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Tag Archives: Michael Foster
Njomza releases new promotional single “No One is Spared”
Kosovar-American singer-songwriter Njomza Vitia, known mononymously as Njomza, has released her new promotional single online.
“No One is Spared” is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
Production duties on “No One is Spared” were collectively handled by Blair Taylor (2 Chainz, Travis Scott) and Dot Da Genius (Kid Cudi, Jhene Aiko).
Njomza’s upcoming project – which serves as the follow-up to 2018’s “Vacation” – is expected to arrive later this year via Since the 80s / Motown Records.
As a songwriter, Njomza recently co-wrote “7 Rings” for Ariana Grande alongside Victoria Monet, Tayla Parx and Kimberly “Kaydence” Krysiuk. The track- which was collectively produced by Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson and Michael Foster – topped the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Stream the audio clip for “No One is Spared” below.
Tags: Ariana Grande, Blair Taylor, Charles Anderson, Dot Da Genius, Kaydence, Kimberly "Kaydence" Krysiuk, Kimberly Krysiuk, Michael Foster, Motown Records, Njomza Vitia, Oladipo "Dot Da Genius" Omishore, Oladipo Omishore, Tayla Parx, Taylor "Tayla Parx" Parks, Taylor Parks, Tommy Brown, UMG, Universal Music Group, Victoria Monet
Ariana Grande reveals tracklisting, release date for new album “Thank U, Next”
Ariana Grande has revealed the tracklisting and release date for her upcoming fifth album.
The American singer/songwriter christened her next studio collection “Thank U, Next” and will release it on February 8th via Republic Records.
Current promotional single “7 Rings” – which was collectively produced by Tommy Brown, Charles Anderson and Michael Foster – is now available via iTunes and all other digital streaming outlets.
On the follow-up to 2018’s “Sweetner,” Grande has also worked with Max Martin, Victoria Monet, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Tayla Parx, Savan Kotecha, Njomza, Andrew “Pop” Wansel, Kandi Burruss, Tom Parker, Kimberly Krysiuk, and Happy Perez.
See the tracklisting for “Thank U, Next” below.
(1) Imagine / (2) Needy / (3) NASA / (4) Bloodline / (5) Fake Smile / (6) Bad Idea / (7) Make Up / (8) Ghostin / (9) In My Head / (10) 7 Rings / (11) Thank U, Next / (12) Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored
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Categories Albums, Release Dates, Tracklistings
Ariana Grande delivers fourth studio collection “Sweetener”
Ariana Grande has delivered her fourth studio collection online.
“Sweetener” – including singles “No Tears Left to Cry,” “The Light is Coming” and “God is a Woman” – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The follow-up to 2016’s “Dangerous Woman” boasts songwriting contributions from Savan Kotecha, Victoria Monet, Maxine Ashley, Kim “Kaydence” Krysiuk, Peter Svensson, and Rickard Goransson.
On the production front, Grande has teamed up with Max Martin, Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy, Tommy Brown, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Michael Foster, Charles Anderson, and Brian Malik Baptiste.
Stream “Sweetener” below.
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Hong Kong's best speakeasies worth searching for
From well-established to newcomers, Hong Kong has some of the most unique and exciting speakeasies. A little secret makes everything a little more fun, that's why it is so thrilling when you stumble upon one of these hidden bars. We have compiled a list of new and old speakeasies and hidden spots in Hong Kong to add a little excitement and mystery to your night out on the town.
I Know John
This industrial-style speakeasy is the perfect place to go enjoy a classy glass of whiskey or one of their speciality mixologist-created cocktails. I Know John offers a selection of unconventional foods as well as drinks, including artisanal cheeses, charcuterie, and even gourmet hotdogs. The bars name is inspired by the speakeasy tradition of using a password to get into the hidden bars during the Prohibition Era. They are moving locations, so check them out before January 26th!
9/F The Loop, 33 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2801 6555, iknowjohn.hk
Le Boudoir is described by TimeOut as "fixed up like the lavish private bedchambers of the bourgeois ladies in the 18th century Europe." Think crystal chandeliers, big brass mirrors, vintage trinkets all over the walls, stain glass windows, Renaissance-era paintings, statues, a stag's head on the wall, and velvet, lots of velvet. There is also a bit of a punk vibe throughout the bar through the random splashes of neon paint on the walls. On top of all that, there are unique and embellished cocktails, made by their mixologist Max Traverse, to match the crazy decorations.
B/F, 65 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2530 3870, french-creations.com
Missy Ho
Hidden behind a black door on the small road of Forbes Street, Missy Ho is the little secret that you will be glad to have discovered. The little restaurant/ bar is decorated in floral wallpaper and graffiti. It has swings, birdcages, an old wooden rustic bar, and beautiful big flowers are strewn throughout.
48 Forbes St, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong, +852 2817 3808
Black Bar
Black Bar is moody, dimly lit speakeasy hidden down an alleyway next to the restaurant Ham & Sherry on Ship Street in Wan Chai. Along with small bites, Black Bar also offers cocktails which are inspired by bootleg DVDs and old classic films. Although it is moody it is still buzzing with people and has a spirited atmosphere.
1-7 Ship Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, +852 2555 0628, hamandsherry.hk
Don't let the subway station entrance facade fool you, you are not in New York. Inside that subway station lies a New York styled restaurant called Street Meat, and within that restaurant lies the secret bar called Highline. The small quaint bar, that you can only access with the staff's fingerprint, has a very cosy and elegant feel. The bar has a choice of six speciality cocktails all named after places along the High Line in NYC.
50 Wyndham St, Central, Hong Kong
Mrs. Pound Hong Kong
Mrs. Pound is a hidden restaurant/bar, disguised as a traditional Chinese stamp shop. By hitting a particular stamp from the outside the door will slide open and you can enter. The food is Asian street food with a twist, which is said to be reinterpreted through Mrs. Pound's eyes, the burlesque dancer who is behind the name of the restaurant. Mrs. Pound has the vibe of a diner, with the bright lights and leather bar stools and booths.
6 Pound Ln, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, +852 3426 3949, mrspound.com
Lan Kwai Lau
Hidden in plain sight this bar is on one of the busiest streets in Hong Kong, Lan Kwai Fong. The bar can be located by a stag's head sticking out above the black unmarked door, just down the road from 7-eleven. Once you head down the stairs you will enter what looks like a "fireside library of a manor house," with a lot of wood and leather, and a big whisky and wine selection.
B/F, 2 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong
J.Boroski
J. Boroski is an invite-only bar off Pottinger Street. Named after the New York bartender, Joeseph Boroski. Carrying the New York vibe, it is a very sophisticated comfortable place to have a drink (If you can an invite!).
1 Hollywood Road, entrance off Ezra’s Lane, Central, Hong Kong, diningconcepts.com/JBoroski
Club Qing
Located on the top floor of LKF's Cosmos building, this bar offers an escape from the crazy LKF nightlife. It is a dimly lit and elegant whiskey bar, offering over 150 whiskies. If you like whiskey this is the place to come.
10/F, Cosmos Building, 8-11 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong, +852 9379 7628, clubqing.com
Hidden behind an unnoticeable cement door, you will find a very suave and classic whiskey bar inside. The bar has a cool and cosy vibe, moulded by the concrete walls, floor, and ceiling, complemented by a backlit bar, showing off the huge selection of whiskeys. The bar is also full of trendy wooden tables and leather chairs.
12 On Wo Lane, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2868 0486, facebook.com/barginger.hk
Le Comptoir de Bibo
This restaurant/bar is known for it's original, constantly changing artwork. By clicking the right door button to let you in, you will enter the trendy, french inspired spot full of funky furniture, art, graffiti, and statues. This place is full of original cocktail concoctions and great french style food!
163 Hollywood Rd, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, +852 2956 3188, www.bibo.hk
Whisky and Words
Whiskey & Words is a new little narrow whiskey den, intriguing those passing by with their big brass sliding door, that releases the lively upbeat music every time it opens. The bar is trendy and has a great buzzing, but laidback, atmosphere. With a huge selection of whiskey, you can ask the knowledgeable bartenders for any help you need selecting your drink. This is a hidden gem in the city, with a great happy hour, great drinks, and great people. If you want to learn more about whiskey or another spirit you can also take one of their masterclasses.
7 Shin Hing Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, +852 9889 8590, whisky-and-words.com
Los Sotano
This hidden Mexican bar's entrance can be found at the giant Avion barrel with a skull on the street Wing Wah Lan in Lan Kwai Fong. The atmosphere is vibrant, playful, and they play a large range of fun, upbeat music. And of course, this Mexican spot has a large selection of tequila and mezcal, having over 70 varieties of tequila and 40 of mezcal. The bar also continues to serve food until 2 am, so you can snack all you want throughout the night!
Basement, 21 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong, +852 2970 3887, lossotano.com
Hugger Mugger is a British bar in the heart of LFK, serving cocktails which are inspired by Britain's eclectic cultural legends, such as Shakespeare, David Attenborough, and Queen Elizabeth II. The bar is hidden behind an inconspicuous door and down a flight of stairs. It is also attached to the modern Indian restaurant Chaiwala.
Basement 43, 55 Wyndham St, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2362 8988, huggermugger.hk
The Wise King
This cosy longe is hidden just off the central escalators and offers a selection of tapas as well as a variety of exciting cocktails. The bar has a very sultry and moody atmosphere, with everything dimly lit and covered in a deep red colour. The bar describes itself as a modern classic bar that takes its cues from the decadent era of the 13th century and celebrates the golden age and rise of tapas food and drinking culture.
25 Staunton Street, (Entrance on Tseng Wing Lane next to Pure Fitness), Central, Hong Kong, thewiseking.com
Room 309 is located in The Pottinger Hotel and is described as a "surreptitious" bar rather than a speakeasy. To get into the bar, guests have to request a key card at the reception on the 3rd floor. The bar is windowless and dimly lit. You feel like you are being let in on a big secret when you enter this bar, since, on top of the complicated way of entering, the menu is invisible and can only be seen when you remove the backing of the menu. This bar takes on the 'multi-sensory' approach, which makes for a really fun experience.
3/F The Pottinger Hong Kong, 74 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong, room309.hk
The Wilshire
The Wilshire is hidden in the back of a Mexican restaurant, 11 Westside, where you have to switch a flip to request entry into the bar. This classic bar has a very simple menu, offering both originals and modern classics. The bar has a very classic feel, with a few tables and a pool table.
1/f, 11 Davis St, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong, 11westside.com
Using the disguise of a fancy umbrella boutique on Duddell Street, behind glass display cabinets unveils a secret doorway into one of Hong Kong's swankiest jazz bars, Foxglove. Once inside, you'll be transported back to the 1950s with live jazz music, a fabulous range of European and Japanese cocktails and fine dining. Inspired by a fictitious English explorer, Mr. Frank Minza, this speakeasy is where you go to impress.
Foxglove, G/F, 18 Ice House Street, 6 Duddell St, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2116 8949, foxglovehk.com
Frank's Library
Nestled within Foxglove is a newly-opened secret alcove called Frank's Library. The pop-up jazz-venue serves premium cocktails and spirits put together by infamous mixologist Derek Tsui.
Frank's Library, Foxglove, 18 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong, facebook.com/frankslibrary
Tucked away down a narrow alleyway off Wyndham Street, Stockton is a dark and broody Whiskey bar filled with hard liquor and dreamy cocktails. This hidden bar takes us back to traditional gentlemen's clubs with rich vintage furniture and dim lighting that to help to set the dramatic mood. Aside from their impressive selection of cocktails, Stockton is also home to a hidden cigar room and serves up some of the best scotch eggs and sticky toffee pudding in town.
Stockton, 32 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2565 5268, stockton.com.hk
Known for making some of the best cocktails in town (and for their grilled cheese), 001 is definitely one of Hong Kong's OG hidden bars. Located behind a wet market stall, looking for a small button to get in.
001, 97 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong
Dr. Fern's Gin Parlour
Is anyone feeling a little under the weather? Dr. Fern's Gin Parlour will sort you out. After dedicating most of his life to study botanicals, he has created a 20-page drinks menu filled with original concoctions of gin from all around the world, featuring fresh local herbs. This spot is an absolute must for gin lovers.
Dr. Fern's Gin Parlour, Shop B31A, First Basement Floor, Landmark Atrium, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, +852 2111 9449, drfernshk.com
Djiboutti
Need a new after-work place for happy hour? Relax and unwind at this cool, non-descript hangout. Aside from its funky design and interiors, Djiboutti also serves up delicious Middle Eastern fare such as homemade dips, Morrocan flatbread, halloumi and grilled skewers.
Dijboutii, G/F, 2 Landale Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong , facebook.com/Djibouttisanctuary
Hidden behind a thick velvet curtain, this French-inspired speakeasy is often packed to the brim. The Parisian-inspired bar is a member's club, but don't fret as you can go early or with friends who are members. It's widely known for their signature strawberry daiquiris.
Feather Boa, G/F, 38 Staunton Street, Soho, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2857 2586
Ping Pong 129 Gintoneria
If you're ever wandering the streets of Sai Ying Pun, venture through the gloomy-looking red door to discover a gin-infused wonderland. This old ping pong supply store has been transformed into a Spanish G&T bar. The spacious basement is filled with giant chic leather couches, rug-draped floors and iconic Hong Kong lights.
Ping Pong 129 Gintoria, 129 Second St, Nam Cheong House, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, pingpong129.com
Please Don't Tell
A sister venture of one of New York City's most iconic speakeasies, this bar lies above the MO Bar at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Central. Dial your way into the playful bar filled and enjoy an exclusive menu of 15 cocktails, including ones that were crafted exclusively for Hong Kong. How can this be a bar from NYC without its iconic snacks? Don't miss out on their gourmet hot dogs and tater tots.
PDT (Please Don't Tell), The Landmark, 15 Queen’s Road Central, mandarinoriental.com
Hidden away down an alleyway off Aberdeen Street, this speakeasy is inspired by Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Backed by one of Asia's top bartenders, Agung Parbowo libations on offer range from rosemary-infused Pisco to a gin and Cointreau-infused White Lady. The Old Man screams sophistication and this trendy spot is constantly packed with Hong Kong’s most experienced drinkers.
The Old Man, Lower Ground Floor, 37 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2703 1899 , theoldmanhk.com
Another New York import is Employees Only. Look for a neon red "Psychic” sign in Lan Kwai Fong to find this swanky gem. This sophisticated bar has bartenders serving at the speed of lighting - they can make four cocktails in just under a minute! While they're famous for their cocktails, don't miss out on their food - we love the baked macaroni and cheese with truffle and lobster, hand-cut steak tartare and fresh oysters.
Employees Only, 19 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2468 2755 , employeesonlyhk.com
Iron Fairies
Decorated with 10,000 butterflies hanging from the ceiling, Iron Fairies is definitely a place you'll want to visit. Much like its Bangkok counterpart, the bar is fashioned like an iron ore mine with Ashley Sutton's fairy figurines scattered around the place, making it both a mysterious and magical place to be for a night out. They frequently have live music nights as well as a comprehensive dining menu.
Iron Fairies, LG, Chinachem Hollywood Centre, 1-13 Hollywood Road, Central , diningconcepts.com
If you appreciate theatrics and lavish exotic birds, Ophelia is the place to be! Also designed by Ashley Sutton, this speakeasy bar is inspired by the opium dens in Hong Kong from the 19th century. This bar invites you to pose with giant birdcages and swings as you sip one of their signature cocktails.
Ophelia, Shop 41A, 1/F The Avenue, Lee Tung Avenue, 200 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, +852 2520 1117
ophelia.com.hk
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Zimbabweans Seek Solace in Bitcoin
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With a downward spiraling economy, citizens of the nation of Zimbabwe are turning to Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies not only as a store of value, but also as a medium of transaction. According to Yeuki Kusangaya who works with Golix, a Zimbabwe-based exchange, more and more Zimbabweans are adopting bitcion and cryptocurrencies in general as alternative currency. One of such uses of cryptocurrency in the country is access to international markets. Bitcoin’s increasing popularity and Zimbabwe’s peculiar liquidity issues has led to an inflated price of the crypto-currency with a current trading value of $9,900 when the global price currently stands at $6,100.
Whiles speaking to local media Mrs. Kasangaya said that “the general trend shows an increase in interest in the bitcoin.” She adds that it is the normal upward growth trajectory that pertains with most innovations.
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a debilitating financial crisis with an economy which is experiencing acute cash shortages and hyperinflation; citizens are forced to seek alternative means of value storage and transactions.
Mrs. Kasangaya added that Zimbabweans are also making use of bitcoin to access international markets. “Some use it to pay for services provided outside the country, such as software. For example, a local software engineer developing an app can use bitcoin to pay for necessary software tools. Others use bitcoin to say, import a car they can use to run a small business… The good news with using bitcoin is that no foreign currency leaves the country, unlike a situation where the same person was to ask their bank to do a telegraphic transfer… which reduces the country’s pressure on nostro balances.”
Mrs. Kasangay also spoke to Quartz last week where she said that “there is currently more demand than supply of bitcoins… interest in bitcoin has peaked and people cannot send money outside or pay for international transactions using formal banks. People have had to look for alternatives and bitcoin has been a useful solution which can be used to purchase good on Amazon or to pay for vehicles from international suppliers and traders.”
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Is Elon Musk Cracking Up?
by Ruby Rae Scalera | Aug 24, 2018
“Is there someone who can do the job better? They can have the reins right now.”
I find it so interesting that this film is nowhere to be found. If Tucker were operating in today’s day and age, like Elon Musk or Christian Von Koenigsegg, the story would have been different.
Interview With Stick Shifters of America
by Ruby Rae Scalera | Jun 28, 2018
We sat down with Michael Briskie, Chief Gearhead at Stick Shifters of America, to learn more about automotive conservation, activism, and history.
The Bland Blazer of 2020
by Bob Marlow | Jun 25, 2018
That’s the extent of the reporting that we have seen thus far surrounding this announcement, overlooking, in our opinion, the fact that the new Blazer will be derivative in every way. It will, to torture a phrase, blaze no new trails.
Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away
It says something when a book about the history of the Mustang holds my attention. Mustang, by Donald Farr, part of the Speed Read Collection at Motorbooks, did.
The Race of Gentlemen Phenomenon
The Race of Gentlemen triumphed for another year as vintage hot rod owners, racers and spectators gathered on the beach to witness a classic car event unlike anything else. The weather was forgiving, the crowd enthusiastic and the general atmosphere one that will not only survive in this new age of the classic car hobby but, ultimately come to dominate it in the next few years.
The Greenwich Concours: Preserving and Creating History
by Ruby Rae Scalera | Jun 7, 2018
A testament to the drive, determination, and creativity of Briggs Cunningham, the consummate sportsman, jet-setter and gentleman racer of the mid-20th century, 33 of the 35 remaining Cunningham-built cars, as well as the touring and racing cars he came so close to winning in, stood against the picturesque water of Greenwich Harbor and sparkled in the sun.
At Indy, The Mayor is Out, Twinkletoes is In, and the Tricolor will Fly
by Bob Marlow | May 24, 2018
This weekend’s Indianapolis 500, the 102nd running of the iconic race, has already produced its share of stories, and we’re still days away from the green flag.
Predictions for the 2018 Car Show Season
by Ruby Rae Scalera | May 23, 2018
For most of us, the car show season is just beginning, and I’d like to make a few predictions about what we’re going see at auto events this year.
Electricity is So Hot Right Now
Look at where the automotive world has come in the years since these cars first hit the road, and try to argue that alternative energy is showing signs of fatigue.
In Praise of the True Performance SUV
How do we truly create a performance SUV that can be used--especially one that can be used by the masses? Perhaps the answer lies in which direction companies cross over. Instead of bringing SUV to performance, bring a little performance to the SUV.
So You Want to Have a Car Show
While a cold front may have descended upon most of the United States, it’s not too early to start planning out the most important elements of your upcoming car show, cruise night, cars and coffee or concours. Today, we’re here to help you find the perfect location.
Social Media and Your Car Show
So, with Christmas barreling down upon us in jolly good cheer, why would we think about car shows now? Car show season in the near past and distant future. What can November, December, January mean for our cozy classics tucked in the barn?
In Car Years
Imagine a world in which Henry Ford had gone from madman tinkering in his garage to a household name with more than 25 assembly lines producing household vehicles for the American people with such ease that a company which had originally produced just a few cars a day did not even notice the one millionth mile marker.
Ride-Sharing Apps Lyft Congestion in an Uber Way
Nashville is not the first small city to turn down such transit initiatives, meaning it will not be the only small city to regret such a decision in the next decade, when booming development and the related ubiquity of traffic and ride-sharing apps create an impossible to untangle web of downtown congestion without reprieve.
Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise, Daimler and Maybach
On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later, that very auto industry might never have come to pass.
The Drivin’ ‘O the Green
This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock.
Il Mondo Secondo Gianni Agnelli
On March 12, 1921, Gianni Agnelli was born in Turin, Italy. He was named for his grandfather who, in 1899, founded Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, the company we know today as FIAT.
Strong and Fast – NASCAR is Founded
Despite the need for an obvious distance between cars and cups, one of the most important, influential and long-standing elements of the car industry is deeply indebted to the prohibition era and the rum runners who provided America’s degenerates with drink for so long. This week, on February 21, 1948, NASCAR was founded.
A Sedan By Any Other Name
We may not be able to define crossovers now, but that’s hardly new territory. Car types have had unique and interesting origins since well before the automobile hit the road. Let’s take a look at what a few of them are.
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Christie Brinkley Showed Off Her QVC Jewelry At Hampton’s Super Saturday Benefit
There were several stories in Big Apple newspapers Monday about Super Saturday, the annual charity event in the Hamptons that QVC telecast from this year.
The Daily News interviewed Christie Brinkley, one of QVC’s newest jewelry designers, who waxed on about the tragic BP oil spill in the Gulf and got teary-eyed talking about it.
In the photos that accompanied the item, Brinkley is wearing two pieces from her QVC collection: a blue lace agate necklace that sells for $195 and a braided leather bracelet for $45. The supermodel debuted her jewelry on QVC Sunday.
The Wall Street Journal also did a story on Super Saturday headlined “A Celebrity ‘Garage Sale.'” It mentioned that celebrity stylist and QVC vendor Rachel Zoe was there.
The Journal also gave QVC a shout-out.
“QVC broadcast interactive live shopping,” the paper wrote.
Tags:Christie Brinkley, jewelry, New York Daily News, QVC, Rachel Zoe, The Homeshoppingista, The Wall Street Journal
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We Missed Christie Brinkley’s Debut Show On QVC, But Went To The Video
Christie had a lot of sellouts on QVC
We missed Christie Brinkley on QVC!
We got home shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday and tuned in to the Q to see the debut of Brinkley’s jewelry collection. But all we saw was the Ross Simon dude and host Antonella Nester. My sister even called to ask me what was going on, adding that my mother was watching Brinkley at that very moment.
We finally figured it out: My mother Ida had recorded the show on her DVR, and she was watching that, not the live QVC feed. Turns out most of Brinkley’s unique jewelry sold out early, and by the time we turned on QVC she was gone.
Anyway, we checked out Brinkley on the video on QVC.com. She’s the same age as us (and has the same birthday as Ida, Feb. 2) and look fantastic. She had a gorgeous turquoise one-shouldered dress on, and her long blonde hair was perfect.
Best of all, Brinkley is not just another celebrity just putting her moniker on a jewelry line.
Brinkley, warm and very sweet, explained that she started out as an art major, and painted and did photography before she got into modeling and became a superstar in that field.
She explained that nature is her inspiration, for items like the crystal quartz drop earrings that we coveted. Those earrings were inspired by the dew drops that Brinkley would see in her organic garden.
“I am so inspired by everything I see in nature,” Brinkley said. “I wanted to create jewelry that reminds you of the beauty of nature.”
QVC was giving the perfect opportunity to combine her love of nature, jewelry and art, she added. “I feel so lucky to do this.”
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Uptown Girl Christie Brinkley Brings A Fine Jewelry Collection To QVC Today
Model and uptown girl Christie Brinkley is bringing her latest collection of nature-inspired fine jewelry to QVC, debuting today, Sunday. at 9 p.m.
QVC promises that Brinkley will give viewers an inside look at the inspiration for the Christie Brinkley Jewelry Collection.
“This line is a celebration of the all the things I love,” the beautiful blonde 50-something said in a canned statement. “I’m excited to work with QVC to share these bright and beautiful pieces with so many women at such affordable prices.”
Each Brinkley piece that appears on QVC was created especially for QVC. Brinkley’s ultra-feminine bracelets, cocktail rings and dangle earrings feature luminous gemstones such as Sky Blue Topaz and Moonstone, reminiscent of the ocean waves near her Hamptons home.
Flowers are also an echoing theme with a braided leather bracelet updated with a sterling rosette, a blue lace agate statement necklace with floral accents and a flower bouquet ring and earrings. According to QVC’s press release, Brinkley believes that every day is an occasion to celebrate and each piece is designed to be a visual reminder of this philosophy.
“Christie’s unique aesthetic will resonate with our viewers,” said Diane Paccione, QVC vice president of merchandising. “As one of the most recognizable and enduring style icons, she is a fantastic addition to our ever-growing list of celebrity designers.”
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Was Watching Designer Waynescot Lukas On HSN Like Watching Porn? Anyway, He’s Got A New Gig With QVC In Europe
Waynescot Lukas, of Jersey, is coming to QVC in Europe
We’ve loved Waynescot Lukas, a celebrity stylist and fashion designer, ever since we first saw him selling his Lukastyle clothing line on HSN. Then he went to ShopNBC. And now he’s landed at QVC — on its European home shopping networks.
Lukas — whose celebrity clients have included Janet Jackson (a fellow Taurus like us), Tina Turner, Meryl Streep and Christie Brinkley — is like no vendor we have ever seen on a home shopping channel.
In fact, HSN CEO Mindy Grossman seems to agree with us. During a recent radio interview, Lukas said Grossman once told him, “Watching you is like watching porn. I can’t turn it off….I can’t turn the channel.”
For the record, HSN denies that Grossman ever made that remark to Lukas.
What’s so unique about Lukas? Well, he’s good-looking and has the best head of hair we’ve ever seen on anyone.
He is also way out of the closet, and made no attempt to hide his sexual preference while appearing in HSN. He’d make numerous references to being gay during his presentations, which were filled with double entendres. We often wondered how he got away with what he was saying, since there is a time delay and HSN could have edited his comments.
Unlike well-behaved home shopping vendors, Lukas would jump around and run up to the HSN models, re-arranging their clothes, making funny asides and doing things you can safely say you don’t typically see on a home shopping network.
“One day we were licking feet,” Lukas said on the radio. “Then we were kissing toes.”
We never saw any of that, but we guess Mindy did.
Not everyone cottoned to Lukas’s on-air antics, but he has a response for them.
“”He runs around the set, he screams,'” Lukas said, quoting his critics during his radio interview. “I’m just trying to make some entertaining television. It’s a pair of pants, lady.”
Lukas raved about HSN host Colleen Lopez
Lukas certainly kept HSN hosts like Colleen Lopez on their toes (we don’t know if he ever kissed those). She’d often crack up at his remarks.
Lukas also endeared himself to us because he would talk on-air about his mom back in New Jersey. And if you read this blog, you know that being from Jersey automatically makes you family in our book.
Over time, Lukas was one of several vendors who switched from HSN to ShopNBC. But it was pretty much obvious from the start that he was not happy there.
Lukas left ShopNBC, and we’ve missed him on the airwaves. But we’ve kept up with him on Facebook.
He recently posted his interview, the one we mentioned before, with Kim Tudor. She has a radio show called “Tudor Talk” on 95.9 FM Seaview Radio in Palm Beach, Fla.
Radio host and Lukas friend Kim Tudor
During his chat with Tudor, Lukas said he will be launching a line on QVC in Great Britain in the fall, likely in October, with three visits planned. QVC’s new international channel, QVC Italy, wants his Lukastyle line for its launch. And QVC Australia and QVC Germany may be Lukas’s next venues.
That will be enough travel for Lukas. “That’s a lot of flying to sell a pant, to sell a schmatta,” he said.
There’s is also apparently a chance Lukas will be on QVC in the U.S. next year.
During his radio interview, Lukas had high praise for HSN hosts Lopez and Callie Northagen, describing them as “great” and honest with HSN customers.
“I worked with some of the best shopping hosts,” he said.
Lukastyle items can still be purchased on clearance on ShopNBC’s website, as well as some boutiques in Jersey, including What To Wear in Manasquan.
Clinton Kelly first had a date with, and then succeeded, Lukas as co-host of What Not To Wear
In his interview with Tudor Lukas also dishes on something we had no inkling about: That he was one of the original co-hosts, along with Tracy London, of TLC’s popular “What Not To Wear.”
Lukas talks about how he was planning to leave TLC and write a book, possibly with then-magazine writer Clinton Kelly. He and Kelly even went out on a date.
But two days after their date, Lukas learned that Kelly — behind his back — had finagled and was going to succeed him as the new co-host of “What Not To Wear.”
But in the end it was all good, because Lukas said he already wanted to leave the reality show.
“It really was about money,” Lukas said of his exit.
Shortly thereafter, Lukas went on to tour with Justin Timberlake, and made lots of greenbacks doing it.
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IndieShop Lands A Wall Street Journal Puff Piece, Written By Christie Brinkley (Not), Who Is Coming To QVC
Christie Brinkley isn't writing for The Journal, but she is coming to QVC
IndieShop, the new home shopping network that will feature independent designers, got a big plug in The Wall Street Journal Thursday. Kudos to Trylon Communications, IndieShop’s PR firm.
The network, which will be cobbled together with paid programming purchased on cable networks across the country, was featured in the lead story of The Journal’s “Style” section, in a feature headlined “Crafts, Clothes and Clout.”
We misread the byline when we first read it, and thought times were so tough for model/divorcee Christie Brinkley that she was now freelancing for The Journal. But the writer was actually Christina Binkley. We need our contact lens cleaned.
Brinkley, however, does have a home shopping connection: She is bringing her jewelry line, already sold on Ross-Simons, to QVC.
Anyway, The Journal credits Melissa Perrucci, 42, a former Time Warner executive, with being the founder of IndieShop.
Former ShopNBC host Charla Rines said on Facebook that she’s about to land a job on a start-up network that sells luxury items. If it’s not EmVee TV, as we believe it is, maybe it’s IndieShop.
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Bundesliga champions after having been relegated the season before. There was little optimism about their return to the top flight as they were picked by German football magazine kicker as one of the clubs most likely to be relegated.
The club finished the season in second-last place and was relegated after conceding a league-worst 71 goals. In late , former coach Christoph Daum was convinced to once again take the helm of the 2.
Bundesliga club and succeeded in leading the club back to the Bundesliga in In April the club members elected a new board of directors, Werner Spinner as president, Markus Ritterbach for marketing, and Toni Schumacher for sport.
Bundesliga , missing out on promotion back to the top division. Wehrle was working as assistant for VfB Stuttgart president Erwin Staudt, especially for rebuilding the stadium.
Bundesliga and earned promotion to the top division. It was followed by a 12th place —15 , ninth in —16 , and fifth place in — The team plays its home matches in the RheinEnergie Stadion , with a seating capacity of 45, The average attendance in the — season was 48, The centre is home to the Franz-Kremer-Stadion being home to 1.
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Frauen-Bundesliga after the —17 season ended, but managed to gained again promotion in May to the Bundesliga. Edit Read in another language 1.
Bundesliga —18 Bundesliga , 18th relegated Website Club website. This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it.
Domestic Edit Bundesliga Winner: For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer and List of German football transfers winter — Retrieved 12 August Retrieved 27 September Retrieved 10 December Retrieved 15 May This was then bettered in —76 with a second-place finish.
As had happened 19 years ago, HSV faced Spanish opposition in the semi-finals. The run stretched across 36 games and remained a Bundesliga record until November , when it was broken by Bayern Munich.
A third Meisterschale followed at the end of the —83 season , with HSV defending their title against local rivals Werder Bremen on goal difference.
The Brazilian club took home the trophy with a 93rd minute winning goal. Both —85 and —86 were disappointing seasons for HSV with the club finishing fifth and seventh respectively.
In , midfielder Felix Magath , who had played for the club for ten years and scored the winning goal in the European Cup Final , retired from professional football.
In the early s, HSV found itself in financial trouble. After a fifth-place finish in —91 , HSV finished in the bottom half of the Bundesliga in four consecutive seasons.
The following month, Uwe Seeler also returned as the club president. In May , however, Magath was fired after a 4—0 defeat to 1.
In , HSV appointed Frank Pagelsdorf , who would coach the team for over four years, making him the longest serving trainer since Ernst Happel. The resulting scandal became the biggest in German football in over 30 years, and was an embarrassment to the country as it prepared to host the World Cup.
In the league, the team was in 17th place going into the winter break, [23] having won once in the league all season , leading to the dismissal of trainer Thomas Doll.
However, a defeat in the away leg to Fulham days after the firing of Labbadia [27] denied the club the opportunity to play in the final , which was held at its home stadium.
On 13 October , Thorsten Fink was appointed as coach [28] with the team in the relegation zone after losing six of their opening eight matches.
Fink was replaced on 25 September by Bert van Marwijk , [31] who in the same season was replaced by Mirko Slomka on 17 February Eventually in the next season Hamburg once again changed managers due to a poor start of the season firing Slomka on 15 September.
Labbadia achieved only two points in the first ten games of the —17 season and was replaced by Markus Gisdol who had a shaky start but managed to get 20 points in 9 games from the 19th match day to the 28th match day.
On the last match day, Hamburg avoided the relegation play-offs and stayed in the Bundesliga. However, eight games followed without a single win.
At the end of the first half of the season, HSV was in second last place in the table. After two defeats in the first two games of the second half, coach Markus Gisdol was dismissed.
HSV hired Bernd Hollerbach , a former player of the club, as a new coach. After seven games without a win and a defeat against FC Bayern Munich , he was also dismissed.
On the day of his appointment, he dismissed the sports director Jens Todt. The club hired former successful HSV player Thomas von Heesen as a sports consultant until the end of season.
He should take over a part of the duties for the dismissed Jens Todt. Until then, he was very successful in the Regionalliga Nord fourth league and was with his team at the top of the table.
With four wins and an offensively minded style of play, the coach convinced the club and received a two-year contract.
Bundesliga for the first time in their year history. Hamburger SV plays its home games in the Volksparkstadion , which was previously known as the Imtech Arena between and HSV fans can be buried at a dedicated graveyard near the home stadium, covered in turf from the original Hamburg pitch.
Pauli came back again, there were already several weeks before the game disputes of both fan groups. It started when about HSV fans interrupt a St.
Pauli concert because it took place on the "HSV-side" of the Reeperbahn. In a league game a short time later, the HSV fans showed a banner in the stadium with the inscription "Stellt euch endlich unsrer Gier - Ihr: After fans of FC St.
Pauli attacked HSV fans working on a choreography for the game and destroyed parts of it, some HSV fans threatened them by hanging figures in the colours of the rival at several bridges throughout the city.
In addition, one day later there was a march of about 80 HSV-Ultras across the Reeperbahn , where insulting chants agains St.
Besides, after two major conflicts between the two fan groups the relationship with Holstein Kiel has been considered as difficult for a short time now.
In the derby against St. Pauli in the season about fans of the Scottish club traveled to Hamburg to support HSV. Pauli has no influence on this friendship, however.
They showed a Union Jack , bearing the words "No Surrender", as a big choreography in the stadium. The background to this is that Celtic is generally regarded as a club for people who want an independent Scotland, while Glasgow Rangers is regarded as very loyal to Great Britain.
Especially in the s, multiple players transferred between the two clubs. As Hannover and Bielefeld fans have affinities as well, all three clubs are sometimes called the Nordallianz Northern Alliance despite the fact that the city of Bielefeld is not technically located in Northern Germany.
Pauli and Holstein Kiel. The club colours are officially blue, white and black according to its statute but the fans use the combination "schwarz-weiss-blau" black-white-blue in their songs and chants; they also chant "haa-ess-fow" HSV.
The club crest is a black and white diamond on a blue background. These were the colours of SC Germania. Because of its age and having been ever-present in the top flight of German football, HSV is also known as der Dinosaurier the Dinosaur and currently uses a dinosaur mascot called "Hermann" named after long-time club physiotherapist Hermann Rieger for marketing purposes.
The first shirt sponsorship was introduced in The shirt now carries the Fly Emirates logo. The following is a list of shirt sponsors by date:.
They had a bye in the preliminary round and their first round opponents were Young Boys. HSV won the two-legged tie 8—3 on aggregate, beating the Swiss side 0—5 in the away leg on 2 November and then drawing 3—3 at home on 27 November.
HSV reached the semi-final of the European Cup in Subsequently, they have twice played in the final, losing 1—0 to Nottingham Forest in and defeating Juventus 1—0 in Their biggest defeat was in the second leg of the Super Cup when they lost 6—0 to Liverpool at Anfield on 6 December.
HSV have the record in German football of having won the most regional titles, having won 31 regional titles. The regional titles do however not count as a trophy or even as a title itself.
Under the current award system, their pre-Bundesliga championships are not recognized and so they are not entitled to the second star of a five-time champion.
After the replay of the championship final in had to be abandoned due to the opponents no longer having enough players on the ground, the German Football Association DFB requested HSV to renounce the title, which the club did.
During his first season with Hamburger SV —01 , Sergej Barbarez became the top scorer for his club with 22 goals and joint top scorer of the Bundesliga with Ebbe Sand.
Until the —18 season, HSV took pride in its status as the only club to have played continuously in the Bundesliga since its foundation.
A large clock in the northwest corner of the Volksparkstadion marked the time, down to the second, since the league was founded on 24 August Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules.
Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Hamburger SV official website. The reserve team serves mainly as the final stepping stone for promising young players before being promoted to the main team.
The team plays in the Bundesliga continuously since the —04 season. It was reestablished however in March Okka Rau was qualified for the Beijing Olympics of volleyball.
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After seven games without a win and a defeat against FC Bayern Munich , he was also dismissed. On the day of his appointment, he dismissed the sports director Jens Todt.
The club hired former successful HSV player Thomas von Heesen as a sports consultant until the end of season. He should take over a part of the duties for the dismissed Jens Todt.
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Hamburger SV plays its home games in the Volksparkstadion , which was previously known as the Imtech Arena between and HSV fans can be buried at a dedicated graveyard near the home stadium, covered in turf from the original Hamburg pitch.
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Root Out the Crims (AKA the Ed’s rant)
If the dogs are barking right, these people won’t stop at bombings and even murder.
The week following the Guardian’s exposé on August 16 of the extent of illegal gambling in the Newtown–Marrickville area and mobsters’ stand-over tactics and violence, the Editor wrote a courageous comment piece (which Tom refers to as “the Ed’s rant”).
Back in June, the Ed had started to discuss rumours flying around of stand-over tactics, bashings, threats of bombings and murder, and suggestions that hard drugs were part of the toxic mix. Because of quite poetic rhythms in his comment piece ‘An Undercurrent of Corruption’, I rewrote it slightly to create a prose poem.
An undercurrent of corruption runs through Newtown and occasionally surfaces.
But nobody has come forward with hard evidence.
There are believed to be two statutory declarations in existence from people claiming to have been threatened and abused.
The Voice has not seen either declaration.
When approached to vouch for the story, several people said
Allegations have been made that people are afraid of intimidation.
We’ve been told if we pursue the story we’ll likely get a bomb through the window.
It’s hard to penetrate Newtown’s wall of silence.
Slummin it down South King Street
It’s after this article that Tom takes Harry “slummin it” down South King Street to show her “the seamier side of big city life”, checking on a milkbar-café that he suspects is a gambling den. It’s a “little Greek café in a ratty two-storey building, yiros an chiko rolls an milkshakes downstairs, an upstairs? That’s what we were gonna check out.”
They are reluctantly allowed upstairs with their coffee and baklava, and witness a card game that turns violent, a knife drawn and blood spilt. You can read the story in Tom’s words in the poem The Greeks North and South (2), and Harry’s view in Upstairs at Number 543.
Getting back to ‘Root out the crims’: after indicating the extent of illegal gambling in the district and the easy access to it, the Ed makes the common-sense suggestion that brothels and gambling should be legalised.
Noting that the ‘big operators’ seem to have some kind of protection – a blind eye turned to them, even the ones ‘right opposite a police station’, while the small fry — coffee lounges and social clubs — get jumped on by quickly by police and licensing authorities, (often ‘dobbed in by businessmen who are known to own brothels or gambling premises, and talk about “wanting to clean up Newtown”), he suggested legalising both activities as the way to stop criminal activity.
‘Let’s get one thing clear. The Guardian isn’t opposed to gambling, as such, or even brothels.
As Tom says in Big boys an small fry,
…he made a good point about the people we saw at that milkbar.
‘For many Greeks and Yugoslavs gambling is as natural
as two-up and beer is to an Aussie.
decent people are being turned into criminals.’
He reckons we should make gamblin an brothels legal,
so there’s no room for the big boys an their bombs.
[Brothels were legalised in NSW in 1988, but gambling legislation to deal with different forms of gambling in the State took 30 years and 14 separate Government Acts from the Registered Clubs Act in 1976 to the Unlawful Gambling Act in 1998, and Gaming and Liquor Administration Act in 2007. Source]
Author suecartledgePosted on April 5, 2018 Tags 1970s, Australia, bombings, corruption, crime, criminals, gambling, Marrickville, migrants, mobsters, murder, newspapers, Newtown, prostitution, social history, SydneyLeave a comment on Root Out the Crims (AKA the Ed’s rant)
Gambling Terror
Gambling mobsters have cowed aldermen into silence
Just like prostitution and brothels were in the late 70s, gambling anywhere but at a TAB was illegal and incurred a jail sentence. Yet illegal gambling was widespread, and a source of corruption and heavy standover tactics from the gambling club operators, including threats of violence, and actual incidents of fire bombings and vicious murders.
One such vicious murder was a gruesome find for fireys attending a house fire in the inner west suburb of Five Dock. Thinking the house had been empty when the fire raged through, completely destroying it, they were shocked to find a body under a bed that had somehow escaped the inferno.
The person’s throat had been cut, and they had been shot and stabbed multiple times. It was believed this was an underworld deal involving gambling interests. Someone did the wrong thing and paid for it. Or it was a clear warning to someone else that they risked the same payback.
[The TAB in NSW was set up by State Government Act in 1964, the Totalizator. (Off the Course) Betting Act, 1964, following the Kinsella Royal Commission into illegal off-course betting. It was estimated there were approximately 6,000 illegal bookmakers in NSW in 1963. Source]
Fourteen years after the TAB’s establishment, illegal bookmaking and gambling were still widespread. Gambling clubs ranged from ‘coffee lounges’ and ‘cultural centres’ — often run by Greek, Polish, or Italian migrant groups — equipped with a few pool tables or poker and bingo machines, to huge premises catering to large crowds with numerous machines, and continuous broadcasting of horse and greyhound racing odds over the PA.
The smaller clubs, such as Mr H Kospeta’s coffee lounge with three poker machines in Enmore Rd — which was shut down by Marrickville Council immediately after the Guardian reported it was still operating — and two others, operating as ‘refreshment rooms’ with similar small numbers of machines, were quickly jumped on by the licensing authorities, while the ‘big boys’ seemed to operate under police sanction, or at least an official blind eye.
“It is well known that particular premises are operating as gambling joints, and that some are run by big-time competing mobsters.
“Occasionally, the rivalry breaks out into open warfare.”
Following the Five Dock murder, the Guardian spoke to several aldermen and other well-known businessmen about the threat from gambling mobsters. However, most of those questioned seemed cowed, offering up excuses like “I have a wife and family”; “I don’t know anything”; “keep me out of this”; or cryptic comments, including “I’ve heard some funny stories”; “there’s some heavyweights around.”
The Guardian commented “It was perfectly clear they knew more than they were saying— but were afraid to talk.” One clearly frightened Marrickville alderman exclaimed “You want to get me circumcised?”
A week later, The Editor wrote one of his wonderful thundering rants about gambling: “Root out the crims!” I’ll talk about that in another post.
Big Boys vs Small Fry
Around this time, Tom learns from Inspector Daly, his police contact, that the big Newtown bombing earlier in the year was not down to Ananda Marga terrorists as he suspected (and rather hoped), but was just one bunch of mobsters paying out another. This is how he puts it in Big Boys and Small Fry:
…I’ve a hunch that the King St bombin was a distraction to confuse the security people tryin to solve the Hilton Explosion
. …Told him I know where there’s a coupla Ananda Marga operatives
livin in Queen St. He wasn’t impressed.
Said they were small fry, all piss an wind,
an wouldn’t know what to do with a bomb if they fell over it.
Said the King St one was a professional job…
an organised crime job—one scum mob payin’ out another.
Police corruption: collusion or coincidence?
In the following month, the President of the Newtown Chamber of Commerce, Dr J Messel, conducted his own survey of gambling clubs in King St, Enmore Rd, and Marrickville Rd., and reported his results in a long interview with the Guardian on September 13. He had spent a whole Saturday afternoon “peak SP betting time” and said he “was astounded at the brazen nature of their operations and the ease with which he had gained entry.”
He also clearly suggested police collusion, supported by the fact that the head of the Vice Squad had categorically refused to speak to him. “Obviously these clubs must have protection,” Dr Messel said, “if they are operating so openly and close to local police stations.”
Author suecartledgePosted on March 19, 2018 March 23, 2018 Tags 1970s, Australia, corruption, crime, Enmore, gambling, Marrickville, migrants, newspapers, Newtown, prostitution, Sydney1 Comment on Gambling Terror
Mardi Gras Festival Part 2
the beginnings of Mardi Gras in Sydney on Saturday June 24, 1978
Blurred picture of a gay rainbow flag at a pride parade
This is the second post looking at life for gays and lesbians in 1978, and the start of the Mardi Gras celebration.
2018 marks 40 years since the first March, held on Saturday June 24, 1978. It’s also the first Mardi Gras since the passing of the Australian “gay marriage” legislation, allowing any two adults of any gender to marry. Mardi Gras is always special, but these 2 events make it doubly special this year.
In Part 1, I looked briefly at the life of a gay man 40 years ago, as exemplified by Harry’s friend Jaroslav.
In this post, we’ll hear from Buzz about the beginnings of Mardi Gras in Sydney on Saturday June 24, 1978. For those who haven’t met Buzz, she’s a feisty lesbian social justice warrior living in an anarchist squat. She tells it like it is:
Gough promised us free education but
Gough’s not in charge any more, so
it won’t be free for long. Not much is,
(‘cept love an that’s not free for all,
Only for straights like you).
The Guardian did not run any stories about the events of that Saturday — why should it, since they didn’t happen on the Guardian’s patch: Newtown, Enmore and Marrickville, and strangely, Balmain. My research was done through reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun newspapers, and memoirs of some of the originals, the much-loved and revered 78ers.
The way Buzz tells it, there was nothing gay — in the sense of bright and cheerful — in the way events turned out. This is an important part of Australian social history, not just for LGBTIQ+ people, but for all of us, to remember how our society has moved from bad to good, from oppression to grudging acceptance in some areas, and to hope for future shifts towards inclusion and acceptance for everyone.
In ‘I nearly got arrested’, she tells Harry about going to the International Gay Solidarity Day in Hyde Park:
Coulda
got myself arrested. Wouldn’t a done me any good,
what with squattin’ illegally (yeah, yeah, I know, all
squattin’s illegal, smartarse), bein picked as a lesbian
I’d lose my job at the garage an WEA wouldn’t
want me teachin car maintenance anymore
Buzz went to the consciousness-raising protest day in Hyde Park with some of the girls from the Tin Sheds (more about them in a later post),where they listened to talks about
what life’s like
for homosexuals—gays AN lesbians, after Stonewall
in the US, an in England, where they’ve got that Festival of Light shit run by Mrs Mary Whitehouse.
The old bat’s comin here in a coupla weeks to speak
at a national conference on homosexuality, an she wants to tell us how wrong an evil we are, an how
we wanta destroy society. It was a beaut day
The march was planned for the evening, but Buzz dipped out, saying she had to start work early at the bakery in the morning. Lucky for her. She missed all the excitement and the horror that ended Australia’s first gay and lesbian march.
Like me, Buzz read about it in the papers. (I assume the police worded up the media beforehand, like they did with the Greek migrants, to make a good front page story.) A huge group of people marching and singing along Oxford St at 11 pm, past the pubs and clubs and bars, gathering more people as they went, some estimates being around 2000. Until
The cops
Corralled em all in Darlo Rd that they’d closed
off an got stuck into them with batons an boots
(readin between the lines). They arrested 53
people…I coulda got caught too, if I’d gone with
the girls. Life’s tough when you’re not straight.
This is why the Mardi Gras celebratory parade — which gets bigger, louder, more flamboyant, and with more community groups and organisations taking part each year — marches, sings and dances down Oxford St, with the 78ers in the place of honour.
Note: For the sake of ‘poetic licence’ I put the police bashings in Darlinghurst Road (‘Darlo Rd’), when in reality the brutality was inflicted back at the cells. The cops weren’t going to kick and bash unarmed people in front of journalists and photographers.
[Information and photos from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives can be found on The Guardian Australia (TGA) website here. Note: The Guardian Australia has no connection with the 1970s Newtown and Balmain Guardian.]
Author suecartledgePosted on February 26, 2018 February 26, 2018 Tags 1970s, Australia, Darlinghurst, gays, homosexuality, Hyde Park, Lesbians, LGBTIQ+, Mardi Gras, newspapers, Newtown, Oxford Street, Police brutality, Solidarity, SydneyLeave a comment on Mardi Gras Festival Part 2
Mardi Gras Festival, Part 1
look at the life of a gay man 40 years ago
The last two weeks of February are celebrated in Sydney as Mardi Gras Festival, culminating on the first Saturday in March with the fantastical celebratory Grand Parade down Oxford Street. 2018 marks 40 years since the first March, held on Saturday June 24, 1978. We’ll hear about the Day of Solidarity and that March from Buzz in Part 2.
In Part 1 I want to look at the life of a gay man 40 years ago, as exemplified by Harry’s friend Jaroslav.
In 1970s Sydney, Jaroslav has two black marks against him: he is a Croatian migrant, AKA “a wog”. [It didn’t matter what nationality a migrant or “New Australian” was, they were termed “wogs” or “dagos”, often interchangeably.]
Even worse, he is a homosexual, AKA “a fag” or “poofta”.
We understand Jaro is gay through his reminisces of his poet/political activist lover, Damir in Zagreb.
He was so beautiful: those wide bright eyes
and curling light brown hair, his footballer’s legs
his wandering hands, his kisses.
In outback Australia after fleeing civil war in Croatia, Jaro has brief encounters with men like him, mining at Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill. In Sydney, he finds his way to the fringes of homosexual society, beats in Hyde Park (the toilet block, and certain large trees), and in Newtown,
the toilets in Hollis Park.
It is in Hollis Park, as he is leaving the toilets —I’d hoped someone would come back to me— that he is retraumatised by the bombing.
However, when Harry and Jaro become friends, she has no inkling of his carefully hidden homosexuality, appreciating instead his courteousness: he’s such a gentleman and European sophistication. It’s not until Tom yells at her in the disco that Jaro’s a sad old poofta … he’s a fag, that she realises.
Unlike many gay men then —and up to quite recently— Jaro was never beaten up, bashed, stomped on, punched, kicked or stabbed just for being gay. Often these attacks were by gangs of men on streets leading to parks, or in the parks, regardless of whether they were actual beats.
Jaro’s friendship with Harry: meeting often at the Art Gallery, cafes and the ‘underground bar’, combined with his naturally discreet demeanour, may have protected him, acting as cover for his sexuality. Not that he was using her — he genuinely enjoyed her company — but it didn’t hurt that Harry believed Jaro was courting her.
Lock the toilets
Not one of the Guardian’s front page screamers, this was a small item, reporting a discussion at Marrickville Council on a motion “that public toilets should be closed at night to avoid any public nuisance”. I rewrote it as a prose poem.
Problems were caused by homosexuals, he said, who
frequented public toilet blocks after dark. “I don’t have
anything against homosexuals,” Cr Broad told the Voice,
“but problems develop from their activities.” Asked what
were the problems, he declined to answer, but stressed
“We’ve got to stop these people loitering in the toilets
in the late hours of the night.” Homosexuals regularly
gathered in groups at Petersham Park, he said, and could
appear threatening to other people wishing to use the park
or its toilets. “Toilet blocks in Marrickville, Erskineville,
Enmore and Newtown are well known magnets for homosexuals.”
If this motion is passed all the public toilets ill be locked after dark.
When I moved to Newtown in 1997, all public toilets in Newtown and Victoria Park were permanently locked, day and night. The nearest available one was at Broadway shopping centre, 20 minutes walk away. I suspect the City of Sydney’s ordinance that cafes and restaurants must provide toilets for their customers was to get around the problem of permanently locked public toilets.
In 2001, I rented an apartment in Alpha House, (just round the corner from the infamous 2 Fitzroy St) and Hollis Park became my daily walk. Its toilet block was an ugly brick building fronting onto Wilson St with rusty bars and wire netting over the windows.
I didn’t take any photos of the park then, but after South Sydney Council demolished the toilets and magnificently refurbished Hollis Park, I took quite a few.
Mardi Gras Festival, Part 1Hollis ParkThis is a corner of Hollis Park in Warren Ball Avenue, looking across Fitzroy St to the ‘60s public housing towers over in Waterloo.
Author suecartledgePosted on February 19, 2018 April 30, 2018 Tags 1970s, Australia, dagos, Enmore, gay beats, gays, Hollis Park, homosexuality, Hyde Park, Marrickville, migrants, newspapers, Newtown, Sydney, wogs1 Comment on Mardi Gras Festival, Part 1
KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HUNGRY
This story from June 21, 1978, and a similar one, LATCHKEY KIDS OUT ON STREET, are clear evidence of the levels of poverty in Newtown and Marrickville in the 1970s. I combined them into one prose poem, ‘Latchkey Kids’, basically a reworking of both newspaper articles, attributing it to the Newtown Voice.
Unlike stories of bombings, break-ins, brothels, and gambling dens, these examples of families’ hardship and the schools and welfare organisations struggling to assist them did not rouse the Editor to thunder. No “editor’s rant” for these, nor the ones about discrimination against Aboriginal people in the community.
Talks on a feeding program
“The inner-city school of St. Peter’s is talking about setting up a feeding program. It is worried about the level of nutrition children are receiving.”
The article makes it clear that staff were reluctant to talk much about the proposed feeding program, fearing parents would be upset about the implied criticism. However, the idea had already been enthusiastically discussed at Marrickville Council, which is how the Voice got wind of it.
“Under the Schools Commission’s assisted schools scheme, St. Peter’s has already taken steps to improve student nutrition. It has installed a milkshake machine and supplies health-giving milkshakes.”
Staff admitted the children needed extra sustenance, and that giving them breakfast first made it easier to teach them.
The proposed scheme would require the canteen to be opened early so that children could have breakfast at school.
Sadly, St. Peter’s did not receive the grant funding needed to set up the feeding program. Darlington School had previously applied for a grant for the same purpose, but also did not receive funding. Teachers at Darlington were paying for children’s breakfasts out of their own pockets.
Three months later, almost to the day, this story on September 20, 1978 also involves children going to school hungry. This time, it’s church-run activities programs for so-called ‘latchkey kids’ after school and in the holidays.
The Petersham Baptist Church, (renamed Marrickville Baptist for poetic purposes), had been waiting since the end of May for the next tranche of funding from the Federal Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle).
The church was paying for the after-school programs itself, while waiting for a reply from the Minister, and was rapidly running into debt.
“ ‘Latchkey kids’ are children whose parents are at work all day; many come from one-parent families. Often they have house keys on a string round their necks so they can let themselves into their empty homes after school.
“Some children were also coming to school just after 7am. They had been given money to buy a packet of chips for breakfast.”
Three years earlier the church had seen the need for after-school and holiday programs for these children. [It’s possible some of them would have been in the graveyard sniffing petrol.] Nearly all of its funding was through various federal government schemes, including the recently scrapped Australian Assistance Plan.
Now, with no sign of the funding, the church was considering cancelling or at least severely slashing all its programs.
On September 13, the church’s minister wrote to Minister Guilfoyle, threatening to appeal to the Federal Ombudsman. That same day, he received a letter from the Minister, informing him that the $50,000 grant had been cancelled.
The Voice reported “the church’s small congregation has made massive efforts”—including stalls, afternoon teas, and jumble sales— “to keep the service going and keep it cheap.
“However, the church says there is no way it can continue to operate without funding, as demand for these services has mushroomed because of the area’s pressing social needs.”
Author suecartledgePosted on February 6, 2018 February 19, 2018 Tags 1970s, Australia, children, hunger, kids, newspapers, Newtown, poverty, schools, social history, Sydney, welfareLeave a comment on KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HUNGRY
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Home NRI Pending dues will be given, V.K. Singh assures stranded Indian workers in...
Pending dues will be given, V.K. Singh assures stranded Indian workers in Jeddah
By Irfan Mohammed
Jeddah– All Indian workers rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia due to the closure of a leading construction company will be able to receive their pending arrears, Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh assured the distressed workers on Friday.
The Minister, who visited a workers’ camp in Jeddah on Friday evening, said the workers will be able to receive their pending arrears from the company while in Saudi Arabia or upon their return to India.
He also said that India and Saudi Arabia were both committed to addressing the issue at the earliest and both sides were working very closely to formulate a mechanism under which all issues of the stranded Indian workers will be dealt with.
The Indian government is sincerely committed to the welfare of its workers abroad and that is the reason he is visiting the Saudi Kingdom, Singh told them. He also hailed King Salman’s swift action in this regard.
Singh visited the workers’ camp located in a posh locality in the port city of Jeddah accompanied by senior Saudi Labour Ministry official Abdullah Al Olayan and Indian Ambassador Ahmed Javed and interacted with the workers.
“The pending wages or other arrears, Iqama (residency visa) validity and switching to other employers and also facilitation of willing return of workers are the main subjects which both countries are working out,” the minister told the workers.
Singh declined to specify the time line to workers, stating that it involves multiple processes. But he assured them that their rights would be protected and safeguarded.
To a question, he said their food supplies would be continued as of now from the same sources, in apparent reference to the Saudi Labour Ministry that is feeding the workers.
The minister told the workers that state governments have to play a crucial role in rehabilitation measures for the returning workers, after some workers drew his attention about their future upon returning home.
Earlier, the workers greeted the minister with slogans of “V.K. Singh Zindabad”, and also when he was leaving. (IANS)
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We recommend you add these to your reading lists:
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Amputation Leads to Safety Query
Jun 22, 2012 | Government
Truck manufacturer Stahl/Scott Fetzer Co. is facing $90,000 in fines for six safety violations – including one willful – after a worker had several fingers amputated while operating an unguarded press break March 19 at the Wooster, OH, plant, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officials said.
After OSHA initiated an inspection, a second amputation occurred April 19 at the plant.
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“Manufacturing companies are responsible for knowing and following recognized standards regarding the use of potentially dangerous machinery in their factories and ensuring that all proper precautions are taken to prevent workers from being injured,” said Howard Eberts, OSHA’s area director in Cleveland.
One willful violation involves failing to ensure the points of operation remain guarded on the two press brakes, which bend sheet metal. Both workers suffered injuries while using the unguarded press brakes. A willful violation is one committed with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law’s requirements, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
Five serious safety violations include failing to develop machine-specific “lockout/tagout” procedures as well as provide training for employees in the use of a portable fire extinguisher, the operation of powered industrial trucks and first aid. Additionally, the company failed to develop a bloodborne pathogen program, and conduct monthly and annual crane inspections. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
Wooster-based Stahl/Scott Fetzer Co. has 94 workers at its Wooster facility, but the employs about 200,000 workers throughout the United States and Canada. The company had five previous inspections, resulting in the issuance of six serious and 43 other-than-serious violations.
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Over $7 Per Voter Spent on TV Ads for Montana Gubernatorial Candidates
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Screen shot courtesy of the Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity has been tallying up the amount of money pumped into television ads across the country during statewide campaigns this election year and Montana is near the front of the pack.
"When you look at it by the number of actual eligible voters, Montana is number two this year at nearly $7.50 spent per eligible voter, just to date," said Center for Public Integrity Data Reporter Ben Wieder. "Soon, when these candidates are going to be going crazy on the air, that number is going to be going higher and higher each week."
TV Ad spending on state races study
Wieder says the money pumped into tv ads this year is dwarfing the amounts spent during the 2012 elections.
"When you look back to where we were at this point in 2012, the numbers are significantly lower," Wieder said. "We are at roughly around $148 million in estimated spending on tv ads so far this year. In 2012, that number was about $83 million, that's a significant difference."
Montana is second only to Missouri when it comes to the number of ads and the amount spent per voter. According to Wieder more than 95 percent of that spending has been on the Governor's race between Greg Gianforte and Steve Bullock.
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OMICIDA Feat. A BENEDICTION Member And Former WHITE WIZZARD Members Release ‘Violent Resolution’ Music Video
UK thrash metal band, OMICIDA featuring a BENEDICTION member and former WHITE WIZZARD members, have released a music video for ‘Violent Resolution‘, the track is taken of their debut album ‘Defrauded Reign‘, due out on March 15, 2019 and can be pre-ordered here. The video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/l4zfY7SmFaM
OMICIDA delivers a frenetic and dizzying array of speed and technicality, while maintaining a crushing groove with melodic hooks. OMICIDA‘s main influences have always been Slayer, Testament, Kreator, Overkill, Coroner, Exodus, just to name a few.
The album was mixed and mastered by Ralph Patlan (Megadeth, White Wizzard) at Stealth Sound Studios in Phoeniz AZ.
1. Hostage In The Pit
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6. State Of Terror
7. Burn The Cross
8. Sentenced
9. The Supremacist
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11. Dead Eyes See No Evil
OMICIDA is a new modern-day thrash metal band, as they wear their influences on the sleeves while adding their own unique flare with their extreme precision and break-neck, dual-guitar shredding. The band does not try and re-invent the wheel, they just add some new dynamics to it. Formed in Los Angeles (2014), the band was founded by ex-White Wizzard member Giovanni Durst (drums). Originally OMICIDA was joined by ex-White Wizzard member Erik Kluiber (guitar), along with ex-Devil You Know member Roy LaVari (guitar), Roman Kovalik (bass) and Giovanni Barbieri (vocals) replacing former singer Joseph Michael. The band released their first 7 song EP “Certain Death” in 2015 and continuing to release two more singles “State of Terror”, “Protect and Serve” in 2016, 2017. Since then, OMICIDA has been featured on media outlets to the caliber of Revolver Mag, Bravewords, Terrorizer (track “Disobey” featured on Fear Candy CD) and other outlets creating the strong base for the band to continue their path towards the making of their first debut album.
