness."
Not everyone in the industry is overly concerned about the situation, though. "One thing the iOS App Store does very well though is promoting a variety of games though [sic] its editorial content," Epic's Tim Sweeney tweeted, seemingly in response to the announcement. "That’s clearly a labor of love."
To that point, 148Apps Reviews Editor Campbell Bird offered the rejoinder that he was "having a hard time thinking of any labors of love that actively try to squash any and all competition."
uhuznaa Ars Praefectus
I have long given up googling for apps or reviews or comparisons because all you find is quickly thrown together lists or phony "reviews" that just want you to click their affiliate links. Spam basically.
jmauro Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
reply Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:19 am
I do feel sorry for them, but they based their entire business model on the kindness of Apple. They should of had some sort of backup plan in place because honestly you cannot trust kindness, especially when money is involved.
The problem is that for every Touch Arcade, there is a thousand sites that are complete shit and add no value to the market. I'm honestly not sure how you keep the former and get rid of the latter, but there's got to be a way Touch Arcade can survive if their content is really worth reading.
LuDux Ars Tribunus Militum
This is a shame. Sad to see them follow Microsofts footsteps try and extract revenue everywhere possible. Just make great products and encourage a strong ecosystem.
That's not how capitalism works.
Belisarius Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Where "Apple extending a massive middle finger" = I want money. I'm not sure why people think they're entitled to affiliate revenue; it, like every other business decision, is dependent upon it being beneficial to both parties. Obviously, one of the parties no longer feels that it is.
Pretty simple, really.
anonArs Ars Scholae Palatinae
Neopassive Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
Pretty much all sites which promote apps and collect affiliate bucks just peddle crapware which harms the ecosystem as a whole. This will help reduce that, but paid promotion of shady apps will remain common.
diabol1k Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
Apple could (should?) be able to alleviate this, to some extent. IMO, the editorials are providing value to the developers/publishers, not Apple - for instance, if I'm landing on a review for XYZ Shooter, it's because I'm looking for a game in the shooter category on iOS; the review is going to point me to XYZ shooter. Therefore - Apple has [most of] the infrastructure built; let the editorial sites make deals with the publishers, if both sides are so inclined.
jaggedcow Ars Praetorian
charliebird wrote:
The fact that affiliates will still continue to earn a commission on everything but App Store purchases proves what everyone already knows which is that Apple doesn't care about gaming in the slightest.
Yes the article is mostly about the effect on TouchArcade, but Apple is dropping affiliate links for all types of apps, not just games. For example, another big area being affected is app developers who put up an affiliate link to their own stuff to reduce Apple's 30% cut.
coolblue2000 Ars Tribunus Militum
jmauro wrote:
It wasn't kindness it was business. Apple needed them, they needed money so the program was started up.
But yes basing your entire business model on the whims of another company is dumb.
Affiliate programs are a boon to scammers. Good riddance.
zombiedog Ars Praetorian
If your business is entirely dependent on the generosity of another companies program that is not making any form of formal contract with you or otherwise has no obligations to you; you're effectively working for donations and your business exists at the whims of that company. This is a reality Youtube/Twitch "professionals" faced a long time ago when they realized Youtube/Twitch could demonetize or adjust monetization whenever they want and would be left out in the cold if that were to occur, as they have no obligation to keep those programs running. Incidentally, their solution was the same as theirs, which was to rely more heavily on Patreon and other donation services. The reality is they've been working for tips all along.
IncorrigibleTroll Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
This sort of thing seems to keep happening over and over: the various YouTube ad revenue fiascos, Facebook algorithm and policy changes, etc. Placing your entire revenue stream at the mercy of a giant megacorporation that is barely aware of you and doesn't give a shit about you is just too precarious. Always assume that they'll pull the rug out from under you at a moment's notice and plan accordingly.
I'm sure somebody will argue that traditional employment carries the same risks. That is true to an extent, but at least employment has labor protection laws (red states not included), employment contracts (sometimes), safety nets like unemployment insurance, etc. They're hardly perfect or universal, but they're much stronger than a Google/Apple/Facebook TOS.
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Yawn. No offense but that is his own damned fault for basing his business model on the whims of a 3rd party that might change at any time.
This just sounds like Zynga on a much smaller scale.
He might as well be a hardware accesory maker not willing to adapt to hardware changes.
notAfan Ars Centurion
WTF are you talking about? This has nothing to do with gaming - it's a business decision. 99.9% of these sites ARE complete shit. They peddle BS crapware so good riddance that they finally don't have an incentive to do so any longer.
But really, I am still trying to understand how apple stopping paying an affiliate commission for ALL APPS (not just games) leads you to your little tirade? You hate apple, we get it, but you sound like a dumbass if you just post random hate comments on every article...
my feelings too, i think it's a shame but things like this are never a good business model for a 3rd party.
IncorrigibleTroll wrote:
This isn't about labor protection !!
There is nothing stopping this guy from writing about apps and games for an actual company like Gamespot or IGN or others .... if he's good enough they would probably hire him on. Or any of the dozens of tech sites out there like ARS or Wired that also cover gaming.
He chose to go independent and as others (and myself) have mentioned he chose to wrap his business model around a singular aspect of a very large company and now he is simply having a temper tantrum like the MPAA or RIAA because he's unwilling to change his business model and he feels that Apple owes him something more than they do.
ninnghazad Ars Centurion
"Thanks for training our neural networks, you may leave now."
We might hear that a lot in the coming years.
TracerDX Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
Seems like this was a long time coming and acting surprised about it is just the desperate grasping of straws by those who failed to read what was in the wind and adapt quickly. They did not and now they will die.
Welcome to the technology industry.
50me12 Ars Scholae Palatinae
jonah wrote:
I think it speaks to a larger issue with gaming media altogether. There's really no good way to tell good actors from those that are all but advertising presented as a discovery platform or independent critical reviews.
It also doesn't help that on mobile the variety of games that people might like or don't like can be wildly mixed.
fferitt25 wrote:
I think you completely misunderstood me. My point was that hitching your wagon to a single revenue sharing program like this Apple affiliate program or YouTube ads is much, much riskier than traditional employment, as that program can change or disappear with little to no warning. It's absolutely critical to have a diversity of income sources and a cash-on-hand buffer so that you can ride out the loss of a particular program. I mentioned the labor protections on traditional employment in order to head off the reductionists who would argue that you can be fired from a 9-5 job and therefore everything is the same.
1 - Never been to or ever heard of Touch Arcade before this article.
2 - Eli and company seem to be getting their 15 minutes of fame due to ARS and the commenters on this article.
3 - I've checked out several articles on TA website and this ARS article has already gotten more comments on it than ANY of the TA articles I viewed -- 9 comments here, 12 comments there ....
4 - TA can't be making that much cash off of Apple's affiliate program based on the traffic I see on the website. Or does Eli still live at home and a few hundred bucks is big money to him ?
AT Eli -- change your business model.
50me12 wrote:
That's hardly exclusive to gaming media. The web is lousy with worthless "Top 5/10/20 whatever" sites that are just plagiarized ad copy and super-aggressive SEO.
siliconaddict wrote:
Apple and kindness. HAHAHAHAHA. Hang on....
OK. Nope....HAHAHAHAHA.
OK I think we are good now. Apple routley gives the middle finger to everyone in its ecosystem, and you guys are perfectly fine with that. They have been doing this for decades and their userbase shrugs. My personal favorite was the required payment for 802.11n driver upgrade on the original MBP. The excuse was a complete and total joke. Then you have the DRM in their accessories for iPods to ensure that they are "genuine"
Seriously though as far as I can tell its a form of Stockholm Syndrome that many, not all, but many, Apple users have.
Do I disagree with some of the points you made? No, I do not. Do I understand what it has to do with the article you're commenting on? No, I do not...
fuzzyfuzzyfungus Ars Praefectus
Unfortunately, as in many interactions with 'platform' companies, there isn't really a backup plan.
The combination of Apple and iOS is particularly potent; given that you can't exactly rely on switching to the patronage of any other iOS app stores; and Apple tends to...dislike...entities that have the temerity to implement features that they consider to be part of their feature set(see basically all the iOS apps dragged out and shot when an iOS release adds what they did).
App store recommendations in iOS aren't exactly a work of brilliance(frankly, I was a bit surprised at how...downmarket...Apple is OK with their arrangement of paid promotions among actual search results; I thought that sort of thing was against their taste); but they exist; which is usually the point where Apple starts viewing the 3rd parties as irrelevant at best and active targets for removal at worst.
mdrejhon Ars Scholae Palatinae
Many sites base their entire business model on the kindness of Google. Or Amazon.
It's quite scary, honestly.
Grashnak Ars Tribunus Militum
I've always been a little suspicious of affiliate programs and the people whose sites depend upon people clicking on their affiliate links. I know there are some good sites out there, but there also a ton of affiliate link farms.
Getting paid for good content is hard, no question about it, but I prefer my review sites to have no economic stake in the sales of the things they review.
Geebs Ars Tribunus Militum
I’m afraid the reason why I stopped visiting Touch Arcade is that every game on the App Store has become mindless free-to-play drek (including games I originally paid the full asking price for, looking at you Rovio). A site dedicated to finding the best turd in the dungpile really isn’t likely to get my clicks.
Also if the App Store’s new “discovery” algorithms are any good I will eat my Mac Pro.
Ben G Ars Tribunus Militum
I don’t know why this is lost on so many in the “internet economy”, but to run a successful business of any type, you need to sell a product or service that customers are willing to pay you money for.
In the case of Touch Arcade, they basically had a single customer, Apple. That is who was actually paying for the service TA was providing. Originally, Apple found the service of driving eyeballs to the App Store worth paying for. Apparently they no longer think it is.
If your company is based on providing a service to a single customer, and you lose that customer for whatever reason, your business will be in bad shape.
Burgernaut Wise, Aged Ars Veteran et Subscriptor
Try searching for "text editor" in either the macOS Mojave beta or the recently-revamped iOS app store. macOS gives me a photo editor as the second hit, with a video editor not far down the list; iOS delivers a hot mess. If "increased methods of app discovery" (an unusually lumpen turn of phrase for Apple) is the excuse for doing away with affiliate links, then it's a pretty weak one.
Yes, there's editorial content — daily for iOS; currently weekly for macOS — but no way to surface old content, so I can't scroll through what I missed (visit the app every day to see what's new? dream on, Apple), and I can't search for past content that scratches my current itch. (Needless to say, this non-web content is not indexed by search engines …)
plateshutoverlock wrote:
Remember kids, Apple wants to be your lord, master, duke, king, captain, sultan, czar, commadant, and God.
Unfortunately, it seems Google/Android might head in that direction
May I refer you to Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary, resurfaced here from 2013 ten days or so ago?
nbs2 Ars Tribunus Militum
TA is a MacRumors sister site. I don't know if Arn just took an interest and brought it into the MR fold or if he was a founder. Same for AppShopper. Moons ago I found TA to be a little sketchy since my first exposure to discovery sites was that they seemed like spam and ads, and MR's noise to signal ratio has gotten out of control, so I haven't really been back to any of the three to see if they have changed.
The link to MR gives them more credibility than a lot of the other discovery sites have, and which also suggests they they get a lot more traffic than you are imagining. I don't know what their earnings were off of the affiliate links, but if MR used the TA or AS affiliation to boost revenue, it wouldn't have been an insignificant chunk of change.
TA and the ilk will need to adapt, which is what they are doing by pushing Patreon and Amazon affiliate links, but I hope they aren't tying themselves too tightly to the latter. Amazon has pushed back before as well.
LordOfTheMorning Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
So help me god 😳😳😳
ZippyPeanut Ars Scholae Palatinae
No surprise here.
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Mr. Pichai goes to Washington —
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will face lawmakers at a hearing next week
"Search engines can be used to suppress particular viewpoints," Congressman says.
Timothy B. Lee - Nov 28, 2018 4:52 pm UTC
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify before Congress next Wednesday, December 5. The hearing will give members of the House Judiciary Committee a long-awaited opportunity to grill Pichai about a wide range of issues, from user privacy to free speech in China.
Google angered some members of Congress in September when the company refused to send either one of its two most senior executives—Pichai or Alphabet CEO Larry Page—to testify before a September hearing on election security before the Senate Intelligence Committee. That hearing featured Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg—as well as an empty chair marked "Google."
Google employees demand that Google stop work on censored Chinese search
According to the Washington Post, next week's hearing is occurring at the request of House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, who has raised concerns that Google may be biased against conservatives—and that this bias may be seeping into the policies of Google's search engine, YouTube, and other products. A recently leaked video showed Google executives openly mourning Hillary Clinton's loss after the 2016 election.
"The technology behind online services like social media and Internet search engines can also be used to suppress particular viewpoints and manipulate public opinion," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in a press release announcing the hearing.
But there are plenty of other controversial topics that members of Congress may want to ask Pichai about.
Google has recently faced criticism from employees over rumors that Google is working on a censored search engine for the Chinese market. The reports have also raised concerns for members of Congress, including McCarthy.
"Reports claim the company is compromising its core principles by complying with repressive censorship mandates from China," McCarthy said in an emailed statement.
Google has also faced criticism from employees for its work on military drones—work Google is reportedly planning to discontinue in 2019. Here, the pressure from Congress is likely to push in the opposite direction from the company's protesting employees, with members of Congress encouraging Google to apply its technical prowess to strengthen the US military.
Google faces charges of anticompetitive conduct
Last year, European regulators slapped Google with a $2.7 billion fine for abusing its dominant position in the search market, then faced another $5 billion fine for using Android's dominance of the smartphone market to bolster its position in search. Google critics like Yelp have been pressing American regulators to take a closer look at these issues.
Traditionally, strict enforcement of antitrust laws has been more associated with Democrats than with Republicans. But there have been signs of growing interest in the topic within the GOP.
In an interview with Axios earlier this month, Donald Trump said his administration was "looking at" stronger antitrust enforcement against Google, as well as Amazon and Facebook. Missouri just elected a new Republican senator, Josh Hawley, who campaigned as a fierce critic of Google's business practices.
So Pichai could find himself facing tough questions from both sides of the aisle—from Democrats who are skeptical of big businesses generally and from Republicans who are concerned about the growing power of Silicon Valley technology companies.
reply Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:57 am
This idea that the social networks are "censoring" conservative values is absolutely bonkers, unless you believe that bigotry is a conservative value. Otherwise, all they're doing is quieting the assholes that make like terrible for their other users, and make those users not want to use the service. One has no further to look than Gab to see what becomes of a network when you don't do that.
Poop Skunk Smack-Fu Master, in training
It only seems like google has a bias because reality has a well known liberal bias.
Matthew J. Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Kevin McCarthy, who has raised concerns that Google may be biased against conservatives...
They're not biased against conservatives. They're biased against nonsense.
Which, unfortunately, seems to be associated increasingly often with conservatism.
binaryspiral Ars Praetorian
reply Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:01 pm
>A recently-leaked video showed Google executives openly mourning Hillary Clinton's loss after the 2016 election.
The majority of the country mourned her election loss.
tl,dr: we aren't getting the results we want so you must be suppressing our view point.
A: Google is doing nothing of the kind. I see all kinds of crap in my news feed that's from questionable sources.
B: Google isn't the government. If they want to promote some content over others that is their right.
Republicans: All regulation is bad and the free market is all. Unless the regulations and market controls help us that is.
Sajuuk Ars Tribunus Militum
A recently-leaked video showed Google executives openly mourning Hillary Clinton's loss after the 2016 election.
Republicans: Corporations are not only people but are entitled to use their money and clout to whatever political or social ends they want!
Also Republicans: No, not like that!
I mean, I've made this joke before, but it's still perfectly apropos.
DarthSlack Ars Tribunus Militum
Can anyone point out an actual case of Google bias that doesn't involve the alt-right?
Just exactly who are the Republicans worried about?
Greenwizard88 Ars Centurion
I'm a liberal. I'm also a Sanders supporter. I recall seeing a rather popular article about Sanders before the election, and being unable to find it with Google. It was near the top with Bing. That was my wake-up call.
I'm not about to jump on the "Google censors stuff" bandwagon, but I do agree that it's entirely possible to shift public opinion by shifting the results that a search engine returns. Given Google's near monopoly in online search, I'm surprisingly in agreement with conservatives. The flow of information needs to be protected and remain impartial, otherwise you can end up with what is essentially corporate run propaganda.
Linger42 Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
There are real questions associated with this issue, but I have zero faith that the Republican members of that committee have any interest in real answers.
Head Pirate Ars Scholae Palatinae
Where to even start with this. I guess definitions is always a good jumping off point.
Bias: This is a differential in your standards of evidence.
Opinion, topic choice, leaning, many other words: Not bias.
A search engine (or anything else) can't show bias unless it is commenting on if something is true or not. You need to be presented evidence from more then one source and discount the sources that disagree with a point on a basis other then the validity of their science. Then you are showing "bias" toward that point.
For totally completely random, in no way deliberate or relevant example, let's say 1000s of studies show that climate change is a man made issue, but you say that evidence isn't good enough to change your opinion, Given you have formed that opinion without evidence or based on one or two studies that have been debunked. you are showing bias. The standard of evidence to change your opinion is much greater then the standard of evidence of that opinion in the first place.
If you're a media outlet and you ONLY report on the studies showing climate change is manmade and ignore the outlining studies, you are not bias. You are choosing a talking point. And that's fine. We tried passing laws that required people to give equal consideration to both sides of every argument. They didn't out well.
Google is incapable of bias, because it doesn't tell searchers what to believe and it doesn't assign a truth value to it's results. It provides access to evidence. If they are only seeing "one side of a store", beside it being perfectly okay and Google's right to present only one side to a story, it's a function of the algorithm finding that one side of the story has better representation with the person searching and a desire to give search results that the use likes. Google considers a search a failure if the user dose not click on a link on the first page.
Searching "New Hanover" on my PC at home brings up FAQs for Red Dead Redemption 2. Searching the same quarry on the computer in my office brings up demographic and statistical data on New Hanover Country in NC. This happens because although I typed the same thing, Google is smart enough to know I was likely looking for different data.
TL:DR and conclusion:
Google can't be bias.
Google dose however skew it's search results to give the user information they were likely looking for
The overwhelming majority of people in the US are "left leaning" on social issue, and value evidence over opinion on factual issues.
So to misuse "bias" as it's being used by congress, google search results are always bias in favor of the searcher. And most searchers don't believe your non-sense, so google dons 't make us scroll though it.
Edit: Spelling
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Considering how little the average member of Congress knows about technology (nothing), coupled with how little they care about actually solving problems (not at all, judging by the past decade or so), I don't have high hopes for this hearing.
Greenwizard88 wrote:
Probably explained by a combination of different search algorithms and Google tailoring results per user. The idea that Google would be hand-picking Bernie articles to hide seems quite contrived.
s73v3r wrote:
All very true, but Google isn't a social network.
Sixclaws wrote:
Whenever someone from Facebook/Google/Twitter gets grilled at a hearing, the next day they deplatform someone. Akin to a bully who needs a scapegoat to vent on after being lectured by the principal.
I wonder who's next.
Citations required.
Makes me wonder if this is a campaign against search engines as “fake news.”
At most with my limited knowledge of how google works I could see confirmation bias. I’ll find what I’m looking for.
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Every time this topic comes up, I ask for examples, and get nothing but sexism and transphobia.
anti-trust investigation and enforcement towards google and the other tech giants: good
googlers pushing google not to censor search results for China (and soon everywhere): good
googlers resisting google building military AI drones: good
republicans in congress complaining because google doesn't present their biases as truth: not so good ...
earlyberd wrote:
B: You're right, Google isn't the government. And as such, the government is free to make their own decisions about what content Google is allowed to censor within the country, and can enforce those decisions via regulation.
Um, no.
That, itself, would be censorship.
Republicans want to let ISPs throttle and block portions of the internet. But Google altering their search results is immoral.
Riiight.
It really is weird that Republicans seem to feel the need to defend people who are dedicated to eradicating every single right for everyone but themselves.
I also strongly suspect that a fair bit of the "censorship" is due to personal search histories. I don't think many people understand how past searches can impact current searches.
GOP: ISPs have a first amendment right to throttle the internet, block content, and act as editor of what you see.
GOP: Google doesn't have a first amendment right to alter search results and suppress conservative views on Youtube.
The GOP have managed to take 2+2 and come up with 5.
rpstar wrote:
It's telling how many people have left reason behind by how many downvotes you got versus upvotes. Scary.
I'm conservative but not fully convinced they are willfully skewing against conservatives at this point but maybe. That maybe is a big problem given their position in the market so I find them highly foolish to meanwhile be doing a censored search engine for China (purportedly) and having executives make speeches in support of a Democratic candidate. Seems very foolish.
and having executives make speeches in support of a Democratic candidate.
You mean that thing they're entirely allowed to do?
I'm enjoying the implication that we need to nationalize Google coming from conservatives though, that's a real hoot.
lewax00 Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Head Pirate wrote:
You're missing something: the search results are ordered, and the order is determined by Google's algorithms. To produce a reproducible, useful order, you have to have some bias, but that doesn't mean it has a political bias. It could be biased in favor of, for example, higher word counts (e.g. they could decide that long web pages are inherently better, and could rank them higher).
Alyeska wrote:
It's even crazier:
ISPs have a first amendment right to alter the speech of others, but Google doesn't have a right to alter it's own speech.
lewax00 wrote:
I thought I covered that. That's why the order is different at home then at my office. Google puts video game related results first at home, dons 't include them at work.
Still, you're restarting my thesis very clean and nicely so thank you. Google dose everything it can to put a link on the first page you are going to click on. If that means feeding you a "Was Obama the REAL JFK shooter?" headline, it will do that. If it means using a headline with big words because the analytics show you really like big words, then it dose that instead.
All it wants is a successful search, which google defines as one where the user clicks a result on the first page.
But that is bias. They're choosing which results they think are most relevant to you.
It's not censorship, I'm sure if you added "rdr2" to your search at work, you'd get results relevant to the game, so it's not like they've made them inaccessible, but they have made a decision on what they think should be shown first.
shunted Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
Can't wait to see all the grandstanding that comes from this. NOT!
onepunchrick Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Poop Skunk wrote:
Guess that explains why reality has Trump as President.
Last edited by onepunchrick on Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:58 pm
Lazarpandar Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
Look I'm not trying to defend anybody here but I think many conservatives don't even agree that transphobia is a bad thing. In fact, I think many of them would agree that calling a trans person by their original name/gender is the conservative option and that treating that as harassment is silencing conservative speech.
I'm not defending those points of view, just reporting on my honest understanding of the issue.
jamesonista Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
Just love how we're so concerned with anti-trust when it comes to tech companies, but not a single drop of interest in anti-trust for telecoms who absolutely have a monopoly in most of America.
microlith Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
onepunchrick wrote:
That's explained by racism and collusion with a foreign government. The "liberal bias" of reality stems purely from the "conservative" disenfranchisement with it.
Fstchvy wrote:
While Alex Jones getting unilaterally silenced by Apple, YouTube, and Twitter may not seem like a huge loss to the world... Corporations ability to squelch a viewpoint they may or may not disagree with while hiding behind an EULA to bypass a first amendment right of a user... that is a very 1984 big brother scary thought.
Would you feel the same if Cenk Uygur was squelched on Apple, YouTube, and Twitter?
Oho, we got a first amendment here! Bingo!
Also, to paraphrase: First they came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out...because fuck Nazis, they're the reason the poem exists!
reply Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:04 pm
Sajuuk wrote:
Didn’t CNN just claim this with Jim Acosta?
Are you equating access to the White House with access to YouTube?
AdamM Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
You remember this exact moment, where you got upset with Google and let it burn in your mind for years, but can't remember what the article remotely was about? It's hard to determine bias or filtering out of the trash if we don't know what the article is in question. Popularity isn't always a good indicator of placement in rankings. Horseshit goes viral all the time.
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Our Disappeared
Through a casual Google search director Juan Mandelbaum finds out that Patricia, a long-lost girlfriend from Argentina, is among the thousands who were kidnapped, tortured and then "disappeared" by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Juan embarks on a journey to find out what happened to Patricia and others he knew who disappeared, and along the way re-examines his own choices. Using rare archival footage he evokes the dreams for a revolution that would transform Argentina. As he shares dramatic stories told by parents, siblings, friends and children of the disappeared, Juan grieves the tragic losses and shows that when brutal regimes attack the fabric of a country with great impunity, the suffering lasts for generations. And yet now that the children of the disappeared are themselves becoming parents, it becomes clear that in the end, life wins.
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Home › Belgian Breweries › Brasserie Dubuisson
Brasserie Dubuisson
The Beginning – Just opposite this ancient brewery, in the flat farmland of Hainaut, there is a small castle, coloured snowy-white. It's where Dubuisson's story began, where © BeerTourism.com
Joseph Leroy first started brewing for the Count of Ghissegnies. When, in 1769, the Empress Maria Theresia withdrew tax exemptions that had been previously granted, the Count’s brewing adventure came to an end.
Not Joseph Leroy's, however. This ancestor (through the female line) to current owner, Hugues Dubuisson, simply crossed the road and started up his own farm brewery. Eight generations on, and its brewing craft is still alive, and still being passed from father to son.
It's a traditional craft that's been open to influence, though. In 1933 Hugues’ grandfather, Alfred Dubuisson, created a Belgian amber beer that pulled from the English traditions of pale-ale, scotch and stout. The resulting beer proved a hit, with much success inside and outside Belgium – under different names.
Bush was the name given to the beer, which is actually the English word for 'dubuisson', and it's long been the brewery's prime brew. But the Bush range of beers were © BeerTourism.com
renamed Scaldis in the USA, to avoid confusion with another large competitor.
Alfred Dubuisson thought up the following wry slogan to promote his new brews: “The life expectation of a water drinker is 57 years and for a Bush drinker it is 97 years. Up to you!” Following his own motto, Alfred passed away in 1993, at the grand old age of 97.
Dubuisson once brewed mainly table-beers and saison, but their focus switched increasingly to the Bush speciality beers, especially on recent decades. And so its historic brands, such as Provision, Saison, Triple Blonde de Ghyssegnies, Cock-Ale, Vieille Bière and © BeerTourism.com
Surfine, have all sadly fallen by the wayside.
Some classics may be gone, but Dubuisson never jumped on the bandwagon for trends like white beers, fruit beers or abbey beers. And large volumes of pils-style beers weren't of any particular interest, either.
What was of interest was pushing the boundaries of the Bush range. In 1991 the Bush family welcomed a new member: the Bush de Noël (12.0% ABV) Christmas beer. A Bush ‘light’ followed in 1994 (the Bush 7, at 7.0% ABV) but it was discontinued, as it didn't prove particularly popular. However, Bush Triple (10.5% ABV), a blonde © BeerTourism.com
introduced in 1997, was right on target. The year 2000 saw a drastic increase of activity at the brewery.
The Cuvée des Trolls (7.0% ABV), aimed at a younger public, was launched in this year. Another winner was the Bush Prestige (13.0% ABV), launched in 2003, which is Bush matured in new oak barrels (usually made for Burgundy wine). Along with its flurry of new beers, Dubuisson made changes to its brewing facilities at this time.
It opened its Brasse-Temps microbrewery in Louvain-la-Neuve, followed, three years on, by a launch in Mons (Bergen). Also, the old brewing hall in Pipaix was completely refurbished, to allow the brewer to respond to growing demand, both within Belgium and abroad. And to top it all off, the brewery established its own hops in an adjacent field.
Dubuisson, the oldest brewery in Wallonia, is now brewing around 45,000 hl per year. 35 per cent of its output goes abroad: mainly to France, Switzerland, Italy, the USA and Hungary. The Dubuisson story shows no sign of slowing down either as their new brewing hall has increased its capacity to 100,000 hl a year.
The Brewing
The Bush beers rank among the heaviest (in alcohol terms) in Belgium, at around 12% ABV. The brewer speaks of them as ‘degustation beers with character.’ Reaching those © BeerTourism.com
highs requires the taking of some special measures in the brewing.
A quarter of the wort is allowed to evaporate, so as to increase its density, while sugar is added at the end of the boiling process. The beer will re-ferment in large bottles, so it can develop more intense aromas and a rounder taste. Such heavy beers are very much 'keepers', and can be stored without any problems for two or three years, or even longer.
But what exactly is the Dubuisson ‘signature’? What gives these beers their character? In the first instance, it has to be the house yeast, which is propagated using the original strain. This is a very particular variety of yeast. It is still active at an alcohol content of 12 degrees, which is quite unusual for a beer yeast.
In addition, the yeast provides plenty of fruity aromas, as well as the impressions of nuts and caramel. Much of the rest of the character comes from the malt. The Bush Antonin Maes, brewer
beers use three varieties of malt, including a caramel malt which contributes to the colour. Beyond that, each of the Bush varieties has its own story.
The first chapter, of course, began with the Bush Ambrée (12.0% ABV), which was introduced in 1933. Bush Prestige (2003) is none other than Bush Ambrée matured in oak barrels.
This is how the wood tannins seep into the beer, providing aromas familiar from oak-matured sherry, whisky or brandy.
The Bush de Nuits (13.0% ABV) of 2007 is another special, and is in fact Bush de Noël (launched in 1991) ripened in used-burgundy barrels. Legend has it that the brewer purchased a barrel filled with Nuits-Saint-Georges (the Bourgogne red), sought the assistance of his friends to drain it, and then filled it up with Christmas beer.
The Bush de Nuits is a complex beer, not dissimilar to wine, but complementing it with touches of red fruits. Since 2008, Bush has also been available as a tripel.
The Brewers
The brewery's owner, Hugues Dubuisson, is a man who knows his stuff. As well as years of experience, and many generations of passed-down brewing wisdom, © BeerTourism.com
he has a brewing degree under his belt. Every single recipe is personally developed by him, paying all due respect owed (naturally enough) to the Bush ‘institution’, as one of the oldest beer brands in Belgium.
It was his passion for nature, and for flora in particular, that, he says, led him to study agricultural engineering, with a particular focus on brewing technology. Beer has always held a fascination for Hugues.
He wanted to get to the bottom of each enjoyable glass, and find out how natural ingredients played a role in creating it. Hugues had his first practical experience of brewing at De Koninck in Antwerp, where he was employed as a production assistant.
However, Hugues is an engineer through-and-through. When he took up his job at the family brewery, he immediately started investing in the lab. He feels that if you want to achieve consistent quality, you need to have state-of-the-art facilities for analysing your product. That's how you Cuvée des Trolls
can single out the one particular ingredient that's not quite up to scratch, for example. Quality is paramount at Dubuisson.
When Hugues joined the brewery, he found that the hops were unpleasantly bitter, which prompted him to instigate rigourous quality control.
At the end of the day, though, he reckons that brewing is really the art of managing balance. And more than anything, he is proud of his traditional family brewery.
As a member of the Association of Belgian Family Brewers, Hugues is a stout defender of the quality reputation of Belgian beer – brewed locally, by family businesses, across the generations.
Bush Ambrée
Bush Ambrée Triple
Bush Blonde
Bush Blonde Triple
Bush de Charmes
Bush de Noël
Bush de Noël Premium
Bush de Nuits
Bush Prestige
Cuvée des Trolls
Cuvée des Trolls Triple
Pêche Mel’ Bush
This is a brewery very much geared to its visitors, welcoming individuals and groups alike. Much of the tour focuses on the brand new brewing hall, but © BeerTourism.com
a real highlight is the visit to the cellar. This is where you'll see the Bush de Nuits maturing in its wooden burgundy barrels.
A visit here is pleasantly rounded off with a tasting in the Troll & Bush brewery pub. This used to be the brewery cafe, and was a traditional stop-over for those who travelled from Charleroi and Bergen (Mons) to the North Sea coast.
Dubuisson doesn't only brew in the village of Pipaix, however. Somewhat surprisingly, you'll find the Imagix cinema complex in Bergen plays host Dubuisson's Le Brasse-Temps microbrewery. On this most unusual of spots, five different beers are brewed – all of which Enjoying the Troll & Bush
are 100% natural and artisanally-crafted. The beers produced here, freshly poured, can only be enjoyed at this single location.
In common with the Troll & Bush, the menu here is varied and regional, and the prices are modest. And, of course, all of Dubuisson's extensive range is also available at Le Brasse-Temps
Just outside the walls of the main brewery you'll find there are plenty of other experiences to be had. First and foremost, there's the alluring scent of the field of hops, that the brewery started cultivating recently.
But step a little further, and the pleasures become architectural. In Leuze, there's the collegiate Church of St. Peter, which was constructed in the style of Louis XV, the penultimate monarch of the House of Bourbon. It is Hugues Dubuisson down in the cellar
well-admired for its striking oak-panelling, its 15th-century eagle-bedecked lectern, as well as its organ and treasury.
History is also gathered in the local museums. The ‘Museum van de 18 dagen’ (or Museum of Eighteen Days) is a war museum covering the start of WWII in Belgium.
The Gallo-Roman museum in Blicquy, by contrast, jumps back a couple of millenia to classical times, depicting daily Roman life. Here you'll find clay ovens, funeral pyres, a statue of the war god Mars, pottery and jewellery. Mahymobiles, in Leuze, is a pilgrimage destination for lovers of a different sort of 'classics' – old-time automobiles. Here, around one hundred vehicles are on show, all restored to their original condition.
Some 14km from the brewery you'll find the flat farmland gives way to one of the oldest cities in Belgium. Doornik’s (or Tournai’s) impressive cathedral, with its four splendid square towers, is a Unesco World Heritage Site. Notre-Dame Cathedral Tournai, Wallonia
This cathedral was constructed in the Middle Ages (13th and 14th-century). Step inside and you'll be gifted with the work of artists such as Jordaens, Rubens and Metsys. There's a particularly brilliant rose-shaped leaded glass window, showing the city as it then was, which simply has to be seen.
Doornik also proudly claims the to have the oldest Belfort Tower in Belgium, which is also a Unesco World Heritage Site. If you climb to the top of this tower, you'll be greeted with spectacular views over the city.
Another eye-catching monument is the unique Pont des Trous, of ‘Bridge of Holes’ – the final witness of the city's medieval city walls. The water gate across the river Scheldt is part of the former outer city wall, and has protected Doornik from attacks many-a-time.
The city also plays host to seven museums, including the Museum of Visual Arts, designed by Art Nouveau architect, Victor Horta. Here, you can admire the 'oeuvre' of important Belgian painters such as Rogier van der Weyden, Breughel, Rubens and Jordaens.
The other museums are a surprisingly varied lot, housing collections of tapestries, puppets, folklore and much more. Doornik is a great city to explore Festival time in Binche
on foot, with all the main attractions within walking distance. Visit the local tourist office to find out about the walks around town, which vary considerably in the distances covered.
The wider area offers plenty of opportunities for sightseeing. Scattered across the Henegouwen region you will find Beloeil Castle, with its gardens, Attre Castle, and the ruins of Aulne on the banks of the Sambre in Gozée. There's also the small town of Binche, known for its carnival that now forms part of Unesco World Heritage award, and the hospital museum of Notre-Dame de la Rose in Lessines.
Here you can discover how medicine was practised in medieval times, in the authentic surroundings of a convent-hospital which dates back to the Middle Ages.
The city of Bergen (Mons) is also well worth a detour to see. Its Belfort, towering over its park and the city, is yet another Unesco World Heritage Site. Other buildings that will catch your eye include the eclectic Town Hall at the Grote Markt, the Church of Sint-Walburgis and the BAM contemporary art museum.
Not far from the city there are two impressive former mining sites, which well worth a visit. Enjoy contemporary art and thematic expositions at Le Grand Hornu, now host to the MAC (Musée des Arts Contemporains), with surroundings that exude industrial archaeology from every pore. At Frameries, an interactive science museum has found its home in a discontinued mine.
Getting There & Around
You will find Pipaix at just an hour’s drive from Brussels (80 km), using the E411 from Charleroi, or the E429 from the direction of Rijsel (Lille) and Doornik (Tournai). The brewery is located 14km away from Doornik, and some 37km from Bergen (Mons). If you're coming by public transport, from Doornik, take bus 95 to reach your destination.
Gastronomy, Food & More Beer
Beer chef Hilaire Spreuwers feels that it is predominantly the yeast that determines the taste of the Dubuisson beers, producing a particular taste that's clearly recognisable. So it's no surprise that these beers, with their pronounced character and high alcohol content, are true and proper degustation beers.
They're made to enjoy as an aperitif, complement as a digestive, or relish at other times of the day– especially when paired with a wedge of carefully chosen cheese. © BeerTourism.com
Which cheese, though? Well someone familiar with the ways of a cheese affineur, like Hilaire Spreuweers, knows what to do.
He will first update his tasting notes for every cheese, and seek out the best possible pairing. He will take the drink as a starting point before drawing the net around possible candidates. He will browse his taste memory: rose petals, bitter roast coffee, rosemary…. tasting, and naming the different aromas, refining his choice to a select few cheeses.
These will then be tasted as a pairing with the brew, usually together with a colleague. It's definitely a matter of trial and error, especially at first; this is a profession you have to grow into. It's reckoned that it takes one year before you are able to make a selection, and some three years before you can take an independent decision as to the optimum maturation of the cheese.
If you can't decide, and want to present a cheese board, matters are even more complicated. The cheese affineur recommends having a piece of bread between tastings to cleanse the mouth. Ordinary bread is best for this; so don’t use bread containing nuts or olives, for example. Hard work, but worth the effort - enjoy!
And finally (and fittingly) it's worth noting that the Dubuisson brewery has its own cheese, produced by the Dupont brewery-dairy, which is found in the same region.
Tourism information for Leuze:
VVV Leuze-en-Hainaut
Avenue de la Résistance 1
B-7900 Leuze-en-Hainaut
Tel. +32 (0) 69 66 98 40
Email: info@leuze-en-hainaut.be
Website: www.leuze-en-hainaut.be
Tourist information for Doornik (Tournai):
VVV Doornik
Place Paul-Emile Janson 1
B-7500 Doornik
Tel. +32 (0) 69 2220 45
Email: info@visittournai.be
Website: www.visittournai.be
Tourist information for Henegouwen (Hainaut):
Toerisme Henegouwen
Rue des Clercs 31
B-7000 Bergen
Tel.: +32 (0) 65 36 04 64
Website: www.visithainaut.be
Chaussée de Mons 28
B-7904 Pipaix
+32 (0) 69 / 67 22 22
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HotChips 101
Published August 31, 2009 by Benjamin Tseng
This post is almost a week overdue thanks to a hectic work week. In any event, I spent last Monday and Tuesday immersed in the high performance chip world at the 2009 HotChips conference.
Now, full disclosure: I am not electrical engineer, nor was I even formally trained in computer science. At best, I can “understand” a technical presentation in a manner akin to how my high school biology teacher explained his “understanding” of the Chinese language: “I know enough to get in trouble.”
But despite all of that, I was given a rare look at a world that few non-engineers ever get to see, and yet it is one which has a dramatic impact on the technology sector given the importance of these cutting-edge chip technologies in computers, mobile phones, and consumer electronics.
And, here’s my business strategy/non-expert enthusiast view of six of the big highlights I took away from the conference and which best inform technology strategy:
We are 5-10 years behind on the software development technology needed to truly get performance power out of our new chips. Over the last decade, computer chip companies discovered that simply ramping up clock speeds (the Megahertz/Gigahertz number that everyone talks about when describing how fast a chip is) was not going to cut it as a way of improving computer performance (because of power consumption and heat issues). As a result, instead of making the cores (the processing engines) on a chip faster, chip companies like Intel resorted to adding more cores to each chip. The problem with this approach is that performance becomes highly dependent on software developers being able to create software which can figure out how to separate tasks across multiple cores and share resources effectively between them – something which is “one of the hardest if not the hardest systems challenge that we as an industry have ever face” (courtesy of UC Berkeley professor Dave Patterson). The result? Chip designers like Intel may innovate to the moon, but unless software techniques catch up, we won’t get to see any of that. Is it no wonder, then, that Intel bought multi-core software technology company RapidMind or that other chip designers like IBM and Sun are so heavily committed to creating software products to help developers make use of their chips? (Note: the image to the right is an Apple ad of an Intel bunny suit smoked by the PowerPC chip technology that they used to use)
Computer performance may become more dependent on chip accelerator technologies. The traditional performance “engine” of a computer was the CPU, a product which has made the likes of Intel and IBM fabulously wealthy. But, the CPU is a general-purpose “engine” – a jack of all trades, but a master of none. In response to this, companies like NVIDIA, led by HotChips keynote speaker Jen-Hsun Huang, have begun pushing graphics chips (GPUs), traditionally used for gaming or editing movies, as specialized engines for computing power. I’ve discussed this a number of times over at the Bench Press blog, but the basic idea is that instead of using the jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-none CPU, a system should use specialized chips to address specialized needs. Because a lot of computing power is burnt doing work that is heavy on the mathematical tasks that a GPU is suited to do, or the signal processing work that a digital signal processor might be better at, or the cryptography work that a cryptography accelerator is better suited for, this opens the doorway to the use of other chip technologies in our computers. NVIDIA’s GPU solution is one of the most mature, as they’ve spent a number of years developing a solution they call CUDA, but there was definitely a clear message: as the performance that we care about becomes more and more specialized (like graphics or number crunching or security), special chip accelerators will become more and more important.
Designing high-speed chips is now less and less about “chip speed” and more and more about memory and input/output. An interesting blog post by Gustavo Duarte highlighted something very fascinating to me: your CPU spends most of its time waiting for things to do. So much time, in fact, that the best way to speed up your chip is not to speed up your processing engine, but to speed up getting tasks into your chip’s processing cores. The biological analogy to this is something called a perfect enzyme – an enzyme that works so fast that its speed is limited by how quickly it can get ahold of things to work on. As a result, every chip presentation spent ~2/3 of the time talking about managing memory (where the chip stores the instructions it will work on) and managing how quickly instructions from the outside (like from your keyboard) get to the chip’s processing cores. In fact, one of the IBM POWER7 presentations spent almost the entire time discussing the POWER7’s use and management of embedded DRAM technology to speed up how quickly tasks can get to the processing cores.
Moore’s Law may no longer be as generous as it used to be. I mentioned before that one of the big “facts of life” in the technology space is the ability of the next product to be cheaper, faster, and better than the last – something I attributed to Moore’s Law (an observation that chip technology doubles in capability every ~2 years). At HotChips, there was a fascinating panel discussing the future of Moore’s Law, mainly asking the question of (a) will Moore’s Law continue to deliver benefits and (b) what happens if it stops? The answers were not very uplifting. While there was a wide range of opinions on how much we’d be able to squeeze out of Moore’s Law going forward, there was broad consensus that the days of just letting Moore’s Law lower your costs, reduce your energy bill, and increase your performance simultaneously were over. The amount of money it costs to design next-generation chips has grown exponentially (one panelist cited a cost of $60 million just to start a new custom project), and the amount of money it costs to operate a semiconductor factory have skyrocketed into the billions. And, as one panelist put it, constantly riding the Moore’s Law technology wave has forced the industry to rely on “tricks” which reduced the delivery of all the benefits that Moore’s Law was typically able to bring about. The panelists warned that future chip innovations were going to be driven more and more by design and software rather than blindly following Moore’s Law and that unless new ways to develop chips emerged, the chip industry itself could find itself slowing its progress.
Power management is top of mind. The second keynote speaker, EA Chief Creative Officer Richard Hilleman noted something which gave me significant pause. He said that in 2009, China will probably produce more electric cars in one year than have ever been produced in all of history. The impact to the electronics industry? It will soon be very hard to find and very expensive to buy batteries. This, coupled with the desires of consumers everywhere to have longer battery lives for their computers, phones, and devices means that managing power consumption is critical for chip designers. In each presentation I watched, I saw the designers roll out a number of power management techniques – the most amusing of which was employed by IBM’s new POWER7 uber-chip. The POWER7 could implement four different low-power modes (so that the system could tune its power consumption), which were humorously named: doze, nap, sleep, and “Rip van Winkle”.
Chip designers can no longer just build “the latest and greatest”. There used to be one playbook in the Silicon Valley – build what you did a year ago, but make it faster. That playbook is fast becoming irrelevant. No longer can Silicon Valley just count on people to buy bigger and faster computers to run the latest and greatest applications. Instead, people are choosing to buy cheaper computers to run Facebook and Gmail, which, while interesting and useful, no longer need the CPU or monitor with the greatest “digital horsepower.” EA’s Richard Hilleman noted that this trend was especially important in the gaming ind ustry. Where before, the gaming industry focused on hardcore gamers who spent hours and hours building their systems and playing immersive games, today, the industry is keen on building games with clever mechanics (e.g. a Guitar Hero or a game for the Nintendo Wii) for people with short attention spans who aren’t willing to spend hours holed up in front of their televisions. Instead of focusing on pure graphical horsepower, gaming companies today want to build games which can be social experiences (like World of Warcraft) or which can be played across many devices (like smartphones or over social networks). With stores like Gamestop on the rise, gaming companies can no longer count on just selling games, they need to think up how to sell “virtual goods” (like upgrades to your character/weapons) or in-game advertising (a Coke billboard in your game?) or encourage users to subscribe. What this all means is that, to stay relevant, technology companies can no longer just gamble on their ability to make yesterday’s product faster, they have to make them better too.
There was a lot more that happened at HotChips than I can describe here (and I skipped over a lot of the more techy details), but those were six of the most interesting messages that I left the conference with, and I am wondering if I can get my firm to pay for another trip next year!
Oh, and just to brag, while at HotChips, I got to check out a demo of the potential blockbuster game Batman: Arkham Asylum while checking out NVIDIA’s 3D Vision product! And I have to say, I’m very impressed by both products – and am now very tempted by NVIDIA’s Buy a GeForce card, get Batman: Arkham Asylum free offer.
(Image credit: Intel bunny smoked ad) (Image credit: GPU computing power) (Image Credit: brick wall) (Image – Rip Van Winkle) (Image – World of Warcraft box art)
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed here are mine and mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my current (or past) employers, their employees, partners, clients, and/or portfolio companies.
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‘Our story is maturing’: Aurora Cannabis eyes tie-ups, and promises profitability
Aurora Cannabis Inc. is looking for a dance partner – it’s just in no rush to get to the party.
Aurora, one of Canada’s biggest pot companies, is in active discussions with multiple companies in various industries including consumer-packaged goods and beverages, and an announcement could happen in the next six months, said Michael Singer, Aurora’s chairman, in a phone interview.
“We’re looking to continue to grow this business in some of these market segments that we all know are being disrupted by our lovely industry,” Singer said.
While other major Canadian cannabis companies such as Canopy Growth Corp., Tilray Inc., and Cronos Group Inc. have all announced tie-ups with a range of blue-chip firms in beverage, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, Aurora and Aphria Inc. both stand out as the biggest pot producers without a significant partnership deal.
That’s become a growing focus for the company, Singer said, although he declined to provide any specifics on discussions that Aurora is currently having with potential partners. Singer also declined to comment on the company’s previous talks with Coca-Cola Co. which BNN Bloomberg reported last year, but noted Coca-Cola’s statement at the time signalled the global beverage maker “is a conservative company who clearly is interested like many other companies in this space but is taking baby steps.”
Singer said Aurora is primed to become profitable this quarter, which could open the door for the company to possibly issue a traditional bond or buy back some of its outstanding shares.
“Our story is maturing very well and we believe that's a potential opportunity for us to bring in a traditional bond or that type of capital-raise … to finance the growth of our business,” Singer said.
Those lofty goals come after a mixed quarter for Aurora, which reported its fiscal first-quarter results in February. The Edmonton-based company generated $54.2 million in revenue, up 363 per cent from the same period a year earlier. However, it also posted a $237.7 million loss, compared with a $7.7 million profit in the same period a year ago.
But Aurora maintains one of the highest trailing 12-month gross margins in the cannabis sector at 61 per cent, while its cash costs at $1.92 per gram are also significantly below its peers. That is likely why Aurora’s stock () has remained an outperformer on the Toronto Stock Exchange, up nearly 81 per cent so far this year.
Meanwhile, those talks with potential partners have accelerated since Aurora hired billionaire investor and consumer goods expert Nelson Peltz as a strategic advisor, Singer said. Peltz was granted 20 million options to purchase Aurora shares at $10.34 each, which could make him the pot firm’s second-largest shareholder.
As well, Aurora announced a short-term shelf prospectus to raise US$750 million over the course of the next 25 months for funds that could be used “as a prudent and long-term strategic measure to provide us with flexibility in access to growth capital.”
“I can tell you from my very first discussion with Nelson several months back, the thing that he thought was most attractive about Aurora was the fact that we hadn't yet partnered with somebody,” Singer said.
“It creates an opportunity to really explore who, and which and how many partners are going to be important to our story going forward.”
Peltz will also use his Wall Street acumen to determine which assets may not be core to Aurora’s business, and that could lead to several potential divestitures, Singer added.
“It could create a lot of optionality and flexibility for us as we move forward as we engage in discussions with partners,” he said.
And while Aurora continues to focus on its domestic operations, including ramping up production to grow enough cannabis to meet Canada’s recreational demand, the company also sees a bigger future in the international medical market.
Aurora’s global strategy is to establish beachhead subsidiaries in countries where medical cannabis is legal or soon-to-be-legal, and then demonstrate it can operate properly within a regulated environment. Singer said that once sentiment builds to legalize pot recreationally in those respective markets, the company will be ready to lead by cloning “the Canada model.”
Those plans came to light on Friday after the company was selected by the German government to cultivate and distribute medical pot in the country, the biggest cannabis market in Europe. Aurora and Aphria were each awarded the maximum number of five of the 13 available lots in the tender over a period of four years.
“We have, by virtue of our Aurora Deutschland operation in Berlin, a leadership position in Germany and we see that as a gateway to continue to build out our medical segment globally. And we're going to dominate there,” Singer added.
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Author of the Aurora series, Amanda Bridgeman talks to AWM about kick-ass female sci-fi writers and how to best consume writing advice (with a generous dash of salt).
Amanda Bridgeman was born and raised in the seaside/country town of Geraldton, Western Australia, she hails from fishing and farming stock. The youngest of four children, her three brothers raised her on a diet of Rocky, Rambo, Muhammad Ali and AC/DC. She studied film & television/creative writing at Murdoch University (BA Communication Studies). Her first two novels, Aurora: Darwin and Aurora: Pegasus were published with Momentum in 2013, and the third book in the Aurora series, Aurora: Meridian will be released in September 2014.
How would you describe your novel Aurora: Meridian to someone at a party?
It’s the third book in a space opera series centred around a futuristic military outfit who have been double-crossed and thrown into a slowly unravelling mystery.
Why was the character Carrie Welles fun to write?
Carrie Welles was fun to write because she has a fiery stubborn streak that gets her into trouble! Thanks to this trait, she also elicits the greatest feedback from readers!
What piece of advice do you wish you’d been given when you were starting out as a writer?
Learn patience because you’ll need it – things take time in the publishing industry. Also, take every piece of advice you read with a pinch of salt. Everyone is different; every book/writing style is different. So what works for one person may not work for the next. There are no ‘rules’ in writing, only vague guidelines that you can bend to suit.
What is the next book on your must read list?
I’m quite interested to read Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, it sounds interesting and has been getting quite a lot of good reviews. Plus, a female author kicking ass in sci-fi!
What has been the hardest part about writing a trilogy?
Patience! Knowing all the exciting things that are to come for your readers and wanting them to be able to read them now! Seriously, though, I didn’t know how many books I was writing at the time. I just wrote and the story dictated how long it will be. It’s actually going to be longer than a trilogy…
Georgia Lejeune is currently studying a Masters of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland, she previously obtained a Bachelor of Creative Industries majoring in Drama from the Queensland University of Technology. Georgia is a freelance writer/blogger, actor, and circus teacher who likes Jane Austen novels and dislikes ironing, sultanas, and writing in the third person.
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90th Academy Awards Nominations Predictions 1 comment
Hollywood’s biggest night is upon us once again, with the announcement of the 2017 class of Oscar nominees. After months and months of festival premieres, magazine covers, endless interviews, and awards show speeches, the newest group of Academy Award nominees will be unveiled tomorrow. For most, it will be the biggest break they can ever hope for. For Meryl Streep, it’s just business as usual.
Some of this year’s Oscar contenders had us seeing Sally Hawkins make out with a fish, Armie Hammer giving us new memories with peaches, and everyone resisting a cup of tea from Catherine Keener. It also revived interests to the likes of Tommy Wiseau and Tonya Harding. More importantly, with the timely issues surrounding Hollywood today, narratives and politics have been stronger more than ever.
I’ll try and predict all 21 film categories. You ready? Let’s begin!
Best Picture can range from as few as five and as many as ten when it comes to nominations, but with so many contenders still qualified in the race, five films have emerged in front of the race: There’s Golden Globe and SAG winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, presumably our current frontrunner as of this typing, about a grieving mother who took matters to her own hands so that her voice would be heard. Guillermo del Toro’s Venice champ The Shape of Water, has just won the Producers Guild, and is likely our nomination leader. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, a coming of age comedy that has the distinction of being the critically highest rated film, Get Out by Jordan Peele, a dark comedy slash commentary which was one of the biggest stories of 2017, and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, a retelling of that important moment in history in probably his most awards-friendly film in his resume yet. All films are considered safe already.
Then we have these films who are all seemingly safe, but do not be surprised if you see them miss out. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, the adaptation of Andre Aciman’s best selling novel about a summer romance between two men, has the critics raving, but between Carol‘s snub and Moonlight‘s current win, will the Hollywood homophobes feel it’s too gay already? Steven Spielberg’s The Post has all the makings of an Oscar sweeper…if only we’re in the 90s. But then again the triumvirate of Spielberg + Meryl Streep + Tom Hanks is still strong enough to latch a nom despite an underwhelming guild run. On the flip side is I, Tonya which peaked right in the middle of Oscar nominee voting and has continued to overcome challenges one after the other. I expect these three to be called out as well.
Two more slots are still available, but I don’t see this being the year where we complete all 10 slots. The guilds have shown so much love for The Big Sick, and it’s the type of movie that can ride the love to end with a BP nom. Phantom Thread is the definition of a last minute contender and one that can get as few as three to as many as seven nominations come Oscar morning. The Florida Project has lost quite the momentum outside of Willem Dafoe, but it’s the kind that will have passionate supporters to squeak out a nomination. Maybe the British contingent will come full force for Darkest Hour, as shown by its great BAFTA showing to score a lazy inclusion in the Best Picture lineup.
Predictions:
• Call Me by Your Name
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• The Post
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
9th (but not predicted): Darkest Hour
10th (but not predicted): The Florida Project
It’s safe to go with the DGA five as it seems like we’re in for an almost clear read at this race, but then two things are stopping me: the Oscar five last matched the DGA back in 2009, and it hasn’t happened this decade yet. Second, it’s rare that we get an all-newbie lineup at the Oscars and has only happened twice in the history of the category. That said, I think at least one of those two trends will be broken at least this year. Guillermo del Toro, this category’s frontrunner, is probably the only safe name here, and I can see a scenario of everyone else missing. As mentioned, this is Christopher Nolan’s most awards-friendly film, and after being passed over twice, it seems like this is the year when he’ll finally join the club. Martin McDonagh’s direction has been the weakest among the many categories where Three Billboards is a contender, but I still think he won’t miss out a nomination here. Too much buzz has been made about the poor statistic of women being nominated for Best Directing (only happened four times – Lina Wertmuller in 1976, Jane Campion in 1993, Sofia Coppola in 2003, and Kathryn Bigelow in 2009), I think this benefits Greta Gerwig a lot and I feel like there’s pressure to nominate her given her output and narrative. For that last slot, Jordan Peele of Get Out makes the most sense, but he’s also one I see who’s the first to miss out from the consensus five. Paul Thomas Anderson fits the bill of a returning nominee that can continue this category’s history trend, but then there’s also Sean Baker of The Florida Project who directed kids in the movie – an underlying common theme between two biggest surprises in this category the past few years (Behn Zeitlin in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Lenny Abrahamson in Room). That said, between the auteurs’ support and a more international friendly Directors branch, I’m going on a limb and predict Luca Guadagnino to translate his BAFTA nomination with an Oscar one.
• Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
• Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
• Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
SPOILER: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Four names are guaranteed to be called already for Best Actor by tomorrow: there’s potential winner Gary Oldman in his second nomination (after 2011’s surprise one for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as Winston Churchill and Daniel Day-Lewis in what is perceived as his swansong performance in Phantom Thread. Timothee Chalamet has emerged as the critical pick for Call Me by Your Name and will surely add an Oscar nominee label before his name. Same goes for Daniel Kaluuya, the face of Get Out, and who has defied and collected precursor nomination one after the other. The last slot seems like a shoo-in for Golden Globe winner James Franco for his turn in his self-directed comedy The Disaster Artist, but him being a subject of the current Hollywood scandal, certainly gives a pause. That said, the issue erupted with two voting days left, and with him appearing at the SAG Awards yesterday means that he’s still pushing through with his campaign and bid, and I think that will still result to a nomination. Watch out for Denzel Washington though in Roman Israel Esq. Not only did he pick up surprise Globe and SAG nods (over the likes of Tom Hanks in The Post), but remember that he came quite really close to the win last year, and there might still be some leftover love that can translate to a nomination this year.
• Timothee Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
• James Franco, The Disaster Artist
• Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
• Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
SPOILER: Denzel Washington, Roman Israel Esq.
It’s astonishing that almost all four actresses who have hit a clear slate of precursor run of Golden Globe, BFCA, SAG, and BAFTA, are also starring in potential Best Picture nods, as compared to their male counterparts. Frances McDormand is back 13 years after her last nomination, and is bound to get her second Lead nomination since winning back in 1996 for Fargo. Saoirse Ronan is catching up with pal Jennifer Lawrence as the fastest from their generation to pick up nods as she’s in the hunt for her third nomination already playing the titular character in Lady Bird. After missing exactly a decade ago for her critically sweeping performance in Happy Go Lucky, Sally Hawkins is bound to get her first Best Actress career nod in The Shape of Water. And newbie Margot Robbie can make history by getting both acting and producing nominations for I, Tonya where she plays infamous skating figure Tonya Harding. As for who’s completing the list, the SAGs went for Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul, a similar role that first put her in Oscar attention back in 1997. With Globe and SAG nods, this seems like an easy check for this 7x nominee, but the BAFTA snub is telling when they’ve nominated her for basically everything. In the Dame’s absence is Annette Bening getting a last minute push for Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. She also missed last year for 20th Century Women, but Film Stars didn’t have any momentum or presence this whole awards season except for this BAFTA resuscitation. There’s also Jessica Chastain in Molly’s Game, Michelle Williams in All the Money in the World, Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread, but in the end, these are all futile since we know that the last spot is reserved for Oscar Queen herself Meryl Streep, now entering her 21st career nomination for The Post. While it’s hilarious to think that Streep will be missing for a Spielberg vehicle, the rule still stands that “When in doubt, predict Meryl.”
• Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
• Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
• Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
• Meryl Streep, The Post
SPOILER: Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World
This is probably the category that has the biggest difference from what was predicted pre-awards season to where we are right now. Sure, Willem Dafoe of The Florida Project and Sam Rockwell of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri have always been ahead of the pack, but the rest range from last minute contenders to latecomers in the race. Richard Jenkins, who first received his nomination back in 2008’s The Visitor, will add another nomination under his cap, this time as part of The Shape of Water. So much statistic has been made about the “no film since 1991’s Bugsy has collected double Supporting Actor nods” and for the most part, many films came close but sizzled out in the end (Crash, The Departed, No Country for Old Men, Spotlight), but between the SAG and BAFTA nods, this stat seems like it will rest now as Woody Harrelson will likely join pal Sam Rockwell in this group. The last spot sure is a clusterfuck – the two men who were initially perceived to break the stat were Call Me by Your Name‘s Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg but with the internal competition, both will likely miss come Oscar morning. It’s not bust yet for both to be honest – Hammer after all has been campaigning heavily and can be considered co-lead, while co-star Stuhlbarg appears in two more Best Picture contenders (The Shape of Water, The Post) and sometimes that’s enough. Just ask John C. Reilly back in 2002. That said, it can easily go to veteran actor and Oscar winner Christopher Plummer, a last minute addition to Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, with a flashier performance and a narrative that will likely continue to be the talk of Tinseltown.
• Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
• Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
• Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
SPOILER: Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Just like last year, mothers seem to be front and center in this category. Two of the frontrunners are mothers on the opposite side of the spectrum – there’s critically lauded Laurie Metcalfe’s loving mother in Lady Bird and Allison Janney’s outlandish turn in I, Tonya. Both TV vets are on their first career nods, and it’s great to see these character actresses taking front and center. Octavia Spencer, who was just nominated last year for Hidden Figures is likely to break history yet again and be the first black actress to earn multiple nominations after winning. She’ll also be joining co-star Viola Davis as the most nominated black actresses in Oscar history. While she has been snubbed at the SAGs, The Shape of Water‘s overall strength puts her in a distant but safe third spot. Oscar winner Holly Hunter, on the other hand, only has SAG under her credits this season, but I think her stature makes her safe enough for a nod. Both Hong Chau and Mary J. Blige picked up Globe + SAG nods and are working on the same diversity narrative that will definitely earn them points. However, Downsizing is one of the biggest flops this season, and an unknown actress like Hong Chau isn’t likely to survive that. Blige is in a better position as Mudbound is contending in other categories, but Netflix pushing it still gives me pause. I think she’ll get her nomination for Original Song instead. As for that last spot, I’m tinkering with the two British contenders that BAFTA went for – Leslie Manville for a last minute push for Phantom Thread, but I guess I’m expecting Kristin Scott Thomas (whose only Oscar nomination was for 1996’s The English Patient) to coattail Gary Oldman’s undeniable Best Actor frontrunner status. When an actor is a huge contender, chances are it’s pulling a supporting contender with it (think of Jeff Bridges getting Maggie Gyllenhaal in, Leonardo di Caprio to Tom Hardy, Cate Blanchett to Sally Hawkins). As a matter of fact, you have to go back to 2006 for the last Best Actor winner who was also the solo acting nomination for the film he won for (that’s Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland).
• Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
• Allison Janney, I, Tonya
• Laurie Metcalfe, Lady Bird
• Kristin Scott-Thomas, Darkest Hour
• Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
SPOILER: Leslie Manville, Phantom Thread
This year, majority of the Best Picture contenders are also original screenplays so it’s quite the busier of the two screenplay categories. The four frontrunners are all in play in this category, and I see all of them getting nominated. In the event of a snub, maybe The Shape of Water is the first to go since the film is lauded more for its visual experience as compared to its screenplay strength. That said, I’m still expecting it’ll get in. The last slot can go to quirky romance The Big Sick, or the talky and “important” The Post, but I feel like this is one of the categories where I, Tonya peaking on the week of the Oscar nomination voting will pay off.
SPOILER: The Big Sick
The weaker of the two screenplay categories, Call Me by Your Name should easily sweep the competition come Oscar time. Joining it are other contenders such as The Disaster Artist, Mudbound, and Molly’s Game, all of whom have garnered precursors in here as well. Now it’s the last spot that’s really tricky. Nothing makes actual sense or fits the mold or pattern among the other buzzed contenders. No superhero movie has ever been nominated for a Screenplay Oscar, but both Logan and Wonder Woman are in the hunt and can make history. Sadly for them, I think they’ll separate the votes and both end up missing, Stephen Chbosky has garnered precursors for The Perks of Being a Wallflower back in 2012 and still missed, so either he gets a make up nod for Wonder, but I don’t see that happening. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool filled the BAFTA category in this spot, but the BAFTAs seem to adore that movie more and their the outlier rather than the rule. This type of empty category makes me feel that a little film with big passion can get in; thus I’m predicting The Lost City of Z to fill the last spot.
• The Disaster Artist
• The Lost City of Z
• Molly’s Game
• Mudbound
SPOILER: Logan
After picking up wins from the Globes and the BFCA, In the Fade suddenly becomes the frontrunner in this category, and I think Cannes entry Loveless is in too, as well as Chilean submission A Fantastic Woman. Meanwhile, the last two slots can go to big contenders like Foxtrot and The Square. Foxtrot was initially seen as a strong frontrunner, but finds itself lacking any precursor or buzz, and not even its studio’s priority in this category, so I can see it missing the final list. With a Palme d’Or win under its belt, Ruben Ostlund is likely getting nominated too, but a part of me wants to see him snubbed so he can video his meltdown yet again, just like what happened to Force Majeure back in 2014. In their places, I went with two underdogs – Lebanon’s The Insult, handled by Cohen Media Group, also the group behind current champ The Salesman. And South Africa’s The Wound, which I can really see missing for the most buzzed contenders. But then I’d stick with this one.
