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INSIGHT: A Fireside Chat with Bob Ni
As we celebrate our fourth anniversary, we thought it would be appropriate in this issue of The Flow to take a step back and sit down with Bob Ni to discuss his journey through CFD and some of the philosophical underpinnings behind ADS. Bob is the Chairman and CTO of ADS. Prior to founding the company, he was a senior fellow at Pratt & Whitney leading turbomachinery CFD development and application efforts.
FLOW: How did you get your start with CFD?
BOB: I joined Pratt in 1974, and the company really started to invest in CFD in the early 1980s. it was still in its infancy then and only able to handle simple 2D problems, but it became clear that CFD could serve as a kind of virtual test rig with the potential to reduce redesign, improve safety and contain costs.
FLOW: From an industry standpoint, what were some of the specific requirements you had for CFD?
BOB: To get the operational requirements we went to our engine designers. They told us that it had to be something they could trust, meaning that it had to be independent and not subject to user biases. It had to provide the highest resolution into problems and deliver valid answers for a variety of geometries it had never encountered. Ultimately, it had to mimic the physics and do it in design time.
FLOW: That sounds challenging.
BOB: Yes, but we took it in steps and persevered. Our foundation was a process by which learnings were never lost but always captured to augment our predictive capability. We consistently applied our methodology and never took shortcuts; we knew we wanted a continuous chain of accountability, because that's what building trust meant to us. And during the course of my 28 year tenure we did in fact develop great confidence in the CFD because that chain of accountability was not broken. The CFD increasingly became a "system of truth" for exploring uncharted design spaces, so we protected the integrity of the model vigorously. When data and simulations did not match, we studied all sides of the problem before incorporating the knowledge into our model. It took years and a lot of sweat, but it's clear that CFD truly helped the company deliver some of the world's most capable turbomachines.
FLOW: What led you to found ADS?
BOB: It's a funny story. I retired from Pratt in 2003 with an intent to play golf, travel and eat lots of sushi, but my side consulting work quickly became a passion. As part of that consulting I began a search for codes that I felt I could count on for turbomachinery aero, but I just couldn't find something with the appropriate domain expertise and industry bent to make me feel comfortable. So after a year I took out a clean sheet of paper and started working on a solver an mesher that would let me analyze designs with confidence and stand up to the rigors of modern turbomachinery design. This led to the founding of ADS.
FLOW: What were some of the key design principles you embraced for your CFD?
BOB: First, I wanted to craft CFD that turbomachinery clients could use to design with confidence. I'd learned how to achieve this at Pratt and wanted to impart the best of my experiences into ADS CFD. Second, I wanted CFD that could address modern turbomachinery design challenges. Third, I wanted to bring these aerospace-class capabilities to the broader turbomachinery market to empower designers at large to be their best.
FLOW: Let's elaborate. What do you mean by "design with confidence?"
BOB: "Confidence" is a very subjective word, but to me it means that the CFD consistently discerns design improvements from design mistakes. CFD that when used correctly, serves as a system of truth for exploring new design spaces. Confidence also means CFD that's ready for use out of the box, without having to invest years of effort to mature and adapt a generic code to specific needs. Given my background, I believed I could capture and reflect the learnings I'd accumulated over the years in applying CFD to compressor and turbine design challenges.
FLOW: What are the "modern turbomachinery design challenges" you allude to?
BOB: Whether it be a jet engine, a turbocharger or industrial compressor, it's pretty clear that the path to higher performance and efficiency is to reduce size and operate at higher temperatures. This requires designer insight into the adverse time-varying flow phenomena impacting performance and durability--in other words, time accurate analysis. I therefore set my sights on delivering a solver that was designed from the ground up for unsteady analysis, and fast enough to be applied inside tight commercial design windows.
FLOW: How are you making your CFD more accessible to turbomachinery designers?
BOB: I'm a big believer that turbomachinery aero designers deserve best-in-class, turbomachinery-specific CFD. We aim to make turbomachinery CFD more accessible by distilling it down to its absolute essence: CFD that has been amply matured in compressor and turbo design, CFD that reduces a myriad of simulation options to the ones that really count, CFD that speaks the language of turbomachinery, and CFD that automates workflows so that designers can focus on design, not on debugging meshes or writing custom scripts.
FLOW: Are there any common pitfalls for companies seeking to take better advantage of CFD for turbomachinery aero?
BOB: The biggest pitfall has less to do with the CFD itself, but rather the analysis methodology by which it is used. No amount of talent or CFD horsepower can overcome a faulty analysis process. This problem is becoming more prevalent as CFD expands its reach downmarket to organizations less experienced in its proper application. Often, the best way for these companies gain their footing is to draw on mentorship from outside experts or CFD vendors like us.
FLOW: Thanks, Bob.
BOB: My pleasure.
CASE STUDY: Using the ADS Workbench to Analyze the Radiver Centrifugal Compressor
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by Randall Martin
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Google might not have succeeded in building a successful social networking platform inspite of several attempts, but that isn't apparently stopping the company from giving it one more shot anyway. Today the company revealed Shoelace, a new social network centered around finding people with similar interests and meeting in up with them in the real world.
A lot of people organize events using Facebook, so it's definitely a worthwhile niche to chase after. You can create a listing for an event or activity you're participating in, and invite friends and strangers to join you.
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Then, each day you'll see nearby events - which Shoelace thematically calls "Loops" - that match those interests you've selected.
While Google says it plans to eventually bring Shoelace to cities around the United States, there seems to be no immediate thoughts of launching the service internationally. Believed to have been first reported by Android Police, the search giant's experimental 'Area 120' team has now launched a new hyper-local news service called Shoelace that also doubles up as a social network of sorts. Contradicting most expectations, Google has announced Shoelace, a social networking app that lets people connect using different activities. "It's great for folks who have recently moved cities or who are looking to meet others who live nearby". It is now being tested exclusively in NY, but if it proves successful, a wider roll-out could be in the cards.
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It's now invite-only, and promises to help you "connect with others who have the same interests.". "We also work hard to make sure that everything you see in Shoelace - from profiles to Loops - is aligned with our House Rules and community standards".
Even after the shut down of Google+, which was meant to be a Facebook-competitor but it could never quite get to where Google imagined it, the company is reportedly working on another social network.
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Kevin Durant Unveils New Jersey Number With Brooklyn Nets
by Cecil Buchanan
The former Boston Celtics guard, who became a free agent and made a decision to join the Nets, signed a four-year contract worth an estimated $141 million. The family relocated to West Orange when Irving was two years old. He went on to play impressive basketball at Montclair Kimberley Academy, St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth, and Duke University. It appears he'll wear No. 6 this season with the Los Angeles Lakers. In addition to those seismic shifts, Kemba Walker will take Irving's place as the point guard with the Boston Celtics.
Durant, 30, posted averages of 25.8 points, 7.1 rebounds, 5.4 assists, 1.08 steals and 34.1 minutes in 208 games (all starts) over three seasons with Golden State.
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The Warriors last week announced they will retire Durant's No. 35. But now, he's set to be part of a major transformation of the Nets.
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The Golden State Warriors have already announced that they will effectively retire Kevin Durant's No. 35, stopping the number from being worn again. "Their determination to play together proved even stronger, in the end, than many league observers expected", writes Marc Stein.
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Fil-Am community still in shock over last Wednesday’s mass shooting
Posted on November 12, 2018 November 12, 2018 Author Abner Galino Comment(0)
By Abner Galino
Alaina Housley. Photo by Napa Valley Register
THE Filipino community in Los Angles is still in shock over last Wednesday’s mass shooting in a bar in Thousand Oaks where a Fil-American college novice was among those who died.
In a phone interview, Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, Adel S. Cruz, expressed sadness over the death of Alaina Housley, 18, a resident of Napa Valley. He said the news has devastated Filipino Americans even more, as they try to absorb the news of the senseless death of 12 people.
Consul General Adelio Angelito Cruz Photo © Philippine Consulate General Los Angeles California
Cruz said he has talked to Housley’s grandfather, Ernie Punzalan, who lives in a valley around Los Angeles.
“I told him that the Philippine Consulate General is ready to assist and help in whatever way possible,” Cruz said.
Earlier in his Facebook post, Cruz expressed shock and sadness over what he called “senseless and brutal mass shootings in Thousand Oaks, California.”
“My deepest condolences and prayers to her family and the families of the other victims of this tragedy.”
To drive home a point, Cruz also sent to local media entities a link to the “Gun Violence Archive” at www. Gunviolencearchive.org The site seeks to provide free online access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States.
Meanwhile, former executive at the Philippine Department of Tourism in Los Angeles Manny Ilagan, broke the news of Housley’s death to the Filipino American community through a post in his Facebook page.
“So Sorry to be the bearer of a heartbreaking news — One of the victims in the Thousand Oaks shooting incident is a grandchild of a family friend Fil Am couple,” wrote Ilagan in his post.
Ilagan added that Alaina was the daughter of Hannah Punzalan and Arik Housley, and grandchild of Ernesto and Leticia Punzalan.
Alaina was the niece of host Tamera Mowry-Housley and her husband Adam Housley.
“I was blessed to know you ever since you were five. You stole my heart,” the TV personality wrote in her Instagram account.
“I will miss our inside jokes, us serenading at the piano. Thank you for being patient with me learning how to braid your hair, and I will never forget our duet singing the national anthem at Napa’s soccer game.”
Alaina started at the Pepperdine University in August. She was a resident of DeBell house, an English major involved with the Pepperdine Choir and was starting Mock Trial.
Thousand Oaks is situated 50 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Suspected gunman Ian David Long. Photo by Sky News
Reports said a 28-year-old US Marine veteran Ian David Long entered the Borderline Grill and Bar at about 11 pm on Wednesday night (November 7) where a “college night” was being held.
Armed with a Glock .45 caliber pistol, Long went inside the bar at started shooting at people. He killed 12 people, including a Ventura County Sheriff’s sergeant Ron Helus.
Helus was on the phone talking to his wife when he heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene.
About 200 people were believed to be in the country music bar during the shooting, many of them students from nearby colleges.
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After School Are Desperate For a Comeback But Pledis Can’t Afford It
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These days K-pop fans treat After School like total flops just because the group’s past its “Because of You” glory days, but they’re really not THAT far gone.
Their songs chart decently enough by mid-tier girl group standards, their Orange Caramel sub-unit is a big hit, they’ve got a handful of members with successful solo activities, and they’ve got some presence as hallyu stars in both China and Japan.
That’s why I’m surprised to learn that the girls are desperate to make a full group comeback in Korea, but it’s Pledis’ lack of finances that’s stopping them.
Queen of Trot Lizzy and Onew’s Mrs. Robinson Jungah have both expressed their desire for an After School comeback over social media recently, with Lizzy revealing that it’s a lack of cash that’s standing in their way.
“We need money for a comeback but we don’t have any… I also want one [a comeback],” Lizzy wrote.
How bad is Pledis doing that they can’t afford to fund an After School comeback? I know they lost Son Dam Bi and Hello Venus and that Nu’est crashed and burned, but I assumed they’d be getting some dough from Orange Caramel and UEE.
After School hasn’t promoted in Korea since 2013’s romantic stripper anthem “First Love,” so I’m guessing that Avex Trax has been paying for their Japanese activities for the past few years.
Perhaps Pledis invested all their money into Seventeen and have now gone broke? A 13-member boy band can’t be cheap, especially one that was in the works for years before they even debuted. At least Seventeen’s been successful so far, so that’s something.
Whatever happens, I hope Pledis doesn’t disband After School. I stand by the group’s graduation concept and have always thought that it’s a great idea when used properly.
My advice is for Pledis to keep After School in the basement until they get enough cash to do the group’s long-awaited comeback justice, and then relaunch with a handful of graduations (UEE and Jungah, obviously) and a number of fresh new members. Maybe even do a survival program, something similar to The KARA Project, and have Kahi and Jungah as judges.
And it wouldn’t be a bad idea to rehire Shinichi Osawa, who did the group’s ridiculously good Japanese singles “Heaven” and “Shh,” although his sound might not be commercial enough for Korea.
Either way, I look forward to an After School comeback. I refuse to give up hope!
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The International Tax Review Quotes Mark Allison: Phase II of the AJAC May Increase U.S. Litigation
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The International Tax Review quoted Mark D. Allison regarding Phase II of the Appeals Judicial Approach and Culture (AJAC) project. The main objective of the project is to promote a judicial approach and improve perceptions of the IRS's Appeals division. While the project has been a success, gray areas still exist for taxpayers. For the complete article, please click on the link above to view a PDF.
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"It remains unclear the extent to w hich taxpayers may raise new arguments as opposed to new facts, the latter of which could result in the case being sent back to the Examination division for reconsideration or evaluation," said Mark Allison of Caplin & Drysdale. "We have observed this tension in cases w here taxpayers develop new arguments in the protest to the Appeals division in response to the Examination division's proposed adjustments, but w hich the Examination division may assert requires new consideration by its function before the case can be referred to Appeals."
"This creates a circular problem because every time the taxpayer reacts to a new position by Exam it could be view ed as a new fact and the cycle cannot be broken," added Allison.
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Board-certified neuropsychologist Brian Lebowitz, PhD and associate clinical professor of neurology at Stony Brook University, explains to MensHealth.com that the term "encompasses so many things," including prescription medications. Brain enhancers fall into two different categories: naturally occurring substances like Ginkgo biloba, creatine and phenibut; and manmade prescription drugs, like Adderall, and over-the-counter supplements such as Noopept.
Two additional studies assessed the effects of d-AMP on visual–motor sequence learning, a form of nondeclarative, procedural learning, and found no effect (Kumari et al., 1997; Makris, Rush, Frederich, Taylor, & Kelly, 2007). In a related experimental paradigm, Ward, Kelly, Foltin, and Fischman (1997) assessed the effect of d-AMP on the learning of motor sequences from immediate feedback and also failed to find an effect.
Potassium citrate powder is neither expensive nor cheap: I purchased 453g for $21. The powder is crystalline white, dissolves instantly in water, and largely tasteless (sort of saline & slightly unpleasant). The powder is 37% potassium by weight (the formula is C6H5K3O7) so 453g is actually 167g of potassium, so 80-160 days’ worth depending on dose.
If you’re concerned with using either supplement, speak to your doctor. Others will replace these supplements with something like Phenylpiracetam or Pramiracetam. Both of these racetams provide increased energy levels, yielding less side-effects. If you do plan on taking Modafinil or Adrafinil, it’s best to use them on occasion or cycle your doses.
The Trail Making Test is a paper-and-pencil neuropsychological test with two parts, one of which requires shifting between stimulus categories. Part A simply requires the subject to connect circled numbers in ascending order. Part B requires the subject to connect circled numbers and letters in an interleaved ascending order (1, A, 2, B, 3, C….), a task that places heavier demands on cognitive control. Silber et al. (2006) analyzed the effect of d-AMP on Trails A and B and failed to find an effect.
But where will it all stop? Ambitious parents may start giving mind-enhancing pills to their children. People go to all sorts of lengths to gain an educational advantage, and eventually success might be dependent on access to these mind-improving drugs. No major studies have been conducted on the long-term effects. Some neuroscientists fear that, over time, these memory-enhancing pills may cause people to store too much detail, cluttering the brain. Read more about smart drugs here.
Nootropics are a great way to boost your productivity. Nootropics have been around for more than 40 years and today they are entering the mainstream. If you want to become the best you, nootropics are a way to level up your life. Nootropics are always personal and what works for others might not work for you. But no matter the individual outcomes, nootropics are here to make an impact!
Most diehard nootropic users have considered using racetams for enhancing brain function. Racetams are synthetic nootropic substances first developed in Russia. These smart drugs vary in potency, but they are not stimulants. They are unlike traditional ADHD medications (Adderall, Ritalin, Vyvanse, etc.). Instead, racetams boost cognition by enhancing the cholinergic system.
…Phenethylamine is intrinsically a stimulant, although it doesn’t last long enough to express this property. In other words, it is rapidly and completely destroyed in the human body. It is only when a number of substituent groups are placed here or there on the molecule that this metabolic fate is avoided and pharmacological activity becomes apparent.
In the nearer future, Lynch points to nicotinic receptor agents – molecules that act on the neurotransmitter receptors affected by nicotine – as ones to watch when looking out for potential new cognitive enhancers. Sarter agrees: a class of agents known as α4β2* nicotinic receptor agonists, he says, seem to act on mechanisms that control attention. Among the currently known candidates, he believes they come closest “to fulfilling the criteria for true cognition enhancers.”
The hormone testosterone (Examine.com; FDA adverse events) needs no introduction. This is one of the scariest substances I have considered using: it affects so many bodily systems in so many ways that it seems almost impossible to come up with a net summary, either positive or negative. With testosterone, the problem is not the usual nootropics problem that that there is a lack of human research, the problem is that the summary constitutes a textbook - or two. That said, the 2011 review The role of testosterone in social interaction (excerpts) gives me the impression that testosterone does indeed play into risk-taking, motivation, and social status-seeking; some useful links and a representative anecdote:
My general impression is positive; it does seem to help with endurance and extended the effect of piracetam+choline, but is not as effective as that combo. At $20 for 30g (bought from Smart Powders), I’m not sure it’s worthwhile, but I think at $10-15 it would probably be worthwhile. Sulbutiamine seems to affect my sleep negatively, like caffeine. I bought 2 or 3 canisters for my third batch of pills along with the theanine. For a few nights in a row, I slept terribly and stayed awake thinking until the wee hours of the morning; eventually I realized it was because I was taking the theanine pills along with the sleep-mix pills, and the only ingredient that was a stimulant in the batch was - sulbutiamine. I cut out the theanine pills at night, and my sleep went back to normal. (While very annoying, this, like the creatine & taekwondo example, does tend to prove to me that sulbutiamine was doing something and it is not pure placebo effect.)
An additional complexity, related to individual differences, concerns dosage. This factor, which varies across studies and may be fixed or determined by participant body weight within a study, undoubtedly influences the cognitive effects of stimulant drugs. Furthermore, single-unit recordings with animals and, more recently, imaging of humans indicate that the effects of stimulant dose are nonmonotonic; increases enhance prefrontal function only up to a point, with further increases impairing function (e.g., Arnsten, 1998; Mattay et al., 2003; Robbins & Arnsten, 2009). Yet additional complexity comes from the fact that the optimal dosage depends on the same kinds of individual characteristics just discussed and on the task (Mattay et al., 2003).
None of that has kept entrepreneurs and their customers from experimenting and buying into the business of magic pills, however. In 2015 alone, the nootropics business raked in over $1 billion dollars, and web sites like the nootropics subreddit, the Bluelight forums, and Bulletproof Exec are popular and packed with people looking for easy ways to boost their mental performance. Still, this bizarre, Philip K. Dick-esque world of smart drugs is a tough pill to swallow. To dive into the topic and explain, I spoke to Kamal Patel, Director of evidence-based medical database Examine.com, and even tried a few commercially-available nootropics myself.
Took pill #6 at 12:35 PM. Hard to be sure. I ultimately decided that it was Adderall because I didn’t have as much trouble as I normally would in focusing on reading and then finishing my novel (Surface Detail) despite my family watching a movie, though I didn’t notice any lack of appetite. Call this one 60-70% Adderall. I check the next evening and it was Adderall.
Bacopa is a supplement herb often used for memory or stress adaptation. Its chronic effects reportedly take many weeks to manifest, with no important acute effects. Out of curiosity, I bought 2 bottles of Bacognize Bacopa pills and ran a non-randomized non-blinded ABABA quasi-self-experiment from June 2014 to September 2015, measuring effects on my memory performance, sleep, and daily self-ratings of mood/productivity. Because of the very slow onset, small effective sample size, definite temporal trends probably unrelated to Bacopa, and noise in the variables, the results were as expected, ambiguous, and do not strongly support any correlation between Bacopa and memory/sleep/self-rating (+/-/- respectively).
Common environmental toxins – pesticides, for example – cause your brain to release glutamate (a neurotransmitter). Your brain needs glutamate to function, but when you create too much of it it becomes toxic and starts killing neurons. Oxaloacetate protects rodents from glutamate-induced brain damage.[17] Of course, we need more research to determine whether or not oxaloacetate has the same effect on humans.
When I spoke with Jesse Lawler, who hosts the podcast Smart Drugs Smarts, about breakthroughs in brain health and neuroscience, he was unsurprised to hear of my disappointing experience. Many nootropics are supposed to take time to build up in the body before users begin to feel their impact. But even then, says Barry Gordon, a neurology professor at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center, positive results wouldn’t necessarily constitute evidence of a pharmacological benefit.
Although piracetam has a history of “relatively few side effects,” it has fallen far short of its initial promise for treating any of the illnesses associated with cognitive decline, according to Lon Schneider, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. “We don’t use it at all and never have.”
I take my piracetam in the form of capped pills consisting (in descending order) of piracetam, choline bitartrate, anhydrous caffeine, and l-tyrosine. On 8 December 2012, I happened to run out of them and couldn’t fetch more from my stock until 27 December. This forms a sort of (non-randomized, non-blind) short natural experiment: did my daily 1-5 mood/productivity ratings fall during 8-27 December compared to November 2012 & January 2013? The graphed data28 suggests to me a decline:
Since dietary supplements do not require double-blind, placebo-controlled, pharmaceutical-style human studies before going to market, there is little incentive for companies to really prove that something does what they say it does. This means that, in practice, nootropics may not live up to all the grandiose, exuberant promises advertised on the bottle in which they come. The flip side, though? There’s no need to procure a prescription in order to try them out. Good news for aspiring biohackers—and for people who have no aspirations to become biohackers, but still want to be Bradley Cooper in Limitless (me).
The important factors seem to be: #1/MR6 (Creativity.self.rating, Time.Bitcoin, Time.Backups, Time.Blackmarkets, Gwern.net.linecount.log), #2/MR1 (Time.PDF, Time.Stats), #7/MR7 (Time.Writing, Time.Sysadmin, Time.Programming, Gwern.net.patches.log), and #8/MR8 (Time.States, Time.SRS, Time.Sysadmin, Time.Backups, Time.Blackmarkets). The rest seem to be time-wasting or reflect dual n-back/DNB usage (which is not relevant in the LLLT time period).
Your mileage will vary. There are so many parameters and interactions in the brain that any of them could be the bottleneck or responsible pathway, and one could fall prey to the common U-shaped dose-response curve (eg. Yerkes-Dodson law; see also Chemistry of the adaptive mind & de Jongh et al 2007) which may imply that the smartest are those who benefit least23 but ultimately they all cash out in a very few subjective assessments like energetic or motivated, with even apparently precise descriptions like working memory or verbal fluency not telling you much about what the nootropic actually did. It’s tempting to list the nootropics that worked for you and tell everyone to go use them, but that is merely generalizing from one example (and the more nootropics - or meditation styles, or self-help books, or getting things done systems - you try, the stronger the temptation is to evangelize). The best you can do is read all the testimonials and studies and use that to prioritize your list of nootropics to try. You don’t know in advance which ones will pay off and which will be wasted. You can’t know in advance. And wasted some must be; to coin a Umeshism: if all your experiments work, you’re just fooling yourself. (And the corollary - if someone else’s experiments always work, they’re not telling you everything.)
Another ingredient used in this formula is GABA or Gamma-Aminobutyric acid; it’s the second most common neurotransmitter found in the human brain. Being an inhibitory neurotransmitter it helps calm and reduce neuronal activity; this calming effect makes GABA an excellent ingredient in anti-anxiety medication. Lecithin is another ingredient found in Smart Pill and is a basic compound found in every cell of the body, with cardiovascular benefits it can also help restore the liver. Another effect is that it works with neurological functions such as memory or attention, thus improving brain Effectiveness.
Accordingly, we searched the literature for studies in which MPH or d-AMP was administered orally to nonelderly adults in a placebo-controlled design. Some of the studies compared the effects of multiple drugs, in which case we report only the results of stimulant–placebo comparisons; some of the studies compared the effects of stimulants on a patient group and on normal control subjects, in which case we report only the results for control subjects. The studies varied in many other ways, including the types of tasks used, the specific drug used, the way in which dosage was determined (fixed dose or weight-dependent dose), sample size, and subject characteristics (e.g., age, college sample or not, gender). Our approach to the classic splitting versus lumping dilemma has been to take a moderate lumping approach. We group studies according to the general type of cognitive process studied and, within that grouping, the type of task. The drug and dose are reported, as well as sample characteristics, but in the absence of pronounced effects of these factors, we do not attempt to make generalizations about them.
He used to get his edge from Adderall, but after moving from New Jersey to San Francisco, he says, he couldn’t find a doctor who would write him a prescription. Driven to the Internet, he discovered a world of cognition-enhancing drugs known as nootropics — some prescription, some over-the-counter, others available on a worldwide gray market of private sellers — said to improve memory, attention, creativity and motivation.
l-Theanine – A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis found that concurrent caffeine and l-theanine use had synergistic psychoactive effects that promoted alertness, attention, and task switching;[29] these effects were most pronounced during the first hour post-dose.[29] However, the European Food Safety Authority reported that, when L-theanine is used by itself (i.e. without caffeine), there is insufficient information to determine if these effects exist.[34]
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Discussion in 'College Football Stars' started by white lightning, Sep 12, 2009.
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Borussia Guru
Not the best outcome so far here for BW. At minimum he should try to just get back to a school and see if he can earn a scholarship. Preferably close to home. A school such as N. Iowa or Iowa St, etc. Besides football opportunities, he needs to at least finish his degree and do something positive with his life.
Something obviously went sour between BW and the Iowa coaches.
Although this is not the end of the world for BW. Maybe he would be wise and see if he can patch things up with the young lady and settle down with her and see if they can make it work.
There is no confirmed fact that any 2nd girl got pregnant. If that was indeed the case though, this really complicates things big time.
I can understand some of you guys berating BW for his choices, but imho the whole purpose of sites such as Caste is to support our athletes and young men and women in their greatest time of need. It's easy to love and support folks when they are on top. It's lonely for people when they screw up. Have some compassion and many young people make poor choices.
Yes, this is not exactly getting drunk at a party and getting into a fight or something. It's much more life altering for BW.
Having said that, it's not a bad thing and will (hopefully) make BW grow up faster and focus his life.
Really, something is truly off with 'white people' when it comes to having children, especially when young.
You notice this streak of embarrassment or that they are not happy at beautiful new babies.
in the grand scheme, this is a wonderful thing. BW and the Mom should be thrilled.
You think those millions of Mexicans would be upset and shamed at a new born? LOL, no way, that's a celebration to them. That is what they so.
Wait until this rumor of a 2nd girl getting pregnant and who it may be before passing total judgment on BW.
BW needs to get his a$$ back to a school and focus his life.
Maybe he should marry the girl and raise a family together.
Good luck to BW and let us hope none of you ever make a poor choice in life.
Borussia, Apr 5, 2011
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Borussia said:
Thinking like that means we should celebrate if he got another girl pregnant. That's two!! And by a white running back no less. C'mon Brandon knock a few more up!!!
We live in awkward times… too late to vote and too early to start shooting.
jaxvid, Apr 5, 2011
Colonel_Reb Hall of Famer
I am disappointed in Brandon Wegher because he is/was a rare bird, a legit big program White RB. We need him out there on the field, not throwing it all away. There are too few of them out there for White youth to see. We need tons more White RBs in the FBS, not one less. Yeah, everybody makes mistakes. I'm not trying to hold him up to some unrealistic standard of behavior. I'm glad he's going to take responsibility for his actions. That is what he should do. It just pains me to see someone who is in his position do something like that. It will make destroying the caste system that much more difficult without him slashing around and through black defenders.
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Colonel_Reb, Apr 5, 2011
Electric Slide Mentor
Brandon did make some bad decisions, but once a child is created there's no sense in going in the past and bashing the decision. All you can do is make the right choices from this point forward. He's still young and hopefully he finds his breakthrough moment and gets everything back on track. Even if it is playing a smaller school and putting the pieces back together, I will still support him in that.
There is a lot to be said about how everyone is there when things are going great but it shows true character to stand behind someone when things aren't so hot. Reminds me of the Tracy Lawrence:
"Everybody wants to slap your back
wants to shake your hand
when you're up on top of that mountain
But let one of those rocks give way then you slide back down look up
and see who's around then
This ain't where the road comes to an end
This ain't where the bandwagon stops
This is just one of those times when
A lot of folks jump off"
Electric Slide, Apr 12, 2011
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Old thread but ill post my opinion anyway. Wegher transfered from iowa because he was not given a fair shot to start, he was going start the season #3 RB and He actually wanted to play some safety but the coaches wouldnt let him. <div></div><div>He left OU because he would have to sit out another year even tho he didnt play in 2010 which was bs. The whole him getting Adam Robinsons sister pregnat is bstoo ARob doesnt have a sister</div>
AJ, Jun 26, 2011
My guess is he has to sit this season out correct?
whiteathlete33, Jun 26, 2011
White Power Mentor
Where is he going to play college ball?
White Power, Jun 26, 2011
He would have had to sit out this year as well at oklahoma.<div></div><div></div>I bet he ends up at a FCS school like UNI or south dakota state. I've heard he wanted to go to uni instead of oklahoma but one thing or another didnt work out.
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Why does he have to sit out yet last year Jeremiah Masoli didn't have to sit out when he tranfered to Mississippi.
hawkeye, Jun 28, 2011
hawkeye said:
all NCAA Division I players that transfer to another Division I school must sit out one year, per NCAA guidelines. the lone caveat to this rule was recently introduced (off the top of my head, i think it was put into place two years ago), and it allows players who have graduated (academically) to transfer to another school for graduate school if A) they still have one year of athletic eligibility remaining, and B) the new school has a Master's program that their previous school did not that they wish to enroll in. that's why Masoli could transfer without penalty and Wegher couldn't.
Jimmy Chitwood, Jun 28, 2011
Riddlewire Master
According to a post on an Iowa State fan forum, Wegher has enrolled at a JUCO for the fall, Iowa Western Community College.
I can find no evidence of this on their website. Although JUCOs don't generally make media announcements for transfer students.
Riddlewire, Aug 9, 2011
northwinds Mentor
What a shame...what a waste of talent. Eighteen months ago he was running all over Georgia Tech, the ACC champions, in the Orange Bowl on national TV....I think he had 160 yards. I had such high hopes for him...and white RBs in general with Toby almost winning the Heisman that year and the emergence of Peyton in the NFL. Just a darn shame.
northwinds, Aug 9, 2011
dwid Master
there is still a small chance that he could go back to a big school for a year
dwid, Aug 9, 2011
MDM Newbie
He's academically ineligible
Riddlewire said: ↑
He's out for the year. He might as well transfer back to a major being that he's gonna sit out another year anyway.
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/spo...288-11e0-8351-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1XOZjZXMs
MDM, Sep 8, 2011
Shockwave Newbie
Didn't notice that he was arrested last month. The hits just keep coming for this kid. He got shredded on Hawk Central.
http://hawkcentral.com/2011/10/20/report-former-hawkeye-brandon-wegher-arrested/
Shockwave, Nov 27, 2011
white is right Hall of Famer
More drinking under age nonsense. If you can go to Asia and come back in a body bag you should be able to drink alcohol at the same age. Of course this could be a sign of a bigger issue here.
white is right, Nov 29, 2011
jacknyc Master
Brandon Wegher has returned to football.
BUt he is playing for Morningside College, an NAIA school in Iowa.
Better than not playing I guess....
http://thegazette.com/2013/09/10/brandon-wegher-rushed-for-158-yards-last-saturday/
jacknyc, Nov 10, 2013
Leonardfan Hall of Famer
Another story on Wegher: http://siouxcityjournal.com/sports/...cle_6aca021f-f2a6-5906-bac8-21191bb410b7.html
Glad he has found some stability in his life and is playing football again but it is a shame he didn't stay at Iowa.
Leonardfan, Oct 2, 2014
So far in his first 3 games..Wegher has 586 yards rushing on 57 carries(Over 10 yard avg.!) & 8 TD's( 3 TD's over 45 yds)....+ 5 receptions for 38 yards & a TD
Who knows...just maybe he can get a shot in the NFL...Those are video game like numbers he's putting up....Don Beebe & Danny Woodhead went to Chadron State & Jeff Query Millikin (DIII schools) and got their opportunities.
NAIA Powerhouse Morningside has obliterated it's opponents by a combined score of 211-35
TwentyTwo, Oct 2, 2014
Wes Woodhead Mentor
TwentyTwo said: ↑
If he was black its safe to say he would DEFINITELY be drafted. Since hes white who knows? IF hes drafted it will be bu=y a team who already has a good RB.
I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
"If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property, it is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity and the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent. It is the triumph of commerce, banks and the factory." General Stonewall Jackson
Wes Woodhead, Oct 2, 2014
At least he's still playing,hell of a talent.
celticdb15, Oct 3, 2014
We need to get a video of the actual show. Here is a preview clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaqlAjxyP4&feature=youtu.be
white lightning, Sep 24, 2015
Wegher has been a healthy scratch for every Carolina game this year. Seems very unlikely now that he will ever get playing time in the NFL. What a shame as he could probably be beastly, but it's the same old same old White RBs have been facing for well over 30 years now.
Don Wassall, Dec 14, 2015
backrow Hall of Famer
Don Wassall said: ↑
I didn't even realize he was on the team! here's hoping for someone to make room so he can step up.
backrow, Dec 14, 2015
Brandon Wegher showed tremendous burst as a playmaker in the NFL Pre-season...Coach Rivera had said he has a lot of good football ahead of him..hmmm..had hoped he'd at least be a change-of-pace back his rookie season for Jonathan Stewart. Wegher can be a legit Full-time Feature Back in a fair world.... he is already 25....the next two seasons will prove to be crucial for him...he's better than just Special teams duty...but right Don; nearly 30 years of this crap it is hard to be optimistic...
5th Round rookie Cameron Artis-Payne is certainly nothing special ...yet was allowed to get 12 carries this season for a whopping 31 yards...
Since white media is not allowed to talk about ithe elephant-n-the room...get George Wrighster, Chris Carter, Irvin, Wilbon , etc....to continue with this! All of the recent McCaffrey attention("shattering stereotypes") opened a can of worms i'm sure lame-stream media will be ordered to shut down ASAP...
TwentyTwo, Dec 14, 2015
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Collections > Arts & Crafts Chairs, c.1885-1905, Towards Modernism
Chair #96, Arts & Crafts Chairs, c.1885-1905, Towards Modernism
C.R. Mackintosh
Chair, c.1903
Ebonised oak and beech and original rush
This chair comes from a set of 137 designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow. It was probably made by Alexander Martin, Glasgow, and is one of a pair.
A chair, c.1903. The tall and narrow ladder back is dished to accommodate the sitter between angled rectangular back posts; the trapezoid slip seat is rushed and raised on slender square legs, joined by a spindle front stretcher and with double side stretchers.
H: 41” (104cm) Seat height: 16 ½ ” (42cm) W:18 ” (46cm) D: 15 ½ “ (39cm)
Designer/Maker
C. R. Mackintosh
Oak, beech, and possibly other woods, rush.
This design was first produced for the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, which opened in 1904.
The back is formed of two oak posts into which the curved slats or ‘rungs’ are tenoned. The seat rails are presumably tenoned into the back posts and into the tops of the front legs, the front rail likewise. There is an additional seat rail which supports the back of the seat and is tenoned into the side rails. All four corners are braced with shaped and screwed braces. All stretchers are turned and presumably doweled into their respective legs. The back of the chair has slim oak batten screwed across the top, which could be original but equally could be a later addition. The slip seat is constructed in the traditional manner with oak corner blocks and roughly-shaped rails woven with rush; however, it is not a good fit in the rails and the inside front corners of the rails are radiused as if to accept an upholstered seat. The seat may not be original.
The brace at the back of the seat rail is marked 61.
The whole chair is covered with a dark wash to suggest an ebonised finish. There has been a great deal of re-touching and in many exposed areas e.g., the seat rails, the wash has largely worn off. The chair is now sound but the design clearly has inherent structural problems, particularly where the curved rungs are fitted into the uprights; there are numerous repairs at these points, indicating that the mortises were cut too close to the edge of the post.
This is a well-known Mackintosh design, first produced for the Willow Tea Rooms, on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. These opened in 1904, but it is thought most of the furniture was designed between July and November 1903.
Roger Billcliffe, Mackintosh Furniture, Cambridge (1984).
Purchased H. Blairman and Sons, March 2007, by whom purchased from a private collection.
Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
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Delve into the postwar Los Angeles art world in this online archive, which provides additional material related to the exhibitions on view at the Getty Center. Learn about hipsters and happenings, and the venues across the city where all the action took place through images from the archives and first-hand accounts with the artists.
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Poster for the “Angry Arts” Against the War Peace Walk, 1967. Designed by Hardy Hanson. Courtesy of the artist. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11.31
On View at the Getty Center: Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics 1950-1980
After the Artists’ Protest Committee had mounted the Peace Tower, another organization, the “Angry Arts” of Southern California, took over the mantle of protesting the Vietnam War. Less specifically rooted in the visual art community, the creative protest activities that took place in June and July of 1967 included poetry readings, film screenings, theatrical performances, and a sale of some of the paintings that had been on display at the Peace Tower.
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Artists’ protest poster and manifesto, "Stop: We Dissent," 1965. Designed by Hardy Hanson. Courtesy of the artist. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11.30
Susan Sontag at the Peace Tower installation in Los Angeles, February 26, 1966. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11. Photo by and © Annette Del Zoppo
Four young women looking at panels at the Peace Tower installation in Los Angeles, February 1966. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Photo by Charles Brittin
Peace Tower installation in Los Angeles, 1966. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11.37. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Photo by Charles Brittin
“Artists Against Escalation” protest at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), May 16, 1965. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11.32. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Photo by Charles Brittin
Protest on La Cienega Boulevard, outside the Ferus Gallery, May 15, 1965. The Getty Research Institute, Charles Brittin papers, 2005.M.11. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Photo by Charles Brittin
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Grading the Bruins’ Game Two Performance
Posted by @JamieGatlin1217 | May 2, 2018 | Bruins, NHL | 0
@demalia_lorenzo Game Two Grade
Much has been made about the officiating after the Bruins dropped game two. Most of that criticism is justified, as the Bruins were on the wrong side of some bad calls all night. But even if the officials did not stink up the place the Bruins were not the better team that night. Tampa took it to them all game long and out worked them in every aspect of the game. The Bruins did not have a shot on goal for most of the first period and were out shot 31-20 on the night. They were also playing on their heels far too much, not making enough plays through the neutral zone and getting quality second chances.
Photo Credit: Eric Russo
The Bruins just could not handle the pressure the Lightning put on them all game. But it was not just the Lightning, it was the Bruins’ sloppy play that cost them the game. The B’s turned the puck over 13 times and Tampa had eight takeaways. Both are far too many against a team of Tampa’s stature. The Bruins were also noticeable less physical than the Lightning, as they got out hit 42-24. Overall, everyone will take a split in Tampa heading back to Boston for Game 3. But if the Bruins want to get back on track, they need to tighten things up through the neutral zone and clean up the turnovers.
Grade: D
@JamieGatlin1217 Game Two Grade
The Bruins knew Tampa Bay would come into Game 2 highly motivated after being dominated on their home ice in Game 1. The Bruins struggled offensively in the beginning, as they were unable to record a shot on net in the first thirteen minutes of the game. They fell behind early as Tampa scored the game’s first goal eleven minutes in. The Bruins gained some momentum later in the first period, as Charlie McAvoy scored his first goal of the postseason to tie the game at one.
Tampa Bay scored the next two goals while the Bruins struggled with their puck management. Rask played well in this game, but turnovers hurt the Bruins and led to good scoring opportunities that Tampa Bay capitalized on. In the third period Torey Krug cut Tampa’s lead to one. The Bruins seemed poised to tie it after Marchand got a breakaway that was broken up after he was clearly slashed on the hands by Anton Stralman. This was one of the many controversial calls by the officials that changed the momentum of the game. Tampa put the game out of reach with an empty net goal that made it 4-2 with less than thirty seconds left.
Photo Credit: Douglas R. Clifford/ Tampa Bay Times
Overall Grade C: In Game 3 they will need to put the puck in the net. They will have to tighten up on defense as stretch passes and turnovers have hurt them all year. They will need to be more physical and help Rask. If they can do this then Game 3 could end very differently than Game 2.
@Lizzie88 Game Two Grade
The Bruins knew Tampa was going to come out strong after losing 6-3 on home ice. The Bolts hit back, and Boston just couldn’t catch up. In the first 13 minutes, the Bruins were held without a shot on net. The Black and Gold fell behind, and for once it wasn’t all on Rask. The Bruins were a bit sloppy at times before changing the momentum after Charlie McAvoy tied the game up in the first period. But the night belonged to Tampa. One thing stood out in this game and continues to be a problem throughout the league: the inconsistent officiating in the NHL. Not to use it as an excuse for how disjointed the Bruins looked, but blatant missed calls can change the play of the game.
After Krug brought the B’s within one goal in the third, Brad Marchand was poised to tie the game on a breakaway. However a head scratcher non call stopped the B’s momentum as Marchand was clearly slashed on his hands by Anton Stralman. The interesting part is Torey Krug got called on a “slash”–a love tap up against the pad that did not interfere with any play. Other non calls included a clear cross check to David Pastrnak against the boards. And for the refs, an even more frustrating aspect is the continued shifting of players during the face off. As a fan of the game, just drop the puck.
Photo Credit: NHL. Com
The Bruins need to play better, hit better, and just shoot the puck on net. This series is expected to be chippy and exhausting. The B’s will be bringing the series back to Boston tonight, and with home ice advantage, the Garden will be vibrating. Let’s hope the boys will feed off the crowd and win these next two games. As Marchand puts it:
“We have home ice advantage now, we’ll go home. This games’ over, it’s done with and we’ll move on”
OVERALL GRADE: C- The Bruins need to stop with those turnovers. It’s been their issue all season long. Top line is allowed one off night. Tighten up the D, help Rask out more and get more physical. This series won’t be easy. Stay out of the penalty box, hoping the refs will call a better game.
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LeBron James Won’t ‘Throw Teammates Under Bus’ After Game 3 Loss
Posted On Apr 22 2018
By : Andrew Freeman
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After a fever-dream of a Game 3, the Pacers look to take command of the series in Game 4-here are some things to watch for tonight.
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If you were to hop on the tube now it would take about 45 minutes to travel the 8 miles between Stamford Bridge and The Emirates Stadium. It would take a lot longer to travel the 2,796 miles from Chelsea’s home ground to Baku, Azerbaijan the venue of the Europa League final.
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Could FIFA Loot Boxes Be Made Illegal in the US?
Loot boxes, or loot crates, have been a hot topic in the video game industry for the past couple of years. Central to the debate is EA Sports’ long-running FIFA football simulation series, and its increasingly lucrative Ultimate Team (FUT) mode.
The Sun Will Still Come Up After Hazard Leaves Stamford Bridge
As the summer transfer market draws ever nearer, the speculation around Eden Hazard intensifies. At this stage of the season, the frenzy around the Belgian is working in Chelsea’s favour as it takes the spotlight off the fractured relationship between Maurizio Sarri and the fans. The Blues have slowly worked their way back into the top four and have managed to make vital progress in the Europa League.
Can Chelsea and Real Madrid Become Transfer Partners?
Speculation is rife right now surrounding the possible move of Eden Hazard to Real Madrid. If you believe the rumours circulating, as soon as we hit the summer, a fee will be agreed and this deal will go through. Hazard is irreplaceable, but Chelsea are going to have to find a way to try and bring someone into the club to fill at least part of the hole left by the Belgian.
Chelsea Champions League Odds Shorten After Three Straight Wins
Chelsea are back in the box seat for a Champions League spot after the latest English Premier League results. Chelsea leapfrogged Arsenal on both the EPL table and the top-four betting market after they beat West Ham and the Gunners lost to Everton. With five games left, the Blues now lead Arsenal and Manchester United in the odds to qualify for next year’s Champions League.
Features 4 April, 2019
A Little Bit of Empathy from Sarri Would Go a Long Way
There’s nothing ambiguous about the feelings that the Chelsea faithful hold towards manager Maurizio Sarri at this moment in time. The standoff between the supporters and Sarri has become an ill-tempered affair and quite frankly, quite an awkward one now that Chelsea fans have dismissed his playing style with a rather foul-mouthed chant that is catching on during match day.
Join the Blues in Their Quest for Supremacy
The Premier League has reached its tab end. Manchester City and Liverpool are neck-and-neck over the run-in to lift the silverware this time around. They have been superb throughout the tournament. Other heavyweights have had their chances as well. For instance, the Blues from Stamford Bridge played exceptionally well. Currently placed fifth in the league table, the Blues don’t have much to show for the efforts they’ve put in. Makes one realize just how brutal mathematics can be at times.
Features 19 March, 2019
How Chelsea’s Transfer Ban Could Be the Best Thing to Happen to Them This Season
Chelsea’s last-32 Europa League win against Malmo was marred somewhat by the news breaking the next day of a transfer ban being imposed on the club.
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Blues Appeal Transfer Ban
Unsurprisingly, Chelsea have made an official appeal against the decision made by FIFA for the next two transfer windows. The ruling means that the team are not able to sign any players during this period. FreeTips.com looks at the story behind the ban to see what has gone wrong for the team.
Features 6 March, 2019
Sarri Back from the Brink
Head coach Sarri was looking fit for dismissal after some pretty hefty thrashing damaged Chelsea’s performance and looked set to hinder their progress. When they met Manchester City, the suffered something of a humiliating 6-0 defeat, and despite looking good for a FA Cup win were trashed by close rivals Manchester United. The team at bonusbets.com investigates the story and looks at the progress that has now been made.
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Maurizio Sarri is a Man in Crisis
Future prospects for Maurizio Sarri remaining at Stamford Bridge are looking bleak, as Danny Murphy pointed out in a recent interview with Sportingbet when he likened the Italian’s position to that of Jose Mourinho before he left Manchester United,
Is Higuain the Key to Champions League Football?
Gonzalo Higuain scored his first two Chelsea goals in the Blues’ thumping win over Huddersfield Town at Stamford Bridge. The Argentine signed on loan from Juventus after an unsuccessful time at AC Milan in the opening six months of the 2018/19 campaign.
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It’s Make or Break for Chelsea in February
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Genuine Star of World Football Could Be Just What Chelsea Need to Kick On
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Novartis taps MorphoSys
by Lloyd Dunlap | Email the author
MorphoSys
PLANEGG (MUNICH), Germany—In an agreement that MorphoSys' CEO Dr. Simon Moroney says, "Locks in all of the benefits of our partnering business model," the company has entered into a broad agreement with Novartis for antibody discovery and development.
According to Moroney, the 10-year program, if it runs its course, will result in payment by Novartis to MorphoSys of $30 million per year in technology access and licensing fees, which will essentially flow to MorphoSys' bottom line. By way of comparison, the company returned net profit of E6 million in 2006. The company will also receive a total of $300 million in research support over the lifetime of the agreement and $400 million in milestone payments, a number Dr. Moroney says is "derived from expectation."
Though the Novartis alliance may indeed "lock in the benefits" of partnering for MorphySys, it also radically alters the scope and thrust of the business model. Moroney says that Novartis will have "preferred access" to his company's HuCAL-based antibody drug discovery platform and he adds, "not exclusive, but preferred." Although he later reveals that "existing partnerships will run their full course but will not be renewed."
Novartis, he notes, a partner over the past three years, has been building an antibody program and is in the clinic with a cancer therapeutic against an undisclosed target. "Novartis has proven to be the best in terms of speed and commitment," he says.
Unstated, perhaps, was the desire to partner with a big pharma in the light of acquisitions Moroney noted in his letter to shareholders in March. Citing them as "further proof of the sustained interest of pharmaceutical groups in antibodies," he cited the acquisition of Abgenix by Amgen, Cambridge Antibody Technology by AstraZeneca, Rinat by Pfizer and NeuTech by Novartis over the previous 18 months.
The deal will combine MorphoSys's and Novartis's research and development capabilities. A team at MorphoSys will be working on targets selected by Novartis, which will then take over for preclinical and clinical development. Novartis becomes MorphoSys's preferred collaborator for HuCAL-based drug discovery, allowing MorphoSys to progress to the next stage of its corporate development, which involves a greater focus on drug discovery and development within the Novartis alliance, and proprietary drug development, thereby substantially reducing MorphoSys's reliance on fee-for-service discovery deals.
The expanded alliance also includes rights to co-detail co-developed products in specific territories through creation of MorphoSys's own sales force.
Referring to the agreement as "a transforming deal for MorphoSys," Dr. Moroney claims the result will be "the broadest antibody pipeline in the industry." Over the lifetime of the agreement the two companies plan to collaborate on double the annual number of therapeutic antibody discovery programs in comparison to their past level of activity. No specific number—past or future—was revealed. "The breadth and size of Novartis' commitment are what stand out," Dr. Moroney sums up.
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12 Golden and Practical Rules to Learn a Language Faster
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Important Lessons for HRs from FIFA 2014 World Cup
Krishna Reddy
It doesn’t matter whether you are in Japan or California, news related to the Fifa world cup is going to touch your life.
Whether it’s your office colleague raving about that spectacular goal from the new flying Dutchman, Robin van Persie or your favorite celebrity tweeting their support for their soccer team, you just can’t get away from soccer for this whole month.
While all of us may or may not enjoy football as much as others around us, this world cup has been a revelation in numerous ways. Here are the HR lessons from the world cup.
HR Lessons from FIFA 2014:
Don’t just rely on Past Performances:
Spain, the world champions in 2010 are already knocked out of the 2014 edition. So did France in 2002 after they had won in 1998.
The World cup is as big a stage as it gets and all teams compete very hard to win without regard for the opposition’s reputation or past performances. Every game is a new game.
HR professionals should also consider this when they are hiring candidates who apparently have a stellar track record.
Keep one caveat in mind though that this “stellar performance” should not be too far ago in time. Just like in sport, if someone has been performing well recently s/he is likely to carry that into their next role.
If a candidate’s exceptional performance was a long time ago (say 4 years) then it’s quite possible that the candidate is still basking in the glory of the past. Make sure you are thorough in your evaluation including aspects of their ability to work in teams.
Great individual performers do not necessarily make a great team:
This world cup has been a disaster for teams that were packed with individual superstars. England with Gerard and Rooney, and Spain with Xabi, Iniesta and Diego Costa were knocked out at the group stage.
None of these individuals could make a strong enough impact to rescue their team from leaving early.
Organizations often face similar challenges when their star performers get too comfortable in what they do and the way they do it, sometimes putting themselves above the team.
To avoid falling into this trap of complacency, organizations need to constantly challenge their star performers with different roles that put them out of their comfort zone on a regular basis. Do, this only when your organization has a culture that encourages risk taking.
Culture makes a huge difference:
In football, great teams often come from countries that have a long history of sport. This world cup has seen strong performances from Australia and USA. Both these nations have a strong sporting history.
People in both countries take sports seriously enough to play it, watch it and make their kids play it as well.
Football does not yet have a long history in both these countries but these teams have been putting the fear of god against some of the leading teams. Sample some scores
Netherlands V Australia: 3-2. Australia led 2-1 at one stage
Portugal V USA: 2-2. USA led Portugal 2-1 till the last minute of the game. Incidentally, USA finished above England at the last world cup in South Africa
As more and more kids in these countries start playing football, it starts becoming a part of their culture and this helps forms the nucleus of future great teams. Don’t be surprised if one of these teams wins the world cup in the next 10 years.
Business leader, entrepreneurs, CEO’s and HR professionals or anyone who wants to build a successful sustainable business needs to focus on building a solid work culture, one that touches all employees across the organization.
The external world will inevitably change and present new challenges to the organization ever so frequently. Be prepared for change with a stronger culture.
The World Cup changes every 4 years:
South Africa, the venue for the last world cup in 2010 was as different from the current world up venue, Brazil as chalk and cheese. So will the next world cup in Russia in 2018. Players will have to play in different climates, terrains, different styles and quite likely under different coaches too.
Change is constant, and HR professionals should expect it. The way organizations hire and manage talent has changed significantly in the last few years.
In the USA, the best technology talent ends up joining startups or becoming entrepreneurs themselves. In Asia, the best talent ends up in Multinational Corporations leaving home grown companies and startups struggling.
With the expansion of the EU and its free movement of labor for member countries, Western Europe now finds that the best talent may be coming from Poland, or Latvia or the former eastern bloc countries like Hungary, leaving lesser number of jobs for its own citizens.
Things will change the way you hire and manage talent. So be alert, watch the trend and adapt as necessary.
You can find great “Rockstar” talent anywhere:
Some of teams from lesser known countries have been outstanding in this world cup. Costa Rica topped the Group of Death, knocking out England. Ghana held Germany to a Draw and USA held Portugal.
Premier league club talent scouts in England, Spain and Italy must be licking their lips at finding a treasure trove of talent from these lesser known countries. Expect some of these “rockstar” players to get contracted at very lucrative deals in the coming months.
HR professionals too can find talent from lesser known channels like referrals, internal CV Databases and extended network for their employees. Wisestep brings together all these channels together in one place and makes them easy to use for employers.
“You only stop learning when you quit” — Ruud Gullit, Netherlands, Football Star
Do you also have similar learnings for HR Professionals from events like the world cup that you’d like to share with us?
Comment here, We’d love to hear from you.
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Wahyu Ramadhan Nahumarury July 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm
that in our city like a football soul is born thanks to two natural talents, football has now become the most popular sport that many young people in our city define football as a part of their lives.
Oh yes, the World Cup 2014 that took place yesterday was very impressive, especially for teams that class aljajair Costa Rica and qualify from the group, I think that should be in acungi thumb is that Costa Rica is very consistent game from the preliminary round to round of 8 large and eventually Dutch lost on penalties.
World Cup to come, I think Germany is still likely to win the game style of collectivity that they demonstrate …
regards …. ^ ^
Richard Benson July 19, 2014 at 10:18 am
Amazingly relate with HR with one of the best sport in the world !! what i like most is the creativity part of this article !!
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66:1 This is what the Lord says:
“The heavens are my throne
and the earth is my footstool.
Where then is the house you will build for me?
Where is the place where I will rest?
66:2 My hand made them;
that is how they came to be,” says the Lord.
I show special favor to the humble and contrite,
who respect what I have to say.
66:3 The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man;
the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck;
the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it;
the one who offers incense also praises an idol.
They have decided to behave this way;
they enjoy these disgusting practices.
66:4 So I will choose severe punishment for them;
I will bring on them what they dread,
because I called, and no one responded,
I spoke and they did not listen.
They did evil before me;
they chose to do what displeases me.”
66:5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who respect what he has to say!
Your countrymen, who hate you
and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name,
say, “May the Lord be glorified,
then we will witness your joy.”
But they will be put to shame.
66:6 The sound of battle comes from the city;
the sound comes from the temple!
It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies.
66:7 Before she goes into labor, she gives birth!
Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!
66:8 Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen this?
Can a country be brought forth in one day?
Can a nation be born in a single moment?
Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!
66:9 “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?”
asks the Lord.
“Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?”
asks your God.
66:10 Be happy for Jerusalem
and rejoice with her, all you who love her!
Share in her great joy,
all you who have mourned over her!
66:11 For you will nurse from her satisfying breasts and be nourished;
you will feed with joy from her milk-filled breasts.
66:12 For this is what the Lord says:
“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,
the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks.
You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side;
you will play on her knees.
66:13 As a mother consoles a child,
so I will console you,
and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
66:14 When you see this, you will be happy,
and you will be revived.
The Lord will reveal his power to his servants
and his anger to his enemies.
66:15 For look, the Lord comes with fire,
his chariots come like a windstorm,
to reveal his raging anger,
his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.
66:16 For the Lord judges all humanity
with fire and his sword;
the Lord will kill many.
66:17 “As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice – they will all be destroyed together,” says the Lord. 66:18 “I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor. 66:19 I will perform a mighty act among them and then send some of those who remain to the nations – to Tarshish, Pul, Lud (known for its archers), Tubal, Javan, and to the distant coastlands that have not heard about me or seen my splendor. They will tell the nations of my splendor. 66:20 They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the Lord. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring offerings to the Lord’s temple in ritually pure containers. 66:21 And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord. 66:22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth I am about to make will remain standing before me,” says the Lord, “so your descendants and your name will remain. 66:23 From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me,” says the Lord. 66:24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”
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Annals of Colorectal Research
Feasibility and Outcome of Laparoscopic Approach for Acute Generalized Peritonitis in Africa: Single Low-Center Results After 25 Consecutive Cases in Cameroon
Bang Guy Aristide 1 , * , Nana Oumarou Blondel 2 , Savom Eric Patrick 1 , Bwelle Moto Georges 3 and Essomba Arthur Georges 3
1 Visceral and Laparoscopic Department, National Social Insurance Health Center of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon
2 Visceral and Laparoscopic Unit, National Social Insurance Fund Health Center of Essos, Yaounde, Cameroon
3 Department of Surgery and Specialities, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
* Corresponding Author: Department of Surgery and Specialities, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon. Email: guyaristidebang@yahoo.fr
Annals of Colorectal Research: 7 (2); e90905
Published Online: July 7, 2019
Received: February 21, 2019
Accepted: May 21, 2019
DOI: 10.5812/acr.90905
To Cite: Guy Aristide B, Blondel N O, Eric Patrick S, Georges B M, Arthur Georges E. Feasibility and Outcome of Laparoscopic Approach for Acute Generalized Peritonitis in Africa: Single Low-Center Results After 25 Consecutive Cases in Cameroon, Ann Colorectal Res. Online ahead of Print ; 7(2):e90905. doi: 10.5812/acr.90905.
Background: Peritonitis is a quite common surgical emergency. For this condition, many reports have shown that laparoscopic surgery is associated with lower morbidity and mortality. However, the laparoscopic approach to the management of peritonitis remains marginalized in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to financial and technical limitations.
Methods: We conducted a seven-year prospective study on patients with acute generalized peritonitis in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Inclusion criteria were an age range of between 5 to 55 years, admission within 48 hours after the onset of symptoms, hemodynamic stability, and no major comorbidities. Excluded from this study were patients with colonic perforation, prior history of abdominal surgery, or primary and localized peritonitis after proper resuscitation. The patients included were managed via laparoscopy; operative and postoperative data were collected and analyzed. Some technical artifices were used to circumvent the lack of standard equipment.
Results: The study involved twenty-five patients with a mean age of 32.1 years. The etiology of peritonitis was identified as appendicitis in 20 cases, perforated duodenal ulcer in 2 cases, gastric ulcer perforation in 2 cases, and jejunal perforation in 1 case. In two cases (8%), the operation was converted to laparotomy. The postoperative course was uneventful in 21 cases (84%), whereas morbidity was seen in 4 cases (16%); no mortality was recorded. The mean length of hospital stay was 5.5 days.
Conclusions: This study demonstrates that the laparoscopic management of acute generalized peritonitis in African LMICs is a feasible, safe, and effective surgical option in properly selected patients.
Keywords: Acute Generalized Peritonitis; Laparoscopy; Africa; Morbidity; Low and Middle-Income Country
Copyright © 2019, Annals of Colorectal Research. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
Acute generalized peritonitis (AGP) is one of the most common causes of non-trauma related death (1). Peritonitis may be primary or secondary depending on its causative mechanism. Primary peritonitis rarely requires surgical intervention, unlike the more common secondary peritonitis. Secondary peritonitis is related to intra-abdominal lesions which allow the passage of infectious organisms into the peritoneum (2). Management of secondary peritonitis includes supportive therapy with adequate resuscitation, administration of systemic antibiotics, adequate source control and clearance of all residual collections.
Historically, these objectives were achieved via exploratory laparotomy. The laparoscopy approach was initially contraindicated in such cases due to fear of both an increased bacteremia by pneumoperitoneum (3) and a limited view due to adhesions and bowel distension (4). Nowadays, its known that the laparoscopic management of AGP is feasible and improves patient outcomes, with significantly lower morbidity having been demonstrated (4-9). However, the laparoscopic management of AGP can be technically challenging for surgeons as it involves a steep learning curve and requires advanced laparoscopic suturing skills.
In Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, laparoscopy is still marginalized in daily surgical practice due to the high cost of laparoscopic instruments, the lack of social insurance programs, and the inadequate training programs for both residents and surgeons.
After developing our laparoscopic skills in different procedures such as colectomy (10, 11), hernia repair (12), acute postoperative small bowel obstruction (13), and Heller myotomy (14), we conducted this study with the aim of evaluating the feasibility and outcome of the laparoscopic management of AGP in Cameroon-a low and middle-income country (LMIC).
3.1. Study Design
We conducted a sever-year prospective study from January 2010 to December 2016 in our department (visceral surgery unit of the National Social Insurance Fund Health Center of Yaoundé). Yaoundé is the capital city of Cameroon, a LMIC of central Africa. This institution is a level III health facility. The visceral unit has a total admission capacity of 23 beds. Surgical interventions were carried out by the same team composed of a senior surgeon and three junior surgeons. All procedures conducted by the junior surgeons were performed under the supervision of the senior surgeon.
3.2. Patients
In this study, we included all patients with AGP aged between 5 to 55 years, admitted within 48 hours after the onset of symptoms, who were hemodynamically stable with no major comorbidities, namely ischemic heart disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, severe sepsis, and severe coagulopathy. AGP was defined as any acute abdominal pain with generalized tenderness, typical presentation on abdominal X-ray, ultrasonography or CT, and peroperatively a diffuse intra-abdominal infection extending beyond the transverse mesocolon (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Generalized peritonitis with diffuse effusion in subdiaphracmatic region (A) and in the pelvic space (B)
Excluded from this study were patients with colonic perforation, prior history of abdominal surgery, as well as patients with primary peritonitis, localized peritonitis, preoperative shock, and those for whom laparotomy was performed in first intention.
Each patient provided consent prior to inclusion in the study. Formal consent was obtained from the parents/guardians of underage patients.
3.3. Preoperative Management
We inserted a nasogastric tube for each patient, besides a urinary catheter if needed. Crystalloid intravenous fluids were administrated with triple antibiotic therapy (cephalosporin, metronidazole, and an aminoglycoside).
Routine laboratory tests were done. All patients underwent abdominal X-rays; in the case where X-ray was not conclusive, an ultrasonography or CT-scan was performed.
3.4. Surgical Procedure
Under general anesthesia, we inserted a 10 mm optic port in the supra-umbilical region by “open-coelioscopy”, and pneumoperitoneum was achieved via this access. A systematic and thorough visual exploration of the abdominal cavity was performed to identify the organs involved.
If a gastric/duodenal perforation was found (Figure 2), two or three 5 mm working ports were inserted (in both flanks and in the epigastric region if needed) under sight control, and intracorporeal suturing was performed in interrupted fashion using absorbable 3/0 sutures without an omental patch.
Figure 2. Perforated duodenal ulcer
In the case of appendicular etiology (Figure 3), two working ports (right flank and suprapubic area) were inserted. If the appendix was gangrenous and its base was digested, intracorporeal appendectomy was performed (appendix ligated via intracorporeal sutures) and the appendix was removed via a sterile glove finger used as an endobag. In non-gangrenous forms, the appendix was exteriorized via the supra-umbilical or flank port and resected after ligation.
Figure 3. Appendicitis with necrotic base
If a small bowel perforation was found, intracorporeal suturing was performed.
In all cases, a thorough cleaning of the peritoneal cavity was performed using saline, with special attention being directed to sloping areas. In the case of a large gastric/duodenal perforation (size > 2 cm) or a gangrenous appendix base, a catheter drain was inserted via one port site in the subhepatic or pelvic space, respectively.
3.5. Postoperative Management
The nasogastric tube and urinary catheter were removed within 48 hours following surgery. Commencement of feeds was dependent on nasogastric output and presence of bowel opening signs. All patients were commenced on clear feeds (such as water, clear fruit juices), which was escalated to full feed and solid diet as tolerated thereafter.
Therapeutic antibiotics were continued postoperatively for a duration depending on the resolution of the signs of infection. Patients with gastric/duodenal perforation were prophylactically placed under H. pylori eradication therapy.
Demographics, preoperative findings, surgical record and duration, intraoperative complications, conversion, length of hospitalization, wound complications, presence of ileus (defined as daily nasogastric output > 500 mL, nil passing of flatus), need for repeat operations, and mortality were reviewed.
Using the patient selection flowchart shown in Figure 4, 32 patients met our inclusion criteria, though laparoscopy was not possible in 7 cases (21.9%) due to the high cost of the laparoscopic procedure (patients without insurance) or the unavailability of the laparoscopic column (out of order). Our study group therefore comprised 25 patients, among whom 15 were male and 10 were female, with a mean age of 32.1 years (range: 6 - 55). The mean duration of symptoms at admission was 25.2 hours (range: 12 - 48); the most common symptoms were diffuse abdominal pain (100%), fever (75%), and abdominal tenderness (98%). All patients (100%) had leukocytosis. The diagnosis of AGP was advocated clinically in all cases. Imaging investigations consisted mostly of ultrasound (18 cases; 72%), followed by abdominal X-ray (4 cases; 16%) and abdominal CT (3 cases; 12%).
Figure 4. Flowchart of patients’ selection
In 6 cases (24%), the preoperative exams were unable to determine the etiology of the peritonitis. By laparoscopic exploration, we were able to identify this etiology in all cases, meaning a laparoscopic diagnosis accuracy of 100%.
The cause of peritonitis (Table 1) was appendicitis in 20 cases (80%), perforated duodenal ulcer in 2 cases (8%), gastric ulcer perforation in 2 cases (8%), and jejunal perforation (after an abdominal blunt trauma) in 1 case (4%).
Table 1. Causes of Peritonitis and Feasibility of Laparoscopy
Total, No. (%)
Laparoscopic Diagnosis Accuracy, %
Conversion, No.
Appendicitis 20 (80) 100 2
Perforated ulcer
Duodenal 2 (8) 100 -
Gastric 2 (8) 100 -
Jejunal perforation 1 (4) 100 -
Two cases (8%) were converted to laparotomy due to massive bowel distension related to appendicitis with difficulties in performing the appendectomy. These two cases occurred within the first year of our study. For the remaining 23 cases, we were able to perform the entire procedure through laparoscopy, meaning a therapeutic accuracy of 92%.
The mean operative time of laparoscopic repair was 78 min (range: 45 - 118). No peroperative complications were recorded. The postoperative course was uneventful in 21 cases (84%), whereas morbidity was recorded in 4 cases (16%), among which were the 2 cases converted to laparotomy (wound infection in one case, prolonged ileus in the other). When considering the 23 procedures conducted entirely through laparoscopy, morbidity was recorded in 2 cases (8%), including a superficial port site infection and a case of a residual pelvic abscess drained laparoscopically at postoperative day 4. The re-intervention rate in this group was thus 4%.
When the procedure was performed entirely via laparoscopy, oral feeding was started 36.7 hours (range: 18 - 144) after surgery on average. No mortalities were recorded.
The mean length of hospital stay was 5.5 days (range: 5 - 8).
Table 2 summarizes the main outcomes of the 23 procedures conducted entirely via laparoscopy.
Table 2. Outcome of the 23 Procedures Conducted Entirely Through Laparoscopy
Intraoperative complications
Mean operative time 78 min (range, 30 - 118)
Postoperative complications 2 cases (8%)
Port site infection 1 case
Residual pelvic abscess 1 case
Re-intervention 1 case (4%)
Death Nil
Return to oral diet 36.7 h (range, 18 - 144)
Mean length of hospital stay 5.5 days (range, 5 - 8)
To date, few studies have focused on the laparoscopic management of AGP in Africa, with no such study having been conducted previously in Cameroon. AGP remains a great challenge in most African countries, with data on the burden and outcome of this pathology being scarce. Furthermore, surgeons in Africa face difficulties related to inadequate medical equipment, absence of health insurance, inadequate programs for residents/surgeons, and limited access to intensive care units. This study demonstrates that the laparoscopic management of AGP in African LMICs is a feasible surgical approach for properly selected cases, with a high diagnosis and therapeutic yield, as well as reasonable open conversion and postoperative complication rates.
