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Tag Archives: Tom Cruise
‘Oblivion’ Trailer Looks Derivative, Shiny.
December 10, 2012 Adam Popovich 1 Comment
Between Jack Reacher and Oblivion, it looks like it’s quickly becoming a pattern that Tom Cruise shall from now on only play characters named Jack. It’s actually another Sci-Fi outing from Tom Cruise, who likes to star in a science fiction movie every couple of years, probably because he’s living one, but I digress from that easy joke. Despite being a huge fan of Sci-Fi, I found myself guessing as to what this movie was an adaptation or remake of, and upon viewing the trailer found myself surprised that it seemed to be an original story! Generic as hell, but still, original! Well my hopes were dashed after researching the movie a bit further, as it IS an adaptation. It’s apparently adapted from an eponymous graphic novel by Joseph Kosinki. If you’ve never heard that name before, don’t worry because neither have I, although you might be familiar with his work. He did that relatively famous Gears Of War video game commercial, set to “Mad World” by Gary Jules. Oh, he also did Tron: Legacy, which I haven’t seen but I’ve heard was good.
The trailer for Oblivion however, looks… Well here, take a look for yourself:
Here’s where I have to emphasize just what a huge fan of Sci-Fi I am, so you don’t misunderstand me when I say this looks like the most derivative, unoriginal, and ultimately boring Sci-Fi film to come along in recent years. I kept watching it and waiting for it to bring in an interesting hook or storyline that would make me excited to actually see the film, and it kinda-sorta got close with the brief allusions to lost memories or whatever near the end there. I’m guessing that Earth isn’t as wiped out as the Evil Totalitarian Government wants poor Jack to think, and there’s a pocket of survivors/resistance on Earth, who are hellbent on rebelling against the Evil Totalitarian Government. They have a cause to expose whatever dark secret they’re hiding, and meanwhile they’re being led by Morgan Freeman and some kind of Darth Vader creature.
Seriously, at 1:53 on the trailer friggin’ Darth Vader outta NOWHERE.
Overall I’m very underwhelmed by the movie, and find myself disappointed that the whole thing wasn’t some super secret adaptation of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion instead. This just looks… disappointing.
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Cruise is Playing ‘Jack Reacher’ – We got some Trailers…
October 23, 2012 M. Neumann Leave a comment
With the release of the second Jack Reacher trailer, I can’t help but voice the disappointment felt by Lee Child fans. However, not all are aware of the character’s origin, and therefore, there are two perspectives in which we can analyze these trailers. There are those of us familiar with Lee Child’s work, and those who are not.
For those not familiar with Lee Child, he is the author of a gritty crime series of novels featuring Jack Reacher. The character was first introduced in 1997’s Killing Floor and has since been the main character of 17 Child novels. To the audience who has not read any of these books, I am sure the trailer looks like an awesome new action suspense film starring the well defined Tom Cruise. Regardless of the shenanigans we hear about in his personal life, Cruise has still earned a prominent title as an action star. The Mission Impossible franchise alone has been met with huge box office support. The fact that the Reacher character resembles his previous role of Ethan Hunt should generate box office support for this title as well.
The set up seems very neo-noir in which we have a, “Who done it?” sequence. We are also flashed with some clips of Reacher kicking a little butt, and taking a few names. It was also entertaining to see how Reacher gets the fuzz off of his tail and blends into the crowd next to what I am calling a Morgan Freeman look-alike. All in all, the film appears to be following 2005’s One Shot close enough. The general plot is that a man is arrested for the murders of five people killed by an expert sniper. He asks that they “Get Jack Reacher.” Reacher shows up but his intention is to prove the man’s guilt, not innocence. As cliché as it can get, Reacher gets more than he bargained for.
Now to voice the opinion of disappointed Child fans. Child is detailed and meticulous in his writing. He has spent over fifteen years developing this character over the course of seventeen novels. One Shot is the ninth of the seventeen. So why now? Why One Shot? Most importantly, why on Earth was Tom Cruise cast as Jack Reacher? Jack Reacher, described as being 6’5 somewhere between 210 to 250 pounds, is in no way resembled by Tom Cruise.
Amid the disappointment, I was laughing out loud while watching these trailers considering how many times Cruise is filmed from low angles to give the illusion of height. All things considered, any one of the previous cast choices would have sufficed. Brad Pitt, Hugh Jackman, Vince Vaughn, Jamie Foxx, and Will Smith were all considered for the role. With the selection of Cruise, I can’t help but feel this film is poorly managed and doomed from the start. Though the PG-13 rating should accommodate a greater audience, true fans will be disappointed that the violence described in the books will not be present in the film.
Reacher is effective not only due to his cunning prowess, but also, his sheer intimidation of size and stature. Cruise fails to demonstrate this intimidation what so ever. Reacher is not supposed to be a character that you under estimated, and later wished you hadn’t messed with him. He is supposed to be a guy that if you saw on the street, you might lower your head a bit when you walk past to make sure you avoid eye contact. Ultimately, I feel mis-casting will lead to the demise of this film. It will have its initial box office splurge with those unaware of previous novels but ultimately, I do not expect this film to have any lasting value.
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The Reboot of ‘Van Helsing’ Nobody Asked For…
May 3, 2012 grizzlyguestwriter 1 Comment
It seems like only 8 years ago, people were watching and being disappointed by the movie Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Now if you’re thinking to yourself, “Man, isn’t it time they remake that film?” then I have to ask, what the hell is wrong with you? But according to the boys over at FilmDrunk, that’s exactly what is happening. Ait get’s better folks, Tom Cruise is said to be attached to this remake.
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Mission Impossible 5: Definitely on the way
Hold onto your butts, because it looks like M:I 5 is now officially… official I guess. It was pretty much a forgone conclusion but I would think that word directly from the mouth of the current VIACOM CEO, Philippe Dauman, is pretty definitive. Check out the snippet below from The Hollywood Reporter:
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Movie Trailer Roundup: Wrath of the Titans, The Dictator, Lock-Out and MORE!
December 21, 2011 Scoot Allan Leave a comment
Wrath of the Titans
Perseus embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades.
Stars: Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, Rosamund Pike, Edgar Ramirez, Danny Huston
Release Date: March 30th, 2012
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CAIR’s 2019 Funding “Islamophobia” Report is Worth a Look
May 10, 2019 ~ Ann Corcoran
Released this week, the Council on American Islamic Relations report contends that over a thousand foundations (listed in the appendix) fund a vast array of organizations who hate Muslims (they say).
Of course my first thought was, well who funded this report endorsed by the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center and who funds CAIR?
And, my second thought was that if there is so much money sloshing around in the “Islamophobia Network,” why haven’t I seen any of it?
I know a lot of citizen volunteers/writers working on educating America about political Islam who work for zip, zero, nada!
Hey, rich foundations! I am over here! (Donation button in right hand side bar!)
Thanks to a reader for sending me the news.
Here is what NPR says about the report,
Mainstream Charities Are Unwittingly Funding Anti-Muslim Hate Groups, Report Says
The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization says that charitable foundations, mostly mainstream, are directly and indirectly giving millions of dollars to anti-Muslim hate groups.
Ms. Heidi (SPLC), an endorser of CAIR’s report, is responsible for the SPLC’s anti-Muslim extremist list that included yours truly. A lawsuit subsequently forced them to remove her discredited research from their website.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations looked at the money trail from 2014 to 2016 from over 1,000 largely mainstream charities to 39 anti-Muslim groups that it calls the “Islamophobia Network.”The report, called “Hijacked by Hate,” was released Monday. It found that nearly $125 million was funneled to these groups. That includes money that was anonymously given through the charitable foundations of wealth management groups like Fidelity Charitable and Schwab.
The hate groups benefiting include ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim group in the country and a registered nonprofit.The group is described by the Anti-Defamation League as an organization that stokes “irrational fear of Muslims.”
Others, like CAIR, call it a hate group for its spreading of misinformation about Islam and fearmongering around the principles Muslims live by.
“Traditional charities and foundations — commercial foundations, community organizations, community foundations, religious foundations — these foundations in philanthropy that make America what it is have been undermined,” said Abbas Barzegar, director of research and advocacy at CAIR. “[They are being] used, or in my mind exploited, to funnel anonymous money from wealthy donors to the Islamophobia Network.”
Continue here.
If you are in store for a rainy weekend where you live, snuggle up with this report and let me know if you find any juicy nuggets worth sharing.
This post is filed in my ‘Charity fraud’ category where you will find more posts on CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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CTTV15@Hotmail.com says:
Joseph Goebbels, Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for twelve years once said…
..“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”..
After reviewing the ‘Islamophobia Network’ Report, and all the people slandered as a part of it, I believe that Mr. Red/Green Axis, ‘Master Propagandist’, Joseph Goebbels, and his boss Adolf Hitler, really have captured the moment we are facing TODAY perfectly, and in the absolute perfect spirit of the CAIR ‘hustlers’ and ‘grifters’ of today.. What a sham ‘report’..
Ironically, the players back then, are the very same players today. See: Grand Mufti and the ‘unholy alliance’ with the Third Reich, and Adolph Hitler..
CAIR and the SPLC could have saved themselves a great deal of time and effort, by simply going to any cattle ranch, and take a walk into the pasture looking for the ‘Bull’, and picking up a pail full of that sometimes-useful-byproduct-of-a BULL – Then show pictures of that muck all over the internet, while whining about their phony – self-proclaimed and manufactured ‘victimization’ status, all the while, complaining about the horrible smell it produces.
Meanwhile, I still live (for the moment anyway) inside the insular walls of OUR nation’s ever growing hell on earth; Minnesota. A place so dangerous now, that my children and grandchildren, cannot enjoy all the wonderful places and things we used to take so for granted just 20 years ago here..The Mall of America – Valley Fair Amusement Park – A stroll around the inner-city lakes in Minneapolis – and so much more..
13 Christian Churches have been burned to the ground here in Minnesota since 2012. No suspects located.. Their have been bombing threats and arson attempts at the St. Cloud, MN City Hall, the St. Paul Cathedral, St. Catherine’s University, and a 5 year-old child was just hurled over a 3 story balcony to the pavement below, at the Mall of America just a few weeks ago.. Again, there is so much more..
‘Islamophobia’? ..’Islamophobia Industry’? ..’Islamophobia Network’? ..In the words of stand-up comedian, Ron White, ‘I don’t think so Scooter’.. Please look up the definition of ‘phobia’ for me..
..“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it’.
‘CAIR: “WE SHOULD NOT HIRE NON-MUSLIMS”
CAIR postures as a civil rights organization. But it isn’t interested in civil rights, but in sharia rights.
And infidels who work for it discover that, just as at they did at Al Jazeera America, infidels are expected to know their place.
By Daniel Greenfield, May 9, 2019:
stp479 says:
SPLC will always be the Lie Center to me.
Great. Published: http://bit.ly/2HeJVCo
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 7:31 AM Frauds, Crooks and Criminals wrote:
> Ann Corcoran posted: “Released this week, the Council on American Islamic > Relations report contends that over a thousand foundations (listed in the > appendix) fund a vast array of organizations who hate Muslims (they say). > Of course my first thought was, well who funded this r” >
Rostislav says:
“…a lot of citizen volunteers/writers working on educating America about political Islam” – to me it sounds kind of “…a lot of citizen volunteers working on persuading blind folks about the sunrise beauty”. It’s hardly possible to educate people, who have happily parted with their ability to think (I do not mean CAIR or, say, SPLC, whose propagandists are able to think pretty well and in a pretty evil way).
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Utah: Nigerian Charged in Murder of College Student
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For the fear of John Brown
Jason Brown blundered into a posse out to arrest him on his way to Lawrence. He meant to stop at Ottawa Jones’ and then proceed to surrender himself in friendly circumstances. That would, he must have hoped, spare him the fate of Reese Brown. Instead, he walked right up to a group of armed Missourians. Expecting that they wouldn’t know him, he asked directions and got what may have been the final surprise of his life in learning that they did. Some quick questioning confirmed it, at which point they collected his money and a revolver before ordering him out in front of the group for a clear shot.
With nothing left to lose, and probably more than a little of his father’s forthrightness, John Brown’s second son declared himself an abolitionist, bared his breast, and dared them to shoot. That took things too far for some of the Missourians, who put their guns down. Others would have gone ahead, but their leader called it off and took Jason prisoner instead. The combination of bravery and a revulsion toward killing unresisting white men likely did the trick.
The Missourians marched Jason off toward Sterling Cato’s court at Paola. He had more rest than his elder brother had the night before, but after several days with the Pottawatomie Rifles on little sleep, then the stress of learning what his father and brothers had done, proved too much for Jason’s body. During a rest, he sat down and fell dead asleep. That prompted a new round of threats on his life after the Missourians roused Jason, but he kept on making antislavery speeches and it seemed to have an effect on a few of them. They saw to it that Jason had a good bed and gave back his money and gun once the group arrived in town.
At Paola, Jason found his older brother, John. He also got to see firsthand the fear that his father’s murders had spread among the proslavery party. The day after he and John got put into a room with two guards, after spending some time playing cards, Jason hit the hay. John remained up a little longer, then climbed in with him. John Junior woke to
the sudden opening of the outside door and the rushing in of a number of men with drawn bowie-knives. Seizing the candle, and saying, ‘Which are they?’ they crowded around our bed with uplifted knives.
Telling the story afterward, Junior has Jason still dead asleep. Confronted with murderous men and fearing a torturous death for his brother, Junior opted for a novel solution:
I opened the bosom of his shirt, and pointing to the region of his heart, said, ‘Strike here!’
Maybe Junior meant it just as he said; others have made such terrible calculations. His fragile mental state must have played a part too. Either way, he dared them to do it quickly. Such challenges rely on people not ready to do what they propose, a dangerous gamble given the circumstances and the stakes. The presence of testimony from Jason tells us that he survived the night, but it may have come down to fear rather than an attack of conscience:
At this moment the sudden and loud barking of dogs outside and a hurrying of steps on the porch caused a most lively stampede of our assailants within, and this attack was ended without a blow.
The proslavery men had a note from the boys’ father, or at least what purported to be one. It came to them from the hands of one of their own and therein Brown declared that he knew they had Junior and Jason. When the dogs raised the alarm, they believed John Brown had come and raced to defend themselves. They left the brothers in peace for the rest of the night.
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The Remedy of Folly: The Crime Against Kansas, Part 12
Charles Sumner (Republican-MA)
Prologue, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Full text
Charles Sumner would have none of this notion of fixing Kansas by calling it all a fait accompli and castigating antislavery Kansans for protesting the illegitimacy of the government erected over them by proslavery men out of Missouri. They had sacred rights of self-government, the patrimony of all white American men freshly promised to them by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. To cede that meant knuckling under to tyranny, just as bad King George demanded of Americans.
The second solution Sumner’s foes offered, “which, indeed, is also a Remedy of Tyranny; but its Folly is so surpassing as to eclipse even its Tyranny.” This time around, perfidy came not from Franklin Pierce -he must have needed a break; few presidents have done better at doing worse- but Andrew Butler of South Carolina. Butler’s “single contribution” deserved to have his name on it, but Sumner gave it “a more suggestive synonym.” In other words: Butler, thy name is folly.
Sumner quoted the other Senator directly:
The President of the United States is under the highest and most solemn obligations to interpose; and if I were to indicate the manner in which he should interpose in Kansas, I would point out the old common law process. I would serve a warrant on Sharpe’s rifles, and if Sharpe’s rifles did not answer the summons, and come into court on a day certain, or if they resisted the sheriff, I would summon the posse comitatus, and would have Colonel Sumner’s regiment to be a part of that posse comitatus.
Butler wanted Pierce to order the seizure of antislavery arms and send the Army and militia down upon them if they refused, largely as happened in Kansas even as Sumner spoke. He proposed Wilson Shannon’s solution: disarm the antislavery side and leave them at the mercy of the proslavery party.
Andrew Butler (D-SC)
Per Sumner, that would deprive antislavery Kansans of their “tutelary protector against the red man and the beast of the forest.” They had a Second Amendment right on top of that, which a former judge of many years ought to know. Had Butler forgotten his law? His past honors could not make it look any better: Andrew Butler wanted freedom’s friends in Kansas stripped of the means to defend themselves before savage foes. Sumner reiterated nineteenth century racism in putting the Native Americans among them and in the company of wild animals. He went a step further, by implication, and lumped the proslavery whites in together with the lot. Maybe Sumner didn’t view them as exactly equivalent -they had white skin, after all- but he took enough care in his writing to mean the audience to draw the inference.
Leave a comment Posted in Bleeding Kansas, Road to War Tagged American Indians, Andrew Butler, Antislavery, Charles Sumner, Franklin Pierce, Republicans, Wilson Shannon
How to be a white supremacist
Gentle Readers, let’s talk white supremacy. We do that almost all the time here, but usually in the context of other things. That makes it easy to let some details slip through the cracks. I think most Americans get the most basic idea: whites come first, everyone else possesses debatable humanity. I realized a few weeks back, in the course of talking with others, that I ought to pay more attention to the myriad ways that simple idea wends its way through our lives.
Most people would probably agree that an individual who expresses belief in the racial superiority of whites or the inferiority of non-whites to whites counts as white supremacist. The guy in the brown shirt with the red armband and the other guy in the white hood believe things like that. We have agreed, at least in mixed company, that this makes them monstrous. They believe in horrible things and countenance historical atrocities and present injustices which we righteously condemn. They have no fit place in polite society and we have an obligation to do what we can to contain them and limit the harm they do, so far as we can do so and remain faithful to other vital principles. If they wheel out racist pseudoscience, whether vintage nineteenth century or the more recent sort, that makes them a hard case. Sometimes they receive a kinder hearing than they should, but mostly the convention holds. We should call those people out and keep to our norms. Such clear expressions of racial hatred serve as calls to action and precursors for new horrors. People may do harm with or without our saying so, but they will understand silence as permission.
We do not, however much we may wish otherwise, live in a world where villainy so eagerly announces itself. Admitting that puts us in a bind. In making those who express open racial animus into pariahs, exiled by their deplorable ideas, we easily slip into a second corollary. Something we consider so vile, we cannot imagine occurring with any great frequency. We imagine racists as freaks, so different that we can’t imagine knowing them. We have made racism into a crime near unto murder, yet with no victims. Someone far away or long ago did horrible things, but we finished that and now we have sad, hateful remnants who don’t really warrant our attention. Racism simultaneously counts for a great deal and doesn’t matter at all. It then makes no sense for us to go looking for it.
By we, I must clarify, I mean myself and other white Americans. We have the luxury of these conventions written on our skin. Their costs we carve into the lives of others. I have done it myself more times than I care to remember. We have arranged our civilization to let us do it without thinking, but even when we choose thoughtlessly, we still choose. Suffer me this story to illustrate:
The worst physical injury I have yet endured came when two boys pushed me down on the playground. I landed with my left hand forward. Rather than catching myself, the radius and ulna both broke. My hand drove up between them and one of the bones lay lengthwise across the back of it. The doctors told us that I had one of the worst fractures they ever treated without operating. It still hurts when it gets cold sometimes, almost a quarter century later. I can’t imagine many people I have actually met whom I have cause to like less than those two boys, who suffered no punishment for doing it. But I have known since the day it happened that they did not come at me thinking that they would break my bones and leave me with occasional pain for decades after. They set out to shove me away, perhaps to the ground, but not to rearrange my skeleton.
Some part of that day will always be in the present tense for me. Others have suffered far worse with a grace I can’t muster; I don’t write this to ask your sympathy for childhood pains. Rather hope you can understand that what those boys meant to do on the playground didn’t matter. Their not meaning to hurt me did not preserve me from harm. No amount of good intentions saved my bones and spared me fleeting pain. Even had they simply bumped into me in the hall, not meaning to lay a hand on me, the bones got broken. I felt, and sometimes still feel, the pain of the moment. That matters. We live with the things done to us in flesh and blood far more than we ever will the intentions that drove them.
We can perform white supremacist actions without conscious intention to do so; I know I have. We can say, perhaps honestly, that we didn’t mean it. People get hurt all the same. I maintain that we do so more often than not, habitually privileging the interests, concerns, and ultimately the lives of white Americans above those of anybody else. The people of Flint have poison coming out of their faucets because white people chose to allow it. They suffer not an iota less if we meant otherwise. The government of Michigan, my state, poisoned them all. It has lately appealed a court ruling that the state must deliver that water to residents, rather than make them come to collect their daily rations. No one made the state file that appeal; they chose it, knowing that the less accessible they make drinking water the more likely they are to force the residents to use the poison flowing from their taps all the same. Flint has a majority black population. A mostly white government with a mostly white constituency prefers poisoning them to supplying them with basic necessities, even when that government has only itself to blame for the poisoning.
Say that the people of Michigan did not vote for this. (We didn’t, though when we voted as we did we could reasonably have expected a cavalier attitude toward black lives.) Say that the state government did not mean for it to happen or didn’t know it could. (They knew.) It doesn’t matter. Flint’s residents of all ages got to drink poison all the same. Pleading good intentions will not change that, though it does an admirable job of distracting us from white supremacy in grotesque operation.
Keeping on the theme of water, an oil company wants to build a pipeline through North Dakota. It would have run right by Bismarck, the state capital. The people there believed that this would put their drinking water at risk. Oil does tend to spill; pipes do fail. In response to the concerns of Bismark’s people, which we can all understand, the pipeline got rerouted through a Sioux reservation, Standing Rock. The Sioux, who know something about living on the business end of genocide for the past few centuries, objected too. They would also prefer that they and their children did not drink poison, as well as that an oil pipeline not run through their sacred lands. For some time now they have conducted a large, peaceful protest against the construction, to which the police have responded with violence. That includes spraying water on the protesters at night, in November on the high plains, which ought to count as lethal force all by itself.
I understand that many people stand to make a great deal of money off this pipeline, including the man who lost the late presidential election. But when the people of Bismarck objected to the route endangering their water, plans changed. Ninety percent of the people who live in that city can boast white skin, which goes a long way. The Sioux cannot, so they get to have their children poisoned and their holy places despoiled. Their resistance, not that of Bismarck, brought down the heavy hand of the law. Here, as in Flint and as we do in countless other times and places, people made a decision. White children don’t deserve poisoned water. No one will drive a pipeline through one of Bismarck’s churches. The Sioux have no such immunity. Their concerns, lives, and culture don’t count any more than the people of Flint do.
It may be that some of the people who made the decisions for Flint and North Dakota exulted at the thought of afflicting minorities. If I have learned anything from the research I do for this blog, I have learned to never underestimate the power of pure malice. But it doesn’t matter if they acted with depraved hearts, they did what they did. We can’t know fully the minds of others, however much we try, but they write their actions on the bodies of their victims. The rest of us must make our own choices then. Even if we can’t follow every issue and understand each controversy, we decide when they come before us. We can refuse to allow such things to happen in our name or we can turn away and tell stories about well-meaning mistakes and oversights, reducing those genuinely harmed to an irrelevant detail. A band of neo-Nazis or Klansmen might harm people by the score, but all of us standing by play our part in far greater crimes. A gang can kill dozens or hundreds; policy, silent assent, and willful blindness reach millions.
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The Buford Expedition, Part Ten: A Letter to the Wyandotte
Walter Lynwood Fleming
Fleming’s paper is available here (PDF) or in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume IV (huge PDF).
Previous Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
We left Jefferson Buford’s men in Mobile, where they got the Bibles that Montgomery proved too impious to have on hand in sufficient numbers. Armed with books, if possibly not guns, Buford’s men embarked on the Florida for New Orleans. They picked up a few more men there and divided themselves between the America and Oceana to steam up the Mississippi for St. Louis. They arrived on April 23, 1856. According to Fleming,
The people of St. Louis rated Buford’s enterprise very highly, and regarded him as the best friend of Kansas in the whole South.
St. Louis leaned slightly antislavery, but that didn’t make them abolitionists. They stuck by Thomas Hart Benton through his preaching silence and compromise on slavery, combined with quite a bit of carping at antislavery agitators. St. Louis could very well understand Buford as a legitimate counter to antislavery radicals who had set up their own government in Kansas.
While in St. Louis, Buford wrote ahead to a Colonel William Walker, who Fleming describes as the governor of “Nebraska Territory”, a Wyandotte Indian establishment predating white settlement. He doesn’t use the word, but this sounds like a reservation. Buford refers to it as “the Wyandotte reserve.” Eufaula, Alabama’s favorite son wanted to settle on Wyandotte land “provided that the tribe will freely consent to my doing so, but not otherwise.” That sounds terribly broad-minded of Buford. He promised to place
only orderly, good citizens, -among them blacksmiths, carpenters, brick and stone masons, physicians, school teachers, agricultural laborers, etc., etc., and any who becomes obnoxious to the Indians I wold have removed.
Thomas Hart Benton
Previously whites could not settle on Indian country at all unless they had a license as an Indian agent or worked as missionaries. I don’t know that the organization of a territorial government ended those restrictions; Andrew Reeder got in hot water, officially, in part for speculating in Indian lands. In advance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the United States negotiated cessions from Indian reservations but some continued in Kansas at least up through statehood in 1861. If Indians could not sell to Reeder, then I don’t know how they could grant Buford’s men permission to settle. The law may have changed or settlement might matter less than sale to it. Buford could also have just not done his homework, as he found that land preemption didn’t work quite like he thought previously. Or he might have expected that once his men had occupation of the land, their very whiteness would extinguish Wyandotte rights.
Regardless, Buford predicted
both parties would be benefited, and especially would it aid your views in building up your city of Wyandotte, which, by the way, seems the place endowed by nature for the great town of the Territory.
He closed with his hope that they would soon meet in person.
Jefferson Buford’s stay in St. Louis featured more than warm welcomes and letters to Indian chiefs. Someone broke into one of his trunks and made off with $5000. Buford never saw it again.
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Governor Robinson’s Army
Charles Lawrence Robinson
Sorry for the late post, Gentle Readers. I erred in scheduling it.
Charles Robinson, Kansas’ new Republican governor illegally and legitimately elected, had harsh words for the legally appointed, illegally elected, illegitimate territorial government. Beyond words, he did not encourage Kansas’ newly-seated free state legislature to take radical steps. Rather they should endure what slings and arrows may come, waiting for Congress to come to the territory’s rescue by admitting them as a state. But forbearance only reached so far. The Governor preached both the standard points of a man in his position and something far more radical.
Kansas, Robinson told the legislature (PDF), had an Indian problem. At the very least, they needed to ensure no one plied the Indians with alcohol. Really, they ought to do more:
Exposed as our citizens are to the scalping-knife of the savage on the west, and to the revolver and hatchet of the assassin on the east, a thorough and early organization of the militia is urgently called for. By the Constitution, this duty devolves upon the General Assembly. Measures should at once be taken to encourage the organization of volunteer companies, and to procure the arms to which the State is entitled.
Robinson said something that most Americans would have found nigh-unthinkable. Kansas’ problem with proslavery Missourian invaders warranted more than ad hoc, informal, or private armed bands to repel. It deserved answering precisely the same way as the depredations of presumed savages. He specified that to the east, in Missouri, Kansas faced “assassins” rather than “savages” but he proscribed the same cure for both.
If the Assembly acted, then no longer would free state militias have to shelter under the paper he pushed on Wilson Shannon a few months back. This would both clean up the difficulty of militias drawing their legitimacy from a government they rejected and align the free state government officially with them. Few people could have taken past denials of militia involvement by the movement’s political arm seriously before now, but Robinson suggested that his new government needed a proper army. In an era when the United States had a tiny army, augmented greatly in time of war by state militias and other volunteers, this pushed very close to claiming the prerogatives of a nation as well as a state. Furthermore, by officially linking themselves to these militias Robinson and his administration made themselves clearly responsible.
Under ordinary circumstances, none of that would amount to much. Few more extraordinary circumstances have existed for an American government than Robinson’s. If his militia clashed with Missourians come over to help secure slavery in Kansas, then his government would exceed Missouri’s own. Given that the President of the United States had declared thoroughly for Kansas’ legal, proslavery government, this raised the serious specter that the Kansas free state militia might clash with militias in the national service. That, by any reasonable definition then or now, would make him a traitor.
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Governor Robinson and the Indians
The new Kansas legislature, illegal to the national government and near enough to legitimate for most Kansans, got down to business on Wednesday, March 5, 1856. Said business began with a message from their new governor, Charles Robinson. The day before he had only given inaugural remarks. Now he needed to do an official message, much as Andrew Reeder did the previous July. He gravely informed the legislators that their work would require all their “learning, judgment, and prudence”. He pointed to Kansas’ diversity: people from every state and country, differing in “institutions, religion, education, habits, and tastes.”
Also in our midst are several independent nations, and on our borders, both west and east, are outside invaders.
What invaders Robinson saw to the west of Kansas, I can’t say. Given that the “several independent nations” he mentions came in the form of Indian reservations, he might mean some hostile tribes off in the future Colorado. If those nations had shown any real hostility, let alone in invasion, I haven’t seen evidence of it. Like many white Americans, Robinson may have simply assumed that any Indian he didn’t personally know wanted to take his involuntary donation to Locks of Love. That he describes adjacent reservations as simply nations whilst taking the others as invaders suggests as much. He might also have referenced a rumor that the proslavery side would make some kind of deal to receive Indian aid. While I have not read any such rumor, I have seen the reverse version where Robinson and company would enlist Indian tribes. It would stand to reason that both versions existed.
The majority of Robinson’s speech involves to mundane necessities and standard nineteenth century boilerplate. The legislature had to fill these appointed officers. It ought to see to the schools. It would need to establish taxes. It would also, of course, have to write a law to keep free blacks out of Kansas. And they simply had to do something about alcohol:
The indiscriminate sale of intoxicating drinks in a State like Kansas, where are numerous Indian tribes, is productive of much mischief. Some tribes within our borders are still uncivilized and indulge their appetites without restraint, while many of the other tribes are equally unfortunate.
To this, Kansas’ Indians could answer by pointing to how the whites conducted themselves, alcohol or no, but one can’t expect a nineteenth century white man to grant the point. Still, Robinson came closer than one might expect, declaring the use of alcohol in general an obstacle to
the health, morals, and good order and prosperity of any community, and the traffic in them is an unmitigated evil
He hasn’t convinced this teetotaler, but at least Robinson agreed in principle that white people could have serious problems with drink. The Indians simply had it worse because of their allegedly inferior civilization and race. They might, in unguarded moments, say the same about the Irish. Few whites at the time would have defending providing alcohol to Indians, whatever their position on Irishmen. Fewer still would have agreed that the Indians had extensive grievances with their vaunted white race which might drive them to drink or violence, even among those who literally stood on the land that they had personally and through their government just seized from said Indians and looked ever-poised to take still more.
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Politics at Topeka, Part Four
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With the issue of restricting suffrage to only white men and Indians who adopted their habits resolved, the Topeka Convention got into more serious matters still. Back at Big Springs at the start of September, almost the entire convention voted in favor of a black law for Kansas. This law would exclude free blacks from the territory. As the free state men wrote their constitution, the black law naturally came up again. William Phillips reports that
The article relative to the exclusion of free negroes, called the “black-law,” created considerable discussion. Many wished to include it in the constitution. This resolution was one of the humbugs, or tests, which decide nothing, while they create a party. In deciding upon its merits neither Legislature nor people took a true or comprehensive view of the question.
Where does genuine racism end and party interest begin? The black law certainly had partisan aspects. Many westerners demanded it as the price of their cooperation with the more egalitarian New England contingent. However, political interest rarely comes entirely independent of genuine belief.
To have a community of white people only is certainly desirable; but, instead of discussing this in connection with its comparative justice and humanity, the whole issue turned thus. An advocate of the measure would get a man by the button-hole, and say:
“Look here,-this black-law is a great thing. They accuse us Kansas folks of being abolitionists. Now we an’t abolitionists, are we?”
“No, sir-ee-I know we an’t; so the thing is to vote for the ‘black-law,’ and that will prove we an’t ‘abolitionists’.”
So Kansas voted for the “black-law” to demonstrate that she was not an “abolitionist.”
James Henry Lane
Phillips’ invented dialog eschewing abolition reflects political interests. Disclaiming any abolitionism went on at Big Springs as well. We can understand that as party-building and a demonstration of the relative strength of the more western, more intensely racist contingent. It also might serve their purposes when the free state constitutions reached Kansas. A black law could shield them against some Southern fears that they would come into the Union as another Massachusetts. But by his own admission he finds an all-white Kansas preferable. Such laws had passed in western states in recent memory. In Race & Politics: Bleeding Kansas and the Coming of the Civil War, James Rawley has a New York Times reporter observe that westerners
are terribly frightened at the idea of being overrun by negroes. They hold to the idea that negroes are dangerous to the State and a nuisance, and measures have to be taken to prevent them from migrating to the territory.
If one swapped “property values” for “territory” the sentiment could come from the quiet admission of a modern realtor. Politics play their part here, but they came from a genuine, deep fear and loathing of black Americans. The James Lane and his westerners felt it more keenly than Charles Robinson and his New Englanders. They had the numbers so they prevailed.
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Free State Men Coming Together
Martin F. Conway
The convention-goers at Lawrence could not decide if they went too far or not too far enough. Jim Lane pressed them not to anger other states and find some middle road in a struggle against proslavery men who wanted them silenced, imprisoned, excluded from politics, or driven from the state. A Mr. Holliday insisted that they had gone down the same impotent path as the free state movement had before by meeting, having speeches, and resolutions. None of that had accomplished anything. They must instead organize military companies. Martin F. Conway considered their gathering a party affair and didn’t think it proper that they go on to write a constitution.
The discussions continued on Wednesday, August 15. After notes about the opening prayer and reading of the minutes, the Herald of Freedom reports that the convention took up Charles Robinson’s second proposed resolution. This one declared the acts of the proslavery legislature illegitimate and thus not binding. As James Lane first rose to object to just such a resolution, he rose and submitted an amendment to it that the convention referred to committee. Then Mr. Holliday had his say again:
Mr. Holliday spoke briefly, but to the point, upon the resolution, and said he was glad that during the night the conflicting elements of the day previous had been harmonized, that he believed all parties would united in adopting the Majority report.
Sounds like some combination of back room politics and horse trading carried the day. The paper recounts several others declaring their support, if with some cavils about wording. A Reverend Gilpatrick struck a note of sympathy with moderates by reiterating the theme Charles Robinson took up back on the Fourth of July:
The question is not whether we will have slaves in Kansas; but whether we will be slaves ourselves. A worse than Vandal horde are riveting chains upon us. For myself, I will not consent they shall do it. I would rather go to a southern plantation and labor by the side of the meanest slave, and be compelled to toil for life, than submit to the degradation and kind of enslavement proposed to be heaped upon us.
Robinson himself, who came with all his Massachusetts abolitionist baggage, struck a similarly conciliatory, coalition-building note in taking up Conway’s scruples. The Herald of Freedom reported:
He could not consent that a movement for framing a State Constitution should originate in this Convention. He would be happy to meet with a Convention of the PEOPLE at large at another time
So everyone got along now. Over the night they talked through their differences and came to a meeting of the minds. But there remained a bone of controversy between them. That matter deserves its own post, which will come Monday.
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Eager and Reluctant Revolutionaries
Paschal & Eudora Fish, courtesy of Wikipedia user Bhall87
The adoption of the first of Charles Robinson’s committee’s resolutions by the Lawrence convention did not signal an end to dissent among the free state ranks. It did, however, win the approval of a party often forgotten in popular history. The Herald of Freedom reports that Paschal Fish, a Shawnee man, rose to speak:
I am glad to see all of you here; I am glad you are laboring to make good laws as your fathers did before you. I am well pleased, very well pleased all day long, with what you have done. I said I was in favor of a free State, and I am not backward to say it.
One can’t miss the distinctions here. Fish might share the politics of the white convention, but he knows all too well that they’ve come to decide their fate in Kansas rather than his. In his five decades, Fish had seen his tribe moved from Ohio to Kansas. Their settlement had to yield to white settlement. It might easily do so again. Indians, according to white Americans, simply had to give way. Such backward folk could not impede the inevitable progress of a more advanced race.
Fish’s statement rejects that idea both at its most literal level, declaring himself no more backward than anyone else, and politically. In adopting antislavery politics and participating in the white man’s convention, he acted as a progressive, forward-looking white man would. Fish had apparently long adopted that strategy. He operated a hotel , a ferry, and had worked for the Army at Fort Leavenworth. If anybody lived up to the nineteenth century humanitarian vision of Indians taking up white culture and integrating into white America, he did. So did many of his fellow Shawnee, who operated farms and otherwise acted just like white settlers. Contemporaries considered them barely Indians at all and credited the white blood in their veins.
Not everyone had quite Fish’s enthusiasm, though. The same Mr. Holliday that wanted Robinson’s resolutions referred to a new committee for revision had a good point about the convention’s activity to date:
Mr. Holliday says the action contemplated is not efficient enough. It is doing over and over again what has been done before. I endorse every sentiment embraced in those resolutions, and I go further, and am in favor of some which were suppressed in the committee recommending the formation of military companies for self-protection.
The had had resolutions before. They had had a convention before. This did not suit Holliday, who could point to just how little success the free state men had so far enjoyed. Couldn’t they see that the time for mere words had passed? But setting up formal military companies seemed still a bridge too far for most.
Even less provoked some qualms from Martin F. Conway, the free state man who quit his seat in the Assembly before it even met. His “brief remarks” argued
the impropriety of a movement for a State Constitution originating in a Party meeting; and maintaining that such an enterprise should be the work of the people at large.
Would they ever get anything done, save talking? One doesn’t lightly contemplate armed strife and the antislavery party deserve some credit for not rushing to it, occasional bursts of martial rhetoric aside, but in times like theirs attachment to procedural formalities and moderation can lead to utter paralysis. Holliday must have seen that among his fellows. With the record they had assembled, one struggles to argue otherwise.
Fairness demands, however, that we note the diverse and fragile coalition that the free state movement had. They might have benefited from haste, as Holliday suggested, but it might also have split the movement.
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The Sixteenth District, Part Six
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Matt France, Andrew Reeder’s other free state judge of the election in the Sixteenth District, lasted a bit longer than David Brown. Like Brown, he had someone approach him and suggest he resign. In this case, France had a brother who stood for election and the conflict of interest raises obvious concerns. But to judge from his testimony, France’s brother seems peripheral. The real issue remained whether or not France would accept the fraudulent votes of Missourian border ruffians, though his brother’s involvement may have stiffened France’s resolve. The proslavery judge, Lewis N. Rees, also had a brother in the election.
The night before the election, Rees floated the idea that the whole panel should resign.
The idea he expressed was that we could have to let them vote or they would use violence. I concluded not to resign, and Rees said he would not resign unless I did.
So far, so good. Then the judges had to swear one another in. Rees, as other proslavery judges had in other districts, refused to take Andrew Reeder’s oath. Nor did David Brown’s replacement judge. They invented their own and the election proceeded:
I think I challenged the third vote offered that day, on the ground that I did not think him a resident. I asked him where he resided, he replied that his family resided in Saline county, Missouri, that he came into the Territory the day before, and intended to go back home immediately after the election.
France didn’t insist on refusing to let him vote, but did want that Missourian to swear an oath. The other judges overruled him.
The other judges decided that we had no right to swear any man, that every person on the ground was a legal voter. They would not administer the oath, and received the vote. I objected, and told them that I should insist upon every man being sworn whom we did not know. They objected to it, and continued to take votes over my head. Everybody who applied to vote that day voted, except some Delaware Indians. The Wyandotts voted.
Andrew Reeder’s instructions to the judges and qualifications for voters explicitly prohibited any Indian or mixed-blooded person from voting. I hope most of us find that disgusting, but to most nineteenth century Americans letting an Indian vote in an election made as much sense as letting a black man or a woman vote. To France, this clearly demonstrated just how the judges cast aside almost every standard he could think of to admit the Missourians to the polls.
I went into the index of Nichole Etcheson’s Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era hoping to find some clues as to why the judges let the Wyandotte vote. She doesn’t appear to address what set the Wyandotte apart from the Delaware directly, but offers a few interesting facts in discussing the origins of the Kansas–Nebraska Act:
Wyandot Indians took the first steps by repeatedly petitioning Congress to organize a territory. In October 1852, the Wyandot elected Abelard Guthire, a white man with a Wyandot wife, as territorial delegate. Guthrie lobbied congressmen on territorial status for the area west of Missouri.
The index includes no reference to the Delaware. From this I get the sense that the Wyandotte may have endeared themselves to the Missourians by their early pressing for territorial organization. But it also might come down to something as prosaic as the judges recognizing the particular Wyandotte men who came to vote as reliably proslavery.
Back at the election, Matt France sat there through the day, overruled two to one again and again:
I did not consider anything legal about it, but remained to see the thing through. I signed the return after scratching out the words “lawful resident voters.” After some discussion between the judges, we all signed the return in the same way.
That sent quite a message back to Andrew Reeder: They, the judges of the election charged with ensuring that only lawful voters voted, would not sign off on their polls accepting only lawful voters. When someone brave enough to risk it contested the election, Reeder ordered a new one for the district.
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Improvisational Indian music ‘Arohi Ensemble’ to perform at Fresno State
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With a heavy Indian music influence, the Arohi Ensemble’s “ragajazz” repertoire features original compositions and improvisations with influences from Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, jazz and western chamber music.
The World Music Series presents the “Arohi Ensemble” at 8 p.m. Friday, March 22 in the Fresno State Concert Hall. Tickets are $25 general, $18 seniors and $5 for students. Parking is free in lot P1.
The seven-piece group is led by Paul Livingstone, Los Angeles based sitarist and one of the few American disciples of the legendary Ravi Shankar and Pt. Rajeev Taranath. The other virtuoso musicians, include Pedro Eustache, bansuri, flutes & world winds; Partho Sarothy, sarod; Peter Jacobson, cello; Abhijit Banerjee, tabla; Dave Lewis, drums; Somnath Roy, ghatum and folk percussion.
The concert is sponsored by the Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts and co-sponsored by the Orpheus Chamber Music Ensemble.
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Roller derby, free clothes and March Madness on the next Fresno State Focus
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"It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare."
―Leigh Brackett to Laurie Strode[src]
Name: Leigh Brackett
Known aliases: Sheriff Brackett
Location: Haddonfield, Illinois
Known Relatives: Joanne Brackett (wife)
Annie Brackett (daughter; deceased)
Unnamed younger brother
Death: October 31 1999 (Legends only)
Portrayed By: Charles Cyphers
First Appearance: Halloween
Leigh Brackett is a character in the Halloween franchise. He first appeared in the original Halloween, played by Charles Cyphers.
In the movie Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, a retcon was established which removed Halloween 4, 5, and 6 from continuity. As a result, the biography of this Leigh Brackett is drastically different to the one who appears the H20 timeline onwards. This version of the character appears in Halloween, Halloween II and Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes.
Biography (Canon) Edit
Leigh Brackett was born in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. When he was a teenager, he started to date Judith Myers. While he was dating her, he learned that her father was abusive towards her. Leigh also thought that Judith had a strange relationship with her younger brother Michael. The relationship lasted for a short time, ending when Leigh left for college. When he learned of her death, Leigh decided to become a cop. Once he was on the force, he started to uncover the history of Haddonfield and its connection to the druid religion. He eventually became the sheriff of Haddonfield. At some point he got married and had a daughter named Annie. On October 31st, 1978, Sheriff Brackett responded to a call about a break-in at Nichol's Hardware Store. Accompanied by his deputies, he determined that only a few items had been stolen, including a mask, a length of rope and a knife.
He soon learned the identity of the perpetrator when he encountered a psychiatrist from Warren County named Doctor Samuel Loomis. Loomis told Sheriff Brackett that "evil" had come to his little town in the form of an escaped mental patient named Michael Myers. Although Brackett took Loomis' warning with fair measure, there was little action he could take. Sam advised keeping a look-out for Michael Myers and the two agreed to conduct a stake out at the old, abandoned Myers house.
By the following evening, nothing had occurred to give Sheriff Brackett any further cause for alarm, but Loomis insisted that his men and he should conduct an intensive city-wide search for Myers. He recounted how Myers had stolen the headstone of his late sister, Judith, but Sheriff Brackett dismissed his concerns, citing it as nothing more than a Halloween prank.
Leigh learns that his only daughter is dead
Brackett quickly discovered that Loomis' concerns were warranted, for on that same evening, Michael Myers brutally murdered the sheriff's daughter, Annie. [1]
It was his own deputy Gary Hunt, who discovered Annie Brackett's body and informed her father. Sheriff Brackett blamed Loomis for the crime, accusing him of letting Michael out in the first place. Now that he was ready to take the psychiatrist seriously, Brackett called in all of his resources to conduct a search for Michael Myers. He then went home to tell his wife of the news about their daughter. [2]
Leigh retired in 1981 and his family moved to Pennsylvania, his position being taken over by Ben Meeker. [3]
Biography (Legends) Edit
Brackett quickly discovered that Loomis' concerns were warranted, for on that same evening, Michael Myers brutally murdered the sheriff's daughter, Annie.
It was his own deputy Gary Hunt, who discovered Annie Brackett's body and informed her father. Sheriff Brackett blamed Loomis for the crime, accusing him of letting Michael out in the first place. Now that he was ready to take the psychiatrist seriously, Brackett called in all of his resources to conduct a search for Michael Myers. He then went home to tell his wife of the news about their daughter.
Leigh retired in 1981 and his family moved to Pennsylvania, his position being taken over by Ben Meeker.
In 1999, Leigh returned to Haddonfield to try and kill Michael and his first stop was the Myers house. Once he arrived, he found someone was there and shot the individual that he believed was Michael. Leigh soon discovered that it was not the killer but rather Richie Castle. Knowing that leaving the body would bring him more trouble, Leigh took Richie's body and stuffed it into his car. Leigh drove off towards the outskirts of town and, as soon as he started to dig a grave for Richie, he noticed someone was watching him. The person said it was the police, but Leigh knew better. It was actually Tommy Doyle.
Tommy questioned Leigh about what he was doing in town and the body in his car. Leigh showed him Richie's corpse and told him that it was a mistake as he had thought it was Michael. Tommy pointed a gun towards Leigh and told him that he knew that Leigh knew more then he let on. Leigh revealed his knowledge of the town's history, its curse and the Myers family, and also told Tommy that knowing all that information had been eating him up for years. He then asked Tommy to put the gun down and help him.
Tommy did so but demanded to know what Leigh had known for years. Brackett recounted the entire history of Haddonfield and how most citizens were descendants of the founders, who were druids. When Tommy questioned if Leigh was one of them, he promptly responded that his family had come to Haddonfield in 1901. Tommy was still curious as to how Leigh discovered all this but the only reply given was that as a cop he investigated. Leigh continued by telling of Michael's birth and how he was a normal boy until the night Judith was murdered. Tommy asked where Leigh got the information on the Myers family so Leigh told him he had learned it from reading Dr. Loomis' diaries, which he received after Loomis had died.
Michael murders Leigh
As Tommy attempted to question more, they realized that the Cult of Thorn was surrounding them. Mrs. Blankenship was leading the group and ordered to take Leigh and Tommy to Haddonfield Church. The two were tied up in the basement but were saved by the priest who untied them. Before they could get out of the basement, Michael appeared behind the priest and killed him. Leigh watched in shock as Tommy tried to attack Michael. Michael pushed Tommy aside as Leigh got a lantern and smashed it onto Michael's mask, lighting it on fire. In response, Michael stabbed Leigh in the heart, killing him. Tommy was subsequently blamed for Brackett's murder until he was proven innocent.
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Sheriff Leigh Brackett is the last person killed by Michael Myers in the 4-6 timeline.
In the 1979 novelization of Halloween, Sheriff Leigh Brackett divulges some information on the Myers family history while he is driving to the Myers house with Dr. Loomis on Halloween night 1978. Sheriff Leigh Brackett says that the sheriff of Haddonfield in 1963 was Ron Barstow. On Halloween night 1963, while he was at the Myers residence, sheriff Ron Barstow overheard Edith saying "It's come back" or "It's happened again" over and over again. Shortly after Sheriff Ron Barstow went to the town hall and researched the Myers family history. He found out that in the 1890's, Michael and Judith's maternal great-grandfather shot a couple who were in attendance at a grange dance on Halloween for seemingly no explicable reason. He was arrested and had been hung. How sheriff Leigh Brackett learned of this information is not explained.
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Northants, second, have four of the Top 20
Essex, third have three of the Top 20
Three sides have only one bowler in the Top 20: Hampshire, Leicestershire and Kent
They are the bottom three sides in the table
It strikes me as interesting also, that of the Top 20 bowlers, five are 35 years old or more and eleven are over 30 – including Tomlinson of Hampshire (31)
Another Taylor Record
Brad Taylor finally got to score a run today and actually scored 20 from 27 balls. In 1907, Kennedy on debut registered 0 & 0*, so Taylor is now the youngest man ever to score a Championship run for Hampshire. In addition, Wheater and Coles added a record 8th wicket partnership for Hampshire v Lancashire and Hampshire’s fourth innings was their highest ever against Lancashire (beating 1962).
Shame about days two and three.
… England, having been smashed on Thursday have still not bothered to pick Michael Carberry (they are unchanged). Even less do I see the point – he may as well have played at Southport, since had there been an injury on Thursday he could have driven up in no time.
More Good News
How odd – I have returned from a delightful walk around sunny Southsea to discover that Lancashire have managed one run out all morning, while Wheater has his first Championship century for Hampshire (110*) and Matt Coles has scored 50* on his first-class debut.
Six men have scored a century on first-class debut for Hampshire and Coles is some way off the best which is John Crawley with 272 at Canterbury in 2002 – like Coles, they had all played first-class cricket previously.
Nonetheless, it’s a very good effort by these two and restores some pride after some poor performances on days two and three.
Now we’re out of the League we can concentrate on the Cup
Northants are stuffing Glamorgan even more quickly than we are subsiding at Southport
Leicestershire are struggling so we should not finish last (only once in well over 100 years and never since 1980)
Brad Taylor took four wickets in the innings
I like to be cheerful whenever possible, but that may be it folks
Aussies smashed again!
England celebrate after their super win at the Ageas Bowl yesterday, which clinched the Ashes.
The blokes? Did they play too? I must have missed that.
Is that the team that picked that 32-year-old on his home ground, just to carry the drinks?
Prior to the current matches, Just under 75% of the Division Two matches have been completed
To date there have been 27 draws which is just over 50%
Last year (VERY wet) 54% were drawn
In 2011 (Division Two) 32% were drawn
In 2010 – the lowest recent figure, 28% were drawn
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Azkaban escapees, Battle of Hogwarts participants, Battle of the Department of Mysteries participants,
British individuals
Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures members
Executioners
Murderers
In or before 1970s[1]
Blood status
Pure-blood or half-blood (possibly)[2]
Magical characteristics
Boggart
Lord Voldemort[3]
Unknown length, wood and core
None[4]
Executioner for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures at the Ministry of Magic
British Ministry of Magic (formerly)
Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures (formerly)
"Macnair, remember him? Bloke they sent ter kill Buckbeak? Maniac, he is. Likes killin' as much as Golgomath; no wonder they were gettin' on so well."
—Rubeus Hagrid tells the trio of his mission to the Giant colony[src]
Walden Macnair was a Dark wizard and one of Lord Voldemort's early Death Eaters, who fought in the First Wizarding War. Macnair did not search for Voldemort after his first downfall, but this was forgiven after Voldemort's return. He managed to avoid Azkaban, and worked for the Ministry of Magic as Executioner.
He participated in his master's rebirth in 1995 and also fought in many battles during the Second Wizarding War, such as the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, after which he was imprisoned in Azkaban. He escaped in 1997 and fought at the Battle of Hogwarts, where he was thrown against a wall by Rubeus Hagrid. His fate after Voldemort's final defeat is unknown.
Walden Macnair was born before or in 1953. At some point during the 1970s, Macnair joined the Death Eaters.
First Wizarding War
During the First Wizarding War, Macnair served as one of Voldemort's followers. After Voldemort's defeat, Macnair, like many Death Eaters, claimed that he had been under the Imperius Curse, and thus did not serve the Dark Lord willingly, in order to avoid going to Azkaban. He did not search for Voldemort after his downfall.
Employment by the Ministry
"Executioner, your services are no longer required."
—Albus Dumbledore dismissing Macnair[src]
After his defence was accepted, Macnair went to work for the Ministry of Magic as executioner for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, a job suited for his disposition.
Macnair sharpening his axe shortly before Buckbeak's execution
Macnair was present during the trial of Rubeus Hagrid's pet Hippogriff Buckbeak and was there when Buckbeak was sentenced to death. Macnair was assigned the job of executing Buckbeak. Though this execution was later thwarted by Hermione Granger and Harry Potter when Albus Dumbledore told them they could save two innocent lives by using Hermione's Time-Turner, which they did, which resulted in freeing Buckbeak and Macnair never actually executing him. Dumbledore then dismissed Macnair, as his services would no longer be required at the present time.
The Minister, Walden, and others prepare to proceed with the execution
Macnair expressed his disappointment at being denied the opportunity to execute the Hippogriff by burying his axe on Hagrid's hut wooden fence in frustration before his departure. Macnair was later sent by Cornelius Fudge to get the Dementors after Sirius Black was caught and imprisoned in the West Tower, only to find Black gone as well when he returned with them. This was because, unknown to Macnair or Fudge, Harry and Hermione flew Buckbeak up to the tower window and freed Black from inside, sending both the Hippogriff and Azkaban escapee away from Hogwarts and into hiding.[5]
Second Wizarding War
Lord Voldemort: "Macnair… destroying dangerous beasts for the Ministry of Magic now, Wormtail tells me? You shall have better victims than that soon, Macnair. Lord Voldemort will provide…"
Walden Macnair: "Thank you, Master… thank you."
— Voldemort viciously greeting his Death Eaters in Little Hangleton[src]
Death Eaters watch as Voldemort's duel with Harry Potter results in Priori Incantatem
In 1994 Hogwarts held a Triwizard Tournament, a dangerous tournament with challenging tasks. Harry Potter, the boy who defeated Voldemort was a champion of this tournament. That year at Hogwarts, Voldemort had one of his followers Barty Crouch Jr pose as new Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts Alastor Moody. "Alastor Moody" was successful in getting Harry Potter to be transported to the Little Hangleton graveyard, where Wormtail would perform the rebirth of Lord Voldemort on 24 June, 1995. Once reborn, Voldemort called for his Death Eaters and Macnair answered the call and arrived at Little Hangleton. Voldemort expressed his disappointment in Macnair for not staying loyal and for working in the Ministry, but allowed Macnair to rejoin in his ranks, promising him human victims to kill as opposed to creatures. Macnair was grateful to his master for his forgiveness.[6]
In the summer of 1995 Albus Dumbledore had set Rubeus Hagrid a mission to gather giants in preparation for the Second Wizarding War. However, Hagrid's mission was interrupted by Walden Macnair and other Death Eaters. Macnair was also on a mission to rally giants for the war, but Macnair was acting under the orders of the Dark Lord and, unlike Hagrid, completed his mission successfully and managed to obtain the giants' support. This was due to the Gurg of the giants, Golgomath, as he was a violent creature who loved killing as much as Macnair, and the two were able to get along fine. Golgomath also told Macnair and his comrades that Hagrid and Olympe Maxime were in the area, and the Death Eaters attempted to weed them out, but the two half-giants managed to escape.[7]
Murder of Broderick Bode
Broderick Bode, an Unspeakable of the Department of Mysteries was placed under the Imperius Curse late in 1995 by Lucius Malfoy and was ordered to remove the Prophecy from its place in the Hall of Prophecy. When he touched the Prophecy Record, however, the defensive spells around it were triggered and he suffered spell damage that affected his mind, causing him to believe he was a teapot. Bode was then sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries where he was gradually regaining his health.
On Christmas Eve of that same year, Macnair[8] went to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, disguised as a "very old stooped wizard with a hearing trumpet". Knowing Bode would eventually regain his speech and lucidity, Macnair was ordered to leave him a pot of Devil's Snare (that was mistaken for a harmless pot of Flitterbloom by Healer Miriam Strout) and a fancy hippogriff calendar.[9]
Upon touching the Devil's Snare, Bode was strangled by it, and was found dead in his bed in the next morning.[10]
The Department of Mysteries
"We'll split into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter until we've got the prophecy, you can kill the others if necessary..."
—Lucius Malfoy gives orders to the group of Death Eaters[src]
Macnair in the Department of Mysteries holding Luna Lovegood hostage[11]
Macnair was amongst the Death Eaters gathered to participate in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in 1996. Macnair was paired with Avery II in the battle's chase. In the Death Chamber Macnair grabbed hold of Harry Potter by his throat and nearly managed to snatch the prophecy from him. However, Neville Longbottom prevented him, by shoving Hermione Granger's wand through Macnair's Death Eater mask's eye-hole, causing him great pain and forcing him to let go of Harry and evidently miss stealing the prophecy. Afterwards, when Macnair regained composure, Harry stunned him with a Stunning Spell.[12]
After the battle between the students and Death Eaters, the Order of the Phoenix arrived on the scene,[13] and Lord Voldemort himself showed up in person and duelled Albus Dumbledore.[13] Voldemort disappeared when the Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge and many other Ministry employees showed up, and it is presumed that a stunned Macnair was found and imprisoned in Azkaban.[14] Though he would only spend a short time in Azkaban as he is known to be once again at large again by the summer of 1997.[15]
"I know that you are preparing to fight. Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood. Give me Harry Potter and none shall be harmed."
—Lord Voldemort to the residents of Hogwarts shortly before he attacks[src]
Death Eaters in the forest waiting for Harry Potter to arrive
In 1998 when Harry Potter returned to Hogwarts after a long search for Voldemort's Horcruxes, Voldemort's army of Death Eaters, Snatchers and other creatures attacked the castle, in an battle known as the Battle of Hogwarts. Many Hogwarts staff members and students managed to put up a good defence, but Macnair accompanied by many other Death Eaters was able to get inside the school grounds and into the castle, where they engaged in a violent and bloody conflict.[16]
Macnair was seen by Harry Potter at the Great Hall during the battle when Rubeus Hagrid, who presumably remembered him from the trial of Buckbeak, threw him across the Hall and against a wall, knocking him unconscious. Shortly after, Macnair's master was defeated and killed by Harry Potter.[17] His ultimate fate is unknown, though if he survived, he was most likely captured and sent to Azkaban for his crimes committed as a Death Eater.
Macnair was described as tall and muscular, with a thin, black moustache.[5] In 1996, during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he attempted to strangle Harry Potter, but was stopped by Neville Longbottom, who poked him in the eye with Hermione Granger's wand; Macnair's eye became red and swollen. As a Death Eater, he bears the Dark Mark on his left inner forearm, which has since faded to a mere scar upon Voldemort's death.
When visiting Broderick Bode to murder him, he disguised himself as an elderly stooped wizard who required a hearing trumpet.
Personality and traits
"Maniac, he is. Likes killin' as much as Golgomath. No wonder they got along so well."
—Walden's violent tendencies[src]
Macnair was described by Rubeus Hagrid as very violent and bloodthirsty. He became an executioner primarily out of his fondness for killing. This was an interest shared by Golgomath (the Gurg of the Giants) that Macnair parleyed with on Voldemort's behalf. He expressed his disappointment at being denied the opportunity to execute Buckbeak the Hippogriff, by swinging his axe into a wooden post before his departure. He also appeared to be rather brutal in his methods such as when he violently grabbed Harry Potter by the throat when attempting to get the prophecy. Despite his viciousness and sadism, he did not seem to be one of the more loyal Death Eaters, as he did not search for his master following his original defeat, but was still sycophantic to his master following his rebirth, after when Voldemort promised to give him human victims to kill.
Magical abilities and skills
Apparition: Macnair was capable of apparating to his master's side, as shown he apparated to Voldemort following his rebirth in the Little Hangleton Graveyard.
Dark Arts: Being a Death Eater, Macnair was very accomplished in dark magic and with the casting of dark charms. He was able to perform the Unforgivable Curses (which require ability and genuine malice to perform), including the Cruciatus Curse as well as the Killing Curse.[3]
Duelling: Macnair was a very capable duellist, as he fought in both the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Battle of Hogwarts along with other Death Eaters, showing him to have been skilled in martial magic.
Wand: Macnair owned a wand that was of an unknown length, wand wood and core material.
Axe: Macnair owned a sharp cutting axe for his job as a professional Ministry executioner.
A possible Macnair from Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Walden Macnair in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Macnair was portrayed by Peter Best in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, although another actor, Ashley Artus, briefly portrayed him in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[18]
A Death Eater portrayed by Granville Saxton in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2 was possibly intended to be a recast of Macnair. He wears similar robes as Macnair had in earlier films, and also bears a slightly similar appearance to Peter Best.
In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when he sees Harry, Ron, and Hermione he looks eagerly at them. This makes little sense until it is established in the following book/film he Macnair was, actually, a Death Eater.
In one edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Macnair's name was spelt as it was in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban during the churchyard scene, but was later mentioned by Harry Potter as "McNair". This was later corrected.
In the movies Macnair isn't very muscular and has no moustache, though Ashley Artus's portrayal has a beard. He also has no speaking lines in the films.
In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Battle of the Department of Mysteries is considerably different from that of the novel. Macnair is shown holding Luna Lovegood hostage at one point, which did not occur in the book.
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Macnair is an unlockable character.
The Harry Potter Wiki has 23 images related to Walden Macnair.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Appears as a generic Death Eater)
↑ Macnair participated in the First Wizarding war, which ended in 1981. He was not neccessarily of age during that period, as Voldemort allowed underage wizards to join the Death Eaters.
↑ Voldemort usually accepted pure-bloods or half-bloods as Death Eaters. However, he did ask some muggle-borns to join him in rare cases.
↑ 3.0 3.1 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
↑ J.K. Rowling and the Live Chat, Bloomsbury.com, July 30, 2007
↑ 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 33 (The Death Eaters)
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 20 (Hagrid's Tale)
↑ http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-trans-revision-ootp.html
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward)
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 25 (The Beetle at Bay)
↑ Although he is not named as Macnair in the credits of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film), he is played by Peter Best, who portrayed Macnair in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film).
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 34 (The Department of Mysteries)
↑ 13.0 13.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 35 (Beyond the Veil)
↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 36 (The Only One He Ever Feared)
↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 36 (The Flaw in the Plan)
↑ IMDB profile: Peter Best
Leader: Lord Voldemort
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Posts Tagged ‘gaspeite’
Paul Deasy, Home Shopping’s Resident Gem Connoisseur, Dishes To Us About The Black Opal He’s Bringing To ShopNBC, And More
Paul Deasy
Home shopping veteran and gem expert Paul Deasy told us that he has some surprises coming up on his “Gem Insider” shows tomorrow and Friday on ShopNBC, and for the rest of the year at the No. 3 home shopping channel.
Deasy, who previously worked at HSN and QVC, said Wednesday that he is debuting special Australian black opal on ShopNBC for its Tucson ’10 Sneak Peek event. And the other gemstones he will feature are the now-hot malachite, amazonite and the very rare gaspeite.
“No one’s been able to ever get any kind of affordable, truly affordable, Australian black opal to the customer,” Deasy said. “We’re going to achieve that.”
ShopNBC’s Friday’s Today’s Top Value will be from Deasy’s “Gem Insider” line.
We interviewed Deasy by phone, with him speaking to us from a hotel room in Minneapolis, where ShopNBC is headquartered. He arrived there this morning with his wife Judy Crowell, a fellow ShopNBC vendor and QVC and HSN alum. They flew in from their home in Florida, fresh off a six-day trip to attend the Tucson Gem Shore.
Deasy, who is working on a book on opals, met his business partner, Peter Vajda, when he traveled to the Australian opal mines to film video to air on QVC about a decade ago. They both “shared a passion” for opals, according to Deasy.
Vajda, who is also an expert on turquoise, has been stockpiling opals for years from his camp in Lambina Station in the Outback. He’s perfected a proprietary process – a treatment similar to stabilizing turquoise – to make to the opals more durable. It also enhances their color, so it’s “just absolutely sensational,” according Deasy.
Compared to opal that is now selling for $420 to $500 a carat wholesale, “We’re going to have prices that are just going to blow everybody away, and it’s only available at this point on ShopNBC, because we’re giving them the right of first refusal on it,” according to Deasy.
Now may be the time to grab your black opal, some of which will be set in sterling silver, from ShopNBC. Because of the tough economy and fuel costs, there has been a dramatic decline in opal mining in Australia, Deasy told us.
The upcoming “Gem Insider” show will also feature high-quality amazonite, the bluish-green opaque stone, that Deasy found in Colorado, as well as malachite, the pretty deep green striated stone that’s very “in” this year.
“We found a tremendous source in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…The material is gorgeous,” Deasy said of his malachite, which is a byproduct of copper mining.
Judy Crowell
Finally, the “Gem Insider” show will offer bright green gaspeite from western Australia. We love the vivid color of gaspeite, and we used to often see it featured in jewelry in shops in Scottsdale. But we haven’t spotted it in recent visits. Deasy said that’s because gaspeite isn’t even being mined right now.
“It’s really rare stuff,” he told us.
Deasy has big plans for “Gem Insider” this year. Look for “Mined in America” shows that will feature rubies, sapphires and emeralds from North Carolina; peridot from Colorado; and turquoise from veteran mines.
“We think there’s a lot of stories to be told right here in our own backyard,” he said.
Deasy will also be going to mining sites in the United States and South America to film videos that will air during his “Gem Insider” shows later this year. Both he and Crowell traveled to mines when they were at QVC to give viewers a bird’s eye view of the gem business.
“We found that formula to be very successful in the past because I’ve always felt that people certainly love the gemstones, but they love to find out a lot more about history and culture,” Deasy said. “It’s also a way for them to vicariously enjoy the mining experience without getting their feet dirty.”
Crowell is busy, too. While we were interviewing Deasy, she got her first look at sample of a piece of outerwear – part of her new line for ShopNBC — that she had sent to the hotel in Minnesota.
Crowell has already introduced a collection of handbags and scarves on ShopNBC, and will be premiering the outerwear on the channel next month.
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‘Resident Evil’ Reboot Taps ’47 Meters Down’ Director Johannes Roberts
by Michael Mistroff on December 5, 2018
Variety reports 47 Meters Down director Johannes Roberts is set to write and direct the Resident Evil reboot for Constantin Films.
Sony Reveals Official ‘Men In Black 4’ Title And Logo
According to the trade, production on the project is expected to begin next year with a brand new cast. Constantin Film and Screen Gems announced a reboot of the film series in the spring of 2017, merely months after the release of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the sixth and final installment of the franchise featuring Milla Jovovich as Alice which helped the series pass $1 billion at the global box office.
Aquaman and The Conjuring director James Wan is producing the project. Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear is also set to produce. A previous draft of the script for the Resident Evil reboot was penned by Greg Russo who also wrote a draft of the long in development Mortal Kombat reboot which Wan is producing as well. Wan recently gave Heroic Hollywood an update on the Mortal Kombat reboot to which he explained the project is still looking for the right director to take the reigns. You can read the full interview here.
Jake Gyllenhaal Confirms Mysterio Role In ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’
The Resident Evil reboot has not yet been scheduled for release. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest news on the Resident Evil reboot as we learn it.
‘Elseworlds’ Photos Include New Look At Batwoman & The Smallville Farm
The CW has released a new batch of Elseworlds photos that offer another look at Batwoman, Lois Lane, and the Smallville farm.
The next Arrowverse crossover begins in less than one week and the CW has unveiled a new collection of stills featuring the DC heroes who will take part in the three-night event. Included in the new set of photos are more glimpses at the Smallville farm, Ruby Rose in full costume as Batwoman, Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane, and the main DC Trinity fighting alongside John Wesley Shipp as The Flash.
You can check out the first photo below and click "Next" to continue the gallery!
You can read the official synopsis for the first part of the crossover below!
EPIC ELSEWORLDS CROSSOVER KICKS OFF TONIGHT — When Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Oliver Queen (guest star Stephen Amell) wake up one morning and realize they have swapped bodies with each other, the two set off to find out what disturbed the timeline to cause such a shift. However, things quickly go from bad to worse when they present their case to Team Flash and the gang doesn’t believe them. Barry and Oliver realize they need Supergirl’s (guest star Melissa Benoist) help and travel to Smallville on Earth-38 where they end up meeting Kara’s cousin, Clark Kent (guest star Tyler Hoechlin), and intrepid reporter, Lois Lane (guest star Elizabeth Tulloch). LaMonica Garrett guest stars as The Monitor. Kevin Tancharoen directed the episode written by Eric Wallace & Sam Chalsen.
The 2018 Elseworlds crossover starts with a special episode of The Flash on Sunday, December 9 and continues with Arrow on Monday, December 10. The three-night event will then conclude with Supergirl on Tuesday, December 11.
All three entries will air at 8:00 p.m. ET on their respective nights.
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Hunters skipper in doubt for trial
PAPUA New Guinea Hunters captain Ase Boas is a doubtful starter for the pre-season trial against the Brisbane Broncos on February 24 at the National Rugby League.
Boas told The National yesterday during the Hunters fun day at NFS that he was still nursing an injured right wrist and was hoping to be fit to play in two weeks’ time but would not be risked if not 100 per cent.
“It’s okay but it still hurts a bit so I have not been doing the heavy contact stuff at training,” Boas said.
“We’re just trying to look after it so it can get right quickly.
“If the hand doesn’t heal in time I probably won’t play. It’s only a preseason trial but its’ against the Broncos. I’m aiming to be fit and ready for the first round.”
Hunters coach Michael Marum said the cast around Boas hand was removed last month but he was still no certainty to be play against the Broncos. “We’ve been monitoring Ase’s injury since it came out of the cast. We’ve got two weeks to go so we’ll see how it goes,” Marum said.
“We have other options for halves combinations which will include Watson (Boas), William Mone and Charlie Simon.
Marum said he was aware that the Broncos would be bringing their strongest side and the Hunters were looking forward to testing themselves against full-fledged NRL side.
He said the club would head into the fixture with the aim of doing well but also on gaining valuable experience for the coming Q-Cup season.
“The boys are training well with the new ones fitting in,” he said.
“We have 12 home games and 11 away games this season so it’s going to be another tough year especially since we are the defending champions.” The National
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Research Article | Open | Published: 27 July 2015
Prevalence of intestinal opportunistic parasites infections in the University hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Ibrahim Sangaré1,2,3,
Sanata Bamba1,2,3,
Mamoudou Cissé1,2,
Adama Zida4,
Rabila Bamogo1,2,
Constant Sirima1,2,
Bienvenue K. Yaméogo5,
Roger Sanou1,2,
François Drabo6,
Roch K. Dabiré2,5 &
Robert T. Guiguemdé1,2
Gastrointestinal parasites infections are widespread in Africa and their prevalence infections vary from country to country. This study aimed at assessing the prevalence of opportunistic intestinal parasites infection and other gastrointestinal parasites infection among patients attending the laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology of the University Hospital Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso.
A hospital cross-sectional based study was conducted from April to August, 2012. Participants were persons whom parasitological examination of stools has been prescribed by a clinician. The stools examination methods included direct wet saline examination, lugol’s iodine staining technique, formol-ether concentration and modified Ziehl-Neelsen staining. We recorded age and sex information for each patient.
The overall prevalence of intestinal parasite infections was 65.3 % (190/291). Majority of the parasitic infections was waterborne (64.3 %) consisting of high prevalence of Cryptosporidium sp. (26.5 %) and Entamoeba histolytica/dispar (23.4 %). The prevalence of opportunistic parasites was 28.9 % and Cryptosporidium sp. was the most prevalent species followed by Blastocystis sp. (1.0 %), Cyclospora sp. (0.7 %) and Isospora belli (0.7 %). The prevalence of intestinal helminthes was 1.7 %.
The prevalence of intestinal parasitism in general remains high in Bobo-Dioulasso requiring the establishment of adequate diagnostic techniques, treatment and prevention.
Intestinal parasitic infections caused by helminthes and protozoans are among the most widespread and remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries [1]. The prevalence of infection is remarkably high in sub-Saharan Africa, where the largest burden of human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) cases is concentrated [2, 3]. HIV infections, tropical and subtropical climate, high population density, poverty, very low hygienic conditions and health education are the major factors for the transmission of intestinal parasites [1].
Indeed in the previous studies, the prevalence of certain intestinal parasite known as opportunistic is significantly higher among HIV infected individuals with chronic diarrhea and CD4 lymphocytes counts of 200 cells/mm3 [4–8]. The presence of the opportunistic intestinal parasites, Cryptosporidium sp., Cyclospora cayetanensis, Isospora belli, Blastocytis hominis and Microsporidia is well documented in patients with HIV/AIDS [4, 5, 9–12]. However, the incidence and the prevalence of the opportunistic intestinal parasites in HIV/AIDS patients are likely to depend upon the endemicity in the community.
Infections by the major human gastrointestinal parasites are widespread in Africa and the prevalence of these infections varies from country to country. Intestinal parasites are a major public health problem in Burkina Faso [13]. Their prevalence was estimated at 54.7 % throughout the country [14]. In addition, the epidemiology of intestinal parasitism is very wide and is significantly different between sahelian area (38.9 % in the Sahel) and humid area (65.8 % in the East) [13]. In the capital city of Ouagadougou, a prevalence of 60.82 and 52.47 % have been previously reported respectively by Ouermi et al., [15] and Karou et al., [16]. In Bobo-Dioulasso, economic capital of the country, the prevalence of intestinal parasites was 23.8 % [17]. Published data about opportunistic intestinal parasites infection in Burkina Faso are extremely rare. Only one study performed in 1998 at the Pediatric Department of Bobo-Dioulasso Hospital showed a prevalence of 5.2 % of cryptosporidiosis [18].
This study aimed at assessing the prevalence of opportunistic intestinal parasites among gastrointestinal parasites in patients attending the Laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology of the University Hospital Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso for diagnosis.
A descriptive cross-sectional hospital based study was carried out from April to August, 2012 in the University Hospital Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
Bobo-Dioulasso (11°10′42″N; 4°17′35″W) is located in the western part of the country at 360 km from Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso. The city population is around 1.5 million inhabitants. The climate is Sudan climatic types and is characterized by a rainy season from June to October with relatively abundant rainfalls (the annual rainfall ranges from 1000 to 1200 mm) and a dry season from November to May. The annual average temperature is about 28 °C. Sanitary conditions are insufficient in large sectors of the city.
The University Hospital Souro Sanou is the only referral and teaching hospital in the region. The hospital provides various health services.
Participants were persons whom parasitological examination of stools has been prescribed by a clinician. The sample size was determined using the single proportion population formula. It was calculated assuming a prevalence of 50 % with a margin of error of 0.05 and a confidence level of 95 %, that a minimum size of 291 participants.
Fecal sample collection
A written informed consent form has been administered to each participant. Then, a single fresh stool sample was collected from each consenting study participant in a sterile fecal container early morning. The specimens were soon transported to the laboratory of Parasitology-Mycology of the University Hospital Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants including age and sex were registered for each patient on the data collection form.
Parasitological methods
Freshly stool specimens were collected, processed and examined microscopically in saline wet mount to detect larva, eggs, trophozoites and cysts of various parasites. In addition, formol-ether concentration was performed and modified Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) method was used to detect coccidian species.
A portion of stool was examined by direct wet saline mount preparation (0.90 % sodium chloride solution) to observe motile intestinal parasites and trophozoites under light microscope at 10× and 40× magnifications. Lugol’s iodine staining method was also performed to observe cysts of the intestinal protozoan parasites.
The remaining part of stool was processed by the following methods.
Formalin ether concentration
About 7 ml of 10 % formalin was added to approximately 1 g of feces and mixed using an applicator stick. The stool sample was sieved with cotton gauze and transferred to 15 ml centrifuge tube Falcon®. After adding 3 ml of diethyl ether to the mixture and hand shaking, the content was centrifuged at 2000 rpm for 3 min. The supernatant was poured and a drop of sediment was transferred to slide. Finally, the entire zone under the cover slip was systematically examined using 10X and 40X objective lenses to observe ova, cyst and larvae of different intestinal parasites according to the protocol of Ritchie [19, 20].
Modified Ziehl-Neelsen method
In this method, thin smears were prepared from preserved as well as sediments of concentrated stool samples, air-dried, and fixed with absolute methanol for 5 min. The smears were stained with carbol-fuchsin for 10 min and thereafter, washed with tap water. The slides were decolorized in chlorhydric acid-ethanol 1 % for 2 min and were counter stained with methlyene blue 0.25 % for 1 min [21, 22]. Finally the stained smears were examined using oil immersion objective to detect oocysts of Cryptosporidium sp., of Isospora belli, of Cyclospora sp. and cyst of Blastocystis sp.
Each stool sample was examined by two different laboratory technicians. In case of discordant results, the stool sample slide was read by a third technician, and his report was considered as the final result.
Randomly selected samples were also sent to the laboratory of Parasitology of Centre MURAZ, Bobo-Dioulasso to check the reproducibility of the results.
Data were double-entered based on EpiData 3.1. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS Statistics 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). Chi-square test was used to compare the categorical variables. Fisher’s exact test was used when the expected value in any cell was less than 5.
The study protocol was approved by the institutional review boards of the University Hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso for routine analyses, Burkina Faso. Participants were contacted through the hospital practitioners and the objectives, procedures, and potential risks were carefully explained to all potential participants. Interested individuals were asked to sign a written inform consent or their parents in the case of minors before being involved in the study. Personal data form participant and all diagnostic results were kept strictly confidential. Results of participants with parasitic infections were sent, as soon as possible to clinicians for their case management.
Participants’ characteristics
Among the 291 participants, 146 (50.2 %) were male, 145 (49.8 %) were female (Table 1) with a 1.1 sex ratio. The mean age of the participants was 29.2 ± 20.8 years (ranged, 0–89 years).
Table 1 Distribution of sociodemographic characteristics
Prevalence of gastrointestinal parasite
The overall prevalence of intestinal parasite infections was 65.3 % (190/291). Majority of the parasitic infections were waterborne protozoa, prevalence of 64.3 % (187/291) with few helminthes, 1.7 % (5/291). Cryptosporidium sp. and Entamoeba histolytica/dispar were found at 26.5 and 23.4 %, respectively, constituting the majority of parasitic infections, followed by others protozoa Entamoeba coli (19.6 %), Giardia lamblia (4.8 %), Trichomonas intestinalis (1.7 %), Blastocystis hominis (1.0 %), Cyclospora sp. (0.7 %) and Isospora belli (0.7 %) were also observed (Table 2). Among the helminthic parasites, one case of eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Ankylostomidae, Hymenolepis nana, Dicrocoelium sp and larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis were observed at a rate of 0.3 % respectively.
Table 2 Prevalence of different species intestinal parasites
Prevalence of intestinal opportunistic parasites
Regarding the intestinal opportunistic parasites infection, the results revealed a total of 84 out the 291 patients, thus the prevalence was 28.9 %. Cryptosporidium sp. infection was the most diagnosed (26.5 %, 77/291) followed by infections with Blastocystis sp. (1.0 %; 3/291), Cyclospora (0.7 %, 2/291) and Isospora belli (0.7 %, 2/291) (Table 3).
Table 3 Prevalence of intestinal opportunistic intestinal parasites according age and sex
A break-up of the 291 persons (146 males and 145 females) revealed no difference as both the sexes were equally affected with the opportunistic intestinal parasites. Both age (P = 0.6) was not significantly associated the opportunistic intestinal parasites (Table 3).
Global co-infection of gastrointestinal parasite and prevalence co-infection of opportunistic parasites species
The overall prevalence of multiple infection of gastrointestinal parasite was 21.0 % (61/291) and co-infection of opportunistic parasites was 2.1 (6/291).
Overall 190 out of 291 (65.3 %) participants harbored intestinal parasites in the the laboratory of Parasitology and Mycology laboratory of University hospital of Bobo-Dioulasso. The national prevalence for intestinal parasite infection was 54.7 % [23].
