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Schubert's Late Music
History, Theory, Style
Lorraine Byrne Bodley, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Julian Horton, University of Durham
Lorraine Byrne Bodley, John M. Gingerich, Scott Burnham, Anne M. Hyland, Harry White, Robert S. Hatten, Richard Kramer, Eric Wen, Marjorie Hirsch, Julian Horton, Glenn Stanley, Lauri Suurpää, Ryan McClelland, Xavier Hascher, Su-Yin Mak, Susan Youens, Blake Howe, Jürgen Thym, Benjamin M. Korstvedt, Laura Tunbridge
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Schubert's late music has proved pivotal for the development of diverse fields of musical scholarship, from biography and music history to the theory of harmony. This collection addresses current issues in Schubert studies including compositional technique, the topical issue of 'late' style, tonal strategy and form in the composer's instrumental music, and musical readings of the 'postmodern' Schubert. Offering fresh approaches to Schubert's instrumental and vocal works and their reception, this book argues that the music that the composer produced from 1822–8 is central to a paradigm shift in the history of music during the nineteenth century. The contributors provide a timely reassessment of Schubert's legacy, assembling a portrait of the composer that is very different from the sentimental Schubert permeating nineteenth-century culture and the postmodern Schubert of more recent literature.
Reveals new avenues of research into Schubert studies, with a particular focus upon the topical issue of 'late' style
Offers a unique variety of international scholarship, combining both traditional and 'new' musicology together with analytic criticism and music theory
Explores a wide range of sub-disciplines beyond Schubert studies including reception studies, performance studies, aesthetics and philosophy
contains: 5 b/w illus. 18 tables 187 music examples
Introduction: Schubert's late style and current musical scholarship Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Part I. Reception Histories:
1. 'Classical' music and Viennese resistance to Schubert's Beethoven project John M. Gingerich
2. Beethoven, Schubert, and the movement of phenomena Scott Burnham
3. [Un]Himmlische Länge: editorial intervention as reception history Anne M. Hyland
4. Citation, narrative and meaning: Woody Allen and the late Schubert Harry White
Part II. The Late Instrumental Music (1): Hermeneutics and Performance:
5. Schubert's alchemy: transformative surfaces, transfiguring depths Robert S. Hatten
6. Against the grain: Op. 78 and a hermeneutics of late style Richard Kramer
7. Schubert's Wiegenlied: the Andante sostenuto from the Piano Sonata in B flat, D. 960 Eric Wen
8. Schubert's reconciliation of gothic and classical influences Marjorie Hirsch
9. The first movement of Schubert's Piano Sonata D. 959 and the performance of analysis Julian Horton
Part III. The Late Instrumental Music (2): Meaning and Genre:
10. Schubert hearing Don Giovanni: Mozartian death music in the 'Unfinished' Symphony Glenn Stanley
11. Longing for the unattainable: the second movement of the 'Great' C major Symphony Lauri Suurpää
12. Tonal recollection in Schubert's late instrumental music Ryan McClelland
13. Detours, wrong tracks, and dead ends: the 'wanderer' in the labyrinth of Schubert's late instrumental music Xavier Hascher
14. Formal ambiguity and generic reinterpretation in the late instrumental music Su-Yin Mak
Part IV. Defining Late Style:
15. The 'problem of solitude' and critique in song: Schubert's loneliness Susan Youens
16. Music of the orphaned self? Schubert and concepts of late style Lorraine Byrne Bodley
17. Bounded finitude and boundless infinitude: Schubert's contradictions at the 'final barrier' Blake Howe
18. Invocations of memory in Schubert's last songs Jürgen Thym
19. 'The prerogative of late style': thoughts on the expressive world of Schubert's late works Benjamin M. Korstvedt
20. Singing against late style: the problem of performance history Laura Tunbridge.
Lorraine Byrne Bodley is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is the first woman in Ireland to be awarded a DMUS in Musicology (from the National University of Ireland, 2012) and has recently been elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She has published ten books and is currently writing a new biography of Schubert. Her awards include two DAAD Senior Academic Awards (2010 and 2014), a Gerda-Henkel Foundation Scholarship (2014) and an IRCHSS Scholarship (2001–3).
Julian Horton is Professor of Music and Head of Department at the University of Durham. He is author of monographs including Bruckner's Symphonies: Analysis, Reception and Cultural Politics (2004) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony (2013). In 2012, he was awarded the Westrup Prize of the Music and Letters Trust, and in 2014 he was elected President of the Society for Music Analysis.
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Auditions for An Afternoon with Julia and Fox Among the Hens, Monday August 27th and Tuesday, August 28th from 7-10 p.m. at The Old Finnish Hall, 1819 10th Street in Berkeley. Non AEA/No Pay. Write This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information and an appointment.
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by James Keller
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Tuesday, October 16th at 8 pm
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Following up on our two productions in John Hinkel Park in Summer 2018, Hamlet, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged! (the latter of which opens August 18th and closes September 3rd), Actors Ensemble is proud to organize two unique staged readings, one of which explores the world of a pioneer in both architecture and feminism, and the other which explores issues contemporary to us today, but in the form of a fable.
Staged Readings are performed on stage with blocking, but with the script in hand (if necessary), minimal props and costumes, and no set. For An Afternoon with Julia there will be rehearsals in the chapel on Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 1:30 to 4:00 pm on September 22nd and 23rd, and a third rehearsal TBD. For A Fox Among the Hens there will likewise be 3 rehearsals TBD.
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Below we provide some information on the plays:
An Afternoon with Julia is an adaptation of the earlier full-length play "Arches, Balance, and Light", both by Mary Spletter. Produced in assocation with Mountain View Cemetery. Performances are Saturday and Sunday, September 29th and 30th at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Mountain View Cemetery. To be followed by an optional 15-minute docent-led walk to Julia's final resting place.
This captivating historic fictionalized play visits famed Bay Area architect Julia Morgan. As her life comes to its final chapter, she enters her imagination to determine whether she should have done anything differently. Should she have had a family? Did she give up too much for too little? The play provides the likely answers and follows the hurdles she overcame to achieve her dream.
Julia Morgan -- Famous architect female over 45
Young Julia -- Julia Morgan at age 25-35
Marguerite (Duval) Blanchet -- possible daughter of Julia Morgan female 25-40
Victor Duval -- Fictitious Assistant Director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris male 30 something
Cedric Richard -- Fictitious Director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts male 30-60. Also plays Porter at boat harbor.
Fox Among the Hens, by James Keller, directed by Martha Luehrmann. One night only, Tuesday October 16th at 8 p.m. in the Grand Hall of Oddfellows Lodge #270, 2288 Fulton St, Berkeley, CA 94704. Admission is free of charge. There will be 3 rehearsals before the production, schedule TBD depending on the actors cast and the final schedule of performances.
A farmyard is ruled by an arrogant rooster named Trumpet, who bears a striking resemblance to the current primary occupant of the White House. A fox arrives and quietly works at reducing the hen population. A girl learns to say goodbye. A fable for our times.
Moustache-And-Cake: An itinerant fox
Trumpet: A rooster… Trump-like
Marina: A girl of about 9 years old
Mrs. Short & Long: A hen and a gossip
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Mrs. Chickory: Another hen
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I have accumulated a large collection of tidbits for the month. Let me not waste time getting to our first item of the day. It has to do with the legendary and unstoppable mirror routine.
In this first clip, the mirror routine is provided in dance form by Alexandre Desplat's "The Mirror."
Here is proof that the mirror routine appeals to us on the most fundamental level.
Bruce Campbell engages in the mirror routine with a faux shadow on Ash vs. Evil Dead ("Home," 2016).
Like the film series that preceded it, the Evil Dead television series features Campbell performing old-fashioned slapstick comedy.
While browsing through the Cinemagraphe website, I came across this screen capture of Harold Lloyd performing the mirror routine in Marathon (1919).
I cannot talk about the mirror routine without acknowledging the most famous rendition.
Warren Hymer, Weldon Heyburn and Asta provide food-stuck-on-the-ceiling comedy in Sea Racketeers (1937).
The clip is from Shiksa Ravelli's Warren Hymer Fan Club page on Facebook.
I wrote about a sticky collection of pies and pancakes hanging off ceilings in The Funny Parts. The earliest version of this business that I could find was featured in a 1934 Andy Clyde comedy called In the Dog House.
The Three Stooges recreated this gag on three occasions. First, it turned up in a breakfast scene at the opening of Movie Maniacs (1936). Curly is having trouble flipping a pancake that has become stuck in the pan. He applies greater force to jar the pancake loose, but he doesn't notice that he has launched the pancake into the air and it has become stuck to the ceiling.
The gooey consistency of the pancake fails to provide a secure hold.
A pie replaces a pancake when the Stooges returned to the gag in Half-Wits Holiday (1947). This time, Moe is trying to make a good impression at a high society party. He is desperate to get rid of a pie that Curly has stolen off a banquet table. He tosses away the pie, which becomes stuck to the ceiling. Footage from this scene was later recycled in Pest Man Wins (1951) and Pies and Guys (1958).
Moe repeats the gag one last time with a pancake in Wham-Bam-Slam! (1955).
I got this great image of Lloyd Hamilton from Ed Watz.
Thank you, Ed.
The following clip was posted to Facebook by Jonathan M. Smith. It is a faithful rendition of the classic "Crazy House" sketch that was excerpted from a 1951 burlesque revue film called French Follies.
The lead comedian in the scene is Bob Carney. Twenty years earlier, Carney had been the slim and handsome star of the "Checker Comedies" series for Pathé.
Roddy McDowall takes greed, arrogance and hatred to a parricidal level in Rod Serling's Night Gallery (1969). The actor is so entertainingly gleeful and flamboyant in his villainy that it would be hard not to be charmed by him.
The highlight of his performance is the deliciously vindictive way that calls out the name of his disapproving servant Osmond Portifoy. Each syllable trips off McDowall's tongue with a thick and slick coating of rancid honey.
This video came from a YouTube channel hosted by JGonspy.
I wrote an article five years ago about decapitation comedy. I regret having overlooked this cringe-worthy act of a mistaken beheading from Blackadder ("The Foretelling," 1983).
Chris Schneider noted after reading my "Reflections in a Soap Bubble" article that soap suds played a role in a couple of Hollywood musical numbers. First, dancers glide through a mountain of soap suds in the "Beauty" number of Ziegfeld Follies (1946). The lovely singer is Kathryn Grayson.
Second, sudsy pink shampoo is on prominent display in the "Think Pink" number of Stanley Donen's Funny Face (1957).
I am always grateful to people who contribute to this site. Thank you, Chris.
This clip from New Faces of 1937 (1937) features Harry Einstein and Joe Penner. Penner was a man-child comedian who, both chronologically and stylistically, fell somewhere between Harry Langdon and Lou Costello.
Charles Coburn and Jean Arthur room together during a housing shortage in The More the Merrier (1943).
Meet Eddie Foy Sr. and his family of little vaudeville stars.
Childish dictators Charlie Chaplin and Jack Oakie are about to engage in a food fight in The Great Dictator (1940).
I examine this scene in my comic man-child study I Won't Grow Up!.
On a number of occasions, I have discussed the stock routine of a comedian lifting and carrying an unconscious women. Take for instance Buster Keaton struggling to lift an unconscious Charlotte Greenwood in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931).
In his later years, Keaton performed this routine on stage with his wife, Eleanor.
Boeing, Boeing (1965) furnished yet another example of the carrying an unconscious woman routine. The actors are Tony Curtis, Christiane Schmidtmer and Thelma Ritter.
Later, Jerry Lewis becomes involved.
The scene figures into the movie poster except, curiously, the poster shows Schmidtmer wide awake and laughing as Curtis hauls her around.
This photo was posted on Facebook by Cheryl Middleton Peterson.
As silent film comedy fans know, the man in the top hat is comedy star Snub Pollard. The small boy to the far right is Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, who was Pollard's sidekick at the time.
In a number of films, Pollard and Morrison functioned as a finely coordinated comedy team.
You can read more about Morrison at the following links:
http://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com/2016/08/ernie-sunshine-sammy-morrison.html
http://nuttynutnewsnetwork.co.uk/sunshinesammy.html
A grown-up Morrison is about to be frightened by Bela Lugosi in Ghosts on the Loose (1943).
I wrote about the meat freezer routine in an earlier article. I have recently come across three other examples of frosty comedians. First, Harold Lloyd becomes trapped in refrigerated boxcar in Professor Beware (1938).
Then, in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Inspector Clouseau's manservant Cato Fong (Burt Kwouk) arranges one of his surprise ninja attacks by hiding in an icy refrigerator.
Steven Martin and John Candy ride in the back of a refrigerated truck in Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987).
A few ice crystals on the face or clothing is always effective.
Julian Barratt in The Mighty Boosh ("Tundra," 2004)
Jimmie Adams has retrieved Ann Christy's new dress from a brawny blacksmith in No Sparking (1927).
Harold Lloyd's clock stunt from Safety Last! (1923) is recreated with Sylvester Stallone to publicize John Landis' 1991 gangster comedy Oscar.
Here we have the original leads of "The Odd Couple" - Art Carney and Walter Matthau.
Shemp Howard is strangely unaware of the gorilla looking over his shoulder.
Marion Davies encounters The Keystone Cops in a 1928 publicity photo.
Eileen Sedgwick was a dauntless heroine in the 1921 serial The Diamond Queen.
Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker were great at highlighting the absurdities of popular entertainment.
The Egg Trick
The Big Phone
As I pointed out in a recent article, eggs are always good for a laugh.
Let us end today with a photo of a bathing beauty.
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Iran Starts Pumping Gas to Armenia
YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Iran has started supplying natural gas to Armenia through a recently built pipeline, according to top energy officials in Tehran and Yerevan.
Energy Minister Armen Movsisian told the Arminfo news agency that the long-awaited supplies began on Thursday in accordance with an Armenian-Iranian agreement signed in Yerevan the previous day. He said their volume will gradually rise and total 1.1 billion cubic meters this year.
The information was confirmed by Seyyed Reza Kasaiizadeh, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC), according to Iranian media. Kasaiizadeh arrived in Yerevan on Monday to work out the remaining practical modalities of the deliveries with his Armenian colleagues.
In Movsisian’s words, the resulting agreement with the NIGEC was signed by the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant in and Armenia’s largest hydro-electric plant located in the southeastern Syunik region. The two state-owned facilities will presumably pay for Iranian gas with electricity exports to the Islamic Republic.
Armenia and Iran had formally agreed on the gas supplies in 2004. The second and final Armenian section of the gas pipeline connecting them was inaugurated last December.
The pipeline’s annual capacity of about 2.3 billion cubic meters essentially matches the current level of Russian gas supplies that already meet Armenia’s domestic energy needs. Much of the Iranian gas is therefore expected to be used for power generation.
Kasaiizadeh was reported to say ahead of his Yerevan talks that the daily volume of Armenian gas imports from Iran will reach 3 million cubic meters by the end of 2010 and could rise to 4 million cubic meters in 2011.
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I have no skill in predicting social and political outcomes. But I have to think that long term, it has got to be bad for African-Americans when white liberals complain that it's racist every time they don't get their way. Who do progressives think is going to be blamed for misuse and overuse of the tactic?
It's infuriating to watch injustice play out.
As we well know, whites are not the only ones to overplay the race card.(HT: Instapundit)
NEW ORLEANS — An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a white supremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.
Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists' photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.
He originally was charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State — where he had attended one semester — but pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count( HT: Instapundit)
Too many people have cried “wolf” too many times for too many years.
As far as being called “racist” for opposing ∅bama: I think back to ∅bama’s being a buddy of Billy I want a dictatorship of the proletariat Ayers. Billy Ayers and his wife are also ones to play the race card, as in the “ you are racist but I am not” card. (Perhaps one could call this the Chevy Chase approach to race relations.) Which is the card that Matthews, Krugman and the gang are playing these days. It is more of the unexamined superiority complex that has described liberals since Adlai and before.
I agree that white liberals such as Chris Matthews and Paul Krugman playing the race card is not going to help matters. OTOH, it is just one of many charges used to demonize those who are protesting :racist, nazi, extremist, un-American, evil-mongers, etc. It is just going to further energize those opposed to ∅bama, as the “little old ladies in tennis shoes” and their ilk are not accustomed to being demonized.
IMHO, to a big degree it won’t make much difference that white liberals are also playing the race card, because a substantial proportion of Americans- perhaps the majority -have already become desensitized to the race card due its being overplayed too often for too long. When I hear the “racist” charge these days, I roll my eyes. White liberals playing the race card or the "you are a racist but I am not" card will discredit ∅bama and statist liberals more than it will blacks. At the same time, one result of the ∅bama era will be the greatly reduced effectiveness of the race card: one of yours got elected President so stop playing the victim and make something of yourself.
BTW, does Chris Matthews mean that if you don’t get a tingle up your leg about ∅bama, you are a racist?
Donna B. said...
Gringo... I'm about half way with you there. BUT, as one of the white folks who were willing to give the black folks a little leeway because of the racism of the past, I am not thoroughly disgusted.
I will continue to act as my Momma taught me -- that each individual is equally deserving of my respect in as much as he/she acts so and it matters not what race or social class they may be from.
Individualism is on a downswing currently, but I still think it's the best way to interact with people.