Laparoscopic surgery has become popular over the past two decades but remains controversial in the management of some abdominal surgical emergencies such as acute small bowel obstruction and AGP. However, a policy of universal laparotomy for all patients with AGP in the era of minimally invasive surgery is unjust due to both short-term and long-term morbidities (15). Studies have shown that emergency laparotomies are associated with 5% mortality, 20% morbidity, and a 3% long-term risk of bowel obstruction (16). In Africa, exploratory laparotomies for AGP are associated with 9.2 to 31.5% morbidity and 2.4 to 15.1% mortality (1, 17); when considering peritonitis due to typhoid perforation of the terminal ileum, this mortality rate rises to 34.7% (1). Several studies have demonstrated the efficiency of the laparoscopic approach in peritoneal lavage and closure of bowel perforations, which has significantly lower morbidity than open surgery (4-9). The major benefits of laparoscopic surgery stem from the requirement of only a few small incisions, which results in improved recovery, better cosmetic outcomes, and less pain compared with open surgery (15).
In line with the position paper of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (5), we believe that proper selection of patients to be managed via laparoscopy is fundamental. We started our practice in this study by excluding all patients who were in shock, had severe comorbidities, or were too young or too old (old according to the Cameroonian life expectancy of 57.93 years). We believe that in these patients, the risks related to pneumoperitoneum and the high median duration of laparoscopic surgery (4, 15) are too elevated, meaning that open surgery here is the best surgical approach. In the same way, we excluded patients with a past history of abdominal surgery because of the risk of performing adhesiolysis and extended operative time. In Africa, late presentation of AGP is a major concern; some patients with peritonitis have been seen in hospitals 13 days after the onset of symptoms (18, 19). These patients present with major bowel distension and important hydroelectrolytic disorders, leading to poor surgical prognosis. Poverty, illiteracy, first resort to traditional medicine/self-medication, and unavailability of medical facilities are some reasons for such delays in hospitalization. We therefore decided to also exclude patients who were received more than 48 hours after the onset of the first symptom. Our restrictive inclusion criteria explain the relatively limited numbers of patients in this study. Moreover, seven patients who met the inclusion criteria could not be managed via laparoscopy and were also excluded from the study. Indeed, our department has only one column of laparoscopy and it is sometimes unavailable for maintenance reasons. On the other hand, the cost of laparoscopic surgery is higher than that of open surgery, and patients who do not have health insurance often cannot afford laparoscopy. These technical and financial limitations remain as major obstacles to the popularization of laparoscopic surgery in the African continent.
In this study, laparoscopy was a good diagnostic tool of the peritonitis’ etiology, with an accuracy of 100%. This is while in 24% of cases, the preoperative exams were unable to determine the etiology. Similar to our finding, the diagnostic accuracy of laparoscopic exploration has been reported at around 90% (9, 20, 21). The most important challenge to laparoscopic exploration was bowel distension; gentle and methodical bowel mobilization, with the use of an operating table allowing lateral tilts, Trendelenburg and reverse Trendelenburg positioning, permitted us to conduct a thorough examination of the abdominal cavity in all cases.
Our conversion rate to open surgery was 8% (2 cases); in both cases, this was due to difficulties in suturing related to bowel distension. This conversion rate is comparable to those of previous studies, which reported 4% - 12% conversion (4, 21, 22). The two converted cases were operated within the first year of our study, with no further conversions occurring thereafter. We believe that by climbing the learning curve and attaining improved laparoscopic skills, it became easier for us to manage such cases with bowel distension over time.
Due to the high cost of laparoscopic instruments and our poor socio-economic milieu, we faced a lack of certain materials like endoloops and endobags. This situation is advocated by some African surgeons as a reason for avoiding laparoscopy. We demonstrated in this study that a sterile glove finger can be used as an endobag to remove a sectioned appendix. We previously described this approach in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for removal of the gallbladder (23). Another technical artifice is the laparoscopic suturing of the appendix base in the absence of an endoloop. We think that these technical artifices can increase the feasibility of laparoscopic management of AGP in LMICs.
Our study demonstrated good results regarding the laparoscopic approach for management of AGP. In 92% of cases, the management was comprised of laparoscopy exclusively, with a mean operative time of 78 min, no peroperative complications, a morbidity rate of 8%, no mortality registered, and a mean hospital stays of 5.5 days. Navez et al. (21) reported the morbidity and mortality of the laparoscopic management of AGP at 9% and 1%, respectively, while Sangrasi et al. (9) reported these figures at 6.2% and 0%, respectively. The largest study conducted in our country on the management of AGP via laparotomy found 31.5% morbidity and 15.1% mortality (1). Even if our study is not comparable to that study (although conducted in the same milieu), we agree with the authors in that the “laparoscopic approach is likely to influence the outcome of patients with AGP” (1). Our operative time is comparable to reports in the literature of about 75 min (24-26).
In a review conducted in 2010, residual abscesses and re-interventions were higher in laparoscopic repair of peritonitis versus open surgery without statistical significance (27). In our study, we found just 1 case (4.34%) of residual pelvic abscess, which was drained laparoscopically at postoperative day 4. Since “dilution with solution is the solution to pollution”, we were able to conduct a meticulous peritoneal lavage under sight in contrast to sponge stick sweep conducted when performing open surgery.
This study had a few limitations. First, we had a small sample and our results, although satisfactory, must be interpreted with modesty, and do not allow us to draw any major conclusions. The other limitation is the heterogeneity of our sample since we included etiologies of both sus- and sub-mesocolic peritonitis.
5.1. Conclusions
This study demonstrates that in African LMICs, the laparoscopic management of AGP for properly selected patients and with the use of some technical artifices is a feasible, safe and effective surgical approach with reasonable open conversion and postoperative complication rates.
Authors' Contribution: Bang Guy Aristide and Nana Oumarou Blondel conceived, drafted the study. Savom Eric Patrick and Bwelle Moto Georges collected the data and the literature review. Essomba Arthur Georges gave the final approval of the version and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work
Conflict of Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Ethical Approval: A formal written consent was obtained on each case based on our institute Ethical Committee recommendations. Before the beginning of the study, we obtained the approval of the Ethics Committee of the National Social Insurance Health Center of Yaounde (Cameroon).
Funding/Support: Personal support of authors. No institutional funding.
Patient Consent: For minor patients, consent for participation was obtained from parents or guardian.
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Poor Little Girl was Bullied & Beaten for her Disability, then these Men Show up to Protect Her
Ashley Wastakiewicz was 7 years old and she has been tormented by an 11 year-old boy that has bullied her for more than a year. The bullying has been so severe that she is afraid to go outside to play. At one point the boy beat her up so badly that she had to go to the hospital.
“She was pushing her bike home and the bully had pushed her to the ground, had kicked her and had punched her in her face,” her mom, Christine said. While the boy’s mother denies the allegations, the young man was charged with assault.
Ashley’s mom created an anti-bullying Facebook page called “Justice for Ashley” to rally support for her. But you can bet that Christine never expected that these heroes would rally around them! Dozens of members of a local motorcycle club showed up in Ashley’s front yard to show their support and maybe show a little bit of intimidation to the neighbor bully!
The bikers walked down the street with Ashley while she rode her scooter. They even paid the bully neighbor a visit. Ashley yelled from the street with pride, “I’m not scared anymore!”
The bikers promised to stay in contact with Ashley and her family. They hope that word will spread and violent and destructive bullying will come to an end. As you watch the video below, you can feel the smile on Ashley’s face.
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NOMA and the Jones decision
The Jones decision absolutely reeks of NOMA, and it only works as an establishment clause case on the assumption of NOMA. Were questions of design refuted by Darwinian biology, or were they set aside as metaphysical issues outside the purview of science per se? Did the methodological assumptions of science change over time to preclude design inferences? Are there weaknesses in the Darwinian story that are constantly being papered over? Is Darwinian theory being protected by leaders in the scientific community, using the phobia of creationism to silence honest, and secular criticism of the standard theory? The guy from China said that while in China you can criticize Darwin but not the government, over here you can criticize the government but not Darwin.
If you go by the Jones decision, then biology textbooks are going to have to be checked to make sure they don't have antireligious content in them. Otherwise they violate the establishment clause in just the same way that the Dover statement violated it. How much do you want to bet that you could find lots of violations in many biology textbooks?
What I believe on the other days of the week is that NOMA is true, biology should be metaphysically neutral, and science textbooks should indicate that questions of intelligent design lie outside the purview of science and cannot be settled one way or the other by science. So, evolution is affirmed because science has to work that way, and you can legitimately ask the question of design, but as an extrascientific question that science, per se, cannot answer.
Stardusty Psyche said...
"What I believe on the other days of the week is that NOMA is true,"
--The deistic god is undiscoverable so long as it chooses to remain hidden.
A god that interacts with matter/energy is in principle scientifically discoverable and thus not in an entirely separate magisteria. The god as described in the Torah, NT, and Quran is in this class.
Science could in principle discover Paley's watch. Many candidates have been proposed only to then be scientifically accounted for on naturalism. Thus, the irreducible complexity candidate pool is an ever shrinking set that occupies the ever receding corner of scientific ignorance.
" science textbooks should indicate that questions of intelligent design lie outside the purview of science"
--But they are not wholly outside the purview of science.
" and cannot be settled one way or the other by science."
--Science can settle the lack of necessity of ID for particular observed phenomena.
If theistic hypotheses are scientific hypotheses that can be tested by science, then the Establishment Clause case doesn't work. Even if they are bad theories, there is nothing wrong with presenting them to students.
The fact that advocates of these theories hope for a particular religious outcome from teaching the theory would knock out a lot of biology textbooks as well as such texts as Of Pandas and People, which the Dover statement actually just referenced, and it was not used in the classroom.
As for one way progress knocking out religious hypotheses, two developments have arisen which have made it harder to be, as Dawkins puts it, an intellectually fulfilled atheist. One if the Big Bang theory and the apparent beginning of the universe, which has faced opposition for anti-religious motives, and the fine-tuning of the universe. These make it the case of for naturalism more difficult and complicated, even if they are not fatal to atheism. And there are others. It would have been more convenient for atheists if the fossil record had not been so gappy as not to prompt Gould to come up with punctuated equilibrium, but that didn't happen either.
" If theistic hypotheses are scientific hypotheses that can be tested by science, then the Establishment Clause case doesn't work. Even if they are bad theories, there is nothing wrong with presenting them to students."
--If that particular brand of ID was scientific that would be true, but it isn't, it is only religious, and teaching that which is only religious as science violates the establishment clause.
Public schools are not permitted to advocate religion, only teach about it as a social fact. To present an unscientific and religions view as science in the science class is a violation of the establishment clause.
If the existence of god ever becomes established science then it can and should be taught in science class.
" The fact that advocates of these theories hope for a particular religious outcome from teaching the theory would knock out a lot of biology textbooks "
--I have seen a number of high school biology textbooks. None of them leaned toward any religious outcome so I really do not see your point here.
" One if the Big Bang theory and the apparent beginning of the universe, which has faced opposition for anti-religious motives,"
--The obvious question is what caused the big bang. That is just basic logical inquiry.
" and the fine-tuning of the universe."
--Highly debated and a significant factor in considering inflation, strings, and other cosmological models.
" These make it the case of for naturalism more difficult and complicated,"
--That's the exciting thing about science, it is so very complicated with so much remaining to be learned.
" even if they are not fatal to atheism. And there are others. It would have been more convenient for atheists if the fossil record had not been so gappy as not to prompt Gould to come up with punctuated equilibrium, but that didn't happen either."
--Yes, I have noticed that the universe has a rather annoying habit of not giving a damn about my convenience!
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Biological Effects of UV Radiation from Radioisotopes - Research paper on emission of UV radiation from radioisotopes discovered recently by the author. Its biological effects, when administered in to the body as radiopharmaceutical was dealt with in this paper presented in 1999 at JNU, New Delhi.
DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments - The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. Identify and catalog relevant historical documents from records scattered across the country.
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The Power of Content and Video in PR
13/10/2016 / Robert Anderson posted in Branded content, Video / No Comments
From comments I made to Gorkana
We made a call several years ago to develop a best in class content offering (including video production) because we could see the world of communications and marketing was moving in that direction. We knew we had to be great at content as well as the media relations work, and that the two had to be fully integrated.
Producing great content is the coming together of multiple skillsets – strategy and creativity, production and distribution. Typically PRs have been generalists, rather than specialists, but I think that’s changing as the industry evolves.
The real power of video is when it’s irresistibly shareable, and that’s all about creating authentic engagement. PRs have always developed earned relationships, so we know how to produce relevant and topical video for organic take-up. We can’t rely on paid media space for reach – we produce content that has to stand on its own legs and is carried by the power of our influencer relationships.
At Good Relations, we’ve already built a specialist content marketing practice with full service expertise. Our strategy team has developed a proprietary planning methodology to reveal the insights that underpin our creative ideas. We’ve then built our own in-house creative studio, which does everything from shoots to animation. We also launched our specialist broadcast media consultancy this year, Good Broadcast, which specialises in editorial broadcast programming.
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SAWA MADE IN AFRICA
Launched in March of this year, SAWA (refers to the people from Douala) shoes are the first 100% African-sourced and African-made trainers on the market. Sporting a vintage-inspired aesthetic, the trainers boast the easy familiarity of a true classic-in-the-making.
Founded by three friends in Paris with a shared love for Africa and for shoes: Fabio Di Iorio, who worked in product development at Le Coq Sportif and Adidas Originals; Mehdi Slimani, who also worked in product management at Le Coq Sportif, and Frédéric Barthélemy, who still has a day job, but plans to devote himself to SAWA full-time in the very near future.
According to the trio, The SAWA story is about people, a story about a challenging economy against the North to South flow. Their idea is to show that you can purchase raw materials in Africa and transform these into finished goods...in Africa! That's why their canvas is sourced from Cameroon, the leather from Nigeria, the laces from Tunisia, the EVA from Egypt, the rubber from Egypt, the packaging from South Africa and it is all made in Cameroon!
“In a nutshell, Fabio, Mehdi and Fred are people who love to create and live without boundaries,” they point out. With a company as well-executed as SAWA, boundaries don’t stand a chance.
You can find their products already stocked in some fashion savvy countries such as in Dover Street Market in London, Comme des Garçon store in Tokyo and Soula in Brooklyn.
The SAWA trainers
The very familiar "Le Boxeur" match box and notebook from Cameroon!
I love this great idea, it is an inspiration to all those businesses and organisations who think Africa cannot produce! I thought the brains behind this idea were Cameroonians, although I am a little disappointed, I am still very proud of how they are showcasing our beloved country and continent.
Great work guys!
NU, THE REVOLUTION BY LES NUBIANS *UPDATED*
Les Nubians are set to be back in the music scene with a new album set to be launched by September.
Apparently, the album draws inspiration from the inauguration of the first ever U.S black president, Mr Barack Obama and represents the evolution of dream and of women.
This album is highly anticipated especially after their hiatus from the music scene. It will be their third studio album.
The duo, Hélène and Célia Faussart are of French and Cameroonian heritage.
We are waiting!
Pictures by Nubiatik Publishing, LLC.
YENIH'S WORLD
Hello guys, I just wanted to share with you a little video I came across. It is of Yenih Ngwabo doing her thang representing Cameroon on a hot debate on football on VoxAfrica TV!
She did well and does not even seem nervous at all despite it being live!
Well done Yenih!
Catch her on her updates on her blog www.yenihsworld.blogspot.com
Check out the video by clicking here
MP3 MUSIC AWARDS
My Rock chic girl, Menoosha submitted her track "Chamukuana" to the Mp3 Music Awards for the category of "Best African Artist".
To be nominated, she needs YOU! How can you help you ask? By voting with just a click, that will cost £0.60p.
Here is the link http://www.mp3musicawards.co.uk/artists-and-bands.html so go to your thang!
For now her website www.menoosha.com is down because she's updating however, you can still visit her Myspace page at www.myspace.com/menoosha
Get voting y'all!
THE RACE (A SHORT STORY)
Mungwi sat on the bedside for one moment. She had just been awoken by a rowdy rooster that always hung outside her bedroom window. She fumbled in the darkness to find her slippers, and slipped her right foot into one of them. It was the wrong side; she switched both slippers and put them on. She then staggered out of the bedroom. She had to get ready. It was Saturday; it was market day in the city.
Mungwi had turn twelve the month before, and had just graduated from primary school with honors. She was a brilliant student, and she had made the A list in the common entrance examination. This exam allowed students to enroll in government secondary schools, which were way cheaper than private ones. She knew her parents could not afford a private school, so she had studied very hard for the exam. She knew she would do well in secondary school, but her prospect of going to secondary school was not too bright at this time.
Most of the government secondary schools were located in the city. So, every child that passed the common entrance exam had to move to the city in order to attend secondary school. Mungwi thought about it, then quickly pushed the idea aside. It might not be what the Gods wanted for her anyway, she thought. The best she could do at this time was to get ready and head to Abakwa market, where she could make some money. Today, she was going with one of the firewood bundles her father had prepared the day before. She knew she would find someone to buy it in the city.
Same as most growing cities, Abakwa was becoming more and more dependent on supplies from neighboring villages. The water supply for example came from a dam placed in a remote village in the hills; most food crops had to be brought in the city by villagers. In this sense, most neighboring villages often specialized in the supply of specific items.
Mungwi’s village, Bamunkwe, due to its proximity to the Balougoum forest, had specialized in supplying firewood and charcoal to house wholes in the city. Men in the village would cut the wood, tie some of them in bundles and burn some to make charcoal. They will then give it to the children on Saturday mornings to take to the city. These children often traveled in a caravan, swirling on the slippery paths in the mountain.
Once a child in the village celebrated his or her eighth birthday, he or she was immediately enrolled into the caravan. This caravan often left as early as five o’clock, in order to walk the twenty kilometers that separated the village from the city.
Children of Bamunkwe, were known for their strength and resilience. Constantly descending and ascending the mountain, most times with several kilograms of merchandise on their head, gave them exceptional stamina. Nonetheless, this resilience was often overshadowed by their lack of height. Most of these children were far below average for their age, when it came to height. Their constant hauling of several kilograms of wood and charcoal impeded their growth. They often appeared short and stout, with muscular features, not characteristic of children of their age.
Mungwi however, was an exception to the rule. She was tall enough for her age, but her skinny features made her look frail. This appearance nonetheless was clearly deceiving. Those who new the little girl, knew that she had the strength of a buffalo and could run like a deer. It was no secret in the village.
Every Saturday morning, as children lined up on the departure ground, she will help each one them to put their loads on their head. She will then grab her own load, which often weighed almost as much as she did, and flip it onto her head. Mungwi would always lead the caravan, setting the pace for the group.
Today, as Mungwi lead this rowdy bunch of kids to the market, her mind constantly went back to an issue that had been disturbing her for several months now. In fact, she had been promised to marriage as third wife to one of her father’s neighbors. She could not stand this idea at all, but she almost had no say in the matter. This unfortunate situation had resulted from her mother’s illness several months ago.
Ma Vero, Mungwi’s mother, had suddenly fallen sick and was rushed to the hospital in the city. After several weeks of undergoing treatment, she had been discharged by the doctors. The bill she received at the end amounted to several hundred thousand francs. Mungwi’s poor family could not afford to pay it.
In order to get his wife out of hospital, Pa Ndang had borrowed a huge amount of money from his neighbor. His wife had been held in the hospital for more than a week after her treatment. They would not let her go until she paid her bill in full. Pa Ndang had first pulled out all his savings but it had not been enough to pay for the bill. After several days of deliberation he had resorted into borrowing the money from his wealthier neighbor Pa Ndomgnwe. He knew this man had the reputation of treating his debtors roughly, but he had no choice.
It wasn’t long after, that Pa Ndomgnwe had showed up to his house early one morning to ask for his money. Pa Ndang did not have it. He had sold most of his crops, but could only come up with a meager amount. Pa Ndomgnwe gave him two other datelines that did not meet. It is then that Pa Ndomgnwe had exposed his vicious idea. He had boldly asked Pa Ndang to give him Mungwi, his only daughter as third wife. Pa Ndang had first burst into anger, before quickly calming down. He had then told his neighbor that he will think about it and get back to him.
Allowing his daughter to married this man meant she will never get the education he wanted her to get. He had always prayed that none of his children ended up uneducated like him. He had wished a better life for them. Things however seemed not to be going that way.After several months of resistance, Pa Ndomgnwe had openly threatened to send his neighbor to jail if he did not pay back the money or accept the marriage.
Pa Ndang had finally accepted the marriage deal, but had requested a couple of years for the child to be ripe for marriage. Pa Ndomgnwe had agreed, on condition that the girl remains in the village until the marriage. Every single day, Pa Ndang had prayed for a miracle that would get him out of this situation. However, life was far from getting better. He was old and could not work as hard as before. Money was scarce in his home.
Once in a while, Pa Ndomgnwe his neighbor will pay him a visit, just to make sure everything was in order. Father and daughter clearly hated these moments. No man is ever really comfortable around his creditor, especially one that has an eye on his daughter. Mungwi often disappeared as soon as the old man would show up. She would then wander around the neighborhood until he was gone. If only she could gain enough money to help his father pay back this man, she thought. Mungwi had decided to make two rounds to the market every Saturday, in a desperate attempt to buy back her freedom. She knew the only way for her to go to secondary school, was to pay back this man’s money.
For the past two Saturdays, she had been able to do the two rounds. Today however, she was not lucky. She had managed to find a customer very late in the morning, giving her no time to go back to the village. She sighed. Next week she will be luckier, she thought.
Now, all the children had sold their merchandise and they had decided to hang around the market for a while before heading home. So, they walked as a tight group around they busy market place. Mungwi, who had fallen behind, hurried to catch up with the group. There was safety in numbers, she knew it. Children from the same village would often stick together as they roamed the streets of Abakwa. Mungwi had heard of several stories of village girls who had been raped and molested by city boys. She knew she wasn’t ripe for marriage yet, as her mother often said. However, the look some of her village men and city men often give her made her aware of the danger always lurking by the corner.
As they walked, they could hear a noise in the distance. It was a huge crowd. They knew the municipal stadium was nearby, so it might be a football or a handball game going on.
After consulting with each other, they decided to go and watch for a couple of minutes. They finally got to the arena. As they stepped in, they quickly realized it wasn’t football nor handball, but an athletic competition. It will still be exciting to watch Mungwi thought as they made their way into the stands.
As they squeezed through the crowd, Mungwi spotted Mr. Ngong, their former physical education teacher. He had been transferred the year before to another school in Abakwa. The children screamed and wave towards the teacher. He waved back, as they sat down. About thirty minutes later, Mr. Ngong walked towards the children and pulled Mungwi aside. He appeared to be nervous.
- “I want to ask you a favor” he said “one of our athletes who were supposed to represent the city is sick. Can you run for us?”
He knew she could run, but surely not good enough to beat well trained athletes that were present.
- “What distance is it?” she asked.
- “It is 3000 meters” he said.
- "How many times do I need to run round the field” she questioned.
- “Seven and a half times” he replied “You don’t need to run that many times. You can do a couple of round and step out. We just need someone to represent our region”.
In fact, Mr. Ngong knew the federation would frown on the idea of a host city not having a representative in that competition. This might impact future athletic funding allocations for the region. Mungwi looked at the track for a moment. She counted from one to seven on her fingers, and looked at the track again. She can do this she said to herself. She could even run twenty times round that field. She accepted the deal.
However, what Mungwi ignored was the fact that this was not just running for fun. It was a competition and the rhythm was no joke. She quickly found out the hard way, as she was left in the dust at the sound of the whistle.
Mungwi hadn’t also been told that among the athletes that stood next to her, was Tegang, the national champion. The vice champion was also present. Mungwi struggled to find her rhythm as the gap between her and the group widened. She trailed behind for the first two round, but slowly began to build some speed.
As Mungwi’s tiny body bounced round the track, she started to gain confidence. Mr. Ngong stood on the sideline and watched the group of athletes as they crossed the end line for the third time. He looked at Mungwi as she struggled to catch up. He had promised her a thousand francs for participating. Couple of seconds later, as she in turn crossed the line, she looked at him and smiled. She had started to close the gap, and was doing so with a lot of ease.
Mungwi finally caught up with the rest of the runners. Instead of slowing down and integrating the group, she maintained her momentum and started to overtake them one after the other.
The crowd, which had been pretty silent up till then, liked what it was seeing. As this tiny girl bounced pass the older athletes, the crowd cheered. Now, she had made her way to a comfortable third position.
At the head of the peloton was Tegang, the national champion. She had been undefeated for the past five years. She was closely followed by the vice champion, as they suddenly break away from the group. They slowly increased their speed, thus increasing the gap between them and the rest of the group lead by Mungwi. This was a short escape. Mungwi quickly caught up with them, leaving the rest of the group behind.
As Mungwi ran, she seemed to be floating in the wind. Her slim feature gave her a certain advantage as she made her way round the track. She seemed determined not to stop anytime soon.
Suddenly, she started to sing the “market song” as she ran. It was a song children from her village often sang. Its enchanting melody gave them rhythm as they run down the hill to the market in the city. She knew all the words, even though the story made no sense to her. It was a story about a young girl who had been chosen by the king to be his fifth wife. However, she was in love with a young farmer instead. So, the night before the wedding, they decided to run away. As she ran with her lover, they were chased by the palace guards. But, their love was so strong that it gave them wings. They were able to escape.
How could love give someone wings? Mungwi thought. Her mind stayed in her fantasy world as her legs kept moving.
Tap! Tap! Tap! They went. She smiled as her footsteps clearly mimicked those of Tegang, who was a couple of feet ahead. Mungwi looked at the champion’s shoes as the gold and red colors glittered in the late morning sun. She wished she had one like that. She then realized how painful her old shoes were. She slowed for a moment, quickly pulled off her shoes and threw them on the curve. As she resumed her race, she felt relieved. She was used to running barefoot anyway. The crowd roared as she went by. The gap between her and the others had suddenly widened. She increased her speed as her bare feet slapped the grown.
Tap! Tap! Tap! They went. The crowd excited by this young barefoot runner started to cheer her up. Slowly, the gap between her and the lead group decreased. She was back with them.
Up till that time, both the champion and her vice had not paid attention to this little girl. Now, as they ran, they looked at each other, wondering how she could sustain such a rhythm. Just two more rounds to go. They had to cut her loose. They simultaneously hit onto the gas pedal and almost doubled their speed.
The champion’s coach who had been watching from the sideline jumped to his feet. He could not believe what he was seeing. It was too early for his athlete to increase speed. She could not sustain such a rhythm over the last two laps. She would burn out too soon.
The coach dashed to the side of the track, and tried to signal his athlete to slow down. She ignored him. This was a tactical mistake, the coach thought. This was not good at all.
In the main time, Mungwi who had been surprised by the sudden speed increase had taken a couple of seconds to adjust. She sped up in order to stay with them. Few seconds later, she was back in contact. They had left the rest of the runners in the dust. The trio gradually increased the gap, and was now out of reach.
Tap! Tap! Tap! They went, and Mungwi smiled. She was having fun. This time however, her lungs were burning. The extra effort put to catch up with the group had taken a toll on her.
Only one lap to go. The champion and her vice were becoming nervous. They had not been able to break away and they were now feeling the consequences. They struggled as lactic acid built up in their legs.
Three hundred meters to go. The vice-champion slowly gave up, letting Mungwi slide into second position. The crowd clapped and shouted as people got to their feet. They could not believe what they were seeing. A tiny village kid challenging the champion. This was truly amazing, people whispered.
Mungwi tried to focus on the champions steps one more time, but the race and its rhythm had taken a toll on her. Her tiny heart bounced in her chest in and effort to keep her going. Two hundred meters to the finish line. The champion attempted another breakaway. Mungwi stuck to her back, increasing her speed accordingly.
- “Mungwi! Mungwi! Mungwi!,” The crowd chanted.
One hundred meters to the finish line. The champion accelerated one last time, but slowed down immediately. The pain in her legs had become too intense. She had burned out. She struggled to put one step in front of the other. Mungwi saw the opportunity. She shifted onto the side, and decided to overtake the champion. The crowd went frantic, as kid sprang along the sideline to accompany the duo. For the next sixty meters, both athletes ran side-by-side in a desperate attempt to cross the line first.
As they came closer to the finish line, Mungwi dug into her final reserve and dove across the line. She staggered and went face first on the ground.
The crowd quickly surrounded Mungwi, chanting and clapping. She had beaten the champion. She had done what no one in this town had ever done. Two solid hands grabbed her from the ground, and raised her to her feet.
- “Give her space to breath!” Someone shouted, as two young men started pushing the crowd away.
- “Don’t let her sit, she needs to keep walking for a while” Another person shouted. The two hands that had grabbed Mungwi earlier firmly supported her, as she slowly walked for a couple of feet.
The roar and shouting from the stadium could easily be heard in the nearby marketplace, as more people ran towards into the arena to see what was happening.
After she had regained her breath, two men grabbed the tiny girl and put on their shoulder and proceeded to run round the field for a victory lap. The crowd of almost a thousand people followed the procession, whistling and clapping.
- “Pirim pirim pim Oyié! pirim pirim pim oyié!” They chanted.
They finally reached the grand stand, were a podium had been set for the medal ceremony. However, the medal could not be awarded before the end of the all the events taking place. They had to wait for about an hour. Mungwi sat on the ground in the soccer field, as Mr. Ngong the teacher took care of the bruises she had sustained when she felt.
Half and hour had gone by, as they sat, waiting for the ceremony. Mr. Ngong the teacher had been going back and forth from the officials to his athlete. He was now in a frantic discussion with one of them. After a couple of minutes, he came back toward the little girl and sat next to her. He appeared sad and frustrated
- “They don’t want to give you the medal” he said “They said you’ve been disqualified”
- “Why?” ask the little girl “What did I do?”
- “It is nothing of your doing” the teacher continued “they said you should not have been allowed to compete in the first place. They said you are not licensed by the federation and you are too young to compete in the senior category”
Mungwi sat motionless.
- “Am I still going to get my thousand francs?” she asked
- “Yes! Of cause you will!” replied the teacher “I did promise you”
- “Ok” she said and shrugged her shoulder.
Minutes later, as Mr. Lubang, the mayor hung the medal onto Tegang, the champion’s neck; Mungwi stood in the crowd and watched. She really felt no sadness. She hadn’t come to the competition to win. She will get her thousand francs from the teacher anyway. That was good enough. She looked around, as people voiced their indignation. This was not fair, they said, the little girl deserved her medal. Soon as the mayor hung the medal on the Tegang’s neck, she took it off. She looked at it for a moment, and descended from the podium. Everybody looked at her, surprised.
Tegang slowly went towards the crowd and pulled out the little girl. She held her hand as they walked back towards the podium. The crowd was silent.
The champion asked Mungwi to climb onto the highest step on the podium and hung the medal on the little girl neck.
- “You deserve this my sister, you are a champion” She said.
She then handed Mungwi the envelop that contained the winner’s prize. The crowd that had been quiet burst into applause and people nodded in approval.
- “God bless you sister” They said, as Tegang made her way through the crowd and left. The crowd decided to make on last victory lap around the field. Mungwi preceded the group. This time she held her medal in the air, as thousand of people followed her chanting and clapping.
As they circled the field, the mayor who had sat down, rose back from his chair. He whispered something into his assistant ear and she quickly headed towards the crowd. She directed them back towards the grand stand were the mayor was seated. The mayor, Mr. Lubang had quickly seen in this a golden opportunity. In fact, he was running for election the next year, and it was never too early to start a campaign.
As the crowd approached, he hastily dug him right hand into his pocket and pulled out a bundle of cash. He tried to count it, but he had no time. The crowd of almost a thousand stood in front of him, and was waiting. He quickly folded the money into his left hand. He called Mungwi to the stand, to stand next to him. He looked into the crowd to make sure the photographers were doing their job. A huge grin crossed his face as camera flashes came from left and right. He then turned and shook the young girl’s hand, pausing again for the pictures. The mayor then looked at the folded bundle of cash in his left hand. There was no time to put it in an envelope. He knew that money was too much for this little girl, but there was no way he could count it to know the exact amount. He half heartedly handed her the money, clearly wishing he had anticipated this. The crowd cheered and clapped for several minutes in sign of approval. The mayor had acted like a “man” they said.
The mayor raised his hand as the crowd suddenly went silent. He then went on to speak for several minutes about his constant effort to promote physical activities in the region, and how he was proud that the hard work is now yielding some fruits. He reminded the crowd that they needed to vote him next year in order for him to continue the good work. By the time the mayor finished his long rant, most of the people had left. Their moment of celebration had suddenly turned into a political campaign. Last to leave the area was Mungwi and her close companions. They headed straight to the village. There was no time to waste.
As they headed back to the village, their market sung was sweeter than it had ever been. As people pass them on the road, they could feel the joy and pride in this bunch of kids.
By the time Mungwi reached the Bamunkwe, the news had already spread. The entire event had been broadcasted on the radio.
All the neighbors had gathered in her father’s compound, to welcome their phenomenal daughter. Pa Ndomgnwe was also present. He smiled as he chewed his cola nut, exposing the few teeth left in his mouth. They had become so brown that no amount of brushing could ever make them white again. He looked at Mungwi as she entered the compound and his smiled grew wider. That was his wife-to-be and he was proud. He walked towards the little girl, but she hastily dodged him and ran towards her mother. Pa Ndomgnwe laughed and looked at the tinny girl as she ran. He was a patient man. A couple more years, and he could claim his prize: Nice, young and sweet.
Mungwi dashed into her mother arms as she reached the middle of the compound. Mother and daughter danced around with joy as the crowd that had gathered around them chanted. They sang songs of praise to Mungwi and the family.
Pa Ndang, Mungwi’s father, stood on his doorway and watched. He waited. A man of his caliber in not supposed to show excitement just like a woman. He had to stay calm.
After several round of dancing, Mungwi who had just spotted her father, broke away from the group. She calmly walked towards the old man. She could not dash into his arm as she would have liked to; that would be inappropriate.
- “Ma Mu!” The old man said, three times in a row. That was how he always called her, in reference to his own mother to whom Mungwi was a namesake. Mungwi loved that name, and she also loved her grand-mother. It was not uncommon in the compound to hear Mungwi been called “big mami” or “grand Ma”
- “I am proud of you my daughter” He said. “You’ve brought honor to this family” The old man continued, as he rubbed the little girls head.Mungwi bowed her head and smiled.
- “I’ve sent your brothers to buy some drinks from the store” he said “Go and dance with the others”
Mungwi turned and started to walk back but quickly remembered she had something for the old man. She came back, dipped her hand into her pocket, pulled out the envelop, the bundle of cash and handed it to her father.
The old man looked at the money, surprised.
- “This is what they gave me after the race” Mungwi said.
Pa Ndang took the package and quickly went back into his room. Mungwi sprang towards the dancing women. The night will surely be long she thought, as neighbor flooded the compound. Men carried palm wine and women brought food the had quickly made for the occasion. Pa Ndang sat on his old mattress and counted the money. His eyes widened with amazement. He could not believe what he was seeing. He counted the money several times to make sure it wasn’t a dream.
He finally put the money into the old milk can he used as bank and shoved it under his bed. He walked back towards the door and hailed his wife. Ma Vero ran towards her husband, still sweating from the acrobatic dance moves she had just made.
Pa Ndang, in an unusual public display of affection, held both the woman’s hands. He then whispered into her ears:
- “Our daughter is going to secondary school”Ma Vero stepped back, surprised.
- “It is true my wife, it is true indeed” Pa Ndang said. “Go and celebrate”
Ma Vero knew her man. He was not one to joke with such matters. She smiled and sprang back to her dancing. Her joy had just been multiplied tenfold.
Pa Ndang slowly walked back into his room to put on his best garment and attend to his visitors.
BY EDMOND NSHEUKO
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FASHION FOCUS: KREYANN
The designer behind the Kreyann label; Anna Ngann Yonn is doing tremendously well in developping her label within the international fashion scene.
Last year at the first Arise Africa Fashion Week in Jo'burg SA, she unveiled a collection with key pieces that were featured in Pride Magazine as seasons must have.
This year, fresh from unveiling at the Labo Ethnik fashion event in Paris Anna shows us that she still has more in her creative books to show the world.
I am in love with her recent collection. I love the fluidity, the femininity and the fusion of vibrant and earthy colours in her designs. Bravo Anna, you are arguably the Number one Camer fashion designer around.
See her new collection below. Enjoy!
Me loves this chic look! The whole image is so just right!
My fav! I want this!
For more info: http://www.kreyann.com/
UN TALENT EBLOUISSANT
It’s been a while and we have been M.I.A with the regular fortnightly interviews here on DC. We apologise and and aim to revert to bringing you the coolest, trendiest, sexiest and most fabulous Cameroonians out there doing great things around the globe so watch out now!
Today we bring you a very talented up and coming designer who despite being out only a short while ago has managed to share the stage with some very successful and well known African designers.
Fresh from her FIMA participation, she also took part in the 6th edition of the Afric Collection fashion event in Douala, Cameroon last February.
Her interview below is in French, le Cameroun est bilingue afterall and we do have some francophone readers frequently visiting DC!
DC : Bonjour Charlotte, merci de nous parler!
CM : Merci à vous aussi c’est un plaisir pour moi de répondre à vos questions.
DC : Qu’est ce qui vous a poussé dans l’industrie de la mode?
CM : Disons que j’avais été orienté pas ma mère qui avait compris très tôt que j’étais faite pour un métier artistique du fait que je passais très souvent mon temps à dessiner.
DC : Que faut-il comme qualités pour faire ce métier?
CM : Déjà il faut avoir beaucoup de patience, croire en ce qu’on fait donc se donner les moyens physiques et psychologiques pour atteindre ces objectifs.
DC : Faut-il une qualification ou un diplôme?
CM : Moi j’ai eu une formation de stylisme à l’institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts Cheikh Anta Diop de Yaoundé, ou j’ai reçu des enseignements qui m’ont permis de mieux comprendre les métiers de la mode mais j’aimerais bien souligner que l’école ne contribue qu’à 30 pourcent et 70pour cent de la formation c’est sur le train.
DC : A-t-il été facile de créer votre marque ?
CM : Je dis toujours que moi je rentre dans le métier un peu au hasard, suite à un devoir de classe que j’envoies à Cultures France pour le concours « l’Afrique est à la mode » sur conseil de mon professeur de classe Christophe Emerit . Et c’est ainsi que je fus sélectionner en 2007 pour participer au concours au FIMA. C’est donc de cette manière que mon nom c’est fait.
DC : Qu’est-ce qui vous inspire?
CM : Ma premier source d’inspiration c’est mon environnement et aussi je m’inspire d’autres créateurs de mode.
DC : Des nouveaux talents qui émergent sur la scène internationale nous viennent du Nigeria et du Ghana, à quand pour le Cameroun?
CM : Je pense que les créateurs camerounais commencent déjà à se faire voir sur la scène internationale comme Imane Ayissi ou encore Anggy Haif.
DC : Que doit faire le Gouvernement du Cameroun pour rehausser son image ?
CM : Le gouvernement camerounais qu’il le veuille ou pas, l’image du Cameroun est reconnue grâce à ses artistes. Qu’il essai d’encourager un peu plus leurs artistes qui se battent corps et âme pour porter plus haut le drapeau camerounais.
DC : Qui aimerez-vous habiller, qu’il soit célèbre ou pas, Africain ou Blanc ?
CM : Alicia Keys !
DC: Vous avez pris part au Festival Internationale de la Mode Africaine (FIMA) au Niger, comment ca se passé?
CM: Le FIMA c’est une grosse plate forme qui regroupe en même temps des créateurs et les médias qui viennent de partout. Il ya un concours de jeunes créateurs qui est organisé pas Cultures France ou les jeunes créateurs viennent présenter leur travail à un jury d’experts. Je dirais aussi que pour cette année 2009, j’ai été l’une des lauréats de ce concours j’ai obtenu le troisième prix. Puis les derniers jours du festival il y’a le grand défilé des créateurs. Le festival en lui-même c’est très bien déroulé.
DC : Quel conseil à votre avis, pouvez-vous donner à quelqu’un qui aspire à faire carrière dans la mode ?
CM : Je lui dirais tout simplement que si c’est le métier qu’il a choisi de faire, qu’il le fasse en s’amusant.
DC: Et voila! Merci pour l’entrevue!
CM: Merci et je vous souhaite déjà santé, bonheur et pour cette année 2010.
Some of her fab designs!
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Numéro de contact: 00237 22 11 78 22/96 32 01 48
Email: charlynemcm@yahoo.fr
Hey guys, hope you are having a wonderful weekend. The sun is shinning, what more could you want?
Thought I should share something wonderful I came across. I find it such a powerful piece and I have to say I am in love with their voices!!
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Stay sweet (literally!)
REVIEW OF THE ECRAN NOIRS FILM FESTIVAL
The Ecran Noir Film Festival 2010 took place in Yaoundé from May 29th to June 5th. Attended by a diverse crowd, the culture and arts connoisseur himself Mr Tito Valery brought DC his review.
The theme capping this 14th edition was “Cinema and literature”, capital points and an indispensable role that serves as compasses to a good movie. This is interesting, especially if you recall the scriptwriter’s strike in Hollywood and its impact on the whole soap and Sci-fi cuts-rail. A good scenario would most probably make a great flick but you don’t want to have pale actors. Bassek himself directing “le silence de la forest” in the late nineties had a good cast but a sure better scenario. If you can, check out the film as I won’t be revealing any details. BBK as he is normally called by his close cast members is a man of literature.
Calyxthe Beyala’s document on the Cameroonian Afro-Parisian jazz artist, Manu Dibango was the movie screening on the opening ceremony on the 29th of May at the Ongola Congress hall. The tradition of “l’amour and le chic” met once again as the red carpet walk saw some of Cameroon’s finest under one roof. Soccer stars such as Pagal, Makanaki and Djemba Djemba stopped for a pose. Representing on the Hip hop and soul front were stars such as the very stormy Valsero and the gracious Corry Deguemo, the female singer of the urban-afro-funk band Macase. Professors, actors, doctors, directors and young dynamic and urban-chic entrepreneurs also represented. Basically, everybody who was somebody was there!
The photographers’ Association handled the paparazzi effect with their black suits and bow-ties which I particularly liked. As if these weren’t enough to change even the shiest ones into Marylyn Monroes and James Deans, the show’s red carpet event aired live on three local television stations.
During the festival, the stage glowed “au village”. The Assiko dance, the traditional initiative dance from the coastal Bassa area, a trippy rhythm built by metal collisions on empty glass bottle xylophones was executed by the artist called “danger-solo”. Avaghys also took over the stage in reggae style with his Afro-reggae Bantu root concept. There was also spoken word by the artist “stone” who dropped a slam to shut the stage down.
After one week of education and entertainment, it is clear that Africa still has not forgotten how to tell its stories. Some more to go! Cut! Now that’s when you say "it’s a wrap!”
Jean Piere Bekolo Obama & Bassek Ba Khobio
Tito & a participant
Let's move from one way of expression to another and just say Go Ghana Go this evening!!
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Liverpool goalkeeper, Alisson blames Van Dijk for his mistake against Leicester City
by Blessing 2/09/2018 | 9:11 0 Posted in Football, Lifestyle, Social Issues, Sports
Liverpool goalkeeper, Alisson Becker, has partly blamed Virgil van Dijk for his mistake in their 2-1 victory over Leicester City on Saturday.
Goals from Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino put Jurgen Klopp’s side in front but Leicester were given a lifeline after Alisson’s blunder resulted in Rachid Ghezzal’s goal.
Van Dijk’s pass back to Alisson forced the Brazilian wide of the goal but the Liverpool goalkeeper botched his turn with the ball and was dispossessed by Nigerian star, Kelechi Iheanacho, who passed the ball across for Ghezzal to slot in.
Alisson has assured Liverpool fans that he will not make the same mistake in future.
He, however, revealed he spoke to Van Dijk after the game about the pass he received from his Liverpool teammate in the build-up to Leicester’s goal.
“It was a reading the play mistake by me,” Alisson told ESPN Brasil.
“I didn’t receive that good of a pass, we spoke about that in the dressing room, I spoke to Virgil, it wasn’t that good of a pass.
“I also had all the conditions to kick the ball away and tried to keep playing, keep the possession.
“Everyone analyses the games. Obviously, I won’t be stupid to make the same mistake.
“We have to learn from our mistakes. But its part of my game, I won’t be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.
“If it is necessary, the dribble has to be the last resource. Unfortunately, today it caused that goal.
“I think that it was a foul, but we can’t support ourselves on that.
“In this kind of play, here in the Premier League, not every collision is a foul.
“In my opinion it was, but it is part of the game, we can’t give room for that to happen on the pitch.”
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EL DORADO SPRINGS POLICE REPORT
May 24, 2018, 1 year ago
In the case of all arrests, it must be remembered that the charge is merely an accusation and all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
NOTE: Anyone having information concerning any alleged crimes are encouraged to contact the police department at 876-TIPS (8477)
On May 14, 2018, officers responded to 302 A South Kirkpatrick Street concerning a reported larceny. The investigation revealed the theft of a cell phone. A report taken and investigation continues.
On May 15, 2018, officers responded to 105 West Cruce Street concerning a reported stolen vehicle. The investigation revealed the theft of a Dark Blue 1994 Ford Ranger, bearing Missouri plate 8FS344. A report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 15, 2018, officers responded to 119 West Fields Street concerning a reported larceny. The investigation revealed the theft of City water and sewer services. A report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 15, 2018, officer responded to 305 South Grand Street concerning a reported assault. A suspect has been identified, a report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 16, 2018, officers responded to 115 North Kirkpatrick concerning a reported larceny from a vehicle. The investigation revealed the theft of a man’s wallet, $400.00 in US Currency, a box of checks and CDs. A report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 16, 2018, officers responded to 211 Hightower concerning a reported Domestic Assault. The investigation resulted in the arrest of Joshua V. Whittle, 36, of El Dorado Springs, for the probable cause of for Class E Felony of Third Degree Domestic Assault. Officers completed a Probable Cause Statement for the charge. The Cedar County Prosecuting Attorney advised to release on summons. Whittle was released on summons pending a court appearance.
On May 17, 2018, officers responded to 402 South Ohio Street concerning a reported stolen vehicle. The investigation revealed the theft of a 2012 Oldsmobile passenger car. A suspect has been identified, report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 17, 2018, officers arrested Aaron W. Plummer, 35, of El Dorado Springs, for an El Dorado Springs Municipal Warrant, charging him with Failure to Appear to Answer to Possession of Drug Paraphernalia with a bond of $225.50. He was released on bond pending a court appearance.
On May 18, 2018, officers arrested William Soban, 32, of El Dorado Springs for an El Dorado Springs Municipal Court Warrant, charging him with Failure to Appear on the original charge of Dog Running at Large with a $226.50 bond. He was release on recognizance pending a court appearance.
On May 19, 2018, officers arrested Brent A Ballinger, 36, of El Dorado Springs for a Probation Violation Warrant, for the original charge of Domestic Assault with a Capias bond, a Cedar County, charging him with Failure to Appear on four counts of Stealing, with a $5,000.00 cash bond and two Bolivar Warrants, charging him with Failure to Appear on the original charge of Driving While Revoked/Suspended, with a $100.00 and Failure to Appear on the original charge of Careless and Imprudent Driving, with a $100.00 cash bond. He was transferred to the Cedar County Jail pending court appearances.
On May 19, 2018 officers responded to 200 McCrary Circle Apt 1, concerning a reported burglary. A report taken and the investigation continues.
On May 20, 2018, officers responded to 809 South Kirkpatrick Street concerning a reported larceny. The investigation revealed the theft of a Remington Model 42, Semiautomatic rifle in .30-06 Springfield caliber, a single shot 16 gauge shotgun and a Skil 18 volt cordless drill. A report taken and the investigation continues.
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY SHERIFF
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Services for Billy Joe Leonard, 75, are pending at Sheldon Funeral Home, El Dorado Springs. He passed away at his home on July 16, 2019/ He was born July 5, 1944.
Services for Elton Don Maslen will begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 17, in Bland-Brumback Funeral Home, Stockton. Visitation will begin at 9 a,m. in the funeral home.
Services for John L. Culler, 67, will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 27, in Sheldon Funder Home, El Dorado Springs. Visitation will be from 10 - 11 Tuesday in Sheldons.
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Electronic Hot Sale > Blog > Computers > House launches pre-impeachment agenda this week – Washington Examiner
House launches pre-impeachment agenda this week – Washington Examiner
House Democrats this week plan to begin making the case for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants the caucus to stay away from impeachment, but to mollify her pro-impeachment faction, she has sanctioned hearings as well as votes citing two Trump administration officials with contempt of Congress.
The action starts Monday in the House Judiciary Committee where lawmakers plan to hold a series of hearings to examine the findings in the 448-page Mueller report, which Democrats believe show Trump broke the law.
On Tuesday, lawmakers will vote on a resolution to cite Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn with contempt of Congress.
The hearings, Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said, will focus on “the alleged crimes and other misconduct laid out in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.”
Democrats hope it will shift public sentiment in favor of impeachment of Trump for various offenses, including a refusal to cooperate with a broad array of House investigations conducted by their party. Polls show a majority of voters do not support impeachment although the number has ticked up slightly recently.
“I’m hoping all these hearings that we have will allow us not only a chance to get into the legal pieces of this but really the implications for our democracy if we concentrate power in one person,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said. “That’s called a king. What we have is a president and a democracy and three co-equal branches of government.”
The star witness at Monday’s hearing is John Dean, a key Watergate figure who served as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon.
While Dean served time in prison for obstruction of justice, he’s been a staunch critic of Trump and attacks him regularly on Twitter and on cable news shows.
Dean, Democrats hope, can help the public understand the similarities between the Watergate scandal, which forced Nixon’s resignation, and President Trump, who they believe tried to obstruct Mueller’s two-year inquiry into alleged Russian collusion with his campaign.
The hearing, Nadler said, will focus on Trump’s “most overt acts of obstruction” while subsequent hearings will feature “other important aspects of the Mueller report.”
Dean has made the case that Trump’s alleged wrongdoing in office generally is worse than anything that pushed out Nixon.
“Trump is making the long nightmare of Nixon’s Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream,” Dean tweeted in November. “History will treat Nixon’s moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump’s sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil.”
Tuesday’s contempt vote will shift to federal district court the fight between Congress and Trump over access to material and witnesses from his administration.
Democrats want to cite Barr with contempt for refusing to turn over the unredacted version of the Mueller report while McGahn faces their wrath for declining to appear as a witness at a public hearing.
They will vote on a civil contempt resolution, which will leave it up to the courts to decide whether the Trump administration was legally entitled to hold back witnesses and documents Democrats want to see.
In Barr’s case, the redacted material must remain concealed by law. Democrats are mainly angry at him for his four-page memo declaring the Mueller report cleared President Trump of obstruction and collusion.
Democrats believe Barr lied to them and that Mueller found evidence of obstruction.
The courts have greenlighted Democrats recently in their quest to subpoena access to Trump’s financial documents, which they want to scour for crimes.
“We have already seen the courts side with Congress and we’ll continue to pursue the facts on behalf of the American people,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Friday. “We will follow the facts wherever they lead.”
Ultimately pro-impeachment Democrats, who are still only a fraction of the caucus, hope the actions they take beginning this week will shift the polls in favor of impeachment.
A June 4 Hill-HarrisX poll found only 35% of respondents favored impeachment, compared to 45% who aren’t in favor of it and 20% who are undecided.
Nadler, in a CNN interview last week, acknowledged there is not enough support for impeachment but believes it would grow if more people heard about the facts of the case.
“Right now, we have to get the facts out, we have to educate the American people, because after all, the American people have been lied to consistently by the president, by the attorney general, who have misrepresented what was in the Mueller report,” Nadler said.
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8th Baby, Kids & Family Expo Philippines 2018
By: by Mediacom Solutions Inc.
Baby, Kids & Family Expo Philippines [BKFEP] is the country’s largest consumer and trade show for Baby, Kids, Maternity, Parenting and Family Products and Services, featuring over 100 Exhibitors, 150 Brands in 1,384sqm Exhibit Space and attracts over 10,000 Visitors.
The 8th Baby, Kids & Family Expo Philippines will be held on September 01-02, 2018 at the Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
BKFEP is the perfect place to find the best products and services for your baby and your growing family. This 2-day event is filled with fun activities, entertainment, free parenting seminars, mascot special appearances, playground areas, arts and craft stations and much more.
BKFEP caters to modern parents as well as industry professionals. The show features also international brands from Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, Belgium and the USA.
Now on its eighth edition, Baby, Kids & Family Expo Philippines has become the Marketplace for expecting parents and parents to source for reliable and safe products, as well as the go-to place to get up-to-date information and tips on pregnancy and modern parenting from industry experts.
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What (if anything) can be done about the IPCC?
By Don AitkinAugust 4, 2014Climate Change, Environment, History, Media, Politics, Religion, Research
Although it has lost some of the status it once had, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change is still a formidable body, and acts as a dead weight on attempts to change the nature of the ‘climate change’ debate. While its last (Fifth) Assessment Report was less forthright than its predecessor about the immediate necessity to decarbonise the world, that is still its preferred option, though it does now talk more about ‘adaptation’.
In Paris next year there will be an important meeting of the countries that believe that there needs to be an international treaty about ‘climate change’, and even though at the moment I think such a treaty has Buckley’s chance of succeeding, the IPCC’s recent report will underpin the discussion.
I’ve said much of what follows before, in different essays, and I return to the subject in part because two British MPs, both of them scientists, have voted against an approving House of Commons evaluation report on the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report (5AR) because, they say, we believe the role of the Select Committee is to hold public institutions critically to account, not to act as their cheer leaders.
They go on: As scientists by training, we do not dispute the science of the greenhouse effect – nor did any of our witnesses. However, there remain great uncertainties about how much warming a given increase in greenhouse gases will cause, how much damage any temperature increase will cause and the best balance between adaptation to versus prevention of global warming.
What hope did they have when the Royal Society, in its submission to the Committee, gave 5AR a huge tick? The Royal said this: The latest report confirms that there is unequivocal evidence for a warming world, largely caused by greenhouse gases emitted by human activities. The IPCC report is based solely on publicly available, peer-reviewed studies by thousands of scientists across a wide range of disciplines. The main conclusions are robust and reflect the range of uncertainty, as well as the established science, according to leading climate scientists in the UK and abroad… there is an overwhelming consensus regarding its fundamentals. Climate science has a firm basis in physics and is supported by a wealth of evidence from real world observations.
There’s no critical scrutiny in any of that, and a great deal is glossed over. The two MPs directed the bulk of their criticisms at the highly political Summary for Policy Makers that preceded the publication of the scientific reports, and they offer seven objections to the whole thing, which you can read. I agree with each of them. They conclude by saying: These issues were raised during the Committee’s inquiry. It is unfortunate that they were not dealt with in the Committee’s report.
There you have it. The IPCC can’t be criticised, and though anyone who does a comparison (dozens have) will see that 5AR is more cautious, more uncertain and more turgid in its prose than its predecessor, the IPCC is still singing the same hymn. Weirdly, its confidence about its conclusions is apparently greater than it was, though at the same time, it is plainly more conscious of uncertainty.
So, what can be done about it? The IPCC is a political body, formed by governments to present scientific conclusions. John Zillman, the Australian meteorologist who once headed both the Bureau of Meteorology and the World Meteorological Organisation, has written of the inherent tension within the body: The IPCC is probably unique in attempting to use a formal UN-style intergovernmental mechanism to produce an objective scientifically-credible assessment of scientific knowledge. The achievement, in terms of informed dialogue between the scientific and policy communities, has been substantial but the process has been fraught with enormous tensions.
My view is that the tensions have overpowered the science, so that each of these reports has been progressively more agenda-driven, while the evidence to support the agenda has become decreasingly persuasive.
The basic problem is that the IPCC was set up not to study climate change, but only the human activities that lead to climate change, and ‘climate change’ has been so defined! The result is that ‘natural variability’ is not part of its remit, and seems largely to be ignored. But such was the brouhaha at the time of the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 that every country agreed that that was what had to be done, and 21 years later we are still doing it.
The only way forward, it seems to me, is that a country like Australia instructs its delegates to move towards better science — fewer papers about what will happen to the gnutless gnat if temperatures rise, and more about the impact of clouds, the components of natural variability, and the need for adaptation to all serious weather events. And to follow its advice with its funding.
Many want the IPCC abolished. I don’t see that happening, really. There is far too much invested in it, not just in terms of money but in terms of political credibility too. Change has to come from within, and it is national governments that have to do it, by damping down the messianic greensters who seem to infest every climate meeting.
Such a lot of money has been wasted over the last two decades in the search for the anti-CO2 silver bullet. It’s time for governments to try a more sober, less hysterical approach to weather and climate. Mr Hunt is the person in the right place to start.
[Afterthought: I wrote some time ago that our own equivalent to the Royal Society was going to publish a new statement on climate science in mid-2014. Well, it hasn’t appeared yet. It will be interesting to see the extent to which it takes a more cautious view both about what has happened, and what might happen.]
Peter Kemmis says:
It may be that observing the AGW saga has led to my being overly sensitive to the absence of rigorous thinking in much public discussion. Perhaps also I am more exacting in what I now expect; I may have been far less aware (and too busy with other cares) in my younger years, to be able today to bring a balanced view; it may be that much public thinking was just as sloppy years ago.
My strong impression is that the pro-AGW position arises from the same basic factors underlying many other public issues. Once it could have been called “anti-establishment” – the conviction that as so much is clearly not right with the world, the wrongs can be fixed only by going in the opposite direction. In the 1960s, it was indeed anti-establishment, but over the decades those contrasting ideas have become accepted by the establishment. So now the climate sceptics are indeed anti-establishment today.
So I see the same sloppy thinking of the pro-AGW enthusiasts in Australia’s public discussions on asylum seekers, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, federal budgets and welfare, aboriginal disadvantage, human rights, logging in native forests . . . it is an extensive list. The more emotionally-driven the participants, the more likely are they to adopt what is generally seen as a politically left view. (Note: I have a history of voting on both sides of politics – but not simultaneously, may I assure the Electoral Commissions.)
What I’m getting at is that we face the same slow grind back to reality as Don implies, in almost every significant area of public policy. It’s a sad thing that it often takes the extraordinary pain of a war on one’s doorstep, to bring people quickly to reality. Often I think that many who complain about the impact of federal budget changes to their various allowances, would gain much from a trip back in time even to sixty years ago, and then to the Great Depression, to appreciate the meaning then of hardship.
The IPCC and the pro-AGW forces are now being heard less frequently, I suspect, but they repeat the same strident calls for action, and the same warnings of catastrophe, pushed further into the future now, as Nature has not been paying the attention to them as it should. We are slowly grinding ouw way back to good judgment about the climate, but I wonder if the lessons of all this nonsense will be applied to all those other areas of public discussion.
Peter you are usually quite reasonable and thoughtful in what you post. But to imply as you do that the concept of “aboriginal disadvantage” is an example of “sloppy thinking” is ridiculous. Wake up to yourself!
So what is you definition of “sloppy thinking”? Any view that does not correspond with your own?
So , is Jenny Macklin a sloppy thinker or Linda Burney? People from both sides of the political divide have appreciated the efforts that both of these politicians have put into the management of “aboriginal disadvantage”. Is Noel Person a sloppy thinker? In my view, although these people may have differing views, all of them are quite astute thinkers.
In my view I think anyone who would seek simultaneously analyse asylum seekers, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, federal budgets and welfare, aboriginal disadvantage, human rights, logging in native forests along with AGW, and produce meaningful inferences, is a sloppy thinker.
And there I was, thinking my vitriolic outburst of yesterday would waste its foulness on the desert air . . .
David, I was not simultaneously analysing those issues; I mentioned them as examples where emotion often precludes thorough examination of the subject matter. Each of two opposing policies may be based on some quite good principle; here’s an example of what I mean in aboriginal policy. Non-intervention is based on the principle of self-determination, while intervention is based on the principle of protecting the vulnerable. What I see in this particular policy debate is the common tendency of participants to be firmly wedded to one principle and its apparent policy imperative, to the exclusion of other issues behind which equally sound principles apply.
Such limitations to the scope of the discourse I consider to be examples of sloppy thinking. And I can be as guilty as the next person of sloppy thinking, and certainly have been. Disagreement with my views is always salutary, as it forces me to review the adequacy of my own thinking. I hope I have not been sloppy in our discussion here.
Actually, I agree with much of what Noel Pearson has been arguing for many years. I have considerable respect for Jenny Macklin – I think she is very genuine, and a clear thinker. I have not followed Linda Burney’s career – perhaps I should, as I think one of my daughters would have voted for her, as she is in that electorate. An individual’s participation in a debate on any one of those examples I listed where emotion over-crowds reason quite often, does not mean that individual is a sloppy thinker. I implied nothing of the sort, and am surprised at your inference. And I certainly never mentioned their names, or anyone else’s.
Nor did I say that “aboriginal disadvantage” is an example of sloppy thinking. It is one example among a number where sloppy thinking occurs quite frequently. Aboriginal disadvantage is real, all right. How best to address it, is the tricky bit.
Perhaps in the light of this response, you might care to read again what I had first written.
Now permit me to have another free-wheeling ramble (oops, mixed metaphors, anyone?). Western societies contain many who have achieved comfortable levels of education and living standards, levels achieved on the backs of hard-working antecedents, most of whom probably endured very tough lives compared to our own. Do we get to a point where we feel guilty, ready to blame ourselves and our human race for anything and everything? It seems a lot of public discussion on many issues is tarred with a negativism, and often almost a dismissal of many of the great achievements won at great cost. We are living on the fruits of those efforts, and have the effrontery to deride them.
Peter, I find so much more interesting the debates about issues that bring immediate recognition of the lives we as Australians are living right now.
AGW – what can we do? Nothing. Two sides of deep hubris locked in their own bubbles.
Aboriginal disadvantage – what can we do? At least as individuals we can recognise for a start that ‘the great achievements won at great cost that we now have the effrontery to deride’ were achieved at the beginning by foul means not fair in the case of our colonial forbears who ‘explored’ ‘terra nullius’ and found that Australia Felix etc. was up for the taking as long as we could civilise (read dispossess and worse) ‘the natives’ (colonial language).
If we can’t recognise the frontier wars fought over the country we now enjoy the fruits of then Australia will never grow up and never become wise.
It’s really pleasing to hear from you again; for myself, we’ve been away on a short holiday, hence my absence.
I agree with you that we should be concerned very much with the present, and where we think we’re going. Lessons can be gained from spilt milk, but the milk has been spilt, and we must move on constructively, which I think is indeed your point.
Your frustration over the AGW “debate” is understandable, and your image exquisite. But I don’t think the debate is static, any more than is the climate. A major reason I think it is worth my spending time on it, is that I think the divide is symptomatic of a much deeper problem, to which I’ve alluded above.
So let’s turn to the point you make concerning white settlement in Australia. I do not think it was all by foul means. There was a lot of “sweat and tears” that was quite independent of the real displacement and worse which you note. There was also good that was done. Recently I read more of Mary Durack’s story, for example, and what she had to say about relationships with aboriginal stockmen and their families. My own parents (Dad was a country parson), always spoke well and kindly of the aborigines in Wilcannia (where he served in the early 1930s), and the boys in a home in Mulgoa in the early 1940s (also NSW). Sure, I understand more of the story behind that, but we see with greater understanding now. For comparison, today we would pause about sending a son off to boarding school at the age of seven, but yesterday this was common in many families. There was not the understanding then of the psychological significance of separation. Ignorance doesn’t justify the action, but it goes quite some way to dissipate the charge of “intent to do harm”.
The term “frontier wars” I would have thought could be used to describe much of the conflict between the early Europeans and native Indian tribes in the U.S., or whites and blacks in southern Africa in the 19th century. I wouldn’t use that term for what happened here.
There is indeed no gilding the lily; a 1788 society with its technology arrives in a strange and apparently very difficult land, occupied by what appears to be a small population, of a hunter-gatherer people using stone age technology. A society with a range of diseases that we know decimated the local population around Sydney, despite Arthur Phillip’s efforts to treat the people well.
This sorry history should not dictate how we approach the problem of aboriginal disadvantage now. Should I treat the descendants of our former enemies with disdain, because undoubtedly some of their forbears treated mine badly (and vice versa, of course)? Should I claim special privilege, because my wife’s antecedents came out here as convicts in 1814 and 1816, and by today’s standards were probably abominably treated? No, we should deal with people on the basis of need, not on the basis of race, or of the distant past. As you say, these are the lives we as Australians are living right now. We can’t shape good policy out of a sense of guilt, out of trying to redress wrongs. Wrongs are best redressed by thoughtful long-sighted policies based on real understanding, not emotive appeals.
As examples of these approaches, there are two excellent contrasting examples as opinion pieces in today’s issue of The Australian newspaper (5th August 2014).
Mike O'Ceirin says:
Peter don’t forget those who are accused of atrocities against aboriginals in the past are as much ancestors of the aboriginals of today as they are ours.
Thanks for that important factoid, Mike.
Your point being? I’m reminded of my father and mother travelling to Scotland when they retired. They met an englishman who asked where they were from. When my father said Australia he laughingly but unmistakeably slurred them with “oh you australians are all descended from convicts aren’t you?”
Dad was quick – he instantly said “well just remember, they were English convicts.”
Totally right many of the aboriginals of today are descendants of English convicts. As for myself my mother’s English family were free settlers coming to NSW in the 1850’s the other side is a bit obscure my Grandfather served a sentence in Goulburn jail for horse stealing. None of them had any involvement with aboriginals. On the other hand I have a daughter in law who is 1/4 Aboriginal and similarly an aboriginal grand daughter.
I suggest reading “The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One And Three” plus ”
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past” by Keith Windschuttle. More than likely the Post Modernists have invented much that is believed about Aboriginal history for their own advantage.
To get a realistic view what for the Aboriginal is reality look here http://theblacksteamtrain.blogspot.com.au/ and pay attention to Bess Price’s writings rather than the rent seeker populists.
Well I haven’t read your link yet but I’m interested in this idea of being 1/4 or 1/8 etc. of any ancestry – it seems to hark back to American plantation slavery – because I have English and Scottish ancestry and I would never fractionalise it. It’s really weird to me. Your ancestry is what it is and you just accept that but you don’t make a mathematical assessment of how much of each is in your heritage.
Only if the colour of your skin is in question perhaps????
It needs explanation, maybe I’m light on this understanding. Would one say they were 1/4 Scandinavian and 1/2 Indonesian and 1/8 Spanish etc.?
I will try to source those articles but do not subscribe to The Australian I think the Australian has a great advantage in its name and the fact that it’s our only national newspaper – whether or not it’s balanced journalism I just don’t know as I don’t read it often enough and it, unlike other newspapers it keeps its news behind a pay wall. That, for a start seems … something to consider.
I disagree with the view held by too many Australians locked in a mind-set that the first nations were merely hunter-gatherers roaming at will around the vast country – the old convenient ‘gone walkabout’ romance that hides the inconvenient truths of a very complex group of societies. Here in Victoria there was scurrilous land grabbing and consequent defence of that. I don’t believe in black armband but I do believe that white blindfolds are still worn. Massacre sites abound and so does evidence of stone houses lived in by peoples who were not willing to just move on and allow the Major Mitchell and Governor LaTrobe types to encouraged or fail to control the greedy squatters on Australia Felix. Some became our ‘finest’ families whose names adorn our major points of interest and streets and have statues erected to their posterity.
I can’t argue dispassionately, it’s neither my nature or my training but I do read – and I like to read more deeply than white Australian colonial history. It’s a history shared by all who loved Empire building – progress ensued for many but for goodness sake why keep hiding the facts of how we now enjoy this fabulous country while its original inhabitants still struggle and have righteous anger or disillusion about the lack of respect and dignity shown to them.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/australian-war-memorial-should-recognise-revised-aboriginal-death-toll-researcher-20140716-ztqr6.html
Margret,
I know you and I are on the same page with this.
If this figure of 65,000 dead in Queensland alone, is accurate then the Frontier Wars were clearly the most deadly of ANY war campaign that Australia has been involved. I think the War Memorial accepts a figure of 22,000.
I think where possible it would appropriate to have the names of Aboriginal and Colonial soldiers who died in the conflict added to the honor roll at the War Memorial.