This prevalence of intestinal parasitism is high compared with previous findings in Burkina Faso. Other authors reported 23.8 % in Bobo-Dioulasso [17, 23] 52.4 and 60.8 % in Ouagadougou [15, 16]. The difference could be due mainly to coproparasitological techniques used. In our study, modified Ziehl-Neelsen method was systematically performed. This technique increased the sensitivity of study by diagnosing 78 cases of parasitism compared to direct examination and formol ether concentration.
The high prevalence of protozoa parasitism, (64.3 %) compared to that of helminth infections (1.7 %) in this study is in agreement with previous findings in Burkina Faso [23] and in other developing countries in Africa [6, 24–26]. The drug mass administration with albendazole could explain the low rate of helminthes infection as previously reported [23, 27, 28].
The prevalence of intestinal opportunistic parasites was 28.9 % and the most prevalent species was Cryptosporidium sp. (26.5 %). This prevalence of Cryptosporidium sp. is higher than those reported in Burkina Faso (5.2 %) [18], and as well as in west Africa (ranging from 7.7 to 25.71 %) [29–31]. The difference could be due to sample size as our study presented a larger sample size than that reported by other authors.
The presence of opportunistic intestinal parasites such as Blastocystis (1.10 %), Cyclospora (0.7 %) and Isospora belli (0.7 %) should not be neglected. The pathogenicity of certain species such as Blastocystis sp. among immunocompetent persons is not excluded [32, 33].
Gender and age did not significantly affect the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections while it was not a risk factor for acquiring these infections. The distribution of the parasitic infections in both sexes as well as, among the various age groups suggested that sex and age were not predetermining factors for parasitic infections in our study.
Our study had some limitations. First, host immunity such as HIV status was not investigated in the present study. Second, we did not use the Weber trichome staining or PCR which would have improved the diagnosis of microsporidiosis [34]. The present study is a pilot study and we are planning a large-scale longitudinal study.
One perspective of our staff is to use the molecular tool to study the epidemiology of different opportunistic species. In fact, for example, the identification and characterization of Cryptosporidium species and population variants (genotypes and subgenotypes) is fundamental to study the epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis, being a valid support for prevention and control strategies [35]. The large scale of human cases of cryptosporidiosis worldwide are caused by two species, Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis [36]. However, other species, including C. felis, C. meleagridis, C. canis, C. suis, C. muris and, more rarely, C. cuniculus, C. ubiquitum and C. andersoni can also infect humans, especially children under the age of 5 years and immunocompromised individuals [37, 38]. Oocyst morphology, host specificity or preferences in infection sites do not provide sufficient information for the identification of Cryptosporidium species, genotypes or subgenotypes. The confirmation of their species status and determination of virulence and pathogenic profiles might explain why some patients are asymptomatic while others present clinical symptoms [38].
The overall prevalence of intestinal parasites was therefore 65.3 % in our study. The prevalence of intestinal opportunistic parasites was 28.9 % and Cryptosporidium sp. was the most prevalent species.
Prompt diagnosis of parasitic infections in HIV-negative and positive patients, especially intestinal parasitic infections using staining and molecular diagnostic tools is advocated in order to improve the management and quality of life of HIV-infected individuals.
Confident interval
°C:
Degree celsius
Lymphocyte cluster differentiation 4
HIV/AIDS:
Human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrom
ZN:
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Authors thank all the patients who participated in the study and all the staff of the Laboratory of Parasitology-Mycology, CHU Souro Sanou and especially Ouédraogo Z. Simon, Bambara Hafissetou, Millogo Anselme, Tienou Sogohoun for the technical support.
Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Santé, Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, 01 BP 1091, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Ibrahim Sangaré
, Sanata Bamba
, Mamoudou Cissé
, Rabila Bamogo
, Constant Sirima
, Roger Sanou
& Robert T. Guiguemdé
Centre MURAZ, Unité de Recherche en Paludisme et Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
, Roch K. Dabiré
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Souro Sanou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
& Sanata Bamba
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Adama Zida
Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Direction Régionale de l’ouest, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Bienvenue K. Yaméogo
& Roch K. Dabiré
Ministère de la Santé, Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, Coordination de la lutte contre les Maladies tropicales Négligées, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
François Drabo
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The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
IS and GTR conceived and designed the experiments. IS, BR, YKB, SR performed the experiments. IS and CM analyzed the data. IS, BS, DKR and GTR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. IS wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Someone tell Sabyasachi that 'overdressed' women are not wounded
In a bizarre Instagram post, the designer wrote that overdressed women are probably healing from a broken heart...
Famous for there intricate work, idiosyncratic designs and distinctive choice of colour palettes, Sabyasachi Mukherjee is one of the priciest brands in the fashion industry and has been a go-to for many celebrities and fashion icons.
However, the luxury label is in the news this time for all the wrong reasons.
Opening with a quote from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Sabyasacyhi posted a picture on Instagram inviting a lot of criticism:
He stated that women '“overdressed, caked with make-up and armored with jewellery are most likely wounded” implying that beneath all the extravagance and eclecticism, there's a lot of pain and trauma that women are concealing.
While the intention of the post might not have been to put women down, it definitely came across as shaming women for dressing how they please:
Sabyasachi received a lot of backlash on social media for his blanket statement, as women make it it a point to tell the designer that sometimes women "overdress" simply because they want to. Period.
His statement also makes one ponder: "Isn't this every one of your brides?"
The design house issued an apology on Sunday:
The apology introduces us to a different perspective highlighting the crude and insensitive behavior of some towards the fashion choices of others: "We, as a society, often get extremely judgmental about peoples’ clothing choices, calling them ‘overdressed’ or ‘tacky’ or ‘inappropriate’. We fail to understand that maybe some are using these as coping mechanisms to put on a brave front to make up for the lack of a support system."
Opening up about his own battle with depression, the designer touched upon the various coping mechanisms individuals adopt to express and heal.
"I have coped with crippling depression as a teenager for 7 years. I found my coping mechanism through radical clothing choices.I was sneered at and bullied, but it helped me find my way again."
Acknowledging his irresponsible choice of words the designer apologised, whilst clarifying the intent behind it. Of showing empathy, kindness, and care.
We appreciate Sabyasachi stepping up and apologising and hope that brands will be cognizant of the social responsibility that lies upon them because at the end of the day, the impact outweighs the intent. And who decides what is overdressed anyway? What does it even mean to be overdressed?
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Wahid
I think the criticism is unfair and the designer had a point to make. However it goes without saying that it is very difficult to generalise complex spectrum of human behaviour and hence the difference in response. I think his point will resonate with some women in this world!
HashBrown®
Actually his apology was quite cringeworthy also, trying to portray his own idiotic comment as a misunderstood campaign to raise awareness for mental health. It's like that moment when you say something stupid, and only realise how stupid it is when people around you react, but you're too embarrassed to apologise so you pretend you meant to say something entirely different.
To be frank, this is why we need more female fashion designers.
Faisal Salman
Wait! what does overdressed exactly mean?
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Barcelona, 17th July 2018. Maria Cardenal has joined Immfly, a leading provider of in-flight digital services and entertainment in Europe and most recently, also in the Middle East, to lead the company’s product and innovation department. The technology company founded in Barcelona finds itself in a period of international growth and is consolidating its position through the unique in-flight experience that provides, with personalized capabilities that passengers can access and enjoy through their own smart devices.
During the course of hers 11 years experience working within the airline industry, Maria Cardenal has held senior positions in companies such as Vueling Airlines and Clickair.
At an academic level, Maria holds a Master in Business Administration from ESADE and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Carlos III University.
Maria’s last job position was as Head of Innovation at Vueling airlines, where she instituted Vueling Innovation Lab and participated on the IAG’s startup acceleration program Hangar 51, on its 2017-18 Spanish edition.
Maria has also been Head of Product Development and Ancillary Revenues at Vueling Airlines for 9 years leading the area responsible for the development of innovative products and services that add value to Vueling customers and help the company to differentiate itself from the competition, and, was at the same time accountable for the ancillary revenue generated by those products and services.
Prior to that, Maria was part of the management team that started Clickair, the fastest growing airline in Europe, as Head of Ancillary Revenue from 2007 to July 2009 when it merged with Vueling. Before joining the airline industry, Maria spent seven years dedicated to helping enterprises to enter e-commerce, as Head of new business development at Logista, from October 2000 to July 2007.
This current month, Maria Cardenal accepted a new professional and career challenge when decided to incorporate Immfly. “Immfly is an amazing company. It is agile and innovative as no other competitor on its field and has already demonstrated that it has the right approach to addressing the needs of both airlines and travelers around the world. I’m so happy to join this company and I hope that I can contribute to making Immfly fly higher.”, explains Maria Cardenal, current Product Director at Immfly.
Jimmy Martinez Von Korff and Pablo Linz, co-founders of Immfly, welcome the appointment: “María Cardenal brings a unique airline DNA to our company. We know each other for a long time and we share the same vision on where we want to expand our cabin digital services. Maria was has been driving innovation and ancillary in Vueling in the key years of the airline’s digitalization. We are excited about her user-centric approach and we are sure we will continue building extraordinary technologies and services for the cabin space that will meet airlines digital aspirations.”
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Headquartered in Barcelona, Immfly was founded in 2013 by Pablo Linz and Jimmy Martínez von Korff, with the support of more than 50 influential multinational partners. The company is leading the development of internet connectivity, ready on-board digital platforms worldwide with focus in Europe, helping airlines to strengthen their customer loyalty by increasing their “Net Promoter Scores” amongst passengers, and encouraging the creation of new ancillary revenues through sponsorship and e-commerce strategies linked to their in-flight entertainment and services platforms.
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Financing Fish | November 5, 2015
Pacific Island Seafood Startups Showcase Sustainability at the Source
Maura Dilley
Growing retail demand for sustainable seafood from North America and Europe is creating economic opportunities for environment-friendly businesses closer to the fish and the men and women who catch and process them.
In the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, among the world’s richest fishing grounds, a new school of seafood companies is working to keep more of those riches in local communities. Investors will get a look at a half-dozen companies from the regions at next week’s finals of the Fish 2.0 business competition.
In Vanuatu, for example, ALFA Fishing, has grown into a major seafood brokerage, employing more than 3,000 people, mostly women. The Fiji Crab Co. is creating economic incentives to preserve the vital mangrove forests by actively cultivating mud crabs, providing high-value seafood to the local market and generating village-based jobs, primarily for women. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fishing earns Pacific Island economies more than $2 billion per year.
“These small and medium-sized companies are already operating in an environmentally friendly way,” says David Gainer, the U.S. State Department’s acting director at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. “They are looking to expand their businesses to meet demand for sustainable seafood and creating economic opportunities for women and minorities.”
The devastation of Super Cyclone Pam and scandal around seafood slavery pushed social and environmental conditions in the region’s fishing industry to center stage this year. Fish 2.0 made a focused effort to reach the Pacific Island and Southeast Asian companies and bring them together with potential investors. In addition to the U.S. State Department, also involved were the, International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA), the Packard Foundation and Humanity United (see “Fish 2.0 is Searching the Seven Seas for Seafood Entrepreneurs”).
“We strongly believe there are creative seafood entrepreneurs all over the world who could contribute to a more sustainable seafood industry globally,” says Monica Jain, Fish 2.0’s founder and executive director. “Many need connections to advisors, partners and investors in the international community to achieve their potential.”
The State Department, which backed some of Fish 2.0’s workshops, sees healthy oceans and economies as a strategic goal. One of the new U.N. Sustainable Development Goals calls for countries to “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources.” If fisheries resources are depleted then the primary source of income for many of fishing countries will be reduced. Lost tax revenue and corruption associated with IUU fishing further hold back some countries from reaping the benefit of their natural resources.
Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing is rampant in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. Driven by profit and enabled by poverty, fish pirates cost legitimate fishers an estimated $10 to $23 billion in lost value globally.
Small and medium sized fishing businesses in the Pacific Islands are challenged simply in terms of geographical isolation. “The Fish 2.0 competition is helping Pacific Islands businesses to bridge these gaps,” says Gainer, “and hopefully this will result in better integration of these companies into the global economy.”
Among the finalists and semifinalists at Fish 2.0:
ALFA Fishing
Port Vila, Vanuatu
ALFA, a seafood brokerage in Vanuatu, employs more than 3,000 people, primarily women. Starting as a small family fishing business, the company has expanded to become a major buyer and wholesaler of seafood from six outer islands near Port Villa and provides the only source of revenue generation for the neighboring islands.
Crab Company of Fiji
Suva and Nadi, Fiji
Mud crabs are native to Fiji and grow naturally in mangrove forests that are one of the most endangered habitats globally. Currently, mangroves yield little economic value to village communities despite their high value as environmental anchors and as climate change mitigators. By utilizing mangroves sustainably, their product lends economic value to intact mangroves.
Fiji Crab Company is a four-year old aquaculture and wild-harvest crab company that provides high-value seafood to the local market; generates village-based jobs, primarily for women; and protects globally endangered mangrove forests by putting them into active cultivation.
Entofood
Entofood develops industrial solutions for insect-based protein production for livestock and aquaculture industry. Entofood masters bioconversion of under-valorized nutrients through insects, predominantly black soldier fly larvae, to generate alternatives and highly sustainable protein sources (see, “What to Feed the Fish? Demand for Feed Attracts Innovators and Investors“).
FairAgora Asia
FairAgora Asia serves seafood operators, processors, buyers, and international development agencies with a software platform, VerifiK-8 (pronounced verificate), that tracks, manages, and analyzes social and environmental data. The goal is the drive and direct sustainability improvements in the seafood industry. VerifiK-8 lowers the burden and costs of data collection and cost-effective, risk-based verification. Based in Thailand, FairAgora Asia operates throughout Asia with a focus on Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines.
Green Innovative Biotechnology
Green Innovative Biotechnology Co. Ltd. (GIB) has two patented products: a natural plant vaccine against insect pests and fungi, and a product that enhances shrimp immune systems and resistance to pathogens. Together, these can reduce disease-associated waste in the industry, reduce the use of antibiotics, and enable more sustainable aquaculture systems.
Pacific Fishing Company Ltd.
Suva and Levuka, Fiji
Pacific Fishing Company (PAFCO) is one of the largest fish processing companies in the region, processing and packing cooked tuna primarily to the U.S. market. PAFCO also packages and exports processing byproducts such as liquid, capturing added economic and environmental value. The company employs 1,000 workers, 70 percent of whom are women.
Pacific Ocean Culture
Suva, Fiji
Pacific Ocean Culture is a multispecies hatchery producing giant clams, sea cucumbers, finfish, seaweed and prawns from sea ranching and aquaculture. Pacific Ocean Cultures will sell juvenile marine animals and a line of ‘plate ready’ sea products for community markets, resorts, distributors and the aquarium trade. Pacific Ocean Culture aims to develop a domestic and export-driven company operationalized by community-based, sustainable ecosystems.
Sea Quest Group
Sea Quest, with a six-vessel fleet, is a 100 percent locally-owned, Fijian, longline fishing company. Sea Quest fishes MSC-certified tuna and associated species for international markets and owns and operates a busy processing/packaging plant. Ice sales, cold-storage, wholesaling and retailing are operated through an acquired company, Sealand. The company is expanding its marketing to reach buyers for sustainably caught fish and to shift to green energy for both land and sea operations.
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Who Is This Idiot, and Who Cares About His Band?
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I hate how you can’t really advertise your true feelings anymore. The internet turns even the most mild blogger into a gossip whore. I can’t even talk about how I hate my day job and I want a new one because it’s likely that someone I work with will read this, and let me boss know, and then all the work pot lucks will be awkward. Not to mention, that dude I called a douche is probably going sneak up on me and say something designed to intimidate me. The world is more dangerous than ever.
The Alarmists seen in natural habitat.
So I try to keep things positive. These guys do that too. If they mention you, they like you. If they don’t, they probably just wont mention you. That’s a sound, friendly approach. But what about everyone else? Should we never be able to talk about things that we think suck? Should we be afraid to let people in our vicinity know that we don’t like their work? Should people even get upset if someone doesn’t like what they do in the first place? Who knows, but I do hate my job. I don’t hate The Alarmists though, so lets talk about them.
I don’t know Eric Lavold super well, but I do know him and his cohorts Drummer Boy Schwandt and Bassist Brian who are also in the bands White Light Riot and So It Goes respectively. All great guys. So, when I was told that the City Pages peed on them, I wondered what was up. A friend alleged they had recently called them poop heads, and ass clowns who couldn’t play instruments. …or something like that. It’s sparked a huge debate about whether or not The Alarmists suck and/or whether or not the City Pages sucked. Also how in the hell do you spell the Star Tribunes music guys name? I had to know the truth, so I decided to investigate.
Like all important people in the Twin Cities, I had an advance copy of The Alarmists new album, The Over-head Left to listen to. I also went to the release show, and then I read all these articles AND all the blog comments on the City Pages site. Then I read Chris Rachmaninovschneider’s interview in the Star Tribune. I’m pretty much an expert about now, so, I will tell you all the truth. But before I act like I know everything, let me first drag out this story by adding in personal experiences that are unrelated.
As I mentioned, the entire cast of Maudlin showed up to the show. The first bit of evidence that I collected came when I saw the Rock The Cause table in the Varsity Theater. As you may or may not know, Priscilla and I sit on the board of directors for Rock the Cause. If you’re not familiar with how we help the community and music scene, please take a look.
Eric Lavold approached Rock the Cause with an offer. Bands approach us with offers all the time. Some of them are good ones, some are a little self serving. Some would be really difficult and some more realistic to do. Eric’s offer was both generous and easy. At a time when our org could really use some extra cash, he offered to let us accept donations for digital downloads of the new album on our site and keep 100% of the proceeds.
Priscilla and I arrive in Dinky Town, Jason documents.
This might not seem like a huge deal to you, but the amount of work, money, and liability that goes into RTC putting on an event to raise money is huge. This required nothing of us other than we upload the song.
The comment was made that The Alarmists drama may have over shadowed their music. Why can’t someones generosity and good nature over shadow the drama surrounding their band? I guess because People magazine would go broke, with the City Pages along with it.
Craig Grossman of Green Room Music Source, The Alarmist booking agent (also our agent) and Scott Herold, CEO of Rock The Cause hang out at the show.
The crowd at the show was great, and the bands selected where right on too. Maudlin had a great time running around and mingling. I let my agent buy me a drink, and Eric’s dad tried to buy Priscilla a drink because she adjusts his glasses at work, but Craig beat him to it and bought her a drink too. Primarily we like Craig as our agent because of the drinks. Anyway, Jason bought himself one too many drinks and then ran around taking pictures for posterity.
Jason getting his drink on.
The Alarmist show was actually really good. The new line up is great. Someone on a blog made a comment that all the new musicians couldn’t stack up to the old ones, and made special citation of the drummer being included. Their old drummer was very good, but complaining about Mark Schwandt’s drumming is pretty retarded. Aside from being a solid show, it was more raw than the album and had a more personal feel to it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It actually made a few songs I was a little luke on from the album really grow on me.
Me forcing people to listen to me.
The Album itself is certainly nothing at all to scoff at. I can see how it differs from previous releases with less edge, but it adds a more haunting feel- actually reminds me a bit of Chris Isaac on some tunes. (course I was just watching True Blood so…[At least, when I first wrote this pharagraph I thought that Chris Isaac wrote that song, but today Barb Abney *cough cough name drop* corrected me. Some random hillbilly wrote that song. ]) The vocals are more stripped and personal. They bring out a great contrast against synths soaked in reverb. There are some dark sounding melodies and hooks, but the album still feels hopeful even if melancholy. Something for a rainy day if you’re not the kind of person that gets super depressed and hates rainy days. I definitely favor the first half of the album with tracks like, “Rhyme and Reason,” “Car Crashing,” “Flutter and Fly,” and “Hollywood’s Not My Home.” Not feeling songs like “The Country” or” We Belong” as much, and I flat out do not like “The Elusive Mr Albright.” …not sure what the motivation is on that one.
Over all it sounds very much like a liberation or a rebirth than a swing and a miss. These guys knew exactly what they were going for, and while it’s not going to thrill everyone, I think it will win a lot of people over. As to whether or not The Alarmists will take over the world, who knows- and who cares. They’ve already carved out a place for themselves, they’re making music that’s rewarding to themselves and still have an audience to listen. That is what success is.
The Alamists at their CD release show at the Varsity Theater
I believe in real criticism though, real honesty. If there isn’t anything bad, then, of course, nothing is really good. It’s just all double plus ungood. We don’t want that. I’ve met Andrea from the City Pages before, and even if she hadn’t been talking with me about my band being good, I still would have thought she was really nice. Not at all the kind of person who seems out for a vendetta. The City Pages article is pretty scathing, but, if it’s honest, then it’s not meriting retaliation.
Chris Rumpelstiltskinschneider said that The Amarmists are big enough to take a hit. They are. His own article in the Strib praises the album and gives a great inside look at what’s going on with the band and what’s transpired. It’s hard for me to not take a step back and see the two biggest papers in town arguing about a band and think, “Any press is good press.” Ultimately the controversy made listening to the album more fun for me. …Although, if it was my album getting shredded I would release angry bees into the office of the offending party. Not killer bees, just kind of having a bad day bees.
My biggest complaint with local press has always been what they miss, not what they criticize. There’s so much music here in Minneapolis, and way too much for everyone to go out and see what every band has going on. A scathing review here and there is a service. Just like letting people know about a new great band, and keeping up with what the bands we’ve all heard of have been up too. The more reviews the better, good ones and bad.
Still The Alarmists, only the lights are a different color now.
So what are my conclusions? People may have differing opinions about whether The Alarmists new album is good, just like people have many different opinions on how to spell Chris Rasputinschnieder’s name- and that’s ok. Because, in the end, there really isn’t a right or wrong answer. And, if that conclusion offends you, blame this guy.
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Gamescom 2017 Is Finally Here
August 22, 2017 / Gigamaxgames / 0 Comments
Taking place in Cologne, Germany, Gamescom 2017 is Europe's largest gaming event and is unofficially touted as Europe's more consumer friendly version of E3. Kicking off with briefings from Microsoft and EA, the event has officially begun. Opening to press on August 22nd, there has been a flood of information about the latest games and gaming news and it's only the first day. The event opens to the public August 23rd and runs until August 26th.
Important Words
Even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel stopped by to hang out with cosplayers and she shared some very important words with the gaming community.
"Computer and video games are of the utmost importance as cultural assets, as a driving force for innovation and as an economic factor, which is why I was also very pleased to come to Cologne to provide this developing industry with my recommendation," Merkel said. http://bit.ly/2vnnYs
Big Crowds, Bigger Games
Crowds are expected to reach into the hundreds of thousands, all coming out to see what's new in the world of gaming. With the first Press Day out of the way, gamers are starting to get a better picture of what they can expect.
With only a handful of major press conferences planned for the show, Electronic Arts (EA) and Nvidia will be taking center stage at Gamescom 2017. However, that's not all attendees and all those throughout the gaming community can expect to come out of Europe's largest game conference. Take a look below to see some of the major press conferences being featured this year at Europe's largest game conference.
Microsoft: Xbox One X
Microsoft didn't opt for their conventional press conference this year and instead showed up early to the party with a live stream on Sunday, August 20th. They mentioned the Xbox One X pre-orders, and the list of the more than 100 confirmed Xbox One X enhanced titles coming to the console. A new Middle Earth: Shadow of War trailer was premiered and an all new cinematic trailer for Assassin's Creed Origins made it to the stream as well. Those excited for Sea of Thieves will be happy to know it will support cross play between PC and Xbox. Microsoft also said they are publishing remasters of Age of Empires II and III and people can expect a completely new sequel, Age of Empires IV.
For more information, you can watch the archived livestream below.
EA held their EA Live Show keynote a day before the show opened to the press on August 21st. They showed off brand new footage of Star Wars Battlefront II, gamers were excited to get a bigger taste of this highly anticipated title. Need for Speed Payback also made an appearance so fans of the classic racing series got a glimpse of what the latest game may offer. Of course, Battlefield 1's DLC was featured as EA continues to build on their successful shooter. This is just some of the incredible content featured at EA's Live Stream, you can watch the entire stream below.
In a unique move, Nvidia held a hands-on event for the press for some of the most renowned PC games. They didn't live stream the event, however they are expected to release a video later this week. Once that is available, check back here to see Nvidia's unique press conference.
Wednesday, August 23rd Nintendo will be opening up their Press Conference with new gameplay of their unique take on classic Mario, Super Mario Odyssey. Yoshiaki Koizumi, the game's producer will hold a special developer discussion seemingly to discuss the development process and what actually went into this reimagined Mario. This will be featured along with Splatoon 2, Mario Rabbids, and Pokken Tournament. Once it becomes available, check back here for the stream.
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This is only a small taste of what Gamescom 2017 has to offer. As the event heats up, more news from the biggest names in gaming are sure to reach the press and public. Gigamax will be watching this event closely and will be sure to update this page and release more content as information becomes available. Be sure to check back soon for more updates coming out of Cologne, Germany.
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Drones in the Service of Sustainability: Tracking Soil Moisture in the Peruvian Andes
Arley Titzler
Amid the tropical Andes of Peru lies the Cordillera Blanca mountains, home to more tropical glaciers than anywhere else on Earth. This range provides water to some 95 million people. Rising temperatures over the last several decades, however, mean its once abundant glaciers are vanishing rapidly. That’s impacting the water supply of downstream communities, which are becoming increasingly dependent on soil moisture.
In an innovative study published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, researchers used drones to obtain high-resolution images of the valleys left behind as Cordillera Blanca’s glaciers recede. As the drones pass over these “proglacial valleys,” they can produce highly accurate maps of the soil moisture within the fields, rivers, wetlands, and meadows below.
Historically there has been “very little understanding” of how water circulates in areas like proglacial valleys, Jorge Recharte, director of the Andes program at the Mountain Institute, told GlacierHub.
The study’s lead author, Oliver Wigmore of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said his team’s findings help to improve understanding of proglacial hydrology. “This data … is providing unique insights into the patterns and processes that move and store water within these dynamic proglacial environments,” he said.
A view of Huandoy, the second-tallest peak in the Cordillera Blanca, at sunrise. Just beneath it is the Llanganuco Valley, which was surveyed in the study. (Source: cookierace/Flickr)
This study is the first to apply drone images to the temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI) method. TVDI demonstrates the relationship between land surface temperature and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which measures an area’s greenness, or density of vegetation, which can then be used to determine soil moisture.
Anais Zimmer, a Ph.D candidate in the department of geography and the environment at the University of Texas, Austin, said the study offered “excellent outcomes on surface and subsurface hydrological processes that could be used at a broader scale and applied to many other sub-disciplines to understand the functioning and the future of alpine ecosystem services.”
The researchers found that soil moisture varied drastically over very short distances. “The unique, high-resolution multispectral drone imagery that we collected has provided an unprecedented snapshot of the spatial variability of surface soil moisture within these systems,” said Wigmore.
A photo of one of the drones used to conduct this study. (Source: Wigmore, et al.)
Drones are essentially the third generation of technology to be used in scientific research. First were direct measurements, which cannot be accurately generalized over such a variable area. Then came remote sensing using satellites, which provides averaged data over larger areas, but would likely miss any important variability happening on a smaller scale. For this study, researchers used two types of drone-mounted cameras: one to measure greenness, an indicator of plant health, and a second to record temperature.
“[The images] provide excellent tools to establish comparisons between valleys, depending on land use changes and climatic factors,” Zimmer said.
Wigmore and his team conducted their survey in two proglacial valleys in the Cordillera Blanca that were markedly different from each other in terms of precipitation level, glacier extent, land cover, and land use. The researchers found that soil moisture variability across the Cordillera Blanca’s proglacial valleys can be attributed to three criteria: distance from local water supplies; the type and abundance of vegetation; and soil disturbance such as animal grazing.
“We have found that the proglacial valleys in Cordillera Blanca often have substantial groundwater reservoirs that regulate dry season stream flow by storing and gradually releasing wet season precipitation and glacial meltwater,” said Wigmore. He added that knowing the groundwater storage capacity of these valleys could help minimize negative impacts of meltwater decline on downstream communities.
A view of a glacier in the Cordillera Blanca from the Laguna 69, one one of the most famous hikes in Peru. (Source: Esmée Winnubst)/Flickr)
“Research in these high landscapes is key to planning for both local impacts in the short term and whole-watershed impacts in the long term,” Recharte said.
Zimmer emphasized the need for enhanced monitoring, modeling, and case studies that might help to better predict the impact of climate change in mountain communities.
Around the world, many glaciers have already reached peak discharge, which threatens the freshwater supplies of downstream communities. The study by Wigmore and his team not only provides an unprecedented look into the hydrology of proglacial valleys, it also provides a glimmer of hope that not all is lost, at least for now. Their results document the enormous water-storage potential that lies beneath the surface of proglacial valleys, but also highlights the extreme vulnerability of these ecosystems.
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The coffee break originated in the late 19th century in Stoughton, Wisconsin, with the wives of Norwegian immigrants. The city celebrates this every year with the Stoughton Coffee Break Festival.[204] In 1951, Time noted that "[s]ince the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts".[205] The term subsequently became popular through a Pan-American Coffee Bureau ad campaign of 1952 which urged consumers, "Give yourself a Coffee-Break – and Get What Coffee Gives to You."[206] John B. Watson, a behavioral psychologist who worked with Maxwell House later in his career, helped to popularize coffee breaks within the American culture.[207] Coffee breaks usually last from 10 to 20 minutes and frequently occur at the end of the first third of the work shift. In some companies and some civil service, the coffee break may be observed formally at a set hour. In some places, a cart with hot and cold beverages and cakes, breads and pastries arrives at the same time morning and afternoon, an employer may contract with an outside caterer for daily service, or coffee breaks may take place away from the actual work-area in a designated cafeteria or tea room. More generally, the phrase "coffee break" has also come to denote any break from work.
This Juliette Glass Top Coffee Table will slay the design game. With an airy silhouette, the brass-finished frame is a ~work of art~ with its geometric cut outs and minimalist vibe. Stack your fave coffee table books and cutesy décor for an OTT look that will have you raking in the “Likes”. Juliette’s modern design and artistic side panels will upgrade your space to help you adult in style.
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The simple yet utterly chic design of the Sutton Glass Top Coffee Table with Slat Bottom is an ideal update for any modern home. Crafted of sturdy engineered wood, this table has been given a sleek black finish to complement the clean lines of its silhouette. A clear, tempered glass top with a beveled edge provides an airy contrast to the black finish while a slatted lower shelf adds interest and display space. Pair this table with an on-trend tray, a few favorite books, and baubles and your room will ...
Once you're comfortable everything is in its right place then you can drill a couple of small holes to mount the power supply inside the table edge using small bolts. I chose to mount the Arduino outside the table so I can reprogram easily if I want to but it is mounted upside down to the bottom of the table and is not easily visible. I also mounted the potentiometer through the bottom of the table so that the brightness control looks nice and professional.
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Again, this should sound familiar. Our micro-generation is sometimes called the “Ikea generation,” in part because we’re the first to graduate from college and turn so forcefully toward a single provider of furniture. This finding is borne out in a totally nonscientific survey I conducted, of 770 people of various ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, and locations. Hundreds said that their first furniture was some combination of Ikea and something else. A 24-year-old from Washington, DC, who identifies their gender as nonbinary, said, “Everyone I know in their 20s is an Ikea addict.”
The Signature Design By Ashley Marion Brown Cocktail Table with 4 Stools comes with everything you need for an updated seating solution. The birch veneer and hardwood solid frame of these piece ensure lasting durability throughout the years. Made with a clear beveled float glass insert, the cocktail table captures contemporary styling perfectly. Four matching stools are included and provide comfortable seating for you and yours with the help of the upholstered medium brown faux leather seats. A complementing dark brown finish washes over this piece creating a warm, rustic ...
Bring an on-trend touch to your luminary ensemble with this sleek one-light outdoor sconce. While its rich hue is perfect set against a crisp white wall for a contrasting look, it will bring a sense of sophisticated look to any color palette. Crafted of metal, with a clear seeded glass, this hardwired fixture is designed for wet environments, so you can feel comfortable knowing this light is safe on the exterior of your home. It accommodates one GU10/Bi-pin lightbulb (not included).
A wide range of serving dishes are used to transport food from kitchen to table or to serve it at table, in order to make food service easier and cleaner or more efficient and pleasant. Serving dishes include: butter dishes; casseroles; fruit bowls; ramekins or lidded serving bowls; compotes; pitchers or jugs; platters, salvers, and trays; salt and pepper shakers or salt cellars; sauce or gravy boats; tureens and tajines; vegetable or salad bowls.
By the 16th century, coffee had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. The first coffee seeds were smuggled out of the Middle East was by Sufi Baba Budan from Yemen to the Indian subcontinent in 1670. Before then, all exported coffee was boiled or otherwise sterilised. Portraits of Baba Budan depict him as having smuggled seven coffee seeds by strapping them to his chest. The first plants grown from these smuggled seeds were planted in Mysore.
Keep in mind - when planning production chains - the location you would like the production chain to end, considering; if the chain isn't on your main island (where your city is built), should the final product be produced on the production island itself or on your main island? There are advantages and disadvantages for both strategies, displayed in the table below, where: product = product consumed by inhabitants, resources = items needed to create product, production island = island other than island with city, main'''' island = island with city for which production chain is created.
Beans from different countries or regions can usually be distinguished by differences in flavor, aroma, body, and acidity.[68] These taste characteristics are dependent not only on the coffee's growing region, but also on genetic subspecies (varietals) and processing.[69] Varietals are generally known by the region in which they are grown, such as Colombian, Java and Kona.
Matching furniture, massive sectional sofas, bedrooms sets, the sort of things you put in a house, likely in the suburbs, that you own and from which you won’t move — for boomers, those are the signifiers of becoming an adult, of making it. Younger people, by contrast, mark adulthood with the purchase of an expensive piece — and the accumulation of more durable items, if not necessarily more expensive, that better represent their individual taste.
Hanging from great heights or simply hovering above your kitchen island for useful illumination, pendant lights make a statement in any decor. Take this one for example: Reminiscent of a drop of water, this streamlined mini piece brings a splash of contemporary style as it illuminates your home. Its polished chrome finish contributes to its sleek look, while its adjustable wire lets you customize its height to fit your space perfectly. Plus, the glass shade diffuses light from an included 20 W...
Stunning and functional, this cocktail table completes any décor. The Panorama Cocktail Table - White has a see-through table top to display your collectibles. An open shelf below provides storage along with two pull out drawers with brushed silver knobs. These drawers have four equal removable compartments to store your items. Made of hardwood, wood veneer, and MDF, this table has a white finish and adds style to any room décor. Its visually appealing and durable.
Then they are sorted by ripeness and color, and most often the flesh of the berry is removed, usually by machine, and the seeds are fermented to remove the slimy layer of mucilage still present on the seed. When the fermentation is finished, the seeds are washed with large quantities of fresh water to remove the fermentation residue, which generates massive amounts of coffee wastewater. Finally, the seeds are dried.[88]
After a marathon drive, Ms. Fabens and her husband, Andrew, had just arrived with another couple for a long fall weekend. Ms. Fabens had intended to scout the house for hazards, knickknacks and valuables. In an older woman’s parlor, it can be hard to tell the difference. But within 20 minutes of racing through the front door, Peter ran into the living room, tripped and caught the table. In his mouth.
Over the past few years I’ve just come to expect my online orders to be screwed up somehow, however, One Day Glass came through with 100% accuracy. I ordered three shelves to replace the ones that I somehow lost in a move. They could not have looked or fit better. PERFECTION, is the word I would use in all aspects of this order. The price was excellent, the online custom order form was easy to follow, the delivery time was less than one week, and three of my pieces were safely packed and in mint condition when I pulled them out of the box. I couldn’t be happier with my experience, and will be recommending you to anyone looking for custom glass services. Anyone who works there obviously takes a lot of pride in what they do. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! For service above and beyond the norm.
NB. The HC05 unit will take either 5V in or 3.3V in and generally operates on 3.3V logic so I connected it to the 3.3V rail. Some other instructables have shown the Tx (on Arduino) to Rx (on HC05 unit) with a potential divider circuit to knock the 5 V logic from the Arduino into the native level for the HC05 module. This is the reason I had the 1k and 2k resistors in the parts list; however, I didn't bother and it seems perfectly happy on my table :)
Assuming you have the Arduino IDE (if not download and install it) set the chipset type to the Arduino you have and set the COM port to the one that shows an Arduino in the options. Now download the FastLED library and install it (http://fastled.io/). Open the striptest.h example and set the number of LEDs in the sketch to however many you have (I had 5 left). Hit verify and (assuming all goes well) upload it to the Arduino and you should see the lights on the little strip come on and change colour.
The best (but least used) method of drying coffee is using drying tables. In this method, the pulped and fermented coffee is spread thinly on raised beds, which allows the air to pass on all sides of the coffee, and then the coffee is mixed by hand. In this method the drying that takes place is more uniform, and fermentation is less likely. Most African coffee is dried in this manner and certain coffee farms around the world are starting to use this traditional method.[88]
Coffee, regarded as a Muslim drink, was prohibited by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians until as late as 1889; it is now considered a national drink of Ethiopia for people of all faiths. Its early association in Europe with rebellious political activities led to Charles II outlawing coffeehouses from January 1676 (although the uproar created forced the monarch to back down two days before the ban was due to come into force).[33] Frederick the Great banned it in Prussia in 1777 for nationalistic and economic reasons; concerned about the price of import, he sought to force the public back to consuming beer.[211] Lacking coffee-producing colonies, Prussia had to import all its coffee at a great cost.[212]
First mark out a 450 mm x 450 mm square in the middle of the top of the LACK tabletop. Using the Dremel (or a jigsaw) cut the square out as best you can to keep it straight. Now we can remove the top and the cardboard inner pieces leaving you with a hollowed out tabletop as shown in the picture. Using the Dremel again we can drill a hole in the corner of the bottom of the table so we have somewhere to route the mains cable through.
Only to the sofa, coffee tables are living room icons. They’re ubiquitous in all interior designs and come in a seemingly endless amount of styles. Take this coffee table set for example: with a classic design of clean lines, this round piece is perfect for modern or contemporary aesthetics. The large table measures 18.5'' H x 36'' L x 36'' W, while the small table that can nest inside the larger counterpart, measures 16.5'' H x 26.75'' L x 26.75'' W.
The American coffeehouse chain Starbucks, which began as a modest business roasting and selling coffee beans in 1971, was founded by three college students, Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl. The first store opened on March 30, 1971 at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, followed by a second and third over the next two years.[198] Entrepreneur Howard Schultz joined the company in 1982 as Director of Retail Operations and Marketing, and pushed to sell premade espresso coffee. The others were reluctant, but Schultz opened Il Giornale in Seattle in April 1986.[199] He bought the other owners out in March 1987 and pushed on with plans to expand—from 1987 to the end of 1991, the chain (rebranded from Il Giornale to Starbucks) expanded to over 100 outlets.[200] The company has 25,000 stores in over 75 countries worldwide.[201]
"Dinnerware" is another term used to refer to tableware and "crockery" refers to porcelain and bone china produced by makers such as Sèvres in France, Meissen in Germany, Royal Copenhagen in Denmark, Royal Doulton in England, or Belleek Pottery in Northern Ireland.[4] Sets of dishes are referred to as a table service, dinner service or service set. Table settings or place settings are the dishes, cutlery and glassware used for formal and informal dining. In Ireland such items are normally referred to as delph, the word being an English language phonetic spelling of the word Delft, the town from which so much delftware came. Silver service or butler service are methods for a butler or waiter to serve a meal.
Once the steel legs are bent and cut to the right length, they'll need to be welded to some steel plate that will be screwed into the underside of the wood tabletop. Drill holes for your screws before you do any welding. You can use a handheld drill for these holes if you clamp the metal plate down appropriately. Use a drill bit suitable for steel. I used a carbide center drill bit with LOTS of cutting fluid applied regularly.
Cut 11 short lengths of each of the three colours of wire you have. Make sure they are long enough to go from the end of one strip to the beginning of the next one. When laying the LED strips out you need to make sure that the data flow arrow follows a snake. Once this is laid out, carefully solder each led row to the next one as shown in the figure. This is significantly easier if you use the same colour for each type of connection.
Seating ensemble feeling empty? Try a coffee table! Not only do they anchor your space, but they offer room to stage a display and serve up trays of treats when you find yourself entertaining. This one, for example: it’s perfect for a modern or contemporary home, thanks to the clean lines and simple design. It features two tables in one, a large coffee table, and a smaller coffee table on casters (great for quick mobility around your home!). With a base crafted of polished chrome steel, and...
Add a contemporary flair to your home decor-style with the Leick Home 10037 Favorite Finds Round Coffee Table. Featuring a compact size, this space-efficient table is designed to make the most of spaces that are small. A spacious top is great for displaying artifacts, while the bottom shelf provides convenient storage. Its tough construction of solid ash makes it sturdy and durable. In addition, the splayed sabre leg, bronze tinted glass, and chocolate oak finish add to the visual appeal of the table.
The art print site's clear iPhone cases are transparent and incorporate the look of the phone underneath into the design. Often, the patterns look like stickers, but with the advantage of never peeling. The protective cases come in two versions: slim (a frosted plastic case) or tough (a two-piece, impact resistant case) and are available for $36 for iPhone 6 and later.
In all seriousness, I have heard versions of the above rationale, in various guises, on many an occasion. And, there are elements of truth to each point (ish). Of course, within design there are no totally exacting, hard-and-fast rules but rather, design codes that we generally adhere to/advise on. The coffee table, however, is largely a no-brainer and should be a welcome addition to your space.
Besides wood tables, Metal coffee tables are quite popular nowadays. Similar to wood tables, metal tables are weighed lighter and are sturdy too. Generally, the legs of the metal tables are narrower below than the top. They are patterned in unique designs making the table look stylish. Metal being a tougher material it gives better support than wood. With its smooth surface, water-resistant quality and ridgeless look it is a good choice for the coffee table.
Depending on the type of coffee and method of preparation, the caffeine content of a single serving can vary greatly.[179][180][181][182] The caffeine content of a cup of coffee varies depending mainly on the brewing method, and also on the coffee variety.[183] According to the USDA National Nutrient Database, an 8-ounce (237 ml) cup of "coffee brewed from grounds" contains 95 mg caffeine, whereas an espresso (25 ml) contains 53 mg.[184]
Whether keeping TV remotes and drink coasters at arm’s reach or providing a place to pour tea when casually catching up with close friends, coffee tables are essential in any living room look. Bring contemporary appeal to your abode with this one that's as much an art piece as it is functional. Founded atop a mid-century inspired metal base, it showcases a sleek tempered and frosted glass tabletop for a trendsetting look.
You could also opt for a reflective finish – be it mirrored glass, polished wood veneer or a metallic sheen – as this will encourage the light to bounce around and exaggerate the feeling of space within the room. Total winner. Plus, you can decorate your coffee table with lots of lovelies – fresh flowers, grouped accessories, coffee table books, deliciously scented candles – and put your drinks down. Result!
Anchor your seating ensemble in glamorous, modern style with this geometric coffee table. Crafted of metal in a gleaming chrome finish, this coffee table strikes a hexagonal silhouette on an open trellis base. Up top, a frosted glass tabletop provides an elegant, yet easy-to-clean stage for everything from flowers and books, to appetizers and drinks at your next get-together with friends. Measures 18.75" H x 40" W x 34.5" D overall.
Glass is fairly low-maintenance though it will have to be cleaned frequently to avoid smears, smudges, and other marks. It also needs to be handled carefully as it can break and since it has sharp edges, it’s not a great choice for a space that needs to accommodate children. However, it can be both traditional and modern and add a very light touch to a room. If you don’t necessarily want the table itself to be the focal point of your decor, glass is a great option!
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The Red Barrel Studio Bitter Creek Group evokes a Mid Century modern sensibility with free-flowing organic shapes and lay on glass tops. Walnut veneers and Asian hardwood solids are finished in a rich medium tobacco. Shelving is offered on the End and Console Tables. The top features thick, half inch glass with a beveled edge and soft radius corners. Top shelf designs and unmatched value combined with meticulous craftsmanship...another home run for Red Barrel Studio!
Coffee drinking was prohibited by jurists and scholars (ulema) meeting in Mecca in 1511 as haraam, but the subject of whether it was intoxicating was hotly debated over the next 30 years until the ban was finally overturned in the mid-16th century.[209] Use in religious rites among the Sufi branch of Islam led to coffee's being put on trial in Mecca: it was accused of being a heretical substance, and its production and consumption were briefly repressed. It was later prohibited in Ottoman Turkey under an edict by the Sultan Murad IV.[210]
Laminate is a man-made product that looks like wood but isn’t. It’s usually made of plastic that has been printed to look like wood. It’s typically a very affordable alternative to higher-end wood tables, but laminate that’s not high end can look very cheap very quickly. It also tends to have very poor resale value and not be as high quality. That said, there was a lot of laminate used during the 60s, and some of the better-made pieces have survived to this day.
As of 2016, Brazil was the leading grower of coffee beans, producing one-third of the world total. Coffee is a major export commodity, being the top legal agricultural export for numerous countries.[4][8][not in citation given] It is one of the most valuable commodities exported by developing countries. Green, unroasted coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world.[9] Some controversy has been associated with coffee cultivation and the way developed countries trade with developing nations, as well as the impact on the environment with regards to the clearing of land for coffee-growing and water use. Consequently, the markets for fair trade and organic coffee are expanding, notably in the USA.[10]
A 2005 study done in Belgium concluded that consumers' buying behavior is not consistent with their positive attitude toward ethical products. On average 46% of European consumers claimed to be willing to pay substantially more for ethical products, including fair-trade products such as coffee.[222] The study found that the majority of respondents were unwilling to pay the actual price premium of 27% for fair trade coffee.[222]
The traditional method of planting coffee is to place 20 seeds in each hole at the beginning of the rainy season. This method loses about 50% of the seeds' potential, as about half fail to sprout. A more effective process of growing coffee, used in Brazil, is to raise seedlings in nurseries that are then planted outside at six to twelve months. Coffee is often intercropped with food crops, such as corn, beans, or rice during the first few years of cultivation as farmers become familiar with its requirements.[47] Coffee plants grow within a defined area between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, termed the bean belt or coffee belt.[54]
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<div class="coach-drills sr"> <div class="title">Pat Casey Drills</div> <ul> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/various_pdf_files/Drills/T_Drills-OSU.pdf" target="_blank">T Drills</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/various_pdf_files/Drills/Incorporation%20of%20Pitching%20Philosophy.pdf" target="_blank">Incorporation of Pitching Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/various_pdf_files/Drills/Run_Production_Clinic.pdf" target="_blank">Run Production Clinic</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Pursuing_Excellence-OSU.pdf" target="_blank">Pursuing Excellence</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Small_Ball_As_a_Weapon-OSU.pdf" target="_blank">Small Ball as a Weapon</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Leadership_is_Influence-OSU.pdf" target="_blank">Leadership is Influence</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Tough%20Ball%20Communication.pdf" target="_blank">Tough Ball Communication</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Kamikazi%20Outfield%20Drill.pdf" target="_blank">Kamikaze Fly Ball Drill</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Oregon%20St.%20Catching%20Drill.pdf" target="_blank">Individual Catching Drills</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Infield%20Combination%20Ground%20Balls.pdf" target="_blank">Infield Combination Ground Balls</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Catching%20drills-OSU%202013.pdf" target="_blank">Catching Drills</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Run%20Production%20vs.%20Hitting.pdf" target="_blank">Run Production vs. Hitting</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Oregon%20St-Outfield%20Play(1).pdf" target="_blank">Outfield Play</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Catching%20Fundamentals.pdf" target="_blank">Catching Fundamentals</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Hitting%20Absolutes-Casey.pdf" target="_blank">Hitting Absolutes</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Hitting%20Absolutes.pdf" target="_blank">Hitting Absolutes-2</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Outfield%20Play-Individual%20Drills.pdf" target="_blank">Outfield Play-Individual Drills</a></li> <li><a href="https://jugssports.com/content/Casey/Outfield%20Play-Team%20Drills.pdf" target="_blank">Outfield Play-Team Drills</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="coach-biography sr"> <div class="coach-biography-wrapper"><img class="coach-avatar" src="https://cdn7.bigcommerce.com/s-3kwrgfp6rz/content/coach-pat-casey.png" alt="" /> <div class="title">Pat Casey, <br />Head Baseball Coach, Oregon State University</div> <p> </p> Pat Casey, considered one of the top coaches in the country, recently completed his 24th season in Corvallis, leading the Beavers to their third national title with a 55-win season.<br /><br />One of the most influential sports figures in the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, Casey has made Oregon State a national power.<br /><br />• Oregon State overcame six elimination games to win the title in 2018. The Beavers outscored their opponents, 59-30, and set a College World Series record with 93 hits.<br />• Casey was named the National Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ACBA) and Collegiate Baseball.<br />• The Beavers tallied a 55-12-1 record in 2018, winning 40 or more games for the ninth time during his tenure, and 50 or more for the fourth time.<br />• Oregon State is the winningest NCAA Division I team since the start of the 2017 season, posting 111 victories. The Beavers are 111-18-1 (.857) during that stretch.<br />• Casey has taken Goss Stadium at Coleman Field’s home-field advantage to a new level since ‘17. The Beavers are 58-6 (.906) in their last 64 games at Goss.<br /><br />• Oregon State finished the 2017 campaign with a school-record 56 wins. The team went 56-6 overall, and its .903 winning percentage tied for the fourth-best in NCAA Division I history.<br />• Casey guided Oregon State to its sixth-ever trip to the College World Series, and fifth since 2005.<br />• Oregon State set a Pac-12 record for the most wins ever in conference play, going 27-3. That surpassed the 1981 record previously held by Arizona State at 26 wins. OSU won the conference by six games, the largest margin in more than 30 years.<br />• Casey’s squad was ranked as the consensus No. 1 team in the nation for 10 consecutive weeks to end the regular season. Oregon State began the year ranked in the top 10 and rose to No. 1 by at least one publication for 12 straight rankings. OSU is the only team to ever be ranked for 10 straight weeks or more in the 58-year history of the Collegiate Baseball rankings.<br />• He was named the 2017 Pac-12 Coach of the Year and the National Coach of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA).<br />• Casey became the 16th active coach with 1,000 or more wins at four-year schools when he reached the milestone May 12 at Oregon. Not only did he reach the milestone that night, but the Beavers won their fifth conference crown since 2005.<br /><br />• Casey is 900-458-6 in his 24 seasons at Oregon State, recording a .662 winning percentage. <br />• All-time, as a collegiate head coach, Casey’s teams have gone 1,071-572-7 (.651). He went 171-114-1 (.600) in seven seasons at Division III George Fox.<br />• Casey’s 900 wins at Oregon State ranks sixth all-time in Pac-12 Conference history. <br />• Since coming to Oregon State prior to the 1995 season, Casey’s teams have advanced to the NCAA postseason 12 times, including a school-record seven straight appearances from 2009-2015.<br />• The Beavers became just the fifth program in NCAA history to win back-to-back NCAA titles when Oregon State defeated North Carolina in 2006 and 2007.<br />• In winning the 2006 title, Oregon State became the first “Northern” school to win an NCAA Championship in decades.<br />• Casey has been honored nationally multiple times, being named the National Coach of the Year in 2006, 2007, 2017 and 2018 and the Co-Coach of the Year in 2005.<br />• He was selected as the Pac-10’s Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2011 and the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2013 and 2017.<br />• Prior to the 2010 season, Casey was named the top collegiate coach of the previous decade by Baseball America. The voting was done by fellow collegiate coaches. Oregon State was named the No. 2 program of the decade, just behind Texas.<br />• Also in 2010, he and his wife, Susan, were recipients of the Nell and John Wooden Coaching Achievement Award. The honor goes to a head coach and his spouse for their dedication to success on the field and in making an impact on the lives of their players. <br />• Oregon State players have been named an All-American a total of 28 times during his tenure, including seven in 2018. Michael Conforto became the first Oregon State player to be named an All-American three times when earned the honor in 2012, 2013 and 2014.<br />• Seven other players - Dallas Buck, Jonah Nickerson, Andrew Moore, Luke Heimlich, Nick Madrigal, Bryce Fehmel and Jake Mulholland - have been named an All-American in two different seasons.<br />• Twenty players who competed under Casey have made an appearance at the Major League level, including a school-record 11 during the 2017 season. In 2017, the Beavers had nearly 30 former players compete at the professional level.<br />• Two former Beavers - Jacoby Ellsbury in 2007 and 2011 and Andrew Susac in 2014 - have won World Series titles. A third former Beaver, Michael Conforto, played in the 2015 series and became one of the youngest players to ever homer in the World Series. A little more than one year prior, Conforto had finished his Oregon State career as one of the top offensive players in school history.<br />• Oregon State players have been selected by MLB clubs in the draft a total of 116 times. Fifty-one of those 116 selections have come in the top nine rounds (44 percent).<br />• Oregon State players have been named the Pac-10/12’s Most Valuable Player six times, the Defensive Player of the Year five times, the Freshman of the Year three times and the Pitcher of the Year three times.<br />• Casey has guided Oregon State to the College World Series six times - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2017 and 2018. His clubs have gone 21-12 (.656).<br />• In the postseason, Oregon State is 64-25 (.719) under Casey. His 64 wins represent better than 90 percent of the Beavers’ 69 all-time.<br />• In 2013, the Beavers set a then school-record with 52 victories. Oregon State won its first of two consecutive Pac-12 titles, setting a conference record with 24 victories.<br />• Oregon State followed the 2013 season with a nearly as impressive 2014 campaign. The 2014 club won 45 games, and claimed the Pac-12 with a 23-7 record. The 47 conference victories in back-to-back seasons are easily a Pac-12 record.<br />• Since 2005, the first of a school-record 14 consecutive winning seasons, the Beavers have totaled 605 wins, the best mark in the conference. Oregon State has averaged better than 43 wins per season over that stretch, one of just two teams in the league to lay claim to more than 40 a year.<br />• In conference play, since 2005, the Beavers have won 294 games, or more than 21 per season. That easily leads the conference over that stretch.<br />• Casey has a winning record against all but two Pac-12 opponents.<br />• He is the winningest coach in Oregon State Athleics history. Casey surpassed Jack Riley on May 25, 2012 to earn that distinction.<br />• Oregon State has thrown four no-hitters since the 2007 season. Drew Rasmussen became the first pitcher in conference history to throw a perfect game in a league game on March 21, 2015 versus Washington State. He was the first pitcher from the conference to throw a perfect game against any opponent in more tha 40 years.<br />• Four years prior, Josh Osich no hit UCLA (April 30, 2011). He was the first pitcher to no hit a fellow conference school in nearly 20 seasons.<br />• In 2017 and 2018, Oregon State saw a school-record 16 players named to the Pac-12 All-Academic Team. Jack Anderson, KJ Harrison and Jake Thompson were named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 First Team in 2017, followed by Anderson and Cadyn Grenier in 2018. Thompson later went on to become the sixth player in school history to be named an Academic All-American.<br /><br />Casey has not only developed talent on the field and in the classroom, but he’s helped make Goss Stadium at Coleman Field into one of the finest ballparks in the nation.<br /><br />• Prior to the 2017 season, Goss Stadium was named the 10th toughest park to play in for opposing teams. It earned the distinction in a vote by the nation’s coaches.<br />• In 1999, Casey spearheaded the expansion of Goss Stadium from Coleman Field. The stadium saw increased seating, improved locker rooms and a full press box.<br />• In 2009, Casey again spearheaded a further expansion of Goss Stadium. The stadium saw additional seating added down the first and third base lines, as well as the Omaha Room, the team’s classroom and a trophy room, celebrating the program’s history.<br />• In 2015, thanks to a generous donation from Jacoby Ellsbury, the Jacoby Ellsbury Clubhouse was constructed down the third base line. It is considered one of the top clubhouses in the nation.<br />• The team’s players also enjoy the the use of the Bert and Shirly Babb Players Lounge, located next to the Jacoby Ellsbury Clubhouse.<br /><br />A look at the Beavers’ six trips to Omaha under Casey.<br /><br />• The 2018 team was just the second to ever face six elimination games, joining the 2006 Bevaers. Oregon State, buoyed by three first-rounders and seven All-Americans, averaged better than 7.3 runs per game and tallied an NCAA record 93 hits en route to the title. <br />• The 2017 team set a school-record with 56 wins and its .903 winning percentage tied for the fourth-best mark in NCAA Division I history. The club advanced to Omaha after going 5-0 in the first two rounds of the postseason. The Beavers posted two 23-game win streaks during the season and led the nation with a 1.93 ERA, which also set the school record.<br />• The 2013 Oregon State team set a school record with 52 victories, advancing to the College World Series after defeating Kansas State in the Corvallis Super Regional. The Beavers finished with a 2.28 earned run average that season, the second-lowest mark nationally.<br />• The 2007 club went 39-4 in non-conference games, including an incredible 11-1 record in the postseason. Oregon State trailed for just one inning in five games in Omaha. The Beavers won their last four games by at least six runs, the first team in CWS history to win four or more by at least six.<br />• The 2006 Beavers were the first team to ever face six elimination games. And Oregon State became the first team to win the World Series despite losing two games in Omaha - once before taking 2-of-3 from North Carolina to claim the crown. The 2006 club set what was then a school record with 50 victories.<br />• The 2005 Oregon State team won its first of two Pac-10 titles with a 19-5 record in league play. OSU won 46 games, a school record at the time. Casey won his first career postseason game that year, a 4-3 victory over Ohio State in the Corvallis Regional.<br /><br />Casey came to OSU after seven seasons at George Fox College, a NAIA school in his hometown of Newberg, Ore. Under Casey, the Bruins went 171-113-1 (.602) overall and were 155-54-1 against NAIA competition; they won three District 2 titles, five Metro Valley Conference titles and two Cascade Conference titles.</div> </div>
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ALLEN LOSI
INTERVIEW by JIM MURPHY
Growing up, I always had skateboard mag shots all over my wall and I always wondered what it would be like to meet the skaters in the photos. Would they be cool or not? Would the companies they rode for dictate their personalities? Who knows, right? When I first met big Al, I was riding with Reese Simpson, who is one of the coolest skaters you would wanna meet. I got to skate with Al and Reese, and Al was so cool, relaxed, laid back and always seemed to have a big smile on his face! Any preconceived “Varibot” labels that were thrown around growing up where blown away by Al’s friendly personality and 20-foot locked in smith grinds (aka Losi grinds? Hehe!) He would lay down around any pool or contest half pipe! Watching the late ’70s pool/bowl skate pros adapting to the ’80s vert ramp era just stoked me out because I got to skate and hang out with people I idolized. From Del Mar to Cedar Crest, Losi always was and continues to be an inspiration as a skater and a person to hang with when the session is over. This interview gives you a great insight into the highs and lows of the skateboard industry, from Variflex to Losi Skate Designs. Here is the one and only Big Al Losi!!!
Yo, Big Al. It’s Murf. How’ve you been?
I’m hanging in there.
Are you still skateboarding?
Yeah. I need to ride while I can.
Well, let’s start from the beginning. Where were you born and raised?
I was born in Southern California in 1965. Sylmar is the city I was in.
Did you grow up surfing and skating?
No. I grew up inland in the desert part of California in a town called Rialto. It was off the train tracks, out there a bit.
Do you remember when you got your first board?
When I was a kid, my best friend that lived two houses away (Kevin Einert) died of leukemia when he was eight years old. He had one of those Black Knight boards with the clay wheels, and we loved that thing, so I saved my money and got some Kmart pile of shit plastic thing. It got stolen from the front of my house though. At the same time, I started going to the swap meet and I got a real board. My brother got a Jay Adams Z-Flex and after that we were going to Skater Crater Skateboard Park in San Bernardino.
When you first started skating on the Black Knight, you and your bro were street skating?
Yeah, we didn’t have any beach town around there, so we skated the cement and driveways around our neighborhood.
Were you aware of magazines like Skateboarder?
I had no idea they existed.
When you heard a concrete park went up, and you showed up at the park, what did you think?
Where I grew up, we skated a lot of ditches and by the time I went to a skatepark, I was in heaven. I was charging all over. I tried to go as much as I could. I was bugging my parents constantly.
What were you riding?
I’m going to guess it was a C&D board from the swap meet.
What kind of terrain did that park have?
There were banks and little bank channels and bowls at the end of it with a little bank snake run that set into it. It had three bowls with banks. It went from small to medium to large. There was no actual vert anywhere. They tried to add on to one of the bowls, but it was a joke. It wasn’t close to vert. It was super old school garbage, but it was fun. I used to go there for years. I loved riding there.
“Where I grew up, we skated a lot of ditches and by the time I went to a skatepark, I was in heaven. I was charging all over. I tried to go as much as I could.”
Were you instantly addicted to skateboarding?
Yeah. I played baseball, basketball and football when I was really young and I would make all the good teams, and all-stars. After that, I didn’t even go. I didn’t even care. I just wanted to skate. I was standing in the football field thinking about skateboarding.
What did your parents think of that? Was there a vibe at home like you should do organized sports or did they care either way?
I think my parents were so busy and consumed with work. Both of them worked constantly. For them, it was about making time to get their kids to practice at the skatepark or whatever it was. That’s all it was really about.
So they weren’t tripping out on the skateboarding thing.
My dad was a pretty athletic dad. He did everything, so he was game for whatever.
Did he come to the park and check you guys out riding?
Yeah, someone had to drive us there. We were young. You would have to pay for a two-hour session and you would ride for two hours and then they would kick everyone out and you would have to pay again.
What did he think of you guys riding?
I remember at my cousin’s wedding, my family got together and started talking and, the next thing you know, they started Variflex.
How did that all go down?
We were at my cousin Sue’s wedding and my Uncle Ray and my cousin Jay and my dad and my brother and everyone just started talking about skateboarding. The next thing you know we’re off looking for manufacturers and getting labels and filing for business licensing and all that stuff.
What year was that?
I would say it was 1977. Yep.
Variflex was coming in more at the Kmart level at first and trying to price at the entry level point for kids just starting out, right?
My uncle was already in that industry of mass marketing. My father was all about making pro skateboards and they both did their own thing at the same exact time, and Variflex started. My uncle was busy wheelin’ and dealin’ and getting a bunch of boards out of Taiwan. My dad was busy trying to find out about vertical laminates and materials and what glue to use. Back then we were worried about making kicktails. [Laughs]
You guys already knew that you wanted to make a good quality product to go for a skate shop and another product just for entry-level stuff, right?
Yeah. From day one, my dad was all about the pro line.
Did he see you at a level to where he was going to sponsor you or was he seeing it more as a business opportunity?
I think it was something that he could do with his kids, but the focus was on the products. In 1980, he took us on tour around the nation when there wasn’t much opportunity in the skateboard industry at all.
At that point, were you going to contests? Were you already sponsored?
The Skater Crater Skateboard Park sponsored me. The U.S.A.S.A. would have contests at the different parks and they would hand out trophies at the end of the season to the winners with the most points.
Do you remember what you were riding?
By that time, I was riding a lot, so I was getting a lot of different materials that Variflex wanted to try out. I was riding proto-type boards the whole time from different sources.
Who were the guys you were skating with?
The one person that really stands out is Bill Hanes. He worked at Skater Crater. It was Bill Hanes, Patty Hoffman, David Mann, Kevin Skibba and many more. They were the Skater Crater local kids that worked there and were on the team. When Colton opened, they took the manager and the entire staff and skate team from Skater Crater. I would go to the contests at the park with them and we would sit in the back of the van and eat doughnuts.
Would you ever cross with guys like Duane, Lance or Remy or any of the upcoming amateurs back in the day?
Lance wasn’t around yet, and I didn’t meet Duane until the grand opening for Colton Skatepark.
Was Variflex up and running by then?
Variflex was on the move by then.
I never got to skate Colton, but those pools looked good.
It was built at a time when all they had were big bowls. They didn’t have the combi pool. They had a capsule pool, which was over vert on the face wall, but it was poorly built. Whoever built it obviously wasn’t a skateboarder. Skitch Hitchcock did a great job on the design though. There was supposed to be a full pipe and pools that they never built. All in all, they accidentally made a dream come true with the snake run. The builder knew what he was trying to do, but he didn’t realize what skateboarding would do with it. It became a full-on ollie training ground. We were just flying over those hips everywhere.
At that point, you were already getting into speed lines and carving so when you saw those hips you knew what you wanted to do with them, right?
Yeah. By the time that park opened, Big O was open too. Big O was everything to me.
Who was riding Big O back in the day? You must have been riding with guys like Blender?
It was Neil Blender, Mike Hirsch, Bob Serafin and Eddie Meek. Marina opened so there were good parks with good pools all over Southern California that were far better than Colton. I remember going to those parks like it was going to a different country or something. It was a trip.
Back in those days, there was a new trick being invented every day. Was it competitive for you or were you just having a blast with your friends?
It was all about fun. We’d think of something stupid, and everybody would try to do it. We just did stupid things all day every day and there wasn’t any money involved. It was hard to get on a park team where you could ride for free, so you had to pay to ride.
So Variflex was up and running and you were being totally supported by them, right?
No. When my dad was there in the beginning, the skateparks had investors. Skateboarding was on the front page of big corporate magazines and all these people invested and built all the parks, but the return wasn’t what they thought it would be. Skateboarding became less popular and they weren’t getting their money back and they were getting sued and they started freaking out. By the time I was 16, my dad was out of Variflex. That was about ‘82. Once that happened, there was no longer any support from Variflex for professional skaters. It just stopped cold.
I remember when I started seeing Grisham and then El Gato. Everybody was riding for Variflex, and the whole thing came out about Varibots. It seemed like there was animosity from the soul surfers and skaters. All of a sudden, you guys were coming up with these gnarly tricks. Were you getting some weird vibe because guys on Variflex were innovating tricks?
All of skateboarding went through a change, just like it did when it went from vert ramps to street. All of a sudden, all of the guys who were getting in all the magazines were kids doing ollies out of the pool. The older dudes were pissed. They were fighting for their opportunities.
When you were doing fakie ollies, were you getting vibed for that?
Only the guys that felt threatened would trip out. Most people were just there to ride and have fun. I didn’t understand what those opportunities were. I was just there to ride. Throughout it all, there were two different sides. All that really mattered was that you were there to ride. Duane was supposedly the one that started the “Varibots” name, but Duane was always really cool to me. I always enjoy riding with that dude. It was just more media hype than reality.
It was conjured up to create some kind of rivalry where there really wasn’t one?
Don’t get me wrong. There was a flash of a transitional moment. After that, it was over.
When your dad pulled out of Variflex in ‘82 and you saw the skateparks dying, did you see it as the end?
Well, I never looked at skateboarding as a business. I just wanted to ride my skateboard. When my dad left Variflex, I knew I wasn’t going to get a plane ticket to Jacksonville that year. Other than that, life didn’t change for me. I was going to school in the middle of nowhere. I was 16.
You were in high school, but were you pro in ‘82?
I turned pro in the Gold Cup Series in 1980.
What did it feel like turning pro?
It was a lot of fun. Me, Caballero, Mike Smith and McGill… there were about 10 of us that turned pro one day together. They had the big amateur final the week before and everybody turned pro at one time. You didn’t just turn pro. You waited to turn pro. You prepared for it.
Was it the kind of thing where you guys would hang out as amateurs and talk about turning pro?
Absolutely. We got to hang out at this big final thing a week before that, so everyone traveled from around and congregated. Everything was built up. It was the first contest of the year for the new series and that’s when you turned pro. I even skated the contest at Big O with the pros when I was 13 as an amateur. I signed a paper turning down the money so I could skate against the pros as the amateur.
What place did you get in that contest?
I think I got fourth or something like that.
Was there a lot of pressure skating contests? I remember reading the mags and just being blown away with all the attention and the magazines being there. What kind of pressure was it?
For me, because of the Varibots thing and that Big O contest, they thought I was invading their terrain. They were very threatened and the pressure became ridiculous. That was the first time in my life where I thought people were idiots.
Why? What would people do?
[Laughs] They would spit on me in my contest runs.
Were you getting pissed?
I got mad, but it created energy. At 13 years old, I got fourth. [Laughs] It just gave me more motivation to show them that I was there to ride. I was there to fucking skate.
That’s a trip. Being from the East Coast, there wasn’t that kind of rivalry here, so reading about it was funny. It was like a drama scene with North versus the South.
[Laughs] That’s how it was. It was territorial. It was everybody against the Varibots. At the same time, any publicity is good publicity. That’s when I learned that reality.
“We had no options. We had to start building our own terrain. It just progressed from little ramps in the backyard until we had this big halfpipe in the desert.”
Variflex must have sold a lot of boards though. At that point, you’re selling pro models too?
No, they never printed boards for the mass market from the pro skateboard line. The pro models were completely different materials.
Okay. Where did the Taiwan boards go?
They sold them to department stores, but they had nothing to do with us skaters. In ‘84, we had Eddie Elguera, Eric Grisham, Jeff Grosso, Lance Mountain, John Lucero, Bill Beauregard and Mike Hirsch, so we were still in really good shape. Then the company stopped taking care of the skaters and paying for our plane tickets or gas money to contests and the Variflex team fell apart, and the whole thing kind of crumbled. Most everybody had to get a job.
Was everyone bummed? Did they keep skating and staying in touch with you?
Grisham and I kept in touch. He was doing roofing and he had me help him a couple of times roofing.
You guys are top pros and now you’re working on a roof. Were you still in shock that the whole thing went down?
I never made any money on skateboarding. I’ve seen a lot of people make money and have that opportunity, but not me. For a couple years, I paid my rent.
When your dad left Variflex, did he turn his shares over to you?
No, I’ve never had a share in Variflex. I never made any money from Variflex or skateboarding at all.
I didn’t know if you inherited some part of it.
No, I didn’t inherit anything. They sold it to a company and they never even let me know how much it sold for, much less gave me a piece of it. Although, I did get a Ford Focus bought for me, so I did get a car one time from it. [Laughs]
That works.
My parents were cool. They’re wonderful. They’ve been great the whole time. They were just caught in the middle of it.
As you moved forward in the early ‘80s, was Variflex defunct and you worked on other stuff?
Yeah, I just got a job. Then Lance, Grosso, Lucero and myself reunited and tried to get the Variflex Jacksonville thing going. Every year Variflex did a contest at Kona in Jacksonville and we got that thing back on track. We flew out there and did that a few times, but that was all Variflex was willing to do. They weren’t willing to send us to any other contests. They weren’t willing to pay us monthly to survive. Other companies were throwing us wonderful opportunities, and we had to take them in order to keep riding. That’s when Lance went to Powell. Grosso and Lucero went to Schmitt Stix. The rest is history for all those people.
Where did you move?
Rich Novak and Santa Cruz offered me a line and we were going to call it the Bullet Losi Line with Bullet Wheels and Bullet Boards. That was going to be my brand under Santa Cruz. We had a contract all done. I was so excited about everything, and Creative Urethanes pouring the wheels. I was going to have everything I wanted to ride from boards to wheels to trucks for the first time in my life. Well, my family freaked out and was not going to let me sign that contract, so that didn’t happen. That’s when they made the whole Team Losi farce with Variflex.
Since your family still owned Variflex, they didn’t want you riding for another company?
I wouldn’t say it was just that but, yeah, they wanted to have full control of the opportunity. Having a pro line helped them get skateboards in Target, Wal-Mart, Big 5 and Osh. It helped them in the regular mass market. It was a critical selling tool for them and they didn’t want to lose it, but they didn’t want to pay me either.
So you had Team Losi Variflex in the ‘80s, but it wasn’t something you were stoked on. You would have rather done the board with Santa Cruz then?
Absolutely. Team Losi Variflex never had a person at a desk to take orders from a store. They never had one person to make the boards and get them in the public. That was not a focal point. I went to Schmitt Stix to get the boards made and Variflex wouldn’t do it because of the price factor, so they had their sources make the boards, which was an absolute joke. They didn’t make many of them because they didn’t actually have anyone to put them in the marketplace. They didn’t care if they got into the market. They just didn’t want me to quit. My name gave them some leverage.
So they just wanted your name to give them more legitimacy, and not pay you for it?
They didn’t pay me and they wouldn’t let me do what I needed to do for my own life. In the end, they fired me anyway. When they were done with me, they just kicked me out.
Those were your relatives?
It was my uncle and my cousin.
That’s fucked, dude.
[Laughs] That’s the reality of it. In my eyes, that’s what happened. I’m sure they’re going to tell you that I didn’t show up to work on time, but they had me working all day painting scooters for Target buyers when skaters need to be out in the field. You know that. You’re a skater.
You have to be riding, man.
You have to be riding in the right spots, in the right eyes for the right opportunities.
You have to be competitive and be out there with the mags taking photos of you at contests getting top ten.
The funniest thing is that I was always in the top ten.
In the ‘80s, you were killing vert. Let’s talk about the evolution from killing concrete and starting to ride vert.
I think I had an advantage on a lot of people because when I was in high school in ‘81 and ‘82, my friends in Ridgecrest built a really good ramp, so I had the chance to really go skate some vert before all the parks were gone.
What was the tranny vert ratio? Was that eight with a foot of vert?
I think it had a little more vert. I went from skating tight bumpy pools with gnarly coping to a nice consistent vert wall with regular steel coping. It went from round wall to flat wall, and I learned a lot. My friend Tracy Gates and the Hart brothers that lived in Ridgecrest built that ramp and we took Gator and Christian out there. Duncan and Reategui went there. I took as many people as I knew out there.
What does that transition feel like because you’re riding the best concrete in the world and it’s all taken away from you and then you were riding flat wall. Were you missing the speed lines of concrete with pool coping?
Yeah, I loved the Big O. I used to bug everybody constantly like, “Give me a ride out there so I can go ride the good place.” Finally, I was able to drive, and it was no longer available. We had no options. We had to start building our own terrain. It progressed from little ramps in the backyard until we had this big halfpipe in the desert.
What were those sessions like in those days because you had to adapt to riding flat wall?
I would see people show up that rode ramps and couldn’t even begin to ride Del Mar or they grew up in bumpy round pools and couldn’t slow down. You had to slow down on a ramp compared to a pool. The pool is coming at you 1,000 miles an hour, so you have to be ready and think two walls ahead. I saw some people get frustrated and I saw other people feed on how different it was.
I remember back in those days with all those Del Mar contests, Tony Hawk was coming out with tricks. There were more flip tricks and different stuff was developing. You guys honed those tricks even more, right?
I think most of those tricks, Tony actually learned on the ramp. By then, they had the inland San Diego ramps going, so he was riding a lot of ramps, a lot more than most of us. He also knew the contests were all about the ramps and he had a lot of family support. Tony is a great dude. He’s been the best. He’s a better ambassador than I thought anybody ever could be for skateboarding. He’s an absolutely amazing human being. I got to know him when he was a kid and I’ve watched his transition and growth, and he’s an absolute quality dude. He had more opportunity than most of us. With his family being involved in the NSA contests, not only was he better at skating than anyone else, he had all the support. Everything was structured correctly for what ended up being the one and only Tony Hawk.
Exactly. So you guys are doing blue-collar jobs and riding ramps on the side and going to an occasional contest in Jacksonville, but there came a point in the mid ‘80s, when organized vert contests were going down and Tim Payne was building real vert ramps. Do you remember when it transitioned to that?
I wasn’t very comfortable on ramps, but we ended up building one in Ontario at Oreoli’s house. He passed away not long ago. He was a really cool dude that let me, Salba, Malba, Chris Miller and a bunch of us build a full on vert ramp in his yard so we could adapt better. We brought Tim Payne out to build the ramp, so it was built just like the NSA ramp. I’m thinking it was 9 1/2 with 1 1/2 feet of vert.
Was that enough vert for you? Did you feel like you wanted four feet of vert like Upland?
That ramp was good. Once Tim was building those ramps, I was comfortable. Different people did better at different ramps.
You were one of the guys who really innovated lip stuff. I remember watching you at Del Mar backside and frontside smith grinding 20 feet and then you’d bring it to vert. How did that feel? Riding roundwall when you’re riding through a smith is a lot different than riding a flat wall locked into a smith.
It became all about not turning my shoulders around. In pools, you have to work way harder. With ramps, you don’t have to work as hard. You have to take it easy. That was key.
When the Team Losi Variflex thing ended, is that when you started LSD?
No, I broke my leg at Del Mar towards the end of the Del Mar time. After that, it seemed like I couldn’t get anybody to answer a phone call. Variflex was already treating me like crap, and I tried to work the Variflex thing one more time, but they let me go. I ended up starting a little company on the side out of the garage at my parents called ALS, but that didn’t work for me. I was trying to do everything by myself and it just wasn’t possible. By the time I got healthy and was feeling strong, it took a couple of years, so it was ‘86 to ‘87. That’s when my roommate drew that flower with the peace signs and we put LSD on a skateboard with a marker and I bought myself a plane ticket and went and skated a contest. That’s when these people talked to me about doing LSD.
How was that working with them?
Well, I really felt like my uncle was all about big business and wanting to make money on us, so I knew the structure of that pattern of thought. When I signed the contract for LSD, we discussed everything, but what we discussed and what happened were two different things. When that manipulation repeated itself, I knew it was a bad thing. I do wish that I would have started it differently and I would have had my own company right now. To this day, I believe I earned three or four times more than what I got. Anyway, Life’s a Beach was available at the time, so I thought, “I’ll work with Mouse and go to Life’s a Beach.” It was a cool company. I would be there with Jeff Phillips, Reese Simpson and people that I love, so I was very excited to be part of that. I left LSD to start the Life’s a Beach thing. I was thinking we were going to take all the riders from LSD but, two weeks later, Life’s A Beach was gone. I don’t know how it happened. All of a sudden, it was over.
Skateboarding just died out. It all went to street.
I was lied to and manipulated by the people involved with LSD. They were going to do what they wanted to do. They didn’t understand that you have to have structure and support to succeed. Someone has to be there to get the product together and get it shipped out and get the orders filled and chase the money. Somebody has to do that. If you’re the marketing tool, your job is to get out and make sure that people call and order that product. When one end to the other isn’t being truthful, it makes it really hard to function.
Was it the kind of thing where they were saying they weren’t selling a lot of boards, but you knew they were selling a lot of boards and not telling you?
It was more than just that. I would see product on people walking around town that wasn’t on any books. It wasn’t on any inventory sheets I had, but somehow people were wearing it. I would come home from a trip early and see things being printed in a hurry at nine at night. I would be thinking, “What are they trying to pull?” All of a sudden, I stumbled on it and they were worried about me figuring it out. They would joke about those kinds of things. I remember the first time I went to England. They told me when I got there that there would be money and structure. I explained to them, “Look, I’m going to have to leave straight from one spot to another. I’m going to be getting off the plane without any money.” They said, “No problem. We’ve got you covered when you get there.” I land and, of course, I’m not covered. I call them and they laughed at me and hung up. That’s not cool. Once that happened, I knew we were going to have a legal altercation or some physical violence.
It was like the ‘80s all over again, and then here comes street skating? Did you see that coming?
Yeah, I saw it coming. I’d gotten my first knee operation in ‘91, and things were transitioning. It took me a year to recover because it was a bad operation. By the time I was skating again, there was just no opportunity. I went to work at the Radio Control Car Track in Pomona for my family for about 10 years. I met a girl, Anna Villafana, who got sick, went on dialysis and ended up getting a kidney transplant. I went through that program with her for over 15 years. She’s doing great now and things are still rocking and rolling. She is an amazing person and has had a wonderful impact on my life. I’ve learned a whole new value of life from all that.
In the ‘90s, skateboarding wasn’t part of your life?
I would go ride with my friends. I still try to ride with my friends as much as I can. I have health insurance again, so I’m trying to get back on point.
When the concrete started coming back after Burnside started developing and the Vans parks started opening, were you riding any of those?
