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Posted on September 24, 2017 by A. B. Funkhauser, Author
Thrilled to announce that my three day giveaway on Amazon.com and .ca was an amazing success. I made it to top 10 (Satire) for about two hours, but stayed in the top 20 for three days on .com. Further, I made it to #271 over all for Canada on .ca. That’s a lot of downloads. Now, if 1% actually reads and likes it, maybe, maybe, maybe they’ll buy the others? Who knows.
Anyway, I’d just like to thank everyone here for downloading the beastie/spreading the word to others. It really, really worked.
Round of applause. You deserve it.
Honorable mention to KateMarie Collins for setting it up, Kathi Sprayberry for doing all the things she does, and always Melissa Miller for founding a wonderful community. Solstice, more than just a publisher! TYSM.
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THE CLOSED WORLD OF THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Posted on March 9, 2016 March 13, 2016 by A. B. Funkhauser, Author
The closed world of a funeral director is rarely glimpsed owing to the strictures of confidentiality scrupulously maintained by industry professionals. In SCOOTER NATION, the second novel in A.B. Funkhauser’s Unapologetic Lives Series, confidentiality, or more keenly the silence naturalized by a desire to protect the privacy of others, leads to inflated misunderstandings underpinned by a culture of myth and lore. What follows are a chain of events both comic and chilling.
E X C E R P T
Krause looked like she was going to cry: “Don’t you knobs get it? We’ve been sold to the Flexor Group. I just know it.”
Carla stiffened. “What did you see? Who did you see?”
The death business was a small, closed community with few strangers. Everybody knew everyone else and their business too.
“I only saw their feet,” Enid replied. “Black shoes. Square toes.” Her face whitened. “Loafers!”
Scooter Creighton dropped his lighter. “Are you sure? No mistake?”
“No mistake. I was wearing my bifocals. There can only be one person behind this.”
The ancient intercom on the garage wall crackled to life. Jocasta Binns had found them: “Put the damned cigarettes out. Meeting starts NOW.”
Scooter Creighton nodded meaningfully at his companions. The rude bitch was clearly on a roll. Like most funeral homes that hadn’t caught up to the twenty-first century, Weibigand’s had a front door equipped with a tinny doorbell that sounded whenever the door swung open. More modern establishments employed greeters or hostesses that manned large semi-circular hotel-lobby like desks for a more personal touch. But Weibigand’s, experiencing a steady decline in business year over year, lacked funds to pay for such a person. So the bell, on duty since the 1930s, was the only way to know that someone had come in. It had not sounded.
“Jocasta turned the bell off!” Enid shouted. “Why the hell would she turn the bell off?”
There were only two possible explanations: Either some non-staffer had been assigned to stand watch at the door and had shut the bell off, or the doors were being locked and the bell wasn’t needed.
“My god,” Carla gasped, thinking of the square-toed, black leather shoes that, beyond any doubt, now stalked the hall above. Though there were many, only a single pair held any relevance.
Every profession had its own share of false gods and banal superstitions. Those, carried forth on a wave of feverish gossip backed by assertions that everything said was ‘true’, gave rise to fantastic mythologies that made a chosen few more significant than they actually were. Graeham Grissom of B.H. Hoage, for example, was the undisputed embalming god of their age while “Count Floyd” Aiken could ‘will’ new business into being with a stroke of a pen. That old age, arthritis, early-onset dementia and the public’s annoying preference for cremation over medieval embalming procedures decreased the field of competitors, and so guaranteed Graeham’s mantle in the first instance, had nothing to do with the stories spread: he made esoteric concoctions in the old Hoage basement that rendered his people ‘pliable’ ‘natural-like’ ‘soft to the touch’ and even ‘warmer’ without the slightest sign of decay, even after a fifty-four day hold. The same held for Count Floyd. No one could turn a prearranged funeral into an ‘at need’ simply by sending a get better card, yet Floyd’s people did die suddenly whenever he did, whether sick or not. That the deceased had crossed the century mark in every case had little to do with a great tale.
But there were other stories out there: stories not so benign and infinitely more sinister. Some, it was said, enriched themselves through the weak willed. These were the mendacious pocket-liners who evaded the law and curried favor with popular opinion regardless of talk.
These were the ones to watch…
And fear.
The little group assembled in the Weibigand garage knew that fear and felt it now because it was right on top of their heads. Scooter Creighton, jaws clenched, ground the words out first, like a metal vise in need of oil: “It’s Clayton. He is in the building.”
SCOOTER NATION
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HEUER LOST AND FOUND: THE EXCERPT
Posted on March 25, 2015 March 27, 2015 by A. B. Funkhauser, Author
“Come with me, and I will show you worlds.”
At last, HEUER LOST AND FOUND is ready to go with presales beginning March 26 to the launch on April 23rd on Amazon. It’s been a long, exciting journey marked with encouragement and a lot of learning. I’ve made so many friends along the way, so much so that I owe this space and the people that help fill it a special nod all their own. In the coming days, I’ll be talking up my ladies in the Brooklin 7, my incredible sister and authorly inspiration Cryssa Bazos, and long time friends Gilda Heinrich Rousseau and Suzanne Fairbrass Stacey. I will also pay homage to the crew at the Wine Rack, the guys on the Canadian Poncho Car site, and the amazing staff at the Pickering Metro; all of whom make stepping out the door an adventure. Thank you. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Solstice Publishing, it’s staff—who are also writers—and the amazing authors I’ve grown close to as a member of the Solstice Family. All in due time. Today, is for every person I’ve spoken to who expressed interest in HEUER LOST AND FOUND. I owe you an excerpt.
Two Weeks Ago
The house, like the man who lived in it, was remarkable: a 1950s clapboard-brick number with a metal garage door that needed serious painting. Likewise, the windows, which had been replaced once in the Seventies under some home improvement program, then never again. They were wooden and they were cracked, allowing wasps and other insects inside.
This was of little consequence to him.
The neighbors, whom Heuer prodigiously ignored, would stare at the place. Greek, Italian, and house proud, they found the man’s disdain for his own home objectionable. He could see it on their faces when he looked out at them through dirty windows.
To hell with them.
If the neighbors disapproved of the moss green roof with its tar shingles that habitually blew off, then let them replace it. Money didn’t fall from the sky and if it did, he wouldn’t spend it on improvements to please strangers.
They were insects.
And yet there were times when Jürgen Heuer was forced to compromise. Money, he learned, could solve just about anything. But not where the willful and the pernicious were concerned. These, once singled out, required special attention.
Alfons Vermiglia, the Genovese neighbor next door, had taken great offense to his acacia tree, a towering twenty-five foot behemoth that had grown from a cutting given to him by a lodge brother. The acacia was esteemed in Masonic lore appearing often in ritual, rendering it so much more than just mere tree. In practical terms, it provided relief, offering shade on hot days to the little things beneath it. And it bloomed semi-annually, whimsically releasing a preponderance of white petals that carried on the wind mystical scent—the same found in sacred incense and parfums.
What horseshit.
It was a dirty son of a bitch of a tree that dropped its leaves continuously from spring to fall, shedding tiny branches from its diffident margins. These were covered in nasty little thorns that damaged vinyl pool liners and soft feet alike. They also did a pretty amazing job of clogging Alfons’ pool filter, turning his twenty-five hundred gallon toy pool green overnight.
This chemistry compromised the neighbor’s pleasure and it heightened his passions, blinding Alfons to the true nature of his enemy. He crossed over onto Heuer’s property and drove copper nails into the root system. It was an old trick, Byzantine in its treachery; the copper would kill the tree slowly over time leading no one to suspect foul play.
But Heuer was cagey and suspicious by nature, so when the tree displayed signs of failure, he knew where to look.
The acacia recovered and Alfons said nothing. Heuer planted aralia—the “Devil’s Walking Stick”—along the fence line and this served as an even thornier reminder that he knew. And if there was any doubt at all, he went further by coating his neighbor’s corkscrew hazel with a generous dose of Wipe Out.
Intrusive neighbors and their misplaced curiosities were, by turns, annoying and amusing and their interest, though unwanted, did not go unappreciated. The Greeks on the other side of him weren’t combative in the least and they offered gardening advice whenever they caught him out of doors. The man, Panos, talked politics and cars, and expressed interest in the vehicle that sat shrouded and silent on Heuer’s driveway. He spoke long and colorfully about the glory days of Detroit muscle cars and how it all got bungled and bargained away.
“They sacrificed an industry to please a bunch of big mouths in Hollywood,” Panos would rant in complete disregard for history: Al Gore and Global Warming didn’t kill the GTO; the OPEC oil crisis did. But there was no point in telling him that.
Panos was an armchair car guy and incurable conspiracy theorist. He also kept to his side of the fence, unlike his wife, Stavroula, who was driven by natural instinct. Not content to leave an unmarried man alone, she routinely crossed Heuer’s weedy lawn, banging on the door with offers of food and a good housecleaning.
Heuer had no trouble accepting her cooking. But he declined her brush and broom. Was it kindness, or was she trying to see inside? He suspected the latter.
No one was ever seen entering Heuer’s house and while this piqued public interest, he never gave in, not even to those who were kind to him. He liked Panos and Stavroula and he regretted poisoning their cat.
But not enough to let them in to his home.
Others on the street had less contact with him. Canvassers at election time would disturb him, in spite of the lawn sign warning the solicitous away. That this didn’t apply to neighbor kids brave enough to pedal cookies and magazine subscriptions in spite of the sign, was a testament, perhaps, to some residual soft spot in his heart that endured.
Even so, he knew that people talked about him and, frankly, he had trouble accounting for their fascination. Short, curt, bespectacled, he courted an ethos that favored enforced detachment. When people got close enough to hear him speak, they detected a trace of an accent. Now faded after years of U.S. residency, his speech still bore the unmistakable patterns of someone undeniably foreign. Elaborate, overwrought and heavy on the adverbs, he spoke very much like his neighbors. Yet the distance between them was incalculable…
Day 1: Post Mortem
Heuer shook his head, finding it especially odd that he would think of such things at this particular moment. The circumstances, after all, were beyond peculiar. Coming out of thick, dense fog, standing upright, looking wildly around, and having difficulty comprehending, the last thing that should trouble him was human relations.
The man on the floor would have agreed, had he not lacked the resources to speak.
Heuer canvassed his surroundings. The room, still dark, the shades drawn, and the plants Stavroula forced on him, wilted and dry, bespoke of an unqualified sadness. His computer, left on and unattended, buzzed pointlessly in the corner, its screen saver, a multi-colored Spirograph montage, interspersed with translucent images of faceless Bond girls, twisting ad infinitum for an audience of none.
What happened here?
The bottle of Johnnie Black lay open and empty on the bedroom floor, along with a pack of Marlboro’s, gifts from an old friend. The desk chair lay on its side, toppled, in keeping with the rest of the room. His bed sheets were twisted, the pillows on the floor, and there were stains on the walls; strange residues deposited over time representing neglect and a desire to tell.
He looked down at his hands. They kept changing; the veins, wavy, rose and fell like pots of worms.
Trippy.
There was no evidence of eating, however, and this was really weird, for it was in this room that Heuer lived. Flat screens, mounted on the ceiling and on the desktop, kept him in line with the world outside in ways that papers could not. Screens blasted twenty-four and seven with their talking heads and CNN, whereas papers were flat and dirty, suitable only for the bottoms of bird cages. He cancelled the dailies first and then the weeklies, seeing no value whatever in printed words.
Pictures were another matter. Several in paint and charcoal and sepia covered the walls and floors. He loved them all, and he stared at them for hours when he pondered. His beer fridge, humidor, and model rocket collection completed him; housing the things he loved, all within perfect reach.
His senses, though dulled, honed in on a scent, distant yet familiar, coming from inside the room. It was bog-like-foul like a place he’d visited long ago, buried under wood ash. He frowned.
What was the last thing he ate? Did he cook or go for takeout? He wanted to go down to the kitchen to check, but found, to his astonishment, that he could not get past the doorframe into the outer hall.
Nein, das kann nicht sein!—Now this is not right!—he fumed, switching to German. He would do this whenever he encountered static. The spit and sharp of it forced people back because they could not understand what he meant.
Unballing his fists he felt his chest, registering the sensation of “feel”—he could feel “touch,” but he could not locate the beating heart. Consciously knitting his brows, he considered other bodily wants, his legal mind checking and balancing the laws of nature against the laws of the impossible. He could not, for example, feel “hunger” and he wasn’t dying for a drink either.
Was this a mark of passage into the nether? The man on the floor had no comment.
He thought about his bowels and if they needed attention, but that, to his great relief, no longer appeared to matter. Regularity, in recent years, wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. When he was young, he reveled in a good clean out after the morning coffee because it reset his clock and established the tone for the rest of the day. Not so latterly. His prostate had kept its promise, letting him down, enlarging, pressing where it ought naught. Awake most nights, he lost sleep and dreams.
With this in mind, he bounced up and down on the soles of his expensive shoes in an effort to confirm if he was awake or not. Perhaps he was sleepwalking, or heading off to the can for another urinary evacuation that wouldn’t come?
The man on the floor ruled out these options.
He tried the door again, and again, to his dismay, he could not leave.
What to do? What to do?
‘I think, therefore I am,’ went the popular saying, but what good was ‘being’ when one was confined to a bedroom like a rat in a cage?
He struggled to remain calm, just as he became aware of that heavy oppressive feeling one gets before receiving bad news. Pacing back and forth across the ancient floorboards in the house he was born into, he checked for the kinds of incriminating evidence the court of public opinion would hold against him once found. Pornography, loaded handguns, too many candy wrappers all had to be dispatched before someone inevitably broke the door down.
As light turned to dark and day gave over into night, Heuer’s thoughts came faster and faster, in different languages, interspersed with corrugated images, accompanied by generous doses of Seventies rock; a fitting sound track for the old life, now ended.
He fell to his knees. Somewhere in this mélange was something to be grateful for and with time, he was sure, he would figure out what that single, great, thing might be. For now, all he could really do was take comfort in the fact that his death had been perfect.
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Definitely see the NEW ONE
Interview Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2yhaXfh-ns
Interview Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoPthI1Hvmo
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OMG. I have a YouTube Channel and a Book Trailer
Posted on March 7, 2015 March 7, 2015 by A. B. Funkhauser, Author
I’ve been dancing around for weeks here on the blog and finally, at long last, I can release DAS BOOK TRAILER. Months in the making, I can say, without a hint of irony or fiction, that HEUER LOST AND FOUND, THE TRAILER, is all mine and made with my own two hands. Another milestone on the path to publishing. The learning curve has been incredibly steep and it is only the beginning, but I’m ready…I think. 😉
NOW AND FORWARD
Adult, unapologetic and cognizant, I wish you good day.
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The Unvarnished Interview
In the spirit of brave self-promotion, I continue today’s post (see Heuer Advance Review) with an interview given by yours truly to the ever intrepid Bernard Foong. It’s another first for me, and another reason to do a victory lap around the neighborhood (after I shovel the sidewalk), because self promotion goes against everything I was taught growing up. Careers in politics, the car business and funeral service notwithstanding, I have managed to stay under the wire…until now.
Heuer, Heuer. What have you done?
That’s always a bit tough for me. I was raised in another time where shouting out accomplishments was
An expression of the author’s feelings through a doppelganger.
considered rude. But I’ll try. I’m a Pisces that celebrates the Year of the Snake, but unlike dear vain snake, work extremely hard not to be mendacious. (Laughs) I have a furtive imagination, love art in all its forms, and cannot live without music playing somewhere in the background. If forced to choose between comedy and drama, comedy wins…every time.
What do you do when you are not writing?
That’s easy! I’m outside. Unlike you, dear friend, I live in the four seasons (hint of jealousy here) and have the coats, boots and sunscreen that goes with them. I have a large wild flower garden that I tend in summer, and a very long driveway I shovel in winter. And I love classic cars, particularly those from the muscle era. Summer and autumn are for road tripping to see the shows. I try to get to the Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit, Michigan every other year.
For a car enthusiast, Woodward is the Holy Grail.
Do you have a day job as well?
Yes, although I am on hiatus and that has paid off, as you see (big grin). I’m a funeral director, licensed to practice in Ontario, Canada. For me, it ranks as one of the best jobs I’ve ever had next to seeing to my family.
When did you first start writing and when did you finish your first book?
I began writing in 2010 in response to the loss of a dear friend. In funeral service, the families we serve ask how to cope with the pain. One way to manage is to seek out others—groups, counselors—those who have walked in their shoes and really know how it feels. Another approach is to write a grief journal. My friend and I went through school together, and during that time we became sympats where comedy was concerned. We laughed at the same things. It didn’t take long for my journal to take a comedic turn before straying off into outright fiction. I finished Heuer five years later.
How did you choose the genre you write in?
The characters decided it for me. They are bossy, incorrigible and I completely adore them. They were impossible to ignore.
Where do you get your ideas?
I put a foot out the door and live day to day. You wouldn’t believe the kind of trouble you can get into at the grocery store.
Do you ever experience writer’s block?
Absolutely, but it’s more likely because another story or character is nagging at me. My first teacher called this popcorn writing, where you just push away from the current project and go on a tangent with a wild horse scene. It’s exciting and informs the other projects.
Do you work with an outline, or just write?
I mull for about a year, and then churn out the first draft during NaNoWriMo in November. I don’t plot per
I do on occasion take walks through cemeteries.
se, but I do know where I’m going before I begin. This is also where some of those popcorn scenes find a home. After the first draft is complete, I return to the previous project in line to revise and refine. It’s a whole system that works for me. You see why I had to go on hiatus?
Is there any particular author or book that influenced you in any way either growing up or as an adult?
Absolutely everything Kurt Vonnegut ever wrote. From him and Dr. Seuss, I learned the value of having outrageous character names. My current fiction includes a hysteric named Sigrid Bork. I love her.
Can you tell us about your challenges in getting your first book published?
I worried a lot about having one book followed by writer’s block to shut me down for good. So I decided to
Exteme excitement resulting in blurred vision.
get some manuscripts down—four to be precise—so that I’d have a body of work to play with when pitching to agents and publishers. The last four years were dedicated to pure creation without pressure to produce to a contract. It was sensational. During that time, I plugged into Twitter pitch parties on the recommendation of a writer friend, and that’s when things really started to happen. I queried, synopsized, wrote dozens of tag lines and met hundreds of amazing people who got me to Solstice Publishing. Now I have to learn about and engage in—boots first—marketing, which is very challenging because of the way I was raised (see question one). I’m enjoying Twitter parties and blogging. Frankly, I didn’t know I had it in me. A great surprise.
If you had to go back and do it all over, is there any aspect of your novel or getting it published that you would change?
Nope. It was all organic. I tripped, I fell, I studied, and I applied. I got better.
How do you market your work? What avenues have you found to work best for your genre?
It’s early in, so stats aren’t there, but I will direct a lot of applause to the writing groups I belong to—The Booklin 7, Writers Community of Durham Region, and amazing teachers at Writescape—for plugging me in with others dedicated to the same goals. Marketing is a learning curve and a steep one, so look to others engaged in the same activity; ask questions and try things on. Tweet, Tweet, Tweet. Blog, blog, blog, and follow your publisher and agent advice. Support other writers by reading their work, reviewing and attending their promotional events. If you want society to know about you, you must socialize.
Have you written a book you love that you have not been able to get published?
I love them all, but can only dedicate my energies to one at a time. The others? Their day will come.
Can you tell us about your upcoming book?
Heuer Lost and Found is adult, unapologetic and cognizant with a hint of dark humor. At 237 pages, it is a
Everything is sentient; everything is a potential character–at least where I’m coming from.
compact study that rocks ’n’ rolls with the help of an erudite Latin speaking rat and a wise-cracking floor lamp with ulterior motives. They’re off beat and badly needed to help my protagonists: a dead, unrepentant cooze hound lawyer, and his very much alive boozy lady undertaker who he used to know back in the Eighties.
Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?
I think all fiction is informed by real life experiences, but I have yet to meet sentient rats or floor lamps. (laughs) The funeral home in Heuer is actually a composite of four different establishments, none of which survives today. As to the characters, some guy buddies insist that they are Heuer, but they’re not. There’s actually a little of me in him, but I guess it’s to be expected if I’m the one behind the keyboard.
What was your favorite chapter (or part) to write and why?
SPOILER: The very end, because it’s where the Kleenex box comes out. When that happened, I knew I’d got it right.
How did you come up with the title?
From the short story. Heuer actually made it into three separate shorts before becoming a full-fledged novel character.
What project are you working on now?
POOR UNDERTAKER is the fourth in the series “Unapologetic Lives”
Poor Undertaker is next in the series, which tracks the ups and downs of the Weibigand Brothers funeral establishment. Its every bit as much a joy as the first, second and so on, because I see this remarkable building go through all its incantations. At one point, it’s actually bought up and is not a funeral parlor any more.
Will you have a new book coming out soon?
We’re at least a year away, I think. Scooter Nation is next, but I’d like to give it another go over before setting it free.
Are there certain characters you would like to go back to, or is there a theme or idea you’d love to work with?
Absolutely. My series is non sequential, so the character that dies in one is born again in the next. They’re
SCOOTER NATION is the second in the series and is definitely more Gonzo in nature.
never far away. There are a number of themes I return to, but some of my favorites include: the negative impacts of nostalgia; the problem with prying; insular people coming out into the light; finding kindness in peculiar places; and letting go of that thing you need so that you can keep it forever.
What has been the toughest criticism given to you as an author? What has been the best compliment?
I’m an upbeat person, so if I’m criticized, I turn it into a plus by learning something from it. The best compliment I ever had came from a teacher who said my voice was “strong and unusual”. That really made my day.
Do you have any advice to give to aspiring writers?
Get it all down before trying to make sense of it. It’s a journey and often a very long one. Enjoy every leg of it knowing that there’s more just ahead.
Is there anything that you would like to say to your readers and fans?
Observe, listen, and do not ignore the excellence to be found on HBO, Netflix, Showcase, etc. This is your university.
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Advance Review of Heuer Lost and Found
No stranger to this blog, author Bernard Foong (A Harem Boy’s Saga I, II, and III) had a look, and in advance of Heuer’s debut April 23rd, here’s what he had to say:
5 star review:
Author A. B. Funkhauser strikes a macabre cord with her book “Heuer Lost and Found”.
Written from
Bernard Foong is an international best selling author.
the perspective of an undertaker, she gives her readers a ringside seat at the Weibigand Mortuary where Enid, a middle aged woman with a taste for scotch, arrives on a Monday morning still in a stupor from the night before. Initially, the reader learns a bit about Enid and the history of the mortuary, its original owners and their heirs who continue to operate the family owned business, along with all of its eccentric employees. Early in the day, a call is received and there after a not so typical day in the life of a mortuary begins. Heuer, a well known middle aged attorney has been found dead in his apartment, where he laid for several days. The story now moves between present day and flash backs to a time when Heuer, Enid and others in the story are intertwined in one way or another. Heuer appears as a ghostly spectre to enchant us with his own take on his past, and his current impressions of what is being said and done as his body is prepared for burial. I for one like this book. I found it to have a similar feel to the HBO series “Six Feet Under”.
Ms. Funkhauser is a wizard with words and did a fine job of weaving this story of Greek, German and English speaking families that bounced back and forth throughout the entire book.
Hooray! And thank you, Bernard Foong.
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Midnight Juggernauts, Bataclan, Paris, October 14
Midnight Juggernauts, already darlings of French electro lords Justice, endeared themselves to several more French last night with a simple, clean set at the Bataclan, in the opening act of a global tour.
When I saw them 5 years ago in Melbourne, their DJ-set aced a full house at a Brunswick St club. On Wednesday, the medium-sized Bataclan was not overpacked, but so what? It ain’t always the size of the crowd on the night, it’s the size of the night for the crowd.
“We need some energy,” the group’s Vincent Vendetta implored. It was there, I swear, though just maybe not how he was used to seeing it.
Already 20 minutes into the set, “noddage” was at a solid 60%; in demure France, noddage (of heads) is as much an indicator of having an agreeable time as being in agreement. Encouraged along by some confident, but not overbearing showmanship, noddage soon gave way to pointage.
With their fingers in the air, the crowd was in the Juggernauts’ hands. Vendetta now stepped out from behind the keys to meet his partner Andrew Szekeres in the centre of stage. Procuring drumsticks from a hidden stockpile (the group chewed through them like toothpicks), the two delivered a nifty percussive break.
Vendetta then tossed a drumstick into the crowd as if was incriminating evidence. It was such an abrupt and flat throw that the audience member whose eye it poked almost certainly hadn’t seen it coming. At any rate, he probably now won’t see much more coming for a couple of days.
Everyone else, though, was able to appreciate the visual appeal of their set design. This comprised 50 euros worth of black and white feather boas, bought at the costume shop up the road.
There was no disguising the French appreciation of this touch, with many boas slipping away into eager hands while the band was off stage awaiting encore.
Seeing electronic artists live can often be hit and miss. For the Juggernauts last night, it was only hit after hit.
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Naturalization Act of 1790
The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 (1 Stat. 103) provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were free White persons of good character. It thus excluded American Indians, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks and later Asians although free blacks were allowed citizenship at the state level in certain states. It also provided for citizenship for the children of U.S. citizens born abroad, stating that such children "shall be considered as natural born citizens," the only US statute ever to use the term. It specified that the right of citizenship did "not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States."[1][2][3]
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Provisions[edit]
In order to address one's good character, the law required two years of residence in the United States and one year in the state of residence, prior to applying for citizenship. When those requirements were met, an immigrant could file a Petition for Naturalization with "any common law court of record" having jurisdiction over his residence. Once convinced of the applicant’s good moral character, the court would administer an oath of allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States. The clerk of the court was to make a record of these proceedings, and "thereupon such person shall be considered as a citizen of the United States."
The Act also establishes the United States citizenship of certain children of citizens, born abroad, without the need for naturalization: "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens: provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States"
Afterwards[edit]
The Act of 1790 was repealed by the Naturalization Act of 1795, which extended the residence requirement to five years, and by the Naturalization Act of 1798, which extended it to 14 years. The 1798 act was repealed by the Naturalization Law of 1802.
Major changes to the definition of citizenship were ratified in the nineteenth century following the American Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 granted citizenship to people born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction; but it excluded untaxed Indians (those living on reservations). The Naturalization Act of 1870 extended "the naturalization laws" to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent." In 1898 the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to an American-born child of Chinese parents who had a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and who were there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China.[4] All persons born in the United States since United States v. Wong Kim Ark have been granted citizenship although the Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on the matter of children born to parents who are not legal residents of the United States.
All Native Americans were finally granted citizenship by the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, whether or not they belonged to a federally recognized tribe; by that date two-thirds of Native Americans were already U.S. citizens. Further changes to racial eligibility for naturalized citizenship were ratified after 1940, when eligibility was also extended to “descendants of races indigenous to the Western Hemisphere,” “Filipino persons or persons of Filipino descent,” “Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent,” and “persons of races indigenous to India.”[5] The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 prohibits racial and gender discrimination in naturalization.[6]
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^ United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/169/649/
^ Coulson, Doug (2015). "British Imperialism, the Indian Independence Movement, and the Racial Eligibility Provisions of the Naturalization Act: United States v. Thind Revisited". Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives (7): 2. SSRN 2610266 .
^ Daniels, Roger. Coming to America, A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life.
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Wall Street rebounds after banks report big losses, posts moderate advance
Source: Agencies | January 17, 2009, Saturday | Online Edition
WALL Street has managed its second straight comeback, but the rebound was more a sign of the market's turmoil than strength.
Stocks closed moderately higher yesterday after an erratic session that had investors tussling with concerns about the ongoing problems in the banking industry in response to more billion-dollar losses at Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Yet investors were also heartened by plans for both banks to restore themselves to profitability, and they were also willing to place bets on a range of consumer and industrial stocks.
"It's that tug of war between problems and promise," said Alan Gayle, senior investment strategist at RidgeWorth Investments. "I think there is a bit of a sigh of relief that there is assistance coming for Citi and Bank of America, but it seems like there is an ongoing need for this assistance."
The companies' fourth-quarter losses - Citi said it lost US$8.29 billion, while Bank of America lost US$2.39 billion - were sobering reminders that the sagging economy is aggravating the problems that began with the mortgage crisis in 2007.
Still, the market drew some reassurance from the fact that Bank of America reached a deal late Thursday to receive an additional US$20 billion in capital from the government. The bank will also receive guarantees to cover up to US$118 billion in losses on loans and securities backed by residential and commercial real estate as it incorporates recently acquired Merrill Lynch & Co. into its operations. Bank of America's deal with the government is similar to one Citigroup reached with the government last fall.
Meanwhile, Citigroup, among the hardest hit by the ongoing credit and mortgage market turmoil, said it plans to separate its traditional banking business from its riskier operations. Earlier in the week, Citi agreed to sell a majority stake in its brokerage business to Morgan Stanley as it looks to streamline and shed assets.
Amid the uncertainty about financials, investors were buying consumer stocks like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., McDonald's Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. Some tech stocks were among the gainers, including Intel Inc. and Microsoft Corp. After two weeks of selling, many stocks are looking much more attractive.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68.73, or 0.84 percent, to 8,281.22. The Dow was down 103 points in early afternoon; on Thursday, it recovered from a 205-point loss to close up 12.35.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 6.38, or 0.76 percent, to 850.12, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 17.49, or 1.16 percent, to 1,529.33.
The indexes were down for the week, the result of selling in response to weak economic data and fears that fourth-quarter earnings reports, which begin next week in earnest, will point to a prolonged recession.
For the week, the Dow fell 3.7 percent, the S&P 500 lost 4.5 percent and the Nasdaq skidded 2.7 percent.
"We continue to see a tug of war between what has been some really bad economic data in recent weeks and optimism that the economy and financial markets are likely to stabilize and improve as we head through 2009," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial. "There clearly are a lot of crosscurrents in the market."
Alexander Paris, economist and market analyst for Chicago-based Barrington Research, said the price swings seen in the past couple of days are likely to continue until all the earnings data is in.
"We're going into a test of the market, given the bad numbers coming out," Paris said. "It's a battle between sentiment and ugly fundamentals."
John Merrill, chief investment officer of Tanglewood Wealth Management, said the market will be eyeing results outside the financial industry to see if banking troubles are seeping further into the broader economy. If non-financials can show some growth, it could restart the late 2008 rally that stalled in the first week of January.
"There's no sustained buying," Merrill said. "The follow through just isn't there."
Some of Friday's price movements were exacerbated by the expiration of stock options.
Bank of America shares tumbled US$1.14, or 13.7 percent, to US$7.18. Shares of Citi fell 33 cents, or 8.6 percent, to US$3.50.
Steven Goldman, chief market strategist, Weeden & Co., said Bank of America was down in part over concerns that government financial support will diminish shareholders' stake in the company.
"Bank of America equity holders have a new partner and are being diluted," Goldman said, adding that the bank cut the quarterly dividend to 1 cent per share, making it less attractive, and will have to cede some managerial rights to the government.
Wal-Mart rose 21 cents to US$51.56, McDonald's rose US$1.69 to US$59.67 and Procter & Gamble rose 27 cents to US$57.73. Intel rose 45 cents US$13.74 and Microsoft gained 47 cents to US$19.71.
The market had little reaction to the government's latest reports showing the economy remains weak.
The Labor Department said the consumer price index fell 0.7 percent in December as energy prices slid. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters forecast a 0.9 percent drop. For the full year, prices rose just 0.1 percent _ the smallest gain since prices actually fell in 1954.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve said industrial production from the nation's factories, mines and utilities fell a larger-than-expected 2 percent in December. Economists expected a 1 percent.
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Event on the Horizon? Three Tips for Maximizing Activations, as Told Through Ice Cream
Breanna Welke
Now that spring has finally arrived in Minnesota, it’s safe to say that everyone is pretty darn excited for the nice weather. And while it still seems far away, it won’t be long until we are celebrating the end-of-summer tradition: the Minnesota State Fair.
Many of the businesses who invest time and resources into participating in events like the State Fair often ask our team, “How do we build excitement and drive visitors to our location – especially in a crowed space like the fair?” Taking lessons learned from our work with client Midwest Dairy, we wanted to share three tips on how to cut through the noise and generate awareness during any event, big or small.
1. Get creative, and start the conversation early. Want to stand out from the crowd? Find opportunities to start talking about your product or service ahead of the event to create interest early on. A great example of this is Midwest Dairy’s Flavor of the Fair contest, which wrapped up its fourth year this week
Developed as a way to generate new excitement and encourage even more visitors to make a stop at the Dairy Goodness Bar at the State Fair, Midwest Dairy decided to introduce a special, limited edition Flavor of the Fair malt or sundae variety that would be sold only at the fair that year. And even better, they enlist the public’s help to choose the flavor by asking them to vote for one of three unique creations. Flavor of the Fair has not only been an opportunity to get ahead of the conversations about the latest State Fair foods, but it has also become an anticipated tradition that the media wants to cover year after year. Check out the WCCO segment and Twin Cities Live segment from this year.
2. Get others involved. For Flavor of the Fair, not only are the flavor varieties interesting and fun (which makes for great media coverage) but adding the voting element allows consumers to become cheerleaders for the brand – sharing the news with friends and families via social media and encouraging them to vote for their favorite, as well. By involving the public and asking them to spread the word, your messaging can reach an even larger audience in an authentic and impactful way.
3. Find new ways to talk about what you’re doing again, and then again. Anyone who’s studied marketing knows that in order for a message to stick, it needs to be repeated. This is especially true when it comes to a high-profile event like the State Fair that has literally thousands of unique and interesting stories to be told. The key to standing out and having people remember you? Find multiple ways to keep telling your story.
For the Flavor of the Fair, Midwest Dairy has done this by creating a program that has multiple opportunities for news. By announcing the three flavor combinations in April and then unveiling the winning flavor in June, these multiple “hooks” allows Midwest Dairy to get out in front of people well ahead of the flurry of other State Fair news that ramps up as we approach August. The more you can talk about what you are doing ahead of the event, the more people are likely to remember.
We hope these tips are helpful as you look for ways to break through the clutter of an event and ensure your message is heard, and have it lead to people clamoring for your product or service – like an ice-cold malt on a hot August day.
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Italy threatens to bring down EU-Canada free trade deal
publié 31-juillet-2018
Italians protested in Rome in June against a trade agreement between Canada and the EU. Patrizia Cortellessa/Pacific Press/ZUMA PRESS
Wall St Journal | July 31, 2018
Citing farmers’ complaints, antiestablishment government vows to seek parliamentary veto, which would annul pact for all partners
By Giovanni Legorano
ROME—Italy’s new government wants to reject a painstakingly negotiated trade deal between the European Union and Canada, and that is welcome news to Ettore Prandini, a small farmer in Italy’s fertile north.
Mr. Prandini, who sells milk to producers of the famed Grana Padano cheese, says his revenue is set to fall by a fifth this year compared with last. He blames the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, which late last year eliminated tariffs between the EU and Canada on many products.
The dairy farmer objects to his Canadian counterparts now being able to compete more aggressively in Europe by offering cheeses similar to Italy’s. “The food industry is a key asset for this country,” Mr. Prandini said. “It must be protected.”
Such complaints from small farmers have prompted Italy’s new government, a coalition of the antiestablishment 5 Star Movement and the nativist League, to say it will vote down CETA in Parliament, although it has set no date for doing so. The agreement came into provisional and partial effect in September last year. To make the trade deal permanent and fully effective, all EU member states must ratify it. If one EU country rejects it, the whole deal is annulled.
CETA continues to be in effect for now, but the threat looms that Italy’s dominant populist parties could shoot it down. The failure of the accord would deal a heavy blow to the EU’s hopes of strengthening rules-based global trade by reaching similar agreements with other partners.
An Italian veto would also highlight the EU’s growing challenge of maintaining common policies amid the rise of upstart, antiestablishment parties that derive much of their popularity from their willingness to defy EU authorities.
No EU country to date has derailed a trade accord after its approval by member governments and the European Parliament. If Italy doesn’t ratify CETA, it would have to further notify the EU to begin the process of terminating the accord, which would remain provisionally in place in the meantime.
“There are always questions about trade policy,” Daniel Rosario, trade spokesman for the European Commission, the EU’s executive, said last month. “The European Commission is working together with member states to show that trade policies are mutually beneficial.”
The 5 Star Movement and League have long expressed skepticism toward free trade, globalization, multilateralism and the EU, though neither party is pushing for Italy to leave the bloc. The two parties have vowed to protect small Italian producers such as Mr. Prandini from trade deals they say more likely benefit big corporations. They are also challenging the EU’s attachment to open, competitive markets by pledging greater government intervention to protect Italy’s airline and banking sectors.
“The narrative goes that if you look after Italian products on markets, if you try to defend a sector, you are populist, anti-European and anti-West,” the 5 Star Movement’s leader Luigi di Maio said earlier this month at a meeting of Italian farmers’ association Coldiretti, which has campaigned fiercely against CETA. “Other countries do their job. It is we who have to defend Italy and the Italian economy.”
EU data suggest Italy is already benefiting from CETA. Overall Italian exports to Canada have risen by 2% in the eight months since the trade pact came into provisional effect, compared with the same period a year earlier. Italian exports of food and livestock to Canada have fared even better, growing by 12%.
Italy’s main business lobby Confindustria supports the trade agreement and is lobbying the government to help the EU stand up for free trade at a time when the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on some imports and is threatening to raise others.
“This deal is in the interest of our country, which is an exporter by vocation,” Confindustria President Vincenzo Boccia said. “Due to protectionist policies coming from the U.S., we need to open other markets for what is the second-largest manufacturing economy in Europe.”
But Coldiretti, which represents farmers exporting around €40 million ($46.8 million) worth of goods to Canada out of total Italian exports to Canada of €3.9 billion last year, says there are already signs the trade deal is penalizing its members.
Exports to Canada of cherished Italian cheeses Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano dropped by 10% in value in the first quarter, compared with a year earlier, Coldiretti says. Total Italian cheese and dairy exports to Canada fell 2% over the same period.
“It’s been a good agreement,” EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said last month. “The Italian exports to Canada have increased.”
Of all 28 EU countries, Italy, a country proud of its food to the point of obsession, has the largest number of food products with so-called protected designations of origin. CETA recognized more than 40 of these Italian protected labels, out of a total of around 250. Coldiretti says that isn’t enough and that CETA lets Canada sell cheeses in Europe with Italian-sounding names such as “Parmesan” or “Gorgonzola.”
Mr. Prandini says competition from Canadian Parmesan has led to a 15% price drop for high-quality Grana Padano, which in turn has pushed down the price of milk.
CETA is sacrificing Italy’s farmers for other sectors’ benefit, Mr. Prandini says. “It’s just bad for us.”
—Emre Peker in Brussels contributed to this article.
Write to Giovanni Legorano at giovanni.legorano@wsj.com
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Minutes 10th October 2017
Minutes of a meeting held at 7.30pm on Tuesday 10th October 2017 at Bishops Frome Village Centre
Present: Cllr Partridge, Cllr Guise, Cllr Pudge and Cllr Mrs Roberts
There were two members of the public present.
In the absence of Cllr Nash (Chair), the meeting was chaired by Cllr Partridge (Vice Chairman).
2017/121 To receive apologies for absence
Apologies had been received from Cllr Ms Sincock, Cllr Nash, and Cllr Marshall.
Cllr Parker and Cllr Hydes were not present.
2017/122 To receive declarations of interest and written requests for dispensation
2017/123 To adopt the minutes of the previous meeting
A copy of the draft minutes had been circulated to all councillors prior to the meeting. They were accepted as a true record and signed by Cllr Partridge (Vice Chairman).
2017/124 Public Participation
One member of the public wanted to discuss the poor management of the current roadworks closing the A4103 in both directions. The Clerk advised that this matter had been brought up at the last Parish Council meeting and she had sent an email to Mr Ball of Transport and Highways at Herefordshire Council on the recommendation of Ward Councillor Mrs Morgan, expressing our concerns at the lack of communication surrounding the works with particular reference to local businesses. No reply had been received but the signage has improved a little, showing businesses open as usual and no through road, but giving distance to closure. Notices of closure are now also being published in local papers.
Councillor Pudge explained what action he had taken as a local business owner affected by the works. He has had meetings with representatives from Hereford Council. He has been told that the road has to be closed fully because the way they are laying the tarmac means they can cover more road for less money than if they keep one lane open. The funds received from the government for the road works are ring fenced and cannot be used for compensation but Herefordshire Council have put money up which could possibly be used for compensation due to loss of business. Councillor Pudge is looking in to the matter of claiming compensation for the group of businesses at the Hop Pocket and has stated any other businesses willing to join forces will be welcomed, although he could not say how successful they might be.
The second member of the public wished to speak about flooding, particularly water running off the Evesbatch road. The Clerk and Cathy Berkeley from Balfour Beatty had walked the route taken by the water and established where they thought the water was coming from. Cllr Partridge thought he knew who owned the land in question and agreed to contact him and request that he dig out the ditch. Once the ditches are cleared Balfour Beatty are happy to jet the drains.
2017/125 Neighbourhood Plan
The Neighbourhood Plan is still with the examiner, so nothing further to report at this time.
2017/126 Finance
126.1 Audit Conclusion – The Treasurer had received the audit conclusion from Grant Thornton and the only thing they highlighted was that he had signed the return a day later than the Clerk and Chairman. Councillors thanked the Treasurer for his hard work in preparing for the audit.
126.2 Assertion 5 and Assertion 7
Assertion 5 – The Treasurer led a discussion considering the financial and other risks that the Parish Council could face. There were no forthcoming risks at the time. An example of internal control practiced by the Parish Council is that a non signatory councillor reconciles the monthly bank statement with the financial report at each meeting of the Parish Council.
Assertion 7 – No matters were brought to the attention of the council by the Internal Auditor. The only matter raised by the External Auditor was that the date of the Treasurers signature on the Annual Return, was a day later than that of the Clerk and Chairman.
126.3 Precept 2018/2019- The Treasurer presented to councillors a summary of expenditure of the last 3 years with an expected expenditure to the year end. By studying these figures and taking into account known future events councillors worked down the list and calculated expected expenditure for each area for the coming year. A precept of £25000.00 was agreed for 2018/2019.
126.4 Grant Thornton – Audit fee -£275.00 – The Treasurer asked the council for permission to pay this outstanding invoice and all councillors agreed it should be paid.
2017/127 Planning
112.3 P173038/FH and 112.4 P173039/L The Homestead, Fromes Hill, HR8 1HR
Cllr Nash had looked at these applications. He had left a report to say that this site was not overlooked by any neighbours and comments by locals on the council website all support the application. Councillors therefore supported the application.
127.1 P172989/L Frome Manor, Bishops Frome WR6 5BB
Cllr Partridge had looked at this application. A previous application had been agreed and this was effectively an amendment putting in place recommendations made at the original application. Councillors agreed to support this application.
59.1 P171270/F Caravan known as Lady Lute, Fromes Hill
The Clerk confirmed that she had written to the planning department regarding the land referred to in this application as requested, but had not yet received a reply.
2017/128 Fromes Hill Report
128.1 Fromes Hill Field – Councillor Pudge has received the report from the surveyor which confirmed that the turning circle did not increase the value of the land and therefore no uplift is due to the previous owners.
128.2 Traffic Calming on Fromes Hill – The Clerk confirmed that Councillor Nash had met with Ian Connolly of West Mercia Police and would provide feedback at the next meeting.
2017/129 Bishops Frome Report
129.1 Outreach Post Office – Cllr Guise reported that he had established that the franchise, run by Nigel, had four machines, two of which were always out of service. He had been in contact with the providers and been told that all mobile services are being upgraded and has been promised that Nigel will be the first to benefit from the new equipment.
129.2 Village Gateway – Councillor Partridge and the Clerk advised councillors that they had met with Cathy Berkeley to discuss the positioning of a village gateway at the entrances to the village on the B4214. At the Ledbury side, the verge is very narrow and the possible solution would be to put the gates next to or attached to the 30mph speed limit signs. This would still mean that the signs would straddle the ditches. Also in the guidelines for a village gateway it suggests that the white lines in the middle of the road be removed and replaced with solid white lines at the road edge. If we have to meet this criteria it will cost a lot more than our £2000.00. A discussion was held about alternative traffic calming measures we could consider. The idea councillors wished to explore further would be to have an addition to the village signs saying ‘please drive carefully’ or words to that affect. The Clerk agreed to explore this idea and see if it would be classed as a traffic calming measure. It was also noted that the Bishops Frome sign on the Ledbury side was missing.
129.3 Flooding/Sandbags – The issue of flooding was discussed under public participation. Councillor Pudge confirmed that he still had a few sandbags left from last year but could do with getting another 60. The Clerk agreed to contact Balfour Beatty to request some.
2017/130 Sports Committee Report
Councillor Partridge reported that some of the slabs around the sports pavilion were broken and could do with being replaced. It was agreed that a meeting of the sports committee should be called to discuss the matter.
2017/131 HALC Training Courses
The Clerk highlighted some HALC courses coming up which councillors may be interested in and asked them to let her know if there were any they wished to attend. Councillors nominated the Clerk to attend the Data Protection course on 28th November.
2017/132 Parliament Week
The Committee of Bishops Frome Village Centre are taking part in Parliament Week and have asked if any Parish Councillors could support the event on 15th and 16th of November. Councillor Pudge agreed to attend and the Clerk said she would try to attend one day also.
2017/133 Footpaths Officer Report
Nothing to report.
2017/134 To note the information sheet and date of next meeting
The Clerk drew attention to the items on the information sheet and the date of the next meeting was agreed as Tuesday 14th November.
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New Year’s Eve: best night of the year??
January 18, 2013 Indonesia, Java, TravelBintang, Cirebon, Hell's Angels, Islam, Jakarta, Java, jet lag, motorbikes, New Year's Eve, Prayer, WPLongformbarefootblissblog Leave a comment
The first two nights in Jakarta passed in a vague blur of climate adjustment, jet lag and psychotic dreams, induced by anti-malarial medication. Hair raising rickshaw rides on 8-lane highways aside, the city held little intrigue. In the backpacker district of Jaksa we got a taste for Bintang (local beer) and delicious Indian-inspired snacks, but generally we were unenamoured. Our one attempt at sightseeing found us stood at the base of a tall, architecturally dull monument, in a swarming sea of short Asian people pointing timeworn camera phones in our faces, giggling and shuffling around us as they each awaited their turn to pose alongside the strange white couple. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie themselves couldn’t have drawn more attention.
We escaped the polluted sprawling mass of the capital (population: ten million) as fast as the train would take us, moving out of the city’s traffic-plagued centre and crawling leisurely through a vast area of slums, flanking the filthy river banks. Sighting such poverty from within the train was heart breaking, and I wondered how it would feel to be amongst it. Maybe one day I’ll find out.
Late at night we reached Cirebon, a small city on Java’s north coast, known for masked dance, a thriving batik industry, and an abundance of walled palaces where sultans luxuriate in wealth. Yet these are not the elements of Cirebon’s character now etched to memory; the experience of welcoming 2013 in the presence of 200 robed men chanting Islamic prayers before their Imam is unforgettable. Whilst we’d been keen to experience a different kind of New Year’s Eve, neither of us could have imagined what would come.
With much of Indonesia being predominantly Muslim, alcohol is scarce. In anticipation of the presumed forthcoming party, our evening started in the city’s sole watering hole – a smoked filled, caricaturised Westernised bar where 90s music and onion rings were coveted novelties. We sank a few beers, played some pool and tolerated the fact that we were (temporarily) completely devoid of culture. Before making our exit I got chatting to some local girls who couldn’t comprehend our intention to leave the ridiculously clichéd bar. They looked at me sombrely and warned of “many traffic” and madness on the streets outside. I was undeterred. What did they know? They were clearly only staying in the bar because it allowed them to dress minimally and dance drunkenly for the night – behaviour not tolerated in their everyday lives.
Strolling out onto the street, tipsy and eager for celebration, we found the sobering reason for their warnings: motorbikes, covering every possible inch of road and pavement, from here to eternity. The width and length of the main street was rammed, with barely an inch between each. On each bike sat three, sometimes four passengers, all at standstill. Engines revved aggressively, horns honked relentlessly. Believing we could cut through to find an alternative route, we submerged ourselves amongst the petrol heads, soon realising it was too late to make an escape. The bikes closed in around us and we were trapped in the throng. The fumes were hot and suffocating. Every bike pointed towards a large park a mile further, which housed a huge stage (the location of the free public event we so keenly anticipated) but nobody was moving. It was total gridlock. As we attempted to weave a passage through the mayhem without losing a layer of skin on the burning exhaust pipes, I pondered whether these people expected to make any progress or whether they were content to sit amongst the pollution and searing engine heat all night.
Through the haze of my beer-buzz I observed something about the crowd I hadn’t seen at first: it was formed of gangs. There didn’t appear to be any trouble yet but the vibe was menacing. Each gang we passed eye-balled us, the only white faces in town, and there was an air of intimidation. I know little about biker culture, but Ben’s ardent wish to escape said enough.
Over the course of an hour we made little progress, the gargantuan traffic jam had not eased and we were barely closer to our goal. A dirty piece of metal cut into Ben’s foot, protruding up from a pile of putrid rubbish which occupied the only small parcel of land not already claimed by a revving engine. Morale was dipping.
Sometime later we entered the park, bleeding, sweating and nerve-wracked. At least now we were out of the chaos we could enjoy a beer and some live music. Correction: we could enjoy a serious and sober night of Muslim prayers. I don’t think either of us spoke for a few minutes while we tried to take in the scene before us. On the stage sat a swarm of men in traditional robes, chanting what sounded like the same prayer repeatedly and monotonously (although I’m willing to accept that my lack of religious knowledge could render me completely mistaken). As far as the eye could see, multi-generation families gathered to pray before them. There was no song, no dance, no jubilation and no countdown. At the stroke of midnight nothing happened to signify the start of a fresh year. Nobody embraced, and even amongst the younger couples nobody kissed. Now it was obvious why those girls stayed in the bar drinking mojitos.
Unsure how to conduct ourselves in this situation – we could neither participate nor celebrate – we simply observed from the shadows, our pale skin a beacon to inquisitive eyes. The community of Cirebon does not see many tourists; I imagine our presence at such an event was beyond unusual.
At around 12.06, as the prayers were winding down and families were filtering out of the park, we beat a hasty retreat down a quiet side alley, unable to face the main street and its Hell’s Angels wannabes. Sitting on the pavement to compose ourselves we shared our first discreet kiss of 2013 and contemplated the night’s atypical events. Within moments a surge of bikers tore through the silence, shrieking as they sped past. On foot, huge crowds of youths swarmed around us in a 360 degree frenzy of excitement, shouting and high-fiving us, demanding to know our names and touching our white skin, departing as rapidly as they arrived, making room for the next group.
New Year’s Eve: best night of the year? Certainly the strangest.
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ASHLAND, Va. – A historic 2019 season came to an end Saturday for the Wesleyan women's lacrosse team as the eighth-ranked Cardinals lost to No. 3 Middlebury in the NCAA Semifinals, 16-8, on the campus of Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va.
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Wesleyan's best season in program history concludes with a 17-4 overall record. Abby Manning led the team in scoring today with three points on two goals and one assist. The Panthers (21-1), led by Emma McDonagh's five goals, advance to the NCAA Championship game to play the winner of No. 4 Tufts and No. 7 Salisbury tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Wesleyan got on the board first. After a save by Allegra Grant, the Cardinals came down the field and some solid ball movement led to a pass from Abigail Horst to Johanna Copeland in front of the net as she snuck a shot inside the left post at the 28:31 mark.
After nearly six minutes of scoreless action, Middlebury went on a 3-0 run in 92 seconds. Jane Earley scored on a free position goal to open the run and shortly after, Erin Nicholas beat her defender to score right in front of the net, giving the Panthers their first lead at the 22:05 mark. Less than a minute after Nicholas' goal, Earley capped off the run with a high shot to the top left.
The Cardinals snapped the run at the 19:36 mark when Caitlin Wood found Manning who fired a low shot into the back of the net.
However, Middlebury closed out the half on a 5-1 run beginning with a goal from Jenna McNicholas with 18:32 on the clock.
The final five goals of the half came on free position shots.
Emma McDonagh extended the lead to three, 5-2, with 15:22 remaining.
Horst scored less than two minutes later with a free position goal to the top right corner, but it proved to be the final goal of the half for Wesleyan with 13:36 left to play.
Middlebury closed out the first with three position goals, one from Kirsten Murphy and the last two from McDonagh. The Panthers had a chance for another free position goal within the closing seconds but Grant made an incredible save as time expired. Middlebury led 8-3 at the half.
The Panthers wasted no time extending their lead in the second half as McDonagh scored again off another free position goal just 44 seconds into play.
Copeland scored for Wesleyan at the 24:18 mark, but Middlebury responded with back-to-back goals just 36 seconds apart to go ahead 11-4 with 23:07 remaining.
Trailing by seven, the Cardinals mounted a comeback beginning at the 17:40 mark when Wood rifled in a free position goal. Shortly after, Wesleyan came down quickly on transition as Manning received a pass, faked high, then shot low to cut the deficit to five. Three minutes later, Manning dished it off to Kat Cucullo in the middle of the defense as she sent a low shot to the back of the net. The Cardinals trailed by four with 13:59 remaining.
However, the four-goal margin proved to be the closest Wesleyan would get the rest of the way.
Middlebury rallied with a 5-0 run to put the game away, while Emi Ogden-Fung scored the last goal of the game with 40 seconds remaining.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
Copeland, Horst, and Wood each registered two points for Wesleyan, while Cucullo, Ogden-Fung, and Prokupek tallied one. Amy Breitfeller led the defense with two caused turnovers, and Jordan Ansell and Copeland recorded two ground balls each. Grant recorded six saves in net.
Seven players scored multiple points for Middlebury, as Earley, Henley Hall, and McNicholas scored twice. Seven Panthers caused a turnover, while Nicholas led all players with seven draw controls. Goalie Julia Keith made five stops between the posts.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE:
Wesleyan's historic 2019 season featured program records of 17 overall wins and eight NESCAC victories.
The Cardinals qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row while previously never advancing to the national postseason, and in year four of Head Coach Kim Williams' tenure, they reached their first-ever Final Four.
Wesleyan's 2019 senior class, consisting of Amy Breitfeller, Breanna Cavanaugh, Abigail Horst, Emi Ogden-Fung, Caroline Sgaglione, and Caitlin Wood, conclude their careers with an overall record of 45-26 (.634) and a NESCAC mark of 23-17 (.575). They are the winningest class in Wesleyan women's lacrosse history and played pivotal roles in the team's success. Their careers featured the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance, first-ever NCAA Tournament win, first-ever NESCAC Tournament win, and three-straight NCAA and NESCAC Tournament appearances. The Cardinals got better each year, setting program records in wins each of the last three seasons. They also won back-to-back Little Three Championships (2018, '17).
Horst concludes her career with 115 points to rank eighth in program history.
The Cardinals were ranked in the top-25 all season and went 14-4 against top-25 opponents. Their four losses came against Middlebury and Tufts, two Final Four teams.
Wesleyan had the toughest draw to the Final Four as it defeated the No. 9, No. 2, and No. 1 teams in the country to advance.
Abby Manning set a single-season program record in points (84) and goals (69).
The magical 2019 campaign also featured the birth of Head Coach Kim Williams' first child, Jackson, the day before the first game of the year.
June 10, 2019 Four Women's Lacrosse Players Named IWLCA All-Americans
May 29, 2019 Kim Williams Selected to Coach at the 2019 IWLCA Senior All-Star Game
May 25, 2019 Historic 2019 Season Ends in NCAA Semifinals as No. 8 Wesleyan Falls to No. 3 Middlebury
May 22, 2019 Wesleyan Prepares for NCAA Final Four in Virginia
May 20, 2019 Seven Cardinals Named to IWLCA All-Region Teams
May 19, 2019 FINAL FOUR BOUND! Women’s Lacrosse Upsets No. 1 Gettysburg, 10-7
May 18, 2019 Women’s Lacrosse Takes Down No. 2 Washington & Lee, Advances to NCAA Quarterfinals
May 16, 2019 No. 8 Women's Lacrosse Prepares for No. 2 Washington & Lee
May 12, 2019 Women’s Lacrosse Downs No. 9 Mary Washington, 11-6, Advances to NCAA Third Round
May 5, 2019 Women’s Lacrosse Returns to NCAA Tournament, Will Host First and Second Round Games
May 4, 2019 No. 3 Seed Women's Lacrosse Edged in NESCAC Semifinals by No. 2 Seed Tufts, 11-8
May 3, 2019 Third-Seeded Wesleyan to Play Second-Seeded Tufts in NESCAC Semifinals
May 2, 2019 Wesleyan Places Four on All-NESCAC First Team
May 1, 2019 Horst Named IWLCA National Player of the Week
April 29, 2019 Abigail Horst Named NESCAC Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week
April 27, 2019 Wesleyan Advances to NESCAC Semifinals, Defeats Colby, 14-12
April 25, 2019 Women's Lacrosse to Host NESCAC Quarterfinal Game Saturday Against Colby
April 24, 2019 Historic Night for Women's Lacrosse as Cardinals Defeat Conn. College, 14-9
April 20, 2019 Women’s Lacrosse Rallies to Win 6-5 Over Hamilton
April 12, 2019 Wesleyan's Seniors Excel on Senior Day as No. 9 Cardinals Cruise Past No. 14 Bowdoin, 19-11
April 9, 2019 No. 9 Women's Lacrosse Defeats No. 12 Trinity on the Road, 14-6
April 6, 2019 Women's Lacrosse Falls on the Road to No. 6 Tufts, 17-10
April 3, 2019 LITTLE THREE CHAMPS! Wesleyan Defeats Amherst in NESCAC Thriller, 11-10
March 30, 2019 No. 12 Women's Lacrosse Defeats No. 11 Colby Decisively, 16-6
March 27, 2019 Cardinals Roll Past Stevens, 16-3
March 23, 2019 No. 11 Women's Lacrosse Cruises Past Kean, 18-7
March 17, 2019 Women’s Lacrosse Cruises Past No. 25 Babson, 15-5
March 16, 2019 No. 12 Women's Lacrosse Edged by No. 6 Middlebury, 8-7
March 12, 2019 Manning Records 100th Point as Wesleyan Defeats No. 16 Catholic, 14-8
March 9, 2019 No. 12 Women's Lacrosse Cruises Past No. 16 Bates, 16-6
March 6, 2019 Strong First Half Propels No. 12 Wesleyan Past Vassar, 13-5
March 2, 2019 No. 12 Women's Lacrosse Cruises to 15-5 Win Over Williams in 2019 Season-Opener
Sat, 05/25 | Women's Lacrosse vs. No. 3 Middlebury L, 16-8 (Final) RC | BX | PH | V
Sun, 05/19 | Women's Lacrosse at No. 1 Gettysburg W, 10-7 (Final) RC | BX | PH | V
Sat, 05/18 | Women's Lacrosse vs. No. 2 Washington and Lee W, 13-7 (Final) RC | BX | PH | V
Sun, 05/12 | Women's Lacrosse vs. No. 9 Mary Washington W, 11-6 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Sat, 05/11 | Women's Lacrosse Westfield St. vs. No. 9 Mary Washington 5 - 20 (Final) BX | V
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by At The Rails | June 24, 2010 · 7:00 pm
Arrivederci Italia
For the first time since 1974, Italy has crashed out of the World Cup in the group stage, losing a 3-2 decision to Slovakia today to finish bottom of Group F, a shocking fall for the defending champion Azzurri. Coach Marcello Lippi said his team “played with fear in their legs and their hearts” throughout their brief stay at the tournament, perhaps never more than today when, for long stretches, Slovakia bossed the game and created the bulk of the chances.
This might have been the most dramatic game at the World Cup so far, with the stakes so high for both teams and the goals coming thick and fast in the final 10 minutes. But aging Italy, hampered by the loss of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and without Andrea Pirlo for the first two matches, never really woke up until then, and it cost them even worse than failing to beat New Zealand in their previous match. Slovakia’s players, notably the keeper, were guilty of some serious time wasting in the dying moments, with the match threatening to drag on longer than a certain Wimbledon epic, but they held on for a famous win.
As for the Kiwis, they pulled off another draw, their third in as many matches. For a team that was expected to be cannon fodder at this World Cup, New Zealand can hold their heads high, but they’re still packing their bags after a 0-0 snoozer against Paraguay, with the South Americans moving on.
The late games saw the Netherlands outclass Cameroon 2-1, the first time a Dutch team has won all three group stage matches at the World Cup (and extending an unbeaten streak that began with an undefeated qualifying campaign). Arjen Robben returned to the Dutch team after missing victories over Denmark and Japan. On the other side, Paul LeGuen resigned as coach of the Indomitable Lions after losing all three matches and could be heading Down Under for his next job.
Finally, Japan bent a pair of free kicks into the Danish net and, after conceding a second-half penalty, sealed it with a late third goal to earn a 3-1 win that dumped Denmark out. Even if their continent won’t be cheering for them, Japan are moving on, and doing so for the first time on foreign soil.
With all eyes focussed on South Africa, this seemed a good time for Chelsea to hand Nicolas Anelka a contract extension. Wonder whether there’s a behaviour clause? Does Stamford Bridge have a swear jar?
So, the Netherlands take on upstart Slovakia on Monday, with Paraguay taking on the Japanese on Tuesday, with just four places left in the round of 16.
Tagged as arjen robben, azzurri, cameroon, denmark, gianluigi buffon, italy, japan, marcello lippi, netherlands, new zealand, nicolas anelka, paraguay, slovakia, world cup
by At The Rails | June 19, 2010 · 12:31 am
I was saying ‘Boo-urns’
If they haven’t already drowned themselves at the bottom of a swimming pool filled with Stella, I’m hoping Brent and Kevin can add some analysis on England’s thoroughly lacklustre 0-0 draw with Algeria today that leaves the Three Lions teetering on the brink of failing to advance out of what was generally considered to be an easy Group C.
Wayne Rooney, whose first touch was dreadful all game and hasn’t been behaving himself all week, took umbrage at the boos directed at the team as they trudged off to think about facing group leaders Slovenia, who were fortunate to hold on for a 2-2 draw with the Sash-and-burners of Team USA when the referee inexplicably disallowed a goal by former Toronto FC player Maurice Edu. As for England, even Algeria were surprised at how crap they played, which was poorly enough that one fan felt compelled to break into the dressing room and have a go at the players. Not sure whether it was Prince Harry or William.
About the only good thing to happen all day was Serbia’s 1-0 victory over Germany, in which Miroslav Klose was sent off for a second bookable offence and Lukas Podolski had a penalty saved. Turns out not every opponent is as old and rubbish as Australia’s Socceroos. The result is a big break for injury-wracked Ghana, who face Australia on Saturday, while the Group E lads get it on with the Netherlands playing Japan and Cameroon facing Denmark.
Tagged as algeria, australia, cameroon, denmark, england, germany, ghana, japan, maurice edu, netherlands, serbia, slovenia, usa, wayne rooney, world cup
by At The Rails | June 5, 2010 · 12:46 pm
Dr. Z’s World Cup Predictions: Group E
Dentist by day, football prognosticator by night, our own Dr. Hadi Zogheib is scouting out each group at World Cup 2010 and predicting first round scores and standings. Here’s what the good doctor expects in Group E:
Netherlands: With all the talk about Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and England, it seems the Dutch have been overlooked. As I wrote a few weeks ago, injuries were threatening to derail their tournament aspirations, but most of the players have recovered in time for the big show. Goalkeeping and defence are a little questionable, but with Dirk Kuyt, Robin Van Persie, Rafael Van der Vaart, and the sensational Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben, anything less than a semifinal showing will be considered a big disappointment.
Japan: Perennial Asian powerhouse Japan will feel a little better going into the competition having played England very tough in a 2-1 loss. Speedy and crafty, the Japanese must tighten up in defence if they hope to progress out of the group stage. They’ll need some magic from former Celtic midfielder and free kick wizard Shunsuke Nakamura along the way. The Japanese may also be bolstered by the fact that they have a stellar record in recent years against African countries, going 5-0-1 since 2007.
Cameroon: And the award for tightest uniforms go to… but I digress. The West Africans will be hoping to repeat the success of Italia ’90, and much of the pressure will fall on the captain’s shoulders. Former great Roger Milla stirred up a little controversy recently, criticizing Samuel Eto’o for playing great for club but not country. Perhaps he was looking to light a fire under the Inter superstar: time will tell if it worked. As a big fan of la Liga, I must also mention the play of Espanyol goalkeeper Kameni, who perhaps single handedly helped his club avoid relegation with his sensational play this season.
Denmark: The most underrated team in the World Cup, the Danes beat out Hungary, Sweden, and mighty Portugal to win their qualification group. Meticulously organized and solid (though not spectacular) at every position, this may be the team to pick as the darkhorse to go deep in the tournament. That is, if the maddeningly inconsistent Nicolas Bendtner decides to play consistently for a change.
Predicted Results:
Netherlands 2-1 Denmark
Cameroon 2-0 Japan
Netherlands 3-1 Japan
Cameroon 1-1 Denmark
Denmark 2-0 Japan
Cameroon 0-2 Netherlands
Group Standings:
Netherlands 9 pts
Denmark 4 pts
Cameroon 4 pts
Japan 0 pts
Related: Dr. Z doubts the host’s chances in Group A, expects Greece’s defence-first philsophy will pay off in Group B, predicts an opening-round sweep for England in Group C, and expects a three-way dogfight in Group D.
Tagged as cameroon, denmark, dutch, eto'o, group e, holland, japan, kuyt, netherlands, robben, sneijder, world cup
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Nicholas Yung slumped into the nearest seat in the hotel lobby, drained from the sixteen-hour flight from Singapore, the train… - Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians.
The Museum of Extraordinary Things A Novel by Alice Hoffman
The Museum of Extraordinary Things A Novel
By Alice Hoffman
Scribner | 384 pages | ISBN 9781451693560 | February 2014
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century.
Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses. An exceptional swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid in her father’s “museum,” alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl, and a one-hundred-year-old turtle. One night Coralie stumbles upon a striking young man taking pictures of moonlit trees in the woods off the Hudson River.
The dashing photographer is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father’s Lower East Side Orthodox community and his job as a tailor’s apprentice. When Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the suspicious mystery behind a young woman’s disappearance and ignites the heart of Coralie.
With its colorful crowds of bootleggers, heiresses, thugs, and idealists, New York itself becomes a riveting character as Hoffman weaves her trademark magic, romance, and masterful storytelling to unite Coralie and Eddie in a sizzling, tender, and moving story of young love in tumultuous times. The Museum of Extraordinary Things is Alice Hoffman at her most spellbinding.
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The Losing Role
Posted June 23, 2018 by Awesome Indies Book Awards
Title: The Losing Role
Categories: Historical Fiction, Thrillers and Suspense
Tags: espionage, war
Author: Steve Anderson
Series: Kaspar Brothers
In the last winter of WWII a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join an absurdly desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he’ll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he’d once abandoned. The Losing Role is based on an actual false flag operation during 1944’s Battle of the Bulge that’s been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free. 2013 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree
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The Losing Role by Steve Anderson is a touching yet painful story set in late 1944 that explores the evolution of an individual throughout a life fraught with inequity.
As the novel opens, the reader is immediately dropped into the middle of a firefight on the Eastern front of World War II. The protagonist, Max Kaspar, runs to take cover in an abandoned building with other German soldiers and local Axis aligned civilians. Here we learn that Max has a performance background as his compatriots request songs and impersonations. A German officer finds Kaspar at this locale and informs him he is being taken back to where he belongs. Max travels across Bavaria to meet with Captain Pielau and is informed that he is to be a part of Operation Greif, a plot to infiltrate American occupied territory by pretending to be American soldiers. As Max is an actor with excellent English speaking skills, he is to be a predominant player.
After a dubious practice run at a POW camp, Max and his compatriots are sent to the Western front donning American uniforms and driving American jeeps. Getting through enemy lines is rather easy, but as Operation Greif is quickly compromised, escaping back into Axis territory becomes exceedingly difficult. Max is separated from his three team members and finds shelter at a villa. He is forced to keep up his pretense while two American soldiers and three Belgian civilians occupy the villa. The five spend many days together in a seemingly peaceful commune including a beautiful Christmas Eve, but Christmas Day brings conflict and the war. History buffs will recognize several of the names used. Steve Anderson was very clever in weaving historical figures into his fictional interactions.
The immediate action at the start of the novel was a bit confusing at first. The initial scenes pushed forward very quickly and I had to reread the first two chapters to convince myself that I hadn’t missed anything. The author introduces Max through many quick conversations with a myriad of soldiers during his travels across Germany. This character exploration continues to be a trend throughout the book. Max’s personality is slowly revealed as he interacts with officers, soldiers, civilians, and American soldiers. We also learn about his past during his silent reflections; how he came to be a part of the war. It becomes clear the soldier’s uniform he wears is only one more costume the actor has worn.
This was a fictional tale set within the confines of a real-life event and the author had to write using boundaries set by history. Knowing from history that Operation Greif was a failure, it was captivating to watch how the protagonist dealt with being assigned to the campaign and then managing the fall out. Max’s personal reflections throughout the novel gave credence to his decisions. The flow of the novel played out very similarly to war. Some scenes, such as arguments and combat scenes, were fast paced and unexpected, while other scenes showed the lulls that soldiers experience. Every interaction with another character was suspenseful as predictability is not a luxury during war.
At first, the dialogue seemed clipped and put upon. However, as I continued to read and became more immersed in the wartime culture, the brevity between and lack of connection among characters made sense. Anderson used the dialogue as another method of having the reader experience the heightened emotion and wariness that accompanies a community under siege. The “put upon” feeling came from the fact that the majority of the characters speaking were not native English speakers. The conversations are sometimes hokey, but we learn later that this is how the German soldiers think Americans should talk. Once native speakers are introduced into the scene it becomes clear that the Germans chosen for Operation Greif are not as fluent as they imagine. Props to the author for writing dialogue that is so precise that it helps set the scene.
Easily my favorite part of the novel, mostly because it plucks at one’s heartstrings, was the Christmas Eve scene. The reader has spent the whole novel reading about Max Kapsar’s unfortunate lot in life prior to the war and the horrible events of war itself. On Christmas Eve disparity is forgotten as the strangers put aside all differences and celebrate. Their interaction is visibly strained, but still full of warmth.
The reader watches Max learn about himself, his choices, and how he will make his next step. He is not a hero, nor does he ever pretend to be. He is a survivalist. And though I wanted him to do the noble thing, as I have been taught to view soldiers as always doing the noble act in the face of hardship, he never does. He is human in the face of hardship and choses to continue living, but on his own terms.
I look forward to reading Steve Anderson’s other novels.
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“The wave is one. There’s a reason we’re drawn to it, whether viewing or watching entranced as one wave after another breaks on shore: a wave is a clear instance of energy charging static matter until that energy is spent and equilibrium returns, elegant and satisfying. Arcs or waves exist all around as waves of light and sound. They can create powerful narratives, but it might be more freeing, as writers, if we think not of a story always following an arc, but of a reader’s experience absorbing the story as doing so.”
Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode
In her beautifully exposited exploration of narrative architecture, Jane Alison prepares the reading mind to absorb structures of stories. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative offers alternative metaphors for readers hoping to experience stories in new ways. Instead of imposing an arc, she looks to structures offered by nature like waves, spirals, or cells to organize the inner sensation of reading.
From a writer’s perspective, this posture shows great respect for the living, breathing, organic mind of a reader. For Alison, a careful reading of W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants revealed what was there all along: language is a force within us. She recognizes the forward moving motion of a narrative, the energy of language, is “less inside the story than inside your mind as you construct sense.”
Since Aristotle first taught us to use the arc to construct sense, readers have organized the time and space of a narrative with this in mind. Following the publication of the three volume series, Narrative and Time, Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) attempts to flesh out the connection between spatial and temporal storytelling in an article titled, Narrative Architecture:
To begin with, I would like to put an analogy in place, or rather something that appears at first sight to be only an analogy: a narrow parallelism between architecture and narrativity, in that architecture would be to space what narrative is to time, namely a ‘configurative’ process; a parallelism between on the one hand constructing, that is, building in space, and on the other hand recounting, emplotment in time. In the course of this analysis, I will ask myself if one ought not to push this analogy much further, to the point of a genuine intertwining, an entanglement between the architectural configuring of space and the narrative configuring of time. In other words, it is really a matter of crossing space and time through building and recounting. Such is the horizon of this investigation: to entangle the spatiality of the narrative and temporality of the architectural act by the exchange, as it were, of space-time in both directions. We will also be able to find, in time, as we are led by the architectural act’s temporality, the dialectic of memory and project at the very heart of this activity. And I will show above all, in the last section of my presentation, how much putting into narrative form projects the remembered past onto the future.
What is so interesting about Paul Ricoeur’s exploration of time and space in the context of narrative is the way these concepts are configured in the experience of memory. Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is a profound illustration of this. That famous Madeleine cookie taps into something hidden deep inside the recesses of the narrator’s mind. It only takes the narrator 4,215 pages of to flesh it out. What is clear is that Proust’s narrator experiences what Walter Benjamin calls aura, and it requires the convergence of time and space to evoke it.
From a writer’s perspective, Jane Alison hopes to open up possibilities for writers who might feel oppressed by the arc. With a willingness to play as they write, they will be more likely to discover ways to design visual and temporal aspects of a narrative. By writing with color, texture, symmetry, or repetition, writers can amplify the reader’s experience of motion and sense. This is something Emily Dickinson does with exquisite precision in personifying the month of March – and even April.
Alison’s title comes from metaphors that describe patterns that she resonates with. It is Peter Steven’s 1974 book, Patterns in Nature, that opens her eyes to the infinite possibilities:
SPIRAL: think of a fiddlehead fern, whirlpool, hurricane, horns twisting from a ram’s head, or a chambered nautilus
MEANDER: picture a river curving and kinking, a snake in motion, a snail’s silver trail, or the path left by a goat grazing the tenderest greens
RADIAL or EXPLOSION: a splash of dripping water, petals growing from a daisy’s heart, light radiating from the sun, the ring left around a tick bite
BRANCHING and other FRACTAL patterns: self-replication at lesser scale, made by trees, coastlines, clouds
CELLULAR patterns: repeating shapes you see in a honeycomb, form of bubbles, cracked lakebed, or light rippling in a pool; these can look like cells or, inversely, like a net
Appreciating narrative architecture is not only about finding the right metaphor for the structure left in the reader’s mind at the end of the book. It requires a constant sensational awareness to every aspect of the story. Jane Alison recognizes the need to surpass the typical elements of fiction like character, plot, and place to unearth the tiniest particles that make up a story, like letters and phonemes. She spends a brief and beautiful moment describing the delicacy of a good sentence:
“Something fascinating about sentences is that when I’m in the thrall of one, I’m held in its temporal and spatial orbit; it begins and ends when it must, holding and directing me until ready to let me go. I move slowly through tricky syntax: luxurious language makes me linger; or I warily await a final word that will snap the whole into sense.”
With an affinity for writers like Italo Calvino pondering Invisible Cities, Virginia Woolf descending into the depths of consciousness illustrated The Waves, Mark Z. Danielewski exploring the paradox of what is simultaneously familiar and uncanny in House of Leaves, and Jorge Luis Borges complicating reality with each turn in Labyrinths, it is no surprise that this kind of writing strategy and reading posture resonates with me. These writers respect the reading mind by structuring narrative architecture that reflects the natural movement in the mind that language makes possible.
In a recent collection of essays, Cognitive Literary Science, a professor of Neurocognitive Psychology, Arthur M. Jacobs, describes the sensation of reading as “a felt motionless movement through space.”
The residue left by this experience is what Jane Alison finds so utterly worthy of contemplation on the part of the reader and directly challenging to the writer:
“Once you’ve finished reading, that motionless movement leaves in your mind a numinous shape of the path you traveled. A river, roller coaster, wave.”
Conceiving of a numinous experience that might have a kind of shape, let alone complex narrative architecture, is difficult. Jane Alison’s work challenges readers and writers to apprehend language in a fresh way and I suspect courses on literary theory and narrative theory will benefit a great deal from this book.
Once writers understand the difference between narrative, story, and plot, they can start to play with the structure. Once readers open their minds to experiencing story in multi-diminensional and omni-sensational ways that transcend sight and sound, the dizzying affects of reading will leave them wanting more.
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Manchester Top for Cask?
by Louise Ashworth | Jun 23, 2017 | Cask Ale, News, Quality Report, Real Ale, Reports, Stats & Research | 0 comments
Manchester has emerged as the cask beer capital of Britain, following a major new study into the beer sold in the city’s pubs and bars.
The Manchester Beer Audit 2017 found 411 different cask ales on sale in venues throughout the Manchester City Council area, beating nearest rival Sheffield, which boasted 385 beers in its last survey, as well as Nottingham (334), York (281), Norwich (254), Derby (213), and Leeds (211).
The survey also confirmed that Manchester is leading other cities in kegged “craft” beers too, with 234 different beers on sale throughout the city, an increase in variety that has been sparked by the recent boom in craft brewing.
More than 80 independent breweries now operate across Greater Manchester and these breweries account for 38 per cent of all cask beers on sale and 36 per cent of craft keg beers.
“The figures confirm what Mancunians already know – this is one of the best beer cities in Britain and possibly the best place in the world to enjoy great cask beer,” said Connor Murphy, organiser of Manchester Beer Week.
“Manchester has a healthy respect for cask and not only is there a huge variety available but the quality of cask ale in this city is hard to beat. The growth of craft keg beer is also heartening and raises hope that our independent brewing scene can continue to thrive and grow.”
“But venues could still do more to support the independent Mancunian brewing scene. Although variety remains important and it is great to try beers from across the world, the fact that less than 40 per cent of all available cask and craft keg beers are from Greater Manchester shows there is still room for improvement.”
CAMRA Regional director Graham Donning said: “Our volunteer members took little persuading to comb the city’s pubs and bars. The audit united branches, and confirmed Manchester as top of the cask league. With so much choice, I’d recommend drinkers use CAMRA’s Whatpub.com site to help find the city’s real ale offerings.”
The Manchester Beer Audit 2017 was organised by the Greater Manchester Branches of CAMRA in association with Manchester Beer Week and saw 311 pubs and bars surveyed by more than 100 volunteers on one day in May
It found 824 handpumps and 1,957 keg fonts on bars across the city, with 72 per cent of all pubs and bars selling cask ale.
Guinness is the most common beer in the city, appearing in 50 per cent of all venues, while Sharp’s Doom Bar and Joseph Holt Bitter are the most common cask beers, found in 31 and 29 venues respectively.
However, Robinsons is the most prominent cask brewery, featuring in 36 venues, while Manchester’s own Shindigger topped the craft keg charts, featuring on the bar in 23 venues.
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bowtrunckle —
The Wanderings and Ramblings
peruse the alleyways of a dusty mind
Why the first half SPN's S8 was inside out and backwards
Feb. 8th, 2013 at 12:19 AM
bowtrunckle
Apparently this is what happens when an episode (8x10) leaves me making my bhuz face and saying, “Really?” at the TV.
ETA: since I wrote most of this, RL intervened (in the inconvenient and sleep-depriving form of a 2 am pediatric ER visit and general sickness and then general sickness again) and I wasn’t able to post this until now. With the airing of 8x11, 8x12 and now 8x13, it seems like things are looking up for this season, but I think some of this may still be relevant or, at the least, provide something to think about for what not to do for half a season of an established TV show. So here are some thoughts on why I think the first half of S8 felt weird. How brother conflict was (accidentally?) turned into Brother Conflict, how audience loyalty relies on a sense of familiarity, emotional consistency, and acknowledgement of a rooted, established history. And paradoxically how all these must be balanced with the demand for new, fresh, and exciting ways to repackage essentially the same emotional story season after season—the Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean, yo.
All stories have been told. It’s not the plot that’s exceptional; it’s how it’s told, who and what hold it up—the characters, their relationships—and the emotion that drives the story. It’s all about execution. And when it comes to execution, the details matter. That’s the problem with the first half of SPN’s S8. The heart of the story that was sold to us 8 years ago was Sam and Dean, brothers against all else. And that’s what we expect to see this season. On a surficial level that’s what’s parading across our TV and computer screens—Sam and Dean working cases, driving around in the Impala—but the heart of this season’s story, the details, what’s underpinning the emotional story isn’t Sam-n-Dean, brothers. It’s Sam with Dean or Dean with Sam, two guys who ride around in surly silence in a car and are pissed off at each other off most of the time. Add to that some seemingly dead-end plot loops concocted to account for Sam and Dean’s year apart and a different flavor of drama (a la love triangle) that had most of fandom scratching its head and looking for a twist that has yet to materialize, and it’s easy to see why SPN seems like foreign terrain this season.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the writers and the rest of the SPN team are working hard, doing their best to keep the show fresh, bring us new stories, create new shades of brother conflict, and perhaps add nuances and relationships we haven’t seen before, but in doing so I think a vitally important part of what SPN has been accidentally sidelined for the first half of the season: Sam and Dean’s Epic Love. Once upon a time it saved the world. Remember that?
And that’s the conundrum. As viewers we want new stories, excitement, a fresh take on the characters, a different, novel spin on … everything, but simultaneously we want continuity, familiarity, acknowledgement of what’s come before, and the core of Sam and Dean’s relationship to fundamentally not change (brothers who are conflicted but care about each other over all else forever and ever amen). It’s easy to see why we seem so hard to please. But really all we want are for Sam and Dean to love each other (in a PG-13 fraternal way acceptable for the general viewing public, of course *wink*) and have some kick-ass adventures with guns and dangerous, pokey objects in a noisy black car that goes fast.
The issue I’m having is that all of these things can operate together. We can see new relationships, new dimensions of Sam and Dean, an unearthing of new conflict between them, but it doesn’t have to be done at the expense of their underlying feelings for each other. I argue that the push-pull of their feelings strengthen the drama because, in the past, it’s been the tug-of-war of emotion vs. action vs. I love you vs. I don’t understand why/what you’re doing vs. I’m gonna save you vs. I’m not worth saving that’s been the emotional cornerstone of SPN and, I think, vastly responsible for the show’s success. Which brings us to the messy issue of conflict and the tenuous balance between too much, too little, and where it’s sourced.
“Conflict is the basis of good drama and there’s more storyline to play when there’s static between them and they don’t completely trust each other. I’ve always felt, even when I was writing the show, that the seasons where Sam and Dean were in agreement the whole time weren’t as interesting as when we gave them a conflict.”
--Eric Kripke (interview 1/23/13)
Yes, conflict is the heart of drama and SPN wouldn’t be the same show without it. But it feels like this season, at least in the first half, the brother conflict was amped up (maybe in an attempt to up the stakes from the previous 7 seasons of brother conflict) to such a degree that the conflict itself wasn’t just surface issues over Dean’s socks in the sink, questionable alliances, or the grey areas between good and evil, but instead it became a conflict rooted in who Sam and Dean are. It was as if brother conflict had been hollowed out to be Brother Conflict—Sam and Dean at odds not only in terms of the plot and surface elements but also in conflict over their basic feelings for each other.
In previous seasons the conflict was about what Sam and Dean wanted—and, yes, that’s about who Sam and Dean are—but deeper than that, fundamentally, Sam and Dean still cared about each other (except for the S6 soulless-Sam period when Sam wasn’t capable of caring). Their love wasn’t the conflict—it created the conflict. It was the opposing force that was at war with what they wanted and how they approached/dealt with things, their worldviews, and was almost a separate entity beyond who they were as individuals. But it seems what we saw in the early part of S8 was that Sam and Dean’s feelings for each other became the conflict. Instead of their Epic Love being an independent, static force driving everything else in motion around it, the opposite happened, everything else (plot, wants/needs, who the characters are, how they operate) pushed Sam and Dean’s fundamental feelings for each other to the periphery, making their love for each other—or the seeming lack thereof—the conflict. The lies, mistrust, manipulation, suspicion and resentment during the first 10 episodes made the story of Sam and Dean’s Epic Love a hard sell. And for a show that’s hinged upon the strength of the brother relationship since day one, it felt unfamiliar and unsettling, as if the first half of S8 got stuck inside out and backwards.
So let’s step back for a second and play a little logic game. If it’s correct that Sam and Dean’s established feelings for each other could be summed up as “family trumps everything and everyone” and if the conflict during the first half of S8 was the brothers’ feeling for each other, then it would follow that the conflict should revolve around attachment, loyalty, the familial bond, and/or love. This isn’t to say that the conflict should be non-existent because it’s about warm fuzzies, but simply that the conflict should be rooted in overall positive feelings even if the resulting actions aren’t productive, healthy, rational, or without negative impact (refer to Sam and Dean’s motivations and resulting actions for pretty much the last 7 seasons).
But this isn’t what happened. Not only did brother conflict, which was previously sourced from their positive feelings for each other, get turned into Brother Conflict, it wasn’t at all apparent that attachment, loyalty, the familial bond, and/or love were motivating Sam and Dean’s actions. Based on Sam and Dean’s long and tumultuous emotional history, it would’ve been easy to slip a line in about how Sam didn’t trust Benny because he was worried about Dean falling into the a similar situation that he, Sam, found himself with Ruby, rooting Sam’s suspicions in his concern for Dean. In those first 10 episodes, it would’ve been easy for Dean to sympathize with Sam’s feelings for Amelia being that he had Lisa (and Ben) while Sam was presumed dead and not use Sam’s fear that something had happened to her in such a callous way. Instead we got two guys arguing at every turn, who said hurtful things, committed emotionally cruel acts, and seemed like they genuinely couldn’t stand to be around each other. But more troublesome was that all of this was sourced from some mysterious black hole void of attachment, loyalty, the familial bond, and/or love, making it feel like the Sam and Dean on screen were hollowed-out facsimiles themselves.
Not making the brothers’ bond the mainstay emotional storyline for the first half of the season was responsible for a show that looked like SPN but felt strangely unfamiliar. Because so many other elements were in flux: new characters, a new (old) plot, new (old) conflicts, some attempts at what looked like character growth (Dean) and some attempts to reveal what looked like new aspects of characters (Sam), something rooted and familiar with major emotional traction needed to hold it all together. For the last 7 seasons (except for the soulless-Sam period) that has been the brother’s love for each other. It’s messed up, dysfunctional, and broken, but it’s the intention of doing what they think is best born out of love that redeems Sam and Dean’s actions and hurtful words. And the undisputed intention of love motivating actions is something we didn’t see until “Time Goes By”, twelve episodes into the season, when Dean insisted on saving Sam. And that’s why we got brothers begrudgingly together but deeply unhappy at the end of “Torn and Frayed” (8x10), which gave a sense of dead-end entrapment and sent fandom into a groaning tailspin of “Where did my Show go?!” and caps lock entries full of declarations along the lines of “I’d quit this show if I could! AKJADFJKL!” So for the first half of this season not only did we get Sam and Dean in conflict over their feelings for each other rather than in conflict as a result of their feelings for each other, we didn’t see their love for each other, as has been very evident in the past, as a motivating factor for their actions.
In addition to those two factors affecting how foreign SPN felt for the first 10 episodes, I think there was also an issue with matching current characterization with past context and the brothers’ emotional history. The main problem being that Sam and Dean’s actions, words, and motivations didn’t make sense in the context of their history. On a show that consists of two brothers and their Epic Love and coupled with the two previously mentioned issues, the degree to which Sam and Dean lied, manipulated, refused to trust each other, and used each other as emotional punching bags didn’t make sense from what we know of them previously. Instead we got Dean who used Sam’s greatest fear and vulnerability against him (planting information that falsely suggested somebody Sam cares about was in danger) and Sam who somehow refuses to trust Dean for something Sam himself did in the past (trusting a vampire, Lenore in S2), and both of them refusing to see each others’ viewpoints even though they themselves once held them (more articulate thoughts from galathea_snb about this here, in particular the first two paragraphs). Substitute any other characters and maybe this would fly, but not with the Sam and Dean we’ve come to know over the last 8 years.