And surely no war has been more central to our national identity than the Frontier Wars. My understanding is that the War Memorial has over the years been keen to give greater focus to these wars, but the RSL has opposed the
There is no reason why Aboriginal warrior like Multuggerah should not be recognized along with Sir John Hindmarsh or Sir Weary Dunlop as one Australia’s finest soldiers.
You and Margaret have spurred me into some further reading. While I recognise that records of conflict and their results, as well as of decimation through displacement and disease, are incomplete, I like to be able to differentiate between figures based on contemporary records, and conjecture. Not that I disregard the latter, but I like to know how estimates are derived, and on what reasonably certain information they are based. So I will read further.
However, I consider very firmly that policy should be based on need, not on history. History may motivate us to look deeper, may encourage our compassion, but what should guide policy is today’s needs, not yesterday’s failures and injustices. Surely the last fifty years of failed aboriginal policies should have taught us that flaw.
Incidentally, I don’t think Mike’s comment is a factoid – Wikipedia defines that as an unverified, false or fabricated statement. Given the inter-mingling over the years, I’d think it reasonable that his statement would be true for some number of cases. Should we then be arguing that a full-blood aboriginal today is by virtue of lineage, more deserving of welfare services than one whose great-grandfather was aboriginal, but whose other antecedents were Anglo-Saxon? (If I have my maths right, that’s a 1/8th aboriginal lineage).
Yes David, thanks for the link, we are on the same page here. I think Professor Evans put it succinctly – “you have to read the page before you can turn the page”. I recently visited both the war memorial and the museum of australia. I see what the AWM represents – to my eye it’s glorification of our participation in wars in a ‘wow we aussies are top blokes’ way – could be a bridge too far to ever see our participation in frontier wars as ‘we english, irish, scottish (yet to become Australians) were top blokes back then weren’t we?’
You may care to look at my further reponse to David, as you both have persuaded me to read further on the issue. Thank you.
You’re welcome – “you have to read the page before you can turn the page” jumped out at me from the Brisbane Times article that David provided the link to.
“I am not going to feel guilty about something that happened a long long time ago” asserted by John Howard (well words to that effect) during his time in office really meant in translation that the book that the unturned page is on was hidden in the dusty attics – the minds of those who were victorious.
And, further to your comment Peter, just as all we white Australians have interesting and mixed ancestry so do the first Australians many of whom when we colonised their land became our ‘comfort women’ and produced as a result two centuries later many of our country’s modern Australians? Whether times dictate that we should be ashamed or proud of having convict ancestors, indigenous ancestors, jewish ancestors, muslim ancestors or ancestors of any nationality or religion, why do those of so-called pure blood deem themselves as superior?
http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Aboriginal+History+Volume+34,+2010/5611/ch03.xhtml#footnote-13499-89
I agree with your views above; our origins “pure” (whatever we think that means) or not, never prescribe superiority (and whatever that means).
OK, as promised since my last response here I’ve read two books so far as well as an 1865 lengthy speech by a pastoralist explorer, have two others on hand, and two on request from the library. Some years ago I read Robert Hughes “The Fatal Shore” and Manning Clark’s “A Short History of Australia”. So this time I started with John Connor’s “The Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838”. There was no incident in his account that surprised me, I suppose because I am well aware of what has been expressed for many years. However, I think his drawing a parallel with frontier wars is not one I would draw. I received the impression from his comparisons with such “wars” in other colonies, that he was trying to prove a point, rather than let the accounts he references justify that as a conclusion. I turned to this book first, as I didn’t want my thinking skewed by my second book, which (perhaps to your horror) is Keith Windschuttle’s “The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Vol 1”, which deals with Tasmania, about which there are evidently more complete records than for most of the mainland.
I have been aware for some time that Windschuttle has expressed views quite contrary to what has seemed to be the mainstream today. I have wondered “Is he denying what really happened? If so, why?”. Well, having pursued history in my degree studies years ago, I’ve never lost interest in it; in fact, my interest today is greater than it ever was. What strikes me about this book is its reliance on primary sources, and its care in the examination of reported cases of aboriginal deaths and alleged massacres.
In a critical review (15 March 2010 – see http://inside.org.au/windschuttle-again/) Dean Ashenden says “Windschuttle’s temperament is a barrister’s, not a historian’s”, and criticises him for not applying “a puzzling, curious, synthesising intelligence drawn to make the best available sense of whatever bits and pieces the past has left lying about”. Well, I’m rather appalled at what scope for invention such an approach to history would provide. I prefer history that relies first on evidence, supported by qualification over its reliability, as well as the context of the evidence.
Windschuttle’s attention to evidence, and his careful cross-checking against other sources, I found to be thorough and informative. The two books on my waiting list are by Henry Reynolds and Lyndall Ryan; Windschuttle has taken both to task over their presentation of this part of the history.
I’ll leave you to decide whether you might countenance reading his work; you might disagree with his conclusions, but I suspect you will be impressed by his “forensic” approach.
Let me tell you an interesting story. I started school not till the age of six, nearly seven, near the foothills of Sydney’s Blue Mountains, not long after WW2 had ended. Soon after I started at school, a boy of about nine was telling me one day as we leaned over the fence, that you had to be careful when taking a train up the mountains, because at the further stations “the aborigines would board the train, and pull you off and kill you”. I remember well thinking at the time “But if people know that, why would they still take the train? And why would the engine driver (they were steam trains then) keep driving up there? And why wouldn’t they kill him?” Perhaps that was my first lesson in scepticism.
But as I think about it now, what was the context of old stories, old fears, that had been passed down through perhaps two generations to reach the ears of a nine year old? Rather sad, really; but it does emphasise how important it is to be factual.
Wow, I can’t hope to keep up with the speed of your reading Peter. I once did a speed reading course – it made me very good at skimming and ‘grasping the principle’ but now I luxuriate in (and sometimes labour over) the books I read. This isn’t to say that I think you have skimmed – you are just a faster reader. I think that speed reading course did me no service actually.
My understanding of things in the years of 1788-to say 1850 is that there were not many ‘bits and pieces left lying about’ and an oral culture needs to be passed on by its elders.
Also, I lived in a town and went to school for a couple of years with some aboriginal children in my class and also read Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Pritchard as a teenager, and Patricia Wrightson as a young teacher so I expect I’m with Dean Ashenden on my approach to ‘the facts’. I can bet that Keith Windschuttle is extremely forensic and intellectually would cut me to ribbons but … I’m not likely to be swayed and his ilk are an anathema to me.
Yes, that story is a good one. Here’s another – my grandfather, city born and bred visited us while we were in the country. He was sitting on the front verandah when an aboriginal rode past on a bicycle – he called out excitedly to my grandmother – “Mollie they can ride bicycles!!” Do I think any less of him for this? No I don’t. But doesn’t it say something about how the aboriginal presence was purposefully ignored, belittled and made to disappear during the times he was growing up?
And, another story – my friend and neighbour in Sydney, when we were about 9, told me that unless I became a Catholic I would not be going to heaven. She told me this in my best interests, a brainwashed child prosletysing (darn can’t spell it), I wasn’t able to be as sceptical as you were over the matter of the train journey, as it was during those very divisive years of Anglicans vs Catholics.
And I’m not sure I can keep up with the promptness of your response! But here I am at my desk, with a cup of tea. Just love your story, although you did fail as a proselyte! And I agree about Grandpa’s lack of knowledge. In my 20s I would come across quite disparaging references. I don’t know whether it was “made to disappear”, but I suspect that the Depression and WW2 were far more to the forefront than aboriginal/white history and attitudes. We never talked about convict ancestry either, although I know my dear Mum would have been quick (and accurate) to deny it!
But that doesn’t stop us seeking to ensure our historical knowledge is firmly based. It’s too easy to let the heart rule the head. And with actions taken now, it’s critical to base them on current need, not on past wrongs. Not that the past wrongs don’t motivate us to take action, but level of need as you implied earlier, is not based on quality (or colour) of lineage.
You can make up your own mind, but I don’t think Windschuttle is at all attempting to justify one side or the other. This seems to be completely misunderstood. What he is criticising is what he sees as inadequate historical research and analysis. I suspect much of the flack he still receives is because he has pointed out serious errors of fact.
So as well as considering Ashenden’s reflections, would you care to have a look at some from the other side here – http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/Dissenters/windschuttle.htm ?. I’ve found with this subject, as I have beforehand with AGW, that I have to make up my own mind, and that means to examine both sides. (BTW, made some lovely pea and ham soup the other day; must do a curry for tonight!)
Peter, minestrone is on my menu. Tonight I’m seeing Coranderrk at the local town hall – it has had a season at the Belvoir and is on tour again. I’ve noted your reading suggestions and have another for you . It is Convincing Ground: learning to fall in love with your country by Bruce Pascoe. A review by an historian Paul Burns ends with these words – “This beautifully written book, with its fierce determination to recognise and right the wrongs of history, is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where aboriginal people are coming from. Some passages may unduly perturb university-trained historians like myself, or mightily disturb the general reader. That is partly the author’s intention. But it is sometime’s a good thing to have one’s ideas so shaken up that one is forced to rethink them.”
Hmm, “right the wrongs of history” ? Good luck with that one, Paul Burns. Where would you like to start? Could we also include the wrongs done to many of the early convicts?
It seems to me that our attempts to right the wrongs exacted on aboriginals in the past, we have followed policies that have failed lamentably.
Margaret, I’m still reading, very busily. I hope to get to Burns in due course, but there are many tomes on the subject already. What does he add that is new?
I’ll be reading “Whitewash” today (anthology – ed Robert Manne). Are you reading some on the other side of the fence? My own ideas on the subject are being quite shaken up after years of accepting what I’ve mostly heard over the last fifty years. I’m looking for evidence and sound argument.
Sorry for the prompt reply Peter, but I have some grandparenting to do this weekend – no I think Paul Burns knows the wrongs of history can’t be righted – it’s Bruce Pascoe who wrote the book and it is admittedly a polemic.
I’m just about exhausted with the subject matter for now so am moving to read something that’s been on my shelf for quite a while Old Filth by Jane Gardam, but thank you for the Inside Story website link – its Indigenous Affairs section is very comprehensive.
Have a lovely weekend!
Well if I accept there was an Aboriginal Nation who were not hunter gathers I have many questions.
1. Where was the centre of the Nation politically?
2. How were disputes settled?
3. Who were the leaders of the Nation?
4. What held the groups together so that it was recognisable as a nation?
5. What means was used to conduct trade?
6. What crops did they cultivate?
7. How were wild animals prevented from eating those crops?
8. How were these crops stored for times of scarcity?
9. Was there interracial conflict over land?
1. Politically? There were many nations. It wasn’t Greek style democracy. There was no Westminster system, you would not have fitted in.
2. Rough justice is how you would see it but you are not them.
3. There were many amazing leaders – William Barak was one in colonial times.
4. Their tribal skin groups, inter-marriage wasn’t allowed. Hence yes, some wife stealing occurred (sound familiar to our society?)
5. Visits and trading for each other’s specialised goods like ochre and stone tools.
6. The yam daisy and firestick agriculture.
7. They didn’t stop ‘wild animals’ from eating anything.
8. Eels were smoked, not sure how the tuber crops were stored.
9. No it was mainly over women I think (sound familiar?)
I’m sure there are better sources for your questions to be answered than me.
Keith Windschuttle wouldn’t be one of them.
Well if you cannot support you beliefs and wish to present nonsense so be it. Windschuttle has the best evidence we can get about the Aboriginal history. Well referenced and based on reality. The change from hunter gather tribes to agrarian society was an enormous change. One side effect is that then land became valuable so conflict occurred.
So your answer to point 9 means yes there was no nation there were many disparate hunter gather stone age tribes.
Forget the past and try to address the present it far more important. The plight of disadvantaged aboriginal in remote areas is tragic and a product of the bleeding heart brigade who live in a world of postmodernist imaginings. They and their children live a incredibly violent life coupled with sexual abuse. Meanwhile hands off the noble savage is promulgated by the useful twits.
I will not bother with this any more it is an exercise futility. Obviously you will not examine why our views differ even to extent of looking at Dallas Scotts blog or finding out who Bess Price is an what she says.
Well I did read the black steam train blog and the coffee and milk analogy entry was pretty lame.
Now I’m going to find out about Bess Price. But I agree, let’s discontinue the futile exercise of reading from different books and attempting to discuss the same content written through different lenses.
However, I agree the theme is a tragedy.
Margaret, I do know of eel traps and fishing systems that suggest people who had settled, at least for a long time. But I’ve never heard of stone houses. Can you give me a reference?
Yes, here’s one straight from the australian government website. Scroll down to western victoria.
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-indigenous-architecture
And this is another:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s993544.htm
Hi David – I think you mean Noel Pearson, a very admirable person who would seem to be in fairly strong disagreement with Jenny ‘I could live on the dole’ Macklin. I think it is fair to question whether or not Macklin’s policies have helped aboriginal Australians at all, but since Peter made no mention of the people you list, as is often the case, I am finding it difficult to follow your logic. Surely you don’t think there is no sloppy thinking in any of the areas Peter listed?
L A P Wilson says:
“Weirdly, its confidence about its conclusions is apparently greater than
it was, though at the same time, it is plainly more conscious of
Don – as I read it its a matter of arithmetic games which allows the IPCC politico/scientists who write the Summary to be able to declare lower certainty, but higher probability. The earliest reports predicted a higher year 2100 temperature rise range of about 3 to 6 degrees.
Progressively this has been revised downwards, no doubt because of the embarrassment of the 17 year pause. As the low side of the range declines closer to what has been happening in real life, arithmetic will permit a higher probability call (now 1.5 to 4 degrees and 95%) even with a lower certainty call. If they were next to declare say a range of 0 to 4 I would think they could claim near 100% probability/confidence, and so on.
It’s a typical politician style tricky numbers game.
EmperorJulian says:
First, my name is Dion Giles. I avoid “social media” and the only way in that I could find was through an ancient Discus route in which I am locked into a long-dead nickname. I regret that there isn’t a way to get on the list simply by name, rank and serial number.
My comment to Professor Aitkin’s list is that today’s article, like his others addressing the scientific study of climate, is a text book application of real scientific reasoning, from a man whose professional background is in the sociology area.
I often wonder why it is that so relatively many of those of us who are trained as scientists have, unlike Don Aitkin, remained silent on the creeping perversion of science in the assertion-based clamour of what can only be called political “climatology”.
If a child cries “Wolf, wolf” is it really smart to burn down or log the forest to get rid of the wolf?
I think the operative word is “trained”. In science education there is rarely any contact with the philosophy of science. Science is evidence-based, and evidence about future events and trends (like climate in thirty years’ time) can’t be observed until the time has actually arrived. Predictions based on extrapolations run into the problem of induction.
As the article points out, the greenhouse effect is based on rigorously observed phenomena. It is rationally undeniable. It is undeniable that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and can add to the amount of heat trapped in the biosphere. What is subject only to speculation (and political bellowing) is the quantum of net heat gain and climate change from a given change in greenhouse gas concentration. This can’t be solved by the philosophically elitist procedure of counting exalted heads. Only scientific examination of the main drivers of climate directed to elucidating the many mechanisms whereby they operate can bring us closer to global control of climate. This means a shift in the funding of science away from prediction of the out-of-range future and away from the effects of guessed climate change on the biosphere and towards examination of mechanisms including mechanisms additional to the greenhouse effect, such as for example the work of Henrik Svensmark and of Nir Shaviv.
Professor Shaviv has devastatingly laid bare the reasons why billions of dollars thrown at climate science have led to zero increase in knowledge of climate sensitivity and of what governs it – just scarier and scarier pronouncements about the wolf in the forest. It’s at http://sciencebits.com/AR5-FirstImpressions
Meanwhile we have reason to be thankful to Australia’s own Don Aitkin for keeping alive the voice of reason amid the maelstrom of grossly over-funded elitist “research” and political posturing in the grant-rich field of climatology.
Hi Dion,
You should be able to put in a name, email, skip the password and check the ‘I’d rather post as a guest’ box to avoid being Julian the Apostate.
The pressure to conform to the set of positions variously labelled ‘progressive’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘leftist’ (none of which appear to be an informative label) is intense in academia and quickly results in ostracism and often harsh sanctions for any who would disagree. This started long before AGW was adopted into the party platform. In some cases this ‘group think’ may have been justified, e.g. racism, but in any case it has become the norm to insist on ideological purity. Discussion is not tolerated.
I think that explains why so few academic or government scientists are willing to challenge the egregious errors, exaggerations and lies. They’ve gotten used to not saying anything controversial and either parrot the party line or keep their heads down and work.
“There you have it. The IPCC can’t be criticised, and though anyone who does a comparison (dozens have) will see that 5AR is more cautious, more uncertain and more turgid in its prose than its predecessor, the IPCC is still singing the
same hymn. Weirdly, its confidence about its conclusions is apparently greater
than it was, though at the same time, it is plainly more conscious of
Don I know you like to keep your blog as a “numbers-free-zone”, and good for you,…but the level of statistical confidence in AGW actually increased from 90% to 95% when IPCC released its 5th report.
Indeed, that’s what I said — ‘its confidence about its conclusions is apparently greater than it was’.
Incidentally, ‘statistical confidence’ is not a happy phrase. What the authors of the Report said was that they were so confident, not that the statistics showed that to be the case. What they did was to give their collective confidence numbers, with the appearance that those numbers mean something more than their own opinions. So ‘90% to 95%’ is about opinions, not about data.
“So ‘90% to 95%’ is about opinions, not about data.”
Is rubbish!
This is what the authors of the Report said: ‘The degree of certainty in key findings in this assessment is based on the author teams’ evaluations of underlying scientific
understanding and is expressed as a qualitative level of confidence (from very low to very high) and, when possible, probabilistically with a quantified likelihood (from exceptionally unlikely to virtually certain).’
Footnotes 1 and 2 on the same page (4) of the SPM set out the relationship of words to numbers (what does ‘very’ mean etc).
But note: these numbers are not statistics that come from the application of known methods to data, but apply to the ‘evaluations’ of the authors themselves! That is to say, we are being told of the collective opinion of the authors, expressed as though we were deal with the statistics of a bell curve, for example. There is no warrant for this, and I regard it as unprofessional.
You are a shocker! You quote so selectively! Did you think I would not look. 🙂
“The degree of certainty in key findings in this assessment is based on the author teams’ evaluations of underlying scientific understanding and is expressed as a qualitative level of confidence (from very low to very high) and, when possible, probabilistically with a quantified likelihood (from exceptionally unlikely to virtually certain).”
So to next sentence. (Capitalization is mine)
“Confidence in the validity of a finding is based on the type, amount, quality, and consistency of evidence (e.g., DATA, mechanistic understanding, theory, models, expert judgment) and the degree of agreement1. Probabilistic
estimates of quantified measures of uncertainty in a finding are based on STATISTICAL ANALYSIS of OBSERVATIONS or model results, or both, and expert judgment2. Where appropriate, findings are also formulated as statements of fact without using uncertainty qualifiers. (See Chapter 1 and Box TS.1 for more details about the specific language the IPCC uses to communicate uncertainty)”
So ‘90% to 95%’ is about opinions, not about data, is an incorrect statement!
Oh dear, you don’t understand at all, do you. Yes, they refer to models and data, but what they are talking about are their opinions! What do you think ‘probabilistic estimates of quantified measures of uncertainty in a finding’ are? This is a bunch of people talking about their guesses.
“Yes, they refer to models and data,… ”
Thank you. I will take that as a back down.
OK. One last try. You suggest in your comments from time to time that you are statistically savvy.
So let’s take survey research, where the analyst draws from the data a conclusion that (e.g.) the Labor intention of this set of respondents is at 53 per cent. The margin of error here, probably around 3 per cent, is the error that you might expect if the same survey were run a large number of times — the range would mostly be between 50 and 56 per cent, with a very few outliers. The standard deviation would give the analyst that outcome. All this information comes from the data and the statistics used to analyse it. The analyst REPORTS that result — it is not his opinion.
In the SPM case, the analysts have agreed that THEY are confident about the meaning of the data, not that the data and the statistics used provide it. But the language they use carries the overtones of standard deviations etc. It looks scientific, but at the heart it is just opinions.
I can’t express the difference any better than this.
dlb says:
I think David is mostly correct. I have taken three typical pronouncements from the IPCC’s Summary for Policy Makers. (1) would be based on observational data, (2) would be based on model runs, but (3) is the only one based on opinion, where they probably took a poll with 90% of contributing scientists agreeing.
(1) “It is virtually certain that globally the troposphere has warmed since the mid-20th century.”
(2) “Relative to the average from year 1850 to 1900, global surface temperature change by the end of the 21st century is projected to likely exceed 1.5°C for RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 (high confidence).”
(3) “Anthropogenic influences have very likely contributed to Arctic sea ice loss since 1979.”
Sorry, dlb, ‘It is virtually certain…’ is an opinion. There are data that support such an opinion, but the opinion comes from the person. It is a judgment. There are worries about all those data, and I’ve written about them many times I would agree that it is likely that the lower troposphere has warmed since the mid 20th century, but my opinion is not at the 95 per cent confidence level. The data can’t say that it has warmed, or that it hasn’t. If the data could do so, we would see the appropriate figure, and no words like ‘it is virtually certain’.
I still think that using these terms suggests that we are talking about data and statistics, not about opinions. And I find that disingenuous, as do many others. Go back to the footnotes I referred to above. You will find that ‘virtually certain’ refers to greater than 95 per cent chance of its being so, ‘very likely’ referring to a much smaller likelihood, and so on. As I quoted above, these are ‘the authors’ teams evaluations’ (=opinions). These percentages do not come from the data, but from the authors’ opinions about the data. I’ll go back there myself in moment, but if I do it now I’ll lose all this text!
Don, they state that “virtually certain” is 99 – 100% probability. As far as I aware the main data sets that go back to the 1950s are Hadley and GISS. You could also extrapolate the satellite series UAH and RSS back to the 1950s as they closely parallel the surface readings, giving a total of four main sets. All these sets I think show statistically significant, but quite modest levels of warming. One could say they are 100% in agreement, or do we need a sample size of 100 data sets with 99 or 100 showing warming before we can say that we are “virtually certain” ?
Yes they do state that. This is the full text: ‘In this Summary for Policymakers, the following terms have been used to indicate the assessed likelihood of an outcome or a result: virtually certain 99–100% probability,
very likely 90–100%, likely 66–100%, about as likely as not 33–66%, unlikely 0–33%, very unlikely 0–10%, exceptionally unlikely 0–1%. Additional terms (extremely likely:
95–100%, more likely than not >50–100%, and extremely unlikely 0–5%) may also be used when appropriate. Assessed likelihood is typeset in italics, e.g., very likely (see
Chapter 1 and Box TS.1 for more details).’
Read the first twenty words carefully. What is an ‘assessed likelihood? Who are the assessors? The answers are that the authors of the report made the assessment, and it is theirs. The likelihood is one they agreed upon.
To repeat: the data are suggestive, but there is a lot of error, the number and location of thermometers, accuracy of same, UHI, the real problems with SST, and so on. You can’t even estimate the errors properly. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t argue hard that there was no warming at all, because there are other indicators, like melting glaciers.
The authors of the SPM are out to argue a case. Since the data are supportive but cannot be conclusive, the authors add in their own assessment. They may be right, too. But it is their confidence, not that one that stands out from a statistical treatment of the data.
I agree with dlb.
Say I went and calculated that Canberra’s daily maximum temperature for a month and found it was was 14 degrees. Then with reference to the following ledger
Very hot: > 40
Hot: = 30 to 40
Mild : = 20 to 30
Cool: = 0 to 20
Cold: < 0
I reported the temperature was Cool. I am not just stating an opinion. People know that I am reporting the average temperature is between 0 and 20.
So when the IPCC state that by "very confident" they mean a 95% confidence interval, it is not just an opinion, devoid of any empirical analysis.
But I will think more about what you have said. 🙂
It’s not the same. In the case you give you would report the average temperature as 14 degrees C. That’s what the data show. The label you give to it after the event is a word, and it does not come with a confidence interval.
In the first example that dlb gives, the authors have used the third person (‘it is virtually certain’). What they are saying is ‘We are virtually certain’. The certainty is in their collective minds, and applies to them. The data are suggestive of an increase, if you allow for this and that, and I would agree. But there is a lot of error in the data, too, of various kinds. They are virtually certain, and from the same data, I think it’s quite likely.
Their explanation, that ‘virtually certain’ means something in terms of numbers, seems to me disingenuous.
The IPCC uses some defined expressions to explain what they mean by 90% & 95% CI, because not everyone will be across their meaning.
In my example what would you say to someone who did not understand degrees? You would interpret along the lines I have suggested.
I agree that IPCC values are incorporated in their presentation, but to just write “…, not data” is a gross misrepresentation of what is being presented.
David, In your example the datum is an average temperature that is produced by a series of thermometers over a defined time. It is a number that comes from observations.
In the IPCC case the number is the expression of the confidence of the authors about whether or not warming has occurred.. A different thing altogether.
There would be no need for you and your friends to sit around and decide how confident you were about the average temperature. In the case you give, it is a number. What you call it after the event is almost immaterial.
Thanks DaveW but it’s not so simple. Selecting “Reply” delivers me straight to Discus. It’s not that I have anything against Julian and admire his stand against state religion Not so taken with his foolishness in attacking Persia, and especially failing to watch his back in the heat of battle. I just don’t want a nickname at all.
There’s an excellent example of scientists having to confront organised suppression of efforts to pursue the values of science in the teeth of powerful special interests. Worth checking at http://gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2014/15504-republication-of-the-seralini-study-science-speaks-for-itself
Best wishes, Dion.
Get a new address if you really want to change!
What happens if Gaia goes denier and the Global Average Temperature drops say .6 by 2017?
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Natalie Coughlin will race at this week's Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin. Melissa Lundie Photography
Natalie Coughlin will race at this week’s Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin. Melissa Lundie Photography
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March 20, 2018 by Michael Kilgore·Comments Off on Which TV Streamer Is Legit?
Giveaway of the Day is a web site that offers a free software download every day, typically the previous version of something its developer is trying to sell. The gimmick is that it’s only available on one calendar day and must be downloaded and installed only then. Today’s suggestion, a streaming TV and radio app called onlineTV 13, fits the usual pattern; its German developer includes a special offer to upgrade to version 14. But is it legit to use, and how would I tell?
The source checks out. Giveaway of the Day has been operating for years, and the handful of times I’ve downloaded the software of the day, it was authorized by the developer and gave no hint of irregularity. The developer is apparently Engelmann Software, which has been creating and selling utilities since at least 2008, according to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The About page for onlineTV says that it has been “downloaded several million times” since it was launched in 2002.
There’s only one reason for me to question whether it’s okay to use this program. Among its “130 stations from 11 countries” are the New York City affiliates of NBC and CBS, plus several BBC channels from the UK. After installing the app, I could watch them all. In fact, the info page for the latest version specifically notes that it bypasses the “geotargeting” that many broadcasters use to restrict where their channels may be watched. Considering what I know about how conservative NBC, CBS, and the BBC are about redistributing their feeds, I’d guess that those folks probably aren’t happy with onlineTV.
(On their Legal page, the developers are less boastful, claiming that “Responsibility for the content of external links (to web pages of third parties) lies solely with the operators of the linked pages. No violations were evident to us at the time of linking. Should any legal infringement become known to us, we will remove the respective link immediately.”)
Now let me quickly point out a counterexample. Pluto TV is also available as an app with dozens of live channels including Bloomberg, Stadium, Fox Sports, CNBC, Mystery Science Theater 3000, movies and much more. I read way too much industry news, so I feel pretty confident that Pluto is legit. But how would the average user recognize whether one service’s offerings are more legitimate than another’s?
I’m not here to pick on onlineTV, whose full slate of channels might be perfectly legit for all I know. I point it out in hopes that you’ll remember it the next time someone talks about penalties for anyone caught watching TV the wrong way. There are times when the average viewer can’t easily tell whether the way they’re watching is right or wrong.
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John W. Dyer
Father* John R. Dyer b. c 1834, d. b 1920
Mother* Elizabeth Hadley b. Jan 1849, d. a 1920
John W. Dyer was born circa 1867 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of John R. Dyer and Elizabeth Hadley.
26 July 1870 Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin John W. Dyer was listed in John R. Dyer's household on the 1870 Census at Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin.1
1880 Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin John W. Dyer was listed as a son in John R. Dyer's household on the 1880 Census at Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin.2
[S247] U.S. Federal Census 1870 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Dwelling 41.
[S246] U.S. Federal Census 1880 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, NA Film Number T9-1445 Page Number 150B.
George W. Dyer
George W. Dyer was born circa 1868 at Wisconsin.
26 July 1870 Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin George W. Dyer was listed in John R. Dyer's household on the 1870 Census at Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin.1
1880 Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin George W. Dyer was listed as a son in John R. Dyer's household on the 1880 Census at Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin.2
Albert Dyer
Albert Dyer was born circa 1876 at Wisconsin.
1880 Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin Albert Dyer was listed as a son in John R. Dyer's household on the 1880 Census at Richwood, Richland, Wisconsin.1
Alma Dieter
F, d. before 2007
Father* Paul Dieter d. b 2007
Mother* Elizabeth Hinkel d. b 2007
Married Name Her married name was Moon.
Alma Dieter was the daughter of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel.
Alma Dieter married Theron O. Moon, son of Charles Aaron Moon and Ida May Dyer.
Alma Dieter died before 2007.
Paul Dieter
M, d. before 2007
Paul Dieter married Elizabeth Hinkel.
Paul Dieter died before 2007.
Children of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel
Alma Dieter d. b 2007
Vera Dieter d. b 2007
Leland Dieter d. b 2007
Lloyd C. Dieter+ b. 6 Feb 1909, d. 18 Feb 2007
Elizabeth Hinkel
Married Name Her married name was Dieter.
Elizabeth Hinkel married Paul Dieter.
Elizabeth Hinkel died before 2007.
Children of Elizabeth Hinkel and Paul Dieter
Lloyd C. Dieter
M, b. 6 February 1909, d. 18 February 2007
Lloyd C. Dieter was born on 6 February 1909.
He was the son of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel.
Lloyd C. Dieter married Marquerite Thiede on 4 June 1930.
Lloyd C. Dieter died on 18 February 2007 at age 98 Lloyd C. Dieter, age 98, of Muscoda, died at the Riverside Healthcare in Muscoda on Sunday, February 18, 2007, and will receive a Christian Burial with the Hope of Eternal Resurrection. He was born in Boaz, Wis., on Feb. 6, 1909, to Paul and Elizabeth (Hinkel) Dieter. On June 4, 1930, he married the former Marquerite Thiede and together they farmed in Orion Township, Indian Creek area of Richland County from 1930 to 1962. Lloyd worked for Krouskop's Lumber yard in Muscoda from 1962-1976. In 1995, they moved to Muscoda. He enjoyed traveling, working in his wood shop and watching baseball on TV. Lloyd was a life member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Muscoda and served on the Church Council and treasurer. He was very instrumental in the construction of the new church in 1954 to 1956. Survivors include his two sons, Wayne (Betty) Dieter of Muscoda, and Donald (Frances) Dieter of Viroqua; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson; sister-in-law, Arlie Dieter; brother-in-law, Kenneth (Millie) Thiede; and several nieces and nephews. Lloyd was preceded in death by his wife on August 19, 1998; his parents; and two sisters and brothers-in-laws, Vera and Herman Huth, Ed Allen, Alma and Theron Moon; a brother, Leland; brothers-in-laws and wives, Clarence and Emma Thiede, Bernard and Dorothy Thiede; daughter, Ruth Jones; granddaughter, Michelle Bomkamp; grandson, Gordon Jones. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007, at ST. PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH in Muscoda. The Rev. Mark R. Meier Sr. will officiate with burial in the Muscoda Cemetery. Friends may call at the GODAGER FUNERAL HOME in Muscoda, on Wednesday from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. or at the church on Thursday, from 10 a.m. until the time of the services. The family has suggested that memorials may be made to St. Peter's Lutheran Church. The Godager Funeral Home is assisting the family with their arrangements. On-line condolences may be made at: www.prattfuneralservice.com.
Child of Lloyd C. Dieter and Marquerite Thiede
Ruth Dieter d. b 2007
Marquerite Thiede
F, d. 19 August 1998
Married Name 4 June 1930 As of 4 June 1930,her married name was Dieter.
Marquerite Thiede married Lloyd C. Dieter, son of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel, on 4 June 1930.
Marquerite Thiede died on 19 August 1998.
Child of Marquerite Thiede and Lloyd C. Dieter
Vera Dieter
Married Name Her married name was Huth.
Vera Dieter was the daughter of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel.
Vera Dieter married Herman Huth.
Vera Dieter died before 2007.
Herman Huth
Herman Huth married Vera Dieter, daughter of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel.
Herman Huth died before 2007.
Leland Dieter
Leland Dieter was the son of Paul Dieter and Elizabeth Hinkel.
Leland Dieter died before 2007.
Ruth Dieter
Father* Lloyd C. Dieter b. 6 Feb 1909, d. 18 Feb 2007
Mother* Marquerite Thiede d. 19 Aug 1998
Married Name Her married name was Jones.
Ruth Dieter was the daughter of Lloyd C. Dieter and Marquerite Thiede.
Ruth Dieter died before 2007.
Thomas F. Dyer
Thomas F. Dyer was born circa 1860 at Ohio.
He was the son of John R. Dyer.
26 July 1870 Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin Thomas F. Dyer was listed in John R. Dyer's household on the 1870 Census at Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin.1
Joseph T. Ryan
M, b. 9 July 1913, d. 14 June 1951
Father* James Francis Ryan b. 26 Dec 1868, d. 5 Mar 1925
Mother* Catherine C. Tracy b. 2 Feb 1870, d. 3 Aug 1944
Joseph T. Ryan was born on 9 July 1913 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of James Francis Ryan and Catherine C. Tracy.
Joseph T. Ryan died on 14 June 1951 at age 37.
1920 Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin Joseph T. Ryan was listed as a son in James Francis Ryan's household on the 1920 Census at Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin; living next door to Michael Ryan.1
5 April 1930 Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin Joseph T. Ryan was listed as a son in Catherine C. Tracy's household on the 1930 Census at Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin.2
[S243] U.S. Federal Census 1920 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED200. Dwelling 32.
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED8. Dwelling 35.
Mary K. Tracy
Father* Michael Patrick Tracy b. 1814, d. b 1900
Mother* Catherine Dyer b. Apr 1830, d. a 1900
Mary K. Tracy was born circa 1870 at Wisconsin.
She was the daughter of Michael Patrick Tracy and Catherine Dyer.
As of 1930, Mary K. Tracy was never married.
5 April 1930 Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin Mary K. Tracy was listed as a sister in Catherine C. Tracy's household on the 1930 Census at Henrietta, Richland, Wisconsin.1
Helen (?)
F, d. before May 2004
Married Name Her married name was Ryan.
Helen (?) married Sylvester W. Ryan, son of Patrick Henry Ryan and Anna Elizabeth See.
Helen (?) died before May 2004.
Children of Helen (?) and Sylvester W. Ryan
Pat Ryan d. b May 2004
Michael J. Ryan+ b. 30 Oct 1949, d. 1 May 2004
Michael J. Ryan
M, b. 30 October 1949, d. 1 May 2004
Father* Sylvester W. Ryan b. 8 Aug 1913, d. Sep 1981
Mother* Helen (?) d. b May 2004
Michael J. Ryan was born on 30 October 1949 at Dodgeville, Iowa, Wisconsin.
He was the son of Sylvester W. Ryan and Helen (?).
Michael J. Ryan died on 1 May 2004 at age 54 Michael J. Ryan, age 54, of Buena Vista, Colo., formerly of Dodgeville, died unexpectedly on Saturday, May 1, 2004, at his home. He was born on Oct. 30, 1949, in Dodgeville, a son of the late Sylvester and Helen Ryan. Michael moved west in the mid 1970s to attend Colorado Mountain College, where he met his wife of 25 years, Marci Brown. He worked in mining most of his life, in Colorado and Nevada, currently working with Newmont Mining underground division. Michael is survived by his wife, Marci Ryan of Buena Vista, Colo; his children, Jessica Ryan of Boulder, Colo., and Alex Ryan of Buena Vista, Colo; his sisters, Jackie (Jack) Weier of Dodgeville, Carolyn (Brad) Olson of Dodgeville, and Mary (Jeff) Husom of Ridgeway; his brothers, Tom (Sharon) Ryan of Argyle, and Jim (Lisa) Ryan of Shakopee, Minn; many nieces and nephews; other relatives; and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Pat Ryan; and a nephew, Tim Weier. Private family services will be held at a later date. Gorgen-McGinley & Ayers Funeral Home Dodgeville (608) 935-5222.
Pat Ryan
Pat Ryan was the daughter of Sylvester W. Ryan and Helen (?).
Pat Ryan died before May 2004.
Tim Weier
M, d. before May 2004
Tim Weier died before May 2004.
Edward J. Clark
Edward J. Clark was born circa 1919.
He married Alice Theresa Reuschlein, daughter of William S. Reuschlein and Rosalia Margaret Brechtl, on 7 October 1983 at Barron, Wisconsin.
Frank F. Haag
M, b. 6 January 1914, d. 6 April 1992
Father* Lawrence Haag Sr. b. Apr 1865, d. a 1930
Mother* Christina A. Bowar b. Jan 1872, d. a 1930
Name Variation Frank F. Haag was also known as Van.
Frank F. Haag was born on 6 January 1914 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Lawrence Haag Sr. and Christina A. Bowar.
Frank F. Haag married Evangeline Rosalia Reuschlein, daughter of William S. Reuschlein and Rosalia Margaret Brechtl, on 3 February 1938.
Frank F. Haag died on 6 April 1992 at age 78.
Marie Louise Reuschlein
F, b. 14 May 1924, d. 30 March 1951
Father* William S. Reuschlein b. 22 Jan 1871, d. 8 Nov 1962
Mother* Rosalia Margaret Brechtl b. 6 Oct 1883, d. 8 Aug 1972
Married Name before 1951 As of before 1951,her married name was Liegel.
Marie Louise Reuschlein was born on 14 May 1924.
She was the daughter of William S. Reuschlein and Rosalia Margaret Brechtl.
Marie Louise Reuschlein married Raymond Liegel, son of John H. Liegel and Elizabeth Volk, before 1951.
Marie Louise Reuschlein died on 30 March 1951 at age 26.
1 May 1930 Plain, Sauk, Wisconsin Marie Louise Reuschlein was listed as a daughter in William S. Reuschlein's household on the 1930 Census at Plain, Sauk, Wisconsin.1
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED26. Dwelling 6.
Mercy Ball
F, b. circa 1800, d. 18 February 1834
Father* Caleb Ball
Mother* Phoebe Walton
Married Name 1822 As of 1822,her married name was Sippy.
Mercy Ball was born circa 1800.
She was the daughter of Caleb Ball and Phoebe Walton.
Mercy Ball married Isaac Sippy, son of Joseph Tremau Sippy and Lucretia Johnson, in 1822 at Pennsylvania.
Mercy Ball died on 18 February 1834 at Medina, Ohio.
Children of Mercy Ball and Isaac Sippy
Caleb B. Sippy+ b. Nov 1823, d. 1874
Asenath Sippy b. 2 May 1825, d. 7 Aug 1888
John Griffin Sippy+ b. 17 Feb 1827, d. 15 Jul 1909
Phoebe Sippy b. 4 Apr 1828
Levi Sippy b. 1831, d. 10 Nov 1857
Caleb Ball
Caleb Ball married Phoebe Walton.
Child of Caleb Ball and Phoebe Walton
Mercy Ball+ b. c 1800, d. 18 Feb 1834
Phoebe Walton
Married Name Her married name was Ball.
Phoebe Walton married Caleb Ball.
Child of Phoebe Walton and Caleb Ball
Ezra Sippy
M, b. circa 1843, d. before 1858
Father* Isaac Sippy b. 27 Jun 1800, d. 25 Jan 1869
Mother* Margaret (?) b. c 1813
Ezra Sippy was born circa 1843 at Crawford, Pennsylvania.
He was the son of Isaac Sippy and Margaret (?).
Ezra Sippy died before 1858.
8 October 1850 Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania Ezra Sippy was listed in Isaac Sippy's household on the 1850 Census at Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania.1
[S249] U.S. Federal Census 1850 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Dwelling 2625.
Levi Sippy
M, b. 1831, d. 10 November 1857
Mother* Mercy Ball b. c 1800, d. 18 Feb 1834
Levi Sippy was born in 1831 at Mercer, Pennsylvania.
He was the son of Isaac Sippy and Mercy Ball.
Levi Sippy married Elizabeth Bitner on 6 September 1855.
Levi Sippy died on 10 November 1857 at Rush, Indiana.
8 October 1850 Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania Levi Sippy was listed in Isaac Sippy's household on the 1850 Census at Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania.1
Phoebe Sippy
F, b. 4 April 1828
Name Variation Phoebe Sippy was also known as Phebe.
Married Name 4 March 1865 As of 4 March 1865,her married name was Bowlby.
Phoebe Sippy was born on 4 April 1828 at Mercer, Pennsylvania.
She was the daughter of Isaac Sippy and Mercy Ball.
Phoebe Sippy married William Bowlby on 4 March 1865 at Tipton, Indiana.
8 October 1850 Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania Phoebe Sippy was listed in Isaac Sippy's household on the 1850 Census at Worth, Mercer, Pennsylvania.1
Elizabeth Bitner
Married Name 6 September 1855 As of 6 September 1855,her married name was Sippy.
Elizabeth Bitner married Levi Sippy, son of Isaac Sippy and Mercy Ball, on 6 September 1855.
Asenath Sippy
F, b. 2 May 1825, d. 7 August 1888
Name Variation Asenath Sippy was also known as Asenith.
Married Name 8 September 1840 As of 8 September 1840,her married name was Gadsby.
Asenath Sippy was born on 2 May 1825 at Mercer, Pennsylvania.
Asenath Sippy married Thomas Gadsby on 8 September 1840.
Asenath Sippy died on 7 August 1888 at age 63.
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A memorial lies across the street from a closed foot path (orange fence) where an 11-year-old boy was killed by a car last month near Kennedy Public School on Canongate Trail and Purcell Square.
Imagine you live on a Toronto street where drivers routinely go way too fast — it’s dangerous.
So you decide to request that the city install traffic calming measures like speed bumps.
So far, so good, right?
But here’s where things get weird. Because the process at Toronto City Hall to get those speed bumps installed on your street is anything but simple. Instead, it’s a bureaucratic ten-step process that takes months to complete.
I’ve been thinking about this after news of the tragic death of 11-year-old Duncan Xu, who was hit by a driver on Feb. 27 while walking near Kennedy Public School in Scarborough.
In the days following, Coun. Jim Karygiannis – who represents the area – successfully pushed to fence off the pedestrian pathway that connects to the street where the driver hit Xu. Karygiannis says the closure is temporary, a stop-gap until the city can go through the necessary process to approve and install “mitigating measures” like stop signs or speed bumps.
And while I disagree with closing the pathway — removing pedestrian infrastructure to improve pedestrian safety is counter-intuitive — I do think Karygiannis’ response to this tragedy highlights something important: the city’s process to install stuff to slow down traffic is way too complicated.
Closing off a pedestrian pathway should not be simpler than slowing down traffic.
Which brings me back to the process required to get speed bumps installed on a dangerous street.
First, you need to kick things off with either a petition signed by enough of your neighbours to reach city-prescribed thresholds or a request taken up by your city councillor.
Then come the reports. So many reports. The second step is a consideration of area-wide impacts. Third is a review of the current road design. Fourth is consultation with the TTC and emergency services.
Fifth is a traffic study. Sixth is a consideration of options and alternatives. Seventh is transportation staff writing a report summarizing all their findings and analysis.
The eighth step gets us to a community council meeting, where politicians finally vote on the traffic calming measures. But even if they back the speed bumps, the process isn’t done yet.
Because the ninth step is a real doozy, requiring the city to conduct a formal poll of households on the street, asking if they’re really sure they want speed bumps. For the result to be valid, the city requires that at least 50 per cent of ballots mailed out get returned, and 60 per cent need to be in favour — a threshold that far exceeds what’s needed to elect politicians at any level of government.
Whether the poll comes out in favour of speed bumps or not, the tenth step is another community council meeting, where politicians vote again. If the response threshold on the poll was not met — and it often isn’t, because getting 50 per cent voter turnout is hard — they can opt to approve the speed bumps anyway.
If they do, congratulations — after months of petitions and politics and polls, your street is slightly safer. Ten steps to marginal improvement.
In a city that professes to care about making it easier to walk safely, isn’t it odd that slowing down traffic remains so devilishly difficult?
This post was originally published at http://www.metronews.ca/views/toronto/torys-toronto-matt-elliott/2018/03/11/matt-elliott-10-steps-to-marginal-improvement-for-toronto-s-pedestrians.html on 2018-03-11T00:00:00.000Z
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News: Network game creation in the open
Pocket PC FAQ Forums Forum Index -> Windows CE Games
mwagstaff
Pocketeer
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 2:55 pm Post subject: News: Network game creation in the open
Johan Sanneblad contacted me to announce the release of OpenTrek, an "ad hoc game network SDK". Johan notes that "due to copyright issues I was not allowed to ship any real games with the platform, but I did manage to put together a small whiteboard-application that demonstrates the ease of use of the platform. I will most probably be able to release non-commercial games based on the platform in a very short time. Right now I felt that the need to release the platform was greater than the need to release free multiplayer games.
"It is very difficult to describe OpenTrek in few words since it is such a large platform, but basically it allows one to create advanced networked games for Pocket PCs in record time! It ships with several examples, and creating simple games such as multiplayer worms takes just a matter of hours! Please checkout the web site for a complete description of OpenTrek, and even a direct comparison between OpenTrek and DirectPlay.
"OpenTrek is available for both Pocket PCs and Windows 2000/XP."
PocketGamer.org - For Gamers on the Go...
Pocket PC FAQ Forums Forum Index -> Windows CE Games All times are GMT - 8 Hours
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TDM Editors Guild
Copypasting vs. GPL/CC 3.0 reuse or adapt – your thoughts
By peter_spy, November 30, 2018 in TDM Editors Guild
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peter_spy 1172
Uber member
Location:Central Europe
Interests:Photography, 3d modeling, level design
There was a recent controversy, and a heated exchange in the betatesting forum, which might have gone largely unnoticed, and I think the topic itself is pretty important for the community. The whole thing starts here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19282-cleaning-up-the-neighbourhood-beta/?p=430318
In essence, mapper copypasted portions of his previous map into a new one, along with portions of work by another mapper, with changes ranging from slight/cosmetic to none. Two examples:
Since I was the only one speaking up in that thread, I'd like to hear our mapper community stance on such practices. First, does this even constitute reuse, remix, or adaptation? It looks more like a collection in CC definition. And, is there a way to protect your work under GPL/CC from such practices? (paging Demagogue...)
Second, I'd just like to hear your personal opinion on this.
To me, this is serious, quite dangerous precedent. It's not using abandoned work with sb else's blessing. It's also not an homage, as there's little creativity being shown here. This is copypasting and slightly tweaking sb else's work to speed up your mapping process. To me, it's self-degrading and admitting creative failure. Doing it with sections of your own map might just be poor taste and your personal matter, but doing it with someone else's work? That's whole another level. Do we have to start protecting .map files somehow, or have some kind of community guidelines in place on this?
Edited November 30, 2018 by Judith
Builder Compound Asset Pack – models and textures for TDM
How many times have you seen a door in an FM? They're all pretty much the same door.
My personal opinion on using any part of someone's level design is that it's a matter of being respectful of the other person, therefore asking permission and giving credit if it is granted.
I'd never copy someone's architecture or level design geometry, because that's lazy and boring.
If I'd like to use some script I don't understand - I'll message the person and ask permission to use it, and perhaps an explanation as to how it works so I can not simply copy it but tune it to my needs.
Usually I'll post in newbie's help and hail mary for an answer that is rarely received, because no-one knows what the fuck I'm talking or they're busy doing their own stuff - so why care about my stuff?
Maybe Stumpy or Obs will have a lead. But otherwise - this shit is difficult to figure out sometimes, so I'll download greebo's starter kit and fidcal's pre-made briefing and hack that up so it's the right shape and fits into my FM that I'd like to play and give myself difficulties and experiement and learn.
If it's abandoned, then it's left there for people to do this.
If it's a WiP, then it's a leak and - unless it's a studio such as FUbisoft, that deserve it because some dick in middle management was a dick and the company backed them - if it was my design, I'd be pissed, but the gate's open and the horse is out and there's no closing Pandora's box.
If that's the case - it being a steal and a breach of trust - then it's no place for anyone to go sticking their nose and it's beef between the person who took it and the person who made it only, no-one else's - so there's no need to get upset about it, as it's not my problem - it's theirs. Or for community leaders to decide if they will allow the FM to be listed, even though they know it's the same as blah.
Regarding TDM FMs, because there's no way to say, "oi - that's mine - you can't do that", there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. Just gotta suck it up and learn to not go public so soon next time.
If I don't want people to take anything, because I would like to be the one to say, please can this be an FM for download and because I've put in lots of work and figured some stuff I've not seen before (rather than yet another mansion) - I go through my mapping thread and put "//" in every note I've made and remove all the screenshots and .map text and scripts and notes and hide them where no-one can see them. It pissed people off when I did that, but it was because it was starting to spoil.
But if I release an FM - it's not "mine", because 99% of the stuff I didn't make.
All I did was the 1% cobbling together some pieces and scripts and odds and ends.
It's "The Dark Mod Team" - all I did was chuck together a bunch of stuff they made possible.
Once it's released, then people can take what they want, because that's what the license says they can do.
But until that point - if I want to keep my secrets a secret - I'm not putting anything where anyone can see it. That's the whole point of secrets. I'll get a few players from outside the community to test it and then - if I think it's ok - probably run it past someone who knows better like Bikerdude before polishing off the things that need doing that I didn't get right / didn't understand / whatever.
If I decide I can't be bothered to continue with my campaigns or FMs - I'll make public and post a link to my DR blog and someone can spend a few weeks reading all that crap, or download the pk4s and half-finished .maps and stuff and use it for whatever they want - because I've abandoned it.
TDM's license is https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html not CC-BY-3.0 (which allows commerical use), which means you can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and adapt, remix, tranform or build upon the material for any purpose, so long as you don't charge for it.
The licensing agreement is there to protect the source code from being used in a commercial product, and advise that you can do whatever the fuck you want so long as you don't charge for it.
Therefore, I'd say it was a matter of etiquette.
There's no way to stop someone ripping off an FM, due to the way it is licensed.
If the FM is released, it's fair game for people to pick at - and they do.
Scripts, prefabs, textures, models, samples, music, anything.
But if it's from a work-in-progress, then that is exploiting a leak from beta stage, which ought to only be done to asshole studios who've fucked you over, such as Ubisoft (but here, we're talking about the whole game, not a level designed using a level designer provided by the game).
In the case of an FM, I would consider this a breach of trust and probably not allow that person to participate in play-testing any FM I would be wanting to release ever again.
In my view - this is the authour's screw up in showing their hand too early.
If it's from an abandoned work and etiquette hasn't been followed by at least trying to ask permission from the original creator - then, if it's from the "abandoned" pile and there's no reply, it's vultures picking at a carcass - if the person gives permission, it's fine.
If they say no - there's nothing to stop me doing it anyway, except my own sense of morals.
I might track the person down online and on social media and troll them for the next year or so and find out their name, address and telephone number and post them (from a post office on the other side of the country) a kilo of cocaine, hidden inside a package they will open and likely keep - maybe a console or something - with a receipt so it appears as a legitimate transaction, no return address and then give an anonymous tip to the police, to get them locked up for several years.
Is that too extreme? I think so... I think I just wouldn't let them play-test my levels and I would be more wary of putting my stuff online for people to see before it's released.
Look at Steam Workshop.
Most of it is ripped off the internet and just given a coat of paint and ported for use in any particular game.
But some of it contains useful mods, localisations and other things to improve upon a piece of software or game. Some of these are uploaded by people who didn't create the mod, but did so because they were the first person to get it off ModDB and stick it in the workshop.
What do they get? Nothing, except a reputation as being someone who uploads stuff - either good or bad, depending on if they take credit as creator or if they are merely wanting to share something.
Recently, someone showed me a photograph I had taken years ago, on an instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpbuLS6FAU-/
All they've done is found it on one of the other tumblr sites that have shared it and not given a toss about where it came from. I don't know where it came from because that tumblr was deleted several years ago. I've seen other people's work "remixed" and that's vaporwave, apparently...
It happens quite often - a few times a year someone will say, hey look at this. Sometimes it's flattering, mostly I don't give a shit and neither do the other people.
It only annoys me when they take credit or if they put a filter or watermark on it - but it really pisses me off if they use it out of context or use it for promotional material or put it on a Tshirt or card or are selling prints or making money from it.
In this instance, they are using that image to further their "magazine" (which doesn't exist) to the point where they can be popular enough to start charging people money to post their work and for the artist/photographer to get 1% of the exposure that the magazine does.
If people didn't provide content to @lovewatts by paying to have their work featured - that whole system would break down. Lovewatts would have no income, because people are fucking stupid and are paying to provide them with content to make their brand stronger so they can charge more stupid people to pay to improve their brand... the people who pay to submit their pictures probably have one or two good pictures and this is their best that they pay $500 for a week on that page.
Why would I be interested in someone that only has one good picture and the rest is bullshit, when there's @lovewatts who post a really awesome thing a few times a day.
Because of the way Instagram is licensed, I can simply go to @lovewatts and post the exact same image at the same time, by taking a screenshot and sharing it. I don't have to give any attribution.
But I'd probably be seen as a fake and stealing images that aren't mine and posting them to ... idk ... be popular on the internet..?
What good does that do me, unless I'm earning $3000 a day and several month's worth of submissions and payments lined up because I'm a digest "magazine" that charges fame and attention hungry, fragile egos to get likes to validate their efforts and put another layer of cotton wool around their bullshit.
Umm....
The problem is - I've put it on the internet, so I no longer have control of the image.
Therefore, I don't put stuff on the internet at high resolution and - if I want to retain ownership - I don't put it on the internet at all.
There was that thing with the guy using Patreon for his TDM mod, which brought up a similar conversation:
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19120-my-tdm-mod-and-patreon/?hl=licensing&do=findComment&comment=412506
There's also licensing information in the license.txt in the game:
https://svn.thedarkmod.com/svn/darkmod_src/trunk/LICENSE.txt
(the text file in the root install folder)
While this is mostly regarding the source code and assets, which cannot be used for commercial purposes (kickstarter and patreon are grey areas, as they're not exactly selling something - they're asking for money to do something), there is a section that might relate to this:
it. (Additional permissions may be written to require their own
removal in certain cases when you modify the work.) You may place
It's fairly non-specific and also a little contradictory, and isn't really relevant to FMs as it is to other things.
"Copyright" is only text and images - it's not the mecanics or design. That's patent.
I'm not going to pay thousands of pounds to patent a game level for a free game, the license of which states that everything I submit has to be under their license - which is free to reuse for non-commerical purposes.
Considering that every asset anyone makes and submits to TDM, from a fart sound effect to a total-conversion is umbrella'd under the same licensing agreement as everything else - copy/pasting parts of someone's level, abandoned, WIP, beta or whatever - it only says, "make sure you have permission to use anything that is copyrighted".
Since an FM is not protected in any way, the only copyright are on using any part of it for commercial use... technically - unless that person is selling the FM (which is dumb, since they're downloaded in-game, which is free), there's nothing to stop someone doing this.
I've seen a few missions where I've thought, "this is exactly the same as this" - and it turns out, it is a facsimilie of something else - and you will look in a pk4 and find the same scripts and GUI's are used from one FM to another. These are between different authours, but I just think, "oh they've had a private chat and it's ok".
I don't care - I just play the FM.
My thoughts are - if it's an abandoned work and placed into the abandoned work section, then it's fair game to dissect it or complete it or whatever.
However, etiquette and my sense of morals would at least get me messaging the person to ask if it's ok if I was to do such a thing.
If they didn't reply within a set time period - I'd go ahead and use it IF I REALLY NEEDED TO, giving credit.
But I wouldn't do that, because I didn't make it and I think it's rude to finish someone's meal without asking if they don't want the rest of their potatoes and beans.
As someone who messes around with TDM for my own amusement - I'd be a little loathe to share some of the things I've come up with until I've packaged it into a mission and it's released so that people can take it from there, because they'd be taking something I've worked hard to figure out and hasn't been implemented in an FM as yet, and (even though it really doesn't matter) they'd be FIRST! and I wouldn't be.
Hopefully they'd give credit in the authors.txt.
If I'm to release an FM for TDM for general public to play - the author is, "The Dark Mod Team", because 99% of it is going to be TDM stuff and only a few scripts and a bit of level design, maybe a texture or voice sample or score (if ever the guy finishes it...) whatever, is going to be from me.
I would have willingly submitted all the scripts, textures, samples, movies and the level design and its mechanics to TDM and the public, under the license that - anyone can use it and any part of it (including the level designs) so long as they don't charge money.
There is nowhere that explicitly describes an FM as an asset.
Only the additional content - which, to repeat myself, has to be authour's own copyright and that is given up to TDM licensing.
Which is, "it's free to use and you can do wtf you want with it, so long as you don't charge money for it".
Examining, for example, Thief Simulator - you can see that there are many "copypasted" elements that are freely given, such as the save function. But there are other parts that have had to have been paid for (least of all, a commercial Unity license to sell the software).
My personal opinion is that someone who is using Patreon or Kickstarter to get money to make an FM is a louse, parasiting off many others' hard work when all they're doing is using software - that they didn't design - to make a level for a game - a game they didn't build - to be played in a game that has all its content available for free, non-commercial use. That they have anything to do with, except draw a few boxes and click some buttons.
My personal opinion on stealing chunks of someone's level design is that it's a matter of being respectful of the other person, therefore asking permission and giving credit if it is granted.
If it's abandoned, then it's left their for people to do this.
If it's a WiP, then it's a leak and - unless it's a studio such as FUbisoft that deserve it - if it was my design, I'd be pissed.
But - because there's no way to say, "oi - that's mine - you can't do that", there's nothing I can do to stop it, so just gotta suck it up and learn to not blow my load too soon next time.
Like I said in TL;DR.
Hopefully this epistle will have bored the shit out of any further commentary on this issue, because:
a) there's nothing anyone can do about it, except say, "no we're not publishing that FM because you stole from this person".
2) That would be hypocritical because it goes against what the license says
and - in some cases
x) It doesn't matter because it's abandoned.
Edited November 30, 2018 by teh_saccade
I instantly recognise the images and I know those missions well - if I was playing that new one, I'd think that it was a remake or improvement by the original authour.
I probably wouldn't notice that it was the same thing from two different missions, packaged by a different authour as a "new" one, unless someone pointed it out...
There are a lot of stale FMs that are very similar.
Tbh, the originals look better, except for the arched gate with the extra lighting to give the impression of a populated building.
It just looks like a tweak from the original - the house over the arch is more aesthetically pleasing, but it's the same place.
(actually, the geometry of the building makes me think that the architect was high, because that's messed up... wtf is up with that 45 degree bolt-on room at the top..? It looks weird, even though using the newer assets and fleshing out the scene make it a little more attractive - it's probably all fur coat and no knickers)
Since you said it comes from WiP thread - unless "Cleaning Up" is by the same authour, or that authour has given permission, it's legitimate plagurism that only shows the offending mapper couldn't be bothered to come up with their own ideas or put in the work to create a section that's similar.
Idk why it's a big deal - people will notice and that person will lose internet cookies. The end.
If anything - it'd be nice to hand those sections back to the original FM authours as "hey what do you think of the improvements I've made?".
This is what you get when you promote modular design and prefabs.
Heh, their name in 1337 is "some, I stole it..."
Also, the FM appears to have been made by Bikerdude - they've put more time into it than the mapper, looking at that thread.
There's no response from the mapper. the issue raised here is ignored - it's all talk between others. "Some, I stole it", displays a trend of wanting to copy things from the get-go - this is how people learn.
It appears there are only a few sections that have been copied, but - for the rest of the map - is that a Barbie doll house / copy of something else, too?
To summarise everything - this raises more a discussion on allowing people to learn how to operate on humans by performing surgery on 2nd hand pigs and learn to tattoo humans by practising on pig-skin, and also whether or not to add a layer of encryption to pk4's so as to prevent a slew of copy-cat copy-cats with manga cat ears copy-catting copy-cats.
This looks like a case of sanctioned plagiurism of someone else's work, without any request or granted permission to do so.
Therefore, it's up to the bosses to decide if they are going to allow the same levels, updated with new assets - or if FM's such as this are to be treated as training exercises for less experienced mappers who want to rush ahead and get cookies.
Reading the thread - people have been aware that it has contained sections that are facsimilie copies from other missions for some time, yet have allowed it.
The question is - will these same people continue to allow it to be pubished, knowing that it is like this - setting a precedent that it's ok to copy other mapper's brushwork and just slap a new coat of paint on it, while doing all the technical stuff that the rest of us have to figure out ourselves..?
Why does no one hold my hand through the entire process and do all the work for me, when I have issues?
Is it because I don't look like a girl and have manga cat ears and write long posts..?
I'll be boycotting playing this mission for a number of reasons and am considering making a new account, pretending to be a girl and using a manga character as an avatar - because then I might get someone helping me and doing all the hard work, while I just build a doll's house and make it look pretty.
Again - this is what you get when you promote modular design and prefabs.
I'd be really happy if you could just once have a concise and coherent thought to spell out, without barfing the whole stream of your consciousness, and everything you know about a given topic.
You have at least a few fair points there though, I hope others won't get discouraged by these walls of texts and have their say too.
Also, if what I've learned is correct, Some1stoleit is not only new to mapping in TDM, he/she is new to game mapping in general. So Biker taking over the map might be something completely new and hard to oppose for such person, and their situation isn't exactly "you knew what you've signed up for".
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For me, this is a discussion between the two contributors: the original mapper and the mapper using the original mapper's work.
There's no need for third parties to become involved.
If the original mapper discovers (assuming no prior permission request) an object's re-use (whether it's a new texture or a new model of a new map section), the originator and the user can work out some agreement:
1 - don't use it (perhaps it's unique to the original map and the author wishes it to stay that way)
2 - feel free to use it, but don't alter it
3 - feel free to use it, and alter it any way you wish
This can be done via PM, and anyone during a beta test who points out similarities between the WIP and existing maps can be told right away what the two authors agreed to. End of discussion.
Official sanction - precedent set - rules established.
It's ok to steal other people's work, so long as they don't find out about it.
If they do, argue about it in private.
I have to disagree, Grayman, and say that this is an not an issue between mappers, but one of integrity in the community.
How about - instead of allowing these situations to happen, an FM authour states in the readme that it's ok to copy anything or puts some limitations on use, nipping the problem in the bud instead of ignoring it and letting the dogs fight over a bone?
Then this will never happen again.
; if there's nothing in the readme - it's open season (it could even be a stipulation of the FM's release - the authour choose 1, 2 or 3 and that determines level of encryption).
Thanks for the input Grayman, it would be great to see more TDM team members speaking their minds about this.
There are a lot of times where copying and pasting entire sections of someone else's mission might be acceptable:
1. You want to re-use an existing game-world location (like the Braeden City Hall) and you get the original mapper's permission.
2. You are a new mapper who doesn't know how to make things on their own, and you get the original mapper's permission.
3. You are pressed for time, or looking for shortcuts for other reasons, and you get the original mapper's permission.
4. You make so many changes to the original section that no one would recognize it.
However, none of those apply in this case.
This has nothing at all to do with modular design, or prefabs. This is an obvious copy/paste of an entire section of an easily-recognized map, from a mapper with a long history of crossing boundaries with other people's work.
As the mapper whose work was copy/pasted, I'm definitely not thrilled about it, especially when I made and shared dozens of prefab buildings specifically for mappers who wanted to speed up their workflow. But what else is there to be said? This keeps coming up over and over again, always surrounding the same person, and I've long ago stopped expecting anything to change.
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I was never my intention to blatantly copy Springheels layout, but to use parts of the map as templates. In the beta thread I made the mistake of posting WIP shots which were then viewed as final product, Springheel saw this and rightly commented it was a blatant copy. In hindsight had I been thinking straight, I should have just dropped Springheel a Pm asking if he minded my template intentions.
Then fast forward to a few days ago where Judith angerly pointed out the the issue in the beta, I then asked him three separate times to take screenshots of examples where I still had to make changes. He eventually did this but only after some prodding from another member, and thought that was the end of it.
Judith, I did try and PM you after your first post in the beta thread but as you blocked me I have no other choice but to discuss it in the beta thread and now here.
Edited November 30, 2018 by Bikerdude
I am not interested in your take on this, Biker. I'm interested in what other mappers and members of TDM team think.
Your actions speak louder than your words, and you've lost the benefit of doubt quite some time ago. In this particular situation, I reacted angrily, because I feel genuinely threatened by your shitty practices. In fact, you can easily extrapolate this, and apply it to every mapper who already published, or will publish a mission. If this behavior is tolerated in this community, it will mean that every mapper has to check whether you nicked some of their level design every time you publish a new mission. If that's not tremendously discouraging, then I don't know what is.
I want to contribute to this community, but I will have to restrict that to sharing my know-how, technical knowledge, and, in due time, models and asset packs. But I honestly don't want to work on a map under the circumstances.
Edit: and stop pretending that this is some kind of mild case, where you can find some middle ground or make some slight adjustments. There are no ways to correct this other than deleting the whole copypasted section and making this area from scratch.
You made that clear when you posted increasingly confrontational posts in the beta thread and then started a new thread in the public forum. Why didn't you just PM me in the first instance, your first post in the beta thread was direct but civil but then rapidly went down hill after that.
I don't know how many different way or times I can explain what my intentions were, people other than me have tried to explain this also - but your refusing to listen. Repeatedly attacking me is counter productive, as is making grand sweeping hypothetical statements that have no basis in fact, both of which just undermines your viewpoint..
As I stated in the beta thread I asked you directly "please suggest locations as I have requested in the posts above" and before nborh1 repeated his request I had already spoken to Some1 so make him aware that where were several locations where I needed to change or recreate. I see you have continued to lump in the use of prefabs and locations I have created from scratch for other missions, beyond suggesting some changes - how is the use of my personally created resources relate to your argument?
Since you have taken this opportunity to voice your opinion about me, I shall do the same. No one will deny the models and rooms you have created are very impressive, but when you started in this community, you came across as blunt and opinionated. And now choosing to create drama rather than avoid it, helps no one. I will not deny I have caused a lot of avoidable drama on here, but I haven't had much interaction with you before this point! So I am failing to understand how you went from that, to personally attacking me. When you took the decision to start an inflammatory thread in the public forum, what did you genuinely think or want the outcome to be?
You are creating this drama Biker. Several people left either this forum, or TDM mapping entirely, because of you. That is not really my business, but what you're doing now is, as it affects all mappers. You're dodging questions and playing village idiot. You've played that card way too many times, so I'm not buying it.
I'm not buying that you wanted to use Springs portion of a map "as template", because you copypasted the whole section, got caught, and only made slight changes. In the beta thread, Some1stoleit said that this is probably the final iteration before the release. So you're constantly testing the waters, trying to see what you can get away with.
You are also dodging the basic question: why are you doing all this? This wasn't even your map, who the hell told you to do this? By pasting your and Spring's parts of the level into Some1stoleit's you are degrading it for no reason. It's his/her first release and first game mapping experience ever, and that's what you're teaching newcomers?
These are obvious things to everyone here, and in most mapping communities to be honest. But somehow not to you. Note that you are literally the only one person in this community who regularly causes this kind of backlash.
The thread isn't inflammatory. The evidence is there, I wanted to know what people think about such conduct. In many communities you would have been banned long ago, so here the situation is a bit different. If such behavior is generally accepted, I will have to adapt to the situation. I'm not judging anyone for their opinions. I stated what I think in the beginning, and everything was pretty much fine until you showed up.
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Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional. Under the regulations for examinations, intentional or reckless plagiarism is a disciplinary offence.