I rode most of the Vans parks. I was a local at Ontario.
What did you think of the concrete resurgence?
I thought it was great. It’s still great. It’s not over yet. I see more stuff every day. I can’t believe it. It gives me the motivation to get out there and skate.
When the Vans parks started coming out, you had to pay to ride. Did you have a different feeling about how long that situation would last?
I thought it was going to go away quicker than it did. I couldn’t believe they were building them in malls, but it makes sense because they’re trying to generate more market base. If the malls want it, it’s going to keep business in the mall. Mom can shop while junior skates and the daughters are happy looking at the boys skateboarding. Everything is good.
It’s beautiful. They still have the Pro-Tec Pool Party. Have you been to any of those?
Yeah. It’s great to see everybody. It’s like a reunion more than anything.
“There was supposed to be a full pipe and pools that they never built. All in all, they accidentally made a dream come true with the snake run. The builder knew what he was trying to do, but he didn’t realize what skateboarding would do with it. It became a full on ollie training ground. We were just flying over these hips everywhere.”
Once you started riding the Vans parks, how did those parks ride compared to the ‘70s parks?
It’s a whole different scene now. They’ve learned so much about building. People talk about how great all of these old parks were but in all reality they weren’t. They were bumpy with fucked up coping. They made you wear copers because the coping couldn’t survive a frontside grind.
Did you ever ride Cherry Hill?
I went there twice. That keyhole was bumpy and had kinks all over it and the left hand kidney was a piece of shit, but the right hand kidney was great. The egg bowl was great. The halfpipe thing was fun, but that keyhole was useless. It had its own value like the Kona Bowl at Del Mar. I love riding tight little things or something that’s got a total imperfection that you have to get through, but it’s not the perfect thing. Nowadays, they are making skateparks that are perfect.
What are some of the things that you’ve ridden lately that you consider perfect?
Anything I ride now is better than anything I rode in the past. All the new cement is done in a new process that’s better. Everything is better.
Riding the original combi, I remember how gnarly that square pool was but you guys were killing it. After you ride something that gnarly, everything else is like a cakewalk, right?
Well, the combi pool was not the gnarliest. Reseda was gnarly. That was gnarly.
Reseda was gnarlier than the combi pool?
I thought so. I thought it had more vert and it was tighter than shit. It was bumpy as fuck and slippery as shit. You couldn’t even run out of it when you fell. It was so slippery. They had two pools. One was 13-feet with 8-foot trannies and five feet of vert with gnarly coping and it was tight. It was almost like you could lay across it, coping to coping, it was so tight.
Were people going straight off the top of that thing?
It was only George Orton and Eric Grisham. Eric Grisham was the man. When it comes to gnarly vert, put Grisham in there. He’ll do it. Eric drops in and starts tearing it up.
If you’re brought up on gnarly shit like Upland or Reseda, you could go anywhere else like it was nothing, right?
Well, I see stuff that people build that’s very difficult to ride. I hear people exaggerate the height of it not realizing there was 13 feet of transition on that 15-foot wall. It’s not five feet of tranny and eight feet of vert, although they build them and I see them out there. It’s crazy out there. The comprehension is growing now in the general public because of all the skateparks and transition. That’s why they are looking towards the old school. Let’s be honest, a few years ago, I couldn’t get a pair of shoes, and now I can get shoes.
I think it’s the comprehension of overall skateboarding rather than just the daredevils in the magazines at the moment.
Well, they’re building all these parks with pools in them. When I go to the parks, we ride the pools and little kids are standing around going, “Whoa, you can ride that thing?” Kids see you ride and they’re blown away because they don’t know how to carve, you know?
I think my favorite part is when they turn and go, “How long have you been skateboarding?” I say, “32 years.” The kid is only 12 years old. That’s the best part. There’s a generation coming up. I think that all the parks that have been there for a period of time have their own little culture. It’s bringing this new generation up and the new generation is really impressive.
Every day you see that kid at the top of the pool with no pads. No one is even thinking about knee slides. Everyone is running out of shit.
Well, I understand that pads can bite the kid that’s not used to wearing them and they don’t want to depend on it. They don’t want to have that mentality. The reality is, “How long you are going to be able to ride at such a level?”
You can’t run out of an 8-foot air all the time.
For me, it was just a matter of time. It was one knee surgery, two, three, four, metal collarbone, pin to hip, neck problems… I can’t even skate now without pads. I have to use them to hold my knees together. [Laughs] In my youth, we didn’t have pads. We had to run out. Pads were developed during my time in skateboarding, so I’ve learned to use them.
Do you ever see it evolving? Is there going to be a point where kids are going to wear kneepads or not?
I think that people will catch on when they see the really top of the line skaters no longer able to skate because they didn’t wear pads. When the media catches up with it, then everybody will catch on. What I blame is pad technology. Pad development has let me down.
What pads do you ride now?
I’m riding 187’s right now. They’re the same thing we had 10 or 20 years ago with a better buckle. It just seems that if they could put all these gel materials into a shoe, somebody could focus on doing better safety gear. I thought that would have been developed and it has not.
Do you remember those pads that Mouse put out, those Life’s A Beach kneepads?
Yeah, I did the injection mold for the kneecaps for those. My dad made the plastic caps for that. I had a bunch of those. When Life’s A Beach was gone, they were gone too. I thought they were a little too round in the front though. They needed a flatter front surface, but they were still big giant foam pads. We need new gels with padding a third of the size and a fifth of the weight.
That’s just going to drive up the price, right?
No. I don’t think that’s necessary. The same technology that goes into stupid shoes could easily change kneepads, but nobody has applied it. I don’t think it changes much with the price of a regular shoe to one with some of that gel in it.
They’ll get the material from China anyway.
The people that are really making extra money on that are trying to do it through patenting, licensing and political crap instead of physical reality.
Well, you should make the kneepads, man.
I have no money, Murf. I worked as a stagehand for the last six years. I’m broke as shit.
Where do you work as a stagehand?
I work at the Grove of Anaheim.
Where are you living right now?
I’ve been living in Murrieta, California. It’s inland by Temecula in the desert.
What’s your life like these days?
I’ve just been micro-managing Josh Sandoval. I’m just hanging out with my friends, not wanting them to go through the same patterns when my knowledge can help them. Nobody is paying me. I don’t have a job right now. I’m unemployed at the moment and looking for work.
You’ve been in the industry so long. It sounds like you have all the knowledge, but you’ve just been hooking up with the wrong people. I mean if your own uncle burned you, it’s hard to trust anyone, right?
Right. That’s why I never have.
What is it about the skateboard industry? They know we love skateboarding and somehow they must figure, “We’re sending you around the world, so we’re going to burn you for money and you’re going to like it because you get to go out and have fun and skate.” Is that the problem?
There are good people and bad people. Look at everybody that did work with respectable guys like Paul Schmitt. They have a real life because they worked with respectable people. I worked with people that didn’t have respect. My uncle just loved money more than he loved me. The LSD thing was the same kind of people, so I knew where that path was going to lead. What can I say? I made bad decisions, so they’re my fault. I should have gone to Santa Cruz and betrayed my family when I had the chance. I’m stupid.
No. It’s not your fault. You’re going to want to trust your blood.
Well, I wanted out of there. I knew they weren’t going to give me a part of pro skating. They had no interest in it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to do what I needed to do and I was young. If that happened now, of course, I would do it.
Have you seen Reese Simpson? Do you hang out with anybody from the past?
No. I tried to track them down, but I don’t see many people to be honest with you. My buddy that invented the mute air, Chris Weddle, came and stayed with me for a week and we went to the Pro-Tec thing. He comes out every couple years to visit with me. I need to go see Eric Grisham. He’s my favorite.
When you went to the Pro-Tec Pool Party, what pros did you get to hang with?
I hung out a little with Grosso, Duncan and Eddie. Joey Tershay is always a friendly sight. Ben Schroeder is the stud of the year. I hang with Ben a bit too. That guy is just so rad.
Can you believe how he skates still?
Ben is rad. Every time I think it’s physically impossible, Ben can do it.
I saw Ben do a sweeper disaster on that main hip at the combi.
Ben is just so rad. He’s always been rad. Ben is definitely on my Top Five list.
Who else is in your Top Five?
I have to put Eric Grisham at the top of the list. I’ve seen that guy in his day and he was just a stud. I have to put Ben Schroeder in there. I have to put Blaize Blouin in it. He just changed the session for the better every time. I would have to put Reese in that category too. Skating with Reese was always so much fun.
I feel the same way. Whenever you skated with Reese, he was all about fun and being creative. I loved riding with that guy.
I have to put D.P. in there too. Wait. Is my fifth one going to be Duane Peters or Craig Johnson? It’s tough. Which one do I choose? [Laughs]
“I just want to get out and live and skate and jam music and have more fun. Skateboarding is absolutely one of the most positive things in my life. Now it’s all about as many sessions as possible.”
How would you describe the way Craig Johnson skates?
He’s definitely the most on edge skater I’ve ever met. He can die on any wall at any time. Other than that, the minute he got here, he was skateboarding.
What did you think of Jeff Phillips?
Jeff Phillips was incredible. From day one, he would show up doing things I still have never been able to do. He was rad. He was one of my favorites. He was a great guy. I can’t even tell you how much he did for everybody. So many people stayed at his house and he would get food and cook for everybody. He was such a good dude.
He was the epitome of Texas skateboarding. What about going to Texas in the late ‘80s at the Houston contest. What was that scene like?
I went through there with Variflex tours early on, but when I was 18, I flew out to Dallas for a Clown Ramp contest. Back then America was different and the rules were different. I got out of the plane and rented a car at 18 years old. I drove across the street to Del Taco and they served me a Corona beer through the drive-thru window. They opened it for me and handed it through the window. It was unreal.
You were stoked.
California was never like that, so I was stunned. I couldn’t believe it. It was legal to drink at 18 and I could buy a beer at the drive-thru window. I remember Dan Wilkes being one of the coolest people I’ve ever met in my life. We had so much fun on some carnival pinball machine that they turned it into a skateboard ramp. It was slippery as hell and dangerous as shit. You rode that thing.
Oh, hell yeah.
You know what it’s all about, Murf. It was like two cultures but neither one was negative in the least. The Jeff Phillips culture was really patient, educated, polite and thoughtful. The Gibson and Johnson culture was more like, “Yep, we’re here. Let’s get together. Let’s go! C’mon. Everyone is going. C’mon ya’ll, let’s go. Let’s get it on.” It was so much fun. I loved it there. I went there a lot. I got into five car accidents five visits in a row.
In the first one, we had nine people in a Toyota Celica and we crashed that thing. You could actually buy what they called Eve over the counter, so we bought some of that. The next thing I know the guy driving nods off. Graham Stanners grabbed the wheel and the minute he hit the brakes all his weight transferred forward and locked them up. He couldn’t stop because he’s flying forward into the brake pedal. Mike Smith was laying on his back in the front seat with his legs out the window. I could have sworn we were going to roll and grind his legs off, so I was trying to pull him in the window. Another time, I was at the airport and we got rear-ended. That’s when I broke my neck and I didn’t realize until later. My flight was leaving and I ran on the plane and everything seemed to heal up okay, but years later it’s all fucked up.
Did you get neck surgery?
I’ve had one little one. They say it’s inoperable now because I’d lose my left arm and leg, and my mechanics would get fucked up. I’ve already lost control of the nerves in my neck and my back. I fucked myself up on that one, Murf. I’m kind of beat up. I broke both of my legs at the same time snowboarding at Bear Mountain. They have a park there with a bunch of big jumps and I’d hit all these jumps all the time and then they would reshape the jumps a little bit. It was my first hit of the day and I dodged some kids and the next thing I know I just cased on it. I blew out the meniscus pads in both my knees.
That’s the only time I’ve hurt myself snowboarding, going into the snowboard park. You take yourself out.
The rails will fuck you up. Other than that, I’m pretty comfortable. When I don’t respect it, I get hurt. I’ll be accustomed to doing certain jumps over and over and I’ll come back a week later and the jump is different. Instead of relearning it, I just hit it.
You can’t say you haven’t gone through some shit. We’re skateboarders.
I’ve been skating more. I’m not finished with skating and traveling. I’m going after it. I just want to be able to travel. I want to go. I’m in. I’m game.
I want to see those backside smiths. I remember seeing you at Del Mar rocking smith grinds 10 blocks. You have one of the best styles, Allen, and you were always one of the cooler dudes I ever met on tour.
Cool. Thanks, man.
We need guys like you to show the kids what style is. That’s your duty. We have to show kids speed and style. Let’s just go out there and have fun.
I want to get out and bridge that gap. That’s my goal. I’m in this band playing guitar also.
What band is that?
It’s called One Less Zero. Our singer was Miss Supercross 2008 and our drummer is a crazy tattoo guy named Mike Spasbo. It’s been really fun. We hit the road a little bit. I’m in another band now called Project X. I just want to get out and live and skate and jam music and have more fun. Skateboarding is absolutely one of the most positive things in my life. Now it’s all about as many sessions as possible. I have to ride as much as I can.
Well, you’re on your way, Al.
Right on, Murf. Thanks.
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Daniel thompson May 30, 2014
Some company needs to give allen losi a job , I mean andy roy has a job working with kids and christian hosoi has a a career selling boards like crazy after being busted with a pound of meth . And that guy is on facebook everyday asking for cars box seats to games etc and he get dam near ten million sponsors . One of these companies needs to help out losi . He might be old but he is still a better vert skater than most
David Dunlap June 11, 2015
I agree Daniel Thompson! He has been working close with Scum Skates for a while, but may be getting a full time gig with Creature!
Losi Is being featured in the June OllieCrate, so I have been talking to him some! Such a cool guy, sucks what he is going through, hope they find a way to cure that shit someday, RSDS Sucks!
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In his book Envisioning Information Edward Tufte discusses the graphical timetables used by the Japanse bullet train, or Shinkansen:
Station stops are plotted down the side of the grid; time of day runs across the top; diagonal lines show the space-time path of each train. The Tokyo control-room directing these high-speed trains is filled with these graphical timetables, long paper strips used to help oversee thousands of journeys each day — a task which makes clear the enormous advantages of seeing information rather than tabulating data.
This system works incredibly effectively.
In 2004, on the 40th anniversary of the bullet train, there was much hand-wringing over the fact that a year earlier the trains on that line had registered, on average, a delay — of six seconds.
Compare the Tokyo subway where trains are scheduled minutes apart and are never late with the New York City where a train is considered on time if it is within 10 minutes of its scheduled departure. I won’t even discuss Amtrak!
Unfortunately, there is a down side to this strict schedule, as was seen when over a hundred people died while a commuter train driver rushed to gain 90 seconds he had lost due to a breaking error, putting him behind schedule.
This month, the West Japan Railway, the operator of the train involved in the crash, had for the first time issued a written statement to its employees stating that delays would betray customers’ confidence.
It was perhaps with this in mind that the 23-year-old engineer, Ryujiro Takami, headed for Osaka on Monday morning. Takami, believed to have died in the crash, had only 11 months of experience, and he had been reprimanded once for overshooting a platform by 100 meters.
On Monday morning, at Itami station outside Osaka, Takami overshot the platform again, forcing him to back up and lose 90 seconds.
Joi Ito has some more thoughts on this.
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“It’s,” Complicated: National Grammar Day and Apostrophe Abuse
Yesterday was National (U.S.) Grammar Day, which is the high holy day for us word nerds. Everyone celebrates in their own way–I celebrate by using the singular “they” and ritually burning seven copies of Strunk & White–but one thing that is constant across all of nerddom is the worship of Almighty Grammar. Adherence to Grammar will save us: it will make us happy. It will get us the best job. It will increase our sexiness by 400%.
It’s a shame then that Grammar is so damned mercurial. A cursory look at the history of most usage issues tagged as “grammar” shows that “correct” hasn’t always been–and I’m not just referring to those fine-grain shibboleths of usage that no one can quite get right, like whether you should use “different from” or “different than.” Let’s keep things simple. Let’s talk about the apostrophe.
That hanging tittle is the source of much grammatical spleen, plenty of it vented in the dictionary’s general direction around National Grammar Day (though punctuation is officially outside our wheelhouse). My inbox is chock full of variations on “I hate people who can’t use apostrophes because it’s so simple,” and as proof of its simplicity, sometimes my correspondents even use the proper “it’s” in their complaint. (Sometimes.) But if it’s so simple, as they claim, then how do so many smart people get it so wrong?
The apostrophe first appeared in English sometime in the 16th century, possibly ganked into English printing from Italian or French conventions. Not much is written on the development of the apostrophe, but we know that when it first showed up in English print, it was used to signal that a letter (or several letters) had been omitted in a construction. “She’ll” is a contraction of “she will” or “she shall”; “’tis” is a contraction of “it is”; “‘zbud” and “‘sbodkins” are contractions of “God’s blood” and “God’s bodkins” and truly magnificent in the way that only 17th-century euphemisms can be.
This habit continued well into the 17th and 18th centuries, growing beyond its little garden plot. Apostrophes were sometimes used to clarify pronunciation for the reader, especially in poetry: “banish’d” was clearly meant to be spoken as two syllables to keep scansion tidy and look very Byronic, whereas “banished” could be three, particularly in some florid Drydenesque constructions. Daniel Defoe took this further: he used “cou’d” and “wou’d” in his writings to show that the “l” in “could” and “would” was silent, though I’d wager that most people who were reading Defoe likely knew about “could” and “would.”
That damn’d apostrophe was so handy that sometime around the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, people began to use it to signal possession. It makes a great deal of sense: does “Drydens harrumphing” refer to the harrumphing of one John Dryden, or to a whole army of John Drydens making their displeasure known? We can make that clear with just one blob of well-placed ink! And so the apostrophe was liberally sprinkled among all our nouns and pronouns to mark possession.
Nouns and pronouns, mind. So while we have the now-familiar “Dryden’s harrumphing” and “dog’s breakfast,” we also ended up with “her’s,” “their’s,” “our’s,” “your’s,” and–yes, gird thy loins–“it’s,” which were in use as possessive pronouns through the 17th and 18th centuries. Boo, you cry, stupid, but not at all. It’s very logical: if that apostrophe was going to mark possession, then it was going to mark possession goddamned everywhere.
As a possessive marker, the apostrophe is fairly straightforward unless the base word ends in “-s,” and then everything falls all to hell. Is it “Davy Jones’s locker,” or “Davy Jones’ locker?” Yes. Is it “Jesus’s wounds?” Good lord no, of course it is not, why would you even think that? It is “Odysseus’ journey” but “Zeus’s shenanigans.” Why? Heed my words, O nerd: where were you when I laid the foundations of the possessive?
We had punctuation mania: by the 19th century, we were using apostrophes to make single letters plural, as in “p’s and q’s.” There is no logical explanation for this, apart from the fact that “ps and qs” looks odd and might result in some hapless chump spitting all over himself trying to pronounce “qs” as if it were Arabic and not \KEWS\. The pluralizing apostrophe also shows up by the 20th century in numbers (“alternative banjo music of the 1890’s”) and when referring to a word as a word (“too many ‘apostrophe’s’ in this blog post”), and then later in abbreviations (“RSVP’s”) and with symbols (“&’s”), because why the hell not? Never mind that the apostrophe initially was just intended as a stand-in for elision: we wrested it away from those Europeans with all their diacritic corsetry and let it breathe.
The result is that we have a handful of ways to use the apostrophe, none of which were ever consistently “correctly” used. “‘Til,” a contraction of “until,” has lost ground and the peeververein’s favor to “till” and “til.” At end of the 19th century, you still saw possessives used without the apostrophe–“a stones throw” still shows up in edited prose today. By the time that Robert Lowth was writing his grammar in the mid-1700s, he felt that “its” (no apostrophe) was the correct possessive of “it,” though he hewed to “her’s,” “their’s,” and “our’s.” And the apostrophized plural of letters has been inconsistent from the year dot: “bs” and “b’s” and “beez” and “bees” have all been used in print.
What this means for the modern apostrophizer, of course, is that instead of having one or two simple rules to govern apostrophe use, we now have a jam jar full of smudgy guidelines that don’t have any consistent historical application. Even the most consistent rule–the elision rule–gets fubar’d in real life. How long, O Lord, til you end our “ya’ll” sorrow? And that, remember, is the easy rule. What do you do if you are referring to the house that belongs to the married couple with the last name “Jones”? You practically need a fold-out flow chart to figure out whether “the Joneses house” gets an apostrophe and where.
And here’s the rub: the rules are continuing to change. We’re slowly losing those plural apostrophes in “the 1890s” and “RSVPs.” In Britain especially, the possessive apostrophe in some business names like “Harrod’s” and “Waterstone’s” has scarpered. These changes are themselves inconsistent. “RSVPs” but “OD’d”; “the 1890s” but “the ’90s.” But “RSVP’s” just looks right to me, even though I know that “RSVPs” is more common now and I am ostensibly in the know vis-a-vis apostrophes. The heart wants what it wants.
Considering all this, it’s not too surprising that the grocer’s apostrophe flourishes, that people still send out holidays cards signed “The Jones’s,” that even smart people confuse “it’s” and “its.” None of us–not a single one of us–has gotten the apostrophe right in every circumstance because “right” is a moving target, and that’s the thing that we lose sight of during National Grammar Day. I like grammar in all her forms (both linguistic and populist), but I will not hold her up as the eternal unchanging ideal to which all people’s intelligence and fitness must be compared.
I once dated a man who was smart, kind, witty, and incredibly good-looking, and we occasionally exchanged handwritten letters. A few months ago while cleaning out the basement, I came across his letters to me and read a few of them. They were intelligent, funny, throat-baringly honest–and dotted with a couple misused apostrophes. I received these letters during a time when I was an insufferable asshole-pedant, when I freely corrected wrong “who”s and offered unsolicited advice about the terminal preposition because it was proof I was smart. And yet I evidently never corrected this guy, though it would have been just like me to correct the punctuation of someone to whom I was pitching woo (cf. “asshole,” above). It’s almost as though all his other excellent qualities eclipsed his occasional issues with apostrophes.
Reader: I married him, bad apostrophes and all. Our letters are in storage together; I read a few of mine to him. Wrong “who”s and terminal prepositions all over the goddamned page. He doesn’t hold it against me.
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43 responses to ““It’s,” Complicated: National Grammar Day and Apostrophe Abuse”
Gregory Bryce
As usual, a rollicking ride through history – enjoyable, informative and persuasive.
A new harmless drudgery post always makes my day. And this one has the added bonus that I think I get to correct Kory Stamper, correctly, on an actual matter of fact about words! I think I’m right about this: “until” is derived from “till”, not the other way ’round.
You’re right–“until” is actually a Middle English creation, a compound of the prefix “un-“(which meant “up to”) and the earlier “till.” Though ’til is still reckoned to be a contraction of “until,” and anymore people use “till” or “until” or “til” (no apostrophe) instead.
G. S. Oldman
You mean… you mean… you mean? Damn! I’ve long dismantled the GPS on this grammar and punctionatin’ handbasket. Thrown over the tiller too. Into the maelstrom of English hell! And I’ll danged well enjoy the ride til I get there! Anchors ahoyin’ ‘way!
Actually, it looks like it’s going the other way: till is on its way out and until is on the rise. ‘Til seems to be increasing in unedited text in my experience, but it’s barely a blip on Google Ngrams.
Hmm, INNNNNNERESTING. I will have to do some diving through the corpora and see how _’til_ and _til_ measure up. You know, in my copious spare time.
Regina Lusca
The Telegraph style guide, appropriately for a newspaper that would fix in aspic a past that never existed, proscribes ’till’ entirely and demands ‘until’. This appears to be a niggle too far for its writers and subs, given that the word does manage to slip through fairly often.
Pleasant Street
I didn’t know that. Does that mean it really is okay to use the word without an apostrophe?
elvagreen123
‘sbodkins!
Esavoa
“I celebrate by using the singular “they” and ritually burning seven copies of Strunk & White–but one thing that is constant across all of nerddom is the worship of Almighty Grammar. Adherence to Grammar will save us: it will make us happy. It will get us the best job. It will increase our sexiness by 400%.”
One thing is certain Ms. Stamper if we had not had William Bullokar, Robert Lowth et al. trying to codify the English language you wouldn’t be writing on its uselessness with your usual caustic disparagement of its rules.
More significantly, we might not have been able to understand your constant mockery of those rules because your language might have been indecipherable. In fact without those rules and because of the proliferation of English dialects centuries’ ago, we might not have been able to communicate as easily as we are doing today.
Linguist Henry Sweet predicted in the nineteenth century that the English, the Americans and the Australians would be speaking mutually incomprehensible languages by 1980. Thanks in part to the efforts of Samuel Johnson and Robert Lowth, this has not happened.
Must you constantly mock the hand that has fed you into your profession?
Let’s be honest, your descriptive position, and that of your linguistic comrades, isn’t about grammar as it is de facto about the fight against superiority, elitism and the constant denigration of the white males who were responsible for those rules.
Oh Lord & butter, not this tired strawman again. I’m so bored with the descriptivist/prescriptivist “dichotomy” that I can’t even be bothered to point you to the many well-researched articles on the internet debunking it.
Where’s the strawman? Those “well-researched articles” go either way, there’s no need to direct me, I’ve read the majority. By the way, the argument works both ways. Just as you’re bored with Grammar day, and those tedious grammar rules, there are a few who are tired of the constant picking apart of those rules.
Your message has been articulated clearly, by you and everyone else. Where is it supposed to lead?
Here’s your strawman: that the only two possibilities are a written language rigorously policed by a priesthood of scolds, or undecipherable gibberish. That the only thing that has prevented a 1300-year-old language from becoming as like the grunting of swine is the bastion of prescriptivist grammar. That a language that has managed to infiltrate the world on the backs of everyday people who colonized it to the ends of the world, that’s creolized into a five hundred dialects, that is the currency of everything from the Nobel committee to online anime forums, was able to achieve this only because of Lowth and his spiritual heirs.
Or more to the point: that English’s survival depends on the likes of Strunk & White. Bah.
Those “priesthood of scolds” facilitated your being able to write your tautological diatribe. Ironic isn’t it?
Like every native speaker, I learned English from my peers.
What’s tautological about my “diatribe”?
C Baker
No, Esavoa, they didn’t. Any argument which hinges on that point is flawed on the very face of it – and persisting with that argument in a reply to somebody who just finished debunking it is just sad.
The strawman is the idea that descriptivists are per se anti-prescriptivist when they are simply cataloging usage. Also, you might want to consider whether your projecting caustic for playful. I read the latter.
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So, about this article, what’ s its conclusion? Is it “its” conclusion, or “it’s” conclusion? Do you have a preference or do your endorse both for the sake of so-called descriptivism?
When the possessive “it’s” is perceived by my brain, it can now reacts in two modes. The first one, which has been until now my immediate perception and emotional response, (the level of what Daniel Kahneman in his big book on empirical psychology, “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, calls “System 1”, the mode of immediate reaction of the brain), in which I instinctively say “its” and feels a spontaneous aversion when confronted with “it’s”.
However, after having read your learned historical dissertation about the adventures of the apostrophe, I, that is now switching to the level of my conscious brain, am obliged to store this new info in my memory, and consciously make use of it. That is, I am switching to System 2 (slow thinking) in which I have to take into account the new info from your article stored in memory and determine how reasoning — that is I again, but now operating at the level of slow thinking — is using that new info, and whether it’s going to affect my initial spontaneous aversion that I felt in my mode of fast, immediate, unreasoned, thinking.
Should I now, having become learned thanks to you, reject my initial habit of spontaneous aversion of the possessive “it’s”, and instead of branding unknown writers as “idiots” or “uneducated”, train my emotional brain to accept the new “it’s” version by overruling and overcoming my initial emotional rejection?
My system 2 introduces rationality, discussion, gives credit and full weight to your erudition, and strives to train my system 1 of immediate reaction into a new emotional reaction of ACCEPTANCE?
Well — showing the powerful hold that System 1 still has on the brain — in spite of new knowledge accumulated in memory, I still hesitate to do that, which is evidence that, even after having stored in memory your article’s info, my brain still remains attached to its former spontaneous habit of rejection of “it’s”, and has not yet accepted to truly integrate the new info delivered by you in this brain’s global emotional framework to become tolerant of “it’s”.
Coupla things:
1. Descriptivism–even the so-called type–doesn’t mean “do whatever the hell you want.” It means “this is how this word/phrase/piece of punctuation is used.”
2. The modern rule for “its” and “it’s” is to use the apostrophe when “it’s” is a contraction of “it is.”
Henry Hocherman
M’am. You just told us it is “Odysseus’ journey” but “Zeus’s shenanigans.” G’valt. I cannot for the life of me understand why Zeus rates an extra ‘S’ and Odysseus doesn’t. Is it that in Latin Zeus is Jupiter so there is no escaping the second ‘S’ by using the translation dodge, but Odysseus is Ulysses to the Romans? Or is it that Odysseus has already used three precious S’s which, in the days before the Linotype might have been one too many? Am I missing something? Is there a rule here?
The best I can figure–and this is just a guess–is that “Zeus” is one syllable while “Odysseus” is three. Otherwise, I got nothin’.
The way it was taught to me — back when Webster III was still new — was that when a name ended in two consecutive sibilants, the possessive was formed by adding only an apostrophe. We were thus taught to write, e.g., “Moses’ law” but “Socrates’s philosophy.”
A young teacher from far-off Bombay,
Turned down a request for a lay
Nicely couched in a note,
Since the fellow who wrote
Had spelled “intercoarse” with an “a.”
Shmuel
Gadzooks! You left out the apostrophe in “‘zbud.”
‘Swounds! Too many apostrophes. Fixed!
” ’Swounds “, surely?
Chandan Sinha
The last paragraph and the whole scene seems picture perfect. Keep aside these tiny bad apostrophes, it’s life we’re talking about 🙂
Really an interesting & informative post. Thanks a lot for laying out our small grammatical mistakes in open. I would be more careful next time (only for achieve that 400%) 🙂
I also loved the last paragraph! So romantic 🙂
Justin T. Sampson
I grew up in a city called Scotts Valley, named after a fellow named Hiram Scott who purchased the whole valley in 1850. But upon incorporation, place names in America drop the apostrophe — because it is no longer Mr. Scott’s own private valley, it is a place that just happens to be pronounced Scotts Valley!
Here’s the official policy from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names:
Apostrophes suggesting possession or association are not to be used within the body of a proper geographic name (Henrys Fork: not Henry’s Fork). The word or words that form a geographic name change their connotative function and together become a single denotative unit. They change from words having specific dictionary meaning to fixed labels used to refer to geographic entities. The need to imply possession or association no longer exists. Thus, we write “Jamestown” instead of “James’town” or even “Richardsons Creek” instead of “Richard’s son’s creek.” The whole name can be made possessive or associative with an apostrophe at the end as in “Rogers Point’s rocky shore.” Apostrophes may be used within the body of a geographic name to denote a missing letter (Lake O’ the Woods) or when they normally exist in a surname used as part of a geographic name (O’Malley Hollow). — http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/pro_pol_pro.pdf (2nd paragraph of Chapter 5)
jjnotier
This is the most romantic text I’ve read in ages. Thank you. Where’s the heart emoticon when you need it?
Richard Bell
A small point: It’s not ‘swounds or ‘zbud or ’tis. It’s ’swounds, ’zbud, ’tis. I know it’s the keyboard’s fault. It automatically turns an initial apostrophe into an opening single quotation mark. Type option shift } (closing brace) to get an initial apostrophe.
Kory, if I may ask, did you use words like ‘tittle’ and ‘gank’ and ‘pitching woo’ before you dove into the word wallow that is your current job?
(I don’t normally write things like ‘word wallow’, myself.)
To be frank, I’ve been doing this job for so long that I can barely remember what exact words I used AM (ante Merriam). I can say that I have always loved odd words, though I run across more of them now than I did previously.
Well, thank you for being so generous with them.
Sarah Miciek
I admit I don’t have strong feelings about apostrophes, but I’m a sucker for a good love story. That was perfect.
Shane McGraw
Kory, you’ve been a big influence on my leaving the ranks of Grammar Nazism. I, too, used to be quite pedantic and liberally offered unsolicited corrections to anyone who wouldn’t run away plugging their ears. Over the years, you’ve brought things into focus for me and made the fluid nature of language very clear. Now I only offer such corrections to my own children when they’ve committed an undisputed, flagrant offense. Don’t get me wrong — I still get the urge to lay some schooling down when a Facebook friend doesn’t seem to know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” but it melts away pretty quickly these days when I put it into perspective. Thanks. 🙂
I enjoy all your posts, Kory, and this one was another great read. I do have a respectful question, though, on the use of “those fine-grain shibboleths of usage that no one can quite get right” … I would use “fine-grained.” Would you consider that a matter of rule or preference?
Dan Blum
A bit late to the party here, but I wanted to mention what I believe is the extreme form of using apostrophes to indicate elided letters, which is the use of TWO apostrophes to show multiple elisions. Charles Dodgson did this – he wrote “ca’n’t” and “wo’n’t” and possibly other things I have expunged from my brain. I don’t know how common it was.
Why would a plural such as RSVPs ever use an apostrophe? A lot of other usages in the article made no sense to me, too. I am still of the school that uses it’s for “it is”, and “its” for possessive. I never had a problem with this. I am NOT celebrating the use of the “singular they” (why not say, “he or she”?), nor any other pronominal horrors. Soon, usage will legitimize “lay” for lie (my own particular beef: “Go lay down”). I will never accept it. Otherwise, it was an interesting article. Thanks. Here’s a reference page:
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/page2.html
BTW, I also enjoyed that Asimov limerick!
Chris Coulon
Extremely late to the party here. You “misspelled” _y’all_. Or was that your intent?
@SylviaHubbard1
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Unfinished Left 4 Dead Campaign Released By Original Creators
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Turtle Rock Studios must be cleaning out some old closets now that they’re done with Evolve, because three days ago the team released the final, unfinished Left 4 Dead campaign they’d been working on before Valve took over the zombie shooter.
Evolve's Creators Are No Longer Working On The Game
Evolve, a team-based shooter about giant monsters, was first released in 2015 as a paid standalone…
It’s rough (much of the latter stages are Gray Box), but playable; you can find download links and instructions here.
The campaign is called Dam It, and begins at a small rural airfield (the C-130 you escape on at the end of Dead Air has landed, then crashed into some buildings). Players must then fight their way through an apple orchard, ravine, hiking trail and camping ground, before ending with two finales, one at a logging camp (where players are actually encouraged to split up and provide covering fire) and the main one at a hydroelectric dam.
Here’s what it looks like in action, courtesy of a playthrough by Bolloxed (so no, that is not my YT thumbnail):
It also includes two standalone survival maps that never shipped.
To recap, the original Left 4 Dead was created by Turtle Rock before the game (and company) were bought by Valve. Turtle Rock were later offloaded while Valve worked on Left 4 Dead 2 internally, and went first to THQ, then 2K with its pitch for Evolve.
Luke Plunkett is a Senior Editor based in Canberra, Australia. He has written a book on cosplay, designed a game about airplanes, and also runs cosplay.kotaku.com.
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Disneynature’s Earth Opened for Earth Day – Buy a Ticket and Plant a Tree
Disneynature’s Earth opened for Earth Day
The Story of Polar Bears, Humpbacked Whales, and Elephants
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Polar Bears, Humpbacked Whales, and Elephants – Experience the Planet Like Never Before
Ever wonder about the world’s largest land predator, how soon newborn whale calves are able to swim, or the little-known function of an elephant’s ears? While the answers might surprise and amuse you, it’s the adventure these questions pose that promises to be unforgettable. On April 22, you’re invited to experience an epic journey when Disneynature premieres “Earth,” the Company’s first wildlife film in over 60 years, continuing a legacy that began with Walt Disney’s Academy Award®-winning “True-Life Adventures.” Narrated by screen, stage, and television legend James Earl Jones, “Earth” reveals the seasonal struggles facing three animal families from the Arctic to Antarctica … and some of the planet’s most remote regions in between.
Acclaimed wildlife filmmaker/director Mark Linfield tells why he and director/partner Alistair Fothergill chose polar bears, humpbacked whales, and elephants as their endearing main stars. “One thing that unites every being on the planet is the sun and its annual north-south journey. We wanted to document three animals that embark on incredible migrations due to the influence of the sun’s extreme seasonality … and these are large, engaging animals that we felt people could relate to. As the moviemaking went on, it became clear to us that we wanted a very subtle reference toward the future and conservation, which is why they had calves or cubs. Many of us have little ones and we’re always thinking of what the world will be like for them and their children. Most of the animals’ dramas are driven by their quest to protect their infants and get the best out of the planet for their offspring … nature truly writes the most amazing scripts.”
To record “true” true-life adventures, there’s one thing Mark and his team couldn’t change, accelerate, or follow with a script — the erratic schedule of nature itself. He points out, “You’re lucky if the animals show up at all. Most days we didn’t see anything, that’s almost the law … the only way to stack the odds in your favor is to spend huge amounts of time in the field. We spent 2,000 days filming with 40 different crews in 26 different countries. It took about five years to make and we filmed solidly for three of those years … it was just a big logistical exercise, but that’s what it takes. Movies like this are powerful partly because it’s the simple truth.” Mark also explains that natural history actually translates better on the big screen because some of the up-close realism is lost when viewed on television.
Larger than life, the animals’ determined battle against the elements is amazing, entertaining, and ultimately heartrending. Extreme weather conditions from pole to pole presented unique, and nearly impossible, filming challenges. “Just look at the environments that our three characters live in … like the polar bear. We’re actually in the middle of the with crews working in 40-degree-below-zero temperatures. It’s so unbelievably cold that most of the time the equipment barely works or the tripod sticks to your fingers. Daylight was like five or six minutes long, which means it was dark the rest of the time. Polar bears are hugely influenced by the seasonality of the sun — half their year is spent in absolute darkness while the other half produces 24-hour daylight,” says Mark. The team was the first ever to be given access to the Kong Karls Land polar bear denning site in Norway, 700 miles south of the North Pole.
Conditions proved no easier when the crew was filming the elephants in Botswana, the Sahara and Kalahari Deserts, and Namibia’s sand dunes, some of the largest in the world. “We worked in unbelievable heat, dust, and sandstorms … without water. The elephants aren’t affected from changes in daylight, but the sun drives the wet and dry seasons, forcing them to undertake huge migrations — their quest to finally find water hundreds of miles away at the Okavango Delta is pretty dramatic.” From helicopters, gyro-stabilized Cineflex aerial cameras allowed filmmakers to track the animals without disturbing them in their natural environment.
“For the humpbacked whales, we filmed from a boat at sea, sometimes in a helicopter, through storms and a huge range of conditions,” he continues. “The mother whale and her calf travel 4,000 miles south, from the Equator’s tropical waters to the Antarctic Sea … it’s the longest journey of any marine mammal.” During the course of filming, the crew was able to feature dozens of marine costars, including schools of sailfish and a great white shark … the footage is nothing short of spectacular.
The journey, as always, proved fantastic for Mark, who doesn’t hesitate when asked about his most memorable moment. “Filming the elephants caught in the sandstorm … it was totally unexpected. Just watching them trapped in a sandstorm, trying to battle the elements while looking after their calves, was very sad and emotional for me.”
He then comments on his expectations for the film. “I hope people will fall in love with the Earth and basically see how much there still is to care about. Everything in the movie is available and can be saved. I hope people realize it’s not futile, it’s not too late … we have an absolutely amazing planet.”
“Earth” promises to give audiences 85 amazing minutes that wouldn’t be humanly possible in an entire lifetime … or 10 lifetimes.
Source: Disney Insider
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George Gilder
George Gilder is the chairman of Gilder Technology Group, which sponsors Gilder Telecosm Forum, a Web-based forum related to his longtime publication Gilder Technology Report. He’s a member of the board of directors of Wave Systems and chairman of that company’s executive committee. He’s also a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and a former chairman of the Lehrman Institute Economic Roundtable.
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MCXM II – Munster Rally in Memory of Axel and Dan Carter Masterclass
Robert Rees
Limerick , Ireland - 22 October 2016; The sons of the late Munster Rugby head coach Anthony Foley, Tony and Dan, along with Munster players, from left, Ronan O'Mahony, Rory Scannell, and CJ Stander, sing 'Stand Up and Fight' on the pitch after the European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 1 Round 2 match between Munster and Glasgow Warriors at Thomond Park in Limerick. The Shannon club man, with whom he won 5 All Ireland League titles, played 202 times for Munster and was capped for Ireland 62 times, died suddenly in Paris on November 16, 2016 at the age of 42. (Photo By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
With the New Year fast approaching, Last Word On Rugby are reflecting back of a fine year. From the International matches to Premiership and European Championship Rugby. The LWOR highlights for 2016 are wide and varied.
As part of the MCXM Top 10 memories of 2016, the second in our series has contributions from resident Welsh writer Robert Rees, and Premiership writer James Barker. A balance of rugby respect for a fallen hero, and the memory of a player who performed a master class in front of an away crowd. So enjoy our 2016 reflection on some great moments in rugby.
#3: Munster V Glasgow: Rugby Pays Respect
The most outstanding rugby memory of 2016 for Robert Rees has to be Munster v Glasgow, at Thomond Park, in the Champions Cup. The occasion not only saw a great game of rugby, but the celebration of Anthony Foley’s life. The Munster coach had sadly passed away whilst in France with the team a week prior.
The game of rugby was a very good game, that ended with Munster taking the win 38-17. Munster battled on with spirits high in celebration of Anthony Foley (Axle) despite an early red card to Keith Earls for a dangerous tip tackle. That resulted in a farcical exchange between Earls and a few of the Warriors players that continued all the way to the sideline. Clearly he was upset with the whole situation becoming overwhelmed by emotion–but Munster battled on, and if anything it spurred Munster on even greater.
The red card and the mass of passion inside of Thomond Park that day pushed Munster to a 19 point lead at half time, despite what seemed like every adversity being chucked at them along the way. In fitting fashion, they continued that fine form into the second half where the sides played wonderful football. The crowd were raucous, and the players thrived off this. It was a game that no matter what, you couldn’t see Munster losing.
Tyler Bleyendaal began his form that continued right through the group stages, grabbing a try, a penalty and converting all four of the teams tries. The match saw Munster take five points and brought a smile to fans of the Limerick club–on such a somber day.
The day will be remembered much more by the sold out Thomond Park for the celebration of Anthony Foley the man, and what he meant to the province. Much more than what the rugby was on the day, all week tributes poured in from pundits, ex-players, fans and current players. The number eight was seen all around the ground in respect of the Munster legend. In a telling stand, CJ Stander [who played at number eight that day] wore the number 24, as Munster retired the eight jersey that day in memory of Axle.
Limerick , Ireland – 22 October 2016; A detailed view of a portrait of former Munster head coach Anthony Foley ahead of the European Rugby Champions Cup Pool 1 Round 2 match between Munster and Glasgow Warriors at Thomond Park in Limerick. (Photo By Seb Daly/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
A very well observed minute’s silence was undertaken prior to kick off, and as the referee blew to end it, the stadium erupted as if the men in red had won the European cup–something Foley did twice as a player with Munster.
Crowd Stand in Respect with Family and team mates
Fittingly, the game ended as it had began with a tribute to the great man himself, this time from the players alone. Joined on field by Dan and Tony (main picture) Foley’s sons, who sang ‘Stand Up And Fight’ to complete silence and tears of joy from the many in attendance. Then, in full voice the masses joined in, mostly dressed in red, as a mark of respect for the rugby family of Munster.
All in all, Saturday the 22nd of October will be remembered for the occasion it brought upon the entire rugby community. A lasting memory for many, that will live in rugby folklore as a one of the LWOR highlights for 2016, and for all who knew Axel Foley.
#4: Dan Carter against Leicester proves his class
Endless superlatives have been thrown at Dan Carter over the years. He has won virtually everything a Southern Hemisphere player can win. After retiring from the international game after the 2015 World Cup Final he turned his attention to Northern Hemisphere success.
Dan Carter of Racing 92 turns the Lyon defence during the French Top 14 match between Racing 92 and Lyon OU at Stade Yves Du Manoir on August 27, 2016 (Getty Images)
After ending his debut season a Top 14 champion with Racing 92, we saw the Dan Carter against Leicester Tigers that All Black and Crusaders fans know and worship. And for James Barker, his performance at Welford Road demonstrated his natural class–even with his Racing 92 side losing 27-17.
European Champions Cup: Leicester 27 Racing 17
It seemed that Carter would finish his career with a short, unfulfilling spell at Perpignan sitting uncomfortably on his CV. True, the Catalan side did win the French Top 14 that year but Carter could not entirely claim much credit for this. With a French league medal in the bag, the only major prize left for Carter is the European Champions Cup. After a final defeat to Saracens in May Carter is clearly still hungry for more honours.
Racing’s first match was tragically cancelled following Anthony Foley’s premature death (tribute from Last Word on Rugby above). Therefore a cold Sunday evening in Leicester was Carter’s first chance to launch his attack on the biggest European prize. At 34 years of age, and 14 years into his playing career, the Kiwi still shows incredible hunger to win. Unfortunately in this particular game his teammates were not as engaged or driven.
The obvious standout moment was a delightful try early in the second half. As with most of his movement it seemed effortless. He first darted between two scrambling defenders, albeit backtracking forwards. He then sold a textbook dummy to the covering tackler and finally brushed past the final defender without a hand barely being laid on him. Moments like this are what many of the crowd came to see (your LWOR correspondent included).
Both Fans and Media Transfixed by Dan Carter
That particular moment brought Racing back into the match, with Carter inevitably nailed the resulting conversion. He very nearly scored another try later on in the half, falling centimetres short with a reach for the line. This was a performance that showed he could ‘grab the game by the neck’ and lead his team forward. Unfortunately Leicester were bouncing back from a drubbing to Glasgow, and were a team full of Dan Carters.
In the end, Racing 92 had little chance to steal the result. Yet the direction and influence Carter provided at fly half meant it was a tight game, until Freddie Burns’ late intercept that sealed the game.
Loved being back at Welford Rd for the win tonight.
Great to see class acts like @DanCarter grace the turf, too – legend!#LEIvRAC pic.twitter.com/gMtKmdWCQt
— ChrisW (@farrenhaal) October 23, 2016
Looking back, it was not quite ‘Leicester Tigers vs Dan Carter’ that night but it was his demonstration of natural ability and attitude that ensured the Kiwi stood out on a pitch full of big name internationals. The cold hard truth of professionalism is that Carter is maximizing his pension before he must eventually retire–which he has freely admitted. Still, with his desire to endure and maintain his performance levels, he deserves the money he is paid.
On this evening, these LWOR highlights for 2016 show the rugby world that he can still deliver when his team needs it most.
Enjoy our seasonal wrap-up of some of the ten most memorable moments for Last Word On Rugby contributors. For more, see LWOR Highlights for 2016 – MCXM I
“Main photo credit”
Anthony Foley
Thomond Park
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Rugby writer, specialising on all things Welsh rugby, the Pro14 and the Gallagher Premiership. WRU, Pro14 and Premiership Rugby accredited and open for freelance. Studying sports journalism at the University of Gloucestershire and you can find me throwing arrows in my spare time. Tweeting all about rugby @Rreesrugby
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Meaning of "hong kong wedding style"
the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife.
a combination or mixture of two or more elements.
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a. A legal union between two persons that confers certain privileges and entails certain obligations of each person with respect to the other, previously restricted in the United States to a union between a woman and a man.
b. A similar union of more than two people; a polygamous marriage.
c. A union between persons recognized by custom or religious tradition as a marriage.
d. A customary marriage.
e. The status or relationship of two adults who are married: Your marriage has been happy.
2. A wedding: Where will the marriage be celebrated?
3. A close union: "the most successful marriage of beauty and blood in the conventional comics " (Lloyd Rose).
4. Games The combination of the king and queen of the same suit, as in pinochle.
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2. the status, condition or relationship of being married.
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5. any association or intimate union.
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cheese and kisses Rhyming slang for missis , one's wife. This British expression is popular in Australia, where it is often reduced to simply cheese . It also enjoys some use on the west coast of the United States. Ernest Booth used the phrase in American Mercury in 1928.
Darby and Joan An elderly couple, happily married; An old-fashioned and loving couple. According to one account, the couple was immortalized by Henry Wood-Autumn in a love ballad entitled "The joys of love never forgot: a song", which appeared in a 1735 edition of the British magazine "Gentleman's Magazine". publication. Darby is John Darby, a former employer of Woodfall. Joan is Darby's wife. The two were inseparable, acting as newlyweds even in their golden years. Darby and Joan was also the name of a popular song of the 19th century. The Darby and the Joan Clubs are in Great Britain what the Senior Citizens' Clubs are in the United States. The word darbies is sometimes used as a nickname for wives. The foundation is that wives are an inseparable couple.
go to the world Be married or married, to become husband and wife. Mundo in this expression refers to secular, secular life, as opposed to religious, clerical life. The phrase, which is no longer heard today, dates back to at least 1565. It appeared in Everything is fine and ends well:
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jumping on the broomstick to get married; Said of those whose wedding ceremony is informal or unofficial. Variants include getting married on the broomstick, jumping the broom and jumping the broom . This expression, dating from the late eighteenth century, refers to the informal marriage ceremony in which both parties jumped over a broom, or a broom, to the land of holy matrimony. Although neither the ceremony nor the phrase are common today, they were well known to slaves in Southern California, who did not consider themselves important enough to deserve church weddings, and so they got married by jumping on the broom.
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mother of pearl Bride or wife. This phrase is a jargon that rhymes for chica , but applies almost exclusively to women who are girlfriends or wives.
my old Dutch wife . This expression of affection is a British colloquialism for the spouse. Here dutch is the abbreviation of duchess .
dishes and dishes rhyming jargon for missis , the wife of one The plates and plates are a pretty strong reference to the domestic chores of a wife.
walk away See DEATH .
problems and conflicts Rhyming slang for wife , dating from the beginning of the 20th century. According to Julian Franklyn ( A Dictionary of Rhyming Slang ), this is the most used of the many jargon phrases with rhymes for wife , including fight and fight, worry and strife , and the American equivalent storm and strife .
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1. 'Marriage'
Marriage refers to the state of being married, or the relationship between a husband and wife.
I was not interested in marriage or in children.
They have a marriage very happy.
You can also use marriage to refer to the act of getting married.
Your family did not approve of your marriage with David.
2. 'weddings'
Normally 'marriage' is not used 'to refer to the ceremony in which two people are married. Use wedding .
He was not invited to the wedding .
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The Right to be Topless in Public – Clothes Are Optional NYC
By Robbin Antony | October 12, 2013
A Brooklyn woman, Jessica Krigsman, asserted her right to be topless in public last July at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend; however, two police officers still arrested her and she is now suing NYC for the arrest. While sitting topless on a park bench, Ms. Krigsman was approached by two officers who instructed her to put her shirt back on based on a complaint that they received. She promptly informed them that it has been legal to be topless in public since 1992, eliciting the response from the officers to “stop mouthing off” or be arrested.After refusing again and pointing out that such an arrest would be illegal, the cops handcuffed her and threw a shirt over her head (roughly, she claims). Although the charges were dropped in October, it apparently did not make up for the five hours Ms. Krigsman spent sitting in a jail cell on charges of “obstructing a sitting area.” She is seeking unspecified damages for civil rights violations, in addition to claiming assault and battery and malicious prosecution. Ms. Krigsman’s lawyer, Stuart Jacobs, attributes this behavior towards topless women in public to a knee jerk reaction to nudity. He claims that police wrongfully harass women who choose to be topless in public based on an instinct that a topless woman in public is instinctively wrong. So he is pretty much saying that if you tell a cop you have a right to walk around topless in public, they have this reaction:
Sad to say this hasn’t been the only nudity-related injustice in the Big Apple. In 2008, sun bather Phoenix Feeley was arrested twice for being topless (the second time was leaving the county jail, shirtless, in protest of her first arrest). She was eventually fined $816; however, she was recently arrested again due to her failure to pay the fine.
Sir Ben Kingsley has a point. Although we can applaud Ms. Feeley’s Rosa Parks-esque stand for topless women everywhere, she should have just paid the fine. However, the cops who arrested Ms. Krigsman went against NYPD orders to stand down on arrests of women for “merely exposing their breasts in public.” This should be an interesting case to follow, however I remain skeptical about what damages she actually suffered in those five hours she was detained. Let’s get the Keep A Breast organization on this with their “I Love Boobies” campaign.
Robbin Antony
Rob Antony is a founding member of Law Street Media. He is a New Yorker, born and raised, and a graduate of New York Law School. Contact Rob at staff@LawStreetMedia.com.
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Sachin Tendulkar – The Cricket God Bids Adieu
November 14, 2013 | By Learning And Creativity Desk
Entire India is waiting with bated breath as the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is all set to play his 200th and the final Test match against the West Indies today, Thursday, November 14, 2013
Entire India is waiting with bated breath as the God of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is all set to play his 200th and the final Test match against the West Indies today, Thursday, November 14, 2013 pulling down the curtain on the glorious 24 year long career as the most celebrated batsman with numerous records to his credit.
When People Throw Stones At You, You Turn Them Into MileStones
~Sachin
Wankhede stadium will turn into a fortress of sorts as former cricketers, Bollywood celebrities and high profile politicians, all come together to watch India’s pride in action for the last time.
While some lucky ones will get to watch their idol play LIVE in the stadium, others will have to be content watching Sachin play his last international test match on the small screen.
With Sachin mania gripping the nation, TV channels, print media and the web are filled with programmes, articles, posts, tweets and blogs of Sachin nostalgia, remembering India’s greatest cricket hero with love and admiration.
The retirement of Sachin will create a void in the world of cricket, especially in the Indian cricket team, which will be hard to fill. Sachin Tendulkar’s amazing talent has evoked memorable comments from stalwarts in the world of cricket.
Here are some of the most talked about quotes:
“I’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.”
~ Ace Australian spinner Shane Warne
“Sachin Tendulkar was the best batsman of my generation and it will be a privilege to be in Mumbai this week to commentate on the first two days of his final test… The pressure he was under from the Indian public was immense but he handled himself on and off the field in a way that was respected by all.”
~ Ace Australian spinner Shane Warne wrote in his column for London’s Daily Telegraph
“There are two kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the others.”
~ Former Zimbabwe cricketer Andy Flower
“We did not lose to a team called India…we lost to a man called Sachin.”
~ Australian Captain Mark Taylor when Australian team lost to India in the Chennai test as Tendulkar scored the unbeatable 155 runs
“The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility – all make for a one-in-a-billion individual”.
~ Australian fast bowler Glen McGrath
“I have seen God, he bats at no. 4 for India.”
~ Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden
“Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.”
~ A placard at the Sydney Cricket Ground
“Beneath the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is something we don’t know, something beyond scientific measure. Something that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us, even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their television sets and switch off their lives.”
~ BBC Sports
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Dismaland Model Village Comes To London
By Londonist Last edited 44 months ago
Londonist Dismaland Model Village Comes To London
Didn't make it to Banksy's Dismaland when it took over a corner of Weston-super-Mare in the summer? Fear not, because a slice of the bemusement park has made it to London, in the form of the Aftermath Dislocation Principle — a model village with a difference. London model village enthusiast Tim Dunn took a peep through the hoardings.
Artist Jimmy Cauty and team have brought their model village — the Aftermath Dislocation Principle — to SE1. You may have heard of Cauty before — he was formerly of the KLF. But here in London, over the course of the next two months, he and his team are working on location behind wire fences building 'New Bedford'.
But before you plan a visit with the kids, expecting jolly little mock-tudor homes, flowerbeds full of pansies and steam trains chuffing full of happy little passengers off on a jaunt to a miniature seaside, you might want to think again. This is a model village gone very wrong: normally to miniaturise is to sanitise, but here to miniaturise is to satirise. This is no Bekonscot.
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle is miniature dystopian future cityscape built to the same scale as many model train sets (1:87) set somewhere in Bedfordshire. About 3,000 miniature police are seen in the immediate aftermath of what seems to have been a huge riot. Housing estates, motorways, cars, a Tesco, and a church all lie burned and looted. It’s a square mile of devastation, desolation and despair. A screen with Theresa May flickers in the corner.
There are few civilians to be seen; perhaps they’ve abandoned this home-county-turned-police-state. Perhaps they’ve been taken away. But those 3,000 police stand silently, helplessly — and the largest accumulation seems to be at Burger King.
Previously set out on open tables, now this scenery is contained within black hoardings. Tiny peepholes let the visitor look in a voyeuristic way on the ghoulish scenery — or you can hop up on a stepladder and peek down — but getting down to eye level really immerses you in the detail, as commuter trains rumble overhead this railway arch in which Bedfordshire is built.
Staff making models for New Bedford on site in London
Cauty knows his audience — this is a model village with a message: It’s open 12pm-7pm Wednesdays to Fridays, 12pm-6pm Saturdays and Sundays until the end of February 2016 at America Street, SE1 0NJ. Adults £4, under 14s go free.,
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Australian-born Phoebe Kiddo began cultivating a keen ear for multifaceted, expressive electronics in her native Melbourne, where she collaborated with improvisational trio K&M and founded the Racket showcase.
Following completion of a degree in Sound from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Kiddo moved to California and participated in Red Bull Music Academy 2011. Her debut EP, “Tripping on the Wake of Goodbyes,” with its strata of diaphanous synths and sub-bass thrums, was released on Anenon’s Non Projects imprint. In 2014, Kiddo followed-up with her first full-length LP, Artefacts of Broken Dreams (Symbiosis) crafted during a self-described period as a “musical pilgrim” working in borrowed studios between L.A. and Berlin, where she has currently settled.
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Magic Valley – Filer, ID
We’re in Idaho again – Yay!
In Sept of 2016, Idaho became the 49th and final state we entered, achieving our goal of visiting every state and adding the last one to our map. Back then we got a taste of Idaho’s natural beauty while camped at Coeur d’Alene up north, but we were excited to be back now to see much more of the state.
Our home base was in Filer, at Twin Falls County Fairground RV Park, and we were happy to have the quiet place practically to ourselves.
After several stops at noisy and busy parks, this was more like it!
Magic Valley was constantly mentioned in the local weather forecasts, and we realized we were in Magic Valley. But what’s so magical about this area? Siri advised me that we were camped in one of the 8 southern Idaho counties that comprise Magic Valley. It was named after the early settlers who built dams and irrigation canals along the Snake River to create productive farmland and towns that seemed to magically spring up out of nowhere on the sagebrush-covered southern Idaho desert.
Farmland in Hagerman Valley, they must have just harvested the famous potatoes here
The Snake River is in the heart of this region, and what the early settlers built also resulted in the reservoirs becoming recreation havens. The river cut through ancient basalt lava flows, forming the Snake River Canyon which is a mile wide and 500′ deep in some spots. What’s so unique and special about this rugged canyon are the numerous waterfalls pouring out of its sheer basalt walls, creating a dramatic background that extends for more than 50 miles.
Close-up view of one of many springs that push huge amounts of water off volcanic cliff faces
It was along Thousand Springs Scenic Byway from Hagerman up north to Twin Falls that we saw dozens of these springs/waterfalls surging over the canyon walls. We also noticed a mix of geological features resulting from the Bonneville Flood, along with miles of beautiful rural farmland. It actually was kind of magical!
These partly rounded basalt boulders were deposited in Hagerman after bouncing along the Snake River during the Bonneville Flood. They’re called Melon Gravels
Tall basalt cliffs and a nearly dry waterfall
The valley around Hagerman contains the largest concentration of horse fossils in North America. It’s being protected by the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument because it holds the world’s richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch – about 3 to 4 million years ago.
Had the visitor center been open, I would have learned more about the area’s history and paleontology. But I had to settle for this photo of the monument from the Snake River Overlook:
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument from across the Snake River
Twin Falls sits on the south rim of the Snake River, the largest city in Magic Valley. It’s also known as Idaho’s own “City of Waterfalls”, from the broad crashing waters of Shoshone Falls to the smaller rapids along its outskirts. The best way to enjoy the panoramic views and interesting facts of the canyon is to follow the 10-mile Canyon Rim Trail.
We did it in two walks; first going east from the visitor center to Evel Knievel’s historic jump site, and on another day walking from a parking lot to the west of the visitor center back to the bridge. Then we walked both ways across the Perrine Bridge before visiting Centennial Park at the bottom of the canyon.
What I learned as we gazed into the deep, scenic canyon is that Snake River Canyon was actually sculpted and shaped when Utah’s Lake Bonneville overflowed about 17,500 years ago. It was one of the largest floods to ever occur on Earth. The 70 mile-per-hour deluge plucked huge boulders from the basalt cliffs and gouged out channels along the canyon floor.
An unnamed waterfall on the canyon wall
Pillar Falls in part of the rapids
Lunch with a view of Shoshone Falls
It was here in 1974 that Evel Knievel unsuccessfully attempted to jump across the Snake River Canyon in his Skycycle X-2 rocket. The dirt ramp built for that jump is still here, and we stood on it while marveling at the scope of the stunt.
The hill that Evel Kneivel built
Steve remembers the event and was happy the ramp is still here
Perrine Bridge spans the canyon nearly 500′ above the Snake River, and is a hot spot for base jumpers from around the world. It’s the only location in the U.S. open to legal BASE jumping year-round. We saw many jumpers preparing during our visit, but never actually saw any of them take the plunge.
We walked across Perrine Bridge, can you spot the kayaker way down there?
Here’s what the BASE jumpers see as they jump. I don’t think so!
A kayaker approaches the canyon wall
The bridge was the highest in the world in 1927, at 476′ above the river
On the day we followed the path from the west end parking lot toward the visitor center, we passed through residential areas with gorgeous canyon views. It was unusual to see the Canyon Springs Golf Course and Blue Lakes Country Club down there at the bottom of the canyon.
Winding Snake River
Canyon Springs Golf Course looked beautiful from above
Perrine-Coulee waterfall viewed from the path
View of the south side of the canyon from the north end of the bridge
Touching the water, one of my rituals!
Steve cooling off behind the Perrine-Coulee Waterfall
To complete our visit in Magic Valley we drove east of the Snake River to see two waterfalls that were created as a result of the Bonneville Flood. Our first stop was to see the namesake of the city, Twin Falls, which was named when there were originally two parallel falls on the river.
An old photo of Twin Falls shows two separate falls before the powerhouse was built (the shadows are from the protective railings)
The power plant was built on one side of the falls, and Twin Falls Dam altered the falls by diverting the flow of the Snake River into a single waterfall.
Twin Falls with the power plant on the right side
The premiere attraction of Magic Valley is what is being claimed as the Niagara of the West, Shoshone Falls. Having been to Niagara Falls, we were intrigued with the reference and pretty darned impressed. Shoshone Falls is 36′ taller than Niagara Falls, with a 212′ drop that cascades over a broad series of rocks. Because we visited here during spring with high water flows from snowmelt, the tremendous volume of water lived up to its nickname.
That house on top of the cliff has a million dollar view of the falls for sure!
A double rainbow at Shoshone Falls
That’s a beauty
Our first stop in Idaho was definitely impressive. The Snake River, the vast rural farmland and the dramatic Snake River Canyon made Magic Valley a great place to visit!
Next up: Ice Caves, Camas, Cows and Cinder Cones
Posted by: Lowe's Travels Category: Idaho, Where we have been Tags: Canyon Rim Trail Snake River, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Magic Valley, National Monument, Niagara of the West, Shoshone Falls, Southern Idaho, Twin Falls
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Lusito Land
Comedy evening
Lusito golf day
Lusito ladies brunch
Lusito comedy annual show case
Lusito AGM
Lusito school
Our mission is to support the Lusito School in equipping each learner as best possible for their passage through life.
Next fundraiser: Annual Christmas Concert
Lusito Portuguese Association for the Challenged.
The Lusito Association was established in 1979 by a group of Portuguese parents who found a need for a school for the differently abled within the Portuguese community. The Lusito Association started the first Lusito School under the auspices of the Mental Health Society of the Witwatersrand and has subsequently grown with the school.
The Lusito Association is a non-profit organisation whose function is to manage and fundraise, to build and maintain, the Lusito School. The best known fundraising event is the Lusito Land Festival, winning Leisure Options Reader’s Choice Award for Johannesburg’s best festival. 100% of all funds raised from these fundraising events go directly to the school.
The Association is comprised of an Executive Committee and an Administrative Committee who are committed to improving the lives of the differently abled.
Mission: To support the Lusito School in equipping each learner as best possible for their passage through life.
The Lusito School
The Lusito School, located in the south of Johannesburg, started of as a small day care centre and has developed into a fully-fledged school for the differently abled. Today, the school has more than 80 learners who come from South Africa and other parts of Africa. This school no longer offers a vital service solely to the Portuguese community but support differently abled people from all cultures and backgrounds.
The parents of the learners are offered invaluable support. They are kept up-to-date with their children’s progress and the educators are available for consultation and guidance. Presently the school cares for individuals with Cerebral Palsy, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, Down’s Syndrome and other syndromes.
The school has now been divided into two sections, the stimulation centre and the workshop.
Sergio Aquino
Gilberto Martins
1st Vice Chairman
Jose da Silva
2nd Vice Chairman
Isabel Cadilhe
Noemia Contente
Koos van der Schyff
Angelique da Silva
Sonia Mbende
Jose Miranda
Vera Nazareth
Ricardo Rebelo
Daniel Malan
Antonia Castanheira
Edwin Mungadzi
Kayla Malan
Luis Coutinho
Please feel free to contact the Executive Committee via email - executive@lusitoassociation.org.za
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Life's Little Things
Everyday life – illuminated
About Life’s Little Things
The Coffee Biscuit
On August 5, 2018 August 4, 2018 By writerlydervIn Behaviour, Food and Drink, Uncategorized, WomenLeave a comment
A group of women pours into a café. They make for their usual table and sit at their usual seats, a whirl of bags and coats, marking their territory. Within seconds, there is a fierce hum of conversation.
A waiter bustles up to them, young, hair slicked back. He has to clear his throat several times to break through the wall of words. The women look startled. The waiter begins to hand them menus, but Teresa held up a hand. ‘No need to worry yourself about that,’ she says, ‘We know what we want.’
The women place coffee orders. Visions of scones oozing cream and jam dance through Mary’s mind. ‘Can I tempt you into some cake?’ says the waiter, with a twinkle in his eye. ‘Go on, be good to yourselves.’ ‘Ah, no, you’re grand,’ says Teresa. ‘I think I’m good enough to myself already.’ Laughs from the other women.
The drinks arrive. Herbal tea, regular tea, black coffee. Mary has managed to resist the urge to order a cappuccino. Perched on the edge of each cup is a coffee biscuit. The biscuits remain in their packaging while the women talk. Mary sees them winking at her The conversational current carries Mary along, but in a corner of her brain, a food channel flickers, showing images of cakes, of a dirty, lardy fry. And the coffee biscuits keep calling to her, glowing brighter and brighter.
After the Coffee
At last, the women’s watches jolt them back to reality, and they begin the slow gathering of bags, of coats, of thoughts. ‘Oh, look, we never ate the coffee biscuits,’ says Teresa. ‘I’ll take those,’ says Mary. The women stare at her. ‘For the grandchildren,’ she says. ‘They’re coming home later.’ The women smile and hand the biscuits to Mary, who puts them in the front compartment of her handbag.
In the car, Mary opens the compartment, takes out the biscuits and lays them on her lap. Four of them. She rips off the packaging and puts them into her mouth all at once, layering them on the tip of her tongue like communion wafers. She lets them melt on her tongue, in an ecstasy of sugar and butter. When she is finished, she brushes the crumbs off her lap. Then she drives away, a smile on her face.
Why Did She Say That?
On July 1, 2018 July 1, 2018 By writerlydervIn Behaviour, Morality, Uncategorized2 Comments
I was sitting in a local café, the natural habitat of a writer, enjoying a cappuccino. The tables were close together, a pretty common feature in cafes these days. This afforded me the opportunity to hear every word that the two young women at the table next to me were saying.
One of the women, a golden, glowing creature, was wearing a top with lines of blue polka dots on a white background. And her friend took it upon herself to give Polka-Dot, as I’ll call her for handy reference, some fashion advice.
‘Don’t take this the wrong way now,’ she said, lowering her voice and leaning forward, ‘but that top looks a bit childish on you.’
Why did she say the polka dots looked childish?
Did she really intend to steer Polka-Dot onto the path of fashion righteousness?
Was she feeling a certain smugness inside, at the thought that her fashion sense might be superior to Polka-Dot’s?
Or did she want to dim Polka-Dot’s lightbulb?
I believe there are certain people who prefer to keep their lightbulbs dim. In other words, they prefer to attract as little attention as possible. Which is fine, until they try to dim other people’s lightbulbs.
When they are in the company of a person who glows, as Polka-Dot did, they try to take away that lustre, so that they can then feel more comfortable. And they will often do it in kind, well-intentioned tones. It’s a force so deep inside them that they may not be aware of it, a dancing devil that wants to keep them and everyone else in the dark.
What Did Polka-Dot Think?
Polka-Dot seemed willing to consider that her friend’s intentions were good.
‘Yeah, I suppose,’ she said, smiling ruefully. ‘Think I got dressed with my eyes closed this morning.’
The conversational current moved the two friends past the danger zone, words tumbling out of their mouths, interspersed with frequent ripples of laughter. But every now and then, Polka-Dot looked dubiously at her top. And I felt sure that whatever her friend’s intentions, Poka-Dot had not left the house that morning thinking her top looked childish. Her friend had succeeded in dimming Polka-Dot’s lightbulb
Men Who Are Careful
On April 8, 2018 June 10, 2018 By writerlydervIn Behaviour, Gender, Morality, Relationships, Uncategorized3 Comments
In recent months, the media has been beaming its spotlight on men who do horrible things. The #MeToo and #IBelieveHer hashtags. Tales of Hollywood sleaze. High profile rape trials. The horrible deeds of men have been questioned like never before.
I’m not really into hashtags, bandwagons or campaigns. Instead, contrarian that I am, I’ve been turning my own spotlight on men who are careful.
Men who weigh up their words when they’re speaking to women
Men who hold open doors to let shoals of women through
Men who hoist children high on their shoulders so they can see a parade passing by
Men who leave room for women to speak
Men who make you laugh so much you can hardly breathe
Men who put an arm around a woman’s shoulder, and don’t let that arm stray any further
Men who tell you how beautiful you look, no matter what
Fathers who put their shoulders to the wheel
Men who cook succulent dinners
Men who see your lower lip trembling, then wipe away your tears.
These men are our fathers, our brothers, our other halves, our friends. The minefields they negotiate are just as difficult as ours. These are men whose deeds go beyond hashtags. These are men who choose to be careful with women. Let the actions of these men be a counterweight to the tales of sleaze. Let us raise these men up.
Life’s Little Things
A Monday… July 16, 2019
The President, My Father and Me October 28, 2018
The Naming of a Child October 21, 2018
The Words We Choose September 9, 2018
Pictures of Post-Catholic Ireland September 2, 2018
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Homeless with $70K
This guy's problem isn't really unemployment - it's mental illness.
If he was able to think straight he'd have worked out that he could buy a small property in rural NZ, claim more in dole payments as a result, and get the taxpayer to pay his mortgage through the accommodation supplement. By 65 it'd be paid off and he'd be collecting Super. Having learned to live off the smell of an oily rag he'd then be able to save and travel on his Super as well as keep his house as his nest egg for "a rainy day."
May as well go down that track because the way he looks after himself - or fails to - he's not going to work again.
"Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis"
A new book about NZ's rising inequality is due to be published in May this year. It's by Wellington journalist Max Rashbrooke. He wrote an article for an international project known as Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) which is here. Gives you an idea of how the book will pan out.
In New Zealand, a widening gap between the rich and the rest threatens many of the country's greatest strengths, writes Max Rashbrooke, who argues for a new settlement of welfare...
New Zealand's recent history has been marked by an increasingly punitive approach towards beneficiaries, despite evidence of their strong work ethic and desire to fill jobs if they are available.
A more humane – and ultimately more productive – approach would be to invest in them as well, by increasing benefits to enable them to participate better in society, and by matching that with greater investment in personalised retraining and job placement programmes, in order to tackle the low skills that prevent many from rejoining the workforce. This could be funded by higher – and thus fairer – taxes on those who have done well while enjoying the benefits of our common investment in roads, healthcare, education and other public services.
(Hat-tip Gordon Campbell)
Beneficiary discrimination
I'm certain beneficiaries are discriminated against. But it isn't usually the state doing the discriminating because the law makes that almost impossible. It's employers, landlords, retailers, service providers etc discriminating.
But here's another angle to consider. Aren't beneficiaries sometimes discriminated in favour of?
Landlords who prioritise guaranteed rent payments may prefer someone receiving a rent subsidy every week. A secondhand goods dealer may prefer a beneficiary buyer who qualifies for a WINZ grant. A youth employer may prefer a young candidate who has been through one of Work and Income's training courses or mentored by a contracted organisation.
It's conceivable that some employers may even prefer to employ someone on a benefit because of their particular type of social conscience eg the beneficiary needs a job more than the already employed applicant.
Some beneficiaries have been able to jump public waiting lists for surgery to enable them to regain capacity to work. Beneficiaries with children will take priority on Housing NZ waiting lists.
And here's an uncomfortable but feasible stretch. Female beneficiaries in the market for a partner might find potential mates discriminate in their favour because they have a secure income and home (after a fashion).
There's always more ways to look at circumstances than the one stuck under your nose by a self-interested party.
ACT Conference 2013
I was sent a a book of columns by Jamie Whyte, who is guest speaker at ACT's conference in a couple of weeks. The first few columns (all I've read so far) are very entertaining. For instance, in The Good Life With David Cameron, published in the Wall St Journal, he questions the idea of using divorce statistics as a factor in the calculation of Gross National Happiness (the newfangled alternative to GDP) when his own divorce contributed to his personal happiness. Ultimately, what business does government have trying to measure such things anyway? Along with economist Eric Crampton of the unusually sane Offsetting Behaviour blog, two very apt speakers for an ACT Conference:
Media Advisory
ACT’s Line of Speakers to the Annual Conference on Saturday 23 February at Gibbs Farm, Kaukapakapa
Keynote addresses:
Jamie Whyte - Head of Research and Publishing at the management consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, a fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs and a senior fellow of the Adam Smith Institute.
Mr Whyte will speak at 12.05pm
Hon John Banks - Leader - ACT New Zealand,
Mr Banks’ Leader’s address is at 2.15pm
Hon John Boscawen - Incoming ACT President, Former ACT MP and Minister of Consumer Affairs
Mr Boscawen’s Presidential address is at 12.40pm
Alan Gibbs - Businessman, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Cameron Brewer - Auckland Council member, Publicist
Greg Fleming - CEO, Maxim Institute
Hon Rodney Hide - Former ACT Leader, Economist and Founding Chairman of ACT
Catherine Isaac - Chair of the Partnership Schools / Kura Hourua Working Group
Dr Eric Crampton - Senior Economics Lecturer, Canterbury University
....any enquiries should go to info@act.org.nz. Or 09 523 0470.Lunch is provided in the rego price and there will be a shuttle leaving Newmarket to the Farm and return also. That will save people having to drive there if they don’t want to do that.
'Life' is a lie
Pardon my naivety but 'life' imprisonment sounds like a very long sentence. One that should encompass the remainder of one's life.
Gwenda Sloane has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Michelle Hoffman-Tamm in Rotorua last November.
The judge has also imposed a minimum non-parole period of 17 years.
Many women could fit 5 such 'lives' into their natural term of existence.
AAAP on contraception for beneficiaries
The Auckland Action Against Poverty group is all mouth and ... no trousers:
Low MSD uptake figures confirm that the contraception programme instigated as part of National’s welfare reforms is all about stigmatising woman on benefits, rather than any genuine kind of support, says Auckland Action Against Poverty spokesperson Sarah Thompson.
“This policy is simply another weapon in the war against women on benefits, implemented as a way of garnering the beneficiary bashing vote in time for the next election.
“It's a deep irony that the outright misogyny of recent welfare reforms, including this one, has been lead by two women- Paula Bennett and Paula Rebstock.
Can we also have a companion press release calling the offer of free vasectomies to male beneficiaries "war against men on benefits" and "misandry"?
“This blaming and shaming tactic can be seen in other proposed policies which attempt to paint beneficiaries as drug users and criminals who don't care for their children."
Thousands of beneficiaries are drug users and criminals. Whether they care for their children, who knows. And whether their idea of 'care' is the same as my idea of care is another point to ponder.
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New approach to gangs
There's an article (not on-line) in today's DomPost about the government's intended new approach to gangs. Apparently Anne Tolley and the Deputy police commissioner went to LA to see what successful strategies look like. One of them is a "charter school open 365 days a year".
It's quite a long read with input from gang members and their families, some support and some cynicism. The Police commissioner however makes the point that he has a "secret weapon". That's the older generation of gang members who want a better life for their children.
"We are not going to back off...that's our job. But if people want to try something different, establish a better way for the young generation and they are sincere...then we need to show we are sincere about that too."
There are apparently 3,500 gang members in NZ (a good many of them will be incarcerated surely?) and police research estimates that one gang family can cover
"$5 million (cost includes crime and welfare); 423 victims; 14 members; 3 generations and 93 years spent in jail."
I'm ambivalent about the subject having spent a bit of time with a gang member who wanted me to paint him and his kids. Which I did and thoroughly enjoyed. He wanted out but it's hellish hard. It's personally very dangerous for someone to turn their back. Last I knew he was getting there with support from non-gang extended family. Another friend described how she'd visited prison to pay a 'gang boss' to release her partner. Could be true. Unbelievably, the partner went back to the gang later and wanted their son to join as well.
Only the communities from which gangs come can make an end to the violence and victimisation. Perhaps if police and other government agencies want to work with them, matters will improve. I don't know. Gangs just seem to provide an outlet for something dark and desperate in some people's psyches. As Jarrod Gilbert points out, they often bite the hand that feeds. There must be some stronger instinct not to be tamed.
Debate descends into silliness
Mike Treen would like me to print his "devastating response to rightwing , self-professed “expert”, Lindsay Mitchell and her nonsensical “graphs” " as described by Frank Macskasy.
devastating response to rightwing , self-professed “expert”, Lindsay Mitchell and her nonsensical “graphs”. - See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/02/07/right-wing-blogger-makes-fool-of-herself/#comment-186703
Right wing blogger makes fool of herself
A right wing blogger has made a fool of themselves trying to dispute figures first revealed by me in the Dailyblog about how a huge gap had grown up between the number on benefits and the number being recorded as unemployed or jobless in the household labour force survey. She was replying to a column by my colleague Matt McCarten in the Herald on Sunday.
I better oblige.
My response has been left as a comment. The number of working-age people on benefits is actually higher than the number of unemployed or jobless.
The debate has just become very silly.
(Thanks by the way for the comments regarding whether there is any point in getting involved in this manner.
Weighing up the pros and cons, the answer is probably 'no'.)
And just for Mr Treen, here is the final chart rather than a "crude drawing". He still maintains,
"But, even when we combine the benefit numbers, the huge gap between the number on benefits and numbers measured as jobless remains."
She did a crudely hand-drawn graph allegedly showing that if you combined the numbers on the unemployment benefit with the number on the sickness and invalid benefit you get a completely different picture. Well that is true with a hand drawn picture. However, if you actually use the official numbers from the Department of Statistics website and use an excel spreadsheet to draw the graph the picture is a little different (actually a lot different!).
- See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/02/07/right-wing-blogger-makes-fool-of-herself/#comment-186703
Should I abandon this?
The debate with Daily Blog writers continues.
I always link to their assertions; explore and attempt to rebut or explain them. They never link to mine and simply discredit them.
Today, from Frank Macskasy:
(Note the pathetic and largely ineffectual attempts by right wing blogger; self-proclaimed “social welfare expert”; and ex-Act candidate, Lindsay Mitchell, and one or two other National Party supporters to undermine Mike’s analysis. They are unable to address or answer even the most simple points Mike and others have raised.)