So just as we want consistency with the heart of Sam and Dean’s emotional story, we also crave familiarity and a semblance of character continuity, but at the same time we want the characters to change and grow and become better, more complex. And that’s what we saw in S1-5: a progressive evolution of Sam and Dean’s relationship (even though at times it was painful). I think that’s what the writers may be trying to manufacture now, moving Sam and Dean as individuals into discovering new facets of themselves. But that evolution can’t be at the expense of who the characters were to begin with. It’s building upon a foundation, not blasting away everything and starting new.
And finally a little foray into a related idea and one of the most common reasons why the first half of the season felt foreign: Sam, Amelia, and Don. Let me first say that characters and relationships can look great on paper but they don’t always translate to the screen or resonate with the audience. And I think this was the case here. Sam and Amelia were portrayed two deeply bruised souls who found comfort with each other. Realistic, sure. So why didn’t it strike a chord with the audience? We’re not looking for realism; we’re looking for familiarity. Most of us involved in fandom watch for Sam and Dean and their relationship. This is a Sci-Fi/Horror, show about two vigilante brothers, angels, and demons, where everyone dies grisly, horrible deaths, including the main characters. This is a show where Death eats deep-fried pickle chips, parallel universes and time travel happen on a semi-regular basis, and Sam and Dean are healed in no time from grievous injuries that would kill or permanently land anyone in real life in the hospital or mental ward or both. If we wanted something that approached realism we’d be watching docudramas or reality TV (even though reality TV approximates RL as much as Barbie is a realistic stand-in for a living, breathing human being). Supernatural is meant for an audience that wants dramatic escapism, not dramatic realism or dramatic … drama-ism (ha, I made that up, but, you know, drama for the sake of drama based loosely on reality that isn’t fantastical and fantasy-based—shows like Gossip Girl or Grey’s Anatomy). Couple that with the fact the established mo of SPN has never been based on meandering love interests, let alone love triangles, and it makes sense why we balked at the possibility of a subplot based on a pissing contest between Sam and Don over Amelia. The latter two being characters we weren’t emotionally invested in because we weren’t allowed to get to know them in a way that made them more than one-dimensional as their appearances were either too brief, emotionally monochrome, or—with the exception of the last moments of 8x10—lacked relevance and urgency in the present time of the story.
It’s hard, no doubt (and this is where I start to feel bad for blabbing about all that is “bad” with this season). Not only do the writers have to maintain a balance between character growth and consistency while simultaneously keeping an eye on the emotional underpinnings of the character motivation, they have to root the current story to its history—or at least not contradict or entirely ignore it—while maintaining forward momentum, keeping the story fresh, and giving it a new spin. They have to pay tribute to what has come before, giving the story a sense of depth that is familiar and new at the same time. Use new events, new characters, new situations to tell old stories that reveal new things about old characters that reflect their history and growth. And do this all on a network TV deadline. But that being said, I don’t think fandom’s reaction is unwarranted. I think it’s borne out of a familiarity and protectiveness and standard of consistency that should be demanded. SPN is a show where love hurts, but ultimately it’s the underlying driving force—no matter how misplaced, twisted, or misguided—for pretty much everything the Winchesters do. And that should be the thread that holds every season together.
To sum everything up: writing is hard, we, the audience, demand lots of seemingly but not necessarily contrasting stuff, and conflict can be a good thing, but only if Sam and Dean love each other deep down. We watch for dramatic escapism and to sit down with a show that feels like an old friend. Comfort in familiarity resonates with fandom (why else would we stick with a TV show for 8 years?). So keep the core elements of SPN and dress it up with exciting, kick-ass adventures and novel, colorful supporting characters that make sense in the context of the show’s history. But ultimately this is the story of Sam and Dean’s Epic Love. And it should remain as such.
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galwithglasses
Feb. 8th, 2013 07:38 am (UTC)
But really all we want are for Sam and Dean to love each other (in a PG-13 fraternal way acceptable for the general viewing public, of course *wink*) and have some kick-ass adventures with guns and dangerous, pokey objects in a noisy black car that goes fast.
Yes to everything you said. I hope we've turned a corner and are heading for better things from here on. I hope they don't backslide and go back to it.
I hope so too! *crosses fingers*
galathea_snb
I couldn't agree with you more. The first half of the season felt like the heart of the show was missing. Even in S4, when Sam and Dean were at each other's throats, I felt more love between them than in most of the first 10 episodes of S8, and I find that unsettling. I am fine with conflict, but I always need the feeling that no matter what, Sam and Dean love each other, even if they don't understand one another.
The lack of emotional continuity is particularly grating. I still don't understand how the writers got from the ending of S7 to the versions of the characters we saw in 8x01-8x10. The writers made no efforts whatsoever to paint a compelling emotional journey that lead the characters from point A to point B. The show used to excel in consistent, emotional contiuity for Sam and Dean; it's the one thing we could always count on. I would really like to know what the writers were thinking when they outlined the first half of the season.
But ultimately this is the story of Sam and Dean’s Epic Love. And it should remain as such.
AMEN! At least it seems the season has finally turned a corner. This week's episode has been amazing! It's been a long time since I last felt such a genuine sense of hope in one of Supernatural's storylines. ♥
The first half of the season felt like the heart of the show was missing.
Ha, I think there used to be a line in this meta that said exactly that (but I deleted it), so I agree obviously. :)
Sam and Dean love each other, even if they don't understand one another
Yes, this is the best sort of conflict because their feelings for each other provide a needed counterpoint to the problematic issues, it's the "pull" part of the "push-pull" that conflict needs. If the characters have no reason why they keep hanging around to just fight, the conflict seem contrived and unbelievable, so it's necessary even though it seems counter to what would make for good tension/fighting. I feel like the writers somehow forgot this and just wanted to manufacture Big Conflict as if that alone would make for good drama. It's almost like they didn't know what else to do after 7 seasons of previous brother conflict so their default was to just make everything BIGGER. :(
I would really like to know what the writers were thinking when they outlined the first half of the season.
Even though I don't think it had to spin out like it did, I feel like it was spent cleaning up where S7 left off, a really long transition from Gamble's story to Carver's story. Like Carver felt obligated to play out the repercussions of Dean in Purgatory and Sam alone in order to position the characters for where he wanted them to be for his story (8x11 and beyond), only he really didn't want to deal with it thoughtfully. So instead of picking story lines that spun from Sam and Dean as characters (I'd like to have seen Sam get Dean out of Purgatory and have the boys be agencies of their own lives instead of pawns of the supernatural again), he just picked some story lines that hadn't happened yet (Sam in a long-term relationship, not hunting and Dean being best buddies with a monster) and shoved Sam and Dean into those roles.
At least it seems the season has finally turned a corner.
And just in time! Even my patience was beginning to wane.
antrazi
Feb. 8th, 2013 01:35 pm (UTC)
I may be an eternal optimist but I still hope they will finish these storylines in a way that it doesn't just feel like wasted time
I'm ambivalent. A part of me wants to believe they will and that all of it was factored into some grand plan that will come full circle by the end of this season. Another part of me thinks that's a lot to hope for. Lately, I feel like I'm giving Show an expression that looks a lot like your icon.
fannishliss
I think this essay is very smart and very well-put. You should definitely cross post at spn heavy meta if you haven't already. :D
My reactions to the first half of the season are very different and so I think I have a meta of my own to write! I really appreciate your clear headedness in laying all of this out. It makes perfect sense and helps to illustrate to me why fandom has reacted as it has.
I would argue that SPOILERS are also to blame. I think a lot of people went into the season with Jared's words about Sam not bothering to look for Dean ringing in their ears. Taking Jared's words with a grain of salt (because I am vehemently opposed to SPOILERS, which are called that for a reason!) led to my really identifying with Sam and feeling with him for the long half season. I believe that it's true that Sam didn't look for Dean -- but I do not believe it's because he stopped caring. I think Dean's loss shattered him -- and I absolutely ached for him when Dean (and fandom) couldn't see that. (I think Jared does a stellar job getting inside Sam's head emotionally and conveying what he's feeling when Sam hasn't got any words or lines to say -- the play of expression on Sam's face mean everything.) Sam's inability/refusal to make any excuses for his inactivity blindsided everyone. But I also think that Dean's experience of purgatory did change something fundamental in his character-- something that he was unable to communicate with Sam, even though he did try. And even I myself, as a longtime Dean Girl, had a really hard time understanding. Which is why I need to write that meta!
Anyhow, I am really glad that Show has emerged from the morass of s7, which, for me, was an astonishing emotional drain, as more and more of Sam and Dean's support system was ripped away from them. This new mythos has a lot of problems of its own, but I am so grateful for Sam and Dean having friends and contacts and a homebase again. Huge sigh of relief!
I just have to say, I hope they don't let Dean just sit back and take this label that he is the "Brawn" of the family. I am really really happy for Sam that he has this mantle to draw around his huge librarian shoulders. (I am sitting around thinking about Bobby's books all in boxes and just itching for Sam to cross catalog them. I am literally picturing the satisfaction of slotting Bobby's book in amongst the Letters collection.) I want Dean to have his Legacy in Letters too though!! Is that too greedy? The very first meta I ever posted was about Dean's giftedness. I don't want him shoved over as Brawn.... Yes, I am a greedy fangirl.
You should definitely cross post at spn heavy meta
I was thinking of it, but wasn't sure if that comm was relevant anymore *remembers its glory in S2 and its many posts*. I suppose it can't hurt, though. :)
I think I have a meta of my own to write ... Dean's experience of purgatory did change something fundamental in his character
That's a meta I'd be interested in reading!
I would argue that SPOILERS are also to blame.
For sure. Were you involved in this fandom during the summer before S3 (sorry I can't remember off hand)? If not or if you don't recall, there was a HUGE fandom freak-out as a result of Ruby and Bela sides being leaked with people rallying against potential love interests and the new girls causing Sam and Dean to be apart more than they were together etc. This stemmed from the sides being a scene of Sam and Ruby and then of Dean and Bela, and at least Sam and Ruby's scene (if not both) was hypersexualized. Anyway, I feel like those spoilers caused a portion of fandom to make up their minds about Ruby and Bela before they even stepped off the page and played into the developing idea at the time that women on SPN shouldn't last long. So, yes, spoilers create buzz and cause people to draw inferences and connect the dots as they see fit if they turn out to be accurate or not, and those preconceived notions can influence the perception of what actually happens.
I believe that it's true that Sam didn't look for Dean -- but I do not believe it's because he stopped caring. I think Dean's loss shattered him
Sam's inability/refusal to make any excuses for his inactivity blindsided everyone.
I was surprised by this, but not because it didn't fit with Sam's personality (I feel like he's not one to make excuses really, but to internalize everything and sort of take it on the chin), but bec. SPN has always had a "twist" (except for maybe S7?), a sort of master plan operating in the background, something pulling the strings regardless if we were privy to it or not. There's a twist this season with Naomi, but I was originally expecting it to be with Sam, maybe having to do with the dark figure watching him in 8x01.
I am so grateful for Sam and Dean having friends and contacts and a homebase again.
Garth is growing on me. :) He's certainly enduring and a great change of pace from the usual flavor of alcoholic, mentally unstable hunters. I'm loving the Men of Letters idea so much! Ahhhhh, the potential!!!! And their headquarters is gorgeous to look at. OMG, there could be so many cool things hiding in there!
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This is really interesting and well argued!
SPN is a show where love hurts, but ultimately it’s the underlying driving force—no matter how misplaced, twisted, or misguided—for pretty much everything the Winchesters do. And that should be the thread that holds every season together.
Yes, very much this.
In some ways, season 8 feels like a negative image of season 1 to me: vibrant emotional connections set against a washed out / grainy palette versus the often hyperreal, candy colouring of this season with its worn out and frayed relationships…*ponders*
Feb. 10th, 2013 10:05 pm (UTC)
season 8 feels like a negative image of season 1 to me: vibrant emotional connections set against a washed out / grainy palette versus the often hyperreal, candy colouring of this season with its worn out and frayed relationships
Nice. I like the comparison. That "candy colouring" comment reminded me right away of S3 when suddenly the saturation was like getting poked in the eye with a 64 pack of crayola crayons. As far as this season goes, I understand why the look for Sam's flashbacks were adopted, but I still prefer the desaturated look of S1/S2 and the awesome look of Purgatory (although it is nice to see the boys brightly colored).
hugemind
This. All of this. Especially this:
Supernatural is meant for an audience that wants dramatic escapism, not dramatic realism or dramatic … drama-ism
And you hit the nail in the head with this:
It was the opposing force that was at war with what they wanted and how they approached/dealt with things, their worldviews, and was almost a separate entity beyond who they were as individuals. But it seems what we saw in the early part of S8 was that Sam and Dean’s feelings for each other became the conflict.
The first 10 eps feel like a different show, but I'm happy that the last three eps have had a lot of heart and soul in them. \o/
I'm happy that the last three eps have had a lot of heart and soul in them. \o/
Me, too! And so relieved. I'd rather be writing hyper-spaz posts that abuse emoticons and exclamation marks about how great everything is rather than meta like this.
etoile444
I'm not sure what I would have written in response if I had written this after 8.10. Now, having seen the latest episodes I have them to guide my thoughts. My gut tells me Jeremy was attempting to clean up after Sera prior to moving on to the story he wanted to tell.
I agree that Sam and Dean's acceptance and understanding of each other was lacking. Sam was actually so emotionally void I thought his soul was missing again. How he got to that place should have been shown. Then as a viewer I'd get the decisions he made. Deans story gave me plenty to understand why he trusted Benny.
I'm happy the story seems to be off on a new path. I have Hope that wasn't there a month ago.
I'm not sure what I would have written in response if I had written this after 8.10.
I think fandom was at an all time low after that episode aired (I know I was pretty exasperated). I think if I'd posted this that week, the discussion threads would be very different. I'm happy, though, that SPN seems to be finding its groove finally. I agree with you about Carver closing off Gamble's story (see my reply to galathea_snb's comment above for more if you're interested). :)
How he got to that place should have been shown.
Yes, it should've. We got lots of flashbacks showing how Sam was with Amelia and how their relationship evolved through mutual emotional devastation/dependency, but it was important for us to see Sam before Amelia and get a sense of his head space (and now I'm laughing at the idea of flashbacks within a flashback). There's much to be said about showing vs. telling. We were told a lot about how Sam was feeling (or else left to infer based on his "actions" or inaction), but we weren't really shown. A great use of showing was in "I Know What You Did Last Summer". I kept hoping for an episode that meaty this season so we could really understand Sam, but it looks like it's very unlikely as it feels like that whole missing year and its emotional repercussions for Sam and Dean are probably in the can now.
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The arguing between the brothers, in the first half of season 8, felt contrived and just put there because it was drama
YES! Manufactured! Almost like SPN forgot it's own history. I'd really like to give the writers the benefit of the doubt, but I feel like they collectively dropped the ball here by failing to create credible drama that made sense with Sam and Dean's past. And it was so frustrating.
we never got more information, no flasbacks, no conversations with Amelia and/or Dean about what Sam went through
It's the tell and not the showing problem (again). We seem to get a lot of this, I feel, with Sam's story lines and it's a big, fat pitfall whenever a show jumps forward in time, esp. when something major has happened. It's clear that Carver was trying to create some tension by not showing what exactly happened with Sam right away (and also not linger on a story with the boy apart by skipping that year as it's clear they think the audience will freak out if Sam and Dean are apart for any extended period of time, which I think is mostly true but, if it's done right it could be totally awesome and actually make the collective Sam-n-Dean identity stronger). But then as the episodes spun by it became apparent that Show was never going to really show what happened to Sam pre-Amelia and post-7x22 and that's when we, the audience, started crying foul i.e. "where's the twist with Sam's story?!". It was treated almost as a tease and then it was a big let down, AND we've been trained by to expect a twist so of course we were confused. I'm still waiting for the twist as I'm wondering who that dark figure watching Sam in 8x01 was.
it's so weird how episodes 1-10 feel like a completely different show then 11-13.
Dissociative identity disorder. Show has traumatized itself. *nods*
Thanks for leaving your thoughts!
maenad
Hi. I found this via spn_heavymeta, and I wanted to thank you for your excellent analysis of the first half of the season.
But it seems what we saw in the early part of S8 was that Sam and Dean’s feelings for each other became the conflict.
I think I would say that the basic premise of the show is that these are two people who discovered that they are both happier and more capable together, who were then informed by the whole universe - starting with John (who loved them but wanted them to behave in ways that wouldn't let them function as a partnership) and moving up to demons (who wanted them at odds) and angels (who wanted to use them for their own purposes) - that they weren't allowed to just be together and do their job.
They were always facing external pressure to fight. Of course, their differing personalities and opinions could exacerbate the situation, but the idea was that if they could just have the space to talk and think their natural inclination would be to sort themselves out - as evidenced by the occasions where they pulled themselves together and faced down their oppressors.
The trouble with season eight is that the main conflict was not about them at all: it was a battle of wills between Kevin and Crowley. That's fine, except that it gave them plenty of space to sort out their issues - and they made very little attempt to do so. And that undermines everything we've ever been told about them. That's one reason why the introduction of the Men of Letters is so encouraging - it puts Sam and Dean back in the centre of things, and hopefully creates an environment in which future conflicts will be meaningful. I think a lot of the problem stems from the fact that the show needs conflict on the mythic scale and on the personal scale. Usually, these two things have been tied together. But here they were disconnected, which meant that Sam and Dean's arguments necessarily looked manufactured.
Sam and Amelia were portrayed two deeply bruised souls who found comfort with each other. Realistic, sure. So why didn’t it strike a chord with the audience? We’re not looking for realism; we’re looking for familiarity. Most of us involved in fandom watch for Sam and Dean and their relationship.
I think the failure here ties into the whole 'backwards' theme you've been addressing. The show has a long history of using guest characters to highlight things about Sam, Dean or their relationship. Those characters generally have enough background and quirks sketched in to make them unique (though some are richer than others) but a lot of what we feel for them comes from our intimate knowledge of where Sam and Dean are at, and what the guest characters' arcs say about them.
Here I thought that, instead of Amelia and Don representing Sam and Dean, Sam and Dean represented Amelia and Don. We got a reasonable amount of info on Amelia and Don's past and why they were conflicted and so on - but since we scarcely know them we have little reason to be invested. And Sam's character arc was apparently just to be taken as read: if you want an idea of how Sam felt, look at Amelia and infer. You know - he's Sam. He falls apart in dramatic ways. We're not going to show you.
That leaves us with little to hold onto in the plotline. The metaphor doesn't work because it goes the wrong way. We have to know where Sam's at in order to really embrace Amelia's predicament as an extension of his.
Anyway, the last few episodes have been a great improvement. And I'm sorry for all the blather. I just love posts that make me think. :)
The trouble with season eight is that the main conflict was not about them at all: it was a battle of wills between Kevin and Crowley
So on point! This is a really good point, and one that highlights a major difference between this season and past seasons. It's funny how conflict and motivation are intertwined--they're often stuck together, but not always. And this season shows that.
I think a lot of the problem stems from the fact that the show needs conflict on the mythic scale and on the personal scale. Usually, these two things have been tied together. But here they were disconnected, which meant that Sam and Dean's arguments necessarily looked manufactured.
I agree 110%. I played a little game at the end of S5 and teased apart conflict for every season up to that point, then wrote a post discussing exactly what you mention here. :) It would be interesting to redo this exercise for S6-S8 and see how things compare with how the season was perceived to hold together.
a lot of what we feel for them comes from our intimate knowledge of where Sam and Dean are at, and what the guest characters' arcs say about them.
I feel that when Show doesn't do this AND the supporting characters aren't quirky and colorful, they aren't as well received. This poor show is all about Sam and Dean no matter how you spin it.
instead of Amelia and Don representing Sam and Dean, Sam and Dean represented Amelia and Don.
O.O My brain just turned inside out. :)
he's Sam. He falls apart in dramatic ways. We're not going to show you.
I can't help but wonder why this seems to be the case more than not with Sam's emotional journey vs. Dean's. My knee-jerk reaction is to want to reject it because I want SPN to treat Sam and Dean equally. But with the last couple of seasons, it's hard to ignore. *gets thinky*
I'm sorry for all the blather. I just love posts that make me think. :)
Don't be sorry, you comment was super awesome and really interesting! Blabbing about SPN is fun. Thank you!
percysowner
This is a great meta. The conflict was built on the wrong things and it really ruined the first half of the season for me. I'm not certain the second half can take that away, but the last 2 episodes have me hoping. The one thing I am going to need is SEEING how Sam reacted to Dean's disappearance. Yes, I can believe he shattered but devoting only 2 sentences to it "I ran", making Sam sound like a coward and "My world imploded" frankly isn't enough for me. I need to see the show acknowledge Sam's shattering when Dean disappeared. I shouldn't have to make up the plausible scenario in my mind. So, I'm still holding my breath on how I will end up feeling about this season.
I am going to need is SEEING how Sam reacted to Dean's disappearance.
I was hopeful with the number of flashbacks we were getting in the beginning of the season that we'd see Sam before he hit the dog and met Amelia. Unfortunately that didn't happen (obviously), and even though I'd like to think we could still get to experience what Sam experienced, I'm not so sure that SPN is going to take us back that far again. It feels like we're finally gaining some forward momentum this season and (even though from a fannish perspective it would be satisfying) flashing back to that storyline in that sort of detail may be more of a distraction. :(
I shouldn't have to make up the plausible scenario in my mind.
I agree. But that's what fanfic is for!
I'm still holding my breath on how I will end up feeling about this season.
I'm still waiting to see if the writers are going to address the dark figure watching Sam in 8x01 and explain how Sam just happened to leave Amelia and then walk into Rufus' cabin when Dean just happened to have newly escaped Purgatory. Maybe it's supposed to be a coincidence, but it just seems so ... purposefully unexplained.
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runedgirl
This is EXACTLY what made the first half of S8 so uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Well said. I'm feeling like Show is getting back on track after the last three episodes, and I'd like to think they have learned something from what didn't work in early S8. Maybe you should send this to Mr. Carver just to make sure :)
I'm feeling like Show is getting back on track after the last three episodes
Let's hope this nice trend continues! I'd love nothing more than just to write off the first half of the season and just think of S8 as being 12 awesome episodes long.
Maybe you should send this to Mr. Carver just to make sure :)
Heh, that would be ... scary. :) I have so much respect for people who write for a living, I'd probably wet my pants.
snchick12
U know, I agree! I love S8, but I'll admit it felt awkward! but that's cause we never had to deal with that situation before, but true to Sam and deans nature they know that they are all they have left is each other and will always come back for the other, so for that I am forgiving them lol, but everyone is allowed thier own opinion! it did excite me the possible love Interest, or Dean knowing about Benny and helping him out, it was drama! but it all came back to like u said the epic love, and to be truthful it can't all 100% okey dokey, where is the angst in that ;) lol
Yes, drama and angst and family and epic love, it's like the perfect little storm. \o/ And for that I adore this little show.
strgazr04
Wow! This is impressive! I agree with so much of this I can't even tell you. If it wasn't 3am I'd totally write so much more haha! Well done!
I will say though that as much of a turning point as the last two or three episodes have made, it leaves me confused for the first part. I feel like the season so far doesn't flow as one whole story. Maybe once we get a few episodes more it'll make sense.
I feel like the season so far doesn't flow as one whole story.
That's exactly the problem so far. The transition from Gamble to Carver was rough to say the least.
Maybe once we get a few episodes more it'll make sense.
Here's to hoping there's a grand plan just waiting to be revealed!
Thanks for stopping by. :)
peepingdru
yes yes AND yes::DDDDD
YES! :D Thanks for stopping by!
mangacat201
THIS. THIS Is SO GOOD. You hit it exactly on the head, as to why I was unwilling to say S8 sucked because I saw what they were trying to do and thought it was a pretty great idea for freshening up the joint 8 seasons in, but their execution was just lacking in certain rare but ultimately very important details. It kinda says it all that I read a fic where Sam was searching aimlessly, hit a dog and met a woman who was so hurt from her partner's passing that she couldn't enter into a real long term relationship. Sam just stopped because he couldn't go on alone and she took him in because she couldn't go on alone. And I was YES I CAN GET BEHIND THAT. Because it made sense with their characters, for Sam to just find reprieve in not looking because it would have destroyed him not to find Dean. Cue drama of 'you didn't look for me' - 'I couldn't or I would have broken beyond repair' same drama, same tension, same trust issues but with the underlying current of 'I did it because I love you TOO MUCH'.
I think the writers are working their asses off too and I commend them, but they have lost sight a bit of what actually drove the show. Maybe a rewatch is in order guys.
for Sam to just find reprieve in not looking because it would have destroyed him not to find Dean.
See?!?! It's just those little missing pieces that we needed in order to establish that brother love was the underlying motivation for ... everything. I think most of fandom would've gladly accepted Sam's actions over that missing year if it had been backed by something as familiar and sensible as what you mentioned, and it wouldn't have changed Sam's early S8 storyline whatsoever. It wouldn't have taken a lot, just a line of dialogue. And that's exactly why early S8 was so frustrating and confounding. I think the worst part of those first 10 episodes is what potential they had for some really good storytelling. But as it stands, they were off the mark and just left a weird aftertaste everybody wants to forget.
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By Darren | 6th May 2019 | 0
Date: 31st May 2019 4:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Venue: Brockley Station
Categories: 2019 Events, Free
Brockley Max starts with the festival party with an afternoon and evening of music on the street. From 4.30, we’ll get Brockley swinging with local bands and performers from choirs to classical, rock to rap, and with folk and funk in-between. Here’s the lineup!
Opening Night Lineup for 2019
22:20 Danny and the Moonlighters
21:40 Koder
21:00 Thunk
20:35 Man Shaped Wolf
20:10 Yizzy
19:45 Dan Maitland
19:20 London Soul Choir
18:55 NIKS
18:30 PRVNA
18:05 Llegó la miel
17:40 Tai
17:15 Michelle
16:50 Sienna
16:25 London City Voices
Danny and the Moonlighters
Danny and the Moonlighters are a South London semi-serious rock n roll band… styles ranging from ’50s high school prom rock, surfer vibes, speak easy swing, and a healthy dose of spook!
Koder
Hailing from Brockley, Koder, commenced his musical journey aged 12. 2010 saw the release of his debut mixtape Space Shuttle Business, and the successful release of Naked EP, catapulted Koder’s career further. Bringing the 2018 countdown in at the Northern Bass Festival, the wrapped up the summer at the Reading Festival, shutting down the BBC Introducing stage with fellow Brockley MC Yizzy. Koder’s new release Richer, at the end of the year, proves his music goes from strength to strength.
Thunk
Thunk have roots in jazz and funk, with influences of ska, reggae and South African music thrown in. This six-piece includes our musical directors Richard and Ben Swan.
Man Shaped Wolf
Man Shaped Wolf are a London four-piece playing funky rock music, with elements of soul, blues and ska thrown in for good measure. Formed in 2017, we have been bringing our high-energy live show to venues right across the capital ever since and released our eponymous debut EP in 2018. We love nothing more than playing live, engaging with audiences and getting everyone up and moving to our tunes!
Yizzy
Yizzy is a Grime artist from Brockley. Only 19 years old yet has been doing music for 3 years. His main musical influences growing up were Grime legends, Ghetts, Griminal, Devlin & Dizzee Rascal.
London Soul Choirs
London Soul Choirs (Greenwich and Hither Green) are the SE’s only specialist soul choir performing music from all the soul greats; Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder to Prince! Founded in 2010, LSC is now a 100 strong adult community choir, and has performed on the main stage at On Blackheath Festival, the Southbank Centre at the Camden Electric Ballroom and with artists such as Jocelyn.
Born and bred in Brockley, NIKS‘ musical journey is rooted in radio. Having studied at the University of Bath for 4 years, NIKS undertook roles as Head of Station Sound and Head of Marketing and Advertising at University Radio Bath. Winning awards including “Best Specialist Show” in the south-west region radio awards for her show “In the Mix with Niks”. NIKS can be found curating takeover mixes for Foundation FM, Bloop London Radio live from Bestival and Houghton Festivals, and Cool Moves Radio, as well as playing at venues such as Netil House, Secondhome and Lakota Bristol. This summer, NIKS will be bringing her deep house mixing skills to Glastonbury on the infamous Worthy FM, Wigflex City Festival, Nosily Festival, Pride in Brighton, Mad Hatters’ and more.
PRVNA
PRVNA is a South London songstress, capturing audiences with her alluring and powerful vocals. Expect songs from the heart with neo-soul vibes and a definite groove.
Llegó la miel
Llegó la miel: “The band is formed by voices, guitars, violin, bass and drums.. we do original songs, we like to call it latin blues, because it’s based on the blues/funk songs with a latin sound that comes from bossa nova, samba, candombe… it’s eclectic but it’s familiar at the same time. we have been playing in London for over 2 years, in different venues and festivals, last January we released our first EP that can be listened in Spotify, Soundcloud, iTunes, etc”.
Tai is a New Zealand born Singer with Maori heritage. He moved to London to pursue a career in music and has managed to build a fanbase because of his impromptu appearances at open mics and showcases around the city. He combines soul and pop music, taking you on journeys that leave audiences singing along and wanting to hear more.
Michelle has been singing for over 20 years working with various songwriters and singing background vocals. Her singing style is low (contralto) offering power when needed. She loves to sing songs with beautiful lyrics to bring the songs to life. Her musical influences run from Nat King Cole to Randy Crawford and the late greats, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson.
Sienna is 14 years old and has been performing since she was 11, at open mics and festivals all over Eltham, Greenwich, Lewisham. She won Grove Park Got Talent in 2017 and has just secured a place at the BRIT school.
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publication date: Apr. 26, 2019
MD Anderson researchers ousted as NIH and FBI target diversion of intellectual property
By Paul Goldberg
Three faculty members at MD Anderson Cancer Center were sanctioned for failure to ensure confidentiality of review of NIH grants. The scientists also failed to disclose outside funding, academic appointments, and roles in laboratories outside the U.S.
As a result of this probe, two of these faculty members have resigned, and dismissal proceedings against the third are ongoing.
Altogether, NIH and MD Anderson have examined five cases, and investigation documents reviewed by The Cancer Letter allege brazen and egregious abuses of the NIH peer review system.
These include sharing confidential information obtained through participation in NIH study sections, sometimes bouncing confidential information to unauthorized individuals down the hall, and sometimes sending it to colleagues half-way around the world, with the instruction to “keep this confidential.”
Also, the MD Anderson researchers failed to disclose ties to laboratories, faculty appointments, and financial support from the People’s Republic of China, including the Thousand Talents program and its equivalents in that country’s provinces.
Exhibiting another form of misbehavior, one MD Anderson faculty member took part in evaluation of NIH grant applications by his intimate partners.
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Hot West Oak Lawn Offers Small Investors The Option of Being a Landlord
by Jon Anderson
After The Recession pause, we all know real estate has boomed. In older neighborhoods south of Northwest Highway, the boom has brought gentrification to once-affordable neighborhoods. This isn’t surprising, as these areas are up-luxed and densified. A few years ago, noting your address was “near Harry Hines” was not considered polite conversation. That’s swiftly changing.
In the run-up to The Recession, many a developer assembled larger tracts of properties in Oak Lawn, west of the Dallas North Tollway, by stringing together single-family lots or by purchasing apartment buildings. The plans were for the same townhouse developments seen on other parts of Oak Lawn. Depending on timing, the lots may have or may not have been cleared.
Before disaster struck, Perry Homes had built a series of brick façade townhomes on Knight and Sylvester, between the tollway and Harry Hines. They took quite a while to sell. Others tried with cheaper clapboard models a block over on Throckmorton. They too took a while to sell.
Today the area — north of Oak Lawn Avenue and between Harry Hines and the Tollway — has returned to new development.
In-Town Homes’ Congress and Shelby Rowhouses
One of those large lots is actually on the east side of the Tollway behind the Oak Lawn post office on Congress and Shelby — a hop-skip from the coming 1,600 cars per day Starbucks that passed City Plan Commission last Thursday with one dissent … Commissioner Margot Murphy.
Coming Soon, 100+ Townhouses
The Congress and Shelby project is being developed by In-Town Homes, who also plan a 100-plus townhome development on a super-sized plot at Afton and Hawthorne. It’s across from the Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Middle School and a few block west of Ojeda’s restaurant on Maple Avenue.
Recently sold Sylvester and Knight. Coming soon, roof decks with downtown views
As you can see on the map, there other developments soon to spring forth. One on Sylvester between Arroyo and Lucas and another on a 2.64 acre site on Sylvester between Knight and Throckmorton, very near those first pioneering townhouses.
I remember looking at a single-family lot on Vagas Street during The Recession as I contemplated up-skilling my renovation bent to full-on new construction. As I recall, it was listed for $60,000-ish. I knew that with the Old Parkland project, UTSW Medical explosion, and the DART station nearing completion at Vagas and Harry Hines, the area would boom once money returned.
I bring this up because it’s not too late.
There are multiple lots for sale in the area that are currently zoned as MF-2 … meaning multi-family. One is east of Maple at 2523 Hondo Avenue with a 50 by 150-foot lot size. It’s listed for $299,000 with Donna Bosse with Donna Savariego Homes. How about a 50 by 100-foot lot at 2200 Lucas for $210,000 that faces the school? Maybe you’re a big spender? There are a bunch for sale ranging from $244,900 to $300,000 on Arroyo Avenue … 2135, 2202, 2206, 2138, 2210, 2342 and 2343 … with 2138, 2202, 2206 and 2210 running in a line for a 200 by 150-foot lot measuring nearly three-quarters of an acre.
Compare these prices with eastern Oak Lawn. A similar lot may be $100,000 more east of the Tollway and a 50 by 100-foot lotted, two-flat listed on Hawthorne is for sale at $575,000 and described as being in bad shape, needing “work … has loads of character, but value is in the land.”
OK, so you’re not getting in on the ground floor here, but you’re far from topped out.
And let’s be realistic, no one is going to purchase one or more of these lots for a single-family home. But for the small-fry investor, I can certainly see taking a page from Chicago (and parts of Dallas) and building a two-flat. Most would think of squishing two skinny townhomes side by side on a 50-foot lot. The same old bedroom/garage on the ground level … open living/dining/kitchen followed by a bedroom or two at the top … crowned by a roof deck guests have to traipse through your bedroom to access. Bo-RING.
Think differently. With flats, the spaces are wider, leading to more generous proportions. Also, being stair-free, they’re perfect for the mobility conscious (or those who hate wasting limited space with stairs). The small investor might also figure on living in one unit while renting out the other to dramatically cut their mortgage. Many people like renting in small buildings without the raucousness of neighbors and the feeling of single-family. Downstairs units get the yard while upstairs residents get the deck.
The Angst of Gentrification
It’s super easy to see opportunity in places like this. Sweet location and relatively inexpensive prices. But there’s also the realization that looking at DCAD, nearly every owner on streets like Hondo, Arroyo, and Afton has a Latin last name.
While I’m happy they’re getting a good payday for their properties, I’m also sad at yet another neighborhood falling apart in the face of development. I also wonder where these sellers are going? It’s a question not limited to lower income residents. With prices what they are, many of us would have no idea where we’d move to.
Time was that north of Oak Lawn Avenue was largely divided by a large Latino population sharing space with the Gayborhood. I recall visiting in the 1980s when it was a more tense relationship that has mellowed over time. But one of the reasons it’s mellowed is because both neighborhoods have frayed from their heydays.
This was always going to happen, I guess The Recession offered a few more years.
Remember: High-rises, HOAs and renovation are my beat. But I also appreciate modern and historical architecture balanced against the YIMBY movement. If you’re interested in hosting a Candysdirt.com Staff Meeting event, I’m your guy. In 2016, my writing was recognized with Bronze and Silver awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Have a story to tell or a marriage proposal to make? Shoot me an email sharewithjon@candysdirt.com.
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Dispatch From the Front [by Whatsblem the Pro]
DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT
12/23/2012 by Whatsblem the Pro
First ignited by Paul Addis‘ early burn of 2007 after the stage was set by John Law’s departure from Burning Man and subsequent lawsuit, the cultural cold war for the very soul of the Man rages on.
In the Facebook forums this week, we saw heated conversations sprout left and right after one forum member started a petition to change the 2013 theme (“Cargo Cult”) on the grounds that it is culturally insensitive and racist, and another forum member (a newly-minted Vegan) posted that “Burning Man needs to look at its bacon issue. It’s not cool to leave a trace but it’s cool to kill and eat an animal with feelings that is smarter than your dog? Evolving takes many forms.”
Naturally, the phrase “what Burning Man is all about” came up, and everyone had to take a drink. A rollicking round of snarkiness ensued, peppered with spirited cries of “shut up, hippie.”
Snark in the Burning Man forums seems to come mostly from people who live on the rawer side of burner culture; people who enjoy a good mindfuck and have little patience for hippie-dippy pseudowisdom. They’re pranksters, and for the most part, the pranksterism at Burning Man comes from the grass roots up, directly from people like them. It’s not dreamed up, organized, or encouraged by the leaders at the top. It has ever been thus, but there was a time when pranksters had a king of sorts, or at least some representation in the event’s leadership. As a member of the Suicide Club and a founder of both the Cacophony Society and Burning Man, John Law’s credentials as a culture jammer with prankish roots in Dadaism and Guy Debord’s Situationist International are unimpeachable.
Law wasn’t just a burner icon before the big breakup; perhaps even more than Larry Harvey and Michael “Danger Ranger” Mikel, he was a burner archetype. Harvey, the Artist; Mikel, the Shaman; Law, the Prankster.
The three elements that Larry Harvey, Michael Mikel, and John Law represented were all vital to the creation of both the event and the culture. Unfortunately, with the pranksterish third of that triumvirate missing and all the high-level gaps in the organization filled with personnel hand-picked by the Artist and the Shaman, a serious imbalance exists that has, over the years, warped the event inexorably into a safer, less fun, less meaningful, more profitable paradigm. . . and where the event goes, I fear the culture may eventually follow.
If we want Burning Man and burner culture to thrive and remain recognizable to us, we need to give this thing a fat booster shot of pranksterism. We need more cacophony, more physical and intellectual danger in the mix. We need to restore and maintain the event’s mean streak, push the boundaries a bit, and keep Burning Man potentially lethal, both for your body and for your worldview. We need to fuck with people a bit, and find new and louder ways to sing “Free Bird.”
Of course we need the influence of the Artist and Shaman archetypes too, nobody is disputing that. . . but if we fail to counterbalance them, if we succumb to the awful trend of becoming nothing more than a safer version of the Rainbow Gathering with better art, we will have lost something precious. Maybe forever.
When we had our archetypes in the precarious balance that gave birth to our culture, we were prone to playfully creating our own myths, legends, and short-duration traditions. If we lose the struggle to reassert that balance, we will eventually be overwhelmed by the overly-serious and the dogmatic, and find ourselves sinking into the oppressive mire of someone else’s sense of the sacred institutionalized, rather than freeing ourselves by indulging only our own.
I would like to give you some examples of what happens when the Shaman has too much influence, the Artist is irrelevant, and the Prankster is marginalized:
HIPOCALYPSE
According to the Mayan “Long Count” calendar, Friday was the last day of an era that began 5,200 years ago. . . and with the calendar coming to an end at that point, many held their breath in anticipation of the end of the world itself.
The world didn’t end, but on Friday a horde of dewy-eyed truth-seekers over 7,000 strong descended upon Tikal, in Guatemala, to see indigenous priests stage a ceremony marking the beginning of a new era. Tikal, called ‘Yax Mutul’ by the Maya, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. It’s an important archaeological site; the biggest for archaeologists studying the pre-Columbian Maya. The ceremony itself was criticized by many Guatemalans — of whom approximately 42% are of Mayan descent – for being a sham event made up for tourists, and nothing to do with the Maya and their culture at all.
One of Tikal’s most important features is Structure 5D-2, more commonly referred to as Temple II, or more formally as the Temple of the Masks. Temple II faces Tikal’s central plaza, and is about 125 feet high. It features a broad, steep staircase that tourists are forbidden to climb.
“Sadly, many tourists climbed Temple II and caused damage,” said Osvaldo Gomez, a technical adviser at Tikal. Gomez noted that climbing Temple II is prohibited, and characterized Friday’s damage as “irreparable.”
“We are fine with the celebration, but (the tourists) should be more aware because this is a World Heritage Site,” Gomez told local media.
7,000 people, most of them no doubt thinking themselves full of respect for the Maya and regarding themselves as more enlightened and less capitalist and far less consumerist than most of us, irreparably damaged an important Mayan archaeological site for the sake of attending a phony-baloney ceremony someone made up to attract their vacation dollars. Why? Because they were operating on someone else’s sense of the sacred instead of making that up for themselves as they went along. They were doing it wrong.
BRINGING THE KALI YUGA TO MOTHER NATURE
In 1992, the Rainbow Gathering convened in the Gunnison National Forest outside of Paonia, Colorado to pray for peace and, y’now, be environmental and stuff. According to Colorado Forest Service Patrol Captain Harry Shiles, “the Rainbow Family mostly removed its trash and buried its human waste, but the parking areas were compacted, there were dozens of new trails, dogs were left behind, and the wildlife disappeared from the forest for the next five years.”
In 2009, Theresa at the Sustainable Thought Box blog (http://sustainablethoughtbox.wordpress.com/) sat down and did the math on just some of the environmental impact anticipated for the Rainbow Gathering in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest. These were the figures she came up with:
23.14 tons of feces
22,222 gallons of urine (82.74 tons)
120 tons of trash
6 miles of compacted soil
18,900 tampons (0.87 ton)
3840 diapers (0.48 ton)
1/2 ton of soiled toilet paper
937.5 gallons of used toothpaste (3.26 tons)
937.5 gallons of soap (3.26 tons)
3,750 gallons of bleach (13.03 tons)
151.2 pounds of cigarette butts (0.06 ton)
1.82 tons of animal feces
Over the course of six days, calculated Theresa, a Rainbow Gathering with 10,000 attendees would deposit nearly 250 tons of waste in the Santa Fe National Forest, including over 23 tons of feces and more than 22,000 gallons of urine. Even if they somehow magically removed every bit of their trash afterward, they would still tramp down the National Forest, compacting the soil and polluting the groundwater, creating a dead, blighted spot in a natural wonderland, just to – supposedly, anyway – pray for peace.
The toilets at a Rainbow Gathering are slit trench latrines, so all the urine from all the people goes on the land or into the water, dumping excess sodium, potassium, and nitrogen into the soil of a fragile wilderness, along with trace chemicals from antidepressants and other prescription drugs, hormones from birth control pills, and metabolic byproducts of recreational chemicals. That’s not even taking into account all the feces.
When it rains at a Rainbow Gathering site, the rainwater carries a slurry of improperly disposed of human feces into groundwater, surface puddles, ponds, lakes and streams. This slurry is laced with disease organisms. Other visitors to the National forest and animals can then come in contact with or drink this polluted water. In 1987, the health hazard posed by the Rainbows’ outdoor latrine trenches asserted itself even before the festival was over, when a large number of attendees were stricken with shigellosis from feces-contaminated water, and came down with dysentery.
getting shot with this hurts more than a hollow point
If the destructive force that irreparably damaged a valuable heritage site in Guatamala, that invaded a pristine forest, that drove the animals out for the next five years, that abandoned a bunch of dogs there, and that polluted the groundwater of a National Forest had been anyone but themselves, you can bet there would be plenty of angry Rainbow Family members and other Shaman-followers protesting and trying to cast magic spells and curses on the responsible parties, or at the very least invoking karma upon them. Third-quarter sales of bat’s blood and eye of newt would take a sharp upturn. Instead, they simply delude themselves that not only are they doing no harm, they’re actually making the world a better place. Why? Because they’re operating on someone else’s idea of the sacred, instead of making it up for themselves as they go along. They’ve developed a groupthink, and they’re all swallowing it whole and regurgitating it into each other. “We’re saving the Earth, we’re hastening the evolution of humanity, we’re bringing about a new era of peace ‘n’ love in light and wisdom.” They’re doing it wrong. Nobody is standing up right in the middle of them and saying “HEY, THIS IS KINDA BULLSHIT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.”
One of the Prankster’s vital functions is the constant questioning of authority, and the slaughtering of sacred cows. The Prankster calls bullshit on the world, and as such he is often a hardnosed agent of objectivity and a wellspring of practical solutions. The seekers at Tikal and the would-be peacemakers at the Rainbow Gathering are avowed followers of the Shaman; they lack the Prankster, and are therefore more prone to infecting and oppressing each other with persistent traditions and dogma that accrete into an institutionalized sense of the sacred.
Sisters, brothers. . . the reins are in our hands. Seize the day. Be the Prankster you want to see in the world. The future of the burn and of our culture depends upon our willingness to shape it; we must lead ourselves. Fuck shit up once in a while, just for laughs, or just to interrupt the comfortable flow of other peoples’ lives a little and make them think. Deface a billboard. Say what you really think. Trick the living shit out of someone, for no discernible reason. Make laughter your weapon of choice, and mock the sacred cows of others. Make it up for yourself as you go along.
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8 comments on “Dispatch From the Front [by Whatsblem the Pro]”
Juliana K'abal-Xok
The Long Count cycle was 5125 years.
Thanks for the info on the projected waste and damage done by DRainbow Gatherings. I am sure the DRainbows who descended on Palenque in Dec 2012 had a similar negative impact on the land, as it rained hard on Solstice, flooding the creek where they were camped. Many of them also didn’t exercise caution in drinking the water; I heard that they purified it with their “good vibes”. Apparently, the Mesoamerican microbes had a good, long laugh at that, and decided to infect many of the heepies with Moctezuma’s revenge anyway.
I won’t go into the long story about how the DRainbows disrespected the Maya guardians of Palenque and refused to pay admission to enter on Solstice — admission fees that help support the smaller sites of Bonampak and Yaxchilan, as well as fund jobs for local Maya INAH workers. Let’s just say those folks have a looooong way to go in examining their privilege and the detrimental impact they always seem to have when encountering Native people, not unlike their ancestors.
Thanks, Juliana.
The news about Palenque is particularly upsetting to me; I was there sometime around 1985(?) and ended up visiting the pueblo where the local indigenas live and spending the night there. They were lovely people and fine hosts, and my stay in the jungle with them remains one of my most vivid and cherished travel memories.
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Robot Aneurysm
“I say, old chap, isn’t that outfit a little… y’know….. racist?”
“Not really. It’s prankster-racist. It’s like old-school Santa Con, or, in this case, the plastic bone through my nose is really playing with your assumptions of what is or is not appropriate. Come by our camp later, we’re having a happy hour where we’ll be ‘boiling’ an ‘explorer’ alive in some sort of cannibal soup cauldron full of booze. Million Native March to follow, presuming we’re not culturally predisposed to some sort of booze fueled cultural self-immolation. At which point, we’ll be claiming tribal land rights and opening a casino.”
“Oh, right. Prankster racist! Not racist-racist at all! That’s OK then. Really kind of awesome, actually. Can I have one of those “ooga booga” stickers?”
Let’s face it, only time will tell whether this really results in a bunch of frat-rats in Halloween-store grass skirts and EL-wire spears. But it has surfaced some conversation around race and that’s harder for some burners to wrap their heads around than the notion of pranksterism is.
And of course, *some* of the same people who are saying, “hold on, this could get messy….” are exactly the same people who might find the cod-spirituality of the Rainbow Family or the feather-headed Robot Heart idjits (who clearly have a lot in common, income brackets and hygene habits aside….) to be kind of dip-shit.
So yes, more pranksterism. Obviously, it’s not to everyone’s tastes — however ill-executed, Burn Wall Street was enough to harsh this blog’s editor’s loved-up buzz, so presumably he’d have been a quivering wreck in the face of HellCo — but don’t discount a less ironic conversation around race that starts with some burners going, “dude, this is just so much political correctness, I can’t see why anyone would be uncomfortable with this?”
Unless this was really just a few degrees of Kevin Bacon to get you bitching about the Rainbow Gathering again.
In which case, could you get round to that post that joins the obvious dots between Rainbow Collective and Robot Heart? Follow the trail of feathery tears, please….
You make some valid points and your comments were fun to read.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that what I write about (and how I treat it) has nothing to do with what anyone else writes here at burners.me in the slightest.
Sam Davidow
December 23, 2012 @ 11:51 pm
This^
Jennifer Johnson
We all need to be able to laugh at ourselves, and each other.
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The status of C&I sorting in Australia
With landfill levies in NSW at $140.20/t you would think that sorting of commercial waste would be more common than it is. Less than 5% of the Commercial and Industrial (C&I) waste in NSW is put through a processing plant to recover the valuable materials. In other words, less than 120,000t of the 5.5 MT that is generated is put through a processing plant. There are no dedicated C&I sorting facilities in other States (and landfill levies are lower).
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According to the 2016 National Waste Report, Commercial and Industrial waste (C&I) represents 20 MT of the 53 MT of waste generated in Australia (or 40% of generation). It also represents 34% of all waste sent to landfill (or 7.2MT out of 21MT) and achieves a 64% recovery rate compared to C&D (64%) and MSW (51%).
Not bad in the scheme of things.
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The NSW EPA has opened the first round of its $2.5M Civil Construction Market Program (CCMP) under the NSW Government Waste Less Recycle More initiative (WLRM).
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By Mike Ritchie – Director, MRA Consulting Group On 16 February 2016, the Australian population reached 24 million people. Waste generation rates are a function of population growth, the level of urbanisation and per capita income[i] and Australians now produce about 50 million tonnes of waste each year, averaging over 2 tonnes per person. There…
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Glenn Close remembers Robin Williams as she accepts award for mental health activism
By Daily Dish on April 27, 2015 at 9:33 AM
Honoree Glenn Close speaks onstage at Variety’s Power of Women New York. (Brian Ach/Getty)
Actress Glenn Close fought back tears at the Variety 2015 Power of Women luncheon in New York City on Friday as she accepted an honor for her mental health activism and remembered her late friend Robin Williams.
The Fatal Attraction star delivered an emotional speech as she took to the podium at the annual event, where she was recognized for her efforts in raising awareness of mental illness and working to remove the stigma attached to the various conditions through her non-profit charity, Bring Change 2 Mind.
Close, whose sister and nephew suffer from bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, respectively, told the crowd of the importance of open discussion to find help for those in need before it’s too late.
She said, “As an actress, I have terrified men and I certainly terrified children but I have yet to really terrify women. There is very little that frightens us. Many of us feel we must hide or suppress our truth in order to protect ourselves and our families from judgment, shame and stigma.
“I am a 12th generation of stoic, hardworking and pull-up-your-socks kind of family. The subject of mental illness was about as well-talked about in our house as the Democrat… of course, that has changed. We were a family with no vocabulary for mental illness. It was never discussed.”
She then made mention of tragic Williams, who suffered from depression prior to his suicide last August, by turning to her friend and fellow honoree Whoopi Goldberg, and saying, “Whoopi, I feel if Robin was here today, he would be whispering in my ear, ‘A couple of jokes would help right now!'”
It was also an emotional day for Lena Dunham, who revisited the horrific rape she suffered as a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, almost 10 years ago, when a man called Barry allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Speaking as she was applauded for her work with human trafficking victims via the GEMS organization, she recalled, “When I was raped, I felt powerless. I felt my value had been determined by someone else, someone who sent me the message that my body was not my own and my choices were meaningless.
“It took years to recognize my personal worth was not tied to my assault. The voices telling me I deserved this were phantoms, they were liars…
“As a feminist and as a sexual assault survivor, my ultimate goal is to use my experience, my platform, and yes, my privilege, to reverse stigma and give voice to other survivors.”
Kim Kardashian and actress Rachel Weisz were also feted at the luncheon for their charity endeavors.
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Global biotechnology leader CSL Behring returns as title sponsor for 2019 Young Investigator Draft
Uplifting Athletes is pleased to announce global biotechnology leader CSL Behring will return as the title sponsor in 2019 for the second annual Young Investigator Draft on March 9th at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
The Young Investigator Draft, tying the theme of the NFL Draft and Rare Disease Research together, is the result of Uplifting Athletes’ ongoing commitment to cultivate resources that accelerate scientific advancements for rare disease treatments and potential cures while facilitating the next generation of rare disease researchers.
CSL Behring is the fifth largest biotechnology company in the world. Their scientists use the latest technologies to develop and deliver innovative therapies that are used to treat rare and serious conditions, including immunodeficiency and autoimmune diseases, hereditary and acquired bleeding disorders, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, hereditary angioedema and Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.’
“After the phenomenal success of last year’s inaugural Young Investigator Draft, we are proud to once again have CSL Behring’s strong support,“ Uplifting Athletes Executive Director Rob Long said. “CSL Behring’s focus on rare diseases is a perfect fit for this special opportunity to bring the Rare Disease Community together to celebrate the research being conducted by these brilliant young minds.”
Watch 2018 Young Investigator Draft Video!
At the event, individual grants will be given to five Young Investigators who pursue rare disease research in these different areas: rare cancers, rare autoimmune and immunological disorders, rare blood disorders, rare genetic disorders and rare muscular and neurological disorders.
“Uplifting Athletes has added to college football’s rich history of unique traditions by applying the passion of sport to the rare disease community and creating the Young Investigator Draft,” said Jens Oltrogge, Head of Global Commercial Development, Hematology for CSL Behring. “By returning as the presenting sponsor for this unique and innovative event, we are continuing to deliver on our promise to patients and science by supporting the vitally-important work of these emerging researchers.”
The Young Investigator Draft grants are intended to inspire collaborative and translational research that will benefit the entire Rare Disease Community. The Young Investigator Draft stage will provide a platform for these young scientists to educate and inspire the audience by sharing their research along with its impact on the Rare Disease Community.
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Tickets are available through the Young Investigator Draft registration page. The event will include heavy hors d’oeuvres and beer and wine prior to the program for the evening.
The challenges faced by the Rare Disease Community are bigger than any one individual, team or organization can tackle alone. At Uplifting Athletes we take pride in providing opportunity for college football student-athletes and NFL players to use the platform they are afforded to shine a spotlight on rare diseases and support the cause.
Founded in 2007, Uplifting Athletes has college football student-athlete led chapters nationwide in FBS and FCS programs from seven conferences across the country.
Since its inception, Uplifting Athletes has raised more than $4.5 million in support of the Rare Disease Community with a third of that, $1.5 million, given to fund rare disease research.
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Sake by subscription: late millennial founds online sake shop
Genki Ito
Many American attempts at bringing sake to people are lame: some entrepreneur selling overpriced second-rate sake in a fancy bottle.
In contrast, Tippsy is the best online U.S. sake store I've seen since True Sake. Tippsy, which launched last November, is an easy-to-use site and has a legit selection of good sakes at reasonable prices.
It also has a subscription service that seems like a great way to bring new drinkers to sake. For $59 a month, shipping included, you get a box of three 300 ml bottles. You can reorder larger bottles of whichever ones you like.
I was impressed enough with Tippsy's selection to call its founder, Genki Ito. Here's an edited version of our conversation.
The Gray Report: What made you decide to start a website selling sake?
Ito: I think I can reach the existing demand for sake drinkers. There aren't many Japanese supermarkets that sell sake in the US unless you're living in a big city like Los Angeles. Some people go to nice restaurants and try sake and they become interested in buying good sake, but they don't have any clue of where to buy sake.
It's still small demand, but eventually I'm trying to convert millennial drinkers to sake drinkers. That's what this sake club is all about, giving opportunity for new drinkers to try different flavors. Sake comes in different flavor profiles just like wine.
Gray: You're a millennial yourself. Is that what inspired you to do the subscription?
Ito: I'm 35, a late millennial. I came to the US 10 years ago for a job at Nishimoto Trading. It's a Japanese importer, the largest in the US. I started my career in Hawaii, moved to Los Angeles, moved to New York, came back to Los Angeles. I finished my MBA at USC. I've been in this business and seen the growing demand for sake. There's nobody marketing sake very well.
Gray: What is Tippsy doing to market sake that hasn't been done in the past?
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Why Bordeaux, for once, is evolving faster than Napa
Napa Valley is on top of the wine world. Other regions struggle to get people to spend more for wine. Napa has set consumer expectations so effectively that people think nothing of paying more than $100 for a Cabernet Sauvignon made from purchased fruit. So far, Napa seems impervious to the stormclouds over the high-end wine industry.
I've been thinking about Napa and its future in the wake of Bordeaux's decision last week to authorize seven new wine grapes, including two famous grapes from Portugal, Touriga Nacional and Alvarinho (aka Albariño).
Bordeaux is way more conservative than Napa, where wineries can try something new at any time. For Bordeaux, which is still marketing on the basis of a classification done in 1855, expanding the allowable number of wine grapes is revolutionary.
And apparently it had little to do with what's happening right now. Sales of lesser Bordeaux wines haven't kept pace with the first growths but that has been ongoing for years. Bordeaux wineries aren't looking to add Touriga Nacional because they think they can sell more wine with it.
Bordeaux is not immune to sales initiatives; that's why it recently added another category of rosé, Clairet. But the point of allowing Touriga Nacional and Alvarinho is because Bordeaux chateaux are worried about the future.
They see Merlot, their workhorse grape, ripening too fast in hot years, and there are more hot years all the time. They want to plant grapes that better handle heat. They're not going to release a varietal Touriga Nacional. They want to blend it with Cabernet and Merlot to continue making elegant, complex red wines as the world continues to get hotter.
And they can do that, seamlessly, because their wines will still be called Bordeaux. I noticed that new grapes are allowed, but most people will not.
This is very different from Napa Valley, which already grows Zinfandel as well as anywhere in the world but is cutting back on plantings of it when it could instead be expanding.
Bourbon cask-finished Calvados: a crossover idea that works
New American oak in wine has a certain reputation, but it's a different story when the barrels are used.
This is what makes Bourbon cask-finished Calvados interesting. You might think it's going to taste woodier than ordinary Calvados, but it doesn't. In fact, it's a fine fit.
Boulard released a small batch, just 500 cases globally, of Calvados finished in Bourbon casks. All Calvados is aged in oak, but this spirit is unusual because France is full of French oak, whereas Bourbon must by law be aged in charred white American oak.
American oak tends to give strong flavors of vanilla, and a slight sweetness. It's a huge part of the reason Bourbon has been so phenomenally successful for the last decade: those are popular flavors.
Strong vanilla might overpower the fruit flavors of Calvados, which is apple brandy from Normandy. But just a hint, along with a light sweetness? It's not hard to see how that can work.
In fact, it does. Boulard Calvados Bourbon Cask Finish is fine straight. It's not as complex as the greatest of Calvadoses (Calvadi?), but it has pleasant apple flavor and is smooth enough to sip.
The best use for this, though, could be in cocktails, as a substitute for whiskey in an Old Fashioned or similar spiritous drink. It has just enough structure from the oak to pull off the substitution and it gives the drink a delightful apple character. At under $60 a bottle, you can afford to do this at home. That may sound expensive, but my onetime go-to Calvados, a 6-year-old, now costs double that.
Boulard says this is just the beginning of a 12-bottle series of different finishes. Yikes! I'm not sure most of these are going to work. I live in fear of cachaça cask-finished Calvados.
But I understand the initiative. Calvados is one of the world's great spirits but it isn't getting much attention in an era when whiskey is hot, mezcal is even hotter and rum seems to be making a comeback. The traditional means of drinking Calvados -- straight, at room temperature -- holds it back in today's spirits market, where basically everything that sells, sells on the rocks. Cognac makers have embraced cocktails. Calvados has a lot to offer mixologists, but it isn't in very many classic cocktail recipes so it isn't front of mind.
If Bourbon casks can help the Cognac industry find a new generation, hurray for another success from the great France-US alliance.
Half of the 500 cases of this were sent to the US market. Buy it here.
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Cannabis as a farm product: an interview with Autumn Shelton of Autumn Brands
Autumn Shelton in the Autumn Brands greenhouse
Cannabis is quickly becoming big business, but it gets further every day from farming. The trendiest cannabis products are all heavily processed so that they're more like day-glo Cheetos than green leafy weeds.
That might be the future of much of the business, but in these early days of legal cannabis farming in California, there are still people making a living selling their product more-or-less as is. Autumn Shelton, co-founder of Autumn Brands in Santa Barbara County, is one such farmer.
Autumn Brands currently sells almost exclusively flower -- the dried cannabis itself, for smoking. No lozenges, chocolates or other concoctions. The company prides itself on the quality of its strains. I had a chance to sample three of the strains before interviewing Shelton and I'm a big proponent of its classic Sour Diesel, and a fan of its Chocolate Hashberry as well.
A few days before my phone interview with Shelton, the Los Angeles Times published a story about residents in Carpinteria, where Autumn Brands is located, complaining about the smell from cannabis farms. That was on both of our minds when we chatted. Here is an edited version of our conversation (which was not done after sampling the product, at least on my end; you can tell by the absence of "uh ....")
The Gray Report: How much resistance do you get to the idea of farming cannabis?
Autumn Shelton: The odor has been an issue for a number of years. About 12 of us have got this very good odor control system, and another two have a different one. The problem is there's still 10 to 20 farms that don't have odor control. Some people in the community are frustrated and that's understandable. What's unfortunate is that this group seems to be going after the compliant ones that have the odor control.
Gray: Where are the main cannabis areas of Santa Barbara County, compared to the main wine growing areas?
Shelton: The wine industry is up in the northern part of the county. They have their own issues with cannabis because odor control is not required up there. But it is affecting the wine industry because the odor can be in the air for miles.
Gray: I've been reading that the cannabis growing industry has expanded so much that there's a risk of a glut of weed with not enough buyers. Are you seeing that?
Shelton: There's always a risk of too many cultivators and not enough market for it. Cannabis is just like any other market. It shifts. In cannabis, the outdoor market peaks in October. They have one harvest, all year. And the product floods into the market and prices just plummet at that time. Then in the spring, the outdoor product starts to go away and the prices start to go up again and the market starts to go up again. We've seen this before. Right now we're in spring/summer. Prices just keep going up up up. We get calls all day (from buyers).
Gray: Is there still a lot of competition from unlicensed growers?
Some countries' wine is not as green as you think
Is this vineyard environmentally friendly? If it's not certified organic, how would I know? Answer: I wouldn't.
New Zealand has built its wine export business in the US on two things: a potent, tropical style of Sauvignon Blanc, and a green image.
At least one of those is true.
The American Association of Wine Economists released a simple statistical tweet yesterday, Organic Share of National Grape Area. It is what it sounds like: the percentage of organic vineyards for each country.
It's far from a perfect stat. First, it includes both table grapes and wine grapes. This helps some nations that take their foods seriously, while hurting the U.S.
Second, it's only certified organic vineyards. I can hear New Zealand's protest as I type this, "But we're sustainable." (Whatever that means.)
And third, it's not an indictment of any single grapegrower or winery. Just because Portugal has the lowest percentage of organic grapes of any major wine-producing nation doesn't mean there aren't some Portuguese vineyards doing all the right things for their customers and the Earth.
With those provisos out of the way, here are some shocking takeaways, after the table itself:
The adventures of opening bottles, starring Speyburn's father's day package
After I applied antibiotic ointment to my thumb, and put away my large toolkit with the wrenches and pliers, I sat down to enjoy Speyburn's father's day package gift.
The idea is appealing: a 750 ml bottle of Speyburn 10-year Scotch, and a 100 ml bottle of water from the same springs the Scotch is made from. Scotch is not only distilled from water; it also is usually bottled with water to lower the alcohol percentage. Maybe I could taste the similarity?
First, though, I had to get the damn thing open. The Scotch is easy. There's a little plastic capsule, and a nice resealable cork closure. Somebody put some thought into packaging the Scotch.
The water, though -- it's a water hazard. The 100 ml bottle was sealed with a screw cap and a jagged piece of metal extended from it. I tried very gently turning it; nothing. I grabbed it with a towel and turned it; nothing. I whacked the screwcap with a butter knife a few times and then tried turning it (pro tip: this often works on recalcitrant wine bottles.) Nothing. So I got out the tool kit.
Eventually, using an adjustable wrench, I was able to get the water bottle open. Writing about wine and spirits is fun because you learn a little about a lot of things. I know that a screwcapping machine must be precisely calibrated. For a run of 100,000 bottles of cheap rosé, it's important to get it right. But for a few 100 ml bottles of spring water for a whisky promotion, it just wasn't well-sealed. I don't know how I cut my thumb, but it wasn't serious; a little Scotch and water would be fine medicine.
I like Speyburn, a Speyside Scotch with a gentle mouthfeel and a judicious amount of peat. It's very good value at under $30 in a world where whisky prices keep going up. It's not the most complex dram you'll find but it's balanced enough to drink straight, yet not so expensive that I feel bad about having it in a Rob Roy or a current fave, a Rusty Nail (somebody sent me a bottle of Drambuie and it's making frequent appearances in my NBA playoff cocktails. I like to imagine Draymond Green barking at the referees in a Scottish accent. Fewer technicals if they can't understand him.)
I tasted the water, and thought, well, that's good water. It has depth and some body. I don't taste Speyburn in it -- in fact I taste very little -- but I like the mouthfeel and can see why one would want to add this to Scotch.
Then I read the fine print on the hazardous 100 ml bottle of water: "Uisge Source waters come from springs close to the popular distilleries in the whisky regions of Scotland. From the Cairngorms Well in Moray comes a soft, low mineral water, typical of the waters used by Scotland's Speyburn Distilleries."
Well that just destroys the whole illusion of water-Scotch relationship, doesn't it? First, Speyburn distilleries, plural. Second, it's just water from some well in the area. I risked injury for just some neighborhood water? It's like going to see the Loch Ness Monster and getting a sodden Bigfoot instead. It's not the same!
I'm sipping some Speyburn neat as I type this, and I am feeling mollified. It's still a nice looking-package and it probably works as a father's day gift because 1) Your dad won't read the fine print, and 2) When you tell him he'll need his tool kit to open it, that's a feature, not a bug.
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Zos Halo wine preserver is a worthless gadget
I'll keep this brief. The Zos Halo wine preserver, which purports to preserve an open bottle of wine by removing the oxygen from it, is a worthless high-tech gadget.
I have tried two Zos Halos, both supplied by the company for review, and did not find any practical use for either of them.
In both, short battery life was a problem. My first Halo lasted only one use, a bottle of wine that I tried to preserve for two weeks. The battery failed and so did the wine, which tasted flat.
For the second Halo, I tried using it for shorter periods of two or three days. The two LR 44 batteries still only lasted for 16 total days of use. You could work with that if there was a benefit.
But I didn't taste any. I tried opening two identical bottles of wine, pouring out half of each and resealing the bottles. One bottle I sealed with the Zos Halo. The other I sealed by sticking the cork back in.
After two days, I detected no difference. After three days, I detected no difference. After a week, they were slightly different -- but neither tasted fresh enough for me to want to drink it.
Zos has been heavily pitching this gadget as a gift for weddings or Mother's Day. It's understandable: it's not as expensive as a Coravin, and in theory it's more permanent than a bottle of wine.
But it's junk. If you give it as a gift the recipient will play with it for a bottle or two and then put it in the back of a dusty closet and forget it forever. Maybe this is true of most wedding gifts: ice cream makers, bread slicers. But at least those work.
I intended to review this gadget for Wine Searcher because if it worked, it would be a great boon to enophiles. Instead, I am doing my civic duty with this post. Don't waste your money on a Zos Halo.
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This is a great film that looks and sounds as super as the iconic subject matter.
Blu-ray Review: Captain America – The First Avenger
Michael Prince October 31, 2011 Comments Off on Blu-ray Review: Captain America – The First Avenger 72 Views
In a nearly unprecedented feat Marvel Studios had big plans for a series of movies that would lead to next year’s big screen Avengers movie. We have previously seen The Hulk, Iron Man and Thor but the real linchpin to The Avengers is Captain America. This summer they released Captain America: The First Avenger, a fun World War II period piece action adventure that has now arrived on Blu-ray in a very nice package.
Like Batman and Superman, Captain America is a timeless comic book superhero. Even people who don’t know comic books know the basics of Captain America. He was a scrawny kid who couldn’t join the Army during World War II, was recruited for a super-soldier program, became an ultimate soldier and joined the fight. The challenge for director Joe Johnston was to put this on the big screen in an interesting and dynamic way, with the help of the perfectly cast Chris Evans as Captain America he did just that.
Chris Evans plays Steve Rogers, an unhealthy tiny man with a huge heart, courage, and determination enough for ten men. He wants to fight for the rights of all people who cannot stand up for themselves because he hates bullies and views Hitler and his Nazis as the ultimate bullies. After being refused from over half a dozen recruitment stations and watching his best friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) head off to war, Rogers is recruited by Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci). Rogers is to be part of a Super Soldier program because they need people with wits, courage, and determination, the fact that he is physically weak is unimportant.
During his initial training, it was clear he was at the bottom of the pack physically, but he never gave up and despite his challenges still managed to impress the hardnosed Colonel Chester Philips (Tommy Lee Jones) and British liaison Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell). Chosen first for the Super Soldier program Rogers is strapped into an apparatus and with Howard Starks (Dominic Cooper) help Dr. Erskine transforms Rogers into a man at the peak of physical perfection. Just as the program is deemed a success a Nazi saboteur reveals himself, steals the last vial of the serum and escapes killing Dr. Erskine in the process. Rogers gives chase and finds he is able to perform near superhuman feats as he chases down and stops the spy, rather then face capture the spy commits suicide.
With the program dying with Dr. Erskine, Rogers is basically abandoned by the army despite his prowess and recruited as a USO representative. Traveling around the country and given a colorful costume (funnily it looks almost exactly like the original comic version of his costume) and dubbed “Captain America” he inspires people to donate and join, but he is far from the action. During a trip to the front to inspire troops, Rogers’ Captain America persona fails to impress because many troops were recently captured or killed. Discovering that his best friend Bucky is on the missing list, Rogers enlists Carter and Stark’s help and drops into enemy territory.
Using all of his newfound strength and skill coupled with his tenacity and courage, Rogers rescues all the living soldiers and truly becomes Captain America. Seeing the value in this inspiring and very capable soldier, Colonel Philips lets Rogers form his own team, made up from key survivors from his rescue, and sends him on high priority and dangerous missions. They quickly catch wind of a mysterious Nazi scientist called Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving) who is amassing power using nefarious means and forming his offshoot society called Hydra. Schmidt is an early recipient of Erskine’s formula and the side effects scarred his body and left his skull exposed and red earning himself the name The Red Skull. Captain America and his team must locate and stop The Red Skull before his plans can be completed ending with the planet under Hydra domination.
Captain America: The First Avenger is a terrific film that hits the right notes in all the important ways. Steve Rogers transformation is amazing to watch as CGI wizardry was used to turn the very muscular and tall Chris Evans into a tiny frail man. Watching him walk around as this scrawny man but definitely be Chris Evans was amazing. Once he becomes Captain America, Evans continues to shine, his demeanor, physique, and all-American looks are perfect for the role. I was nervous at first because of his other Marvel role as the Human Torch but he was nearly born to play this character.
The remaining cast is equally stellar, especially Tommy Lee Jones’ Colonel Philip and Hugo Weavings Red Skull. Does anyone play a gruff authority figure as well as Jones? Does anyone play a menacing villain as well as Weaving? I dare no to both questions. They both chew scenery every time they are on screen with Weavings Red Skull being pitch perfect from mannerisms, look and costumes, it could not have been cast better. The rest of the cast do a great job of breathing life into their characters and adding depth to the story surrounding Captain America’s origin story.
The movie is a terrific segue into the upcoming Avengers film plus it is a really well-done period war movie that just so happens to be about a superhero. The action is fast and furious and the story actually has heart and depth leaving us with a character we truly like and want to see more of. I would rank Captain America: The First Avenger right up there with Iron Man and I am looking forward to The Avengers and the eventual sequels featuring this iconic hero.
Featuring an MPEG-4 AVC 1080p codec with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, Captain America: The First Avenger looks phenomenal on Blu-ray. The film has a subdued, almost muted look that works perfectly with the subject matter. The image is always crisp and clear with a nice film grain but the colors are deliberately toned down, but always be design. At times the colors pop for effect, but at all times black levels are perfect and there are never any muddy textures. In fact the textures are astounding and are often touchable on screen, tears in cloth, scuffs on Captain Americas shield and skin tones stand out. My only (minor) quibble is that at times some of the effects scenes look, I don’t know, different. It is as if the digital effects could not match the physical ones, it is rare, but something I noticed, particularly in 3D. That being said this is a stellar transfer that does the movie proud.
The Audio
Consistency is always a good thing and to match the great movie and amazing video transfer Captain America: The First Avenger also has a superb DTS-HD MA 7.1 lossless soundtrack to please your aural senses. The soundtrack is subdued and subtle in the first act of the film but filled with ambient noise, always clear dialog, and a great period soundtrack. The second and third acts bring us into action-filled scenes, and the soundtrack performs excellently here as well. Fire wooshes around you, punches have weight and bass, and cries of soldiers echo all around you. This soundtrack has heft, clarity and most importantly does not overwhelm, instead audio cues are properly timed and executed very well.
Marvel Studios and Paramount know what needs to be done when offering a superhero film and that is to give us geeks a ton of great extras. From a capable commentary track to many behind-the-scenes features this is a satisfying pool of extras.
Audio Commentary: Director Joe Johnston, director of photography Shelly Johnson, and editor Jeffrey Ford provide a very technical and at times light commentary on the film. It provides some really interesting insight, but is not the most engaging track out there. Not bad certainly, but not great either.
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (1080p, 4:03): Best extra ever! A short film about Agent Coulsons more heroic side. We need many more of these.
Outfitting a Hero (1080p, 10:52): I really enjoyed this look at the daunting task of making an outfit (and shield) that matches the iconic look but is also functional.
Howling Commandos (1080p, 6:07): Fun Fact, the Howling Commandos were part of Nick Fury’s WWII team, but here they join Captain America. Regardless of the change, this is a look at the team from the movie.
Heightened Technology (1080p, 5:43): Some of the tech in the movie was very interesting, this feature looks at the designs and inspiration used to create them.
The Transformation (1080p, 8:50): A great look at the process used to digitally shrink Chris Evans for his pre-transformation look.
Behind the Skull (1080p, 10:24): A look at the comic book and movie iterations of the Red Skull from costumes to his look.
Captain America’s Origin (1080p, 3:55): Co-creator Joe Simon talks about creating Captain America.
The Assembly Begins (1080p, 1:46): A look at the Avengers that is already overshadowed by the true trailers already released.
Deleted Scenes (1080p, 5:32): Attack in Norway, The Battle at Azzano, Steve Rogers Gets his Medal, and Steve Rogers Meets Nick Fury. Available with optional director, d.p., and editor commentary, except for Steve Rogers Meets Nick Fury.
Trailers (1080p): Theatrical Trailer 1 (2:35), Theatrical Trailer 2 (2:35), Sega Game Trailer (2:18), and The Avengers Animated Trailer (1:19).
Captain America: The First Avenger is a terrific superhero film. The director, crew and cast, in particular Chris Evans and Hugo Weaving, give us a great look at this iconic hero in a way that is believable yet true to the source material. The Blu-ray is also superb in nearly every way, great picture and sound as well as a solid, and substantial, list of extras. This a terrific package and a movie every superhero fan needs to add to their collection!
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Heidi Howe has a voice made to sing country music.
Music Review: Heidi Howe – ‘Be Good’
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With a voice that honors a heritage of Tennessee twang, singer/songwriter Heidi Howe charms her way through a dozen melodious originals spiked with country angst and homey wisdom on her latest album, Be Good. Hers is a voice made for country music, and she knows how to make the most of it. At their best, which seem to be more often than not on this album, her lyrics are smart and sassy and her music is infectious. Be Good, to be released in February 2014, is her sixth solo album, and her first since 2007’s I Love Britney Spears.
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“I would rather play to 10 people who will listen than to 200 people who consider me a jukebox,” a comment she made after the release of her second album in 2001, is a good indication of the importance she attaches to connecting with her audience. Howe’s music is intimate; it needs to be heard in a honky-tonk, a long neck bottle within easy reach. But most of all, it needs an audience willing to listen—the fit though few, as the poet said.
Whether Howe is indulging in some traditional country despair over lost love, as in the plaintive chorus of “Souvenir” – “This broken heart is my souvenir/Reminding me love don’t live here” – or going through lists of habit-kicking celebrities (like Robert Downey Jr.), she has a way with a lyric that strips away maudlin sentimentality in favor of plain speaking. She does so with some post-modern irony too, intended or not, as an intervention technique in “If Ryan Adams Can.” Even a song like “The Ramones and George Jones,” which in its evocation of the past could easily turn soppy, she instead finds in the music “a religion of her own.”
“Stand” has a smart allusive lyric set in a beautiful melody, and “Alright” has a refrain that seems to go on and on to emphasize the inevitability of love working out where there is a real commitment.
A video of the album’s opening song, “Kind of Crazy,” is available on YouTube. It makes for a nice introduction to the singer and her work. If you like this, and you should, you will like the rest of the album.
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Learning about computers
February 12, 2016 By Mary Brooke Casad
MBC and I are well aware that children today know a lot more about computers than we do. It seems that they start their computer education at very early ages. To help them along, Dede Casad has created several books to help acquaint children with computers in a fun and compelling way.
Henry the Hard Drive and his friends, Monica the Monitor, Kelly the Keyboard, Mortimer the Mouse and Pete the Printer are a fun way to introduce young children to computer parts and how they interact. Three different picture books offer adventuresome tales!
For older children, “The Oracle of Eden” chapter book follows the wanderings of Gail and Toby as they explore the inner workings of the computer—from the motherboard to cyberspace—and then find themselves trapped in the adventure of their lives fighting Visigoth, the Villian Virus, and his minions before the Oracle of Eden comes to their rescue.
The illustrations for all four books were created by Rod Keitz, and the books can be ordered on Amazon, and are available in both print and e-book format.
Children are learning to read and write on computers, so what better way to introduce them to the world of computers than through the fun and fantasy of these tales?
As always, keep reading and writing! Bluebonnet Armadillo
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The day the new books arrive!
January 20, 2016 By Mary Brooke Casad
The day the new books arrive at MBC’s house is always a BIG day! This week, three new books were delivered to the front door, but they were not books about me and my Texas travels. While MBC hasn’t forgotten about me, she’s most recently turned her attention to a series of a different kind.
MBC and her brother, Clayton Oliphint, pastor of First United Methodist Church, Richardson, Texas, co-authored the three books—Citizens of Hope, The Road to Amazing, Get in the Game—as a part of a Christian discipleship study, The Basics. The three-part series explores the basics of Christian identity, practice and service.
Designed for busy people, both new and maturing disciples, the books are written on a practical and personal level. Each chapter is based on a scriptural passage, and is illustrated with real-life stories that help connect faith and action. Chapters are followed by a “reflect” session that gives readers an opportunity to write about the scripture passage, the major points of the chapter and their “take-away:” what they will most remember about the chapter.
The books can be used for small groups, Sunday School classes, all church studies, or for personal devotionals. Leader Guides are also available for each of the three books to assist group facilitators and class teachers. Published by Abingdon Press, all six books are available at: https://www.cokesbury.com/forms/search.aspx?txtSearchQuery=the%20basics%20series
I’m excited for MBC in this new writing endeavor. However, I am happy to report that she has also been working on another book for the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series! Check back on this blog in the next few weeks for an announcement about a new Bluebonnet book, coming soon!
In the meantime, remember……”Keep reading and writing!” Bluebonnet Armadillo
Sleep tight….the Marines are on duty!
January 8, 2016 By Mary Brooke Casad
One thing that makes MBC and me super happy is reading the books of authors who grew up reading the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series! The latest one, “Goodnight Marines,” was written by Major David R. Dixon, and illustrated by Phil Jones.
Inspired by the popular children’s book, “Goodnight Moon,” this beautifully illustrated book highlights symbols of the U.S. Marine Corps that give both a historic and current view. It’s a marvelous way to introduce children to the proud Marine traditions! The story centers on a young boy whose Marine father is serving in Afghanistan, which makes the book especially meaningful to children whose parents are serving in the military. All children should receive a greater appreciation of those who serve to keep us safe. The soothing, bedtime tale offers reassurance through strong ties of love and security.
“Goodnight Marines” is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Goodnight-Marines-David-R-Dixon-ebook/dp/B01A7YG0C0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1452301011&sr=1-1&keywords=goodnight+marines
MBC was thrilled to consult with Major Dixon as he began his journey of writing, since she’s a life-time friend of his mother, Bunny, and has known him all his life. And not only has Major Dixon just published a book, but he and his lovely wife, Jackie, became the proud parents of baby Juliette TODAY! Congratulations to all the family!
We can’t wait to see the pictures of Major Dixon reading “Goodnight Marines” to his own daughter!
Keep reading and writing……and Semper Fi!
Bluebonnet Armadillo
Raindrops on noses!
December 15, 2015 By Mary Brooke Casad
We’re getting a lot of rain here in East Texas! Which makes Pamela Haskin’s book, “Max, the Boy Raindrop” a very timely read.
Max is a shy raindrop who finds the courage to jump from the clouds by holding hands with his friend, Tony. Max first lands on a man’s nose! But thanks to Tony, he learns that “the sun always helps us get home,” so that he can continue to have more adventures (rivers and waterfalls!) before it’s his turn to encourage other shy raindrops.
Pamela is both author and illustrator. The illustrations were entirely created by paper shapes, showcasing Pamela’s artistic talents that she also uses in creating cards. Published by Westbow Press, the book is available on Amazon. AND….this book received the 2014 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award as the Discovery Prize Winner. Congratulations, Pamela!
Now, MBC met Pamela last year when she was a featured speaker at a writer’s workshop. Pamela liked MBC’s armadillo puppet (that would be me!) who was shy and whispered in her ear. So she created a Max the Boy Raindrop puppet to use for her author/illustrator presentations. MBC and I were thrilled and honored to learn we were the inspiration for this.
Yes, the “Max, the Boy Raindrop” book will be under MBC’s Christmas tree to encourage some young readers she knows to “keep reading and writing.” Hope you’ll consider adding this book to your library, too.
Merry Christmas! Bluebonnet Armadillo
A Home for Abigail
November 29, 2015 By Mary Brooke Casad
MBC and I are partial to stories that have happy endings. Thus, we were pleased to read “A Home for Abigail,” with an ending made happier by knowing that it is based on a true story.
Written and illustrated by S. Marriott Cook, the nine chapters follow the journey of a dog named Abigail. A kind lady finds “Abby” alone and abandoned, in need of a “forever” home. Thus begins a new adventure for Abby and the delightful new friends she comes to know: Mr. Buns, Cosette, Chloe, Gus, News, and her new “Mom and Dad,” Sandy and Richard.
The book is especially helpful in educating children about responsible pet ownership, including the need for spaying, neutering and microchipping. The interaction between the animal characters and their humans is humorous and delightful, woven together into a touching and inspiring story.
And best of all? The happy ending takes place at Christmas time, making this book especially appropriate for Christmas gift-giving. As the back cover says, it’s “A timeless tale for animal lovers of any age.”
“A Home for Abigail” was published by Jabberwocky Books www.Jabberwocky-Books.com and is also available on Amazon.
Yet another book I’ll be putting on my Christmas wish list……hope you will, too!
Just in time for Christmas!
Alphie the Abecedarian has been busy! If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may remember reviews about Alphie, who is featured in “The Abecedarian Book for Kids, ” and “The Texas Abecedarian Book for Kids.” Now, just in time for Christmas, Alphie stars in “The Christmas Abecedarian Book for Kids.”
For each letter of the alphabet, Alphie shares special Christmas stories. Many are legends from around the world. Some letters feature Christmas poems and carols. Twenty-six stories, illustrated beautifully in bold colors, with an emphasis on THE Christmas story…..the birth of Jesus Christ! What a delightful Christmas gift for families to read and enjoy together!
But that’s not all. Alphie also offers “The Folklore Abecedarian Book for Kids.” This book highlights myths and legends from American history. Twenty-six folk tales take us across the country in its early days, offering history with a little whimsy! Once again, Alphie proves that it’s fun to learn your ABC’s!
The “Alphie the Abecedarian” books are written by Texas author Dede Weldon Casad (MBC’s mother-in-law) and are illustrated by Mark Stokes. They are available on Amazon.
I’m adding the “Alphie” books to my Christmas wish list, because they will help me to “keep reading and writing!”
Wishing you A Blessed Christmas……Bluebonnet Armadillo
The Scary Hair of Sarah O’Shea
October 25, 2015 By Mary Brooke Casad
It’s that time of the year when the scary things are creeping about…..ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my! But have you ever heard of a hairstyle that is just…..scary?
Young readers of the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series, here is a special book for you! “The Scary Hair of Sarah O’Shea,” written by Sharon Feldt and illustrated by Heather Karstens, tells the story of a cute red-haired girl with large red glasses. Sarah has bright red, scary hair….and lots of it!
It seems that Sarah’s out-of-control hair is becoming a problem at school. She tries hats to hide her hair, but none of them can quite contain her giant curls. (Perhaps she should have tried a sunbonnet!!)
Sarah’s hair may be scary, but readers will have lots of laughs as they read about Sarah’s attempts to tame her unruly red hairstyle. Fortunately, a friend has a helpful suggestion for Sarah that saves the day! Heather Karstens’ illustrations are delightful and comical, sure to bring a smile and a laugh to all readers.
Author Sharon Feldt, a retired kindergarten teacher, wrote a lovely Christmas tale last year, “The Stable.” (Check my blog archives for a review.) MBC shared this book with her young friends who live in Africa. So, Sharon is an internationally-known author!
MBC and I are pleased to recommend this latest book from Sharon. (After all, MBC is partial to “red-heads!”) Order your copy from www.sharonfeldt.com
Keep reading and writing, and Happy Halloween! Bluebonnet Armadillo
Visiting the “M” Cities
I’ve never visited Midland, Mineola or Mexia, but I hope my travels will take me there someday. MBC, however, has a college classmate who is visiting lots of “M” cities and writing about them.
Author Jeffrey Eaton www.jeffreyeaton.com has created a charming character, Dalton Lee, in his first novel, “Murder Becomes Manhattan.” Now MBC was new to murder mysteries, but she was quite taken with Jeffrey’s writing style and his elaborate weaving of this tale. As she wrote in her Amazon review of the book, “Was intrigued with the many levels of characters and complexity, and kept turning the page to see how it would all be resolved. Now I am eagerly awaiting the next book to continue on the journey with Lee.”
This book is only for the parents and grandparents of Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series readers, but MBC can certainly recommend it to them. It’s available in paperback, hardback and e-book, which is peppered with links of pictures, music, etc., a fun and fascinating way of bringing the reader into the setting. www.murdermanhattan.com
Jeff and MBC, fellow journalism students at SMU, had not seen each other in several decades. Jeff recently visited MBC in Sulphur Springs (not an “M” city, but a great place to live!) He made a presentation to her book club, the Bright Star Literary Society (Texas trivia: “Bright Star” was the original name of the city of “Sulphur Springs!”) and also visited the downtown Celebration District.
But back to the “M” cities……Jeffrey Eaton’s second Dalton Lee Mystery, “Murder Becomes Miami,” will soon be available. www.murdermiami.com Hopefully, Dalton Lee will keep visiting those “M” cities, to the delight of MBC and many readers.