Due to logistics issues Giovanni Durst (drums) had to relocate to Europe. The band’s future though was far from being over. Instead, OMICIDA relocated to London in 2018 as band’s new HQ. Giovanni Barbieri kept his place behind the mic in the new formation, adding new guitarists Will Wallner (ex White Wizzard), Dan Baune and bassist Dan Bate (Benediction).
OMICIDA is:
Giovanni Barbieri – Vocals
Will Wallner – Guitar (ex-White Wizzard)
Dan Baune – Guitar
Daniel Bate – Bass (Benediction)
Giovanni Durst – Drums (ex-White Wizzard)
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Loretta Fahrenholz – Small Habit Revolution
Loretta Fahrenholz
Pictures by Lisa Rastl
You have to desire to be a feminist. History tells us: men produce; women reproduce. Men create; women mediate. Men are the innovators and women the technicians. Women weave, transcribe, and edit. Women are 0s and men are 1s. Technicity brought women into the labor force. The early film editors were both secretary and seamstress: organizing reels, deleting errors, mending cuts to realize man’s vision.
Today, in the wake of the digital transformation’s gender shock, coding is our feminine labor. We can trace the threads to the industrial age, when women were bent over the weaving looms. Looms are early computers, programmed in advance to run off a series of punch cards operated by a single human hand. Sadie Plant writes: “The matrix weaves itself in a future which has no place for historical man: he was merely its tool, and his agency was itself always a figment of its loop.” If she’s right, then production will soon cease entirely.
Before all that, the editor sometimes became the filmmaker. In 1927, Esfir Shub, the founder of montage film, made the official film of the Soviet Union’s October Revolution. The film was praised for its “invisible authority.” She functioned like a machine, cataloguing old newsreels to make the perfect impersonal document of propaganda.
Can two things be true at the same time? Woman as rational machine and woman as pure emotion. Ada Lovelace, author of the first machine algorithm, was both mathematician and hysteric.
In Mashes of the Afternoon and Story in Reverse, Loretta Fahrenholz’s original objects—a film and a story from during and after World War Two—were made by women and are about women dying. Time is circular or in reverse. Ilse Aichinger’s Mirror Story, from 1949, goes from death to abortion to birth as death. Meshes of the Afternoon, from 1943, is a cyclical nightmare punctuated by death, weighted under the mirror shards that had been the face of the protagonist’s stalker.
Repetition and reproduction: Desire can never be fulfilled. Instead it renews itself over and over again. Either the story never ends or it does so in absolute destruction. Like harbingers of the future, these originals emerge from the wartime that introduced cybernetics, “control and communication made possible by computers,” before it came to structure our lives.
Now YouTube’s own algorithms can lead us from one #MeshesoftheAfternoon to another, shot in shithole suburban America by teens using Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s film as an imitable score. You can just turn it on and watch it run. But it’s Loretta who relegates her role from maker of film to remixer. She turns herself into an algorithm, but one with agency and even desire. It’s not a playlist she produces but a dutiful mashup of the awkward reproductions spanning YouTube’s existence to recreate the original film shot for shot.
Reproductions pale in comparison to their originals, but that’s not the point. Instead of making something new (is that even possible?!), Loretta has instead inserted herself into these systems of reproduction. With each iteration comes not a resurrection of relics from the past, but realizations of the repetitive tasks that are weaving our future.
Jenna Bliss
www.mumok.at
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Gold Market Report
December 18, 2018 / 11:22 AM / 7 months ago
PRECIOUS-Gold gains on slide in dollar, stocks; focus on Fed
Swati Verma
(Adds comments, updates prices)
* Palladium slips from record high hit on Monday
* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl
By Swati Verma
BENGALURU, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Gold rose to a one-week high on Tuesday, helped by a weaker U.S. dollar and a fall in global stock markets, but moves were limited as investors sought clarity on the path of U.S. interest rates as concerns about a slowing global economy deepened.
Spot gold was up 0.1 percent at $1,247.06 per ounce at 1310 GMT, having earlier touched its highest since Dec. 10 at $1,250.27, just short of a five-month peak of $1,250.55 hit last week.
U.S. gold futures were steady at $1,251.30 per ounce.
“There has been a slight increase in the minority view that the Fed might not raise rates, given the recent weakness in the equity markets. It would be quite a shock if they didn’t increase rates in this week’s meeting,” said Capital Economics analyst Ross Strachan.
“Most of the attention will be on how many more interest rates rises there may be next year.”
The Fed is widely expected to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year at its two-day policy meeting ending on Wednesday. But weak stock markets and slowing global growth may prompt the central bank to signal a slowdown in rate increases.
“We have seen quite a broad-based sell-off across many other markets, from equities to other commodity markets, and an increase in risk aversion. In that climate, gold is edging gradually higher towards a multi-months peak,” Strachan said.
World stock markets tumbled as fears about a slowing global economy gripped investors, while the dollar index slipped 0.3 percent against a basket of major currencies.
Gold tends to gain when interest rate hike expectations ease because lower rates reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion and weigh on the dollar, in which it is priced.
In euro terms, gold reached its highest since June at 1,100.57 euro an ounce.
“While the budget dispute tensions between the European Union and Italy are easing ... France now appears to be becoming a worry,” Commerzbank analysts said in a note.
France’s budget deficit is likely to overshoot the European Union’s limit of 3 percent of GDP next year, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told Les Echos newspaper in an interview earlier this week.
Gold, considered a safe investment during times of financial, economic and geopolitical uncertainty, has risen more than 7 percent from 19-month lows hit in mid-August. It is also set to post its biggest quarterly gains since March 2017.
“We feel there is still upside potential from here, particularly if stocks and the dollar remain under pressure,” traders at MKS PAMP said in a note.
Among other precious metals, silver was down 0.2 percent to $14.63, while platinum slipped 1 percent to $785.50 per ounce.
Spot palladium fell 1.2 percent to $1,242.99 per ounce, after touching a record high of $1,269.5 on Monday. (Reporting by Swati Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and David Evans)
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After feud over Shahid Kapoor’s Batti Gul Meter Chalu, T-Series and KriArj make peacehttps://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/batti-gul-meter-chalu-t-series-kriarj-5218912/
After feud over Shahid Kapoor’s Batti Gul Meter Chalu, T-Series and KriArj make peace
Batti Gul Meter Chalu, starring Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor and Yami Gautam, is a film based on hiked electricity bills in villages despite long power cuts. The major portions of the film are being shot in North India.
By Express Web Desk |New Delhi | Published: June 15, 2018 4:51:20 pm
LiveKabir Singh box office collection Day 26: Shahid-Kiara starrer mints Rs 264.74 crore
LiveKabir Singh box office collection Day 25: Shahid-Kiara film earns Rs 263.19 crore
LiveKabir Singh box office collection Day 24: Shahid-Kiara film collects Rs 261.59 crore
Shahid Kapoor’s starrer Batti Gul Meter Chalu is expected to hit the theaters in August this year.
The shoot of Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor’s social drama Batti Gul Meter Chalu had hit a roadblock after a feud between its two producers – Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Prernaa Arora’s KriArj Entertainment. But now it is being said that the two production houses have opted for an out of court settlement. KriArj might soon be back on board the Shree Narayan Singh directorial.
Sources close to the two companies have confirmed that a settlement deed is being executed and the same will be filed before the court where proceedings are pending between them. Both the parties seem to have agreed to withdraw their respective suits and actions against each other in light of this settlement. Both Bhushan Kumar and Prernaa Arora have confirmed the settlement but have refused to divulge further details. Going forward KriArj Entertainment might also join hands with T-Series for two new films – a thriller and a romantic film.
Batti Gul Meter Chalu, also starring Yami Gautam, is a film based on hiked electricity bills in villages despite long power cuts. The major portions of the film are being shot in North India. The Shree Narayan Singh directorial will showcase the beauty of Uttarakhand in all its glory. It is scheduled to hit the theatres on August 31, 2018.
After resuming the shooting of the film, Shahid has been keeping his fans posted about it. He has posted stills from the movie on his Instagram account.
Earlier in an interview to PTI, Shree Narayan talked about working with Shahid Kapoor and said, “With films like Kaminey, Jab We Met, Haider and Udta Punjab, Shahid Kapoor has definitely proved his mettle as an actor. Having said that, his star presence is undeniable and I look forward to working with him.”
After feud over Shahid Kapoor's Batti Gul Meter Chalu, T-Series and KriArj make peace
1 Aayush Sharma: Grateful that I could work with the best in my first film
2 Rajkummar Rao to play a Gujarati businessman in his next film titled Made In China
3 Janhvi, Khushi and Anshula Kapoor are in London, see sisters’ fun selfie
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Working for the Judicial Council and a pattern of racketeering activity
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them in doing, closing a perceived loophole that allowed a person who instructed someone else to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually commit the crime personally.
Burbank AOC Employees Tell Us:
I worked in the Burbank Yahoo building in the AOC before going to work for one of the vendors the AOC uses. They had two floors in that building. On one floor was dozens and dozens of CCMS “developers” that were spending all their time trying to look busy while producing nothing of value so that they could get away with bilking the AOC. They spent far more time working on their own companies requirements and paperwork than they ever did working on the CCMS program. If you ask me, significant billings were being generated so that those in charge could spread the wealth through kickbacks and keep the charade going.
The other side of the operations in that building weren’t much better. Instead of bidding out work to lower costs, they used a single preferred vendor who in turn, used their preferred vendors with each layer padding in profits ranging from 43-98% for their work because they had a willingly captive customer that did not care one shred about either costs or results. On top of these obscene profit margins were management fees imposed by the preferred vendor.
Someone really needs to look into the personal finances of those in charge of this program because while none of the facilities management administrators (those that work with the courts) would ever approve this obscene pricing, the managers in the program routinely did. They used what funding was available to address the needs of CAFM and judicial council darlings first (like appellate courts) while all but completely abandoning the needs of workers in lesser preferred courts. ( like all of LASC, Joshua Tree, etc) To keep everyone quiet they supplied brand new company cars, portable electronics and plowed them with 6 figure salaries and if you dared to raise a concern, you would be labeled a “potential whistleblower” and out on your tail as fast as they could process the paperwork. New Management isn’t any better – but they are better at containing the complaints since there are fewer of them.
The metropolitan courthouse’s downtown LA parking structure would be condemned if it didn’t belong to the courts. There are structure-wide cracks through which you can see the deck below and concrete falls on people and cars nearly every day.
Something that all court workers California should know and be aware of: Many of your buildings are laden with unsecured asbestos fibers that are blowing around unrestricted. Joshua Tree Courthouse readily comes to mind. So if you happen to develop mesothelioma in the coming years, you can thank the AOC.
A court employee in a bunny suit and mask and a case of aquanet hairspray would be far better off spraying above those tiles over their desk than doing nothing. (jcw- we DO NOT recommend this. While mostly true, asbestos fibers can be microscopic and invisible to the naked eye and disturbing them by moving ceiling tiles can cause them to go airborne. LEAVE THIS WORK TO PROFESSIONALS and insist that it be taken care of)
San Francisco and Sacramento Employees tell us about CAFM
About good old, recently ousted Jerry Pfab: He constantly had everyone in all day meetings and spent tens of millions of facilities maintenance dollars trying to chase a baby baldridge award. He also spent well over ten million dollars of facilities maintenance money on modifying a software program called CAFM. Equally complicit in this waste was the IT director Mark Dusman who not only signed off on these mods but also signed off on the colossal waste known as CCMS. Of course in grand AOC fashion, he was promoted rather than shown the door. (another report indicates he was recently demoted but that is not reflected on the AOC home page)
A consistent theme in these reports? Courts would be far better off hiring their own facilities management people than letting the AOC continue to hijack their funds and spend it imprudently and elsewhere.
San Francisco Employees ask: Why does Emergency Response & Security continue to exist?
Why are we arming people of questionable character without police powers, without the power to effect anything more than a citizens arrest? How could (former Pacifica Police Officer and ERS member) Nick Barsetti work for the AOC and teach classes on active shooters when he has been fired for tazing a man to death? Why are we supplying them with unmarked police cars complete with sirens, red and blue lights and police radios if they are not sworn officers? Why do they duplicate and augment CHP functions? Isn’t impersonating a police officer a criminal act?
Why are completely unqualified people constantly getting promoted?
What’s it like to work at the AOC? Same (illegal) shit but different names.
Whistleblower Protections – There are none
The legislature put in place whistleblower protections in a utterly unachievable form. What they need to do is go simulate going through the process they established and they will soon discover that a lot of the requirements they put in place rely on people doing tasks for which they completely disclaim jurisdiction over and will not do. As a result, whistleblowers stand no chance of progressing any case. To top it off, there were legislative discussions surrounding exempting “judicial council staff” (those that work with judges on the council) from those protections and the legislative history shows that the legislators agreed. So to drive the final nail into the whistleblower coffin once and for all, the Chief Justice renamed the AOC “judicial council staff” and even our supervisors and managers brag that whistleblower protections are dead.
Employee Morale Across the Entire AOC
To reference a euphemism or two, the morale across the entire AOC is that of a “Dead Man Walking” or a “Zombie Workforce”
Morale has utterly collapsed since Martin Hoshino took the job. It was bad before and it’s worse now. Nobody ever sees him or the managers he has hired. Their offices are always dark and they’re never around. The’re never seen in hallways or meeting with lower level staff. If management comes to meetings, the meetings are catered. If management does not come to the meeting, no catering is permitted.
Sacramento rents entire floors in buildings on Gateway Oaks Boulevard but half of the cubicles are empty because most of the new hires are assigned to San Francisco. All the work stays in Sacramento and does not get redistributed. You call that management?
There is more work than ever and there is more pressure to get that work done than ever before but it is the remaining Sac people that carry double, triple, quadruple workloads while San Francisco gets all the new hires. Staff keeps to themselves. There is no morale, no camaraderie. If you are not looking for another job somewhere else, you are just keeping your head down waiting until you are eligible to retire. If you complain, you’re a troublemaker and can expect to be escorted out if you do it more than once. New hires are looking for the nearest door within two months.
Nobody learns about staff departures anymore because JCW names the baddies and posts queen videos about “another one bites the dust” You could be working on a project for months via email and then one day, you call an in-person meeting and “Joe” doesn’t show up. Turns out that “Joe” left the AOC, ahem, excuse me, Judicial Council Staff over 3 months ago.
Oh, and everyone reads JCW. Everyone. Most especially managers, directors, the Chief Justice, and Martin Hoshino. People in Communications have regular strategy meetings to deal with the onslaught of legislative and judicial inquiries that invariably follow your every post. It truly is “Management by Blog” and whatever you do, don’t stop until these people pull their head out of their asses. You’ll know when that happens as you will have nothing to write about anymore.
Martin Hoshino knows that many current and former employees are mad as hell and will talk. He and legal services are doing everything they can to protect themselves from whistleblowers but you offer a medium that protects us. Long Live JCW!
Many people on the legal services team tell courts to do things that legal services would never do themselves. They constantly tell the courts to not treat their whistleblowers and people that bring up concerns any differently but when it comes to the AOC, treating them differently is all they do. They isolate them, don’t invite them to meetings, don’t include them in email threads etc, etc.
There’s been what can only be described as a mass exodus from the legal services team in the past few months, mostly over disillusionment over their role and how the AOC treats people in general. Believe it or not, if employees have legitimate grievances with supervisors or managers, they would encourage employees to take their complaints to HR. If there were enough of them over time, the manager or supervisor would eventually get the axe. But only after the employees who made the complaints got the axe first. It’s an unbelievable exercise in futility. They do everything they can to win your trust before completely abandoning you when you follow their instructions. No one should complain about anything. If you have a legitimate grievance in spite of so called “open door policies” where you are encouraged to raise concerns, find another job. Don’t complain, it will only get you fired.
Legal fees as gifts: In 2015 the legal services unit ran out of money in one of their budgets. Instead of moving money around to cover their costs, they went to two legal firms they paid the most (one with the initials WP&R and another with the initials of AA) and promised them future work if only they would lower their current billings. The one with the initials WP&R lowered the AOC’s legal bills by 37K and the other one lowered the AOC’s legal bills by 20K.
In case you haven’t heard, the AOC is spending another load of consulting money analyzing what each and every employee does in 15 minute increments. Yet employees are so poorly managed that managers are skewing the results making it look like they balanced the workload when they didn’t.
Violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, workers compensation laws and reasonable accommodations
One of the best ways of ending up in the unemployment line is to develop any disability. If that disability is caused by a work related injury, you will be ousted faster than if you develop a disability unrelated to your work.
Recently, an employee’s primary care doctor, working with a team of specialists and therapists, determined that this employee should work four-hour days while completing recovery process for a major head injury. After a few months of successfully performing ADA-accommodated part-time work (which the person had been doing for years), the person was called to HR and told that the accommodation would no longer be accepted. They were told to go home to complete recovery.
HR knew this employee was having issues getting LTD insurance covered and that the employee would leave with ZERO income. Possibly even more disastrous for the individual, no future ability to pay for incredibly expensive but necessary health insurance. Still, HR forced this employee to leave their work. They cancelled all insurances a few months later, with the final blow to come in June when they fired this person because they were not completely healthy and still unable to work without accommodation. I’m told that a new manager tried to pretend that there was no injury or accommodation in place for the person; and they actually attempted to completely modify this person’s job to something this person could not physically do.
Today, this person is not completely healed, is still not healthy enough to work full time and has lost virtually everything, including their home. They also still have no health insurance and have not seen a doctor in many months.
Get assaulted by your supervisor? Expect to lose your job.
There was an agency called the Judicial Council staff. This agency was made up of all the departments that you’d see in a regular business, but they did not have to manage to a bottom line like the private sector. They didn’t have responsibility to create revenue for the agency, so they had the ability to promote people into management who are not good supervisors/managers without much thought. It’s easy to see that some of the people promoted there would never make it in the private sector. Decisions at the Judicial Council are, for the most part, politically motivated and few decisions make sense to most staff at the time they are made. Strange decisions are rarely explained.
One teeny tiny department in the Judicial Council was made up of just seven people. There was a senior manager, manager, supervisor, administrative assistant, and three analysts. The supervisor, recently promoted, had the three analysts reporting to her. Unfortunately for the analysts, the supervisor was new to the role, had absolutely no people skills, and was a bully and abusive to her customers and staff. In fact, other department heads asked her senior manager that she not be allowed to interact with their staff due to her horrible attitude, rude and consistently condescending behavior.
One day the supervisor noticed two of the analysts working at a computer together. One had asked the other for help with a project she didn’t do often and had forgotten how to do. The rude supervisor approached the two analysts, angry that neither of them remembered had to the project. She pinned the analyst who was sitting at the computer against her desk, grabbed her shoulders and shook her hard—assault and battery for sure—injuring her shoulders.
The employee was physically in pain and very upset. The witness stood there in shock as to what just happened. The hurt employee had to see a doctor to deal with the pain and the shoulder injury. She reported the case to HR and did all things one would expect in a situation such as this, expecting that the situation would be fairly dealt with. It was not. The employee, who loved her job, asked her managers to be allowed to report to one of them, because she was now afraid of her supervisor. Since there was a senior manager, a manager, and a supervisor there was one manager on staff for each analyst, so there was no shortage of management to choose from. Unfortunately, her managers denied her request and she was forced to continue reporting the supervisor who had attacked her. HR investigated but did nothing to protect the employee, to no one’s surprise.
A few months later the employee was put on a Performance Improvement Plan for a random and fabricated issue. She was basically set up to be fired. They even made the mistake on the paperwork showing proof to the employee that they had just planned to fire her right after the assault incident. HR must have told them they couldn’t fire her immediately after the assault, and they had to build a case against her. (At least they did SOMETHING.)
What was the hurt employee guilty of, you ask? Probably for working too hard and having courts, judges and other external customers who were very happy with her work they wrote letters of praise to her senior manager. For that, she was abused, harassed, and eventually, (wrongfully) terminated.
And, you know what else? As it turns out, she had to ask the Judicial Council for ‘permission’ to sue them for assault and battery and wrongful termination. Crazy, right? Well, she asked … and they said no. Is anyone surprised??
Tune in to this website again soon for more surprising details about this crazy case. People need to know who the Judicial Council really is, and how they treat their employees.
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Now you’re cookin’! FYI, one does not have to be disabled to be discriminated against under ADA. If you ever spoke out on behalf of a discriminated against disabled branch employee and were retaliated against, you too are a victim of ADA violations.
The American with Disabilities Act, Title III-3.6000 Retaliation or coercion. “Individuals who exercise their rights under the ADA, OR ASSIST OTHERS in exercising their rights, are protected from retaliation. The prohibition against retaliation or coercion applies broadly to any individual or entity that seeks to prevent an individual from exercising his or her rights or to retaliate against him or her for having exercised those rights ..Any form of retaliation or coercion, including threats, intimidation, or interference is prohibited if it is intended to interfere”
Queen Pumpkin
Legal Services is well known for tolerating abuse of their staff. If you complain they write you up. Seems to be the standard in other depts, too.
My favorite thing was how they distributed work. No one thought to look at workloads. One person would be buried and another would spend most of the day reading their Kindle.
May I also add that I always found it interesting that the very agency who is there to promote access, fairness, and justice is the biggest culprit of denying it to their very own employees. We have worked our asses off only to get kicked in the teeth.
On a side note, I also always found it interesting that Legal would always treat brand new employees really well. It was the long term emp of 10 yrs or more who were bullied.
That was a pretty effective carpet bombing. This should be your anniversary thing to remind them that they’re still fucked up and you’re still watching.
Yes they’re still fucked up and JCW is still watching.
Regarding our methodology: Except for the last two entries which were individually drafted cases of wrongdoing against loyal and conscientious employees that those people request be posted in their entirety, all of the remaining bullet points come from a collection of comments from 13 current or former AOC contacts that used the private message window and were merged together to make them indistinguishable. There were a whole lot more allegations than those listed above and frankly, if you want to keep on sending comments to the private message window, we will see what we can do about compiling more and adding to our post.
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Maxrebo5
An article in Courthouse News about the bad condition of the downtown Sacramento Courthouse:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/11/01/nightmare-courthouse-shows-need-to-renovate-in-sacramento.htm
My main issue with this article is there is no mention of the Long Beach Courthouse and how the Judicial Council tried to get the legislature to pay for the 1.2 billion dollar Long Beach Courthouse on top of the 5 billion in new courthouse construction bonds the branch received from SB 1407 just a few years ago.
That crazy tactic by the Judicial Council and AOC “leaders” to get the other branches to pony up an additional 1.2 billion back fired really badly and is vital to undertand this story in full. The fall out was the Judicial Council had to cancel several courthouse construction projects statewide that they had over promised to county courts including a new courthouse for Sacramento. No mention of this politcal fiasco by the Judicial Council at all in the story and how their credibility is shot to hell now with the legislature as a result. What’s up with that Courthouse News? Do the judges in Sacramento who talked to this reporter not recall the recent history in CA Courts or did they just play along with a fluff piece hoping folks forgot all of this so they might get some funding?
Here is what the artilcle says, “Improvements to deteriorating state buildings have largely been put on hold because of the recession and Gov. Jerry Brown’s continued calls for fiscal constraint.” That’s total crap! The branch just received and spent a full $5 billion dollars for new courthouse construction statewide, during a recession I might add, and the branch got to manage all of that money. Such control of building construction by CA Courts is unlike all other state projects where the Department of General Serivces manages the construction of state buildings. So the Judicial Council by their own votes in recent years chose other courthouse construction projects ahead of the Sacramento Courthouse!!! Rember any this?
http://www.courts.ca.gov/2027.htm
The Chief used to say no new taxes would be neeed for the new buidlings as they would all be paid for from fines and fees. They raised all those fines and fees by the way. They did so just in the last few years right before the Furguson riots which a US DOH report exposed how in Misssouri such fines and fees were used to fund the local courts at the expense of a mostly poor and black community. The US DOJ urged national reforms and this is when the Chief came up with her traffic amnesty fix as if she had no idea such fines and fees were harmful to the poor or minorities.
In reality her plan was just fines and fees from cases would pay the 5 billions in courhouse construction bonds off but those fines and fees are already drying up because the case filings are not there as projected by the AOC. Case filings are way down and will continue to fall I expect based on the trend lines for the branch.
It is always, and I mean always, we need more money from the Chief Justice and her Judicial Council of yes people. They never say, “Well we did screw up big time by over spending on the Long Beach Courthouse project and CCMS projects so we sort of deserve to be in this spot of wanting funding now because of mismangement of public funds on our part in the past.”
If I was in the legislature I would not give these same people more money especially since statewide caseloads are down nearly 30% in the last few years. The JC still has the exact same culture of the Chief Justice surrounded by a bunch of yes people she alone appoints to be on the JC. That same culture was railed on in two audits and it was that culture that resulted in CCMS failing and the forced resignation of Bill Vickrey as Director of the AOC. Do you know the Chief still gives out an award each year in his name for excellence in Court Administration? It’s a crazy mixed message on her part but I tell you the honest truth!
I feel if the Chief wants to run the branch from the top down then she should at least have the JC open up to dissenting ideas from within the branch like the ACJ’s so debates can occur on policy issues. Instead the message is all controlled by the Chief alone to have it only her way on every single issue. That style is undemocratic, corrupting, very dull, and also just does not work well as audit after audit has shown.
I honestly believe CA Courts are in a real mess now from forces outside the branch they will not be able to keep up with. The caseload base is eroding so badly that new leadership at the top in the AOC is needed for those in place failed to see this coming and the data has shown it for years now. Meanwhile they sit in their expensive digs in San Francisco which both the SEC Report and State Auditor suggested be moved to Sacramento to save some cash as if nothing is happening to their organization. Like a sand caste on the beach about to be crushed by a changing tide is how I see this filing situation for CA Courts. As usual when the calls to move the AOC headquarters came in the Chief rejected those fiscally prudent ideas from judges on the SEC Committee in favor of her usual mantra of “more money” and we like it here in expensive San Francisco. Who doesn’t especially on the public’s dime?
Now she’s hoping her friend from law school Darrell Steinberg the former CA State Senate leader and newly elected mayor of Sacramento can lobby to get the money for a new courthouse in Sacramento. It’s just a small $400-500 million in state funds for one building. With declining caseloads and a frugal Governor it’s hard to get the legislature to fund such a building especially since the fines and fees on criminal cases are not there to pay back bonds. They are screwed by the basic logic of math. More accurately for this story Sacramento Superior Court is screwed and the Chief is secretly OK with it. She’d rather the local court go without and plea for more money than cut her AOC and make them relocate to cheaper real estate to help out. She won’t do it.
Lastly, the local population in Sacramento just built a new sports arena for the Kings basketball team and the cost was about $500 million. To pay for a new arena all of the parking rates have gone up dramatically downtown for miles around that building. So on top of that very recent and very large downtown development project there is no local appetite to pay for a new courthouse at all. Also the new mayor wants to get a much bigger convention center built, a redone community theatre, and seeks to develop the rail yards project with a professional soccer team and new stadium. Something is going to have to give with all these big plans which all require public funding to make a reality. My bet is it will be this new courthouse that is left undone. Thanks for reading my take on this CCN story today. Fight On!
Isn’t this the same Darrell Steinberg who used to sit/chair the Ca Senate Judiciary Committee?
“I feel the confinement here…to do this sort of justice every day,” [Darrell] Steinberg said finally. Sacramento Superior Court officials took their case for a new courthouse to the city’s mayor-elect and other local officials Tuesday and continued to push for funding for a courthouse to replace a building long viewed as overcrowded, obsolete and unsafe.”
I think many were astonished that the judicial council would attempt to use term limits to attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the legislature and try to push off Long Beach rental payments off on the legislature when it was something that they clearly never agreed to paying for. Unfortunately, the interest on this project is double what bond payment interest would have been. Since maintenance, operations and construction was folded in, this in effect eliminated a large portion of the courthouse construction budget and used it for unintended purposes.
It goes a really long way in demonstrating that there is a severe conflict of interest in having the judicial council manage courthouse construction, along with the periodic reordering of the courthouse construction priorities list. An example of this that really needs an explanation is why east contra costa courthouse was so far down on the needs list that that there was never a budget to build it. But it suddenly jumped way up on the list to be one of the first courthouses built. The same holds true with appellate courthouses that were never on the list. (it was a trial court facilities list, not an appellate courthouse list)
This was all utterly dishonest – and there was a smoking gun to that effect and I think the legislature is paying far more attention to Judicial Council requests because of it.
Worse, there were billions of dollars in American Reinvestment & Recovery Act funding left on the table that the AOC clearly knew about that would have assisted (and matched funds or better) for ALL the projects. Numerous people, myself included, even together in large teams went from office to office pointing this all out and they just didn’t want the money.
In retrospect, they left it on the table because they didn’t want a shred of federal scrutiny.
Ladies and gentlemen, please break out your wallets and join us in rebuilding Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville, Ms. The goal was to raise 10K and has been exceeded – but the damage is well in excess of 200K. We’re better than this so if you can only afford $5.00 please take a moment to donate. Thanks!
Why are a bunch of heathen atheists from JCW wanting you to contribute to rebuild a baptist church? We think the link is self-explanatory when you look at the picture.
https://www.gofundme.com/hopewellbaptist?rcid=5c6b3ee0a13f11e6901abc764e063e01
Oh and to THE JCW SUBSCRIBER who donated? We saw that and the boss MATCHED YOUR DONATION. 🙂
(The cheapskate indicated he would do that for all SUBSCRIBER DONATIONS “today only or until his checking account was empty”)
Here’s your opportunity to send him to the poorhouse.
(Full disclosure: payday is tomorrow)
More: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/mississippi-church-torched-vandalized-pro-trump-slogan-n676816
The goal was a mere $10,000.00 and because of an outpouring of support from people around the world like yourself the day ended with $142,533.00 in donations and you didn’t send the boss to the poorhouse. (darn!) Thanks for your support.
From Here To There And Back Again
As JCW quietly observes its 6 year anniversary, I humbly offer the following observations:
Before JCW, there was the AOC Watcher, which first appeared in 2009. At least 5 years before that, the beginning of 2004, if not earlier, the serious problems within Judicial Branch Administration and the Administrative Office of the Courts, including the massive cost over-runs and un-viability of CCMS, and the diversion of court funds to mask those over-runs, were not only well known within the branch but had also reported externally to various members of the State Legislature.
The uniform response from the members of the State Legislature was denial and disbelief; at least one person who took this risk of reporting these matters to the State Legislature was pointedly told they were lying, asked if they were a paranoid schizophrenic or on medication, and told to get psychiatric help.
In the wake of this information, the State Legislature did nothing, but the internal carnage at the AOC began to pile up. Then, in 2006, the embezzlement happened with the AOC’s HR Division. One of those directly involved in this embezzlement was the AOC’s HR Director, Ernesto “Bluto” Fuentes, who came to AOC with his own dirty history of public fraud, and then picked up right where he left off when he exited the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit district, along with the help of several of his chosen AOC cohorts, and the full blessing of Darth Vickrey as well as then Chief Justice Ronald George.
Once again, the embezzlement in AOC’s HR Division was reported externally to various members of the State Legislature, as well as outside law enforcement agencies, this time with hard evidence documenting the embezzlement, as well as those involved within the AOC.
The response from the members of the State Legislature was again denial and disbelief. One senior staff counsel to a State Senator, unable to refute the provided documentation substantiating the embezzlement, advised contacting the California Office of the Attorney General, which the person did. The Office of the Attorney General sent back a signed letter stating their office had “no jurisdiction” over unlawful activities taking place within the California Judicial Branch and recommending submitting the provided information to the AOC’s Administrative Director, William Vickrey, and the AOC’s HR Director, Ernesto Fuentes – 2 names that were all over the documentation substantiating the embezzlement.
The State Legislature again did nothing, as did law enforcement. Internally, however, Fuentes and the others involved in AOC administration were given raises and promotions, or otherwise rewarded for their misconduct and quietly hushed up. For any remaining within the AOC who evidenced even the slightest ethical or moral compass, the carnage turned into an outright slaughter in an effort to cover up not only the embezzlement, but other unlawful activities taking place within the AOC.
But then some things happened that the AOC and Branch administration, in particular Ron George and Bill Vickrey, couldn’t control: (1) judges began contacting members of the State Legislature, initially about CCMS, but then about disturbing activities within judicial branch administration as well, and the State Legislature couldn’t simply dismiss them as crazy, (2) the AOC Watcher started reporting on branch activities, and (3) in September 2009, the Alliance of California Judges was formed. In 2010, JCW appeared as the successor to the AOC Watcher for reporting on branch activities, which brings us back again to the 6 year anniversary of JCW.
In the intervening 12 years from at least 2004 to the present, other than some name changes outside of some office doors, nothing has materially changed at 455 Golden Gate Avenue, expect this, and only this: anyone who works there that has more than two active brain cells knows with unquestionable certainty, don’t report anything. If you do, you should seriously consider going home and killing yourself, because it will be a far quicker and far less painful death than the viscous punishment and certain torture you will receive from the AOC/Judicial Council Staff for telling the truth.
All of the same behaviors, misconduct, ethical violations, and illegal activities that have been so well documented over the past 7 years by the AOC Watcher and JCW continue unabated to this very day. Ok, well, CCMS is dead. Or is it? Branch administration is misleading, if not outright lying, to the State Legislature, massive amounts of public money are still unaccounted for and are still being misappropriated, there is still double invoicing on vendor contracts, there are still ghost employees, there are still unexplained diversion of funds from various court accounts, it’s still common to hear staff referred to by racial slurs by management and administration, the list goes on and on.
As but one example, in a strategy meeting regarding the release of the most recent judicial branch/ AOC audit, during a discussion of how to “spin” the audit findings, one senior AOC/Judicial Staff administrator stated what the branch really needed “was a 9-11 event” to deflect attention away from the branch and on to “something else.” And no, the statement wasn’t made in jest; the person was completely serious. And it is an accurate reflection of the defective and perverse attitude and mind-set of branch administration. It is also why, to this day, the real motto of Judicial Branch administration remains “We can do what we want, because there is no one to stop us.” And why? Because it’s true.
Because the other thing that hasn’t changed in the past 12 years, to this very day, is that no one, absolutely no, with any authority to do anything about any of this has done anything, and has refused to do anything, on purpose. In the wake of all the information that has come forward since 2009, I have personally asked several members of the State Legislature or their senior staff many times why nothing is being done to address the very serious public malfeasance and misconduct issues taking place within judicial branch administration, only to have each and every one of them finally admit to me that the State Legislature “won’t touch the judges.”
No matter how egregious, atrocious, disgraceful, and unlawful the conduct of branch administration has been and continues to be, it pales in comparison to the intentional and purposeful failure of the State Legislature and every other enforcement agency to anything about any of it. Despite being fully informed, despite numerous audits, despite it all, uniformly each and every one of them has willfully turned a blind eye to all of it, or run away as fast as they can in the opposite direction, and watched in indifference as those who have come forward have been brutally punished for telling the truth. They have allowed it to happen.
And it is this, more than anything else, that has personally caused me to completely and irrevocably lose all confidence and trust in the entire legal system, from law enforcement on up, all the way to the Office of the Chief Justice. At this point, even if I was a witness to a murder, I wouldn’t report it, because I know, from personal experience, it would likely result in my being punished for telling the truth, which I will not permit to happen. Better to just not get involved.
It took 10 years for the Cash For Kids fraud involving several Pennsylvania judges to come to the attention of the general public. Then, when the fraud was exposed in the media and couldn’t be denied, numerous Pennsylvania officials threw up their hands in shock and amazement, all claiming they had no idea any of this was going on. The subsequent investigations, however, revealed that more than a few of them did know, and did nothing. As a consequence, the fraud went on for years and years, and the lives of thousands of kids were adversely affected, perhaps forever, as a result. Public officials who knew what was going on did nothing, and allowed it to happen.
Just as public officials here in California have known for quite some time about the very serious problems in judicial branch administration have done nothing, and continue to allow it to happen. Quite some time ago I accepted the fact that someone is probably going to have to die before any one will do anything about any of it. Several people at the AOC have talked about the workplace shooting at Caltrans several years ago, and the more recent workplace shooting at the State building in San Bernardino, and of bringing a weapon into 455 Golden Gate Avenue and opening fire. It won’t surprise me if it happens. And If and when it does, we will all likely see numerous public officials, including law enforcement and members of the State Legislature, throwing up their hands in shock and amazement, all claiming they had no idea what was going on in the administration of the California Judicial Branch.
But many of them do know, and they have allowed it to continue. On purpose.
ten years of sustained criminal activity is all that is required to gain a rico conviction. We too have talked to legislators and their attitude is that yes, it’s a problem.
But it’s a federal problem for the FBI because as you mention, they won’t touch the judges.
This also holds true in the many states where judges have been indicted: In every case it was the feds who acted and it was the state legislators who feigned surprise.
Correct – because the federal authorities were asked by the respective states, “or, more specifically, “requested the assistance of”, the FBI, or the U.S. Dept. of Justice, to intervene, usually through a State’s respective office of the Attorney General.
So some one please let me know when, if ever, any State public official here in California, and in particular the California Office of the Attorney General, has requested the assistance of either the FBI or the U.S. Dept. of Justice to investigate the “problem” in the administration of the California Judicial Branch. Because I am reasonably certain pigs will fly and hell will freeze over – at the same time — before that ever happens.
I, took, have heard this “it’s a federal problem” response from State legislators, and when I have then asked the above question, i.e., if it’s a “federal problem”, then when is the State going to request the assistance .of the federal authorities? So which they can only mumble the same lame-ass response of “we won’t touch the judges.”
Cowards and hypocrites, one and all.
Still serving themselves to the detriment of all Californians.
Someone has died. Fact: hundreds if not thousands have. I showed the clear and convincing evidence of a ten year pattern of organized crime in the Ca courts causing/abetting it. Thus far the USDOJ will not prosecute. http://freepdfhosting.com/e2fb5e776a.pdf
Guess which key branch positions that I informed the DOJ these justices were sitting in at the time of their initial involvements in the debacle.
DOJ knows I’m not going away until they prosecute. Too many lives remain at stake and their failure to act is consent.
Why so quiet? Has everyone already left for Canada?
Nous avons un bureau au Québec. Cela compte-t-il? 🙂
Vous êtes très intelligent monsieur.
Muet comme un rocher. Pire que votre taille de chaussure
Shoe size still = 10 1/2 over here…
il y a un bluebird dans ma boîte de crayon
Le mien aussi!
BRB got a defective goose’n’tonic glass tonight…need a refill…
wearyant
I had a visa request to NZ. Then there was that earthquake … 😳
Does this seem somewhat odd to you all? U.S. Dem political leaders now seem to be on a public-faced kick of “we should have listened to the people”. But when you call their offices explaining problems caused b/c they didn’t, they say “We’ll get back to ya.”
You think that now Cal AG Kamala is a Dem U.S. Senator, she’s gonna jump right on solving those RICO problems in her home state — adversely impacting people in many states?
It’s reminding me of all the times the JC/AOC have publicly promised they would do a better job after audits spotlighted their “errors”, but have never really changed their spots.
(been humming “Oh Canada” all morning)
Okay, I’m typically one to hold back what I really think (NOT). But this is what it looks like to me. Ya know all those protesters filling California streets who want Clinton over Trump?
They look to me like people who just want to continue getting screwed by RICO in California courts on behalf of cronies — rather than by RICO on behalf of cronies.
They don’t look like they are protesting for gov’t accountability to me b/c it wasn’t there b/f the election and it’s not going to be there after — unless criminals in the largest judicial system in the United States, the CA courts, start being prosecuted.
Today’s installment of Tani’s Follies. Published today, Tuesday, November 15, from Courthouse News Service, by Maria Dinzeo:
California Court Software Still Full of Bugs
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — California’s trial courts need to adjust their expectations as they switch to Tyler Technologies’ new case management software, the judiciary’s head technology officer said Monday. Speaking at a Judicial Council Technology Committee meeting, Robert Oyung, who started last week as the council’s director of information technology, said that courts already have reported 52 major issues with the new platform.
The issues lie mostly with general functionality, interfacing with the Department of Motor Vehicles or implementing specific case types. For example, Alameda County Superior Court has reported problems with clerks trying to enter data into the new system, which it attributes to an unwieldy interface.
The East Bay Times reported this month that three clients of the Public Defender’s Office spent an extra 50 days in jail because judicial orders did not show up in the new Odyssey system. Public Defender Brendon Woods went so far as to ask the court’s supervising judges to stop using Odyssey. “The main themes in terms of where people are having issues after going live with the product is challenges in working with minute orders, manual data entry, user navigation and some client errors,” Oyung said at the meeting.
“We have 26 courts who have been on their case management systems for 10, 15, sometimes 25 years. They’ve had an opportunity to mature their product, enhance their product, make it do exactly what they want. So when they go to a new platform, although it’s a mature product off the shelf, it hasn’t been customized and tuned to a local environment. So there definitely will be gaps in a functionality that a court has experienced over the past 10 or 15 years compared to the new product.” Oyung said courts have joined together to tackle some of the bugs and larger problems with Tyler’s Odyssey case management system. They call themselves the California Tyler User Group. Courts using Odyssey for at least one case type are Alameda, Alpine, Butte, Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Merced, Monterey, Napa, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba counties. Glenn, Lassen and Stanislaus counties have purchased Odyssey, but haven’t installed it yet. California has 58 counties. “There are some issues that courts have been having from either a product perspective or an implementation perspective, and we felt that this is a way for the courts to get together to help troubleshoot those issues, and have the vendor involved to be able to work as a community to help resolve those issues,” Oyung said.
“The whole idea is for us to work together as a community to resolve our issues, raise enhancement opportunities to Tyler, and work in partnership as a community to get the most out of the product.” Major areas of concern are criminal and traffic cases, so the user group hosted a summit in March to raise their issues with Tyler. Since then, Tyler claims to have resolved a little over half of the user problems with criminal cases and six of the 23 problems with traffic. Oyung said the user group created a committee of court clerks and information officers to meet with Tyler executives regularly, with its first meeting set for later this month. Rick Feldstein, head clerk in Napa County Superior Court, said his court has been slowly adjusting to the new software over the last couple of years. “It’s as if you lived in a house for 20 years and it’s exactly the way you want it, but you bought a new house now. You couldn’t afford, or it wasn’t feasible to design your own custom-built house, so you bought a tract home, and once you move in you’re going to find the furniture may not fit right in all cases, and it’s going to take a little time to get it all cozied up the way you got your old house after 20 years,” he said.
“But that’s just part of the process, and it would have been the case with any system we would have purchased off the shelf.” Tyler Technologies’ Odyssey software leapt to the head of the pack of software vendors vying for lucrative California contracts after the collapse of a $500 million statewide project to develop a software system for all California’s 58 trial courts. Widely savaged by judges as a “fiasco” and a “boondoggle,” the Judicial Council in 2012 abandoned the Court Case Management System developed by Deloitte Consulting, and courts began to purchase off-the-shelf systems like Odyssey. Court technology officers banded together,
independent of the Judicial Council, to try to make that software workable for their courts.
Oyung was among the leaders of that effort as the former chief information officer for Santa Clara County. He said Monday that courts will have “growing pains” with Odyssey, and that should not expect it to work perfectly from the start. “I think if people’s expectations are set appropriately — that there will be gaps and they’re not going to get exactly what they had before — I think that people can go in with open eyes,” he said.
“There have been a couple of situations where courts have not realized that gap upfront, so they have been very disappointed in what they have seen. But I think that we can work together as a community and work very closely with Tyler to resolve those issues.”
http://www2.courthousenews.com/california-court-software-still-full-of-bugs/
Feeling a bit giddy tonight as I read this after a couple of goose’n’tonics…
My, my, my.
What have we here?
Nice find Wendy my Darling…
Sending love right back at you Unionman! 🙂
The courts software is totally FUBAR so why not go with Ubuntu⁉️
Alameda County Public Defender seeks judicial action over court snafus Public defender wants court to make accurate records, or stop using problematic case management software.
“Everyone should be concerned about this. People are being illegally arrested and it has got to stop,” Woods said.
OAKLAND — The Alameda County Public Defender’s Office on Tuesday filed dozens of motions to compel the Superior Court to take accurate record of court proceedings or stop using a new case management system that’s caused an unknown number of unlawful arrests and imprisonments.
Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods Malaika Fraley/Staff
“The court is turning a blind eye to injustices that are occurring every day,” Public Defender Brendon Woods said in court Tuesday. “We can’t let this go on without addressing it immediately.”
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/11/15/alameda-county-public-defender-seeks-judicial-action-over-court-snafus/
Kamala wants to know “Can you take a quick moment to tell us how you’re feeling right now and how you’d like to get involved in this urgent fight for justice and equality going forward?”
http://go.kamalaharris.org/page/s/fight?source=em161116a
I agree Kamala has not been very involved in trying to reform the CA Courts culture but this story out today was to her credit on trying to stop the pimping out of minors online. A Sacramento Superior Court Judge said the web page was protected under Federal Law. This story made national news today:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-judge-rejects-charges-involving-major-escort-site-43583132
Max, I have a hard time giving Harris a pass. I never understood why she was prosecuting that case. Even if the allegations were true, it always seems to me that it was an illicit interstate enterprise — federal RICO.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-backpage-ceo-arrested-charged-20161006-snap-story.html
According to the LA Times, “The case is the most vigorous effort yet to blunt Backpage, which was founded in 2004 and is now owned by a Dutch company that lists Ferrer as its sole partner. Such a prosecution gives Harris’ office national attention as she heads into the final month of her race against Rep. Loretta Sanchez, also a Democrat, from Orange County.”
Lacey & Larkins owned Village Voice Media LLC until 2012. They were headquartered in Phoenix. VVM owns 13 alternative weekly, including LA Weekly and Observers. They sold it to employees.
My primary concern with Harris, is that she would never prosecute those involved in gov’t crimes — we all know that she got LOTS of complaints about the courts and DAs. Instead, she spent a ton of tax dollars defending gov’t backed crimes.
(note that this link from early 2015 is the Observer) http://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/
To me, lack of accountability in gov’t and retaliation for exposing gov’t wrongs is a large part of the problem that brought us our new president (til we all depart for Canada).
I don’t see Senator Harris as changing that, and I find the timing of the rejection of the Backpage pimping charges one week after elections, suspect.
Now that Harris is safely a US Senator, anyone care to place a bet if this case is dismissed on Dec 9th? I’m betting that it is.
This is a nice article by Courthouse News:
http://www2.courthousenews.com/new-book-inspires-california-justices-to-reflect-on-law-good-bad/
Most of the article is just fun stories from the Chief Justices (not very political). However, at the end is my favorite quote by the current Chief Justice which I do consider to be political. She says:
“Of course it’s always about funding, but it’s also always about the use of the funding and is it the best use, and it’s always about can we find a more efficient use to balance with due process. And of course, there’s also the oversight and reporting to the Legislature about the change. In many ways, it’s trying to walk a tightrope of providing justice, providing access, and reporting it and doing it on an ever-shrinking budget.”
Is she sure about doing “it” on a “ever-shrinking budget”? As far as I can tell the CA Courts budget has gone up by over $500 million dollars in the past few years yet the caseload for the state courts has gone down 30% for that exact same period. I get that her yes people on the Judicial Council just play along and agree with her so they can get ahead in their careers but outsiders in the other branches have gotta wonder, what are you talking about Tani?
Imagine you own a house with a lawn. You pay your teenage son an allowance to mow the lawn on Saturdays. That amount was set at $20 because it was a pretty big yard and it took 2 hours to do the work. Then you moved to a condo which still had a lawn but it was 30% smaller than the old lawn. The work only took an hour and a half to do now but nevertheless you still pay your son the same allowance of $20 as before and even gave him a raise of $5.00. The basic facts are your son now makes more money to do less work.
Then you overhear your son complaining to his friends that he is having to get by on an “ever shrinking allowance”. You of course still love your son but wouldn’t you be a little angry about his twisting of the basic facts. This is how I think the Governor and Legislature should feel towards the Chief but they don’t ever get mad. Absolutely no accountability as many posters have said previously. Fight on my friends!
http://www2.courthousenews.com/rosy-budget-outlook-for-california-but-not-its-courts/
Not a good article at all (sorry Courthouse News). Here is a link the actual Legislative Analyst’s Report whch came out yesterday so you can read it for yourself:
http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3507/1
So take a look on page 42:
“General Fund spending for the support of
the judicial branch in 2016-17 is estimated to be
$1.8 billion. Our forecast assumes that judicial
branch spending will be, on net, roughly the same
level in 2017-18.”
So funding is the SAME as last year despite the branch having nearly a million fewer cases coming in the door compared with just a year ago. I say that’s prety good considering the branch lost 11% of it’s workload in one year. Then the Legislative Analyst goes on to say court funding is actually projected to INCREASE to 1.9 Billion!
So I don’t know what Courthouse News is reporting saying the budget is not rosy for the courts. That is not at all what the Legislative Analyst report says is going to happen. The LAO is saying funding remains the SAME this year and may actually INCREASE from 1.8 billion to 1.9 billion yet this article makes it out like the courts are being underfunded. That is nuts!
The shame is this. Case filings used to be 7.5 million and now they are 6.8 million but it costs $0.1 billion more for CA Courts to do less work. That is $100 million dollars a year to do less work!
http://researchmaniacs.com/Numbers/Billions/How-much-is-0-1-billion.html
Where are Republicans on this rip off or so called fiscally responsible Democrats?
Today’s installment of Tani’s Follies. Get ready for yet another year of Judicial Branch administration crying poverty up in Sacramento. Published today, Thursday, November 17, from Courthouse News Service, by Maria Dinzeo:
Rosy Budget Outlook for California — but Not Its Courts
By Maria Dinzeo
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — California’s trial courts face an uncertain fiscal outlook in the coming year, partly because of two voter-approved propositions, the Legislative Analyst’s Office reported Wednesday in its biannual budget forecast.
The independent analyst’s report is meant to give the governor and Legislature some idea of how much they can spend in fiscal year 2017-18, before Governor Jerry Brown releases his initial budget package in January. In its brief section on the judiciary, the LAO said Propositions 63 and 66 will likely increase operating costs for courts by tens of millions of dollars.
Proposition 63, which requires a person who wants to buy ammunition to pass a background check and obtain approval from the Department of Justice, could increase court workloads tremendously, as it creates a new court process to ensure the removal of firearms from people convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors.
Proposition 66 aims to hasten executions by limiting habeas corpus petitions and requiring death penalty appeals to be completed within five years of the death sentence. It also requires the judge in the original trial to hear the habeas corpus petition, rather than the California Supreme Court, unless good cause is shown for another court or judge to hear it. Judges also must explain their decisions to the state appellate courts before an appeal can be made to the state’s high court. The fiscal impact of the new law is uncertain, according to the LAO.
“Our forecast assumes that the full implementation of Proposition 63 and Proposition 66 will increase judicial branch costs over the forecast period in the high tens of millions of dollars annually,” the LAO report states.
While the law could result in fewer, shorter filings, it could also force courts to devote more time and resources to process legal challenges. Anita Lee with the LAO clarified the report’s assumptions Wednesday, saying the effects hinge on how courts carry out certain provisions of the new laws.
“The fiscal effects really strongly depend on how they’re implemented,” she said.
While the report projects that the courts will receive about $1.9 billion from the state’s general fund next year, assuming court spending to be at the same level as last year, Lee said the governor’s office and judiciary will likely begin discussions on how to adjust court funding to deal with the new laws.
For the rest of California, the LAO predicts an optimistic fiscal future, estimating that the state will end 2017-18 with a $2.8 billion surplus, despite revenues of $1.7 billion less than projected last year.
Assuming the state doesn’t go wild with new spending, California has enough in reserves to weather a mild recession.
“Our recession scenario shows that the state budget is much better prepared to weather a mild economic downturn with minimal disruptions to programs,” the report states. “However, the reserve balances displayed in this chapter assume the state makes no new budget commitments — whether spending increases or tax reductions.
“If the state were to make significant ongoing budget commitments in 2017–18 or later, reserve balances would be insufficient to cover operating deficits in a mild recession and the state could face much more difficult choices — such as reducing spending or increasing taxes — to balance the state budget.”
Observation of the day: “The independent analyst’s report is meant to give the governor and Legislature some idea of how much they can spend in fiscal year 2017-18, before Governor Jerry Brown releases his initial budget package in January. In its brief section on the judiciary, the LAO said Propositions 63 and 66 will likely increase operating costs for courts by tens of millions of dollars.”
As court filings have been consistently declining, the current judicial branch funding should be just fine to cover any increase in operating courts. Not to mention the fact that branch administration has repeatedly demonstrated that the last thing they can be trusted with is more money. But that isn’t likely to stop them from tripping all over themselves begging for “more money, more money, more money.”
They need cash to cover the Long Beach courthouse PPP fiasco.
Did you see that Trump is looking at P3’s for road and bridge improvements? Might end up being a toll rode to go to your corner liquor store for your Grey Goose.
Sure enough!
And of course there is all the cash they wasted on CCMS too…
The CA Courts web page has removed all news stories about the decline in case filings from their web page. Somebody feel free to correct me if I am wrong here. LOL
I talke it back. It is still there just no longer something they want to highlight. You can find it here:
http://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/court-filings-down-in-california
K. So I have just finished another complaint to the USDOJ regarding…well, you know who. They promise me that they will expedite it — and this time they really, really mean it that they will investigate in good faith. Here’s my opening sentences. What do you think?
Lack of accountability for corruption and cronyism in government and retaliation of whistleblowers under the color of law, are the foremost problems plaguing this country today. The DOJ and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) are involved in a deadly organized crime with the toxicologists at XXXX, and leading officers of the California courts. KRAMER has falsified and backdated court documents from two fixed SLAPPS, an incarceration record for refusing to lie, and communications with the DOJ and CDC which prove it.
Today’s installment of Tani’s Follies. Those with nothing hide, hide nothing. Those with plenty to hide sue the state auditor. Published today, Tuesday, November 22, from The Recorder, the on-line publication of CalLaw, by Cheryl Miller:
State Auditor Presses Power to Review Judicial Discipline Agency
Cheryl Miller, The Recorder
SACRAMENTO — Lawyers for state Auditor Elaine Howle fired back this week at the Commission on Judicial Performance, arguing that the judicial disciplinary agency has no authority to limit her review of its operations.
The commission sued Howle last month, asking a San Francisco Superior Court judge to restrict the scope of her audit. The legislatively mandated review, commissioners said, would threaten the confidentiality of the agency’s investigations and violate the separation of powers doctrine. The judicial performance commission is part of the judicial branch; Howle’s office conducts some investigations on direction from the Legislature.
In her answer filed Monday, Howle’s attorneys said the auditor has reviewed “highly confidential” documents held by other agencies—including some in the judicial branch—without disclosing any contents publicly.
“The auditor regularly audits state agencies established by the Constitution, and never has an audit intruded on the ‘core functions’ of those agencies,” Myron Moskovitz of the Moskovitz Appellate Team wrote on Howle’s behalf. “None of these agencies has ever challenged, by lawsuit or other means, the auditor’s authority to conduct an audit or claimed the separation of powers doctrine prevents the auditor from informing the public about the agency’s performance.”
James Wagstaffe, the Kerr & Wagstaffe partner representing the commission, did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
The Legislature approved the first-ever audit of the judicial commission in August amid a lobbying push from critics of the judicial agency who represent both sides of the spectrum. Judges say the agency’s disciplinary process is opaque and robs them of due process. Family law practitioners contend the agency doesn’t do enough to punish bad judges.
The investigation, as outlined by the auditor, will focus on 19 areas, including an assessment of how the judicial commission determines the credibility of evidence and an evaluation of how the agency reviews complaints about judges who commit legal errors.
In addition to challenging the planned audit, the commission’s attorneys said the agency could not afford the review’s estimated $500,000 cost without significant layoffs. Howle, in court papers, said she has no authority to charge the commission for the audit’s costs and she has no intention of doing so.
No hearing date has been set.
http://www.therecorder.com/home/id=1202773093895/State-Auditor-Presses-Power-to-Review-Judicial-Discipline-Agency?mcode=1202617072607&curindex=0
Ha! I cannot wait for those files to be audited. At the very least, it should cause several severe problem causers in the branch to retire. Filed a new complaint with the Department of Justice yesterday. It’s for CJP’s former chairwoman’s felony acts when case-fixing to commit organized crime to defraud the United States public.
“DOJ, Unveil California Justices’ Obstructing the Vacating of Deadly, Backdated SLAPP Documents” https://veritoxmeanstruthpoison.wordpress.com/
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/itac-20161202-notice.pdf
org chart:
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/jc_org_chart.pdf
“Leadership Services.” What does that even mean? It’s vague enough to cover the free world. Heil, Jody! 👎💤
http://www.courts.ca.gov/12926.htm
[BLARG!] 😓
Is there a court left in California that would even think going to 455 Golden Gate Avenue for “leadership services” would somehow be a good idea?
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/hr-staffing-metrics-1617-10.pdf
Did you all read Auditor Howle’s reply to the CJP’s attempt to obstruct the auditing of their case files? It’s awesome!
While I know for a fact that there are compromised jurists who have not been properly admonished when they should have been and people have died from it — I highly suspect there are honest jurists who have been punished when they shouldn’t have been.
I cannot wait for this audit of bullies who have been allowed to abuse power for far too long, to commence in earnest.
Howle’s reply: http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/Howle%20answer.pdf
It probably comes as no surprise that the tentative decision in the Jacobs case has Jacobs not only winning their case but moving their corporate HQ from Pasadena to Dallas, Texas.
Everyone has been successfully bamboozled. Those that got the kickbacks did everything they could to ensure they could keep them.
Give me a bucket.
Here ya go…
https://calpensions.com/2016/11/28/supreme-court-agrees-to-rule-on-its-own-pensions/
Have to admit, this is impressive. “Kamala Harris’ office releases internal emails from an alleged ‘online brothel’ in a last-ditch effort to press pimping charges” http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-backpage-ruling-20161209-story.html
The case got dismissed on Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI
http://www.wmur.com/article/ca-judge-rejects-pimping-charges-against-classified-ad-site-backpagecom/8485454
“A California judge has rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website advertising escort services that the state attorney general has called the “world’s top online brothel.” Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman cites free speech laws in upholding the right of Backpage.com and its operators to publish. Bowman’s action Friday makes final a previous tentative ruling. California Attorney General Kamala Harris charged Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer and former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin.”
I guess that’s a good thing because there seems no threat to Lacey and Larkin continuing to fund their nonprofit, Lacey and Larkin Frontera Fund, which helps illegal alien children who’ve entered the country w/o adult supervision. http://www.laceyandlarkinfronterafund.org/child-defenders/
The Judicial Council’s legislative priorities for 2017 are the topic of discussion for their next meeting:
https://jcc.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4813952&GUID=47A4B89B-9687-42E5-AD9D-C1D07044263C
I encourange you to read the above link but in summary it basically says the branch (as always) needs more money. What a surprise! Their sales pitch of course makes no mention of the fact that there are 30% fewer cases coming into courthouse doors today compared to FY 2009 or that the branch aleady receives hundreds of millions more in funding fromthe state to resolve far fewer cases.
Another day in CA government with little change. The JC Staff of course see their sales pitch to the legislature as “advocating” for the branch. Sort of like Lance Armstrong advocating for himself in a Nike comercial saying, “What am I on? I’m on my bike six hours a day. What are you on?” Lance was indeed on his bike six hours a day training but that did not mean he wasn’t at the exact same time doping heavily. See how this lying game works? Just get people to focus on the partial truth you want them to see.
I say it a complete distortion the facts for the JC to seek more money for the branch while caseloads are in free fall as they are and have been for five years in a row now. But what are you gonna do right? They have all the political power in the branch and JC members are all pretty much pawns of the Chief since she appoints every one of them.
My thought is to just relax and watch the Chief’s house of cards collapse. Lance was caught as a fraud in time and so too will these folks on the Judicial Council who just want to keep the gravy train of easy money going as long as possible.
Meanwhile, an actual technology change is indeed coming, way outside of the Chief’s control, that will in time wipe out the five million traffic “cases” per year. That loss of 5 million traffic tickets represents a 67% decline in the court’s caseload and it will be a permanent loss. This change will happen with self driving cars:
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-making-driverless-cars-by-2020-2016-11/#didi-chuxing-ubers-former-fierce-rival-in-china-is-also-building-a-self-driving-car-but-details-on-the-project-are-scarce-20
Will California need 1,500+ judges to handle the remaining 33% of court cases left? That remaining caseload is already shrinking as crime is down and so is juvenile filings plus the state prisons are full. The market and public are not on the side of paying for more prisons and don’t want to spend more money on criminal justice. Time is not on the Chief’s side either as every year the branch’s workload continues to decline. At some point the Legislature will want to hold the Chief accountable and may seek to spend money on other things. The only thing preventing them from doing so right now (based on the filing data) is the power of the Chief. I believe that though the Supreme Court the Chief can play hard ball to threaten to block their key projects unless the CA Courts are funded to the level she expects. Okham’s razor suggests this is what is going on just as it suggested Lance was doping.
My view is CA Court funding is supposed to be based on caseload alone but it now based on caseload plus a corruption figure the Chief extorts for the branch. Time will tell if I am right just as time showed David Walsh was right all along about Lance Armstrong.
The Judicial Council’s legislative priorities for 2017 are the topic of discussion for their next meeting…
Let me refill my Goose ‘n’ Tonic and wrap my head around that one…
BRB in 5 minutes…
Quote of the Day: “Everything’s going swimmingly,” said Kelso’s spokesperson, Joyce Hayhoe. Hilarity ensues. Read below for more stunningly stupid utterances that tumble from the mouths of ignoramuses. Clowns have now risen to all levels of power.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Cost-to-modernize-state-s-prison-medical-10789775.php
Cost to modernize state’s prison medical record-keeping doubles
Associated Press Published 4:57 pm, Sunday, December 11, 2016
FOLSOM, Sacramento County — A huge project to modernize medical record-keeping for California prison inmates has more than doubled in cost from original estimates to nearly $400 million in just three years, the latest in a long string of computer projects that have befuddled state government.