Donna, perhaps the difference is that many have tried to play the race card on ME. Decades ago when I was a bystander to a conversation between a black and some whites, where I could detect no racism in the whites declining to lend something, the rejoinder came out, "are you prejudiced," and the black immediately put a gun to MY temple. I was just a bystander. As they say, a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Later that year I babysat the black children in an interracial couple, so I did not draw the conclusion from that incident that all blacks were thugs.
When I was a teacher and substitute teacher in minority schools, most did not try to play the race card, but it did come up."You're prejudiced (because you're trying to make me work and improve myself)." Roll my eyes time. It never came up when I was a regular teacher, because the students knew it wouldn't fly. In one sense it came up once: I was writing down a misbehavior, and a student said, "I hate whites." Both his parents were in prison.
I worked with a teacher who had been in the Armed Forces. He was of the opinion that racism was a factor in his going to interview for jobs at a certain institution only to find out at the interviews that the job had already been filled. I believed him. The black principal at this school was in his opinion, my opinion, and in the opinion of a majority of the teachers at the school, not a competent administrator- in contrast to the previous principal who was also black. Because this teacher showed himself to be race-neutral, I believed his charge of racism.
Recall ∅bama's playing the race card several times last year on the campaign circuit. Once he said that Dubya and McCain were GOING TO SAY something that would indicate they were racist. Which they never said nor did they go on to say it.
So when I come across an example of the race card being played, my default position is to say,"For argument's sake, let's assume that I'm from Missourah, and SHOW ME." Perhaps this is a more accurate: until you PROVE to me otherwise, I will assume the race card was a scam.
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Modesty II
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A Need To Believe
Shelby Steele
Handling Bats
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The Dog Ate His Homework, Apparently.
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Contract II - Step I
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Political Archetype
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Backroading
Worcester Lunch Car Diners
Against the Commonly-Held Belief
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The Hero Obscured
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Knowing Grandparents
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Stop Grinding
The Dignity of Risk
Why We Vote
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It''s a time-honored urban ritual: Slip the cable guy fifty bucks and you''ll get all the movie channels for free. But when Steven Kovacs moves into a new apartment, his cable guy is not like the others. He doesn''t want your fifty bucks; all he wants is a friend and he won''t take no for an answer. Steven is about to learn that there''s no such thing as free cable.
Flirting With Disaster (1996)
Mel Coplin is on a mission. Though he loves his beautiful wife, Nancy, and their new baby son, he feels his life is incomplete. What''s missing is knowing the two people who brought him into this world--his biological parents. Enter Tina Kalb, a psychologist from the agency where Mel was adopted. Tina is a former dancer with the legs to prove it. Her intent: to reunite Mel with his parents while videotaping the experience for her own research. The problem is, Tina seems interested in more than just the research. Meanwhile, Mel''s adoptive parents are worried. Why isn''t their son satisfied with the mother and father who raised him? What, exactly is he looking for, and will he make it home in time for Dad''s 60th birthday? To answer these questions, Mel, Nancy, Tina and the baby set out on a cross-country trek that brings them more surprises than they bargained for.
Good Doctor: The Paul Fleiss Story, The (1996) as Leo
Television movie based on the story of Paul Fleiss, a pediatrician sentenced in September 1995 to probation for working with his daughter Heidi to launder profits from her call-girl ring.
Babysitter, The (1995) as Bill
An ordinary night in suburbia filtered through the eyes of the characters' often lustful fantasies of a babysitter.
Deep Down (1995)
Andy is a young drifter, lured to the big city by the dream of fame and fortune. Answering an ad for a roommate, he's blown away by the gorgeous bombshell he finds living next door. She's a walking sex goddess and he's totally hooked. But Andy's fantasy lover has a husband, a violent psychopath who'
November Conspiracy, The (1995) as Senator Ashton
An idealistic young reporter finds her life turned around when her lover is brutally killed and exposed as an assassin. Unable to believe the accusations, she searches for the truth and stumbles upon a web of conspiracy. It becomes her mission to save the life of a charismatic senator targeted for a
Following Her Heart (1994)
A newly liberated widow discovers herself when she dares to pursue her dream of becoming a singer.
Seasons of the Heart (1994)
The secure, structured life of a publishing executive is turned upside-down when she is forced to raise a grandson abandoned by her daughter.
Direct Hit (1994)
A CIA assassin wants out after one final job, but when he learns his target is innocent he renegs on the deal and finds himself the hunted one.
Army Of One (1994)
Santee and his friend Eddie are pulled over by a traffic cop while hauling a load of stolen cars through the California desert. The ensuing confrontation leaves Eddie dead and Santee holding a smoking gun with the also-slayed cop in front of him. With his proclamations that he is innocent of murderi
Taking the Heat (1993)
A female detective protects a murder witness from the mob.
Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
In this third installment we find James working as an airline pilot and Mollie without a job. The family dogs are the ones doing the talking here.
Me, Myself and I (1992)
A romance begins between a Vietnam veteran/screenwriter and his odd-ball neighbor who has many personalites.
Clearing, The (1991) as Grigory
Set in 11th century Russia, a small village engages in a power struggle between church and paganism after a series of murders.
For The Boys (1991)
The story of two USO entertainers whose performing careers span from World War II through Vietnam.
Endless Game, The (1990)
A story about the brutal murder of a helpless woman in a nursing home, which a unleashes a trail of events leading to international intrigue, treachery and corruption. In his attempt to uncover the truth, a British intelligence agent defects to the Russians before discovering the identity of a "mole
Look Who's Talking (1989)
A fatherless baby tries to influence his mother''''s love life.
All's Fair (1989)
When a group of stressed-out executives go to the country for a weekend of paint-gun war games, it's anything but relaxing. This is particularly true for Ann, who is tired of being passed over for promotions by men who perform better in the company's war game retreats. Fed up, she joins forces wit
Many Happy Returns (1986)
An average citizen who gets audited by an IRS office tries to meet its quota. The comedy relates the bizarre manner in which the IRS chooses to operate. Before the IRS is finished with their audit, Bud Robinson has had his bank accounts frozen, and his car, shop and house confiscated. To complicate
Stick (1985) as Barry Stam
An ex-con seeks to avenge the death of a friend and goes up against some ruthless drug dealers.
Not My Kid (1985)
Surprisingly mature (and critically well-received) drama about a family's coming to grips with itself on discovering that teenaged daughter Viveka Davis is a "druggie" with Segal as her shattered surgeon father and Channing her heartsick mother.
Zany Adventures Of Robin Hood (1984)
Goofy goings-on in the Sherwood Forest and environs in this spoof of the Robin Hood legend with George Segal as a slightly out of kilter (and rather long of tooth) taketh from the rich and giveth to the poor -- after expenses -- medieval outlaw. To many, this film evoked fond memories of Mel Brooks'
Cold Room (1984) as Hugh Martin
In this British-made (for cable) psychological thriller, Amanda Pays, in her first television movie, is a college girl who reluctantly accompanies her writer father, George Segal, on vacation to East Berlin and there discovers that her spirit has become inhabited by that of another girl living throu
Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer (1983)
This dramatization of a New York City detective's dogged investigation into the murder in 1972 of a Manhattan school teacher -- fictionalized from the victim's point of view in the book and subsequent movie, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" -- marked George Segal's TV-movie debut.
Killing 'em Softly (1981) as Jimmy Skinner
After struggling musician Jimmy Skinner accidentally kills the manager of a rock group, another man is accused of murdering the man. Then to compound Jimmy's problems, he falls in love with that man's girlfriend.
Carbon Copy (1981) as Walter Whitney
An executive's life takes an unexpected turn when his illegitimate son shows up.
Lost And Found (1979) as Adam Watson
A widowed U.S. professor and a British divorcee spoil their French affair by marrying.
Last Married Couple In America, The (1979)
Mari and Jeff Thompson are happily married, until the experience of seeing all of their friends divorcing makes them obsessive about keeping their marriage together. This new insecurity about the stability of their union is made worse when they meet Barbara and Jeff finds himself attracted to her. A
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) as Robby Ross
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
Fun With Dick And Jane (1977) as Dick Harper
When a wealthy couple loses their main source of income, both turn to a life of crime--as they organize various heists on their rich friends'' accounts.
Rollercoaster (1977) as Harry Calder
A terrorist spreads a climate of fear by attacking amusement parks across the U.S.
Challenge, The (1976)
Documentary on 20th Century modern artists.
Black Bird, The (1975)
When famous private detective Sam Space dies, his son Sam Spade, Jr. takes over his agency and before long is embroiled in another case involving the Maltese Falcon.
Russian Roulette (1975) as Corporal Timothy Shaver
A mountie finds himself engulfed in a KGB conspiracy to kill the renegade Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin during his visit to Canada in 1970.
California Split (1974) as Bill Denny
A down on his luck gambler and a free spirit take an unscheduled gambling trip to Tijuana.
The Terminal Man (1974)
To end his violent seizures, a computer whiz has a microcomputer implanted in his brain.
Touch Of Class, A (1973) as Steve Blackburn
A 1970s style romantic comedy. Steve is a philandering American businessman living in London, heavily inclined towards cheating his lovely wife Gloria. He meets divorced British fashion designer Vicki, and soon the two go on a secret holiday together in Spain. They rent a flat for their trysts -- and constant arguments -- in a seedy London building filled with prostitutes. A friend, Walter, tries to give Steve some good advice, but Steve won't listen until it's too late.
Blume in Love (1973)
A divorced lawyer can''''t accept the fact that his wife''''s left him.
The Hot Rock (1972) as [Andrew] Kelp
Dr. Amusa approaches Dortmunder about a valuable gem in a museum that is of great signifigance to his people in Africa, stolen during colonial times. Dortmunder assembles a crack team of cat burglars and hatches an elaborate plan for stealing the gem. Despite their care and experience, circumstances and plain bad luck keep the gem just out of their reach.
Born to Win (1971) as [Jerome] J
A Times Square junkie and hairdresser-to-be meets his dependable girlfriend while breaking into her car.
The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) as Felix
When a bookworm gets a prostitute evicted, she moves into his apartment.
Where's Poppa? (1970) as Gordon Hocheiser
New York lawyer deals with an unhinged mother, a peculiar love life and other big city troubles.
Loving (1970) as Brooks Wilson
A conflicted artist tries to find a sense of purpose in life.
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1969) as Franco
The Southern Star (1969) as Dan Rockland
An entertaining adventure based on a Jules Verne story about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa, circa 1900
The Bridge at Remagen (1969) as Lieut. Phil Hartman
During WWII, German troops fight a desperate battle to hold their position.
Unstrap Me (1968) as Himself
No Way To Treat a Lady (1968) as Morris Brummel
A serial killer uses a variety of disguises to get to his victims.
Bye Bye Braverman (1968) as Morroe Rieff
Four failed writers try to attend a friend's funeral.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) as Peter Gusenberg
Il film racconta, come in una cronaca retrospettiva, la cruenta rivalità fra i due più grossi "sindacati" del crimine esistenti negli USA ai tempi del proibizionismo. Uno capeggiato da Al Capone, l'altro da Bugs Moran. In quegli anni ci fu una lunga serie di attentati e «liquidazioni» da entrambe le parti. Nel tentativo di indebolire Al Capone, Moran fa eliminare un suo potente amico della mafia, servendosi di un traditore. Questa fu la goccia che fece traboccare il vaso. Al Capone si vendicò facendo trucidare sette uomini che avevano partecipato all'omicidio, il 14 febbraio 1929 : la notte di San Valentino.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) as Nick
An academic couple reveal their deepest secret to a pair of newcomers during an all-night booze fest.
Lost Command (1966) as Lieutenant Mahidi
After a stinging defeat in Vietnam, an officer in the French Army gets one last chance in Algiers.
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) as Quiller
An international spy infiltrates a Neo-Nazi gang.
King Rat (1965) as Corporal King
A U.S. officer in a World War II Japanese POW camp tries to raise money to buy his fellow prisoners'''' freedom.
Ship of Fools (1965) as David
Passengers on a steam ship in the '30s struggle with their tangled relations and the rise of Nazism.
The NEW Interns (1964) as Dr. Tony Parelli
A trio of young doctors face romantic problems while fighting to survive in a big city hospital.
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) as Matt Weaver
Frontier town enlists half-black gunman to rid them of uncontrollable Confederate veteran.
Act One (1963) as Lester Sweyd
A poor Brooklyn boy joins forces with an experienced playwright to conquer Broadway.
The Young Doctors (1961) as Dr. Howard
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
Producer (feature film)
Misc. Crew (feature film)
Suzanne Stone is a small town girl with a dream--to become a famous TV personality--a dream that becomes a nightmare when ambition turns into obsession. Disillusioned with her marriage to Larry, she immerses herself in the pursuit of her career and manages to talk her way into a job at the local TV station. She decides to produce a documentary about kids and enlists the help of three teenagers who seem to have little hope for the future: Jimmy, Russell, and Lydia. Together, they form a powerful and dangerous bond which threatens to blow the lid off their seemingly idyllic suburban life forever.
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
A stylish and erotic drama about two isolated people drawn together by a chance meeting. This expanded edition includes footage not seen in the original U.S. theatrical release.
George Segal: American Still Life (2001) as Interviewee
Documentary that chronicles the life and work of George Segal, the sculptor known for his life-size plaster casts of ordinary people caught in the act of daily life. The internationally known artist, formerly a New Jersey chicken farmer, became a sensation during the Pop Art movement of the '60s, an
26th Annual People's Choice Awards, The (2000)
Live coverage of the 26th annual People's Choice Awards presentation from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
1999 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, The (1999)
Coverage of the 1999 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards presentation from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
Secret World of Sitcoms, The (1999)
Documentary follows the creation of broadcast networks' comedy programs from the writing and producing to the actual taping. Also examines how programs become successful.
Intimate Portrait: Jacqueline Bisset (1998)
Portrait of actor Jacqueline Bisset.
Prime-Time Players: Calista Flockhart/Gillian Anderson/David Spade (1998)
Profile of television actors Calista Flockhart, Gillian Anderson and David Spade.
Renaissance (1993)
Five programs examining the Renaissance, when 15th and 16th century European civilization underwent an intellectual upheaval that affected virtually every aspect of society and laid the foundation for the emergence of the modern Western world.
Natalie Wood (1987)
A "Crazy About the Movies" presentation that uses exclusive family photographs and film footage to capture the personal and artistic growth of actress Natalie Wood, who blossomed from a child star of the 1940s and 50s to a sophisticated leading lady of the 60s and 770s. The program also features int
Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, The (1984)
The program honors five of the world's most distinguished artists for lifetime achievement in their respective fields. The artists honored in this year's ceremony are singer Lena Horne, actor and comedian Danny Kaye, playwright Arthur Miller, composer Gian-Carlo Menotti, and violinist Isaac Stern.
Circus of the Stars (1984)
A special in which celebrities perform circus acts. This is the ninth "Circus of the Stars" special.
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius (1982)
A documentary celebrating painter Pablo Picasso's incredible range, enormous imagination and intelligence, and inestimable influence on the art of the twentieth century. Prepared for the centenary observance of Picasso's birth, the film examines Picasso's work as a whole and puts it into the context
Deadly Game (1982)
The story of Howard Trapp, an American salesman, who seeks shelter from a snowstorm at a remote Swiss mountain cabin and becomes involved in a deadly game of life and death with three eccentric, retired criminal lawyers who entertain themselves by conducting trials -- in Trapp's case, accusing him o
Bert Convy Special--There's a Meeting Here Tonight (1981)
A variety special hosted by entertainer Bert Convy.
48th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, The (1976) as Master Of Ceremonies
Live coverage of the forty-eighth annual Academy Awards presentation.
George Segal Show, The (1974)
A special featuring the comic and dramatic talents of versatile actor George Segal.
Couple of Dons, A (1973)
A series of comedy skits tailored to the talents of Don Adams and Don Rickles.
Of Mice and Men (1968)
The story, set in California's Salina Valley, follows the unusual relationship between two migrant workers: George, wry and earthy, and Lennie, a powerful giant with the mind of a child. The drama plunges the good-natured pair into a conflict with a ranch owner's vicious, belligerent son and his be
Desperate Hours, The (1967) as Glen Griffin
The story of a middle-class family (the Hilliards) held hostage by three escaped convicts (Glen Griffin, Hank Griffin, and Sam Robish). Based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.
Fielder's Choice (2004)
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Overview for Bernard H. Hyman
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I Take This Woman - (Original Trailer)
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A tenement doctor (Spencer Tracy) finds his marriage to a European refugee (Hedy Lamarr) threatens his practice. less
Conquest - (Original Trailer)
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I Live My Life - (Original Trailer)
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Jane gives up friends, home...and most of her clothes in the sexy jungle adventure Tarzan and His Mate, 1934, with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. less
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In the game you participate in a Battle Royale with more than 100 real players where only one will come out alive. If you want to make it, you’ll have to move around the island collecting the best equipment and weapons you can find distributed around the map. And you better be quick, because the play area reduces in size every few minutes.
Pretty much all of the elements from the PC version of PUBG are present. The controls have been well adapted to touch screen devices, as have the other objects and interactive elements in the game. You can enter buildings, drive vehicles, equip scopes, use first aid kits, vault over walls, etc.
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THE 0.12.0 PUBG MOBILE LATEST UPGRADE ARRIVES TODAY
The latest PUBG Mobile 0.12 upgrade is about to come out fresh out of the oven. After their incredibly successful collaboration with Capcom Resident Evil 2, which was released this past month February, the survival modes have been strengthened and other related game modes have been added as a way to help you face the unending mobs of zombies. And let’s not forget about the other bunch of smaller changes that have been included. The official launching date is set for April 17th, so it’ll be automatically unlocked at some point during the day. The upgrade is already available but you can’t see the latest news as of yet.