P.S. MBC is proud that she helped inspire a part of Jeff’s book. She once visited an “M” city…..Moscow….when she was a college student, and ended up in the police station, not unlike one of the characters in “Murder Becomes Manhattan.” Getting into trouble and finding her way out of it…..sounds a lot like my adventures!
Of Books, Birthdays, Family and Football
September 18, 2015 By Mary Brooke Casad
MBC and I, through some strange coincidence, happen to share the same birthday…..September 15. This year was an especially poignant one for MBC, one of those with a “zero.” It was also the only birthday she and I will have when our birthdate matched the year: 9/15/15.
Not only that, but this birthday was also the release date for a very special book, The Last Season, by Stuart Stevens. Stuart and MBC are cousins, and she’s been looking forward to reading this book for quite some time. She’s very proud of her talented cousin, who is an author, screen writer, columnist and political consultant.
Seems that Stuart, upon reaching that special “zero” birthday MBC just celebrated, decided to spend the 2013 football season with his parents at the Ole Miss football games. His father, Phineas Stevens, was 95 that year, the oldest living member of the Ole Miss Student Hall of Fame. The Last Season is a beautiful telling of their time together, a wonderful weaving of past and present as father and son celebrate the strong bonds formed in Stuart’s childhood at the football games.
MBC began reading the book early on the morning of her birthday, and devoured it faster than birthday cake. She discovered that Stuart’s story is also her story, a story about family members she loves and adores. But even more than that, Stuart’s story is “our” story. It’s a story of family, and the strong bonds of love across the years. It’s a story set in the South that chronicles the tumultuous times of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the current racial tensions of our day. It’s a story of college football and the intense loyalty and pride of its fans. It’s a story of coming to terms with loss and regrets, and finding gratitude for the memories, joy in the moment and hope for the future.
If this sounds like your story, you will love reading this book!
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One more thing: as MBC was reading the book, I looked over her shoulder and saw the dedication of the book:
“For all the wonderful teachers who taught me how to read and tried to teach me to write.”
That should be a word of encouragement to students and teachers, and sounds a bit like my motto:
“Keep readin’ and writin’!” Bluebonnet Armadillo
Travelin’ the Texas Trails!
July 12, 2015 By Mary Brooke Casad
It’s summertime, and many of you have taken off for family trips and vacations. No doubt, quite a few of you will be traveling through and about the great state of Texas, just like I do. MBC and I are always excited to hear tales of where the books of the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series can be found. So we have a request. As you are travelin’ the Texas trails, and you come upon the Bluebonnet books in various stores and libraries, please take a “selfie” of you with the book, and send it to us at mbc@bluebonnetarmadillo.com With your permission, we’ll post it on the Bluebonnet Facebook page. Be sure and include your name and the name of the store and city where you found the book. It will be fun to see who finds the books and the various places they show up!
Pictured above is MBC’s niece Katy, who found a copy of “Bluebonnet at the State Capital of Texas” in a Texas tourist store in Round Rock. Thanks for sending this to MBC, Katy!
Don’t forget to “keep readin'” on your summer vacation! Perhaps you’ll purchase a book from one of the stores you visit. Also, the Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series can be ordered on this website, as well as a special offer for a CD of three Bluebonnet stories, read by MBC! Great for car trips!
Hoping to see you as we travel the Texas trails together! Bluebonnet Armadillo
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November 21, 2017 Charlotte Mathieson 1 Comment
This post provides an update to my previous blog post on “REF 2021 and ECRs: the current situation” in which I outlined the key decisions and remaining areas of uncertainty (mostly the latter) surrounding the next Research Excellence Framework.
Today, quite a few of those uncertainties have been clarified by the publication of “Decisions on Staff and Outputs“. I will soon update my earlier post to reflect this latest document (and offer a few more interpretations of the ECR implications), but in the meantime here is a brief summary of the key points of relevance for ECRs that have been announced today:
Staff eligibility: this latest document confirms that the Stern recommendation that “all staff with significant responsibility for research” are returned will be implemented. 6.a of the document outlines the core criteria (which broadly follows that of REF 2014), but there is more detailed guidance this time on what constitutes “significant responsibility” in paras. 11-13: “those for whom explicit time and resources are made available to engage actively in independent research, and that is an expectation of their job role.”
100% of staff defined in this way are expected to be returned. Meanwhile, teaching-only contracts with no research element won’t count as returnable under these guidelines; neither will RAs employed on project work (see Independent Research, paras. 14-15) nor those without a “substantive connection” to the submitting HEI. This seems to accord with what was suggested previously (see section 3 here); although I’d add that, while the intention here is to offer a more rigorous approach as to who is submitted, there does still seem to be a large amount of flexibility as to how “significant responsibility” will be determined.
Decoupling: the proposed decoupling of staff from submissions (see my previous explanation of decoupling in section 4 here) is going ahead, as described in paras. 25-29, with the numbers of outputs now confirmed: a minimum of one per researcher; a maximum of 5; an average of 2.5 per FTE, across the submitting unit. That means that as an ECR you will need at least one output, and more than that would be beneficial as the submitting unit will be looking for 2-3 per person.
The big change here from REF 2014 (although it is one which we’ve been expecting) is that there is no “ECR discount” that would be deductable per person; instead, the average and min./max. figures account for this across the whole submitting unit (as previously the expectation was 4 per person, so the average is lower). There are guidelines to account for exceptional individual circumstances (paras. 30-32), thus addressing earlier concerns that circumstances such as substantial periods of parental leave/ illness etc would not be acknowledged; deductions for individual circumstances will be applied to the total number of outputs required of the submitting unit as a whole. ECRs without exceptional circumstances, however, need to work to the minimum/average figures.
Portability: (background context in section 5 here). After much talk of the non-portability of research we have clarification as follows (paras. 33-36):
We will implement a transitional approach to the non-portability of outputs in REF 2021, whereby outputs may be submitted by both the institution employing the staff member on the census date and the originating institution where the staff member was previously employed as Category A eligible when the output was demonstrably generated.
*Added note: see para. 34 for the definition of “demonstrably generated”: “for REF 2021 ‘demonstrably generated’ will be determined by the date when the output was first made publicly available.”
This means that if you publish while at institution A, and you move to institution B, your output can count at both institutions. This has been a big area of concern for many ECRs and I’m relieved to (finally!) see a clear decision on the issue, and one which recognises and prevents the potentially disastrous consequences for ECRs that non-portability may have had.
Open Access: the latest guidance (paras. 37-40) seems to align with what has been suggested for a long time now about Open Access requirements for REF 2021: “The policy will require outputs to be deposited as soon after the point of acceptance as possible, and no later than three months after this date (as given in the acceptance letter or email from the publication to the author) from 1 April 2018.” There are some further exceptions outlined in the next paragraph (39). As I’ve mentioned before, if you’re at all confused about OA requirements then I would suggest that you familiarise yourself with your institution’s OA support and get in touch with the relevant team if you have any queries and concerns about the process.
A couple of final points: the census date is now confirmed as 31st July 2020; and more detailed guidelines on the above are expected mid-2018.
That summarises most of what I’ve read so far; I’ll potentially add to / clarify these points in coming days and if helpful, offer further guidance on ECR implications and what to do next; but for the moment, it looks like the outline framework is fairly clearly in place and ECRs can now start planning accordingly.
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“A group of true peasantry?”; Rural Realism and The Village
April 28, 2013 Charlotte Mathieson 1 Comment
I’ve been watching with interest the new BBC series The Village that follows the life of a rural Derbyshire community in the early 20th century. Among the most common response to this seems to be that the series is too depressing and bleak in its portrayal. Now admittedly with at least one death per episode, the background of World War I, and the on-going themes of poverty, domestic violence, criminality and injustice, set against a landscape that is not so much idyllic rolling hills but rather rugged, bleak, and by the looks of things, darned windy… it does not make for cheery Sunday night viewing. But I’m finding it enjoyably refreshing to see a series portray rural life without the twee gloss of rose-tinted nostalgia for an idyllic English past, and instead approaching something closer to the “rural realism” as described by George Eliot.
George Eliot’s early works – Scenes of Clerical Life (1857), Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Silas Marner (1861) – all focus around rural Midlands locales in the early part of the nineteenth century, and in doing so address a key problem that Eliot had earlier noted as dominating over typical representations of rurality. In 1856, writing in the Westminster Review on Riehl’s Natural History of German Life, Eliot argued that the true condition of the rural classes had been obscured from view:
How little the real characteristics of the working-classes are known to those who are outside them, how little their natural history has been studied, is sufficiently disclosed by our Art as well as by our political and social theories. Where, in our picture exhibitions, shall we find a group of true peasantry?
There are, she notes, certainly many depictions of the rural peasantry, but these show “the imagination of the cultivated and town-bred”, rather than “the truth of rustic life”:
The notion that peasants are joyous, that the typical moment to represent a man in a smock-frock is when he is cracking a joke and showing a row of sound teeth, that cottage matrons are usually buxom, and village children necessarily rosy and merry, are prejudices difficult to dislodge from the artistic mind, which looks for its subjects into literature instead of life. The painter is still under the influence of idyllic literature, which has always expressed the imagination of the cultivated and town-bred, rather than the truth of rustic life. Idyllic ploughmen are jocund when they drive their team afield; idyllic shepherds make bashful love under hawthorn bushes; idyllic villagers dance in the checkered shade and refresh themselves, not immoderately, with spicy nut-brown ale.
Yet, Eliot counters, “no one who has seen much of actual ploughmen thinks them jocund; no one who is well acquainted with the English peasantry can pronounce them merry”; if we look more closely, we find that
The slow gaze, in which no sense of beauty beams, no humor twinkles, the slow utterance, and the heavy, slouching walk, remind one rather of that melancholy animal the camel than of the sturdy countryman, with striped stockings, red waistcoat, and hat aside, who represents the traditional English peasant.
The rural scenes of Eliot’s early fiction therefore move away from the idyllic towards a closer observation of the conditions of rural life and people. There are certainly instances where we find nostalgia for the rural past creep in as rebuttal to the forces of modernity, most famously in the “old leisure” passage of Adam Bede which looks fondly back on “those old leisurely times” that have gone, “gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow waggons, and the pedlars”, and replaced by the steam-engine that “only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in” (AB chapter LII).
But Eliot also complicates this with the harsh realities of rural life, particularly with regards to the moral codes of the community: as she points out in the essay on Riehl, rural simplicity does not beget intrinsic morality, for “to make men moral something more is requisite than to turn them out to grass”. Accordingly, her fiction repeatedly shows up the problems of the moral codes of rural communities, from the suspicion with which “settlers from distant parts” are regarded by a community for whom “the world outside their own direct experience was a region of vagueness and mystery” (Silas Marner, chapter 1), to the stringent gendered codes that operate to exclude sexually transgressive women whilst giving slight punishment to the men who are responsible for their wrongdoing (as in Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss).
And I think The Village works in this vein of “rural realism”, offering a portrayal that complicates the idyllic simplicity and the intrinsic morality of the countryside with a rather harsher vision of rural life. Particularly notable I’ve felt is this idea of the complicated moral codes that operate within the community: social relations continually shift from a sense of a closely bounded community within the village, to the familial isolation upon the farm, and there’s a similar sense of unstable social codes operating in the shifts between exclusion and inclusion of individuals based on moral judgements that are at times dubious or wrongly biased. In last week’s episode, Grace Middleton’s internal struggle at the religious salvation of her previously violent drunk husband nicely pulled out the complexity of individual emotional responses vs the wider sense of what is “right” in the community, in a way that nicely captured the moral tensions and individual difficulties faced. Throughout, the harsh realities of rural life continually intersect with these themes, coming back to the basic facts of life and death on the farm, whilst recognising the wider forces that are shaping, and shaped by, the rural landscape.
The Village isn’t without its problems – it’s taking me a while to get on board with the Big House family and the obvious move to the “all is not as grand as it seems” theme that seems to preside over most of their story-lines – and it’s not without the occasional vision of “cheery villagers on the green”. But it’s nonetheless an important shift in the representation of rurality, and a welcome turn away from the simplified idyllic vision of the rural past towards something more closely evoking Eliot’s call for a vision of rural realism.
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CMU:DIY Lectures
Lecture Notes | Music Licensing
Published on Wednesday 10 January 2018
These notes accompany the CMU:DIY lecture ‘Music Licensing’ and provide a beginner’s guide to music copyright and collective licensing.
In addition to these notes, you can also download the slides for the ‘Music Licensing’ lecture HERE. For more on music copyright you might also want to check out the ‘Dissecting The Digital Dollar’ reports and guides HERE.
INTRODUCING MUSIC RIGHTS
Making money from music
There are three main ways you can make money out of your music. You can…
1. Create and exploit intellectual property.
2. Stage and monetise live performances.
3. Build a fanbase and monetise the fan relationship.
When it comes to the intellectual property side of music, most artists create four distinct kinds of IP.
First, every song you write is protected by copyright. We call these the ‘song rights’ or the ‘publishing rights’.
Second, every recording you make is protected by a separate copyright. We call these the ‘recording rights’ or the ‘master rights’.
Third, all the photos and illustrations you create are also protected by copyright – the ‘artistic rights’.
Fourth, your brand – so your actual name, performer name or band name – can be protected by a thing called trademark.
Trademarks have to be registered, which costs money, so they are not generally a top priority for new artists. However, copyright exists as soon as songs are written, recordings made and visuals created, so you need to know a little bit about copyright from the off.
Copyright ownership
Because copyrights are automatic – meaning nobody formally claims ownership of the copyright in any one song, recording or visual – the law has to tell us who the default or presumed owners are.
In the UK, by default a song copyright is owned by whoever writes the song. By default a recording copyright is owned by whoever arranges for the recording to take place. By default the copyright in a photo or illustration is owned by the photographer or illustrator.
Where multiple people create a copyright-protected work together, they co-own the resulting copyright. This happens a lot with songwriting. If you co-write a song with another person, you together co-own the song copyright.
It’s for you as collaborators to decide how you are going to split the copyright, ie what percentage of the copyright (and any subsequent money) does each co-writer get?
Copyright assignment
It’s important to note that, although copyright law provides these default ownership rules, copyrights can also be transferred.
For example, one member of a band might arrange for a recording to take place and therefore be the default copyright owner, but they might decide to share the copyright with their bandmates.
Copyright law allows such transfer and calls it ‘assignment’. Though when copyrights are assigned, there should be a written agreement so everyone is clear on who owns what.
Copyright doesn’t last forever, though it does last for a long time.
In Europe, the copyright in a song, photograph or illustration lasts for the lifetime of the creator and another 70 years.
The copyright in a recording lasts for 70 years after its release.
Copyright controls
Copyright is all about control. As a copyright owner you get to control what happens to your song or your recording.
UK copyright law provides copyright owners with six specific controls:
• The reproduction control.
• The distribution control.
• The rental control.
• The adaptation control.
• The performance control.
• The communication control.
In the music industry, the reproduction and distribution controls are often grouped together and referred to as the ‘reproduction rights’ or ‘mechanical rights’.
Meanwhile the performance and communication controls are often grouped together and referred to as the ‘performing rights’ or ‘neighbouring rights’.
Making money from music rights
Copyright makes money whenever another person or company wants to exploit one of your copyright controls.
So they want to reproduce, or distribute, or rent, or adapt, or perform, or communicate one of your songs or your recordings.
Whenever that happens, they must get your permission to exploit your copyright controls. You charge for your permission (aka licensing), which is how copyright makes money
When a copyright owner sells permission to – or ‘licenses’ – a third party to utilise their copyright controls, a deal needs to be done between the copyright owner and the licensee.
In the music industry, there are three main ways copyright owners license, and which method is used generally depends on what the licensee wants to do with the song or the recording.
Option One: License direct
The licensee finds the copyright owner and negotiates a bespoke deal. This happens when a brand wants to use your song or recording in an advert. They must find you and make you an offer. You will negotiate a deal, agree terms and write a contract.
Option Two: License via a third party
The copyright owner allows a third party to license on their behalf. The third party then does the deal on behalf of the copyright owner. This happens with DIY artists and the streaming platforms. Realistically the likes of Spotify and Apple Music don’t have time to negotiate deals with every single DIY artist. So they negotiate deals with distributors like AWAL, CD Baby, Distrokid, Ditto, EmuBands, Spinnup and TuneCore. As an artist you ally with one of those companies, allow them to license your recordings to the streaming services, and ‘piggy back’ on the deals they have already negotiated.
Option Three: License via the collective licensing system
In certain scenarios the music industry chooses to license as one. So, all the artists and record labels (more or less) put all their rights into one pot and appoint a collecting society to license on their behalf. And all the writers and music publishers (more or less) put all their rights into one pot and appoint another collecting society to license on their behalf. Licensees can then get two ‘blanket licences’, one covering all recordings (more or less) and one covering all songs (more or less). The collecting societies collect the money and pass it on to the artists, labels, writers and publishers, in theory based on how often their music was used.
COLLECTIVE LICENSING
Collective licensing usually applies for cover versions; live performance; radio; TV; whenever recorded music is played in a public space like a pub, cafe, club, shop, gym or workplace; and with some though not all digital music services.
Collecting Societies
Where collective licensing applies, both rights owners (like record labels and music publishers) and music creators (like artists and songwriters) join one or more collecting societies.
Some people refer to collecting societies as ’collective management organisations’ (CMOs) or ‘performing rights organisations’ (PROs).
Most collecting societies focus on just one set of music rights – ie either publishing rights or recording rights. On the song rights side, you may also have separate societies representing the different copyright controls, so one society for mechanical rights and another for performing rights.
The UK Collecting Societies
In the UK, on the song rights side, PRS represents the performing rights and MCPS represents the mechanical rights. Though the two societies work closely together through an organisation called PRS For Music.
On the recording rights side, the UK society is called PPL, which represents artists and labels. It also has a unit representing the labels’ separate rights in music videos.
Usually anyone looking to make use of recordings of songs will need separate licences from PRS and PPL. Though when it comes to the public performance of recordings (in pubs, cafes, clubs etc), PRS and PPL have set up a joint venture so that licensees only need deal with one organisation.
Joining the collecting societies
As a DIY artist, as soon as you start gigging and/or getting some radio airplay, it’s time to join the collecting socities, so that you can access your share of the royalties that are paid into the collective licensing system by venues, gig promoters, radio stations and suchlike.
These may be nominal sums of money initially, but could grow quite quickly as your music gets performed and played more widely.
You join PPL and allow it to represent your recording rights in the collective licensing domain. You join PRS and allow it to represent the performing rights in your songs. You join MCPS and allow it to represent the mechanical rights in your songs. Because PRS and MCPS work together, you can join both via the same website.
PPL is free to join, so you should sign up as soon as you start putting out recorded music. PRS currently costs £100 to join (it’s a one off joining fee), so you probably want to join once you start gigging, as that’s where you first royalties are likely to come from. MCPS costs another £100 to join, but you need to sign up to access all the digital royalties you are due and if your songs get used on TV.
Once joined up you then need to tell the societies about every recording you’ve put out and every song you’ve written. And you need to keep the system up to date as you put new tracks out and write new songs.
How the money flows
1. If a record label releases recordings of a song on CD or vinyl, it usually already controls the recording copyright, but needs a mechanical rights licence from whoever controls the separate song rights. This is usually provided by MCPS, though PRS For Music does the administrative work.
2. If someone stages a gig they need a performing rights licence from whoever controls the rights in all and any of the songs performed. This is provided by PRS.
3. If someone plays recorded music in a public space (eg pub, club, cafe, gym, workplace), they need a performing rights licence from whoever controls the recording rights and whoever controls the song rights. This is now provided by the new PRS/PPL joint venture.
4. Whenever a radio station plays records it needs a performing rights licence from whoever controls the recording rights and whoever controls the song rights. The former is provided by PPL and the latter PRS.
5. Whenever a TV station uses music, it needs to both copy the music (in order to synchronise it into a programme) and communicate the music (when the programme is broadcast). So it needs licences to exploit both the reproduction and communications controls of both the recording and song copyrights. PPL provides a licence for the recordings. MCPS provides a licence for the copying bit on the song side. PRS provides a licence for the communicating bit.
Whenever a society collects money on behalf of artists, songwriters, labels and publishers, it then passes that revenue on to the relevant copyright owners, covering its costs by charging a commission on that income.
What about digital?
The record industry generally licenses digital services through direct deals, which means the collecting societies don’t get involved. The main exception to this is personalised radio services (which offer much less on-demand functionality) which might be licensed via the collective licensing system.
But the music publishing sector does usually licence digital services through the collective licensing system. Streaming services need to both reproduce and communicate songs, so they need licences from both MCPS (for the copying) and PRS (for the communicating). The main exception to this is the big five music publishers, who generally license their Anglo-American repertoire directly to digital platforms, albeit in partnership with the collecting societies.
BUT for DIY artists, on the recordings side you need a distributor to get your music onto the digital platforms and to access any royalties you are due, while on the songs side your royalties will come via the collective licensing system (ie MCPS and PRS).
What happens if you sign to a label or publisher?
As a DIY artist you should join PPL and PRS/MCPS as soon as you have some music out there, are gigging and – especially – if you get some radio airplay. The societies will then start collecting royalties on your behalf and passing the monies on to you.
But what happens if you then sign a record deal with a record label and a publishing deal with a music publisher?
Well, if you sign a classic record deal, the label takes ownership of your recording copyrights and, from that point onwards, it exploits the controls of the copyright, paying you a share of that money based on what you agree in your record contract. However – by law – 50% of performing rights income – ie that collected by PPL – must still come to you direct (though this is shared out between all the performers on each record including session musicians).
Meanwhile, if you sign a classic publishing deal, the publisher will take ownership of some (though not all) of the controls of your song copyrights, including the mechanical rights. It then exploits those controls and pays you a share of that money based on what you agree in your publishing contract. However, the performing rights in your songs will remain with PRS which will continue to pay at least 50% of any income it generates from your songs directly to you.
So – in practical terms…
• If you sign to a label, you stay a performer member of PPL, but your label logs your recordings and receives 50% of the money.
• If you sign to a publisher, you stay a member of PRS, but your publisher logs your songs and receives up to 50% of the money.
• And you stop being a member of MCPS and your publisher collects all that money (paying you a share subject to contract).
Challenges with collective licensing
On one level collective licensing is a good thing.
In theory it simplifies everything. Everyone gets paid the same whenever their music is used (ie the rate you receive is based on how often your music is copied, played and performed – not how famous you are). And it allows DIY artists to easily start collecting royalties whenever their music is covered, performed in public, or played on the TV and radio.
But there are some issues will collective licensing. These include…
• Competition law: When everyone in the music industry licenses together that basically creates a monopoly. PPL and PRS could in theory hold a radio station to ransom, because no music radio station could operate without both a PPL and PRS licence. Competition law doesn’t like monopolies. To overcome these concerns, collecting societies are usually regulated in some way to ensure their monopoly status isn’t abused.
• International dimension: What happens when your music is played in Germany but you’re a member of the UK collecting societies? Well, most collecting societies around the world are joined up, so that PPL and PRS can pretty much represent your rights globally if you so wish. Then, in this example, the German collecting societies would collect your royalties, hand the money over to PPL and PRS, which would then pay you. However, things can get complicated when money and data moves from one society to another, delaying payment and making things less transparent.
• Data: How does the collecting society know who to pay? In truth, often they don’t, because monitoring every cafe, bar, shop and workplace is tricky. So how do they decide how to share out the money? This often proves controversial!
• Fees: Most collecting societies are not-for-profit and cover their costs out of the commissions they charge on any royalties they process. But some societies are accused charging too high commissions and wasting money.
• Transparency: How well informed are members? Many societies are membership organisations ultimately answerable to the labels, publishers, artists and songwriters who are members. But many societies aren’t that great at letting their members know what’s going on, and that can create confusion and distrust over how monies are collected and distributed.
• Should there be more or less collective licensing? Some people really like collective licensing and think it should apply in more scenarios, especially in digital. Other people – because of the problems outlined here – reckon that direct licensing should be used more often. What do you think?
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The Old Church, Stoke Newington
Sean Shibe at Stoke Newington Guitar Festival
Sunday November 18, 2018 at 19:30
The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London
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Scottish lute music from the Balcarres, Rowallan, Straloch and Wemyss manuscripts - Various
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Stoke Newington Guitar Festival is extremely happy to welcome Sean Shibe, one of the most exciting young talents in the classical music world. His approach to the traditional classical guitar canon avoids cliché and challenges all preconceptions.
In 2017 Sean Shibe's debut solo album release on Delphian Records was met with critical acclaim and won him a nomination in the BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award category. Dreams and Fancies is a recording that explores the fruits of Julian Bream's history of commissioning in the 20th century alongside music by Dowland and was named Editors Choice in Gramophone as well as BBC Music Magazines Instrumental Choice.
Alongside the success of his recording debut, Sean Shibe's uncompromisingly monumental project softLoud premiered at the East Neuk and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, a revelatory programme juxtaposing Jacobean lute music for classical guitar, with electric guitar arrangements of multi-tracked repertoire including US Pulitzer prize winning composers Julia Wolfes powerful elegy Lad, (originally written for 9 bagpipes) and David Langs Killer.
Born in Edinburgh in 1992 of English and Japanese heritage, he studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and with Paolo Pegoraro in Italy. At the age of 20 he became the first guitarist to be selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and the only solo guitarist to be awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. He was a YCAT artist between 2015 and 2017.
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Man Arrested After Burning American Flag Outside Walmart On 4th Of July
An American flag burning caught on video in the parking lot of a Walmart in southern Virginia on the Fourth of July has led to the arrest of 23-year-old man.
Mitchell Lee Stauffer was not arrested over his First Amendment-protected right to burn a flag, but rather for allegedly burning an object in a public place with intent to intimidate, York-Poquoson Sheriff Danny Diggs said.
“The burning of our great American Flag is very offensive to most people including me,” Diggs said in the Facebook post. “That being said, the courts have ruled that act alone is an expression of free speech and not per se illegal.”
“This charge is appropriate under the Code of Virginia,” he said. “It is fortunate that no one was injured today.”
The statue Stauffer was charged under has been used in the past in cross-burning cases.
Mitchell Lee Stauffer, 23, charged with trying to intimidate people by burning an American flag in the parking lot of a Virginia Walmart. (Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail)
The incident took place around 9 a.m. Thursday at the Walmart in Yorktown.
The video shows a man in a hat and shorts throwing an American flag on the ground, pouring gas on it and setting it on fire.
“This county f—— hates you,” the man is heard yelling. “It wouldn’t give a s— if you die.”
The yelling made those who heard it very nervous, the sheriff’s office said.
The video was shot by a Walmart manager who hung up the phone when contacted by Fox News.
The Newport News Daily Press reports that the torching left a large scorch mark in the pavement.
Proud vet
I think that because many have died for this flag which represents this nation this man should be hanged for his offense against those who have died for this nation and the rest of us who believe in this nation
Patrick Donnelly
I would prefer a good, old fashion, 1%’er biker beatdown for little punkass shitbags like this guy.
Raconteur
Nah, A fine tar & feathering prior the ride out of town on rail, would be more appropriate and lend to a better example. We shouldn’t overreact.
Mari Brenner
Law against burning and/or desecrating our flag on the books! Look it up!
Law and code are not the same thing, but the court already ruled it was legal and protected
free speech which is why not one of these idiots ever goes to jail unless they attach something like arson to the charge.
Dean Perry
Supreme Court ruling…
Earnie Bailey
If you are my age, this means much more to you than it does to the generations after us. Each generation lets the story of our flag fall to the side. Some Americans even disrespect the flag and what its story means.
Some day our country will go through another challenge and the flag shall wave proudly again. It is the story of the flag that pulls Americans together. A story of struggle and a story no other country can tell.
The flag represents all of us, good or bad, if you are Americans the flag is you.
Frank Campo
Think little chubby should be tossed in a cell with some real criminals till he posts bail
Hard to believe that a court would claim to rule that burning a US flag is freedom of speech when it is an action and not speech. But then again a liberal judge would see nothing wrong with it, and like another poster had already stated. there are laws on the books about burning and/or desecrating our flag.
That being said, What a moron this clown is. Stops in front of a department store, pops trunk, throws flag on ground and recklessly discharges a flammable liquid in a public area then ignites it. Closes trunk, allowing people to get a good look at him as well as the license plate , make and model of the vehicle. Hope it was worth it. they need to be adding some sort of arson charge and reckless public endangerment with highly flammable substance and uncontrolled burn.
Redeemed Democrat
The democrats are extremely entitled and they have been without a doubt abusing this entitlement.
sandyj
And democrats have been abusing many more “entitlements!” When are they going to wake up and see they are doomed?
It falls under freedom of expression.
Hopefully while in jail, someone will give him an attitude adjustment the punk won’t forget.
JAIME.
Leslie Stevenson
Another loser, fat , no dates, loner, so any attention is better than no attention. Tomorrow back to the video games in the basement. Trashy jerk. They should Make him join the military.They will teach him respect or beat his ass daily. Maybe if his parents had done that he would be a decent human being.
Would not want the freak representing our first class military, unless of course he’s used as a human shield, sounds good to me you creep!
Calling this person a “man,” might be stretching things a bit. I wouldn’t be surprised if he/she is still looking for an “identity.”
Bet his parents are the same. Born to assholes raised like a asshole, makes you a 2nd generation asshole
AFGus
Sorry….had I been on scene, I would have kicked that MFer’s ass into next month. And I’m not kidding!
Tommy Ryan
I had charges brought against me by an “organization” for countering an attempted assault from a falsely entitled progressive socialist threatening the public 4 years ago.
He got in my personal space, so I sent him to his “safe space” with a concussion for screaming threats at me…& everyone in the area. He just got too close to me.
These falsely entitled progressive dipshits need more wake-up calls like this…& the one I gave the douche-knot I dealt with.
What sucks is the “laws” protect these criminals and put law abiding citizens on a “watch list”.
That in itself is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This douchebag would’ve had his skull thumped by me if he tried to stop me from using the grease formulated extinguisher used for putting out the fire he set…ON MY FLAG. It ain’t HIS.
With that being said;
Happy 143rd (&one day now) Birthday to the USA!
Nick Byrne
Now, your response AFgus, is the best idea I have read here.
I would hand him over to the Taliban in Afghanistan They LIKE CHUBBY BOYS!! After Six months with them, He will WORSHIP THE AMERICAN FLAG. BELIEVE ME
WHAT A FUCKING SHAME! FAT LITTLE FUCK IS PROBABLY GOING TO GET A SLAP ON THE WRIST! AND I WOULDN’T DOUBT IF THE DEMORATS ARE SAYING, IT’S HIS RIGHT TO DESECRATE THE AMERICAN FLAG,,THAT SO MANY PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE VETERANS, HAVE DIED FOR! HE NEEDS TO GET A BEATING SO BAD THAT HE WON’T WALK FOR MONTHS!!
Charles E Vlcek
He is lucky I wasn’t there I would have accidentally spilled gasoline on him whoops sorry
Ross Kardon
Mitchell Lee Staffer and all other flag burners, should be deported from the U.S.A. for two years and then be forced to live in a tyrannical, terrible country such as Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Syria, or Venezuela.
Then after the two years are up, Mitchell Lee Staffer, and other flag burners should then be returned to the U.S.A., with a full Presidential pardon, so they can then resume their American lives without any legal restrictions. I absolutely guarantee Mitchell and other flag burners after this deportation period has been completed, will return to the U.S.A. as rehabilitated, gung-ho, patriotic flag-waving Americans!
How do we fix this….all 18+ should serve a mandatory service in the armed forces. If they drop out of school at an earlier age, they serve mandatory of four years. We have a serious problem in our country called entitlement. Let them shed some skin. We might even lesson our prison population.
Bruce Woodard
love the way you think
Ron 1
Schools, collages,the fake media, and the Dem. party have been brainwashing kids like him since grade school.The military would help but by age 18 it’s likely to late.
Our courts have been destroying our country for years. To rule that it is free speech to burn our country’s flag was one of the most obvious rulings ever, that there is a “deep state” working to overthrow our country and it’s freedoms. I did find it humorous that they used the same ruling as has been used on cross burning’s to arrest him.
Well he was right about one thing: I don’t give a ———— about him, and wish he would just get out of this country. If you cannot stand, honor, and revere your nation’s flag, then you shouldn’t have any rights in that nation. Take home out into the waters in front of Alcatraz and give him a big heav ho off the deck.
I say hang him, who cares what the court says
It is to bad when this ass lit the flag on fire it didn’t hit the gas tank in his car and blow his car up. All these people that burn the flag the sentence should be you are sent to Venezuela.
That flag, and what it stands for, has liberated more people than any force on earth. America has fought many wars, and in each case, they did not take the country defeated, we rebuilt them and gave them back. No nation on earth is perfect, and if you’re looking for perfection you won’t find it, but in more countries than not, that flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation!
Looks like a candidate for a sex change . . . Bruce Jenner Gender Bender ! LOL Yep, beat him with a chain !
Exactly. I was thinking that maybe we don’t know the whole story on this confused individual. Nor do we really need to, actually. He can plead his mental issues in court.
Mike Graybeal
What has happened to OUR COUNTRY? Socialist Communist DmoRats. Oh Yes and CNN MSNBC NBC CBS and ABC…
Knen
Good. Useless punk.
George M. Flynn
Should have shoved him in the open Trunk then park it in the Sun 🙂
Grace Joy
G d bless & protect the people who caught this on video; & reported it.
Hope the ahole gets put in jail and is analized every day and night!!
Asisay
The man is a mental case. I hope WalMart doesn’t sell him a gun. Is arson next on his list? Yelling at an inanimate object? He has symptoms of a mental disease. Get him off the street before he hurts someone.
Looks like a Dyke!?
Jail him , take his assets he has gotten in the U.S. then throw him out – forever , the country does not need anymore anti-America scum , We already have 3/4 of Congress for that !
Mitch D.
None of these cowards ever has the courage to move somewhere else.
“This is such a terrible country…but I’ve got it really good here, so I’m not about to go anywhere else.”
This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. It’s a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me; we live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards.
Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, of age and never saw American prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve not seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.
We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”
Mary Taylor
You have a very keen mind to your surroundings and you are what could be right for this generation.
They need to take that little shithead out and beat him to a pulp!!
Fernando Hidalgo
Is that a MAN? He looks more like an ugly masculine girl. I just hope some other inmate burn his behind while in jail just to remind him of what he did!
This millennial snowflake was just looking for attention. His parents probably withheld his allowance or took away his x-box so he was acting out.
He figured he was safe because it was at Walmart.
Put him in prison.
IF this POS worked for me he would be looking for a new job!
Marlitt Arnouville
He and kapernick need to be deported to Iran,if you can’t appreciate the freedom you have here, please leave
Bobby P
I think it is time to bring back some good old fashion medieval style torture !
ROY MARLOWE
I wonder if he had a burning permit? If not,
fine him to the max.
Burning the American flag is a hate speech more than anything and it is wrong. If you hate this country so much that you find it necessary to burn our flag then you don’t belong here. Many Americans have fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, daughters who served and many lost loved ones fighting for this great country or came home wounded or lost limbs. So we are compassionate about our flag and what it stands for. Please learn to love our country and our flag if you wish to stay on this country. We don’t want traitors here.
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Political amoebas
Brian Dijkema
Topics: Leadership
Political amoebas August 4, 2011 | By Brian Dijkema
The Canadian chattering class is all divided on whether or not the dual political allegiance of Nycole Turmel, interim leader of the New Democratic Party, is actually a problem.
Nick Van Der Graaf, in the Mark, suggests that the uproar about Turmel's membership in the Bloc and Quebec Solidaire reveals the "dangerous nationalist underbelly of Canadian politics." How dare anybody suggest that Turmel's membership in a party that explicitly hopes to assist Quebec's secession from Canada is a problem? "Intolerance!" he cries.
One of the highest ends of politics
Robert Thompson’s House of Faith
The Social Network and Canadian Politics
Others—Martin Patriquin from Maclean's—are less dramatic about it. A politician from Quebec with ties to the Bloc? Meh; happens all the time. That's Quebec.
Then there are the Andrew Coynes and Christie Blatchfords of the world who perceive a genuine problem in Turmel's seperatist ties.
What does this say about the state of Canada?
First, it shows that the most interesting discussions in Canadian politics will be those occurring within political parties. Our political system increasingly appears to be moving away from, rather than towards, parties based on clear ideological convictions. The Turmel affair is a dramatic illustration of this. Witness one of the more telling defences of her alignment with the BQ and Quebec Solidaire (paraphrased here): "They are the party most closely aligned with my social values; who else would I join?" That the NDP could attract, and insert as a leader, someone with such flexible political persuasions only underscores the fact that parties are amoebas; constantly changing shape and form. The same applies for another of the NDP's leaders—Tom Mulcair, who met with the Liberals and Conservatives before settling on the NDP as a partisan home. The diversity within parties is not unique to the NDP either, I should add.
Second, the division among Canada's commentariat indicates that Canadians do not yet have a common language by which we can comprehend these shifting and sometimes illogical tendencies within our political culture. Which framework helps us understand all these contradictory statements?
Cardus has offered one framework. The Quebec issue looks like the first volley in a decade of dissensus that is already upon us. Nationalism is by nature an exclusivist ideology, notwithstanding verbal massage therapy intending to fit multiple "nations within a united Canada". There is no squaring nationalist circles.
It appears that dissent is no longer on deck. It's up to bat.
Brian Dijkema is Program Director, Work and Economics with Cardus, and an editor of Comment.
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Lavelle Scottie Ryan Swan-Ford Jordan Caroline Trey Porter Cody Martin Jazz Johnson Sports College sports Military schools Education Social affairs Men's college basketball College basketball Basketball Men's basketball Men's sports
Utah State Mountain West Nevada Air Force
Johnson scores 27 as No. 17 Nevada beats Air Force 90-79
By PAT GRAHAM - Mar. 06, 2019 02:15 AM EST
Nevada guard Jazz Johnson, left, celebrates his basket with guard David Cunningham during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Air Force on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at Air Force Academy, Colo. Nevada won 90-79. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — A bounce-back performance by Nevada was set to the swishing sound of Jazz.
The junior guard hit all the right notes.
Jazz Johnson scored a career-high 27 points and made seven of his team's 13 shots from 3-point range in leading No. 17 Nevada over Air Force 90-79 on Tuesday night.
"They kept leaving me open and giving me space," Johnson said. "I was knocking the shots down."
Cody Martin added 18 points and twin brother Caleb contributed 16 as the Wolf Pack (27-3, 14-3 Mountain West Conference) beat Air Force for a seventh straight time.
The Wolf Pack rebounded from an emotional 81-76 loss at Utah State on Saturday. Chaos broke out in the hallways after Aggies students stormed the court and left Nevada's Jordan Caroline noticeably upset. Caroline broke glass when he hit a fire extinguisher case.
Caroline finished with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Air Force (13-16, 8-9). It was his 17th double-double of the season.
"He bounced back tonight and had a heck of a game," Nevada coach Eric Musselman said. "I thought we were really, really good offensively. When we knock down the 3 at that pace, we're hard to guard."
Up the road at Colorado State, Utah State clinched at least a share of the Mountain West title by beating the Rams in overtime. Nevada can join the Aggies atop the league standings by defeating San Diego State on Saturday. A win could also give the Wolf Pack the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament in Las Vegas.
"Should be a great atmosphere," Musselman said.
Behind the long-range shooting of Johnson, Nevada went on a 12-0 run midway through the second half to break open a tight game. Johnson also sealed it with a late free throw when the Falcons made a last-gasp charge.
Johnson's scoring spurt was his best in a Nevada uniform, eclipsing his previous high of 20 points set against Tulsa on Nov. 22. He scored 26 for Portland before transferring.
"He's been a guy off the bench we rely on to score buckets for us," Musselman said. "They played a zone and so he did a great job of sprinting to the corner, getting his feet set."
Air Force dropped to 4-85 against ranked opponents.
Ryan Swan led the Falcons with 21 points, and Lavelle Scottie added 13. Scottie became the 26th player in program history to reach 1,000 career points.
"That's a good team. That's a real good team," Air Force coach Dave Pilipovich said. "Give a lot of credit to Nevada, a team that got beat on Saturday and were hungry coming in."
Nevada: Musselman's teams have been a resilient bunch, improving to 28-3 after a loss in his time at Nevada.
Air Force: The Falcons haven't beaten a ranked team since 2013.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The loss last weekend dropped Nevada from No. 12 to No. 17 in the rankings. This win, coupled with another one Saturday, would probably bump the Wolf Pack back up.
Fans in the cadet section didn't let Caroline forget about the trouble at Utah State, holding up a sign with "R.I.P" written in ink along with a picture of a fire extinguisher. The heckling fans went back and forth with Nevada big man Trey Porter, who put a hand to his ear to egg them on.
Johnson recently mixed up his drill work. Instead of making 10 shots from 10 spots, he's going with five in a row from 10 spots. That was at the request of his father.
"It forced me to stay efficient and just focus in on each shot," Johnson said.
The Falcons wore warmup tops to honor the Class of 1959. It was the first graduating class at the Academy. ... Pilipovich gave away 1,000 tickets for the game. .... Both Martin brothers had five assists.
Nevada: Wraps up the regular season Saturday by hosting San Diego State, a team that beat the Wolf Pack 65-57 on Feb. 20.
Air Force: Closes the regular season at Boise State on Saturday.
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Keith Braxton Damian Chong Qui Andre Wolford Vado Morse Jamaal King Jalen Gibbs Omar Habwe Sports Men's basketball Men's sports basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports
St.Francis (PA) Northeast Mount St. Mary's Saint Mary's (Cal.) West Coast
King, Braxton help St. Francis top Mt. St. Mary's 80-69
- Jan. 04, 2019 05:39 AM EST
LORETTO, Pa. (AP) — Jamaal King scored 25 points and Keith Braxton added 17 points and 17 rebounds — his 29th career double-double — and St. Francis (Pa.) opened Northeast Conference play with an 80-69 defeat of Mount St. Mary's Thursday night.
King scored a layup that pulled St. Francis (5-7) into a 40-40 tie early in the second half, Braxton added a 3-pointer in a 12-4 run.
Andre Wolford added 10 points for the Red Flash. King was 4-for-4 from distance.
Mount St. Mary's came as close as 50-49 on a Vado Morse trey, but Wolford hit an answering 3 for St. Francis and the Red Flash never surrendered the lead, going up by as many as 12 down the stretch.
Omar Habwe led the Mountaineers (3-11) with 21 points and three steals, Morse scored 14 with four assists, Damian Chong Qui added 13 points and Jalen Gibbs 11. Mount St. Mary's opened the second half on a 9-0 run, holding St. Francis scoreless for 2½ minutes to grab a 40-38 lead.
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Demetrius Troy
Marberry lifts Lipscomb over UNC-Greensboro 86-69 in NIT
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Rob Marberry had 24 points as Lipscomb got past UNC Greensboro 86-69 in the NIT second round on Saturday. Garrison Mathews added 21 points...
Miller lifts UNC-Greensboro over Campbell 84-69 in NIT
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Isaiah Miller scored 25 points, tying his career high, as UNC Greensboro defeated Campbell 84-69 in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday...
Dickey leads UNC-Greensboro over E. Tennessee St. 60-59
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — James Dickey recorded 11 points and 11 rebounds and UNC Greensboro defeated East Tennessee State 60-59 on Sunday, the Spartans' seventh...
Rafferty lifts Furman over UNC-Greensboro 67-57
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Matt Rafferty had 26 points and 10 rebounds as Furman got past UNC Greensboro 67-57 on Thursday night. Jordan Lyons added 22 points for the...
Troy, Miller score 20 apiece as UNCG beats VMI 93-66
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Demetrius Troy and Isaiah Miller scored 20 points apiece to help UNC Greensboro beat VMI 93-66 on Thursday night for its sixth consecutive...
JR Ross
Rakocevic, USC dominate Arizona for 80-57 victory
Miller scores 25 to lift UNC-Greensboro over Furman 89-79
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Isaiah Miller had a career-high 25 points as UNC Greensboro topped Furman 89-79 on Saturday. Miller made 10 of 19 shots,...
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EPA Announces Extension of Deadline for Public Comment on Final Biological Opinion for Chlorpyrifos, Diazinon and Malathion
Diane Schute
EPA has announced a 60-day extension of the deadline for the submission of public comments on the final Biological Opinion (BiOp), issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under the Endangered Species Act, on the potential effects of chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion on listed species and critical habitats. The Biological Opinion found jeopardy to 38 species and adverse modifications to 37 critical habitat units. It also includes a series of Recommended Prudent Alternatives (RPAs) based on the “best available information on current agricultural practices and pesticide reduction strategies to reduce pesticide exposure to aquatic species and their habitats.” Comments are due by July 23, 2018 and may be submitted via www.regulations.gov identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2018-0141.
Under Section 7(a)(2) of the ESA, if EPA determines that a pesticide is likely to adversely affect a listed species or its designated critical habitat, the Agency must consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively known as the “Services”). Following consultation, the Service(s) prepares a Biological Opinion on whether the registration action will jeopardize or adversely affect a listed species or habitat and, if so, may include reasonable and prudent alternatives and/or reasonable and prudent measures to avoid or minimize such impacts.
The final BiOp was issued on December 29, 2017 pursuant to a court-ordered deadline set by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in the case of Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, et. al. v. NMFS. The deadline was established after the court denied a request from NMFS seeking additional time to engage in more extensive collaboration with EPA and stakeholders in developing the final BiOp.
In announcing its request for public comment on the BiOp, EPA maintained that the court’s failure to extend the deadline for issuance of the Opinion was “at odds” with an interim approach developed by the Agency in 2013, with the support of the Services and USDA, for assessing the potential ESA effects of pesticides. According to EPA, this interim approach is intended to establish an “open and transparent process” for ESA consultations. The Agency emphasized that “stakeholder input is critical to the development and evaluation of any measures EPA may implement to address risks to listed species and designated critical habitat.” As such, EPA is seeking public comment and stakeholder input before deciding to reinitiate consultation with NMFS or move forward with implementing the measures contained in the Opinion.
Meanwhile, EPA continues to work with the Services to refine an interim scientific approach and create a sustainable process for completing consultations that meet requirements of both the ESA and FIFRA. As part of this process, EPA is collaborating with the Services to determine an appropriate method for incorporating available usage data in the evaluation of pesticides for ESA effects. EPA personnel state that the Agency’s objective is to streamline the process so that it is protective of species, ensures timely FIFRA registration review decisions, transparent to the public, and takes into consideration the limited resources available to the Agency.
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A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Some clouds. Low 71F. Winds light and variable..
A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Some clouds. Low 71F. Winds light and variable.
Dennis M. Lavery
Dennis Michael Lavery of Carlisle, PA died at his home on June 24, 2018, of a sudden cardiac event. He was 59. He was born in Titusville, PA, to the late James M. and Mildred M. Lavery. He is survived by his siblings Mary C. Lavery (Peter Rich) and niece Bethany Zahner of CT; Carol L. Barnhart (Dan), niece Lisa Schwartz and nephews Aaron Barnhart and Sean Barnhart and their families; Mark J. Lavery (Jody), nieces Samantha Lewis and Shannon Lavery and their families, all from the Titusville area. His feline companions, Molly and Murphy, also survive him.
Denny attended St. Titus School and Titusville High School, class of ‘76. He then attended Shippensburg State College, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree.
Denny spent many years in food manufacturing, holding both technical and training positions.
As a mid-life career change, Denny graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Science, Library Science degree in 2010, and stepped into his dream career as a Reference Librarian. He joined the staff of Bosler Memorial Library, and rose quickly through the ranks to his present position as Assistant Director, Public and Information Services. He loved being a Librarian and serving the Bosler community. He was known for his kindness, support, and encouragement of personal development and life-long learning.
Denny was a quiet, thoughtful man, and one could count on having informed, interesting conversations with him. He had a wonderful sense of humor. Denny loved movies, museums, theater, and roller coasters. He collected books and vintage kitchenware. Denny was a terrific cook, and of course an avid reader. He loved a formidable game of Scrabble. Walking the trails at state parks brought him solace and joy, as did crocheting beautiful afghans.
In addition to his family, he is deeply missed by many life-long friends, cousins, and his Bosler Library family.
A memorial service is planned for Sunday September 2, 2018 at 1:00 pm at Shaffer Park Cabin, 1649 Spring Road, Carlisle. Casual dress please.
Memorial donations can be made in his memory to Bosler Memorial Library, 158 West High Street, Carlisle, PA 17013, or to a charity of one’s choice.
Ronan Funeral Home, Carlisle, PA handled the arrangements.
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Tag: Equipment
Hello and welcome to d20 diaries! Today we’re taking a look at Starfinder: Armory! This is one of the few Starfinder sourcebooks that’s available for purchase. It’s a hardcover book that focuses on new gear and equipment for use in the Starfinder Roleplaying Game.
This article isn’t meant to be a thorough review or critique of Starfinder: Armory. It won’t replace the book (nor would I want it to!). It’s a quick breakdown of what’s found inside, and what I liked best in each chapter. It’s a collection of my favourites parts of the book, and some highlights. It’s here so that fellow gamers and fans can take a look and get a real a feel for what they’ll get out of the book. Hopefully it helps you decide whether this product is right for you.
Starfinder: Armory is a hardcover sourcebook 159 pages in length. Nearly all of that is dedicated to gear, with the remaining pages offering new character options for each of the seven Starfinder core classes. It features delightful cover art by Remko Troost which depicts Obozaya (the iconic vesk soldier) and Quig (the iconic ysoki mechanic) shopping. The inside covers feature a nice image of the Pact World System (which is not to scale). Following that is the table of contents and the ‘Overview.’ Basically, the two page introduction just lets you know what kinds of gear you’ll find in this book, and explains the difference between the different types of equipment categories. Perhaps the most useful tidbit? A tiny sidebar about minor equipment. Basically, any random technological item you want to invest in that’s not a weapon — things like cameras, clocks, headphones, so on and so on. Each of those items is available if GM approval for a price of 5 credits. Easy. Done. Love it. My daughter tends to try to purchase a lot of frivolous gear like this, so it’s nice to have a proper baseline for it.
After this its on to Chapter 1: Equipment. At a whopping 130 pages long, this chapter is by far the bulk of the book. These pages are filled with all new gear (not reprints) sorted by category. Equipment categories include: weapons, weapon accessories, weapon fusions, special materials, armour, powered armour, armour upgrades, augmentations, technological items, magic items, hybrid items, personal items, drugs, medicinals, poisons, other purchases, and vehicles.
Up first? Weapons. In general this book provides a wider array of weapons for each damage type at various levels, and some new abilities. And the number of choices? Huge! Just looking at the weapon charts there are six pages of melee weapons, four pages of small arms, three of long arms, three of heavy weapons, one of sniper weapons, a quarter page of untyped weapons, a quarter page of ammunition, a half page of solarian crystals, and a half page of grenades. That’s hundreds of new weapons up for sale — not even counting the new modifications and weapon fusions. There’s some awesome artwork in this section, with the art for the Bravado Handcannon (a small arm projectile with critical knockdown), the Exhorter Shout Projector (a sonic heavy weapon with critical demoralize), the Grave-Class Void Rifle (a cryo longarm with critical suffocate), the Matrix Resonant Pistol (a sonic small arm with critical deafen), the traditional battle ribbon (an uncategorized advanced melee weapon), and the warfan (and uncategorized advanced melee weapon), all numbering among my favourites. There are 46 new weapon special properties (breach, drain charge, free hands, and gravitation are my favourites), and sixteen new critical hit effects (blind and stifle are my favourites). There’s also an array of weapons manufacturers, each of which can add special abilities to your gun (for an extra fee, of course!). I’d be sure to buy from AbadarCorp and Ringworks Arsenal Group’s lovely weapon selection.
Some of the many weapons available in Starfinder Armory. Illustrated by Kent Hamilton.
But that’s not all! There’s also new weapon accessories, weapon fusions, and special materials up for offer. For accessories be sure to check out the bayonet bracket and collapsing weapon. I like a lot of the new weapon fusions, but my favourites probably turned out to be accurate, conserving, guarded, obscuring, rebounding, and soulfire. For special materials I was surprised to find I enjoyed horacalcum and inubrix the most.
After leaving behind sixty pages of weapons and weapon-related products we’re heading out into the wide world of armour. There’s six pages dedicated to light and heavy armour (with two of those being full-page art), followed by six pages dedicated to powered armour (with two of those being full-page art), and finally six more pages of armour upgrades. The upgrades are a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed adaptive energy shield, agility enhancer, auto injector, easy access kit, glamour projector, long strider module, medical interface, stabilizer springs (a nice low-level option), and (my personal favourite) the computer interface, which essentially lets you make a ‘Jarvis’ for your ‘Iron Man’ suit.
Up next? Augmentations. Biotech has two pages dedicated to it (be sure to check out the mighty vocal chords and regenerative blood), Cybernetics has two pages (I like the optical laser), Magitech has four pages of options (check out antimagic skin and arcane lenses), and finally Necrografts fill the last four pages (I like the bore blade and the healing larynx).
Some of the Powered Armour found in Starfinder Armory. Illustrated by Leonardo Borazio.
Then we move right on to Technological items. This section fills up a whopping twelve pages! Some of it is new, while others are pleasantly familiar, either because you can find them in our world, or because they were introduced in Pathfinder’s Technology Guide (such as ion tape and zipsticks). I particularly enjoyed the auto cartographer, datapad, domestic drive, emergency raft, evenfire unit, holographic sashimono, hoverskates, ion tape, nanite hypopen, and the many new tool kits. There’s lots of useful stuff!
Magic Items are up next, where you’ll find ten more pages of new equipment to spend your credits on. To start with there’s some cool aeon stones, my favourite of which is the kaleidoscopic icosahedron. The very expensive containment tesseract is also pretty nifty. I also enjoyed the cover seed, darksight goggles, dented kasa, diffraction cloak, figurine of wondrous power (which summon creatures to fight for you), ofuscated journal, plasma beads (pretty much a necklace of fireballs), Starfinder backpack, and the tangle burst seed. This is followed by three new artifacts: Atrocite Sphere, Trafodi Paradox, and, my personal favourite, the Book of Unwritten Truths.
Fusing Technological Items and Magic Items are the delightful Hybrid Items, which take up eight pages. I enjoyed the captive-star amulet and various vital seeds most, although I’m sure there’ll be lots of fans of the new hybrid grenades (of which there are many). I got a great laugh out of computer idols, and the software imp! Be sure to give them a read.
After this is four pages of Personal Items. Although not the most exciting category of items, it’s certainly useful. My favourites are staples! The gear maintenance kit, mess kit, and books. (I know, I know. I’m really stepping out of my comfort zone there! Haha!).
Drugs, Medicinals, and Poisons all share the next two pages (which aren’t really my cup of tea), followed by two pages of ‘Other Purchases.’ This section is mostly flavour, but I found I really enjoyed reading about the types of cuisine created and favoured by the core races of the Pact Worlds. The ysoki were hilarious! (Don’t eat their food. In fact, I’d stay away from Shirren cuisine, as well!).
Finally, there’s two pages of new vehicles, the cheapest of which is the level two motorcycle for 1,900 credits. And that brings us to the end of the new equipment. 140 pages have flown by just like *snaps* that! But, that’s not the end of the book. That simply brings us to the next chapter.
Android Envoy by Alexander Nanitchkov.
Chapter 2: Character Options. Here you’ll find one new archetype, plus two pages of new class options for each of the core classes. All of these options are focused on equipment —- typically using your equipment to the best of its ability (or beyond its normal capabilities). The archetype comes first and is called Augmented. These guys are great with — you guessed it — augmentations! They get more, pay less for them, and can make their augmentations do more than they’re built to. The Augmented grants alternate class features at 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 9th levels. I really enjoyed it (and know at least one character created by my family who’ll be using it!).
The Envoy’s class options include four new low level improvisations, two sixth level improvisations, and two eighth level improvisations, followed by seven new expertise talents. Be sure to check out fire support, brace yourselves, improved brace yourselves, terrifying blast, and improved terrifying blast for improvisations, and expert advice for talents.
The Mechanic’s class options include four new level two tricks, three more level eight tricks, two more level fourteen tricks, and four new drone modifications. My favourite tricks were provisional repair and recalibrate engine, both of which are available at level two. My favourite drone mods were barricade, and grease.
The Mystic class options were both the least adaptable, and my favourite! They introduced a new mystic connection, and two new spells granted by that connection. So what is it? The Geneturge! These guys are capable of altering their genetic code (and even those of others). In application their abilities mostly involve biotech, and sudden evolution. I particularly enjoyed their Personal Modification third level ability, their Warping Strain ninth level ability, and their Instant Evolution fifteenth level ability. The two new spells are detect augmentation, and reject augmentation (which sounds awesome! Haha).
Human Mystic Genethurge by Alexander Nanitchkov.
The Operative class options include sixteen new exploits (six at level 2, five at level six, four at level ten, and one at level fourteen). and one new operative specialization. Of the exploits, I particularly enjoyed armour optimization, fast aim, pistol whip, trap spotter, and ricochet shot. The new Specialization is the Gadgeteer, a very cool inventor which makes use of two new exploits: utility belt, and quick deployment. His trick attacks involve using a custom device to distract the enemy. Such fun!
The Solarian class options include one new stellar revelation and one new graviton revelation for each level (level two, six, ten, and fourteen), and for zenith revelations. That makes for ten cool new options total. I had a hard time picking my favourites, but in the end I decided I liked constructive interference, stellar equilibrium, attractive force, debris field, particle field, and particle wave, which turned out to be an even split between stellar and graviton powers. Awesome!
The Soldier class options include ten new gear boosts and a new fighting style called ‘Shock and Awe.’ The fighting style is supposed to focus on making a real spectacle of yourself. I like it in theory, but in execution I wasn’t that impressed. Still, it’s different. Fighters who take this style will want to make use of sonic weapons and weapons with the bright special quality. As for gear boosts, there’s a ton of useful options. My favourites were steady sniper, twinned threat, and unstoppable strike.
Starfinder Core Rulebook
Finally we come to the Technomancer’s class options which include five new magic hacks of varying levels, and three new spells. My favourite magic hacks were recode gem (which is available at level two), and enchanted fusion (which is available at fifth level). As for spells, I rather enjoyed animate armour, and incompetence. The third spell, electroplating, is also quite useful.
And that’s it! All that’s left is the index and the end. 160 pages of awesome.
Honestly, I think that Starfinder: Armory is one of those books you’ve got to invest in. It’s not a frivolous extra purchase. You’ll reference it ALL the time. Every time you need to spend your credits you’ll crack out the Starfinder Core Rulebook and the Armory. For players, I’d say its more important than the Alien Archive (and Alien Archive 2) and Pact Worlds. For GMs? Well, hard to say. If you only GM it’s going to be less useful for you than the Alien Archives and Pact Worlds. But you’ll still get your use out of it. I adore this book and think it’s well worth the money.
I hope you enjoyed taking a peek inside Starfinder: Armory with us!
See you in the Drift!
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Adventurer’s Armory 2
Things are pretty crazy around my house right now. My son’s sick (again), and both of my children had their birthdays this past week. But, as things begin to settle, we’re ready to get right back into the swing of things here on d20 Diaries. So today, we’re taking a look at another book I recently got my hands on: Pathfinder Player Companion: Adventurer’s Armory 2 !
Pathfinder Player Companion: Adventurer’s Armory 2
The Adventurer’s Armoury 2 is a sequel to the ever-popular Adventurer’s Armory , which was also released as a Player Companion back in April 2010. As a product from the Player Companion line, it’s a thin, soft-cover book intended for use by players, which clocks in at 32 pages in length. In my opinion, the Adventurer’s Armory was among the most universally useful books in the Player Companion line, so I was thrilled to pick up the sequel.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at what’s inside…
The inside covers both feature purchasing charts showcasing the new equipment in this book. The front inside cover’s home to weapon and armour charts, while the back inside cover’s where you’ll find everything else. This includes adventuring gear, alchemical remedies, alchemical tools, alchemical weapons, poisons, clothing, magical items, and mundane tools. Looking past the covers we find the table of contents and then the introduction.
Pathfinder Companion: Adventurer’s Armory
Although it doesn’t sound very exciting, the introduction’s home to one feat, Equipment Trick, which is an old, quirky feat originally printed in Adventurer’s Armory which allows your characters to make interesting uses out of a specific type of equipment chosen at the time of taking the feat. Only certain items have equipment tricks written for them, and in order to use each trick you must meet its specific requirements. Sound confusing? No worries. You take the feat and select which kind of item you’re going to learn tricks with, then read the list of tricks. If you meet the requirements for any of those tricks, you can use them. If not, keep an eye on them. You can use the trick as soon as you do meet the requirements, even if its many levels down the road. Curious what kind of equipment you can utilize? We’ll touch on that again later. For now, just know there’s plenty.
After the feat, you’ll find a collection of five traits which are all themed around where you buy your goods and feature some of the most infamous marketplaces in the Inner Sea. Including Absalom’s Coin District, Cassomir, Katapesh, Ostenso, and Riddleport, each of these traits are flavourful and fun. That being said, they’re not staples. You won’t read them and decide every one of your characters has to have it. My personal favourite? Absalom’s Amiable Briber, which is a social trait allows you to offer bribes without fear. The first time someone refuses a bribe you offer, that person’s attitude towards you doesn’t worsen, even if the offer normally would offend the person. Cool! Cassomir’s Bountiful Herb-Lore and Riddleport’s Master Messenger are also pretty cool, so be sure to check them out.
Lastly, the introduction features a handy rules index that lists the page numbers of each feat, trait and other rules option presented in this book. By now, one thing’s already clear: not everything in Adventurer’s Armory 2 is new. Some of the equipment and player options in this book are reprints from other out-of-print books. An understandable move, and helpful for those of you who might not own the original sourcebooks.
Moving on from the introduction we come to one of my favourite sections of the book: Equipment Packages! What, you may ask, is an equipment package? Simple! It’s a big collection of gear that your characters can choose to start with. What does it cost you? Two things! First, it costs a trait: Well-provisioned Adventurer. Second, it costs your starting gold. That’s right! If you take this trait you don’t staring gold at all. So, are these equipment packages worth it? That depends. In terms of value, each of these packages is worth about a thousand gold pieces. That’s a lot! In addition, the gear is well-chosen, and varied. Each allows for a minor amount of tweaking with GM approval, which should make them even more accessible. Having that much extra wealth can mean the difference between life and death at level one. However, whether or not you personally feel the gear is better than a +1 to a saving throw, a bonus to a few skills, turning a skill into a class skill, or picking up a quirky minor ability, is entirely a personal preference. My husband wasn’t wowed by it, but I certainly was, and my kids also loved it. I wouldn’t use it for all of my characters, of course, but for plenty these equipment packages are an option I’d consider. In addition to a well-chosen set of equipment geared at many different class types, these packages also include the weight for both medium and small characters already calculated. A wonderful thing if you don’t really like number crunching weights and carrying capacities, determining the adjusted weights for small sized characters, or coin counting to the copper piece. These equipment packages can also be purchased for 1,000 gp, for those of you who don’t want to use a trait to get one. As an aside, GMs can also use these equipment packages as rewards, care packages and gifts to be handed out to your players by grateful NPCs. The only obvious downside? They’re heavy. With the lightest weighing in at 44 pounds (28 3/4 for small characters) your low-strength characters are bound to be overburdened by them. I’d love to see some more light-weight options appear in the future. My favourite equipment packages turned out to be the Arcane Adept (intended for arcane spellcasters) and the Daring Bravo (intended for any lightly armoured combatant). My young son loved the Wilderness Warrior, while my daughter loved the Mystic Guide (which she’d like to use on her next druid). After you’ve given the equipment packages a read, leave us a comment and let us know if you intend to use any. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Next up we come to what most people will purchase this book for: armour and weapons. First up’s the armour. With eight new choices varying in price from 1 gp to 2,100 gp, there’s a wide variety of new armour, even if there aren’t many. My personal favourites are the Erutaki coat, the Varisian dancing scarves, and the reinforced tunic. In addition to armour, this book introduces a new type of item called a modification. Modifications can be applied to armour by a skilled smith, and offer both a benefit and a drawback. You’ll also find a feat later in the book that allows players to better utilize armour modifications. Although cool, none of these modifications are cheap, so invest with care. I’d recommend the nimble modification, which increases an armour’s Max Dex by two, reduces its check penalty by one, but costs 1,000 gp, and adds five pounds to its weight. Burnished also sounds like lots of fun at lower levels. For a cost of 500 gp, five pounds of added weight, and a -10 penalty to stealth in areas of bright light, you can dazzle your enemies with your brilliantly shining armour! Capable of targeting everyone who can see you within 30 feet, this ability has the potential to be really effective. However, each target can only be affected once per day. Other armour modifications include deflecting, double-plated (which I expect will see a lot of use), jarring, nimble, razored, slumbering (which is SUPER handy) and vitalguard.
With that we come to the Weapons. There’s a whopping twenty-five new weapons in this book, most of which are exotic, and only one of which is simple. I’m pretty partial to the cutlass, the lantern staff, and the spiral rapier. That being said, the flask thrower’s going to be incredibly handy for some characters. Past the new weapon options you’ll find a handy list showing what weapon group each belongs to, followed by seven weapon modifications. Weapon modifications work in the same way as armour modifications do, and also feature some feats which can improve their efficiency and capabilities. In addition, modified weapons have their weapon type increase by one step (from simple to martial, and martial to exotic). The weapon modifications included in this book are brutally weighted, dual-balanced, jagged hooks, razor-sharp, serrated edge, tactically adapted, and versatile design. Personally, I think that dual-balanced (which reduces the penalties for two-weapon fighting by -1) and tactical adapted (which allows you to add weapon qualities like blocking, disarm, and nonlethal to a weapon) are bound to see the most use in play.
All in all, I like the idea of modifications more than I like them mechanically. I’m unlikely to invest in them due to their hefty price tag, and the extra weight. Of course, if I’m playing a character who has extra cash to spend, a wide array of proficiencies and carrying capacity to spare, I’d give definitely them a try. I’m very curious to see them in action.
Next up we have a single page of feats. There’s nine of them total, and all of them are combat feats. Seven have to do with armour and weapon modifications, while the last two involve utilization of the dwarven dorn-derger, an exotic weapon that appears in this book. Although I’m sure some people are bound to try out the modification feats, especially Creative Armorsmith and Creative Weaponsmith, I found the feats on offer so specialized that I’m highly unlikely to use them. It’s a shame, but luckily these aren’t the only feats up for offer in Adventurer’s Armory 2.
Leaving the weapons and armour behind we come to the next section of the book, which showcases eighteen new pieces of mundane gear. Of them, I’d guess that only five or six will see play with any kind of frequency. The most useless item on the list would definitely be the false teeth, while the most universally used would probably be the charcoal. It’s so much better than buying ink and an inkpen! But, my favourite? The spring-loaded scroll case. This snazzy little case is five gold, and can be hung from a belt or backpack. It holds a single scroll which can be retrieved as a swift action. Shiny!
After the adventuring gear is a new type of equipment known as preparatory gear. These are items that you practise with for an hour everyday, then make a specific skill or ability check. If you pass, you gain a benefit that lasts for 24 hours. For example, the drowner’s helmet can help train you to hold your breath longer and the practise straitjacket can help train you to escape from bindings. There’s only two other preparatory gear in this book: the hanging board and a thief trainer. Each option’s a bit pricey–between 35 and 200 gp–but is certainly useful. The one hour daily training requirement might be a turn-off for some players, but I don’t mind at all. It’s particularly useful for non-spellcasters who travel with spellcasters and can give them something to do while your casters prepare their spells or pray to their deities. Since the benefits of each last 24 hours, training can also be done at night before heading to bed. All in all I think it’s an intriguing concept, and I’m excited to see them put to use.
Up next is some equipment tricks for use with a few fun bits of mundane gear: ladders, lanterns, mirrors and poles. Each type of gear has between three to five tricks associated with it (poles have three, ladders have four, while lanterns and mirrors have five each). Some of these tricks require a number of ranks in an associated skill to utilize, while others require specific feats as the prerequisites. The lantern tricks are the most utilitarian, and allow users to make their lanterns burn brighter or dimmer and explode like alchemist’s fire when thrown. When being held in the same hand as a shield, your lantern can deal some fire damage with each shield bash. Finally, you can toss lantern oil in an opponent’s eyes with the dirty trick maneuver (your lantern or theirs) which can both blind and burn them. The mirror tricks also sound like lots of fun. My personal favourites let you shine light into your opponents eyes, reflect gaze attacks, and even penetrate illusions! No longer is your mirror just for looking around corners!
Leaving behind the mundane adventuring gear we head into the exciting world of more mundane gear! This time it’s tools and tool kits we’re taking a gander at. Both of these sections are small, with only six items in each. As far as tools go, I was excited for a duo of new bear traps, while my daughter insisted that the portable terrarium was the greatest item in the entire book. (Warning: She may have been biased by the adorable picture of the terrarium, which features a cute little frog in a glass globe…). As for tool kits, I’m partial to the elemental explorer’s kit, and the underground survival kit, although I’m more than ready to admit that the fiendslayer’s kit and the undead survivor’s kit will see more use in play. And what other kits are up for offer, you ask? The emergency interrogation kit, and the invisible enemies kit.
The next section is a single page that features seven new poisons. The cheapest poison up for offer is the delightfully named rainbow scarab shell. At a price of only 150 gp per dose, this iridescent toxin deals strength damage upon injury once per round for four rounds. Although it’s not particularly difficult to resist or overcome, victims who reach 0 strength also begin to suffocate. The priciest poison also happens to be my favourite. Grinding joint paste is an ingested poison with a ten minute onset which costs a whopping 2,100 gold per dose. Made from dried and ground up cockatrice organs it causes a decent amount of Dexterity damage for six minutes. In addition, movement becomes so painful that the victims take damage whenever they swing a two-handed weapon or move more than ten feet in a round. Ouch! I’m also pretty partial to the Leng’s tears, which is a fast acting contact poison which causes vivid hallucinations and paralysis. Failing just once causes a full ten minutes of paralysis, with unlucky victims being unable to move for an entire hour. Nasty!
Following these nasty poisons is another set of equipment tricks, this one for instruments. Of all the equipment tricks offered in this book, this set are by far my favourite. In fact, they might be my favourite equipment tricks ever. I love them! Attention grabber lets your character draw attention to themselves in order to cover their allies movements. Goad animal lets you command friendly animals to perform tricks they know as a free action or push them to perform tricks they don’t know as a standard action. Jaw-dropping distraction lets you feint with a perform check instead of a bluff check. Play to the crowd let’s you use a perform check in place of an initial diplomacy check to influence an NPC, and finally, ruffian’s riff lets you treat an instrument as an improvised weapon with the performance special feature. Got a masterwork instrument? Then it counts as a masterwork weapon. Got a magical one? It’s treated as magic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Awesome. I’m definitely going to be giving these tricks a try.
Side by side on the same page with the instrument equipment tricks is a column that I actually loved a lot. Examples of masterwork tools. I know, it doesn’t sound very exciting. But, think of it. How often do you purchase the generic ‘masterwork tools’ from the Core Rulebook. On occasion, right? Maybe if you’ve got a character who has a craft or profession. But this list reminds us that these tools are far more useful than the average player has been giving them credit for. This lists a large number of skills (which don’t already have a designated tool or tool kit), and provides example tools that you could purchase to improve those skills. Want to improve your acrobatics check? Pick up a balancing pole, gymnast’s slippers or a vaulting pole. Feel like being menacing? You could invest in frightening tattoos, an executioner’s hood, or a set of torturer’s tools. How about a reference book to help with a knowledge check, or lubricating oils to help escape bonds. This list really got me thinking about the term ‘tool’ and how they can be applied to a wide variety of characters and skills. I was honestly surprised how useful I found this little column, and I’m sure plenty of other players will get good use out of it, as well.
The next two pages revolve around clothing, with the first page being ten new articles of clothing, and the second being six new spells that need to be cast upon specific articles of clothing. The burglar’s outfit, courtesan’s outfit and squire’s outfit all provide great new options for starting outfits, while the spells allied cloak, grappling scarf, and surefoot boots were all great fun.
Past clothes we get to one of my favourite sections in the book: impromptu equipment. That’s right! Want a list of example objects and their damage for reference? It’s here! Want some magical items that help improvised weapons? Also here! There’s also a few neat feats and, my personal favourite: special qualities that some improvised weapons can possess. So whether you’re wielding a pronged taxidermic moose head, a gross hunk of rotting meat, a heavy anvil, or a burning log, these improvised weapons qualities are a lot of fun that can really get your player’s creativity flowing. It’s going to be a blast! As for feats, check out hook fighter, which lets you turn a grappling hook into a deadly weapon. For magical gear be sure to pick up gloves of improvised might and quick metal bracers, both of which are awesome options for characters interested in focusing on improvised weapons.
As we near the end of the book we find ourselves among a pile of products that can be created with arguably the most popular type of crafting in Pathfinder: alchemy. This section features two new alchemical remedies, three new alchemical tools, and seven new alchemical weapons (four of which are forms of alchemical bolts). My personal favourites were troll stypic (a painful paste which can grant users fast healing for up to 8 rounds) and the tress tincture (an alchemical weapon that causes raid hair growth, which can be terribly irritating, as your opponents hair constantly gets in their eyes and obscures vision. Yes, you read that correctly!). In addition to new alchemical substances we also get three new sets of equipment tricks which showcase the classics of alchemy: smokesticks, tanglefoot bags, and thunderstones. Exciting! Although all three are awesome, the tanglefoot bag tricks are my favourite. If you’ve got a sneaky or stealthy character, definitely give the smokestick tricks a read. The final part of the alchemy section is a new kind of brew called concoctions. These creations are less stable than your typical alchemical creations and are known for having bad side effects. In addition, players who consume more than one concoction at a time roll on a table of random effects. Half of these effects are good, and half are bad. Of those, they vary from alright and not too bad, all the way up to amazing and horrible. If you’re a gambler this can be great fun to fiddle with, but with the options ranging from ‘unleash the full potential of my body and mind’ which allows you to gain a +4 bonus on two ability score for 24 hours, all the way to the concoction explodes within your stomach, or is highly toxic, I’m not really into to testing my luck. The concoctions themselves are typically 50 gold each with the priciest being 100 gp. Each offers a benefit and a drawback. The crystal-sweet concoction gives you +2 on diplomacy and -4 on sense motive, while the sphere-song concoction gives you +1 on Will saving throws and a -2 on initiative. Although interesting, I think these items have great potential for GM
use. These can easily be added into drug dens, dangerous bars and high-end noble parties. They can also be focal points for social encounters, or used as a ‘test of faith’ or as ‘dares’ by gangs, religious organizations and the nobility. Whatever use your group happens to find for them, they’re certainly a colourful (and potentially dangerous) experience.
The next two pages of Adventurer’s Armory 2 feature a variety of equipment from two distinct regions: the Dragon Empires and the Padishah Empire. Each region has an entire page to itself, and contains a few articles of clothing, alchemical remedies or tools, and a special material. Spirit-vision ink turned out to be my favourite piece of equipment from Tian Xia, while the special material, sunsilver, was my favourite object to come from the Keleshite culture.
The final section of this book turned out to be among my favourites. It releases rules for a brand new type of construct you can make right from level one: poppets. If crafting’s not your cup of tea, you can also purchase these little fellows. Although too costly to purchase as a brand new level one character, they’re certainly affordable by the time level two rolls around. These tiny or small creations can be upgraded and modified with a host of abilities, and can even be taken as familiars with a special feat. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while now, you may have already heard me speak about poppets. My seven-year-old son made a mad scientist who is obsessed with creating new life, and currently has two poppets he’s hand-crafted with care. To read more about poppets and our experiences using them in games, read my blog post Character Focus: Professor McMaan, and Crown of the Kobold King: Part One. Short summary: we love them.
And that’s it. We’ve reached the end.
So when it comes down to it, what do I think of Adventurer’s Armory 2 ? Was it worth the money?
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Equipment
I think so. This books features a lot of new equipment and gear, as well as some cool new rules to go with them. Although most of the rules are quite specialized and exclusive to certain character builds, the items in the book are much more varied and useful. It’s one of those books that you’ll pull out every time you’re making a new character, and pull out again for your first few level ups. Certainly, it’s not as useful as Ultimate Equipment . And with the upcoming change to Pathfinder Playtest this next August, it’s unlikely to be as popular as its predecessor, Adventurer’s Armory , was. But as far as Player Companions go, it’s definitely one of the most universally useful ones they’ve printed. In my opinion, it’s worth it.
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I hoped you’ve enjoyed this look at Adventurer’s Armory 2 .
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Today on d20 Diaries we’re celebrating by sharing all things ‘love’ from Pathfinder. So whether you’re a romantic looking for love like Aldern Foxglove (who you can meet in Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition ) a jilted, jaded loner like the Stag Lord (who you can meet in Kingmaker Part 1 – Stolen Land ), or a parent who would do anything for their children like Nadya Petska (who you can meet in Reign of Winter Part 1 – The Snows of Summer ), we’ve got you covered! So slip on your sleeves of many garments (Pathfinder: Ultimate Equipment ) to get that perfect look and get ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day in style!
We’re starting simple, with a collection of mundane equipment that can make Valentine’s special for even the lowliest level one character! Prepare yourself for the day with a grooming kit and some perfume/cologne. Head out for a lovely carriage ride, or to see a show. Read poetry (if you’re literate), or serenade that special someone with a musical instrument. For dinner, set the mood with a candle and candlestick, and be sure to bring a bottle of wine and some chocolates. All of these items are available in Pathfinder: Ultimate Equipment
But, for those of us who are higher than level one, chances are you’ve got some cash to burn! Let’s take a look at some pricier options! Unless otherwise listed, all of the items below are from either the Core Rulebook or Ultimate Equipment .
Still trying to catch the eye of that special someone? Be sure to get your armour and weapons glamered. Up your game with a circlet of persuasion, headband of alluring charisma, or a headband of seduction. Really put in the effort with a Zonzon Doll of Forgiveness (Inner Sea Gods ) tailored just for them! Or skip the effort completely and invest in a staff of charming, or eyes of charming.
Trouble Hanging on? Love keep slipping through your fingers? Be sure to invest in some tanglefoot bags, silk rope, an elixir of love, philter of love (Advanced Player’s Guide ), or a harp of charming.
Beloved often caught in the thick of things? Give them a paper flower favour (Heroes of the High Court ) or a true love’s locket (Giantslayer Part 2 – The Hill Giant’s Pledge ) as a token of your affection. Always keep an eye out for them with kinsight goggles.
Got someone you’d do anything for? Invest in an allying weapon, martyr’s tear and a ring of friend shield.
Can’t bear to be separated? Pick up a bracelet of friends.
Worried about all that romance (and enchantments) clouding your mind? A cap of the free thinker should help keep your head on straight! While the Liberator’s Rod will give you a second chance to see to the heart of the matter.
But enough about romance! Some character’s love life in general! So if you’re the kind of adventure who would rather preserve life than end it, pick up a merciful metamagic rod or a merciful weapon. Then try out some benevolent armour.
Broken Hearted? Share your pain with a heartseeker, seeking or stalking weapon. They’ll regret tossing you to the curb!
My personal choice for the most romantic in-game gift? Boots of the winterlands! It’s quite cold where I live. Haha.
Shelyn, Pathfinder’s goddess of love, beauty and art.
But love isn’t all about stuff! Up next we’re taking a look at the gods of Pathfinder, some loving, some possessive, and some plain evil! All of the gods listed below can be found in Inner Sea Gods , although some are in other sources, as well.
If you’re going to make a character interested in love you’re definitely going to want to take a look at Shelyn, The Eternal Rose, the popular goddess of love, beauty and art. If you’re a dwarf you’ll instead check out Bolka, The Golden Gift, goddess of beauty, desire, love and the goddess responsible for making arranged marriages blossom into loving relationships (Dwarves of Golarion ). For a less obvious faith, take a look at Hembad, the Wise Grandfather, an empyreal lord of connections, matchmaking and synergy. Contrariwise, Naderi is the heartbroken goddess of love, romantic tragedy, suicide and drowning (Inner Sea Faiths , Faiths of Balance ).
Looking to tackle a more physical aspect of love? Calistria, The Savoured Sting, is the most popular choice. She’s the elven goddess of lust, revenge and trickery. Or take Arshea, the Spirit of Abandon, for a spin! He’s the androgynous empyreal lord of freedom, physical beauty and sexuality. Try going the opposite direction and take a look at Lymneiris, The Auroral Tower, an angel interested in prostitution, rites of passage, and virginity (both of whom are featured in Chronicle of the Righteous and Heaven Unleashed ). Take a walk on the darker side of sex with Ardad Lili, the infernal Whore Queen of seduction, snakes and women (Princes of Darkness ) or with the Green Mother, a divine fey interested in carnivorous plants, intrigue and seduction (The First World, Realm of the Fey ).
Want to worship a god worried less about romance, and more about family? Erastil, god of family, community, farming, hunting and trade, is the most well-known option. Although plenty of others exist. For dwarves there’s Folgrit, the Watchful Mother, goddess of children, hearths and mothers (Dwarves of Golarion ). For giants there’s Bergelmir, Mother of Memories and goddess of elders, family and genealogy (Giants Revisited ). Orcs can pay homage to Dretha, goddess of birth, fertility and tribes. Feronia is a lesser known demi-goddess of flame and fertility. Svarozic is an empyreal lord interested in parenthood, ingenuity and progress. And lastly, Shei is an empyreal lord interested in life and self-actualization.
But love isn’t always good. Love of all kinds can be twisted into something foul. If you’re looking to take a look at the darker sides of love, lust and obsession, check out these horrible devils, demons, daemons and other foul beings: Belial, Archdevil of adultery, deception and desire (Princes of Darkness ); Slandrais, a daemonic harbinger interested in lechery, love potions and obsession (Horsemen of the Apocalypse ); Zaigasnar, a daemonic harbinger interested in body modification, destructive vanity and pins (Horsemen of the Apocalypse ), Nocticula, demon lord of assassins, darkness, and lust (Lords of Chaos , Demons Revisited ); her brother Socothbenoth, demon lord of perversion, pride, sexual gratification and taboos (Lords of Chaos ); Zepar, an infernal duke of abduction, rape and transformation; Zaebos, an infernal duke of arrogance, nobility and sexual perversion; and Verex, the orc god of lust, pillage, and plunder.
If you’re interested in bringing love and heartbreak into your game further, try using nymphs (Bestiary ), satyrs (Bestiary ), erodaemons (Bestiary 2 (Pocket Edition) ), pairaka (Bestiary 3 ), incubus (Bestiary 3 ) and succubus (Bestiary ) in your games as enemies, as well as enchanters of any kind.
Players can check out the Sacred Attendant archetype for clerics (Healer’s Handbook ). Clerics and other classes with access to domains can check out the charm, community and good domains (Pathfinder Core Rulebook ), as well as the cooperation (Inner Sea Gods ), family, home, love, and lust subdomains (all from the Advanced Player’s Guide ). Inquisitors can check out the seduction inquisition (Inner Sea Intrigue ). Spiritualists can make phantoms with the dedication, despair or jealousy focus (all from Occult Adventures ), as well as the kindness focus (Psychic Anthology ) or lust focus (Occult Realms ). Bards can add the ‘dance of captivating desire’ (Elemental Master’s Handbook ) or ‘at the heart of it all’ (Ultimate Magic ) masterpieces to their repertoires. Characters of all classes can benefit from the feats: Cursed Love (Agents of Evil ) and True Love (Ultimate Campaign ).
There’s a ton of spells in Pathfinder that have to do with love, lust and infatuation, most of which are enchantments. Some of my favourites include charm person, charm monster and enthrall, all of which are from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook . Ultimate Magic introduced lover’s vengeance, unadulterated loathing, unnatural lust, and waves of ecstasy. From other sources there’s adoration (Ultimate Combat ), dream dalliance (Agents of Evil ), lover’s vengeance (The Inner Sea World Guide ), matchmaker (Ultimate Intrigue ), seducer’s eyes (Inner Sea Gods ) and shamefully overdressed (Ultimate Intrigue).
Lastly, we’re going to take a look at a few adventures that are the perfect fit for Valentine’s Day.
My personal favourite is Realm of the Fellnight Queen ! This Pathfinder adventure module is intended for level seven characters and was written by Neil Spicer as his winning entry in RPG Superstar 2009. This wonderfully written adventure begins as the players attend a wedding ceremony for a friend. The wedding itself is a blast, with activities for the players to participate in, a great cast of colourful NPCs for them to interact with, and a feast in addition to the wedding. But soon a love-spurned gnome crashes the wedding with his beloved bees at the behest of his mistress, Queen Rhoswen. The players will have to save not only the wedding, but the entire town from the Fellnight Queen’s machinations by heading deep into the forest and entering her extra-planar realm! This adventure is just a blast to play! I highly recommend it!
For adventure’s about familial love, I recommend playing Racing the Snake or Final Resting Place. Both are 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons adventures published in Dungeon Magazine. Racing the Snake is by John Simcoe and is found in Volume 105. It’s intended for level six characters, and has the PCs hired by a nobleman to protect his beloved daughter from assassins–with a twist! While she travels secretly to her wedding in the capital, the PCs get to impersonate her and lead her assassins and enemies on a wild-goose chase until she’s safe and sound! This adventure has interesting encounters and really tips the regular format on it’s head! Final Resting Place is written by Michael Kortes and is found in Volume 122. It’s intended for level three characters, and has the PCs hired by the daughter of a famous adventurer who recently perished on an exploratory mission underground. Knowing her father is dead, but unable to come to grips with it without his body, the PCs are sent underground to the site of his last mission, in order to return his body to his daughter for a proper burial. This adventure is one of my all-time favourite 3.5 adventures and is a TON of fun.
But what about all those lover’s scorned out there? I’d suggest giving Curse of the Riven Sky or Clash of the Kingslayers a whirl. Both are larger than life, awesome level ten Pathfinder modules that are driven in one way or another by the heartbroken, the betrayed, and the angry lovers out there! And best of all? As your player’s discover the motivations and history of the NPCs involved, they’ll question their cause, enemies and allies in a way they haven’t had to before. Both are definitely worth a whirl! Curse of the Riven Sky is written by Monte Cook, while Clash of the Kingslayers is written by Leandra Christine Schneider (and currently on sale for only two dollars American).
We B4 Goblins, a free Pathfinder adventure by Crystal Frasier. Come on! You know you want to ride a pig through a wedding cake!
Want to worry less about morality and more about destroying something beautiful and having a BLAST? Take We B4 Goblins for a whirl! This FREE Pathfinder adventure makes the player’s all goblins fresh out of their whelping cages, and sets them loose on some super fun rites of passage which culminates in an attack on a halfling wedding! Smash the cake, terrorize the guests and work out all your anger on the happy couple! The goblins are crashing the party!
Romantic love isn’t the only kind that causes pain and heartbreak. These next two adventures revolve around what happens when family is taken from us. Murder in Oakbridge is a murder mystery printed in Dungeon Magazine volume 129, written by Uri Kurlianchik and intended for level five characters. Wingclipper’s Revenge was printed in Dungeon Magazine volume 132 and pits the PCs against the perils of the fey (and man!). It was was written by Christopher Wissel and is intended for level four characters.
If you’re into the Pathfinder Society, try playing Scenario #27: Our Lady in Silver, or Scenario #4-09: The Blakros Matrimony. Our Lady in Silver unleashes our Pathfinders upon the desert nation of Qadira. It’s written by James McKenzie for tiers 5-6 and 8-9. The Blakros Matrimony takes place on Pariol Island outside of Absalom, an island owned entirely by the infamous Blakros family. It is written by Thurston Hillman for tiers 3-7. Both are unique adventures that are a ton of fun.