Edited December 1, 2018 by Xarg
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I'm going to throw my hat into this ring and give my two cents, as I'm actually one of the beta testers of the specific map in question. When I did the first round of testing on this map I noticed the (abundant) similarities, but I was operating under the false assumption that I was either wrong and misremembering how A New Job was or that Springheel had given his permission to use that city block in question. I tried to stay out of it as I figured that issue belonged to better minds that I. I feel terrible about it though. I should have spoken up at the time, but I didn't because I couldn't possibly believe that someone would just outright copy/paste an entire city block from someone else's map.
And I'm speaking out now not to stoke the already sky-high flames but for my own piece of mind because I'm fucking frustrated. Months ago, when Biker had posted a call out for people to test Penny Dreadful 2 for bug fixing and minor stuff like that, I volunteered and when I loaded up the .pk4 file and played the game, it was hard not to notice all the creative changes but again, I had assumed they were all sanctioned. They weren't. I went through the map and listed out all the bugs in my notebook and when I finally got back online to post them in the beta thread, I found that I had walked into a shitstorm of drama. Melan was pissed, and rightfully so of course, and he spoke his piece. But I felt fucking awful, I felt like an accessory to a crime because I had unknowingly volunteered to beta test corrupted fruit.
I absolutely love this community and as I'm learning how to make my own map I want to be able to help out in any way I can, be it through beta testing or proofreading/editing, but the shit that is being pulled off right now is NOT okay. I could understand like maybe copy/pasting a pipe or maybe a complicated arch, some kind of obscure patchwork that is hard to replicate (I, personally, hate patches and think they're the devil) but this was a whole city block! That city block is outright plagiarism and I want no part in supporting it.
Some1stoleit: I'm sorry you're map is being dragged through the mud like this, that's gotta be frustrating as hell. I'm still happy to help beta test of course (I'm pretty excited for its final release) but only so long as that portion of the map is gone.
Biker, you've been such a helpful person to this community and you've always clocked in a heroic amount of man hours to fix things and help out newcomers, but Judith is right. Copying that city block (or using it as a "template" and only changing a few things around) is NOT okay in any way shape or form and this kind of behavior should not be endorsed or encouraged. This is on you to fix it.
Edit: I hope this is the relevant thread for my semi-rant that didn't quite answer the question, but I didn't want to say this in the beta test thread.
Edited December 1, 2018 by Amadeus
I absolutely love this community and as I'm learning how to make my own map I want to be able to help out in any way I can, be it through beta testing or proofreading/editing,
The main point here is "learning".
I'm sorry for the mean things I said, some1stoleit - but it was in order to provoke discussions such as this by being an arse (a la south park's trevor's axiom), rather than the predicted stamping down and "end of discussion".
The learning is the important part.
Not everyone learns like me and I don't learn like everyone else - I can't learn with a curriculum, and I find it very difficult to follow tutorials. Have done all my life. I have to experiment and use trial and error and understand things from the bottom up. I set a goal and then go about figuring out how to achieve it by whatever means necessary.
It's difficult to teach me routines and patterns, unless they have a reason - it's one reason I'm terrible at kata/poomse but better at sparring.
Some people - it's not like this.
They can learn by copying, rather than investigative research and extra-curricular activity and experimentation.
I'm not going to go into the dopamine rewards of learning and "being on the list", because that's irrelevant and no-one gives a shit, even though I'm really tempted.
Ok - I have taken apart pretty much every mission I've ever played (except a few) to look at how it was made and learn from that.
That's my way.
I've had to deal with DR's massive learning curve from the documentation and the support offered by the community, if asked or through searching the forums/wiki - I've even PM'd people with questions about a particular thing, if I don't ever receive a reply and cannot find an answer or dont understand something - often I don't receive an answer.
This is why I'm a little peeved to see a new designer come in and retexture someone else's geometry get all the hard work done for them.
If someone is going to learn texturing by going through and copy-pasting a bunch of another level, with the intention to release as an FM in-game, with the "OK" from the people who "OK" stuff - causing a bit of upset because it's "corrupted fruit" (I like that rant, Amadeus - some good analogies) and get a basic grip of brushwork:
Does that qualify my map as an FM that's ready to be published?
Or is it a learning exercise?
In my maps folder on this machine, I have over 130 maps from the past 3 and a bit years.
A few of them might be worthy of release, if I knew how to optimise and had someone other than my (very few) mates test them out (who also have pretty high-end machines).
Also if I bothered to make briefings and all that stuff, beyond placeholder readables - but I want to make a campaign of it, not just a bunch of maps - so I sit on it.
I would be happy for people to learn how I have implemented some mechanics in the level - as it's kinda simple, but effective, because I've had to be creative in my solutions - but, at the same time - I wouldn't want people copying my brushwork or over-using any trap / section / bespoke something / secret thing, that would make my FM's less ... unique..? signiture? Idk the word - same as how ppl recognise my paintings, no matter what I paint in whatever style.
I'd rather help them understand it so they can do it themselves and innovate and come up with their own ideas.
I believe that - if an FM is made and contains a large chunk that's been ripped from another level without permission - and the reason that has been done is because the person is LEARNING how to do things in their own way - it's not an original FM and therefore would be better off deposited in the Editor's Guild, in that person's mapping thread, as part of their progress and learning notation.
I'm sure anyone could - within a few hours - figure out how to make a nice looking scene in DR with some AI and an objective. A passable FM, but perhaps one I'd play half-way and quit because it's not fun.
But all the elf-wizardry that goes on behind the scenes - that's something that takes a long time (years, in my case) to figure out.
It's really nice that people help each other and I really like that. I might come across as a dick sometimes, but I try my best to help people when I can with what I've learned - same as the veterans answer a question I am forced to ask (or more often reply, wtf are you talking about..? or ignore it.)
There's a trade off between publishing "my first FM that I spent a few hours on" that contains a lot of "that other's FM that they spent a year on" - it's either a learning experience, which I believe this level design thing is for the designer in question (it does look very nice) or it's an FM that people can download and play and then go - "oh this is a bit like that, oh it is that, I've already done this".
While a level designer may learn a great deal in less time by copy pasting a bunch of geometry and then texturing it - they're missing vital practise in building brush models, patches, seed systems, visportaling, how to use clips, scripting, particle effects, lighting, ambiance, materials, definitions, guis, briefings, a billion other things, and all the other stuff that they may need to realise "THE FM".
I still consider myself a noob at all of this, and I must've spent more hours in DR than I have actually playing TDM.
Maybe that's because I haven't simply ripped stuff from other people's FM's - I've taken the time to try and understand it so I can do it myself - and I haven't received much help. Maybe because I don't ask very often.
If I had have just copied a bunch of gui and script files, especially copy-pasted level geometry and textured it with new assets - I might have learned a lot faster how to do that kind of thing.
As it is, I've a bunch of older maps where some models, textures and functions are depreciated or moved - but I know how to fix that, because I learned that in DR 101, while I'm almost through the door to class-room DR 103.
Even though they could technically be short FM's, such as Thief's Den - they're not submitted as FM's, because they're not up to what I would consider to be on par with Biker, Melan, Springheel, etc... FM's.
I've spoken before about how difficult it is for new mappers to achieve even a simple thing in another post, given current documentation and explanation available - I think only Jaxa read that.
Perhaps some level designers were not born when some of use were making Doom levels that we'd share on our 14.4baud modems through BBS or using netscape browser and freeserv or distributing on a floppy.
Hand-holding / tutoring is a very good thing, but no-one did my homework for me at school - except once when I forgot how to do long division when I was 16 and asked my mate's dad.
Other than authour's stating in the readme an expression of what they would allow or not allow (eg, Grayman's rule #2, except for the pitfall trap with the indiana jones spike wall and stuff, cos that's unique, intrinsic design to this FM):
A thread for mappers to be able to post their .map progressions as spoilered text and with necessary scripts and gui code, or videos and screenshots (as I used to), or fully compliled pk4's ready to download and play, would also be a good way to avoid this situation from happening, now the precedent has been set, sanctioned and end of discussioned.
It would enable mappers to have "published" their FM and announce it - but distinguish that it's a map that's a learning thing and probably one that - if published for download in-game - would cause arguments over "stealing" (ironic, isn't it..? stealing in a game about stealing stuff) or other issues.
How can the community best support new mappers to learn the things to raise TDM's FM quality, without causing stuff like this?
There are two suggestions:
1. Authour includes in the readme what they're fine with people copying, facsimilie.
2. "Learning" FM's are put into editor's guild for the community to play, enjoy and learn from, in a level designer's own thread or in a thread that is specific to this end.
These two things would avoid this issue from occouring again, as well as help people learn through hands on and dissection, rather than monkey-see, monkey-do and elves.
It relies on a cohesive community that follows some kind of social contract, which I believe everyone can respect without things degrading into disagreements, flame-wars or become blown out of proportion and elicit vehement "corrupt fruit" metaphors.
I know for damn certain that Judith bringing this to light has caused me a little doubt to reveal anything until it's at the stage where I really need someone's help to look over it, which I kinda doubt they will 'cos it's me, because I am at my limit and cannot progress without going public with anything.
That was one reason I removed the content of my mapping thread - it spoiled the stuff I was coming up with and I didn't want anyone to steal my design mechanics and implement them before I did.
I love TDM and I love to see people release new FMs that I really enjoy to play.
(and then go and break out of bounds or find a way to bypass massive sections, because I don't beta test cos I'm busy with my own stuff).
I don't like running the same mansion over and over, having to ramp the difficulties to max and remove the light gem in order for the FM or a replay to be more challenging. I don't use the light gem regardless, due to familiarity with the game, but I know people usually keep it on.
That's the last input from me, because I've repeated myself at least twice in this thread and I'm even boring myself.
Also I doubt anyone reads what I write, unless it's helping to figure a solution to their problem in newbie questions (cos Judith, you know I can't be coherent or brain-fart all over the place - "I never asked for this", is probably more fitting, as Adam Jensen opened DR for the third time).
// patches are awesome.
Edited December 1, 2018 by teh_saccade
Also you can't ban Bikerdude - he's a mod hero.
(now I'm done)
Do you want some of my alprazolam, Judith?
It's a sad anniversary for me today so I'm gonna be taking some - they're expired but only by a month.
Thanks you for your input Amadeus, as you described how I feel better than I did.
I'm still pretty furious about this, and what made me especially angry about the whole topic is the way Biker puts the whole thing in words, as if it was a minor thing. He uses this tactic very often, you can see that in his "farewell" thread. Using euphemisms to downplay an issue or to place yourself as a victim. And I find this especially sleazy.
In this case it was "shh, shh, let's focus on correcting this problem". It's not a bug, leak, or performance issue, for fuck sake. You "correct the problem" deleting the copypasted section and doing the whole thing from scratch. And everybody in the world knows that you just never, ever do things like this. If you have any shreds of decency, you wouldn't even think about doing something like this. It's like speaking to a child why we don't use knives to stab people in the back. For the 10th time.
So my last posts were basically preemptive strikes: I'm not falling euphemisms, victim card, or "sorry I'm being an idiot" card.
That is to say, this is not a witch hunt (who am I to be such crusader). We are all different and weird bunch of people. I am, as Biker correctly stated, pretty blunt and awfully opinionated on certain things. People I interact here with sometimes feel weird to me, and I'm sure I look weird to them with what I write. We don't see eye to eye on everything, but that's okay. Trust and mutual respect is there, because virtually noone else in the forums pulls off the shit Biker does. Making compulsive changes in maps behind people's backs, taking over maps to fill them with models, copypasting stuff from other maps into other people's work. This is not just being weird, it's weird and fucking scary. That's why I wrote the above, that I feel threatened. The respect and "community darling" status is one thing, but the whole "questionable methods of mentoring", as Biker himself admitted in the farewell thread, haven't changed.
I bet TDM veterans are super tired of this already, and none of the pleading worked so far, so maybe this will change something.
I am scared of what you do here, Biker, and I don't even want to think of what you'll come up with next time.
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I don't even want to chime in on this discussion, as I am a bit tired of stuff like this. So I am just gonne say this:
Biker, please delete the sections as per the screenshots in the main post of this thread.
Next time you need templates, use your own works or just block out a coarse room and do some concept drawings.
Always ask the IP owner permission to reuse assets unless they were released to the public for free use.
Never plagiarise, you know it's wrong!
You're dodging questions and playing village idiot. You've played that card way too many times, so I'm not buying it.
The respect and "community darling" status is one thing, but the whole "questionable methods of mentoring", as Biker himself admitted in the farewell thread, haven't changed.
No I am not and have not dodged any questions, I have answered every thing I have been asked, and there you go again personally attaching me.
At this point I am not interested in what you think, I have explained what I was trying to do and and why multiple times.
See above, christ are you f**king blind or just belligerently myopic..? I answered those very question/s in the beta thread more than once, but as seems to be a pattern with you, your refusing to see any answer given.
I know what I have done in the past, repeatedly Insulting me and then twisting what I have said on previous posts - right now in this thread your the one causing the drama!
Next time you need templates, use your own works
Before Judith even started this thread I had already spoken to Some1 to do exactly this, also mentioned that in the beta thread.
I did just that, but apparently Judith even found fault with that.
When I created The Gatehouse I did exactly that.
That might be more of a subjective issue, but to me it's really quite apparent, that the surrounding building arrangement is almost a copypasted version of Springheel's "A new job", and the sewer is almost a 1:1 copy of Bikerdude's "Elixir". Not sure why you're doing this...? Anyway, I'm pretty sure people will notice that and will find it a cheap shot.
But why copypasting in the first place? Just use models to make these sections from scratch, make it different from what we've already seen by using different model combinations, different textures or lighting. Right now, it seems like you want to make a map, but you actually don't feel like making it...
why are you doing all this? This wasn't even your map, who the hell told you to do this? By pasting your and Spring's parts of the level into Some1stoleit's you are degrading it for no reason. It's his/her first release and first game mapping experience ever, and that's what you're teaching newcomers?
Just answer the bloody question, Biker, I'm running out of ways to rephrase it.
Why did you copypaste whole sections of other maps into sb else's work? What did you think would come out of it? That people won't notice it? Why did you take over Some1stoleit's map and filled with models? Currently, there's another similar case, a map in the works by JackFarmer, do you plan to "help" him too? What is the purpose of this obsession with other people's layouts and filling them with your own stuff? Will you shove your "mentoring methods" down every new mapper's throat in this forum?
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— I accidentally delated win.com, what do I do now?
— To the morgue!
Whatever is the outcome now, it's probably best for the FM to have the fragments allegedly originating from a fruit of the poisoned tree to be deleted and do it all over to save time/health. No point in arguing because the FM might get beyond "the point of no return". Not good.
Playing out retorsion will consume everyone. Just avoid contacts in the future and focus on the good part.
"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...
- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.
Why did you copypaste whole sections of other maps into sb else's work?
What did you think would come out of it?
That people won't notice it?
Why did you take over Some1stoleit's map and filled with models?
Currently, there's another similar case, a map in the works by JackFarmer, do you plan to "help" him too?
What is the purpose of this obsession with other people's layouts and filling them with your own stuff?
Will you shove your "mentoring methods" down every new mapper's throat in this forum?
Im going to re-answer all the same questions yet again just so there is a record of it -
The plan was to use parts of NJ as a template/prfab and then change them to suit.
After I had changed/customized the templates/prefabs, a new looking layout.
If you had bothered to read the beta thread you would have seen, that i was fairly upfront about my intentions and Some1 was happy for me to proceed.
This not a question, this is a thinly veiled snipe. If Jack asks for my help, then I would give it - he would then be free to choose if he wanted it or not.
Not relevant to this thread, but as you've asked - I don't have an 'obsession with other peoples layouts or filling them with my stuff', I do how ever have a passion for the mod and making it the best it can be. But the manor I have go about doing that was poorly managed, I am and have been working on that.
Again not relevant, but again as you have asked - In the past and even with some1, I had been overbearing. In the past I didn't realise what I was doing till it was too late, but with some1 I caught myself and dropped him a PM. I had offered to just do what I originally offered but he was happy for me to continue as I was.
And as we are on subject of asking questions -
Why have you repeatedly lumped in my copy and pasting of my own work into this map and tarred it with the same brush? It was neither correct or relevant to your core question.
Why did you go from being civil, to outright belligerent and personally insulting me in the beta thread and now publicly?
Why have you refused to or been unable to acknowledge any of the answers I have given you before now?
Why at the very start, didnt you drop me a PM and directly confront me with your concerns before posting all of this drama?
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Labour Party, Terrorism
Corbynista Andrew Murray and Hezbollah
It is easy to see why Andrew Murray has been welcomed to Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle. He is a fanatical Israel hater.
Consider a scene from London in July 2006, when Murray, Corbyn, far left agitators and Islamists marched to protest against Israel’s bid to defend itself against Hezbollah.
Excited, Murray reads a message from Hezbollah to a cheering crowd. It is addressed to “our friends from around the world” from the “freedom fighters of Hezbollah”. Unity! Listen for yourself.
Explicit support for Hezbollah was right out in the open at this demonstration. The poor old Socialist Party was somewhat disgruntled:
However, left-wing leading members of the Stop the War Coalition, including George Galloway and Andrew Murray, not only failed to raise socialist ideas but also expressed uncritical support for the Islamist Hamas and Hezbollah.
The crowd was predictably ugly. “Victory to the Intifada!”
“Raise the red flag!”
“We are all Hezbollah!”
“Let’s chant for Hezbollah as Azzam ‘Kaboom’ Tamimi speaks!”
For his part, Jeremy Corbyn shouted about Israeli “state terrorism” and told the crowd it was important that they had assembled because the demonstration would be reported on television. For him, the nasty scenes were a matter of pride.
Hezbollah is not enough for Andrew Murray. As readers know, he also supports “resistance” against NATO forces. Our soldiers on active duty overseas? Best kill them.
But let us not forget that the victims of NATO are not in Europe. They are in the Middle East. They are in South Asia. And our common humanity and our desire to defeat NATO demands that we extend the hand of sympathy and solidarity to those who are suffering from NATO’s policy of aggression and imperialism, and not just to those who are suffering but those who are exercising their right to resist that policy.
Mr Murray likes ranting about antisemitism “smears” as well.
Andrew Murray and his master Jeremy Corbyn are lifelong supporters of terrorist groups and bug-eyed hatred of Israel. They will never change.
More disturbing revelations of Labour’s antisemitism problem
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International Journal of Infection
In Press Articles
Evaluation of Antifungal Activity of Silver Nanoparticles on Fusarium oxysporum
Javad Abkhoo 1 and Naser Panjehkeh 2 , *
1 Institute of Plant Biotechnology, University of Zabol, Zabol, IR Iran
2 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, IR Iran
* Corresponding author: Naser Panjehkeh, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, IR Iran. E-mail: naserpanjehkeh@gmail.com
International Journal of Infection: April 2017, 4 (2); e41126
Published Online: August 29, 2016
Revised: August 4, 2016
Accepted: August 5, 2016
DOI: 10.5812/iji.41126
To Cite: Abkhoo J, Panjehkeh N. Evaluation of Antifungal Activity of Silver Nanoparticles on Fusarium oxysporum, Int J Infect. 2017 ; 4(2):e41126. doi: 10.5812/iji.41126.
Background: Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are between 1 nm and 100 nm in size.
Objectives: Different concentrations of AgNPs were tested in this research to examine antifungal activity on Fusarium oxysporum.
Methods: Antifungal activity of AgNPs on basis of colony formation was evaluated by in vitro Petri dish measurement.
Results: Different concentrations of AgNPs inhibit colony formation of F. oxysporum at different levels. As concentration of AgNPs was increased, there was a decrease in colony formation. Silver nanoparticles at the highest concentration (5000 ppm) did not fully inhibit F. oxysporum colony formation. Silver nanoparticles (5000 ppm) and colonize F. oxysporum to decrease to 35% after one hour of exposure, 27% after three hours of exposure, and 24% after five hours of exposure. The antifungal activity of AgNPs to the reduce colony formation was apparent within one hour. The spore extended time exposure to AgNPs from one to five hours significantly reduced colony formation.
Conclusions: The antifungal activity of AgNPs has a great potential for use in control of fungal spores.
Keywords: Fusarium oxysporum; Antifungal Activity; Control; Silver Nanoparticles
Copyright © 2016, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
Silver Nanoparticles (AgNPs) are between 1 nm and 100 nm in size (1). Until the nineteenth century silver was not considered as an antibacterial agent (2, 3). Since then, antimicrobial properties of silver have been studied and used more than any other inorganic antibacterial (4).
Micromolar concentrations of silver have no harmful effects on humans (5). Therefore, silver has been used for many biological processes and pharmaceutical development of dental materials, grafts (6) and coating materials for medical devices (7). Fungal strains of Fusarium oxysporum soil inhabitants have the ability to live as saprophytes and degrade lignin (8). Many disease-causing strains within complex F. oxysporum to plants, especially in agricultural settings. The use of AgNPs has become more common as technological advances have made it more affordable. It is possible for AgNPs to have serious consequences for the environment (9). One of potential applications is its use in plant disease management. Up to now, limited research evidence on the use of AgNPs for the control of fungal pathogens, has been published (10).
The aim of this research was to evaluate the antifungal effect of AgNPs on F. oxysporum.
3.1. Fungal Isolate
Fusarium oxysporum, which is a plant pathogenic fungus, was used in this research. Single-spore isolates of F. oxysporum from infected melon plants were collected from the Sistan region.
3.2. Silver Preparation
The seeds of Satureja hortensis were collection from the southern region of Iran (Kerman) and silver preparation was conducted, as described by Mohassel and Pourseyedi (11).
3.3. Inhibition of Colony Formation by Different Concentrations of Silver Nanoparticles
Antifungal activity of AgNPs on basis of colony formation was evaluated by in vitro Petri dish measurement. Fusarium oxysporum was grown in CMA. Conidium cultures were incubated at 28°C for 10 days and 106 spores per mL-1 were diluted with distilled water. Same amount of spore suspension of AgNPs preparation series (1000, 2500 and 5000 ppm) were mixed to a final volume of 1 mL, and water was mixed with distilled water as a control. Ten-milliliter-sample of stock conidia and silver was mixed at 0, 1, 3 and 5 hours after treatment were silver and diluted 100 times with sterile water. Ten microliters of diluted sample in PDA released spores. Four PDA plates were tested at any combination of exposure time and concentration of AgNPs. The number of colonies that had formed on the plates were counted after four days at 28°C. The numbers of colonies of AgNPs treated with a spore suspension on controller were compared to calculate concentration of each AgNPs preparation.
Different concentrations of AgNPs inhibited colony formation of F. oxysporum at different levels (Figure 1). As concentration of AgNPs increased, there was decreased colony formation. Silver nanoparticles at the highest concentration (5000 ppm) did not fully inhibit colony formation of F. oxysporum. Silver nanoparticles (5000 ppm) led to a decrease in F. oxysporum colonies to 35% after one hour of exposure, 27% after three hours of exposure, and 24% after five hours of exposure (Figure 2).
Figure 1. Colony Formation of Fusarium oxysporum on PDA Medium, Five Hours Post-Treatment of Spores With Water and Different Concentrations of Silver Nanoparticles (AgNPs)
Images were captured after culture plates had been incubated for four days at 28°C.
Figure 2. Colony Formation of Fusarium oxysporum at Different Concentrations of Silver Nanoparticles (AgNPs)
Antifungal activity of AgNPs to reduce colony formation was apparent within one hour. Extended exposure to the spores of AgNPs (Figure 2) from one to five hours significantly reduced colony formation (P > 0.05).
The control of fungal diseases in crops is very important. Recently, efforts to further develop management practices and lower the risks for human safety have been raised. In addition, several studies were carried out to test antifungal activity of AgNPs against plant pathogenic fungi. Results presented in this research confirm that AgNPs has an inhibitory effect on colony of spores of F. oxysporum. Silver nanoparticles may be directly attached to penetrate cell membranes to kill spores (12).
Researchers have used AgNPs, as carriers to deliver various loads of large biological molecules to specific targets. Targeting high-cargo density and concentration of nanoparticles may provide a specific target site and has the least side effects (13).
Introduction of silver in bacterial cells results in a high degree of structural and morphological changes, which can lead to cell death. As AgNPs come in contact with bacteria holds cell wall and cell membrane them (14). Introduction of AgNPs is sufficient to prevent a repeat and to cause cell death. In addition to increasing its effectiveness, when silver comes into contact with the liquid, it leads to an increase in ionized particles’ antibacterial activity (15). This leads to suppression of enzyme and protein expression, which is linked to the ability of cells to produce ATP related to the condition (16). Although it is a different offer for each type of cell, cell membrane components differ greatly, it has been seen that in general, AgNPs with an average size of 10 nm or less indicates that electronic effects, which to increase greatly its antibacterial activity (17). It has been noted that the introduction of AgNPs has synergistic activity with common antibiotics currently used today, such as erythromycin, ampicillin and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (18). Medical equipment, indicate that AgNPs reduces the number of bacteria on the device used (19).
5.1. Conclusion
Antifungal activity of AgNPs has a great potential for use in production of control fungal spores.
The authors are pleased to acknowledge Hasan Ahmadi University of Zabol for providing the facilities for the research.
Authors’ Contribution: All authors had an equal role in design, work, statistical analysis and manuscript writing.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Funding/Support: Institute of Plant Biotechnology, University of Zabol.
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Thursday June 11, 09 -- Big blues, big fluke tourney, big pelagics meeting
Posted by jaymann on June 11, 2009 at 5:07am
Thursday, June 11, 2009: Waves: Building 2 – 3 foot north wind swell. Winds: NE (early) at 10 mph.
Check out the leaderboard for the 6th Berkeley Striper Club Spring Tournament.. Go to www.fishlbi.com and click the link. Important pelagics meeting coming up ion Manahawkin, See end of this report.
Conditions are a tad pissy out there this a.m. A misty NE wind is riling the surfline, though creating a mighty nice bassing look. The north wind has also egged on the water temps, some of the warmer readings of the year, though still just into the 60s.
The talks of the suds since yesterday has been the big blues cruising much of the Island, strongest mid- to north. Along with some verbal reports I got this two emails:
Fished the BH surf from 6-9pm Wednesday night. Very slow...not even a junk fish. Not wanting the seasons first skunk, I moved to an area that is good to me in the fall (mid island). Well I got a bit of a bite going just after 1am. Caught my seasons 3 biggest bluefish. Biggest was close to 10lbs. Man, are they late this year. Also, caught a teen sized striper at 16lbs...what else is new. All the fish were hooked in the lip, so I set them free to fight again.
Fished Monday as well. No bass but bluefish to 4lbs dominated the catch. Thankfully the junkfish count has been low. Just a few dogsharks. I quit around 2:30 am as I ran out of bunker. Left em' biting.
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North End, at Dusk tonight, big Bluefish were hitting bunker head. Just thought you might want to know there are Blues around, at least tonight they were and they were hungry. (12-14 lb. range), Scott.
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Fluking is a mirror of the past few years with massive numbers of shorts and minimal numbers of take-homes. If there’s a bright point it’s the goodly number of doormats among the few keepers. Fortunately, fluke is one of the very few fish where the very largest ones can be among the tastiest. Remember to think about keeping a few huge meaty belly strips for the next fluking trip. The down side: You have to have, on hand (while fishing) the carcass of the fish on which the bait strips came. I had a second top fluker note that strips of bluefish (de-scaled) also work very well when targeting larger fluke. Most everyone knows how well small snapper blues work but they’re a long way off. Seems everyone is looking for some way or another to pull keepers out of areas that seem all but bricked with undersized flatties.
Those doormats might be worth some serious cash this weekend. One of the nation’s largest fluking contests takes place. Here’s a promo.
“The 15th Annual Jersey Coast Anglers Association Fluke Tournament is this Saturday June 13th, 2009. This week is the last week to enter. There are 9 ports for the tournament. The tournament has over $70,000 in cash and prizes, including automatic entry into a drawing for the $10,000 Grand Prize, 9 first place port prizes of $1,200 cash, and a slew of rods, reels, marine electronics, and tackle gift certificates as runner up prizes. Click Here to visit www.jcaaa.org and learn more.
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OFFSHORE ANGLERS NOTE (!): Important pelagics meeting to be held in Manahawkin:
June 10, 2009 - NOAA's Fisheries Service is holding a series of public meetings this summer seeking comments on potential changes in the way commercial and recreational fishermen fish the U.S. quotas for swordfish and bluefin tuna in the Atlantic.
In the case of both fish stocks, U.S. fishermen have not been able to catch the U.S. quotas designed to ensure that the stocks are fished sustainably.
While these species are managed internationally, the United States manages the domestic part of these fisheries by taking into account the ecosystem and working to reduce bycatch of turtles and other species. This approach increases expenses for U.S. fishermen and makes it more difficult for them to compete in the marketplace with cheaper imports from fishing nations that subsidize their fleets and do not use an ecosystem approach.
'Swordfish are nearly rebuilt, yet our fishermen are only catching 54 percent of the U.S. quota,' said Jim Balsiger, acting NOAA assistant administrator for NOAA's Fisheries Service.
'Bluefin tuna are a more complicated story. U.S. fishermen have followed quotas based on scientific recommendations designed to end overfishing. There may be ways to fish more of the U.S. quotas for both stocks in a sustainable manner.'
The public process will also be a chance to examine using 'catch shares,' which would allocate a portion of the total catch to a person, company, community or sector, to better manage these fisheries. NOAA will also examine novel ways to limit the bycatch of sea turtles, marine mammals, or undersized, prohibited and spawning fish in the bluefin and swordfish fisheries.
'We've heard a number of ideas from constituents and we want to broaden the conversation to include recreational fishermen, environmental organizations, and the general public on how best to manage these valuable highly migratory fish species,' said Balsiger.
This effort to involve the public comes as NOAA's Fisheries Service announces this season's bluefin tuna quota for U.S. commercial and recreational fishermen. The rule puts in place reductions in overall quota that were adopted at the November 2008 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the international body that manages tuna, swordfish and other species that cross international boundaries.
The rule, which published on June 1, raises the daily catch limit from one to two bluefin tunas for recreational fishermen. NOAA had originally proposed a daily limit of one but raised the limit to two per day after reviewing comments from the fishing industry and analyzing the change for consistency with the bluefin tuna rebuilding program.
The new rule maintains the three-fish per day limit for commercial fishermen.
NOAA received many comments and suggestions during the recent bluefin tuna rulemaking on ways to improve long-term management of bluefin and swordfish. These proposals will now be part of this summer's public process.
In addition to considering catch shares and bycatch reduction, some of the proposals that will be discussed include: * An industry request to allow more bluefin tuna to be landed that have been incidentally caught in longline fishing gear * A proposal to allow approximately 5,000 commercial tuna fishermen who use rod and reel to land swordfish at low catch levels * An industry request to lower the commercial minimum size for bluefin tuna from 73 to 65 inches Public comments on bluefin tuna fishery issues will close June 30, while comments on all other issues, including swordfish, will remain open until Aug. 31.
Public meetings to obtain additional comments will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. EDT at the following locations. All meetings will begin with an opportunity for people to view information on the issues raised in the public process and ask questions at 5 p.m. EDT, followed by a presentation and opportunity for public comment beginning at 6 p.m. EDT.
June 23 Holiday Inn 151 Route 72 East Manahawkin, N.J. 08050
June 25 Roanoke Island Festival Park 1 Festival Park Manteo, N.C. 27954
June 29 Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor 180 Water Street Plymouth, Mass. 02360 July 21 Belle Chasse Auditorium 8398 Hwy. 23 Belle Chasse, La. 70037
July 28 Broward County Main Library 100 S. Andrews Ave. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33301
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Tom Fote warns the nation in D.C.;
June 10, 2009 - Pollution experts on Tuesday pressed a congressional panel for stronger action to keep pharmaceuticals and other contaminants out of the water, saying they are hurting fish and may threaten human health.
Thomas P. Fote, a New Jersey conservationist who sits on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, said the pollutants are damaging commercial fisheries. He told congressmen not to 'study a problem to death and never do anything.'
Fote appeared in a lineup of witnesses Tuesday before the subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife of the House Natural Resources Committee. The witnesses pointed to research showing damage to fish and other aquatic species from pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other industrial chemicals, especially those that alter growth-regulating endocrine systems. Some scientists worry about the potential of similar harm to humans.
'Hundreds of peer-reviewed publications ... demonstrate that numerous ubiquitous chemicals in the environment can interfere with development via the endocrine system, but there appears to be no will or authority to remove those chemicals from the supply chain,' said zoologist Theo Colborn, a professor emeritus at the University of Florida, who founded the nonprofit Endocrine Disruption Exchange.
The witnesses appealed for Congress to promote consumer take-back programs for unused drugs, to encourage industry financing of disposal, and to do more to keep discards from waterways and landfills.
The hearing comes on the heels of an Associated Press investigation that reported pharmaceutical traces in drinking water supplies of at least 51 million Americans and in many waterways. The drugs range from antibiotics to psychiatric drugs to endocrine-disrupting sex hormones.
One witness, pharmacist Fred Massoomi from Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha, broke his collarbone in a recent fall and sat stiffly during his testimony. Asked by a panel member if he was in pain, he said, 'Not right now.' Then he lifted a plastic bottle and smiled. 'If I need any pain medication, I'll just drink some water,' he said.
Most cities and water providers don't test for pharmaceutical contaminants. The biggest source is considered to be human excretion, but manufacturers and health care facilities also send millions of tons of unused drugs into rivers and streams every year.
Utilities say their drinking water is safe, and no human risks are confirmed from pharmaceutical pollution. However, research shows that the pharmaceuticals sometimes harm fish, frogs and other aquatic species. Also, researchers report that human cells fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs.
The House has already passed legislation to study the problem and find solutions, and the Senate is considering such a bill. Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo, D-Guam, who chaired the hearing, said she has talked to colleagues about the need for more legislation.
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Obama sharply alters missile defense plans
From the US Air Force Times, Saturday Sep 19, 2009, by William H. McMichael:
In a major policy reversal, President Barack Obama has scuttled plans to build a massive ground-based missile defense system based in the Czech Republic and Poland that the Bush administration intended to counter the threat posed by Iranian ballistic missiles.
Instead, Obama favors shorter-range ground- and sea-based missiles positioned closer to Iran.
The new system, which Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said will be “globally deployable, ... globally exportable,” initially will center around ground-based Patriot and Aegis-ship-based SM-3 missiles, networked command-and-control systems and improved sensors. It will mimic the ship-based defense system now used in the joint defense of South Korea and Japan, he said...
...Now off the table are plans to build the politically sensitive system that Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed to President George W. Bush in 2006 that called for construction of a complex radar station in the Czech Republic and the installation of 10 silo-based Ground-Based Interceptor missiles in Poland...
....Russia had long opposed the 2006 U.S. plan, saying it would undermine its strategic nuclear posture. Asked whether the cooled relations that resulted were a factor in formulating the new policy, Gates said the Russians “are probably not going to be pleased that we are continuing with missile defense efforts in Europe.”
But two elements of the new plan should allay those fears, [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates said. The new sensor plan will not have the capability to look deep into Russia, as the previous omni-directional system could have. ...And the SM-3, with its kinetic warhead, is a weapon that Gates said the Russians “simply cannot, at least rationally, argue bears any kind of a threat to Russia.”
...The overriding U.S. motivation for the change, Gates said, was “almost exclusively” driven by the new intelligence assessments and improvements in technology....
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Category: Rulings on Tawbah
Cursing Islam in a Moment of Intense Anger
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
As-Salaamu-Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
A man cursed Islam in a moment of intense anger – what is the ruling on that? What are the conditions of repentance from this action? Is his marriage to his wife annulled as a result?
He insults Islam – should he be friends with him? How should he deal with him?
Repentance of an Apostate
Praise be to Allah
The ruling on the one who curses Islam is that he is a kafir (disbeliever), because cursing Islam or making fun of it constitutes apostasy from Islam and disbelief in Allah and in His religion. Allah tells us of some people who made fun of Islam and then said. “We were just joking and playing,” but Allah tells us that this joking and playing is in fact mocking Allah, His signs and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and that they were committing kufr (disbelief) thereby. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“If you ask them (about this), they declare: ‘We were only talking idly and joking.’ Say: ‘Was it at Allah, and His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) and His Messenger that you were mocking?
Make no excuse; you disbelieved after you had believed.’” [9:65, 66]
Mocking the religion of Allah, or cursing the religion of Allah, or insulting Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), or making fun of them, is kufr that puts one beyond the pale of Islam. However, there is room for repentance from this, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Say: O ‘Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily, Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [39:53]
If a person repents from any kind of apostasy and his repentance is sincere and meets all the conditions of repentance, then Allah will accept his repentance. There are five conditions of repentance, which are as follows:
1 – Being sincere towards Allah in repentance, i.e., the motive for repentance should not be a desire to show off, or fear of another person, or the hope for some worldly gain to be made by repenting. If a person’s repentance is sincerely for the sake of Allah alone, and the motive for it is fear of Allah and fear of His punishment and hope for His reward, then it is sincerely for Allah alone.
2 – He must regret what he has done of sin, by feeling remorse and sorrow for what has happened in the past, and he should regard it as a serious matter that he has to give up.
3 – He must give up the sin and stop persisting in it. If his sin was omission of an obligatory duty, he must start doing it and make it up if he can. If his sin was commission of a forbidden action he must give it up and keep away from it. If his sin had to do with other people, then he must restore their rights to them or ask for their pardon.
4 – He must resolve not to go back to it in the future, by having the determination in his heart not to go back to the sin from which he has repented.
5 – His repentance must come at the time when it will be accepted. If it comes after that time it will not be accepted. The time of acceptance is general and specific.
The general time is when the sun rises from the west; repentance that comes after the sun rises from the west will not be accepted, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“The day that some of the signs of your Lord do come, no good will it do to a person to believe then, if he believed not before, nor earned good (by performing deeds of righteousness) through his faith. Say: Wait you! We (too) are waiting.” [6:158]
The specific time is when death is imminent. When death is imminent repentance will be of no benefit, because Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And of no effect is the repentance of those who continue to do evil deeds until death faces one of them and he says: ‘Now I repent;’ nor of those who die while they are disbelievers.” [4:18]
I say: if a person repents from any sin – even if that is cursing Islam – then his repentance will be accepted if he meets the conditions mentioned here.
But it should be noted that a word may be an act of kufr (disbelief) or apostasy, but the one who says it may not become a kafir (disbeliever) thereby, if there is a factor present which means that he cannot be judged to be a kafir. Here we have a man who tells us that he cursed Islam whilst in a state of anger. We say to him: If your anger was so intense that you did not know what you were saying, and at that point you did not know if you were in heaven or on earth, and you said words without thinking or knowing what they were, then these words are not subject to any ruling, and you cannot be judged to be an apostate, because these words were not spoken intentionally. If a word is spoken unintentionally, Allah will not punish a person for it. Allah says concerning vows (interpretation of the meaning):
“Allah will not punish you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He will punish you for your deliberate oaths.” [5:89]
If this person who spoke words of kufr in a moment of intense anger did not know what he was saying, then there is no ruling on his words, and he cannot be judged to be an apostate in this case. As he is not judged to be an apostate, his marriage to his wife is not annulled; rather she is still married to him.
But if a person feels angry he should try to counteract this anger in the ways prescribed by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) when a man asked him, “O Messenger of Allah, advise me.” He said: “Do not get angry,” and he repeated it several times, saying, “Do not get angry.” So he must exercise self-control and seek refuge with Allah from the accursed shaytan (devil). If he is standing, he should sit down; if he is sitting, he should lie down. If his anger grows too intense, he should do wudhu (ablution). All these things will take away his anger. How many people have regretted acting upon their anger, but it was too late.
Majmoo’ Fatawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthyameen.
And Allah knows best.
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Business continuity South Africa
Veeam restructures exec team, appoints new CEO
Veeam has restructured its executive team, promoting its co-founder, Andrei Baronov, to the role of CEO, while the company's other co-founder, Ratmir Timashev, has been promoted to EVP of worldwide sales and marketing.
Chairman of the finance and compensation committees, William Largent, assumes the role of EVP of operations.
Both Timashev and Largent will report to the CEO.
According to the disaster recovery and virtualisation management software provider, these executive changes add extra focus and strength to help the company continue its rapid expansion into the enterprise and cloud segments, and enable it to accelerate growth across all markets.
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Andrei Baronov
Member of the board of directors Peter McKay and Baronov had been co-CEOs since May 2017. McKay will leave the company.
As CEO, Baronov will continue focusing on key functional competencies and will be responsible for optimising Veeam's growth potential.
"I want to thank Peter McKay for his dedication and energy, and we all wish him the best in his new endeavours," says Baronov.
"He leaves Veeam with a deep bench strength of experienced management leaders who will carry our vision and strategy forward. The changes we have made to the executive team will ensure Veeam continues our aggressive growth, and we can deliver the exceptional customer experience we are renowned for."
Veeam also reaffirmed its goal of becoming a $1.5 billion revenue company in 2020.
Since starting operations in 2006, Veeam says its growth has been meteoric globally.
"New and existing customers have accelerated the adoption of the hyper-availability platform, which is the core component of Veeam's data protection and data management solution with integrated agent management."
Veeam recently reported its 41st consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, experiencing a 20% year-over-year increase in bookings and more than 26% year-over-year growth in its cloud business.
It says traction with its alliance partners outperformed expectations, with Cisco, HPE, Lenovo and NetApp helping to drive a 128% year-over-year increase in bookings via unique resale agreements.
"Our vision and strategy to be the most trusted intelligent data management company is seeing us secure more than 4 000 new customers a month, driving sequential double-digit bookings growth," says Timashev.
"As testament to the growth we are experiencing, according to the most recent IDC Software Tracker for Data Replication & Protection 2018H1, Veeam is number four in market share after Dell, IBM and Veritas, and ahead of Commvault; we are the fastest growing vendor with 24.7% year-over-year growth."
Veeam points out its acquisition of N2W Software early this year positioned it as the leading provider of availability for any app, any data, across any cloud, and its ability to protect Amazon Web Services deployments.
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Below: Lists Highways Interchanges Bridges History Maps
Welcome to Connecticut Roads.
This is the place for information on every numbered highway – living, extinct, or proposed – in Connecticut. If you're short on time, just type the route number in the box and press Find:
Go to Route
Links to all parts of this site are further down the page. Below are some highlights and ideas of where to start. Also see updates to this section of the site.
Renowned and Notorious Roads
Driving I-84 or I-95 can be an ordeal. But Route 2 and Route 9 can take you to vacation spots. And the Merritt Parkway and Route 169 are known nationwide for their scenery.
Canceled Highways
Connecticut has no shortage of these. In the Hartford area, try I-291, I-84 to Providence, or I-484 (the Bushnell Park Connector).
In New Haven, see Route 34, the East Rock Connector, or the Ring Road.
Did you know that at one point Route 10 was to be a freeway? Route 32, too. And even Route 83.
Controversial Routes
Try Route 2A in Preston; US 6 to Willimantic; the "Super 7" (US 7) from Norwalk to Danbury; or Route 11.
Some online maps help illustrate I-691, I-84 to Providence, the Hartford area, and the city of Newington.
I also have a retrospective of Connecticut's official highway maps.
Obscure, hidden and forgotten
In the early 1960s, Connecticut reorganized its highway system and changed about 1/3 of all its routes; that's why older maps look a bit odd. In the early 1930s, the state changed nearly everything.
For specific routes, try Route 105 in Fairfield County; or Route 130 in Kent; I-82 in eastern Connecticut; or a driving trip along the original Route 8.
Route Numbering
State routes are numbered between 2 and 999; however, those above 399 are "Secret" routes, maintained by the state but not signposted. Connecticut does not allow a state route with the same number as a US or Interstate route.
The highest signed route is 372; the highest secret route, 921. (The highest route number ever used appears to be SR 1001, for the Wilbur Cross Highway, in 1940).
More info, complete lists: Signed Routes Secret routes
Connecticut started numbering its highways around 1922, predating the US route system's inauguration in 1926. The route numbers in the 1920s were almost completely different from those today.
In response to changing laws for federal highway aid, the state in 1932 renumbered most of its highways, creating many routes (such as 67, 58, and 87) you would recognize today. Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s there were scattered changes. Along with the signed routes was a system of unposted "secret" routes, with administrative numbers reaching the 900s (and beyond).
In 1961 the state decided to re-examine its highway system, and reclassified hundreds of miles of roads. Some state routes were deleted (turned over to the town), some created, and many renumbered. Most signed routes above 220 are a product of this reclassification. The state's secret routes were renumbered into a geographically grouped system; for example, routes in Eastern Connecticut were numbered in the 600s.
Recent highway projects completed in Connecticut include:
Interstate 291 (1994)
an improved Route 2A (1996)
widening I-84 to six lanes east of Waterbury
a "Super 4" upgrade of Route 2 at Foxwoods in Ledyard (2009)
Extension of US 7 freeway; the Brookfield Bypass (2009)
Relocation and widening of Route 72 in Bristol (2011)
The days of new freeways are over; the ambitious plans of the 1960s are dead. A few projects remain on the books:
completing Route 11 - but fading
a new Q-Bridge on I-95 in New Haven - in progress
rebuilding the New Haven Mixmaster (I-91, I-95, Route 34) - in progress
extension of Route 2A - proposed, less likely
Links are below; hope you have fun at Connecticut Roads!
Lists and Indexes
U. S. routes
Interstate routes
State routes (399 and below)
Secret routes (400 and above) - survey
Secret routes (400 and above) - full list
Major named highways
State scenic roads
National Highway System (NHS) routes
Town by Town road histories in selected towns (actually, just a few right now)
In Depth - Highways
Metro Hartford's Proposed Freeways (map)
Woods River Expressway (unbuilt) (Route 189, Hartford area)
Danbury-Bethel Connector (unbuilt)
From Hartford to Providence: the I-84 saga, now "Suicide 6"
Berlin Turnpike (US 5 and Route 15)
Merritt Parkway (Route 15)
Wilbur Cross Parkway (Route 15)
East Hartford - Glastonbury Expressway (routes 2 and 17)
East Rock Connector (unbuilt) (New Haven)
Ring Road (unbuilt) (New Haven)
Fairfield County Parkway Plan (1933)
In Depth - Interchanges
I-84/CT 8 interchange, Waterbury
US 7/CT 15 interchange, Norwalk
I-84/CT 9 [I-291] "Stack" interchange, Farmington
(see also: Field Guide to interchanges)
In Depth - Bridges
Arrigoni Bridge (CT 17/66)
Bissell Bridge (I-291)
Bulkeley Bridge (I-84)
Charter Oak Bridge (US 5/CT 15)
Founders Bridge (CT 2)
Frog Bridge (SR 661)
Long Island Crossings (never built)
Historical Overview - very high-level description of Connecticut road activity over the past few centuries
Timeline: When I'm lucky enough to find out exactly when something happened, I put it here. Some of those bridges you drive on may be older than you think.
1913 Trunk Line system: Connecticut's plan to pave 375 new miles of road with a concrete base – much better quality than the existing pavement. The six trunk lines were not signed, but did have numbers. Includes map.
New England Interstates: This is why Routes 8, 10, 12, and 32 go north-south and cross into many other states; they were part of a New England-wide road network set up in the early 1920s.
1920s routes / Great Renumbering: A list of all those funky route numbers that the state threw away in 1932. Route 300? 333? 360? How come there were hardly any 200's? All will be carved.
The Small Renumbering: In the early 1960s, the state reorganized its highway system, transferring several routes between town and state control. About 1/3 of all routes were affected.
Color-coded Route Markers: In 1948, the state began experimenting with color-coded route markers in cities: each through route would have its own color, to aid in navigation.
The Map Inside: The Connecticut Officials Connecticut highways have evolved a lot over the past 70 years; so have the road maps. I discuss the changes in style and format, and include scans of several maps: not just the covers, but the roads too!
Weird Tales - Disappearing highways, Route A, Route B, and more.
44 ways from Hartford to Providence With no expressway connecting these capital cities, "there's more than one way to do it" from one to the other. Fellow road fan Jon Persky provides 12 ways, adding history and what you'll expect to see along the way.
Connecticut Route Synopses Face it, some roads are more interesting to drive than others. Daryl Salem praises some Connecticut routes, pans others, and shows some of the sights along the way.
The List of Lists, or Fun Facts
Admit it, you wanted to know this stuff. Which state route is the longest (262 miles). Which one is the shortest (210 _feet_). Also scenic routes, freeways, route numbers not used any more, routes that don't cross a town line, and more.
Almanac: higher-level view of entire state highway system. Does Connecticut have any jughandles? Michigan lefts? Find out here.
Exit numbering: Why does Route 2 have five Exit 5's, but no exit 14? Descend into an even murkier level of minutiae as we discuss exit numbering in the state: when it started, the system for each highway, and the anomalies therein.
Self-Paced Quiz: A bakers' dozen of stumpers about Connecticut highways. I bet you think you're smart.
Renumbering Plan #1: for north central CT, just for kicks. Constraint: cannot lengthen, delete, add or combine highways. Can only change existing numbers. Goals: more consistent numbering.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: how my Metro Hartford Proposed Freeways map has improved over the years.
For offsite links, see the Connecticut Roads Directory.
This is just for fun
Though I get much of my information from official sources, this is not an official State of Connecticut site. The DOT site is www.ct.gov/dot/. I'm just here to share information and maybe entertain. I do value accuracy, though. If you spot a mistake, or have something to add, my e-mail address is on every page. Thanks!
All content copyright © Kurumi, unless noted. (See credits).
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LiberSpark
Black Iron's Glory
Devouring Heaven Chant
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My Cold and Beautiful Wife
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Where there are people, there are fights, let alone a place with power. Jiang Chen was crystal clear about this fact – the infighting in the royal family. Even the fight amongst disciples of the same sect was inevitable and had gotten even worse over time.
Jiang Chen could already imagine that the day of King-Conferring Ceremony would be the same as what Yang Bufan had expected. Whether it was the Crown Prince or King Ping, they would surely not let the ceremony run smoothly. As to what kind of trouble they would cause, Jiang Chen had no idea, and not even Yang Bufan had a clue about this. After all, Yang Bufan had left the empire for a dozen years. So he needed to familiarize himself with everything in the Imperial Capital again.
Jiang Chen didn’t speak, but he knew pretty well that he would certainly stand on Yang Bufan’s side as long as Yang Bufan needed him, however he felt that given his current capability, he might not be able to provide much help. After all, he was only a late Golden Immortal, not even close to the Immortal King realm.
“What’s the cultivation base of that Crown Prince and King Ping? Could it be that they are stronger than you?” Big Yellow asked with curiosity.
“Of course, they have already reached the Immortal Emperor realm,” Yang Bufan replied.
Even if they were his adversaries, he couldn’t deny their strength. Aside from the power of their forces, their cultivation base alone was already frightening.
After listening to this, Jiang Chen and Big Yellow glanced at each other and saw astonishment from each other’s eyes. It seemed like the geniuses of the eleven major powers in Eastern Profound Domain was even more powerful than what they had imagined. The number of true Immortal Emperors alone was innumerable.
Talent wasn’t the only factor that allowed them to reach the Immortal Emperor realm, but also their mighty willpower.
Subsequently, Jiang Chen, Big Yellow and Wu Ningzhu had their serene cultivation in the prefecture, living a quiet and comfortable life. The prefecture was ablaze with light round the clock and incredibly bustling. Everyone seemed busy preparing for the King-Conferring Ceremony, and there was nothing that Jiang Chen could help at this time.
Recently, the Eastern Profound Domain wasn’t in a calm state, not only because of the bustling atmosphere in King Fan Prefecture, but also the restlessness in Nanbei Family. Shadows of Nanbei Family’s experts could be detected everywhere in the whole domain. Anyone with a pair of discerning eyes could feel the abnormal atmosphere in the domain, but Nanbei Family didn’t say anything, and no one knew what exactly had happened in Nanbei Family.
In addition, Young Master Futian’s and many other experts’ death had created a great turmoil in the area. It could be said that all the major powers of the area was infuriated, wanting very badly to eat Jiang Chen alive, however they were powerless after Jiang Chen was taken away by Old Man Bai Weng.
After Jiang Chen left, Fu Kui went to Corpse Yin Sect, asking for the help of the higher ups to avenge his son’s death, but after they heard that Jiang Chen was a friend of Yang Bufan, they didn’t give a definite response – saying that this wasn’t the time to offend King Fan, however this revenge must be taken, and as long as they found a chance, they would definitely kill Jiang Chen. After all, the people of Corpse Yin Sect had yet to reach the extent where they could kill anyone as they pleased and could get away with it.
Yellow Spring Sect had a similar reaction, enraged by the loss of Huo Ying. In other words, whether they would offend Yang Bufan in the future, it had already become the fact that Jiang Chen had offended these two major powers.
Or it should be said that Young Master Futian and Huo Ying were nothing to Corpse Yin Sect and Yellow Spring Sect. It wasn’t much of a loss for the two sects losing these geniuses, however it still involved their reputation. In any case, Young Master Futian and Huo Ying represented the face of Corpse Yin and Yellow Spring Sect, respectively. Killing them was equivalent to slapping the face of these two major powers.
What was the thing that a major power was concerned of the most? Their reputation. A puny little Golden Immortal dared to offend these two major powers. If this was spread to the public, it would surely turn them into laughing stock.
Fu City!
Outside the prefecture hanged a white cloth. The atmosphere of the prefecture was extremely oppressive. Everyone was as silent as cicada in a cold weather, not even daring to speak a loud word. Ever since Young Master Futian’s death, this place had never been calm. They could hear the roars of Fu Kui daily.
Presently, in the main hall of the prefecture stood a green-clad youth with a furious face. Standing opposite to him was Fu Kui whose eyes were still full of red light and had yet to settle down from his fury. Letting Jiang Chen live that day had become one of his greatest regrets. What he regretted more was that he wasn’t able to arrive early. If he were on the scene earlier, his son wouldn’t have died.
Of course, he didn’t know that once Jiang Chen was determined to kill Futian, his son would still die even if he reached there on time.
“Father, the revenge of second brother must be taken. So what if he’s one of the people of King Fan? Divine Line Sect isn’t afraid of them.”
The green-clad youth spoke angrily. He was precisely the eldest son of Fu Kui, Fu Wei, a genius of Divine Line Sect, with a cultivation base that’s even scarier than Futian. He had already reached the late Immortal King realm at such a young age. Such a cultivation base has earned him a certain status even in Divine Line Sect, and would be nurtured by the sect.
Geniuses having the most potential in breaking through the Immortal Emperor realm represented the hope of every major power.
After Fu Kui found out that there was no hope in Corpse Yin Sect, he summoned his eldest son back. After Fu Wei heard that his brother was killed, he was naturally angered to the extreme.
“Ah Wei, just like you said, this revenge must be taken. We can’t rely on Corpse Yin Sect now. They won’t offend the renowned King Fan just for a dead person for the time being. So we can only rely on ourselves in order to have this revenge.” Fu Kui said.
“Don’t worry, dad. Leave the matter to me. I will kill him to avenge my brother’s death.”
Fu Wei’s fists cracked. He now had a stomach full of fury that he had nowhere else to vent. He felt that if he encountered Jiang Chen now, he certainly wouldn’t hesitate to tear Jiang Chen to pieces.
“Ah Wei, what ways do you have? That kid is now hiding in King Fan’s Prefecture. Even if you are a disciple of Divine Line Sect, you still won’t have a chance to attack.”
Fu Kui said, still in awe that Jiang Chen had a connection with King Fan.
“Dad, a few days later will be the King-Conferring Ceremony of King Fan. This will be my chance. With Crown Prince and King Ping around, the ceremony surely won’t go on smoothly. I have a good relationship with King Ping. At that time, I will follow King Ping into the Prefecture of King Fan. As long as that Jiang Chen appears, I will find a way to get rid of him,” Fu Kui said.
He had already thought this through. This was the only way he could get near to Jiang Chen. He believed that as long as he followed King Ping into the prefecture, he would have the chance of killing Jiang Chen.
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Field Museum Publications: Botany
Botany Publications
Featured here are the scientific publications documenting original research in Botany that have been published by the Museum since its inception.
Field Columbian Museum. Botanical series (1895-1907)
Field Museum of Natural History. Botanical series (1912-1947)
Fieldiana. Botany (1958-2005)
This series had a very limited run in the early years, but each of the four disciplines did publish at least one:
Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of the Calumet District.
North American Trees: guide to Charles F. Millspaugh Hall
Homage to Standley; papers in honor of Paul C. Standley.
Punch Card Key to the Families of Dicotyledons of the Western Hemisphere South of the United States
Leaflet / Field Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Botany. (1922-1924)
Botany leaflet / Field Museum of Natural History (1924-1940)
Popular series / Chicago Natural History Museum. Botany. (1947-1950)
Herbarium Organization / Charles F. Millspaugh (1925)
© The Field Museum, GN90798d_Vol4PL2.
Technique Chart from Research Design in Nature, a publication by Field Museum Press by John Gilbert Wilkins from the Art Institute of Chicago, circa 1925.
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Losange Magazine started in the Netherlands in 2007 as an initiative of Renault enthusiast Tony Vos. The magazine is published four times a year. The digital version started in 2018. Losange Magazine has the support of Renault Classic, the history department of the Renault factory.
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Tips And Techniques For The Perfect Camping Trip with Amazing Malaise Music
Whether you sleep in a tent, an RV or under the stars, taking a camping trip is a great way to escape the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life.
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The Last Separatist
The following bit of prose goes way back to the early 1990s. It's interesting to be able to look back on these things and reflect; partly to see how you've grown and where your opinions have changed. In the piece, there are many references to various political events here and around the world as they happened or were happening as the time (happy hunting). By and large, I still feel much as I did back then. The only change I would add has to do with the concept of countries. If you manage to read to the end of my piece, I'll tell you what that change is.
My original comments follow.
For this one, it helps to be a Canadian, I suppose. I don't know how exciting the whole Québec referendum thing is anywhere else in the world, however, the market watchers would have us believe that the world is VERY interested. This piece is unusal for me since I rarely write anything that resembles poetry, but right around the Charlottetown accord, (or was it the provincial election in which Parizeau rose to power?) I was so sick of the separatist talk that I sat down and composed The Last Separatist. You see, I am proud of my heritage and my country, but I honestly believe that the time for countries is past. The world I envision is a complex organism with numerous and diverse entities all working toward a common future. That we should still be seeking to create ever smaller states baffles me. But, that's just me.
Around the world, elated voices cried,
"Freedom!" as the spectre of red doom was
Exorcised in the birth of disparate states.
Untainted by the heralding gloom,
Of economic collapse and civil war,
Committees of individuals defined their uniqueness
And thereby several new nations sired.
The walls came tumbling down.
The two are one again.
But some are more equal and some are bad.
It's time to clean up.
"Here's to ethnic purging, and the birth of a nation!"
Dictators were devoured in the arena.
In dying colour. In your living room.
After much talk and fear of cultural death,
A united Europe was rejected as a bad idea.
"We are Europe's distinct society," the Major said.
These stories and more; news at eleven.
But that's all far away, so don't worry.
All we want is self government. Oh…
And our own country. No. This province will do nicely.
Oh, and veto over anything we don't like.
And use of your currency, armed forces and postage.
Oh, and…
Then the west cried "What about us?"
We want all those things too.
The states having already fallen, fell further.
"Too much individuality is bad," they said.
"Let's outlaw this and outlaw that. Can't have
these sick and depraved among us."
Those left behind created their own societies
since they could not share those who declared them
criminals.
Then came the cities who declared their individuality.
And the suburbs who felt their distinct flavour being
swallowed in low income housing.
Fences rose higher.
Borders grew more defined.
Better make it electric.
Can't trust anybody.
Look out for number one.
Each by each the distinct societies grew.
First Joe on Park Ave, then Horace on Main.
Ellen, Maria, Jacob, Pedro, and Ted grew walls,
But Gloria's were nicer. She used real brick.
Until there was only me.
I did not want to separate.
I believed in unity and freedom for all.
Yet I gazed at the fences that surrounded me
and by process of elimination, the last
separatist became himself distinct.
And alone.
At least I will be able to preserve my individuality.
And now we return to 2012 and where my views differ from my 1992 self. I still believe that no state should be allowed to act as though it can do whatever it damn well pleases. Much as I am sometimes unhappy with what goes on (or doesn't) at the United Nations, I believe that something like the United Nations does need to exist. But central control on a global scale is, I now feel, a naive concept at best. But just as no man is an island, no country stands alone and each nation must understand that what it does has consequences, not just for themselves, but for the world. And since what each nation does affects the rest of the world, the rest of the world does have a right to respond. It's messy, but as a species we're still young and we still have a lot to figure out. Growing up, however, will mean casting off some of the things of youth and those things that divide us. What that all means is going to take a lot more space to explore than my quick single-paragraph update. So stay tuned . . .
— Marcel Gagné (August 2012)
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12 apply for two Minnesota medical marijuana grow licenses
Posted on October 4, 2014 October 4, 2014 by The Associated Press
Paul Bunyan Statue; Bemidji, Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twelve businesses applied to grow and cultivate marijuana for the state’s new medical marijuana program, but the state will only pick two. Friday’s deadline kicks off weeks of weeding through each applicant’s plans, making site visits and fielding presentations — all behind closed doors.
Minnesota’s Office of Medical Cannabis expects to announce its two manufacturers by Dec. 1, but won’t release any information about applicants until then.
The applications could be hundreds of pages long, detailing where and how they’ll grow marijuana and convert it into pill, liquid or vapor form (the state’s new law bans using the plant itself) for the patients suffering a handful of serious conditions who qualify.
Each applicant had to lay out stringent security plans for their facilities, provide financial projections and cut a nonrefundable $20,000 check just to be considered. It’s a narrower field than previously expected to get one of the two highly prized contracts.
Twenty-nine organizations submitted letters of intent to the state last month.
Fearing difficulty of finding enough qualified applicants to grow marijuana for the state — at one time, state officials anticipated as few as five applicants — Minnesota lawmakers built in an escape hatch for the state’s Department of Health.
The health commissioner can trigger a six-month delay to register two manufacturers.
If all goes smoothly, patients are expected to be able to start getting the medicine in July 2015.
Manufacturers will eventually operate four dispensaries throughout the state — one in each of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts. But the state will only require its producers to open one dispensary for the first year after the program launches.
Home marijuana reform, Minnesota medical marijuana
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Leica 21mm f/3.4 Super-Angulon M – Technical Information
Manufacturer: Schneider-Kreuznach – Leica
This lens was designed by Werner Wagner in 1963 and patented (No. 1279959)
Number of aperture blades: 4 (square/diamond shaped diaphragm, the resulting ‘bokeh’ might be termed a ‘signature’ of this lens)
Filter: M 48 X 0.75 Thread – or Series 7 (held in place by the hood)
Overall Length: 51mm
Effective Focal Length: 21.6mm
Back Focal Length: 8.3mm
Principal Point Separation: 20.2mm
Shortest Image Distance: 0.4m (16″)
Lens code number: 11103
Number produced: about 6000 from 1962 to 1978 (ish)
Lens hood code number: 12501 (12501M)
Front lens cap code number: 14102 (A52.5)
External viewfinder code number: 12002
Leather case for viewfinder code number: 14617
Leica 21mm f/3.4 Super-Angulon M – In Use
I own and use both the 21mm f/3.4 Super-Angulon and 21mm f/3.4 Super-Elmar lenses for Leica M series cameras. Although these may appear similar in their basic specification – of focal length and maximum aperture – in reality they are chalk and cheese. The Super-Elmar is a fabulous, state-of-the-art design and impresses in every way. I will say no more about it, other than that it is a superlative optic. The Super-Angulon is very different and today I would describe it as a ‘quirky’ lens. In its day it was representative of the best lenses available and very expensive (only the Noctilux was more costly in the Leica M lens lineup). But its design is now over 50 years ago. Back then its 92 degree wide field of view put it into the ‘super-wide’ category of available lenses. Only around 6000 Super-Angulon lenses were made, and as a result its not an abundantly available lens now (some were heavily used and, as they have a protruding and easily damageable rear element block, many have suffered as a result). In my experience, good clean copies are still fairly easy to obtain but it may take a little time to find a reasonably priced, good copy.
For users, the Super-Angulon is extremely sharp in the centre, but its performance does drop off at both edges and corners on full-frame digital cameras. Wide-open it has acceptable performance with high central resolution providing plenty of fine detail and softer corners where slightly less detail is resolved. Optimum apertures are from f/4 to f/8 where resolution maximises, although the edges and corners are never as good as the centre, and it has marginally lower performance at smaller apertures. Its ‘performance’ on a cropped camera such as the M8 is still surprisingly good though.
Contrast is quite reasonable (‘medium’ rather than ‘low’ as there is always some slight degree of veiling flare present), unless that is, there is damage to the exposed elements (not uncommon), in which case veiling flare can be a significant problem. Without damage it can still be somewhat flare prone, although this is not always the case. It does have a SQUARE aperture diaphragm (so its ‘bokeh’ can be odd at times) and may at times show square ‘flare patches’ if used against the light.
Care needs to be taken with exposure as, in high contrast situations, the central area can easily look ‘washed’ out due to vignetting as this lens does vignette substantially – this is a characteristic of the design. I quite like it and with digital some degree of correction is available if required. Care with exposure is essential to retain highlights, and the lenses protruding rear section means that camera metering is not effective, or if used requires substantial correction. In practice I generally tend to set a rough exposure from either a ‘guestimate’, or use the settings previously used with another lens, and then fine tune after the first exposure on the Super-Angulon; this works well enough for me. I’ve never actually seen distortion figures quoted for this lens and haven’t bothered to test it for distortion as its a non-issue in practice (it is not an absolutely ‘true symmetric’ design though).
Mechanically its pretty well constructed. Faults to look for are looseness of the optical assembly relative to the lens body (mine is a little loose but this causes no image problems). It can also suffer from ‘Schneideritis’ (a condition when internal black paint starts to break off inside the lens) – although I’d personally consider this to be more of a cosmetic rather than practical issue, and of more concern to the neurotic or to collectors than it should be to users (it can be a negotiating ‘fault’ price-wise though – mine has a little and was priced accordingly). The Super-Angulon was not designed by Leica but is a Schneider design and was manufactured/built for or licensed to Leica (I am unsure of exactly who built and assembled what).
Physically its a small, neat lens, let down by the somewhat bulky plastic hood needed to retain the non-threaded Series 7 filters used. These are easy to find and usually cheaper than the screw in E48 it can also take, except that is for the UVIR filter needed when using it on the M8 though, which can be tricky to get hold of and is often pricey when found. Ergonomics are interesting as aperture adjustment is somewhat awkward with the hood in place, but its still a very usable little lens.
[For Info. There is an Leica ‘reflex’ version of this lens too which is optically identical, and a real oddity. Designed for use only on early Leica SLR bodies which had option of locking the ‘mirror-up’, due to its protruding rear section, it has only scale focus (there is no rangefinder coupling). A potentially interesting lens to use with an adapter on M bodies featuring live-view as it has good close focus ability. This lens has its own back cap and hood (12511) and takes Series 8 filters. Less than 2000 were produced but its such an oddity that it always seems to be available in clean condition and complete at fairly low (for Leica lenses) prices.]
I use my Super-Angulon mostly on the M8, and sometimes on the M9. Getting even colour on files can be a little tricky as the steep angle of incidence of light reaching the sensor can cause predominantly red casts towards the image edges (even with Leica’s offset sensor micro-lenses which were developed to minimise this problem). Often I do use the lens with the intention of converting images to B&W. That said, I have shot some of my favourite colour images on the M8/21/3.4/SA combo and really like the results despite its digital shortcomings.
The 21mm Super-Angulon (well the f/3.4 version at any rate) is IMO an underrated lens which, whilst ‘quirky’, deserves use even if only as a B&W lens with ‘classical’ rendering. Its a characterful lens and I could go on but ….. suffice it to say that despite now having a Super-Elmar, my Super-Angulon still gets used and will do so in the future. (The Leica Forum is a very useful source of information on Leica products such as the Super-Angulon).