The federal court-appointed receiver who controls California’s inmate health care system approved the project in 2013 to replace the state’s antiquated paper-based records with an electronic system that can track the medical and mental health care of nearly 130,000 inmates.
But a year of delays means it now won’t be installed at all 35 prisons until the end of 2017, and inmate advocates are so concerned that they may seek to push it back even longer at some troubled prisons.
The cost ballooned from the original $182 million projection to $386.5 million, in part because the first estimate left out basics like the cost of maintaining the system and replacing worn-out equipment, according to documents reviewed by the Associated Press.
The receiver, J. Clark Kelso, said his office also failed to anticipate needing $13 million worth of mobile devices — 16,800 laptops, dictation machines and other gear. Nor did it include the extra software required for things as fundamental as incorporating inmates’ requests to see doctors.
Authorities last year added dental records to the system, and the latest estimate includes three additional years of operation.
“The more charitable description is we learned as we went along,” Kelso said in an interview. “We started out with as cheap a system as we thought we could use, and then along the way there were some things that we decided, ‘You know, we absolutely need these, it turns out.’”
The biggest problem was a pharmaceutical records system so complex that it turned out to be “damn near unusable” when it was tested last winter at three prisons, Kelso said: “The thing wasn’t designed, implemented properly.”
He brought in a new pharmacy chief in February and “told him his No. 1 job is to fix this.”
The drug-tracking system is working now, bringing benefits like automatically warning doctors when certain combinations of prescriptions could prove harmful, Kelso said.
Officials have discovered other issues along the way, including a major hurdle: Employees struggle to learn the new record-keeping system. Kelso had to slow down implementing the computer system in other prisons and intensify the training.
Physicians don’t like that the new system forces them to do more time-consuming data entry that they used to delegate to nurses, Kelso said, though he expects them to eventually adapt.
The system has been installed at eight additional prisons since August.
“Everything’s going swimmingly,” said Kelso’s spokeswoman, Joyce Hayhoe.
Yet, doctors who tested the system still are seeing about one-third fewer patients a year later, potentially leading to backlogs and poor treatment, said Steven Fama, an attorney with the nonprofit Prison Law Office that sued to force health care improvements.
As a result, the lawyers are considering asking Kelso to delay installing the new system at as many as nine prisons next year. Those prisons “have big problems already,” Fama said. “You put a new record (keeping system) in there, it just slashes their ability to see people timely.”
Doctor productivity has improved at the three test prisons since last year, while the number of patients waiting for care has decreased over time, Hayhoe said. Patient care hasn’t appeared to suffer, she added.
In court and budget filings, Kelso’s office largely blamed problems with the medical records system on the contractor, Cerner Corp., which is being paid $177 million over the project’s 11-year life. But Kelso said much of the fault lies with his office. Cerner spokeswoman Maile Bennett declined to comment.
Many of the extra costs have been absorbed in the receiver’s budget, which was nearly doubled to $1.9 billion since the federal judge seized control of California’s prison medical system a decade ago.
However, the state general fund also devotes nearly $36 million to the prison project this year. That’s more in one year than the $28 million spent over a decade by the California Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a record-keeping system that the state auditor criticized in June as an expensive failure.
Lawmakers said the state has little choice but to complete the prison records system, even as they fretted over the escalating cost.
“It is of great concern,” said former state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, who chaired two prison oversight committees before her tenure ended in December. “It isn’t just this. It’s the judicial system that had to be abandoned because the costs were spiraling out of control and nothing was getting done, plus other departments in the state. It’s an ongoing problem.”
The state Judicial Council halted a statewide case management system in 2012 after auditors said the original $260 million cost estimate could balloon to $1.9 billion.
Kelso said his initial estimate was low partly because he pushed “to spend as little money as possible, in part because I know that these systems can become billion-dollar systems if you’re not careful.”
Center for Judicial Excellence & Daily Journal say:
“SO those (like us) who follow the machinations of the judicial branch know how they just LOVE to throw their weight around… Just before the JLAC vote on Aug. 10th to audit the CJP for the first time in 56 years, a JLAC Committee member moved to reappoint the Auditor, but the chair, Asm. Rodriguez, called a recess. They came back and Rodriguez refused to allow the reappointment. We knew that something very political was afoot that day….”
(which I could post the entire article)
State auditor facing tests in the state Legislature
By Malcolm Maclachlan
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state auditor, who investigated the State Bar and is looking into the Commission on Judicial Performance, has herself come under the scrutiny of an influential legislator.
The chair of the powerful Legislative committee that can order the auditor to investigate government agencies recently posted ads seeking outside candidates to apply for the position that State Auditor Elaine Howle has held for the past 16 years.
In January, Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, D-Pomona, plans to break from recent tradition by submitting the names of two qualified outside candidates to the other members of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC).
If the committee approves the nominations, these names will be sent along with Howle’s to Gov. Jerry Brown, who will then choose an auditor to serve the next four-year term. Rodriguez became JLAC chair in March….
The auditor regularly reviews spending by judicial branch, from county courts up through the Judicial Council and the state Supreme Court. Under Howle’s watch, the auditor has also issued several reports critical of the State Bar.
In October, the CJP sued the auditor’s office in San Francisco County Superior Court….JLAC voted to order the CJP audit in August at the request of several powerful legislators…..
Rodriguez’s office confirmed they have chosen two outside candidates to submit to JLAC to nominate next month, along with Howle….
A spokeswoman for the auditor’s office declined to comment. Rodriguez’s office did not comment on the record by press time.
malcolm_maclachlan@dailyjournal.com
Auditor Elaine Howle provides honest and thorough analysis.
I hope Jerry Brown retains her.
Ya listening Gov?????
Right, UMan.
Given what a good job Ms. Howle has done to bring areas in need of improvement in the JC/AOC and State Bar to light; and given how hard the CJP is working to obstruct having the records/methods evaluated that they use when determining which judges are admonished and which are not; the timing of potential replacement of Ms. Howle gives the strong appearance of someone lobbying legislators so the CJP can avoid a real audit of how they really work.
Given that the CJA supported the need for audit; and given that the ACJ just gave an award to a recently CJP admonished judge; it doesn’t seem likely that the judges themselves are seeking replacement of Ms. Howle.
Hmmm? Wonder who is lobbying for it?
BTW, there is an opening on the CJP for a judge member. Nominations have to be in to Tani by Jan 17th. Supreme Court Notice:
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/announcement_supreme_court_cjp_nominations.pdf
Nomination form is on their website.
How sad what a graveyard JCW has become lately. For quite a while, actually. But I understand that, at this point, most of the regular posters have either escaped this nightmare, either by retirement or by choice, or moved on to other causes where they believe their energies could actually have an impact, or have just plain thrown in the towel and checked out completely. I love and appreciate you all. Thanks for the memories.
Peace be with you. Over and out.
A bunch of us are just sitting here waiting, along with Rip Van Winkle, for the audit of the Judicial Branch Court Construction and Facilities Maintenance programs. You know, the one that was supposed to happen like 3 years ago. As should be obvious by now, pigs will fly and hell will freeze over – at the same time – before that ever happens.
For at least that last 9 years, anyone and everyone in a position of authority who could do something – anything – about fraud, corruption, and misappropriation of public funds in the administration of the California Judicial Branch has ultimately done nothing but turn a blind eye or run away as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Those of us down in the here in the trenches getting slaughtered have gotten the message: don’t report anything, keep your mouth shut, and don’t care, because no one will do anything about it and it will be you who will be punished for telling the truth.
There is absolutely no reason to believe, or even hope, that 2017 will be any different.
Though we’ve split our resources to work on ourrevolution.com and brandnewcongress.org, you’ll be seeing an uptick here at JCW as the AOC INTENTIONALLY LOST their lawsuit and that created another ten years of base funding for this project.
New year, same old crap from 455 Golden Gate Avenue. No surprise there. Not that anyone is actually going to do anything about any of it.
So let’s fire it up folks.
“MORE THAN A year after the initial request for intervention was made, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division on December 15 announced that it would initiate an investigation of the still unfolding jailhouse snitch scandal that has embroiled Orange County, California….“The Court of Appeal stated that the ‘magnitude of the systemic problems [in OCDA and OCSD] cannot be overlooked,’” Sanders wrote in an email to The Intercept. “It is hoped that the Justice Department’s probe will help reform the system so that all Orange County residents will receive the constitutional protections to which they are entitled.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/16/justice-department-finally-opens-investigation-of-orange-county-jailhouse-snitch-scandal/
Hey Judicial Council Watcher, are you okay?
Dorothy Dent
Thank you for your valiant efforts to repair our (in) justice system. Our Santa Barbara representative, Hannah Beth Jackson, cosponsored the bill to audit the Judicial Council and I certainly hope Governor Brown chooses the strongest, smartest, and toughest truth advocate for the job.
I’ve been helping a 90 year old woman and her disabled son navigate the legal system here in Santa Barbara and although we have all the proper documentation, attorney, nursing and MD reports, competency assessments, and neighbor and friend declarations, the court and her other adult children still stole the 90 year old away from her loving caring home claiming she was going to visit her grandkids then sticking her against her will into a locked facility eight hours away.
We first went to court with two days notice to attend an “Ex Parte” hearing where her kids, other than the one she was living with, were trying to force her back into a nursing home. She had begged to be picked up and her son and I had helped her move home legally because her health there was suffering greatly due to unnecessary medications, boredom and loneliness. Her son had finally recovered enough to fully take care of her. He had been hit by a texting driver and had had 8 surgeries in five years.
Right at the beginning of this unrecorded, untranscripted kangaroo court, the Judge said “Isla Vista is a terrible place for seniors to live, she could go running down the street naked to a keg party.” But the Judge wasn’t making a joke, the 90 year old or her last minute attorney never were property introduced to the Judge, and then the Judge proceeded to trounce all over the senior’s rights, not even allowing her her own attorney who was out of town.
Weekly 8:30am hearings featured petitions filled with lies and omissions. Our lawyers weren’t allowed to speak and didn’t introduce any of the rebuttals and evidence collected because they said the Judge doesn’t read any of it,
The Judge forced the 90 year old to go back to her negligent doctor who had prescribed her countless unneeded and harmful medications that had left her swollen, with skin lesions, intestinally upset, forgetful and with severe fatigue. In just one week, when the 90 year old took herself off all the medications her health and mental faculties dramatically improved. In fact when she went to the local doctor of the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, she reported the 90 year old extremely healthy, needing no medication and having no chronic conditions!
But I guess the Judge thought she knew better than the professional teaching doctor, and she wouldn’t even allow our other expert witness MD to speak in the 90 year old’s defense who was her family doctor for years and even was a Medicare administrator.
Even worse, I was attacked, assaulted and battered in the courtroom that first day. The bailiff turns out, did not arrest the man, as I assumed he did when I flailed and motioned for help. The attacker was the out of town son of the 90 yo woman I was caregiving, and one of the ones suing her. The Bailiff later called me and I thought he was going to tell me that they were arresting the perpetrator because the Bailiff claimed he saw the tapes.
The same tapes I had formally requested from Admin but was told they were erased. Instead, the Bailiff threateningly and intimidatingly told me on my personal phone number he must have gotten off my police report, that I was the aggressor and I had pushed the 6′ 285# man. I told him no, that was wrong, look again at the tapes. I filed a prompt and accurate report and I’m a peace activist and caregiver and have never hurt anyone. He said he was charging me with filing a false police report. I said I don’t think that will happen, but it did, the DA is charging me as a criminal now, contrary to the Welfare and Institutions Code. What corruption I cannot believe is happening.
This out of towner, the 90 year old’s son, my attacker, I discovered through my research, worked for none other than Sacramento Family Court Judge (chainsaw) Peter McBrien. He was the chainsaw in fact, Titan Tree Company, who cut down the glen of 80 year old, 50′ tall protected oak trees in a nature preserve so the Judge could have a view of the American river and his home could be worth over $100,000 more. They were caught and cited for felony vandalism but guess what, the Judge got them off with a puny fine.
So do some of the California Judges collude in a rather incestuous way? The ones appointed by Schwarzenegger? Seems I saw this Judge McBrien, or a dead ringer, leave the Dept. 5 Judge’s chambers just three days before our most recent hearing. The out of town son called and left another nasty message saying they would be picking up their mom’s belongings, no mention of her “visit” with her grandkids. Sure enough, that was the decision made at court, with no allowance for our lawyer to talk, and no agreement by the Judge to issue a protective order requested by our lawyer so I would be safe.
I helped load the 90 year old’s belongings into the driveway and the out of town son said “I hug them before I kill them. ” I hope he was talking about the trees. But on New Year’s Eve, I got a call from a “No Caller ID” number. It was a death threat, a guy called me and said ” do you know who this is?”, “we miss you”, and “do you know what time it is?” I replied no, and it’s almost the future, then he said “I’m gonna slit your $&@%ing throat you bit#%!”
This makes me even more determined to help “drain the swamp”, help the disabled son and and save his 90 year old mother’s life and now maybe even my own life too! Happy New Year, please let or make truth and justice reign!
Article detailing the history and impact of the CJP https://medium.com/@josephjsweeney/why-all-50-states-need-to-overhaul-their-judicial-oversight-agencies-8c6ef828ade8#.gl4v8bhd5
New lawsuit filed against the CJP. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wlyWZFeZXic2xJVFVvOHh1YlE/view
Where is everybody?
“Judges Reject Orange County’s Claim That Social Workers Didn’t Know Lying In Court Was Wrong”
and the reason this had to go to federal court is…..why????
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/judges-reject-orange-countys-claim-that-social-workers-didnt-know-lying-in-court-was-wrong-7774616
“From the you-can’t-make-up-this-crap file,” public officials are paying a private law firm specializing in defending cops in excessive force lawsuits, untold sums to claim public officials couldn’t have “clearly” known that dishonesty wasn’t acceptable in court and, as a back up, even if they did know, they should enjoy immunity for their misdeeds because they were government employees.
Because in federal court there was at least a shot the federal court wouldn’t validate a beyond-the-pale claim public officers didn’t know lying in court was wrong, and even “if” they did know it was wrong, they have immunity due to their positions as public officials.
If this was being heard in a state court here in California, this defense would have more than likely been given a double green light and a full-speed free pass, if for no other reason than public officials at 455 Golden Gate Avenue, including state judges, have been, and continue to, engage in this exact same behavior, with impunity, including paying untold sums to private law firms, such as Wiley, Price & Whatever Your Calling Yourself Now, to defend/cover-up that behavior on the very same defense(s).
That’s why.
The Recorder, “Need for More Data on Judicial Decision-Making”
http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202777077499/Viewpoint-How-Persky-Case-Shows-the-Need-for-More-Data-on-Judicial-DecisionMaking
“Transparency and judicial independence are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the sentencing history of a fair and consistent judge would shield him or her from public attack on a single case. Red flags would only be raised if patterns of bias emerged over time or if a judge were to become an outlier when compared to peers. In such instances, an oversight agency should intervene to correct the problem and voters should be able to exercise their right at the ballot box to hold a wayward judge accountable…..Many states have put measures in place to aid the assessment of bias…..California has not implemented any of these practices.”
Please join me by Webcast, 2/9 @10am as I speak against the appointment of Judge William S. Dato to the Fourth District Division One Court of Appeal.
https://katysexposure.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/join-by-webcast-209-as-i-speak-againt-judge-datos-appt-to-4th1st-appellate-court/
What THAT was certainly an interesting day at Chrystal Palace South aka 750 B Street, San Diego, Symphony Towers 4th/1st Appellate Court. Did you all know that the following two words are knee slapping hysterical? “harmless error”
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Posted: July 26, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Review, Video games | Tags: alias, dusty, gravity, gravity daze, gravity rush, kat, Keiichiro Toyama, Naoko Sato, ps vita, raven, review, shifting, unrealized brilliance |Leave a comment
Gravity Rush is probably one of the coolest PS Vita games released yet. It’s innovative, cool, fun, but sadly it ends up being pretty dull in the end.
For those not in the know, Gravity Rush is a game about a young girl clad in unusual yet… generous? flattering? nearly slutty? clothing (like any good game straight out of Japan) who is granted mysterious powers. A mysterious… thing, that can turn into a cat (which is named Dusty, to the chagrin of the Cat-thing) grants her the power to alter the gravity around her. She can thus enter zero-g and float, or shift her own personal gravity allowing her to walk along buildings and the like. The city she’s in, a place called Hekseville which is a mysterious mix of medieval and Steampunk, is a city in the sky which is often under the threat of Gravity Storms. They’ve become worse due to another shifter named Raven (she has a raven instead of a cat) and the introduction of bizarre baddies named Nevi. Kat (the protagonist) begins trying to set things right… and you’re off.
The game’s narrative is told through a variety of cutscenes and comic-book panels. The cutscenes are nothing special, but the comic book scenes are pretty cool: they’re laid out like panels. Pressing X or swiping the screen causes either more dialogue to pop-up or causes the camera to turn to the next panel. The characters and scene in the panel are all 2D but reside on a 3D plane; tilting the Vita causes the camera angle to shift which in turn makes this far more obvious. It’s a really cool feature that allows you to get a glimpse of the world inside the comic that you might not normally see. And, if you end up missing some dialogue because you’re trigger-happy, you can often get a glimpse of what you’ve missed (or what’s yet to come). It’s an innovative and cool twist on what is already a very cool narrative feature.
Most of the game’s dialogue remains in Japanese, however, but there are only occasional speaking scenes — none of which (that I can recall) occurring during the comic book panels. It isn’t distracting, and I wouldn’t say it takes away from the game whatsoever, if only because the majority of the game’s dialogue is written (so if anything having it dubbed would be more distracting). In fact, I found something very appealing about retaining the original language; there’s something… innocent? about Kat’s voice that reinforces the fact that this is just some girl who woke up with superpowers. As much as she becomes a certified badass, she begins as, well, just a confused little girl. Through using the comic-book narrative, retaining the written narrative throughout, and by using cell-shaded graphics in the core game, the game manages to retain a comic-book feel throughout, without being too glaringly obvious about it.
There is one comic scene which I felt to be kind of out-of-place, which occurs when this (girl? young woman? teenager? who knows) exposes herself to another character (accidentally and off-screen, of course), which felt like unnecessary pandering to the fanboy crowd and borderline pedophilic. But that’s a minor aside at best, I think.
The main strength (and weakness!) of the game is your ability to alter gravity. Pressing a button allows you to affect gravity around you and entering a zero-G state. There you can do certain combat moves such as “falling” across town and kick a baddie in the face. It’s pretty cool, really. You can also enter a Gravity Slide, which allows you to speed around, shifting gravity so that whatever is beneath you is your centre — allowing you to shift around halfpipes and go completely upside-down, all the while sliding. You have a gravity gauge that depletes over time (and recharges after nonuse for a time) so you can’t really overuse the power without some risk. It’s neat. It can get disorienting at times, however. I’ve made mistake of (frequently) assuming that gravity is always below you, so that I get feeling that I can walk around a building (when I’m walking on the facade). Instead, and I think this is more complex and way the hell cooler, walking off of a building’s facade causes you to plummet across town. You can fall in whatever direction you want, which is what’s so cool. You can set a navigation point from your map and launch yourself into the sky then direct yourself to where you want to go — transportation becomes really easy and, after some time, intuitive. The basics, at least, become very intuitive: there are missions and so on that take place in other planes where altering gravity becomes pretty difficult. In fact, there’s one area where the amount of time you can shift is seriously dropped, meaning plummeting to your death (because you’re on a city in the sky!) becomes a very real possibility. There’s another where you lose your gravity shifting altogether (!) at which point you realise how reliant you’ve become on it.
You gain power-up points by collecting crystals and completing side-missions: using these points you can upgrade your various attacks and abilities, such as lengthening your gravity gauge or increasing your recovery time. It isn’t hard to become very tough in very little time, which is kind of a downer for me, personally, and here’s why:
The game’s combat is pretty lacking. It’s cool for the first bit, once you learn to gravity kick. You essentially enter zero-G and fly across town, foot first, into some monster. It’s wicked. But it becomes really old, really fast. All nevi have weakpoints, marked by a big glowing “core”. Attacking these things causes them to die. They get tricks but for the most part all you need to do is float out of melee range and dodge projectiles (by swiping the screen or just constantly attacking). It’s really easy but worst of all it’s really bland. You can throw objects with your gravity powers, which is cool, but once you figure that out it gets pretty dull, too, because the nevi for the most part stand there and wait to get hit. You gain some super attacks which you can only activate every so often that allow you to absolutely decimate your enemies: you get a melee one, a ranged one, and essentially an area of effect one. You just pick the one you need and you’re laughin’. I hit a major antagonist with one of these and the attack pretty much ended the fight.
The side-missions are all pretty dull and are really just time-trials: there’s one for racing around the city, one for sliding, one for shifting, one for gathering energy crystals (that recharge your gauge) and then shifting, and one for killing enemies… it really just goes on. They’re all good challenges in their own right, but they’re all pretty much the same and all pretty boring. They’re all unlocked the same way, by the way: you automatically get a navigation point on your map. You check it out and it’s some feature in the town — an elevator, a TV screen, lights, a factory, whatever — that has been knocked out by Gravity Storms. You throw some crystals into a bucket, the bucket starts pumping, and you fix the thing. Zzz. There are a few dialogue options throughout town (all marked on your map) which advance the story a bit, but the dialogue always seems so stilted. You’re just chatting with some stranger about a mayor or a gravity field or something, and that’s it: nothing comes of it unless it’s tied into the main plot. That, aside from the main missions, is your only interaction with people, which sadly makes the game feel very unpopulated. It’s just you, shifting around (you can effect a gravity field around you and launch civilians across town… presumably to their death, but you never find out…).
The game’s story, despite the elegance with which it is presented, is also seriously lacking. There’s some vague plot going on but sadly the game leaves it hanging in the end with practically a million questions. The only question the game really answers is “is there going to be a sequel or tons of (overpriced) DLC?” and the answer is a very strong “GOD YES!”. It’s like the end of Halo 2 where Johnson asks Chief what he’s doing on that ship and Master Chief says “Securing a sequel Finishing this fight, sir!” It’s lazy storytelling, I think. Any good entry in a trilogy (or duology, or quintet, or whatever) should be on it’s own a complete narrative arc with an overarching… arc throughout the sequels. While I’m sure Gravity Rush 6 will put to rest some questions from the first five games, Gravity Rush itself feels incomplete. It’s a real disappointment for a game with such a very cool control dynamic.
In conclusion? Gravity Rush is cool, innovative, fun, and any other buzzwords critics and/or snobs like to toss out. Sadly, in the end, it’s a pretty boring game. It might be worth $10-$20 — might be — just because of the gravity dynamic, but at $40 it’s a tad overpriced. Buy it if your Vita is getting lonely, but it might be a good idea to wait on this one — which is a real shame, because this game had the potential to be one of the greatest handheld games ever made, no joke.
I know, it’s been over two weeks since my last post. I got put on a graveyard shift which totally messes with my schedule, then had a wedding to attend… don’t worry, I’ve got tons of excuses. Posts should resume at their regular pace within the next few weeks.
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Kyle Taitt
The Substantial Contributions of Primate Mothers: A Brief, Evolutionary Perspective
Happy MOTHER’S Day, to all you primate momma’s out there!
In this article, I will attempt to provide the reader with a basic understanding as to the unique and vitally important roles primate mothers play in the development of their offspring as well as why we all ought to take some time today to thank the incredible female primate responsible for their own existence. I will divide this entry up into two parts; first, i’ll provide a general overview of primate mothers in comparison to other mammalian mothers and secondly, i’ll offer a more specific approach to a few species of primate mothers to provide examples.
Primate Moms, In Comparison To Other Mammalian Mothers:
Every primate that has ever lived owes its existence to its mother; a mother whose body underwent a complicated, physically stressful transformation – generally lasting several months. At the end of this physically expensive biological phenomenon, a primate mother generally gives birth to a single offspring (although some monkeys and prosimians frequently have twins). For primates, the entire pregnancy is often difficult; including the birthing process itself. Primates have large brains in comparison to their body size, which require a larger cranium to encase the brain. These large brains are quite useful in problem solving and forming beneficial social bonds with troop members; however, the large cranium is one of the features of primates which complicates the process of labour. Primate mothers struggle throughout the duration of their pregnancy in ways that are unseen in a vast majority of other animals, including in most other mammals.
However, the struggle does not end after the offspring have been delivered. The mother continues to devote an enormous amount of time, energy and resources to the development of her offspring for lengthy periods of time; considerably longer periods than is observed in a majority of other mammals. In many cases, a primate mom must raise the offspring almost exclusively on her own; though she may seek help from her daughters, provided she has some. During this period, the mother is responsible for her young, rambunctious and curious offspring – as well as for herself. She will now need to acquire food for two and maintain strong social bonds within her troop if she is to properly imprint upon her offspring the behavioral adaptations and survival tactics required for the continuity of her genetic line. This period of time is extremely dangerous for both mother and child and, tragically, primate mothers lacking sufficient environmental fitness are often unable to pass on their genetic variation to future generations.Perhaps unsurprisingly, Its not uncommon for primate babies to mimic their mothers every move; this feature has been ‘built in’ via natural selection as a mechanism of encouraging the baby to pick up its mothers advantageous characteristics.
Why then, if indeed we primates are evolved creatures, would we struggle in ways disproportionate to a vast majority of other mammals, only to create significantly fewer offspring? On its face, this seems a very difficult question to answer from an evolutionary standpoint; however, some quite interesting research has shed light onto why this struggle is necessary. Simple animals such as corals reproduce in a way that makes perfect sense from an evolutionary standpoint. After all, if the primary ‘goal’ of evolution is to get ones genes propagated in future generations; what could be a more effective means of doing so than creating genetically identical clones of oneself, and then living in ever expanding colonies of such clones? However, this survival tactic has an enormous liability built in – a dangerous lack of genetic variability. Genetic variability is extremely important, especially in cases involving environmental change. If, for example, water conditions change (pH drops, salinity fluctuates, pollution, etc) the genetically identical animals are likely going to have the same sort of reaction to such a change. This is where genetic variability and individual ‘fitness’ can play a substantial role.
Many animals reproduce sexually in circumstances which involve distinct male and female individuals. In these scenarios, the offspring acquire half of the genetic material from their mother and half from their father. This variability among populations of organisms allows for a variety of reactions to environmental changes; those with advantageous characteristics which allow them to survive such changes will go on to continue their genetic line, while those unable to adapt to the changes often parish without leaving offspring. So this helps explain why genetic variability in primates and other animals is important, but why is the process more difficult in primates than in other mammals?
For example, rodents (such as mice, rats and rabbits) and ungulates (such as deer and gazelle) often give birth to a greater number of offspring after a shorter, less complicated pregnancy. The labour process is also considerably less problematic in these mammals. The offspring of rodents and ungulates individually require much less of their mothers time and attention, and reach sexual maturity at younger ages. However, this tactic also has some built in problems as well. The mother has so many offspring simultaneously that it becomes extremely difficult for her to keep tabs on all of them at once. Consequently, her offspring are individually more prone to predation than are the individual offspring of higher mammals which have less offspring. Additionally, their smaller cranial capacity in comparison to body size, which makes their delivery easier, also deprives them of the kind of cognition we observe in primates and other higher mammals.
Primate moms offer among the best examples of devotion within the entire animal kingdom while demonstrating an almost poetic resilience to environmental factors in order to provide care to their beloved offspring. Now that I have covered the reasons why it may be evolutionarily beneficial for primate moms to sacrifice so much for each individual baby, i’ll cover some of the different examples of primate moms and the ways they contribute to the success of their individual offspring. Specifically, I will give an overview of the duties and social roles of marmoset monkey mothers, capuchin monkey mothers, vervet monkey mothers, chimpanzee mothers, bonobo mothers, orangutan mothers, gorilla mothers and human mothers.
Primate Mom Examples:
First, i’ll review the characteristics of our more distantly related primate cousins – the monkeys.
Marmoset Mom’s-
Callitrichid (marmoset and tamarin) monkeys generally live in groups of 5-20 individuals. Marmosets are actually a quite interesting primate to study because they, unlike most primates, are cooperative breeders like humans. This means that, in marmoset society, the moms receive help rearing their young; usually from the fathers as well as the mom’s sisters and daughters. Marmosets are also unusual among primates in that they give birth to twins more frequently than is seen in other primate species. Although polyandry (female mates w/ multiple males) and polygamy (male mates w/ multiple females) have both been observed within marmoset troops, it is generally accepted that marmoset monogamy is the norm; a characteristic of these little monkeys which many humans find quite endearing. Often times in callitrichid culture, the troops have a single ‘alpha’, breeding female who mates with the ‘alpha’ male; generally, the other monkeys will not have access to reproduction.
In marmoset troops with two sexually active females, the subordinate female rarely mates with male marmosets in her own troop and generally gives birth to ‘unfit’ offspring which die early on. However, if she decides to leave her troop or earns the hierarchal position of alpha, breeding female; she may have a chance to successfully rear offspring in the future. Marmoset babies will not leave their mothers backs voluntarily until after a period of about two weeks, and they continue to rely on their mothers to nurse until approximately 3 months of age. At approximately 5 months of age, they enter their ‘juvenile’ stage and require more supervision and guidance from related troop members other than their parents. Marmosets remain sub adults until they are approximately a year and a half old, at which point they are finally sexually mature and have reached full adult size; although they will not be allowed to breed until they have attained a dominate status, which can take many years. Marmoset subadults of both sexes are known to disperse from the troops they were born in, though females are slightly more likely to stay within their natal troops than are males.
Because the marmoset babies require a lot of energy from multiple, related group members; the breeding pair often attempts to subvert any attempts of their troop mates to reproduce. In accordance with Hamilton’s Rule (see below), the individuals not capable of reproducing engage in altruistic care of another’s offspring because the offspring shares some of their own genetic content. For example, ones overall ‘reproductive success’ is measured equally among individuals which produce offspring of their own and those who abstain from reproducing in order to increase the survival odds of 2 brothers or 8 cousins; which is, genetically speaking, roughly equivalent to them having reproduced themselves.
**Hamiltons Rule (a.k.a. Kin Selection) is represented by the equation rB>C, where r=genetic ‘relatedness’, B= reproductive ‘benefit’ gained by recipient of altruistic act and C= the reproductive ‘cost’ to individual performing altruistic act
Capuchin Mom’s-
Unlike their closely related marmoset cousins, capuchin monkeys tend only to give birth to a single offspring. Capuchins live in groups of between 10-40 individuals, usually headed by a single alpha male with breeding access to multiple females; except in white throated capuchin (Cebus capucinus) troops, which are dominated by both an alpha male and an alpha female. Another characteristic which makes them behaviorally distinct from marmosets is that the capuchin fathers rarely have a substantial role in the rearing of their offspring; leaving the females to do most of the work on their own.
However, similarly to marmosets, capuchins live in highly social, territorial troops in which social grooming, various meaningful vocalizations and social hierarchies are commonplace. Capuchin babies rely on a strong grip to hold on to their mothers chest until they have reached a larger size at a few months of age; at which point they move to clinging on her back when the mother moves around and they engage in more social behavior with monkeys other than their mothers. Capuchins take a longer time to reach sexual maturity, with females requiring around 4 years and males up to 8 years to achieve full sexual maturity. In capuchin society, females generally spend their entire lives in their natal groups with their female kin, while mature males venture off from their natal troops in search of a new troop over which they will attempt to become the alpha male with access to breeding. Typically, males will migrate to several different troops within their lifetime; learning many valuable leadership techniques along the way.
Vervet Mom’s-
Similar to capuchins, vervet monkey females remain in their natal groups with their female relatives for their whole lives. However, unlike capuchins, vervet’s have separate dominance hierarchies for each sex. Males determine their social status by their ability to display aggressive behaviors and maintain beneficial alliances; while female social status in vervet’s is determined by their maternal lineage. Females are, so to speak, ‘born into’ different ranks in the social hierarchy depending on who their mother is. Similarly to marmosets, vervet mothers receive help in the baby rearing process from related females; generally those which have not yet begun menstruation. Young female vervet’s will typically only ‘allomother’ babies which are their siblings, or those belonging to a high ranking female (likely in an attempt to increase their own social status by affiliation). The process of allomothering is extremely helpful not only to the mother, but also to the female allomother who becomes familiarized with the complicated process of being a monkey mother.
Vervet mothers nurse their young for approximately 4 months, during which time the babies ride on the mothers chest initially, and move to her back as they get larger. Baby vervet monkeys rely heavily on their mothers and other female troop members for the first 8-12 months of their lives. Vervet’s reach sexual maturity between 2-3 years depending on the locality of the population being studied.
Now, i’ll review the mothers role in Ape society..
Orangutan Mom’s-
Orangutan troops are similar to that of many other primates in that they are composed primarily of females and their offspring. Adult male orangutans are largely solitary animals which are highly territorial and generally look over and a few groups of unrelated females within their territory. Amazingly, orangutans require extremely long periods of time to become sexually mature; with females requiring 8-10 years and males some 10-15 years to reach full sexual maturity. Baby orangutans nurse from their mothers and remain clinging to her fur for several months, and are not fully weaned until around 4 years of age. Just like in humans, orangutan gestation lasts about 9 months and after this period of time the female usually gives birth to a single young.
Males play almost no role what so ever in the socialization or rearing of the young; instead preferring to socialize and play with males of a similar age. After the first four months when the baby is almost inseparably clinging to its mothers chest, the female relatives begin to play a much larger role in the rearing and socialization of the baby orangutan. By the time the orangutan toddler reaches the age of two, it has developed enough muscle mass to begin exploring the treetops with the guidance of an elder orangutan female who holds their hand. This adorable hand holding orangutan exploration is called ‘buddy travel’. Orangutans are considered juveniles from age 2 until age 5; at which point they begin to limit their contact with their mothers and start to spend more time with other troop members. Mother orangutans remain highly vigilant, dedicated mothers of each offspring for 6-8 years; abstaining from male sexual advances for that entire period.
Gorilla Mom’s-
Gorillas are excellent mothers and surprisingly gentle giants capable of providing the most delicate of care to their sweet, fuzzy babies. Gorillas also have a gestation period of about 8.5-9 months, and mothers are expected to rear the offspring with little if any help from the alpha male father of their baby. Gorillas live in troops consisting of a single alpha male (or silverback) and several female companions, along with their offspring. Female gorillas reach sexual maturity at around 10-12 years of age while males don’t generally become mature ‘silverbacks’ until they are 12-13 years old. Gorillas mate year round and female gorillas generally require four year intervals between the birth of each baby. When males reach sexual maturity, they will leave their natal groups in an attempt to establish dominance in another, unrelated troop.
Although the typical gorilla troop is comprised of an alpha male, ‘his’ females and their offspring; multiple male groups are also not uncommon. This is likely because there is strength in numbers. When young male gorillas leave their natal groups it is largely beneficial for them to congregate and work together to overcome the difficulties of a solitary life in search of a female troop (preferably under the watch of a silverback whose authority they think they could overturn). Although the mother is almost exclusively responsible for the rearing of her young, the silverback plays a vital role in regulating in-group violence and shielding the infants from aggressive behavior. For the first year of its life, a baby gorilla is very rarely seen more than 5 meters away from its mother. Between 18 and 24 months of age, the baby gorilla begins to venture further away from its mother for longer periods of time, though the baby usually returns every couple hours to suckle. By three years of age, young gorillas are only spending about half of the time with their mothers, preferring to spend time with other gorillas close to their own age. This allows the mother to have more freedom as well as providing the young gorilla with important socialization with its troop members. After the baby has become fully weaned (between 3-5 years old), the gorilla mother soon begins to ovulate and become sexually receptive again; which is generally followed by a pregnancy shortly thereafter. By six years of age, the young gorilla generally leaves its mothers sleeping nest to form its own.
Chimpanzee Mom’s-
Chimpanzees and Bonobos also have a gestation period of approximately 9 months, and usually give birth to a single, hairless baby weighing only 3-4 pounds. The mother is extremely protective of her feeble, fragile baby for the first few months, and does not let any other troop members near. Curious chimp babies, only a few months old, may try to venture away from the safety of their mothers to explore their surroundings; although this is usually to no avail, as the mother gently pulls her baby back toward her side, often tickling and playing to keep the baby interested in staying with her. By approximately 3 months of age, a baby chimpanzee begins to develop a white tuft on their rear which usually coincides with the further development of motor/muscular control. Between three and five months, a baby chimps first teeth emerge and they begin eating other types of food; though chimp mothers are often receptive to nursing their offspring until around age 5. At this point, a chimp would no longer be allowed access to moms milk or to take freely from the food she scavenged for. Generally, the chimp youngster is very upset by this, and tantrums are quite frequent.
By five months, the baby chimp is beginning to spend more time with other chimp youngsters in the multi-male, multi-female group in which it lives. Additionally, around this time the chimp youngster begins to ride on its mothers back instead of on her chest. Chimps at this age are extremely social, and quickly picking up on important social cues from their troop members. At around 6 months, baby chimps begin to mimic their mothers ability to make sleeping nests. For juvenile chimps of age 2-5, its all about playtime; however, at around 6 it becomes more important for them to start paying closer attention to subtle social cues and engage more frequently in social grooming. At around age 8-9, male chimps become much more aggressive and begin fighting for the dominate position within their troop.
Chimpanzee hierarchies are interesting, with troops consisting of an alpha male who has the foremost authority and various lesser ranked individuals underneath him. In chimpanzee society, the alpha male is not always the biggest or strongest; but is often the most manipulative, political chimp. Males show submission to the alpha male by extending their arms and grunting, while females demonstrate submission by presenting the alpha male with their hind quarters. The alpha male is responsible for regulating conflicts among lesser ranked troop members, ensuring the safety of his troop members and maintaining his position as the alpha male of his troop. Similar to orangutans, female chimps also have a ‘pecking order’ and have their dominance largely determined by the social status of their mothers. Additionally, female chimps often form complex alliances to dominate lesser ranked females. Males, on the other hand, determine their social status through manipulative, political and social means.
Bonobo Mom’s-
Despite being extremely similar to chimpanzees physically (bonobos being slightly smaller and walking more upright), the behaviors of bonobos are quite distinct from that of their chimp cousins. When confronted with a perplexing situation, chimps often resort to violence whereas bonobos often resort to group sex. Bonobos are very dedicated mothers of offspring whose early developmental processes are very similar to that of chimpanzees; however, the culture in which they are raised is quite different. Bonobo troops are headed by females rather than males as in chimpanzees. This makes for a quite substantial difference in the way the troops operate. In bonobo troops, the status of both males and females is derived from the social status of the individuals mother; rather than by their ability to be aggressive, dominant or manipulative. Bonobo babies stay with and nurse from their moms until they are weaned at around 4.5-5 years old. Social hierarchies do still exist within bonobo troops, however they are considerably less deterministic and important in bonobo troops.
Sexual behaviors are observed in every aspect of bonobo culture and are not constrained to particular ages or even genders. Sexual relations between all combinations of sex, age and relation are quite frequent in bonobo communities. The extremely close, and often sexual, relationships between bonobo females allow them to hold a dominate position over the males. Male bonobos are individually stronger, but would stand little chance against an alliance of female bonobos. In bonobos as in chimps, it is more common for the females to leave their natal troops once reaching an age of around 8-10 years old; which is an extremely dangerous time in a female chimp/bonobo’s life, as the jungle is a very dangerous place to be alone. However, this is an important characteristic which enables these apes to maintain genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding;
Human Mom’s-
Without doubt, the most invested mothers within the animal kingdom are the mothers responsible for raising those individuals capable of reading this – human mothers. Humans have the longest life expectancy of any extant primate, develop more slowly than any other primate and have a longer period of maternal reliance than any other animal. For these reasons, human moms are the rockstars of the animal mom world. It would be difficult to answer what the universal role of a human mother is – largely because our culture has evolved in so many different ways as to render the likelihood of agreement on one distinct answer to this question rather unlikely. I suspect that if you asked 100 different human moms what it meant to be a mom, you’d get 100 different answers.
The only working definition I could provide for the role of human mother, which would be biased, would be something like this:
A human mothers role is to be caring, dedicated, unconditionally loving, involved in her children’s lives and supportive of her children’s pursuits. A good human mother encourages her children to think for themselves, rather than filling their heads with opinions about the world which she holds. A good human mother accepts her child, regardless of the child’s predicament and is always there to provide maternal support and insightful advice about how to deal with the various complications of the everyday human experience. A good human mother stops at nothing to ensure that her children have the kinds of opportunities in their lives that she wished she could have had access to as a child. A good human mother realizes that the success of her children is her success also, and a good human mother raises individuals likely to be good human mothers and fathers themselves.
Fortunately for me, I didn’t only have a good human mother – I have the absolute best mother I could ever have imagined. A truly amazing, inspiring woman who completely embodies every bit of my above definition of the role of a human mother.
Happy Mothers Day to my mom, Amy Taitt, as well as all the other primate moms out there today!
I couldn’t be more proud of the remarkable woman with whom I share 50% of my genetic makeup, nor could I be more proud to belong to what I believe to me the most awe inspiring animal order in existence – Primates.
Coral Photo – http://www.noupe.com/photography/coral-photography-for-your-inspiration.html
Marmoset Mom- http://blog.niagaraparks.com/news/help-niagara-parks-and-little-rays-name-the-baby-marmoset-twins/
Capuchin Mom- http://costaricawildlife.wordpress.com/march-2011-trip/
Vervet Mom- http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/197142/vervet-monkey-mother-teaching-baby/
Orangutan Mom- http://daughterearth.com/blog/2009/05/m-o-m-missing-orangutan-mothers/
Gorilla Mom- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/sdz3/NursingGorilla.html
Chimp Mom- http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2009/09/baby-chimp-zoe-oklahoma-city-zoo.html
Bonobo Mom- http://www.flickr.com/photos/cincinnatizoo/4537983213/
This entry was posted in Evolutionary Biology on May 12, 2013 by kyletaitt.
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A tale of two sisters with rare unique supernatural abilities. Three burglars break into a house to find jewels and money but leave their sanity behind.
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November 15, 2016. EAGLE POINT, OR. - On Nov. 7, 2016 Livestock Of The World launched their second annual online holiday bazaar. The completely online bazaar includes products offered by artisans and ranches across the US and Canada. Many of the products are unique handcrafted products made from animal fiber.
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The website, www.LOTWHolidayBazaar.com, is presented by Livestock Of The World, but includes gift ideas offered by both ranchers and non-livestock owners. Livestock of the World is a one-of-a kind network of websites created to help ranchers buy and sell their animals and products. Mainly the network caters to breeders of Cattle, Chickens, Working Dogs, Alpacas, Bison, Donkeys, Emus, Goats, Horses, Llamas, Pigs, Yaks, Rabbits, Sheep, and Turkeys.
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Super Bowl LIII Prop Bets
If you’re not a fan of either team that makes the Super Bowl, the next best thing is sitting down with the list of prop bets and determining which wild occurrences you’re going to be cheering for during the big game.
The possibilities are endless. You can risk your money on in-game performances, pre-game activities such as the coin toss or length of the National Anthem, or even partake in cross-sport betting (which I’ll explain later in the article in the event you’re new to prop betting).
And if you are new to this, you’re going to love it.
There’s nothing better than busting out an overzealous “hell yeah!” and following it up with a Tiger Woods’ fist pump after correctly predicting the coin toss and already being ahead of the game before the contest event starts.
So before Super Bowl Sunday arrives, crack open a couple of Busch Lights, go here and find your favorite prop bets, dial up that bookie, and let’s invest some hard-earned dollars into some crazy shit that we have no control over!
Prop Bet: Opening Coin Toss Will Be:
Heads -102
Tails -102
Lots of theories and strategies are used in an attempt to correctly guess this one. Some strategies include looking up previous year’s results and making your determination based off those. Other people prefer to flip their own coin and go with whichever side comes up most often for them. However, my strategy is simple… I go with my gut. This year has tails written all over it. Why you may ask? My answer is no idea, it’s just how I feel. Plus, I have a 50 percent chance of being right. Not many Super Bowl prop bets are going to give you a true 50/50 chance of winning, so go big here and try to build your bank before the game even starts.
My Pick: Tails -102
Prop Bet: First Penalty of Super Bowl LIII:
Patriots +130
Rams -150
This bet feels like you’re throwing your money away, right? Well hear me out. My theory is that the Patriots always seem to kickoff to begin the game so they have the opportunity of scoring right before halftime and then get the ball back to begin the second half and score again. As a Dolphins’ fan I’ve seen this play out way too many times over the last two decades. With that being said, I think the refs will do their best to let the players decide this game, especially considering the phantom calls and blatant no calls from Conference Championship Weekend, so I think the Patriots and their experience will maintain their composure on this first drive if they start on defense. However, once they get the ball on offense, one of two things seems likely to occur in my opinion. First, you’ve got the Tom Brady factor working in your favor as he gets more calls than any other quarterback in NFL history. And second, Ndamukong Suh is on the other side of the ball, and he has a history of being a little anxious at the line of scrimmage and can let his emotions get the best of him. I’m risking a little more here as the linemakers in Vegas seem to agree with me on this one, but give me the Rams committing the first penalty.
My Pick: Rams -150
Prop Bet: Longest Made Field Goal of Game:
Over 47.5 yards -110
Under 47.5 yards -110
I’ll keep this one short because, kickers. Seems to me that there’s going to be some points scored in this game as Vegas has the over/under point total set at 57. So while there should be plenty of touchdowns to go around, I find it hard to believe at least one of these defenses won’t be able to come up with a third-down stop and force the opposing team into a longer field-goal attempt. With these two kickers, a 48-yard attempt is a chip shot. If a kick of this length is event attempted, my money is on it going through, I’ll take the over.
My Pick: Over 47.5 yards -110
Prop Bet: Team To Score Last in First Half:
Patriots -120
Rams EVEN
Remember what I said earlier about the Patriots scoring at the end of the first half and then starting with the ball to begin the third quarter? I will bet this every game until Brady and Bill Belichick call it quits.
My Pick: Patriots -120
Prop Bet: Will the Rams Convert a 4th-Down Attempt:
Yes -110
No -110
Without giving too much away regarding my prediction for the actual game (since I want you to listen to our latest Super Bowl Preview Podcast found here), I’m leaning towards the Rams finding themselves trailing and needing to make some big plays/fourth-down conversions if they’re going to have a chance in this game. That reason, combined with the creative play calling of Sean McVay, makes me think “Yes” is the likely option here. I’m actually surprised with the odds on this bet, I really like it.
My Pick: Yes -110
Prop Bet: Jersey Number of Player to Score First Touchdown:
Over 26.5 -110
Under 26.5 -110
I’m not going to list out my research for this prop bet as that would be boring, but believe me when I tell you that the Patriots have four players with a jersey number under 26.5 and three players with a jersey number over 26.5 that are most likely to score while the Rams have two under and five over. For those of you who prefer not to do math, that’s a total of six players under and eight players over the set jersey number of 26.5. I really want to take the under here, but both Todd Gurley and C.J. Anderson wearing jersey numbers over 27 has scared me off. Go against the math I did for you earlier in this paragraph and take the under.
My Pick: Under 26.5 -110
Prop Bet: Who Will Have More:
Stephen Curry Free Throws Missed +120
Rob Gronkowski Touchdowns -140
Here’s an example of the cross-sport betting I briefly touched on in the beginning of the article. The bet works exactly how it reads – if you think the number of free throws that Curry will miss in his game against the Lakers on Saturday before the Super Bowl will be greater than the number of touchdowns Gronkowski scores in the Super Bowl, you bet on the Curry side of this prop, and vice versa. With that out of the way, as of January 30, Curry has missed just 13 of 189 free-throw attempts this season – that results in a 93.1 free-throw percentage. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that it’s more likely that Gronkowski and his robotic limbs are more likely to find the endzone than Curry is to miss a single free throw in his game. This seems likely to result in a push as I can easily see Curry going perfect from the charity stripe while Gronk is held out of the endzone, but since we’re here to gamble I’m taking Gronkowski who may be looking to make a splash in what some believe could be his final game (reckless speculation on my part).
My Pick: Gronkowski Touchdowns -140
Prop Bet: Distance of the First Jared Goff Touchdown Pass:
If you gamble regularly during the NFL season you know that sometimes Vegas sets a line that looks too good to be true. That’s exactly how I feel about this prop bet – so you know what that means? You run the other way as fast as you can. Most people will look at this bet and instantly think that the first TD pass from Goff is guaranteed to be more than 12 yards. If you fall into this category, let me remind you that Vegas oddsmakers are very good at their job, and they’re hardly ever wrong. More often than not, when the public is leaning heavily on one side of a bet, you want to find yourself on the other end of that bet. That’s exactly what I’m doing with this specific prop bet. Also, remember the Patriots’ bend but don’t break style of playing defense? They’ll give up some yards in this one, but I have the feeling that Rams’ touchdowns are going to be shorter in length than what the general audience believes, especially when you’re looking at an offense that averaged nearly 33 points and over 420 yards per game during the regular season.
My Pick: Under 11.5 yards -110
Prop Bet: Giselle Bundchen Shown on Live Broadcast:
Over 1.5 times -110
Under 1.5 times -110
It’s the Super Bowl, it’s the most-viewed TV program every single year, and sex sells. The person for CBS that decides which cameras should be utilized during the non-game action times of the Super Bowl should be fired if Giselle isn’t shown more than once. Remember the wild performance she put on in Super Bowl 51? You’re going to want to capture that on TV again, and if the Patriots wind up victorious and Giselle’s had a couple cocktails, the over is a lock here.
My Pick: Over 1.5 times -110
Prop Bet: Color of Liquid Poured on Winning Coach:
Clear +250
Yellow +300
Blue +400
Orange +400
Red +600
Green +700
Purple +900
Once again, a fan-favorite prop bet that you can do a little research on beforehand if you know in advance that you’re planning on betting it. Did you pay attention to the color of the liquid that was poured on McVay in the Rams’ victory? Did you pay attention to the color of the liquid that was poured on Belichick in the Patriots’ victory? Well if you knew you were going to bet on this proposition come Super Bowl Sunday, it’s pretty safe to say you were taking notes during Conference Championship Weekend. Attending a fantasy football party with an open bar prevented me for doing this research for you, so if you are looking for the results from these games I previously mentioned, you’re going to have to look elsewhere. Or you can join me with another strategy. Water (or clear) would be the obvious choice here – and Vegas agrees – since the players that coordinate the pouring of this liquid over the coach’s head don’t always have time to pick and choose what they are going to pour. You know that there’s always going to be water on the sideline in a Gatorade cooler, but there isn’t a guarantee that some of these other colors are going to be included. Also, in the event they grab a Gatorade cooler that actually contains Gatorade, there is a clear-ish color of Gatorade that may be an option; so you’re basically getting two potential options by selecting clear. However, the payout is what’s going to drive my bet on this one. No one likes Blue Gatorade, that’s not going to be an option. I wanted to go with Yellow or Orange since they are the best flavor options, but when you see Red +600 sitting out there, how do you not jump all over it? When I think of Gatorade, I immediately think of a red-colored juice. I think this may be due to the fact that I drink Red Gatorade for hangovers and prefer Orange and/or Yellow for during/after exercise. I guess this also goes to show how much more drinking I do than exercise…
My Pick: Red +600
For more Super Bowl 53 coverage, be sure to check out the latest episode of the Loaded Box Podcast as the guys are joined by Ben Allbright to preview Sunday’s game!
Gambling, Los Angeles Rams, New England Patriots, NFL, Super Bowl
Podcast: Super Bowl LIII Preview w/ Ben Allbright
Podcast: Super Bowl 53 Recap
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Leather Bottle
This pub was chosen editorially for inclusion, as we think it's rather good.
One of the oldest pubs in the area, the Leather Bottle has been dispensing ale for over 300 years. It was here, on the slopes of the River Wandle, that the annual 'Mayor of Garrat' — a kind of village idiot award — was celebrated in the 18th century. You have to slog down the long and winding road that is Garratt Lane, but it's worth the hike.
The Leather Bottle is a winner both inside and out. Within, small rooms offer up snug drinking space with three real fires. A conservatory extension provides plenty of room for diners. The beer selection is largely limited to Young's ales, which is a pity given that the excellent By The Horns small brewery is just round the corner.
And then there's the garden. If this isn't the largest pub garden in London, then we don't know what is. The pub reckons it caters for 450 people. There were plenty of free tables when we showed up on a warm spring day. As well as a veritable acre of picnic tables, you'll also find a row of Swiss chalets — a lovely way to crank more usage from the beer garden in colder weather. The space also contains a BBQ area and outdoor toilets for those who don't want to squeeze through the bar. Oh, and that dog sniffing around. He's called Tom.
Quiz night is Wednesday. On Twitter as @Leather_Bottle. On Facebook.
Even ghostly farm labourers are welcome.
Yet more beer garden at the front.
The gardens are so big that a map is provided while you pee.
Pints of stout come in both 2D and 3D.
Vast acres to be drank in.
Ski chalets. Mountain not pictured.
It's not many pubs where you can find yourself with 84 zillion tables to yourself.
Beer garden Board games Dining options Dog friendly Free wifi Quiz night Real fire
Address: 538 Garratt Lane London SW17 0NY
Leatherbottle@youngs.co.uk
http://www.leatherbottlepub.co.uk/
Monday: noon-11pm
Tuesday: noon-11pm
Wednesday: noon-11pm
Thursday: noon-11pm
Friday: noon-1am
Saturday: noon-midnight
Sunday: noon-11pm
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We Love Halifax
What’s the likelihood of arriving in a city where you’ve never been before, then going out to three completely random shows and seeing four excellent acts? That’s what happened to us in Halifax. It’s easy to do in New York, if you know where you’re going. But Halifax, unlike New York, doesn’t hide its best music at the fringes. When we left Montreal a week ago Monday, we thought we might get a bit of a respite from the crazy party that had been the Jazz Festival there: no such luck. Halifax may be laid-back, but it’s a party town. The party restarted less than 24 hours after we got there, at Nova Scotia’s oldest pub, the Seahorse Tavern, with Zulkamoon, a skaragga band with sax and keyboards along with the usual guitar, bass and percussion. It may have been a Tuesday night, but they got a bunch of dancers bouncing in front of the stage within minutes. Charismatic singer/percussionist nti TZT delivered defiant, rapidfire lyrics in Spanish as the band blasted through grooves that ranged from frantic ska to fast cumbia to slinky reggae. Pianist Pat Storer lit up one song with some evocative wee-hour jazz phrasing while guitarist Michael Nahirnak switched effortlessly from precise shuffles to twangy surf, alto saxophonist Matthew Reiner adding a wary intensity. They’re sort of the Halifax version of Escarioka: the two ought to do a doublebill somewhere in Chile.
Next on the bill were three-woman rock powerhouse Like a Motorcycle. Like the band before them they’re a breath of fresh air – or make that a blast of fresh air. There’s no other band out there who sound like them. Part punk, part no wave, part noiserock, they evoke an assaultive, early 80s vibe, their guitarist getting some gorgeously evil distorted tones out of her overdriven Gibson SG while bassist Michelle played simple, catchy lead lines over fast, cymbal-drenched shuffle beats. Michelle sang most of the songs, then the drummer took over on the mic: while bits and pieces of lyrics filtered through the mix, the roar and stomp made it hard to hear them – the energy was through the roof. With its insanely catchy, simple hook, their signature song – the second one of the set – sounded like X but more hypnotic and assaultive. Then they flipped the script with a balmy intro to the next one, like Live Skull doing Walk on the Wild Side, complete with tasty bass chords. The rest of their ten-song set switched from straight-up, four-on-the-floor punk rock, to a couple of defiant Avengers-ish tunes, to a couple like the Bush Tetras on steroids, equal parts catchy and abrasive, the guitarist slashing her way out of a thicket of overtones as she reached for the hooks and then swung on them with a gleeful wrath.
Wednesday we went out to the Foggy Goggle (Canadians like funny names) to check out the weekly bluegrass jam. While these are inevitably intended less as spectacle than as a way for musicians to keep up their chops – as they should be – this made for good spectacle, especially since the crew onstage – adventurous, jam-oriented mandolinist bandleader, banjo, fiddle, bass and a flatpicking guitarist whose lickety-split leads were breathtakingly good – didn’t limit themselves to old standards that everybody knows. By the time they got to Little Maggie, they’d been through plenty of surprises, including some tasty blues.
By the time we’d made it to Thursday night, it was time to chill. All the nightcrawling and running around to historic sites – the original city graveyard,with its creepy, over-the-top 18th century tombstones; another about an hour on foot from the city center, where numerous Titanic victims, many of them still unidentified, are buried at a central memorial; a whalewatching cruise that made for good seal-watching but didn’t turn up any bigger cetaceans; and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, with the world’s most extensive collection of Titanic artifacts – had taken its toll. At this point, we figured we’d wind up the trip quietly with a jazz show at Stayner’s Wharf, a comfortable seafood-and-beer joint on the water downtown. The Martin Davidson Trio launched into their set as we walked in, but even though this was clearly a “restaurant gig,” more of an exercise in ambience than scorching solos, they didn’t phone it in: instead, they threw off many hints that what they had in reserve was much more adventurous than what they were limited to in this particular setting. In a mix of mostly standards, Davidson played mostly tenor sax, switching to alto to wind up the set, sticking with a clear tone through an hour’s worth of purist, expansive solos. Occasionally it was just sax and bass as the Rhodes piano player backed away from his majestic block chords. On a couple of tunes, the bassist threw in some clever “is there anbody listening” swoops (yup, somebody was listening!); toward the end, a bossa number finally served as a launching pad for gritty bass and ringing piano textures: Davidson, playing alto, finally fired off some sharp bop-flavored salvos at the upper registers to close on a high note. From an audience perspective, it’s hard to imagine a better way to wind up the week: since Montreal, we’d literally come full circle.
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Review by Adam Woodward @AWLies
Henry Cavill Rebecca Ferguson Tom Cruise
Bound to have a decent set-piece or two. Just hoping it’s better than the last couple...
Enjoyment.
In Retrospect.
Plutonium-powered action on a truly epic scale.
Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie combine for one of the most purely entertaining action movies of the new century.
“There cannot be peace without first a great suffering.” Rogue MI6 agent and returning harbinger of death Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) has a message for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), one that resonates beyond its immediate narrative context. It could be that this grandiose doomsday prophecy is a sly allusion to the current state of Western politics. But no. Far more pertinently, this line rings true in relation to the recent fortunes of the man who has been at the centre of the Mission: Impossible franchise since its inception over 20 years ago.
That Tom Cruise – 56 at the time of writing – is still able to open a $150m summer blockbuster is testament to his remarkable durability as a modern Hollywood icon. Yet it’s fair to say that mid-career Cruise has so far been characterised more by misses than hits – while both Rogue Nation and Ghost Protocol were considerable box office successes, attempts by studios and filmmakers alike to replicate their winning formula (cf Jack Reacher, The Mummy) have blotted the actor’s copybook to varying degrees.
Cruise has always seemed undeterred by this, reassuringly steadfast in his willingness to push himself to the limit again and again for the sake of his art (not to mention a hefty pay cheque). Increasingly, however, his tireless running, running, running has started to resemble something other than a means to an end, almost as though he’s caught in a holding pattern of high-energy stasis. This is the essential fallacy of Cruiseness: that moving very quickly, in all manner of ways and in every conceivable direction, is a mark of progression.
All of which is a roundabout way of explaining that Mission: Impossible – Fallout is an absolutely top-drawer action flick – perhaps not quite on a par with Brian De Palma’s 1996 original, but comfortably the best addition to the franchise to date.
This is a rare bird in contemporary blockbuster cinema, a star vehicle that adds up to more than the sum of its high-gloss, precision-tooled parts. Where the franchise has tended to lean too heavily on Cruise in the past, the sixth instalment feels like a genuine team effort. Once again the IMF’s top odds-thwarting field agent thrusts himself into the heart of the action with trademark devil-may-care swagger, but his associates Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) get stuck in too, using their various specialist skills to Hunt’s best advantage. Yes, the gang is well and truly back together, and crucially everyone makes a valuable contribution to the cause.
New to the series but no less important is Henry Cavill’s covert CIA operative August Walker, whose thick, immaculately-groomed moustache adds a layer of ambiguity and masculinity that makes him the perfect foil for Cruise/Hunt. It’s a small but vital character detail, a cunning subversion of the Superman actor’s clean-cut image. You may recall that this seemingly innocuous piece of facial foliage was a point of fierce contention in movieland last year. Well, even Justice League’s beleaguered VFX team would be hard-pressed to deny that it was worth all the fuzz.
The mission itself is relatively straightforward: intercept arms deal; recover stolen plutonium; avert nuclear crisis. Lane’s shady international crime network, known as The Syndicate, have other plans though, and so Hunt and co soon find themselves hot-footing it around Paris and London, nimbly dodging bullets and red herrings while leaving a trail of their own. A rooftop sprint between Blackfriars Station and Tate Modern, which resulted in filming being put on hold for eight weeks as Cruise recovered from a fractured ankle, is particularly thrilling, as are a zig-zagging helicopter chase and a skydiving sequence for which Cruise performed a HALO (high altitude, low opening) jump at 25,000 feet.
The months of preparation and meticulous stunt co-ordination that go into pulling off a set-piece like this ultimately don’t count for much (aside from the obvious publicity they generate) if the end product as a whole is sub-awesome. The Burj Khalifa bit in 2011’s Ghost Protocol, for instance, is arguably the sole standout moment in an otherwise flat and largely forgettable blockbuster. Maybe not the only scene in the entire film to set your pulse racing, but probably the only one you actually remember. This is where Fallout eclipses its predecessors. For the first time in a long time, we have a Mission: Impossible film in which story and character are prized as highly as high-wire pyrotechnics.
McQuarrie has now directed three Cruise films (the first Jack Reacher, Rogue Nation, Fallout) and written a further three (Valkyrie, Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy). Objectively speaking, that’s a pretty mixed bag, but the wider point is that sometimes achieving greatness takes more than hard work, determination and a truckload of cash. Clearly the pair have established a strong, mostly fruitful working relationship. Long may it continue.
Though, if for whatever reason the franchise does end here, with Cruise sucking in a lungful of crisp glacier air after yet another last-gasp save, it will have been one heck of a send off. It’s taken two decades, five sequels and countless voided insurance policies, but Cruise’s unwavering commitment has paid off in a big way. The suffering is over now. Finally, he has found peace.
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
An off-the-chain Tom Cruise is the key and only asset in this fifth ride-along with the IMF crew.