We’ve got one final Valentine’s Day treat for you today… An adventure path that is all about the relationships you forge with your companions and fellow players… The Jade Regent Adventure Path (starting with Jade Regent Part 1 – The Brinewall Legacy )! With rules for how to befriend and woo each member of the caravan, and updates in every volume for what items, events and places have meaning to each NPC, this adventure path is the first (and only) one that pays loving attention to the side characters right from the start of the campaign, to the end. If you want to get in on a game where relationships matter, give Jade Regent a try. The player’s guide is available as a free download, here.
That’s all we’ve got for you today!
No matter who you are, and what kind of love (or lack of) you’re celebrating today, I hope you enjoyed taking a look at the many ways you can spread the love with Pathfinder!
All the best, and Happy Valentine’s Day!
Author d20diariesPosted on February 14, 2018 February 14, 2019 Categories Adventures, d20, Diaries, Dungeons and Dragons, Game Aids, GM, Holiday, Humour, List, Paizo, Pathfinder, UncategorizedTags adventure, Character, d20, Diaries, Dungeon, Dungeons and Dragons, Equipment, Faith, family, friends, Funny, gaming, GM, Holiday, List, Love, PFS, Sale, Scenario, social, Society, thanks, Valentine's DayLeave a comment on Valentine’s Day
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"The State of the Nation's Health"
The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation. Does that money buy what it should? Not according to Dartmouth research on regional variations in spending and outcomes. But policy-makers are now paying attention to the DMS work—and therein may lie a solution to the money-medicine puzzle.
"The Other Side of the Stethoscope"
By Paula Hartman Cohen
Physicians, for all their knowledge about health, sometimes fall prey to serious illness and injury—and find themselves on the receiving end of the stethoscope. Or individuals with experience as a patient sometimes decide to enter medicine—and become the person wielding the stethoscope. In either case, their patients often benefit.
"Encounters with the Inexplicable"
By Parker A. Towle, M.D.
A Dartmouth physician who is also a much-published poet recently had his work featured on National Public Radio's Writer's Almanac.
"Dancing on Air"
By John E. Castaldo, M.D.
Medical decisions are often far from clear-cut. A DMS graduate writes about an elderly patient who was rushed to the hospital after a stroke. He had to decide whether a powerful drug would save her life . . . or kill her.
Transforming Medicine Campaign
The world is a book; those who do not travel read only one page.
On the road with DMS
By Barbra Alan
From Toledo to Thailand—and many places in between—there are over 3,000 Dartmouth Medical School alumni who are transforming medicine through careers that embody a spirit of service and a commitment to excellence.Their alma mater is transforming medicine, too, through the groundbreaking work of clinicians and researchers, the training of the next generation of physicians and scientists, and the care of patients throughout the region and beyond.
With the launch in spring 2005 of the Transforming Medicine Campaign, the DMS Office of Alumni Relations believed that the time was right to take DMS's message on the road to alumni."It's vitally important that the alumni body is kept informed about the direction of the Medical School and what its leadership and administration are doing to move DMS forward," says Theresa Bryant, director of the Office of Alumni Relations. Just as important, she adds, is increasing the sense of community among alumni and with the institution." The more we get people together socially, the stronger the ties become."
The Transforming Medicine Education Series, which debuted in April 2006, strikes a balance between keeping alumni informed of DMS's goals and priorities and giving alumni the opportunity to network and socialize with fellow graduates and other members of the Dartmouth community, including alumni from the College, Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS), Tuck, and Thayer.
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In Chicago, host David Teplica, in blue, opened his home to alumni from around the Windy City.
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Each event in the series is hosted by an alumnus or alumna and features a member of the DMS faculty whose work reflects one of the School's top priorities. Following the faculty member's address, there is an exchange of ideas and questions between the speaker and the audience.The evening concludes with a reception, where guests can mingle with each other and with the presenter. Follow us as we traveled the country in 2006:
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At the New York City alumni gathering, host Eric Donnenfeld, left, chatted with the evening's speaker, Dartmouth orthopaedic surgeon Jim Weinstein.
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The Strong Families Program: Differential Impacts of Resilience and Parent Management Training
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Childhood behavior problems are pervasive with 50% of non-referred families citing noncompliance and behavior problems as an issue (Achenbach & Edelbrock, 1981). Many behavioral parent trainings (BPTs) treat these behaviors at an early age. Recently, adaptions to BPTs include group formats increasing accessibility and decreasing cost, especially for rural families with limited resources (Niec, Barnett, Prewett, & Stanley Chatham, 2016). Beyond BPTs, Alvord, Zucker, and Johnson Grados (2011) developed the Resilience Builder Program to enhance children’s social, emotional, and behavioral skills through a cognitive behavioral framework. The Resilience Builder Program improves anxious and depressive symptoms and reduces behavior problems in children (Watson, Rich, Sanchez, O’Brien, & Alvord, 2013). Although researchers (Borden, Schultz, Herman, & Brooks, 2010) theorized about the suitability for combining BPTs and resilience training, no such study examining the combination of these interventions exists to date. The current study sought to examine the effectiveness of a group treatment combining BPT and resilience training on reducing parental stress and child externalizing behaviors and increasing children’s resilience. A six-week group treatment format consisting of a parent training only group (e.g., Standard Group) and a parent training plus resilience group (e.g., Resilience Group) was utilized to determine the change in child externalizing behaviors, parental stress, and resilience. Multiple 2 (Group Type: Standard; Resilience) X 3 (Time: pre-; mid-; post) factorial ANOVAs were used to analyze the data. Results demonstrated no significant interactions between Group Type (Standard; Resilience) X Time (pre-; mid-; post) for parent stress, children’s resilience, or children’s externalizing behaviors. Significant main effects of Time were found across groups demonstrating a significant decrease in parental stress and children’s externalizing behaviors, and a significant increase in children’s resilience. However, when child age was included as a covariate, these effects did not hold. While there are limitations based on sample size (N = 15) and a lack of control group, there appears to be promising support for using shortened, group-based interventions in the treatment of externalizing behaviors among children. These results indicate BPT alone may be effective in increasing childhood resilience. Future research should aim to address limitations.
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1980s • corruption • Donald Trump • Frank LaMagra • From The Archives • Latest • Robert Hopkins • Rudy Giuliani • The City • Wayne Barrett
Rudy's long history with Quashing Trump probes
Donald Trump has been in the midst of corruption, self-service and direct crime because his property developer father donated his first million. Virtually as long as Voice researcher Wayne Barrett came up with Trump's soiled gives. In a October 1993 launch, Barrett reveals how, in 1988, Trump, then U.S. Lawyer Rudy Giuliani canceled Trump Tower's shadow funding analysis. Barrett reveals a story a few cellular who needs to purchase an house with suspicious funding, whereas Donald in fact seems on the other aspect, and even indicators a six-digit bond for numbers coming quickly to trial for murder and operating from the Million Dollar gambling empire at Trump Tower mine . Regardless of being later neglected by the convicted offender, the Trump group referred to as him one of many "best tenants" of the complicated. As Barrett reviews:
Tony Lombardi, a G-man who thought in G's casual authorities, was Giuliani unilaterally performed Donald Trump's low-profile probe in early 1988, closing it despite fraud, and an informant who stated he might participate in the assumed billionaire.
In addition to Trump and Giulian, which was written on this article, the middle of the mayor was one of the infamous Roy Cohn fixers and the varied excessive rollers that enjoyed Mike Tyson's battles in Atlantic Metropolis.
As traditional, Barrett is on the lookout for solutions to questions that refined developers want he never requested for. Every New Yorker has processed a credit score examine once they need to lease or buy an condominium. Thus, Barrett describes Robert Hopkins, one among Trump's earliest tenants, for a profitable 1984 software:
The Hopkins banking app was two alleged tax returns describing Hopkins as a "wholesaler and Russian enamel dealer" and claimed 1982 revenue of $ 563,000 and 1983 revenue $ 616,000. The issue is that a number of years later, the prosecutors sentenced for playing don’t discover any evidence that he or she would have a job or revenue in each years.
As they are saying, the satan is within the particulars, and Barrett was one of many first to offer the general public detailed information about Trump's infinite shady enterprise practices.
Lacking Case Case: How Trump Probe Died in Rudy's Office
] Tony Lombardi, a G-man who considered G on the informal government headline was Giuliani, was taken care of by Donald Trump profile probe initially of 1988, closing it despite the fraud and informant who stated he might apply the alleged billionaire. The fast closure of this mysterious survey – which Lombardi admits – was never given in the Southern District information or addressed to one of many US Assistant Deputies, nevertheless it was recognized that US lawyer Rudy Giuliani – launched a private relationship agent and his matter with Trump. It has additionally been capable of assist create a political alliance between Lombard's formidable boss and the developer, who at that time was both the most important political donor of the town and probably the most crucial criticism of President Ed Koch
Within a number of weeks of Lombard's face, interviews with Trump on his alleged participation in two Trump Tower In Might 1988, the developer announced in Might 1988 that he might increase $ 2 million in half an hour if the US lawyer then decided to drive the mayor. Ultimately, Trump turned certainly one of Giuliani's co-chairmen of the primary fundraisers who sat in his Might 1989 extravaganza Waldorf (he, his family and his employees raised and raised a minimum of $ 41,000 in the campaign). But at that time, the acceptance of the wildly profitable developer made by Wollman Skating Rink for his momentary citizen hero gave rise to dividends that exceeded much raised dollars and attracted every tabloid ("Trump Puts") Bucks Behind Rudy Giuliani "shouted mail.)
Lombardi, who says he presents himself to Trump by declaring that he worked for Rudy Giulian, admits that he was aware that Trump "gave money to the Democrats and Republicans and had to spread it around," although he denied any connection with the fast connection of this probe and Trump's early Giuliani nomination. "I think Trump's more conservative guy," Lombardi claimed, "and I think he's just gone past Giulian's style." (Trump doesn’t help Giuliani now and even supported him in later levels of 1989) Giuliani refused to debate this or some other viewpoint with the Voice program. , he says Trump would have realized that it had died sooner or later in mid-1988. "He knew that the survey was no longer there," the agent says. By then, Trump had emerged as a public Giuliani amplifier, although his longtime favourite of city councilor Andrew Stein spoke of potential mayors
In the same time as the Lombard ballot (although not essentially related), two sources, then Trump's prime assistant, stated, that he began a meeting with Arnold Burns, former Secretary Basic, who was a Giuliani mentor and shortly turns into Chief Financial Officer of the Giulian Electoral Fee. Just lately, Burns left the Ministry of Justice and joined Proskauer, Rose, Goetz and Mendelsohn, the leading Manhattan regulation agency. Trump talked to Burns about his preservation, although neither supply might keep in mind whether he had ever executed (references to not). One supply stated that Trump's aim of attaining Burns was "to create a better relationship with Giuliani" by means of Burns and that legal work was "insignificant." Burns additionally reportedly entertained Trump with his Sutton Place rental, assembled in Waldorf's fundraiser, that included Trump, and was once an investor in a company that owned the controversial helicopter enterprise that Trump used and was dominated by a sentenced cocaine vendor.
The Lombard Survey, Trump's Strategy to Burns and Trump's Public Rapeseed, Rudy's Wonders do not clearly trigger a causal relationship. Trump's help for Giulian in 1988 and far of it in 1989 was in all probability as a consequence of a lot of elements. However it could not have left Trump with the impression that the Giuliani keyman had shortly despatched what might have been a troublesome and lengthy research. "There was nothing I did so unethically," Lombardi says concerning the incident. "It was done the same way I understood everything."
"Riippi"
In March 1986, tabloids was marked by stories of Robert Hopkins arrest, which was a six-footer five-inch, 250-pound, Fast-bound finish of the numbers ring, who spent a dollar of half one million every week, and who ran out of 100 totally different locations in several elements of the town. Hopkins was in a lunch restaurant the place he had simply eaten outdoors the East Aspect restaurant as a result of he had a lovely competitor and lived in an expensive Trump Tower duplex on the 59th and 60th flooring where he was arrested. He and his roommate have been also accused of accusing playing activities of a tower house (in the long run they have been sentenced for these reasons, but the murder fee was rejected). Trump Group officials have been listed within the Publish story saying that Hopkins was one of the complicated "best tenants" and added that he introduced within the house software that he was the proprietor of the building firm and had survived the verify earlier than shifting to the tower 14 months earlier
However the story The best way Hopkins obtained his Trump house was rather more difficult. Hopkins and Trump have been each shoppers of the legendary mooring server Roy Cohn, as well as "Joe Beck" DiPalermo, the most important group behind Hopkins. When Cohn acquired each, Hopkins turned one of the earliest consumers of Trump Tower flats, which entered into a contract in 1981 when the building was hardly began. He was a purchaser who agreed to pay the declared $ 2 million dwellings – which helped to set the market worth for Trump's first residential venture. Trump personally signed a bond with Hopkins, obliging him to return a $ 164,000 deposit in Hopkins. The shortage of Hopkins wholesaling and wholesaling of funds made it very troublesome to acquire finance, so Hopkins couldn’t shut the contract till June 1984, long after the building was opened. He ultimately managed to safe Midlantic, a New Jersey-based bank dealing with lots of Trump's on line casino accounts,
from a letter from Cohn's firm that "Trump Organization has confirmed the status of the Hopkins purchase" by the bank to simply accept a suspicious settlement. Trump, who knew Hopkin personally, was also inquisitive about Hopkin's potential to pay for a long time – because the Trump group collects joint funds from tower residents.
The Hopkins banking app was the 2 alleged tax returns describing Hopkins as "wholesale" a jeweler and a Russian enamel supplier "and demanding $ 1983 in income and $ 616,000 in 1982 income. The issue is that a couple of years later, state prosecutors who condemned him for gambling charges didn’t find any evidence that he would have a job or reported revenue in each years. As well as, the taxpayer who presumably signed the refunds bought his business when he suffered a totally disabling stroke in January 1983, three months before his first return. Nevertheless, Frank LaMagra, a mortgage dealer in Hopkins, had falsified the identify of the identical incapacitated accountant in the tax declaration of his second, Louie Ha Ha Attanasio, and determined to conspire and help and help the sentenced individual.
Hopkins banking documents included, in addition to the apparent counterfeit tax types, a valuation of two Hopkins diamonds, value a total of $ 324,000, as a supposed jeweler who was truly part of Hopkins gambling ring. Though Hopkins additionally offered an estimate of $ 2.1 million in housing (the identical worth that Trump Group publicly announced to Hopkins), the precise worth was $ 1.6 million. In the closure documents, the 81 per cent mortgage was $ 1.3 million and did not include any proof that the Hopkins cost was meant to cover the distinction between the mortgage and the acquisition worth (no transmission of photocopied examine).
Hopkins acquired to the top of this strange occasion with a suitcase containing $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 in cash, which he dropped at the finish of the Trump Tower convention room table. Trump himself visited a gathered group and informed Hopkins and Hopkins lawyer Ted Teah, a member of the Cohn regulation firm, who was additionally a member of the City Planning Commission (Hopkins additionally knew another famous member of Cohn) – the party-boss-racket Stanley Friedman meeting with Hopkin on police supervision). Midlantic demanded a deposit of $ 150,000 from Hopkins, which would solely be refunded when Hopkins made payments totaling a specified amount beneath the terms of the mortgage, and Hopkins brought in a money deposit.
and a Midland official, LaMagra left Trump to put his hand in the financial institution's Asbury Park branch. Later, LaMagra was sentenced to 2 federal felony instances, one for the same Midlantic Financial institution officer, who was waiting late for receiving Hopkin's gambling. The researchers later examined the query of whether or not the required reporting studies have been made for this uncommon deposit.
After a number of months of funds, Hopkins didn’t comply with the mortgage, and even before the arrest of 1986, the financial institution had moved to shut, with its own unwillingness to grab the flats (it has already said that resale costs on this terraced house have been $ 125,000 lower than the remaining mortgages). The paperwork on this agreement – particularly after Hopkin's prosecution showed what his actual source of revenue was – made it look like a deliberate financial institution theft. Yet, after Hopkins was reduce off and exposed to this extensively publicized case, the bank didn’t complain to the prosecutors a few pseudo-fraud, and even provided half-hearted assist when Manhattan Deputy Assistant pushed evidence of residence purchases. Their postindictment passivity appeared in connection with their wider relationship with Trump because their unique determination to grant a mortgage.
Hopkins was one half dozen expelled Trump Tower – shopping for or renting lots of its costliest flats. One other notorious resident was Joey Weichselbaum, a cyber-shop leader, who was indirectly owned partly by Arnold Burns, who did not move to 2 adjacent flats purchased by his girlfriend till he came out of the federal jail in 1989. He had previously rented him to a condominium near Weichselbaum. he personally owned one other Manhattan Trump building. Trump additionally wrote a letter of help to Weichselbaum for the decide in 1986.
"PROBE"
In March 1988 – just before Frank LaMagra had to sue Brooklyn Federal Courtroom – he and his legal professionals started talking to Tony Lombard a few potential deal. Because LaMagra was prosecuted in a area aside from the southern region the place Lombardi labored, the strategy was unusual. The aim was to attempt to get LaMagra out of his pending case across the river, either by means of a precursor dismissal or by an attraction mechanism that provided LaMagra a sample trial. The entry was Donald Trump.
LaMagra, who met the Lombard Bridge within the downtown of Manhattan no less than once, claimed that Trump was concerned in the alleged washing of Hopkins' money. Based on Lombard, LaMagra has additionally been "hit into the details of the documents" that have been delivered to Hopkins to get the flats. The supply near LaMagra additionally says that he also provided in Trump and different yarn outfits – the suggestion Lombardi says he can't keep in mind. At this meeting and in numerous discussions with LaMagra's lawyer Michael Pollack, Lombardi not only received a sketchy description of how LaMagra might have an effect on Trump. Full cooperation with LaMagra was guaranteed if Lombardi launched him from Brooklyn.
The rationale LaMagra went to Lombard for his shut ties with his lawyer and believed that Giuliani's workplace alone had the facility of local federal prosecutors to protect LaMagra from one other potential charge – this time, the federal prosecutors of Jersey. Lombard was also held in individual near Andy Maloney, a US lawyer in Brooklyn, and thus had a particularly good probability of getting Maloney to interrupt LaMagra. But before Lombardi approached Brooklyn, he determined to gather paperwork about getting a dwelling that would strengthen his adaptation. Unusually sufficient, at the very least in response to Lombard, he decided to get paperwork from Donald Trump (so much concerning the concept of connecting LaMagra or giving LaMagra entry to federal prosecutors) that Lombard's obvious reasoning was presupposed to be
After an interview with Trump alone, Lombardi says he returned once more a meeting with the developer and employees involved within the closure of Hopkins. He got here out of what he stated was "there were a lot of documents," a version of occasions that have been fairly totally different from LaMagra, and a wide-eyed admiration of the supposed subject. "I was given carte Blanche," he says now. “The man met me and not using a lawyer; he answered all my questions. There was never any hesitation. I was snug and I continued and continued. I am amazed myself that I used to be capable of speak to him about an hour without interruption. And the same thing the other time. He might have referred to as legal professionals. He might have been enough for me in each means. He simply didn't do it. "(In one other interview with Lombard, when Voice left to print on Monday, he claimed that the first meeting with Trump took solely five to 10 minutes.) tried the LaMagra case and who was simply fascinated with flipping LaMagra towards his codefendant Attanasio (officer LaMagra appeared capable of do anything but refuse). The difficult issue was that Maloney himself was close to Trump – his brother was at Trump's headquarters, and Trump's small regulation firm had retained shortly before he started his work in 1986 (Trump was in his personal solemnity). So when the researcher went to satisfy Maloney, Nordenbrook and Maloney's senior assistant, Larry Urgenson, his subject at LaMagra didn’t fall to the ears. Everyone who recognized from the beginning was how particular it was that the agent – not Giulian's assistant or assistant – made such dramatic request days earlier than the trial
. He claims that he by no means looked at tax returns or other questionable bank notes, so the truth that LaMagra may need distorted the identical accountant's signature because the Attanasio case has not been talked about. In his personal account with Lombard, he never talked to anybody in Midland and did not determine whether or not all of the disclosure requirements have been met, or interviewed members aside from Trump's employees. He wasn't even positive if LaMagra handed his hand to Asbury Park – what he might have simply verified by calling the branch. He says telling them about LaMagra's assertion about Trump's involvement and Trump's controversy, including during his Voice interview that LaMagra's "was not true" and "was not accurate." both depart the case with them or be a part of him within the southern district.
Brooklyn prosecutors recall that he tried to realize control of Trump and that LaMagra provided a couple of other less visible issues. (Additionally they consider that he had not but interviewed Trump, saying it will be ridiculous to query the merchandise prematurely. Without LaMagra or simply flashing in Trump, which he knew he was going to do? but they rejected it. Maloney quietly sat a lot of the dialog and successfully re-introduced it to Nordenbrook and Urgenson to reject LaMagra's obscure supply. Lombardi says that a few weeks after this session, he wrote to his superiors an inner memo summarizing the outcomes and never making recommendations for follow-up actions. He provides that he additionally mentioned the case with Giuliani and the highest Giuliani donors, akin to Denny Young and Howard Wilson, claiming that "I give you a clear statement that anyone who should have known about this matter knew."
Lombardi admits that the difficulty was never given to a quantity that explained that it was just "information" too "preliminary" to be thought-about "admissible". He claims to report back to the assistant however can't keep in mind who. The LaMagra supply says he has been enthusiastic about Lombard later, however he stopped. LaMagra decided to condemn in Brooklyn and Jersey and profit from what he had about Trump in mid-1989. If the Southern District had opened the case, it’d ultimately have to take a look at the difficulty of controlling New Jersey membership, even when it was closed with out felony fees (DGE routinely examines official instances involving casino house owners). Lombard's low-weight and hasty dealing with in follow didn’t end in a paper path that might show that it might never exist.
DID YOU BIND
By June 1988, Lombardi had started a relationship with his current topic after the Trump case was closed. He acquired free tickets to observe two of Mike Tyson's wrestle with Trump – one on a tv in a closed television at Plaza Lodge and one other at Atlantic City. He says both have been delivered by way of his long-term mutual good friend, Neil Walsh, and Trump's insurance brokers. He and Trump sat together in a Walsh box at the Giants Stadium for no less than one recreation and saw each other a second while Trump was sitting in one other nearby box. He met Marla Maples and Ivana Trump. He and Trump also started to talk to one another periodically – in line with Lombard, the liaison officers have been all regulation enforcement businesses involved in the trade of data.
When a brand new US lawyer Otto Obermaier arrived in the southern area in 1989 (changing Giuliani Protégé Benito Romano, who had served briefly for a lot of the election yr, Lombardi started to talk to individuals about options and commenced to think about retirement. One of the choices and later – when he really did he left the federal government in 1992 – was Trump. Although he advised his pals that he was speaking about Trump's job, Lombardi claims he was simply occupied with it. away, "Lombardi says." I felt that I favored the guy and his type to him and I.. between the EU had by no means been a direct convention or telephone call "
Greatest reference to his continuing siteisiinsä Trumpiin, nevertheless, is said to this vendor I've recognized Lombard already. for a few years, and I’ve typically benefited from his sense of He admitted in a Voice interview on Saturday that he had left a reference to this Trump questionnaire within the discussions we had on the end of 1989, once I started working on the Trump biography (Trump: The Offers & The Downfall, HarperCollins, 1992), questions which have often been raised. In reality, he never mentioned that he knew Trump. These shortcomings have been in stark distinction to our relationship. Lombardi only admitted the existence of a probe once I received it independently in 1991 and interviewed him concerning the e-book. At the moment, Lombardi was inadequate. My information that the Hopkins scam and LaMagra co-operation was in full extent was restricted, so the guide referred to so little. the tip I received with Trump. Lombardi was the one individual I discussed in the Trump statement (I've never been used to the truth), however the shocked, well-informed Trump informed the lawyer immediately after the Lombard assembly. In an interview with Lombard on Saturday, Lombardi insisted that he didn’t cross our 1989 conversation to Trump immediately or via an middleman.
He additionally advised that the rationale he never requested for Trump was resulting from the fact that I was dealing with this experiment as a problem in an earlier interview. "It is terrible that the choice of work with Trump was taken away from me," he complained, referring again to the "chemistry" he knew with the developer. He stated he had misplaced the opportunity "not just for two years" – a traditional waiting interval for potential conflict of wages with officials – "but forever", adding: "You have denied me that."
Lombardi and I have hardly talked about its apparent breach virtually 4 years ago. I now give it partly to the good thing about publishing so that the reader can mirror on whether or not this episode might have affected me. However I additionally mention it as a result of his unusual, protecting response to my 1989 questions on Trump continues to be necessary to me as to how necessary Trump had come to him. (With Lombardi to find out on Trumpia trade of data particulars'm not directly uncovered elements of the 1989 debate, which was a record-breaking yr. Was Lombardi required to take care of the confidentiality of the earlier dialogue (which I feel he had already violated it), and refused to discuss it, once I took it up lately unfolded in an interview, I shouldn't have been reporting it right here. Tony Gliedman, then Trump Staffer, was a heavy fundraiser for David Dinkins through the 1989 basic election, so Trump, who remained the last word supporter of Giuliani, was on foot in each camp. Nevertheless, after Trump's monetary issues in 1990, the developer, nevertheless, strongly changed his involvement in urban campaigns and turned himself right into a small-scale donor and part-time employee. Supported by Dinkins' shortened West Aspect challenge, he has additionally develop into a mayor's supporter, albeit fairly muted, maybe because his controversial improvement nonetheless has many enemies on the western aspect that would in any other case be Dinkins voters
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Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations: An Integrated Assessment Modeling Approach
Zili Yang
Zili Yang is Professor of Economics at SUNY Binghamton.
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations: An Integrated Assessment Modeling Approach
The impact of climate change is widespread, affecting rich and poor countries and economies both large and small. Similarly, the study of climate change spans many disciplines, in both natural and social sciences. In environmental economics, leading methodologies include integrated assessment (IA) and game theoretic modeling, which, despite their common premises, seldom intersect. In Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations, Zili Yang connects these two important approaches by incorporating various game theoretic solution concepts into a well-known integrated assessment model of climate change. This framework allows a more comprehensive analysis of cooperation and strategic interaction that can inform policy choices in greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation. Yang draws on a wide range of findings from IA and game theory to offer an analysis that is accessible to scholars in both fields. Yang constructs a cooperative game of stock externality provision—the economic abstraction of climate change—within the IA framework of the influential RICE model (developed by William D. Nordhaus and Zili Yang in 1996). The game connects the solution of an optimal control problem of stock externality provision with the bargaining of GHG mitigation quotas among the regions in the RICE model. Yang then compares the results of both game theoretic and conventional solutions of the RICE model from incentive and strategic perspectives and, through numerical analysis of the simulation results, demonstrates the superiority of game theoretic solutions. Yang also applies the game theoretic solutions of RICE to such policy-related concerns as unexpected shocks in economic/climate systems and redistribution and transfer issues in GHG mitigation policies. Yang's innovative approach sheds new light on the behavioral aspects of IA modeling and provides game theoretic modeling of climate change with a richer economic substance.
By: Zili Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262240543.001.0001
2: Modeling Global Environmental Issues as a Cooperative Game of Stock Externality Provisions
3: The RICE Model
4: Cooperative Game Solutions and Other Solutions in the RICE Model
5: Analysis of Game-Theoretic Solutions in RICE
6: Policy Applications of Game-Theoretic Solutions in RICE
Epilogue: Further Research Directions
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Festival’s Got Talent
Recapping the 2019 ITF’s Wednesday
Cast members rehearse for the staged reading of the student-written Thespian Musicalworks show. Photo by Susan Doremus.
SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS continued for some Thespians, while others learned new skills at Wednesday’s five workshop sessions. The International Thespian Festival’s two main stages saw a moving production of 26 Pebbles from Parkland High School of Allentown, Pa., and the Texas Thespians of J.J. Pearce High School in their production of the school edition of Shakespeare in Love they helped pilot.
Act after act entertained the crowd at the annual Festival’s Got Talent revue, and troupes from Mississippi, Colorado, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kansas, and Iowa joined the list of Chapter Select and Freestyle productions. A special performance of the musical The Scottsboro Boys from the Thespians of Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wis., provided late-night entertainment.
Cast members review music for the Next Generation Works commissioned musical, Dreamland. Photo by Susan Doremus.
Students work on Dreamland, a new commissioned musical by Nathan Tysen and Chris Miller. Photo by Susan Doremus.
Max Reinert and Jared Goudsmit (standing, with music director Dylan MarcAurele) in rehearsal for their original Thespian Musicalworks show, Wrath of the PTA. Photo by Susan Doremus.
Thespians pull out all the stops for the National Individual Events program. Photo by Susan Doremus.
A Thespian offers her friend a show of support during the National Individual Events program. Photo by Susan Doremus.
Thespians enjoy a pop-up performance of the new Marvel play Hammered: A Thor & Loki Play, published by Samuel French. Photo by Cammy Bihl.
The Parkland High School production of 26 Pebbles. Photo by Susan Doremus.
The J.J. Pearce High School production of Shakespeare in Love. Photo by John Nollendorfs.
Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman outside the theatre for the performance of The Scottsboro Boys, a show she premiered on Broadway. Photo by Julie Cohen Theobald.
The Bradford High School production of The Scottsboro Boys. Photo by Susan Doremus.
Festival Preview: 26 Pebbles
Pennsylvania Thespians tell story of hope and community
Festival Preview: Xanadu
Alabama Thespians embrace lighthearted fun on roller skates
Festival Preview:
Texas Thespians pilot new high school edition
International Thespian Festival J.J. Pearce H.S. Parkland H.S. (Pa.)
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May 3, 2018 EssiMaria 2 Comments
Some of my family asked what I thought about the bad news at my former employer Save the Children, so here is what I think. The recent news is that Save the Children has stood down from applying for DFID funds, as I understand it, to earn back trust following the disgrace of the sexual harassment scandal involving Save’s former CEO and his former Deputy. To me, that’s like standing down every doctor and midwife in a busy hospital because of what happened in the CEO’s office. Different punishments would have been possible. However this is the one that is happening and it’s not for me to say whether it is right. But all the press talks about is the loss of £100 million a year, and not what it does – so I want to add a little drawing in the margins to show what it meant to me.
I ran a team that worked with country and technical expert teams at Save the Children, and cutting the jargon, we pulled together bids for large and complex programmes and helped them start up. So I feel very sad that Save will have to sit on its hands next time it sees an opportunity to save children with DFID funds. For some, this seems a peripheral issue, what are a few bids here or there, that’s just money. But the programmes that we got funded really did matter and I wonder who will really pay the price for the transgressions of the men at the top.
The UK public often has a perception that there are a lot of development NGOs and that the market could probably be culled without too much damage. I think that perception arises because public fundraising in the UK is indeed frenetically competitive – however the globe is big and the distribution of NGO activity across some parts of the world can be pretty thinly spread out, especially in conflict affected or very remote areas. Save had made strategic decisions about focusing more on exactly those fragile regions. Not every organisation could make that decision, as if you don’t have the networks, legitimacy, and security systems to work there then you are taking risks, at worst with peoples’ lives. But those that can, like Save and Oxfam, felt that they needed to support people in those places. So if Save and Oxfam cannot be funded to do work, there are certain districts or provinces where it is extremely unlikely that any other organisation can step in, certainly not with any speed or scale.
There were times that we at Save were really uniquely well-placed and I have no doubt that lives were saved by our work because we were there. I won’t identify specific programmes as I do not speak for Save, but just one example I know well. In Country X, we were one of only three organisations present in the region where most child deaths were happening, and where an opportunity arose that would enable us to treat 100,000 child patients a year for acute malnutrition. One of the other organisations was smaller than us but we worked closely with their excellent experts to harmonise technical protocols and agree how to coordinate our work. In the acute malnutrition programme Save had worked on jointly with them, we had a 90% cure rate. The third organisation in the region had a 50-60% cure rate, and although they had other important strengths that we wanted to see deployed, you can imagine how strongly we felt that the approach with the higher cure rate had to be the one delivered – you can do the math yourself on what that means with 100,000 seriously ill children.
The nutrition advisor told me how she used to go up and down the queue outside the clinic, among women queuing with skeletally thin children in their arms in hot, dry air; and she would look for the children who were hours rather than days from death and get them to the front of the queue for therapeutic food treatment. Oh fuck, I thought. We wrote in sophisticated technical language but it was oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck that drove the work.
Actually, we brought all three organisations together, and got over the tensions to become partners. The overall programme we were part of was worth about £45m and we helped shape the whole, it ran on a plan that we sat and bashed out with some aggression and fierce honesty. It would have been easier to ‘know our place’ and ‘stick to our knitting’, implementing what someone else told us to, but it was right to speak out for children. Those were our values.
A lot of money? Yes, it needed money. But the bit that momentarily floored myself and my colleague Joe, walking down the steps after it was signed off, was saying that it was likely that 100,000 children’s lives would be saved over 4 years. And if the world had another 80 programmes at that scale, mass child mortality would be at an end. Of course it doesn’t really scale like that but never before had I worked for an NGO and seen the resolution of a global challenge within that achievable order of scale. That country changed me, it made me profoundly optimistic about the future for a while. Over the next few years I was privileged to watch my growing team work with our colleagues on education, livelihoods and health programmes that would reach many tens of thousands of children more.
I wish people in NGOs talked about impact targets instead of fundraising targets. We did talk about results and quality but in NGO-world if you are successful in securing large amounts of money, people assume you are driven by money. But, no, not really. It was never about the money. It was only ever about what it did. And that’s why I believe that it’s a tragedy that Save is not going to be turning DFID funds into therapeutic food, science equipment for schools, making orphanages safer, helping refugee families to survive, and all the other very many things it does for children. I hope that this period is short, and that it can get back to its job of transforming children’s lives very soon.
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What should I do after Britain’s EU referendum?
June 19, 2016 EssiMaria Leave a comment
I cannot remember a darker week for British public life than this last one. This blog is not directly about Jo Cox, the brilliant MP and passionate campaigner, who was murdered in the course of her duties by a man who gave his name in court as ‘death to traitors, freedom for Britain’. But of course it has shaken me deeply. A politician was targeted and killed in the course of her duties: this is shaking Britain. I never met Jo Cox, but have worked for the same charities, and read with admiration her writing and speeches: she was someone I saw as a leader on issues I care about. My first thought when I woke on Friday morning was of her family, and what waking up that morning would mean to them.
A piece I admired a lot was one that Jo Cox wrote on Syria together with Conservative Andrew Mitchell. As I have got older, I am less attached to party loyalties. What I have seen is that where something really matters, the best chance of a lasting result is in cross-party political consensus. Here, in Jo Cox and Andrew Mitchell, were politicians showing that they cared more about what happened in Syria than they cared about scoring points off each other.
Jo Cox also said: ‘What surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us’.
I tried to get more involved in the Remain campaign but was defeated by the weight of work, study and my pregnancy. My body shut down every time I tried to push myself to do more. But the death of Jo Cox has made me feel that there is more I should do, soon. I have not tried to challenge and comfort the cynicism and despair when friends on social media said politicians are corrupt, all in someone’s pocket. I could have found examples of politicians who are trying to make it better. I have not been encouraging enough when friends have found ways to act out their values, and make our places and relationships better.
Part of what holds me back is feeling vulnerable. I have a young child and am pregnant, I feel alarmed out campaigning when a big man towers over me and shouts ‘I’m voting OUT, come to your senses!’ I’m a dual national, and one of my oldest friends voiced her discomfort with the idea, saying that dual nationals were looking at both sides to see where to get the best deal. I’m easily intimidated and get confused if I feel personally drawn in. But I have to say this anyway.
It may be that next Friday, June 24th, it will fall to those of us on the Remain side to accept a result we have been dreading, to swallow our bitterness, and to search internally for the strength to get on with helping to build the future. This does not mean that we should accept that all the things we fear must come to pass. I will definitely need the NHS in the next 6 months and my daughter will start school in a year. As someone who depends on public services working, the economic shock will impact on me and my family. So it will fall to people like me on both sides, to try to make the system work under the new, unwelcome, dispensation. As my husband said last night: ‘The job is, always, to try to make things better.’ We will continue to believe in democracy but we will also be clear that we think the Leave campaign, if it wins, will have won largely on the back of misleading statements about money and on a terrible platform of fear about immmigration. A Comres poll showed that Leavers are more likely to believe that man-made climate change is a made up scare story, and to distrust scientists. We will need to argue the case for science and for a better direction of travel for the climate, among many other tasks. It will be unwelcome work but we don’t have a choice.
On the other hand, if our side wins, what then? We will be hugely relieved, but we should not over-celebrate. We should not use that phrase ‘this is a victory for democracy’ when, vilely, we mean only that ‘our side won.’ (Equally we should not call a Leave vote ‘a sad day for democracy.’ Democracy’s sadness or happiness is not tied to a particular result). It should fall to us who voted Remain, if we win the vote, to hear the many voices on Leave which were not racist, but which worried about housing, jobs, services, about the health of our democracy. Many Leavers have the same worries that I do. I cannot share their conclusion but I can share their concerns.
For all our sakes, let’s not exhaust ourselves with bitterness before the 24th. Let those of us who believe in democratic process, dialogue, civility, citizenship education, on all sides, find the strength to help each other continue to believe in those things, even when, especially when, we have had our hearts broken.
Did voters for the progressive parties in the May 2015 UK election share common policy concerns?
May 11, 2015 EssiMaria Leave a comment
So, the election… yeah. That didn’t go the way anyone was expecting.
The prospect of a progressive coalition melted like a rainbow at dusk, and both Labour and the Lib Dems are in psychological shock. The Greens and UKIP both have every reason to call for electoral reform. The SNP must be excitedly planning how to spend or save their new political capital in Scotland.
The soul-searching of the Liberal Democrats and the Labour is painful to see, but what I’m curious now in the immediate aftermath is not so much the campaign mechanics of how each party rebuilds itself, but what the election tells us about national culture and which policy issues connected across voters.
Is there any core of values across the left-wing and/or progressive parties?
Given the fiendishly complicated Maggie Simpson map that is the British constituency system and my lack of psephological chops, the best I could do until the political analysts have done their thing was look at Lord Ashcroft’s polling on people who voted, and this absolutely lovely Buzzfeed article about the political maps of #GE2015.
Getting grounded in the facts, here are the figures for the proportion of the vote at the national level:
Parties % of vote Seats
Con 36.8 331
Lab 30.5 232
Lib Dem 7.6 8
UKIP 12.6 1
SNP 4.7 56
Green 3.8 1
Others 4 21
These figures are percentages of the 66.1% of the electorate who voted. One third of the electorate either did not want to vote, or fell through the cracks.
The first concern from a progressive point of view is that even adding up percentage shares of Labour, Lib Dem, Green and SNP is still less than the combined figure for the Conservatives and UKIP (Nick Clegg’s hypothesized ‘Blukip’ coalition). The Conservative result on seats is not counteracted by a progressive groundswell split over the other parties. Another concern for Labour is that turn-out was lower in regions where Labour did well on the night. If Labour did lose voters to UKIP when Nigel Farage ‘parked his tanks on Labour’s lawn), could it win them back and at least swing the popular vote away from the Conservatives?
Lord Ashcroft’s poll of 11,898 people who voted produced the following percentage shares:
Parties % of vote
Con 34
Lib Dem 9
UKIP 14
SNP 5
So the poll is somewhat under-representative of the actual Conservative share, and over-representative of Lib Dem, UKIP and Green vote share. And of course it says nothing about people who did not vote. But it’s a good place to start comparing some numbers.
Is there any common core of policy issues of across the Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, and the SNP?
What was important to the people who voted for the parties in that hypothetical rainbow coalition that never was?
I looked at the summary of Lord Ashcroft’s post-vote poll data for this and did some colouring in.
The people he polled were asked to rate the top three issues facing their country, and then asked separately to rate the top three issues facing them and their family.
I ranked the data so that the issues were rated from most important to least important across all parties. (1)
Then I coloured the set of voters that found each issue most important in green, and the voters that found it least important in red. If another party’s voters were within 5% of the highest or lowest group of voters, then I coloured them in appropriately too. I put the most important issue for each group of voters in bold (or two issues if they were only apart by 1%). I highlighted ‘dealing with crime’ in amber, because all groups of voters were within 5% of each other, and it was a relatively unimportant issue for all voters. My charts are on this link: ashcroft country
The NHS
One of the things to stand out is that Labour voters distinctly thought the NHS more important than anyone else, but the NHS was nevertheless the issue most often selected in the top 3 issues facing the country not just by Labour but by the Lib Dems, the Greens and the SNP. However both the Lib Dems and the SNP had an issue which was just as important to them, (‘Getting the Economy Growing and Creating Jobs’ in both cases) and for the Greens, the Environment was not far behind the NHS. Labour voters were unusual in the distance between the NHS and the next most important issue (the economy and jobs). Only UKIP had a top issue which stood further from the others (immigration). Paradoxically, when asked which issues most affected them and their families, the NHS grew slightly or significantly in importance for all groups of voters except for Labour, for whom it decreased.
Economy and jobs
The voters most likely to agree that ‘Getting the economy going and creating jobs’ was one of their top 3 issues were the Conservatives, Lib Dems and SNP. Labour and the Greens were less likely to rate this issue in their top 3, but the surprise to me here was how low the UKIP score was – only 27% of UKIP voters put the economy and jobs in their top 3. This is especially surprising given that elsewhere in the poll, 51% of UKIP voters agree with the statement ‘I am not feeling the benefits of an economic recovery and I do not expect to.’ SNP voters had a markedly different reaction: they were the most likely to agree with the statement ‘I am not feeling the benefits of an economic recovery and I do not expect to,’ but rated the economy and jobs as their joint most important issue affecting the country.
‘Tackling the cost of living crisis’ moved up significantly in importance across all voter groups when asked to rate the 3 most important issues affecting them and their families, compared to its positioning when asked to rate the most important issues facing the country. The issue was up by 20% or more for Conservatives, UKIP and Lib Dem voters when asked its importance in relation to them and their families. It is hard to interpret this unanimous uprating in importance when the issue is considered from the personal rather than the national level. Possibly those voters were more swayed by the country issues than the personal ones, or equally possibly, perhaps they did not see the issue as owned by Labour.
Relatively unimportant issues – education, the environment and crime.
You can see that issues that did not feature much in campaigns really fell by the wayside in terms of the importance that voters gave them when asked about importance to the country. Education and crime were relatively unimportant to voters from all parties when asked to take a view on the country as a whole, and the Environment was only significant to Green Party voters (53% of Green voters unsurprisingly included it in their top 3 issues, against an average of 9% across the other parties, and only 3% of Conservatives). Education became somewhat more important when voters were asked to name the three most important issues affecting them and their family, although even then, only 18 – 22% of Lib Dem, Labour, Green and SNP voters put it in their top 3 issues. Only 13% of Conservative voters and 9% of UKIP voters put it in their top 3.
Do any parties place similar importance on the issues?
Looking at the top 3 issues for the country across all voting groups, Labour is not very close in its importance ratings to any other party. Looking at the top 3 issues for self and family, Labour is only close to one other party on issue: similar percentages of SNP and Labour voters rated ‘tackling the cost of living crisis’ in their top 3.
Labour, Green and SNP, and sometimes the Lib Dems become closer in their ratings on the issues that overall were not rated as most significant across all parties, such as education, Europe, and welfare reform. Arguably, the left-wing or progressive parties are more similar in what they don’t care about so much, than the issues they care about.
The Conservatives are very close to UKIP on many issues, but not on ‘Growing the economy and creating jobs’ where they are most like the Liberal Democrats and SNP, or ‘cutting the deficit and the debt’ where they are most like the Lib Dems.
How similar are Labour and UKIP?
Hardly at all. There are almost no issues where Labour and UKIP are close to each other in their ratings, which suggests it might be hard for Labour to reach that group of voters on other issues, even if a social consensus on immigration could be reached. There is no one piece of common ground. This could be very significant for Labour’s electoral prospects. UKIP’s vote share went up across the nation, even in Scotland. A growing portion of the population is choosing a party for whom the far and away biggest issue is immigration. UKIP’s stress on immigration is not only unmatched by any other party, the percentage of people choosing that issue in UKIP was higher than the percentage in any other party choosing their most important issue.
Overall, is there a common set of important issues among progressive and/or left-wing voters?
I do not get the sense of one progressive or left-wing voting bloc which circumstances split into different parties for this occasion – the different ratings in importance between the parties feel significant. It is interesting that the NHS did have such broad importance but that its cardinal importance to Labour (maybe reflecting its Labour origins) is unique.
It looks as though the Lib Dems and the SNP pulled away significantly from Labour in how much they rate the importance of the economy and jobs. Whereas UKIP and the Conservatives are quite similar in many things, but not on the economy, jobs and the deficit. And UKIP is not much like any other party in the primary importance of the immigration issue.
Perhaps the most worrying factor for Labour would be that of the voter groups who felt that the economy and jobs was one of the biggest issues, one is in a country that may become independent or at least more politically separate sooner rather than later, and those votes, lost this time, may never have the option to return again.
Voters rating issues in top three facing country
Voters rating top 3 issues facing them and their family
(1) Ranking the issues from left to right as most important to least important is based on averaging the percentages produced by each group of voters. It is not the same as saying that the ranking shows the ratings for the whole population as there would be more individuals producing some of the party percentages than others. But it gives a snapshot of something like combined party voice.
(2) The poll data also shows many other reasons why people voted – there is no intrinsic match between policy issues and voting decisions, as factors such as leadership, tactical or local voting play their part. But the policy issues matter if you’re trying to build bridges, which is what many progressives are thinking about now.
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The Commons – tragedies, games and corporate citizens
March 17, 2015 EssiMaria Leave a comment
One of the areas we discussed in our first week in Cambridge was the challenge of shifting business incentives from the short-term to long-term, which would line up better with sustainability. We recognised that shifting incentives to the long-term is a major undertaking and the conclusion I felt we were nudged to is that it can only happen if top leaders make those decisions. One of the lecturers made a comment that stuck with me: ‘no CEO wants to be the last’ – i.e. the one that brought the company down. I agree that key individuals can make big changes. But that leaves the question of how leaders represent and cooperate with their communities, and how we all look after the things we hold in common – nature and knowledge being two examples of that. My reason for doing the course was (partly) to look for ways to bring different cultures together in an alliance against ‘global public bads’ such as climate change. Community management is one way to preserve ‘the commons’ (see evidence for assertion below) but businesses as we know them are called the private sector for a reason. How could two such different things cooperate?
My one-line definition of the ‘Commons’ is that it is about how we steward the things we share, i.e. the things which are not privately held – whether that is a place of wild nature, or information on the internet. It is closely connected to the idea of ‘global public goods’, and some policy types have begun talking about ‘global public bads’.
I am not pretending that ‘business’ are the bad guys. At the social level the challenge of coalescing motivation to tackle climate change is even bigger – I’ve heard people who have children and grandchildren say that they don’t care about climate change because it won’t take effect until after they are dead. If people don’t care viscerally enough about those specific cute little members of future generations that they play peekaboo with, what hope is there that anyone would care for people from a different class, a different country, or a different time in the future?
And ultimately if people don’t care enough in their personal lives, why would they be motivated to make a difference at work – to lobby their CEO and lead in their own sphere of influence – or to be effective as a citizen, helping their community, being clear what deals they want governments to make for the common good, and protect us from our own worst selves. And so I sink into despair, think – what the hell, might as well enjoy myself while I can, and leave the course and spend my free time drinking Martinis, sewing cocktail hats, throwing soirees and watching Modern Family. Actually, I sometimes really wish I was doing that. Sigh. There has been a Martini soiree deficit in recent months.
But. If I was to let myself think that humanity in general is doomed to be as driven by short-term incentives as the consumer feeding frenzy of Black Friday suggests, I’d be a total jerk. The actions of people all over the world prove that people are courageous and civil and smart and rational. And yes, tutors, there is academic literature to back that up.
The ‘Tragedy of the Commons’, the 1968 theory by Garret Hardin is supposed to prove that rational economic agents will inevitably over-exploit a common resource. The logic would be irrefutable if humans were only rational economic agents and not also members of a community, and if you suppose that rationality excludes knowing that if you eat every fish in the sea today, there will be no fish tomorrow. (Although if you’d eaten every fish in the sea you’d probably fancy something different the next day…) There is a video explaining the theory and its flaws here by Geof Glas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwaNZgY9PCQ which also refers to fish resources as a prime example of the commons. I’ll mention fish again later.
The Financial Times wrote an inspiring piece about Lin Ostrom, who worked on a much more positive approach to the Commons, and was the first woman to win a Nobel prize for economics. If I could time-travel, I would love to spend a day in her Workshop . Lin Ostrom, working with her husband Vincent, believed that common pool problems needed to be solved by a polycentric approach, i.e. that problems like climate change can be solved bottom up by communities, cities, regions: FT article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/afc5377e-1026-11e3-a258-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KUtaQ26d (paywall, but free subscription for three articles a month available).
The intergenerational commons
One of the questions that interests me is the idea of intergenerational commons. Although at the core of the Brundtland declaration: ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, ‘ there is also a legalistic argument which says that you cannot make commitments to future generations because they are not yet people in the legal sense. And my anecdote of people not caring about events that will happen after they die shows that this is not just a legal but a cultural issue, and perhaps an intractable one.
A brilliant piece of research ‘Cooperating with the future’ (Hauser, Rand, Peyskhovich, Nowak) created a ‘public good game’ with the intention of finding out if there are means to prevent over-extraction of resources. Their research discovered that creating a democratic system to govern extraction is effective in conserving resources in the game, but only if it is binding. I loved this as a fusion of citizenship and sustainability research.
What does the private sector have to do with sharing?
For my first assignment, I looked at the insurance sector and the role it can play, especially in poor countries, in helping people manage risks. The rationale for studying this is that climate change is going to hit Asia disproportionately; where there are lots of poor people. The insurance sector, theoretically at least, appears to be among those whose incentives are more likely to be long-term, and more likely to be aligned with sustainability goals. There is a potential market (in line with ‘Base of the Pyramid’ thinking) and so it seems useful to find out why insurance schemes for low income people are currently not working, or at best are niche products, and to look at what can be done to overcome some of those problems. I’ll write another blog about my findings, about the importance of non-traditional business models (at least non-traditional to us in Europe) and how co-design could overcome some of the challenges.
I think my deeper interest in this topic is what it says about ‘the Commons’ and how that concept intersects with business. Climate change and the risks it will bring (is bringing) to millions will, if we don’t stop it, be the ultimate ‘global public bad’. So looking at cooperation as a concept in the middle ground of ‘the Commons’ and the private sector, I thought that insurance is an example of cooperation within capitalism. You don’t usually go to the website of a major re-insurer for an inspirational quote, but I can’t describe the concept better than the Willis Research Network did:
“How can society, at local and global level, share the costs of extreme events…? Populations and institutions share and transfer risk by pooling resources … The principles of insurance underpin this vital function: insurance has been described as the ultimate community product; and reinsurance as the ultimate global community product. All insurance consumers participate in this global system of risk sharing and cooperation but many remain unaware of the role they are playing to support others, just as they will be supported when required. As risks increase, this global system of risk sharing will be fundamental to sustaining resilience for exposed populations and assets.”
It’s actually quite beautiful and surprising to think that through the mysterious workings of the market, we are unwittingly providing help to those who need it. Unfortunately, this market does not yet reach the most vulnerable.
Fish, community management and the commons
In the group project I am in, we are looking at the role of eco-labels in driving sustainability in the fish and seafood sector. I have come across several examples of community management as ‘by-catch’ of our research that provide examples of how and why community management works: i.e. for the simple reason that if the community exhausts its resource, its livelihood disappears so people are powerfully incentivised to conserve it. Community can operate at many different spatial levels, and this article from Swiss Re (another re-insurer) asks whether increasing national responsibility for oceans could help drive sustainability as a larger unit of community. (Sadly, the link to their earlier discussion on the ‘tragedy of the commons’ in relation to fish no longer exists).
https://openminds.swissre.com/stories/658/
So, to end:
Solving the temporal aspects of sharing the commons may require political action, but there is a lot of work we can do now in civil society and in business by advocating the effectiveness of community management approaches and looking more at the benefits and drawbacks of models such as cooperatives. And there are indeed drawbacks, as the Cooperative Bank’s widely publicised disgrace in 2013 showed, creating a sense of deep betrayal among many of their loyal customers, evidenced by the number of people switching accounts. Hybrid models that draw on business traditions and community traditions may be possible. My open question to all sides of the private/public/community triangle is whether we can learn and be open to change, even if that change comes from points of the triangle where we might not be willing to look for partnership. Do we care enough about the Commons to work with people with whom we might feel we have very little in common? Can the cooperative movement and corporate citizens share their ideas?
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They work for who?
I’m still puzzling over the problem of localism. I can see all its virtues in terms of making democracy feel more meaningful and enabling decisions to be made closer to the point of impact. I’m not cynical, and I believe that people want to engage. Yet there’s something about the debate on handing cities ‘control over their own destinies’, or at least their own tax-raising powers, that makes me uneasy. The lack of local accountability mechanisms is a main blocker.
I do think localism would be good for governance. But it has to be accompanied by a conversation about how we hold together as a society. For example, there have to be means to carry out fiscal transfers from richer to poorer areas to avoid entrenching regional inequalities. Also, I’m not sure how genuinely popular a move to localism would be. The current turnout for locally elected officials such as police commissioners is poor. Although there was a widespread passion for Scottish independence, there is not (anywhere that I have seen) the evidence that localism at the level of smaller units will be a smash hit. Presumably part of the issue is citizenship education, building confidence, skills and interest in building local societies.
I’ve seen my local area convulsed in a debate about a PFI streetlighting contract between our council and a construction contractor. Some of the issues might seem small to outsiders, in which term I include the council and the contractor – but they are vividly felt by residents. It seems fair to say that even if the contract is a success in terms of the metrics the council and contractor set themselves, it is a failure in terms of public engagement. Even someone as stroppy and well-informed as me was told that information I requested about safety standards was ‘commercially confidential’. I found the feeling of being told to shut up by my Council interesting, as previously I have always had a good experience of contacting people like my MP or MEPs. I am noting it down here to remind myself of what it feels like.
So (recognising of course that anecdote is not evidence) my experience suggests that people do feel passionate about their micro-locality, and the Scots referendum suggests that people feel passionate about their national identity. But if we are to make localism a success we would need to find that spot between the micro-local and the national where people have a sense of belonging and responsibility; decisions can be made; citizens can engage, and hopefully the work of local authorities can be made more efficient with higher quality results. Digital solutions such as City Dashboards, if stepped down a level to the local authority, could be one of the tools to help create a sense both of belonging, transparency, relevance, and even socialising and fun: http://citydashboard.org/london/. And the system of effects should be monitored to see that greater localism does not entrench postcode lotteries in issues like health services.
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Smart Cities, technology and democracy
December 18, 2014 EssiMaria Leave a comment
I wouldn’t normally just post an article without commenting on it, but I’m nearly out of time for everything on my course, so I will have to. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/17/truth-smart-city-destroy-democracy-urban-thinkers-buzzphrase This article on smart cities and democracy is brilliantly written, it is a stream of crystallised gems. By Stephen Poole for the Guardian. It encapsulates everything that fascinates and worries me about smart cities and democracy. What if the thing that really got disrupted by technology turned out not to be cab rides and hotel rooms but democracy and our very nature as individuals with free will? My favourite paragraphs are these ones: ‘And what role will the citizen play? That of unpaid data-clerk, voluntarily contributing information to an urban database that is monetised by private companies? Is the city-dweller best visualised as a smoothly moving pixel, travelling to work, shops and home again, on a colourful 3D graphic display? Or is the citizen rightfully an unpredictable source of obstreperous demands and assertions of rights?’ Some really thought provoking stuff on how we can be predicted as crowds (something I suppose market researchers have known for a long time); and on the double-edged sword that is big data in both empowering citizens, but putting them under mass surveillance at the same time. I need to come back to this when I’ve finished my study obligations, there is so much to think about and unpack here.
Another great article to think more about here on the FT – 17/01/15:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c7428fe2-9684-11e4-a83c-00144feabdc0.html#slide0
It discusses the potential for Britain’s smaller towns to flourish more by becoming bigger. It quotes interesting numbers of inhabitants required to make various facilities viable: a nursery, a pub, a cinema.
Here’s another article that provokes some thought, although quite differently. Google are investing in an urban technology division (apparently to the dismay of their investors, who grow ‘restless’ about the tendency of Google to make long-term investments). What is almost most interesting about the article is how uncritical it is of some of the aims. It describes Uber and Lyft in Messianic sustainabilty terms as reducing demand for car ownership by making car service more cheap and accessible. Nevermind that they are not actually reducing demand for car usage (possibly just displacing that demand to hire cars) and certainly never mind the precarious employment situation and low pay of the people driving Uber’s cars. Similarly, the software predicting where crime will happen – tell me, journalist, exactly what sort of profiling does that software use? Would that profiling be legal in America if a human being rather than a machine was carrying it out? I’m a huge fan of technology and its capacity to make the world a better place. But uncritically failing to place technology in a social context runs risks of those technology gains being made at the expense of other important needs, like the needs for living wages and equal treatment under the law.
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Protected: A Time-Out for TTIP?
December 4, 2014 EssiMaria
Personal reflections on sustainability, citizenship, and the loves of my life.
I had a c-section and it was fine, actually
How am I British?
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Chronicles Of The Acres
An Archive Of Redwood Acres Raceway Nostalgia
June 29, 2014 Medford
HAROLD HARDESTY
Tim Ayres
Born in Idaho and raised in Washington state before coming to Ashland, Oregon in 1960 where he lives today, Harold Hardesty made his money in excavation and construction, and his pastoral estate on Bear Creek is home to the evidence of his passion; collector cars and the photos and trophies from his hall of fame stock car driving career.
In 1956 Harold drove in nine NASCAR Grand National races with six Top 10 finishes (inlcuding a 7th at Redwood Acres), only once finishing worst than he qualified due to a bearing failure in Portland, the only race he was not still running in at the end. In 1957 he raced in four GN races but was plagued by car trouble and a crash, and only finished running in Eureka. In sixteen Grand National races he had eight Top Tens which included five Top Five finishes.
In twenty two Pacific Coast / Winston West races from 1966 to 1973 he had sixteen Top Tens, inlcuding seven Top Five finishes and two wins; one coming at Redwood Acres Raceway in 1968.
A member of the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame, Harold by all accounts won hundreds of races around the country, a major factor in his being one of only a handful of west coast drivers, along with Herschel McGriff, that have been elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Harold owned and operated the track in Medford, and regularly traveled to races all over Oregon, Washington, and California, and was a frequent visitor to Redwood Acres Raceway in Eureka from the 1950s to the 1980s, where his reputation preceded him.
“Back in the Hard Top days they’d run about five, six nights a week, so I got to race a lot, and that’s what I really loved,” Harold says. “Up there in Washington’s Tri-Cities and Walla Walla, Ephrata, etc. I had a ’34 Ford, purple and white, with a flathead in it. I run it two years for a guy. But I had a lot of fun racing. I was lucky enough to be fairly good at it. Never made any money,” he says, laughing.
“You can see in an early photo I have a scar on my forehead” (shown in photo at right). “In the 50s I was partying pretty hard and hit my head on the windshield of a 1940 Packard convertible. Me and another guy was drag racing in Kennewick, and there was a passenger train stopped across the track and I went clear underneath it, clear to the windshield. The other two guys got out and ran. They only had two officers in Kenewick at any one time, and they took me to the hospital and the police chief called and said ‘Where are you at?’ and they said ‘We’re bringing Hardesty home’ and he said ‘Bring that sonofabitch down and throw him in jail!'”
“The #52 Hudson, it was the second car after the ’34 Ford. Everybody laughed about it, and I went out and won damn near every race with it. I’d go from last to first to last to first again in one lap. It had a super six cylinder Hudson engine; 270 cubic inches was the limit. I won a lot of races, so they made us go back to 150 cubic inch and we put that pacemaker engine in and it was faster, made the RPMs quicker.”
“I’m not a mechanic, I can’t even change spark plugs hardly. Wally Cannon who used to own my cars’ engines, he says ‘You let me work on them. You can tear them up, go out, over wind them, do whatever you want to do, let me work on them.’ So I did” he says, laughing.
Harold Hardesty’s first NASCAR, a ’56 Chevy he drove at the Portland Speedway May 26, 1956, finishing 6th (with car owner on right)
Herb Thomas brings his Chrysler 300 to Redwood Acres (Humboldt Standard May 29 1956)
1956 NASCAR COMES TO REDWOOD ACRES
Harold drove in nine NASCAR Grand National races in 1956, including the Memorial Day weekend race at Redwood Acres in Eureka. 5,000 fans, the largest local racing crowd to that time, watched 26 drivers compete in the 125 lap 100 mile race on the 5/8 “Big Track” (which ran outside the normal 3/8) for a purse of $4600. The field included two drivers from Eureka; Bob Havemann and Sam Steers. 1953 Champion and national point leader at the time, Herb Thomas of Charlotte, brought his Chrysler “300” to the race.
Eureka in the 1950s was known for its rough area of town – 2nd Street – a notorious section of bars near the bay frequented by burly loggers looking to let off steam.
“My first race at Redwood Acres in ’56 was when Gustafson Chevrolet sponsored me. I was working in their shop in Eureka, and I said ‘What do we do around here for fun?’ They said ‘Go into town but don’t go past 3rd Street. Those god-damned loggers are there.”
“So Harold Beal and Bill Hyde arrive; two drivers from Portland, great big cussin’ guys – Beal used to break steering wheels in his hands in his race car. So they get here and ask ‘Where’s the party?’, and we said ‘Right down there on 1st Street!’ They went down there and I guess they had a helluva brawl!”, Harold says now laughing.
Harold finished 7th, with Herb Thomas winning after early leader Clyde “Bad Boy” Palmer from San Jose dropped out due to engine trouble. As for the 2nd Street brawlers; Beal would finish 19th and Hyde 20th, both perhaps a little worse for the wear from their nighttime excursion into roughneck 1950s-era Old Town, Eureka.
Rare photos of Harold and his car (above and below) in the pits at Redwood Acres in 1956 provided by Leon Warmuth of Leon’s Car Care of Eureka. Leon remembers, “I worked in the parts department of Gustafson Chevrolet and I was recruited as a tire changer for him and a mechanic named Phil Derringer for his mechanical ability. The big track was very dusty with potholes that broke two wheels on Harold’s car.” (photos courtesy of Leon Warmuth)
1956 MERCED FAIRGROUNDS – BATTLING WITH THE CHAMP
Next after the race at Redwood Acres, on June 3, 1956 at the Merced Fairgrounds, reigning NASCAR champion driver Herb Thomas (above, left) joined young Harold (right, in tank top) in the pits after doing battle in a 200 lap race at the 1/2 mile dirt track, Thomas winning and Harold finishing 2nd.
It was a big honor for Harold that the champ would come over to him and pose with the winner’s trophy, and it remains one of his favorite moments in racing. “I was changing the gears before the race so didn’t have time to put on a shirt before getting in the car.”
1956 SOUTHERN 500
The biggest drive of Harold’s career was at the 1956 Southern 500 in Darlington, South Carolina. Or to be more accurate, his biggest drive was to, at, and back from, the Southern 500 in Darlington.
“Hurst shifters wanted to take a car to Darlington. Beryl Jackson, who had a lumber business up there, had three 88 Oldsmobiles. Herschel McGriff and Johnny Kieper drove for him, other Cup guys. He let me take this car. We raced in Portland on Sunday afternoon, me and one pit man, two gas cans, three capped tires, and a tool box. After the race we changed the rear end, drove it to Darlington (nearly 3,000 miles). They put a new motor in it, because the motor had a Eldorado carburetor on it and it was illegal, so Oldsmobile put the new motor in it, and we did all this in a week.”
“Herb Thomas had come out and drove my car a couple of times after I had outrun him. We got to be pretty good friends, and he told me how to time in at Darlington. He said ‘Don’t try to go out there and break any track records, just get in one lane, one lane down from the top, don’t cross the yellow lines, just be consistent.’ And I passed my driver’s test. I then qualified 39th and then we went out and we run the race. I had one pit man. I had a flat tire before the first pit stop. And I hollered at my pit guy, I said ‘What happened? Did I wear it out?’ and he said ‘Yeah.’ So I run pretty slow until the next pit stop. And I come in and there’s this tire sittin’ there against the fence with a piece of chrome sticking out of it. I said ‘I thought you said I blew it out’, so I went back out and ran faster, ran pretty good. I finished 18th out of 70 cars. All those other drivers were driving factory cars. Bill Amick was from Portland. He was sittin up near the pole, and I didn’t even know him. Anyway, he finished 7th. And I bought that car, made a dirt track car out of it.”
Harold finished just behind Lee Petty and ahead of big names like Elmo Langley, Tiny Lund, Buck Baker, Parnelli Jones and Fireball Roberts.
“I was the first Oldsmobile to finish so I got extra money, I think I made $339 or so. Drove the car out there, drove it home. Drove it to Syracuse where they had a half mile dirt track, and I was running 2nd in the race, about 15 or 20 laps in and it started raining. It rained out and I never got to finish the race. I think one of the top drivers was leading, might even have been Petty. Petty was there.”
Not counting any side races, all told the 500 race and trip to and from Darlington put over 6,000 miles on the car that week.
Late 60s Winston West Ford
1968 & 1969 RIVERSIDE
In 1968 Harold raced a Ford for Bob Bristol in the Pacific Coast (Winston West) race at Riverside, but went out on lap 67 due to a crash. He returned to Riverside in 1969, qualifying 29th in a field of 44 and finished 10th.
“I was the only one that passed Richard Petty, I passed him twice. Passed him into turn 6, but he got back around me down the straightaway. I couldn’t run with his car, I was in a two year old car. I ran it for Bob Bristol for a couple of years.”
1969 Riverside: Pass on Petty
1968 PACIFIC COAST LATE MODEL WIN AT REDWOOD ACRES
“I knew Bob Britt (of Britt Lumber and 1969 RAR track champ)”, Harold recalls. “I got to know him pretty good. I don’t think I ever got to run the 101 track (that Bob built between Arcata/Eureka). I won a lot of races there at Redwood Acres in Eureka, though.”
On Friday, September 13, 1968, Harold came down to race in the Pacific Coast Late Model Series at Redwood Acres. Scotty Cain of Fresno, the eventual champ, won the A-Trophy dash with Ray Elder 2nd. Ed Tanferani of Fortuna won the six-lap ‘early-model’ trophy dash, while Jim England won the late-model heat with Bob Britt of Eureka finishing 2nd. Unfortunately the rains had arrived all week and a low turnout of 11 Late Model cars resulted in the scheduled 100 lap distance being shortened to 50 laps. Harold ended up borrowing local driver Ed Tanferani’s car for the Main Event. The local paper reported that Harold took the lead on lap 35, taking the checkered flag.
The field of 11 cars was the fewest in Pacific Coast late model history. Facts on the race are a bit vague, with only 7 of the 11 finishers documented. They included Cliff Garner finishing 2nd, Ray Elder 3rd, and Bob Britt 4th. Not mentioned in the records is Herschel McGriff, who Harold says was in the field as well. It is reported that Harold’s qualifying fast time of 21.22 was a new track record, which considering the conditions, seems a minor miracle.
“I borrowed Ed Tanferani’s Ford”, Harold recalls. “They let me drive it because they didn’t have enough cars to start the race. They let me start in the back. They told me run a few laps then pull in, because they needed more cars. It was rainin’ and sort of slick, they were trying to get the race off. So, I got to racin’ with Herschel and I won it. And NASCAR came over and gave me an ass chewin like you never seen! I won a NASCAR race in a ’58 Ford. Oh, they were pissed. They held up my money for a year. And they wouldn’t give me credit for that race, and they give it to me a year later. But I got paid! Anyhow, that was sort of one of those things.”
Part of the lore of this strange race is that when the race was red flagged due to rain and the promoters did not offer fans a refund, “several local Indians” tried to burn down the grandstand in protest. Another story was that they were just trying to keep warm and started a fire nearby.
Harold also brought his parents down to Eureka to see the race and they were able to celebrate the win with him. “My parents had never been to Mexico and I had the motor home, so I picked them up in Pasco, Washington. I took them down to Eureka and watched the race when I won. My mother kept that trophy which is why it didn’t burn up in that fire.” [Not the fire in the grandstand during the race- there was a fire a few years ago in one of his offices which resulted in the loss of many of his trophies won over the years.]
The swapping of cars becomes confusing when figuring out the night. The advertisement in the local paper shows Harold was bringing the #18 Holman Moody Ford, a Grand National car like the others that ran in the Pacific Coast series. But he borrowed Ed Tanferani’s local car that Ed had raced earlier in the night, winning the main event in it. Yet the winner’s photo that clearly shows Harold with his parents with the trophy appears to be taken in front of his #52 short track car with mud on the tires. Ed says now he believes Harold’s #52 car might have broke (after qualifying on pole?) and that is why it was in the photo. Either way, Harold won perhaps one of the strangest races in the history of Redwood Acres.
One thing is for sure, the show Harold put on that night made a lasting impact on those who witnessed it and has become one of the most memorable moments in the history of the track. While Redwood Acres was normally a dry slick dirt track and cars used asphalt tires, when the rains came Harold got a chance to introduce the local drivers to some new kind of racing.
In his book Dirt Trackin’ At The Acres, Tom Dilling wrote-
Remember Harold Hardesty with Ed Tanferani’s Ford in the mud? Harold would slam that thing completely sideways at about the flagstand, never take his foot out of it, and flat clean the turn – then do the same on the back chute. He did this lap after lap. Mr. Hardesty gave a little demonstration that night on how to play in the mud!
Long time Redwood Acres driver and mechanic Casey Dungan remembers:
“Hardesty was sliding around backed into the middle of the straight at the flagstand and everyone thought he had spun out, nobody knew what he was doing. So everybody thought we better learn how to do that.”
On dirt track racing, Harold says-
“Herschel McGriff and I used to kid about this. He was super on the road courses. Him and I was just about equal on asphalt. But he couldn’t catch me on dirt. Dirt seemed to be my specialty. On the slick tracks, I could get crossways and in two laps I could figure it out. That’s when I won that race in Tanferani’s car, NASCAR just about had a fit.”
Howard sees dirt tracking on mud as the great equalizer. “On the wet and slick, power didn’t mean much.”
Harold Hardesty (in gold jacket) celebrates in the pits with his crew and parents after the 1968 Pacific Coast Late Model win at Redwood Acres
1972 REDWOOD ACRES OPEN COMP RACE
In 1972 Harold won the International Drivers Challenge series which took place at several tracks in the Washington and Oregon pacific northwest.
In October the Six Rivers Racing Association open finale at Redwood Acres saw several drivers dominate from the Medford area. Markey James won a 25-lap “Race of Champions” between association titleholders from different areas, over a field that included local racers Ray Luzzi and Jim Walker, and Pappy Boyd from Anderson. Tom Wyatt of Medford drove the car of Eureka’s Clyde Carlilleto to win the 75-lap B Main. And Harold Hardesty held off Bill Schmitt of Redding and Ray Luzzi to win the 100-lap main event.
Harold operated the Medford track for a period of time in the late 60s/early 70s, and one of his promoting adventures at that track involved the most famous daredevil of all time.
“I met Evel Knievel in Spokane Washington way back in the 50s. He’s from Butte Montana right close there. Then I hadn’t seen him in a while and he was doing a jump in Yakima where I was at a race. He missed his jump; he missed more than he made. I won the race. He came limping over and told me ‘I hear you own the Medford Speedway. I’ll make a jump for you’. So he came in on a big limo. He had to build a track in the infield. He jumped 12 buses or so. You could hear a pin drop in that crowd. He made that one.”
“He was quite the character. We went out drinking the night before. Every time we went to a bar someone would call out ‘Is Evel Knievel in the crowd?’ and he’d say ‘Yeah!’ and he’d go to the phone. And I couldn’t figure out where in the hell they were finding out where he was. He finally told me he’d hired four girls to page all the bars and ask if Evel Knievel was there. He was quite a promoter.”
“He got in some sort of jam down in Riverside. He got thrown in jail for something. Then for all the inmates that got out for daytime shifts he was renting limousines to pick them up and drive them around and the judge found out about it and he really got on his ass.”
AMAZING HIMSELF AT MEDFORD
“One thing happened and I sort of amazed myself”, Harold says. “You know I won a lot of races there at Medford. I owned the track, late 60s, early 70s. They always complained about me; that I was grading the dirt track to suit me. I was sitting in the grandstands because I was letting my step son run the car. And I’d grade it and get it all ready. Sometimes I’d go race somewhere else.”
“One night I was sitting in the announcer’s booth at Medford, and the guy from Grants Pass set a track record, and I had the track record. I was sitting up in the booth and everyone was yelling that I should have the chance to beat him. But there was a guy, Carl Wolfe, that just built a Dodge, only it’s second race, it was the only Dodge out there. It was in the B-Main, so I walked down out of the grand stand and got in that Dodge. They give me one lap to warm up, and I reset track record. So he come back out and broke it again. So I went out and broke it again. I broke it three times in one night and ended up with the track record that stood for a long time, in a car I had never set in the seat. I think that was the most amazing thing I’ve ever done. I don’t know what it was…. I could get in strange cars.”
“In fact in the 70s people would call me from Washington- Seattle, Spokane, Wananchi – and want me to drive their car. At four o’clock in the morning I’d get up and get on a plane, fly to Portland, fly to the race track and I’d be there before ten o’clock. I did that for about two or three years. So I was awful lucky about getting into strange cars. I did well enough to have them call me up and drive their cars, I don’t know if I won them all, but I won quite a few of them. And I enjoyed doing that.”
“Every car is different. I could get into a strange car and get the feel within a couple of laps.”
1981 North Coast Dirt Track Classic results from the Stock Report program (left) and short track car at his shop from that era (right).
1982 North Coast Dirt Track Classic win at RAR.
TECH TEAR-DOWNS and ONE CYLINDER SHORT OF A V8
Along with Hall of Fame recognition, winning so many out of town races can bring other kinds of attention as well.
“When I won in Salem or Roseburg they’d tear you down to determine if you were legal or illegal, and they’d come up with the phoniest damn things. I got tore down quite a bit.”
“Then these guys built me a Chevrolet, a ’60-something. I went to Klamath Falls, a 1/4 mile asphalt, I passed Ray Elder and Jack McCoy on the outside in practice, they come over and measure my car, it was a quarter or half inch short on the driver’s side and they told me they wouldn’t let me run if I didn’t change it. I’m not a mechanic. So we loaded the car up and me and my partner had an airplane we flew to British Columbia and raced it out of state,” he says laughing.
“We went down to Anderson when it was still a dirt track. I took my car out there and I was playin’. I had fast time, and somebody broke my time, and they let me go out and try again. I broke a timing chain, bent two valves, so I called Wally Cannon (the You Drive It I Fix It mechanic), and we got it started. One cylinder was clear dead, one had a little bit of compression. It was a pretty good pay race. I could get in the lead, but if they had a yellow flag about four cars could get by me on the restart before I could get my speed up again. I lost the lead four times that way but we won the race. But they came over and gave me shit for running on seven cylinders and still out running them.”
RACING ON DIRT IN THE 80’s
“They went to wedge cars and I never went much into those. But Dane Smith, and his wife, used to follow me. If I was going to Sacramento, they’d follow me down. I don’t think he won too many at that time but then he started driving that wedge car, and he was doing good out there. Dane Smith, Don Harper…Tom Wyatt was pretty popular out there. But they came after me, when they started doing good.”
Harold Hardesty today with former Redwood Acres driver Don Price next to an old dirt car, “One of the Early Lates.”
Harold on a break from a day of yard work on his property next to Bear Creek in Ashland.
Harold and some of his collector cars; a Thunderbird in the foreground and a ’57 Oldsmobile in the back
While he says he never really made any money from racing, Harold’s excavation and construction companies and other business interests “Keep me in beer money”, as he likes to put it. He still enjoys maintaining the grounds and puttering on his old cars, with several restoration projects in the works. And he still watches the NASCAR Cup races with keen interest on TV from the bar at his house on Sundays.
Harold has hosted many large parties over the years at his Ashland estate, with different car clubs passing through, often having their classic cars photographed in front of the vintage gas station he moved from main street in Ashland. He restored the gas station and outfitted it with Gilmore signs and memorabilia as a nod to the company’s connection with racing in the early days. “Several car clubs have stopped here. I’ve had 225 Model As on the property. Cruise of Oregon would stop here and we’d feed them hamburgers.” Neighbor and former character actor Jack Elam was a frequent visitor to poker games at the house over the years. “I’ve had a great life, and met a lot of interesting people” he says.
“There weren’t too many race tracks around where they didn’t know me…. a little bit….so that makes me feel pretty good. I can’t say too much about it; I was just too damn lucky.”
It was an honor to meet Harold and I want to thank him for his generosity in opening his home and museum of collector cars and race memorabilia. He definitely strikes you as a guy who has been around the world a time or two, and has some great stories he’s collected along the way, and enjoys telling them. And he’s one of the very finest pure racing talents ever seen at tracks out west.
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Dana Smith Tuley says:
Awesome article on a great guy! Funny how he and my brother, Dane Smith, both admitted they couldn’t turn a wrench to work on their cars but they had great help and could drive the heck out of their cars. Both true winners/sportsmen on and off the track!
Wonder why Harold didn’t mention one of the most exciting races he was ever in (at least for me!) Powder Puff race and I was doing so well, close to the lead, and this crazy woman came flying (at least 35mph!) by me, almost hit the wall, flew around some other gals, and then would be on the brakes, on the gas…crazy driving. When the race was over she pulled up beside me grinning and pulled off her wig. Yes, it was Harold! We made great memories back in the day…
Keith Davidson says:
I would like to say Harold is my mentor he gave me something know other person in the world could ever imagine. He gave me the a great expireiance he took me a kid working on other race cars and showed me about race cars. I lived in Canada we were on the IDC ( international Drivers Challage) he wrecked a Shagit speedway and I wanted to help I stayed up all nite to do nothing and in the morning went Harold arivied the car was not ready he liked that we had never met but I was willing to work on his car. He seemed impressed and he offer to be May mentor. We worked together for many years Harold Hardesty is my hero. Yes he is thank you for being my greatest friend ever.
Hank Singmaster says:
IRC in 1971 in believe, we were racing on Vancouver Island, and the clouds were very low. Harold was running second to Freedy Kenett in the “Purply Pig” we had built him. (Art Turner, Dave Colwell, an myself.) He could catch up on the straight, but couldn’t pass. Worked on the brakes next day, totally worn out. Buick brake drums. We hadn’t run the engine. Next night in Burnaby, timing in didn’t qualify! Engine had no power. Barrowed another car and timed into C main. As it was, he won the A main after numerous adjustments! I was tearing down the engine in 52, we had burnt a valve in last race, due in lean mixture. You had to enter and finish all 5 races to be the champion! Crossed onto US and worked on car all night (head to machine shop @midnight,and found a piston that was very close to right weight. On to Pasco/Kennewick? for last of 5 races. Bora cars were new $$$ cars but hasn’t entered all the races. Hank
Steve Hickman says:
Which car was that in 1971 ?
After Harold stopped racing his 1955 purple & white 1955 Ford he went to a 1957 Chevy witch my dad David Ives of Medford, Oregon gave him (was caterpillar yellow #37) Then Harold did some interior work and his purple & white on the outside with his #52
I used to have coffee with Harold and the guys at Talent Truck Stop and one day he needed me to drive him to his house to pick up a car! We had many laughs! Harold is a great guy!
Leon Warmuth says:
Thanks for giving me credit for the two photos of you and your 56 Chevrolet at Redwood Acres in Eureka Harold. It was one of the highlights of my life. I sponsored a few race cars in the 60s and 70s including Rich Keller and Rudy Zeck..
Wanda Reynolds Martin says:
I remember Hearold well, I grew up watching and being around him. My Father raced with him. I remember after the races going to Kim’s and spending hours there. I also remember going to Yreka many night to watch them race. Good times!
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MANCHESTER FINANCE NEWS
Friday April 26 2019
FinTech North returns to Manchester with sell-out conference
Speaker Henri Murison, Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told delegates that FinTech is critical for the future of Manchester's economy.
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The future of Manchester’s economy will be heavily reliant on FinTech, according to the Director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henri Murison, in a speech delivered at the sell-out Fintech North Manchester 2019 conference. The city’s status as a world leader in financial services, together with its increasing prominence as a major digital hub, create the ideal environment for its growing FinTech sector to become a huge economic driver.
This was echoed by Dame Nancy Rothwell, the President of the University of Manchester, who recognised the growth of FinTech in the city and outlined the steps the University – recently named as the fastest growing in the world for innovation - is taking to ensure it creates more opportunities in FinTech for its students.
Speakers from across politics, business, finance and academia addressed a 360 strong audience in the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Hall to discuss the FinTech ecosystem in Manchester and the North as a whole. It marked the second annual FinTech North conference in Manchester, following its debut sell-out event last year. Attendees included investors, regulators, academics, entrepreneurs and innovators from finance and technology.
Henri Murison added that the key differentiator for FinTech in Manchester and the North is the overwhelming focus on the end consumer, rather than on other businesses. The number of large retail banking operations which prioritise consumer relationships will attract more investment into the city, he said. This will hopefully help to address the imbalance in FinTech investment across the UK, with London currently receiving approximately 94% of the total investment.
Greater inter-city collaboration across the UK was also championed as a route to closing this gap, with the Chief Executive of Innovate Finance, Charlotte Crosswell, confirming that there are a growing number of organisations in London who are actively looking to engage with FinTech companies in the North.
The event’s headline speakers were joined by some of Manchester’s fastest growing FinTech startups, including Mojo Mortgages and AccessPay, who discussed why the city is the ideal environment for startups in the sector.
Richard Hayes, co-founder and CEO of Mojo Mortgages, a South Manchester based mortgage fintech that has raised over £7 million in venture capital to date, said:
“Just because we aren’t in London doesn’t mean we can’t be a big name in FinTech. The sector is seeing huge growth in the North. It’s important to be part of that movement, and play our role in helping to further establish the region as a serious FinTech ecosystem in the UK.”
Chris Sier, Chairman of FinTech North and FinTech Envoy to HM Treasury, said:
“Last year saw our first annual FinTech North conference in Manchester, and it was a huge success, so we wanted to deliver something bigger and better this year. As an independent, community-led and not-for-profit organisation, we want to provide a platform for the region’s FinTech community to discuss the issues that really matter to them. We hope that in doing so, we will provide opportunities for deals to be made, collaborative partnerships to be formed, and a new generation to be inspired – ultimately helping the regional FinTech economy to grow further.”
Tickets are now on sale for FinTech North’s next conference, which will take place in Leeds on May 23rd.
FinTech North Manchester 2019 is proudly supported by: BJSS, High Commission of Canada, Computershare, Equiniti Credit Services, EY, The University of Manchester, The Business Desk, Midas, Open Banking Expo, Innovate Finance, and White Label Crowdfunding and Whitecap Consulting.
"As an independent, community-led and not-for-profit organisation, we want to provide a platform for the regions FinTech community to discuss the issues that really matter to them."
Chris Sier, Chairman of FinTech North
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India to fulfill CHOGM 18 commitments before deadline: Jaishankar
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India is well on the path of fulfilling all the commitments made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2018 much before the next meeting in 2020, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who concluded his three-day visit to London to attend Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting (CFAMM) on Thursday.
“At the summit today, underlined that India is fulfilling all its #Commonwealth commitments made by PM @narendramodi in 2018. Includes support for technical cooperation and projects related to #SDG & #ClimateChange. A special bond with Small States & Small Island Developing States,” tweeted Jaishankar.
The CFAMM undertook a review of the implementation of the mandates of CHOGM 2018 and held discussions on the CHOGM 2020 to be held at Kigali in June next year. During the CFAMM, Foreign Ministers adopted the 70th anniversary Affirmation, read an official statement.
Jaishankar congratulated the member countries on the 70th anniversary of Commonwealth.
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The application period for the Prof. Erik Holst Fund MM2016 GA Scholarship has ended on December 1st, 2016.
The Fund received 94 applications in total from all 5 IFMSA Regions, which were evaluated in two rounds.
The awarded medical student to receive the 4th “Erik Holst” GA Scholarship was announced on December 8th, 2015 and it was Ms. Dana Shubat from Syria, who attended the IFMSA GA – March Meetieng 2017 in Budva, Montenegro.
The Fund first announced the call for applications for the scholarship on November 6th, 2016 over the IFMSA General server, Erik Holst Facebook page and erikholstfund.com and provided a timespan of 4 weeks for receiving applications online. The first announcement was also posted on various IFMSA-related Facebook groups, and was followed by 2 reminders as the deadline approached. The deadline for receiving applications expired on December 1st, 2016 at 23:59 (GMT/UTC). The application procedure was done at our website erikholstfund.com by filling in an online application form, which included a CV and a Motivation Letter of each applicant as a prerequisite for application submission. Through these two texts, we would be able to better become acquainted with each candidate and take a thorough look into their aspirations from their possible participation in the GA, their vision of IFMSA and themselves in it, as well as their background and achievements both academic, professional and personal. As the scholarship aims mainly in students who cannot attend the GA due to financial constraints, special attention was given to any relevant information provided by the applicant. Applicants that haven’t attended a GA before, and those who had previously applied for our scholarship program were also seen in a more favorable way.
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Winter 8000’ers: K2 Teams Unite
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Climbers from seven countries are uniting forces to climb Winter K2. Photo: Alex Txikon
Alex Txikon’s and Vassily Pivtsov’s teams have joined forces, thereby strengthening their chances of solving the so-called final problem of the winter 8000’ers: the first ascent of K2 at this time of year. They have agreed to share resources and tasks in BC and Camp 1. Very likely, the now fully international team from Spain, Nepal, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan will also work together the rest of the way to the coveted summit.
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Nardi emphasized that Baig and Haiat are not high-altitude porters but full team members and summit climbers, who want to tackle this winter challenge out of love for the mountains. They have already set up Camp 1 at 4,700, Camp 2 at 5,200m and Camp 3 at 5,714m. The Italian climber also remarked that his goal is not just Nanga Parbat, but specifically the yet-unclimbed Mummery Spur. “That is my dream,” he explained. “Then, if I manage to open a new route along it, of course I’ll try to reach the summit.”
Tom Ballard on the lower sections of Nanga Parbat. Photo: Daniele Nardi
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Simone Moro (left) and Pemba Gelje Sherpa endure a stiff wind on the summit of Mera Peak.
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It has been an amazing few weeks for all of us involved in citizen organising. The May 3rd assembly catapulted the movement into the media limelight, and also yielding substantial relationships with and commitments from the then PM, the new PM and the new Deputy PM! Citizens UK Director Neil Jameson was in No 10 yesterday – and the meeting is reported on our sister blog there.
A key challenge is to convert this excitement back into tangible change at the really local level, That is where our Jellicoe interns come in! Last night, we had our last Community Evening with Megan Dilhoff and Theodore Wold, who return to the US after building significant new links with Catholic parishes in Shadwell & Wapping. They will be much missed, and go with all our thanks and prayers.