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What’s in Spring 2017
High, low and in between—this current issue of Archaeology Ireland roams across mountains, bogs and down into souterrians to bring you the latest in Ireland’s archaeological investigations and discoveries. Examining the cultural biography of a mountain—The Great Cairn on Slieve Donard, Co Down, is an irregular pile of stones that appears to have been a Neolithic passage tomb, later converted into a cell by the hermit St Donard and is the highest passage tomb known in Britain and Ireland. The Prosperous Crosier, one of the most important artifacts surviving from medieval Ireland, is the oldest securely dated crosier from Ireland and Britain but also one of the oldest in Europe with a tenth century date. This article examines the evidence for its attribution to a Dublin workshop and religious site. The ordering of religious space is revealed in the results of geophysical surveys at Lullymore Island, Co Kildare. The degree of conscious spatial organization in this remote bog-island church settlement suggests a regular pattern for all religious settlements and not just the more prestigious religious foundations. In the ongoing Know Your Monuments series, early churches and agriculture and food are examined with a focus on the involvement of ecclesiastical settlements on agriculture and food production in the early medieval period. In a flash—photographic survey of a souterrain at Killala Co Mayo, reveals a small stylized cross carved on the underside of one of the slabs supporting the roof of the passage—signs of an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure? And the later re-use of souterrains during the War of Independence is examined.
Ireland’s highest passage tomb and the summit of Slieve Donard
The Prosperous crosier and its inscription
Know your monuments: Early churches—agriculture and food
Going underground Reinventing the souterrain
Looking for the ‘cock and hen’
More than just mud at the bottom of the pond
Lilcach: the origins and organisation of an early medieval monastery
Badger dig provides a new date from a megalithic tomb in the Cavan Burren
Sample article—Peter Woodman Obituary
News, Obituary, Net news, Quote…unquote, Events, Book news, Hindsight
Heritage Guide (Free to subscribers)
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Diego Rougier
Argentina/Chile, Western/Drama/Comedy, 2011
112 min, RED/Super 16mm, Color
A Spanish film director obsessed with making a Western decides to go to Northern Chile in search of a story for his screenplay. Once there, he gets confused for another man, and a real adventure begins. Now he will have a good script... if he leaves alive. This is the story of a man with no history, the journey of an author becoming his own character and his impossible return. Sal has enjoyed successful festival screenings including at Stockholm Film Festival and the Viña del Mar International Film Festival, and is set for a theatrical run later this year.
Co-presented by Fantastic Fest
Texas Premiere
www.sal-lapelicula.com
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Diego Rougier has built a successful career as a director of music videos, soap operas, TV series, and short films. Most recently he wrote and directed the short films Demasiado joven, Debut y despedida, Escorbo and Otro Domingo, as well as the series La Colonia for three seasons. Sal, which he wrote and directed, is his first feature film.
Producer: Javiera Contador
Production Companies: Picardía Films
Screenwriter: Diego Rougier
Cinematographer: David Bravo
Editor: Danielle Fillios
Sound Design: Felipe Zabala
Music: Gonzalo Valenzuela
Cast: Fele Martinez, Javiera Contador, Sergio Hernandez, Patricio Contreras, Gonzalo Valenzuela, Luis Dubo
Print Source: Diego Rougier, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Tags: Argentina Chile Comedy Drama Western Spanish
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Page 4, 19 April 1986 — PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
19 APRIL 1986, Page 4
PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
Colonel Gaddafi was rumoured to have fled Libya, a day after American bombers operating from British bases had attacked Tripoli and Benghazi in reprisal for the recent terrorist bombing of a nightclub in West Berlin. This was itself a Libyan reprisal for the last American attacks launched from aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Sine, which were meant to teach Col- onel Gaddafi that terrorism does not pay. Mr Gorbachev, Mr Terry Waite and other distinguished statesmen had earlier con- demned the latest American raid. The French, whose proxies are still fighting a desultory war against the Libyans in Chad, refused to allow the American bombers to use their airspace. By pure coincidence, the French Embassy in Beirut was among the civilian buildings damaged in the raid, which was aimed at the 'terrorist infra- structure'. About 100 casualties were re- ported. Earlier still, a British engineer in Tripoli had been sentenced to life impris- onment for `spying'; the city's Roman Catholic archbishop was briefly kidnap- ped, but reappeared. The Pope visited a synagogue in Rome. Two more foreign teachers were kidnapped in Beirut, joining 36 other foreign hostages there. Miss Be- nazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan, where she hopes to emulate the success of Mrs Cory Aquino in the Philippines. She was greeted with tremendous enthusiasm. Mrs Winnie Mandela, though still banned, made a speech in which she appeared to predict that the blacks could overthrow apartheid within a year if they could only manage to burn enough people to death with petrol-soaked tyres. Thirty-two char- red bodies were found in a township grave. Mr Bob Cryer, a Labour MEP, managed to change the official name of a variety of cabbage from `Niggerhead' to 'Red Dan- ish'. Jean Genet, Lady Betjeman and Simone de Beauvoir died. Dr Kurt Wald- heim was attacked for suppressing his war record by Dr Kreisky. Dr Waldheim's posters no longer call him 'The man the world trusted'. Clint Eastwood was elected Mayor of Carmel, California.
MRS Jennifer Guinness, the wife of a Dublin merchant banker with substantial liquid assets, was kidnapped from her home in Howth by armed men who deman- ded a ransom of 2,000,000 punts. The Irish police freed her on Wednesday morning. Loyalist attacks on the police continued in Ulster; Mrs Thatcher received Lords Moyola and Brookeborough, who urged on her the iniquity of the Hillsborough agreement; Keith White, a Protestant youth struck by a plastic bullet during rioting in Portadown two weeks ago, died in a Belfast hospital. His death was com- memorated by a 20-minute general strike. Four burglars raided a Dublin undertaker's in search of £800; when the alarm went off, one was so shocked he shot himself in the head. At the Fulham by-election Scream- ing Lord Sutch polled 134 votes, the racist candidate 226. Labour won with a majority of 3,503 over the Conservatives, and the Alliance candidate was soundly beaten into third place. An unholy alliance of Con- servatives, Ulster Unionists and socialists defeated the Shops Bill which would have legalised Sunday trading, despite a three- line Conservative whip. It will remain legal to buy the Koran on Sundays in Bayswater. A Muslim primary school in Brent applied for voluntary-aided status. The BMA cal- led for all drinkers to halve their consump- tion, the RSPCA announced a campaign against the import of frog's legs, and Mr William Thompson, one of the three Brent social workers sacked after the murder of Jasmine Beckford last year, was reinstated. He told a tribunal that he had only been following normal policy. Mr Justice Roche, 51, fell 20 feet from a tree and broke his leg while trying to rescue a cat in Haverford- west. The cat climbed down safely. A schoolboy fell 700 feet down the side of Mount Snowdon, but survived with bruises after landing in soft snow. ACB
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What the papers say: Platini backtracks on Wenger after daddy tells him off
September 26, 2008 / Arsenal Addict
The Sun - Our kids keep me awake at night
CESC FABREGAS admits Arsenal’s young guns are giving him sleepless nights. The Spanish midfielder reckons it will not be long before they are after his first-team spot.
The Daily Mail - I was too hard on Arsenal manager Arsene, UEFA supremo Platini backtracks over Wenger comments
UEFA president Michel Platini has taken a step toward making peace with Arsene Wenger, saying he was too critical of the Arsenal manager's preference for video replays when he spoke earlier this week.
The Daily Express - PLATINI BACKTRACKS OVER WENGER COMMENTS
Michel Platini has admitted he has been "too harsh" on Arsene Wenger - and revealed his father had scolded him for going over the top in his criticism of the Arsenal manager.
The Times - Wenger ignores the fact Arsenal are the poor man's Manchester City
The 12th anniversary of Arsene Wenger’s arrival at Arsenal on Sunday should be an occasion for genuine celebration throughout the land – even at Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge – as his principles of attacking football and youth development have enriched the English game for over a decade.
The Independent - Platini admits he was 'harsh' on Wenger
The Telegraph - Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas taking nothing for granted after young side's wonder show
Cesc Fabregas admits that he cannot afford to take his place in Arsenal’s midfield for granted after witnessing the six-goal wonder show by the team’s youngest side yet.
The Guardian - Wenger praises his defence
Arsène Wenger has demanded respect for Arsenal's defensive record this season - they have gone nine matches in all competitions without conceding a goal in open play.
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Land Rover reckons that this Discovery Sport is the most versatile premium compact SUV currently on sale. Jonathan Crouch takes a look at the revised version.
Land Rover's Discovery Sport was a big success in its original form, with almost 100,000 examples sold in the UK alone. But competitors in the SUV 'D'-segment for 7-seat family Crossovers have caught up. Hence the need for this revised model. It's still the class of the field if you ever need to go off road. But now it pleases more in many other ways too.
You hesitate to think of where Land Rover might be now without the Discovery Sport. It's one of the key models that's kept JLR going over the last five years and in the current climate, this car needs to pull its weight in the showroom more than ever. Which is a big ask, given that since the original launch in 2014, direct rivals like Volkswagen's Tiguan Allspace, Peugeot's 5008, SEAT's Tarraco and a new more up-market version of Hyundai's Santa Fe have all arrived to deliver an alternative to what the Discovery Sport can offer. So Land Rover has set out to take the lead once more in this class, primarily with a fresh range of electrified engines. But also with a smarter cabin, extra technology and stronger standards of safety.
This car might look the same but under the skin, it's actually a lot different thanks to the adoption of what Land Rover calls 'Premium Transverse Architecture'. This not only makes the body stronger and safer but has also allowed the brand to fit a sophisticated range of 'MHEV' mild hybrid engines, plus there's now a Plug-in hybrid option too. Basically, the same powerplant options already offered in the Range Rover Evoque. These 48-volt units use energy recouped during braking to reduce load on the powerplant under acceleration, while letting the engine cut out from deceleration below 11mph and give near-instantaneous restarts as needed. Mind you, the engine that most customers choose, the base D150 diesel, doesn't feature anything electrified, which is a pity. This base model can only be had either in front-driven manual five-seat form. Or in AWD automatic seven-seat guise. Further up the range, all the engines feature the MHEV tech and have to have AWD and an automatic gearbox. There are D180 and D240 diesel options, the figures designating the hp output. And there are two petrol options, the P200 and the P250. You can also talk to your dealer about a Plug-in PHEV variant, which pairs an electric motor with a three cylinder petrol engine. Whatever engine suits, you'll find this car's class-leading towing and off road ability as good as ever. It can tow up to 2.5-tonnes. And 'off piste' prowess is enhanced thanks to an improved 'Terrain Response 2' system that automatically detects the surface you're driving over and adjusts torque delivery to best suit the conditions.
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Emery sets sights on strengthening his Gunners with Real Madrid trio
Djokovic breezes into quarterfinal Shanghai Masters
by Ted Wilson | October 16, 2018 | 21:29
Djokovic, 31, is on a 17-match winning streak, a run that includes titles at the US Open and Cincinnati Masters.
The defending champion Federer will next meet Croatia's Borna Coric in a rematch of their BNP Paribas Open semi-final, which Federer won in three sets.
Edmund, 23, ranked 14th in the world, took a tight first set, serving an ace to win the tie-break.
The 13th-seeded Coric closed the match out with a clean forehand passing shot to claim his spot in Sunday's final.
Patriots show championship mettle in wild win over Chiefs
"It was one of the best matches I've ever played". With this stunning win, Djokovic has rattled off 38 victories in his last 42 matches and secures himself the world number two position on next Monday as he edges closer than ever to the top spot, now held by Rafael Nadal.
"Because in November I do not want to play tennis anymore", the world number five said, speaking at the Shanghai Masters after beating Georgia's hard-hitting Nikoloz Basilashvili.
Celebrating his 1 000th match in style, the 14-time Grand Slam victor was clinical as he lined up a potential title showdown on Sunday with reigning champion Roger Federer.
The Swiss player, who managed an easy victory over Agut in the first set, lost his way in the second set after the Spaniard won four straight games to take a 4-1 advantage in the penultimate set. Zverev looked clueless out on the court, and soon faltered away as Djokovic broke serve for the fourth time in the match. The top seed will play Japan's eighth seed Kei Nishikori, while Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev are also through, albeit with far less hassle.
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Zverev is the fifth player to qualify for the season-ending tournament in London, joining Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro in the eight-player field. "It's going to be definitely a close match".
"Obviously, I'm going to try to do everything I can to get to number one", said Djokovic.
"Against that kind of player, you need something to hold on to", he said. I played quite great there.
"It's always easier to get there - but then staying there is always the tougher part".
Enbridge issues response to PG pipeline rupture
27 injured as hurricane-force winds batter Portugal
State broadcaster RTP said Leslie's wind speeds reached 170kmh in the coastal town of Figueira da Foz, 200km north of Lisbon. These downpours were also fed by a conveyor belt of rain that linked up with Hurricane Leslie racing towards Portugal.
Samsung launches world’s first four-camera smartphone
The Samsung Galaxy A9 is set to go on sale in November this year starting at £549 - retailing over £200 less than the Galaxy S9 . That's right: there are four separate cameras on the back of the camera for capturing different types of photos.
US security adviser Bolton vows tougher approach to China
If China is unwilling to move forward with making those structural changes, there could be a longer impasse, Roache said. Otherwise, China's export performance as of September is steady, and a bit disappointing in the case of non-Japan Asia.
How to watch the Huawei Mate 20 Pro Live Stream
So the hybrid SIM card tray can accommodate either a nanoSIM card or a Nano Memory Card apart from the primary NanoSIM. However, as is typically the case with Porsche Design smartphones, some major changes have been made over on the rear.
Usain Bolt scored two goals in his first professional soccer start
Former World and Olympic champion, Usain Bolt is scoring his way into the hearts of people all over the world again, this time as a professional football.
Trade war would slow but not stop global growth
However, the Fund is revising its global growth forecast, which is now downgrading from 3.9% to 3.7% for the period 2018-2019. China and the USA trade war might also unleash an inflation surge worldwide.
Birth dates, education history, religious preferences and other details stolen
Users' names and contact information like telephone numbers were stolen from an additional 15 million profiles, Facebook said . Facebook says it is trying to determine whether the attackers took actions beyond stealing data, such as posting from accounts.
Branson says Virgin Galactic to launch space flight 'within weeks'
The company was founded in 2004, adding ambitions for commercial space travel alongside Virgin's existing aviation business. Virgin Galactic will get people into space using slightly different means than the likes of NASA and SpaceX .
More F-35 Problems: Pentagon Orders Entire F-35 Fleet Grounded
The US government's accountability office estimates all costs associated with the project will amount to one trillion dollars. But if the planes are "required for operational action, the F-35I aircraft are ready and prepared", a statement read.
High energy prices threaten economic damage, but likely to continue: IEA
On Thursday, crude oil futures ended down $2.20, or 3%, at $70.97 a barrel, after having shed 2.4% a session earlier. In September, supply from Iran dropped to a two-and-a-half year low, the West energy watchdog said .
Ariana Grande, Pete Davidson end engagement
She will be staying close to home and using this period to spend time with her loved ones and work on new music without deadline. Pete has been by her side throughout this hard time, but she's still clearly going through a lot right now.
RED SOX: Brock Holt surprised by start
The latest was a five-out cameo in Game 2 against the Yankees in which he gave up homers to Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez . His cycle came in the 1,562nd postseason game in major league history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Oil slips as International Monetary Fund cuts outlook, Michael hits U.S. Gulf
Brent crude dropped 3% on the news, sending shares of oil producers such as ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporation down more than 3%. While Washington has said it wants to cut Iran's oil exports to zero, Iran and Saudi Arabia say that is unlikely.
Bradley's clutch hit helps Red Sox tie series
Alex Bregman scored the eventual winning run after he was smoked on the left elbow by a 100-mph fastball from Kelly. He then allowed a double to George Springer and a single to Jose Altuve , which cut the Astros deficit to two.
Djokovic faces Federer's conqueror in Shanghai final
The 21 year old Coric is marginally younger than the defeated Zverev, and looks to be following him on a path to the top ten . Celebrating his 1,000th match in style, the 14-time Grand Slam victor Djokovic was clinical against a shell-shocked Zverev.
Meghan Markle's half sister reportedly turned away from Kensington Palace
The Mirror reported that Samantha Markle (53) was turned away at the gates by security after she had "demanded" to see Meghan . According to the Mirror , Samantha argued with police before handing over a letter for her sister.
Xbox One October 2018 update rolling out now
The new Xbox Avatars are expressive, creative and, most importantly, bring to life the community of fans they represent. They will appear in an animated form on the home screen, activity feed posts, profiles, and a bunch of other places.
Alec Baldwin returns as President Trump on 'SNL'
She commends Yeezy for being the first Black celebrity to seemingly befriend President Donald Trump . This is a serious, private conversation between three friends plus 50 reporters with cameras".
Lacazette reacts to Aubameyang comparisons to Arsenal legend
We will enjoy it, we are working well and we want to continue like this. Just work as we did and we will see at the end of the season.