I have responded, in part to ask why he hasn't linked to my "attempts" and am currently in moderation.
The last thing I want is to sound like Metiria Turei whimpering about National's so-called "racist" attacks on her attire when she can give as good as she gets. The insults don't particularly worry me.
The poser for me is whether to bother debating with the left? Does any good come from it?
(Note the pathetic and largely ineffectual attempts by right wing blogger; self-proclaimed “social welfare expert”; and ex-Act candidate, Lindsay Mitchell, and one or two other National Party supporters to undermine Mike’s analysis. They are unable to address or answer even the most simple points Mike and others have raised.) - See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/02/06/un-employment-under-employment-and-the-plain-unvarnished-truth/#comment-186348
Deregistration of Libz has silver lining
I've only just caught up with this news so you may have also missed it:
Libz Announce Deregistration
Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 9:34 am
Press Release: Libertarianz Party PRESS RELEASE
Libertarianz Party
Libertarianz leader Richard McGrath today [3 Feb] confirmed that the Electoral Commission had last week deregistered the party at its own request.
"Senior party members had been discussing for several months how we might get more bang for our buck, and it was decided to continue as a ginger group and/or think tank rather than as a registered political party."
It's sad yet good news.
The libertarian vote is too splintered. If ACT is now uncompromised in espousing libertarian ideas there will be energy freed up from the deregistration of Libz. And Libz activists are very committed. It's well known in politics that a few very motivated individuals can make a noise and impact which far outweighs their actual numbers.
The 'deny or discredit' approach - two examples
I've been debating with a couple of people via blogs/newspapers about welfare matters.
Here's a response to an earlier letter published in the Dominion Post.
My reply:
Correspondent Teresa Homan doubts the veracity of my statistics and wants to know where they come from. The answer is, this newspaper, which reported in November last year, "More than 5000 people are collecting benefits because drug and alcohol addiction is preventing them from working". I am assuming the information was released under the Official Information Act. It is, in any case, consistent with my own earlier requests.
And over on Breaking Views Mike Treen has presented me with a bigger better graph which introduces a different measure but is entirely consistent with what I've been saying about recessions and the nature of the unemployed during them. He writes:
Hi Lindsay,
Thanks for trying to rebut my graph. I have redone it for the combined benefit numbers (Unemployed, sickness and invalid together). It shows a somewhat less dramatic but still dramatic gap opening up between numbers on benefits and the broader Jobless number. The Jobless number goes from being regularly 20-50,000 above the combined benefit number to being 50,000 below the number. Here is your graph when done properly.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18076151/Combined%20benefit%20grap.png
Your HLFS graph line has now switched to "jobless" rather than "unemployed" producing a higher number.
The last time the "jobless" were above the number on benefits was the period during 1989 - 1993, also a substantial recession which featured higher unemployment than the latest.
Which bears out the points I've raised about the nature of the unemployed during recessions. They have more assets; they are more likely to have a partner; they are more likely to be short-term unemployed - all of which, rightly or wrongly, prevent them from accessing a benefit.
Anyway, had you included your original graph line of officially "unemployed" it would fall well below the number supported on the combined SIU. Why did you drop it?
I think I know the answer to that. It would have contradicted the original claim which was:
The combined efforts of both National and Labour governments’ punitive policies towards the unemployed seems to have removed over 100,000 people from rightful access to an unemployment benefit.
The combined efforts of both National and Labour governments’ punitive policies towards the unemployed seems to have removed over 100,000 people from rightful access to an unemployment benefit. - See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/01/30/billions-of-dollars-stolen-from-the-unemployed/#sthash.mBmmhTuO.dpuf
Facts about the minimum wage
I notice this morning already much of the advocacy for increasing the minimum wage focusses on being able to feed children. Yet most minimum wage earners are single and childless. When they do have children they are often part of a couple with the other earning considerably more.
Assuming Treasury deals in accurate statistics here are some about the minimum wage:
"The minimum wage has grown much faster than average wages over the last decade...
In 2011 our minimum wage was 60% of the median earnings for full-time workers. This was amongst the highest ratios in the OECD, and well above the level found in most countries which is typically around 45%. For instance, the ratio was 45% in Australia, 38% in the United Kingdom, 40% in Canada, and 28% in the United States.[1] Increasing the rate still higher to 88% of the median wage would take the minimum wage well outside the normal range. This is likely to make employment for people with low skills difficult in an internationally focused economy.
[1] 2011 was the most recent date on which comparisons were available from the OECD.
... the minimum wage applies to a smaller proportion of the workforce (less than 4%) ...
63 percent of households earning below $18.40 are single adults without dependants.
The current objective of the minimum wage is to protect the real incomes of low wage earners, while minimising job losses. It is not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty on its own, nor is it intended to be. Instead, there are other measures, like income transfers, subsidised access to health and education services, and childcare assistance, to improve the wellbeing of families with low incomes.
Raising the floor on wages will... always provide greatest benefit to younger people, and especially to those in the teens and early 20s."
Matt McCarten's claims in HOS
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Tag Archives: myanmar winery
Heaven in the hills
September 30, 2015 Jessica Mudditt 2 Comments
Published in the September edition of Myanmore InDepth Magazine
A weekend at Aythaya Winery in Shan State can rejuvenate and restore
Lucky the retriever in the vineyard
When Yangon becomes too wet, hot or just plain busy, take comfort in the knowledge that a serene weekend retreat awaits in the cooler climes of Shan State.
While the wine produced by Myanmar 1st Vineyard is ubiquitous throughout Myanmar under the Aythaya label, the accommodation at the winery, for now at least, remains something of a well kept secret among those in the know. The Monte diVino Lodge’s three luxurious, timber and glass paneled bungalows were designed by SPINE Architects’ Amelie Chai and overlook the rolling mountains and the winery below. The bungalows flow seamlessly into the side of the mountain and each is shrouded in a riot of tropical flowers: visitors at the winery’s restaurant could be forgiven for missing them altogether. Each bungalow is equipped with a king size bed, indoor and outdoor showers, vast balconies, a well-stocked mini-bar and chic furnishings. Mr Leiendecker said that plasma TVs and wifi are coming soon. Whether you’re looking for a romantic weekend away or a secluded spot to polish off that manuscript, the Monte diVino Lodge is hard to beat in the tranquility stakes.
The lower decking of Aythaya’s Sunset Garden Restaurant
Nowadays, the winery itself attracts up to 300 visitors a day: however things weren’t always so rosé. When the 100 percent foreign-owned vineyard and winery first opened in 2004, Taunggyi locals were reluctant to even approach it.
“Myanmar was a completely different place eight years ago: Myanmar people actually seemed scared to come to a foreign business. So I said to myself, ‘Okay, if they won’t come inside, I’ll go outside and show people what we have to offer.’ We actually put tables and chairs on the side of the road – that’s how our business began,” said the director of technical operations Hans Leiendecker.
Despite initial doubt from Aythaya’s founder, a fellow German called Bert Mosbach, the experiment worked and the pair haven’t looked back since. Although they initially assumed that the winery would appeal more to foreign tourists than locals, today the latter far outnumber the former. Mr Leiendecker said that locals comprise around 80 percent of all visitors – a fact he attributes in part to a sizeable population of wealthy Taunggyi residents and Yangonites who are keen to escape the heat and bustle of the commercial capital.
As for the foreign clientele, they too have changed over the years thanks to the end of the tourism boycott led by a UK-based rights group and the lifting of EU and US sanctions against the former pariah state in 2012.
“The nationalities visiting Aythaya have changed quite bit over the years. In the beginning we used to get a lot of Austrians and Germans, but nowadays they are outnumbered by the British, Americans and French,” said Mr Leiendecker.
Last year Aythaya recorded an impressive 8,000 foreigners, while local day trippers totalled 25,000. With its Sunset Wine Garden Restaurant starting to overflow, its owners have decided to build a café and a second bar. Along with an enormous menu that features Myanmar, Chinese, Shan and European culinary treats – as well as a Mongolian-style barbeque on Friday nights and daily specials – guests can sample Aythaya’s wine varieties for K2,000 and take a free, 30 minute, guided tour of the vineyard and winery. Mountain bike hire is also available, and stand-up paddleboards will be coming soon. The winery is located just 25 kilometres away from Inle Lake, which means there is lush hiking in the nearby surrounds.
The outdoor shower
From October, Aythaya will open a spa and sauna retreat, which will be managed by Thin Thin Yu, a licensed acupuncturist and certified holistic healing practitioner with 10 years’ professional experience in Canada and the US.
“The idea is to add a wellness spa to the wine country visit to make it like Napa Valley in the US,” she said.
Rates per night at Monte diVino Lodge start from US$120 a night from September until April.
For more information and to inquire about weekend packages, visit www.myanmar-vineyard.com.mm or email lodge@myanmar-vineyard.com.mm
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Horror Round-Up 2018 by Ellen Datlow
March 15, 2019 March 16, 2019 locusmag 0 Comments Ellen Datlow
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As usual, I mostly read short horror fiction, but among the novels I read I found several good ones to recommend: Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman (Del Rey) is a weird, deeply dark western about the eponymous woman, who has suffered from a condition since childhood – she periodically falls into a deep coma-like state during which she appears dead. Only a few people know, and one – her husband – wants her dead and buried so he can inherit her wealth. So when she falls into one of her comas, it’s a race against time as her husband, her ex-lover, and a terrifying hired killer all converge on the town of Harrows. It’s gratifying to see Malerman move in a completely different direction with each new novel. A page-turner. Blood Standard by Laird Barron (Penguin) is Barron’s first crime novel, and while it’s not horror, per se, it is dark, violent, suspenseful, sharply etched, and very enjoyable. A former mob enforcer leaves Alaska (“or else”) for upstate New York, hoping to avoid criminal entanglements. No such luck, when his employers’ teenage granddaughter disappears after being seen with some unsavory characters.
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (Morrow) is about a home invasion committed for an unusual reason – by perpetrators who believe their actions will save the world. A male couple and their adopted daughter vacationing in a remote area in New Hampshire are the victims, and the perpetrators are a ragtag group with little in common but their so-called mission. Tense, claustrophobic, and suspenseful. The Anomaly by Michael Rutger (Grand Central Publishing) is a tour de force of suspense-horror about the crew of an X-Files-type reality web series given funding to search for a mysterious cavern in the Grand Canyon, supposedly discovered in 1909 by an explorer. Against all expectations, they actually find the cavern and in it a cave system. Things take a nasty turn. The suspense was such that at times I had to stop reading because I was afraid of what would happen next – especially because the author makes the reader feel for the characters. The twists and turns of the journey are matched by the twists and turns of the plot, creating an utterly satisfying read. I loved this one. The Hunger by Alma Katsu (Putnam) is about an historical event I could have sworn I never wanted to hear or read about again – the doomed wagon train to California known as the Donner Party. Yet Katsu makes it fresh with her vivid characterizations and her injection of supernatural terror. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (Crown) is an absorbing, complex, dark crime debut that switches back and forth between 1986 and 2016, revolving around a group of five kids growing up in a tourist town in southern England. The book begins with a horrific accident at the fair, and quickly moves on to murder. Although there are some pretty unbelievable developments during the course of the novel, it’s still an enjoyable ride. I Am the River by T.E. Grau (Lethe Press) is a terrific novel that captures the horrors of the Vietnam war and how they follow one soldier back in visible form. Reminiscent of Lucius Shepard’s work. Ahab’s Return by Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) is a wonderful, dark confabulation which speculates that Ahab, having survived his final battle with the white whale, returns several years later to New York City to find his wife and son. A few other unexpected characters from Moby Dick show up, as does one unfortunate from a Dickens novel. There’s magic and dark sorcery involved, and opium. Dark fantasy with some nice, gruesome touches. The Mere Wife by Mariah Dahvana Headley (MCD) is a gorgeous contemporary retelling of Beowulf from the point of view of Grendel’s mother. An American soldier is seen to be beheaded on television yet apparently survives, returning from the desert pregnant and about to bear an unusual child. Is it horror? Probably not. But it’s dark and deep and a great read.
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd (Morrow) is a fascinating, chilling, dystopian first novel. When one man in India loses his shadow, initially the world is intrigued. But when he begins to lose his memory, sliding into a premature dementia, and others around the world begin losing their shadows and memories, there is alarm, panic, and ultimately civilization is dismantled. There are several powerful threads, as groups of survivors learn to cope – or not. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday) is told in first person by a Nigerian woman stuck cleaning up after her beautiful, charismatic, and deadly younger sister. This short, fast-paced novel grows on the reader, despite the shallowness of the young beauty who keeps killing off her boyfriends. This might be because the dynamics of the relationship of the two sisters slowly reveals itself to be deeper than one initially thinks.
There were a number of notable collections published, including All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma (Undertow), the long overdue debut of this talented author’s work, featuring 16 stories published since 2006, two of them original. Sharma makes a graceful shift between the fantastic and horror genres, and many of her stories have been included in Best of the Year anthologies. Her novelette “Fabulous Beasts” was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and won the British Fantasy Award. Highly recommended. Guignol and Other Sardonic Tales by Orrin Grey (Word Horde) is this talented author’s third collection, and features 17 conte cruel (cruel stories), four published for the first time. With an introduction by the author. Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files (Trepidatio) is her fourth collection, this one bringing together nine stories originally published between 2006 and 2014. Spree and Other Stories by Lucy Taylor (Independent Regions) is Taylor’s sixth collection, and contains six stories and the novella of the title, all originally published between 1994 and 2014. Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books) is the second volume in a new series inaugurated in 2017 by the publisher, intended to focus on literary horror writers of note. This one consists of six stories (one new) by Australian writer Warren, an author interview with her, a complete bibliography, and academic commentary by Michael Arnzen. Illustrated by Michelle Prebich. Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem (Valancourt Books) brings together thirty-five of Tem’s favorite stories, originally published over a very productive career. It has an introduction by Simon Strantzas. The Ones Who Are Waving by Glen Hirshberg (Cemetery Dance) is the author’s fourth collection, and this one is more of a genre mix than his previous ones. The subtitle describes the stories very well. Most of the eight stories are at least tinged with darkness. One story is new. The Dummy & Other Uncanny Stories by Nicholas Royle (The Swan River Press) is the author’s third collection. The 18 stories (two new) reflect his evolution as a writer from 1994 to today. A few of the stories are more oblique than necessary, and he’s writing less and less horror than weird fiction, but at its best his work can still provide chills.
This and more like it in the February 2019 issue of Locus.
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Proof that monthly date nights work … but only if you’re married!
I’m not sure I’d be taking marriage advice from Katie Price. But according to a recent interview, one thing she swears by is the idea of a “date night” to keep her third marriage on track.
Relationship commentators and marriage educators agree. Google the words “date night” and any number of articles pop up exhorting couples to get out and spend time on our relationship.
The reasonable assumption is that time out together as a couple is romantic, giving couples an opportunity to talk, away from the constraints of children and home, while also demonstrating commitment and intent in making their relationship a top priority.
But do they really make a difference? Do couples who go out on regular date nights do better than those who don’t?
So far I am aware, nobody has ever actually checked this out with any kind of serious analysis. So with the help of Professor Steve McKay of the University of Lincoln, we used data from one of Britain’s biggest household surveys to do exactly that.
Our new study is published today on the Marriage Foundation website. You can read the study here.
Based on the Millennium Cohort Study of 10,000 mums who were either married or cohabiting as a couple when their child was nine months old, we looked at how often these couples went out together at that time and compared it to whether they were still together as a couple just over ten years later.
Now, all sorts of things are already known to influence the chances of staying together. So first of all, we needed to isolate each of these factors. As expected, being older, having a degree, being married, and having a stronger relationship all made a big difference.
But even after removing the effects of all of these, and therefore comparing like with like, we found that couples who went on monthly date nights together were still slightly more likely to stay together than those who hardly ever went out. Going out weekly didn’t seem to make any difference at all.
When we looked into this a bit further, to our surprise we found that this monthly date night effect only applied to married couples. Cohabitees who went out did no better than those who didn’t.
Why do married couples seem to benefit from the occasional date night out whereas cohabiting couples don’t?
Perhaps it boils down to the original assumption behind date nights.
By going out every so often, married couples reinforce the importance of their relationship. Because their relationship is founded on a clear public act of commitment, a night out together makes a statement about the nature of the relationship.
When Katie Price goes out on a date with her husband, perhaps their night out together says something about them and their future as a couple. In other words it has a meaning and a purpose.
Had they not been married however, even for her third time, it’s a lot more likely that there would be some unspoken element of ambiguity about their future together. Many or most unmarried cohabiting couples will never have had that moment where both partners have made it crystal clear that the plan is to stick together for life.
In that case, a night out would simply be a night out.
Do date nights work for married couples with older children, or even those without children? Who knows. But what our new findings are clear about is that occasional date nights bring added stability to the relationship among new parents. It seems plausible that the same thing can happen at any stage of marriage because what date nights really do is reinforce existing levels of commitment.
So what have you got to lose? Book that restaurant now!
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The Lyme wars are upon us. We should probably read up on them
By 2050, 12 percent of the US population will likely be infected by Lyme-causing pathogen
Gabriela Serrato Marks
Marine Geology
After reading Mary Beth Pfeiffer's engrossing new book, Lyme, you will probably want to kill any tick you can find, donate to Lyme research, and find out if you are at risk for tick-borne diseases.
Spoiler alert: your risk is likely increasing. Ticks, some of whom carry the pathogenic bacteria that causes Lyme, can now survive in environments where they would have frozen to death 30 years ago. The good news is that there's a lot of new research coming out about stopping and treating tick-borne illnesses, and a good new book that connects the dots between climate change, ticks, sick people, and policy.
Pfeiffer takes a comprehensive, even-handed look at the "Lyme wars" – on one side, there are doctors who strictly follow the Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines on Lyme, which have been criticized as biased and were subjected to an antitrust investigation. On the other side are the patients and doctors who have experience with chronic or late-stage Lyme disease, which causes joint pain, cognitive impairment, and is sometimes treated with long courses of antibiotics (which the guidelines do not support). Pfeiffer carefully presents both perspectives, while also showcasing individual patients' stories.
A tick carrying Lyme
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There's a lot at stake in the Lyme wars for both patients and governments, in part because chronic and acute Lyme are expensive. Treatment is predicted to cost a minimum of $5 billion in 2018 for the US alone. By 2050, 12 percent of the US population will likely be infected by the Borrelia pathogen, and many of those cases will become chronic. As our planet's climate warms and ticks are more able to spread their infections, even more people will be infected around the world. If we don't find effective treatments for Lyme and agree on how to address these illnesses, the problem will become even more unmanageable.
Pfieffer's book is one of few places to get this sort of information on the history of Lyme and how it is connected to changing climate – writing on Lyme is usually directed at people with the disease and focuses on addressing their symptoms. It isn't the first piece published about Lyme and climate change, but it presents an in-depth view of a complex research field.
Lyme is an indicator of climate change, arguably expanding because of human actions, from warming temperatures to killing deer
This book taught me that Lyme is tracked as an indicator of climate change, alongside wildfires and heat-related deaths. Pfieffer makes a compelling argument that Lyme is expanding because of human influences on the environment, from warming temperatures to killing deer.
She also addresses the symptoms and challenges that patients face, which is neglected in a lot of scholarly research. My own struggle with chronic pain has made some of the symptoms of late-stage Lyme feel familiar, and as a climate scientist, I thought I knew all the major impacts of future climate change. But even though I had that background knowledge, this book made me really feel the urgency of this issue, instead of just knowing about it on an academic level.
One downside of the book is that some chapters have almost too much evidence, so it starts to feel repetitive. But in a way, that just shows how strong Pfeiffer's arguments are: there is overwhelming evidence that patients with chronic Lyme should be treated, and that we need more research to better understand how tick-borne illnesses will continue to spread in the next century.
Pfeiffer emphasizes the struggles that Lyme patients have, but just begins to touch on their strengths. Patients and doctors are advocating for better understanding by writing about their healthcare experiences or serving in the leadership of nonprofits. Those hard-working patients and doctors show that there is still hope in the fight against Lyme, even as climate change progresses. Pfeiffer's new book can't single-handedly stop the spread of ticks or find a cure for Lyme, but it will spread the word about why this issue is important, urgent, and needs more advocates.
Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change
Bugs like it hot, and evolve faster when there's lots of carbon dioxide
Max Levy, University of Colorado Boulder
David Hu sells quirky research with an apartment full of snakes
100 vignettes that will make you excited to talk about the weather
The weird and wonderful world of fish
Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University
There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University
'Visualizing Disease' is an illuminating history of how we started to see medicine
Elle O'Brien, Computational Neuroscience
A neuroscientist reviews Michael Pollan's 'How to Change Your Mind'
Benjamin Bell, Johns Hopkins University
Mark Lynas on the complexity of disagreeing on GMOs
Devang Mehta, University of Alberta
The art of publicly changing your mind on GMOs
'Being Ecological' is a book with admirable aims and a tangled execution
Prioritizing data over action can be counterproductive – but so is a muddled message
Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University
By 2100, the ocean will be a different color
Maddie Bender, Yale University
Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.
Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it
Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is
Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University
While Congress does nothing, New York City passed its own climate legislation
Greta Moran
Climate change is causing floods all over the world. Here's what you can do to help
Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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This Poké Ball Wiggles When Pokémon Are Nearby
Jeremy S Cook
Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!
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By Jeremy S Cook
August 10, 2016, 5:00 am PDT
In case you have been on an expedition to the South Pole for the last few weeks (and it’s winter there, so that was a bad idea anyway), there is this augmented reality game that was recently released called Pokémon Go. In this game, an image of a Pokémon is superimposed on a real-world location, allowing you to virtually capture the creature. As entertaining as millions of people find the game, it causes a serious drain on your phone’s battery since it uses a GPS signal for Pokémon tracking and you need to have your screen on to catch anything.
One solution would be to use an external battery pack and plug your phone in for several more hours of wandering around. For a different take on this problem, Orem, Utah Resident TJ Hunter decided to make his own physical Poké ball using an 8 inch diameter foam cylinder (or rather two half cylinders), a Particle Electron board with an Asset Tracker Shield, and a generic servo.
When the ball approaches a new Pokémon, it rocks back and forth to let you know there’s a creature around. You can then pull out your phone and capture the Pokémon without having to drain your battery when you’re not actually catching anything.
When asked what inspired this build, Hunter replied that:
My kids and I have been playing Pokemon Go since it was released. I started digging into how the Pokemon Go APIs worked and was interested in how sites like Pokevision worked. I’ve been working with Particle IoT products for years and so I’m always trying to think of new ways to connect things to to the internet. Once I saw that the Pokemon Go data was accessible I realized I could create my own device similar to the official Pokemon Go Plus device that has been announced. It eventually evolved into the Poké ball enclosure.
The first video above shows this enclosure as a nicely painted Poké ball, but the video of the internal parts seen below shows what’s really going on. Mechanically, a servo wiggles back and forth causing the ball to sway in reaction. The two halves attach together with magnets for easy access to the internals, which is also quite clever.
Software for this build would have been impressive enough given a well documented programming framework, but this presented several challenges. Frustratingly, after Hunter first got a working Poké ball, within a few hours the PokéVision website, which he was pulling data from, was shut down by Pokémon Go developer Niantic. He then tried an open source library that connected to the Pokémon servers directly, which was again made unusable, this time by a Niantic server change.
Hunter’s Poké ball wouldn’t die that easily though, and after a reverse engineering effort on some other developers’ parts, the libraries that it ran on were made functional again. After updating this, his Poké ball was made to work again.
Now that everything is working, Hunter can get about 12 hours of use out of his Poké ball. This is in contrast to his phone, which gets a few hours of game play, and his kids’ phones, which have even smaller batteries. They end up carrying around an external battery pack.
Though it’s likely strange enough to the uninitiated to see people walking around playing Pokémon on their phones, carrying a sphere around painted this way must both give some hint as to its purpose and cause more questions at the same time. When asked about the reaction to this device, Hunter says
I’ve been surprised with the attention it has been getting. It’s also fun to see it wiggle and then people will open their phones and … they say “Oh wow! It really does know there is a Pokemon nearby.”
People who see the Poké ball in person after seeing pictures of it are surprised at how big it is. Apparently the photos make it seem smaller than it is. The sphere is 8 inches in diameter.
Hunter adds that he’s very happy with how the build turned out. Though he says that he may work on the paint a little more to touch things up. He said that painting it, which he did with his oldest child Jordan, was the most fun part of the build. It sounds like they really enjoy it, and it certainly makes it better if a few maker skills can be passed on to the next generation!
[via Zach Supalla on Medium]
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Kuwait - MoCI precondition licenses
(MENAFN - Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY, May 15: Ministry of Commerce and Industry has preconditioned the appointment of 'liability officer' in the renewal of licenses for some 15,875 companies annually, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting reliable sources.
The daily published decision of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry concerning the level of commitment of the insurances companies, and insurance mediators, institutions and companies that are into real-estate brokerage, in addition to real-estate offices that deal in jewelry, precious metals and money exchange to appoint a Kuwaiti supervisor before Jan 1, 2020 as a measure to eliminating money laundering.
The sources commended the role played by Minister of Commerce and Industry, the State Minister of Services Khalid Al-Rawdan in opening new opportunities for Kuwaiti youth in private sector.
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National B&B Week 2019 - 18th-24th March 2019
Did you know that there are over 20,000 B&Bs in the UK, and that they generate over £2 billion annually to the UK economy? This is something that we think is worth celebrating, that’s why we are participating in National B&B Week 2019!
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In October 2017 the Mayor of Wirral unveiled a blue plaque in recognition of the incredible Ann Davison, the first female to sail the Atlantic single handed. Ann lived at Mere Brook for four years and the house features in one of her books – in fact she refers to living at Mere Brook as some of her happiest times.
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Brief Report: Social Disability in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results from Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network Trials
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There is growing interest in measuring social disability as a core element of autism spectrum disorders in medication trials. We conducted a secondary analysis on the Aberrant Behavior Checklist Social Withdrawal subscale using data from two federally-funded, multi-site, randomized trials with risperidone. Study 1 included 52 subjects assigned to placebo and 49 subjects to risperidone under double-blind conditions. Study 2 included 49 subjects assigned to risperidone only and 75 subjects assigned to risperidone plus parent training. After 8 weeks of treatment, all active treatments were superior to placebo (effect sizes ranging from 0.42 to 0.65). The findings suggest that the Social Withdrawal subscale may be a useful measure of social disability in acute treatment trials.
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MD Helicopters reveals MD 969 Combat Explorer Helicopter
MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) has revealed a new military derivative of the twin-engined MD 902 Explorer, dubbed the MD 969 Combat Attack Helicopter at HAI Heli-Expo 2019. The MD 969 represents the next evolution of MDHI’s iconic MD 900/902 series helicopters. Displayed at the MDHI booth, C1228, in a weaponized configuration the MD 969 Combat Explorer Helicopter represents the future assault and attack capabilities of this proven and powerful light twin-engine aircraft. The company is pitching the MD 969 at the US Army’s upcoming Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) requirement, which is part of the service’s wider Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programme. The MD 900/902 Explorer series helicopters is a multipurpose twin-engine helicopter with operators in every market segment – air medical, law enforcement, search and rescue, electronic newsgathering, executive transport, offshore and utility.
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The MD 969 Combat Explorer Helicopter also features a proprietary, MDHI-designed integrated composite weapons plank that allows for greater operational flexibility and expanded mission capabilities. The integrated plank allows for up to 6-station, fixed-forward weapons installation while maintaining unimpeded, full-cabin access to support simultaneous forward fire, crew-served weapons, and personnel transport missions. The helicopter at HELI-EXPO was displayed carrying a mix of rocket pods and 12.7 mm heavy machine gun pods, while a promotional video released by MDHI showed it fitted with AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles and 7.62 mm door-mounted Gatling-guns. The up-to-8-seat MD 969 Combat Helicopter is single-pilot IFR certified, and safely and effectively executes a broad range of military, para-military and utility missions including Fast Attack, Combat Search & Rescue, CASEVAC/MEDEVAC, Command & Control, and Personnel Transport.
Other features include a composite fuselage and a digital ‘glass’ cockpit with three Genesys Aerosystems integrated IDU-680 multi-functional displays (MFDs) and one Macro-Blue tactical display. The Genesys Aerosystems Advanced IDU-680 integrated all-glass cockpit is a highly capable and customizable next generation glass cockpit solution that is also the avionics system of choice for MD Helicopters’ MD 530G Attack Helicopters. These all glass primary displays offer 100% digital, open architecture for aircraft-independent installation and are field-upgradeable to add new functionality without replacing hardware components. A 12” Macro-Blue Tactical Display is a rugged and high definition construction engineered to meet DO-160 environmental and MIL-standards for contrast, sunlight readability, anti-reflective glass and NVIS Radiance.
“The MD 969 will deliver a new level of multi-mission capabilities for military operators,” said Lynn Tilton, Chief Executive Officer for MD Helicopters, Inc. “As the premier light twin-engine helicopter in their class, MD 900-series aircraft deliver excellent maneuverability, unmatched safety, and impressive endurance to support a wide range of operations. Enhancements delivered in the MD 969 will further solidify this elegant aircraft as the definitive choice for an ever-expanding range of military and paramilitary operations. As we continue to develop the MD 969 for our military customers, and prepare for development of future attack and reconnaissance aircraft, we have a roadmap that significantly expands the performance envelop for the MD 969, creating a foundation for other future twin-engine development efforts,” Tilton concluded.
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Another Yellowstone Park Whistleblower Steps Forward
Roosevelt Arch, north entrance to Yellowstone.
Feds Failed to Acquire Crucial Testimony Before Drawing Conclusions
BY DAVID S. LEWIS
A former Yellowstone National Park employee contacted The Montana Pioneer recently on the heels of a report released by the Office of Inspector General and published in the Pioneer’s May 2017 issue. We met personally with the whistleblower, at his home, to discuss his first hand experiences after having worked at the Park for decades.
Having met with another whistleblower last summer, the Pioneer published a report in September 2016 that launched federal investigations of sexual harassment and other misconduct at Yellowstone National Park. We have since been contacted by a number of park employees alleging misconduct at Yellowstone, and await a release as early as July 2017 by Superintendent Dan Wenk that will outline the Park’s response to the scandal. Wenk in the past has downplayed allegations of sexual harassment and other charges on his watch, even as Congress and the OIG found evidence that misconduct had taken place.
The OIG, though, according to our sources, failed to adequately investigate the problem by conducting interviews of employees, many of whom realize that even with whistleblower protections in place they may face reprisals from bureaucratic players in certain divisions of Yellowstone who for many years have not been held accountable by NPS or park superintendents.
For that reason, the most recent whistleblower, though retired, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear that his pension might somehow be placed in jeopardy, a virtual impossibility, but a fear rooted in the following experience.
After having become aware of the sordid exploitation of young male co-workers by a male supervisor at Yellowstone, who reportedly allowed the employees to share his residence while performing little or no work, the whistleblower, according to testimony conveyed to this publication, took the matter to a workforce grievance officer. The whistleblower told us that his concern had nothing to do with “sexual preference,” but with the disorder in the crew caused by the supervisor’s actions and his preferential treatment toward his sexual partners. Conveying that concern to the grievance officer, the whistleblower told us he should expect reprisals if he filed his grievance. The officer reportedly told the whistleblower, “They will pull skeletons out of [your] closet…They play rough.”
Indeed, recent accounts conveyed to this publication claim official reprisals have taken place in recent months after two employees took actions to expose separate incidences of alleged wrongdoing only to find themselves targets of YNP investigations. Significantly, these alleged reprisals took place after the OIG and congressional investigations, indicating entrenched bureaucratic actors confident of their immunity from consequences (aka the deep state).
The whistleblower visiting the grievance officer went on to tell us that, incentivized by pensions, employees desire to put in their time, not makes waves, and retire without jeopardizing their financial future.
Former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis retired early this year, on whose watch numerous cases of sexual harassment occurred across NPS, the perpetrators of which faced no serious consequences. Nor did Jarvis. Deputy YNP Superintendent Steve Iobst retired in September 2016, free and clear, just after the scandal broke. Superintendent Wenk, according to sources, will soon retire from Yellowstone, and will therefore likely avoid accountability under the Trump administration, the stated intentions of Sen. Daines (R-MT) and Interior Secretary Zinke (both Montanans) notwithstanding (see page 7).
The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General, as further evidence of a National Park Service bureaucracy unable to police itself or protect employees from exploitation, failed even to interview the former employee who recently stepped forward through this publication.
Moreover, OIG’s conclusion contradicting previous whistleblower Bob Hester’s claim (see Montana Pioneer Sept. 2016) that employees were hired specifically for sexual exploitation, has been bolstered by the more recent whistleblower’s account.
Augmenting his interview with the Pioneer, the whistle blower’s written account follows:
“I worked in Yellowstone National Park from 1986 to 2014. I know all the people you talked about in the article about Park misconduct.
I remember some instances that happened before the ones you mentioned. It seems like there was always some kind of misconduct that wouldn’t be allowed in the regular working world.
The one I’m getting off my chest was about a supervisor in Yellowstone. It (the sexual exploitation) wasn’t all men and women. The supervisor there had a thing for young men. Seems he always had a boyfriend. One particular was a young man named “Billy.” I was the road crew boss in that district and the supervisor put Billy on my road crew. Billy would sleep in the road crew truck during working hours. I couldn’t tell him to do anything really. He was a seasonal laborer. The young man would live with the supervisor at his residence in Gardiner on off-duty time and they hung out together after work. The young man would always show up late for work and was given unearned personal leave. The boss even sent me off on a job and put the boy in charge of the road crew letting him run equipment without a CDL (Commercial Driver License) and pretty much let him do what he wanted. It was the talk of that side of the park. The crews on the Lake district and Grant district would talk about it.
Billy got rehired for the next season. Totally worthless. A co-worker walked in on them unexpectedly in the office and caught them in an inappropriate position. If Billy would have come back the next season I would have gone to Mammoth headquarters and voiced my concerns. When Billy didn’t come back the supervisor took in another “boy friend.” Another young man on our crew. The same pattern again. It made things difficult on the crew. I always regretted not speaking out about what was going on but at the time we just did the best we could and kept working. I probably would have worked up there for another year or two to boost my retirement, but I chose to get away from the situation.”
The whistleblower did not characterize this publicly funded misconduct as having taken place in the distant past. To the contrary, he speculated that the misconduct may be continuing now as it had before.
The above account lands in our lap not as an exceptional claim, but in keeping with the pattern of documented examples of NPS non accountability and corruption, albeit among only certain bad actors within an otherwise admirable workforce, but a workforce compromised by institutional bureaucratic malfeasance at the highest levels.
That documentation includes: 1) The above YNP whistleblower’s account; 2) A prior named whistleblower; 3) Phone calls from former park employees; 4) Corroboration by a top YNP official (who asked for anonymity, but whose statements are recorded); 5) Sexual harassment non accountability in the NPS dating back 17 years; 6) Findings of the OIG; 7) Findings of the House Oversight Committee.
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Agency strengthens warning labels on these medications to address dangers
(HealthDay News) — Parents shouldn’t give their children any medications containing the narcotics codeine or tramadol because they can cause life-threatening breathing problems, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday.
Warning labels on medications with codeine or tramadol will be strengthened to reflect these potential dangers, the FDA said in a statement.
Nursing mothers should also avoid using these drugs, since they can pass unsafe levels of opioids to their babies through their breast milk, the agency said.
Some children and adults are genetically predisposed to process opioid drugs more quickly, the FDA said. That can cause the level of narcotics in the bloodstream to rise too high and too quickly, risking overdose in children, due to their smaller size.
“It’s very hard to determine which child or mother has this risk, so that’s why we’ve taken this action today,” Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, deputy center director for regulatory programs at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in a media briefing Thursday.
Tramadol is a prescription drug that is only approved to treat pain in adults, the agency noted. Codeine products are available by prescription, with some states allowing the drug to be sold over the counter. Codeine is often combined with acetaminophen in prescription pain medicines and cough syrups, the agency said.
The FDA is now warning against children under 12 taking either codeine or tramadol.
Kids under 18 also should not be given tramadol to treat pain following surgery to remove the tonsils or adenoids, the agency said. Codeine labeling already warns against post-surgical use for kids.
Finally, the FDA said that these drugs should not be used in children 12 to 18 who are obese, suffer from obstructive sleep apnea or have a weakened respiratory system, as they can increase the chances of dangerous breathing problems.
“Today’s actions build on a better understanding of this very serious safety issue, based on the latest evidence,” Throckmorton said.
The FDA plans to hold a public advisory committee meeting later this year to discuss the broader use of prescription opioid cough and cold medicine in children, he said.
Nearly 1.9 million kids aged 18 or younger received a prescription for a codeine-containing medication in 2014, and nearly 167,000 were prescribed a medication containing tramadol, the FDA said.
Parents should carefully read drug labels to make sure medications don’t contain either opioid, the agency stressed. They also can ask their doctor or pharmacist if a specific medication contains codeine or tramadol.
Parents should also discuss alternative pain medications for their kids with their doctors, as well as effective cough and cold remedies that do not contain opioids, the FDA said.
“We understand there are limited options when it comes to treating pain and cough in children,” Throckmorton said. “However, after careful review our decision to require these labeling updates was taken because we believe it is a way we can protect children.”
For more on opioid medications in children, visit the Boston Children’s Hospital.
SOURCES: April 20, 2017, media briefing with: Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., deputy center director for regulatory programs, FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; U.S. Food and Drug Administration, news release, April 20, 2017
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My Mandela
By mostlycinema on July 17, 2013 • ( 2 )
It was October 1990.Still hot and muggy in Kolkata even at 9 am in the morning.Perhaps it was a holiday or I would have been in school.I was exactly 14 years old then.My house was on the way to the airport, the name of the road aptly referred to as VIP Road even though formally it is named after Kazi Nazrul Islam, the legendary poet.Living on that road gave me the chance to see quite a few important people pass by.
I remember that morning well, for a 14-year-old fan of Mahatma Gandhi, the best thing next to laying eyes on the Mahatma was about to happen- a glimpse of Nelson Mandela who was visiting Kolkata.I perhaps stood for an hour behind the bamboo barricade, which had been erected though the entire stretch that his motorcade was to pass, along with thousands others, to catch a glimpse.When his car passed by I saw his face, radiant and smiling and engaging with the people of Kolkata.These were not the eyes of a politician scanning a crowd and calculating its political potential but that of a man simply happy to engage with a world that he chose to treat with compassion and love far greater than had been granted to him.
This was barely six months after his release from prison and part of his world tour to mobilize international support for a final push to end apartheid.People of his stature rarely visit Kolkata anymore.Kolkata has lost two powerful magnets which used to pull global giants there, Mother Teresa and Satyajit Ray, and what remains is a shrill and vindictive politician at the helm.The next year I was at the same Eden Gardens Stadium which had hosted a huge public reception for Mandela, to watch the South African Cricket Team come back to international cricket.As the crowd roared when Clive Rice ran up to deliver the first ball I said a silent thank you to Mandela. As a die-hard cricket fan in those days the biggest collateral damage of apartheid for me then was the exclusion of an exciting team like South Africa from the game.
Undoubtedly his obituaries are being fine tuned and when the inevitable happens we will see tributes whose wisdom and eloquence will move us deeply and honor the man as best as possible.But what will happen after that? Rajmohan Gandhi writes with great erudition in Outlook Magazine,”Let us not fix a halo over Mandela’s head. To make a saint of a supremely cerebral man does no credit either to sagacity or cleverness. Let us see in him, rather, the possibility of moral successes through intelligent action and the breakthroughs for intelligence in ethical choices.” This saves me the trouble of defining Mandelas legacy, a task I am completely under qualified and under-read to attempt.
Firstly I am really struck by the strength of his constitution.Once a friend told me if you want to love long become a communist, citing Deng Xiaoping and Jyoti Basu as examples.While that may have been a joke, I cannot help but wonder what kind of mental and physical fortitude Mandela possesses. During my 5 year stint in Africa I learnt that racism can also be about a brown man discriminating against a black man. So when I hear my friends who have lived in Zimbabwe recount first hand horrors of life under Robert Mugabe, one cannot help but wonder at what it took Mandela to choose a path of reconciliation with his oppressors rather than that of confrontation.
That Mandela and his life holds lessons for everybody is pretty obvious.Winds of change are blowing in many countries, from Burma to Egypt.The people of Egypt have chosen to back a military coup instead of more long-term measures.To me it represents an impatience that is the hallmark of our times.Mandela spent 27 years in jail and his introspection led him to act the way he did when he was released and became President.The South African experiment with reconciliation and the Indian experiment with a secular democracy remain the two most daring experiments whose results will take a long to become clear and even longer to understand.
Mandela will not be around forever but it is fortunate that people like him appear and make casting a vote in an election a deep moral question rather than just a matter of linking it to possible GDP growth rates.I have seen two films about Mandela, Goodbye Bafana and Invictus and a few others about South Africa during and after apartheid. These films as well as what I know of his life seem to suggest that he looked very far into the future and made his actions much larger than himself.We demand democracy but use it to play,” Whats in it for me?” games every time there is an election.Mandela teaches us to be patient and dig deeper.
The man will become an idea.It is up to us what we do with it.
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Not an obituary but a tribute written when the world was still privileged to have a living breathing Mandela on its soil.Lets keep the idea of Mandela alive.
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Ghana's rains: Flooding, fury & forgetfulness
June is a memory of mourning here in Ghana.
Horror stories are triggered by the events of June 3rd 2015. It was just three years ago when more than 200 people would meet their maker due to a deadly toxic combination of fire, water, a lack of shelter and a petrol explosion. The pictures were horrific. The death toll was a national tragedy. The loss was deep.
The wake of that tragedy was an outpouring of shock and pain. There was a fury directed at the political powers that be. There were philanthropic efforts from organizations, churches, media houses and more. June 3rd 2015 was marked as the day we would not forget.
And yet, it passed quietly. Forget we have. And here we stand again.
In 2018, it would be the aftermath of June 18th floods. Seven people are known to have died, the death toll may yet rise.
A Monday night of continuous heavy rain stole dreams and turned citizens into corpses. The sound crashed against windows, turning homes into water logged space and prompting the same weary, uninformed, leadership-lacking politicians to articulate their annual drivel about potholes, gutters, citizens and their individual action.
Here in Accra, three died. NADMO has just found two more bodies; and four people are missing. In Sokpoe, the Volta region, a grandmother and her two grand-children were electrocuted. They were residents of Morkordze, a suburb of Sokpoe in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. The rains had ripped off the roof of their home and the three were seeking shelter. They died after being electrocuted by a live-wire whose insulation had peeled off. The grandmother’s name was Yaa Gayi. Her two grandchildren were Elolo Dofey and Morkporkpor Dofey.
Some of the hardest-hit areas were Odawna, Ciricle and Adabakra in Accra and Oyibi and Mankessim in the Central Region. Entrance access to healthcare at Mankessim Jubilee Hospital was cut off due to the flooding; Korle Bu’s Child Healthcare facility was also hit.
Morning radio turned into ground zero for calls for help and rescue. Maddening and heartbreaking stories of women and men stuck in homes or en route to work, hemmed in by rising waters, flooded by the inadequacy of Accra’s mayor paying lip service to change.
Submerged cars, ravaged homes, loss of work hours, and a call to assist – that is our cycle of action with these annual floods.
NADMO is overwhelmed with calls. The National Disaster Management Organization set up by government legislation back in 1996 may come in and be the whipping boy for failed rescue efforts – and they will remind us they lack sufficient funding, equipment, numbers and vehicles.
June 3rd 2015 was billed the day we would not forget. Here we are in the aftermath of June 18th 2018.
We always forget. Or we always seem to move on.
We mop up, we call in, we mourn, we weep, and we hurt. How many more casualties? How many more years of this groundhog day of floods and fury and forgetfulness?
In the eye of the storm, in the middle of floods when citizens wade knee deep, sloshing out flooded homes, fighting to rescue belongings, patching up and checking in on loved ones, it is unreasonable to require critical thinking and engagement of citizens. In the aftermath of new shelter-seeking citizens, assessment of damage and ongoing calls to sustain families, it is also unreasonable to call on citizens to engage critically.
It is also beyond time for an end to a groundhog day of June floods, outrage, rallies to help the immediate needy and an inevitable lackluster response from non-elected officials. The aftermath of June 2015 kicked off a determined effort to hold the powers that be accountable.
There are critical social, religious, policy, political and housing issues here requiring our collective focus and attention.
Not forgetting would mean finally doing the kind of critical work, policy implementation, project engagement and completion, gutter unchoking that would end this particular nightmare.
We will again remember The Conti Project. Conti is an international project developer. In August 2013, the then NDC government of Ghana and the Conti Group of Companies of the United States of America signed a US$660 million agreement for the drainage and sewage project. It was called the Accra Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Drainage Alleviation Project. It was a five-year project funded by US Exim Bank. Its aim? Make Accra green, clean up its filthy, choked gutters, and create a highly functioning sewage system. Parliament approved the loan facility. There was a ground-breaking ceremony.
In June 2015, the aftermath of a night of horror would ignite the urgent, angry call regarding the fate of this green lit project. The then Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper, would eventually tell us that funds had been delayed due to project scope changes.
This was a wholly inadequate explanation given the national tragedy faced by our nation. And most devastatingly, there seemed then to be no real urgency to move forward in order to prevent such a night from re-occurring.
2018 officially makes it five years later. The Accra Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Drainage Alleviation Project should have been up and functioning. Accra would have a sewage system.
There are other projects. The GAMA (Greater Accra Metropolitan Area) Sanitation and Water Project started in 2015 with a $150 million funding support from the World Bank. How is that going? Is it complete, functioning and in service to citizens?
Shoulda, woulda, coulda is the refrain of too many projects that have disappeared under the words of politicians, the memory of citizens and the moving on of media.
And of course, there will always be a report of some kind; and perhaps a Committee. These are the responses to our disasters.
Our elected and too many non-elected officials remind us they seem to be woefully inadequate to carry out the necessary leadership to create projects and enable their execution. Instead, they seem to fall back on protection of individual reputation, and a concern that the rain-filled buck does not stop with them.
There may be some good news on this political horizon. In April, the government approved a comprehensive national project to deal with the perennial flooding that characterises the rainy season in the country, particularly in Accra. The plan includes the construction of a modern sewage and drainage system across the country. Hmmmm, another new national project – maybe not such good news. Why do we not finish what existed or build with what we have? Why must we start afresh with the election of each new government? Isn’t this so frustrating?
Politicians are not the only group deserving of condemnation. Pastors must stand in this line too.
The Christian Council is suspiciously silent on these annual rains. We are a Christian nation; we tithe, prayer and build Churches much faster than we drain sewage systems. And yet, as weather is predictable, why do we not hear The Christian Council issue a nationwide call to Churches? Why don’t we hear them call for those Churches with sturdy structures to fling open their doors so shelter-seeking Ghanaians can find refuge before rain turns into death?
Why is there a lack of collective Church engagement? What role might the Ministry of Religious and Chieftaincy play in such a collective call to create shelter? Why is it left to individual pastors? Churchgoers could also make such a call – a demand on their houses of worship. We do not hear of Churches suffering the flooding, failures and destruction endured by homes, hospitals and roads.
Unsafe structure demolition is also part of this cycle.
In Accra, the lack of affordable housing together with the growing population seeking such housing creates dangerous flood maths. People make homes where it is unsafe, unplanned, dangerous – but affordable. The call to demolish is routinely met by rage as people fight to protect the homes they have. This is an untenable situation. With this latest flood cycle, NADMO has again called for the demolition of structures built on waterways – they are seeking legal backing to do so.
As I am writing this it has just started raining again here in Accra on a cool morning.
Rain falls on Christians, politicians and pastors – on the rich and the poor. But, as a nation, rain –this cleanser, a grower of plants, a feeder of soil, a necessity of life – too often prompts fear.
Are we not weary of this flood, fury and forgetfulness cycle?
It is hard not to be overtaken by cynicism and a throwing up of hands after navigating the challenge of surviving the latest round of rain.
But we must not succumb.
It is precisely in the aftermath of these floods when our fury must become most keenly focused. Forgetfulness is not an option; we can create other options.
Floods, fury and forgetfulness need not be our cycle. Let’s link arms and aims to demand better and do better.
Columnist: Esther A. Armah
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Memorial Bridge closes for two hours as emergency responders deal with suicidal person
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Ownership of Engagement Ring Upon Divorce or Broken Engagement
Marital vs Non-Marital Property Gifts Ownership of Engagement Ring Upon Divorce or Broken Engagement
Engagement and marriage are very joyous times, and although no one ever anticipates the premature end of their marriage or engagement, the reality is that not all marriages or engagements continue happily ever after. One common question that individuals have regarding family law is what happens to the engagement rings if the marriage or the engagement does go awry. Who gets to keep the ring: the man who likely purchased it, or the woman who it was given to? Many courts throughout the nation have considered this very question, and those courts have reached varying decisions. Despite the differences, one major theme is present, engagement rings are gifts. The only real question is whether the gift will be viewed as a completed gift or as a conditional gift by the court.
Completed Gifts
Courts generally treat the engagement ring as a gift, from the donor (the person who gave the ring) to the donee (the person who received it). In order for a gift to be deemed a legally complete gift, three elements must be present: 1) the donor must intend to give the ring as a gift, 2) the donor must deliver the ring to the donee, and 3) the done must accept the ring. If the person to whom the ring was given can show all three elements, a court will consider the ring to be a gift to him or her.
Conditional Gifts
But the majority of courts also consider such a gift to be a conditional one. That means that, until some future event occurs, the gift is not final. If that event does not occur, the donor has the right to get the gift back.
Women who want to keep their engagement rings often argue that the condition needed to make the engagement ring a completed gift is simply the acceptance of the proposal of marriage, not the completion of the marriage ceremony. That way, if the engagement is broken, the ring remains her property.
But this argument often is not successful. The majority of courts find that the gift of an engagement ring contains an implied condition of marriage. Acceptance of the proposal is not the underlying "deal," the marriage is. Absent some other understanding or circumstance, for example, if the ring was given as a memento of a shared memory or experience or if the ring was given to celebrate a holiday or special occasion, most courts look at engagement rings as conditional gifts given in contemplation of marriage. However, as mentioned earlier, some states have come down on the opposite side of this fence, rejecting the conditional gift theory and declaring that an engagement ring is an unconditional, completed gift and that's that. Thus, it is important to seek the advice of a knowledgeable family law attorney in your state to determine what rights you have regarding an engagement ring, regardless of whether you are the donor or the donee.
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After the marriage has occurred, the question of who gets to keep the ring becomes much simpler. Upon marriage, the ring is considered the property of the recipient. Even if the ring could have been viewed by a court as conditional initially, the condition of marriage is now met. In most states, rings are also considered the separate property of the recipient, not marital property, because the gift was made prior to marriage. Only via an agreement, like a premarital or settlement agreement, may a donor obtain possession of the ring upon divorce.
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While 2006's In My Mind often showcased Pharrell the Rapper, G I R L, its 2014 follow-up, is all about his velvet-smooth voice. Soft and supple on the opulent opener, “Marilyn Monroe”, playful on the grinding funk of “Hunter” and full of joy on the world-dominating anthem “Happy”, his vocals are cast in immaculate, soulful productions. It's testament to his own star power that the album's myriad guests—Miley Cyrus, Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys—slot seamlessly into his vision, never eclipsing the real star.
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Is this Tour Edge’s Big Break?
By Chris Nickel
| September 11th 2018 | 36 Comments
Is this @TourEdgeGolf's Big Break? A comeback of sorts from a company that never really left.
Tour Edge makes the best fairway woods in existence.
It’s the type of bold and hyperbolic claim to which consumers have become numb – and for good reason. It seems OEM club tests invariably produce some reasonably valid data which allows said OEM to market a product as measurably better than competitors.
Critical consumers tired of the song and dance typically start the eyeroll shortly after “According to our testing…” But what happens when the claims have merit beyond use as advertising bullet points?
How would a consumer know to when to trust that which otherwise sounds too good to be true?
Answer? Unbiased, datacentric testing. MyGolfSpy doesn’t give out participation ribbons. Our MostWanted testing platform is authentically objective; employing a comprehensive approach which relies on a single point of analysis– performance. Leveraging strokes-gained algorithms, we can determine which club will perform best for the largest percentage of golfers. OEMs care because it establishes credibility. We care because it gives golfers the unfiltered truth.
Tour Edge’s CBX fairway is this year’s MostWanted category winner. That’s significant, but in talking with the team inside Tour Edge, it was more a validation than a surprise. Jon Claffey, VP of Marketing, told MyGolfSpy, “We know they (Callaway) make a great product. We had just seen so many test results and Trackman numbers on tour that it did not shock us.” Callaway’s Rogue and Rogue Sub-zero models finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. For the record, Tour Edge also outperformed fairway models from TaylorMade (M3, M4), Ping (G400), Titleist (917F2, 917F3) Mizuno (GT 180, ST 180) and thirteen other brands.
Twelve years ago, Tour Edge launched its first Exotics fairway metal, and at the time, it was a Goliath in a land of David’s. Tour Edge introduced combo-brazing and titanium faces while others stuck with welded faces and steel bodies. Tour Edge built a distance-minded fairway wood before any of the major OEM’s seemed interested in exploring the genre.
Tour Edge was playing chess while others played checkers and tour players took notice. Brandt Snedeker bagged a CB4 model en route to winning the FedEx Cup and Tour Championship in 2012. Matt Kuchar, JB Holmes, Luke Donald, and Brian Gay all put Exotics by Tour Edge clubs in play without compensation, winning a combined ten times on the PGA Tour and making several Ryder Cup appearances.
As expected, larger OEMs with more robust R&D budgets literally and figuratively narrowed the distance gap by creating more competitive offerings with similar-ish technology. This coupled with more lucrative (and restrictive) club deals swayed tour usage back in favor of the big brands. Tour Edge was in the middle of a financial gunfight with only a set of kitchen knives.
Tour Edge weathered the global financial crisis of 2008, primarily due to a more conservative business plan which relied upon consistently moderate growth and eschewed the churn and burn pattern of accelerated product release cycles, which created some short-term growth, but ultimately came at the expense of long-term viability.
Yet, Tour Edge continued to grow (up 25% in both 2016 and 2017) largely on the heels of its moderately priced and higher margin Hot Launch and Bazooka lines. Tour Edge has turned a profit each year since its inception. How many OEMs can make that claim?
The Tour Edge model had proven to be financially successful and sustainable, and there’s always an uncomfortable risk in deviating from a plan that’s already working. Be that as it may, what made Tour Edge different in 2006 was at best a distant memory. The buzz was gone, and even if those inside the walls of Tour Edge knew how good the Exotics line was, the general consumer was largely unaware.
Then, Adams Golf became Tour Edge’s Wally Pipp. Although TaylorMade purchased Adams Golf in 2012 and kinda sorta had plans to make Adams great again, this was the beginning of the end for Adams Golf, which at that time held court as the favored fairway woods and hybrids on the PGA Tour Champions. Why TaylorMade effectively ran Adams off the map and into the ground remains a bit of a mystery, but just as Wally Pipp was replaced by some guy named Lou Gehrig, Tour Edge is poised to throw everything it has at going from a brand some people remember to one which can’t be forgotten.
It was exactly the opportunity Tour Edge needed and starting in the fall of 2017; it began a revived and concerted effort to more aggressively market the CBX line of Exotics fairways and hybrids. Amongst other strategies, this meant assembling a small stable of paid tour staff. Eight players, including 2018 tournament winners, Tom Lehman, Scott McCarron and Bart Bryant signed on. But perhaps the most telling endorsement came from the winner of the Chubb Classic, who isn’t paid a time to play a CBX fairway, but made a point to credit his newly bagged three wood for its role in his play coming down the stretch, particularly on the pivotal 17th hole. He stated, “I very was fortunate I put a new 3-wood in my bag this week. It doesn’t have any left in it typically, so I knew the water was probably out of play.”
To date, players using Tour Edge clubs have earned eight runner-up finishes, 22 Top 5 finishes and 40 Top 10 finishes in 19 events this season on the PGA Tour Champions. Additionally, seven Exotics staff players currently rank in the Top 35 of the Charles Schwab Cup money standings and Exotics CBX has ranked as the #2 hybrid model in play for the 2018 season.
Tour validation is important for every OEM – but for a brand like Tour Edge, it’s a critical piece of building a complete resume and generating widespread interest from better players.
Every OEM works within constraints set forth by golf’s governing body, the USGA. On paper, it doesn’t appear there’s much room for innovation – at least not the type which creates a definite and visible separation between competing products. In addition, the base quality of equipment is decidedly better in 2018 than it was in 2006, when the first Exotics fairway wood launched.
With that, Tour Edge’s approach to the Exotics line is still different than any other OEM with a consistent presence in the North American market. To win the distance battle, Tour Edge engineers knew it needed a formula other OEMs couldn’t replicate. It had to drop spin rates significantly while maintaining top-end ball speeds, which is an onerous task because as loft increases so does spin (roughly 350 RPM per degree of loft). Titanium offers performance benefits, but it’s more expensive than steel, so most OEMs opt to use it only in drivers.
Spin and launch are largely controlled by CG location which is a determined by how and where weight is distributed throughout the clubhead. Rather than welding the face to the body, Tour Edge utilizes a proprietary combo-brazing process which creates 50 grams of discretionary weight – nearly 25% of the total 210-gram head weight on the CBX 3-wood. The carbon fiber plate on the sole assumes 25% of the total mass of the clubhead, and the result is a CG location other OEMs simply can’t replicate or more accurately, choose not to.
Because of the materials and processes, the Exotics line is more expensive to manufacturer. It also has a retail price of $349.99, $50 more than Callaway’s Rogue. But, what if Callaway or TaylorMade used the same technologies and materials, but maintained typical margins? David Glod, Founder and President of Tour Edge, hypothesizes retail pricing “would be close to $500.”
By subsidizing lower margins of the Exotics line by higher margins (and volume) on the Hot Launch and Bazooka lines, Tour Edge provides performance at the sacrifice of maximum profit.
For Tour Edge to get back to the hype and hoopla of the late 2000s, it has to press on and capitalize on opportunities created by this new era of free agent golfers. Tour spend is down across the board, and Nike’s exit from the hardgoods space showed how ready players were to embrace the liberty of choosing which equipment to play…or not play. TaylorMade nixed driver-only club deals, and every major in 2018 was won by a player without an equipment contract.
The shift hasn’t been seismic, but it is happening, and if the 2018 season is a harbinger, niche brands like Tour Edge only stand to gain.
At the professional level, on course performance has substantially more financial upside than OEM sponsorships, unless your name is Tiger, Rory, Phil or Rickie. In Jonathan Wall’s piece “Year of the Free Agents” he notes the ever-widening gap in earnings on Tour, comparing the 30th and 125th positions on the year-end money list. In 2015, that gap was nearly $2 million, but citing 2018 statistics, the difference in scoring average between the two positions is .62 strokes/round. Bryson DeChambeau just won the last two FedEx Cup events doing things in his typical, yet non-traditional manner. But the salient message remains – playing equipment which gives a player the best chance to win has the potential to pay dividends no OEM is willing to match.
Tour Edge probably isn’t the first name consumers associate with high-performance fairway woods and hybrids. Hell, it might not even be in the top 5, which is both an acknowledgment and indictment of the power of marketing.
Brand recognition is a matter of context, and in the golf equipment world, such status is disproportionately created by those with the largest advertising and marketing budgets. It can be downright frustrating for an OEM like Tour Edge which, in spite Golf Lab’s testing showing the CBX fairway to be 16 yards longer than competitors and print, radio and TV advertisements stating the same, struggled to entice consumers to buy it in numbers.
Every OEM is a little full of malarkey, and the cacophony of marketing babble makes it hard for the mid and smaller OEM’s to scream loud enough to be heard. Too often consumers are entirely desensitized to the outrageous claims made or take whatever the OEM says as gospel truth. Case in point – there are golfers who believe bulge and roll is a new concept in driver design or that faces actually twist yet also claim there’s no tangible benefit to putters with technology.
The open market may be slanted toward the big brands, but the turf in the MyGolfSpy LabX testing facility is entirely level. We replace hype with cold, hard data so when a club, like Tour Edge’s CBX, is granted the MostWanted label; consumers know it’s based on actual performance and nothing else.
It’s only fitting then that sales of both the CBX fairways and hybrids accelerated after results from MostWanted were released. Perhaps, objective testing can do for smaller OEMs what buckets of cash and well-paid marketing departments do for major OEMs.
The difference between equipment which does well at retail, becomes marginally famous, or eventually category defining might be something as seemingly insignificant as a badge. Then again, maybe that’s pretty important.
Chris Nickel
Chris is a self-diagnosed equipment and golf junkie, and he's proud of it. When he's not coaching the local high school and middle school golf teams, he's probably on the range or trying to keep up with his wife and seven beautiful daughters. Chris is based out of Fort Collins, CO and his neighbors believe long brown boxes are simply part of his porch decor. "Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
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Big decision now….CBX or EXS 3 wood? Oh, the pressure…lol
Peter N
I’ve Just bought TE Hot Launch 2 at a discounted price in New Xealand and I’m loving them. Great reading all your comments. Makes me feel convinced that I’ve switched to a winning brand.
Justin Wheeler
Not available left handed apparently.
I have 2 CB2s I dont think they are any longer than my old Titleist 980F 13 degree that i could hit 300+ from the tee at times, however I believe the CB2 is easier to hit and gives me a consistent 260 yard average. These two are the cream of the crop. Even the latest models cant out distance these to fairway woods.
been playing cb2 3wood since 2008. Love it. Why can’t TE make a driver that out performs as they do in fairways? Is it because other OEMs also use titanium in drivers?
Fair question – but I don’t think the answer is that simple. Part of the situation is that according to Tour Edge, the process and materials it uses are more expensive. If it wanted the same margins as other OEMs, the cost would be much greater than it is currently. So effectively, it is willing to take a smaller margin on a product which is more expensive to produce. Additionally, other OEM’s allocate more resources (and they have more resources to begin with) to the driver category and as a result, there’s more parity.
The article above states “Golf Lab’s testing showing the CBX fairway to be 16 yards longer than competitors” yet the MGS 2018 Most Wanted Fairway Wood (July 23, 2018) data shows the CBX shorter than 4 other clubs, longer than 19 but only by 0.6 – 14.3 yards (average 4-5). Any idea why the 2 labs come up with such different numbers?
Mark W
Two seasons ago I was in the market for a new 3W and my club builder said to not overlook the EX10 Beta Ti so I asked him to bring 2 to the range with 2 different, but similar shafts of my spec. From the first swing I was sold first on feel then ball flight and distance. I then had switched over to the 2nd one with the shaft that had slightly better specs for me. Its an absolute pleasure to hit and my very first round with it I couldnt miss and felt very confident with it. This season I found myself hitting it off the tee more and more when my driver goes awry, it keeps the wheels from falling off the round. Happy to see them getting more “mainstream” exposure.
I’m playing the Exotics EX9 Long fairway metal, not the CBX line, and I’ve NEVER hit 3w this far, or this accurately! My confidence in this club lead me to buy a 5 metal EX9 and it’s just as amazing for me. What does this mean for the next few weeks? I’m DYING to try the new Exotics driver that launches November 1! This company is LEGIT. I’ve published the results of some of my drives with my 3 metal… 287, 292, 302, and that’s not the CBX! I’m an Exotics fan! Not because of hype, but because of PERFORMANCE!!!
I always laugh when I hear the longest club or it add 10 yards to my shot. I shoot low scores because I get in the hole with less shots then the other guy not because I’m longer but because I stay out of trouble get it close to the hole and make my putts . I hit my 7 wood 200 yards if I hit it 207 yards do you think that’ll will help me shoot 70 instead of 77 I don’t think so. My point longer doesn’t mean lower scores it just might be longer into the woods.
James A Bryan
I started using Tour Edge Hybrids 2017 and like them so much I added a 4 and 7 fairway woods. It just feels natural hitting them.
MrHogan
Have had TE FW woods in my bag for years. Many different models and the odd driver as well. Tour Edge just flat out performs every other fairway clubs on the market.
Great job Chris, nice read. ??
Todd Stuart
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Stopped by a Exotics Demo Day last week. The Tent was really busy and there was a lot of interest in the Line. I was running on a tight schedule so couldn’t get to hit any clubs but I will give it a try next Demo Day.
Somebody knows something when it’s that crowded!
I have faith that if everyone here could meet the TE rep for my area, and compare company vs. company, dollar for dollar performance and decide whether they want to support TE vs TM, it’d be overwhelmingly Tour Edge. I am about to order an exotics three wood for one of the guys who just cracked the face on his TM M2 for the sixth time.
Scored a brand new CB5 hybrid and 3 wood about 6 months ago for 40 bucks each on eBay from a guy called golfvortex. He had a huge supply of TEE stuff but he must be out because his profile is deleted. I love the hybrid. The 3 wood isn’t my favorite club but I have always been trash when it comes to hitting fairway woods off the deck. I’d love to get my hands on one of their ironwood driving irons. Those look sweet.
I love my CB Pro 3 & 5 woods. I have been playing these for several years now – they are the oldest clubs in my bag and based on their superior performance, I have no desire to make any changes for years to come. I played today at a new course(scored a 71) and every time I used the Exotics they performed perfectly, whether from the tee or the fairway – real confidence boosters! Great golf gear!
Jay Risso
Where can I try these clubs out?
I have the CBX 3T and CBX hybrid currently in play. These just flat out perform. Easily as good as other TEE products that I have had through the years. They are longer, but still are very playable. My previous CB Pro F2’s are headed for my Florida bag. Can’t see any reason not to keep them in play during my winter stay. Great products from a great company, they never get old or become out dated.
I wish it still had the wavy base because it really did a great job.
By subsidizing lower margins of the Exotics line by higher margins (and volume) on the Hot Launch and Bazooka lines, …just in case you thought Hot Launch and Bazooka clubs were fairly priced….
Every OEM works within particular constraints and adjusts margins as necessary. If consumers think a price is unfair, theoretically they won’t purchase the item. Without knowing what an OEM’s margin is, how could anyone state whether or not the pricing was fair? Seems like a reach on your end…
Great article! Doesn’t seem like there has been one like this in a while. Anyone have a link to the Golf Lab results?
Rodrigo Corrtes
I have swiched my long irons to tour edge HL3 cause this ones are really good and Im getting the driver. I love this brands cause this ones get you good golf and a good price.
Dr Tee
Agree they make the best fairways around, but the new CBX is really more demanding than previous offerings. I have been using them on and off since they started up. Also, granted they may be more expensive to make, but until recently they were a quantum level more expensive than other oems. They have a “used” website which is a good way to start, to keep costs down. Usually in great shape with new or near new grips. I have noticed they are more popular with the Champions tour than on the big show.
Dan E
I purchased this year’s HL 3 wood from Revolution Golf on special last winter and could only stare at it for a few months. I have been using a Taylor Made V-Steel for the past I do not know how many years as I could never find anything that I could hit better. But seriously it is almost impossible to hit a bad shot with this new Tour Edge HL 3 Wood. I never thought I would be able to replace the V-Steel but I finally have. I only wish I liked their Driver as much!
Played the original Exotics driver (12* with 1* closed face) for 12 years.
Developed a head rattle in year 11 – TE fixed it FREE. Not even a shipping charge.
Sold it to a playing partner last month. Fixed his slice and added loft.
Smiles at me after every good drive and says he would have paid $100 more than he did.
Just a fantastic company all around.
I can’t wait to get one of these fairway woods….Oh wait, they don’t make them for left hand.
still bagging XCG’s from 2008 stupid long work it right work it left hit high sting it low over the years I’ve replaced them I don’t even bother thinking about any other fairway woods why would I absolutely rock stars!
My first club was a tour edge cb2 15 degree. That thing was a versatility machine. Unfortunately something inside the head broke lose and would break free from wedged while swinging. I’m now (begrudgingly) have since been using the CB Pro. Not a fan. But I’m sure there are people out there, and very good players, who would like it very much. Next I’d like a ironwood. That thing looks lovely
Great article. I’ve been a Tour Edge fan for years. I currently bag 3 of their hybrids, and hope to pick off one of these fairways in a couple of years when the price comes down and I can afford to get one from the “Pre-Owned” section of my local retailers’ , or off of “The Bay” if all else fails. As a senior I have to rely on tries and true, and Tour Edge has never failed me. I count on your data centric articles, and my bag reflects this.
shortside
Happy to see them get some attention. I had resided in NE Illinois for years so they were somewhat local. My local range at the time had a Tour Edge fitting rack. Nice product I must say. Also commented on their strong hybrid showing in this years MGS rankings. In addition for grins I took a HL3 demo 6 iron out for a spin at one of my local county courses recently. Stupid easy to hit. I mean real easy. Highly recommend anyone that struggles with getting the ball airborne consistently try them out.
Some of their stuff over the years has been a bit too bulky or graphic heavy for me. That said one day I’ll make the trip to Batavia and get fitted for a set that suits my eye and game. Hope they keep up the good work and are around for years to come.
I’ve been playing Tour Edge Exotics woods/drivers/hybrids for years and I will continue to do so. I just haven’t hit any better clubs than these, period. But that’s my opinion and I wasn’t paid to say it, ha-ha.
Heard on the street is that the CBX is long but it is demanding, it is low spin – it is for higher speed and better players.
I play the TEE EX10 Beta fairways – Ti face with forgiveness, and while still low spin, it gets up there better than Rogue. Just get the right shaft. The stock AD50 is weak. But with the right shaft, the EX10 Beta is long and forgiving.
You just hit the nail on the head. All the new clubs are good and all are much better when paired with the correct shaft for your swing. That makes a bigger difference than the head. Not saying one head can’t be better than the other, just saying that unless you test both heads with the same shaft and the same swing you can’t say which is better for that swing.
In my individual testing, the CBX is absolutely long – though I don’t know if “demanding” is the adjective I’d use. Because it is lower spinning than some others, it’s vital to get fit and make sure your launch parameters are maximizing performance. To me demanding = less forgiving, which I didn’t find to be the case.
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In Conversation With… Jared Menkes, Executive Vice-President, Menkes Developments
June 18, 2019 Condo Life, Homes Magazine, Industry News, InterviewsIn Conversation With, Jared Menkes, Menkes Developments Ltd., Mobilio, Waune KarlDave Gray
By Wayne Karl
Few builders are as active in condo development in the GTA as Menkes Developments Ltd. Charged with the construction, sales, management and customer service of nearly 6,000 condominium units is Jared Menkes, executive vice-president, Highrise Residential.
Condo Life spoke to him for his insights on the company’s key projects and more.
Condo Life: Mobilio is an interesting new project Menkes has underway – offering both condos and townhomes. What is the inspiration for this project, and what will be its differentiating features?
Jared Menkes: The GTA continues to experience the phenomenon known as the “missing middle,” whereby neighbourhoods lack the diverse housing options that make them more balanced, and – most important – affordable to the average family. The new community will deliver architectural diversity, while simultaneously fulfilling the area’s fundamental need for more density. It will be the first project in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) to blend a mix of housing types on one site, striking the perfect balance of housing, greenspace and amenities, many of which will be shared between the condos and townhomes.
CL: What is the status of the project, in terms of number of housing type, unit and home sizes?
JM: With more than 1,000 units of low- and highrise living, Mobilio will feature a mix of highrise condominium towers, and two- and three-bedroom townhouses, including some with rooftop terraces. This community is one where we are able to accommodate all different types of buyers – first-time buyers, new couples, empty nesters and retirees all have options to buy.
CL: Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is seeing a lot of development at the moment. Where do you see this going in the next three, five or 10 years?
JM: Vaughan is already the largest employment centre in York Region and will continue to be the destination of choice for the 905, especially with the development of VMC. By 2031, VMC alone will be home to 25,000 residents, 1.5 million sq. ft. of new office space and 750,000 sq. ft. of retail. And with the addition of the subway line added to the area, VMC will continue to become a downtown connected to Toronto’s downtown. Connectivity will also continue to be a major draw to Vaughan, with access to the TTC, VIVA and such close proximity to Hwys. 400 and 407.
CL: Family-friendly condos and amenities are an increasingly important part of the market. What types of new features is Menkes introducing with its projects? For example, developers are including libraries, bike parking, pet-wash stations and even music practice rooms in their projects…
JM: When it comes to amenities, I try to think about everything you would want or get out of living in a single-family home, and incorporate it into a condo. People like to entertain large groups, so we have sophisticated party rooms with kitchen and bar areas. If you like to barbecue, we offer a landsc aped terrace equipped with barbe cues. You enjoy a quiet night in? We have state-of-the-art theatres and game lounges. And if you want to stay active, we have fitness centres with separate weight, virtual and yoga studios.
When it comes to entertaining kids, we’ve offered all kinds of cool amenities such as hobby rooms, music rooms and play rooms with amazing interactive features.
We have really considered every member of your family right down to your pets. Mobilio will include a convenient pet-washing st ation. I am also very excited about the park aspect of this project. We will have the linear parks that connect all the projects together on this block and on future blocks that provide trails and exciting ways for families to stay active.
CL: And at Mobilio, what features there will speak to the neighbourhood or expected buyer profile?
JM: More and more people are looking to invest in walkable suburban communities near jobs, schools and other amenities, so they can experience more of an urban lifestyle in the 905. Mobilio is a short dist ance from Vaughan’s transit hub, and Vaughan is currently the only municipality in the GTA aside from Toronto that offers connectivity to the TTC subway system, GO Transit and regional transit services.
Also, this kind of versatile development will allow people to stay in the same community through every stage of their lives, should they choose to. For instance, families could potentially have their aging parents live close by without moving in with them.
CL: What kinds of things are you personally bringing to Menkes that perhaps previous generations didn’t focus on?
JM: I wouldn’t say there are things that I can offer that other generations didn’t, but I will say that as a previous condo owner with a young family, I can appreciate the need to make smaller spaces more livable for families and the need for amenities that cater to children. My experience living in a condo with two kids and a dog (at that time) helped shape of lot of Menkes’ recent condo projects.
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When not at the office or in the field, I: Explore the city with friends and family.
My greatest inspiration in this business is: Getting the opportunity to work with my family and getting to work on true city-building projects that will shape our city for generations to come.
If I wasn’t involved in the development industry, I would: I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Real estate is in my DNA. I love the opportunity I have to work on the types of projects that we get to develop. Every single one is a new challenge unto itself.
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Seafood Can Boost Children’s IQ, Despite Possible Mercury Exposure
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Reviewed by Christine Traxler, MD
Updated November 15th, 2018 ,
Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children’s IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet.
The study relied on mothers’ observations of their children’s development and their reports of their food intake while pregnant. The study, led by Dr. Joseph Hibbeln of the United States’ National Institutes of Health, tracked the eating habits of 11,875 pregnant women in Bristol, Britain.
Smarter kids?
At 32 weeks into their pregnancy, the women were asked to fill in a seafood consumption questionnaire. They were subsequently sent questionnaires four times during their pregnancy, and then up to eight years after the birth of their child. Researchers examined issues including the children’s social and communication skills, their hand-eye coordination, and their IQ levels. As with any study based on self-reporting methods, however, the results cannot be considered entirely definitive.
Women who ate more than 340 grams per week of fish or seafood, the equivalent of two or three servings a week, had smarter children with better developmental skills. Children whose mothers ate no seafood were 48% more likely to have a low verbal IQ scores, compared to children whose mothers ate high amounts of seafood.
“These results highlight the importance of including fish in the maternal diet and lend support to the popular opinion that fish is brain food,” wrote Dr. Gary Myers and Dr. Philip Davidson of the University of Rochester Medical Center, in an accompanying commentary. Myers and Davidson were not connected to the study.
Pollution worries
The Environmental Working Group, which calls the U.S. recommendations too lenient, said the study highlighted the need for governments to take actions to keep pollutants out of seafood, like cracking down on coal-burning power plants.
“The study reinforces the importance of keeping our seafood supply clean, making sure it’s not overly contaminated with mercury and other chemicals that could actually harm brain development,” said Jane Houlihan, the group’s vice president for research.
Mercury can build up in fish living in waters contaminated with it due to industrial pollution. Mercury can be particularly bad for fetuses and children because it can cause neurological and developmental problems.
In 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration advised pregnant women and young children to eat no more than 12 ounces per week of light tuna and other seafood lower in mercury.
The agencies recommended they eating fish with high mercury levels – shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish – and no more than 6 ounces (170 grams) a week of albacore tuna because of mercury.
Fish is a very important part of a Nutrient Dense Fertility Diet. If you are not eating fish because of fear of mercury poisoning, you are throwing the baby out with the bath water. There are certain fish that are known to be high in mercury.
What about mercury?
Mercury is definitely a concern, but there are fish you can eat that are lower in mercury due to their location and what they eat. I would be more concerned about the mercury poisoning from dental fillings. They are constantly leaking mercury in to your system every time you chew, eat hot foods, etc. So fish is good, just be smart about which ones you eat. Canned tuna is out. Here is the Consumer’s Guide to Mercury in Fish provided by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
You can download a printable fish safety card to put in your wallet for access when at restaurants or shopping.
Consumer Guide to Mercury in Fish
The list below shows the amount of various types of fish that a woman who is pregnant or planning to become pregnant can safely eat, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. People with small children who want to use the list as a guide should reduce portion sizes. Adult men and women who are not planning to become pregnant are less at risk from mercury exposure but may wish to refer to the list for low-mercury choices.
Protecting yourself — and the fish: Certain fish, even some that are low in mercury, make poor choices for other reasons, most often because they have been fished so extensively that their numbers are perilously low. These fish are marked with an asterisk (read more below).
Least Mercury
Enjoy these fish:
Crab (Domestic)
Crawfish/Crayfish
Croaker (Atlantic)
Flounder*
Haddock (Atlantic)*
Mackerel (N. Atlantic, Chub)
Perch (Ocean)
Salmon (Canned)**
Salmon (Fresh)**
Scallop*
Shad (American)
Shrimp*
Sole (Pacific)
Squid (Calamari)
Trout (Freshwater)
Moderate Mercury
Eat six servings or less per month:
Bass (Striped, Black)
Cod (Alaskan)*
Croaker (White Pacific)
Halibut (Atlantic)*
Halibut (Pacific)
Jacksmelt
(Silverside)
Monkfish*
Perch (Freshwater)
Sablefish
Skate*
Snapper*
Tuna (Canned
chunk light)
Tuna (Skipjack)*
Weakfish (Sea Trout) High Mercury
Eat three servings or less per month:
Grouper*
Mackerel (Spanish, Gulf)
Sea Bass (Chilean)*
Tuna (Canned Albacore)
Tuna (Yellowfin)*
Highest Mercury
Avoid eating:
Mackerel (King)
Marlin*
Orange Roughy*
Shark*
Swordfish*
Tilefish*
Tuna (Bigeye, Ahi)*
* Fish in Trouble! These fish are perilously low in numbers or are caught using environmentally destructive methods. To learn more, see the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute, both of which provide guides to fish to enjoy or avoid on the basis of environmental factors.
** Farmed Salmon may contain PCB’s, chemicals with serious long-term health effects.
Sources for NRDC’s guide: The data for this guide to mercury in fish comes from two federal agencies: The Food and Drug Administration, which tests fish for mercury, and the Environmental Protection Agency, which determines mercury levels that it considers safe for women of childbearing age.
About the mercury-level categories: The categories on the list (least mercury to highest mercury) are determined according to the following mercury levels in the flesh of tested fish.
Least mercury: Less than 0.09 parts per million
Moderate mercury: From 0.09 to 0.29 parts per million
High mercury: From 0.3 to 0.49 parts per million
Highest mercury: More than .5 parts per million
Favorite Fish Recipe
Thai Coconut Salmon
1 can coconut milk
2 strands saffron
1 stalk lemon grass
1t. arrowroot
1T. fish sauce
2-4 fillets of Wild Alaskan Salmon (not farm raised)
1.Pour coconut milk into a sauce pan
2.Cut some big pieces of lemon skin (zest). Add to the coconut milk.