• A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
• The Insult (Lebanon)
• In the Fade (Germany)
• Loveless (Russia)
• The Wound (South Africa)
SPOILER: Foxtrot (Israel)
New changes in the voting pattern for the Animated Feature Film will be kinder to the mainstream efforts than to the more obscure ones. I think nominations like those of The Secret of Kells, A Cat in Paris, and Ernest & Celestine are likely not to happen anymore. That this happened in probably the weakest year for animated also makes the predicting harder. Basically, it’s Coco or bust. But then joining it are Loving Vincent and The Breadwinner — both have gained precursors over the season. It’s sad to know that Oscar nominated The Boss Baby is happening, but it seems like we’re heading towards that path. After The LEGO Movie’s snub in 2014, I don’t know if I’m ready to predict it yet so I’m sticking with Despicable Me 3, since the second one was also nominated.
• The Boss Baby
• The Breadwinner
• Coco
• Despicable Me 3
• Loving Vincent
SPOILER: The LEGO Batman Movie
City of Ghosts is the perennial favorite in this category, which is a follow-up from the Oscar nominated director of Cartel Land. If there’s one category that Netflix can claim they’re good at, it’s this one, so I feel like the Olympic-related documentary Icarus and Chasing Coral can hear themselves getting nominated. There’s also Jane, a playful achievement of animal advocate Jane Goodall and Sundance Documentary Prize winner Last Men in Aleppo. After winning the Honorary Oscar back in November, Agnes Varda can make history and win a Competitive Oscar in the same year she won an Honorary, but I’m quite fearing that she’ll be that big snub in this category.
• Chasing Coral
• City of Ghosts
• Icarus
• Jane
• Last Men in Aleppo
SPOILER: Faces Places
Now as for the rest of the technical categories…
• Blade Runner 2049
• Darkest Hour
SPOILER: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Mudbound‘s Rachel Morrison will be the first female cinematographer ever nominated, so there’s that to look forward to. That said, I’ll be sticking with this ASC nominated five. If there’s a spoiler to the group, it’ll likely be Three Billboards who is gaining momentum here.
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Greatest Showman
• Phantom Thread
SPOILER: I, Tonya
There is a stroyline in I, Tonya‘s detailing about Tonya getting better costumes, so I think that might help its chances here, but with all the other contenders getting flashier outputs, it’s hard to identify which one it will push off the group.
• Baby Driver
SPOILER: Get Out
I tend to feel like Baby Driver and I, Tonya, both with flashy editing are targeting the same voters here so don’t be surprised to see one of them miss for something like Get Out, which is also the film’s only realistic shot at any below the line categories.
BEST HAIRSTYLING & MAKE UP
• Bright
SPOILER: Wonder
Darkest Hour seems like the only lock in this group, and while Wonder has been getting nods left and right (and deservedly so because look what they’ve made to poor Oscar nominee Jacob Tremblay), I think it’ll miss in to something like that of Netflix’ Bright. After all, this is the same group that nominated Norbit and gave the win to Suicide Squad.
SPOILER: Victoria & Abdul
Never underestimate Thomas Newman who scored Victoria & Abdul. He hasn’t won yet, and if there’s one musical composer who can still get in despite an underperforming movie, it’s him. Think of how he still managed to get nominated for 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks marking that film’s lone Oscar nomination.
• “Evermore” (Beauty and the Beast)
• “Mighty River” (Mudbound)
• “Remember Me” (Coco)
• “Stand Up for Something” (Marshall)
• “This Is Me” (The Greatest Showman)
SPOILER: “Mystery of Love” (Call Me by Your Name)
I really hope I’m wrong with this one, but I think Oscar nominee Sufjan Stevens isn’t happening. Evermore, Remember Me, and This Is Me all look pretty safe here. I’m also predicting that this is where Mary J. Blige will be receiving her Oscar nomination. And to fill that slot, I’ve went with Diane Warren who came close in 2015, and has been working real hard to get an Oscar.
SPOILER: Darkest Hour
It’s Darkest Hour vs. The Post for that last spot for me, and while I think Darkest Hour makes more sense predicting wise, I could not shake off the idea of Lincoln pulling the upset in this category back in 2012, so I must not underestimate the same team.
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SPOILER: Wonder Woman
This has been the same five we’ve been seeing all season, so might as well go with it.
• Life
• Wonder Woman
SPOILER: The Greatest Showman
I don’t think Sound Editing and Sound Mixing went 5/5 in the same year, so there’s that. This category loves musicals so The Greatest Showman is in the hunt. However, I’m thinking that the Oscars love to reward the box office success movies of the year (just like The Avengers in 2012) with a nomination and this is where I’m seeing Wonder Woman happening.
• Okja
• War for the Planet of the Apes
SPOILER: The Shape of Water
I’m currently predicting an Arrival type of snub for The Shape of Water, and in its place, predicting Okja which I’ve read really got great reception in the Academy showcase of visual effects contenders.
MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS:
12: The Shape of Water
9: Dunkirk
7: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6: Darkest Hour, I, Tonya
5: Blade Runner 2049, Lady Bird
4: Call Me by Your Name, The Post
3: Beauty and the Beast, Get Out, Mudbound, Phantom Thread, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2: Baby Driver, Coco, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman
There you have it! Happy Oscar predicting day everyone!
Posted January 23, 2018 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films
Philippines’ 90th Oscar Submission: Birdshot 2 comments
The Film Academy of the Philippines, in charge of choosing the submission for the Academy Awards, has announced earlier today that Mikhail Red’s Birdshot is the official entry of the country for the 90th Oscars. Birdshot bested seven other movies (Die Beautiful by Jun Lana; 1st SEM by Dexter Hernandez and Allan Ibanez; Ang Araw sa Likod Mo by Dominic Nuesa; Kita Kita by Sigfrid Bernardo; Ang Manananggal sa Unit 23B by Prime Cruz; Patay na si Hesus by Victor Villanueva; Triptiko by Miguel Franco Micelena; and Sunday Beauty Queen by Baby Ruth Villarama) in the process.
Birdshot is the first submission from 25-year old director Mikhail Red, son of Raymond Red, Cannes winning director for his short film Anino. The film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival, was the opening film for this year’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, and a winner at the Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino last month.
The film tells the story of a young Filipino teenage girl who wanders into the boundaries of a Philippines reservation forest. Deep within the reservation, she mistakenly shoots and kills a critically endangered and protected Philippine eagle. As local authorities begin a manhunt to track down the poacher of a national bird, their investigation leads them to an even more horrific discovery. The film stars John Arcilla, Arnold Reyes, and newcomer Mary Joy Apostol.
How will Birdshot fare in the Oscar game? As for starters, it’s already competing against much high-profile films including Palme d’Or winner The Square from Sweden and other Cannes entries such as BPM (Beats Per Minute) from France, Germany’s In the Fade, Russia’s Loveless, and Austria’s Happy End. There are also other high profile contenders such as Chile’s A Fantastic Woman, Israel’s Foxtrot, Denmark’s You Disappear, and Cambodia’s First They Killed my Father directed by Oscar winner Angelina Jolie. In this regard, we’re lacking way, way behind to be noticed. Four of the last six winners in this category debuted at Cannes, one from Venice, and the other one from Toronto. We really need to put it out there/
That said, the local studio handling this is TBA Productions, also the people behind our 2015 submission Heneral Luna. While the film was not nominated nor did it advance in the shortlist, they’re a team that can use previous experience to their advantage and partner with an international distributor to assist them with their Oscar campaign.
It also helps that the film has this Western appeal, something that will not be hard for the committee to like and appreciate. This has always been a “barricade” of some sort of many of our previous entries from Anak in 2000 to Ang Babae sa Septic Tank in 2011. Birdshot is a movie that can appeal both to middlebrow and highbrow movie fans, so it can be in the running for both the popular vote and the committee save. It’s also difficult to crack how the committee save will be chosen. As per a source last year, the three “saved” films were Australia’s Tanna, Switzerland’s My Life as a Courgette, and Germany’s Toni Erdmann.
When I wrote about my potential Oscar submission analysis a few weeks ago, I predicted that it will either be Die Beautiful, Pauwi Na, or Birdshot that will be chosen as the Oscar submission. All of these will be decent picks, but it’s a year that’s tough for the country to penetrate and get that elusive Oscar nomination.
Maybe 2018 will be better for us.
Posted September 26, 2017 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films
Tagged with best foreign language film, oscars, philippines
90th Oscar Foreign Language Film: What Should the Philippines Submit? 3 comments
It’s the time of the year! One Filipino film will be chosen to represent the country for the 90th Academy Awards next year. With the rise of more local film festivals such as FDCP’s recently-concluded Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino, and their partnership with SM Cinema – Cine Lokal – getting the requirement of seven day commercial release seems easier nowadays as compared to previous year.
To qualify as an eligible submission, the Academy’s rule states that “The motion picture must be first released in the country submitting it no earlier than October 1, 2016, and no later than September 30, 2017, and be first publicly exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theater for the profit of the producer and exhibitor.” The country must submit its intended film before October 2, 2017.
As of this writing, only six films have submitted thus far, and none of the usual favorites have made their decisions yet. Will Submission #29 be our charm? Which film will be our best bet to advance forward to represent the country? I’ve divided them in three different categories.
DISCLAIMER: It has to be cleared that this ISN’T the final shortlist from the Film Academy of the Philippines yet, and are just mere speculations and recommendations.
FRONTRUNNERS:
APOCALYPSE CHILD
Director: Mario Cornejo
Screenplay: Mario Cornejo, Monster Jimenez
Cast: Sid Lucero, Anicka Dolonius, RK Bagatsing, Ana Abad Santos, Gwen Zamora
Philippine Release Date: October 26, 2016
The film is set in the surfing town of Baler where Ford is wasting his youth away. Named after Francis Ford Coppola, his mother continuously hopes that the Hollywood director would someday acknowledge her son. As another surfing season is ending, he is faced to confront his past, including the myths about his life.
Winner of the Best Picture at the QC Film Festival back in 2015, Apocalypse Child only had its commercial run almost a year later of October in 2016. The film, while having a Hollywood connection in its plot, is no doubt about it one of 2015’s best offerings, but it’s just a case of something that’s not right up the Academy’s flavor. Obviously, it doesn’t undermine the greatness of Apocalypse Child, a personal favorite of mine, but just a case of oil and water not mixing together.
Director: Louie Ignacio
Screenplay: Robby Tantingco
Cast: Aiai delas Alas, Allen Dizon, Sue Prado
Philippine Release Date: November 9, 2016
Named after the red light district, Area centers on Hilary, an aging prostitute, saving up money in the hopes of going to the US to find her long lost son.
Area has been hopping and collecting awards from low-key international critics, and while I don’t think it will ultimately end as a final submission pick for the country, this poverty-themed film will have its fans in the selection committee.
Director: Mikhail Red
Screenplay: Mikhail Red, Rae Red
Cast: Mary Joy Apostol, John Arcilla, Arnold Reyes
Philippine Release Date: August 16, 2017
Birdshot is a coming-of-age thriller that tells the story of a young farm girl who wanders off into a Philippine forest reserve. Deep within the reservation she mistakenly shoots and kills a critically endangered and protected Philippine Eagle. As the local authorities begin a manhunt to track down the poacher of a national bird, their investigation leads them to an even more horrific discovery.
Before it opened the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival earlier this month, Birdshot has already made rounds internationally – Goteborg, Osaka Asian, Titanic Hungary, Vilnius, Taipei, Cinemalaya, New York Asian film festivals – and a victory for director Mikhail Red as Asian Future Best Film Award at Tokyo, so there’s no denying that it can work its international presence. That plus its critical consensus and its huge potential of a crossover international appeal can certainly make it a decent, if not great, submissions for the country.
Director: Jerrold Tarog
Screenplay: Jerrold Tarog
Cast: Iza Calzado, Adrienne Vergara, TJ Trinidad, Ian Veneracion
Philippine Release Date: May 10, 2017
After involving in a film production accident that leaves her crippled, Jane Ciego, a successful actress, slowly transitions into madness after experiencing horrors and torture in her own home.
Even before its local premiere last May 10, Bliss has already made rounds because of Iza Calzado’s victory at the Osaka Asian Film Festival for this performance. This + love for Jerrold Tarog, who is no stranger here after his 2015 smash hit Heneral Luna was submitted, can certainly work for this film’s advantage to be our country’s submission.
Director: Jun Lana
Screenplay: Jun Lana, Rody Vera
Cast: Paolo Ballesteros, Christian Bables, Joel Torre
Philippine Release Date: December 25, 2016
Friends attend the wake of Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman. They look back into the her life as she faces the adversities and triumphs of living as a transgender in Filipino society
Sweeping awards left and right, which started its victory at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, Die Beautiful is probably the closets contender we have this year that managed to have both great commercial and critical response, something that will surely benefit it as well. At the center of the film is Urian (and Tokyo) Best Actor Paolo Ballesteros who will surely campaign for the film if it gets selected. They can also spin an LGBT narrative here with a transgender lead character, and pop culture mentions ranging from Miley Cyrus to Lady Gaga and Beyonce can also help.
KITA KITA
Director: Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
Screenplay: Sigrid Andrea Bernardo
Cast: Alessandra de Rossi, Empoy Marquez
Philippine Release Date: July 19, 2017
A blind woman falls in love with a man who uses kindness and humor to make a connection with her.
Kita Kita is the box office success story of 2017 in the Philippines, no doubt about that. So don’t be surprised to see it as a possible shortlist submission entry. This Empoy-Alessandra rom-com might be seen as too fluff to be submitted (and frankly, I agree), but then if middlebrow material like The Intouchables by France can be submitted in 2013 because of its huge box office performance, then I won’t be surprised if the local Academy goes with this. After all, Intouchables made it to the shortlist of nine only to miss the actual nod.
PATAY NA SI HESUS
Director: Victor Villanueva
Screenplay: Moira Lang, Fatrick Tabada
Cast: Jaclyn Jose, Chai Fonacier, Melde Montanez, Angelina Kanapi
The death of a woman’s estranged husband brought her and her family into a road that changes their lives forever.
Another crowd-pleasing comedy, this film starring a dysfunctional family on a road trip is right up the alley of previous submissions such as Ded na si Lolo, Bwakaw, and Ang Babae sa Septic Tank. This also stars Cannes Best Actress Jaclyn Jose which can work to its advantage (but then, if her in Ma’Rosa didn’t work last year, then maybe I’m just reaching a bit here).
PAUWI NA
Director: Paolo Villaluna
Screenplay: Paolo Villaluna, Ellen Ramos
Cast: Bembol Roco, Cherry Pie Picache, Meryll Soriano, Jerald Napoles, Chai Fonacier
The film follows a family who decide to use pedicabs so they could “pedal” their way back to the province. A series of unfortunate events occur that will either test their determination or distract them from their journey home. ‘Pauwi Na’ is a tragic-comic portrait of a dysfunctional family and the disquieting blind faith they invoke as they dream of going home.
Also titled as Pedicab, this heartwarming drama with a strong ensemble headlined by Bembol Roco and Cherry Pie Picache has already received Best Film at the Shanghai International Film Festival. I feel that this is a movie that can appeal to the international community that has the most ‘local’ flavor so to speak. While it has a tendency to be lost in the shuffle when competing against other countries, this is a good, possible submissions for us.
Director: Treb Monteras II
Screenplay: Treb Monteras II, Njel de Mesa
Cast: Abra, Dido dela Paz, Loonie, Chai Fonacier
Philippine Release Date: TBD
Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Respeto is a celebration of the underground Pinoy hip-hop world and how we find the words to find ourselves.
Winning the top plum at Cinemalaya earlier this month, Respeto teases a commercial screening already, and while there is no definite date given yet, it needs to have a seven-day run by September 30. While hip-hop and fliptop is something that can appeal to a foreign audience, I fear for a “lost in translation” scenario on how this will be received internationally as compared to the love it got here.
SUNDAY BEAUTY QUEEN
Director: Babyruth Villarama Gutierrez
Cast: Rudelie Acosta, Mylyn Jacobo, Leo Selomenia
Beneath Hong Kong’s glittering facade, Filipinas working as domestic helpers work in relative anonymity and for near slave wages. In a beauty pageant like no other in the world, five helpers give themselves makeovers for a day and gleefully reclaim their dignity.
There’s already a narrative written for this because it can be the first ever documentary submitted by the country for Oscar consideration. The last documentary feature to be nominated for a Foreign Language Film Oscar is 2013’s The Missing Picture from Cambodia. It’s also helped by the idea that the concept of OFWs is so Pinoy in culture, and we’ve submitted those in the past too (2000’s Anak comes to mind).
POTENTIAL SHORTLIST MENTIONS:
While I don’t think these films will end up as submissions, don’t be surprised to see any of these in this group to make it in the final shortlist:
2 COOL 2 B 4GOTTEN
Director: Petersen Vargas
Screenplay: Jason Paul Laxamana
Cast: Khalil Ramos, Jameson Blake, Ethan Salvador, Ana Capri
Philippine Release Date: March 15, 2017
Winning Best Picture at the Cinema One Originals 2016, this coming of age story of a young boy has done some international festival rounds (even winning an Audience Choice in Italy), but its too small scope will certainly hinder its chances.
HAMOG
Director: Ralston Javier
Screenplay: Ralston Javier
Cast: Zaijan Jaranilla, Therese Lamvar, OJ Mariano, Lou Veloso, Anna Luna
Like, 2 Cool 2 Be 4goten, Hamog might be seen as more of a low-key contender, which can be quite the challenge if it faces and more buzzed entries from other countries.
ANG HULING CHACHA NI ANITA
Cast: Therese Malvar, Angel Aquino, Jay Bordon
Philippine Release Date: June 16, 2017
There have been instances from previous years when we included films from older years to make the shortlist on their actual year of commercial release (Boses in 2012, Alagwa in 2013) so this one certainly fits the bill.
PAGLIPAY
Director: Zig Dulay
Screenplay: Zig Dulay
Cast: Garry Cabalic, Anna Luna, Joan dela Cruz
Again, another film that might be perceived as too low-key for a submissions entry but is certainly deserving to be up for consideration.
SAVING SALLY
Director: Avid Liongoren
Screenplay: Carlo Ledesma, Charlene Sawit-Esguerra, Avid Liongoren
Cast: Rhian Ramos, Enzo Marcos, TJ Trinidad
While this type of animation can work on its advantage when attracting the international crowd, the story might be seen as too lightweight which can hinder its overall chances. Romantic light stories aren’t really the Academy’s cup of tea.
SEKLUSYON
Director: Erik Matti
Screenplay: Anton C. Santamaria
Cast: Ronnie Alonte, Rhed Bustamante, Phoebe Walker
For an MMFF film, this one got solid reviews and even swept the Gabi ng Parangal of last year. This is also from the Dan Villegas and Jennylyn Mercado team-up, which reminds us that English Only Please, was part of the short-list that year.
Director: Prime Cruz
Screenplay: Jen Chuaunsu
Cast: Glaiza de Castro, Dominic Roco, TJ Trinidad
With its surprising box office receipts and a good to great critical reception, this can fit the slot of the rom-com slot that has included films such as English Only Please and That Thing Called Tadhana.
ELIGIBILITY ISSUES:
The other big winner at this year’s Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival is Kiko Boksingero from director Thop Nazareno, a small gem of a film about an aspiring boxer who met his father. The critical standout at the ToFarm Film Festival is What Home Feels Like which stars indie favorites Bembol Roco and Irma Adlawan. Both of the said films have no commercial releases yet since their festival run. Meanwhile, Sheron Dayoc’s Women of the Weeping River, the biggest sweeper at this year’s Gawad Urian including the top Best Picture plum (among more Best Picture prizes), will definitely get a commercial release from TBA, though date of release isn’t publicly revealed yet. If eligible, it’s a strong contender for the submission.
After last year’s bloodbath of competition between frontrunner Ma’Rosa by Brillante Mendoza and the late gamechange Ang Babaeng Humayo by Lav Diaz, this year looks tame in comparison. Of course I’m talking about the international buzz-level and does not reflect the quality of these films mentioned above. 2016 was probably the strongest presence we had in the international scene with Competition entries at the Big 3 festivals and winning a prize in all three too. As for this year’s entries, I’d trim it down to three – Birdshot which I can see having a really great international appeal (its toughest challenge is putting itself out there which it has already started to do), Pauwi Na (heart tugging family film that has won Shanghai’s top prize already), and Die Beautiful. If I were the one deciding, my vote goes to Die Beautiful, as I think it’s right up the Academy’s alley – great acting performances, has this crossover crowd pleasing appeal, and possible narrative for its central transgender character.
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Posted August 23, 2017 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films
Tagged with Apocalypse Child, Area, Birdshot, Bliss, Die Beautiful, foreign language film, Kita Kita, oscars, Patay na si Hesus, Pauwi Na, philippines oscar best foreign language film, Respeto, Sunday Beauty Queen
40th Gawad Urian Winner Predictions Leave a comment
The Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, people behind the annual Gawad Urian Awards, is celebrating the awards show’s 40th year. Started back in 1977, the award-giving body has recognized more than 200 Filipino films and 300 actors and actresses in all 12 of its categories. What I like most about the Urian is their complete archiving history and that they’re the only one of the four major award giving bodies to have maintained some sort of credibility. This year is pretty special for the group with Vilma Santos as the recipient of the Natatanging Gawad Urian. Personally wishing that they do some sort of a Gawad Urian Family Album of all the acting winner recipients thus far, ala Oscar family album style. Anyway, as per annual tradition, here are my prediction on who’ll end up as winners in 13 of their categories.
“Ang Babaeng Humayo”
“Baboy Halas”
“Ma’Rosa”
“Pamilya Ordinaryo”
“Women of the Weeping River”
This year, Women of the Weeping River received the most nominations and what works in it favor is that the Urian is totally open arms when it comes to recognizing regional cinema, as shown by wins of Ang Damgo ni Eleuteria in 2010 and Ang Paglalakbay ng mga Bituin sa Gabing Madilim in 2012. Giving it competition are Cinemalaya breakout Pamilya Ordinaryo which swept last year’s Cinemalaya Awards and is a consistent critical favorite from last year. That said, two films have put our country to world cinema spotlight last year: Cannes entry Ma’Rosa by Brillante Mendoza and Golden Lion recipient Ang Babaeng Humayo by Lav Diaz. It’s victory at Venice makes me think that Diaz is ahead, even by a hair only, in this race.
Prediction: Ang Babaeng Humayo
Alternate: Ma’Rosa
Sheron Dayoc (Women of the Weeping River)
Lav Diaz (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
Zig Dulay (Paglipay)
Bagane Fiola (Baboy Halas)
Avid Liongoren (Saving Sally)
Lem Lorca (Ned’s Project)
Brillante Mendoza (Ma’Rosa)
Eduardo Roy Jr. (Pamilya Ordinaryo)
Paolo Villaluna (Pauwi Na)
In recent years, the Urian doesn’t really care if the same film gets Best Picture and Best Director, as I think they’re more keen on spreading the wealth. That said, Lav Diaz has won this category only twice (in 2001 for Batang Westside and 2014 for Mula sa Kung Ano Ang Noon) that they’d be inclined to give him a third win here. Watch out for Sheron Dayoc as most possible to pull off the upset.
Prediction: Lav Diaz (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
Alternate: Sheron Dayoc (Women of the Weeping River)
Tommy Abuel (Dagsin)
Paolo Ballesteros (Die Beautiful)
Garry Cabalic (Paglipay)
Ronwaldo Martin (Pamilya Ordinaryo)
Khalil Ramos (2Cool To B 4gotten)
Bembol Roco (Pauwi Na)
Pepe Smith (Singing in Graveyards)
If we’re going with buzz, then Paolo Ballesteros seems like a shoo-in for this category already. His Tokyo International Film Fest winning performance in Die Beautiful is the stuff of which awards are made of. That said, this somehow reminds me of how Dennis Trillo, only an Urian left to grandslam, suddenly lost his category after being considered as the biggest lock for Aishite Imasu back in 2004. Sometimes, when a winner looks so obvious, the Manunuri tends to go to a different direction. With that, I’m currently predicting Ronwaldo Martin, younger brother of Urian winner Coco Martin, to net the Best Actor trophy for his performance as a street robber in Pamilya Ordinaryo.
Prediction: Ronwaldo Martin (Pamilya Ordinaryo)
Alternate: Paolo Ballesteros (Die Beautiful)
Irma Adlawan (Oro)
Nora Aunor (Hinulid)
Ai-Ai Delas Alas (Area)
Angeli Bayani (Ned’s Project)
Jaclyn Jose (Ma’Rosa)
Hasmine Killip (Pamilya Ordinaryo)
Elizabeth Oropesa (Mrs.)
Cherry Pie Picache (Pauwi Na)
Charo Santos Concio (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
Precious Laila Ulao (Women of the Weeping River)
The Urian surely loves their female acting categories this past year as both categories had 10 nominees each, definitely more than their male counterparts. Nora Aunor, Angeli Bayani, Cherry Pie Picache, and Elizabeth Oropesa have all won before for far stronger vehicles as compared to the ones they’re nominated for this year so I think they’re sitting this one out. Newbie Hasmine Killip would have made sense in a far weaker year, not this one with equally amazing co-nominees (also in line with my narrative, I’m already predicting Ronwaldo Martin, and I don’t see Manunuri loving Pamilya Ordinaryo that much to give it both lead wins). There’s a path for Precious Laila Ulao to win this one (as it reminds me of Fe GinGing Hyde’s win for Sheika in 2010, but again, that was a year with no strong frontrunner, again unlike this year. Both Irma Adlawan and AiAi delas Alas are strong contenders but the fact they they are both their films’ sole nominations gives me pause (for the record, the last Best Actress winner for a non-Best Picture nominated film was Maja Salvador in Thelma in 2011, but that was the year when they recognized the up and coming teens in the lead acting categories). In the end, I think this one is between Jaclyn Jose and Charo Santos. Jose is an Urian darling with 15 nominations under her name and five previous wins (her last was for Sarong Banggi in 2005) nominated for a role that bagged her the elusive and historic Cannes Best Actress win. Meanwhile, Charo Santos is an iconic figure in the industry in her acting comeback since the 70s in the Best Picture frontrunner. This is the perfect narrative to give her an Urian Best Actress win. I’d love to say that they’d go for a cop-out and give both Jose and Santos a much-talked about tie, but for predictions sake, I’d go safe with the Cannes winner Jaclyn Jose.
Prediction: Jaclyn Jose (Ma’Rosa)
Alternate: Charo Santos Concio (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
Christian Bables (Die Beautiful)
Nonie Buencamino (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
John Lloyd Cruz (Ang Babaeng Humayo)
Taha Daranda (Weeping of the Weeping River)
Julio Diaz (Ma’Rosa)
Jess Mendoza (Hinulid)
This category loves breakout young actors (unless you’re Dennis Trillo) and I’m more confident with Christian Bables to win here than his onscreen bestfriend Paolo Ballesteros. Bables is a breakout performance that garnered him awards and accolades already, and I see the Urian following suit. That said, it won’t surprise me if they decide to reward Women of the Weeping River and give Taha Daranda a win, or even a second consecutive Urian to John Lloyd Cruz for Ang Babaeng Humayo.
Prediction: Christian Bables (Die Beautiful)
Alternate: Taha Daranda (Weeping of the Weeping River)
Sharifa Pearlsia Ali-dans (Women of the Weeping River)
Rhed Bustamante (Seklusyon)
Joan Dela Cruz (Paglipay)
Lotlot De Leon (Mrs.)
Barbie Forteza (Tuos)
Janine Gutierrez (Dagsin)
Anna Luna (Paglipay)
Lui Manansala (Ned’s Project)
Mariam Zimadar Haji Caranay Raper (Women of the Weeping River)
Meryll Soriano (Pauwi Na)
First up, apologies for the lack of a Mariam Raper photo. Even Cinema One’s promos for Urian lack her photos so I can’t seem to find one. That said, this is one category where there’s a lack of a clear frontrunner the same way that Paolo Ballesteros, Jaclyn Jose, Charo Santos, and Christian Bables are in their respective categories. Save for Meryll Soriano, none of these women have won an Urian and only Barbie Forteza is a previous nominee prior to this year. In a category as open as this one, I can see them going more adventurous (and by adventurous, I mean a young actress) with their picks leading me to predict a Barbie Forteza win for her role in Tuos. If not her, then Rhed Bustamante’s creepy kid in Seklusyon can join Serena Dalrymple’s 1998 win here as the other child acting performer in this category.
Prediction: Barbie Forteza (Tuos)
Alternate: Rhed Bustamante (Seklusyon)
Now as for the rest of the categories…
Prediction: Lav Diaz, “Ang Babaeng Humayo”
Alternate: Eduardo Roy Jr., “Pamilya Ordinaryo“
Prediction: Ryan Cuatrona & Celine Belino “Hinulid”
Alternate: Angel Diesta, “Die Beautiful”
Prediction: Albert Banzon, “Paglipay”
Alternate: Raphael Meting & Mark Limbaga, “Baboy Halas”
Prediction: Kit Mendoza, “Women of the Weeping River”
Alternate: Jema Pamintuan, “Tuos”
Prediction: Carlo Manatad, “Pamilya Ordinaryo”
Alternate: Lav Diaz, “Ang Babaeng Humayo”
Prediction: Albert Michael Idioma, “Ma’Rosa”
Alternate: Albert Michael Idioma & Immanuel Verona, “Women of the Weeping River”
DOCUMENTARY:
Prediction: Sunday Beauty Queens (Baby Ruth Villarama)
Alternate: Forbidden Memory (Gutierrez Mangansakan)
The 40th Gawad Urian awards will happen on July 20 and will be shown on Cinema One.
Posted July 18, 2017 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films
Tagged with 40th gawad Urian, gawad urian, Urian Awards
89th Academy Awards Winner Predictions Leave a comment
It’s that time of the year! The biggest and most prestigious night in Hollywood is coming this weekend. It’s time to hand out Oscars to the most popular and best campaigned films and performances of the previous year. The biggest story this year is all about La La Land and how this musical romance story nabbed 14 nominations tying with Titanic and All About Eve as the most nominated in Academy history. Now, while it stands a really great chance of nabbing that Best Picture win, the real question begs: how many Oscars will it take along with it? Here are my final predictions in all 21 categories.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Just a few months ago, the Academy deemed both Moonlight and Loving as adapted screenplays as compared to their initially campaigned original ones. This becomes some sort of the de facto award for Moonlight to win after being the runner-up all season. It even solidified its status as a strong frontrunner here after winning the Best Original Screenplay recognition from the Writers’ Guild Awards, beating stronger frontrunners La La Land and Manchester by the Sea in the process. The only possible spoiler here is BAFTA winning screenplay of Lion. But at this stage, we might even consider it as a distant second to Moonlight.
PREDICTION: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney)
ALTERNATE: Lion (Luke Davies)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
One of the few remaining up in the air categories is the Original Screenplay category. So far, the rundown is that the Globes went for La La Land while BAFTAs went with Manchester by the Sea. The BFCA didn’t help as it gave a tie to the two aforementioned films. While the WGAs went with Moonlight. What works for Manchester is that it’s a writer’s type of movie — it’s a focused character study and can also serve as a way to reward Manchester by the Sea (more on this later). However, we don’t know what the extent does the Academy adore La La Land because this can simply be a part of the sweep. One can’t also consider the spread the wealth considering Birdman won this one two years ago at the extent of rewarding both Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel. As much as it’s a nailbiter, I guess I’ll have to go with…
PREDICTION: Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
ALTERNATE: La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Before I go to predicting this rather easy category, let’s acknowledge the two achievements this year’s nominees had. First up, it’s the first year ever where an acting category had three black actresses to be nominated (Viola Davis, Naomie Harris, and Octavia Spencer). Speaking of Octavia Spencer, she became the first female black acting Oscar winner to receive a follow up nomination after winning five years ago for The Help. Anyway, probably the only acting category that we can sign, seal, and deliver, this one is Viola Davis’ to lose! After two turns at being the runner-up finisher (losing to Penelope Cruz in 2008 and to Meryl Streep in 2011), Viola is the latest addition to the winner of the Triple Acting Club with this impending Oscar win as the wife in Fences. Don’t be surprised if she siphons at least 95% of the total votes here, leaving the rest of the nominees with 5% to share apiece. For runner-up, I’d say Michelle Williams (now going 4-0) is the next in line for a win.
PREDICTION: Viola Davis, Fences
ALTERNATE: Nicole Kidman, Lion
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Given how easy Supporting Actress to predict is, the same can’t be said about its male counterpart. Supporting Actor is a tad of clusterfuck actually. Let’s begin with the Globes where non-nominated Aaron Taylor-Johnson pulled off the upset. Sadly for him, despite BAFTA nomination in his name, it was his co-star Michael Shannon who nabbed the Oscar nod for the film. SAG went by going with Mahershala Ali of Moonlight, which was an easy get for him. Come BAFTA, they went their own way and rewarded British Dev Patel for his turn in the Harvey Weinstein-backed Lion, possibly throwing another curve to Ali’s frontrunner status. Three things: it has to be emphasized that Oscar voting this season started the day after Patel won the BAFTA so that could help things. Second, Dev is also the closest possible contender to continue the trend of ‘winning for a real life person‘ narrative which has continues since 1998. Third, it’s the second consecutive year where Globes (Sylvester Stallone), SAG (Idris Elba), and BAFTA (Mark Rylance) all went different routes and last year, BAFTA prevailed. That said, I think Mahershala Ali is still the frontrunner (albeit a really not strong one), and that he can still pull off the win even by a hair for his turn in Moonlight. Always watch out for Dev Patel until Alicia Vikander opens that envelope.
PREDICTION: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
ALTERNATE: Dev Patel, Lion
LEAD ACTRESS:
It’s probably one of the strongest years for Lead Actress contenders that there isn’t enough room for the likes of Amy Adams in Arrival, or Annette Bening in 20th Century Women, both of whom would be really competitive in any other year that’s not 2016. After her BFCA win, it seems like Natalie Portman went on a different trajectory for Jackie losing further momentum. It also didn’t help that the movie didn’t latch on well enough in terms of picking up above the line nominations. Who replaced her as the alternate? Golden Globe winner Isabelle Huppert for Elle. SPC has really managed to turn an impressive campaign thus far for this French legend, and while others are toying with the idea of a possible upset on Oscar night, she’ll be a strong runner-up. It didn’t help that the British studio didn’t do any efforts to submit Elle in time to be eligible for the BAFTA, and that she was SAG snubbed despite being eligible. This one is Emma Stone’s to lose, as she ticks many of the boxes that fit the winning criteria — young actress, previous nominee, at the peak of her career, very charming and has campaigned well in the Best Picture frontrunner. As much as we want Oscar winner Isabelle Huppert to happen, it’s Emma Stone’s name written in that envelope.
PREDICTION: Emma Stone, La La Land
ALTERNATE: Isabelle Huppert, Elle
LEAD ACTOR:
Up until two weeks ago, it’s all but Casey Affleck’s to lose. He won two of the critics trifecta (and was a runner-up at LAFCA), won over 40 recognition for his performance in Manchester by the Sea including the Gotham, the BFCA. and the Golden Globe (much to the stress of Brie Larson). Then Denzel Washington won the SAG and there’s no turning back. He just stole all the momentum moving forward, and now it’s a nailbiter come Oscar evening. Affleck won the BAFTA afterwards, but it’s a Dezel-less field, and the latter’s snub probably helped him siphon more votes in the end. Affleck’s chances aren’t also helped by the idea that his sexual assault story is popping up during the last stage of the campaign period. You know what this race seems like? The Best Actor 2001 race. Actor A has received all accolades and precursor sweep then, until personal issues against him were brought up. Oscar winning actor B was seen as the alternate, and when the envelope was opened, it was his name written there. Actor A is Russell Crowe and Actor B, as you guessed it, is Denzel Washington. This reeks too much of a coincidence that between the industry love for him, the #OscarsSoWhite, and his legacy, we’ll see a 2001 redux and Denzel goes on to win his third Oscar.
PREDICTION: Denzel Washington, Fences
ALTERNATE: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
I don’t think there’s any room for upset in this category already, as he literally swept all precursors leading to the Oscars. After all, the movie he’s directed is seen as a directorial achievement above anything else. And his two closest competition will likely be rewarded in the Screenplay category. So I say it’s an easy win for La La Land‘s Damien Chazelle.
PREDICTION: Damien Chazelle, La La Land
ALTERNATE: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
ANIMATED FEATURE:
This year doesn’t really have that strong of a lock contender as compared to let’s say Toy Story 3 in 2010, Finding Nemo in 2003, or Inside Out last year, but Zootopia is a strong frontrunner to say the least. It has the box office performance, the critical backup, as well as the precursor win to go land an Oscar. Its only possible hurdle, albeit a small one, is Kubo and the Two Strings who performed and picked up steam in the latter part of the season. That said, this is still Zootopia‘s to lose.
PREDICTION: Zootopia
ALTERNATE: Kubo and the Two Strings
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
It’s really a strange category if there’s one. The consensus seem to go to Germany’s Toni Erdmann with its critical performance. It might not have won the Globe but it lost to snubee Elle. It did not win BAFTA as well, but it lost to last year’s Oscar winner Son of Saul so it does not count too. However, this category, since its change of winner process determination, has been kinder to crowdpleasers which Toni Erdmann is not. That certainly helps Sweden’s A Man Called Ove to the equation. After all, it also received another nomination for Best Make Up & Hairstyling. Then comes Asghar Farhadi’s ban issue which coincidentally happened during the voting process. Voting for Farhadi’s nominated film The Salesman can be seen as a vote of statement against Trump, and if there’s one thing that Hollywood loves he most, it’s making a statement. I don’t know if that’ll be enough, but it can be a memorable moment in the show.
PREDICTION: The Salesman (Iran)
ALTERNATE: A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Here’s another category where I’ll see the voters rallying around and make a statement, so it probably means it will go to either 13th, an exploration of race and justice system in America, or I Am Not Your Negro tackling the history of racism in United States. That said, between the renewed interest with the OJ Simpson case (all thanks to the Emmy winning series “People v. OJ Simpson“), I think the eight-hour documentary event OJ: Made in America will pick up the win in the end.
PREDICTION: OJ: Made in America
ALTERNATE: 13th
Here are the rest of the categories:
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Consider this as an easy sweep for the that small unknown musical called La La Land
PREDICTION: La La Land
ALTERNATE: Lion
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
There couldn’t have been a more perfect and ideal moment for Hollywood to honor it-man Lin-Manuel Miranda than this year especially after the juggernaut that is called Hamilton. Guess what’s an equally juggernaut piece there is? It’s that small unknown musical called La La Land.
PREDICTION: “City of Stars“, La La Land
ALTERNATE: “How Far I’ll Go“, Moana
BEST FILM EDITING:
The flashy war scenes in Hacksaw Ridge can be tempting as hell, but I don’t think there’s stopping La La Land to get that closest precursor tech category to nab with its Best Picture win.
ALTERNATE: Hacksaw Ridge
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Sure, the ASC went with the more natural and outdoor type of cinematography that Lion did, but when it comes to the overall voting body of AMPAS, they might not resist the charm of good old’ Hollywood and include this in the sweep.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
ALTERNATE: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Probably the trickiest to predict, it would have been an easy win for La La Land had it not been a modern-set traditional musical in the likes of those huge Broadway sets. it won the Costume Guild, and it’s the only winner that’s a nominee this year. That said, the BAFTAs went for the more traditional ones, with Jackie, a recreation of the iconic fashion that the late Jackie Kennedy left us. BAFTA has a strong correlation in this category correctly predicting the winners since 2007. I’ll probably stick with that stat. But then, you know La La Land is just lurking around the corner.
PREDICTION: Jackie
ALTERNATE: La La Land
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
I still can’t believe that the make-up branch who have embraced trash time and again resisted to go for baity Deadpool in here. That said, expect the more obvious and flashy make-up and hairstyling of Star Trek: Beyond to dominate here, after winning for the first movie back in 2009.
PREDICTION: Star Trek Beyond
ALTERNATE: Suicide Squad
BEST SOUND MIXING:
Chicago, Ray, Dreamgirls, and Les Miserables are four of the winners in this category’s history. See a pattern there? Add this up to the La La Land train then!
BEST SOUND EDITING:
If Film Editing can’t do it for Hacksaw Ridge, then maybe Sound Editing can. After all, this is one aspect of La La Land that has really received lots of negative criticisms. That said, you’ll never know with the Academy. How many of the whole body can even distinguish Sound Editing from Sound Mixing? How many will just namec heck the most popular film in the bunch? if it managed to get that nomination (which it surisingly did), then why not make it all the way to a win too?
PREDICTION: Hacksaw Ridge
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Remember how this category usually is connected to the Best Picture frontrunner? Much to the surprise of a lot of people, Arrival missed an easy get here. While the flashiest here is Doctor Strange, I think the whole narrative of The Jungle Book being both a commercial and critical success will help it gets its Oscar win in this category.
PREDICTION: The Jungle Book
ALTERNATE: Doctor Strange
And lastly, the big one of the night:
BEST PICTURE:
Unlike the complexity of the past year where it was basically a three-way race between Spotlight, The Big Short, and The Revenant, this one is pretty easy. La La Land is poised to sweep the biggest trophy of the night alongside eight other Oscars. It has basically achieved record after record, winning the most Golden Globes ever, being the first Best Picture winner to miss the SAG ensemble lineup, and joining Titanic and All About Eve as the most nominated films in academy history. As much as people are sick and over it, the movie still written on the envelope will be La La Land.
ALTERNATE: Moonlight
There you have it! The 89th Academy Awards will be on Sunday (Monday morning here in Manila) to be shown on HBO.
Posted February 24, 2017 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films
Tagged with academy awards, emma stone, La La Land, oscar predictions, oscars, Oscars 2017, ryan gosling
89th Academy Awards Nominations Predictions Leave a comment
With months and months of speculations, all predictions will finally be decided upon as the Academy unveils its 89th Academy Awards nominations tomorrow night, Manila time. This season, just like the previous one, brought in lots of crazy moments as we progress the past few months. Frontrunners like Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation both sizzled mid-way. Viola Davis competed in Supporting after talks of being in Lead a year before, and who knew that Mel Gibson can still do a Hollywood comeback after all these years? Anyway, here we go, I’ll share my predictions in all 24 Oscar categories.
As you may know, Best Picture is a fluid category which can have as many as ten and as low as five nominees. We have a really strong triumvirate heading to Oscar season with Damien Chazelle’s LA-set musical La La Land, Kenneth Lonergan’s small drama Manchester by the Sea, and critically acclaimed Moonlight from Barry Jenkins. All three led the season in terms of critical acclaim and precursor performance. Consider three all set and locked in.
Next up, two films which really overperformed all season, overcoming doubts and possible barriers throughout their campaigns. The Amy Adams-starrer Arrival has managed to sweep both critics, audience, and guilds off its feet, beating possible “genre bias” against it. And despite all the behind the scene shenanigans over The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein proves he still has it in him pushing Lion to a distant but comfortable fifth place spot.
And then it gets tricky. I’d say that Hell or High Water is sixth, with its whirlwind of a performance, getting remembered when it was very low-key, and getting snubbed for guilds when it started to pick up some steam. That said, I think it’s one of the few films that target the dude-bros/majority of the AMPAS membership so I think it’s safely in. next up are two POC led films whose sequel Hidden Fences has been repeated a lot this season (sadly, not in jest). Fences, directed and starred by Denzel Washington is a film adaptation of a Broadway winning play, while Hidden Figures, who defies box office expectation each week peaks at the right time during voting. While I won’t be surprised if one of these two gets snubbed (because these + Moonlight and Lion will mean half of the eight nominees are about POC and as much as Hollywood claims they are embracing, the past two years proved otherwise), I’m still sticking them both in and close my predictions at eight.
In the event that these surpass the eight, I think Mel Gibson’s sorta Hollywood comeback Hacksaw Ridge which surprisingly did well the last few weeks, can fill in the AMPAS membership quota targeted at old, white grandpas. After Clint Eastwood’s Sully sizzled, this can be their feel good movie of the year. Then there’s also Martin Scorsese’s opus Silence which was a victim of Paramount handling three strong films this season; thus coming really late to the party.
• Arrival
• Fences
• Hell or High Water
• Hidden Figures
• La La Land
• Lion
• Manchester by the Sea
• Moonlight
9th (but not predicted): Hacksaw Ridge
10th (but not predicted): Silence
It’s really not safe to stick with the DGA five considering that the only time that happened was back in 2000. That said, the last time it also happened was a group of all first-time nominees, which also reflects this year’s batch. Well, it only becomes a problem when you consider that the biggest spoiler to this group is welp… another first timer. I think Damien Chazelle, Kenneth Lonergan, and Barry Jenkins are all safe here, while Denis Villeneuve strikes me as one who’ll finally get his welcome to the club mention. After all, his previous films have been slowly getting Oscar nominations, so it’s just a matter of time to finally get one for him. Last spot I see is between Garth Davis who pulled off that surprise DGA nod (over favorites such as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Mel Gibson) or David Mackenzie (whose film did not submit for the DGAs.) Toss a coin to get your answer and mine right now says Garth Davis.
• Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
• Damien Chazelle, La La Land
• Garth Davis, Lion
• Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
• Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
SPOILER: David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water
Casey Affleck is back nine years after receiving his first nod for The Assassination of Jesse James, but not only is he back as a nominee, moreso a frontrunner to win the Oscar this year for Manchester by the Sea. Two of his closest contenders include Denzel Washington, on his way to pick up his seventh career nod for his role in Fences and Golden Globe winner Ryan Gosling, the effortlessly charming pianist in La La Land, whose only Oscar nod was exactly a decade ago for Half Nelson. With two major films this year, more exposure can only help Andrew Garfield to finally include “Oscar nominee” before his name, but with Silence coming in too late in the game, all his previous mentions were for his role as the lead soldier in Hacksaw Ridge. The last spot can go to Joel Edgerton in Loving, or maybe a late gamechanger Jake Gyllenhaal for Nocturnal Animals, but I’d play safe and predict Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic, as he has earned Globe, SAG, and BAFTA nods for this already.
• Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
• Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
• Ryan Gosling, La La Land
• Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
• Denzel Washington, Fences
SPOILER: Joel Edgerton, Loving
If we’re being diplomatic about it, it’s a “good” problem to not figure out the Best Actress lineup this year when it was the easiest to do so the last few years. That means great roles for women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s have all been receiving great ink for their memorable performances. But for prediction’s sake, it’s still difficult to pin down how this category will be like. I guess we better start with Emma Stone then, as she’s probably the safest here and the likely recipient of this award come Oscar night. As much as we salivate over the possibility of a Portman snub (after those really career-best notices), it’s not gonna happen. Pencil Natalie’s turn as Jackie Kennedy another sure contender here. After that, I’m tempted to say Meryl Streep is third. This role, in another “transformative” performance is something the members of the Academy will eat up. Add the fact that her iconic Golden Globe speech came right during voting period just surely helps her more. Now this is where it gets tricky. I’d put Isabelle Huppert for Elle in fourth, and while I think it’s the pessimist in me talking, I’m still open to the idea of a possible snub. After all, it’s a movie that’s not a priority watch with an actress in her 60s carrying the film in one of the strongest years of this category. I really should comfort myself with the fact that she earned the critics trifecta, the Drama Globe upset, and SPC’s priority but I;m just preparing myself for the worst here. Then there’s Amy Adams, who’s some sort of a name-check but not in a Meryl or C/Kate level yet. This will be her sixth nod in 12 years and that ratio is good to predict her. That said, we had an extra week of voting which could help Annette Bening in the little and underseen 20th Century Women or Taraji p. Henson as the face of Hidden Figures to spoil the party, and in the event that happens, I’d say Adams is the first one good to go.
• Amy Adams, Arrival
• Isabelle Huppert, Elle
• Natalie Portman, Jackie
• Emma Stone, La La Land
• Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
SPOILER: Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Proving to be the category that provides the clusterfuck, Supporting Actor can either be as easy as 1-2-3 or as confusing as that Math lady meme we’ve all used by now. I feel like Moonlight‘s Mahershala Ali, Hell or High Water‘s Jeff Bridges, and Lion‘s Dev Patel are already sure locks here. Hugh Grant feels like it can go eitherway. He fits the bill of someone nabbing precursor nods only to come short in the end, but then he also fits the bill of a filler, carried over nod. But when the one who drags your nod is none other than Meryl Streep, then I guess he’s in too. Now that last spot is indeed very tricky. The obvious option is Golden Globe winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson who also picked up a BAFTA nod for his turn in Nocturnal Animals. If not him, then maybe Lucas Hedges of Manchester by the Sea. But then this is the category that has provided us Jonah Hill in Wolf of Wall Street and Tom Hardy for The Revenant, so a coattail is very much in talks here. Possible performances that fit the bill are Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals, Issei Ogata for Silence, and Ben Foster for Hell or High Water.
• Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
• Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
• Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
• Dev Patel, Lion
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
SPOILER: Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
Probably the most “boring” of the four acting categories, this one seems like it’s set in stone. Davis, Harris, Kidman, and Williams have appeared in all precursors by far. Critics went for Lily Gladstone whose film isn’t even being campaigned. The BAFTAs went with Haley Squire of I, Daniel Blake which is the BAFTA-est pick they can go to at BAFTAs. Thus, it benefits Oscar winner Octavia Spencer who picked up GG and SAG nods for Hidden Figures. I don’t see a scenario of Greta Gerwig spoiling the race especially considering that her possible coattail Annette Bening is struggling to get hers too. Maybe Spencer’s co-star Janelle Monae is the only alternate here, as she’s helped by starring in both Hidden Figures and Moonlight. That said, Octavia is the more established name here, and a good narrative to boot as the first black actress to receive a nomination after her win.
• Viola Davis, Fences
• Naomie Harris, Moonlight
• Nicole Kidman, Lion
• Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
• Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
SPOILER: Janelle Monae, Hidden Figures
Count on the Writer’s branch to revive the lesser buzzed films in contention this year, and I think The Lobster has that slot all filled up. Thus, as much as I, Daniel Blake makes sense as an Oscar morning surprise, I’ll stick with the consensus of La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Hell or High Water, and Captain Fantastic in here.
• Captain Fantastic
• The Lobster
SPOILER: I, Daniel Blake
Yes I’m predicting a Fences snub here which makes sense and doesn’t make sense simultaneously. First up, I think Moonlight, Lion, and Arrival are semi-locks here already. While Hidden Figures surprisingly got in a nice haul of Adapted Screenplay mentions from the BAFTAs to the WGA up to the USC Scripter and BFCAs. The last spot can easily go to Fences (which is the safe choice to be frank about it), or to Silence (which was once perceived as the frontrunner here). I went with Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals here instead because the baity adaptation can probably overcome the writers’ judgment of Ford being a writer.
• Nocturnal Animals
SPOILER: Fences
I think at this stage it’s already hard to deny that Toni Erdmann is probably winning this one, so a nod is already assured for this FLF frontrunner. Denmark has a successful streak in this category this decade as well, and Land of Mine appeals to such an AMPAS demographic I think it’s getting in. Sweden’s A Man Called Ove strikes the perfect balance between comedy and drama, and is reminiscent of the other nominees in this category the past few years. Paradise is a bit of an out of the box pick, but I guess they can’t resist another World War II film in contention from the Venice Best Director of last year. And the only reason I had The Salesman in here is because of Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 victory in this category that we’ve had some sort of reception already to his works. That said, don’t be surprise to see Xavier Dolan joining the race as this type of family melodrama and him working with a lot of Hollywood actors can certainly push him to a nom.
• Land of Mine (Denmark)
• A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
• Paradise (Russia)
• The Salesman (Iran)
• Toni Erdmann (Germany)
SPOILER: It’s Only the End of the World (Canada)
Still ahead of this race is Zootopia which had both the critical and audience backing to be one to beat in this race. Hot on its heels though is Kubo and the Two Strings which has overperformed a tad during this previous guilds run. I actually can see a scenario of them pitting it as the non-Zootopia vote. With it hitting both the Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Film shortlist, I expect My Life as a Zucchini to at least nab one, and since I’m not predicting it in FLF, I’ll go ahead and insert it here. Moana, which was supposed to be a last minute challenger to Zootopia just fell short in the end and while its decent box office performance and pop culture impact push me to predict it, I won’t be surprised to see it get snubbed on Oscar morning.Lastly, The Red Turtle seems more of a personal preference than a prediction here, but we’ll be needing the traditional animated representative in this category and I’m leaning to it by a hair over the hit animated film Your Name.
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Moana
• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Red Turtle
• Zootopia
SPOILER: Sing
At the start of the season, O.J.Made in America can suffer a bit of a backlash since its a seven hour documentary feature that originated from TV. But it seems like it has the support now to not only get nominated, but even go all the way to a win. Joining it willbe the foreign documentary Fire At Sea, two films that will probably speak close to the voters due to their “cinematic” themes: Cameraperson and Life, Animated. And in the race (no pun intended) for that last spot are two documentaries that tackle about race — Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro and Ava Duvernay’s 13th. The latter seems like one who’s bound for a snub so I’m going with the former.
• Cameraperson
• Fire At Sea
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Life, Animated
• O.J.: Made in America
SPOILER: 13th
• Silence
SPOILER: Nocturnal Animals
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Hail, Caesar!
• Jackie
SPOILER: The Dressmaker
SPOILER: Lion
• Deadpool
• A Man Called Ove
• Star Trek Beyond
SPOILER: Florence Foster Jenkins
• The BFG
SPOILER: Jackie
• “Audition” (La La Land)
• “Angel by the Wings” (The Eagle Huntress)
• “City of Stars” (La La Land)
• “How Far I’ll Go” (Moana)
• “A Minute to Breathe” (Before the Flood)
SPOILER: “Drive It Like You Stole It” (Sing Street)
SPOILER: The Handmaiden
• Deepwater Horizon
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Sully
SPOILER: Hell or High Water
SPOILER: Silence
• Doctor Strange
• The Jungle Book
SPOILER: Passengers
13: La La Land
9: Arrival
8: Moonlight
7: Lion
6: Manchester by the Sea
4: Hell or High Water
3: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fences, Florence Foster Jenkins, Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, Jackie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2: Captain Fantastic, Hail Caesar!, Kubo and the Two Strings, A Man Called Ove, Moana, Nocturnal Animals, Silence, Sully
Posted January 23, 2017 by Nicol Latayan in Awards, Films, Uncategorized
Tagged with 2017 Oscars, 89th Oscars, 89th oscars predictions, academy awards, academy awards predictions, oscar predictions, oscars, Oscars 2017
Philippines’ 89th Oscar Submission: Ma’Rosa Leave a comment
Yesterday, the Film Academy of the Philippines announced Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’Rosa as the country’s submission in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards that will happen on February 2017. The film bested nine other entries which includes Berlin winner Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis, Cinemalaya Best Picture Pamilya Ordinaryo, and the last minute addition Ang Babaeng Humayo by Lav Diaz.
This is the first time for director Brillante Mendoza who has been shortlisted thrice before (2009 for Kinatay, 2013 for Thy Womb, and 2015 for Taklub). Mendoza has also won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival back in 2009, also for Kinatay. In a way, he’s – for lack of a better term – overdue for an Oscar submission. Why he hasn’t represented us thus far is really surprising.
Ma’Rosa, tells a day in the life of a poor family, headed by their matriarch Rosa (played by Jaclyn Jose), as they scramble to find the money to pay off the corrupt policemen that have arrested them or dealing drugs. Back in May, it competed at the Cannes Film Festival Main Competition section where it pulled off the historic Best Actress win for Jose, being the first Filipina and Southeast Asian actress to do so. Certainly, it has the clout and the festival exposure.
Now let’s dissect its chances. Can Ma’Rosa pull off that elusive first nomination for the Philippines? For those counting, we’ve submitted 27 times in the past — back from our very first in 1953 for Manuel Conde’s Genghis Khan up to last year’s Heneral Luna from Jerrold Tarog) to no avail. No nomination and no shortlist mention.
As mentioned above, one of the things going for Ma’Rosa is its festival exposure. Not only did it take a home a prize at Cannes, it also played at the Toronto Film Festival. It has partnered with sales agency company Films Distribution which also distributed current Best Foreign Language Film winner Son of Saul. Impressive, right? Well not in the sense you’re thinking of. It has to be clarified though. Films Distribution is not an Oscar-campaigner studio per se. It’s not the same as Focus Features or Fox Searchlight or even The Weinstein Company. Son of Saul‘s win last year was due to being campaigned by Focus Features which handled its whole awards run campaign. Ma’Rosa doesn’t have that.. yet. In reality, the most Films Distribution can do is to help the movie gain more festival exposure. Going by a quick search shows that after Toronto, it’s also heading to BFI London, which is good. More festival exposure is always better.
Reviews by foreign critics is always a factor too. It has to be mentioned first that Mendoza is really as divisive when it comes to foreign critics. Remember when the late Roger Ebert mentioned that Kinatay surpassed Vincet Gallo’s The Brown Bunny as “the worst film in Canes history?” So it’s a bit of delight that Ma’Rosa is probably one of the better-reviewed films in his filmography. While critics still had reservations, they were more welcoming than the usual. THR mentioned “Thankfully, and as in his other features, Mendoza again manages to turn his locations into a character in its own right. ” Variety’s Maggie Lee summed it best when she said “Boasting a simple, coherent plot shot with real-time, handheld verismo, it’s a work of understated confidence that will not disappoint his festival acolytes, but probably won’t win many new converts.”
A lot has been mentioned about how we, at a certain extent, can be helped by our own country’s narrative right now. As the world probably knows already, we’re very vocal in our battle with the issue of drugs. And many feel that the movie is timely and that can help buzz. Historically, not really. This category really doesn’t care about that, to be frank. A year after Brokeback Mountain lost Best Picture, a significant amount of queer films were submitted for Best Foreign language Film including our own Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros. The total number of gay films nominated that year? Zero. In 2010, an election year in many countries, a lot of them rode that narrative, again including us when we submitted Dondon Santos’ Noy and Brazil went with Lula. Number of election themed nominated movies that year? Zero. This whole controversy reminded me just three years ago when we went with Transit as our submission (make no mistake, still a great film, just not a great Oscar entry) over the snubbed On the Job and the FAP’s reasoning was that they don’t want to submit a film that showed the negative side of the country. Submitting Ma’Rosa I guess is a huge leap to the other direction, if that means something.
The biggest factor that can probably help Ma’Rosa is its Cannes win. Sure its only Best Actress (and by only I mean that in the hierarchy of Cannes wins, its in the lower tier alongside Best Actor and Best Screenplay. This sentence, by no means, does not intend to take anything away from the marvelous Jaclyn Jose), but a win is still a win. And that it’s still buzz. For a movie that was perceived as a non-event of some sort at Cannes (it was one of the least buzzed films of the competition, but then it’s pretty understandable since he’s competing with the likes of veterans and/or those with Hollywood cast), how it ended up going home with a win is a win itself already.
Now let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Three days ago, it was announced that Lav Diaz’ Ang Babaeng Humayo will go for a September 23 release, which would make it eligible for this year since it’ll be meeting the necessary requirements to contend. The huge amount of buzz over its historic Golden Lion win (the highest honor ever received by a Filipino movie in history) is too much to ignore. Sure, it’s a Lav Diaz film which means it runs for more than three hours, and that didn’t help Norte two years ago. That said, foreign critics being unanimously positive about it, plus the film being called as his most accessible (especially since Diaz is another name that’s divisive to foreign critics), with a sure huge company to back its campaign (Charo Santos was the president of the biggest TV network in the country), it’s basically a decision too obvious to make by that time. That’s why it’s a tad surprising that the announcement happened yesterday. This prompted Humayo to move back to a September 28 screening, which will make it ineligible for next year’s submission too. That, and the buzz over Golden Lion and the Toronto inclusion will be old news by then. Let it be clear though that none of this should be pointed against Ma’Rosa, Mendoza, or any of his team, since decision wasn’t really theirs.
A few weeks ago pre-Venice Film Fest, I wrote about the possible submissions and strongly felt that none of the films would do the trick. In that case, why not throw a bone to Mendoza’s Ma’Rosa. But the whole Golden Lion win affected everything. My final verdict says that nope we ain’t getting that nomination nor that Top 9 mention. If anything, my takeaway with this year is that we’ve finally acknowledged and submitted Mendoza’s work (which was already beyond deserving back in 2009 when we had that tragic Ded na si Lolo submission), but at the expense of a stronger contender. I’d love to be wrong though.
Off to next year.
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a company of otreacherous men.
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for they proceed from evil to evil,
qand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
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and put no trust in any brother,
for every sbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor tgoes about as a slanderer.
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and no one speaks the truth;
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uthey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
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but in his heart ahe plans an ambush for him.
9 bShall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
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and a lamentation for cthe pastures of the wilderness,
dbecause they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
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u‘How we are ruined!
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vcutting off the children from the streets
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xlike sheaves after the reaper,
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25 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when bI will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh— 26 cEgypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and dall who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are euncircumcised in heart.”
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Morning Links: Incycle bike thieves busted, elected officials in Hollywood, and finally a better bike helmet
March 20, 2019 / bikinginla / One comment
Good news.
Chino police have busted three people accused of running over an Incycle bike shop manager after stealing a $10,000 bike.
Incycle store manager Megan Rodriguez ran into the parking lot in an attempt to stop them after they walked out with the bike, and slipped under the truck’s wheels when they refused to stop.
Fortunately, she’s been released after being hospitalized with critical injuries. A crowdfunding page raised over $35,000 for her medical care.
Kern County residents Ronald Wolfe, Kyle Stewart and Nichole Stewart were booked on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy and attempted murder for the Incycle heist. Police say they may have conducted similar crimes — without running over anyone else — throughout Southern California.
Let’s hope authorities take this case as seriously as those potential charges suggest.
Thanks to Erik Griswold for the heads-up.
Here’s a great opportunity to advocate for bikes and safer streets. Or maybe just give officials a piece of your mind.
Representatives for city, county, state and federal elected officials will be gathered under one roof at the Will & Ariel Durant Library in Hollywood from 3 pm to 6 pm today.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it, even though the library is just walking distance from my home. Or would be, if I could actually walk these days.
So feel free to show up in my place, and demand some serious action on improving street safety in Hollywood, and throughout the LA area.
Big news on the bike helmet front, as Trek’s Bontrager division introduces what they claim is the safest helmet ever made.
According to the company, the new WaveCel design is 48 times more effective at preventing concussions than tradition foam helmets, without adding much weight.
And it offers significantly greater protection than MIPS helmets, which had been the gold standard for preventing concussions.
The downside is, it will cost you at least $150. But if you’re a helmet user, it could be worth it.
Speaking for myself, after spending time in the ICU when my helmet failed to prevent a serious concussion in the infamous beachfront bee incident, I may be the first in line to get one once I can ride again.
Somehow, we missed this one last year.
But if you’ve got eleven minutes to kill, you could do worse than watching pro mountain bikers shred on tiny bikes.
Or spend just half the time taking in this Streetfilm of bike advocates sharing the most ridiculous comments they’ve heard in opposition to bike lanes.
Streetsblog LA announces the honorees for their May 9th fundraiser; the list now includes Active SGV, Jason Islas, Asm. Laura Friedman, Justice for Woon, and the David Bohnett Foundation. You can get tickets here.
After pulling the plug on its WeHo Pedals bikeshare, West Hollywood will go forward with an 18-month pilot program for dockless ebike bikeshare, though with strict limits on where they can be parked — which kind of defeats the purpose of dockless systems. And still no e-scooters will be allowed in the city.
Seriously, the former Governator riding his e-fat bike to the gym just isn’t news anymore.
A proposed bill in the state legislature would double the penalty for a fatal hit-and-run from four to eight years; the bill will move forward after emotional testimony from the widow of the hit-and-run victim it’s named after.