How Mission: Impossible set the blueprint for the modern actioner
By James Luxford
Twenty years ago Brian De Palma and Tom Cruise ushered in a new blockbuster era.
By Matt Bochenski
Twenty minutes of Dubai-based blockbuster gold aside, Ghost Protocol is kind of flat, inert and not all that exciting.
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featuring Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter
With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E. Marlow. Suffering from a hellish skin-and-nerve disease called psoriatic arthroparthy (a painful infliction which ultimately killed the real-life Potter), Marlow was confined to a hospital bed, where under the influence of numerous prescription drugs he began to imagine himself as the hard-boiled hero of his latest detective novel. While trying to solve a difficult case, Marlow continually drifted backward in time to his childhood in the Forest of Dean, occasionally bursting into song to express his emotions. As fantasy and reality merged into one, Marlow was forced into a tortuous session of self-analysis and personal discovery. Virtually everyone in the cast was seen in double and triple roles, including nominal leading ladies Alison Steadman and Joanne Whalley (aka Joanne Whalley-Kilmer). The series earned two BAFTA awards (the British equivalent of the Emmys), one for Best Actor to Michael Gambon. After its initial BBC1 run from November 16, to December 21, 1986, The Singing Detective was shown in the United States via public and cable television, where it picked up another award, the prestigious Peabody, in 1989. Hal Erickson, Rovi Read Less
With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E. Marlow. Suffering from a hellish skin-and-nerve disease called psoriatic arthroparthy (a painful infliction which ultimately killed the real-life Potter), Marlow was confined to a hospital bed, where under the influence of numerous ... Read More
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Sept. 13, 2018 at 11:04 a.m.
Postal Service facilities are required to display the POW-MIA flag Sept. 21.
Flag notice. National POW-MIA Recognition Day, which honors the sacrifices made by members of the armed forces held as prisoners of war or listed as missing in action, is Friday, Sept. 21.
Postal Service facilities are required to display the POW-MIA flag this day. The flag must fly below the U.S. flag, and both flags should be flown at full staff.
For additional information, refer to the Postal Service’s guidelines on U.S. flag display and maintenance, as well as the requirements for displaying the POW-MIA flag.
Postal Bulletin. The Postal Bulletin’s Sept. 13 issue previews Energy Action Month, which is held each October.
The issue also includes information about new stamp releases; pictorial postmark announcements; and the latest updates to policies, procedures and forms.
Stamp dedication. Madonna and Child by Bachiacca, one of this year’s new holiday stamps, will be released Wednesday, Oct. 3.
USPS will dedicate the stamp that day during a ceremony in Santa Fe, NM.
The stamp, announced in July, features a detail from a 1520s work by Francesco d’Ubertino Verdi (1494–1557), the Italian Renaissance painter known as Bachiacca.
Got news for “Need to know”? Email your submissions to uspslink@usps.gov.
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The Third International and Its Place in History
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Written: 15 April, 1919 First Published: Published in May 1919; Published according to the manuscript. Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972 Volume 29, pages 305-313 Written: V. I. Lenin Translated: George Hanna The imperialists of the Entente countries are blockading Russia in an effort to cut off the Soviet Republic, as a...
On Strikes
Theory April 27, 2017
By Vladimir I. Lenin In recent years, workers’ strikes have become extremely frequent in Russia. There is no longer a single industrial gubernia in which there have not occurred several strikes. And in the big cities strikes never cease. It is understand able, therefore, that class-conscious workers and socialists should...
1917-2017: Lenin’s April Theses – A Scandalous Text for Old and New Reformists
"It's a delusion, it's the delirium of a madman!" - (A. Bogdanov, Menshevik, referring to Lenin’s April Theses) By Francesco Ricci. It is April 3, 1917 (April 16 of our calendar) when the so-called 'sealed train' that houses Lenin, Zinoviev, Krupskaya, Inessa Armand, Radek and others arrives at the Finland Station. To...
The Issue of the Party and the Revolutionary Movement
Special: Women April 13, 2017
The women in the Bolshevik party and the relevance of the resolutions of the Third International. By Laura Sguazzabia. Despite the millennial customs that left women in passivity and obedience, in Russia, the contribution of the female proletariat to the revolution was strong and determining. This active participation was expressed in...
The Matter of Family in the Russian Revolution
When we talk or think about family, the model that comes to mind is a house with father, mother and children, each with specific roles considered as natural. For women, that means domestic work, monogamy and a situation of inferiority in relation to their husbands. This is a model...
Why Stalinism Collapsed
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Bill Hunter - 1993. Originally published @ Socialist Voice #26. Gorbachev, who became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, began Perestroika and Glasnost, proclaimed as “restructuring” and “openness”, and introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. The changes were meant...
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Chapter 11 - The History of the Russian Revolution Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism Leon Trotsky. Source: www.marxists.org What constitutes the essence of a dual power? We must pause upon this question, for an illumination of it has never appeared in historic literature. And yet this dual power is a distinct condition of social crisis,...
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Stalinism As a product of the civil war -in which many thousands died- and hunger -that caused their return to the countryside-, the old Russian working class, who built the Soviets and stood under the leadership of the Bolshevik party to carry out the revolution, disappeared. This physical disappearance of...
A Letter to Trotskyists Throughout the World -1953
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By James P. Cannon, 21 October 2008 - From the 25th Anniversary Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. To All Trotskyists: Dear Comrades: On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Trotskyist movement in the United States, the Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party...
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My high (and still rising) blood pressure is deceiving those near me about my actual condition. I am active and able to work but the outcome is evidently near. These lines will be made public after my death. I have no need to refute here once again the stupid and...
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Home Rugby Super Rugby 2019: The South African Franchises
Super Rugby 2019: The South African Franchises
Ryan Jordan, Managing Editor
The South African Super Rugby teams reveal their Marvel Super Hero inspired jerseys to be used in their local Super Rugby 2019 derbies. Pic courtesy SA Rugby
Super Rugby 2019 is fast approaching and the warm up games are a thing of the past. Last Word on Rugby takes a look at the South African teams.
Super Rugby 2019
As this year is a Rugby World Cup year, Super Rugby 2019 will be a pivotal competition for many players. Some will try to catch the eye of Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus. For the younger players who miss out on selection for the Rugby World Cup in 2019, we are likely to see a few more talented players leaving home shores to ply their trade in colder climates in the hope of earning a call up for either one of the Six Nations teams or a second tier nation. The players who are closer to the end of their career will be on the same flights out to earn that final and probably deserved pay day.
A novel concept has been the collaboration between the South African Super Rugby teams, Marvel Comics, Supersport, Vodacom and CHOC (Childhood Cancer Foundation).
Michelle van Eyden, Vodacom’s Executive Head of Sponsorship, highlighted the importance of giving back.
“Besides the innovation and excitement we will be seeing during Super Rugby in 2019, Vodacom is also extremely proud to be associating itself with CHOC.
Every Super Rugby season, Vodacom partners with an organisation that is in need of support, and with the Marvel partnership, we feel there is a perfect fit between the rugby super heroes we’ll see doing battle every weekend on the field and the little super heroes of CHOC who fight a far larger battle every day.”
We take a look at the early prospects of the South African franchises in Super Rugby 2019. The one concern that keeps on raising its head is one of quality coaching. The appointment of Head Coaches appears to haphazard, with little to no succession planning in place.
Cell C Sharks
The Sharks squad remains fairly static. Their biggest loss will the retirement of stalwart loose forward Keegan Daniel. On paper, the Sharks squad is a strong one. Their third place in the South African Conference and eighth overall was certainly not what they were aiming for in 2018.
A lot has been said of the influence of Head Coach Robert du Preez and his sons. Many felt that Du Preez was living on borrowed time and it was only due to the fact that the Sharks won the Currie Cup title in 2018 that he retained his position. Although there is no fact behind the statement, there were further comments that the Du Preez name was too dominant in the change room, with the coach and his three sons ruling the roost, causing discontent in the squad.
Whatever the reasons, the Sharks did not deliver the results that would be expected of a squad of that quality. If Du Preez does not deliver a strong result in Super Rugby 2019, it would be hard to see him staying on for another season.
DHL Stormers
The Stormers have retained the quality in their squad from 2018. If we take a look at the players the Stormers have at their disposal, this is another team that did not deliver the result in 2018 that we would have expected. The question is, what will be different in 2019? They ended fourth in the South African Conference, with the Bulls beating them to the wooden spoon by virtue of points difference
Once again, we find ourselves looking at the coaching structure. Robbie Fleck cut his coaching teeth at age group level at Western Province. He was suddenly elevated to the position of Head Coach at the Stormers after Eddie Jones filled the role for what must have been the shortest tenure in professional rugby of just two weeks.
The playing resources at Newlands are surely better than what has been delivered during Fleck’s time at the helm?
There have been rumours of a palace revolt at the Stormers recently, which the Western Province Rugby Union (the Franchise holders) originally tried to deny. This is unnecessary ‘noise’ around the team which they do not need in the lead up to Super Rugby 2019 competition. More regarding the the difficulties that the Western Province Rugby Union and Stormers face can be found here.
Emirates Lions
We can’t argue too much about a team that have been finalists in the last three seasons. Super Rugby 2019 might be more of a challenge though. They face the New Zealand conference this year, which is more competitive than the Australian conference they faced in 2018. This would no have been a major issue if they had not been subjected to a significant loss of playing resources. Below, a sample of who they have lost ahead of the 2019 edition of the tournament:
Ruan Dreyer (Gloucester), Rohan Janse van Rensburg (Sale Sharks), Marco Jansen van Vuuren (RSA Sevens). Jaco Kriel (Gloucester), Franco Mostert (Gloucester), Jacques van Rooyen (Bath)
Their most significant arrival will be former Sharks and one-Test Springbok lock Stephan Lewies.
This is one franchise we do not have to question the credentials of the Head Coach. Swys de Bruin has a long history of coaching in South Africa and is an assistant to Springbok Coach Rassie Erasmus.
Vodacom Bulls
The Bulls have done some decent recruiting before Super Rugby 2019.
Incoming players include:
Schalk Brits (Saracens), Stedman Gans (RSA Sevens), Cornal Hendricks (not contracted),
Dylan Sage (RSA Sevens), Paul Schoeman (Cheetahs), Rosko Specman (RSA Sevens),
Duane Vermeulen (Toulon)
The most significant outgoing player is former captain Adriaan Strauss.
The biggest issue facing the Bulls will be how their new coaching team moves their squad forward after losing Head Coach John Mitchell to the England Rugby setup. Their coaching appointments seem to be aimed more at staff that the management structure are comfortable with than those that will set the tournament alight. As one wag on social media hinted, the Bulls have been digging in the bargain bin for coaches.
New Head Coach Pote Human is a solid rugby man, but does not inspire the confidence needed to believe that he is the man to turn this Bulls squad into the tournament winning team of their golden years. Pine Pienaar, who was retrenched at the Bulls in 2017, makes a sudden re-appearance at Defense Coach. Another returning coach is Anton Leonard, who will be looking after the lineout.
Two appointments that might help to balance out this coaching set-up are Chris Roussouw as Backline and Attack Coach and Hayden Groepes retains his position as Skills and Kicking Coach.
Super Rugby 2019: The First Round
The Cell C Sharks kick off the South African conference with an away game against the Sunwolves. That is followed by a South African derby, with the Vodacom Bulls hosting the DHL Stormers. The weekend’s fixtures are concluded with the Jaguares hosting the Emirates Lions.
2019 Rugby World Cup
Rassie Erasmus
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Ryan is our Department Head for Rugby Union and resides in Johannesburg South Africa. He specializes in International rugby, Super Rugby and domestic rugby in South Africa. Career highlights include being granted media accreditation for Rugby World Cup 2015. He is also accredited as a member of the media by Cricket South Africa.
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« Marching towards dictatorship | Main | Raúl hates the free press, too »
Arroz Con Frijoles, 2/1/07
Whether Fidel Castro is dead or only partially dead, the last six months have shown that the dictatorship he created is fully capable carrying on his repressive ways.
Consider the following stories culled from this morning's headlines:
Journalist Tania Maceda Guerra reports that officials are denying political prisoner Eduardo Díaz Fleitas the medical attention he needs for a variety of ailments, including gastritis, hypertension, a hernia, ulcers and dermatitis. Fellow political prisoner Nelson Molinet Espino told Maceda that jailers do not give him the food prescribed by prison doctors. They also have blocked Díaz's family from delivering food to the prisoner.
Both Díaz and Molinet are former Uncommon Sense Political Prisoners of the Week. Both arrested during the "black spring" of 2003, the prisoners are serving their sentences — 20 years for Molinet, 21 years for Díaz — at the Kilo 5 1/2 prison in Piñar del Rio.
Also previously mentioned here, several times, is Cuban dissident Dr. Darsi Ferrer.
On Sunday, Ferrer was again the victim of a government-sponsored "act of repudiation," as a group of people gathered outside his house in Havana to shout slogans and to block anyone from entering or leaving the residence, according to a story by journalist Juan Carlos Linares Balmaseda posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.
It is a familiar nuisance tactic, the police using a dissident's neighbors to do its dirty work.
During the demonstration, Ferrer invited two of the group's organizers inside his home for a discussion that lasted about an hour.
"They went away convinced that what they were doing was an abuse," Ferrer told Linares. "They acknowledged that they had been sent by State Security."
Linares' story also describes a similar "act of repudiation" that same morning at the home of journalist Carlos Ríos, who was recently profiled by the New Times newspaper in Miami.
Yancy Ruiz, a member of the Cuban Liberal Party in Santa Clara, on Jan. 23 was sentenced to one year in jail for supposed crime of “social dangerousness," which Amnesty International describes as "a pre-emptive measure that is defined as the 'proclivity to commit a crime' and targets any behaviour contrary to the 'socialist morale' like 'drunkenness,' 'drug addiction' and 'anti-social behaviour' but it is applied to political dissidents, independent journalists and critics."
"His only crime is to think differently than the government," Liberal Party member Yunieski García López told journalist Yoel Espinosa Medrano for a story posted at Cuba Libre Digital.
In protest, other Liberal Party activists distributed to the copies of El Nuevo Herald, which is published in Miami, and other censored writings, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The new Madelyn Rose Boutique is a go-to source for wardrobe statement pieces and more
Danielle Romstadt brought her charming Madelyn Rose Boutique to the people, and the people have embraced it with wide open arms. Inside you’ll find a treasure trove of hot fashions and one-of-a-kind finds. (Photography by Benjamin Margalit/Margalit Studio)
By Laura Briedis
You know that girlfriend who always shows up looking drop-dead fabulous, rocking the super-cutest styles?
Well she’s probably shopping at Madelyn Rose Boutique. This treasure chest showcases oh-so-adorbs looks, stylish shirts, jackets, jeans, pants, dresses and all the must-have accessories.
Named after her daughter, owner Danielle Romstadt has sought out the fashions, both on the international and local levels, and brought them to her charming shop in downtown North Royalton.
“Our eclectic vibe provides a different sort of shopping experience,” says Danielle. “I carry lines you won’t find in other places, designer looks that range from classic to edgy (or just plain fun) that also won’t break the bank.”
Fall Fashion Forecast
Danielle is constantly researching trending styles to bring to Madelyn Rose, including Boho-chic looks with bold prints and flouncy sleeves.
“The big color for the season is a toss-up between mauve and cinnamon,” she says. “And layering is a must, from sexy camis with lace bottoms to peak out from under chunky sweaters to cardigans with fringed edges.”
The most popular jacket she sells is called “The Arianna.” (See it modeled on the store’s Facebook page.) Made in Italy, it is a cotton based jacket with a flirty ruffled hem.
“It comes in several muted shades and literally looks great on every woman who tries it on,” she says. “It will be the most versatile piece you buy this fall, as it looks stunning with skinny jeans and a white T-shirt and does double duty over a fitted dress.”
Jeans, Jeans, Jeans: A Love Story
There’s isn’t a woman out there who isn’t looking for the perfect pair of jeans—and they will find it at Madelyn Rose.
“One of our favorite lines—Grace & Lace—comes in skinny legs, and they are unbelievably comfortable, with just enough stretch to move with you, yet they hold their shape,” she says.
“Distressed jeans are our hottest sellers. Fringed hems and sections of tiny micro-pleats are also the rage right now.”
Local Artists Custom Design Jewelry, Hats
The boutique features a bevy of one-of-a-kind items, including hats with the state of Ohio emblazoned on them in a variety of ways, and jewelry.
“Whether you are a NoRo Bear, Brecksville-Broadview Bee or Strongsville Mustang, we offer a variety of charm bracelet bangles, pendants and earrings,” she says.
Look for a Charm Bar to open soon at the shop, so you can custom-make your own pieces.
And you’ll actually be looking forward to winter after you’re outfitted with the plethora of plush knitwear, from scarves and hats to novelty mittens in the shape of penguins, rabbits, and other creatures.
Steals and Deals at Maddie’s Closet
Danielle is a big believer in repurposing fashion, so she created a department within the boutique called Maddie’s Closet. Like the rest of the shop, it contains trend-worthy styles, as well as shoes and handbags.
“It’s our way of making upscale affordable,” she says. “For me personally, discovering high-end consignment helped turn my love/hate relationship with shopping back to all love.”
Madelyn Rose Boutique is located at 6552 Royalton Road in North Royalton. Hours are Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday. Call 440-785-8849 for more information, and check out the store’s Facebook page for styles on the floor and live sales, as well as dates for shopping parties and classes.
Categories: Westside Shops & Boutiques
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Mineserver Community > Mineserver > Discussion > MC Server compatibility or SQLite database?
Author Topic: MC Server compatibility or SQLite database? (Read 4252 times)
joehillen
Minecraft Username: StylishHobo
MC Server compatibility or SQLite database?
The way I see it, the point of this project is to make up for the design mistakes made with the original Minecraft server.
I don't know much about the how the current map data is stored in mineserver, but at first glance it looks very similar to how the original server was implemented.
My thought is it is probably better to store map and user data in a databases, such as sqlite, rather than as a set of flat chunk files. It would require a good bit of refactoring, but there would definitely be a significant performance improvement.
This of course would break compatibility with the original minecraft worlds. However it could be possible to write tools for mineserver that make it possible to import and export minecraft worlds.
I'm curious what everyone's thoughts on this issue are.
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Re: MC Server compatibility or SQLite database?
Quote from: joehillen on March 01, 2011, 06:49:59 am
The chunk files store (roughly) one byte per block in a chunk; that's equivalent to 16*128*16, which is 32,768 bytes per chunk.
If you wanted to place an entire chunk within an SQL engine, it would need to be built for performance, which is possible but most users don't build their databases and tables for data loading/saving that much at a time.
In other words, I don't think SQL would be the best choice for world chunks; keep it as flat files in my opinion.
However, SQL for other data such as player data/inventory, world time, user permissions, etc. could be transferred to SQL since there's little to work with at a single moment; and for what there is, it takes little to no effort to read/write it in SQL.
Also, the whole SQL idea was brought up a while ago, but I forgot by whom and when.
Yes, mineserver is meant to be an improvement over the original "vanilla" server. That doesn't mean, however, that we don't implement its concepts and features. Being that it's written in C++, those same concepts and features will run better, since code is being ran natively on the CPU instead of in an interpreter ran in a JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
Besides, many people (including myself) wish to use mineserver, but have the exact same, if not close to, the features that the vanilla server has. And because of how mineserver is being written, it'll be easy to implement our own ideas, even our own recipes for furnaces/workbenches (which means one could make a stone block turn into a diamond pickaxe, if one wanted to, or one could also smelt a sapling and turn it into wood, again if one wanted to).
I'm not trying to harp on you, but I am giving you insights as to why some things are done the way they are, and why some things haven't been done yet.
In fact, that's what these forums are for--to discuss what mineserver is, will be, and what it can do.
Yeah, handling user data is what gave me the idea for using SQL, that would probably be its best use case.
Kika64 on IRC pointed out a recent update for minecraft to me.
http://mojang.com/2011/02/16/minecraft-save-file-format-in-beta-1-3/
This seems like a good improvement. I see that it is already on the todo list.
That would just make it tougher on SQL since there's more than one chunk per record, in that case. Then again, if you're going in SQL, it may just be different anyway... why follow Notch's format?
Ligustah
I don't see how SQL should bring any performance improvements. It doesn't even
make things easier.
Relational Databases are not supposed to be used with lots of binary data. It's more about
storing data that somehow relates to each other. And it's even more about building complex queries based on the data saved.
I really can't see where this matches with the type of data, which minecraft deals with.
There was a bit of a concession developed on IRC.
It was foolish of me to think that storing map data in SQL was a good idea. However, storing user data in a sqlite database would allow for much more flexibility and performance.
What it really comes down to though is whether or not anyone is willing to implement it. I had considered it, but I wanted to get people's opinions before I got started.
is willing to implement it. I had considered it
Plugins are cool.
I wonder if plugins can take over the world loader/saver for everything except chunk files...
If not, it's not that hard to add hooks. A plugin would be the way to go because then people would be able to write plugins for whatever kind of databases they want.
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So Rosie O’Donnell Just Accused the President of Incest
Pelosi Announces House Resolution Condemning Trump’s ‘Xenophobic’ Tweets
Lindsey Graham: AOC and Her Squad Are a Bunch of Anti-American Communists
Ilhan Omar Says She Loves America More Than Natural Born Citizens
Poll: Democrats Pride in America Hits All-Time Low
According to a new poll conducted by Gallup, the number of Americans expressing ‘extreme’ pride in their country has fallen to it’s lowest point since the question was asked starting in 2001.
While Republican response to the patriotic measure has stayed fairly consistent throughout the years, Democrat pride in their country has fallen exponentially since Trump’s election.
And it continues to get worse.
Survey results show that as the Fourth of July holiday celebration approaches, while 70 percent of Americans say they are proud of their country, less than 50 percent said they were “extremely proud” for the second straight year.
Pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup started asking about it in 2001, according to a poll released Tuesday, with less half of adults surveyed now saying they’re “extremely” proud to be Americans. https://t.co/QW4zf5GWYM
— Dushan Skorich?ﾟﾓﾺ? (@dukeduluth) July 2, 2019
Democrats Are Ashamed of America
What is the driving force behind that anti-American sentiment? Democrats in the era of President Trump.
“Democrats continue to lag far behind Republicans in expressing extreme pride in the U.S.,” Gallup writes.
A report in The Hill captures how the Republican party does not allow politics to affect their patriotism, whereas Democrats are clearly only proud of their country when people they like are in office.
“Republicans’ latest reading — 76 percent — is 10 points below the record high in 2003, according to Gallup,” the Hill relays. “Republicans’ extreme pride has never fallen below 68 percent, even when former President Barack Obama was in office, the survey giant noted.”
Republicans have always loved their country, no matter who is in the White House.
Democrats – not so much.
“The latest overall declines in patriotism are largely driven by Democrats,” Gallup explains.
“Democrats’ latest 22% extreme pride reading is the group’s lowest in Gallup’s 19 years of measurement, and is half of what it was several months before Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.”
Less than one in four Democrats are “extremely proud” of America. And a higher percentage lost that feeling after Trump’s election.
It certainly comes as no surprise that Democrats are embarrassed about the country with President Trump at the helm. There can, however, be an argument that even prior to that, a good portion of them didn’t think that highly of America in the first place.
Several prominent Democrats running to become this nation’s leader have expressed their disdain for the country.
Pete Buttigieg said America “was never as great as advertised.”
Cory Booker has said, “There’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”
Socialist curmudgeon Bernie Sanders announced that “there is something fundamentally immoral and wrong about (America).”
They want to fundamentally transform this great country into a liberal cesspool. We know this about the Democrat party – the Gallup poll simply confirms their hatred of this nation.
According to a new poll, the number of Americans expressing 'extreme' pride in their country has fallen to it's lowest point, dragged down by Democrats.
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Subject: Recent IPO Movers of the Week (June 26-30, 2017)
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Recent IPO Movers of the Week (June 26-30, 2017)
By Stephen Mack, Associate Editor, Money Morning • July 5, 2017
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Our list of recent IPO* movers of the week is less eventful than last week's, with nothing like the 140% rise of P10 Industries Inc. (OTCMKTS: PIOE) this time around.
Topping the list of winners is BeyondSpring Inc. (Nasdaq: BYSI), which gained 20.1% for the week. The New York-based company, which is involved in the development of cancer therapies, has been quiet on the news front. That may be why its impressive rise prompted Zacks Investment Research to downgrade the stock from a "Hold" to a "Sell" this week. Shares closed the week at $42.88, just about at HC Wainwright's price target of $43.
ObsEva SA (Nasdaq: OBSV) and Kadmon Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KDMN) both repeated on the winners list.
ObsEva added an 18.6% rise to its 32.3% spike the week before. Last week, HC Wainwright called ObsEva an "unsung potential winner," setting a price target of $27. Shares in the pharmaceutical company, which specializes in women's fertility, closed the week at $8.32.
Kadmon jumped 15.1% after a 23.4% rise the previous week. Shares are now up just under 60% over the past month for the New York-based biopharmaceutical company. Kadmon had been in free fall since its IPO in July 2016, but the market seems to be looking at it more fondly lately. The stock currently has a "Buy" rating at Zacks Investment Research.
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Jounce Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: JNCE) was the big loser of the week, falling 19.6% to close at $14.03 on Friday. The Massachusetts-based company, which specializes in cancer immunotherapies, has been in a slide ever since it hit a high of $28.32 in late April. It closed on Friday at $14.03, an all-time low since its IPO in January.
Ra Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: RARX) was down 18.6% for the week and closed on Friday nearly 30% lower than its all-time high reached in mid-May. Last week, Ra released disappointing mid-stage data on a drug candidate to treat paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Jeffries analyst Eun Yang has dismissed the setback and calls the sell-off a buying opportunity.
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About MCB
An Alternative Promoter in the Mouse Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II I-Aβ Gene: Implications for the Origin of CpG Islands
Donald Macleod, Robin R. Ali, Adrian Bird
Donald Macleod
Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, Scotland, 1 and
Robin R. Ali
Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Ophthalmology, London ECIV 9EL, United Kingdom 2
Adrian Bird
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.8.4433
Nonmethylated CpG islands are generally located at the 5′ ends of genes, but a CpG island in the mouse major histocompatibility complex class II I-Aβ gene is remote from the promoter and covers exon 2. We have found that this CpG island includes a novel intronic promoter that is active in embryonic and germ cells. The resulting transcript potentially encodes a severely truncated protein which would lack the signal peptide and external β1 domains. The functional significance of the internal CpG island may be to facilitate gene conversion, thereby sustaining the high level of polymorphism seen at exon 2. Deletions of the I-Aβ CpG island promoter reduce transcription and frequently lead to methylation of the CpG island in a transgenic mouse assay. These and other results support the idea that all CpG islands arise at promoters that are active in early embryonic cells.
CpG islands are discrete clusters of nonmethylated CpG dinucleotides that altogether make up about 1 to 2% of the mammalian genome (4, 7). About 56% of sequenced human genes have CpG islands near their 5′ ends, including all those that are ubiquitously expressed (housekeeping genes) plus many genes with a tissue-restricted pattern of expression (4, 24, 25,43). Promoters are normally located at the upstream edge of the CpG island, with the result that one or more of the 5′ exons of the gene generally fall within the island region. In spite of the high density of the methylatable sequence CpG, most CpG islands are nonmethylated in all tissues, including those in which the gene is silent. A small proportion of islands become methylated during development, however, notably those associated with genes of the inactive X chromosome and some parentally imprinted genes (22, 55,63).
The existence of CpG islands depends on their ability to remain methylation free in the germ line. In the event of methylation, CpGs would be lost, as 5-methylcytosine is a hot spot for mutation and the island region would eventually become indistinguishable from bulk DNA (34). There is evidence for CpG island loss of this kind at the α1-globin pseudogene in humans (8). What is the mechanism which normally protects this subset of CpGs from methylation? The simple idea that CpG islands are intrinsically unmethylatable is opposed by the finding that some become methylated during development and many acquire methylation in permanent cell lines or tumors (3,31, 33, 41). Similarly, there is little evidence for restricted access of the DNA methyltransferase to CpG island chromatin, as these regions are in fact hyperaccessible to exogenous nucleases (2). Progress in understanding the origin of CpG islands has been made through studies of the mouse and hamster aprtgenes. Macleod et al. (47) located the boundaries of the methylation-free island, the positions of nucleosomes, and the sites of protein factor binding. Three GC boxes that interacted with the transcription factor Sp1 in vitro (20) were found to be occupied in vivo, and site-directed mutagenesis showed that these sites were essential to protect the CpG island from methylation. The Sp1 binding sites that were mutated in this study had been previously shown to drive transcription in vitro (20). Mutation of GC boxes within hamster aprt transgenes also resulted in methylation of this CpG island (11).
Although the results for hamster and mouse aprt genes were similar, two somewhat different models were put forward to account for them. Brandeis et al. (11) proposed that Sp1 binding may exert a localized demethylating effect that is independent of its effect on transcription, by directly protecting CpGs from the DNA methyltransferase or by interacting with other factors to actively demodify methylated CpG. Demethylation of the entire island region would in this case depend on occupation of GC boxes over the length of the CpG island. On the other hand, Macleod et al. (47) suggested that the methylation-free status of the aprt CpG island depended on the presence of a functional promoter at the 5′ edge of the island. This proposal is compatible with the preferential location of CpG islands at promoters, although it does not account for their origin in detail.
If all CpG islands are dependent on promoter function, then they should be associated with demonstrable promoter activity in vivo. This prediction is easily met by CpG islands at housekeeping genes, which are transcribed in all tissues. It is less obvious, however, that CpG islands at highly tissue restricted genes or those that are remote from a known promoter should maintain their methylation-free status via a mechanism that depends on transcription. To test the “CpG island promoter” hypothesis, we sought a model gene with highly tissue restricted expression that possessed a CpG island. It has been noted previously that many of the human and mouse major histocompatibility locus (MHC) genes contain CpG-rich regions (64). Class II genes encode α and β peptide chains which form heterodimers on the cell surface, and their expression is primarily restricted to cells of the immune system, such as B cells and macrophages, although low levels of antigen have been found in several other cell types (36,61). An analysis of human and mouse genomic DNA sequences for class II genes shows that only the β-chain genes have CpG-rich regions and in these cases the CpG island does not include the gene promoter but is located well downstream of it, spanning the second exon. It appeared unlikely at first sight that the presence of the CpG island could be related to transcription. We therefore chose to examine the mouse MHC class II I-Aβ gene in detail, as it presents an interesting example of a gene, expressed in only a subset of tissues, which contains a CpG island in an apparently misplaced location relative to the gene’s promoter.
Nucleic acid preparation.DNA was isolated from various mouse tissues by homogenization in 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8)–100 mM EDTA–100 mM NaCl. Proteinase K was added to 100 μg/ml, and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was added to 1%. Samples were incubated for 16 h and then extracted with 1:1 phenol-chloroform and precipitated with isopropanol. RNA was extracted by the method of Chomczynski and Sacchi (13). RNA from 25 3.5-day (3.5d) blastocysts was prepared by a modification of the above method (37).
Analysis of gene expression. (i) Northern blot hybridization.Generally 10 μg of total RNA/track was run on 1.2% agarose-formaldehyde gels, blotted onto Hybond N+nylon membranes (Amersham), and UV cross-linked. Random-primed DNA probes were made (21) by using a kit (Boehringer). Hybridization of filters was at 68°C in 0.5 M NaPi (pH 7.2)–7% SDS–1 mM EDTA (14). Filters were washed at 68°C in 2× SSC (1× SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M sodium citrate)–0.1% SDS for 30 min twice and then three times for 30 min in 0.1× SSC–0.1% SDS at 68°C. Hybridized filters were exposed to Kodak XAR-5 autoradiographic film. Blots were rehybridized with an S26 ribosomal protein probe (65).
(ii) RNase protection.A SmaI subclone from intron 1 of the I-Aβd gene (positions 1385 to 1562 [see Fig. 3c]) was cloned into BlueScribe vector (Stratagene). The vector was linearized with HindIII and used to make a32P-labeled RNA probe by using T7 RNA polymerase. The in vitro reaction mix contained 1 μg of DNA, 40 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.9), 6 mM MgCl2, 2 mM spermidine, 0.5 mM GTP, UTP, and ATP, 100 μM CTP, 10 mM dithiothreitol, 40 U of RNasin (Promega), 50 μCi of [32P]CTP (3,000 Ci/mmol; Amersham), and 20 U of T7 RNA polymerase (Promega) in 20 μl. Labeled RNA was purified on an acrylamide-urea gel and eluted from the gel slice in 0.5 M ammonium acetate–1 mM EDTA at 37°C for 3 h; 100,000 cpm of labeled RNA was used in each RNase protection reaction. Generally 40 μg of total RNA from mouse tissues or tRNA was used. RNA samples were ethanol precipitated with the probe, and the dried pellet was resuspended in 20 μl of 40 mM piperazine-N,N′-bis(2-ethanesulfonic acid) (PIPES; pH 7)–200 mM sodium acetate–80% formamide and denatured at 90°C for 3 min before incubation at 50°C for 16 h. Reaction mixes were placed on ice, and 300 μl of RNase mix (10 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.5], 5 mM EDTA, 300 mM NaCl, 12 μg of RNase A, 300 U of RNase T1 [Gibco/BRL]) was added. Samples were incubated at 37°C for 15 to 60 min before addition of 10 μl of 20% SDS and 50 μg of proteinase K and continuation of incubation at 37°C for 15 min before phenol-chloroform extraction and ethanol precipitation with 10 μg of carrier tRNA. Dried samples were resuspended in 80% formamide-dye mix and run on 10% acrylamide–7 M urea gels, which were dried and exposed to Kodak XAR-5 autoradiograph film.
(iii) S1 protection.An end-labeled probe was made by kinase labeling 100 ng of exon 2 primer MHX8 (5′-GGT GTA GTA GCA CTC GCC CTT GAA CTG G-3′, positions 1629 to 1602 [see Fig. 3c]) with [γ-32P]ATP. This was used with upstream primer MHC2 (5′-CCC AAC TTT TGG TGT CCC TTA G-3′) in a PCR for 20 cycles (see below for conditions) using plasmid pAβpolyA as a template. The 379-bp labeled fragment was purified on an acrylamide-urea gel, and 100,000 cpm of the probe was precipitated with 40 μg of tRNA or total RNA isolated from spleen, liver, or testis. The dried pellet was resuspended in 30 μl of 40 mM PIPES–1 mM EDTA–0.4 M NaCl–80% formamide and overlaid with 30 μl of mineral oil (6). Samples were denatured at 90°C for 3 min before incubation overnight at 50°C. S1 nuclease digestion of the hybrid molecules was achieved by dilution of the reaction mixtures with 300 μl of 0.28 M NaCl–50 mM sodium acetate (pH 4.5)–4.5 mM zinc sulfate–20 μg of sonicated salmon sperm DNA per ml–100 U of S1 nuclease and incubation at 45°C for 90 min. The amount of S1 nuclease was determined empirically. Hybrids were ethanol precipitated with 20 μg of carrier tRNA and electrophoresed on a 6% acrylamide–7 M urea gel, which was dried and exposed to Kodak XAR-5 autoradiographic film.
(iv) RT-PCR.One microgram of total RNA from mouse tissues, or approximately 100 ng of total RNA from mouse 3.5d blastocysts, was annealed to 0.5 μg of oligo(dT) (18-mer) primer in a volume of 12 μl with diethylpyrocarbonate-treated water. The sample was heated at 70°C for 10 min and chilled on ice. The reaction mix, in a volume of 20 μl, contained 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.3), 75 mM KCl, 3 mM MgCl2, 0.5 mM deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs), 40 U of RNasin (Promega), and 200 U of Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (Gibco/BRL) and was incubated at 42°C for 2 h. Reactions were stopped by heating at 70°C for 15 min, and 2 μl of the cDNA sample was used in reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) using gene-specific primer pairs in a 50-μl reaction mix containing 20 mM ammonium sulfate, 75 mM Tris-HCl (pH 9), 0.001% (wt/vol) Tween, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 0.2 mM dNTP, 50 pM each primer, and 1 U of RedHot DNA polymerase (Advanced Biotechnologies). In some cases (aprt), 10% dimethyl sulfoxide was also added. Primers were chosen from different exons to avoid misinterpretation of results due to possible contaminating genomic DNA. The reaction mixtures were denatured at 94°C for 2 min before cycling 25 times (92°C for 30 s, 55°C for 30 s, and 2 min at 72°C), with an additional 10-min extension at 72°C; 20 μl of each reaction product was run on 1.5% agarose gels. Ethidium bromide-stained PCR bands were visualized under UV, and in all cases a PCR product of the expected size was confirmed by Southern blotting and hybridization to a32P-labeled internal oligomer. Hybridization buffer was as above, with incubation at 55°C overnight. Several washes were performed with 2× SSC at room temperature.
Primers were chosen from different exons so that the correctly spliced RT-PCR products could be distinguished from unprocessed transcripts or contaminating DNA.
Primers used for the MHC I-Aβ gene (48) were exon 1 forward primer MRT1 (5′-CAC AGC AGG TGT GAG TCC TG-3′), exon 3 reverse primer MRT4 (5′-GGG AGA TGG CGA CAT TGG GC-3′), intron 1 forward primer MRT3 (5′-GGG CTG ACC GCGTCC GTC CG-3′), and exon 2 internal primer MRT-2 (5′-CGC TCC AGG ATC TCC GGC TG-3′). Primers used for theaprt gene (19) were exon 1 forward primer ART-1 (5′-CGG AAC CTG AGT TGA AAC TG-3′), exon 5 reverse primer ART-2 (5′-GGT CCT AGC CTC TCC CTG CCC-3′), and exon 5 internal primer ART3 (5′-GTC AGC TCC ACC AGG CTC AC-3′). Primers for the mouse 68-kDa neurofilament gene (5′-CGC CGA AGA GTG GTT CAA GAG-3′ and 5′-GTA GGA GCT GCT CTG CAA GCC-3′ and internal primer 5′-GCT CTG AGA GTA GCC GCT GG-3′) (45) gave a 472-bp product. Primers for the mouseSCL (stem cell leukemia) gene (5′-GCC GGT CTG CCT ACA CCG GC-3′ and 5′-CCC CGA AGC TGG GTT TCC CGG-3′ and internal primer 5′-GGA CTC TTG GTG GAC AGG ACC-3′) (5) gave a 245-bp product. Primers for the mouse Twist gene (5′-CCA GGT ACA TCG ACT TCC TG-3′ and 5′-CTG TCC ACG GGC CTG TCT CGC-3′ and internal primer 5′-CTT CTC CGT CTG GAG GAT GG-3′) (67) gave a 372-bp product. Primers for the mouse opsin gene (5′-CTA CAT CCT GCT CAA CTT GGC-3′ and 5′-TGA CAA AGG TAA CGT TGT TGA C-3′ and internal primer 5′-TCG GGG AGA ATC ACG CTA TC-3′) (1) gave 396- and ∼200-bp products due to differential splicing (1). Primers for the mouse β-globin gene (5′-GAC CTA TCC TCT GCC TCT GCT A-3′ and 5′-AGC ACA ATC ACG ATC ATA TTG C-3′ and internal primer 5′-TGC AGC TTG TCA CAG TGG AG-3′) (40) gave a 203-bp product. Primers for the mouse casein gene (5′-TGA ATC TCA TGG GAC AGC TG-3′ and 5′-GGA TTC CAG TTC AGG AGA AAT G-3′ and internal primer 5′-TCA CTC CAG CAT CCA GTC AC-3′) (70) gave a 226-bp product. Primers for the mouse skeletal muscle α-actin gene (5′-GCG AGG TAT CCT GAC CCT GA-3′ and 5′-CTG GAC CTG GCC GGT CGC GAC-3′ and internal primer 5′-GCT ATG TGG CCC TGG ACT TC-3′) (29) gave a 744-bp product.
DNA methylation analysis.Samples of DNA (10 μg) from various mouse tissues were digested with an excess of restriction enzyme overnight, using buffers and enzymes supplied by the manufacturer (New England Biolabs). A sample of each reaction mix (1/10) was added to 0.1 μg of plasmid DNA as a control for completeness of digestion. Samples were electrophoresed on 1.5% agarose gels by using standard methods and Southern blotted to Hybond N+ nylon membranes (Amersham). Probes and hybridization conditions were as for Northern blotting. Digests were repeated several times to confirm results.
Production of transgenic mice.Transgenic mice were produced by microinjection of linearized transgene fragments at 1 μg/ml in 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5)–0.1 mM EDTA, using standard procedures (26). Donor mice were F2 animals from a C57BL/6 × CBA/Ca cross.
The mouse I-Aβ gene CpG island is nonmethylated in expressing and nonexpressing tissues.Figure 1A shows a plot of CpG and GpC distribution through the mouse I-Eα gene and I-Aβ gene DNA sequences (30, 48). A 600-bp CpG cluster can be seen in the I-Aβ gene, which incorporates exon 2. It is unlikely that the CpG-rich character of exon 2 is maintained due to a selective requirement for CpG-containing codons, as alternative CpG-poor codons could specify the same amino acid sequence. For example, 10 of the 13 codons specifying arginine have CG rather than AG as the first two nucleotides of the codon. In the remainder of the protein, only 4 of 11 arginines use the CG-containing codon. There is no clustering of CpG dinucleotides in the I-Eα gene sequence. The position of the CpG island is unusual, as these regions are normally located at the 5′ end of the gene. To determine whether the I-Aβ CpG island is nonmethylated, DNA samples from various adult tissues were tested by using methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes (Fig. 1B). Sites within the island were found to be nonmethylated in all tissues examined. Figure 1B shows some of this analysis using DNA extracted from an expressing tissue (kidney) and from nonexpressing tissues (liver and brain). All of these samples are cleaved with the methylation-sensitive enzymes, as were DNA samples from spleen and testis DNA (data not shown). The I-Aβ CpG island is therefore nonmethylated in all tissues tested, regardless of expression.
The I-Aβ gene contains a nonmethylated CpG island over the second exon. (A) Map plots of the mouse MHC class II I-Eα and I-Aβ gene sequences (30, 48), represented by horizontal lines numbered above in base pairs. The short vertical lines indicate the positions of CpG or GpC dinucleotides in the DNA sequence. The rectangular boxes represent gene exon arrangements, and the bracket under the I-Aβ map plot shows the position of the CpG island. (B) Southern blot of DNA isolated from various adult BALB/c mouse tissues hybridized to a BsaI probe from the I-Aβ gene (see below). Digests were carried out with 10 μg of DNA/track withHindIII (H) or HindIII in addition toHpaII (Hp), HhaI (Hh), SmaI (Sm), orSacII (Sa). The HindIII-alone digest is only shown in the kidney sample (first track). DNA marker sizes are noted at the left. (C) Map plot of the I-Aβ gene HindIII fragment showing the position of the CpG cluster over the second exon and the relative positions of the methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme sites used in the methylation analysis. Although it is likely that all of the HpaII and HhaI sites are cleaved within the CpG island, only sites which are resolved by electrophoresis are indicated by lollipops. A bar at the bottom shows the position of the BsaI probe. Exons are indicated by rectangles.
The MHC class II I-Aβ gene uses an alternative CpG island promoter in testis.To test the CpG island promoter model, we analyzed RNA samples from various adult tissues by Northern blot hybridization. A DNA probe which includes the second exon of the I-Aβ gene (Fig. 2D) detected a transcript of the expected size (1.4 kb) in total RNA samples from spleen, kidney, maxillary salivary gland, and testis. No expression was seen in brain or liver (Fig. 2A). Low levels of I-Aβ protein have been detected in rat renal tubule cells (27), but to our knowledge, expression in salivary gland has not been reported. An exon 1 probe (Fig. 2D) detected expression in the same tissues but, surprisingly, not in testis RNA (Fig. 2B). This result suggested that an alternative promoter could be used in testis. As transcription initiates at the 5′ edge of the CpG island in many genes, it was possible that transcription may also initiate at this position in the I-Aβ island, within the first intron. An intronic probe (Fig. 2D) indeed detected a 1.4-kb transcript in testis but not in the other tissues (Fig. 2C).
An alternative CpG island-specific promoter is used in BALB/c testis. (A to C) Autoradiographs showing Northern blot analysis using for each track 10 μg of total RNA isolated from BALB/c mouse brain (B), kidney (K), liver (L), maxillary salivary gland (M), spleen (S), or testis (T) and probed with probe A, B, or C (see panel D). The arrow indicates the position of the 1.4-kb transcript, and the lower panels show control hybridization with an S26 ribosomal protein probe. (D) CpG map plot of the MHC class II I-Aβ gene showing positions of probes A to C. The scale is shown in kilobase pairs. Probe A is aBsaI fragment used to detect transcripts containing exon 2; probe B is a HindIII/NdeI probe used to detect exon 1; probe C is a SmaI fragment used to detect transcripts which include intron 1. The transcriptional start sites for the normal (I) and CpG island (II) promoters are indicated. The spliced exon arrangement for each transcript is shown below. The position of an in-frame ATG is indicated in transcript II.
The transcriptional initiation sites were exactly mapped within the first intron by S1 protection (Fig. 3a) and confirmed by RNase protection (Fig. 3b). This analysis showed multiple transcriptional start sites within the first intron in testis which were located 60 to 90 bp upstream of the I-Aβ exon II boundary (Fig. 3c). In agreement with Northern blot analysis, S1 protection showed that the CpG island promoter is not detectably active in spleen cells (Fig. 3a) where the normal I-Aβ promoter is used. A larger hybridizing transcript in the spleen sample, which fully protected the S1 probe, may be due to unprocessed mRNA transcribed from the upstream promoter (Fig. 3a). Although different promoters are used, the testis and spleen transcripts are approximately the same size, as predicted by Northern blot hybridization (Fig. 2A). The testis transcripts do not contain exon 1 and are believed to be correctly processed based on transcript size and RT-PCR analysis (see below). Transcripts were located in late spermatogenic germ cells by in situ analysis (data not shown). If the transcript produced in the germ cells were to be translated, the truncated peptide would not contain the putative signal peptide sequence or the external β1domain (48), as the next in-frame ATG is in the third exon (Fig. 2).
Mapping of transcriptional start sites originating from the I-Aβ CpG island. (a) Autoradiograph showing the results of S1 mapping using a 379-bp end-labeled DNA probe (see panel c) annealed with 50 μg of total RNA in each reaction. Samples were control tRNA (C), liver RNA (L), spleen RNA (S), testis RNA (T), and marker (A). The arrowed band (P) indicates the position of the full-sized probe which is fully protected in the spleen sample. The protected bands in the testis RNA track are numbered according to distance (in bases) from the intron 1/exon 2 boundary (see below). Faint bands at the top are artifacts arising in the probe preparation. Samples were run on a 6% acrylamide–7 M urea gel. (b) Autoradiograph showing the results of RNase protection using a labeled antisense RNA probe prepared from theSmaI fragment from intron 1. The probe was hybridized to 50 μg of tRNA (C) or total testis RNA (T). Tracks A and G are random DNA sequence reactions used as a marker (M). Reactions were treated with RNase for 15 min (tracks 1 and 4), 30 min (tracks 2 and 5), or 60 min (tracks 3 and 6). As in panel a, numbers at the right indicate distance of protected fragments from the intron 1/exon 2 boundary. The difference in sizes of protected fragments obtained by RNase protection and S1 nuclease protection reflects the different mobilities of RNA and DNA molecules in denaturing gels. Samples were electrophoresed on 10% acrylamide–7 M urea gels. (c) Part of the mouse MHC class II I-Aβ gene sequence (48). Arrows show the positions of transcriptional start sites in testis as determined by S1 protection. The boxed region indicates exon 2. The positions of the restriction endonuclease sites SacI and NaeI, which were used to construct the pAβΔSN transgene, are underlined with a dashed line (deletion from 1348 to 1511). The SmaI site, used to construct pAβΔPS, is underlined (all sequences upstream of position 1565 are deleted in this construct). The probe used for S1 analysis (S1) extends from 1251 to 1625; the antisense RNase protection probe (R) extends between 1562 and 1383.
The I-Aβ CpG island promoter is also active in embryonic cells.We were interested to know if the I-Aβ CpG island promoter is active at low levels in other tissues. We detected low levels of expression with an exon 2 probe in cultured embryonic stem (ES) cells by Northern blot hybridization (data not shown), but lack of sensitivity did not allow us to determine if this hybridization was due to activity of the normal or CpG island promoter. We therefore chose RT-PCR as a more sensitive assay method. Two sets of DNA primers were used; primers p1 and p4 (exon 1 and exon 3) detect spliced transcripts originating from the upstream promoter, and primers p3 and p4 (intron 1 and exon 3) detect spliced transcripts initiating from the CpG island promoter (Fig. 4). First-strand cDNA was made from a variety of RNA samples primed with oligo(dT). Amplified DNA molecules of the correct size were detected by ethidium bromide staining following gel electrophoresis and confirmed by Southern blot hybridization to an end-labeled internal DNA oligomer. This analysis was repeated several times and revealed that, in addition to being active in testis, the I-Aβ CpG island promoter was active in ES cells but was not detectably active, after 25 cycles of PCR, in cDNA samples from ovary, kidney, brain, liver, or spleen (Fig. 4). Activity of the normal I-Aβ promoter was not detected in ES cells but was strongly detected, as expected, in spleen and kidney. A weaker PCR band was also detected in testis even though Northern hybridization showed only trace amounts (Fig. 2B). In all experiments, the correct fragments were detected only in samples which contained reverse transcriptase in the cDNA synthesis reaction. The same cDNA samples were also used to amplify transcripts from the mouse aprt gene as a control (Fig. 4).
The CpG island promoter of I-Aβ is active in testis and ES cells. RT-PCR analysis using cDNA samples prepared from testis, ES cells, ovary (Ova.), kidney (Kid.), brain, liver, and spleen (Spl.) RNA derived from BALB/c mice; + and − indicate with or without reverse transcriptase in the preparation of cDNA. The results are presented as autoradiographs hybridized to an internal labeled oligomer. PCR bands amplified from the CpG island (CGI) promoter (top row) were obtained by using primers p3 and p4; those from the normal 5′ promoter (middle row) were obtained with primers p1 and p4. A labeled primer (p2) was used for Southern blot hybridization. The bottom row shows control RT-PCR using the same cDNA samples, with primers from the mouse aprt gene. The lower portion shows a CpG map plot of the I-Aβ gene. The exon arrangement of the gene is shown under the CpG plot, and the positions of primers p1 to p4 used for the RT-PCR analysis are numbered. Arrows above the CpG plot refer to the transcriptional start sites for the normal promoter (I) and the CpG island promoter (II). The spliced exon arrangements are shown underneath, and the sizes of the RT-PCR bands with each of the primer sets are noted. Transcript I is derived from the normal promoter, and transcript II is derived from the CpG island promoter.
Are most CpG island promoters active in ES cells?We wished to examine whether other CpG island promoters of tissue specific genes were also expressed in ES cells. Primers were designed from a variety of CpG island-associated mouse genes that are expressed tissue specifically in the adult. RT-PCR analysis was carried out on ES cell cDNA by using primers from the 68-kDa neurofilament gene (45), the SCL gene, which is expressed during hematopoiesis (5), the Twist gene, which is expressed during embryogenesis and in adult skin (67), and the MyoD1 gene, which is expressed during myogenesis (17, 72). In addition we tested genes which did not contain CpG islands: those encoding β-globin (40), opsin (1), skeletal muscle-specific α-actin (29), and casein (70). The results are shown in Table1. Transcripts were detected in ES cells from three of the four genes which had CpG islands; SCL, 68-kDa neorofilament, and Twist. We were unable to detect transcripts of the myogenesis gene MyoD1 in ES cells although it possesses a CpG island. Conversely, transcripts from the β-globin, opsin, skeletal muscle-specific α-actin, and casein genes, which are highly tissue specific but lack CpG islands, were absent under the same conditions.
RT-PCR data showing whether a specific gene is expressed in a particular mouse tissue or in ES cells
Promoter inactivation can lead to methylation of the I-Aβ CpG island.Previous analyses have shown that embryonic cells (ES cells and F9 cells) and transgenic mice have the ability to recognize a CpG island and keep it free of methylation (11, 23, 39, 47). We wanted to test if this was also the case for the mouse I-Aβ CpG island and, in addition, if lack of methylation was related to expression. A truncated I-Aβ gene construct was made by using a 3,364-bp fragment from the I-Aβd gene (48) which extends from a PstI site within exon 1 to anAccI site in exon 3. The AccI end was ligated to a fragment from simian virus 40 containing a polyadenylation initiation sequence. The resulting construct (pAβpolyA) contained only the CpG island promoter, as the normal promoter was deleted (Fig.5a), and transcripts originating from this promoter should be, on average, 720 bp. Thus, the transgene-specific transcripts could be distinguished in size from the endogenous 1.4-kb transcript. We produced six transgenic mouse lines with the pAβpolyA construct, five of which were subjected to expression analysis. Like the endogenous CpG island promoter, the transgene transcript was highly expressed in testis (Fig. 5b and c) but was not present in spleen, kidney, or brain (Fig. 5b). The transgene was also transcribed at lower levels in the ovaries of founder animals (data not shown).
Reduced promoter activity can lead to increased de novo methylation of the I-Aβ gene CpG island. (a) Transgene constructs based on the mouse MHC class II I-Aβ gene. The distribution of CpG dinucleotides in the I-Aβ gene, indicated by short vertical lines, is shown at the top. The clustered arrows indicate positions of the transcriptional start sites in testis. The positions ofHpaII sites relative to the gene sequence are also shown. Underneath the map plot is the normal exon arrangement of the endogenous gene, and below this is shown the arrangement contained in each of the transgenes. The normal gene promoter is deleted in each transgene. Positions of the BamHI (B) and AflII (A) sites are indicated. (b) Analysis of expression in transgenic mice. Total RNA extracted from brain (B), kidney (K), spleen (S), and testis (T) hybridized to probe A from exon 2 (Fig. 2). Samples were derived from nontransgenic (C57BL6 × CBA/Ca)F2 animals (CB6), BALB/c mice, or a transgenic founder (P19) containing the pAβpolyA transgene. Note that BALB/c testis expression of the endogenous I-Aβ gene is much higher than that of the nontransgenic (CB6) littermates (undetectable at this exposure). Positions of the endogenous (E) and transgenic (T) transcripts are indicated. (c) Analysis of expression from the testes of nontransgenic CB6 mice (C) or transgenic lines (numbered). In all cases, 10 μg of RNA was loaded except for the last two tracks (17 and 19), where 7 μg was loaded. The transgenes (Fig.5a) are pAβpolyA, pAβΔSN, and pAβΔPS. Positions of the endogenous (E) and transgenic (T) transcripts are indicated. The lower panel shows the same filter hybridized to the S26 ribosomal gene control probe. (d) Analysis of DNA methylation in animals carrying the undeleted control transgene pAβpolyA (left; P11 and P16) or from the deleted construct pAβΔPS (right). DNA from a nontransgenic littermate is also included in the right-hand panel (CB6). DNA (10 μg) was cleaved in the pAβpolyA samples with AflII andBamHI or in the pAβΔPS samples with BamHI alone (tracks B) or in addition to the methylation-sensitiveHpaII (tracks H) or its methylation-insensitive isoschizomerMspI (tracks M). Southern blots were probed with theBsaI fragment (Fig. 2D). In both panels, positions of the transgene-specific band (T) and the endogenous band (E) are indicated. Positions of molecular weight markers are shown at the left. Note that these are composite figures obtained from different gels and unequal exposures, and lower-molecular-weight bands do not always align exactly.
It is interesting that the endogenous I-Aβ gene in nontransgenic littermates was expressed at much lower levels in the testis compared with BALB/c mice (Fig. 5b). These mice are derived from an F2 cross between C57BL/6 and CBA/Ca parents and provided the fertilized eggs which are the recipients of the transgene DNA. Lower levels of endogenous gene expression in testis of nontransgenic littermates may be due to sequence differences in the intronic CpG island promoter region. The transgenes are of the Aβdhaplotype, cloned from BALB/c mice (48), and the C57BL/6 and CBA/Ca mice have the I-Aβb and I-Aβkhaplotypes, respectively (38). A comparison between the available genomic sequences, the I-Aβd (48) and I-Aβb (42) haplotypes, revealed several polymorphisms in this region, some of which may contribute to differences in expression.
Samples of DNA from the tails of pAβpolyA founder animals or from adult kidney, testis, or spleen were tested for transgene methylation by using methylation-sensitive restriction enzymes HpaII,SacII, and HhaI, which have multiple sites within the CpG island (Fig. 1B). The transgenic DNA from all six transgenic lines was cleaved with these enzymes and is therefore nonmethylated at the tested sites. Examples of DNA digested with methylation-sensitiveHpaII and its methylation-insensitive isoschizomerMspI are shown in Fig. 5d. Thus, the integrated pAβpolyA transgenes have nonmethylated CpG islands as does the endogenous gene.
To determine whether transcriptional activity is required to prevent methylation, we attempted to inactivate the CpG island promoter by making promoter-proximal deletions of pAβpolyA. The pAβΔSN transgene contains a 113-bp SacI/NaeI deletion which removes some of the transcriptional start sites and the region immediately upstream (Fig. 3c). In the pAβΔPS construct, all sequences upstream of a SmaI site (23 bp upstream of the second exon) were removed from pAβpolyA (Fig. 3c), thereby deleting all of the testis-specific initiation sites and potential transcription factor binding sites upstream. Transgenic lines were produced from these constructs, and transgene expression in adult testes was examined by Northern blot hybridization (Fig. 5). Transgene transcription was detected in the testis samples from all three founder pAβΔSN transgenic lines and three tested founder pAβΔPS lines. However, the level of expression is much lower than in the pAβpolyA transgenic mice (Fig. 5c). Methylation of the DNA from transgenic animals was analyzed by using methylation-sensitive enzymes. Transgenic DNAs from all six founder animals produced with the pAβΔSN transgene were found to be nonmethylated (data not shown). However, 4 of 10 founder animals produced with the pAβΔPS construct showed extensive methylation of the transgene, based on their resistance to cleavage by HpaII (Fig. 5d). The results indicate that deletions of the CpG island promoter and upstream regions are associated with an increased frequency of de novo methylation of the CpG island.
A promoter within a mouse MHC class II gene.Our motivation for studying the MHC class II I-Aβ gene was to test the proposition that all CpG islands mark promoters and depend for their existence on transcription. This well-studied gene was thought to represent a serious challenge to the hypothesis for two reasons. First, the I-Aβ CpG island, like most other islands, is nonmethylated in all tested tissues, including those that do not express the I-Aβ gene. The correlation between transcription and lack of methylation was therefore absent. Second, the CpG island is in an unusual place, far from the I-Aβ gene promoter, which is itself not associated with a CpG island. We have demonstrated that this CpG island does in fact harbor an alternative promoter which lies within intron 1 and is active in embryonic and germ cells. The promoter is located at the 5′ edge of the CpG island, which extends downstream, encompassing exon 2. Our finding of this novel promoter strengthens the argument that CpG islands invariably contain promoters. Moreover, the position of transcription initiation, close to the periphery of the CpG island, is typical.
Transcripts from this island promoter are abundant in BALB/c testis but are also found in ES cells. In addition, we have detected expression from the CpG island promoter in 3.5d blastocysts by RT-PCR (data not shown). The normal promoter is not active in ES cells, but low levels of expression can be detected in testis by RT-PCR. Transcripts have previously been detected by using the I-Aβ cDNA as a probe on RNA isolated from mouse epididymal sperm cells (52). In these experiments, the cDNA probe does not discriminate between transcripts originating from the normal promoter and the CpG island promoter. We have shown that the great majority of these transcripts are derived from the island promoter. It is still controversial as to whether the I-Aβ protein is located on mouse sperm heads (44). Transcripts derived from the CpG island promoter do not encode exon 1, and as the next initiation codon is in exon 3, a putative peptide would lack the signal sequence and external β1 domain (48). However, we cannot rule out the possibility that such a truncated protein, containing only the dimerization and transmembrane domains, has a function. Certainly any function of a putative peptide would not be essential, as mice lacking MHC class II molecules have a depleted T-cell repertoire and can show reduced growth but are otherwise viable. However, these mice do not breed well (16).
Downstream CpG islands have been observed in a variety of genes, notably those that are tissue specifically expressed (24, 25,43). In the case of the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene and the apolipoprotein-AI and -E genes, the islands are located over the extreme 3′ exons of the genes concerned. Short POMC transcripts that initiate at the edge of the downstream POMC CpG island have been observed in various mammalian species (see reference25 for references). Notably, this CpG island promoter is active in testis, ovary, and embryonic cells of the mouse as well as a subset of other tissues (25). The resulting transcript could in theory give rise to some of the neuropeptides that are normally processed from the translated product of this gene, but the translation product appears to be unprocessed in testis (15). Thus, as proposed for the I-Aβ CpG island transcript, it is possible that the POMC island-derived transcript does not lead to a functional protein product. It has recently been found that the intronic CpG island (region 2) of the Igf2r gene is also associated with promoter activity (27a, 68). These examples further strengthen the connection between promoter activity, particularly in germ cells and embryonic cells, and CpG island formation.
We attempted to test the significance of the I-Aβ CpG island promoter by mutagenesis. Neither minor nor major deletions in the presumed promoter region abolished transgene expression, but both led to significantly reduced levels of transcription in testes of founders. All 6 founders with the small deletion (pAβΔSN) produced the nonmethylated CpG island, but 4 of 10 founders lacking the entire upstream region (pAβΔPS) showed extensive island methylation. Loss of immunity to methylation with the large deletion, but not the small deletion, may suggest the presence of a cis-acting sequence that persists in ΔSN but is absent in ΔPS. As the effects of the two deletions on transcription appears to be approximately similar in testes, the putative demethylating sequence may not act via an effect on promoter activity. In our view this interpretation is premature, as the number of founders is too low to be sure that the probability of CpG island methylation differs significantly between the ΔSN and ΔPS constructs. In addition, transcription of the two transgene constructs would be more usefully assayed in early embryos rather than testes. We have unfortunately been unable to detect transcription of the mutated or unmutated transgenes in blastulae of transgenic mice by RT-PCR. It is not clear whether the transgenes are inactive at this stage or are transcribed at very low levels. In summary, the mutagenesis experiments with the I-Aβ CpG island are less clear-cut than those with the aprt island (47), as point mutations in the latter promoter reliably led to methylation of the CpG island. In view of these uncertainties, the evidence for a causal relationship between transcription of the intronic promoter and lack of methylation at the I-Aβ CpG island must be considered preliminary.