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Douglas lands Super win at Caulfield
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Book Review: Flesh and Bone by Lee Strauss
Flesh and Bone: The Minstrel Series #2, by Lee Strauss
2014, 300p, Contemporary Romance
Source: Provided a copy from the author for an honest review
She can’t remember. He can’t forget.
Eva Bauman is invisible. Sebastian Weiss is famous. In a perfect world Eva would be fearless and Sebastian would be guiltless.
It’s not a perfect world.
Includes MP3 links to original music recorded by Canadian singer-songwriters Trisha Robins and Bryan Steeksma,
The Minstrel Series is a collection of contemporary romance novels set in the singer/songwriter world. The books are companion novels, with shared settings and characters, but each is a complete stand-alone story with a HEA (happily ever after) and no cliffhangers!
Books can be read out of order, but are best enjoyed in sequence.
#1 Sun & Moon
#2 Flesh & Bone
#3 Heart & Soul - coming July 2014!
I am loving this series! This book is so different than the first book. We meet Sebastian Weiss in Sun and Moon but he has a girlfriend, Yvonne. Now he’s a rock star and has fans surrounding him wherever he goes. His life looks pretty great, but it’s actually not. He and Yvonne have recently broken up and he’s devastated. He’s not close to his parents because he didn’t take the career route they would have chosen for him. His band is on the verge of breaking up.
Eva Baumann is handicapped from a hit-and-run accident five years ago. She walks with a cane and feels like her sister, Gabriele, is living the life she wants. Her parents keep a tight rein on her but she’s okay with it because she doesn’t want to venture out much, anyway. She wants to sing at the Blue Note Pub but keeps chickening out.
One night, Eva becomes brave and sings. Sebastian is there that night so they finally cross paths. Eva has a hard time believing Sebastian might possibly be interested in her. Sebastian helps her come out of her shell and she starts to live again and it feels great!
There’s a major twist in the story as Sebastian’s been keeping a secret that comes to light. It’s devastating to them both and their love just might not survive. This is a story of forgiveness and second chances and making the most of your life under less than ideal circumstances.
I love Eva and Sebastian and the part that music plays in this series. Their relationship made me smile as I saw how he looked past her physical handicap to see who she really was and she looked past his rock star status to see who he really was. My heart broke for them when Sebastian’s secret was revealed and I had to cling to the promise that this is a Happily Ever After (HEA) book. I highly recommend this book and this series and am looking forward to the next one!
Content: There is talk of sex and characters sleeping together but there are no details. There is also some kissing. I consider this to be clean.
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Book Review: The Light We Share by Harriet R. Uchtdorf
The Light We Share, by Harriet R. Uchtdorf
2014, 48p, LDS, Inspirational
What difference does it make to have the light of the gospel in your life? To a twelve-year-old girl in post-World War II Germany, it made all the difference.
In this charming book, Sister Harriet R. Uchtdorf reflects on the power of heavenly light in her own life and recalls the joy it brought to her family during a dark and difficult time. "It was like a miracle," she explains as she describes how hope came back into their lives.
Discover how the light we share can make a life-changing difference to those whose lives we touch-as family members, leaders, missionaries, teachers, friends, and brothers and sisters in the gospel.
This is a book that doesn't take long at all to read. Sis. Uchtdorf shares that she always believed their "overseas assignment" here in the United States was temporary and that one day they would return to Germany. In 2004, when her husband received the call to be an Apostle, they knew their lives were changed forever.
She reflects on the difficult times her family went through when she was 12 years old and the message two missionaries brought her family. She also expresses her love for the hymn "Hark, All Ye Nations!" and how they consider it their "German hymn." The words do a great job of explaining how they felt during this time of their lives and has expressed her feelings on many other occasions since then. The light we share will, indeed, bless our lives and the lives of others as we serve, teach and are an example of good for those around us.
While this book is short, the message is powerful and the photographs are beautiful! It's a wonderful book to display and can easily be read again and again.
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HARRIET R. UCHTDORF received a bachelor’s degree in business administration in Frankfurt, Germany, and worked with the public transportation department prior to her marriage to Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who now serves as Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has served in many callings in the Church and as an institute teacher in Frankfurt. She and her husband have two children, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Book Blitz: The Golden Apple by Michelle Diener
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We're celebrating the release of Michelle Diener's second fairy tale retelling:
An Adult Fantasy Romance based loosely on the Princess on the Glass Hill
by Michelle Diener
Adult Fantasy/SciFi
Kayla's world has been turned upside-down...
Her father has made her the prize in a deadly, impossible tournament, and Kayla has retaliated in the only way she knows how; by choosing her champion beforehand. But taking control of the outcome changes the game completely, and when the real reason behind the strange test becomes apparent, Kayla realizes not just her life, but her entire kingdom is at stake.
Rane's honor is torn in two...
In order to save his brother, Rane will do whatever he has to--including deceive and betray a princess. He knew nothing about this tournament would be easy, but when it turns into a deeper, far more sinister game, Rane is forced to see it through to the end, or leave his brother at the mercy of their enemy.
Now their fates are entwined, and they must venture into the deep, dark forest together...
Kayla and Rane are bound to one another by an enchantment and Kayla's actions. But the sorcerer forcing them to do his will may have miscalculated, because no-one comes out of the Great Forest unchanged. No-one.
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The inspiration for The Golden Apple
The Golden Apple is loosely based on the Norwegian fairy tale The Princess on the Glass Hill. The original tale is more about the hero than the heroine, and it is a very straightforward quest story, with the hero becoming more and more accomplished, until at last he succeeds against the odds. But there were a few things in this fairy tale that stood out for me and made me take notice. The first is the very unusual situation of the king holding a contest for his daughter’s hand by putting her on top of a glass hill with a golden apple in her lap. Knights from all over are invited to race a horse up the smooth glass sides of the mountain and the one who can pluck the golden apple from the princess's lap wins her hand and is heir to the kingdom. As usual in fairy tales, there is no explanation as to how the king came by a glass mountain, but I wondered where he got it, and that sparked the starting point of the story. It is really the inciting incident that starts the story off, rather than the focus of the story, as it was in the fairy tale.
Secondly, the crux of the tale, for me, is that the hero cannot win the princess's hand without help from the princess herself. That part of the original tale is one or two lines long, but for me, it's fascinating. The feminine power determining and choosing which masculine power will prevail. This really made me interested, because the princess doesn't just sit there and take whoever it is manages to accomplish the (impossible) task set by her father, but actively chooses who it is she wants to win and helps them. I wanted to write a story about the consequences of her taking that power and using it and The Golden Apple was the result -- far, far more heroine-centric than the original, and I really had fun with it.
- Michelle Diener
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Michelle Diener writes historical fiction. Her Susanna Horenbout & John Parker series, set in the court of Henry VIII, includes In a Treacherous Court, Keeper of the King's Secrets and In Defense of the Queen.
Michelle's other historical novels include Daughter of the Sky, The Emperor's Conspiracy and Banquet of Lies (loosely connected to The Emperor's Conspiracy).
Michelle's first fantasy novel, Mistress of the Wind, is set for a December 23, 2013, release.
Michelle was born in London, grew up in South Africa and currently lives in Australia with her husband and two children.
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Tour Launch: What Goes on Tour by Claire Boston
A themed tour with Prism Book Tours...
It's time to launch The Rock Star Tour for
What Goes on Tour
By Claire Boston
3/31 - Tour Launch
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4/13 - Grand Finale
February 11th 2014 by Momentum Moonlight
What goes on tour, stays on tour … or does it?
Few people know that socially awkward Adrian Hart is actually rock god Kent Downer, and that's the way Adrian likes it. His privacy is essential, especially now that he has guardianship of his orphaned, ten-year-old niece, Kate. But when the nanny quits in the middle of his tour Adrian finds himself in a bind.
Until Libby Myles walks into his life.
Libby has only ever wanted to become a full-time author and prove to her parents that she can make it on her own. On the surface, the temporary job as the nanny for Kent Downer's niece looks perfect—the pay is fabulous, the hours are short and Kate is a big fan—it's the rock star that's the issue.
Arrogant and way too attractive for anyone's good, Kent Downer has enough swagger to power a small city. But when he's out of costume he's different—shy and uncertain. For Libby it's a far harder combination to resist. She needs to find a balance between work, writing and ignoring her attraction to the rock star, because if she falls for him, it could mean the end of her dream.
But when a horrible scandal is unleashed—putting young Kate in danger—there's more heat between Libby and Adrian than just sexual attraction. Libby must figure out if Adrian ever cared for her, or if it was all just part of the show …
Here's some background on What Goes on Tour and the author:
What Goes on Tour is single title novel and the idea hooked me right from the
beginning. I liked the thought of writing about a rock star who wasn’t like the normal party hard singer with a full entourage that you see in many novels and TV shows these days.
I’d love it if readers enjoyed the novel and maybe took with them that people are often different from their public persona.
One of my favourite scenes is probably the dancing game scene because I had a lot of fun writing it.
Something unique about me… I’ve recently taken up vintage motocross and I’m the passenger on a sidecar. I’ve attached a photo because people often think that a sidecar passenger just sits on the side but it’s a lot more work than that!
- Claire
Claire Boston was a voracious reader as a child, devouring anything by Enid Blyton as well as series such as Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, The Baby-sitters Club and Sweet Valley High. Then one school holidays when she’d run out of books to read her mother handed her ‘Hot Ice’ by Nora Roberts and Claire instantly fell in love with romance novels.
The love of reading soon turned to a love of writing and she struggled to keep within the 1500 word limit set by her teachers for her creative writing assignments. When she finally decided to become serious about her stories she joined Romance Writers of Australia, found her wonderful critique group and hasn’t looked back.
When Claire’s not reading or writing she can be found in the garden attempting to grow vegetables, or racing around a vintage motocross track. If she can convince anyone to play with her, she also enjoys cards and board games.
Claire lives in Western Australia, just south of Perth with her husband, who loves even her most annoying quirks, and her two grubby, but adorable Australian bulldogs.
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Book Blast/Review: Grimmtastic Girls by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
About the Books: The Grimmtastic Girls
Title: Grimmtastic Girls #1: Cinderella Stays Late | Authors: Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams | Publication Date: March 25, 2014 | Publisher: Scholastic Inc. | Pages: 192 | Recommended Ages: 8 to 12
Summary: The authors of the hit Goddess Girls series put a fun and girly twist on another super-popular theme: fairy tales!
Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia...
A Grimmtastic girl named Cinderella is starting her first week at Grimm Academy on the wrong foot. Cinda's totally evil stepsisters are out to make her life miserable. The Steps tease Cinda, give her terrible advice about life at the academy, and even make her look bad in front of her new friends, Red, Snow, and Rapunzel! But when Cinda overhears the Steps plotting a villainous deed that could ruin Prince Awesome's ball, Cinda, her new friends, and a pair of magical glass slippers have to stop them--before the last stroke of midnight!
This is a great start to a fantastic new series! Cinda is starting out at Grimm Academy. She's super excited for her Balls class, hoping they'll get to play masketball, a game in which players wear masks and shoot balls through magical hoops. She only knows her stepsisters and soon makes some new friends, girls that are actually nice to her: Red, Snow and Rapunzel. There's also a new guy in school, Prince Awesome of the Kingdom of Awesomeness. The Steps tricked Cinda into taking the Balls class by leading her to believe it was sports rather than dancing. Prince Awesome is in that class and they want Cinda to talk them up to him. As time goes on, Cinda figures out what the Steps are really up to and it's up to Cinda and her friends to stop them.
I read this book with my 10-year-old daughter and we both enjoyed it. The story is familiar yet also has unique elements that make it interesting. Grimm Academy is a magical place with one textbook that changes by speaking the name of the book you're looking for, a library that changes location and size depending on the current need and magical charms that have magical powers only the owner can unlock. Grimmlandia is a place that any young girl will enjoy visiting!
Title: Grimmtastic Girls #2: Red Riding Hood Gets Lost | Authors: Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams | Publication Date: March 25, 2014 | Publisher: Scholastic Inc. | Pages: 192 | Recommended Ages: 8 to 12
Summary: Red Riding Hood might have a terrible sense of direction, but her grimmtastic friends are always there to help!
Red Riding Hood is thrilled to try out for the school play. Acting is her dream, and she's great at it--too bad she has stage fright! After a grimmiserable audition, Red decides to focus on helping her friends Cinda, Snow, and Rapunzel save Grimm Academy from the E.V.I.L. Society. But when Red gets lost in Neverwood forest and runs into Wolfgang, who might be part of E.V.I.L., she needs her magic basket and a grimmazingly dramatic performance to figure out what's going on!
The fun continues! My daughter and I also read this book together. Part of the story continues from book one (the E.V.I.L. Society), but we get to know Red better. She wants to be an actress but has stage fright. The mysterious Wolfgang, who is an amazing actor, starts paying her attention and she needs to figure out what he's up to. Does he really want to help her or is he trying to gain her trust so he can get something from her?
I liked that we got to meet even more new characters. Again, the story was familiar but had some twists that kept it fresh and interesting. We learn more about the E.V.I.L. Society but not enough to solve the mystery so there is definitely more to come! I'm looking forward to reading more in this series as it continues (Snow's story comes out in July) and highly recommend it!
About the Authors: Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams
Joan Holub has authored and/or illustrated more than 130 children's books, including Little Red Writing (illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet) and Zero the Hero. She lives in NC and is online at www.joanholub.com
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Suzanne Williams is the author of nearly 50 books for children, including the award-winning picture book Library Lil (illustrated by Steven Kellogg). She lives near Seattle, WA and is online at www.suzanne-williams.com
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Co-authors Joan and Suzanne have written the Goddess Girls, Heroes in Training, and Grimmtastic Girls series. Though they live in different states and hardly ever get to see each other, they spend lots of time together in Grimmlandia.
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Blog Tour/DVD Review: The Saratov Approach
The Saratov Approach
2013, 107 min., PG-13 (for violence)
On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable—they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe return, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all—spiritually.
I never did make it to the movie theater when this was out so I was excited to see it come up for review. What an amazing story!
It's one of those movies that I knew the ending before I started watching it, but that didn't make it any less suspenseful. It was interesting to watch the gamut of emotions the missionaries went through--shock, fear, anger, survival, compassion and peace.
Two missionaries, Elder Tuttle and Elder Propst, go to a teaching appointment and are attacked and beaten, then tied up and moved to a remote location. We get to see what's happening with their families during this time as well, which was quite emotional. This is every parent's worst nightmare, no matter how old your children are. The missionaries and families know the ransom can't be paid because then kidnappings would become commonplace. The missionaries quickly figure out what they need to do in order to stay alive.
There are lots of touching moments in this movie, and I cried a few times. Faced with death, the missionaries go from thinking about themselves to praying for the hearts of their kidnappers to be softened. The nation comes together in prayer, regardless of religion, for the safe return of the two missionaries. There is an outpouring of love shown to the families of the missionaries.
This is an inspirational movie and there is some humor in it as well. I enjoyed this movie a lot and will definitely watch it again and again. I recommend The Saratov Approach to everyone!
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Book Review: Painter of the Heavens by Bart Stewart
Painter of the Heavens, by Bart Stewart
2013, 219p, Crime, Suspense
My Rating=4.5 Stars
Source: Received a copy from the author for an honest review
"A Novel of Crime and the Heart," Painter of the Heavens goes inside the mind of a woman as she is drawn into the bizarre fraud scheme of an eccentric man she is dating. Penny doesn't know going in that Lyle is a con artist. His personality had seemed slightly strange from the start, but charismatic and alluring as well. Only after bonding with him does she learn that the "business plan," which was too sensitive for him to talk about, is in fact an outrageous forgery plot. He needs an accomplice for this caper, and sees Penny as being perfect for the role.
Penny Sturdevant is in flux in her life. Just turning thirty as the decade of the 1980s turns into the '90s, she has taken a leap into the unknown, divorcing her well-placed husband because he had become loveless, distant, and dull. Coming from a background of financial struggles, she feels the insecurities swirling around her after this big move. She dreams of turning the page, getting off of the sidetrack, and being "part of something." Her old circle of friends, and her impoverished parents, aren't much support for her in this time of transition.
One day, on a random whim, she stops off at an indie bookstore on the outskirts of her home town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The manager there has a hypnotic presence, with a magnetic gaze that grabs her and leads her to come back again. He is a poet (six original poems are featured in the novel) and Penny finds him more and more intriguing as she gets to know him. The point of view in the novel is all Penny's, so we have only Lyle's mixed signals and trippy, zen-like sayings to know what's happening in his mind.
He seems increasingly suspicious, but we don't know just how bad this bad guy is. One unsettling moment comes at their first date, when he asks Penny to keep it entirely their secret that they are seeing each other. He has a plausible explanation for this, all ready to go. And it turns out that he always does. He talks a very, very good game. At one point Penny reflects that everything he says seems to be both outrageous and indisputable. He is a "plague of vague," and "like boxing with a fog bank." But he is also sexy, and loving for her. He's different, and interesting. They have a hot affair. (Not that this is full-on erotica.)
The novel is character-driven noir fiction that goes deep into the heads of its two lovers. It is not the familiar crime novel or police procedural. Penny and Lyle aren't Bonnie and Clyde, but they become desperadoes in a way, when their perfect, "victimless" crime spins out on them.
A phony letter and a genuine love. Humor, pathos, danger, and two of what Dickens called "lives of quiet desperation" come together in Bart Stewart's debut novel, Painter of the Heavens.
I used to read lots of crime and mystery novels and don't read them as much anymore. This is a great read! Usually, the stories are told from the POV of the "good guy." This one is told from the POV of Penny and the path she takes to become involved in a major crime. We don't get into the head of Lyle, the mastermind behind the crime, but we get a good idea of who he is. And even then, he still surprised me.
Penny meets Lyle, the manager of an indie bookstore, and she is immediately drawn to him. He convinces her to keep their relationship secret. He's dangerous and exciting and she can't seem to get enough of him. They finally do have sex and the first time has some detail (but it's not graphic) and then it's implied after that.
Penny is stunned when Lyle explains his plan to her. However, she thinks it's ridiculous and thinks there's no way they'll get away with it, so she agrees to it. She figures they'll try and fail and then they can carry on their relationship as they had before. She's amazed when it appears that they will actually pull this con off. Then everything spins out of control and the ending was a surprise to me.
I liked Penny at the beginning but once she got involved in the con and continued with it, she became harder for me to like. I felt like she had opportunities to come clean but chose not to so I didn't see her as a victim after a while. I knew going in that Lyle was a bad guy. I could understand Penny's initial attraction to him, especially since she was going through a transition herself, but kept hoping she would come to her senses. Lyle does a good job of emotionally and psychologically controlling Penny and is a mystery all the way until the end. How bad is he really? You'll have to read it to find out!
I enjoyed Mr. Stewart's writing style and this book is well-written. The ending is suspenseful and was hard to put down. I'm still not sure how the ending sits with me, though. If this is the type of book you enjoy reading, you will definitely want to read this one!
Content: Sex (some detail, not graphic), there is a scene where he exerts mild violence toward her, mild swearing. (When the author contacted me, I did express concern at the language "They have a hot affair. Not that this is full-on erotica," and asked him about that. He reassured me that he focused mostly on the emotional and psychological side of their relationship rather than the physical. I found that to be true and appreciated his explanation to me.)
Originally from Charlotte, NC, Bart Stewart has lived all over the United States, studying characters and occasionally having his short stories in little literary magazines. For many years he worked in antiquarian bookstores, and for a change of pace spent ten years in the Las Vegas tourist industry as a strolling entertainer. He performed for several years in the live Star Trek show at the Las Vegas Hilton, first as a Starship Enterprise crewman, and later as a Borg drone!
His first book was Tales of Real and Dream Worlds, a collection of surreal short stories in the Twilight Zone tradition. It won a finalist prize at the 2008 National Indie Excellence Awards at Book Expo in L.A. Three of the scarier tales are available on Amazon as an eBook entitled The Statuary Cats. His debut novel is Painter of the Heavens.
Bart is currently unmarried and living near Boston, Massachusetts, where he is working on his next novel, writing social media for www.WaveofContent.com/, and tweeting away @BartStewart1.
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Book Review: The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
The Eye of Minds, by James Dashner
2013, 323p, YA, Science Fiction
Source: Borrowed audiobook from the library
An all-new, edge-of-your seat adventure from James Dashner, the author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, The Eye of Minds is the first book in The Mortality Doctrine, a series set in a world of hyperadvanced technology, cyberterrorists, and gaming beyond your wildest dreams . . . and your worst nightmares.
Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it’s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?
But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he’s holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific—the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer’s motives are a mystery.
The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker.
And they’ve been watching Michael. They want him on their team.
But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can’t even fathom—and there’s the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.
I listened to this on audio and enjoyed it! James Dashner's books are always full of adventure and plenty of twists and turns. Michael and his friends, Bryson and Sarah, are given incentive by the government to go deep into the VirtNet and locate a hacker who is wreaking havoc. Their adventure starts with a lot of action and doesn't let up. Because there's so much going on, I don't feel that I got to know a lot about the characters outside of their hacking skills. There's a hint of romance for Michael and Sarah but nothing happened between them in this book.
As the story progressed, I wasn't sure who to trust and the revelation at the end was surprising. I'm looking forward to reading more in this series to see what will happen next! (Coming Aug. 2014)
James was born and raised in Georgia but now lives in the Rocky Mountains with his family. He has four kids, which some might think is too many but he thinks is just right. Once upon a time, James studied accounting and worked in the field of finance, but has been writing full time for several years. (He doesn’t miss numbers. At all.)
In his free time, James loves to read, watch movies and (good) TV shows, snow ski, and read. (Reading was mentioned twice on purpose.) Most of all, he’s thankful that he gets to make a living writing stories and considers himself pretty much the luckiest guy on the planet.
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Blog Tour/Review: Luminescence by Braden Bell
Luminescence (Middle School Magic #3), by Braden Bell
2014, 309p, Middle-Grade Fantasy
Source: Received a copy from the author/publisher for an honest review
Determined to rescue their favorite teacher, Conner, Lexa, and Melanie confront their worst fears and use their powers in unexpected ways to defeat Lady Nightwing, the treacherous Darkhand leader. But when the trio makes a terrible choice to save Dr. Timberi, their powers may not be enough to keep everyone alive. A thrilling conclusion to the Middle School Magic series!
If you haven't read about this series before, you can read my thoughts on the first two books here.
I enjoyed the first book, liked the second book better and absolutely love the third book!! What a great middle-grade series!
At the end of the second book, it is believed that Dr. Timberi is dead but Lexa declares to everyone that he is, indeed, alive! Some believe her and some don't. Conner, Lexa and Melanie believe he is so it's up to them to rescue him from the torture they believe he's enduring.
Conner, Lexa and Melanie learn the power and strength they have when they actually work together. They've had a lot of emotional ups and downs and their relationships are strengthened. Lexa was pretty snotty in book two but was given opportunities to reevaluate her behavior towards the end and she redeems herself in book three.
Questions are answered! We learn the truth about The Stalker. I got this series for my daughter (more on that below) and she couldn't wait to start reading it. She started before I finished and she was asking me about The Stalker. I told her he's still around in book 3 and she was asking if he's good or bad. I hadn't finished yet so I was honestly able to tell her that I didn't know. She believes he's good so those of us that know won't confirm or deny.
There's so much to love about this series and there's lots of wisdom interspersed throughout. There are Discussion Questions at the end of book 3 but there aren't any in books 1 and 2. This is a series I want to read with my children because it will generate some great discussions!
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During his middle school years, Braden Bell was the least-stable, lowest-achieving student in the history of the world. He shocked every former teacher by graduating from high school and college, and then going on to earn both a Master’s degree as well as a Ph.D. A teacher by day and a parent by night, he is around teenagers 24/7. He teaches music and directs plays at a private school, much like Marion Academy in The Middle School Magic series. Whether he fights evil after hours is something he cannot disclose.
Braden Bell holds degrees in theatre from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from NYU. A committed educator, he has been directing plays and teaching school now for over twenty years. Braden lives with his family on a quiet, tree-lined lot outside of Nashville, TN, where he teaches theatre and choir at a middle school. The author of The Road Show, The Kindling, and Penumbras.
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Blog Tour/Review: Imperfect Love by Rebecca Talley
Imperfect Love
Lauren Wilson is well on her way to her happily-ever-after. She has a career she loves, a husband she adores and a baby on the way, but a devastating diagnosis changes everything. The life she’s built suddenly crumbles around her when her husband insists she choose—the baby or him.
Returning to her small hometown to rebuild her shattered life, Lauren crosses paths with Ethan Campbell, the man who stole her teenage heart. The old attraction is still there, but Lauren won’t admit it to anyone—least of all herself. Her only priority is providing a life for her child, and she can’t afford to get it wrong. Ethan is confusing everything, including stirring up feelings she’s not prepared to face. Will she spend her life raising her baby alone or is the family she’s always wanted finally within her reach?
This book starts out with such happy news. Lauren and her husband are expecting their first child! As Lauren starts to figure out ways to tell him, it becomes obvious that her husband, Paul, might not be as excited as she is. He's a workaholic and their schedules don't match up. He acts happy when she finally does tell him, though. Then, they get the news that their baby has a birth defect and Paul doesn't take the news very well. He makes her choose between him and the baby so she leaves him and goes to stay with her mother. She starts to hang out with Ethan, her old crush, and feelings for him start to resurface. She's determined not to let him reject her baby, though, so she won't allow him to get too close.
This might sound like a cut-and-dry story but there is a lot going on. Lauren is sweet and likable. At first, she seemed a bit needy to me so I enjoyed watching her become more independent as the book progressed. I had a hard time having children so I understood her excitement when the pregnancy test finally showed positive results! I also knew that, no matter what, I would have had my children.
Paul is a first-class jerk. He lets his parents dictate his life and that makes his relationship with Lauren difficult. I thought he might have even been unfaithful with the crazy work hours he kept. He seemed distant and disinterested. Ethan is a great guy! He's kind and generous and just allows Lauren to be herself. He travels a lot, though, and doesn't seem ready to settle down.
The first half of the book was kind of slow to me and I kept waiting for something to happen. Then it started to pick up and I enjoyed the second half more. There was a curve in the story toward the end and I was pretty sure I knew her final choice but she was definitely given something to consider. This is a thought-provoking read, and if you enjoy a heartwarming romance, you will want to give it a try!
Author Rebecca Lynn Talley
Rebecca Lynn Talley grew up in the gorgeous seaside city of Santa Barbara, CA. She met, and married, her husband, Del, while attending Brigham Young University. She graduated from BYU with a degree in Communications. She currently lives in rural Colorado on a small ranch with a dog, too many cats to count, and a herd of goats. She and Del are the proud parents of ten wildly-creative, multi-talented children.
Rebecca is the author of a children’s picture book, Grasshopper Pie (WindRiver 2003), a children’s chapter book, Gabby’s Secret (DuBon Publishing 2011), four novels, Heaven Scent (CFI 2008), Altared Plans (CFI 2009), The Upside of Down (CFI 2011), and Aura (DuBon Publishing 2012). She has also authored numerous children’s stories and articles for both print and online magazines.
When she isn’t writing, Rebecca loves to date her husband, play with her kids, swim in the ocean, and dance to disco music while she cleans the house. She has folded at least one million loads of laundry, baked hundreds of batches of chocolate chip cookies, and eaten 5,478 gallons of ice cream.
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April 13, 2017 / Mental Crumble
We are often told that the world is a divided place. That we are divided socially, economically and politically at local, national and international level by a plethora of issues from climate change, Brexit, Trump, Syria and on and on. Until this week that is. It has fallen to two corporate giants to bring together people from their individual soapboxes across the world. Thank you Pepsi and thank you United Airlines. Pepsi’s ridiculous new commercial attracted such a biting negative response that it was withdrawn almost immediately. That storm will pass. No such luck for United Airlines, this years hands-down winner of the Ratner Corporate PR award. For United, (Fly the Friendly Skies’), the bad news just keeps coming as spoof ads on social media grow ever more creative. United has now fallen to 68th place in the influential SKYTRAX airline ranking, just one place ahead of Copa Airlines, Panama’s flag carrier and its unlikely to recover anytime soon especially as the story just gets better and better.
Two days ago the traveller in Chicago refused to give up his seat on an overcrowded flight to Louisville, Kentucky, airport security pulled him unceremoniously into the aisle and dragged him by his hands along the floor, bleeding after he cut his head on an armrest. A bit like travelling Ryan Air in reverse really. The fact that the intransigent passenger was supposedly a former doctor struck off for exchanging drugs for gay sex is not particularly a factor in the story, (especially as these smears have been called into question). Obviously, the whole thing was recorded on multiple smartphones. The company’s response was possibly the worst bit of crisis-PR in history. As videos of the bleeding man went viral, Oscar Munoz, United’s CEO and recent winner of ‘best communicator’ award, apologised for having to “re-accommodate” customers. In an internal letter to staff, Mr Munoz said crew had “no choice” in their action and blamed the flyer for not co-operating. Subsequently, with his back nailed to the wall by social media and mainstream US television talk shows, a more sombre apology was issued but is widely felt to be insincere. What probably happened was a phone call from the board, 'Oscar, what in the flying fxck are you doing, get out there, get on your knees and start grovelling. You're booked on breakfast TV, be there.'
Note United's share price fell before the peak in social media activity. There are Twitter and headline reading algorithmic trading systems out there that scan, read and action headlines with trades before you have got to the end of the first word.
Of course, the ejected and somewhat distressed passenger was being tossed off the aircraft to make room for some late arriving United employees. Given the weight of the average American has increased by 20lbs in the last 20 years I did think it odd that they chose the slim Chinese bloke but there you have it. While a travel voucher incentive was offered to volunteers to leave the aircraft passengers were reluctant because the next flight was not due until the following afternoon. Moreover, United failed to offer the incentive up to the maximum Federal limit of $1350. Everyone has a price.
The manner of the passengers ejection perhaps reflects a Homeland Security mindset that pervades everything related to air travel these days. Passengers became commoditised a long time ago and there is little that is pleasurable about flying in the back with any airline. Most of us accept that. The abuse, or exploitation of the whole security mindset though in order to strong-arm ordinary decent passengers is completely unacceptable in any jurisdiction. While I think David Dao is a bit of an arse nothing in this series of events reflects well on United.
Meanwhile, the spoof ads just get better and better and better with more arriving with each hour. Clearly, what has become a classic in corporate PR disasters will be taught in business schools for generations. The interesting aspect is that that while the share price has wobbled it has remained reasonably stable. The airline will lose some business but perhaps the market is taking the view that some temporary ticket price adjustments will eliminate any consumer resistance to the brand. It is risky to be complacent though. Once these brands go into a death spiral it is difficult to recover as others have found. I quietly expect this incident to cost the CEO his job, for the airline to eventually embark on a ‘customer orientated retraining programme,’ (in fact the CEO has announced just that), and for all major companies handling the public to totally rethink their crisis PR strategies. One last thought, the passenger in question arrived in the US from Vietnam after the war and is of an age where he might have fought or experienced war-like violence. If he plays the PTSD card in court in the action he has just launched it good turn into a bigger PR catastrophe.
April 13, 2017 / Mental Crumble/ 2 Comments
United Airlines, United, Ratner Corporate PR Award, SKYTRAX, Copa Airlines, Oscar Munoz, David Dao
Texting Trauma
September 11, 2016 / Mental Crumble
For a parent, the worrying never stops. Remember the days when we used to worry about stair-gates being left open or perfectly functioning baby monitors being mistrusted because the baby was sleeping not crying, 'I'll just go and check, the monitor might be broken.' Well, it doesn't get any easier. The worry level just goes up a gear . A big contributing factor are mobile phones and texts. Life was so liberating without them despite the obvious drawbacks of often finding oneself being in the wrong place at the wrong time, there being no quick means of contact outside using rarely working public telephones.
It's been a standing family joke for years that wherever the kids are, their Mum will have spy planes constantly on patrol monitoring their movements. If you don't believe me then stand within 500 m of one of the kids and odds on you'll see an aircraft in the sky. Anyway, look what dropped into my in-box this weekend......
Son No 1
What could possibly go wrong............
Clicking on the link takes me to this map, identifying his precise location as the Middle of Nowhere. Good thing these boys were taught by a Jedi.
The good news is, for I'm a sharing person, is that you too can climb the wall of worry given the location map is to be found on the Golden Arc expedition website. When the boys kick off later this month the map should update throughout each day of the expedition allowing us to monitor progress. You can find it here.
Incidentally, if you thought in passing that the development of satellite GPS technology had anything to do with NASA and the American military industrial complex then think again. Jewish mothers made it happen.................
September 11, 2016 / Mental Crumble/ Comment
Travel, Communication
GPS, Delorme, Texting, Jewish Mother, Golden Arc Expedition, in reach satellite communicator, NASA, Maureen Lipman, BT advert, San Francisco, Baby monitors
Uber; Actually, Pretty Good
Actually, that's not me and that DEFINITELY isn't Mrs flashbang
I’m a bit of a stick-in-the-mud die hard traditionalist and deeply resistant to change. I’ve been following the development of Uber over the past 12 months but hadn’t used it until last evening. I had been at a book launch just south of Kings Cross, it was raining and I couldn’t find a cab. It took a few minutes to download the Uber app and electronically hail one having first done a fare check.
The email told me Hocine was three minutes away in his E Class. I could see that on the map and tracked him as he zeroed in on me. 13 mins later I jumped out at Waterloo, no money changed hands, just the email receipt above which is roughly the same as a Black Cab charge for the journey. I rated the driver with his 5 stars and he rated me. Job done. Friends tell me one irritating flaw is the “price surge,” when prices increase with demand but given fares can be checked before ordering I can live with that.
Now, much as I love Cabbies, and I’ve used them all my adult life, they are going to have to seriously up their game or they will be extinct. They can start by turning off their radio’s which constantly blare out inane LBC football talk shows; I don’t care if Arsenals centre forward is Polish or Peruvian, “know what I mean cause I told him, told him John…” Incidentally, should you register using this promotional code, 44zvl Uber tell me you will receive £10 off your first ride.
April 01, 2015 / Mental Crumble/ Comment
Travel, Lifestyle, London
Uber, Black Cabs, Cabbies, London Taxi's, Is Uber any good?, London Transport, Uber Promotional Code, Mrs Flashbang
Ebola Virus; Risks
July 31, 2014 / Mental Crumble
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Ebola, or Filoviral hemorrhagic fever (FHF), is a scary, scary thing. One minute the victim thinks he has a mild dose of flu, the next his insides are turning to mush. It usually has a fatality rate north of 90%, (this particular strain is around 56%), and is one of the most deadly and virulent known viral diseases. Worryingly, it is on the move. The current outbreak, which started in February in Guinea and is the largest in history, has claimed some 729 lives out of 1323 known cases so far. It has struck in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and has now killed a 40-year-old man who travelled through a Lagos airport. The incidence of Ebola viral diseases (EVD) has been growing in the past 20 years and has been striking this year in previously unaffected areas in West Africa rather than Central Africa which has been the norm.
Trying though, to work through the shrill media headlines is becoming more tricky as the media herd sense a “big new story,” to fill their endless airtime. The reality is that while its obviously not much of a winner for the people unfortunate to catch the virus, the probabilities of a pandemic remain low.
The World Health Organisation are obviously on the front foot in terms of the current outbreak which they describe the epidemic trend in their latest update as “precarious,” with 122 new cases between the 24th and 27th with 57 deaths.
The death reported in Lagos is unhelpful. The individual arrived there by air on the 20th via Togo and Ghana. 59 contacts, (15 airport staff and 44 from the hospital), have been identified so far. More are probable and the movement of the disease to Nigeria is a significant development.
The World Health Organisation doesn’t yet recommend any travel or trade restrictions to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Nigeria nor does our own National Travel Health Network ; (obviously they’ve had a letter from a gentleman in Lagos telling them everything there is fine). The default position to manage these things is to tell everyone not to panic while quietly ramping up surveillance and biorisk security. Our own Foreign Office are masters at this; “This is not an issue that affects the UK directly. We have experienced scientists and doctors – the Royal Free Infectious Disease Unit, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – and a lot of experience of dealing with dangerous diseases. The risk of this disease spreading fast in the UK is much lower because of that.”
That though is very probably the case. Previous outbreaks have been characterised with an increasing localised death toll but which has turned down steeply as precautionary measures, principally health worker biosecurity and patient isolation, have been deployed. The disease usually starts in rural areas where the population have close contact with wildlife and burial customs usually include handling the dead. With underequipped clinics and porous borders it is unsurprising that it spreads. In recent years, the disease has failed to get a hold in urban areas where the threat of animal to human transmission is much lower and medical facilities more advanced. Also, the disease is not highly contagious, it’s simply deadly if you are unlucky.
The disease has an incubation period of between 2 and 21 days but one bit of luck is that people infected with Ebola cannot infect others until they have the symptoms. This makes it markedly easier to track and control. Fortunately, one of the few areas of slick international cooperation in the world appears to be that of disease control and the WHO and CDC appear to be all over this one. Nonetheless, many humanitarian organisations are pulling their people out of the at-risk areas and travel restrictions are beginning to come into force at the local level. My favourite travel advice incidentally is from the CDC who helpfully recommend that “travellers to these areas avoid contact with blood and body fluids of infected people to protect themselves.” Seriously?
In summary, the pandemic risk of a virus is the result of its ease and rate of transmission which makes Ebola a very different kettle of fish to say, the Spanish Flu epidemic after the Great War. While it is possible that a case could enter the UK, Europe or the US, expert virologists expect the worst that can happen would be clusters of infection and death that would be quickly and efficiently contained. Just to give you some perspective, AIDS has killed 30m people so far and Ebola has, so far at least, killed less people than does Malaria every two days.
Market impact is likely to be similar; localised hits on companies that have specific trading or manufacturing links with these areas but which are unlikely to have an impact at the broader asset class level. As it is, equities are so fragile they are quite capable of displaying the symptoms and characteristics of the Ebola virus on their own without any outside help.
If you want something to worry about which is far more likely to affect British and American citizens then consider this flesh eating nasty in Florida…………
There, as the old head of the anti-terrorist squad George Churchill-Coleman used to say on the news after PIRA had blown up another London postcode, “There is no cause for alarm..”
July 31, 2014 / Mental Crumble/ Comment
Health, Travel
Ebola, Ebola Virus, George Churchill-Coleman, Filoviral hemorrhagic fever, Ebola viral diseases, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone., Lagos, World Health Organisation, WHO, CDC, National Travel Health network, Foreign Office, Royal Free Infectious Disease Unit, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Vibrio vulnificus, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Train Goes Walkabout
Class 170/3 set of the type used by South West Trains on the Salisbury to Waterloo line
In a worrying incident this morning, several hundred passengers on the 06:45 commuter train from Salisbury to London have become stranded in Matlock, Derbyshire; some 150 miles from their intended destination. In what Network Rail managers called, a rail traffic control nightmare, the South West Trains service was redirected several times following an electrical fault which delayed the train at Basingstoke.
Mr Roy Parrish, Director of Services for Network Rail said, "The train experienced electrical issues at Basingstoke and was moved temporarily onto another line to keep the main line clear. When the fault was cleared it was unfortunately not possible to move the service back because of other services using the main London line." He went on to explain that once on the Reading line it was easier to divert ahead via Reading but due to confusion there, the service was misdirected to Oxford by which time it had been inadvertently labelled in the Network Control Centre as a train destined for Birmingham New Street. Mr Parrish continued, "immediately the error was spotted, a decision was taken to bypass Birmingham and route the service up the Sheffield line from where is would continue to Doncaster and join the high speed East Coast line back south to London. The train though, broke down en route to Sheffield several miles outside Matlock."
Although it sounds like a comedy of errors, a harassed Mr Parrish explained, "it really is just an unfortunate sequence of events. I want to emphasise that passenger safety has not been compromised and everything that can be done is being done to get these people to their destination."
Matlock Station
Passengers on the train however, vented their anger and irritation to news desks by mobile telephone. Mrs Margaret Evans-Pritchard (67), a retired teacher from Shipton Bellinger was an exception and said in a telephone interview, "it's all been rather fun really, a sort of mystery tour and the Peak District is so pretty at this time of year." However, a Mr Francis Dart, (45), an insurance broker from Salisbury, summed up the prevailing dark mood on the train when he said, "it's utterly absurd. What should be a one and a half hour journey has taken all day going in the opposite direction and now we're stuck in the middle of nowhere with only one loo between us. Just sums this country up."
Investigators from the Rail Accident Investigation Branch are said to be not involved given no incident has actually taken place but, they may take an interest to see if lessons can be learned, an unnamed spokesman said.
South West Trains said they were confident of getting all the passengers to their ultimate destinations in time for work tomorrow.
Commuting, Travel
South West Trains, Matlock, Missing Train, Salisbury to London
Much Missed
March 26, 2014 / Mental Crumble
Attempting to figure out the short term ebb and flow of stock markets is, at the moment, every bit as challenging as trying to figure out what my tormentors at South West Trains are going to spring on me next. Arriving at Waterloo last night somewhat later than usual I was taken aback to discover that my journey home was to terminate at Guildford, some 22 miles short of my destination but the offer of rolling through the Surrey countryside at midnight in a double decker bus was obviously an experience I just couldn’t live without. Just to pile pain on misery I arrived at the station at ten to six this morning to find that the little station paper seller on the platform, which has been there as long as the station has, has abruptly had its lease terminated by South West Trains at a few days notice in favour of “redevelopment,” and that’s permanently buggered up my morning routine on a go forward basis. They are an absolute shower the lot of them and I look forward with unrestrained enthusiasm to the day that I can terminate them.
March 26, 2014 / Mental Crumble/ Comment
Travel, Commuting
Souith West Trains, Haslemere, Haslemere Railway Station, Train delays
Pains on Trains
February 19, 2014 / Mental Crumble
I've traveled up and down the Portsmouth line to Haslemere for years. I've done it in first, in second, I've done it standing and I've done it staggering. I've traveled with loud drunks, happy drunks, noisy drunks, and punchy drunks. I've sat with the interesting, the dull, the entertaining and the downright miserable. I've listened to jokes, to tales of woe and of wonderment, sports reports and holidays from all over the world from companion travelers, some of whom I've known, many I haven’t. I prefer to sit in silence, happy in my own bubble for the 58 minutes in the day each way that is mine. In the old days it was 5 hours in Club to New York or Tokyo or even shorter on Concorde but we are where we are. Like many others, I've occasionally tolerated loud music from other peoples headphones. Although with whatever suppressing technology they now use it’s not the plague it used to be, most passengers ignore the hip-hap-housy-rag-rip-roll junk that some of these idiots play with equanimity.
Crumble's carriage on the 18:15pm shortly after switching his one-pod on
That is, until one very particular piece of music is played. I've never seen such shuffling, nodding and shaking accompanied by those Death Ray Eyes as I do when I happen to play some pipe music on my one-pod. Indeed, the alacrity displayed to any other social nuisances is replaced with heightened tension, bulging eyes and elevated blood pressure. Poor souls, it’s not my fault if modern headphone sound suppression technology can’t cope with the massed bands of the Gordon Highlanders.
I simply like to think I’m there to enlighten and educate; I’ll bring them round......... eventually.
February 19, 2014 / Mental Crumble/ Comment
Travel, Lifestyle
South West Trains, commuting, Pipe Music, Gordon Highlanders
Give Them An Inch
May 02, 2012 / Hunk of Junk
A contribution from fellow long suffering communter Dirk is long overdue; heres the first of a number that are backed up:
There are an infinite number of ways to get my goat these days, and two of my most excitable ones were so peeved by what I witnessed today that they broke free of the leash and leapt the fence separating the two station car-parks.
To the bald man with the Musto back-pack who parked his white Volvo behind me this morning at the station…shame on you. It was the flash of gobby whiteness in my peripheral vision that first caught my attention and I was quietly fuming at this in my wing-mirror when I witnessed him hold open the door, have a quick check around to see if anybody was looking and then reach inside and pull out an empty can of coke, some crisp packets and random packaging. All this he chucked out onto the tarmac before kicking the whole lot under his car. I have no doubt that this is a regular occurrence, this is how people like him clean their cars and since I already had reason to hate him I decided to prove that I’d clocked his behaviour by giving a hoot on my horn.
His furtiveness betrayed the fact that he did at least realise that what he was doing was antisocial so It was hardly a confrontation and several leagues short of making a citizen’s arrest but I did at least provoke a staring contest which I subsequently won, for as he rounded the back of the car still scowling at me he clipped his knee quite sharply on the bumper. As Louis L’Amour was wont to say, “Victory is won not in miles but in inches”.
He gave me that inch and I took a mile.
May 02, 2012 / Hunk of Junk/
Humour, Travel
Commuting, Dirk Randolph, Station Car Park
Cyclists on Bloody Trains
December 09, 2011 / Hunk of Junk
One of the less attractive and welcome experiences of the commuters life is the plague of septic maggots who run or cycle to the station in the morning and then force their half naked, sweaty, smelly bodies on the rest of us who incidentally, have had the common decency to bathe before dressing. I would no more step onto public transport dripping with sweat than I would walk into a cocktail party red faced and panting. Weren't these people taught to shower after sports? It's an utter disgrace and affront to good manners not to say a threat to health and hygiene. Anyway, before I get into my stride our old friend Dirk has beaten me to it and once more holds the flag high for the ordinary decent commuter....
"I had to endure Dirty Stinky cyclist-man today who sat steaming in the seat beside me in his yellow and black uniform while tucking into his energy gel.
I know about these awful things from running, which by the time you get round to plucking up the courage to get one down have warmed to,(your), body temperature and are horribly cloying. They come in various flavours and the vanilla waft added to road-grime and his rancid aroma was almost too much to bear. Despite the chilly morning I was in no mood for his radiated musk and so my private fantasy which involved bundling him out into the dark next time the doors opened was effectively derailed when a propos of nothing at all he suddenly turned to me and asked very politely if he could read a bit of my paper.
With this mild interaction my murderous thoughts seemed churlishly over-the-top and to absolve a sense of guilt I thought I'd show an interest in how far he'd ridden that morning.Ten miles apparently, part of a fitness campaign he'd started in the summer and would continue day in and day out until the Spring. Definitely a driving ban then. It was all I could do not to enquire if it was all in the same kit."
December 09, 2011 / Hunk of Junk/
Humour, Lifestyle, Travel
Dirk Randolph, Dirks Diary, Joggers on trains, Trains, bikes on trains, health & hygiene Commuting
Start the Week With Dirk
After a pause of some weeks, Dirk is back with a double helping from his "diary of an ordinary commuter." There's nothing ordinary about our hero I can tell you, he carries the standard for us all and dares to articulate all those dark thoughts that even the most Christian minded of us occasionally harbour against our fellow man.... or women.
"I think we're all a bit stressed at the moment and it wouldn't take much to nudge us over the edge.
Back in the calm of an office I can see why physical assault induced by the loud eating of crisps may not have stood up in court. I have nothing against crisps but would refrain from eating them on a train after dark, partly in consideration to other passengers and partly because I find myself very conscientious re the noise. I'd like to think the girl behind me was trying to be polite too but in carefully taking out each one in turn she merely prolonged the torture.
Giving each one a preliminary suck reduced the crunch, (I applaud that), and then it was back in for another rummaging cranckle. Polishing off the final one with a quick slick to each finger I thought that was the end of that but after a brief intermission she delved into her cavernous bag and started on a second packet. Why this should have such an effect on my blood pressure is a worry. This was not the Royal Opera House, this was not even the Remembrance Day 2 minutes silence and nor were we the Famous 5 crouched in hiding from the smugglers on Billycock Hill so why should it matter? This was merely a train with several dozing passengers, but when the only other sound is snoring there's nothing so irritatingly intrusive as a writhing crisp packet.
It could be that I am in need of therapy but my suggestion is to sell them in plastic bags, preferably soggy, or better still get it over with quickly and simply enjoy a potato
With several weeks of remission I was just wondering what had happened to Tourette's woman and then there it was in the background, that unmistakeable glottal stop feature which to the uninitiated is merely part and parcel of winter commuting with a carriage-full of assorted colds.
To the more experienced there's a world of difference, and just as a dedicated bird enthusiast can distinguish between the call of a swift and a swallow,(almost an accidental pun there),so I can tell the difference between a tickly cough and a permanent affliction designed to drive us all mad. This would be the inoffensive-looking lady with the velvet Alice-band, the sort you'd find yourself luring in towards the vacant seat if only as a trade-off versus a potentially-worse travel-mate.
It's not until she's fully settled that the vocal tic makes itself known and she doesn't know it but she gets my pulse racing for all the wrong reasons. If she takes to eating crisps I shall be driven over the edge into enacting my own version of Tourettes in its most coprolalic form.
It takes one to know one, and perhaps she'd understand if I blurted out a stream of invective. To avoid a scene maybe I'll just add headphones to my Christmas list."
Commuting, Dirk Randolph, Dirks Diary, Kent
Know Your Place
November 04, 2011 / Hunk of Junk
Time for another report from our old chum Randolph as he describes another chapter in the daily commuting grind,
"There's a new man on the platform for whom I've developed an unreasonable degree of resentment.
I long ago decided that commuting on a daily basis was perfectly bearable once a certain rhythm was established, but to covet any particular type of seat was a slippery slope into nerdism. Besides, a slouch to the same side on a regular basis can't be good for the spine. It's better to mix it up a bit, convince yourself that sitting backwards is perfectly fine, steer clear of the loos and it matters little where you end up and pity those who don't actually have a choice of seats at all.
With all this karma in mind why is it then that I object so much to this young blade who insists on being the one to hit the yellow button?. There you'll be, 15 yrs of experience to tell you where the doors will come to a halt and he springs in from stage left like Billy Goat Gruff (he lurks in the lee of the pedestrian bridge). He's been known to stand aside to let a woman board but he's already ahead of her when it comes to the seats. There's an almost audible sigh as he stakes his claim, movements now in slow motion since the battle's won for another day. Did I imagine it or was he looking round for approbation?
Anyway, no room for smugness later for it was only as he made to get up at London Bridge that he discovered he'd made the schoolboy error of failing to spot the chewing gum. Rather fresh too, made malleable from 45 minutes of pressurised warmth and creating significant drag on his coat which he then had to remove while he made good. A small moment to treasure and a rare high-five to the schoolboy."
November 04, 2011 / Hunk of Junk/
Humour, Lifestyle, London, Travel
Chewing Gum, Commuting, Dirk Randolph, Trains
Go, Having Gone
Time for a quick update from our chum Dirk in Kent,
"Just a few more days of the summer holidays and then the trains will be back to normal. The first few carriages from the buffers should be studiously avoided for this is where families head, looking ideally for a table, where an early incumbent with any sense will quickly make himself scarce....chivalry has nothing to do with it.
They will need a surface on which to eat their food, a last-gasp treat of Burger King the bribe for foregoing yet another ice-cream earlier in the afternoon. If really lucky this sticky pod will also be close to one of the train loos, for apart from the obvious reasons they can play with the automatic buttons on the doors. It hasn't happened in a while, but until we got the hang of how to lock from inside it used to be common for people on the loo to suffer the indignity for the doors to mysteriously gape open of their own accord.
A particularly restless little tyke couldn't resist the inviting yellow button, pressed it, and was so startled by the ensuing command to "get out" hissed from the wretched woman within that instead of hurriedly closing the door she ran away. It must be said that these loos are generously proportioned to cater for disabled passengers so it's more than just a stretch to reach the 'close/lock' button. Men can at least be facing the far wall, but women have no choice but to hide their faces and pretend it's not happening.
Be warned that in this open-plan situation there's not a lot you can do until you're ready to get up and go, having gone."
September 08, 2011 / Hunk of Junk/
Back to school, Dirk Randolph, South West Trains
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Lavender Flower - Organic/Kosher
Lavender (Lavandula x intermedia) Flowers Profile
Lavandula (spp- intermedia, pendunculata, officinalis and angustifolia) English lavender, Broad-leaf Lavender, Grande Lavander and True Lavender.
Lavender is aromatic perennial evergreen shrub. Its woody stems bear lavender or purple flowers from late spring to early autumn, although there are varieties with blossoms of white or pink. Lavender is native to the Mediterranean, but now cultivated in cool-winter, dry-summer areas in Europe and the Western United States. The use of Lavender goes back thousands of years, with the first recorded uses by the Egyptians during the mummification process. Both the Greeks and the Romans had many uses for it, the most popular being for bathing, cooking, as an ingredient in perfume, healing wounds, and as an insect repellant. Lavender was used as an after-bath perfume by the Romans, who gave the herb its name from the Latin lavare, to wash. During the Great Plague of 1665, grave robbers would wash their hands in a concoction called "Four Thieves Vinegar", which contained lavender, wormwood, rue, sage, mint, and rosemary, and vinegar; they rarely became infected. English folklore tells that a mixture of lavender, mugwort, chamomile, and rose petals will attract sprites, fairies, brownies, and elves.
Essential oil containing borneol, camphor, geraniol, and linalool, also coumarins, caryophyllene, tannins, and other antioxidant compounds.
Flowers.
Teas, tinctures, and added to baked goods. Cosmetically it has a multitude of uses and can be included in ointments for pain and burn relief.
Lavender flowers are approved by the German Commission E for promoting both a healthy mood and healthy circulation. The scent of lavender has shown to have positive effects on mood within certain adult populations and can help to alleviate mild feelings of agitation or distress. As a spice, lavender is best known as an important aspect of French cuisine and is an integral ingredient in herbs de Provence seasoning blends. Lavender may be used on its own to give a delightful, floral flavor to desserts, meats, and breads. The flowers can also be layered within sugar to infuse it with its distinctive aroma for use in cookies and candies. Similar to cilantro, some individuals perceive the taste of lavender in a manner that is undesirable within cuisine. An estimated 10% of the population interprets lavender to have a soapy and unsavory flavor. For this reason, it may be wise to exercise caution while using lavender as a flavoring agent. Lavender has been thought for centuries to arouse passions as an aphrodisiac, and is still one of the most recognized scents in the world.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7897075?dopt=Abstract
The Contemporary Encyclopedia of Herbs & Spices by T. Hill (199-200)
For best results, avoid heating the herb directly with boiling water, although a simmer is fine.
Origin - France
Calendula Flower (powder) - Organic/Kosher
8 oz Amber Boston Round 24/400
Holy Basil (Rama) - Organic/Kosher
16 oz Amber Boston Round 28/400
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Myeloma Youreloma
. . . . The adventures of an ordinary guy making his way through an extraordinary, and often times challenging, world. Please feel free to share your pearls of wisdom with me. Take courage shipmates. Land is in sight!
Bill Medley, Myeloma and Me
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday. After my every Wednesday mid-afternoon chemotherapy maintenance infusion (30 down, 126 to go!) I went to a local coffee shop to grab a quick sandwich. It was busy as usual during Branson's tourist season (the local population is approximately 7500 with nearly 7 million annual visitors) and I ended up sharing a table with some nice folks from California.
A husband and wife and their 70-80-ish mother and I struck up a friendly conversation and they asked me about the small burgundy ribbon affixed to my shirt. Not one to be shy, I took the opportunity to tell them about Multiple Myeloma - which is exactly why I wear it. The father shared that someone in his work circle passed away from Myeloma four or five years ago and that he had learned more about the disease in ten minutes of our chatting than he did when his colleague was ill. I think that he felt a bit guilty about this. They asked me if I had someone close that had MM and I said that 'you're looking at him.' They were comforted knowing that advances were being made in treating the disease. I was comforted that I didn't have a proverbial 'Myeloma' stamped on my forehead! The concern of these strangers-now-friends was very touching.
As a show writer/producer I'm always interested in knowing what kinds of entertainment experiences are on tourist's schedules. Branson has more than 100 live shows. Mom's face brightened and, speaking for the first time, she said in a lilting British accent 'We're going to see Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers!' She was beaming. And a smile crept across my face.
I was diagnosed during Thanksgiving week in 2008 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science's Myeloma Institute and I convinced my doctors to let me go home on December 6th for a few days because some of my entertainment friends in Branson were producing a benefit/ we love you Murrays show with a lot of Branson entertainers and friends participating. I'll tell you about that amazingly moving evening some other time. All I knew was that there was no way I was going to miss it, although I was in pretty rough shape. After the show we were going to drive back the 4 and 1/2 hours to Little Rock for an early morning infusion.
Among the performers on the bill was Bill - Bill Medley, that is! He and his good friend Bobby Hatfield had set the music world on fire in the 60s and beyond as The Righteous Brothers. I met him when I was serving as the General Manager and Executive Producer at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater. We also produced Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Original Comets from Bill Halley and the Comets, Bobby Vee (Take Good Care of My Baby and many more hits), Music/TV/Movie Star and teen idol Fabian, Bryan Hyland (of Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini fame), The Chiffons, Chris Montez (Let's Dance), Gary Lewis and the Playboys and an original show I wrote and produced for Dick Clark's called 'Cruisin' 57.' Lotta' work & a lotta' fun.
On the show 'Sean Murray: Rockin' for a Cure' Bill took the microphone and said 'I hate why we're here, but I love the man. I wouldn't miss it.' Okay - cue the tears. He sat at he piano and played a solo version of the RB's mega hit 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling' which as, you probably don't know, was the most played song on the radio for many, many years. Bill quips 'I wished I'd written it!' Writers and Publishers earn the royalties for songs played on thr radio. Singers don't. That's why singers try to write their own songs and own the publishing companies.
Anyway, I opened my laptop and showed them that I had the Righteous Brother's album 'Unchained Melody' linked on my desktop and I quickly found something special for the mom, whom I had learned was from England, but had been in the States since the 60's. I clicked on a cover tune that Bill and Bobby did on that album and gave my headphones to mom.
She listened for awhile and began to tear-up. Then they trickled. The husband and wife asked me what I given her and I said that it was the Righteous Brother's version of 'The White Cliffs of Dover.' My dear UK MM friends, Lorna & Micky, Paula,and others probably know what the literal White Cliffs of Dover meant to someone from England now in their 80s.
The cliffs face towards Continental Europe across the most narrow body of the English Channel, where invasions have threatened Britain for many years. They stand as a symbol of an ever-present guard. Mom was a young teenager in England when WWII ensued.
WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER
Walter Kent (music) Nat Burton (lyrics)
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after.
Tomorrow, when the world is free
The shepherd will tend his sheep.
The valley will bloom again.
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again.
She took off the headphones and leaned over and gave me a tender hug. Through the magic and power of music, one song had touched her deeply. And to think she heard it, ostensibly, because I have MM. I also sent them to see the world's finest Beatle's tribute artists The Liverpool Legends, another show I worked on with Louise Harrison, George Harrison's sister.
What a great afternoon for me! Rev/Dex/Velcade working to keep me on the planet and the company of some wonderful, wonderful people.
Keep fighting!
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White Cliffs of Dover, one of my favorites. I made friends with a couple from England who loved Bobby's song. They came in one day and gave me their keyboard and said just learn that song on the keyboard and enjoy. I already knew it and they told me the background of the song. They too, were teenagers over there at that time. Sheri
It's a good job it wasn't Vera Lynn singing it - you'd have had to send out for hankies! I'll be 'singing' this for the rest of the night, other than the words however it will bear no resemblance to the original as I can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Sean Murray said...
Thanks Sheri - good to hear from another musician. Miss Knit- you are right. Vera Lynn OWNS that song! I'm sure that your version isn't too bad, either! I'd love to see those cliffs one day. Sean
Susie Hemingway said...
Great post this bringing back so many names from my teenage years. What a lovely story about the lady from the UK she must have felt so very homesick hearing the old second world war song once more. As my father told me it was the only place they wished to see on their the return journey home. So many of the songs you mentioned I can recall all the words to and loved those tunes as growing up with two sisters we would play these on a little dansette record player until the records got warm!! Dancing the evenings away and loving all those sounds of the
60's Thanks for the memories too.
Sean Murray
Kimberling City, Missouri, United States
Although I've enjoyed a fun career in the Creative Arts/ Entertainment Industry, the most important part of my life is that I'm husband to my best friend, Karen, father to two terrific kids and friend to a larger-than-life band of zany, creative, and wildly supportive group of people. Life took a dramatic twist in November 2008 when I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. But never fear - humor, a positive attitude and faith are very powerful forces!
Great Multiple Myeloma Links & More
A Favorite: Nick van Dyk's Myeloma Blog
A Favorite: Living with Multiple Myeloma - Pat Killingsworth
My Doctors: Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy
Great Blogs at Planet Myeloma
News: The Myeloma Beacon
IMF - International Myeloma Foundation
LLS - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
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Followers, Leaders & Everyone In-Between
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THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY
Solution for: THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY
1. FALSE 7. TS
2. FALSE 8. AT
3. FALSE 9. FA
4. NOT GIVEN 10. AT
5. TRUE 11. FA
6. TRUE 12. SE
The Department of Ethnography was created as a separate deportment within the British Museum in 1946, offer 140 years of gradual development from the original Department of Antiquities. If is concerned with the people of Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and parts of Europe. While this includes complex kingdoms, as in Africa, and ancient empires, such as those of the Americas, the primary focus of attention in the twentieth century has been on small-scale societies. Through its collections, the Department's specific interest is to document how objects are created and used, and to understand their importance and significance to those who produce them. Such objects can include both the extraordinary and the mundane, the beautiful and the banal.
The collections of the Department of Ethnography include approximately 300,000 artefacts, of which about half are the product of the present century. The Department has o vital role to play in providing information on non-Western cultures to visitors and scholars. To this end, the collecting emphasis has often been less on individual objects than on groups of material which allow the display of a broad range of o society's cultural expressions.
Much of the more recent collecting was carried out in the field, sometimes by Museum staff working on general anthropological projects in collaboration with a wide variety of national governments and other institutions. The material collected includes great technical series - for instance, of textiles from Bolivia, Guatemala, Indonesia and at
areas of West Africa - or of artefact types such as boats. The latter include working examples of coracles from India, reed boars from Lake Titicaca in the Andes, kayaks from the Arctic, and dug-out canoes from several countries. The field assemblages, such as those from the Sudan, Madagascar and Yemen, include a whole range of material culture representative of one people. This might cover the necessities of life of an African herdsman or on Arabian farmer, ritual objects, or even on occasion airport art. Again, a series of acquisitions might represent a decade's fieldwork documenting social experience as expressed in the varieties of clothing and jewellery styles, tents and camel trappings from various Middle Eastern countries, or in the developing preferences in personal adornment and dress from Papua New Guinea. Particularly interesting are a series of collections which continue to document the evolution of ceremony and of material forms for which the Department already possesses early (if nor the earliest) collections formed after the first contact with Europeans.
The importance of these acquisitions extends beyond the objects themselves. They come fo the Museum with documentation of the social context, ideally including photographic records. Such acquisitions have multiple purposes. Most significantly they document for future change. Most people think of the cultures represented in the collection in terms of the absence of advanced technology. In fact, traditional practices draw on a continuing wealth of technological ingenuity. Limited resources and ecological constraints are often overcome by personal skills that would be regarded as exceptional in the West. Of growing interest is the way in which much of what we might see as disposable is, elsewhere, recycled and reused.
With the Independence of much of Asia and Africa after 1945, if was assumed that economic progress would rapidly lead to the disappearance or assimilation of many small-scale societies. Therefore, it was felt that the Museum should acquire materials representing people whose art or material culture, ritual or political structures were on the point of irrevocable change. This attitude altered with the realisation that marginal communities can survive and adapt In spire of partial integration into a notoriously fickle world economy. Since the seventeenth century, with the advent of trading companies exporting manufactured textiles to North America and Asia, the importation of cheap goods has often contributed to the destruction of local skills and indigenous markets. On the one hand modern imported goods may be used in an everyday setting, while on the other hand other traditional objects may still be required for ritually significant events. Within this context trade and exchange attitudes are inverted. What are utilitarian objects to a Westerner may be prized objects in other cultures - when transformed by local ingenuity - principally for aesthetic value. In the some way, the West imports goods from other peoples and in certain circumstances categorises them as ‘art'.
Collections act as an ever-expanding database, nor merely for scholars and anthropologists, bur for people involved in a whole range of educational and artistic purposes. These include schools and universities as well as colleges of art and design. The provision of information about non-Western aesthetics and techniques, not just for designers and artists but for all visitors, is a growing responsibility for a Department whose own context is an increasingly multicultural European society.
In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet write
TRUE if the statement is true according to the passage
FALSE if the statement is false according to the passage
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage
replaced the Department of Antiquities
at the British Museum.
1 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The twentieth-century collections come mainly from mainstream societies such as the US and Europe.
2 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The Department of Ethnography focuses mainly on modern societies.
3 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The Department concentrates on collecting single unrelated objects of great value.
4 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN The textile collection of the Department of Ethnography is the largest in the world.
5 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN Traditional societies are highly inventive in terms of technology.
6 TRUEFALSENOT GIVEN Many small-scale societies have survived and adapted in spite of predictions to the contrary.
Some of the exhibits at the Department of Ethnography are listed below (Questions 7-12). The writer gives these exhibits as examples of different collection types.
Match each exhibit with the collection type with which it is associated in Reading Passage 1. Write the appropriate letters in boxes 7-12 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any collection type more than once.
7 ATECFASETS Bolivian textiles
Answer: TS
8 ATECFASETS Indian coracles
Answer: AT
9 ATECFASETS airport art
Answer: FA
10 ATECFASETS Arctic kayaks
11 ATECFASETS necessities of life of an Arabian farmer
12 ATECFASETS tents from the Middle East
Answer: SE
Collection Types
Artefact Types
Evolution of Ceremony
Field Assemblages
Social Experience
Technical Series
Video game research
BAKELITE - The birth of modem plastics
The Benefits of Being Bilingual
Motivating Drives
Geothermal power for Britain
Glow-worms
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Alternative Medicine in Australia
The first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year, full-time course at the University of Technology, Sydney, in early 1994. Their course covered, among other therapies, acupuncture. The theory they learnt is based on the traditional Chinese explanation of this ancient healing art: that it can regulate the flow of ‘Qi’ or energy through pathways in the body. This course reflects how far some alternative therapies have come in their struggle for acceptance by the medical establishment.
Australia has been unusual in the Western world in having a very conservative attitude to natural or alternative therapies, according to Dr Paul Laver, a lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sydney. ‘We’ve had a tradition of doctors being fairly powerful and I guess they are pretty loath to allow any pretenders to their position to come into it.’ In many other industrialized countries, orthodox and alternative medicines have worked ‘hand in glove’ for years. In Europe, only orthodox doctors can prescribe herbal medicine. In Germany, plant remedies account for 10% of the national turnover of pharmaceutical. Americans made more visits to alternative therapist than to orthodox doctors in 1990, and each year they spend about $US 12 billion on the therapies that have not been scientifically tested.
Disenchantment with orthodox medicine has seen the popularity of alternative therapies in Australia climb steadily during the past 20 years. In a 1983 national health survey, 1.9% of people said they had contacted a chiropractor, naturopath, osteopath, acupuncturist or herbalist in the two weeks prior to the survey. By 1990, this figure had risen to 2.6% of the population. The 550,000 consultations with alternative therapists reported in the 1990 survey represented about an eighth of the total number of consultations with medically qualified personnel covered by the survey, according to Dr Laver and colleagues writing in the Australian Journal of Public Health in 1993. ‘A better educated and less accepting public has become disillusion with the experts in general and increasingly skeptical about science and empirically based knowledge,’ they said. ‘The high standing of professionals, including doctors, has been eroded as a consequence.’
Rather than resisting or criticizing this trend, increasing numbers of Australian doctors, particularly younger ones, are forming group practices with alternative therapists or taking courses themselves, particularly in acupuncture and herbalism. Part of the incentive was financial, Dr Laver said. ‘The bottom line is that most general practitioners are business people. If they see potential clientele going elsewhere, they might want to be able to offer a similar service.’
In 1993, Dr Laver and his colleagues published a survey of 289 Sydney people who attended eight alternative therapists’ practices in Sydney. These practices offered a wide range of alternative therapies from 25 therapists. Those surveyed had experience chronic illnesses, for which orthodox medicine had been able to provide little relief. They commented that they liked the holistic approach of their alternative therapists and the friendly, concerned and detailed attention they had received. The cold, impersonal manner of orthodox doctors featured in the survey. An increasing exodus from their clinics, coupled with this and a number of other relevant surveys carried out in Australia, all pointing to orthodox doctors’ inadequacies, have led mainstream doctors themselves to begin to admit they could learn from the personal style of alternative therapists. Dr Patrick Store, President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, concurs that orthodox doctors could learn a lot about beside manner and advising patients on preventative health from alternative therapists.