Storm Callum to hit Pembrokeshire
Gale force winds and torrential rain have begun striking both countries - but should skirt around the royal wedding in Windsor. Forecasters are warning of more of the same over the weekend, although some parts of England will escape the worst.
Have 19 hours? World's longest commercial flight takes off
Singapore Airlines had operated flights on the route using old aircraft until 2013, but stopped due to rising fuel costs. The airline says it resumed the service using aircraft with improved fuel efficiency.
Bulgarian journalist murder suspect detained in Germany
Caruana Galizia was killed in a vehicle bombing in October in Malta and Jan Kuciak was murdered in Slovakia in February. Preliminary investigations indicated the cause of death to be blows to the head and suffocation.
West Ham legend McAvennie: Just sell Arnautovic
Frank Lampard will merge Chelsea first team and academy after becoming manager
Solskjaer: Man Utd working on more signings
Nigeria Survives Cameroon Scare To Progress To Quarter Final
ATP Wimbledon: Roger Federer follows Rafael Nadal to book last 16 spot
The key stretch that brought Gauff back from the brink at Wimbledon
FC Barcelona Selling Players to Rope in Neymar Jr, Antoine Griezmann
Disappointed Pooran sees World Cup failure as learning experience
Leicester reject United's £70m bid for Maguire
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Gary Allan Brings The Heat to CLE
Gerard Hilinski
It was one of those dreaded blustery spring days in Cleveland on Saturday (3/30) as rain, snow and falling temperatures filled the air. But that was not the case inside Masonic Cleveland Auditorium, where platinum selling country music superstar Gary Allan delivered his trademark raucous and heartfelt live performance, which had the Sold Out house really feeling the heat! Considered by many to be the quintessential outlaw country artist today, the California native and his band excited fans with their Bakersfield influenced sound. A little twang, a little organ and lots of fiddle and steel guitar, coupled with lyrics that speak to every emotion a person can possibly feel, made for a magical night of music at this historic and very cool venue.
In the course of his 20 plus year career, Allan has produced eight albums, three certified platinum and five gold, totaling 7 million albums sold and over 1.4 billion streams. The prolific singer and songwriter has released 30 singles, with 14 reaching the top 10, and 5 Number One’s including: “Man To Man,” “Tough Little Boys,” “Nothing On But The Radio,” “Watching Airplanes” and “Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain).”
Allan’s set included all of his hits, plus a couple new songs that hint at a new album coming soon. To say the audience knew and loved Allan’s music is an understatement. It was as though he had 2,500 back up singers on every one of his hits. As far as the new songs are concerned, they too were excellent. And the crowd’s reaction to them was very positive and enthusiastic. “Less Is More” and “Unfiltered” will likely be on the upcoming album, and Allan is proud of the new work. With respect to “Unfiltered” in particular, Allan himself said “this (song) is the best thing I’ve got in my back pocket right now.” He’s clearly thinking potential hit, and frankly, so are we.
While Allan’s voice was strong and his energy high, he also demonstrated his knack for showmanship when after leaving the stage for a moment, he returned wearing the black cowboy hat and duster he was known for wearing in the early years. As he walked down the stairs singing “Smoke Rings In The Dark,” the crowd went absolutely nuts and roared its approval. On a personal level, this was the highlight of the show, as it took us back to 2003 at the Cleveland Rib Burn Off where we first saw him perform. And yes, the black cowboy hat and duster were right there with him.
To attend a Gary Allan concert is to feel something, and to feel it deeply. Be it tragedy, triumph, love, loss melancholy, hope or just having fun, his music takes us back to times and places where we’ve all shared in his experience, one way or another. Allan gives voice to those experiences and the memories we are left with. And for an artist, that’s the best thing that they can do. Thanks Gary Allan for being the ray of California sunshine on an otherwise drab and dreary Ohio day.
Gary Allan at Masonic Auditorium (3.30.19) – Photos by Gerard Hilinski
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CCCC > Archive > 1985, Volume 50 > Issue 10 > p. 2299
Alkaloids from Corydalis solida (L.) SW. mass spectrometry of quaternary benzylisoquinoline alkaloids
Jiří Slavíka, Ladislav Dolejšb and Leonora Slavíkováa
a Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Purkyně University, 662 43 Brno
b Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 10 Prague 6
From the strongly polar fraction from the tubers of Corydalis solida (L.) SW., a new quaternary alkaloid, (+)-N-methyllaudanidinium iodide, was isolated after conversion to iodides. Mass spectrometric behaviour of this type of quaternary alkaloids is described. In the tubers (0.37% of alkaloids) the main alkaloid component is (+)- and (±)-tetrahydropalmatine; other dominant alkaloids include protopine, (+)-corydaline, allocryptopine, dehydrocorydaline and jatrorrhizine. (±)-Corybulbine, (+)-corypalmine, (-)-isocorypalmine, (-)-scoulerine, (-)-stylopine, corysamine, palmatine, (+)-N-methyllaudanidinium hydroxide, (-)-cis-N-methylcanadinium hydroxide and cis-N-methylstylopinium hydroxide represent minor alkaloids. The last three mentioned were isolated in the form of iodides. Bulbocapnine, coptisine, berberine and columbamine were detected in trace amounts. The main alkaloid of the aerial parts of the plant (0.35% of alkaloids) is berberine, accompanied by coptisine, (-)- and (±)-canadine, (-)-stylopine, isoboldine, protopine, columbamine and (-)-cis-N-methylcanadinium hydroxide (isolated in the form of iodide) as significant components. Among minor alkaloids allocryptopine, (-)-isocorypalmine, (+)-corypalmine, (±)- and (-)-tetrahydropalmatine, corysamine, dehydrothalictricavine, palmatine and cis-N-methylstylopinium hydroxide (as iodide) were isolated and trace amounts of jatrorrhizine and bulbocapnine were detected.
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Sprint's Drive Test Rover363 viewsThis is a Sprint vehicle used to receive the test signal emitted from the temporary transmitter van. This van drives a predetermined area collecting signal strength data for later mapping.
Rover's Roof385 viewsOn the roof of the drive test 'rover' is a GPS antenna (the square antenna in the center of the roof), plus two PCS omnidirectional antennas for signal measurement and communications purposes.
Drive Test Rover Ready To Run317 viewsInside the cab of the drive test 'rover' is a portable computer connected to the output of the PCS signal strength receiver and the GPS receiver. The computer records the data for later mapping. The clipboard holds the predetermined route that the driver of the rover will cover during the test.
Sprint Conducts a Drive Test369 viewsThe tech mounts the omnidirectional antenna to the telescoping mast. Once the antenna is mounted, he'll connect the coax that runs back to the portable PCS transmitter sitting inside the van. Then the tech will elevate the antenna to the desired height, and set the proper output power of the transmitter. With all this done, another tech will drive the streets in the area recording signal strength, latitude, and longitude for later mapping.
PCS-Transmitter-in-a-Box353 viewsWhen a wireless carrier selects a candidate cell site it will usually conduct a 'drive test' to determine actual coverage. The drive test consists of elevating an antenna (here, an omnidirectional antenna) to a predetermined height. Inside the truck is a portable PCS transmitter powering the antenna.
This is a photo of the PCS transmitter used by Sprint in this drive test. What? You thought it would be larger?!
Sprint Conducts a Drive Test388 viewsWhen a wireless carrier selects a candidate cell site it will usually conduct a 'drive test' to determine actual coverage. The drive test consists of elevating an antenna to a predetermined height. Inside the truck is a portable PCS transmitter powering the antenna. In a separate vehicle (call it a 'rover') the carrier will drive the streets around the test site out to a predetermined distance from the site. The received signal level and GPS location information are stored in a portable computer inside the rover.
After the test is concluded, the received signal strength and location information are plotted on a street map. That map then serves to guide the RF engineer to select a final candidate site, and to design the antenna system to cover the desired area without causing unreasonable interference to other cell sites on the same network.
Attached to the left of the antenna (and blowing in the breeze) is a measuring tape used to determine the height of the antenna.
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Join us! Bring a friend or make a new one. We can’t wait to see you there!
We are delighted to present our 2019 – 2020 chamber music season. Starting in September we will return to the exquisite and historic Hamilton Hall in Salem and acoustically brilliant St. Paul’s Church in Brookline — two warm, intimate venues that get our audiences right into the musical action. As always we’ve filled our season with the music we ourselves most love to play — the music that excites and never fails to excite and inspire us. So join us! Bring a friend or make a new one. We can’t wait to see you there.
Season flyers have been mailed. Online sales will be available for both venues starting May 1, 2019.
CLICK HERE if you would prefer to download an order form to fill out and mail in.
The Enlightenment and Beyond
September 20 and 22, We open our season with Mozart’s Oboe Quartet in F, an early masterpiece featuring BSO principal oboist John Ferrillo. Beethoven’s String Trio in D, another early masterpiece, rounds out the first half of the program. If Mozart and Beethoven give us the sounds of the Enlightenment, Janáček moves us beyond with his intense and brooding first String Quartet. Written in outrage at the misogyny in Tolstoy’s classic story, The Kreutzer Sonata, the work depicts a relationship spinning wildly into jealousy and rage. Janáček quartets are always loved by our audiences.
We’re proud of our commitment to new music. Our second concert, Kaleidoscope, on November 8 and 10 includes the world premiere of a new work for cello and piano by Harold Melzer, commissioned by Artistic Director Jonathan Miller. This accompanies the beloved Beethoven variations based on a theme from The Magic Flute singing the praises of love and equality. Two additional jewels complete our program — Turina’s romantic and intoxicating Piano Trio, and Granados’ fiery Piano Quintet.
Mozart x 2
String quintets have been called “symphonies for the living room” — they are works of explosive power and profound refinement. We begin 2020 on January 3 and 5 with two Mozart string quintets, both late masterpieces — K. 516 and K. 614 — that will transport our audiences from darkness to light. The G minor is dark and melancholic, turbulent and wistful, before ending with a sunny allegro in a major key. The E-flat quintet, written at the same time as The Magic Flute (also based E flat), is Mozart’s last serious chamber work, and full of celebration and joy.
On March 13 and 15 we bring you two Gallic piano trios of inspiration and refinement. Saint-Saëns’ first Piano Trio was inspired by a holiday in the Pyrenees. Ravel’s Trio, dedicated to his counterpoint and theory teacher, opens with a Basque dance zoriko rhythm and uses the extreme ranges of its instruments to create a rich texture of sound. The program is rounded off with our popular Mystery Piece competition — guess right, and win a pair of free tickets!
While every program is full of the music we love to play, we’re especially looking forward to sharing our final program, Director’s Cut on April 24 and 26. Mozart’s joyful B-flat Trio joins the Chopin Cello Sonata on the first half of the program, one of only three chamber pieces by this master of miniatures. The program is rounded out with Brahms’ thrilling Piano Quartet in G Minor. His first major public success, the piece closes out our season with a brilliant Roma-inspired finale featuring percussive strumming effects.
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Scots Independence & UK Politics LATEST
JamesD:
news that Alex Salmond, former MP and former First Minister of Scotland
is to have his own TV show on, God forbid that Satan, RT - Russia Today...
Thanks for the heads up on the new show!
Looking forward to watching ol' Alex go
Actually........
It's Now Online:
WATCH: https://www.rt.com/shows/alex-salmond-show/410033-carles-puigdemont-rt-exclusive/
Puigdemont Interview @ 13:30
It's been a while since I've posted anything here but we've all been waiting for the #Brexit nightmare to play out a bit so we can get on with calling #Indyref2 , #ScotRef or #Referendum2018 ...
http://thenational.scot/news/15901126.Brexit_Bill_farce_proves_Westminster_is_not_fit_to_govern_Scotland/
... and it looks like that can't come soon enough, especially when shit like this afoot -
from the very good new alt-media http://www.trulyscottishtv.com/
http://www.businessforscotland.com/scottish-office-preparing-intercept-scotlands-returning-eu-powers/
Getting Inside the Scotland Office
https://thebutterflyrebellion.scot/2018/01/26/getting-inside-the-scotland-office/
Suspicions have been raised in recent weeks and months that the Scotland Office – the centre of the British administration in Scotland – is gearing up for something big. It is no secret that since the Conservatives came back to power in May 2010 the budget and staffing numbers of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland have been on the rise. Since the 2014 referendum the influx of people and cash into David Mundell’s department has been accelerating, with staffing and budget now at a level capable of governing Scotland without Holyrood. They’re up to something.
They've been rumbled! The power grab intentions are real and we need to get out of this disfunctional union asap!
I expect the Scot Gov to make a move very soon
Just back from the Massive #AUOB (All Under One Banner) Demostration for Independence in Glasgow this weekend.
What an event! -
... and they did! - 93,496 0f them!
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16207472.The_big_indy_march_in_pictures/?ref=nuo
Here's Broadcasting Scotland's #AUOB Special Report with @pilaraymara
https://www.broadcastingscotland.scot/full-scottish-06-05-2018/
Sunny Days in Glasgow
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/05/06/sunny-days-in-glasgow/
Yesterday’s march was a huge and brilliant turnout which far exceeded the organisers expectations. It is a manifestation of the movements strength and an inspiration for all. Marches like this are a message of intent, a learning curve for organisers and a boost of confidence for tired and battle-weary protestors and activists. The fact that the event was so large and went off without a single incident is testimony to the crowd and the wider movement. The result was also the payoff for months, in some cases years of patient steady movement-building on a very practical level by national grassroots organisations and a network of local groups nurtured and sustained by dedicated souls up and down the land. The sheer scale of the event will have made many people wake up to what’s latent in Scotland. This is far more powerful than the aristocratic loot showered down on Scotland in Union.
http://www.independentscot.org/marches-are-about-numbers/
http://ruthwishart.scot/blog/marching-towards-not-so-distant-drums
... and there are more planned!
I think the #IndyRef2 #Referendum2018 campaign just "unofficially" kicked off!
While we are all still waiting for some kind of "Official" announcement of #IndyRef2 as more and more shit keeps hiting the #Brexit fan the Scottish Alternative Media (SAM) goes from strength to strength with more improved quality production ...
... the MSM (CCP) and the BBC in particular are getting so nervous with REAL jouralistic competition that they have resorted to blatant politically motivated censorship and with the collusion of YouTube have closed down two independence supporting channels - "Wings over Scotland" and Peter Curran's "Moridura"!
Well, as you can imagine, the fallout has been spectacular and fast moving! –
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-state-flexes-its-muscles/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/when-were-gone/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/big-auntie-is-watching-you-update/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-dirty-bakers-dozen/
https://wingsoverscotland.com/silence-will-fall/
The sounds of the silenced
https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-sounds-of-the-silenced/
Before we were so rudely interrupted, we were about to write a little more about the issues around the BBC’s takedown of this site’s YouTube channel. Because while we got a very respectable five-and-a-half minutes on Good Morning Scotland earlier today, you never have the time on radio or TV to say everything you want to.
Incidentally, we get the impression – nothing more solid than that – from a number of sources that BBC Scotland are somewhat out of the loop over the whole affair, and the impetus to silence Wings has actually come from London, which is slightly scarier. But aside from that, there are a number of really rather disturbing aspects to the situation.
You can hear the full interview here: [Audio in link]
It still seems to be just pro-indy channels that have had the Big Hammer treatment.
But what of the wider issues? The transience of news is in stark contrast to most other broadcasting. A huge amount of the BBC’s current affairs output either isn’t available on iPlayer at all, or only for a very brief period – an episode of Reporting Scotland, for example, is up for 24 hours or less, and the same applies to other regional news shows and indeed to the main six o’clock bulletin. So if anything important gets said on them, it vanishes down the memory hole almost immediately.
This entire affair quite frankly stinks to high heaven. The BBC have operated a plainly partisan policy, observably applying different rules and procedures to people with different political viewpoints. YouTube appear to have actively colluded with them rather than being neutral, and have even suspended their normal conflict-resolution system just for Wings Over Scotland for no obvious reason, even though our account was until then in spotlessly good standing.
The BBC is a publicly-funded and theoretically publicly-accountable organisation, yet it refuses to appear on its own programmes to explain its actions to the people who own it. (It’s going to sound rather hollow the next time it pointedly says that no Scottish Government minister was available for interview.)
We’re going to take this one as far as it’ll go, folks.
https://moriduraalt.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-big-bad-beeb-and-my-youtube-channel.html
Then Big Eck got involved -
https://wingsoverscotland.com/for-the-attention-of-the-director-general/
Now that's an intervention!
http://indyref2.scot/bbc-targeted-wings-over-scotland-after-complaint-by-labour-councillor
A can of worms
https://peterabell.blog/2018/08/02/a-can-of-worms/
That someone as prominent as Alex Salmond has elected to intervene in what I wearily suppose will shortly be dubbed the ‘Wingsgate’ scandal, is quite significant. If nothing else, it serves to demonstrate just how important alternative media have become.
His intervention is doubly significant for the fact that, as well as concisely stating the points that the BBC must respond to in relation to its evidently selective and seemingly ill-founded copyright infringement complaint against Wings Over Scotland, Mr Salmond has broadened the issue to include the rights of persons appearing in the excerpts which have been removed from the public domain due to the BBC’s action. And he has introduced the further matter of the BBC’s apparent failure to remove material which has been found to be in breach of its own guidelines.
It looks increasingly like the corporation has opened a very large can of worms here. ...