San Diego has finally thrown in the towel and given their long-suffering docked bikeshare provider the boot; the city is looking to dockless bikeshare to take up the slack.
Berkeley pulls a page from LA’s former playbook and continues to let the city’s streets deteriorate, saying they would cost $120 million to fix, and another $50 million to transform them into Complete Streets. Which is probably cheaper than the legal settlements they’ll pay out for not fixing them. Thanks to Megan Lynch for the link.
San Francisco bicyclists rally to demand more protected bike lanes. Meanwhile, a San Francisco city supervisor’s call for lowering speed limits butts into the deadly 85th Percentile Law. Maybe if San Francisco joins LA in demanding changes, we might actually get somewhere.
Gear Patrol reveals the winners from last weekend’s North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Sacramento.
A website from the American Society of Landscape Architects recounts the recent National Bike Summit to examine why bicycling has flatlined in the US.
Bike Snob’s Eben Weiss says confronting the driver who almost killed you is never worth it. As someone who’s done exactly that for most of my riding career, I’ve had some very positive conversations with drivers who’ve unintentionally threatened my safety. But the bad outweighed the good by a significant margin.
Schwinn is introducing a 28 mph gravel ebike, which would require a helmet in California. And you’ll have to be over 16 to ride it.
Bicyclits say a popular Portland bike path is virtually unridable due to homeless encampments and piled up trash.
Interesting idea. A Boulder CO bike shop is offering a certified pre-owned program for bikes, including a pre-defined trade-in or buyback schedule to encourage buyers to trade their bikes back in ever 18 months.
Iowa City, Iowa is conducting a road diet on a major street, stressing that it’s being done to improve safety and that the extra space for bike lanes is just an added benefit. No word on whether the locals will revolt like West LA’s entitled drivers.
A Houston congresswoman has proposed federal legislation to improve bike safety by adding it to driver’s license exams, improving street signage, and leveraging funds to build bike lanes.
Now there’s some honesty for a change. The mayor of Philadelphia says the streets of the city suck when it comes to safety. And used exactly that word.
A North Carolina bill would require bike owners to license their bicycles for a $10 annual fee, with the funds going to support bike safety projects. Except studies have shown that it would cost more to license bikes than a program like that would bring in. And result in more bikes rusting in the garage once the registration expires.
Atlanta drivers who stop or park in a bike lane will now be subject to a $100 fine. If it’s actually enforced, which is usually the problem.
No surprise here. The drunk driver who slammed into several bike riders at a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, killing two innocent people, was over twice the legal limit; police estimate his BAC was around .215 at the time of the crash. Also no surprise that he’s asking for a reduction in his half-million dollar bail.
Heartbreaking news from Mississippi, where a 12-year old boy is in an induced coma and facing multiple surgeries after he was badly mauled by a pack of dogs, who knocked him off his bike and dragged him into a ditch. The dogs were put down, but owner won’t face any charges because there are no regulations for dogs in the county.
The Juice is no longer loose. Orlando, Florida’s Juice docked bikeshare is shutting down after two years in the face of competition from dockless bikeshare; the city hopes to bring it back in a dockless form.
Specialized’s new MIMIC saddle line promises to provide greater comfort for women with a design specifically made for a woman’s body.
Mexico City’s famed Paseo de la Reforma now has its own all-woman bike cop squad.
Great Britain’s Royal Mail is trying out eight e-trikes in an attempt to help clean up London’s dirty air. Maybe they need to bring back Pashley-riding posties.
Britain considers lifting a ban on e-scooters that dates back nearly two centuries before they were invented.
We may have to deal with distracted LA drivers. But at least we hardly ever have to worry about getting live cobras stuck in our wheels like these Indian bike riders.
Competitive Cycling
Britain’s dominant Team Sky will now be known as Team Ineos, as Britain’s richest man assumes sponsorship.
If you’re going to flee the scene after a crash, take the front end of your car with you. Pedaling with pornstars.
And seriously, if you’re wanted on a murder charge, wear a damn helmet when you ride a bike if that’s what the law requires.
Category: Morning Links / Tags: bicycling, bike helmets, Chino, Hollywood, Incycle, Kyle Stewart, Los Angeles, Megan Rodriguez, Nichole Stewart, open house, Ronald Wolfe
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Update: Bike rider killed by moving truck in Rancho Palos Verdes
March 8, 2016 / bikinginla / 21 comments
Ghost bike for Jonathan Tansavatdi; photo by Jim Lyle
Word is just coming in that someone has been killed while riding a bicycle in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Very few details are available at this time.
However, KNBC-4 reports the victim was struck by a moving truck on Vallon Drive near Hawthorne Boulevard around 2:50 pm this afternoon; presumably they mean a truck for a moving company, rather than one in motion.
According to the station, sheriff’s deputies believe the truck, which KCBS-2 identifies as a big rig, was making a right turn off an undisclosed side street when it struck the rider.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. No other information is available at this time.
A satellite view shows Vallon as a narrow, winding residential road; Via la Cresta is the only cross street that enters it, just above Hawthorne, though Vallon connects with Marne Drive just below Hawthorne.
This is the 24th bicycling fatality in Southern California this year, and the 6th in Los Angeles County.
Update: The Daily Breeze confirms the collision occurred at Vallon and Via la Cresta.
Update 2: KNBC-4 changes the location once again, writing that the collision took place at Hawthorne and Vallon.
According to a sheriff’s spokesperson, the victim was riding down the hill on Hawthorne at a high rate of speed, estimated at 45 mph. The driver of a Mayflower truck turned right onto Hawthorne in front of the cyclist, who was unable to stop at that speed.
The driver continued on, reportedly having no idea the rider had collided with his truck.
However, if the rider was really going that fast, he would have hit with a significant amount of force, making it seem odd that the driver failed to notice.
Regardless, sheriff’s deputies concluded that the driver didn’t break the law, and everything he did was “legal at the time.”
Update 3: In their report from the scene, which I was unable to view last night, KNBC-4 reports the truck was stopped at the red light headed west on Hawthorne, and made a wide turn onto Vallon when the light turned green.
The victim, who still hasn’t been publicly identified, apparently rounded a blind curve on westbound Hawthorne while descending at a high rate of speed; unable to stop, he slammed into the side or rear of the truck.
The driver continued on, dragging the bicycle roughly 200 feet up Vallon before finally coming to a stop.
There’s no way to know if the victim would have had a chance if the driver had stopped after the initial collision.
Update 4: The victim has been identified as 29-year old Redondo Beach resident Pissanuk Jonathan Tansavatdi. Thanks to Martin Blount for the heads-up.
Meanwhile, Blount forwards a video showing the descent on Hawthorne Blvd. The intersection at Vallon comes into view at the 1:30 mark, with the riders passing through at 49 mph, giving credence to the police theory that Tansavatdi may have hit the truck at 45 mph.
Update 5: I’ve heard from a relative of Tansavatdi, who described him as sunny, cheerful, handsome, talented engineer, and a friend to many.
My deepest sympathy and prayers for the victim and his or her loved ones.
Thanks to Richard Masoner for the heads-up.
Category: Bicycle Safety, Injuries and Fatalities, Update / Tags: bicycling fatality, County of Los Angeles, Pissanuk Jonathan Tansavatdi, Rancho Palos Verdes
Road raging driver mows down cyclist in Palos Verdes
September 27, 2013 / bikinginla / 5 comments
The bike is dead. Fortunately, its rider isn’t.
The Daily Breeze is reporting that a road raging driver deliberately ran down a bicyclist before slamming into a series of cars.
According to the paper, Palos Verdes Estates resident Doug Castile was riding on Via Pacheco around 6:30 pm when he was Jerry Browned by a driver who sideswiped him, then backed up and hit him again when he complained.
Castile said he yelled, “Hey, you just hit me!” The driver of the black car then put it in reverse, backed up behind the bicyclist, pulled forward and pushed the bicyclist into the plants.
“The guy put it in reverse again, backed up, and ran over my bike,” Castile said. “At that point, my feet are clipped in the pedals on my bike. I unclipped my feet and jumped off the bike into the plants and he’s running over my bicycle back and forth.”
The driver, who wasn’t identified in the story, reacted bizarrely when Castile reached reached into his pocket for his cell phone.
“He says, ‘What are you reaching for, a gun?’ It just was so odd to hear that statement. I took my hand out of my pocket. I thought this guy is capable of anything,” Castile said.
At that point, the driver sped off, slamming into an unknown number of parked and moving vehicle before his car finally became disabled on Ganado Drive and Sheriff’s deputies made an arrest.
Castile was able to escape with scrapes, while his $3,000 to $4,000 bike was destroyed.
The paper says police were unsure whether the driver was suffering from a mental condition or committed a deliberate assault.
Unfortunately, anyone can buy a car and get a license, regardless of mental or emotional stability. And in the wrong hands, it can become a weapon.
As we have seen too many times before.
Thanks to Jim Lyle for the heads-up.
Update: The Daily Breeze identifies the driver as 65-year old William Thomas Kelly of Torrance. He’s being held on $30,000 bond on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon; hopefully, more charges — and a much higher bail — will follow soon.
It’s also worth noting that deputies found Kelly unconscious in his car after it rammed the gates to an FAA facility, which could lead to federal charges. According to the paper, officer’s smelled alcohol on his breath when he was taken into custody — which could make this the fourth time he’s charged with DUI since 1991.
And yet he was still allowed behind the wheel to threaten the lives and safety of others.
Category: Bikes & the Law, Car vs Bike, Hit-and-Run, Violence & Crime / Tags: bicycling, Doug Castile, hit-and-run, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, road rage, vehicular assault, William Thomas Kelly
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Is it possible to make PoW ASIC-resistant through dynamically generated hash chains?
Bitcoin's static proof-of-work function SHA256(SHA256(data)) was apparently easy enough to be implement as ASIC which lead to the re-centralization we see today.
But what if the PoW function changes for every new block based on the hash of the last block mined? One could generate a new hash chain by seeding a commonly known PRNG with the hash of the last block and use it to generate a chain of hash functions from a (large) pool of commonly known hash functions.
RIPEMD(SHA2(SHA3(MD5(RIPEMD(SHA2(data)))))) => digest (i.e. old block header hash)
PRNG(digest) => SHA2(MD5(SHA3(SHA3(RIPEMD(RIPEMD(data))))))
digest (i.e. new block header hash)
This way every miner would know how to generate the new chain of hash functions which has to be used to generate a digest with certain criteria (leading zeros) for the next block but nobody could calculate the subsequently hash chains and nobody could implement static hash chain circuits but has to use FPGAs which have to be reprogrammed every block and have to be able to host every possible hash chain constellation. If the hash chains are complex enough it might even lead to a decrease in FPGA efficiency which would favour general computing hardware and reinstate the "one-CPU-one-vote" principle.
What do you think of this approach? Why might it be flawed?
mining-hardware proof-of-work
Nick ODell
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Isn't this essentially the premise of X11? – Nick ODell Jan 22 '15 at 15:44
I believe X11 is just a chain of hashes. I think flyMaster is proposing having a battery of hash functions and using a different one depending on some characteristic of the previous block solved. – morsecoder Jan 22 '15 at 20:12
I have looked up the DarkCoin PDF and as far as I read they just use a static chain of 11 different algorithms. Do you have a link to an more in depth X11 description or a good readable implementation? My approach is to generate a new hash chain for each block based on the prev block. – ToBe Jan 23 '15 at 9:22
How would you handle difficulty readjusting when the algorithm changes? – morsecoder Jan 26 '15 at 18:54
The hash chain needs a predefined runtime which we call then 1 round. The chain generation algorithm has to stop adding new rounds of hash functions after the limit is reached. For this to work we have to measure the mean runtime of every algorithm used and assign runtime factors to them. Assumed SHA3 is two times slower than SHA2 on an average general computing device in store today the chain SHA2(SHA2(SHA2(SHA2(data)))) and SHA3(SHA3(data)) and SHA3(SHA2(SHA2(data))) are equal in terms of runtime. Based on this measure we can speak about difficulty adjustments of multiples of that. – ToBe Jan 28 '15 at 12:36
There cannot be such a thing as an “ASIC-resistant” algorithm. ASICs are designed specifically to implement an algorithm and will always be faster than any CPU.
On the other hand, it might not even be a good idea to have ASIC resistance, because ironically, the ASICs would be the ones optimized for this and the general-purpose computers would be left behind, while also being way worse for energy consumption (something which seems to bother many people).
Source: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
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You are right regarding static algorithms. My question is if this applies to a dynamically changing algorithm as well. My assumption is that the most efficient ASIC for a constantly changing algorithm is a general purpose CPU. – ToBe Jan 29 '15 at 8:47
@flyMASTER, why would it be any different? Unless this “changing algorithm” includes every possible algorithm, there must be a finite number of algorithms that can individually be optimized, as well as being able to optimize the decision of which one to use. – Arturo Torres Sánchez Jan 29 '15 at 12:16
Sorry for answering so late, I was quiet busy over the last days. You are right in respect of that all partial algorithms can be implemented as ASICs except for the sequence in which they get called. For a runtime of 1ms on a general computing device I got chain lengths of random concatenated hash functions of around 1000. The questions is: If every part algorithm is implemented is it still "expensive" to redo the rewiring for every round of hashing? – ToBe Feb 9 '15 at 10:43
The point of the article I linked is that yes, it's expensive to do the wiring, but that there will be people willing to pay for that, and once they got it, they will outweigh the common people anyway, and with a much greater advantage (because they won't be able to pay for the expensive ASIC). – Arturo Torres Sánchez Feb 9 '15 at 12:11
So you think the rewiring algorithm is possible to implement as ASIC in a way that is more efficient (computing time/energy efficiency) compared to a software implementation running on a CPU? – ToBe Feb 9 '15 at 13:13
I believe that Arturo's answer is correct in a strict sense. You asked if it is possible, and the goal is "ASIC-resistant" by which you mean that it cannot be optimized through the development of an ASIC. Any algorithm is, by its nature, suitable to be encoded into an ASIC. Well, any programmable algorithm that is, and that includes all possible hash-chains.
However, there are competitions for the creation of new hash algorithms. The results of these competitions, once known, can be incorporated into ASICs, but that takes time. During the time it takes, the competitions will continue. If the results of such competitions were regularly added to the list of possible hash functions, then the ASIC development would probably no longer be suitable because the algorithm would not be known in advance for a long enough period to develop the ASIC.
I very much like the idea you presented, but it needs some refining to be effective at decentralizing mining. This is assuming that the static nature of the PoW is a significant factor contributing to the centralization of mining. I believe it is.
In fact, we don't even need a hash chain. If hash competitions were frequent enough, the PoW could simply used the latest winner. How fast can an ASIC be developed? That is how often the competition for creating a new hash would have to run. I'm guessing at least several difficulty changes.
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There's more to mining than hashing as I explain in this article:
http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mining-hashing
which suggests that memory chips could be the ASIC there's no need to resist.
John TrompJohn Tromp
If I understood the question well, you are using PRNG to select which chain of hashes will be used, so you can have any combination of RIPEMD, SHA2, SHA3, MD5, ...
If that is the case, then expect a chip to be developed to implement all those hash functions. So, to calculate one arbitrary hash is super fast (compared to general CPU). Then all you need is some control unit that will just send those subtasks to those chips. So at the end you have ASIC that by itself is unable to calculate the whole hash, but with the help of control unit, the whole thing is able to produce a much faster result than CPU. Depending on how many different hash functions you have there, it might be even beneficial for the chip to have pairs or those hash functions hardwired.
At the end this does not prevent building ASICs at all. This does not even raise the cost that much - as many "anti-ASIC" algorithms attempt by depending on big amounts of expensive memory.
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One of the biggest inconveniences of living in China is being the absolute last to get everything. But sometimes – just sometimes, the universe has a way of saving the best until last.
For most black people in China, the 8th of March was the first opportunity to show out and finally experience Black Panther. By this time the rest of the world had long explored every intricacy of Black Panther and its impact; meanwhile many of us here still stood idly on the outside waiting for our turn to ‘get’ the hype. When it finally reached our shores, it became apparent that Black Panther, for Black China, would hold a significance unique to our experiences here. This article details what went down over Black Panther Weekend, how it sparked fruitful conversations on unity and helped us lay Vibranium bricks for more resilient bridges within our community.
Smashed expectations
In a mere three days over box office weekend in China, Black Panther earned $66.5 million, far surpassing Marvel’s projected $22.7 million. This occasion marks the first movie with a predominantly black cast approved for release in Chinese cinemas. Black Panther thus became the first opportunity for the black community in China to be represented en masse on the big screen – and boy did we relish it.
When China doesn’t give you premieres, Black people create their own
When the date for the US release of Black Panther was announced, there was much speculation in China about whether or not it would be making its way to our shores. Once news broke that it would, there was an instant drive to organize black groups to see it, much like that seen across the world. In the immediate aftermath of that disastrous CCTV sketch , against the backdrop of race-related scandals, and more positively with US Black History month having recently passed, Black Panther was a welcome and notable milestone for our community.
The Beijing premiere, organized by the amazing Rhianna Aaron of OPOPO had been in the works for close to a year. Innovative community-oriented groups such as Pan-Africans today in Xiamen, and Kairo in Shenyang also rolled out the red carpet for premieres in their respective cities (full photo album here).
Despite the black communities range of views on the movie itself, by all accounts there’s no disputing the electrifying energy generated by us coming together to watch Black Panther.
It quickly became clear that the appeal of Black Panther wasn’t exclusive to any one demographic within the community- Africans directly from the continent and members of her diaspora equally anticipated the chance to revel in Black excellence – something that by all accounts rarely happens in such unison.
Watching it at OPOPO’s Beijing premiere we shared exclamations of joy each time elements of our culture appeared on screen, and a chorus of laughter from the whole black community when Shuri called the CIA agent a ‘colonizer’ – an all too familiar reminder of the Western oppression that all black communities resent in equal measure.
Without factoring in the enjoyment common to black communities worldwide, the context of black life in China presented a unique point of departure that led to Black Panther becoming such a phenomenon here.
Black identity, Chinese backdrop
By opting to live in China, we’ve chosen a country with which most of us have no ancestral ties. China is neutral ground between all of us as black people – none of us are indigenous to it or feel a sense of ownership of it and so it serves as a place to meet in the middle. For those who may wish to, opportunities to integrate into mainstream society are few and far between. By virtue of the clear racial distinction between Han Chinese and black ethnicities, black people here are never assumed to be a part of China’s citizenry – there is no ‘passing’ as a Chinese person for members of the black community here, and as such we are visibly ‘other’ from the very start. This separation between many Black and Chinese people becomes even more pronounced due to language and cultural differences.
In China, there is an immense lack of opportunity to see ourselves accurately and respectfully portrayed in mainstream culture. Many of us in black communities across China feel we’ve been misrepresented one too many times in advertising, in news, and even in Chinese state media (CCTV Gala). There are those who also feel that even musical elements of some black cultures have come under attack.
These factors have arguably played a substantial role in allowing black communities to develop an insular focus in China, preferring by and large to prioritise building ties and encouraging dialogue between the numerous unique black identities here over doing the same with other more distant groups. This process was accelerated last weekend with the arrival of Black Panther in China. Yet while China does provide the perfect backdrop for such exercises of identity building, it is more the communities that it houses than the characteristics of its society that have contributed to the building of black unity.
Building Vibranium bridges of Blackness
WeChat groups are the WhatsApp group chats of Black China- and in the immediate aftermath of Black Panther, when everyone gathered around the proverbial fire for a debrief, raw and honest sentiments on the movie, what it represented and how it made us all feel were shared.
The Atlantic writes that Black Panther’s “…core theme is Pan-Africanism, a belief that no matter how seemingly distant black people’s lives and struggles are from each other, we are in a sense ‘cousins’ who bear a responsibility to help one another escape oppression”, a sentiment echoed by voices in the black community here.
Exemplifying the diversity of our community, Damian (an African-American residing in Ningbo) and Greis (a Congolese student in Wuhan) shared their thoughts on Black Panther’s relevance here. “I’ve witnessed first-hand the pain between Africans from the continent and her diaspora, this movie takes a much-needed step towards healing that divide,’’ Greis wrote. Damian stated that “I’d never felt more at ease publicly expressing my yearning to be accepted by the continent and its people – this was a major turning point for me that likely would not have happened without Black Panther.”
In an interview with Trevor Noah, Chadwick Boseman recognises this dynamic, stating that Black Panther “creates a story that we (all black people) share, and it’s the first time I feel like that’s ever happened… part of that is because you have these two characters (T’Challa and Erik) who have this collision and they have to go through each other and find out about each other, so even in fighting there is a sense of kinship among them.”
Several members of our community in China remarked on the complementarity of T’Challa and Erik’s approaches, a nod to the fact that despite the ending we saw in the film, black communities in China are open to putting our perspectives together and our differences aside.
On community and belonging
For many of us, China has been the first time we’ve been confronted with so many alternate versions of blackness – Africans, black Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos and more – different but the same, divided but connected, yet all unified by shared ancestral roots.
This proximity and the inability to surround oneself solely with those who reinforce our pre-existing identities brings us to tackle some, at times uncomfortable truths about our similarities, differences and the painful histories that have led to these realities.
This experience causes us to reassess things about our identity that we’d previously taken as gospel, and adopt identities that better reflect our evolving understanding of who we are, and to which communities we belong. The China experience has been instrumental in spurring this ongoing process of identity. Black communities in China rarely depart completely from our pre-existing identities, nor do we disregard our own individual cultures, but instead develop a heightened attachment to the elements amongst the wider black community that are universal. In practice, this always means an effort to forge closer ties with other black cultures we come into contact with – much in line with the Pan-African undertones of Black Panther.
Chimamanda once famously stated that she’d never realised she was black until she first set foot in America. Countless black people in China also started to define themselves in a different light having moved here and been exposed to previously unknown yet familiar black cultures.
The cultural theorist Stuart Hall explained the identity process as discussed above thoroughly when he theorized that identity, in particular, cultural identity “is a matter of ‘becoming’ as well as ‘being’. [They]…come from somewhere, have histories. But like everything which is historical, they undergo constant transformation.”
Identities show more about where we are in a specific historical moment. We have learnt what blackness has meant in China thanks to the work of people such as historian and author Aaliyah Bilal. Yet, as a community we find ourselves still grappling with the multi-faceted dimensions of black identity as they exist in China now. Part of Black Panther’s relevance to our community in this moment is the impetus its given us to have these uncensored and honest discussions internally. The growth and transformation of identity is inevitable. However, our power lies in directing the course of this process in a way that is conducive to the unity and progress we all desire.
Following this logic, and returning to the sentiments of Stuart Hall, to identify with blackness in China will mean different things as time progresses – for now though, the black community in China, spurred on by the Black Panther premiere weekend, has stated quite clearly and strongly what it is – beauty, excellence, and the compatibility of unity and diversity.
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Guyanese scholar, activist and author of ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ Walter Rodney once tasked those who consider themselves Pan-Africanists with three main responsibilities. ‘To talk about Pan-Africanism’, he tells us, ‘is to talk about international solidarity within the black world…whichever sector of the black world we live in, we have a series of responsibilities. One of the most important is to define our own situation. A second responsibility is to present that definition to the other parts of the black world…A third responsibility…is to help others in a different section of the black world to reflect on their own specific experience’.
Rodney reminds us that open communication between black communities across the world is crucial to the Pan-African vision, and furthermore that we should not allow ourselves to be limited by borders and geographical confines. We should be reminded that the movement does, and indeed always has transcended these things.
Whether or not we decide to subscribe to the principles of Pan-Africanism, they can serve as an important reminder and lesson that we can take and apply to our own predicament as black people both in China and on a wider scale across the world.
Black Livity China was created with the belief that we should extend these responsibilities to ourselves and our communities; ‘to define our own situation…to present that definition to the other parts of the black world…and to help others in a different section of the black world to reflect on their own specific experience’.
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Discogs Mix 78 – Elon
“Love what you do, and do what you love” is the motto that led Elon into music from a young age. Firstly, he played guitar, bass, and he even dared to sing for his own band back in his wild teenage days in Tel Aviv. Furthermore, he was a young motivated artist who wanted to break every rule. He also worked as a sound engineer until he moved to the Big Apple, New York City, in 2001 and found himself deep into electronic dance music.
Since then, he’s released dozens of records and remixes and has had the pleasure to play on five continents. Many notable DJs have played his music. His discography includes collaborations with KiNK, Dario Zenker, Maceo Plex, Alexi Delano, and Pattern Drama to name a few.
Further, Elon has played several influential roles in shaping New York’s vibrant underground music scene, developing the ReSolute Label in 2007 to provide a special draggy experience to the young lost kids of Brooklyn. He’s organized some of the most cutting edge underground events including his own brand, KOLEKTi in 2014, with the aim to bring together organic and Electronic music into one place.
Currently, Elon has several releases lined up. The 10th release on his ReSolute Label, The Nest EP, is a collaboration with friends, with all of the music created in studio.
A perfectionist in the studio as well as in his sets, Elon constantly seeks to showcase sophistication and details in style and sound, and has always believed that quality is paramount over quantity. Above all, he will never sell out and always will stay true.
The mix is the first part of a recording on April 1st, 2018 at the Panther Room (Output, NY). I played with Juan MacLean an eclectic set, starting with some Trip Hop all the way into Deep House. I used two Technics, 1 CDJ 2000Nexus, SoundBITE Pro DJ Loop, and a Rane 2016 rotary mixer. — Elon
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11. Moodymann – Mahogany Brown [36:10]
12. Doc L Junior – Dub Power [40:40]
13. Seafoam – Deaf Child [44:28]
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15. Solid Gold Playaz – Movements of Venus [53:37]
16. Seafoam – Dirty Sex [59:43]
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Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other living composer to connect contemporary music with wider audiences. His operas, orchestral pieces and chamber works have already stood the test of repeated performances, productions and continued critical acclaim.
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In conversation with Tom Service - the writer with whom he has had the closest relationship in his career - Ades opens up for the first time about how he creates his music, where it comes from, and what it means. In these provocative and challenging interviews, Ades connects his music with influences from a huge historical and cultural spectrum - from Sephardic Jewish folk music to 80s electronica, from the films of Luis Bunuel and pre-Columbian art to the soundtracks of Al-Qaeda training videos - and offers a unique insight into the crucible of his composition.
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Sonic the Hedgehog movie is getting delayed to redesign the title character
To say that reaction to the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer was mixed would be overly diplomatic. But at least fans were able to look beyond the thin premise and bizarre Jim Carrey turn for long enough to focus on what was really important: the weird ass Sonic design.
The latest in an increasingly frequent number of wins for internet commenters, director Jeff Fowler balked earlier this month, telling Twitter, “you aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen.” Looks like Fowler and Paramount are going ahead with the changes, but it’s going to take the speedy blue fur ball a few months longer to get here than initially expected.
Once again, Fowler announced the big news on Twitter, writing, “Taking a little more time to make Sonic just right.” That tweet was accompanied by a new Valentine’s release date for the film, a three month delay of the original timeframe. Given that it’s already taken the beloved video game hero nearly 30 years to get to the big screen, what’s another couple of months, really?
Hopefully it will be enough time to hop cleanly over the uncanny valley.
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Cate Blanchett Pic ‘Manifesto’ Sells To FilmRise
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FilmRise has acquired North American distribution rights to Manifesto, the Julian Rosefeldt film that just bowed at the Sundance Film Festival. A mid-2017 release date is in the works, and the film will land on Amazon Prime Video later this year.
Blanchett plays 13 separate characters —from an anchorwoman to a homeless man—performing monologues that incorporate manifestos from 20th century art movements. Before it was a feature film, Rosefeldt debuted the project at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as an art installation, where various characters and scenes were simultaneously displayed on 13 screens.
The Amazon deal came under the Amazon Video Direct’s Film Festival Stars program, through which FilmRise will receive an upfront cash bonus which could be applied toward supporting the film’s upcoming release, and will earn double the standard Amazon Video Direct per-hour royalty rate for the pic.
The deal was negotiated between FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher and VP Acquisitions Max Einhorn with Thania Dimitrakopoulou of The Match Factory. [Source]
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HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA - AUGUST 06: Actress Maggie Grace arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Screen Media Films' 'About Alex' held at ArcLight Hollywood on August 6, 2014 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Celebrity Monitor)
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Centerville Varsity Boys Lacrosse
Overall Record: 15 - 6
Multiple Teams · Jun 11 Time Running Out to Order Bricks for Walkway of Champions
Placing a brick on the Walkway of Champions, the path from the bell tower to the football stadium, is a great gift for that graduating senior or CHS alum in your house to honor their time here as a varsity athlete. In order to be recognized with a brick on the Walkway, the recipient must
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 24 Boys Lacrosse Season Ends in Heartbreaking Fashion
The historic boys lacrosse season came to a crashing halt on Tuesday night in the Regional Semifinals in Columbus. The 4th seeded Elks made the long trip to Worthington to face the 2nd seeded Gray Wolves from Kilbourne High School. The Elks knew they would have to bring their A game and did just that
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 15 Elks Stun Panthers in Closing Seconds
Much like the girls lacrosse team, the boys team recently completed the best regular season in school history at 13-5 which earned them their first ever state tournament home game tonight. Just like the girls, the Hilliard Darby Panthers were standing on the opposing sideline aiming to end the Elks’ season. In the first quarter,
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 13 Boys Lacrosse Wins on Senior Night
The varsity boys lacrosse team has enjoyed what has arguably been the best regular season in school history so far this year and they wanted to send this year’s senior class out in style with a win over Lebanon on Friday night. Tabbed “The Dirty Dozen” by their head coach, Troy Stehlin, this group of
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 7 Boys Lacrosse Snaps Losing Skid
The varsity boys lacrosse team sprinted out of the gates this year and raced to an 11-1 record to start the year. Lately, they have been embroiled in a four-game losing streak where they dropped a two-goal game and three one-goal games. They welcomed the Kings Knights to Alumni Stadium tonight trying to get back
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 6 Boys Lacrosse Drops Close Game at Olentangy Orange
The stretch of close games for the boys lacrosse team continued into this weekend as they traveled to Olentangy Orange High School. Following the long bus ride and the emotional defeat from the previous night at Lakota West, the Elks knew they would be in for a tough game and would have to overcome their
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · May 6 Firebirds Edge Elks in “Battle for the Paddle”
The boys lacrosse teams at Centerville and Lakota West High Schools staged their annual “Battle for the Paddle” game on Friday night at Lakota West High School. This is always an emotional game, but this year that emotion was taken to an even higher level as the Firebirds celebrated their Senior Night prior to the
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · Apr 29 New Albany Edges Boys Lacrosse
The varsity boys lacrosse team traveled to New Albany High School on Saturday afternoon to take on the Eagles in a highly anticipated region 3 showdown. The Eagles came in ranked one spot ahead of the Elks in the region so everyone anticipated a good game. The Eagles have been one of the Columbus area’s
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · Apr 25 Boys Lacrosse Falls at Elder
The boys varsity track team traveled to the famed Pit last night at Elder High School to tangle with the Panthers. The Elks came in red hot on a ten-game winning streak, but knew they were in for a big test with one of Cincinnati’s traditional powerhouses. In what turned out to be a low-scoring,
Varsity Boys Lacrosse · Apr 23 Boys Lacrosse Wins Big on Staff Appreciation Night
The varsity boys lacrosse team returned to action after nine days off last night when they hosted the Bellbrook Golden Eagles on Staff Appreciation Night at Alumni Stadium. The large crowd who turned out for the game was treated to another outstanding performance by the team who continued their
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Engineer V / City Traffic Engineer
City of Chesapeake Public Works
: $78,510 - $108,000 (base s
Civil - Traffic Engineering, Civil Engineering
The City of Chesapeake Public Works Department, Traffic Engineering & Operations Division is currently accepting applications for a full-time Engineer V / City Traffic Engineer position.
Job Description: This position provides leadership to the Traffic Engineering & Operations Section, including operation of the City's Traffic Management Center. Duties include, but are not limited to:
Oversees traffic engineering functions such as traffic engineering and highway improvement programs, customer service efforts, traffic engineering review of new development and city projects, studies of ongoing operational traffic issues or roadway safety studies/Road Safety Audits. Position will oversee all citizen requests for traffic engineering services, preparation of engineering studies, and issuance of work orders to the sign and signal shop or contract for implementation.
Represents the City at Hampton Roads Transportation Technical Advisory Committee, Regional Traffic Operations Committee, and Bicycle and Trails Citizens Committee.
Negotiates and administers engineering and construction contracts, such as an on-call traffic engineering consulting service contract. Position is also responsible for all traffic signal and ITS/TMC system installations by contract and other VDOT hazard elimination grant safety projects.
Evaluates and approves all traffic control devices used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic that are placed along city streets and highways. Ensures substantial conformance with standards issued by FHWA in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), VDOT, or regulated by per city code.
Develops and oversees the implementation of policies and procedures to ensure flow of operations and accomplishments of goals. Assists in the preparation of the division's operating budget. Supervises subordinate personnel within section.
Oversees transportation planning functions to include revisions to the City's Master Transportation Plan (MTP), collection of traffic and roadway safety data, submission and administration of grants for various transportation programs; including VDOT Hazard Elimination Grant, RTSP, and CMAQ grants, and coordination with Hampton Roads Transit bus service and the various railroad lines that operate in our city.
Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering or a closely related field. Master's Degree and managerial experience in traffic engineering in a municipal or state setting preferred. This position requires a minimum of ten years of related, full-time equivalent experience.
Requires a licensed Professional Engineer with a broad exposure to traffic engineering practices and principles. Requires a valid driver's license and driving record that is in compliance with City Driving Standards.
About City of Chesapeake Public Works
Provides design, review, inspection, and approval of construction plans for transportation, bridges, stormwater, and VDOT grant projects. Provides engineering consulting to various city departments in-house or by contract.
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Salman Khan’s Sultan has declared Tax Free in Uttar Pradesh before Release
Before the Release, UP Government has declared Sultan Tax Free!
Salman Khan as Sultan Ali Khan in ‘Sultan’
Salman Khan starrer sports-drama movie Sultan is being shot in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh these days and scheduled to release on EID this year. Still more than two months are there for its release and the UP government has declared it tax free in the state. This is another good news for the team after the postponement of Shahrukh Khan’s Raees. Earlier both the movie were supposed to clash on EID but after discussions, Shahrukh decided to push his movie back, most likely to next year.
Still there is no official confirmation from Red Chillies Entertainment but as per sources Shahrukh has been hunting for the next festival/holiday date for the release of Raees and due to unavailability he has to go for 26 January 2017, which is also not clear yet as Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil is already announced for the same day.
Salman Khan shoots for ‘Sultan’ in Muzaffarnagar, UP.
The state minister and the MLA of Samajwadi Party Shri. Madan Chauhan told Amar Ujala, that the idea of exempting entertainment tax from Sultan, is to encourage filmmakers to their movie in the state. He said, “filmmakers will get complete support from the state government if they decided to shoot in Uttar Pradesh. Sultan gets tax exemption because it has shot here,”. “The film will get the tax benefit not just at the multiplexes but we will come up with a special scheme even for single screen theaters also.”- he added.
Sultan is sports-drama movie follows the story of Haryana based wrestler Sultan Ali Khan, who faces problems in his professional as well as personal life. It must not be false, to tag it as the most awaited movie of 2016. Not only Salman’s fans but all Bollywood fans are excited for this movie. Sultan is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and backed by Yash Raj Films. YRF’s recent offering Fan has not raked much at box office but everyone is sure about the earth shattering performance of this upcoming movie Sultan.
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SHOKRAN Release 3rd Full Length Album, ‘Ethereal’
Progressive Metal Band SHOKRAN has released their newest full length album, ETHEREAL. Released on February 8th, Ethereal immediately blew fans away, debuting at #2 on the U.S iTunes Top 100 Heavy metal Albums.
“It’s been a while since our last release, *Exodus*. We took our time, we honed our musical skills, and we are very proud of the end result! Our new CD, Ethereal is the most mature and complex album in the history of Shokran, we set out to deliver those next level feels” – Shokran
1. Unbodied
2. Nature of the Paradox
3. Shadows
4. Ascention
5. Conquerors
6. Superior
7. Golden Pendant
8. Ethereal
9. Faces Behind the Stars
10. Destiny Crucified
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Shokran started as a Groove/Djent/Oriental Metal solo project by Dmitry Demyanenko in 2012, with the debut EP Sixth Sense. In 2014, the solo project transformed into a full-time band, and Shokran released its debut album Supreme Truth followed by extensive Russian tours & critical acclaim. As the group found their footing, there was a change in the line-up, and they were joined by their current singer, Andrew Ivashchenko, and bass player Valery Yushkevich.
The band was set to release their 2nd album entitled Exodus in 2015 but delayed the release after receiving interest from several record labels including Sumerian Records. During the negotiations, no agreements were ultimately reached, and the band decided to release Exodus on their own in September 2016. It was a conceptual work, that describes the 10 Plagues of Egypt, each song on Exodus tells about each Plague. The record took the band to an altogether higher level. Shokran gained new fans around the world, reunited with their original bass player Rodion Shevchenko, completed several more tours and began to compose their latest album ETHEREAL, which was released on February 8th, 2019 and debuted #2 on the U.S iTunes Top 100 Heavy metal albums.
Catch SHOKRAN LIVE:
05/11 – Graz (AUS)
05/12 – Viena (AUS)
05/17 – Vicenza (IT)
05/18 – Rome (IT)
05/19 – Milan (IT)
05/21 – Zurich (CH)
05/25 – Valencia (ES)
05/26 – Madrid (ES)
05/30 – Paris (FR)
09/27 – Euroblast Fest(GER)
U.S TOUR DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY
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MIDNITE HELLION to Join OTEP on Select Dates of THE ART OF DISSENT TOUR!
NJ based Heavy Metal band MIDNITE HELLION have announced that they will be joining OTEP. The trio will be joining the tour on December 18 at Spicoli’s Reverb – Live Music and Bar Arcade in Waterloo, IA and will continue through December 23 at Liquid Joe’s in Salt Lake City, UT. Midnite Hellion will also be performing with FATAL PORTRAIT and FLOTSAM & JETSAM at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ in the future.
“We are extremely honored to be supporting OTEP on “The Art of Dissent” tour. Having first been introduced to OTEP when they played New Jersey on their Ozzfest run in 2001, it’s incredible to come full-circle to now be on tour with them! We’re looking forward to Rippin’ It Up with all of you next month – look for Midnite Hellion coming to a city near you!” – Midnite Hellion
12/18 @ Spicoli’s – Waterloo, IA *
12/19 @ The Royal Grove – Lincoln, NE *
12/20 @ Moxi Theater – Greeley, CO *
12/21 @ Herman’s Hideaway – Denver, CO *
12/22 @ Sunshine Studios Live – Colorado Springs, CO *
12/23 @ Liquid Joe’s – Salt Lake City, UT *
12/29 @ Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ ^
05/23 @ Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ ^^
* w/ OTEP
^ w/ FATAL PORTRAIT
^^ w/ FLOTSAM & JETSAM
Click for Additional Dates & Ticketing Info
The New Jersey-based Midnite Hellion is the epitome of die-hard DIY work ethic. The metal trio is pushing the envelope musically and has hard earned the reputation of a must-see live act. The band consists of seasoned musicians that have come together and created the monster now known as Midnite Hellion.
The band’s full-length Condemned To Hell among several other releases have been well received by both the press and the listeners. It’s evident that these guys mean business. The band continues to write for the next release and play select regional dates. They have toured and supported many nationals including EXODUS, OBITUARY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, OVERKILL, PRONG, and MUNICIPAL WASTE to name a few.
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PRONG Releases Official Music Video for “Forced Into Tolerance”!
American Power Trio PRONG has premiered the official music video for “Forced Into Tolerance,” off of their 2017 released Zero Dayson Blabbermouth.
“Prong is happy to team with Blabbermouth to premiere the video for “Forced Into Tolerance “ from our latest album “Zero Days”! It represents the no frills, “in your face” relentlessness of the track. It’s our response to being told what to think and believe by everyone. Enjoy!” – Tommy Victor
PRONG has also announced the continuation of their ZERO DAYS TOUR with a series of West Coast dates alongside POWERFLO. After a solid year of touring with the likes of Testament, Obituary, Sepultura, and Exodus, as well as filling key slots on the European Summer Festival Circuit, the band now brings it back home to the states, including a highly coveted, co-headlining run with HELMET.
Pioneers of the alternative metal genre, PRONG have continued to re-invent themselves by challenging the status quo every step they take, as seen on their 2017 release, Zero Days.
Distilling hip-hop, heavy metal, punk, and rock into a potent sonic strain, POWERFLO lives up to its name. The vision of GRAMMY Award-nominated Cypress Hill spitter Sen Dog, downset. guitarist Rogelio “Ray” Lozano, Biohazard vocalist and guitarist Billy Graziadei and ex-Fear Factory bassist Cristian Olde Wolbers, the band draws on thie powerhouse pedigree to collectively smash boundaries with their 2017 self-titled debut.
“Prong is absolutely ecstatic about this upcoming, quick West Coast run with POWERFLO. We are very happy to announce this run of shows with these guys. It really makes a lot of sense: two hard hitting bands whose members have a great history together! It seems to me that the shows are going to be high energy and intense!” – Tommy Victor
PRONG with POWERFLO & Special Guests:
03/29 @ Club Red – Phoenix, AZ
03/30 @ Slidebar – Fullerton, CA
03/31 @ Slims – San Francisco, CA
04/02 @ The Ritz – San Jose, CA
04/03 @ Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
04/04 @ Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR
04/07 @ Backstage Bar – Las Vegas, NV
04/08 @ Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA
Click HERE for Additional Tour Dates as They’re Announced!
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HEMLOCK Announce 25 Year Anniversary Tour with SevidemiC!
Las Vegas based Metal band HEMLOCK has announced dates for their 25th Anniversary Tour launching April 20th in Joseph, MO. Joined by SevidemiC through June 22, the tour winds through North America before concluding on July 21st in Dulce, NM. Additional dates to be announced.
HEMLOCK “25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR” Dates:
04/20 @ Cafe Acoustic – St. Joseph, MO *
04/21 @ Peak 31 in Union Station – Colorado Springs, CO *
04/22 @ The Roxy Theater – Denver, CO *
04/23 @ Lupe’s Lounge in Trujillos – Las Vegas, NM *
04/24 @ Zombiez Bar – Amarillo, TX *
04/25 @ Kendell’s – Oklahoma City, OK *
04/26 @ Stick’s Place – Wichita Falls, TX *
04/27 @ The Curtain Club – Dallas, TX *
04/28 @ Backstage – Lubbock, TX *
05/01 @ The RockHouse – El Paso, TX *
05/02 @ The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM *
05/03 @ Juggernaut Music – Gallup, NM *
05/04 @ The Orpheum Theater – Flagstaff, AZ *
05/05 @ Backstage Bar & Billiards – Las Vegas, NV *
05/06 @ The Hub – Colton, CA *
05/11 @ The Rock – Tucson, AZ *
05/12 @ Club Red – Mesa, AZ *
05/13 @ Brick by Brick – San Diego, CA *
05/15 @ The Slide bar – Fullerton, CA *
05/16 @ TBA – Taft, CA *
05/17 @ The Blue Lamp – Sacramento, CA *
05/18 @ Jubs Jub’s – Reno, NV *
05/19 @ Ukiah Brewing Company – Ukiah, CA *
05/20 @ The Bistro – Hayward, CA *
05/23 @ Shotski’s – Salem, OR *
05/24 @ Community Center – Warm Springs, OR *
05/25 @ The Eagles 2485 – Kennewick, WA *
05/26 @ Studio 7 – Seattle, WA *
05/27 @ The Pin – Spokane, WA *
05/30 @ The Dark Horse – Missoula, MT *
05/31 @ The Pub Station – Billings, MT *
06/01 @ The DO Bar – Great Falls, MT *
06/02 @ The Party Palace – Butte, MT *
06/06 @ The Gem – Idaho Falls, ID *
06/07 @ Diamondz Event Center – Jerome, ID *
06/08 @ The Royal – Salt Lake City, UT *
06/09 @ The Mesa Theater- Grand Junction, CO *
06/10 @ Bombers Sports Bar – Riverton, WY *
06/11 @ Elk Creek Steakhouse – Piedmont, SD *
06/13 @ The Marquee – Sioux City, IA *
06/14 @ Bigs Bar – Sioux Falls, SD *
06/15 @ The Lookout Lounge – Omaha, NE *
06/16 @ Aftershocks – Merriam, KS *
06/22 @ The Rusty Needle – Hutchinson, KS *
06/23 @ Lefty’s Live – Des Moines, IA
07/05 @ The Bourbon Theater – Lincoln, NE
07/06 @ Shotz Bar and Grill – Scottsbluff, NE
07/07 @ My Buddys Place – Sheridan, WY
07/08 @ The Eagles Club – Casper, WY
07/13 @ Bottle Hollow Lake Marina – Ft.Duchesne, UT
07/14 @ Stanley’s Triangle Bar – Mt.Pleasant, UT
07/18 @ The Legacy Inn – Tuba City, AZ
07/20 @ President Parking Lot – Window Rock, AZ
07/21 @ “Alien Fest” – Dulce, NM
* W/ SevidemiC
Click HERE for Date Additions & Ticketing Information!
Click HERE to Download Hemlock’s Music on iTunes!
Our band is Hemlock. We are based out of Las Vegas, NV. Although our real home in on the road continuing to carve a name for ourselves in the world of metal music.
We have performed and toured with Slayer, Korn, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Lamb of God, Slipknot, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, Hatebreed, Pro-Pain, Obituary, Mastadon, Snot, Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Drowning Pool, System of a Down, Machine Head, Otep, Megadeth, Soulfly, Danzig, Devildriver, Sepultura, Meshuggah, Sevendust, Hed(pe), Exodus, Arch Enemy, and tons and tons more. We have also done our own headlining/co-headlining tours across the US for the past several years. Hemlock has also toured throughout Europe and Japan. We tour about 150-200 days out of the year.
Hemlock has already established themselves as a hard working, touring band with a loyal and expanding fan base. The ‘Lock continues setting examples for bands to work hard towards their goals and not to wait around for a handout from the industry.
…we consider this a new beginning. The beginning of much more hard work and promotion to come. We still work as hard as we can on self-promotion, doing as much as we can on our own, adding to what the street team and sponsors can do for us.
Hemlock is a good, heavy, brutal onslaught of metal, with an arsenal of catchy lyrics, creative breakdowns, and melodic hooks. The live shows are fun, rowdy, and energetic. Hemlock gets the crowd involved and puts on the show of a lifetime, every time.
You can keep up with the band through the official website–www.hemlockworld.com–or www.facebook.com/hemlockworld, & check out upcoming shows, chat on the messageboard, see pictures of the band, and read about the adventures on the road. You can order Hemlock merchandise from the website and join the street team. Hemlock will also keep you updated via their mailing list, so sign up at the next show!
Hemlock is the hardest working, up and coming metal band in the entire US, and they will continue to do it all of the love of the music and the fans.
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PRONG Announces ZERO DAYS 2018 West Coast Tour Dates with POWERFLO
American Power Trio PRONG has announced the continuation of their ZERO DAYS TOUR with a series of West Coast dates alongside POWERFLO. After a solid year of touring with the likes of Testament, Obituary, Sepultura, and Exodus, as well as filling key slots on the European Summer Festival Circuit, the band now brings it back home to the states, including a highly coveted, co-headlining run with HELMET.
“From the start, it’s clear why Prong have made such an impression on the music scene. They have a sound bigger than the sum of the three people on stage, and they know how to use it. It’s like someone has weaponised metal, and they’re using the audience for aural target practice. It’s impressive, and it’s also really, really fucking good” – Outline Online UK
By the time PRONG had signed to Epic Records in 1989, the New York City post-metal triumvirate had already accomplished a lot. The band, formed by guitarist and vocalist Tommy Victor, sound-man at the legendary club CBGB’salong with the club’s doorman Mike Kirkland and ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons had already released two independent records: the Primitive OriginsEP (1987) and Force Fed (1988).
A show at the old Ritz in New York with New York hardcore legends Cro-Magsand German thrashers Destruction was what sealed a deal with Epic Records. “Signing with a major label was very much a matter of survival,” Victor explained to Britain’s Kerrang! magazine in 1990. “We aren’t high school kids living with our parents.” Survive and thrive was more like it for PRONG. 1990’s Beg To Differ became an instant genre classic. Songs like the epic title track or the tightly disciplined and sonically dynamic Lost and Found further carved out the band’s innovative deconstruction of metal’s excesses.
“We never saw ourselves as just a metal band,” stated Victor. “Our riffs, lyrics and ideas were minimal but conveyed everything we felt and everything we saw going on around us living in New York City in the 80’s. A lot of what I had to say was pretty reactionary. Disneyland hadn’t moved in yet.”
Over the course of their next three major label releases: Prove You Wrong, (1991) Cleansing (1994) and Rude Awakening (1996), PRONG charted an innovative course. It was actually the Whose Fist Is This Anyway?-EP that ushered in PRONG’s best-known era. The EP was comprised of five remixes from the Prove You Wrong album: introducing a heavier groove and experiments in electronics that gave rise to PRONG’s best known and best selling work:Cleansing.
“We saw where we felt things in metal and hardcore could go and we rolled the dice a bit,” says Tommy of the band’s watershed release. With keyboardist John Bechdel and former Killing Joke bassist Paul Raven, Cleansingcemented PRONG’s position as a mainstream metal mainstay. The album’s single “Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck” has been up there in the top 100 riffs ever in Kerrang! After years of toiling on the fringes – propelled by touring with the likes of White Zombie and Pantera – PRONG had arrived.
Rude Awakening was a natural follow-up. Informed by classic post-punk influences like Killing Joke and like-minded Brits Head of David, it showcased PRONG’s continued move into more industrial territory. From the jarring lead song “Controller” to the sweeping chords of the title track, it was PRONG’s most mature and fulfilled work to date. It was also to be PRONG’s last for Epic. The band and label parted ways just weeks after the album’s release. The history of PRONG has cast a long shadow – bands like Korn, Slipknot, and Nine Inch Nails openly acknowledge their influence.
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Conservation, Land and...
Conservation, Land and Nomadic Pastoralism: Seeking Solutions in the Wadi ʿAraba of Jordan
in Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Alan Rowe
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Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa
Entering the 21st Century
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 81
Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa Facing the 21st Century
The Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Last Battles of the Bedouin and the Rise of Modern States in Northern Arabia: 1850-1950
The Political Economy of Middle Eastern and North African Pastoral Nomads
Individuals, Factions and Tribes among Moorish Societies
Are There Still Tribes in Morocco?
From the Disappearance of ‘Tribes’ to Reawakening of the Tribal Feeling: Strategies of State among the Formerly Nomadic Bidān (Arabophone) of Mauritania
Counting Votes That Do Not Count: Negev Bedouin and the Knesset Elections of May 17 1999, Rahat, Israel
Readapting the Gabīla: The Ahāmda Pastoralists of Central Sudan and the State ‘Tribal Federalism’ Politics in the mid-1990S
Customary Law Among the Bedouin of the Middle East and North Africa
Legal Traditions and State-Centered Law: Drawing From Tribal and Customary Law Cases of Yemen and Egypt
The Settlement of Pastoral Nomads in the Arab Middle East: International Organizations and Trends in Development Policies, 1950-1990
Integration Into Modernity: Some Tribal Rural Societies in the Bilād ash-Shām
New Homes, New Occupations, New Pastoralism: Al Murrah Bedouin, 1968-2003
Coping with Shrinking Spaces: the Ait Unzār Pastoralists of South-Eastern Morocco
Forced Migration, Sedentarization and Social Change: Malian Kel Tamasheq
Uncertain Livelihoods: Challenges Facing Herding in a Lebanese Village
Multinational Oil Exploitation and Social Investment: Mobile Pastoralists in the Sultanate of Oman
Language and Identity: The Perpetuation of Dialects
Art and Generosity: Thoughts on the Aesthetic Perceptions OF THE ʿarab
Facing Change in Arabia: The Bedouin Community and the Notion of Development
Government Interventions and Pastoral Accommodations: Social and Economic Adaptation to Change in Agricultural Policy in Jordan’s Bādiya
Land and Identity among Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin: Egypt’s
A Nomadic Fight against Immobility: the Tuareg in the Modern State
Sustainable Nomadism: The Case of the Algerian Tuareg
Desert Tourism as a Substitute for Pastoralism? Tuareg in Algeria and Bedouin in Jordan
Assumptions of Degradation and Misuse: The Bedouin in the Syrian Bādiya
Guidelines for the Involvement of Nomadic Pastoralists in Conservation and Development Efforts
Integration, Modernization, and Resistance: Qashqaʾi Nomads in Iran Since the Revolution of 1978-1979
Adaptation of Bedouin in Saudi Arabia to the 21st Century: Mobility and Stasis among the Shararat
A Century of Education: Bedouin Contestation with Formal Education in Israel
Women’s Roles, Polygyny and Cultural Transformation in Negev Bedouin Townships: A Gendered Landscape of National Resistance to Post-Colonial Conquest and Control
Sedentarization and Changing Patterns of Social Organization amongst the Tuareg of Algeria
Heroic Faces, Disruptive Deeds: Remembering the Tribal Shaykh on the Syrian Euphrates
Permanent Values in a Changing World: Bedouin Women’s Tales from North-East Syria
The Inappropriable Voice: Introducing Bedouin Women’s Oral Poetry from the Arabian Peninsula
Cassettes and the Shifting Politics of Awlad ‘Ali Love Poetry
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A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.
Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East, A Bibliography, Volume 2 Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East 1988-1992
Author: Strijp
During the last two decades, the number of anthropologists conducting research in the Middle East has increased considerably. Together they have produced an abundance of valuable studies, often based on prolonged periods of ethnographic fieldwork. Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East. A Bibliography offers a comprehensive survey of their results. The first volume, published in 1992, covered publications which appeared between 1965 and 1987. The second volume brings the bibliography further up to date, listing publications between 1988 and 1992, and adds some 260 titles which were published up through 1987. As in the first volume, the majority of the titles are annotated.
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 1
Editors: Jorgen Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašic, Brigitte Maréchal and Christian Moe
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an up-to-date account of the situation of Muslims in Europe. Covering 37 countries of western, central and south-eastern Europe, the Yearbook consists of three sections: the first section presents a country-by-country summary of essential data with basic statistics with evaluations of their reliability, surveys of legal status and arrangements, organizations, etc. providing an annually up-dated reference resource. The second section contains analysis and research articles on issues and themes of current relevance written by experts in the field. The final section provides reviews of recently published books of significance.
The Yearbook is an important source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, and policy makers as well as researchers.
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The Inimitable Qurʾān
Some Problems in English Translations of the Qurʾān with Reference to Rhetorical Features
Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān
Khalid Yahya Blankinship
In The Inimitable Qurʾān: Some Problems in English Translations of the Qurʾān with Reference to Rhetorical Features, Khalid Yahya Blankinship examines certain Arabic rhetorical features of the Qurʾān as represented in seven English translations. The author addresses the intersection of two important topics in Qurʾānic studies: the critique of the available English translations and the role of rhetoric in the interpretation of the Qurʾān. He identifies a number of figures characteristic of Qurʾanic style which represent some of the chief stumbling blocks for readers who are used to English in attempting to understand, interpret, and appreciate the text. The book should be useful to all those interested in rhetorical and translation studies and theory as well as Islamic studies.
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The Mandate of Heaven
Strategy, Revolution, and the First European Translation of 'Sunzi’s Art of War' (1772)
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Adam Parr
The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi’s Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in France with the aim of demonstrating the value of the China mission to the French government. He addressed his work to Henri Bertin, minister of state, beginning a thirty-year correspondence between the two men. Amiot framed his translation in order to promote a radical agenda using the Chinese doctrine of the “mandate of heaven.” This was picked up within the sinophile and radical circle of the physiocrats, who promoted China as a model for revolution in Europe. The work also arrived just as the concept of strategy was emerging in France. Thus Amiot’s Sunzi can be placed among seminal developments in European political and strategic thought on the eve of the revolutionary era.
Ranks of the Divine Seekers: A Translation of Madārij al-Sālikīn bayna manāzil iyyāka naʿbudu wa-iyyāka nastaʿīn by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 750/1351)
Edited by Ovamir Anjum
This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Qur’anic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master’s instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one’s self ( fanā’) and subsist ( baqā’) in God. The translator, Ovamir (ʿUwaymir) Anjum, provides an extensive introduction and annotation to this English-Arabic face-to-face presentation of this masterpiece of Islamic psychology.
Hundred Days’ Literature
Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910
East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture
Lorenzo Andolfatto
In Hundred Days’ Literature, Lorenzo Andolfatto explores the landscape of early modern Chinese fiction through the lens of the utopian novel, casting new light on some of its most peculiar yet often overshadowed literary specimens. The wutuobang or lixiang xiaoshuo, by virtue of its ideally totalizing perspective, provides a one-of-a-kind critical tool for the understanding of late imperial China’s fragmented Zeitgeist. Building upon rigorous close reading and solid theoretical foundations, Hundred Days’ Literature offers the reader a transcultural critical itinerary that links Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward to Wu Jianren’s Xin Shitou ji via the writings of Liang Qichao, Chen Tianhua, Bihe Guanzhuren, and Lu Shi’e. The book also includes the first English translation of Cai Yuanpei’s short story “New Year’s Dream.”
Shakespeare as German Author
Reception, Translation Theory, and Cultural Transfer
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik
Edited by John A. McCarthy
Shakespeare as German Author, edited by John McCarthy, revisits in particular the formative phase of German Shakespeare reception 1760-1830. Following a detailed introduction to the historical and theoretical parameters of an era in search of its own literary voice, six case studies examine Shakespeare’s catalytic role in reshaping German aesthetics and stage production. They illuminate what German speakers found so appealing (or off-putting) about Shakespeare’s spirit, consider how translating it nurtured new linguistic and aesthetic sensibilities, and reflect on its relationship to German Geist through translation and cultural transfer theory. In the process, they shed new light, e.g., on the rise of Hamlet to canonical status, the role of women translators, and why Titus Andronicus proved so influential in twentieth-century theater performance.
Contributors are: Lisa Beesley, Astrid Dröse, Johanna Hörnig, Till Kinzel, John A. McCarthy, Curtis L. Maughan, Monika Nenon, Christine Nilsson.
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Coleman easily re-elected as St. Paul mayor, stresses education
St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman easily won re-election to his third term Tuesday.
Coleman, 51, is "poised to join a select fraternity of St. Paul's longest-serving mayors," the Pioneer Press noted, after cruising to a win with 78 percent of the vote in a race that was never in question.
His closest rival was real estate agent Tim Holden, who had 16 percent of the vote after hammering Coleman's leadership and criticizing the publicly-subsidized Lowertown minor league ballpark project and the development of the new $957 million Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line.
MPR News reported that among Coleman's comments Tuesday night was, “We’ve been beaten down by seven years of a really tough economy. We had a mortgage foreclosure crisis that didn’t allow us to do some of the things we wanted to do in our neighborhoods to make sure that our neighborhoods were strong. We got obviously a lot families in crisis that we’re going to continue to work with particularly around education issues. We got a Ford site, 130 acres of development opportunity. So there’s definitely a full plate for the next four years.”
Coleman, long focused on economic growth in the city and downtown development, in a press release said his top priorities in a third term would be "closing the achievement gap, neighborhood success and economic prosperity."
He also said he would put a special emphasis on education, the Pioneer Press reported. Coleman said the nation's urban mayors should play a higher-profile role in school issues.
Coleman is expected to be appointed president of the National League of Cities this month and he has already put together a team of mayors to lobby federal leaders on school reform, specifically on early learning and college readiness programs, the Pioneer Press notes. Coleman and the task force met with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in July.
Overshadowed by a more widely watched Minneapolis mayoral race, St. Paul's race mostly received little media coverage, although a candidate debate punctuated by a number of odd moments garnered national attention. The debate included two other candidates who did not wage active campaigns, perennial candidate Sharon Anderson and street maintenance worker Kurt Dornfeld.
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Council overrules mayor's veto, hours extended at seven St. Paul libraries
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November 13, 2017 / 4:39 AM / 2 years ago
UPDATE 2-India RCom's loss, missed payments send shares plunging to record low
* RCom says failed to make interest payments on 2 debentures
* Shares fall as much as 14.2 percent
* RCom has a reprieve on payments to lenders until Dec. 2018 (Updates shares; Adds bonds and background)
By Sankalp Phartiyal and Devidutta Tripathy
MUMBAI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - India’s Reliance Communications posted a fourth straight quarterly loss and said it failed to pay interest on some debentures, sending the debt-laden firm’s shares tumbling 14 percent to a record low and its bonds down on Monday.
The Anil Ambani-controlled telecom operator reported late on Saturday a quarterly loss of 27.09 billion rupees ($414.06 million), compared with a profit of 620 million rupees a year ago. Revenue nearly halved to 26.67 billion rupees, amid a price war started by upstart rival Reliance Jio, which is backed by Anil’s elder brother Mukesh Ambani.
RCom, as the company is widely known, also said in a securities filing over the weekend that it has missed interest payments on two outstanding domestic non-convertible debentures.
The loss and missed payments make a recovery for RCom that much harder and come at a time when there are doubts about a previously flagged debt-restructuring plan.
With net of debt of 443 billion rupees as of end-March, RCom is the most leveraged among listed Indian telecom companies.
After its previous plan to cut debt by selling towers to Canada’s Brookfield and merging its wireless business unit with rival Aircel fell apart, RCom came up with a new plan last month pledging to repay a total 270 billion rupees from new deals for its towers, infrastructure assets, and real estate.
It has yet to finalise buyers for any of the assets it is planning to sell.
As part of the latest plan, the company has said banks will convert about 70 billion rupees of its debt to equity under the central bank’s strategic debt restructuring plan.
The debt-equity conversion plan may, however, run into trouble as bankers and RCom are at loggerheads over treatment of loans which RCom has taken from its group companies, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Sunday.
The company declined to comment on that story, but pointed to comments from its Executive Director Punit Garg, who in late October said he was confident the strategic debt restructuring plan would proceed.
As part of the deal with banks RCom says it has won a reprieve on payments to lenders until December 2018.
Shares in the company fell as much as 14.2 percent on Monday and were down 11.4 percent at 0750 GMT.
Its overseas bonds also dipped on Monday, with RCom’s 6.5 percent bonds due 2020 indicated at 35/37 cents on the dollar. The bonds have trended sharply lower in the last six weeks as RCom’s woes have mounted. ($1 = 65.4250 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Sankalp Phartiyal; Additional reporting by Swati Bhat; Editing by Stephen Coates and Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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Get Closer to DJ Blighty
A DJ from the age of 13, DJ Blighty grew up in a musical, Welsh household in Cardiff. He’s nurtured his passion and skill since then to have one of Mixcloud’s most dedicated followings, inspiring listeners from all over the world. Blending everything from hip hop and RnB, to dancehall and afrobeats and trap, Blighty is known for his mixing magic.
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Get Closer to Lefto
Doing his thing from Studio Brussels since 1999, Lefto is a Belgian DJ that needs no introduction amongst the Mixcloud community. Dubbed “your DJ’s favourite DJ”, Lefto’s long-time favorite radio show recorded live from Studio Brussels is shared to Mixcloud every Sunday. A crate digger extraordinaire and supporter of emerging talent, Lefto’s fresh and under-the-radar selections make it clear he commits his life to music.
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Get Closer to John Digweed
Dubbed one of the planet’s best known DJs, John Digweed needs no introduction. His weekly show Transitions has been around for almost 14 years, calling Mixcloud it’s online home and amassing over 10 million plays to date. The UK-based DJ and producer is driven by bringing new music to listeners worldwide, showcasing techno, house and electronica unrestrained by BPM. His show let’s him express himself and play live for listeners worldwide, week in week out.
This is why we’re launching Mixcloud Select, a new way for creators and fans to get closer. With Select, listeners can subscribe directly to a creator’s channel to join their inner circle of fans, directly supporting all of the music played.