An embryonic origin for CpG islands.If CpG islands arise as a consequence of promoter activity, why do they remain methylation free in tissues where the CpG island promoter is inactive? For example, the I-Aβ island is nonmethylated in liver, yet no CpG island-derived transcript is observed even by RT-PCR. Also, the POMC CpG island transcript is apparently absent in several tissues, and the human α-globin gene, which falls entirely within a constitutively nonmethylated CpG island (8), is silent in nonerythroid cells (69). The finding that CpG island promoters are active in germ cells and embryos offers a plausible explanation for the discrepancy, as all somatic cell types are descendants of these lineages. Global de novo methylation changes take place during gametogenesis and mammalian embryonic development (35, 51,58), and transcription may protect CpG island sequences from methylation at these developmental stages. Methylation analysis of founder transgenic animals shows that protection from de novo methylation must occur in the early embryonic stages, as the transgenes have not yet passed through the germ line (11, 39, 47). Thus, the nonmethylated state of the CpG island may be established in the early embryo and copied to the somatic lineages by maintenance methylation. According to this scenario, the decision to create a methylation-free island would be taken only in totipotent cells.
We suggest that promoters that are active at the appropriate totipotent stages invariably give rise to nonmethylated CpG islands (Fig.6). Consistent with this view is evidence for embryonic transcription of a variety of CpG island-associated genes that are expressed tissue specifically in the adult (see also reference24). MyoD1 is an exception, but it may be relevant that in the Xenopus system, ubiquitous transient expression ofMyoD1 has been observed at the midblastula transition (57). Transcriptional silence at this stage would, on the other hand, invite de novo methylation. A subset of CpG islands that become de novo methylated during mouse development, including those at X-linked genes as well as transgenes, retroviral proviruses, and some imprinted genes such as Xist, acquire their methylation during the early stages of mouse embryogenesis (12, 32, 53,56). In the cases of retroviral proviruses, inactive X genes, and the inactive copy of the Xist gene, silencing appears to precede de novo methylation (32, 46). Some other imprinted genes with CpG islands remain partially methylated at the blastocyst stage, and methylation becomes more extensive after implantation (10, 62). Thus de novo methylation in the early embryo has the character of a default condition (59), affecting all sequences that are not specifically protected.
Transcription-related origin for CpG islands. Transcription of CpG island promoters in the early cleavage stages would protect these regions from the global de novo methylation which occurs at implantation. This nonmethylated profile, once established, would then be maintained in the somatic tissues of the adult mouse. The open rectangles represent nonmethylated DNA; the filled areas represent methylated regions. The horizontal arrows indicate active transcription.
The mechanism that might connect embryonic transcription with absence of methylation at the CpG island is obscure. It has been suggested that active demethylation, perhaps via an RNA intermediate, is responsible (64). It is also possible that the demethylating mechanism is passive, due to exclusion of the methyltransferase from a transcriptionally active CpG island (50). Selker (59) proposed that bound transcription factors (and other sequence-specific proteins) that alter chromatin structure or the timing or mechanistic requirements of DNA replication could determine the methylation status of DNA. Evidence that CpG islands depend on transcription renders less likely the idea that transcription factors such as Sp1 induce local demethylation by a mechanism that is independent of transcription but does not rule it out. It is already clear that Sp1 is not necessary for the demethylation process, as CpG islands are methylation free in mouse embryos that have no Sp1 gene (49). The CpG island promoter model is compatible with this result, as it requires transcription per se for CpG island formation rather than one particular transcription factor. Recently, data indicating that CpG island promoters serve as origins of replication have been presented (18). This finding raises the intriguing possibility that CpG islands are footprints of replication initiation at embryonic promoters.
Functional significance of the MHC class II CpG islands.A possible function of CpG islands is to ensure that the promoters of the associated genes are free of high-density methylation which will silence transcription. Preservation of the downstream CpG island of the MHC class II I-A β-chain gene has a less obvious rationale, however, as the major promoter of the gene is remote from the CpG island. A plausible explanation for its existence is that the presence of the CpG island is involved in maintenance of polymorphism of amino acids encoded by exon 2. Colocalization of the CpG island with the polymorphic exon was first noted by Tykocinski and Max (64). Later data emphasized the correlation, as the homologous human MHC genes which encode the HLA-DQ, -DP, and -DR β chains all contain CpG islands over the second exon, based on CpG frequency. The polymorphic regions of the class I chains also lie within CpG islands, and it has been suggested that these GC-rich regions within class I and II genes may be important in promoting polymorphism (64). Base substitutions (within the island) of mouse class I genes may be due to gene conversion (54). Also, polymorphisms in class II β chain genes, in the second exon of the mouse I-Aβ chain gene (60), and between alleles of the HLA-DPB1 gene in the human germ line (71) have been attributed to interallelic gene conversion. We suggest that germ line transcription facilitates genetic exchange between related sequences, thereby sustaining polymorphism of exon 2. Specifically, exposure of the DNA for strand invasion may be aided by the relatively decondensed nature of transcribed CpG island chromatin (63). According to this view, the functional significance of this CpG island would be confined to totipotent cells.
We thank Deborah Fowlis for tutoring in the production of transgenic animals, Susan Carson for the MHC clones, Austin Smith for the BALB/c ES cells, and Aileen Greig, Joan Davidson, and the staff of the Ann Walker Building for technical support. We also thank our photographic department for help in producing the figures and Brian Hendrich for helpful comments on the manuscript.
This work was supported by The Welcome Trust and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Received 29 December 1997.
Returned for modification 6 March 1998.
Accepted 19 May 1998.
Copyright © 1998 American Society for Microbiology
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Home Craic Limerick man angry to find his ‘online supermodel girlfriend’ is actually a...
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A fifty-nine-year-old Limerick City man has come out on social media describing his surprise at discovering the ‘girl’ he hoped to marry was actually a Nigerian man.
Thomas Kinsella (59) of Sallybank Road on the North side of Limerick told of his shock and dismay after travelling to Lagos to meet Cynthia a ‘girl’ he had met online.
“We had been chatting online for over six months,” he wrote. “Then I decided to surprise her by travelling to Nigeria with a present for her birthday.”
“I had given her presents before,” he wrote. “But bank cash transfers are very impersonal, this time I wanted to watch her face light up when we actually met for the first time.
“Anyway, a ‘girl’s’ twenty-fifth birthday is a big occasion; I didn’t want her to celebrate it alone.”
A retired Limerick City Litter Warden, Kinsella first made contact with Cynthia when she sent him a friend request on Facebook.
“We started chatting and sending photographs straight away. She looked lovely, all bubbly and full of fun wearing her bikini on the beach.”
Kinsella told social media how when after a week of contact with Cynthia she had a stroke of bad luck.
“It was terribly sad, just as we were getting to know each other her poor mum developed cataracts and needed an operation. Seemingly operations are expensive in Nigeria, so I offered to help pay for it.”
A Litany of Bad Luck
A close reading of Thomas’s posts both on Facebook and Twitter lists a litany of ill-fortune which befell Cynthia.
Her brother fell off his scooter and was out of work for three months. Cynthia herself lost her job as a kindergarten teacher. But according to Thomas, he was more than happy to send her money.
As he put it, “Shur, the pension is fairly good and while it did put a dent in my credit union account — if you can’t help out the love of your life then who can you help out?”
Surprise her with a ring
“Anyway,” Thomas told his social media friends. “I thought it would be lovely to fly out to Nigeria — as a surprise for her and ‘pop the question’ on her birthday.
I was able to figure out where she lived from the background in some of her photographs. So I bought the ring and booked the flight.”
“Jaysus! I was the one who got the surprise. I can tell you that for nothing. There he stood at the door in the see-through negligee I sent. No wig, unshaven and a willy on her the size of Delaney’s donkey. Gave me the fright of me life, it did. His name wasn’t actually Cynthia, but Victor” he wrote.
While Thomas’s social media post did attractive some negative comments, many readers expressed delight that both Thomas and Victor have got over the initial ‘hump’ in their relationship and have decided to ‘make a go of it.’
Thomas and Victor are now living together happily in Lagos where Victor continues his internet business.
On Victor’s advice and to avoid bank transfer fees, Thomas who hasn’t yet opened a Nigerian bank account, has transferred his savings and pension into Victor’s account so that they both can afford to live happily ever after.
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Trevor Noah among nominees for Thurber humour prize
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NEW YORK — Trevor Noah is upholding a “Daily Show” tradition: He’s a nominee for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
The Comedy Central host’s memoir “Born a Crime” was among three finalists prize officials announced Wednesday. The other nominees for the $5,000 honour are playwright-screenwriter Ken Pisani’s novel “Amp’d” and Aaron Thier’s time travelling novel “Mr. Eternity.”
Previous winners include Noah’s “Daily Show” predecessor Jon Stewart, Calvin Trillin and David Sedaris.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The third trial for a Connecticut man charged with killing and dismembering his college student girlfriend has begun after two earlier trials ended with deadlocked juries.
The Connecticut Post reports (http://bit.ly/2gOQ3I1 ) three friends of Alyssiah Wiley took the stand as the trial opened on Wednesday in Bridgeport Superior Court. They described their recollections of her relationship with Jermaine Richards, who is charged in her 2013 death.
Wiley’s partial remains were found in Trumbull about a month after she was last seen with Richards outside her dorm. She was a sophomore psychology major at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Police say Wiley tried to break up with Richards via Facebook shortly before her death and he became upset.
The 34-year-old Richards denies killing Wiley. He remains detained on $500,000 bail.
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Three Things to Know: Utah looks like a team figuring it out. Houston… not so much.
By Kurt HelinDec 7, 2018, 7:45 AM EDT
Every day in the NBA there is a lot to unpack, so every weekday morning throughout the season we will give you the three things you need to know from the last 24 hours in the NBA.
1) Utah looks like a team figuring it out. Houston… not so much. There were hints of optimism in both the Jazz and Rocket locker rooms heading into a Thursday night TNT showdown. Utah had won 3-of-4 since the Kyle Korver trade with better spacing in their offense, and as a team they were knocking down shots and defending better. Houston was finally healthy — Chris Paul, Nene, and the rest were back — and rested, and after a couple of recent wins thought they were turning the corner.
The question Thursday was “are the changes for real?”
For Utah, the answer appears to be yes. For Houston… there is a lot of work to do. The Jazz blew the Rockets out 118-91.
At the heart of this outcome was the genuinely improved Jazz offense (fourth best in the NBA over the last five games) picking apart the struggling switching defense of the Rockets (fifth worst in the NBA this season).
In the second round of last year’s playoffs, Houston’s switching defense stymied the Jazz offense and was critical to a 4-1 series win. Utah’s coaching staff spent the offseason studying how to better attack the trend of switching defenses and their work was on full display Thursday. Utah focused on getting James Harden (or other smaller defenders) switched onto Derrick Favors, then had the Jazz big pound them inside on the roll, to the tune of a game-high 24 points. Utah also used crisp ball movement (credit Ricky Rubio) to pick apart the missed help rotations (or Clint Capela just playing back to protect the rim) to get clean looks from three.
Houston may be getting healthy, they may have defensive guru Jeff Bzdelik back on the bench, but their defense remains a mess and is going to hold them back until it improves. The Jazz are playing smarter and better of late, but any good offense is going to pick that defense apart right now.
None of that is what people are really talking about out of this game.
Utah’s Rudy Gobert was ejected 2:47 into the contest when, after two very questionable calls (the second an obvious flop by Harden), he vented his frustration by knocking drinks and powder on the scorer’s table onto the court.
Gobert gets his share of the blame here — he lost his cool and that kind of swipe knocking stuff off the scorer’s table is going to mean an ejection every time. He owned up to that after the game.
If you know me, you know I generally scoff at all conspiracy theories (alien abduction, Bigfoot, frozen envelops, 9/11, George Soros’ plans, and the list goes on), but I buy into this theory that was popular on NBA Twitter Thursday: The referees in this game were targeting Gobert after he got a $15,000 fine for calling out officials for treating the Jazz like a small market team and saying “Every night has been the same s***.” Referees protect their “fraternity” because they don’t think the NBA league office does it well enough. So Gobert was hit with a bad foul call on literally the opening tip, then picked up a quick second on the Harden flop. The NBA league office will push back on all of that, but to me, it’s pretty obvious. A message was being sent, then a frustrated Gobert played right into it.
What’s most important for the Jazz is they didn’t let it change how they played — if anything it fired them up. Utah stuck to the game plan, and Houston has plenty of flaws to exploit right now.
2) LeBron James reportedly wants Carmelo Anthony on the Lakers. Does L.A. want that? Since the other games last night were duds (Utah/Houston kind of was, too), let’s talk about what everyone seems to be talking about:
LeBron James reportedly would like Carmelo Anthony to join the Lakers.
Anthony is currently in limbo, on the Rockets roster but away from the team, not playing while both the Rockets and his agent look for a landing spot. ‘Melo could be waived by the Rockets right now, however, if no team claimed him off waivers the over-the-tax Rockets would be stuck with his salary on their books. Houston wants to avoid that. So, they are looking for a trade, something that cannot happen for him until Dec. 15 because he signed last summer. It’s a holding pattern.
This new rumor/report strikes me as LeBron wanting to help out a friend, although LeBron and his camp reportedly think Anthony could help the Lakers. In theory, yes he could, but Anthony could have helped the Rockets if he was willing to accept a role (coming off the bench) with limited minutes and touches. He couldn’t and didn’t. Let’s be blunt: Anthony is at the point with his declining game that he is a role player in this league — a future Hall of Famer, no doubt, but right now that’s not where his game is at. He has, by all accounts, not accepted that reality and wants a bigger role and to be treated with the deference of a star. Is that what the Lakers want to bring into their locker room?
The Lakers have a full roster, they would have to waive someone to make room for Anthony, and before the season the Lakers were one of the teams that was clear they didn’t think he fit with where they were headed.
There is one interesting thing to watch out of this: Just how much leverage, how much power does LeBron have in the organization? He has not made a formal request to management about ‘Melo, and likely will not, but his desire is out there now. In Cleveland, where LeBron signed a series of one-year deals to keep pressure on Dan Gilbert and his franchise, they might have acquiesced to keep LeBron happy. But in Los Angeles LeBron signed a 3+1 contract, he’s back next season no matter what. Will the Lakers still give LeBron what he wants? I’d be surprised, but it’s worth watching.
3) Just how valuable is the three-point shot to winning? Maybe not as much as you think. In the first great book on NBA analytics — Dean Oliver’s Basketball on Paper — he put forward the “four factors” that were key to winning games, which is now accepted as common knowledge around the league. The biggest key is shooting (he used eFG%), second was turnover percentage, third was defensive rebounding (in large part as a way to measure forcing missed shots), and then getting to the free throw line.
How much has the onslaught of threes in the NBA changed that? Not much. NBC’s own Tom Haberstroh did the math correlating box score stats from every game this season to winning and the results were one for the old school.
With that in mind, the most important stat on the traditional box score is … field-goal percentage! Basketball purists, rejoice! If you shoot better from the floor than your opponent, you’re probably going to win the game. In fact, teams this season are 246-69 (.781) when they win the FG% column….
The team that won the defensive rebound battle is the next-most likely to win, going 225-71 (.760) this season. Don’t believe it? Look at the league’s top defensive rebound teams: Milwaukee, Philly, Portland, L.A. Clippers, — yeah, they’re really good this season!…
All right, 3-pointers have to be the next most pivotal category in the box score, right? Nope. Plain ol’ field goals made is still more important than the 3-ball. The team that reigned supreme in the field goals column went 225-72 (.758), regardless of where they took them.
We can keep going. Turns out that assists (.699), rebounds (.690) and 2-point field goal percentage (.689) are still more tied to the win column than 3-pointers made.
This does not mean Gregg Popovich’s obstinance is entirely right because the math is still 3>2 and if you live on a heavy diet of midrange jumpers while your opponent gets good looks at the three ball, you’re in trouble.
But it does mean the simple things are true: Hit more shots than your opponent and you win. It seems obvious, but sometimes we can get away from all that, and this is a reminder not to.
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Nike Air Jordan XX8
Monday And-1 links: The new Jordan XX8 is… different
By Kurt HelinDec 3, 2012, 6:09 PM EDT
Here is our regular look around the NBA — links to stories worth reading and notes to check out (stuff that did not get its own post here at PBT) — done in bullet point form. Because bloggers love bullet points like Steve Novak loves the corner three.
• What really got twitter buzzing on Monday? The new Air Jordan XX8 were released. And they are… different. See for yourself to the right, it breaks the mold of basketball shoes. The reaction on twitter was not kind initially, to put it mildly. Nike makes a great product, they may play very well on the court. As for their “casual wear” sales to people who just wear them around the neighborhood…
• Charles Barkley trained with Manny Pacquiao for an upcoming TNT show called “Charles & Reggie: Toe to Toe with Manny Pacquiao.” So warm up all your “Pacquiao trains with a heavyweight” jokes. (The Reggie is Reggie Miller, but we may watch this anyway.)
• If you care about the kerfuffle where Michael Jordan broke the dress code at a fancy Miami country club, here is Jordan’s response. Which really should have been “you really want to be the country club that banned Michael Jordan?”
• Speaking of Jordan, check out this video of a 1989 television show — “Michael Jordan’s Airwaves” — that aired locally in Chicago in 1989. Can’t believe that didn’t catch on.
• Rajon Rondo may have been suspended by the league three times in the past nine months, but the guys who play with him speak very highly of him on and off the court.
• Good news in Boston, apparently Avery Bradley is very close to returning to the court.
• Don’t tell LeBron James he is a power forward.
• Long time NBA writer Charlie Rosen has joined Sheridan Hoops, and in his first work for the site just shreds Jim Buss. I’ll just add what Rosen writes about the sibling rivalry in the Buss family is something I have heard from multiple sources.
• Darren Collison doesn’t feel he got a fair chance in Dallas to prove his worth. I would say he pretty much played at the level of most of his career, Rick Carlisle just wasn’t thrilled with that. But he’ll get another shot, Derek Fisher is not the answer.
• Interesting discussion of why the Thunder have won five in a row and look like they are hitting their early-season stride.
• Wizards owner Ted Leonsis has got the back of his young players. For whatever that’s worth.
• The Cavaliers waived Luke Harangody, who has been out following right knee surgery and has not played for the Cavs this year. Once he is fully recovered I expect some team will grab him and give him a chance.
• Some video of rookie Harrison Barnes getting on-the-court tutoring from Jerry West.
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Posted on March 29, 2011 March 29, 2011 by neilwilliamson
So, I have this admission to make. I don’t get Steampunk. I have nothing particularly against it, and I don’t believe I’ve gone out of my way to avoid it. It’s simply that the aesthetic, the approach to science and story, do nothing to attract me.
And yet, it seems to be very popular. Certainly as a literary sub-genre it seems to have been holding its own for a few years now and it’s cropped up in various guises in the movies (although given its obvious visual fascination it’s a wonder there’s not been more). And of course it’s biggest impact has been in alternative fashion and lifestyle circles. All well and good, but none of it twigs me in any way whatsoever.
Maybe its because I grew up with an ingrained respect of the works of the enlightenment (the Scottish one) and the amazing real technological advances that stemmed from it. Maybe its because I find it difficult to vaseline-lens the social iniquities of the Victorian era. And fantasying up/down either of those would have the nagging voice in my head going “but, but, but!” For a similar reason, I don’t really dig re-use of historical personages either.
Or perhaps it’s those visuals – which for me, although they can be very well done and hugely admirable amounts of work can go into them, especially in the hobbyist sphere – always make me think of set dressing from the Flash Gordon serial, or George Pal’s version of The Time Machine, or something really hokey with the great Doug McClure in it and rubber dinosaurs.
Am I being too harsh? Perhaps, subconsciously, even intentionally standoffish (because I never like what all the kids like)? Anyone want to take a pop at turning me? Show me what I’m missing?
Here’s the deal. Make a steampunk novel sound hot enough to me and I’ll buy it and read it.
Tags: Doug McClure, Flash Gordon, George Pal, SteampunkCategories: Books
34 thoughts on “Help me out here: Steampunk leaves me cold”
Nah. I won’t try. I think you nailed it when you mentioned the “obvious visual fascination”. Mushroom-headed nails on ironwork do look great, and steam is water plus fire (in a metaphorical way). Powerful aesthetics and symbols.
Also a philosophy stemming from the idea that human progress is unstoppable–an Enlightenment concept, by the way–and essentially good. Nostalgia of a time when it was still possible to believe that science would free humanity and erase our basest instincts. Then the twentieth century came, heralded by the most barbaric war of all time, where the death toll of one single battle equalled a war of the past. New technology made new weapons possible, and not even WWII compared to the brutality displayed (by everyone) during the Great War.
Steampunk–and particularly euchronic worldbuilding, not actual Victorian settings– erases the twentieth century and its horrors. It washes it all away.
I think this is one of the roots of the fascination for steam and surrogates.
I did like a few Steampunk tales, but when I think back on them, I realise that I loved the characters and their interactions. So much for the mushroom-headed nails. 🙂
Hal Duncan says:
I nominate Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the true taproot of steampunk.
Also, Around the World in Eighty Days (Disney version,) Wacky Races, Dastardly & Mutley, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mouse on the Moon, and so on. Cinema and TV have been giving us adaptations of classic Romance, Scientific & Ruritanian, from the 1950s… and pastiches of such.
But particularly Chitty is the quintessential “numina (ex) novum arcana,” as I hereby dub it.
It’s marvellous, “le merveilleux” in poncy French lit crit terms, a numina in me own system, injecting a boulomaic modality of “should happen.” In short, it’s *cooooool*! Want one!
(Hell, the title song is all about just how cool Chitty *is*!)
Like many such marvels, it’s the (real world) novum of old — automaton, car, zeppelin, plane, steam train, submarine — no longer novel but retaining its wonder. Arguably, with those ex-novae now familiar, we take them for granted, but when we look to prototypes & originals, they’re defamiliarised. We consider the technical impossibilities (for a mere human) made possible by them, and that reinvests them with wonder; the mundane is made marvellous once again. Over and above the simple numinosity of beauty and empowerment, I suspect this is why enthusiasts oooh over the wonder of classic cars, trains, etc..
Anyways, hence numina (ex) novum.
But more, Chitty belongs to a bygone era conceptually dislocated from our own, categorically severed from our present. If the past is another country, our era and that era don’t even share a border; World War One is the English Channel between them. When we look back, I mean, we’re not seeing the Victorian era at all, so much as we’re seeing Ruritania as a discrete elsewhen rather than elsewhere. So the movie sets itself just on the edge of that (England in 1910 or so) and springboards from there into a full-blown Ruritanian fantastication.
The point is, objects *of* that other era — like objects of the future, outer space or unexplored corners of the globe back in the day — are not expected to play by our rules; indeed, that can be turned around so they’re expected to *not* play by our rules, so we have no idea what rules they *do* play by. They become arcana.
Basically, casting yer doohickey as paradigmatically *of* that era (making it clockwork, steam-powered, even just aesthetically styled as Victorian Baroque) conceptually unlimits its potential even though we know those technologies were actually more limited than what we have now. Give the car running boards and we’ll more likely buy it flying; it ain’t rational, but it’s how we think. (Mostly.) So you end up with Chitty — the numina (ex) novum of a classic automobile, now a black box ancient artefact with unknown capacities, an arcanum.
And that’s what Steampunk is all about, I’d say. Steampunk as a genre or subculture is an aesthetic based on quirks in the mold of Chitty — numina (ex) novum arcana.
Why is it so appealing? A numina like Chitty becomes even *more* wondrous with the additional “should *still* happen” of nostalgia, the desire for things to be now as they were then. The Ruritanian era is a construct of such desires. Doesn’t matter if it *never* actually happened that way, if we’re nostalgic for a Ruritania that never was; the desire is still there. And actually because it’s a setting for adventure we can even be nostalgic for the *bad shit* of that other era, because it would be awesome to overcome the wicked Childcatcher, it would be cool if the villainy we had to deal with was as straightforward as moustache-twirling fiends in top hats.
(A side-effect: steampunk doesn’t have to irresponsibly elide those iniquities; there’s no reason it can’t subvert reactionary nostalgia, critique the phony construct, the actual period *and* iniquities of our world that might be figuratively represented in a twat of a Ruritanian monarch.)
But in the arcanum there’s also a more complex yearning, a sort of “should *still be able to* happen” desire, where it’s less about wanting the lost wonders of then, (ah, that teddy I had as a kiddywink!) more about *not* wanting the added constraints of now (oh, if only I could be that kid with the teddy, so my teen and adult life was pure potential again.) Like, basically, those classic/antique marvels are playing on a desire for the past as an *unbinding* of the present, I’d say.
It maybe even gets into the territory of C.S. Lewis’s “sehnsucht” — an inconsolable longing for we know not what. Like there’s a positive anticipation for something that should & *shall* happen, like a kid on Christmas Eve. And then there’s the melancholic yearning for the return to that state — almost a yearning for yearning itself. And that’s what Chitty taps into.
I think about this stuff *way* too much.
Thanks both for your thoughts. Very interesting, especially as you both use the Great War as a point of disconnection (as it was in many spheres of life I guess).
Hal, your examples have me thinking that maybe there was an element of “can’t quite take this seriously” in those old films. Mad inventors abound. Here’s something I’m wondering actually – am I right in my feeling (and bear in mind that I’m just guessing here – if anyone wants to set me right go for it) that there aren’t *a lot* of British practitioners of steampunk in fiction (and no Scottish writers seem to be getting involved as far as I can see)? So, I’m wondering if it’s a mainly American interest? Are Brits perhaps a bit too close to the source material? Or would we be more likely to turn it into Carry On R101?
Hmm. Carry On style steampunk. Now *that* I could go for.
sjhigbee says:
I’m not a Steampunk fan, either. I certainly don’t ‘get’ China Mieville’s world. However, I did come across an intriguing book that ‘does’ Steampunk & it really worked in the world – Terminal World by Alastair Reynold. I’m not claiming it’s the greatest book, ever. But the world is certainly fascinating & I thoroughly enjoyed the premise.
I do think it is an exercise in sideways nostalgia, though…
Cheers for that. I’ve not read one of Al’s books for a while. That might make it a good candidate for my steampunk challenge.
Jim Steel says:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I can just picture Fleming pitching that one to his publisher. “I’ve written a children’s book – it’s a complete departure from my Bond novels!”
“That sounds alarming, Mr Fleming. You had better give us a quick summary of the plot and we’ll decide whether or not to take it any further.”
No, I’m going to praise one that you’ve probably already read. K.W. Jeter’s ‘Infernal Devices’ is a love song to the glories of nineteeth-century fiction – the highwater mark of the novel as a popular entertainment – and that is where its real heart lies. However, Jeter doesn’t want to present us with faux-nostalgia for an age we never lived through; instead he gives us a mundane everyman who is oblivious to the wonders that surround him in what is a perfect example of the ‘ominscient reader’ viewpoint. It’s a writer’s book. It is also one of the few examples of the subgenre that is genuinely funny. For that novel alone I am willing to suffer any amount of idiots in velvet waistcoats.
Aaagh, Jim. Infernal Devices is one of the few Jeter books I never managed to get hold of. The Glass Hammer, yes, and Morlock Night, and even *shudder* Dr Adder, but Infernal Devices has always slipped by me.
Going to make that a priority in my Eastercon trawl of the yellow spine dealers.
paulevanby says:
“I’m wondering if it’s a mainly American interest? Are Brits perhaps a bit too close to the source material?”
Interesting question. In my country (Netherlands) I know some writers who are quite enthusiastic about steampunk, but it certainly doesn’t sell in big numbers. I myself wrote a blog post once about how steampunk means something entirely different to the British than it does to the Dutch, because the Dutch trade empire had ceased to exist by the Victorian age. Interzone even has a story of mine based on our own Golden Age (no steam engines!), in which the bad shit (e.g. slavery) is precisely NOT shuffled under the carpet.
That said, I’m afraid I can’t point you to any novels that would help you appreciate the subgenre. I think most of the stuff *is* set dressing. The best I’ve read is The Difference Engine.
Paul – thanks for your input. I was being intentionally Anglo-centric, just focusing on the two main markets (which is bad enough). I really enjoyed your Mannikin in Interzone,and thought the way it pointed up the similarities and differences between the British and Dutch empires was one of the most interesting factors about it – I’m used to hearing my own story, it was brilliant to hear someone else’s.
The Difference Engine, I had a copy for years and read about a third of it, but somehow it went missing at some point. Never got another copy. Maybe one day I should.
Thanks, Neil. And by the way, I have to agree with Jim regarding Infernal Devices. I borrowed it from a friend once (when it was still called ‘mad Victorian fantasy’, I believe) & loved it, and I would certainly like to find again.
Robert Freeman Wexler says:
Don’t care for it and not interested. But I like Neilpunk.
Bless you, Robert.
But it’s neilRAWK!
“So, I’m wondering if it’s a mainly American interest? Are Brits perhaps a bit too close to the source material?”
Well, it’s easier for the past to be another country, it’s the past *of* another country. That whole thing about arcana being like novae or exotica –” objects of the future, outer space or unexplored corners of the globe back in the day” — we may be past the point where a setting of some far-flung land helps us suspend disbelief in people with faces in their stomach, so exotica like that have to become the novae of aliens. But the exotic often has a numinous quality too, just from being other. And that might play a part in boosting the appeal for Americans, I guess; that Ruritania has all manner of strange shit looking at it from the outside. But I dunno if I want to assume that. I think of Moorcock’s Bastable books and Talbot’s Luther Arkwright as important benchmarks — though it’s notable that the former is solidly anarchist and anti-colonialism, and I’m sure I’ve seen Moorcock himself tear strips out of steampunk’s apologias for imperialism. Point is, that Ruritania is still severed enough from us Brits temporally for us to Romanticise it pretty much the same way Americans do; I’m not sure we’re that much less prone to do so.
Can’t help thinking of the notion of Albion here. Maybe being on the inside does automatically shift focus. Like, can we situate ourselves in Ruritania without automatically sliding to Albion, to the End of Empire, WW1. Maybe it’s harder for us not to think Ruritania > the Great Game > the Great War. Maybe we’re more likely to end up with British Sea Power and Derek Jarman if we’re just a *bit* more aware that we’re living in what was built over the ruins.
Also, all of that tends to have a very English slant, no? If Ruritania translates to Albion… to what degree do Scots automatically *dis*identify with that?
>Point is, that Ruritania is still severed enough from us Brits temporally for us to Romanticise it pretty much the same way Americans do; I’m not sure we’re that much less prone to do so.
Quite. And the reason I raised the question was that I’m so ill versed in the genre that I don’t know the answer beyond a general sort of feeling that most authors who identify with the SP label tend to be American.
>Also, all of that tends to have a very English slant, no? If Ruritania translates to Albion… to what degree do Scots automatically *dis*identify with that?
Well, obviously there is a role for the Scot in Ruritania. He’s the lecturing professor of anatomy at the royal college, or the the practical, grease-to-the-elbows engineer, or the barking loud, but soft hearted – and therefore doomed – cavalry sergeant throwing down his life to extend the margin of the empire by the width of his barrel chest.
I don’t know if Scots would see anything particular to romanticise in all of that. Some would have you believe, of course, that Scots inventors were almost entirely responsible for the technologies being lionized here, but that’s a particularly parochial failing of ours anyway. yes, Watt, Kelvin, Bell were all “significantly involved” in various endeavours, but so were a lot of other people in. (Clerk Maxwell, though was fucking genius, no question).
Certainly, I go back to what I said earlier: I don’t know of any Scots writing Steampunk at the moment.
There seem to me to be a couple of different styles of steampunk, one less practiced than the other. In steampunk as SF, the authors have written an alternative reality with no electronics and with energy technology limited to coal. This for some reason tends to be accompanied by a social setting that harks to the Victorian / Edwardian era, even if it isn’t actually that time any more. Harry Harrison’s A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! is like this, with a Victorianised 1970s, while The Difference Engine is set in Victorian times. Anti-Ice by Stephen Baxter, has the Victorian era accelerated by discovery of an anti-matter fuel that can be manipulated by brasswork technology. This is what Alastair Reynolds is doing with Terminal World, but without the Victorianism, which moves it away from being steampunk for me. There aren’t that many of these, as they have been overtaken by the other kind.
The other, and much more common, kind of steampunk is fantasy, but with a technical / industrial / enlightenment aesthetic rather than a bucolic / feudal / mediaeval one. This is I think where Charlie Stross had it wrong when he was complaining about the technical implausibility of it: he was reading it as SF. Gas zombies are not new, btw, Warren Ellis did them in Blackgas, and they were mentioned in Shaun of the Dead. But what we have there and elsewhere is a fantastic conceit that is rationalised by invoking a technology. It’s done with machinery, and the machinery doesn’t have to make technical sense, it looks right so it works. It’s Science! rather than science, an arcane wizardry that ordinary people can’t be expected to understand, and the white coats or oily overalls are part of the mystical trappings. If you look into alchemy and other forms of magic you find similar justifications and rationalisations; ‘as above, so below’, and so forth. Top hats and frock coats are part of this fantasy aesthetic just as much as cloaks and robes are part of castle opera.
I think this is why people seem to raise China Mieville when they talk about steampunk writers; he writes fantasy with machines in, in a world that isn’t cod-mediaeval. Stephen Hunt is a lot closer to writing steampunk for me though than Mieville. Steam Cybermen! Ian McDonald’s Desolation Road and Ares Express don’t seem to be regarded as steampunk, even though they’ve got steam engines in; I think it’s because they’re missing the frock coats and top hats.
So, if we’re looking at steampunk as fantasy with quasi-Victorian trappings and an aesthetic of magic as done by implausible machinery and by implausible inventors and scientists, I’d go for James Blaylock. Lord Kelvin’s Machine and The Digging Leviathan have all the Disney-movie From the Earth to the Moon style of fun that you could want. With a more serious tone, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest has zombies and a digging machine and electric ray guns, but what it is actually about is the relationship between a mother and her son and shame and truths that people don’t want to admit. Moorcock’s Oswald Bastable stories, The War Lord of the Air et al., are about imperialism. The Girl Genius comics by Phil and Kaja Foglio are about fun with mad scientists.
Thanks for this, Elaine. Must confess I was hoping you’d chip in because I know you’ve read quite a lot of this sort of thing. Yeah, I totally get the difference between the F and SF takes on the genre. And it’s the F kind that you talk about that makes think of it in terms of semi-comic movies of yesterwear (eg, IIRC, Peter Cushing’s doddery professor act in At The Earth’s Core). Of the British writers you name, I’ve never placed Mieville in that category – his books are very much of their own thing. And McDonald’s Mars books – definitely not. But I’d heard that Hunt’s books were good examples, and Toby Frost too(?).
Blaylock: I’ve read most of his eighties novels. I don’t remember too much (it was a long time ago!) about that series, except that they were good fun. I think I thought of them as cod-Victoriana adventures, but never really believed there was enough mileage in that caper to extend to a whole sub-genre and beyond. Priest kinda interests me, but I’m never reading another book with zombies in, nuh-huh.
Cod-Victoriana adventures is as good a description of steampunk as I’ve seen. Jeff and Ann Vandermeer seem to want it to be more Serious, in line with what Gibson and Sterling were doing with The Difference Engine. I guess that there are enough people around doing that to make a decent case for it, but I’ve always felt that steampunk is the brass goggles brigade; Space 1889.
One along those lines is Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder. I’m part way through reading it and it’s not bad in a throwing in the kitchen-sink kind of way. It’s got a couple of minor errors that make me think the author (or maybe the proofreader) is American, but it’s got a nice blurb by Michael Moorcock which led me to pick it up. In language it’s Dickensian, where I prefer Holmesian, but it’s readable and fun.
I didn’t like The Affinity Bridge by George Mann for language reasons, although the story was fine. He was trying for a Holmesian style, but trying too hard. If you actually read Conan Doyle, you find that his prose is formal, correct and very transparent, in a way that becomes stilted if imitated by someone who doesn’t have a feel for it. In just the same way, Austen’s beautiful prose clanks in the hands of Gail Carriger but sings for Suzanna Clarke.
I’m not burned out on zombies, although I got bored very quickly with P&P&Z and I haven’t picked up any others of that ilk. The ones in Boneshaker are fast and vicious and quite good. I like the Hunt books, which have a Victorian feel although they’re set in a made-up world. I haven’t read any of the Space Captain Smith ones, they seem quite silly.
Hmm. Language is important, I agree. And I’d definitely prefer a Holmesian approach to Dickensian one if I had the choice, although my fear is that many authors will miss both and end up wallowing in the Van-Dykean. *Shudder*. That would *really* turn me off a book fast. Would be interesting if anyone were writing anything with more of a Sax Rohmer vibe to it (I think someone mentioned that Robert Rankin had done something of this nature recently).
Moorcock’s The Metatemporal Detective (Pyr) is riffing off Sax Rohmer. The eponymous detective is “Seaton Begg,” a deliberate and acknowledged nod to Sexton Blake. I wouldn’t class it as steampunk though, just Moorcock at his most Kim Newmany — pulp pastiche/bricolage.
Lots of good discussion so far, but I’m still looking for a stick on recommendation though. Preferably a contemporary book too. Sell it to me.
You could try The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes, for Sax Rohmer-style Edwardiana fantasy. He gets the language exactly right, and it’s an entertaining conspiracy/horror/murder mystery just like the Fu Manchu stories. I got my copy as a freebie at WFC.
I’d go with the Priest, otherwise. She gets language and setting right: gold-rush West with an extended Civil War. She doesn’t shrink from social inequity, it isn’t mannered or affected, and it’s a damn good story with characters that are fully rounded and worth investing time in. I have a copy of Dreadnought in my to-read pile, which is set in the same background but isn’t a direct sequel, and may not have zombies since it’s set away from Seattle. It does have Steam Men.
Also go with Stephen Hunt, for secondary-world fantasy with an aesthetic from the nineteenth century rather than the fourteenth. He’s a British writer so he knows enough not to mangle the language and it has more, and more interesting, nods to Victorian social situations (kids up chimneys repairing the gas struts of pneumatic high-rises and so forth) than you tend to find in the American authors.
Good suggestions. The Barnes sounds interesting, but it’s Priest who’s making the most industry noise…have to admit that “steam men” have finally piqued my interest.
Isn’t that a bit like saying that you want to find out about this jazz thing with an album recommendation from this decade? 🙂
Not *really*, Jim. Steampunk’s supposed to be one of the trending topics in genre publishing. I’m not looking for something that *defines* the genre, but something that explains why it’s currently popular.
I tend to think that it’s popular because fantasy readers are bored with cod-mediaeval castle opera and are picking up head kicks from cod-Victoriana adventure stories with Zeppelins! and Science! That doesn’t mean that much of it is any good; most of it is derivative of Disney movies and SFX artists’ conceptions of how Sherlock Holmes Should have Looked. Probably the seminal steampunk stories of the current movement are the Girl Genius comics. (Free on the artists’ website – well worth a look)
That pretty much takes me back to where I started. 😀 I’ve seen Girl Genius before (mainly because you keep going ON about it! ;p) but sounds like I need revisit.
No novel, and you may already have done so, but you could take a look at the VanderMeers’ Steampunk I & II anthos. (Although I must confess I haven’t seen them myself yet.)
I usually pick up the V’s books as soon as they come out, Paul. But my steampunk “issues” got in the way of these ones. And there’s also the forthcoming Steampunk Bible that Jeff has been assembling in conjunction with Selena Chambers. Which I’d guess to be a pretty much must have item for fans of the genre.
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Gio Clairval, “not even WWII compared to the brutality displayed (by everyone) during the Great War. ”
You have got to be joking!
20 million Soviet citizens dead – most of them civilians, German cities flattened. Caen flattened to “liberate” it. Two whole cities destroyed by a single weapon each. And I’ve not yet mentioned the death camps.
WWII was way beyond anything that happened in WWI. Especially in its callousness towards its victims – which was quite deliberate. (In WWI for the most part it wasn’t; Falkenhayn on the Western Front and the Armenian genocide notwithstanding.)
Neil, I don’t know if they’re steampunk exactly but are Ian R MacLeod’s The Light Ages and The House Of Storms (2003 and 2005 respectively) contemporary enough for you? They stray into fantasy a bit but are real novels. (Warning: the editions I read are littered with typos, which took a lot of the pleasure away.)
And yes, no Scots that I know of write this sort of thing.
Jack – very quickly, I’ve read The Light Ages. Enjoyed it a lot. Waiting to get round to the sequel, one day.
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea why it’s so popular just now as well, Neil, unless the gothy vampire types are getting tired of their wardrobes. I am much more interested as to why no Scots are writing it (aside from the odd short story from Mark Harding and one or two others). That’s a much better question. I suppose we could also claim that we did it first time around with Conan Doyle.
John Coulthart says:
Re: Infernal Devices by KW Jeter, Angry Robot are republishing that title and Jeter’s Morlock Night next month with covers by moi.
Excellent! Thanks, John!
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Chris Christie suggests L.A. kids and their parents are most worried about ISIS. A poll suggests otherwise.
Christie tied a bomb threat hoax that closed L.A. schools today to terrorism abroad in the fifth Republican debate on Tuesday. Christie said, “Unfortunately it is new normal under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.” He went on to say we have “people across this country who are scared to death” because “everywhere in America is a target for terrorists.”
Well, Christie was exaggerating a bit on what Americans worry about. According to a recent MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll, 36 percent of Americans say they’re most worried about a terrorist attack. But it also suggests another two topics that are on their mind: 31 percent name gun violence, and another 17 percent say being victim of police brutality.
Now, Democrats and Republicans do differ on this. Most Republicans say terrorism is the biggest threat, while Democrats (and that likely includes a lot of parents in L.A.) are more likely to say gun violence.
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Andrew Yang is the most YOLO candidate ever.
Moderately successful businessman and “random opinionated person” Andrew Yang may have been the breakout star of Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate—if only because of his proposal for a so-called “freedom dividend.” This is basically just Yang’s marketing term for a Universal Basic Income, under which every American adult receives $1,000 per month, or $12,000 per year.
This would solve a lot of our problems, Yang said—including climate change.
"If you get the boot off peoples' throats," they will be more willing to focus on climate change, @AndrewYang says at the #DemDebate
Here's what you need to know about his plan for a 'Freedom Dividend' https://t.co/U0wwewImHU
— Beth Ponsot (@bponsot) June 28, 2019
Would this actually work? Who knows! I mean, is it really the craziest thing in the world to think that if everyone had a little more financial cushion, more people would be OK with making some of the temporary financial sacrifices that will become necessary over the next 11 years to rapidly reduce our dependence on fossil fuels? If anything, it’s just as crazy as Joe Biden’s assertion that he can turn America’s entire vehicle fleet electric by the year 2030 without the help of Republicans. And hey, maybe if everyone had $12,000 more per year, they’d be willing to buy those electric cars. So, might as well try it, right? The human race only lives once, after all.
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Sanders’s “rotating judges” idea actually makes some sense.
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court handed down two major rulings on gerrymandering and the census, and yet, only a few hours later, with the candidates gathered in Miami for the second Democratic debate, the moderators never raised the high court, nor did they ask how, if elected, the candidates would handle its emboldened conservative majority.
They came closest to tackling the issue in an exchange about Roe v. Wade and what the candidates would do to protect abortion rights if it were overturned. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders replied by saying he opposed adding additional justices to the bench, a solution several other candidates have proposed. “I do not believe in packing the court,” Sanders said. But “I do believe that constitutionally we have the ability to rotate judges to other courts.”
Huh? It’s not clear what this plan would entail—Thursday’s format wasn’t conducive to in-depth answers—but Sanders provided some clues about what he meant at a forum in April, when he offered up a similar proposal. “What may make sense is, if not term limits, then rotating judges to the appeals court as well,” he told the audience. “Letting them get out of the Supreme Court and bringing in new blood.” The proposal is constitutionally dubious, to say the least, and might require a amendment, but it’s not without merit if it gets rid of corrosive confirmation battles and tempers ideological divides among the justices.
Damn right it’s a climate crisis.
The moderators of Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate devoted seven minutes to the subject of global warming. But nothing the candidates said during those seven minutes advanced the conversation as much as the first twelve words Senator Kamala Harris said about climate change during Thursday night’s debate.
Asked to explain what she would do about climate change, Harris first took a step back. “I don’t even call it climate change,” she said. “It’s a climate crisis.”
HARRIS: 'It's a climate crisis. It represents an existential threat to us as a species.' Sen. Kamala Harris speaks about the Green New Deal, the Paris Climate Accord, and climate change #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/XKKZrk4UVy
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 28, 2019
The idea that we should replace the term “climate change” with “climate crisis” has been bubbling up in environmentalist circles for a long time, but it started gaining mainstream attention last month, when The Guardian announced that it was changing its official style guide to recommend terms like “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” over simply “climate change.” The reasoning, according to Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, was simple accuracy. “Huge-scale and immediate action is needed to slash emissions, but they are still going up—that’s an emergency or crisis,” she said. “Extreme weather is increasing and climate patterns established for millennia are changing—hence breakdown.”
Since then, more media outlets have started changing their terminology. As Grist reported last week, that includes Spanish news agency EFE and Noticias Telemundo, the top U.S.-based Spanish-language news provider. Their reasoning was similar, Telemundo’s executive vice president of network news Luis Fernández said:
“The scientific community and linguistics experts agree that the world is facing a climate emergency.”
By pushing that conversation further into the mainstream on Thursday night, Harris did the planet, and its inhabitants, a much-needed favor.
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Cable news still doesn’t know how to talk about police violence.
On June 16, a South Bend, Indiana, police officer shot and killed a man named Eric Logan. The police officer shot him. Logan died. The mayor of South Bend is running for president, and is on the debate stage tonight. Moderator Rachel Maddow asked Mayor Pete Buttigieg about the incident.
She referred to it as an “officer-involved shooting,” a bit of obfuscatory cop-speak that is endemic in TV news despite the supposed mission of “news” being to inform its audience as to what happened, instead of forcing viewers to guess.
The officer was involved because he did the shooting. From what I could determine the last time I wrote about this, police departments invented the phrase in the 1970s or 1980s, and TV news—always dependent on cops for sensationalist stories designed to scare viewers into coming back tomorrow for more—adopted it without anyone involved stopping to think about whether the term made any sense.
Mayor Buttigieg used the term too. If you can’t be clear and honest about who did what when a cop shoots someone, you shouldn’t be in journalism or politics.
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Kamala Harris just took Joe Biden to school.
Biden had a clear strategy and it worked for most of this debate. He came in deciding to act like a frontrunner, using weasel words on tough questions about immigration and health care, and largely staying out of the fray. The other candidates could spar about ideology and policy, but Biden reminded people again and again that he worked with Barack Obama. He continuously reminded the moderators that he was out of time, a sign that he—unlike most of the other people on the stage—had something to lose by speaking, not something to gain. Whenever the moderators asked the candidates to raise their hands in response to a question, Biden did a strange thing with his hand—holding it out, instead of raising it, acting like he had something to say without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing to what was asked.
That changed when Kamala Harris pivoted a discussion about Pete Buttigieg’s response to a recent police shooting in South Bend to Joe Biden’s record on busing, race, and civil rights.
Sen. Kamala Harris discusses race and calls out Joe Biden for opposing busing. "It cannot be an intellectual debate among Democrats," she says, "we have to take it seriously." #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/43Nzspluio
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 28, 2019
“I do not believe you are a racist,” she said. But “it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two US senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country.... You also worked with them to oppose busing.”
Biden was definitely prepared to defend his recent comments praising two notorious segregationists he worked with in the Senate in the 1970s. But he wasn’t prepared for Harris’s all out assault on his record as one of the staunchest opponents of court-ordered school busing during the same period. That record undercuts Biden’s defense of working with segregationists—that he did it to pass civil rights legislation—and makes it clear that he was actively part of propping up the opposition to integration.
Biden couldn’t have responded in a worse way, bungling his answer by not only defending busing but making a states-rights argument. But it also drew a line between Biden on both generational and racial lines. Biden keeps turning the conversation back to his time working with Barack Obama, but he clearly can’t defend his record as a senator in the same way. Harris found his Achilles heel.
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Gentlemen, you can’t fight here, this is the debate stage!
Senator Kamala Harris’s first attempt at a breakout moment in this debate was a painfully rehearsed line designed to be dropped the minute there was some cross-talk she could break into: “Hey guys, America does not want to witness a food fight. They want us to know how we’re going to put food on their table.”
It won immediate, sustained applause, and a bit of predictable Twitter approval. It’s a good line, superficially, and probably good strategically: A large number of hardcore partisan Democrats desperately hate conflict.
Those Democrats are, unfortunately, undermining their party’s political well-being. This is a debate. Everyone on stage is supposed to be making a case for why they should be president, which, when facing other candidates in an election, is traditionally done by drawing distinctions between yourself and your opponents.
More broadly, the line speaks to the self-defeating tendency of Democrats to imagine that their own affinity for compromise reflects the median voter’s preference for conciliatory politics. People say they hate partisan conflict, yes—but they vote for people who draw sharp distinctions between themselves and their (negatively defined) opponents.
Like I said: It was a good line for Harris in the moment, but it was a cynical line masquerading as a plea for unity.
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The debate moderators are addicted to right-wing talking points.
Chuck Todd predictably emerged as one of the villains of the first debate, derailing a decent policy discussion with a seemingly endless barrage of right-wing talking points. He, for instance, asked the candidates not about gun control, but to speak to Republican fears about gun confiscation. He asked Julián Castro if his immigration reform plan amounted to “open borders.” The charitable reading of this strategy was that he wanted Democrats to speak to swing voters. But it’s June in the year before the election. They don’t need to persuade skeptical voters, they need to explain their policies. His line of questioning didn’t do that and it basically ruined what was otherwise a fine opening debate.
Unfortunately, the second debate has largely revolved around the kinds of GOP talking points that Todd is addicted to. The debate opened with Bernie Sanders being asked how he would pay for Medicare for All. How we would pay for policies like Medicare for All has been the focus of much of the moderators’ attention, not explaining what those policies would actually do. At the same time, they’re pumping up candidates like Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, who have been the most aggressive critics of the Democrats’ turn toward “socialism.”
This is partly a result of how the two debates were drawn. Wednesday’s was (accidentally) the kids’ table debate, and the moderators asked questions about policy. Now they want them to fight, but not about their substantive differences. They want them to fight in cable news-ready soundbites. And it’s going to get worse—Chuck Todd will be on soon.
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Will anyone be brave enough to try to take down Joe Biden?
Or should that be stupid enough?
The first Democratic debate was notable for the absence of two pronouns: Donald Trump, the man who the eventual nominee will take on next year, and Joe Biden, the current Democratic frontrunner. Trump was, of course, impossible not to mention, but was avoided whenever possible. Biden, however, never came up at all.
He wasn’t on the stage then, however. He will be tonight. The perception among many—myself included—is that Biden’s support is soft, and that voters only need to be reminded of his sizable baggage, his somewhat creepy persona, and his penchant for saying dumb stuff to flock to a different candidate. Given that he’s already made two sizable gaffes, on abortion and race, there is plenty for the other nine Democratic candidates to take on.
But it might not be worth it. Going after Biden might be a disaster if a candidate is polling in the low single digits. Recall Chris Christie’s entertaining dressing down of a robotic Marco Rubio in a February 2016 debate. Rubio limped on afterwards, but never regained the glow of a potential challenger for the throne. Christie, meanwhile, didn’t see a boost for his own candidacy. It was, as my former colleague Elspeth Reeve wrote at the time, something akin to a political murder-suicide.
One crucial difference: That took place in February of 2016. The Iowa caucuses had already taken place. We’re more than six months away from an election. Candidates right now have an incentive to play nice. Of course, if Biden stays in the lead, he could end up cementing his status. That is, unless someone is crazy enough to take him on.
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Isn’t it time for NBC to get a less peppy debate tune?
Heading into the second Democratic debate tonight, many are hoping for more climate talk and fewer non sequiturs. Personally, I’m dreading the music, which will almost certainly be the same as last night’s. Sure, it’s a minor matter—an aesthetic detail of short duration. Still. It’d be nice, particularly this year, if NBC would ditch its usual fanfare for something a little more understated. The Olympics-meets-Indiana Jones intro soundtrack feels too flashy, too entertainment-oriented for the present moment—more suited to something people watch with popcorn and a beer, rather than a knitted brow and a bottle of Xanax.
Like the Democratic candidates gamely discussing tax brackets and health care last night while ignoring this unprecedentedly erratic presidency, blaring something that sounds like it was written up by Erich Wolfgang Korngold for an Erroll Flynn movie right before we’re about to hear about drowned immigrant children abrades the senses (and the morals) a bit. There’s something a little Hunger Games about the aesthetic: signaling spectacle and entertainment in the face of a political climate that’s actually disturbing.
While we’re on the subject, as a few folks asked on Twitter last night: Why are these debates still taking place in front of live audiences? Isn’t it time to cut the whoops and claps, letting the candidates discuss their proposals like the world-shifting policies they are? Do we really still need sound effects like a ‘90s sitcom?
The Democratic debate was a milestone for transgender rights.
When politicians discuss the rights of transgender Americans, they often place an outsized focus on whether trans women should be allowed to use the bathroom in peace. But the issues facing the trans community are far more diverse, and often far more consequential—and during the first Democratic primary debate on Wednesday night, two candidates made an effort to highlight that fact.
While answering a question about abortion rights, former Housing Secretary Julian Castro said that he would expand abortion access for everyone—that is, not just for cisgender women, but for trans men and others who are capable of getting pregnant. “A person’s right to choose is under assault,” he said, consciously using gender-neutral language. “I don’t just believe in reproductive freedom. I believe in reproductive justice. And what that means is just because a woman—or, let’s not also forget someone in the trans community, a trans female—is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. So, I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.”
'I don't believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice.' — Julián Castro defended the right of low-income and transgender Americans to have an abortion #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/S1bUx6cvCX
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker also placed some focus on the transgender community—specifically on black trans Americans, a group disproportionately affected by hate crime and police brutality. “We do not talk enough about trans Americans, especially African American trans Americans and the incredibility high rates of murder now,” he said. “We don’t talk enough how many children, about 30 percent of LGBTQ kids, who do not go to school because of fear.”
The comments represented the first time Democratic candidates spoke about issues facing the trans community on a major debate stage, beyond the context of the bathroom.
At least 11 Black trans women have been killed in 2019. Our leaders must speak out against and combat this epidemic of hate violence that disproportionately impacts Black transgender women. #DemDebate https://t.co/f4YbjMXDSm
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) June 27, 2019
Thank you @CoryBooker and @JulianCastro for including trans rights as important issues during the first round of debates tonight. #DemDebate
— Trans Empowerment Project (@trans_empowered) June 27, 2019
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140 French troops to arrive in Estonia on Tuesday ({{commentsTotal}})
French tanks arrived in Tapa on Wednesday. March 29, 2017. Source: (Roomet Ild/mil.ee)
The second batch of French military personnel to be stationed in Estonia as part of the new NATO battle group, consisting of 140 troops, will land at the Ämari air base on Tuesday.
The first 50 French military personnel arrived in Estonia on Mar. 20, and the transfer of the French contingent’s equipment to Estonia was completed on Wednesday, military spokespeople in Tallinn said.
The 1,200-strong NATO battle group to be deployed to Estonia this spring will have British and French tanks and IFVs as well as British self-propelled guns among its equipment. French troops will serve in the group for the next eight months, after which they will be replaced by Danish units.
The French contingent of 300 soldiers will be armed with Leclerc tanks, VBCI infantry fighting vehicles, and VAB armored vehicles.
The British contingent to eventually consist of 800 personnel will be armed with Challenger 2 tanks, Warrior infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and AS90 self-propelled artillery.
Leaders of NATO member countries decided at the alliance’s Warsaw summit in July last year to increase NATO’s presence in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland because of the changed security environment. The contingent to be stationed in Estonia will be led by the UK, with additional troops contributed by France and Denmark.
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Jools Holland Returns to Llandudno
Musical virtuoso Jools Holland and his distinguished Rhythm & Blues Orchestra have announced a return to Llandudno on Sunday 19 July 2020 at Venue Cymru.
Accompanying Jools with the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra back to sunny North Wales will be the supremely talented Ruby Turner, with her breath-taking gospel, soul and rhythm & blues vocals, Louise Marshall, with her beautiful soul and jazz tones, as well as original Squeeze member and powerhouse Gilson Lavis on drums.
Special guests for this show will be announced at a later date.
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19 year old boy arrested for kidnapping drugging and killing his 5 year old cousin in Kano graphic photos
The Kano State Police Command yesterday July 12th, exhumed the body of a 5 year old boy identified as Ahmed Ado, a resident of Karkasara Quarters who was kidnapped, killed and buried by a gang of kidnappers, led by his 19 year old uncle, Ibrahim Ahmad pictured in the middle.
The state commissioner of police, CP Ahmed Illiyasu, who led a team of policemen to exhume the body of the deceased in an uncompleted building in Sheka Makabarta, situated in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state, said late Ahmed was kidnapped at Ma’ahat Nursery and Primary School, Karkasara by his uncle, Ibrahim Ahmed, as well as his accomplices, Abdulmajid Mohd and Musa Sanusi both aged 18, who demanded the sum of Fifty Million Naira as ransom.
CP Illiyasu said that the deceased was suspected to have been drugged by the suspects which led to his death. He was later buried in an uncompleted building in Sheka after the gang reduced the ransom to One Hundred Thousand Naira.
Ahmad and his gang were arrested after the police tracked the phone with which they used to speak with the family of the deceased. Ahmed who masterminded the kidnapping, expressed regret over his involvement in the criminal act.
See graphic photos below.
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Torea, the pied oystercatcher
Oystercatchers are found on every continent except Antarctica. In South America the Falkland Islands, New Zealand and Australia one of the pair of species is pied the other black. There is still no uniform agreement on how many species of oystercatchers there are. Sibley & Monroe (1990) and Clements (1991) lists 11 species. Hockey (1996) includes the South Island pied oystercatcher, H. finschi, within the races of the Eurasian oystercatcher, H. ostralegus, but splits off the Chatham Island oystercatcher, H. chathamensis, from the variable, creating thereby an endangered species. He also gives some arguments why the sooty oystercatcher, H. fulginosus, of Australia should be split into two species, creating the spectacled oystercatcher, H. opthalmicus, and why the Galapagos Island birds, H.galapagensis, should be separated from the American oystercatcher.
However, with reference to Oliver, in New Zealand the pied oystercatcher, unlike the variable, during the breeding season resorts to the riverbeds, sometimes following their courses far into the Southern Alps. It also breeds in other stations including the top of some of the ranges in Central Otago. After the breeding season the birds congregate on the coasts where they winter, but a proportion migrate to the northern part of the North Island where they are found along sandy shores and on the intertidal sand and mud flats of harbours like the Manukau and Kaipara. At high tide they rest, together with the variable oystercatcher, on the sand and shell banks near the water’s edge.
Potts was the first to describe the nesting habits of the South Island pied oystercatcher; “the oystercatcher is one of the the wariest and most restless of our birds. It is always ready with its clamorous alarm note to wake up each echo and disturb every bird within the sound of its shrill cry. But in the breeding season it exhibits an intensity of slyness that is almost supernatural. Usually it breeds in our river–beds, on the sandy spits, without any other shelter than what may be afforded by some drift flax, grass, or stick near which it makes, or discovers a slight depression in which to deposit its eggs. These are usually three in number. The young are grey, with a dark longitudinal stripe on each side above the wing. They are very active and are led by the old birds to the margins of the water-holes or pools. On being alarmed the old bird sidles off the nest quietly, takes advantage of any broken ground that helps conceal its movements from observation, and makes a long detour. A close scrutiny will very frequently enable the observer to detect the head of the bird carefully peering out behind some vantage ground watching all proceedings.”
Charadriiformes.
Haematopodiae.
Haematopus.
ostralegus.
finschi.
South Island pied oystercatcher, SIPO
23 cm., 120 g., above greenish black, below and over the tail white, eye, bill and legs crimson, white band on wing and white tab above folded wing.
Breeds inland on riverbeds and farmland in the South Island and migrates to coastal areas for the winter.
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Latham, John, A General Synopsis of Birds, 1795.
Oliver, W.R.B., New Zealand Birds, 1955.
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Home INDIA & BEYOND INDIA Jat stir: Haryana tense as blockades likely to be removed
Jat stir: Haryana tense as blockades likely to be removed
Chandigarh, Feb 22:
Haryana was on the tenterhooks on Monday as security forces moved in to get blockades by Jat protesters removed along highways and railway tracks.
No untoward incident, except for the blockades, was reported in the state in the past 12-hours, police said.
Some protesters have started going back to their places early on Monday, the police sources said.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party promising to give reservation to Jats and assuring that a bill will be brought in the next session of the Haryana assembly, Jat leaders had appealed to the protesters to end the agitation.
The Jat agitation, which is into its ninth day on Monday, has left 11 people dead and over 150 injured.
Security forces moved in to get blockades removed from the busy NH-1 (Delhi-Ambala) and NH-10 (Delhi-Hisar). Efforts were also made to clear railway tracks on the Delhi-Ambala and Delhi-Bathinda sections.
Thousands of people and vehicles were stranded on NH-1 as the protesters laid siege to the highway in Sonipat and Panipat districts in the past three days, cutting off road connectivity to Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh through the highway.
Nearly 800 trains were cancelled by railway authorities in the region due to the Jat agitation.
Security forces were likely to try to secure the Munak canal, which supplies water to Delhi, in Haryana’s Sonipat district. Water supply to Delhi has been disrupted at Akbarpur-Barota by Jat protesters since Friday night.
Hundreds of shops have been vandalised and set on fire in Rohtak, Bhiwani, Jhajjar and other places.
A number of government and private buildings and vehicles were also set on fire in the past four days as mob of youth went on the rampage in over 10 districts in Haryana.
The state government had to requisition the army and para-military forces to contain the situation. However, the violent protests continued and even spread to other areas of the state.(IANS)
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Aditya Birla-led UltraTech Cement on Sunday announced acquisition of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd’s cement plants, with total capacity of 22.4 million tons per annum (mtpa), for Rs.16,500 crore (about $2.5 billion).
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“UltraTech Cement has today (Sunday) entered into a binding MoU with Jaiprakash Associates for the acquisition of its identified cement plants having total cement capacity of 22.4 mtpa (including a 4 mtpa plant under implementation) situated in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka,” it said in a statement here.