That the BBC has got itself into this situation amply demonstrates the dumb arrogance of unaccountable power. Anyone with so much as the tip of their smallest finger on the pulse of Scottish politics could have predicted the furore which would ensue from closing down the Wings Over Scotland YouTube channel. Either the BBC was aware of the hornets’ nest that it was poking and simply didn’t care, or it was allowing decisions to be made by people lacking even a basic awareness of what they were dealing with. Whichever it was, it looks like an appalling failure of management.
Perhaps Alex Salmond’s intervention will rouse those somnolent and indolent hacks. But if the evidence of the past is any guide their mercenary ire will directed, not against the BBC, but against Salmond. If these loyal servants of the British state are true to tediously predictable form then we can expect that ‘Wingsgate’ will be spun as the SNP trying to ‘intimidate’ and ‘silence’ the BBC.
It’s all very British.
http://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2018/08/questions-for-bbc-on-youtube-controversy.html
And then the BBC realising that it had seriously fucked up started swiftly backtracking ...
[Edit]:
Please disregard our previous message
https://wingsoverscotland.com/please-disregard-our-previous-message/
Well, this story moves fast.
What that means is that, at least for now, our YouTube channel is back (Back! BACK!), minus the 13 videos complained about by the BBC on copyright grounds. The situation is once again that Corporation has 14 business days to file a formal court challenge, and unless it does so the channel will be reinstated in full.
Meanwhile, here’s how the Streisand Effect works.
https://wingsoverscotland.com/a-significant-debate/
So one positive outcome of it all is the huge exposure it has given to "Wings over Scotland" - the kind you just can't buy!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
There was a huge #AUOB (All Under One Banner) 100k+ March for Independence in Glasgow on May 4th, although it was bearly reported in the MSM - which is why we have such a strong alternative media in Scotland.
But when it was reported in supposedly independence leaning newspapers it was smeared with exaggerated claims of "cybernat abuse" and tag-teamed by some "gullible" or perhaps not so SNP MPs/MSPs/Ex-MPs/spokespersons and it has many in the greater YES Movement questioning their motives.
Are the SNP just too comfortable with Devolution?
Are the SNP infiltrated up to the top?
With the open goal of #Brexit before them why are the SNP stalling?
At midnight all the agents
https://wingsoverscotland.com/at-midnight-all-the-agents/
On Saturday, for the second year in a row, there was a huge and joyous independence march through the centre of Glasgow, which passed off with no incidents, arrests or disturbances despite attempted provocation from a small handful of abusive Unionist bigots led by a Holocaust denier.
But also for the second year in a row, one paper – or to be more specific, one man – took a rather more negative slant.
The Herald On Sunday ran with a four-page cover splash by former Sunday Herald editor Neil Mackay about vile “cybernats” having war declared on them by the SNP.
It followed a similar extended rant by Mackay following the previous year’s Glasgow march, at which the ostensibly pro-independence Sunday paper had infuriated readers by portraying the march as a violent clash between rival mobs and using it to attack the SNP, then using the reaction as an excuse for a three-page hyperbolic outrage piece on – you guessed it – vile “cybernats”.
The Yes movement gets very little positive coverage in the media, so many people remarked that it was curious for a professed independence supporter to spurn two such rare opportunities to show the movement at its best, and to instead undermine it by sowing internal anger and division, and gleefully hand opponents a weapon with which to beat it (which they of course seized eagerly).
... The UK government quite openly maintains a military-intelligence unit dedicated to precisely such pursuits, so it seems unlikely that other countries don’t.
Indeed, as a pro-indy lawyer friend of ours is fond of saying, “Speaking as a British taxpayer, if the UK security services AREN’T actively infiltrating and subverting the Yes movement I want my money back”.
If we’d managed to get the same guy to pull the exact same trick two years running, we’d be demanding a hefty bonus as well.
Especially if both he and his newspapers had been heavily engaged for some years in attempting to deflect suspicion by calling everyone else an MI5 plant.
Now, we don’t think Alyn Smith, Angus Robertson and Stewart McDonald – who were all phoned up individually by Neil Mackay rather than them collectively approaching him – are in the pay of either the Kremlin or MI5. (Well, okay, if we’re being absolutely scrupulously honest we’re pretty sure about two of them.)
But they might want to take a moment to think about what those entities would want from them if they were, and whether in that case it might be a good idea not to keep giving it to them for free.
https://grousebeater.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/suckering-the-snp/
Robin McAlpine – Scotland: We March Because You’re Failing Us
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/14221/robin-mcalpine-we-march-because-youre-failing-us
Common Weal director Robin McAlpine says the divisions among pro-independence advocates over the All Under One Banner march is the product of two very different worldviews: one of the centrist political establishment, and the other of the grassroots movement
I BELIEVE in the Scottish independence movement. I believe in it very much and will vigorously defend it. So I'm angry this week.
But I'm not sure what good more anger can do right now so I think we need to try to understand why some in the SNP leadership seem so ready so often to go out of their way to offend so many in the movement.
I highly commend what Stuart Campbell, Paul Kavanagh and Kevin McKenna have written on this. But I want to argue that there is a fundamental ideological problem which has led us here. To understand it without anger I want to tell the story twice; once each from both viewpoints. Since I am hardly neutral in this I will be honest and use 'you' and 'we'.
And throughout all this we are promised light at the end of a tunnel which remains dark as far as the eye can see. We get restless. We have handed over our hopes and ambitions to a leadership which seems to use them for purposes different than those for which we gave them. Our money does not seem to be spent on the campaigning we want to see.
So, frustrated, increasingly disillusioned, we do what we've always done. We do SOMETHING. We do anything other than sit back and take it passively. And if all we can do is march, then that's what we'll do.
We march joyously and hopefully. We march as perhaps the most diverse group Scotland has ever seen march. We march to send messages to anyone that will listen that we have not gone away and will not go away. We march because we care, we really, really care.
But why oh why oh why can't our leaders understand this? Why do you disdain us so much? Why can you never find a kind word for us, why are there never ten free seconds for you to send us a tweet to wish us well? Why do you refuse to see what's happening?
We march because it's something, and something is better than nothing. We march because you're failing us.
https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/some-friendly-advice-to-the-snp-leadership/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17624306.my-message-to-the-snp-on-cybernats-stop-perpetuating-a-unionist-myth/
The Arrest of Manny Singh
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/the-arrest-of-manny-singh/
On Saturday, I was an eye-witness to Manny Singh, organiser of the huge pro-Independence demonstration through Glasgow, co-operating efficiently and respectfully with the police in keeping order and protecting public safety, and in making sure the event was a joyous family occasion, successful and enjoyed by everyone. That included Manny liaising regularly with the most senior police officers in charge of the march. Before I made my speech, I asked him how it was all going and Manny volunteered unasked that the Police had been brilliant. From what I witnessed, the respect was mutual.
It is then extremely perturbing that, two days after the march, Police Scotland arrested Manny for organising an illegal procession, a charge that carries a maximum three months imprisonment. Plainly the orders for this radical change of attitude have come from very high. The defence of this draconian measure by SNP Glasgow councillor and ex-BBC intern Rhiannon Spear gives a clue as to where this is coming from.
Still more of a clue is the astonishing four page attack on Yes supporters that took up the the front and four pages of the Herald the day after the demonstration, in which the SNP’s NATO and monarchy enthusiast Angus Robertson and extreme Cold War Russophobe Stewart McDonald vented their spleen at Independence supporters who dare to take a more radical line. It was very thinly disguised as an attack on online abuse – of which in four full pages not one single example was given by them, let alone any qualitative or quantitative analysis.
Nicola has had to make repeated SNP conference speeches and every time been forced to pretend she is interested in pursuing Independence at a future date. Surely, SNP HQ thinking runs, it would be better to take some of the pressure off her by hobbling support for the pesky online Independence supporters and those noisy marchers?
The man who has organised the most successful pro-Indy campaigning since 2014 has been arrested, just for doing precisely that. Yet so far there has been not a single gesture of support for Manny, public or private, from any of the SNP hierarchy. Why do you think that is?
The attempt to hobble and limit the AUOB march, and the extraordinary four page entirely unprovoked attack the next day on “cybernats”, form part of a coordinated effort by the SNP leadership to control the wider Yes movement and subdue the demand for early Independence. They failed with AUOB due to Manny’s courage and integrity – hence the vindictive order for his arrest.
More from Craig Murray here in an extraordinary interview with Alex Salmond on RT -
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/how-to-refuse-an-honour-from-the-queen-to-her-face/
Anyway, the YES Movement will stick with the SNP, for NOW, as the ONLY vehicle for bringing about Independence, but there will come a time very soon post#indy when they will all go their very diverse separate ways.
Until THEN ...
#IndyRef2 #DissolvetheUnion #Saor#Alba#Gu#Brath#
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Major Market Trends
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Currently, the bulk hetero-junction of the solar cell is widely finding usage with the fullerene derivate phenyl - C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBN) with high efficiencies. The more the demand for renewable sources of energy, more will be the production; thereby, simultaneously increasing the consumption of C60 and its derivatives.
Additionally, the growing demand for high-performance lubricants from automotive, and stationary hydrogen engine applications are supporting the growth of fullerenes and derivatives during the forecast period.
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With the growth of medical and pharmaceutical industries in the countries such as China, India, and Japan, the demand for fullerenes in Asia-pacific region is growing drastically.
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CAAC had also invested USD 14.4 billion in MIC2025 plan to establish Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC), which will build the CJ - 1000A turbofan jet engine to power the C919. This is expected to boost the demand for semiconductors, thermally stable aerospace parts, and smart screens in the country.
Boeing's production facility expansion in Japan has a large effect on the export of aerospace parts, and combined with other international joint projects such as Boeing 777, 787 aircraft, and CF34, PW1100G-JM and other aircraft engines, the overall exports of parts has been increasing year by year.
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The fullerene market is highly consolidated with the top 10 players accounting for a major chunk of the market but no one holds a clear majority. Key players in the fullerene market include Nanotech Industrial Solutions, BuckyUSA, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Nano-C, IoLiTec - Ionic Liquid Technologies, and other prominent players includes JenLaur, Luna Innovations, MTR, and MER Corporation.
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7.1 Growing Application in Perpetuating Life due to its Property of Reducing Oxidative Stress
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What do education, cybernetics, music, technology and philosophy have in common?
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The Managerial Destruction of Universities... but what do we do about it?
As I arrived at the University of Highlands and Islands for a conference on the "porous university", there was a picket line outside the college. Lecturers were striking about a deal agreed with the Scottish Government to establish equal pay among teaching staff across Scotland which had been reneged on by management of colleges. The regional salary difference can be as much as £12,000, so this clearly matters to a lot of people. It was a good turnout for the picket line (always an indication of how much things matter) - similar to the one when the University of Bolton sacked their UCU rep and his wife which made the national press (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013860/Lecturer-wife-sacked-failing-University-Bolton-blowing-whistle-100-000-jolly.html)
It is right to protest, and it is right to strike. But sadly, none of this seems to work very well. Bad management seems to be unassailable, and pay and conditions continually seem to get worse.
At UHI, the porous university event was an opportunity to take the temperature of the effects of over 5 years of managerial pathology in universities across the country. The collective existential cry of pain by the group was alarming. The optimism, hope, passion and faith which is the hallmark of any vocation, and was certainly the hallmark of most who worked in education, has evaporated. It's been replaced with fear and dejection. Of course, an outside observer might remark "well, you've still got jobs!" - but that's to miss the point. People might still be being paid (some of them) but something has been broken in the covenant between education and society which has destroyed the fabric of a core part of the personal identities of those who work in education. It's the same kind of breaking of covenant and breaking of spirit that might be associated with a once healthy marriage which is destroyed by a breakdown of trust: indeed, one of my former Bolton colleagues described the spirit of those working for the institution as being like "the victims of an abusive relationship".
Lots of people have written about this. Stefan Collini has just published his latest collection of essays on Universities, "Speaking of Universities", which I was reading on the way up to Scotland. It's beautifully written. But what good does it do?
In the perverse monetised world of universities, the writing and publishing (in a high ranking journal) of a critique of the education system is absorbed and rewarded by the monetised education system. In its own way, it's "impact" (something Collini is very critical of). Weirdly, those who peddle the critique inadvertently support the managerial game. The university neutralises and sanitises criticism of itself and parades it as evidence of its 'inclusivity' and the embrace of opposing views, all the time continuing to screw lecturers and students into the ground.
A good example of this is provided by the University of Bolton who have established what they call a "centre for opposition studies" (http://www.bolton.ac.uk/OppositionStudies/Home.aspx). There are no Molotov cocktails on the front page - but a picture of the house of commons. This is sanitised opposition - neutralised, harmless. The message is "Opposition is about controlled debate" rather than genuine anger and struggle. Fuck off! This isn't a progressive way forwards: it is the result of a cynical and endemic conservatism.
I wouldn't want to accuse Collini of conservativism in the same way - and yet the symptoms of conservativism are there in the way that they exist in the kind of radical "history man" characters that pepper critical discourse. The main features of this?
A failure to grasp the potential of technology for changing the dimensions of the debate
A failure to reconcile deep scholarship with new possibilities for human organisation
A failure to suggest any constructive way of redesigning the system
If I was to be cynical, I would say that this is because of what Collini himself admits as the "comfortable chair in Cambridge" being a safe place to chuck bricks at the system. It is not really wishing to disrupt itself to the point that the chair is less comfortable.
The disruption and transformation of the system will not come from within it. It will come from outside. There's quite a cocktail brewing outside the institution. One of the highlights of the UHI conference was the presentation by Alex Dunedin of https://www.raggeduniversity.co.uk/. Alex's scholarly contribution was powerful, but he himself is an inspiration. He exemplifies insightful scholarship without having set a "formal" foot inside a university ever. His life has been a far richer tapestry of chaos and redemption than any professor I know. Meeting Alex, you realise that "knowledge is everywhere" really means something if you want to think. You might then be tempted to think "University is redundant". But that might be going too far. However, the corporate managerialist "nasty university" I think will not hold sway for ever. People like Alex burn far brighter.
Another bright note: Just look at our tools! The thing is, we have to use them differently and creatively. I did my bit for this effort. I suggested to one group I was chairing that instead of holding up their flipchart paper with incomprehensible scribbles on it, and talking quickly in a way that few take in, they instead passed the phone over the paper and made a video drawing attention to the different things on their paper. So paper became a video. And it's great!
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Things you probably won't be showing your kids: Part III
#6 A Parsi Funeral
PARSIS may themselves one day be added to this depressing list as they are estimated to number only about 50,000 in Mumbai. However, right now it is the days of their traditional funerals that are numbered.
Zoroastrianism, founded in Persia by Zarathustra, had been in existence for over 2 millenia before the 7th century Arab invasion. Burial, burning or dumping into the sea are forbidden in the religion, so as not to pollute the elements of earth, fire or water. Hence bodies are left high in Towers of Silence, lying on marble to be fed upon by vultures until nothing but sun-bleached bones remain. The vulture population, especially that of the white-backed vulture (pictured), in India has been drastically reduced as a result of cattle carcasses becoming toxic due to widespread use of an anti-inflammatory called Diclofenac. The drug causes renal failure and death when it gets into the bodies of carrion-eating birds. The white-backed vulture population is estimated to have been slashed by an astounding 99.7% in a decade.
Captive breeding programmes have been started and attempts to ban the veterinarian form of Diclofenac (used for arthritis in humans) have been made. Parsis themselves have turned to solar power in order to accelerate the decomposition process and an engineer has even created an ozone-producing machine to quell the stench. Mark Twain visited Bombay in 1897 and observed a Parsi funeral:
"it disseminates no corruption, no impurities of any sort, no disease-germs; that no wrap, no garment which has touched the dead is allowed to touch the living afterward; that from the Towers of Silence nothing proceeds which can carry harm to the outside world."
Sadly, the outside world has not returned the favour.
#7 The Roma
The word gypsy has become somewhat corrupted now; used to describe just about anyone with a caravan or hoop earrings. The traditional Romany gypsy came to central-east Europe about 1000 years ago, from Rajasthan in India. Oft erroneously portrayed as hook-nosed fortune-tellers, the number of Romany themselves is stable, but the traditional culture is on the wane.
Land shortage and European Human Rights legislation (creating incentive to be assimilated into other communities) is creating an increasing trend of the Romany ditching their age-old way of life and settling down.
#8 The Tiger
Tigers aren't like pandas. Pandas are notorious for their embarrassing lack of libido, but tigers breed very successfully in captivity. I like to think the Bengal Tiger breeds most vigorously, but he probably sits around talking about lion/tiger politics and how Bengal Tigers are more intelligent than others. Texas alone boasts over 10,000 caged tigers, but in the tiger's home of Asia, only four thousand are left. Three and a half thousand of these are in India, with most of the rest in Russia and Sumatra. Without wanting to sound like a long-playing record, as in the case of the Javan Rhino, Chinese medicine has a lot of answer for, still the chief drive of poaching in India. Fucking shitheads.
Yet threats to the tiger's livelihood are legion. Poaching occurs not only for medicinal demands, but tiger hides remain popular. Man also hunts tiger prey – hoofed animals – widely. Deforestation and mining rob the tiger of its natural habitat.
Ruth Padel, the author of Tigers in Red Weather, states that India is the only country likely or able to do anything to stop tigers vanishing forever. In The Independent, Padel quoted from the Mahabharata:
"Do not cut down the forest with its tigers, do not banish the tigers from the forest.
The tiger perishes without the forest, the forest perishes without its tigers.