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Creators are the beating heart of our global community. DJs, radio hosts, selectors, storytellers, tastemakers and curators… you, the creators, are the ones crafting the shows that inspire us to keep listening and connecting through shared passions in culture and sound.
Get Closer to Soho Radio
Since 2014, Soho Radio has been broadcasting its eclectic roster live from the heart of London. Taking inspiration from the vibrant and diverse culture that surrounds it, this “street-side” radio station has grown an impressive following of listeners, who can hear everything from Japanese grime to the psychedelic.
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Founders' Learnings
Why I didn’t build my company in Silicon Valley
About nine years ago, I co-founded a company with Rick and Roy and created a product that helped businesses create forms and collect payments via Paypal. It ate up three of our lives and made life better for some small businesses. Honestly, this first product didn’t disrupt an industry. It probably only took a handful of clients from bigger competitors and we don’t have investors from Silicon Valley. Oursky has no valuation. Instead, we started getting paid to make other people’s products. Yes. We became an agency. We gave up being a sexy startup to become just another agency. And we got more jobs than we could handle, so we recruited more developers to help.
Now, we’re an agency that’s worked with listed companies like Yahoo! and Philips and created products with half a million active users. We’ve also opened up a satellite office…in Taiwan. I’m sharing this because I’m one of thousands of tech founders around the world who started companies not based in Silicon Valley that make money, have happy clients, and great team members.
Learning doesn’t have to take place in person, or in Silicon Valley.
Image by Jordan Whitfield via Unsplash
A year before I founded my company, Paul Graham said that startup hubs do better in Silicon Valley because startups are a specialized business and the Valley had the specialists to help them grow. We’ll never find out what code I’d have learned if I had gone, who I would have met, what ideas I’d have encountered. But I do know of a handy tool called the internet. And it was there that I found all the information I wanted to teach myself the latest tech. Reading, online discussions, and real-life applications filled up my 80-hour weeks of on-the-job learning. At the same time, I’m proud of our company alumni (developers who left) who have moved on to Apple and Facebook. I’m not against in-person learning (since our developers work mostly on-site), just pointing out that if you want to learn or build something badly enough, you’ll use whatever is available (people, internet, books).
I’m a typical introverted geek, so teaching myself at home is pretty normal. And even though I don’t like social events, socializing with good friends is what makes Hong Kong home. Sometimes my friends and I would talk code, but we also talk about other things — things like government policies, the latest movies, and other things that only matter to a Hong Konger. Even though I’ve visited the Valley and traveled to Europe, I never wanted to move. I can type the same line of code from anywhere in the world, but nowhere else in the world can I have the same late night meals with my best friends.
Because valuations aren’t my validation.
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When I started, I just wanted to make my company work. Startups weren’t cool and you couldn’t find 10 seasoned tech angel investors in this city of 7 million people. There just weren’t that many tech angels interested in local startups back then.
I didn’t know what valuations were when I first registered my company. I didn’t think about angel investors or fundraising, so the Valley was never on my radar. Nine years later, I don’t feel like I’ve missed out. Valuations are only important for exits — if you want to build a company, exit, and make money. If you’re not looking for that, then read Reconsider by DHH, co-founder of Basecamp, as an alternative approach to building a company.
When I talked to other tech founders and learned more about startups and fundraising I learned how motivations for startup founders and VC / angels aren’t always inline. A VC can look for a 10x exit and there are a lot of stories where founders want to continue, but their investors think it is better go big or go home. Those situations don’t end well, usually. My company’s positive cash flow year after year is my validation.
Silicon Valley was never my dream.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Hong Kong before the Web 1.0 took off. The first computer I touched was a 386 SX. When I graduated from undergrad, I wanted to go into NGO-work for Hong Kong. I applied to be an assistant to the Legislative Council (LegCo) and Amnesty International. Both didn’t work out, so I took up a temporary research & teaching position at a university. Even though I studied Information Engineering and could call myself a developer, I thought my career would be in the social sector. My dream job was never a founder at a company — my dream job was anything that could help my home city.
But when I started Oursky, perhaps the biggest reason I chose to stay at home is because I wanted to start slow. I thought if I want to contribute to the society and disrupt the world in a good way, that we should start small, build a core team that shares the same values, have time for lots of trial and errors, and grow from there. Why not go big at once? I don’t think you’ll disrupt the world that way — you’re only going to follow the trends and the logic of others. To me, many of those “disrupt the world” stories are just societal trends that get big because they’re riding a wave.
As we got more team members, I learned to put myself out there to make sure we had contracts to pay their salaries. Just by putting myself out there year after year for nine years, I’ve watched Hong Kong’s developer community grow and joined a growing number of tech events like PyCon, WIDS, and RISE.
They say go big or go home. But this time, by building a company organically at home, I’ve been able to watch my development community grow big. And I’m still a part of it.
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Published on September 11th, 2017 | by Michelle Roper-Shaw
Win a House of Windsor Silver Proof Coin
As the House of Windsor celebrates its centenary in 2017 we have new competition for you. Two lucky winners will receive a House of Windsor £5 Silver Proof Coin worth £82.50.
2017 has already proved an exciting year for the Royal family. Only last week, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge revealed Royal Baby Number Three was on its way. Also, Prince George, aged four started school last Thursday.
In November, Her Majesty the Queen and recently retired the Duke of Edinburgh will celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary. That is seventy years of marriage, quite an incredible achievement to a couple who have dedicated their lives to serving their country.
The History Behind the House of Windsor
The Royal Family’s name back in 1917 was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. During World War One, anti-German sentiment in the country led to the change in name to Windsor.
On the 17 July 1917, George V declared:
“Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor.”
When Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) married Philip Mountbatten (The Duke of Edinburgh) Philip’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten assumed that the Royal House would become the House of Mountbatten. However, on hearing this, Queen Mary informed the Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He then advised The Queen to issue a royal proclamation that the Royal House would remain the House of Windsor.
Royal Collectible Coins
Various collectible Coins to commemorate Royalty inspired events and anniversaries are available at the Post Office Shop.
These coins are an excellent gift idea for numismatists and collectors of royal memorabilia. The New Arrivals range shows all the latest coin additions.
Win a House of Windsor Silver Proof £5 Coin
To mark the centenary of the House of Windsor, the Royal Mint has produced the only official UK coin to mark this event.
The design of this stunning coin is based on the Badge of the House of Windsor, approved by King George VI.
It is struck in 925 Sterling silver to Proof standard and is part of a Limited Edition of 10,000 coins.
Two lucky winners will each receive this House of Windsor Centenary 2017 UK £5 Silver Proof Coin with an RRP value of £82.50.
For your chance to win, simply enter your name and email address into the box below and you’ll be automatically entered into our sweepstake.
The closing date for this competition is midnight Sunday 1st October 2017. The two lucky winners will be selected at random and notified by email on Monday 2nd October 2017.
Best of luck everyone!
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Home Geekout SPOILER ALERT: Power Rangers Movie Premiere Event Review
SPOILER ALERT: Power Rangers Movie Premiere Event Review
Ed Oblepias March 27, 2017
Spoiler Alert: Power Rangers the Movie 2017
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The new iteration of the 90’s classic Power Rangers has premiered in cinemas this week. As someone who grew up with the franchise I had my doubts about the movie, but I decided to enter the cinema and watch the premiere with a fresh pair of eyes. Here is the review for Power Rangers (2017). Warning some spoilers included!
The Morphinomical Plot
In this version of the movie the Power Rangers are a group of Aliens that protect the universe. 65 million years ago, Zordon and his team went to the earth to stop a universal threat. Zordon, the leader and original Red Ranger went to protect the earth from his former team mate Rita Repulsa who was the Green Ranger of the team. Zordon fails and hides the power coins from Rita. Before he dies, Alpha 5 locks his essence away into the Morphing Grid.
Now, fast forward to the present a group of five teenagers find the Power Coins and begin their journey to protect Angel Grove and the earth from Rita Repulsa and her golden monster Goldar.
A Whole New Paradigm
The main team of rangers are not the ones kids grew up with in the 90’s. The original rangers were all the “popular kids” at Angel Grove. This version gives us a team of outcasts and that’s not exactly a bad thing. The movie gives more backbone to the characters in this re-imagining of the franchise and gives us more than the stereotypical “jock”, “cheerleader” and “nerd”.
Zordon himself has gone through major changes. Previously, Zordon was a fatherly figure which gave a guiding voice to the rangers in their time of need. Now, Zordon is stricter and very critical of the rangers because of the urgency of the situation. He also rushes the rangers to morph, but not because of his belief in the new team and it’s leader. He needs them to morph so that he can come back to life and fight Rita himself.
Let’s talk about Rita. I personally loved the angle that Rita was the former Green Ranger. In the original the Green Ranger was one of Rita’s henchmen, but her being a ranger just added more power to her. It kind of saddens me though that Goldar was reduced to one of Rita’s brainless monsters. Goldar was actually one of Rita’s strongest henchmen and a good source of laughter in the previous version.
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Antibiotic Development Is Broken, Brothers in ID Practice, and This Year’s Winner of the ID-Related Social Media Award
“I do not like thunderstorms,” said every dog, ever.
I am currently rounding on the inpatient ID service, the new ID fellows arrive shortly, and Louie needs intensive doggy psychotherapy after yesterday’s strong thunderstorms here in Boston.
Busy times!
As a result, today’s post has no unifying theme. But what it lacks in cohesiveness it more than compensates in value, as here are three highly interesting ID-related items for your perusal.
1. Antibiotic development is broken — and how to fix it.
This fascinating perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine focuses on the problems with our current model of antibiotic drug development. Why are for-profit companies abandoning antibiotic research? If antibiotic resistance is such a problem, why isn’t this “market opportunity” giving us new and better antibiotics?
The absolute number of infections caused by each type of resistant bacterium is relatively small. Each newly approved antibiotic thus captures an ever-shrinking share of an increasingly splintered market — a problem that will only worsen over time. Short treatment durations and a coordinated program of antibiotic stewardship also contribute to low sales.
The authors’ proposed solution is to fund nonprofit organizations to develop antibiotics. Unlike private companies, they would not be beholden to shareholders to generate rapid profits. Relatively small revenues for a large private company — tens of millions of dollars annually — would, for a nonprofit, be a substantial win, and a chance to reinvest this money into further research.
Now they just have to convince some entity — government? philanthropy? — to invest the seed money to get this started.
A big hurdle, yes, but at least it’s a path forward.
2. Two brothers chat about being in ID practice — together.
For many academic ID fellowships, the intense first year of clinical care is followed by years of research training, with relatively little clinical work occasionally sprinkled in.
Research fellows might have a once-weekly half-day in clinic, or an occasional weekend seeing consults.
That’s the pathway Dr. Steve Threlkeld followed here in Boston when I first knew him as a brilliant ID fellow. (I was just starting my first faculty job.) However, he soon came to the realization that his true love was patient care, not research.
So he did something novel — he joined his brother Mike’s private ID practice in Memphis, Tennessee.
Steve and Mike chatted with me on this OFID podcast about private practice ID, what it has in common with academic ID and what’s different, how to be a blue-leaning clinician in a red-leaning state, and the unique opportunities and challenges of being the only sibling-owned private ID practice in the universe.
OK, someone contact me if I’m wrong about that last part.
Available also on iTunes, Overcast, and soon other podcast places.
3. This Year’s Winner of ID-Related Social Media Award.
I don’t know Dr. Philip Lee, but if there’s an Academy Award for ID content on social media, he’s the unequivocal 2019 winner — and we’re only halfway through the year.
Click on this Twitter thread for the incontrovertible proof:
Taylor Swift as antibiotics. A thread. pic.twitter.com/dY6We2VYkv
— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) June 7, 2019
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3 Responses to “Antibiotic Development Is Broken, Brothers in ID Practice, and This Year’s Winner of the ID-Related Social Media Award”
Andrea Banks, MD says:
We have a father-son duo at our physician owned private practice in Lexington, KY!
The world is running out of useful antibiotics because the rise of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is undermining them, and big firms are disinclined to make more. In 2018 alone, three large legacy pharma firms closed their antibiotic research programs. So the collapse of even a small business that stepped up to make a new antibiotic is a blow…(mygenericpharmacy)
Karen Williams PharmD says:
While this post is interesting, it’s not surprising. However an article on dirty hospital linens by Neil Ampel posted in March is still disturbing me and I’d love to see your comment, Dr Sax. So shocking! https://www.jwatch.org/na48614/2019/03/06/how-clean-are-your-linens
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April 20, 2019 by Traci L. Slatton /Leave a Comment/ Filed Under: 5 star review, art, gratitude, happiness, interview, kindness, marriage, Sabin Howard, Sabin Howard sculpture, writing, WW1 Memorial
Of the rainy morning, drinking my coffee: heavy cream and coconut sugar. I am thinking about the week passed.
Due to PR efforts for the National World War I Memorial that Sabin is sculpting, there’s an article about me in The New London Day. Perhaps now it’s the The Connecticut Day.
The writer, Lee Howard, no relation to my husband, wrote a wonderful article about my participation in the WWI Memorial as a model in the relief. Howard is a skilled writer and the piece is lovely–warmly written and respectful. He quoted me correctly. He portrayed me with both kindness and some playfulness.
I particularly liked that he quoted what I said about appearing in Sabin’s amazing relief:
“All told, it’s pretty cool,” she said. “Perhaps (someday) one of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren will stand in front of the relief and look at my face and feel our connection.”
Medium Article and YouTube Video
March 5, 2019 by Traci L. Slatton /Leave a Comment/ Filed Under: art, gratitude, happiness, hard work, kindness, love, marriage, maturity, Sabin Howard, Sabin Howard sculpture, WW1 Memorial
Of late I support my husband sculptor Sabin Howard on his journey. He’s embarked on a grand adventure: he’s the sculptor for the National WWI Memorial that will be set in Washington DC.
Sometimes it feels as if my life has been taken over by Sabin’s mandate. Other times, I think I’m fulfilling an old contract…one that he and I negotiated in the Before Times, when we were deciding to come together during this life for our lessons and our love.
One of my favorite astrologers told me that I was in a progressed waning Moon cycle, and that feels about right. The light will return to me. Just not yet.
In the meantime, I’m happy to write about my talented husband. I’m proud of his work! I’m proud of him. Check out my article in Medium about Digital Technology and the Sculptor’s Art: Innovation and Imagination. It’s about what happens when the ancient art of sculpting in clay collides with the newest digital technology.
Here’s a video I did on YouTube about Sabin working on the new maquette:
Moreover, we received word that our book The Art of Life was happily ensconced in the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which delighted me, indeed. Sabin and I worked together to write this photo-essay of classical figurative sculpture through the ages, and it was independently published. Take that, Phaidon and Taschen!
Until soon, salve!
My Article in Quillette Magazine: Art, Commerce, and Vision
October 25, 2018 by Traci L. Slatton /2 Comments/ Filed Under: art, authors, business, gratitude, hard work, language, marriage, Sabin Howard, Sabin Howard sculpture, sculpting
Quillette Magazine published my article on why artists aren’t necessarily leftist: “Art, Commerce, and Vision.”
If you don’t know Quillette, check it out! It’s an online platform for free speech.
Here’s what I wrote my friends:
I am delighted to send you my article on Quillette Magazine. It’s about why artists aren’t necessarily Left-wing. I write about Sabin and his work and broach, yes, the question of what real art is. Hint: “Real art is the product of the personal, human vision of the artist… Beauty, excellence, and the artist’s skill matter.”
If you don’t know Quillette Magazine, I recommend it. Quillette is a platform for free-thinking. It’s one of the very few places taking on current controversies in a thoughtful way. Please consider becoming a Patron of this extraordinary venue.
One note. If you follow my twitter feed, @tracilslatton, you will see that I follow, like, and retweet some Twitter users who are much further to the Right than I am, personally. I do this to preserve their voices. Twitter, along with Facebook and Google, is hell-bent on silencing Conservative voices. I see this as antithetical to free speech, which is the foundation of democracy. We the people need lively, and civil, discussions between people of different viewpoints. We the people need the opportunity to consider all viewpoints of an issue. Technocrat fascism must be resisted.
This article, “Art, Commerce, and Vision” came out of my deep feeling that artists must embrace the business of art.
I hope you enjoy this article. I always enjoy the thought-provoking articles in Quillette.
Colette, A Review
October 17, 2018 by Traci L. Slatton /Leave a Comment/ Filed Under: 5 star review, art, authors, beauty, excellence, gratitude, how to write a book, language, literature, love, marriage, redemption, vulnerability, writing
On a recent Saturday, my husband and I enjoyed date night at the Paris Theater. We watched the film Colette.
I’m a novelist and so the film held a special resonance for me. It’s always intriguing for me to see how other women do it–how other women wrestle with the great fanged beast of their need to write–how other women embrace the struggle of creativity and storytelling alongside the demands of partnership and self-actualization.
For me, there is no self without writing. If I’m not writing, it’s because I’m in a no-self space. That’s not a wholesome place for me.
Colette is turned on to writing by her husband Willy, who calls himself, in the film, a “writing entrepreneur.” He cheats on her and tells her to pen her thoughts and then proclaims her work to be worthless. Then he re-reads it and loves it. He pores over her prose with her and teaches her to edit and revise. At least in the film, he is instrumental to her discovering her talent.
Willy publishes her book under his own name. When it becomes successful beyond his wildest dreams, he locks her in a room to write another book.
Colette slowly wakes up to her own worth. Her self-awareness grows as she uncovers her individual sexuality. Her husband cheats but she begins to sleep with women–which he permits, as long as she doesn’t sleep with other men.
It’s comical when the husband beds her paramour and they both carry on with the libidinous lady in question.
There’s a kind of leftist-liberal-proselytizing fabric to this movie; the husband is an exploitative patriarchal scumbag and noble, victimized Colette naturally finds a supportive woman partner/lover. So many films these days are taken over by the need to preach leftist liberal values. I wish more films would focus on good storytelling and leave preaching propaganda to the politicians. It’s boring.
When a story delves deeply into the human condition, the spectrum of left-right, liberal-conservative falls away. What is left is meaning. That meaning is far more moving, far more convincing, than even the best propaganda.
In this case, the film transcends the current Hollywood piety. After all, Colette was a French novelist. She’s an archetypal French woman novelist. She actually lived the life and she did so before it was appropriated by a certain tiresome sector of post-modernist feminists–as if being a traveling mime with a woman lover is the only way to be a woman novelist.
I admire Colette but her choices wouldn’t work for me. I would never have been happy or fulfilled without children and a husband. Being a mother and wife contributes to, and enhances, my fruitfulness.
As painful as my situation is with one of my beloved daughters and with a dearly loved husband who took off for the antipodes, putting his own art before the family who needs him–despite everything–I was always supposed to be a wife and mother. And a novelist. And lately a screenwriter.
Willy exceeds his role, too, I think. Yes, he’s selfish, self-indulgent, egotistical, and riddled with vices. He’s also the fulcrum on which Colette’s own writing turns. He’s a catalyst for her. I find that real life is like this, that people are like this: marbled through with light and dark. Variegated. Bittersweet.
People are complex. They enter our lives bearing gifts, some laced with poison, some with nectar. Often the most difficult characters in our stories are our best teachers.
And beyond the propaganda is the story of a woman coming to own her own voice.
This is the essential struggle for a woman novelist: owning her own voice. Even for women who come across as strong, as I seem to, there’s vulnerability at the root. How do we embrace, own, and integrate that vulnerability with our creative talent?
Art and Representation
October 14, 2018 by Traci L. Slatton /Leave a Comment/ Filed Under: art, beauty, excellence, gratitude, happiness, hard work, kindness, love, marriage, redemption, Sabin Howard, Sabin Howard sculpture, sculpting
My husband Sabin Howard can sculpt. Think Carpeaux, Canova, or Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Think Michelangelo. He says, “Art represents us. How do we want to be represented?”
It’s a fair question, and answering it leads me to all the reasons I’m not a post-modernist. Boiling it down, I believe in transcendence and immanence, meaning and responsibility, the integrity of the individual, and free and unfettered thinking. Ultimately, I believe in beauty, excellence, and the artist’s skill.
So it is with both humility and amusement that I behold Sabin’s Bust of Ceres, for which I posed. It was hours and hours of sitting on a step ladder in our bedroom at night, working to hold my head at the right angle. Sabin is a tough taskmaster. Such demands are placed on the wife of an artist!
She is beautiful. She is me, and she isn’t me. She’s me on Mt. Olympus, an idealized plane of existence. She’s a form of representation that alludes to an aesthetic philosophy that is beyond me, in my day to day life, as I sit at my keyboard, wearing stinky yoga clothes and tapping out the latest novel.
I see the transpersonal in Ceres. She’s soulful, she’s elevated and elevating. I feel fondly toward my husband for naming a portrait of me after a Goddess. My ego is gratified, despite knowing that Sabin chose the Goddess out of his own artistic vision, with little to no concern for the model’s vanity.
On the personal level, I see a woman of a certain age, with more lines on her face than she wishes were there.
The Gottman Institute: The Art & Science of Love
July 28, 2018 by Traci L. Slatton /Leave a Comment/ Filed Under: beauty, excellence, gratitude, happiness, hard work, healing, kindness, life and death, love, marriage, maturity, real friends, redemption, sex, vulnerability, wholeness
My husband and I had a rude and rough couple of years.
Sabin was briefly ensconced at the antipodes with people who thought they knew him better after 12 minutes than I did after 18 years, and they brought out his worst self. They encouraged him to forget his family–to lose sight of his integrity. I frittered away our months apart with people and pastimes that took me away from my mission in life. I wasn’t my best self, either.
Love brought us back together and our union needed repair.
There were tools that aided us. I’ve blogged about those before. I read several books and used an excellent program developed by a California-based marriage counselor.
In particular, and with some mirth because he’s funny, we watched videos of Dr. John Gottman talking about what makes a marriage work. I bought Gottman’s books and googled The Gottman Institute.
After one fierce fight that ended with me in tears and Sabin apoplectic with hurt and anger, I said, “Enough. We’re going to a Gottman workshop.”
Sabin agreed, if skeptically. He was more amenable when I assured him that there was no public disclosure.
The time came and we flew to Seattle a few days early so we could hike Mt. Rainier. I figured two days of exercise on the mountain would exorcise Sabin’s physical restlessness.
We arrived early at the Seattle Sheraton on the morning of the workshop to secure good seats, close to the front. And there began two days of extraordinary learning.
The first day focused on building the ground of being of love through Drs. John and Julie Gottman’s research-based techniques. We listened to lectures on love maps, fondness and admiration, and bids for connection, and then we practiced the skills through carefully thought out exercises. The exercises were good fun as well as good practicum for a marriage. They deepened the friendship, connection, and trust that are so essential in the union.
It was fun to tell Sabin all the good things I think about him–and even more fun to hear him describe my strengths!
We also practiced a “stress reducing conversation” according to a Gottman script. It was an effective tool. When Sabin spoke about the stresses of his life, he was able to feel my empathy; when it was my turn to confide, I felt his empathy. We finished the exercise feeling heard and cared for. Our hearts opened and we felt close to each other.
But it wasn’t just the exercises and lectures that taught us and moved us. Equally eloquent was the way John and Julie Gottman related to each other. They were at turns playful and somber and they were always palpably connected. They teased each other, finished each other’s sentences, demoed exercises together with zest and relish, touched each other affectionately, listened respectfully when the other was saying something of heightened import, admitted to fighting, owned their own parts in their conflict, apologized for hurting each other, and praised the other.
Julie and John were modeling something critical: a real marriage, hugs and warts and tears and laughs and all. A marriage wherein both spouses are deeply committed and deeply engaged in the ongoing work of building a strong and joyful shared sense of “we.”
This was most evident the second day of the workshop, when the Gottmans addressed conflict.
Around 10 am of the second day, I witnessed one of the most profound human interactions I’ve ever seen–and I attended a 4 years hands-on healing school which included a great deal of deep personal process work. But this was astonishing: Julie and John demonstrated their script for repair after a regrettable incident.
I’ve never seen two people be more real, more vulnerable, more honest, and more sensitive with each other. It was deeply soulful. It showed the power of being real, being vulnerable, being honest, and being sensitive with your mate.
Julie and John worked through an actual fight from a few years earlier, following one of the scripts they’d written. Julie dissolved into tears, remembering early life traumas that had played a part in her responses. I was in tears watching her. With candor and grace, John also talked about his triggers. I marveled at his insight into himself.
The goal was to understand each other better. It achieved that and so much more. It was a marvelous process.
In class, Sabin and I did the exercise around a recent fight. Since returning home, we’ve done the exercise around the painful episodes from the last two years.
The Gottman Institute weekend ended with presentations and exercises around shared meaning and helping each other attain life dreams. In a real way, Sabin and I are already strong in that area, because we both feel so strongly about arts and letters. He’s been the strongest supporter of my writing, and I’ve always supported his art.
For me, the best part of the weekend was being in the field of the relationship between Julie and John Gottman. So that’s what a good relationship is, I thought. Perhaps the Gottman tools could even have helped my difficult first marriage. It’s possible. It’s for certain they’re a great blessing for Sabin and me.
In his thoughtful way, Sabin voiced the most beautiful, most telling comment about the weekend. “I never before understood about the sacredness of marriage,” he told me. “Now I do.”
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Blue Ridge Conservancy protects key tract of Grandfather Mountain ridgeline; transfers ownership to NC State Parks
Two years ago Blue Ridge Conservancy (BRC) acquired some of the most significant land on Grandfather Mountain in order to ensure the protection of the entire ridgeline. This October BRC transferred ownership of the 211 acres to Grandfather Mountain State Park. North Carolina State Parks considers this land ‘critical’ in its acquisition plans and now it will be managed by Grandfather Mountain State Park.
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$542,000 secured for Middle Fork Greenway development thanks to local businesses and state grant
The Town of Blowing Rock officially proclaimed the month of July as “Middle Fork Greenway Month,” and the activities ensued certainly lived up to its name. An unprecedented number of businesses worked together to raise money in support of constructing the next section of greenway trail that will eventually connect the towns of Blowing Rock and Boone with a pedestrian and bicycle friendly alternate route that benefits residents, visitors, and businesses of Watauga County.
The Round Up for the Middle Fork Greenway rallied support with a first-ever community-wide fundraiser by 118 businesses throughout the county. Businesses participated by asking their customers to round up their purchase to the next dollar or give to a donation jar. Some businesses gave a percentage of their sales for the month or gave a one time donation. The collective effort raised $112,000 and counting as donations continue to come in.
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The PARTF grant requires a 50 percent match, which the town and RTP grant would cover.
“This goes along with our Parks and Recreation Master Plan,” noted town clerk Hillary Gropp.
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Analysing 454 amplicon resequencing experiments using the modular and database oriented Variant Identification Pipeline
Joachim M De Schrijver1,
Kim De Leeneer2,
Steve Lefever2,
Nick Sabbe3,
Filip Pattyn2,
Filip Van Nieuwerburgh4,5,
Paul Coucke2,5,
Dieter Deforce4,5,
Jo Vandesompele2,5,
Sofie Bekaert1,5,
Jan Hellemans2,5 &
Wim Van Criekinge1,5
BMC Bioinformaticsvolume 11, Article number: 269 (2010) | Download Citation
Next-generation amplicon sequencing enables high-throughput genetic diagnostics, sequencing multiple genes in several patients together in one sequencing run. Currently, no open-source out-of-the-box software solution exists that reliably reports detected genetic variations and that can be used to improve future sequencing effectiveness by analyzing the PCR reactions.
We developed an integrated database oriented software pipeline for analysis of 454/Roche GS-FLX amplicon resequencing experiments using Perl and a relational database. The pipeline enables variation detection, variation detection validation, and advanced data analysis, which provides information that can be used to optimize PCR efficiency using traditional means. The modular approach enables customization of the pipeline where needed and allows researchers to adopt their analysis pipeline to their experiments. Clear documentation and training data is available to test and validate the pipeline prior to using it on real sequencing data.
We designed an open-source database oriented pipeline that enables advanced analysis of 454/Roche GS-FLX amplicon resequencing experiments using SQL-statements. This modular database approach allows easy coupling with other pipeline modules such as variant interpretation or a LIMS system. There is also a set of standard reporting scripts available.
Recent DNA sequencing technology, the so-called next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, enables researchers to read a number of DNA sequences that is several orders of magnitudes bigger and at a cost that is several orders of magnitude smaller than the previous generation DNA sequencing technologies. The cost of determining the human genome was estimated at $2.7 billion for the IHGSC genome and at $300 million for the Celera genome. Recently several human genomes were sequenced in about 1.5 months at a cost that is around $1.5 million [1, 2].
Large-scale parallel pyrosequencing from 454/Roche generates hundreds of thousands sequenced DNA reads within a matter of hours [3]. The latest version of the sequencing technology (Titanium) enables a throughput of 0.4-0.6 gigabases per 10 h run [4]. The amount of data to be analyzed keeps growing at an increasing speed. Other NGS platforms such as Illumina's Genome Analyzer (San Diego, CA, USA), Applied Biosystems' SOLiD (Foster City, CA, USA) and Helicos' HeliScope (Cambridge, MA, USA) generate more than 10 gigabases in a single multi-day run. It is estimated that by 2012 genome centres around the world will generate more data per year than the expected 15 petabytes per year that is produced by CERN's Large Hadron Collider [5].
Sequencing researchers agree that data-analysis of NGS projects is the biggest challenge to make the technology accessible for biologists around the world. The cost of sequencing might go as low as $1,000 per human genome, but it will still be a lost investment if the generated data cannot be adequately analyzed. Especially sequencing platforms with a very high throughput of read lengths as short as 35-40 nucleotides face challenges for genome assembly and annotation [6].
Nevertheless, NGS is expected to have an enormous impact on diagnostics and SNP discovery [7], provided there are tools available that make variant detection and interpretation of the sequenced data straightforward and automated. A good step towards standardization and data uniformity, especially in the short-read field, was taken with the development of the SAM/BAM format [8]. This format is currently supported by BWA [9] and Bowtie [10], but is not supported by long-read (typically 454 GS-FLX data) mappers such as BLAT [11]. However, with the recent release of BWA-SW [12] one might expect a more broad transition of long-read NGS towards SAM/BAM pipelines.
There are already some tools available to analyze 454 GS-FLX experiments, but mostly with a limited analysis spectrum. Most of the present tools are designed to do a specific task, and rarely offer broad spectrum analysis. The few integrated analysis tools offering broad spectrum analysis available are commercial packages (such as CLCbio Genomics Workbench, Genomatix or NextGENe).
Mosaik [13] for example is one of the few broader analysis packages available and has cross-platform features which makes it indeed easy to work with. Unfortunately it lacks some additional analysing possibilities besides mapping and assembly that are useful in amplicon resequencing based diagnostics (for example coverage per amplicon and per patient or calculation of primer dimer frequencies).
Roche's Amplicon Variant Analyzer (AVA) software is specifically designed for analysis of amplicon resequencing experiments and is user-friendly but has some limitations. Advanced coverage analysis is of paramount importance in a diagnostic setting but is lacking in AVA. Data storage is also an issue using AVA as data is not stored in a structured way (i.e. flat files instead of storage in a database).
In this paper we describe an open-source database oriented pipeline that is capable of analyzing a single GS-FLX amplicon resequencing run automatically from receiving the raw data to generating custom (variation) reports within one day. Using the database approach, the pipeline is capable of analyzing a set of runs together in a meta-analysis. While sequence variations can be assessed using this pipeline, it also allows researchers in diagnostic labs to extract additional information (e.g. frequency of primer dimers). This data can then be used to optimize the amplicon PCR reactions and general sequencing settings to improve future sequencing runs. The pipeline, a manual, a testing dataset, and example reports are available on the web at http://athos.ugent.be/VIP_pipeline.
The Variant Identification Pipeline (VIP) is developed in a modular way so that each module can run independently from another. Each module uses data stored in a relational database (MySQL) to do its task and stores its result again in the database (Figure 1). The pipeline is completely written in Perl and the DBI and DBD::mysql packages are used for database interactions.
Overview of the VIP pipeline. Overview of the Variant Identification Pipeline (black arrows and white text-boxes) and the VIP Validator (grey arrows and grey text-boxes). The analysis pipeline consists of 4 modules. 1) Raw sequences are extracted from the FASTA files generated by the GS-FLX sequencer and processed into sequenced amplicons and additional information. 2a) Reference amplicons are generated using a list of reference sequences and the list of primers. 2b) Mapping is carried out with BLAT using the reference amplicons and the sequenced amplicons. Variations are detected and stored in the database. 3) The requested reports are generated. The VIP Validator introduces additional variation in the sequence reads and reanalyses those sequences to validate the pipeline for that specific variation.
Processing the raw sequence data
The pipeline uses both the FASTA (sequenced reads) and FASTQ (positional quality scores of the sequenced reads) files generated by the 454/Roche GS-FLX sequencer as input and processes the files in a way so that a DNA sequence is linked to a sequence of quality scores. In a first step the DNA sequence is trimmed using a variety of algorithms. The multiplex identifier or MID (a short bar-code sequence used to label samples/patients when multiplexing), the linker sequence (used to link the amplicon primer together with the MID sequence), and the trailing sequence (residual reverse complements of the MID/linker at the end of a sequence) are trimmed. The different algorithms allow perfect tag sequences to be trimmed but also tag sequences with sequencing errors.
Trimming the sequences results in more efficient mapping in later stages of the pipeline as artificial nucleotide strings are removed from the sequence before they can interfere with the mapping process. The combined length of the MID and linker is often >20 bp and can cause problems in mapping, especially when amplicons are already rather short.
Generating the reference amplicons
Both a reference sequence and a list with forward and reverse primers (in FASTA format) are fed to the amplicon generation module. The primer sequences are detected in the reference sequence and the reference amplicons are extracted from the reference sequence. The reference amplicons, primer information, and genomic reference information are stored in the references database.
Mapping the sequenced amplicons
Recently, several fast and elegant mapping algorithms have been developed such as Bowtie, BWA or SOAP [14]. Unfortunately, these algorithms were developed for short-read mapping, typically SOLiD or Illumina reads, and are thus not suitable for mapping of 454/Roche GS-FLX reads. In the VIP pipeline, sequenced amplicon sequences (reads) stored in the raw sequences database are mapped on the reference amplicons using BLAT. The output is parsed using Perl, the Bio::Tools::BPlite package and some custom-made Perl modules (included in the pipeline package).
In amplicon resequencing experiments spanning large exons, overlapping amplicons are used to cover the exon completely. Using the amplicon as a reference template speeds up the mapping process but can cause sequenced reads to map on multiple, partially overlapping amplicons. This problem is addressed by using the mapping position on both the reference sequence and the read. The read should map completely at the beginning of a reference amplicon to be considered as a correctly mapped read.
Sequences with a mapped region (including the PCR primer) shorter than a certain threshold value (default value is 40 bp) are considered to be too short to be a real amplicon. The pipeline will actively look for another mapped region (also shorter than the threshold value) in the sequenced read. When two such regions at both the start and end of a read are detected, both are stored in the database flagged as 'short'.
Users who might prefer to map reads genome-wide - to detect PCR artefacts for example - have the possibility to map on the entire genome, rather than on reference amplicons, using the genome-wide reference database (which is included in the package). Further downstream processing is the same for both approaches.
Detecting variation in the mapped data
Once the sequenced reads are mapped on the reference template and the best mapping position is determined, the possible differences between the sequenced read and the reference template along with their position relative to the reference template are determined. The VIP pipeline is capable of detecting deletions, insertions and combinations of deletions and insertions.
Rather than storing the alignment itself in a database, the reference amplicon name and the variations are stored in the database. A small sequence window around the variation together with the quality score on the position of the variation is stored in the database as this data is used in later stages of the pipeline.
Once the processed data is stored in the database, the VIP pipeline generates eight standard reports that give end-users ample information to interpret the raw data (Additional file 1). Each of these reports can be generated independently from each other, comes straight from the database and is completely independent from the raw sequence files or raw data processing. Hence, any computer that is connected to the database server can generate its own reports in a short period of time without having access to the raw data.
Reports are mainly generated using SQL-statements and the report generating scripts are partially parallelized using the Perl packages threads and threads::shared. The report generating scripts are parallelized where possible, but one should bear in mind that hard disk accessibility and memory usage are a bigger issue than processing power when using SQL-statements (Additional file 2).
Estimating the error profile
Detecting variants followed by interpretation is the most important goal of amplicon resequencing projects. The mapping step detects variation by using BLAT and stores the raw variants in the database. These include real variants but also sequencing errors. When reporting to the end-user the VIP pipeline is able to discriminate between sequencing errors and real variants and is optimized to reduce false negatives which is of crucial importance in a diagnostic setting.
In theory, genomic variation is homozygous or heterozygous, thus the frequency of a certain observed variant in an amplicon has to be 50% or 100% of the total reads. In practice, this variant frequency can vary due to sampling variation, sequencing errors, and biological heterogeneity. At low coverage, variants can deviate from the 50% or 100% frequency and make discrimination between homo- and heterozygous variants difficult.
It is known that much of the sequencing errors occur when the basecaller software has to determine the exact length of a stretch of the same nucleotides (homopolymer sequences) [15]. Homopolymer error rates were calculated by looking for homopolymer stretches and counting homopolymer associated deletions and insertions. Although the overall GS-FLX error rate is reported to be relative low (≈0.035%; data not shown), the homopolymer related error rate is at a considerable level (≈10% for homopolymers with length 6 bp and up to 50% for homopolymers with length 8 bp; data not shown) and causing difficulties when calling certain variations as a true variant or a sequencing error [16]. The art of variation analysis is to pick the true variants from the total pool of observed variants. Taking all this into account, a filter was designed that automatically separates sequencing errors from real variants.
Alignment visualizer
Sometimes, the best way to determine which variants are real and which are not is by looking directly to how the reads were aligned to the reference sequence. The VIP pipeline contains an alignment visualizer that gives a global overview of how several reads were aligned to a reference sequence. The visualizer outputs results per MID/amplicon combination which users can specify. An example output of the visualizer is given in additional file 3.
The VIP validator
The VIP validator verifies if a certain introduced variant can be detected by the pipeline in a background of existing variants and sequencing errors. Variation is introduced in sequenced reads rather than in the reference template to simulate analysis of real data.
The validator combines the raw sequences database and the mapped sequences database to retrieve a set of raw sequences that map on a certain amplicon which eventually leads to a set of raw sequences associated with the specific amplicon. These reads already contain sequencing errors and real variants. The validator introduces a new variation (SNV, deletion, insertion or combination) at a certain position in a certain amount of sequences in this set. This variation can be something random (i.e. a random variant at a random position) or a predefined variant.
These variations are introduced with a certain frequency (from 0% to 100%) and with a certain coverage by introducing it in a random subset of sequences that are present in the total set of sequences. This way a dataset is generated as if it has been sequenced.
This newly generated dataset is then fed to the mapping and variation detection module of the normal analysis pipeline and the results are further processed in a validation reporting step (Figure 1).
Results & discussion
The pipeline is designed to process (multiplexed) amplicon resequencing experiments, a setup which is becoming frequently present in diagnostic labs (to replace classic Sanger sequencing) where several genes from several patients are tested together in one sequencing run.
The modular approach makes efficient planning possible. Time-consuming reporting steps can for example be postponed to a time when there is sufficient server power available. This is especially interesting when multiple runs need to be analyzed in a short period of time and efficient server usage is required.
The database approach makes it possible to easily generate reports and draw conclusions from a subset of sequences of a sequencing run or multiple runs together (Additional file 4). It also prevents the user from losing data as all the data is centralized in a single location.
Amplicon pools
The performance of the pipeline was initially assessed by analyzing two BRCA1/2 resequencing experiments (De Leeneer et al., in preparation). These two runs contained samples that had been analyzed before using classic HRM (high resolution melting) and consequently the variants in the samples were known. Both runs had a similar experimental design.
A total of 111 amplicons (44 BRCA1, 67 BRCA2) were equimolarly pooled together per sample (patient). PCR products of 11 patients (tagged with MIDs) were then equimolarly pooled together. Amplicon sizes ranged from 136 bp to 435 bp (mean 244 bp). The first run generated 542,532 reads (mean length 244 bp); the second run generated 261,646 reads (mean length 247 bp).
Processing the raw data
During the trimming step (processing the raw data), 97.37% of the raw sequences were split into MID sequence, linker sequence, amplicon sequence and trailing sequence. A small fraction of sequences had a start with too many sequencing errors to determine the correct MID, and these sequences were consequently not used in further analyses (but are nevertheless stored in the raw sequences database). At the moment there is no straightforward method to split sequences into MID, linker and amplicon sequence using the AVA software (AVA only allows MIDs to be split off), which makes it difficult to compare the splitting algorithms, but with a 97.37% yield one can assume that few improvements can be made.
Mapping the reads
BLAT mapped 85.24% of the sequenced reads generated in the first run and 93.57% of the reads generated in the second run. Some of the mapped sequences were filtered out because they map to a reference amplicon in two pieces with big gap in between and appear to be clear primer-dimers (the so-called 'short' sequences). 76% of all the sequences reads mapped correctly and passed filters in the first run compared to 92% in the second run. The residual portion of the sequenced reads that did not map were further investigated and appeared to be PCR artefacts such as complex primer dimers. Only 4,653 reads (completely or partially) mapped outside the target regions when mapped genome-wide and only 45 of these mapped completely (i.e. from start to stop) somewhere in the genome, from which we concluded that the PCR reactions were specific. Coverage per amplicon and per MID was heterogeneous and between 0 and 5,134 (mean 310) for run 1, and between 0 and 3,019 (mean 175) for run 2. This heterogeneity is mainly caused by differences in PCR efficiency and suboptimal pooling of samples. This heterogeneity (or 'spread factor') can be lowered by carrying out improved pooling strategies and incorporating normalization steps (Hellemans et al., in preparation). Errors in the labwork and/or PCR reactions not working as expected caused some amplicons to be not covered (2.98% in the first run, 1.51% in the second run).
Mapping on reference amplicons rather than on a reference genome certainly improves speed, but is somewhat discussable because one might miss paralogous amplification products. However, in a diagnostic resequencing setup one is interested in variants in a certain set of genes or even a certain exon using thoroughly validated PCR reactions. Paralogous amplification products might become apparent when mapping genome-wide (and be absent when mapping only to reference amplicons) but they would lack diagnostic significance as they give no or incorrect information on the region that was intended to be screened. Users should strive to the use of validated PCR reactions and omitting genome-wide mapping, rather than mapping genome-wide. Nevertheless, the genome-wide approach is included in the package for users desiring to screen for aspecific PCR products.
Calling true variants
The two BRCA1/2 runs contained samples with known variants (132 distinct sequence variants of which 90 were deletion/insertion mutations).
By setting the filters (using the 'generate reports' script) at the default values one can discriminate between true variants and sequencing errors. The recommended values are: variation frequency (>33% and <67%; >0.95%) and coverage (>20). However, the coverage filter and frequency filter is dynamic and can be changed and exact filter values can be calculated in function of the desired detection power (Hellemans et al., in preparation).
It is difficult to reliably design a filter to only filter out faulty homopolymer variants. Discarding every variation preceding or following a homopolymeric region is not an option as real variants can also flank such regions. We have seen that for homopolymers < 6 bp there is no problem discriminating between correctly sequenced homopolymeric stretches and homopolymer related insertions or deletions (sequencing errors) by using the quality score (Q). When using the recommended filter value Q > 30 only a minor fraction of the homopolymer related sequencing errors pass the filter (homopolymers < 6 bp). When the stretches are 6 bp long or longer the distributions of the normal and the mismatch homopolymers start to overlap and even a correctly sequenced base has a low Q score (figure 2). We recommend to set the homopolymer filter at 6 bp and keep in mind that no real variants preceding or following a 6 bp homopolymeric stretch can reliably be detected using the default filter values.
Influence of quality score (Q) on homopolymer accuracy. Distribution of homopolymer related quality scores (Q score). The normal homopolymer Q score distribution is determined by making a distribution of the Q score of the homopolymer base; the mismatch homopolymer Q score distribution is determined by making a distribution of the Q score of the base preceding a homopolymer related deletion or the Q score of a homopolymer related inserted base. Distributions are shown for homopolymers with length 3, 5, 6 and 7 bp. The grey vertical lines are drawn at a Q score of 15 and 30. Distributions are based on data from the two BRCA runs.
In total 97% of all known variants (homozygous and heterozygous) could be detected (sensitivity). Specificity (the portion of called variants that actually are real variants) was 98.5% which means that the false positive rate is only 1.5%. All non-detected variants were insertions/deletions in or near homopolymeric regions. We are aware of the fact that the given numbers may be overfitted to a BRCA1/2 screening, but very similar results were obtained in other experiments (20 genes, 4 runs) as well (data not shown).
A comparison of the data pre- and post-filtering is given in figure 3. The figure clearly shows that the pre-filter data contains a lot of 'noise'. Post-filter data is concentrated around the 50% and 100% level as expected and allows easy discrimination between heterozygous and homozygous variants. At higher coverage, the data is concentrated in a band which is narrower than the specified filter settings. This indicates that at higher coverage, mainly low Q-score variants and homopolymer-related variants are filtered out.
Pre and post filtering variants data. Plot of the coverage (times a single sequence is read by the sequencing equipment) and the frequency of an observed variation. In reality, genomic variation occurs at a frequency of either 50% or 100% of total reads. The top figure is the distribution when no filters are applied to discriminate between sequencing errors and real variants; the bottom figure is the distribution where several filters (frequency filter, Q score filter, coverage filter and homopolymer filter) are applied to discriminate the real variations from the sequencing errors. Vertical grey line indicates 40 × coverage; horizontal grey lines indicate respectively 33%, 67% and 95% variation frequency.
VIP compared with AVA
The performance of the VIP pipeline was compared with the performance of the AVA software (2.0.0.0). Reads from 1 patient (MID1) containing 67 different amplicons were analyzed in detail. The sample was known to contain 12 variants.
The AVA software does not handle the linker sequence between the MID adaptor and the PCR primer very well. The sequence of the MID/Linker combinations (MID1' = MID1/linker, MID2' = MID2/linker etc.) were used as new MIDs in AVA to circumvent the inability of AVA to split off the linker sequences. The AVA analysis was carried out as described in the manufacturer's manual.
The VIP pipeline returned 50 variants compared to the 235 returned by AVA. This is explained by the fact that the VIP pipeline has an internal filter which filters out any variant with a frequency lower than 10% and with a coverage of only 1. These variants are considered random sequence errors.
Setting a minimum frequency filter in AVA to 20%, 33 variants were identified, whereas 14 variants passed the different filters in the VIP pipeline. The VIP pipeline picked up all 12 known variants (including 6 difficult homopolymer related variants) and called only two false positives, both homopolymer related. The AVA software on the other hand missed all 6 homopolymer related variants and called 27 false positives (Table 1). A detailed overview of all the variants detected by both AVA and VIP is given in additional file 5.
Table 1 Comparison of AVA and VIP performance (1 sample, 67 amplicons, 12 known variants)
Besides generating an overview of the variants, the pipeline can also generate additional reports which make the pipeline very useful in a diagnostic setting. All the data is intelligently stored in a relational database and therefore custom analyses can be carried out using SQL-statements in either an SQL browser such as HeidiSQL [17] or by writing custom scripts in any scripting or programming language that has the ability to communicate with a MySQL database.
This database approach allowed optimization of the laboratory work of the BRCA1/2 sequencing experiments, especially the pre-sequencing PCR reactions. Using the data from the database, it was possible to detect which amplicons were underrepresented. It was also clear that there were a lot of short sequences in the first run. Run 1 had 8.73% of total reads flagged as 'short sequence', run 2 had 1.87% of total reads flagged as such. Using this information, the multiplex reactions were optimized and an additional length separation was carried out. These actions improved the efficiency by reducing undesired by-products and/or primer dimers from 24% to 8% of the total sequences (Figure 4). It is vital to reduce by-products such as dimers in the early PCR steps as these shorter sequences get preferentially amplified in the emulsion PCR and reduce efficiency even more.
Improving future sequencing efficiency using priors sequencing data. Example of the reporting possibilities. Run 1 had many unmappable and short, mapped sequences. Length distribution showed these were mainly 60-120 bp sequences. In Run 2 optimized PCR reactions and an additional length separation were carried out prior to the sequencing with a huge reduction (8% vs. 24%) of unmapped and short sequences and thus improving the cost-effectiveness.
There are 8 standard reports integrated in the reporting module. Each of the reports is described in detail in the manual and an overview is present in the additional files.
Validating variation using the VIP Validator
Random variation in the VIP Validator is defined as a random error that is introduced with a certain frequency at a certain position in a set of sequences that map on a random reference amplicon. The Validator introduces the variant into a number of sequences and then verifies in how many of these sequences this specific variant was detected at the exact location where it was introduced.
Random variation validation was initially used to optimize and validate the VIP analysis pipeline but has proven to be an effective instrument to detect problematic amplicons or problematic regions in certain amplicons. There are amplicons for which few variants have been reported yet, meaning that amplicon resequencing experiments can unravel new variants. A simulation with random variations can give a clue about regions where accurate variation detection is difficult; for example multiple variations close to each other or variations in repetitive regions can be problematic for the mapping software. The Validator does not explain why a certain region becomes a difficult region to detect variants but informs about variants that cannot be detected using the pipeline.
Random variation was introduced by choosing a random amplicon, a random position, a random variant, a random frequency, and a random coverage and then introducing the variant accordingly. This process was repeated 1000 times.
The ratio between the number of sequences in which a variation was introduced (the coverage so to speak) and the number of sequences wherein the variation was detected is the detection ratio. This ratio is independent from the frequency by which a variant was introduced.
It is clear that SNV detection with the VIP is no problem as 100% of the introduced variants can be detected by the VIP Validator with a sufficiently high detection ratio. The 67% threshold is considered as sufficiently high because the detection ratio for a heterozygous variant would be at least 33.5% and still pass the 33% filter.
Deletions (and insertions) are often not detected using the newest NGS mapping and variation detection packages (Additional file 5). The VIP pipeline can detect >99% of random 3 bp deletions with a detection ratio ≥ 67%. Determining the location of a gap appears to be relatively easy. The difficult part of gap detection is determining the exact length. Results are similar for longer (10 bp) deletions and insertions (both 3 bp and 10 bp). An overview of the detection ratios is given in figure 5.
The VIP Validator. Detection ratios of 1000 known BRCA1/2 variants, random SNVs, random 3 bp and 10 bp deletions, and random 3 bp and 10 bp insertions. The grey horizontal lines indicate 67% detection ratio. The grey vertical lines indicate a 99% cumulative frequency.
These observations make it clear that deletions and insertions can be detected but one should keep in mind that the exact length of the insertion/deletion that passes through the filters is not necessarily the real length. This is one of the drawbacks of needing multiple reads to have a reliable call for a single nucleotide position. Nevertheless, it is detected that something is wrong, which is essential in a diagnostic setting. The alignment visualizer can be a useful resource to manually assess the exact deletion/insertion size.
Rather than using random variation, the VIP Validator can also use a list of known variations as input. Validating known variation is the most useful application of the VIP Validator in a diagnostic setting. It gives an answer to the question "If variation × is present in an amplicon, would it then be possible to detect it using the VIP pipeline?". The answer to this question is objectively addressed using the detection ratio parameter.
Around 95% of the known BRCA1/2 variants were detected by the Validator with a detection ratio of 100% meaning that in every single read (wherein the variant was introduced) the variant was detected at the correct position. The other 5% of the variants were detected with a detection frequency that is lower than 100% but still > 67% (Figure 5).
The VIP Validator can also be used to determine minimal needed coverage in silico. The number of sequences wherein variation is introduced can be altered and one can find a minimal coverage that is needed to have a sufficiently high and reproducible detection frequency.
This Validator is useful for pipeline optimization and determination of the ideal cut-off values. It allows the end-user to fine-tune the pipeline to its own needs and to objectively validate the results of a given pipeline modification. Moreover, it allows validation of the analysis software with respect to the detection of certain variation screening, which is very important in diagnostics, and it determines the detection limits of the pipeline, prior to starting a diagnostic screening.
We have developed an open-source pipeline that is of great interest for diagnostic resequencing projects. The AVA software (the standard GS-FLX software package) is user-friendly and useful in a research setting but not exactly what is needed in a diagnostic setting. The VIP pipeline is a fully automated pipeline that enables accurate variant detection, even insertions and deletions, and can objectively quantify the identification power by using the Validator. Although the pipeline performs better than AVA when detecting homopolymer related variants, one should bear in mind that reliably detecting variants next to homopolymers will always be an issue, even with high coverage and 'intelligent' software packages. The VIP pipeline also allows a degree of flexibility when one wants to fine-tune its performance, a feature which is lacking in AVA.
The pipeline also allows optimization of the sample preparation procedures and amplicon generating PCR reactions and offers a complete suite of reports that allows researchers in diagnostic labs to assess the reliability of a sequencing run and the detected variants.
The VIP pipeline is under continuous development and improvement as more and more sequencing data becomes available to validate and improve the pipeline. Furthermore, an additional module is in development to do an automated and integrated interpretation of the variants that are discovered using both the amplicon and the genome-wide pipeline.
A package file containing version 1.3 of the pipeline is added as additional file 6.
Availability and requirements
Project name: Variant Identification Pipeline
Project home page: http://athos.ugent.be/VIP_pipeline
Operating system(s): Platform independent
Programming language: Perl
Other requirements: BLAT, MySQL
License: GNU LGPL
Any restrictions to use by non-academics: none
NGS:
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JDS wrote the Perl scripts and wrote the manuscript. KDL carried out the sequencing runs and helped estimating the error profile. SL helped estimating the error profile. NS designed a mathematical approach to determine optimal filter values. FP participated in the design of the pipeline. FVN participated in the design of the pipeline. PC, DD, JV, SB, JH, WVC provided access to the sequencing facility and were involved in the design of the pipeline from the very beginning. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Additional file 1: Overview of the standard reports that can be generated using the pipeline. Overview of the standard reports that can be generated and the time needed to generate the files. (DOC 32 KB)
Additional file 2: Report generation time when using multi-threading. Clock time needed to perform a reporting action using SQL statements and the effect of using multiple threads. Increasing threads reduces the clock time significantly in the beginning, but using more than 7 threads (and thus 7 cores in the server) has no beneficial effect. Averages and standard deviation shown for 6 repetitions. (TIFF 477 KB)
Additional file 3: Example output of the alignment visualizer. Screendump of the output generated by the alignment visualizer. Some annotation is added to the figure to explain the format of the output. Bases between 56 and 224 are omitted to ease displaying. (PNG 89 KB)
Additional file 4: Doing meta-analyses. An example of the possibilities of meta-analyses. Three different runs were grouped together in an analysis of the average Q score in function of the read position. Data of more than 1 million reads was used in the analysis. (DOC 122 KB)
Additional file 5: AVA compared with the VIP pipeline. An overview of the variants detected by both the AVA software and the VIP pipeline. The file shows variants that are detected by both AVA and VIP and variants detected by only AVA or VIP. The file also shows detection frequencies and other parameters calculated by both AVA and VIP. (XLS 84 KB)
Additional file 6: The VIP pipeline package. A RAR-file containing the pipeline package (version 1.3), the manual and example data. (RAR 179 KB)
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Congratulations to TallPaul (aka Paul Iddon) for winning the free pass! We appreciated his story about working for non-profits which has never allowed him to attend a large training conference such as TechEd. But don’t fret, keep watching the Countdown show as there will be more opportunities to win! In the remaining minutes we have another member of the TechEd team join us as we share stories about our planning process, including the importance of yummy food at the event, and how we plan for delegates that will attend from over 60+ countries. https://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
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I'm from Germany and I used to live in Potsdam but moved to Victoria BC 2 years ago.
So of course my first tip is Potsdam. It's really nice City with lot of old castles and its' just 30min by train.
-Blind date with a different meaning http://www.dinner-in-the-dark.com/
-Potsdamer-Platz in Berlin http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=berlin+potsdamer+platz&FORM=BIFD
-If you have enough time and 60km is not far away then Tropical Islands is worth a trip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands it's huge artificial tropical resort in the world largest single hall without supporting pillars inside. It's a weired experience, its like biosphere on the moon.
-And don't miss the television tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Fernsehturm The Space Needle has just the half of the height.
-Oh and if you wanna experience the Autobahn then rent a Porsche http://www.erento.net/rent/vehicles-boats-aircraft/special-cars/porsche/germany/ and go down the Berlin Ring to the A9 and have fun without speed limits. If you hit the 250km/h then there no need for coffee anymore.
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TechEd is a big, great event, but in Poland we also have a big conference: Microsoft Technology Summit, which will be held on the 5-6th October in Warsaw, and about 3000 people will attend it
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One thing I really would love to visit is this chilling monument: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=berlin+holocaust+monument&form=QBLH&scope=images&filt=all
It's a rather new monument remembering the holocaust. I've heard it's chilling your nerves when you stand between all those pillars.
amyrc
Great suggestion, CKurt. I will definitely make time to visit the monument.
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He offers a comprehensive approach to natural healthcare embracing a “leave no stone unturned” philosophy in helping his patients to achieve their diverse health goals. Utilizing gentle Chiropractic systems, Dr. Pine brings a variety of techniques to our practice that address traditional Chiropractic, nutritional and metabolic needs as well as emotional stressors.
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She began her journey as a health care practitioner at 18 as a Registered Nurse. In 2000, while working as an Athlete Care Nurse at the Sydney Olympic Games, Clairemarie saw how much these elite world class athletes appreciated and benefited from Chiropractic Care to enhance their performance. Intrigued to learn more about Chiropractic, Clairemarie started Chiropractic care, and then went on to study Chiropractic at Murdoch University (WA). For Clairemarie, Chiropractic is part of the “bigger picture” of health and is just as important as healthy eating, exercise, getting plenty of sleep, and having fun! Clairemarie see newborns through to grandparents! Chiropractic is for all ages and her techniques are modified to the patients age and requirements, including pregnancy. Clairemarie also incorporates dry needling along with Chiropractic adjustments to achieve great results for her patients.
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Having only ever worked in multidisciplinary clinics, she is an advocator for having a “whole-systems” approach to care to achieve all health goals for optimal wellness and performance. She believes Chiropractic is for all ages and her techniques and approach is modified accordingly. Natalie incorporates dry needing and rehabilitation exercises along with Chiropractic adjustments to achieve the best results for her patients.
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Peta studied at Hunter College of Massage having qualifications in Sports Injury and Treatment, Triggerpoint, Dry Needling, Myofascial cupping and Hot Stone Therapy. Peta grew up in the Hunter Valley where she found a passion for Athletics and Gymnastics, representing at regional and national levels. Peta’s highlight was representing her community in 2000 running the Olympic Torch through her home town of Greta. Peta loves to travel, spend time in her garden and playing tennis.
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Chloe is originally from Southampton in the United Kingdom.
She has a bachelor of Sports Science from the University of Winchester and has an interest in working with sports rehabilitation patients. Before moving to Australia in 2015, Chloe worked in the famous Canadian ski-resort of Banff. She now commutes each day from the Central Coast and currently works at our New Lambton clinic. Chloe loves snowboarding, travel and crossfit.
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Andrew Waring is one of the most highly respected massage therapists in Australia!
During the 19 years Andrew has been with Chiropractic Plus he has had the opportunity to work with some of Australia’s elite sportspeople, including the Australia Rugby League team, the Australia Netball team and the Newcastle Knights, but undoubtedly the highlight of his career was the two year period he toured with the Wallabies as their Massage Therapist – arguably the most sought after Massage Therapy position in the country.
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Kirralee Watton is a local Novocastrian who attended Glendale Technology High School.
Kirralee graduated in 2009 to begin her Diploma of Remedial Massage at Body-Lee Massage College. During her remedial massage course, Kirralee was given the opportunity to massage the Newcastle Knights; some invaluable experience for treating sports-specific injuries and muscular damage. Kirralee enjoys dancing and listening to music.
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Dru is a qualified remedial massage therapist and specialised exercise trainer.
Dru places a great emphasis on a structural integrated approach to treating chronic pain; correcting the underlying postural and biomechanical dysfunctions which contribute to long term problems through a combination of manual therapy, lifestyle modification and corrective exercises. Dru brings unique insight to his practice as a remedial massage therapist through his experience training and working with athletes in numerous sports and martial arts including Boxing, Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu. Dru is a strong advocate for the Health At Every Size approach and is one of only two currently registered HAES practitioners in Newcastle. Having completed diplomas in both Fitness and Remedial Massage, Dru is now studying a Bachelor of Exercise Science at the University of Newcastle.
Tressa Rootsey
Tressa has qualifications in Remedial massage, Dry needling, Remedial Hot stones, Bowen Therapy and Reiki.
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Kara Robb
Kara joined the Chiropractic Plus team in 2016.
During her Diploma of Remedial Massage studies at TAFE she worked with the Newcastle Knights and went on to be part of the massage team for Fiji in the Rugby League World Cup. With a background in gymnastics and yoga, Kara has always had an avid interest in human physiology and movement, which compelled her to study and complete certificate III & IV in Fitness. A Novocastrian through and through she loves her footy, the Knights and can often be found at the local league or soccer. Kara has a holistic approach to work and life – she surrounding herself with nature, the beach, music and her beautiful family and friends.
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Madeleine Smith Now a practice manager at Chiroprctic Plus.
Maddy joined our team in late 2010 and has enjoyed being a part of the admin staff ever since. Maddy grew up in Newcastle and completed her HSC at Hunter Valley Grammar in 2008. Before joining the team at Chiropractic Plus, Maddy undertook a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Newcastle University. Maddy is now a proud mum and when she has time, enjoys keeping fit any way she can.
Praena Chand
Praena is another of our highly educated admin staff.
She is a chiropractic student with a big passion for health and fitness. Her other qualifications include being a Remedial massage therapist and fitness trainer. Praena loves learning how the human body works and how we can reach our full potential. Away from work you can find Praena outside running in the sunshine or at the gym powerlifting.
Grace Philip
Grace grew up in Port Macquarie, she loves the beach but can’t surf to save her life.
She moved to Newcastle in 2015 after graduating high school to study Biomedical Science at the University of Newcastle, she is still studying this and hopes to transfer to Medicine soon. Her hobbies include martial arts, listening to music while singing along terribly and doing volunteer work at John Hunter Children’s Hospital.
Jess Bennett
After graduating high school in 2015 Jess went straight into studying massage and personal training.
Jess is passionate about health. She is currently studying Exercise and Sport Science at University
where she will continue onto Physiotherapy in the years to come.
Katherine Mordon
Kate was born and raised in a small town in Canada.
She then moved to Calgary, Alberta to complete her undergraduate degree in exercise physiology at the University of Calgary and has now ended up in Newcastle. Kate has a strong passion for sports and adventures, particularly surfing, touch footy and more recently mountain biking. She aims to continue to grow and be a positive influence within the health industry.
Gemma Watts
Gemma is originally from the central coast but also spent some time living in Mudgee.
Before joining the team at Chiropractic Plus Gemma studied at the University of Newcastle. Outside of work she spends a lot of time making the most of the outdoor facilities available throughout Lake Macquarie, especially walking her dog around the lake.
Jenna Pacholek
As a Practitioner Assistant at Chiropractic Plus, Jenna loves the opportunity to share her passion for holistic health.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Victorian College of the Arts and has recently relocated to Newcastle to continue her studies in Occupational Therapy. Jenna is always on the go – she loves Dance, of course, but she also keeps fit by running.
Amy Rae
Amy was Born and raised in Newcastle, loves to travel but will always come back home.
She has a strong retail background, which had her working with a variety of people from a young age and lead her to complete a Certificate in Retail Management.
Amy is currently completing a Diploma in Business Administration with the desire for further studies in the future.
Eliza Beletich
Eliza is one of our high energy practitioner assistants.
Eliza completed her HSC at St Francis Xavier’s College and then went on to study Business Administration and Human Resources.
She loves travel and recently took some time off to travel extensively in Canada. She comes
from a large, tight-knit family in Newcastle and has a passion for travel.