“The parties have agreed to an enterprise value of Rs.16,500 crores.
“The assets will give the company access to the newer markets of Satna, UP East, Himachal Pradesh and coastal Andhra where it does not have a presence as of now. Upon consummation of the proposed transaction, the company’s cement capacity will stand augmented to 90.7 mtpa (current 68.3 mtpa),” it added.
It was unclear whether this agreement includes two cement plants of Jaiprakash Associates, the purchase of which were cancelled last week by UltraTech owing to lack of necessary approvals.
UltraTech had on Friday said it was calling off that deal with Jaiprakash Associates, which has been selling its assets in a bid to reduce debt and improve its balance sheet. (IANS)
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A Northwest Connecticut Fiber-Optic Network Collaborative.
Diving Into Telecommunications
Aesop’s famous fable about the tortoise beating the hare tells a simple message about persistence and foolishness. We have searched in vain for as simple a story about fiber optic networks. But in doing so we realized that Aesop’s story may have its own, hidden complications; wouldn’t we like to know why? Would the tortoise win a rematch? Did he administer drugs to the hare in a pre-race celebratory cocktail? Was the hare reacting to advanced states of a heart condition that had not been detected yet? Isn’t rest a good thing, relaxing in face of an over-stimulated life? Maybe it was a Zen moment, not to be condemned but cherished.
In 1921 telecommunications was simple. That year our federal government gave AT&T a green light to gobble up all competitors to create a “natural monopoly” the would insure universal service at affordable rates. It was an amazingly successful adventure. For many decades the only meaning of telecommunications was making a phone call and talking, as simple as the tortoise beating the hare. Then the government reversed course and through a law that became effective in 1996 ordered competition and investment in the three converging markets making up telecommunications—telephone, television, and radio.
Over the next ten years broadband inserted its newly formed head and in the blink of an eye became as necessary as roads and electricity and old-world telecommunications. In that same blink of an eye the world of telecommunications became incredibly complex and confusing. Most people faced with making decisions in the current bewildering array of choices wonder “who do I believe” more than “what must I know” to decide. This is a dangerous state. Our carriers today, in battle with each other for your mind, eyeballs, and dollars, have shown vigorous imaginations but less regard for openness or full disclosure or at times the truth. The suggestion that 5G is around the corner is nonsense, but it is pledged every day now by many companies. The idea that cable television networks can grow with our needs or will connect everyone is more believable but still borders on fable.
So we depart from the delightful readings Aesop provided to dive a little deeper into difficult subjects. Some are just explanations for a variety of topics. But some make arguments where current contentions obtain. And some are moving targets. We are engaged in litigation and legislative activities that change by the month but bear critically on what we can do. The cost picture will move from suppositions to more realistic numbers as we get closer to real engineering and real relationships with vendors. Our tracking of what other communities are doing changes every month.
We do not wish to leave a sense of Aesop as works for children. We are much like the tortoise, plugging away for some years now hoping that persistence will eventually succeed. The only difference is that we have a real prize to fight for, not just a moral victory. If our region, or our state, adopts municipal fiber optic networks sooner rather than later, only good things for our communities will follow. That is a prize worth the plodding along, step by wandering step, to the finish line.
Northwest Connect is a non-profit corporation formed for two purposes: to orchestrate for our region a universal gigabit data highway using fiber optic transmission lines; and to promote economic and community development made possible by such a network. We think of it as connecting our communities to the future.
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Oxford Life has launched a revolutionary online calculator that capitalizes on the tax-free wealth transfer benefits of life insurance. This new tool will demonstrate the financial advantages of adding it to traditional annuity purchases.
The calculator will create a combination of strategies to achieve your clients objectives with a plan designed to leave money to their heirs in a tax-efficient manner.
This tool is not promoting a joint or combo sale. The agent is selling two separate products in this scenario. Watch a tutorial about the combo calculator on YouTube.
Original press release was published July 8th, 2019 on PR Newswire.
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A.M. Best revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Issuer Credit Rating of "a-" of its subsidiary Oxford Life Insurance Company (Oxford Life). These ratings also apply to Christian Fidelity Life Insurance, a subsidiary of Oxford Life.
A.M. Best also affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and Issuer Credit Rating of "bbb" of another Oxford Life subsidiary, North American Insurance Company.
Original press release was published July 1st, 2019 on PR Newswire.
Oxford Life's InstaWrite to Expedite the Life Insurance Sales Process
Oxford Life Insurance Company has initiated a new, simpler and speedier life insurance qualification process.
PHOENIX (April 10, 2018) — Oxford Life Insurance Company has initiated a new, simpler and speedier life insurance qualification process. Oxford Life InstaWriteSM is a streamlined and better experience for both agents and clients. InstaWriteSM improves upon the traditional life insurance sales process by featuring an almost instant health assessment.
As of April 5, agents can use this new process for all Final Expense and Single Premium Life insurance sales through Oxford Life.
“I’m proud to introduce InstaWriteSM to our agents,” said Mark Haydukovich, president and CEO of Oxford Life. “We understand that agents value every minute of the day, and the speed of our new life insurance sales process allows them to make more appointments and close more business.”
InstaWriteSM is a two-step process. First, an agent chooses to complete either an electronic or paper application. Second, the agent calls to speak with one of the dedicated InstaWriteSM processors for a quick health assessment. The health assessment generates a qualified or not qualified decision in a matter of minutes. The InstaWriteSM health assessment can be obtained by calling (833) 705-4019 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.- 8 p.m. EDT (6 a.m.- 4 p.m. PDT).
Agents will soon have the option to bypass the phone health assessment and determine qualification status for their clients online. The electronic health assessment will be available via Oxford Life’s agent portal 24-7.
To learn more about Oxford Life's top-selling annuity products, visit www.oxfordlife.com
About Oxford Life
Oxford Life Insurance Company, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, was founded in the Grand Canyon state of Arizona in 1968 and remains committed to supporting the senior market through life insurance, annuity, and Medicare supplement products that meet their financial needs. Oxford Life is continually working to support its mission of enabling seniors to live with dignity in their retirement years through financial security. Oxford Life is a strong player in every field where it competes, and constantly strives to be a leader in all categories of the life insurance and annuity markets. Oxford Life is a member of AMERCO, a publicly traded financial holding network.
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Oxford Life Achieves Eighth Place Ranking in National Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity Sales via Independent Distribution for Fourth Quarter 2017
4/4/2018 3:27:00 PM Oxford Life Achieves Eighth Place Ranking in National Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity Sales via Independent Distribution for Fourth Quarter 2017
Phoenix, AZ – Oxford Life Insurance Company has announced that their Multi-Select™ 6-Year Annuity has ranked as the eighth best-selling Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity (MYGA) product via Independent Distribution in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to the Wink’s Sales & Market Report; the longest-running, most comprehensive source of indexed insurance product sales and trends.
Mark Haydukovich, President and Chief Executive Officer for Oxford Life, stated that “What sets us apart is our focus on the consumers’ needs and ensuring we provide the highest quality financial products, such as our Multi-Select™ 6-Year Annuity. That focus has guided Oxford Life to achieve national recognition.”
The highlights of Oxford Life’s Multi-Select ™ Annuity include the interest rate being guaranteed for the period chosen by the policy holder, long-term accumulation of funds for building a retirement income, and accessibility to funds when it is needed most.
Sales categories where Oxford Life ranked within the top 50 nationally -- based on the Wink’s scoring system -- include Non-Variable Deferred Annuities, Indexed Annuities, and Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities.
To learn more about Oxford Life’s top-selling annuity products, visit www.oxfordlife.com.
Oxford Life Insurance Company, currently celebrating its 50th Anniversary, was founded in the Grand Canyon state of Arizona in 1968 and remains committed to supporting the senior market through life insurance, annuity, and Medicare supplement products that meet their financial needs. Oxford Life is continually working to support its mission of enabling seniors to live with dignity in their retirement years through financial security. Oxford Life is a strong player in every field it competes, and constantly strives to be a leader in all categories of the life insurance and annuity markets. Oxford Life is a member of AMERCO, a publicly traded financial holding network.
For additional information, contact:
Mike Quaranta, mikequaranta@oxfordlife.com
Oxford Life Announces CEO Mark Haydukovich Elected to ACLI Board of Directors
2/21/2018 4:11:00 PM Oxford Life CEO Elected to ACLI Board of Directors
Oxford Life Insurance Company Chairman, President & CEO Mark A. Haydukovich has been appointed to the board of directors of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), whose members provide financial and retirement security solutions to 75 million American families.
"We are fortunate to have Mark on our board," ACLI President and CEO Dirk Kempthorne said. "His wealth of industry knowledge and experience will be important assets as the board works in support of his industry and the families that rely on us for their financial and retirement security needs."
Mr. Haydukovich also serves as Vice Chairman of the Arizona Life and Disability Insurance Guaranty Fund, and is on the Board of Governors of the ACLI Forum 500, which represents small-to medium-sized life insurance companies.
"The ACLI is a well-respected organization and I am pleased to be more involved in contributing to the advocacy of industry issues in our great life insurance industry," Mr. Haydukovich said.
Mr. Haydukovich joined Oxford Life in 1978 and has served on its board of directors since 1980. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University and a Masters of Business Administration from Arizona State University. Mr. Haydukovich has earned the designations of Certified Public Accountant; Certified Financial Analyst; Fellow in the Life Management Institute; Chartered Life Underwriter; and Chartered Financial Consultant.
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Oxford Life Announces Coverage Increase and Addition of Rider Benefits to their Assurance One: Single Premium Whole Life Insurance
2/21/2018 4:06:00 PM Oxford Life Increases Coverage and Adds Rider Benefits to Assurance One
Oxford Life Insurance Company has announced that their Assurance One: Single Premium Whole Life Insurance will now offer a higher coverage amount, up to $125,000 net amount at risk (NAR). Issue ages for this product have also been adjusted to 55-80 years old and Terminal Illness, Nursing Home, and Chronic Illness Riders have been added as additional benefits.
“Assurance One is one of the most efficient wealth transfer vehicles available today. With this increase in coverage, those who are looking to pass money onto their children, grandchildren, church or other charity will be able to do so at an even greater multiple,” stated Mike Quaranta, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Oxford Life Insurance Company.
Oxford Life’s Assurance One allows Policy Holders to move their assets federal income tax free to their heirs with only one premium, no medical exam, and little to no risk as coverage will never decrease.
Oxford Life Launches New Website to Enhance the User Experience of its Policy Holders and Independent Agents
2/21/2018 4:05:00 PM Oxford Life Launches New Website
Oxford Life Insurance Company has introduced a new website with new features and better navigation. Our mission is to provide products and services that promote financial security to individuals that will enable them to live with dignity in their retirement years, and the revision of our website is a key part of that commitment. The website not only has an improved look, but also has more useable navigation system that enhances the online experience. The changes to the website are the result of a range of initiatives taken by Oxford Life to inform, be more available, and to provide the best experience for our valuable policy holders and independent agents.
Oxford Life Introduces My Oxford: The Cell Phone App for Policy Holders
2/21/2018 3:53:00 PM Oxford Life Introduces a Cell Phone App for Policy Holders
My Oxford provides tools to policy holders and easy access to policies administered by Oxford Life Insurance Company*. With the My Oxford app, a policy holder can:
Change address, phone number, and email
View premium and claims history
View plan details and benefits
Upload forms and requests
Chat with an Oxford Life representative
View contact information for Oxford Life
Oxford Life is dedicated to keeping up with technology in order to provide its policy holders with the best service. You can download the My Oxford app on your mobile device using Google Play or iTunes. For links, see the Resources section at the bottom of Oxford Life’s website.
* Administrators for Oxford Life, Christian Fidelity Life, North American, Usable, and Celtic.
Oxford Life Introduces Oxford Life Mobile Office: The Cell Phone App for Independent Agents
2/21/2018 3:45:00 PM Oxford Life Introduces a Cell Phone App for Independent Agents
Now Oxford Life Agents can easily view the status of their information, contact Oxford Life, and more directly from their mobile device. Oxford Life Mobile Office has the following tools for agents:
Calendar – Track events and set notes
Pending Policies – Find the status of submitted policies
Faxes – Verify Oxford Life has received submitted faxes
Annuity Tracking – Track annuity policy documents via UPS
Calculator – Calculate policy premium and face amount values
Call Center Status – Current call volume and approximate wait times for Oxford Life's Customer Service Representatives
Conference Tracker – Shows Agent’s status towards Oxford Life’s yearly promotions
Chat – Initiate a one-on-one dialog with an Oxford Life representative
Contact Us – Provides company address, phone, and fax numbers
FAQ for commonly asked questions
Keeping up with technology is important and staying in front of it is a sign of true dedication; the kind of dedication that Oxford Life has for its agents. You can download the Oxford Life Mobile Office app on your mobile device using Google Play or iTunes. For links, see the Resources section at the bottom of Oxford Life’s website.
Oxford Life Ranked #8 in Overall Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity Sales via Independent Distribution for Third Quarter 2017
Oxford Life Ranked #8 in Overall Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity Sales
Oxford Life Insurance Company has announced that their Multi-Select 6-Year Annuity has ranked as the #8 best-selling Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity (MYGA) product via Independent Distribution in the third quarter of 2017, according to the Wink’s Sales & Market Report; the longest-running, most comprehensive source of indexed insurance product sales and trends.
Mike Quaranta, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Oxford Life Insurance Company, stated that “The success of the Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuity is proof that seniors, now more than ever, desire a market return with a minimal amount of risk. While there are other safe alternatives, MYGAs offer tax-deferred interest rates at levels which are usually higher than typical financial institutions can offer. Oxford Life is excited to be a preferred provider of Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities and proud to have the opportunity to provide our clients with a financially secure retirement.”
The highlights of Oxford Life’s Multi-Select Annuity include the interest rate being guaranteed for the period chosen by the policy holder, long-term accumulation of funds for building a retirement income, and accessibility to funds when it is needed most.
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British High Commissioner called on Federal Minister for Law and Justice
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Thomas Drew called on Federal Minister for Law and Justice Dr Muhammad Farogh Naseem at his office on Wednesday.
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Do Bank Regulation and Supervision Substitute for Bank Auditing?
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Reputation for a Servant of Two Masters
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Market Power: How Does it Arise? How is it Measured?
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New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics
Long-Term Debt and Hidden Borrowing
Heski Bar-Isaac and Vicente Cuñat
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group
Switching Costs and Equilibrium Prices
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Capital Asset Pricing Under Ambiguity
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Asset Pricing and Ambiguity: Empirical Evidence
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Ambiguity Measurement
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The Evolving Role of the Federal Reserve
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Consumer Behavioural Biases in Competition: A Survey
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Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts
Mark Armstrong and Jidong Zhou
Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Aug 2011
John Asker and Heski Bar-Isaac
UCLA and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2010
Sources of Entropy in Representative Agent Models
David K. Backus, Mikhail Chernov and Stanley E. Zin
NYU Stern School of Business, UCLA Anderson and New York University (NYU)
A Statistical Model for Credit Scoring
NYU Working Paper No. EC-92-29
William H. Greene
New York University Stern School of Business
Aligning the Interests of Multiple Principals: Ownership Concentrationand Profitability in China's Publicly-Traded Firms
Doug Guthrie, Zhixing Xiao and Junmin Wang
New York University (NYU) - Department of Management and Organizational Behavior, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Ratings Quality Over the Business Cycle
Heski Bar-Isaac and Joel D. Shapiro
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection
Thomas Philippon and Vasiliki Skreta
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2010
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Mar 2010
Network Competition: Workhorse Resurrection
NYU Working Paper, NET Institute Working Paper No. 10-05
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2012
Thomas Tangerås
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
NET Institute Working Paper No. 10-05
Transparency and Bank Runs
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2016
Cecilia Parlatore
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Search, Design and Market Structure
Heski Bar-Isaac, Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cuñat
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group
Costly Search and Design
The Effects of Bank Mergers and Acquisitions on Small Business Lending
NYU Working Paper No. FIN-98-007
Allen N. Berger, Anthony Saunders, Joseph M. Scalise and Gregory F. Udell
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 50, November 1998
Why Do Firms Merge and then Divest: A Theory of Financial Synergy
Zsuzsanna Fluck and Anthony W. Lynch
Michigan State University - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Security Bid/Ask Dynamics with Discreteness and Clustering: Simple Strategies for Modeling and Estimation
Joel Hasbrouck
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
The Dynamics of Discrete Bid and Ask Quotes
The Dynamics of the Management-Shareholder Conflict
Zsuzsanna Fluck
Michigan State University - Department of Finance
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2
Posted: 11 Dec 1998
Testing the Volatility Term Structure Using Option Hedging Criteria
Robert F. Engle and Joshua V. Rosenberg
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Credit Risk Measurement and Management: The Ironic Challenge in the Next Decade
Edward I. Altman
New York University (NYU) - Salomon Center
The Exercise and Valuation of Executive Stock Options
Jennifer N. Carpenter
Causes and Effects of Corporate Refocusing Programs
Philip G. Berger and Eli Ofek
University of Chicago and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Cookie-Cutter Versus Character: The Micro Structure of Small Business Lending by Large and Small Banks
Rebel A. Cole, Lawrence G. Goldberg and Lawrence J. White
Florida Atlantic University, University of Miami - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics
EFA 2002 Berlin Meetings Discussion Paper
Cookie-Cutter Versus Character: The Micro Structure of Small-Business Lending by Large and Small Banks
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2004
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 May 2004 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2010
Altering the Terms of Executive Stock Options
Menachem Brenner, Rangarajan K. Sundaram and David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
New York University, Center for Law and Business, Working Paper No. 98-001
The Effect of Leverage on Bidding Behavior: Theory and Evidence from the Fcc Auctions
Matthew J. Clayton and S. Abraham Ravid
University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce and Yeshiva University - Syms School of Business
Exchange Rate Exposure, Hedging, and the Use of Foreign Currency Derivatives
George Allayannis and Eli Ofek
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Exchange Rate Exposure, Hedging and the Use of Foreign Currency Derivatives
Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 20, pp. 273-296, 2001
Modern Portfolio Theory, 1950 to Date
Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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J. Watson Bailey Takes Home Top Prize in 2017 UnitedHealthcare Health Bee in Kingston
KINGSTON, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A team from J. Watson Bailey Middle School last night won the 2017
UnitedHealthcare Health Bee in a spirited final round in Kingston,
earning the school funding for its health and wellness programs.
Twenty-four students from four middle schools in Ulster County competed
in the UnitedHealthcare Health Bee, a quiz show-style competition
designed to get middle-school students excited about health, fitness and
nutrition. UnitedHealthcare and the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County
hosted the competition yesterday at the YMCA in Kingston. Kingston Mayor
Steve Noble kicked off the competition and stressed the importance of
adopting healthy habits early in life.
Mayor Noble was joined on the judge’s panel by Dr. Andrea Littleton of
the Institute for Family Health, Ulster County Clerk Nina Postupack,
Michael McGuire of UnitedHealthcare, and Heidi Kirschner of the YMCA of
Kingston and Ulster County.
“Pre-teens are at a critical juncture in their development when they
begin to make their own choices about what to eat and how often to
exercise,” said McGuire, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of New York. “The
UnitedHealthcare Health Bee educates students about their health in a
way that’s fun and engaging. By helping kids understand how their
choices affect the way their body works and feels, we help set them on a
healthy path to adulthood.”
State Sen. George Amedore praised the goals of the UnitedHealthcare
Health Bee, saying: “Getting young adults engaged and interested in
fitness and nutrition helps them make educated choices to develop
healthy lifestyles. The UnitedHealthcare Health Bee is a fun and
educational experience for our students that will help us build and
maintain stronger communities.”
UnitedHealthcare awarded the winning team from J. Watson Bailey a $1,000
grand prize, which will support the school’s health and fitness
programs. Kingston Catholic Middle School earned second place and a $500
prize, and M. Clifford Middle School took home the school spirit award
and a $250 prize. The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County awarded a
one-month free membership to participating students and their families.
State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill congratulated the students who
participated and thanked UnitedHealthcare for hosting the Bee. “This
event is a meaningful way to get young people concerned about health,”
he said. “Wellness issues get more challenging to deal with as you get
older, and it is important to get students interested in developing a
strong foundation on how health decisions will affect their lives.
Congratulations to J. Watson Bailey Middle School – they have made their
school and community proud.”
“The UnitedHealthcare Health Bee lets students celebrate their knowledge
of health and wellness, and gives them a head start on the path toward
healthy living into adulthood,” said Kirschner, CEO/president, YMCA of
Kingston and Ulster County. “We are thrilled to join UnitedHealthcare’s
efforts to build healthier communities with a focus on our middle-school
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 4 million people in New York with a
network of nearly 280 hospitals and more than 91,000 physicians and
other care providers statewide.
About YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County
YMCA Kingston and Ulster County is a private not-for-profit,
community-based organization providing social, health, physical
education and recreation services to the residents of Ulster County.
YMCA programs includes school-age child care, health enhancement /
fitness classes, summer camps, swim lessons for all ages, special
scholarship programs for low-income youth and families & physical
rehabilitation programs. The YMCA serves all groups from infants to
About UnitedHealthcare
is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees
and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 1 million physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:
UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com
or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
here to subscribe to Mobile Alerts for UnitedHealth Group.
Mary McElrath-Jones, 914-552-4671
Mary_r_mcelrath-jones@uhc.com
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Online Music Courses
Our 12-week online music courses are authored and taught by industry experts and the same renowned instructors that teach at Berklee College of Music's Boston campus.
Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Credits transfer to hundreds of other colleges and universities
Many Berklee Online courses apply toward certificates and degree programs
Undergraduate Level
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OMPRD-278
Ableton Live Fundamentals
Credit: $1,497
Non-credit: $1,250
In this course you’ll learn all the fundamentals of Ableton Live, covering aspects of production, composition, synthesis, sampling, effects processing, and workflow, inside this unique software.
Ableton Live Techniques: Non-Linear Creative Strategies and Composition
This course is for students who are interested in taking a deep dive into composing with Ableton Live by leveraging unique and powerful linear and non-linear creative techniques inside the software. You will master a number of linear and non-linear compositional practices that are only possible using advanced Ableton Live tools and techniques.
Ableton Live Techniques: Sampling
Building on the skills learned in Ableton Live Fundamentals, you will explore the sampler devices in Ableton Live. You’ll begin with common sampling concepts applicable to all samplers, then learn in great depth the techniques that are unique to Ableton Live.
Ableton Live Techniques: Synthesis and DSP
Building on the skills learned in Ableton Live Techniques: Fundamentals, students will explore how the many synthesizers and audio effects in Ableton Live can be used in contemporary music production.
OGUIT-351
Acoustic Blues Guitar
Develop a foundational, working repertoire in the acoustic blues style that includes early and contemporary material from the Mississippi Delta, Texas, Georgia/Carolinas, and more. Learn to fingerpick melodies and solos over independent bass patterns, and perform in the acoustic bottleneck slide style in both standard and open tunings.
Acoustic Guitar Techniques
Strengthen your rhythmic strumming, use of alternate tunings, and fingerstyle playing, and improve your fluency, tone, dynamics, and control.
OLMSC-215
Become a better recording and live sound engineer, and improve your editing and mixing environment by learning the ins and outs of acoustics.
Advanced Audio Ear Training for Mix Engineers
Expand your production skills and take your critical listening to the next level by learning to identify and implement mix strategies, compression and panning techniques, and a wide array of professional mix approaches across multiple genres of music.
Advanced Audio/Music Mastering: Theory and Practice
Level 6 (Proof of a Bachelor's Degree Required)
In this course, you will learn mastering theories and techniques to deliver high-quality masters in a variety of genres, for various platforms, including vinyl, lossy codecs, and streaming platforms.
Proof of a bachelor's degree is required to enroll in non-degree, graduate-level courses.
Advanced Blues Guitar
In this advanced course, learn how to play rhythm guitar parts and solos over a variety of blues progressions, grooves, and tempos, in styles such as shuffles, funky blues, blues/rumbas, blues/rock, soul, and slow blues.
Advanced Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
This advanced music production course provides students with a deep understanding of mixing and mastering tools and techniques that can be applied to a wide variety of styles.
Advanced Mixing Techniques
Advanced Mixing Techniques is a next-generation music mixing course for you to take your mixing skills to the highest level. In addition to an in-depth exploration of traditional mixing topics such as balance, EQ, dynamics, spatial effects, and automation, you’ll explore pitch and time correction and mixing for digital streaming services. Throughout the course, you will mix 12 provided recordings in a variety of Billboard chart-related styles, including R&B/hip-hop, pop, electronic dance, country, and rock.
OPERC-324
Afro-Cuban Drums
Strengthen your overall versatility as a drummer by learning the rich grooves and rhythmic concepts of Afro-Cuban music.
Applied Mathematics for Musicians
Build your own knowledge of, and confidence in, math in practical ways that relate directly to the world of music. This action-oriented course is designed specifically for those who find math intimidating or who feel that their math skills have become rusty.
Architectural, Acoustic, and Audio System Design for the Modern Music Production Studio
This course will prepare you to understand, design, and implement a professional music production environment for the projects you embark on. You will complete a production studio design as a final project, which will include essential acoustic and architectural design criteria.
OCWPR-130
Arranging 1: Rhythm Section
Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, Arranging 1: Rhythm Section explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section.
Arranging: Advanced Horn Writing
This music arrangement course takes your arranging abilities to the next level of development by studying more advanced techniques for voicing chords, orchestration, articulations, and background lines.
Arranging: Contemporary Styles
In this music arrangement course, you'll learn to create your own original grooves by analyzing, writing, sequencing, and recording the rhythms and styles that have influenced Western contemporary music.
OSONG-250
Arranging for Songwriters: Instrumentation and Production in Songwriting
This course will provide you with tools and techniques to craft instrumentation and production for supporting the emotional meanings of songs. You will be able to create an identifiable and unique sound.
Arranging: Small Ensemble and Horns
In this music arrangement course, you'll develop your writing and arranging skills for smaller bands and larger ensembles and learn techniques that can be applied to both live instrumentation or sequenced/sampled sounds.
Arranging: Woodwinds and Strings
In this music arrangement course, gain a practical, real-world understanding of the sound and personality of woodwind and string instruments, and learn how to properly apply them to songs, arrangements, and compositions.
OLART-231
Through the eyes of two professors of art history with differing yet complementary approaches to understanding art, you will look at a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and architecture, and discover the diversity of ways that works of art are meaningful to the human experience.
OMBUS-235
Explore the role and importance of an artist manager, what they do, and how it impacts the career of the artist and their brand.
Artist Management in the Music Business
This course is an in-depth exploration of the strategy behind effective artist management. Through case-scenario analysis, you will learn the key ingredients for successful artist management/artist relationships, in addition to approaches for growing and sustaining artists' careers, and much more.
Art of Mixing
Explore the many creative and technical considerations necessary to mix in today's music production environment. Acquire the core skill set needed to mix multi-track master recordings to a stereo final mix-down suitable for release.
Learn how to properly set up, operate, and manage a recording studio or live sound reinforcement installations of any size, integrating both analog and digital elements and interconnects.
Audio Mastering Techniques
Audio mastering is the final, critical, step in the post-production process. Gain a thorough understanding of what is involved in creating a final master recording ready for duplication, replication, or online distribution.
Audio/Music Production for Visual Media
This course is an in-depth exploration of the tools, techniques, workflows, and creative considerations in producing audio for film, television, and related media. You will explore the history of film as a medium, through the development of technology for synchronizing audio to moving picture, to modern-day practices in audio post-production.
Audio Post Production for Film and TV
Become a more marketable and in-demand producer by mastering the tools and techniques necessary to complete a full audio post production project, including sound design, foley, dialogue, and music for a short film.
OEART-115
Basic Ear Training 1
This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to notate basic rhythms and better identify the different parts of a song.
OPERF-110
Basic Improvisation
Learn a step-by-step approach to improvisation that applies to all styles and any instrument. Develop your solos by studying the riffs and licks of legendary players, and learn to incorporate the inflections, feel, and nuances of the masters into your own playing!
OBASS-130
Bass Performance 101
Study the music of famous electric and acoustic bass players, and learn to create and perform your own unique bass lines in a variety of different styles.
OPIAN-100
Berklee Keyboard Method
Learn the Berklee approach to keyboard in this 12-week course. Master the basics of technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts including interpretation of lead sheets and improvisation.
Blues and Rock Keyboard Techniques
Study the theory and harmonic concepts common to blues and rock styles, and learn the licks, techniques, patterns, and improvisation styles associated with shuffles, New Orleans piano, rock and roll and modern rock piano, and solo blues piano.
Learn the techniques and licks of classic blues stylists, such as T-Bone Walker, Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, and Magic Sam. Gain a foundation in form, control, feel, and harmony that will help to bring a blues sound to your playing or add more depth to any other style of music.
OLSOC-200
Learn effective techniques for choosing the right format, tone, and message for diverse audiences and the most appropriate way to deliver the message.
Career and Job Success in the Music Industry
Explore the four dimensions of career development: clarifying your professional value, focusing the opportunity lens, advancing personal growth strategies, and orchestrating a successful job search. Throughout the course, you will hear from Berklee alumni and employers about what it takes to succeed in the music industry in today’s shifting climate.
Classic Rock Guitar
Elevate your playing by learning the styles and techniques of the architects of classic rock guitar: Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Gilmour, and Page.
Collaborative Songwriting
This course will actively engage students in an intensive program of online song collaboration, which will allow them to develop practical and creative real world skills for professional co-writing.
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Commercial Songwriting Techniques
Learn to write for commercial success by reproducing the time-tested characteristics of hit songs while maintaining your own unique voice.
Commercial Vocal Production
In this course, you will develop the skills necessary to create vocal-focused recordings that are contemporary and commercially viable. You will explore the voice as an instrument, one that is naturally expressive and harmonically complex, and that can be technologically processed.
Composing and Producing Electronic Music 1
Learn the necessary tools and techniques to create contemporary electronic music in a variety of styles, including drum and bass, trance, glitch, dub, electro, minimal, downtempo, house, and techno. If you are a musician interested in adding an electronic flavor to your production, or an electronic producer interested in moving your pieces to the next level, this music composition course is for you!
Learn to create contemporary electronic music in a variety of styles, including techno, trip-hop, glitch, and dubstep. Gain a deep understanding of many aspects of contemporary electronic music, including beats, harmony, bass lines, groove, melodies, synthesis, audio/MIDI editing, effects processing, sound design, performance, and mixing.
Concert Touring
Learn the preparations and logistics involved in developing, budgeting, and executing a successful tour, from small club dates to international stadium shows.
OCOMP-285
Contemporary Techniques in Music Composition 1
Learn how to construct your own melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic language through the study of modern twentieth century compositional techniques. In this music composition course you'll develop your unique, compositional voice to write music for visual media, concerts, recitals, or personal enjoyment.
Gain a solid knowledge of modern instrumental writing and competence using twentieth century techniques in composition. In addition, you will gain enhanced listening skills to identify and appreciate new musical styles, and be capable of implementing these skills in your writing, enriching your capacity to express yourself in this intellectually stimulating musical idiom.
Contemporary Vocal Arranging
Master the concepts of vocal writing and arranging from basic to more advanced and learn to write vocal charts in a number of contemporary styles, including jazz, folk, pop, and R&B.
Understand the basics of how your creative works are protected by copyright law, what rights you have as a content owner, and how to leverage your copyrights to generate income.
Gain a broad overview of counterpoint and the art of writing lines that support both the melody and the overall structure of a composition—essential information for singers, songwriters, composers, guitarists, and musicians from all backgrounds.
Creative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Music and Visuals
Creative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Music and Visuals will prepare students to effectively create custom-made sound design elements for music productions and audio-for-visuals projects. Students will work with a wide variety of audio tools and concepts.
OENTR-391
Creative Entrepreneurship
Leverage your creativity for business innovation and develop the mindset, knowledge, and insights required to pursue an entrepreneurial track, whether as the steward of your own career or as the founder of a new business in any creative field.
Creative Music Production Skills
Gain insight into both the art and the profession of music production. Develop the necessary skills for producing music according to professional standards, and learn both the technical and interpersonal approaches to creating a successful recording.
Creative Recording and Editing Techniques in Music Production
Creative Recording and Editing Techniques is a practical, in-depth study of essential and creative recording techniques as well as an exploration of advanced audio editing techniques and considerations. You will learn to maximize the emotional impact of recordings by focusing on the music-driven intersection of the technical and creative skills necessary to achieve professional sounding recordings in any setting, from professional recording environments, to portable studios with minimal gear.
Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style
In this music composition course, you'll learn how to develop upon virtually any kernel of an idea, from a melodic fragment to a catchy rhythm or phrase, or a nice chord. Explore a variety of approaches to composing and how they work, complete with examples, composer perspectives, and more.
Creative Writing: Finding Your Voice
Learn to write clearly and strongly in your own unique voice, bringing your full self to your writing process every time you write.
Creative Writing: Literature Studies for Musicians
Strengthen your writing skills and creative expression by exploring and learning from the works of musician-writers and those for whom music has had a profound influence.
Creative Writing: Poetry
Learn to craft and control your writing, enhance your ideas, and write better lyrics through the study of poetry.
Critical Analysis of Music Production Techniques
This course presents a framework and vocabulary for analyzing music that will support your work in the program, in addition to your professional career. You will dissect music for its use of various production techniques, including arrangement, instrumentation, performance, mix considerations, and more.
Create compelling, professional-sounding songs by learning to identify the production elements that contribute to a well-balanced, artful and professional mix.
Data Analytics in the Music Business
This course will help you gain a deep understanding of the role of data in the business of music, balancing theoretical concepts, illustrative case studies, and practical application. When used correctly, data about artists and music serve as invaluable tools, allowing companies to measure performance accurately and understand the current market, informing decisions with real facts and figures, and providing insight into how existing processes may be made more efficient.
Developing Your Artistry
Explore what it means to be an artist, both from a philosophical and practical perspective. This course will examine artistry and creativity while also teaching you how to plan and sustain a career.
Drum Set Fundamentals
Improve your overall coordination, touch, and dynamics, and gain a solid foundation in drum set performance and musicianship.
Ear Training 2
This course is not only designed to reinforce the ability to read music notation, but also the ability to recognize, imagine, remember, and notate musical sounds. Learning techniques include moveable Do solfège, conducting, counting systems, and dictation strategies. Ear Training 2 will also improve improvisation skills, musical interaction in performance, and music perception in listening.
Ear Training for Live Performance
Learn to play what you hear more quickly, and become more certain of the notes you are singing or playing. Interpret and respond to music with greater conviction and expression.
Film Scoring 101
Create original music to accompany a visual medium by learning fundamental to more advanced film scoring techniques.
Fundamentals of Classical Guitar
Gain a foundational, working repertoire for the classical guitar. Develop an extensive repertoire of techniques, including tremolo, rasguedo, harmonics, slurs, and percussion effects.
Funk/R&B Drums
In Funk/R&B Drums, you'll focus on developing solid time and an "in the pocket," laid-back time feel to your playing, exploring topics from triplet-based blues to gospel patterns, and everything in between.
Funk/Rock and R&B Guitar Soloing
Learn the appropriate scales, the best use of effects, and the rhythmic and melodic timing to create an authentic funk-based solo and sound.
Game Audio Production with Wwise
This course is designed for the musician who wants to compose music, unique sound, and creature voices for video games. Focusing on both the creative process of designing unique audio and the practical challenges of putting that content into a game, Game Audio Production with Wwise prepares students for all major aspects of game audio production and implementation.
Game Design Principles
This course provides an overview of video game design, exploring the iterative process of coming up with ideas, prototyping, testing, and revising that is at the heart of the video game industry. You will analyze games and examine the principles of game design from a visual studies perspective.
Gary Burton: Jazz Improvisation
Learn the art of jazz improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world. Learn different types and styles of compositions from the perspective of the improviser, and take an in-depth look at how mental, harmonic, and melodic processes contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo.
OHARM-110
Getting Inside Harmony 1
Use harmony creatively in your playing and writing. Learn to hear and modify chord progressions, improvise effectively from chord to chord, and deepen your understanding of music's inner workings.
Take your harmonic development to the next level by gaining a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitution, and chromatically altered chords.
Getting Your Guitar Sound
Learn to use your ears, hands, and the tools of the trade to play jazz, rock, blues, country and other genres, with a high-quality, authentic and persuasive guitar tone.
Guitar Chords 101
Add more dynamics and expression to your playing and gain a greater feel for your instrument by learning Berklee's approach to the construction of chords and chord voicings.
Guitar Chords 201: Chord Melody and Inversions
Master Berklee's approach to playing guitar chords. Improve your style, intonation, technique, time feel, and tone in this in-depth course. Explore open triads, seventh chord structures, open triadic shapes, and inversions in a variety of musical styles.
Guitar Ensemble Techniques
Guitar Ensemble Techniques gives guitarists the essential and practical skills to play well with others in any ensemble situation, whether it’s a big stage performance or an impromptu jam session.
Guitar Improvisation Techniques
Learn to play a great guitar solo! Guitar Improvisation Techniques is designed to help guitarists who may have learned the technical aspects of playing, but lack the theoretical application of the musical elements that make up a strong solo that moves the listener.
Guitar Scales 101
Organize the guitar fretboard, develop your technique, and learn to confidently navigate the instrument by gaining a firm understanding of the pentatonic, blues, major, melodic minor, and harmonic minor scales and their modes.
Harmonic Ear Training: Recognizing Chord Progressions
Put your harmonic theory into practice. Learn techniques that will improve your performance, arranging, and compositional skills by refining your ability to really hear and recognize what is going on within the chord progressions.
History of Film Music
This course is a survey of music in film, covering everything from the late 1800s to the present day.
Interactive Scoring for Games
Whether you’re working on a small iPhone or Facebook game, or a large PlayStation or Xbox title, this course will teach you the fundamental music approaches and skills that professional composers use to create interactive scores for games.
International Music Marketing: Developing Your Music Career Abroad
Gain an in-depth knowledge of the time, expertise, and strategy required for musicians and managers to release, market, publish, tour, and export music in the global music industry.
The overall focus of this course is for you to develop academic writing and expository prose techniques for creating clear and coherent written works. The course covers a wide range of skills necessary for college-level work, including elements of argumentation, sentence-level issues, paragraph structure, organization, form, and style.
Introduction to Computer Programming for Musicians
Musicians and music industry professionals who wish to create their own computer applications or utilize the programming capabilities in music software will be able to read, understand, and modify basic code in a variety of languages. You will also learn to approach a programming project, whether in music creation software, web-based applications, or business software, with an organized, logical approach.
Introduction to Digital Cinematography
Learn effective techniques for producing any kind of video, including a music video or short film.
Introduction to Game Audio
Gain a solid foundation of sound production and engineering skills that will prepare you to work at a game development company or as a freelance game audio professional.
Jazz Arranging
Become a more versatile and sought-after jazz arranger. Jazz Arranging explores techniques that will allow you to write effective jazz arrangements for all types of instrumental combinations, from bop and hard-bop, to big band jazz ensembles.
Gain the tools and knowledge you need to improvise jazz bass lines like a seasoned professional. Learn to play great jazz bass lines, recognize common chord progressions in jazz standards, and study the work of jazz bass greats like Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, and Christian McBride.
Jazz Composition
In this music composition course, you'll learn effective techniques that will help you compose jazz tunes that have a balance of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic appeal.
Jazz Guitar 101
Study the styles of some of the most influential jazz guitarists, and learn the basics behind the jazz language: chord/scale usage, building melodic tension, and improvisation techniques.
Jazz Guitar 201: Advanced Jazz Guitar Improvisation
Develop your jazz guitar performance skills by learning advanced techniques to improvise over chord changes, both in traditional standards and complex modern harmony.
Strengthen your command of the melodies, harmonies, and rhythms that make up the rich art form of jazz on the piano or keyboard.
OVOIC-242
Jazz Voice
Apply the unique vocal characteristics of great jazz singers such as Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan into your own sound. Understand proper jazz vocal delivery in a number of tempos and gain confidence singing an array of jazz standards in a live or recorded context.
Keyboard for the Electronic Musician
In this beginner level course, you'll build skills that will help you write, produce, and perform music using keyboards ranging from acoustic piano to modern controllers with virtual instruments.
Learn to DJ with Traktor
You’ll learn all of the ins and outs of the Traktor Pro 2 software, and all of the different ways you can use Traktor to DJ and remix your tracks live. On top of learning the Traktor software, you will also learn the fundamentals of DJing and be able to perform live like a true professional.
Legal Aspects of the Music Industry
Build your music career with an understanding of the legal issues that are of special concern to musicians and songwriters, and take a focused look at the important legal changes that have evolved as a result of the shift in the music business landscape.
Live Sound: Mixing and Recording
Learn to construct a dynamic, high-quality mix for live sound. Identify proper microphone technique, equalization, effects, and dynamics processing to build professional quality instrument sounds and vocals.
Generate more and better ideas. Express them in compelling and original ways.
Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title
Make your writing process more efficient and your lyrics more effective. Learn how to find a powerful and effective song title, and discover how to build lyrics, develop the rhythms of your song sections, create contrasting sections and ideas to re-color your chorus based on that title.
Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music
Get the most out of your lyrics by learning how to combine them accurately and effectively with melody.
Microphone Techniques
Effective microphone techniques resulted in some of the most iconic music ever committed to tape. Consider Phil Spector's signature "Wall of Sound," which relied heavily on appropriate microphone techniques, or Led Zeppelin's iconic recording of John Bonham's drums on "When the Levee Breaks," recorded with a stereo microphone on the second floor stairway at Headley Grange Studio. Whether your sessions feature a single vocalist or rapper, metal trio, or large big-band jazz ensemble, the ability to get good sounds is essential to producing competitive results.
Mixing and Mastering for the Electronic Musician
Gain a greater understanding of the tools and techniques involved in mixing and mastering for electronic productions. This course will show you how to go beyond using plug-in presets, teaching you how to effectively use tools such as EQ, dynamics processing, reverb, delays, and more.
Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
Gain a greater understanding of two key elements of music production by learning the Berklee approach to mixing and mastering using the Pro Tools software.
Music Business 101
Gain a broad overview of the music business and learn how the various segments of the industry operate on a day-to-day basis. Discover the career opportunities that are available to you, and the knowledge you'll need to achieve your goals.
Music Business Finance
Gain a hands-on understanding of music business finance. Learn to apply the critical tools of financial analysis to leverage talent, assess the potential of music enterprises, and drive new music businesses.
Music Business Finance for Entrepreneurs
Music Business Finance for Entrepreneurs breaks down finance into three digestible components: (1) determining and understanding financial calculations, both focused on the music industry in particular, as well as used more broadly across industries; (2) money, markets, and the music business; and (3) funding music.
Music Business Law
Music Business Leadership and Ethics
Gain the leadership tools and the ethical decision-making framework you need to make sound business decisions in real time.
Music Business Management and Leadership
In this course, students will enhance their understanding of leadership core competencies for professional development, apply that leadership awareness to their managerial capabilities in multiple business environments, and implement change management techniques as tactical strategy for competitive advantage within the music industry.
Music Business Policy
Music Business Revenue Streams
Music Business Trends and Strategies
Gain a forward-thinking approach to the key issues that all musicians, music industry entrepreneurs, managers, and music business professionals face in the main segments of the music industry, and how to leverage the opportunities that the new music business provides.
Explore the mental processes underlying musical behaviors and how emotion, environment, cognitive capacity, personality, individual differences, and other factors influence how we perceive music.
Music Composition for Film and TV 1
In this music composition course, you'll learn to write music in the style of big budget Hollywood films and TV programs. Analyze melody, harmony, counterpoint, tempo, rhythm, and orchestration in a variety of genres to gain a complete recipe book for writing for film and TV.
Gain a thorough understanding of the compositional styles used in Hollywood projects. In this music composition course, you'll learn to analyze specific genres of film and television music in terms of melody, harmony, counterpoint, tempo, rhythm, and orchestration, forming a template that you can then apply to your own writing.
Music Foundations
This course teaches the essential concepts in harmony and ear training to strengthen your musicianship, regardless of the instrument or style of music that you play. You will learn the basics about chords, melodies, rhythms, scales, time keeping, solfège, and how all of these elements come together to create music.
Music History of the Western World 1: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
This course explores the development of Western European music from the Antiquity and Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Baroque periods. By focusing on major composers, genres, technical aspects, and historical facts, students will gain an understanding of how early Western music gave rise to the Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras.
Music History of the Western World 2: Classical, Romantic, and Modern
Just as learning the theory behind how music creation works, exploring the history of music is key to understanding the genres of music that we perform, create, and consume today. Music History of the Western World 2: Classical, Romantic, and Modern will provide you with a foundation for understanding how music has developed in the Western world through the study of composers, compositions, and key characteristics of a number of musical genres.
Learn how to make money through creative licensing of your music! In this course, you'll discover how to create new avenues for placement of your own music, identify current opportunities for your copyrights, and how to use online resources to introduce your music to music supervisors, ad creatives, video game producers, and more.
Music Marketing 101
Learn the basics behind marketing and selling your music! Music Marketing 101 provides artists, managers, and business entrepreneurs with the foundational music marketing skill set they'll need to succeed and thrive in the new music business.
Music Marketing: Strategy for Consumer Brands
The goal of this course is to position you to conceptualize, build, and execute best-in-class music campaigns for consumer brands in a professional, real-world context through research, analysis, presentation, and critique. You will learn to make appropriate alignments between brands and artists and devise strategies for campaigns that have measurable outcomes, such as KPIs (key performance indicators) and ROI (return on investment), that inform further investment.
Music Notation and Score Preparation Using Finale
Create great-looking music quickly and easily with the powerful Finale music notation software, and learn techniques to maximize speed, control, and accuracy.
Music Notation Using Sibelius
Learn to create lead sheets, choral and instrumental scores, drum maps and guitar notation, and explore many other ways to use Sibelius for your own personal and professional needs.
Music Production 101
In this beginner-level course, you will gain an understanding of the processes and tools available to the modern electronic musician. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to configure a personal production workspace and use software instruments and audio recordings to produce music.
Music Production Analysis
Develop the skills to listen to music like a seasoned music producer. Learn to identify the elements of effective records, and gain the skills to bring these elements to your own productions.
Music Production Fundamentals for Songwriters
As a songwriter, you don’t have to limit your compositional tools to just you and your old standby instrument. Technology can offer so many points of entry to make creative ideas become musical realities, but you need a map to help you navigate this technological terrain. This course gives you all you need to learn your way around the latest recording and composing technology. You’ll learn how to use a Digital Audio Workspace as a compositional tool, you’ll learn how to arrange with MIDI, and how to engineer and produce your own recordings.
Music Production: Maximizing Emotion through Performance, Arrangement, and Sound
This course is an in-depth, hands-on study of the unique elements involved in the craft of music production. You will learn the fundamental aural and philosophical considerations necessary to achieve emotionally-impactful and commercially-competitive productions.
Music Publishing 101
Create and operate your own publishing company, and learn how to effectively promote and place your songs into income-generating opportunities.
Music, Self, and Society
This course is all about exploring why we listen to music, what we use music for, and, in some sense, how music uses us. Why do we have the musical preferences that we do? Is there really such a thing as “good” music? How does music create communities? How does music create social change? How does music function in our daily lives? These are all questions we will examine in depth throughout this course.
Music Supervision
Music supervision stands at the center of two very powerful groups in the music industry: the creators of the music and the film and TV productions that rely on music to help tell and sell their story to the public. This course explores the ins and outs of music supervision, so that you will be able to function effectively on either side of a licensing transaction.
Music Supervision 2
Analyze how and why songs are used in main titles, end credits, montages, trailers, video games and advertisements. Expand skills in music editing, building soundtracks, negotiation techniques, working with temp tracks, and advanced licensing practices. Working as a team member on a long form project will build collaborative skills required to succeed in the fast paced world of music supervision and post production.
Music Technology for Guitarists
Music Technology for Guitarists provides guitar students with an understanding of digital technology applicable to recording and live performance. By the end of the course, students will demonstrate a mastery of basic digital audio workstation (DAW) functionality and creative use of guitar amplifier modeling and effects processing.
Music Theory 101
In this introductory music theory course, you'll get the musical foundation you need to take your skills to a higher level. Learn to read, write, really listen and put music theory into practice every day!
Music Theory 201: Harmony and Function
Become a more effective player and writer by furthering your music theory background with this 200-level music theory course. Learn more complex chords, progressions, and rhythms to open up your understanding of the elements that help put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock.
Music Theory 301: Advanced Melody, Harmony, Rhythm
Prepare yourself for any future musical endeavor and gain a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music in this advanced music theory course.
Music Theory and Composition 1
Gain a solid understanding of music fundamentals while building your own musical language. In this course you’ll take a detailed look at the major and minor keys, and be given tools to help you comprehend scales and chords. This course includes a blend of both traditional and contemporary harmony.
Build upon the essential elements of music theory and composition you learned in Music Theory and Composition 1 and further your own musical language. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of major and minor key harmony and melody, in addition to scales, chords, and drum grooves.
This core course is the third of a four-semester curriculum that continues to lay the foundation for your musical development. The materials covered in this course will help you to express your musical ear and thoughts as applied to composition for film, TV, and video games.
Building on the foundation of the previous three levels, Music Theory and Composition 4 will introduce compositional techniques first pioneered by twentieth century European and American composers and will examine them in both classical and jazz/popular music contexts. This advanced music theory course will also help you express your musical ideas as applied to composition for film, TV, and video games.
Music Therapy Techniques for Wellness
Tuning In: Music Therapy Techniques for Wellness allows you to explore the impact of music in your life and teaches you simple techniques to enrich your mind, body, and spirit through music. You will learn some of the psychological, neurological, and immunological changes that can come about when you engage with music, thereby affecting your general well-being and wellness.
Music Venue Management
Learn what it takes to launch and run a successful live music venue. Explore the inner-workings of establishing and running nightly shows at a music club, in addition to the key stakeholders who make or break a live-club event, including the talent buyer, publicist, promoter, artist manager, employees, booking agents, and the ticket-buying fans.
Learn all the steps and tools necessary to create a high-quality audiovisual experience, including how to assemble, enhance, and maximize the use of video, audio, and graphic content.
Music Writing and Production with the iPad
This course will teach you how to create, record, mix, and master music entirely on the iPad. You’ll start by exploring the iPad hardware and operating system then learn how to select and set up the mobile studio with the correct MIDI and audio interfaces. You will learn how to use applications for specific stages of the music production process.
New Media Economics: Music, Mobile, Gaming, and Online Markets
In this advanced beginner-level economics course, explore how technological innovation and convergence impact the production and consumption of media content, including music, mobile, games, and online content.
Online Music Marketing: Campaign Strategies, Social Media, and Digital Distribution
Take an in-depth look at the tools and emerging technologies artists can use to generate interest in their music, acquire new fans, and sell their music online.
Orchestration 1
Placement on television, in video games and animation, and other modern revenue outlets require a detailed understanding of orchestral writing and production techniques. Learn to write and apply traditional orchestration techniques to both sampled performances and live orchestral performances.
Orchestration 2: Writing Techniques for Full Orchestra
Learn advanced orchestration strategies and approaches to writing for full orchestra, including both a live orchestra and sampled MIDI mockups.
Performing with Ableton Live
Learn how to use Ableton Live for real-time, dynamic live performances. This course is designed for students with diverse backgrounds—from music producers, DJs, singer/songwriters, and electronic music artists to music directors, podcasters, pastors, and YouTubers.
Pop and Rock Vocals
Learn to sing everything from classic hits to pop and rock to singer-songwriter styles to contemporary indie rock in an authentic way.
Pop/Rock Keyboard
Learn to play authentic keyboard parts in a wide range of pop/rock styles, including rock 'n roll, R&B, dance pop, classic rock, country, heartland/alt-country, and jam band.
Popular Singing Styles: Developing Your Sound
Popular Singing Styles: Developing Your Sound will help the aspiring singer develop their own keen ear as they develop their own sound, and learn how to shape their voice for tone and style.
OPLGT-101
Private Guitar Lesson Level 1
Guitar Degree Majors Only
Private Guitar Lesson Level 1 focuses on the theoretical foundation for guitar performance. Upon completion, you will be able to play chromatic and major scale forms, and understand the chord forms represented by these scales. You will master triads across the fretboard in the most common keys before moving on to four-part chords and arpeggios.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 2 introduces the melodic minor scale and the harmonic possibilities represented by the scale. A mastery of the related triads across the fretboard in the most common keys will be used as an introduction to four-part chords, close chord voicings, chord tensions, and arpeggios. In addition, you will be introduced to the whole-tone scale in two octaves across the fretboard.
Where Private Guitar Lesson Level 2 introduced the melodic minor scale and the harmonic possibilities represented by the scale, Level 3 does the same with the harmonic minor scale and its chordal possibilities. A mastery of the related triads across the fretboard in the most common keys will be used as an introduction to four-part chords and arpeggios. In addition, you will be introduced to the diminished scale in two octaves across the fretboard. This knowledge will be applied to a final musical piece under the guidance of the instructor.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 4 builds upon the knowledge imparted in Level 3 regarding the harmonic minor scale and its basis for harmonic possibilities. You will also be introduced to the major and minor pentatonic scale in two octaves across the fretboard. An expansion of melodic minor chord forms will also be explored.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 5 focuses on the major scale in all keys and in various positions on the fretboard. You will explore chord inversions further and practice voice leading by way of triads in C major. You will also master the chromatic scale in all keys and in three octaves.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 6 revisits the melodic minor scale and its harmonic permutations. You will explore melodic minor in all keys and in three octaves. Knowledge of the whole tone scale will be extended to all keys as well. Chord inversions will be expanded upon and voice leading will be practiced by way of triads in C melodic minor. You will master four-part arpeggios and chord voicings in all keys.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 7 builds upon the knowledge gained in earlier levels regarding the harmonic minor scale and its chordal possibilities. You will also revisit the diminished scale. Both scales will be studied in all keys. Chord inversions will be expanded upon and voice leading will be practiced by way of triads in C harmonic minor. You will also explore harmonic minor four-part chord forms further.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 8 continues the application of the harmonic minor scale and its chordal possibilities in all keys. You will also revisit the major and minor pentatonic scales and apply them to all keys. You will demonstrate close and spread voicings by way of voice-led triads across the fretboard. In addition, you will dive deeper into diminished triad arpeggios by demonstrating them in three octaves from any chord tone and in all keys. Four-part chord forms and arpeggios will also be explored in all keys across the fretboard.
Private Guitar Lesson Level 9 is an opportunity for you to demonstrate the depth and breadth of the skills you have developed in the Guitar program. Throughout the term you have worked with your private lesson instructor to formulate the repertoire for your performances, so that it aptly showcases your understanding and application of music theory, chord scales, and single-note and chord technique, while creatively applying them to musical settings.
Producing Music with Cubase
Gain a broad skill set and a fully realized background in music production using the state-of-the-art Cubase software.
Producing Music with Logic
Strengthen your technical understanding of Logic Pro and heighten your overall creative abilities in music production in this 12-week course. Harness the power of Logic's extensive software instruments, and learn to record, edit, and mix your project like a pro.
Producing Music with Reason
Gain a firm understanding of the functionalities and capabilities of Reason software. Explore Reason's rack of virtual instruments, effects, mixers, built-in sequencer and patching system, and learn real-world production setups and techniques used by today's top producers.
Producing Songwriting Demos with Logic
Just because you’re a great songwriter doesn’t mean people will know how great your songs are. You need to make recordings that prove the potential of your compositions, which is where Logic Pro X and this course come in.
Producing Songwriting Demos with Pro Tools
The course acts as a springboard for the novice producer/songwriter to jump into the world of producing, recording, and mixing songs to a professional level using Pro Tools.
Programming and Producing Drum Beats
Learn to compose and produce polished, professional-sounding drumbeats in a variety of different styles.
Project Management for Musicians
Working in the music industry involves a never-ending series of projects. These projects come in all sizes, budgets, and levels of complexity, but for each, setting up a process for planning, executing, and monitoring your work is crucial in achieving your goals. Project Management for Musicians will provide you with an overall approach, with many specific tools, to help you successfully complete your music industry-related projects
Pro Tools 101 constitutes the first stage of Avid's Pro Tools certification program. Learn the foundational skills needed to understand Pro Tools technology and software. This course instructs you on recording, editing, and mixing on a basic level, and will put you on the road to becoming a Pro Tools operator from home.
This second stage of Avid's Pro Tools certification program teaches a broad range of tools and Berklee production techniques that will help you tackle more complex Pro Tools projects and enhance your capabilities in all aspects of Pro Tools production.
Psychoacoustics in Music Production
You will learn how speech and music signals are transformed from physical activity in the environment, to sensations in the ear, to psychological perceptions in the brain. You will also explore the relationship between a sound and its perception in terms of the underlying mechanisms and limitations of our hearing system.
R&B Bass
Learn to play R&B bass in the style of the master players. Expand your bass playing in the context of a professional, live music performance or recording session.
R&B Vocals
Learn the vocal techniques of the R&B greats, including Steve Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, and Beyoncé. In this course, you'll gain the necessary skills to sing R&B in an authentic way, including proper phrasing, riffing, shouting, scale patterns, rhythmic articulation and much more.
Recording and Producing in the Home Studio
Take your demos through the entire music production process, and learn to apply a number of concepts and techniques that will dramatically improve the sound of your recordings, mixes, and masters no matter what recording device you are using.
Reharmonization Techniques
Take your musical vocabulary and skill set to a whole new level for writing, arranging, and performing music of any genre by learning reharmonization and providing musical interest and variety to standard repertoire.
Remix production has become a mission critical skill for many working producers and hip-hop and EDM (electronic dance music) artists. Business savvy music industry entrepreneurs recognize that remixing songs is a great way to generate income, publicity, attract new fans, and keep their catalog relevant. Remixing is also a whole lot of fun and gives you the opportunity to join a thriving online community of remixers who share their music on the Web (such as through soundcloud.com) and enter remix competitions with substantial prizes (such as indabamusic.com).
Rhythm and Groove Guitar
Learn the rhythmic techniques and chord tools that are the foundation of groove-based music. Expand your chord knowledge and learn to construct original rhythm guitar grooves that you can apply to a wide variety of music styles.
Rock Bass
Gain the foundation, technique, and vocabulary necessary to construct and improvise bass lines in a variety of rock and blues-based music styles.
Rock Drums
Learn to play a variety of rock drumming styles through the study of some of rock music's most significant drummers.
Rock History
Discover the history of rock 'n' roll in more detail than you can imagine from the people that lived it. Learn about the musical and business trends in rock, major technological innovations, the prime innovators, and the historical context that has seen rock alternately flourish and struggle over the past 60 years.
Sampling and Audio Production
Explore the art of sampling and audio production, and learn Berklee's approach to recording, editing, and programming using the software samplers provided in Reason.
Slap Bass
Since the emergence of funk in the 1970s, slap bass has become an essential technique in any electric bassist's tool kit. In Slap Bass, you'll learn the fundamentals of slap, from traditional to modern techniques, and learn to construct your own slap lines over original songs.
Solo Guitar: Performance, Accompaniment, and Arranging
In this course, we will be working on melodic embellishment, harmony as it relates to the guitar fingerboard, rhythm as it relates to different musical grooves, and improvisation concepts to put together a complete solo guitar piece.
Songwriting for Film and TV
Explore the techniques of writing music that will appeal specifically to music supervisors, editors, directors, and producers across any number of different genres.
Songwriting: Harmony
Learn how harmony can help you to convey the essential emotion of a song to your audience, and the best ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit your unique songwriting style and ideas.
Songwriting: Melody
Learn to create all types of melodic ideas that clearly convey the emotion of the lyrics to your audience. Then, learn how to develop those melodic ideas into complete sections and complete songs that your audiences will remember and, if you want, sing along with.
Songwriting: Writing Hit Songs
Learn to make the most effective settings for your melodic, harmonic, and lyrical ideas. Move your listeners and express yourself more effectively by crafting song sections and complete songs the way hit writers do.
Sound Design for the Electronic Musician
Learn to create your own electronic sounds and musical productions using Propellerhead's Reason and Native Instruments' Absynth.
Steve Vai Guitar Techniques
Gain a deep understanding and command of the playing styles, repertoire, techniques, and musical concepts of guitar legend and Berklee alum Steve Vai. Learn the secrets behind Vai's best-known compositions and virtuosic techniques, and learn to improve your own solos, chord and rhythm playing, and overall voice on the guitar.
The Business of Music Marketing
In this course you will gain a professional-level knowledge of cutting edge marketing techniques essential for any music-centric business.
The Language of Film and TV
Gain a thorough understanding of film and television, and learn to communicate effectively with directors, producers, and others involved in the production of these media.
Learn the skills, tools, and tricks that every musician and music industry professional needs to build a successful and profitable career from their first gig to their first national tour.
Vocal Production
This course guides you through the essential concepts and methods to master the craft of vocal production. You will learn the technical aspects of working with the vocal and the personal, artistic aspects of working with a vocalist to achieve the best performance - skills that can be applied to many roles from engineer to producer to artist.
Voice Technique 101
Make your voice sound more powerful, use vocal technique to expand your range and expression, and learn to become more confident in vocal performances.
World Music Composition Styles
Add depth and flavor to compositions in any genre by studying the characteristics of a wide array of world music compositional techniques.
Writing and Producing Advertising Music
Gain a practical working knowledge of how to compose, produce, market and monetize commercial music in three important categories: jingles, library music, and television theme music and scoring.
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Inspiration for Music Makers
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Multi-Course Certificates
12-Week Courses
CD Baby Guest Post: The 5 Most Important Things to Know about Music Distribution in the Streaming Era
Chris Robley
The following is a guest post from Chris Robley, Senior Content Specialist for CD Baby. He is also the editor of the DIY Musician Blog and a frequent guest on the DIY Musician Podcast, both produced by CD Baby, the world’s largest online distributor of independent music. As a songwriter, Robley’s orchestral indie-pop music has been praised by the LA Times, KCRW, No Depression, The Boston Globe, Performer, and more. His poetry has been published in literary journals such as POETRY Magazine and Prairie Schooner, and he is the recipient of Boulevard’s Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers and a Maine Literary Award in Poetry. Robley was also selected by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.
I work at CD Baby, where we help hundreds of artists every day release and monetize new music. Many of those artists are understandably excited to get their stuff out ASAP.