3.Cut lemon grass 5-inch pieces, add with saffron to the coconut milk.
4.Heat for simmer for 8 min.
5.Meanwhile juice the lemon and dissolve the arrowroot.
6.Add the fish sauce (stinky, but will taste awesome ;), simmer another 5 min.
7.Remove the large lemon peels and lemongrass from coconut milk
8.Place salmon fillets in the simmering sauce. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes, until pale pink all the way through
9.Put salmon onto plates
10.Whisk the lemon/arrowroot mixture into the coconut milk. It should thicken instantly. Taste sauce, season and add to the top of the salmon.
This meal would go great served with some quinoa and asparagus.
Dr. Christine Traxler M.D., OB/GYN
Dr. Traxler is a University-trained obstetrician/gynecologist, working with patients in Minnesota for over 20 years. She is a professional medical writer; having authored multiple books on pregnancy and childbirth; textbooks and coursework for medical students and other healthcare providers; and has written over 1000 articles on medical, health, and wellness topics. Dr. Traxler attended the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences and University of Minnesota Medical School, earning a degree in biochemistry with summa cum laude honors in 1981, and receiving her Medical Doctorate degree (MD) in 1986.
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Embodying the raw, wayward spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, the Kilburn portable active stereo speaker takes the unmistakable look and sound of Marshall, unplugs the chords, and takes the show on the road.
Weighing in under 7 pounds, the Kilburn is a lightweight piece of vintage styled engineering. Setting the bar as one of the loudest speakers in its class, the Kilburn is a compact, stout-hearted hero with a well-balanced audio which boasts a clear midrange and extended highs for a sound that is both articulate and pronounced. The analogue knobs allow you to fine tune the controls to your personal preferences while the guitar-influenced leather strap enables easy and stylish travel.
Sound of Marshall, unplugs the chords, and takes the show on the road.
The FM radio is perhaps gone for good, the assumption apparently being that the jury has ruled in favor of streaming over the internet. The IR blaster is another feature due for retirement – the S6 had it, then the Note5 didn’t, and now with the S7 the trend is clear.
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Meanwhile, the IP68 water resistance has improved from the S5, allowing submersion of up to five feet for 30 minutes, plus there’s no annoying flap covering the charging port
No FM radio (except for T-Mobile units in the US, so far)
No IR blaster
No stereo speakers
If you’ve taken the phone for a plunge in the bath, you’ll need to dry the charging port before plugging in. Samsung hasn’t reinvented the wheel with the design of the Galaxy S7, but it didn’t need to. The Gala S6 was an excellently styled device, and the S7 has managed to improve on that.
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Sea Shepherd Ships Arrive at Southern Operations Base, Ready to Take on the Japanese Whaling Fleet
Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016
Sea Shepherd’s new patrol vessel, the Ocean Warrior, arrived yesterday at the Southern Operations base in Williamstown, just outside Melbourne, joining the veteran anti-whaling ship MV Steve Irwin. They are undergoing final preparations before departing for the ocean conservation group’s 11th direct-action whale defense campaign in the Southern Ocean this December.
The Ocean Warrior. Photo by Bridgette Gower/Sea Shepherd
Press Tours
The Ocean Warrior will be open to the public for free tours November 26-27 from 10am-7pm each day, docked at 2 Ann Street, Williamstown, Victoria. Private press tours are available for both ships on request from November 16th until the two ships depart in early December for the Southern Ocean (date to be confirmed, depending on the departure of the Japanese fleet).
On-site interviews in Melbourne can be arranged with Sea Shepherd captains Adam Meyerson and Wyanda Lublink, as well as Sea Shepherd Australia Director Jeff Hansen. Phone and Skype interviews can also be arranged with Sea Shepherd Captain Peter Hammarstedt and Sea Shepherd Global CEO Alex Cornelissen.
Attached photos of the Ocean Warrior by Nelli Huié; attached photo of the Steve Irwin by Eliza Muirhead. Additional h igh-res photos and video footage of the Ocean Warrior, MV Steve Irwin , and previous Sea Shepherd anti-whaling and Southern Ocean campaigns are available on request.
Japan’s so-called “scientific research” program to hunt Minke whales has been rejected by the International Court of Justice, the International Whaling Commission and the Australian Federal Court. After a one-year hiatus from whaling, the Japanese whaling fleet returned to the Antarctic last season and slaughtered 333 Minke whales, more than half of them pregnant females. Disappointed by the lack of action from the international community, Sea Shepherd Global announced its return to the Southern Ocean to protect the whales with a new patrol vessel, the Ocean Warrior , the fastest in the fleet.
A New Challenge
“Operation Nemesis”, named after the Greek goddess of inescapable justice, will be one of the most difficult campaigns Sea Shepherd has undertaken. The Japanese have doubled their whaling area in the Southern Ocean, meaning Sea Shepherd will have to search in an expanse twice as large to find them. The reduced quota of 333 whales targeted in the hunt also means the Japanese can complete their hunt and return to Japan in less time. She Shepherd will rely on the strength of the Steve Irwin, the speed of the Ocean Warrior , and the assistance of their helicopter and small speedboats to overcome these challenges in the harsh Antarctic waters.
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First Mate, James Brook looking out with binoculars from the bridge of the Steve Irwin during Operation Nemesis. Photo by Chelsea Miller/Sea Shepherd
Japanese whaling vessel. Photo by Sea Shepherd
Crew of the MV Steve Irwin. Photo by Bridgette Gower/Sea Shepherd
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Building a Mobility Ecosystem From Scratch
Yann Leriche
CEO, Transdev North America
In a new town in Southwest Florida, we are all about to discover what happens when you build an entire 21st Century Mobility Ecosystem from scratch. And the results could shape how people access transit services for decades to come.
This month in the solar-powered, sustainable community of Babcock Ranch, Transdev will begin operating the first autonomous network in North America. Two autonomous vehicle (AV) shuttles will start taking prospective homebuyers from the downtown office plaza to model homes. Once we reach a tipping point with the new population, the AV shuttles will start transit services along the 18,000-acre development near Fort Myers. At its peak, Babcock Ranch could serve as many as 50,000 residents with their own zip code and congressional representative.
The goal is to eventually deliver subscription mobility—mobility as a service. But rather than squishing this “next step” in mobility into cities that are heavily dominated by cars, the long-term vision of this town is to eliminate, completely, the reliance on automobiles from the beginning.
Transdev will begin operating the first autonomous network in North America this month in Babcock Ranch
“We recognize that progress comes in increments,” said Syd Kitson, Chairman and CEO of Kitson & Partners, the developers behind Babcock Ranch. “Americans are not going to go from one car for every driver to no cars for every household overnight. We start by making cars just one of many options for getting around town. When people can walk, bike, catch a shuttle, use their handheld device to summon an on-demand autonomous vehicle, or utilize a shared vehicle service for trips off-site, they will quickly realize they don’t really need their own car.”
What will it take for people to surrender their cars they have long relied on? To us at Transdev, the tipping point will be when the amount of money spent on a car just simply doesn’t make economical sense in lieu of an abundance of options to move throughout town. That progress will certainly come in stages, but the Babcock Ranch experiment is exciting to behold.
Even more interesting is that the entire town will serve as a living laboratory for how subscription mobility should be delivered and what residents require to make the switch from automobiles to shared, on-demand community transit. That data, combined with the detailed demographics for the community, will change how companies and communities present transit options in the future. More bikes or more shuttles? Better paths or wider sidewalks? More traditional, fixed-route services with common origins and destinations or flexible route scheduling with on-demand ease?
One town is about to tell us.
Yann Leriche will be a speaker on the panel “Streets Are For People: Multi-Modality and Safety” on November 16 during the Cities in Motion Leadership Conference. Join Yann at LA CoMotion by completing your registration here.
Yann Leriche is CEO of Transdev North America, the largest multi-modal operator of public transportation, with contracts in over 200 cities, as well as B2C and B2B businesses, including airport shuttles, crew transfers and corporate transportation services. He also leads the company’s global on-demand (B2C) business lines and its autonomous vehicle strategy and activities. He is passionate about giving people the freedom to connect to what they care about in their city and get where they need to go with comfort and ease.
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WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt (wordpress.org)
163 points by yahelc on Feb 23, 2011 | hide | past | web | favorite | 106 comments
photomatt on Feb 23, 2011
Hey guys -- for the past 7 years we've named every release after a jazz musician, as you can see here:
http://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/
Usually no one notices, and the codename isn't even in the tweets or announcement email, just a sentence that clearly links to the jazz musician's Wikipedia page. (It's not like Ubuntu codenames that are widely used.) We also put a fun plug for djangoproject.org to the end of the "future" section, which hopefully will also introduce some new people to their project. I haven't seen anyone tweeting the codename except to complain, so I don't think this is going to confuse anybody think we're rewriting in Python. (However much they may want that.)
That said, apologies for the unintended controversy. In hindsight, we probably should have used "Reinhardt" to have the same effect of honoring one of our favorite musicians without anyone getting confused with a fellow Open Source project.
Now to work on 3.2 Sinatra! (Kidding, Ruby folks.)
jacobian on Feb 23, 2011
Hi Matt --
I know this really isn't a big deal, and I really don't want to be a dick about it, but in this age of Google I would really appreciate it if you'd change the name. I think if we codenamed Django 1.3 "Wordpress" you'd feel similarly, right? I really don't want this to turn into A Thing, so how about you just see this as a small favor for a fellow open source hacker and I owe you beer/whiskey/whatever?
Please feel free to get in touch personally if you want to talk further - I'm jacob@jacobian.org.
(I'm Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead Django devs.)
pclark on Feb 23, 2011
Am I the only one that finds it ludicrous that people are complaining about this? what exactly are the consequences of this that'll cripple everything?
rbanffy on Feb 23, 2011
> what exactly are the consequences of this that'll cripple everything
More noise in web searches?
jasonlotito on Feb 23, 2011
You think this is bad, you should have been here for the Firebird fiasco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Early_Versions
trickjarrett on Feb 23, 2011
You mean Phoenix? I mean Firebird? No I mean Firefox!
Oh, I remember why Phoenix got bumped as well. I started using it on the first release 0.1!
But don't forget, after Firebird, it was going to be called "Mozilla Firebird".
Oh, fun times!
epochwolf on Feb 23, 2011
Django is trademarked.
rprasad on Feb 24, 2011
But "Reinhardt" is not, and that is what matters.
morganpyne on Feb 23, 2011
As somebody who is a huge fan of the Quintette du Hot Club de France and a major Django Reinhardt fanatic, I was wondering if you'd both mind renaming your projects to something else and stop polluting my Gypsy Jazz searches. Just kidding. But seriously though.... (tongue firmly planted in cheek :-)
mkr-hn on Feb 23, 2011
-python
gok on Feb 23, 2011
> if we codenamed Django 1.3 "Wordpress"
Can I just say that I, for one, would find that awesome? :)
levigross on Feb 23, 2011
it would be the first secure version of wordpress released
ck2 on Feb 24, 2011
I cannot believe I am defending WordPress but wow people, it's just a release codename to make it more human and less of "just a number".
How many people know/remember the Windows release codenames or any other product for that matter?
It's not like its "WordPress Reinhardt" or even a product name.
Reinhardt is also a common name.
It's silly stuff like this that keeps me away from Django. The members of its community are too easily offended.
Wordpress names its releases after the last names of famous Jazz musicians. They apparently have done this for the past 7 releases. Nobody knew, nobody cared. We all just called it "Wordpress".
The only people who will call this release "Reinhardt" are the uber-techies who actually care about version names. Everyone else will just call it WordPress like they always have.
You guys are named "Django". Nobody is going to confuse you with WordPress. The uber-techies know better, and nobody else cares.
And just updated the post to change the codename to "Reinhardt," just as a sign of good faith and before anyone else gets the wrong idea.
JonnieCache on Feb 23, 2011
Dispute resolved - in under an hour, to the satisfaction of both parties. And not once were the lawyers called.
This is one of the major secondary benefits of OSS in action.
yuhong on Feb 23, 2011
Well, I think this is one of the strengths of modern companies with modern PR.
jseifer on Feb 23, 2011
Your username made the comments on this so much better.
aw3c2 on Feb 23, 2011
Please do not start with this. Look at what has become with Reddit's "novelty accounts" making thematic comments that do rarely add to the topic but rather distract from them.
Awesome - I appreciate it a lot. Thanks!
dgallagher on Feb 23, 2011
Great to hear. :)
"Django" is actually trademarked by The World Company Incorporation: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:a1...
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: DOWNLOADABLE OPEN SOURCE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH INTERNET PUBLISHING AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT. FIRST USE: 20050719. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20050719
ubernostrum on Feb 23, 2011
Yes, but the trademark now belongs to the Django Software Foundation -- when the DSF was established, the company transferred all the IP to the Foundation.
mckoss on Feb 23, 2011
Changing the name to Reinhardt is not just a good idea ... it's the law! ;-)
kbutler on Feb 23, 2011
And after a cease and desist letter, WordPress changes their release name to "BHP" for "Butt-Head Programmers". The Django Project sues WordPress for libel, but the court grants a motion to dismiss, stating that "One does not seriously attack the expertise of a programmer using the undefined phrase 'butt-head'".
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
scelerat on Feb 23, 2011
Hehe good association. A hilarious code name fiasco from Apple's PowerPC rollout. Parent is making a good-natured funny, folks.
SoftwareMaven on Feb 23, 2011
It is actually a remarkably relevant comment of how this could have gone down, plus I learned something new about BHA that I didn't know. I, for one, upvoted.
sambeau on Feb 23, 2011
Hurrah. Let sanity prevail. This is good for everyone.
collypops on Feb 23, 2011
You're a gentleman, sir.
jcsalterego on Feb 23, 2011
Hooray for World Peace!
honza on Feb 23, 2011
Good. I thought we were merging.
reinhardt on Feb 23, 2011
I know this really isn't a big deal, and I really don't want to be a dick about it, but I've been known as Reinhardt in HN for 169 days now and I would really appreciate it if you'd change the name. I think if I changed my nick to "photomattt" you'd feel similarly, right? I really don't want this to turn into A Thing, so how about you just see this as a small favor for a fellow HNer and I owe you beer/whiskey/whatever?
Please feel free to get in touch personally if you want to talk further - I'm reinhardt@reinhardtian.org.
(I'm Reinhardt, one of the lead HN lurkers.)
I've already hinted at this kind of thing over in the related thread on Convore [https://convore.com/django-community/wordpress-release-31-co...]. I don't think you intended any controversy, but I think it would be in bad taste to keep the name, given how it could lead to confusion both in Google search results, but more importantly how it will affect communication between clients/developers.
polynomial on Feb 23, 2011
We'll see you back here in a few months to determine whether 3.2 should be called "Ole Blue Eyes" or just... "Frank".
stcredzero on Feb 23, 2011
What, no "Legend of the Galactic Heroes?"
frankwiles on Feb 23, 2011
They might want to check the footer of djangoproject.com ahem. "Django is a registered trademark of the Django Software Foundation.", pretty sure this infringes.
ohashi on Feb 23, 2011
Well, I guess their lawyers will have some work to do.
francoisdevlin on Feb 23, 2011
How about someone sends a polite but firm email before calling a lawyer?
runjake on Feb 23, 2011
Orrr... they could just deal with it, because it's just a version codename and it's not like people are going to start calling WordPress, "Django".
This shouldn't be a big deal, it's two OSS projects.
On the other hand, names are meant to be used, otherwise why have one at all. So there would have been people referring to the Django release of WordPress - at least for a while. That would be very confusing.
yan on Feb 23, 2011
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2061877
"The obvious answer is to rewrite WordPress with Django"
skbohra123 on Feb 23, 2011
Ease of installation is one of the biggest SOP of WordPress. I am sure anything written in Py would not have that level of ease for common developers, at least for a few years to come and it become more tough in shared hosting environment.
Ixiaus on Feb 23, 2011
Au contraire - it is the implementation details (create database tables for you? handle install exceptions gracefully? blablablabla) and not the platform (in the case of PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl from personal experience) that makes installation "easy". There are a large set of shared hosts that boast Python and Ruby support - fact of the matter is, WordPress exists and it was written in PHP and nobody from the other language camps has cared to do anything like it in x language.
No need to go sowing seed like this!
alloallo on Feb 23, 2011
The platform does make a difference in this case. With the way PHP is set up on most servers, you can have static files and dynamic files (PHP files) in the same folder (although you'd probably separate them into subfolders). This makes everything easier installation-wise.
I'm a big fan of Django, but you'd have to admit that Django's "one virtual host for Python, another for static files" would over-complicate installation. Even on a made-for-Django host like WebFaction it would still be easier to install PHP-WordPress than Django-WordPress.
I still disagree. I don't use Django so I actually don't know what you have to go through in order to install it but a python app can be packaged and installed on a shared host with mod_wsgi installed. All you need is an index.wsgi to act as your front controller.
Setting that up? You just have to install a python egg in the app directory and you should be good to go.
Like I said, it's implementation details - a python application could be made easy-to-install. It's just that no one has built a special purpose application with a single minded install path (Django can be self-hosted, mod_python, or mod_wsgi but it is a framework and not an application in the sense that WordPress is an application and CakePHP is a framework) that is relevant to WordPress, closest probably being Plone.
Since the framework and the server(s) can be set up in a multitude of ways (including two-server setups with Apache serving Django and nginx serving static files), I'm finding it really hard to believe that you'd be able to distribute a one-size-fits-all Django-WordPress egg.
Sure you could have RPMs or Debian packages tailormade for a specific distribution, but WordPress has the advantage that it's a downloadable package that can easily be (S)FTP'd into a folder on a shared host and run, and it'll work with most hosts. You just can't do that with Django-WordPress.
Again, I use Django/Python more than PHP these days, so it's not a PHP versus Python thing.
True, there are many possible configurations, but a few (I don't have widespread experience with Python based hosts because most of my Python work has been on my own servers) hosts I've used have mod_wsgi installed with a WSGIDaemon process pointing at the application directory with index.wsgi being one of the index handlers. What you are supposed to provide is an application with a route through an index.wsgi file. In Pylon's case (this is how I have my server setup) index.wsgi is simply loading the Pylons app and providing it as a wrapped "application" class as a callable. Very standard and very easy.
As an example, here is the index.wsgi front-controller that loads my Pylons app (note, mine is more complicated than I'm showing here because I use virtualenv to contain the app):
from paste.deploy import loadapp
application = loadapp('config:/home/my_app/production/production.ini')
The host makes sure that the Apache vhost has mod_wsgi configured to run a WSGIDaemon process for the /home/my_app/production directory - typically (in the case of WebFaction) they give you an interface that handles all of that (so you can run multiple apps out of the same top level directory) in the course of creating your "sites", the same exact process you would go through for creating "sites" for a PHP based application.
Also, you don't need to tailor RPM's to the distribution, you can package your app as a python egg (which is cross-platform and contains the dependency links in your setup.py). I almost think this is easier than (S)FTP'ing the app up to your host. If your host gives you SSH access (which all $5 a month hosts do as far as I know - the crappier ones put you through a verification process, but a good one will give it to you the minute you are signed up) you can easily rsync the app up and then run "python setup.py whatevercommandyourappuses" and bam - you're good to go.
You could even put the database creation steps into the setup.py routine - "python setup.py build", "python setup.py install" <---- build necessary directories, then build your database tables for you. Much safer (and easier) than supplying an install script that can be accessed publicly.
I will concede though, that the whole scenario I've just described wouldn't be easy and fast for the average joe due to their inexperience with Python and/or the command line... That kind of thing makes me wonder though why we don't have basic programming courses as a requirement in high-school. If only my father (a lawyer) knew what sed/grep/awk could do for his manipulation of documents... I'm digressing now and I'll stop.
I know it isn't a PHP vs. Python thing - it just frustrates me when people make the argument for an inferior tool in favor of ease of use when ultimately (as per the scenario I gave above) the more powerful tool can save you time... I came from PHP land and will not go back - thanks in part to Python and the other methodologies I've learned.
jdunck on Feb 23, 2011
Your level of knowledge in administration is not common. PHP wins on deployment because every $5 host your average beginner programmer uses already has PHP on it, and deploy is just ftp/sftp. By comparison, a beginner in python will probably also need to learn some *nix and/or get a root account.
When wide acceptance is the goal, even small frictions can be material.
jrockway on Feb 23, 2011
Uh, nope. You definitely don't need root to use Django.
I know. I think you're missing the point. The fact that one may make an informed decision does not change the fact that many make uninformed decisions and judge the situation based on their perception rather than independent reality.
This matters, facts or no.
In a previous comment I conceded the fact that some trappings of an excellent Python deployment solution would require more knowledge than is common to the average "I want a site that I can post content to" user.
However. I still think a well engineered application that could cater to many of the $5 hosts' python setups could be just as easy to setup as a PHP app.
The code name is only ever used in these posts as far as I know, it's the version number which is most used for referencing the install type. It's not that big of a deal.
mmaunder on Feb 23, 2011
In July this year the Django (as in framework) mark, assuming it's the one below, becomes incontestable, which strengthens it's case a lot if they sue Wordpress.
It's also generally a strong mark as it is what TM attorneys call "arbitrary" - like Apple computer.
If Django doesn't sue, they weaken their trademark. You have to enforce your rights to your trademark if someone infringes or a later infringer can use your lack of enforcement as an argument against you.
The reality is that Django probably won't sue and it doesn't matter because few people Google for Wordpress releases by release name.
From the USPTO:
Word Mark DJANGO Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: DOWNLOADABLE OPEN SOURCE COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH INTERNET PUBLISHING AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT. FIRST USE: 20050719. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20050719 Standard Characters Claimed Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK Serial Number 78680396 Filing Date July 28, 2005 Current Filing Basis 1A Original Filing Basis 1A Published for Opposition April 25, 2006 Registration Number 3117015 Registration Date July 18, 2006 Owner (REGISTRANT) THE WORLD COMPANY CORPORATION KANSAS 609 NEW HAMPSHIRE, P.O. BOX 888 LAWRENCE KANSAS 66044 Attorney of Record Michael B.Hurd, Warren N. Williams, Stephen D. Timmons, John M. Collins, Thomas H. Van Hoozer, Thomas B. Luebbering, Andrew G. Colombo, Scott R. Brown, Tracy L. Bornman, Tracey S. Truitt, Michael Elbein, Joan Optican Herman, David V. Ayres, Kameron D. Kelly, Gregory J. Skoch, Jennifer C. Bailey, Cheryl L. Burbach, Matthew P. Harlow, and Sam M. Korte Type of Mark TRADEMARK Register PRINCIPAL Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
"If Django doesn't sue, they weaken their trademark."
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm nearly certain that this isn't true. Trademark holders are required to defend their trademarks, but "defense" does not mean "lawsuit." The law requires us to do whatever's necessary, which can run the gamut from polite notes to suits. Happily, as I knew it would, the former was perfectly sufficient in this case. Score one for open source.
yafujifide on Feb 23, 2011
Android names their 3.1 release: Windows.
nailer on Feb 23, 2011
Do you mean Windows names their 8 release 'Android?'
leftnode on Feb 23, 2011
Is Windows a form of dessert now?
krschultz on Feb 23, 2011
Then the bloatware is the icing on the cake.
mdwrigh2 on Feb 23, 2011
Android 3.2 - Apple
Okay, so maybe apples aren't your stereotypical dessert...
pluies_public on Feb 23, 2011
"Apple pie" instead?
_delirium on Feb 23, 2011
Guido van Rossum names his new programming language after CMU's Lisp compiler...
sebastianavina on Feb 23, 2011
damn, they really want to contaminate google search results...
ecaroth on Feb 23, 2011
They weren't unaware of the Django project, as their link for 'on using PHP' actually points to django's homepage. Friggin weird.
imgabe on Feb 23, 2011
Isn't this just asking for a trademark lawsuit from the Django software foundation?
code_duck on Feb 23, 2011
What's with the edited title on HN? Now most of this doesn't make any sense.
Okay, so everyone thinks that WordPress shouldn't use the name of a well-known jazz musician, but they're perfectly fine with the fact that the Django Software Foundation has trademarked Django, a common Romani word/name?
WordPress certainly doesn't own the name Django, but the Django Software Foundation shouldn't have any particular right to it either if things were fair.
(Oh, btw., I'm a happy Django user - but I'd still be pretty upset if someone decided to trademark my name).
OstiaAntica on Feb 23, 2011
The Django trademark is for a specific context-- downloadable CMS software. You are free to use Django in other contexts, such as naming a car, a band, or whatever.
Except Django isn't a CMS, it's a framework (a CMS is a piece of software that allows non-technically-minded people to manage the content of a website. A framework, on the other hand, is made for developers).
But my main point is that, while I understand that the Django Software Foundation has a trademark on the name Django in a specific content, it ought not to be possible to trademark a common name at all.
Are you suggesting that the only trade marks be totally made up words? That flies in the face of hundreds of years of tradition. People have been using their own names in their business and need to be able to keep others from unfairly trying to confuse customers.
If Roberts and Sons Cleaners is an established brand in a community, we would want a legal mechanism for that business to protect their brand - without having to change every business name to XYZZY, etc.
I wouldn't have a problem with a name like "Roberts and Sons Cleaners" because, after all, it's a fairly unique combination of words. I would, however, have a big problem with someone trademarking the name "Robert". And that is the issue here: Django is a first name.
I agree it would be nice to be more cut and dried. In practice, I think it would come down to a court deciding if their was the possibility of misleading the consumer, by mimicking a well-known brand in a particular market.
So I think businesses can get trademarks for English words and common names - with the understanding that they might be geographically or market-segment limited in their protection.
cabalamat on Feb 23, 2011
> they're perfectly fine with the fact that the Django Software Foundation has trademarked Django, a common Romani word/name?
Yes, because it's not confusing.
> I'd still be pretty upset if someone decided to trademark my name
It's very common for things to either be named after specific people, or to use names given to humans.
eddanger on Feb 23, 2011
The guys behind the Reinhardt framework are going to be mad! http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/10/09/reinhardt-a-client-si...
Absurd.
I'm currently working on a blogging/messaging website. Maybe I should call it Wordpress? :-)
podperson on Feb 23, 2011
Only if its auto-update mechanism mysteriously crashes.
beaumartinez on Feb 23, 2011
Off-topic: Poor title rename; it should include that it was renamed "Reinhardt" from "Django" so as for the discussion to make sense.
joelhaasnoot on Feb 23, 2011
Didn't even know they had codenames for wordpress, but this one sounds surprisingly similar to something python-y people claim to be great (can't judge it myself)
yahelc on Feb 23, 2011
To be fair, they follow a tradition of naming their releases after Jazz musicians, and have been since before Django was released.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress#Releases
But still. WTF.
rararational on Feb 23, 2011
They should have been kind enough to use his last name if they were going to name the release after him.
But I've never heard of release names for wordpress before so I don't expect this to mess google search results up when searching for django (python) related things.
mayank on Feb 23, 2011
Or even his real first name: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt
fluorescentLAMP on Feb 23, 2011
I would have loved to sit in on this meeting ...
citricsquid on Feb 23, 2011
"We've got these lawyers on retainer doing nothing! Let's get sued to give them something to do!"
EGreg on Feb 23, 2011
I believe it now says "Reinhardt" on their page, and not "Django". So you can rest easy. Sure, there might be a guy named Django Reinhardt, but surely of someone called their project "George" and another person called their project "Washington", it would be ok right?
silent1mezzo on Feb 23, 2011
Will Wordpress 3.2 be named Rails?
mwg66 on Feb 23, 2011
Rather poor judgement.
rdtsc on Feb 23, 2011
If they were in a completely different area, for example if they were selling baskets, Django would have been perfectly acceptable.
But calling a blogging platform Django is just stupid. It might also be unethical as some pointed out Django is a registered trademark.
I can see this happening:
- "So how do I get started with WordPress?"
- "You have to download the latest Django release"
- "Oh, ok"
(downloads latest from djangoproject.com ...)
kingsidharth on Feb 23, 2011
The only difference is ghat they usually say "you have to download the latest version of WordPress from their website."
But what is the latest version called?
Django, of course! o_O
drdaeman on Feb 23, 2011
> (downloads latest from djangoproject.com ...)
Well, actually, that's for better.
nir on Feb 23, 2011
So what? What makes this a #1 story in HN?
tomlin on Feb 23, 2011
This has influenced me to name my releases after Ninja Turtle characters. Hoping for a ROCKSTEADY RC opportunity.
forgotAgain on Feb 23, 2011
Is it April 1st already?
kongqiu on Feb 23, 2011
Wow. I'm going to start using this approach with my own app...
ParkGrades 1.0 codename "Hotpot"
ParkGrades 1.3 codename "Yelp"
ParkGrades 1.5 codename "Reddit"
ParkGrades 2.0 codename "Apple"
jarin on Feb 23, 2011
Next release of Set For Marriage, codenamed: PlentyOfeMatchCupidHarmonyOK
masklinn on Feb 23, 2011
OK this page makes no sense whatsoever, how much edition has been going on in this thing?
Let me see if I understand what happens from the apparently still available press releases and puff pieces on the web: WordPress 3.1 was actually released using the codename "django"?
iamdave on Feb 23, 2011
At first I was like "Heh.."
But then I looked at my calendar and realized it wasn't April.
rhizome on Feb 23, 2011
Is this evidence that WP is feeling the heat from frameworks?
I can imagine that after years of using WP there would be a significant portion who are looking for something more full-featured or performant or whatever, there are myriad reasons for changing platforms. That reasonably intelligent (or moneyed) people can so easily learn or hire to write a completely custom site seems uncontroversial. The enterprising RoR or Dj coder would do well to sniff around WP site owners.
In other news, WP has a new version coming out, which I imagine was the real point of WP starting this controversy. Cheap publicity, blog mentions, yadda yadda. Learn from history: upgrade early and often!
markstahler on Feb 24, 2011
What would be nice is a _fully_ featured blogging engine written in Django.
ceejayoz on Feb 24, 2011
> Is this evidence that WP is feeling the heat from frameworks?
You may be wrong.
I might be wrong that WordPress continuing their long standing naming convention for releases isn't a sign that they're seeing competition from frameworks?
They may be seeing competition, but naming it Django - and quickly renaming once they realized - is hardly a sign of that.
True story: today I got Chinese takeout for lunch from a restaurant I've been going to for over 15 years. Every single lunch special they offer and have ever offered comes with rice. When I got home, I found that there was no rice in my lunch special. No rice...from a Chinese restaurant.
I'm pretty amazed at how well this provides an allegory for WP people somehow not knowing about Django, and for what it's worth there are 188,000 Google results for "Wordpress vs. Django." I'm not trying to lie with statistics, I'm just trying to provide an illustration that they aren't worlds apart.
But it's not a huge deal, it's been fixed, no harm no foul, and only a controversy among tetchy nerds. I'm fine with that, but I can still say something's weird about it. ;)
juddlyon on Feb 24, 2011
Does anyone else find is amusing that a framework named after a human being is complaining about someone else sorta-not-really using their name?
Lame. Who cares.
pfarrell on Feb 23, 2011
WordPress 3.2 release: "Microsoft" just announced
hackermom on Feb 23, 2011
I smell trademark infringement. I really do wonder if this wasn't a "prodding" on purpose after all.
Considering how agressive Automattic was in competing with SixApart a few years back, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Scholar Gene Sharp reviewed thousands of instances of nonviolent struggle and catalogued 198 different methods that were used in those encounters. At one point he called these methods "weapons," to emphasize that they are used in conflict situations. He listed them and gave historical examples of each in his 1973 book The Politics of Nonviolent Action. He grouped them into three broad categories: protest, noncooperation, and intervention, and then he further broke those into smaller classifications.
The methods of intervention may often be more directly confrontive, while the methods of noncooperation may in some situations be less so. These two groups of methods can be coercive, that is, make it impossible for an opponent to rule or carry out their policies. The other category, which Sharp calls "protest and persuasion," has methods that tend to be less confrontive, but in some situations (for example some police states) the opponent may consider them highly threatening and react accordingly.
We use Gene Sharp's classification of 198 methods in this database. He acknowledges that some methods can arguably be placed in a different category, depending on circumstance, and his classification should not be regarded as rigid. Some of the names of the methods may not be self-explanatory, so I have taken the liberty of interpreting some of them, often using Sharp's own words in the process. (Press the button "More" for further interpretation.) The material is drawn from his 1973 book, The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Part One, Power and Struggle (Boston: Porter Sargeant Publishers). Any errors I make of interpretation are my responsibility alone.
Additional methods: In researching for this database we have identified methods beyond Sharp's 198. They may of course be controversial. The user encountering them in reading the cases will probably want to return to this page and press the "More" button for those methods in order to discover our rationale for adding these methods to the 198. - George Lakey, 20/8/11
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THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION
Formal Statements
002. Letters of opposition or support
Primarily private letters signed by individuals or groups; sometimes they may be revealed publicly, but even so they take the form of a private letter and are directed to an opponent or someone who is taking a stand that one agrees with.
These are directed primarily to the general public.
005. Declarations of indictment and intention
These go beyond stating a point of view (#003) to imply action, as in the Declaration of Independence (U.S. 1776).
Communications with a wider audience
008. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
This has also been expanded to include webpages and openly visible internet media when used as a form of protest.
This can also include webpages and internet media
The use of the internet, as a form of mass communication, is sometimes included under this method.
012. Skywriting and earthwriting
Group representations
013. Deputations
This action consists of a representative delegation meeting with the party responsible for a grievance, in order to present grievances or to propose a new policy. Also see the similar method, 015.
014. Mock awards
015. Group lobbying
When lobbying of a parliamentary representative is done by a collective group of that representative's constituents, the act becomes a form of nonviolent action. Group lobbying differs from deputations in that it is generally directed towards elected governmental officials. Also see the similar method, 015.
017. Mock elections
Symbolic public acts
018. Displays of flags and symbolic colors
019. Wearing of symbols
020. Prayer and worship
021. Delivering symbolic objects
022. Protest disrobings
023. Destruction of own property
An example of voluntary destruction of one's own property is the public burning of British tea collected from homes of American patriots in Charleston, S.C., in 1775. Sharp includes in this category material that is technically "owned" by the government but which are carried by persons, such as the draft cards (certificates of military conscription) carried by young men in the U.S. and which were publicly burned in protest during the Vietnam war.
024. Symbolic lights
025. Displays of portraits
026. Paint as protest
This includes painting over signs (including numbers) on navy ships, and public resistance art.
027. New signs and names
028. Symbolic sounds
029. Symbolic reclamations
These demonstrate a creative alternative to the disputed existing use or ownership, for example cultivating neglected or seized land by planting seeds or trees.
030. Rude gestures
Pressures on individuals
031. "Haunting" officials
Activists follow officials and remind them of their presence even in unexpected places like parties or golf courses.
033. Fraternization
Socializing with, for example, police or soldiers, with the intention of gaining them as allies or at least reducing their capacity to injure the campaign. This is the opposite of the social boycott.
034. Vigils
Drama and Music
036. Performances of plays and music
037. Singing
038. Marches
A march is a group of people intending to reach a particular point for a reason: it is the seat of government, or the place where an atrocity has been committed, or the burial place where a martyr is to be laid to rest, or a place where civil disobedience or some other action will then take place.
039. Parades
In a parade the point of destination is not politically significant; it is only a convenient place of termination.
040. Religious processions
A march or a parade with a religious character.
041. Pilgrimages
A walk (by individual or group) that has deep moral and religious qualities; it may last for days or months, often dispensing with banners in order to emphasize the spiritual dimension while at the same time intending to have an impact on the outward situation. Other forms of transportation can also be used in addition to walking.
042. Motorcades
The same as a march or parade except that participants drive cars at slow speed.
043. Political mourning
Honoring a person or group that was injured or died, or a valued policy or practice that has been violated or destroyed. Often using traditional symbols of mourning, this act is done in a spirit of sadness and at the same time is intended to have political impact. It is not an actual funeral: see 045. It does not take place at a burial site: see 046.
044. Mock funerals
Similar to 043 except that the action takes the form of a funeral, or a funeral procession. It is not an actual funeral: see 045.
045. Demonstrative funerals
Participants in a funeral turn that actual ceremony into a protest.
046. Homage at burial places
The demonstration takes place at the burial site of someone connected symbolically or in reality with the struggle.
Public assemblies
These occur at places important to the content of the demonstration; at the courthouse if protesting a judge’s decision, for example, or the Gestapo headquarters to demand return of the Jewish husbands arrested. See 048.
048. Protest meetings
These happen wherever convenient. See 047.
049. Camouflaged meetings of protest
050. Teach-ins
Withdrawal and renunciation
051. Walk-outs
Expressing political objections by leaving some form of meeting or assembly before it has been adjourned. Also see 098 for an economic variation on this form of withdrawal and renunciation.
053. Renouncing honours
054. Turning one's back
THE METHODS OF NONCOOPERATION
SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
Ostracism of persons
055. Social boycott
056. Selective social boycott
A social boycott restricted to a particular type of relationship; for example, if the labor leader is willing to negotiate with a corporate executive but refuses to shake hands and engage in polite conversation in the presence of the mass media.
057. Lysistratic nonaction
Refusal of sex (a form of selective social boycott) until policy demands are met.
058. Excommunication
059. Interdict
The leadership of a church or faith group suspends religious services and activities in a given district or country for a specific period.
Noncooperation with social events, customs and institutions
060. Suspension of social and sports activities
061. Boycott of social affairs
062. Student strike
063. Social disobedience
Refusing to follow social norms or rules, for example two males being a couple at a school dance, or defying clothing norms.
064. Withdrawal from social institutions
Withdrawal from the social system
065. Stay-at-home
066. Total personal noncooperation
Refusal of a prisoner to do almost anything except breathe because he believes his arrest is unjust.
067. "Flight" of workers
068. Sanctuary
Withdrawal to a location, such as a holy place, where one cannot be touched by an opponent without the violation of religious, moral, social, or legal prohibitions.
069. Collective disappearance
Often temporary abandonment by a population of the usual place of living in order to frustrate opponents. See 070.
070. Protest emigration (hijrat)
Also called voluntary exile, it is migrating to another political jurisdiction as a protest. In this database see 1989 case of East Germans doing protest emigration.
ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: BOYCOTTS
Action by consumers
071. Consumers' boycott
072. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
073. Policy of austerity
074. Rent withholding
075. Refusal to rent
076. National consumers' boycott
This is used in an international struggle, when one country (or colony or occupied country) refuses to buy products or use services from another country.
077. International consumers' boycott
Action by workers and producers
078. Workers' boycott
Workers refusing to work with supplies or tools that are objectionable for some reason, such as having been made by non-union labor.
079. Producers' boycott
Refusal to sell or deliver their products, or even refusal to produce a product. Sharp cites the Norwegian farmers who refused to deliver to the king the food needed by the soldiers; as a result three wars were brought to a halt. (p. 231) See 081.
Action by middlemen
080. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott
Action by owners and management
081. Traders' boycott
In this method retailers (rather than the producers) refuse to buy or sell certain goods.
082. Refusal to let or sell property
083. Lockout
The employer creates a work stoppage by temporarily closing down the operation of the firm.
084. Refusal of industrial assistance
This includes refusing to give technical assistance and advice.
085. Merchants' "general strike"
The effort to paralyze an economy by merchants closing their stores and businesses. When combined with a general strike, this creates an economic shutdown. See 117 and 119
Action by holders of financial resources
086. Withdrawal of bank deposits
087. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
088. Refusal to pay debts or interest
Cutting off an opponent’s sources of money.
090. Revenue refusal
Often taking the form of refusal to pay taxes or refusal to buy licenses, this refers to an individual or group's refusal to voluntarily provide revenue to the government. See 087
091. Refusal of a government's money
Action by governments
092. Domestic embargo
A government initiates an economic boycott within its country, against selected opponents.
093. Blacklisting of traders
094. International sellers' embargo
A government (or more than one) refuses to allow selling a product (or products) to another country as a means of pressure. Often called a “boycott” in the mass media. See 095, 096.
095. International buyers' embargo
When a government or governments prohibit the buying of a product (or products) from another country. See 094, 096.
096. International trade embargo
The combination of sellers’ and buyers’ embargoes – a total (or near total) prohibition of trade.
ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: STRIKES
Symbolic strikes
097. Protest strike
Also called token strike and demonstration strike, lasts for a preannounced amount of time, often one hour or a day. No specific demands are made, but this action is merely an expression of a viewpoint or feelings on an issue. A protest strike is sometimes used as a warning before other forms of the strike are used.
098. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
Agricultural strikes
099. Peasant strike
100. Farm workers' strike
These are workers hired for wages, in contrast to the peasant strike, 099.
Strikes by special groups
101. Refusal of impressed labor
102. Prisoners' strike
104. Professional strike
Strikes by teachers, doctors, and civil servants would fall under this category.
Ordinary industrial strikes
105. Establishment strike
All the workers employed by a company no matter where their work site is, or what the nature of their job is.
106. Industry strike
All the workers in a locality who work for the same industry, no matter what company they work for. For example, all the workers in a region’s coal mines, even though the mines are owned by five different companies.
107. Sympathy strike
Restricted strikes
108. Detailed strike
The workforce is organized into sections, striking in sequence. For example, in a clothing strike the pants-makers struck one day, the vest-makers the next, and finally the coat-makers. (Sharp, 269.) See 109.
109. Bumper strike
Similar to 108, in which a union strikes only one firm in an industry at a time. See 108.
111. Working-to-rule strike
Observing all the rules and regulations so carefully that output is sharply reduced.
112. Reporting "sick." (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
Workers continue to do most of their duties efficiently, but refuse to perform certain marginal work, or refuse overtime, or refuse to work on certain days.
115. Selective strike
Workers refuse only to do certain types of work, objecting to the tasks themselves. In 1971 U.S. longshoremen in Philadelphia refused to load weapons on Pakistani ships because they were bound for use against the Bengalis.
Multi-industry strikes
Several industries are struck simultaneously in an area, but the strikers are less than a majority of the workers in the important industries in that area. See General strike, 117.
Widespread stoppage of labor attempting to bring the economic life of the area to a standstill. Can be used on local, regional, national, or international level. May intentionally leave certain vital services operating (food and water, hospital, e.g.). See Generalized strike, 116, and Economic shutdown, 119.
Combination of strikes and economic closures
118. Hartal
Indian method of protest in which economic life of an area is suspended on voluntary basis to show extreme dissatisfaction with a policy, etc. Usually 1-2 days long, not expected to have economic impact.
Economic paralysis, when workers strike while employers and small shopkeepers halt economic activities. Can be powerful when an area is under occupation. This is a combination of the General strike, 117, and the Merchant's "general strike", 085.
POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION
Rejection of authority
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
A refusal to recognize a regime as legally or morally deserving allegiance. Margaret DeMarco cites the refusal of Canadian Iroquois in 1921 to become Canadian citizens (Sharp, 288). The key word here is “refusal of allegiance;” see 121.
At times a regime needs or requests open public support but fails to get it, for example in people refusing to turn out to listen to the governmental leader give a speech. The key word here is “refusal of support;” see 120.
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance
Citizens’ noncooperation with government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from governmental educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported institutions
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
Citizens’ alternatives to obedience
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
This is disregarding or violating laws or regulations but not doing it openly. It differs from civil disobedience in that it is not confrontational. See 141.
136. Disguised disobedience
This is defiance made to look like compliance. When German Nazis demanded lists of concert pieces to be performed, in order to crack down on the jazz they wished to suppress, they were given lists of jazz tunes with new names: “Tiger Rag” became “Black Panther,” and “Black Bottom” became “Black Earth.” (Sharp, 307). If this is done by government employees, it may be 143 or 144.
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws
Deliberate, open, and peaceful violation of laws, decrees and regulations. See 135.
Action by government personnel
142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
By contrast with 143 and 144, this kind of refusal is clear and open, at least to the supervisors of the employees who do this.
This is when the majority of government administrative workers refuse to cooperate with orders from the top. The main point in this method is that it is large-scale. See 142.
146. Judicial noncooperation
Domestic governmental action
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
Units of government may legally be prevented from defying laws or court decisions that they disagree with, so instead they find more subtle ways to noncooperate. On a structural level, this is like 144, Stalling and obstruction, but it is done by units (like departments) rather than individuals. See 150.
Under some conditions local governmental bodies may openly defy central authority.
International governmental action
151. Changes in diplomatic and other representation
152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
154. Severance of diplomatic relations
155. Withdrawal from international organizations
156. Refusal of membership in international bodies
157. Expulsion from international organisations
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
Psychological intervention
158. Self-exposure to the elements
159. The fast (fast of moral pressure, hunger strike, satyagrahic fast)
160. Reverse trial
Courtroom trials in which the accused turns the table and through words and body language assumes the role of prosecutor, putting on trial the law or policy at issue.
161. Nonviolent harassment
Heightening private and public pressures on those who the campaigners believe are doing wrong, through, for example, “haunting” (31) or “taunting” (32) to an extreme extent. Sharp describes the art as developed by slavery abolitionists in the U.S. North to stop slave-hunters from catching runaway slaves (pp. 369-70).
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
Best known in the version called “freedom rides” to stop bus companies in the U.S. from discriminating against African Americans.
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
Campaigners gather in a significant place but instead of sitting in or conducting a sit-down, they remain mobile. May be less confrontational than, for example, an occupation. May impede the normal operations in a site but the method does not intend to obstruct the activities. See 172.
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
Volunteers march to designated key points and demand possession. The method does not require that they succeed in entering the site, but they nevertheless try. See 170.
170. Nonviolent invasion
The campaigners deliberately and openly enter a forbidden area. See 171.
171. Nonviolent interjection
Placing one’s body between a person and the objective of his work or activity, or between a soldier/police officer and a demonstrator, or placing oneself in the path of a vehicle. It is different from nonviolent obstruction (172) in that there is not a big enough obstacle actually to block the other. In the case, for example, of putting oneself in the path of a train or truck, the aim is to change the decision of the driver who will then stop the vehicle. See 172.
172. Nonviolent obstruction
Physical blocking, which depends on the number of bodies in relation to the space and how they organize themselves. The large number and arrangement of participants is such that the opponent's intended action is not physically possible. When in 1956, 10,000 people occupied a site in Sunakawa, Japan, intended for a U.S. air base; it turned out to be nonviolent obstruction. The plan for the air base was given up. See 171 and 173.
173. Nonviolent occupation
This may be used after a nonviolent invasion (170) or a raid (168). It may also be used by people who have been ordered to leave their land or building. In Egypt in 2011 the campaigners who assembled in Tahrir Square to protest (047) were ordered to disperse; they maintained an occupation for weeks despite Mubarak’s effort violently to eject them. Some writers include in the term "occupation" what in this database is called a "stay-in strike" (#182), in which workers "occupy" their factory while still refusing to work, and also what we call a "nonviolent land seizure" (#183). This means that if you were searching for all cases in which what is loosely called "occupation" was used, you should search not only for 173 but also for 182 and 183.
Social intervention
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
Unlike the action by government employees to prevent implementation of something objectionable, 144, this action is done by customers and clients. An example is bank customers taking a half hour to do what is normally done in a few minutes, an action done in the civil rights movement. (Sharp p. 395)
177. Speak-in
The campaigners interrupt a meeting, religious service, or other gathering to raise an issue; it interrupts a social norm.
178. Guerrilla theatre
179. Alternative social institutions
This method creates new institutions that challenge the opponent’s preferred social norms – not only behaviors, like same sex couples offering public displays of affection, 174, but institutions. When Nazi Germany occupied Poland, Polish citizens set up an educational system independent of Nazi control. (Sharp 399) See 180.
180. Alternative communication system
This is a specific alternative social institution, using whatever media can be made to work outside the regime’s effort to monopolize communication, like underground radio stations.
Economic intervention
181. Reverse strike
Workers or the unemployed work when they are not expected to or even forbidden to work. In one of Sharp’s examples this method was so threatening that police shot at the unemployed Sicilian men trying to build a road. (Sharp p. 403)
182. Stay-in strike
Best known as the “sit-down” strike; when used by miners it has been called a stay-down strike. Striking workers remain in their workplace, often as a means of preventing the continued use of the facility by strikebreakers or others. This method may be included by some writers in the general term "occupation," along with nonviolent land seizure (#183) and nonviolent occupation (#173). This means that if you are searching for all cases in which what is loosely called "occupation" was used, you should search not only for 182 but also 173 and 183.
183. Nonviolent land seizure
These are nonviolent occupations in which the campaigners expect that the ownership of the land or facility will shift to them when they win the struggle. See also 173 and 182. Note that all three of these methods may be lumped together in the term "occupation" by writers and in popular discussion.
184. Defiance of blockades
185. Politically motivated counterfeiting
186. Preclusive purchasing
Buying strategic commodities in world markets to prevent an opponent from getting them.
187. Seizure of assets
188. Dumping
Selling a commodity at a lower-than-market price to pressure an opponent.
189. Selective patronage
Campaigners urge customers to buy from a retailer or producer who subscribes to the principles of the campaign (for example, an environmentally sustainable product).
190. Alternative markets
Creating alternative, illegal channels for buying and selling goods and services to build the strength of the campaigners and the society they seek to build.
191. Alternative transportation systems
192. Alternative economic institutions
“For example, when consumers’ or producers’ cooperatives are engaged in conflict with capitalist or State industries, or when the cooperatives are being deliberately developed and expanded to replace the existing economic system, or part of it, they constitute economic intervention.” (Sharp, p. 415)
Political intervention
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
When the top authority of a government or institution changes hands, and the employees want to resist, they continue to do their jobs in the old way, following the previous policies until replaced. This is similar to 145 but the stress is on collective resistance through persistently adhering to the policies of the previous administration which are declared to be still legitimate.
ADDITIONAL METHODS (named subsequent to Sharp’s list)
199. Nonviolent confinement
In this method the campaigners restrict someone's freedom of movement, in a way that does not rely on physical barriers, and without the use or threat of injurious force. This method is similar to Nonviolent obstruction (172) in that the physical mass of bodies might restrict freedom of movement, and Nonviolent interjection (171) in which the psychological impact might do the same. However, interjection and obstruction are intended to prevent the opponent from carrying out an action which is objected to. Nonviolent confinement may have additional uses: to strongly pressure the opponent to do something they would rather not do (negotiate a peace treaty) or to restrain someone who is judged to be irrational and needs a human container in order to come to their right mind.
When the Liberian women's peace movement realized that delegates in a hotel to negotiate peace were not in fact doing so, the women surrounded the building and refused to let the delegates leave until a settlement was made ("Liberian women act to end civil war, 2003"). Nepalese students reportedly used the method in this same way at the castle in Khatmandu in 2001. In the Amazonian rainforest of Ecuador the ARCO oil company wanted to drill for oil. A delegation from the government and ARCO flew their helicopter into the jungle to meet with indigenous leaders, who confiscated the helicopter keys, felled trees across the airstrip and presented the delegation with a list of demands. The delegation was, they said, free to walk back to the city (the nearest road was four days away). After twelve days the officials signed an agreement ("Ecuadorian indigenous peoples resist oil drilling in the Amazon, 1989-1994").
"Call-in" - supporters were encouraged to tie up the Stevens switchboard with phone calls during their annual shareholders meeting
"Call-In:" For an entire day, supporters of the campaign were encouraged to call administration and demand action.
"Citizen Science": When regulators informed residents that area air quality was acceptable, Tonawanda residents collected their own air samples and conducted their own quality testing
"Digital Blockade"
"Take a step. Reject Serzh"
"Week Against Coal" - nationwide event; press conferences, informational events, demonstrations
"Write-in" Australians wrote "NO DAMS" on election ballot papers
"Write-In" Australians wrote "NO DAMS" on election ballots
90 day eviction notice to military
Accompaniment, observation/monitoring and presence
Accompaniment, observation/monitoring, and presence
Activists locked themselves to a 9-foot tall paper mache pig.
activists purge camp of weapons in Sana'a
Assumption of traffic law enforcement roles
attempting to have Colosimo's and other gun shops adopt a Code of Conduct to keep track of buys and to make sure guns are not in the wrong hands
Bird dogging
Blockade of roadways in & out of Buenos Aires
Blockade of roadways to the site in question
Blockades of major roads throughout the city of Nairobi
Blocking the traffic flow on a main street
Building Houses as Obstructions
building tower to impede runway
Burning buses
Burning buses and other vehicles
Burning of an effigy
Burning of buses and other vehicles
Camp Out
Camp-in
Checking driver licences and car
Checking of driver's licences and car fitness documents
Chico Climate Action Rally with the people of Butte County
Commissioned a poll to showed public support for campaign
Commissioned independent geological survery of dumpsite
Commissioned independent geological survey of dumpsite
Commissioned independent geological survey of proposed dumsite
Community President travlled to Argentina to expose Block 23 issue.
Convincing pedestrians to use footpaths and zebra crossings
Creation of an independent committee to oversee actions of the opponents.
Demanding packages of food-aid from supermarkets, looting -
Diab and Halahleh went to Israel's Supreme Court to plead for release, though their cases had never before been brought to trial.
Digital bloackade
Display of symbolic object- duct taped cameras
Display of symbolic objects- duct-taped cameras
Estrada released a letter giving up his office and left the city with his family
Government leaders from East Pakistani oppose Urdu in Constituent Assembly
Highway blockades
Holding up symbolic object- cameras
Human chain formed on sidewalks along major streets
Human shields
International Publicity
International Solidarity ... Friday Day of Rage
Jumping out of windows
Leakage of government's mining proposals by Forest & Bird
Leaking official documents
legal action. Four community representatives file a lawsuit against former community representatives; and follow up with an appeal to a higher court.
Male protestors created a human chain to allow female protestors to pass through sometime after rumours/news of women being molested or raped by attackers
Marching Band Performance
Marking on referendum ballots an unprovided option
new decsription of the tactic with further details
new description of the tactic with further details
Non-Aboriginals started this crisis by destroying Mi'Kmaq fishing traps. The Mi'Kmaq people ignored these actions, and continued to fish with the resources they were left with.
Observation/Monitoring, Text message reporting
Online and International media
Other first nation people built a traditional longhouse near the New Brunswick legislative building.
Pacifism by ignoring violent action.
Palestinian citizens set up tents in villages to support the hunger strikes.
Panel Discussion on "Should Universities divest in the fossil fuel industry?"
Panel discussions on the ethics of investments.
Persuading pedestrians to use zebra crossings and footpaths
press conference outside Colosimo's
press conference outside Colosimo's day after he refused to accept the Code of Conduct on 2009 on January 17
Producing a film/video
Protest Art
Protesters outflanked police to allow other protesters to continue marching.
Protesters stormed the Congressional Palace and burned furniture -
Provide compassion for the workers
Publicized Block 23 issue in Argentina
Refusal to leave jail
refusal to leave jail > lawyer Al Ansi refused release until the youth and Tawakul Karmen was released
relay fasting of 100 people for 100 days three times in Gyang Mountain
Removal of ballast stones to prevent train's passage
Selective vehicle thoroughfare
Self-immolation (5 attempts, 2 deaths)
Shaving of head
Snap Presidential election
Snap presidential election was called on by Estrada to be held on 14 May 2001
Stealing of school bell
Student leaders present a proposal to the University Foundation Board of Directors on divestment
Students presented a proposal for divestment for feedback to Chico State University Board of Directors
Students sent around SMS messages urging citizens to protest.
supreme court made unanimous decision to declare the position of president vacant
Symbolic blockade
Symbolic burning of resources
Symbolic encirclement- protesters form two 28 Kilometer human chains encircling Kathmandu
The Student Re-Visioning Committee sent letter delegations to President Wagner and Dean Forman.
Threat of self-immolation
Throwing bricks and sticks
to make election federations for changing the local politica power
Travelled to Argentina to Publicize Block 23 issue
Union Strike
Use of social media to amass support.
Use of Social Media to create awarness
Using kindness when others were using violence and torture
Vandalizing vehicles
vice president takes her oath of office to become the President of the Philippines
Video letter from opposition and community partners
Viral social media posts
when asked to not disrupt the ceremony with this campaign, students disobeyed and a majority participated
Protestors held an on-line march, where each participant advanced the march 10 meters, with the final symbolic goal being 717 kilometers.
self-immolation
Sewing mouths shut to prevent consumption during the Hunger Strike
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Oral Roberts vs Indiana State (Feb 20, 2016)
2016 Oral Roberts Baseball
Oral Roberts vs Indiana State
Feb 20, 2016 at Little Rock, Ark. (Gary Hogan Field)
Oral Roberts 2 (0-1)
Nick Rotola cf 4 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0
Nick Roark 2b 5 1 1 1 0 2 3 3 0
Matt Whatley c 6 1 3 1 0 2 5 0 2
Brent Williams 1b 6 0 2 0 0 2 9 1 4
Michael Hungate lf 4 0 1 0 1 0 5 1 1
Rolando Martinez dh 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Trent Shelton pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chase Stafford 3b 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1
Trevin Sonnier ss 4 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 2
Noah Cummings rf 5 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 1
Nick Wood p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taylor Varnell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Logan Michaels p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Billy Lovvorn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nathan Garza p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brady Womacks p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 2 8 2 5 7 35 14 11
Indiana State 3 (3-0)
Friis, T. ss 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
Gardner, C. lf 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1
Moore, Kyle lf 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dungan, C. ph/lf 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
Owen, H. rf 5 0 1 1 1 1 3 0 3
Giesler, D. dh 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Young, A. 3b 3 1 0 0 3 1 1 3 0
Zahn, J. 1b 4 0 1 1 0 0 9 0 0
Tofteland, D pr/1b 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
Moore, Kaden c 6 0 3 1 0 0 7 1 5
DeJesus, A. 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 1
Rosselli, T. cf 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Gutierrez, A ph/cf 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Hill, J. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ward, T. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Peterson, D. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Score by Innings R H E
Oral Roberts........ 000 000 020 000 - 2 8 2
Indiana State....... 000 000 011 001 - 3 9 0
Note: 2 outs, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.
E - N. Roark(2); B. Williams(1). DP - ORU 1. LOB - ORU 11; INS 14. 2B - B. Williams(2); Zahn, J.(1); Moore, Kaden(1); DeJesus, A.(2). 3B - Tofteland, D(1). HR - N. Roark(2); M. Whatley(1). HBP - Friis, T.; DeJesus, A.; Gutierrez, A. SH - N. Roark(1); C. Stafford(1); Gutierrez, A(2). SB - M. Hungate(2).
Oral Roberts ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
Nick Wood 5.0 3 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 19 21 7 6 70
Taylor Varnell 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 2 1 19
Logan Michaels 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 2 10
Billy Lovvorn 0.2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 1 0 13
Nathan Garza 1.1 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 7 1 2 20
Brady Womacks L,0-1 2.2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 5 3 29
Indiana State ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
Hill, J. 5.2 3 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 19 24 10 4 88
Ward, T. 2.1 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 4 3 32
Peterson, D. W,1-0 4.0 2 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 13 15 5 3 46
Win - Peterson, D. (1-0). Loss - B. Womack (0-1). Save - None. WP - N. Garza. HBP - by T. Varnell (DeJesus, A.); by L. Michaels (Friis, T.); by N. Garza (Gutierrez, A). Inherited runners/scored: L. Michaels 1/0; N. Garza 1/0. Pitches/strikes: N. Wood 70/42; T. Varnell 19/8; L. Michaels 10/6; B. Lovvorn 13/8; N. Garza 20/11; B. Womack 29/21; Hill, J. 88/46; Ward, T. 32/19; Peterson, D. 46/30.
Umpires - HP: Terry Harrison 1B: Mark Wagers 3B: Mike Grace
Start: 12 PM Time: 3:15 Attendance:
Weather: Overcast, 66, SW 2 MPH
T. Varnell faced 1 batter in the 7th.
Oral Roberts starters: 24/cf N. Rotola; 6/2b N. Roark; 19/c M. Whatley; 17/1b B. Williams; 21/lf M. Hungate; 5/dh R. Martinez; 12/3b C. Stafford; 10/ss T. Sonnier; 13/rf N. Cummings; 32/p N. Wood;
Indiana State starters: 3/ss Friis, T.; 4/lf Gardner, C.; 11/rf Owen, H.; 24/dh Giesler, D.; 15/3b Young, A.; 35/1b Zahn, J.; 12/c Moore, Kaden; 22/2b DeJesus, A.; 32/cf Rosselli, T.; 5/p Hill, J.;
Oral Roberts 1st - N. Rotola walked (3-2 BBKFBB). N. Roark grounded out to p, SAC, bunt (1-0 B); N. Rotola advanced to second. M. Whatley struck out swinging (1-2 KBKS). B. Williams struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b (2-2 BBFFS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Indiana State 1st - Friis, T. flied out to lf (3-2 BBKKB). Gardner, C. flied out to rf (2-0 BB). Owen, H. grounded out to ss (1-2 FBS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Oral Roberts 2nd - M. Hungate grounded out to ss (1-1 BF). R. Martinez grounded out to 3b (2-1 BBK). C. Stafford fouled out to 1b (1-2 KFB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Indiana State 2nd - Giesler, D. struck out swinging (2-2 BKBFS). Young, A. struck out looking (0-2 SKK). Zahn, J. flied out to lf (2-1 BBF). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Oral Roberts 3rd - T. Sonnier walked (3-1 BBBKB). N. Cummings singled to center field (2-1 BBK); T. Sonnier advanced to second. N. Rotola popped up to 3b (0-1 K). N. Roark struck out swinging (2-2 BBSFS). M. Whatley flied out to cf (3-1 BBBK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Indiana State 3rd - Moore, Kaden doubled to right center (1-1 BK). DeJesus, A. grounded out to 2b (3-2 BBFBSF); Moore, Kaden advanced to third. Rosselli, T. reached on a fielder's choice (0-1 S); Moore, Kaden out at home 3b to c. Friis, T. grounded out to 1b unassisted (0-0). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 4th - B. Williams doubled to center field (3-1 FBBB). M. Hungate walked (3-2 FBBFFBB). R. Martinez flied out to cf (1-2 KBFF); M. Hungate advanced to second; B. Williams advanced to third. C. Stafford popped up to 2b (2-0 BB). T. Sonnier flied out to cf (2-1 BBF). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Indiana State 4th - Gardner, C. singled to pitcher (1-0 B). Owen, H. walked (3-1 BBFBB); Gardner, C. advanced to second. Giesler, D. popped up to ss (2-2 BSBF). Young, A. walked (3-2 BKKBBB); Owen, H. advanced to second; Gardner, C. advanced to third. Zahn, J. fouled out to 3b (0-1 K). Moore, Kaden grounded out to 3b (2-1 BKB). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
Oral Roberts 5th - N. Cummings flied out to cf (1-1 KB). N. Rotola walked (3-1 BBBKB). N. Roark flied out to lf (0-0). M. Whatley singled to left field (1-0 B); N. Rotola advanced to second. B. Williams popped up to 2b (0-0). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Indiana State 5th - DeJesus, A. flied out to rf (0-0). Rosselli, T. reached on an error by 1b (0-0). Friis, T. singled to left field (0-1 K); Rosselli, T. advanced to second. Gardner, C. flied out to rf (1-1 KB). Owen, H. reached on a fielder's choice (0-0); Friis, T. out at second ss to 2b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Oral Roberts 6th - M. Hungate flied out to lf (1-0 B). R. Martinez grounded out to 2b, bunt (0-0). Ward, T. to p for Hill, J.. C. Stafford flied out to rf (2-2 KKBB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Indiana State 6th - T. Varnell to p for N. Wood. Giesler, D. flied out to cf (2-2 KFBB). Young, A. walked (3-1 BBFBB). Zahn, J. fouled out to 3b (2-2 BFBS). Moore, Kaden reached on a fielder's choice (2-0 BB); Young, A. out at second ss to 2b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 7th - T. Sonnier flied out to rf (1-0 B). N. Cummings grounded out to ss (1-1 BK). N. Rotola lined out to lf (2-1 BBK). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Indiana State 7th - DeJesus, A. hit by pitch (0-0). L. Michaels to p for T. Varnell. Gutierrez, A pinch hit for Rosselli, T.. Gutierrez, A grounded out to p, SAC, bunt (0-1 K); DeJesus, A. advanced to second. Friis, T. hit by pitch (2-2 KBBF). Gardner, C. grounded into double play 2b to ss to 1b (1-1 BK); Friis, T. out on the play. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 8th - Moore, Kyle to lf for Gardner, C.. Gutierrez, A to cf. N. Roark homered to center field, RBI (1-0 B). M. Whatley homered to center field, RBI (1-0 B). B. Williams flied out to rf (1-2 BFK). M. Hungate singled to center field (0-0). M. Hungate stole second. R. Martinez grounded out to 2b (2-2 BKBK); M. Hungate advanced to third. C. Stafford grounded out to ss (2-1 KBB). 2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Indiana State 8th - B. Lovvorn to p for L. Michaels. Owen, H. struck out swinging (1-2 KFFBS). Giesler, D. lined out to rf (0-0). Young, A. walked (3-1 BBBKB). Zahn, J. doubled to center field, RBI (0-1 K); Young, A. scored. N. Garza to p for B. Lovvorn. Tofteland, D pinch ran for Zahn, J.. Moore, Kaden flied out to rf (0-2 KK). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 9th - Tofteland, D to 1b. Peterson, D. to p for Ward, T.. T. Sonnier grounded out to 3b (0-0). N. Cummings grounded out to 3b (1-0 B). N. Rotola fouled out to 1b (0-0). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Indiana State 9th - DeJesus, A. doubled down the lf line (2-2 BBKK). Gutierrez, A hit by pitch (0-0). Friis, T. reached on a fielder's choice, bunt (1-1 FB); Gutierrez, A advanced to second; DeJesus, A. out at third 1b to 3b. Dungan, C. pinch hit for Moore, Kyle. Friis, T. advanced to second on a wild pitch; Gutierrez, A advanced to third on a wild pitch. Dungan, C. walked (3-1 BBBKB). Owen, H. singled, RBI (1-0 B); Dungan, C. advanced to second; Friis, T. out at third lf to c; Gutierrez, A scored. Giesler, D. grounded out to 1b unassisted (0-0). 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Oral Roberts 10th - Dungan, C. to lf. N. Roark flied out to lf (0-0). M. Whatley struck out looking (0-2 SSK). B. Williams singled to left field (2-2 SKBFB). M. Hungate flied out to cf (0-0). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Indiana State 10th - B. Womack to p for N. Garza. Young, A. flied out to lf (1-0 B). Tofteland, D flied out to cf (0-2 KK). Moore, Kaden singled up the middle (0-0). DeJesus, A. reached on a fielder's choice (0-0); Moore, Kaden out at second ss to 2b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 11th - R. Martinez walked (3-1 BBBKB). T. Shelton pinch ran for R. Martinez. C. Stafford grounded out to p, SAC, bunt (0-1 K); T. Shelton advanced to second. T. Sonnier struck out swinging (2-2 SSBBS). N. Cummings fouled out to 1b (1-0 B). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Indiana State 11th - Gutierrez, A flied out to lf (3-2 BFKBB). Friis, T. grounded out to ss (2-2 KBBF). Dungan, C. reached on an error by 2b (1-0 B). Owen, H. grounded out to 2b (1-0 B). 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Oral Roberts 12th - N. Rotola fouled out to c (2-2 KBBF). N. Roark struck out swinging (3-2 BFSBBS). M. Whatley singled to right center (0-1 K). B. Williams struck out looking (1-2 BKKK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Indiana State 12th - Giesler, D. flied out to cf (0-0). Young, A. flied out to lf (0-1 K). Tofteland, D tripled to center field (0-1 K). Moore, Kaden singled through the right side, RBI (0-1 K); Tofteland, D scored. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
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Home Content Commentary Matt Walsh is a creep writing for the Daily Wire
Matt Walsh is a creep writing for the Daily Wire
D'Anne Witkowski
"Daily Wire" columnist Matt Walsh
Creep of the Week
It should be obvious by now that the Creep of the Week every week is Donald Trump. He is a cancerous tumor on the U.S, and as a nation we desperately need a Trumpectomy.
But, let’s not forget about all of the others who were creepy long before Trump became the false idol of the so-called religious right. While the right-wing adoration of Trump might seem hypocritical, it’s really a match made in heaven.
The right-wing agenda has always been about power and oppression, never about morality. If having Trump as president allows the right-wingers to wrest the right to marry from lesbians and gays, or drive transgender men and women out of public life, then Trump can screw and pay off all the porn stars in the world. Mission accomplished.
So conservatives can spare me the moral outrage act over anything related to sexuality.
And yet on April 23, 2018 conservatives wanted parents to keep their kids out of school in order to protest sex education. They fear the kids might learn that gay people exist and that gender can be expressed in various ways.
“Parents across the country will be keeping their children home from school to protest the insane, pornographic, morally debased propaganda that passes for ‘sex ed’ these days,” wrote Matt Walsh for The Daily Wire. “It’s about time that parents took a stand against this madness.”
Matt Walsh is an extremist
Walsh, a conservative writer and self-described “extremist,” presents a novel approach to sex-ed that will work perfectly once robots take over the world.
“Sex should be a subject covered in science class, and it should go no further than simply explaining how human reproduction works,” he writes. “All of the rest of this — the lessons on ‘gender identity,’ the free condoms, the discussion of masturbation and oral sex — is ideological.”
Never mind the fact that knowing how human reproduction works is not the same thing as having an understanding of human sexuality. Nor does it acknowledge the complex and often fraught relationships between people that result in, and are a result of, that sexuality. Teenagers are literally being yanked through the stratosphere by their hormones and do not yet have the maturity to deal with these feelings. They lack the self-control to not act on them. So age-appropriate discussions about condoms and masturbation are literally fucking useful, not ideological.
“The schools want our kids to be the sort of people who indulge their sexual urges freely and openly, without regard to oppressive notions of morality and human dignity,” Walsh writes. He is apparently under the impression that public schools are veritable orgies from 7am to 3pm. “The deviants who develop these courses believe that hedonism is the path to fulfillment.”
Matt Walsh believes sex should only be used for making babies
This is a pretty standard conservative take on sex ed: that sex should be divorced from pleasure and should only be used to make babies. Of course, we also don’t want teenagers having babies, which is kinda why sex ed is important. Because teenagers are having sex. Whether they know how to protect themselves or not.
Sex is not a product of Satan, as Walsh implies. It’s a healthy, normal part of human life. Too many people have hang-ups about because of the kind of senseless shame promoted by folks like Walsh.
“My only problem with the [April 23, 2018] sit-out is that it’s too short,” Walsh writes. “It should be permanent. But this is a good first step.”
This idea that public education is a finishing school for sexual deviance is damaging not only to children, but also to their parents and their communities. Meanwhile, conservatives with the backing of Betsy DeVos work to tear down the education system. It is a pillar of American life and democracy. So yes, parents should be aware that mythical sex-ed horror tales are being used to promote the destruction of their kids’ schools. And they should absolutely take a stand against this madness.
D’Anne Witkowski
D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski
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Lao Officials Visit Expelled Christians, Give Assurances
Posted on March 21, 2010 by particularkev
Officials led by provincial governor explain law providing for right to believe.
DUBLIN, March 19 (CDN) — Officials in Laos’ Saravan Province yesterday visited 48 Christians expelled from Katin village and assured them that they had the legal right to embrace the faith of their choice, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF).
During a 30-minute visit the delegation, led by provincial Gov. Khamboon Duangpanya, read out June 2002’s Decree 92 on the Management and Protections of Religious Activity in Laos and explained its religious freedom provisions to the group, assuring them that they could freely believe in Christianity “if their faith was genuine.”
HRWLRF reported that the officials also said the Christians had the right to live anywhere in the district. Ta-Oyl district officials had expelled the Christians from Katin village at gunpoint on Jan. 18 when they refused to give up their faith. Having lost access to their homes, fields and livestock, the Christians then built temporary shelters at the edge of the jungle, about six kilometers (nearly four miles) away from the village.
The district head, identified only as Bounma, on Monday (March 15) summoned seven of the believers to his office and declared that he would not tolerate the existence of Christianity in areas under his control. The group must either recant their faith or move elsewhere, he’d said.
Shortly afterwards an anonymous source told the Christians that the chiefs of Katin and neighboring Ta Loong village planned to burn down their temporary shelters within 48 hours. (See “Lao Officials Threaten to Burn Shelters of Expelled Christians,” March 16.)
Also present at yesterday’s meeting were three other provincial officials, the deputy-head of Ta-Oyl district, identified only as Khammun, and the head of religious affairs in Ta-Oyl, identified only as Bounthoun, HRWLRF reported. During the brief meeting, the Christians asked Gov. Duangpanya if they had the right to live in Katin or other villages in the district.
He responded that as Lao citizens, the Christians could live wherever they chose. In regard to their current location, however, Khammun said he would have to “consult with the proper authorities” before granting the Christians permission to remain on land owned by neighboring Ta Loong village.
After delegating this responsibility to Khammun, Gov. Duangpanya assured the Christians that they could contact him if they needed further help, according to HRWLRF.
According to the Lao Law on Family Registration, when a citizen moves from one village to another for less than a year, he or she must request permission for “temporary changing of residence” from the original village. The paperwork is then turned over to authorities in the new village and reviewed after six months. After a year, citizens must repeat the process to apply for permanent residence in their new location.
Until now provincial officials have largely ignored the plight of Katin Christians, failing to intervene last July when villagers seized a Christian identified only as Pew and poured rice wine down his throat, killing him by asphyxiation. Village officials later fined Pew’s family for erecting a cross on his grave, and then detained 80 Christians in a school compound, denying them food and pressuring them to renounce their faith.
The heads of 13 families signed documents renouncing Christianity in order to protect their children; most of them, however, have since resumed attendance at worship meetings.
Provincial officials did call a meeting in September 2008 asking Katin authorities and residents to respect the religious laws of the nation, but four days later village officials seized and slaughtered a buffalo owned by a villager who refused to give up his faith.
A communist country, Laos is 1.5 percent Christian and 67 percent Buddhist, with the remainder unspecified. Article 6 and Article 30 of the Lao Constitution guarantee the right of Christians and other religious minorities to practice the religion of their choice without discrimination or penalty.
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Officials Threaten to Burn Shelters of Expelled Christians
Village heads tell church members they must recant faith or move elsewhere.
DUBLIN, March 16 (CDN) — Officials in southern Laos in the next 48 hours plan to burn temporary shelters built by expelled Christians unless they recant their faith, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF).
Authorities including a religious affairs official, the district head, district police and the chief of Katin village in Ta-Oyl district, Saravan province, expelled the 48 Christians at gunpoint on Jan. 18.
Prior to the expulsion, officials raided a worship service, destroyed homes and belongings and demanded that the Christians renounce their faith. (See www.compassdirect.org, “Lao Officials Force Christians from Worship at Gunpoint,” Feb. 8.)
Left to survive in the open, the Christians began to build temporary shelters, and then more permanent homes, on the edge of the jungle, according to HRWLRF. They continued to do so even after deputy district head Khammun, identified only by his surname, arrived at the site on Feb. 9 and ordered them to cease construction.
More officials arrived on Feb. 18 and ordered the Christians to cease building and either renounce their faith or relocate to another area. When the group insisted on retaining their Christian identity, the officials left in frustration.
On Monday (March 15), district head Bounma, identified only by his surname, summoned seven of the believers to his office, HRWLRF reported.
Bounma declared that although the republic’s law and constitution allowed for freedom of religious belief, he would not allow Christian beliefs and practices in areas under his control. If the Katin believers would not give up their faith, he said, they must relocate to a district where Christianity was tolerated.
When the seven Christians asked Bounma to supply them with a written eviction order, he refused.
The Christians later heard through local sources that the chiefs of Katin and neighboring Ta Loong village planned to burn down their temporary shelters and 11 partially-constructed homes erected on land owned by Ta Loong, according to HRWLRF.
These threats have left the Christians in a dilemma, as permission is required to move into another district.
Both adults and children in the group are also suffering from a lack of adequate food and shelter, according to HRWLRF.
“They are without light, food and clean water, except for a small stream nearby,” a spokesman said. Officials also forced them to leave the village with minimal clothing and other items necessary for basic survival.
Village officials have said they will only allow spirit worship in the area. A communist country, Laos is 1.5 percent Christian and 67 percent Buddhist, with the remainder unspecified. Article 6 and Article 30 of the Lao Constitution guarantee the right of Christians and other religious minorities to practice the religion of their choice without discrimination or penalty.
Decree 92, promulgated in July 2002 by the prime minister to “manage and protect” religious activities in Laos, also declares the central government’s intent to “ensure the exercise of the right of Lao people to believe or not to believe.”
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Home Economy Government Net neutrality rules expire as backers turn to Congress, courts
Net neutrality rules expire as backers turn to Congress, courts
Todd Shields
NET NEUTRALITY regulations that barred broadband providers from slowing or blocking internet traffic expired Monday. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/JASON ALDEN
NEW YORK – The Obama-era net neutrality regulations that barred broadband providers from slowing or blocking internet traffic expired Monday, a major milestone in a debate that continues in the courts and Congress as Democrats press to restore the rules.
Democrats are less than 50 votes from advancing a resolution in the House of Representatives to reinstate the 2015 rules. The measure already passed the Senate. Meanwhile, web companies, 22 states and the District of Columbia are suing to overturn the December decision by the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission.
The fate of the rules, which have been debated for more than a decade, may hinge on what impact the public experiences with the demise of regulatory oversight.
“I don’t think anything gets better for consumers,” said FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat. “Consumers want an open internet. They don’t want their broadband providers blocking websites or censoring content, and this agency gave broadband providers the legal right to do so. I think that’s crazy.”
The rules survived a court challenge after being adopted by Democrats at the FCC in 2015, but were gutted a December vote led by Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who says reduced regulation will bring more investment.
“It’s going to mean better, faster, cheaper internet access for consumers, and more competition,” Pai said in a June 7 news conference in Washington.
Under the replacement rules adopted by Pai’s FCC, the Federal Trade Commission will police internet service providers. Broadband companies, such as Comcast Corp., AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., will need to publicly disclose their web-traffic management practices.
The disclosure will help regulators spot anti-competitive practices, according to a summary of the rules distributed by the FCC. It said companies can make their disclosures via a publicly available, easily accessible company website or through the FCC’s website, the agency said.
The measure in the House seeks to reinstate the 2015 rules. They imposed increased government oversight of internet service providers by requiring them to treat web content equally and barring the blocking or slowing of rivals’ content.
The measure to revive the rules passed the Senate, and it awaits a vote in the House. A petition to force a vote has 170 of the 218 signatures it needs, its sponsor, Representative Mike Doyle, of Pennsylvania, said in an interview Friday.
Republicans may come to support a vote after hearing from a public that supports net neutrality rules, Doyle said.
“If certain services are blocked or throttled, they get it,” Doyle said. “People start to understand, these are protections for consumers that no longer exist.”
Broadband providers say consumers needn’t worry.
“It’s business as usual on the internet today – movies are streaming, e-commerce is thriving, and advocates are using the internet to make their voices heard,” said Jonathan Spalter, president of broadband trade group USTelecom with members including AT&T and Verizon. “These positive and profound benefits of a free and open internet – among many others – are here to stay.”
Broadband providers “remain committed to the principles under which internet innovation has thrived,” Spalter said.
Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, said the digital rights group plans a “summer offensive with mass online actions” and “a river of angry constituent phone calls.” The group is part of a coalition that mustered millions of comments objecting as Pai’s FCC readied for its December vote.
The decision is also under assault in courts that will take months to deliver a verdict. Mozilla’s suit has petitioners including the Computer & Communications Industry Association with members including Google and Amazon.com Inc., and the Internet Association, representing online companies such as Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc.
Groups taking the FCC’s side in the case include CTIA, representing mobile providers AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc., and NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, representing cable carriers such as Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc.
Todd Shields is a reporter for Bloomberg News.