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Home News Gosford
Government ministers contradict each other about potential contamination
TOPICS:leadmangrove landfillMangrove Mountain landfill
Dr Stephen Goodwin from the Mountain Districts Association with NSW Shadow Environment Minister, Ms Penny Sharpe and Member for Gosford, Ms Liesl Tesch Photo Noel Fisher
The NSW Opposition has revealed that two Berejiklian Government ministers have contradicted each other about the potential contamination of groundwater from the Mangrove Mountain landfill site.
Parliamentary questions have exposed the inconsistency, which adds weight to claims aired on a recent 4 Corners program, that landfill matter had previously intercepted the groundwater table and was considered a high potential for contamination, all within the Central Coast’s drinking water catchment.
Answers from the Environment Minister, Ms Gabrielle Upton, claim that an environmental review of the landfill “found no evidence that the landfill is having any negative impact on ground or surface water quality.”
However, another recent answer given by embattled Primary Industries and Regional Water Minister, Mr Niall Blair, provided other information to Parliament about breaches of the groundwater aquifers.
“While early reports related to the site did not indicate groundwater interception, a more recent inspection identified groundwater interception,” Mr Blair said.
“As such, Water NSW is in the process of determining whether a water access licence for the site is required,” he said.
More damning evidence was piled on by 4 Corners, as previously reported in Coast Community News, which displayed a Department of Primary Industries memo from 2012 that stated the groundwater table had been intercepted and the potential for contamination was high, and recommended that prosecution be considered.
“Yet five years, later the ministers in charge of protecting drinking water give differing accounts, while Mr Blair may have misled the NSW Parliament by stating ‘early reports related to the site did not indicate groundwater interception’, when his own department’s 2012 memo clearly contradicts this,” Ms Sharpe said.
“Given the landfill was originally approved for 80,000 cubic metres of clean fill, but is now reported to hold ten times that amount, these are serious allegations for the Government to answer, and the community deserves to know the truth,” she said.
“It is clear that within the Berejiklian Government, the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
“It is simply not credible that groundwater interception could be identified from the Mangrove Mountain landfill site both five years ago and this year, while at the same time the Environment Minister can confidently give the all-clear for impacts on nearby water quality.
“Misleading the Parliament is a sackable offence as it is, but misleading the community about the potential contamination of drinking water for five years?
“Heads should roll.”
The Member for Gosford, Ms Liesl Tesch, accompanied Ms Sharpe to Mangrove Mountain on Wednesday, August 23, to call for immediate government action.
“The community has every right to expect their government to undertake a full investigation of any potential contamination in our drinking water catchment, and to be open and transparent about the results,” Ms Tesch said.
“I’m appalled that five years ago, the Government was aware of a high potential for contamination of the groundwater table and did not inform the community, and now here we are, five years later, and it appears that nothing has changed,” she said.
“The Berejiklian Government must immediately release all results of investigations into local groundwater so there can be confidence in the protection of human health and the environment.”
Media release, Aug 23
Richard Mehrtens, office of Liesl Tesch
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Wicks wins Robertson by 2093 votes
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Permission-based security
Migrated From Jforum.net
posted 14 years ago
Wouldn't it be better if JForum's access control was permission-based instead of restriction-based?
For example, in the Admin control panel / Group permission control, I think it would be far better if you could specify which groups are ALLOWED to see which categories, instead of DENIED. Otherwise, if you crate a new secret category, you have to explicitly deny access for all non-authorized groups/users. And if a new user is created...
If I understand the current wisdom correctly, permission-based security is The Right Thing (tm).
Perhaps JForums design is inherited from phpBB? If so, JForum has the opportunity to become much better if the access control model is changed to permission-based.
[originally posted on jforum.net by per]
The permission schema is not based on phpbb at all. I even don't understand that piece of crap that is the security model of phpbb.
When I started coding the permission stuff, "restriction based" was the best in my opinion, but I have my doubts about this nowadays. However, the current code is working as expected, and was very very very hard to make it work right. Is fucking hard to test all roles, combinations and merges. Changing the code would require a lot of effort and time. I don't have plans to change it so soon..
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]
Rafael Steil wrote: When I started coding the permission stuff, "restriction based" was the best in my opinion, but I have my doubts about this nowadays.
Yep, I think that you're right there!
However, the current code is working as expected, and was very very very hard to make it work right. Is fucking hard to test all roles, combinations and merges.
Precisely. I think that's because of the model, and presume that a permission-based model is much easer to implement and get right.
Changing the code would require a lot of effort and time. I don't have plans to change it so soon..
I quite understand! It's a major redesign.
Consider Paul's rocket mass heater.
All categories for a closed group
Ajax and Security
Bugs?
Requested features for JForum3
How to change user credentials when accessing DB
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Modern Masonry Using Pre-blended Mortar
Blending and certification in the factory overcomes field mix uncertainties
Sponsored by Echelon™ Masonry by Oldcastle
By Peter J. Arsenault, FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Identify the durability and performance impacts of mortar in a masonry wall and the ingredients that define its makeup and attributes.
Investigate the differences in various types of mortar and the standards that apply to them.
Compare the differences between site-mixed and pre-blended masonry mortar.
Specify pre-blended mortar for a variety of buildings and with appropriate selections related to specific applications.
The use of mortar is a process that has changed little since the days of ancient Greece. Unlike lumber, steel, and other building materials found on today’s construction sites, mortar ingredients are typically brought individually onto the site and stored where the masonry work is being done. Then they are shoveled into some form of mixer (manual or powered) to combine the dry ingredients along with a measured quantity of water. The results have been quite understandably dependent on the quality of the ingredients used, the skills of the people doing the portioning and mixing, and the outdoor environmental conditions—all variables that can and have produced quite variable outcomes in terms of mortar quality and performance. In our current time, there are some well-documented conditions that also come into play. Shortages of skilled construction labor means that it is uncertain how precisely the mortar is being mixed on-site. At the same time, manufacturers have made substantial strides in bringing modern production techniques to mortar by employing computerized technology that allows great precision in many factory settings. Therefore, rather than trusting the production process to hand mixing in unpredictable conditions, factory pre-blended mortar is becoming more and more the preferred norm for masonry construction of all types. Architects, engineers, contractors, and building owners are realizing that pre-blended mortar eliminates many of the variables and uncertainties of site-mixed mortar, thus reducing the potential for problems and liability with the finished masonry construction. In this course, we will look at the types of mortar available, the process and pitfalls of field mixing versus pre-blended mortar, and the significance of mortar in masonry assemblies.
All images courtesy of Echelon Masonry by Oldcastle
Masonry mortar is critical to the integrity and performance of masonry construction. The use of pre-blended mortar creates a much more highly controlled mixture of ingredients to help assure that the desired results are achieved.
Mortar Standards
Given the variability in the ingredient choices, how can we be sure that the ultimate mortar mix is proper and appropriate for use on a particular building? To address that, there are two different ASTM standards that are available—essentially one for site-mixed mortar and one for pre-blended mortar. ASTM International provides objective, consistent testing and specification protocols that are relied on across the construction industry to establish a benchmark for materials. By referencing and understanding the relevant ASTM standards for mortar, architects can write specifications based on these industry standards that help streamline construction and provide a basis for quality control. Therefore, each of the two ASTM standards for mortar are discussed further as follows.
ASTM C270: Standard Specification for Mortar for Unit Masonry
This is the standard specification that covers mortars mixed together for use in the construction of non-reinforced and reinforced unit masonry structures. It applies directly to site-mixed mortars and is also referenced in the specification for pre-blended mortars. The specification offers two different paths to comply. The first is a proportion specification that identifies the relevant proportion of each identified ingredient of a mortar mix to the other ingredients. It is easy to see why this is popularly and commonly used on construction sites since measuring quantities of ingredients are the easiest to accommodate with on-site labor. The second option is to follow a property specification that is based on specific properties of the mortar and necessarily requires testing to confirm that those properties are met. However, this standard is not a specification to determine mortar strengths through field testing. That is handled separately under ASTM C780 16a: Standard Test Method for Preconstruction and Construction Evaluation of Mortars for Plain and Reinforced Unit Masonry.
ASTM standards have been developed to provide a basis for the formulation and strength characteristics of both site-mixed and pre-blended mortar.
ASTM C1714: Standard Specification for Pre-blended Dry Mortar Mix for Unit Masonry
The cement and mortar industry began addressing some of the inherent issues of the number of variables in mortar and cement types by creating pre-blended dry mixes of cement, lime, and sand, plus admixtures where appropriate, in a controlled factory environment. The pre-blended products were then packaged in large sacks or in bulk and delivered to job-sites. By the early 2000s this pre-blended alternative to site-blended mortars had been growing in use to the point that it began to account for the majority of masonry mortar applications.
In the years just prior to 2009, ASTM International and the Committee C12 on Mortars and Grouts for Unit Masonry recognized this growing use of pre-blended dry mortar, which was following the requirements of ASTM C270. However, certain aspects of using pre-blended dry mortar are not covered by ASTM C270, such as factory testing, packaging, and confirmation of the ingredients used. As a result, a new standard was developed by ASTM International to address issues specifically related to pre-blended dry mortar designated ASTM C1714/C1714M: Specification for Pre-blended Dry Mortar Mix for Unit Masonry.
This standard, while separate from ASTM C270, covers masonry mortars whose materials and design requirements are still governed by the C270 specifications but, instead of being produced from individual raw materials delivered to the job-site, they are pre-blended dry in a factory. This standard specifically addresses the issues of field sampling, testing, directly comparable test results, packaging, and the traceability of ingredients of pre-blended dry mortar mix. The tight control of ingredient ratios possible with pre-blended dry mortar is also covered. Overall, there are five main components to ASTM C1714: 1) traceability of mortar mix ingredients; 2) ingredient blending consistency; 3) testing frequency; 4) allowance of additives based on performance; and 5) dryness of all included ingredients. In addition, ASTM C1714 provides guidance on the use of admixtures that is specific to pre-blended dry mortar and not included in ASTMC270 or ASTM C1384: Specification for Admixtures for Masonry Mortars.
According to Jeffrey Thompson, a member of ASTM Committee C12, pre-blended dry mortar offers the ability to directly compare the test results from mortar mix sampled at the manufacturing facility to mortar mix sampled at the job-site. “The pre-blended mortar mix is delivered to the job-site dry and therefore can be sampled dry and taken back to the lab to be tested alongside mortar sampled from the plant, using the exact same laboratory test methods,” Thompson says. “On the other hand, with mortars batched at the job-site, where the sand already contains moisture, the mortar mix is wet as soon as the sand is added, which starts the mortar setting process and therefore requires different test methods. ASTM C1714 provides a solid foundation for specifying pre-blended mortar and serves the needs of the industry well.”
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Tag Archive: slice-of-life
Manga Review – Kiniro Mosaic
HARA Yui
Seinen – 4-koma, comedy, girls’ love, slice-of-life
9 Volumes (ongoing)
Shinobu loves English culture, even staying with an English family for a time. There she met Alice, a girl her age who loves Japan. Well, now Alice is coming to stay with Shinobu. With an English-crazy Japanese girl, a Japanese-crazy English girl, and their friends, there may be some cultural barriers, but no one can break their bonds!
4-koma, comedy, girls' love, hara yui, ongoing, slice-of-life, yen press
Manga Review – Everyone’s Getting Married [Redux]
Krystallina May 24, 2019 13 Comments
Everyone’s Getting Married
突然ですが、明日結婚します (Totsuzen Desu ga, Ashita Kekkon Shimasu)
MIYAZONO Izumi
Josei – Mature, romance slice-of-life
9 Volumes (completed)
Asuka works hard at her job, but she dreams of being a homemaker. After dating her boyfriend for five years, a proposal is surely around the corner. Instead of a ring, Asuka gets dumped! As she tries to move on, her work and social life causes her to keep bumping into a popular television announcer. But while Ryu expresses interest in Asuka, he’s definitely not her type — after all, he never wants to get married!
completed, josei, manga, mature, miyazono izumi, romance, slice-of-life, viz media
Manga Review – I Am Here!
I Am Here!
ココにいるよ！(Koko ni Iru yo!)
TOYAMA Ema
Shoujo – Drama, romance, slice-of-life
Hikage is practically invisible to her classmates. She has no friends, no one knows her name, and they forget she’s even in their class. Still, she at least has two regular commenters on her internet blog. But when the most popular boys in school start to talk to her, Hikage may finally be able to escape the shadows of her lonely school life.
completed, drama, kodansha comics, romance, shoujo, slice-of-life, toyama ema
Unlicensed Spotlight – Blade Girl ~Kataashi no Runner~
Blade Girl ~Kataashi no Runner~
Blade Girl ~One-Legged Runner~
ブレードガール ～片脚のランナー～
SHIGEMATSU Narumi
Josei – Drama, romance, slice-of-life, sports
Kodansha (Be Love)
Sixteen-year-old Rin has not gotten used to having an artificial leg. But when she’s taken to a sports complex, she sees a whole team of people racing with a strange device in place of a foot. When she meets Kazami, a maker of these blades for running, Rin finds herself drawn to the world of competitive running…
drama, josei, manga, romance, shigematsu narumi, slice-of-life, sports, wish list
Manga Review – Say I Love You. [Redux]
Say I Love You.
好きっていいなよ。(Suki tte Ii na yo.)
Shoujo – Romance, drama, slice-of-life, mature
Mei is a loner. She doesn’t have friends, and she doesn’t want friends, plain and simple. After she mistakenly kicks the most popular boy in school, Yamato, he decides he wants to get to know her. But Mei insists she wants nothing to do with him…
completed, drama, hazuki kanae, kodansha comics, manga, mature, romance, shoujo, slice-of-life
Manga Review – The One I Love
Krystallina July 21, 2018 9 Comments
わたしのすきなひと (Watashi no Suki na Hito)
Josei – Romance, slice-of-life
Tokyopop / Viz Media
Twelve ladies, twelve lives. Each woman’s romance is explored through manga. Then, CLAMP’s leader shares her thoughts on romance in short essays.
clamp, completed, josei, manga, romance, slice-of-life, tokyopop, viz media
Manga Review – Otome Mania!!
Otome Mania!!
オトメマニア!!
TSUKIGASE Yurino
Shoujo – Comedy, reverse harem, romance, slice-of-life
Yuzumi is an otome game fan who is excited to work for an otome game developer. Her dream to one day conquer the industry gets one step closer when she’s given the opportunity to create with a new game. With a strict boss, harsh deadlines, and tough competition, will Yuzumi’s first game be a success? Or will she just be a burden to her coworkers?
comedy, manga, reverse harem, romance, seven seas, shoujo, slice-of-life, tsukigase yurino
Manga Review – The Bride was a Boy
The Bride was a Boy
花嫁は元男子。(Hanayome wa Motodanshi.)
Chii
Romance, slice-of-life
Chii is living happily ever after with her husband. It’s a future many people dream of, and one that could have been out of reach for Chii. Why? Because she was born a boy! Chii recounts some of the key points in her life story and describes the laws and misunderstandings of being a transgendered person.
chii, completed, manga, romance, seven seas, slice-of-life
Manga Review – Chi’s Sweet Home
Krystallina April 30, 2018 10 Comments
チーズスイートホーム
KONAMI Kanata
Seinen – Comedy, slice-of-life
12 Volumes / 4 Omnibuses (complete)
Vertical, Inc.
Chi, a young kitten, gets separated from her mother. Just when all hope seems lost, she meets a young boy and his mother. They temporarily rescue Chi as they try to find a home for the little cat. Although Chi wants to find her mama and the Yamada family’s apartment doesn’t allow pets, is it possible they can make a new home together?
comedy, completed, konami kanata, manga, seinen, slice-of-life, vertical
Manga Review – Waiting for Spring
春待つ僕ら (Haru Matsu Bokura)
Anashin
Shoujo – Reverse harem, romance, slice-of-life, sports
5 Volumes (ongoing) of 9 Volumes (ongoing)
Mitsuki hasn’t made any friends at school, but she wasn’t always friendless. Her time with the basketball-loving Aya was so precious to her that Mitsuki found a job at a cafe near the court where they hung out. But will her special haven be ruined when the four most popular boys at school start hanging out at her workplace?
anashin, kodansha comics, manga, ongoing, reverse harem, romance, shoujo, slice-of-life, sports
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When Prophets Come Alive
I recently accompanied my murshid on a spiritual retreat in Turkey, along with a group of dear friends and seekers. We sat in the presence of sufi teachers and visited shrines, including the House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus and the tombs of Mevlana Rumi and Shams of Tabriz in Konya.
One of the lessons that resonated with me was the idea that we can relate to prophets and saints like Muhammad, Jesus, Mary, Buddha or Rumi not merely as historical figures, but as sacred personalities who belong to all humanity, rather than a particular religion, ideology or nationality. They represent transcendent qualities accessible through the collective human consciousness.
The House of Mary in Ephesus, Turkey (Photo by David John Ward)
We open ourselves up to a direct experience with these sacred figures when we bring our lower selves or egos (called nafs in sufi terminology) into alignment with our hearts. In sufism, this is achieved by cultivating consciousness of the Divine Reality, or Allah, through zikr, or remembrance. Over time, such practices heighten our spiritual radar and we grow more and more into our greatest humanness, where direct experiences with the Beloved permeate all circumstances of life.
As Mevlana Rumi says:
Our body is like Mary.
Each of us has a Jesus inside.
If a pain and yearning shows up inside us,
the Jesus of our soul is born.
If there is no pain, no yearning,
the Jesus of our soul will return to its origin from
the same secret passageway he came from…
we will remain deprived
not benefiting from that Jesus of the soul.
(Translated by Omid Safi, in Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition)
Understanding that prophets and saints reside in the potentiality of every human’s experience opened a deeper dimension of intimacy and connection for me. It’s also obliterated the cultural and religious divisions that I’d grown up believing separated people.
In my journey, I’ve felt connected to prophets and saints not merely because I’d read about them and appreciated their stories. But because shifts in my consciousness have given me a direct sense of who they were and how their qualities have manifested in my own experience.
One of my first such encounters was with Khadija, Muhammad’s first wife. She came into view just as my consciousness was awakening to the dimension of Spirit that I’d been blind to after a lifetime of being trapped in my mind. A single mother managing a multinational business, Khadija exuded strength and confidence, so much so that she had no qualms about proposing marriage to the much younger Muhammad, her employee.
More than admiring her audacity, though, I started to notice how her courage to live outside social norms was transforming my own way of being in the world. It was as though she came alive inside of me: I gradually turned off all the cultural and familial noise and pressures standing in the way of charting out my own path. A wholly receptive feminine energy, Khadija revealed herself in the intuitive part of me that feels an unbreakable heart connection to the Divine even in the face of prevailing mainstream pressures that rejected this, in her time and mine.
By Mariam Choudry
Sacred breezes like Khadija’s have swept over me at many points on my journey, awakening qualities I wasn’t aware existed. Recently, for instance, I had my first deep contact with Imam Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin. I was initially startled because Ali is famed for being a great warrior who fought many battles at the prophet’s side. I didn’t fathom such masculinity could exist in myself.
And yet after spending some time reading about Ali’s devotion to Muhammad, parallels emerged. Ali offers an example of how to arrive fully armed to our inner battle ground where the fight for the soul, or jihad, takes place. A big part of me, especially in the past couple of years, has been bold in confronting many painful psychological wounds blocking my path to spiritual maturity, always with abundant self compassion.
The Ali in me has the gentle courage to bring unhealthy patterns of behaviour rooted in childhood trauma and religious and cultural conditioning into conscious awareness and allow the spiritual alchemy of zikr to transform and heal them. The more I peel away the veils of my lower self and realign my psyche toward Compassion and Love, the more I grasp Ali’s presence and appreciate why the Prophet said, “I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate.”
Moments of insight like these remind me that journeying on the sufi path puts me in direct contact not only with my living teachers, but with a lineage of saints, prophets and friends of God. In my own tradition of Mevlevi sufism, rooted in the teachings of Mevlana Rumi, I sometimes imagine the dialogue between Shams of Tabriz and Rumi happening within me.
Shams ignited the flame of Divine Love in Rumi by daring him to view reality from a different vantage point. I experience Shams, Arabic for sun, as the inner witness objectively observing my thoughts, feelings, sensations and emotions and shining a light on where I need to pay attention. His luminous being challenges me to question familiar patterns of thought and behaviour, and rub away the layers of tarnish that separate me from my spiritual heart.
The more polished my heart becomes, meanwhile, inhibitions melt away and I shock myself with creativity and ideas. Writing flows more easily, and I’ve developed a love for singing, learning to play music and whirling that I couldn’t have imagined possible even a couple of years ago. It’s here that I catch a glimpse of the radiance of Rumi, through whom that Divine Creativity surged in tens of thousands of verses of poetry.
With each step I take to open in receptivity to wisdom coming in from the Unseen, I’m pick up subtler frequencies of spiritual perception. Sometimes it’s as though I can tune into an intimate and lively sohbet, or spiritual conversation, taking place in my heart, where humanity’s sacred teachers blow insight and truth, if I am still enough to listen.
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Tag Archives: Lucy
Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula isn’t…
Posted on May 23, 2016 by Emma Young
I found it somewhat perplexing that Dracula’s character was fleshed out (ha!) at the expense of every other character. It made the movie completely unrelatable.
Worth your time, that is, though it definitely would have been cinematically mindblowing when released in 1992 (or so the Ministry assures me).
It shamelessly invents an entirely new storyline of how Mina Harker (Winona Ryder) is actually somehow a new incarnation, or doppelganger, of Dracula’s (Gary Oldman’s) long-lost wife from five centuries beforehand. Upon seeing each other again in eighteenth-century London they are transfixed by one another again, with Mina living a double life – one as the prim wife of solicitor Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) while secretly totally in love with Dracula and having sexy little meetings with him in which his teeth hover tantalisingly close to her creamy throat.
In the book, Mina is bitten against her will and horrified by the marks left upon her, and bound by a new ferocity to help her husband and his friends destroy the vampire and restore her to her original health and purity.
It’s not that Ryder isn’t good at acting sex-crazed and heaving her bosom and quivering with mouth agape. She is admirable at all these things.
But in order to tell this extra storyline, transforming Mina as it admittedly creates new depth in Dracula, the movie ignores precisely the things I believed made the novel compelling.
Like the excellently drawn characters, including a Renley drawn with detail and pathos, who work together to assemble clues, solve the mystery of Dracula’s evil intents and hatch a desperate plan to thwart him and free Mina.
Including a Dr Van Helsing, sweet and funny, willing to sacrifice all for the friends he is devoted to and views as his children. Despite being played by Anthony Hopkins, a skilled actor, he becomes in this version a leering old nutjob.
Suggested drinking game is to drink whenever you see gratuitous boob.
Or Lucy and Mina, originally female characters that managed to be well-rounded and strong and exhibit meaningful friendship and relationships despite the sexism inherent within their context. While they did act as ‘bait’ as a plot device, they also influenced events around them in other, more meaningful ways, and Mina’s personal attributes and skills drove the narrative. Lucy had fine emotional sensitivity, loss of which made her ridiculous character in this film even harder to stomach.
All this nuance was swept away as they ran about with breasts flopping (or alternately lay about with breasts thrust upward through filmy nightdresses). They seduced all without any sign of personal preference, lost in helpless lechery, completely without personal agency. Look, I’m all for a bit of sex appeal, but not at the expense of intelligence.
Poor old Keanu never gets a chance. To act, that is.
The plot mostly survives, skeletally, though I believe much of the tension of the final chase is removed as characterisation of Mina and Van Helsing now cannot do its work properly in ratcheting up suspense in the closing passages (replaced by a weird add-on in which Mina tries to seduce this fatherly old gent, which just would never happen in the original story). The love story between Mina and Jonathan, originally a fine and noble thing, is rendered wooden and completely unconvincing and for once it’s not Keanu’s fault.
Watch this movie for its 1990s visual tricks and special effects, so over-the-top in today’s context that they become a bit hilarious. Watch particularly for the obsession with florid cutaways and fade-outs that make much of eye imagery and other round things… I’m surprised there weren’t more nipples appearing in eyeballs, given the boob obsession. As a vampire movie and a popcorn flick and a product of its time and a portrait of Dracula, all excellent. But if you care about your education in the true classics of horror you owe it to yourself to read the book.
I vote someone should do a remake – twenty years on we’re just about due for something edgy, dark and restrained.
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The Curing of a Bibliomaniac Part 10: Sixty Lights (Gail Jones, 2004)
Posted on November 9, 2014 by Emma Young
Books remaining: 16. Weeks left to read them: 30 (it’s going to be fine)
A voice in the dark: “Lucy?”
It was a humid-sounding whisper. She wanted this, this muffled gentleness, swathed in sheets measured and moistened by the heated conjoining of their bodies. This tropic of the bed. This condensation of herself into the folds of a marriage. The late night air was completely still. Insects struck at the mosquito net, which fell, silver and conical, like a bridal garment around them. Lucy watched a pale spotted moth sail slowly towards her face, land on the net, deposit its powder, and lift unevenly away, It was waving like a tiny baby hand in the darkness.
Jones is a lecturer in literature, cinema and cultural studies at the University of WA and, for several such units, my lecturer. She was a brilliant one, whose disarming combination of fearsome intelligence and a musical, childlike speaking voice made you want to listen forever. Her knowledge was so complex, so clever, and so beautifully phrased that it excited but did not surprise me to discover she was a novelist.
There’s no way you’re going to read one of her books and not feel like you’re studying something, frankly, so if you’re catering for the average book club, turn back now.
I’ve been carrying around three of her novels – Black Mirror, Sorry and Sixty Lights – for the better part of 10 years now, so it was time to get real.
This is the story of Lucy and her brother, orphaned in Australia as children and taken to Victorian England to grow up under their uncle’s wing. Lucy becomes a photographer and though the novel is outwardly the story of a young woman and her family, it is most essentially a portrait of the world as seen through the eyes of someone like Lucy, who experiences life as a succession of images, frozen in time.
It is not a Difficult Book. It is not lofty or dense. It is peppered with plain phrases and glints of humour that rescue it from the sometimes otherworldly loveliness of its prose.
Lucy felt exulted to be once again on the water. The world before her was like blown glass; some fluid shape expanding, sphere-wise and breathful, into a glistening new form, some sense of the weird plausibility of transmogrification. The wind was high and the broad boat rocked and tossed. Lucy saw Isaac seize the railing and vomit into the heaving ocean. She turned her face into full sunshine and full wind, held on to her bonnet, and smiled.
Lucy turns out strange enough to want to be a photographer, at a time when the closest most women of her station get is working in a factory making photographic paper.
Lucy is naughty enough to get herself pregnant out of wedlock, and curious enough to seek out new experiences that others try to discourage her from having, just so she can observe the results.
Later, when in secret Lucy had persuaded Bashanti to bring her a sample of pan, she sat chewing the tough leaves and attending to the pan-effects. Her mouth burnt, tingled, was becoming numb, and began to fill up with curious liquids. She spat onto the floor and saw before her a small mound of gleaming brownish muck.
There emerges a welcome lovableness to Lucy. I do not believe all heroes or heroines should be lovable; but by golly, in this case it helps.
But the real story is not about what happens to Lucy so much as it is about her inner life – what she sees, and how she sees it. It is above all a loving, minute appreciation of the art and mechanics of photography, a meditation on the magic of the act of recording an image. It celebrates the value of pictures, even more powerfully when the reader inhabits a world in which photographs are so commonplace and overwhelmingly digitised they have all but lost their value and their meaning.
The tale is finely crafted, undoubtedly beautiful and very readable. It was on the 2005 Miles Franklin Award shortlist and the 2004 Man Booker longlist, and deservedly so. But somehow none of this is enough to make me want to press it upon others, declaring they will love it. I am conflicted about saying I didn’t enjoy it – to say so feels like sacrilege, when I have such admiration for the writer, the writing and the achievement – but I can’t see myself rushing to pick up the next one.
Canonise or cast out? Perhaps it is just that my tastes have changed. You can’t get hung up on this kind of thing. I will clear this little shrine to the incredibly impressive Jones off my shelf and move on with life, or at least, to the letter K.
More on The Curing of a Bibliomaniac project here.
Posted in Books, Fiction, The Curing of a Bibliomaniac | Tagged 2004, 2005, Black Mirror, Gail Jones, Lucy, Man Booker Prize, Miles Franklin, Sixty Lights, Sorry, The Curing of a Bibliomaniac, University of WA | Leave a reply
Turbo Blog: one for the ladies
The Ministry was obliged to go away for a few days recently For Business Purposes. I took the opportunity to watch a few things I was pretty sure he wouldn’t care about missing.
It’s not a game.
And it ain’t Disney.
It’s the “story of a young girl’s strange erotic journey”… hang on, that’s Seinfeld.
Australian novelist Julia Leigh directed this, and I guess the words “Jane Campion presents” on the cover offer a clue as to what you’ve got yourself into.
Lucy is a uni student holding down three jobs – waitress, photocopy clerk and laboratory test subject – when she takes another: a silver service waitress who works in lingerie, a novice among girls with other unexplained “responsibilities”.
She accepts a promotion: drink a tea and sleep like the dead in bed next to male clients, who have paid to do anything they like with her. Except penetrate her.
What follows is a singular tale, both nasty and beautiful, with a minimal soundtrack and some profoundly uncomfortable scenes.
There is an odd repetitive patterning to Lucy’s rotation between jobs, and a repetition of concepts as well: penetration and violation pop up in all forms.
So do intimacy and detachment; not only represented by what happens in the bed of that country manor, but in scenes such as the one in which a shopkeeper is so mesmerised by Lucy’s image on a security screen that he does not notice she is behind him, trying to attract his attention.
Definitely arthouse, so choose your movie buddy wisely. Many an online review called it boring, but I found plenty of food for thought, and was not bored. I found the whole thing a rather intense experience that ratcheted up the suspense on its way to a conclusion I did not once guess at.
No matter how bad things get, it’s impossible not to love someone who made you toast.
This is a trip through 60s Britain, a time famous for the tinned vegetables. It is a biographical story of the youth of now-celebrated chef and food writer Nigel Slater.
It’s nostalgic, has pretty colours and a random appearance by Helena Bonham Carter and tickles you with Nigel’s mum’s reliance on the aforementioned tinned veg (and of course, when all else fails, toast).
” Ah, lashings of toast. Me favourite,” as Lockie Leonard’s little brother, Phillip, would say.
On the con side, there’s a lot of completely unexpected plot that kicks you in the guts. I didn’t know too much about Nigel Slater’s back story and consequently didn’t clock that I’d be weeping into my mending (I really was mending. I said it was ladies’ night) for so much of the film.
I wouldn’t really recommend this unless you’re a die-hard Nigel Slater fan, which I am. There’s nothing much wrong with it, but there’s nothing special either. I think IMDB’s 6.5 a touch generous.
All governesses have a tale of woe. What’s yours?
I’d been looking forward to watching this for yonks. Read the book twice, once as a child, and once a few years ago, and have always loved its plain-talking heroine and spooky premise.
Happily, Mia Wasikowska was hands-down perfect for the role, disconcertingly shifting from plain and stark to weirdly sexy within moments.
The structure, starting with Jane collapsing on the moor after fleeing Thornfield Hall and moving back and forth from there, preserves the mystery for as long as possible.
The script captures the nuance and fire of the fiery dialogue between Jane and Mr Rochester, in all its awkwardness and insight.
Horror overtones and a sense of repressed sexuality pervade the film, enhanced by a muted colour scheme and truly exquisite score.
Mrs Rochester, when she eventually appeared, was disappointingly pretty, but apart from that, everything was satisfyingly bleak and unadorned.
I was very happy with this adaptation.
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Royal Ballet – Titian 2012: Machina, Trespass, Diana & Actaeon – London
By Jann Parry on July 21, 2012 in Reviews · 0 Comments
Marianela Nuñez in Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins’ Diana & Actaeon.
© Dave Morgan. (Click image for larger version)
Metamorphosis – Titian 2012: Machina, Trespass, Diana & Actaeon
London, Royal Opera House
Gallery of 36 pictures by Dave Morgan
Monica Mason on the background to Titan 2012
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Ovid claimed his intention in writing his epic Metamorphoses was ‘to tell of bodies changed to different forms’. In turning Titian’s paintings into ballets, the choreographers have transformed fleshly female bodies into Olympian athletes.
Titian was so skilled at depicting delectably rounded naked nymphs that his paintings were hung in a room reserved for men only in the royal palace in Madrid. In two of the paintings now on display at the National Gallery, Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon, the goddess is a plump, dimpled creature; only in the third, The Death of Actaeon, is she actively Amazonian. In the Royal Ballet’s triple bill, the multiple Dianas are muscular, arched into crescent moon shapes as they triumph over their prey.
The seven choreographers’ brief was not to imitate Titian’s paintings but, in Wayne McGregor’s words, to use them a ‘trampolines for a new set of expressions’. Aptly, the jumping off points for all three ballets were the designs, commissioned by the National Gallery from three well-known artists. As in Diaghilev’s day, the promise of visual excitement has enticed audiences into the otherwise daunting realm of contemporary ballet to modern music. The designs and music will have an after-life, the choreography probably not. Monica Mason’s legacy will be the fact that this bold collaboration has stimulated such widespread interest.
Leanne Benjamin and Edward Watson in Wayne McGregor and Kim Brandstrup’s Machina.
Conrad Shawcross’s metal monster dominates the opening work, Machina, once it whirrs into fury. At first the stage is bare, a blurred light veiled by scrims suggesting the moon. Contrasting pas de deux ensue, the first for Leanne Benjamin with Carlos Acosta. He seems a hunter, burly and questing, she a vulnerable, chaste nymph. When their neo-baroque music by Nico Muhly gives way to shimmering strings, Tamara Rojo appears as a moon goddess, arms curved, while Edward Watson’s limbs are as angular as antlers. Their pas de deux will be reprised at the end, transformed by emotion.
Acosta and Watson dance a combative duet in counterpoint, both men physically distinctive in the way they move. As the scrims lift away, the vast Diana machine is revealed, splay-legged at the back of the stage. The source of the mysterious moonlight is a beam at the end of a blind probing arm. When Acosta is left on his own, the arm-arrow threatens him, flailing angrily and noisily. Its actions have been programmed through motion-capture of human movements – but it doesn’t necessarily obey its commands. The confrontation between man and machine was more compelling at later performances than on the opening night, when Acosta seemed disconcerted, the robot erratic.
The mechanical zooming attracts attention away from further duets involving Benjamin and Rojo as vengeful goddesses in human shape, escorted by a corps of six, who seem largely superfluous. The ravishing final pas de deux starts in silence with Rojo pointing an accusing finger at Watson – a gesture echoing that of Diana in two of the Titian paintings. Lusciously, they dance intimately together, until she regretfully delivers the coup de grace: Rojo leans forward, her head on Watson’s heart as he raises his arms, fingers branched into a stag’s antlers. It’s as if Diana is mourning a love affair that might have been.
Tamara Rojo and Edward Watson in Wayne McGregor and Kim Brandstrup’s Machina.
Two choreographers, Kim Brandstrup and Wayne McGregor, are credited with the choreography. While the last, tender duet looks like Brandstrup and the praying mantis moves elsewhere like McGregor, attributions would be unreliable. Scenes fragmented by blackouts and pauses make for uneasy viewing, as do inept exits. Why should dancers have to slink awkwardly into the wings when they’re no longer needed? And does anybody ever check sightlines when an important element of a set is placed at the rear of the stage?
Trespass, the second ballet, is the most coherent of the three. Choreographers Christopher Wheeldon and Alastair Marriott collaborated closely in response to Mark-Anthony Turnage’s score and Mark Wallinger’s setting. Wallinger equates Actaeon’s intrusion on Diana’s privacy with man’s violation of the virgin moon by landing on it. A rocky lunar landscape surrounds a mirrored grotto, its curved surface a reference to astronauts’ visors. Turnage’s music sprinkles shimmering stardust on the ballet’s three Dianas, surges into complex rhythms for ensembles and rejoices in the goddesses’ triumph at the end.
Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae in Alastair Marriott and Christopher Wheeldon’s Trespass.
The two Actaeons, Nehemiah Kish and Steven McRae, have a cohort of six men, athletically alert as hunters. Six women form a retinue of nymphs, sometimes shyly modest, at other times huntresses. Beatriz Stix-Brunell, the first Diana, is a young moon, innocent and sensual, ending her pas de deux with Kish curled up on his shoulder, blindfolded. Sarah Lamb perhaps represents the final phase of the moon, suspended in gravity-defying lifts by McRae. Melissa Hamilton takes centre stage as the full moon, Diana in all her glory.
Hamilton is shielded at first by her nymphs, in a fountain shape reminiscent of the underwater scene in Ashton’s Ondine. They dance with her, reflecting and amplifying the crescent shapes she makes within a blue pool of light. Held aloft by the men who have been spying on her, she flexes her feet like flippers, unfurls a leg as lethal as an arrow. There are no yielding Titian contours here; Trespass turns an ancient myth into a modern one, transported to a barren satellite.
Christopher Wheeldon and Alastair Marriott’s Trespass with Yasmine Nagdhi and Melissa Hamilton. © Dave Morgan. (Click image for larger version)
The three choreographers for the last ballet, Diana and Actaeon, were asked by Monica Mason to tell the story of Actaeon’s fate less allusively than the other two pieces. Jonathan Watkins, Liam Scarlett and Will Tuckett split the task between them. Watkins introduced Diana and the hunters who come across her; Scarlett was responsible for the large corps of female attendants; Tuckett handled the pack of hounds who rip Actaeon to shreds when Diana transforms him into a stag for daring to see her naked. All three took turns to show the fatal encounter between Actaeon (Federico Bonnelli) and Diana (Marianela Nuñez) from different perspectives, examining how the mortal and the goddess might have reacted when their eyes first met.
Unless one understands this triple take, it’s baffling to see Bonnelli keep returning for yet another pas de deux with Nuñez when she persists in rejecting him. Costumed in flaming red and gold, she is more Firebird than untouchable goddess. Bonnelli wrestles with her, attempts to tame her, and ends up savaged by his own dogs. He changes into a brown outfit to look like the half-human stag in Titian’s last painting and is pecked to pieces by dancers with dog masks on their hands. Titian’s ravenous hounds are crudely painted but that’s no excuse for such a crassly choreographed killing.
Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett and Jonathan Watkins’ Diana & Actaeon: dancers l-r: Federico Bonelli, Romany Pajdak, Tom Whitehead, Paul Kay (hidden), Brian Maloney, Deirdre Chpman, Sabina Westcombe, Kenta Kura.
Actaeon’s name is shrieked by the singers of Jonathan Dove’s operatic score, whose arcane text is in Greek and Latin. The instrumentation ranges from blaring brass fanfares and hunting horns to magical gamelan chimings. Its exotic sounds combine with Chris Ofili’s tropical setting to create an atmosphere of rampant sexuality: think Bakst or Douanier Rousseau, a jungle with dogs instead of a tiger. Hotly-coloured mangrove roots lift away in succession to reveal a lustful backdrop (invisible to parts of auditorium) illuminated by a blood-red crescent moon.
Nuñez’s imperious Diana is implacable, very different from Rojo’s remorseful goddess. Her most challenging duet with Bonelli is where she becomes momentarily compliant before resisting him. Othewise she’s all high battements and stabbing pointework, flanked by fierce female bodyguards. There’s no place in this piece for nuanced choreography, enhancing the feminine form with rounded arms or shaded shoulders.
The many competing elements in the triple bill add up to an overloaded evening. Seeing the programme twice confirmed my initial impression that Trespass is the best-wrought work. Lucy Carter’s lighting for it (assisted by Simon Bennison) plays with reflections and deceptions, making Wallinger’s tribute to Titian in the theatre richer than his voyeur’s cabin in the National Gallery exhibition. The other two ballets are interesting as concepts rather than as polished productions. But the programme’s emphasis on creativity and collaboration means that Monica Mason’s farewell contribution to the art form in which she has invested her considerable energy will carry on germinating ideas long after she leaves. A great way to bow out – or in Mason’s way, bound onto the stage to hug her dancers, choreographers and conductors.
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Jann Parry
A long-established dance writer, Jann Parry was dance critic for The Observer from 1983 to 2004 and wrote the award-winning biography of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan: 'Different Drummer', Faber and Faber, 2009. She has written for publications including The Spectator, The Listener, About the House (Royal Opera House magazine), Dance Now, Dance Magazine (USA), Stage Bill (USA) and Dancing Times. As a writer/producer she worked for the BBC World Service from 1970 to 1989, covering current affairs and the arts. As well as producing radio programmes she has contributed to television and radio documentaries about dance and dancers.
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Old picture of the author wearing Anglican choir habit.
Evensong is a peculiar Anglican creature. It is the liturgy that has become the most distinctively Anglican, and has become a treasured bulwark of tradition. This article is a little, geeky exploration of what is Evensong and its sub-species.
The word ‘Evensong’ is first documented by the OED in the Old English of the Canons of Ælfric (c. 1000) as æfen-sang. Until the Reformation, this English word was used to describe the office of Vespers, the seventh of the round of eight daily offices, said just before sunset.
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer produced two drafts of how the reformed Church of England should pray each day. The first, more radical plan was to consolidate the eight offices down to two. When, eventually, Henry Tudor junior died, Cranmer was free to produce the first Book of Common Prayer, published 1549. Its two daily offices were named ‘Matins’ and ‘Evensong’ (the former being the name of the first of the pre-Reformation offices, which also had the colourful Old English name uht-sang, which persisted as ‘Oughtensong’ in Middle English). With Cranmer’s revised Prayer Book of 1552, the quaint (or poetic) names of the two offices were officially replaced with the more robust (or prosaic) ‘Morning and Evening Prayer’. Yet the old names continued to live on, to the extent that it is rather daft to speak of ‘Choral Evening Prayer’.
Because of the pressures on Sunday mornings, especially with the restoration of the Parish Eucharist as the main Sunday mid-morning service, major celebrations of Matins have become rather few and far between. However, in twilight isolation Evensong has remained strong. In the nineteenth century, the ‘Fully Choral Service’ became a sign of aspirational excellence in neo-gothic, middle-class churches, aping cathedrals with their processions and besurpliced choirs. I believe that movement has skewed our understanding of Evensong to assume that only a proper Choral Evensong will do, when we have forgotten how to do a good — liturgically and musically — Evensong that is suited to a church that cannot really cope with the demanding choral repertoire.
What about those sub-species? Continue reading →
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Christopher Machell Reviews
Film Review: Wonder Woman
After three Supermen, five Batmen and fifteen MCU films with more stars called Chris than women in the lead, the undisputed Queen of Superheroes is at last given her own film. Patty Jenkins has also done what others couldn’t and delivered a good DC film.
Wonder Woman is not a great film, nor is it the feminist glass ceiling-smasher that many had hoped for. But after the offensively stupid Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman feels nothing short of revelatory. Thank Zeus for an uncomplicated, coherent plot: it’s 1918 and German commander Ludendorff (Danny Huston) is developing a weapon that could change the course of the Great War. The Amazon Princess Diana of Themyscira learns of his dastardly scheme from American spy Steve Trevor (Chris Pine). Convinced that Ludendorff is really the God of War, Ares, Diana rushes to confront him and end the war.
Taking Christopher Reeve’s Superman as a point of reference, Gadot’s natural charisma invests her Amazon warrior with a guileless ferocity. A wide-eyed innocent, Diana’s unwavering sense of right and wrong cuts through the adolescent, pre-packaged grumbling of other DC films with bright notes, derring-do and gosh-almighty acts of heroism. Yes, here is a comic book movie you can bring your kids to without fear of giving them nightmares. For the most part, Wonder Woman looks great, too. Cinematographer Matthew Jensen’s cinematic canvas leaves many of Marvel’s offerings looking like they belong on TV, while largely avoiding the hideous, colour-corrected-to-death drabness of Snyder’s DC entries.
The World War One setting perfectly fits the film’s pulpy, Saturday-matinee sensibility, with Chris Pine’s plucky American spy, Steve Trevor, recalling both The Rocketeer and Indiana Jones. His heroic self-image takes a swift reality check up against Diana’s godlike feats, and a witty watch-based joke in an early unguarded moment -“Whats’s that?” – raises a cheeky laugh. The film’s refreshing sense of humour is propped up by Gadot’s disarming comedy chops, whether she’s giving Pine the cold shoulder or contending with London’s stuffy department stores and the lascivious gazes of men.
Quizzing a vulnerable Pine while roundly ignoring his clumsy, boyish flirting gives primacy to Diana’s perspective, but, the film just can’t help periodically reminding us of her beauty – whether through the creepy stares of men, clunky dialogue, or a cliched dancing scene that emphasises Steve’s gaze over Diana’s. Indeed, his frequent insistence that Diana wait for his permission to rush off into battle is grating, redeemed only by Diana’s steadfast refusal to do any such thing. Elsewhere, Danny Huston is serviceable as the moustache-twirling Ludendorff, but more interesting is Elena Anaya, whose Phantom-like German chemist Dr. Maru would have benefited from more screen time.
In another context, Wonder Woman might pass little muster – a solidly entertaining and witty blockbuster about on par with the first Thor film. It will probably be remembered for breaking a catastrophic streak for DC and Warner Brothers, but its real legacy is as the first superhero movie that puts a woman front and centre with all the pageantry, gravitas, and reverence that have been afforded her male colleagues for decades.
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Facebook sees its salvation with its cryptocurrency Libra
Facebook’s Libra is designed to take control of our digital lives.
The article by Nishant Shah was published in the Indian Express on June 30, 2019.
In the early days, when we were still discussing the possible implications of building a data-surveillance system like Aadhaar in India, one of the persistent narratives was that in return, Aadhaar will build the infrastructure that gives legal and financial identity to the homeless, underserved, and the unbanked populations of the country. I remember how, at one consultation, Nandan Nilekani had jokingly mentioned that the single entry login framework of Aadhaar is easy to understand as the “Facebook of government services”. There were actual rumours that Aadhaar was seeking to collaborate with Facebook to see if we could log in to the public delivery systems using Facebook’s technical infrastructure.
The probable Aadhaar-Facebook collaboration never happened, but the other idea of Aadhaar enabling mobile payment, financial inclusion through digital outreach, and the possibility of leapfrogging an entire demography into digital transactions, has a different take. Aadhaar did not necessarily build a public infrastructure for banking. However, in establishing a unique identity, it did pave the way for the notorious demonetisation that pushed people into virtual and cashless transactions, and ironically, opening up the Indian market for the Chinese-controlled Paytm app to take over. Paytm is a clear symptom of China’s digital global dominance where TenCents and Alibaba are monopolising the world financial systems by becoming the de facto digital financial delivery systems for the emerging financial inclusion markets.
A little late in the game, but perhaps with a blockchain advantage, Facebook has entered this business of converting unique identification and engagement into a financial service, with the announcement of their new cryptocurrency endeavour, Libra. Much like those early days of Aadhaar, Facebook has positioned Libra as a pro-poor facilitator of financial inclusion for the large user base who are going to be connected to the Internet for the first time. The progressions of its interest in becoming the naturalised platform for all digital activities, as opposed to its presence as a space for sharing cute cat pictures and passive aggressive videos of relationships, is clear.
By launching Libra — the details are still scarce, but it seeks to create its own currency for the next generation, in collaboration with companies like Uber and Visa — Facebook has thrown its hat into a complete Black Mirror control of our digital lives. They want the user to first get connected to the Internet through Internet.org. Next, they want to control the websites that the users can use for free, by making Facebook the default entry point into digital data sharing. They would then collect and sell the data mined from these free services, and target the users to buy and consume using money developed by Libra. It is a fascinating, if not an ominous, cradle-to-grave scenario.
Currently, Facebook, in its humanitarian guise, is putting forth Libra as a .org service that selflessly seeks to transform the lives of financially excluded populations, who, in one fell swoop, would be online, on Facebook, and using Facebook’s currency in one single access point. However, it is clear to see that Libra is not a service for social good — Facebook is converting its advertisement-based exploitation of user data into clear financial goals. Remember, how we darkly used to laugh that data is the new currency? Well, here is Facebook’s Libra proving that data is not just the new currency, it can be the currency.
Facebook’s wealth has entirely been predicated on data as currency and attention as economy. The last few years have been a revelation of how Facebook has capitalised on its data and attention monopoly. In this new step, Facebook is no longer interested in using data to facilitate the financial expansion — with Libra, Facebook is going to become an actual broker of the money that we use. And once we have bought enough of this currency and use it in our everyday transactions, it can never devalue, because if it’s false, the biggest loser will always be the newly banked individual whose first financial identity is not going to be a banking account but Facebook.
In Libra, Facebook sees its salvation. It has long been critiqued that Facebook is facing obsolescence and threat from other social media networks and Libra is yet another way by which Facebook diversifies its portfolio and secures its future by making it the default service for how we live, work, talk, and love.
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Dr. Nishant Shah is the co-founder and board member of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India, and is a professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University in Germany, and is Dean of Research at ArtEZ Graduate School, the Netherlands.
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Golden Thread "Cheer less, boys and fight more" - Wofford's Brigade at Gettysburg
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Note 40 ( notes to pages 125-128).
Bandy and Freeland, The Gettysburg Papers 2:735
Very interesting discussion!
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MBuehner said:
Does anybody have information on what Wofford's instructions were before the brigade stepped off? I'm pretty sure he didnt file an after action report.
@MBuehner After he assumed command of the brigade, Wofford never filed an after action report for any engagement that I know of. Too bad too. I'm sure that a lot of credit that should have been given his brigade, never was - not just at Gettysburg, but also at Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, etc.
I'm curious if his right turn into the wheat field was a question of battlefield exigence, if he was ordered to bail out Kershaw, or if he was preemptively ordered to turn right and finish off Caldwell and seize the wheat field.
Interestingly, Wofford's brigade seemed to have a tendency to drift to the right. Besides Gettysburg, it also happened at Chancellorsville and Cedar Creek. And before, when he was commanding Hood's brigade at Sharpsburg. Still, as you mentioned, Longstreet was right there with Wofford..... so you would think if it was not as intended, he would have made the correction.
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Captain James Lemon of the 18th Georgia indicates the brigade actually inclined to the left after dispatching Sweitzer's regiments in the Wheatfield. They were drawn in that direction by Walcott's battery, just north of the Wheatfield road, which they captured temporarily.
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Ahhhh. Good point Tom. I think MBuehner was talking about early in the attack, as they stepped off - there was some confusion about whether they should angle to the left to support Barksdale or go straight (which is what they did) aligned on the Wheatfield road. So in this case - straight being opposite of angling left toward Barksdale's flank?
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Gettysburg. Gen J B Sweitzer's Brigade in the Fearful Struggles of the Second Day
W J Patterson, Lieutenant commanding Co F, 62nd PA
From The National Tribune, May 30, 1907, Page 6.
....About the time we [Sweitzer's Brigade] moved forward across this field Graham's Division had been driven from the Peach Orchard, and Humphrey's Division, being threatened in reverse, changed front and moved further to the rear. These operations made a large opening in the line, through which the Confederates hastened to enter in strong force. We had not been long in this advanced position when shots were noticed striking our line from the woods to our right and rear. Gen. Wofford's Brigade of Georgia troops held the Peach Orchard road and the elevation at Zook's monument, and was firing into our command. Col. Boyd McKeen, in his report of the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, says: "They were relieved by a brigade (Sweitzer's) of Barnes Division, Fifth Corps. Passing the relieving brigade by file they were enfiladed by a galling fire." Thus showing that the enemy made his appearance on our flank and rear almost immediately after we moved from the Peach Orchard road.
The 4th Mich and the 62nd [PA] changed front to the right to meet our enemies in that direction. The brigade was now nearly surrounded and in a very perilous situation. Attacked in front, right and rear, its chances of extricating itself were anything but good. Gen. Barnes exclaimed: "There goes the Second Brigade: we may as well bid it goodbye." But it was not the first time the Second Brigade had been in critical positions, and by good judgment and indomitable pluck came out alright. The command was terribly exposed in the open field, while our enemies had the cover of the woods. The men's blood was up, and they fought with desperate resolution.....
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lelliott19 said:
There is a Wofford letter of August 14, 1863 that mentions several Union flags captured by the brigade on July 2.
1st Lieutenant Milton A. Brown of Company E, Cobb's Legion wrote a letter to the editor of the Southern Confederacy, published on July 20, in which he claims Cobb's Legion actually captured two colors, one of them belonging to the 11th U.S. Infantry.
Look what I just found.
From fold 3 - The August 14th letter from Wofford to Maj Jno Goggin describing the capture of the colors by Cobb's Legion and Phillip's Legion.
Head Qrs Brigade
According to instructions received. I send you the Flag captured by Cobb's Legion. The following is the facts regarding its capture as stated by Capt. Moore in his official report "Sergt. J L Born, Co C distinguished himself by the capture and preservation of a stand of the enemy's colors - A C Adair, Co D bayoneted and Killed several of the Color Guard of the enemy. Captured the colors and Killed an officer advancing on him with drawn sword. Corp'l [James D] Putnam Co F received two severe bayonet wounds in a personal encounter over the colors of the enemy.["]
I enclose a note from Major Hamilton Com'ding Phillips Legion in which he states that the colors captured by his command have been sent to Gov Brown of Geo. The incidents relating to their capture is as follows. Two stands of colors were captured. one of them by private Alfred Norris Co E which he carried to the rear and delivered to a Lieut. who claimed to be of Barksdale's Brigade & who was wounded and sent to the hospital carrying the Flag with him which is supposed to be still in his possession. The other stand was captured by Private E J Smith of Co E & was also carried to the rear and handed to a Lieut. of Frazier's Battery but was returned when the Battle was over and has now been sent to the Gov. of Geo. Private Thos. Jolly was bayoneted & killed with a stand of the enemy's colors in his hands his death was bravely avenged by Private [Michael] McGovern of Co F. Private [Geo J] Blanton Co. B. & Private Ovtrn [?] of Co L. The two former each bayoneting a man. The latter taking from the belt of the enemy's Color Bearer his pistol. Killing him and Two others- In this hand to hand fight the colors in the hands of the gallant "Jolly" was lost by the man who strove so bravely to obtain them, though supposed to be in the hands of some other Reg't.
Wm T Wofford, Maj Gen
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J L Born - James L Born (C/Cobb's Legion) Age 19, enlisted as a Private into Capt Glenn's Company (Stephen's Rifles) Georgia Legion August 17, 1861 at Decatur Dekalb Georgia for the war. Captured at Crampton's Gap Sept. 14, 1862. Sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens Landing Oct 2, 1862 for exchange. Exchanged Nov 10, 1862. "Recommended for promotion to first vacancy for valor and skill" (date not recorded) and promoted to Sgt. Wounded GSW shoulder at Knoxville (Fort Sanders) November 29, 1863 and captured. Exchanged (date not recorded.) Listed on the Roll of Honor GO 64/2 August 10, 1864. Captured April 6, 1865 near Farmville (Sailor's Creek) described as Complexion fair; Hair light; eyes Grey; height 6 feet. Pledged the Oath and released June 25, 1865 at Newport News, VA.
A C Adair - (D/Cobb's Legion) Enlisted Co D Cobb's Legion, as a Private March 1, 1862 at Athens Ga. for the war. "Recommended for promotion to first vacancy for valor and skill" (date not recorded) Wounded at Knoxville (Fort Sanders) November 29, 1863 and captured. Died a prisoner April 23, 1864 of chronic diarrhea at US Military Hospital, Knoxville TN and buried Grave No. 3, "Rebel Burial Ground." Listed on the Roll of Honor GO 64/2 August 10, 1864.
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Podad
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You just keep on finding good stuff don’t you Laura. Great work!!!!
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The latter taking from the belt of the enemy's Color Bearer his pistol. Killing him and Two others- In this hand to hand fight
Podad said:
I wish I could figure out who Private Ovrtn of Co L Phillips Legion is. There's a Pvt Simon W Overton, age 18, and a Pvt. Thomas J Overton, but both are listed in Co A and neither has a card indicating his name was added to the Roll of Honor.
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What a really fascinating thread! Very informative and thought provoking in learning how a smaller unit fits into the Confederate assault late on the July 2nd.
Congratulations on being awarded the Golden Thread as it is well deserved.
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From the same file. The above letter from Wofford is page 7-8. This one, directed to Col R H Chilton, AAGenl, is page 3 of Confederate Letters, Feb - Sept 1863, G M Sorrell.
Head Quarters 1st Army Corps
Near Orange CH Sept 2. 1863
Colonel.
By direction of Lieutenant General Longstreet I have the honor to forward herewith two United States Regimental Standards and a guidon, captured at Gettysburg Pa July 2nd 1863. A report of the circumstances attending their capture is also transmitted herewith.
I am Genl, veryrespy
Yrmosobt svt
G. M. Sorrell
Lt.Col. AAGenl
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And this is page 2, but I havent figured out what it says.
At the bottom, I can decipher "Col Withers to be placed on Roll of Merit"
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Southern Confederacy. (Atlanta, Ga.), July 20, 1863, page 1.
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(the) gallantry displayed (by) the soldiers named in the written report would appear to come within the provisions of the acts entitling them to promotion for the exhibition of valour & skill. ... I do not perceive there are any vacancies to ---- at present ... of gallantry may be appropriate ...
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(the) gallantry displayed (by) the soldiers named in the written report would appear to come within the provisions of the acts entitling them to promotion for the "exhibition of valour & skill."
Sep 4/63 S.Cooper
... I do not perceive there are any vacancies to fill at pre-sent When they are, these acts of gallantry may be appropriate ........Secr'y of War (men?) to place on the Roll of Honor for the ....of....?
<signed>
Noted on roster-
Col Withers to be placed on Roll of Merit
Bumping this thread a day late. Casualties, as reported, for Wofford's brigade at Gettysburg. This newspaper list is incomplete. A careful comparison of casualty figures reported vs. actual data from carded records indicates that casualties in the brigade may be under reported by 10-25%. For example, for the 16th GA, casualties were reported as K-14; W-58; M-33 = 105 TOTAL. But carded records reveal K-12; MW-13; W-50; W&C-19; C-39; M-1 = 134 TOTAL which translates into an under reporting of casualties by about 22%.
[The Savannah Republican. (Savannah, Ga.), August 07, 1863, page 1.
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I'll take a look at Georgia's rosters later and see what I can come up with.
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The EH Sutton shown as missing from 24th Company K is the guy who wrote “Grandpa’s War Stories”. The book tells of his experiences before and after his time as a POW.
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I just did a quick scan of the 16th Georgia's records and just let me say, "Yikes". Out of 6 companies, I had only 1 man wounded with about 2 dozen each killed and captured. The 16th's roster is severely lacking necessary information. There are far too many "killed in battle" and "wounded" with no further data.
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Yep. Ive been working on that.
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Charles Walker, convicted Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, Convicted Georgia Senator Charles Walker, convicted killer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin had killed before, convicted once, convicted se, conviction, conviction overturned, Core Rights, Coretta Scott King, Cornell, Cornell Drive, Cornell Harris, Cornell Harris: Dare 2 Dream Like King, Corporate America, Corporate Greed, correct disparities, cost, cost is high, cost of firearm injuries, cost of firearm injuries in the United States, cost of firearms, cost per firearm death, cost the state, costly, couldn't wait, counseling, counsels, counted the numbers, counterproposal, Counties, country, country a better place, County, county legislative delegation, County Sheriff, county's legislative delegation, courage, Courage defined the life of Barbara Ann Thurmond, courage was an inspiration, courageous, courageous activist, court, Court Calendar, Court Calendars, Court of Law, courtroom, courts, cousins, covered, covers courts, covers crime, crack cocaine, crack-cocaine statistics, crack-cocaine stats, craving for respect, Create, created, creating, creating more a violent society, creating new life is taken so lightly, creating new life is taken so lightly that school children sing about it, Creation, Creations of FireKawand Crawford, Creative Impressions, credit for the drop in black homicides, crime, Crime Affects Our Nation, Crime and health care, Crime and the Law, crime and violence, crime can happen to someone you know or love, crime committed, crime committed against their souls, crime decrease doesn't mean anything to victim’s families, crime drugs, crime experts and political appointees to revamp sentences, crime happens to someone else, crime has since subsided, crime has wreaked on our community, Crime in America, crime in black community, crime in the black community, crime in their streets, Crime is a Societal Problem, crime is allowed in the black community, crime is in our faces, Crime is no longer someone else's problem, crime is someone else’s problem, Crime is Something That Happens to Someone Else, crime lab, crime might go up again next year, crime must STOP, crime nightmare, crime numbers might be down this year, crime prevention, crime rate, crime rate falls but not rape and sexual assault, crime rate falls except rape, crime rate is like the stock market, crime reporter, crime spree, crime traces, crime victim, crime victim’s rights, crime victims, Crime Victims Advocacy Council, crime victims and their families, crime victims and their families are treated with compassion and dignity, crime victims and their families treated with compassion and dignity, Crime Victims United of California, crime victims’ families, crime-ridden, crime. 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Johnson, depart, Department of Psychology at Augusta State University, deprived, deprived children, deprived of development, deputy, deputy prosecutor, Derek Alderman, dermatologist, describes, desensitizes young people, desensitizes young people to death, desensitizes young people to violence, desensitizing young people to death, desensitizing young people to violence, deserves, deserves America’s highest civilian honor, designed, despair, Despite, despite being poor, destitution, destruction, details how, detention, determination, deters voters, deters voters from casting ballots, deters voters from casting their ballots, Devastating, develop, develop trust, developed, developing community, developing family, developing family and community, development, Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues of Families and Community, deviance, diagnosed, diagnosis, did just that, did not attend the NAACP Convention, did not pass, did not pass state requirements, did not pass state requirements for reading and language arts, did not vote, didn't embarrass him, didn't have any say-so, didn't know how, didn't want her to have the baby, didn’t work, died, died at a very young age, died at the scene, died later at the hospital, died that day, died this summer, died too young, different technology, difficult, difficult for most people to fathom, difficulties, difficulties and challenge, dignity, dinner, direct social activism, Director, Director Of Rape Crisis And Sexual Assault Service, director of Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services in Augusta, director of the Victims Assistance Department of the Augusta Richmond County judicial system, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, dirty, disabilities, disabled, disabled Navy veteran, disagreement, disappointed to learn, disciplinarians, discipline, discuss, Disgraced Georgia Sen. 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prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons in the state of Georgia, disproportionately impact low-income, disproportionately impact minorities, disrespect for the black church, disrespecting the black church, disrupted, disseminate electronic information, distance between Augusta and Birmingham, District 9 at-large seat, District Attorney, District Attorney Danny Craig, District Attorney Danny Craig has prosecuted homicide cases equitably, District Attorney Danny Craig listens to the voices of all crime victims, District Attorney of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Police, District Of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, Divided City, DividedCity.US, Divine Order/Decree, Divine Revelation, do not feel good about themselves, do not feel safer, do not forget, Do you know someone who you can help, Do-Over, doctorates, documented black family could not be sold, Does that sound like someone you 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'A Hero' and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk
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Essay: A Defense of Poetry
Essay: ‘To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?’ by James Sale
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Imagine that you were lost in a wilderness and had to find your way out. Fortunately, you have with you a number of things, or tools if you will. In the first instance you have a kitbag, which is itself useful. Within it are various articles: a bottle of water, a knife, fork and spoon, a map, lighter fuel, matches, a compass, a chocolate bar, some rope, scissors, a can opener, a wrap-up plastic mac, and a few more pieces too, like the watch on your wrist. The question I would ask you is simply this: would you, therefore, given that you are lost and are not sure where or how far the next safe port of call is, jettison any of these items or tools? Would you say, this item is irrelevant, and I don’t need it – I’ll never need it – get rid of it? And further, when you are safely back home and start writing of your experiences, will you be prescribing to other travelers in the wilderness: you must never take a bottle of water with you – it’s stupid, it’s cheating, it’s pointless? Or, argue having a map with you means that you are not really lost, so you are not really making a journey?
Sound somewhat fanciful? Not really, for this is precisely what happens in all areas of modern art, and especially poetry. We have three thousand years of tradition which has established a very useful toolkit in the armoury of poetry (and read the same for art and music). Techniques like metre and rhythm, using rhetorical devices such as onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, allusion, anaphora and so on have been well established for millennia. And the reason for this is clear: these techniques, used judiciously, work! They create appropriate emotional (primarily) and intellectual effects in the listeners and readers of the work.