Amma Asante continues her work at the University of East London, and Ian Bhullar at St Mary’s Cable Street (and the newly-recruited E1 Community Church). They’ll be joined by around 18 summer interns, focusing mainly on the CitySafe campaign – very local relationship- and trust-building, which is the lifeblood of citizen organising. It’s from this local base that we build up to the amazing national successes – the end of child detention, local mutual banking and a Community Land Trust on the 2012 Olympic site.
Citizens UK in Number Ten
The follow-up to May 3rd continues tomorrow as Citizens UK Executive Director Neil Jameson attends a round-table with David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the ‘Big Society’. This is an exciting development – and one we hope will lead to further progress on the issues raised at the Assembly.
Our Homes, Our London
This is a key campaign for the congregations in which Jellicoe interns are placed – one which stands very clearly in the tradition of Fr Basil Jellicoe . The Citizens UK Assembly secured a Community Land Trust on the Olympic site from all three party leaders – while locally, TELCO won backing from Tower Hamlets Council for a Trust on the site of St Clements’ Hospital. Here’s the video that made the case:
Coalition agreement: two Citizens victories
The initial Coalition Agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats includes two of the key items from Citizens UK’s people’s manifesto: expansion of the mutual banking sector (promised at the May 3rd Assembly by all three party leaders) and an end to child detention (promised only by Nick Clegg).
Whatever the coalition, Citizens are in relationship
The Citizens UK Assembly and CTC from Contextual Theology Centre on Vimeo.
CTC has launched a short Vimeo slideshow on last week’s assembly. In the midst of all the coalition horse-trading, our partner congregations are now in relationship with all the main parties – so whoever is on the Government benches, they will be attending future Citizens UK’s assemblies, answering to the promises made on May 3rd.
More media coverage
Here are the clips on BBC of each Party Leader’s response to the Living Wage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8658615.stm
And an excellent piece by CTC Fellow Dr Luke Bretherton on the implications of the assembly for our understanding of politics, faith and the ‘common good’
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7116843.ece
Video footage of the assembly
The leader’s responses to Citizens UK’s people’s manifesto:
Also, Jellicoe intern Ian Bhullar and other members of the Citizens UK ‘Twitterati’
UPDATE: More coverage in the Spectator (“Brown’s best speech of the campaign”) and Mirror (PM is “a signed up citizen”) – while Michael White in the Guardian says this was a “night that reaffirmed democracy”
What did we win?
It will take a while for the impact to sink in, but here are some of the key achievements of yesterday’s assembly – and links to media coverage.
The leaders of all the major party agreed…
– to be held to account by Citizens UK – in assemblies and round-table meetings – during the next Parliament
– a Community Land Trust on the Olympic Park after 2012
– caps on exploitative lending and a stronger mutual banking sector
– Labour committed to a Living Wage for Whitehall workers – something the Tories are also looking to fund
– Labour and the Tories committed to reviewing the practice of detaining children seeking sanctuary
– LibDems committed to ending child detention – and to a one-off earned amnesty for undocumented migrants
Today’s Guardian includes Patrick Wintour on front page (‘Battered PM finds his voice’); Allegra Stratton on p. 4 (‘Brown triumphs in unofficial fourth leadership debate’) and Marina Hyde on p. 5 (‘Real people, excruciating stories and a bit of recycling’). The Telegraph has a sketch on p.8, emphasising the role of faith in the event – ‘Son of the manse in his element among the righteous’. Online, there’s good coverage from the Finanical Times and Reuters.
The Contextual Theology Centre sponsored this historic event, and our officers, interns and partner churches were heavily involved:
– Fr Sean Connolly (CTC Assistant Director) was interviewed on Channel Four News as he led a pre-assembly study group on our new book Faithful Citizens
– Bethan Lant (St Mary’s, Cable Street) was one of the co-chairs and Fr Rob Wickham (St John-at-Hackney) introduced the assembly
– CTC Tutor Capt Nick Coke (Stepney Salvation Army) told the story of the CitySafe campaign – a key project of Jellicoe Interns
– Dr Luke Bretherton (CTC Fellow) handled some of the key public negotiations with David Cameron
– CTC Director Revd Angus Ritchie spoke alongside low-paid cleaners from the Treasury to present the case for the Living Wage to Gordon Brown – and Senior Tutor Revd Adam Atkinson (St Paul’s Shadwell) handled some of the key public negotiations
– CTC Fellow Mgr John Armitage (St Anne’s, Custom House) gave the final, rousing send-off to the 2500-strong assembly
Media coverage of tomorrow’s assembly
Tomorrow afternoon’s assembly will be streamed live on BBC News 24 from 3pm. If you’re not able to attend, then tune in.
David Cameron praised the Living Wage as ‘hugely attractive’ in today’s interview with Andrew Marr – in a discussion about tomorrow’s assembly. See it here, 50 minutes into the programme.
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Jammeh’s Brother Sainey Still On The Run From Police
Sainey Jammeh, one of former President Yahya Jammeh’s brothers who threatened police officers that they will die if they attempt to arrest him has reportedly ran away out of fear of being arrested by security officers. Sainey came under police investigations after his name was mentioned along two others, Araba Jammeh and Jalamang Jammeh on allegations surrounding the cattle of the former president. The two accomplices were long arrested and taken to the Bwiam Police Station.
Sources inside Kanilai, the birthplace of the former president confirmed that the alleged mystical man (Sainey Jammeh) who has threatened to kill police officers with his bees has eventually ran out of the country seeking refuge in the neighboring Casamance, the southern part of Senegal.
“They came to arrest him but found out he ran away. He is still not seen,” a source from the village said.
According to sources two other people Ebrima Jammeh and Ajammeh Jammeh were also arrested on the same allegations surrounding the cattle of the former president. They were detained at Bwiam Police Station and later released on bail. They are currently reporting to the police station weekly as part of their bail condition.
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Allostasis
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Allostasis is the process of achieving stability, or homeostasis, through physiological or behavioral change (Copstead & Banasik2013). This can be carried out by means of alteration in HPA axis hormones, the autonomic nervous system, cytokines, or a number of other systems, and is generally adaptive in the short term (McEwen & Wingfield 2003). Allostasis is essential in order to maintain internal viability amid changing conditions (Sterling & Eyer 1988; McEwen 1998a; McEwen 1998b; Schulkin 2003).
Allostasis provides compensation for various problems, such as in compensated heart failure, compensated kidney failure, and compensated liver failure. However, such allostatic states are inherently fragile, and decompensation can occur quickly, as in acute decompensated heart failure.
1 Nature of concept
2 Contrast with homeostasis
4 Allostatic load
Nature of concept[edit]
The concept of allostasis was proposed by Sterling and Eyer in 1988 as a process of reestablishing stability in response to a challenge. Allostasis was coined from the Greek allo, which means "variable;" thus, "remaining stable by being variable" (Sterling & Eyer 1988; Klein 2004). Allostatic regulation reflects, at least partly, cephalic involvement in primary regulatory events, in that it is anticipatory to systemic physiological regulation (Sterling & Eyer 1988; Schulkin 2003). This is in difference to homeostasis, which occurs in response to subtle ebb and flow. Both homeostasis and allostasis are endogenous systems responsible for maintaining the internal stability of an organism. Homeostasis, from the Greek homeo, means "similar," while stasis means "stand;" thus, "standing at about the same level." (Sterling & Eyer 1988);
The term Heterostasis (Selye 1973) is also used in place of Allostasis, particularly where state changes are finite in number and therefore discrete (e.g. computational processes).
Wingfield states:
The concept of allostasis, maintaining stability through change, is a fundamental process through which organisms actively adjust to both predictable and unpredictable events... Allostatic load refers to the cumulative cost to the body of allostasis, with allostatic overload... being a state in which serious pathophysiology can occur... Using the balance between energy input and expenditure as the basis for applying the concept of allostasis, two types of allostatic overload have been proposed (Wingfield 2003).
Sterling (2004) proposed six interrelated principles that underlie allostasis:
Organisms are designed to be efficient
Efficiency requires reciprocal trade-offs
Efficiency also requires being able to predict future needs
Such prediction requires each sensor to adapt to the expected range of input
Prediction also demands that each effector adapt its output to the expected range of demand
Predictive regulation depends on behavior whilst neural mechanisms also adapt.
Contrast with homeostasis[edit]
The difference between allostasis and homeostasis is popularized by Robert Sapolsky's book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers:[This quote needs a citation]
Homeostasis is the regulation of the body to a balance, by single point tuning such as blood oxygen level, blood glucose or blood pH. For example, if a person walking in the desert is hot, the body will sweat and they will quickly become dehydrated. Allostasis is adaptation but in regard to a more dynamic balance. In dehydration, sweat occurs as only a small part of the process with many other systems also adapting their functioning, both to reduce water use and to support the variety of other systems that are changing to aid this. In this case, kidneys may reduce urine output, mucous membrane in the mouth, nose and eyes may dry out; urine and sweat output will decrease; the release of arginine vasopressin (AVP) will increase; and veins and arteries will constrict to maintain blood pressure with a smaller blood volume.
McEwen and Wingfield propose two types of allostatic load which result in different responses:-
Type 1 allostatic overload occurs when energy demand exceeds supply, resulting in activation of the emergency life history stage. This serves to direct the animal away from normal life history stages into a survival mode that decreases allostatic load and regains positive energy balance. The normal life cycle can be resumed when the perturbation passes.
Type 2 allostatic overload begins when there is sufficient or even excess energy consumption accompanied by social conflict and other types of social dysfunction. The latter is the case in human society and certain situations affecting animals in captivity. In all cases, secretion of glucocorticosteroids and activity of other mediators of allostasis such as the autonomic nervous system, CNS neurotransmitters, and inflammatory cytokines wax and wane with allostatic load. If allostatic load is chronically high, then pathologies develop. Type 2 allostatic overload does not trigger an escape response, and can only be counteracted through learning and changes in the social structure (McEwen & Wingfield 2003; Sterling & Eyer 1988)
Whereas both types of allostasis are associated with increased release of cortisol and catecholamines, they differentially affect thyroid homeostasis: Concentrations of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine are decreased in type 1 allostasis, but elevated in type 2 allostasis (Chatzitomaris et al. 2017).
Allostatic load[edit]
Main article: Allostatic load
In the long run, the maintenance of allostatic changes over a long period may result in wear and tear, the so-called allostatic load. If a dehydrated individual is helped but continues to be stressed and hence does not reinstate normal body function, the individual's body systems will wear out.[citation needed]
Controversy[edit]
In 2005, Trevor A. Day has argued that the concept of allostasis is no more than a renaming of the original concept of homeostasis (Day 2005).
Chatzitomaris, Apostolos; Hoermann, Rudolf; Midgley, John E.; Hering, Steffen; Urban, Aline; Dietrich, Barbara; Abood, Assjana; Klein, Harald H.; Dietrich, Johannes W. (20 July 2017). "Thyroid Allostasis–Adaptive Responses of Thyrotropic Feedback Control to Conditions of Strain, Stress, and Developmental Programming". Frontiers in Endocrinology. 8: 163. doi:10.3389/fendo.2017.00163. PMC 5517413. PMID 28775711.
Copstead, Lee-Ellen; Banasik, Jacquelyn (2013). Pathophysiology (5th ed.). St Louis, Missouri: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN 978-1-4557-2650-9.
Day, Trevor A. (2005). "Defining stress as a prelude to mapping its neurocircuitry: No help from allostasis". Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry. 29 (8): 1195–1200. doi:10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.08.005. ISSN 0278-5846. PMID 16213079.
Klein, Robyn (2004). "Chapter 3". Phylogenetic and phytochemical characteristics of plant species with adaptogenic properties (PDF) (MS). Montana State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 17, 2006.
McEwen, Bruce S. (1998a). "Protective and Damaging Effects of Stress Mediators". Seminars in Medicine of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. N. Engl. J. Med. 338 (3): 171–9. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.357.2785. doi:10.1056/NEJM199801153380307. PMID 9428819.
McEwen, Bruce S. (1998b). "Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 840: 33–44. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09546.x. PMID 9629234.
McEwen, Bruce S.; Wingfield, John C. (2003). "The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine". Horm. Behav. 43 (1): 2–15. doi:10.1016/S0018-506X(02)00024-7. ISSN 0018-506X. PMID 12614627.
Schulkin, Jay (2003). Rethinking homeostasis : allostatic regulation in physiology and pathophysiology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262194808. OCLC 49936130.
Sterling, P.; Eyer, J. (1988). "Allostasis: A new paradigm to explain arousal pathology". In Fisher, S.; Reason, J. T. (eds.). Handbook of life stress, cognition, and health. Chicester, NY: Wiley. ISBN 9780471912699. OCLC 17234042.
Sterling, Peter (2004). "Chapter 1. Principles of Allostasis". In Schulkin, Jay (ed.). Allostasis, homeostasis, and the costs of physiological adaptation. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521811415. OCLC 53331074.
Selye, H. (1973). "Homeostasis and Heterostasis". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 16: 441–445.
Wingfield, John C. (2003). "Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments". Anniversary Essays. Anim. Behav. 66 (5): 807–16. doi:10.1006/anbe.2003.2298.
Schulkin, J. (2011). Social Allostasis: Anticipatory Regulation of the Internal Milieu, Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, with an entire paragraph dedicated to defining allostasis
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The results were the following, the organic farm with a herd of 50 cows and a 10 acre field of zucchini had the highest levels of nitrites. Introduction: Blue Baby Syndrome is a condition that affects many infants. This condition makes the baby’s skin turn blue because of the lack of oxygen. This condition can exhibit lethargy, vomiting and not being able to breathe. It can even lead to death in rare cases. This condition is caused by the excess amount of nitrate that is then converted into nitrite by the digestive system. The hemoglobin then seats with the nitrites to form Mothballing.
Mothballing is not a problem in adults since they have an enzyme that converts mothballing back to hemoglobin. Infants don’t have many of the enzyme to convert mothballing to hemoglobin, resulting in Blue Baby Syndrome. For example in Gopher Hollow there is a cluster of Blue Baby Syndrome. Four infants have been affected. The families of these infants all collect their water from a community well. Nitrates and Nitrites can be found in many things. For example in vegetables, like carrots, lettuce and spinach. We do get many of our nitrogen room the food we eat but also through the water we drink. L) Levels above 10 pump of Nitrate/ Nitrites are not dangerous but accumulations of it in soil and groundwater can cause high levels of these compounds. (l) Causing high level of nitrites in drinking water and especially in wells. If a mountain lake that has become overgrown with algae then there could be an increase of Blue Baby Syndrome cases. The lake could be a main water source. Methods: The first step in determining the culprit location is to create a graph that represents the relationship between the amounts of nitrites in the solution ND the optical density of standards of known concentrations.
These standards are the control group. Then a spectrophotometer was turned on was allowed to warm up for 15 minutes. There were nine standards to be tested using the spectrophotometer. One ml of each standard was labeled and placed in 13 by mm glass test tubes. The concentrations were: distilled water, 0. Pump, I. Pomp, 2. Pump, 4. Pump, 6. 0 pump, 10. 0 pump, 20. 0 pump, and 40. 0 pump. Using the POP microcomputer, 20 micrometers of the color indicator reagent ( Inaphthylethylenediamine sulfanilamide) was added to each standard sample ND mixed thoroughly.
A new microcomputer tip was used to prevent mixing of chemicals. The samples were left out to sit for five minutes to insure full color development. Then the spectrophotometer’s wavelength was set to Mann because the nitrite indicator absorbs light at Mann(1). I ml of the distilled water sample was transferred into a clean cavetti using a plastic transfer pipette. The cavetti was then placed inside the spectrophotometer . The button labeled “blank” was pressed and the DO reading was 0. AAA . After getting the DO, the blank sample was placed back into its original test tube. Then 1 ml of the 0. Pump standard was transferred into a clean cavetti and placed inside the spectrophotometer for DO measurement. Once the measurement appears on the screen record it. This step was repeated for the remaining standard samples. After measuring the DO each sample was transferred back into its original test tube. With the data collected, a graph was plotted with the Optical Densities on the vertical axis and the nitrite concentrations on the horizontal axis. Once the graph was plotted, a standard curve and the line of best fit were created and put on the graph. Whenever the DO eating was above 1. It’s omitted from the graph because it means that there very light being detected. To get the line of best fit the equation y=mix+b was used and m=slope and y intercept. Then the unknown samples of the sites thought to be the cause of the Blue baby syndrome were tested using the same techniques as to find the standard samples. The first step, 2 ml of each water sample were place into four 13 by 85 mm glass test tubes. Then using a IPPP microcomputer, 40 micrometers of sulfanilamide was added to each test tube. The test tubes were allowed five minutes to develop color.
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Best Revenge
Cooking Up Thanksgiving
Chef Garret Fleming and his dictatorial father talk turkey in time for the holiday.
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New In the Forum
Allen Wilson bets against gambling in Arkansas, and TJF asks one of life’s ultimate questions.
Feature / Fleming / On the House
The Decline of the American Empire: Recessional I
I am revising a series of articles and lectures I wrote on American Imperialism. In some places I have deleted political references that have lost their significance, in others I have expanded and developed an argument in light of later events and more serious consideration. The first version of this was written in (so far as I can tell) 2002. While the Trump administration may, viewed in retrospect, represent a lull in the imperialists’ Grand Design to wipe the old America from the face of the earth, no President willing to hire John Bolton or Nikki Haley can be regarded as a defender of the American Republic.
Race and Unreason
Megyn Kelly gets fired for making sense the first time in her career, while Don Lemon is praised for living down to expectations…
Wednesday’s Child: The Culture Portal
There is something out there, in the depths of the cyberworld, called TripAdvisor, and it occurs to me that modern culture increasingly resembles it.
Feature / Fleming / From Under The Rubble
Reaching the Boiling Point
The change-over in the House was predicted by pundits from the day of Donald Trump’s election and therefore means very little. Nonetheless, it does show that the American electorate–it is hardly possible to speak of Americans as “a people”–is not only divided by class and region and race but even segments that supported Trump two years ago failed him. A cynic might say it is because America’s blue-collar class and Middle Americans in general are fat, stupid, and cowardly, and cynics are generally right.
Religio Philologi: The Gentile Church, B:
Ignatius warned against one of the perennial temptations—to impose Jewish customs on the Church: “It is absurd to profess Christ Jesus, and to Judaize. For Christianity did not embrace Judaism, but Judaism Christianity, that so every tongue which believeth might be gathered together to God.” [Magnesians 10] Ignatius also warned against the poison of heretics who denied the reality of Christ’s passion. [Trallians 11]
Cooking the Perfect Hamburger
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Roger McGrath on The Ace of Aces: Richard Bong
By the time he went on leave during the late fall of 1943, Bong had 21 aerial victories and was wearing captain’s bars. Back in Wisconsin, at a Superior State Teachers College homecoming, he met the girl of his dreams, Marge Vattendahl. When he returned to New Guinea in January 1944, he had his ground crew decorate the nose of his P-38 with a large photograph of Marge. It was the last thing seen by many a Japanese pilot. By early April he had added four mo
One Flesh in Law. POB II, Chapter 4: Husbands and Wives, B
In the Anglo-American tradition of Common Law, the status of wives was defined by the principle of coverture, which meant that the wife’s legal identity was merged with that of her husband. When Hamlet is taken to task for addressing his stepfather as “mother,” he replies: “Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother.” As Blackstone observes: “By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law…the very legal being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated.”
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From the Archives: Stop Loss
Tags: Abbie Cornish, Boys Don't Cry, Brian De Palma, Brick, Canada, Channing Tatum, Flags of Our Fathers, Iraq, JGL, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kimberly Pierce, Mysterious Skin, Redacted, Ryan Phillipe, Stop Loss, Talking Movies, Texas, The Look-Out, USA, Vietnam
Another dive into the pre-Talking Movies archives turns up a very under-rated Iraq war film featuring strong supporting turns from Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The Iraq War has become a continuing nightmare for the United States military to set beside Vietnam. Surprisingly it’s also become impossible terrain for American film-makers compared to the cinematic response to Vietnam. It falls to writer/director Kimberly Pierce to make the finest film about the Iraq War to date. This is her first feature since 1999’s acclaimed Boys Don’t Cry and Pierce has waited a long time to provide another absorbing and heartbreaking slice of small town Americana. The film opens with an action set-piece in Iraq that conveys tedium, paranoia, fear, bloodlust and chaos more effectively than the entirety of Brian De Palma’s Redacted. The real focus of this film is the psychological battle on the home-front back in Texas.
There is no place for a warrior in a stable society. This is a melancholy truth that has found expression over and over again in fiction, if you set out to protect your home your violent deeds will unfit you for ever living there again. “I’m going to miss blowing shit up” laments Channing Tatum’s Steve Shriver as he hands over his weapons for discharge from the army having served his required tours of duty. What exactly are these men going to do back in their small town? Jobs are scarce, they’re adrenaline junkies and scarred by the savagery they’ve witnessed and been forced to commit in Iraq. The dilemma is best exemplified by the out of control Pt. Tommy Burgess. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a supporting role as the violent alcoholic Tommy is as superb as his performances in Brick, The Look-Out and Mysterious Skin have led us to expect. Burgess and Shriver desperately need their commanding officer Brandon King to keep them in check. King is leaving the military…until he finds the President has signed an order keeping him in the army against his will.
Ryan Phillipe is impressively mature as the righteously indignant Staff Sergeant Brandon King who thinks he should not be asked to pointlessly lead more men to their deaths. Australian actress Abbie Cornish is a fine foil as Michelle, Shriver’s neglected girlfriend who offers to drive King to Washington. There are echoes of Phillipe’s previous role in Flags of Our Fathers. King is convinced that he can just take the matter up with his local Senator who welcomed him home but he quickly learns the harsh truth. You’re a hero when you’re fighting, but when the war finishes or you’ve gone AWOL from a Stop-Loss, they don’t want to hear about you anymore. The shadow of Vietnam hangs heavy over this film as King suddenly realises his choices are return to Iraq or flee to Canada, start a new life there and never be able to return home again. This is never preachy, always compelling and emotionally taut. An absolute must see.
The Mountain Between Us
Tags: 24, Baltimore, Bear Grylls, Beau Bridges, Bones, Colorado, Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Kim Bauer, Mandy Walker, Nicholas Sparks, NYC, Ramin Djawadi, Speed, The Mountain Between Us, The Rockies, Vietnam
Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are stranded in the Rockies in a two-hander that feels like it was scripted by Bear Grylls and Nicholas Sparks.
Ben (Idris Elba) is stuck at an airport due to bad weather. He needs to get back to Baltimore to perform life-saving brain surgery on a young patient. Alex (Kate Winslet) is stuck at the same airport. She needs to get back to NYC to get married. She comes up with some ingenious lateral thinking. They should charter a small propellor plane to do the short hop to Colorado where they can make connecting flights. Walter (Beau Bridges) flew missions into Vietnam with people shooting at him, what’s the worst thing that could happen in a bit of bad weather? I mean apart from Walter having a stroke at the controls? And even if you do crash, what’s the worst that could happen? Get seriously menaced by a cougar? I mean Kim Bauer got through that. Yeah, book that plane guys!
There is some fantastically captured scenery in The Mountain Between Us, and some very nice shots by cinematographer Mandy Walker locating the actors in the middle of a vast snowy wilderness. But that’s about as far as you can go with anything approaching unqualified praise. I was genuinely astonished during the credits to find the score had been written by Ramin Djawadi as it had made no impression whatsoever. Indeed the abiding impression was that this film was long, in particular its final 20 minutes make this 104 minute movie feel about 134 minutes, as the inevitable point is hummed and hawed at before being reached. And the point should equally inevitably make Speed fans think of a certain repeated line of dialogue.
Too often this feels like a bad Bones episode, except for tiresome faith v science arguments you get Ben needing to stop trying to control everything and just take risks like the free-spirited photographer who got him into this mess in the first place. And there are painful screenwriting 101 conceits piled up higher than some of the snowdrifts they encounter – of course you wouldn’t tell anybody where you were going and what you were doing before you got stranded, of course you wouldn’t assume you can get cell reception atop the Rockies, of course you wouldn’t eat Walter’s dog for food, of course you wouldn’t let Alex’s injured leg imperil chances of survival, of course Ben wouldn’t be so colossally stupid and unaware as to not wear his gloves and endanger his fingers by frostbite leading to losing his ability to perform brain surgery and so have to relinquish control over his life to fit the neat thematic statement the movie is apparently attempting to make.
The moment you might remember most from this underwhelming romance/adventure is when Idris Elba announces that he’s from Britain but now lives in Baltimore.
1916 without 1916
Filed under: Talking Politics — Fergal Casey @ 2:16 pm
Tags: 1776, 1789, 1798, 1916, 1917, 37 Days, 4th of July, Angela Merkel, Aodhán O’Ríordáin, BBC, Bertie Ahern, BOD, Brad Dourif, Brian O'Driscoll, Britain, David Cameron, Eamon Gilmore, Enda Kenny, Facebook, Farmleigh, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Francois Furet, Gettysburg Address, Good Friday Agreement, Google, Ian Paisley, Interstellar, Ireland, Irish Civil War, Kevin Whelan, Labour, Macnas, Niall Ferguson, Padraig Pearse, Pat Leahy, Queen Elizabeth II, Rabobank, Roe V Wade, RTE, Rupert Brooke, Seamus Mallon, Sunningdale, Terence Brown, The Tree of Liberty, Vietnam, WB Yeats, Whip Inflation Now, Wise Blood, WWI
By now we’ve all seen the Government’s video about the 1916 Rising that somehow forgets the Rising. I’m not sure I’ve seen something so straight-facedly absurd since Brad Dourif preached “The Church of Christ … without Christ” in Wise Blood.
From the suggestively chosen imagery it’s tempting to conclude (apropos of Interstellar) that we’re commemorating when David Cameron, Ian Paisley, and Queen Elizabeth II travelled back via a handily placed wormhole to Dublin 1916 in order to ensure a docklands fit for Google and Facebook to live in. Sadly the truth is less imaginative, and depressing; because this fiasco was entirely predictable. The Proclamation being rendered as Gaeilge via Google Translate was a perfect statement of intent. Nobody cared enough to flag that it ought to be double-checked before it went live. It is unthinkable that in 2004 a Polish text could have been given such haphazard treatment while our government was hosting the EU’s big expansion into Eastern Europe; Bertie Ahern cared deeply about that Farmleigh event. It is unthinkable that a German would text would not be excruciatingly parsed if Angela Merkel were to visit next week; because Enda Kenny would care deeply about such a visit. But for the literal genesis of our political consciousness as a modern state? To appropriate the current Rabobank ad’s stylings: “Any translation” “Any translation?” “Any translation…” That attitude expresses a political weltanschauung: Labour gives the distinct impression of being embarrassed by our Constitution; which Eamon Gilmore liked to dub outdated (ignore the awkward fact the Americans are still using their 1780s constitutional settlement); and Fine Gael, despite their self-definition (as Pat Leahy has put it) as the party of “Law and Order. Law’n’Order and the Foundation of the State!”, are ashamed of 1916 – which is to primarily be remembered, whereas they celebrated the 75th anniversary of winning the Civil War…
Labour’s Aodhán O’Ríordáin, while insisting that the video was a preview of what the entirety of 2016 would be like (apparently a never-ending bacchanalia of Macnas and BOD coming out of retirement to score tries), offered a non-apology apology: “If we got it wrong, we got it wrong and we should look at something else.” (If? If?? IF?! Yes, ye got it wrong. This has been made abundantly clear by now, so lose the “if”.) He went on to offer the official version of the mindset behind the video: “The point is that we’re trying not to present a very stiff and stale and unimaginative and cold depiction of what happened 100 years ago, which can almost turn some people off immediately.” Maybe he sincerely believes this, maybe not; to my mind this defeatist insistence that marking the events of 100 years ago is impossible because it’s all deathly dull so let’s just talk about the Queen’s visit in 2011 is a disingenuous cover for the fact that it is the government itself who are the people turned off immediately by the idea of celebrating 1916. The BBC spent 2014 producing radio and television documentaries and fictional serials about WWI. If you could watch 37 Days’ dramatisation of the failed diplomacy of July 1914 and find it very stiff, stale, unimaginative, and cold, then the problem lies not with history or its recreation but with you. If you could watch Niall Ferguson’s provocative arguing for WWI being a mistake and the hostile reaction of his academic audience and find it very stiff, stale, unimaginative, and cold then presumably you find newspapers insupportable because they’re about events from distant yesterday. It is telling that the video’s themes; Remember, Reconcile, Imagine, Present, Celebrate; visually remove ‘celebration’ from the revolutionary past…
The video’s visual cues for ‘remember’, ‘reconcile’, and ‘imagine’ taken together imply sorrow for having had the bad taste to rebel against Britain, and a desire to plot how to go forward together. As approaches to celebrating a country’s independence from its colonial masters go it’s got the merit of originality. But it cannot go uncontested. How does marking 1916 by mentioning Ian Paisley and not Padraig Pearse make sense? How is it even acceptable to prioritise, over a man who gave up his life as a blood sacrifice (of the type Rupert Brooke valorised) to start a fire whose flame would burn a hole in the map of the British Empire, a man who became a big avuncular bear once he’d made it to the top of the greasy pole having first done considerable damage in his life-long climb to the top in his capacity as venomous firebrand? (When Seamus Mallon dubbed the Good Friday Agreement ‘Sunningdale for slow learners’ who did he have in mind?) I have walked some of the battlefields and cemeteries of the Western Front, where Irish and British soldiers died together in 1914, and remembered them. It does not preclude me from celebrating 1916.
French historian Francois Furet rescued 1789 from the grasp of communists who wanted to make it a proto-1917, by instead inflecting 1917 as the culmination of 1793’s Terror; and the Terror as the betrayal of the Revolution. Terence Brown has argued that Kevin Whelan’s The Tree of Liberty was vital in allowing 1798 to be celebrated here as a good thing, instead of mumbling embarrassedly about it. We need something of the same now. It doesn’t matter that we’re an indebted country who’ve signed away our sovereignty to the Troika. America in 1976 was hardly in a wonderful state. Vietnam, Inflation, Watergate, Roe V Wade: if ever a country was having a crisis of confidence and identity it was America then. And they still pulled off a celebratory bicentennial instead of sitting around bemoaning lost opportunities and how the Brits would have given them parliamentary representation if they’d just waited longer…
The government’s video suggests that we celebrate the future, and take inspiration from … whatever. That’s completely wrong, but completely in character. We should celebrate the past, and be inspired by it. We should not look back at 1916 and be embarrassed by it, we should look back at 1916 and be embarrassed by ourselves. We need to mark 2016 as a combination of July the 4th and Gettysburg. It is both a cause for celebration, and a time for serious discussion. And if there’s anything in our national poet’s complicated canon that best sums up conflicted Irish identities in a triumphal way it’s this watchword for the coming centenary year:
“Sing the peasantry, and then
Hard-riding country gentlemen,
The holiness of monks, and after
Porter-drinkers’ randy laughter;
Sing the lords and ladies gay
That were beaten into the clay
Through seven heroic centuries;
Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.”
Speed-reading towards illiteracy
Tags: All the President's Men, Back to the Future, BBC Radio 4, Bret Easton Ellis, Buster Keaton, Captain America 2, Francine Stock, Francois Truffaut, Fukushima, Gareth Edwards, George Miller, Godzilla, Gojira, Halloween, Himizu, John Carpenter, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Kevin Brownlow, Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Twain, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Redford, Scream, Sergei Eisenstein, Sion Sono, Steven Spielberg, Strike, The Film Programme, The Parade's Gone By, The Parallax View, Tom Hardy, Vietnam, Watergate, Wes Craven, Woody Allen
Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller gave an interview recently to BBC Radio 4’s The Film Programme, which poses some intriguing questions about how new cinemagoers experience the medium.
Miller cited Kevin Brownlow’s The Parade’s Gone By as a seminal text; the entire language of cinema was defined pre-sound. Miller was intrigued by the notion that there was a pure film language not reliant on the spoken word, and he decided to tell stories through that language; going so far as to describe Mad Max: Fury Road as a silent movie with sound – what matters is that one shot leads into the next shot to a purpose. As Miller notes this kind of cine-literacy is an acquired language, and a recent one; but it is one that can be mastered, in all cultures, before we’ve got a handle on actual literacy. But it’s his remark that we’re now all speed-reading stories (backed up by some statistics), that is a lit match tossed into a powder keg… Mad Max 2 had 1,200 shots, Mad Max: Fury Road had 2,900 shots, while Miller was told Jurassic Park had 950 shots, and Jurassic World by his estimation had more than triple that.
If we’re speed-reading stories, are we speed-reading into illiteracy? Back in 1997 Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese bemoaned the cine-illiteracy of young audiences:
ALLEN: I was talking to some college kids the other day, and they were bright kids who were going to a good college, and they had no idea about great directors. These bright college kids have no knowledge whatsoever of Truffaut’s films or Fellini’s films. And yet the universities do encourage them to read Mark Twain and Flaubert and Melville. … So many film students are film illiterate. They’re not unsophisticated. They probably know more about steadicams and special effects than the average audience. The guy who drives your cab will use those terms when talking about a film, but they’re illiterate in terms of —
SCORSESE: The lineage.
ALLEN: They’ve never seen any of these films. I think they have a different attention span. [My italics]
I admit my culpability in having that different attention span Woody Allen fretted over. I saw Scream as a teenager and was blown away by it. When I subsequently saw Hallowe’en I was inevitably bored by its slow pacing compared to its younger rival. I knew that without Hallowe’en there would be no Scream, I understood the lineage, I respected the execution, but I couldn’t stop myself wishing Carpenter would hustle things along a bit. As a result I’ve never re-watched Hallowe’en, while Scream remains one of my favourite and oft re-watched films. In 1997 Scorsese bemoaned his inability to be influenced by younger film-makers: “The young people today are the 21st century. I’m 20th century, I can’t help it. It’s hard to let new stuff in.” And there’s an equal generational problem in film criticism. The New Hollywood has been so valorised by audience that Bret Easton Ellis and Quentin Tarantino bemoan the 1980s to each other as the nadir of American movies. Whereas Back to the Future Day demonstrated the impact that decade’s movies had on their audience.
Miller extols the virtues of Buster Keaton and the montage technique of Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike, but will the youngsters who lapped up Mad Max: Fury Road delve back into cinema history to watch the movies that inspired Miller’s visual storytelling? No. If you are used to 2,900 shots a movie something that’s less than a third of that will bore you senseless. What was already a problem in 1997 is only going to get worse. ‘Jurassic World is a mere inept retread of Jurassic Park’ howl we who saw the original in the cinema. But, like a dead owl, the kids going to Jurassic World don’t give a hoot. They probably haven’t watched Jurassic Park all the way through because they find it unbearably slow-moving. This might explain the Russos’ baffling belief that the execrable Captain America 2 deserved an Oscar for casting Robert Redford and throwing 1970s paranoia shapes.
1970s paranoia was an organic cinematic response to the mood engendered by Watergate and Vietnam, and, like all movements that begin organically, when it became a commercial affectation it died a horrible death. The idea that Captain America 2 in rehashing a trope that was valid and original 40 years ago somehow itself becomes pertinent and (coughs in disbelief) original is as absurd as Gareth Edwards believing that his 2014 Godzilla is a good parallel for the trauma of Fukushima. If Sion Sono’s 2011 Himizu can react almost instantaneously to Fukushima in a valid and original cinematic fashion what makes Edwards think that Hollywood rehashing its interpretation of a 60 year old Japanese response to an entirely different national trauma is anything but a crass attempt to attach spurious relevance (via some extremely patronising cultural voiceover work) to the commercial imperative of rebooting a dormant franchise. But here’s the kicker – it doesn’t matter. None of the fulminations of film-makers or critics or punters of a certain age matter. My complaint that Jurassic World is not as good as Back to the Future doesn’t matter. Logic doesn’t even matter. The 12 year olds who go to Captain America 2 and Godzilla will likely never watch All The President’s Men or The Parallax View or Gojira because they’re too slow-moving and boring. 2045 will see Jurassic World as fondly remembered as Back to the Future is now, and all us haters will be so many Bret Eastons moaning that the 2010s were the nadir of American movies.
Perhaps we’re not speed-reading into illiteracy so much as into an eternal kinetic present. The past is a foreign country, they edit films boringly there.
’71 – 7 Dispatches
Tags: '71, Anton Chekhov, Black Watch, Calvary, Carol Reed, Criminal Justice, Daily Mail, David Holmes, Dead Set, Dirty War, Dispatches, Dredd, Gregory Burke, Jack O'Connell, James Mason, Killian Scott, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Herr, Odd Man Out, Peter Hitchens, Steven Soderbergh, The Troubles, Vietnam, Yann Demange
1. Holmes
Belfast native David Holmes has composed the grooving soundtrack for a lot of good films with an eye for suspense and action, being Steven Soderbergh’s go-to-guy. But I don’t think he’s done 1970s synth menace before, and when he unleashes it in the third act to long takes and tracking shots of people stalking the endless concourses in The Divis block of flats it ratchets up the tension.
2. Scott
I love it when actors play the extremes of their range in a single year, and Killian Scott does it here. Scott had the funniest scenes in Calvary as misfit Milo, convinced that being homicidal would be a plus for the army – ‘like an engineering degree’. As the ruthless emerging IRA leader Quinn in ’71 he seems older, tougher, and even almost taller so complete is the transformation.
3. Dredd/Dread
’71 is so unpredictable that you don’t expect Chekhov’s rifles. And yet one pops up. “You can use the Divis as an orientation point, but don’t go inside the flats. It’s an IRA stronghold” the soldiers are told at their briefing. So of course Gary wakes up to find himself on one the top floors of The Divis, with the IRA coming up, and guarding all possible exits…
4. In-Country
“You know where Belfast is, right? Northern Ireland. United Kingdom. Same country. You’re not leaving the country” the deploying soldiers are informed. Well… they kind of are. Gary’s complete bafflement at the sectarian madness that greets him in Belfast almost satirises Thatcher’s infamous contention that Northern Ireland was just as British as Finchley. This isn’t so much not leaving the country, as going in-country in the Vietnam sense…
5. Football/Religion
One of the funny moments of the film comes when Jack O’Connell’s protagonist has his named parsed: Gary Hook, obviously Protestant. Just to confirm he’s not a Taig, he’s asked by his foul-mouthed child protector if he is a Protestant. “Uh, I dunno.” “You don’t know?! Now I’ve heard everything.” Later he demurs any possible Nottingham connection, “Darbyshire and Nottingham don’t really get on.” “Why?” “Don’t know really.”
6. Collusion
’71 initially surprises by using the Troubles almost as an incidental backdrop for an urban survival thriller. But then it really surprises in its acknowledgement of the North’s Dirty War. British military intelligence officers are depicted both training loyalists in bomb-making, and talking to leaders of the IRA. ’71 just takes it for granted that this is what happened, something which would outrage Daily Mail blowhard Peter Hitchens.
7. Reed
Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke and TV director Yann Demange (Dead Set, Criminal Justice) make an arresting cinematic debut with this movie – tense, sharply scripted, and directed with disorienting and dazzling flair. And praise doesn’t come much higher than saying it reminded me of another film about a wounded man in Belfast falling in with people with agendas of their own – Carol Reed’s 1947 classic Odd Man Out.
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Movies (Reviews),Talking Television,Talking Theatre — Fergal Casey @ 5:17 pm
Tags: Alice in Funderland, Angela's Ashes, Big Maggie, Brendan Coyle, Christina Noble, David Mumeni, Deirdre O'Kane, Eva Birthistle, Gloria Cramer Curtis, Juno and the Paycock, Karl Shiels, Liam Cunningham, Mark Huberman, My Brothers, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Noble, Peaky Blinders, Peer Gynt, Philomena, Phoenix Park, Ruth Negga, Saigon, Sarah Greene, Sean O'Casey, Stephen Bradley, Stephen Frears, The Critic, The House, The West Wing, Trevor Forrest, Vatican II, Vietnam
Stand-up Deirdre O’Kane tackles a weighty dramatic role as humanitarian Christina Noble in this biopic set in Ireland and Vietnam.
Noble (O’Kane) arrives in Vietnam in 1989, on a mission from God – more or less. She had a dream about Vietnam and travelled there, quickly discovering that her calling is to make a difference in the lives of the buidoi, the despised street children. Flashbacks (with Gloria Cramer Curtis and Sarah Greene as the younger Noble) draw the parallel between her tenement childhood and institutionalised teenage years, and the plight of the Vietnamese children she takes under her wing. In Vietnam she attempts to cajole Irish and English businessmen Gerry Shaw (Brendan Coyle) and David Somers (Mark Huberman) into financing building works at the neglected orphanage run by Madame Linh (Nhu Quynh Nguyen). But as her experience with abusive husband Mario Pistola (David Mumeni) has taught her, charm can hide callous cruelty – and figures of authority everywhere disdain their buidoi.
Cinematographer Trevor Forrest’s location work in Saigon is fantastic, with familiar imagery of vegetation floating downriver right next to the modernising city of the Western businessman. Noble is also lit up by many great performances. Ruth Negga is winning as Joan, the best friend of Greene’s teenage Christine. Greene, a Talking Movies favourite for her great theatre work, has a meaty cinematic part here and renders Christina a punchy survivor. Sadly the great Karl Shiels is wasted in as cipherish a cameo as his Peaky Blinders role. This is doubly disappointing because Coyle and Huberman offer wonderfully nuanced turns, and Liam Cunningham as Christina’s drunken father is gloriously ambiguous. However, Cunningham’s self-mythologising father who veers between love and rage is a figure out of O’Casey; which draws attention to Christina Casali’s 1950s Dublin design seeming more suited to 1920s Dublin.
That design even drags us into Angela’s Ashes territory, because everything that can go wrong for Christina does go wrong. Even though it’s based on a true story you feel like writer/director Stephen Bradley’s script is hewing to established clichés of the misery memoir. And there are other problems: Christina’s constant recourse to charming singing feels forced, the practicalities of her living rough in the Phoenix Park and later gaining access to Vietnam are left unaddressed, and even her impassioned rant to God in a church recalls The West Wing. Quite worryingly, following Philomena’s unlovely lead, Bradley seems to deploy pre-Vatican II religious garb as a simplistic visual signifier of presumptive evil. Eva Birthistle’s nun is to be treated as a boo-hiss pantomime villain from her first appearance in a wimple; a veritable judas-goat for judicial, political and familial villains.
Noble has a number of committed performances, but the script doesn’t do them justice; it is too on the nose when it could have used more subtlety and humour in depicting Noble’s extraordinary efforts.
The Sapphires
Tags: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Don Cheadle, Dreamgirls, Jessica Mauboy, Martin Luther King, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens, Talk to Me, The Sapphires, Tony Briggs, Vietnam, Wayne Blair
Chris O’Dowd stars as the manager of 1960s girl-group The Sapphires in this charming Australian drama based on a true story of pioneering Aboriginal women.
Three sisters in a remote township dream of singing, but racism stymies their attempts to get discovered until drunken pianist/MC Dave (O’Dowd) stands up for them at a talent contest and quickly becomes their manager. Determined to win them the chance to entertain American troops in Vietnam he works on changing their sound and stage presence, battling all the while with Gail (Deborah Mailman), the momma bear sister with an inflated opinion of her mediocre singing talents and a sharp mouth. Her sibling rivalry with the flirtatious Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell); who is recovering from being jilted at the altar; and the younger Julie (Jessica Mauboy); the most talented singer who is driven to succeed by her need to support her son; threatens to derail the group. But that’s as nothing compared to the tension created by Dave’s insistence on adding Kay (Shari Sebbens), their ‘passing’ cousin who lives in Melbourne…
It’s hard to imagine this film working as well as it does without Chris O’Dowd’s particular shambling charm as the drunken Irish soul man with a penchant for insulting people, an abiding hatred of country music, and an ever present hip flask. Dave’s fractious relationship with Gail sees them both deliver zinging put-downs of the other, and there is a fantastic ‘emotional’ speech in which he tries to compliment her but gets sidetracked by his own barbs. The memorable quips are accompanied by a joyous soundtrack of 1960s soul music, and the low budget doesn’t stop director Wayne Blair from throwing in one very memorable show-off shot hammering home the unpredictable chaos of guerrilla warfare. But underscoring the comedy of the script by Tony Briggs and (not that) Keith Thompson is a patient reveal of a family trauma…
This should be approached as a drama, but with a lot of very funny lines. It has serious emotional heft as a major theme is vicious racism against the Aboriginal population at both a casual and official level, and it also features a startling depiction of the emotional devastation caused by Martin Luther King’s assassination that rivals a similar sequence in 2007’s terrific Don Cheadle movie Talk To Me. The Sapphires wonderfully balances presenting Vietnam as a place of racial equality, and therefore supreme opportunity for these girls, but also an extremely hazardous warzone where as Dave says ‘every American soldier here is stoned off his head’ because of fear. It’s semi-miraculous that the film successfully combines these strands with a riff on Dreamgirls as the relationships within the group buckle under the strain of constant performing and doomed romances.
The Sapphires traverses familiar territory but does so with such winning performances and good humour that it is most rewarding viewing.
Double Exposure: Cutter’s Way/House M.D.
Tags: Alexander Cutter, Allison Cameron, Cutter and Bone, Cutter's Way, David Shore, Gregory House, House, House M.D., House MD, Hugh Laurie, IFI, james Wilson, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Morrison, John Heard, Lisa Eichorn, Richard Bone, Robert Sean Leonard, Sherlock Holmes, The Social Contract, Vietnam, Wilson
1981 neo-noir movie Cutter’s Way, recently screened at the IFI (yet again) has been forgotten, and it’s a half-deserved neglect. It’s not a great film, but it does showcase a superb performance from John Heard as the acerbic crippled Vietnam veteran Alexander Cutter. What’s startling is just how familiar his character is…
We first hear about Cutter thru Jeff Bridges’ character Richard Bone mentioning that he needs to buy some more medicines for him. Then we’re visually introduced to Cutter sitting in a bar making fun of people he’s just met, before saying something outrageously racist about one of them, and then compounding the problem when some guys who heard the remark start to circle. Bone gets him out of this, despite Cutter’s best attempts to get Bone dragged into the fight too, by excusing him on account of his leg… Cutter then yells at Bone that he needs more pills, and throws his cane after him, breaking a neon sign. The glorious off-screen shout “That’s going on your tab Cutter” confirms that this is just how Cutter rolls. The resonances with a certain drug-addled anti-social doctor and his drug-sourcing enabling friend don’t jump off the screen at this point, although they’re apparent later. What really puts the House comparison into your mind is when Bone delivers a drunken Cutter home to his long-suffering wife. She’s played by Lisa Eichorn who could well be Jennifer Morrison’s twin sister sent back in time so startling is the resemblance to House’s team-member Allison Cameron. As the film progresses you get the weird sensation that this is what would have happened if that date between House and Cameron at the end of season 1 went well. Cameron has sunk into alcoholic depression as she waits for House to forget about his leg and his misery and just start living again…
Such sentiments are reinforced by Cutter’s memorable arrival home in his car. Drunk as a skunk he first lurches to a halt splayed across the road. He’s not going to park it there, is he? Oh no, he’s going to ram his neighbour’s car, which is in the way, reverse, ram it again, reverse again, and park in his driveway, having destroyed his neighbour’s car in the process of shunting it into the correct driveway. Cutter stomps into his house, and announces he’s been picking up hitchhiker’s and saying how much fun they were, with one qualification; “Never orgy with a monkey, the little f—ers bite”. His wife points out that he has no car insurance, “That would be his problem”, and that his licence has expired, “Car runs just fine without it”, as Cutter changes into his old army jacket to go out and deal with the police the right way by talking about duty, appearing reasonable and apologetic, and getting away with everything because, as he quietly reminds the enraged neighbour (when the cop has left) by holding up his cane, “I’m a cripple”. Later Bone in exasperation at Cutter’s deranged scheme to blackmail a local millionaire they suspect of murder yells about how he doesn’t want another lecture by Cutter on “How you just see the world as it is, a crock of shit. And oh God, don’t start in on your leg…” Needless to say Bone, like Wilson, always ends up embroiled in his friend’s maddest plans despite his objections.
There are of course substantial differences between Alexander Cutter and Gregory House. Cutter is a soldier, not a doctor, and prone to adding physical violence to his cutting rhetoric. Waiting for a procrastinating Bone to make a blackmailing phone call Cutter whips out a hand-gun and shoots the target that Bone has been messing about with on the pier arcade to hurry things along, “Give the man his goddamn doll”. Cutter even strikes his wife when she questions his choice to wallow in misery. There’s even one weirdly prophetic anticipation of House’s recent move away from audience sympathy in this violence. Cutter’s demented hero moment in the closing frames as he rides a horse thru a garden party to crash thru the window of the evil tycoon could almost be the inspiration for the shark-jumping finale of House season 7. The resemblance to Cameron is accidental and hilarious, that to Wilson not overly pronounced but still present, but Cutter’s mixture of logical deductions that pin the crime on the millionaire and his biting remarks and refusal to obey any social contract all seem classically Houseian. So, did David Shore watch Cutter’s Way years before creating House and subconsciously remember aspects of a long-forgotten character, or is this just one of those weird moments where an idea seems to be floating around waiting for someone to use it, like discoveries in physics and astronomy that parallel researchers discovered simultaneously?
Probably the latter, but it sure makes for one hell of an entertaining and oblique way to view Cutter’s Way.
Top 5 Michael Caine Movies
Tags: Anthony Shaffer, Austin Mini, BAFTA, Benny Hill, Brendan Fraser, Carry On, Casino Royale, CIA, Daniel Craig, Educating Rita, Get Carter, Graham Greene, Henry Higgins, Jack Carter, Joseph L Mankiewicz, Jude Law, Julie Walters, Laurence Olivier, London, Martin Campbell, Michael Caine, Mike Hodges, Milo Tindle, Noel Coward, Philip Noyce, Pygmalion, Quincy Jones, RADA, Rob Brydon, Sleuth, Steve Coogan, The Italian Job, The Quiet American, The Trip, Turin, Vietnam, Willy Russell, You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
I wouldn’t like to give the impression that I was mean-spiritedly making fun either of Michael Caine or of cockney accents in last week’s sketch, so as a gesture of atonement here’s a Top 5 of my favourite Michael Caine movies. I’ve picked only ones in which he’s the lead.
(5) Get Carter
“You’re a big man, but you’re out of shape”, “She was only thirteen”… A movie plundered both by Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan to sharpen their Caine impressions in The Trip, and arguably by Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig to make the last image of Casino Royale iconic. This gritty thriller, which is still director Mike Hodges’ calling card, sees Caine’s implacable London hard-man Jack Carter head north to avenge his brother’s death with a shotgun. Shot in stylish long-takes with a distancing aesthetic this is an imposing British crime movie that loomed over all that followed.
(4) Educating Rita
“There is more insight in the telephone directory…and probably more wit”. Caine’s jaded English professor helps Julie Walter’s discontented housewife better herself thru an adult education course in a sparkling adaptation of Willy Russell’s play, itself almost a spin on Pygmalion. But this Henry Higgins is on a serious downward spiral; drowning in drink and self-pity in equal measures, cheated on by his wife and despising his own volumes of poetry. Caine’s showy role encompasses glorious high verbal comedy and drunken slapstick, as well as the quiet drama of alcoholic misery. This finally won him a BAFTA.
(3) The Quiet American
“Oh, shit” .Caine’s dead-pan delivery of that line is emblematic of his quiet, measured and ultimately devastating performance in Philip Noyce’s 2002 film. This subtle work is arguably the finest adaptation of Graham Greene’s work since the 1940s. Caine plays the archetypal Greene character. His foreign correspondent boasts of simply observing the chaos of 1950s Vietnam and offering no point of view, no political allegiance. An unwelcome romantic rival (Brendan Fraser’s titular do-gooder) and pressure from London to break a story sparks a belated moral engagement with the ethics of American interference, and opposition to it…
(2) Sleuth
“Be sure and tell them it was all just a bloody game!” Joseph L Mankiewicz’s riveting adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s play sees a rich aged writer invite his young wife’s lover, a cockney hairdresser, to his rural mansion for some vindictive head-games. Caine’s regional accent and film acting technique go head to head with Olivier’s RADA accent and stage acting style in a contest Caine was easily winning till a desperate Olivier produced a moustache… If you want to empirically measure Caine’s acting ability note how Sleuth’s entire structure disintegrates in the remake because Jude Law can’t act.
(1) The Italian Job
“You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” A truly flawless film; from Quincy Jones’ impossibly catchy original soundtrack and the glorious turn by Noel Coward as the imprisoned crime-lord masterminding proceedings, to the implausible gang apparently composed solely of gay aristocrats and cockney wide-boys and the deranged Carry On antics of Benny Hill, and on to the wonderfully staged Austin Mini car-chase and the definitive cinematic cliff-hanger, it’s impossible not to sit back with a smile pasted on your face throughout as Caine motors the whole film along with a performance of winning charm.
Conspiracy Cinema at the IFI
Tags: 'The Conversation', Alan J Pakula, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Penn, Bonnie & Clyde, Chile, Chinatown, CIA, Costa-Gavras, Donald Sutherland, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Faye Dunaway, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Sinatra, Gene Hackman, General Pinochet, George Axelrod, Henry Kissinger, High Anxiety, Hollywood, IFI, Inglourious Basterds, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, James Earl Ray, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Joe Kennedy, John F Kennedy, John Frankenheimer, John Huston, John Klute, Klute, Korean War, Kris Kristofferson, Laurence Harvey, Lee Harvey Oswald, Missing, New Hollywood, Night Moves, Parallax Organisation, Peter Biskind, Raymond Shaw, Richard Condon, Richard Nixon, Robert Towne, Rollover, Roman Polanski, Roy Scheider, Salvador Allende, Saudi Arabia, Senator McCarthy, Sissy Spacek, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Manchurian Candidate, The New Frontier, The Parallax View, Vietnam, Walter Murch, Warren Beatty, Watergate, William Richert, Winter Kills
The IFI is presenting a season of films this June playfully titled High Anxiety. As ‘filmnoia’ these are meant to encapsulate the post-Vietnam post-Watergate zeitgeist of chastened 1970s America. Invariably there is much idolatry of the faultless New Hollywood that was tragically killed off by Star Wars in this positioning, which regular readers of this blog will know I have little truck with. The truth is there are some great films here, some over-rated but good films, and by far the best film is the most defiantly Old Hollywood: The Manchurian Candidate, which is oblique in its violence, sexually charged without being sexual, and whip-smart and heart-breaking in its scripting; the kind of thing that Hitchcock might have directed on one of his darker days at the office. Let’s briefly trot thru the line-up of films in the season.
The Manchurian Candidate June 1st & 2nd @ 6:25pm
The pick of the bunch is the first out of the blocks. Catch this tonight if you can. A superb Laurence Harvey stars as Raymond Shaw, an unpopular soldier who unexpectedly returns as a war hero from the Korean War to the political machinations of his terrifying mother Angela Lansbury, a witch-hunting Senator’s wife. Frank Sinatra is his old army c/o trying to work out the mystery of just what happened in Korea that fills his men’s nightmares, and director John Frankenheimer ratchets up the tension as George Axelrod’s script satirically skewers McCarthyism while breaking your heart along the way.
Klute June 4th & 5th @ 4.50pm
Sex, lies, and audiotape. Widely regarded as the film that legitimised profanity as a hallmark of serious movies Alan J Pakula’s 1971 exercise in paranoia sees Donald Sutherland’s enigmatic small-town PI John Klute travel to the big city to investigate the possible involvement of his friend with Jane Fonda’s nervous call-girl, and her possible involvement in his mysterious disappearance. The sound design is extraordinary as ambient noise swamps the possibilities of recording the truth, and this arguably established the house-rules for all subsequent 1970s filmnoias. Keep an eye out for Roy Scheider’s ridiculous outfit in his cameo as a pimp.
The Parallax View June 6th @ 3.00pm & 7.05pm
Alan J Pakula again, this time Warren Beatty is the lead in a 1974 thriller about a journalist investigating the possibility that the powerful corporation the Parallax Organisation has been behind not only a political assassination allegedly carried out by a conveniently dead lone gunman, but the clean-up murders of all the witnesses of the assassination. The dazzling and famous highlight comes when Beatty is subjected to a test to see whether he fits the criteria for maladjusted misfit that Parallax likes to use for its lone gunmen. You know, people like say Lee Harvey Oswald, or James Earl Ray…
Chinatown June 8th @ 2.10pm & 6.30pm
If Roman Polanski’s film was just a little less self-regarding it would be a far better film noir. Jack Nicholson gives a terrific performance as the cock-sure PI suddenly out of his depth against Faye Dunaway’s ambiguous femme fatale and John Huston’s monstrous patriarch, and there are wonderful moments and lines throughout. The enormous self-importance of Robert Towne’s screenplay sinks the film from its potential heights but is unsurprising given that he reputedly told anyone who would listen that the success of the 3 hrs plus The Godfather was entirely attributable to his dialogue polish on one 3 minute scene…
The Conversation June 9th @ 6.45pm
Francis Ford Coppola’s small personal movie between The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who finds a simple job developing into something much more disturbing, which eventually pushes him to the very limits of his sanity. Walter Murch’s sound design is extraordinary and best appreciated on a big screen, but I’ve never thought that Coppola’s script was good at making us care about the possible murder plot Hackman stumbles upon; the physical distance his camera maintains from the camera being sadly replicated as an emotional distance maintained by the audience from the characters.
Night Moves June 12th @ 5.00pm
A staple of late-night TV schedules (TV programmers can be very easily amused sometimes) this 1975 movie sees Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunite for a more subdued outing than their 1967 collaboration Bonnie & Clyde. Hackman is a defeated PI who discovers his wife in adultery, but is unable to satisfactorily resolve that situation or any other case he is working on. Perhaps a lament for the lost idealism of the New Frontier in the age of Watergate, or perhaps just another deconstruction of American myths by Penn that has aged far less well than his Bonnie & Clyde.
Rollover June 18th @ 3.15pm
Yes, Alan J Pakula for a third time. He never stopped making paranoia movies, and this 1981 effort may have had the amazing good fortune to become relevant thirty years after being dismissed as pessimistic and incomprehensible, because of the second defining event of the last decade, the credit crunch. Jane Fonda stars as a company director’s widow who romances Kris Kristofferson’s financial trouble-shooter, brought in to steady the corporation, who ends up involved in an extremely risky deal with Saudi Arabia that goes belly-up in such spectacular fashion that it leads to the meltdown of the entire Western economy.
Winter Kills June 25th & 26th @2.00p
Adapted from another book by Manchurian Candidate novelist Richard Condon, this thriller stars John Huston as Not Joe Kennedy, who after 19 years is told by his son Jeff Bridges that he finally has a good lead on who really assassinated Huston’s other son, the President Not John F Kennedy. Winter Kills had an extremely troubled production, with director William Richert having one of his producers murdered, so this is a welcome chance to belatedly see Huston chewing scenery in such a ripe scenario of what could be classified alongside Inglourious Basterds as the genre of fantasy historical revenge movies.
Missing June 25th & 26th @2.50pm
Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek star as the father and wife of an American missing in Chile, in acclaimed Greek director Costa-Gavras’ first American film. An attack on Henry Kissinger’s brand of realpolitik, here masked by hypocritical mutterings about truth, justice, and the American Way, this vividly recreates the feel of Pinochet’s Chile; a regime enabled by CIA connivance in the overthrow of Allende’s democratically elected socialist government. There is a sense of kicking a dead donkey about this as Nixon was already out of power, but Costa-Gavras at least clothes his political points in empathetic flesh and blood characters.
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You are required to have completed a DBS check and medical clearance prior to the start of your training. Subject knowledge enhancement courses (which are free) are available if you wish to further improve your subject specialism. Help can also be provided for the skills test if required. Once a place has been offered you are welcome to come and work within departments to familiarise yourself with the school and colleagues you will be working with.
SJCR as a Lead School in Tower Hamlets recruits, selects and trains its own prospective teachers working with its partner schools in London and Essex.
Over 50 of our current teaching staff gained QTS with us, and are still with us, many in senior positions. Please see our school website in the ‘learn to teach’ section to hear what former and current trainees have to say. We offer salaried, tuition fee and apprenticeship routes.
We were founded by the city businessman, Sir John Cass in 1710. Every year on the anniversary of his birth, students go to the City of London to take part in an historical ceremony held in his memory, and wear a red feather a symbol of the quill pen with which Sir John signed his will.
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Agenda and draft minutes
Environment, Culture and Communities Overview & Scrutiny Panel
Tuesday, 18 June 2019 7.30 pm
Printed draft minutes PDF 156 KB
Contact: Louise Connelly 01344 354047
Election of Chairman
RESOLVED that Councillor Porter be elected Chairman of the Panel for the Municipal year 2019/20.
Appointment of Vice Chairman
RESOLVED that Councillor McKenzie-Boyle be appointed Vice-Chairman of the Panel for the Municipal year 2019/20.
Minutes and Matters Arising PDF 170 KB
To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Environment, Culture and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Panel held on 5 March 2019.
RESOLVED: that the Minutes of the Environment, Culture and Communities Overview & Scrutiny Panel held on 3 July 2019 be approved as a correct record, and signed by the Chairman.
Declarations of Interest and Party Whip
Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests and the nature of that interest, including the existence and nature of the party whip, in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.
There were no declarations of interest relating to any items on the agenda, nor any indication that Members would be participating under the party whip.
To receive submissions from members of the public which have been submitted in advance in accordance with the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny.
No submissions had been made by members of the public under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme for Overview and Scrutiny.
Directorate Overview
Members will be provided with an overview of the Directorates that relate to Environment, Culture and Communities.
Kevin Gibbs, Executive Director: Delivery, Damian James, Assistant Director: Contracts and Neil Matthews, Head of Highways and Transport provided members with an overview of the teams that fed into the Panel.
LED Lighting Task and Finish Group Update
Cllr Porter, Chairman of the LED Lighting Task and Finish Group will provide a verbal update on the work of this group.
The Chairman of the LED Lighting Task and Finish Group, Cllr Porter, informed members the report would take the form of a short video. All members involved in the LED Lighting Task and Finish Group would be invited to be part of the video which would be made available to members and to the public via social media.
Houses in Multiple Occupation Task and Finish Group Update
Cllr Brossard, Chairman of the Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Task and Finish Group will provide a verbal update on the work of this group.
The Chairman of the Houses in Multiple Occupation Task and Finish Group, Cllr Brossard, informed members the report would take the form of an animation with a voice over. It would be available to members and via social media once completed.
Parking Strategy PDF 1 MB
Members are asked to discuss and consider the headlines from the Council’s parking strategy.
Damian James, Assistant Director: Contracts informed members the Chairman had requested a new reporting format from officers designed to generate debate. The report had a number of questions throughout the report to allow scrutiny Members to help shape the Parking Strategy which would be put forward to the Executive for decision.
It was explained that Bracknell Forest Council was responsible for parking enforcement under the Traffic Management Act 2004. Members were being asked to discuss the new Parking Strategy which would run 2019-2024 and the Strategy would inform the new contract for parking which was due to expire next year and last up to eight years. The objective of the new Parking Strategy was to enforce parking fairly and encourage off street parking.
Members asked for the following points to be taken into account in relation to the Strategy:
Question 1.1 ‘Is wholly outsourcing parking enforcement to SABA (formerly known as Indigo) the right model in the future?’
· Consider using Section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 to address nuisance parkers.
· The definition of nuisance parking needed to be clearer in the Strategy. E.g. parking on pavements and walkways.
· Data highlighting areas density of parking problems around the Borough should be included in the Strategy.
· Clarification of the proportion of parking fines issued but not collected would be useful.
· Action should be given to consider how the Council worked with external partners, such as Silva Homes. E.g. identification of grass verges big enough to turn over to parking without detriment to the green space.
· Asses training for parking enforcement staff, especially around enforcement of the Blue Badge scheme.
· Consider subterranean parking and other options, particularly in new developments and community hubs, where space is precious.
· The Council should work more closely with DVLC on enforcement.
Question 1.2 ‘What are the Panel’s views for cost v quality?
· The Strategy needs to take account of a perceived reduction in customer service if people do not see parking enforcement officers on the street.
· Use of new technologies was good because it would ‘free up’ parking enforcement officers in town and enable them to work out of town more often.
· Have a contingency of extra resources, (currently 17) should occasion require.
· The Strategy should analyse data about whether people were having difficulties using ANPR or other technologies.
Question 1.3 ‘What is the Panel’s view on the use of technology in improving the customer’s experience?’
· The Strategy should take into account the different parking pressures in different areas, i.e. residential v business needs and future proof according to build density in different areas.
· Cashless system not appropriate at this point in time as a number of residents still used cash although it was recognised this had a cost impact in terms of collecting cash from pay points.
· Offer as wide a range of payment options as possible including cash, debit/credit card, online portal and apps.
· Build in flexibility to incorporate new technologies as they come on stream during the life of the contract. ... view the full minutes text for item 10.
Quarterly Service Report (QSR) PDF 3 MB
To consider the latest trends, priorities and pressures in terms of departmental performance as reported in the QSR for the fourth quarter of 2019/20 (January to March 2019) relating to Environment, Culture and Communities.
Panel members are asked to give advance notice to the Governance and Scrutiny Team of any questions relating to the Quarterly Service Report where possible.
Delivery QSR 2018-19 Q4 , item 11. PDF 449 KB
QSR questions from members , item 11. PDF 92 KB
It was agreed that due to questions being submitted on the day officers would respond to the questions following the meeting and answers would be published with the minutes.
Executive Forward Plan PDF 123 KB
To consider scheduled Executive Key and Non-Key Decisions relating to Environment, Culture and Communities.
Members received and noted the scheduled Key and Non-Key Executive Decisions relating to Environment, Culture and Communities.
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Detroit Democrat
Small "d" in the Big "D"
Revenge of the Reagan Democrats
A Trump rally in Macomb County. Detroit Free Press
“Good riddance, my Macomb barometer,” wrote Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg in a New York Times op-ed in the wake of the 2008 election of Barack Obama. “I’m finished with the Reagan Democrats of Macomb County in suburban Detroit after making a career of spotlighting their middle-class anger and frustrations about race and Democratic politicians.”
Two decades earlier, Greenberg had coined the term “Reagan Democrat” to describe the white, largely non-college-educated voters who turned against the party of Roosevelt in the wake of the 1960s – a shift he attributed largely to their racial resentments. In focus groups Greenberg conducted in Macomb, he found that his white, working-class respondents “expressed a profound distaste for black America…Blacks constituted the explanation for their vulnerability and for almost everything that had gone wrong in their lives.”
In 2008, Greenberg returned to Macomb County and found that its people were far more preoccupied with the nation’s economic crisis than they were with racial resentments. The majority were ready to elect a black president who promised to help restore middle-class prosperity – and on election day, they did. Obama won Macomb by eight points.
In his post-election op-ed, Greenberg concluded that Macomb County had become “normal and uninteresting.” The more politically interesting place was now neighboring Oakland County. Long Macomb’s wealthier suburban twin, Oakland was now considerably more diverse as well, and while Macomb’s sprawling factories represented the declining landscape of American manufacturing, the “teachers, lawyers and high-tech professionals” of Oakland embodied the new service-oriented economy.
Oakland had once been as reliably Republican as Macomb had been reliably Democratic. Yet in 2008, Oakland went for Obama by 15 points, which Greenberg described as a symbol of emerging Democratic dominance in “the country’s growing, more diverse and well-educated suburbs.” In future elections, Greenberg predicted, it would be to Oakland, not Macomb, that presidential candidates from both parties traveled, “to see the new America.”
As the disaster of November 8, 2016 unfolded, however, it became clear that the so-called “old America” was still very much alive. Continue reading “Revenge of the Reagan Democrats”
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Was there a moment when you knew programming was the right career for you?
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#discuss #career
Was there a particular instance that influenced you to choose software engineering as your career? Was there one moment in time or did it happen over time?
My impactful moment happened at Cape Canaveral, FL after the Apollo 11 space launch. My dad took me to see the spent launchpad. He had been part of team responsible for the successful launch having designed the gantry supports. It was clear he was in awe of what had been accomplished there. I told him I wanted to be an engineer, too. He told me I could do anything I wanted and he was sure I would make him proud.
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Justin Cooksey
I would say that it was when I got my first taste of coding around the mid 1980s on a MicroBee then Amstrad. My career went down another (IT) path but I'm getting back now with a little coding for work. Considering how to get more involved in coding again.
JR Author
You must be from the UK :) Its good to connect with another dev who remembers the '80s! lol btw I did the same: started in tech and stopped to raise a family. It was a challenge to find the resources to update my skills but not impossible. It's easier today. Good luck!
Kasey Speakman
I didn't really know it until after I had written several programs for various employers. The whole time I was thinking it was too brain-frying and I wanted to do sysadmin (aka ops) instead. I got a job doing linux sysadmin, then moved into HPC (aka supercomputer) admin. About 6 months later, the program manager told me he wanted me to move to a programming project as I was the only one available with the background. I was reluctant, but as I reflected back on what I did in HPC, I realized that I mostly wrote scripts to automate maintenance of the cluster of servers. And the more senior HPC admin was happy to let me do it. So I thought even when I'm doing admin, I choose mostly to automate things by writing code. I decided maybe it was a career path for me after all, and endeavored to figure out how to make it less overwhelming to me. So glad I did.
Great story! Thank you for sharing that. Curious to know what steps you took to make it less overwhelming?
Up until that point, I mostly wrote programs as a jumble of code. They functioned, but to effectively work on it I had to load the whole program into my head. As the program grew larger, it eventually became impossible for my limited faculties to understand exactly what effects any single change would have. And it became frustrating to work on.
So I began to research how to make programs more maintainable, which led me to software architecture patterns. I started with the basics like 3-layer architecture. That was a big help, but eventually I found the rough edges. Throughout my career I've kept researching and striving for the goal of code that I don't dread maintaining.
After almost 2 decades, I feel like I am finally on the right trail. 🤣 But it turns out, on their own, the best tools in the world (if they existed) aren't enough to make good software. The more important part that I missed for many years is actually learning the customer's problem from their perspective. I can't tell you how many times I did exactly what the customer asked, but they were still disappointed with the outcome. Because I was too focused on using the tools instead of getting to the root of their problem.
Matt Moran
I kind of slid into it, really - I'd always been an enthusiastic programmer back in the days of 8-bit home computers, so after I finished my degree in French & Communication Arts & completely failed to get a job using any of the skills I'd learned during that course (speaking, reading & writing French, knowing about French history, literature & philosophy, but also how to cost a TV programme, how to write for kids or the stage, knowing about media history & politics, and linguistics, & semiotics) I got a job as a temp at what was then Transco (I think they're part of National Grid now?) & ended up taking care of the ISO9001 quality library, and designing databases & looking after the timesheeting system that Sema Group wrote for them. I figured I could make a lot more money than £10/hour doing this so went through all the companies that had tendered to be in the virtual joint venture that Sema did with Transco, applying for any kind of graduate position. Essentially, I was at home with computers & kinda inspired by some of the IT consultants I ended up working with, and wanted to be a part of that, properly. Capgemini ended up hiring me & giving me a job down in London looking after banking systems like ARTIS and CUTAS, old legacy stuff that involved DEC Alphas & AS/400s. It's been a long & weird journey via dead-end jobs in desktop support & application support, but as I approach 50 I'm a proper Java developer at last. Pretty happy with where I've ended up, although I'm always learning new stuff & would love to get more JS under my belt.
Small world; I work for Cap, too! (Senior Frontend dev NYC). Great story - interesting background.
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Survey shows potential for 25 million Verizon iPhones in 2011
Posted: January 27, 2011 2:38PM
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Pent up demand for an iPhone capable of working on Verizon Wireless could result in as many as 25 million new subscribers for the carrier this year, based on interest expressed by US mobile users on all four major mobile providers.
After being the hot rumor for years, the Verizon iPhone is finally nearing availability. Analysts' expectations for sales have been low across the board however, ranging from guess of 9 to 12 million sales.
However, William Power, an analyst with RW Baird & Co., has reported the potential for 25 million, cautioning, in a report by Wall Street Journal blogger John Paczkowski, that this is a "directional" number and not a prediction, because it depends on subscribers' eligibility and would be constrained by Apple's ability to produce enough handsets.
The number is based on a survey of 1,000 smartphone users across the four major carriers. Most of the number comes from existing Verizon customers, including 25 percent of its current smartphone users (4.8 million) and 29 percent of its feature phone users (19 million) who say they will "probably" or "definitely" switch, resulting in a total of 24.8 million likely buyers within Verizon's existing fold.
Interestingly, just 5.6 percent of AT&T's existing iPhone users (less than 2 million) reported that they were interested in switching to Verizon, contradicting the popular notion that most or at least a large portion of Verizon's iPhone customers will be existing iPhone users jumping ship from AT&T.
How iPhone 4 will impact US carriers
AT&T itself has expressed confidence that relatively few of its iPhone users will switch, in part because of being involved in family or business plans that are difficult to change. AT&T also offers faster data service and some features (such as simultaneous voice and data, and global roaming) that are not possible on Verizon's network with the new CDMA iPhone 4, at least for users who live in spots where AT&T offers good coverage.
Across all carriers, it's interesting to note that only 11 percent of Verizon's smartphone customers responded that they would "definitely not" or "probably not" get the new iPhone 4, while half of AT&T users, 54 percent of T-Mobile users, and 78 percent of Sprint smartphone users were similarly negative.
Both Sprint and T-Mobile are focused on selling their new high speed data services, yet a report by the New York Times indicated that a very small percentage of subscribers are paying for smartphones.
According to data from the CTIA trade group, AT&T has the most smartphone users, despite having slightly fewer total subscribers compared to Verizon. AT&T has only a sliver of Android users, in part because it has historically only carried a very low end model, and in part because it has the iPhone.
Verizon has the largest number of US Android subscribers, serving nearly half of Google's platform in the US. With Verizon poised to direct its resources toward replicating AT&T's success in converting more of its feature phone users into smartphone users, this portion of the Android installed base is likely to erode quickly.
That leaves Sprint and T-Mobile as the two largest US carriers without (currently) an iPhone they can sell, and thus reliant on Android and other smartphone platforms to drive data subscriptions and pay for their efforts to build out fast new data networks.
iPhone 5 everywhere?
But with Android getting squashed on Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will be left with a platform as obscure as their 4G wireless technologies. Sprint is alone in pushing WiMAX, while T-Mobile is building out HSPA+, albeit on radio frequencies unlike most other carriers globally, and incompatible with the existing iPhone.
However, Sprint, like Verizon, can already sell the existing CDMA iPhone 4, something Apple appears to have alluded to in its careful notation that its deal with Verizon was "non-exclusive," something that was already obvious given that AT&T isn't losing its iPhone relationship.
Additionally, with Apple expected to move to a Qualcomm "world mode" baseband processor in iPhone 5 and iPad 2, it's more likely than ever that the company will soon be able to support T-Mobile's unique 3G frequencies (now being branded as "4G" because they're now operating faster than early "transitional 4G" networks such as the LTE now being built by Verizon), making it potentially possible (pending carrier agreements) to ship the iPhone across all four major US networks.
Such a move would erase Android's ability to act as a smartphone driver for data contracts on any network, relegating Google's platform down into competing against Windows Phone 7, Samsung's Bada, and embedded, proprietary platforms (like those used by LG's enV line and most feature phones) for a piece of the low end phone business.
This all happened before
A year ago, a series of analysts all weighed in with very positive comments on the newly unveiled iPad, but their sales expectations were very conservative, ranging from predictions of just 1 to 4 million units being sold in its first year. Apple has already sold 14.7 million iPads in its first three quarters.
However, the ability of iPad to attract users' attentions resulted in every carrier rushing to deliver mobile service MiFi devices it could be used with, some custom designed to only work with Apple products. By last fall, Verizon was already officially carrying the iPad, a harbinger of its widening agreement to pick up a CDMA iPhone 4 a few months later.
The result has been a tally of iPads far beyond what any analyst, or even the most giddy enthusiast, had ever dreamed of predicting.
martimus3060 Posts: 50member
It is interesting to see all the poll data they are able to spit out, but we are on the verge of getting real numbers to look at. I suspect the polling (and your point of view [mine too]) will be correct, and we will see iPhone users moving broader and deeper in the US smartphone pool, with Android taking a hit in the US. I suspect Android will continue to expand in markets where cost is a higher concern, but the value perception here in the US will knock Android fairly severely.
Another quarter, and we will have hard numbers to gage the situation properly.
tundraboy Posts: 1,617member
Seems like its all bad news all the time for Android these days. Or maybe because I'm reading mostly DED's articles. Or maybe because he's right.
But those numbers, if they are accurate are deadly for Google and the Android handset makers. My sample size of one for instance indicates that 100% of those surveyed does not own a smart phone because T-Mobile doesn't carry the iPhone but as soon as it does, ownership will increase infinite-fold.
Maybe finally AAPL will break out of its ridiculously low P/E ratio (19 vs Amazon's 75! That's just preposterous.)
wings Posts: 261member
The problem with that forecast is that Apple won't be able to make that many.
aiaddict Posts: 487member
No one with half a brain believes this crap. Android will still sell on high end phones with data contracts.
Originally Posted by tundraboy
Android is going to have a tougher time winning customers in the US market, but much of this is DED's spin more than anything based on reality. Android is not static and is still very young. It will keep getting better and it will continue to be Apple's prime competition in the phone space and soon in the tablet space. I am not giving up my iPhones for Android anytime soon, but it is a very strong second place in my book with the others far behind, and who knows how Android and iOS will measure up in 1-2 years. Android could always catch up or even jump ahead, so it pays to keep an open mind.
Originally Posted by Wings
Apple is certainly capable of making 25 million phones in 12 months. The real problem is taking what 1000 people across 4 carriers and looking at the responses of a fraction of them on one carrier SAID they would do, and then projecting that into what millions of people actually WILL do. Many will change their minds in the months ahead for all sorts of reasons. And that is just the "definitely" responders. Probably usually means less than a 50% chance of follow through. Often much less.
I think the 9 million estimates are likely a touch low, but any number over 15 million needs a few grains of salt. Heck the author is still forecasting 10 million while pointing out the survey results could imply 25 million. If the author (William Power) does not believe it, what does that tell you?
What is more interesting is the general agreement that the number of AT&T ship jumpers will be relatively low. Most estimates are 500,000 to 1 million, maybe 1.5 million. They sure are a noisey lot but time will tell how many of them there really are.
mdriftmeyer Posts: 7,281member
China will be the biggest buyer, by far.
solipsism Posts: 25,726member
If that new factory is running at full tilt they can do 200k per day, or 65M units for the 325 days remaining in 2011 from the Verizon launch day. That’s one Foxconn factory. That probably won’t suffice for the entire world’s iPhones for 2011, but it will be a hefty portion of it.
ghostface147 Posts: 1,629member
Whoa whoa whoa. Android getting squashed on Verizon? I don't think so. They will continue to grow. It might slow for a little bit, but they aren't going anywhere.
archos Posts: 152member
Originally Posted by AIaddict
It's not a matter of keeping an open mind, but one of looking at facts. Your "open mind" disregards the facts to keep your opinion blank, but that' isn't as open and bias-free as you think. It's really just a conservative attempt to ignore facts that don't fit your world view so your hopes can be preserved, in tact, without meddlesome contention with the actual facts at hand.
Like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.
Also, to your other "point," the article doesn't say Android won't sell with high end phones at all. It says it Android's inability to sell contracts (as Verizon witnessed last year) will largely relegate it into the role of low end phones. Just like PCs, where Windows is on most things, but most things are cheap sub$500 machines. Most of the high end is owned by Apple, even if there are expensive Windows PCs you can buy.
bagman Posts: 349member
Excellent observations on human behavior. I expect that the numbers switchig to Verizon from ATT will be MUCH less also, due to the faster data speeds on ATT (which have just been upgraded here in the Bay Area in the last couple of weeks).
Also, I believe that ATT folks will want to see how the Verizon network holds up under the strain, since that has been the whole "reason d'etre" for doing the switch in the first place, and the plan costs are so similar as to make the cost comparisons moot.
As we say "We'll see - said the blind man".
sflocal Posts: 4,652member
I do agree in that if the iPhone never existed, Android would be the only system I would use. I'd just be shaking my head in disgust with the system model being similar to the mess that is Windows. It's a very distant 2nd place choice for me. As long as Apple keeps improving and polishing iOS, they will have me as a happy consumer.
I don't think Android is going anywhere anytime soon. In the worst-case scenario, Google would abandon it for whatever reason, it'll go into the public domain where then everyone would get their hands on it and hack to system so it's only Android by name, but fragmented beyond compatibility.
You seem to like saying that opinions have a problem with "follow through," but the same can be said, on the other side, of snowballing momentum. There are far more people buying the iPhone than there were people originally "expressing interest," not the other way around.
That's another fact you don't like because it doesn't support your fundamentalist assertions about the future of Android.
Originally Posted by sflocal
If the iPhone never existed, Android would be offering a device equivalent to the 1997 Windows Mobile and Palm Treo phones that it was originally designed to copy. Why anyone would prefer that sort of Android phone to a Treo or BlackBerry is hard to say.
Android is only notable today because Google was quicker to copy Apple than RIM, Palm, and Microsoft. If it hadn't had Apple to copy, there'd be no Android as we know it.
Originally Posted by Archos
Without iPhone, there would have been no demand for Android.
Originally Posted by SpamSandwich
Without iPhone there would have been no Android, at least not one that wasn’t mirroring the Blackberry.
I was vague and did a bad assumption. I was going with the assumption that Android would be in its current form.
Yes, Android was in a different form during the pre-iPhone days. Frankly, had it been just like the other players, I'd probably still be using a regular cell phone.
anonymouse Posts: 6,580member
... If it hadn't had Apple to copy, there'd be no Android as we know it.
Yes, one fact that a lot of people seem to ignore is that their are two smartphone OSs called Android. There's the pre-iPhone, BB/Treo clone OS that was abandoned after the iPhone was released and never made it into the wild. Then, there's the post-iPhone Android that is available today. Two different OSs, one name, seems to cause a lot of confusion for a lot of people
noexpectations Posts: 481member
25 million unlimited-data-plan users....hmmm....there goes that network.
What the hell is wrong with you? Saying that I will keep an open mind about Android in the next couple of years even though I like the iPhone now is some how in contention with the facts? And then pulling in conservatism and politics? Dude, you need to get off the internet and go find a shrink. FAST!
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Thread: Wrestling Games
RubbarDucklin
Insert Coin (Level 0)
When I was younger I was totally into pro wrestling and stuff. I baught almost every game that came out for the n64. WWF and WCW titles. I recently played them and they are still pretty fun. Is this because I used to like wrestling or is it because the gameplay is pretty good. What is your guys' take on them.
Kirby (Level 13)
Classic Jersey
I love em too. There is one tho that I love the most for some odd reason. "Pro Wrestling" for the Sega Master System. I dunno what it is. Probably that I was playing it back when I was all into the WWF. I think me and my best friend back then played that game before AND after Wrestlemania 2 or 3? Either way, feels like a long long time ago
Arqueologia_Digital
Pac-Man (Level 10)
I like some wrestling games...but it´s not my favorite genre.
I never forget Pro Wrestling for NES
josekortez
ServBot (Level 11)
I didn't like wrestling when I was a kid, but my new love is Def Jam Vendetta on the Cube. However, I like the hip-hop aspects better than the wrestling aspects. And the girlfights...mrrow!
I also own Smackdown on PS2 because it was cheap. However, it has nice arcade style gameplay.
I'll probably buy Ultimate Muscle for the 'Cube, because the show is so wacky...
Oh, and I have Legends of Wrestling for the Cube. It was also cheap, but I haven't really played it much.
Currently catching up on PSN, WiiWare, Wii U E-Shop and Xbox Live Arcade exclusives I missed.
zmeston
Peach (Level 3)
Re: Wrestling Games
Originally Posted by RubbarDucklin
My favorite 2D wrestling game is Fire Pro Wrestling G, a PS1 import developed by Human. It's filled with huge sticky gobs of Japanese text, but there are tons of translation FAQs available for it. Quite probably the deepest wrestling game ever made. The GBA versions of Fire Pro from bam! are also sweet.
On the 3D tip, I really liked the latest WWE game from THQ, despite the fact that said organization (and pro wrestling as a whole) is running on fumes. There's even talk of instituting a WWE "off-season," instead of the current nonstop TV and house shows, to try and revive public interest. My favorite wrestler, Lance Storm, has a great commentary about the pros and cons of an off-season on his website, http://www.stormwrestling.com.
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IntvGene
Pear (Level 6)
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FirePro is the best series ever! It's lesser known because the series has only recently come to North America, on the GBA. But, the best one out right now is FirPro D for the Dreamcast, in my opinion. You can have the 8-player Royal Rumble in that one. However, the series is supposedly ending with the release of FirePro Z for the PS2 in June.
If you like wrestling, give it a try. FirePro D has kickboxers, guys from UFC, and wrestlers from all over the world. Plus, you can make your own wrestler too. The graphics aren't sweet, but the gameplay is amazing. One hit "Criticals" are awesome. But, the best thing that I think about it is that there are NO energy bars. This is the best way to play the game because you never know when you are going to get the pin, and you can comeback from anything. There's still health, but you just can't see it. I can't tell you the number of hours I've played Fire Pro. Once you've gone FirePro, you can't go back.
Quintracker
Banana (Level 7)
middle of nowhere, WV
I like to pull out a wrestling game from time to time. One game that me and my bro could play for hours was Saturday Night Slam Masters on the snes. With all the Capcom characters it was great!
junglehunter
Apple (Level 5)
My favorite NES Wrestling game was WCW Wrestling just because of Animal and Hawk. A wrestling title I picked up not long ago was Tag Team Wrestling for the NES but holy crap does that game suck. I also bought (and later sold) Super Fire Pro Wrestling for the Super Famicom. I like the realism and the characters, but I can't quite get the timing right so I lost interest. My current favorites are the AKI wrestling games on the N64.
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Lately we've been playing Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth on PS2. We don't use the real wrestlers, save for a couple...we use our own created guys, based on stories written by us, characters from our friend Nick's old wrestling shindig, and people we know.
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The AKI games for the N64 are probably my favorites, next to Fire Pro D on the dreamcast. I prefer the N64 ones only due to the fact that I can read the menus to make the CAWs. But to answer the original question, it's probably because the gameplay itself is so well done. Many people agree that the best US wrestling game is No Mercy for N64.
AKI, also made Def Jam Vendetta, for those that like the engine.
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Holy crap. It's been a while.
The Clonus Horror
Cherry (Level 1)
Chequamegon Bay, WI
The game(s) that have probably garnered the most hours of play for me are the Smackdown Series. I thought that #3 (Just Bring It) was the most poorly done. I recently had to sell my PS2 and Xbox to pay an unexpected bill, and I popped in the original Smackdown and it was still surprisingly fun.
I bought an N64 specifically for No Mercy, as I'd heard all the hype. I like the system, but after playing Smackdown, the characters all seem like they're moving through a thick sludge. However, I get used to it and enjoy that game immensely.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Tecmo World Wrestling on the NES! Tom Talker Rules!
Pro Wrestling on the NES was fun and a good retro-play now and then. Even better, I just created all of the Pro Wrestling characters on Smackdown 2: Know Your Role!