According to the Australian Journal of Public Health, 18% of patients visiting alternative therapists do so because they suffer from musculo-skeletal complaints; 12% suffer from digestive problems, which is only 1% more than those suffering from emotional problems. Those suffering from respiratory complaints represent 7% of their patients, and candida sufferers represent an equal percentage. Headache sufferers and those complaining of general ill health represent 6% and 5% of patients respectively, and a further 4% see therapists for general health maintenance.
The survey suggested that complementary medicine is probably a better term than alternative medicine. Alternative medicine appears to be an adjunct, sought in times of disenchantment when conventional medicine seems not to offer the answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-2 on your answer sheet.
1 Traditionally, how have Australian doctors differed from doctors in many Western countries?
A They have worked closely with pharmaceutical companies.
B They have often worked alongside other therapists.
C They have been reluctant to accept alternative therapists.
D They have regularly prescribed alternative remedies.
2 In 1990, Americans
A were prescribed more herbal medicines than in previous years.
B consulted alternative therapists more often than doctors.
C spent more on natural therapies than orthodox medicines.
D made more complaints about doctors than in previous years.
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage?
In boxes 3-10 on your answer sheet write
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
3 YESNONOT GIVEN Australians have been turning to alternative therapies in increasing numbers over the past 20 years.
4 YESNONOT GIVEN Between 1983 and 1990 the numbers of patients visiting alternative therapists rose to include a further 8% of the population.
5 YESNONOT GIVEN The 1990 survey related to 550,000 consultations with alternative therapists.
6 YESNONOT GIVEN In the past, Australians had a higher opinion of doctors than they do today.
7 YESNONOT GIVEN Some Australian doctors are retraining in alternative therapies.
8 YESNONOT GIVEN Alternative therapists earn higher salaries than doctors.
9 YESNONOT GIVEN The 1993 Sydney survey involved 289 patients who visited alternative therapists for acupuncture treatment.
10 YESNONOT GIVEN All the patients in the 1993 Sydney survey had long-term medical complaints.
Questions 11-13
Complete the vertical axis on the table below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Reading Passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet.
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Buhari's SIP: PVC Becomes Unlisted Criteria To Access Fund - Sen. Olujimi
Senator Biodun Olujimi.
"I have one such forms where your BVN number, PVC number, gender and account details must be written"
"I have one such forms where your BVN number, PVC number, gender and account details must be written.
"I urge that an Ad-hoc Committee be set up to look into this issue". This is according to the Senate's Minority Leader, Abiodun Olujimi.
Mild drama was recorded on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday during plenary.
Olujimi has accused the Buhari led administration of 'politicising' its Social Intervention Programme that ought to cater for the poorest of the poor in Nigeria.
She told the lawmakers that unwritten criteria is being imposed on proposed beneficiaries before they are granted access to their common wealth.
“The funds have been used for political reasons,” she said.
Senate Leader Ahmad Lawan stood up to counter Olujimi’s claims, but he was resisted by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers, who, led by Dino Melaye, the Kogi West senator, raised their voices.
However, the Senate President allowed him to speak and he defended the initiative while poking holes at the PDP's former SURE-P.
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"I have listed attentively to the motion raised by the senate minority leader, let me say from the onset that SIP of this administration is computer-based very transparent.
"That is why for the first time in the history of Nigeria, we have a fool-proof system that anywhere you maybe in Nigeria you will apply online.
"If minority party feels that we should not be listened to it will be unfortunate", he added.
In his resolution, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki said he supports transparency as he called for a probe into the Olujimi's allegations against SIP and the APC lawmakers push for a search for irregularities in the management of SURE-P.
An adhoc committee on the SIP was set up. Members are: Ibrahim Gobir, Shehu sani, Enyinnaya baribe, Danjuma Goje, Dino melaye, Mathew Urghoighde and Gbenga Ashafa.
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Mystic Rhythms: Rush's Neil Peart On The First Rock Drummer
Throughout this week, NPR Music "Morning Edition" is talking about drums and drummers. Today, their focus is Neil Peart and his "...early fascination with Gene Krupa and the demanding requirements of his playing..."
From the interview:
When Rush's Neil Peart listens to "My Generation" by The Who, he doesn't hear the lyric or the harmony. His mind is focused on a single thing: the drums.
"I was driving down the length of California the other day with classic rock on and they played 'My Generation,'" Peart says. "I just kind of tuned into the Keith Moon snare sound and his figures and all that. Of course, I know every beat of it."
At 62, Peart has lived through and listened to a substantial slice of the history of modern drumming. He says he first wanted to become a drummer when he saw The Gene Krupa Story.
You can check out the entire interview at this LINK.
Thanks to reader Donovan Duguay for the link.
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Farming's tech revolution to have losers as well as winners
by Thin Lei Win | @thinink | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 21 December 2018 18:13 GMT
A worker looks on as drones are used to pollinate pear blossoms at a pear farm in Cangzhou, Hebei province, China April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
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Robots could be used in fruit picking to ease labour shortages expected after Britain's exit from the European Union, researchers say
By Thin Lei Win
ROME, Dec 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Smart technologies such as robotics could revolutionise farming and even solve a post-Brexit labour shortage, but risk having a negative social impact unless handled properly, researchers said on Friday.
From weeding to milking cows, more and more routine farming work can be done by machine - a trend that is changing agriculture "beyond recognition", according a study by researchers at Britain's University of East Anglia.
Robots could be used in fruit picking to ease labour shortages expected after Britain's exit from the European Union, while robotics and artificial intelligence could save farmers money and protect the environment, they said.
But the social impact of these changes particularly on rural communities had not been fully considered, according to the paper published in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
"Robotics and artificial intelligence could cause job losses or change the nature of farming in ways that are undesirable to some farmers," said co-author David Rose, a lecturer in human geography.
"Others might be left behind by technological advancement, while wider society might not like how food is being produced," he said in a statement.
Decision-making could become concentrated in the hands of private companies and there could also be backlash similar to that against genetically modified crops, the study said.
Already, there is resistance to aspects of gene editing to make crops more desirable or resilient to changing weather patterns.
Researchers said smart farming innovations should not only improve productivity but also provide social benefits, meet human needs and be socially responsible.
"Innovation which involves the use of new and existing technologies will be essential for farmers to increase their agricultural output in the future," said John Ruane from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
But it is crucial that technology "doesn't widen the gap between rich farmers and poor farmers", said Ruane, FAO's senior consultant in agricultural innovation.
The FAO estimates there are at least 550 million farms in the world, of which about 90 percent are family farmers, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
"So if you do not consider small farmers, you're ignoring hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide with their families, and this obviously has huge social challenges," he added.
(Reporting By Thin Lei Win @thinink, Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, and property rights. Visit www.trust.org)
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Alumni & Friends / Carousel / Education / History / Home Page News / Success / Uncategorized / Westminster Stories / Women of Westminster / WT Stories
Alumna Accepted at Harvard Graduate School of Education
by Sarah Backer · Apr 25, 2019
Meredith Bolen ’16 ΑΓΔ recently was informed of her acceptance into the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Bolen will pursue a master’s degree in the Specialized Studies Program beginning this fall.
“I have designed my master’s to focus on global curriculum and the barriers faced in the classroom dealing with technology and educational policies by students, faculty, and staff in the schools,” Bolen says.
While at Westminster, Bolen quadruple majored in elementary education, middle school education, secondary education, and history. She also participated in an independent study in geoscience research that landed her in the Black Hills of South Dakota with a group of other Westminster students.
Bolen says she has slightly mixed emotions about going to Harvard. “I’m excited to continue my education but nervous to move back to the snow,” she jokes. Bolen currently is as a student teacher in the Comfort and Comal Independent School Districts in Comfort and New Braunfels, TX.
A native of Bartlesville, OK, who grew up mostly in Houston, TX, Bolen returned to Texas in December after teaching for two years in Rwamagana, Rwanda, as a Humanity for Children Teaching Fellow. The fellowship followed two previous trips to Rwanda that Bolen took with a group of Westminster students and faculty in 2014 and 2015.
Bolen says her experiences in Rwanda sparked her master’s degree interest in educational obstacles faced by those in countries where basic resources can be scarce. Harvard was the best fit for her educational focus.
“I decided to apply [to Harvard] based on the research opportunities, educational involvement, and the focus to ‘Learn to Change the World,’” Bolen explains, citing the Harvard Graduate School of Education motto. “I could not feel more grateful to have this extraordinary opportunity to study with so much freedom and a wide range of mentors, peers, and fellow students.”
To read more about Bolen and how Westminster helped her find the power in purpose, go here.
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HomeFunny Fashion
Aug 24, 2015 by Sharon Cole
There had been several cases in the fashion industry where designers and brands had to suffer backlash from the society for some actions which were considered inappropriate according to some cultures or communities. There are many sensitive cases which took place as a result of certain social customs and barriers which were touched upon by some designer labels or designers. Victorian Chola by Givenchy, Dsquaw show from DSqauared2 had inspiration from natives, American Indian headdress by the famous Chanel were some of the very famous examples of the cultural appropriation.
The latest to join the bandwagon is Elle Canada which is under fire for its story on dashikis. The story claims that the new caftan style is dashiki which is trending in recent time. However the glossy magazine had to bear the brunt of the internet users as most of the users had something to say about the story. The social backlash compelled the magazine to tout their story, however this did not help much and the readers were displeased as before.
Most editors usually think twice before posting anything related to certain races, communities or cultures as they know people belonging to the same will object or have certain opinions about it which will not be good for their work.
However before calling a long held tradition, the new fashion trend, they should have some prior thoughts. As Dashiki is concerned, it comes from the West Africa. And it has been a part of the culture of the region. It is not a style which has come back as the black people; both men and women have been wearing these dashikis since ages. Models or celebrities from the fashion world can be seen sporting such styles of dresses but calling it a trend is not at all advisable as it is an important clothing item of the black culture.
DsquawFashionGivenchyVictorian Chola
Ralph Lauren is bringing sensory smartshirt to market
by Sharon Cole - Aug 24, 2015
H&M adds 16 new styles to their denims made from donated clothing
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Nintendo Download for October 19, 2017 – North America
October 19, 2017 Greg Dabkey Leave a comment
I love hearing people say that the Switch has no games. For several consecutive weeks, the games added each week has been the vast majority of the week’s Nintendo Downloads. This week is no different with numerous titles releasing today and over the next six days. Let’s see what is in store for us today!
This week we are honored with the release of Fire Emblem Warriors. It will be available October 20. Take characters like Marth, Robin, Xander, and Corrin into battles with swarms of enemies. Perform combos and special moves on some bosses and captains and be sure to use your weapon triangle advantage. Also, releasing this day is Syberia. If you were looking forward to something on October 24, then be sure to get Just Dance 2018, The Mummy Demastered, Knight Terrors, and This Is the Police. If you need something to play today, there is a good list of titles. Be sure to check out ACA NEOGEO ROBO ARMY, JYDGE, The Jackbox Party Pack 4, Spelunker Party!, Revenant Saga, Party Golf, Elliot Quest, Super Ping Pong Trick Shot, and The Count Lucanor.
If you are looking for titles on the Wii U or 3DS, you will be disappointed to see there is only a single title on each platform. You can also check out the retail release of Just Dance 2018 on Wii U. On 3DS there is GALAXY BLASTER CODE RED. There are no additional activities or rewards this week. For the hardcore fans of Fire Emblem Warriors, you can purchase the season pass to get future DLC packs as they come out.
As always, the full release list is below, along with the prices, just below the slideshow of screenshots. If you plan on downloading any of these games, let us know in the comments!
New on the eShop for Switch:
Fire Emblem Warriors — $59.99 *Available October 20*
Just Dance 2018 — $59.99 *Available October 24*
ACA NEOGEO ROBO ARMY — $7.99
JYDGE — $14.99
The Mummy Demastered — $19.99 *Available October 24*
The Jackbox Party Pack 4 — $24.99
Spelunker Party! — $7.99
Revenant Saga — $12.99
Party Golf — $15.00
Syberia — $29.99 *Available October 20*
Knight Terrors — $2.99 *Available October 24*
This Is the Police — $29.99 *Available October 24*
Elliot Quest — $9.99
Super Ping Pong Trick Shot — $4.99
The Count Lucanor — $13.49
New on the eShop for Wii U:
Just Dance 2018 — $59.99
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17 Years Old going on 30: Who is Jonathon Nicola?
By Tariq Sbiet
Jonathon Nicola, basketball player out of Catholic Central in Windsor, was arrested Friday, April 15 by Windsor Border Patrol and remains in custody for allegedly violating the Immigration Refugee Protection Act. He is being held under the authority of that act. The agency didn’t expand on what Nicola, who is in Canada on a student visa, is accused of doing.
There is no official word yet on how the authorities will proceed.
Nicola, who was enrolled at Catholic Central as a 17 year old Grade 11 student, is believed to be a 30-year old man, according to the Windsor Star.
The six-foot-nine, 202 pound Nicola came to Windsor from South Sudan, escaping a war-torn country for a better life in Canada.
Through the program Canada Homestay, Nicola was living with Catholic Central’s basketball coach Pete Cusumano since November 22nd 2015, when he told the Windsor Star he had moved to Canada just three days before his 17th birthday.
Cusamano is a well known name in Canadian basketball circles, and has built a strong reputation over 36 years within the coaching game. Through my experience in Canadian basketball, I’ve seen first hand Cusamano’s commitment to the game and helping youth stay off the streets, by volunteering his time all year long.
With respect to Nicola’s situation and in speaking with Cusamano in the fall [after evaluating Nicola during a high school game] the Windsor coach explained that he was on a student Visa in Canada and met all the school’s Protocals in terms of I.D. The standard procedure includes providing Birth Certificate, passport and student VISA.
Nicola was scheduled to represent Ontario at Nationals for the provincial program.
In addition, we at North Pole Hoops, had Nicola Nationally-ranked as a Top-20 prospect in class of 2018.
Based on the look test, we questioned his age, however the documentation checked out.
What will happen to Nicola moving forward is yet to be determined.
In the fall, Cusamano described Nicola as very polite, respectful and appreciative– that the big fella took on tasks like laundry, cleaning around the house, and emptying the dishwasher.
Over the last 24 hours, all sorts of rumours have been swirling around the internet and social media.
Until this situation is clarified by the authorities, they will remain as rumours.
Stay tuned on NPH as this story develops.
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Deals: PNP forges a new partnership with Magnolia
In addition, Toronto's LevelFilm has boarded the Norway/Canada coproduction The Northwoods and Northern Banner has nabbed Canadian rights to Mouly Surya's latest.
Pacific Northwest Pictures
Vancouver’s Pacific Northwest Pictures (PNP) has forged a new partnership with Magnolia Pictures International, acquiring two feature titles from the New York-based distribution outfit. PNP picked up Canadian rights to English-language doc The Gospel According to André (pictured) ahead of its world premiere in the TIFF ’17 Docs program. Starring, André Leon Talley, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Ford, the Kate Novack-directed project chronicles the career and life of Leon Talley, former Vogue magazine editor-at-large and one of the fashion industry’s most influential icons. The film is produced by Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi and Josh Braun. Executive producers are Lindsey Acree, Daniel Pine and Ken Novack. PNP also acquired Japanese-language feature Blade of the Immortal, which premiered earlier this year at Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Takashi Miike, the Tetsuya Oishi-penned project tells the story of an immortal warrior, who is enlisted by a young girl to avenge her parent’s murder. Both deals, which are the first between PNP and Magnolia, were negotiated by PNP’s Emily Alden and Magnolia’s head of worldwide sales Scott Veltri.
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LevelFilm has acquired all Canadian rights to the Canada/Norway coproduction The Northwoods. The copro agreement was made at the Nordic Co-Production and Finance Market at the Norwegian International Film between Bergen-based prodco MadMonkey and Canadian producers Jeff Pangman, Daniel Quinn, Evan Landry and LevelFilm managing partner David Hudakoc. The drama is the feature debut of Toronto filmmaker Emma Higgins. Penned by Higgins, Quinn and Martin McPhail, the film is about two sisters who return to their childhood home after the unexpected death of their father. The team behind the film are currently location scouting in western Norway ahead of a proposed shoot in early 2018. Producers on the project Einar Loftesnes and Kjersti Rasmussen for MadMonkey, as well as Pangman, Quinn, Landry and Hudakoc. Executive producers on the project are Paul Barkin (The Colony) and Kjersti Steinsbø.
Northern Banner
Raven Banner’s specialty distribution arm Northern Banner has acquired the Canadian rights to Mouly Surya’s Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts. The feature film world premiered earlier this year in Cannes Director’s Fortnight program and is now set for its North American premiere in TIFF’s Contemporary World Cinema program on Sept. 12. The Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand coproduction is produced by Rama Adi and Fauzan Zidni and exec produced by Adi, Willawati, Najwa Abu Bakar and Peter Bithos. Surya’s previous films include Fiksi and What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love. Northern Banner managing partner Michael Paszt negotiated the deal with Anne-Sophie Lehec of Hong Kong-based sales agent Asian Shadows.
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Collected wisdoms on why Marin housing is so expensive:
August 26, 2001 admin Leave a comment
…… because the opposition to any more housing is so well entrenched politically – as aides, on committees, trained through self-proclaimed environmental groups….
……. because there is little concern for costs that the well executed political actions of housing opponents force upon developers and thence onto those hoping to buy…..
For example, from the Marin IJ of June 11, 2001:
… After Kress’ (Marin Supervisor) departure, the group began talking strategy for the fight ahead.
Sitting in the chair occupied by his boss just a few minutes earlier, Kress’ assistant, Rick Fraites, offered advice to the group. He served on the steering committee for the Citizens to Save Bahia, the group that last month successfully blocked expansion of the Bahia subdivision project in Novato.
“Anything you can conjure up to get the developer to look at and spend money, throw it out there,” Fraites said. “That’s my advice, having just gone through this with Bahia.”
“That’s one of the reasons housing is so expensive in Marin County,” Schwartz said about Fraites’ comment. “If frivolous studies are asked for by the community and included in the environmental impact report, the cost of those studies get reflected in the cost of each home.”
Of Fraites’ comment, Leland added, “That’s probably good advice if your objective is to stop it. The classic paradigm in Marin County is an antagonistic one and we are going to do our best to make it a collaborative one, to work with the residents there.”
Source Marin IJ of June 11, 2001. For the whole story on a Santa Venetia development fight against 28 houses on 30 acres, click Development fight in Santa Venetia.
From Marin IJ Page C1 of August 26, 2001, “Center could hold key to ferry parking woes.” In this section a paragraph reads:
Earlier this month, GGBD (Golden Gate Bridge District) officials said they had to delay plans to restripe and reconfigure the existing 1,370-space parking lot because the sole bid for the job was almost double the amount budgeted. Ghilotti Brothers Inc. of San Rafael bid $1 million for the work, which officials had estimated would cost $520,000.
Beneath the more obvious points of this Larkspur Ferry area story that parking is dreadful because we failed to deliver a train and nearby workforce housing is this important point. Contractors such as Ghilotti do not strenuously compete for Marin jobs because they have closed shop here. Ghilotti has to bid high on these jobs since he must pay his employees either enough to buy homes in Marin or to commute long distances from where Marin provides its workforce housing – i.e. from Sonoma and the East Bay. We are losing moderately priced workers since we force them to live elsewhere. f
More collected wisdoms to be added….
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St Vincent’s is a rare opportunity
Marin Independent Journal
Marin Voice June 20, 2001
CONGRATJLATIONS to the Independent Journal for the wonderful series on the housing crisis in Marin. Residents here need all the information you provided to understand that the lack of housing for our workforce is the principle reason for the present traffic mess and will be the cause of a huge loss of quality of life and diminishing property values in the near future.
Some of the subsequent letters to the editor from the usual “not-in-my-backyard” contingent provided an interesting contrast to your well-researched and factual reporting.
First came Don Dickenson, decrying that the proposed development of the St.Vincent’s/Silviera property will include only 20 percent affordable work- force housing.
In fact, the plan about to be presented by Shapell Industries, the development company selected by St.Vincent’s/CYO, will propose about 30 percent workforce housing with the possibility that this percentage could rise through attractive, well-planned, high-density housing developed in a partnership with a nonprofit organization.
Mr. Dickenson also complains about the inclusion of commercial and office space to be included in the community. Without these inclusions, residents would have to leave the property to shop, work etc., negating the very idea of a pedestrian friendly, self-contained village.
The inclusion of a minimum amount of commercial space offers some on- site jobs, in addition to the school, and helps finance the restoration of the historic buildings and preservation of open areas. The pedestrian-oriented neighborhood being planned will include van service and easy biking to the jobs in the immediate area, including the Civic Center, Kaiser hospital, Terra Linda High and adjacent office and retail.
Finally, Mr. Dickenson, who attended many of the St.Vincent’s/Silveira Task Force sessions, falsely states that the task force planned “filling East Marin baylands with traffic-generating urban development.”
He knows that less than 15 percent of the land will be developed and that the task force meticulously avoided all wetlands and environmentally sensitive areas, and also carefully planned for the maintenance of the environmental and historical assets of the property.
About a week later came a letter from Gil Deane of San Anselmo, alluding to the San Rafael City Council voting to “ruin this fabulous agricultural land He ends by saying: “There are some ways that the shortage of housing can be alleviated.” But typically, he gives no suggestions as to how and where.
The shortage of affordable workforce housing is enormous. Marin’s state quota for the coming five years is 3,585 units. Every well-conceived and well-designed project needs to be fast- tracked through the system. It is important for Mr. Deane and others to remember that these properties were zoned for development since the 1973 county plan set aside West Marin for protection and planned the majority of housing and jobs along 101. A legal attack on the agricultural zoning in the Central Mann corridor was turned back only because of this trade-off.
St. Vincent’s is near 10,000 jobs. Agriculture ha been problematic on a site this size and close to development. Highway 101, the cost of water, very high taxes and other realities have made it anything but “fabulous agricultural land.”
The only way to ensure that your favorite teacher, nurse, doctor, chef, policeman, gardener, salesperson, firefighter, paramedic, etc. continue to be close enough to help you in your coming time of need is to allow them some quality of life too, which allows them to live where they work and not have to commute long periods of time. The good ones don’t have to — they can get a job anywhere and enjoy a nice community life where they live and work.
When they are gone, our vaunted quality of life will be seriously diminished, as will our property values. If you think this is an exaggeration, consider this: 50 percent of the teachers in Marin schools will retire in the next five years. Their replacements, whose salaries will be in the $30,000 to $40,000 range, will be faced with median home prices of $700,000 or $2,000 or more per month rents.
All that we are talking about is allowing people who work here during the day be able to continue being apart of the community overnight.
Joe Walsh of Lagunitas is a former co-publisher of the Classified Gazette and was a member of the St. Vincent’s /Silveira Task Force.
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‘Smart’ planning needed in Marin
Marin Voice, Marin Independent Journal
Published May 15, 2001 (unedited version)
Recently strategy/economic consultant Stephen Roulac spoke on Marin’s Economic Future to a Marin Community Development hosted public gathering. He concluded that Marin’s # 1 priority must be bringing back rail. Then the IJ editorialized about the need not to forget the train as a means to address Marin’s land use instigated traffic mess. Then the Chronicle published a Texas Transportation Institute study listing San Francisco-Qakland commute as the 2nd worst in the nation and stated, “cities will have to judiciously invest in new roads, public transit, affordable housing along transit corridors…”
Several years ago local government commissioned a Calthorpe Associates Study that concluded Marin and Sonoma needed and can justify a train. Fifteen years ago Peter Calthorpe and I did local radio shows trying to educate people on the benefits of building European style communities along the large parcels adjacent to the existing rail line. These villages would more effectively address affordable housing, traffic, resource conservation, and open space then would downzoning developments into auto-dependent suburban sprawl communities. Peter gave up on Marin. He moved his home and office to Berkeley where he designs projects through out the nation for developers and cities concerned about using the earth’s limited resources efficiently.
For decades, environmentalists world-wide have pushed for increased train and mass transit use to address air quality, resource conservation, and cargo and travel costs.
Back in Marin a handful of people continue controlling groups with environmental nametags who oppose the train, fight housing projects for decades and downzone them into mega-costly suburban sprawl, building resource devouring, auto-dependent exclusive enclaves.
Where did Marin lose its definition of enviromentalism? It lost it when working people allowed the county’s policy decisions to be dominated by a handful of people with myopic environmental views. Consequently, too often Marin has a NIMBYized (Not In My Backyard) definition for environmentalism. Marin lost a true environmental perspective when elected officials a decade ago would say to me, “Oh, but I can’t support pedestrian pockets along the rail line, my constituents won’t vote for it.”
Responding, “Well, gee, isn’t one of your responsibilities as a public official to educate the community on what might be in their long term best interests,” didn’t help. Well, today we suffer the consequences of that short sightedness in California’s oldest median aged county with gridlock, high labor costs, outrageously priced housing and crowded rentals for our hard working, imported workers.
What’s part of the answer? Involvement by people yearning for more housing who, unfortunately, are stuck wasting hours in gridlock while working a couple jobs and trying to raise a family. Also needed is leadership, guts, and common sense foresight from elected officials as well as planners and media makers on land use issues.
How government officials force developers to use the land determines how the people who eventually live on it must get around. St Vincent’s Silveira is Marin’s largest remaining developable piece of land, and it has a rail line running through it that can connect to Sonoma, Sacramento and Tahoe. Environmentally conscious, far sighted, regionally concerned leadership would make sure that land was used to design a large, oriented to the train, mixed-use development.
What do policy makers continue to hear from the leadership of many of Marin’s s self described environmental groups on St. Vincent’s Silveira? 1) No development. 2) No train stop. In fact, some of Marin’s misnamed environmentalists got the Marin Supervisors to put a Memorandum of Understanding into the two year St. Vincent Silveira Task Force Study to expressly remove the historical train stop from the site’s existing tracks.
Of course, governmental leaders can take these Task Force suggestions and make them better. For the long-term benefit of the region – and by reverberation – the world, Marin should change the Task Force’s narrow parameters and help developers do smart land uses on the few big sites remaining. Smart land uses helps true environmentalists get away from auto-dependently polluting our sky’s lovely birds and the people who share the same air.
Dwayne Hunn provides solar photovoltaic net-metering systems for homeowners and businesses and rides his bike to the rail road tracks to throw stones at the weeds covering the ties over which trains used to glide.
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Marin power/a closer look
October 13, 1993 admin Leave a comment
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Meandering , Dwayne Hunn
Marin’s Economic Conference talked about what affordable housing producers have bemoaned for over a decade. In countless council and planning commission presentations, housing advocates campaigned to bring jobs and affordable housing closer together to benefit economics as well as families.
Housing professionals from North Bay Ecumenical Housing, where I once worked, and the Ecumenical Association for Housing attracted little support relative to the need. Warnings that forcing latch key families into longer distance commutes would come back to harm the region were ignored. Why ignored? Because Marin’s power brokers:
1) Believe Marin is too rich and beautiful to suffer even from a national tidal wave of sick economics;
2) Have successfully convinced Marin that they are the White Knights protecting Marin from the omnipresent Darth Vader developers and businesses.
You know those Devious Vader characters — like one developer, who through an equity sharing trust fund wanted to make over half the 2500 units at his proposed Hamilton development affordable for ownership to people earning under $40,000; like the Buck Center on Aging which wants to build a research center dealing with aging ills; or just profit hungry developers who wanted to build 40 relatively affordable units on 20 acres of land but are told by Marin city councils that only six mega-expensive estates will be allowed.
Marin’s power brokers have done a superb job. It helps that the handful of them attach environmental sounding titles to their names. Titles that through much of the nation have done good things for the environment. Consequently, the good vibes created by those environmentalists working outside of Marin benefits Marin’s NIMBYIZED environmentalists.
Marin voters who are unable or unwilling to learn of true local needs believe that whatever Marin’s environmental power brokers have to say is good and right. Those who have tried to aid Marin’s housing and business needs have been ignored for years in front of permit approving agencies. To them Sacramento’s Marin moniker rings true, “the Capitol of NIMBYISM.”
Too many business and developers don’t realize where power lies. Today’s frontiers of growth do not hinge on conquering a physical frontier, resources, courage, skill on technology. Today’s frontiers are perceptual.
When I comment to the guy in the YMCA’s steam room about the IJ’s “Economic forum” headline that, “I don’t have to go to know what was discussed at the forum — expensive housing, long commutes — and the environmental community ignores their pleas.”
“Lucky for us, or we’d be like Oakland…” he responds.
There it is. Perception. A stellar PR selling job. Is he uninformed, unwilling to learn or baked as a rock hard NIMBY? How can you be like Oakland when 88% of the land is in open space agricultural reserve or parks? When only 3% of the land, mostly in the County’s developmental corridor along the railroad track east of the 101, remains for development? How can you become like Oakland?
Today perception scores victories. It’s not how well you can hit a line drive or build a business or create a user friendly, ecologically sound, affordable mixed used development. The skill and building is the easy part. Getting the chance to play the right bail game is the tough part.
A suggestion to businesses and developers. Realize the game is, unfortunately, early and long term politics and marketing. Give a quality product that addresses real environmental, family and economic needs. Join forces regionally to supply those answers.
For example, let me resurrect a regional answer I worked on years ago to little avail.. I tried to convince ten large land-holders along the Marin-Sonoma rail line to jointly draw up plans for what they would like to do with their land. Their planning limits would be to address regional needs with their combined regional developments.
Sonoma wants a train and less freeway. Sonoma wants Marin to provide more of it’s own affordable housing needs. Sonoma and Marin want to reduce 101’s traffic. Marin businesses need large office buildings which their office workers can easily reach. Some communities are hurting for sales tax revenues and a regional tax sharing plan would alleviate the trend toward over commercialization. So work together and draw up a master plan to address those regional needs. Don’t waste time, money and energy skirmishing with the power brokers one-on-one, community by community– without a unified grand vision. Landowners hold the most basic answer to many human and environmental needs–the dirt.
Don’t wait for the government to stumble through decades of devising a regional plan– do it better by yourself. With a plan that offers a host of beneficial answers, you can start winning the perception battle. The perception battle determines the economic and environmental winners.
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Everyone wants transit?
Mill Valley Herald, June 29–July 5, 1992
In April John Eells, Transportation Planner for Marin from 1985-1992, spoke at a Mill Valley Library public meeting on the difficulties of bringing a rail transit system to the North Bay. If you are a true environmentalist, tired of congested 101 or think a party train back and forth to Yosemite would be more fun than lashing chains to tires, his remarks may be informative.
“For years there was little or no involvement by Marin environmentalists in the 101 Corridor planning effort,”Eells said. After the plan for Transit Tax was completed, they came out against the Transit Tax….Marin is the only California county with a sales tax for trains that has ever lost!
“The Marin Conservation League may be the only environmental organization in the world against transit because they believe it is growth-induced…
“Sonoma’s elected officials only wanted to widen the freeway even though their public opinion surveys showed the public was 4 to 1 in favor of trains. The elected officials kept saying the public was wrong. The result was a compromise. Light rail in Marin and cheaper commuter diesel rail in Sonoma. Unfortunately one week after the light/rail commuter rail compromise was adopted by the 101 Corridor Action Committee, the elected officials in Sonoma abandoned the train all together…
“What happened in Marin?” an audience member fresh to Marin politics asked.
“The Marin Light Rail got tagged by the Marin environmentalists as the ‘Little train to nowhere.’ Yet the majority of the cars on the freeway between Novato and San Rafael are going to San Rafael. The environmentalists were very successful in creating a tremendous fear that the train would turn Marin into Hong Kong or Tokyo. The train would overwhelm all, negate all local land use plans, and destroy all common sense.
“What this tells us is that reality can be irrelevant. Perception is what counts. If by being hysterical, you can dominate the campaign by fear— you can win.”
“What kind of grassroots work was done for the train?”
“Not enough. The business community and transit advocates were outgunned. The environmentalists, or Nimbys, depending on your perspective, know how to run a campaign. The anti-train slogans stuck. Surveys showed that voters clearly remembered their slogans.
“What many define as environmental — like slowing global warming or preventing the ozone hole from spreading — is of little concern to Marin’s environmental movement. Marin’s environmentalists are focused primarily on stopping local growth.”
“Could workshops to educate the community on the need for transit work?”
“I am not optimistic about this, because the Marin Sierra Club, Audubon Society and Conservation League can deliver the votes against transit solutions, painting them as growth inducing.”
“So how do we get environmentally beneficial rail in the North Bay?”
“Unfortunately, Marin may be a preview of California’s future. Marin’s growth hysteria will probably spread to other parts of the state. Developers and proponents of rail plans must be prepared to handle growth, so it is not detrimental to those who are already here. The battle has become a conflict between the haves and the have-nots. Growth per se is not causing the deterioration in the quality of life as much as the inability of the infrastructure to keep up…
“The 50’s and 60 s were the heyday of infrastructure development. We built the world’s finest highway system. Now it is crumbling all at the same time. A full 95% of the gas taxes Californians are paying is being used for highway maintenance, and the system is still falling apart… Our highway system is broke. It would take 1,000 years of today’s revenues to build what we have today.
“Some talk about using Federal money to extend BART to the North Bay. Unfortunately, the entire federal rail budget would not be enough to get BART from San Francisco to Sausalito.”
“What has the Marin experience taught you?”
“Local politics is more difficult than I expected. To reach a political consensus is tremendously difficult. In school you can develop ‘overlays to locate constraints and analyze the overlays to determine where you can build. But in real life there are tremendous controversies and nebulous solutions.
“I’ve been in the public sector for 15 years, and its ability to deliver has declined dramatically. I want to make something beneficial happen in my lifetime.. If that means working with private visionaries, that’s what I’ll do.”
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Visionary Leaders needed
Marin Independent Journal Tuesday, May 19, 1987
Forty years ago, the United States was so productive that America felt compelled to rebuild most of Europe and Asia so that nations there could recover from war and be profitable enough to buy our goods. Today, our trade deficit, rather than our productivity, sets world records. Once our educational system stood out for the world to emulate. We proudly proclaimed bow ready our youth were to face the world’s challenges. Today, we look to copy not only other nations’ production techniques, but also how they teach and mold their young. The proud inflection of the “Can-do nations!” now leaves many with the hollow sound of the “Can-do-nation?”
For many of us living and working at the local level, these national and international issues seem too large to handle. Many who read and think about these issues may be upset that America has been slipping, but if we don’t feel our local efforts have an impact on national and international issues, we only cringe and go on with life.
We seem to have forgotten the roots of America’s democratic and economic structure. We have forgotten that local politics is the source of America’s strength and long-term resiliency.
Just consider the long-term effect of an actual Marin local government decision, as it is played out numerous times throughout one of the richest counties of America.
A Novato developer wants to build a significant number of affordable housing units so that a better jobs/housing balance can help reduce freeway gridlock. The developer is blocked because the neighbors oppose the density, or question the fumes from parking cars in the neighborhood, or distrust the “low income” people who will reside there. The neighbors win. Does their victory serve Marin and Sonoma? Does it bring America closer to energy self-sufficiency? Does it allow commuters to use their wasted commute time for skill-building, educational enrichment, or more quality time with their families?
Each time one of those projects fails or is delayed interminably, all of £he following happen:
The extended commute to Sonoma, Napa, etc., increases the pollutants in the air our children must breathe.
America’s reliance on expensive imported fuels increases as does the national debt we pass on to the young.
The percentage of household income that goes to housing and transit climbs while the money and time available for skill, education and family time declines proportionally.
Marin has one of the higher percentages of single-parent households in the nation. Thirteen percent of Novato’s households are run by single parents whose median income is $15,676. These households desperately need affordable housing in Marin. Are local officials aware of how their decisions on issues like parks, child care centers and affordable housing have an impact on these important parents and children? Are they aware of how their decisions form the foundation of a strong America, whose core is a secure family, or a shaky America, whose footing teeters over a troubled family?
In an increasingly competitive world, enlightened leadership requires much more than concern about one’s neighborhood or high-sounding speeches about what ‘America’s’ world role should be. Visionary local officials must make decisions that reflect concern about the long-term strength of this nation. Patriotic local leaders must weigh each of their decisions in terms of how they help prepare those of lower and middle incomes in Marin to compete among the 5 billion who now inhabit the increasingly interdependent nations of Planet Earth.
It is more difficult for local leaders to avoid the immediate consequences of their decision than it is for those cushioned by the miles to Washington, D.C. Therefore, it is often easier for local leaders to follow the desires of vocal advocates of self interest. Too many local leaders fail to recognize that a constituency larger than neighborhood groups ends their leadership, namely —the children of tomorrow, single parents, the American family structure, and all of us negatively affected by our nation’s declining competitive capacity and increasing trade deficit.
Leadership isn’t easy. It is difficult to lead because in order to lead without too much pain the education of those led’ must move in step. Christ exemplified the pain of leadership out of sync with- the masses. Churchill learned how tortuous trying to educate others to lead can be, as he tried to mobilize his lethargic peers to action.
Far-sighted leadership for the common good is difficult. For America to grow strong, however, more courage an& vision and less parochial and petty rationalization must go into local decision making.
Dwayne Hunn, a former Peace Corps volunteer, has a Ph.D. in Public Finance & Administration and has taught at the college level in Southern California.
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Opinion & Analysis Apr 12, 2013 at 1:21 pm
By Voltaire de Leon
A Canadian senator Patrick Brazeau had four years to either prove he is fit to be senator or that he is a lout. In the Toronto Star this morning, we were treated with the spectacle of this senator flaming out, sitting in prison for alleged domestic disturbance. He also made the papers for the insults he levied at Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence who went on a hunger strike in protest of Ottawa’s indifference to native issues. NDP MP Charles Angus said Brazeau may have improperly billed us for living allowances.
I have read the exchanges between the supporters of Enverga and his critics from Balita. My good friend and fellow Rizalist Livvy Camacho sent me a petition but I decided instead to write my opinion.
At the same time, I consider Tess Cusipag as a good friend and I have very good memories of fighting the Marcos regime alongside Ruben when no other journalist in Canada would take up the cudgels against it. Now Balita’s reputation for fairness and principled criticism is now being tested by several community leaders who are crying foul over the paper’s treatment of Enverga. The debate concentrates on Enverga being appointed senator and whether or not he and Mrs. Enverga misappropriated funds as suggested by writers in Balita. The latter part is realy for anyone wants to take that issue to court.
Here is my take on the Enverga controversy. The heated exchange between the two sides is missing the crucial question: why did Prime Minister Stephen Harper make Jun Enverga our senator?
One amongst us has been chosen to one of the highest offices of the land. That is an incredible honour, one that we should feel proud of. A dozen people in our community may perhaps better fit the bill. But, that’s just me. Enverga may well prove to be a good choice so allow him the benefit of the doubt and allow his actions to speak of his character.
I do not know him that well and apart from the possibility that the accusations against him may be true, he seemed to me outgoing and affable. He now represents us whether we like it or not. Only the Prime Minister had the power to appoint him. It is a done deal. Mr. and Mrs. Enverga and their friends may have lobbied but all that is fair in love and politics. But only Harper made the appointment. Enverga did not appoint himself.
Now, do we really expect Mr. Enverga to turn down a prestigious seat in the government of Canada and a yearly $130,000 for life and tell the prime minister that he is mistaken; and, that there are others in the community who should be made senator? Would you?
I repeat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made Mr. Enverga senator. But why? What due diligence did he exercise in choosing Enverga to be senator to represent the interests of Canadians and the Filipino community? What categorical imperative motivated him? Why did the Conservatives believe Enverga deserved to be our senator?
Those are questions that Harper must answer. Not Enverga. Yet, none of the protesters to his appointment aimed their criticism at Prime Minister Stephen Harper or identified who in his circle promoted Mr. Enverga and why.
The issue has been debated again and again as to whether or not people should run for the office of senator. Yet it still remains an appointive one. A more inclusive and less expensive alternative to elections would be to have a multiparty council – not the PM — appoint our senators.
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As Plan B becomes Prism Dance Club, new management looks beyond a simple re-branding of the east side night spot and toward a more inclusive and diverse mission statement.
OurLives Magazine 2019-02-13T14:46:10+00:00 Story by Emily Mills
Print issue March 2019
Plan B is dead. Long live Prism Dance Club.
Original club co-founder and former co-owner Rico Sabatini announced in mid-January that he would once again take over operations at popular-but-troubled Madison nightclub Plan B. It wasn’t long before Sabatini added to the change by bringing on former Inferno Nightclub owner Apollo Marquez as a co-owner and longtime promoter/performer Lili Luxe as program director.
The new line-up helps launch a major shift that includes not just a new name—Prism Dance Club—but also a rededication to making it a fully inclusive venue for the LGBTQ+ and allied communities in Madison.
When Sabatini initially posted about his decision to buy out the former owners, including his former partner and co-founder Corey Gresen, he cited feeling “heartbroken” over what he’d seen happen to the space they’d started together in 2009.
“What was once a safe haven for the queer community had turned into the opposite of its sole purpose,” wrote Sabatini. “I look forward to the opportunity in making [the club] a staple the community is again proud to call home.”
Tensions and accusations of misconduct by former co-owners and staff at the club boiled over late in 2018, which led to the push to sell it (read our full coverage online or in our January issue).
At a sit-down chat in early February, the new crew laid out their hopes and plans for the future of Prism. Immediate changes included lowering prices “to be in line with other Madison venues” and not charging a cover for 21+ patrons on Thursday or Friday nights, as well as some initial staffing changes.
A fundraiser in mid-February raised some money to help with needed building maintenance, including a major update to bathroom facilities (which will become gender neutral) and a private dressing room for performers. Marquez says the structure is in good condition, and that the need is mostly for upgrading audio equipment, painting, and other minor renovations.
All should be ready to go for the official re-launch of Prism on March 1, after a brief, two-week closure.
Training and accountability
Marquez is well-known in Madison for having run the beloved Inferno from 1996 to 2015. The club was regarded as a haven for darker, alternative nightlife, including having been the home of the Leather & Lace fetish night that has since moved to Plan B/Prism. The event will continue to be held there on the first Saturday of every month.
“I am beyond thrilled to have Apollo join me in this venture,” Sabatini says. “He is a veteran in [the] club scene and his expertise is invaluable.”
Marquez, who became a real estate agent after selling the Inferno, says he’s been interested in getting involved at the club for years. He says his inquiries were rebuffed by Gresen back when he briefly had sole ownership. He’s excited now to help see the business thrive, noting that there’s still a lot of potential in the space itself and the community it should be serving.
“We don’t want to turn off any specific crowd, and at same time it should feel welcoming to anyone,” Marquez notes. He’s already taking the same approach to providing training and accountability to security and staff at the club as he’s always done.
“At Inferno I never had a great big guy guarding the door,” he explains. “I’ve never hired a bouncer that was like, ‘I’d totally kick out anybody for you.’ I don’t want you working for me at all. A lot of that’s just training. You’re not just training your staff, you’re training your people…you have expectations for your patrons, too. They have to know how to function in this place.”
In addition to city-offered training, Sabatini plans to have Prism staff undergo specific and intentional training on mindful conflict resolution. “It’s about conversation and not confrontation,” Lili adds.
All three also promised to be proactive as management as well. They ask that anyone experiencing any issues while at the club report it to staff immediately and assure that a more proactive and constructive follow-up procedure will be expected.
“With the training you also have management who is responsive, who is accountable, who has empathy and actually has standards and resolve,” Luxe says of the new team. “Ultimately, we can’t promise perfection, we can’t control every patron who walks in the door, but we can control how we handle the situations that arise.”
Safer, and more entertaining, spaces
Through her work with Leather & Lace, as well as an events promoter for places like Tavernakaya, Luxe has always focused everything she does on creating and supporting safer, queer-inclusive spaces. She’s also keen to refocus Prism on being a dancing-focused club, with entertainment to support it.
“If you were to go into a big city and go into a big club, you’re expecting an entertainment factor, and I think that’s what we really can showcase and become,” she says. Adding more spectacular, party-focused visual elements will be key, along with diversifying the line-up of DJs and performers. Luxe says she hoped to work with the Madison Circus Space to help showcase some of their performers, as well as keeping the queens, and finding other individuals and groups to involve.
“I have trans and gender non-conforming people that I plan on booking, and we’re gonna have a lot more diversity overall. We want, when you come in here, for you to see something that feels like you, that looks like you, that is you, that you can embrace and feel part of and not feel excluded from.”
“I want you to be able to come in here, show affection, make out with whoever you wanna make out with, and feel comfortable,” Sabatini adds.
In terms of the biggest challenge facing the new club, Sabatini admits that it will be earning the community’s trust. All three are determined to put their money where their mouths are to make that happen, and say they’ve already begun working with several community members and groups to make the space more reflective of that spectrum.
“I look forward to helping with political fundraisers, non-profits, like we used to do in the beginning,” Sabatini says. “This should be everyone’s space. I’m hoping to get back to that.”
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JR says:
Very Proud of you Rico and share the excitement in your vison. I Hope there will always be a quiet Happy Hour Space somewhere in your plan, where friends and strangers may meet for meaningful conversation, a drink or two, and feel support without having to shout over the PA and loud music.
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A Tool to Help Home Microgrids Stay Off Grid as Long as Possible
Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) have developed an optimization tool for microgrids that allows homes to stay off grid as long as possible, generally using solar, storage and smart meters.
The researchers recently received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office, based on a grant from the US Department of Energy.
The tool aims to optimize the use of solar, storage, electric vehicles and other loads and resources to ensure a building remains off grid as long as possible, as inexpensively as possible, said Brian Kelley, associate professor in UTSA’s electrical and computer engineering department.
Called Power Quality of Service Optimization for Microgrids, the tool decides when to use solar or other renewable energy systems, when to store it, and when to rely on power from the grid.
“There are statistics and predictions you can use for when clouds will be overhead or when cloudy days will occur. These variables can be fed into the optimization,” he explained. “If you see a cloudy day tomorrow, you could increase the amount of storage today.”
Increasing use of pure renewables
The variables that determine how long a homeowner or business can be off grid depend on the size of the renewable energy system, likely solar.
“By increasing the rated capacity of the renewable source and energy storage, you can get increasingly high utilization of pure renewables,” he said. “This invention allows you to do that as inexpensively as possible.”
The system also can control various loads, including household appliances, electric vehicle charging and lights, scheduling the best time to serve those loads.
That’s one of the features that makes the system unique, said Kelley. When certain loads are not needed, the system can stop delivering power to them if the power is needed elsewhere.
“There are schedulers and smart meters and mission control systems that make this unique,” he said.
Electric vehicles could be added to the system and charged when prices are lowest. And batteries from the vehicles could be used as added storage for the household — when the vehicle is not being driven. What’s more, solar could power electric vehicles. Kelley and his associates are looking into getting a National Science Foundation grant to study these possibilities in more depth.
The product is not meant to be used for net metering. The goal is to have as little impact as possible on the grid, said Kelley.
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“The invention was designed with the notion of trying not to disturb the utility grid, with low as frequency as possible,” he said.
The least expensive way to build a microgrid that takes advantage of the system is to use flow batteries, said Kelley. While the system the researchers patented doesn’t include any specific renewable energy or storage systems, one of Kelley’s students has studied the advantages of flow batteries.
“The great thing about this battery is that it offers almost unlimited capacity by using large storage tanks.” The tank could be located underground, he noted.
Increasing the size of the tank provides for more storage. With lithium ion batteries, increasing capacity means adding more batteries, which is generally more expensive.
Networking off grid microgrids
The researchers’ system was designed to be used with a microgrid for one or a few buildings. But in the future, it’s possible the microgrids could be networked together, which would provide advantages.
“This invention assumed a single microgrid island,” Kelley says. “We started looking at multiple microgrid islands. It depends on how far apart they are. If you have solar or wind resources sufficiently far apart, the random power fluctuations of the solar and wind start to be independent of each other.” That means that networking the microgrids would improve their overall performance, he explains. When one microgrid lacked solar, another microgrid might have plenty of renewable energy available to share.
Microgrids that allow homes to operate separately from the grid much of the time would provide needed resiliency, according to a press release from UTSA.
On June 6, more than 3,400 lightning strikes and high winds knocked out power to about 57,000 residents in San Antonio, the release said.
“The whole idea is to design a system around using principally renewables and storage to avoid having to use the utility grid,” said Kelley.
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Leading diabetes researcher corrects paper as more than a dozen studies are questioned on PubPeer
Kathrin Maedler
Prominent German diabetes researcher Kathrin Maedler has issued corrections on two papers, and told Retraction Watch she is in the process of defending the data on others.
14 of her papers have been critiqued by PubPeer commenters. The commentary, which spans from her graduate work in 2002 to a 2014 publication in Nature Medicine, includes questions about image manipulation and self-plagiarism.
Laborjournal’s blog (we have a column in their English-language publication) first flagged these suspicions in July 2014, after being approached by pseudonymous Clare Francis.
Here’s a comparison between figures in Maedler’s 2009 PLoS One paper, “Deletion of the Mitochondrial Flavoprotein Apoptosis Inducing Factor (AIF) Induces β-Cell Apoptosis and Impairs β-Cell Mass,” and one she co-authored in 2006 in Diabetes, “Low concentration of interleukin-1beta induces FLICE-inhibitory protein-mediated beta-cell proliferation in human pancreatic islets,” via PubPeer:
Other groups have failed to replicate Maedler’s findings, despite clinical trials based on them, as discussed in this 2005 article in Diabetes:
Most of the data supporting this novel hypothesis have been generated by one research group [Maedler’s], and based on these findings, a clinical trial has been initiated using interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) to prevent B-cell death in type 2 diabetic patients. Of concern is, however, that other groups have failed to reproduce in rodent models the key findings of this unifying hypothesis for B-cell death in diabetes.
We asked Maedler about these issues. She told us about this correction published in November in Diabetes, for “Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Regulates β-Cell Survival and Function in Human Pancreatic Islets,” which reads:
The authors of the above-cited work have noticed that one actin panel, which was used to confirm similar protein loading across the Western blot gel, was mistakenly used in Fig. 5D. At the time of publication, many similar experiments were done, and Western blot analyses of TCF7L2 upon upregulation by TCF7L2 overexpression were performed. Corresponding actin blots were very similar and thus were mistakenly switched.
The figures below show the initial Fig. 5D, as well as the original blots of the whole experiment together with the correct actin blot, which corresponds to the respective experiment. TCF7L2 as well as Caspase-3 blots were correct and remain unchanged.
The authors apologize for the mistake and any inconvenience it may have caused the readers.
The paper has been cited 135 times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge.
She also told us that a correction to this PLoS ONE paper will be out in the next week or so. That paper has been cited 13 times.
As for the other papers, she said that her lab could prove that the data was correct, but due to her lab moving twice since 2008, it will take some time.
Posted on January 12, 2015 January 12, 2015 Author Cat FergusonCategories cell biology, corrections, diabetes, diabetes, germany retractions, image manipulation, investigator error, plos, plos one
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2000-2002: Ph.D. thesis at the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Thesis: “Lipo-and Glucotoxicity on human pancreatic islets”
PhD is two years. How common is that in Europe?
Excimer says:
Probably closer to three years, which is average for Switzerland.
Westworldviewer says:
Three years for a PhD in “Life Science” (in the broad meaning of the term) is not average in Switzerland these days, most people now take 4 years or longer even though the PhD programs are usually set out for 3 years.
Two years seems extremely short, but perhaps her prior degrees as a pharmacist and some more postgraduate work in London were recognized and credited.
Bernd says:
According to http://www.uzh.ch/about/faculties/promotionen/2003/promo-2003-05.pdf she got her Ph.D. in May 2003.
she said that her lab could prove that the data was correct, but due to her lab moving twice since 2008, it will take some time.
Huh? That makes no sense at all.
Not impossible, but certainly unusual. Three to four years is typical.
It is three years. 2000-2002, i.e. 200-2001-2002
Kenrod says:
Theoretically it could have been 13 months, December 2000-January 2002.
True, better than Ariel!
CR says:
Meantime, a journal on diabetes finds “no problems” with duplicated images on the paper below:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/DAE3F446AF7669736A28A4DA9EAD4E
At least then we know which venues to chose.
Jennifer Lopez says:
Dear CR,
The comments on this article from the same group are also interesting:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/FC6FB9DF824662F15BF5D764904480
Specially if you consider that the funding agency (FAPESP – from the government of the state of São Paulo, thus public) provided R$ 4,358,311.37 (about USD 1,600,000)…
http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2012/08/15/a-trama-por-tr%C3%A1s-do-diabetes/
By the way, the article was published in Diabetes (IF 8.3)
Double specially considering this was the first group to formally threaten Science Fraud blog for openly discussing “curi”osities on their papers… About the $$, I must say that by that time it was worth over 2 million dollars (the Real has steeply devalued since then) and we have even much greater sums spent on other dubious projects, such as Nicolelis’ Walk Again. Grants of around 1 million dollars up to now have been common to “1A” researchers such as Curi/Saad.
PloS ONE paper: Mouse WT and Mouse Hq actin bands are almost on the same height, while the actin band of siFLIP is lower compared to siScr. Seems very unlikely that the same actin blot was used in both papers.
Have you thought about one or two dimensional transformations. For example vertically stretching?
Figure 1A has been corrected.
13th November 2015 retraction.
http://www.jbc.org/content/290/46/27532.full
Another K Maedler publiation under scrutiny at Pubpeer:
https://pubpeer.com/publications/19396427
Fernando Pessoa says:
2018 expression of concern for
Diabetes. 2006 Sep;55(9):2455-62.
Aging correlates with decreased beta-cell proliferative capacity and enhanced sensitivity to apoptosis: a potential role for Fas and pancreatic duodenal homeobox-1.
Maedler K1, Schumann DM, Schulthess F, Oberholzer J, Bosco D, Berney T, Donath MY.
Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
2018 notice.
http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2018/09/11/db18-ec2018a.long
2018 update to expression of concern for
Diabetes. 2006 Oct;55(10):2713-22.
Low concentration of interleukin-1beta induces FLICE-inhibitory protein-mediated beta-cell proliferation in human pancreatic islets.
Maedler K1, Schumann DM, Sauter N, Ellingsgaard H, Bosco D, Baertschiger R, Iwakura Y, Oberholzer J, Wollheim CB, Gauthier BR, Donath MY.
Larry L. Hillblom Islet Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2018/09/11/db18-ec2018b.long
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Cassette Review: Rotkappchen "La Maghrébine" (Ikebukuro Dada)
[€6 // Edition of 20 // http://ikebukurodada.bandcamp.com/album/la-maghr-bine]
This is one of two cassettes sent to me by Rotkappchen and when I looked it up in Bandcamp again I saw that the Ikebukuro Dada label has also released cassettes for Nundata and Raven so I kind of felt like I would be in good hands going into it.
What begins with scratchy static and the sounds of car-starting noise (Though in a vague way and not literally, as I believe I have heard that in the literal before) turns into heavy lightsabers mixed with lasers and just that one "Tom Sawyer" note from Rush. Perhaps more than anything else, these first parts of this cassette are crackling and at times it can also have that Transformers sound that I've come to know and love.
Side B tells a different story with harsh static and a lot of sharp feedback. This really has those sharp notes on display as they make up a lot of this side. It's what I like to think of on some levels as being like a dog whistle (even though those are typically not heard by human ears) because when you have that certain sharp feedback sound that could be in something more mainstream like say Nirvana's "In Utero" it's one thing but this just takes it to a different level where it's almost trying to weed out those who don't take the listening as seriously as they should.
As my introduction to Rotkappchen I must say that this is rather good. I stated earlier that this is on a label with Nundata and Raven and as such I wouldn't at all mind tracking down and listening to everything I can by this artist, much like I've been doing with Nundata and Raven. Yes, I like to think of Nundata and Raven (as well as others I won't get into naming the list for here) as sort of "career artists" as I like to follow their entire career in music and not just a single release or two. I can definitely see Rotkappchen becoming another career artist for me to follow as well.
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Life In Color Unleash Washington D.C. – Baltimore: W&W, Nervo, Borgore & Vicetone On September 20th [VIP Ticket Giveaway]
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If you can no longer make it out to this event, and have purchased a Merriweather Post Pavilion ticket or are under the age of 18, for the next six days refunds will be made available. Please contact customersupport@ticketfly.com and include the name of the event and your confirmation number in all correspondences.
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Original Article: WhiteRaverRafting has teamed up with Life In Color to giveaway two Unleash (VIP) tickets to their Unleash event in Washington, D.C. at the RFK Stadium Grounds on September 20th. Electronic music fans from the Washington D.C. and Baltimore areas will surely join forces to help great wonderful vibes for this event. LIC has tailored a world class lineup to provide various styles to festival go-ers. They’re set to host four acts including W&W, Nervo, Borgore & Vicetone.
Life In Color, labeled as “The World’s Largest Paint Party,” began in 2006 on campuses throughout Florida. Now they’ve grown to throwing events all over the world. Life In Color transports fans into the ultimate mind-blowing, head bumping, and heart pumping experience. This is an electronic event that every raver must attend at-least once. The LIC team takes their festival a step further by pairing the biggest DJ’s in the world with fantastic soaring aerial acts, stilt walkers, contortionists, and fire shows – which all leads up the famous paint blast.
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Nearly two weeks ago W&W released the 2014 Tomorrowland anthem, titled “Waves,” with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. Before that they worked with the likes of Headhunterz to create a hardstyle electro cross collaboration titled “Shocker”. Their catalogue offers a slew of big room electro originals such as “Big Foot” and “Rocket” as well as remixes for Krewella, Diplo and Gareth Emery. W&W have earned the headline slot for Life In Color Washington D.C. – Baltimore because the energy they bring to the table is one of its kind.
The beautiful Nervo girls have made waves within the electronic dance music realm for years now, so it’s no wonder why LIC picked them up for this Unleash stop. These females have worked with some of the most popular dance producers, like R3hab, Ummet Ozcan, Sultan + Ned Shephard and Nicky Romero. Their output over the last few months has been extremely rapid. They’ve dropped “R3hab & NERVO – Ready For The Weekend ft. Ayah Marar,” “NERVO – Sunshine Thru Rain Clouds ft. Duane Harden” and “R3hab & NERVO & Ummet Ozcan – Revolution (Vocal Mix)” all while curating the “Ministry Of Sound – INSPIRED – CD1/CD2” mini mixes.
Borgore just recently released his debut album #NEWGOREORDER which hosts varies styles of dubstep and trap. If you attended Life In Color Unleash: Washington D.C. – Baltimore you’ll definitely hear some of Asaf’s newest productions. Titles on his album include “Ratchet,” “Hate,” “Last Year” and “#NEWGOREORDER,” to name a few. Have you heard the album? Yes, no? We’ll here is your chance to judge it live.
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Vicetone are a young duo looking to make their mark on electronic dance music. They’ve seen a lot of success over the last year and a half with tracks like “White Lies,” “Lowdown” and “Chasing Time.” One of their most recent uploads, a 2014 remake of Tony Igy’s “Astronomia,” allows fans to see where they draw their inspirations from.
“We grew up with the original track in our high school days, and we have great memories that we associate with the melody. We wanted to give new life to the track and completely re-do the track so it can be played at festivals and in clubs, and also sound like the current generation sound. This is our tribute, together with Tony Igy, of a classic track and we’re happy that he likes our version of his track!” – Vicetone
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The Skull (1965) - Blu-ray Review
Stories about obsessive collectors have always fascinated me. From the book-hoarding stories I wrote during my undergraduate studies to the volumes of the weird and twisted objects I now own, it could be suggested that the fascination with collectors has become intrinsic ...
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Blu-ray Review
Generation Xers called it cyberpunk. During the 1990s, it was the "thing" that happened and we saw the early warning signs. William Gibson locked it down on paper. Even Billy Idol sang about it. Few science fiction films pouring out from Hollywood ever got the subgenre ...
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Death Machines (1976) - Blu-ray Review
Drive-in flicks are as badass as they are clueless. I will argue to the death that it definitely takes talent to successfully pull off the B-movie. If you listen carefully to director Paul Kyriazi, it sounds like the cast and crew he assembled for Death Machines knew enough about ...
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) - Blu-ray Review
And another caveman classic is upon us. Writer/director Val Guest’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth gets the Warner Archive Collection treatment for its blu-ray debut. Essentially, all that means is that the film gets an HD transfer because the big boys still don’t know how ...
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The Gate: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1987) - Blu-ray Review
Make no bones about it, Horror Hounds, The Gate is a MUST-HAVE release from Lionsgate’s handling of its on-going Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Written by Michael Nankin and directed by Tibor Takács, The Gate was an unexpected success for New Century Vista Film Co. ...
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Slaughterhouse (1987) - Blu-ray Review
Most people are offended by the slaughter of animals. They like their bacon, mind you, but simply cannot deal with a defenseless pig being stunned, shaved, and then sliced and diced into tasty little strips of bacon. Yummy! For a lot of people slaughterhouses represent ...
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Deadtime Stories (1986) - Blu-ray Review
“It’s too dark! It’s too daaaaaark,” screams an eight-year-old boy. Bouncing on his bed, he is need of some bedtime stories to ease on into sleep. Unfortunately, his creeper of an uncle, Peter (Scott Valentine) is the only adult in the house and his idea of bedtime stories is ...
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Joe Bullet (1973) - DVD Review
With Ken Gampu (The Gods Must Be Crazy) at the front of the action and the team in this soccer-centered exploitation classic, Joe Bullet arrives on home entertainment platforms for a whole new generation of badass cinema lovers to discover. Personally, I can think ...
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Ape 3-D Aka A*P*E (1976) - Blu-ray Review
“Let's see him dance for his organ grinder now!” Holy Hell, Horror Hounds, does this flick ever stink! And by stink, I mean exactly that. Oh, don’t misinterpret me A*P*E is hysterical (and if drunk enough, I’m sure its even more of a riot), but mostly in the manner that suggests ...
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King Solomon's Mines (1985) - Blu-ray Review
Alright, alright, alright. I get it. I TOTALLY understand why so many critics railed against this Indiana Jones wannabe action adventure flick when it was originally released. Starring Richard Chamberlain as Harrison Ford (kidding), King Solomon’s Mines is as shallow as B-movies ...
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Exit - Exit (1975 swiss, good blend of guitar drivin' psych prog and krautrock, 2008 digipak remaster)
Exit emerged in 1972 in the Swiss Frauenfeld. The band around guitarist Andy Schmid and drummer Kafi Kaufmann was live very hardworking, played the opening act for Birth Control and Jane and published in 1975 their first and only, self-titled album on their own. The group existed until 1979'
Schmid and Kaufmann were then further musically active. Schmid died in 2001 when he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage during a performance of his band in Cairo. Kaufmann published from time to time solo albums to date.
Originally produced "Exit" in an edition of 350 pieces of the band, was first published in 1993 by Black rills Records as LP again. In 2008, the album was released there as a CD, extended by a handful of bonus.
Electric guitar, organ, synthesizer, bass and drums there on "Exit" to hear. Then there is the not terribly remarkable singing, for no one wants to show responsibility in the credits. The short Beihefttext of CD reissues but you can see that it is Andy Schmid, who can here mostly sounded his institution. That exit with the two above mentioned German bands on tour, had already indicated some of the music that had the Swiss offer. A dominated by the organ, herbaceous Symphoprog with slight Hard Rock bonds there on "Exit" to hear the partly quite reminiscent of the somewhat earlier productions of Birth Control and Jane. Significantly keys-heavy music of the Swiss, however, slightly jazzy and coated with a thin, easy-fuzzy West Coast flair. In addition, Pink Floyd tracks have in this music left (which, for some numbers of Jane applies).
For the Year 1975, the music sounds but quite dusty. Rather, one would tap the late 60s or early 70s. Protoprog is thus almost what play Exit here tolerably varied rock numbers, provided with some ausladenderen key deposits, swirling organ excursions, jazzy sprinklings, instrumental Jamabschnitten and subdued synth escapades ( "Talk Around"). The music is quite timid and behaved as if the band would dare to rock never really. Accordingly, the pace of the events offered rather slowly (only the introductory "Paradise" has a little more momentum), which does not necessarily increase the listener's attention (the reviewer). This is for awakened by the occasionally quite amusing pronunciation of English texts (especially in "Balade of live" - what should probably be called "Ballad of life").
The subsequent numbers of very neat sounding, originating from various studio sessions bonus material are slightly jazzy and funky occasional also failed ( "Take a little more time"). With Gallus Bachmann Sax another tone comes in the music, while Martin Beerli to the latest pieces (tracks 7-9) enhances the jazz-rock direction of music with a lively electric piano (in addition to the organ and synthesizer classic progressively employed). "II" is a varied instrumental number with nice, sounding slightly Canterbury Symphojazzrock that makes quite fun. With "Clarinetto" then provides the band with a not quite to the rest matching Dixie Swing pun for a humorous conclusion.
"Exit" is a somewhat half-baked disc, but at least shows that you could make quite a decent Key Programming in Switzerland in the 70s. However, had bands like crocodile, Iceland, Circus, Welcome or Kedama but much more interesting in the offer.
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1. Paradise - 7:59
2. Balade Of Live - 11:29
3. Talk Around - 11:55
4. Bad Gossip - 6:36
The Exit
*Roman Portail - Organ, Synthesizer
*Kafi Kaufmann - Drums, Percussion
*Edwin Schweizer - Bass
*Andy Schmid - Guitar, Harmonica
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Home / Latest News / County Commissioner David Magness Speaks at January Luncheon
County Commissioner David Magness Speaks at January Luncheon
County Commissioner David Magness spoke as follows:
“Rockwall County continues to work on the $117.5 million transportation plan approved by voters in 2004 and 2008. Projects that are underway at this time are the FM 3549/I-30 Interchange and the widening of FM 740 in Heath.
The SH 66 project, which includes turn lanes at major intersections and the rehabilitation of the main lanes, will begin in March of this year.
FM 3549 from I-30 to SH 66 will be widened to a four lane divided highway. This project will begin in early 2018.
The SH 276, which extends from SH 205 eastward to FM 549, will be widened to a six lane divided roadway, with construction expected to begin in late 2018.
TXDoT will be upgrading SH 205 across Rockwall County, with engineering underway at this time. A construction date has not been set.
TXDoT is also widening I-30 form Bass Pro in Garland to the Rockwall/Hunt County line. This $600 million project calls for 4 main lanes from Bass Pro to SH 205. It also includes the addition of three lane service roads across the lake. From SH 205 eastward to the FM 2642 Interchange in Hunt County, capacity will be increased to three lanes each direction, with one way frontage roads across the county. Construction of this project is estimated to be five or six years away.
Rockwall County has approximately $38 million remaining from the initial bond program, and will focus on FM 549, FM 552 and SH 276 with the remaining monies.”
Thank you County Commissioner for informing us of the many County projects.
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Tirumula Nayanar
Tirumula Nayanar was a Saiva Siddha. He was one of the eight students of Tirunandi Devar Who showered His grace on them. They were all Yogis. He was called Tirumular because he entered into the mortal frame of Mulan.
Tirumular desired to see Agastya Rishi in Pothia hills. So he left Kailasa and went southwards. On the way, he visited many Saivite shrines. When he came to Tiruvavaduthurai, he took bath in the river Kaveri and went to the temple. He went round the temple twice and offered prayer to the Lord. When he was walking along the bank of Kaveri, he saw a herd of cows shedding tears. He found out the cause: the cow-herd lay dead. Tirumular wanted to pacify the cows. He entered the body of the cowherd after safely depositing his own body in the trunk of a tree. The cows rejoiced again. This cowherd was known as Mulan, a resident of Sattanur. In the evening, he drove the cows back into the village. Mulans wife was eagerly expecting the return of her husband. But, when she approached him that day, he would not allow her to touch him, but said: Oh lady, I am not your husband. Adore Lord Siva and attain Liberation. He left her and went away to a near-by Math.