The tiger should stand guard over the forest and the forest should protect its tigers."
She commented on a recent survey which named tigers the "world's favourite animal". Padel feels it's because tigers represent the wild itself. The world desperately needs the symbol of the wild, wildlife and wilderness to survive. If only so that we can remain civilised.
#9 The Flower Valley at Bhyundar Gorge
Few countries can match India's biodiversity. A foray into the foothills of the mighty Himalaya reveals India's alpine beauty. A carpet of lilies, primulas, poppies and anemones bursts into life as the snow recedes. Towering snowy mountains provide a spectacular backdrop to a symphony of colour.
Over-grazing seems to have caused bracken to overrun the flowers. But as with the Three Gorges project, a new dam will divert water from the area and a busy new road will change the peaceful garden forever.
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The Parsi bit is heartbreaking. My mom's a Parsi, though, and I got to say, the community has insulated itself so well that it's done itself in, I think. 1 in 4 Parsis marry outside the community and are 'excommunicated' in a sense; not allowed the Parsi funeral rites.
We kids were raised in my dad's religious tradition but I've always wanted to see the dakhmas. It's a lovely idea to return your body to earth via the vultures but because the vultures aren't there apparently the towers get stinky, now many Parsis choose cremation.
# quoth square peg : November 30, 2005 6:54 AM
Man that Roma chick is secksi.... Speaking of Roma, we've got many in England too. It was actually a Roma guy who told me about their Indian connection. Hardly any Indians seem to be aware of this..
# quoth Vikrant : November 30, 2005 5:14 PM
Hey R, yeah - I have heard lots from Parsi friends who lament their own community's poor attempts to keep going. They've been a rather insular community since they came to India...and haven't had enough kids! But I didn't know about the excommunication you mention, it seems a bit stuffy, as an outsider.
Well why d'ya think I chose the pic, Vik?! You're right, not many Indians know of the connection - but look at the smaller pic, very Rajasthani!
# quoth Rohin : November 30, 2005 5:57 PM
I personally believe that Parsis are one of the best community we have in the world. They generally do lead a self-less life and go beyound their means to help others...
but then there are always exceptions...
if you get time...check out my post on parsi community
http://sakshijuneja.com/blog/?p=162
# quoth Sakshi : December 01, 2005 8:27 AM
Adriano Mutu from Chelsea FC is a Romani. All hail the first 'Asian' Premiership footballer :P
# quoth Anonymous : December 08, 2005 10:15 AM
I did not know that. But was he playing in the Premiership before Michael Chopra and Zeshan Rehman?
Sorry, just burst out laughing again at the thought that Man U are out of Europe. Hahahaha!
# quoth Rohin : December 08, 2005 1:11 PM
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home gTLD's, ICANN .Amazon IRP Panel Notes the Precedential status of DCA Trust .Africa
.Amazon IRP Panel Notes the Precedential status of DCA Trust .Africa
By Brent Donald Posted in gTLD's ICANN
The ICANN new gTLD process attracted over 1,930 new applications to be added into the root from 60 countries and territories. Of the applications received, 66 were geographic name applications while 116 applications made for Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, for strings in scripts such as Arabic, Chinese, and Cyrillic. Broken down by ICANN’s geographic regions; 911 from North America, 675 from Europe, 303 are from Asia-Pacific, 24 from Latin America and the Caribbean while 17 from Africa.
Africa fielded the lowest number of applications; however, among the 17 applications is the .Africa that attracted the biggest controversy that has opened up into a court case in a California court. The applicants of the domains led by DotConnectAfrica (DCA Trust) took an initiative to sue ICANN over the way its application was processed in a system that was determined to have offered unfavorable advantage to its competing applicant ZACR.
After a successful Independent Review Process that declared DCA Trust a prevailing applicant and ordered ICANN to carry the cost of the IRP, the case would later be taken to court where it resulted into a TRO where Central District Of California – Western Division ruling granted an Interim Relief that ICANN should hold off from delegating the .AFRICA top-level domain and a Preliminary Injunction both in favor of DotConnectAfrica, the case is still active in court.
The IRP win by DCA Trust over ICANN resulted in other application processes, among them the recently concluded Independent ruling for .Amazon domain where the largest online retailer Amazon has prevailed after appealing against a decision by ICANN to deny applications for the .amazon generic top-level domain (gTLD). The domain had been halted in 2014 after the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) asked the New gTLD Program Committee to reject the domains based on objections from Brazil and Peru, which share the Amazon region.
The biggest factor in the ICANN IRP’s for the new gTLD process is that the .Africa case won by DCA Trust has remained the precedent setting case,
The .Amazon IRP Panel stated [PDF]
Amazon argues the decision in the DCA Trust IRP, particularly paragraph 74, is precedent for proposition that the GAC must provide a reason for its advice. In that IRP, the Panel held: “As previously decided by this Panel, such accountability requires an organization to explain or give reasons for it activities, accept responsibility for them and to disclose the results in a transparent manner.” (See DotConnectAfrica Trust ICANN, Case No. 50-2013-001083, Final Declaration, at ¶ 74 (Int’l Centre forDispute Resolution, July 31, 2015), https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/finaldeclaration-2-redacted-09jul15-en.pdf (Emphasis added) [hereinafter DCA Trust].)
While prior IRP decisions are indeed precedential, although not binding on this Panel, 26 we believe that read in context, DCA Trust stands for the proposition that the Board, to meet its accountability and transparency obligations, must give reasons for its actions.
ICANN has been implicated in cases of mishandling applications and could be taken to court by applicants should the applicants not be satisfied by the independent review process that is supposed to be binding yet ICANN has always insisted that is only advisory to the board.
In the .Amazon case, the panel stated [PDF];
We declare that Amazon has established that ICANN’s Board, acting through the NGPC, acted in a manner inconsistent with ICANN’s Bylaws, as more fully described above. Further, the GAC, as a constituent body of ICANN, failed to allow the applicant to submit any information to the GAC and thus deprived the applicant of the minimal degree of procedural fairness before issuance of its advice, as required by the Bylaws. The failure by the GAC to accord procedural fairness diminishes the presumption that would otherwise attach to its consensus advice……. In its re-evaluation of the applications, the Board should make an objective and independent judgment regarding whether there are, in fact, well-founded, merits-based public policy reasons for denying Amazon’s applications. Further, if the Board determines that the applications should not proceed, the Board should explain its reasons supporting that decision. The GAC consensus advice, standing alone, cannot supplant the Board’s independent and objective decision with a reasoned analysis. …
Other IRPs who have prevailed against ICANN include DotRegistry where the panel slammed ICANN board saying “The BGC failed to address any of these assertions,” the judgment reads. Later: “The BGC admittedly did not examine whether the EIU or ICANN staff engaged in unjustified discrimination or failed to fulfill transparency obligations.”
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EU slaps Google with record $5 billion fine in Android Antitrust Case
Google fined $5 billion fine for illegal restrictions on Android use
The European Union Commission on Wednesday imposed on Google a record $5 billion (4.34 billion euros) fine for illegally abusing the dominance of its Android operating system.
Margrethe Vestager, EU Antitrust Chief who is in charge of the competition policy, said that the U.S. tech giant has been unlawfully using Android’s near-monopoly since 2011 to improve usage of its own search engine and browser and to strengthen its dominant position in general Internet search.
“Today the commission has decided to fine Google 4.34 billion euros (USD 5 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules,” Vestager told a press conference in Brussels. “Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits. They have denied European consumers the benefits of effective competition in the important mobile sphere.”
Vestager said Google “must put an effective end to this conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments” of up to five percent of the worldwide average daily revenue of its parent company, Alphabet.
“Our case is about three types of restrictions that Google has imposed on Android device manufacturers and network operators to ensure that traffic on Android devices goes to the Google search engine,” said Vestager.
Fine of €4,34 bn to @Google for 3 types of illegal restrictions on the use of Android. In this way it has cemented the dominance of its search engine. Denying rivals a chance to innovate and compete on the merits. It’s illegal under EU antitrust rules. @Google now has to stop it
— Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) July 18, 2018
Particularly, Google required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition for licensing Google’s app store (the Play Store).
The search giant ultimately gave “financial incentives” to manufacturers and mobile network operators, if they exclusively pre-installed the Google Search app on their devices, the commission said.
The Commission also found that Google used the so-called anti-fragmentation agreements to stop phone makers from selling modified versions of Android.
Google said it would be appealing against the fine imposed by EU. “Android has created more choice for everyone, not less. A vibrant ecosystem, rapid innovation, and lower prices are classic hallmarks of robust competition. We will appeal the Commission’s decision,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
This statement was backed by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai on Twitter, who said that Android’s existence has led to robust competition in a blog post on the subject.
It would be interesting to see how does the EU’s decision affect Google’s advertising business, as well as mobile phone manufacturers and app developers.
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The potential application of plant wax markers from alfalfa for estimating the total feed intake of sheep
H. Zhang, Y. P. Guo, W. Q. Chen, N. Liu, S. L. Shi, Y. J. Zhang, L. Ma, J. Q. Zhou
Journal: animal , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2019, pp. 1-10
Estimating the feed intake of grazing herbivores is critical for determining their nutrition, overall productivity and utilization of grassland resources. A 17-day indoor feeding experiment was conducted to evaluate the potential use of Medicago sativa as a natural supplement for estimating the total feed intake of sheep. A total of 16 sheep were randomly assigned to four diets (four sheep per diet) containing a known amount of M. sativa together with up to seven forages common to typical steppes. The diets were: diet 1, M. sativa + Leymus chinensis + Puccinellia distans; diet 2, species in diet 1 + Phragmites australis; diet 3, species in diet 2 + Chenopodium album + Elymus sibiricus; and diet 4, species in diet 3 + Artemisia scoparia + Artemisia tanacetifolia. After faecal marker concentrations were corrected by individual sheep recovery, treatment mean recovery or overall recovery, the proportions of M. sativa and other dietary forages were estimated from a combination of alkanes and long-chain alcohols using a least-square procedure. Total intake was the ratio of the known intake of M. sativa to its estimated dietary proportion. Each dietary component intake was obtained using total intake and the corresponding dietary proportions. The estimated values were compared with actual values to assess the estimation accuracy. The results showed that M. sativa exhibited a distinguishable marker pattern in comparison to the other dietary forage species. The accuracy of the dietary composition estimates was significantly (P < 0.001) affected by both diet diversity and the faecal recovery method. The proportion of M. sativa and total intake across all diets could be accurately estimated using the individual sheep or the treatment mean recovery methods. The largest differences between the estimated and observed total intake were 2.6 g and 19.2 g, respectively, representing only 0.4% and 2.6% of the total intake. However, they were significantly (P < 0.05) biased for most diets when using the overall recovery method. Due to the difficulty in obtaining individual sheep recovery under field conditions, treatment mean recovery is recommended. This study suggests that M. sativa, a natural roughage instead of a labelled concentrate, can be utilized as a dietary supplement to accurately estimate the total feed intake of sheep indoors and further indicates that it has potential to be used in steppe grassland of northern China, where the marker patterns of M. sativa differ markedly from commonly occurring plant species.
Dynamics in closed and open capillaries
T. S. Ramakrishnan, P. Wu, H. Zhang, D. T. Wasan
Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 872 / 10 August 2019
Print publication: 10 August 2019
Capillary rise of a liquid displacing gas is analysed for both open and closed capillaries. We include menisci mass and hysteresis, and show that oscillations due to inertia are muted by friction at the advancing meniscus. From single-phase numerical computations in a no-slip/slip capillary, we quantify losses due to entry, flow development, meniscus slip, exit and acceleration of fluid within the reservoir. For closed capillaries, determining viscous drag due to gas requires inclusion of compressibility, and solving a moving boundary problem. This solution is derived through perturbation expansion with respect to two different small parameters for obtaining pressure above the liquid meniscus. Our rise predictions spanning a large range of experimental conditions and fluids for both open and closed capillaries match the data. The experimental data confirm the adequacy of the theoretically constructed dimensionless groups for predicting oscillatory behaviour.
Substructure-Magnetic Property Correlation in Fe/Ag Composite Thin Films
C. P. Reed, R. J. DeAngelis, Y. X. Zhang, S. H. Liou, R. J. Jacob
Journal: Advances in X-ray Analysis / Volume 34 / 1990
A series of nanostructured Fe/Ag metal films were produced at various substrate temperatures to determine their magnetic characteristics. The magnetic coercivity was found to increase with the diffracting-particle size which is process controlled. The films produced at low substrate temperature (<200°C) consisted of small metallic clusters of Ag (<100 Å). As the substrate temperature was increased, the films exhibited increased crystallinity and larger diffracting-particle size. The position of the maximum in the particlesize distribution function and the width of the function increased with substrate temperature.
Behavioural responses of piglets to different types of music
X. Li, J. N. Zhao, P. Zhao, X. Zhang, Y. J. Bi, J. H. Li, H. G. Liu, C. Wang, J. Bao
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2019, pp. 1-8
Music or other background sounds are often played in barns as environmental enrichment for animals on farms or to mask sudden disruptive noises. Previous studies looking at the effects of this practice on non-human animal well-being and productivity have found contradictory results. However, there is still a lack of discussion on whether piglets have the ability to distinguish different types of music. In this study, we exposed piglets to different music conditions to investigate whether the piglets preferred certain music types, in which case those types would have the potential to be used as environmental enrichment. In total, 30 piglets were tested for music type preference to determine whether growing pigs respond differently to different types of music. We used music from two families of instruments (S: string, W: wind) and with two tempos (S: slow, 65 beats/min (bpm); F: fast, 200 bpm), providing four music-type combinations (SS: string-slow; SF: string-fast; WS: wind-slow; WF: wind-fast). The piglets were given a choice between two chambers, one with no music and the other with one of the four types of music, and their behaviour was observed. The results showed that SS and WF music significantly increased residence time (P<0.01) compared with the other music conditions. Compared with the control group (with no music), the different music conditions led to different behavioural responses, where SS music significantly increased lying (P<0.01) and exploration behaviour (P<0.01); SF music significantly increased tail-wagging behaviour (P<0.01); WS music significantly increased exploration (P<0.01); and WF music significantly increased walking, lying, standing and exploration (all P<0.01). The results also showed that musical instruments and tempo had little effect on most of the behaviours. Fast-tempo music significantly increased walking (P=0.02), standing (P<0.01) and tail wagging (P=0.04) compared with slow-tempo music. In conclusion, the results of this experiment show that piglets are more sensitive to tempo than to musical instruments in their response to musical stimulation and seem to prefer SS and WF music to the other two types. The results also suggest a need for further research on the effect of music types on animals.
The changes in different symptom scores during subcutaneous immunotherapy in Chinese house dust mite allergic patients: a two-year, observational study
Y Tu, H Zhang, L Zhao, P Jin, X Zi, T Li, L Shi, L Zhi
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 133 / Issue 3 / March 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2019, pp. 213-219
Print publication: March 2019
Subcutaneous immunotherapy is an effective and safe treatment for allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma. Different symptom scores are used to evaluate the efficacy of subcutaneous immunotherapy in clinical trials.
A total of 58 allergic rhinitis patients sensitised to house dust mites, with or without mild asthma, were included. Symptom score, medication score, visual analogue scale score and quality of life were assessed before and after 6, 12 and 24 months of subcutaneous immunotherapy.
After two years of subcutaneous immunotherapy, asthma symptom scores nearly reached zero, whereas the scores remained higher for nasal symptoms. The changes in asthma symptom scores were markedly different (p < 0.05) and occurred faster than the changes in nasal symptom scores when compared between monosensitised and polysensitised groups. Significant reductions in visual analogue scale score and medication score were demonstrated after subcutaneous immunotherapy.
Two-year subcutaneous immunotherapy with house dust mite vaccine is an effective treatment for both monosensitised and polysensitised allergic patients. The changes in asthma symptom scores were markedly different and occurred quicker than the changes in nasal symptom scores in Chinese house dust mite allergic patients.
Study of backward terahertz radiation from intense picosecond laser–solid interactions using a multichannel calorimeter system
HPL_EP HEDP and High Power Laser 2018
H. Liu, G.-Q. Liao, Y.-H. Zhang, B.-J. Zhu, Z. Zhang, Y.-T. Li, G. G. Scott, D. Rusby, C. Armstrong, E. Zemaityte, P. Bradford, N. Woolsey, P. Huggard, P. McKenna, D. Neely
Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering / Volume 7 / 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2019, e6
A multichannel calorimeter system is designed and constructed which is capable of delivering single-shot and broad-band spectral measurement of terahertz (THz) radiation generated in intense laser–plasma interactions. The generation mechanism of backward THz radiation (BTR) is studied by using the multichannel calorimeter system in an intense picosecond laser–solid interaction experiment. The dependence of the BTR energy and spectrum on laser energy, target thickness and pre-plasma scale length is obtained. These results indicate that coherent transition radiation is responsible for the low-frequency component ( ${<}$ 1 THz) of BTR. It is also observed that a large-scale pre-plasma primarily enhances the high-frequency component ( ${>}$ 3 THz) of BTR.