Shut Your Mouth (when I had it) was FAST. I usually just played the Royal Rumble or Survival matches. I played through Season twice and still didn't have everything unlocked.
jaydubnb
Midwood, Brooklyn, NYC
In my eyes there are only two true wrestling games: Fire Pro D and Virtual Pro Wrestling 2. Out of those two, FPD is the definite favorite due to the sheer amount of characters and the "simple to learn, hard to master" gameplay...not to mention the greatest create a wrassler edit mode, i've ever encountred. Besides, there's nothing more satifying than beating the living crap outta the red and yellow Hogan inside of an electrified, exploding steel cage
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IMO, the Sega All Japan series of games is far too often overlooked. Certainly my favorite series of wrestling games. Not sure which of them is my favorite however. The Saturn game, All Japan Pro Wrestling featuring Virtua, is the most realistically paced of the series - it is the slowest. It is brought down a bit by the graphics (compared to the DC games), the movesets being a bit dated, and the horrible way they included the two VF characers.
The first DC game, All Japan Pro Wrestling 2: Giant Gram is probably a better game, with lots of enhancements, but the speed was increased a bit. A little faster than appropriate, but still OK. All Japan Pro Wrestling 3: Giant Gram 2000 provided loads of enhancements, but unfortunately the gameplay was sped up yet again, to the point where it was too fast (gee, kind of like the Dead or Alive series - the original, in the arcade, got the speed right. Starting with the PSX port and through the sequels, the play has been sped up, ruining it). GG2000 has a mode where you much re-enact famous matches in AJPW history, which is tremendously fun if you know the history.
For me, this series stands above the others simply due to the play mechanics. Though some have argued that the controls make it feel too arcade-y, I would say they strike the right balance between the too simplistic controls of most games (Fire Pro, VPW) and the arcade style. Once in a grapple, instead of just pushing a button and maybe a direction, you may need some timing or additional movements to do better moves. For example, once in a grapple, hit the one button to go to the back of your opponent. From there, a single button and move in some direction would perform a backdrop. But if you do a little more, you can turn it into a more effective "backu drop driiivaaaaah!!!" (as the excited announcer says).
That's where the Fire Pro series really falls short. As a wrestling fan the game is great fun. But as a gamer with no interest in wrestling, there's nothing there. The gameplay is so repetitive... grapple and do level 1 moves for 5 minutes, then level 2 moves for 5 minutes, then level 3 for a bit and pin. No strategy, nothing engaging in the controls, just mindless repetition. There's a ton to see and do in the game, but almost zero depth in the gameplay. I still really like the series (have a couple of the games), but it is grossly overrated. I was very disappointed when I first played a game in this highly hyped series. Of course, nowhere near as disappointed as when I got Touken Retsuden 4...
Among US games, the Aki N64 games are certainly the best of the bunch. The GBA FP shouldn't be overlooked, but almost everything else should be. The Smackdown games are abysmal, yet still leaps and bounds better than the Acclaim games. Haven't tried the Legends of Wrestling games, or the Def Jam games, and probably won't. I imagine my next wrestling game purchase will be the Kinnikuman GC game, or the KOC games.
I guess that I should have mentioned WHY I love the Smackdown games: They have a real "pick up and play" Arcade-style quality to them. I really like Smackdown 2's create a wrestler mode. But, when it's all said and done, I really play them for their arcade feel. I dislike sims, rpgs, and all of that stuff, simply because I have no time for them. I can't do marathon gaming sessions without sacrificing some other part of my adult life, so the few games I DO play are old school arcade games or the Smackdown Series. Then again, that's just me. I'm still amused by games like MegaMania on the 2600, or Demon Attack on the Intellivision, so it should come to no surprise that the lack of "depth" in the Smackdown Series doesn't bother me.
simonbelmont7
WCW vs NWO World Tour was great for one reason, (well many reasons actually, along with Revenge, and No Mercy) but it had SABU!!!!! And if any of you are real wrestling fans, youll know why. Cant forget Saturday Night Slammasters for SNES. OH MY GOD! You could actually bring the table in the ring!!! Ahhh the memories....=)
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Evil_Skrilla
WCW NWO world tour had Sabu?
yep, under a different name. If i had my n64 hooked up I could tell ya which he was. From what I was told, all the characters, from the other organzations where just renamed for the US. In japan, they were really New Japan, FMW, All Japan, Wings, etc. =)
petewhitley
Aichi, Japan
Can I get a "hell yeah!" for Star Man from Pro Wrestling (NES)? Man he kicked some ass...
digitalpress
classicus carnivorous
Circling about overhead
My favorite 2D wrestling game is WWF Royal Rumble on SNES. Ah, Earthquake, we hardly knew ye.
My favorite 3D wrestling game is now Def Jam Vendetta, the successor to years of N64 greats like Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy. I still need a little practice, I'm having some trouble getting past the 3-on-1 fight in the story mode.
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stonecutter
I have been thinking of getting Legends of Wrestling 2 for any platform, can anyone comment on this game please.
scooterb23
Ladd Spencer (Level 17)
Can' comment on Legends II, other than to say I haven't heard the best reviews in the world for it...not horrible, just not a classic.
My personal favorite was EPYX Championship Wrestling on the C64...I can't remember a single character from the game, I just remember playing it every day for about 2 years...
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Originally Posted by simonbelmont7
WCW vs NWO World Tour was great for one reason, (well many reasons actually, along with Revenge, and No Mercy) but it had SABU!!!!!
He in WCW vs The World on the PSX... think his name was David Harley (or something similarly lame) there. I don't see him in the FAQs for WCW vs NWO, and I don't recall him being in it.
The stand my TV is sitting on is made in part of a table that Sabu went through at an ECW show a few years ago. Think he put Buh Buh Ray Dudley through it (before the WWF changed his name to Bubba). Rather than fight the traffic after the show, I just hung around inside around the ring and they asked me if I wanted anything. Trust me, if you ever want to get strange looks from people, walk through a parking lot with the remains of a folding table...
tynstar
smackdown series is really good. Wrestlemania X8 on GameCube suckes ass.
The best wrestling game of all time is WWF Royal Rumble on Sega Genesis.
Yup, david harley on WCW vs the World for PSX was Sabu, Ill hook up the n64 and let ya know though. I might be thinkin of Revenge, its been soo long since ive played either. either way, hes got a "fake wrestler" name in the us verison, like david harley in the psx game. Anyway. Sabu is the true icon of wrestling =) Seen him a few times myself, but never got a piece of one of his busted tables, lucky bastard =)
FMW? Really now? Was Megumi Kudo in there too?
Megumi Kudo = sexy and hardcore. You don't see Lita taking a hand scythe to the head in a barbed wire C4 match. Ahh, japanese pro wrestling. so fun.
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Assessing my longtime soap opera addiction
By Pat Van Dyke on July 5, 2019 Pat’s Funny Bone
If I were to have an addiction, it wouldn’t be to chocolate, shopping, or quilting. Not that I don’t love chocolate, shopping, or quilting.
I have been known to hide a Snickers bar or two in the bottom of my purse to eat while I visit Joann’s Fabrics to add to my quilting “stash,” AKA – pieces of fabric in various lengths and colors that I just might need “someday.”
It’s not like I don’t have an accomplice in my possible shopping/quilting addiction. Pastor Pete has mastered the stance of looking impatient while waiting for his “number” to be called Joann’s fabric cutting table while I continue to fill the cart with precious bolts of fabric.
He knows how to request a quarter yard of “this” and a half yard of “that.” He knows the difference between batting and interfacing. He has no fear of snaps, zippers, or buttons but Velcro does make him cringe at times.
I don’t look at quilting as an addiction. It’s more of a shopping bonding experience for the two of us. I experience the joy of shopping and Pastor Pete experiences the thrill of making me happy and paying for all of it!
But I do have one addiction from time to time: Watching soap operas!
I watched my first soap opera when I was 12 years old and spent a few weeks on a relative’s farm. My cousins and aunt gathered around the TV every afternoon to watch “As the World Turns.” Thus, began my addiction.
I watched every summer until college, took a four-year break in college, returned to my habit for another 15 years until I finally woke up and added everything up.
I had wasted 21 years watching and being “concerned” (I don’t worry – I’m concerned) about people that didn’t even exist. That all adds up to 5,481 hours for one soap opera!
I didn’t watch just one, I watched five! That totals to 27,405 hours in 21 years. During that time, I could have birthed 4.2 children!
At times, I would get the families mixed up especially when the actors would switch to another soap opera and another character. I would become upset at an actress on one show and then be expected to forget all the villainous acts she committed on the prior show.
Would I? Not me! If I had a soap opera grudge, it lasted forever. Even if she would have portrayed Florence Nightingale, I would have had a hard time accepting her.
Then there were all the marriages. Do you realize that Lisa from “As the World Turns” was married eight times! She divorced three men, was widowed four times and annulled once. Her legal name on the show (if the show were still on TV) was Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Coleman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn.
The queen of all that is good and bad about soap operas is the character of Erica Kane from “All My Children.” She was married 11 times. I could never figure out why so many men could be so stupid.
Okay, I can understand three or four, maybe, but 11! I don’t think numbers eight through 11 should be allowed to drive, vote, or participate in anything other than a watermelon eating contest. She did marry one of them twice. I think he overdosed on “Dumb Pills.”
The main thing that really forced me to consider why I was even taking five minutes to watch soap operas, were the characters who died and then came back months later.
The storyline was that either they faked their death, had amnesia, were lost in a jungle in an unknown country, or kidnapped.
When the plot revealed that the “dead character” didn’t realize that people thought that he was dead, it was almost believable. After all, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn pulled that off once, but only once.
However, “Days of Our Lives” Stefano DiMera pulled that one over and over again. Get a clue, people! If he did it once, it’s believable. Twice, I may question. But after three times, I would stop attending his funerals unless they gave me a ticket to punch and after every fourth funeral, I would get a pass to Disneyland.
Stefano died by a brain tumor, heart attack, stroke, drowning, plane crash, fire, gunshot, car crash, car submerging in icy waters and erupting into a fireball. Some of these were the cause of his death more than once. My advice would be to avoid ever being in the same room, car, boat, or plane with him; and I would never borrow his horse!
I did find a solution to this entire situation on the Hallmark station. Six months ago, I discovered “When Calls the Heart.” It was perfect for me: a story about a pioneer town with a teacher, Canadian Mountie, bank, lumber yard and all else that makes Hope Valley “home.”
I mindlessly binge-watched the first three seasons and blindly jumped into the fourth before I noticed that it was a “soap opera in disguise.”
It only airs 13 weeks a year, one episode a week. That means I would only have to waste 13 hours a year on being “concerned” about their lives.
This I might be able to do; but after thinking it over, I don’t think the characters really need me poking into their lives. I’ll let them get on with life without any comments from me.
After all, how much trouble could a person like Abigail Stanton get into and it’s not like they would “kill off” a major character such as Mountie Jack Thornton. I’m sure they both realize they have job security for years to come. There will be no surprises here, that’s for sure!
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Space Launcher
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European arcade flyer of Space Launcher. Notice that the enemy spacecrafts on this poster resemble the TIE Fighters of the Star Wars series.
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Space Launcher (スペースランチャー, Supēsu Ranchā?) is a 1979 arcade game developed and published by Nintendo. Some sources[1][2][3] claim that Ikegami Tsushinki also did design work on Space Launcher. It was distributed by Far East Video in Europe.
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Screenshot of Space Launcher.
The gameplay and layout is similar to Frogger, except Space Launcher was released two years earlier. The object of the game is to fly the rocket up to any of the four ports to pick up treasures (points), fly back down to the starting point and repeat while avoiding enemies and projectiles. When the rocket flies near the enemies on top of the screen, the damaging shield on the tip of the rocket's nose turns on, allowing players to destroy enemies with it. Point values increase as players become more successful in destroying more than one enemy. Players have a limited amount of rockets to fly, and when all of them are destroyed, the game is over.
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↑ It started from Pong (それは『ポン』から始まった : アーケードTVゲームの成り立ち, sore wa pon kara hajimatta: ākēdo terebi gēmu no naritachi?), Masumi Akagi (赤木真澄, Akagi Masumi?), Amusement Tsūshinsha (アミューズメント通信社, Amyūzumento Tsūshinsha?), 2005, ISBN 4-9902512-0-2.
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R. E. Silva, Arruda, J. T., Rodrigues, F. W., and Moura, K. K. V. O., “Primary open angle glaucoma was not found to be associated with p53 codon 72 polymorphism in a Brazilian cohort”, vol. 8, pp. 268-272, 2009.
J. T. Arruda, Silva, D. M., Silva, C. C., Moura, K. K. V. O., and da Cruz, A. D., “Homologous recombination between HERVs causes duplications in the AZFa region of men accidentally exposed to cesium-137 in Goiânia”, vol. 7, pp. 1063-1069, 2008.
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Porkahauntus to run for president
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Elizabeth Warren Announces Plans For Presidential Run
In a video announcement and email to supporters sent Monday morning, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that she was officially launching an exploratory committee to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination, making her the first candidate to officially announce in what's expected to be a "long and crowded" primary, according to the New York Times.
In her video, Warren leaned on the anti-Wall Street themes that have become a hallmark of her political career since she was elected to the Senate in 2013 after defeating moderate Republican incumbent Scott Brown. Prior to that, she had been a bankruptcy law professor at Harvard.
"I’ve spent my career getting to the bottom of why America’s promise works for some families, but others, who work just as hard, slip through the cracks into disaster," she said in the video. "And what I’ve found is terrifying: these aren’t cracks families are falling into, they’re traps. America’s middle class is under attack."
"But this dark path doesn’t have to be our future," she continued. "We can make our democracy work for all of us. We can make our economy work for all of us."
Every person in America should be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules, & take care of themselves & the people they love. That’s what I’m fighting for, & that’s why I’m launching an exploratory committee for president. I need you with me: https://t.co/BNl2I1m8OX pic.twitter.com/uXXtp94EvY
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) December 31, 2018
Warren's announcement comes after reports surfaced over the weekend that she and a handful of other prominent contenders woud likely announce by the end of January.
The race for the 2020 nomination is expected to be the most wide open for Democrats since 1992. Oddly enough, the most popular candidates according to public opinion polls are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, both of whom are still debating whether to run because of their advanced age.
By forming the committee, Warren can begin filling key staff roles and raising money for her primary bid. Though forming an exploratory committee is different than officially declaring an intention to run, it typically signals that a candidate is preparing to do so. CNN reported that Warren's staffers are searching for campaign headquarters space in the Boston area, and that Dan Geldon, who served as Warren's chief of staff and was once her student at Harvard, is likely to fill a senior role in her campaign.
Notably, Warren's decision to move toward an official announcement follows a decision by the editorial board for her hometown newspaper, the Boston Globe, to publish an editorial imploring Warren to abandon her plans for a potential run, claiming Warren "missed her moment in 2016, and there's reason to be skeptical of her prospective candidacy in 2020."
There's probably some truth to that, given her recent history of political gaffes, Warren will likely struggle with the perception that she's an inept campaigner ill-equipped to go toe-to-toe with President Trump. In a widely mocked decision, Warren took a DNA test intended to "prove" her Native American heritage. Instead, it had the opposite effect, showing that Warren has no more Native DNA than the average white American. Native American leaders accused Warren of undermining "tribal interests" with her failed political stunt.
Warren will face stiff competition: More than three dozen Democratic senators, governors, mayors and business leaders are also weighing primary bids. To accommodate the crush of contenders, the DNC recently revealed that it would double the number of primary debates during the 2020 campaign season from 6 to 12.
Cigarettes and alcohol have warning labels on them because they addictive, dangerous, and destroy lives. And yet women are allowed to walk around freely".
She want to be the chief.
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Just like a wreck you can't take your eyes off of. "Enjoy the show." - Q
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Someone_else
Maybe the "Go Go Gophers" will make her an honorary member of their tribe.
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Unca Walt
South Floriduh
This is excellent news.
She has already modified her tribe name: Fugawi Indians.
The were always lost.
"People do not have the right to unregulated rights in this country." -- Al Sharpton
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Honestly, the dims don't have ANYONE more suitable an the bonus is she's already a PROVEN liar! Welcome to another HUGE fail, dims!
Orthodox Jedi
Make mine a vodka and vicodin latte.
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CHIEF LYING LIZARD, lied about her heritage, lied about her pay from .gov during tarp bailouts and only came clean after she got caught lying during campaign
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Exploring ? Sure. Why not. As though anyone gives a flying f*ck about Warren.
Rumor has it that the left thinks Biden is best suited to run against Trump. Not really worried about him either. On the other hand, the rampant support and promotion of pedophilia within the Democratic party might actually have an impact.
"Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"The most improper job of any man... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it,
and least of all those who seek the opportunity." -J.R.R. Tolkien
Lizzie Borden would make a better president than Lizzie Warren.
Just my 7 cents (2 cents after taxes and inflation).
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On a speck of dust
Hopefully this will keep her busy so as to not do much in the Senate.
anywoundedduck
I am sure she will make a fine Democrat candidate.
Csnnot wait for her first rally. She will garner less support than Hillary. It will be embarrassing indeed.
5 people, along with Madonna and Hip Hop Daddy show up. Very embarrassing
Trump will make mincemeat out of her.
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hammerhead said:
Shes never done much in the senate except take up a chair
ZZZZZ said:
Lizzy Borden would make a better president than Lizzie Warren.
Well, an axe is just a big tomahawk...
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Knowing how many leftist drones we share the country with it won't surprise me if she actually gets elected! Don't laugh!!! Just when you think the world can't get any crazier, it does!
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oldgaranddad
On the top shelf.
The Democratic party establishment does not want Warren to run. I fully expect a flood of revelations of how the fake native American used those cheek bones for other nefarious gains. Time to gin up the popcorn popper and sit back and watch the political equivalent of professional wrestling play out over the next few months.
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." -- New York State Surrogate Court Judge Gideon John Tucker, Final Accounting in the Estate of A.B._, 1, Tucker (N.Y. Surrogate Court) 247, 249 (1866)
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oldgaranddad said:
Yep, it's all just a show to keep the Goy amused and distracted!
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This should prove to be interesting, 10 dems in full attack mode against each other, wonder if the dirt that comes out will sway any of the dim voters to switch parties
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anywoundedduck said:
Trump isn't running in 2020.
"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows. While the sage keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful, rowdy prisoners.......~
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gnome said:
The hell he ain't. He's been campaigning non stop since he took office. Better get used to the Idea that he is insulated, in charge and is gaining popularity and approval everyday.
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Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
"Porkahauntus" <snork> Heh
Good title work Z
There is crazy and then there is AOC crazy
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for fuck sake..........
ogallala flats
I wonder if shell get that bug eyed mud girl from NY to be her veep? This is gonna be good, a joke packed election cycle!
We dont want no trouble
Warren caught fibbing about TARP pay(they meant lying)
By Rick Moran
Let's cut Elizabeth Warren some slack. She was only off by $128,000 when she first released her salary for being chairman of TARP.
Anybody can make a mistake:
The campaign for Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren said Friday she had been paid $192,722 for serving as chairman of a congressional committee that monitored the 2008 federal bank bailout, three times as much as had originally been acknowledged.
The Warren campaign revised the figure following a POLITICO report on Thursday, highlighting the fact that the Congressional Oversight Panel, which oversaw the TARP program, has not publicly disclosed exactly how it spent $10.5 million on salaries, travel, consultants and other expenses. Warren said she now supports public access to the oversight panel's records, though her campaign wouldn't say if she plans to actively push to open up the records.
Warren served as the oversight panel's chairman from its creation in the fall of 2008 until September 2010, when President Barack Obama tapped her to help launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Senate Republicans, however, blocked her from being formally appointed to head the new agency.
Warren spokesman Kyle Sullivan initially said Warren, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to take on Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) next year, had earned $64,289 for serving on the oversight panel, based on executive-branch financial disclosure statements she filed for 2009 and 2010.
But Sullivan told POLITICO on Friday that the campaign had overlooked $128,433 Warren earned from the panel in 2009.
It's perfectly understandable how someone can "overlook" $128,000 in pay. It's only taxpayer's money, after all, and not even equal to a decimal point when you consider that TARP cost us $800 billion.
Given her careful tabulation of how the people's money is spent, she should fit right in if she wins election to the senate. Those guys can't count any better than she can.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/warren_caught_fibbing_about_tarp_pay.html#ixzz5bHqeIInr
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The dumb bimbo even gets heavily trolled by the HoR
https://twitter.com/statuses/1052954434739757056
That is interesting.
What am I to do with my "TRUMP 2020" hat?
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Son of Gloin
Certainty of death? What are we waiting for?
Just keep it for when he wins again. And he will.
"Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?" -Gimli
"Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive." -G. Edward Griffin
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The Fauxcahauntas memes will be epic and plentiful. I'll need to go buy another external hard drive to keep them on
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the_shootist said:
i wonder if the other dimwits running will take advantage of her lying about her ancectory
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Politics is cut throat...of course they will. She's running to take the heat and attention off Biden. She hasn't a ghost of a chance and will be a sacrificial lamb for the commies
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And still have the same job afterwards.
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This dem primary will be quite the festival of fools, Im waiting to see if the hag killary throws her hat into the ring
That would be a delicious appetizer.
The main course would be CCM (Chelsea Clinton's Momma) and have them all go after her for her blatantly criminal email server, Uranium One, the Clinton Foundation, and a dozen other crimes for which the FBI and the DOJ gave her a free pass.
It's already started: Bernie vs. Beto.
Bernie Supporters Slam Beto O'Rourke’s Progressive Bona Fides but Mostly Ignore Pot, Immigration, and War
That makes sense. But, what if all those little creepy uncle Joe videos leak out, right before the election?
Son of Gloin said:
You can guarandamntee Biden's creepy antics will be on full display if he foolishly tried to run, provided he's not already rotting in Gitmo.
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SomethingSavage
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Ricky Jackson
WWE TV 07/15 - 07/21 Flipping burgers to become Ambassador
SomethingSavage replied to KawadaSmile's topic in Modern WWE... The Reality Era
An announcement stating he has an announcement, basically.
Remember last year when everyone on the board was fantasy booking Seth to be the guy & beat Brock for the Universal Title because he was just so "over" with the IC belt? ... Anybody? Lulz.
SomethingSavage replied to goodhelmet's topic in Pro Wrestling
Is there a specific reason they're not just being the Super Smash Bros. here? I feel like it's a more marketable act & gimmick all around. It's light and fun, but that's sort of the point. I don't know. This Dark Order stuff feels very hokey and generic. It's very Ministry of Darkness to me. I'd definitely prefer them to be a RockNES style babyface team, with neat names for their movez & all that noise. I'm sure it would benefit them to have actual merchandise to sell, too.
WWE TV 7/1 - 7/7 The Return of the Return of Heyman and Bischoff
SomethingSavage replied to Flyin' Brian's topic in Modern WWE... The Reality Era
Yup. Perception is reality. Present someone as a big deal. Promote someone as a big deal. Consistently. Faithfully. And they will be perceived as a big fucking deal. It really is that simple. This 50/50 shit just creates a field of guys who are essentially all running in place. The first one to truly take off would automatically be in first place at this point. Anyone can beat anyone. That's not unpredictable or exciting if it's done all the time. Structure and hierarchies are crucial. A star should seem nigh undefeatable. 99% of the time, a star's biggest fans should be able to argue that "their guy" could kick "your guy's" ass. Austin. Hogan. Bruno. They all carried this kind of weight to their reputations. But the company has purposely perpetuated this idea that everyone on their roster is, in fact, very VERY defeatable.
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
SomethingSavage replied to flyonthewall2983's topic in Publications and Podcasts
Well, I mean... He had two shows with Ric. But that was before Conrad really found his formula.
I'm taking a much needed break from wrestling podcasts right now, but I may try to keep up with JR's show here and there for now. Everything else can pile up until I get hungry for any of it again. Right now, I'm just exhausted by them and everything is sounding very samey. The idea of Arn's show sounds awesome and seems like a fascinating companion piece to fill in the gaps the other shows have left open, but... Yeah. I'm not exactly holding my breath. Arn has a rep of sticking to kayfabe and not veering too far out of character, so we'll see. To be fair though, I was similarly on the fence for the JR podcast - and that's worked out wonderfully. It's surprisingly good, and it's continuing to improve as Conrad builds better chemistry in his back & forth with JR. Here's hoping the same feat can be achieved with Arn, because hearing some old territory tales sprinkled in with the contemporary road agent stuff could be fucking aces.
Current New Japan
SomethingSavage replied to pol's topic in Megathread archive
So, you're *not* stoked for the chance to see Kushida tear it up on the pre-show scene with Tony Nese?
Ring of Honor Wrestling
SomethingSavage replied to Coffey's topic in Megathread archive
Ditto. I actively seek out Impact's pay-per-views and watch them, even if it takes me about three or four days with my limited free time. And I've made extensive, long-winded posts about everything they're doing right - even if it is going mostly unnoticed. I honestly couldn't tell you why anyone would go out of their way to watch a full ROH show these days though. Force of habit? Fear of missing out? Sheer boredom? A general lack of other things to do? I can't imagine there's another reason. Putting ROH on your screen is like putting shit on toast. I mean, sure. You CAN do it. But what the actual fuck, man. Put something halfway good on instead.
AEW Fyter Fest
Spears and Cody don't just have a mentor/protege relationship. They were a steady tag team (and champs) in OVW, where they also eventually split up and feuded. I think that Cherry chick was involved, along with Cliff Compton and Sim Snuka. I could be mixing that up with some of the later OVW stuff, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering that right. Overall, this show was okay. Nothing outstanding to me. Just alright. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Impact's Slammiversary is way better & superior to this on every level, to be honest. But that's not a conversation anyone is prepared to have or even acknowledge, so it is what it is. I don't get the Librarian stuff. It doesn't feel like a nostalgic throwback to the Genius. It doesn't even pack the same fun vibe that the Rhodes Scholars had for a brief moment there in 2012/13. It's just kind of lame and insufferable. And that's a shame. Because I dug the guy as Pretty Peter Avalon. Why can't he just be that? I understand the necessity of updating a look or refreshing a character, but nobody's even seen the dude on any big stage yet. Pretty Peter Avalon felt more like him being in his own lane. A scrawny pest of a heel, constantly pissing people off and pretending like he's some Adonis is fucking aces. Compared to this Librarian horse shit, it's gold. Double Or Nothing left me excited and anxious to see what's next. This left me feeling like I'd watched a fairly decent wrestling show in 2019, and that's it. It definitely felt like it was fine-tuned and tailored for the live crowd, but that didn't translate to my own viewing experience in any substantial way. PWG is sort of the best case scenario (and flipside) of that situation, where the energy & the atmosphere of the "book for the live crowd" philosophy really resonates and carries over well. I'm not casting judgment on AEW as a whole based on the back of two shows. But I can safely say this wasn't anything special and is absolutely not worth recommending to anyone who is on the fence about checking it out. Pass on this & just wait around for All Out. That would be my suggestion.
WWE TV 24/06 - 30/06 Is Ricochet a better version of Ospreay
Speak for yourselves. I've known Seth has always been absolute shit. Idgaf who he's bedding. Seth bragging about how he dedicates every waking moment of his life to WWE is what's weird to me. Because he still sucks sooo bad. What's he dedicating his life to? CrossFit? Burpees? Flipping tires? Because he still has no understanding of basic psychology. He still doesn't grasp how to evoke any sense of emotion from anyone - no matter the situation or the setting. He still has zero character. No defining traits. Stone Cold said it best. "What is a Seth Rollins?" I'd bet good money that the guy himself couldn't give you any kind of comprehensible answer to that question. Nobody knows. He's just this awkward pigeon-toed guy who flips and dives. He's not physically imposing enough to be intimidating, mean, nasty, or feared as a heel. And he's not smart enough to know how to be sympathetic or vulnerable as a babyface. He can't talk. He can't work. There's no bark. And no bite. The guy has no teeth. He's a big black hole of EVERYTHING. Seth Rollins is a useless tool. For the love of God, somebody give this guy an extra star already so he can Falcon Arrow flip the fuck off.
Jinder gave AJ better matches than anything that came out of the AJ/Owens series, the AJ/Sami stuff, and all but one of the AJ/Joe matches. Say what you will about his lack of chemistry with Orton, but Mahal matched up well with AJ there for a bit. Sometimes it's just a matter of styles making matches more interesting. To be honest, I think they failed Jinder from a creative standpoint. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm not exactly crying out for another Jinder run up top. But the guy did put in the work. He carried a certain presence, and the overhaul for his entrance was really well done. But come on. That League of Nations level gimmick was absolute garbage. It's dated as fuck. It's the same anchor they've tied to Drew Mac right now. It's instant death. The crowd always reacts with apathy to that evil foreigner bullshit. It's 2019 already.
Is Impact the best promotion in wrestling history?
SomethingSavage replied to Ricky Jackson's topic in Pro Wrestling
See, I grew up in the Gulf Coast along the TX/LA border. And Callihan's look feels very true to life. I could personally name at least a dozen dudes just like him - the irritating, loudmouth, Natty Light drinking, pudgy white-trash tough guy wannabe types. He's always itching for a fight, forever losing said fight, and still somehow convinces himself he's the biggest cock in the cage. All while being deathly afraid that his cutoff sleeveless shirt might come off when he goes swimming in the river. Amazing. Now that's heat with me. It's like I know this guy. Oh. And fuck Seth Rollins. Rational dislike. Irrational hatred. Whatever. Doesn't matter. The guy just plain fucking sucks. Plus he's all pigeon-toed and shit. Dude runs like a girl. For the love of God, someone give this guy an extra star so he can Falcon Arrow flip the fuck off.
A lot of my thoughts generally line up with yours, but I've enjoyed the hell out of Callihan in Impact. Do you build a fed around him? Maybe not. But he already feels like a centerpiece focal point and a worthy featured piece of the puzzle. His feuds have been mostly amazing, to be honest. The Penta program was a blast from beginning to end. It spanned across promotions. It had blood, brawls, swerves, sneak attacks, supporting players, stakes, masks, hair, you name it. The feud with Eddie told a solid story and actually progressed as it went along. It evolved Eddie as a character and actually mattered. It wasn't just matches for the sake of matches, which is one of those things that bothers me most about modern wrestling. And the program with Swann has been a revelatory experience. I really didn't expect Swann to step up as much as he has in a more serious, dramatic role. But he's totally run away with it. And the guy feels absolutely elevated as a direct result of this work with Callihan. That many critical rivalries in such quick succession cannot be just happenstance or luck. Callihan is certainly bringing something to the table in these things. The guy plays his part really well. If it's not your thing or simply not your taste, then that's fair enough. But I've dug his contributions to Impact in a big way.
Grilling JR
The show isn't 3 hours. It runs about 2 hours and 20 minutes. I'm way burned out on 97/98 stuff. It's actually one of my favorite periods for their television, but Bruce & Conrad have just run these talking points into the ground. It's still refreshing to hear things from JR's perspective though. There's not a ton of variance from the Bruce episode we just got covering this show, but it's still worth listening to if you have the time. I did enjoy the sidebar about how it's extremely difficult to get a match over if the performers aren't over FIRST. I wish WWE would remember this and make their characters a priority again. Get the individuals over first & foremost. Then the matches can get over. Otherwise, everything's an uphill battle. Everything's unnecessarily made more difficult. And everyone's working harder rather than smarter. Showering the match with six dozen superkicks and five hundred thigh-slaps does not compensate for guys who simply aren't over in the first place. Fuck a star rating. Give me a God damn character worth caring about first.
NXT talk
SomethingSavage replied to Woof's topic in Modern WWE... The Reality Era
A name change for ACH was inevitable, I think. The vague meaning behind the initials could have been played up, but they don't really have time for that when they could run (you guessed it) more rematches. I'd say Jordan Myles was an upgrade in that sense. Dexter Lumis is hokey af. Nobody strained themselves reaching for that one. Christ. It's just awful. Damien Priest is okay-ish, in the sense that it suits the guy. It suits his look and will probably summarize everything about the character in a nutshell. However, the same could be said if you also tossed this name on Aleister Black or one of the Ascension clowns. Very generic and low-rent ring to it. The name sounds like it belongs to a failed Spawn ripoff from some obscure mid-90s comic book company somewhere. Shane Strickland sounds like everything you want in a stage name. It has alliteration. It rolls off the tongue. It has a certain "stickiness" to it, in that it could easily stay in people's minds after hearing it a few times. This change was an unnecessary downgrade for him.
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No Plea Deals in Oakland Warehouse Fire Case
Posted 6:19 PM, August 16, 2018, by Associated Press, Updated at 06:18PM, August 16, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California district attorney has reversed course and says she will no longer consider plea deals to resolve the only criminal case filed in connection to a 2016 warehouse fire that killed 36 people, according to a court document obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley informed the judge presiding over the case that she now wants the two men charged in the case to face trial as soon as possible.
Derick Almena and Max Harris are scheduled to appear in court on Friday for the first time since Judge James Cramer rejected a plea deal negotiated by O’Malley’s office and their attorneys. Each is charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter and face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The negotiated settlement called for Almena to accept a nine-year prison sentence and Harris to receive a six-year term. Both men likely would have been released after serving half their terms with time off for good behavior.
Both men have been in jail since June 2017. Under terms of the deal, it was likely that Almena would have been released from prison by late 2022 or early 2023. Harris would have probably been released in 2021.
Anger, Tears as Families Speak at Oakland Warehouse Fire Sentencing
But Cramer last Friday rejected the plea deal after listening to grieving relatives of victims testify for two days about their losses and their unhappiness with the proposed sentences, which they characterized as lenient. Cramer also said Almena failed to adequately express remorse.
O’Malley told the judge in a letter she sent to the court Tuesday that the families’ testimony last week led to her decision to halt settlement negotiations.
Many of the relatives also demanded that the two men stand trial so they could learn more about how and why their loved ones died. Investigators have been unable to determine the cause of the Dec. 2, 2016 fire.
O’Malley said “having heard the words and seen the pain of those profoundly impacted” convinced her that the two should stand trial rather than resolving their cases with a plea deal.
“The grief of the families, the pain and shock of the community by the senseless and tragic deaths of 36 individuals caused by a fire that roared through the warehouse is as strong and deep today as it was in December 2016,” O’Malley wrote. “These lives were lost at the hands of the two defendants.”
Men Plead No Contest in Deadly Oakland Warehouse Fire
Almena rented the Oakland warehouse and illegally converted it into an underground live-work space for area artists and an entertainment venue called the Ghost Ship. Almena hired Harris to help manage the facility by collecting rent, booking concerts among other duties.
They are the only people facing criminal charges for the deadliest structure fire since 100 people died in a Rhode Island nightclub fire in 2003.
The proposed deal had been brokered by another judge who accepted the men’s no-contest pleas in July and was expected to uphold the agreement when the pair appeared in court last week for formal sentencing.
But that judge was unavailable and Cramer was assigned to preside over the two-day hearing.
As it ended, Cramer said Almena failed to adequately express remorse and that he would not uphold the plea deal. Cramer cited a letter Almena wrote probation officials where Almena said that he and his family are also victims of the fire.
In a jailhouse interview with KGO-7 on Tuesday, Almena said the judge quoted “out of context” a passage of a 21-page letter.
“If you take anything out of context you can twist it around and make it seem like it was about me,” he said. “This statement was about everything. I have been remorseful on this since the moment this happened.”
Cramer said he believed Harris was truly remorseful and that the “deal is fair.” But since the plea bargain was a package deal, he said he had no choice but to reject Harris’ proposed sentence.
Harris’ attorney, Tyler Smith, said hopes that Cramer will ultimately decide to sentence Harris to six years in prison despite the new objections raised by O’Malley, the district attorney, in her the letter to the judge.
O’Malley told the judge she now opposes the six-year sentence because “victims’ families strongly disagree” with it.
Smith and Almena’s attorney Brian Getz both said they will seek to move the trial to another California county because both men admitted their guilt before the plea deal was rejected, developments widely publicized in the region.
Each man pleaded no contest 36 separate times last month and both made incriminating statements last week during the sentencing hearing, with Almena saying “I’m guilty” several times.
“All of that got reported,” Smith said.
Getz said asking for a change of venue does comes with risks and the trial could be moved to a politically conservative court where the tattooed artists’ appearance and opinions could negatively influence a jury. But Getz said it appears defense attorney have no alternative.
“I don’t think it’s possible for Derick to get a fair trial in Oakland,” Getz said.
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Pope Calls Abusive Clergy ‘Tools of Satan’
Posted 12:10 PM, February 24, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 10:23AM, February 24, 2019
Pope Francis, speaking on the final day of a historic summit on clergy sexual abuse, called priests and other Catholics who abuse children “tools of Satan,” but offered no concrete steps to address the church’s massive and morally damning abuse crisis.
“The brutality of this worldwide phenomenon becomes all the more grave and scandalous in the church, for it is utterly incompatible with (its) moral authority and ethical credibility,” the Pope said in a speech in Vatican City on Sunday.
“Consecrated persons,” he continued, “chosen by God to guide souls to salvation, let themselves be dominated by their human frailty or sickness and thus become tools of Satan.”
The Pope’s speech, delivered at the end of Mass at Sala Regia in the Apostolic Palace, came at the end of an unprecedented gathering of 190 Catholic leaders, including 114 bishops from around the world, to address a clergy sexual abuse scandal that stretches across several continents.
In his wide-ranging speech on Sunday, Francis framed the church’s abuse crisis within the wider context of society, even saying that pagans, in history, had “sacrificed children” in rituals.
The Pope, for the First Time, Calls the Sexual Abuse of Nuns ‘a Problem’
“We are thus facing a universal problem,” the Pope said, “tragically present almost everywhere and affecting everyone. Yet we need to be clear, that while gravely affecting our societies as a whole, this evil is in no way less monstrous when it takes place within the church.”
The Pope also appealed for an “all-out battle” against child abuse.
Related: Church ‘can’t be trusted to police itself’
Anger over inaction
Dozens of survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic clergy have also been in Rome this week to protest and offer testimonies about their experiences. In St. Peter’s Square on Sunday morning, many expressed anger and frustration over the Pope’s address and the lack of concrete results from the summit.
“I’m going to go away bitterly bitterly disappointed but not entirely surprised,” said Peter Saunders, a former member of the Pope’s commission on the protection of minors. “I can’t say that I honestly thought the world was going to change — because I know this institution too well — and it seems incapable of change. And yet, it could do it.”
“So will the Pope act?” Saunders said. “He had his chance. I think history will judge him.”
Virginia Saldanha, a member of the group Ending Clergy Abuse, said she was angered by the Pope’s address on Sunday morning.
“I was very angry because I see just nice words over here, no concrete framework for implementation,” said Saldanha, who is from India.
“He says a change of mentality is needed to combat a defensive and reactive approach. You mean all these years when survivors were pleading with the church, they didn’t know it was wrong?”
The four-day summit has included two speeches by the Pope, talks outlining best practices and small-group discussions among bishops.
John Allen, a Vatican analyst for CNN, said that, while Pope Francis is often seen as a charismatic champion of underdogs around the world, that side of the pontiff was seldom seen during the four-day summit.
“He is typically at his best when he speaks spontaneously and from the heart. For whatever reason the world didn’t see much of that Pope Francis during the four days of his anti-abuse summit. Instead what the world saw was largely familiar boilerplate rhetoric that church officials have used about the abuse crisis since its onset more than three decades ago,” Allen said.
Francis began the unprecedented summit on Thursday by saying that Catholics are not looking for simple condemnation, but concrete actions.
“The holy people of God are looking at us and expect from us not simple condemnations,” Francis continued in his opening address, “but concrete and effective measures to put in place. We need to be concrete.”
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The bishops have discussed several measures, including a proposal to hold bishops accountable and lift the “Pontifical Secret” that often keeps abuse victims in the dark about how their church trials are processing. But they did not appear to vote on or immediately adopt any new measures.
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago said on Saturday there was a kind of consciousness raising about clergy sexual abuse, though, among some of the 116 bishops from around the world.
“What is so very noticeable is the movement in attitude of people, especially among people who think this isn’t happening in their country. There is real ownership now that this is a global issue.”
Cupich also said there is momentum among top Catholic officials to revoke or reform the Pontifical Secret with regard to abuse cases.
After the summit’s conclusion, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he “felt affirmed in the work that is underway.”
DiNardo said presenters spoke about creating a code of conduct for bishops, making the church more transparent and establishing protocols for handling accusations against bishops, a proposal made by the US bishops’ conference in November before the Vatican asked it to stand down.
“Enhanced by what I experienced here, we will prepare to advance proposals, in communion with the Holy See, in each of these areas so that my brother bishops can consider them at our June General Assembly,” DiNardo said.
At a press conference on Sunday, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the summit’s moderator, said the church was “committed to translating into concrete action” the meetings’ themes of responsibility, accountability and transparency.
“We will return to our dioceses and communities in various parts of the world with a deeper understanding of the terrible crimes of sexual abuse against minors committed by members of the clergy,” he said.
Lombardi also outlined three “first steps” the Vatican will be taking in the near future: a new papal decree “on the protection of minors and vulnerable persons” for members of the church who live and work in Vatican City; a handbook for bishops on how to handle cases of clergy sexual abuse; and the creation of task forces to help bishops’ conferences and dioceses around the world implement guidelines.
All were in the works well before this week’s summit, Lombardi acknowledged.
Lombardi also said top Vatican officials will meet Monday morning to follow up on measures discussed during the summit.
Some church experts, though, said the meeting failed to meet expectations.
“This summit was full of promising rhetoric about reform,” said Allen. “What it did not provide is a single new concrete detail about what reform would mean.”
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Super computer
Steve Horng
Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre
A supercomputer that knows if you're going to die
A super computer developed in the US can predict the likelihood of a person's death with almost 100 per cent accuracy, a media report said.IANS | September 16, 2015, 08:59 IST
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NEW YORK: A super computer developed in the US can predict the likelihood of a person's death with almost 100 per cent accuracy, a media report said.
The machine, installed at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, draws on the data of more than 250,000 people collected over a period of 30 years to make speedy diagnoses, The Mirror reported on Monday.
The machine's ability to speedy disease recognition could potentially save lives as well as predict patients' imminent demise, the report added.
"Our goal is not to replace the clinician... This artificial intelligence is really about the augmenting of doctors' ability to take care of patients," Steve Horng, a doctor at the hospital, was quoted as telling BBC.
Patients at the hospital are linked up to the super computer which collects and analyses data about their condition every three minutes, measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure to give doctors "everything we need to know about a patient".
When the computer says no, doctors can "predict with 96 per cent confidence" when patients may die.
"If the computer says you're going to die, you probably will die in the next 30 days," Horng said.
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Ground Boots
Home / Ground Boots Blog / Winemaker Deborah Hall and Artist Donald Roller Wilson join forces for the good
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New Release, September 1, 2015
Winemaker Deborah Hall and Artist Donald Roller Wilson join forces for the good
Contact: Sao Anash
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Winemaker Deborah Hall
of Sta. Rita Hills
Launches Charitable Brand
As a Charitable Negociant, she will donate 100 % of proceeds of each bottle of Ground Boots Pinot Noir, which features the art work of Donald Roller Wilson
Santa Barbara, CA – Deborah Hall, known for her Gypsy Canyon pinot noirs emanating from the Sta. Rita Hills appellation, and her Old-Vine Angelica, has launched “Ground Boots”, a charitable wine brand advocating for positive change globally.
Each calendar year, Hall will select a non-profit that will receive 100 % of the profits (after the cost of dry goods) of that year’s Ground Boot’s Pinot Noir offering. 100 cases will be released each year, at a $ 70.00 per bottle cost. As a Charitable Negociant, Hall will purchase the wine herself from some of Santa Barbara County’s best winemakers and create the final blend for inclusion under the Ground Boots label. The first release will occur this fall, on September 15th, and will be the 2012 Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir.
The label art work for Ground Boots was donated by the world-famous, and widely loved, Donald Roller Wilson. The late Robin Williams said of Roller Wilson’s work,” "Ladies and gentle souls, if you are Jung at heart, you are about to enter the surreal estate of Donald Roller Wilson. It is a world where the progeny of Jane Goodall and Charles Pierce stand paw in paw in the primordial dusk…surrounded by floating half smoked cigarettes. The ultimate still life, (or outtakes from Einstein’s gag reel). Every Roller painting tells a story. Literally. A cross between William Faulkner and Dr. Seuss with a bit of the Old Testament. A biblical baklava, layered with allegory and imagery. It all adds up to the big picture, where cookie the baby orangutan and Miss Dog America see the writing in the sky. “God is Near”, or at least right behind the tiny log cabin in the midst of the giant floating pimento stuffed olives. And, if you see as many Rollers as I have, maybe you too will think that Darwin was wrong. Maybe the gene pool is a Jacuzzi and that Reverend Donald is beckoning you to jump in without preconceptions.” To learn more about Donald Roller Wilson, please visit www.donaldrollerwilson.com
The 2012 Ground Boots Pinot Noir will benefit Soi Dog. The Soi Dog Foundation, founded by John and Gill Dalley, is a not-for-profit, legally registered charitable organization in Thailand, the United States, Australia, the UK, France and Holland. Soi Dog helps the homeless, neglected and abused dogs and cats of Thailand, works to end the dog meat trade throughout the region, and responds to animal welfare disasters and emergencies. Soi Dog aims to set an example for the Asian region on how to humanely reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats through spaying and neutering, and to better the lives and living conditions of the stray dogs and feral cats of Asia. Spaying and neutering has been proven to be the most effective way to help the animals. Soi Dog has reached a milestone of over 71,000 dogs and cats sterilized as of August, 2014.
Deborah Hall says of launching Ground Boots, “I really love making Gypsy Canyon pinot noirs and my Old Vine Angelica and it’s rewarding. I will continue along with those projects. But, this past New Year’s Eve, as 2013 passed into 2014, I felt that there just has to be more. It is no longer enough to host the winemaker dinners, sell wine; live the wine country life style. I want to live the next chapter of my life in service to others.”
In January of 2015, Hall will return to Thailand to continue working with Soi Dog. Ground Boots will sponsor the building of a new, better shelter for animal victims of the illegal dog and cat meat trade, spay and neuter the dog and cat population of an entire village and post bill boards in the hot zones of the dog meat trade. Members of the Ground Boots team, all unpaid volunteers, include Jodene Garrison, videographer and social media communicator.
To learn more about Ground Boots, please visit www.groundboots.org
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Introducing The Raspberry Pi 3
TL;DR: The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is out now. This latest model includes 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, and a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 running at 1.2 GHz. It’s a usable desktop computer. Available now at the usual Pi retailers for $35.
News of the latest Raspberry Pi swept around the Internet like wildfire this last weekend, thanks to a published FCC docs showing a Pi with on-board WiFi and Bluetooth. While we thank the dozens of Hackaday readers that wrote in to tell us about the leaked FCC documents, our lips have been sealed until now. We’ve been doing a few hands-on tests with the Pi 3 for about two weeks now, and the reality of the Pi 3 is much cooler than a few leaked FCC docs will tell you.
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B features a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz. This puts the Pi 3 roughly 50% faster than the Pi 2. Compared to the Pi 2, the RAM remains the same – 1GB of LPDDR2-900 SDRAM, and the graphics capabilities, provided by the VideoCore IV GPU, are the same as they ever were. As the leaked FCC docs will tell you, the Pi 3 now includes on-board 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. WiFi, wireless keyboards, and wireless mice now work out of the box.
This is a very special year for the Raspberry Pi foundation. Because the foundation was founded on February 29th 2012, today is technically their first birthday, or at least that’s the cheeky line they’re telling everyone. With this anniversary, celebrations are in order and a new model of the Raspberry Pi has been announced.
The Raspberry Pi 2 (left) and the Raspberry Pi 3 (right). Physically, there are very few differences.
The headlining feature of the Pi 3 is the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, but it doesn’t stop there. Here’s the complete specs for the Pi 3:
SoC: Broadcom BCM2837 (roughly 50% faster than the Pi 2)
CPU: 1.2 GHZ quad-core ARM Cortex A53 (ARMv8 Instruction Set)
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV @ 400 MHz
Memory: 1 GB LPDDR2-900 SDRAM
USB ports: 4
Network: 10/100 MBPS Ethernet, 802.11n Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.0
The Pi 3 is exactly what you would expect from the latest Raspberry Pi. No, it doesn’t have SATA or USB C or a PCIe connector. The goal of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has always been to produce an inexpensive computer for everyone, and adding these ports would only drive up the price. Instead of pleasing the power users, the Pi Foundation has done their best to please anyone. Like the Raspberry Pi 2 from late last year, the Raspberry Pi 3 features a new CPU, a Broadcom BCM2837 quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 running at 1.2 GHz.
While the most newsworthy pre-launch leak surrounding the Raspberry Pi 3 is the added wireless functionality, the big news is the upgraded CPU. With the Cortex A53, the Pi 3 has passed through a threshold. The Raspberry Pi isn’t just a board that is used to play retro video games in emulators anymore, and it’s no longer confined to duty as a set-top box. The Pi 3 is a real computer.
This is the Revolver and Fargo of the Raspberry Pi Ecosystem
When the original Raspberry Pi launched four years ago, it immediately fulfilled its promise of bringing a low-cost Linux-based computer to the masses. This promise wasn’t one to bring a high power Linux computer to the masses; checking your email, or loading a web page on the original Pi was a chore. Still, the board was capable enough to be very popular, and rightly so: there’s a lot you can do with a tiny Linux board with a few GPIO pins and an Ethernet port.
Last year, the Raspberry Pi foundation introduced the Pi 2, a much more powerful board with a faster and more capable CPU. The first impressions were wonderful. Here was a computer that could actually be used as a computer. I still have my Pi 2 connected to an old flat screen TV and keyboard on my workbench for light-duty browsing and viewing PDFs.
The Raspberry Pi 3 is another beast entirely. The Pi 3 is now over a threshold where it becomes a useful desktop computer.
Help! and A Hard Day’s Night were excellent Beatles albums, but it was Revolver that took the Beatles to the next level. Led Zeppelin I and II were awesome, but it was IV that turned Zeppelin from a good band into a legend. To extend this metaphor into motion pictures, Raising Arizona is a cult favorite from the Coen Brothers, but it was Fargo and The Big Lebowski that put these filmmakers on the map. The Pi 3 is the Pi Foundation’s Revolver and Fargo. The Raspberry Pi has gone from a tiny, cheap Linux board that can blink a few LEDs on a GPIO to a cheap Linux box that’s fast enough to be a proper computer.
The goal of the Raspberry Pi foundation is to promote computer science in early education. While the Pi 1, Pi 2 and Pi Zero are marginally capable in this role, the Pi 3 is much more useful. This is a computer that could populate an entire elementary school computer lab. The Raspberry Pi has now passed a threshold of usefulness.
A Zero Sum Game
Just a few months ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the Raspberry Pi Zero, a cut-down version of the original Raspberry Pi. It sells for $5. The Internet went crazy, Pi Zeros are being gobbled up, and no one has any in stock. This $5 computer is selling for $45 on eBay. The laws of supply and demand are as unyielding as the laws of gravity and thermodynamics, and there is understandably criticism aimed at the Pi Foundation.
Fools have money
In speaking with [Eben Upton], wearer of many hats and founder of the Raspberry Pi foundation, there was an elephant in the room when discussing the Pi 3. Where are the Pi Zeros, and will the Pi 3 be in stock for more than a few hours?
The original Model B launch was plagued with waitlists, with people waiting months to get their hands on one. The Pi Model B+ was better, and the Pi 2 launch was exceptionally smooth, shipping 500,000 in two weeks. The launch of a Pi Zero was an aberration, due to unexpected demand and low-ish manufacturing quantities. There were only 100,000 units manufactured in the first run of Pi Zeros, with another 100,000 following shortly thereafter. Right now, there are 300,000 Pi 3s sitting in warehouses, ready to be shipped out around the world.
While the Pi 3 will prove to be very popular, you probably won’t see scalpers selling Pi 3s for hundreds on eBay. There’s enough to go around, and as long as we don’t have too many hoarders, you too can get your hands on one soon. As for the Pi Zeros, they’re coming and it’s not like they have an expiration date on them.
The Raspberry Pi Competitors
Four years ago, when it started to look like the Raspberry Pi was indeed not vaporware, there weren’t many offerings for a cheap single board computer running Linux. The best anyone could do were Gumstix, and these cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $150.
Since the release of the Raspberry Pi, everyone realized that a cheap, small device running Linux would be very useful. To give credit where it is due, [Eben] and the rest of the Raspberry Pi foundation are hugely responsible for the vast ecosystem of small embedded development boards. Everyone is in on the act: Intel has the Edison and the Quark, the BeagleBone was released nearly concurrently with the Pi, and even Apple is rumored to have an SBC in the works. Then came the clones, the knockoffs, and everyone else who wanted a piece of the game.
One of the first boards heavily inspired by the Pi was the Banana Pi, a single board computer with a strikingly similar layout to the original Pi. ODROIDs were next, followed by the Orange Pis, the UDOOs, the and the CubieBoards.
The C.H.I.P., a $9 or $8 computer, announced in May of last year. It’s only beginning to ship to Kickstarter backers.
The state of the art in cheap, consumer single board computers is beginning to show a pattern. First, the Raspberry Pi foundation releases a board, and everyone scrambles to come up with an improvement upon that board. Next, the Pi foundation releases new hardware that is at least equal to the current crop of off-brand SBCs, but also builds upon the huge Pi ecosystem and community. The other brands have another go at besting the Pi, and the cycle repeats. Remember C.H.I.P., the computer no one could believe actually cost $9? Now there’s the Raspberry Pi Zero, a computer that costs $5 (if you can find one). You still can’t buy a C.H.I.P.; they’re still handling preorders taken last May, and if you contributed to the C.H.I.P. campaign, you might be waiting another three months. In contrast, 100,000 Raspberry Pi Zeros have been shipped just a few weeks.
The latest boards heralded as a Raspberry Pi killer are the Pine64 and Odroid XU4 The XU4 costs $70 and on that basis can be rejected as a viable Pi competitor out of hand. The Pine64 started as a Kickstarter campaign promising a quad-core ARM Cortex A53 processor running at 1.2GHz, 1 Gigabyte of RAM, Ethernet, HDMI, and a few GPIO pins to blink a few LEDs. By reading the spec sheet, it’s remarkably similar to the latest from the foundation, save for WiFi and Bluetooth found on the Pi 3. The Pine64 will be shipping out to backers shortly, but it’s already dead on arrival. I’m a backer of the Pine64 Kickstarter campaign, and I should have some commitment bias towards this cheap 64-bit computer. Even I must concede the Raspberry Pi 3 is the superior board. It comes with wirelesss, after all, and adding the immense community support, examples, and libraries that are already written, the choice is clear: the Pi foundation hit another home run.
You might think that the Raspberry Pi foundation is iterating around their competitors. This isn’t really true; the development time for the Pi Zero was about nine months, well before C.H.I.P’s Kickstarter launched. The development time for the Pi 3 was closer to 18 months, including the time it took for Broadcom to develop the new silicon.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is announcing their products with a keen awareness of the Osborne effect. There are undoubtedly plans for an upgrade to the Pi 3 in the works right now, but announcing these plans to the world would only make people wait for the next great announcement. Compared to the innumerable Kickstarter campaigns for Linux-based ARM dev boards who announce a product expecting it to ship in a year, the Pi Foundation’s approach is much more sensible. At this point, a few leaks from an FCC database a day or two before launch don’t really matter.
The Raspberry Pi was always intended to run a variety of operating systems, and for the past four years, we’ve seen just about everything. From the stock Debian distribution to much more esoteric options, ranging from Windows 10 IOT to Plan 9. The usefulness of some of these operating systems is questionable, but it’s not like more choice of OSes is bad, right?
Two operating systems that don’t get enough love on the Raspberry Pi are also two of the most common operating systems for ARM systems: Android and Chrome OS. Yes, there are projects to bring these operating systems to the Pi 2, but they’re not very mature and certainly not ready for mainstream use.
The Pi 3 will change this. It’s faster, yes, but the update to the flagship Pi comes just a few weeks after the release of an experimental OpenGL driver. Graphics, by far, have been the one item holding back a proper Android system for the Pi, and [Eben] tells me Chrome OS will come to the Pi 3 in short order.
The Future of Raspberry Pi
The Pi Zero was a home run, save for manufacturing and distribution, and a $5 computer running Linux and presenting a few GPIO pins is enough to stab the Arduinos of the world through the heart. The Pi 3 is another beast entirely. The Pi 1, Pi 2 and Pi Zero are development systems that just happen to run Linux and Super Nintendo emulators. The Pi 3 is a proper computer that also happens to have GPIO pins, a huge development scene, thousands of examples for any hardware hack you can imagine, and a community with millions of members.
The Pi 3 is also the first board that lives up to the promise of getting students interested in computer science. This is a computer that’s both inexpensive and good enough to give to a classroom of elementary school students. They’ll be able to do their homework, and the most clever of the bunch will start blinking LEDs and switching H-bridges with the pin header. The Raspberry Pi 3 is finally a computer that’s good enough to be a truly mainstream device, and not just a toy for the tech aficionados to fawn over.
We’ll be posting the benchmarks for the Pi 3 in the next few days, but until then head on over to Element 14, RS, or any of the other Pi suppliers and pick one of these boards up. There might be enough to go around.
If you’re searching for the word ‘disclosure’, there it is. The Raspberry Pi foundation sent me a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and SD card for this post.
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250 thoughts on “Introducing The Raspberry Pi 3”
I can’t wait until it goes widespread and the price gets stable, honestly. It’s going to be the best thing to build a wrist-wearable computer upon, and I hope after half a year I’ll be able to actually get one to play with ;-) I just hope the software support will be as marvellous as with the previous versions.
AussieLauren says:
It seems to me like this board is the board that makes the Pi zero make sense. The price instability and the limited run seemed to be a great faux pas, but instead of the latest. Pi, the zero was really Compute Module mk2.
I’m sceptical about wearability; without low-level power saving it will be hard to budget power here. Make: puts it at twice that of the Pi2. Nonetheless at least the Internet is in this Thing; I wonder if we’ll get control of the 2.4 Ghz controller, opening the way to zigbee or other non-proprietary 2.4ghz protocols. I believe it’s a BCM43438 radio chip, so it’s probably NDA all the way (and PS BLE isn’t going yet per Make:)
It’s worth highlighting the video core on the Pi3 (See what i did there) is tge same as previous, but at a faster clock. Presumably this means the existing documentation (seemingly pried from Broadcom’s unwilling fingers) and own drivers can continue to deliver GPU and GPGPU performance. Hats off to the foundation to sticking to this, even if it’s an older core; it beats fighting that battle again.
Begrudgingly kudos also to whomever at Broadcom approved the chip; although I’m sure they’re profiting well from the Pi offerings as a whole I still wish they sold these packages to anyone else.
daid303 says:
On that video core. I cannot seem to find much documentation on how to use it. There is the open source VC4 driver. Which you can enable, but seems to have random crashes in my setup. And I cannot find anywhere how to use the closed source driver.
I believe there was an OpenGL driver release a few weeks ago?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/another-new-raspbian-release/
That is the VC4 driver that I mention. They did great work on it, but it’s not stable yet.
Unfortunately, and in all seriousness, the lack of documentation isn’t because Broadcom won’t release it, it’s because none has been written.
wren6991 says:
The BCM43438 is very well documented, but the documents are only released to serious customers, and are watermarked with that customer’s name so they’ll know who leaks it.
The firmware inside the 43438 (it’s an ARM of some kind) is proprietary, but the Linux driver is open source and can be found at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-4.1.y/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac
Whatnot says:
Watermarks can be removed though.
But they might have included the old ‘slight variation in the text’ trick.
So it’s over to the hackers to steal the damn thing.
timgray1 says:
wearability is easy. you do not put the pi zero on the wrist. you put a wireless tiny processor that can only control the display on the wrist and the pi zero elsewhere, make the reality of the PAN useful. problem is you now need to either buy a phone that is 100% unlockable so you can do all this, or carry a second computing device. Sadly it’s dramatically easier to program for linux than Android, so I see carrying two computing devices as the reality unless someone finds a good cellphone board to interface to.
jimjones says:
There is no general purpose “2.4 Ghz controller” to “get control of”… it’s an 802.11/BT radio. It’s not something you can do arbitrary things with…
makomk says:
Yeah, the C.H.I.P looks like a much better choice for wearable/battery applications at least on paper – and it’s interesting how the article papers over the fact that it has WiFi and the Raspberry Pi Zero doesn’t and is somewhat inconvenient to add WiFi of any kind to when using it as reason to dismiss the C.H.I.P.
price instability says:
What price instability?
m_pan says:
The Zero was marketed as a $5 computer and due to the lack of supply very few have been seen in the wild at that price.
(Not complaining- I’m one of the vast minority that got one at that price.) (Speaking of which… anyone wanna buy a Zero at a considerable mark-up? Any takers- Zero for a 3 in a straight-up trade? ;p )
condew says:
My local Microcenter had the Pi Zero in stock today. I was hoping for a Pi 3, but settled for a pair of Zeros as the consolation prize.
problemchild68 says:
Probably better off with an Odroid C0 you can have a battery in your design and expect to charge it as well whoopy!
Nearly forgot I wangled one from E14 yesterday ..Working away at the moement so will do a proper review l8r.
joshumax says:
Ironically, I bought one of the first PI zeros (thanks to a python script and BeautifulSoup), and stability wise it seems to function a lot better than my C.H.I.P which shipped a good while after the expected date.
I really like the RasPi, and the RPI3 looks great for the price, but I’m really looking forward to the time when the market
is going to be crowded with lots of other decent educational ARM boards for around the same ~$30 price…
thantik says:
The C.H.I.P isn’t even supposed to be out to the general backers yet. They have a listed timeframe of May 2016. They aren’t late, you just happen to be probably one of the “kernel hacker backers”…which…you would expect a alpha level board to be a little bit unstable.
Luke Weston says:
I’ve had my crowdfunded CHIP for weeks now.
SavannahLion says:
Wish I ordered the HDMI adapter since my needs have changed, oh well.
Marco Madarco D'Alia says:
Me too, and it’s a great board with a great value.
I love the Rpi also, but I really hate this fanboysm, a varied ecosystem can only help.
sopwerdna says:
Agreeing with Luke Weston, I backed the kickstarter for the basic $9 (not kernel hacker) and got mine in December.
“and stability wise it seems to function a lot better than my C.H.I.P which shipped a good while after the expected date.”
The only stability problems I’ve seen with CHIP (after the NAND flash issue) are due to poor power supplies. I really hate this trend of people using micro-USB chargers for power supplies, considering most of them are utter garbage.
And I have no idea what you mean about “after the expected date.” At least for every backer I know, CHIP shipped out spot on time. Kindof insane, actually, considering they had to toss the original design entirely and move to something way more complicated.
retepv says:
This charger problem is indeed really a problem. I have several ‘2.1A’ chargers. But my Raspberry PI model B does not run stable with them. And forget trying to connect an external harddrive with one of these chargers. But I was able to purchase an Apple iPad charger for dirt cheap, and that works without fail. Even though people warn that the voltage of this supply tends to drop as well, at high loads.
Buy a good power supply, and instabilities tend to melt away like snow.
Can you run your DC in via 3 CAP-XX Thinline “S” series super capacitors to smooth out the bumps? They are flat and less than 1mm thick so they fit under the RPi like they are not their at all.
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/market-sectors/internet-of-things/supercapacitors-iot-0-6mm-thick-2015-05/
swaanson says:
Am I the only one who is super excited that the CHIP has a battery management IC on it? (+ other neat things)
You’re definitely not the only one, the onboard battery management is one of the reasons I ordered a C.H.I.P, but it’s not a Pi so it just doesn’t get the same level of publicly.
Agreed RPI have a special channel to the news that none else have ..pitty really this is not a level playing field
tim2006 says:
ARM boards are still too unstable. I tried to work with them. Non-good kernel support. Too many variations. Just a zoo. Now with RasPi 3 even my favourite project thin client Wtware for Pi 2 was released for Pi 3 very soon. So Raspberry guys do think about people, that work with their hardware.
Mime Field says:
Snagged one from Pimoroni. Can’t wait to play with it. Wonder if it will make it here before my Pine64 does…
Laszlo says:
Can not find at the usual retailers. Anyone succeed ordering one?
jnesselr says:
Yep, just ordered mine about half an hour ago.
Brian Benchoff says:
Here’s the link from Element 14
Pravin says:
Is this link for raspberry pi 3?
PiHut also has some – I ordered one just 10 minutes ago.
Our website is
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If you need assistance placing an order, call 1.800.463.9275.
M-F 7:00AM – 9:30PM EST
Thanks and have a great day.
Slashdot effect?
Does this mean there is “3” in stock?
Davey Jones says:
Just order one.
I’m not in Merica so not so easy to order. I could order from the US but I only have two limbs left after that last US order.
They’re shipped from the UK; you could try RS components there?
mip says:
Great to see another iteration of everyone’s favorite SBC.
It’s a pity to see this with only 2GB of RAM, but the Pis still give the best bang for the buck. Similar boards all suck regarding the same problem: bad software support (i.e. kernel).
2g of ram? where are you getting that from?
Sorry, I meant “not to see this with 2GB” or “to see this with only 1GB”. Me (thinking), myself (translating) and I (typing) were in disharmony this morning.
1GB is at the lowest end for desktop use these days. But maybe they will eventually upgrade like they did at the first RPi-B’s when they went from 256MB to 512MB.
Shirley Marquez says:
Yes, that’s one area where the fancy version of the PINE64 has the edge. Also Gigabit Ethernet, which the new Pi lacks. So that board will still have a place if they actually manage to ship it in quantity.
Perry says:
I wonder if they were to stick a ddr ( Laptop MEM ) socket on it and let us pick the ram if that would still make it in the price rang that it is in with out ram installed. ( Just a thought…)
( I just woke up to see the news ).
Ps could someone please tell me how they get pictures on these posts? Thanks.
eas says:
Perry, no. User installable memory adds components, increases PCB space/complexity, and support costs.
Plus, this seems to use a 32-bit wide bus, whereas I think mass-market laptop memory these days is 64-bit.
The Odroid-C2 has 2GB of RAM for a total of $40. Unfortunately it seems Hackaday goes out of their way to not cover Hardkernel products.
Synportack24 says:
The C2 is what I’m excited about, It’s not only 2GB but it’s also DDR3 (RPI is still using DDR2).
I have one, but found the distro they have for it to be flakey. It was used primarily as a Kodi box and did a decent job, but I found I couldn’t just leave it on. If I switched over to it, it would inevitably be stuck with a black screen and require a reboot to use it, setting up a cron job to reboot seem to make it go from an everyday occurrence to every couple of days so it was still annoying. When I needed a power splitter for xmas lights I used the Odroid’s and never replaced it. I now have a zidoo x9, but have been too busy to set it up.
I’ve noticed that trend as well and I wish it wasn’t that way. I’ve followed both the RPi’s and the Odroids and have purchased a few of each (RPi B, RPi B+, RPi 2, RPi 3 (just ordered), Odroid U3, C1, XU4). It’s nice that the Raspberries have so much community support, but the Odroids are better performers, and are rock steady. They also run Android remarkably well. The C2 doesn’t have the built in wi-fi or bluetooth, but it does have 4k hdmi, IR, and gigabit ethernet, as well as a much faster processor. It’s probably the next on the list to order. Wish I wasn’t addicted to playing with these little things ;-).
its $40 with $20 shipping ….
Did you look at their company site or a local retailer? It costs me $41.95 plus $6.75 for shipping (USPS Priority) making it a total of $48.70 from Ameridroid. That’s not at all out of line considering it is being sent Priority. A large number of retailers will charge more than that for the Pi 3 using the same shipping method.
liamjkennedy says:
Great news. In other news… I purchased 67 Raspberry Pi 2’s just last week. Whoops
I think it would have been nice if they had stabilized the supply chain with the Zero before going and introducing another model.
Considering the modest changes between the Pi2 and Pi3 I think RaspberryPi2.5 would have been a more fitting moniker.
whoops… did not mean for that to be a reply.
Wifi, BLE, and quad 64 bit cores with an instruction set upgrade is minor????
In general, if you are running under 4GB of ram a 32 bit CPU is better…
Now a 64bit system sounds great, but it’s not really since it makes less efficient use of the 1GB of RAM.
Notably, very few applications benefit from the larger type support, and most end up wasting more space padding alignments. I wish they had it at 4GB+ we could bootstrap the kernel with a ram disk along with most of the OS, and completely bypass the Flash memory issues. This would bring it into the realm of a very nimble little desktop rig.
However, I have to give the Pi people an A+ for getting FCC/CE compliant wifi on the board.
With a bit more ram, I would start jamming the 64bit units into our racks with duct-tape and krazy-glue.
I over-clock the pi 2 at 1GHz, and it streams two 720p camera feeds like a dream. I have yet to find a real use for the GPU enabled VLC repo head, but it can do 1080p x264 decoding just fine. In this case a pi2 is slightly better, but not as efficient at big-math problems most code never uses anyway.
Very true on the RAM addressing;
But given the step up to ARMv8, aren’t the instructions significantly more optimised in certain areas, and thus you claw back some of that padded alignment?
Don’t get me wrong; more ram is almost always useful, but is also one of the most costly components despite the dropping prices.
Alternatively, a mPCIe and / or SATA at a decent bandwidth would overcome many of those flash problems, wouldn’t they?
Pretty much what OLD_HACK said…
64-bit processor is trivial without having the memory to support it. Nothing like going from a single-core to a quad-core.
0.3ghz is, again… trivial. Speed increase is based on benchmarks which are not a good comparison for real-world use. RasPis are rarely used for periods of extended computing and are far more dependent on a ‘burst-processing’ model which will show little to no real improvement. Slightly smoother video if you use a Pi as a media center is the one place you’re likely to see ANY improvement.
Integrated Wifi and BT is nice, but it’s not a game-changer in any sense. Both are luxuries when you get right down to it and are entirely dependent on what the Pi is being used for. Cat5 is far faster than any Wifi and if you /really/ need wireless connectivity, adapters are cheap- especially if you have a couple kicking around. I can count 4 unused wireless adapters that I have on hand right now. No matter how you slice it, it saves you a usb port and leaves you with an unused usb nubbin to lose for when you might want to use that KB\mouse for something else. Most wireless keyboard and mice use RF instead of BT or Wifi. The most that I’ve ever used BT for EVER is to wirelessly tether my netbook to my cell phone, though I will admit it was pretty cool being able to play WoW on my private server from my netbook using my cell phones data, but again- pure luxury.
Instruction set… really?! Like this is going to make THAT much of a difference. The 0.3ghz added to the processor will be more noticeable than this.
All-in-all? Far less spectacular than any newly introduced addition to the Pi line to date. Don’t get me wrong- given an equal choice between a 2 and a 3, I’ll take the 3… but who doesn’t want one more cupholder in their car?
Michael Evans says:
Built in Wifi and BT are absolutely game changers. It is a huge huge pain in the butt when working with kids and their parents for whom a free or subsidized Pi will end up being their first computer in the house. But having to mention yes you can use this for web and email buuuuut you’re gonna need to drop 10 bucks on a (wifi dongle) “a what? I wifi dongle, it will let you get on the …. arrrrrg screw it have this one (removes dongle from classroom pi)”
And if you want BT(a decent one) well then … they just saved ya 10 – 20 bucks.
Mehtinks
The thing that bugs me there is that really, it’s WiFi that’s the game changer. So including the Bluetooth is really just making it cost more.
What would you use the Bluetooth for? Keyboard, mouse, audio? Except all of those things make the peripherals cost *more* than they would if they didn’t have them, and in a lot of cases, there’s no real benefit.
And you can add WiFi to a Pi Zero for like, $2 using an ESP8266. So I really kinda wish they had just gone with adding WiFi alone. That being said, obviously they weren’t going to undercut the $35 price point, but maybe the reduced cost could’ve allowed for some other feature (who knows what).
@Michael Evans- thats why when you’re setting up you spec it as a kit. ie: when you send the permission slips home to parents you make it clear that they will need to provide a HDMI-capable display, usb mouse/keyboard then spec the ‘kit’ you provide to include a microUSB power source, wifi, HDMI cable and whatever other materials that will be needed for the projects. Do you tell the parents that they also need to provide one LED and one resistor each or do you include it in the students cost and order in bulk for the class?
Inclusion of Wifi and BT just puts the raspberry back in the game with all the other knockoff fruit boards… all I’m saying is that in the bigger picture the changes dont add up to being worthy of a major revision number.
The Pi2 was a major change, the Zero was a major change. The Pi3- less so.
@m_pan – it looks like a new revision to me, and I’ll be damned if it’s not. Upped CPU and added peripherals – if Apple can add a letter for this, they for sure can up a number.
Pat, seriously? Chances are that they are getting the WiFi/BT chip for little or nothing more than they’d pay for the WiFi chip. As for what they’ll use BT for, well, it will come in handy for using these with the BBC Microbit. It also gives people the option of using used/hand-me-down BT keyboards and mice.
And using an ESP8266 for WiFi, seriously? Its a cool low-cost aftermarket hack, not the sort of thing you choose when you are designing something new that you expect to sell multiple hundreds of thousands of.
So, if I’m reading this right, you’ve devoted multiple paragraphs to justifying a complaint about the name for a new model?
Yes, its “only” 0.3 GHz faster clock, which is 33% faster. Not earth shattering, but its something. Sneer about the new ISA, and its implementation, but it probably counts for ~15% on top of the clock speed improvement, which together bring ~50% boosts in single threaded performance. Two more CPU cores? Yup, less significant than the bump to two cores, but probably still somewhat helpful for “desktop” use. The GPU also gets a 60% clock speed boost, which counts for something.
I’ll note though that this all comes with a major regression for battery powered use. Performance/watt has probably improved, but idle power consumption has ticked up ~20%.
So, no, not really just “same shit, now with added cupholder.” Whether that meets you personal standards for calling this a RPi 3, well, you are probably the only person in the world who cares about that, but I’m sure that someone who loves you is willing to pretend they care, for a while. Do they read HaD?
Using an ESP8266 as an SDIO-to-Wifi isn’t a hack, it’s just software. It’s perfectly supported by the manufacturer.
The BT mode is a little more complicated to implement (costs a UART, more routing, etc.) than WiFi alone, so it’s not *just* a cost savings in terms of parts.
Pretty much all of these boards – the Pine64 (with the wireless addon), CHIP, and now the Pi3 all use combo BT/WiFi modules, which is my point – it’s really surprising, considering that WiFi is really the important one.
@CRImier- but its not. The processor increase is minor- 0.3ghz per core (adds up to adding a 5th less accessible core), integrates connectivity that was already available if you needed it and thats pretty much it.
If they added memory it’d come a lot closer to truly changing things. The new revision is really just a half-step towards closing the gap on other more capable hardware like the Orange and Banana Pis. I stand by saying this is really just a Pi 2.5 or Pi 2 Model B+
@eas- no. My complaint is about the hype. Same thing as when the Zero came out “OMG! IT’S A $5 / FREE ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE COMPUTER!!!1!1”. …3 months later and Zeros are still as unavailable as the day after they were released (not complaining because I have one). Now it’s the same hype over what is really just an updated Pi2. It’s even intended to *replace* the Pi2 according to the release docs.
It’s like Benchoffs ‘disclaimer’ of ‘they gave me one to write this review’. …I think it’s a shady practice when companies provide free units in exchange for positive amazon reviews and the same applies to HaD writers. It’s dishonest and shows a lack of integrity. Say what you want and make whatever snide comments about people that love me pretending to care… thats colloquially known as mud-slinging- personal attacks because you lack facts to counter my points… just like when politicians do it, it shows a lack of integrity on the part of the slinger.
That said… the fact that HaD isnt in the business of actually selling Pis goes a long way. I just prefer reviews to be uncompensated meaning the subject of the review is bought and used the same way the rest of us do. Otherwise it’s just a marketing ploy because who is going to get something for free and write a bad review that jeopardizes their chances of getting more freebies? As it is I have to question the authenticity of the review considering that this review might be a little off-color due to the external relationship.
Rimmer says:
Was really hoping the next iteration after the Raspberry Pi 2 to have more ram. :(
Ripper121 says:
Still waiting for Gigabit LAN….
How would Gigabit LAN be useful???
It only has one USB 2.0 root hub (AFAIK) so you don’t have the bandwidth to interact with any high speed storage. No SATA etc
Because AoE or NFS mounts, this is one reason why 1 gigabit LAN is desirable.
dizzey says:
I dont really se how nfs or AoE could solve the issue with the usb2 interface not having the performance to do gigabit transfers. The speed gains will be very small going from 100mbit to 1gbit when the sd card and the ethernet adapter are sharing the one slow usb bus. Now if it had usb3 or pci-e then gigabit would make sense.
Sorry I did not explain my point, the RPi sux for not being able to do gigabit Ethernet when other boards can, because mounting remote file-systems is very handy. We shove around encrypted data at over 100 megabytes per second between the machines here so falling back to less than 10% of that would be a pain.
@Dan- and you’re missing dizzey’s point. The Pi simply cannot utilize data coming in at gigabit speed. all gigabit does is get the next spoonful ready faster but it still has to wait for it to chew and swallow. You can serve the data faster, but it still has to be processed, especially if the processor is bogged down unencrypting the data coming in.
No I didn’t, I was pointing out the RPi is not even a good client option for my needs. The Pine, well that is getting closer and could even act as AoE RAID slices, perhaps.
everlastingphelps says:
M_pan has it. It’s like getting a bigger and bigger pipe feeding water into your house, when it all has to go through a garden hose spray nozzle at the end of the run. 100mb is already saturating the system bus.
pelrun says:
You missed ROB’s point. The Pi *does not have the bandwidth* to use GIgabit. Even if you had gigabit hardware on it it’d be limited to less than 100Mbit by the other buses in the system.
If you want a high-performance NAS, a Pi is entirely the wrong device.
guenther says:
I doubt Dan or anyone else (short of network driver developers) cares about how the NIC is connected internally. If an internal USB hub provides insufficient bandwidth, then for Pete’s sake don’t do it. The Banana Pi offers 1000baseT and the NIC is directly accessed by the CPU for little more money. Depending on how you look at it, the Banana Pi is an entirely different device, but it sports an ARM chip too, features roughly same dimensions and draws a comparable amount of current.
Clearly a gigabit NIC doesn’t make it a high-performance NAS (incidentally, I worked for BlueArc ;-) but it helps if you want to mount your home directory _from_ a server or you want just a super-cheap nearline storage server.
Sadly, I found the Banana Pi’s documentation severely lacking.
Well at least one person got what I was on about, I was starting to think I had reverted to a gibbering idiot that nobody understood. :-)
The point about the docs for the banana does highlight one of the strengths of the raspberry, lots of information available.
People claim to be able to read data at ~200Mbps on earlier RPis with a USB GigE adapter, so no, it probably wouldn’t be limited to less than 100Mbit/s by other buses in the system. Who knows, with two extra cores maybe the RPi 3 could go even faster.
Moreover, he doesn’t want to use it as a NAS, he wants to use it with network storage.
@eas – but it’s certainly not a necessity for everybody, and 1GBps USB-Ethernet usually costs the same as a Raspberry does. Those who need it can just buy it. Most don’t, though, and wouldn’t appreciate the price rising.
No you missed my point, which I clarified elsewhere, and I was not looking at the RPi as a server but as a cheap client in a learning lab (I have a lot of kids.). Anyway it turns out I can get ten times the power and functionality for about four times the (total) cost so as far as useful desktops go in that context the RPi isn’t there yet, although it may suit other people’s needs.
because 100 megabit doesn’t saturate a USB2 bus? Sure, you can’t use all of the gigabit feed, but you can get more out of it than that.
The inarguably superior odroid C2 has gigabit, and it has it on an independent bus, so it’s not (unlike the Pi) sharing that with the USB. You can get quite a bit of bandwidth through it.
“At launch, we are using the same 32-bit Raspbian userland that we use on other Raspberry Pi devices; over the next few months we will investigate whether there is value in moving to 64-bit mode.” – Eben Upton
Sounds about right on this the PI platform.
mcnugget says:
Well there ya go. Kind of a shame to waste potential.
Not to mention a bit weird that they’d even imply that not doing a 64 bit build was a possibility. Let me guess, something to do with the proprietary GPU side of things needed extra work or money spent to get it all working with 64 bit code?
Default says:
No, they may just want to keep 100% compatibility back to the first Pi with official Raspbian. There are no issues with ARM side blobs because there are none.
So why make a point about it being 64 bit, it is not an advantage at all.
I think that the point is that a lot of linux kernels are going to limited support for 32-bit systems, so to have future-compatibility, they are making the hardware 64-bit capable. It’s like the gigabit thread above — the system can’t use the benefits, but when there is no fallback mode (like there is with ethernet) it may be “go 64 bit or go away” in just a few years.
Tomin says:
That’s because 64 bit requires more memory. It might give some performance benefits but if there is too little memory that doesn’t help.
I hope that if they release 64 bit Raspbian they would also support running 32 bit version on Pi 3. Just to give user the choice between using less RAM or having different ISA and bigger registers.
It is actually possible to have the best of both worlds, sort of. There’s the AArch32 ARMv8 variant which allows you to use Advanced NEON, crypto instructions and most of the other things new in ARMv8 in 32 bit mode. The analogue in the x86 world is called x32, but not commonly used.
In what area?
Michael H. says:
300,000 units in warehouses but apparently none in the U.S?
It might have something to do with the month long Chinese New Year holiday…
Colombo says:
For a board that is produced in the UK?
On the list of Raspberry Pi competitors I’d like to add the HummingBoard Pro. While more expensive that the RPi, the addition of mSATA makes for a stable small file/database server.
The Gambler says:
anyone know if gerts vga adapter will work with the 3?
Well, now I know what I need to test….
when you test it if you could please update the article so the response does not get lost in the comments? thanks
Pixel_K says:
And what about the flat flex connector under the HDMI connector that I could see on the FTC photos ? Is that for a touch sensor ?
It’s a JTAG something or other for either the CPU or GPU. It’s not on the Pi that was shipped to me.
It’s a VideoCore JTAG, same as for all RPi + versions, non-+ versions had this on a 2.54 header
AKA the A says:
So, any chance for a “Zero 2” with the integrated wifi and bluetooth for less then $15? :D
I believe that it’s an idea that they would like to do but there is nothing timetabled. So that’s probably >12 months unless they have sourcing problem with the BCM2835.
I don’t know how far you can go with calling this a “usable desktop computer”‘.
I’d like to see it running my Xilinx VHDL synthesis – not likely as it is NOT that “usable” as a desktop computer.
If you try to use it as a desktop then you have both memory bottleneck and there is not much use in a paging file if it’s on USB mass storage – SD(**) only goes up to about 128GB AFAIK. USB 2.0 is too slow for SSD but you may get away with an old Hard Drive. Perhaps have the boot / system on a fast SDHC (can it even do SDXC) and put the media / mass-storage on a USB HDD.
I would call it a “usable for some things” desktop computer. And for the price – certainly “useful” for the right purposes.
The uses I can think of – PC from browsing / reading – no CAD and no games.
Hot melt glue one to the back of a large screen as a media server.
Wi-Fi router if your not happy with your current one – perhaps force all traffic via VPN.
Here what I see as a problem – ball park figures
802.11n WiFi – 120 Mb/s
USB 2.0 – 400 Mb/s (total for all devices)
10/100 LAN – 100 Mb/s
SDHC – 240 Mb/s
HDD – 400 Mb/s – No SATA here
SSD – 3.2Gb/s – No SATA here
It’s still a very good board for the price if you use it for things it’s capable of. I might buy one when I can find stock – if I haven’t given up on it by then like the Pi zero-stock.
It’s very usable. Ram aside, with the right developer, the diy scene is about to explode. I sat and thought about all the possible projects that could be done. Many folks look at the PI as meant for just being a desktop computer, however it’s small enough to be useful as the brain of things like robots and quadcopters. I personally have never looked into using a pi because I’ve never had a need or a desire, but I’m looking at how this could be a nice carputer. It might be possible to upgrade an old car into a smart car using this board.
Mad Hobbit says:
w one idea i have would me someone to come up with a case similar to the Apple 2,but made to allow us to put a Pi board in it and allow us to upgrade the boards easily as each new revision comes up. or maybe a case similar to the commodore 64. one of my old jobs was to program one to collect data using a GPIO card. if It could do it ,these boards should be able to
no games? well maybe not modern but my question about gert is 110% aimed at games. I’m looking to throw another classic standup arcade cab with mame into my collection and this would be a great step up from the current model for that.
but i do agree not really a desktop replacement.
Hopefully [Benchoff] will write up a followup article now that you have intrigued him with the question of Gert Vga compatibility. There are a lot of other questions here as well so perhaps a follow up article is warranted.
For me the biggest question is the actual CPU performance GHz means nothing to me for CPU performance. Some benchmarks would be good. So far it seems like it may be a fair pixel pusher for low speed stuff that doesn’t need too much IO such as TPC/IP – HDD etc.
Squonk42 says:
Here are some benchmarks:
http://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-3/
CRJEEA says:
It will be interesting to see how it copes with stand alone computer vision and voice recognition.
Sometimes it’s nice not to share your data with the Internet to get work done.
Truth says:
I do wonder is the WiFi/Bluetooth is just another USB device on the board like the 10/100 NIC, all piped through the one USB 2.0 port.
As far as I know the previous versions pushed everything trough one USB bridge and there is nothing to say this version is any different. So your *Total* theoretical I/O in all directions is limited to 480Mb/s, minus protocol support and handshaking.
No, it is attached via SDIO (for WiFi) and high-speed UART (for BT). So that’s a significant plus.
I sure would have liked it if they had put a 2nd USB root port into the SoC though.
jcamdr says:
Did you know the WiFi chip part number and driver ? I also suspect that the SDIO driver need a board specific “nvram” file in the form of a /lib/firmware/brcm/*.txt file.
“This promise wasn’t one to bring a high power Linux computer to the masses; checking your email, or loading a web page on the original Pi was a chore.”
You never ever used a 14.4 modem and a 486 to browse the internet, didn’t you ? That was a chore !, even with 32 MB RAM win3.1 was frozen slow…
Duo says:
Kids these days, amirite?
uisrite… I went from a 2400 to a 14.4 and later to 33.6.
I remember downloading games, reading the docs as they downloaded then going and making a snack while the game itself downloaded.
…when my grandma learned to call the operator for a breakthrough when she wanted to talk to my mom ruined my 14 year-old world.
Pretty crazy to think Orcs and Humans all fit on 8 1.44 floppies back in the day.
I’m old enough to remember when that was very fast.
9600 on an 8086 with 64kb of ram or 25 serial terminal users on a 80386, 1Mb ram and Linux (Slackware installed from about 32 floppy disks) on a 32mb hard drive.
And those famous words – “No one will ever need more that 640k RAM” – lol
We spent so much time desoldering soldered in RAM chips that we got into a rhythm in the workshop.
With a bass guitar and some drums we would have been a hit lol.
I can still desolder DIP really fast – two pins at a time.
akismetuser212339447 says:
“Father would slash us in two with a breadknife”
No punch card anecdotes?
Doc Oct says:
32MB? Jesus, I would’ve given my right arm for 8MB in those days. I crawled along with 4MB. Opening an early version of Netscape Navigator took 5 minutes. I had 32MB on my Pentium 2 playing Quake 2, Half-Life and etc in the late 90s. (97-99)
I went from 4MB to 8MB on my AMD DX-4 100 (Pentium equivalent) in 1995 and it was as if the skies had opened… Windows (3.11 baby!) would boot in ~2.5mins vs 6 mins. My flight sim and battleship sim would both actually run smoothly. It was truly miraculous. Didn’t help how long it took to print anything through my Epson RX-80 though (nothing like watching a dot matrix printer draw a word doc line by line!).
When I made the jump from a 14.4kbps modem to an early 33.6kbps modem on that system in mid-1997 that was another revolution (at least when I was in an area where the local ISP pool could support it… back home was another story).
Those were the days.