The lady complained to the leaders of the place, about the conduct of her husband. They examined him and came to the conclusion that he had attained great spiritual evolution. So, they asked her to leave him alone. The next day, Tirumular followed the cows, but could not find his body where he had left it. It was the Lords Lila. Lord Siva wanted Tirumular to write a book on Saiva Philosophy, containing the essence of all Siva Agamas, in Tamil. Tirumular understood His wish and returned to Tiruvavaduthurai. He worshipped the Lord and sat under the near-by peepul tree in deep meditation. He was in Samadhi for three thousand years. But, every year, he would come down from Samadhi and compose a stanza: thus, in three thousand years he wrote three thousand stanzas. This book is called Tirumandiram.
The Lords mission had thus been fulfilled. Then, Tirumular went back to Kailasa.
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Trinidad and Tobago Population: 1,220,479
First colonized by the Spanish, the islands came under British control in the early 19th century. The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. Manpower was replaced with the importation of contract laborers from India between 1845 and 1917, which boosted sugar production as well as the cocoa industry. The discovery of oil on Trinidad in 1910 added another important export. Independence was attained in 1962. The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Tourism, mostly in Tobago, is targeted for expansion and is growing. The government is coping with a rise in violent crime.
Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt
Location: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela
Area: total: 5,128 sq km
land: 5,128 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Delaware
Land Boundaries: 0 km
Maritime claims: measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin
Climate: tropical; rainy season (June to December)
Terrain: mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, asphalt
Land use: agricultural land: 10.6% arable land 4.9%; permanent crops 4.3%; permanent pasture 1.4% forest: 44%
Irrigated land: 70 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms
Current Environment Issues: water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
Nationality: noun: Trinidadian(s), Tobagonian(s)
adjective: Trinidadian, Tobagonian
Ethnic groups: East Indian 35.4%, African 34.2%, mixed - other 15.3%, mixed African/East Indian 7.7%, other 1.3%, unspecified 6.2% (2011 est.)
Languages: English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese
Religions: Protestant 32.1% (Pentecostal/Evangelical/Full Gospel 12%, Baptist 6.9%, Anglican 5.7%, Seventh-Day Adventist 4.1%, Presbyterian/Congretational 2.5%, other Protestant 0.9%), Roman Catholic 21.6%, Hindu 18.2%, Muslim 5%, Jehovah's Witness 1.5%, other 8.4%, none 2.2%, unspecified 11.1% (2011 est.)
65 years and over: 10.23% (male 54,334/female 70,550) (2016 est.)
potential support ratio: 7.4% (2015 est.)
male: 35 years
Population growth rate: -0.17% (2016 est.)
Urbanization: urban population: 8.4% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: -1.2% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: PORT-OF-SPAIN (capital) 34,000 (2014)
Maternal mortality rate: 63 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 23 deaths/1,000 live births male: 24.4 deaths/1,000 live births
total population: 99%
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
conventional short form: Trinidad and Tobago
etymology: explorer Christopher COLUMBUS named the larger island "La Isla de la Trinidad" (The Island of the Trinity) on 31 July 1498 on his third voyage; the tobacco grown and smoked by the natives of the smaller island or its elongated cigar shape may account for the "tobago" name, which is spelled "tobaco" in Spanish
Capital: name: Port of Spain
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions: 9 regions, 3 boroughs, 2 cities, 1 ward regions: Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo, Diego Martin, Mayaro/Rio Claro, Penal/Debe, Princes Town, Sangre Grande, San Juan/Laventille, Siparia, Tunapuna/Piarco borough: Arima, Chaguanas, Point Fortin cities: Port of Spain, San Fernando ward: Tobago
Independence: 31 August 1962 (from the UK)
National holiday: Independence Day, 31 August (1962)
Constitution: previous 1962; latest 1976; amended many times, last in 2007 (2016)
Legal system: English common law; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court
Executive branch: chief of state: President Anthony CARMONA (since 18 March 2013)
head of government: Prime Minister Keith ROWLEY (since 9 September 2015)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed from among members of Parliament elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by an electoral college of selected Senate and House of Representatives members for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 15 February 2013 (next to be held by February 2018); the president usually appoints the leader of the majority party in the House of Representatives as prime minister
election results: Anthony CARMONA (independent) elected president; electoral college vote - 100%
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (31 seats; 16 members appointed by the ruling party, 9 by the president, and 6 by the opposition party; members serve 5-year terms;) and the House of Representatives (41 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms) note: Tobago has a unicameral House of Assembly (16 seats; 12 assemblymen directly elected by simple majority vote and 4 appointed councillors - 3 on the advice of the chief secretary and 1 on the advice of the minority leader; members serve 4-year terms)
elections: House of Representatives - last held on 7 September 2015 (next to be held in 2020)
election results: House of Representatives - percent of vote - NA; seats by party - PNM 23, UNC 18
Judicial branch: highest resident court(s): Supreme Court of the Judicature (consists of a chief justice for both the Court of Appeal with 12 judges and the High Court with 24 judges); note - Trinidad and Tobago can file appeals beyond its Supreme Court to the Caribbean Court of Justice, with final appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (in London) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court chief justice appointed by the president after consultation with the prime minister and the parliamentary leader of the opposition; other judges appointed by the Judicial Legal Services Commission, headed by the chief justice and 5 members with judicial experience; all judges appointed for life with mandatory retirement normally at age 65
subordinate courts: Courts of Summary Criminal Jurisdiction; Petty Civil Courts; Family Court
Political parties and leaders: Congress of the People or COP [Prakash RAMADHAR] Democratic Action Congress or DAC [Hochoy CHARLES] (only active in Tobago) Democratic National Alliance or DNA [Charles CARSON] (coalition of NAR, DDPT, MND) Movement for National Development or MND [Garvin NICHOLAS] National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR [Lennox SANKERSINGH] People's National Movement or PNM [Keith ROWLEY] Tobago Organization of the People or TOP [Ashworth JACK] United National Congress or UNC [Kamla PERSAD-BISSESSAR]
Political pressure groups and leaders: Jamaat-al Muslimeen [Yasin ABU BAKR]
International organization participation: ACP, AOSIS, C, Caricom, CDB, CELAC, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), Paris Club (associate), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): scarlet ibis (bird of Trinidad), cocrico (bird of Tobago), Chaconia flower; national colors: red, white, black
National anthem: name: "Forged From the Love of Liberty"
lyrics/music: Patrick Stanislaus CASTAGNE
note: adopted 1962; song originally created to serve as an anthem for the West Indies Federation; adopted by Trinidad and Tobago following the Federation's dissolution in 1962
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Anthony Wayne Jerome PHILLIPS SPENCER (since 27 June 2016)
consulate(s) general: Miami, New York
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador John L. ESTRADA (since 19 April 2016)
embassy: 15 Queen's Park West, Port of Spain
mailing address: P. O. Box 752, Port of Spain
telephone: [1] (868) 622-6371 through 6376
Trinidad and Tobago attracts considerable foreign direct investment from international businesses, particularly in energy, and has one of the highest per capita incomes in Latin America. Economic growth between 2000 and 2007 averaged slightly over 8% per year, significantly above the regional average of about 3.7% for that same period; however, GDP has slowed down since then, contracting during 2009-2012, making small gains in 2013 and contracting again in 2014-2015. Energy production and downstream industrial use dominate the economy. Trinidad and Tobago produces about nine times more natural gas than crude oil on an energy equivalent basis with gas contributing about two-thirds of energy sector government revenue. Oil and gas account for about 40% of GDP and 80% of exports but less than 5% of employment. In 2013, Trinidad and Tobago was the world’s sixth-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter and is home to one of the largest natural gas liquefaction facilities in the Western Hemisphere. The United States is the country’s largest trading partner, accounting for 33% of its total imports and taking 44% of its exports. Trinidad and Tobago is buffered by considerable foreign reserves and a sovereign wealth fund that equals about one-and-a-half times the national budget, but the country is in a recession and the government faces the dual challenge of gas shortages and a low price environment. A projected 70% decrease in energy revenue to the government in 2016 will likely force cuts to the government budget, which has increased by 35% over the past six years. Economic diversification is a longstanding government talking point, and Trinidad and Tobago has much potential due to its stable, democratic government and its educated, English speaking workforce. Although Trinidad and Tobago enjoys cheap electricity from natural gas, the renewable energy sector has recently garnered increased interest. The country is also a regional financial center with a well-regulated and stable financial system. Other sectors the Government of Trinidad and Tobago has targeted for increased investment and projected growth include tourism, agriculture, information and communications technology, and shipping. Unfortunately, a host of other factors, including low labor productivity, inefficient government bureaucracy, and corruption, have hampered economic development.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $43.57 billion (2016 est.) $44.8 billion (2015 est.) $45.78 billion (2014 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -2.8% (2016 est.) -2.1% (2015 est.) -1% (2014 est.)
Gross national saving: 4.8% of GDP (2016 est.) 8% of GDP (2015 est.) 18.1% of GDP (2014 est.)
Agriculture - products: cocoa, dasheen, pumpkin, cassava, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, hot pepper, pommecythere, coconut water, poultry
Industries: petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas (LNG), methanol, ammonia, urea, steel products, beverages, food processing, cement, cotton textiles
Industrial production growth rate: -5% (2016 est.)
Labor force: 629,700 (2016 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 3.6% manufacturing, mining, and quarrying: 11.2% construction and utilities: 85.2%
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, liquefied natural gas, methanol, ammonia, urea, steel products, beverages, cereal and cereal products, cocoa, fish, preserved fruits, , cosmetics, household cleaners, plastic packaging
Exports - partners: US 26.3%, Argentina 12%, Brazil 6.6%, Chile 5.3%, Dominican Republic 5.2%, Barbados 5% (2015)
Imports: $7.398 billion (2016 est.) $7.9 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: mineral fuels, lubricants, machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, chemicals, live animals
Imports - partners: US 35.6%, China 6.8%, Gabon 6.6% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $9.394 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $10.38 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $382.9 million (31 December 2014 est.) $311.7 million (2014 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $1.266 billion (2014 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $177.4 million (31 December 2015 est.) $171.6 million (31 December 2014 est.) $170 million (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TTD) per US dollar - 6.709 (2016 est.) 6.3756 (2015 est.) 6.4041 (2014 est.) 6.4041 (2013 est.) 6.39 (2012 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 100% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 0% of total installed capacity (2015 est.)
Crude oil - production: 78,630 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 30,800 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 700 million bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - production: 139,200 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 113,800 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Natural gas - production: 41.59 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 24.67 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 17.41 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 325.7 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
Telephone system: general assessment: excellent international service; good local service
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity over 190 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 1-868; submarine cable systems provide connectivity to US and parts of the Caribbean and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana (2015)
Broadcast media: 16 TV networks (11 commercial, 5 non-commercial), 2 of which are state-owned that broadcast on multiple stations; 9 TV subscription service providers (cable and satellite); 19 radio networks, 1 state-owned, broadcast over about 35 stations (2016)
Internet country code: .tt
Pipelines: condensate 257 km; condensate/gas 11 km; gas 1,567 km; oil 587 km (2013)
Roadways: total 9,592 km
Merchant marine: total 4
by type: passenger 1, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 1
registered in other countries: 2 (unknown 2) (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Point Fortin, Point Lisas, Port of Spain, Scarborough
oil terminals: Galeota Point terminal LNG terminal(s) (export): Port Fortin
Military branches: Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force (TTDF): Trinidad and Tobago Army, Coast Guard, Air Guard, Defense Force Reserves (2010)
Military service age and obligation: 18-25 years of age for voluntary military service (16 years of age with parental consent); no conscription; Trinidad and Tobago citizenship and completion of secondary school required (2012)
Disputes - International: Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago abide by the April 2006 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision delimiting a maritime boundary and limiting catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's EEZ; in 2005, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to compulsory international arbitration under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea challenging whether the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobago's and Venezuela's maritime boundary extends into Barbadian waters; Guyana has expressed its intention to include itself in the arbitration, as the Trinidad and Tobago-Venezuela maritime boundary may also extend into its waters
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; producer of cannabis
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We don’t operate as a company instead we work as a team to bring change and prosperity into the society.
Transform dreams into reality.
Be a trusted and reliable business partners.
Be the best value provider for products and service.
S.G is a name known to many for its achievements in Town Planning, Architecture and Agri based industry. S.G was formed in the early 90’s and since then the group has never looked back. It all started with the use of land for farming and then the use of land was turned into making peoples’ life more comfortable in their homes.
Ch Arshad Hussain joined Anjum Farms in the mid 70ís as the Managing Partner, which was established in 1965 in the outskirts of Sahiwal city. The cultivated land that time was about 300 acres. The main crops were potatoes, maize, cotton and wheat. About 50 acres of land was maintained for a fruit farm.
In the early 80s Ch Arshad Hussain founded Shalimar Agri with another 200 acres of land and a cold storage nearby. After few years another 400 acres of leased land was acquired for cultivation to fulfill the storage demands of the cold storage. In 1992 Real estate Business was established. In 1999 a new cold storage was established considering the future demands of the industry. It was equipped with the state of the art machinery and technology. First fully developed town was established in 2000 and was sold in few weeks, due to its wonderful location and serene development. BY 2012 Shalimar Group had completed 8 projects and are looking forward to create better environment for its customers in the future projects.
In 2005 washing, grading and packaging was introduced, which gave Shalimar Agri another edge in the local and International market and opened new horizons in the export market. In 2011 CIPC treatment of potatoes was introduced which helped the company to preserve nutrients and good taste of stored potatoes.
President Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sahiwal 2013-2014.
Chairman Shalimar Group.
President Cold Storage Association Sahiwal.
President Developers Association Sahiwal.
President Deaf and Dumb Welfare Association.
MR. WAQAS ARSHAD
A Visionary Corporate Leader with close to a decade of commercial success track record, focused on delivering bottom line results. Astute strong networker primarily concentrating on business growth in a highly competitive market environment. Foreign qualified and possessing prior experience running a commercially viable franchise, with excellent exposure to understanding and implementing requirements of the franchiser to showcase and reflect original brand values.
Promotes and follows up successful execution of projects in a cost effective and timely manner.
Directs daily operations, troubleshoots problems, and assists in developing new projects.
Complies with the specifications of the franchiser with a meticulous attention to detail.
Possesses strong interpersonal skills, business acumen, and exceptional communication skills.
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Level-Headed Corporate Decision Making, Project Management, Commercial Intent, Negotiations, People Skills, Self-Driven, Team Management, Visionary Leadership, Risk & Reward Calculations, Fiscal Planning, Analytical Thinking, Conflict Resolution, Strong Communication Skills, Relationship Building, Realistic Optimism, Empathy, Employee Management, Planning, Execution, Implementation, Technical Oversight, Result-Driven
Chief Executive and Managing Director, Shalimar Group 2010 – Present
Companies Headed:
Home Developers Waqas Cold Storage Uncle Tetsu Cheesecakes
New Home Developers Royal Home Developers Shalimar Developers
Overall Responsibilities:
Keeping a fine balance between short-term financial performance and long growth prospects of the company while taking well-informed decisions.
Bringing meaningful changes to business process improvements that would help enhance financial wellbeing and efficacy while reducing exposure to unnecessary expenditures.
Analyze all capital investment expenditures while taking into consider micro and macro business factors that can impact the long-term feasibility of such decisions.
Bring a growth-oriented mindset with the focus on fast development of the franchises to spread to different parts of Pakistan in a sustainable manner.
Review franchise performance data, adjust operating procedures as necessary, and implement marketing campaigns while closely tracking their results to make adjustments.
Supervise daily franchise operations, ensure compliance for operating procedures, safety, cleanliness standards, and implement efficient business practices for continuous improvement and quality assurance.
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We care deeply about the environment and the societies in which we operate, and we are determined to play our part in caring for the disadvantaged and promoting civic values and providing sustenance on a long term basis.
With the aim of providing uniqueness, usability, and finesse, we have enhanced our current line of Food and beverages by introducing Uncle Tetsu Cheesecakes in Pakistan
Our qualified architects, town planners, engineers and skilled workers have worked hard to set new standards in the housing and development sector for many years. We are a company that is known for providing creative strategic solutions through its projects.
By introducing modern designs in construction of houses, infrastructure and essential associated facilities we have infused a new lifestyle in Shalimar Housing, which is beautifully energetic, attractively vibrant and conveniently livable.
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Elena Elagina was born in Moscow in 1949. Her father was writing books for children, and her mother was a chemist. From an early age, she became interested in both word and image. Since 1979, she has become a regular participant in the actions of the Collective Actions group. As a result, she managed to combine her two contradictory interests in her works. Since then, separate highlighted words can be found in her work, often accompanied by a number of figurative elements providing comments and entering into diverse relationships with words. Since 1990, she has often worked on large-scale projects in collaboration with Igor Makarevich.
NATI / New Archive of Limited Edition Art
Silkscreen, lithography, digital printing, mixed media, 2018
Silkscreen, lithography, digital printing, mixed media
Heavy black cardboard, genuine leather, tracing paper
51 х 71 cm
NATI – the New Archive of Edition Art is inspired by the Folders of the MANI and at the same time it is a modest tribute to it. Four of the artists, who took part in the original project are also part of NATI: Andrey Monastyrsky – the engine behind the MANI Folders – Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. For the first NATI Folder they are joined by Irina Korina, Viktor Alimpiev , Ivan Gorshkov and Kirill Glushenko, who is at work designing the look and structure of the folder and the envelops.
Similar to the MANI Folders, artists are given an envelope to keep his/her work(s). Quantity and typology of the work can vary, as long as they fit in the envelope and are printed in editions. The works are especially made for the NATI, often using a technology new to the artist – experiment and attention to process are definitely defining of the work of Shaltai Editions. They have an anthological character, summing up the artist’s unique vision of the world, and are made with the specific purpose of being collected in the NATI Folder… and exhibited together with the other artists taking part in the project, using the folder itself as exhibition space. To “keep the spirit” of the MANI Folders, which could also serve as portable exhibition, the NATI folder, once opened, can be arranged in such a way that its parts become stands for the works in the envelops.
The series "Pagan"
Lithography, silkscreen, 2018
Lithography, silkscreen
German Etching Paper 310g/sqm
50 х 70 / 50 х 35 cm
NATI — New Archive of Limited Edition Art. This is the curator project of the Shaltai Editions Gallery in collaboration with Andrey Monastyrsky, Kirill Glushenko, Viktor Alimpiev, Irina Korina, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Ivan Gorshkov.
In the history of Russian contemporary art — in particular for that movement beginning in 1970s known as Moscow Romantic Conceptualism — the archive plays a key role. On the practical side, collecting texts and works from those artists who were forced to live half-hidden in the podpol’e (underground) for non conforming to the ideological canons of Socialist Realism can be seen as primary “survival strategy” and a sort of “time capsule” to the future generations. Most importantly, the archive itself is quite often a work of art. This is the case of the Folders of the Moscow Archive of New Art. In 1981, poets/artists Andrey Monastyrsky and Lev Rubinshtein came up in the idea of collecting works and texts of the Moscow conceptualists and artists and writers close to their circle into a Folder — each participant was given an envelope for the work (e.g., drawings, photographs, texts) they wanted to submit.
To a certain extent, the MANI Folders can be seen as a form of edition art. As a matter of fact, the folders made from 1981 to 1984 were not singular pieces, but made in edition of 5 or 4. That is to say that 5(4) copies of each envelope kept in the folder were also made each time.
The folder "NATI" includes:
— 6 envelopes with artists' projects (22 works);
— Design for the exposure of horizontal works;
— Design for the exposure of vertical works;
— Booklet with information about the project;
— A set of magnets for exposure;
— A set of labels on a magnetic film;
— Bag for transportation and storage of the folder.
Glacial map
From series «Pagan»
Silkscreen, 2018
Mushrooms I
Lithography, 2018
Mushrooms II
Mushrooms III
Mushrooms IV
IGOR MAKAREVICH AND ELENA ELAGINA ON IDEOLOGY, IMPERIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND EMPTINESS / AROUNDART.RU
TECHNICALLY IT'S CONCEPTUALISM. IRINA KULIK SPEAKS WITH ELENA ELAGINA AND IGOR MAKAREVICH / DI.MMOMA.RU
WITHIN VIEW: ELENA ELAGINA AND IGOR MAKAREVICH / ARTUZEL.COM
MILENA ORLOVA INTERVIEWS IGOR MAKAREVICH AND ELENA ELAGINA / GUELMAN.RU
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The 1960 Walking Trial
At Our July Meeting
The Knightley's Farewell
Head Due South
The Vagabond
Some Weekend Walks
Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair Reserve
Flight to London
THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER
A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, The N.S.W. Nurses' Association Rooms, “Northcote Building” , Reiby Place, Sydney. Box NO.4476 G.P.O., Sydney. Phone JW1262
308 AUGUST 1960 Price 1/
Editor Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. WJ3514
Reproduction Denise Hull
Sales & Subs. Eileen Taylor
Business Manager Brian Harvey
Typed Jean Harvey
Federation Ball 1
Social Notes - Pam Baker 2
The 1960 Walking Trial - M. McGregor 2
At Our July Meeting Alex Colley 3
The Knightleys Farewell - Kath McKay 4
Letter to the Editor - A. Strom 6
Sanitarium Health Food - Advertisement 7
Head Due South - Carl Doherty 7
Hatswell's Taxi & Tourist Service Advertisement 9
Day Walks 11
The Vagabond - Clarice Morris 12
Paddy's Advertisement 13
Some Weekend Walks 14
Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair Reserve - R.Craggs 15
Flight to London - Ron Knightley 17
FEDERATION BALL FRIDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1960 8.30 p m. - 1.30 a m. AT PADDINGTON TOWN HALL, TICKETS 21/-. TROPHY FOR BEST DECORATED TABLE. PROFITS TO S. & R. FUND.
Pamela Baker
AUGUST 17TH Keith Renwick will show more of his slides - this time of England and Iceland.
AUGUST 24TH “Living Gods and Women Merchants” will be the topic when Marie Byles talks and shows slides of the Burmese people. Supper will be served in the Clubroom.
AUGUST 31ST Debate.
SEPTEMBER 21ST The Royal Life Saving Society has agreed to bring along one or two films to supplement the talk, which will be on Water Safety. Supper will be available to members.
SEPTEMBER 28TH Angela McMahon (one of the Landrover party who travelled with Lyn and Bookie) will show something of her travels: “Overland to India”.
Malcolm McGregor
This year the trial, to be held on the weekend September 16-17-18, will be in the Blue Mountains area as before.
The one difference is that for this trial the organisers (me and me mates) will select a number of trips of varying mileage etc. and these will be sealed in envelopes. On the outside of each envelope the following details will appear.
Mileage - Type of trip, e g. easy - very rough - B—y Impossible etc. The starting point, e g. Train to Blackheath, car to Jenolan. The names of the maps covering the area of the trip.
At the General Meeting before the above weekend all the envelopes will be available for selection by the participants. There will be several trips in each type, say six each of 10, 20, 30, 40 miles to choose from. What this amounts to is that you don't know where you are going until you open the envelope. At this same meeting a sheet with the handicaps for all the trips will be sealed. This will be opened when all parties have checked in on the Saturday night. The finishing point will be the gate at Carlon's, at the junction of Galong Creek and Green Gully Creek.
Remember to check in as soon as you arrive for each minute will count in one way or another in the adjustment of the results.
NEXT MONTH: “Shale Mining Near Katoomba”. An account of the history of mining under Narrow Neck, by John Luxton.
Alex Colley
Our meeting commenced without a President and with apologies from both Vice-Presidents. The Presidential vacuum was filled by ex-President Jim Brown, who carried on until history was made by the election of Jack Gentle, the first ex- President to be re-elected to office. George Grey was elected Vice President in Jack Gentle's place.
Two new members mere welcomed at the start of the meeting - Greg Grennan and Frank Rochka.
Social Secretary Pam Baker surveyed both past and future in her monthly report. The dance had been a social and financial success, resulting in a profit of 11/9d. So had been the night at the Royal Theatre, when 53 had come to see the Spanish Dancers and yielded a surplus of 1.5.6d. The only loss was 4/- on supper in the Clubroom. Pam gave us the good news that Professor Griffith Taylor will be coming to give us another lecture in October - the subject “South with Scott in 1913”. She hoped to be able to arrange a theatre evening to see “My Fair Lady”.
Frank Ashdown offered the thanks of members to Pam far a very happy evening at the Spanish dances, but thought it was unfair that she should have to bear all the expense of the tickets herself until members paid up. There were some financial difficulties in making an advance for the purpose, so, on a motion by Brian Harvey, it was referred to the committee.
Kath Brown expressed appreciation of the report on past as well as future social events, and hoped we should continue to hear the financial results of our pleasures.
Snow Brown told us that the Federation was (once again) considering the production of a Federation Annual. It had been ascertained that it would be a reasonable financial proposition. A. production manager had been secured, and there were hopes of an editor from the S.B.W. The matter was put to the vote and all except one favoured the publication of an annual.
Walks Secretary Eric Adcock told us that although he had reports on only 5 of the 9 walks in June, they bad been attended by 68 persons, including 38 members. Nearly 3 times as many had attended the Harvey's camp fire to farewell Ron Nightley. Kath Brown expressed our thanks to the Harveys for making possible this very enjoyable evening.
After some words from Frank Ashdown on the desirability of helping Church organisations who formed bushwalking clubs, and sometimes got into difficulties in the bush, the meeting closed, leaving the Club complete with a President and Vice-Presidents, at 7 minutes to 9.
Ski-ing types held a Silicone party at Lyndsey Gray's home recently. About 8 gallons of Silicone solution were consumed in proofing (or so they hope) a wide variety of gear. Superiority or otherwise over old fashioned but effective methods should be known in a few week's time.
On July 2nd the Sydney Bush Walkers said goodbye to their President, Ron Knightley, his wife Dorothy and their two children, Sharon and Stephen.
They are being sent to England for a year or two by Ron's employers. They had very short notice of departure, but with their usual efficiency, let their house, sold their car, and are all rearing to go. Dorothy and the children leave by ship, the “Strathmore”, on July 7th, and Ron by air on 8th. Of this more anon.
To let their friends have a last word with them, Brian and Jean Harvey, ever ready - like a famous brand of torch battery - staged a super farewell party in their beautiful garden. They had some misgivings about holding a reunion in the depths of winter, but the camp-fire, fed by Brian's seemingly inexhaustible supply of log, was magnificent, and the chancy weather was kind. The night was still and starlit, and there was a young moon.
Tongues wagged as only the tongues of bushwalkers can, and a meal did not baulk conversation one whit. A barbecue fireplace was provided for those who wished to grill, and The House supplied huge pots of tea. As darkness fell, an arc light fixed on a tall tree stump (festooned with what must be a glory of wisteria in its season) lit up the faces of the assembled multitude, seated by companies on the sloping grass. Between 150 and 160 souls, Brian estimated the gathering, and the numbers of children were quite bewildering. He welcomed many old members, making special mention of Ray and Peter Page - “walked all the way from Jamberoo” - and of Tarro, the evergreen, born 1878 and still going strong.
Paddy Pallin began the concert by conducting us in the traditional “Fires Burning” and other old favourites, (“Wonderful to be able to see you all” he said, commenting on the bright light. “I can't; usually, at camp-fires”.) and later led a score of littleys in kindergarten songs, himself the biggest child of them all. With words unfailing, boundless energy and infectious enthusiasm (“Just a moment while I peel off a layer or two so that the tonsils can work”) he had the children all hopping and gesticulating by the cheery camp-fire, a charming picture with their bright woollies and equally bright faces. Gil Webb conducted us too, Eric Roman sang, and there were sketches by the gifted male chorus. There was a highly successful repeat of a Christmas opera concerning the ill-tempered Mayor of Yerranderie, the So-long Caves and the Troggy Troggy Crew of speliologists. But the item that brought down the house was one specially written for the departing President. Clasping the Bone of Office and wrapped in unassailable dignity and a warm winter dressing gown, he took his stand beside a row of gentlemen well-known in the club. Malcolm McGregor read a short history of the tribe (bushwalkers) whose representatives they were, pausing now and then so that they might tell us in their own words what had occurred. They spoke no English, but each, as occasion required it, uttered the single syllable: “Ug:” Jim Brown, script in hand, scurried about from one to the other, interpreting and explaining this mystic word, and even the audience, called on to give three cheers: shouted 'ug, ug, ug:“ The only time that Jim was at a loss for an interpretation was then a former president, Rough (Jack Gentle) handed Daily (Ron Knightley) a glass of liquid with the admonition: “Ug:”, translated by Jim as: “This will put hair on your chest!” Daily downed it and said emphatically: “Ug:” “This” said Jim “is untranslatable. It means simply: Ug”
So the joyous evening drew to a close, and the time came for us to charge our mugs (with hard Liquor, once again on The House) and wish the guests of honour a happy voyage. In reply to the toast, Ron said he was looking forward to England and should have a good time there. He calculated that there would be nearly five weeks before the wife arrived, and Paris was very close and one could easily fly over for the weekend. Incidentally, when booking passages he had gone into a shipping office and explained that he was leaving by air on July 8th, and could they give the wife and children berths in a ship sailing shortly beforehand. The clerk replied yes, they could fix that up: there was the “Strathmore”, sailing on the 7th, and the lurk was to take the kids along to the nursery, dump them there and forget about them. You could then go off to the swimming pool etc. and have a good time yourself.
“Tell me” said the clerk, struck by a sudden thought “about this wife. Is she a good-looker?”
“Oh, not bad” said Ron cautiously.
“Well” said the clerk confidentially “you want to watch out, brother”
So, Ron concluded, he and Dorothy had mutual agreement: No Questions Asked.
We all sang For They Are Jolly Good Fellows, Jack Gentle voiced our thanks to the hospitable Harveys, and drops of rain descended as the meeting broke up, a little early, but everyone well content.
Rock Climbing Instructional
AUGUST 13-1/4 Blackheath - Blue Gum Lockley Pylon - Mt. Hay - Leura. Basic instruction in SAFE rock climbing methods. Comfortable camping in Bits Gum Forest. Leader: Colin Putt. Map: Katoomaba Military.
AUGUST 19-20-21 Mittagong - car to Joadja Creek area - Wingecarribee River - Wollondilly River - The Batteries - Wingecarribee River - Mittagong. The middle Wingecarribee is pleasant and open, but the lower six miles are non stop rock hopping: some spectacular narrows in this lower granite gorge. The Wollondilly is a pleasant change (on Sunday), followed by a 1200 ft. ascent, a plateau crossing and a 800 ft. drop back into the Wingecarribee. Expect mile an hour going on the lower Wingecarribee. If owners of private transport propose going on trip, early advice will be appreciated to simplify arrangements. Otherwise please contact leader. Leader: Jim Brown. Map: Mittagong Military.
3 Coopernook Avenue, Gymea Bay. July 17th, 1960.
I read in the July Edition of your notable publication of Alex Colley's trip to the land “Just Beyond the Bulldozers”. Alex and his friends were impressed with the high quantity of natural values which the land held, with the wildlife and with the spiritual refreshment which the waterways, wide heaths and colourful shoreline endowed upon them.
And so they should for this land is the Nadgee Faunal Reserve dedicated to the “preservation, care, propagation and study of fauna” - all 28,000 acres.
Now I wonder why Alex didn't stress that point? To an ardent campaigner for Nature Conservation as I understand Alex to be, I would have thought this was the opportunity of opportunities - stressing how jubilant we would be to know that Nadgee is now held in perpetuity for the conservation of fauna and the natural environments in which they live. Perhaps he could have also stressed the responsibility that each and everyone of us - bushwalkers more than most - have to ensure its proper management Here is a most opportune time to stir the laggard and the selfish pleasure seeking rambler by saying: “This place of beauty will not survive for tomorrow's children unless you and I are vigilant and active for nature conservation!”
Then in his last paragraph Alex adopts a line I find most abhorrent. He says that Nadgee is “too good” to stay as it is and “if you want to see the last bit of natural coast, go soon”. Perhaps I can be forgiven for suspecting that there is a feeling of “get in for your cut, whilst the going is good” or “to hell with those who come after us”. The whole story of most who enjoy the bush lands has been unfortunately, to forget their responsibility to the bush which gave them enjoyment.
Faunal Reserves are public lands and they belong to the people as a whole. Therefore the people must have the right to use them - no one has more right than any other - provided any user agrees to make his use fit the purpose of the Reserve.
The only way in which to ensure that the Nadgee Faunal Reserve shall remain as Alex found it, is to have adequate and efficient, management located “on the spot”, and” screening“ those who would seek to enjoy the natural values which Reserve possesses. This means manpower and money. To get manpower and money, the people of this State must be loud in their claims and pressures on the Government. Will your readers help? How happy will Alex and his friends be about being “screened” sometime?
(Sgd.) Allen A. Strom.
Carl Doherty.
Following Snow Brown losing his party on the Wolgan last year the requests for another such trip were so great that it was agreed to make it an annual event. This year the “Let's get lost on the Wolgan” was led by that master of incompetence and. burgling, one Robert A. Duncan. A harbinger of things to come occurred the preceding Wednesday night when Duncan took an hour to arrange the 'seating of eleven people in three cars. He did however give us a detailed briefing, the main points being a total distance of 30-35 miles, days distances to 0.25 of a mile, a constant pace would be set, walking would commence at 6 a m. and if necessary he would use force to maintain the schedule.
We reached Newnes at 1 am, and the trouble started. My four “lady” passengers thought it unnecessary to pitch the tent and were debating who would sleep in the car and whop would sleep under the tent. As it may have lasted all nigh and they were not considering accommodating me either in the car or the tent I solved their problem - I locked the tent in the boot and took possession of the back seat leaving them to choose a suitable tree for shelter. First light found our illustrious leader ringing an electric bell in our ears. The effect on Helen Barrett was to cause her to say “Answer that phone, someone”, revolve once, and continue her slumber.
At eight, somewhat behind schedule, the leader headed downstream whilst George Grey headed upstream. These differences of opinion with respect to navigation became the prime feature of our attempts to get lost. That the party led by Snow had only reached Annie Rowan's clearing on the first day, a distance of four miles, was to quote the Duncan - “not only disgusting but absurd also. See that my party reaches Bullring Creek by dusk”. By nine the ruins were reached and a pleasant hour was spent playing boats and sunbaking in an open tank on the roof of the candle factory. Eventually we moved on but we covered barely half a mile when we came upon a bushfire. With a little encouragement from Heather, our conservation spirit pervaded us, so we downed backs and set to. All our efforts to extinguish one tree were in vain until Dot threw earth over it. What a predicament - contrary to The Club's rule we had extinguished a fire with dirt. Should we waive the rule or set all on fire again? Fortunately our problem was solved by Snow bringing a bucket of water from the creek. Eleven thirty saw the fire and our schedule out so we pressed on. The delay was obviously causing the leader great concern for upon reaching the mine he promptly dropped his pack and led off down the tunnel. Our inspection took but half an hour and thereafter we had great difficulty restraining Bob from roaming off towards every likely looking ruin.
Even before lunch it was obvious to all that Lyndsey's leg injury was causing her considerable trouble and subsequently the party's speed would have to be reduced. A fine effort was made by all but due to our inspecting, exploring, sunbaking, firefighting, ambling and rambling we managed to reach Arnie Rowan's in time to camp, thus giving a repeat performance of Snow's trip. The spirits of most were high and humour was not lacking, in fact Heather's remarks were rather astounding. Late in the evening Snow, from his sleeping bag, suggested a brew but the water buckets were empty. As usual the girls looked to the male members who to a man refused the task on the grounds that the women were lighter on their feet, thus more surefooted in the dark, and it would be safer for them to go. Even Heather's eloquent though ambiguous appeals failed to inspire the men and finally Lola took up the challenge.
On Sunday morning Bob decided to curtail the walk somewhat by leading up the first likely creek downstream. On the assurance of Snow and another authority that “once above the cliff line the plateau beyond is as flat as a table” Lyndsey was encouraged to continue. The creek turned into a chimney and the view from the top was spectacular both down the valley and over the “plateau”. In fact the “plateau” was not quite as flat as had been described - as far as the eye could see it was dissected by deep ravines and canyons which seemed to follow no set drainage pattern. As a second boost to our morale Bob promptly led off along a ridge which ended abruptly on the brink of a cliff line. After playing mountain goats for several hours we reached a ridge which looked very promising. Poor Bob was rather dismayed when he realised that the beautiful deep valley to the west which he was admiring was Annie Rowan's Creek, and it now seemed that the odds were in favour of it developing into a four day trip. We walked this dry and uninteresting ridge until we reached a swamp at an opportune time for lunch. Heather, Snow, George and myself took the rearguard that afternoon and soon dropped well behind owing to Snow and George insisting on leading off down side spurs, and their peculiar habit of stopping every now and. again to eat waratah seeds. The Mount Cameron track was located after much wandering along the ridge and we overhauled the main party at dusk.
The campsite was in a shallow saddle well sheltered and with no chance of anyone drowning as there was no water within a mile. Rona and Dot devoured their leg of mutton - I do not say devoured without justification. Their method, which is rather unique, consists of ramming a stake through a pre-cooked leg and throwing it in the fire until it gets hot or you get impatient. Having removed it from the fire it is held by the stake and the thin end of the leg and revolved until a section appears which looks hot enough, smells alright, or can be torn apart without the nose obstructing the work of devouring it. It is passed from one to the other and heated as frequently as required. Another innovation was a Mellah making competition which for coagulation was won by Gwen Seach and for flavour by Heather. In order to get a flying start the following morning we rolled in rather early.
The flying start wasn't even a flutter as it was seven before anyone stirred. According to Duncan's ten miles to the inch, 250' contoured, “guess where you are” map it was a good fifteen miles walk and with no improvement in Lyndsey it showed promise of being quite a day. Lyndsey decided to leave early and asked Bob for directions. Bob looked at the map, looked to the heavens, looked at Lyndsey and said “Follow the- track till you reach the pine forest and then head due South”. Away went Lyndsey and ten minutes later Helen received the sane instructions and followed. She was soon pursued by Gwen and Lola, twenty minutes later Bob and the Butlers set off, and another twenty saw the rearguard under way.
Along the track a few miles we cam upon a recently vacated campsite which we assumed to be that of several stockmen we had met the previous day. We reached a road junction at the edge of the pine forest as Duncan's group were disappearing over a crest in a southerly direction. On the road was scratched the message “PARTY 3” and an arrow indicating the south road. There was some doubt as to whether this meant Bob's party or the third party, Gwen and Lola, but as all recent footprints had gone that way Snow was quick to take the opportunity to make an original move so he immediately led off at right angles. Fifteen minutes later we reached the old railway. The lack of footprints was evidence that the rearguard was now the vanguard and this fact afforded Snow considerable amusement. I argued that we were heading the wrong way bit before he could rearrange my sense of direction we heard dogs barking in a copse on the far side of the railway loop. Our calls were answered by a whoop so we waited instead of leaving a message and heading for the cars as Snow intended. Limping around the loop, accompanied by Gwen and Lola, came Lyndsey. A quick mental check indicated that Helen had strayed.
The stockmen offered Lyndsey a ride from their camp to the road, which accepted, but before they moved off Helen caught them up and the position was explained to her. Thinking the would soon be overtaken by the horses Helen continued on but the stockmen were rather slow to break map and Lola and Gwen reached the camp before they had moved, were told of the offer to Lyndsey and went ahead also. The minted party soon caught up to the two girls but had not sighted Helen by time they reached the pine forest junction and a glance at the road was enough to show that Helen was still travelling south at a fair turn of speed. They followed, reaching the railway road just in time to see Helen vanish at high speed, still on a course due south, towards the Lithgow slag heap. One of the stockmen and a couple of dogs took off to round up Helen while the others were given correct, directions to find Newnes. More barking from the dogs in the timber, more yelling from us and round the hill came Duncan and the Butlers so we waited a little longer. He had seen the sign on the road and followed in order to be within a day's walk of the girls and upon reaching the road was given instructions by the obliging stockmen tho also assured him that they would tale care of Helen. Duncan had not finished his tale then Helen care trotting around the hill. She stumbled up to the group and looking Duncan straight in the face said “It just goes to prove that you cannot estimate a person's intelligence”. Everyone laughed but upon enquiry I discovered that no one was quite sure whether she was referring to Duncan or herself To the indignant questions as to why he had ordered a south route instead of a westerly one he replied: “With you girls wanting to go running off before bird chirp you can't expect a man to have full command of his faculties - now, had I said east and then 180 degrees that would have been unwarranted but at that hour a slight error was permissible”
The order of march was now reversed - the idea being to reach Newnes, bring the cars up and so save Lyndsey the last four miles walk. On Dot's request a member of the Catholic Bushwalkers tho had his car at the tunnel, drove back and brought Lyndsey down to inspect the tunnel after which he drove her out to Bell. We lunched on the valley side of the tunnel and then walked down the line until we reached the road leading to the farm. Dot demonstrated her maternal responsibility in an unusual may From the time we left the pine forest she clearly marked our way with large arrows muttering as she drew them “You can't trust Duncan, he'd go astray anywhere”. Curiosity gaining the upper hard we asked - why her interest in Bob. “Well,” answered Dot, constructing a great timber arrow pointing towards the valley “Rona is with him and I don't want her to miss school tomorrow”. A lift to the pub spared us the last four miles roadbash also and speeded up our move out. With the exception of my car taking a rest on the steepest part of the road out and holding up half a dozen cars the run to Katoomba was uneventful.
On July 20th Malcolm McGregor and Jim Brown kept the full house chuckling with some rare story-telling, and followed up with a demonstration of an Electronic Brain designed to classify walkers into levels of competence or hopelessness. Some unwilling “assistance from members of the audience, cunningly devised machinery with its knobs, lights, buzzers, bells and whatnots, and some hilarious results from wrong knob pulling rounded off an enjoyable evening.
AUGUST 14 Parramatta - bus to Rouse Hill - Cattai Creek - Vineyard Station. NOTE: Owing to time-table alterations train will now leave Central Electric Station for Parramatta direct at 8.9 am. Bus will leave Parramatta Station at 9.0 am. Leader: David Ingram.
AUGUST 21 Waterfall - Uloola Falls - Heathcote. 8 miles. 8.20 a m. electric train Central to Sutherland. CHANGE at SUTHERLAND for rail motor to Waterfall. Tickets: Return to Waterfall at about 6/-. The walk will be all track walking and easy. New members and visitors will be very welcome. The leader is rarely able to come into the Club. For further information, ring him at LB6495 most evenings. Maps: Port Hacking Military, Port Hacking or National Park Tourist. Leader: Clam Hallstrom.
SEPTEMBER 4 Berowra - Waratah Bay - boat to Long Trig - Roach Trig - Cowan Trig - Terrey Hills. 10 miles. 8.15 a m. Gosford train from Central Steam Station to Berowra. (Leaves Hornsby at 8.48 a m.) Tickets: Berowra single. Total fares about 11/-. The area in near Long and Roach Trig is noted for the abundance of wild flowers growing there and is much recovered from the mauling it received from a bushfire some years ago. Map: Broken Bay Military. Hawkesbury River Tourist. Leader: David Ingram.
AUGUST 28 Turramurra - bus to Bobbin Head - Cowan Creek - Cowan. 12 miles. 8.10 a m. electric train Central Turramurra via Bridge. 8.52 a m. bus Turramurra to Bobbin Head. Tickets: Return to Cowan via Bridge at 6/2, plus 1/11 bus fare. The first 5 miles are track walking, then the pressure comes on. From Waratah Bay to the top of the escarpment is scratchy and rough. There is a very good set of aboriginal carvings in this vicinity, which it is hoped to locate. Should be same good wildflower specimens. Maps: Broken Bay Military. Hawkesbury Tourist, Leader: Jack Perry. SEPTEMBER 18 Glenbrook - Red Hand Cave - The Oaks - Glenbrook. 12 miles. 8.20 a m. Mt. Victoria train from Central Steam Station. Tickets: Glenbrook Return at 13/9d. An opportunity to visit the Red Hand (aboriginal ceremonial) Cave and to do some map reading en route to The Oaks (not to be confused with the village of the same name West of Camden). 4 miles scratchy country. Map: Liverpool Military. Leader: David Ingram.
Clarice Morris
About twelve months ago while browsing in the basement of Tyrrells secondhand book department for Australian I came upon a faded brown book with the back paper half off. The title “VAGABOND PAPERS!' intrigued me; so did the date 1876.
When it was published by George Robertson, not yet associated with Angus, in 1877, it sold for half-a-crown, now inflation and historic value have brought the price to 5/-. But its real value is worth far more than that because it gives insight into the mind of a man who came out to Australia in his own words “sick in body and mind, and broken in fortune”.
He was one of the pathfinder's of the bushwalking tradition I feel. The alternatives of existence facing the Vagabond were to “raise money, or become in truth, a vagabond”. Perhaps it is straining a point to see this migrant from England, as a forerunner of ourselves, but when I read his words “I know that as I became a vagabond in appearance, I began to feel a vagabond in my nature”, I felt in sympathy with him.
How often do we feel like that? Just recall the anxiety the females in our Club display about making themselves “respectable” on the homeward train trip. Our vagabond friend has something to say about this too; when a person loses his carefully groomed (via the bathroom) appearance “he loses this and becomes shabby, experiences a moral degradation, and feels lowered in his own eyes.”
Male bushwalkers nowadays seem to have become emancipated from this moral decay, because the majority don't care how they look . It's how they feel that counts. But the Vagabond is all with us when he examines the advantages of the wanderer. As he says “given good health, and the chance of getting something to eat every daily, I don't think the vagabond, 'homeless, ragged and tanned' has such a bad time at it during the summer months”.
This reminds me of John Bookluck, Who is at present walking through the Lakes District of England with Sheila Binns. If you recall John stalking wildflowers with a camera ready for the attack, you will appreciate not only our friend the Vagabond, but see something familiar in John B's present mode of life. The Vagabond goes on to describe the pleasures of his life “tired and exhausted, to lie on your back, shade your face under a bush, and sleep soundly, while the glorious sun roasted your limbs, that was real enjoyment”. Only a few days ago John said he was still continuing his wildflower photography, in the hedges. “When I get tired in the middle of the day, I lie down and have a nap” said John…“I'm getting very brown on the face and arms.”
Even the Vagabond has to face the winter's night. It's fine to suffer the excesses of hunger, thirst and fatigue, which most of us are familiar with, enjoying the animal pleasures of life, but we dream of that hot bath and the hot meal at the end of the day or weekend's walk. The Vagabond, by contrast, occasionally dreamed of being “clad in purple and fine linen”, of sleeping on a “couch of down (pre-sleeping bag era) but when the rain, winds and sleet of Melbourne whistled round his thin shoes, he had to take refuge in the Model Lodging House - where a bed in a dormitory could be obtained for sixpence a night, in a room of four for ninepence.
This somehow recalls tent life, for the Vagabond says farewell on the following note: “Stretching out my arm, I could easily place my hand on the forehead of the man in the next bed”. But our beds, our sleeping bags, are free – once you own one.
Vale Vagabond.
AUGUST 20-21 Blackheath - Perry's - Blue Gum - Grand Canyon - Blackheath. Car to Perry's Lookdown. Views of Mts. Banks, Hay etc. and Grose Valley. Steep 2000' descent to Blue Gum Forest. Camp in stand of beautiful Blue Gums. Easy creek walking to the start of the Grand Carryon. Steep ascent through the glens and past waterfalls and cascades. Map : Katoomba Military. Leader: Pam Baker.
AUGUST 26-27-28 Blackheath - Carlon's - Breakfast Creek - Coxs River - Black Dog - Narrow Neck - Katoomba. Track and rock hopping down Breakfast Creek. Fairly easy going along this delightful open section of the Cox's with crossings necessary. Pass Kanangra River junction, Kowmung River junction - climb out via Black Dog spur (views up Cox's River), Taro's ladder and Narrow Neck. Views from the Neck of country traversed, of Central Blue Mountains area, Warragamba backwaters, Mt. Solitary. Maps: Myles Dunphy Map of Gargerang s Jenolan Military. Leader: Roy Craggs.
SEPTEMBER 9-10-11 Katoomba - Mt. Solitary - Korrowall Buttress - Cedar Creek - Katoomba. Camp on Narrow Neck on Friday night. Then over Mt. Solitary and down the Buttress - steady nerves needed here - rope work possible if wanted. Pleasant camp on Cedar Creek. Rock hopping up the Creek on Sunday - waterfalls and cascades. Maps: Myles Dunphy's Map of Gargerangs Jenolan Military. Leader: Jack Perry.
SEPTEMBER 10-11 Wild Flowers and Scenic Panoramas. Ferry to Manly - bus to Church Point - Ferry to Lovett's Bay - Camp at Refuge Bay. Return to the Basin, ferry to Palm Beach. Medium Walking. Wild flowers galore. Views of Hawkesbury and Pittwater. Map: Broken Bay Military. Leader: Edna Garrad.
Roy Craggs.
We left Narcissus at 8 a m. Tuesday Morning, choosing the easy lakeside track in preference to the track which climbs 2,000 ft. up Byron Gap in about three miles. On approaching the lake track a small button grass plain is traversed, but the rangers had done a wonderful job of removing the grass and placing logs- to walk on. “You beaut” said yours truly and stepped forward boldly right on to the flat of my back! The logs were nice and wet, as slippery as glass, and extended far a mere 100 yards or so. Our party suffered more bruises and embarrassment here than in Meanwhile, poor Smithy was down, Hans insisted that he maintain his uncomfortable position until a photo was taken. My hat off to Smithy - he endured so much - the rain; fog; old, button grass, mud, leeches and above all, our cooking; but after all, I'm not to blame for the quality of my cooking. I did ask mother to come.
The lake track proved to be moderate walking through myrtle forest where the light is quite dim, in fact the weather turned fine without us knowing it. At last! We arrived at Cynthia Bay at 1 p m. feeling very hungry (and thirsty). Now we knew that the ranger here sold food, so his residence was our first stop. We asked for meat, bread and beer. Unhappily we received none of these and had to settle for tinned meat ant soft drinks.
At Cynthia Bay one may hire a bed in a hut for 4/6d. per day, actually the “huts” are cottages. They consist of a main room which serves as dining room and bedroom, and has a brick fireplace for cooking. There are two more bed rooms, a laundry and a kitchen. The best thing of all - you get water from taps, water buckets are obsolete! It was just like being at home except mother wasn't there to do my washing. After a lovely hot shower (we needed it) and lunch, Hans and I decided on a steak dinner that night. To obtain this steak it was necessary to walk three miles to Derwent Bridge Hotel, which by great coincidence also had vast stocks of brown amber liquid. Our worthy Austrian opined that seeing we got wet out side from rain we should also become wet inside to equalise the situation. A sure prevention against pneumonia, I was assured.
Smithy reckoned he wasn't going to walk three miles to get a steak, so we left him with his tinned tucker and set off down the road. On the road we found an Echidna, more commonly known as a spiny anteater. The little chap pulled in his head and huddled up in a ball so we waited silently, but he absolutely refused to pose for the camera. We got our steaks and I reckoned that was the best dinner I've ever had, well worth the six miles walk.
Early Wednesday morning we sorted out our gear and found we had two and a half packets of Rivita biscuits left. We seemed to have lost our taste for these but I couldn't give them away, so I fed the kangaroos which are always on land. One of the 'roos was bigger and more cunning than his mates. He came inside the hut and searched our packs in a way that suggested long experience in this practice. He was a very persistent character, requiring much effort and bribing to remove him.
The bus we rode to Hobart was very good. I'm sure any museum would be glad to have it. We arrived in Hobart about 3.30 p m. arrived after arranging transport booked in at the Y.M.C.A. There are four beds in each room,here so we found we had a room mate. The chap occupying our mew was halfway through a bottle of beverage and in a state of collapse. We left him lie (thinking of sleeping dogs, no doubt) and went out to see the town. When we returned the chap was out, we were tired so we said good night and rolled in.
Shortly after midnight there was much noise at the door, in bowled our roommate in company with two giant specimens who instructed him to pack his gear, Then they started to search the room. I wondered what in the heck was going on. The two big chaps suddenly seemed to realise we were there, they told us they were detectives and had caught the other fellow shop breaking. The detectives were very polite (to us anyhow) apologised for disturbing us, wished us a happy holiday aria carted our former “friend” off to the jug.
We had to spend the next day in Hobart awaiting transport, and spent the time casting air eyes over the town and surrounding countryside. Back to the Y.M.C.A. once more to find our selves with a new no a very nice chap this time, thank goodness. After sleeping on the wooden plank bunks in the reserve huts we found that Y.M.C.A. beds were too comfortable for us to sleep on.
Up bright and early Friday morning, in fact much too early far my liking. We managed to be in time to catch the bus to Hobart Airport and boarded the new Viscount II which flew us to Melbourne via Launceston. Of all the travelling we'd done this was the most comfortable and with the best service (the best price too). The aeroplane company had left little leaflets asking the passengers whether or not they liked the trip and requested we write down what we liked or disliked. We wrote that we liked the hostesses - very much so.
In Melbourne we had 8.5 hours to wait for the train. I thought our walking was over but we spent many hours walking around Melbourne. A very distressing habit this walking. After what seemed a lifetime we left on the train for Sydney. It was packed of course, so we sat up all the way. Sixteen weary hours later we arrived back in Sydney, three very upset citizens with a poor opinion of trains.
So our adventure cane to an end. The three of us had been good mates and it was with some feeling that we said goodbye after being together for two weeks. For my part I had thoroughly enjoyed the trip from beginning to end. I could not wish for two finer companions than Smithy, a gentleman of almost 60 from. the Burragorang Valley area and a very competent bushman, and Hans, a member of the Austrian Alpine Club and veteran of the MATTERHORN. Perhaps someday we be together again on another trip.
BACK OF THE CASTLE COUNTRY.
SEPTEMBER 2-3-4 Sassafras - The Vines - Yarmac's Track - Seven Gods Mountain - Rockclimbing - Sassafras. The best rock climbing country in the State. Unlimited new climbs on good rocks, to suit all tastes and abilities. If you don't climb, come along for the mighty views. New, improved approach route. Leader: Colin Putt.
Ron Knightley
After leaving Perth in the Constellation at 11.15 p m. we dropped in on Djakarta at 6 a m. on to the well-grassed bush drome surrounded by coconut palms and banana trees. Cloudy and steamy, even at that hour. First impressions of the locals, crowding in dozens around the terminals, peddling bikes along the taxiways, or driving big Mercedes on the roads; A pleasant, clean and intelligent looking crowd, although many incline to buck teeth. Rather handsome and shapely - both men and women - despite short, slender bodies.
Tried the local beer - free, why not? - and found it rather mindful of a good Burning Palms home brew. Quite nostalgic: I imagine you'd like it quite a lot after a few glasses, but I stopped at one - that was all that was free!
Two hours later at Singapore, 77 miles north of the Equator. Weather forecast on leaving Djakarta: “Fine and warm”. Reticent blokes, these meteorologists. I'd hate to be here when it is hot. Flying over the city I was agreeably surprised at the extent and modernity of the city and the European style settlement with its extensive areas of colourful, contemporary blocks of flats.
Arrived on the concrete and bags of confusion. The hostess announced that production of air restaurant vouchers would secure us a meal (now 4 hours since breakfast). Cantankerous type as I was alighting, I was bold enough to enquire “Wot vouchers?” “Haven't you got your voucher from the steward?” “No, nothing” I answered. “Nor us, either” chorussed the remaining passengers”.
Hurried consultation among stewards and hostesses; Knightley blocking the exit waiting for the verdict. “The ground hostess will arrange it”, they assured us. Down the gangway, two very eye-catching Malayan Airlines hostesses awaited us. I approached the prettiest and was sent to the other one to collect a yellow card. She sent me back again - without card. Other passengers ditto. We were ushered to a waiting bus; then turned round and ushered to another waiting bus; equanimity of passengers abating. Five hours since breakfast.
We were then driven to the transit passenger lounge. Some passports were collected; some were not. Some were handed back; others were retained. Passengers gesticulating and demanding “Why? Pourquoi? Nom de dios:” or anything else appropriate to their native lingo.
The pretty hostess, unperturbed, ushered us through to the restaurant - and the head serang of that demanded our vouchers! None being forthcoming, they sat us down in easy chairs near the windows - offered us a drink apiece.
“Brandy and port wine, please” I requested. “No, only one drink!” explained the Himalayan waiter. “Oh, well - brandy and soda, please”. I got it - one finger brandy; or bottle soda, no ice!
The pretty hostess by this time was feeding someone's baby. I wandered over. “This meal we're supposed to get - how about it?” “Oh, we don't give you a meal here. But I could get you a sandwich if you like.” I took the sandwich and started a landslide. Nearly six hours since breakfast and we were sure hungry; one and all demanded a sandwich.
Up and away again in the Comet 4 - up to 35,000 ft. and down again 45 minutes later at Kuala Lumpur. Seven hours since breakfast. Many adjectives describing Qantas. One cup of coffee made available at airport. I felt it drop through space and hit the bottom of my stomach.
Off again in the hot afternoon sun; up to 37,000 feet - and lunch! Just nine hours after breakfast. Touch down at Colombo - a surprisingly ramshackle airport - and then on to Karachi. The right way to see Karachi is to arrive by night and leave by day, for it is a veritable fairyland from the air in the darkness. By daylight, however, it is about the most dreary, desolute damp of a place I've ever seen. Crowds of Pakistanis milled around; and after the pretty, clean people of the earlier stops they were the most ragged, ugly, villainous looking, under-fed mob I've ever rubbed shoulders with. I felt glad I'd been vaccinated - that's just the way they looked.
On again - in darkness this time - to a long sleep above the clouds in the moonlight. I shan't describe Teheran. It's indescribable - to me, at any rate, because I stayed on the plane asleep. Athens at midnight and stretched the legs. Went through the door marked “Men”. Now, what would you expect the lav, to be built of in Athens? Marble? You're right! Quite a quaint affair - a pull-the-chain job, you know; but there's a tin hardby with a sign on it saying something like “Please put paper here; not down the waterhole”. The sign was in a foreign language - all Greek to me - but a lift of the lid was enough to tell me what it meant.
Frankfurt at 5 am - modern, clean and busy with an attractive beer garden. Up in the air again for breakfast and the final hop to London. And what would you expect for breakfast, leaving Frankfurt? Frankfurts; but of course: Also leberwurst and pickled cucumber. And then at last, London - miles and miles and miles of high-density. housing and lush green parks. But more of that some other time.
The Leyden-Colley group has been further exploring the country North of Mt. Wilson. Bungleboori Creek would appear to be a hard creek to get into and rather harder to get out of.
The leader reports that the August Bank Holiday trip resolved into a “cloud bank holiday”, commencing with thunderstorms on Saturday night. A comfortable Sunday night was spent on Mrs. Carlon's verandah! Creeks were naturally running bonkers. Ooh-er.
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- WOODFORD, LINDEN AND FAULCONBRIDGE. + =====Woodford, Linden and Faulconbridge.=====
by Marion Lloyd. by Marion Lloyd.
- (Marion points out that this is not original meteriaI but a +
- collection of information from books, brochures and individual people.) + (Marion points out that this is not original material but a collection of information from books, brochures and individual people.)
- WOODFORD - The Transit of Venus. +
- It will be recalled that Capt. Cook came into the southern waters for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus across the sun in June 17699 when he subsequently discovered the east coast of Australia. + ===Woodford - The Transit of Venus.===
- Page 11 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1973. +
- A Directory of 1882 states that in 1874 Woodford was chosen by the Government Astronomer to observe the transit of Venus. On Dec.8, 18749 "Woodford" -the mountain residence of A, Fairfax, Esq. was selected as a + It will be recalled that Capt. Cook came into the southern waters for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus across the sun in June 1769, when he subsequently discovered the east coast of Australia.
- suitable site from which this astronomical event could be observed. In +
- the party was Mr. Du Faur of the Survey Dept. who was associated with the oarly settlement at Mt. Wilson. The day dawned clear and bright and the transit of Venus was observed successfully...."with zeal and + A Directory of 1882 states that in 1874 Woodford was chosen by the Government Astronomer to observe the transit of Venus. On Dec. 8, 1874, "Woodford" the mountain residence of A. Fairfax, Esq. was selected as a suitable site from which this astronomical event could be observed. In the party was Mr. Du Faur of the Survey Dept. who was associated with the early settlement at Mt. Wilson. The day dawned clear and bright and the transit of Venus was observed successfully.... "with zeal and worthy of the occasion".
- worthy of the occasion". +
- Woodford and Linden are two places very closely associated. with + Woodford and Linden are two places very closely associated with Blaxland's journey across the Blue Mountains in 1813, and there are still to be found many traces of the old Cox's Road.
- Blaxland's journey across the Blue Mountains in 1813, and there are still +
- to be found many traces of the old Cox's Road. + ===Bull's Camp.===
- BULL'S CAMP (Incorporating Bull's Flogging Stone, Bull's Powder Magazine, Bull's Bath, Bull's Seat). +
- Bull's Camp is about *miles before Woodford after Linden and was a convict road gang stockado. The Cox's Road at this spot followed the top of the ridge, i c4 beyond the railway lino (near Woodford Trig) + (Incorporating Bull's Flogging Stone, Bull's Powder Magazine, Bull's Bath, Bull's Seat).
- When Mitchell was altering the road, late in 1820s to early 1830s, ho put the road where it is now. +
- The man in charge was Lieut, Bull. Bull was a humane man and he is given credit to being the first such officer to ensure Christian burial + Bull's Camp is about 1 1/2 miles before Woodford after Linden and was a convict road gang stockade. The Cox's Road at this spot followed the top of the ridge, i.e. beyond the railway line (near Woodford Trig). When Mitchell was altering the road, late in 1820s to early 1830s, he put the road where it is now.
- to convicts who might die. This is one reason why most historians think the "coils", one in the camp and one in the hill above, were really store +
- rooms for gun-powder or tools. Bull mentioned an Inn, which must have been Pembroke's, which therefore certainly stood at that time. + The man in charge was Lieut, Bull. Bull was a humane man and he is given credit to being the first such officer to ensure Christian burial to convicts who might die. This is one reason why most historians think the "cells", one in the camp and one in the hill above, were really store rooms for gun-powder or tools. Bull mentioned an Inn, which must have been Pembroke's, which therefore certainly stood at that time.
- An interesting spot is Bull's Seat. , This scat is in the railway cutting about opposite end of Bull's Camp. It has a seat carved in the rock, a spot carved where the butt of the gun would rest, and it gives a good view of much of the road. +
- There arc a nuMbor of "baths" in the area, particularly in the Woodford-Linden area. They wore holes cut out of the rock, some more elaborate than others, some having stops loading into thorn. They were possibly usca to store water, bathing or swimming purposes. + An interesting spot is Bull's Seat. This seat is in the railway cutting about opposite end of Bull's Camp. It has a seat carved in the rock, a spot carved where the butt of the gun would rest, and it gives a good view of much of the road.
- Cottages opposite Bull's Cam k (Rockorry Cottages). +
+ There are a number of "baths" in the area, particularly in the Woodford-Linden area. They were holes cut out of the rock, some more elaborate than others, some having steps leading into them. They were possibly used to store water, bathing or swimming purposes.
+ ===Cottages opposite Bull's Camp (Rockerry Cottages).===
The sign on the roadside claims they were convict built in 1839. The Springwood Historical Society knows little about them. The map in the 1882 Directory shows a gate-house on the line just before the railway reaches Bull's Camp, but there is no resemblance to a railway cottage. No other buildings are shown in that area (does any one know the history of those 2 cottages?). The sign on the roadside claims they were convict built in 1839. The Springwood Historical Society knows little about them. The map in the 1882 Directory shows a gate-house on the line just before the railway reaches Bull's Camp, but there is no resemblance to a railway cottage. No other buildings are shown in that area (does any one know the history of those 2 cottages?).
- Back to Woodford +
- A test bore for kerosene shale was put down at Woodford and Professor David reported this in 1889. It commenced at an altitude of 2061 foot + ===Back to Woodford.===
- Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSHWAUCER March, 1973. +
- and was struck to within 405 feet of sea level, but no further action was taken. + A test bore for kerosene shale was put down at Woodford and Professor David reported this in 1889. It commenced at an altitude of 2061 foot and was struck to within 405 feet of sea level, but no further action was taken.
- The 1882 Directory also goes in rhapsodies over the "eight very 1,.M.king waterfalls" in the area. +
- BUSS - Buss's Inn (Woodford Academy) . + The 1882 Directory also goes in rhapsodies over the "eight very striking waterfalls" in the area.
- Hard by the north side of the Great Western Highway on the hill at Woodferd_stanAs the Woodfoikci-Avzsierays, a building that is steeped in history_ of the Blue.E.auntains. Its exterior exudes an atmosphere of the past. To +
- --Iles layman and passing- motorist it suggests convicts9 military troopers-3---.... + ===Buss - Buss's Inn (Woodford Academy).===
- -ocadhing inns, the goldrush and all the exciting eras-of early Australian history. The Academy has experienced all these periods and has been part of the early history of the Bathurst Road. +
+ Hard by the north side of the Great Western Highway on the hill at Woodford stands the Woodford Academy, a building that is steeped in history of the Blue Mountains. Its exterior exudes an atmosphere of the past. To the layman and passing motorist it suggests convicts, military troopers, coaching inns, the goldrush and all the exciting eras of early Australian history. The Academy has experienced all these periods and has been part of the early history of the Bathurst Road.
Latest research into the history of the old building has brought many new facts to light, but unfortunately gaps appear in the chronological history. Latest research into the history of the old building has brought many new facts to light, but unfortunately gaps appear in the chronological history.
- First mention of any inn or building in this site was in the 1820s - it was known as "Pembroke's Hut". In 1836 Pembroke mortgaged the property including the "Woodman's Inn" to John Terry Hughes and John Hosking. There was a Crown Grant to Michael Hogan in 1842, probably for the purpose of "building a respectable inn". Work done is most likely the nucleus of the present building. Buss acquired the Inn in 1855 for 1040. It reached +
- its heyday as an inn during the Turon Goldrush. + First mention of any inn or building in this site was in the 1820s - it was known as "Pembroke's Hut". In 1836 Pembroke mortgaged the property including the "Woodman's Inn" to John Terry Hughes and John Hosking. There was a Crown Grant to Michael Hogan in 1842, probably for the purpose of "building a respectable inn". Work done is most likely the nucleus of the present building. Buss acquired the Inn in 1855 for £1040. It reached its heyday as an inn during the Turon Goldrush.
- A. military depot site was a little to the west of Buss's. Graves of soldiers are on this site - headstones may be seen at the back of the Academy - possibly some were used as flooring in a kitchen. (Aftor the +
- Inn closed it became a popular boarding establishment under various owners.) + A military depot site was a little to the west of Buss's. Graves of soldiers are on this site - headstones may be seen at the back of the Academy - possibly some were used as flooring in a kitchen. (After the Inn closed it became a popular boarding establishment under various owners.)
- FAIRFAX - After Buss the building was owned. by Mr. Alfred Fairfax (possibly of Fairfax and Roberts, the jewellers) who called the house "Woodford". +
+ ===Fairfax.===
+ After Buss the building was owned by Mr. Alfred Fairfax (possibly of Fairfax and Roberts, the jewellers) who called the house "Woodford".
In the 1882 Directory an advertisement appears which says:- In the 1882 Directory an advertisement appears which says:-
"Woodford House, Woodford, Blue Mountains "Woodford House, Woodford, Blue Mountains
Change of Air and Mountain Scenery Change of Air and Mountain Scenery
Private Accommodation for Visitors Private Accommodation for Visitors
Safe bathing places for Ladies and Children at the Falls on the Estate Safe bathing places for Ladies and Children at the Falls on the Estate
Choice fruit from the Orchard at Table Choice fruit from the Orchard at Table
- Terms strictly moderate - Special arrangements for families Apply Lamb and Fairfax, 23 Hunter Street, Sydney +
+ Terms strictly moderate - Special arrangements for families
+ Apply Lamb and Fairfax, 23 Hunter Street, Sydney
or John R. Place, Woodford. or John R. Place, Woodford.
A capital Tennis Court on the Grounds." A capital Tennis Court on the Grounds."