And while yes, we can make songs available on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music in a matter of days, artists who rush through the distribution process often miss opportunities that could’ve helped their music go further.
Here are five key things to consider when releasing new music:
1. You should release a single first
If you’ve never released music before under your current artist name, you MUST put out a single first. Why? Because you can’t claim your artist profiles on many of the popular streaming platforms until you have music ON those platforms.
In order to use the pre-release promo tools these services provide (such as those within Spotify for Artists), you’ve gotta plant your flag with a single. Then you’ll be ready to make the most of your promotion for a follow-up single, EP, or album.
If you DO have music out there, you probably already know singles are a solid way to build momentum towards a larger release. So plan to distribute at least one song ahead of your album launch.
2. Release dates don’t matter, but release timelines do
Most bloggers and editorial teams only push what’s fresh. But in the age of algorithmic playlists and limitless digital shelf-space, many LISTENERS don’t give a damn how old or new your music is, only whether it sounds good and fits their needs. That’s great for you as an artist, because it means your back catalog can keep working for you long-term (and your oldest songs will always be new to someone).
In that sense, release dates don’t matter, and there’s no such thing as an expiration date. However, release timelines are VERY important.
Here are just a few of the music promotion and retail opportunities that require you to plan in advance:
Submitting your music to Spotify for playlist consideration
Guaranteeing that your followers hear your new stuff in Release Radar
Enabling a pre-add on Apple Music
Running a pre-save campaign on Spotify
Offering pre-sales via iTunes and Amazon
None of these things are possible if you’re rushing. Give yourself at least a month in advance of the release date to set it all up properly.
3. Distribution is about MUCH MORE than pushing files
In some ways, moving music from point A to Z is the easy part. It’s everything ELSE that makes the difference.
Your music distributor should handle:
Robust metadata collection
Efficient rights management
Manual inspection of every release
Complete music monetization
Accurate, detailed, and swift accounting
Customer service and artist support
With all these “extras” you know your music will be properly delivered, that you’re safeguarded from platform guideline violations or rights disputes, that you’ll get paid on time, and that you’re set up to collect royalties from the most sources possible — including social videos (on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc.), sync licensing, global publishing revenues, and more.
With more ways than ever to generate money from your recordings and compositions, and with more services requiring 100% accurate metadata in order to keep music available on their platforms, it’s not enough to just “get your music out there” anymore.
CD Baby has paid artists every week for more than 20 years, we provide complete music monetization and publishing administration (in addition to distribution), AND — because of our efforts in metadata and rights management — we’re the only digital music aggregator to have top-preferred status with both Apple Music and Spotify.
4. Physical is still important
Sure, we live in a singles world. But haven’t we always?
In certain genres, albums — physical albums (CDs, vinyl, even cassettes) — remain one of the best low-cost/high-margin ways to deepen your connection with fans, while also putting money in your pocket, or back on the credit card you used to fund your project ; )
This might not be as true for EDM, modern pop, and hip-hop, but physical albums can be important even if fans never remove the shrinkwrap. They’ll be listening via streaming anyway, but the format they can hold in their hands has meaning beyond the music; it’s a memento.
You probably don’t need to press as many units as you might’ve ten or fifteen years ago, but short-run manufacturing is really affordable these days, and the lower quantities you’re pressing actually give your music a limited-edition feel, adding urgency when you offer it for sale to your audience.
[Oh, and just to plug CD Baby one more time, in addition to providing all the distribution, monetization, and support I mentioned above, we’ll also warehouse your CDs or vinyl, handle all the order-fulfillment, and ship them to your customers for you.]
5. Playlists won’t make you famous
You can’t place all your hopes on a playlist placement. Even if you land a placement on a playlist that has hundreds of thousands of listeners, it doesn’t guarantee you anything.
I recently had a song featured on two pretty big official Spotify playlists, and guess what it did for my CD sales, email signups, and catalog streams?
I could trace almost every CD sale and email signup to OTHER sources besides Spotify. And the placement didn’t do much to drive streams for my other songs on the platform either.
You might’ve heard the term “dry streams” buzzing about. That’s exactly what I got. Hundreds of thousands of dry streams. People listening, hopefully enjoying, but moving right along through the playlist without taking much notice of WHO created the music, and certainly not linking back to my artist profile en masse. : (
That’s sad on the surface, but the silver lining is that we don’t have to spend all our time trying to game some playlist system. Ultimately it comes back to earning fans the old fashioned way, through our own efforts, concerts, direct marketing and social ads, live streams, clever PR, cool videos,… whatever works.
Don’t count on overnight success from a playlist placement or anything else for that matter. Get back to telling your story, make great music, and keep going. Your new music could be an important step in your journey, but making music is a lifelong pursuit.
Get the best distribution for your music — plus full monetization, pro-level marketing tools, and more — at CD Baby.
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ASTRI-Horn is first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies
by Megan Grunewald, Cherenkov Telsecope Observatory
The ASTRI-Horn prototype telescope is located at the observing station of the INAF Astrophysical Observatory of Catania, in Serra La Nave, on Etna, where it was installed in 2014. The primary tassellated mirror has a diameter of 4 meters and the secondary monolithic mirror is 1.8 meters in diameter. Credit: Cherenkov Telsecope Observatory
Exactly 30 years after the first historical observation of Crab nebula at TeV energies, which opened the era of TeV astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT), another advancement in IACT technology has been achieved. The ASTRI-Horn Cherenkov Telescope, based on the innovative Schwarzschild-Couder dual-mirror configuration and equipped with an innovative camera, has detected the Crab Nebula at TeV energies for the first time, proving the viability of this technology.
In 1989, the very first detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies (about a trillion times the energy of visible light) was obtained with the Whipple Telescope. This discovery was the initiation of TeV astronomy, which, with its rapid growth, has led to the detection of about 200 gamma-ray sources from other ground-based detectors like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS and has paved the way for the next generation: the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). Because gamma-rays never make it to the Earth's surface, these instruments use the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) to detect the by-product of the gamma-ray's interaction with the atmosphere: Cherenkov light. The interaction produces cascades of subatomic particles – these highly energetic particles can travel faster than the speed of light, which causes a faint and extremely short (of the order of a billionth of a second!) flash of bluish light. Cherenkov telescopes, since the very beginning, have been built following a typical optical design where the light is reflected off the telescope's mirror to be captured by the camera and then is converted into an electrical signal that is digitized and transmitted to record the image of the light.
The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is leading the ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) project aimed at the design, deployment and implementation of a novel end-to-end prototype telescope that is proposed for the CTA Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs). This Cherenkov telescope, named ASTRI-Horn (in honor of Guido Horn d'Arturo an Italian astronomer who first proposed in the past century the technology of tessellated mirrors for astronomy), is adopting a wide (10°x10°) field Schwarzschild-Couder dual-mirror optical configuration and is equipped with a specifically designed, innovative Silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) camera managed by very fast read-out electronics. The ASTRI-Horn prototype, located on Mount Etna (Italy) at the INAF "M.C. Fracastoro" observing station, has been conceived as an end-to-end project including the full data archiving and processing chain, from raw data up to final scientific products.
Credit: Cherenkov Telsecope Observatory
The observations of the Crab Nebula were carried out between December 2018 and January 2019, during the ASTRI-Horn telescope verification phase, for a total observation time of about 29 hours, divided in on- and off-axis source exposure. The camera system was still undergoing assessment, and its functionality was not fully exploited. Moreover, owing to recent eruptions of the Etna Volcano, the mirror reflection efficiency was partially reduced. In spite of such camera and mirrors limitations, observations yielded the detection of the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of 5.4s above an energy threshold of about 3.5 TeV, definitively probing the new technologies and opening a new era for IACT.
"The result obtained by ASTRI is an important milestone for the IACT technologies. It is demonstrating that the dual mirror configuration, firstly proposed by the great German Astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild more than a century ago, is performing well. It is now possible to achieve a very large field-of-view with a much more compact Cherenkov telescope design, easily observing very energetic cosmic gamma-rays up to a few hundreds of TeV" says Giovanni Pareschi, astronomer at the INAF-Milano and principal investigator of the ASTRI project.
Alpha-plot of the ASTRI-Horn observation of the Crab Nebula performed in December 2018. Observations were performed pointing toward the Crab Nebula for 12.4 hours (blue crosses) and then pointing to another field without any gamma source for another 12 hours in order to evaluate the background (red crosses). Comparing the excess of counts in the direction of the Crab Nebula versus the background clearly shows the detection of the Crab Nebula. Credit: Cherenkov Telsecope Observatory
Three classes of telescope are required to cover the full CTA energy range (20 GeV to 300 TeV): Medium-Sized Telescopes (12 m diameter dish) will cover CTA's core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) while the Large-Sized Telescopes (23 m) and Small-Sized Telescopes (4 m) or SSTs are planned to extend the energy range below 100 GeV and above a few TeV, respectively. The ASTRI-Horn telescope is one of three proposed SST designs being prototyped and tested for CTA's southern hemisphere array.
"CTA has been exploring the dual-mirror technology since the very beginning of the project, and some prototypes have been realized using such an approach: the ASTRI-Horn and the GCT for the SST and the SCT for the Medium-Sized Telescope," says Federico Ferrini, Managing Director of the CTA Observatory (CTAO). "The result obtained by ASTRI-Horn telescope is very encouraging and confirms the potential of technological advancement for Cherenkov astronomy."
CTA prototype telescope, ASTRI, achieves first light
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Citation: ASTRI-Horn is first Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror configuration to detect the Crab Nebula at TeV energies (2019, May 14) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2019-05-astri-horn-cherenkov-telescope-dual-mirror-configuration.html
Prototype telescope demonstrates viability of novel Schwarzschild-Couder design
CTA prototype telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, achieves first light
Prototype camera set for integration into novel gamma-ray telescope
First telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array site makes its debut
Cherenkov Telescope Array prototype telescope achieves "first light"
New Hubble constant measurement adds to mystery of universe's expansion rate
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
Gaia starts mapping the galactic bar in the Milky Way
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Headlines: The Snake That Grows When You Stroke It
Posted by Smaktakula in Celebrity, Culture, News
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Obama’s Regular Polling Of Swing-State Female Voters Indicates Their Growing Excitement About His Stimulus Measure.
In which our interests lie in the headlines, but not the stories themselves.
After 400 Pound Weight Loss, Man Gains the Weight Back ~ But you know what?–He’s a bigger man for it.
Rage Against the Machine Rages Against Paul Ryan ~ Understandable, as taking offense is the band’s Raison d’ être. Raging, man–IT’S JUST WHAT THEY GOTTA DO!!!
Persistence Is Key to Treating Sexual Pain ~ After she’s heard ‘Who’s ready to do the nasty?’ a couple thousand times, she’ll loosen up.
Woman who rescued animals killed by dog ~ Check your local TV listings for the Lifetime Network adaptation of this heartbreaking story, A Dog Called Irony.
Off-Duty Cop Crashes Motorcycle Into Little Girl Then Kills Her Enraged Dad ~ When Officer Onslaught’s actually ON the job, his body count must be through the fucking roof!
“Do You Think They Paint Crosswalks On The Street Just So You Can Cross Wherever You Fucking Feel Like?”
Attacks May Cost Great White Sharks Protected Status ~ If they’re so concerned about that, they might have paused for reflection before gobbling up all those Aussies.
Assange berates United States from Ecuador Embassy balcony ~ Also known as the ‘Pussy Perch.’
Preacher Says He Cures The Sick By Punching And Kicking Them ~ It could work, actually. That’s how Dad finally cured Smaktakula’s bed-wetting.
A Novel Asks Seattle to Laugh at Itself ~ That’s expecting a lot. You’d have better luck trying to convince Las Vegas to show some respect for itself.
Peter Jackson: ‘I’ve Never Actually Read A Comic In My Life’ ~ And lo, a million virginal voices cried out as one.
“From Hell’s Heart, I Stab At Thee!”
When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind ~ That sounds like a tough one to really pin down.
A Guide to Russian Band Pussy Riot’s Oeuvre ~ If you’re unfamiliar with the word ‘oeuvre’, you might be thinking it’s dirty. Sadly, no.
US beats Mexico in Mexico for 1st time ~ It’s not as big a deal as it sounds. There just hasn’t been too much of a need for the US to go to Mexico, what with most of Mexico being here all the time.
An Ex-Wrestling Executive Wins a GOP Primary ~ Yeah, but you know that shit’s all fake, right?
Where Do Sentences Come From? ~ What the hell? Listen, we’re gonna have to insist that you shut that spastic yapper of yours. Yeah, you’re no longer allowed to ask questions.
15 of the Cutest & Shortest Celebrity Men ~ Or 15 celebrity men whose work we no longer take quite as seriously as we once did.
Aside From Portraying Elves At Christmastime, About The Only Use For The Short Is Making Normals Look Really Tall. And Handsome.
The ‘Penis Snake’ Looks Exactly As You’d Think ~ Quite a bit smaller than advertised.
Accused Child Foot Licker Blames President Obama ~ Obama surrogates were quick to counter that Obama had merely inherited the foot-licking situation from President Bush, and furthermore, that ‘foot-licking’ was coded racism.
Pig legs left at proposed mosque; federal probe sought ~ Yeah, somebody’s being a dick, but do we really have to make a federal case out of it? Oh, right–silly fucking us.
Can the WNBA Benefit from Olympic Gold? ~ Hey, anything’s possible, right? First, though–what’s a WNBA?
Quadruple amputee prepares to swim Bering Strait ~ Meanwhile, his family stoically prepares for a burial at sea.
“Dave, It’s RIGHT THERE! Just Grab The Ring, Man! Dave! Dave!…Damn! Can He Not Hear Me Or Something?”
Comeback of photo booths exposes yearning for what’s real ~ Because nothing’s more real than a glossy, full-color facsimile.
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’ ~ “Yeah, right now I like to hate on Andorrks. Andorra is a very small principality in Europe. You probably haven’t heard of it.”
Hassles of Air Travel Push Passengers to Amtrak ~ That Amtrak is pot-friendly doesn’t hurt, either.
Female governors and Rice speakers for GOP ~Aaargh! See? It’s THIS kind of thing that gets people so pissed at the Republicans. Honestly, would it kill them to say “Female governors and Chinese-Americans?”
9 New No-Nos for Your Parts Down Below ~ Man…NEW ones? Organized religion, political correctness and the era of AIDS have pretty thoroughly circumscribed our options already.
Actually, This One Probably Should Remain A No-No.
Best of Headlines Part I
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, News, Politics, Science, Sport, Stupidity
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Howdy, folks. Headlines has always been one of our favorite Promethean Times features, and recently it seems to have picked up popularity with our readers. This wasn’t always the case. It might surprise you to know we’ve done 23 of these things over the last couple years. That’s like 575 individual headlines, give or take (we didn’t count). Most of them will deservedly be lost to history–there were a lot of duds in the early posts, but we have chosen sixty or so of our favorites from the first fifteen Headlines posts that are almost certainly new to you. Enjoy them again for the first time! ∞ T.
“No, I Said It Made Me Want To ‘Matriculate.’…What?…Well, Sure–That, Too.”
In Which We Comment On The Headlines, But Leave The Reading To People Who Like To Do That Kind Of Thing
Can Your Pet Read Your Mind? ~ What? Are you a child? No!
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces ~ Known popularly as ‘The Yoko Ono Story.’
Why Do Republicans Love Pizza? ~ The same reason everybody else loves pizza.
How the Finns stole Thanksgiving ~ On skis, just like they do everything else.
Why the 2012 Hispanic Vote Doesn’t Matter … Yet ~ Whoa! Looks likes someone’s scrubbing his own floor tonight!
Yeah, I’m Pretty Sure They Heard You. Next Time, Just S-P-E-L-L It Out, Okay?
Did Lohan crash DiCaprio’s party? ~ Look, just because I let you blow me once doesn’t mean you can come to my parties. Twice, whatever. Get the fuck out.
Somalis Rip Aid Donors for ‘Failing’ Famine Victims ~ If it bothers you so much, then eat your own damn food. . . . Oh, right. Sit tight, folks.
Scientists plan Uranus probe ~ Heh.
Things You Didn’t Know About Your Penis ~ Please. After decades of rigorous hands-on study of our penii coupled with regular field-testing, there’s very little about our one-eyed heat-seeking moisture missiles that still remains a mystery.
Wearing Only a Smile, Nudists Seek Out the Young and the Naked ~ And how is that different from what sexual predators do?
“What Kind Of Parents Do You Think We Are? When A Hairy, Naked Stranger Asks If He Can Take Teddy To The Beach For The Weekend, You Can Bet We’ll Ask A Few Questions. He Checks Out, Though, And Told Us He’d Have Teddy Back Sometime On Monday Or Tuesday.
Shark expert surprised by great white attack on woman ~ If he’s really such an expert, he should know that they do that.
Los Angeles fire captain held in heroin sting ~ The fire captain is a boy. Boys are called “heroes.”
Housewife to pen memoir ~ This Floor Is Clean makes its hardcover debut next spring!
Sukanya Roy, 14, wins Scripps National Spelling Bee with ‘cymotrichous’ ~ If only Sukanya’s special power could somehow prevent the inevitable playground beatings.
Civil War’s dirty secret about slavery ~ Was that a secret?–Because our 8th grade history teacher just couldn’t shut up about it.
You’d Think He’d Have Been Smart Enough Not To Leave A Paper Trail.
25 members of Congress with lowest net worth ~ How much respect should we have for these mouth-breathers if they can’t even steal right?
When it’s time to run for office, fewer women stand up ~ They do the same thing when it’s time to pee.
Why French Parents Are Superior ~ Does smelling like a turd in rotten-egg sauce stuffed inside the bloated belly of a week-old corpse make you a better parent? Because if it does, we totally get it.
Live: Packers pounding Vikes on the way to 9-0 ~ You know, in certain circles that could mean a bunch of gay men are taking painkillers. Maybe it does anyway.
Really? The Claim: Excess Weight Raises the Risk of Acne ~ Because it’s that zit on your nose that’s keeping you home on Saturday nights, man-tits.
No, Bro–The Headband Totally Covers It! Rusty, My Man–I Think Tonight Is Finally Your Night!
Tradition forces girls into prostitution ~ “My momma was a ho, just like her momma before her.”
Why My Father Hated India ~ We can give you 1.2 billion perfectly good reasons.
Imperfect teeth are big in Japan ~ Yeah, but everything looks a little bigger in Japan.
Ex-Colorado Sheriff Accused of Trading Drugs for Sex Sits in Jail Named After Him ~ AWK-ward.
Gaga’s scent smells like expensive hookers ~ We prefer the delightful bouquet of burned crack infused with fear-sweat and just a hint of urine that distinguishes so many of today’s down-market hos.
We’d Offer You Our Lunch, But Regrettably,We Lost It Just Moments Ago.
Prevent STDs like a porn star ~ Die of a drug overdose before you’re diagnosed.
Gay rights fight, in Allah’s name ~ You know, just printing the words “Gay” and “Allah” in the same sentence can get you killed.
Rising NBA star sleeps on sofa ~ That’s where a lot of former NBA stars sleep as well.
Ark. cities feel unexplained surge in earthquakes ~ Perhaps God is angry about all the incest.
Navy panel allows openly gay sailor to continue to serve ~ Sounds noble, but remember–we’re talking about the Navy. If it were to jettison all the gay sailors from its ranks, the US Navy would be left with all the fighting strength of the Cape Cod Yacht Club.
Write Your Own Caption About The US Navy. It Should Contain At Least One Childishly Suggestive Reference (e.g., “Swabbing The Poop Deck!”, “Thar He Blows!” Or “I’m Securing Your Shit Below Deck, Sir!”), And Make Gratuitous Use Of The Word ‘Seamen.’ Support Our Troops!
Recent Headlines Not Included Above
(And Which You May Very Well Have Already Seen)
Headlines: 04.03.12
Headlines: Titanic Edition
Headlines 04.30.12
Look for Best of Headlines Part II later this week!
Why ‘Your’ Politician Is A Turd
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture
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If Venality, Stupidity And Incompetence Could Somehow Be Harnessed As Energy, Well, It Might Be Worth Having These Assholes Around.
Although Promethean Times tends to regard all office-seekers as suppurating anal abscesses until they can demonstrably prove otherwise, we are constantly amazed that so few people feel the same. Now, nearly EVERYBODY claims they hold politicians in contempt–complaining about the government is fun and easy after all. But if you begin to name specific politicians, these same people will almost always hold in exception those one or two politicians whom they believe are, unlike all the others, really trying to serve America’s needs. “Oh…well, not Senator Schmidlapp. He really tries to do good things for people.” No, he tries to steer federal funding to his state so that (if he’s ‘clean’) he can secure reelection, or (in the likely event he’s dirty) make some of his cronies rich.
If there’s any better indication that your pet pol is a douchebag, it’s that he (and we don’t mean to exclude lady politicians–those plucky gals have achieved a level of suckdom every bit as pronounced as that of their male counterparts) lies to you constantly. In fact, that’s why you vote for him.
Believes That The Obama Administration Is Trying To Put One Over On The American People. Won’t Show You His Taxes.
Take Obamacare, for example, having inflamed the public once again in light of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the plan. Two very distinct narratives have emerged from Washington. To know which of these very different scenarios your politician blindly adheres, you need only to look at the letter after his name.
If there’s an R after his name, then it’s a sure-fire guarantee he favors the tableau of a morally bankrupt America which has been decimated by socialized medicine, more akin to the grey homogeneity of the Soviet Bloc than to the America remembered by the true patriots. Obamacare is the end of life as we know it.
Drug Dealer In High School. Doesn’t Want Sick People To Have Access To Marijuana.
Not so, say the Democrats. If your boy has a D after his name, he believes that Obamacare is the only salvation for a bloated, moribund nation fattening itself on its own entrails. Not only will this miracle panacea halt America’s precipitous decline, but it will rapidly replenish the nation’s coffers, cut down skyrocketing medical costs, and transform America into the Care-Bear land of cuddly goodness it was always meant to be.
So are the Republicans right? The Democrats? Maybe something in between?
“I May Be A Brainless Talking Points Machine, But I’m Smarter Than The Guy Standing Next To Me.”
Here’s what we know, folks: We don’t know. There may be plenty of good reasons to support or oppose this legislation, and it is not unrealistic to believe economic models can predict Obamacare’s effects with some degree of accuracy. But that’s it–it’s a guess, either way. An educated guess? Sure–but a guess nonetheless.
Now, that’s not true–Smaktakula–I’ve seen statistics that show… ~ Yeah, but did you understand them? No you didn’t. You’re trusting an economist who did the number crunching for you. Hey, he might be right–but you don’t know for sure.
Socialized medicine has been tried in other countries and… ~ And this is different. It’s a different plan in a different country. It could work just fine here, or it could be a bust. It’s okay to have an opinion, but remember–you don’t know.
Because of Obamacare, children born today can expect… ~ Okay, now you REALLY don’t know.
He Never Wasted Any Time With Self-Doubt Either.
So you don’t know for sure. Why then, do you believe your politician does? Do you suppose he’s smarter than you are? Have you heard these people talk at any length without a teleprompter? They’re ALL Joe Biden.
So while he may have formed an educated opinion (or just as likely not) as to whether Obamacare will deliver the nation to a magical pixie-land of unending happiness or consign us to the dustbin of history, he really can’t be any more certain of it than you.
Why then, do our politicians on both sides of the aisle and their pet journalists discuss this significant issue with a certainty that would make the most brainwashed cultist look like a half-asser? It’s because they’re turds–turds who have no respect for your intelligence. So please, have a little for yourself and don’t vote stupid.
We Just Know You’re Gonna Vote Stupid.
Whose Pro-Life Is It, Anyway?
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, News, Science, Stupidity
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If Your Politics Begin And End With Abortion, You Just May Be A Hypocrite.
In so many instances an American’s political allegiance boils down to his or her opinions on abortion. It makes a certain sense for someone who feels strongly enough about a single issue to be attracted to the political party which shares that view. A darker corollary is proving increasingly true: more people than ever seem to modify their beliefs on the so-called sanctity of life based on the political party to which they are affiliated.
The foes of legal abortion tend to be Republicans, while those who favor at least some access to abortions align themselves with the Democrats. The former call themselves pro-life, and the latter pro-choice. The pro-life and pro-choice movements have tags for one another as well, pro-abortion and anti-choice.
Some Dudes Paradoxically Believe That Self-Emasculation Is Sexy.
That’s quite a bit of name-calling between two groups who, based upon their core tenets, are both pretty hypocritical. The names these groups give to themselves show how they would like to be perceived as champions of life or of a woman’s freedom to choose her destiny. In the same spirit, both groups labor diligently to portray themselves as champions against an unspeakable evil. However, upon closer examination, it seems that both sides tend to go a little fuzzy when it comes to ideological consistency.
Little Girls Play Dress-Up. College Girls (And A Handful Of Bitter Spinsters) Play “I’m Gonna Change The World.”
The most zealous among the Pro-Choice movement do not consider a fetus to be human until it is viable outside the womb, typically late in the third trimester. This despite the many instances of children born as early as five months who, thanks to advances in technology grow up to lead happy and productive lives.
Man, What Is It With You People And Pictures Of Aborted Fetuses Anyway?
These people regard embryonic humans as commodities, and have no issues whatsoever mortgaging the lives of children today to serve the hypothetical children of tomorrow. In contrast to this antiseptic callousness is the heated ruthlessness with which the choicers pursue their aims, having no shame in attributing sinister motives to anyone not in lockstep with their vision of a D&C as contraception. So if Michael J. Fox dies from Parkinson’s, I guess that’s just God’s will, huh?
For Reals? Because That Would Make Your Unborn Fetus Astoundingly Stupid, And We . . . Oh, Right.
However, when the death penalty is mentioned, the bulk of the Pro-Choicers are aghast: The state doesn’t have the right to kill anyone!, they breathlessly intone. Human life isn’t something to simply be thrown away!
Pro-Life groups, on the other hand, venerate the fetus. They make no distinction between aborted and unaborted fetuses, and in fact feature ghastly images of aborted fetuses on everything from protest signs to their dinnerware. In their mission to save a billion lives of the yet-unborn, they see nothing wrong in terrifying and humiliating the young women who, sometimes in the direst circumstances, find their way to a clinic. Moreover, the more lunatic among them see nothing ironic in blowing up clinics, killing doctors or various other terroristic acts in an effort to show how much God values human life.
“Look Honey! He’s Even Drawn A Little Aborted Fetus On There. Well Isn’t That Just The Cutest Thing You Ever Saw?”
However, the Pro-Life view of the death penalty harkens back to the Old Testament’s call for An eye for an eye. On this issue, it seems, theirs is a God of vengeance and retribution.
One thing which quickly becomes clear is that while both the Pro-Life movement and the Pro-Choice movement would like very much to believe that their politics stem from a clear and delineated moral code, it just isn’t so.
Both of these self-righteous influence gangs will continue to wrap themselves in terms like Choice and Life, words which their own one-sided agendas have rendered meaningless. Instead of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice, why don’t we call these hypocrites what they really are?: Pro Semi-Life and Semi Pro-Life.
We Don’t Think You’ll Have To Fight Too Hard To Keep Those Hands Out Of Your Vaginas. Also, Lady Schick Has A Product For That.
Promethean Times Endorses Newt Gingrich
Posted by Smaktakula in Celebrity, Culture, News, Politics
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Promethean Times Editorial Staff
Just Look At The Man; You Can See How Much He Cares.
It just wouldn’t be an election cycle without some earnest gasbag telling you that this election is the most important in our lifetimes. This platitude becomes especially poignant in 2012–the most important election of our lifetimes. With the nation’s economy in tatters, our remaining resources bled by unsupportable foreign adventurism, and possessed of a moral and spiritual despondency heretofore unseen since the Great Depression, about the only thing left for Americans to do is to close their eyes, step down hard on the gas pedal and pray that the next life is more kind.
Family Values Are Just Like Any Other Value, And There’s A Lot Of Value In Chucking The Old Model When A New One Comes Along.
Unless we wish to see our national demise become a painful, drawn-out affair, the US needs a president who, like Samson of the Bible, will in his last breath tear down the pillars of society, who will remain unburdened by the prudish notions of loyalty and marital fidelity and for whom the truth is but another tool in his masterful arsenal. Now, more than ever, America needs Newt Gingrich.
‘King Of The Hill.’ That’s What They Used To Call Newt Before He Became A Washington Outsider.
Come on folks, let’s turn into the skid!
Venality ♥ Cruelty ♥ Ambition
Promethean Times’ 2011 Person Of The Year: Us Again
Posted by Smaktakula in Celebrity, Crime, Culture, Entertainment, History, News, Politics, Religion
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By The Promethean Times Editorial Staff
We Looked Among All The Nations Of The World, And Could Find None More Deserving Of Our Praise.
We’ll admit it–we didn’t think it would come to this. We figured we’d be rich by now, or at the very least the Rapture would have freed us from our myriad woes. Since it didn’t (it didn’t, right?), we’ve picked ourselves up and resolved to make a game go of it. Moreover, we’re concentrating our hopes on the admittedly feeble chances the Mayans were right in predicting doom for 2012, and that very soon sweet nothingness will obliterate the pain that is existence.
Turns Out Somebody Made A Calculation Error When They Came Up With The 2012 Date. The Revised Figure Is 1492.
Until then, though, we’re even more delighted that, last December, we were the inaugural winner of the Promethean Times’ Person of the Year. Now, as we say goodbye to what we call ‘The Year of Promethean Times,’ it’s time to recognize a new mover and/or shaker for his/her/its contribution or impact to our world.
Having outstripped the rest of the field by light-years in the 2010 contest, Promethean Times could be forgiven for feeling like it has an edge in this year’s selection. After all, no one disputes that Promethean Times’ many, many contributions to the betterment of society rank among the more significant developments in 2011. Still, the beloved news journal remains humble. “Would we like to repeat?” asks Smaktakula, lead writer, “Absolutely–who wouldn’t? But we’ve got important events to cover, and we can’t really spend time thinking about things like that. Besides,” he adds, “Some other stuff happened.”
Among that stuff was a string of dead dicks, despots and men of low character. 2011 bid farewell to a number of those comical tyrants who, through nothing more than style, a ridiculous outfit and balls the size of grapefruit, commanded legions to do their bidding. Osama bin Laden’s cringing demise among the fluid-spattered catacombs of his porn library taught us all to laugh again, while the image of Keystone Cops stumbling after wacky sand-despot Muammar Gaddafi in a madcap chase aross the Libyan desert gave us reason to laugh even harder. The ascendance of Steve Jobs and Kim Jong-il to their respective heavenly kingdoms reminded us that Gods too can die.
Among The Many Proposed Reforms Of The 'Arab Spring' Which Began In The Winter Of 2011 Is A Calendar That's Worth A Damn.
Fortunately, the world is in no immediate danger of losing its megalomaniacal dickheads–it seems as if for every despot hanged, another sprouts from the puddle of piss at his twitching feet. The loss of ‘Lil Kim was a blow for North Korea, but made easier when Kim Jong-un waddled into his father’s shoes and accepted his mandate to drive the shitstain of a country further into the ground. Africa maintained its preeminence for venal strongmen throughout 2011, with brutal racist Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe single-lippedly keeping alive the Hitler Mustache, while Julius Malema, an exciting new face on the South African scene, promises to continue the ruination of the one-time economic powerhouse. And throughout the world, Muslims continued to blow things up in protest of the western world’s inexplicable and persistent view of Muslims as violent and reactionary. The West countered with fiercely abject apologies.
Fidel's Still Hanging In There.
Another theme embraced wholeheartedly worldwide was indignation. Contrary to the age-old adage, “What goes up must inevitably continue to do so,” 2011 saw a further decline in the still-ridiculous standard of living enjoyed by the West. Like going out to lunch with Grandma, the belief arose that it was enough to wait it out, and somebody would eventually pick up the check. The jarring reality that Grandma died during a visit to the ladies’ room brought angry people into the streets. In America, this phenomenon took the form of “Occupy Wall Street,” a Tea Party for the under-40 crowd, who still like to break things and enjoy the novelty of humping in Liberty Park, where rank coils of human feces suffice for scented candles and complete exposure for privacy.
For Real, We Totally Would.--Only, It Smells Like Pee And There's A Ton Of Poor People Walking Around.
The year was momentous for the United States. Although ending its involvement in Iraq (kinda, not really) the US steadfastly continued interminable bank-busting conflicts in places like Afghanistan, while also embarking on other daring adventures such as temporary conflicts in Libya and a secret war¹ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the home front, the government turned its attention against homegrown enemies, like pot shops in California, while Operation Fast & Furious ensured that narcos and Mexican Army assassins could continue to terrorize the citizenry of the failed state and disappear the occasional American tourist.
The year began with the Arizona shooting that turned US Representative Gabby Giffords into a living martyr, and the rest of the nation into a gang of loudmouthed assholes. Throughout the year the citizenry continued the tradition of killing one another, often in new and surprising ways.
America: Where Our Unsettling Anthropomorphic Monsters Are Just A Little Bit More Patriotic.
President Obama was once again unable to deliver on his promise to make the United States a magical Care Bear land of milk & honey scented with the sweet strains of children’s choirs singing liltingly of the unifying joy of diversity, but from their bastions in college quads and Code Pink meeting-houses, the President’s dwindling cadre of true believers assured us it was Republican obstructionism. And secret racism. Republicans countered that their sole aim was to restore sanity to a beleaguered nation, and promised that only as a last resort would they burn the fucking thing to the ground.
The Bad News Is That Rome Is Burning. The Good News Is That Everyone In Our Studio Audience Will Be Going Home Tonight With Shiny New Fiddles!
Political penii² proved productive in promoting prick-principled puns, as well as gratuitous alliteration. The destructive power of the penis was ably demonstrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who showed us that even a wealthy Hollywood/Government powerhouse with an even richer (albeit skeletal) wife will fuck an ugly woman if given the opportunity. Late night talk-show hosts methodically shook every last droplet of humor from the Weiner situation, before putting away their pricks at the disgraced NY Rep.
Political mores and identities changed more than ever, particularly in institutions such as the US Military. The US Navy broadened its long and proud tradition of maritime homosexuality by allowing gays to be open about it. At the same time, former Gay Mecca San Francisco saw its fabulousness eclipsed in favor of dumps like Oakland and Cleveland. Meanwhile, in Washington State’s rural Lewis County, citizens continued their proud practice of frequent–and flagrantly public–sexual congress with barnyard animals.
For Newlyweds Lisa And Bingo Lamb, A Day At The Fair Is A Great Reason To Dress Up.
As did the death of beautiful paper-doll Diana Spencer over a decade before, the wedding of Prince William to commoner Kate Middleton proved Americans are still fascinated with the royal family from which their forefathers once strove so mightily to emancipate themselves. Although America does not have a royalty per se, the Twenty-First Century has seen the rise of a new class of publicly-owned do-nothings. Paramount among these is the vile Kardashian Klan, a bloodline and marriage-based conglomerate that may just be the strongest argument yet advanced in support of the Armenian Holocaust.³ Kim Kardashian’s sham-marriage to basketball legend somebody-or-other netted the vapid perfume-tycoon more money than you’re likely to see in a thousand lifetimes.
There were a few stars whom we were relieved to see survive 2011, not least because their delightfully destructive antics provide regular low-hanging fruit for Promethean Times. Toothless cretin Charlie Sheen managed to bring his life and career to a shattering halt, suffering the additional injury of losing his place in America’s most beloved half-hour of insipidity to a genial retard. Yet through a heroic lack of self-awareness and the public’s perverse predilection for the doomed, the former Carlos Estevez is more popular than ever. The same cannot be said for Lindsay Lohan, once hailed as ‘The Flower of American Skankhood,’ who like Sheen, is one of 2012’s most likely fatalities. Despite a loving and supportive family, worldwide adoration and impeccable personal hygiene, the only audience to prove capable of tolerating LiLo’s act for any length of time were her customers at the LA County Morgue.
It Gets A Lot Less Sexy When You Realize She'll Be Dead Soon.
Sport continued to be a necessary diversion around the world, uniting and dividing people not by races or ethnicity, but by the overpriced merchandise they wore. In American sports, Jesus, sole scion of the Jehovah Dynasty, briefly tried His hand at football before quietly retiring once again to the sidelines, much to the dismay of football fans in the Mountain States. Although a strike marred the beginning of the 2011-2012 NBA season, the 2010-2011 season ended in a thrilling contest that satisfied both haters of LeBron James and fans of Schadenfreude in general. In what was nearly universally regarded as a black year for baseball, the one bright spot was the continuing absence of a World Series trophy in the Lone Star State. And in sports outside of America’s shores, a group of Japanese ladies won some soccer thing.
A Little Bit Like Schnitzel.
With all these notable events and people, both tragic and sublime, from which to choose, our editors had an unenviable task in determining Promethean Times’ Person of the Year for 2011. It was only after a thorough and at-times grueling vetting process, at several points during which the acrimony grew both increasingly bitter and ad hominem, that the worthy candidate emerged. Promethean Times is proud to name as this year’s Promethean Times’ Person of the Year and our first two-time back-to-back recipient, Promethean Times, honoring the venerable publication for its indefatigable and often thankless dedication to fighting the barbaric practice of puppy-killing.
Bravo, Promethean Times.
To The Dear Friends To Whom We Bid Farewell In 2011: May You Find Yourselves In Heaven Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead:
Amy Might Still Be Alive If She Had Filled Her Drug-Pipe With Harmless Tobacco Instead Of What She Actually Filled It With--Drugs.
The Thing We'll Miss Most? The Laughter.
CNN News Personality Anderson Cooper Was Too Beautiful To Live.
Sure, It's A Tragedy For The Ages, But We Take Some Small Consolation In The Knowledge That There's One Less Drunk On The Streets Tonight.
Quiet, Modest And Unassuming, Mr. Savage Exemplified The Qualities For Which America Is Admired Across The Globe.
Get It? We're Being Metaphorical. Trust Us, Chicks Dig Metaphors.
The Colonel's Friends All Believed It Was Gaddafi's Fascination With Thriller-Era Michael Jackson That Prevented His Promotion To General.
This Beautiful Creature Learned Too Late That If Something Lives, The Germans Will Find A Way To Kill It.
This One Time, When Smaktakula Was In Juvenile Hall On An Arson Charge, He Met A Guy Who Claimed To Be Jani Lane's Half-Brother, And Damned If The Kid Didn't Look Just Like Him. No, That's It.
Old Friend, We'll Miss You Most Of All. Circumstances Demand That We Dispense With The Childish, Insensitive Caricatures Upon Which We So Often Rely, But Rather, Respect Your Culture By Offering You A Farewell Not Only More Dignified, But In Keeping With The Proud Traditions Of Korea. In This Last Hour, Dear Leader, We Say Simply, "Sayonara."
¹ While it’s not actually a secret that 100 US ‘advisers’ have been sent to the DRC to help combat the Lord’s Resistance Army, it might as well be for all the media talks about it. ∞T.
² ‘Penises’ is the accepted plural of ‘penis,’ but Promethean Times has always been, and will forever proudly remain, a penii-loving publication. ∞T.
³ It’s a joke, Tanzr–don’t let it curdle your yogurt soda. Yes, what happened to your great-great aunt whatsername at the hands of the Turks all those years was a tragedy, but at least we provided a link to Wikipedia. That’s a hell of a lot more than the US Government ever did. ∞T.
Posted by Smaktakula in Crime, Culture, History, News, Politics
Africa, African famine, Ashton Kutcher, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Budweiser, butterface, death by drowning, debt crisis, Democrats, Europe, great white shark, headlines, hos, Indiana, living in a van down by the river, Matt Foley, Mississippi, online dating, perverts, pizza, Poltergeist, prostitution, Republicans, reset button, skunky beer, Somalia, South Korea, Tanzania, tapeworms, TV for idiots, Two and a Half Men, United States of America, vegans, Vermont, White House, you're welcome
Well, Bless Their Hearts.
In which we opine on the latest headlines, without bothering to first read the stories.
Seoul to Introduce Female-Only Subway Cars
Korean perverts to introduce hidden cameras to female-only subway cars.
Early Adversity, Adult Misery: How Small Events Trigger Depression
It’s true–every whiny bitch was once a whiny little bitch.
Suspect arrested while trying to bail out ally
There is honor among thieves, just no common sense.
Bill Clinton, on his 65th birthday, has gone vegan
That’s a misprint. Rather than ‘gone vegan’ it should read ‘done Meagan.’
Like You’d Do Any Differently In His Position.
Exposed coffins, destroyed homes in Vt. town
Sweet! A Poltergeist remake.
Deportation policy angers bloggers
Yeah, but when you have no real friends and a surfeit of free time, you tend to get irritated pretty easily.
Tradition forces girls into prostitution
“My momma was a ho, just like her momma before her.”
Why Do Republicans Love Pizza?
The same reason everybody else loves pizza.
Beachgoers in Venice Rescue Stranded Great White Shark
The freed predator wasted no time before devouring a surfer.
Europe’s debt could sink US
This is hardly the first time Europe has rung up a bill the US was obliged to pay.
Avez-Vous Des Remerciements? Non? Ah, C’est La Vie.
Indiana State Fair stage collapse claims sixth victim
Is that thing still on the loose?
Somalis Rip Aid Donors for ‘Failing’ Famine Victims
If it bothers you so much, eat your own damn food. . . . Oh, right. Sit tight, folks.
Online dating? Why no one wants you
Don’t feel bad; attraction is a matter of personal preference, and is influenced by myriad subjective factors. Remember, it’s not you who’s repellant, but rather your personality and physical appearance.
It’s Like Putting Fancy Rims On A ’78 Pacer.
President Obama goes for a reset on jobs
Because neither ‘Do Over’ nor ‘We Take It Back‘ sounded quite right.
Ashton Kutcher’s second ‘Two and a Half Men’ episode: Do we still care?
That you ever did says a lot about you.
White House Future Is Now, Many Republicans Conclude
No, by definition, now is the present and the future is yet to come. And they say the Democrats can’t get their shit together.
Funk Legend Living In A Van
The van’s funk is said to be legendary.
The Most Highly-Prized Locale For The Van-Dweller Is, Of Course, Down By The River.
Tanzania: Horror As 180 People Perish in Ferry Accident
Dear God! At times like this, when the soul reels in shock and disbelief, we must remember that . . . HOLD ON! Forget about that–Our affiliate in Tuscaloosa is reporting that a cute white girl has gone missing!
Why I Don’t Drink Budweiser…and Why I’m Not Alone
Because fermented goat semen just doesn’t taste that hot.
How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?
For starters, the LaborTron3K doesn’t come to work hung over, steal paperclips or grope the copy boy. Plus, you’re ugly.
How this strange African fruit is making Americans skinny.
The secret is tapeworms.
Proper Sanitation And Hygiene Save Lives.
Promethean Times Responds To The Headlines
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Jabba The Hutt Mulls Republican Bid
Posted by Smaktakula in Culture, News, Politics
Donald Trump, Elena Kagan, GOP, Gov. Chris Christie, Jabba the Hutt, Republicans, Salacious Crumb, Smaktakula's hypocrisy can sometimes be astounding, the Donald, Why am I so fat?
The Infant Was Snatched From His Hand Just Before This Picture Was Taken.
Republicans are giddy with the rumors that famed intergalactic crimelord Jabba the Hutt is mulling a bid for their party’s nomination. Although the gelatinous gangster denies the rumors, supporters say that Jabba’s no-nonsense approach to fiscal policy, proven opposition to smugglers and fanatical hatred of unions puts him in good stead with the conservative elite. Moreover, Jabba’s backers contend that although he is a grotesquely bloated slug with comically vestigial limbs, he’s still both more appealing and electable than Donald Trump.
"Plus, He's Got Better Hair."
What? We did it to Elena Kagan, too. Our shallow cruelties are beholden to no political party. ∞T.
OC Republicans Take Racism To New Low
Posted by Smaktakula in News, Politics, Stupidity
Barack Obama, California, double standards, George W. Bush, GOP, hypersensitivity, hypocrisy, imaginary racism, Klansmen, opossums, Orange County, racism, Republican Party, Republicans, Sarah Palin, sexism
OC Republicans Enjoying Their Semi-Annual Retreat At Dana Point.
Just when America thinks it has a handle on its deep-seated racism, something comes along to stir the flames. Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Republican Committee, recently circulated an email with a picture of President Obama’s face superimposed on an ape’s body.
Although Davenport ridiculously claims not to have considered the President’s race when sending out this bigoted email, most commentators were able to see through her diaphanous veil of chicanery. To call this ugly attack on the President–and all African-Americans–anything other than racism is to deny reality.
Although the Republicans will no doubt attempt to throw Davenport under the bus by stripping her of her position, it’s highly probable that many share Davenport’s pernicious views. Although many Republicans voted for Obama in 2008, making the United States the first Western nation to elect a black man as Chief Executive, it’s likely they voted this way so that they could finally take their hate to a national level.
This Is The Kind Of Sexist Filth That--Oh Wait--Is That Sarah Palin? Funny Stuff!
Here’s a simple primer, with several acceptable images and one which is offensive:
This Is Not Racist.
Nor This.
Still Not Racist.
This Is Fine.
This One Is Also Okay.
Completely Free Of Racial Animus.
Acceptable.
This Is Simply Vile. We Are So Sorry You Had To See This.
On a related note:
Is It Ever Okay To Compare A Person Or Group Of People To A Family Of Opossums? No, Not For Any Particular Reason--We Were Just Wondering.
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Liwan Guide Contents
Road Access
Building Developments
Liwan
Mixed-use district, DubaiLand, Dubai
place25°6'43"N 55°22'5.2"E
Updated 3rd Jul 2019
Liwan Key Information
Mixed-use district
Liwan Overview
Liwan is a mixed use freehold township in DubaiLand masterplanned by Mizin, a member of Tatweer (a subsidiary of Dubai Holding). The development was launched in September 2006.
Liwan covers 13 million sq ft at the junction of the Emirates Road and Al Ain Road, across from Academic City and Dubai Silicon Oasis. The masterplan shows 100 separate residential complexes, six ‘iconic’ towers for business activities and a variety of mixed-use units . Two hotels were to be located at each end of the development.
There are six different types of residential buildings ranging in size from seven to 15 storeys on individual plots. Mizin based the masterplan for Liwan (formerly known as Frisco Ridge) on the design of San Francisco, with its mix of residential and commercial units, as well as parks and waterfalls.
Queue Point
In March 2007 Kuwait-based Al Mazaya Holding announced the Dh2 billion Queue Point project comprising a total of 52 plots for multi-purpose buildings, both residential and commercial, of between five and 15 storeys.
The residential buildings are aimed at the ‘mid-income’ sector and have been designed in four different styles with apartments ranging in size from one to three bedrooms.
The one-bedroom apartments are designed to be practical and convenient with large windows to provide lots of natural light and come in several layouts with different areas.
The two-bedroom apartments also come in several layouts of different size and are spacious and ‘equipped to suit the lifestyle of contemporary living’.
The three-bedroom apartments are designed with large living areas and spacious bedrooms to comfortably accommodate the whole family.
Completion of the Queue Point project was intended to be 2009 but was delayed by issues arising from the financial crisis of 2007-8, so the first buildings were not handed over until 2012.
Nowadays the name Queue Point is synonymous with Liwan, since it comprises the vast majority of completed buildings in the area.
Companies Associated with Liwan
Master Developer
Mizin
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Liwan Milestones
Date Launched
Liwan Amenities
As of May 2019 several green spaces and a lake could be seen at Liwan. A new mosque has been completed and in December 2018 the first shop, a BlueMart supermarket, opened in the National Bonds Jewels building in Liwan's Golden Gate District.
Proximity to landmarks
27 mins drive
Palm Jumeirah
The Walk JBR
Ibn Battuta Mall
The drive from Liwan to DIFC takes 16 minutes; to Dubai Mall 21 minutes; to Dubai International Airport 23 minutes; to Mall of the Emirates 23 minutes; to the Expo site 31 minutes; to Dubai Marina 37 minutes; and to Abu Dhabi 2 hours 8minutes.
The Liwan masterplan is derived from the urban structure of San Francisco and is divided into four districts - Golden Gate District and Park, The Ridge, Downtown and The Suburb.
The buildings are ‘beaux arts style neo-classical’ apartment or office buildings styled on those in San Francisco, or ‘San Francisco style’ high-rise apartments.
Golden Gate District and Park is a residential district with high-rise residential architecture around a large plaza and lake.
The Ridge takes its cue from hilly San Francisco, with residential buildings centred around a large lake in a valley.
Downtown is a cluster of office space towers with a 40-storey signature pyramidal shaped building.
The Suburb is a residential district with a large central parkland.
Liwan Buildings
We currently maintain records for 57 building developments in Liwan.
Al Mashghouni Building Liwan
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Al Wasl Mosque Liwan
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Al Yarmouk 99
Farah Tower 1
Ghanima
Mazaya 1
Mazaya 10A
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Liwan Reviews
See what the residents have to say by reading 11 user reviews courtesy of flatreviews.com
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Liwan receives an overall rating of 2.5 based on 11 reviews. Users were asked to consider many factors including the view, finishing, layout, noise levels, traffic, public transportation, parking, security, swimming pool, gym, and maintenance.
Moved here in 2017
Living with spouse
Far below expectations
Flat quality , building quality , no greenery, no basic amenities of a community
Bought a 2 bedroom house in 2007 with assurances of quality flat and a green landscape. Got the house in 2015, falling short by leaps and bounds of the many sales pitches and commitments. 1. Handover was pathetic. Shortfalls for houses that were handed over were made up by switching fittings more… in houses that were yet to be handed. The houses to be handed over were not locked! 2. Flooring was of very poor quality,with plaster in between tiles peeling off. 3. Main door was cracked and was finally replaced with a substandard door. 4. The approach road to the building remains rough soil to this day. 5. The barrier door to the building do not work to this day. 6. Ceiling work in the entrance to the lobby is shabbily done. Please note costs for the flat was not so low as well and was and is on par with some prominent developers today. Till today, five years hence from the first occupation, there is no landscaping, no grocery shops, it's just buildings in a desert . Show less
This review is the subjective opinion of a FlatReviews.com user and not of Propsearch LLC
21st Nov, 2016
From Jordan
So long Mazaya 97!
The place itself
For all those who only read a few lines - don't go there! As for the others who are keen to know more. Liwan was supposed to be a grandiose project meant to rival DSO and it started in 2008. But after the crisis it never really picked up. The finishing more… of the apartments are not too bad but there is so much missing from the area that I would not call it a community. If you are ever in need of anything late at night or forgot this one key ingredient from your shopping list, be ready to drive for 15 minutes to find the nearest shop. You either have to go to Silicon oasis or Dubai Land to buy anything. There is no laundry, no school, no shops, nothing but houses in the area. It certainly is pet friendly, that's one great thing for my cat but if after one year you would ask me to stay there again, I would say no thank you. Show less
6th Apr, 2016
Dzenita
From Bosnia and Herzegovina
Queue point Building review
Price and quiet
No shops around
We've moved to Queue point, Dubailand last year. Even if it's next to Silicon Oasis, it's such a difference, because there's nothing here except construction site. The delivery just started coming recently to this place. We've even waited for internet for 6 months, we have it now, wow!! If you more… don't have own car, don't even think of living here! There is nothing around, except sand, and nothing by walking distance. No shops, restaurants, parks, schools. You want to go to the swimming pool, or to the gym? I'm afraid that's not possible- reason- non existing! Let's look on the bright side - the building is not full, and the neighbors are nice. 1 bedroom costs around 48-55 K, and there is no traffic in the community. You need 6-10 min drive to the nearest shop in Silicon Oasis.Show less
25th Mar, 2016
You must have a car
Less traffic in and out of Queue Point
No pool, gym, supermarkets, restaurants...
Queue Point is a good place to live in because it is affordable and there is less traffic in and out...or I'd rather say NO traffic going out. But you must have your own car, as there is NO public transportation available here, like bus or metro. If you more… are the social type of person, this area is not for you - starting from NO gym, NO pool, NO park, plus NO restaurants / supermarkets around. It is literally in the middle of the desert. If you have kids, they will not have a play area. Nearest mall is Outlet Mall, and nearest groceries are in Skycourts and Silicon Oasis. Building was looking neat & new so we moved here. Maintenance is at the expense of the owner (after a year from buying the apartment) thus you have to be lucky to find a good landlord...otherwise you are stuck without anyone to help in the event of maintenance issues. We moved here due to affordability and buildings / apartments were looking neat and new. Indeed our apartment is neat and not so old... it's just that finishings were done poorly, and boundaries are extremely thin that you can hear the loud songs played or chairs being dragged by neighbours beside or above your apartment. I am still hoping that in the near future, this place be developed and improved as to encourage more people to live here.Show less
Monisha
Excellent community if all your family members have a car !
The layout and size of my 1bhk apartment
Non-existent supermarkets. All the sand around us.
A very quiet and peaceful locality with upcoming building. No much construction noise in the mornings. Mixed culture of people living. Variety of apartments. Some of them of great value for their size. Located at a prime location with easy access to all exits. Therefore very good for people working more… in New Dubai. Pet friendly. We get to meet a number of doggys in the elevator who are as friendly as their owners. Show less
Warning - Do not make the same mistake as us!
I wish I had something good to say about this place
Unfortunately everything....
If you are planning to move to Queue Point, I would strongly advise against it. The place is just 1 year old and it is already breaking apart. I have been living here for the past 11 months and cannot wait for my contract to finish. The finishing of the building more… is terrible and unsafe. The wiring of the building is unsafe with electricity tripping very often. I have been complaining to the maintenance department about the water heater leaking in my apartment since I have moved to the apartment and it has still not been fixed. The AC capacity is terrible and the apartment does not cool down. The hot water runs out before 1 person can finish his/her shower. I have had a chat with the owner of the apartment and he has tried speaking to the developer to solve these issues. They have started ignoring him with no response to these problems.Show less
New Upcoming Community
Location and size of apartments
Lack of shops etc at current point in time
Liwan is an upcoming community with a fantastic location esp if you have your own car. Downtown is just 12 mins away, close to silicon oasis and academic city. Most major malls like Dubai Mall, Mirdiff City Center or Outlet Mall are not more than 15 minutes away. Although there more… is limited infrastructure work is progressing everyday. There is round the clock security and maintenance personnel are just a call away. The society is also pet friendly. Finishing is better than discovery gardens and bedrooms are fairly large. Even though there are no shops around getting to malls is very convenient drive as there is no traffic. Have been informed that a commercial district would be made in due course. The apartment we are staying in Mazaya 3 has a clear view of the Dubai skyline. In all honesty can say that this community has a lot of livability potential in the years to come.Show less
Size of the apartments and price considering current rental market
Roads and construction in progress
Good apartments, but a lot of construction work in progress. No traffic at all.
Queue Point Bldg R019
The lease contract is reasonable.
The Queue Point area is still under development. Roads are still being paved.
I started my lease of this apartment in July 2014, so the moving took place in the heat of summer. I was its first resident, and so I was the guinea pig of sorts to test the plumbing, the A/C, the electricals, the heater, etc. I encountered problems more… with each of these aspects in my first couple of months, that the maintenance guys were on my speed dial. I found that they weren't very coordinated, so I had to do a lot of follow-ups and pushing to get timely action done. Now, everything is working fine. The workmanship for the guest toilet is something I overlooked while I was checking out this property. The door cannot open fully and it just hits the sink. I have since called it the "little girl's loo" as my guest has to be really slim/small to get through the door. I like the remoteness of this area. A car is a must -- no traffic, my drive in and out is smooth. And it's right at the corner of E311 and Al Ain Road so it's relatively accessible. Good for peace and quiet (i.e. before and after working hours for the roadworks). I have a spacious balcony where I chill, and on a clear day, I have a good view of Burj Khalifa. Show less
7th Dec, 2014
Low quality finishing, high price
Nice layout of the apartments
Really bad quality and not existing proper maintenance
The area is pretty new. Apartments are lower than anywhere else, even lower than Silicon Oasis but the finishing is pretty bad as well. Maintenance is less than satisfactory and issues in the apartments in regards to maintenance and the not existing recreation facilities or even supermarkets make the price more… way too highShow less
Queue Point - Liwan
Price, Size, Finishing
Lack of community at current
We moved into this flat about 6 months ago. Our flat is 3 bedroom and 2000 sqft, very spacious with storage room (supposedly a maids room, but I don't think they got that far during construction) and separate laundry room. The finishing is decent if not perfect, and maintenance are reasonably efficient more… at fixing any small problems. The flats are all brand new, having been handed over within the last 9 months. The price is great for the size and number of bedrooms, however this is due to the location. There are no shops within walking distance, no cafes or restaurants, no pool or gym. Silicon Oasis is a 5-minute drive away, as is Skycourts so as long as you drive then the location works. There is next to no traffic in or out of the community and business bay is a 15-minute commute. Overall I would recommend this area and development if cost and size are more important to you than being within walking distance of shops or leisure activities. The area is a bit of a construction site in general, however our flat overlooks a nice empty bit of desert with no construction planned. Show less
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Brian Bergstein, Part 2 - Is AI Evolutionary or Revolutionary?
By Troy A. Paredes & Lee A. Schneider. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.
What computers do is impressive. But some people say it’s not actually AI. Siri and Alexa are good at voice recognition, but does that mean they’re intelligent?
In the second installment of AfD’s conversation with Brian Bergstein, former MIT Technology Review editor-at-large, Troy and Lee explore whether curiosity is critical for machine intelligence, what's the significant of a robot's physical presence in the world, and what the future of AI means for our jobs.
Naval Ravikant Part 2: Will Your Phone Do Everything?26:32
In this second part of our conversation with Naval Ravikant, we talk about how financial services will be disrupted, from blockchain to payments and beyond. We then venture into the future of work, such as what will the gig economy mean for how we will work in the future? At the end, Troy and Lee chat a bit about their impressions from the conv ...…
Naval Ravikant Part 1: Business Plus Science Equals Technology34:48
We welcome Naval Ravikant, a prodigious entrepreneur who has made a career helping other entrepreneurs. In this episode, we discuss how to be an effective entrepreneur, including the game theory of venture capital. Plus we cover complexity theory (or, Why can’t everything be simpler?), the “infrastructure of innovation,” and the first-principle ...…
Prof. Sylvester Johnson, Part 2: What does it mean to be human? “Big Humanities” to Match “Big Technologies.”23:02
More with Professor Johnson of Virginia Tech. This time, we learn about his “big humanities” response to “big technologies.” Lots to consider, from brain-to-computer interfaces, to robotic morality, to democracy, to trust. We liked his ideas about the inclusiveness that is needed for human beings to think these things through to ensure that voi ...…
Prof. Sylvester Johnson, Part 1: What does it mean to be human? From Aristotle to AI.26:35
With the help of Professor Johnson of Virginia Tech, we discuss what it means to be human in an age of accelerating technology, where computers and robots can think and maybe even feel. Professor Johnson explains several of the amazing technologies that exist today, both “outside” people and those being incorporated directly into people’s bodie ...…
Clearpool: Securities Trading Is Technologically Intense31:15
We chat with folks from Clearpool, a financial services firm that provides a wide variety of technology tools and routing infrastructure to sell-side broker-dealers to help them seek best execution for their institutional clients. We cover the technical aspects of how trading works, the speed at which it happens, and some of the technologies be ...…
Stina Ehrensvard, CEO of Yubico, Part 2: Protecting the Internet24:14
Stina Ehresnvard returns with more insights about security, the hardware business, and finding your dream client. The dream client helps drive your business forward and may not always be the one you think.
Stina Ehrensvard, CEO of Yubico, Part 1: Hardware and Security21:36
We welcome Stina Ehresnvard to get us focused on how to build a business around hardware, instead of our usual focus on software. Yubico believes that hardware is key to security in the digital realm.
Special Episode: Troy Talks Live with Chris Concannon!31:05
Troy interviews Chris live at the Security Traders Association Annual Market Structure Conference to give us more insight into the trading world, AI, blockchain, and other developments impacting our securities markets, financial institutions, and investors. Recorded when Chris was still President and COO of Cboe (before he moved to MarketAxess) ...…
Stocks Trade Really Fast, Part 222:58
We continue our discussion with Chris Concannon from when he was still an executive at Cboe (he’s now at MarketAxess). We explore the future of exchange technology, including the impact of artificial intelligence and blockchain. (Nothing in this or any other episode is advice of any kind; please contact your own experts to help with investment, ...…
We chat with Chris Concannon, formerly President and COO of Cboe and now the same at MarketAxess. We spoke with Chris (before he switched jobs) about the role of technology, the role of humans, and the speed of markets, and about regulation and complexity. (Nothing in this or any other episode is advice of any kind; please contact your own expe ...…
Cryptographers Do Cool Stuff, Part 225:40
The continuation of our conversation with Brett Hemenway, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where we learn about zero knowledge proofs, why math is fun, and that the kinds of math and cryptography problems he wrestles with require a lot more than multiplication tables. Troy and Lee continue to learn more about the ...…
To sum it up, math matters. Troy and Lee with Brett Hemenway, a cryptographer looking at various practical applications of secure multi-party computation to solve real-world information sharing problems. Ever want to tell someone something but you’re not sure if you should trust that person? Brett delves into the theory and practice of cryptogr ...…
Lokke Moerel, Part 225:06
We continue our discussion with European AI lawyer Lokke Moerel. We chat about search technology and "filter bubbles," the ethics of AI, and AI and regulation (including privacy and GDPR).
We discuss with European AI lawyer Lokke Moerel the promise and risks of artificial intelligence, including how the data inputs affect the AI outputs, the challenge in understanding how AI "thinks," and how AI is being used in the real-world from hiring to health care.
SeedInvest, Part 223:21
We continue our discussion with Ryan and learn about the proposed transaction with Circle, some of the early challenges SeedInvest faced and how passion is a necessary part of any start-up vision. (Nothing in this or any other episode is advice of any kind; please contact your own experts to help with investment, legal, regulatory, or other adv ...…
Ryan Feit of SeedInvest talks about how he and his team built a leading equity crowdfunding platform and was involved with the passage of the JOBS Act, and gets into the details of the platforms features and functions to make crowdfunding securities a new asset class. (Nothing in this or any other episode is advice of any kind; please contact y ...…
AI In Canada, Part 235:04
The second part of our conversation with Canadian AI specialists where we delve further into the policy and ethics issues, as well as how the business side of AI is growing in Canada with government support.
A live audience recording in which we discuss artificial intelligence with two knowledgeable Canadian AI specialists. In this first part, we talk about things that AI can do and liability issues associated with AI’s actions. More interestingly, we discuss policy issues.