Really, really? No other linux for under 150 4 years ago?
You could run linux on hacked routers, phones, or old desktops, but there wasn’t something as simple, relatively capable and small as the Rasberry Pi for little money.
ajlitt says:
Beaglebone came out a little under five years ago for $89
exactly, and there was the beagle board which was still about 120 if I remember correctly.
And some other companies had linux boards.
But hey….. they have to market it. A little lie here and there…
Well this is Hackaday we are talking about. They are partnered with Adafruit. Adafruit is practically married to the Pi Foundation.
werecatf says:
I’m disappointed that there’s still no support for H/W decoding of HEVC. Most of the alternatives do support decoding of HEVC, and some of them can even do 10-bit HEVC, but RPi? Nope!
I’ve read some postings saying it can do H.265 (no mention of bit or resolution though). It should be able to push out maybe non-HD H265 with software… If you’re looking for a HTPC dev board the ODROID-C2 can do 4k H.265 and has good KODI support.
The Pi 2 has had HEVC 720p and modest bitrate 1080p decode for a while. It uses mainly optimised CPU decoding with a bit of offloading to the GPU (not the VPU which is used for H264/MPEG2/VC-1 hardware acceleration). The Pi 3 should be capable of higher bitrate 1080p HEVC stuff with the CPU and GPU speed bumps. That’s the joy of the Pi – there are some very competent people working on stuff for it. They are optimising the heck out of it, working within the limitations rather than bitching about them.
Paul Stoffregen says:
There’s lots of awesome to be excited about here, but really, how many times are we going to keep hearing that *this* Raspberry Pi is finally the first to be a usable computer? First the original, then when the memory doubled, then when it got more ports, and then when version 2 was claimed “six times faster”.
They keep getting better, but still far short of the performance of a regular computer. It’s kinda like saying *this* will finally be the year of the Linux Desktop!
Recently I taught a couple workshops were people ran the Arduino IDE on laptops they brought. The few who brought netbooks with 1G or even 2G RAM were essentially hobbled, unable to keep up, just because everything ran so slow. And those machines (probably) had SATA and regular 5400 rpm hard drives.
Raspberry Pi 3 is certainly going to be used for lots of great projects, as the prior models have been. But I’m skeptical a board with only 1G RAM and a terribly slow storage subsystem (which can’t even leverage the speed of modern SD cards, which are generally much slower than modern hard drives and SSDs) is going to live up to all this hype of being a usable computer.
Raspberry Pi is pretty amazing in so many ways, and perhaps it will be the end of Arduino and microcontrollers (and I might be looking for a new job soonish…) I just wish it didn’t always come with the same old hype. Either that, or I’d wish 2016 will be the Year Of The Linux Desktop.
RaspPis aren’t meant to be desktop replacements. RaspPis are meant to be appliance computers, project processing and a PC in the absence of other, better, more conventional hardware.
To expect a Pi to replace to a desktop is like expecting a Zero to replace a Pi2.
I’m using a Raspberry Pi 2 as a desktop and I’m more or less happy with it. But then, it’s mostly coding and looking up pinouts, with occasional Facebook browsing.
weasdown says:
I wonder if you’ve ever tried running the Arduino IDE on a Pi 2. While certainly not as fast as on a decent laptop or desktop, it is definitely useable, and perhaps you could consider that the reason the netbooks with 1 or 2GB of RAM were running slowly was the operating system rather than the hardware.
bleughbleugh says:
woo, just ordered one from Element14 down under.
Doesn’t seem to work thru the normal desktop browser, but just dandy on the mobile!, only $50 AUD delivered
i’ll probably have to stack it next to my Pi zero for a while until I get time to play with it ;-)
What!!! Your in Stralia and you have a Pi 3 *AND* a Zero !!! – I hope you get eaten by drop bears!!!
黃偉峻 says:
CPU Name should be ARM11 not Cortex A11 ?
Can sbd post link to buy in the US? The official website hosts the link for the UK and shipping charge is almost $15.
Seriously? Do it for me so I don’t have to?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raspberry+pi+3
…click ‘shopping’ and go from there. Took me longer to write this than it would have taken you to do it on your own.
hugov says:
There is a typo in your comparison chart: the B+ and Zero columns show “Cortex A11”, whereas it should be “ARM11”. ARM11 was the series of ARM processors that pre-date the Cortex-A series.
dendad says:
The Pi3 is very tempting. I’ve just setup an Orange Pi PC as a UniFi server and a Pi2 as a PABX, installed with an SPA3102 ATA in an old rack mounted Ethernet hub case. This gives me a good enclosure and a power supply.
If I had a Pi3 I may have had a go at running both on the same board. (I was advised a Pi 2 may not have enough grunt.)
BUT I really want some Pi Zeros!
They are the “killer board” as far as I’m concerned.
Patrocles says:
I don’t think there is enough here to make this essential buying for me. The Beaglebone Black stands up well to this release.
customdev says:
When is it that Broadcom (Avago) will give us a truly open source driver for their wireless chips that leverages all the capabilities of the chip? OpenWRT, Linux, and open source developers in general have been held back for years by the lack of real software. The Videocore debacle is much the same. Binary blobs precompiled into some form of useless nonsense does not answer the needs of the open source community as a whole.
802.11s and AOSP for all would be great. Intellectual property rights arguments and holding back all your information makes a poor product.
Ag Primatic says:
I second your sentiments, customdev.
I want to be able to use the DPI Interface in a non-standard way, but the only documentation I could find is sparse, incomplete, and even contradictory in places.
The best source I was able to dig up was http://blog.reasonablycorrect.com/raw-dpi-raspberry-pi/, but that didn’t answer all my questions.
I needed an active-low DEN, but changing that one bit in dpi_output_format did not make DEN active low. It seems that changing the HSYNC or VSYNC polarity in dpi_output_format doesn’t have any effect (but changing them in hdmi_timings does). Unfortunately, there is no DEN polarity flag in hdmi_timings.
Is there an online source that describes the DPI interface on the BCM2835? The binary blob approach to video drivers is not very hacker-friendly to say the least.
MRO4RPAS (@mro4rpas) says:
You’ve missed the bit where they state there is also a Pi Compute 3 comping out using the same chipset. “We expect to introduce a BCM2837-based Compute Module 3 in the next few months. We’ll be demoing Compute Module 3 at our partners’ launch events this morning.” https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/
That might just revive the compute after being killed by the Zero, Interesting move.
Yes I’m very interested in the Compute Module 3. Specifically whether it is pin compatible with the original compute module. The concept of my own board for various embedded applications with a compute core that can be upgraded by just swapping it out(if code compatible) is very appealing. Especially with regard to product improvements.
chaosbc says:
Here in France, from official dealer, Raspberry pi 3 is 45.90 euros (50 dollars)
This is far from the promised $35
That’s like saying you can’t get a Zero for the advertised $5.
you totally got me
no-name says:
I’ll sell you a $5 Pi if you wire me $50 …
official french dealer says:
No one promised you it would be $35 from “an official dealer” in France.
Jonathan Piat says:
This is not true to say that Pi cannot be compared to ODROID boards. HardKernel has ODROID board in the price range of the raspberry pi and the more expensive ODROID XU4 is bit more expensive but way more powerful and practical (USB3, Gigabit ethernet, eMMC) as a desktop computer. The new OCDROID-C2 is better CPU-wise but does not have Bluetooth and Wifi (but has gigabit ethernet).
I’am a bit suprise that the foundation is not more open in their design process to get feedback from their users. The business model starts to look more like big companies (Apple ?) and less like a foundation.
halherta says:
Specifically the Odroid-C2 has 2GB of RAM and quad core A53s running at 2GHz as opposed to the RPI3’s 1GB of RAM and 1.2 GHz Quad A53s. The Odroid-C2 also has eMMC support, UHS-1 MicroSD card support, gigabit ethernet and HDMI that can output video with 4K display resolution.
But its Linux Kernel support (Amlogic S905) is limited compared to the support that the RPI3 gets and it doesn’t have built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, which for me, is the killer feature of the RPI3. The Odroid-C2 also costs $40 instead of $35.
The community for the hardkernel boards is probably the second biggest out there after the RPI community.
Basically the RPI3 board has about the same specs of the $75 DragonBoard410c at slightly less than half the cost.
The RPi3 is decent, but dramatically inferior to a Odroid c2. Sure, it’s $5 cheaper and has wifi/bluetooth, but both of those are addable via very inexpensive dongles if you need them.
On the other hand, the C2 has roughly twice the processing power of the RPi3, gigabit ethernet, doesn’t share it’s ethernet with the USB bus, twice the ram, much faster ram, eMMC, and better output capabilities.
It also comes with Linux or Android distros (and it absolutely runs Android like a champ)
I sincerely don’t understand why Hackaday totally ignores Hardkernels offerings, despite them both having a very large community (if smaller than the Raspberry Pi) and objectively superior boards at comparable prices.
I wonder about that at times, but there is this option if you have some useful info to share, http://hackaday.com/submit-a-tip/
It really depends on your use case. If you want to run android or really need the extra processing power, RAM and gigabit ethernet then sure the ODROID-C2 is better. But keep in my mind that its running a 3.14 Linux Kernel.
If you’re more into education and/or prefer having built-in WiFi & Bluetooth as well as running Linux with a more up-to-date kernel then the RPi board is better.
By the way the ODROID community is amazing and incredibly helpful. So if you want to try Android/Linux SBCs outside of the RPI Foundation, go for their boards.
DV82XL says:
k00lk0der1 says:
Does this WiFi chip allow promiscuous mode? It would be interesting to see a fully functional and reasonably powerful SBC for pentesting.
nsayer says:
I hope it allows HostAP mode. A “router” firmware distribution could be quite disruptive to the home WiFi router marketplace, I would think.
Of course, HostAP mode also potentially has black-hat uses as well…
Looks to only be 2.4GHz, though, as it only lists 802.11n.
mark g says:
I was wondering the same thing, and then I saw the pictures of the onboard antenna. I think you’re still better off with an external adapter.
Kira_Slith says:
Brian Benchoff, the 3 isn’t anywhere NEAR a desktop or even a laptop computer yet, you jumped the gun again. It’s almost a modern cellphone in usability, but it’s not a “Consumer” device yet. when you can use every feature and function without having to open a command window, or read a book/wiki, or install a OS from another device, is when it is ready to operate as a school computer for work. which is why Ubuntu still hasn’t bypassed OSX in install base.
Rural says:
You seem to be on the wrong site. This is Hackaday. All of the complaints you made are actually features as far as most of us are concerned. The fact that I can install a third-party OS on a piece of kit (that is capable of running an OS) is not just a feature, it’s a requirement, as far as I’m concerned.
But on the Pi3 being called a useable desktop… I’m still on the fence. That 1GB of RAM is going to make browsing hard to stand. And if I can’t browse, it’s not a desktop.
kiraslith says:
I don’t think you got what I meant. He implied it’s a Consumer device, which is not true by a long shot. I’m very much on the right site as far as I know or care, I’ve been stopping by for almost 4 years now, if only because there aren’t any other sites like HaD out there. Those are Features to us, but the average idiot can’t even figure out how to turn one without a day of research. let alone write a Micro SD with the OS, Install drivers for Wifi, Work around the usual problems with X11, and properly configure a display (which still requires manually editing CFGs last i checked).
The average snotbag wants to plug it in, turn it on, and everything just work naturally. Not anywhere near what most of us here do on a daily basis. My problem is Benchoff keeps writing like its the next iPhone or Commodore 64, he has done it for every board revision since Pi1. Yeah, it’s got wifi and bluetooth now, but that doesn’t make it any more perfect, just less for us to buy.
Futrama says:
Is it me or is Microsoft getting there creepy little hands into everything. Even the RasberryPi 3 now comes with Windows 10. Is this a good thing?
It doesn’t even come with an SD card. How is it going to “come with” Windows?
If Microsoft is offering a free license for Windows for the Pi, that’s a different matter (I wouldn’t know), but I don’t believe a “Windows tax” is implicitly included in the cost of the Raspberry Pi the same way it is for (most) non-Apple x86 laptops.
Mike C says:
@nsayer It’s Windows 10 IOT. It’s free. There’s no “Windows tax”. …and it doesn’t come with the board, but is available to download and put on an SD card. It’s not a full OS, but think of it as a way to build a single-user kiosk UI (or a headless .NET IOT application) on a Raspberry Pi.
This is a very good thing.
Only the average computer user would want Windows on a board like that, but Windows for ARM is not even close to the Windows the average users are used to – not existing drivers for most USB peripherals being just one of the reasons – so no worries: most of them will resell the board on Ebay for cheap and the others might give Linux a try. Win-Win scenario to me, thanks to Win :^)
I’m happy to see the Raspberry Pi 3 now comes with built-in WiFi and bluetooth! Those 2 combined when bought as dongles can cost anywhere from $10-30! more. The fact that they’re provided with an upgraded Cortex A53 CPU for the same $35 price, is amazing. Also the Linux Kernel is almost mainlined, last I heard and the software support that the RPI foundation offers is second to none.
This SBC offers excellent value! (Much more than that offered by the RPi Zero……even if it only costs $5)
Thanks RPi foundation!
deater says:
Never fails, every time I get my 25-node Pi-cluster up and calculating they release another model. Already migrated from B to B+ to 2. Hopefully the footprint is staying the same so the new ones can be a drop-in replacement.
I had hoped the Pi would be a stable platform. In my advanced OS class we write a custom operating system for the Pi. However this semester I had to limit it to the 1176 models just to keep things simple, but it’s going to get harder down the road if the students all want to use their personal Pis which are going to be all across the board low-level ARM microarchitecture wise. The Pi2 was annoying but compatible enough, you just had to make the MMIO offset configurable and mess with the interrupt controller a bit. The switch to 64-bit sounds like it will be a pain.
You say that like the foundation releasing a new model somehow makes your old models non-functional in some way.
> You say that like the foundation releasing a new model somehow makes your old models
> non-functional in some way.
well they become non-functional when I rip them out of the cluster and replace them with the new models! although in theory I have enough parts to build a second cluster. I was thinking I’d use the extra model-b+ boards, but maybe I will make it a model 3 cluster. Seems silly now that I made the cluster boards compatible for b/b+ as it looks like I’ll never put together a B cluster.
This is all because I have been trying to get maximum FLOPS/Watt out of this cluster on Linpack, and arm64 is potentially a big win. Of course what would really help the cluster more than anything would be replacing the awful USB/100MB ethernet the boards are stuck with.
dominoembedded says:
Sounds like you run a very interesting class!
deater78 says:
> Sounds like you run a very interesting class!
I’d like to think so. Not really sure what the students think.
By the end of the semester we have a simple multi-tasking OS going on the Pi with both serial port and framebuffer graphics output. I’m hoping we can maybe get i2c and SD card access going as part of final projects this semester, not sure if that will happen.
I really enjoy working on the OS, I wish I could spend more time on it, but it’s not related to all of the research that I should probably be doing instead.
Does the 3 still suffer from trashing the SDCard during power cycles?
This is one of the reasons I chose to get a handful of C.H.I.P.S instead of Zeros. The LiPo charging circuit and the reasonably dependable ability to not destroy it’s own storage is a nice plus in my book.
Yes I’m aware of the Flash problems but this was fixed before I ever got my units. So no worries.
It may do – but one of the other announcements as part of the Pi 3 is a change to the design of the VC4 boot code that means it can boot without a uSD card, either from a USB mass storage device or via a PXE Netbook over Ethernet. Great development.
This is kind of a big deal. That’s awesome!
Where can this be found? I am interested in PXE-Boot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/48af52/raspberry_pi_3_usb_and_pxe_network_boot_boot/
tekkieneet says:
Would be nice if the HaD store would start carrying *non-bundled* RPi boards and others closed to their suggested retail price.
I agree, though SparkFun and AdaFruit do sell them at prices that seem fairly close to the SRP. You need to have a bit of a fudge factor in there for variable exchange rates. I just bought my model 3 for £26.67 from PiMoroni, and that’s more than US$35 at the moment.
rpstar says:
Don’t worry about Arduino going away soon. The advantage of the Pi is also it’s weakness – ie: Linux. Arduino does things in real time for small custom devices the Pi would not be good for.
While the Arduino is closer to real time than Linux, I notice that there are times real time operation is a bit off the mark. Nevermind AVR’s wonky interrupt timings, there are a number of functions and practices within the Arduino environment that cause RT problems that flat out go away when switching to a pure C or even an ASM code base.
Last I checked, it was the Arduino’s inane I/O handling double checking procedures causing a lot of problems. I think you can “force” the handling but I never really understood why the Arduino guys don’t bother optimizing the cruft away there.
They were slow to add support for pullups at the beginning so I just dropped the Arduino entirely and went straight to C/ASM.
Raspberry Pi along with many of the other SBCs are really not in the same category as Arduino.
The Arduino core is usually a microcontroller (AVR 8-bit, ARM 32-bit Cortex-M0/M3/M4) without an MMU that is intended to be coded bare metal (without an OS) or with a custom RTOS like FreeRTOS, mbedOS or the upcoming Zephyr. Arduino’s real competition is mbed.
Raspberry Pi has a more powerful microprocessor core (ARM 32-bit/64-bit Cortex A5/A8/A7/A9/A53/A72/A35/A32) with an MMU that is intended to be matched with external RAM chips and virtualize memory. This core can run a full blown cooperative operating system such as Linux or BSD.
The ‘microcontroller’ approach is great when ‘real-time’ processing matters .i.e. the need to repeat certain tasks at a precise specified time interval usually in the microseconds or less). Microcontrollers are usually programmed in C/C++ though that is changing now with projects like MicroPython and Espruino.
The ‘microprocessor w/MMU’ approach is not ‘real-time’ because operating systems like Linux do not guarantee that certain tasks will run at time intervals with the same level of precision (say within microseconds). There are exceptions to do this of course that require patching the Linux Kernel but even then the Kernel is still not truly real-time….. Having said that ,the advantage of running an OS like Linux is that you can develop applications in virtually any language of your choosing…(want to develop IOT apps in Cobol, pascal or Fortran? have at it….) as well as leverage a huge selection of code most of which is well-tested and open source.
Ofcourse the actual real-timey-ness of an application or OS can be debatable. I’m merely trying to illustrate the overarching concepts here.
I don’t know why anyone would worry about Arduino going away in any event. Arduino is a very thin wrapper around AVR and ARM micro controllers. I personally used an Uno for only a month or two before I just started buying AVR chips and using them raw in my own designs. I think the last time I needed one was to attempt to use HV programming to recover an AVR from bad fusing, but since then I’ve been using the recovery clock feature of my USB µISP for that purpose instead (fortunately, the !RESET fuse hasn’t been one I’ve needed to recover from thus far).
Even if that weren’t the case (and I recognize that not everyone is going to be able or want to design their own board), there’s a pile of workalikes out there. SparkFun’s RedBoard comes immediately to mind, but absent that form factor, there’s so many options from AdaFruit that I can’t count them all.
Arduino’s larger contribution is their software, which is easily adaptable for use with bare chips.
“the graphics capabilities, provided by the VideoCore IV GPU, are the same as they ever were”.
Uh, it went from 250MHz to 400MHz.
Is there a picture with the back of the board somewhere?
Sure. http://i1.wp.com/makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RaspPi3-14.jpg , it’s even high-res!
It’s in a useful article linked in the comments of announcement @raspberrypi.org, which also gives a lot of detail: http://makezine.com/2016/02/28/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-3/
https://www.adafruit.com/products/3055
Adafruit.
2.5A theoretically needed is a bit annoying since the common USB adapters and many standard powerpacks are 2.1A at the moment.
But if adafruit says 2A works, I guess it works, although when you add USB devices and a camera and such.. or run some hard calculations..
Why is it such a bad thing that companies closely followed the layout of what was once open source hardware? It’s the only logical thing to do if you want compatibility with the wide array of products designed for the leading board on the market. Most of these boards are far superior to the Pi with very different hardware specs. And today most of them are far more open than the Pi as the Pi Foundation stopped releasing their hardware as open source.
The Odroid and the Beagleboard also predate the Pi by 3-4 years. Giving the Pi Foundation credit for the existence of these boards isn’t really where credit is due.
Honestly, I don’t think the Osborne effect applies. It’s one thing to put off buying a several hundred dollar device because of the promise of the next generation model in the wings, but the most expensive Raspberry Pi is US$35. That’s cheap enough to buy one now AND in a month or two when the next one comes out.
DaveW says:
I have just ordered a Pi 3 from Newark. For me the important thing is the built in wifi and BT. The rest is just a bonus for my applications. It is the software and the community that matters. I also have a CHIP which is a great little SBC. There was a little glitch with the memory that was fixed and some minor power supply issues that were easily fixed by plugging in a battery. This had the bonus of providing uninterruptable power. The software support is surprisingly very good and this is a great board for low end applications. I have also just received an Artik 5 dev kit but the software and documentation is so limited that it will take months to get to where I need to be. That is why the Pi 3 is of interest to me. It doesn’t have the Artik’s secure element (for which there is no documentation anyway) but other than that it should make a great IOT hub.
Replying just so that I can track comments…
Maes says:
Next step for something completely different, getting a board with the Pi’s footprint (and in the same price range) but built around the Z36xx or Z37xx CPUs.
nelsontb says:
hopefully lattepanda doesn’t flop
Damn I had completely missed that. Thanks for the heads-up!
Trikolan says:
Super comparsion.I like it Raspberry Pi 3.Integrade wifi module is best idea, but not work in metal box..
Preferable is this case : https://youtu.be/q0U-tvky5vw
Most power up is very good step.64-bit support is fine.
MorMo says:
two weeks time but the nether the hardwarefacts are right …
BCM43438 combo chip should be able to run Wifi and bluetooth 4.1 (Classic & Low Energy)
alpha_ninja says:
“In contrast, 100,000 Raspberry Pi Zeros have been shipped just a few weeks”
I this sentence be wrong
alxy says:
> While the Pi 3 will prove to be very popular, you probably won’t see scalpers selling Pi 3s for hundreds on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raspberry-Pi-3-Model-B-Starter-Kit-/262313554175?hash=item3d131b30ff:g:epYAAOSwDuJW1Kky
> There’s enough to go around, and as long as we don’t have too many hoarders, you too can get your hands on one soon.
https://www.adafruit.com/pi3
> There were only 100,000 units manufactured in the first run of Pi Zeros, with another 100,000 following shortly thereafter. Right now, there are 300,000 Pi 3s sitting in warehouses, ready to be shipped out around the world.
Does anyone trust any number coming out of the Raspberry Pi foundation? Where are these warehouses? North Pole?
FFS, you still can’t get a model A+ for an honest $20. The raspberry pi smell isn’t what you think.
Exceedingly Unseelie (@der_bluthund) says:
The Pine64, unlike the original poster says, is not dead in the water. For a start, the board itself starts at $15USD for a 1,2ghz processor and 1gb RAM. I went for the 2gb option as I know 64-bit processors are more memory hungry. I also went for the wifi/bluetooth add on. The Pine 64 also has more header pin break outs than just a GPIO, even though it has that as well. Already there is a fairly stable Android distro for it, and debian is in dev.
I will still get myself a Pi3 as soon as I have the spare cash to do so, but the Pine64 *is* a serious contender, IF they can get a community of hackers behind it.
There is plenty of room in the market for many SBCs. Raspberry Pi are at the top of the game, but they might not always be. I remember when Amstrad PCs were considered top notch. Heck, I remember the Archimedes as well… and the BBC Micro / Master. May the Raspberry Pi foundation have a long life, and may the market in SBCs expand exponentially. It is all good as far as I am concerned.
If the Pi Foundation didn’t think the Pine64 was a contender I doubt we would be seeing the Pi3 for a long time yet. The Pi2 came out not too long after the Odroid-C1. The Pi Zero came out right as the CHIP started to ship. I don’t think the Pi 3 would be coming out right now with the specs it does had the Pi Foundation not been competitively motivated.
Nothing wrong with being competitive. But it is kinda disappointing that so few people are willing to see that there is valid competition to the Raspberry Pi. They just write off every other board as knockoffs or vaporware and the Pi Foundation is more than willing to let people pretend that every other board is inferior.
Hussam Al-Hertani says:
The problem with many ARM socs is that the SOC vendor (Allwinner, AmLogic e.t.c) will release possibly one maybe twice Linux Kernel updates/SDK over a period of 1-2 years and then move onto a new soc for next years model. This means that if you try to run a 5 year old SBC you’ll have to use a significantly outdated kernel.
Take the Odroid-C1s SOC for example the AMLogic S805, The latest kernel for it is 3.10. Mainline 3.10 will be eol’d within the next couple of months. But if you are using the SOC, you have no choice but to keep using this older eol’d kernel because AmLogic is too busy working on another SDK for its latest model.
Hard Kernel does a wonderful job patching that kernel and maintaining it for the ODROID-C1 but the underlying kernel is still oh very old. The problem is the vendor doesn’t really care about providing up-to-date Linux kernel or interested in mainlining the Kernel for basically an outdated ARM SOC. Most of the SOCs are intended to run as TV set top boxes running Android anyway which is typically used with outdated Linux Kernels.
This is the problem with many of these Chinese based flavour of the year SOCs (I’ve heard that at least AllWinner is getting a bit better but haven’t seen it yet).
Now if you look at the iMX6/7 from freescale/NXP or the TI ARM SOCs they have better support and longevity. The Raspberry Pi being a ‘phenomenon’ and using Broadcom SOCs also means that a lot of effort is being put into mainlining the Kernel and keeping the Linux Kernel up-to-date. In my mind this is one of the distinguishing features of the Raspberry Pi boards. Not only are they low cost but they come with support and the boards have a lifetime that can span several years (you can still purchase the original RPi B board with 512MB of RAM) and the Linux Kernel for the boards is being continuously developed and updated.
just a correction the ODROID-C1’s (AmLogic S805) 3.10 kernel is not mainlined….obviously its a custom version. Even the freshly released ODROID-C2’s (AmLogic S905) SOC uses a relatively old 3.14 kernel and again I highly doubt that it will get mainlined ever.
AMLogic and Hardkernel have apparently – finally – woken up to this issue. There is a post on the ODroid forum that AMLogic and Hardkernel are working on developing a 4.4LTS kernel for the C2, starting in May. So maybe some progress.
I think the fact that people were concerned that they were shipping with 3.14LTS that is EOL in August this year pushed them into action. I wanted to love the C1 – but the ancient kernel and difficulty in compiling new drivers (the AMLogic headers aren’t nicely organised) meant it got relegated to a drawer in favour of a Pi 2. Less powerful – but much better supported…
Hu says:
Steve, that’s great news! I’ve already purchased a pair of RPI3 I’ll consider purchasing an odroid-c2 (already have two odroid-c0s & odroid-u3s) in a couple months time.
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The new TV series George R.R. Martin is more of an event horizon than the Game of Thrones
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Photo: Jonathan Hession (Syfy)
Fantastic horror can sometimes feel like an odd attack. The last genre is more entrenched in the past than the future, better suited to organic fears than technological nightmares – hence the propensity to use science fiction as a transparent dress of an old-fashioned monster. (There is a reason StrangerChimneys are rooted in the untidy body, and malicious A.I. drama 2001 does not play like a horror.) Nightflyers, the new Syfy show based on the 1980 novel Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin is trying to find stinking fears in the machine, and while serving brilliant images and tempting performances, the show has no execution. Never bored but trying to lift over uneven handling of the material.
An obvious point of comparison is the 1997 film Horizon of the event, another story about the crew of spaceships tortured by an unknown source of evil. (The less talk about the former attempt to adapt Martin's novel, the limp 1987 film acting on Catherine Mary Stuart, is the better.) But this series goes further into the imagination area, including the psychic among its spaceships of space travelers. By discovering an alien dish, the scientist Dr. Karl D & amp; Branin (Night shiftThe Ely Macken & # 39;) gathers a team approaching the long-running Spacecraft The Nightflyer, attempting to reach such a remote, irresponsible alien ship and establishing the first contact, hoping to find the means to save the rapid disappearance of the human population country. Unfortunately, the nightmare is more scary than a telepathon capable of deadly damage (Sam Strike) brought by D & B's as an alien communicator rather than optimistic about the new mission. Even worse, someone or something causes dangerous hallucinations, sabotaging the ship, and putting the mission in jeopardy. Much is happening, and the series is racing across the country, often before it has a chance to actually sign up. Still, this is probably the best, because this thing can not handle much control.
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Jeff Buhler (based on the "Nightflyers" by George R. R. Martin)
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Eoin Macken, Gretchen Mol, David Ajala, Jodi Turner-Smith, Angus Sampson, Maya Eshet, Sam Strike
10 o'clock. Eastern, from Sunday to Thursday, starting on December 2nd
Journal horror of science fiction. Five episodes were viewed for review.
This is a sudden show. Developing the surface was introduced in a small construction opportunity, leaving the viewer feeling angry as they tried to process what happened between the scenes. At one point, it is suggested that a boat has been passed on a ship for a month without any sign of passing time except for the sign that announces it so much. Some of them are a problem of editing – the characters will suddenly appear in different places on a ship, which, when there is a force that creates shameless digital projections of people in the story, can easily cause confusion – but this is mainly the problem of scripting where the dialectic mysteries that grab the characters which are too easy to obscure in the secrets of the story of the series itself.
It would simply be embarrassing to the proliferation of confusing characters and points. There is a telepath, but his powers are at best ambiguous, causing more confusion from the intriguing mystery. Captain Eris (David Ajala, who gives the best of the roles he has taken), was forced to shake the narrative water, pulling out the old "I can not tell you this yet", only to explain it later, without a logical reason for the delay. Too often, the issue will introduce a question that could develop into something more (is this the experience really? Is this the threat of red haring?) Just to blow it abruptly offside with "Oh, I guess not" shortly afterwards. The emergence of genre conventions with which Martin has perfected Game of Thrones here is improper or undeveloped as well as normal horror horror trophies that appear as standard problems – some are presented with formative knowledge, others that never flourish in anything that is sufficiently different to appear fresh. There is a feeling that all this has been done, and Jeff Buhler has not shown how to feel new again.
Eoin Macken, Gretchen Mol, and Angus Sampson at Nightflyers.
This is proof of a pulp of dramatics of the original material that Nightflyers it remains a pleasure to look at these weaknesses. Surprisingly, the B-movie's appeal to the process, and the series quickly flipped from an absurd sequence to the effort to keep the story falling under the weight of many imple- mentability. ("Anyone on board accepts that a certain figure has heard voices in their heads for decades without questioning their mental stability, so who are you, the TV watchers, to doubt it?" One of the examples of massive good faith in the show is from their audience. ) At some point, either you go along with the random nature of your choices or throw you your hands in frustration on many problems left unaddressed. (Early a woman who is covered by bees appears, and yet an immediate thought –surely this is another hallucination– he quickly fell for the benefit of a convincing reality. If it's a surprise to get out in half the show, it's awkward.)
Replacing the Syfy budget for a massive pay-cable one of its authors is more successful received (and leaving Martin out of the creative process, his HBO contract is exclusive), the series still manages to create an appealing visual style. Credit Manager Mike Cahill (I Origins. Another country) creating a cold sense of space inventiveness: The camera will come out of one window and skate along the exterior of a massive boat, enjoying its reach, before entering the second part The Nightflyer start a new scene. He well understands how to remove the standard conventions of horror; from the start-up scene directly from spilling over to the ghostly projections that can appear at any time, brings some real scary scenes that later episodes succeed in imitating with reasonable success.
Similarly, actors mostly sell all this supernatural covert sci-fi hokum. So many characters are inconsistent or forced into narrative situations that move them like ping-pong balls from one emotion to another; this is a relief when a pro like Ajala or Angus Sampson just choose a mood and roll with it. Maya Eshet, an actor with whom I had previously been unknown, is particularly good; her computer expert Lommie (from the harbor in her hand, allowing her to literally connect with the ship's controls) is the most complex and subtly shaded performance in a pile. It may be a deeply charismatic, magnetic presence that raises every scene in which it appears. It is no accident that the fifth episode, which puts the front and the central backdrop story of entering the mainframe computer, is best in the first half of the season.
Finally, your tolerance for Nightflyers it may depend on your love for the fruits of the genre. It does not matter that everything is so good, and as the whole thing develops with the unstoppable rhythm of a typical horror movie, "look at the best of intentions and make a terrible mistake" (and in a quick snippet, lucky) lack of depth of good human drama to anchor all stupidity. Ultimately, the silent and unknown alien entity in distant spaces of space may feel more associated with these unwanted people.
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Esko Acquires Blue Software
July 20, 2018 | Graphic Arts Magazine
Esko has announced its acquisition of Blue Software, LLC, a label and artwork management software company based in Chicago, IL, from Diversis Capital and Schawk Digital Solutions.
This acquisition, says the company, joins two complementary teams to unlock product packaging development, management and execution efficiencies for brand owners in the consumer-packaged goods, life sciences and retail industries and for a variety of suppliers in the packaging value chain.
“We are relentlessly seeking to reduce time to market, cost and quality risk in the end-to-end packaging value chain. The acquisition of Blue enhances Esko’s unique set of tools to enable brand owners and their partners to improve all three,” said Udo Panenka, president of Esko.
Combining Blue’s label and artwork management software with the Esko Platform for brands deepens Esko’s investment in the industries where product packaging is critically important. Leveraging the talent and technology in both organizations enables Esko and Blue to deliver advanced functionality faster. With more local associates around the world, the combined team can deliver a higher level of service to regional and multinational customers.
As part of Esko, Blue joins the Danaher, which also includes Pantone, MediaBeacon, X-Rite, AVT, Videojet, FOBA, Linx and Laetus. Together, these companies support the consumer-packaged goods industry and their suppliers.
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Over 300 million packaging jobs processed by Esko…
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MOL Holds Completion Ceremony for ‘MOL Global Management College, 2016’
– Nurturing independent-spirited global leaders who are committed to acting with a sense of ownership by sharing the values of “MOL CHART” –
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda) today announced that on December 8, it held the completion ceremony of the MOL Global Management College launched in September.
MOL Global Management College was launched to enhance management skills in cross-cultural environments and develop next-generation executives who will be in the forefront of the MOL Group’s global management. This year, 20 members from nine countries participated in the four-month program.
During the program, the participants not only learned personal empowerment, organizational management, and leadership in today’s global business environment, but also reviewed their own careers from the standpoint of “MOL CHART,” which expresses the MOL Group’s shared values. In addition, they formed teams of four that researched and deliberated over four months to develop proposals to improve MOL group, and made their own presentations to MOL’s top executives on the final day.
MOL has pushed ahead with efforts to nurture independent-spirited global leaders who are committed to acting with a sense of ownership by sharing the values of “MOL CHART” among every employee and using it as the basis for decisions. The goal is “to develop the MOL Group into an excellent and resilient organization that leads the world shipping industry,” by strengthening and concentrating its comprehensive group-wide efforts.
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All the participants and MOL executives at the completion ceremony
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Dairy product prices climb as whole milk powder gains – Margaret Dietz:
(BusinessDesk) – Dairy product prices rose at the Global Dairy Trade auction, stemming a decline that began in May.
The GDT price index gained 2.2 percent from the previous auction two weeks ago. The average price was a US$2,819 a tonne, compared with US$2,727 a tonne two weeks ago. Some 36,450 tonnes of product was sold, down from 42,966 tonnes two weeks ago.
Whole milk powder climbed 2.5 percent to US$2,667 a tonne. . .
Dairy bosses are best employers:
In the first-ever Primary Industries Good Employer Awards dairy farmers Ben and Nicky Allomes won the top accolade, the Minister of Agriculture’s Award for Best Primary Sector Employers.
Woodville dairy farmers Ben and Nicky Allomes have been named the Best Primary Sector Employers.
The couple, who own Hopelands Dairies, also won the Innovative Employment Practices award. . .
Fonterra reaches provisional deal with Beingmate:
Fonterra Cooperative Group has reached a provisional deal with Chinese partner Beingmate Baby & Child Food to unwind their Darnum joint venture in Australia.
The joint venture – 51 percent owned by Beingmate and 49 percent Fonterra – produced infant formula products at the Darnum plant in Australia for Beingmate’s Chinese customers, and was a key component of Fonterra’s plan to expand its reach into China’s second and third-tier cities. . .
Voting for the 2nd Fonterra Directors’ Election is underway:
Voting is now open for the 2018 Fonterra Board of Directors’ Second Election.
Only two candidates from the first election, Leonie Guiney and Peter McBride, obtained more than 50% support from voting shareholders. The Rules of the first election state that if not enough candidates obtain more than 50% support, there must be a second election. . .
Mobile, solar powered bioreactors. What this complex technology does cannot be replicated by a computer or a laboratory. #ruminants #recyclebiology #sheep365 #mixedfarming #nutrientdense #solarharvest #sosimple pic.twitter.com/iaXmmFRWic
— Geraint Powell (@geraint_powell) December 3, 2018
Dairy loan done on a handshake, details to follow:
It beggars belief that the Government has dispensed a $9.9 million low-interest loan to a dairy company without having finalised the terms, National’s Economic and Regional Development spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says.
“The Minister in charge of the Provincial Growth Fund couldn’t tell the House what terms he had in mind when he undercut commercial lenders to provide debt funding for a new processing plant.
“I wouldn’t blame any business like Westland Milk for accepting a cheap loan from a secure lender. . .
Apple producer’s underlying profit looks to be at top end:
Apple producer Scales has had a bumper year with a record export crop lifting profits to the top end of guidance.
The company’s underlying profit was likely to be at the top end, or slightly exceed, the current guidance range of $58 million to $65m, in the year ending December.
Managing director Andy Borland said it was an excellent performance for the group, with all business units performing well over the year. . .
New Landcorp chair appointed:
Dr Warren Parker has been appointed as Director and Chair of Landcorp, the Minister of Finance Grant Robertson and Associate Minister of State-Owned Enterprises Shane Jones announced today.
Dr Parker is a former Chief Executive of Scion (the NZ Forest Research Institute) and Landcare Research, and was previously Chief Operating Officer of AgResearch. He currently holds a number of board roles including on Predator Free 2050 Ltd, Farmlands Cooperative Society, Genomics Aotearoa and is the Chair of the Forestry Ministerial Advisory Group. Until recently he was Chair of the New Zealand Conservation Authority. . .
Landcorp out of touch with real farmers:
Landcorp’s submission to Sir Michael Cullen’s Tax Working Group (TWG) is a kick in the guts to rural communities, National’s Nathan Guy and David Carter say.
“Landcorp’s sneaky submission to the TWG proposing a water tax, nitrogen fertiliser tax and not opposing a capital gains tax proves how out of touch the state-owned company is with farmers on the ground,” Mr Guy says.
“With 6700 other submissions, why was Landcorp pressured to put in a submission that was more than a month late? The reality seems to be that the TWG are hell-bent on introducing environmental taxes and a capital gains tax, so they leaned on Landcorp to submit supporting more taxes and levies. . .
Every summer we work long days in the fields to harvest the crops. Over the winter we begin to plan for our next harvest, and we're in conversation with our seed houses to organise an all important seed delivery! pic.twitter.com/eiRxwsxq8N
— Fen Peas Ltd (@FarmersOfTheUK) December 4, 2018
New president and vice president elected to HortNZ board:
The Horticulture New Zealand board elected Barry O’Neil as its new President and Chairman at a meeting today. Mr O’Neil replaces Julian Raine, who has been President and Chairman for six years and who has made a significant contribution to horticulture for New Zealand. Mr Raine has stood down to pursue other business interests.
Bernadine Guilleux was elected Vice-President, with both positions effective from 1 January 2019. . .
Busy orchardist advises small businesses start payday filing:
A Hawke’s Bay orchardist is advising fellow small businesses to be ahead of the game on payday filing.
This is the mandatory requirement from April next year for employers to file their payroll information to Inland Revenue every time they pay their staff.
Te Mata Figs owner Helen Walker has been paying her five staff fortnightly and sending across their details using the online entry method in myIR. . .
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Superstar spotlights dairy efforts – Luke Chivers:
DairyNZ Environmental Leaders Forum chairwoman Tracy Brown has won a Sustainable Business Network award. She spoke to Luke Chivers about some of the challenges facing the rural sector.
Waikato dairy farmer Tracy Brown has been named a dairy sustainability champion for inspiring farmers to change on-farm practices, protect waterways, enhance biodiversity and lower their environmental footprints.
She was rewarded for her efforts by winning the Sustainability Superstar category at the NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards.
The award marks a momentous occasion for New Zealand’s primary industries, Brown says. . .
Town folks love a good farm story – Pam Tipa:
‘A good story’ was a key motivator for fourth-generation Helensville farmers Scott and Sue Narbey to open their farm to the public.
The couple opened their farm as part of Fonterra’s Open Gates 2018 day.
“We entered the Ballance Farm Environment Awards and when we started writing down all the good things we were doing we thought we were doing a pretty good job,” Scott told Dairy News.
“And we were sick of hearing all the bad things and how people perceive dairy farms. . .
Time for some texel weaning at #WaikakaStn
Have a good feed today guys coz tomorrow the tap is turned off. pic.twitter.com/wzlfvirxqf
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A hand up or corporate welfare? – Andrea Fox:
Westland Milk Products, approved for a taxpayer-funded Provincial Growth Fund loan branded “corporate welfare” by some critics, says it would have been happy for the commercial terms to be disclosed but Government officials ruled them confidential.
The Westland dairy exporter, which in its 2018 annual report discussing a capital restructure said it had “relatively high debt and limited financial flexibility”, is to get a $9.9 million interest-bearing, repayable loan towards a $22 million manufacturing plant project to produce higher-value goods.
The annual report noted Westland’s cash flow for the year was below expectations, its milk payout to farmers was not competitive and “obtaining new capital would make a significant difference to the co-operative”. . .
People need to be told ‘what wool is about’ – Sally Rae:
Education is the key to lifting the state of the wool industry, industry leader Craig Smith says.
Mr Smith, general manager for Devold Wool Direct, is a member of the Wool Working Group, which has been working on how to create a more sustainable and profitable sector.
Made up of 20 wool producers, processors and other industry representatives, it has been charged with developing a pan-sector action plan.
Earlier this year, Mr Smith was the first New Zealander to be appointed to the global executive committee of the International Wool Textile Organisation, and he is also heavily involved with Campaign for Wool. . .
Hill country’s development risks and opportunities:
Sheep and beef farmers are increasingly finishing stock on hill country forage crops and pastures, with a resultant drop in erosion risk.
But some farmers had difficulty assessing the potential environmental impact and the financial return of hill country development, due to the unpredictability of sediment loss and the costs.
This was discovered by studies done as part of the Sustainable Hill Farming Tool project (SHiFT), says Paul Hulse, of Environment Canterbury (ECan).
The SHiFT project is to tell landowners the best ways to address these concerns, says Hulse . .
Precision planted direct drill Robbos beet finally going in the ground for late winter Weaner finishing.
Stoked to have found this guy to plant.
Machine dominated Mayfield A&P beet growing comp this year, winner was a 30t crop, they were 1st, 3rd & 5th pic.twitter.com/4OtiRLsBh1
— Duncan Humm (@duncanyzf20) December 2, 2018
Smartphone cattle weighing technology set to expand – Lucy Kinbacher:
A HUNGARIAN developed smartphone accessory is helping producers weigh their cattle without the use of any scales or yard infrastructure.
Known as Beefie, the new technology allows producers to calculate their cattle weights in less than half a minute by attaching an external device to an Android 5.1+ smartphone and capturing a range of photographs.
Livestock are analysed from two to six metres away, even whilst in motion or partially obscured, with more than 5000 tests on animals producing a 95 per cent accuracy rate. . .
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We lose if WTO not taken seriously
Could the Provincial Growth Fund threaten New Zealand’s free trade credentials?
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones today confirmed that some Provincial Growth Fund expenditure may qualify as agricultural subsidies, meaning it would need to be reported to the World Trade Organisation, says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“Jones said he had sought advice from MFAT about the legitimacy of his spending. This would be the first time New Zealand has reported such subsidies to the WTO in 25 years.
“It would be incredibly embarrassing if the Government had to report this expenditure, especially given David Parker travelled to Europe in January seeking to limit the agricultural subsidies of other countries, and Jacinda Ardern’s recent trumpeting of free trade.
“Subsidies for agricultural products are tightly restricted under WTO rules and for good reason. They stand in the way of free and mutually-beneficial trade; they create inefficient domestic industries by coddling producers; and, they represent wasteful spending and require higher taxes to support them.
“The Fourth Labour Government scrapped all of New Zealand’s agricultural subsidies in the 1980s, resulting in more productive, profitable and innovative producers.
“In his typical, blustering fashion Jones said he had no intention of complying with the international trade body’s rules.
“NZ First has always harboured a deep desire to return us to the Fortress New Zealand of the 1970s.
“If Shane Jones is determined to continue making such payments, he’ll be sullying New Zealand’s international reputation as a free and open trading nation.
This exchange in question time yesterday doesn’t give any confidence that Jones is taking WTO requirements seriously:
David Seymour: Has the Minister had advice in any form that some of his provincial growth fund expenditure may have to be reported to the World Trade Organization as it qualifies as agricultural subsidies—the first time New Zealand would have reported such subsidies in 25 years?
Hon SHANE JONES: Yes. Naturally, advice has been sought from the foreign affairs department. However, given that the adjudication and the appeals of so-said international trade body are in a state of disarray, I’m not bothered by that at all.
Part of the pain of the ag-sag of the 80s was due to the axing of subsidies but I don’t know of any farmers who would want to go back to the bad old days when they were at the mercy of politicians and bureaucrats, focused on producing more rather than what markets wanted.
Free trade has made New Zealand stronger and protection from the WTO has helped when other countries have tried to use non-tariff barriers and other anti-trade measures against us.
As a small nation heavily dependent on trade, we need the WTO and the minister’s cavalier attitude to it and our reputation for free trade is yet another reason to question the PGF.
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Taxpayer paying business to compete with other business
An advanced Aviation Hub at Whanganui Airport is the latest beneficiary of taxpayer largesse through a donation from the Provincial Growth Fund.
The Taxpayers’ Union says the government is picking winners:
The Government should be delivering tax cuts to all businesses, not spending $48 million picking winners says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union, responding to the Government’s announcement of Provincial Growth Fund spending in the region.
The Union’s Executive Director Jordan Williams says “Government should not be in the business of picking winners. Instead of spending $48 million on an array of projects in Manawatu-Whanganui, the Government should give all businesses tax relief.”
“If the business case for projects receiving funding from the Government stands up, they should be able to secure private finance. Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidise businesses that cannot stand on their own two legs. Taxing more for Shane Jones to play Father Christmas is just a provincial merry-go-round.”
It’s worse than picking winners – it’s using taxpayers’ money to fund a business that is competing with another existing one.
An international flight school started operating at Oamaru airport a few months ago.
. . .Students from ”all over” would train in single-engine Tecnam aircraft, with one plane for every five students.
Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher said he was ”very pleased” the airline academy chose the Waitaki district ”to kick-start their operation”.
”As there’ll be a significant number of trainees and staff living and learning here, this is a win-win for everyone.”
Ten jobs would be created and up to 50 commercial pilot trainees would be in the Waitaki district over the next three years.
Council chief executive Fergus Power said each trainee would add an estimated $20,000 to Oamaru’s economy while living in the district for up to a year. . .
If a flight school can be established at Oamaru Airport without subsidies the Whanganui one shouldn’t need government assistance and it certainly shouldn’t be getting taxpayers’ money to compete with an existing business.
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Government’s don’t have magic money tree
The Taxpayers’ Union correctly points out that doling out public money will destroy jobs not create them:
Shane Jones’ spending in Kawakawa will destroy jobs, not create them, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union.
Taxpayers’ Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “Taxpayers might think that $2.4 million for three jobs is a bad deal. Actually, it’s far worse than that. Taking this much money out of the private sector destroys jobs. It’s $2.4 million fewer dollars that taxpayers could have spent in their communities.”
That’s money that individuals could have used to create, expand or support businesses; provide for their futures, give to charity or simply choose to spend as they wished.
“What’s most terrifying about the Provincial Growth Fund is that, so far, Shane Jones has only spent four percent of his $3 billion. There is so much more spending to come that the public risks becoming desensitised to Shane Jones’ flagrant waste, when we should be outraged.”
“It looks like Shane Jones actually has far more money in the Provincial Growth Fund than he knows what to do with. In that case, he needs to simply give the money back.”
Councils and businesses in the provinces are doing their best to come up with ideas to get their share of this money and they can’t be blamed for that.
If money is being given away, why wouldn’t they try to get some for their pet projects?
But government’s don’t have a magic money tree. Every dollar a government spends comes from taxpayers.
The $2.4 million being splurged on the Kawakawa cultural centre in Northland will create just three jobs.
It could have been spent on health, education, crime prevention, infrastructure or any number of other ways that would give better value for money and a better return on investment.
It could also have been left in the pay packets of the people who earned it.
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Post-election horse trading costs another $30m
Jo Moir has uncovered another $30 million we’re paying for Winston’s dowry:
New Zealand First’s loyalty to the racing industry has galloped beyond tax breaks for good-looking race horses to include several all-weather race tracks for the industry.
Racing Minister Winston Peters secured a tax change in the Budget this year to allow new investors to claim deductions for the cost of horses based on the “virtue of its bloodlines, looks and racing potential”.
It’s now been revealed $30 million of contingency funding in the Provincial Growth Fund has been earmarked for the coalition government pet projects and the racing industry is set to benefit. . .
National’s economic development spokesman Paul Goldsmith said his party supports the racing industry but the lines are blurred when a project gets the green light simply because a coalition partner likes the sound of it.
“They should be able to make their case clear, and open and rigourous, and if it stacks up, it stacks up.
“The problem that we’ve got here is that the whole system is opaque and murky so it’s hard to disentangle the arguments, and in that area they’re not even making an argument, they’re just saying we’re going to do it,” Mr Goldsmith said.
Mr Goldsmith described the provincial growth fund criteria as being “as loose and as billowing as the deep blue sea”.
“Well what we’ve seen is that it’s an all-purpose political slush fund and you can fit anything into it,” he said. . .
The Taxpayers’ Union says this horse barrel politics sets a new low:
. . .“This sets a new low for coalition back room deals, clearly designed to benefit an industry with known links to NZ First, with the tab picked up by hard working taxpayers – most of whom don’t own race horses,” says Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’ Union.
“I think we could call it the worst of ‘horse-barrel politics’. The barrel is so large even race tracks fit into it.”
“And why are we finding this out only now? Why isn’t Winston’s Dowry open to the public? Was this part of the coalition agreement’s missing five pages? It’s almost as if the Government doesn’t want the public to be able to judge how much it cost to get Mr Peters’ support.”
A friend who has a share in a race horse got a letter before the election asking him to contribute to a donation that had been made to NZ First because, as the advertisement placed by the Hogan’s said, :
To all those eligible to vote – breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys, administrators, punters and the many businesses that are financially supported by the industry – this is an enormous opportunity to support New Zealand First’s initiative to have 100 per cent what we’ve been asking for.
Post-election horse trading is one of the expensive downsides of MMP.
Pre-election policies and promises to the public come a very distant second to the demands a party holding the balance of power can make during coalition negotiations.
There’s no chance that negotiations will be public but coalition agreements could and should be.
If we’re paying the price of government we have a right to know the cost and to have some light shone on the links between party funders and government policy.
1 Comment | politics | Tagged: Jo Moir, New Zealand Taxpayers' Union, Paul Goldsmith, Provincial Growth Fund, Winston Peters, Winston’s Dowry | Permalink
O&G exploration ban greenwash
The government’s decision to stop offshore oil and gas exploration is nothing but greenwash.
National Opposition energy and resources spokesman Jonathan Young said the decision had come without any consultation with industry.
“The Government had promised to consult but have now made an abrupt decision to stop any new offshore exploration,” he said.
New Zealand has only about 10 years supply of gas reserves left, he said.
“So in 10 years time we will be buying imported gas to fire up the barbecue,” he said.
Young said 20 per cent of nationwide electricity generation depended on gas.
“What will replace gas as the demand for more electricity rose with electric vehicles and we don’t have enough renewables.
“It will be coal – good one Government.”
This move will do nothing to reduce the use of oil and gas in New Zealand or elsewhere.
It will just mean importing oil and gas from elsewhere. That will be more expensive and worse for the environment.
New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom called the decision a “kick in the guts” for the Taranaki economy.
The industry provided directly and indirectly up to 7000 jobs in the region.
“It was a kick in the guts for the long term future of the Taranaki economy and urgent work was needed on a plan to maintain Taranaki’s position as the provincial powerhouse of New Zealand’s economy,” he said. . .
Any gain from the projects which got money from the Provincial Growth Fund last week will be more than cancelled out by the jobs lost in the oil and gas industry and those who service and supply it.
This policy is economic sabotage for no environmental gain from a government long on rhetoric and virtue signaling and very short on reason.
6 Comments | business, employment, energy, environment, politics | Tagged: Jonathan Young, Neil Holdom, Provincial Growth Fund, Taranaki | Permalink
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Shana’s Vaccination Exemption Letter
by Elaine Lewis
One person’s successful effort to enter college with no proof of vaccination.
I’m always asked how to deal with the schools. Parents tell me, “If I don’t get my child vaccinated, she won’t be able to attend school.” Most states have exemptions written into their vaccination law! Below is an example of the Pennsylvania law and the exemptions that most people seem to be unaware of. You can be sure it’s the same in your state. Do a Google search for “Vaccination exemptions for [your state]”.
Recently, when asked by a parent how to legally avoid vaccinations, I was reminded of Shana’s exemption letter that was requested by her University. I think everyone would benefit by reading it. (I deleted private, irrelevant information, like names and addresses.)
People think that to get an exemption you have to hire a lawyer. No, that is not necessary! Here’s what you do. On the medical form from the school, on the vaccination page, draw a line through it and write “EXEMPT: see attached sheet”. The attached sheet should be a letter from you stating the following (use your own words):
“To whom it may concern: We, the parents of _________ object to vaccinations based on religious and/or philosophical grounds as per the following exemption provided in the Vaccination Law of the state of ______________ which states, and I quote: [quote the law, you can find it online by doing a search]. The law does not require us to explain or justify our beliefs, but rather simply to state our objection and on what grounds, which we are hereby doing, in compliance with the law. Respectfully, _____________”
Now, have your letter notarized. Any auto-tag store will notarize for a small fee of roughly $5.00. You will need a form of identification like a driver’s license. Try to have more than one original made. Then make copies. This is what you attach every time you are asked by the school to hand in the “medical form”. Of course, all other parts of the medical form can be filled in by the child’s doctor.
When the child is 18, the vaccination letter for college will have to be written over again accordingly. Remember: line through Vaccination page, write EXEMPT (see attached sheet). Attach notarized letter.
Here then is Shana’s Vaccination Exemption Letter written one year ago. (Shana is shown above at her high school graduation. That’s me standing next to her, looking exhausted!) — Elaine Lewis
(elaineLewis.hpathy.com)
College Health Administrative Services
Medical Records Manager
Re: Philosophical or Religious Objections to Immunizations
Dear Ms. __________:
This letter is in reference to the following Pennsylvania law:
28 Pa. Code. § 23.84 (2007)
§ 23.84. Exemption from immunization.
(a) Medical exemption. Children need not be immunized if a physician or the physician’s designee provides a written statement that immunization may be detrimental to the health of the child. When the physician determines that immunization is no longer detrimental to the health of the child, the child shall be immunized according to this subchapter.
(b) Religious exemption. Children need not be immunized if the parent, guardian or emancipated child objects in writing to the immunization on religious grounds or on the basis of a strong moral or ethical conviction similar to a religious belief.
As per exemption (b) above, I, Shana D. Lewis, decline to be vaccinated based on a deeply held philosophical, moral and ethical conviction as I shall describe as instructed in your letter which stated: “The request should indicate how long and deeply the person has been guided by these principles. Other reasons also should be briefly explained.”
All my life I have received ONLY natural medicine, no drugs whatsoever except for the Hepatitis B vaccine which I received the day after I was born. My mother says she regrets giving permission for that now; but, she had no way of knowing at the time that the only way a person can contract Hepatitis B is through unprotected sex and needle-sharing! Obviously, the vaccination was all risk and no benefit! The same is true for the polio vaccine. According to Jonas Salk himself, all cases of polio since 1961 have been caused by the oral polio vaccine (Washington Post, September 24, 1976). Again, all risk, no benefit!
All my life, I have eaten food that is mostly all natural/organic. We rarely buy packaged food, mostly everything we eat is made from scratch. We shop at either Whole Foods or the farmer’s market. We do not shop at regular supermarkets. We buy household products that are friendly to the environment. We wear cotton clothing, no synthetic fibers. We try to avoid buying from companies that abuse animals.
There is a lot of animal abuse in the making of vaccines. The viruses used to make the vaccines are grown on animal tissue. This is not only bad for the animals (because they are sacrificed) but the vaccine inevitably picks up animal viruses (simian viruses, bovine viruses, etc.) in the process and transfers them to humans. It is not normal or natural to have the cells and viruses of other species in your bloodstream.
My mother is a homeopath. Homeopathy is a kind of “alternative medicine” founded by Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. in Germany in 1810 and widely practiced in Europe and India. Homeopathic remedies are safe and effective and available in health food stores and Whole Foods Market as well as certain drugstores like Rite Aid. When I am sick, I get a homeopathic remedy. I have never had an antibiotic, an Advil nor even an aspirin in my life. The only times I’ve ever needed to see a doctor, the doctor I saw was a homeopath. Other times, I’ve seen a Reiki practitioner with the same good results.
I actually had what we think were the measles when I was 2 or 3 years old. As soon as my mother saw the rash, she gave me a homeopathic remedy and before she even had a chance to call the doctor to make an appointment to get a diagnosis, the rash was gone! It was gone the next day!
Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiac surgeon, Vice Chairman of Surgery at Columbia University and frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, tells his show audience that his wife takes care of their children with homeopathic remedies before even telling him that they’re sick! (http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/Alternative-Pain-Treatments-Pt-1) This method of treatment is going mainstream fast.
We eat no junk food at our house.
People accept vaccines on faith. They don’t know what’s in them and don’t care. It might surprise most people to know that there’s mercury in the vaccines (there is no level of mercury that is considered safe); plus, MSG, formaldehyde, aluminum, calf serum, animal viruses, aborted human fetal tissue, polysorbate 80 and other questionable ingredients. (http://www.vaccine-tlc.org/) I think people imagine that vaccines are sterile; but, you cannot grow viruses in a sterile environment!
There are those who would argue that we shouldn’t care what’s in the vaccines so long as they do the job. Actually, there has never been a single large-scale double blind study to determine if vaccines are either safe or effective! ) There has not been a single study where half the group was unvaccinated and the other half received all the vaccinations required and then both groups were followed for years and compared for the status of their health. There has never been a study where a group was vaccinated, then exposed to the disease it was inoculated against to see if the vaccine protected them. This has never been done; so, there is actually no proof that this practice is either safe or “does the job”.
On the other hand, there is plenty of speculation that the skyrocketing rate of autism (roughly 1 in 50 children) is being caused by vaccinations. Here’s an interesting quote for you:
Significantly, the first cases of autism were described in the US shortly after the vaccines for whooping cough were introduced in the 1940s.
– Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Healthby Helke Ferrie
“But the epidemic diseases are gone, so, obviously, vaccinations work,” some say. Here’s the fallacy of that argument:
1. Measles: not gone, Whooping Cough: not gone, German Measles: not gone, Influenza: not gone, Chickenpox: not gone…. If vaccines work so well, then why are these diseases still here?
2. If the absence of disease is proof that vaccinations work, then how is it that the plague, scarlet fever, the Spanish flu and other such diseases disappeared without a vaccination program? Why did Polio disappear in European countries that had no mass vaccination program?
I have no cavities, no allergies, never had acne; in fact, I have no medical conditions whatsoever. (See my recently-submitted physical exam.) I will stack my good health up against any fully vaccinated person my age. Common sense would suggest that I should just keep doing what I’m doing and not change anything since it’s working so well.
According to Pennsylvania law, all I have to do to exempt myself from immunizations is state my opposition in writing on moral and ethical grounds, which I believe I have done; but, you asked for more so I am trying to comply. I could go on, but I feel I have adequately shown that refusing vaccinations fits in with my overall lifestyle of respecting my body, respecting the environment and respecting animals.
Shana D. Lewis
Elaine Lewis, D.Hom., C.Hom.
Elaine is a passionate homeopath, helping people offline as well as online. Contact her at [email protected]
Elaine is a graduate of Robin Murphy's Hahnemann Academy of North America and author of many articles on homeopathy including her monthly feature in the Hpathy ezine, "The Quiz". Visit her website at:
https://elainelewis.hpathy.com/ and TheSilhouettes.org
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Alan V. Schmukler says:
Wonderful! I’ve never heard it expressed better. That is definitely the voice of someone self empowered.
raewin boot says:
wow….thats one awesome letter
Elaine Lewis says:
butterblu says:
Terrific letter!
fama says:
I love it!! Lucky you Shana!
What a wonderful letter! It should be forwarded to every doctor and school. Informed consent can only come with freedom of speech.
Manish Bhatia says:
Excellent letter Elaine and Shana. This letter should reach as many people as possible.
I request everyone to share this on Facebook and Twitter so that this letter goes viral!
Vamsi Sudha says:
Wonderful Elaine and Shana. Infact I too believe in no vaccination. I am a staunch homeo lover and in the philosophy of homeopathy. I have had very minimal vaccination for one of my kid. I guess , introducing lots of virus’es in the name of vaccination is the root cause of the so called “Auto Immume diseases ” which are very prevelant. Lots of viruses kill the host itself…….( which also works well in computer parlance “)……I hope , as said above by Manish..we should share it across …in social network sites…………Thanks once again for this eyeopening article……:))
molecule says:
Ever the neurotic editor (arghh) I would only have added, where she said “homeopathy is … widely practiced in Europe,” that it is … widely practiced in Europe and India, the two most medically advanced cultures with non-violent and healthy populations on the planet.”
Firuzi Mehta says:
I’ll direct all those who’re sitting on the fence for the vaccine issue to read this. 🙂
In your lingo, Shana – awesome!
Gina Tyler says:
great letter shana!
punit says:
This letter came in a timely manner. Being a health care provider, I just received a mandate from my employer, a large hospital system, that all employees must be vaccinated for flu this year. I plan on fighting against it. The letter has given me a framework to work with.
Pankaj Jain says:
I really feel thrilled by learning so much of facts regarding Vaccination in children … in fact, it conforms to my long standing conviction that injecting so much of virus in child’s body is illogical and harmful. Though, I am not qualified doctor, but an engineer by degree, and keep studing varity of subjects close to philosophy of life which, according to me, also includes Science of Homeopathy and Astorlogy. Having little bit of knowledge of homeopathy principles, I used to think that hpathy medicine might also create the similar effects as that of vaccination because both woks on the same basic lines, only explanations or theories are different. One way, it is same like Biochemic vrs Hpathy wherein both works on the principle of similia. Only question or differance is in medium and doses-potency, frequency etc. I also did not allow my children to take vaccines follow up after few months of birth. Vaccinations has become a big business, it has already crossed a level, soon people understand that they are being cheated in the name of cure.
aartiana says:
Awesome letter – tweeted and shared on Pinterest, Facebook and Google+ 🙂
Rhonda Spellman says:
Absolutely fabulous!!! With your permission I would LOVE to share this on my website. This is as good as it gets!
Kudos to you and to all who listen and learn from you,
Rhonda Spellman
http://AutismWithRhonda.com
Permission granted!
Buck59 says:
Well done! That is very true. Testing just showed me that my chronic mercury poisoning started from my vaccinations about 50 yrs ago, and that they initiated many lifelong problems such as stunted bone growth, poor respiration, and slight autism. The tests suggested the isode “Mercury 200C” to clear it. It seems to be working as I could feel toxins come out.
April Bowen says:
A most wonderful letter, Shana! You have learned well from your equally awesome mom, who has always refreshingly told things as they are, no mincing of words 🙂
Now, I am most curious–what was their response?
Their response was that they let her into school–I guess no response was what we were hoping for and got!
Shahin Afnan says:
This is a compelling argument against vaccinations. I can’t wait to see what Shana writes when she’s done with college! Great stuff Shana!
Dr. Prasad and Dr. Falguni says:
It was joy to read your letter. It’s wonderful, compelling and straight to the point. It requires guts to stand up for yourself and say NO to hearsay. We have always felt education in better than medication and on this level i.e. of vaccination many need to be educated. Elaine and Shana your commitment is praiseworthy especially your care for animals and the environment. Apart from you not been vaccinated it is your diet (organic food) and regimen, so prominently emphasized by Dr. Hahnemann, that has seen you through with good health. Hope many will learn from this and will not overlook this important aspect of living in their usual casual way !!
Request your permission to share this with our group ‘Homoeopathy First’ on Face Book.
Dr. Prasad and Dr. Falguni
Permission granted.
Prof. M. S. Verma says:
The letter is a revelation to me. Very important for all to know. Thanks for sharing.
Good! Very useful information.
Thank you, Professor.
Linda Santini says:
I love your letter!
Karen Sine says:
Hello Elaine and Shana. Thank you so much for the excellent and spirited letter for vaccination exemption. It is a wonderful response, and also extremely informative for those who are vacillating about vaccinations. This is an opportunity to thank you also for the many articles that have been so helpful and encouraging. I am a homeopath and have found them invaluable.
Dexter73 says:
The only moral or religious excuse that I see here is about animal rights. How can a non-vegetarian vouch for animal rights? This smacks of hypocrasy. See PETA site.
How about a deeply held philosophical belief that you shouldn’t knowingly put poisons in your body and make yourself sick?
Most awesome!! I’ve advocated and educated about
Non vaccinating for decades and I only wish that someone would do something so we can have an exemption choice for our non human animal companions!!!!! We should have the same rights to choose for their healthcare as we do ourselves and our human kids! If anyone is aware of anything happening on this issue re: our animals, please let me know! Thanks! The only immunity is natural immunity! Peace, Jai
Dear Jai,
The only vaccination you absolutely have to give your pets is the rabies vaccine, am I right? And I would give Ledum before and after, plus, I might give a dose of Lyssin as well.
Moriom Kamir says:
A letter is sufficiently written to enable attendance at education establishments…sadly a Real letter needs to be written to ensure that It is not a requirement if the Terms and Conditions of Real Medicine was adhered to. All of US have been affected by its Creation.
Elaine and Shana it is Great you have Family understanding and took your stance to ensure that your understanding helps you in life, sadly for a lot of Families this is lacking as we get shot in the dark; and thus the horrors of vaccinations is increasing at such magnitudes which is leaving us all in dark, sombre situations.
One day soon Change is Imminent…
Ross Quinn says:
Well done on granting your own wish. It should be your choice but surely there should be a law that if you contract and thusly spread diseases that governance and medicine has tried so hard to cure you should be charged with assault.
Also you criticise the lack of double blind testing but for a vaccine to be considered it has to go through years of rigourous testing which includes double blind studies.
Isn’t it a bit hypocritical to then criticise the efficacy of vaccinations yet most studies of homeopathic ‘medicine’ places it next to the placebo effect.
It would appear you truly believe this which is your right but don’t try and scientifically back up your argument when any scientist in the area of vaccine medicine could easily retort them.
Also on a macro point the scientific method has been applied to the science of vaccination unlike the pseudo science of homeopathy. If you believe the scientific method is faulty in this case how come you’re using a computer as the scientific method was used to create the components inside your computer.
Have you completely lost your mind? As a homeopath, I’ve seen the brain damage to children resulting from these shots! How come that doesn’t concern you in the least? Why aren’t you saying to doctors, “You should be charged with assault for what your toxic drugs and vaccinations, which contain neurotoxins, are doing to children–ruining not only their lives but the lives of their care-givers!” But no, instead you hurl a warning at me in the event of a hypothetical scenario wherein I, an unvaccinated person, contract a disease and then pass it on to someone, which has NOT happened; but what HAS happened, in spades, all the children–1 in 68– with autism and seizure disorder, does not bother you in the least! In 1975, that number was 1 in 5,000. Shame on you!
Well said, Ross! I come from a developing nation where vaccines are heavily promoted not only by government but also NGOs, social welfare activists etc. We have managed to bring down Polio to zero; while our sanitation and hygene standards are still pathetic (lots of cases of malaria, cholera and other infections). I do not see people dying on the roads due to the supposed mercury in their head. I myself was heavily vaccinated and all my family members (coming to more than a few thousand), and there are no cases of autism or other supposed vaccine damage that I can recall. Marry young, have children at a young age (women <24, men<28-30), and there will be no autism disorders.
Also, leading homeopaths in my country (who are now practising for more than 4 generations); who see cases the numbers totalling in a month what Elaine may see in her whole lifetime, do not object to vaccines, but rather promote it (I have seen sponsored vaccine programes in their clinics). I will take their word than Elaines, solely because they have much, much more clinical experience rather than some bookish knowledge or Mercola type website knowledge–trying to sell their own pharmacy products and useless vitamin supplements.
Dexter, just so it’s clear, I don’t sell anything. I definitely have a number of clients with vaccine damage, and their lives are ruined and so are the lives of their parents. Do you really expect to see vaccine-damaged children on the side of the road? And I have to ask you, if vaccines work (they got rid of polio, according to you), why do we still have the flu? Why do we still have the measles? Why do we still have Chickenpox?
Elaine, I cannot comment on the situation in USA as I dont live there. Here, vaccines for flu, measles & chickenpox were only introduced recently, and are quite expensive for a middle-class person to afford. I dont have any personal experience to comment on it. What we do have is the UIP (Universal Immunization programme) that covers importantly measles and polio. Out of my 2000+ relatives and friends I interact frequently, I have not seen a single case of both of these diseases as well as Autism. There was one case of TB I know of; he contracted it while travelling to Europe.
One of my vaccine damage cases is from India, and I really don’t feel like arguing with you anymore Dexter. I wish you and all your 2,000 friends and relatives all the best.
Rajith says:
I completely agree with Dexter. At least someone spoke out with a balanced view and common sense.
To Dexter and the others who’re commenting without really going into details of the vaccine issue –
regarding the eradication of polio from India and maybe other developing countries where hygiene standards are still not top-class, do you know that India had 47,500 cases of Non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) in 2011 seen in children who had been vaccinated for polio? Changing the terminology and name of a disease does not truly eradicate it. NPAFP is believed to be brought on by the polio vaccinations and is much more dangerous than wild polio.
Do you think 47,500 cases is a small number?
A recent report published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) explains that, clinically, NPAFP is indistinguishable from polio paralysis. But according to the Office of Medical & Scientific Justice (OMSJ), NPAFP is twice as deadly as polio paralysis, and yet was not even an issue in India prior to the rollout of the massive polio vaccine campaigns.
Similarly, cases of vaccine-associated polio paralysis (VAPP), a condition in which paralytic symptoms similar or identical to those caused by wild-type polio manifest themselves following the administration of polio vaccines, are also on the rise. Not only are the paralysis symptoms associated with NPAFP and VAPP typically far worse than those brought about by wild-type polio, but they can also accompany other negative side effects including neurological damage.
Far from being a success, in other words, India’s polio vaccine campaign appears to have induced a new epidemic of a much worse type of polio-related paralysis that is even more deadly than the first one. And based on the figures, overall rates of NPAFP in particular are now 12 times higher in India following the polio vaccine campaigns, with some areas of the country reporting rates as elevated as 35 times higher.
People who are anti-vaccine are usually individuals who have done a lot of reading and inquiry into the matter and have then come to conclusions – we don’t just spout the words given to us by the media and Pharma companies. We have seen vaccine damaged individuals and have gone through detailed study reports published in mainstream medical journals (not just Mercola type web articles as you call them) that show the hazards of modern day vaccines with their load of neurotoxic ingredients.
I suggest you start your own referencing before attacking Elaine or others. May you see the light!
Ah yes, the old “change the name of the disease” strategy! That’s what they did in the ’50’s! After the polio vaccine program got underway, cases previously designated as polio were now being called “Meningitis”. And apparently nothing has changed!
Renee Denlinger says:
Thanks Elaine! That’s a great letter!!
Just what I was looking for, for my son who will be a junior in HS and planning on attending college in a few years.
Thanks, Renee. Let’s hope in a few years the exemptions will still exist! California has actually done away with them and now vaccination is mandatory in that state. Horrifying.
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Glenn Beck Is Pure Poetry
Categories: Culture Wars, Literature, Politics and The Teevee Machine
Tags: beck, crazy, ottoman empire, poetry, salon
Who said this generation lacks for a clear, definitive poetic voice? From Salon:
MEATBALLS AT THE FURNITURE STORE
Somebody said let’s make Swedish meatballs at the furniture store
And somebody else said, that’s a stupid idea; nobody’s going to want meatballs at the furniture store.
And the first guy on that first day, his ass was on the line.
And so one customer came for lunch, he knew he had to get rid of the meatballs
And he was like, yeah, you want meatballs from the furniture store?
And they’re like, yeah, I guess; my wife has been dragging them around forever.
Anything. Just whatever. I was thinking about eating an ottoman
A little while ago but then meatballs has actual meat in it
Get ready for the return of the Ottoman Empire!
And then the guy behind the counter said, well, I’m not really sure
But ya, ya, sure. So then he takes the meatballs
And he has to put them on a huge plate
Because he has to get rid of them.
Otherwise, you know, the big Swede is going to say
That was the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
And so now that one fat guy who had the big bowl of meatballs
Now buys all of his furniture there and has told all of his fat friends,
Buy your furniture there because your wife will walk around
And you’ll have an hour worth of eating meatballs
And that’s what happened.
(“The Glenn Beck Program,” Premiere Radio Networks, Nov. 21, 2007)
And a meme is born…
Seriously, I owe my sincerest gratitude to the folks over at Salon for listening to the crazy and distilling it into its purest form. Coping with a teething baby with a ruptured eardrum ain’t easy; hilarity is much-appreciated.
Cheney’s Got Moles!
Categories: Politics
Tags: cheney, hersch, moles, obama, political intrigue, secret identities
No, not the cancer kind (evil never dies).
Seymour Hersch reports Cheney is employing old intelligence tricks to keep his fat doughy fingers in our collective pie.
“Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise be coming forward,” asked Gross. “I’ll make it worse,” answered Hersh, adding that he believes Cheney “put people back” in government to “stay behind” in order to “tell him what’s going on” and perhaps even “do sabotage”:
HERSH: I’ll make it worse. I think he’s put people left. He’s put people back. They call it a stay behind. It’s sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, you’ve driven out the, you know, you’ve lost the war. You leave people behind. It’s a stay behind that you can continue to contacts with, to do sabotage, whatever you want to do. Cheney’s left a stay behind. He’s got people in a lot of agencies that still tell him what’s going on. Particularly in defense, obviously. Also in the NSA, there’s still people that talk to him. He still knows what’s going on. Can he still control policy up to a point? Probably up to a point, a minor point. But he’s still there. He’s still a presence.
Quick side note: Has anyone ever seen Seymour Hersch and Dick Cheney in the same room at the same time? There seems to be a lot of unprecedented access to ol’ Cheney in Hersch’s world.
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James Gandon 1743
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James Gandon (1743–1823) one of the leading architects to have worked in Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century, is buried in the church-yard of Drumcondra Church, Church Avenue.
James Gandon was born in London but spent forty-two years in Dublin, creating some of Ireland's most notable architectural landmarks. His better known works include The Custom House, the Four Courts, King's Inns in Dublin and Emo Court in County Laois.
In 1823, he died at his home in Lucan, County Dublin, but was brought to Drumcondra to be interred in the same grave as his friend the antiquary Francis Grose.
His tomb-stone reads: – "Such was the respect in which Gandon was held by his neighbours and friends from around his home in Lucan that they refused carriages and walked the 16 miles to and from Drumcondra on the day of his funeral."
Date of Birth 20th Feb 1743 VIEW SOURCE
Date of Death 1823 VIEW SOURCE
From A Compendium of Irish Biography, 1878 Ireland VIEW SOURCE
Irish Georgian Society archive of works by Gandon Ireland VIEW SOURCE
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Communities Associated with this Ancestor
Parishes Clonturk (Dublin)
Parishes Coolbanagher (Laois)
Counties Dublin
Timeline Events Associated with this Ancestor
Corpus Christi Church – built 1941
Corpus Christi National School – opens 1931
Clonturk aka Drumcondra in 1837
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Best of 2004: Top 10
By Jay | January 1, 2005 | Add to Favorites
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For the Best of 2004's Top 10 list, I used a combination of votes received from the voting page and of the favorite games that have been saved using the Favorites feature. Unlike the other awards and honorable mentions posted previously:
Best of 2004: Special Awards
Best of 2004: Honorable Mention
...the Top 10 represents the voice of the people. My sincere thanks go out to each and every one of you who visits and participates by using the features here.
And now, the Best of 2004: Top 10 list...
10 - ten juu shi diez zehn dix
Viridian Room: a point-and-click adventure game in which the goal is simply to escape the room. Hidden items in the room present the challenge of piecing the puzzle together. What makes this game successful, thus raising it above others in its class, is the soulful narrative that unfolds as the player progresses through the game. Engaging gameplay balanced with immersive narrative equals one of the best and most popular games found on the Web in 2004. Click.
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Alien Hominid: a 2D side-scrolling shooter with an old-school flair. The game features intense over-the-top action that borders on insane, a unique and responsive control scheme, and lots of hand-drawn animations that are hilarious and fun. Originally released in 2002, Alien Hominid was later converted into a console game and released for PS2 and Gamecube, and still remains one of the best Flash shooters available in 2004. Click.
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DHTML Lemmings: an action strategy game, though Lemmings might be considered in a class of its own. What makes this version of the classic game remarkable is that it was developed entirely using DHTML. That means it will run in a browser without requiring any plug-ins. Trouble is, DHTML Lemmings was developed without the consent of the current IP rights holder, and therefore the legality of this version is questionable. Still, if you are lucky enough to find the DHTML version on the Web somewhere, you will be rewarded with a remarkable rendition of the game. It is the DHTML that makes this game one of the best of 2004. Click.
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BMX Backflips: an extreme sports action game in which the player performs stunts for points to complete missions under a time limit. What sets this game apart from others like it is the fluidity of motion, physics, and control the author achieves in the game's Flash implementation. The result is an experience that is both captivating and fun, and earns BMX Backflips a spot among the best and most popular Web games of 2004. Click.
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A Murder of Scarecrows: an action arcade game in which the player must protect three scarecrows from the ravenous ravens that attack them. While A Murder of Scarecrows shares similar gameplay with the classic game of Missile Command, it also redefines it. Excellence in game design is demonstrated by the consistency with which all of the game's elements express its theme, revealed in a poem during the game's commencement. From the artistic simplicity of its graphical style to the eerie animations and atmospheric sound effects, A Murder of Scarecrows will draw you into its world. Without a doubt, one of the best of 2004. Click.
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Grow: a puzzle game solved by adding pieces, one at a time, in a correct combinatorial sequence. What elevates this game above others is its unique design of puzzle pieces that interact with each other, and the fascinating animations that result from their combination. Grow is wonder, curiosity and enchantment packaged and disguised as a Flash game that is deceptively simple to pick up and play. Unique, original and fun, this game belongs amongst the best of 2004. Click.
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Chasm: a point-and-click adventure in which the player sets off on a journey to save the town of Chasmton after an unfortunate event dries up the water supply. The game features AAA quality animation and design, elaborate and challenging puzzles, and a complementing soundtrack, all in a small, bite-sized package for the Web. In light of its top-notch production values, Chasm shines as one of the best of 2004. Click.
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Ultimate Flash Sonic: an action adventure that accurately recreates Sega's classic Sonic experience in Flash. This version of Sonic was not endorsed by Sega nor granted permission to use the name or likeness of the Sonic characters, and that speaks volumes of what the author was able to accomplish on his own. A full-featured Flash game that rivals commercial offerings, paired with the popularity of the Sonic franchise rockets this entry well up into the best of 2004. Click.
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Tontie: an action arcade game in which the player strikes numeric keys corresponding to events on the screen. Accessible to anyone with a numeric keypad, the elegant simplicity of design affords this game an almost universal appeal. Immersive and challenging gameplay is achieved through the introduction of increasingly more complex rules of engagement between the animated characters on screen and the corresponding keys used to combat them. A system of monetary award and power-ups for purchase provides the gameplay with added depth while extending the replay value of the game. Tontie is exceptional game design, the second game in the Top 5 for its author, and certainly one of the very best games we played in 2004. Click.
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Samorost: a point-and-click adventure game in which the player controls the main character on a quest to save his planet. Without words, the simple yet engaging story unfolds to the delight of the unsuspecting player in scenes that are beautiful works of art and interactivity. Samorost features an array of unusual characters and environments, and presents them all in a tight little package that captures the thrill of discovery and the essence of fun. If you have played this game—and it is likely you have—then you understand why it is the Best of 2004. Click.
Congratulations to all of this year's winners. And while I look forward to doing this again next year at this time, I also eagerly await another year full of fantastic games as 2004 had been. Bring on da games! =)
Carlo • January 2, 2005 12:34 AM
Jay, I am beyond impressed. :-)
Galatea • January 2, 2005 1:17 PM
FYI, the pinyin spelling for the Mandarin numbers is yi, er, san, si, wu, liu, qi, ba, jiu, shi. Good try on the transliteration, though!
... so happy that I found this blog...
jay • January 2, 2005 1:29 PM
Thank you, Galatea. I will update the spelling to what you suggest. I appreciate the feedback! =)
Tonypa • January 3, 2005 3:44 PM
I am very happy to see Samorost being voted to the top. While the game might be couple of years old, it hasnt lost its magic. Even its sequel "Quest For The Rest" didnt hit me same way.
One thing that makes Samorost so wonderful, is how easy it is to create such game with Flash. Yes, you need very talented artists and that little extra touch of pure genius, but there isnt practically no programming skills required. It can all be made with simple buttons and frames and some gotoAndPlay statements. Flash is ideal for such games, but sadly, we havent seen many similar games. Every day people try to make things with Flash that are not well suited for it, like 3D or advanced physics, but they dont use Flash for things it is very good at. Many complaint how slow Flash is, how it cant handle drawing complex drawings or the lack of 3D support, but none of those are needed to make great game.
If we could see more time and talent put into actual content and less spent on building next "engine", we could see some wonderful things in the future. Similar to Samorost, also Grow is kind of game, where content is the king :)
Well said, Tony. I would also love to see more games like Samorost, and especially more like Grow. Both are excellent games that keep action on the screen to a minimum, and therefore work quite well in Flash.
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Journal of Nematology
Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 1981) /
Nematicide Treatments of Turfgrass Seed
J. T. Walker
J. Melin
Seed treatments of improved Kentucky bluegrass and fescue cultivars with carbofuran, oxamyl, and phenamiphos dissolved in acetone reduced seedling emergence, but treatments were not extremely phytotoxic. Phenamiphos was the most toxic, particularly at the 5,000 [mu]g/ml concentration. Fresh weight of grass clippings 35 d following planting generally was greater in treatments than in controls except for the 5,000 [mu]g/ml phenamiphos treatments on certain cultivars. All nematicide seed treatments reduced the number of Pratylenchus penetrans subsequently recovered from Pennlawn creeping red fescue roots 4-5 wk after treatment. The infusion of nematicides into grass seed with organic solvents appears to be an effective means of reducing nematode damage to turfgrass seedling with little environmental hazard.
Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 1981)
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Kingstar Media Introduces Digital Media Division and Expands U.S. Sales Efforts
Ahead of the rising demand for cross-border and omni-channel advertising campaigns, Kingstar Media is pleased to announce the launch of its new digital media division, L49 Digital. The media shop also welcomes to its team the efforts of Kristy Pinand, a well known 15 year DRTV veteran and established sales professional, who will continue to expand new opportunities as VP of U.S. business development.
Kristy's experience behind the camera informs her unique approach to DRTV, getting her television start with Fox News as production assistant, followed by reporting on and producing news with News 12 NJ before entering the direct response industry. Kristy currently serves on the Content Committee and Industry Women's Council for the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) and the Direct Response Marketing Alliance (DRMA) Membership Committee. In her new role at Kingstar Media, Kristy will help lead the way in delivering efficient Canadian media opportunities and targeted omni-channel ROI-based video content across multiple platforms.
L49 Digital, Kingstar's digital in-house marketing partner, delivers mobile-first campaign strategies to elevate broadcast advertising and direct response campaigns as online traffic goes increasingly mobile. This includes SEM, web development, paid social, programmatic retargeting, and other in-demand lead generational tactics to bolster the performance of DR campaigns, and more efficiently track campaign activity.
Expansion plans build on existing capabilities within the creative and media buying divisions that, in addition to serving the Canadian market, serve as test pad for U.S. and global brands to test DRTV campaigns in Canada, prior to full roll-out in U.S. markets.
Learn more about the business of media in Canada and how to navigate an ever-evolving landscape by reading Ed Crain's interview with Marketing Magazine.
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@thedvdgen Right. It’s starting to sound hollow. Almost like he’s using it to drum up attention for his films. 1 hour ago
REVIEW: “Only Lovers Left Alive”
December 4, 2014 by Keith
Several years ago vampires became all the rage in modern pop culture. “Twilight” made millions from novels and movies. “True Blood” was a hugely popular television series. And while I can’t say many flattering things about the quality of these properties, fans could get their vampire entertainment fix almost anywhere. Now, as the vampire craze appears to be fading, writer and director Jim Jarmusch gives us a vampire tale that is boldly unique and intelligently metaphoric. It would also send Twilight fans running for the exits.
“Only Lovers Left Alive” could be described as a mood piece. Like other Jarmusch films, this is more centered around developing characters than developing plot and your enjoyment of the movie will probably depend on how much you enjoy being with these people. As you can guess the two main characters are vampires, but part of the film’s genius is how it uses vampire concepts while stiff-arming the usual tropes and gimmicks. In fact it seems like calling it a ‘vampire movie’ is actually doing it a huge disservice.
At the core of the film lies the love story of a centuries old vampiric couple. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a recluse living in an old two-story Victorian on the abandoned outskirts of Detroit. He surrounds himself with out-of-date electronic gadgets and his music. His wife Eve (Tilda Swinton) lives in Tangier, Morocco where she spends most of her time enjoying books and literature. The two are very different. Adam has grown forlorn and sour due to the current state of the world. Eve is more playful and optimistic, choosing to embrace hope and happiness. Yet despite these differences the two soulmates deeply love each other.
Sensing Adam’s depression Eve travels to Detroit where the two are reunited. From there the film opens up the characters and their relationship by simply following along with them. We listen to their conversations which range from scientific theory to makes and models of classic guitars. We listen to Adam lament the death of creativity at the hands of humans (who the couple call zombies). We listen to Eve remind him of the great artists and innovators they have known through the centuries. These are fascinating individuals who have a number of fascinating discussions, but they all aim to serve the movie’s greater points.
In many ways “Only Lovers Left Alive” is an indictment of humanity, or at the very least a call for introspection. We hear how humanity’s appreciation for the arts has declined. In fact, in what may be Jarmusch’s jab at modern moviemaking, we hear Los Angeles refered to as “zombie central”. We see how humanity has destroyed what it has created as evident by the hollow and empty Detroit landscapes. We learn about humanity’s destruction of the environment particularly through a couple of references to the scarcity of clean water. Humanity has even destroyed themselves. Vampires are forced to seek alternate methods of acquiring blood because humans have poisoned their own. None of these things ever get to the point of being preachy. Instead they are thoughtful story components that are clever and thought-provoking.