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2010 Delete Key Awards Finalist No. 5 – ‘Finger Lickin’ Fifteen’ by Janet Evanovich
Filed under: Delete Key Awards,News — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 3:25 pm
Tags: Bad Writing, Books, Janet Evanovich, Mysteries, Novels
From Janet Evanovich’s novel Finger Lickin’ Fifteen (St. Martin’s):
“ ‘Nobody calls me pecker head and lives,’ Pecker said.”
Evanovich’s popular series about the bounty-hunter Stephanie Plum goes further south in Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, which abounds with jokes about body parts or functions described as “number two,” “cooter,” “pecker,” “wanger” or “winkie.” Another example appears below.
“‘Yep,’ Grandma said. ‘He’s got a big one. All them Turleys is hung like horses. … I tell you, for a little guy, he had a real good-sized wanger’.”
Read the full review of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen.
The Delete Key Awards finalists are being announced in random order, beginning with No. 10, but numbered for convenience. This is finalist No. 5. You can also read about the awards on Janice Harayda’s page (@janiceharayda) on Twitter. The winner and runners-up will be announced on March 15 on One-Minute Book Reviews and Twitter.
Backscratching in Our Time – Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich
Filed under: Backscratching in Our Time — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 1:11 am
Tags: Authors, Book Publishing, Books, Janet Evanovich, Logrolling, News, Nora Roberts, Romance Novels, Romance Writers of America, RWA
The latest in an occasional series of posts on authors who praise each other’s books
Janet Evanovich on Nora Roberts’s new Tribute:
“Nora Roberts is amazing.”
Nora Roberts on Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money:
“Stephanie Plum is destined to join ranks with Kinsey Millhone and Carlotta Carlyle. Janet Evanovich has crafted a heroine for today, tough, vulnerable, resourceful, and impulsive.”
You’ll find other examples of logrolling in the Backscratching in Our Time category on this site.
The fascinating question here is: Why did Tribute need a blurb? Roberts was the first author inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame and has more than 250 million copies of her books in print. Danielle Steel started publishing earlier and may have the edge in copies sold, but she isn’t a traditional romance novelist. If you take Steel out of the equation, Roberts may be the bestselling romance novelist in America. She is also one of the bestselling of all time. Is the blurb from Evanovich likely to make a difference when Roberts has spent hundreds of weeks on New York Times bestseller lists and her sales figures have been over the moon for years? Does somebody think that in the Great Recession, even Roberts needs all the help she can get?
‘Nobody Calls Me Pecker Head and Lives’ — A New Jersey Critic Looks at ‘Finger Lickin’ Fifteen,’ Janet Evanovich’s Latest Novel About a Trenton-Based Bounty Hunter
Filed under: Mysteries and Thrillers,Novels,Romance Novels — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 12:47 am
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Killers behead high-profile chef with a meat cleaver, and, yes, it’s supposed to be funny
Finger Lickin’ Fifteen. By Janet Evanovich. St. Martin’s, 308 pp., $27.95.
Janet Evanovich is one of the writers whose books I most want to like. She and I went to rival New Jersey high schools at different times – you haven’t lived if you were born too late for a South River–New Brunswick Thanksgiving Day game at the old Rutgers Stadium! – and I share a few traits with her Trenton-based bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, including blue eyes, a Hungarian grandmother, and bad car karma. My first novel came from her publisher, a firm that in a perilous market has kept its integrity to a degree widely admired in the industry. And I love comic novels and look for opportunities to praise them on this site.
But Evanovich seems to have lost her focus since the publication of One for the Money, her first novel about Plum, in 1994. From the start, she has combined genres — romance, mystery, adventure, and comedy — in the series. In Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, the comedy devolves into farce, a form that relies on over-the-top elements such as improbable plotting and slapstick. Her humor is so broad, it undermines her attempt to tell a plausible story. And it clashes with the realism of other aspects the novel, such as Plum’s flirtations with the plainclothes cop Joe Morelli and with Carlos “Ranger” Manoso, who heads the Rangeman security firm for which she moonlights. At times the comedy is so silly or tasteless, Evanovich seems to be parodying herself.
The opening pages of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen describe how a pair of killers used a meat cleaver to behead a high-profile chef absurdly named Stanley Chipotle on a Trenton street: “There was a big gusher of blog when they whacked the head off,” a witness says. “It was like Old Faithful going off, only it was blood. And then the head rolled down the sidewalk … ”
Am I the only person who read this and thought of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter beheaded in Pakistan in 2002 after his kidnappers released a terrifying video of his captivity? And the only reader who isn’t ready to laugh — as this novel asks us to do — at the story of an effort to find the people who chopped off a man’s head with a cleaver?
A second plot – it gets so much space, you can’t call it a “subplot” — involves a series of break-ins at properties protected by the Rangeman security staff, and you keep expecting it to relate in the end to the murder of Stanley Chipotle. It doesn’t. The two plots seem to exist mainly to give Plum a chance to flirt throughout the story with Morelli and Ranger, and both storylines have unsatisfying resolutions. The prime mover of one plot escapes justice completely, and only his underlings are apprehended. The people behind the other aren’t mentioned by name for the first 300 pages, so if you read mysteries partly for the pleasure of sorting through clues and trying to guess the identity of the perpetrator, you’re out of luck.
Some people say that you don’t read Evanovich for her plots but for her humor, and that’s fair enough. But as her comedy has become more farcical, her humor has become cruder and more sophomoric. Finger Lickin’ Fifteen abounds with jokes about farts and other body functions or parts, including those described on its pages as “number two,” “cooter,” “pecker,” “wanger,” or “winkie.” “Nobody calls me pecker head and lives,” says a character unwisely named Peter Pecker. Is Evanovich courting 10-year-olds moving up from Harry Potter books?
Perhaps oddest of all given that Evanovich grew up in New Jersey, Finger Lickin’ Fifteen gives you no sense of what makes Trenton unique or a worthy setting for a mystery. The action might as well take place in Cleveland. As I write this review, the United States Attorney for New Jersey has just announced the arrest of dozens of people, including rabbis, mayors and and current or former state legislators. One defendant is said to have passed cash illegally in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000. Nobody is asking Evanovich to return to New Jersey from her current homes Florida and New Hampshire. But she has clearly lost touch with some of the wellsprings of material. Who needs to send a severed head rolling down a Trenton street when you can find so much drama in a box of Apple Jacks?
Best line: “… gravy so thick you could walk across a vat of it.”
Worst line: No. 1: “ ‘Nobody calls me pecker head and lives,’ Pecker said.” No. 2: “ ‘Yep,’ Grandma said. ‘He’s got a big one. All them Turleys is hung like horses. … I tell you, for a little guy, he had a real good-sized wanger.'” No. 3: “It was a record-breaking fart. On my best day, I couldn’t come near to farting like that.”
Reading group guide: A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Finger Lickin’ Fifteen appears in the post that directly preceded this one.
Listen to the beginning of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen.
Janice Harayda is a former book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland and wrote the comic novel The Accidental Bride (St. Martin’s, 1999).
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Finger Lickin’ Fifteen
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A celebrity chef is beheaded with a meat cleaver in the opening pages of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, Janet Evanovich’s 15th crime novel about the Trenton-based bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. After a co-worker witnesses the murder, Plum becomes drawn into the search for his killer, and her ex-boyfriend, the plainclothes policeman Joe Morelli, goes to work on the case. She also agrees to help her sometime romantic interest, Carlos “Ranger” Manoso, find out who has been breaking into properties protected by his security company. As novel builds toward the barbecue cook-off, the questions raised by the plot include: Can Morelli succeed in his dual quest to capture the chef’s killers and to recapture Plum’s heart?
1 Many novels fall clearly into a category such as mystery, romance, comedy, or adventure. Evanovich tries to combine all of those genres in one book. How well does she succeed?
2 Does Evanovich handle one genre better than others? If so, which genre seems to suit her skills best?
3 Some series give you a strong sense of place, a you-are-there feeling about the city or town where the action takes place, such as those about Robert Parker’s Spenser (Boston) and Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski (Chicago). How well did Evanovich evoke Trenton, NJ, in Finger Lickin Good? Did she give you the sense that you knew the city? How much does this matter?
4 Finger Lickin’ Fifteen has two parallel plots – one involving the murder of the Stanley Chipotle and another about the break-ins at the properties protected by Rangeman security. It has a third if you count Plum’s efforts to bring in the “skips” or FTAs (Failure to Appears) who haven’t shown up for court dates. Which plot did you find most interesting or effective? Which was the least interesting or effective?
5 Often in a book with multiple storylines, the plots turn out to be related. You might expect, for example, that Stanley Chipotle’s murder would be linked to the break-ins at Rangeman properties. How, if at all, are the plots in Finger Lickin’ Five related?
6 This novel begins with a decapitation, a risky move given that it might remind people of the 2002 beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and other terrorist acts. Where you able to step back mentally from any news stories you’ve read and view Finger Lickin’ Five as entertainment? Or was your reading affected by the headlines?
7 Some authors of long-running series allow their characters to age – not just by getting older but by making major changes in their lives. Evanovich hasn’t done this with Plum, who was 30 in One for the Money and seems to have changed little. The critic Marilyn Stasio wrote in a review of Eleven on Top, “Evanovich has kept Stephanie in a perpetual state of sexual arousal, poised between the attentions of Joe Morelli, the hot and hunky cop who has been pursuing her since high school, and Ranger, a coolly lethal mercenary.” What are the pros and cons this approach? Would the series be more satisfying or less so if Plum had changed more?
8 More than most mystery series, the Plum novels have predictable elements. In each book, for example, Plum’s Hungarian grandmother visits Stiva’s Funeral Home. Is the predictability an asset or liability? Has your view of this changed over the years?
9 Respected crime-novel critics, such as Sarah Weinman, have said that the quality of this series has been going down for years. A few reader-reviewers on Amazon.com (such as Jessica Connelly and A. Grund) argue that this has lost so much of its earlier appeal that it Evanovich should kill it. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
10 If you think Evanovich should continue the series, how could she strengthen it? Would you want to read a half dozen more books in which Plum is still torn between Morelli and Ranger?
Finger Lickin’ Fifteen. By Janet Evanovich. St. Martin’s, 308 pp., $27.95. Published June 2009.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning critic and who has been the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland and a vice president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Next Week — A Review of Janet Evanovich’s ‘Finger Lickin’ Fifteen’
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A pair of thugs use a meat cleaver to behead a celebrity chef in the opening pages of the bestselling Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, Janet Evanovich’s 15th comic suspense novel about the Trenton-based bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Is the decapitation amusing or tasteless after terrorists’ beheadings of captives such as the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl? One-Minute Book Reviews will have a review of the novel next week.
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A father with 30 years service in the Met was bursting with pride as his son followed in his footsteps and completed his training to become a fully fledged police officer.
Last week, Police Sergeant Ken McNish from Havering proudly attended his son’s passing out parade at Hendon Training School.
Both men were acknowledged during the ceremony which was held on Friday, 8 May by Chief Superintendent Craig Haslam, who praised both generations for their contribution to policing.
His son, Ben, was attested just a few weeks prior to Sergeant McNish completing 30 years’ service in the Metropolitan Police on 20 May.
Both Sergeant and PC McNish then had the honour of meeting with the Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe where Sergeant McNish, in accordance with police tradition proudly presented his pocket book for inspection.
New recruit PC McNish was then asked by the Commissioner what drew him to join the Met. He replied: “I have seen my dad’s passion for the job and it’s just something I have always wanted to do.”
Ben is a graduate who speaks a number of languages and he will be joining Redbridge Borough as a probationary constable.
Sergeant Ken McNish, said: “I am the Neighbourhood Policing Sergeant on Cranham’s Ward and remain passionate about the job I do. This was a proud day for the McNish family and I hope Ben finds his service as rewarding and enjoyable as I have.”
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Getting Your Word’s Worth
30. October 2014 5. November 2014 ~ vlcampbell ~ Leave a comment
I recently came across what is quite likely the earliest treatise to appear on Pompeian graffiti: Inscriptiones Pompeianae; or Specimens and Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions discovered on the walls of buildings at Pompeii. Published in 1837, this small volume penned by Charles Wordsworth, nephew of the famous poet, Classicist, and bishop of St. Andrews, is, if not always entirely accurate in its interpretation of the texts, nonetheless an altogether lovely presentation of the texts scratched into the walls of the ancient city.
A mere thirty-three pages, this slim volume takes the form of a letter Wordsworth addresses to a friend – his dear P—, who seemingly accompanied him on a trip to Pompeii in 1832. He states the letter is ‘retaliation’ for P, who indulged in ‘some pleasant humour’ for his interest in the graffiti they saw on their trip. He further writes that he ‘should indeed have abstained from this undertaking as unnecessary, had any notice whatever been taken of these fragments to which I now invite your attention, by any of the writers who have described the antiquities of Pompeii.’ He claims (rightly) that apart from a few vague references in William Gell’s revised 1832 publication of Pompeiana, no one has yet mentioned the texts in print, much less published them in any way. This then, is what he sets out to do.
Wordsworth invites P to join him, as he acts as guide, to go back through the streets of Pompeii, and examine more thoroughly a number of the ancient graffiti. Likely to pique the interest of his friend, Wordsworth begins with a text from Vergil, P’s favourite Latin poet, which is to be found on a wall in the Building of Eumachia.
Now recorded as CIL IV 1982 (CLE 1785 = CLE 2292):
Carminibus
Circe socios
mutavit
Olyxis
the graffito is line 70 from Book VIII of Vergil’s Eclogues, the entire stanza (lines 69-71) of which reads:
Carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam,
carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi,
frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis.
‘Songs can even draw the moon down from heaven; by songs Circe transformed the comrades of Ulysses; with song the cold snake in the meadows is burst asunder.’
Wordsworth demonstrates again and again throughout the book his thorough knowledge of ancient literature, but more astonishingly, an understanding of the graffiti and the culture of writing on display on the walls of Pompeii that is not always found in later (dare I say, even recent) works on the Pompeian epigraphy. This is clear in his recording of the following text, one of many found in the Basilica. Here, the writer combined the words of two poets, Ovid and Propertius, who wrote similar entreaties regarding gifts, matchmaking, and the difficulties of love.
Ovid Amores I.8.77-78 and Propertius Elegies IV.5.47-48
CIL IV 1893 (CLE 1785)
Surda sit oranti tua ianua laxa ferenti
audiat exclusi verba receptus amans
Ianitor addantis vigilet si pulsat inanis
surdus in obductam somniet usqu[e] seram
‘Let your door be deaf to prayers but wide open to the bearer of gifts; let the lover who has been admitted hear the laments of the one excluded. The door-keeper must be awake for bearers of gifts, but when empty hands knock, let him be deaf and sleep against the bolt.’
There are a number of things that I find remarkable about this book, and not just because I love a beautiful, old, leather-bound tome. One is the faithful rendering of ancient handwriting throughout the text, as seen in the photos above. Wordsworth does this for every grafitto he presents, both in Latin and in Greek, which presumably would not have been possible if he had not made a faithful rendering of each one at the time he visited Pompeii five years before writing. Considering many of the early visitors to the excavations were more interested in collecting images of themselves in a romantically ruinous vista, or, for those bent on more scholarly pursuits, reproducing the ancient artworks, this attention to the non-lapidary texts is an unusual occurrence. As a feature of epigraphic publishing, illustrations of the handwriting do not appear again for nearly forty years until the first volume of CIL IV, and even then, is not applied systematically until sometime late in the 20th century. Wordsworth also shows an astuteness in his observations on language and the literary nature of the texts. Not only does he recognise the origin of those he records, but he seemingly has no difficulty in discerning the accurate quotations from those that are adapted or conflated in some way. He remarks once or twice on the poor spelling of the texts (which he attributes to slaves), but does not assume this is due to illiteracy, but rather refers to it as the ‘false Latinity of an Italian scribe.’ He also remarks on the very nature of literacy itself (which is a topic I have been meaning to address myself at some point), and makes a point with which I strongly agree, that ‘We hear much of the diffusion of literary tastes among all classes of people in our own age and country; and comparisons, injurious to other nations and times, are founded on this assumption. This is hardly fair. I should much question whether all the walls of all the country towns in England, would, if Milton were lost, help us to a single line of the Paradise Lost.’
Wordsworth’s attention to the graffiti shows, in many ways, that he was ahead of his time, not just in the recording of the texts, but in his appreciation for them, for the literary and literate proclivities of the Pompeians, and for recognising what an important artefact these scratched words were. For that, I would argue anyone working on ancient graffiti or Pompeii owes him a great deal of admiration and gratitude.
20. October 2014 3. February 2016 ~ vlcampbell ~ Leave a comment
The wax tablets of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus are one of the best records for financial activity that survive antiquity. The tablets, triptychs of wooden leaves covered with wax and tied together to make six pages, were used as receipts, closed, wrapped with string, and sealed by witnesses. Carbonised by the Vesuvian eruption in AD 79, these 153 tablets were found in the House of Caecilius Iucundus at V.1.26 during its excavation in 1875. The tablets record a number of transactions, including auctions, money lending, and payment of civic rents. What makes these records so important for network analysis is that each one of these exchanges made use of a number of signatories – typically six in addition to those directly involved in the transaction – who acted as witnesses to the transaction taking place.
The use of so many witnesses, is, of course, what makes the tablets so valuable for the purposes of building a network for Pompeii. Not only do they provide information about the workings of the local economy, but more importantly, they contain so many names. Whether or not these witnesses were friends, business associates, or simple happened to be passing by at a particular time when signatories were needed is difficult to determine without looking for corroborative evidence amongst other bits of Pompeian epigraphy. Regardless, the tablets can be used to trace both individuals and events (if one views the signing as an event), which actually allows for the analysis of both one and two mode networks.
I can hardly cover all of the tablets of Iucundus in a single post, but this instead serves as a brief example of how the tablets can be used, starting with just one individual. I selected the six wax tablets on which Aulus Veius Atticus appears as a witness. If we look at the individual texts, some of which are more complete than others, you can see that, typically, the witnesses are appearing in the third or fourth section.
CIL IV 3340.22 05. November AD 56
Perscriptio Histriae Ichmadi || HS n(ummum) VI(milia)CCCCLVIs(emis?) / quae pecunia in / stipulatum L(uci) Caecili / Iucundi venit ob / auctionem Histriae / Ichimadis mercede / minus persoluta || habere se dixsit / Histria Ichimas ab / L(ucio) Caecilio Iucundo. / Act(um) Pomp(eis) Non(is) Nove(mbribus) / L(ucio) Duvio P(ublio) Clodio co(n)s(ulibus). / C(ai) Numitori Bassi / L(uci) Numisi Rari / A(uli) Vei Attici / D(ecimi) Caprasi Gobi[onis] / L(uci) Valeri Peregr(ini) / [—] Cestili Philod(emi) / [C(ai)] Novelli Fortun(ati) / [A(uli)] Alfi Abasca[nti] / [L(ei)] Cei Felic[ionis] || [L(ucio) Duvio P(ublio) Clo]dio co(n)s(ulibus) / [Non(is) Nove]mbr(ibus) / [— sc]ripsi rogatu / [Histriae Ichimadis ipsi] persoluta / [esse ab L(ucio) Iuc]undo HS n(ummum) / [sex milia quadr]i(n)gentos quinqua / [ginta sex semi]s ob auctionem /q[uam servus] eius fecit [act(um) Pom]peis.
CIL IV 3340.35 05. August AD 57
Per[s]c[ript]io Cn(aeo) Alleio / C(h)ryser[oti] || [HS n(ummum)] / III(milia)DXI / quae pecunia in / stipulatum L(uci) Caecili / Iucundi venit ob / auctionem Cn(aei) Allei C(h)ryserotis / mercede [m]inus / persolu[ta h]abere / se dixsit [C]n(aeus) Alleius / C(h)ryseros [ab] L(ucio) Caecilio / Iucundo. / Act(um) Pomp(eis) Non(is) Aug(ustis) / Nerone Caes(are) II L(ucio) Calpurn(io) c(onsulibus) || [—] Postumi Primi / A(uli) Appulei Severi / [A(uli)] Vei Attici / [— Au]rel(i) Vitalis / T(iti) [Sorni] E[u]t[y]ch[i] / L(uci) Corneli Maxsi(mi) / P(ubli) Terenti [—] / N(umeri) Popidi Am[—].
CIL IV 3340.49
Perscriptio [L(ucio) Cornel]io Ma[xs(imo)] [—] || L(ucio) Caecilio [—] / act[um || HS n(ummum) V(milia)CCC quae pecunia in stipulatum. / L(uci) Caecili Iucundi venit ob manc[i]pia / duo veterana vendita r(atione) hereditaria / L(uci) Corneli [Tert]i soluta habere se / [dixi]t L(ucius) Cornelius Maxsimus / ab L(ucio) Caecilio Iucundo. || [—] Postumi Primi / A(uli) Appulei Severi / [A(uli)] Vei Attici / [— Au]rel(i) Vitalis / T(iti) [Sorni] E[u]t[y]ch[i] / L(uci) Corneli Maxsi(mi) / P(ubli) Terenti [—] / N(umeri) Popidi Am[—].
Perscriptio N(umeri) Popidi [—]Y[—] || [HS] n(ummum) V(milia)[—] / quae pecunia in / stipulatum L(uci) Caec[ili] / Iucundi venit o[b] / auctionem N(umeri) [P]op[idi] || [Pop]idi[us(?) —] / [ab Caecilio] Iucundo || Q(uinti) Appueli Severi / A(uli) Vei Attici / P(ubli) Terenti Primi / L(uci) Cei Decidiani / [—] Corneli Adiutoris / L(uci) Lucili Fusci / C(ai) Corneli Tagetis / [—]O[—].
[Persc]riptio P(ublio) Terentio Prosod(o?) || Q[—]C[—] || Ti(beri) Claudi Nedymi / Q(uinti) Appulei Severi / A(uli) Vei Attici / M(arci) Aureli Vitalis / [N(umeri) Popid]i Sodalion[is] / [—]pi Fortunati / [P(ubli) Si]tti Zosimi / [P(ubli) Tere]nti Prosodi.
CIL IV 3340.115
[—] / A(uli) Vei Attici / M(arci) Uboni Cogitati / C(ai) Cas[si] Secundi /[L(uci) Va]leri Peregrini / [P(ubli) Corne]li Tagetis / [—].
There are 35 names all together on these 6 tablets (excluding consuls used solely for dating purposes), but including Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, who was presumably present for most (if not all) of the transactions:
1. Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (22, 35, 49, 67, 99, 115)
2. Aulus Veius Atticus (22, 35, 49, 67, 99, 115)
3. Histria Ichimas (22)
4. Gaius Numitorius Bassus (22)
5. Lucius Numisius Rarus (22)
6. Decimus Caprasius Gobio (22)
7. Lucius Valerius Peregrinus (22)
8. [—] Cestilius Philodemus (22)
9. Gaius Novellius Fortunatus (22)
10. Aulus Alfius Abascantus (22)
11. Lucius Ceius Felicio (22)
12. Lucius Laelius Fuscus (35)
13. Marcus Fabius [—] (35)
14. Publius Terentius Primus (35, 49, 67, 99)
15. Lucius Vettius Valens (35)
16. Gaius Poppaeus Fortis (35)
17. Tiberius Caudius Secundus (35)
18. Aulus [—] Fuscus (35)
19. Gnaeus Alleius Chryseros (35)
20. Lucius Cornelius Tertius (49)
21. Lucius Cornelius Maxsimus (49)
22. [—] Postumius Primus (49)
23. Aulus Appuleius Severus (49)
24. [— Au]relius Vitalis (49)
25. Titus Sornius Eutychus (49)
26. Numerius Popidius Am[—] (49)
27. Quintus Appuleius Severus (67, 99)
28. Lucius Ceius Decidianus (67, 99)
29. [—] Cornelius Adiutor (67, 99)
30. Lucius Lucilius Fuscus (67, 99)
31. Gaius Cornelius Tages (67, 99)
32. Marcus Ubonius Cogitatus (115)
33. Gaius Cassius Secundus (115)
34. Lucius Valerius Peregrinus
35. Publius Cornelius Tages (115)
Of these, there are six men in addition to Atticus who appear more than once. More to the point, all nine of the witnesses who appear on tablet 67 also appear on 99, which suggests that these two transactions might have actually been carried out at the same time, with the same witnesses present to sign off on both sales. We can see a wide range of known Pompeian gentilicium present in the witnesses – Cornellii, Ceii, Poppidi – but if we look closer at the cognomen in particular, these are not the men of these families known from electoral campaigns, and are more likely to be freedmen. The cognomina do include a number of Greek names as well as those favoured for the servile classes, and although this certainly warrants further investigation, it does seem more likely than not that there are a number of freedmen serving as witnesses.
In terms of finding the ancient network, it is (seemingly) a simple process to take this much further using solely the wax tablets. To demonstrate this I picked two men from this list who appear more than once. Publius Terentius Primus seems the most obvious choice because he appears on four tablets with Atticus, thus suggesting a possible strong tie between the two men. He actually appears on sixteen additional tablets, connecting him with 97 others witnesses or sellers, so in all, well over a hundred people when you include the tablets he is on with Atticus. Whether this actually indicates a strong tie with Atticus or a strong tie with Iucundus remains to be seen.
The other selection is Quintius Appuleius Severus, because I found him on Tablet 25, on which Primus also appears. So in addition to two tablets with Atticus, and one with Primus, Severus appears on another 14 tablets with a further 100 individuals.
Just by looking at the appearances of these men as witnesses on the wax tablets, there is already a network of more than 200 individuals that can be connected through three nodes. This does not yet even take into account further epigraphic information. If we include the epitaph of Aulus Veius Atticus, for example, we can add in the 8 other members of the gens Veia, the 7 other Augustales, and the family of Gaius Munatius Faustus and Naevoleia Tyche, with whom Atticus built a tomb, which adds another 12 people from their funerary inscriptions alone. Add in the extended family groups of the Munatii and the Naevoleii, and we now have a network with close to 300 actors, all of whom can be connected through one line, and many of whom can be connected along multiple edges to different actors within the network. This demonstrates a fruitful network analysis, especially when incorporating multiple forms of epigraphic (and to some extent) archaeological material. Eventually, I hope the network I can map will thus link most of the men and women found in the epigraphic material of Pompeii, thus providing us with a clear view of how the society in this ancient city actually functioned.
I think I’m going to need a bigger piece of paper.
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10. October 2014 ~ vlcampbell ~ Leave a comment
One of the pivotal studies in developing network theory is Mark Granovetter’s 1973 essay ‘The Strength of Weak Ties’, which posits the hypothesis that weak ties are more beneficial to an individual seeking employment than strong ties. This is in part because ‘those to whom we are weakly tied are more likely to move in circles different from our own and thus will have access to information different from that which we receive.’ The weak tie acts as a bridge, connecting two individuals previously unknown to each other through a mutual friend or acquaintance. Using Granovetter’s example, if you select any two people at random, call them A and B, from a set of all the people who have ties to either or both of them, the stronger the tie between A and B, the larger the proportion of people in the set who will have ties to both of them. If the tie between A and B is weak, then they are less likely to have a significant amount of mutual links. If you add a third person to this example, C, who has a tie to A but not to B, the common ties between A and B and A and C will eventually bring B and C into contact, and a relationship will be generated. A acts as the bridge, and thus a weak tie is established between B and C.
In reading a series of letter’s written by Cicero for another purpose, it suddenly occurred to me that this concept might be applicable to the ancient world. Of the roughly thousand or so letters (plus fragments) written by Cicero that survive antiquity, about ten percent (of what I have surveyed thus far – I’m only about half way through the entire corpus of evidence) are litterae commendaticiae. These letters are written on behalf of a number of individuals (and on a few occasions, a municipium or other group), and sent to one of Cicero’s acquaintances in order to pave the way for the recommendee’s interests to be advanced. In essence, Cicero is recommending these men for a job, and is thus acting as the bridge, creating a weak tie between someone who requires assistance, and someone else who is in the position to grant such favour.
The letters are scattered throughout his collections, but Book 13 (in the pre-Shackleton Bailey edition) contains 79 letters, 78 of which are ‘commendatory’ letters regarding individuals or communities, and as such is the largest concentration of this form found in the literature of antiquity. (By contrast, similar letters found in the works of Pliny the Younger and Fronto are distributed fairly evenly throughout their books). The fact that so many letters are concentrated in one book has led some scholars to view Book 13 as a collection that was compiled and published by Cicero in his lifetime, thus illustrating that Cicero regarded these letters as a definite ‘type’. Whilst this idea cannot be proved, the fact that the letters contain certain features suggest there was a schema or formula to the letters, that this form of writing was an entrenched practice, using set phrases and conventional attitudes. As nearly half of the recommendations found in Book 13 can be dated to 46 BC, this lends further weight to the idea that this book was specifically compiled. It seems as if 46 was a particularly good year for Cicero – he had found favour with Caesar upon his return to Italy, was happily into his second marriage, and hadn’t yet been devastated by the death of his daughter Tullia. Because of his past legal and political career, he was seen as having great influence despite a current lack of power, and was probably one of the most widely known figures in the Roman world besides Caesar. Publishing his litterae commendaticiae from this time would thus serve to heighten appreciation of the influence he was still able to wield through social contacts and networks.
Letter writing in the Roman world was an essential part of political and social life, and that aspect goes some way to explain the nature of the letters of recommendation. Letters were meant to sustain or advance friendship and in the case of recommendations, were ineffective if there was no friendship between the author and addressee. Unlike more modern letters of recommendation, the emphasis in the letters of antiquity is not on the candidate himself, apart from identification, but the letter gets its force from the relationship between the recommender and the recipient. The letter was meant to invoke the obligations and responsibilities to each other which were born on an appeal to qualities of humanitas, liberalitas, voluntas, integritas, mansuetudo, clementia, stadium, and officium. Cicero not only makes note of his respect for the protocols of this obligation but also requests the benefactor to be aware of his deed, which illustrates Cicero’s desire to be seen as influential. These letters were more of a testimonial, recommending someone’s character, trustworthiness, honour, and staking the writer’s own reputation and integrity, as he provided surety for the recommended simply by writing the letter.
In a compelling essay, which at its essence is about social networks though the term is never utilised, Roger Rees refers to this as ‘The Amicitia Triangle,’ a moniker which evokes the earlier example of the links between individuals A, B and C that bridged a tie between the two figures unknown to each other. He argues, I think correctly, that a ‘more persuasive argument than the bald assertion of the relationship between the author and the subject, or between the author and the recipient, was the integration of all three parties.’ This ‘social triangulation’ makes fulfilling the request for assistance that much more attractive to the addressee, because rejecting it would not only refute Cicero’s amicitia but also deny the possibility of a new relationship. The assertion that the subject, by definition a friend of the author (whether or not this is in fact true), will prove to be deserving of the friendship of the recipient, creates a contract of reciprocal obligations, which forms the basis of social system found in the Roman world. In his 1929 Loeb translation of the letters, Williams suggests that the recommendations Cicero wrote show ‘impressive evidence of Cicero’s large-hearted bonhomie, and his unfailing readiness to do a friend, or even an acquaintance, a good turn; in short, of that humanitas which was one of his dominant characteristics.’ I’d argue this gives Cicero considerably more credit than is his due, as the letters are more often about the author than the beneficiary, and the sheer number of letters of this type that survive antiquity, by others in addition to Cicero, demonstrates that this was a standard, if not expected practice, and was an integral part of the patronage system and necessary to ensuring one’s rise up the political ladder. This is particularly clear in a substantial series of letters Cicero writes to a young protégé, Gaius Trebatius Testa.
Ad Fam. 27 (VII. 6)
‘Every letter I write to Caesar or to Balbus carries as a kind of statutory bonus a recommendation of yourself, and not the standard sort but phrased with some special indication of my regard for you.’
Ad Fam. 33 (VII.10)
‘How pressingly I have written to Caesar on your behalf, you know; how often, I know.’
Ad Fam. 29 (VII.8)
‘Caesar has written to me very civilly, regretting that he has so far been to busy to get to know you very well, but assuring me that this will come. I told him in my reply how greatly he would oblige me by conferring upon you all he could in the way of good will, friendly offices, and liberality.’
Fortunately, we also have one letter Cicero wrote to Caesar, so we know that the claim of his efforts on Trebatius’ behalf was true. In this letter, Cicero breaks from form, referencing positions to which Trebatius no doubt aspires, but he does so in a joking manner. I suspect the tone is meant to prevent Caesar taking any offense that Cicero should presume to tell him what to do.
‘So observe my presumption: I now want Trebatius to look to you for everything he would have hoped for from me, and I have assured him of your friendly disposition in terms really no less ample than I had previously been wont to use respecting my own… In embracing his acquaintance with all your usual graciousness, my dear Caesar, I should wish you to confer upon his single person all the kindnesses which I could induce you to wish to confer upon my friends…. I do not ask on his behalf for a Tribunate of Prefecture or any other specific favour. It is your good will and generosity I bespeak; though if in addition you have a mind to decorate him with such ambitious trinkets, I say nothing to deter you. In fine, I put him altogether, as the phrase goes, out of my hand into yours – the hand of a great conqueror and a great gentleman, if I may become a trifle fulsome, though that’s hardly permissible with you. But you will let it pass, I see you will.’
There is further analysis to conduct with those letters I have catalogued so far, particularly in regards to the identity and connections between Cicero, the recommended individual, and the addressee of the letters. Deniaux’s prosopography of the letters should be particularly useful for this. From there, my intention is to go forward with the remainder of Cicero’s letters. I am most curious to see if he included recommendations in the correspondence he wrote to those we can undoubtedly view as Ciceros’s strongest ties – Atticus, Quintus, and to some extent, Brutus. Though the evidence certainly will never provide a completed network for any of the authors, the ability to build even a partial network for them should shed some light on how networks of patronage and advancement worked in the Roman world.
Electra-fying
6. October 2014 ~ vlcampbell ~ Leave a comment
I’m going to deviate from topic here just a bit, if you will allow a small foray into Greek tragedy. I saw the new production of Electra at the Old Vic, starring Kristin Scott Thomas in the titular role on Saturday evening. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first time I have seen an ancient play performed rather than just reading the text, and that in itself (nevermind the Hollywood status of the lead actor) was quite stunning.
Electra, for anyone unfamiliar, is one of the children of the ill-fated marriage of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Caught up in the cycle of the Trojan War, her father sacrificed one of her sisters, Iphigenia, at the start of the war so that the Greeks would have a favourable wind, and thus could sail east to besiege Troy. Still distraught over this incident, Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, killed Agamemnon when he returned from the war. Sophocles‘ version of the play, written in the fifth century BC, picks up a number of years later, with Electra still mourning the death of her father, and hoping for the return of her brother, Orestes, so that they may seek revenge upon their mother and her new husband, who has taken up the thrown of Argos in their father’s stead.
Unlike some of the other Greek tragedies that have survived the centuries, there is no real sense of conflict in the character of Electra: she is adamant in her anger, her despisal of her mother and her husband, and focuses on her desire for revenge above all things. Whilst this might seemingly make the play somewhat flat, as there is no possible outcome for Electra other than death – either her’s or that of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus – the tragedy of it is not about the end result, but about the suffering Electra endures. Her grief consumes her almost to the point of madness, and whilst the overwhelmingness of it is clear on the page, on stage it becomes real. The Electra of Kristin Scott Thomas is a manifestation of torment. Her pain, her grief, is tangible, from the moment she walks onto the stage. Though others have seen her intensity, her inability for stillness ,as a bit over the top, I recognised it as the physical outlet of deep emotional suffering, of the kind that makes one tremble merely from the struggle to keep from falling apart entirely. For Electra, the tragedy comes from within, from her battle to cope with the pain others have brought into her life, and the knowledge that once she gets her revenge, she will have nothing left. This leaves no room for the catharsis typical of this type of tragedy, and leaves the audience with as much emptiness as Electra undoubtedly feels herself.
I hate to take any credit away from Sophocles, for it is his words that filled the stage (for the most part), but I cannot help but think a lesser actress would not have been able to convey the emotional turmoil, the heartfelt agony of loss and grief, and the physical intensity of mental anguish as readily. Quite simply, Kristin Scott Thomas is Electra.
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Deep Silver and Square Enix Team Up for Dead Island Distribution in North and South America
by 1Robert Strick
Deep Silver and Square Enix, Inc. announced today a collaboration in which Square Enix will be the Americas region distributor for Dead Island™, the highly anticipated zombie action game with role-playing elements for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows-based PCs.
“Square Enix’s impressive distribution and marketing capabilities, combined with their proven success with launching top-notch AAA titles, makes them the absolute best partner for Dead Island,” said Deep Silver Chief Operating Officer Geoff Mulligan. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with their dedicated and talented team and look forward to collaborating with them in order to bring Dead Island to gamers.”
Developed by Techland, Dead Island combines first-person action with a heavy focus on melee combat, character development and customization of a vast array of weapons. The engaging survival-focused gameplay aspects are combined with a rich and immersive storyline in which a small group of people find themselves in a tropical paradise turned into total chaos and carnage after a mysterious zombie outbreak. Cut off from the rest of the world, the player’s only chance to survive is to fight to the death and find a way to escape from the island.
With firearms and ammunition being scarce, the player must utilize day-to-day items as weapons for self-defense to fight off zombie hordes in intense, gruesome melee combat. Featuring four customizable, unique character classes and engrossing role-playing elements combined with an intense four player co-op experience, Dead Island stands out as one of the most comprehensive zombie experiences to date.
“Dead Island is a truly extraordinary title and we couldn’t be more excited about leveraging our unified Square Enix resources in bringing it to audiences in the Americas.” said Mike Fischer, president and chief executive officer, Square Enix, Inc.
Dead Island will be released for Xbox 360, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC later this year.
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December 31:
Celebration Before Naptime – Please Touch Museum® opens at 9 a.m. and holds a midday countdowns with music and confetti at noon and 1 p.m. 4231 Avenue of the Republic, (215) 581-3181, pleasetouchmuseum.org
Kids’ New Year’s Eve Countdown – Historic Franklin Square offers families a 6 p.m. “square” drop, an indoor kids’ dance party, the Electrical Spectacle Holiday Light Show outside and great views of the early fireworks show at Penn’s Landing. 6th & Race Streets, (215) 629-4026, historicphiladelphia.org
Family Fireworks Viewing Party – The Independence Seaport Museum throws a party at 5-7 p.m. on its second-floor balcony, offering sparkling cider toast and panoramic views of the 6 p.m. fireworks. 211 S. Columbus Boulevard, (215) 413-8655, phillyseaport.org
New Year’s Eve Concert – Grammy-winning conductor Bramwell Tovey leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a 7:30 p.m. concert of popular pieces by Bernstein, Gershwin and Strauss.Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 300 S. Broad Street, (215) 893-1999, philorch.org
SugarHouse New Year’s Eve Fireworks on the Waterfront – Penn’s Landing offers two pyrotechnic displays in the shadow of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, at 6 p.m. and another at midnight. Each show is synchronized to a custom soundtrack. visitphilly.com
Holiday Parties on Ice – Along the Delaware River Waterfront, the Blue Cross RiverRink offers two parties to go with the two fireworks shows. Each offers live entertainment, party favors, comfort foods and ice-skating, along with cozy fire pits and an indoor Winterfest Lodge. Market Street & Columbus Boulevard, (215) 925-RINK, riverrink.com
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Mummers Parade – Philadelphia’s truly unusual New Year’s Day tradition dates back to 1901. Thousands of men, women and children wear feathers and sequins, making music and merriment at they head along Broad Street from City Hall to Washington Avenue. City Hall is the site of competition among the Comic, Comic Wench and String Band divisions. The Pennsylvania Convention Center hosts the Fancy Brigade Finale, a contest of Broadway-inspired dance routines. Tickets for bleacher seating at City Hall and for the Fancy Brigades are available at the Independence Visitor Center, 6th & Market Streets, (215) 965-7676, phlvisitorcenter.com; tickets for the competition at the Convention Center are also available at (800) 298-4200, spectratix.com
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts – Steps from the Mummers Parade is full day of free, all-ages entertainment: music by the Kendrah Butler Trio, a Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ demonstration, a hot chocolate bar—and the Resolution Wall, a spot to contribute private hopes for 2017. 300 S. Broad Street, (215) 893-1999, kimmelcenter.org
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1. Yang, Liu. Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film.
Degree: 2011, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1146186 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7216/1/th_redirect.html
► Magneto-optical effect phenomenon (MO) has been widely utilized in the physics field. When the light is passing through or gets reflected by the magnetic sample,… (more)
▼ Magneto-optical effect phenomenon (MO) has been widely utilized in the physics field. When the light is passing through or gets reflected by the magnetic sample, the polarization of the transmission or reflection light would rotate a small angle comparing with the polarization of the incident light. Since reflectance difference spectroscope has the unique advantage to measure the small polarization rotation angles after passing the anisotropic samples, it has shown its great potential in the magneto-optical studies since its invention. ZnO thin film has a wide band gap and high exciton binding energy with a non-centered wurtzite structure. These unique properties make it a promising material for their applications as sensors, transducers and catalysts and have attracted much attention in the research field. In this thesis, the basic principle of the reflectance difference spectroscopy technique and magneto-optical effect are introduced first. The experimental setup and measurement method related with the magnetization in C-doped Zinc oxide thin film are also included in the thesis. Magnetic domains are observed in C-doped Zinc Oxide layers grown on Si substrates. The in-plane magnetization and off-plane magnetization can be discriminated by changing the size of the aperture between the objective lens and the sample surface. Also, the influences of external magnetic field and low temperature to magnetic domains of ZnO thin film are discussed in the thesis too.
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties; Zinc oxide thin films – Magnetic properties; Magnetooptics
Yang, L. (2011). Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film . (Thesis). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1146186 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7216/1/th_redirect.html
Yang, Liu. “Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film.” 2011. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed July 18, 2019. https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1146186 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7216/1/th_redirect.html.
Yang, Liu. “Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film.” 2011. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Yang L. Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2011. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1146186 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7216/1/th_redirect.html.
Yang L. Microscopic magneto-optical effect of ZnO thin film. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2011. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b1146186 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-7216/1/th_redirect.html
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2. Kumari, Neelam. Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films.
Degree: 2009, Indian Institute of Science
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1045
► The present research work mainly focuses on the fabrication and characterization of single and multilayer thin films based on Bismuth Vanadate (BVO) and Bismuth Titanate… (more)
▼ The present research work mainly focuses on the fabrication and characterization of single and multilayer thin films based on Bismuth Vanadate (BVO) and Bismuth Titanate (BTO). The multi-target laser ablation technique was used to fabricate single layer thin films of BVO, BVN and BTO; and multilayers composed of BVO and BTO in different structures. The fabricated thin films exhibited dense microstructure and a sharp interface with the substrate. The lattice strain, surface roughness and grain size could be varied as functions of composition and individual layer thickness in different structure fabricated. The optical properties were studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry and optical transmission spectra. The various models that were used for ellipsometric data analysis gave an excellent fitting to the experimental data. The optical constants were determined through multilayer analyses of the films. The band gap of these films was studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry and optical transmission. The optical studies carried out on BVO-BTO bilayer indicated the presence of an interfacial layer in between the BVO and BTO layer, whose refractive index was different from that of the individual layers and is attributed to different nature of the interfacial layer. The ferroelectric nature of BVO films was confirmed by P-E hysteresis loop studies under different applied fields and at various probing frequencies. The same was corroborated via the C-V measurements of these BVO films which exhibited butterfly shaped C-V characteristics. Fatigue studies in these films indicated that the switchable polarization is essentially constant through 105 cycles, after which it starts increasing probably due to the ionic conduction in BVO thin films. The dielectric response of undoped and Nb doped BVO as well as BVBT ML thin films were studied over a wide range of temperatures. The BVO films exhibited remarkable dielectric dispersion at low frequencies especially in the high temperature regime. Further, the frequency and temperature dependence of the dielectric, impedance, modulus and conductivity spectra of these films were investigated in detail. The ac conductivity was found to obey well the double power law in case of ML, indicating the different contributions to the conductivity, the low frequency conductivity being due to the short range translational hopping and the high frequency conductivity is due to the localized or reorientational hopping motion. DC leakage conduction in BVO, BVN and BVBT ML thin films was studied over a wide range of temperatures and applied electric fields. The experimental data were analyzed in light of different models to investigate the dc conduction mechanism in these films which were broadly classified into electrode limited and bulk limited conduction processes. In the case of BVO thin films the dc leakage current exhibited an ohmic nature at low electric fields followed by an onset of the space charge limited conduction (>1). Further in case of BVN films, three distinct regions were observed in I-V… Advisors/Committee Members: Varma, K B R.
Subjects/Keywords: Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films; Thin Films - Optical Properties; Thin Films - Electrical Properties; Thin Films - Fabrication; Bismuth Vandate Thin Films; Bismuth Titanate Thin Films; Thin Films - Dielectric Properties; Thin Films - Ferroelectricity; Pulsed Laser Ablation; Thin Films - Laser Ablation; Thin Films - Dc Leakage; Bi2VO5.5; Bi4Ti3O12; Materials Science
Kumari, N. (2009). Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films . (Thesis). Indian Institute of Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1045
Kumari, Neelam. “Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films.” 2009. Thesis, Indian Institute of Science. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1045.
Kumari, Neelam. “Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films.” 2009. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Kumari N. Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indian Institute of Science; 2009. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1045.
Kumari N. Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films. [Thesis]. Indian Institute of Science; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/1045
3. LEE, CHENG-CHUNG. MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS.
Degree: 1983, University of Arizona
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186138
► Materials in the form of thin films that have been deposited from the vapor phase are significantly different from similar bulk materials, both optically and… (more)
▼ Materials in the form of thin films that have been deposited from the vapor phase are significantly different from similar bulk materials, both optically and mechanically, because of their columnar structure and consequent porosity. Their porosity have been verified in different ways. The effects of the pores on optical and mechanical performance and, in particular, the influence of water adsorption, have also been demonstrated. Three techniques used for investigating optical instabilities in thin films are given. They all involve sharp resonances. The resonances are associated either with surface plasmons, metal-dielectric narrowband filters, or all dielectric narrowband filters. These resonances are very sensitive functions of layer properties and hence can be used to detect and measure changes in the layers, particularly those that are induced by adsorption of moisture. Moisture adsorption in thin films is a complex process that occurs unevenly in patches. Using resonance techniques, the adsorption isotherms of change in refractive index, of growth rate in patch size, and of peak wavelength shift, which are all important in characterizing the porosity of films, have been measured. Some effects that locally increase film porosity and create central pores that permit water to penetrate into multilayer structures have been investigated. Based on these results, some suggestions for preventing water adsorption in films are then made. Moisture penetration into thin film structures is the major source of optical coating instability and it is therefore very important that the mechanisms of penetration by understood. Some deductions of the mechanisms are made from the experimental results. Advisors/Committee Members: Macleod, H. Angus (advisor), Turner, Frances A. (committeemember), Jacobson, Michael R. (committeemember), Gibson, Ursula J. (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films.; Thin films – Optical properties.
LEE, C. (1983). MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186138
LEE, CHENG-CHUNG. “MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS. ” 1983. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186138.
LEE, CHENG-CHUNG. “MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS. ” 1983. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
LEE C. MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1983. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186138.
LEE C. MOISTURE ADSORPTION AND OPTICAL INSTABILITY IN THIN FILM COATINGS. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1983. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186138
4. Knowlden, Robert Edward. WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS .
► The mirrors used in high energy laser systems have at least two requirements that are uncommon in optical engineering: the reflectance of such mirrors must… (more)
▼ The mirrors used in high energy laser systems have at least two requirements that are uncommon in optical engineering: the reflectance of such mirrors must be very high (> 0.999), and the level of aberrations introduced by the mirrors is desired to be very low, typically λ/50 peak at 3.8 μ. The first requirement can be met by using multilayer thin film coatings, but such coatings can themselves produce aberrations in an optical system. One possible effect in multilayers is that such coatings produce an optical phase change on reflection that varies with angle of incidence and polarization of the illuminating beam. On a strongly curved mirror, such as an f/1.5 parabola used as a collimator, these effects may be appreciable for some coatings (e.g., λ/13 for a broadband all-dielectric reflector), but for an enhanced silver coating the effects are small, typically λ/400 of error that is almost entirely in the form of a small focus shift. If this same parabola is tested at its center of curvature, the coating-caused aberration due to angle of incidence effects are nearly zero (e.g., λ/50,000 for the broadband reflector that gave λ/13 when the parabola was used as a collimator). The wavefront errors due to coating nonuniformities are usually more important than angle of incidence effects. The simplest type of coating nonuniformity to analyze is a proportional error, i.e., an error where the ratios of the thicknesses of the layers are fixed but the thin film stack varies in total thickness across a surface. For a six-layer enhanced reflector for use at 3.8 μ, a 1% thickness error produces an approximate λ/100 wavefront error. At visible wavelengths, however, the aberration produced by such a coating error can be very different because of the optical interference nature of the coating. Means may be developed to estimate the performance of such an infrared reflector from measurements at visible wavelengths. If the errors produced by the coating are to be distinguished from those existing in the test due to misalignment or gravitational flexure of a large mirror, two or more wavelengths must be chosen. There are ambiguities in such a test that may be resolved by choice of an appropriate coating design or by using enough wavelengths in the visible, and both means have been studied. A technique was found where the infrared wavefront can be determined for a coating with proportional thickness errors if the coating prescription is known: interferograms of the mirror are made at three visible wavelengths, and the IR wavefront error due to the coating error is determined in a way that is insensitive to any errors caused by distortion of the substrate or even fairly large misalignments in the optical test of a mirror's figure. Advisors/Committee Members: Shannon, Robert (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Optical films.; Thin films, Multilayered.; Thin films – Optical properties.
Knowlden, R. E. (1981). WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/281959
Knowlden, Robert Edward. “WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS .” 1981. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/281959.
Knowlden, Robert Edward. “WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS .” 1981. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Knowlden RE. WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1981. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/281959.
Knowlden RE. WAVEFRONT ERRORS PRODUCED BY MULTILAYER THIN-FILM OPTICAL COATINGS . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1981. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/281959
5. van Heerden, Johannes Lodewikus. Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Johannesburg
► In the search to improve the conversion efficiency of solar cells such as α-Si and CuInSe2 cells, attention have recently been focused on the use… (more)
▼ In the search to improve the conversion efficiency of solar cells such as α-Si and CuInSe2 cells, attention have recently been focused on the use of transparent conducting oxides (TCO's) as window layers and top electrodes in these cells. Materials such as indium tin oxide (ITO) and fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films were used due to their excellent electro-optical properties, but it was found that they were unstable when subjected to a hydrogen plasma (during the a-Si deposition) and that the materials reduced to their metallic forms, degrading their electrical and optical properties. Zinc oxide (ZnO), however, possess electrical and optical properties equal to ITO and FTO, but is stable in the presence of a hydrogen plasma. In this study a system for the deposition of ZnO thin films by spray pyrolysis was developed and the films successfully deposited. The films were also doped with A1C1 3 in an attempt to further improve the films' conductivities. The films were then characterized by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electrical measurements (Hall and four-point probe measurements) and optical analyses of the films. The films were compared with films deposited by atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and DC sputtering. It was found that the films were crystalline with a predominantly (002) preferred orientation. The addition of Al as dopant, however, resulted in the film structure deteriorating. The SEM micrographs obtained of the films indicated films with a close-packed structure, existing of small grains and the film surface having a textured appearance. It was further found that the deposition parameters of the films influenced both the structures of the films and the morphologies and the micrographs indicated that the addition of Al as dopant resulted in the film formation being inhibited and even resulting in no proper film being deposited. It was found that the as-deposited ZnO films were resistive and that the films had to be subjected to a post-deposition annealing to decrease the film resistivity. The annealing conditions were investigated and it was found that annealing the films in hydrogen at their deposition temperature for an hour resulted in the largest decrease in the films' resistivities, typically two orders of magnitude. Studies of the substrate temperature indicated that the films had to be deposited at between 350 and 420°C and that a reduction in the substrate temperature resulted in the film resistivity increasing. Contrary to literature, it was found that the addition of Al as dopant had no beneficial influence on the electrical properties of the films and that dopant concentrations exceeding 1.0 at.% resulted in the film resistivity increasing. The films were characterized optically by analysing the transmission spectra obtained of the films, using the envelope technique. It was found that the films had transmissions exceeding 95% and that the refractive indices and optical gaps centred around 1.99 and 3.3 eV respectively. Both properties were affected by…
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Electric properties; Thin films – Optical properties; Zinc oxide; Zinc oxide – Electric properties; Pyrolysis; Solar cells
van Heerden, J. L. (2012). Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6033
van Heerden, Johannes Lodewikus. “Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Johannesburg. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6033.
van Heerden, Johannes Lodewikus. “Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis.” 2012. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
van Heerden JL. Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6033.
van Heerden JL. Material properties of ZnO thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6033
6. Esterhuyse, Coreen. Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies.
Degree: 2014, University of Johannesburg
M.Sc. (Physics)
Amorphous silicon is one of the most promising materials for large area solar cells for terestrial photovoltaic applications. Unfortunately these cells suffer from… (more)
Amorphous silicon is one of the most promising materials for large area solar cells for terestrial photovoltaic applications. Unfortunately these cells suffer from two serious problems: the efficiencies drop when laboratory processes are scaled up and the cells degrade after some exposure to sunlight. The exact causes of these two problems are still unknown. In this project some aspects of the latter problem were investigated. The photo-degradation was investigated by illuminating films of a-Si:H with simulated sunlight for different periods of time and then thermally annealing them. The change in the optical properties were investigated with the aid of optical transmission spectroscopy. The films were also characterized by Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy. The change in the electrical properties of the intrinsic films was determined as function of temperature and total photon flux. No change in the optical properties could be detected. The illumination had-no effect on the FTIR measurements. It seems as if the hydrogen is not involved in the microscopic processes leading to the Staebler-Wronski Effect (SWE). The effect of the photo-degradation manifests itself in a drop in the the dark conductivity and photoconductivity over the total temperature range that was investigated. The observed phenomena are explained in terms of photo-induced deep levels in the gap. The Fermi level shifts to the middle of the gap due to these defect states, causing a drop in the free carrier concentration and conductivity. The measurements of photoconductivity as function of photon energy show that these defect levels increase the absorption coefficient in the long wavelength region, but they also decrease the lifetime of the photo-generated carriers. The photo-induced defects were investigated with the CPM-technique. It was found that the light introduced defects deep in the band gap. The concentration of the defects increases with illumination, but saturates after about 24 hours of illumination. The defects could be annealed almost completely. The microscopic processes causing the photo-degradation of α Si:H solar cells were investigated by comparing the different theoretical models explaining the SWE with the results obtained during this project.
Subjects/Keywords: Silicon-carbide thin films; Silicon - Optical properties; Amorphous semiconductors - Optical properties; Solar cells
Esterhuyse, C. (2014). Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies . (Thesis). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9948
Esterhuyse, Coreen. “Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies.” 2014. Thesis, University of Johannesburg. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9948.
Esterhuyse, Coreen. “Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies.” 2014. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Esterhuyse C. Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9948.
Esterhuyse C. Foto-degradering van amorfe silikon dun lagies. [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9948
7. Zagone, Robin L. Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy.
Degree: PhD, Physics, 1995, Oregon State University
► Nonlinear optical processes can be described as multiphoton scattering events in terms of high order perturbation theory. The standard procedure for quantitative calculation of high… (more)
▼ Nonlinear optical processes can be described as multiphoton scattering events in terms of high order perturbation theory. The standard procedure for quantitative calculation of high order terms is to impose a steady state condition on the perturbative radiation fields. In the present work, this condition will be lifted, and explicit time dependencies in terms of pulsed radiation will be examined at length. Enhanced Linear and nonlinear scattering of laser radiation from a cryogenic Si- Si0₂ surface in the presence of H₂0 vapor reveals the influence of the irreversible structural phase changes of solid water on and within the oxide layer of Silicon. Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) is a four-photon process which, when conducted within the boundary. conditions of a waveguiding medium, can serve as an enhanced surface and bulk probe. Advisors/Committee Members: Hetherington, William M. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties
Zagone, R. L. (1995). Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy . (Doctoral Dissertation). Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/18844
Zagone, Robin L. “Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy.” 1995. Doctoral Dissertation, Oregon State University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/18844.
Zagone, Robin L. “Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy.” 1995. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Zagone RL. Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Oregon State University; 1995. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/18844.
Zagone RL. Linear and nonlinear optical investigation of films : I. Formalism for time resolved multi-photon processes. II. Detection of solid water phase transitions on Si-SiO₂ III. Wave guided CARS spectroscopy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Oregon State University; 1995. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/18844
8. Park, Wounjhang. Optical properties of thin film phosphors.
Degree: PhD, Physics, 1997, Georgia Tech
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films Optical properties; Phosphors
Park, W. (1997). Optical properties of thin film phosphors . (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30078
Park, Wounjhang. “Optical properties of thin film phosphors.” 1997. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30078.
Park, Wounjhang. “Optical properties of thin film phosphors.” 1997. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Park W. Optical properties of thin film phosphors. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 1997. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30078.
Park W. Optical properties of thin film phosphors. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 1997. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30078
9. Madiba, Itani Given. Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering .
Degree: 2012, University of the Western Cape
► Vanadium dioxide (VO2) films have been known as the most feasible thermochromic nano-coatings for smart windows which self control the solar radiation and heat transfer… (more)
▼ Vanadium dioxide (VO2) films have been known as the most feasible thermochromic nano-coatings for smart windows which self control the solar radiation and heat transfer for energy saving and comfort in houses and automotives. Such an attractive technological application is due to the fact that VO2 crystals exhibit a fast semiconductor-to-metal phase transition at a transition temperature TM of about 68°C, together with sharp optical changes from high transmitive to high reflective coatings in the IR spectral region. The phase transition has been associated to the nature of the microstructure, stoichiometry and some other surrounding parameters of the oxide. This study reports on the effect of the crystallographic quality controlled by the substrate temperature on the thermochromic properties of VO2 thin films synthesized by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering. Vanadium dioxide thin films were deposited on glass substrate, at various temperatures between 350 to 600 0C, deposition time kept constant at 1 hour. Prior the experiment, deposition conditions such as base pressure, oxygen pressure, rf power and target-substrate distance were carefully optimized for the quality of VO2 thin films. The reports results are based on AFM, XRD, RBS, ERDA and UV-VIS. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to study the surface roughness of the thin films. Microstructures and orientation of grain size within the VO2 thin films were investigated by the use of X-ray diffraction technique. The stoichiometry and depth profiles of the films were all confirmed by RBS and ERDA respectively. The optical properties of VO2 were observed using the UV-Vis spectrophotometer. Advisors/Committee Members: Maaza, Malik (advisor), Ngom, B. D (advisor), Tschokonte, M.T (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Vanadium dioxide; Microstructure; Optical properties; Thin films; Sputtering (Physics)
Madiba, I. G. (2012). Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering . (Thesis). University of the Western Cape. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4381
Madiba, Itani Given. “Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering .” 2012. Thesis, University of the Western Cape. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4381.
Madiba, Itani Given. “Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering .” 2012. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Madiba IG. Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4381.
Madiba IG. Thermochromic properties of VO2 nano-coatings by inverted cylindrical magnetron sputtering . [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4381
10. Kinigstein, Eli Diego. Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films.
Degree: 2018, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D84B4HZ0
► Highly efficient LEDs and photovoltaic cells based on spin coated films of layered Ruddlesden-Popper hybrid perovskites (RPP) have been recently reported. The electronic structure and… (more)
▼ Highly efficient LEDs and photovoltaic cells based on spin coated films of layered Ruddlesden-Popper hybrid perovskites (RPP) have been recently reported. The electronic structure and phase composition of these films remains an open question, with diverse explanations offered accounting for the excellent device performance. Here we report x-ray and optical characterization of hot cast RPP thin films, emphasizing the distribution of structural and electronic properties through the film depth. Our results indicate an at least 70% phase pure n=3 film results from casting a stoichiometric solution of precursors, with minor contributions from n=2 and n=4 phases. We observe a strong correspondence between the predicted single-crystal RPP reciprocal lattice and measured RPP film wide angle scattering pattern, indicating a highly ordered [101] oriented film. This correspondence is broken at the air-film interface where new scattering peaks indicate the existence of a long wavelength structural distortion localized near the films surface. Using transient absorption spectroscopy, we show that the previously detected luminescent mid-gap states are localized on the films surface. Investigating films of varying thickness, we determine the photo-excited carrier dynamics are dominated by diffusion to this interface state, and extract an excitonic diffusivity of 0.18cm2s-1. We suggest that the observed surface distortion is responsible for the creation of luminescent mid-gap states.
Subjects/Keywords: Materials science; Condensed matter; Perovskite; Thin films – Optical properties
Kinigstein, E. D. (2018). Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films . (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D84B4HZ0
Kinigstein, Eli Diego. “Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed July 18, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/D84B4HZ0.
Kinigstein, Eli Diego. “Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films.” 2018. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Kinigstein ED. Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D84B4HZ0.
Kinigstein ED. Structural and Optical Characterization of Solution Processed Lead Iodide Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Thin Films. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D84B4HZ0
11. Grahn, Norman Donald, 1940-. Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films .
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties.
Grahn, Norman Donald, 1. (1974). Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films . (Masters Thesis). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/554659
Grahn, Norman Donald, 1940-. “Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films .” 1974. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/554659.
Grahn, Norman Donald, 1940-. “Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films .” 1974. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Grahn, Norman Donald 1. Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arizona; 1974. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/554659.
Grahn, Norman Donald 1. Optical properties of chemical vapor depositions of silicon oxynitride films . [Masters Thesis]. University of Arizona; 1974. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/554659
12. Yan, Kunlun. Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers .
Degree: 2018, Australian National University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/162514
► Chalcogenide glass waveguide devices have received a great deal of attention worldwide in the last few years on account of their excellent properties and potential… (more)
▼ Chalcogenide glass waveguide devices have received a great deal of attention worldwide in the last few years on account of their excellent properties and potential applications in mid-infrared (MIR) sensing and all-optical signal processing. Waveguide propagation losses, however, currently limit the potential for low power nonlinear optical processing, and the lack of suitable on chip integrated MIR sources is one of the major barriers to integrated optics based MIR sensing. One approach to overcome the losses is to employ rare-earth ion doped waveguides in which the optical gain can compensate the loss, in such a way that the conversion efficiency of nonlinear effects is increased significantly. For infrared applications, the long wavelengths potentially attainable from rare-earth ion transitions in chalcogenide hosts are unique amongst glass hosts. New rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide sources in the MIR range could benefit molecular sensing, medical laser surgery, defence etc. Despite these promising applications, until now, no one has succeeded in fabricating rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide amplifiers or lasers in planar devices. This work develops high quality erbium ion doped chalcogenide waveguides for amplifier and laser applications. Erbium ion doped As2S3 films were fabricated using co-thermal evaporation. Planar waveguides with 0.35 dB/cm propagation loss were patterned using photolithography and plasma etching on an erbium ion doped As2S3 film with an optimised erbium ion concentration of 0.45x1020 ions/cm3. The first demonstration of internal gain in an erbium ion doped As2S3 planar waveguide was performed using these waveguides. With different film deposition approaches, promising results on intrinsic lifetime of the Er3+ 4I13/2 state were achieved in both ErCl3 doped As2S3 films (2.6 ms) and radio frenquency sputtered Er3+:As2S3 films (2.1 ms), however, no waveguide was fabricated on these films due to film quality issues and photopumped water absorption issues. The low rare-earth ion solubility of As2S3 is considered the main factor limiting its performance as a host. Gallium-containing chalcogenide glasses are known to have good rare-earth ion solubility. Therefore, a new glass host material, the Ge-Ga-Se system, was investigated. Emission properties of the bulk glasses were studied as a function of erbium ion doping. A region between approximately 0.5 and 0.8 at% of Er3+ ion was shown to provide sufficient doping, good photoluminescence and adequate lifetime to envisage practical planar waveguide amplifier devices. Ridge waveguides based on high quality erbium ion doped Ge-Ga-Se films were patterned. Significant signal enhancement at 1540 nm was observed and 50 % erbium ion population inversion was obtained, in waveguides with Er3+ concentration of 1.5x1020 ion/cm3. To the …
Subjects/Keywords: Rare-earth doped materials; thin films; waveguide; optical properties
Yan, K. (2018). Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers . (Thesis). Australian National University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1885/162514
Yan, Kunlun. “Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers .” 2018. Thesis, Australian National University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/162514.
Yan, Kunlun. “Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers .” 2018. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Yan K. Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers . [Internet] [Thesis]. Australian National University; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/162514.
Yan K. Rare-earth ion doped chalcogenide waveguide amplifiers . [Thesis]. Australian National University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/162514
13. McMath, Thompson Andrew. Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films.
Degree: 1978, Simon Fraser University
URL: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/3168
McMath, T. A. (1978). Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films . (Thesis). Simon Fraser University. Retrieved from http://summit.sfu.ca/item/3168
McMath, Thompson Andrew. “Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films.” 1978. Thesis, Simon Fraser University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/3168.
McMath, Thompson Andrew. “Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films.” 1978. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
McMath TA. Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films. [Internet] [Thesis]. Simon Fraser University; 1978. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/3168.
McMath TA. Transmission measurement of the optical constants of thin solid films. [Thesis]. Simon Fraser University; 1978. Available from: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/3168
14. Horne, Jennifer Conrad. Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies.
Degree: PhD, Department of Chemistry, 1998, Michigan State University
URL: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:26938
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties; Thin films, Multilayered; Monomolecular films
Horne, J. C. (1998). Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies . (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:26938
Horne, Jennifer Conrad. “Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies.” 1998. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:26938.
Horne, Jennifer Conrad. “Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies.” 1998. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Horne JC. Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1998. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:26938.
Horne JC. Structure and dynamics of layered molecular assemblies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan State University; 1998. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:26938
15. Tait, R. Niall. Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization.
Degree: PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1992, University of Alberta
URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f7623f176
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Electric properties.; Thin films – Optical properties.; Thin films – Magnetic properties.
Tait, R. N. (1992). Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f7623f176
Tait, R Niall. “Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization.” 1992. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed July 18, 2019. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f7623f176.
Tait, R Niall. “Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization.” 1992. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Tait RN. Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 1992. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f7623f176.
Tait RN. Thin film microstructure effects in VLSI metallization. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 1992. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f7623f176
16. Garcia, Marie Frances, 1949-. THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS .
Subjects/Keywords: Dielectric films.; Thin films – Optical properties.
Garcia, Marie Frances, 1. (1986). THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS . (Masters Thesis). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276347
Garcia, Marie Frances, 1949-. “THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS .” 1986. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276347.
Garcia, Marie Frances, 1949-. “THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS .” 1986. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Garcia, Marie Frances 1. THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arizona; 1986. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276347.
Garcia, Marie Frances 1. THREE TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING THE OPTICAL CONSTANTS OF DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS . [Masters Thesis]. University of Arizona; 1986. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276347
17. Kotze, Abraham Paulus. A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters.
M.Ing.
This work comprises the implementation and comparison of five design techniques for the design of gradient-index thin film optical filters: classical rugate, inverse Fourier… (more)
This work comprises the implementation and comparison of five design techniques for the design of gradient-index thin film optical filters: classical rugate, inverse Fourier transform, a wavelet-based design procedure, as well as the flip-flop and the genetic optimization techniques. Designs for a high-reflectance filter, a beamsplitter, a discrete level filter, a distributed filter, and an anti-reflection coating were used to compare the various filter synthesis techniques. The optical thickness of the various examples was maintained below 30 and the refractive index excursion limits were between 1.5 and 3.2. The overall performance of a specific design was evaluated by a weighted merit function. The classical rugate filter uses a sinusoidal refractive index modulation that produces a single reflection band. More complex filters are realized by linear superposition of these elementary profiles. Sidelobe and ripple suppression are obtained by applying quintic windowing functions to the refractive index profile and adding matching layers at the edges of the filter. This filter design procedure has the best figure of merit of 3.73 for the discrete level filter, and the second best of 3.09 for the high-reflectance filter. The inverse Fourier transform links the refractive index profile and reflection spectrum of an optical filter by an approximate relation. It is self-correcting and iterative in nature. It produces filters with the highest optical density. The procedure excels in the design of the distributed filter with a figure of merit of 4.17. Mortlett's wavelet is used as the basis of the wavelet design technique. A single wavelet yields a single reflection band, similar to the classical rugate filter. Sidelobe suppression is an inherent property of the method, but matching layers are needed for passband ripple suppression. The optical density of the high reflection filter is larger for a filter designed with this method than for the equivalent classical rugate filter. The figure of merit of 1.75 for the high-reflectance filter is the best for any of the designs. Flip-flop refinement is a brute force approach to filter design. The layers of a starting design are flipped between two values of refractive index, the change in figure of merit evaluated and the best case saved. This process is repeated for a fixed number of iterations. It is computationally intensive and lacks ripple suppression characteristics. The flip-flop method does not compare well with any of the other techniques. It yields filters with the worst figures of merit for most of the design examples. However, it was applied successfully to the anti-reflection coating. The peak ripple for the anti-reflection filter in the 400 nm to 1100 nm wavelength band is 9.62 % compared to the inverse Fourier transform's 57.30 %. The genetic algorithm operates on the principle of "survival of the fittest". It is a stochastic procedure and yields quasi-random refractive index profiles. It excels with the antireflection coating. The peak ripple in the…
Subjects/Keywords: Thin film devices; Thin films - Optical properties; Fiber optics; Fourier transformations; Maxwell equations; Wavelets (Mathematics)
Kotze, A. P. (2012). A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters . (Thesis). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5453
Kotze, Abraham Paulus. “A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters.” 2012. Thesis, University of Johannesburg. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5453.
Kotze, Abraham Paulus. “A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters.” 2012. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Kotze AP. A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5453.
Kotze AP. A comparison of design techniques for gradient-index thin film optical filters. [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5453
18. Gallian, Andrew Raymond. Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers.
Degree: PhD, 2006, University of Alabama – Birmingham
URL: http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/u?/etd,88
This work is devoted to evaluating new laser systems based upon chromium and iron doped ZnSe structures. These systems are based upon new materials and… (more)
This work is devoted to evaluating new laser systems based upon chromium and iron doped ZnSe structures. These systems are based upon new materials and pumping schemes. These topics can be broken down into three major subgroups: new materials based upon Cr2+:ZnSe, Fe2+:ZnSe lasers and pump sources, and electrically pumped Cr2+:ZnSe systems. Both hot-pressed ceramic and thin film Cr2+:ZnSe samples were evaluated for their potential as laser gain media. This work entailed spectroscopic analysis of both their absorption and emission spectra as well as characterizing their lifetime of luminescence. For hot-pressed ceramic Cr2+:ZnSe the samples were tested in a laser cavity and proven to be the first laser system in the mid-IR to be demonstrated based upon hot-pressed Cr2+:ZnSe. Thin film Cr2+:ZnSe was determined to have different spectroscopic characteristics for luminescence compared to reference bulk samples. This difference is attributed to the location of all of the optical centers within a Fabry-Perot cavity formed by the film surface and the wafer on which it was deposited. Fe2+:ZnSe laser demonstration at room temperature is presented. This laser operates in a spectral region of great interest for spectroscopy. To develop this laser system new pumping systems were required. Such systems as passively Q-switched Er:YSGG and Stokes Stimulated Raman Scattering from a D2 cell are described in great depth. Electrically pumped Transition Metal 2+:II-VI systems are ideal for small portable spectroscopic and scientific tools. The elimination of an optical pump source removes many complications of other systems including, complications due to having a second laser. This work was approached by modeling electrically motivated transitions with sub-band optical excitation. Lasing of Cr2+:ZnSe was achieved using a 532 nm pump source. This result, in combination with photo-current and photo-Hall measurements, led to the development of some theories explaining possible electroluminescence. Electroluminescence was also achieved in bulk n-type Cr2+:ZnSe using impacts of hot carriers as an excitation source.
viii, 110 p. : digital, PDF file, ill. (some col.).
Advisors/Committee Members: Mirov, Sergey B., Camata, Renato <br>, Fork, Richard <br>, Stanishevsky, Andrei <br>, Watkins, Charles L.<br>, Zvanut, Mary Ellen.
Subjects/Keywords: Tunable lasers – Materials – Optical properties <; br>; Tunable lasers – Materials – Electric properties <; br>; Thin films – Optical properties <; br>; Thin films – Electric properties
Gallian, A. R. (2006). Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alabama – Birmingham. Retrieved from http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/u?/etd,88
Gallian, Andrew Raymond. “Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers.” 2006. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alabama – Birmingham. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/u?/etd,88.
Gallian, Andrew Raymond. “Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers.” 2006. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Gallian AR. Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alabama – Birmingham; 2006. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/u?/etd,88.
Gallian AR. Optical and electrical characteristics of Cr and Fe doped ZnSe thin film and bulk materials for optically and electrically pumped lasers. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alabama – Birmingham; 2006. Available from: http://contentdm.mhsl.uab.edu/u?/etd,88
19. Oeschger, John Willet. Optical properties of ultrathin silver films.
Degree: MS, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1988, Michigan State University
Subjects/Keywords: Silver films – Optical properties; Metallic films – Optical properties; Thin films – Optical properties
Oeschger, J. W. (1988). Optical properties of ultrathin silver films . (Masters Thesis). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:20487
Oeschger, John Willet. “Optical properties of ultrathin silver films.” 1988. Masters Thesis, Michigan State University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:20487.
Oeschger, John Willet. “Optical properties of ultrathin silver films.” 1988. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Oeschger JW. Optical properties of ultrathin silver films. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Michigan State University; 1988. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:20487.
Oeschger JW. Optical properties of ultrathin silver films. [Masters Thesis]. Michigan State University; 1988. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:20487
20. Dunuwila, Dilum Devike. An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors.
Degree: MS, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1993, Michigan State University
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties; Optical detectors
Dunuwila, D. D. (1993). An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors . (Masters Thesis). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:23092
Dunuwila, Dilum Devike. “An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors.” 1993. Masters Thesis, Michigan State University. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:23092.
Dunuwila, Dilum Devike. “An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors.” 1993. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Dunuwila DD. An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Michigan State University; 1993. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:23092.
Dunuwila DD. An investigation of the feasibility of using sol-gel derived thin films toward development of optical sensors. [Masters Thesis]. Michigan State University; 1993. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:23092
21. WEINBERGER, DOREEN ANNE. OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR).
► Two-photon optical bistability in commercial thin-film interference filters with ZnS and ZnSe spacers is observed with switching times ≳ 200 μs. The accompanying drifting of… (more)
▼ Two-photon optical bistability in commercial thin-film interference filters with ZnS and ZnSe spacers is observed with switching times ≳ 200 μs. The accompanying drifting of the bistability loop in time and laser-induced "damage" indicate a thermal mechanism. The problem of water vapor absorption in such filters must be addressed before the inherent potential and advantages of these devices in two-dimensional image processing applications can be realized. Trans- verse effects in GaAs superlattice etalons are observed which cannot be explained on the basis of a plane-wave analysis. The optical nonlinearity in GaAs and diffraction combine to produce drastic effects on the measured beam profiles and bistable loops, due to an intensity-dependent virtual focus. Lastly, the first observation of optical bistability due to a biexcitonic nonlinearity in CuCl etalons is reported with detector-limited switching times of 600 ps. In addition, lasing action along the pump axis in a cavity defined by the end mirrors is observed in a very thin (2.0 μm) CuCl etalon. The lasing transition is unique in that it involves the creation of a virtual excitation of biexcitons which decay to the longitudinal exciton state. Advisors/Committee Members: Gibbs, Hyatt M (advisor), Sarid, Dror (committeemember), Seraphin, Bernie (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Optical bistability.; Thin films – Optical properties.
WEINBERGER, D. A. (1984). OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR). (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187922
WEINBERGER, DOREEN ANNE. “OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR). ” 1984. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187922.
WEINBERGER, DOREEN ANNE. “OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR). ” 1984. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
WEINBERGER DA. OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1984. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187922.
WEINBERGER DA. OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN ZINC-SULFIDE AND ZINC-SELENIDE THIN-FILM INTERFERENCE FILTERS AND IN GALLIUM-ARSENIDE AND COPPER-CHLORIDE ETALONS (NONLINEAR). [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1984. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187922
22. Bulkin, Pavel Victorovich. Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications.
D.Ing. (Electrical And Electronic Engineering )
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Subjects/Keywords: Thin films - Optical properties; Optical materials; Materials - Optical properties
Bulkin, P. V. (2014). Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications . (Thesis). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9996
Bulkin, Pavel Victorovich. “Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications.” 2014. Thesis, University of Johannesburg. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9996.
Bulkin, Pavel Victorovich. “Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications.” 2014. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Bulkin PV. Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9996.
Bulkin PV. Electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition of sioxny : optical properties and applications. [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9996
23. Hickey, Carolyn Frances. Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide.
► The development of materials for optical thin film application is essential to progress in fields such as optical data storage and signal processing. Samarium sulfide… (more)
▼ The development of materials for optical thin film application is essential to progress in fields such as optical data storage and signal processing. Samarium sulfide (SmS) thin films were prepared by reactive evaporation of samarium in hydrogen sulfide (H₂S). These displayed optical switching properties despite the presence of large amounts of carbon and oxygen. They are therefore potentially useful for data storage. The semiconductor to metal phase transition was characterized by x-ray diffraction and spectrophotometry. The observed optical response was modelled by a Bruggeman effective medium calculation. Success with this analysis suggests it as a means for predicting performance in subsequent applications. Zinc sulfide (ZnS) thin films were prepared by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Implimentation of an H₂S treated silicon surface provided good chemical bond match in addition to a good lattice match. Atomic layer epitaxy was unsuccessfully explored as a means to grow ZnS from zinc and H₂S reactants, therefore other reactants are proposed. Both the MBE and ALE work is directed at the long term goals of producing p-type ZnS, which is suitable for semiconductor lasing at short wavelengths, and high quality SmS thin films. Advisors/Committee Members: Gibson, Ursula (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties.; Thin films – Analysis.
Hickey, C. F. (1987). Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184263
Hickey, Carolyn Frances. “Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide. ” 1987. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184263.
Hickey, Carolyn Frances. “Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide. ” 1987. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Hickey CF. Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1987. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184263.
Hickey CF. Optical, chemical, and structural properties of thin films of samarium-sulfide and zinc-sulfide. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1987. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184263
24. Shimshock, Richard Paul, 1954-. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES .
► We established measurement and analysis techniques necessary to investigate the optical properties of some transition metal compounds: specifically the carbides and nitrides of Ti, Zr,… (more)
▼ We established measurement and analysis techniques necessary to investigate the optical properties of some transition metal compounds: specifically the carbides and nitrides of Ti, Zr, and Hf. Two distinct techniques determined the optical constants of these films: a Nestell-Christy method to invert measurements of thickness, reflection, and transmission and a Kramers-Kronig analysis of reflection. The compositions of the samples were evaluated by X-ray diffraction, Auger spectroscopy, scanning electron microprobe analysis, and nuclear analysis. We found it possible to correlate these materials' optical and electronic properties and relate these to compositional changes. The ability to engineer a specific optical response of materials is discussed. Additions of carbon and nitrogen change the optical properties in a specific manner; the roles of these elements as electron donors and their effect on the location and population of the d electron bands with respect to the Fermi level are postulated.
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films, Multilayered.; Thin films – Optical properties.
Shimshock, Richard Paul, 1. (1987). CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES . (Masters Thesis). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276480
Shimshock, Richard Paul, 1954-. “CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES .” 1987. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276480.
Shimshock, Richard Paul, 1954-. “CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES .” 1987. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Shimshock, Richard Paul 1. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Arizona; 1987. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276480.