Morphological and molecular characterization of Megalobatrachonema hainanensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Ascaridida), with phylogenetic position of Megalobatrachonema in Cosmocercoidea
H.-X. Chen, L.-P. Zhang, L. Li
Journal: Journal of Helminthology , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2018, pp. 1-7
The genus Megalobatrachonema is a rare group of nematode parasites within Ascaridida. The systematic status of Megalobatrachonema in the superfamily Cosmocercoidea (Ascaridida) has long been controversial. The relationship of Megalobatrachonema and Chabaudgolvania remains unsolved. In the present study, a new species of Megalobatrachonema, M. hainanensis sp. nov., was described based on specimens collected in Amolops hainanensis (Boulenger) and Hylarana spinulosa (Smith) (Amphibia: Anura) from Hainan Island, China. The large ribosomal DNA (28S) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) were also sequenced for molecular identification and phylogenetic study. Phylogenetic analyses using maximum likelihood (ML) inference and Bayesian inference (BI) based on 28S and ITS1 sequence data, respectively, supported that Megalobatrachonema is a member of the family Kathlaniidae. In addition, the genetic comparison and phylogenetic results based on ITS1 sequence data also supported that the genus Chabaudgolvania should be considered as a synonym of Megalobatrachonema.
On the maximal spreading of impacting compound drops
H.-R. Liu, C.-Y. Zhang, P. Gao, X.-Y. Lu, H. Ding
Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 854 / 10 November 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2018, R6
Print publication: 10 November 2018
We numerically study the impact of a compound drop on a hydrophobic substrate using a ternary-fluid diffuse-interface method, aiming to understand how the presence of the inner droplet affects the spreading dynamics and maximal spreading of the compound drop. First, it is interesting to see that the numerical results for an impacting pure drop agree well with the universal rescaling of maximal spreading ratio proposed by Lee et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 786, 2016, R4). Second, two flow regimes have been identified for an impacting compound drop: namely jammed spreading and joint rim formation. The maximal spreading ratio of the compound drop is found to depend on the volume fraction of the inner droplet $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ , the surface tension ratio $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}$ , the Weber number and the flow regime. Moreover, we propose a universal rescaling of maximal spreading ratio for compound drops, by integrating the one for pure drops with a corrected Weber number that takes $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ , $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FE}$ and the flow regime into account. The predictions of the universal rescaling are in good agreement with the numerical results for impacting compound drops.
The effects of nasal irrigation with various solutions after endoscopic sinus surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis
X Z Chen, S Y Feng, L H Chang, X P Lai, X H Chen, Xia Li, G H Zhang
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 132 / Issue 8 / August 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 August 2018, pp. 673-679
Nasal irrigation is commonly performed in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis after functional endoscopic sinus surgery. This study systematically assessed the clinical efficacy of nasal irrigation from the medical literature.
The PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases were searched using a comprehensive strategy, limited to English-language articles, published from October 1971 to March 2017, and comprising human subjects.
A total of 824 trials were identified, 5 of which, involving 331 participants, were included in this systematic review. After selection, only three trials were eligible for inclusion in a meta-analysis. Nasal irrigation using normal saline and various solutions was found to be effective in reducing symptom scores and endoscopic scores for chronic rhinosinusitis patients after functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Comparison of outcome measures, such as eosinophil count reduction, revealed that various solutions are more effective than normal saline alone; however, no statistical significance was found in terms of reduced symptom or endoscopic scores.
Based on the current limited evidence, nasal irrigation is an effective therapy for chronic rhinosinusitis patients after functional endoscopic sinus surgery. However, when comparing various solutions with normal saline, no significant difference was found in symptom scores or endoscopic scores.
Early intervention with faecal microbiota transplantation: an effective means to improve growth performance and the intestinal development of suckling piglets
C. S. Cheng, H. K. Wei, P. Wang, H. C. Yu, X. M. Zhang, S. W. Jiang, J. Peng
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / March 2019
Recent studies indicate that early postnatal period is a critical window for gut microbiota manipulation to optimise the immunity and body growth. This study investigated the effects of maternal faecal microbiota orally administered to neonatal piglets after birth on growth performance, selected microbial populations, intestinal permeability and the development of intestinal mucosal immune system. In total, 12 litters of crossbred newborn piglets were selected in this study. Litter size was standardised to 10 piglets. On day 1, 10 piglets in each litter were randomly allotted to the faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and control groups. Piglets in the FMT group were orally administrated with 2ml faecal suspension of their nursing sow per day from the age of 1 to 3 days; piglets in the control group were treated with the same dose of a placebo (0.1M potassium phosphate buffer containing 10% glycerol (vol/vol)) inoculant. The experiment lasted 21 days. On days 7, 14 and 21, plasma and faecal samples were collected for the analysis of growth-related hormones and cytokines in plasma and lipocalin-2, secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), selected microbiota and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in faeces. Faecal microbiota transplantation increased the average daily gain of piglets during week 3 and the whole experiment period. Compared with the control group, the FMT group had increased concentrations of plasma growth hormone and IGF-1 on days 14 and 21. Faecal microbiota transplantation also reduced the incidence of diarrhoea during weeks 1 and 3 and plasma concentrations of zonulin, endotoxin and diamine oxidase activities in piglets on days 7 and 14. The populations of Lactobacillus spp. and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and the concentrations of faecal and plasma acetate, butyrate and total SCFAs in FMT group were higher than those in the control group on day 21. Moreover, the FMT piglets have higher concentrations of plasma transforming growth factor-β and immunoglobulin G, and faecal sIgA than the control piglets on day 21. These findings indicate that early intervention with maternal faecal microbiota improves growth performance, decreases intestinal permeability, stimulates sIgA secretion, and modulates gut microbiota composition and metabolism in suckling piglets.
Molecular characterization of prophenoloxidase-1 (PPO1) and the inhibitory effect of kojic acid on phenoloxidase (PO) activity and on the development of Zeugodacus tau (Walker) (Diptera: Tephritidae)
H.-H. Zhang, M.-J. Luo, Q.-W. Zhang, P.-M. Cai, A. Idrees, Q.-E. Ji, J.-Q. Yang, J.-H. Chen
Journal: Bulletin of Entomological Research / Volume 109 / Issue 2 / April 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2018, pp. 236-247
Print publication: April 2019
Phenoloxidase (PO) plays a key role in melanin biosynthesis during insect development. Here, we isolated the 2310-bp full-length cDNA of PPO1 from Zeugodacus tau, a destructive horticultural pest. qRT-polymerase chain reaction showed that the ZtPPO1 transcripts were highly expressed during larval–prepupal transition and in the haemolymph. When the larvae were fed a 1.66% kojic acid (KA)-containing diet, the levels of the ZtPPO1 transcripts significantly increased by 2.79- and 3.39-fold in the whole larvae and cuticles, respectively, while the corresponding PO activity was significantly reduced; in addition, the larval and pupal durations were significantly prolonged; pupal weights were lowered; and abnormal phenotypes were observed. An in vitro inhibition experiment indicated that KA was an effective competitive inhibitor of PO in Z. tau. Additionally, the functional analysis showed that 20E could significantly up-regulate the expression of ZtPPO1, induce lower pupal weight, and advance pupation. Knockdown of the ZtPPO1 gene by RNAi significantly decreased mRNA levels after 24 h and led to low pupation rates and incomplete pupae with abnormal phenotypes during the larval-pupal interim period. These results proved that PO is important for the normal growth of Z. tau and that KA can disrupt the development of this pest insect.
P.002 Exosomal miR-204-5 and miR-632 in CSF are candidate biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia: a GENFI study
R Schneider, P McKeever, T Kim, C Graff, J van Swieten, A Karydas, A Boxer, H Rosen, B Miller, R Laforce, D Galimberti, M Masellis, B Borroni, Z Zhang, L Zinman, JD Rohrer, MC Tartaglia, J Robertson
Journal: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 45 / Issue s2 / June 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2018, p. S16
Print publication: June 2018
Background: To determine whether exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs) in CSF of patients with FTD can serve as diagnostic biomarkers, we assessed miRNA expression in the Genetic FTD Initiative (GENFI) cohort and in sporadic FTD. Methods: GENFI participants were either carriers of a pathogenic mutation or at risk of carrying a mutation because a first-degree relative was a symptomatic mutation carrier. Exosomes were isolated from CSF of 23 -pre-symptomatic and 15 symptomatic mutation carriers, and 11 healthy non-mutation carriers. Expression of miRNAs was measured using qPCR arrays. MiRNAs differentially expressed in symptomatic compared to pre-symptomatic mutation carriers were evaluated in 17 patients with sporadic FTD, 13 patients with sporadic Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and 10 healthy controls (HCs). Results: In the GENFI cohort, miR-204-5p and miR-632 were significantly decreased in symptomatic compared to pre-symptomatic mutation carriers. Decrease of miR-204-5p and miR-632 revealed receiver operator characteristics with an area of 0.89 [90% CI: 0.79-0.98] and 0.81 [90% CI: 0.68-0.93], and when combined an area of 0.93 [90% CI: 0.87-0.99]. In sporadic FTD, only miR-632 was significantly decreased compared to sporadic AD and HCs. Decrease of miR-632 revealed an area of 0.89 [90% CI: 0.80-0.98]. Conclusions: Exosomal miR-204-5p and miR-632 have potential as diagnostic biomarkers for genetic FTD and miR-632 also for sporadic FTD.
EMP control and characterization on high-power laser systems
P. Bradford, N. C. Woolsey, G. G. Scott, G. Liao, H. Liu, Y. Zhang, B. Zhu, C. Armstrong, S. Astbury, C. Brenner, P. Brummitt, F. Consoli, I. East, R. Gray, D. Haddock, P. Huggard, P. J. R. Jones, E. Montgomery, I. Musgrave, P. Oliveira, D. R. Rusby, C. Spindloe, B. Summers, E. Zemaityte, Z. Zhang, Y. Li, P. McKenna, D. Neely
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2018, e21
Giant electromagnetic pulses (EMP) generated during the interaction of high-power lasers with solid targets can seriously degrade electrical measurements and equipment. EMP emission is caused by the acceleration of hot electrons inside the target, which produce radiation across a wide band from DC to terahertz frequencies. Improved understanding and control of EMP is vital as we enter a new era of high repetition rate, high intensity lasers (e.g. the Extreme Light Infrastructure). We present recent data from the VULCAN laser facility that demonstrates how EMP can be readily and effectively reduced. Characterization of the EMP was achieved using B-dot and D-dot probes that took measurements for a range of different target and laser parameters. We demonstrate that target stalk geometry, material composition, geodesic path length and foil surface area can all play a significant role in the reduction of EMP. A combination of electromagnetic wave and 3D particle-in-cell simulations is used to inform our conclusions about the effects of stalk geometry on EMP, providing an opportunity for comparison with existing charge separation models.
Probability of major depression diagnostic classification using semi-structured versus fully structured diagnostic interviews
Brooke Levis, Andrea Benedetti, Kira E. Riehm, Nazanin Saadat, Alexander W. Levis, Marleine Azar, Danielle B. Rice, Matthew J. Chiovitti, Tatiana A. Sanchez, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, John P. A. Ioannidis, Lorie A. Kloda, Dean McMillan, Scott B. Patten, Ian Shrier, Russell J. Steele, Roy C. Ziegelstein, Dickens H. Akena, Bruce Arroll, Liat Ayalon, Hamid R. Baradaran, Murray Baron, Anna Beraldi, Charles H. Bombardier, Peter Butterworth, Gregory Carter, Marcos H. Chagas, Juliana C. N. Chan, Rushina Cholera, Neerja Chowdhary, Kerrie Clover, Yeates Conwell, Janneke M. de Man-van Ginkel, Jaime Delgadillo, Jesse R. Fann, Felix H. Fischer, Benjamin Fischler, Daniel Fung, Bizu Gelaye, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Catherine G. Greeno, Brian J. Hall, John Hambridge, Patricia A. Harrison, Ulrich Hegerl, Leanne Hides, Stevan E. Hobfoll, Marie Hudson, Thomas Hyphantis, Masatoshi Inagaki, Khalida Ismail, Nathalie Jetté, Mohammad E. Khamseh, Kim M. Kiely, Femke Lamers, Shen-Ing Liu, Manote Lotrakul, Sonia R. Loureiro, Bernd Löwe, Laura Marsh, Anthony McGuire, Sherina Mohd Sidik, Tiago N. Munhoz, Kumiko Muramatsu, Flávia L. Osório, Vikram Patel, Brian W. Pence, Philippe Persoons, Angelo Picardi, Alasdair G. Rooney, Iná S. Santos, Juwita Shaaban, Abbey Sidebottom, Adam Simning, Lesley Stafford, Sharon Sung, Pei Lin Lynnette Tan, Alyna Turner, Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, Henk C. van Weert, Paul A. Vöhringer, Jennifer White, Mary A. Whooley, Kirsty Winkley, Mitsuhiko Yamada, Yuying Zhang, Brett D. Thombs
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 212 / Issue 6 / June 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2018, pp. 377-385
Different diagnostic interviews are used as reference standards for major depression classification in research. Semi-structured interviews involve clinical judgement, whereas fully structured interviews are completely scripted. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), a brief fully structured interview, is also sometimes used. It is not known whether interview method is associated with probability of major depression classification.
To evaluate the association between interview method and odds of major depression classification, controlling for depressive symptom scores and participant characteristics.
Data collected for an individual participant data meta-analysis of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) diagnostic accuracy were analysed and binomial generalised linear mixed models were fit.
A total of 17 158 participants (2287 with major depression) from 57 primary studies were analysed. Among fully structured interviews, odds of major depression were higher for the MINI compared with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) (odds ratio (OR) = 2.10; 95% CI = 1.15–3.87). Compared with semi-structured interviews, fully structured interviews (MINI excluded) were non-significantly more likely to classify participants with low-level depressive symptoms (PHQ-9 scores ≤6) as having major depression (OR = 3.13; 95% CI = 0.98–10.00), similarly likely for moderate-level symptoms (PHQ-9 scores 7–15) (OR = 0.96; 95% CI = 0.56–1.66) and significantly less likely for high-level symptoms (PHQ-9 scores ≥16) (OR = 0.50; 95% CI = 0.26–0.97).
The MINI may identify more people as depressed than the CIDI, and semi-structured and fully structured interviews may not be interchangeable methods, but these results should be replicated.
Declaration of interest
Drs Jetté and Patten declare that they received a grant, outside the submitted work, from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, which was jointly funded by the Institute and Pfizer. Pfizer was the original sponsor of the development of the PHQ-9, which is now in the public domain. Dr Chan is a steering committee member or consultant of Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Lilly, MSD and Pfizer. She has received sponsorships and honorarium for giving lectures and providing consultancy and her affiliated institution has received research grants from these companies. Dr Hegerl declares that within the past 3 years, he was an advisory board member for Lundbeck, Servier and Otsuka Pharma; a consultant for Bayer Pharma; and a speaker for Medice Arzneimittel, Novartis, and Roche Pharma, all outside the submitted work. Dr Inagaki declares that he has received grants from Novartis Pharma, lecture fees from Pfizer, Mochida, Shionogi, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, Daiichi-Sankyo, Meiji Seika and Takeda, and royalties from Nippon Hyoron Sha, Nanzando, Seiwa Shoten, Igaku-shoin and Technomics, all outside of the submitted work. Dr Yamada reports personal fees from Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd., MSD K.K., Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, Seishin Shobo, Seiwa Shoten Co., Ltd., Igaku-shoin Ltd., Chugai Igakusha and Sentan Igakusha, all outside the submitted work. All other authors declare no competing interests. No funder had any role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
High-grain diet feeding altered the composition and functions of the rumen bacterial community and caused the damage to the laminar tissues of goats
R. Y. Zhang, W. Jin, P. F. Feng, J. H. Liu, S. Y. Mao
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 12 / December 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2018, pp. 2511-2520
Print publication: December 2018
In the current intensive production system, ruminants are often fed high-grain (HG) diets. However, this feeding pattern often causes rumen metabolic disorders and may further trigger laminitis, the exact mechanism is not clear. This study investigated the effect of HG diet feeding on fermentative and microbial changes in the rumen and on the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the lamellar tissue. In all, 12 male goats were fed a hay diet (0% grain; n=6) or an HG diet (56.5% grain; n=6). On day 50 of treatment, samples of blood, rumen content, and lamellar tissue of hooves of goats were collected. The data showed that compared with the hay group, HG-fed goats had lower (P<0.05) rumen pH but higher (P<0.05) total volatile fatty acids and lactate in the rumen and higher (P<0.05) lipopolysaccharide (LPS) levels in the rumen and blood. HG diet feeding altered the composition of rumen bacterial community, and correspondingly, the results suggested that their functions in the HG group were also altered. HG diet feeding increased (P<0.05) the expression of interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, tumour necrosis factor-α and MMP-2 mRNA in the lamellar tissues compared with the hay group. Correlation analysis indicated that the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines were positively correlated with MMP-2 expression in lamellar tissues. Overall, these results revealed that HG feeding altered the patterns of rumen fermentation and the composition and functions of rumen bacterial community, and lead to higher levels of LPS in the peripheral blood, and further activated the inflammatory response in lamellar tissues, which may progress to the level of laminar damage.