- Page 13 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALEER March, 1973. +
- It was once owned. by Lord Rosebery. In 1907 it was named "Woodford Academy" and. became a boarding schoo and continued as such for over 25 + It was once owned by Lord Rosebery. In 1907 it was named "Woodford Academy" and became a boarding school and continued as such for over 25 years. The building is at present used as a private residence and its owner and occupier is Miss McManamey, whose father carried on a boys' school there for many years.
- years. The building is at present used as a private residence and its owner and occupier is Hiss McManamey, whose father carried on a boys' school there for many years. +
- Railway Stations. + ===Railway Stations.===
- It seamed that there wore two reasons why platforms were placed +
- at particular spots. One was the presence of an Inn such as Buss's Inn + It seemed that there were two reasons why platforms were placed at particular spots. One was the presence of an Inn such as Buss's Inn in 1868 on the south side of the Highway just up the hill from Woodford Academy. When Fairfax owned "Woodford House" the station was moved to this site in 1871. Woodford Station has been in four different places. The second, in 1887 was only a 1/2 mile from the present Hazelbrook. It was moved nearer Sydney in 1880 and finally, in 1902, to its present site at the bottom of the grade. The railway station was known as Buss until 1871.
- in 1868,on the south side of the Highway just up the hill from Woodford +
- Academy. When Fairfax owned "Woodford House" the station was moved to. this site in 1871. Woodford Station has been in four different places. The second, in 1887 was only a mile from the present Hazeibrook. It was moved nearer Sydney in 1880 and finally, in 1902, to its present site at the bottom of the grade. The railway station was known as Buss until + The second reason for stations being placed at particular spots was the presence of a residence of a person sufficiently important and influential to persuade the railway authorities to cater especially for him and his family. Thus "Numantia" (see below) was present between the present Faulconbridge and Linden Stations. It was close to land owned by Sir James Martin who as one authority claims laid out five acres of foundations for a large house. It became known as "Martin's Folly" after its abandonment. "Martin's Corner" was on the Old Bathurst Road.
- 1871. +
- The second reason for stations being placed at particular spots wEls + Faulconbridge was originally closer to Sydney than the present station and was opened for Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of N.S.W., his home and the station were named for his mother, Martha Faulconbridge.
- the presence of a residence of a person sufficiently important and influent- +
- ial to persuade the railway authorities to cater especially for him and his family. Thus "Numantia" (see below) was present between the present Faulconbridge and Linden Stations. It was close to land owned by Sir James + ===Linden - Cayley's Repulse.===
- Martin who as one authority claims laid out five acres of foundations for +
- a large house. It became known as "Martin's Folly" after its abandonment. "Martin's Corner" was on the Old Bathurst Road. + First mention is from Blaxland's Journal dated Wed. 19 May, 1813 (9th day of trip) ".... Found a heap of stones piled in the shape of a pyramid by some European; one side of which the natives had opened, apparently to see if anything was deposited in the middle..., conjectured it to have been the end of Mr. Bass's track who attempted to pass the mountains".
- Faulconbridge was originally closer to Sydney than the present station and was opened for Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of N.S.7., his home and the +
- station were named for his mother, Martha Faulconbridge. + It was a mystery as to who had built it and the puzzle is still unsolved. Governor Macquarie thought later that George Caley had built it and named the spot "Caley's Repulse". Macquarie passed the cairn on the second day of his trip over the Blue Mountains, and Historical Records of Australia says "The Mountain in the neighbourhood was named Caley's Repulse".
- LINDEN Cayley's Repulse. +
- First mention is from Blaxland's Journal dated Wed. 19 May, 1813 (9th day of trip) ".... Found a heap of stones piled in the shape of a pyramid + Others thought George Bass had made the pile, but there is no proof of this either. All that is certain is that some unknown white man had previously reached this point. However it is commonly believed that the present cairn is not the original. "The present pile of stones is, however one that has been erected since the original pile was noted, it having been broken down...." Stephen.
- by some European one side of which the natives had opened, apparently to +
- see if anything was deposited in the middle..., conjectured it to have been the end of Mr.Bass's track who attempted to pass the mountains". + I have been told that the original was on top of the ridge above the present pile. The track along the ridge above the cairn is part of the Cox's Road. Recently a guard rail was put around the Repulse. (Recently houses have been build near the Repulse and it was very hard to find it amongst the rubbish, and unless you knew what the pile of rocks was it could easily have been mistaken for rubble as it appears most insignificant.)
- It was a mystery as to who had. built it and the puzzle is still unsolved. Governor Macquarie thought later that George Caley had built it and named the spot "Caley's Repulse". Macquarie passed the cairn on the second day of his trip over the Blue Mountains, and Historical Records of Australia says "The Mountain in the neighbourhood was named Caley's Repulse". +
- Others thought George Bass had made the pile, but there is no proof + ===King's Cave.===
- of this either. All that is certain is that some unknown white man had previously reached this point. However it is commonly believed that the +
- present cairn is not the original. "The present pile of stones is, however one that has been erected since the original pile was noted, it having been + Whether the story of Bushranger King is fact or legend is not certain. He is supposed to have camped in the Cave when he shot policeman John Donahue in 1837. Donahue's grave is buried by the railway, below the northern side of the line near Linden, but the headstone was moved to a spot alongside the track and locals built a rail around it.
- broken down...." Stephen. +
- I have been told that the original was on top of the ridge above the + ===Lady Martin's Bath and the Railway Line ("Numantia")===
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- present pile. The track along the ridge above the cairn is part of the Cox's Road. Recently a guard rail was put around the Repulse. (Rebently houses have been build near the Repulse and it was very hard to find it amonst the rubbish, and unless you knew what the pile of rocks was it + (between Linden and Faulconbridge - see also "Railway Stations").
- could easily have been mistaken for rubble as it appears most insignificant.) +
- King's Cave. Whether the story of Bushranger King is fact or legend is not certain. He is supposed to have camped in the Cave when he shot policeman John Donahue in 1837. Donahue's grave is buried by the railway, below the northern side of the line near Linden, but the headstone was moved to a spot alongside the track and locals built a rail around it. + This cottage now called "Weemala" was originally called "Numantia" and was built in 1876 for Sir James Martin. Martin was Prime Minister of N.S.W. prior to Parkes and was later Chief Justice of N.S.W. (Note that Martin and Parkes preferred the title Prime Minister rather than Premier.) Martin was a man of grand ideas, and his wife had money, so he decided to build a fine mansion further west, and had foundations put in. However by this time Lady Martin was rather eccentric and she withdraw financial support. Included in the foundations were two excavated rock tanks, 25' by 6' by 10' deep, and about 150 yards south Martin found a spring and had a tiny reservoir built. This was called "Lady Martin's Bath", but it is doubtful whether she bathed in it. These foundations were called "Martin's Folly", and stood until 1908 when E. W. Cansdell bought them and built "The Bungalow" on them. This property is now called "Banool" and stands where the highway crosses the line. The tanks are at the rear. The railway siding "Numantia" stood at the western end of the nearby cutting.
- Lad. Martin's Bath and the Railway Line +
- between Linden and Faulconbridge see also "Railway Stations"). + Alfred Stephen, who wrote an article for the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1945, recalls that it was in the valley just below Lady Martin's Bath that, in 1896, Frank Butler murdered Arthur Preston, a young student he had enduced to go gold mining with him. Butler had also murdered Lee Well in Glenbrook Gully. Ho was later brought back from California and hanged.
- This cottage now called "Weemala" was originally called "Numantia" +
- and was built in 1876 for Sir James Martin. Martin was Prime Minister + ===Stone House - "Weemala" - between Linden and Faulconbridge.===
- of N.S.W. prior to Parkes and was later Chief Justice of N.S.U. (Note +
- that Martin and Parkes preferred tho title Prime Minister rather than Premier.) Martin was a man of grand ideas, and his wife had money, so he decided to build a fine mansion further west, and had foundations put in. Howovor by this time Lady Martin was rather eccentric and she withdraw financial support. Included in the foundations were two excavated rock tanks, 25' by 6 by 10' deep, and about 150 yards south Martin found a spring and had a tiny reservoir built. This was called "Lady Mhrtin's Bath", but it is doubtful whether she bathed in it. These foundations were called "Martin's Folly" 9 and stood until 1908 when E. W. Cansdell bought them and built "The Bungalow" on them. This + The stone house of which only the shell now stands was built in 1881. The builder was a famous local stone mason, Paddy Ryan, and he built it for a city businessman named McCullough. When it was built it was called "Weemala", but a later owner changed the name to "Errama" and it was known by this name until it was burnt down in 1968 bushfires. In 1889 McCullough sold the house to J.W. Cliff, and in about 1898 he sold it to Mr. George Evans, a solicitor, after whom "Evans Lookout" in Blackheath is named. He died in 1913, and his daughter Mrs. MacLaurin hold it until 1922; sold it to Gilbert Nathan; in 1927 Mr. Joseph Brown bought it. The Browns left it sometime in 1950s (I think); it was then damaged by vandals and a Mr. Adam had just bought it and was restoring it when it was destroyed.
- property is now called "Banool" and stands where the highway crosses the +
- line. The tanks are at the roar. The railway siding "Numantia" stood at the western end of the nearby cutting. + Between Weemala and Eurama was a house "Alphington" which was built in 1887 for Sir Alfred Stephen (then Chief Justice). It was a weatherboard house, standing fairly close to the stone ruins. In fact McCullough lived in it while the stone residence was being built. In 1921 this weatherboard house was removed and now stands in the Great Western Highway opposite the Faulconbridge School and is now called "Danville".
- Alfred Stephen, who vroto an article for the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1945, reaalls that it was in the valley just below Lady Martin's Bath that, in 1896, Frank Butler murdered Arthur Preston, a young student he had enduced to go gold mining with him. Butler had also murdered Lee Well in Glenbrook Gully. Ho was later brought back from California and hanged. +
- Stone House - "Weemala" - between Linden and Faulconbridge. + ===Faulconbridge.===
- The stone house of which only the shell now stands was built in 1881. The builder was a famous local stone mason, Paddy Ryan, and he built it for a city businessman named McCullough. When it was built it was called "Ueemala", but a later owner changed the name to "Errama" and it was known by this name until it was burnt down in 1968 bushfires. In 1889 McCullough sold the house to LW. Cliff, and in about 1898 ho sold it to Mr.George Evans, a solicitor, after whom "Evans Lookout" in Blackheath is named. +
- He died in 19139 and his daughter Mrs. MacLaurin hold it until 19225 sold it to Gilbert Nathan; in 1927 Mr. Joseph Brown bought it. The Browns left it sometime in 1950s (I think) 3 it was then damaged by vandals and a Mr. Adam had just bought it and was restoring it when it was destroyed. + This little village is only a mile west of Springwood, but has an air of quiet beauty and serenity.
- =11.= + Growing at Faulconbridge (Altitude 1465 ft) is a rare type of Malee Tree discovered only recently. Thousands are to be seen on the northern ridge, the largest probably about 100 years old. There are about 100 trees in the Valley of the Waters at Wentworth Falls and about 200 at Braidwood. These are the only known trees of this species in existence.
- Between Weemala and_ Eurama was a house "Alphingtoe which was built in 1887 for Sir Alfred Stephen (then Chief Justice). It was a weatherbaard houe, standing fairly close to the stone ruins. In fact McCullough lived in it while the stone residence was being built. In 1921 this weatherboard house was removed and now stands in the Great Western Highway opposite the Faulconbridge School and is now called "Danville". +
- IAULCONBRIDGE. +
- This little village is only a mile west of Springwood, but has an +
- air of quiet beauty and serenity. +
- Growing at Faulconbridge (Altitude 1465 ft) is a rare typo of Malice Tree discovered only recently. Thousands are to be seen on the northern +
- ridge, the largest probably about 100 years old.. There are about 100 trees +
- in the Valley of the Waters at "Wentworth Falls and about 200 at Braidwood. These are the only known trees of this species in existence. +
Here lived and is buried Sir Henry Parkes. Here lived and is buried Sir Henry Parkes.
- A few weeks before the Battle of Waterloo and just after Governor Liacquarie returned to Sydney after travelling over the recently constructed road to the site of Bathurst, Henry Parkes was born on May 27th, 1815 in Uarwickshire, England* In 1839 he came to N.S.U. with his young wife and from his entry into politics in 1848 until his death in 1896 at the ago of 81, ho worked unselfishly for his country. He was the driving force behind the movement for Federation but he did, not live to see its introduction. +
+ A few weeks before the Battle of Waterloo and just after Governor Macquarie returned to Sydney after travelling over the recently constructed road to the site of Bathurst, Henry Parkes was born on May 27th, 1815 in Warwickshire, England. In 1839 he came to N.S.W. with his young wife and from his entry into politics in 1848 until his death in 1896 at the ago of 81, he worked unselfishly for his country. He was the driving force behind the movement for Federation but he did not live to see its introduction.
It was Sir Henry Parkes who, in 1866, arranged with Florence Nightingale to send to the Colony a number of trained nurses. It was Sir Henry Parkes who, in 1866, arranged with Florence Nightingale to send to the Colony a number of trained nurses.
- His grave is at Faulconbridge and the village was named after his mother Martha Faulcoribridge. +
- There is a splendid avenue of trees at Faulcohbridge known as Prime Ministers' Oaks, as all the Prime Ministers of Australia have planted a tree there. + His grave is at Faulconbridge and the village was named after his mother Martha Faulconbridge.
- Acknowledgements: +
- OurI3L_ueMota asun by P. U. Spriggs + There is a splendid avenue of trees at Faulconbridge known as Prime Ministers' Oaks, as all the Prime Ministers of Australia have planted a tree there.
- The Snweod HistorIcal S6ciey and especially to Mr. T. A. Morony its President +
- Pictorial History of the Blue Mountains Blue Mountains City Council + ===Acknowledgements:===
- The Blue MOuntains CrosSing b Jehn Kennedy +
- **XXXXXXX***** + __Our Blue Mountains Yesterdays__ P. W. Spriggs
- *********X X x ii-****x X x*** + __The Springwood Historical Society__ and especially to __Mr. T. A. Morony__ its President
- MOUNTAIN +
- *X )(XXX -X-X-X-X--X--X-***X X X***-X* + __Pictorial History of the Blue Mountains__ - Blue Mountains City Council
- EQUIPMENT*****************XXX +
- ****************XXXX + __The Blue Mountains Crossing__ by John Kennedy
- * * * * * * * * * * +
- IF YOU ARE + ----
- BUYING OR HIRING HIRING OR BUYING +
- GEAR FOR + =====Walks Secretary Notes For April.=====
- WALKING CAMPING ...... CLIMBING ...... CANOEING ....... +
- WALKING CAMPING CLIMBING ...... CANOEING ....... + by Wilf Hilder
- THINK OF +
- ELUNTAIN EQUIPEENT + |1973, April| |
- 17 Alexanaer Street, Crow's Nest. 2065 (On the corner of Falcon Street) Telephone 439-3454. + |6,7,8|Roy Higginbottom has been sent to Queensland so we need a substitute leader for this medium to hard walk from Medlow to Mt. Strongleg and the Low Gangerangs. Anyone wanting to lead this interesting walk please see me and place a notice on the board.|
- for + |6,7,8|The Federation Reunion is on again at Sugee Bag Creek near Spencer on the Hawkesbury. Circulars giving all the details are now available.|
- FAIRYDOUN STP7PING BAGS + |Sunday 8|Bill Hall leads this medium walk into Heathcote State Park. Good tracks most of the way except the Girrouba Creek section. Very pleasant walking area with delightful views.|
- HIGH LOAD PACKS Might 3 lb. 10 oz) + |Saturday 14|Late afternoon start for this hard Colo __day__ walk transferred from 4th March and led by Wilf the waster. Waterproof packs are compulsory but fishing rods are not. Photo stops will be made at Bass sized pools on route, says Wilf.|
- AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU COULD PCOSIBLY NEED + |Sunday 15|Uncle David Ingram leads this easy Sunday wander thru Heathcote State Park from Waterfall to Heathcote. Tracks about half the way with a bit of scrub pushing for practice. Inspection of the nudist colony at Morella Karong - by special arrangement only. Please note David can no longer be contacted on the phone no. shown on the walks programme.|
- * * * * * * * * * * + |Easter 19-23|Jumping John Campbell is your genial guide to the Victorian Alps, probably one of the great alpine walks. Mount B----y, Mount Speculation, Mount Hewitt, The Cross Cut Saw, The Razor the famous peaks of Victoria within your grasp. Book early for this hard walk.|
- Page 17 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1973. + |Easter 19-23|Uncle Don does it again. Don's Mystery Hike - sorry but you can't give him humble pie for going astray. Good company, ? scenery, ? tracks for ? kilometres on this Easter special.|
- WALKS SECRETARY NOTES FOR APRIL by Wilf Hilder, + |Easter 19-23|George Catchpole's heading for the Monaro Alps on this medium Easter trip to Oldfields Hut. Lush snowgrass meadows and pretty snowgums. Excellent views and tracks all the way. Book early please.|
- 1973 + |Easter 19-23|The good old Nandewars - great walking country. Alan Fall is leading this scenic walk - snow grass and snowgums high above the western plains. Fabulous scenery for 360º from spectacular volcanic peaks. Book early please.|
- April Roy Higginbottom has been sent to Queensland so we need a + |Anzac Day 25|Uncle Sam Hinde leads ye easy stroll to Marley and back to Bundeena. Tracks most of the way. Excellent scenery - ask Sam to show you the aboriginal carvings on Marley Head.|
- 6, 7, 8 substitute leader for this medium to hard walk from Medlow to Mt. Strongleg and the Low Gangerangs. Anyone wanting to lead this interesting walk please see me and place a notice on the board. +
- 6, 79 8 The Federation Reunion is on again at Sugee Bag Creek hear Spencer + |27,28,29|Fondon leads it like it is - the two peaks from Kanangra. Spectacular scenery with a lot of hill climbing, but lush campsites. Ideal company on this hard walk.|
- on the HaWkedbury. Circulars giving all the details are now + |27,28,29|Bendethera Caves are on again with Ray Carter as leader. Steep climb out of valley to cars, but tracks about a third of the way. Spectacular views over Deua Valley.|
- available. + |Sunday 29|A test walk in Darug National Park near Wisemans Ferry. Excellent scenery and aboriginal carvings. Tracks and pads about half the distance. Book early please.|
- Sunday 8- Bill Hall leads this medium walk into Heathcote State Park. Good + |Sunday 29|David Cotton's Bee Walk is with us again - sorry, no cactus samples. Easy Sunday picnic at Darkes Forest.|
- tracks most of the ray except the Girrouba Creek section. Very pleasant walking area with delightful views. +
- Saturday Late afternoon start for this hard Colo day walk transferred + ----
- 14 - from 4th March and led by Wilf the waster. Waterproof packs are compulsory-but fishing rods are not. Photo stops will be made +
- at Bass sized Deals on route, says Wilf. + =====Report Of Federation of Bushwalking Clubs Meeting - 20 February, 1973.=====
- Sunday Uncle David Ingram leads this easy Sunday wander thru Heathcote +
- 15 State Park from Waterfall to Heathcote. Tracks about half the + by Phil Butt.
- way with a bit of scrub pushing for practice. Inspection of,the nudist colony at Morella Karong by special arrangement only. Please note David can no longer be contacted on the phone no0 shown on the walks programme. +
- Easter Jumping John Campbell is your genial guide to the Victorian Alps, + 1. Re Anzac Day Service. Due to the fact that Easter is crowding Anzac Day this year much discussion ensued as to when the service should be held at Splendour Rock - this year marks the 25th Anniversary of the placing of the plaque. The wish of the meeting was for the actual day, but subsequently the sub-committee especially formed to organize the dawn ceremony, under the joint chairmanship of Messrs. Brian Harvey (S.B.W.) and Stan Cattier (C.M.W.), have decided to hold it on the Sunday week following Anzac Day, that is May 6th 1973. Please note this date and then attend!
- 19-23 probably one of the great alpine walks. Mount B----y, Mount Speculation, Mount Hewitt, The Cross Cut Saw, The Razor the famous peaks of Victoria within your grasp. Book early for this hard walk. +
- Easter Uncle Don does it again. Don's Mystery Hike sorry but you can't 19-23 give him humble pie for going astray. Good company, ? scenery, ? tracks for ? kilometres on this Easter special. + 2. The Federation Reunion is to be held at Sugee Bag Creek on 7-8th April 1973. Be there!! Sing-song and campfire Saturday night, competitions on Sunday.
- Easter George Catchpole's heading for the Eonaro Alps on this medium +
- 19-23 Easter trip to Oldfields Hut. Lush snowgrass meadows and pretty snowgums. Excellent views and tracks all the way. Book early please. + 3. Party of three canoeists missing downstream of Glen Davis. S. & R. asked police to arrange for helicopter to locate the party as the Colo River was in high flood. They were located safely in Capertee Valley.
- Easter The good old Nandewars great walking country. Alan Fall is +
- 19-23 loading this scenic walk snow grass and snowgums high above the western plains. Fabulous scenery for 3600 from spectacular volcanic peaks. Book early please. + 4. Mr. Murray Scott - Conservation Bureau chairman - presented a copy of a full and comprehensive report for presentation to the Government Inquiry on proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through the Wollangambe Wilderness. A motion was passed praising Murray on his report as it indicates detailed and time consuming research.
- Anzac Day Uncle Sam Hinde leads ye easy stroll to Earley and back to +
- 25 Bundoona. Tracks most of the way. Excellent scenery ask Sam to show you the aboriginal carvings on Earley Head. + ----
- 1973 + =====Why Do Walkers Walk?=====
- April - ;;TOndon-leads it iike'it is - the two peaks from Kanangra. 27,28-29 Spectacular scenery with-a lot of hill cliMbing, but lush campsites. Ideal company on this hard walk. +
- 27,28-29 Bendethera Caves are on again with Ray Carter as leader. Steep climb out of valley to cars, but tracks about a third of the way. Spectacular views over Deua Valley. + (The following is the text of a letter received by one of our members from his brother, who had just returned from a four-week trip to South-West Tasmania.)
- Sunday - A test walk in Darug National Park near Wisemans Ferry. +
- 29 Excellent scenery and aboriginal carvings. ,Tracks and pads about half the distance. Book early please. + Well, all back, safe and almost sound. It's funny, the planned 25 days was just about our comfortable physical (and probably psychological) limit. I developed painful blisters in the last two days, someone else had a painful ankle by the end, etc.
- Sunday - David Cotton's Bee Walk is with us again,- sorry, no cactus 29 samples. Easy Sunday picnic at Darkes Forest. +
- *********# + The first four days took us from Catamaran to Melaleuca (Port Davey) where Dennis King mines tin for $100 per sugarbag, and watches the hikers come and go. We got thoroughly fed up with wet and muddy feet every day; putting on wet socks in the morning to walk through bogs (euphemistically known as buttongrass plains). However, after the second week of wet feet, as it was now water rather than mud, one could accept it as the normal way of life.
- REPORT OF FEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING CLUBS +
- MEETING - 20 FEBRUARY? 1973. by Phil Butt. + The weather had become less kind to us and we had several days of rain. By now we were out along the Scotts Peak Road, near Pedder, and hoping to climb Mt. Anne (4,675 ft.). However, it decided to remain in cloud while we waited there 3 days, but we did climb to the High Camp (approx. 1,000 m.). From below the High Camp we had the "Lake Edgar Panorama" spread to the west. We could see the tree line of the beach of Pedder showing above the water, Mt. Solitary, and Scotts Peak beginning to be encircled by the water.
- 1. Re Anzac Day Service. Duo to the fact that Easter is crowding +
- Anzac Day this year much discussion ensued as to when the service should + We returned to the bush, this time to the Eastern Arthurs where the famed Federation Peak (4,010 ft.) lurks. The track leaves from Cracroft Crossing on the Cracroft River (a Huon subsiduary). Here we were awed by a stand of magnificent mountain ash (?) perhaps 200 ft. high. Here and there were "fallen giants", huge paperbark melaleucas, and tall beeches. We were to see a lot more beech forests in the Eastern Arthurs.
- bo held at Splendour Rock - this year marks the 25th Amnivorsary of the placing of the plaque. The wish of the meeting was for the actual day, but subsequently the sub-committoo especially formed to organize the +
- dawn ceremony, under tho joint chairmanship of Messrs. Brian Harvey (S.B.W.) + That evening we were visited by a wallaby that ate any food given it. A check of the hut log book showed that it had been coming for 5 years!!
- and Stan Cattier (C.M..7.), have decided to hold it on the Sunday weak following Anzac Day, that is May 6th 1973. Please note this date and then attend1 +
- 2. The Federation Reunion is to be hold at Sugee Bag Creek on 7-8-* April 1973. Be theroN Sing-song and campfire Saturday night, competitions on Sunday. + We then had two hot, clear days of climbing, and then scrambling, which became tediously slow when pack hauling for 7 people. We had now reached Thwaites Plateau, but the weather was turning cloudy! The problem with climbing Federation is access. One can either do the southern traverse (if you like heights) from Hanging Lake, or descend the "forest chute" and ascend the "scree chute". Otherwise 1,000 ft. drops get in the way. The final ascent is 700 ft. of rock.
- 3. Party of three canoeists missing downstream of Glen Davis. S. & asked police to arrange for helicopter to locate the party as the Colo, River was in high flood. They were located safely in Capertee Valley. +
- 4. Mr. Murray Scott - Consorvation Bureau chairman - presented a copy of a full and comprehensive report for presentation to the Government Inquiry on proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through the Ubllangathbo Uildernoss. A motion was passed praising Murray on his report as it indicates detailed and time consuming research. + By next day it was blowing hard, the cloud had descended, and the summit gone from view. So we once again sat and waited for two days, only in much less pleasant conditions as we were quite high up. As it was drizzling almost continuously, we couldn't light a fire (choofers are great, gas stoves are hopeless). We finished all our books, played a lot of cards, told jokes and read a Playboy that we had found. Then we packed up and reluctantly left. However we missed the start of the "forest chute" and spent three miserable hours stumbling about in the driving rain. So it took two days to get down. Moss Ridge is unbelievable. It's everything - wet, muddy, you squeeze between vertical trees, horizontal trees, and both at the same time. Of course your pack gets caught a million times (especially the high Canadian type our leader had). Then you have 8 ft. drops with no handholds left in the mud. The track goes up and down several times. Yes, of course it was raining. Thank God we were not trying to climb __up__ Moss Ridge.
- WHY -DO WALKERS WALK? + Then followed three days of 12 hours hiking each day as we tried to hurry out, falling further and further behind our schedule as each day passed. This included scrub bashing through dense scrub for 2 hours, climbing through virgin forest - the logs you stood on squelched like wet papier mache and logs and moss lay everywhere. I forgot how many hours for a 700 ft. climb. Then a 19 mile road bash, a fluke 9 p.m. lift from the picnic ground, and the leader and I were at the Geeveston Pub, bathing and lying in strange things called beds.
- (The following is the text of a letter received by one of our members from his brother, who had just returned from a fourWeek trip to SouthWest Tasmania.) +
- Well, all back, safe and almost sound. It's funny, the planned 25 day S was just about our comfortable physical (and probably psychological) +
- limit. I developed painful blisters in the last two days, someone else had a painful ankle by the end, etc. +
- The first four days took us from Catamaran to Melaleuca (Port Davey) +
- where Dennis King mines tin for $100 per sugarbsg, and watches the hikers come and go. We got thoroughly fed up with wet and muddy feet every day; putting on wet socks in the morning to walk through bogs (euphemistically known as buttongrass plains). However, after the second week of wet feet, +
- as it was now water rather than mud., one could accept it as the normal way of life. +
- The weather had become loss kind to us and we had several days of rain. +
- By now we were out along the Scotts Peak Road, near Podder, and hoping to climb Ht. Anne (49675 ft.). However, it decided to remain in cloud while we waited there 3 days, but we did climb to the High Camp (approx. 1,000 na.) From below the High Camp we had the "Lake Edgar Panorama" spread to the west. +
- We could see the tree line of the beach of Pedder showing above the water, +
- Mt. Solitary, and Scotts Peak beginning to be encircled by the water. +
- Uo returned to the bush, this time to the Eastern Arthurs where the +
- famed Federation Peak (4,010 ft.) lurks. The track loaves from Cracroft Crossing on the Cracroft River (a Huon sUbsiduary). Here we were awed by +
- a stand of magnificent mountain ash (?) perhaps 200 ft. high. Here and there were "fallen giants", huge paperbark melaleucas, and tall beeches. 'de were to see a lot more beech forests in the Eastern Arthurs. +
- That evening we wore visited. by a wallaby that ate any food given it. A +
- check of the hut log book showed. that it had been coming for 5 years!! +
- We then had two hot, clear days of climbing, and then scrambling, which became tediously slow when pack hauling for 7 people, We had now reached +
- Thwaitos Plateau, but the weather was turning cloudy! The problem with +
- climbing Federation is access. One can either do the southern traverse (if you like heights) from Hanging Lake, or descend the "forest chute" and ascend the "scree chute". Otherwise 1,000 ft. drops got in the way. The final ascent is 700 ft. of rock. +
- By next day it was blowing hard, the cloud had descended, and the summit gone from view. So we once again sat and waited for two days, only in much loss pleasant conditions as we were quite high up. As it was drizzling almost continuously, we couldn't light a fire (choofers are great, gas stoves are hopeless). We finished all our books, played a lot of cards, told jokes and read a Playboy that we had found. Then we packed up and +
- Page 20 +
- TIE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER +
- March 1973. +
- . . +
- reluctantly left. However we missed the start of the "forest chute" and- spent three miserable hours stumbling about in the driving rain. So it took two days to get down. MOSS Ridge is unbelievable. It's everything wet, muddy, you squeeze between vertical trees, horizontal trees, and both at the same time. Of course your pack gets caught a million times (especially the high Canadian type our leader had). Then you have 8 ft. drops with no handholds left in the mud. The track goes up and down several times. Yes, of course it was raining. Thank God we were not trying to climb a Moss Ridge. +
- Then followed three days of 12 hours hiking each day as we tried to hurry out, falling further and further behind our schedule as each day passed. This included scrub bashing through dense scrub for 2 hours, climbing through virgin forest - the logs you stood on squelched like wet papier mache and logs and moss lay everywhere. I forgot how many hours +
- for a 700 ft. climb. Than a 19 mile road bash, a fluke 9 p m. lift from the picnic ground, and the leader and I were at the Goeveston Pa, bathing and lying in strange things called beds. +
To me, the relief at being out was immense, as I was utterly exhausted. To me, the relief at being out was immense, as I was utterly exhausted.
- I had arranged for a Rental car through work, so I picked it up in Hobart, collected the othLrs, and then we (six now) toured the country in style, but not before a long stint at the laundromat, and a gluttonous meal at a magnificent restaurant (the Beefeater). We ate like pigs for days. Between scheduled meals we ate icecreams, milk shakes, and. pies from the country bakeries. And by now we wore so lazy that even the tourist-type scenic walks weren't too polular. +
- You may ask why we did- it if it was so miserable. We were walking so as to reach the spot wo were to have the next meall! One didn't enjoy getting wet, or bush-bashing through impenetrable scrub or trees, but there was a feeling of enjoying being there, seeing the unique country, + I had arranged for a Rental car through work, so I picked it up in Hobart, collected the others, and then we (six now) toured the country in style, but not before a long stint at the laundromat, and a gluttonous meal at a magnificent restaurant (the Beefeater). We ate like pigs for days. Between scheduled meals we ate icecreams, milk shakes, and pies from the country bakeries. And by now we were so lazy that even the tourist-type scenic walks weren't too popular.
- of going somewhere, and of having done something. The unknown lay ahead each day. +
+ You may ask why we did it if it was so miserable. We were walking so as to reach the spot we were to have the next meal!! One didn't enjoy getting wet, or bush-bashing through impenetrable scrub or trees, but there was a feeling of enjoying being there, seeing the unique country, of going somewhere, and of having done something. The unknown lay ahead each day.
So even though we didn't climb our two peaks, and though we argued amongst ourselves and plagued each other, we all enjoyed something. So even though we didn't climb our two peaks, and though we argued amongst ourselves and plagued each other, we all enjoyed something.
But I wouldn't do it again! But I wouldn't do it again!
- ******Xxx*** +
- Page 21 THE SYDNEY BUSE7A1KER March, 1973. + ----
- S.B.W. OFFICE BEARERS 1973. +
+ =====S.B.W. Office Bearers 1973.=====
The following office-bearers and committee members were elected at the S.B.W. Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 1973: The following office-bearers and committee members were elected at the S.B.W. Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 1973:
- President VicePresidents +
- Secretary Treasurer + |President|Bob Younger*|
- Walks Secretary + |Vice-Presidents|Bill Burke*, Dot Butler*|
- Social Secretary + |Secretary|Sheila Binns*|
- Membership Secretary + |Treasurer|Marcia Shappert*|
- Committee Members + |Walks Secretary|Wilf Hilder*|
- Federation Delegates + |Social Secretary|Elaine Brown*|
- Substitution Federation Delegates Conservation Secretary + |Membership Secretary|Geoff Mattingley*|
- Literary Editor + |Committee Members|Adrienne Shilling*, Jan Studdert*, Roger Gowing*, Barry Wallace*|
- Magazine Business Manager Duplicator Operator + |Federation Delegates|Wilf Hilder*, Heather White, Rosemary Edmonds*, Don Finch|
- Keeper of Maps 8c Equipment Hire Search & Rescue Contacts + |Substitution Federation Delegates|Spiro Ketas, Evelyn Walker|
- Archivist + |Conservation Secretary|Alex Colley|
- Projectionist Auditor + |Literary Editor|Spiro Ketas|
- Solicitor Trustees + |Magazine Business Manager|Bill Burke|
- Bob Younger Bill Burke Dot Butler Sheila Binns Marcia Shappert Wilf Hilder + |Duplicator Operator|Mike Short|
- Elaine Brown + |Keeper of Maps & Equipment Hire|Roger Gowing, Ray Carter, Peter Chorley|
- Geoff Eattingley + |Search & Rescue Contacts|Elsie Bruggy Don Finch, Christa Younger|
- Adrienne Shilling Roger Gowing + |Archivist|Phil Butt|
- Wilf Hilder Rosemary Edmonds Spiro Ketas Alex Colley Spiro Ketas Bill Burke Mike Short + |Projectionist|Geoff Mattingley|
- Roger Gowing Ray Elsie Bruggy Don Phil Butt + |Auditor|Gordon Redmond|
- Geoff Mattingley + |Solicitor|Colin Broad
- Gordon Redmond Colin Broad + |Trustees|Heather White, Bill Burke, Gordon Redmond|
- Heather White Bill Burke + |Management Committee "Coolana" Kangaroo Valley property|Dot Butler, Owen Marks, Spiro Ketas, George Grey, Bill Gillam|
- Gordon Redmond +
- * Jan Studdert * Barry Wallace +
- Heather White +
- Don Finch +
- Evelyn WrAker +
- Carter Peter Chorley +
- Finch Christa 'Younger +
- Management Committee "Coolanam) Dot Butler Kangaroo Valley property ) Owen Marks +
- Spiro Ketas George Grey Dill Gillam +
* Indicates members of the Committee. * Indicates members of the Committee.
- Two assistant treasurers were appointed Rosemary Edmunds Gladys Roberts
- ************
- Page 22 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1973.
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
- At the Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 19739
- the following Constitutional Amendment was proposed by Mr. Spiro Kbtas, seconded by Mr. Don Finch:
- Section 14, Amendments to Constitution, paragraph (a), that the
- following words be deleted, "except by a throe-quarters majority" arid- replaced by the words, "except by a majority vote".
- In tho debate which followed, an amendment to the motion was moved
- by Mr0 Jim Brown, seconded by Mr. Phil Butt, that the words "except by a
- majority vote" be altered to: "except by a three-fifths majority". This amendment was carried, and the amended motion was then put to the meeting which carried it by more than throo-quarters majority.
- The Constitution now roads:-
- Section 14, Amendments to Constitution, paragraph (a), "This
- Consitution shall not be amended except by a three-fifths majority vote
- at an extra-ordinary, half-yearly or annual general meeting. Fourteen
- days' notice in writing of such meeting, setting forth the proposed amendment in full, shall be given to each member."
- Also at the Annual General noting the Amount of Annual Subscription
- and Entrance Foo was determined as the same as the preceding year as follows:-
- - ,
- Full Members $6,00 p a.
- Married Couples 88.00 p a.
- Full Time Students $3.00 p a.
- Entrance Poo $1.00 p a.
- Members are reminded that these fees arc duo and payable.
- DCN-ACTIVE Members and other subscribers to the Magazine (apart from
- Full Members) are remindad that the Magazine Subscription is now duo:- 12 months (including postage) $1.50
- ***********
- PACIFIC TOUR - Anyone interested in accompanying John Tickoll
- on a Polynesian Island trip starting mid-May and ending mid-Juno, including Tonga, Samoa, etc. estimated expense about $300. please phone 498-1782.
- *************
+ Two assistant treasurers were appointed: Rosemary Edmunds and Gladys Roberts.
+ =====Constitutional Amendment.=====
+ At the Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 14th March, 1973, the following Constitutional Amendment was proposed by Mr. Spiro Ketas, seconded by Mr. Don Finch:
+ Section 14, Amendments to Constitution, paragraph (a), that the following words be deleted, "except by a three-quarters majority" and replaced by the words, "except by a majority vote".
+ In the debate which followed, an amendment to the motion was moved by Mr. Jim Brown, seconded by Mr. Phil Butt, that the words "except by a majority vote" be altered to: "except by a three-fifths majority". This amendment was carried, and the amended motion was then put to the meeting which carried it by more than three-quarters majority.
+ The Constitution now reads:-
+ Section 14, Amendments to Constitution, paragraph (a), "This Constitution shall not be amended except by a three-fifths majority vote at an extra-ordinary, half-yearly or annual general meeting. Fourteen days' notice in writing of such meeting, setting forth the proposed amendment in full, shall be given to each member."
+ Also at the Annual General Meeting the Amount of Annual Subscription and Entrance Fee was determined as the same as the preceding year as follows:-
+ |Full Members|$6,00 p.a.|
+ |Married Couples|$8.00 p.a.|
+ |Full Time Students|$3.00 p.a.|
+ |Entrance Fee|$1.00 p.a.|
+ Members are reminded that these fees are due and payable.
+ Non-Active Members and other subscribers to the Magazine (apart from Full Members) are reminded that the Magazine Subscription is now due:- 12 months (including postage) $1.50
+ __Pacific Tour__ - Anyone interested in accompanying John Tickell on a Polynesian Island trip starting mid-May and ending mid-June, including Tonga, Samoa, etc. estimated expense about $300. please phone 498-1782.
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GAME OF THRONES: “The Long Night”
April 28, 2019 David Leave a comment
[Smokes an entire carton of cigarettes]
The most heroic thing we can do now is look the truth in the face.
I don’t know how to break this down, and that’s not just because chunks of it were literally impossible to see on my television.
The facts are these.
Body Count:
GHOST, dammit, pretty much immediately, like they literally couldn’t wait to get rid of him and stop dealing with a CGI wolf. Though there wasn’t no Zombie Ghost, so who can say for sure? (Edited to add: Okay, so he seems to be in the preview for next week, but still — wasteful!)
Sweet Dolorous Edd, taking a blade through the back of the face after saving Sam, which many characters take turns doing. Pull yourself together, Sam!
Beric Dondarrion of the Nine Lives, whose finally run out after helping to save Arya, which turns out to be PRETTY IMPORTANT and I guess his destiny all along!
Lyanna Mormont. I am not okay.
UGHHHHHHHHH
BUT SHE KILLED ZOMBIE WUN-WUN BY STABBING HIM IN THE EYE AS HE CRUSHED HER IN HIS HANDS! SHE IS NO MAN!
[pours drink, drinks drink, pours another drink]
Theon, defending Bran, which we all saw coming, and turned out to be quite the thankless job with his charge spending the bulk of the episode warging into ravens and shit for seemingly no purpose. (Though my man knows how to leave a party.) But Theon runs at the Night King like a horseless William Thatcher and gets impaled for his trouble.
Jorah Mormont, going down like Boromir by protecting his Khaleesi to the end. She cries; even Drogon flies down and cries; it’s everything Jorah ever wanted. Are there any Mormonts left??
Melisandre, who lights up the Dothraki swords (then they all die), then lights up the perimeter trenches (which the wights just form a body bridge over), so not exactly a Willis Reed moment from Mel. Accordingly, at episode’s end she took off her necklace, walked out into the cold, and withered away like she drank from the wrong grail. She did give Arya a crucial pep talk, though.
Sure it’s big enough, but look at the location
And other than the many, many, many, many, many Dothraki, Unsullied, and Westerosi that fall and rise and fall again, that was it. I don’t mean to be glib — that was a lot. But it’s not just about the numbers: Jaime and Brienne live; the Hound gets over his fear of fire (again) and lives; Samwell Tarly is the luckiest son of a gun on the planet; even Grey Worm lives (the biggest shock of the night, surely), and the longest, most chaotic, most expensive episode in Game of Thrones history comes to a bleary-eyed close with the Night King dissolved by Arya’s hand. Arya! She did it, leaping over a line of White Walkers somehow, missing on the first attempt but rolling a natural 20 on slight of hand to finish the job, saving Bran from losing his staring contest with the Valyrian dagger once wielded in an attempt on his life. It was the exclamatory capper to this mad weekend of pop culture carnage and wish fulfillment.
It was also intense as seven hells. I held my breath, I felt my heart pounding in my ears. I believe this was ultimately a successful episode that was never going to be able to fully live up to expectations. For once the shock and awe wears off and the snow and ash settle, what we’re left with is 72 minutes of… chaos. Frequently incoherent chaos. And sure, it’s the literal fog of war, and director Miguel Sapochnik — who we’re all thrilled to have back for the first time since “The Winds of Winter” — goes to at times excruciating lengths to fully immerse us in the battle, from the pure horror of the initial attack, the Saving Private Ryan slo-mo, to delivering more awesome tracking shots of Jon fighting his way through entire armies. He was the only choice to direct this installment, and deserves a medal just for logistics alone, working hand in hand with scriptwriters Benioff and Weiss to hammer out the tactics and geography of the battle. However.
Everyone on the show has been up front about how they used the Helm’s Deep sequence in The Two Towers as inspiration, not just for specific shots and story beats (cameras swooping over the battlements, dragons silhouetted in the smoke, wights climbing the walls), but for pacing — how much can an audience handle before they get fatigued? A lot, we learn, but like late cinematographer Andrew Lesnie achieved on Peter Jackson’s film, we have to be able to see what’s going on. For much of the fighting here, we simply couldn’t. And that’s disappointing. This is a visual medium. It can’t just be dark for dark’s sake. We’d see bewilderingly edited flashes of shapes and faces, but it wasn’t clear if we were supposed to recognize them. More than once I thought I saw someone else I cared about die, but they hadn’t. And don’t get me started on the dragon fights, at which point my television seemed to give up on projecting pixels entirely.
And OF COURSE, after spending the first two episodes hyping up the Winterfell crypts as No! Safer! Place!, the dead Starks were always going to burst forth. You knew it. We all knew it. How it never occurred to the characters is beyond my ken. But bigger than the “oh snap here we go” once the bones came a-knockin’ was the disappointment that came once it was over and the promise of Headless Ned and Moldy Rickon went unfulfilled. No ice spiders as big as hounds, no secret dragon eggs, no Rheagar’s harp, just… some nameless zombies who don’t kill anyone important. That may seem like a minor quibble, considering, and it is, but how do you not take that opportunity to twist the knife when we’ve already had to watch the show’s coolest character, Lyanna friggin’ Mormont, die heroically but horribly?
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EHF EURO 2018, Day 2: Macedonia and Slovenia faced off in an amazing match
The second day of the Euro brought us more spectacular action in Zagreb and Varazdin. Two other SEHA countries faced off in an amazing match in Arena Zagreb.
Group C (Zagreb): Macedonia - Slovenia 25:24 (11:11)Slovenia started the match in a brilliant way, holding the lead up until the last few seconds of the first half. Their defence was incredibly aggressive throughout the whole match which resulted in 22 penalty minutes. It was a really intense match, with a lot of quality plays and breath-taking saves from both sides’ goalkeepers. PPD Zagreb’s Matevz Skok had 14 saves, but Mitrevski and Ristovski came out on top combining for 13. Celje PL player Ziga Mlakar scored 4 for Slovenia, and Macedonians were led by Kiril Lazarov and Dejan Manaskov who combined for 15 goals.
In the other match in this group, Montenegro was defeated by Germany - 32:19. Lipovina and Bozovic had 11 in total, whereas Metalurg’s Andjelic scored 2. Uwe Gensheimer led the current champions with 9 goals.
In Group D in Varazdin, Spain easily defeated Czech Republic - 32:15. Entrerrios, Rivera and Sole each scored 5, Vardar’s Canellas added 3 and Daniel Dujshebaev had 1. Czechs had a really poor game and no one managed to get it going; Kasal, Horak, Cip and Hrstka scored 1 each.
The second match in that group ended in favour of Denmark. They won against Hungary- 32:25. Lauge Schimdt and Hansen led the winner with 7 and 6 goals scored. Mate Lekai stood out for the Hungarians with 5 goals.
That’s how the fourth day looked like. Stay tuned for more action!
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The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Darius Khambata, Senior Counsel, to the SIAC Court of Arbitration with effect from 1 February 2016.
Mr Khambata practises before the Bombay High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He has previously held two distinguished public law offices, as Advocate General for Maharashtra from 2012 to 2014, and before that, as Additional Solicitor General of India for three years.
Mr Khambata has appeared in several important constitutional, corporate and commercial matters and in significant domestic and international commercial arbitrations. He is a specialist in several practice areas, including securities, arbitration, corporate, constitutional, administrative and environmental law. As Law Officer, he argued several cases involving complex constitutional, administrative, criminal, tax and environmental law issues. Mr Khambata was a member of the Law Commission of India’s Committee that recommended substantial amendments to Indian arbitration law.
Mr Khambata commented on his appointment, "I am privileged to have the opportunity to serve on the Court of one of the world's premier arbitral institutions, and look forward to working closely with members of the SIAC Court and SIAC Secretariat to ensure that SIAC remains committed to delivering quality, cost-efficient dispute resolution services to users from diverse backgrounds and cultures."
Mr Gary Born, President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration, welcomed the appointment of Mr Khambata. "We are honoured and delighted to have Mr Khambata, a very well-respected member of the Indian legal community and leading international arbitration practitioner, join us on the SIAC Court. He will complement the impressive breadth and depth of expertise of the current Court members with his unique knowledge and experience, and ensure that SIAC maintains its position as a global arbitral institution handling cases and parties from different legal systems all over the world."
Following this latest appointment, the members of the SIAC Court of Arbitration are:
1. Mr Gary Born – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, UK (President)
2. Dr Michael Pryles – Melbourne, Australia (Founder President)
3. Mr Cavinder Bull, SC – Drew & Napier LLC, Singapore (Vice-President)
4. Mr John Savage – King & Spalding LLP, Singapore (Vice-President)
5. Ms Claudia Annacker – Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, France
6. Mr Lijun Cao – Zhong Lun Law Firm, China
7. Mr Paul Friedland – White & Case LLP, USA
8. Mr Emmanuel Gaillard – Shearman & Sterling LLP, France
9. Dr Bernard Hanotiau – Hanotiau & van den Berg, Belgium
10. Mr Darius Khambata, Senior Counsel – India
11. Mr Toby Landau QC – Essex Court Chambers, UK
12. Dr Eun Young Park – Kim & Chang, Korea
13. Professor Jan Paulsson – Three Crowns LLP, USA
14. Ms Lucy Reed – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Singapore
15. Mr Harish Salve SA – Blackstone Chambers, India
16. Mr Hiroyuki Tezuka – Nishimura & Asahi, Japan
17. Ms Ariel Ye – King & Wood Mallesons, China
18. Mr Alvin Yeo, SC – WongPartnership LLP, Singapore
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Hugo and the Spanish Mona Lisa
“Isn’t the Mona Lisa in Paris?” asked the assistant Hugo had brought with him on his trip to Madrid. His name was Mathieu. He was a good guy… but a tiny bit thick.
“There are different versions of it”, answered Hugo, “the one at the Prado Museum was made by one of Leonardo’s assistants…”
“Well, the one that used to be there anyway” he added, contemplating the empty space left on the wall where the painting used to be.
“The teenage mutant ninja turtle?” asked Mathieu.
Hugo preferred not to answer that and just gave Mathieu a look that he knew meant that he should rather stop talking.
“They didn’t take anything else. Not “Las Meninas” or all the invaluable paintings from Bosch or Goya. Just this one.”
And how they did it was the tricky question. As an internationally renowned detective (and sometimes spy), Hugo had seen a lot of crimes. This one however was a puzzle — they didn’t leave a trace! The alarm didn’t go off, and it was only noticed that the painting was gone when opening the museum at 10am that morning. That was exactly why they called Hugo specially from Milton Keynes. They could not possibly solve this mystery on their own!
It was a that moment, when Hugo was biting his nails (a sure sign that he was thinking very hard) trying to figure it all out, that she arrived.
“What are you doing here!” he cried as Chloé entered the room, dressed as usual like a princess. For many years, they had been rivals, competing for the title of the greatest detective (and spy) in the world. They were solving mysteries after mysteries hoping the other would finally recognise that he or she was the cleverest of all.
“I was already in Madrid, so I volunteered my services” she answered with a wide smile on her face (showing all her teeth).
Hugo was furious! How was he going to concentrate with such a… woman around?
“You have no idea what happened, have you?” she added, nagging him “I have an interview with the director of the museum, maybe you want to come and see how a real pro solves a mystery like this?”
Hugo was desperately trying to ignore her by staring at the wall where the Mona Lisa should have been. The wall was clean — not a trace! You could almost still smell the paint from when it was last renovated. Finally, realising that he was not going to get rid of her, he muttered “Yeah, OK” through his teeth.
The director was a pleasant woman called Marylène, who they met in her office on the third floor. She was not taking this very well…
“I don’t drink coffee” she told them straightaway “but I would definitely need one now if I did.”
Chloé started questioning her: How much was the Mona Lisa worth? How important was it for the museum? What would Marylène give to get it back? Had the press been alerted?
Hugo was getting impatient. Suddenly, he interrupted:
“The security system has alarms and cameras, right?”
“Yes” answered Marylène “of course!”
“So the thief would have had a lot of trouble not only taking the painting, but even more getting it out of the museum, correct?”
“Yes, I bet they did” said Marylène intrigued.
“Well, maybe not…” Hugo replied enigmatically “and it is the only thing they took and left no trace…”
“Hey this is my interview!” interrupted Chloé who was getting red in the face with rage.
“Maybe, but I think I know where the Mona Lisa is, and who did it…”
“Tell us!” cried Marylène to a Hugo who was sporting a triumphant smile. “Come with me!”
They stopped in front of where the Mona Lisa should have been. “So, where has it gone?” asked Marylène, who was getting impatient.
“Nowhere”, he responded.
“Oh, come on, stop being so mysterious, I can’t stand the stress!”
And so, he explained:
“You see, it is much easier to leave the painting where it is than to take it away… Look at this wall, is there nothing suspicious about it? …”
“It looks cleaner than the others — it is fake! The painting is behind it!”
Marylène quickly called for men with tools to join them. They quickly found where the fake wall had been added and removed it: Several pieces of wood painted over. Once removed, they could find the Mona Lisa as predicted, and at that moment , she had a face that seemed to say “here I am!”
“Incredible!” said Marylène “Who was it? And how did you know?”
“I noticed the wall earlier, but I thought it was nothing…. and then, while being upset about Chloé showing up, I thought: How did she know?”
“You had not told anybody that the painting was stolen, you said it yourself earlier.”
“She said she was already in Madrid. I think she came yesterday with the wood panels hidden in her enormous princess dress, waited until it was closing time and everybody was gone, and stuck them over the Mona Lisa with a glue stick disguised as a lipstick.”
“I think she wanted to pretend to have found it after a bit, so she could be the hero, and get everybody to think that she was the best detective.”
“Wow!” exclaimed an impressed Marylène, “She should be arrested… but where is she?… She’s gone…”
“I guess I will have to chase and find her” said Hugo with a grin “but before that, I have another mystery to solve…”
“What is that?” asked Marylène, who had had enough today already.
“Find my assistant Mathieu — I bet he got himself lost again….”
By Mathieu d’Aquin
Images by Thomas Upton, Zona Retiro and jenny818
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Duck Donuts fundraiser to benefit A.I. children's hospital
Next week, supporting Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and the kids it serves will be as easy as buying a doughnut.
Duck Donuts on Main Street will give 15 percent of sales to the hospital when customers mention Mateo Ahumada, this year’s child ambassador for the hospital. The fundraiser will run July 7-15.
“We’re trying to drive money to the hospital,” owner Robin Griffith said.
Mateo, from Claymont, was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017. While his treatment no longer requires lengthy hospital stays as it did when he was first diagnosed, Mateo will be undergoing chemotherapy until 2021.
His experience with the hospital staff has been great, he said.
“They’re really nice and caring for all their patients,” he said.
“They did everything to make it less traumatic,” his mother, Carmen, added.
Mateo, Carmen and Mateo’s sister, Tatiana, stopped by Duck Donuts on Monday to meet the staff and try some doughnuts. Mateo opted for the maple bacon flavor.
Carmen said that when she was approached about Mateo acting as the child ambassador for the hospital, she was a little hesitant, but Mateo was all for it.
“They did so much for me. I want to give back,” he said.
Mateo is a rising freshman at Salesianum High School. Although he missed all of seventh grade when he was diagnosed, he was able to catch up with his studies and will be joining his peers for high school.
Tatiana, who took time off from her schooling at the University of Delaware to support her mother when Mateo was diagnosed, switched her major to nursing after Mateo’s experience. She also works at A.I.
Duck Donuts supports charities on a monthly basis through its Quack Gives Back initiative, in which it identifies a worthwhile cause and donate proceeds.
Griffith said the store became involved with A.I several years ago and has since branched out to give back in more ways.
“The staff is always 100 percent in and is always supportive,” he said.
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Spacely Sprockets (CC) SFLAAA
Age: 31 | Bats: L | Throws: R | Morale: Normal
BNN Index | SFLAAA | SCORES | STANDINGS | STATS | TEAMS | PLAYERS | TRANSACTIONS | HISTORY
SS DOILIN GANDEOLOB #8 - AGE: 31 - BATS: L - THROWS: R - MORALE: NORMAL
41 53 14 4 2 0 7 8 6 .264 .361 .415 2 0.4
BATTING RATINGS (OSA)
Contact 29 25 31 30
Gap 41 32 44 41
Power 8 7 8 8
Eye 49 40 52 49
Avoid K's 30 27 31 33
FIELDING RATINGS
Range: - 87 12
Errors: - 100 24
Arm: 2 76 2
Turn DP: - 99 -
Ability: 1 - -
POSITION RATINGS
Pitcher: - Shortstop: 95
Catcher: - Left Field: -
1st Base: - Center Field: -
2nd Base: 90 Right Field: -
3rd Base: -
RUN/BUNT
Running Speed: 78
Baserunning Inst.: 80
Bunt for Hit: 64
07/20/2039 RW Loss, 11-12 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 0
07/19/2039 RW Win, 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/13/2039 @ VOR Win, 8-3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/12/2039 WIN Win, 8-7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/08/2039 UNS Loss, 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/05/2039 @ LE Win, 13-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
07/02/2039 RW Win, 14-3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
06/29/2039 @ MID Win, 10-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
He puts in long hours.
High: Greed, Work Ethic
Born in: Combe, BRE
Nationality: Human
Local Popularity: Unknown
National Pop.: Unknown
Contract: Minor League Contract
Major Service: None, 23 Days
40-Man Service: None, 71 Days
Arbitration Eligibility: Not yet eligible
Option Years: Out of option years
SFL TRIPLE A 2039 BATTING STATS
WOBA
wRC+
Overall 41 53 14 4 2 0 7 9 8 6 .264 .361 .415 .776 .349 .151 98
EBH
SB%
Overall 14 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 6 2 0 100.0 9.1 6.27 .4
Versus Left 13 5 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 .385 .429 .462 .890
Versus Right 40 9 3 2 0 7 7 7 6 0 0 0 .225 .340 .400 .740
April 34 11 3 2 0 5 7 5 4 0 0 0 .324 .410 .529 .940
May 7 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 .143 .250 .143 .393
June 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .250 .400 .500 .900
July 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .125 .222 .125 .347
Postseason 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000
Career 274 77 14 5 3 29 52 37 54 0 4 1 .281 .369 .401 .770
Home 20 6 2 1 0 4 5 5 2 0 0 0 .300 .440 .500 .940
Road 33 8 2 1 0 3 4 3 4 0 0 0 .242 .306 .364 .669
Grass 51 14 4 2 0 7 9 8 6 0 0 0 .275 .373 .431 .804
Turf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Day 24 6 2 1 0 4 4 3 3 0 0 0 .250 .333 .417 .750
Night 29 8 2 1 0 3 5 5 3 0 0 0 .276 .382 .414 .796
As Starter 49 14 4 2 0 7 9 8 6 0 0 0 .286 .386 .449 .835
As Reliever / Substitution 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
CAREER BATTING STATS
2030 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 22 92 301 70 10 2 0 19 34 13 0 1 67 9 4 .233 .263 .279 .543 42 40 -0.5
2031 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 23 11 31 7 1 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 11 2 2 .226 .226 .323 .548 41 39 -0.1
2032 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 24 111 437 125 19 5 5 54 53 30 2 3 115 11 16 .286 .333 .387 .719 87 89 1.2
2034 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 26 32 64 14 4 1 0 4 2 5 1 0 13 2 1 .219 .286 .313 .598 63 65 0.1
2036 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 28 37 102 27 5 1 0 8 12 10 1 0 23 8 2 .265 .336 .333 .670 79 80 0.6
2037 Mos Eisley - SFL 29 11 37 8 4 0 1 3 4 2 0 0 10 0 1 .216 .256 .405 .662 65 60 0.0
2037 Dagorlad - SGCBL 29 46 108 22 2 0 0 4 10 12 1 1 34 5 2 .204 .287 .222 .509 43 33 0.1
2037 Gallifrey - SFL 29 7 25 7 0 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 4 1 1 .280 .333 .280 .613 56 60 -0.0
2037 Total - SFL 29 64 170 37 6 0 1 8 17 16 1 1 48 6 4 .218 .287 .271 .558 43 37 -0.7
2038 Minas Ithil - SGCBL 30 11 24 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 0 0 .125 .192 .125 .317 -9 0 -0.1
Total SFL
CAREER MINOR LEAGUE BATTING STATS
2026 Minas Anor College - COL 18 10 13 5 1 0 0 0 6 3 1 0 2 0 0 .385 .529 .462 .991 188 190 0.0
2027 Minas Anor College - COL 19 44 160 50 13 2 4 20 20 8 1 0 29 9 7 .313 .349 .494 .843 148 150 0.0
2028 Minas Anor College - COL 20 47 196 57 7 0 1 16 26 22 1 3 36 11 6 .291 .360 .342 .702 106 102 0.0
2029 Minas Anor College - COL 21 33 121 38 4 2 1 15 14 11 0 3 29 7 6 .314 .363 .405 .768 124 122 0.0
2029 Edoras - AA 21 48 210 73 7 1 7 30 43 14 1 0 38 5 11 .348 .391 .490 .882 103 106 0.0
2031 Ithilien - A 23 52 203 69 12 1 1 25 41 28 1 3 31 11 7 .340 .417 .424 .841 117 119 0.0
2031 Edoras - AA 23 40 160 58 9 0 2 16 32 29 2 0 29 11 4 .362 .466 .456 .922 128 146 0.0
2033 Edoras - AA 25 33 119 27 5 1 1 19 19 16 0 2 33 2 3 .227 .314 .311 .625 56 60 0.0
2033 Osgiliath - AAA 25 64 256 63 10 0 1 11 32 29 2 2 57 10 2 .246 .325 .297 .622 60 63 0.0
2034 Edoras - AA 26 39 165 43 6 0 2 10 30 19 1 2 37 13 3 .261 .337 .333 .670 71 79 0.0
2034 Osgiliath - AAA 26 6 21 5 1 1 0 4 2 3 0 1 1 1 0 .238 .320 .381 .701 77 74 0.0
2035 Ringworld - AAA 27 56 221 63 10 3 3 22 43 29 1 0 48 8 3 .285 .371 .398 .769 94 99 0.0
2036 Ithilien - A 28 16 59 18 1 0 0 3 12 11 0 0 4 7 0 .305 .414 .322 .736 102 112 0.0
2036 Khand - AA 28 9 35 14 2 0 0 3 3 7 0 0 4 0 1 .400 .500 .457 .957 155 171 0.0
2036 Harad - AAA 28 8 28 11 3 0 0 4 2 5 0 0 6 1 3 .393 .485 .500 .985 140 154 0.0
2036 Edoras - AA 28 13 56 18 1 1 0 4 13 8 0 1 11 2 2 .321 .400 .375 .775 95 108 0.0
2037 Khand - AA 29 10 39 15 1 0 2 3 8 4 1 0 6 2 0 .385 .455 .564 1.019 170 178 0.0
2037 Harad - AAA 29 16 60 12 2 0 0 4 7 7 0 2 14 2 0 .200 .275 .233 .509 25 28 0.0
2038 Falas - A 30 9 23 10 0 0 1 6 4 1 0 1 4 0 3 .435 .440 .565 1.005 171 177 0.0
2038 Eregion - AA 30 64 213 56 6 1 0 15 30 36 2 1 49 6 5 .263 .373 .300 .673 79 87 0.0
2039 Spacely - AAA 31 41 53 14 4 2 0 7 9 8 0 0 6 2 0 .264 .361 .415 .776 97 98 0.0
Total SFLAAA
CAREER POSTSEASON BATTING STATS
2034 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 26 6 26 6 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 10 2 0 .231 .222 .269 .491 0 0 0.0
2036 Minas Tirith - SGCBL 28 8 25 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 0 0 .120 .185 .120 .305 0 0 0.0
2039 Spacely - SFLAAA 31 2 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 0 0 0.0
2030 Minas Tirith - MLB 2B 10 7 12 28 7 41 1 .976 74.0 4.86 -0.6 .948
2030 Minas Tirith - MLB 3B 6 3 2 6 2 8 0 1.000 32.0 2.25 +0.2 1.044
2030 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 72 71 126 228 67 358 4 .989 632.0 5.04 +6.5 1.053
2031 Minas Tirith - MLB 2B 1 1 2 5 1 7 0 1.000 9.0 7.00 +0.1 1.035
2031 Minas Tirith - MLB 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1.0 0.00 0.0 .000
2031 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 9 6 8 21 6 29 0 1.000 63.0 4.14 +0.6 1.062
2032 Minas Tirith - MLB 2B 4 3 8 8 2 16 0 1.000 33.0 4.36 +0.2 1.042
2032 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 105 102 151 297 74 456 8 .982 887.2 4.54 +4.6 1.028
2033 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 16 13 17 48 7 67 2 .970 121.0 4.83 +1.6 1.070
2034 Minas Tirith - MLB 2B 7 0 0 2 0 2 0 1.000 9.2 1.86 -0.0 .999
2034 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 24 22 34 60 15 96 2 .979 189.2 4.46 +0.8 1.027
2036 Minas Tirith - MLB SS 37 35 52 93 23 149 4 .973 294.0 4.44 +2.4 1.052
2037 Dagorlad - MLB 2B 8 1 3 9 1 12 0 1.000 32.2 3.31 -0.0 .000
2037 Gallifrey - MLB 2B 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 1.000 2.0 9.00 0.0 .000
2037 Dagorlad - MLB SS 35 29 41 90 14 132 1 .992 260.2 4.52 +3.2 1.073
2037 Mos Eisley - MLB SS 11 11 14 23 5 37 0 1.000 91.2 3.63 +1.1 1.082
2037 Gallifrey - MLB SS 6 5 7 16 5 23 0 1.000 49.0 4.22 +0.1 1.010
2038 Minas Ithil - MLB SS 10 6 8 29 6 37 0 1.000 59.1 5.61 +1.6 1.106
2039 Spacely - AAA 2B 4 3 4 6 2 10 0 1.000 28.0 3.21 +0.5 1.042
2039 Spacely - AAA SS 37 11 15 50 11 67 2 .970 137.2 4.25 +1.2 1.041
06/27/2025 Joined the Minas Anor College Beefeaters.
01/01/2026 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Contact: 1 (52); Power: 4 (31); Eye: 4 (48).
04/07/2027 Injured (hip flexor strain), day-to-day for 5 days.
04/24/2027 Was selected to the 2027 SGCBL College II All-Star Game.
04/30/2027 Injured (thumb contusion), out for 5 days.
01/01/2028 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Contact: 23 (52); Power: 10 (31); Eye: 10 (48).
04/10/2029 Injured on 04/08/2029, diagnosed with a strained posterior cruciate ligament, will miss 2 weeks.
06/15/2029 Released by the Minas Anor College Beefeaters.
06/15/2029 Drafted in the 2029 first-year player draft (Round 4, Pick 20, 92nd overall pick) by the Minas Tirith Titans.
08/03/2029 Goes 5-6 against the Aglarond Ice, with 1 RBI and 4 R.
03/02/2030 Injured (sprained knee), out for one week.
03/26/2030 Injured on 03/24/2030, diagnosed with back tightness, will miss 2 weeks.
04/07/2030 Suffered setback in recovery from injury, will miss another 6 days.
06/30/2030 Injured (sprained elbow), out for 5-6 weeks.
07/26/2030 Suffered setback in recovery from injury, will miss another 2-3 weeks.
09/28/2030 Injured (hamstring strain), out for 3 weeks.
05/11/2031 Injured (wrist soreness), day-to-day for one week.
05/15/2031 Injured (high ankle sprain), out for 4 weeks.
07/04/2031 Injured (hamstring cramp), day-to-day for 3 days.
05/03/2032 Injured (thigh muscle strain), day-to-day for 4 days.
05/24/2032 Injured (oblique strain), out for 6 weeks.
08/12/2032 Injured (sore shoulder), out for 6 days.
06/23/2033 Injured (flu-like symptoms), day-to-day for 4 days.
05/14/2034 Injured (torn thumb ligament), out for 5 weeks.
06/27/2034 Injured (mild hamstring strain), out for 2 weeks.
11/16/2034 Signed a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000 with the Minas Tirith Titans organization.
11/20/2034 Was claimed off waivers by Serenity Valley while with Minas Tirith.
06/11/2035 Injured (strained oblique), out for 1-2 weeks.
02/21/2036 Signed a minor league contract with the Earthsea Dragons organization.
04/18/2036 Was claimed off waivers by Dagorlad while with Earthsea.
05/07/2036 Was granted free agency by the Dagorlad organization.
06/05/2036 Signed a 1-year minor league contract with the Minas Tirith Titans organization.
06/23/2036 Injured (Latissimus dorsi (back) strain), out for 3 weeks.
08/04/2036 Injured (Broken nose), out for 3 days.
04/08/2037 Was claimed off waivers by Mos Eisley while with Minas Tirith.
04/23/2037 Injured (Sprained thumb), day-to-day for 2 weeks.
05/23/2037 Was claimed off waivers by Gallifrey while with Mos Eisley.
06/12/2037 Was claimed off waivers by Dagorlad while with Gallifrey.
12/16/2037 Signed a minor league contract with the Minas Ithil Wyrms organization.
03/01/2038 Released by the Minas Ithil organization.
04/03/2038 Released by the Minas Ithil Wyrms.
07/07/2038 Injured (Hamstring soreness), day-to-day for 4 days.
09/03/2038 Wins the 2038 SGCBL Single A Single A Championships with the Falas Falcons!
11/23/2038 Signed a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000 with the Minas Ithil Wyrms organization.
11/26/2038 Was claimed off waivers by Gallifrey while with Minas Ithil.
01/01/2039 OSA scouting updated ratings (potential): Contact: 30 (30); Power: 8 (8); Eye: 48 (48).
04/15/2039 Was claimed off waivers by Chiba City while with Gallifrey.
07/14/2039 Released by the Chiba City organization.
07/17/2039 Signed a minor league contract with the Chiba City Neuromancers organization.
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