In English poetry rhyme is a special example of one such special effect. In fact rhyme is so ubiquitous that some less informed people seem to think that poetry is just that: rhymed couplets. But because some less informed people think erroneously about this topic does not invalidate its force. The truth is that rhyme is a massively powerful adjunct of poetry and this is demonstrated in two ways in the English speaking world: first, children universally love nursery rhymes, and such rhymes are a brilliant device for aiding memory and recall. But second, advertising itself regularly uses rhyme – why? Because it works. One only has to think of one of the most memorable ads of the last 40 years: “A Mars a day/Helps you work, rest and play.” We get it and the message embeds itself in our consciousness.
Why, then, for heaven’s sake do we constantly get a stream of wannabe poets denigrating and banning rhyme, as if the use of rhyme were something no real poet would ever do? On the contrary, all significant poets have used it, and the very greatest poets do it a lot: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Yeats – need I go on? Even the high apostle of free verse, TS Eliot, did quite a bit of it!
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Of course, rhyming badly is not good. William McGonagall has become a by-word for bad poetry in which meaning has been wrenched by the necessity to find rhyme words. This, in his case, however, has become comical – people still want to read him for the pleasure of the forced rhymes. And here’s the weird thing: I would predict more people read and enjoy McGonagall for all its incompetence (there is still a pleasure to be had in rhyme!) than ever read those stalwarts of serious ‘free verse’: the ‘Howl’ and the ‘Paterson’ and all this shapeless stuff that drones on in its own self-importance.
There is, as I discovered recently in a debate, a vociferous number of people for whom poetry is not poetry at all, but a political act. For them, ‘rhyme’ is some sort of bondage (and that of course has a creditable heritage in Milton’s eschewing rhyme in order to write Paradise Lost) and they need to be ‘free’ – to write whatever comes into their minds as it comes without any sense of form or structure or device or technique or tools. And the result, of course, is that they don’t write poetry at all, although they promote it as such. And they never improve. No verse is free, said TS Eliot, for the man (read ‘person’) who wants to do a good job. They just do not get – and cannot discipline themselves to study and practise – that the tools, the techniques are the very way we find our way out of the wilderness of emotional chaos (which is really their ‘freedom’) and get to the land of true meaning, which is our home.
All this requires patience, study and craft. But all politics is too short-term for that – we want our freedom and we want it now: look at this scribble – it’s art! Right! We need to move on from this infantilism. Rhyme is not necessary for poetry; but rhyme is an amazingly powerful technique when used appropriately and properly, and understanding the various aspects of rhyme which are possible is itself an education. So let’s not be put down by these political activists proclaiming ‘freedom’ and who the while are wasting poetry with their wanton graffiti. Use rhyme when you want to – you know, it can sound so good!
James Sale is a motivational speaker and poet in the United Kingdom.
Featured Image: “Homer and His Guide” by William Adolph Bouguereau (1825-1905).
NealD June 21, 2014
Very well stated with ample liberality. A new scolding provincialism is as off putting and unsavory, actually moreso, than an old.
james sale August 17, 2014
Joseph Charles MacKenzie June 22, 2017
For a very good example of how rhyme may be used to great advantage, I recommend Mr. Sale’s “The Lyre Speaks True” which also contains some extremely edifying and useful essays. http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/james-sale/the-lyre-speaks-true/hardcover/product-22957095.html
James Sale June 23, 2017
Thanks for this recommendation, Joseph, I appreciate them. Rhyme can seem such a simple device to deploy, and it is because it seems so simple so many fall into the simplistic trap of using it badly. There is a whole world of subtlety in rhyme, but only real poets ‘get it’. The sort of thing i am talking about here is best contained in an example: the Australian poet, Clive James, in his introduction to his translation of Dante, makes the casual comment that in making the translation one rule was – avoid feminine rhyme endings. Of course, of course! One feminine rhyme ending in English and you begin the march towards a poem called Don Juan by Byron – a great poem, but not what the Divine Comedy is about.
Mary Embree June 21, 2014
I couldn’t agree more with what you say. See my poem in the Society of Classical Poets’ Annual Journal, 2013 titled “Carrying a Torch for Rhyme.”
Mary Carrying a Torch for Rhyme is very good. Dr Seuss is not one of my favorites, but I found myself writing – somewhat – similarly the other day. Why? Meter and Rhyme.
Yes, have now read your poem – very amusing and serious too: love the Seuss/obtuse rhyme! Thanks.
Your poem does just that: carries the torch for rhyme!
Robert King June 29, 2014
I agree with Mr. Sales that rhyme is not necessary to poetry but, used appropriately, can be a massively powerful adjunct of poetry. However, I am less than impressed with his demonstrations of this principle (children love nursery rhymes and rhyme can assist in getting a message across). For one thing, it is not the function of poetry to deliver a message; the art is in the writing and not in the message (meaning).
I would propose the following as justification for this principle. Richard Wilbur said it best: “Aside from its obvious value in the finished poem as part of poetic form and as a heightener of language, rhyme seems to me an invaluable aid in composition. It creates difficulties which the utterance must surmount by increased resourcefulness. It also helps by liberally suggesting arbitrary connections of which the mind may take advantage if it likes. For example, if one has to rhyme with tide, a great number of rhyme-words come to mind (ride, bide, shied, confide, etc.). Most of these, in combination with tide, will probably suggest nothing apropos, but one of them may reveal precisely what one wanted to say. If none of them does, tide must be dispensed with. Rhyme, austerely used, may be a stimulus to discovery and a stretcher of the attention.” Moreover, Paul Valery observed: “There are many more chances of a rhyme furnishing an ‘idea’ (literary) than of finding the rhyme from the ‘idea’.”
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I personally believe that the idea that poetry is not the communication of a message is one of the doxologies of modernism.
This is a tricky – paradoxical – issue. I agree with Mr Mackenzie in that modernism has abolished meaning – apart from solipsism – and so has fatally undermined communication. Thus, there is a real need to re-instate it; for poems to be about something. Yes. But on the other hand, we also know that poetry being ‘about’ something (Archibald MacLeish: ‘ a poem should not mean, but be’) renders it prosaic in the extreme, and has a tendency to be not sourced by the Muse. So we are faced with Scylla and Charybdis – the poet has to go straight down the middle in order to be the hero who survives this journey.
Hi Richard – thanks for this very thoughtful response; I think we may be splitting hairs on semantics here! It’s the purpose of all communication – of which poetry is a type – to deliver a message, although the message may be that there is no message. What we both might agree, I think, is that we want poetry to avoid didacticism.
Liusaidh August 10, 2016
I think a return to first principles is in order. I bang on about it constantly — form follows function. The form chosen, even free verse, must serve the theme of the poem. For example, I once wrote a silly version of Modern Major General (which real G&S aficionados will cringe at for its liberal use of pararhymes) to help the children of an American friend of mine learn the Amendments to the US Constitution. It was a form of prosody designed to serve a function. The chief way prosody is experienced by ordinary people is through song, and we must never forget that all poetry has its roots in music, in song. Even syllabic forms such as haiku started as the ‘intro’ to longer-form sung prosody. Therefore to suggest we should divorce poetry from it’s music roots is ignorant and denies thousands of years of literary tradition. We are creatures of song. And for this reason I think perhaps the worst way to learn to write a poem is through a poetry primer (unless of course it’s the life changing Ode Less Travelled by Steven Fry) is listening to or learning to play music. Rhythm and rhyme are essential if one takes a broad view of prosody. If I can’t hear the music, to my mind it isn’t a poem.
Thank you for these great comments and I agree with you about the music; music as in beautiful music, not atonal, tuneless, charmless, modern dissonance, of course!
This is music to my ears, Liusaidh, as the first rites of poetry are truly song! Are you by chance a musician?
D P Behrens August 30, 2016
I’m a poet and I know it. Hope I don’t blow it but I’m going to show it. As easy as bumming a dime I can rhyme anytime.
DP, your effort is only secondarily rhyme; primarily it is plagiarism – there is nothing original in your ditty. Let’s not confuse two things.
David Paul Behrens March 14, 2018
Yes, of course, you are right. I think I heard the first part in a Bob Dylan song. I was only joking. How about this one:
TO RHYME WITH ORANGE
As I walked outside to pick an orange
I tore my pants upon the door hinge
Paul March 15, 2018
O rang E
E was busy on the computer
Arguing with some disputer
E became so upset and bitter
As a blood orange
He cursed the babysitter
She resented his harangue
Called him an orangutan
He could have represented his friends on one hand
Now he has no such use for his fingers
And the sadness lingers,
No one calls now and he
Cant even record in this diary that
O rang E.
James Sale March 15, 2018
Yes, David, the orange rhyme is much better, as the word orange is often cited in the text books as being a word that has no rhyme in the English language, so clearly one has to think about it to get there!!
Ha, ha, ha!
sathyanarayana October 16, 2016
This is a very good, balanced essay on rhyme. Of course too many rhymes spoil the poem, but few make it lyrical and beautiful. That’s why the great Gurus of prosody prescribed rhymes at particular appropriate length to make them sound sweet at definite intervals .
James Sale October 16, 2016
Thanks sathyanarayana – you are right; and it is interesting that the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature this year to Bob Dylan is appropriate for us in that Bob uses rhyme consistently, and has to use musical prosody in order for his songs to function as songs! His work is accessible too, with huge variety, so what a relief that some intellectual, atheistic, free verser, with a superior audience of about 57 people spread across 13 universities in the UK, USA and France, didn’t win it.
Yes, and I think Mr. Sale would agree that it all very much depends…
Yes, I would agree … for rhyme to work, it does depend … context is everything.
Satyananda Sarangi November 23, 2016
A very helpful essay on rhyming poetry. Though I’m very young, I’m glad that i have not free verse unlike modern poets.
James Sale November 24, 2016
Thank you Satyananda – I am glad this is useful.
Satyananda Sarangi May 2, 2017
Sir, it’s always a pleasure to read the posts you come up with. Sometimes, I feel it is like a tussle between the free verse specialists and the rhyme propagators. Often, I resort to this website to combat the inner devil that howls- ‘rhyming poetry is dead’. But the thing is rhyming poetry is the very art linked to divine. Even if the devil is frightening, the divine triumphs. 🙂
This ongoing plethora of free verse poetry reminds me of few lines from one of my poems:
May you care not now with little knowledge
Or even when wise a hundred years hence;
I would be true to art, this much I pledge,
True as much in light as when dark is dense.
I drank sorrow to win over defeat,
This rhyme is therefore in my heart and soul;
And shall linger in me, playing its beat,
Until I’m turned to dust, and dust claims all.
© 2017 Satyananda Sarangi. All rights reserved.
James Sale May 6, 2017
Thanks Satyananda – I like your paradoxical quatrains – extremely well expressed and witty too.
John Kolyav January 10, 2017
The one, who knows well the laws, if breaks them occasionally with good intention, it will have great impact (eg: Gandhi’s civil disobedience/non-cooperation movement adopted from Thoreau). I think this is the case with poetry. Poem should not be sacrificed for the sake of meter or rhyme but these are necessary for poetry to exist.
Though meter or rhyme does not make something a poem, good poems with these qualities could easily be memorized. If a poet’s intention is just to see his name printed, then, these things are not necessary. I’m a person from Kerala and I have never been to U.K. or U.S.A. (English is my second language and therefore, please forgive me for any mistake that I might commit in this piece). Yet a few odes, especially “Ode to a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Skylark” and a few poems of some other English poets are by-heart and I often recite them when I’m wearied or getting bored. Why is it easy to remember their whole poems? The answer is simple; those are meaningful, metered and rhyming! Most of their rhyming words are not forced, but spontaneous. Emotions, good vocabulary and practice are the requisites for composing rhyming, metered poems. I still recite thousands of beautiful, metered and rhyming Malayalam (my language) verses of great poets from memory. Therefore, my humble opinion is this: if a poet/poetess wants his/her poems to last long, to be memorized and cherished by others, the poems must have perfect meter or rhyme or at least powerful rhythm as in the case of some poems by T.S. Eliot.
Nowadays, ninety-nine percent of Malayalam poems are also without meter or rhyme. The main reason for the mass production of such rubbish is not by the thirst for the freedom of expression through free verse but by the lack of patience and meditation to compose good ones. Therefore, anyone can write poem; just give a title, “Poem” before the nonsense begins, and that’s all! So that, now, almost half of my forty million countrymen are poets! Great!
Bombs and fireworks: emotions, when expressed without any control act as bombs and when arranged nicely become fireworks.
Therefore, James Sale’s article is relevant. Thanks!
James Sale January 10, 2017
A fabulous commentary on the inanity of so much so-called poetry; thank you John – we agree on this!
I couldn’t have agreed more. This comment echoes the very need for quality poetry i.e. formal and rhythmic poetry. The so called poets are far away from the beauty of top class verse. Being in my early twenties, I don’t have the urge to write free verse for which I have been often referred to as a ‘worn out’ poet. The real poetry raises the soul and winks at the catastrophe.
Robert King May 4, 2017
As you are young and have an instinct for poetry as bigh art, I would suggest you take a glance at my website: http://www.theoryofpoetry.com
As you are young and have an instinct for poetry as bigh art, I would suggest you take a glance at my website.
Yes, Satyananda, the real poet who writes real poetry “raises the soul” – exactly; you have expressed it perfectly.
This is the advantage of being a young lyric poet. You are not tainted by modernism.
G. M. H. Thompson May 6, 2017
I agree with what you are saying in the main, but I think what is lost in this discussion is recognition that language itself has inherent rhythm and therefore everything one says or writes can be considered a possible poem. Free verse fails in so many cases because of inelegant diction and very poor pacing– it so often doesn’t know where it is going because free verse poets often do not know that poems have to go somewhere, that there must be a definite arc of travel throughout their work. Incidentally, many formalists do not know this, either. They, like the free-verse poets they revile and are reviled by, have no story structure in their works– if it rhymes and has a da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM rhythm, it is Homer in their eyes. Yet Homer never rhymed a single line. Neither did Virgil, Sappho, Ovid, or any of the other great Greek and Latin poets of antiquity. Homer didn’t even use line breaks since he sung his poem and did not write it down– line breaks are merely a notational convenience for reader’s eyes. With this in mind, we must ask ourselves what poetry is at its essence (the poems of the Troubadours were originally written down without line breaks by the court scribes of Provence, Tuscany, and Catalonia). Being able to memorize something is great, but I do not consider memorability to be the key virtue of a poem, and I certainly do not consider it to be that virtue of a poem that makes a poem a poem. And while rhythm is part of poetry, I do not agree that rhythm is the essence of what makes a poem a poem. There is more poetry in many sentences written by great prose authors such as Pynchon and Joyce then there is in an ocean of poetry written today, either by free-verse poets or by formalists. Here is the very famous opening sentence of Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities”:
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.’
I maintain that this is a much better poem than most of what is being produced today, by both formalists & free-verse professors to poetry (and what it is saying is still also largely true, particularly in niche, specialist worlds such as poetry finds itself today), and I maintain that that is for reasons beyond the rhythm that the sentence has. Everything has rhythm, therefore, we must think beyond rhythm when considering what makes a poem poetic.
I think you always make and thoughtful points GMH. You touch on a number of quandaries! I am reminded of what my favourite critic, Dr Johnson, said: ‘Poetry is like light; we all know what it is, but it is difficult to say what it is’. So we know there is poetry and we know there is prose, and we know that like yin and yang there is a point at which one switches to the other, and that some writers straddle both camps. But the essence of poetry is that it is not prose. So what is it then? Traditionally, we refer to things like the line break – the verse, or turning – to be an indicator; we also refer to its rhythmical qualities because rhythm so affects the heart, and so directly impacts us as music does – so that is, one would think, a necessary element. However, I am prepared to accept that in extreme circumstances a writer can write poetry without line or rhythm; but what must always be true of poetry is form – there is a heightening of language, an accentuation of words, a shaping which extends beyond the semantics – a process, then, that we recognise that is symbolic in some way of deeper levels of meaning which prose, at its best, can only approximate to. Given that concession, however, if we return to poetry in the English language – and accept that other languages have other properties (so that, for example, rhyme may not be relevant in ancient Greek) – then it is clear that poetry and especially major poetry requires verse – lineation – and rhythm; rhyme is optional and not always necessary, as Milton proved. So I think we are in a large part in agreement.
Mr. Sale, I kindly thank you for your words, which I mostly think are fair and well-reasoned, as they always seem to be, but the core of what I am saying seems to have been somewhat overlooked, if you will pardon me to be so bold as to say. Any statement anyone can make, any collection of words, has a rhythm to it. True, this rhythm is not always a particularly attractive one, particularly if one pays no thought at all to rhythm, but if one looks to flow, which the great novelists did and still do, one will usually come up with lines that have good flow, and this invariably means good rhythm. If one were to take the sentence from Dickens and give it line breaks, one would get a poem written in loose iambic hexameter for the first five lines, after which it gets a bit harder to count off-hand. The fact that Dickens did not give his words line breaks I maintain does not disqualify them from being considered poetic. While it is true that keeping rhythm in a tight straitjacket is usually a good guard against poor rhythm, I also think that it is true that not every poem written in perfect metered-rhythm has good flow, and that an obsession with achieving perfect, regimented meter can often (and often does from what I’ve seen) blind one to the finer points and sensibilities of good rhythm. And while I would say that it is not an incorrect statement to say that poetry can be defined to be that which uses words yet is not prose, I would also say that prose can be poetry while simultaneously being prose, and also that a good deal of what people think of as poetry, both of the rhyming, tightly-metered variety and of the free-verse style, is in fact not even good enough to be labeled prose, simply being a loose jumble of poorly constructed thoughts, self-absorbed references, and meaningless images inelegantly phrased using extremely mannered language that does not add anything to the work. Again, I want to stress that I am not merely bashing free-verse when I say this, for the whole free-verse/formalist debate people on both sides of the divide love to hash over is in so many ways a false dichotomy. So too is the verse/prose divide. All language has metre inherently in it. I do not think it essential that one consciously shapes the metre because there is no way to judge if an author has consciously shaped his or her metre or simply got a pen and let the muses shape what comes gushing out. The reader cannot tell what the writer was thinking or doing when he or she was writing, so intentions are in many way a moot point.
Every object, be it a bicycle, a bass guitar, a sniper rifle, or a poem, has certain elements that are essential to the thing in question being the thing in question. If wheels are not present, a bicycle is not said to be a bicycle, but instead, a bicycle’s frame. If a bass guitar is missing the body, is in fact only the neck and head of a bass guitar, one can hardly play the solo to “My Generation” on it. If the only component of a sniper rifle one has is the sight, one can think one is going to assassinate some world leader, but when the time comes, nothing will happen (and if all killers thought like this, there would be no gun violence, so I’m not sure if I should be giving this violent information out). The most important question I am raising is what is it in a poem that makes a poem a poem (and for this argument, we will only of course be discussing the English poem), and not just a incomplete artifact, not just a sight with no gun. It cannot be rhyme, because as you pointed out, no one would argue that “Paradise Lost” is not a poem (Ezra Pound mentioned after seeing the cottage where Milton wrote his epic that he too would have doubtlessly written a gloomy, moralizing monstrosity on original sin if he had been forced to live in somewhere so abysmal; in light of that comment, one does wonder if Milton’s hell was in any way based upon his living conditions). And it cannot really be line-breaks either, for as I have already said, both the Troubadours and the ancient court bards of antiquity such as Homer did not write any of their poems down, and what is a line-break without the page (enjambment is a poetic practice that makes spoken word lines potentially endless if one simply defines a line as a unit of words bound by punctuation; similarly, singers (and both the Troubadours and Homer were singers) can stretch word lengths and multiply or eliminate syllables with a little imagination, therefore I would say that length of breath is not a judge of what makes a verbal line either (and that’s not even considering that people have different levels of vocal stamina, i.e. some vocalists can say more in one breath than others and it is easy to imagine that some cannot sing certain lines of dactylic hexameter in one breath)). And it cannot be rhythm, for as I keep trying to stress, every statement ever made has had rhythm. The metre of that last sentence is as follows:
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed unstressed stressed unstressed, unstressed stressed unstressed stressed stressed unstressed unstressed stressed, stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed stressed stressed stressed unstressed.
So if poetry cannot stop being poetry if one takes away rhyme, or line breaks (or what one can reasonably define as line breaks, and as I’ve tried to demonstrate, defining line breaks as other than what I have quickly becomes a fruitless endeavor, a kind of petty anti-grail quest), and one cannot take away rhythm as every statement made in any language has always had rhythm (and particularly in highly rhythmic languages such as English, German, Greek, and Latin), what can one take away from poetry to stop it from being poetry? Perhaps it was this question, or some question like it, that prompted Rimbaud to write his ‘Les Illuminations’, one of the earliest conscious attempts at prose poetry that I am personally aware of. What is the element, or far more likely, group of elements correctly in harmony with one another, that make a poem a poem. This is not a question that can be answered with surface level observations such as noting that there must be good rhythm (and as I’ve already stressed repeatedly, everything has rhythm).
What makes a song rock ‘n’ roll is not the use of an electric guitar, a drum set, and a bass guitar. These must be played in unison and using musical principals essential to the genre, such as the riff, the lick, and the scale. But rock ‘n’ roll is not exclusive to these instruments– it can be played using pianos, synthesizers, and drum machines, although it’s usually better to have a human drummer in terms of sound– drum machines are far to synthetic and soulless. And the human voice that is the heart of rock music must deliver a poem with arc for rock to be truly great. Think of that most essential rock song, Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”. The first verse describes the humble background of the song’s hero, the second moves him to playing on the tracks, impressing everyone who heard, and the third ends the cycle with his mother’s prophetic promise that someday his name may be in lights. What I find especially interesting about this poem is that the promise is yet to be fulfilled, giving it a haunting sense of uncertainty.
Hi GMH – you make a lot of points here and I cannot cover them all, especially the Johnny B Goode one! But I think one interesting point you make which does introduce a new element is the point about ‘poor’ rhythm and basically, the job being done badly. I talk about form, but another way of expressing this would be not to talk of form but of form’s key property – something which I think is implicit in your account. What is this property inherent in form, and which lack of form – poor form – bad rhythms etc – do not possess? The answer I think is beauty; we love poetry because it renders beauty to us and we love to experience beauty. Sometimes that may be intentionally sought by the poet – an effect as it were – sometimes (as is the case with the best of Wilfred Owen – ‘the poetry is in the pity’) it simply emerges. But this sense of concentrated beauty always means we are in the presence of poetry; prose may be poetical, but we all grasp the essential difference, and those who try to hard to extend the definition of poetry to include everything – that is, everything prose – by definition, then, mean poetry is nothing.
Well put. And just so there was no ambiguity, though I’m fairly confident you were not implying this, I am well aware that there is prose and that there is poetry, and that the two things are different most of the time (also, I was not trying to stretch any definitions, but rather convey my honest opinions). But I maintain that the best of prose, the prose of Joyce, Pynchon, Mervyn Peake, as well as many others, is both prose and poetry, at least in a number of places in their master works, and that prose can be better, in terms of beauty or any other metrics one desired to use, than poetry. There are a lot more commonalities between the genres than people suspect. For a clever, well-written short story behaves in many instances like a poem, and there is no better way of discovering this than attempting to write one. And every chapter in a novel behaves (or should behave, if the author’s good) like its own short story, so every novel ideally should read like a series of closely related poems. The best example I can think of this off-hand is Cormic McCarthy’s “The Road”.
OK GMH – point taken – we are in complete agreement. Though I must make a terrible confession to you: my son got me a copy of The Road and raved about it. But that was two years ago – it’s still on my desk and I still haven’t read it. My appetite for fiction has seriously diminished in the last 20 years!! You can’t read everything – I am about to re-read Dante and start The Lusiads by Camoe …
This, to me, is by far the most important response.
I was trained in Paris to recite classic verse and had the pleasure of mixing with many a very fine “diseur.” Indeed, I had become a component of the “poésie dite” movement popular at the time.
Like you, Mr. Kolyav, I believe that recitation if primary. Here is an example of what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_EXT1Qeluk
Chris Webster January 15, 2017
Hi James, it’s Chris again. Here is one of my poems which plays with the idea of free verse vs rhymed verse:
“Write me a sonnet,” you asked me
Grinning as if in mockery
Of my free verse, implying
It is not worthy of you – worse,
That neither is my love,
And that the winning of you
Needs working at – like finding
(Which means for sonnets,
Fourteen times.)
And sleepless nights like those
Endured by poets like me –
Stuck for a
This lover’s task you set me
Nears its end, and though
It cost me
Of agony, that’s nothing
To what
Love has wrung from me:
Belies the effort
I expend in both,
So read this carefully
And as you judge this
Poem,
Hi Chris – you have not lost your touch; this is very classy – it rhymes but captures natural speech patterns and seems effortless rather than contrived. So like it lots – especially the almost cliche that you make seem real – ‘Love has wrung from me’. Great stuff!!
Tomás Ó Cárthaigh February 13, 2017
I was fundamentalist to this position until the last deacde or so, but I still prefer the rhyming type.
The political hold against the style is as it is seen as tied with patriarchial and conservative thinking, and the refusal to adhere to this is seen as a form of rebellius action in words.
Myself, I write as a free verse that is then fashioned into a rhyming one, but somethimes it does not come off, and is better left as a free verse.
Ill provide a same of each here, and you can say for yourself which you prefer:
RHYMING:
“Salmon of Knowledge”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/salmon-of-knowledge/
“Angry Sea”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/give-to-me-an-angry-sea/
“The Meadows Through Which My Dancing Heart”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/the-meadows-through-which-my-dancing-heart/
NON RHYMING:
“There Is No Time for Art”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/there-is-no-time-for-art/
“On Reading the Verse of Hera Linsday Bird”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/on-reading-the-verse-of-hera-linsday-bird/
“Dawn Breaks as Yeats Goes to Sleep”
http://www.writingsinrhyme.com/index.php/dawn-breaks-as-yeats-goes-to-sleep/
James Sale February 14, 2017
Hi Tomas – I have left a brief comment on your give to me angry sea poem, and I like it a lot; I also like however your Yeats poem. Indeed, Yeats is clearly a major influence. I myself take the view that Yeats is the greatest poet in the English speaking world of the last 150 years, so to study him is to get to the master. Clearly, you can move between the rhyme and non-rhyme camp easily. It would be a mistake to legislate for rhyme – there are moments – or epics as Milton realised – when one needs to abandon it. But you are right about the fact that using it is seen as a political statement; and alongside that is what I can only regard as one of the most fatuous misidentification of ideas in literary history: namely, that writing ‘free’ verse somehow equates to being democratic or striking a blow for freedom. Most free verse is simply atrocious verse and is certainly not poetry and its practitioners have failed to understand the importance of Yeats’ marvellous dictum on ‘the fascination of what’s difficult’. Writing in meter and rhyme too difficult for you? Hey, don’t bother – count syllables? – that too difficult? Just put down anything you want – but tie it into a contemporary ‘issue’, then you might even be considered an important poet. It has always been the way of the world to like what is superficial and to go for quick fixes that are symptomatic rather than causal. But true poets don’t think like the world, which is why form is so important.
And, Satyananda, I recommend Robert King and his work to you – I have reviewed his wonderful book on Jose Garcia Villa – a masterpiece.
Lew Icarus Bede May 11, 2017
Some simple observations.
1. Music does not require verbal expression, as, for example, piano concertos, etc.
2. Homeoteleuton (i.e., rhyme) is only one of many schemes used in verbal expression.
3. Among many other works, Lucretius’ “De Rerum Natura” shows the power and importance of didactic poetry.
4. In Greece, in the remarkable 400s BC, Herodotus used unmetered prose for his historical investigations and Plato for his philosophical dramas.
5. Though his meter, in a play, like “Macbeth,” is not as intricate as that found in the dramas of, say, Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides, Shakespeare masterfully handles both poetry and prose there.
6. Both poets, like Dylan Thomas in his villanelle “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and prose fiction writers, like Charles Dickens, use repetition, (i.e., anaphora, etc.).
7. Samuel Johnson said of this line from Vergil, “Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas”: “All the modern languages cannot furnish so melodious a line.”
8. I am amazed at the dazzling concentration of classical writers, as, for example, the opening half line of Vergil’s “Aeneid”: “Arma virumque cano”.
9. Prose fiction writers, like Modernist Joyce and Postmodernist Pynchon, frequently indulged in cacosyntheton.
10. Milton’s ponderous lines show remarkable staying power.
Robert L. King May 11, 2017
To this comment, I would respond with a passage from my book on Jose Garcia Villa’s theory of poetry (“Poetry is”) as follows: “We must not think of poetry as in the service of something else. We speak loosely of poetry as narrative poetry, satirical poetry, didactic poetry, dramatic poetry, but none of these is related to the art of poetry. Narrative poetry such as the writings of Homer, Dante, Virgil and Chaucer, is poetry in service of telling a story, which today is done better by writing a novel. Dramatic poetry, such as Shakespeare’s plays, tells of events that have occurred in the past as though they were occurring in the present. Narrative and dramatic poetry are malpractice of poetry–the story assumes the greatest importance at the expense of the lyrical spirit. They involve verse applied to the matter and uses of prose, Poetry is the frosting on the cake but only in the sense that it is an accompaniment, like music, played as an accompaniment to a movie. . . . Except in his sonnets [and “songs” in his plays], Shakespeare was not really a poet.”
James Sale May 12, 2017
First, let me just say: it is a joy to have Robert L King back in the discussions!! I have noticed his absence over the last year – I believe he has been preoccupied elsewhere – but now he is back. Wonderful – and for those who don’t know his book, “Poetry Is”, then I think it is one of the best books about poetry ever written – a marvellous book. But thanks to Lew for his various observations, which I am not inclined to dispute since they seem tangential to what I am talking about. Yes, there are many figures of speech that poets and prose writers use, and there is massive overlap, but my article was focusing on rhyme because of its central and controversial place within poetry, poetic discourse, and even the public imagination. For, for the public, many still think that ‘rhyming’ is poetry! But on the other side, we have the intelligentsia – the post-modernists – who disdain what the public like and also who denigrate the importance of beauty (through form) of poetry. And so to that end, I penned my modest polemic arguing that whilst not essential, rhyme was a major and intrinsic ‘ornament’ to poetry, and oftentimes generated simply great poetry. But thank you both for your points; including Robert’s very controversial one on Shakespeare!
G. M. H. Thompson May 12, 2017
I don’t really agree that poetry cannot have a narrative at its center. As you point out, such a contention disqualifies a good deal of what people, scholarly or lay, think of as poetry. After all, not only your cogent examples of Chaucer, Homer, the great works of Dante, Virgil, and the plays of Shakespeare, but also the works of the most successful and widely read poet of the last 200 years, Dr. Seuss, were all poems in service of telling a story (not to mention Milton’s magnum opus, nor much of Spencer, nor many of the Romantics’ greatest hits, such as The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The Raven, or The Song of Hiawatha, among others). Such a definition disqualifies all epic poems from being considered poems, and a good deal of non-epic poetry as well, and I for one am not willing to banish most of what I regard as the greatest poetry ever written from the empire of poetry. Yet it is true that prose has largely replaced poetry (or more accurately, what people conventionally think of as “prose” has replaced what people conventionally think of as “poetry”) for the purposes of telling a story over the last 300 years or so, at least in terms of what most story-crafters are willing to use, and what most story-readers (such as there are still readers) are willing to consume. Which begs several questions all at once, the first of which I think you have answered incorrectly, although it was noble to attempt to answer, and your answer is quite admirable in its fearlessness.
What lies at the heart of this discussion, yet again, is what is the true nature of poetry? Mr. Sale hit on some of the truth in this matter when he mentioned that beauty is central to what is poetic and what is not. I’m currently gnawing my way through Graves’ White Goddess, and I came across a rather remarkable definition on page 217 (in the first paragraph of chapter 13; paraphrased very slightly to convey the meaning of the text, which would be somewhat difficult otherwise):
“the ability to think poetically — to resolve speech into its original images and rhythms and re-combine these on several simultaneous levels of thought into a multiple sense”
This is a definition that disqualifies a number of poems written in the stiff, formal style favored by a number of modern dissidents from the poetic establishment, who worship too fervently at the alter of perfect clarity. The other extreme of this is what in a number of ways has led to the post-modern malaise that dominates the poetic elite nowadays, namely the hyper complexity of the New Critics which led to stiff, incomprehensible, & downright boring poems such as those of a young Robert Lowell. Yet there is a happy medium between nursery-rhyme clarity and ponderous, self-centered complexity, and it is here that the true poet must reside if they aspire to write poetry that is truly great.
I also like this quote by Graves because it emphasizes the importance of images in poetry– while the image is not the only thing a poem must have, it is very hard to write a good poem, let alone a great one, if one has no images in one’s poem. I would say that images, their proper selection, framing, and manipulation, are even more central to poetry than rhythm, although rhythm is also very important, obviously. What is metaphor if not the brilliant juxtaposition of images not normally associated? And, as T.S. Eliot observed (though not in these words mind you), what is metaphor if not the most potent weapon in the arsenal of the poet?
To get back to the point after such long wanderings, I would say that by the definition of Graves given above, many poems written in the service of telling a story are poetic because they recombine everyday events into several different levels of thought simultaneously using rhythms and images that are not prosaically present. The Iliad and the Odyssey do this through the use of mythical creatures and gods, who on one level are actual physical realities, but on a deeper, more real level, represent the abstract ideas, emotions, and hardships that underpin the more visible actors upon the stage of the world. And Shakespeare also does this, personifying Time in The Winter’s Tale, various forest sensations in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, and other forces elsewhere, such as the witches in Macbeth. Dante’s Inferno is a tour de force in this kind of metaphorical play of images and characters. And so is Joyce’s Ulysses, which has so many images and rhythms recombined on so many different levels, it is hard not to consider it poetry, and poetry of the first order.
Thanks GMH and Lew. I agree with you GMH that narrative can indeed be poetry, and frankly I regard the existence of the Iliad or Paradise Lost as being incontrovertible proof of that proposition; to believe otherwise is to promote theory over the facts of experience. But that said, I can see why Robert has argued otherwise: there is currently an absence of long, narrative poems that ‘compel’ us to read; and certainly lyric is the purest impulse of poetry. But absence does not mean that it is impossible; it does mean that whoever can do it has to be able to use language in an elevated fashion or style that is most difficult to attain, since such a language will almost certainly be at variance with, or run into the problem of, the mishmash and relativistic values and ‘equality’ zeitgeist implicit in most of the language of our day. Indeed, heroic narrative actively works against ‘equality’, which is the the 50-50 principles and really works on the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule – a few things only count inordinately, and from them tremendous issues spring: one decision by Satan, one by Eve, and one by Adam and whole worlds of woe emerge. And to be classical (and this is for Lew – great examples, BTW!) about it: the judgement of Paris, in which Aphrodite was chosen (a beauty pageant, for crying out loud!) above her fellow goddesses meant … the destruction of Troy and Paris’ own life destroyed. Thanks all for some wonderful observations and comments. I do think this is a really important issue. Later this year Evan is bringing out a series of articles on Poetry and the Muses that I have written for SCP, and I hope you will enjoy and respond to these as they appear.
Some Central Thoughts on Poetry and Rhyme
1. As G. M. H. Thompson pointed out, many of the most inspiring poets did not use rhyme: Homer, Hesiod, Archilochus, Alcman, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Sappho, Bacchylides, Simonides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Callimachus, Ennius, Lucretius, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Statius, Martial, Juvenal.
2. In the first major prose work on the literary theory of poiesis (ποίησις), Aristotle discusses heroic epic poetry, dramatic poetry (both tragic and comic), the satyr play, and lyric poetry.
3. The lyric poet Horace honoured the epic poet Vergil in his odes.
4. Vergil, scanning the poetic horizon of his time, went most deeply to the poetry of Homer. Dante, scanning the poetic horizon of his time, went to Vergil’s poetry for his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Though Dante wrote fewer sonnets than Petrarca, he was not the less poetic.
5. Chaucer’s regularization of rhyme and incorporation of iambic pentameters (in the manner of the Italians), became instrumental for the lyric poets in English for the next seven centuries, Tudor writers, like Wyatt, Howard, and Spenser, giving it an English character. Henry Howard, introducing unrhymed iambic pentameter, blank verse, in his translation of Vergil’s “Aeneid,” and so effectively used by poetic dramatists, like Marlowe and Shakespeare, and others in other poetic genres, like Milton, Thomson, Wordsworth, and Keats.
6. Throughout his works, the poet Shakespeare frequently went to the Greeks and Romans, and in addition, devoted several poetic dramas to them, like Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, as have other memorable poets, like Corneille, Racine, etc.
7. The territory of Poetry is vast. Yet, though the territory of Prose is vaster, Poetry, in so many of its manifestations, is vital for the health of a language.
8. Although it is easy to write poetry, and even easier to write prose, great prose is extremely difficult to write, and great poetry nearly impossible. Only at certain moments in history can greatness in language reveal itself.
9. Joyce doubted Eliot’s ability as a poet, as have I; and yet my doubts of Eliot’s poetry and prose are less than those I have for Joyce’s prose. And though, for me, neither of them approaches Chaucer’s or Spenser’s failures, still I am thankful for their service to English.
10. Next to Vergil’s failures, I can only defer to the art of Horace and the vision of Dante.
I do not deny, and did not in my earlier comment on narrative poetry, that historically there have been numerous works of prose that have been, and still are, considered great works of poetry. But “poetry” is an umbrella word — it can shelter anything you throw in it or under it. In speaking as I did in my comment, I was speaking of the art of poetry, the subject matter of the book I edited: “Poetry is.” I cannot squeeze into this reply what is contained in the 154 pages (25 chapters) of my book and will not try. In his reply to my comment, G.M.H. Thompson states: “What lies at the heart of this discussion, yet again, is what is the true nature of poetry.” I see it differently: What is at the heart of this discussion is what is the true nature of the art of poetry. Poetry can exist as spirit, where poetry is the spiritual coefficient of human nature. Man’s heart has a natural, spontaneous internal power — of insight and imagination. Poetry as spirit is an inward light — an all-embracing sense of good and rightness. Poetry as spirit springs involuntarily from the human heart. You don’t have to do anything for it.
But poetry as art is not automatic or spontaneous — it has to be worked for — into the discipline of form. In order to be art, form is mandatory. Poetry as art is always controlled, conscious and deliberate. In poetry as art, an artist is at the helm and s/he imposes pattern and architecture, i.e., form, on the work. The spirit of poetry does not have to manifest itself in artistic form. However, if it is put in artistic form, it becomes one of the arts, and only one is called poetry –this is the art of writing in verse. Paul Valery said that the art of writing in verse is poetry “reduced to the essence of its active principle.” For the most part, Chapters Four through Eleven of my book are devoted to distinguishing between the prose process and the poetic process. All I can say here pertinent to the narrative process is this: The poetic process starts from the energy and self-kindling of language itself. When you begin a poem with meaning in mind, that meaning — instead of building the poem up — undermines it and pulls it down. A poem that starts with meaning has a birth defect. And while I maintain that meaning has a special meaning in poetry; it must generate itself from the verbal and musical development of the poem, a subconscious arrival by the poetic process.
This is very well expressed and highly cogent; and reminds me, I need to read your book again! Thank you.
João João Miguel June 2, 2017
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Carmella June 23, 2017
I am regular reader, how are you everybody? This
paragraph posted at this web site is really pleasant.
Welcome Carmella – glad you are on the site, glad you like this post. Feel free to contribute – we have some very vibrant conversations. As you probably deduce if you have looked around, we like beauty, truth and goodness here, and so far as poetry goes, form – without being too dogmatic about it. In essence, poetry should delight and may instruct! So post your comments and submit your poems.
James Sale September 18, 2017
Thanks Bursa – look forward to seeing it.
Lieselotte October 2, 2017
Hello, Ӏ think your site mіght be having browser ⅽompatibility issues.
When I look at your blog ѕite in Chrome, it looks fine but when оpening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping.
I just wanted to give you a quiⅽk heads up! Other then that, fantastic blog!
James Sale October 3, 2017
Thanks Lieselotte for liking the blog!!
Paul Gray December 1, 2017
I use rhyme within my verse
For without it I sound quite terse
But I don’t get better, I get werse
Quite why I’ve no way of telling
Some blame it on my
Speling
James Sale December 1, 2017
Keep it up Paul!
Unfinished Sympathy.
The dice man decided just today
That a worm would squeeze out of the clay
Sunshine through water would display a prism
And I would have an aneuri…
By Paul Gray.
Blank verse is too much like prayer
and poets are not priests
I’ll have no truck with rhyming slayers
I don’t share their beliefs
(Thirty days has September)
and though they may think us less
The rhyme’s what helps them to remember
Come join the great unblessed.
Blank verse is … your best yet – like it!!!
Fill the Blanks Verse Competition.
Of course poetry requires the rhyming skill
If you’re doubting this I consider you …
Ponder it please and do take some time
Its eight o’clock now, please respond by …
And metre too is also required
If one wants to reach the effect …
Deny it if you will but you must surely see
It’s simple and sound just like do, ray …
For rhythm remains a vital component
I expect in this to have no …
Must I show you all by banging on drums?
A rat a tat-tat-tat
A-rum- ti- tum…
Be succinct, be clear
If you ask for ear lending
Fill the blanks in my ….
I’m in need of an ….
Answers to blank verse.
ill, nine, desired, me, opponents, tum, dear, ending.
The problem with modernity is that it would see more poetry in the answers and would graft to it meanings that don’t exist.
Bruce Edward Wren March 30, 2018
Excellent little article. Congrats, Mr. Sale.
Thanks Bruce – appreciate your taking the time to read it and your response.
Evan April 24, 2018
Dear James, it occurred to me that this poem is also a figurative thumbs up to your essay, so I’ll post it here. Thank you again for the great essay:
From My Pocket
Written upon finding most contemporary poems recommended for this day do not contain rhyme or meter.
From my pocket came cardstock that
Had the words below inscribed
In letters golden thoughts emblazoned;
Hear them now described:
“Poems with rhyming and good timing
Have a certain charm
That makes the brain a speeding train
That moves the writing arm.
You may say that they’re passé
And shallow in their scope,
Yet discipline will often win
Without the help of dope.
Call it common or old fashion
And yet what could be
More profound than how words sound when
Made in harmony,
Like the brass bell’s ringing sound swells
Sending waves afar
With force not random, but from atoms
Lined like music bars;
Tin and copper smelted proper
Makes the metal brass,
For each its protons has strict patterns
And a constant mass.
Things with order and strong borders
Leave a lasting mark,
Reverberating, undulating
Here to ages dark,
From those ages and skin pages
To antiquity
And forward flying past our dying
To posterity.
Song that’s singing! Gong that’s ringing!
Through the poem with rhyme!
Forever living, ever giving
Meaning through all time!”
James Sale April 29, 2018
Thanks Evan – apologies for delay in replying – but this is great: this does give force to what I have rather prosaically stated! As you say so well: “Things with order and strong borders / Leave a lasting mark,” – that is exactly it. Indeed, I seem to remember that it was Robert Frost who said, ‘Good fences make good neighbours’, which again is all about the borders and boundaries which make meaning – and society – possible. Well done. Love it.
Richard Livermore April 26, 2019
Rhyme And Reason
Some people do not like the way
I’m prone to using rhyme to today
and so they’re apt to sniff at it,
as if that former form of wit
were infradig in modern times
and no-one’s worth a fig who rhymes.
I think they think that poets choose
the forms that they are wont to use.
Forms are not derived from rules;
if there’s a form to molecules,
it’s not because they’ve read a book
which tells them how they ought to look
and what or who they need to ape,
but just because it is the shape
in which they first of all arrived
and—last of all—they have survived.
Thanks for this Richard – you make a very important point in your charming verse: namely, that the forms are not in one sense ‘invented’. They emerge from the language and its structure; and that is where greatness occurs. A certain form – say, sonnet – is discovered and within it certain languages (e.g English or Italian) find the expressive capabilities of the language enhanced. Would the sonnet form work, though, in Chinese or Japanese? I don’t know the answer to that question, but I do know that haiku, for example, scarcely ‘works’ in English despite all the practitioners of the form. Heck, I have written haikus myself but you can’t say much in English in them; just as you can’t say much with limericks. But the difference is, limericks are funny because they go with the metrical grain of the English language; haikus, because they don’t, remain intellectual exercises. Of course, in their original language I am sure haikus are compelling.
Thanks for that vote of confidence. The truth is, especially these days, I tend to write in freer forms than I used to, with more influence from surrealism and poets like John Ashbery, but that’s my humour and perhaps I’ll ‘grow out of it’. I still use rhyme – just not so frequently. What I don’t like is this either/or attitude imported into poetry, which is expressed in the so-called Poetry-Wars. People should write what works in the way that it works. No other criterion should be applied.
Yes, Richard, I understand where you are coming, and I dislike a doctrinaire approach, but that said I think that writing ‘free verse’ is especially difficult if one wishes to say that it is ‘poetry’. It’s possible, but very difficult – since so often it is merely chopped-up prose. The question becomes: what is it that defines it as poetry? TS Eliot wrote free verse that I accept is poetry, so part of an answer could be derived from studying his work; but again, that said, in The Wasteland it is interesting how often the iambic meter returns to either haunt the line or explicitly be there. I am not an expert on John Ashbery, but used to occasionally read his stuff as it was published in PN Review in the UK. I have to say: I never read one poem by him that I thought was a genuine poem; it was all intellectual, clever-clever stuff – that is, from the ego – and the fact that that was so seems to me to be evident in that I cannot recall one quotable line. Real poetry has a tendency to stick in the mind – Eliot was great at that, and is so quotable. But Ashbery? Well, we’ll all make our own minds up. But thanks for your comments on this page – much appreciated and welcome.
Vernell June 6, 2019
May I simply say what a comfort to find a person that actually understands what they are discussing online.
You actually understand how to bding a problem too light and make it important.
More people have to look at this and understand this side of your story.
It’s surprising you aren’t more popular given that you definitely
poswsess the gift.
James Sale June 7, 2019
Hi Vernell – thank you, I appreciate your comments on my article and am glad you like it so much. Do feel free to re-post it and let others know about it; in that way you might cure the problem of my popularity! Of course, the important thing is the ideas, and not the specific person behind them. On the pages of the SCP we are collectively (most of us) working towards helping the West regain its sense of order, purpose and beauty – through classical forms. Do come along to the events in New York on the 17th June – advertised at the top of this page – I am flying in from the UK to join this party, and can scarcely wait to be there with New York’s greats!
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Research article | Open | Published: 06 June 2019
Telepsychiatry for patients with movement disorders: a feasibility and patient satisfaction study
Andreea L. Seritan ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9287-90561,2,
Melissa Heiry2,3,
Ana-Maria Iosif4,
Michael Dodge5 &
Jill L. Ostrem2,3
Telemedicine is a convenient health service delivery modality for patients with movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), but is currently underutilized in the management of associated psychiatric symptoms. This study explored the feasibility of and patient satisfaction with telepsychiatry services at an academic movement disorders center.
All patients seen by telepsychiatry between January and December 2017 at the UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center were invited to participate. Participation was voluntary. Patients received an initial survey after the first telepsychiatry visit and satisfaction surveys after each visit. Survey responses were collected online via Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap). Frequencies were calculated for categorical variables, and means and standard deviations were generated for continuous variables.
Thirty-three patients (79% with PD; 72% Medicare recipients; 64% men; mean age, 61.1 ± 10.5 years; mean distance to clinic, 79.9 ± 81.3 miles) completed a total of 119 telepsychiatry and 62 in-person visits. Twenty-two initial surveys and 50 satisfaction surveys (from 21 patients) were collected. Patients were very satisfied with the care (95%), convenience (100%), comfort (95%), and overall visit (95%). Technical quality was somewhat lower rated, with 76% patients reporting they were very satisfied, while 19% were satisfied. All patients would recommend telemedicine to friends or family members.
Telepsychiatry is a feasible option for patients with movement disorders, leading to high patient satisfaction and improved access to care. Technical aspects still need optimization. Whenever available, telepsychiatry can be considered in addition to in-person visits. Future studies with larger samples should explore its impact on patient care outcomes and caregiver burden.
Movement disorders, particularly Parkinson’s disease (PD), are often associated with psychiatric manifestations. Anxiety and depressive disorders are the most common psychiatric comorbidities, estimated to occur in at least half of PD patients, although they may be under-recognized and not addressed effectively [1,2,3]. Poor access to mental health resources further limits the patients’ ability to receive appropriate treatment for psychiatric comorbidities. In a recent survey of 769 PD patients, 52% reported lack of mental health services in their area, and 31% identified transportation as a barrier to mental health care [3]. Additionally, patients with movement disorders have difficulty driving long distances to attend appointments, especially to clinics located in large cities, where traffic and parking are constant challenges. PD patients may also experience unpredictable off-medication states that can be associated with dystonia, pain, wearing-off related anxiety, depression, or cognitive fluctuations. These symptoms, whether physical or psychological, make it challenging for patients to fully engage in psychiatric care.
Telemedicine offers a potential convenient alternative for this patient population. There is a growing body of literature exploring the use of telemedicine, particularly for the neurological care of PD patients. Multiple studies have shown that telemedicine is a feasible option for PD patients, leading to better motor performance and quality of life and cost savings for patients and health care systems [4,5,6,7]. Despite these encouraging initial successes, not all studies have shown improvements in patient quality of life [8, 9]. Previous authors also found high levels of satisfaction among patients and providers, concluding that telemedicine is a useful adjunct to in-person treatment and it improves access to care for patients residing in remote locations [5,6,7, 9].
To date, telemedicine has been used with good results for a variety of mental health conditions and age groups. A comprehensive review and meta-analysis of internet-based psychotherapy interventions for anxiety disorders, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcohol use, and smoking cessation revealed moderate to large effect sizes [10]. Telepsychiatry has been shown to increase older adults’ access and satisfaction with health care services [11,12,13]. However, there is limited evidence regarding the use of telemedicine for the management of PD psychiatric comorbidities [14]. A small pilot study evaluated internet-administered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the treatment of depression and anxiety in nine PD patients and found a significant reduction in their depressive symptoms [15]. Other authors delivered CBT interventions by telephone to PD patients with anxiety and depression, although they did not use videoconferencing [16,17,18,19]. The Parkinson’s Active Living program was an innovative behavioral activation intervention for apathy delivered via telehealth to non-demented patients with PD [20]. This program led to significant improvements in apathy and depression, and benefits were maintained one month later [20].
The present study aimed to explore the feasibility of and patient satisfaction with telepsychiatry services offered in a busy academic movement disorders center in California. California has large rural areas, where access to mental health providers is limited. Thus, a secondary goal of our study was to increase access to psychiatric services for patients with movement disorders from a broader catchment area. To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the use of telepsychiatry for patients with movement disorders.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center (MDNC) is a large interprofessional center dedicated to diagnosing and treating patients with movement disorders, many of whom receive deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy. This setting and the patient population served were described in detail elsewhere [21]. The team includes a geriatric psychiatrist. In an effort to increase patient access to mental health services, especially for those who reside in remote areas, psychiatry follow-up visits can be provided by telemedicine. Currently, the US federal health insurance Medicare does not reimburse this telemedicine model in California (medical office to patients' homes), however UCSF sponsors these services. Patients have to be located in California during the visit, have the requisite technical capability (computer with camera and speakers, tablet or phone with internet connection), and not be considered a safety risk (suicidal or violent). UCSF uses Zoom, a web-based, encrypted, HIPAA-compliant application (available at https://zoom.us/) to connect with patients in their homes. Telepsychiatry allows more frequent mental health visits. Patients typically see their neurologist approximately every three months, and the psychiatrist every four-to-six weeks. In-person appointments are coordinated so patients can see both their neurologist and psychiatrist every three months, with one-to-two interim telepsychiatry visits. The follow-up duration varies depending on patient needs (DBS evaluation and perioperative care, or regular mental health care for psychiatric conditions associated with the movement disorders), and is typically six months-to-one year.
Telepsychiatry visits are structured like regular psychiatric outpatient follow-up visits, including medication management and psychotherapy. Visits include a review of psychiatric symptoms, discussion of medication benefits and side effects, and any other stressors the patient wishes to discuss. Treatment recommendations typically include behavioral strategies and/or medication adjustments.
All patients seen by the MDNC psychiatrist via telemedicine between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017 were invited to participate. Participation was entirely voluntary. The study protocol was reviewed by the UCSF Institutional Review Board and determined to not meet criteria for human subject research.
Participating patients or their designated caregivers received an initial survey after the first telemedicine visit, and satisfaction surveys after each visit (including the first one) by email. Emails containing the survey link were sent after the completion of each visit, with a reminder a week later. Survey responses were collected via REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a secure, web-based application designed for research study data collection and storage [22].
The initial survey was developed for this study and included six demographic questions (patient age, sex, education level, marital status, employment status, and approximate distance from their residence to MDNC). This survey explored participants’ previous experience with telemedicine and opinions regarding telemedicine, as compared to in-person visits (rated on a Likert-type scale: “Not as good”, “As good as”, and “Better than” in-person visits). Participants were asked to rank advantages (“I don’t have to drive and park at UCSF”, “It saves time”, “It’s more comfortable to have the visit in my home”) and disadvantages (“Loss of privacy”, “I prefer face-to-face communication with my doctor”, and “Technical difficulties”) of telemedicine visits on a Likert-type scale from 1 to 3, with 1 = Most important, and 3 = Least important.
The visit satisfaction survey was adapted, with permission, from a survey used in the Remote Access to Care, Everywhere, for Parkinson Disease (RACE-PD) study [5] and assessed the level of patient satisfaction with several aspects of the visit (technical quality, care received, convenience, comfort, and overall satisfaction), rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale from 1 = Very satisfied to 5 = Very dissatisfied. Participants were also asked if they would recommend telemedicine to friends or family members and invited to comment on specific visit aspects that they liked or did not like, as well as share any additional feedback.
Feasibility was assessed by the percentage of completed telemedicine visits. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data: frequencies (percentages) for categorical variables, and means and standard deviations (SDs) for continuous variables. Differences in characteristics between the patients who provided initial surveys and those who did not were assessed using Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables and Wilcoxon two-sample test for continuous variables (since some of these variables were skewed). For satisfaction surveys where more than one survey was available for a patient, survey variables were first summarized within patient, by calculating median values. In secondary analyses, the association between patient satisfaction scores and distance from patients’ home to MDNC was analyzed, using Spearman correlations.
Thirty-three patients (26 of whom had PD) completed a total of 119 telepsychiatry and 62 in-person visits. Of 124 scheduled telemedicine visits, there were five no-shows (96% visit completion rate), for the following reasons: missed appointments (n = 3), and n = 2 patients with severe physical and/or cognitive limitations had no family members available to help connect them to Zoom at the time of the visit. Visits lasted 30–60 min. Twenty-two patients returned initial surveys, which were completed by patients (n = 18) or their caregivers (n = 4). Of the 11 patients who did not complete initial surveys, only two received surveys and did not return them. Nine patients did not receive surveys, for the following reasons: clerical error (n = 1), visits took place before the IRB final determination (n = 3), and n = 5 patients were not sent surveys because they were severely ill and the team felt that completing the surveys would be too burdensome for their caregivers. These five patients’ diagnoses included: Alzheimer’s disease, multiple system atrophy, pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration with generalized dystonia, psychosis, and posttraumatic stress disorder with functional movement disorder. For the patients who did not complete initial surveys, demographic and clinical data were collected by chart review.
Patient characteristics are summarized in Table 1. Patients ranged in age from 22 to 74 years old, and the distance from their homes to UCSF ranged from 6 to 400 miles. Three patients did not have movement disorders; the MDNC psychiatrist receives occasional referrals from outside the center due to the subspecialty training (geriatric psychiatry). Patients had multiple concurrent psychiatric diagnoses (range, 1 to 5; mean, 2.5 diagnoses per patient), most common being depressive disorders (79%), anxiety disorders (70%), and neurocognitive disorders (39%). Twenty (61%) patients had co-occurring anxiety and depressive disorders. There were several significant differences (p < 0.05) between patients who completed initial surveys and those who did not: age (non-completers were younger), education (non-completers had lower level), and number of telemedicine and total visits (non-completers had fewer visits). Twenty-four (72%) patients had Medicare as their primary health insurance.
Table 1 Patient demographic and clinical characteristics
Table 2 shows initial survey responses with regard to patients’ prior experience with telemedicine, perceptions of telemedicine as compared to in-person treatment, and advantages and disadvantages of telemedicine visits. Almost half of patients (45%) had previous exposure to telemedicine, either for psychiatric visits or appointments with other providers. When compared to in-person visits, 12 (55%) patients felt telemedicine would be just as good, 5 (23%) perceived it as not as good, while 5 (23%) regarded telemedicine as a better alternative. None of the five patients who thought telemedicine would be superior had had previous telemedicine experience.
Table 2 Initial survey responses (n = 22)
Patients ranked the advantages of telemedicine visits in order of importance as follows: “I don’t have to drive and park at UCSF”, “It saves time”, and “It’s more comfortable to have the visit in my home”. Patients completed the visits at home, in their car, or at work (for those who were still working). The main disadvantage of telemedicine visits was, “I prefer face-to-face communication with my doctor”, and the least important was loss of privacy (see Table 2).
Twenty-one of the 22 patients who completed initial surveys also filled out visit satisfaction surveys. A total of 50 satisfaction surveys were collected (range, 1 to 6; mean, 2.4 surveys per patient). Responses are summarized in Table 3. Almost all patients reported being very satisfied with the care received (95%), convenience (100%), comfort (95%), and overall visit (95%). Only 76% of patients stated they were very satisfied, and 19% were satisfied, with the technical quality of the connection during the visit. All respondents stated they would recommend telemedicine to friends or family members. Table 4 illustrates examples of patient and caregiver comments selected from the open-ended survey responses.
Table 3 Visit satisfaction survey responses (n = 21)a
Table 4 Examples of patient and family member comments
The correlations between patient satisfaction scores and the distance from patients’ home to MDNC were modest, ranging from − 0.11 (for technology) and 0.26 (for care received and overall visit).
The present study underscores the feasibility, high patient satisfaction, and improved access to mental health care achieved by providing telepsychiatry services to patients with movement disorders. Both patients and providers easily adopted this novel treatment modality. The 96% visit completion rate illustrates the high patient adherence to telepsychiatry in a busy interprofessional clinic serving complex patients, such as the UCSF MDNC. Previous work has highlighted the feasibility of telemedicine for the neurological care of patients with PD [4,5,6,7,8,9]. However, the present study is the first to specifically explore mental health services delivery in an integrated care movement disorders clinic. Similar to previous studies of telemedicine for PD patients [5, 6], the present study revealed very high (95–100%) satisfaction levels among patients with various neurological impairments. Technical aspects were lower rated (only 76% of patients indicated being very satisfied), as also noted by other authors [4].
Our team provided psychiatric management via telemedicine to patients from a wide catchment area, many of whom would not have otherwise had access to mental health services. Poor access to mental health care providers is a universal problem, especially for older adults or those with limited mobility [5, 12]. Over two thirds (72%) of our patients had Medicare; there is a well-known shortage of Medicare providers, particularly geriatric psychiatrists, in California and nationally [23]. Furthermore, Medicare reimbursement for telemedicine services is restricted to rural areas, greatly limiting its availability [24]. In the present study, all qualifying patients, regardless of health insurance and geographic location, were offered telemedicine. As previously shown by Dorsey et al., [5] we found that telemedicine improved access to care for patients with movement disorders and other neurological conditions.
Telepsychiatry allowed close monitoring of patients with various neurological and psychiatric illnesses, including during the DBS perioperative period. Although rare, psychiatric complications associated with DBS therapy may occur, including depression, impulsivity, mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation or behavior [21, 25]. Close psychiatric follow-up is warranted, especially for patients who are deemed to be at higher risk for psychiatric complications. About two thirds (64%) of patients in the present study had received surgical treatment for PD or essential tremor, which typically indicates more advanced neurological disease. Patients also had a high lifetime prevalence of anxiety (70%) and depressive (79%) disorders, and 61% had both anxiety and depressive disorders. Due to the high co-occurrence of these diagnostic categories and the small overall sample size, patient perceptions of telemedicine as a function of psychiatric diagnosis could not be analyzed.
During the study period, patients attended twice as many telemedicine (mean per patient, 3.6) than in-person visits (mean per patient, 1.9). This shows that, although patients still traveled to the clinic for face-to-face appointments periodically, they preferred telemedicine visits, when possible. Although not ideal for patients with depression or anxiety who tend to be socially isolated, telepsychiatry facilitates care for patients who would otherwise not find the energy or desire to travel to appointments. Patients saved considerable time and effort and, since many patients with movement disorders can no longer drive, telepsychiatry also allowed more flexibility for family members’ schedules. As such, this modality may help reduce caregiver burden. While internet-based interventions designed for caregivers have been effective in reducing caregiver burden and improving caregiver mood, self-efficacy, and social support [26, 27], further research needs to assess the impact of patient telepsychiatry visits on caregivers.
From the provider’s point of view, telepsychiatry provided several benefits. Barring technical difficulties, visits started and ended on time, allowing better time management. In a busy interdisciplinary practice, patients may be delayed due to traffic or because their same-day visits with other team members lasted longer than anticipated. Telepsychiatry closely mirrors home visits, allowing a rare view into patients’ living circumstances. Moreover, telepsychiatry visits facilitated a more comprehensive diagnostic impression: for example, a patient who had recently relocated had unpacked his books, indicating his mood improvement. Similar to the patients’ observations, the main disadvantages noted by providers were technical difficulties.
The present study had several limitations. The sample size was small and the group was heterogeneous, including patients with Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, and multiple sclerosis along with individuals with movement disorders. The initial survey was not previously validated. Parts of this survey (i.e., advantages/disadvantages and perceptions of telemedicine as compared to in-person visits) could have been repeated after completion of the study to evaluate changes in patient and/or caregiver attitudes. Initial perceptions of telemedicine were positive; this could have also influenced patient experience during visits, as reflected in high satisfaction scores. None of the participants who thought telemedicine would be better than in-person visits on initial surveys had any prior experience with it, which indicates high expectations to start with, perhaps idealizing this model. Also, all patients were already receiving psychiatric services at MDNC (telemedicine was only used for follow-up visits). A robust therapeutic alliance may have raised satisfaction levels, if patients sought the opportunity to provide positive feedback on their overall psychiatric care. It should also be noted that one third of patients did not complete surveys, and there were several significant differences between completers and non-completers. On average, non-completers were slightly younger and had a lower education level; this could be due to the fact that one patient in this group was 22 years old and had only graduated high school. Survey completers received three times more telemedicine visits than non-completers (mean number per patient, 4.6 vs. 1.5) and twice more total visits (mean number per patient, 6.6 vs. 3.1); as such, they may have been more motivated to respond. On the other hand, only two patients received the surveys and did not reply; the other nine did not receive the surveys. Standardized measures such as the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) [28] and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7-item (GAD-7) [29] were not consistently collected; thus, clinical progress could not be evaluated. In future studies, the impact on patient care (i.e., clinical improvement, less frequent emergency room visits or calls to the practice) should be a primary outcome. Additionally, patients who participate in telepsychiatry visits should be compared to patients matched by age, sex, education, and neurological and psychiatric diagnosis who received in-person treatment. This comparison would allow researchers to draw conclusions on the benefits and limitations of telemedicine as compared to psychiatric treatment as-usual.
Telepsychiatry is a feasible option for patients with movement disorders and psychiatric comorbidities, even in a busy interdisciplinary clinic. Patients and caregivers expressed high satisfaction with telepsychiatry visits, with lower ratings for technical aspects. Access to care was improved. Whenever available, telepsychiatry visits should be considered in addition to in-person treatment. Future studies are needed to explore other aspects such as cost effectiveness and impact on patient care outcomes and caregiver burden.
The datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due participant confidentiality reasons but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
CBT:
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
DBS:
GAD-7:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7-item
MDNC:
Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center
PD:
PHQ-9:
Patient Health Questionnaire-9
RACE-PD:
Remote Access to Care, Everywhere, for Parkinson Disease
REDCap:
Research Electronic Data Capture
SD:
UCSF:
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We are grateful to all the patients and caregivers who participated in this study. We sincerely thank Ray Dorsey, MD, MBA, for the permission to use and adapt the RACE-PD visit satisfaction survey. We also thank Darel Ogbonna, UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center telemedicine coordinator, for his valuable technical support for telemedicine visits.
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 401 Parnassus Ave, Box 0984-APC, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
Andreea L. Seritan
University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, USA
, Melissa Heiry
& Jill L. Ostrem
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Melissa Heiry
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
Ana-Maria Iosif
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, USA
Michael Dodge
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AS designed the study, delivered the intervention, helped collect and analyze data, and wrote a large part of the manuscript. MH contributed to manuscript writing. AMI analyzed the data and contributed to manuscript writing. MD helped collect data and contributed to manuscript writing. JO helped design the study and provided critical review of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study was supported by the Parkinson’s Foundation, through a community grant. Publication made possible in part by support from the UCSF Open Access Publishing Fund.
Correspondence to Andreea L. Seritan.
The study protocol was reviewed by the UCSF Institutional Review Board and determined to not meet criteria for human subject research.
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AskNadia: Levemir Insulin Versus Lantus
October 15, 2018 July 5, 2019 Nadia Al-Samarrie 0 Comments Diabetes Health Health Insurance Hypoglycemia Insulin Type 1 Type 2
Dear Nadia,
I would like to know, if I normally use Levemir pen insulin, and I run out before my health insurance kicks in, can I use Lantus insulin until I can get coverage for my Levemir ?
Rita U
Dear Rita:
Levemir and Lantus are similar insulins. Our advisory board member Jane Jeffrie Seley, DNP MSN MPH RN GNP BC-ADM CDE CDTC suggests that even though the insulins are similar, you might need a dose adjustment.
Call your healthcare professional who prescribed Levemir and ask them about temporally switching insulin until you get new health insurance coverage.
Below is a great article written a Diabetes Health Staff member about Lantus and Levemir. It continues to be a popular online article.
Lantus and Levemir: What’s the Difference
Lantus and Levemir have a lot in common. Both are basal insulin formulas, which means that they last for a long time in the body and act as background insulin, with a slow feed that mimics the constant low output of insulin produced by a healthy pancreas.
Both are insulin analogues, which means that their insulin molecules are analogous to human insulin, but engineered, or recombined, with slight differences that slow their absorption.
Lantus is a clear formula made with glargine, a genetically modified form of human insulin, dissolved in a special solution. Levemir is also a clear formula, but it contains dissolved detemir, a different form of genetically modified insulin.
Human insulin is made of two amino acid chains, called A and B, that have two disulfide bonds between them. In glargine, one amino acid has been switched out, and two extra amino acids have been added to one end of the B chain. The modifications make glargine soluble at an acidic pH, but much less soluble at the neutral pH that’s found in the body.
To make Lantus, first the glargine is produced by a vat of E. coli bacteria. Then it’s purified and added to a watery solution containing a little zinc and some glycerol; a dash of hydrochloric acid is also added to make it acidic, bringing its pH down to about 4. At that degree of acidity, glargine completely dissolves into the watery solution, which is why the vial is clear.
After you inject it into your subcutaneous tissue, the acidic solution is neutralized by your body to a neutral pH. Because glargine is not soluble at a neutral pH, it precipitates out into a form that’s not soluble in subcutaneous fat, and there forms a relatively insoluble depot. From that pool, or depot, of precipitated glargine in the tissues, small amounts slowly move back into solution over time and then to the bloodstream.
Levemir is made with insulin detemir. Insulin determir is created by recombinant DNA technology just like glargine, but is produced by baker’s yeast instead of E.coli. It’s a clear solution that contains, in addition to the insulin detemir, some zinc, mannitol, other chemicals, and a bit of hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide to adjust its pH to neutral. Insulin detemir differs from human insulin in that one amino acid has been omitted from the end of the B chain, and a fatty acid has been attached to the spot instead.
Unlike glargine, detemir does not form a precipitate upon injection. Instead, detemir’s action is extended because its altered form makes it stick to itself in the subcutaneous depot (the injection site), so it’s slowly absorbed. Once the detemir molecules dissociate from each other, they readily enter the blood circulation, but there the added fatty acid binds to albumin.
More than 98 percent of detemir in the bloodstream is bound to albumin. With the albumin stuck to it, the insulin cannot function. Because it slowly dissociates from the albumin, it is available to the body over an extended period.
Whether Lantus is better than Levemir, or vice versa, is debatable. Levemir is generally supposed to be injected twice daily (although it’s approved by the FDA for once or twice daily) and Lantus once. According to Dr. Richard Bernstein, however, Lantus also usually works better if injected twice a day. The acidic nature of Lantus can sometimes cause stinging at the injection site, and both formulas cause allergic reactions in rare cases.
Most trials of the effectiveness of Lantus and Levemir have compared the two insulins to NPH insulin. NPH is a suspension of crystals in a solution, so it needs to be thoroughly shaken before use to distribute the crystals evenly. Some studies have failed to demonstrate any difference between in Lantus and NPH with regard to evenness of absorption.
Other studies have shown that compared to Lantus and Levemir, NPH has a variable absorption rate and a more pronounced peak. At night especially, hypoglycemia can occur if low glucose from exercise or alcohol consumption coincides with the NPH peak.
In some studies, Levemir has demonstrated less variable, steadier blood glucose-lowering effects compared to both NPH insulin and Lantus. Comparing Levemir with Lantus when used with a fast-acting insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes, Levemir had a lower risk of major hypoglycemia and nocturnal hypoglycemia, but the risk of hypoglycemia overall was comparable. The blood sugar control provided by the two insulins was similar as well.
Jeffrie Seley, DNP MSN MPH RN GNP BC-ADM CDE CDTC
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You came here to be alone. If that's even possible anymore. You're on your third beer when Amy comes in; after she gets a drink from the bar, she plants herself down next to you. You don't entirely mind. Being alone is overrated, anyway. Still:
"You sure you want that seat? People might think you're gay."
She scoffs at you as she stirs her drink. "People already think I'm gay."
"But you're dating Josh."
"People think Josh is gay."
"They do not." You pause with the bottle halfway to your lips. "Do they?"
"No," she sighs. "They think he's fucking his assistant."
You don't really have anything to say to that, so you finish off your beer and motion for another one.
"Is he?" she asks after a moment.
"No. At least, I hope not. The last thing we need ... they need right now is another sex scandal."
"So they fired you."
"They're letting me resign tomorrow."
There's a flash in her eyes that almost scares you. "You should have fought them."
"I made a mistake, Amy. I should pay for it."
She leans forward, banging her fist on the table. "Your boss orchestrated a massive fraud against the American people. You're going to let them fire you for having sex?"
"It's more than that, and you know it."
"No. No. See ..." She rubs her eyes and pops an ice cube in her mouth, crunching it loudly. "In fifty years, if anyone remembers this, they're not going to remember that you were fired for having an affair with someone who was married. They're not going to remember that you were fired for sleeping with the spouse of one of your boss's top advisors. They're going to remember that CJ Cregg was fired for fucking a girl."
"At least it got the MS story off the front page."
She snorts. "I don't know how grateful you should be for that. The MS story was easier to spin."
"Yeah." You play with condensation rings while she chews her ice. "What are you doing here, anyway? I thought you and Josh had tickets to - "
"I'm not really dating Josh anymore."
"Oh. May I ask why?"
She stretches in her seat as she tries to flag down the server. "He's not the only one who wants to fuck his assistant."
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Madison Bumgarner Remains A Postseason Demigod
Patrick Redford
Filed to: MLB PlayoffsFiled to: MLB Playoffs
Conor gillaspie
dingers
Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images
The San Francisco Giants are headed to the NLDS once again, after Madison Bumgarner shut down the Mets and the offense managed a lone moment of competence tonight to get the team a 3-0 win. The Even Year Gods have smiled down on the Giants once again, and they’re headed to Chicago just a few short weeks after they were in the midst of a horrendous meltdown.
Conor Gillaspie’s ninth-inning dinger was the game’s best play, obviously, since it was the only swing of the game that drove in runs, but Madison Bumgarner was the best player on the field tonight. He went all nine innings, only giving up four hits and a pair of walks. Noah Syndergaard looked better over the first two thirds of the game because he was striking out dudes with ease, but Bumgarner was incredibly efficient. It only took him 21 pitches to get through the first three innings of the game, thanks to the Mets swinging on a ton of first pitches. After a 28-pitch fourth, he stabilized, got his curve to level out, and only allowed three baserunners to reach second all game.
This was the sort of performance from Bumgarner that fans saw throughout the 2014 playoffs, where he won three games more or less all by himself in the World Series. He kept his fastball right up in the zone, and hit the corners when he needed to. Bruce Bochy had Sergio Romo warm up during the ninth inning when Bumgarner’s spot was up, and he even had a pinch hitter on deck. But once Gillaspie clobbered his dinger, Bumgarner trotted out and casually closed the game out. He only gets better in the playoffs, and he’s now pitched 23 consecutive scoreless innings in elimination games. When Asdrubal Cabrera had a rare chance to hit with a runner in scoring position, Bumgarner himself snagged the line out.
But none of Bumgarner’s mastery would have mattered if the Giants couldn’t get a run, something that proved rather difficult for most of the game. When Syndergaard was pulled after the seventh inning, he had allowed two hits and struck out 10. It was Bumgarner of all people who had made the best contact off Syndergaard until Brandon Belt sent Curtis Granderson scrambling on a deep fly out in the sixth inning. Young Thor was on tonight, but it took him 108 pitches to get through seven innings unscathed, and once he dipped, the bullpen ran into trouble.
Addison Reed managed to get into trouble in the eighth, then work himself out of it. Jeurys Familia managed to get into trouble in the ninth, then give up a big dong.
The Giants have Chicago next, who present a much stiffer challenge (like an actual offense, for starters). Madison Bumgarner is a rock, but he’s only one man. That said, the playoffs are where he shines. The Giants will need him to.
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Root For The Red Sox In The Playoffs
Lindsey Adler
Filed to: MLB Playoff PreviewsFiled to: MLB Playoff Previews
MLB Playoff Previews
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The Red Sox have barreled their way into yet another postseason after finishing last in the AL East in the two seasons since they last won the World Series. The Sox crashed their way to the third seed in the AL on the strength of an 11-game September winning streak, involving three straight series sweeps of divisional rivals. Still, Boston finally clinched the division only when the Orioles beat the Blue Jays right before Mark Teixeira hit a walkoff grand slam off Joe Kelly. They wound up losing five of their last six.
Sure, fine. We’re going to the playoffs.
Who are the Red Sox?
The Red Sox are probably the most annoying franchise in the American League, and they start Clay Buchholz every fifth day, but the strength of the Sox is a great offense anchored equally by franchise veterans and a new crop of young talent.
The 2016 Red Sox lead MLB in nearly every offensive category, other than home runs. They’re tops in runs scored, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging, and OPS/OPS+. The team’s pitching was not as strong as its offense, but still the staff finished the regular season with the fifth highest ERA+and with a 4.00 ERA and 4.00 FIP.
Put it together, and despite the history and the wicked pissahs in the stands, the Red Sox are a fun-to-watch team with an offense that can keep a game competitive even when their rotation craps the bed a bit.
What guys should you know?
Mookie Betts leads the Red Sox in overall coolness. Mookie is my personal favorite player on the Red Sox because every time I watch him make some ridiculous catch in right field, I think to myself, “Damn, this guy is so fun to watch I almost don’t care that he plays for the Red Sox.” His walk-up song is “Heavy” by Gucci Mane.
The 23-year-old leads the Red Sox by a wide margin in overall wins above replacement, helped greatly by his 2.8 defensive WAR (second in the league only to Kevin Kiermaier’s 3.0 dWAR). At the plate, young Mookie has jacked 31 dingers in 2016.
The Red Sox’s home run leader however, is an elderly designated hitter whose impending retirement does not prevent him from being the centerpiece of the Red Sox’s playoff run. David Ortiz led baseball in slugging and OPS in his age-40 season, and mashed 38 home runs. What Ortiz has accomplished this season is nearly unfathomable—Ortiz now has definitively claimed the record for the best final season for a hitter since Ted Williams’ 1960. Ortiz’s stats compared to his franchise forerunner’s are arguably as good, or even better; Ortiz edged Williams slightly in offensive WAR, 5.0 to 4.8, in his final regular season.
For many Sox fans who have crammed themselves into Fenway year in and year out, Ortiz’s statistical accomplishments are almost secondary to the consistent presence he’s been through three championships.
Which brings us to another elder statesman of the Red Sox whose 2016 production also makes me shake my head in a bit of disbelief: Dustin Pedroia. You might have expected a sharper decline in offensive output from the 33-year-old Pedroia. Instead, he’s continued to scrap, grind, and lead MLB in singles with only 52 of his 201 hits going for extra bases. I thought to myself, what’s the most Pedroia stat I could find, and there it was.
Other 2016 Red Sox offensive mainstays Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Hanley Ramirez, Travis Shaw, Brock Holt, and young Andrew Benintendi have combined for a .273/.342/.452/.795 line.
The rotation has really struggled to get its shit together, with Rick Porcello and expensive newbie David Price essentially flip-flopping on their season expectations coming into 2016. Porcello, whose nearly 5-point ERA in 2015 dropped to 3.15 this season with a 1.01 WHIP (second only in the AL to Justin Verlander), will presumably be named the Game 1 starter for the ALDS. I’m sure that’s exactly what the Sox expected when they drove a semi full of Benjamins to David Price’s home. Price’s numbers have inflated since his 2015 DET/TOR split season, but he has been consistent making 35 starts and leading the league with 230 IP. Price finished the regular season with a 3.99 ERA and 3.60 FIP. Red Sox relievers, anchored by Craig Kimbrel, Matt Barnes, Robbie Ross, et al, have combined for a 3.56 ERA (to the starters’ 4.22).
Anyway, those are some guys. Have fun watching the Red Sox bang around with one of the best offenses in baseball.
One GIF of a Red Sox fan
Can they beat the Cardinals?
The Cardinals are hibernating for the winter, so of course.
Who has the best baseball chin?
I’m electing instead to choose best baseball ears, which leads us to Henry Owens:
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Why you should root for the Red Sox
Nothing I could write here would convince anyone who is not an existing Red Sox fan to root for the Sox to win their fourth World Series in 12 years. No one denies this. But if you haven’t paid attention to the Sox this season, you’ll probably be surprised by how much fun they are to watch.
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Long Island Rockers DEAD SUPERSTAR Present a Dark Yet Hopeful Message with Their New Song “On the Ledge”
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Morrisons trials deposit return scheme, Bees Needs week and the EA's annual report - Friday 13 July
Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 13 July 2018 - Categories: Weekly stories
On today's blog we're looking at Morrisons announcing a trial deposit return scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles, Bees Needs week and the Environment Agency's publication of their annual report.
Morrisons trials deposit return scheme
There is widespread coverage this morning of supermarket chain Morrisons announcing a trial deposit return scheme (DRS) for plastic bottles.
The Times, BBC Online and the Sun are among the outlets which report on the scheme, which will run for six months in Skipton, North Yorkshire and East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire. Customers who bring their used plastic bottles to reverse vending machines in the shops will be able to get 10p per bottle off their shopping or donate the same amount to charity.
We welcome the trial scheme. In March, the UK government confirmed it will introduce a deposit return scheme in England for single use drinks containers, subject to consultation later this year.
Last week, Ministers from the UK Government and devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland met to agree to a set of principles and common objectives, which provides the basis for further work around the potential for deeper co-operation on the design and operation of a deposit return scheme across the UK.
Government has recently announced a range of measures to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste including a world-leading ban microbeads and proposals to extend the 5p plastic bag charge. Earlier this year the government also announced its intention to ban the sale of plastic straws, plastic-stemmed cotton buds, and stirrers, and launched a call for evidence on using the tax system or charges to address single-use plastic waste.
Citizen science helps record vital data on rare bumblebees
Bee monitoring
To round off a fantastic hive of activity around this week’s Bees Needs Week 2018, Biosecurity Minister Lord Gardiner today visited the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s projects at RSPB Dungeness National Nature Reserve and spoke to BBC South East.
The week-long annual campaign aims to bring a wide range of organisations and businesses together to raise awareness of the importance of bees and other precious pollinators – and share simple actions we can take to help them, such as planting pollinator-friendly flowers.
The minister and media heard how citizen scientists and Trust staff currently searching for the Short-haired Bumblebee on the reserve have recorded an increase in other rare species along the way – including the rare Brown-banded Carder Bee, the Moss Carder Bee and the Ruderal Bumblebee.
The Short-haired Bumblebee was officially declared extinct in the UK in 2000.
In 2009 a project was formed by a partnership of BBCT, RSPB and Natural England which aimed to reintroduce the species. Five years of reintroductions were undertaken from 2012. Staff from BBCT have been working with a team of volunteers to monitor bumblebee populations across the reintroduction area.
During his visit Lord Gardiner met with conservationists and ‘Bee Walker’ volunteers and helped collect data showing that a number of rare bees are making the restored wild flower meadows their forever home.
Environment Agency publishes annual report
Today the Environment Agency published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2017-2018.
The report highlights a number of successes including: 1.3bn spent on protecting the environment, over 2,000 km of river habitats created and 45,00 additional homes protected from flooding.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, said:
The report demonstrates the commitment of all those who work for the Environment Agency to do the right thing for the environment, to create a better place for people and wildlife, and to go the extra mile for the communities we serve.
Over the course of the past year the Environment Agency has made good progress towards the goals set out in the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, reducing pollution, enhancing habitats, protecting more homes from flooding and strengthening our incident response capabilities.
The Environment Agency is here to create a better place for people and wildlife, delivering flood protection and water security, regulating industry and supporting sustainable growth across the country.
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Congressional Border Battles
Listen to “Congressional Border Battles” on Spreaker.
The House and Senate will need to reconcile vastly different bills designed to provide billions of dollars in emergency aid for the humanitarian crisis building on our southern border.
On Wednesday, The Senate rejected legislation passed by House Democrats and approved its own $4.6 billion measure. House Democrats say the Senate bill is a non-starter.
While the two chambers head to the reconciliation process, Florida Rep. Ted Yoho says lawmakers cannot embrace what he considers an abandonment of law enforcement personnel along the border.
“It limits the authority of the Department of Homeland Security to surge employees at the border. [The House bill] cuts overtime hours cuts overtime for the exhausted officers that we have working overtime. They want to cut this. These are the very people doing what we hired them to do,” said Yoho.
Yoho says Democrats also want to cut funding for the National Guard at the border and voted down funding for enhanced border technology that could not only detect illegal entry into the country but also protect migrants from sexual assault and trafficking by drug cartels.
He says the partisan bickering on this issue needs to stop.
“The border crisis is not a political crisis. Well, it is a political crisis because Congress has failed to act. But we should not be Republicans or Democrats. We should come together to have a border security bill that solves this problem,” said Yoho.
“If we were doing what we were supposed to with border security and enforced the laws on the books, we wouldn’t have a crisis down there,” said Yoho.
Listen to the full podcast to hear Yoho discuss whether the House and Senate can find common ground in the border funding bill. He also details why he believes the Freedom Caucus deserves credit for forcing a fight on this issue and how his forthcoming bill to reform policy for immigrant workers in the agriculture, hospitality, and construction sectors can help address the larger need for immigration reform.
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lumberjack cookhouses
Samoa Cookhouse, California
DINING LIKE A LUMBERJACK
We started with biscuits and gravy for breakfast at the Samoa Cookhouse in Samoa, California, but that was just the beginning of our lumberjack dining experience. We were about to taste breakfast the way the lumberjacks were fed at the cookhouse after the mill opened in 1890 when the redwood sawmills were buzzing with activity.
The night before we had camped in a redwood forest amongst stumps larger than our camper van. We walked with craned necks through the forests, learning about the giant sequoias and redwoods; how each one creates 500 gallons of water each day; how the largest may be as old as 2000 years, and how each tree has several differently shaped leaves.
“How could anyone cut such a beautiful tree down?” we wondered.
At the turn of the century 2,000,000 acres of the Californian coast were covered with sequoia and redwood forest. In Eureka, California alone, in 1853, there were 9 sawmills producing lumber to build the booming towns. Eventually 90 percent of those trees were gone and we are left with just a glimpse of the majestic forests.
It took days to cut down just one tree and the lumberjacks worked twelve hour days, six days a week. The camps that hired the men housed and fed them and the Samoa Cookhouse is the last standing of the company cookhouses that fed the workers in that area.
And the men were fed well. When the cookhouse whistle sounded, even the white horses that worked for the lumberyards, would stop dead in their tracks and wait to be led to their oats. The men rushed to their seats in the cookhouse and waited for young women to serve them, by loading the tables with platters of food. All meals were served family style and the men stretched across the tables to help themselves to as much food as they could eat. Nobody left hungry.
The interior of the cookhouse remains authentic with checkered tablecloths and wooden floors and ceilings. Historic pictures and antique treasures cover the walls, giving diners a peak into the working lives of the lumbermen.
Jeff Brustman is the current manager and is passionate about making the dining experience as authentic as possible
The current manager, Jeff Brustman is passionate about ensuring that diners taste food prepared as authentically as possible, making the experience a trip back in time. He told me of an old tin recipe box full of the recipes and when I asked, he proudly retrieved it from the kitchen. Serving authentic food requires an extra effort, as the bread, biscuits and most of the food are made fresh each day on site.
Just as the lumberjacks could eat as much as they wanted, so the guests of today are offered endless portions.
Our waitress explained that we would first be offered orange juice and coffee and that everything would be served “family style”. We started with two biscuits and gravy, followed by scrambled eggs, sausages, and French toast with syrup. Second helpings were heartily offered. Because I would be sitting in a camper van driving all day, and not cutting giant redwoods, one serving was more than enough. But for the lumbermen, as many helpings as it took to fill them was served.
The young women who were employed by the lumber camps were always single and lived upstairs on the premises. Although the rules were strict, they often found ways to break them. Curfew was 10 pm but they found a way to sneak in after hours. They were known to be mischievous and would often play tricks on the men, such as filling coffee mugs with water so that when the coffee was added …
The whole experience of dining at the Samoa Cookhouse is deepened when followed by a stroll through the museum beside the dining room that is filled with historic photos and memorabilia of the lumberjack days. The men standing on giant stumps in the photos may have enjoyed their meals at the Samoa Cookhouse.
What a gift to be able to experience dining in the same room as the lumberjacks and enjoy the same tastes from California’s past.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Authentic Dining experiences in California, Great eateries in California, Historic dining in California, historic dining in Eureka, lumberjack cookhouses, Samoa Cookhouse, What the lumberjacks ate on October 24, 2018 by jfeduck. 1 Comment
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Character groups, Dinosaurs, Males,
Deceased characters
Silent characters
Electrical Water Pageant
Gigantic, blue, 90 feet (27 meters) long, resembles Brontosaurus but bigger and with a crest. Grey in DINOSAUR (Giraffatitan)
Occupation and niche
Sauropod
Brachiosaurus is a dinosaur that lived 155-145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic. Baylene from Disney's 2000 CGI film Dinosaur is a Giraffatitan.
In Fantasia, the Brachiosaurus is only seen when the Tyrannosaurus Rex appears and kills the Stegosaurus. Three Brachiosaurs are seen diving into a lake to escape the giant carnivore with a Triceratops entering the lake to escape nearby. The Brachiosaurus went extinct in the drought along with the other dinosaurs.
In Dinosaur, a bunch of Brachiosaurus are only seen at the beginning of the movie.
Two Brachiosaurus in the Background
The Brachiosaurus is famous for being the one of the largest dinosaurs. Its status as such has since been usurped by it's large relatives Sauroposeidon & Ultrasaurus. Especially some even larger Sauropod dinosaurs like Supersaurus, Argentinosaurus, Patagotitan, Puertasaurus, and, most recently, a hitherto unknown species of Barosaurus and an undescribed giant relative of Brachiosaurus known as the "French Monster".
The sauropod is also famous for being in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park based on the novel by Michael Chricton with the same name. The scene the sauropod is famous for is being in the Welcome to Jurassic Park scene.
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Monday, October 16, 2017 - 15:22
Questions Top100 DJs 2004 - Euan McGraw - 2017-10-16 15:22
Submitted by Euan McGraw on Mon, 2017-10-16 15:22
Two major projects, with at least one common thread, have occupied the mind of Ferry Corsten over the last 365. Collectively, they’ve tandem-powered him back up the Top 100 ranks in 2017. Ferry’s continued to ride the considerable wave generated by his Gouryella bring-back in 2015.
“The ‘Gouryella From The Heavens’ documentary screening at the Hawthorn’s Lido Cinema in Melbourne was a big moment for me,” the Dutchman says. “I felt telling the story of Gouryella onscreen was a nice way to put all the pieces in place. Gouryella 2.0. has become the extension of that film — the journey over the past 12 months and the carry-on for this alias. As it includes a Gouryella track, 2.0 was also a cool bridge to ‘Blueprint’ too.”
The ‘Blueprint’ he’s referring to is his fifth artist album, and his first in five years. Dubbed, in some quarters, ‘Trance meets War Of The Worlds’, it boasts a concept high enough to make Michael Bay’s head spin. Scripted by House Of Cards’ David H. Miller, narrated by Campbell Scott (The Amazing Spider-Man) and channelling Ferry’s affinity for sci-fi, “it was conceived”, he says “as a “hybrid between a music album and an audio book”. It’s simultaneously kept Corsten adherents in good cheer, while making in-roads into the IDM audience, and provided him with a bumper year.
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Berlin Bound: Guide to Europe’s Freedom Capital
April 4, 2018 By Travel Jedi In The Chronicles, The Guide 1 Comment
Berlin Travel Guide Germany today is one of the most prosperous and influential countries in the world, and its capital, Berlin, is rich with history, culture, and art, making it...
Bohemian Switzerland: An Enchanting Wonderland
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Gmini MagicBook
Bookeen Cybook
Large displays e-books
Small displays e-books
E-books with screens 6.8
Players for audiobooks
E-ink backlight
Aging of screens
Package bundle
Cover for a e-reader
Care of the device
Application of e-ink
Text formats
Setting Wi-Fi
TTF-fonts
Choosing an e-reader
Applications for PC
Settings Cool Reader
Reading for Android
Applications for e-reader
Apps for your phone
E-reader reads aloud.
Reading for Apple
Can themselves
What is inside?
Repair you e-reader
Replacing the battery
Battery models
Tablet's batteries
Tablet's touchscreen's
Smartphone keys
G-sensor calibration
Repairing tape wire
It does not turn on...
Repairing Gimini Z6
Accessories for e-book readers
What is in a box with the electronic book? At different models and manufacturers all details are different. In the elementary variant in a box there are only a book, the user's guide and USB - a cable for connection to the computer. In addition in the complete set there can be a following:
USB Power supply - For charging of the battery of the electronic book it is possible to use or computer (that is not always convenient) or the small-sized power unit connected to socket USB in the book. Such power unit can be got separately at the price from 3 to 14 EURO. At purchase USB of the power unit there is a unique requirement - it should be calculated on a current of loading not less than 1 ampere.
Bookcover or pouch - The screen of the electronic book a thing very fragile. The bookcover is necessary for protecting from mechanical influences. The strong bookcover, or a protective pouch will help you with it. The bookcover is more convenient, than a pouch. The electronic book in a bookcover outwardly looks as the usual book or a wallet. The device in a cover is much more confortable for using in transport, than the device in a pouch.
Flash card SD or mini-SD. Many e-readers allow to store files in internal memory, but also on a flash card. With a flash card it is confortable to work separately, having taken out SD-card from the book and having inserted into the computer.
Display for the ViewSonic VEB620
Battery for the Onyx BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
What to read?
Yann Martel "Life of Pi". After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Since it was first published in 2002, Life of Pi has entered mainstream consciousness and remains one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.
Robert Galbraith "The Cuckoo's Calling". When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger ...
Stephen King "Mr Mercedes". A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who's haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator. He taunts Hodges with the notion that he will strike again. Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing that from happening...
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List of Underwater Welding Schools
Written by Jen Saunders
1 Underwater Construction Schools
2 List of Top Aviation Schools in the USA
3 Certified Welding Schools
4 Colleges That Offer Courses on Law Enforcement
If you are a scuba diver who feels at home in the underwater environment and you want a career that allows you to work anywhere in the world, you may excel as an underwater welder. There are many underwater welding schools in the nation that provide divers with the training necessary for this exciting career field. Underwater welders have a skill that allows them to work anywhere from marine amusement parks in America to oil rigs in the Persian Gulf. The employment opportunities are vast and ready to be filled by skilled workers. By knowing some of the best schools for underwater welding you can begin your search to find the best school to meet your needs.
Underwater Construction Academy
If you want to be part of a smaller class size while learning the vital skills of underwater welding, the Underwater Construction Academy in Chesapeake, Virginia, would be an ideal option. The academy offers certification in underwater welding and a number of other courses that include air decompression tables, diving physics, noxious gases and diver first aid—classes taught in the early stages of the program. When students progress they will learn more complex types of welding, rigging techniques, diving equipment, tools of the trade and a number of other skills pertinent to an underwater welder’s education.
Located in Erial, New Jersey, Diver’s Academy International offers a comprehensive underwater welding education. It also teaches inland and offshore commercial diving disciplines that include the use of remote operated vehicles or ROVs, non-destructive testing and other disciplines that are affiliated with the duties of an underwater welder. The underwater welding program is taught in a real-world environment where students learn to think critically by completing a number of required projects that simulate actual jobs. Diver’s Academy International is accredited nationally by the ACCSC (Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges) alongside a number of other diving and technical organizations.
CDA Technical Institute
The Air/Mixed Gas Commercial Diver Program at CDA Technical Institute offers underwater welding as part of their course. Located in Jacksonville, Florida, this school prepares students to be the best in the industry. Associated with the American Welding Society and the Canadian Standard Association, CDA Technical Institute is recognized internationally. Students who complete this program will be highly skilled in manual metal and both above and underwater welding. Graduates will also be prepared to contribute to safe working environments while being proficient in performing high quality fillet welds. Students will be fluent in electrodes & weld technology, MMA welding plant & equipment, and basic weldability and common weld defects.
International Diving Institute
If you like the idea of training on an old Navy base, the International Diving Institute in Charleston, South Carolina will suit you well. Students seeking a career in underwater welding can earn the internationally recognized ACDI (American Career Development Institute) certificate in the school’s four-month program while learning in real-world environments. Classes are offered every month and teach a wide variety of underwater welding techniques along with other subjects vital to the career field like dive physics and mixed gases--a course that teaches what gas mixtures can be safely breathed at various depths.
Underwater Construction Academy: Course Catalogue
Divers Academy International: About Divers Academy International
CDA Technical Institute: Underwater Welding Course
Jen Saunders is an entrepreneur and veteran journalist who covers a wide range of topics. She made the transition to writing after having spent 12 years in England where she studied and taught English literature.
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Stupid questions
Posted by elainecanham ⋅ July 24, 2018 ⋅ 2 Comments
So here I am chatting to a woman I meet at a car boot, and I tell her I’m going on holiday, and she asks, ‘Anywhere nice?’
‘No, actually,’ I want to reply. ‘I’m going to Mordor.’
In reality I brightly replied ‘Greece,’ because I’m only rude when I’m drunk, or not paying attention. (Which probably amounts to the same thing.)
When I was at the doctor’s a few months ago, a neighbour came into the waiting room and said, ‘Hey! How are you?’ (Desired answer: I’ve got bubonic plague. Actual answer, Oh, I’m fine. You?’)
Why do we ask stupid questions? Why do people look at a new baby and ask, ‘Is he good?’ To which again, you want to reply, ‘No, he’s been inside for gbh.’
When two people meet in hell, one of them is bound to ask the other, ‘Hot enough for you?’ And when Captain Scott was trudging to the North Pole, I’d be prepared to bet a passing Eskimo greeted him with a, ‘Hi Bob! Cold enough for you?’
I was smugly seething about all this, because of course, I never ask stupid questions – until I remembered that last week, when a friend said they were going on holiday, I asked: ‘Anywhere interesting?’
She answered in much the same way as I had done, but I can’t remember where it was, (not that interesting, then) so not only did I ask a pointless question, I didn’t bother listening to the answer.
But maybe, that’s just it – we’re not looking for detailed answers. We are just registering an interest in someone we know; a sort of Facebook like. Which means I can now meet any daft question with the newly standard answer lol. Although, is that rude?
Give us a kiss!
Posted by elainecanham ⋅ August 18, 2015 ⋅ 37 Comments
Has anybody seen those appalling posters on Facebook about the wonders of being British? Something along the lines of how we’d rather walk a mile in tight shoes than complain about our restaurant food, or how we’d probably describe a nuclear strike as a ‘bit warm’? About how marvellously modest and unassuming we are?? I mean, has the person who wrote that ever heard of Jeremy Clarkson? Boris Johnson? Brian Blessed? Or the fans of any football club you care to mention? (I suppose you could make a case for the modesty of Millwall supporters, whose motto is ‘no one likes us, we don’t care’ but only if you’d never heard them in full cry).
Anyway, I have been thinking about Britishness lately because I have just come back from France. And my topic du jour is kissing. We are all kissing each other’s cheeks in Britain now, and I blame the French. Time was, and I’m not that decrepit, when you only kissed your mum and dad. And, possibly, whiskery aunties. And then just a swift peck, mind you, none of this random face pressing that we all seem to be going for these days. No. Back then, we British (if I can get all Facebook postery) made do with a swift handshake and a mumbled hello. In fact, that probably counted as rather imaginative foreplay back in the day.
When I was 17 I was taken by my sister in law (French) to stay in Bordeaux for a week. When we got off the plane an entire phalanx of relatives were lined up (some actually wearing berets) and we all solemnly kissed each other. Took ages. (I have to say at this point, although it is somewhat off piste, that during this visit I was taken to meet some great uncle who was in hospital. He was a lovely, ancient man, aged about 804, tucked tightly into a spotless bed; and he too was wearing a beret. And, naturally enough, we all kissed him. Took ages.
Years later I went to see a friend in France who had teenage children. And get this, when they brought friends home, they all came up to us and kissed us. I was charmed, and somewhat staggered. I could, in no circumstances, think of being approached in Britain by a strange teenager who wanted to kiss me politely on the cheek and wish me good day.
And yet, that day may not be far off. Even now, in the South East, people who’ve known each other for quite a long time are kissing each other when they meet (except my friend Deborah, who refuses to give in to any of this continental canoodling and is hoisting the flag for traditional British circumspection). Brothers and sisters are kissing each other when they greet (yes, really) and er, quite a few other people in situations I can’t think of at the moment. The disease has certainly reached the midlands, but the jury is out on whether it will sweep Yorkshire (it’s the way they stare at you there which kind of brings you to a halt before you properly get to grips with your intended target, and the only way you can alleviate any possible embarrassment is to stop before you get any closer, lift your arms really expansively and say, ‘fancy a pint?’)
Still, think on this. A couple of years ago I was sitting on a train in a French railway station watching out of the window as an inspector tried to pacify a surging crowd of people whose train’s departure had been delayed. Suddenly, down the steps on to the platform came the boss of the whole shebang. Big hat, gold braid, the lot. He marched up to the inspector. The people gesticulated. (As they do.) I thought there was going to be a riot. The inspector turned to his boss. His boss looked at him. And yes. They kissed. Both cheeks. And suddenly, everything was fine. The people got on the train, the inspector got on the train and the boss waved them off as it hooted down the track.
Maybe if it has that kind of effect, we shouldn’t be so uptight. Anyone up for a kiss? Mr Clarkson? Boris?
Picture by Banksy, courtesy of Creative Commons at https://www.flickr.com/photos/leonsteber/1154551362/
Sound bite
So, at the carboot this morning there was an Irishman talking to a Polish guy:
Irishman: I was in Dublin. In Dublin.
Polishman: Yes?
Irishman: Yes. In Dublin. Dublin. At No 1 O’Connell Street.
Irishman: And there was an alligator in the bank.
Job interview? Just sing it and wing it
A bloke in charge of advertising
I have just been to the best job interview ever. Which is good, because I have had some real stinkers.
A job interview is not the kind of thing that makes you want to leap out of bed in the morning. It’s not like you’re going to be having lunch with George Clooney at the Savoy and, if you hit if off over the Poire Belle Helene, he’ll be asking you to write his next movie.
No. Job interviews, generally speaking, are a weekend spent with dentist in-laws, being examined on philosophy and arse-licking, condensed into an hour.
The weirdest job interview I’ve ever had? That would be the one in the advertising department of a local radio station. It didn’t go too badly. At first. I impressed the head of advertising with my choice of music for some processed cheese (Air on a Cheese String), but then he asked me, quite seriously, what famous actor I would choose to play him in a film. And what film it would be. What kind of question is that??? My mind, poor at the best of times in these situations, went completely blank. I stared at the guy, who was small, pinkly balding and perspiring freely, and then, in a splurge of sycophancy, I mumbled, ‘Oh, that would have to be Samuel L Jackson, of course, because he’s the coolest man on the planet.’
A cool dude
‘And the film?’ he pressed, smirking slightly.
‘Er, oh…’ and then I blurted, ‘Babe the sheep pig, because he looks like you.’
Most crushing job interview? That would be one I had in the seventies, when no one had really yet got to grips with equality. It was for the job of junior reporter on a weekly paper, and it all went swimmingly until, at the end, the editor said, ‘Well, it’s a choice between you and a young man. So, of course, I’m going to give him the job.’ Yes, he really said that. Mind you, he also said he’d call me back in six months, and he did. So, fair play. (ish)
Most time-consuming and ridiculous interview? That would be for a multi national bank. Not in the money department, you understand, but as editor of a staff newspaper. When I got notification of the interview, a friend said to me, ‘They’ll ask you what you like doing in your spare time.’
‘Oh, that’s easy,’ I replied. ‘Lying in bed and eating chocolates.’
‘Nooo!’ said friend. ‘You can’t say that.’
‘Why not? They’ll think I’m being friendly and humorous.’
‘Banks don’t have a sense of humour,’ counselled the friend. ‘Say, that whatever time you get home, you like to go out for a run. Otherwise they’ll think you’re sluggish and hopeless.’
‘Eh?’
And it came to pass that, during the interview, I was given several bizarre tests cunningly designed to reveal the inner me (including building the Forth Road Bridge out of plastic straws). Efficient people with clipboards watched my every move, and would ask at intervals, ‘How do you like to unwind after a day at work?’ (Oh, I have to go for a run. It’s absolutely my favourite thing). Or, ‘What’s your favourite pastime?’ (Running, of course, or possibly going to the gym. You can’t beat an hour or two on the treadmill – I mean, it did wonders for Oscar Wilde); or rank, in order of preference, your ideal method of relaxation: a, watching TV; b, lying in bed; c, eating chocolates; d, going for a five-mile run over muddy terrain in the dark (Yes, you guessed it.)
And, get this: I got offered the job. I didn’t take it though. It was too much like hard work.
Which brings me to my latest interview. This was for a job as an adult education tutor for my local county council. Zero hours contract, mind, and no cast iron guarantee of any work, but it was worth a go. So I jumped through most of the hoops online, and was called to interview last Tuesday at a former stately home in the depths of the lush spring countryside. They (whoever they were) started building the house about 900 years ago out of the glowing local stone, and the Victorians put an end to it with fancy bits of brick. It had gothic doorways, and crumbling turrets and lush untidy lawns with a stand of beehives at a safe distance. It was the kind of place that made you want to take a cup of tea out onto the terrace and conjure up a best selling romance, while the cook and butler got busy with the bacon and eggs. (Enough pointless description, ed).
Anyway, there I was with three other hopefuls, who teach music, drama and relaxation therapy. We all had to give a 15-minute lesson. The music teacher was first. She had all of us, including the county council types, up on our feet singing What shall we do with the drunken sailor and Oh, sinner man. She gave us tambourines and scrapy sticks and divided us up to so we could do part-singing. And it was truly joyful. (And mostly in tune.) Then it was the drama teacher, who emptied a bag full of masks on the table (I got the one labelled ‘confused’) and showed us how to mime. (Move over, Rowan Atkinson). My 15 minutes on how to write natural-sounding dialogue was a bit quiet after all that but, because I’d also had instruction on how to meditate from the other teacher, my nerves had flown away. I was having A Good Time. And guess what? I got the job! (And I’m hoping that the other three were taken on too, because they were really good.)
My classes are being time-tabled, and the leaflets are blowing out over the land. All I have to do now, is get some students. Music and mime, anybody?
Picture of Samuel L Jackson: commons.wikimedia.org
Picture of Babe the Sheep pig: simple.wikipedia.org
(China Diary back shortly)
Imagine you have a beloved pet. And it dies. (I know, this part is sad.) So, is it just me, or is it perfectly normal to look at poor Fluffy’s mortal remains and think, ‘I’ll just call a taxidermist. No. Wait. I’ll stuff him myself. It’ll be easy peasy.’
And apparently lots of people do have a go. I give you, for example:
Or even:
I find taxidermy rather bizarre, even when it’s done by professionals. But attempting it yourself, as a little light entertainment on a long winter evening??? (Enough with the question marks, ed).
And where do you start? Do these people just pick up a pair of scissors and get stuck in (literally), or do they have some kind of practical experience? In, say, upholstery or remedial basket work in a home for the bewildered? Maybe some people, after bringing a piano stool back to life, then looked at a donkey and thought, hmmmm:
Imagine the scene. Bonzo has barked his last, and with a sudden light of enthusiasm sparking in your mad scientist eyes, you assemble the kitchen scissors, a needle and thread and a couple of bags of cotton wool balls, and begin. Several hours later your partner/care-worker arrives to find you elbow deep in gore and sawdust. What, please tell me, do you say?
‘Oh, hello.’
Or, ‘You’re back early.’
Or even, ‘Could you thread this needle for me?’
Still, amateur pet stuffers, take heart. Think of the man at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden, 350 years ago, who was presented with a lion skin and told to make it scary. He did his best:
All pictures courtesy of Facebook page Badly Stuffed Animals
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Business News›News›Economy›Policy›CEA-led committee suggests GST rate of 17-18 per cent
CEA-led committee suggests GST rate of 17-18 per cent
The committee’s recommendation is in line with the views of the opposition Congress party, which has called for a GST rate of 18%.
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Dec 05, 2015, 06.58 AM IST
CEA suggests revenue-neutral GST range of 15-15.5%
NEW DELHI: A key government committee has suggested a standard goods and services tax (GST) rate of 17-18%, increasing chances of a consensus on the key reform so that the constitutional amendment that it entails can get passed in the current winter session as the clock ticks down to the April 1 deadline.
The standard rate, typically that at which most goods and services will be taxed, is based on a revenue-neutral rate of 15-15.5% as suggested by the committee headed by Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian.
“The submission of the report is one more step in the direction of our administrative preparedness to implement GST,” Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said.
“The finance ministry will go through the report as also will state governments. We all know that GST will add to the GDP of the country,” said Das. The government wants to launch GST on April 1, 2016.
The committee that presented its findings on Friday has suggested a two-rate structure, while calling for a unified one in the medium term — a concessional rate of around 12% for goods that need to be taxed at low rates and the standard rate of 17-18%. It has also recommended a steep 40% “sin/demerit” rate for luxury cars, aerated beverages, paan masala, tobacco and tobacco products.
The committee said this structure will have minimal inflationary consequences. “Facilitating easy implementation and taxpayer compliance at an early stage — via low rates and without adding to inflationary pressures — will be critical,” it said. Subramanian said GST was a critical reform initiative.
“The country has a historic opportunity with GST. It will strengthen the country’s tax institutions, get rid of barriers within states and create a common market,” he told reporters after submitting the committee’s report.
ET had reported on November 24 that the Subramanian panel may suggest a GST rate of 18% or lower. Tax experts and industry welcomed the recommendations.
“The RNR (revenue-neutral-rate) committee has now recommended a standard rate of 17-18%. This is quite a stunning development,” said Vivek Mishra, leader, indirect tax, PwC India.
“The industry has been looking forward to this report and puts to rest the taxpayers’ anxiety on the expected rates and many other issues relating to the GST regime,” Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry secretary-general A Didar Singh said.
The committee’s recommendation is in line with the views of the opposition Congress party, which has called for a GST rate of 18%. This will help ease Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to reach an accommodation with Congress and improve the prospects of a parliamentary accord, without which rolling out GST will be impossible.
The committee has also backed the Congress demand for dropping the proposed 1% levy on inter-state sales. It has, however, rejected the demand that the rates be written into the Constitution. This is something the Congress has sought.
“The credibility of the macroeconomic system as a whole is undermined by constitutionalising a tax rate or a tax exemption. Setting a tax rate or an exemptions policy in stone for all time, regardless of the circumstances that will arise in future, of the macroeconomic conditions, and of national priorities may not be credible or effective in the medium term,” it said.
As a compromise, the government favours including any cap in the GST law instead that can be more easily amended if needed. GST has been stuck because of Congress’ opposition in the Rajya Sabha, where the ruling National Democratic Alliance does not have a majority.
ET had reported on Thursday that a consensus on GST may be imminent. “We are hoping very much that early next week we will able to continue our discussion and consultations,” Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said, welcoming the report. The only worry in the rates is the high rate suggested for the “sin/demerit” goods that could cover all luxury items.
“We would have to see how wide is the definition of luxury goods. If the definition is rational and not too wide, an 18% standard rate would really be excellent. This would truly create a strong demand for implementation of GST at the earliest,” PwC’s Mishra said.
The rates have not factored any buoyancy in growth from the levy, which according to some estimates may lift GDP by as much as two percentage points. Real estate and alcohol have also been kept out of the calculations. The committee’s proposals are recommendatory.
The GST Council, comprising representatives of the Centre and the states, will have the authority to set the rates. If more goods are kept at the lower rate, then the standard rate will need to go up to ensure there is no revenue loss. The lower rate is meant for those items that are in the nature of public goods or targeted at deprived sections.
The rates suggested are national rates, comprising the sum of central and state GST rates, and will have to be allocated between the Centre and states by the GST Council.
The revenue neutral rate is that at which there will not be any revenue loss for states and the Centre if all goods and services are taxed. “The aim should be to create a GST with the widest possible base,” Subramanian said, indicating that most goods should be kept within the purview of the new tax. There have been demands from states that petroleum and alcohol should be kept out as tax revenues on these are high.
GST will replace the plethora of indirect taxes levied on goods with a single levy, which will help create a seamless national market for delivery of goods and services. The committee has called for reducing exemptions and suggested that instruments such as direct transfers be used to meet their objectives.
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By Marek Kulig.
…By Any Other Name…
It is not a truth universally acknowledged that every single oyster shucker has a “shucking name,” though it’s entirely probable that each might be in want of one. Like Shuck Norris or Shucky Chan— perhaps for the martial arts enthusiast; or Shuckquille O’Neal for the former high school athlete; for the horror movie buff, something like Bride of Shucky might do. And while the on-site shuckers at Island Creek Oyster Co.’s (ICO) Raw Bar on Duxbury Bay are still musing on theirs, the entire company is shucking out a global name for itself.
“There’s people in Napa Valley getting a taste of Duxbury Bay brine in their oyster,” says Chris Sherman, President of ICO and a once-itinerant seaman before he pulled up anchor and put down stakes in Duxbury, Massachusetts. “And over here, we’re getting Pacific Coast oysters.” And the association between the oyster brine and Napa Valley’s grapevine doesn’t end with this rhyme.
K Tubes (short for Kalwall) are full of varying types of algae grown in the hatchery. Algae equals baby oyster food.
Oyster Nomenclature
If you’ve ever heard anyone speak with genuine honesty about wines, flavor profiles especially, you’ll notice they use words like minerality and acidity, vegetal, and buttery, and when you swirl and sip, you know what they mean. The same is true for oysters.
“With Island Creeks (which gets its name from an actual creek that runs into Duxbury Bay),” Chris posits, “you get vegetal notes with the bottom-cultured ones, and more umami and sweet with the surface.” Raw bars too list tasting notes. And it gets intricate when considering what’s called the finish—here, the sensitive, discriminating palate can distinguish earthy from brackish or watercress from grassy.
In true kindred spirit fashion, like the grape has terroir, the oyster has merroir. So whereas wine is affected by variables such as soil, elevation, and intensity of sunlight, oysters are impacted by tides, distance from rivers, the algae on which they feed, and more.
Chris, who’s been working for ICO for ten years, believes texture is a determining factor of quality. “You can get an oyster that’s got a toothy bite, or one that’s mushy. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.” Of course, a sure path to developing a sophisticated understanding of oysters’ complexity is to visit ICO’s headquarters in Duxbury.
One week old oyster larvae called veligers under a microscope
Touring ICO
Tours of the quaint but always active campus can be booked online through ICO’s website. Emily Weedon is responsible for the tours’ remarkable success. “They sell out pretty fast—even more so on the weekends.” The walking tour of the property includes the hatchery, a former marine lab renovated for halfshell interests. The process of producing some of the world’s most acclaimed oysters begins here.
Around the back is a working harbor, from which up to a dozen tourists can take a 27-foot Carolina Skiff over to the farm as they listen to the history of the region, lore of its people, and swish of the sea. Aboard they can learn to shuck oysters, harvested just below the belly of the skiff.
After the tour (although anytime is good), visitors can hang out at the year-old bayside Raw Bar. Helping Emily curate what feels like the Back Deck of Duxbury Bay is Jess Cagle. Also in charge of the wholesale department, Jess spends much of the summer Bar-side orchestrating optimal customer experiences. Jess insists the most special feature of the casual space is that “you can see where the oysters you’re shooting are taken from.” Aside from a few varieties of oysters, the menu includes tinned fish and conservas from Spain or Portuguese canning company José Gourmet, caviar from California, and various specials. The staff is happy to offer beverage pairing advice as well.
“We wanted to lift the lid off the brand,” says Chris, “promote the aquaculture food system.” And what better way to do that than to couple education with hospitality?
Chris acknowledges that the property is an ongoing project still in its early stages of aesthetic and practical transformation. The long-term vision is to “create a permanent HQ for all of ICO’s core business operations, a place for people to come learn about what we do and how aquaculture can help evolve our food system, and make the property an asset for the Duxbury community.” But he is grateful to have found a long-sought-after industrial and commercial space so close to the water. The priority is the oyster, after all.
Specimens deemed to epitomize the Island Creek oyster recline in the brood stock room. Their spawn will maintain that unique character in the next generation.
A Local Product with Global Appeal
And with all that ICO accomplishes on-site, it’s easy to forget that distribution is a major part of its business model. “Distribution started by accident,” explains Chris. After September 11, 2001, the market struggled. Wholesalers reduced their numbers. Founder Skip Bennett, along with other oyster growers, was getting antsy. “So Skip loaded up his truck and went to Boston. He sold door-to-door out of the truck.”
With a little luck and a lot of hard work, the enterprise paid off. As a result of face-to-face interactions and sales, Skip developed meaningful relationships with several chefs who to this day follow Island Creek and order directly from it. “Our core customer,” Chris says, “continues to be the chef and/or owner of the independent restaurant.” And it was on one of these sales trips when asked by a chef what Skip wanted the oysters to be called that he coined the name, Island Creek.
Similarly, on the supply end, much of Island Creek’s core comprises independent farmers. “Many Massachusetts farmers have received grants,” adds Chris, “and oyster farmers were popping up regularly.” The Island Creek sales team tirelessly works to connect farmers and chefs. It delivers oysters directly to buyers from its farms and farms with which it’s affiliated—approximately 80 around the world.
One of those growers is Don Wilkinson of Ichabod Flat Oysters. Out of Plymouth, Don, who with his partners received a grant to start a farm in 2010, has been working with Island Creek since 2012. “Island Creek has a great Bay State product,” explains Don, “and they do a great job in terms of distribution. They’re consistently available, you know. Every bag is tagged with sourcing information, all that good stuff .”
Don has heard of Ichabod Flat oysters making it up and down the eastern seaboard. “A friend of mine went out to a restaurant in Key West, saw Ichabods, took a picture and sent it to me. That’s always neat to see.” Giving almost all of his energy to growing oysters, Don is delighted to have the long arm of Island Creek’s distribution department giving his product visibility.
As is Rocky Nook’s John Wheble. “I’ve been selling to them [ICO] since I started 10 years ago in Kingston Bay,” John says. “They’re easy to work with, and when I hear about Rocky Nooks being available at this or that restaurant, that’s a good thing.” Rocky Nook grows both petites and regulars. John describes them as sweet, with a clean finish.
Trays of oysters and tinned fish prepared by Tim Mahoney, Assistant Manager of the Raw Bar at Island Creek Oyster farm.
Currently, oysters are having more than just their moment—they’ve hit a terrific stride. According to the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, the Shellfish industry generated $45.5 million for the state’s economy, along with hundreds of jobs.
But as Chris recalls, it took long days to build this kind of momentum. “I remember driving out to growers, cold calling. Buying week to week. Trying to keep the movement constant because of seasonality. There were about four or five of us working. We had one truck.”
On a foundation of relentless hustle and staunch resilience, Island Creek Oyster Co. has built a household name. Yet it has little interest in being the name in oysters. Much like its musing shuckers, Island Creek is interested in other names, like Damariscotta, Maine’s “Mookie Blues,” Narragansett’s “Pearly Whites,” and the aforementioned Ichabods and Rocky Nooks, both right down the shore from ICO. But the shuck doesn’t stop there. Not when the oyster is your world.
Island Creek Oysters
The Shop (Retail)
296 Parks Street
Duxbury, MA 02332
Raw Bar at Island Creek Oyster Farm
www.IslandCreekOysters.com
Marek Kulig is an oyster neophyte. Although he’s a firm believer in the phrase “Better late than never,” he acknowledges that with the recent addition of shellfish to his diet, seafood lately has tasted better than ever. He must admit, too, that oyster shells are quite beautiful.
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Skin and soft tissue infections in intercontinental travellers and the import of multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe
Nurjadi, D. and Friedrich-Jänicke, B. and Schäfer, J. and Van Genderen, P. J. J. and Goorhuis, A. and Perignon, A. and Neumayr, A. and Mueller, A. and Kantele, A. and Schunk, M. and Gascon, J. and Stich, A. and Hatz, C. and Caumes, E. and Grobusch, M. P. and Fleck, R. and Mockenhaupt, F. P. and Zanger, P.. (2015) Skin and soft tissue infections in intercontinental travellers and the import of multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Europe. Clinical microbiology and infection, Vol. 21, H. 6 , S. 567.e1-567.e10.
Staphylococcus aureus is emerging globally. Treatment of infections is complicated by increasing antibiotic resistance. We collected clinical data and swabs of returnees with skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) at 13 travel-clinics in Europe (www.staphtrav.eu). Sixty-two percent (196/318) SSTI patients had S. aureus-positive lesions, of which almost two-thirds (122/196) were Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) positive. PVL was associated with disease severity, including hospitalization for SSTI (OR 5.2, 95% CI 1.5-18.2). In returnees with SSTI, longer travel and more intense population contact were risk factors for nasal colonization with PVL-positive S. aureus. Imported S. aureus frequently proved resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (21%), erythromycin (21%), tetracycline (20%), ciprofloxacin (13%), methicillin (12%) and clindamycin (8%). Place of exposure was significantly (p > 0.05) associated with predominant resistance phenotypes and spa genotypes: Latin America (methicillin; t008/CC24/304), Africa (tetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; t084/CC84, t314/singleton, t355/CC355), South Asia (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, ciprofloxacin; t021/CC21/318), South-East Asia (clindamycin; t159/CC272). USA300-like isolates accounted for 30% of all methicillin-resistant S. aureus imported to Europe and were predominantly (71%) acquired in Latin America. Multi-resistance to non-β-lactams were present in 24% of imports and associated with travel to South Asia (ORcrude 5.3, 95% CI 2.4-11.8), even after adjusting for confounding by genotype (ORadjusted 3.8, 95% 1.5-9.5). Choosing randomly from compounds recommended for the empiric treatment of severe S. aureus SSTI, 15% of cases would have received ineffective antimicrobial therapy. These findings call for the development of regionally stratified guidance on the antibiotic management of severe imported S. aureus disease and put the infected and colonized traveller at the centre of interventions against the global spread of multi-resistant S. aureus.
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Stranger Things season 2: Duffer Brothers reveal details
On the heels of their renewal, the 'Things' creators address the second season of their Netflix hit
By Tim Stack
October 09, 2017 at 08:48 AM EDT
Drama,
The day Stranger Things fans have been anxiously awaiting all summer has finally arrived: Netflix on Wednesday officially greenlit a second season, set to premiere sometime in 2017.
Wanting answers immediately, EW called up creators the Duffer Brothers for an exclusive batch of season teases. Here’s what we got for you Thing-ers:
Everyone will be back…Well, maybe.
While some, including EW’s own James Hibberd, have argued the series should be an anthology, the Duffers opted to tell a continuing story in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. Still, the pair toyed around initially with flashing forward a bit before settling on continuing the story in 1984. “I don’t think we ever thought anthology,” says Ross Duffer. “I think we talked like a larger time jump where the kids are older now and it’s a different decade. That’s something we batted around from the very beginning. But for us, there’s still more story here [in the 1980s], there’s still things that are unresolved.” So, expect to see the return of Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Joyce (Winona Ryder), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), etc. “We don’t know about Eleven,” says Ross Duffer. “We leave that up in the air.”
There will be newbies.
The Duffers reveal there are four new characters popping up in season 2. “There’s going to be a lot of new and interesting dynamics that we didn’t see in season 1,” says Matt Duffer. There are nine titles in the recently released teaser, including one called “The Lost Brother.” Could that be one of the new characters?
James Cameron is a season 2 influence.
Just as they modeled season 1 after a movie, they look at season two as a blockbuster’s sequel. “I know movie sequels get a lot of s—, but the ones we look up to aspire to pivot and do something different,” explains Matt. “There’s Temple of Doom, Aliens, Terminator 2. I guess a lot of this is James Cameron. But he’s brilliant. And I think one of the reasons his sequels are as successful as they are is he makes them feel very different without losing what we loved about the original. So I think we kinda looked to him and what he does and tried to capture a little bit of the magic of his work.”
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Hawkins won’t be the only setting.
“We will venture a little bit outside of Hawkins,” says Matt of Things’ small Indiana town. “I will say the opening scene [of the premiere] does not take place in Hawkins.”
But we will return to the Upside Down.
The Duffers want to go further into Things’ alternate dimension. “We kinda just peeled back the curtain and revealed a tiny bit of the Upside Down,” says Matt. “So we definitely want to explore a little bit more. There’s a lot we don’t know about the Upside Down at the end of season 1.” Adds Ross: “We obviously have this gate to another dimension, which is still very much open in the town of Hawkins. And a lot of questions there in terms of, if the Monster is dead, was it a singular monster? What else could be out there? We really don’t go in there much until they go in to find Will at the end. So we’ve opened up this doorway, and to us it’s exciting to talk about, like, what else is behind there? There’s a lot more mystery there to be solved.”
Season 2 will be longer than season 1.
For those who thought season 1 was too short, the second installment of Things will be nine episodes — one installment longer than the first. But the Duffers don’t want it to get too big. “We’re letting the story dictate it,” says Matt. “I think if it gets any longer, it gets unwieldy for us. We want to make sure it’s manageable and we want to be able to tell a movie-like story where it’s never treading water. We want it to have the same feel and pacing as season 1. I think if we extend it too much, it will have a very different feel.”
Created by the Duffer Brothers, Netflix’s hit sci-fi series follows a group of kids in the '80s battling supernatural forces in Hawkins, Ind.
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Project acronym 3D-nanoMorph
Project Label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy for studying sub-cellular dynamics in live cancer cells with high spatio-temporal resolution
Researcher (PI) Krishna AGARWAL
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET
Summary Label-free optical nanoscopy, free from photobleaching and photochemical toxicity of fluorescence labels and yielding 3D morphological resolution of <50 nm, is the future of live cell imaging. 3D-nanoMorph breaks the diffraction barrier and shifts the paradigm in label-free nanoscopy, providing isotropic 3D resolution of <50 nm. To achieve this, 3D-nanoMorph performs non-linear inverse scattering for the first time in nanoscopy and decodes scattering between sub-cellular structures (organelles). 3D-nanoMorph innovatively devises complementary roles of light measurement system and computational nanoscopy algorithm. A novel illumination system and a novel light collection system together enable measurement of only the most relevant intensity component and create a fresh perspective about label-free measurements. A new computational nanoscopy approach employs non-linear inverse scattering. Harnessing non-linear inverse scattering for resolution enhancement in nanoscopy opens new possibilities in label-free 3D nanoscopy. I will apply 3D-nanoMorph to study organelle degradation (autophagy) in live cancer cells over extended duration with high spatial and temporal resolution, presently limited by the lack of high-resolution label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy. Successful 3D mapping of nanoscale biological process of autophagy will open new avenues for cancer treatment and showcase 3D-nanoMorph for wider applications. My cross-disciplinary expertise of 14 years spanning inverse problems, electromagnetism, optical microscopy, integrated optics and live cell nanoscopy paves path for successful implementation of 3D-nanoMorph.
Label-free optical nanoscopy, free from photobleaching and photochemical toxicity of fluorescence labels and yielding 3D morphological resolution of <50 nm, is the future of live cell imaging. 3D-nanoMorph breaks the diffraction barrier and shifts the paradigm in label-free nanoscopy, providing isotropic 3D resolution of <50 nm. To achieve this, 3D-nanoMorph performs non-linear inverse scattering for the first time in nanoscopy and decodes scattering between sub-cellular structures (organelles). 3D-nanoMorph innovatively devises complementary roles of light measurement system and computational nanoscopy algorithm. A novel illumination system and a novel light collection system together enable measurement of only the most relevant intensity component and create a fresh perspective about label-free measurements. A new computational nanoscopy approach employs non-linear inverse scattering. Harnessing non-linear inverse scattering for resolution enhancement in nanoscopy opens new possibilities in label-free 3D nanoscopy. I will apply 3D-nanoMorph to study organelle degradation (autophagy) in live cancer cells over extended duration with high spatial and temporal resolution, presently limited by the lack of high-resolution label-free 3D morphological nanoscopy. Successful 3D mapping of nanoscale biological process of autophagy will open new avenues for cancer treatment and showcase 3D-nanoMorph for wider applications. My cross-disciplinary expertise of 14 years spanning inverse problems, electromagnetism, optical microscopy, integrated optics and live cell nanoscopy paves path for successful implementation of 3D-nanoMorph.
Project Ab-initio adiabatic-connection curves for density-functional analysis and construction
Researcher (PI) Trygve Ulf Helgaker
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), PE4, ERC-2010-AdG_20100224
Summary Quantum chemistry provides two approaches to molecular electronic-structure calculations: the systematically refinable but expensive many-body wave-function methods and the inexpensive but not systematically refinable Kohn Sham method of density-functional theory (DFT). The accuracy of Kohn Sham calculations is determined by the quality of the exchange correlation functional, from which the effects of exchange and correlation among the electrons are extracted using the density rather than the wave function. However, the exact exchange correlation functional is unknown—instead, many approximate forms have been developed, by fitting to experimental data or by satisfying exact relations. Here, a new approach to density-functional analysis and construction is proposed: the Lieb variation principle, usually regarded as conceptually important but impracticable. By invoking the Lieb principle, it becomes possible to approach the development of approximate functionals in a novel manner, being directly guided by the behaviour of exact functional, accurately calculated for a wide variety of chemical systems. In particular, this principle will be used to calculate ab-initio adiabatic connection curves, studying the exchange correlation functional for a fixed density as the electronic interactions are turned on from zero to one. Pilot calculations have indicated the feasibility of this approach in simple cases—here, a comprehensive set of adiabatic-connection curves will be generated and utilized for calibration, construction, and analysis of density functionals, the objective being to produce improved functionals for Kohn Sham calculations by modelling or fitting such curves. The ABACUS approach will be particularly important in cases where little experimental information is available—for example, for understanding and modelling the behaviour of the exchange correlation functional in electromagnetic fields.