Placental mitochondrial biogenesis and function was slightly changed by gestational hypercholesterolemia in full-term pregnant women
Z.-Y. Le, S. Dong, R. Zhang, X.-P. Cai, A. Gao, R. Xiao, H.-L. Yu
Journal: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease / Volume 9 / Issue 4 / August 2018
It was reported that high blood cholesterol levels increased the susceptibility to mitochondrial dysfunction. This study hypothesized that the gestational hypercholesterolemia (HC) could induce the mitochondrial dysfunction in term human placenta. The eligible pregnant women were recruited from Xuanwu Hospital in Beijing during their first prenatal visit (before their 10th week of pregnancy). In total, 19 pregnant women whose serum total cholesterol levels were higher than 7.25 mm at third trimester (measured at 36–38 weeks) were selected as gestational HC. Other 19 pregnant women with normal cholesterol level matched with age, pre-gestational body mass index, and the neonatal gender were included as the control group. Full-term placenta samples were collected. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number, messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, adenosine triphosphate monophosphatase 6 (ATP6ase), citrate synthase, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) co-activator 1α, PPARγ co-activator 1β and estrogen-related receptor-α, and the activity of mitochondrial respiratory chain enzyme complex were measured. Pregnancy outcomes were obtained by extraction from medical records and the labor ward register. The results showed that only placental mtDNA copy number and mRNA expression of ATP6ase were significantly decreased in HC group. No significant differences were detected of other measurements between the two groups. These findings indicated that gestational HC might not induce the damage of placental function seriously.
Effects of in ovo feeding of l-arginine on breast muscle growth and protein deposition in post-hatch broilers
L. L. Yu, T. Gao, M. M. Zhao, P. A. Lv, L. Zhang, J. L. Li, Y. Jiang, F. Gao, G. H. Zhou
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 11 / November 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2018, pp. 2256-2263
In ovo feeding (IOF) of l-arginine (Arg) can affect growth performance of broilers, but the response of IOF of Arg on breast muscle growth is unclear, and the mechanism involved in protein deposition remains unknown. Hense, this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of IOF of Arg on breast muscle growth and protein-deposited signalling in post-hatch broilers. A total of 720 fertile eggs were collected from 34-week-old Arbor Acres breeder hens and distributed to three treatments: (1) non-injected control group; (2) 7.5 g/l (w/v) NaCl diluent-injected control group; (3) 0.6 mg Arg/egg solution-injected group. At 17.5 days of incubation, fertile eggs were injected 0.6 ml solutions into the amnion of the injected groups. Upon hatching, 80 male chicks were randomly assigned to eight replicates of 10 birds each and fed ad libitum for 21 days. The results indicated that IOF of Arg increased relative breast muscle weight compared with those of control groups at hatch, 3-, 7- and 21-day post-hatch (P<0.05). In the Arg-injected group, the plasma total protein and albumen concentrations were higher at 7- and 21-day post-hatch than those of control groups (P<0.05). The alanine aminotransferase activity in Arg group was higher at hatch than that of control groups (P<0.05). The levels of triiodothyronine at four time points and thyroxine hormones at hatch, 7- and 21-day post-hatch in Arg group were higher than those of control groups (P<0.05). In addition, IOF of Arg increased the amino acid concentrations of breast muscle at hatch, 7- and 21-day post-hatch (P<0.05). In ovo feeding of Arg also enhanced mammalian target of rapamycin, ribosomal protein S6 kinase-1 and eIF4E-bindingprotein-1 messenger RNA expression levels at hatch compared with those of control groups (P<0.05). It was concluded that IOF of Arg treatment improved breast muscle growth, which might be associated with the enhancement of protein deposition.
Follow Up of GW170817 and Its Electromagnetic Counterpart by Australian-Led Observing Programmes
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke, A. Acharyya, J. R. Allison, G. E. Anderson, M. C. B. Ashley, D. Baade, M. Bailes, K. Bannister, A. Beardsley, M. S. Bessell, F. Bian, P. A. Bland, M. Boer, T. Booler, A. Brandeker, I. S. Brown, D. A. H. Buckley, S.-W. Chang, D. M. Coward, S. Crawford, H. Crisp, B. Crosse, A. Cucchiara, M. Cupák, J. S. de Gois, A. Deller, H. A. R. Devillepoix, D. Dobie, E. Elmer, D. Emrich, W. Farah, T. J. Farrell, T. Franzen, B. M. Gaensler, D. K. Galloway, B. Gendre, T. Giblin, A. Goobar, J. Green, P. J. Hancock, B. A. D. Hartig, E. J. Howell, L. Horsley, A. Hotan, R. M. Howie, L. Hu, Y. Hu, C. W. James, S. Johnston, M. Johnston-Hollitt, D. L. Kaplan, M. Kasliwal, E. F. Keane, D. Kenney, A. Klotz, R. Lau, R. Laugier, E. Lenc, X. Li, E. Liang, C. Lidman, L. C. Luvaul, C. Lynch, B. Ma, D. Macpherson, J. Mao, D. E. McClelland, C. McCully, A. Möller, M. F. Morales, D. Morris, T. Murphy, K. Noysena, C. A. Onken, N. B. Orange, S. Osłowski, D. Pallot, J. Paxman, S. B. Potter, T. Pritchard, W. Raja, R. Ridden-Harper, E. Romero-Colmenero, E. M. Sadler, E. K. Sansom, R. A. Scalzo, B. P. Schmidt, S. M. Scott, N. Seghouani, Z. Shang, R. M. Shannon, L. Shao, M. M. Shara, R. Sharp, M. Sokolowski, J. Sollerman, J. Staff, K. Steele, T. Sun, N. B. Suntzeff, C. Tao, S. Tingay, M. C. Towner, P. Thierry, C. Trott, B. E. Tucker, P. Väisänen, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, M. Walker, L. Wang, X. Wang, R. Wayth, M. Whiting, A. Williams, T. Williams, C. Wolf, C. Wu, X. Wu, J. Yang, X. Yuan, H. Zhang, J. Zhou, H. Zovaro
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017, e069
The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. In this paper, we present follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart SSS17a/DLT17ck (IAU label AT2017gfo) by 14 Australian telescopes and partner observatories as part of Australian-based and Australian-led research programs. We report early- to late-time multi-wavelength observations, including optical imaging and spectroscopy, mid-infrared imaging, radio imaging, and searches for fast radio bursts. Our optical spectra reveal that the transient source emission cooled from approximately 6 400 K to 2 100 K over a 7-d period and produced no significant optical emission lines. The spectral profiles, cooling rate, and photometric light curves are consistent with the expected outburst and subsequent processes of a binary neutron star merger. Star formation in the host galaxy probably ceased at least a Gyr ago, although there is evidence for a galaxy merger. Binary pulsars with short (100 Myr) decay times are therefore unlikely progenitors, but pulsars like PSR B1534+12 with its 2.7 Gyr coalescence time could produce such a merger. The displacement (~2.2 kpc) of the binary star system from the centre of the main galaxy is not unusual for stars in the host galaxy or stars originating in the merging galaxy, and therefore any constraints on the kick velocity imparted to the progenitor are poor.
Impact of an intervention programme on knowledge, attitudes and practices of population regarding severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in endemic areas of Lu'an, China
Y. LYU, C.-Y. HU, L. SUN, W. QIN, P.-P. XU, J. SUN, J.-Y. HU, Y. YANG, F.-L. LI, H.-W. CHANG, X.-D. LI, S.-Y. XIE, K.-C. LI, X.-X. HUANG, F. DING, X.-J. ZHANG
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 146 / Issue 1 / January 2018
Knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the population regarding severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in endemic areas of Lu'an in China were assessed before and after an intervention programme. The pre-intervention phase was conducted using a sample of 425 participants from the 12 selected villages with the highest rates of endemic SFTS infection. A predesigned interview questionnaire was used to assess KAP. Subsequently, an intervention programme was designed and applied in the selected villages. KAP was re-assessed for each population in the selected villages using the same interview questionnaire. Following 2 months of the programme, 339 participants had completed the re-assessed survey. The impact of the intervention programme was evaluated using suitable statistical methods. A significant increase in the KAP and total KAP scores was noted following the intervention programme, whereas the proportion of correct knowledge, the positive attitudes and the effective practices toward SFTS of respondents increased significantly. The intervention programme was effective in improving KAP level of SFTS in populations that were resident in endemic areas.
New insights into mitogenomic phylogeny and copy number in eight indigenous sheep populations based on the ATP synthase and cytochrome c oxidase genes
P. Xiao, L. L. Niu, Q. J. Zhao, X. Y. Chen, L. J. Wang, L. Li, H. P. Zhang, J. Z. Guo, H. Y. Xu, T. Zhong
Journal: animal / Volume 12 / Issue 7 / July 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2017, pp. 1341-1349
Print publication: July 2018
The origins and phylogeny of different sheep breeds has been widely studied using polymorphisms within the mitochondrial hypervariable region. However, little is known about the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content and phylogeny based on mtDNA protein-coding genes. In this study, we assessed the phylogeny and copy number of the mtDNA in eight indigenous (population size, n=184) and three introduced (n=66) sheep breeds in China based on five mitochondrial coding genes (COX1, COX2, ATP8, ATP6 and COX3). The mean haplotype and nucleotide diversities were 0.944 and 0.00322, respectively. We identified a correlation between the lineages distribution and the genetic distance, whereby Valley-type Tibetan sheep had a closer genetic relationship with introduced breeds (Dorper, Poll Dorset and Suffolk) than with other indigenous breeds. Similarly, the Median-joining profile of haplotypes revealed the distribution of clusters according to genetic differences. Moreover, copy number analysis based on the five mitochondrial coding genes was affected by the genetic distance combining with genetic phylogeny; we also identified obvious non-synonymous mutations in ATP6 between the different levels of copy number expressions. These results imply that differences in mitogenomic compositions resulting from geographical separation lead to differences in mitochondrial function.
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SPICA—A Large Cryogenic Infrared Space Telescope: Unveiling the Obscured Universe
Exploring Astronomical Evolution with SPICA
P. R. Roelfsema, H. Shibai, L. Armus, D. Arrazola, M. Audard, M. D. Audley, C.M. Bradford, I. Charles, P. Dieleman, Y. Doi, L. Duband, M. Eggens, J. Evers, I. Funaki, J. R. Gao, M. Giard, A. di Giorgio, L. M. González Fernández, M. Griffin, F. P. Helmich, R. Hijmering, R. Huisman, D. Ishihara, N. Isobe, B. Jackson, H. Jacobs, W. Jellema, I. Kamp, H. Kaneda, M. Kawada, F. Kemper, F. Kerschbaum, P. Khosropanah, K. Kohno, P. P. Kooijman, O. Krause, J. van der Kuur, J. Kwon, W. M. Laauwen, G. de Lange, B. Larsson, D. van Loon, S. C. Madden, H. Matsuhara, F. Najarro, T. Nakagawa, D. Naylor, H. Ogawa, T. Onaka, S. Oyabu, A. Poglitsch, V. Reveret, L. Rodriguez, L. Spinoglio, I. Sakon, Y. Sato, K. Shinozaki, R. Shipman, H. Sugita, T. Suzuki, F. F. S. van der Tak, J. Torres Redondo, T. Wada, S. Y. Wang, C. K. Wafelbakker, H. van Weers, S. Withington, B. Vandenbussche, T. Yamada, I. Yamamura
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2018, e030
Measurements in the infrared wavelength domain allow direct assessment of the physical state and energy balance of cool matter in space, enabling the detailed study of the processes that govern the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems in galaxies over cosmic time. Previous infrared missions revealed a great deal about the obscured Universe, but were hampered by limited sensitivity.
SPICA takes the next step in infrared observational capability by combining a large 2.5-meter diameter telescope, cooled to below 8 K, with instruments employing ultra-sensitive detectors. A combination of passive cooling and mechanical coolers will be used to cool both the telescope and the instruments. With mechanical coolers the mission lifetime is not limited by the supply of cryogen. With the combination of low telescope background and instruments with state-of-the-art detectors SPICA provides a huge advance on the capabilities of previous missions.
SPICA instruments offer spectral resolving power ranging from R ~50 through 11 000 in the 17–230 μm domain and R ~28.000 spectroscopy between 12 and 18 μm. SPICA will provide efficient 30–37 μm broad band mapping, and small field spectroscopic and polarimetric imaging at 100, 200 and 350 μm. SPICA will provide infrared spectroscopy with an unprecedented sensitivity of ~5 × 10−20 W m−2 (5σ/1 h)—over two orders of magnitude improvement over what earlier missions. This exceptional performance leap, will open entirely new domains in infrared astronomy; galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, the formation history of planetary systems.
The Behavior of Radiocaesium Deposited in an Upland Reservoir After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Hironori Funaki, Hiroki Hagiwara, Tadahiko Tsuruta
Journal: MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 1665 / 2014
In the autumn of 2012, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) launched a new research project named F-TRACE (Long-Term Assessment of Transport of Radioactive Contaminant in the Environment of Fukushima). The aims of this project are to develop a system for prediction of radiation exposure, taking into consideration the transport, deposition, and remobilization behavior of radiocaesium (RCs) from the highest contaminated mountain forests, down through the biosphere, before deposition in a number of different aquatic systems. Especially, it is important to understand balances of suspended and deposited particles and RCs inventory in inflow water, discharge water and bottom sediments of an upland reservoir. In this paper, we describe current research activities performed by JAEA at the Ogi Reservoir, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
According to our analyses the specific sediment yield and the average rate of storage capacity loss at the Ogi Reservoir are 210 m3 km-2 year-1 and 0.15 % year-1, respectively. The vertical distribution of RCs exhibits clear peaks at several sites in the reservoir formed by deposition of eroded soil particles from the catchment that were contaminated by accident fallout. Above the depth of each of the RCs peaks, the distribution of RCs was found to be variable with depth, with concentrations ranging over five orders of magnitude for a single core. The peaks in the sedimentation profiles are probably formed from eroded soil particles entering the reservoir from the surrounding contaminated watershed (most probably during storm events). Results from grain size analyses suggest that contaminated fine sediment tends to be deposited thickly within deeper parts of the reservoir. In addition, above the depth of RCs peaks at these deeper sites, the concentration of RCs approximately increased or decreased as the proportion of fine sediments increased or decreased. However, some fine particles are possibly discharged downstream during operational releases from the dam.
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Ryanair Issue Brexit Warning
Ryanair Issue Brexit Warning. The budget airline have announced drastic measures which will be brought into place after Brexit.
Budget airline Ryanair Issue Brexit Warning. The airline have expressed concern over flights from the UK to Europe after Brexit, warning that there could be serious disruption if a bilateral agreement is not reached by September 2018.
If an agreement is not in put into place, airlines could face increased costs and administration charges to be able to continue to use British airspace. Ryanair today announced drastic measures which would affect travellers between the UK and Malaga here on the Costa Del Sol.
New Measures
The new measures would see Ryanair still offering flights from the UK to Malaga and the new Malaga Merida airports, but these flights would avoid British airspace altogether. The plan includes collecting passengers from the airport of their choice in the UK, then shuttling passengers to an alternative airport in northern France.
Paddy Pogmothoin says disruption will be minimal.
Paddy Pogmothoin is the head of Ryanair’s Department For Things Which Are Unlikely To Ever Happen But Will Scare People Anyway. He told Costa Del Sol Update that disruption would be minimal. “It will be just like taking a plane, except you will be on the ground at first. We will collect people from the airport car park, take them to Dover, through the Channel Tunnel, and to an airport in Northern France where the rest of the journey will be undertaken in our usual luxury aircraft”.
“The advantage is that there will be no long airport check in queues in Britain, and we will have a tent in the car park selling all the usual duty free luxury items. You won’t miss out on your Armani fragrances or your duty free Apple iPads this way”.
Malaga To The UK
Return journeys to the UK could prove more problematic after Brexit, as Mr Pogmothoin has given details of proposed travel arrangements. “Passengers will get on a plan in Malaga as normal, where they will be issued with a parachute and basic operating instructions. To avoid flying through British airspace, passengers will disembark from 20,000 feet over the Channel, and complete their journey using the blue and yellow Ryanair parachute”.
Mr. and Mrs. Dethwysh from Scunthorpe testing the new Ryanair return flight solution.
Some travellers have voiced concerns about their luggage on the return journey. Ryanair are saying that the luggage will be jettisoned on parachutes at the same time as the passengers, who will be able to use GPS to locate their bags when they land in the UK for a small additional charge.
Ryanair Return Flight Charges
Currently return flights from East Midlands to Malaga can cost as little as €60. However the new proposed travel plans would see those costs increase. A Ryanair press release says that “we will still be offering budget travel, with a few extra compulsory fees. These will include a baggage handing fee, land based vehicle surcharge, a channel tunnel surcharge, a French passport control surcharge, and a parachute surcharge for the return flights. This will be less than €2000 per person.”
Remain voters will be offered discounts.
Discounts For Remain Voters
To show solidarity with Europe, Ryanair have said that they will offer travel discounts to British passengers who voted remain in the Brexit referendum. Seamus O’Shyte is the Ryanair Director Of Unreasonable Hidden Charges. He says “If passengers can prove that they voted to remain in Europe, we will waive the baggage handling fee. That will save about €30 per customer. There will be a €45 processing fee for anyone applying for the discount though”.
Irate Customers
Billy McBahlsack from Birmingham says this new Brexit warning will ruin his planned family holiday for 2019. He told Costa Del Sol Update “I’m not from Birmingham actually, I’m from Lichfield. We always have a luxury 2 star almost all-inclusive break in Torremolinos every summer. This Brexit thing will destroy our holidays. We can’t afford these prices.”
Are you concerned about the impact of Brexit on your travel arrangements? Have your say in the comments section below.
Written by Michael O’Really, Costa Del Sol Update, 05.02.2018
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