Shimshock, Richard Paul 1. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES AND NITRIDES . [Masters Thesis]. University of Arizona; 1987. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276480
25. Li, Zhanming. Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers .
Degree: 1988, University of British Columbia
► The goal of the thesis is to make contributions to the development of two new technologies for data storage: perpendicular recording and magneto-optic recording. CoCr… (more)
▼ The goal of the thesis is to make contributions to the development of two new technologies for data storage: perpendicular recording and magneto-optic recording. CoCr and rare earth-transition metal multilayers are the most suitable media for perpendicular recording and magneto-optic recording technologies, respectively. In part A of the thesis, magnetic properties of CoCr thin films produced by dc magnetron sputtering are studied for various deposition conditions. Dielectric constants and extraordinary Hall effect are also studied to provide information complementary to magnetic properties. In part B, new methods are developed for theoretical analysis of the magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers, which can be used to optimize the readout of the recording system. Part A For dc magnetron sputtered CoCr films the perpendicular and parallel magnetic coercivities are found to be mainly controlled by the substrate temperature during film growth. Substrate temperatures between 180 and 300 C are necessary to fabricate CoCr thin films for recording media. Films produced in this manner have magnetic anisotropy constants ranging from —1.0 to +0.5 10⁶erg/cc. The magnetic anisotropy has a complicated dependence on a large number of deposition parameters and can be best controlled by the dc sputtering power and the target-to-substrate distance. Based on microstructural analysis film properties are interpreted in terms of the adatom diffusion during film growth. It is found that high adatom mobility and low deposition rate promote positive magnetic anisotropy. The dielectric constants measured by ellipsometry are found to depend on the film thickness because of the change in film morphology during film growth. The effects of asymmetric sputtering are analyzed, and the relationship between the extraordinary Hall effect and the magnetic properties is investigated. Part B The 4x4 matrix method proposed by Lin-Chung and Teitler[P. J. Lin-Chung and S. Teitler, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1 703(1984)] is applied to the magneto-optics of the rare earth-transition metal multilayer system. Based on a plane wave model, the above method enables one to calculate the sensitivity of the readout to the layer thicknesses as well as effects of oblique angle of incidence, anisotropy in the nonmagnetic part of the dielectric constants and misalignment of the magnetization. Finally, an improved model is presented to take into account the fact that the reading laser is a strongly focused beam instead of a plane wave. This new model is used to optimize the magneto-optic multilayer system. When the focal spot size of the reading laser beam is less than about three wavelengths, significantly different results are obtained from the focused beam and the plane wave models.
Subjects/Keywords: Magnetooptics; Thin films; Thin films – Optical properties
Li, Z. (1988). Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers . (Thesis). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28858
Li, Zhanming. “Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers .” 1988. Thesis, University of British Columbia. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28858.
Li, Zhanming. “Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers .” 1988. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Li Z. Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1988. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28858.
Li Z. Magnetic properties of sputtered CoCr films and magneto-optics of rare earth-transition metal multilayers . [Thesis]. University of British Columbia; 1988. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28858
26. HOROWITZ, FLAVIO. STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS.
► We consider in this work the contribution of anisotropic microstructure to polarization effects in thin films. The microstructure is pictured by a simple model as… (more)
▼ We consider in this work the contribution of anisotropic microstructure to polarization effects in thin films. The microstructure is pictured by a simple model as composed of identical columns with elliptical cross section elongated in a direction perpendicular to that of the vapor incidence. The asymmetry in columnar structure that results from oblique deposition is identified as the common source for the significant dichroism and birefringence observed in metal and dielectric films, respectively. A four-dimensional theory for multilayer systems is presented that starts from first principles, unifies previous treatments for particular cases of film anisotropy, and properly handles the most general case of elliptically polarized mode propagation. In this framework and from a set of polarimetric measurements, a simple method is devised, with explicit consideration of the anisotropic microstructure, for the determination of the physical thickness and principal refractive indices of a single dielectric film. A sequence of transmittance measurements is performed with a zirconium oxide film deposited at 65° and, substrate role and instrumental errors considered, good agreement is obtained between theory and experiment. Spectrophotometer data for a narrowband filter with 21 layers deposited at 30° is shown to confirm theoretical predictions of peak positions with Angstrom resolution. A hypothetical metal film is discussed that reproduces the essential features observed in the optical behavior of an aluminum film deposited at 85°. Potential applications and suggestions for future work are included. Advisors/Committee Members: Macleod, Angus (advisor), Burke, James (committeemember), Shack, Roland (committeemember), Turner, Francis (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Anisotropy.; Optical films.; Thin films – Optical properties.
HOROWITZ, F. (1983). STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187598
HOROWITZ, FLAVIO. “STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS. ” 1983. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187598.
HOROWITZ, FLAVIO. “STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS. ” 1983. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
HOROWITZ F. STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1983. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187598.
HOROWITZ F. STRUCTURE-INDUCED OPTICAL ANISOTROPY IN THIN FILMS. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 1983. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187598
27. Geddis, Demetris Lemarcus. Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors.
Degree: PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003, Georgia Tech
Subjects/Keywords: Thin film devices; Thin films Optical properties; Optical communications
Geddis, D. L. (2003). Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors . (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5402
Geddis, Demetris Lemarcus. “Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors.” 2003. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5402.
Geddis, Demetris Lemarcus. “Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors.” 2003. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Geddis DL. Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2003. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5402.
Geddis DL. Single fiber bi-directional OE links using 3D stacked thin film emitters and detectors. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2003. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5402
28. Naik, Ramakanta. Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films.
► Chalcogenide glasses have attracted considerable attention due to their infrared transparency, low phonon energy, and high non linear optical properties. They have been explored as… (more)
▼ Chalcogenide glasses have attracted considerable attention due to their infrared transparency, low phonon energy, and high non linear optical properties. They have been explored as promising candidate for optical memories, gratings, switching devices etc. Because of their low phonon energy and high refractive indices, now a days these are used for high efficiency fibre amplifiers. Nevertheless, the availability of amorphous semiconductors in the form of high quality multilayers provides potential applications in the field of micro and optoelectronics. Among amorphous multilayers, chalcogenide multilayers are attractive because of the prominent photoinduced effects. Studies in chalcogenide amorphous multilayer have been directed towards two phenomena. One is photoinduced interdiffusion in short period multilayer systems which finds potential applications in holographic recording and fabrication of phase gratings . The other is photo darkening or photobleaching which is also known in thick films. These multilayers exhibit prominent photoinduced effects, similar to those exhibited by uniform thin films. In spite of its practical usefulness, the mechanism of photoinduced interdiffusion is not properly understood. Since most structural transformations are related to atomic diffusion, understanding of the structural transformation must be based on the diffusion process. The main aim of this thesis is to study the photoinduced diffusion in Sb/As2S3 multilayered films and (As2S3)1-xSbx thin films. In literature, there are reports about the photoinduced interdiffusion in Se/As2S3 and Bi/As2S3 multilayered films, but the mechanisms of photoinduced interdiffusion of these elements are not very clear. Raman scattering and infrared spectroscopy techniques have been used to study the photoinduced interdiffusion in Se/As2S3 and Bi/As2S3 multilayered films by Malyovanik et al. (M. Malyovanik, M. Shiplyak, V. Cheresnya, T. Remeta, S. Ivan, and A. Kikineshi, J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 5, 397 (2003). But many questions remain unanswered. The characteristic spectra of components in the multilayer and those of the diffused layer were rather similar. In the present thesis, photoinduced interdiffusion in Sb/As2S3 multilayered samples are studied by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) at room and low temperature and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The photoinduced effects in (As2S3)1-xSbx thin films are studied by FTIR, XPS and Raman Spectroscopy. The detailed information about the distribution of electronic states in the absorption edge, localized states and the new bonds formed between the components due to photoinduced interdiffusion elucidated from the above studies will give more insight into the mechanism and kinetics of photoinduced interdiffusion. The thesis consists of seven chapters. References are given at the end of each chapter. Advisors/Committee Members: Sangunni, K S.
Subjects/Keywords: Thin Films - Thermal Properties; Thin Films - Photonic Properties; Chalcogenide Glass Thin Films - Optical Properties; Chalcogenide Glass Thin Films - Photoelectron Spectroscopy; Chalcogenide Glass Thin Films - Photoinduced Diffusion; Amorphous Chalcogenides; Chalcogenide Glasses; Sb/As2S3 Films; (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films; Se/As2S3 Films; Nano-multilayered Film; Nanomultilayered Film; Solid State Physics
Naik, R. (2009). Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films . (Thesis). Indian Institute of Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2017
Naik, Ramakanta. “Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films.” 2009. Thesis, Indian Institute of Science. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2017.
Naik, Ramakanta. “Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films.” 2009. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Naik R. Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films. [Internet] [Thesis]. Indian Institute of Science; 2009. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2017.
Naik R. Photo And Thermal Induced Studies On Sb/As2S3 Multilayered And (As2S3)1-xSbx Thin Films. [Thesis]. Indian Institute of Science; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2005/2017
29. Han, Pei-gang. Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films.
URL: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b538600 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4446/1/th_redirect.html
► Light from porous silicon (Si) has been an intensive research topic since the report by Canham in 1990. Recently, visible photo-luminescence (PL) has also been… (more)
▼ Light from porous silicon (Si) has been an intensive research topic since the report by Canham in 1990. Recently, visible photo-luminescence (PL) has also been reported from porous Si layers formed from polycrystalline Si (poly-Si). The new luminescent porous poly-Si (PPS) film can be formed on Si or non-Si substrates, hence bring numerous novel applications in future Si-based opto-electronic devices. As poly-Si films with various crystallinity and grain sizes can be prepared, study of PPS films can also help to understand and control the mechanisms for light emission from Si. However, due to the difficulty in sample preparation and characterization, there are so far very few reports on luminescent PPS films. In this thesis, we present our systematic study and new results obtained on this important material. PPS submicron thin films have been prepared from anodized and stain-etched LPCVD poly-Si films deposited on Si, oxide and nitride surfaces and doped with post-CVD phosphorus diffusion. The films have been studied by high resolution scanning and transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, x-ray diffraction and photoluminescence spectroscopy, and Raman studies. New PPS nanostructures and formation mechanisms have been found. A coral-ball formation analogy model is proposed to describe the etching process of porous Si and the formation of PPS films. PPS films are found to have orange-red PL and the PL spectrum is highly comparable to that of porous Si formed from crystalline Si. Intensity of PL is closely related to the anodization and stain etching conditions, crystallinity, and atomic composition of PPS films. A new PL emission model is proposed to relate the PL of PPS films to the presence of carbon and oxygen-rich amorphous Si material, Si nano-crystals in <200> orientation, and oxide in the PPS layers. Fabrication of PPS devices have also been attempted and encouraging results on luminescent PPS micron-size patterns, gas and photo-sensors are also presented and discussed.
Subjects/Keywords: Porous silicon – Optical properties; Photoluminescence; Thin films – Optical properties
Han, P. (1997). Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films . (Thesis). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b538600 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4446/1/th_redirect.html
Han, Pei-gang. “Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films.” 1997. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed July 18, 2019. https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b538600 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4446/1/th_redirect.html.
Han, Pei-gang. “Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films.” 1997. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Han P. Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 1997. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b538600 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4446/1/th_redirect.html.
Han P. Study of luminescent porous polycrystalline silicon thin films. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 1997. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b538600 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4446/1/th_redirect.html
30. Liu, Zhen-Tong. Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry.
► The optical properties the thin films of of five metal phthalocyanines, cobalt phthalocyanine, copper phthalocyanine, iron phthalocyanine, nickel phthalocyanine, and zinc phthalocyanines, were studied by… (more)
▼ The optical properties the thin films of of five metal phthalocyanines, cobalt phthalocyanine, copper phthalocyanine, iron phthalocyanine, nickel phthalocyanine, and zinc phthalocyanines, were studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry. Thin films of these metal phthalocyanines were evaporated in high vacuum onto glass substrates, quartz substrates, and silicon substrates. Then the spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements were performed in the wavelength range of 250-800 nm with 2.5 nm step. The data for samples on glass substrates and silicon sub strates was fitted point by point using same parameters to obtain the optical constants. The absorption spectra of metal phthalocyanine films were examined by spetrophotometer, and the film thickness and the surface roughness were studied by atomic force microscope. The results obtained by the three independent methods are consistent. The optical obtained properties of the five metal phthalo- cyanines were compared, and they are consistent with those in the literature. The optical functions of the five metal phthalocyanines were also modelled by Lorentz model, relaxed Lorentz model, Tauc-Lorentz model, modified Lorentz model, which were used in the literatures. A new model, dual Lorentz model, was proposed to model the optical functions. Models having 6 oscillators were used to fit the optical functions of iron phthalocyanine, while 5 oscillators for the other four. Simulated annealing algorithm was used as the optimization algorithm in the fitting process. Good fitting have been obtained by those models, and the fitted parameters were given. It was found that modified Lorentz model and dual Lorentz model were good for the description of the optical functions of the metal phthalocyanines.
Subjects/Keywords: Thin films – Optical properties; Phthalocyanines – Optical properties; Ellipsometry
Liu, Z. (2003). Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry . (Thesis). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b796739 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4661/1/th_redirect.html
Liu, Zhen-Tong. “Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry.” 2003. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed July 18, 2019. https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b796739 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4661/1/th_redirect.html.
Liu, Zhen-Tong. “Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry.” 2003. Web. 18 Jul 2019.
Liu Z. Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2003. [cited 2019 Jul 18]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b796739 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4661/1/th_redirect.html.
Liu Z. Optical characterization and modelling of metal phthalocyanines by spectroscopic ellipsometry. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2003. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-b796739 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-4661/1/th_redirect.html
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Sprüth Magers has expanded from its roots in the Rhineland to become an international gallery dedicated to exhibiting the very best in groundbreaking modern and contemporary art. With galleries located in Berlin Mitte, London’s Mayfair and the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles – as well as an office in Cologne and an outpost in Hong Kong – Sprüth Magers retains close ties with the studios and communities of the German and American artists who form the core of its roster.
The gallery emerged amid an extraordinary outburst in contemporary art that took place in Cologne in the early 1980s. Its first iteration as Monika Sprüth Gallery opened in 1983 with an exhibition of paintings by Andreas Schulze and was soon followed by exhibitions of Rosemarie Trockel and Peter Fischli David Weiss. Over the next few years George Condo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman all showed at the gallery and have continued to do so for the last thirty years. In 1992 a second gallery opened in Cologne under the name of Philomene Magers. Early exhibitions included Ad Reinhardt’s Black Paintings, Robert Morris’s felt pieces and John Baldessari’s photographs and text paintings from the 1960s. The two galleries merged into a single entity in 1998 and in 2000 the Munich space opened with Ed Ruscha’s exhibition Gunpowder and Stains.
In 2003 Sprüth Magers Lee opened in London with an exhibition of works by Donald Judd. In 2007 Sprüth Magers relocated to Grafton Street, Mayfair; on show was a selection of new photographs by Andreas Gursky. In 2008 the gallery established its flagship space in a former dancehall in Berlin Mitte – not far from the city’s Museum Island. The gallery debuted with Thomas Scheibitz and George Condo.
The latest chapter in the gallery’s history came to fruition in February 2016, with the launch of its space in Los Angeles. Located on Wilshire Boulevard, just across the road from LACMA, it is housed in a two-storey building designed in the late 1960s by legendary West Coast architects William L. Pereira & Associates. It was originally created as part of a complex completed in 1971 that includes the tallest building of the Miracle Mile district, a plaza and reflection pool. The 14,000 square foot space was remodeled as a gallery by the London-based architect Andreas Lechthaler and Berlin-based architect Botho von Senger und Etterlin. The interior features vintage furniture by female California-based designers.
Known for its rigorously curatorial approach to its program and for a deep and enduring devotion to the artists it represents, the gallery has, over the past three decades, fostered close and collaborative relationships with museums and curators worldwide. Meanwhile it continues its tradition of commissioning new scholarship and creating innovative books and publications.
Sprüth Magers now works with over 60 artists and estates. While continuing to work with mid-career artists such as Thomas Demand and Sterling Ruby, the gallery regularly broadens its program with up-and-coming younger artists such as Cyprien Gaillard, David Ostrowski, Michail Pirgelis, Analia Saban, Alexandre Singh and Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch. The program is rounded off with important and influential senior artists such as Reinhard Mucha, Frank Stella, the late Richard Artschwager, Hanne Darboven, Bernd & Hilla Becher and the Estates of Keith Arnatt and Craig Kauffman.
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Ocula Report 58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times 24 May 2019 : Mohammad Salemy for Ocula
The 58th Venice Biennale, May You Live In Interesting Times (11 May–24 November 2019), certainly benefitted from low expectations, given the lacklustre curatorial of the previous edition, when different segments of the show were conceptually framed with titles like 'Pavilion of Joys and Fears' and 'Pavilion of Colours'. Add to this the...
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There is something profoundly uncanny about seeing Cindy Sherman in person for the first time. When she greets me at the door of her SoHo studio one afternoon in April, casually dressed and wearing no obvious make-up, I recognise her features, but not, exactly, her face. For more than 40 years, Sherman has appeared in nearly all of her work, but...
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Bodil Blain: How do you take your coffee?Eric Fischl: I love my coffee. I have a bean-to-cup machine and I use roseline.BB: How has the new US political landscape affected your work?EF: Over the last few years, since the election cycle that brought Trump into power, there has been an apotheosis of something that had been building for some time.
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The mind of American artist George Condo has been referred to as a place where 'Picasso meets Looney Tunes.' Watch him at work in his New York-studio where he draws and paints his take on a 19th-century painting by Manet.
Related Video & Audio George Condo Interview: The Way I Think Louisiana Channel : 2 November 2017
'I kind of draw like you’re walking through the forest, where you don’t really know where you’re going, and you just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you finally reach your destination.' Condo studied music theory at college, but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and...
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First published on Nowness: Ed Ruscha took Matthew Donaldson on a Los Angeles ride through memory lane, from the artist’s Culver City studio—that started life as one of Howard Hughes’ aircraft parts factories—to Silverlake and around Echo Park where the filmmaker lived as a child. “Almost more than...
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Halston At Sundance: Documentary Sound
Halston, the documentary, a look back at the man and the birth of American fashion.
Halston was a man of extraordinary talent and vision. Born in the mid west to humble beginnings, he rose to new heights in the fashion industry worldwide, and can be credited with putting American Fashion “on the map”.
Frederic Tcheng’s beautifully crafted film, which premiered at Sundance 2019, tells the epic story of Halston’s career and takes an intimate look at his complicated personal life. The film, which had the support of Halston’s family, has an abundance of excellent archival footage and photography, that allow for an in depth look into his world.
Red Hook Post enjoyed the opportunity to work on this film. We have worked with Fred on two previous fashion documentaries, Valentino The Last Emperorand Dior and I. Halstonhad some unique sound challenges. The vast array of archival footage needed restoration type clean up, and in many cases, new sound design. It was an interesting combination of making some old clips sound newer and better, and making some newer better sounding clips sound old. There was also the conceit of an added fictional character, the “Archivist” and narrator, who helps to tell the story through bits of narration, and short scenes, where she inserts and controls the video tapes from Halton’s video archive. RHP’s sound designer, Abigail Savage, created specific FX of tape machine rewind, fast forward, stop, and play, to enhance the video playback theme.
Red Hook Post’s sound editing and FX work combined with the great score by Stanley Clarke, and classic songs from Elvis Presley, the disco era, and beyond, coordinated through music supervisor, Tracy McKnight, made for a rich palette of sound sources to work with. The key to providing a good final sound mix, for a film like this, is in crafting all of the disparate sources into a cohesive and well balanced total soundtrack.
With streaming on Amazon, US TV on CNN, and a theatrical distribution deal with The Orchard, Halstonwill be available to a wide audience.
Produced by Roland Ballester, starring Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson, Joel Schumacher
By Tom Efinger/Red Hook Post
Hearing the Script
Thomas Efinger April 2, 2019
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Species III
Science-Fiction Horror
Science-FictionHorrorThrillerAction & Adventure
Rated: 18+ (R)20041h 51mOn: Prime Video Hulu Epix Tags: Military War Country: America
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.Species III featuring Natasha Henstridge and Sunny Mabrey is streaming with subscription on Prime Video, streaming with subscription on Hulu, streaming via tv everywhere with EPIX, and 7 others. It's an action & adventure and horror movie with a low Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 33% and a low IMDb audience rating of 4.3 (8,264 votes).
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Species III has a low Rotten Tomatoes (critics) score of 33% and a low IMDb audience rating of 4.3 (8,264 votes). The movie is somewhat popular with Reelgood users lately.
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What could Brexit mean for construction sector wages?
Date: 10 December, 2018
David Ogden from allthetopbananas.com takes a look at salary trends and the possible impact of Brexit in the construction sector.
Unless you’ve been living in a dark hole for the last couple of years, it is impossible to escape the debate and feeling of uncertainty surrounding Brexit, with a planned exit date from the EU of 29th March rapidly approaching.
Experts on both sides have at best, found predicting what will happen difficult to say the least.
What is certain, by reviewing 2018, the signs appear cautiously optimistic for the construction industry.
Rising wages
Taking builders’ salaries as a representative trade within the sector, the trend for advertised wages over the last 12 months has steadily increased.
Job search engine allthetopbananas.com analysed more than 7,000 vacancies on its site between November 2017 and November 2018.
Considering a low of £31,603 in June 2018 and a high of £35,184 in July 2018, the average advertised salary on offer climbed steadily to £33,727 by November this year,
This compares favourably to the current UK average salary, which according to the Office For National Statistics, is £27,271.
One explanation for the rising wages can be linked back to the start of discussions around Brexit. This affected pay in a positive way as early as November 2015.
Industry faced a greater shortage of workers because of the fewer European Union workers immigrating to the UK and those leaving. The lowest in six years which could have played a part in pushing up wages.
However, negatively, as reported by accountancy firm KPMG and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, the overall availability of staff generally continued downwards towards the end of 2018.
The trend over the last 12 months appears to show it’s getting tougher to get a job within the sector.
The number of searches for construction vacancies show jobseeker demand has increased, whereas availability has decreased.
It’s good news to see the trend of increasing advertised wages going up and above the national average. While things seem to be getting tougher in terms demand outstripping available construction jobs, there are still more than 90,000 jobs in the sector available across the UK on our site.
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PROS / About / News / PROS Outperform 2014 Speakers Showcase the Power of Big Data to Drive Pricing & Sales Effectiveness
PROS Outperform 2014 Speakers Showcase the Power of Big Data to Drive Pricing & Sales Effectiveness
HOUSTON. Jan. 13, 2014 – PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced speakers for its Outperform 2014 conference. The annual event, sponsored by Microsoft and the Professional Pricing Society, is the premier big data conference for pricing and sales effectiveness. It will be held in North America at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 19 – 20.
The exclusive event brings together best-in-class thought leaders, seasoned pricing and sales practitioners, and business-to-business industry experts for interactive sessions, executive meetings and networking, all focused on using big data to outperform.
“With the market dialogue surrounding big data, today it’s more important than ever for executives to understand and identify where they can get the best returns on their big data,” said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Tim Girgenti. “At Outperform, our customers and industry experts share firsthand experiences about how using big data to drive sales and pricing effectiveness has created outstanding business results. We are grateful to our customers for sharing their extraordinary stories, and we look forward to another great event at the New York Stock Exchange.”
Among the topics Outperform speakers will cover are some of today’s most relevant subjects related to pricing and sales effectiveness:
720,000 Reasons Why Sales Loves Pricing
Harmonizing the Lead-to-Order Process to Gain a Competitive Edge
Empowering Sales to Grow Using Big Data
Building a No-Brainer Business Case for Using Big Data Technology in Pricing and Sales
Sales and Pricing, Better Together: A VP of Sales Perspective
How Price Optimization Delivers More Customer Value and More Revenue
Scientific Selling – The New Lever for Growth
As part of the impressive speaker line-up, participants will have the opportunity to hear from PROS customers and industry experts, who will share their insights and experiences. Among those who will share stories are the following:
Daniel A. Clark, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, NewPage Corporation
Christopher Fletcher, Research Director, Gartner, Inc.
Tomas Forsgren, Director of Global Pricing and Analytics, The Gates Corporation
Joel Larsen, Vice President, Global Product Management, Navistar Parts, Inc.
Stephan Liozu, Founder, Value Innoruption Advisors
Kevin Mitchell, President, Professional Pricing Society
David Nyy, Global Marketing Director, Celanese Cellulose Derivatives
Allison Sabia, Vice President, Sales Enablement, Arrow Electronics
Craig Zawada, Chief Visionary Officer, PROS
Neil Biehn, Ph.D., Vice President, Science and Research, PROS
To learn more about Outperform 2014, or to register, visit the website at www.pros.com.
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) is a big data software company that helps customers outperform in their markets by using big data to sell more effectively. We apply 28 years of data science experience to unlock buying patterns and preferences within transaction data to reveal which opportunities are most likely to close, which offers are most likely to sell and which prices are most likely to win. PROS offers big data solutions to optimize sales, pricing, quoting, rebates and revenue management across more than 30 industries. PROS has completed over 600 implementations of its solutions in more than 50 countries. The PROS team comprises more than 700 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit www.pros.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the functionality and benefits of PROS pricing and big data software. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon PROS historical experience with pricing and big data software, and its current expectations of the benefits of pricing and big data software for organizations that implement and utilize such software. Additional information relating to the uncertainty affecting the PROS business is contained in PROS filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements represent PROS expectations as of the date of this press release. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and PROS disclaims any obligations to update or alter these forward-looking statements in the future, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Posts Tagged ‘Gravity Waves’
Gravity: one more thing
I am a great admirer of James Clerk Maxwell.
And amongst his greatest achievements was the prediction that waves in electric and magnetic fields should travel at the speed of light.
He arrived at his prediction by considering the observed strength of static electric magnetic fields.
For example, studies had established the strength of the force from a given amount of electric charge at a given distance.
This electrical force was characterised by a constant called (for historical reasons) the permittivity of free space. It was given the symbol ε0 – the greek letter ‘epsilon’ with a subscript of zero. It was considered to represent in some way how ‘disturbed’ the space was around an electric charge.
Similarly, studies had established the strength of the magnetic force from a given electric current at a given distance.
This magnetic force was characterised by a constant called (for historical reasons) the permeability of free space. It was given the symbol μ0 – the greek letter ‘mu’ with a subscript of zero. It was considered to represent in some way how ‘disturbed’ the space was around an electric current.
Maxwell analysed these static experiments and predicted that there should be coupled waves in the electric and magnetic fields and that they would travel with a speed of:
And when Maxwell calculated this number he arrived at a number very close to the previously measured speed of light.
He observed that this was unlikely to be a coincidence and concluded that light was a wave in the electromagnetic field.
I can still remember how I felt when – aged 19 – I followed Maxwell’s footsteps and ‘discovered’ this connection: I was gob-struck!
Other waves
This type of formula is typical of expressions for the speed of waves. For example, the speed of a wave on a stretched wire or string is given by:
where T is the tension in the string and m is the mass per unit length of the string. So a wave will travel quickly when the string is taut and low mass.
And in general we expect the speed of waves to reflect how the medium in which the waves travel responds to a disturbance.
And that is why last years’ announcement (LIGO, Popular Report) that gravity waves travel at the speed of light is so profoundly important.
This discovery implies that there is a connection between:
electricity and magnetism – responsible for just about all the phenomena we experience around us – and…
gravity – which is associated with space and time and mass.
Alternatively, it could indicate a connection between them both and something else we don’t know about.
But the experimental fact of this connection astounds me as much if not more than the connection that Maxwell made.
And it makes me wonder just what he would have to say about the discovery.
Now I know this connection is not ‘new’: I can remember being told that gravity waves would travel at the speed of light many years ago.
But the discovery of the experimental fact of the speeds of light and gravity being equal seems to me to be more profound than the mere expectation that it should be so.
You can see more about the discovery in the LIGO video below
Tags:Gravity Waves
Gravity Wave Detector#2
GEO600
After presenting a paper at the European Society of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN) in Hannover back in May, I was offered the chance to visit a Gravity Wave Detector. Wow! I jumped at the opportunity!
The visiting delegation were driven in a three-minibus convoy for about 30 minutes, ending up in the middle of a field of cabbages.
After artfully turning around and re-tracing our steps, we found a long, straight, gated track running off the cabbage-field track.
Near the gate was a shed, and alongside the road ran some corrugated sheet covering what looked like a drainage ditch.
These were the only clues that we were approaching one of the most sensitive devices that human beings have ever built: the GEO600 gravity-wave detector. (Wikipedia or GEO600 home page)
Even as we drove down the road, the device in ‘the ditch’ was looking for length changes in the 600 metre road of less than one thousandth the diameter of a single proton.
Nothing about how to achieve such sensitivity is obvious. And as my previous article made clear, there have been many false steps along the way.
But even the phenomenal sensitivity of this detector turns out be not quite good enough to detect the gravity waves from colliding black holes.
In order to detect recent events GEO600 would have to have been between 3 and 10 times more sensitive.
The measuring principle
The GEO600 device as it appears above ground is illustrated in the drone movie above.
It consists of a series of huts and an underground laboratory at the intersection of two 600 metre long ‘arms’.
In the central laboratory, a powerful (30 watt) laser shines light of a single wavelength onto a beam-splitter: a piece of glass with a thin metal coating.
The beam-splitter reflects half the light and transmits the other other half, creating two beams which travel at 90° to each other along the two arms of the device.
At the end of the arms, a mirror reflects the light back to the beam-splitter and onto a light detector where the beams re-combine.
Aside from the laser, all the optical components are suspended from anti-vibration mountings inside vacuum tubes about 50 cm in diameter.
When set up optimally, the light traversing the two arms interferes destructively, giving almost zero light signal at the detector.
But a motion of one mirror by half of a wavelength of light (~0.0005 millimetres), will result in a signal going from nearly zero watts (when there is destructive interference) to roughly 30 watts (when there is constructive interference).
So this device – which is called a Michelson Interferometer – senses tiny differences in the path of light in the two arms. These differences might be due to the motion of one of the mirrors, or due to light in one arm being delayed with respect to light in the other arm.
The basic sensitivity to motion can be calculated (roughly) as follows.
Shifting one mirror by one half a wavelength (roughly 0.0005 millimetres) results in an optical signal increasing from near zero to roughly 30 watts, a sensitivity of around 60,000 watts per millimetre.
Modern silicon detectors can detect perhaps a pico-watt (10-12 watt) of light.
So the device can detect a motion of just
10-12 watts ÷ 60000 watts per millimetre
or roughly 2 x 10-17 mm which is 10-20 metres. Or one hundred thousandth the diameter of a proton!
If the beam paths are each 600 metres long then the ability to detect displacements is equivalent to a fractional strain of roughly 10-23 in one beam path over the other.
So GEO600 could, in principle, detect a change in length of one arm compared to the other by a fraction:
0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 01
There are lots of reasons why this sensitivity is not fully realised, but that is the basic operating principle of the interferometer.
The ‘trick’ is isolation
The scientists running the experiment think that a gravity wave passing through the detector will cause tiny, fluctuating changes in the length of one arm of GEO600 compared with the other arm.
The changes they expect are tiny which is why they made GEO600 so sensitive.
But in the same way that a super-sensitive microphone in a noisy room would just makes the noise appear louder, so GEO600 is useless unless it can be isolated from noise and vibrations.
So the ‘trick’ is to place this extraordinarily sensitive ‘microphone’ into an extraordinarily ‘quiet’ environment. This is very difficult.
If one sits in a quiet room, one can slowly become aware of all kinds of noises which were previously present, but of which one was unaware:
the sound of the flow of blood in our ears:
the sound of the house ‘creaking’
other ‘hums’ of indeterminate origin.
Similarly GEO600, can ‘hear’ previously unimaginably ‘quiet’ sounds:
the ground vibrations of Atlantic waves crashing on the shores of Europe:
the atom-by-atom ‘creeping’ of the suspension holding the mirrors
So during an experiment, the components of GEO600 sit in a vacuum and the mirrors and optical components are suspended from silica (glass) fibres, which are themselves suspended from the end of a spring-on-a-spring-on-a-spring!
In the photograph below, the stainless steel vacuum vessels containing the key components can be seen in the underground ‘hub’ at the intersection of the two arms.
They are as isolated from the ‘local’ environment as possible.
The output of the detector – the brightness of the light on the detector is shown live on one of the many screens in the control ‘hut’.
But instead of a graph of ‘brightness versus time, the signal is shown as a graph of the frequencies of vibration detected by the silicon detector.
The picture below shows a graph of the strain – the difference in length of the two arms – detected at different frequencies.
[Please note the graph is what scientists call ‘logarithmic’. This means that a given distance on either axis corresponds to a constant multiplier. So the each group of horizontal lines corresponds to a change in strain by a factor 10, and the maximum strain shown on the vertical 10,000 times larger than the smallest strain shown.]
The picture above shows two traces, which both have three key features:
The blue curve showed the signal being detected as we watched. The red curve was the best performance of the detector. So the detector was performing close to its optimal performance.
Both curves are large at low frequencies, have a minimum close to 600 Hz, and then rise slowly. This is the background noise of the detector. Ideally they would like this to be about 10 times lower, particularly at low frequencies.
Close to the minimum is a large cluster of spikes: these are the natural frequencies of vibration of the mirror suspensions and the other optical components.
There are lots of spikes caused by specific noise sources in the environment.
If a gravity wave passed by…
…it would appear as a sudden spike at a particular frequency, and this frequency would then increase, and finally the spike would disappear.
It would be over in less than a second.
And how could they tell it was a gravity wave and not just random noise? Well that’s the second trick: gravity wave detectors hunt in pairs.
The signal from this detector is analysed alongside signals from other gravity wave detectors located thousands of kilometres away.
If the signal came from a gravity wave, then they would expect to see a similar signal in the second detector either just before or just afterwards – within a ‘time window’ consistent with a wave travelling at the speed of light.
Because powerful lasers were in use, visitors were obliged to wear laser goggles!
This was the second gravity wave detector I have seen that has never detected a gravity wave.
But I have seen this in the new era where we now know these waves exist.
People have been actively searching for these waves for roughly 50 years and I am filled with admiration for the nobility of the researchers who spent their careers fruitlessly searching and failing to find gravity waves.
But the collective effect of these decades of ‘failure’ is a collective success: we now know how to the ‘listen’ to the Universe in a new way which will probably revolutionise how we look at the Universe in the coming centuries.
A 12-minute Documentary
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Archbishop Hieronymos refers to the importance of our Byzantine psaltic and hymnographic spiritual heritage
Athens: 16 February 2008; Metropolitan Church of Athens, Greece. This past Saturday the new Archbishop of Athens and All Greece was enthroned by the Hierarchy of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece in the Metropolitan Church of Athens, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Theotokos. As is normal for such events, it was followed by the national press, television and radio media.
While His Beatitude Hieronymos’ depth of learning and quality of communication was evident in the words he spoke, the spirit of his address—which he referred to as a public confession—was one that was a refreshing scent of spiritual fragrance. His spiritual and intellectual depth and breadth were punctuated in the address by his evidence spirit of humility. Most revealing was his awareness that the seat he was elected to is a heavy inheritance uniting him to the apostolic Saints Dionysios the Areopagite and Hierotheos of Athens. His closing bore witness to the virtue of spiritual detachment, using the words of Saint Kosmas Aetolos:
I, by the Grace of God, have neither bag, nor a wardrobe, or a home, and no other raso than the one I wear. And the stool I do have is not mine, but I have it because of You. Some call it a stool and others a throne. It is not as they call it. If they really want to know what it is, it is my grave for me and I am the deceased inside it who speaks to you. This tomb has the authority to teach kings and patriarchs, archbishops, priests, men and women, children and young maidens, young and old, and all the world.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord, from now unto the ages. Amen.
That said, the reason I’m posting here on the psalticBlog is because of His Beatitude’s reference to the importance of our Byzantine psaltic and hymnographic treasure. I’m sure you will find his words inspiring! You can see the original, full text on the Archdiocese of Athens page.
A second point which concerns my me is our responsibility for the course of the modern Greek cultural mainstream. Allow me to address the people of the arts, science and technology; to all those restless spirits who continuously concern themselves with the common inheritance and are not satisfied with the mundanity, the stagnancy of slavery to the obvious.
We, the ecclesiatical generals have an obligation to you and you have a duty to our Christian race and to history.
The Church must find ways to stimulate and inspire the human spirit, as it once gave birth to the arts and sciences and sparked culture, then, when stones bore witness to the greatness of Orthodox theology as it was expressed through architecture of the temples and monasteries, a time when Hagia Sophia, or the monasteries of Saint Lucas and Daphne bore witness with the flawless language of cultural achievement on the resurrected hope of mankind, a time when prose and poetry gave birth to expressions of the highest cultural values of the human spirit, like the Akathist Hymn or texts of the Fathers of the Church, and from the depths of human sensitivity emerged beauty of Byzantine music.
I hasten to explain: I do not ask you to re-create a militant Christian art. I invite and challenge you to rediscover with me the sources that nurtured the souls of our ancestors and gave birth to the civilization we have inherited.
In this time of globalization, the crisis of ideologies, false intelligentsia, the trivializing of artistic and intellectual creation and their submission to the voracious consumerism, as Church we have an inescapable duty to contribute to the production of civilization.
Our monasteries, our churches—including those in ruins—our hymnography, but also however many elements of our tradition that have survived in the modern Modern Greek cultural heritage, are trustworthy witnesses to the need for this convergence. I indicatively refer you to our Modern Greek painting, which hides within it the Byzantine hagiographic tradition, to poetry, which draws from the invisible wellspring of ecclesiastical hymnography, or to contemporary Greek music, popular or artistic, which hides within it the ‘roads’ of the Byzantine melos. Even in the super-realism of the newer painters, one can discern the influences of their icon-painting teachers.
All this cries out for our shared responsibility to connect again, Church and human creativity, to restore civilization again and to inaugurate cultural foundations for the future of our children and our land.
—Excerpt from the enthronement speech of His Beatitude, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Hieronymos (Athens: 16 February 2008).
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How Primetime TV Influences Perceptions of Police
Your favorite crime drama may not reflect reality, but it might still be influencing it.
Kate Wheeling
Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T in Law and Order: SVU. (Photo: Will Hart/NBC)
The majority of Americans learn about the criminal justice system not through personal experience, but via the media. And in the wake of an alarming number of reports of unarmed black men murdered by police officers, the news has not painted a particularly rosy picture of the police profession. But it's not like everyone is watching the news: The majority of the nearly three hours of television that Americans enjoy every day is dedicated to entertainment media. In fact, a new study, published this month in Criminal Justice and Behavior, has found that fictional crime dramas can also influence how viewers feel about police officers' conduct.
Crime dramas are consistently ranked among the most-watched shows by Nielsen Media, according to the authors. What's more, as many as 40 percent of Americans believe that such shows are somewhat or very true to real life. So to find out how the simplistic portrayal of police officers on television might influence public opinion of the profession, researchers from St. John Fischer College and Wayne State University first had to analyze how popular crime shows portray police work. In what may be the best undergraduate research job ever, two students watched entire seasons of the Mentalist, Criminal Minds, and NCIS. They recorded, among other things, the number of times police used force, whether the use of force was considered justified and necessary, and the frequency of police misconduct.
"The typical formula of these shows is to follow the lives of passionate and well-intentioned police officers in their quest to solve what are often heinous crimes."
The fictional officers, according to the report, were wildly successful at identifying and apprehending criminals, were rarely involved in any misconduct themselves, and frequently resorted to using force against offenders (though the force was nearly always justified by the disrespectful or dangerous behavior of the fictional suspects). In other words, not at all true to real life, where as many as 70 percent of crimes go unsolved and officers infrequently use force. "The typical formula of these shows is to follow the lives of passionate and well-intentioned police officers in their quest to solve what are often heinous crimes," the study authors write. "And while some break from this tradition (e.g., the Wire), the vast majority paint relatively simplistic portraits of good guys and bad guys."
The researchers also surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 2,000 Americans. They found that those who watched crime shows view police as better behaved, more successful at combating crime, and relatively responsible in their use of force, than those who don't partake in, say, 24-hour marathons of Law & Order: SVU.
While these crime dramas may not accurately reflect reality, the authors suggest that, by changing viewers' perceptions, they might also influence real-life behavior. "In general," they write, "the positive attitudes of viewers may translate into other interesting facets, such as greater compliance with police commands and reports of higher satisfaction and better experiences after police–citizen interactions."
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Melissa Suzanne McBride (born May 23, 1965) is an American actress and former casting director, best known for her role as Carol Peletier on the AMC series The Walking Dead. McBride has garnered ... read full biography
Known for The Walking Dead (2010-2019), The Mist (2007), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), The Reconstruction of William Zero (2014)
May 23, 1965 (age 54) | 5' 6" (1.68m)
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Kuching Executive Committee
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PurpleLily > Bengoh Project
PurpleLily spent the weekend of the 2nd – 3rd March, 2013 in a remote village, Semban, deep in the Borneo jungle. Due to the construction of the Bengoh Dam, this village is scheduled to be relocated to a new kampong near Kuching in the not-so-distant future. Batik Boutique Hotel’s Corporate Social Responsibility division (B with a Heart) has been helping and supporting this village and three others in the area for the last few years. The Hotel approached PurpleLily to provide some training to help the villagers to prepare for this inevitable event.
Usually, we cater only for women but, given the nature of this special project, we agreed to involve men in our workshops with Brian, my husband, temporarily joining the PurpleLily team. We were also fortunate to have Shefaline, one of our Financial Club participants, put her hand up to volunteer with us as our translator for the weekend.
To reach this village we drove 1½ hours to Bengoh Valley Dam, which was the starting point for our 5- hour hike. It was a beautiful sunny day with hot and humid conditions. Although it was tough in parts, with constant uphill stretches, we truly enjoyed the experience. The first bamboo bridge crossing was scary as it creaked and bounced up and down. However, it was something that we soon became accustomed to as we must have crossed 20 bridges throughout the day. We had lunch on the side of a beautiful waterfall and went for a refreshing swim before the final climb up to the beautiful and quaint village of Semban.
Shefeline & I in our first hour of hiking
One of the many bridges we crossed
Waterfall called ”The Curtain”
We met our homestay hosts, had a lovely local meal and were made aware that there’s only electricity from 6:00 to 10:00pm. So, by 10:00pm, everyone was in bed!
Semban’s main street
Our homestay: simple but clean and wonderful warm hosts
The next morning, after a local breakfast (rice and noodles), we headed to the community hall where we started to get organised. Without electricity or PPT, we made posters and adapted our usual workshops by including more stories (relevant to the villagers and their future situation) and group discussion activities.
Semban’s Community hall
Shefaline & Ginette preparing and making posters
Shefaline and Ginette ready to start!
Once ready, we waited for the villagers to arrive. “Time” is not a priority in the jungle, so villagers came slowly and eventually, we got started!
The purpose of the workshops was to give the villagers a platform to discuss money and the changes ahead. The first workshop for the mixed group was called Introduction to Financial Literacy. Brian & I co-facilitated, however, Shefaline was definitely the key person. The villagers learned how to track their finances and we gave them strategies to save money and especially, save for an emergency fund and how to avoid the cycle of difficulty. We tried to prepare them for all the bills they will need to pay in their new homes: electricity, water, rates, transport…. Most of the villagers are currently 100% self sufficient; they farm their own rice and vegetables, have chickens and they all have pepper plantations. When they need money, they go to Bengoh Kampong to sell their pepper. With that, they can afford clothes, books and things that they need. They have no bills to pay at the moment.
Brian & Shefaline in action!
After the workshop, we all went and had lunch together. Shefaline informed us that the villagers had learned a lot from our financial workshop. They felt it was very useful information and they were still discussing the workshop while having lunch.
After lunch, the men went with Brian for a Stress Management & Goal setting workshop. The focus was on how to deal with this stressful situation, as the stress in the village is already evident. From there, they completed a Goal setting session. The men often referred to their future financial situations and how things will change for them. Change is often difficult for most people but this is a huge change for them as they will lose their way of life and their little close knit community. The new settlement village will include new, modern houses with running water, bathrooms, electricity and a school, but will also include families from three other villages. The little Semban community will be integrated into a much bigger and wider community, which is creating a lot of uncertainties.
This was also mentioned by the women in the Self Confidence and Positive Thinking workshop, which was facilitated by Shefaline and me. They referred many times to the fact that the women of Semban must stay united and support each other, no matter what. We quickly realised how confident, strong and independent these women are in their current village and way of life, but the changes coming will possibly affect their confidence. We completed a range of activities, gave tips and made sure the women were engaged and having fun.
Shefaline discussing and supporting the participants
Ginette and the Self Confidence Participants
For our last night, two of the four Ring Ladies came to visit us after dinner. They were looking so pretty and talking with us. This tradition is disappearing quickly as these women are aging and passing away and the younger women no longer wear rings.
Shefeline and I were lucky to dance (or should I say attempt to dance) their traditional dance. It was a lot of fun. It was a great way to finish our day!
The Ring Ladies having a good time with us! Chewing betel nut and enjoying being the stars of the night.
Sunday morning and it was time to think about returning to Kuching. We went via a different route so we could visit the local primary school in Rejoi. The kids from Semban leave their families every Sunday morning to go to school where they board during the week, and on Friday afternoon they return home.
A group of four young kids became our unofficial guides and they showed us how they have been born and bred on these steep tracks as we tried to keep up. They were walking, running, laughing and enjoying this little trip. We arrived at the school where we visited the classroom and dormitories.
Kids welcome a volunteer teacher (Teresa) at their school!
After lunch, the final trek back to the Bengoh Dam site was undulating and included our first rain storm of the weekend for about 45 minutes. This 3-hour trek gave us the chance to reflect on the unique opportunity we had to get a glimpse at a way of life that may be lost, and getting an insight into the challenges this community will face in the future. We just hope Purplelily was able to help in some small way to support some of the villagers to make these difficult adjustments.
Ginette & Shefaline in our last hour of hiking!
The PurpleLily team loved the experience and I personally feel privileged to have met and talked with these villagers and discover such an inspiring self-sufficient and deep-rooted culture.
It was such an honor to have Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall spending time with us on November 6th, 2017. She truly enjoyed interacting with the girls. She was also very complimentary and supportive of the work we do to empower women & girls. It was a big moral booster for us!
If you want to know more about us. Check out our video.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Bradley, C. Alan
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.
To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....
An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Edition: Large print edition
Characteristics: 503 pages (large print) ;,23 cm.
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Read more reviews of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie at iDreamBooks.com
RainbowPonygirl1234 Jun 20, 2019
Funny story - I've tried reading this book, I think, 3 times before both in audio and print and could never finish it. But now I have finished it! *jazz hands* And it was really enjoyable.
I had been reading a lot of non-fiction that dealt with some heavy topics that were hitting me right in the feels and wanted something that was light but still witty and smart. This fit the bill! Flavia is such a wonderful main character to live through and she makes me wish I liked/was good at chemistry (alas, I am not, nor shall I ever be). For whatever reason, the narrator's voice didn't get on my nerves as it did before and I actually was impressed with it this time around. The narrator does a perfect voice for Flavia. And though this is classified at my library as adult mystery, I think a middle schooler who is of strong mental disposition (interpret as you will) would enjoy this and be appropriate.
KarenBeenken Jun 07, 2019
ryner Jun 05, 2019
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is understandably surprised to discover a dying man late one night in the garden of her family's English estate. When the investigators' suspicions come to rest on her own father as murderer, she resolves to solve the mystery first. Our heroine, a wunderkind in the field of chemistry, is also charmingly plucky and exceedingly entertaining. I'll definitely read further into this series.
Brontina66 May 03, 2019
I had heard about this book and had to wait a little before I could check it out, but it was definitely worth it. Flavia de Luce is an adorable character (well, her sisters would not agree, but still): she is (occasionally) compassionate, very smart, an expert chemist, curious and brave. Did I mention she is also a would-be poisoner? I don't think there are many 11-year-old sleuth in literature, but if there are, they cannot hold a candle to Flavia! The story is very original and rather complex. You need a background in the history of Victorian stamps, but the author, Alan Bradley, provides it in a relaxing and interesting way, so that you learn while enjoying yourself, and those are the best kind of books, if you ask me! There are also some serious themes, such as the war or the loss of a parent, and you feel that they are part of the world where Flavia lives and she knows how to deal with them. Well, I cannot wait to read the other adventures of my new favorite detective. I have actually already got the second novel on my Kindle!
ellenmargaret1953 Feb 13, 2019
Flavia is at it again, solving a number of mysteries from the past and two murders. She is an ingenue, sometimes a pest and always as curious as a cat paddling her bike around her village gathering clues and besting inspector Hewitt to the solution. Love it.
Hillsboro_JennyFl Jan 30, 2019
Meet 11-year-old Flavia De Luce; master poisoner and amateur sleuth. This is a delightful series with solid mysteries and characters you will love. A total comfort read for me!
captbligh Jan 22, 2019
Beyond belief and way too cute; no 11 year old is like Flavia.
MaryLouK50 Jan 08, 2019
The audiobooks are delightful. Flavia comes to life through the voice of Jane Entwistle.
ElectricMayhem Dec 28, 2018
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist, when her father is arrested for murder she begins a search for the truth. Great narrator.
red_zinger Nov 21, 2018
estherpatricia Aug 20, 2015
Like murder mysteries? Can you compete with an amateur chemistry student who is 11 years old? Funny, unexpected murder mystery with a likeable, young heroine! Watch out - her specialty is poisons!
maggielo Aug 19, 2015
mystery fiction, yng girl interested in chemistry, mystery of father's trial
ladnerlass Apr 30, 2011
11 yr old Flavia de Luce murder mystery. 1st in a series
ampie Jul 28, 2010
Flavia de Luce is an 11 yr. old chemistry whiz. She has two older sisters with whom she is at odds. Her father, a philatelist, is distant and unavailable and she is largely parented by the housekeeper and the gardener. She helps solve the murder of one of her father's school friends who is found dead in the garden.
black_cat Jul 05, 2010
An adult book but can be read by advanced younger readers. Main character is a young, strong female who finds herself in danger while investigating a mystery that arrived at her doorstep.
Geraldine9 May 24, 2018
"As I stood outside Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
No....eight days a week."
deborahg99 Aug 04, 2016
“I remembered a piece of sisterly advice, which Feely once gave Daffy and me:
"If ever you're accosted by a man," she'd said, "kick him in the Casanovas and run like blue blazes!"
Although it had sounded at the time like a useful bit of intelligence, the only problem was that I didn't know where the Casanovas were located.
I'd have to think of something else.”
mking Feb 02, 2010
"I was me. I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did." - p 59
michael12 Oct 29, 2009
I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.
mlabreche11 May 28, 2013
mlabreche11 thinks this title is suitable for 12 years and over
cino1 May 03, 2011
cino1 thinks this title is suitable for All Ages
hil_elrick Dec 21, 2010
hil_elrick thinks this title is suitable for 10 years and over
Amie Jun 10, 2009
Amie thinks this title is suitable for 13 years and over
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The modern browser wars: How well Firefox, IE and Chrome succeed in getting their users to upgrade
April 8, 2010 in Tech Musings
We all know the by now woeful tale of Internet Explorer 6, which close to a decade after its arrival still has a significant share of the web browser market. Its users have been extremely slow to abandon it in spite of there being two newer and much improved versions of Internet Explorer freely available. And this is with Microsoft actively encouraging an upgrade. You could even argue the same for Internet Explorer 7; why haven’t the vast majority of Internet Explorer users switched to version 8 by now?
This conundrum made us wonder how the other web browsers fare when it comes to getting their users to upgrade to newer versions. How quickly do Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome users upgrade their browsers when new versions arrive?
We have studied the upgrade pattern for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera and found some drastic and quite interesting differences.
Although we don’t have actual upgrade statistics, we can see how the market share for the various versions of a web browser changes, and that is good enough for our purposes. We used data from StatCounter, who provide browser statistics based on tracking of approximately three million websites globally.
Since we began this article with Internet Explorer, let’s now move on to a very different example: Google Chrome. (We’ll revisit IE a bit further down.)
The upgrade pattern of Google Chrome
What’s interesting about Google Chrome is that Google has taken a very different approach to upgrades compared to other browser makers. Their mantra: Don’t ask the user to upgrade, just do it.
Google Chrome handles its upgrades in a completely automated fashion, even for a completely new version of the browser. While other browsers will ask the user for approval to move from version 1 to version 2 (just an example), Chrome will just handle that in the background and move ahead with the upgrade.
If you think about it, this mirrors the way web apps work, i.e. updates go through to all users so everyone is using the same version of the software.
Chrome’s automated upgrade schedule becomes exceedingly obvious when you look at the chart here below, where you can see each new version replacing the one before it almost entirely within a month or two. (Presumably Google staggers the upgrades so they don’t all happen at once and overload their servers.)
The upside of Google’s automated upgrades is user convenience and that all users will actually be running the latest version of the software, which can have positive security implications as well.
The downside is that the user loses control over the upgrade process.
What is also apparent when looking at this chart is the rapid pace of upgrades to Google Chrome. It’s gone from version 1.0 to 4.0 in little over a year. No other browser we know of is even close to this pace.
The upgrade pattern of Internet Explorer
Microsoft, perhaps due to a combination of being the default browser in Windows and somewhat conservative company policies regarding browser usage, has an exceedingly slow rate of change when you compare it to the other browsers in this study.
IE 6 is the last of the old generation of browsers, and it’s not going away anyway near as fast as we’d all expect. The only good thing that can be said about it right now is that it is, as of September 2009, the least common version of Internet Explorer, since that is when version 8 passed it in popularity (ok, market share might be a better word than popularity here).
The upgrade pattern of Firefox
Compared to Chrome and IE, Firefox has managed to find some sort of middle ground in the way it handles upgrades. Upgrades are handled more aggressively than IE, but doesn’t go to the extremes of the fully automated Chrome. Minor upgrades (such as 3.6.1 to 3.6.2) are handled automatically, but the user has to approve any big upgrades (such as from 3.0 to 3.5).
(Note: We didn’t include Firefox 1.5 in the chart since it was pretty much flatlined at the bottom.)
An interesting observation here is that it takes a new version of Firefox less than three months to overtake the previous version.
One way Mozilla goes about this is to give users who after a couple of months haven’t upgraded a gentle push in the right direction. Quoting from Mozilla’s developer blog:
In the past 50 days, Firefox 3.6 has been downloaded over 100,000,000 times […]
Starting today, users running older versions of Firefox will be offered the choice of upgrading to Firefox 3.6. We’re presenting this upgrade offer for our users who may not realize that a new version is available.
The upgrade offer Mozilla started using looks like this:
That same blog post on the Mozilla developer blog goes on to note:
The offer screen will only appear after 60 seconds of keyboard inactivity to ensure we don’t get in the way of anyone’s activities. If a user declines the offer and later regrets that choice, they’ll be able to get it again simply by selecting “Check for Updates” from the “Help” menu.
The upgrade pattern of Safari and Opera
For the sake of completeness we have also included Safari and Opera, although we won’t go into similar detail here. We’ll let the charts speak for themselves.
Please note that the below chart for Opera doesn’t include the newly released Opera 10.5.
The dip for Opera 10.0 that you see at the end is most likely caused by its users migrating to Opera 10.5, although that version wasn’t included in the stats we downloaded from StatCounter. The release of Opera 10.5 matches the drop perfectly, since the beta was introduced in February and the final version in March.
That also means that Opera is doing a very good job in getting their users to upgrade rapidly.
The different patterns we’ve seen above indicate two things:
Different approaches to making users upgrade. Completely automated, or aggressive promotion of new versions, or a more laid-back approach? These charts all tell a different story.
These browsers have different types of users. Upgrade behavior will in most cases be tied to the kind of users the browser has attracted, with IE’s slow upgrade rate partly being the effect of a user base that is what you might call technologically conservative. To name an example, only around 14% of Pingdom’s users access our control panel with IE, but Chrome accounts for 21% and Firefox for 51%. This is very different from the internet average, where IE has more than 50% market share and Firefox and Chrome significantly less, but it’s a reflection of the fact that our users consist largely of webmasters, sysadmins, web designers, and site owners. In this case, Firefox and Chrome has attracted a more tech savvy audience (on average), which may be more inclined to upgrade to the latest version quickly after it arrives. The share of technical users each browser has will affect the upgrade pattern.
Web browsers are among the most widely used applications in the world and even those of more modest popularity like Opera have a huge user base. When it’s time to upgrade to a new version, they have to convince millions of people to do so.
Google is an extreme example of pushing upgrades out to everyone. Although there will be people who criticize their approach with automated upgrades, Google’s strategy has a lot of merit, and most users are bound to find it quite convenient.
Getting users to upgrade to the latest version isn’t just good for the users, it also has plenty of positive side effects for the browser developer. An obvious benefit is that with just one version out there, or close to it, the support burden should diminish significantly.
The future will tell if more developers switch to the approach Google is using with Chrome. It is obviously working very well for them.
Suggested further reading: Does Internet Explorer have more than a billion users?
Posted in Tech MusingsTagged browser, chart, chrome, development, firefox, google, graph, ie, marketshare, microsoft, mozilla, Opera, report, safari, software, stats, study, survey, trends, upgrade, web, web browsing
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Artem says:
Are you working under administrator account? On my system (Vista) Firefox does not updates itself under limited user. I have to go website and download it manually each time, thanksfully I have Opera and it handles updates very wekk.
Neil Hudock says:
I love Google’s aggressive upgrade strategy with chrome even though some of the last few builds have been very crash-prone. As a web-developer, still having to work on IE6 at times is very painful. If I just had to code for modern browsers, my productivity would easily double.
Good article, some interesting points in there. I would be interested to see a merged graph that contains all of these data points. That would give the benefit of a) better conveying relative market shares and b) show how releases/upgrades of browsers effect users of other browsers. For example, you might be able to infer how the release of Firefox 3.6 impacted market share for Internet Explorer.
The opera graph is completely inaccurate as the latest opera versdion is 10.5 and it is not on the graph.
Chielie says:
I actually find there is another (and to me it is the ONLY) downside to Chrome’s automatic updating: the hogging of system resources.
I don’t so much mind lack of control over the update process, as I do lack of control over the WHEN of the update process.
Leon Poole says:
I love the upgrade approach Firefox has with browser updates, but I don’t mind the aggressive updates from Chrome either.
Jonathan Bailey says:
The upgrade strategy adopted by each browser may also reflect the environment in which it is most used.
Many businesses build applications around particular browsers (usually IE?) and only guarantee compatibility with certain versions of particular browsers. We have often found that users upgrading to IE8 find they no longer have full functionality in some core business processes because the in-house developers or 3rd party developers have not caught up yet.
Automatic and mandated updates would leave a lot of businesses floundering when this happens.
I know of users stuck at IE7 until other apps catch up! Being older and more established, I suspect IE has its roots deep into other applications in ways that (for example) Chrome does not.
Michael Pehl says:
I stopped supporting IE6 and that’s good (at least for me). The upgrade strategies differ from browser to browser. Automatically updating is for me the easiest way.
While I don’t consider google’s approach a bad idea for the general user it might be problematic for what you call, “the techie”, due to the impossibility of using plugins that might be instantly outdated when the new version comes out.
This is why some people cricized firefox’s continuous updates. If you couldn’t use those handy add-ons you’d been using, what was the point of upgrading? (yes, I know about security flaws, I’m just illustrating the point). Some people chose to NOT upgrade and I think it’s only fair they get the chance to do so.
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Start the New Year off right with the Resolution Run 5K. This New Year's Day race travels over the Barber Bridge above the beautiful Indian River Lagoon. Amenities include premium blend shirts, custom medals for award winners, and a FREE Kid's Fun Run. Post-Race festivities take place in Riverside Park and include Music, Refreshments, Raffles and Awards Ceremony.
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Packets can be picked up at Runners Depot on December 30th and December 31st from 10:00am -5:00pm or at the event on race day starting at 9:00am.
-Overall Male and Female receive a FREE pair of shoes and other AWESOME prizes!!!!
-There will be 100 custom medals for the following categories: Top 3 Overall Male & Female, Top Masters Male & Female (40+), Top Senior Grand Masters Male & Female (60+), Age Group medals 3 deep in each of the following 5 year age groups: (9 & Under) (10-14) (15-19) (20-24) (25-29) (30-34) (35-39) (40-44) (45-49) (50-54) (55-59) (60-64) (65-69) (70-74) (75-79) (80 & Over)
Gather your friends and family and take part in our Team Competition. Each team must have at least 5 people to score and there is no maximum to how many people you have on your team. The team with the 5 fastest times will win and receive medals at the Award Ceremony following the race (medals for 5 fastest team members).
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Unirea who?
February 15, 2010 Radu Baicu Leave a comment Go to comments
Unirea Urziceni, Romanian title holders, the team already considered Liverpool’s marked victim, in the UEFA Europa League double. Here are some (hopefully) interesting facts, statistics and personal views, ahead of the first leg, that will be played at Anfield on the 18th of February:
Unirea is, at this point, an unpredictable team even for Romanian fans and pundits. The departure of Dan Petrescu (THE guy who invented the team that won the title and collected eight points in the Champions League group stage) and the appointment of Ronny Levy as head coach should have brought some changes in the team’s tactics, mentality and approach. Usually a very, very disciplined team, with an organized game and paths followed by the players with their eyes closed, Unirea could and should have changed partially their style under the Israeli coach.
Although Romanians haven’t seen a single friendly game played this winter, press reports suggest a switch from the usual 4-1-4-1 system to a 4-2-3-1. Without a single player bought during the mercato period (and three departed, striker Danalache, who wasn’t among the players registered for the Champions League, and wingers Tiberiu Balan and Dacian Varga, both dangerous offensive weapons and regular starters in the first half of season), Levy will try to use wisely a decent roster by Romanian standards. Besides Varga and Balan, Levy will be without the solid anchorman Ricardo, who turned up very late after the winter break, and he will also have to leave out one of the team’s best players, the Argentinian Brandan (who feels jaded after a missed transfer to Stuttgart), so, most likely the starting eleven will look like this: Arlauskis – Maftei, Galamaz, Bruno Fernandes, Bordeanu – Paraschiv, Apostol – Semedo, Onofras, Frunza – Bilasco. So, even those tempted to say that Unirea looks pretty much the same way like before, the fact is that Levy will be without the best left back, the best anchorman and the best wingers. So, if the Romanian champions are to stand any chance, he’d better have produced some tactical miracles.
Latest news give Portuguese right winger Semedo little chances to feature in the first leg. In case he won’t make it (twisted an ankle on 31st of January) Levy will have every chance to deploy a more defensive team, as he did in the last three friendly matches: a 4-4-2 with Dinu Todoran on the right side of midfield and Onofras will be the second striker with the task of dropping down (he has excellent stamina and work rate) when the Reds have the ball and pushing forward on the channels created by centre forward Marius Bilasco.
Unirea played 7 friendly matches since the team resumed training, winning 4, drawing 1 and losing 2 – 7 goals scored, 2 goals received. For those interested in betting, not a single match finished “over 2,5”.
One player in particular has an interesting story. Epaminonda Nicu (30) is the only player that was part of the wonderful adventure which saw this small club progressing from Romania’s third tier to the title and the Champions League group stage. Nicu improved impressively and always gave his best to rise to the challenge, playing both as central defender and right back. Since 2003, he collected 161 matches in Romania for Urziceni and only this season, after the transfer of former Rapid Bucharest skipper Vasile Maftei, he found it more difficult to get a place in the starting eleven.
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Spell My Name Correctly
June 13, 2012 July 13, 2018 by Aaron Botwick
Is there anything more delicious than a good play about politics? Joseph Alsop (John Lithgow) is a nationally syndicated op-ed writer who believes the words “terrorize” and “interrogate” are synonymous with “interview.” The Columnist follows Alsop for two decades of his forty-year career—from his battles with Joe McCarthy in the early ‘fifties to his cheerleading of the Vietnam War throughout the ‘sixties. Alsop, a closeted homosexual, has a rocky English marriage with Washington socialite Susan Mary Jay Patten (Margaret Colin) as well as a strained relationship with his brother and sometimes partner Stewart (Boyd Gaines). Though a lifelong Republican, he worships FDR and Kennedy—and ultimately, his run-ins with popular opinion over escalation in Vietnam lead to his decline in credibility.
Playwright David Auburn touches on some of the twentieth century’s most famous moments—and Alsop brushes elbows with some of its most famous figures—but he never gives in to the temptation to wink at and nudge his audience. We spend a great deal of the second act listening to Alsop rant about how we will win in Vietnam, but there is nothing jokey about this, as if we are supposed to laugh at his lack of foresight. He is a man who stands behind his convictions, and he is so articulate and so passionate that we almost believe he is right. Earlier, the Kennedy assassination is handled with particular gracefulness: Alsop hears his stepdaughter cry out offstage, and Mary enters to tell him he had better come see the television. Mr. Auburn trusts our intelligence, he doesn’t need to give us silly lines before this moment about how the president is going to be in Dallas—the look on Ms. Colin’s face is all we need. In the following scene, Alsop, despite his close relationship with Kennedy, decides to skip the vigil and work on his piece for the next day. Picking away at his typewriter, he only takes a moment to cry—for the professional newspaperman, it is more important to record than to experience.
The Columnist does not have any especially demanding roles, but the cast does a good job with what they have been given. Mr. Lithgow, who floods his stage with his saliva, is ideally cast as the affected WASP who knows that he has earned his arrogance. He has a clipped timing that is perfect for all of Alsop’s witty replies and one-liners, but he can also deliver the more emotional scenes with a bubbling repression that suits the part—Alsop’s confident erudition masks a supremely vain man who fears exposure almost as much as he fears rejection and irrelevance. And Mr. Gaines proves an excellent foil. Haggard and sensible, he is always negotiating Alsop’s paranoia with reality, even while he is quietly dying of Leukemia. He always seems exhausted and beaten down—he has spent too many years absorbing his brother’s maniac energy, has heard one too many of his personal stories about Jack Kennedy or “cousin Eleanor.”
The Columnist is no masterpiece, but it is a fine play and a classy one, too. There may not be any great moments in it, but there are no bad ones either. That is no small feat.
The Columnist runs through July 8th at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. 254 W. 54th Street New York, NY.
Tags: Boyd Gaines Broadway Daniel Sullivan David Auburn John Lithgow Joseph Alsop Manhattan Theatre Club Margaret Colin Politics Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Stewart Alsop The Columnist
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New best-selling football book scores again with a host of five star reviews
A NEW best-selling football paperback has scored again with a raft of FIVE STAR reviews.
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion was written, edited and published by soccer fan Nic Outterside, and given a soft launch in May among friends and fellow Albion fans.
Already it is a best seller around the world, including sales in Australia, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Italy, San Francisco and California and stands at Number 2 in the Amazon Football Reference sales chart.
Now it has been further boosted with more than 20 top rated reviews from early purchasers of the book.
These are a small sample:
A wonderful read that brilliantly encapsulates the raw emotional highs and lows experienced by the majority of football fans passionately dedicated to their chosen team.
(Chris Dunster, Brighton)
You don’t have to be a fan of Brighton & Hove Albion to enjoy this book. The tales of Nic’s journey will resonate with fans of every club. Brilliant stuff.
(Ian Hine, Southampton)
An enjoyable insight into the trials and tribulations we go through to follow the club we love, that all football fans will be able to relate to.
(Stephen Doswell, Bexhill)
Death in Grimsby is a great read for football supporters. Fans of any club will relate to the passion of the author for his beloved team. But it is also part social history and part memoir of the author’s life, told through his experiences of travelling and following Brighton. A quick and entertaining read, highly recommended.
(Marcello Mega, Edinburgh)
You can’t help but fall in love with this book – a true work of love written by someone who bleeds blue and white, funny, honest and full of nostalgia – takes pride of place among the rest.
(Ashley Bradley, Brighton)
Absolutely brilliant – a must-read for all Albion fans, in fact, for all football fans.
(Steve Cowdry, Swindon)
As a lifelong Brighton & Hove Albion supporter I thoroughly enjoyed this book – the memories came flooding back. My other half is a non-Brighton fan and he thought it was brilliant also and very well written. I would recommend it to anyone who has any interest in football.
(Maria Suggitt, York)
What a fantastic read! Brought back so many memories and tears supporting Brighton & Hove Albion.
(Jimmy Anderson, London)
An excellent read which highlights the pain of having to watch your team from afar due to circumstances out of your control. I thought I was alone but this book confirms I was not. A brilliant book for any fan of any club exiled from their homelands.
(Tim Colville, Birmingham)
A great book, fantastic read, evokes so many memories.
(Christopher O’Regan, Sussex)
An awesome read. In some ways reminiscent of Nick Varley’s Park Life, but much more immediate and in places very humorous. The experiences and emotions relayed in this book will resonate with every football supporter, no matter who you support.
(Jon West, California)
You don’t have to be a follower of Brighton & Hove Albion to read this book. It is full of interesting stories and information about different clubs that maybe not everyone has been to. Really enjoyable read.
(Jackie Hersee, Hastings)
Death in Grimsby charts Nic’s passion for his far from ordinary home town club for more than half a century. It is a collection of personal stories which will resonate with every football supporter, no matter which club they may follow.
Each chapter is a separate story related to 21 different matches and events, including Nic’s first night game against Portsmouth in 1969, a record 8-2 defeat against Bristol Rovers in 1973, winning promotion to the old League Division One in 1979, an FA Cup Final in 1983, Football League survival against Hereford United in 1997 and much more.
A clearly delighted Nic said: “I hoped my story might resonate with supporters of most football clubs, but to reach number 2 in the sales charts and to have so many top reviews is beyond my wildest dreams.”
The formal launch of Death in Grimsby with personal signings and special guests will take place at two venues in Brighton and Worthing on the eve of the Albion’s first home game of the 2019/20 season against West Ham on 17 August.
The first launch event is from 7pm on Thursday 15 August at the Caxton Arms, North Gardens, Brighton. The second event is from 6pm on Friday 16 August at the Castle Ale House, Newland Road, Worthing. Everyone is welcome.
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion is available as a large format paperback priced at £10.49 with FREE UK delivery from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1095979752/.
A Kindle e-book edition of the book is also available for £3.99 at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Grimsby-Following-Brighton-Albion-ebook/dp/B07T4VMJRQ/
Author seagullnicPosted on June 27, 2019 June 27, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags Amazon, autobiography, BHAFC, Brighton and Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, football, New book, Nic Outterside, paperback, Seagulls, soccer, supportersLeave a comment on New best-selling football book scores again with a host of five star reviews
New best-selling Brighton & Hove Albion book will be launched at two events in August
A NEW autobiographical best-selling football paperback is set for a formal launch at two Sussex venues this summer in front of surprise special guests.
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion was written, edited and published by soccer fanatic Nic Outterside, and given a soft launch in May among friends and fellow Albion fans.
Already it is a best seller around the world, including sales in Australia, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Italy, San Francisco and California.
Death in Grimsby currently stands at Number 2 in the Amazon Football Reference sales chart, at Number 3 in Amazon’s Football Hot New Releases and also at Number 3 in their Most Wished For chart.
The book’s formal launch, with personal signings and special guests, including former Brighton & Hove Albion legends, will take place at two venues in Brighton and Worthing on the eve of the Albion’s first home game of the 2019/20 season against West Ham on 17 August.
The first launch event is from 7pm on Thursday 15 August at the Caxton Arms, North Gardens, Brighton. The second event is from 6pm on Friday 16 August at the Castle Ale House, Newland Road, Worthing. Everyone is welcome!
Death in Grimsby charts Nic’s passion for his far from ordinary home town club for more than half a century. Among 50,000 words and 115 images it is a collection of personal stories which will resonate with every football supporter, no matter which club they may follow.
“I have been following Brighton & Hove Albion since I was a very small kid, and like a fan of any club, whether that be Arsenal, Accrington Stanley, Aston Villa or Alloa Athletic, once you are hooked you are well and truly hooked,” explains Nic.
“It is a passion which has never dimmed with greying hair, crows’ feet etched lines and a free bus pass just three years away.
“I am now pinching myself that not only has my book sold so unexpectedly well, but I will now meet some of the players that feature in it and who I cheered for from the North Stand all those years ago,” he adds.
Death in Grimsby is a collection of short stories which charts the first 50 years that Nic supported his beloved Albion, starting with that first game at the Goldstone in 1967 and finishing with a match against Wolves at Molineux in April 2017, when his club all but mathematically secured promotion to the promised land of the Premier League.
These are knitted together with many personal recollections such as meeting Ernie Wise in Leeds, trying to explain the Foot and Mouth Disease funeral pyres to his young daughters before a match against Carlisle United in 2001, interviewing the England legend Paul Gascoigne, bribing match stewards with slices of home-made flapjack at Birmingham City and being hospitalised with hypothermia after a game at Grimsby.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1095979752/
Author seagullnicPosted on June 21, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags autobiography, BHAFC, book, Brighton & Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, football, New book, Nic Outterside, Seagulls, soccerLeave a comment on New best-selling Brighton & Hove Albion book will be launched at two events in August
New football book at #2 in best sellers chart eight weeks before its official launch
A NEW autobiographical paperback has entered the Amazon Football Top Ten a full two months before its official launch.
The full launch with book signings is planned for the week beginning 12th August, yet Death in Grimsby already stands at Number 2 in the Amazon Football Reference sales chart, with former Brighton & Hove Albion players among the early purchasers.
“I have been following my beloved Brighton & Hove Albion since I was a very small kid, and like a fan of any club, whether that be Arsenal, Accrington Stanley, Aston Villa or Alloa Athletic, once you are hooked you are well and truly hooked,” explains Nic.
“I hoped my story might resonate with supporters of most clubs, but to reach number 5 in the sales charts, with barely any advertising or promotion is beyond my wildest dreams,” he adds.
The full launch with book signings will take place at venues (TBC) in Brighton and Hove during week beginning 12th August, prior to Brighton & Hove Albion’s first home game of the 2019/2020 season against West Ham on 17th August.
Nic Outterside is an award-winning editor, journalist and author. Among more than a dozen awards to his name are North of England Daily Journalist of the Year, Scottish Weekly Journalist of the Year, Scottish Daily Journalist of the Year and a special national award for investigative journalism. He was twice editor of Weekly Newspaper of the Year. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in written journalism.
Death in Grimsby is his seventh published book.
For interviews or further information Nic can be contacted by email on seagullnic@gmail.com
Author seagullnicPosted on June 19, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags autobiography, BHAFC, Brighton & Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, football, Kit Napier, New book, Nic Outterside, Seagulls, soccer, supportersLeave a comment on New football book at #2 in best sellers chart eight weeks before its official launch
New football book scores in Amazon best sellers chart eight weeks before launch
A NEW autobiographical paperback has entered the Amazon Football Reference Top Ten chart a full two months before its official launch.
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton and Hove Albion was written, edited and published by soccer fanatic Nic Outterside, and given a soft launch in May among friends and fellow Albion fans.
Other ways to order and purchase the book will be announced in early July.
A Kindle e-book edition of the book will also be available before the end of June.
Author seagullnicPosted on June 13, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags Amazon, autobiography, Best Seller, BHAFC, book, Brighton & Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, football, paperback, soccerLeave a comment on New football book scores in Amazon best sellers chart eight weeks before launch
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion now published in paperback
Burning cows at Carlisle, Meeting Ernie Wise in Leeds, Joking with Gazza in Glasgow, Bribing Match Stewards in Birmingham, an Ovation at Doncaster and Death in Grimsby
BRIGHTON & Hove Albion FC were founded in 1901 and for all but six seasons of their 118 year existence have played their football in the lower divisions of the Football League.
A new book Death in Grimsby charts one man’s passion for his far from ordinary home town club over 50 of those years.
Among 50,000 words and 115 images Death in Grimsby is a collection of personal stories which will resonate with every football supporter, no matter which club they may follow.
“I have been following my beloved Brighton & Hove Albion since I was a very small kid, and like a fan of any club, whether that be Arsenal, Accrington Stanley, Aston Villa or Alloa Athletic, once you are hooked you are well and truly hooked,” explains author Nic Outterside.
“My passion was conceived on a sunny Saturday afternoon in September 1967 when I was just 11 years old, as I stood wide-eyed at the front of the North Stand of the Goldstone Ground watching these huge men battle for a crisp, white football on the green turf before me.
“I hope the reader finds something to inspire them, laugh at, wince with or cry… and recapture their own memories of a game which as the great Bill Shankly said: ‘Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that,’” adds Nic.
Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion is available in paperback from:
£10.49 Large Format paperback with FREE UK delivery
Other ways to order and purchase the book will be announced at the end of May.
The full launch with book signings will take place at venues (TBC) in Brighton and Hove during week beginning 5 August prior to the start of the 2019/20 Premier League season.
A Kindle e-book edition of the book will also be available later in the summer of 2019.
Author seagullnicPosted on May 7, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags autobiography, book, Brighton & Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, football, New book, paperback, Seagulls, soccerLeave a comment on Death in Grimsby – 50 Years Following Brighton & Hove Albion now published in paperback
Gripping new book charts 50 years in the life of a football fanatic…
Burning cows at Carlisle, Meeting Ernie Wise in Leeds, Joking with Gazza in Glasgow, Bribing Match Stewards in Birmingham, a Standing Ovation at Doncaster and Death in Grimsby
A stunning new book Death in Grimsby charts one man’s passion for his far from ordinary home town club over 50 of those years.
“I hope the reader finds something to inspire them, laugh at, wince with or cry… and recapture their own memories of a game which as the great Bill Shankly said: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that,” adds Nic.
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DETAILS OF PRICE AND ORDERING/PRE-ORDERING PLUS BOOK SIGNING LAUNCH DATE
Author seagullnicPosted on April 29, 2019 April 29, 2019 Categories Journalism, My life, UncategorizedTags autobiography, book, Brighton & Hove Albion, Death in Grimsby, fan, football, paperback, Seagulls, soccer, supporterLeave a comment on Gripping new book charts 50 years in the life of a football fanatic…
Half a century following the Albion
This season I am celebrating 50 years supporting the Albion. Now with our first season in the Premier League almost finished, I thought it might be a time for a snapshot of 10 of my personal highs and lows following our team over that half century.
The Goldstone Ground
League Division 3
B&HA 1 Bury 0
My first Albion game. I witnessed in boyish awe a 1-0 home win against Bury in front of a bustling 13,413 crowd with Kit Napier scoring the only goal. Two weeks later I was back to watch us lose by the same score to Torquay. But I was already hooked!
League Cup 2nd Round
B&HA 1 Portsmouth 0
My first night game against 2nd Division giants and fierce rivals Pompey. Standing in the middle of a packed North Stand I sucked in the pungent air of cigarette smoke and testosterone. On the pitch Alex Dawson scored our winner and Kit Napier had his shirt ripped off his back by Pompey full-back Eoin Hand as he raced towards their goal.
B&HA 2 Bristol Rovers 8
Brian Clough had just been appointed manager and Albion euphoria was at a new height… but it didn’t last long! Hot on the heels of a 4-0 defeat against Walton and Hersham in the FA Cup, we faced high-flying Bristol Rovers. Smash and Grab strikers Bruce Bannister and Alan Warboys did the damage; and 44 years later I have not since witnessed such an Albion humiliation.
St James Park
Newcastle United 1 B&HA 3
I wrote about this game extensively in TAM#4. What else is there to say, except I was there, and prior to the promotion clinching win against Wigan last month, this was my most exciting moment, supporting the Albion.
Elland Road
Leeds United 1 B&HA 0
I hate Leeds United and I hate Elland Road. I have so many bad memories of the place, including almost being maimed for life as Leeds thugs hurled house bricks at me and friends after a Newcastle United v Bolton League Cup replay in 1976. This game was little different as we were huddled in caged open terracing and spent the whole game trying to dodge coins and other metal objects being thrown at us by Leeds supporters.