Quantum chemistry provides two approaches to molecular electronic-structure calculations: the systematically refinable but expensive many-body wave-function methods and the inexpensive but not systematically refinable Kohn Sham method of density-functional theory (DFT). The accuracy of Kohn Sham calculations is determined by the quality of the exchange correlation functional, from which the effects of exchange and correlation among the electrons are extracted using the density rather than the wave function. However, the exact exchange correlation functional is unknown—instead, many approximate forms have been developed, by fitting to experimental data or by satisfying exact relations. Here, a new approach to density-functional analysis and construction is proposed: the Lieb variation principle, usually regarded as conceptually important but impracticable. By invoking the Lieb principle, it becomes possible to approach the development of approximate functionals in a novel manner, being directly guided by the behaviour of exact functional, accurately calculated for a wide variety of chemical systems. In particular, this principle will be used to calculate ab-initio adiabatic connection curves, studying the exchange correlation functional for a fixed density as the electronic interactions are turned on from zero to one. Pilot calculations have indicated the feasibility of this approach in simple cases—here, a comprehensive set of adiabatic-connection curves will be generated and utilized for calibration, construction, and analysis of density functionals, the objective being to produce improved functionals for Kohn Sham calculations by modelling or fitting such curves. The ABACUS approach will be particularly important in cases where little experimental information is available—for example, for understanding and modelling the behaviour of the exchange correlation functional in electromagnetic fields.
Project acronym AgeConsolidate
Project The Missing Link of Episodic Memory Decline in Aging: The Role of Inefficient Systems Consolidation
Researcher (PI) Anders Martin FJELL
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), SH4, ERC-2016-COG
Summary Which brain mechanisms are responsible for the faith of the memories we make with age, whether they wither or stay, and in what form? Episodic memory function does decline with age. While this decline can have multiple causes, research has focused almost entirely on encoding and retrieval processes, largely ignoring a third critical process– consolidation. The objective of AgeConsolidate is to provide this missing link, by combining novel experimental cognitive paradigms with neuroimaging in a longitudinal large-scale attempt to directly test how age-related changes in consolidation processes in the brain impact episodic memory decline. The ambitious aims of the present proposal are two-fold: (1) Use recent advances in memory consolidation theory to achieve an elaborate model of episodic memory deficits in aging (2) Use aging as a model to uncover how structural and functional brain changes affect episodic memory consolidation in general The novelty of the project lies in the synthesis of recent methodological advances and theoretical models for episodic memory consolidation to explain age-related decline, by employing a unique combination of a range of different techniques and approaches. This is ground-breaking, in that it aims at taking our understanding of the brain processes underlying episodic memory decline in aging to a new level, while at the same time advancing our theoretical understanding of how episodic memories are consolidated in the human brain. To obtain this outcome, I will test the main hypothesis of the project: Brain processes of episodic memory consolidation are less effective in older adults, and this can account for a significant portion of the episodic memory decline in aging. This will be answered by six secondary hypotheses, with 1-3 experiments or tasks designated to address each hypothesis, focusing on functional and structural MRI, positron emission tomography data and sleep experiments to target consolidation from different angles.
Which brain mechanisms are responsible for the faith of the memories we make with age, whether they wither or stay, and in what form? Episodic memory function does decline with age. While this decline can have multiple causes, research has focused almost entirely on encoding and retrieval processes, largely ignoring a third critical process– consolidation. The objective of AgeConsolidate is to provide this missing link, by combining novel experimental cognitive paradigms with neuroimaging in a longitudinal large-scale attempt to directly test how age-related changes in consolidation processes in the brain impact episodic memory decline. The ambitious aims of the present proposal are two-fold: (1) Use recent advances in memory consolidation theory to achieve an elaborate model of episodic memory deficits in aging (2) Use aging as a model to uncover how structural and functional brain changes affect episodic memory consolidation in general The novelty of the project lies in the synthesis of recent methodological advances and theoretical models for episodic memory consolidation to explain age-related decline, by employing a unique combination of a range of different techniques and approaches. This is ground-breaking, in that it aims at taking our understanding of the brain processes underlying episodic memory decline in aging to a new level, while at the same time advancing our theoretical understanding of how episodic memories are consolidated in the human brain. To obtain this outcome, I will test the main hypothesis of the project: Brain processes of episodic memory consolidation are less effective in older adults, and this can account for a significant portion of the episodic memory decline in aging. This will be answered by six secondary hypotheses, with 1-3 experiments or tasks designated to address each hypothesis, focusing on functional and structural MRI, positron emission tomography data and sleep experiments to target consolidation from different angles.
Project acronym AGENSI
Project A Genetic View into Past Sea Ice Variability in the Arctic
Researcher (PI) Stijn DE SCHEPPER
Host Institution (HI) NORCE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH CENTRE AS
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), PE10, ERC-2018-COG
Summary Arctic sea ice decline is the exponent of the rapidly transforming Arctic climate. The ensuing local and global implications can be understood by studying past climate transitions, yet few methods are available to examine past Arctic sea ice cover, severely restricting our understanding of sea ice in the climate system. The decline in Arctic sea ice cover is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for the state of our climate, and if greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked, summer sea ice loss may pass a critical threshold that could drastically transform the Arctic. Because historical observations are limited, it is crucial to have reliable proxies for assessing natural sea ice variability, its stability and sensitivity to climate forcing on different time scales. Current proxies address aspects of sea ice variability, but are limited due to a selective fossil record, preservation effects, regional applicability, or being semi-quantitative. With such restraints on our knowledge about natural variations and drivers, major uncertainties about the future remain. I propose to develop and apply a novel sea ice proxy that exploits genetic information stored in marine sediments, sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA). This innovation uses the genetic signature of phytoplankton communities from surface waters and sea ice as it gets stored in sediments. This wealth of information has not been explored before for reconstructing sea ice conditions. Preliminary results from my cross-disciplinary team indicate that our unconventional approach can provide a detailed, qualitative account of past sea ice ecosystems and quantitative estimates of sea ice parameters. I will address fundamental questions about past Arctic sea ice variability on different timescales, information essential to provide a framework upon which to assess the ecological and socio-economic consequences of a changing Arctic. This new proxy is not limited to sea ice research and can transform the field of paleoceanography.
Arctic sea ice decline is the exponent of the rapidly transforming Arctic climate. The ensuing local and global implications can be understood by studying past climate transitions, yet few methods are available to examine past Arctic sea ice cover, severely restricting our understanding of sea ice in the climate system. The decline in Arctic sea ice cover is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for the state of our climate, and if greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked, summer sea ice loss may pass a critical threshold that could drastically transform the Arctic. Because historical observations are limited, it is crucial to have reliable proxies for assessing natural sea ice variability, its stability and sensitivity to climate forcing on different time scales. Current proxies address aspects of sea ice variability, but are limited due to a selective fossil record, preservation effects, regional applicability, or being semi-quantitative. With such restraints on our knowledge about natural variations and drivers, major uncertainties about the future remain. I propose to develop and apply a novel sea ice proxy that exploits genetic information stored in marine sediments, sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA). This innovation uses the genetic signature of phytoplankton communities from surface waters and sea ice as it gets stored in sediments. This wealth of information has not been explored before for reconstructing sea ice conditions. Preliminary results from my cross-disciplinary team indicate that our unconventional approach can provide a detailed, qualitative account of past sea ice ecosystems and quantitative estimates of sea ice parameters. I will address fundamental questions about past Arctic sea ice variability on different timescales, information essential to provide a framework upon which to assess the ecological and socio-economic consequences of a changing Arctic. This new proxy is not limited to sea ice research and can transform the field of paleoceanography.
Project acronym AN07AT
Project Understanding computational roles of new neurons generated in the adult hippocampus
Researcher (PI) Ayumu Tashiro
Host Institution (HI) NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Call Details Starting Grant (StG), LS4, ERC-2007-StG
Summary New neurons are continuously generated in certain regions of adult mammalian brain. One of those regions is the dentate gyrus, a subregion of hippocampus, which is essential for memory formation. Although these new neurons in the adult dentate gyrus are thought to have an important role in learning and memory, it is largely unclear how new neurons are involved in information processing and storage underlying memory. Because new neurons constitute a minor portion of intermingled local neuronal population, simple application of conventional techniques such as multi-unit extracellular recording and pharmacological lesion are not suitable for the functional analysis of new neurons. In this proposed research program, I will combine multi-unit recording and behavioral analysis with virus mediated, cell-type-specific genetic manipulation of neuronal activity, to investigate computational roles of new neurons in learning and memory. Specifically, I will determine: 1) specific memory processes that require new neurons, 2) dynamic patterns of activity that new neurons express during memory-related behavior, 3) influence of new neurons on their downstream structure. Further, based on the information obtained by these three lines of studies, we will establish causal relationship between specific memory-related behavior and specific pattern of activity in new neurons. Solving these issues will cooperatively provide important insight into the understanding of computational roles performed by adult neurogenesis. The information on the function of new neurons in normal brain could contribute to future development of efficient therapeutic strategy for a variety of brain disorders.
New neurons are continuously generated in certain regions of adult mammalian brain. One of those regions is the dentate gyrus, a subregion of hippocampus, which is essential for memory formation. Although these new neurons in the adult dentate gyrus are thought to have an important role in learning and memory, it is largely unclear how new neurons are involved in information processing and storage underlying memory. Because new neurons constitute a minor portion of intermingled local neuronal population, simple application of conventional techniques such as multi-unit extracellular recording and pharmacological lesion are not suitable for the functional analysis of new neurons. In this proposed research program, I will combine multi-unit recording and behavioral analysis with virus mediated, cell-type-specific genetic manipulation of neuronal activity, to investigate computational roles of new neurons in learning and memory. Specifically, I will determine: 1) specific memory processes that require new neurons, 2) dynamic patterns of activity that new neurons express during memory-related behavior, 3) influence of new neurons on their downstream structure. Further, based on the information obtained by these three lines of studies, we will establish causal relationship between specific memory-related behavior and specific pattern of activity in new neurons. Solving these issues will cooperatively provide important insight into the understanding of computational roles performed by adult neurogenesis. The information on the function of new neurons in normal brain could contribute to future development of efficient therapeutic strategy for a variety of brain disorders.
Project acronym ANISOTROPIC UNIVERSE
Project The anisotropic universe -- a reality or fluke?
Researcher (PI) Hans Kristian Kamfjord Eriksen
Summary "During the last decade, a strikingly successful cosmological concordance model has been established. With only six free parameters, nearly all observables, comprising millions of data points, may be fitted with outstanding precision. However, in this beautiful picture a few ""blemishes"" have turned up, apparently not consistent with the standard model: While the model predicts that the universe is isotropic (i.e., looks the same in all directions) and homogeneous (i.e., the statistical properties are the same everywhere), subtle hints of the contrary are now seen. For instance, peculiar preferred directions and correlations are observed in the cosmic microwave background; some studies considering nearby galaxies suggest the existence of anomalous large-scale cosmic flows; a study of distant quasars hints towards unexpected large-scale correlations. All of these reports are individually highly intriguing, and together they hint toward a more complicated and interesting universe than previously imagined -- but none of the reports can be considered decisive. One major obstacle in many cases has been the relatively poor data quality. This is currently about to change, as the next generation of new and far more powerful experiments are coming online. Of special interest to me are Planck, an ESA-funded CMB satellite currently taking data; QUIET, a ground-based CMB polarization experiment located in Chile; and various large-scale structure (LSS) data sets, such as the SDSS and 2dF surveys, and in the future Euclid, a proposed galaxy survey satellite also funded by ESA. By combining the world s best data from both CMB and LSS measurements, I will in the proposed project attempt to settle this question: Is our universe really anisotropic? Or are these recent claims only the results of systematic errors or statistical flukes? If the claims turn out to hold against this tide of new and high-quality data, then cosmology as a whole may need to be re-written."
"During the last decade, a strikingly successful cosmological concordance model has been established. With only six free parameters, nearly all observables, comprising millions of data points, may be fitted with outstanding precision. However, in this beautiful picture a few ""blemishes"" have turned up, apparently not consistent with the standard model: While the model predicts that the universe is isotropic (i.e., looks the same in all directions) and homogeneous (i.e., the statistical properties are the same everywhere), subtle hints of the contrary are now seen. For instance, peculiar preferred directions and correlations are observed in the cosmic microwave background; some studies considering nearby galaxies suggest the existence of anomalous large-scale cosmic flows; a study of distant quasars hints towards unexpected large-scale correlations. All of these reports are individually highly intriguing, and together they hint toward a more complicated and interesting universe than previously imagined -- but none of the reports can be considered decisive. One major obstacle in many cases has been the relatively poor data quality. This is currently about to change, as the next generation of new and far more powerful experiments are coming online. Of special interest to me are Planck, an ESA-funded CMB satellite currently taking data; QUIET, a ground-based CMB polarization experiment located in Chile; and various large-scale structure (LSS) data sets, such as the SDSS and 2dF surveys, and in the future Euclid, a proposed galaxy survey satellite also funded by ESA. By combining the world s best data from both CMB and LSS measurements, I will in the proposed project attempt to settle this question: Is our universe really anisotropic? Or are these recent claims only the results of systematic errors or statistical flukes? If the claims turn out to hold against this tide of new and high-quality data, then cosmology as a whole may need to be re-written."
Project acronym APOLLO
Project Advanced Signal Processing Technologies for Wireless Powered Communications
Researcher (PI) Ioannis Krikidis
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), PE7, ERC-2018-COG
Summary Wireless power transfer (WPT), pioneered by Tesla, is an idea at least as old as radio communications. However, on the one hand, due to health concerns and the large antenna dimensions required for transmission of high energy levels, until recently WPT has been limited mostly to very short distance applications. On the other hand, recent advances in silicon technology have significantly reduced the energy needs of electronic systems, making WPT over radio waves a potential source of energy for low power devices. Although WPT through radio waves has already found various short-range applications (such as the radio-frequency identification technology, healthcare monitoring etc.), its integration as a building block in the operation of wireless communications systems is still unexploited. On the other hand, conventional radio wave based information and energy transmissions have largely been designed separately. However, many applications can benefit from simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). The overall objective of the APOLLO project is to study the integration of WPT/SWIPT technology into future wireless communication systems. Compared to past and current research efforts in this area, our technical approach is deeply interdisciplinary and more comprehensive, combining the expertise of wireless communications, control theory, information theory, optimization, and electronics/microwave engineering. The key outcomes of the project include: 1) a rigorous and complete mathematical theory for WPT/SWIPT via information/communication/control theoretic studies; 2) new physical and cross-layer mechanisms that will enable the integration of WPT/SWIPT into future communication systems; 3) new network architectures that will fully exploit potential benefits of WPT/SWIPT; and 4) development of a proof-of-concept by implementing highly-efficient and multi-band metamaterial energy harvesting sensors for SWIPT.
Wireless power transfer (WPT), pioneered by Tesla, is an idea at least as old as radio communications. However, on the one hand, due to health concerns and the large antenna dimensions required for transmission of high energy levels, until recently WPT has been limited mostly to very short distance applications. On the other hand, recent advances in silicon technology have significantly reduced the energy needs of electronic systems, making WPT over radio waves a potential source of energy for low power devices. Although WPT through radio waves has already found various short-range applications (such as the radio-frequency identification technology, healthcare monitoring etc.), its integration as a building block in the operation of wireless communications systems is still unexploited. On the other hand, conventional radio wave based information and energy transmissions have largely been designed separately. However, many applications can benefit from simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). The overall objective of the APOLLO project is to study the integration of WPT/SWIPT technology into future wireless communication systems. Compared to past and current research efforts in this area, our technical approach is deeply interdisciplinary and more comprehensive, combining the expertise of wireless communications, control theory, information theory, optimization, and electronics/microwave engineering. The key outcomes of the project include: 1) a rigorous and complete mathematical theory for WPT/SWIPT via information/communication/control theoretic studies; 2) new physical and cross-layer mechanisms that will enable the integration of WPT/SWIPT into future communication systems; 3) new network architectures that will fully exploit potential benefits of WPT/SWIPT; and 4) development of a proof-of-concept by implementing highly-efficient and multi-band metamaterial energy harvesting sensors for SWIPT.
Project acronym AUTISMS
Project Decomposing Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Researcher (PI) Michael LOMBARDO
Summary Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect 1-2% of the population and are a major public health issue. Heterogeneity between affected ASD individuals is substantial both at clinical and etiological levels, thus warranting the idea that we should begin characterizing the ASD population as multiple kinds of ‘autisms’. Without an advanced understanding of how heterogeneity manifests in ASD, it is likely that we will not make pronounced progress towards translational research goals that can have real impact on patient’s lives. This research program is focused on decomposing heterogeneity in ASD at multiple levels of analysis. Using multiple ‘big data’ resources that are both ‘broad’ (large sample size) and ‘deep’ (multiple levels of analysis measured within each individual), I will examine how known variables such as sex, early language development, early social preferences, and early intervention treatment response may be important stratification variables that differentiate ASD subgroups at phenotypic, neural systems/circuits, and genomic levels of analysis. In addition to examining known stratification variables, this research program will engage in data-driven discovery via application of advanced unsupervised computational techniques that can highlight novel multivariate distinctions in the data that signal important ASD subgroups. These data-driven approaches may hold promise for discovering novel ASD subgroups at biological and phenotypic levels of analysis that may be valuable for prioritization in future work developing personalized assessment, monitoring, and treatment strategies for subsets of the ASD population. By enhancing the precision of our understanding about multiple subtypes of ASD this work will help accelerate progress towards the ideals of personalized medicine and help to reduce the burden of ASD on individuals, families, and society.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) affect 1-2% of the population and are a major public health issue. Heterogeneity between affected ASD individuals is substantial both at clinical and etiological levels, thus warranting the idea that we should begin characterizing the ASD population as multiple kinds of ‘autisms’. Without an advanced understanding of how heterogeneity manifests in ASD, it is likely that we will not make pronounced progress towards translational research goals that can have real impact on patient’s lives. This research program is focused on decomposing heterogeneity in ASD at multiple levels of analysis. Using multiple ‘big data’ resources that are both ‘broad’ (large sample size) and ‘deep’ (multiple levels of analysis measured within each individual), I will examine how known variables such as sex, early language development, early social preferences, and early intervention treatment response may be important stratification variables that differentiate ASD subgroups at phenotypic, neural systems/circuits, and genomic levels of analysis. In addition to examining known stratification variables, this research program will engage in data-driven discovery via application of advanced unsupervised computational techniques that can highlight novel multivariate distinctions in the data that signal important ASD subgroups. These data-driven approaches may hold promise for discovering novel ASD subgroups at biological and phenotypic levels of analysis that may be valuable for prioritization in future work developing personalized assessment, monitoring, and treatment strategies for subsets of the ASD population. By enhancing the precision of our understanding about multiple subtypes of ASD this work will help accelerate progress towards the ideals of personalized medicine and help to reduce the burden of ASD on individuals, families, and society.
Project acronym AUTO-CD
Project COELIAC DISEASE: UNDERSTANDING HOW A FOREIGN PROTEIN DRIVES AUTOANTIBODY FORMATION
Researcher (PI) Ludvig Magne Sollid
Call Details Advanced Grant (AdG), LS6, ERC-2010-AdG_20100317
Summary The goal of this project is to understand the mechanism of how highly disease specific autoantibodies are generated in response to the exposure to a foreign antigen. IgA autoantibodies reactive with the enzyme transglutaminase 2 (TG2) are typical of coeliac disease (CD). These antibodies are only present in subjects who are HLA-DQ2 or -DQ8, and their production is dependent on dietary gluten exposure. This suggests that CD4+ gluten reactive T cells, which are found in CD patients and which recognise gluten peptides deamidated by TG2 in context of DQ2 or DQ8, are implicated in the generation of these autoantibodies. Many small intestinal IgA+ plasma cells express membrane Ig hence allowing isolation of antigen specific cells. Whereas control subjects lack anti-TG2 IgA+ plasma cells, on average 10% of the plasma cells of CD patients are specific for TG2. We have sorted single TG2 reactive IgA+ plasma cells, cloned their VH and VL genes and expressed recombinant mAbs. So far we have expressed 26 TG2 specific mAbs. There is a strong bias for VH5-51 usage, and surprisingly the antibodies are modestly mutated. TG2 acts on specific glutamine residues and can either crosslink these to other proteins (transamidation) or hydrolyse the glutamine to a glutamate (deamidation). None of the 18 mAbs tested affected either transamidation or deamidation leading us to hypothesise that retained crosslinking ability of TG2 when bound to membrane Ig of B cells is an integral part of the anti-TG2 response. Four models of how activation of TG2 specific B cells is facilitated by TG2 crosslinking and the help of gluten reactive CD4 T cells are proposed. These four models will be extensively tested including doing in vivo assays with a newly generated transgenic anti-TG2 immunoglobulin knock-in mouse model.
The goal of this project is to understand the mechanism of how highly disease specific autoantibodies are generated in response to the exposure to a foreign antigen. IgA autoantibodies reactive with the enzyme transglutaminase 2 (TG2) are typical of coeliac disease (CD). These antibodies are only present in subjects who are HLA-DQ2 or -DQ8, and their production is dependent on dietary gluten exposure. This suggests that CD4+ gluten reactive T cells, which are found in CD patients and which recognise gluten peptides deamidated by TG2 in context of DQ2 or DQ8, are implicated in the generation of these autoantibodies. Many small intestinal IgA+ plasma cells express membrane Ig hence allowing isolation of antigen specific cells. Whereas control subjects lack anti-TG2 IgA+ plasma cells, on average 10% of the plasma cells of CD patients are specific for TG2. We have sorted single TG2 reactive IgA+ plasma cells, cloned their VH and VL genes and expressed recombinant mAbs. So far we have expressed 26 TG2 specific mAbs. There is a strong bias for VH5-51 usage, and surprisingly the antibodies are modestly mutated. TG2 acts on specific glutamine residues and can either crosslink these to other proteins (transamidation) or hydrolyse the glutamine to a glutamate (deamidation). None of the 18 mAbs tested affected either transamidation or deamidation leading us to hypothesise that retained crosslinking ability of TG2 when bound to membrane Ig of B cells is an integral part of the anti-TG2 response. Four models of how activation of TG2 specific B cells is facilitated by TG2 crosslinking and the help of gluten reactive CD4 T cells are proposed. These four models will be extensively tested including doing in vivo assays with a newly generated transgenic anti-TG2 immunoglobulin knock-in mouse model.
Project acronym Bits2Cosmology
Project Time-domain Gibbs sampling: From bits to inflationary gravitational waves
Researcher (PI) Hans Kristian ERIKSEN
Summary The detection of primordial gravity waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential intellectual achievements in modern science. During the last few decades, the instrumental progress necessary to achieve this has been nothing short of breathtaking, and we today are able to measure the microwave sky with better than one-in-a-million precision. However, from the latest ultra-sensitive experiments such as BICEP2 and Planck, it is clear that instrumental sensitivity alone will not be sufficient to make a robust detection of gravitational waves. Contamination in the form of astrophysical radiation from the Milky Way, for instance thermal dust and synchrotron radiation, obscures the cosmological signal by orders of magnitude. Even more critically, though, are second-order interactions between this radiation and the instrument characterization itself that lead to a highly non-linear and complicated problem. I propose a ground-breaking solution to this problem that allows for joint estimation of cosmological parameters, astrophysical components, and instrument specifications. The engine of this method is called Gibbs sampling, which I have already applied extremely successfully to basic CMB component separation. The new and ciritical step is to apply this method to raw time-ordered observations observed directly by the instrument, as opposed to pre-processed frequency maps. While representing a ~100-fold increase in input data volume, this step is unavoidable in order to break through the current foreground-induced systematics floor. I will apply this method to the best currently available and future data sets (WMAP, Planck, SPIDER and LiteBIRD), and thereby derive the world's tightest constraint on the amplitude of inflationary gravitational waves. Additionally, the resulting ancillary science in the form of robust cosmological parameters and astrophysical component maps will represent the state-of-the-art in observational cosmology in years to come.
The detection of primordial gravity waves created during the Big Bang ranks among the greatest potential intellectual achievements in modern science. During the last few decades, the instrumental progress necessary to achieve this has been nothing short of breathtaking, and we today are able to measure the microwave sky with better than one-in-a-million precision. However, from the latest ultra-sensitive experiments such as BICEP2 and Planck, it is clear that instrumental sensitivity alone will not be sufficient to make a robust detection of gravitational waves. Contamination in the form of astrophysical radiation from the Milky Way, for instance thermal dust and synchrotron radiation, obscures the cosmological signal by orders of magnitude. Even more critically, though, are second-order interactions between this radiation and the instrument characterization itself that lead to a highly non-linear and complicated problem. I propose a ground-breaking solution to this problem that allows for joint estimation of cosmological parameters, astrophysical components, and instrument specifications. The engine of this method is called Gibbs sampling, which I have already applied extremely successfully to basic CMB component separation. The new and ciritical step is to apply this method to raw time-ordered observations observed directly by the instrument, as opposed to pre-processed frequency maps. While representing a ~100-fold increase in input data volume, this step is unavoidable in order to break through the current foreground-induced systematics floor. I will apply this method to the best currently available and future data sets (WMAP, Planck, SPIDER and LiteBIRD), and thereby derive the world's tightest constraint on the amplitude of inflationary gravitational waves. Additionally, the resulting ancillary science in the form of robust cosmological parameters and astrophysical component maps will represent the state-of-the-art in observational cosmology in years to come.
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Data from: The Cardiovascular Effects of Adjunctive Metformin Therapy in Overweight/obese Youth with Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Benjamin U. Nwosu, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Louise S. Maranda, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Karen Cullen, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Lisa Greenman, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jody Fleshman, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Nancy McShea, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Bruce A. Barton, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Mary M. Lee, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
UMMS Affiliation
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
File Format & Size
.xlsx (54 KB)
http://dx.doi.org/10.13028/M2H59X
Clinical trial identification number: ClinicalTrial.gov NCT01334125
This study was supported by an investigator-initiated research grant to Benjamin U. Nwosu from Novo Nordisk, Inc. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
type 1 diabetes mellitus, biguanides, metformin, insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk
This dataset is the primary data source for a manuscript submitted for publication.
Manuscript abstract:
Context: The cardiovascular effect of adjunctive metformin therapy in overweight/obese youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is unknown.
Objective: To compare the effect of prolonged, adjunctive metformin vs. placebo therapy on markers of cardiovascular risk in overweight/obese youth with T1D based on differences in total cholesterol (TC)/ high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio, triglycerides (TG)/HDL ratio, Atherogenic Index of Plasma (AIP) log [TG/HDL] ratio, adiponectin/leptin ratio, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentration.
Hypothesis: Adjunctive metformin therapy will improve markers of cardiovascular health in overweight/obese youth with T1D.
Setting: University outpatient facility.
Design and Participants: A 9-mo randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of metformin (1000 mg daily) and placebo in 28 subjects (13m/15f) of ages 10-20years (y), with HbA1c >8%, BMI >85%, and T1D > 12 months. The metformin group consisted of 15 subjects (8 m/7f), of age 15.0±2.5 y; while the control group consisted of 13 subjects (5m/8f), of age 14.5±3.1y. Participants employed a self-directed treat-to-target insulin regimen based on a titration algorithm of (-2)-0-(+2) units to adjust long-acting insulin dose every 3rd day from -3 mo through +9 mo to maintain fasting plasma glucose between 90-120 mg/dL.
Results: After adjusting for age, gender, BMI, and baseline values, the metformin group had a clinically significant reduction in TC/HDL of 0.5 unit: 3.5[3.0-4.1] vs. 4.0 [3.3-4.4] (p=0.578); and TG/HDL of 1.0 unit, 2.6 [1.1-4.3] vs. 3.6 [2.0-5.2] (p=0.476); and AIP of 0.44 unit: -0.23 ± 0.9 vs. 0.21 ± 0.8 (p=0.251). Conversely, the metformin group had a clinically significant elevation in adiponectin/leptin ratio of 0.8 unit: 2.0[0.84-3.2] vs. 1.2[0.11-2.3], (p=0.057); and a mean serum 25(OH)D in the vitamin D sufficiency range, 31.3 ng/mL [22.3-40.4] compared to the placebo group's lower mean 25(OH)D of 25.8 ng/mL [14.1-35.9], (p=0.337).
Conclusions: Prolonged adjunctive metformin therapy may be cardio-protective in overweight/obese youth with T1D.
Methodology is documented in manuscript.
The code list for this dataset is available under "Additional Files."
Nwosu, Benjamin U.; Maranda, Louise S.; Cullen, Karen; Greenman, Lisa; Fleshman, Jody; McShea, Nancy; Barton, Bruce A.; and Lee, Mary M., "Data from: The Cardiovascular Effects of Adjunctive Metformin Therapy in Overweight/obese Youth with Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial" (2015). Pediatric Research Data. Dataset 3.
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Sweet Dreams are Made of This – Music Video Addict
MTV music new wave
December 2, 2017 January 27, 2019 Laura Bock 80's music, classic alternative, MTV, music videos, new wave, playlist, Sirius XM 1st Wave
My name is Laura and I am a music video addict.
I remember that wonderful summer of 1981 well.
I stayed a few weeks in Pennsylvania with my Dad, even though Mom-ster hated when I stayed there with his family. She especially hated it when I walked down the driveway to visit “Auntie” in her mobile home.
I loved spending time with Auntie – she was funny and we would sit and watch game shows or her stories on TV. That day I visited her, Auntie let me watch TV while she went to take a bath and get dressed so we could go shopping. I never used a remote control for a TV before then, so it was fun for me, a kid only nine years old.
Flipping through the channels, I settled on a talk show, and that’s when I saw the commercial that would soon change my life forever.
“MTV – You’ll never look at music the same way again!”
A new cable channel, with nothing but music videos! This was truly revolutionary and I was ready to join the MTV army.
August 1 was only days away. When Auntie came back into the living room, I asked her if I could come over and watch MTV when it came on later that week. She agreed and said I could watch it during commercial breaks from her stories.
I was hooked from the first time I watched MTV. Cool video stories made to accompany music – what a genius new way to look at and appreciate music!
Yes, it is true, MTV played all music, all the time – it truly was Music Television.
No reality shows like The Real World or Road Rules, just hours of music and programs about music.
My all-time favorite MTV music show was 120 Minutes which aired on Sunday nights, with PostModern, Alternative Nation, Unplugged, and Headbangers Ball rounding out the top five.
Growing up in a home with no cable access, just antenna TV, made it difficult for me to get my MTV fix.
Unlike today, there was no YouTube to watch music videos. Because of my lack of access to cable, my older brother got tons of free babysitting from me, just so I could watch MTV and use his new VHS player to watch music documentaries like Duran Duran Sing Blue Silver.
Music was and still is my life; music videos have shaped me as a writer and an artist.
Ever notice how if you’re denied something as a child, like sugary fun cereals, that when you’re older you are drawn to them like moths to the flame? That is how I am with music videos.
With that being said, this is why all of my mixtape playlist posts have been YouTube playlists instead of playlists on Spotify. There’s just something more rewarding about watching a video to go with the music. Even those songs that didn’t have a video released, sometimes fans make videos, which expands the video genre even more and places it into the hands of the fans.
The following video playlist features some of my favorite New Wave videos from the heyday of MTV with groundbreaking videos from Duran Duran, fun videos from artists like Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club, The B-52’s, and ABC, and videos from iconic artists like David Bowie, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, and Talking Heads.
What is your favorite music video from the early to mid 80’s?
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) – Eurythmics
Rio – Duran Duran
People Are People – Depeche Mode
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
Burning Down The House – Talking Heads
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant
Our House – Madness
Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
Weird Science – Oingo Boingo
Doctor! Doctor! – Thompson Twins
The Sun Always Shines One TV – a-ha
Paranoimia – The Art of Noise with Max Headroom
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead or Alive
The Reflex – Duran Duran
Modern Love – David Bowie
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – Wham!
Missionary Man – Eurythmics
Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol
It’s A Sin – Pet Shop Boys
Send Me An Angel – Real Life
Strip – Adam Ant
99 Luftballons – Nena
Don’t You Want Me – The Human League
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? – Culture Club
Rapture – Blondie
Whip It – Devo
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode
Shock The Monkey – Peter Gabriel
The Edge of Heaven – Wham!
Take On Me – a-ha
Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Never Say Never – Romeo Void
I Know What Boys Like – The Waitresses
Love Plus One – Haircut 100
Rip It Up – Orange Juice
Obsession – Animotion
Everything Counts – Depeche Mode
China Girl – David Bowie
I’ll Tumble 4 Ya – Culture Club
New Moon On Monday – Duran Duran
Relax – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Puttin’ on the Ritz – Taco
I Ran – A Flock of Seagulls
Something About You – Level 42
Rock Lobster – The B-52’s
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Pop Muzik – M
Save A Prayer – Duran Duran
Words – Missing Persons
The Metro – Berlin
Voices Carry – ‘Til Tuesday
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police
Everybody Wants To Rule The World – Tears for Fears
Wot – Captain Sensible
The Look Of Love – ABC
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Thank you! I didn’t have my own access to MTV until 84, so I never saw a few of these.
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She Blinded Me With Science literally changed my life! I first saw MTV in 82 while visiting a friend in Seattle and waited impatiently until it came to the Champaign-Urbana market so I could see it while I was at U of I. I had to wait 2 more years until I could see it in my hometown. Torture!
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5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)
We all know Marx wanted to get rid of private property, but he was remarkably frank about wanting to abolish these things, too.
Jon Miltimore
Culture Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto Private Property Family Individuality Eternal Truth Nations History Communism
One of the remarkable things about The Communist Manifesto is its honesty.
Karl Marx might not have been a very good guy, but he was refreshingly candid about the aims of Communism. This brazenness, one could argue, is baked into the Communist psyche.
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims,” Marx declared in his famous manifesto. “They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution.”
Like Hitler’s Mein Kampf, readers are presented with a pure, undiluted vision of the author’s ideology (dark as it may be).
Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted five additional ideas and institutions for eradication.
1. The Family
Marx admits that destroying the family is a thorny topic, even for revolutionaries. “Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists,” he writes.
But he said opponents of this idea fail to understand a key fact about the family.
“On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie,” he writes.
Best of all, abolishing the family would be relatively easy once bourgeois property was abolished. “The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.”
2. Individuality
Marx believed individuality was antithetical to the egalitarianism he envisioned. Therefore, the “individual” must “be swept out of the way, and made impossible.”
Individuality was a social construction of a capitalist society and was deeply intertwined with capital itself.
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” he wrote. “And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”
3. Eternal Truths
Marx did not appear to believe that any truth existed beyond class struggle.
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class,” he argued. “When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie.”
He recognized how radical this idea would sound to his readers, particularly since Communism does not seek to modify truth, but to overthrow it. But he argued these people were missing the larger picture.
“‘Undoubtedly,’ it will be said, ‘religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.’
What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.”
4. Nations
Communists, Marx said, are reproached for seeking to abolish countries. These people fail to understand the nature of the proletariat, he wrote.
“The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.”
Furthermore, largely because of capitalism, he saw hostilities between people of different backgrounds receding. As the proletariat grew in power, there soon would be no need for nations, he wrote.
“National differences and antagonism between peoples are daily more and more vanishing, owing to the development of the bourgeoisie, to freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding thereto.”
5. The Past
Marx saw tradition as a tool of the bourgeoisie. Adherence to the past served as a mere distraction in proletariat’s quest for emancipation and supremacy.
“In bourgeois society,” Marx wrote, “the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.”
Reprinted from Intellectual Takeout
Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has appeared in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Washington Times.
Reach him at [email protected]
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TRYPOL PACK TRUSTS TOMRA TO SORT ITS BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Trypol Pack is a cooperative of Belgian farmers, based in Flanders, specialising in Brussels sprouts. A production they excel in, and now the TOMRA sorting machines will help them to bring European consumers the best quality.
We are proud to say that Brussels sprouts are a Belgian specialty. They are supposed to originate in the town of Saint-Gilles, in 1685, and are the result of a cabbage hybrid. So, they do not owe their original French name (choux de Bruxelles = cabbages from Brussels) to chance! The production of Brussels sprouts has been on the rise in recent years. They are attributed the virtues of a super food. We are even seeing the reappearance of rare new varieties, such as purple Brussels sprouts and flowering Brussels sprouts, which give allure and originality to reception tables. However, demand remains seasonal, it is a vegetable that we prefer to eat in winter.
Serving large distributors and processors
Originally a family farm specialising in this vegetable, Trypol Pack was created in 2008 with the aim of marketing its harvest not only in bulk to food manufacturers, but also to the fresh market, packed in nets. This packaging has enabled it to address the supermarket distribution, which results in fewer losses than with the bulk department. In addition, the packaging extends the shelf life of the product.
Production is now shipped to 3 neighbouring export markets: France, the Netherlands and Germany. Exports represent 80% of the output, compared to 20% for Belgium.
The harvest begins in September, initially intended for the fresh market. In November, the focus will shift more to customers in the food industry for frozen or canned food. Sizes over 30mm are intended for the fresh market. The smallest cabbages, between 15 and 35mm, go to the industrial market. The combination of the two markets makes it possible to optimize the harvest and production processes.
In 2017, Tryvan installed the first TOMRA optical sorting machine. This sorter has a capacity of 10 tonnes/h.
"We wanted to automate as much as possible. Because it is difficult to find staff and the sorting work is very tedious and delicate," explains Evelien Vanlerberghe, of Tryvan. "We use a TOMRA optical sorter to detect and eject unsaleable products, stones, and other impurities from the harvest stream."
She continues:
"The TOMRA machine allowed us to reduce the workforce: we had about 15 people on the production line, when currently we only need 8."
The TOMRA optical sorting machine guarantees a superior quality level. Optical sorting is more effective than the human eye, which gets tired and makes mistakes.
The TOMRA machine is easy to use. Different programs have been installed, you can launch whatever you want in a few seconds from the touch screen, depending on what we receive from the fields, the colours and characteristics of the cabbage being different according to the variety, Brussels sprouts, leaf cabbage, purple cabbage. It's very simple, easy to handle, and the customer service is always available when needed.
Tryvan plans to invest in a new optical sorting machine to process the crops directly on site, in the fields. This will allow them to check the purity of the flow received from the fields, thus making the process even more efficient.
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*NOTE: All readings listed in the course descriptions below are subject to change.
Ben Breyer
Legacy of the Mediterranean: The Present Past: Race, Gender and Ethnicity
In this class we will study the relationship between a selection of major texts from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world and modern texts that reimagine and re-contextualize them. We’ll seek to understand how the modern writers use different historical and geographical contexts to give the language of the ancient and medieval texts alternate meanings, particularly as it pertains to notions of race, gender and ethnicity. The course reading list will include excerpts from Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, Sappho’s lyrics, Virgil’s Aeneid and lyric poems from Arab Andalusia, which will inform our analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks The Anniad , Derek Wolcott's Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land.
Andrew Lynn
Legacy of the Mediterranean: Border Crossings
When a poet takes his place on the tripod of the Muse, he cannot control his thoughts [and] is obliged to contradict himself... But for the legislator, this is impossible: he must not let his laws say two different things on the same subject. -- Plato, The Laws
For Plato, literature is dangerous because it is ambivalent, or even self-contradictory. Where a virtuous society must set up boundaries – between right and wrong, or between inside and outside – literature tends to blur distinctions and connect ideas that should be kept apart. This writing course tests these ideas through a set of readings in “classical” Western literature. Does literature work as Plato believes it does, to subvert social norms and create ambiguity? Can literature also enforce boundaries and set up barriers?
We will begin our investigation of these questions with a close look at figurative language – one of the primary devices poetry uses to connect ideas – in two archaic Greek poets, Homer and Sappho. We’ll then consider how classical Athenian tragedy represents cultural and gender difference: if theater is at its heart a kind of game with identity, what really happens when we dress up as other people? In our final unit, we’ll examine how two much later writers, Virgil and Dante, both model themselves on their Greek predecessors and fashion new roles for themselves as modern, political poets. Throughout the course, our literary readings will be accompanied by philosophical texts that will help us focus our thinking.
Readings may include: literature from Ghosh, Sappho, Homer, Euripides, Virgil, Dante; philosophy and criticism from Longinus, Barthes, Butler, Douglas, Bourdieu. Books for the course may be acquired via a semester-long loan via the Barnard FLIP library; purchasing the books will cost less than $30.
Duygu Ula
Legacy of the Mediterranean: Queer/Migrant
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” -James Baldwin
This course focuses on modern and contemporary works about queer and/or migrant experiences in the Mediterranean. We will take the Mediterranean and its diasporas as a geopolitical site in which queer and migrant subjects negotiate their identities vis-à-vis dominant discourses of gender, sexuality, nationality and citizenship. We will investigate notions of home, belonging and identity for queer, immigrant, migrant and refugee subjects and pay particular attention to how these identities intersect in fiction, nonfiction, artistic and theoretical works by a wide range of authors. How are immigrant, migrant and refugee bodies racialized and queered by dominant discourses, for instance? How do queer subjects negotiate belonging when they travel across cultural, geographical, national, linguistic and religious borders? How do experiences of queerness and migration inform one another in these authors’ works?
Readings may include works by James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, C.P. Cavafy, Masha Gessen, Trish Salah, Négar Djavadi, Warsan Shire, Edward Said, Gayatri Gopinath, Jasbir Puar and Afsaneh Najmabadi.
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Home Stars of Bodybuilding Men’s Open
Dennis James: Height | Weight | Arms | Chest | Biography
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Dennis James (The Menace)
About Dennis Tyron James (The Menace)
Born: May 31, 1966
Birthplace: Heidelberg, GERMANY
Residence: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Nickname: The Menace
Height: 5′ 8″ (172 cm)
Competition Weight: 258 lbs (117 kg)
Dennis Tyron James was born in Heidelberg, Germany on May 31, 1966.
The 1995 NABBA Mr. Universe saw Dennis James take his first win in the competition and this win helped his decision to become an IFBB Pro. Dennis headed to California in 1997 to get involved with the pro’s and found himself in contact with Jon Lindsay, an NPC promoter.
His first NPC (National Physique Committee) competition was the NPC Border States Classics 1997, where he won 1st and overall. He then went on and placed 4th in the NPC Nationals 1997 before winning the 1998 Mr.USA super heavyweight and overall to earn his IFBB pro card. In 1999 he competed in his first Night of Champions, where he tied 14th. The following year, in 2000, he competed in his first Arnold Classic, placing 4th.
In 1998, Dennis James began his career as a pro after winning the NPC USA Championship, beating Melvin Anthony in a nail-biting tie-breaking decision. His first Mr. Olympia was in 2000 as well, where he placed 11th. He has competed in a total of 10 Mr. Olympias, with his highest placing coming in 4th in 2003.
Dennis has been featured in many fitness and bodybuilding articles, including the cover of FLEX magazine. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Anton Van Happen (CEO, Eco Green Auto Clean)
“Once I was old enough to start doing business, I did not really think of anything other than starting my own companies and growing them.” Anton Van Happen
A cup of water and an idea. That is the foundation Anton Van Happen’s company, Eco Green Auto Clean, is built on. Anton, along with his business partner Dinesh Gauba, founded Eco Green in 2012. Anton’s main focus was to make the one-cup-of-water car wash a reality. Now available in 50 countries, the products not only save water, but are made of plant-derived ingredients and biodegradable.
Eco Green’s store and car wash facility are located in San Francisco. Each wash saves between 50 and 70 gallons of water, while offering a showroom shine. Anton is considered a drought buster. By creating this disruptive technology, his business has saved approximately eight million gallons of water since its inception. A partnership with automaker Tesla is on the horizon. Eco Green would provide exclusive, valet service at Tesla’s Supercharger stations.
When asked, has the drought been good for Eco Green, Anton answered, “For the environment no. For us it’s going really well.” Anton is concentrating his efforts on growing his company while providing an important solution to California’s 100-year drought.
Company Name: Eco Green Auto Clean
Title: CEO
Website: www.ecogreenautoclean.com
Hometown: Hong Kong
Relationship: Single
What early experiences in life, cultivated your entrepreneurial spirit?
I grew up in an entrepreneurial family. We were some of the first people to move to Hong Kong in the 1950’s and 60’s, to start manufacturing clothing, for U.S. and European brands. I was always around business, ever since I can remember. Once I was old enough to start doing business, I did not really think of anything other than starting my own companies and growing them.
Why did you start your business(es)?
I started Eco Green Auto Clean because, ever since I was young, I loved cars and loved to clean them. At the same time, I knew the future of business was to start greener, more environmentally-friendly companies. I hired a chemist to work with me, in order to create products that clean cars with only one cup of water. The end result: biodegradable products, a high quality finish on cars, and no more water run-off.
What entrepreneur has most inspired you?
My Father.
What is the biggest obstacle you have overcome thus far in business?
The biggest and hardest obstacle is creating a product that is not the norm AND virtually trying to revolutionize an industry. Many people were skeptical and did not believe the company would be where it is today, similar to how Tesla started. We are facing the same barriers. However, once people open their minds, understand the products, and see the results, they are hooked!
What have you learned from failure?
To keep pushing even harder!
How does your leadership style foster your company’s culture?
I’m enthusiastic and have the drive to push through adversity. No matter what the situation, our employees have the same drive. They will not give up until the goal is reached.
What are your top 3 responsibilities as a leader?
Lead operations and strategic direction
Global product management
Help the world become a greener and healthier place
What internal process do you use to guide your decision-making?
Management meetings – being up-to-date about everything going on, within the company, is key.
How do you define success?
Reaching the goal.
Which book has inspired you?
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
What do you think is the coolest technology out there, and why?
Tesla, because it is revolutionizing the car industry with electric cars and has started autonomous driving.
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American coastal defenses 1885-1950 by Terrance McGovern, Bolling Smith, Peter Bull
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Louis. Secession was extremism, the antithesis of moderation. He disdained what he saw as the South’s overbearing minority insistence on making the rest of the nation—the majority—repeatedly do her bidding on the subject of slavery, a system for which he had absolutely no empathy but was resigned to as an alternative to war. He was steeped from boyhood in consciousness of the slavery question’s destructive potential. He had grown up in a town on one of the most active lines of the Underground Railroad.
Most children quickly forget such slights, but Grant was so wounded that he remembered to record them with quiet humor fifty years later. Such memories extended beyond boyhood. Going home for the first time after two years at West Point, he made sure to arrive in resplendent uniform and was mortified when two different local civilians lampooned his appearance; he quickly retreated to the less prideful attitude of his mother and never gloried in military finery again. Then came the first of his career’s vocational disappointments.
A boosterish borough, the Tennessee metropolis already had sought to become the Confederacy’s capital when that designation was moved to Virginia from Montgomery, Alabama. qxd 16 7/9/08 12:26 PM Page 16 MEN OF FIRE Focused on commerce, Tennessee’s capital had no defenses of its own and little inclination to construct any. This was because Kentucky initially declared itself neutral in the sectional struggle, putting a buffer between Tennessee and the avowedly Union states north of the Ohio River.
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Illiberal Liberalism
Last week, we witnessed the Left's determination to enforce abortion-on-demand as the highest good of American society. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) held a hearing on his legislation that would "make it harder when not impossible for states to enforce measures that protect women as well as unborn children," writes Thomas Messner. "In provision after provision S. 1696 puts not a thumb but a fist on the scales in favor of abortion providers and against both unborn children and mothers who face the fear and uncertainty of unexpected pregnancy."
The Left has been losing the battle for the sanctity of life and the well-being of their mothers. Repeatedly, state and federal courts have upheld the right of states to limit access to elective abortion according to legal precedence, the Tenth Amendment, and simple decency.
Enraged, liberals like Sen. Blumenthal are seeking to vitiate entire bodies of law so as to impose their radical agenda of sexual autonomy and abortion at any stage of pregnancy (subsidized by the federal government, no less) on the American people.
This mentality informs not only the Left's approach to abortion; it is much broader than that, sweeping across the political horizon: Liberalism's illiberalism, its insistence on a program of extreme social change through whatever means -- the courts, legislation, regulatory and tax policy, etc. -- can achieve it, regardless of the will of the people or their elected representatives.
Following are some compelling quotes about illiberal liberalism, about the Left's tantrum-like emphasis on coercing their fellow citizens into a regime of profound social transformation.
"Government leaders routinely ignore laws they are sworn to uphold. This is more than intolerant. It is illiberal. It is a willingness to use coercive methods, from government action to public shaming, to shut down debate and censor those who hold a different opinion as if they have no right to their views at all." Kim R. Holmes, Distinguished Fellow, Heritage Foundation
"In some respects the Obama Democrats want to go further -- and are complaining that they're having a hard time getting there. Their form of liberalism is in danger of standing for something like the very opposite of freedom, for government coercion of those who refuse to behave the way they'd like." Michael Barone, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
"Why are you expected to abandon your conscience the moment you step into the commercial world? Why is it mandatory to violate your liberty in order to protect the wishes of others? Indeed, why would a gay couple want, say, a Christian opposed to gay marriage to photograph their wedding or prepare their cake? It hardly seems the best way to ensure a satisfactory job. One suspects that it is an exercise in humiliation, an attempt to force those with unfashionable scruples to affirm what they reject. It is, in short, a calculated effort at intolerance." Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
"Conservatives are put into awkward positions of critiquing liberal ideas on grounds that they are impractical, unworkable, or counterproductive. Yet rarely, at least outside the religious sphere, do they identify the progressive as often immoral. And the unfortunate result is that they have often ceded moral claims to supposedly dreamy, utopian, and well-meaning progressives, when in fact the latter increasingly have little moral ground to stand upon." Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
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World Cup role reversal as Germany wins, Croatia struggles
Germany's Nico Schulz, fourth from left, celebrates with his teammates after scoring his side's third goal during the Euro 2020 group C qualifying soccer match between Netherlands and Germany at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Germany is winning again, and Croatia is struggling. The World Cup feels like a long time ago.
After a year of problems off the field — and humiliation on it — the new Germany is finally starting to look like the old Germany. Grit, determination and Nico Schulz's 90th-minute winner earned the Germans a confidence-boosting 3-2 win over the Netherlands on Sunday in a European Championship qualifier.
"It's good for the self-belief of this young team," said Germany coach Joachim Loew. "I can live with criticism. I know what our potential is."
Croatia looked a shadow of the resilient team which reached the World Cup final in July as it lost 2-1 to Hungary in Budapest. Spells of confusion in the Croatian defense are likely to concern coach Zlatko Dalic in a group where four teams look like contenders for two qualifying spots for Euro 2020.
Elsewhere, Wales started with a tense win over Slovakia, while Belgium and Poland enjoyed comfortable victories.
GERMANY'S REVENGE
Facing old rivals the Netherlands for the third time in six months, Germany enjoyed its revenge.
The Dutch beat Germany 3-0 in Amsterdam in October and earned a last-gasp draw in the return fixture. Those results helped to relegate Germany from the top tier of the Nations League — further embarrassment after its disastrous 2018 World Cup campaign when it failed to advance from the group stage.
Schulz's winner came just when it looked like his team had let the Dutch salvage a draw from 2-0 down in the Group C game.
Germany's Nico Schulz scores his side's third goal during the Euro 2020 group C qualifying soccer match between Netherlands and Germany at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
"We didn't control the ball and if you can't exert pressure the game opens up and you see that they have some amazing attackers," Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman said.
Germany had gone six competitive games without a win since beating Sweden at the World Cup.
The challenge now for Loew is to keep the momentum going — after all, the win over Sweden was seen at the time as a much-needed boost after a poor run. It proved a false dawn when Germany promptly lost to South Korea and spectacularly crashed out of the World Cup.
Germany's next opponent, Belarus, lost 2-1 to group leader Northern Ireland which won its second straight group game with an 87th-minute goal from substitute Josh Magennis.
CROATIA CREAKING
Eight months after reaching the World Cup final, Croatia is unexpectedly struggling.
Croatia's defense was at times overwhelmed by a spirited Hungary team, conceding one goal to a fine passing move masterminded by Balazs Dzsudzsak, and the other after panicky set-piece defending.
Since losing the World Cup final to France, Croatia's results have been wildly inconsistent.
A 6-0 loss to Spain in the Nations League, a 3-2 win over Spain soon after and Thursday's labored 2-1 win over Azerbaijan have highlighted Croatia's moments of brilliance and its vulnerabilities after losing key players to international retirement and injury.
Earlier in the same group, Daniel James' first international goal gave Wales the lead after five minutes against Slovakia before holding on to win 1-0.
"It was a perfect start," Wales coach Ryan Giggs said, and he was full of praise for the 21-year-old James. "He is a talent, and when you have got that raw pace you are a threat at any level."
Croatia, Hungary, Wales and Slovakia are level on three points in Group E. Last-placed Azerbaijan has no points.
HAZARD'S CENTENARY
One hundred games for Belgium and Eden Hazard is still dangerous.
Hazard scored his 30th career international goal in his centenary game as Belgium beat Cyprus 2-0 to tighten its grip on Group I. Michy Batshuayi finished with a goal and an assist as Belgium eased to a routine win to stay top of the group with six points.
Valencia winger Denis Cheryshev scored two goals and set up another as Russia bounced back from its opening loss to Belgium on Thursday with a 4-0 dismantling of Kazakhstan.
Belgium player Michy Batshuayi, left, celebrates a goal against Cyprus during the Euro 2020 group I qualifying soccer match between Cyprus and Belgium at the GSP stadium in Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)
Still mourning last week's loss to Kazakhstan, Scotland fans had little to celebrate as their team struggled to a 2-0 win over San Marino, the world's lowest-ranked team. Scotland, which hasn't qualified for a European Championship since 1996, is still guaranteed a playoff spot thanks to Nations League results.
POLAND WINS AGAIN
Poland took control of Group G with a second straight win, beating Latvia 2-0, while Austria's qualifying hopes are already looking in doubt.
Latvia's goalkeeper Pavels Steinbors made a string of spectacular saves before Robert Lewandowski broke the deadlock in the 76th minute with a header. Kamil Glik scored another header eight minutes later.
Poland's Robert Lewandowski, right, Krzysztof Piatek, left, and Latvia's Vitalijs Maksimenko, center, challenge for the ball during the Euro 2020 group G qualifying soccer match between Poland and Latvia at the National stadium in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Austria gave up a 1-0 lead as it lost 4-2 to Israel and is level with Latvia at the bottom of the group with no points from its opening two games. Eran Zahavi scored a hat trick as Israel earned its first win over Austria for 20 years.
North Macedonia is level with Israel on four points after drawing 1-1 with Slovenia.
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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines Ltd.
Ipswich, United Kingdom
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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is a UK-based, Norwegian-owned cruise shipping line with four cruise ships. The company is owned by Bonheur and Ganger Rolf and is headquartered in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom. The company is part of the Fred. Olsen Group.
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The company originated in Hvitsten, a small town on Oslofjord in Norway, in 1848 by three Olsen brothers, Fredrik Christian, Petter and Andras, who bought their first ships and began an international shipping company. The company is now into the fifth generation of the family and operates various companies skilled within the cruise and passenger shipping trade, as well as aviation, ships' crewing, ship building and offshore industries. The Fred. Olsen group also has business interests in the luxury hotel sector, estate management,[1] property development and electronics companies.[citation needed]
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Black Watch 1972 1996 28,613 GT Bahamas
Boudicca 1972 2005 28,388 GT Bahamas
Braemar 1993 2001 24,344 GT Bahamas
Balmoral 1988 2007 43,537 GT Bahamas
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Brabant 2006 2018 First river cruise for Fred Olsen
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Black Prince 1966 1966–2009 9,499 GRT
11,209 GT Built as a combination ferry/cruise ship/reefer ship. Rebuilt into a cruise ship in 1987. Scrapped in October 2013 as Ola Esmeralda.
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For most of the year, the ships are based in UK ports. A winter Caribbean fly-cruise programme on Braemar operates from Barbados.
Destinations have included the Mediterranean, Canaries, around the UK, Baltic, Norway, Adriatic and the Caribbean and longer cruise voyages to South America and around the world’.[citation needed]
Operations[edit]
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines operates a fleet of four cruise ships to destinations in Northern Europe, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, Africa, Canada, the United States and South America. The company operates smaller scale cruise ships, ranging in size from 24,000 to 43,000 GT (approx). The ambience on board is traditionally British.
In May 2006 Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines announced the purchase of a new vessel, Norwegian Crown, from Norwegian Cruise Line. Following delivery of the vessel in November 2007, she was dry-docked for refurbishment and lengthening, with a pre-built 30 metre centre section added. She was renamed Balmoral and entered service early in 2008. This was followed by the extension of Braemar in summer 2008. A new centre section was added, with new cabins and public rooms, increasing the size from 19,000 GT to 24,000 GT (approx).
In January 2008 it was reported that the company was considering ordering a newbuild of unspecified dimensions from a Korean shipyard.[2] If realised, the ship will be the first ever newbuild ordered for Fred. Olsen's cruise operations. However, no new ship was ever ordered (the fleet remained unchanged in 2015).
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Fashion, religion beget 'Heavenly Bodies' at Met, 2018 gala
Nov. 28, 2017 - by E. Vincent Martinez
Vogue magazine, for many, is a fashion bible. So it seems fitting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s next big Costume Institute exhibition is titled Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Curator Andrew Bolton visited the Vatican eight times in preparing the “Heavenly Bodies” exhibition. Photo: Andrew Toth/Getty Images
The exhibition opens May 10, 2018, and runs through Oct. 8 at three sites: the Anna Wintour Costume Center and the medieval galleries at the Met’s Fifth Avenue location and uptown at the Cloisters, near 190th Street in Washington Heights, about a 40-minute subway ride from Manhattan.
The gala, an annual fundraiser often referred to as fashion’s biggest night out, happens May 7 with Vogue editor Wintour, Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace, lawyer and activist Amal Clooney, and singer-actor-designer Rihanna among its honorary chairs.
It may seem controversial for the New York institution to take on Catholicism, but the theme has more to do with fashion design’s interpretation of religion and its use of religious iconography.
Andrew Bolton, Costume Institute curator, worked closely with the Vatican on the exhibit, and says: “The focus is on a shared hypothesis about what we call the Catholic imagination and the way it has engaged artists and designers and shaped their approach to creativity, as opposed to any kind of theology or sociology. Beauty has often been a bridge between believers and unbelievers.”
Bolton visited Rome eight times before the Vatican signed off on the exhibit. The Sistine Chapel Office for Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff gave its blessing. Representatives were receptive from the start but needed to be cautious and respectful of Vatican garments being loaned to the Met, some which are still used by the pope.
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Depression is a whole-body illness. It involves the body, mood, and thoughts. Depression affects the way you eat and sleep. It also can affect the way you feel about yourself and things. It's not the same as being unhappy or in a “blue” mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. When you have depression, you can’t “pull yourself together” and get better. Treatment is often needed and many times crucial to recovery.
Depression has different forms, just like many other illnesses. The most common types of depressive disorders include:
Major depression. This is a mixture of symptoms that affect your ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy life. This can put you out of action for awhile. These episodes of depression can happen once, twice, or several times in a lifetime.
Dysthymia. This is a long-term (chronic) depressed mood and other symptoms that are not as severe or extensive as those in major depression. These symptoms can still keep you from functioning at "full steam" or from feeling good. People with dysthymia sometimes also have major depressive episodes.
Bipolar disorder. This is a long-term (chronic) condition that includes cycles of extreme lows (depression) and extreme highs (hypomania or mania).
There is no clear cause of depression. Experts think it happens because of chemical problems in the brain. Many factors can play a role in depression. These include environmental, mental health, physical, and inherited factors.
Some types of depression seem to run in families. But no genes have yet been linked to depression.
Women have depression about twice as often as men. Many hormonal factors may add to the increased rate of depression in women. This includes menstrual cycle changes, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), pregnancy, miscarriage, postpartum period, perimenopause, and menopause. Many women also deal with additional stresses such as responsibilities both at work and home, single parenthood, and caring for both children and aging parents.
Many women are especially at risk after giving birth to a baby. Women have hormonal and physical changes on top of the added responsibility of caring for a baby. These can lead to postpartum depression in some women. The “baby blues" are common in new mothers and last a week or two. A full-blown depressive episode is not normal and needs treatment.
What are the symptoms of depression?
These are the most common symptoms of depression. But each person may have slightly different symptoms. Symptoms may include:
Lasting sad, anxious, or empty mood
Weight or appetite changes because of eating too much or too little
Changes in sleeping patterns. These include fitful sleep, inability to sleep, early morning awakening, or sleeping too much.
Loss of interest and pleasure in activities formerly enjoyed, including sex
Increased restlessness and irritability
Decreased energy, fatigue, and being "slowed down"
Feeling of worthless or helpless
Lasting feelings of hopelessness
Feelings of inappropriate guilt
Not being able to concentrate, think, or make decisions
Frequent thoughts of death or suicide, wishing to die, or attempting suicide. (Note: People with this symptom should get treatment right away!)
Physical symptoms, such as headaches, digestive problems, or chronic pain that doesn’t get better with treatment
Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or even years. The correct treatment can help most people who suffer from depression.
How is depression diagnosed?
Depression can occur alone or with other health problems such as heart disease, cancer, or diabetes. It can also happen with other mental health disorders such as substance abuse or anxiety disorders. Getting an early diagnosis and treatment is important to recovery.
A diagnosis is made after a careful mental health exam and health history done by a psychiatrist or other mental health provider.
How is depression treated?
Generally, depressive disorders may be treated with one or a combination of the following:
Medicine. Many different medicines are available. But it often takes 4 to 6 weeks to feel the full effects of antidepressants. It’s important to keep taking the medicine, even if it doesn’t seem to be working at first. It’s also important to talk with your healthcare provider before stopping. Some people have to switch medicines or add medicines to get results.
Psychotherapy. This is most often cognitive-behavioral or interpersonal therapy. It focuses on changing the distorted views you have of yourself and your environment. It helps you work to improve your interpersonal relationship skills, and how to identify and manage stress in your life.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This treatment may be used in people with severe, life-threatening depression that has not responded to medicines. An electrical current is passed through the brain, triggering a seizure. For unknown reasons, the seizures help to restore the normal balance of chemicals in the brain and ease symptoms.
You can also do things to help yourself. Depressive disorders can make you feel exhausted, worthless, helpless, and hopeless. Such negative thoughts and feelings may make you feel like giving up. It's important to realize that these negative views are part of the depression. They often don't accurately reflect true circumstances. Negative thinking fades as treatment starts to take effect. In the meantime, if you think you have depression, consider the following:
Get help. If you think you may be depressed, see a healthcare provider as soon as possible.
Set realistic goals in light of the depression. Take on only what you reasonably think you handle.
Break large tasks into small ones and set priorities. Do what you can as you can.
Try to be with other people and confide in someone. It is usually better than being alone and secretive.
Do things that make you feel better. Going to a movie, gardening, or taking part in religious, social, or other activities may help. Doing something nice for someone else can also help you feel better.
Get regular exercise.
Expect your mood to get better slowly, not right away. Feeling better takes time.
Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
Stay away from alcohol and drugs. These can make depression worse.
It is best to put off important decisions until the depression has lifted. Before deciding to make a major life change—change jobs, get married, or divorced—discuss it with others who know you well. They will have a more objective view of your situation.
Remember, people rarely “snap out of” a depression. But with treatment they can feel a little better day-by-day.
Try to be patient and focus on the positives. This may help replace the negative thinking that is part of the depression. The negative thoughts will disappear as your depression responds to treatment.
Let your family and friends help you.
Key points about depression
Depression is a whole-body illness. This means that it involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It is not the same as being unhappy or in a “blue” mood. Treatment is often needed.
There is no clear cause of depression, but healthcare providers think it’s a result of chemical problems in the brain. Some types of depression seem to run in families, but no genes have yet been linked to depression.
Women have depression about twice as often as men. Many hormonal factors may play a role in the increased rate of depression in women.
Depression may be diagnosed after a careful mental health exam by a a psychiatrist or other mental health provider.
Depression is most often treated with medicine, psychotherapy, or cognitive behavioral therapy. It can also be a combination of medicine and therapy.
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