The film also has a smart sense of humor which shows itself most when the vampires are relating to the past. For example Eve reminding Adam of his time spent playing chess with Lord Byron or sharing creative ideas with composer Franz Schubert. Then there are several gags tied to John Hurt’s character. He plays Eve’s dear friend and fellow vampire Christopher Marlowe – yes, the 16th century playwright. Some fun is had with the conspiracy theory that he wrote many important pieces of literature under the assumed name of William Shakespeare.
It also helps that Jarmusch cast the two best possible people for the parts of Adam and Eve. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton are so intensely convincing both in their intelligent coolness and blanched physical appearances. You never doubt them as connoisseurs of fine art and music, and you never doubt their vampire status. They are two of the most compelling and strangely attractive characters I’ve seen this year. I loved spending time with them.
“Only Lovers Left Alive” can be called a vampire movie, but in reality it bucks nearly every common vampire trend. It’s a slick, stylish, and moody character piece that doesn’t shy away from asking good questions and prodding reflection. It’s also great fun watching a true independent director like Jarmusch work with top talents like Hiddleston and Swinton. This certainly won’t be up everyone’s alley, but I found it to be mesmerizing entertainment and a refreshing jolt to the 2014 movie year.
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26 thoughts on “REVIEW: “Only Lovers Left Alive””
le0pard13 says: December 4, 2014 at 9:26 am
Will be seeing this soon! Been on my must-read list for awhile now. Fine review, Keith.
keith7198 says: December 4, 2014 at 9:49 am
Thanks so much my friend. I’ve watched it twice just to wrap my mind around it and to get my final thoughts. Loved it both times. Anxious to hear your thoughts.
chrisdsav says: December 4, 2014 at 10:35 am
Boring as hell but still a good movie the parts with Anton Yelchin and LokiVamp are great
keith7198 says: December 4, 2014 at 10:38 am
Well, like I said, it will all depend on how much you like spending time with the characters. I loved it as well as Jarmusch’s deeper meanings. But it isn’t for everyone.
Just pacing was an issue other wise once its cheap on blu ray I will buy it
No doubt, its pacing is clearly Jarmusch-like. Also there really isn’t a lot of plot. I can fully understand some people not being interested enough to stay with it.
Wendell says: December 4, 2014 at 10:51 am
Yes, it’s deeply metaphoric and contemplative. Unfortunately, I found it to be deeply boring. It was two solid hours of listening to a stuffy intellectual pontificate on how great everything used to be while his wife just says “Tell me more, darling.” This is coming from a guy who has been accused of being a stuffy intellectual, mind you. Having something to say is great, but to me at least, it didn’t say it in a way that was even remotely interesting.
Interesting perspective on it and I certainly respect it. I guess I saw a lot more to Swinton’s Eve. I found her to be more optimistic and constantly reminding him of the good humanity has done and the hope that things will get better. I liked the contrast between their perspectives.
I also loved the way the movie plays with vampire cliches while never fully indulging them. I also liked the vampire’s vulnerability as well as the dry humor about their pasts. I guess it all worked for me. That said I can see where it would divide audiences.
sati says: December 4, 2014 at 1:11 pm
Great review and I’m so glad you liked this movie! The atmosphere was so fantastic, exactly the kind of mood the movie about vampires should have.
keith7198 says: December 4, 2014 at 1:31 pm
Thanks Sati! And wasn’t it cool how the film bucked a lot of the overused vampire nonsense that we usually get? It such a moody piece but it’s also intelligent in how it draws us to reflect on a number of things.
ruth says: December 4, 2014 at 2:43 pm
I think vampire has always been a popular subgenre in Hollywood, Twilight just dumbs it down! I’m looking forward to this, I like it when a filmmaker can make a twist of the genre and making something totally unexpected like this. Plus the pairing of Swinton & Hiddles are definitely intriguing!
It’s sooo good Ruth and it’s very unique. I think Jarmusch’s style and dedication to character over plot turns some people off. I was connected all the way. Really interested to hear you thoughts.
Oh, and as you know, Swinton and Hiddleston are incredible. Perfectly cast!
CMrok93 says: December 4, 2014 at 11:56 pm
Good review Keith. It surprised me. Not just because it was a Jim Jarmusch movie I actually liked, but because it gave me two vampire characters to actually care about.
Thanks man. It was a surprise, right? Such a cool story but also so much going on under the surface. I really enjoyed it.
Terry Malloy's Pigeon Coop says: December 5, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Cool review mate. Really enjoyed this even if it is super slow. I really wanted to know more about the characters and their past but i guess that’s part of the allure of the whole thing.
I think you’re right. It is slow but intentionally slow. Jarmusch has never been about plot as much as character. Personally I wouldn’t have loved to spend even more time with these two listening to them talk about their histories and philosophies. I genuinely found them intriguing. And what great performances, right?
Chris says: December 5, 2014 at 6:51 pm
Mesmerizing is right. This movie was simply sublime, the first half in particular, which could’ve gone on for forever and would’ve never grown boring or uninteresting. Fantastic movie, and one of the best I’ve seen this year. Nice review. 🙂
I had the exact same reaction and just like you I could have spent so much more time with the two main characters. For me this film was intelligent, funny, cool, and captivating. I don’t mean to pile up so many adjectives but it’s hard not to when talking about my feelings for this movie. Really good to hear from someone who shares my enthusiasm.
Abbi says: December 14, 2014 at 3:26 pm
I loved this movie. Some of the dialogue was a bit hammy but overall I thought its slow burn intensity was awesome.
keith7198 says: December 14, 2014 at 3:55 pm
YES!!! I thought it was fantastic. In fact it really surprised me. I had heard good things about it but my expectations were fairly low. I love being surprised.
Veronika Z says: December 21, 2014 at 9:21 am
This film is fantastic, definitely one of this year’s best. And you described it perfectly, great review!
keith7198 says: December 21, 2014 at 9:28 am
Thank you so much. Appreciate the comments. I love this film. For some reason I had put off seeing it. My mistake. It’s fabulous.
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01/28/13 – Board of Control Approves Basketball Region I, Statewide Wrestling Realignments
January 28, 2013 2012-2013 News Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 28, 2013
The KHSAA Board of Control approved new alignments for Basketball Region I and all eight Wrestling regions during its January meeting at the KHSAA office on Monday.
Following the consolidation of schools in McCracken County, KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett and area Board of Control members met with representatives from the first region in Mayfield. With all Region I schools in attendance, the feedback from the meeting was to realign within the region, and not bring additional teams into the region. Three options for realignment were presented following the meeting in Mayfield. On Monday, the Board voted to approve Option A for the 20013-14 season (detailed below), which will also be applied to baseball, softball, soccer and volleyball:
District 1 – Carlisle County, Fulton City, Fulton County, Hickman County
District 2 – Ballard Memorial, Graves County, Mayfield
District 3 – Community Christian, McCracken County, Paducah Tilghman, St. Mary
District 4 – Calloway County, Christian Fellowship, Marshall County, Murray
The Board of Control also took final measures to approve a new statewide wrestling alignment for the 2013-14 season, after reviewing input from the member schools to the proposal which was originally recommended on Nov. 12. No changes were made to the original draft.
In Other Action:
?The Board of Control made a revision in the Volleyball match format for freshmen contests. Beginning with the 2013-14 school year (2013 season), the format for freshman matches will mirror junior varsity contests. Match play will be best two (2) sets of three (3) to 21, with rally scoring. Member schools may agree in advance during regular season play on alternate scoring formats, but may not exceed two of three sets to 21. There were no changes made to junior varsity or varsity match format/scoring.
?The Board approved a motion to eliminate the two class format system with regard to Competitive Cheer beginning with the 2013-14 school year. Squad divisions will continue as follows in the all-girls category: Small (6-12); Medium (13-16); Large (17-20); Super-Large (21-24). Coed will be offered with a minimum of 6 (two boys/four girls or four boys/two girls) and a maximum of 24, of which at least two shall be boys.
?The Board of Control approved a measure that will change the tennis postseason tournament tie break protocol from a full third set tie break procedure to a “Super Tie Breaker.” This change was recommended by the Sports Medicine Committee and the KHSAA staff to fulfill health and safety recommendations that the USTA have implemented this year to provide ample “rest and recovery” time for student-athletes playing more than one match a day. In this tie break protocol, the first player or doubles team to 10 points, and ahead by 2, wins the match. It is scored as 1-0 with the score in parenthesis, for example 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (10-7).
?The Board also passed a motion to continue reviewing a reduction in the competition schedules for team sports other than football.
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Choose Your Own Ever After
How to get to Rio
Hazard River
Bat Attack!
Blood Money!
Shark Frenzy!
Snake Surprise!
Tiger Terror!
Toads’ Revenge!
Hazard River characters
As the Crow Flies – the play
Counterfeit Love
Lust and Found
Tall, Dark and Distant
Tips for young writers
Writing a news story
Descriptive writing
Developing characters
Writing a Choose Your Own ending story
Julie Fison
Author of children's and teen fiction
Books for Christmas
Julie FisonLife, The Path of Least Resistance, WritingBooks, Christmas, Geraldine Brooks, Isobelle Carmody, Marlon James, Sherryl Caulfield, Shopping, Tim Cahill, Tom Keneally, Tristan Bancks4 Comments
Queues, dodgy carols, aching legs, confusion over what size feet my nephew has. Not for me, this Christmas.
This year I’m avoiding the festive-season shopping chaos and buying everyone a book and a pig (or maybe an orangutan).
Here’s what my Christmas list looks like. (Look away now if you’re hoping for a present from me.)
For my Teen Son: Legacy by Tim Cahill
Blurb: The story of one of the most admired Australian sportsmen, international football star Tim Cahill. With his trademark honesty and directness, Tim reflects on what it takes to make it to the top – the sacrifices, the physical cost, the mental stamina, the uncompromising self-belief and self-determination, the ruthlessness, but also the decency, the integrity, and the generosity. An autobiography that is more than a record of the goals and the games, Tim Cahill’s story is a universal reminder of the importance of making your moment count.
For my other Teen Son: Rich and Rare, edited by Paul Collins
Blurb: A collection of stories and artwork from Australia’s best loved writers and illustrators. With pieces by Shaun Tan, Leigh Hobbs, James Roy, Justin D’Ath, Kirsty Murray, Simon Higgins, Gary Crew, Scot Gardner, there’s something for everyone.
For my Hubbie: A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
Blurb: A Brief History of Seven Killings chronicles the lives of a host of unforgettable characters – slum kids, one-night stands, drug lords, girlfriends, gunmen, journalists, and even the CIA. Gripping and inventive, ambitious and mesmerising, A Brief History of Seven Killings is one of the most remarkable and extraordinary novels of the twenty-first century.
For my Dad: Napoleon’s Last Island by Tom Keneally
Blurb: Betsy Balcombe as a young woman lived with her family on St Helena. They befriended, served and were ruined by their relationship with Napoleon. To redeem the family’s fortunes William Balcombe, Betsy’s father, betrays Napoleon and accepts a job as the colonial treasurer of NSW, but William never recovers from the ups and downs of association with Napoleon. Tom Keneally, with his gift for bringing historical stories to life, shares this remarkable friendship and the beginning of an Australian dynasty.
For my Mum: The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
Blurb: A unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David’s extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. With stunning originality, acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks offers us a compelling portrait of a morally complex hero from this strange age – part legend, part history. Full of drama and richly drawn detail, The Secret Chord is a vivid story of faith, family, desire and power that brings David magnificently alive.
For my God-daughter: The Red Queen, by Isobelle Carmody
Blurb: The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she can embark on her quest, she must find a lost key; and although she has long prepared for this day, nothing is as she imagined. This is the final, dramatic volume in series of books that undoubtedly shines as one of the most fantastic, and fantastical, tapestries ever woven.
For my Nephew: Two Wolves, by Tristan Bancks
Blurb: One afternoon, police officers show up at Ben Silver’s front door. Minutes after they leave, his parents arrive home. Ben and his little sister Olive are bundled into the car and told they’re going on a holiday. But are they? It doesn’t take long for Ben to realise that his parents are in trouble. Ben’s always dreamt of becoming a detective – his dad even calls him ‘Cop’. Now Ben gathers evidence and tries to uncover what his parents have done. The problem is, if he figures it out, what does he do? Tell someone? Or keep the secret and live life on the run?
For my Niece: The Call of the Wild – Choose Your Own Ever After, by Julie Fison (a very good read, even if I do say so myself)
Blurb: Phoebe Wright and her besties, Annabel and Kimmi have been invited to the coolest party of the year! But when Phoebe realises it’s on the same night as her Wild Club’s movie-night fundraiser, she’s totally torn about what to do. In this pick-a-path story, the reader gets to decide how the story goes.
And for me: (thank you for asking) I’m hoping for my friend Sherryl Caulfield’s third and final instalment in The Iceberg Trilogy – Come Full Circle.
Blurb: The story of three generations of Canadian women, each feisty in their own way, and their hopes, dreams and awakenings. It starts in 1995 when Rebecca, first introduced in Seldom Come By, is approaching 96, Gene, her daughter, is in her 62nd year and Lindsay, her granddaughter, will celebrate her 33rd birthday in Sydney.
For everyone: World Vision has an inspiring range of gift ideas for families in the developing world – including pigs, goats and llamas.
Adopt an Orangutans for Christmas to help preserve this unique and endangered species. Check out Save the Orangutan for details.
For more summer reading ideas, check out the Smitten series for teens and Hazard River for kids who love adventure!
When Georgia meets Nik on her family summer holiday, she’s sure he’s too good to be true. He’s gorgeous, with god-like abs and an adorable English accent. Then Georgia discovers that he’s actually a member of an obscenely wealthy Russian family, and he wants to get to know her better. Nik catapults Georgia into a world of private yachts, fast cars and expensive jewellery. Having a billionaire for a boyfriend certainly comes with benefits, but it also comes with a price. How long will it take before life in the fast lane spins out of control?
Holidays are normally fun – right? But when Jack Wilde, his brother Ben and their friends Lachlan and Mimi visit Hazard River nothing is normal. The gang comes up agaist rogue fishermen, smugglers and dodgy developers as they explore the River. How will they survive the summer?
Julie xx
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Julie (J.E.) Fison writes for children, teens and adults. Her books include the 'Hazard River' adventure series, stories in the 'Choose Your Own Ever After' series for readers who like to decide where the story goes, as well as a play for high school students called 'As the Crow Flies'. Julie regularly visits schools and festivals to talk about her writing and is a regular guest on ABC Radio Brisbane.
Rich and Rare launch night
4 thoughts on “Books for Christmas”
WordMothers says:
Relatives who give books are the best relatives! 🙂
Julie Fison says:
I couldn’t agree more!
meganforwardartistillustrator says:
HI Julie, Merry Christmas to you and your family. I want to buy one or two books from you for Lewis’ birthday at the end of January. We’ve already got snake surprise and shark frenzy. Are there any more in that series? Where’s the best place to buy them? x megan
Hi Megan. Hope you had a lovely Christmas. Go to Ford Street for any of the Hazard River books or let me know which ones you want. I might have some copies here. xxhttp://www.fordstreetpublishing.com/ford/index.php/ford-street-titles/books/113-bat-attack
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‘As the Crow Flies’ takes off
UPDATE: As the Crow Flies is now available from Australian Plays. I am excited to reveal that my first play – As the Crow Flies, is soon to be published by Australian Plays. The play for secondary school students is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and explores the themes of ambition, consequences and identity. It […]
Into the wild – rediscovering Borneo
Twenty five years ago I made my first trip to Borneo – a rugged island in South East Asia, famous for its rainforests and wildlife. My last visit started my fascination with orangutans and inspired The Call of the Wild (Choose Your Own Ever After) about a school girl who has to make a choice […]
There are lots of things you can do to improve your writing when you’re not sitting at your desk.
Driving to Carnarvon Gorge
As the Crow Flies - the play
Confessions of a mother of boys
Books, mountains and Archie
WA visit: May 15-19
Feb Feast
Old haunts
Cape to Cape
Archibald stories
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Recombinant, Live-Attenuated Tetravalent Dengue Virus Vaccine Formulations Induce a Balanced, Broad, and Protective Neutralizing Antibody Response against Each of the Four Serotypes in Rhesus Monkeys
Joseph E. Blaney, Jr., Jennifer M. Matro, Brian R. Murphy, Stephen S. Whitehead
Joseph E. Blaney
Jennifer M. Matro
Brian R. Murphy
Stephen S. Whitehead
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.9.5516-5528.2005
Three tetravalent vaccine (TV) formulations of previously described monovalent dengue (DEN) virus vaccine candidates were compared to a tetravalent formulation of wild-type DEN viruses (T-wt) for replication in SCID mice transplanted with human liver cells (SCID-HuH-7) or for replication and immunogenicity in rhesus monkeys. TV-1 consists of recombinant DEN1, -2, -3, and -4, each with a 30-nucleotide deletion in the 3′ untranslated region (Δ30). TV-2 consists of rDEN1Δ30, rDEN4Δ30, and two antigenic chimeric viruses, rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30, both also bearing the Δ30 mutation. TV-3 consists of rDEN1Δ30, rDEN2Δ30, rDEN4Δ30, and a 10-fold higher dose of rDEN3/4Δ30. TV-1 and TV-2 were attenuated in SCID-HuH-7 mice with minimal interference in replication among the virus components. TV-1, -2, and -3 were attenuated in rhesus monkeys as measured by duration and peak of viremia. Each monkey immunized with TV-1 and TV-3 seroconverted to the four DEN components by day 28 with neutralization titers ranging from 1:52 to 1:273 and 1:59 to 1:144 for TV-1 and TV-3, respectively. TV-2 induced low antibody titers to DEN2 and DEN3, but a booster immunization after 4 months increased the neutralizing antibody titers to greater than 1:100 against each serotype and elicited broad neutralizing activity against 19 of 20 DEN subtypes. A single dose of TV-2 induced protection against wild-type DEN1, DEN3, and DEN4 challenge, but not DEN2. However, two doses of TV-2 or TV-3 induced protection against DEN2 challenge. Two tetravalent formulations, TV-2 and TV-3, possess properties of a successful DEN vaccine and can be considered for evaluation in clinical trials.
The mosquito-borne dengue (DEN) viruses, members of the Flaviviridae family, contain a single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome (36). A single polypeptide is cotranslationally processed by viral and cellular proteases generating three structural proteins (C, M, and E) and at least 7 nonstructural proteins. The genome organization of the DEN viruses is 5′ UTR-C-prM-E-NS1-NS2A-NS2B-NS3-NS4A-NS4B-NS5-UTR-3′ (UTR-untranslated region, C-capsid, prM-membrane precursor, E-envelope, NS-nonstructural). There are four DEN virus serotypes (DEN1, DEN2, DEN3, and DEN4) which circulate in tropical and subtropical regions of the world inhabited by more than 2.5 billion people (12). Annually, there are an estimated 50 to 100 million DEN virus infections and hundreds of thousands of cases of the more severe and potentially lethal DEN hemorrhagic fever/shock syndrome, with children bearing much of the disease burden (13). DEN viruses are endemic in at least 100 countries and cause more human disease than any other mosquito-borne virus. In at least eight Asian countries, the DEN viruses are a leading cause of hospitalization and death in children (45). Unfortunately, many countries affected by DEN viruses have very limited financial resources for healthcare, and the economic burden of DEN disease is considerable (1, 45). An economical vaccine that prevents disease caused by the DEN viruses is a global public health priority.
The cost effectiveness, safety, long-term immunity, and efficacy associated with the live-attenuated vaccine against yellow fever virus, another mosquito-borne flavivirus, serves as a model for the feasibility of a live-attenuated DEN virus vaccine (31). However, the development of a live-attenuated DEN virus vaccine has been complicated by several factors. First, it has been difficult to develop monovalent vaccines against each of the four serotypes that exhibit a satisfactory balance between attenuation and immunogenicity (25, 26). Second, an effective live-attenuated DEN virus vaccine must consist of a tetravalent formulation of components representing each serotype because multiple serotypes typically cocirculate in a region, each DEN serotype is capable of causing disease, and the introduction of additional serotypes is common (18, 37, 42). In addition, the association of increased disease severity (DEN hemorrhagic fever/shock syndrome) in previously infected persons undergoing an infection by a different DEN virus serotype necessitates a vaccine that will confer long-term protection against all four serotypes (19). Third, it has been difficult to formulate a tetravalent vaccine (TV) with low reactogenicity that induces a broad neutralizing antibody response against each DEN virus serotype (16, 26, 39, 41). Fourth, a DEN vaccine must confer protection against a wide range of genetically diverse subtypes which are dispersed around the world and can be readily introduced into a new region by international travel (18, 37). Fifth, a DEN virus vaccine must be produced economically so that it can be made available to populations that need it most.
We have tried to address these issues as part of a program to generate a live-attenuated tetravalent DEN virus vaccine. To maximize the likelihood that suitable vaccine candidates would be identified, monovalent vaccine candidates for DEN1 to -4 were generated by two distinct recombinant methods and found to be attenuated and immunogenic in mouse and rhesus monkey models (2, 3, 9, 43, 44). In one method, deletion of 30 contiguous nucleotides from the 3′ UTR of wild-type cDNA clones of DEN1 to -4 was used to generate vaccine candidates. Specifically, the deletion of nucleotides 10478 to 10507 of the 3′ UTR (Δ30) of recombinant wild-type DEN4 yielded a vaccine candidate, rDEN4Δ30, which is safe, attenuated, and immunogenic in rhesus monkeys and humans (9). Incorporation of the Δ30 mutation into infectious cDNA clones of DEN1 and DEN2, but not DEN3, wild-type virus at a site homologous to that in DEN4 attenuated these viruses for rhesus monkeys (2, 3, 43). Using a second method, antigenic chimeric viruses were generated by replacing wild-type M and E structural genes of rDEN4Δ30 with those from DEN2 or DEN3, and the resulting chimeric viruses were attenuated and immunogenic in rhesus monkeys (2, 44). Importantly, these vaccine candidates retain wild-type structural proteins to maximize infectivity, thereby decreasing the potential for virus interference. In addition, immunity is induced by an authentic wild-type E protein that will likely increase the magnitude and breadth of the neutralizing antibody response.
We have also described a set of point mutations which may be used to further attenuate vaccine candidates if evaluation as a monovalent vaccine or a component of a tetravalent formulation demonstrates that further attenuation is required. Such mutations are capable of attenuating wild-type rDEN4 for suckling mice (4, 6, 20), for SCID mice transplanted with human liver cells (SCID-HuH-7) (5), for rhesus monkeys (22), or for mosquitoes (21). Since these mutations are in the nonstructural gene regions of DEN4, they can also be used to modify the attenuation phenotype of antigenic chimeric viruses with the DEN4 background. In addition, mutations identified in rDEN4 might be imported into conserved sites of cDNA clones for other DEN serotypes in an attempt to transfer desired phenotypes, as has been demonstrated for rDEN2Δ30 (3). Finally, to enhance replication in Vero cells and minimize the cost of manufacture, a panel of Vero cell adaptation mutations have been identified and incorporated into vaccine candidates (7). Thus, using the Δ30 mutation, intertypic chimerization, and the set of modifying point mutations, we have been able to generate and characterize attenuated DEN vaccine candidates for each serotype that can now be combined as tetravalent formulations.
In the present study, three TV formulations, TV-1, -2, and -3, of the aforementioned monovalent DEN virus vaccine candidates were compared to a tetravalent formulation of wild-type DEN viruses, T-wt, for replication in SCID-HuH-7 mice or for replication and immunogenicity in rhesus monkeys. Attenuation and virus interference were assessed in SCID-HuH-7 mice for TV-1, TV-2, and T-wt. In rhesus monkeys, attenuation, virus interference, and neutralizing antibody responses were evaluated for each formulation and compared to T-wt. In addition, the timing and effect of booster vaccinations were determined, and the breadth of the neutralizing antibody response was tested against divergent DEN subtypes. Analysis of these results and protection studies with rhesus monkeys indicates that two tetravalent formulations can be considered for evaluation in humans.
Cells and viruses.Vero cells (African green monkey kidney) were propagated in OptiPro SFM (Invitrogen, Grand Island, NY) supplemented with 4 mM l-glutamine (Invitrogen). HuH-7 cells (human hepatoma) were maintained in D-MEM/F-12 (Invitrogen) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 1 mM l-glutamine, and 0.05 mg/ml gentamicin (Invitrogen).
A tetravalent formulation of wild-type viruses, termed T-wt, and three TV formulations, termed TV-1, -2, and -3, were evaluated in this study. The components, dosage, and references describing the viruses used in these formulations are listed in Table 1.
Tetravalent formulations evaluated in SCID-HuH-7 mice and rhesus monkeys
Studies with SCID-HuH-7 mice.Four- to six-week-old SCID mice [Tac:Icr:Ha(ICR)-Prkdcscid] (Taconic, Germantown, NY) were injected intraperitoneally with 107 HuH-7 human hepatoma cells suspended in 0.2 ml of phosphate-buffered saline as previously described (5). Tumors were detected in the peritoneum, and groups of mice were infected by direct inoculation of the tumor with 104 PFU of a monovalent virus or 104 PFU of each component of a tetravalent formulation (total of 4 × 104 PFU) in 0.05 ml of Opti-MEM (Invitrogen). On day 7 postinfection, serum was obtained from cardiac blood and stored at −70°C. Virus titer in serum samples was determined by plaque assay in Vero cells with detection by immunohistochemistry with a flavivirus-specific monoclonal antibody, as well as serotype-specific quantitative PCR (qPCR) as described below.
Serotype-specific qPCR.qPCR was used to measure the levels and identities of viruses in serum samples from SCID-HuH-7 mice and rhesus monkeys infected with monovalent or tetravalent virus preparations. Viral RNA was isolated from 0.04 ml of sample (serum from SCID-HuH-7 mice or tissue culture supernatant from Vero cell passage of virus present in monkey serum) using a Qiamp Viral RNA Mini Kit (QIAGEN, Valencia, CA). cDNA was prepared from viral RNA samples using the SuperScript First-Strand Synthesis System for RT-PCR (Invitrogen), and 0.005 ml was used as the template for a qPCR using the Platinum Quantitative PCR SuperMix-UDG (Invitrogen) and fluorogenic Lux primers (Invitrogen). Reactions were amplified in an Mx4000 Multiplex Quantitative PCR System (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA).
For quantitation of DEN virus replication, standard curves for the concentration of viral genomes were generated using plasmid cDNA for each genome at 10-fold dilutions, representing a range of 1 ng (6.1 × 107 genome equivalents) to 10−6 ng (61 genome equivalents) of plasmid cDNA per reaction containing 0.0015 ml of original sample. The limit of detection was 61 genome equivalents per reaction and was equivalent to 4.6 log10 genome equivalents/ml of sample tested. Primers were designed to amplify regions of the M or E structural gene and were confirmed for the ability to distinguish between DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC and Tonga/74, DEN3 Sleman/78, and DEN4 Dominica/81 (data not shown). To establish the specificity of each primer set, four qPCRs were performed using 1 ng (6.1 × 107 genome equivalents) of DEN1, -2, -3, and -4 plasmid cDNA per reaction. Primer sets detected the plasmid (serotype) from which they were designed and did not detect plasmids of other serotypes, with a limit of detection of 61 genome equivalents per reaction.
qPCR was used to quantitate the level of serotype-specific virus replication in SCID-HuH-7 mice. In monkeys, the peak virus titer in serum was at the lower limit of detection for the qPCR assay, so this assay was not useful to quantitate DEN virus for this species. However, the qPCR assay was used to estimate the relative level of virus replication for each component of the TV by identification of clonal populations of virus isolated from monkey serum by terminal dilution in Vero cells (see below).
Studies with rhesus monkeys.The tetravalent formulations were evaluated in rhesus macaques using established methods (9). DEN virus seronegative monkeys were injected subcutaneously with tetravalent formulations of viruses (Table 1) delivered in 1 ml of L-15 medium (Invitrogen) or with a mock inoculum. Serum was collected on days 0 to 6, 8, and 28 after inoculation and stored at −70°C. Virus titer was determined for each serum sample from day 0 to day 8 by plaque assay in Vero cells. Serum samples from days that were positive for virus replication in any monkey from a given group, as determined by plaque assay, were subjected to clonal virus isolation. For this isolation, 0.2 ml of serum was diluted into 2.5 ml of tissue culture medium and 0.025 ml was inoculated onto each well of a 96-well plate of Vero cells. Virus-positive wells were detected by immunohistochemistry, and supernatants were stored at −70°C. The serotype of each virus clone was identified using qPCR as described above.
Serum neutralizing antibody titer was determined for samples collected on days 0 and 28 by plaque reduction neutralization assay against DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC, DEN3 Sleman/78, and DEN4 Dominica/81. The 60% plaque reduction neutralization titers (PRNT60) are expressed as geometric means. In addition, the breadth of the neutralizing antibody titer against each DEN serotype was evaluated for selected sera using multiple members of each serotype.
The effect of booster immunization on the neutralizing antibody response was tested by immunizing groups of monkeys with TV-2 at day 0 and then boosting with the same formulation at 1 month or 4 months. Serum was collected on day 0 and at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 months postinoculation, and the neutralizing antibody titer against each serotype was determined for each serum sample. In an additional two-dose experiment, a group of monkeys were inoculated with TV-3 at day 0 and boosted at 4 months. Serum was collected at day 0 and at 4 and 5 months and tested in an individual plaque reduction neutralization assay against each DEN serotype.
Three efficacy studies were performed with rhesus monkeys. In the first study, groups of four monkeys inoculated with a single dose of TV-2 or with placebo were challenged on day 42 with DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC, DEN3 Sleman/78, or DEN4 Dominica/81. Serum was collected on days 0 to 6 and 28 after challenge, and virus titer was determined for each serum sample from day 0 to day 6 by plaque assay with Vero cells. The serum antibody response following challenge was assessed by measuring the neutralizing antibody titer on the day before challenge and on day 28 postchallenge. In the second and third efficacy studies, groups of monkeys immunized with TV-2 or TV-3, respectively, and boosted at 4 months were challenged with DEN2 NGC at 5 months postimmunization. Serum was collected on days 0 to 8 after challenge, and the virus titer was determined by plaque assay in Vero cells. The antibody response following challenge was not tested in the latter two studies.
Tetravalent formulations evaluated in this study.Two TV formulations (TV-1 and TV-2) were initially compared to a tetravalent formulation of wild-type viruses (T-wt). Each of the six separate components of the two TV formulations has previously been evaluated for replication in SCID-HuH-7 mice and rhesus monkeys and for immunogenicity in rhesus monkeys (2, 3, 9, 43, 44). TV-1 consists of four viruses generated from full-length cDNA clones: rDEN1Δ30, rDEN2Δ30, rDEN3Δ30, and rDEN4Δ30 (Table 1). T-wt consists of the DEN virus isolates from which the full-length cDNA clones were derived: DEN1 Nauru/74 (Western Pacific), DEN2 Tonga/74, DEN3 Sleman/78, and DEN4 Dominica/81. TV-2 consists of rDEN1Δ30, rDEN4Δ30, and two antigenic chimeric viruses, rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30. The M and E proteins of rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30 are derived from DEN2 New Guinea/44 (NGC prototype) and DEN3 Sleman/78, respectively. A third TV was next formulated, consisting of 105 PFU each of rDEN1Δ30, rDEN2Δ30, and rDEN4Δ30 and 106 PFU of rDEN3/4Δ30, and studied in rhesus monkeys.
Replication levels of tetravalent formulations in SCID-HuH-7 mice.The SCID-HuH-7 mouse model has previously been used to evaluate the level of replication of DEN virus vaccine candidates administered as monovalent vaccines (2, 5, 22). Using this model, attenuated vaccine candidates have been identified, and attenuation phenotypes observed in SCID-HuH-7 mice have been confirmed in rhesus monkeys. Examination of the virus replication data derived from SCID-HuH-7 mice and rhesus monkeys reveals a significant correlation in the relative level of virus attenuation, making the SCID-HuH-7 mouse model an attractive tool for the evaluation of attenuated vaccine candidates administered as monovalent vaccines or as a tetravalent formulation. In addition, the absolute virus titers are much higher in the SCID-HuH-7 mice than in monkeys, which allows greater sensitivity in determining the magnitude of attenuation and the occurrence of interference in the replication of viruses administered as a tetravalent formulation. It should be noted that attenuated replication in either the SCID-HuH-7 or rhesus monkey model may not correctly predict virus attenuation in humans, although the rhesus model is believed to be the most reliable. As an initial evaluation of these parameters, tetravalent formulations TV-1, TV-2, and T-wt were assessed for replication in SCID-HuH-7 mice following inoculation with a dose of 104 PFU of each virus component. Relative growth of each serotype component in T-wt or TV tetravalent formulations was determined in SCID-HuH-7 mice by serotype-specific qPCR and was compared to that in mice administered the same amount of a monovalent virus.
Comparison of the level of viremia of each component in a monovalent versus a tetravalent formulation indicated that interference or enhancement in replication of any component in the tetravalent formulation had not occurred (Table 2). In the group inoculated with T-wt, the replication of individual components was equivalent or only slightly reduced compared to that observed for groups inoculated with a monovalent virus. The reduction in replication of DEN2 and DEN3 in mice receiving T-wt or the monovalent component was 0.7 log10 PFU/ml or 0.5 log10 PFU/ml, respectively, indicating that only a fivefold or smaller reduction in replication occurred for any of the four DEN wild-type viruses when inoculated together in the tetravalent formulation. This result demonstrates that enhancement or interference in replication among DEN viruses in multivalent formulations appears to be of low magnitude. It should be noted that a lack of virus interference in an animal model does not necessarily preclude interference in humans. Likewise, for both TV-1 and TV-2, the replication of individual vaccine components was equivalent or only minimally reduced compared to that observed for mice inoculated with monovalent viruses, and the largest decrease in replication was observed for rDEN2Δ30 in TV-1 (0.6 log10 PFU/ml reduction). Thus, a reduction in the level of replication of an attenuated virus in a TV formulation versus the wild-type virus from which it was derived can be largely ascribed to the attenuating mutations in the virus and not to interference among the four components of the TV.
TV-1 and -2 are attenuated in SCID-HuH-7 mice compared to a formulation of wild-type DEN viruses and do not show interference among individual components
The overall level of attenuation of the set of four viruses in TV-1 and TV-2 versus the four viruses in T-wt was first assessed by comparing the virus titer in each group of SCID-HuH-7 mice by plaque assay in Vero cells. The total virus titer of T-wt was 8.2 log10 PFU/ml, while TV-1 (6.6 log10 PFU/ml) and TV-2 (6.2 log10 PFU/ml) were 40-fold and 100-fold reduced, respectively. Thus, the total level of virus replication for each of the two TV formulations was less than that of the wild-type virus, indicating that TV-1 and TV-2 were attenuated compared to T-wt.
Attenuation of the four individual viruses in TV-1 and TV-2 was assessed by quantitation of their replication by serotype-specific qPCR. In Table 2, the reduction in virus titer is indicated for each vaccine component of TV-1 and TV-2 compared to that of the corresponding wild-type monovalent group. For example, wild-type DEN2 replicated to 9.1 log10 genome equivalents/ml of serum as a monovalent inoculation while rDEN2Δ30 replicated to 7.0 log10 genome equivalents/ml of serum in TV-1 (a 2.1 log10 reduction). For TV-1, the rDEN1Δ30 and rDEN2Δ30 components were 100-fold restricted, rDEN4Δ30 was 10-fold restricted, but rDEN3Δ30 was not restricted compared to the value of the corresponding wild-type monovalent group. The rDEN3Δ30 virus, which was previously found to not be attenuated in SCID-HuH-7 mice (2), was examined here to see if its behavior as a monovalent vaccine would also be observed when administered as a tetravalent formulation. These results confirm the lack of attenuation of rDEN3Δ30 and the inability of a tetravalent formulation to largely affect the replication of an individual component. For TV-2, the rDEN1Δ30 component was nearly 100-fold restricted, and rDEN2/4Δ30, rDEN3/4Δ30, and rDEN4Δ30 were each approximately 10-fold restricted compared to the value of the corresponding wild-type monovalent group.
Comparison of replication and immunogenicity of TV-1 and TV-2 to the T-wt formulation in rhesus monkeys.The overall level of attenuation of the set of four viruses in TV-1 and TV-2 compared to that of the four viruses in T-wt was next assessed by evaluation of the total virus titer in rhesus monkeys immunized with a tetravalent formulation (Table 3). Monkeys inoculated with T-wt developed a mean peak virus titer of 2.0 log10 PFU/ml and a mean duration of viremia of 5.8 days. Both TV-1 and TV-2 had reduced replication as measured by mean peak virus titer and mean duration of viremia. Despite the lack of attenuation of rDEN3Δ30 when administered as a monovalent vaccine in monkeys and compared to wild-type rDEN3 (2), its inclusion in the TV-1 formulation resulted in an acceptable level of replication in rhesus monkeys. This may possibly indicate a differing level of interference observed in virus replication in SCID-HuH-7 mice versus rhesus monkeys since no interference was seen in mice.
Replication and immunogenicity in rhesus monkeys following a single dose of T-wt or TV-1, -2, or -3
The relative level of replication of each virus component in serum samples from rhesus monkeys infected with T-wt, TV-1, and TV-2 was determined. Since the virus titers that are achieved in rhesus monkeys by attenuated DEN viruses are near the limit of detection for qPCR (approximately 1.0 log10 PFU/ml or <4.6 log10 genome equivalents/ml of serum), this method was not used to quantitate virus replication. Instead, the relative level of replication of each of the four virus components was estimated by determining the proportion of each virus in the serum of monkeys administered a tetravalent formulation. Monkey serum containing virus was diluted and used to infect Vero cells, and clonal populations of virus were isolated. The serotype of each virus clone was determined by qPCR. Of 498 culture supernatants yielding virus, only 40 contained more than one DEN serotype, indicating that our clonal selection procedure was largely successful. The percentage of each serotype represented among the total number of virus clones was calculated and is presented in Table 3. For T-wt, TV-1, and TV-2, replication of each serotype component was detected although at various levels and frequencies among inoculated monkeys. Replication of each serotype was detected in T-wt-inoculated monkeys, with the exception of one monkey that had no detectable DEN3 replication. DEN1 virus accounted for 69% of virus clones isolated from serum samples of monkeys infected with T-wt, while DEN2, -3, and -4 each accounted for about 10% of the virus clones. Thus, for replication of the wild-type virus mixture, DEN1 was the predominant component.
Replication in monkeys immunized with TV-1 was dominated by rDEN3Δ30 and rDEN4Δ30 with 56% and 34% of the virus clones, respectively. The high prevalence of rDEN3Δ30 was anticipated based on its low level of attenuation when administered as a monovalent vaccine to rhesus monkeys. In monkeys administered TV-2, rDEN4Δ30 (65%) and rDEN3/4Δ30 (19%) were the predominant viruses, with each of the viruses being detected. rDEN4Δ30 replication was found in almost 100% of the monkeys, while the other three components were found in approximately 50% of the monkeys. Although relative levels of replication did vary widely among vaccine components, evidence for replication of each tetravalent component exists, supporting the likelihood that immunity to each component would develop. For both TV-1 and TV-2, replication was attenuated compared to T-wt, and importantly, replication of TV-2 was dominated by rDEN4Δ30, which is already known to be safe in humans (9, 10).
The immunogenicity of T-wt, TV-1, and TV-2 was assessed by determination of serotype-specific neutralizing antibody titers in postinfection serum (Table 3). The geometric mean neutralizing antibody titers induced by inoculation with T-wt were greater than 1:225 against DEN1, DEN3, and DEN4, whereas for DEN2 the mean titer was 1:113. These values were similar to those observed by a monovalent inoculation of these viruses (2, 22, 43, 44), and all monkeys seroconverted to each serotype (defined as a fourfold or greater increase in antibody titer). The antibody response elicited by inoculation with T-wt was evenly distributed against the four wild-type viruses despite the dominant replication of DEN1 observed by clonal analysis and qPCR (Table 3).
Not surprisingly, the neutralizing antibody titers induced by TV-1 on day 28 were highest to DEN3 (1:273) and ranged from 1:52 to 1:79 for DEN1, -2, and -4. Although each of the six monkeys infected with TV-1 seroconverted to each serotype, further study of TV-1 was curtailed because three lines of evidence suggested that the rDEN3Δ30 component in it was under attenuated. Specifically, the rDEN3Δ30 component was (i) underattenuated as a monovalent vaccine (2), (ii) the dominant component of TV-1 in terms of level of replication (Table 3), and (iii) equally as immunogenic as wild-type DEN3 (Table 3).
The neutralizing antibody response on day 28 induced by TV-2 was the most unbalanced of any formulation tested. Seroconversion to DEN1 and DEN4 was 81% and 100%, respectively, with geometric mean antibody titers of 1:57 for DEN1 and 1:126 for DEN4. However, seroconversion was below 15% to DEN2 or DEN3, with geometric mean titers below 1:20. In this case, immunization with the two chimeric viruses, rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30, as part of the TV-2 tetravalent formulation resulted in significantly lower antibody induction compared to administration of the chimeric viruses as monovalent vaccines (2, 44).
Protection from DEN1, -3, and -4 challenges after a single dose of TV-2 while protection from DEN2 challenge requires two doses.The ability of a single immunization with TV-2 to confer protection against a wild-type virus challenge was evaluated. Sixteen monkeys immunized with TV-2 (described in Table 3) were divided into groups of four and, along with groups of two mock-inoculated monkeys, challenged with DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC prototype, DEN3 Sleman/78, or DEN4 Dominica/81 on day 42 after immunization (Table 4). All mock-immunized monkeys developed viremia following challenge at a duration and level expected for wild-type infection. While immunized monkeys challenged with DEN1, DEN3, and DEN4 were completely protected, as indicated by the lack of viremia following challenge, three of four monkeys became viremic after a challenge with DEN2. The monkey which developed no viremia did not have a significantly higher neutralizing antibody titer compared to the geometric mean. As a monovalent vaccine, rDEN2/4Δ30 was protective, indicating that the lack of protection likely resulted from its formulation in a TV (44). After a single dose of TV-2, the antibody responses to DEN2 and DEN3 on day 28 were at similarly low levels. However, monkeys were completely protected against a DEN3 challenge, unlike that observed with DEN2, for undefined reasons.
Viremia and neutralizing antibody levels in TV-2-immunized monkeys following challenge
The neutralizing antibody levels against each serotype in TV-2- and mock-immunized monkeys were evaluated before and after challenge with each wild-type DEN virus (Table 4). Animals challenged with DEN1 or DEN3 virus developed an enhanced antibody response to the challenge virus, suggesting that reinfection had occurred with these two DEN serotypes despite an absence of viremia. As expected, monkeys challenged with DEN2 had a rise in titer and serological responses. Monkeys immunized with TV-2 had low rises in titer to DEN4 following a challenge with this virus, perhaps reflecting the high prechallenge antibody titers. Interestingly, after a challenge, there were three examples of increased antibody titers against a nonhomologous DEN serotype among TV-2-immunized monkeys (Table 4). For example monkeys challenged with DEN1 or DEN2 had a greater than fourfold increase in postchallenge neutralization titer against DEN3. In addition, after a DEN4 challenge, the mean titer against DEN2 increased from 1:21 to 1:99. The duration of this apparent cross-reactive antibody response is unknown.
The serotype specificity of the antibody responses was also characterized in this study by evaluating the antibody titers against each serotype following challenge of the mock-inoculated control monkeys. Only infection with DEN2 NGC resulted in a fourfold or greater increase in antibody to a nonhomologous serotype (1:48 against DEN3 and 1:49 against DEN4). However, these cross-reactive responses were 10-fold lower than the titer against the homologous serotype (1:477 against DEN2). Infection with DEN1, DEN3, or DEN4 did not induce a 4-fold increase in geometric mean titer against any nonhomologous serotype, and any increase in titer was approximately 10-fold less than that observed against the homologous serotype. These results indicate that the considerably lower neutralization antibody titers induced by the vaccine viruses in our studies would unlikely induce detectable cross-reactive antibodies. It is reasonable to conclude that the neutralization titers measured here are predominantly serotype specific.
To overcome the suboptimal immunogenicity of the DEN2 and DEN3 components of TV-2 following a single dose, a second dose was given and the effect of timing of administration of the second dose on immunogenicity was explored. TV-2 was administered to two groups of four monkeys, with a second dose delivered after 1 month or 4 months. Serum samples were collected monthly for 5 months and evaluated to determine the effect of the timing of the booster dose on the magnitude of the neutralizing antibody response (Fig. 1). The antibody titers to DEN1, DEN3, and DEN4 at day 28 were similar to those previously observed (Table 3), while the response to DEN2 was approximately threefold higher for unexplained reasons. Following booster immunization at 1 month, the antibody titer did not increase against any of the four serotypes. Importantly, over the next 4 months, the level of antibody response was maintained and did not decrease. In contrast, a booster immunization at 4 months increased the mean neutralizing antibody titer against each serotype. Fifty percent and 100% of the monkeys had a fourfold or greater increase in antibody titer against DEN2 and DEN3, respectively. While no monkey had a fourfold or greater increase in antibody titer against DEN1 or DEN4 after a 4-month booster immunization, 50% of monkeys had a twofold or greater increase in antibody against DEN1 or DEN4. Importantly, the unacceptably low response to DEN3 was increased to a geometric mean titer of 1:148. Thus, a TV administered in two doses at a 4-month interval, but not at a 1-month interval, induced antibody titers in rhesus monkeys that were >1:100 to each serotype.
Serum neutralizing antibody response to TV-2 given in two doses at either 1 or 4 months. Eight rhesus monkeys were inoculated with TV-2 and boosted at 1 month (n = 4) or 4 months (n = 4). Serum was collected on day 0 and at 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 months postinoculation, and all samples were tested in four individual plaque reduction neutralization assays against a single DEN serotype (DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC, DEN3 Sleman/78, and DEN4 Dominica/81). The reciprocal dilution of the geometric mean of the PRNT60 for each group is shown. For the group of monkeys that received the second dose of vaccine at 4 months, the titer and ratio of animals with a fourfold further increase in titer above the titer from the 4-month serum sample (in parentheses) are presented. None of the animals receiving a second immunization at 1 month had a further fourfold rise in titer; however, their antibody titers were maintained near peak levels over the subsequent 4-month period of observation.
Since the single immunization with TV-2 protected against DEN1, -3, and -4 challenges but not a DEN2 challenge, the ability of a two-dose (0 and 4 months) immunization with TV-2 to confer protection against DEN2 challenge was assessed (Table 5). One month after booster immunization, mock-immunized and immunized monkeys were challenged. All mock-inoculated control animals developed viremia, while monkeys immunized and boosted with TV-2 were completely protected against DEN2, as indicated by the lack of detectable viremia.
Two doses of TV-2 or TV-3 induce protection from DEN2 virus challenge
Replication, immunogenicity, and protection induced by a new vaccine formulation, TV-3, in rhesus monkeys.Based on results indicating that (i) rDEN3Δ30 was underattenuated in rhesus monkeys as a monovalent vaccine and a dominant component in terms of replication in TV-1 (Table 3), (ii) rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30 were weakly immunogenic after one dose of TV-2 (Table 3), and (iii) the lack of protection against DEN2 after a single dose of TV-2 (Table 4), a third TV formulation was tested in rhesus monkeys. TV-3 consists of 105 PFU each of rDEN1Δ30, rDEN2Δ30, and rDEN4Δ30 with 106 PFU of the chimeric virus rDEN3/4Δ30 (Table 1). In monovalent studies, rDEN3/4Δ30 was found to be considerably more attenuated than rDEN3Δ30 and less immunogenic than rDEN3Δ30, so a 10-fold higher dose of this component was administered (2). Monkeys inoculated with TV-3 developed a mean peak virus titer of 1.4 log10 PFU/ml and a mean duration of viremia of 1.5 days, which was similar to that of both TV-1 and TV-2 and reduced from that of T-wt (Table 3). Replication of TV-3 was dominated by the rDEN4Δ30 virus, accounting for 68% of the virus clones, despite administration of the 10-fold higher dose of rDEN3/4Δ30. Evidence for replication of each serotype was detected in each monkey, with the exception of one monkey which had no detectable rDEN3/4Δ30 replication.
Immunization with a single dose of TV-3 resulted in the most balanced neutralizing antibody response against the four DEN serotypes with 100% seroconversion (Table 3). There was less than threefold variability of geometric mean titers, ranging from 1:59 to 1:144 against DEN1 and DEN4, respectively. Based on the efficacy of the 4-month boost of TV-2, a booster immunization at 4 months was also evaluated for monkeys inoculated with TV-3. In Fig. 2, the booster immunization was found to significantly increase geometric mean titers to 1:100 for DEN1 and >1:300 for DEN2, DEN3, and DEN4. In addition, stability of the antibody response was demonstrated by the maintenance of consistent antibody levels from 1 month to 4 months prior to the second dose. Taken together with the results of the TV-2 booster immunizations, these results indicate the effectiveness of a booster immunization given at 4 months.
Effect of 4-month boost with TV-3 on neutralizing antibody response. Six rhesus monkeys were inoculated with TV-3 and boosted after 4 months. Serum was collected on day 0 and at 1, 4, and 5 months postinoculation, and all samples were tested in a plaque reduction neutralization assay against DEN1 WP, DEN2 NGC, DEN3 Sleman/78, and DEN4 Dominica/81. The reciprocal dilution of the geometric mean of the PRNT60 against each serotype is shown. Numerical values are indicated for neutralization titers achieved 1 month after booster immunization, and the ratio of animals with a fourfold further increase in titer above the titer from the 4-month serum sample are presented (in parentheses).
The antibody levels induced by a single dose of TV-3 against each serotype have been associated with protection from a wild-type virus challenge in this study (Table 3 and 4) or previous studies including a DEN2 challenge (44). Nevertheless, since TV-2 required two doses to confer protection against DEN2 NGC the ability of two doses of TV-3 to confer protective immunity to DEN2 was assessed (Table 5). One month after booster immunization, mock-treated and immunized monkeys were challenged with DEN2. All mock-inoculated control animals developed viremia, while monkeys immunized and boosted with TV-3 were completely protected. These results indicate that two doses of TV-2 or TV-3 should confer protection from each serotype.
Neutralizing antibody responses induced by two doses of TV-2 are cross-reactive to divergent DEN subtypes.The neutralizing antibody response against genetically, temporally, and geographically diverse DEN1 to -4 subtypes was next evaluated. Broad neutralizing antibody activity against the diversity of circulating DEN viruses is essential for protection from disease. The postboost serum samples of the group of rhesus monkeys boosted at 4 months with TV-2 (Fig. 1) and the day 28 serum samples from monkeys immunized with a single dose of T-wt (Table 3) were tested in a neutralization assay against four virus strains from each serotype described in Table 6 and the parent virus for each vaccine candidate. The E protein is the major protective antigen of the DEN viruses, and the amino acid divergence of the E protein for these selected viruses reflects the range described for the members of DEN virus serotypes in previous epidemiological studies (27, 28, 37).
Divergent DEN virus strains used to test breadth of neutralizing antibody response induced by immunization with TV-2 formulation
For monkeys immunized with T-wt or TV-2 (4-month boost), seroconversion (fourfold increase in antibody titer) was observed for all monkeys against each DEN1 and DEN4 subtype (Fig. 3). One monkey immunized with a single dose of T-wt failed to seroconvert to two DEN2 subtypes, Taiwan/87 and Sri Lanka/90, but all monkeys immunized with TV-2 seroconverted to each DEN2 subtype. Neutralizing antibody levels against the DEN1, DEN2, and DEN4 subtypes induced by two doses of TV-2 were similar or in some cases greater than those induced by a single dose of T-wt, indicating that the breadth and level of antibodies induced by the vaccine candidate were similar after two doses to those induced by wild-type infection.
Two doses of an attenuated tetravalent DEN virus vaccine (TV-2) induce a broadly reactive serum neutralizing antibody response at levels comparable to that of a single dose of tetravalent wild-type virus (T-wt). The 5-month serum samples of the four rhesus monkeys boosted at 4 months with TV-2 (Fig. 1) and the 1-month serum samples from the four monkeys immunized with a single dose of T-wt (Table 3) were evaluated in individual plaque reduction neutralization assays against five DEN subtypes from each serotype. Viruses are described in Table 6. The reciprocal dilution of the geometric mean of the PRNT60 for each group is shown. The dashed line indicates a fourfold increase in neutralizing antibody titer (1:32) above the limit of detection (1:8). Percent seroconversion (percentage of monkeys with greater than fourfold increase in neutralizing antibody titer) was 100% unless indicated numerically above individual bars.
The antibody response against the DEN3 subtypes induced by two doses of TV-2 was not as broadly neutralizing compared to that induced by T-wt. Each monkey inoculated with T-wt seroconverted to each DEN3 virus, and all monkeys immunized with TV-2 seroconverted against DEN3 Sleman/78, Thailand/87, and Puerto Rico/77. However, only 50% of the monkeys immunized with TV-2 seroconverted against DEN3 Sri Lanka/91 and no monkeys seroconverted against DEN3 Fiji/92. Nevertheless, the neutralization activity against 19 of 20 DEN subtypes tested demonstrates a strong breadth of antibody response induced by the TV-2 formulation.
A successful live-attenuated tetravalent DEN virus vaccine must exhibit a balance between attenuation and immunogenicity for each of the four virus components, but this has been difficult to achieve. A major problem with previously evaluated TVs has been their capacity to cause a DEN-like illness in vaccinees (11, 26, 38). This reactogenicity appears to be related to a high level of replication of at least one of the components of the TV. Since DEN viruses that replicate to high levels during natural DEN virus infection cause more severe disease (14, 15, 30, 32, 42), it is not surprising that this also occurs for the live-attenuated virus vaccine candidates. DEN virus vaccine strains that were dominant in replication in the TV may have appeared to be underattenuated when tested as a monovalent vaccine (26, 41), indicating that the three subdominant members of the TV exert little effective interference in replication. Our first TV, TV-1, also appeared to follow these rules. Replication in rhesus monkeys of each of the viruses in TV-1 was characterized by predominance of rDEN3Δ30, a virus that was underattenuated as a monovalent vaccine candidate (2). Since the level of replication of rDEN3Δ30 was the same as its wild-type parent, and its level of immunogenicity exceeded that of other vaccine candidates, rDEN3Δ30 was considered underattenuated and eliminated from further evaluation. Nevertheless, a formulation such as TV-1, derived from attenuated DEN1, DEN2, DEN3, and DEN4 viruses in their native genetic confirmation has one major advantage, the induction of cell-mediated immunity to the full spectrum of proteins present in each of the four DEN viruses, in addition to neutralizing antibody against each serotype. In order to take advantage of this property, we are currently attenuating rDEN3Δ30 to a level suitable for use as a DEN3 component of a second-generation TV-1 formulation. Antigenic chimeric DEN viruses in which the structural proteins of an attenuated DEN virus or other flavivirus are replaced by those of a DEN virus from a different serotype would not induce this broad-based cell-mediated immune response and may be less desirable (2, 17, 24).
These findings indicate that it is essential to select viruses that are satisfactorily attenuated as monovalent vaccines for inclusion in a TV. Each of the individual vaccine viruses in TV-2 and TV-3 was selected because they were clearly restricted in replication in rhesus monkeys or in SCID-HuH-7 mice (2, 3, 9, 43, 44). The overall level of replication of the viruses in TV-2 and TV-3 in SCID-HuH-7 mice and rhesus monkeys was restricted in magnitude and duration compared to that of the viruses in a tetravalent formulation of wild-type strains. The rDEN4Δ30 vaccine component in both TV-2 and TV-3 replicated to the highest level. This was an encouraging observation because rDEN4Δ30 has already been established as highly attenuated and safe in humans when administered at doses of 101 to 105 PFU (9, 10). In a study of 79 human volunteers, the rDEN4Δ30 virus was found to be largely nonreactogenic and failed to induce a systemic illness in any vaccinee (10). Viremia and rash were found in only about 50% of vaccinees, and the mean serum virus titer ranged from 0.6 to 1.6 log10 PFU/ml, which is considerably lower than the viremia levels typically reached in symptomatic DEN virus infections (6.0 to 8.0 log10 PFU/ml) (42). Thus, the other DEN1, DEN2, and DEN3 components in either TV-2 or TV-3, which replicated to a lower level than rDEN4Δ30, should be even less reactogenic than rDEN4Δ30. However, this needs to be confirmed in clinical trials.
A second major problem encountered previously in the development of tetravalent DEN vaccine candidates has been the induction of unequal levels of neutralizing antibodies against the four DEN serotypes, with levels to some components being unacceptably low (16, 26, 39, 41). This unbalanced immunogenicity could potentially result from (i) inclusion of vaccine components that are over- or underattenuated, (ii) interference in virus replication among vaccine components, or (iii) antigenic competition among vaccine components. In the case of the three TV formulations tested here, antigenic competition would appear to have been eliminated as a cause of unequal immunogenicity since immunization with T-wt induced strong neutralizing antibody responses to each of the four serotypes. This demonstrates that the monkeys can produce high titers of antibodies to the four E proteins following a single dose of four wild-type viruses in a tetravalent preparation. As described above, rDEN3Δ30 induced the highest levels of neutralizing antibodies in TV-1. This dominance most likely reflected its underattenuation, as the neutralizing antibody responses to the other vaccine components were largely preserved. Underattenuation of a DEN vaccine component of a TV accompanied by a high level of immunogenicity has been observed before. In the Mahidol University/Aventis Pasteur vaccine, the DEN3 component was the most reactogenic of the four serotypes when evaluated as a monovalent vaccine and was also the dominant component in a TV since it achieved the highest levels of viremia and neutralizing antibodies compared to the other three components (38, 39). This DEN3 strain even dominated replication and induced the highest level of antibody when tested at a dose of 10 50% tissue culture infective doses, 100-fold lower than that of the DEN1, -2, or -4 component (38). Maintenance of the neutralizing antibody response to rDEN1Δ30, rDEN2Δ30, and rDEN4Δ30 suggests that these vaccine candidates could compete effectively with the rDEN3Δ30 virus in the nonhuman primate host.
Monkeys immunized with a single dose of TV-2 also demonstrated an unequal neutralizing antibody response, characterized by low responses to the rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30 chimeric virus vaccine components. Since the monovalent preparations of rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30 induced satisfactory levels of antibodies, the low levels of antibodies to the DEN2 and DEN3 viruses in monkeys immunized with TV-2 likely reflect a decrease in their level of virus replication when formulated in a tetravalent versus a monovalent vaccine preparation. Interestingly, this apparent interference in virus replication among the components of TV-2 was not observed in SCID-HuH-7 mice. Immunization with the chimeric viruses as monovalent vaccines induced geometric mean neutralizing antibody titers of greater than 1:50 with 100% seroconversion (2, 44), but in TV-2, titers were <1:20 and seroconversion was low. Our chimeric DEN2 and DEN3 components differ from the overattenuated DEN4 component of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research TV, which was weakly immunogenic even when delivered as a monovalent vaccine (11, 41). The rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30 viruses are our most attenuated monovalent vaccine candidates, and it is reasonable to suggest that it is their inherent growth restriction that makes them less competitive in a TV and thus susceptible to interference by the more dominant viruses in the vaccine. It is important to note that replication of these vaccine candidates in humans might be slightly greater than that in rhesus monkeys since humans are the natural host and support more vigorous replication of DEN viruses than nonhuman primates. This increased replicative capacity in humans could result in increased immunogenicity of rDEN2/4Δ30 and rDEN3/4Δ30.
After study of TV-1 and -2, a third tetravalent formulation, TV-3, was made that induced a balanced antibody response to each of the four serotypes following a single dose. This was achieved by making two changes to the formulation of TV-2, yielding TV-3. First, the weakly immunogenic rDEN2/4Δ30 component was replaced with the less attenuated rDEN2Δ30 virus. This illustrates the value of having several DEN vaccine candidates for each serotype with differing levels of attenuation that can be interchanged in a TV to achieve a balanced immune response. Second, the weakly immunogenic rDEN3/4Δ30 vaccine candidate was delivered at a 10-fold higher dose in TV-3. Increasing the dose of a poorly immunogenic component of a TV appears to augment its immunogenicity (11, 38).
Previous studies of live-attenuated tetravalent DEN vaccines in humans have similarly concluded that to induce sufficient immunity against each DEN serotype, multiple doses of vaccine are necessary (38, 41), and a satisfactory antibody response to TV-2 was achieved by administration of a second dose of vaccine. Similarly, multiple immunizations of the live-attenuated, trivalent poliovirus vaccine are required to achieve protective immunity to each of the poliovirus serotypes. A balanced immune response against the three poliovirus strains is achieved, in part, by immune restriction of the dominant poliovirus type 2 strain in the booster doses (35). Our results indicate that a second dose of tetravalent DEN vaccine, either TV-2 or TV-3, induced 100% seroconversion from baseline levels and geometric mean neutralization titers of greater than 1:100 against each serotype. To augment the immune response, the timing of administration of the second dose was critical. It was found that a 1-month boost was ineffective in increasing the antibody response, whereas a 4-month boost was highly effective. This result may be explained by homotypic exposure to the TV components or by the short-term heterotypic immunity induced by the DEN viruses, first described by Sabin (40). In this early study, immunization with DEN1 was found to decrease illness following a DEN2 challenge, but only for a brief time (1 to 3 months), at which time individuals would possess only homotypic immunity and be sensitive to a heterologous challenge (40). Previous studies of TVs in humans have also demonstrated that a 1-month boost was ineffective at augmenting immunity while boosts performed after longer intervals were effective (11, 41). Thus, a short time interval (1 month) between initial and booster immunizations appears to not be an option for tetravalent DEN vaccines. However, evidence exists which suggests that during this period before optimal immunity is reached after a second dose, vaccine-induced heterotypic immunity might prevent infection or modify disease associated with infection (40).
We were somewhat surprised that a second dose of vaccine given at 4 months would be able to replicate sufficiently to increase the antibody response since the monkeys were largely resistant to replication of wild-type virus upon challenge. Even animals with a vigorous primary response developed an increased antibody response following a second dose given at 4 months. Based on the immunization experience with live-attenuated measles virus vaccine (34), we thought that the immunity induced by the first vaccine dose would be sufficient to restrict replication of the attenuated vaccine viruses given after 4 months, but this was not the case. It is clear that attenuated DEN viruses can initiate infections in an immune host to a level sufficient to boost the immune response, but not to a level that would result in detectable generalized infection.
A single dose of TV-2 was found to confer protection from DEN1, DEN3, and DEN4, but not DEN2. However, two doses of the TV were able to induce protection against DEN2. Importantly, enhanced replication was not observed after a challenge with any of the four wild-type DEN viruses despite neutralizing antibodies being at minimally effective levels for the DEN2 and DEN3 viruses. Just as the second immunization of TV-2 and TV-3 resulted in increased neutralizing antibody titers, challenge with wild-type viruses resulted in increased antibody responses. Such increases in antibody levels following a wild-type virus challenge of tetravalent-vaccine-inoculated monkeys in the absence of detectable viremia have been observed previously, suggesting a lack of sterilizing immunity conferred by DEN vaccines (17). This ability to readily infect and immunize in the presence of prior immunity appears to be unlike other virus vaccines, such as those for mumps and measles, that are poorly immunogenic even in the presence of low levels of passively acquired antibodies (34). There are three important implications for the use of a tetravalent DEN vaccine as a consequence of the ability to increase antibody responses in the presence of existing neutralizing antibody. First, vaccination with two doses of highly attenuated vaccines should be as effective as vaccination with one dose of a marginally attenuated vaccine. This property serves to foster the development of vaccines that are viewed as safer based on their high level of attenuation. Second, in addition to booster immunizations, natural DEN infection that is effectively controlled by vaccination might contribute to long-term maintenance of immunity to disease caused by the DEN viruses. Third, it may be possible to immunize infants in the presence of maternally acquired antibodies against DEN viruses.
Immunization with two doses of an attenuated TV resulted in the induction of a broad immune response against multiple members of each DEN serotype. Since multiple DEN virus genotypes of each serotype are present in different geographic regions (37), it is necessary to examine the ability of a TV to induce a broadly reactive antibody response capable of neutralizing the vast majority of DEN virus strains. Although DEN viruses have been assigned to different genotypes, subtype members are highly related in their E protein sequence, so it was anticipated that a broad response would be achieved. The neutralizing antibody response induced after two doses of TV-2 was tested against genetically diverse members of each DEN virus serotype. The neutralization levels induced by two doses of TV-2 were similar in magnitude and breadth to those induced by a single dose of T-wt. However, two exceptions were noted. The antibody response induced by the rDEN3/4Δ30 component to DEN3 Sri Lanka/91 was low, and no response to DEN3 Fiji/92 was observed despite the strong immunity induced by T-wt. Interestingly, the E protein of Fiji/92 is the most closely related to that of the parent virus, DEN3 Sleman/78.
The difference in neutralizing activity between the serum from monkeys inoculated with T-wt and monkeys immunized with TV-2 is surprising and unexplained. The observed low neutralizing activity of serum from TV-2-immunized monkeys cannot simply be explained by an inherent difficulty of the in vitro neutralization of DEN3 Sri Lanka/91 and DEN3 Fiji/92 since serum from monkeys immunized with T-wt effectively neutralized both viruses. However, this variable neutralizing antibody response might be explained by the presence of a single amino acid change (Gln > Ser at amino acid 444) in the E protein of the rDEN3/4Δ30 virus used in this study compared to its parent, DEN3 Sleman/78 (2). Additional rDEN3/4Δ30 viruses lacking changes in the DEN3 E protein are currently being generated and may be used to test this hypothesis.
Despite our findings, the accepted dogma suggests that infection with a given DEN serotype will provide long-term protection from all subtypes within the original infecting serotype (12). Our observation that some strains escaped in vitro neutralization may not be relevant to vaccine efficacy and may show a limitation of using an in vitro neutralization assay as a surrogate for vaccine efficacy testing. Nevertheless, the importance of developing a DEN virus vaccine which confers broad protection from identified subtypes dictates that we confirm that the accepted dogma is, in fact, true.
In summary, the TV-2 and TV-3 formulations described here have several advantages that identify them as promising vaccine candidates. First, the attenuation of each virus component in the tetravalent formulation has been established. Second, each component contains the Δ30 deletion in the 3′ UTR, which precludes the generation of nonattenuated wild-type viruses caused by recombination among tetravalent components (33, 46). Third, two immunizations separated by 4 months with TV-2 or TV-3 induced a high, balanced level of neutralizing antibodies against each serotype above levels previously shown to be protective. Fourth, a neutralizing antibody response against genetically diverse strains of each serotype was induced. Fifth, the vaccines achieve virus titers of greater than 6.5 log10 PFU/ml in Vero cells and can be produced economically. Finally, alternative vaccine candidates and modifying mutations exist which can be utilized to generate additional formulations if the tetravalent formulations described here fail to yield a balance of attenuation and immunogenicity in humans (3, 22).
We thank Marisa St. Claire and her staff (Bioqual, Rockville, MD) for expert technical assistance with rhesus monkey experiments. We thank Anna Durbin (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD), Duane Gubler (John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI), and Tadeusz Kochel (Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD) for providing DEN viruses used in the neutralization assay to test the breadth of the neutralizing antibody response.
Received 15 October 2004.
Accepted 10 December 2004.
↵*Corresponding author. Mailing address: NIH, NIAID, LID Twinbrook III, Room 3W-13, 12735 Twinbrook Parkway, MSC 8133, Bethesda, MD 20892-8133. Phone: (301) 594-1630. Fax: (301) 480-4509. E-mail: jblaney{at}niaid.nih.gov.
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New Socialist Initiative stands in solidarity with the people of Assam, Tripura and the other North Eastern states in their heroic struggle against the communally motivated Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). It was only because of the resistance of the people that the government couldn’t table the Bill for voting in the Rajya Sabha after surreptitiously passing it in the Lok Sabha. This is in fact a victory for all the progressive and democratic forces of the country,who have been fighting to save and expand the secular character of the nation. While the danger still looms large and there is a strong possibility that the government may try to bring back the bill in the upcoming budget session, the mass resistance of the people has demonstrated very clearly that the evil designs of the fascists in power will not go unanswered and that the people will fight back with all their might. Continue reading Statement on the People’s Resistance against the Citizenship Amendment Bill : New Socialist Initiative →
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Protestors from various democratic organisations in Assam have began an indefinite dharna in Jantar Mantar from today 9 Dec. This includes KMSS and peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, AJYCP, Tai Ahom Satra Sontha, Asom Moran Sabha, All Asam Motok Sonmilon, All Asam Minority Students Union, and 70 other organizations of indigenous population of Assam, who are part of an umbrella platform against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. This Bill seeks to change the very definition of a Citizen of the country and include a religious dimension to it as part of the RSS’s ideological project. The effects of this Bill can be seen in starkly in Assam – which has been to fuel ethnic and religious anxieties and conflict. Protests against it has also taken unprecedented forms in recent months with participation of millions of indigenous people, including Assam bandhs, and so on.
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The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 15thJuly, 2016 [Bill No. 172 of 2016] has already caused deep anguish in the minds of the democratic India. A Joint Parliamentary Committee has also been constituted to examine this Bill. Despite wide-spread protests in Assam against the Bill, the BJP aggressively aims to pass the Bill in the coming Winter Session of the Parliament which will help to make their dream of the Hindurashtra a reality.
*Why the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 is unconstitutional, illegal, unethical and immoral?*
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 seeks to make fundamental alterations in the citizenship and immigration norms of India on the basis of religion. The Bill proposes to exclude ‘minority communities, namely, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan’ – from the scope of the definition of being ‘illegal migrant’. The Bill further reduces the requirement of 11 years to acquire “citizenship by naturalization” to only six years of ordinary residence for such immigrants. The ‘Statement of objects and reasons’ of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 also makes it clear that the Bill intends to declare ‘illegal migrants’ as Indian citizens. Several Indian government notifications and orders have already enabled persons of these communities who had entered India till 31st December, 2014 to get shelter without valid documents.
The Bill will change the philosophical premise on which Indian citizenship is granted. The principle on which Indian citizenship is granted is jus soli where citizenship of a person is determined by the place where a person is born. However,if the Bill passes, it will make a shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis, where a person acquires citizenship on the principle of blood, which our Constitution-makers consciously avoided. India’s Constitutional experts have opined that the Bill is unprecedented as never before has religion been specifically identified in the citizenship law as the ground for distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens. The ideas spelt out in the proposed Bill are against the ethos and spirit of the Indian Constitution. It will violate the spirit of the Preamble of the Indian Constitution and is also against the Articles 14, 15, 25 and 26 of the Indian Constitution.
An extra-ordinary and widespread peoples’ movement has now swept across Assam and the entire North-East India against the Bill. We, the people of Assam feel that the Bill will change Assam’s political, economic and social fabric forever. The Bill will violate the clause 6 (A) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, a special provision for Assam, which is a non-obstante clause. If the Bill passes, it will make the Assam Accord null and void. It will be a violation of the national promise. The people of Assam are afraid that the Bill will open ways to creating further insecurity and pressures in a region already over-burdened with large-scale demographic changes due to illegal migration. It will create religious basis for it, and fuel fresh rounds of ethnic and religious conflict.
*We, an umbrella platform of 70 ‘Jatiya’ (national) organizations of Assam, are on a hunger strike for an indefinite period in Delhi from 9th December, 2018 demanding the immediate scrapping of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 for the sake of the Indian Constitution, and its moral, legal and ethical values, and to protect Assam and her inhabitants from another long spell of social and political strife.*
*The Government of India plans to pass the Bill in this Winter Session of the Parliament. We appeal all political parties, organizations and individuals of India to be united to oppose this unconstitutional Bill. We sincerely believe that you will extend your support to us, and oppose the Bill to save our Constitution and democracy.*
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On Barak Valley Bandh on 16th December, 2016 – Some Nascent Observations: Arunima Chakraborty
25/12/2016 Aarti Sethi Leave a comment
This is a Guest Post by ARUNIMA CHAKRABORTY
Let’s begin with the usual: by ruing over Indian mainstream media’s overlooking of what could have been treated as more newsworthy. Today, that is, 16th of December, 2016 witnessed a bandh in southern Assam’s Barak valley protesting against the statement by the union minister of state for railways, Rajen Gohain that ‘Bengali…should be withdrawn from Barak valley as official language’ since ‘there cannot be two official languages’.[1] And a simple, layman-like google-news search reveals that there are just three entries on the issue/event.
This piece is aimed not at joining the state Congress and the local SUCI(Socialist Unity Centre of India) cadres who are decrying comment by Gohain, the union minister and a senior BJP leader in Assam but rather at attempting a delineation of the ominous portents which it seems to have unleashed. And of course, to trace the genealogy of the statement.
First of all, a rather facile fact: Mr. Gohain’s observation that there cannot be two official languages clashes with article 345 of the Indian constitution which allows for the adoption of one or more official languages by any state of the Indian union. Article 347 also allows for respecting the desire of a significant section of a populace of a state for the usage of a language of their choice.[2] A couple of months ago, while visiting Assam, I watched, or rather listened, on an Assamese news channel, a shrill voice issuing a caveat to its viewers, “…barak upatyakat asomiya bhasha nokoya hoiche”. ‘Assamese is no longer spoken in the Barak valley’. Anybody remotely familiar with the history of the region could have retorted back with the question, when was Assamese ever spoken in the region?
Continue reading On Barak Valley Bandh on 16th December, 2016 – Some Nascent Observations: Arunima Chakraborty →
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Oppose the Communally Motivated Proposed Amendments to the Citizenship Act, 1955 : Delhi Action Committee for Assam
Guest Post by Delhi Action Committee for Assam
The proposed amendment to India’s Citizenship Act, 1955 has raised grave concern among democratic circles in Assam and in other parts of the country. The proposed amendment reads that “persons belonging to minority communities, namely, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who have been exempted by the Central Government by or under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 or from the application of the provisions of the Foreigners Act, 1946 or any order made thereunder, shall not be treated as illegal migrants for the purposes of this Act” and that for persons belonging to the aforementioned minority communities, “the aggregate period of residence or service of a Government in India as required under this clause shall be read as ‘not less than six years’ in place of ‘not less than eleven years’.” The proposed amendment which is being considered by a Joint Parliamentary Committee is indeed is a matter of grave concern for the whole of India. Government officials have claimed that the decision to grant Indian citizenship to the above mentioned discriminated religious communities in neighbouring countries is premised on ‘humanitarian grounds’. Notwithstanding this benevolent claim by the government, one needs to carefully place this proposed amendment in perspective.
The proposed amendment is premised on the religious persecution of non-Muslim minorities in neighbouring Muslim majority countries. While religious basis have ‘softly’ underlined India’s approaches to the issue of immigration since the Partition, what is alarming with the amendment proposed by the current government is its vehement attempt, in the garb of humanitarianism, to upturn the Constitution of India by slyly trying to introduce religious right-to-return. The current government displays zero or very little humanitarian concern for non-Hindu marginalised communities in the country and in neighbouring countries.
Unlike Israel, Korea (both South and North), and few other countries, Indian law and the Constitution till today doesn’t recognise any notion of ‘Right to return’. This is the first time, when a sort of religious ‘right to return’ – is being advocated by the law-makers. To reiterate, this runs contrary to the secular fabric of the Constitution.
Further apart from complicating the already vulnerable demographic cauldron of the state of Assam, the circumstances under which the amendment is sought to be carried out raise questions about the federal structure of the country. The proposed amendment overrides the Assam Accord of 1985 which sets the date of 24 March 1971 as the cut off date for categorisation of illegal foreign immigrants to Assam, irrespective of Muslims or Hindus. In 1986 the Citizenship Act was amended and Article 6A was inserted. Retrospectively Article 6A granted citizenship to all those who entered Assam on or before 24 March 1971. How many amendment to Citizenship Act is required? Ain’t the amendments made after the Assam Accord of 1985 not enough?
We strongly demand that the proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act 1955 be immediately withdrawn.
Join the Protest Demonstration Against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, at 2 pm, 29th September, Jantar Mantar
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Statement against the Kaziranga Police Killings : Delhi Action Committee Against Kaziranga Police Killings
22/09/2016 subhash gatade 1 Comment
Guest Post by Delhi Action Committee Against Kaziranga Police Killings
Protest Demonstration
Against Kaziranga Police Killings
2pm, 23rd September, Assam Bhawan, Sardar Patel Marg,
After the BJP came to power in Assam in May 2016, the state government has unleashed a reign of terror to execute its fascistic agendas. Within 2 months into power, the government opened fire and killed a 25 year old man Mintu Deuri, during a protest organized in Raha against the transfer of the site for a proposed AIIMS in the state on 15th July 2016. Now on 19 September 2016, just 34 days after the Raha incident, the police has again opened fire and killed two people – Anjuma Khatun and Fakhruddin, at a demonstration led by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) at Banderdubi revenue village near the Kaziranga National Park. The protestors were demanding resettlement and adequate compensation against an eviction drive carried out by the mandate of the Gauhati High Court order dated 9 October 2015 which was supposed to happen two days later, i.e. on 21 September 2016 but had been preponed to avoid protests. The villagers, belonging mainly to the Muslim community of erstwhile East Bengal origin, have been residing in the village for more than half a century.
Continue reading Statement against the Kaziranga Police Killings : Delhi Action Committee Against Kaziranga Police Killings →
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Sedition is a Shade of Grey or, Bharat Mata’s Smothering Embrace: Ankur Tamuliphukan and Gaurav Rajkhowa
The dominant narrative around the recent JNU incident has been that the unwarranted police action and the concerted acts of violence, incitement and misinformation that followed are all part of a determined push by the saffron brigade. After love jihad and beef, the story has it, it is “sedition” and “Pakistani agent” this time—we are living in a state of undeclared emergency. A sense of disbelief and apocalyptic doom seem to underpin these sentiments, along with a nostalgic optimism for a quick return to harmony and normalcy. But such things have happened far too many times, and far too often for us to harbour such illusions. For what we are going through is in effect a recalibration of that normalcy.
To read political slogans literally is an absurdity. But in the hands of the present government, it is a calculated absurdity that reads “Bharat ki barbadi…” as armed conspiracy against the state. The variables are many—arrests, fake tweets, rampaging lawyers, patriotic house-owners and now, open calls for murder. But the calculus resolves itself into the same formula every time: national/anti-national.
At the outset, the opposition to the attack on the university campus seems to have coalesced around two points—first, maintaining a safe distance from the “anti-India” slogans raised at the meeting; and second, showing themselves as the real nationalists, standing against the saffron thugs in patriot’s disguise. Partly in response to a vicious media campaign, videos of “real nationalist” speeches at the protest venue are being posted on social media everyday. We are told at length about the “real” Indian behind the deshdrohi, his credentials, and how he wants his India to be. Things reached a disturbing pitch when spokespersons of the traditional Left went on record to express their displeasure at the real culprits not being caught. Without doubt, the saffron brigade cannot be allowed the prerogative of deciding what “the nation” means. But why do so from the flimsy ramparts of sedition? Continue reading Sedition is a Shade of Grey or, Bharat Mata’s Smothering Embrace: Ankur Tamuliphukan and Gaurav Rajkhowa →
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Updating of “National Register of Citizens” and Recent Political Developments in Assam: Abdul Kalam Azad
08/04/2015 Aditya Nigam 2 Comments
Guest post by ABDUL KALAM AZAD
On 21st July, 2010 one of my close family relatives, Mydul Mullah (25) was one among the thousands of marginalized Muslims of Barpeta district who were demonstrating in front of Deputy Commissioner’s office at district headquarter demanding an error-free fresh NRC (National Register of Citizens). Eventually, police brutally cracked down on the picketers and fired upon them for the ‘crime’ of exercising their democratic right to peacefully protest. After the police firing Mydul Mullah along with his three comrades Khandakar Matleb (20), Siraj Ali (27) and Majam Ali (55) succumbed to the bullet injuries. The Tarun Gogoi led Assam government was forced to suspend the faulty NRC pilot project due to unprecedented public outrage.
The question of ‘illegal migration’ from Bangladesh has been one of the most significant and emotive topics in the political milieu of Assam for almost half a century now. .
The six-year long movement (1979-1985) against illegal immigration, popularly known as the Assam Movement, spear headed by All Assam Students Union claimed itself to be a secular and nonviolent new social movement of ‘indigenous’ people to drive out the illegal immigrants. But analyses of scholars and social scientists like Prof. Hiren Gohain, Prof. Monirul Hussain, Dr. Debabrata Sarma, Diganta Sarma etc. reveal that as soon as the Assam movement accommodated right wing RSS workers into its leadership, the whole movement turned against Muslims of Bengali origin in Assam. Heinous massacres like that of Nellie, Chaolkhuwa, Nagabandha etc. were orchestrated against Muslims of Bengali origin and in broad day light thousands of people were killed. After six years of deadlock, the movement culminated in the signing of the ‘Assam Accord’ with the Government of India in 1985. The accord says that the immigrants, who came to Assam after 25th of March, 1971 will be detected and deported from Assam. One of the mandates of the accord was to update the 1951 National Register of Citizen to facilitate identification of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in Assam. Continue reading Updating of “National Register of Citizens” and Recent Political Developments in Assam: Abdul Kalam Azad →
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Five Best Raspberry Pi Cases
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If you have a Raspberry Pi and big plans for it, one of the first things you'll need is a case for it. There are tons to choose from, but some offer durability, port access, easy-access to the board, and style. This week we're looking at five of the best, based on your nominations.
Earlier this week we asked you for your favorite Raspberry Pi cases, and you responded in droves. We opened the door to all kinds of submissions, and even though these five below got the most nominations, make sure to head back and check out the others. That said, here are the top five, based on your votes:
What's the Best Raspberry PI Case?
You know we love the Raspberry Pi, but one of the first things you should do when you get one is…
The PiBow Case
The PiBow is, by many, the unofficial official Pi case. It's actually a line of cases for the Raspberry Pi, all of which are both stylish and functional. The PiBow Rainbow (also available from Adafruit) was the case that officially earned the nod here. It's crafted from seven layers of colorful acrylic, fits your Pi snugly without rattling, and has a clear acrylic top and base so you can still see the Pi inside. If you'd prefer a single color, there are PiBow cases for you too, ranging from Adafruit Blue, completely clear, "toxic" green, translucent "crystal," black-shadowed "ninja," and others. There's even a PiTFT PiBow that combines a case with everything you need to add a TFT monitor or a touchscreen..
The PiBow was designed by Paul Beech, the same person who created the official logo for the Pi, works on the Pi Foundation's website, and does a lot of overall design work for the team as well. If you want an original PiBow, one can be yours for £13 ($~20). Read more about it in its nomination thread here, and about the PiTFT PiBow in its nomination thread here.
Short Crust is a beautiful acrylic and plastic case that pays close attention to cable management and utility as well as design. The top is a "smoked" black acrylic that stands off from the body of the case by just a hair in case you need to run anything out of the top (like a display cable, for example) and the body fits the Pi snugly and snaps into place so there's no rattling around inside. Power is routed to the same side of the case as Ethernet and USB to keep cables tidy, the SD card is slot-loaded on the bottom (and flush with the bottom of the case, at that), and there's even a removable cover for your audio and video ports when they're not in use. All in all, it's a good looking and thoughtfully designed case.
The only drawback to Short Crust is that it's not widely available. At the moment, the only place you can snag one is at at Pi-Supply for £15 ($~25), which makes them a little difficult to get if they run out of stock. Still, it looks nice, actually protects your SD card instead of leaving it half-in/half-out, and you can still see inside the top. You can read more about it in its nomination thread here.
Apple II Raspberry Pi Case
This 3D printed Raspberry Pi case is built to look like an old Apple IIe computer. You can choose which Apple II model you want your case to be modeled after - the original ][ (or ][ Plus), the //e, or the Platinum //e. You can also pick one up in Bell & Howell "Darth Vader" Black, if you'd prefer. You have two options beyond that though—you can get one that supports the video out that matches your Pi, whether it's HDMI or composite. You can mount your Pi easily in the case with your SD card installed, but if you really want to go for the classic computing look, the case's creator also sells an SD card reader that looks like a Disk ][ floppy drive to complete the look.
This case may not be as practical as some of the other models in the roundup, but it's certainly one of the most fun, and it earned a ton of nominations in the call for contenders. If you want one, you can have it, but it's pricey: The case itself is $115, and the floppy disk drive is an additional $50. Each one is custom printed and assembled to order. Read more in the nomination thread here.
The UniPi Case
The UniPi is an all-aluminum unibody case for the Raspberry Pi that also offers great ventilation if that's something you're concerned with. It's cut from a block of solid aluminum, with port access also carved out of the same piece. The UniPi comes with two case toppers, one with punch-out mesh (shown above) and another that's solid aluminum with cutouts for external video or other component cables you may want to slide through. Your Pi screws into place and doesn't rattle around inside, and the whole design is stackable so you can put multiple Pis on top of one another easily. You even get wall-mounting screws along with it.
The UniPi is definitely a sturdy case—in the call for contenders thread, you guys provided a video of a car backing over the thing and surviving to tell the tale. It's not cheap though, it'll set you back $50, but if you need that kind of durability or flexibility, it's your case. Read more in its nomination thread here.
Lego DIY Case
Many of you really liked the LEGO DIY case that was in the title photo for this week's call for contenders, and noted that you're more than happy to DIY your own case from LEGO parts. It makes sense—Lego plastic is durable enough to hold your case and you can build your enclosure to suit your particular use case with just a few bricks and pieces. The one shown above is the work of Instructables user darrennie, and it's definitely a looker. It has doors to protect all of the ports when they're not in use, space at the top for ventilation, and as you can see in the comments at Instructables, it's inspired a plethora of similar LEGO-based cases for the Pi as well.
You'll have to build this one yourself and get the pieces you want in the colors you want, but the link above has a full walkthrough for you, including how to plan out your case using Bricklink, essentially a LEGO version of eBay, to get some of the specific parts. You can read more about it in the nomination thread here, or check out the nomination thread for this double-decker LEGO case, that supports two Pis at once, and this LEGO Space case. We should also give some love to this thread with the LEGO Adventure Time BMO Raspberry Pi Case in it, because Adventure Time.
Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to a vote to determine the community favorite:
We have a few honorable mentions this week! The first goes out to
this DIY cassette tape Raspberry Pi case that transforms an old audio cassette (if you still have any of those around) into the perfect case for your Raspberry Pi. It takes a little work and it's not the most durable or protective case, but if you're building a music server or streamer and you like a little old school flair, the step-by-step is easy to follow. If you're turning your Pi into an emulation machine, we love the NinTastic Nintendo-Style Case for the Raspberry Pi.
We also want to mention this aluminum CNC-milled Pi holder that turned up in the nominations thread just because it looks amazing. It's $75, but it's another extremely durable case that'll stand the test of time. Speaking of durability, if you want another case you can back a car over, consider the Lincoln Binns Aluminum Pi Enclosure, which sports a clear acrylic top you can see through and a sturdy metal body. You can get it in white or black, for £21 (~$35) and £29 (~$48) respectively.
If all of these fancy cases are too much for you and you have no desire to spend a ton of money on something fancy, consider the Adafruit Pi Case for $10—it's clear plastic, snaps together perfectly, gets the job done, and lets you see your Pi while you work on it. It has sloped sides and rests perfectly on your desk surface. The Adafruit Pi Box (shown in the title photo) for $15—it was the original Adafruit case (and they'd rather you buy the new, $10 one), but I like it's all-acrylic, all-clear design. Either way, they're both cheap—cheaper than the Pi itself, which is a good thing.
Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is—and make your case for it—in the discussions below.1
The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!
Photo by Russ Sanderlin.
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