Oakwell
League Cup 3rd Round
Barnsley 4 B&HA 1
I was teaching in Barnsley and my 5th form class persuaded me into to going to the game and standing with the home supporters. Gatting scored for us in the second minute and I jumped around like a demented monkey. I was soon put in my place by the surrounding Barnsley supporters and the four goals which followed. I had to put up with ridicule from my pupils until well after Christmas.
Edgar Street
Hereford United 1 B&HA 1
I had lived near Hereford for seven years during the 1980s and knew the town and the Edgar Street ground well; so by hook and crook I managed to get a ticket. At half time we were staring oblivion fully in the face. And we all know what happened next. The defining moment as an Albion supporter.
Brunton Park
Carlisle United 0 B&HA 0
The first and only game I ever took my two daughters to. Basking in sunshine and with hundreds of blue and white balloons we watched and ate crisps as the Albion held out for drab goalless draw and promotion out of the bottom division for the first time since before Bellotti and Archer! Two years later was the last time I ever saw my daughters.
Blundell Park
Grimsby Town 2 B&HA 1
This was the day we delivered a huge Valentine’s card to John Prescott’s office in Hull as part of the Falmer for All campaign. I then drove across the Humber Bridge for a routine league game against Grimsby. It was cold and wet and with no parking close to the ground I was already soaked to the skin by the time I had walked five streets and bought my first Bovril. We lost thanks to two goalkeeping howlers by our young third choice keeper Stuart Jones. This was the match where I came closest to dying of hypothermia!
FA Cup 3rd Round
The Amex
B&HA 1 Wrexham 1
This game – and the replay at the Racecourse – will always stay with me. I developed a close bond with Wrexham FC during their battle against their asset stripping owners in 2004-05 and as a result ended up living in the town for eight years. The love and bond between the two clubs endured, and after our promotion was secured last month, I was showered with ‘well-done’ and ‘thanks’ messages from Wrexham supporters.
Author seagullnicPosted on May 1, 2018 Categories Albion Mag, My life, UncategorizedTags 50 years, Brighton, Brighton and Hove Albion, football, passion, Seagulls, soccer2 Comments on Half a century following the Albion
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Spitfire glory : the wartime flying life of Leif Lundsten / Tor Idar Larsen.
By: Larsen, Tor Idar [author.].
Material type: BookPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Fonthill Media, 2016Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 178155501X; 9781781555019.Subject(s): Lundsten, Leif, 1918-1944 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Norwegian | Fighter pilots -- Norway -- Biography | Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 940.540092 Summary: Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to the rare, brutal XII version. Following Lundsten s career as a fighter pilot through the War, all the Spitfires he flew are covered in this book along with descriptions of his sorties. Behind every Spitfire there is a story to be told. Stories of brave heroism, tragic deaths or determined resilience. Many of the Spitfires disappeared quickly, shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. Others lived longer than our hero did, and still exist today, becoming legendary Spitfires on their own. The author pays tribute to a forgotten Spitfire hero, a gallant and brave man that did his country proud. Time and time again Leif Lundsten took a Spitfire to the air, whether it was an air-test or to meet the Luftwaffe in a dogfight over the channel. He never lived to tell his story, but the stories of the Spitfires he flew remains. This is Leif Lundsten s legacy."
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Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to the rare, brutal XII version.
Following Lundsten's career as a fighter pilot through the War, all the Spitfires he flew are covered in this book along with descriptions of his sorties. Behind every Spitfire there is a story to be told. Stories of brave heroism, tragic deaths or determined resilience. Many of the Spitfires disappeared quickly, shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. Others 'lived' longer than our hero did, and still exist today, becoming legendary Spitfires on their own. The author pays tribute to a forgotten Spitfire hero, a gallant and brave man that did his country proud. Time and time again Leif Lundsten took a Spitfire to the air, whether it was an air-test or to meet the Luftwaffe in a dogfight over the channel. He never lived to tell his story, but the stories of the Spitfires he flew remains. This is Leif Lundsten's legacy.
Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to the rare, brutal XII version. Following Lundsten s career as a fighter pilot through the War, all the Spitfires he flew are covered in this book along with descriptions of his sorties. Behind every Spitfire there is a story to be told. Stories of brave heroism, tragic deaths or determined resilience. Many of the Spitfires disappeared quickly, shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. Others lived longer than our hero did, and still exist today, becoming legendary Spitfires on their own. The author pays tribute to a forgotten Spitfire hero, a gallant and brave man that did his country proud. Time and time again Leif Lundsten took a Spitfire to the air, whether it was an air-test or to meet the Luftwaffe in a dogfight over the channel. He never lived to tell his story, but the stories of the Spitfires he flew remains. This is Leif Lundsten s legacy."
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
Introduction (p. 9)
1 A Boy from Toten (p. 13)
2 Learning to Fly (p. 16)
3 Invasion and Escape (p. 17)
4 First Flight (p. 20)
5 Battle of Britain Spitfires (p. 22)
6 'A' is for Bad Luck (p. 25)
7 Scrambles and Dawn Patrols (p. 28)
8 Combat Veteran Spitfires (p. 31)
9 Mk V Spitfire (p. 34)
10 Baptism of Fire (p. 40)
11 Spitfire Summer (p. 46)
12 Four Pilots Lost (p. 52)
13 Battle over Dieppe (p. 56)
14 'Heavy Flak, Damn Close!' (p. 63)
15 Nuts to Nazis (p. 67)
16 Heavy Flak over Dunkirk (p. 72)
17 B-Flight Leader (p. 76)
18 Leading 331 Squadron (p. 81)
19 'I Got One!' (p. 87)
20 It Exploded and Went Into the Sea (p. 96)
21 Blue Section Attack (p. 107)
22 Junkers Ju 88 Shot Down (p. 117)
23 To Vickers-Supermarine (p. 132)
24 Spitfires and Seafires (p. 135)
25 MB882, The Last of the XII (p. 146)
26 Spitfire XII to North Weald (p. 160)
27 Miss Sheila Lee (p. 173)
28 A Christmas with Sheila (p. 189)
29 'You Took Off Up a Hill' (p. 203)
30 'Those Guys Must Really Be Blind' (p. 213)
31 Squadron Leader (p. 216)
32 No-ball Target and Royalty on the Same Day (p. 221)
33 All the Way to Paris and Back (p. 227)
34 Into the Fire (p. 236)
35 Fall of Night (p. 241)
Appendix (p. 246)
Bibliography (p. 248)
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WMRT: Six Go Home as MRT Takes on Col
Mirsky and Gilmour in Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
by Kyle Langford
With the quarter finals of Match Cup Sweden planned for tomorrow, Mirsky Racing Team will face Sebastian Col’s French Match Racing team who Thursday won their way through the repechage round to make up the last quarterfinalist.
By fast tracking their way to the next stage by a solid first round, MRT has spent the past two days maintaining their fitness and watching the other competitors race to stay in tune with the race course and conditions.
“Having a day off mid-event is quite different but we have enjoyed maintaining our fitness and keeping an eye on the competition. We also competed in a corporate Pro-Am race with the Santa Maria Company who are big supporters of Match Cup Sweden which got us out on the water” said a relaxed Torvar Mirsky who is clearly enjoying the Swedish summer.
Tomorrow MRT will aim to continue their form in their quest for the 2009 Match Cup Sweden title, and with ETNZ/ BlackMatch Racing and Bahrain Team Pindar out of the running, it is an opportunity to gain some valuable World Tour points.
Mirsky Racing Team (Torvar Mirsky) AUS vs. French Match Racing Team (Seb Col) FRA
Yanmar Racing (Peter Gilmour) AUS vs. Berntsson Sailing Team (Johnnie Berntsson) SWE
French Match Racing Team (Matteui Richard) FRA vs. French Match Racing Team (Phillip Presti) FRA
Victory Challenge (Magnus Holmberg) SWE vs. French Match Racing Team (Damien Iehl) FRA
9th Wibroe Sailing Team (Peter Wibroe) DEN
10th ETNZ Blackmatch (Adam Minoprio) NZL
11th Bahrain Team Pindar (Ian Williams) GBR
12th Stena Bulk Sailing Team (Mattias Rahm) SWE
13th Team Onboard (Bjorn Hansen) SWE
14th Joe Fly Racing (Francesco Bruni) ITA
Mirsky Racing Team
World Match Racing Tour
WMRT: BlackMatch Miss Out on Quaterfinals in Sweden
Johnnie Berntsson was the lucky one on home waters in the repechage in Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
by David Swete
The end of the repecharge series was the end of the road for BlackMatch in Sweden and although other results went our way, we failed to win our way through losing to local Johnnie Berntsson in perhaps one of the most exciting races of the year.
We felt very hard done by in our race against Johnnie, never the less it was action packed from the outset as the Swede was given a penalty on the first beat for tacking too close. By the top mark we were ‘neck and neck’ and Johnnie tried to cross us on port tack, we had the right of way on starboard and had to avoid him however the umpires ‘green flagged’ the incident. We were overlapped as we approached the bottom mark and although we felt we were inside two boat lengths and entitled to round the mark, Johnnie did a great job of luffing us hard and undertaking his penalty.
As we went to round the mark they held a slim lead and tacked straight in front of us, they were then handed another penalty from the umpires to be undertaken immediately. After they had completed their penalty we held a slim lead and a fierce tacking duel ensued with us on the right of way starboard side, the Swede then tacked in our water again and we had to avoid, but again it was green flagged. By the top mark we were still ‘neck and neck’ and on the downwind we gybed at them on starboard, they failed to keep clear and to our surprise we were handed a penalty. The final downwind run to the finish was extremely edgy as we attempted to offset our penalty, but they managed to keep clear and take the victory to put us out of the 2009 Match Cup Sweden.
It was an unfortunate way to end our regatta, however we know that poor form early on, ultimately cost us at this event. Perhaps it is because we are not used to the DS 37 boats or the tricky sailing conditions here in Sweden, but we have slowly improved throughout the week and cannot wait to come back next year.
BlackMatch would like to thank their sponsors FedEx Express and Line 7 New Zealand. We would also like to thank the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand for all of their support.
BlackMatch Racing
Transpac: Picture Perfect Transpac Send-Off and Start
Thursday's start to the Transpac. Supplied image.
by Lynn Fitzpatrick
Thursday's Aloha Send-off from Transpac Pier at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach was picture perfect.
Tachyon III, Kanzunori Komatu's Santa Cruz 52, with members of the Japanese Olympic Sailing Team on board, led the parade out of the basin. Like each of the 18 Transpac 09 race boats that followed, Tachyon III was escorted out of Rainbow Harbor's entrance by paddlers from the Kahakai Canoe Club. Free Range Chicken, Bruce Anderson's deluxe Perry 59, was the final Transpac race boat to leave the pier. As she streamed away from the dock, the crew showered their escorts with fresh fuschia-colored leis. Long Beach added more pageantry to the send-off by having Navy seals sky dive from a blimp and splash down in between the end of the pier and the Queen Mary.
Glassy waters rippled over as the morning passed. Beyond the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles breakwater and off of Point Fermin, the ripples turned to white caps as the wind built to 10-12 knots. It clocked right from about 220º to 280º for the 1300 start. The picture perfect send-off was no match for the adrenaline-charged photographer's fantasy starting sequence.
The 19-boat fleet of 45 to 60-foorters rushed the starting line. They were amped up with anticipation and testosterone and shot out of the blocks on their way to Ala Wai and Transpac Row. The pin was the coveted spot and Criminal Mischief, the grey-hulled boat with a crimson-shirted team roared past the pin. They were a bit too early and had to restart. Just up off of their starboard hip was Wasabi, one of the Mexican entries, and Bengal 7, one of three Japanese entries. Chipango, Relentless and Passion, all US boats, were just to weather of the pack at the pin. The rest of the fleet was spread out evenly across the starting line all the way up to the committee boat.
The fleet dashed off toward Catalina Island and a Pacific High that is growing larger and is slowly morphing its way south. It is being pushed down by a series of lows pushing across the Pacific from the west. Light winds prevail across the Los Angeles to Hawaii racetrack. So far, all of the starters have headed south. Tomorrow morning's peak at Ionearth will give us a clear indication as to whether any boats are breaking with traditional wisdom.
In the meantime, the two-man southern Californian crew aboard Relentless continues to lead the Division 6 fleet. They are further south and west than the second place contender, J World and they are in the vicinity of 29º 36" N and 122º 30 W moving at 5.5 knots.
Charisma continues to sail well north of the rest of Divisions 5 and 6. She has stretched her lead to over 35 nautical miles over her closest competitor, Between the Sheets. That's quite a distance when you are moving at less than five knots.
The final Transpac 09 start takes place on Sunday, July 5th at 1300. Seventeen of the largest, sleekest and fastest racing machines entered in Transpac 09 will put on an Aloha Send-off parade that will rival Long Beach's July 4th fire works display. Alfa Romeo, Neville Crichton's Reichel/Pugh 100; Philippe Khan's Pegasus 50, Disney's Pyewacket, Houla, Alchemy, Akela, Medicine Man and Ragtime are just some of the legendary yachts that are slipping into the berths vacated on Monday and Thursday. All are looking to add a Transpac victory to their lengthy records.
Preparing for the Transpacific Yacht Race is no small matter. Getting the boat into offshore racing condition and finding a competent crew that has the time, desire, chemistry, will and other resources to make it happen is no small matter. Sunday's start list is a testament to the teams' accomplishments in making it to the starting line. It wasn't until a couple of weeks before the start that it became clear that Pendragon VI, a brand new Davidson 69, and Rapid Transit, an Antrim 49, came to the heart-wrenching conclusion that no matter what they did, they could not meet the safety requirements and have their boats ready to start on July 5th.
Ragtime, the 45-year-old Spencer 65, that will be sailing her 15th Los Angeles to Hawaii Transpac, was splashed at about the same time as the smallest boats in the Transpac 09 fleet were leaving for Hawaii. Ragtime, won the 2008 Tahiti Race, won her division in the Sydney Hobart Race, sailed to her native Auckland, New Zealand and completed her return Pacific crossing in late. Upon arriving in Newport Beach, she was hauled so that structural damage to her bulkheads could be repaired and she could be measured for her Transpac rating.
Pegasus 50, Philippe Kahn's Open 50, has been being overhauled. Running rigging has been led to the cockpit so that Kahn and co-skipper, Mark Christiansen, will not have to leave the cockpit in the event that they need to reef. While the wind predictions look light all the way to Hawaii, it will be important for them to be able to reef and load up their aft water ballast tanks when they fly their kite in front of the squalls that mark the presence of those volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific that all of our Transpac 09 sailors are aiming for.
Transpac Race '09
WMRT: Berntsson and Col Through to Quarters in Sweden
Seb Col got the upper hand over Ian Williams Thursday to progress through to the quarterfinals in Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljunsvik.
Minoprio and Williams crash out
by Tour media
Fantastic racing conditions allowed the organizers of Match Cup Sweden, Stage 5 of the World Match Racing Tour, to complete the repechage round which saw Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team and Sebastien Col (FRA) French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge emerge as the final two skippers that will join Mathieu Richard (FRA) French Match Racing Team, Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing, Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team, Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team, Magnus Holmberg (SWE) Victory Challenge and Philippe Presti (FRA) French Match Racing Team in the Quarterfinal Round, scheduled for tomorrow.
The repechage round was full of excitement. Johnie Berntsson was on fire winning all three matches including a nail biter against Adam Minoprio. It started badly for Berntsson as he was awarded a penalty just after the start for tacking too close to Minoprio. It didn’t deter Berntsson and he was hot on the heels of Minoprio after rounding the first mark even managing to roll him down the run. As they approached the leeward mark outside the zone Berntsson managed to hook Minoprio on port tack subsequently luffing him tacking inside him then bearing away to offload the penalty. Berntsson then luffed on starboard tack to take Minoprio away from the leeward mark before turning back to lead around the buoy.
The Swedish crowd went ballistic egged on by on-water commentator Martin Sohtel who sounded like he was about to explode. The action wasn’t over as Berntsson tacked right in front of Minoprio infringing him and earning a red flag immediate penalty due to the controlling position that Berntsson gained. Minoprio held the lead to the top mark and had to take Berntsson way above it in order to stay ahead. As the boats headed downwind Minoprio threw in a gybe too close to Berntsson and was awarded a penalty for his trouble but Minoprio remained ahead and as the teams approached the restricted zone on the left hand side of the course Minoprio hoisted his jib, dropped his kite and started attacking Berntsson. Berntsson followed suit and both boats played cat and mouse as Minoprio tried to offload his penalty.
Berntsson stayed calm and parried every attack whilst slowly pushing Minoprio towards the finish. Berntsson’s plan won out and he crossed the line as Minoprio desperately tried to throw in his penalty turn. A pleased Johnie Berntsson said “We didn’t perform well in the first stage clearly needing some time to play catch up. We made many mistakes but now we are getting into our stride. My crew were brilliant and today I just hung out at the back and they got me round the course. It’s when I do my own thing that it all goes wrong.”
The final Flight of the repechage left Peter Wibroe needing a win and for Berntsson and Col to loose in order to get into a three way tie on 5 points and an increasingly complex count back depending on the results of the other matches in the flight. But today nothing could stop either Berntsson or Col who both blitzed their final matches against Bjorn Hansen (SWE) and World Champion Ian Williams (GBR) respectively to dive into the quarter final.
It was a disappointing day for Tour leader Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch and second placed Ian Williams (GBR) and his Bahrain Team Pindar. Both were swept out of the repechage and out the World Championship point scoring zone. Once again Williams has failed to make the quarter final round at Match Cup Sweden. Having competed at the event four times he might start to think there is a curse on him.
With all the intense action going on it was easy to forget that the event is only at the half way stage and all the quarter finalists were invited to the press conference to find out who would choose who. It was Mathieu Richard (FRA) who started the ball rolling pointing out that he hates the choosing rule as the trend at the recent events has shown that the picker has lost. Richard stepped up and chose fellow countryman Philippe Presti and assured a French Team member will make the semi’s. Next up was Peter Gilmour (AUS) who shied away from a home country match against Torvar Mirsky (AUS) saying that Mirsky was too hot to handle. He picked Berntsson which he felt could be popular because if he won then the crowd may forgive the Match Cup Sweden hall of fame inductee but if he lost then he would have been pushed aside by the young Swede taking a local one step further to the title. Due to Presti already being picked next up was Damien Iehl who wasted no time or talk on singling out Magnus Holmberg and giving no reason for the choice. Holmberg was just happy that he didn’t need to be the one to make the choice. That left the on form Torvar Mirsky up against a resurgent Sebastien Col. Col said of Mirsky “Torvar is on fire. He looks very comfortable here this week with all the beautiful girls around him.” Mirsky’s response was to assure everyone that he’d been in bed early every night and was ready for action.
With the women taking to the water this morning it was local hero Anna Kjellberg and Lucy Macgregor who emerged as the leaders from the round robin after both winning five matches to go on to secure their places in the semi final along with Katie Spithill (AUS) and Linda Rahm (SWE). Current World Champion and defending Match Cup Sweden Champion Claire Leroy struggled today surprising many by failing to make the cut. The ladies semi finals and finals are on Saturday and Lucy Macgregor will reveal who she will choose to race tomorrow night.
Tomorrows forecast promises more exciting racing with a steady breeze predicted all day. The pairs will compete in a first to the three point round to then go on and qualify for the semi finals. With it all to play for there will be some guaranteed action here in Marstrand.
Repechage Results from Day 3
Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team 6-1
Sebastien Col (FRA) French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge 6-1
Peter Wibroe (DEN) Wibroe Racing Team 5-2
Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch 3-3
Ian Williams (GBR) Bahrain Team Pindar 3-3
Mattias Rahm (SWE) Stena Bulk Sailing Team 3-3
Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Team Onico 1-6
Francesco Bruni (ITA) Team Joe Fly Match Racing 1-6
Match Cup Sweden Women
Lucy MacGregor (GBR) 5-2
Anna Kjellberg (SWE) 5-2
Katie Spithill (AUS) 4-3
Linda Rahm (SWE) 4-3
Claire Leroy (FRA) 3-4
Nicky Souter (AUS) 3-4
Lotte Meldgaard Pedersen (DEN) 3-4
Sally Barkow (USA) 1-6
Groupama 3 in New York and Groupama 40 in Hyères
Groupama 40 in training. Image copyright Yvan Zedda.
by Vincent Borde and Caroline Muller
Once again Groupama team is everywhere at once. Arriving in New York last night where she is being switched to the necessary configuration for an attempt at the Transatlantic record, the crew of Groupama 3 will have to follow the performance of Groupama 40 via the internet as she competes at Hyères, in France's Var region, where Franck Cammas is helming in the second stage of the iShares Cup.
Today was a training day for the second stage of the iShares Cup in Hyères; with two coastal courses on the menu, followed by a short race just off the port's jetties. Suffice to say that the spectacle of 12 metre catamarans sailing beam to beam was a fabulous one, particularly when they're helmed by renowned champions such as James Spithill, Loïck Peyron, Yann Guichard, Mike Golding and of course Franck Cammas.
Though the two coastal courses were beautifully won by Eric Maris and his crew on Luna Rossa, it is worth mentioning the great consistency of the winner of the first stage of the iShares Cup TPM, Gitana Extreme. Decidedly very quick, the Tornado champion has visibly relocated the automatic reflexes gained during numerous Olympic preparations carried out over recent years.
As for Groupama 40, the day was far from gloomy. Incisive during the starting procedures, tactically prudent as they favoured the middle ground, Franck Cammas and his crew have been highly consistent and always made it into the top four today. Will this be enough to stand out and earn themselves a podium place?
"The general level is high. More than the performance though it's the cohesion of the crew, the quality of the manoeuvres and a touch of opportunism which will make the difference. It's up to us to be in the action, to make as few errors as possible and be able to make the most of those mistakes the others make. We have a fine crew for that with Tanguy Cariou on tactics, Fred Le Maistre on the bow and Thierry Fouchier trimming the headsails. We get on well and we're highly motivated" analyses Franck Cammas, who concludes by asking for news of the crew on Groupama 3 who have just reached New York: "I monitored their crossing and did their routing for the first two thirds of the delivery. They've sailed well. Crossing the Atlantic in that direction in seven days is a fine performance".
Groupama 3 arrives in New York. Loïc Dorez/Team Groupama.
On the East Coast of the United States, the Boat Manager on Groupama 3 also enquired as to the ambitions of Groupama 40 in Hyères; a race zone he knows well through having often sailed there in a Tornado: "So, are the guys doing well?".
Getting back down to business the skipper looks back at the crossing: "The boat is faultless. Even though she was heavy, due notably to the engine, and we didn't power her up too hard, she perfectly fulfilled our expectations. She was back to her old self, easy to handle and still as responsive as ever, particular in a medium breeze. These are important characteristics which will enable us to be efficient over a fifty day period next winter".
As to the crew and newcomers like Bernard Stamm and Lionel Lemonchois, Fred Le Peutrec doesn't need to dwell on the matter for long: "They have years of collective skills and experience. Their presence aboard is obvious. It's straightforward. It's noteworthy but not exceptional, so obvious is it".
It's the same scenario for Olivier Mainguy, a member of the shore crew in charge of the rig, who will be a bowman during the next Atlantic record attempt: "He's working flat out; always precise and very committed. It's also down to him and his splicing that we're in a position to trim Groupama 3 precisely. He knows her like the back of his hand".
In Gateway Marina, the shore crew are preparing the boat, dismantling the engine, and removing anything that no longer has a place. As dusk closes in, Groupama 3 pulls at her warps. The same is true of her crew.
Cammas - Groupama
Barcelona World Race 2010: Jean - Pierre Dick Confirms Entry
Winner of the first edition will be on the start line aboard the next Paprec Virbac at Barcelona on 31 December, 2010
by Isabel Genis
French sailor Jean-Pierre Dick, winner of the inaugural around-the-world Barcelona World Race, has confirmed his participation in the second edition. Jean-Pierre Dick is among the elite of skippers with wins in several of the world’s great oceanic races. The start of the next Barcelona World Race will be on 31 December, 2010.
Jean-Pierre Dick will be at the helm of the next Paprec-Virbac , which is presently under construction in New Zealand. It was aboard Paprec Virbac 2 that he secured his sensational victory at Barcelona, establishing the record the skippers will be aiming to beat in eighteen months time: 92 days, 8 hours, 49 minutes and 49 seconds.
Last winter Jean-Pierre Dick took part in the Vendée Globe, once again sailing aboard Paprec Virbac 2. On this occasion he was forced to retire from the race after hitting an unidentified floating object in the Southern Ocean, at which time he was leading the fleet.
Since registration for entries opened on 18th June last, the Barcelona World Race organizers have been working closely with those skippers who have expressed an interest in racing in the next edition. Nine boats took part in the first race, and it is expected that there will be between 10 and 12 on the start line on the last day of 2010, of which at least three should be Spanish entries.
iShares Cup: Practice Day Delivers the Goods at iShares Cup Hyères-TPM
Thursday’s practice races certainly delivered the goods ahead of the official start of the iShares Cup Hyères-TPM event tomorrow. The sea breeze built up to a steady 10-12 knots - more than enough to get the Extreme 40s hulls flying. The iShares Cup Raid – a 10-mile sprint to the island of Porquerolles – saw a French victory as Erik Maris skipper of LUNA snatched victory from James Spithill’s BMW ORACLE Racing after just 36 minutes of racing. Maris suffered a broken wrist playing football but his arm encased in a plaster cast does not seem to be an impediment! It was a tight finish to the line for the remainder of the 8 teams and iShares Cup inside reporter, Jocelyn Blériot, rode shotgun on BMW ORACLE Racing – see his report below. And English rugby stars, Tom May and Joe El-Abd, who now both play for Toulon, also came along for a ride...
iShares Cup racing off Hyeres. Image copyright Thierry Martinez/Sea&Co/OC Events.
by Emily Caroe
Round 2 of the iShares Cup Hyères-TPM is all set to go – official racing starts tomorrow (Friday, 3rd July) at 14h00 local time through to Sunday, 5th July. Today saw a series of practice races for the ten Extreme 40s including the iShares Cup Raid – a 10-mile sprint to the island of Porquerolles and back. The beauty of the iShares Cup is the adaptability of the Extreme 40 fleet to race on open sea or on inland waters; racing short courses close to shore, trying speed runs or stretching their legs in a ‘raid’ format as they did today.
Following the official opening iShares Cup press conference at which Jacques Politi, Mayor of Hyères and Vice-President of TPM (Toulon Provence Mediterranée) welcomed the skippers to the region, the skippers were keen to get going. Franck Cammas, skipper Groupama: “I am impatient to race! The Extreme 40s are great to sail and Hyères should be more windy than Venice hopefully. I hope we're not going to race too close to shore if it's really windy as it might be a bit more 'extreme' than we like!”
Although the weather forecast predicted light conditions for the next few days, the temperatures in Hyères results in the land heating up through the morning to create a good and consistent sea breeze for the afternoon. Shirley Robertson, skipper Team iShares, remembers the conditions last year: “Last year we had some big wind - I ended up on a stretcher with stitches! Going downwind with the big gennaker up and both rudders out the water - there's not much you can do at the back except hang on - this is Hyères! I think this weekend we could have a few surprises...”
Well, perhaps the first surprise of Round 2 has been the victory of Erik Maris and his crew onboard LUNA, in the iShares Cup Raid and the second practice race.
As Loick Peyron, skipper Oman Sail Renaissance commented: “This iShares Cup is a very exciting game... Sailing in open water can change many things.”
iShares Cup Raid results (non-scoring race):
1 LUNA (Erik Maris)
2 BMW ORACLE Racing (James Spithill)
3 Gitana (Yann Guichard)
4 Groupama (Franck Cammas)
5 Oman Sail Renaissance (Loick Peyron)
6 BT (Nick Moloney)
7 Holmatro (Carolijn Brouwer)
8 Oman Sail Masirah (Pete Cumming)
9 iShares (Shirley Robertson)
10 Ecover (Mike Golding)
5th man aboard BMW Oracle during the iShares Raid
by Jocelyn Blériot
When an opportunity to jump onboard the BMW Oracle Extreme 40 arises, what can one do apart from dropping notebooks and mobile phone on the dock, grabbing a lifejacket, and jumping on one of the ribs shuttling from the race village to the race course?
The sea breeze promises hull-flying conditions, the run to the Porquerolles island and back leaves plenty of space for the boats to show their full potential... and to put things simply, you just don't get the chance to hitch a ride with an America's Cup crew everyday, so even if the conditions were not ideal it still would be a treat!
James Spithill, John Kostecki, Joe Newton and Dirk de Ridder welcome me aboard 10 minutes before the start, and we gently sail around the start line, the guys discussing placement on the line and possible wind shifts around Porquerolles, less than 5 miles away. My guess is that it's going to be a very quick five miles, and the sailing geek in me is thrilled to be about to live a starting sequence aboard a boat crewed by America's Cup legends, Volvo Ocean Race winners and Match Racing World Champions. I feel like a train-obsessed kid who was given a chance to sit next to the driver during a TGV speed test!
The gun is about to go, we're obviously off to a very good start and it's going to be a straight line, sheer speed race, to the first mark. Erik Maris's Luna leads, we're in second place and Joe Newton, trimming the jib, impresses me with his very accurate "reading" of the wind variations on the water. The windward hull is above the surface, whenever a little gust kicks in the daggerboard is taken out of the water and the sudden silence reinforces that bird-like impression - we're doing roughly 18 knots, preparing the first mark rounding and monitoring Gitana Extreme's whereabouts: sailing lower, they're trying to build more speed and claim second place. It might be a training race with no points at stake but what difference does that make? No way Spithill and his gang are going let that one pass. We're coming on the buoy at full speed, Dirk de Ridder and Joe Newton are already starting to hoist the gennaker, we're now 3 metres away from Yann Guichard's boat and decide to continue towards the shore.
On a regular (slow?) monohull, you'd be admiring the scenery, as the Porquerolles rocks sunk in deep blue water are a fantastic sight. Fortunately, I'd been there already (on a slow boat) and enjoyed the view, because today it was not an option. That part of the race is probably the only real tactical moment, and Dirk de Ridder pants heavily as he sits down next to me after a couple of gybes. The speed at which these guys perform the manoeuvres is staggering, especially considering the effort they require! Luna does a great job of holding on to her leading position, and we're already heading back towards Hyères and the finish line. To leeward, a pack of three Extreme 40 all skippered by French legends - Cammas, Peyron and Guichard - seem pretty quick and need to be controlled. Not a problem, John Kostecki is on the case and we're seeing the line getting closer, it's only a matter of holding on to our position. One last little gust to salute the race committee with the windward hull cleanly up in the air, and that's it job done.
Kostecki turns to the Luna crew and shouts "Well done guys" with a big smile... while it seems to me like mine is going to stay stuck on my face for another two hours! But what's that absurd business about having to go back to my computer?
iShares Cup
Relentless Leads First Group of Starters on Transpac '09
After sailing through wind ranges of 8 to 15 knots immediately following Monday's start and making a number of headsail changes, Divisions 6 and 7 Transpac crews went over the top of Catalina Island and settled into steadier conditions. Relentless leads and is 2,100 nautical miles from the finish line off Diamond Head and Lynx, the 114-ton tall ship, is finding difficult to get the momentum going. Lynx has 2,165 nautical miles left to go on the 2,225 nautical mile racecourse.
In Division 6, Relentless, the One-Design 35 being doublehanded by Tim Fuller and Erik Shampain, has a ten-mile lead over the crew on Narrow Escape. This is the second time that Fuller and Shampain have sailed double-handed from Los Angeles to Hawaii. During the 2007 Transpac, they were 4th in their division. Before leaving the Transpac Pier at Rainbow Harbor, when asked about their watch system, Shampain looked at Fuller and said, "He said he'd take the first three days on so that I could take the first three off." As for Narrow Escape, two of the crew were aboard her during the 2007 Transpac. The entire crew was supposed to sail the Santa Cruz 50, Lawndart, to Hawaii this year, but when it was clear that the SC 50 would not be ready in time, they looked for their Plan B, as they have been referring to Narrow Escape.
Charisma, one of nine foreign yachts in this year's Transpacific Yacht Race, is off to an early lead in Division 7. Alejandro Perez Calzada and his crew of 11 are racing this 57-foot Sparkman & Stephens design. Aside from one German, the entire Charisma crew is Spanish. All crew members are sailing their first Transpac. Their goal is to have a good time and have a respectable finish within their division.
While Charisma is taking a high track, Between the Sheets is splitting the middle among all of the Division 6 and Division 7 boats. Between the Sheets, Ross Peralman's, Jeanneau 50, which won the Aloha A division in the 2007 Transpac, is approximately 15 miles behind Charisma.
Nineteen boats comprising Divisions 3,4 and 5 start on Thursday, July 2nd at 1300 off of Point Fermin. Five Santa Cruz 50's, including hull #1, Roy's Chasch Mer, constitute Division 5. Half of the boats in Division 4 are Santa Cruz 52's. Reinrag2, the overall winner on corrected time for the 2007 Transpac, is also in Division 4. Division 3's entries include two Japanese and one Mexican boat and Bruce Anderson's comfortable and fast, Free Range Chicken.
Transpac Race
Feast or Famine on Transpac '09 Boats
Absolutely no freeze dried food on Wasabi for this year's Transpac! Supplied image.
Boats in Divisions 3, 4 & 5 start their Transpac 09 race tomorrow. Before they head out for the most enduring and greatest ocean race in the world they have a lot of decisions to make. Crews from each of the 19 boats are looking toward their navigators to determine what route they are going to take initially, so that they can decide which sails to take and which to leave behind. While the navigators work through their strategy, the rest of the crews are out purchasing odds and ends and loading food onto their boats for the passage.
These Santa Cruz 50's and 52's, Andrews 53 and 56's and a smattering of other designs that rate between 106 and 159, are not in contention to break course records, but they are looking to win or do well in their divisions, have a safe race and maybe even win overall on corrected time, as did Reinrag 2, Tom Garnier's J-125 did in 2007. Reinrag 2 not only won Division IV, but also beat the entire fleet on corrected time to become the overall 2007 Transpac winner.
On Wednesday afternoon in Long Beach, everyone was stocking their iceboxes and storage bins under the crystal clear skies and light winds. Food philosophy varies widely among these crews. Here is a sampling of what is being passed from the dock, over the lifelines and across cockpits to be stowed down below:
Wasabi - Jorge Ripstein's Farr 46 from Acapulco, Mexico - This is the first Transpac for the boat and for the owner. They are planning on a 10-day crossing. All of the meals are pre-made and frozen. They'll have a variety and nothing will be duplicated. As far as they are concerned, there will be absolutely no freeze-dried food on board.
Criminal Mischief - Chip Megeath's Reichel Pugh 45, that was formerly known as Kokopelli 2, won the 50/52 Division and was second overall behind Pyewacket in 2007. Their navigator Jeff Thorpe won the best navigator's award for the entire race in 2007. This crew of veterans will be gobbling up freeze dried food, cereal, lunch meats, cheese bread, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and odd & ends for snacks.
Passion - A Santa Cruz 50 that raced the Transpac in the 1980's under the name Racy and later became Delicate Balance, was 4th in the 50/52 Division in the 2007 Transpac. This group of great sailors and friends, that also includes two sets of fathers and sons, are going to "Eat like kings," according to Steve Hastings, the owner. Suzy Hubbard, the chef, cooked up all of the food in Corpus Christi, froze it and shipped all 115 pounds of casseroles and marinated rib eyes to Gladstone's freezers. The crew was waiting for Gladstone's lunch rush to subside before heading into the Transpac Pier restaurant host's freezers and reclaiming their sustenance. The rib eyes constitute just a bit of the seven pounds of meat being brought aboard for each of the eight crew members.
Horizon - Jack Taylor's Santa Cruz 50 team will be heating up a different homemade meal every day. Lasagna, beef stew, enchiladas, quiche, pot roast - there will be no repeats. Taylor, a veteran of three Transpac, says his team's performance has improved with each race. They were second in their division and third in the fleet for the 2007 Transpac. By far the most popular dish, and the midway celebratory dinner, is the Silver Palate meatloaf. "They love it," beamed Jack Taylor as he transferred the contents of their first cooler of food from the dock to Horizon's cockpit.
Tachyon III - is one of the three Japanese boats competing in Transpac 09. Kazunori Komatsu and some of his crew have been indulging themselves while they have been in Long Beach by "Eating big American hamburgers everywhere," said Komatsu.
It's Komatsu's third Transpac and he has Nishioka Kazumasa, the Japanese Olympic Sailing Team Director, on board as the navigator. Harada Ryunosuke and Yoshida Yugo, who just beat 81 other teams to claim the 2009 470 European Championship title are sailing an offshore race for their first time in this Transpac. The team will have to satiate themselves of American hamburgers on Wednesday night, because from the time they leave Transpac Pier at Rainbow Harbor through the time they reach Hawaii, they'll be eating Japanese food that has been shipped to them straight from Japan. Their diet will be Japanese dried food, noodles, fish, rice and miso soup.
VOR: Exclusive - PUMA's Big Cat Revealed
Skipper Kenny Read with the PUMA cat (aka Casey Smith). Image copyright Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race.
by SailRaceWin
SailRaceWin can reveal, exclusively, that PUMA's big cat was a human in disguise: race crewman Casey Smith.
PUMA Ocean Racing
VOR: PUMA - Rookie of the Race
Michael Muller onboard PUMA Ocean Racing. Image copyright Rick Deppe/PUMA Ocean Racing.
by Kenny Read (skipper)
PUMA's Michi Mueller won the first ever Hans Hans Horrevoets Rookie Trophy, which was created in memory of Hans, who was lost at sea during the last edition of the race. Here is the nomination that Ken Read wrote for Michi. It is quite long, but there was just too much about Michi that Volvo needed to know!
Michael “Michi” Mueller came to PUMA as a complete rookie and in my mind, personifies exactly the type of sailor that your criteria specifies.
Michi Mueller joined the PUMA Ocean Racing team in the late summer of 2007. He is what you call a “non-roster invite” in baseball terms, someone who you would not normally invite for a tryout. He was the only real wild card on the PUMA boat. I had been looking for an “under 30” who fit the following criteria; big, strong, unflappable; a jack of all trades. When talking to a sailing friend of mine who has sailed on the German America’s Cup team, he flat out said that I had to give this kid Michi Mueller a look. I gave him a late summer tryout and quickly decided to take a chance on him, and this chance that has worked out in more ways than I could ever imagine.
Michi is the quiet man on this boat. In fact, early on in the campaign, he did an interview with Rick Deppe and answered each question with one word answers. It was clear that self promotion was not one of his strong points. What was clear is that this kid was extremely shy, but that didn’t matter on the boat. A boat can be full of egos and Michi could just sat back and not only work hard but over-perform from the very start. With no preconceived notion as to his position on the boat, he started off in the pit and grinding. The pit is very complicated on this boat without hydraulics. Michi handled it flawlessly and without any fanfare. He did his job and did it well.
Over the winter of 2007-2008, Michi arrived two months early to help with the final stages of the boat construction. The rigging department aimed to pre-make all the rigging for the boat and Michi told us he could ‘help out’. And help he did, pretty much assisting on every piece of rope made for the boat. I thought to myself “I didn’t know he could be a rigger”, but that was just the beginning.
Once the deck was on the hull, the winch system was getting put down. Michi essentially said, (in his German accent of course) and I quote, “don’t worry about the winches. I will take care of them.” From original assembly up to today, the winches have been looked after without anyone on the team ever having to ask. Michi works on them, and as a result, il mostro has no breakages to date. They have been proactively maintained by him alone and it is attention to detail in this manner that wins races.
Once the boat began sailing, it quickly became clear that this young German kid was special. He was always looking at things and you could see the wheels turning in his head. The way in which Michi is able to take in a situation and use what he sees is as good as I have ever seen on a boat, which is why he became a great bowman.
When Jerry Kirby made the decision that he could only do part of the race, PUMA needed a second bowman. Michi became the logical choice. I didn’t choose him because he had a great bow pedigree but because there was nothing we had asked of Michi thus far that he couldn’t do. The bow was absolutely no exception. I asked the entire crew the other day if Michi had made a ‘real mistake’ on the bow yet and no one could think of a single example. That is after approximately 30,000 miles of bow work - flawless execution. When Jerry came back to do a couple of the longer legs, Michi stepped right back into the pit role in which he started with absolutely no questions at all. The words ‘team player’ instantly comes to mind when I am asked about Michi. Never a question or a sly comment, he is always there to help get the job done, and done exceptionally well.
On a Volvo team you always hope that you can fill the boat with trimmers and helmsmen. Fast helmsmen. Again, once Michi got his shot, it was clear that there were a few points of sail where he was the best driver on the boat. Tell him to average a 103 true wind angle, Michi averages 103. Not 104, not 103.5, he averages 103 with as high a polar percentage as anyone on the boat. What a luxury. This kid can drive too!!!
On leg one our water maker went down outside of Rio and we still had to cross the Atlantic to get to Cape Town. Again, Michi surprised us all. He began to read all the water maker diagrams and instructions. He and Casey Smith came up with a plan to re-wire a bilge pump motor into the water maker to get the desalination process working again. They were looking at intricate detailed drawings and I asked him how he knew what he was looking at. “I went to engineering school for two years” was his response. Oh, ‘funny’, I thought, ‘how come you never told me that before Michi?!’ From that day on he pitched in with every complex problem on the boat. This became especially necessary when Chris Nicholson, the team’s electrician went down with a knee injury. Michi stepped up to assist or lead every situation with Casey to help keep the boat up and running. He has an engineers mind. You could have fooled me.
His team skills were highlighted on two separate occasions. First, Michi’s first equator crossing. He had been getting ribbed by all the ‘veterans’ that they were going to cut off his ponytail as part of the rookie hazing. Never a word from Michi, but if anything was clear to me, it was the fact that he really liked his ponytail. I asked him prior to the race starting if he really planned to go around the world with a ponytail and he simply shrugged his shoulders and said “sure, why not?” ‘Okay kid…’ I thought.
Anyway, as the hazing began Casey Smith and I got covered with food and ridiculed. Then came the anticipated moment that we had all feared; the scissors came out for Michi. I wasn’t sure if he would turn into a quiet mass murderer at that moment but I remember looking around wondering if the vets had any idea what they were possibly unleashing. Michi, sitting on the side of the cockpit got up and looked around and just said “stop!” He reached over and grabbed the scissors and cut a huge hunk of his own ponytail off and threw it in the sea for his offering to Neptune. To a howling of laughter, Michi just smiled, turned around and started trimming the mainsail again. Taking one for the team brought the entire program closer in that one moment. He was just doing what came naturally.
Finally, Michi became a father during this race. He and his partner Meike were expecting during the long leg to Rio. I sat down with him and asked him if he wanted out for that leg and he said, “I committed to this race and you before we ever decided to have a child and I will not break that commitment.” Besides being the longest sentence I ever heard him utter, I also understood that this was the essence of Michi. Get the job done. He surprises us all with his knowledge and never blows his own horn.
This award is a fantastic addition to the race, awarded in honor of a person who was lost too soon, the type of person who got the job done under the most trying of situations. Michi Mueller is the perfect first recipient of this award. He is the epitome of what this award is all about.
WMRT: Six Teams Still in the Hunt
Gilmour leads downwind at Match Cup Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
Battle for the final two places in the quarter final is still on
The warm and sunny weather continued here in Marstrand, which brought spectators out in force today to watch the repechage round robin at Match Cup Sweden. As the crowd lounged in swim suits on the rocks overlooking the race area, 8 teams fought hard to determine who would make it to the next stage, the Quarter Final round, where eight will be competing for their share of the 1,000,000 SEK total prize purse in this fifth stage of the World Match Racing Tour.
With only two quarter final spots left the eight teams were focused on securing points towards their place in the next round. Racing ended today with four of the seven flight repechage completed. Sebastien Col (FRA) French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge, Ian Williams (GBR) Bahrain Team Pindar, Johnie Berntsson (SWE) Berntsson Sailing Team and Peter Wibroe (DEN) Wibroe Racing Team all ended the day with three wins.
Ian Williams was happy with his day “It’s our 4th year here and it takes time to get used to the peculiarities of the racing area but we think we’re getting a grip on things. We love the boats and at this event you really need to work hard on sailing the boat right."
Johnie Berntsson finished the day with a close victory over his countryman Mattias Rahm “It was close all the way with Mattias and on the final run we managed to close up on him with some great trimming from the team and a little luck with the breeze rolling in from behind. I could see Mattias getting edgy and when he turned into the gybe we mirrored his course and made sure we were in a position so that he couldn’t luff us. All the odds were stacked in our favour and we managed to roll him.”
For Sebastien Col things are looking a little better than in the preceding Tour events but he still feels on the back foot. “We are finding it harder than last year. We’re not capitalising on the opportunities to win matches and we’re feeling down in defeat and finding it hard to re-group and come back. It’s hard to pin point what is wrong, it’s just a little bit here and a little bit there. We hope that this is the bottom of the performance curve and we can build up from here and get better.”
Peter Wibroe received a late invite to Match Cup Sweden so has had less preparation time that some of the other teams. “I am satisfied with how we are going. We know the boats well and our boat handling and tactics have been good. We love being here having followed the event for many years from back home in Denmark. The venue is just perfect. Tomorrow will be a really tough day as 6 teams could still get through. It will probably be light in the morning when we race but we’re comfortable with light and shifty. It is all still to play for.”
On two wins apiece are reining champion Mattias Rahm (SWE) Stena Bulk Sailing and Adam Minoprio (NZL) ETNZ/BlackMatch. Unable to secure any points for the day were Bjorn Hansen (SWE) Team Onico and Francesco Bruni (ITA) Team Joe Fly Match Racing.
Alongside the Tour event this week Match Cup Sweden is also playing host to a women’s match race event. The women took to the water this morning with Claire Leroy (FRA) and local favourite Anna Kjellberg (SWE) leading the pack of eight entries. Both women won all three of their matches today and are looking forward to more racing tomorrow.
Clare Leroy is the defending champion here and also the current women’s world champion. “This year the goal is the World Championship and this event is a great indicator of who is going to be the best. We have done a lot of practice in Sweden and Denmark so that we can know the boats. We have improved our speed and are getting better at getting the best out of the boat. We feel we are more of a match against the Danes and Swede’s.”
Anna Kjellberg was the surprise performer at this event last year but with more experience under her belt she is here to prove that she can be one of the best. “I feel more nervous here at the press conference than out there on the water. We have been sailing the DS37 a lot and are very comfortable in the boat. We’ve been changing crews a lot over the last year and now I have a great team that has prepared a lot which has really helped. Match Cup Sweden is our preparation for the World Championship in Lysekil and we’re working hard to figure out what everyone else is doing right and wrong. Doing well here would give us a great psychological boost.”
Racing continues at 9am Thursday with the remaining three flights of the repechage round followed by the last four flights of the women’s round.
iShares Cup: Practice Session and Speed Run Ahead of the iShares Cup Round 2
Ideal racing conditions look to be in place with consistent sea breeze in Hyeres - TPM for the second round of the iShares Cup. Warm-up races are planned tomorrow, including a 10-mile speed run to the beautiful island of Porquerolles and back. Mr Politi, Mayor of Hyeres, will welcome the iShares Cup and the sailors back to the town, during the press conference due to be held tomorrow at 12:00 local time. The official racing starts on Friday at 14:30.
Extreme 40 fleet practising ahead of the racing in Venice. Image copyright Thierry Martinez/Sea & Co/OC Events.
Although the weather forecasters are predicting predominantly light winds ahead of Round 2 of the iShares Cup Hyères-TPM, the 10 international teams have been enjoying pleasant sea breezes to train in all week, thanks to the sunny weather heating up the land and creating a thermal effect, which is expected to continue for the iShares Cup race days between 3rd to 5th July. Event Director Gilles Chiorri explained, “The synoptic wind is quite light but in fact the sea breeze is very active. In the morning we are seeing around 6-7 knots from the south-west, but in the afternoon it’s been building to 10-12 knots thanks to the thermal.” With bright sunshine and steady breezes conditions for Round 2 of the iShares Cup 2009 look set to be a great 'hull-flying' spectacle.
Many of the teams have taken the opportunity to put in some hard training ahead of the second round of racing. Event Director Gilles Chiorri said,“Every day the Extreme 40s have been training, alone or in pairs, around marks, and with coaches. It’s impressive to see how compared to last year the teams are ahead of schedule and practicing hard at things like start sequences. It’s quite intense, they’re out at 10.00 and not back until about 4.00.”
Leading after his first victory in Venice, Gitana Extreme - Groupe LCF Rothschild skipper Yann Guichard is almost in home waters in Hyeres: "I know the race zone well, as does Pierre Pennec, because we’ve often sailed here during the French Olympic Sailing Week (SOF). This time though it will be different as we’re going to be racing right next to the harbour wall, which will be a big first. This can change a lot of things so we’re going to have to get our bearings again.”
Tomorrow's practice racing will begin at 2.30 with the first ever 'iShares Cup Raid' a 10-mile time trial to the island of Porquerolles which will give the Extreme 40 teams a chance to really stretch their legs along a longer track. The course will set off from Hyères Port up to Porquerolles, run along the northern tip of the island, and then turn for home. This will be followed by two practice races, first racing along the beach towards Pres qui’ile de Giens and back, and the third race will be a windward/leeward off the breakwater.
Before racing there will be a press conference, where Mr Politi, Mayor of Hyères, will welcome the iShares Cup and sailors back to Hyères-TPM for Round 2 of the European circuit.
In Quotes
Mike Golding, Ecover: “In training we set up in a series of race starts and short races with BMW Oracle Racing, Groupama, Holmatro and Oman Masirah – a high level group of boats who really gave us an excellent opportunity to improve our game."
Yann Guichard, Gitana Extreme - Groupe LCF Rothschild:“Each event has its own specific characteristics and Hyères is another race entirely so we’ll be setting out from scratch again!”
Rolex Fastnet Race Fast Approaching
Start of the 2007 Rolex Fastnet race. Image copyright Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi.
by Trish Jenkins
With just under forty days to the start of the Rolex Fastnet on Sunday, 9 August, the 300 registered crews are hard at work completing their qualification miles and other prerequisites. The 608 nautical-mile offshore classic has a fearsome reputation - not always lived up to - but one which deserves respect by all involved; especially in the year marking the thirtieth anniversary of the saddest chapter in the race's illustrious history.
The fleet is in excellent shape. With participants from sixteen different nations on the start-line, it will be an international gathering of the yacht-racing fraternity. The British and French make up the bulk of the fleet, but entries have been received from Hong Kong, Australia and the USA too, proving the lure of the Rolex Fastnet still crosses the oceans as it did in its earliest days.
The Americans are fielding half-dozen entries, including 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart winner, Rosebud, owned and campaigned by Roger Sturgeon. The STP65 is an out-and-out racing machine with a pro-crew onboard, a far cry from Australia's most famous entry this time around: Alex Whitworth achieved notoriety in the sailing world for undertaking a circumnavigation of the globe with Peter Crozier that coincidentally started with the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart and ended at the finish of the 2006 edition of the race, after taking in the 2005 Rolex Fastnet en-route. All this in the tiny, but robust, Brolga 33, Berrimilla, a different proposition to the carbon machine that Sturgeon has at his command, but certainly an indication of the diverse nature of the competing boats.
Hong Kong's flagship is under the ownership of Karl Kwok. Kwok is one of the region's top owners and has launched a series of yachts under the name Beau Geste. 2009 sees that latest addition to the fold, an 80-foot (24-metre) Farr designed racer that steps a 38-metre, "5 spreader, cathedral in-line rig, built from high modulus carbon fibre mast, stayed with the same continuous carbon rigging as the Volvo Ocean 70s". Hong Kong's second set of representatives will be sailing something quite different to Beau Geste. Frenchman, Denis Lazat who lives and works in Hong Kong will compete in his Pogo 40, Jumpa Lagi, half the size and around a quarter of the crew, since the Class 40s are typically sailing with five. Lazat is a member of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and all his crew are from the territory.
Italy's challenge also comes in large and small versions. Another yachting dynasty, Luna Rossa, will be part of the battle for mini-maxi supremacy alongside Rosebud and Niklas Zennstrom's Ran (GBR). The Luna Rossa name is associated most commonly with the America's Cup. Whilst Patrizio Bertelli's latest racing yacht is an STP65 and an offshore boat, expect to see many sailors from the Cup world in the pro line-up. Sadly, regular crew and Olympian Robert Scheidt will not be on board. We dip back into the Class 40s for the second Italian representative - solo round the world sailor, Giovanni Soldini, who became a hero in France when he rescued Isabelle Autissier from her upturned hull in the 1998/99 Around Alone Race. Soldini will be racing Telecom Italia.
Britain, too, has its fair share of stark contrasts. ICAP Leopard will be the biggest and fastest boat in the race, aiming to lop more time off the existing course record if conditions suit, as owner Mike Slade remarks, "we are really looking forward to the Rolex Fastnet Race this year. It is always special and we will definitely be out to beat our 2007 record. The improvements to ICAP Leopard that have been made since the '07 race have put an average of 7% onto the boat's speed, but we were exceptionally quick coming back from the Rock to Plymouth last time in 24-25 knots of breeze, so it will be very much dependent on the weather." Slade views the Rolex Fastnet as part one in a two-part offshore classic being attempted this year, as he heads to Australia for a Christmas rendezvous with the Rolex Sydney Hobart.
Rambler leads ICAP Leopard around the Fastnet Rock in the 2007 race. Image copyright Rolex/Daniel Forster.
At the other end of the design spectrum, the 45-foot (or 60-foot if you include the bowsprit) Morwenna, may be brand-spanking new, but she is built from ash and larch rather than carbon-fibre. In fact, she is a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter - just as the 1925 race winner, Jolie Brise. Morwenna is based upon the 1906 design, Mischief, once owned by the boy's own adventurer Bill Tillman. According to her skipper, Stuart Jenkins, "we want to show that traditionally built boats are strong, reliable and safe and to encourage people to learn traditional way of sailing."
With other crews and competing boats drawn from Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Chile, Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands it would not be unreasonable to expect a feeling of an international convention when the yachts start finishing in Plymouth.
The main trophy for overall victory in the Rolex Fastnet is the Fastnet Challenge Cup. In addition, there are more than thirty additional trophies that will be awarded at the prizegiving on Friday, 14 August at the historic Royal Citadel, home of the 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, overlooking Plymouth Harbour.
The first signal for the start of the 2009 Rolex Fastnet Race sounds at 11.50 BST on Sunday, 9 August.
WMRT: Eight Left to Fight as MRT Go Through in Sweden
Mirsky Racing Team has qualified for the quarter finals of Match Cup Sweden
Mirsky Racing Team leads Bjorn Hansen's Team OnBoard in Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
In an important day of racing Mirsky Racing Team proved once more that they can stand up to the pressure, and finished third in the Group A round robin.
A cutthroat format here in Marstrand, Sweden sees the top three teams from both Group A and B automatically qualify for the quarter finals, while the remaining 8 teams go to a repechage round where only the top 2 will make it through – putting a lot of pressure on the teams to perform in each race.
The final race of the Group A round robin saw MRT face Sebastien Col’s French Match Racing Team. In a do or die race to decide who would automatically qualify for the quarter finals, MRT gained the advantage off the start line after an intense prestart which saw spinnakers set and a few close manoeuvres.
MRT held and extended their lead to comfortably defeat the French Match Racing Team and continue their current form on from the Portugal Match Cup.
Quarter Final qualifiers
Mirsky Racing Team (Torvar Mirsky) AUS
Yanmar Racing (Peter Gilmour) AUS
French Match Racing Team (Phillipe Presti) FRA
Victory Challenge (Magnus Holmberg) SWE
French Match Racing Team (Damien Iehl) FRA
French Match Racing Team (Mathieu Richard) FRA
Repechage Round
Bahrain Team Pindar (Ian Williams) GBR
ETNZ Blackmatch (Adam Minoprio) NZL
Team Onboard (Bjorn Hansen) SWE
French Match Racing Team (Seb Col) FRA
Berntsson Sailing Team (Johnnie Berntsson) SWE
Wibroe Sailing Team (Peter Wibroe) DEN
Puma Sailing Team (Mattias Rahm) SWE
ISAF Announces New ISAF Athletes' Commission Line Up
by Jodie Bakewell-White
The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) yesterday announced the 10 sailors who have been elected to the ISAF Athletes' Commission. New Zealander Dan Slater has been re-elected as the Finn representative.
The Athletes' Commission members each represent one of the 10 sailing events chosen for the 2012 London Olympic Games. They were elected by sailors in the Athletes' Commission elections which concluded on Sunday 28 June 2009. The new Commission members will serve a four-year term until 2013 and will report directly to the ISAF Executive Committee.
The members of the ISAF Athletes' Commission for 2009-2013 are:
Laser - Men's One Person Dinghy
Rasmus Myrgren (SWE)
Laser Radial - Women's One Person Dinghy
Laura Baldwin (AUS)
Finn - Men's One Person Dinghy Heavy
Dan Slater (NZL)
RS:X - Men's Windsurfer
Ben Barger (USA)
RS:X - Women's Windsurfer
Olga Maslivets (UKR)
470 - Men's Two Person Dinghy
Malcolm Page (AUS)
470 - Women's Two Person Dinghy
Marcelien De Koning (NED)
49er - Men's Two Person Dinghy High Performance
Peter Kruger Andersen (DEN)
Star - Men's Keelboat
Mark Reynolds (USA)
Elliott 6m - Women's Match Racing
Claire Leroy (FRA)
The first task of the new Commission members will be to elect their chairman. The first meeting of the newly elected representatives is provisionally scheduled be held at the ISAF Secretariat in October 2009.
NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team Training Regatta
The forecast for poor weather did not deter sailors from travelling from as far away as Nelson, Christchurch, Wellington and Northland to attend the recent training regatta hosted by the Murray’s Bay Sailing Club at the weekend.
“Interest in the event really exceeded our expectations. In total around 55 sailors entered the regatta, from clubs from all around New Zealand,” reported Yachting New Zealand’s Regional Support Officer Kim Admore.
As forecasted, conditions for the weekend were far from ideal. On Saturday a blanket of thick fog coated the Hauraki Gulf this weekend, which combined with light to non-existent breeze, thwarted racing for the day. Given the likelihood of no breeze, organisers provided a selection of host speakers to ensure that shore time remained productive, in a development sense at least.
Guest speakers included experienced International Judge and on water Umpire, John Bullot, who gave a great lecture on the new rules, and implications of these changes to sailors in the respective classes.
Also, ETNZ weather team member Grant Beck was on hand to discuss the unique weather conditions of the weekend, and what things would need to happen to see a better chance of sailing that day.
2008 Olympian, Andrew Murdoch also spoke to the group about his approach to succeeding in the sport of sailing. Sailors at the event had the opportunity to tap into Andrew’s years of experience in team racing, youth classes and now his success in open Olympic classes.
On arrival at the club the following day participants were greeted with a moist easterly flow that continued to build throughout the day. King tides combined with a moderate chop and building breeze provided plenty of challenges for some of the young sailors, and some spectacular action and tight racing for some of the more experienced fleets. Three heats where raced on Sunday before conditions worsened, forcing abandonment of remaining racing and a retreat to the clubhouse.
1st Andy Maloney (MBSC)
2nd Sam Meech (MBSC)
3rd Rawiri Geddes (KCC)
Int. 420
1st Logan Dunning Beck & Ben Goodwin (WBC)
2nd Tomer Simhony & Brad Moss (MBSC)
3rd Francisco Lardies & Finn Drummond (GSC/WBC)
1st Richard Elis (TBC)
2nd Steffanie Williams (TBC)
3rd Alice Monk (TBC)
1st Tane Leilua (TSC)
2nd Ben Whiteside (CYC)
3rd Steve Roberts (TYPBC)
Yachting New Zealand and the 2009 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team, would like to thank all sailors for attending the event, particularly those who travelled great distances to be a part of the team’s final preparations.
Thanks also to Cadbury for supplying wonderful prizes for the event.
Yachting New Zealand
NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team meet sponsors
NAL Yachting Trust Youth Team. Supplied image.
Sailors, their families, coaches, support crew and team sponsors of the 2009 NZL Yachting Trust Youth Team gathered together last week ahead of their departure for Buzios, Brazil and the Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championships.
Representatives from NZL Yachting Trust, NZAS, ASB and Line 7 were introduced to the sailors who have been selected to represent New Zealand at this year’s event. The 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, the 39th edition of the event, will be held from 9-18 July 2009 at the the Iate Clube de Armação de Buzios (ICAB) in the city of Armação de Búzios, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
The team also learned more about their principal sponsor, the NZL Yachting Trust, from trustee Royden Hindle, who along with other sponsors went on to wish the sailors all the very best for their upcoming trip.
The New Zealand International Yachting Trust (now generally referred to as the NZL Yachting Trust) is an independent trust established in 1988 by well known yachtsmen Mr Don St Clair Brown MBE and Sir Tom Clark KB. Its objective is to assist in funding New Zealanders competing in Olympic and other top level international yachting competitions. The founders believed that if New Zealand is to maintain its place as one of the top yachting nations in the world it is essential that our sailors have adequate opportunity to compete successfully in international championships.
The 2009 Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, the 39th edition of the event, will be held from 9-18 July 2009 at the the Iate Clube de Armação de Buzios (ICAB) in the city of Armação de Búzios, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The event will be organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Sailing Federation together with the Federação Brasileira de Vela e Motor (FBVM) and ISAF.
Boys One Person Dinghy - Sam Meech (Murrays Bay Sailing Club)
Girls One Person Dinghy - Rachel Basevi (Pupuke Boating Club)
Boys Two Person Dinghy - Logan Dunning-Beck (Wakatere Boating Club) & Ben Goodwin (Napier Sailing Club)
Girls Two Person Dinghy - Alexandra Maloney & Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (Murrays Bay Sailing Club)
Boy's Windsurfer - Ben Mackay - (Takapuna Boating Club)
Girl's Windsurfer - Lucy Driver - (Takapuna Boating Club)
Open Multihull - Marcus Hansen - (Murrays Bay Sailing Club) & James Turner (Lake Taupo Yacht Club)
NZL Yachting Trust
Youth Match Racing Nationals Invitation
Youth Match Racing. Supplied image.
The Notice of Race for the 2009 New Zealand Youth Match Racing National Championship has been published and organizers are asking for registrations of interest. The regatta, organized by host club Royal Port Nicholson in Wellington, runs from September 3rd – 6th.
“This is the premium youth match event for New Zealand under 21 year old sailors each year with the winning team being awarded the Warren 'Wolfie' Williams trophy,” says Dean Stanley from the Club. “RPNYC organises billets for out of town teams if required. Come to the capital city and experience the thrill that is sailing on Wellington Harbour.”
“As with previous years there are four of the eight spots reserved for teams North of Taupo and a further four spots for teams from South of Taupo.”
Registrations of interest are due by Friday 7 August and confirmation of invited entrants will be made on Monday 10 August. View event information and the Notice of Race on YNZ’s online calendar.
The First Youth Olympic Games
YNZ is seeking expressions of interest from sailors who are interested in competing at this event. The first Youth Olympic Games will be hosted by Singapore from 14-24 August, 2010 and will feature all the sports on the programme for the 2012 Olympic Games, but with a more limited number of disciplines and events.
The Youth Olympic Games will gather approximately 3,200 athletes and 800 officials. The sailing competition will feature 100 young sailors aged between 15-16 years in four sailing events: one person dinghy men; one person dinghy women; windsurfing men; and windsurfing women.
Alongside the competition and sporting aspect of the Games, there will be compulsory educational programmes on the Olympic values, the benefits of sport for a healthy lifestyle, the social values sport can deliver and the dangers of doping and of training to excess and/or of inactivity.
Youth Olympic Games Events Equipment
One person dinghy girls - Byte CII
One person dinghy boys - Byte CII
Windsurfing girls - Techno 293
Windsurfing boys - Techno 293
Sailors must be 15-16 years of age, (born between 1 January 1994 & 31 December 1995)
The event is “user pays”. NZOC is seeking commercial sponsorship but there is no guarantee that sponsorship will be forthcoming. YNZ has no funding allocated for this event.
There is a country qualification process that sailors will need to excel in to qualify the country and be selected. Sailors have to be “medal capable” to be nominated by YNZ.
If you are interested in competing in this event and you fit within the age limits please contact Leslie Egnot leslie@yachtingnz.org.nz or mobile 0274 388 246 for more details and to register your interest.
WMRT: Tough day at the office for BlackMatch in Sweden
BlackMatch racing against Seb Col in Sweden. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
Day two of Match Cup Sweden was one to forget for BlackMatch, it has
been a long while since we went a day without out a win but today was
a disaster and we had 4 straight defeats to finish last in our group.
All is not lost however as we still have the chance to win our way
through in a repecharge series which will start tomorrow for the
bottom 8 teams.
With only a single win from our 6 matches, we have failed to put
things together so far in this event and it would appear we are
struggling, but the truth is that we are very much in the game and
will come out fighting tomorrow for the two remaining quarterfinal
berths. All of our matches today were very close and there are just
key moments we can pinpoint that contributed to all of our losses, it
is these mistakes that we need to eliminate if we are progress further
in this event.
Perhaps a good example of this was in our match up against 6 times
Match Cup Sweden Champion Peter Gilmour. We absolutely nailed the
veteran in the pre-start, managing to lock him out above the committee
boat end of the start-line, however the crafty Australian forced his
way in between us and the boat end and although he was given a red
flag penalty to be taken immediately, he still was only half a boat
length behind after undertaking it. ‘Gilly’ then showed his class to
stay in touch up the first beat and was hot on our heals going into
the first downwind. He did a great job of initiating the gybe to the
bottom mark whereas we held for too long and the following luffing
situation saw them roll over the top of us to gain the lead, from here
he defended well and took the victory.
We are in very good company in the bottom 8 repecharge series which
includes the two previous Match Cup Sweden Champions Mattias Rahm and
Bjorn Hansen, World number 1 Sebastian Col and current World Champion
Ian Williams. Although we have an uphill battle from here, we are
looking forward to the challenge ahead.
BlackMatch would like to thank their sponsors FedEx Express and Line 7
New Zealand. We would also like to thank the Royal New Zealand Yacht
Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand for all of their support.
WMRT: Richard Tops the Round in Match Cup Sweden
Six quarterfinalists determined at Match Cup Sweden
Damien Iehl chases Bjorn Hansen in the pre-start at Match Cup Sweden 2009. Image copyright Dan Ljungsvik.
Day Two of Match Cup Sweden, stage 5 of the World Match Racing Tour saw more beautiful weather, more spectators and of course more great match racing. Marstrand turned on the weather and entertainment for spectators and sailors alike. With interactive games, boat trips and numerous hospitality stands it was easy to get distracted from the on-water action. But one look out on to Marstrand Fijord and the calibre of world class sailors easily reminded you there is some top class sailing happening.
Today saw Peter Gilmour (AUS) YANMAR Racing, Damien Iehl (FRA) French Match Racing Team and Torvar Mirsky (AUS) Mirsky Racing Team finish first, second and third respectively from Group A. They were joined by French Match Racing Team members Mathieu Richard (FRA) Philippe Presti (FRA) and Magnus Holmberg (SWE) of Victory Challenge from Group B. All six now qualify for the quarterfinal round which will start on Friday. The remaining teams from both groups will now go through to the repechage which will be a full round robin where each skipper will race against each other team. The top two skippers from the repechage will then go through to join the other quarter finalists.
Day Two was once again dominated by the French with three members of the French Match Racing Team all through to the quarterfinals. Leading the way in Group B with 5 wins was Mathieu Richard, his only loss coming at the hands of countryman Philippe Presti. Richard said “We are very pleased with winning the Round Robin but it is just one part of the regatta, there is much more to go yet. We had a good day and we managed our strategy very well, there was no set thing to do and flexibility was the key. We sailed well in the light and also managed the gear changes as the wind came up. It will be tricky now to have two days off, I think the guys winning the repechage will be in a strong position having have more racing practice.”
In Group A Peter Gilmour showed why he has won this event six times, losing only to the last two winners of Match Cup Sweden, Bjorn Hansen and Mattias Rahm. When asked if he had been particularly aggressive during the round Gilmour said “Not really, that’s just normal,” then he added “Everyone out there was working really hard and there was no easy win. The Round Robin is really just practice for the quarter final and when we get there we’ll see some people under pressure.”
Joining Gilmour direct into the quarter finals was his old rival and local hero Magnus Holmberg, still looking for that elusive victory at the event that he started 15 years ago. “I was very happy with the team today, we haven’t spent much time together as a crew but it seemed to click very well. There was a nice mode on the boat. We’re learning in each race and really enjoying the racing. My kids love this week and with some time off now I get the chance to spend time with my family so everybody is happy.”
At the opening ceremony yesterday there was a fitting tribute to two of the Tour veterans. In its 15th year the organizers of one of the Tours most successful events have created the Match Cup Sweden Hall of Fame in order to honor the great skippers of professional sailing. The first two inductees were Magnus Holmberg and Peter Gilmour who were both very gracious of this recognition and vowed to continue to keep the younger generation coming through the match racing ranks on their toes. “Magnus and I still have some fuel in the tank to stay ahead of the younger guys that we see making their way on the World Match Racing Tour,” said Peter Gilmour “it is genuinely a real honour and I am sure that more will join, there is plenty of potential out there.”
Results from Day 2
Peter Gilmour, AUS, YANMAR Racing, 4-2
Damien Iehl, FRA, French Match Racing Racing Team, 4-2
Torvar Mirsky, AUS, Mirsky Racing, 4-2
Sebastien Col, FRA, French Match Racing Team/K-Challenge, 3-3
Mattias Rahm, SWE, Stena Bulk Sailing Team, 3-3
Bjorn Hansen, SWE, Team Onico, 2-4
Adam Minoprio, NZL, ETNZ/BlackMatch, 1-5
Mathieu Richard, FRA, French Match Racing Team, 5-1
Philippe Presti, FRA, French Match Racing Team, 4-2
Magnus Holmburg, SWE, Victory Challenge, 4-2
Ian Williams, GBR, Bahrain Team Pindar, 3-3
Peter Wibroe, DEN, Wibroe Racing Team, 3-3
Johnie Berntsson, SWE, Berntsson Sailing Team, 1-5
Francesco Bruni, Team Joe Fly Match Racing, 1-5
Alinghi: Be one of the 10 lucky people to preview the new Alinghi multihull
This is your chance to see inside the Alinghi base in Villeneuve!
Alinghi. Supplied image.
by Alinghi media
We will be launching our giant multihull on Lake Geneva in early July and until then the boat will remain shrouded in secrecy. Having said that, we would like to give you the chance to see the new boat before the rest of the world!
On Saturday 4 July, we are offering 10 people the chance to visit our base in Villeneuve. We will welcome you to our VIP area where you will be given an exclusive preview of the boat.
To be in with a chance to be one of the 10 lucky guests, simply send us your name, telephone number, email address and address to friends@alinghi.com. Names will go into a hat and a draw will be made. The winners will be notified by 12:00 CET, Thursday 2 July.
Further information: Your visit will take approximately one hour and you will need to make your own travel and, if necessary, accommodation arrangements. Full details of the visit regarding timing, etc will be given to the winners upon notification.
Cameras, mobile phones, recording and other electronic devices will not be permitted.
Alinghi
VOR: Clean Sweep for PUMA at Volvo Ocean Race Awards Ceremony
PUMA Ocean Racing take 2nd place overall in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. Image copyright Sally Collison/PUMA Ocean Racing.
by Kate Fairclough
In addition to accepting their trophy for second place overall in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, the PUMA Ocean Racing team swept the board at the awards ceremony in St Petersburg, Russia on Sunday night. Winning not one but three further trophies, each in categories voted for by a selection panel according to guidelines set out by the race committee, the PUMA team excelled. Rick Deppe (GBR), PUMA Media Crew Member won the Inmarsat Media Prize, recognised for his outstanding work throughout the entire race. The inaugural Hans Horrevoets Rookie Trophy was presented to Michi Mueller (GER) for his contribution to the PUMA team and the Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Seamanship Award was given to the PUMA Ocean Racing team shore crew (Neil Cox (AUS), Sean Healey (AUS), Will Oxley (AUS) and Kimo Worthington (USA)) for rending assistance to Telefonica Blue, after they ran aground at the start of leg nine in Marstrand.
Rick Deppe wins overall MCM award for VOR 2008-09. Image copyright Sally Collison/PUMA Ocean Racing.
In winning the Inmarsat Leg Media Prize for leg ten, his fourth win, Deppe secured the overall race prize, which included a cheque for €10,000. Deppe’s consistently high quality of work in all mediums throughout the race, earned him the title of best Media Crew Member. Presenting the leg ten Inmarsat Media Award Chris McLaughlin, Vice President, External Affairs, Inmarsat, said: “Rick performed very consistently throughout the race. His confidence with a camera and talent for putting together a story produced consistently captivating images that embodied the personality of the race.”
PUMA Ocean Racing's Michi Muller receives the Hans Horrevoets Rookie trophy, presented by Hans wife Petra. Image copyright Sally Collison/PUMA Ocean Racing.
The Hans Horrevoets Rookie Trophy was created in memory of Hans, who was lost at sea during the last edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. He played a key role in ABN AMRO TWO’s entry in the race, to bring young talent to top level offshore sailing, with their under 30 crew. Hans’ widow Petra was in St Petersburg to present the award to Mueller, and gave an emotional speech. PUMA Ocean Racing Skipper Ken Read nominated Mueller for the prize, stating “Michael “Michi” Mueller came to PUMA as a complete rookie and in my mind, personifies exactly the type of sailor that your criteria specifies. I had been looking for an “under 30” who fit the following criteria; big, strong, unflappable; a jack of all trades. Michi not only worked hard but over-performed from the very start. This award is a fantastic addition to the race, awarded in honor of a person who was lost too soon, the type of person who got the job done under the most trying of situations. Michi Mueller is the perfect first recipient of this award. He is the epitome of what this award is all about.”
Shore crew win overall Seamanship Award for VOR08-09. Image copyright Sally Collison/PUMA Ocean Racing.
A Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Seamanship Award was awarded to a sailor or team in each leg of the race, for acts of seamanship and courage displayed during each leg. At the leg nine prizegiving in Stockholm, Sweden, the award was for the first time presented to a shore crew team. Bouwe Bekking, Skipper of stricken yacht Telefonica Blue, nominated the PUMA Ocean Racing team shore crew of Neil Cox, Sean Healy, Will Oxley and Kimo Worthington for their assistance to the Telefonica Blue team after they ran aground at the start of leg nine in Marstrand. This group was presented the overall race Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Seamanship Award in recognition of this deed.
Volvo Ocean Racing
Let the Cameras Roll - the 45th Transpacific Yacht Race Starts
The 45th running of the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Hawaii got underway for Division 6 and 7 boats. With the Hollywood hills a short commute over the LA Basin’s freeways, there were a number of different scripts, grips and presenters at Transpac Pier at Rainbow Harbor.
The first crew to arrive was the media crew from KTLA’s morning show. The next, at 0630, was the most popular guy on campus, Neville Crichton. Crichton and his 100-foot Reichel/Pugh-designed super maxi, Alfa Romeo, were introduced to the 700,000-viewer audience throughout the morning with host, Gayle Anderson. Crichton’s supporting cast was Murray Spence, Alfa’s Captain, and Stan Honey, Alfa’s guest navigator with 12 Transpac wins under his belt.
As the first morning news segment wrapped up, the crew of the tall ship, Lynx, popped their heads up on deck, coffee mugs in hand. Docked stern to Lynx was one of the smallest boats in the fleet, Relentless, a One-Design 35, being double-handed by Tim Fuller and Erik Shampain. Both crews went right to work on their pre-start preparations they wished out loud for heavy winds. At 114 tons, Lynx sails at her best in a heavy breeze from the beam whereas Relentless loves to hoist its chute and take off.
In the bright sun and 3 to 4 knot breeze at the dock, Shampain looked up after fastening a shackle to a spinnaker block, “It doesn’t look promising right now.”
After the running rigging was set, a crew filming a documentary on the Lynx arrived. They were followed by Ron Kilgore, of KNX fame. Kilgore is the sendoff MC for the starts. Transpac Pier then filled with friends, family and well-wishers. After the hugs and kisses, farewell photos were taken, the boats shoved off. Each was wished a safe passage and “Aloha” from the shoreside fans while they were escorted by paddlers from the Kahaki and Lokahi Outrigger Canoe clubs toward the showers of the Long Beach Harbor fire boats. Once clear of the basin, they headed northwest toward the starting line under Point Fermin.
The weather outside of the basin was quite different from that ashore. Overcast skies and 7 to 9 knots of wind out of the SSW prevailed through the 1300 start. The cloud cover burned off at about 1400.
The big decision for Transpac navigators heading for Hawaii today, is whether they should head north or head toward the rhumbline. A high front to the north, a cutoff low that runs through the racetrack and a trough are what this group of starters face immediately. Some may decide to go right over the top of the low, and others may head right into the light and confused air, hoping that it will clear out before they get there. Said Stan Honey, who will be faced to make critical decisions about what sail inventory Alfa Romeo will in her attempt to set a new course record, later this week, “It is similar to the last race, but opposite. Last time it was clear cut for the first starters and difficult for the boats that started later.”
Ionearth, the Iridium-based tracking provider, will be live for the first few hours of the race and then will go to a four-hour delay for the remainder of the race. Perhaps the fleet will make it far enough in the light to moderate breeze for all of us who are watching the initial developments in this great ocean race, to see a split develop in the fleet between those who have decided to go high and those who have set off on a reach hoping that offshore weather conditions will become less confused.
Transpac racers, families, friends and all those tuning into TV, radio, blogs and websites, wish those aboard Relentless, Narrow Escape, Bloodhound, Addiction, Lynx, Between the Sheets, Far Niente, Silent Running, Hassel and Alaska Eagle a safe passage and Aloha.
WMRT: Match Cup Sweden Opening Day for BlackMatch Racing
Match Cup Sweden is the 5th leg of the 2009 World Match Racing Tour and is held on the beautiful island of Marstrand, an hour North-west of Gothenburg. It has been busy times here in Marstrand, playing host to a Volvo Ocean Race stopover a fortnight ago, while this week over 140,000 people are expected to stop by and check out the action on the water.
It is our debut here at one of the most renowned events on the World Tour and it is not hard to see why it has such a good reputation. The volunteer support is unbelievable, combined with the amazing scenery and massive spectator turnout this event is one to be rivaled with.
We were only involved in two matches today managing a win over the World number 1 Sebastian Col, but lost to last years runner up Torvar Mirsky. Torvar has a lot of confidence coming into this regatta following his victory last week in Portugal and sailed extremely well today to yet again get the edge over us, this is something we are not planning on making a habit and will be looking to step up our game tomorrow.
WMRT: MRT in Fine Form after Day One in Sweden
by Kinley Fowler
Coming off their win in Portugal last week, MRT got off to a steady start today in Sweden, with 2 wins and 1 loss in glamorous conditions. Holding true to its reputation, the 15th edition of Match Cup Sweden brought in crowds of sailing enthusiasts who lined the rocks to lap up the sunshine and watch the action packed racing.
In a rematch of the Troia Portugal Match Cup finals, MRT faced off against BlackMatch Racing in the last match of the day. The two teams came out firing, with an intensive prestart which saw the Australian team come out on top with a penalty over BlackMatch Racing. Mirsky managed to pin the Kiwis out of the box, and in an attempt to get back to the line, Minoprio tacked right into MRT, earning himself a penalty.
“I was sure there was going to be fibreglass flying everywhere!” said Tudur Owen, “I had to brace myself, but these boats are so quick to turn, so we just managed to avoid them. From there we managed to maintain our lead to finish the day on a high note.”
Tomorrow’s racing kicks off early, with the teams starting at 9.
MRT is proudly supported by Line7, Harken and the Royal Perth Yacht Club.
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Damien Iehl, FRA, French Team, 2-1
Mathieu Richard, FRA, French Team, 2-1
Philippe Presti, FRA, French Team, 2-0
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