Mike Novogratz: Are We Moving to a New Paradigm?23:12
In this second part of the interview, we discuss many of the forces behind decentralization through blockchain and Mike’s view of where things might be headed. We also learn how the basics of being a good Army apply to investing. Reminder: nothing in the episode is advice of any kind; please contact your own experts to help with investment, leg ...…
Mike Novogratz: Building an Investment Bank for Blockchain Assets24:30
After success as an Army helicopter pilot, Goldman Sachs banker and founder of Fortress, he could have just managed his family wealth. But his enthusiasm for the new world of decentralization through blockchain has driven Mike to create a new type of investment bank. Reminder: nothing in the episode is advice of any kind; please contact your ow ...…
Former SEC Commissioner on the Theory Behind Regulatory Decisions23:08
In this second half of Troy and Lee’s conversation with former SEC Commissioner Piwowar, we broadened the discussion to cover some theories of regulation and considerations for regulatory decisions. Commissioner Piwowar also discussed various areas within FinTech that he finds interesting, including the “Bootleggers and Baptists” theory of publ ...…
What Made The SEC Deny a Bitcoin ETF?26:43
Shortly after the end of his tenure as an SEC Commissioner, Michael Piwowar joined Troy and Lee for a conversation on FinTech, blockchain, and regulation. In this first half of the conversation, he talked about the SEC’s recent denial of a bitcoin ETF, and some of the considerations that may been at play.…
Currents in Crypto25:03
In the second installment of Appetite for Disruption’s discussion with Business Insider reporter Frank Chaparro, Troy and Lee discuss with Frank the challenge of finding talent in an industry that’s evolving so quickly, how crypto has caught the public's imagination, and whether crypto is here to stay.…
All Things Crypto23:47
Business Insider reporter Frank Chaparro joins Troy and Lee to talk all things crypto -- big banks getting into the crypto space, when we might see a crypto ETF, how crypto is becoming more accessible, and the importance of keeping the long-view in mind.
“What the Internet was for information, the blockchain is for transferring value.” – Michael Oved24:56
In the second installment of Appetite for Disruption’s interview with Michael Oved of AirSwap, Troy and Lee explore the role of security and trust in shaping the future of blockchain, and how this technology may be just as big as the Internet.
Trading in Crypto23:41
In this episode of Appetite for Disruption, Troy and Lee speak with AirSwap co-founder Michael Oved about smart contracts, the future of (decentralized) trading, and the beauty of simplicity in technology.
Key Considerations for Crypto and Regulation20:10
In the third and final installment of Appetite for Disruption’s discussion with crypto enthusiast and venture capitalist Lou Kerner, Troy and Lee discuss how regulators should approach crypto. What will help and what will hurt this developing innovation and marketplace?
Crypto, Community, and Capitalism25:50
In the second installment of AfD’s discussion with venture capitalist and crypto enthusiast Lou Kerner, Troy and Lee explore whether community is integral in the success of blockchain and whether crypto is the ultimate capitalist innovation.
Is Crypto the Most Important Thing Ever? Some People Think So21:22
In this special AfD episode, recorded at the BlockFin conference, Troy and Lee explore with venture capitalist Lou Kerner how crypto, blockchain, and smart contracts are transforming the world. And Lou explains why he’s devoting the rest of his life to crypto.
Onli, Part 2 - A Better Blockchain29:04
In the second installment of AfD’s interview with Onli IP counsel and patent law expert Peter Jensen-Haxel, Troy and Lee discuss different types of blockchain solutions and ways these new technologies can be utilized.
Peter Jensen-Haxel of Onli, Part 1 - Blockchain and the Value of a Patent30:31
What does blockchain mean to intellectual property (and vice versa)? In this episode, Troy and Lee discuss this with intellectual property expert Peter Jensen-Haxel of Onli.
Brian Bergstein, Part 2 - Is AI Evolutionary or Revolutionary?26:53
What computers do is impressive. But some people say it’s not actually AI. Siri and Alexa are good at voice recognition, but does that mean they’re intelligent? In the second installment of AfD’s conversation with Brian Bergstein, former MIT Technology Review editor-at-large, Troy and Lee explore whether curiosity is critical for machine intell ...…
Brian Bergstein, Part 1 - Is AI Even Intelligent?24:32
There’s a challenge with the artificial intelligence (AI) conversation: not everyone agrees on the right definition of artificial intelligence. In fact, people don't even agree on what intelligence means. In the first installment of AfD’s conversation with Brian Bergstein, former MIT Technology Review editor-at-large, Troy and Lee cover the bas ...…
Marcus, Pt 2 - Simplify, Simplify, Simplify28:05
In the second installment of AfD's discussion with Marcus, Troy and Lee examine the importance of streamlining: making things straightforward and simple for consumers to understand. When companies make it clear what they’re offering, consumers make better decisions and are happier with their experience. Fortunately, streamlining doesn’t have to ...…
Marcus, Pt 1 - Small Loans Are Creating Big Business at Goldman20:56
You order a slice of pizza. Just as the waiter is handing it to you, he takes a bite and claims it’s his “fee.” Naturally, you’re indignant. Does this tell us anything about banking? Goldman Sachs’ consumer lending arm, Marcus, thinks it does. In this episode of Appetite for Disruption, Troy and Lee talk with Omer Ismail (Marcus Chief Commercia ...…
Chronicled, Part 2 - Blockchain as a Community Builder24:46
Blockchain is about more than technology. It's about human interaction. Even more than that, blockchain challenges how we think about "community." In the second installment of our discussion with Chronicled co-founder Samantha Radocchia, Troy and Lee look beyond technology to examine how blockchain is changing social and economic dynamics as mo ...…
Chronicled, Part 1 - Blockchain Begins ... What's Yet to Come?26:30
Blockchain is about much more than Bitcoin. Blockchain not only makes cryptocurrencies possible. Blockchain also makes it possible to move priceless artwork from one owner to another, securely deliver collectible sneakers from sellers to buyers, and monitor prescription pharmaceuticals as they're shipped around the country. And that's just the ...…
Rubicoin, Part 2 - What Does It Mean to Be an Investor and How Can We Get More of Them?21:45
The Dow keeps hitting record highs, but too many Americans are missing out on the rally – indeed, are missing out on the benefits of investing more generally. So what will get people to start investing? In part 2 of our discussion with Rubicoin founders Emmet Savage and John Tyrrell, Troy and Lee explore the importance of the customer experienc ...…
Rubicoin, Part 1 - The Pros and Cons to Emotional Investing28:57
Should you use both sides of the brain – left (logic) and right (creative/artistic) – when investing? Does how you feel about a company matter, in addition to reasoning through its financial statements and other quantifiable metrics? In the most recent installment of Appetite for Disruption, Troy and Lee explore with Rubicoin founders Emmet Sav ...…
AMEX, Part 2 - The Dollars-and-Cents of Payment System Technology23:23
We live in a “Moore’s Law” kind of world. The rate of technological change is extremely rapid and groundbreaking. Even something that has been part of commerce forever – namely, getting money from point A to point B – has changed dramatically. In Part 2 of the discussion with Amex and InAuth, Troy and Lee cover the “big idea” of why instantaneo ...…
AMEX, Part 1 - Convenience or Security – Do We Have to Choose?21:26
It takes savvy to become one of The World's Most Admired Companies. And it takes skill to avoid the kinds of data breaches that seem all-too-frequent these days. So how can companies keep their customers – and the public at large – both safe and happy? How much security do people want if it means more hassles and inconvenience? In this episode, ...…
Thesys, Part 223:42
We continue our conversation with Mike Beller of Thesys Technologies. On this episode, we take a further exploration of the nature of big data in capital markets and how to think differently about it.
Sophisticated technology and analytics in securities trading demonstrate how big data and algorithms can transform an industry and change mindsets.
Salt Lending, Part 225:25
We continue our conversation with Salt Lending CEO Shawn Owen and Chief Operating Officer Gregg Bell. On this episode, we learn more about the uses of cryptocurrency and blockchain.
On this episode of Appetite for Disruption, Salt Lending CEO Shawn Owen and Chief Operating Officer Gregg Bell explain the world of cryptocurrency lending and talk about different ways in which blockchain will change the world.
Nvstr, Part 223:15
Founders Patrick Aber and Bernard George discuss the social elements of the Nvstr platform as well as the use of machine learning technology. And happy third birthday to Bernie's son.
Nvstr founders Patrick Aber and Bernard George discuss how their platform combines sophisticated investing principles with social elements for a new type of retail investment experience.
NextGenVest, Part 225:34
Learn more about the NextGenVest platform and Kelly Peeler’s experience helping young Iraqi entrepreneurs, as well as her views on the dangers posed by the student loan industry.
Kelly Peeler describes how NextGenVest helps high school and college student prepare for, and manage, their college financial aid, using a combination of human interaction and machine learning.
Estimize, Part 225:01
Estimize Part 2: Delving deeper into the philosophical aspects of behavioral economics as applied to the business model.
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SCOTUS Sends Sweet Cakes By Melissa Case Back to Oregon Courts
By Oregon Public Broadcasting. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.
he U.S. Supreme Court directed Oregon state judges to review a court ruling against a Gresham bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The Justices directed the state to consider their ruling last year on a similar issue in Colorado. University of Oregon professor Alison Gash joins us for analysis on the decision.
Teen Jeopardy Winner18:04
Portland teen Avi Gupta started his own nonprofit before graduating high school.He's also the winner of the 2019 Jeopardy Teen Tournament. We'll talk with Gupta about his accomplishments and his hopes for the future.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Oregon Manufacturers and Commerce Drops Gross Receipts Tax Referral18:00
After Oregon lawmakers passed a gross receipts tax this spring, the industry group Oregon Manufacturers and Commerce said it would try to refer the issue to voters. Now, the group says that lawmakers’ actions at the end of the legislative session hamstrung its referral effort. OPB’s political reporter Dirk VanderHart fills us in, and we hear fr ...…
Church Buys Medical Debt14:21
A church in Medford bought $2 million of Oregonians’ medical debt. We speak to Dana Franchetti, a pastor from the church, and Jerry Ashton, the co-founder of an organization that buys and pays off people’s medical debt.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Deaths From Meth Use In Oregon Are Up10:48
Methamphetamine now kills more people in Oregon every year than do prescription opioids. But there are no FDA approved medications and most of the funding for treatment goes to opioids. Lynne Terry, editor of The Lund Report tells us more.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Filtering Wildfire Smoke6:13
20h ago 6:13
Seattle is retrofitting some downtown buildings’ HVAC systems to filter wildfire smoke. We talk to senior policy advisor Julia Reed about the city’s plans to protect its citizens from the effects of wildfire smoke.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Talking Business8:38
Portland Business Journal editor Suzanne Stevens joins us to discuss some of the latest regional business news.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
What’s Next For Cap & Trade Legislation?24:32
After the Republican walkout, and plenty of hard feelings on both sides, is there a legislative way forward for a cap and trade bill in Oregon? We talk with two lawmakers who’ve been a part of negotiations from the beginning: State Senators Michael Dembrow, D-Portland and Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
A Preview Of Bundyville Podcast Season 217:09
A new season of the "Bundyville" podcast from OPB and Longreads explores anti-government extremism beyond the Bundy family. Seven episodes will be available July 15. We'll hear from the journalists behind it — Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Aloha Rodeo Explores Hawaiian Cowboy History34:18
In 1908, three Hawaiian cowboys arrived in Wyoming and shocked the rodeo world with their riding and roping skills. The book "Aloha Rodeo" tells the cowboys’ story, and explores Hawaii’s long history of cowboy culture and ranching. We hear from author David Wolman about that history, and talk to Michelle Galimba, a current day rancher from Hawaii.…
Portlander Attempts Thirty-Eight Mile Swim Around Sauvie Island15:39
Cindy Werhane tried to become the first person to swim all the way around Sauvie Island this week. She swam for 20 straight hours — and almost completed the loop — before she had to call it quits.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Combating The ‘Summer Slide’8:52
Kids look forward to summertime, but a long break from school can lead to what’s called “summer slide,” or a decline in academic skills. The problem is particularly acute for children from low-income families, who lack the resources to keep them engaged with challenging camps and activities over the summer. One Eastern Oregon school district ha ...…
News Roundtable July 12 201925:16
We hear opinions and analysis on this week’s news from Amanda Manjarrez, Eve Epstein and Jim Pasero.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Pieces Of Sacred Meteorite Return To Grand Ronde Tribal Museum9:28
A piece of a meteorite sacred to Native Americans in the Willamette Valley has been returned to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. The fragment comes from the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, but the meteorite itself resides at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The meteorite Tomanowos, also referred to as the ...…
I-5 Series: An Introduction13:41
As Portland's population grows, bringing more cars, more traffic, and more greenhouse gas emissions, what’s the future of the biggest interstate that cuts through the heart of the city? We're kicking off a series of conversations about Interstate 5. We start with Tammy Baney, who chairs the Oregon Transportation Commission.…
Harbor of Hope Mobile Showers27:01
Earlier this summer, Oregon Harbor of Hope began using two box trucks containing mobile showers and laundry facilities for people who are homeless. We talk with Harbor of Hope deputy director & operations manager Lisa Marandas and hear from people who are using the facilities.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
What’s Ahead For The Bend Bulletin?11:30
The Bend Bulletin is being sold to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers. But before that happens, all of its employees will be laid off. OPB Bend reporter Emily Cureton tells us what the sale of Central Oregon’s only daily paper means for the state.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Eugene Camping Ordinance16:24
Eugene city councilors recently passed an ordinance allowing police to remove campers from city-owned curbsides. Eugene Police Department Captain Eric Klinko and homeless advocate Kris McAlister tell us how the policy impacts homeless people, property owners and law enforcement.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Piano History22:27
We listen back to a conversation with author Elizabeth Rusch about the history of the piano as set out in her latest children’s book, “The Music of Life,” along with her pianist collaborator, Portland pianist, David Saffert.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Gorge Congestion13:47
The Columbia River Gorge has seen over a 50% increase in congestion over the past decade, causing dramatic increases in traffic and visitor frustration as parking lots struggle to hold all the vehicles those visitors bring with them. We speak to Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area coordinator Terra Lingley from the Oregon Department of Tr ...…
Liability Protection For Rural Volunteer Firefighters10:04
In some parts of rural, agricultural Oregon, volunteer farmer firefighters are on the front lines during fire season. We talk with state senator Bill Hansell, R-Athena, who grew up on a farm and experienced this first hand. He successfully sponsored a bill to provide liability protection to those volunteers.…
How Can Oregon Reach Its Climate Goals?17:46
We talk with Angus Duncan, chair of the Oregon Global Warming Commission, about the state’s climate goals and ask what the failure of the cap and trade bill means for Oregon’s ability to meet those goals.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Lexington Shut Down9:25
The small Morrow County town of Lexington is shut down until further notice. The town council didn’t have a quorum to pass a budget at the end of June. So, the city can’t officially operate. We talk with David Sykes, publisher and reporter for the Heppner Gazette-Times about how Lexington is trying to move forward now.…
How Is Talking To Computers Changing Us?40:21
Tech journalist and University of Oregon graduate James Vlahos joins us to discuss his new book "Talk To Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform The Way We Live, Work, And Think." It's all about the quest to teach computers how to talk and listen — and what that means for the humans that interact with them.…
EO Media Buys Two Newspapers10:03
The Eastern Oregon Media Group is set to buy two Eastern Oregon newspapers — the La Grande Observer and the Baker City Herald. The company already owns 11 other newspapers, including the East Oregonian and the Daily Astorian. We speak to EO Media Group owner Kathryn Brown about the acquisitions and the future of rural journalism in Oregon.…
"Cop Out" Monologue Series33:46
We listen back to a conversation about August Wilson Red Door Project’s series of monologues based on the experiences of police officers. The “Cop Out” monologues are based on playwrights’ interviews with police officers. The project is a companion piece to an earlier series of monologues called “Hands Up” based on black Americans’ experience w ...…
News Roundtable17:47
We hear opinions and analysis on this week’s news from Camilla Mortensen, Erious Johnson and Julie Parrish.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Two Men Fought For The Release Of The Man Convicted Of Killing Their Brother24:37
Thirty years ago, Oregon Department of Corrections director Michael Francke was murdered. Frank Gable — the man convicted of Francke's murder — was just released from prison. Michael Francke's surviving brothers have been some of the strongest advocates for Gable's release, saying he was wrongly convicted. We'll talk with Kevin and Patrick Fran ...…
Oregon Has High Percentage of Aging Inmates12:51
Oregon prisons had one of the highest percentages of inmates older than 55 in 2016. Now, state officials are preparing to care for inmates as they age. We talk with UC San Francisco professor of medicine Brie Williams about the unique needs of older inmates, and what care prisons need to provide.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Talking Business13:15
We discuss the latest regional business news with Suzanne Stevens, editor of the Portland Business Journal.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Youth Drag Queen in Portland19:30
Sparkle Lynn More is the stage name of an 11-year-old drag queen from Portland. More has been performing in drag shows for the past two years. We talk to More's mother Michelle Porter, the performer's brother, Charlie and Sparkle Lynn More. They all say they’ve found a second family in Portland’s drag community.…
Governor Brown Looks Back At The 2019 Legislative Session31:29
We sit down with Oregon Governor Kate Brown to break down a tumultuous legislative session that included both big failures and major successes for the Democratic supermajority.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Priced Out18:20
Seventeen years ago, Cornelius Swart released a documentary depicting the early stages of gentrification in the Albina community. Long-time residents of the community Bri Williams and her mother Nikki Williams were subjects in the film. Swart’s documentary “Priced Out” revisits Bri Williams and the community to see how gentrification has grown ...…
GenderMag Provides Tool To Remove Gender Bias In Software15:12
Computer scientists at Oregon State University say they have a solution for something most people don’t even know is a problem: gender bias in software. They say most software is more tailored for men. They are trying to change that with “GenderMag.” We talk to one of the developers, a distinguished professor in the department of computer scien ...…
A Dramatic End To The Legislative Session In Oregon16:36
Republican state senators returned to the Oregon Capitol to wrap up the legislative session over the weekend. Lawmakers worked at breakneck speed to pass dozens of bills, including many priorities for Democrats. The cap-and-trade bill that spurred Republican senators to walk out never made it to the floor, but lawmakers approved paid family med ...…
I Am A Stranger Here Myself26:05
Oregon writer Debra Gwartney’s new book, “I Am a Stranger Here Myself” is one part memoir, one part pioneer history. She tells her own story interspersed with the story of the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and give birth on the frontier. Her book explores the ideas of womanhood, place and belonging — in the context of white set ...…
We hear opinions and analysis on some of the big news stories this week from Christopher McKnight Nichols, Doug Badger and Sarah Mirk.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Senate President Peter Courtney: A Profile4:33
19d ago 4:33
The state’s longest serving Senate president has had a rough legislative session. He faced scrutiny because of the way he addressed allegations of sexual harassment at the state Capitol. His dear friend and longtime colleague Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem, died. And two walkouts by Republican legislators have impeded the goals of a Democratic su ...…
Moda Before SCOTUS14:29
Moda hHealth, an Oregon-based health insurance company, says the federal government owes it a quarter of a billion dollars. An appeals court disagreed. But this week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would take up the case. John McConnell is the director of the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at Oregon Health and Science Univers ...…
InventOR Competition19:28
The InventOR Collegiate Challenge allows groups of Oregon college students to showcase inventive solutions to important social and economic challenges across the state, both in urban and rural regions. Competitors are vying for $25,000 in prizes. We speak to three finalists about their inventions.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Public Pianos In Portland16:11
"Piano. Push. Play.” puts pianos in public places all over Portland in the summertime. Each piano is decorated by a different artist and maintained by a team of volunteers throughout the months of July and August. We hear from Megan McGeorge, the passionate founder of Piano. Push. Play, and artist Gary Hirsch, who decorated one of the pianos th ...…
Youth Concussion Management Team16:39
We hear about new developments in treating certain kinds of concussions. The University of Oregon has teamed up with local practitioners to create a Youth Concussion Management Team. UO professor McKay Sohlberg and patient Benjamin Smeltzer join us to explain how the system works and how it’s different from past approaches.…
Tsunami Bill8:23
We talk with Oregon State University’s tsunami expert Patrick Corcoran about a bill Governor Kate Brown just signed into law. It lifts a 25-year-old ban on new construction of certain types of buildings (like schools and police stations) in coastal areas that are prone to damage from tsunamis.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Oregon Bach Festival Direction9:34
Last year’s departure of the Oregon Bach Festival’s artistic director Matthew Halls left fractures in the classical music community in Eugene and big questions about how the festival should move forward. Just days before this year’s three-week-long festival, the University of Oregon’s dean of the music and dance department, which runs OBF, anno ...…
Nossa Coffee “To-Go” Cup Upcharge15:26
Nossa Familia Coffee started charging an extra 25 cents to customers that used a to-go cup for their drinks this year. We talk to marketing and sustainability director Karen Lickteig on the reasoning behind the charge and how customers have responded to it.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Inmates Act As Tutors At Larch Corrections Center18:05
Teachers at Clark College provide GED training at Larch Corrections Center, with help from inmate peer tutors. Those tutors recently received international recognition for their work. Instructor Lauren Zavrel join us with two recently released inmates.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Oregon Senate Standoff Continues for Sixth Day23:04
Republican senators are absent from the Oregon state Capitol for a sixth day, denying Democratic lawmakers the quorum they need to pass a cap-and-trade bill or any other legislation. We talk with Republican Sen. Cliff Bentz and hear from Rep. Karin Power, who championed the cap-and-trade bill in the House.…
Trump Administration Reverses Plan to Close Job Corp Centers8:50
The Trump administration reversed a decision last week to close down nine Job Corps centers, including two in Oregon and Washington. The plan was met with backlash from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Politico reporter Ian Kullgren joins us to explain the controversy.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Missing Middle Bill51:50
We listen back to our conversations about House Bill 2001, which would increase density in the Portland metro area and cities with a population above 25,000. The bill passed the state House last week. If the Senate ends up doing the same, the bill would allow developers to build up to four units of attached housing, cottage clusters and townhou ...…
VENDERIA REBROADCAST16:34
Created by Taylor Valdes, The Venderia is a new kind of vending machine. Valdes hand-stocks the machines with condoms, pregnancy tests, Find Your Inner Animal mystery bags and new and different items from local artists each week. We listen back to a conversation with Vales about her eclectic business. This weekend, Vales is organizing a vending ...…
News Roundtable June 21, 201923:28
We get opinions and analysis on some of the biggest stories of the week from Beth Slovic, Mike Marshall, and Eric Fruits.By Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Leading Wisely
Ricardo Semler and LeadWise
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CEO, author, and TED presenter Ricardo Semler invites you to join his conversations with change makers who challenge assumptions and do things differently in work and in life. Ricardo shares his insights about work, life and education while exchangin...Show More
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S1E10: Season Finale: The Common Denominator with Rich Sheridan of Joy Inc.
30:27 | Mar 28th, 2017
As the CEO of Menlo Innovations, Richard Sheridan has plenty of experience of doing things in a completely different way. From challenging the very idea of what a “boss” is to undoing all of the preconceptions that we have around how an organization ...Show More
S1E09: The Police & Self-Management with Erwin van Waeleghem
24:02 | Mar 21st, 2017
Erwin van Waeleghem is the police commissioner for the city of Leuven in Belgium. He is a ‘Tealspirator’, international Teal for Teal-steward and instigator of several initiatives towards more people centric and essential values based Leadership. Erw...Show More
S1E08: Corporate Liberation with Isaac Getz
Isaac Getz is a speaker, professor, and author who has written extensively about liberating companies - organizations who are freeing their workers to do something completely new and different. He has talked with CEOs from the largest French companie...Show More
S1E07: Letting Values Inform Organizational Structure with Jos de Blok
35:37 | Mar 7th, 2017
Jos de Blok is the co-founder of Buurtzorg - a Dutch health care company with over 9,000 nurses who work with homebound clients or people who need assistance. The company has seen tremendous growth in the last 10 years and, of course, the nurses are ...Show More
S1E06: Merit and Self-Management with Jurgen Appelo
34:00 | Feb 28th, 2017
Jurgen Appelo is somebody who is ahead of the curve when it comes to management. He has an approach that he calls Management 3.0 and he’s using it as his company, Happy Melly. Jurgen has a history of trying to reconfigure the way that people look at ...Show More
S1E05: Busting Innovation Myths with David Burkus
33:41 | Feb 21st, 2017
David Burkus is a professor at Oral Roberts University and is author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas. He also has a new book called Under New Management. His goal is to poke aroun...Show More
S1E04: Self-organization with Zappos' Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh is unlike many CEOs out there. As the CEO of Zappos, Tony has highlighted his passion for employee self-management through his implementation of a holacracy model. It has a very stiff learning curve, but Tony has spent considerable time th...Show More
S1E03: Reinventing Organizations with Frederic Laloux
35:20 | Feb 7th, 2017
Frederic Laloux is the author of Reinventing Organizations. He’s spent many years trying to find out what modern, forward-thinking organizations share in common. In order to keep everything organized, Frederic has come up with a system where he label...Show More
S1E02: More about Killing the Dinosaur Business Model (Part 2) with Basecamp's Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
31:45 | Jan 31st, 2017
Leading Wisely is about applying true wisdom and insight into our businesses and lives. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have worked to disrupt the old dinosaur business models with their project management platform, Basecamp. Listen as Jason...Show More
S1E01: Killing the Dinosaur Business Model (Part 1) with Basecamp's Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
36:13 | Jan 24th, 2017
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If Trump doesn't want illegals here, he should stop inviting them
I seem to recall that Obama, by issuing EO's that protected Dreamers, was responsible for illegals coming here by telling them it's okay to come. Even Trump blamed Obama: The Trump administration’s claim that DACA ‘helped spur’ the 2014 surge of minors crossing the border And Jeff Sessions...
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Forum: Current Events
Pelosi, voting for democrats gives "leverage" for illegal immigrants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMcYl1_cy8 That's a strange big tent the Democrats seem to have in mind. It's includes most of South and Central America but not half of U.S. citizens.
Trump wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants on public assistance.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the...
How Many Immigrants Are On Welfare Again?
Too many, too costly, makes zero sense. Wait–How Many Immigrants Are On Welfare Again? https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/07/06/waithow-many-immigrants-on-welfare-again-n2498018
US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned. The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment...
HayJenn
Trump reiterates demand to deport undocumented immigrants, asylum-seekers without due
Oh, the aspiring emperor appears to be having a Twitter tantrum. Again, disregarding the rule of law and the Constitution, Trump demands that folks who enter this country are thrown out without due process. Seems very odd for the president to call for such lawlessness and abuses of our justice...
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Seattle ICE lawyer facing prison for stealing identities of immigrants
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed to recommend a four-year prison sentence for the former chief attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle for stealing the identities of immigrants to defraud banks and credit-card companies. Raphael Sanchez “abused...
Trump calls for deporting migrants 'immediately' without a trial
Trials? Adjudication? Due process? Not for the Tweeter in Chief! Indeed, seeming to not know about this thing called the Constitution, or simply not caring about it, the president has stated folks should be deported for coming into this country, with no judges or courts. Pretty sure...
MS-13 gang members, including 10 illegal immigrants, charged in deaths of Virginia t
More of the same that the left and the MSM ignores or denies. MS-13 gang members, including 10 illegal immigrants, charged in deaths of Virginia teens MS-13 gang members, including 10 illegal immigrants, charged in deaths of Virginia teens | Fox News
IRS Found 1.2 Million Cases of Identity Theft by Illegal Immigrants
Law breakers from the moment they came here illegally. And they keep it up. IRS Found 1.2 Million Cases of Identity Theft by Illegal Immigrants https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-illegal-immigrants-identity-theft-fraud/2018/03/16/id/849101/
Nazi-like Border patrol agents murder 5 immigrants seeking asylum.
Unbelievable. 5 dead after SUV being chased by Border Patrol crashes | WOAI
ACLU: ICE To Destroy Records Showing Their Sexual Abuse Of Immigrants.
https://www.themaven.net/theintellectualist/news/aclu-ice-to-destroy-records-showing-their-sexual-abuse-of-immigrants-KGqAQ0CMbEeCZ2W16_WSVw/ this is why Trump insist upon using divisive terms when talking about immigration. The man really doesn't know what's really going on under his own...
Supreme Court rejects Trump over 'Dreamers' immigrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought illegally into the United States as children...
Trump’s biggest insult to immigrants in his State of the Union
Trump’s biggest insult to immigrants in his State of the Union By Dara Lind ==================================================== And that's why so many recipients of DACA turned their back on Trump in disgust as he was delivering his State of the Union speech. What he had to say...
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how some on the right see immigrants......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ALqDt8Ds8
Forum: Political Humor
Why Trump voters need the immigrants they want to turn away
Yep. Trump supporters are cutting their noses off to spite their faces. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/politics/trump-voters-immigration/ Many people don't understand how SS works so this isn't surprising.
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Sessions: ‘A Good Nation’ Doesn’t Admit ‘Illiterate’ Immigrants
What an ignorant ass. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sessions-good-nation-doesnt-admit-illiterate-immigrants Today?s newly arrived immigrants are the best-educated ever | Pew Research Center How is it that so many seem to believe that there are no required qualifications for immigrants?
Help trump attract the immigrants he wants!
The #potushithole wants immigrants from Norway type countries, so lets try to help him. Any suggestions how?
Tedminator
Ending the DACA program would create ‘palpable’ hardship for immigrants, judge says
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge grilled an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s justification for ending a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation, saying many people had come to rely on it and faced a “real” and “palpable”...
Break'g: Trump RANT, why do we only get people from Africa & 'shithole' countries...
That's what MSNBC claims he said. I'll put it up as soon as available. I mean REALLY, even if he THOUGHT IT, he said it out loud? Could the stable genius not couch it better? How fucking stupid is this man? Trump rails against immigrants from ‘sh*thole’ Africa and Haiti in angry Oval...
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Comprehensive Land Use Plan
The updated Comprehensive Land Use Plan was approved by the Board of Commissioners at their public meeting on Monday, June 16, 2003. This update, the 1st since 1988, has involved not only the Township staff and consultant, but also a large cross-section of residents with expertise and general interest in land use, planning, natural resources, and other community services.
Structure of Plan
The update is structured around several topical areas: Natural Resources; Housing, Demographics, and Socioeconomics; Economics and Business; Transportation; Open Space and Recreation; Historical and Archaeological Resources; Institutions; Community Services and Facilities; and Existing Land Use and the Land Use Plan.
Hard Copies
A hard copy of the Comprehensive Plan is available at the Township Municipal Building and Radnor Memorial Library for public inspection during normal business hours. A Citizens Guide to the Comprehensive Plan was mailed to all township residents in 2004.
A Big Thank You
The Township owes a debt of gratitude to the residents who guided the development of the Comprehensive Plan through their membership on the blue ribbon Steering Committee, appointed by the Board of Commissioners. Those members are: Steve Paolantonio and Wayne Leighton, Co-Chairs, Cheryl Tumola, Robin Mann, John Simon, Mac McCoy, Steve Bajus, John Fischer, and Dottie Ives-Dewey.
The implementation of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan continues to be guided by members of the Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee.
Kevin Kochanski
Director, Zoning Officer
Building Code Official
Maryann Cassidy
Peggy Hagan
Marie Carbonara
Health Officer
Kathryn Carlomagno
Andy Pancoast
Code Official
Construction Permits
Community Development Boards & Commissions
Master Planning for Garrett Hill
Master Planning for the Wayne Business District
Open Space Acquisition
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Ranger College Invite
Region V Championship
Ranger women kick off season at Naimudu Classic
ABILENE - The Ranger College women's cross country team got a taste of the big time in their season-opening meet on Saturday. The Lady Rangers competed against a handful of Division I and Division II programs at the 2018 Naimudu Classic on Sept. 1 at Abilene Christian University.
As a team, Ranger College finished fifth in the final team standings with 113 points. Big 12 power Texas Tech won the team title with 27 points. Abilene Christian, Angelo State State and the University of Texas-Permian Basin rounded out the top four spots.
RC head coach Kathy Graham said she was pleased with the team's effort at the meet, noting her team would see better results as their conditioning improved.
"The women are talented but their fitness level needs to move up quite a bit," she said, adding many of the runners competing in the race were experiencing a 6-kilometer race for the first time.. "The 6K was longer than the 5K they usually run. We'll get better."
Jessica Thomas-Billot, a highly-touted freshman from Castlenaudary, France, paced the Ranger College women. She finished 11th in the race with a time of 24 minutes, 56.9 seconds.
Breanne Irish and Catherine Lopez also did well for the Lady Rangers. Irish, a freshman from Granbury, Texas, placed 27th with a time of 28:11.8. A freshman from Andrews, Texas, Lopez was 29th at 28:30.5.
Alexandra Luna, Ezrie Gates, Yenifer Martinez, Samantha Rivera, Mia Garcia and Genesis Cruz all finished in the top 40, while Marissa Gonzales placed 41st.
The Ranger women will return to action on Saturday when they compete in the Western Texas College Invitational.
For complete results from the Naimudi Classic click here.
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6 Women Surprised by God’s Call
It’s been 40 years since the RCA officially began ordaining women as ministers of Word and sacrament, but women have always been called by God to serve the church in myriad ways. Sometimes that call is scary. Sometimes it feels like a perfect fit from the start. Many women say that their call to ministry was unexpected.
For this issue, and in anticipation of the 2018 General Synod’s celebration of women in ministry, RCA Today talked to six women who have been surprised by God’s call in their lives. “We plan, and God laughs,” says Donna Field, one of the women we interviewed.
For some of these women, God’s call meant ordination or a second career; others found ministry opportunity within their chosen vocation. But by taking that first step of trusting in God’s plan, each has found herself exactly where she needs to be.
One Church explores how six RCA members or churches approach one area of ministry. See how other RCA women have been called by following #sheiscalled on social media or posting your own story of how God has called you.
Lisa Bontemps
Westwood, New Jersey
Certified health and wellness coach
Elder and worship leader at Parkside Community Church (RCA)
“Health coaching is every bit a ministry as anything else I could have imagined,” says Bontemps, who launched her virtual coaching practice after a personal weight-loss journey. Bontemps didn’t initially connect her spiritual gifts with her vocation. That is, until she started coaching: “As we peel away the surface reasons for wanting to lose weight, we discover so many spiritual wounds that have masked themselves as extra weight or unhealthy behaviors. … Those are very sacred moments.” Her practice isn’t faith based, but Bontemps prays over each client’s file and is transparent about God’s role in her own wellness story. She says most clients understand that spiritual health can affect both physical and mental well-being. “If I didn’t believe God created our bodies to be healthy and vibrant, I couldn’t be a successful coach because I would be focused just on numbers on a scale, not the whole person.”
Palliative care chaplain at Huntington Memorial Hospital
“It never really felt like there was much choice,” says Lin of her unexpected call to hospital chaplaincy. In college, she majored in sociology and political science but decided to change course after graduation. Instead, she got in to just one seminary, and then just one clinical pastoral education program—neither of which, Lin admits, she would have chosen if she had other options. Then, when faced with a possible hospice internship, “I thought, ‘That sounds scary and hard.’ But as soon as I stepped foot [in the hospice facility], I felt a sense of belonging and knew that I needed to be there.” Although working in palliative care at a hospital can be tough, Lin regularly feels God placing her in the right place at the right time. “Every day, people share stories of how they have experienced miracles.”
Co-pastor of Heartland Community Church (RCA)
It wasn’t that Smith thought women couldn’t be ordained. She had literally never met a female pastor. She didn’t know what the words sacrament or ordination meant. So it didn’t cross her mind that her calling could be pastoral. She went to seminary because of her life’s passion to share God’s love with others, but she imagined herself as a social worker, counselor, or professor. Then at Western Theological Seminary, “I had the privilege of meeting many gifted women who were thriving as pastors. A light bulb went off in my brain: Ohhhh, that’s what God has called me to be and do!” Now co-pastoring with her husband, Smith is on the front lines, watching Christ transform lives: “It’s the most exciting work in the world. Looking back … it all seems so clear as to where God was leading me.”
Sharon McQueary
Regional disability advocate for Southwest Classis
Member and part-time receptionist at Christ’s Community Church (RCA)
McQueary spent 20+ years in her first call—a fierce advocate for children with special needs and a special education trainer in public schools. Then she retired, but she didn’t stop being an advocate. “When [pastor of adult ministries] Fred Bates approached me about considering the role of disability advocate, I realized I could marry the work I love with my faith.” Soon she took the role one step further. Inspired by an RCA Disability Concerns connection event in Arizona, she began planning and leading her own community events focused on disability resources. She’s arranged panel discussions, support groups for parents, mental health training, even an ecumenical Bible study. “As I look back, God placed me in special education where he gave me the courage to speak in public [and] the heart to work with people with disabilities. I think [God] had been preparing me for this all along.”
Donna Field
Levittown, New York
Medical ethicist and registered nurse for Northwell Health
Part-time transition pastor for Community Reformed Church at Manhasset
“Nobody’s more surprised by my call than I am,” says Field. She always had “a leaning toward God” but didn’t know what that meant. And being a nurse felt like ministry—it felt right. Still, as she debated what to do for a master’s degree, her pastor suggested seminary. “And my whole inner body just settled. I had to trust that God’s plan for me was not ordinary.” Now Field straddles the health and faith communities, feeling called to both. In her transition pastor role, she’s walking with a congregation whose senior pastor recently departed. “Part of my training as a medical ethicist is communication and sitting with people as they have to make hard decisions. I’m literally using all of my skills for a congregation that is hurting. … Having a pastor who has other skills, a foot in the secular world, can only be a benefit to ministry.”
Ann Bilbrew
Homewood, Illinois
Church planter/senior pastor of Living Springs Riverdale Ministry Center (RCA)
Bilbrew had a few choice words when God started calling: “Absolutely not, Jesus.” She had plenty of excuses. She was happily employed as a legal social worker. She had young children. She had limited finances. “I ran from ministry for ten years, until one day in church God said, ‘Stop running and go to seminary.’ And he made it happen.” Even so, Bilbrew thought maybe she’d end up in women’s ministry or as an assistant pastor. Not in church planting. But by planting a church and serving as its senior pastor, she’s become more aware of the importance of authentic faith and community outreach. She’s also been able to use her social work background to help people who have been hurt by the church. “The world is thirsty for authentic, compassionate worship and care. To be in a place where I can love people unconditionally—that’s a tremendous blessing.”
RCA Today
One Church
At Home in the Faith
It’s Never Okay
Beyond Wells and Wellbeing
Glory in the “Third Third”
On Mission, Even with Cancer
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Reliability and validity of using telephone calls for post-discharge surveillance of surgical site infection following caesarean section at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania.
Nguhuni, B; De Nardo, P; Gentilotti, E; Chaula, Z; Damian, C; Mencarini, P; Nicastri, E; Fulment, A; Piscini, A; Vairo, F; +2 more... Aiken, AM; Ippolito, G; (2017) Reliability and validity of using telephone calls for post-discharge surveillance of surgical site infection following caesarean section at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 6. p. 43. ISSN 2047-2994 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0205-0
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common post-operative complication causing significant morbidity and mortality. Many SSI occur after discharge from hospital. Post-discharge SSI surveillance in low and middle income countries needs to be improved. We conducted an observational cohort study in Dodoma, Tanzania to examine the sensitivity and specificity of telephone calls to detect SSI after discharge from hospital in comparison to a gold standard of clinician review. Women undergoing caesarean section were enrolled and followed up for 30 days. Women providing a telephone number were interviewed using a structured questionnaire at approximately days 5, 12 and 28 post-surgery. Women were then invited for out-patient review by a clinician blinded to the findings of telephone interview. A total of 374 women were enrolled and an overall SSI rate of 12% (n = 45) was observed. Three hundred and sixteen (84%) women provided a telephone number, of which 202 had at least one telephone interview followed by a clinical review within 48 h, generating a total of 484 paired observations. From the clinical reviews, 25 SSI were diagnosed, of which telephone interview had correctly identified 18 infections; telephone calls did not incorrectly identify SSI in any patients. The overall sensitivity and specificity of telephone interviews as compared to clinician evaluation was 72 and 100%, respectively. The use of telephone interview as a diagnostic tool for post-discharge surveillance of SSI had moderate sensitivity and high specificity in Tanzania. Telephone-based detection may be a useful method for SSI surveillance in low-income settings with high penetration of mobile telephones.
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Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome
Sarah N Mapelli, Sara Napoli, Giuseppina Pisignano, Ramon Garcia-Escudero, Giuseppina M Carbone, Carlo V Catapano
Department of Biology & Biochemistry
Motivation: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained increasing relevance in epigenetic regulation and nuclear functional organization. High-throughput sequencing approaches have revealed frequent noncoding transcription in promoter-proximal regions. However, a comprehensive catalogue of promoter-associated RNAs (paRNAs) and an analysis of the possible interactions with neighboring genes and genomic regulatory elements are missing.
Results: Integrating data from multiple cell types and experimental platforms we identified thousands of paRNAs in the human genome. paRNAs are transcribed in both sense and antisense orientation, are mostly non-polyadenylated and retained in the cell nucleus. Transcriptional regulators, epigenetic effectors and activating chromatin marks are enriched in paRNA-positive promoters. Furthermore, paRNA-positive promoters exhibit chromatin signatures of both active promoters and enhancers. Promoters with paRNAs reside preferentially at chromatin loop boundaries, suggesting an involvement in anchor site recognition and chromatin looping. Importantly, these features are independent of the transcriptional state of neighboring genes. Thus, paRNAs may act as cis-regulatory modules with an impact on local recruitment of transcription factors, epigenetic state and chromatin loop organization. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the promoter-proximal transcriptome and offers novel insights into the roles of paRNAs in epigenetic processes and human diseases.
Availability: Genomic coordinates of predicted paRNAs are available at https://figshare.com: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4856630.v2.
Supplementary information: Supplementary data, detailed methods and extended discussion are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Mapelli, S. N., Napoli, S., Pisignano, G., Garcia-Escudero, R., Carbone, G. M., & Catapano, C. V. (2018). Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome. Bioinformatics , bty981. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty981
Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome. / Mapelli, Sarah N; Napoli, Sara; Pisignano, Giuseppina; Garcia-Escudero, Ramon; Carbone, Giuseppina M; Catapano, Carlo V.
In: Bioinformatics , 10.12.2018, p. bty981.
Mapelli, SN, Napoli, S, Pisignano, G, Garcia-Escudero, R, Carbone, GM & Catapano, CV 2018, 'Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome', Bioinformatics , pp. bty981. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty981
Mapelli SN, Napoli S, Pisignano G, Garcia-Escudero R, Carbone GM, Catapano CV. Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome. Bioinformatics . 2018 Dec 10;bty981. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty981
Mapelli, Sarah N ; Napoli, Sara ; Pisignano, Giuseppina ; Garcia-Escudero, Ramon ; Carbone, Giuseppina M ; Catapano, Carlo V. / Deciphering the complexity of human noncoding promoter-proximal transcriptome. In: Bioinformatics . 2018 ; pp. bty981.
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N2 - Motivation: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained increasing relevance in epigenetic regulation and nuclear functional organization. High-throughput sequencing approaches have revealed frequent noncoding transcription in promoter-proximal regions. However, a comprehensive catalogue of promoter-associated RNAs (paRNAs) and an analysis of the possible interactions with neighboring genes and genomic regulatory elements are missing.Results: Integrating data from multiple cell types and experimental platforms we identified thousands of paRNAs in the human genome. paRNAs are transcribed in both sense and antisense orientation, are mostly non-polyadenylated and retained in the cell nucleus. Transcriptional regulators, epigenetic effectors and activating chromatin marks are enriched in paRNA-positive promoters. Furthermore, paRNA-positive promoters exhibit chromatin signatures of both active promoters and enhancers. Promoters with paRNAs reside preferentially at chromatin loop boundaries, suggesting an involvement in anchor site recognition and chromatin looping. Importantly, these features are independent of the transcriptional state of neighboring genes. Thus, paRNAs may act as cis-regulatory modules with an impact on local recruitment of transcription factors, epigenetic state and chromatin loop organization. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the promoter-proximal transcriptome and offers novel insights into the roles of paRNAs in epigenetic processes and human diseases.Availability: Genomic coordinates of predicted paRNAs are available at https://figshare.com: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4856630.v2.Supplementary information: Supplementary data, detailed methods and extended discussion are available at Bioinformatics online.
AB - Motivation: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained increasing relevance in epigenetic regulation and nuclear functional organization. High-throughput sequencing approaches have revealed frequent noncoding transcription in promoter-proximal regions. However, a comprehensive catalogue of promoter-associated RNAs (paRNAs) and an analysis of the possible interactions with neighboring genes and genomic regulatory elements are missing.Results: Integrating data from multiple cell types and experimental platforms we identified thousands of paRNAs in the human genome. paRNAs are transcribed in both sense and antisense orientation, are mostly non-polyadenylated and retained in the cell nucleus. Transcriptional regulators, epigenetic effectors and activating chromatin marks are enriched in paRNA-positive promoters. Furthermore, paRNA-positive promoters exhibit chromatin signatures of both active promoters and enhancers. Promoters with paRNAs reside preferentially at chromatin loop boundaries, suggesting an involvement in anchor site recognition and chromatin looping. Importantly, these features are independent of the transcriptional state of neighboring genes. Thus, paRNAs may act as cis-regulatory modules with an impact on local recruitment of transcription factors, epigenetic state and chromatin loop organization. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the promoter-proximal transcriptome and offers novel insights into the roles of paRNAs in epigenetic processes and human diseases.Availability: Genomic coordinates of predicted paRNAs are available at https://figshare.com: doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4856630.v2.Supplementary information: Supplementary data, detailed methods and extended discussion are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Interview: Girls Against
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Girls Against is a UK-wide campaign that fights against sexual harassment at gigs. Founded by five teenage girls from Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, the campaign has gained massive support from gig-goers and bands alike. Qmunicate’s Amy Shimmin had a chat with the founders to discuss the origins of Girls Against and the work they are doing to help raise awareness of, and thus prevent, sexual assault in gig environments.
qmunicate: Hello! To start us off, can you give us some context behind Girls Against and what led you to starting the group?
GA: We’re made up of Hannah, Anni, Anna, Ava, and Bea. We decided to create the campaign after Hannah’s experience of sexual harassment at a Peace gig in Glasgow. We shared her story, which led to members of Peace requesting that fans who engage in this behaviour do not attend their gigs. Others began to share their own experiences, and we acknowledged how widespread this problem is and why we must do something about it. Hannah found that confiding in a stranger gave her courage to speak more openly about the incident, so in creating Girls Against we are acting on this problem, as well as giving others a safe speak to speak out and aid their recovery.
qmunicate: Bands like Wolf Alice and Peace have backed your campaign, which is really exciting. How has the campaign been received in and outside of music?
GA: So far it’s been received really well! It’s quite humbling because these are the people that we listen to, so it’s very odd to be emailing and messaging them on Twitter. We’ve had coverage from music magazines like NME, DIY and AltPress. We’ve also been featured on the BBC and in papers including the Independent and the Times. There’s been backlash in some comment sections, but it’s quite funny to read their arguments. There are always plenty of people backing us though, which is really lovely to see.
qmunicate: One example of an outspoken feminist in music is Lauren Mayberry from Chvrches, who talks about harassment in crowds, as well as on stage. There’s a one-word answer to this – patriarchy – but do you think there’s any other factors that influence (primarily) men and their behaviour in these environments?
GA: We love her! She’s really cool, and also from Glasgow which makes her ten times better. The patriarchy has a lot to do with this, but there are quite a few subcategories to it which also have an effect. For one, rape culture advocates their behaviour – girls, who presumably are the most commonly assaulted in this environment, are just expected to take this lying down. We’re not expected to create a fuss or stand up for ourselves thanks to stereotypes of the angry woman, as well as gender roles. Victim blaming is also a large part of why this issue hasn’t been discussed much until now. Victims are scared to come forward with their stories in case they’re seen as making it up, or creating a mountain out of a molehill. This attitude is possibly one of the most damaging ways to treat a person who has been through these kinds of experiences.
qmunicate: Glasgow had a summer school for young girls last summer to encourage new bands to form, and give them the confidence to enter music. How do you think we can encourage women and non-binary people into such a male-exclusive industry?
GA: We saw this! [Hannah] really wanted to go but was away on holiday, which sucked. Projects like this are essential, as we need to see strong women in the music industry (and other male-dominated areas) to act as role models. Destroying gender stereotypes is essential, as well as education on the subject. More needs to be taught to young kids about feminism, equality, and consent.
qmunicate: The incident which inspired your group was at a gig in our venue, Qudos. What do you think venues – from the size of Qudos, to somewhere as big as the Hydro – can do to ensure women feel safe at their gigs?
GA: Reforms in security policy are key. We’re working with venues and their respective security teams at the moment to have their venue policies made public. We’re also working on getting posters made for venues to show their support for the campaign and display that there’s no tolerance of the issue. We’d like to see how to spot and deal with sexual harassment appropriately as a mandatory part of security guards’ training, as well as more guards in easily accessible areas.
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F1 Debrief - It's not really the same team at all // Recapping the European Grand Prix at Valencia, in all its glory
Published 4 July 2011 by Christine
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Coming up on this show, we discuss the regulation changes, flight training, who's who at HRT, plus Paul's Performance Report.
Sometimes, it's all about looking good in the car.
Good week/Bad week
It's a good week for French F1 fans, who now have a task force to bring back their Grand Prix, although it may be an alternate yearly one, and do they ever work? A bad week for Ken Block who finds his height to be a little bit of a problem.
It's a good week for Mark Webber who goes straight to the top of the flight school class, but a bad week for Jenson Button who struggles to get to grips with a jet ski.
There are regulation changes afoot, with the engine mapping ruling complete, and a blown diffuser tweak for Silverstone. Also, Paul Hembery has weighed in with his thoughts on qualifying in the future.
We also contemplate the future of Formula One coverage in the UK, with the news/rumours that the BBC won't be able to afford the rights after this year. Who would host it instead? What will that mean for our HD TV?
Free Practice and Qualifying were not incident-heavy incidents, although we praise some added information on the world feed and ponder what it will take to really stop Sebastian Vettel.
There were a few things that we noted about the race, such as Michael Schumacher's incident coming out of the pitlane, and Karthikeyan's new record as the 24th classified car, but it is the voicemails that guide us through the race once again.
We discuss the fact that Daniel Ricciardo has gained a race seat, after a stunning performance by Jaime Alguersuari, and we rate the race and offer up our drivers of the day.
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Lukeh's full post-race voicemail takes a close look at the European GP, with a controversial opinion about the overall impact of the race and the future of the Valencian track on the calendar. Plus, he looks forward to Silverstone.
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Posted on Mon 29th June 2015 Mon 29th June 2015 by Sarah
Ending the Northern Powercut
This post originally appeared on Lib Dem Voice.
On Thursday, Patrick McLoughlin announced what many of us had feared but were hoping would never happen: electrification of the train line between Manchester and Leeds was to be postponed, and possibly cancelled. The lynchpin of the Northern Powerhouse was pulled out and the plan predictably fell apart at the seams.
Three months ago, the Conservatives promised that £38 bn would be invested in the national rail network, mostly into electrifying the old diesel lines. This was so important to the Tories, we were told, that it was at the top of the manifesto. On page 11, the Tories outlined their plans for £13 bn for the North alone, going towards new trains, new lines, and new wires. And in one speech today, McLoughlin snuffed out the flame of hope in such a way on the Tories can.
The rail network in the North is completely dire, and bears all of the hallmarks of central government in London meddling time and time again. Serco-Abellio were awarded all but the actually profitable lines and told to run a vast network in the North using Cold War-era trains under the assumption that there was to be no growth and no investment in the Northern network. And to their credit, they’ve done a good job from what they’ve been given.
But rail in the north has grown beyond all expectations, and the small old “Pacer” trains, built on the cheap thirty years ago, can’t take the strain any longer. New trains and new electric wires would enable the North to step into the twentieth century while London aimed towards the twenty-second. But with electrification across the North and Midlands all but cancelled, we cannot expect the trains to be off the tracks for good before the Disability Discrimination Act’s deadline of 2019.
But, to nobody’s surprise, rail schemes in the South escaped the cut. The worst thing is that this isn’t a change in the state of affairs. Labour too must shoulder responsibility for the state of the North. They took their safe constituencies in the North for granted whilst bribing London with train line upon train line upon train line. Whilst Alistair Darling was busy approving Crossrail with its £20bn price-tag and funnelling more money into Thameslink, the DLR, and Terminal 5, tram projects in both Manchester and Leeds costing a fraction of the price got the axe from his department. All at the same time electrifying only nine miles of track. And they are now sowing the effects of complacency, with UKIP taking chunks of their support all across the North.
When compared to the two major parties, even doing nothing at all would make us come out smelling like roses. But we didn’t do just that. In the coalition, we grabbed the nettle by the thorn and pushed for the approval of the biggest rail project for the North for generatins: the Northern Hub. We pushed for wide-ranging electrification. And when Network Rail’s plans for electrification initially left out the Calder Valley line, local Liberal Democrats alongside our former transport minister, Baroness Kramer, lobbied for its inclusion.
As liberals, we know that the only way to prosperity is to give people the power to prosper, not by dictating that they must. We see in Scotland and Wales the success of proper representative devolution. And we see that, with the Northern Powerhouse, Osborne’s city region mayors, overwhelmingly rejected in Sheffield, Manchester, and Leeds just three years ago, will now be one-eyed kings leading the blind.
In November, the Yorkshire and Humber regional conference overwhelmingly passed motions for proper and accountable devolution and prosperity. Yorkshire clearly wants to replace unaccountable layers of bureaucracy with a strong democratically elected Parliament. Manchester clearly wants its own powers to build its own path to prosperity. As our MP in Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland said, “Yorkshire is the real entity. It is Yorkshire that is the brand and that has the huge economic potential for growth”. For a more prosperous North and for modern infrastructure, the only way forward is proper and accountable devolution. And we must push with every fibre of our resolve to secure that.
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Recovery of B-cell homeostasis after rituximab in chronic graft-versus-host disease.
Investigation of the effects of rituximab (anti-CD20) on B-cell-activating factor of the tumor necrosis factor family (BAFF) and B cells would better define the significance of B-cell homeostasis in chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) pathophysiology. We studied 20 cGVHD patients at a median of 25 months after rituximab treatment when most patients had recovered total B-cell numbers. A total of 55% of patients had stable/improved cGVHD, and total B-cell numbers in these patients were significantly higher compared with rituximab-unresponsive patients. Although total B-cell number did not differ significantly between cGVHD groups before rituximab, there was a proportional increase in B-cell precursors in patients who later had stable/improved cGVHD. After rituximab, BAFF levels increased in all patients. Coincident with B-cell recovery in the stable/improved group, BAFF/B-cell ratios and CD27(+) B-cell frequencies decreased significantly. The peripheral B-cell pool in stable/improved cGVHD patients was largely composed of naive IgD(+) B cells. By contrast, rituximab-unresponsive cGVHD patients had persistent elevation of BAFF and a predominance of circulating B cells possessing an activated BAFF-R(Lo)CD20(Lo) cell surface phenotype. Thus, naive B-cell reconstitution and decreased BAFF/B-cell ratios were associated with clinical response after rituximab in cGVHD. Our findings begin to delineate B-cell homeostatic mechanisms important for human immune tolerance.
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‘After Earth’ First Viral Teaser Unfolds
Posted July 16th, 2012 by Janice Kay
To assist with the promotion of M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi blockbuster ‘After Earth,’ Sony has announced that a large scale multi-platform marketing blitz will occur in the coming months to generate buzz before the film’s release next summer. The promotion will include 2 novels (a prequel and an official novelization of the film), a comic book issue and a series of digital shorts. To start off this campaign, Sony has just released its first viral teaser.
While there is no footage of Will Smith or his son Jaden (who are starring in the film), the teaser gives a brief Facebook timeline history of the events leading up to the setting of the film. It tells of the “cataclysmic events that forced humanity to abandon Earth around the year 2050 (which is referenced in the ‘After Earth’ synopsis of the movie happening a thousand years after his event).
The whole set up makes me think that Sony is hoping to capitalize this into a franchise as the backstory of ‘After Earth’ has been, from the viral video, centuries in the making. If successful, ‘After Earth’ would be the starting point to all the other stories that could possibly be told.
‘After Earth’ apparently originated with Will Smith with the screenplay being worked on by Gary Whitta (‘The Book of Eli’), then Shyamalan with a final rewrite by Stephen Gaghan (‘Traffic,’ ‘American Gothic’). While the background story is massive, the thought of a whole new universe and sci-fi storyline is enough to get me interested in keeping an eye on this film to see if Shyamalan can pull it off.
What do you think? Is this movie the one that will bring Shyamalan back to his former glory or are you at the point where his name has made you already decide to avoid the film?
‘After Earth’ Synopsis:
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (played by Jaden Smith).
When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.
‘After Earth’ Viral Teaser:
‘After Earth’ stars Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Isabelle Fuhrman, Zoë Kravitz, and Sophie Okonedo and will be released in theaters on June 7, 2013.
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Daredevil Season 3 Starts Filming Tomorrow
by Molly Freeman
– on Nov 12, 2017
Netflix's flagship Marvel series, Daredevil, starts filming season 3 in New York City this week. Netflix launched their corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with season 1 of Daredevil in the spring of 2015. The show's premiere was followed by debut seasons of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, as well as a second season of Daredevil that introduced Elektra (Élodie Yung) and Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) - the latter of which will receive his own series when The Punisher season 1 hits the streaming service Friday. The four main heroes of Netflix's street-level corner of the MCU united this summer in the team-up mini-series The Defenders, which left Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) badly injured.
Those involved in Netflix's Marvel TV series have been teasing the third outing for the Devil of Hell's Kitchen ever since season 3 of Daredevil was confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con 2016. More recently we learned Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) is returning as a villain, following his brief appearance in season 2. Now, after D'Onofrio recently teased his return to work on the series, we know when Daredevil season 3 will officially begin filming.
Related: Vincent D’Onofrio Starts Prep on Daredevil Season 3
Thanks to a photo of some No Parking notices in New York City tweeted by UseableID, it's been confirmed Daredevil season 3 starts filming Monday November 13 - and continues in that location until Thursday November 16, though filming will last until early next year. The signs indicate the project's name is "Ringside S3", which fans will remember is the working title Daredevil films under so that Marvel can try to keep the production a little more secretive.
Daredevil season 3. pic.twitter.com/dqAqIkyXJG
— UseableID (@UseableID) November 11, 2017
We've known for some time that Daredevil season 3 is set to hit Netflix in 2018, with second seasons of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage also expected to premiere. Considering when each series started filming, Jessica Jones season 2 will debut first, likely sometime in the spring, followed by Luke Cage season 2 presumably in the summer, and Daredevil season 3 in the fall/early winter. If Daredevil starts filming now, they'll likely wrap sometime in April/May, which would give Marvel and Netflix plenty of time to get the series finished up for a late 2018 premiere date.
In terms of what we know about the story of Daredevil season 3, the character's last appearance at the end of The Defenders prompted speculation that the show will adapt Frank Miller's Born Again comic run, in which Daredevil meets his mother, Maggie Murdock. Since the end of The Defenders saw Matt waking up from his injuries in a church, and someone calling for a woman named Maggie, it seems likely this speculation will be confirmed eventually.
Of course, more details about Daredevil season 3 will likely be revealed as filming starts this year and continues through the early part of 2018 as set photos surface online. While fans of the Man Without Fear may be disappointed they'll have to wait close to a year (if not more) for the show's third season to arrive, filming getting started on Daredevil season 3 is one step closer to the series' return.
Next: How The Defenders Sets Up Daredevil Season 3
The Punisher premieres Friday, November 17 on Netflix. Premiere dates for the new seasons of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist have not yet been announced.
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Climbing plant
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Climbing plants are plants which climb up trees and other tall objects. Many of them are vines whose stems twine round trees and branches. There are quite a number of other methods of climbing.
The climbing habit has evolved many times.[1] In most cases the climbing plants were more diverse (had more species) than their non–climbing sister groups.[2]
It is a key innovation which has been very successful.[3] Over 130 plant families include climbers.[4] Vine species may represent more than 40% of species diversity in tropical forests.[5][6]
It has evolved independently in several plant families, using many different climbing methods:[7] Botanists generally divide climbing plants into two broad groups:
Bines, which twine their stems around a support. Many bines have rough stems or downward-pointing bristles to aid their grip.[8][9]
Hops (used in flavoring beer) are a commercially important bine.
Morning glory, Ipomoea species.
Vines which use tendrils, suckers and other methods.
twining petioles (e.g., Clematis species)
using tendrils, which may be specialized shoots (Vitaceae), leaves (Bignoniaceae), or even inflorescences (Passiflora)
using tendrils which have adhesive pads at the end. The pads attach themselves quite strongly to the support, (Parthenocissus: Virginia creeper)
using thorns (e.g. climbing rose) or other hooked structures, such as hooked branches (e.g. Artabotrys hexapetalus)
by clinging roots (e.g., ivy, Hedera species)
The climbing fetterbush (Pieris phillyreifolia) has a strange habit. It is a woody shrub vine which climbs without clinging roots, tendrils, or thorns. Its stem goes into a crack in the bark of fibrous barked trees (such as bald cypress). The stem flattens and grows up the tree underneath the host tree's outer bark. The fetterbush then sends out branches that emerge near the top of the tree.[10]
Most vines are flowering plants. These may be divided into woody vines or lianas, such as wisteria, kiwifruit, and common ivy, and herbaceous (nonwoody) vines, such as morning glory.
One odd group of climbing plants is the fern genus Lygodium, called "climbing ferns".[11] The stem does not climb, but rather the fronds (leaves) do. The fronds unroll from the tip, and theoretically never stop growing; they can form thickets as they unroll over other plants, rock faces, and fences.
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↑ A "key innovation" is a trait which allows a clade to exploit a previously unused or under-used resource. Simpson G.G. 1953 The major features of evolution. New York: Columbia University Press.
↑ Gentry A.H. 1991 The distribution and evolution of climbing plants. In The biology of vines (eds F.E. Putz & H A. Mooney), pp. 3–49. Cambridge University Press.
↑ Schnitzer S.A. & Bongers F. 2002 The ecology of lianas and their role in forests. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17, 223–230.
↑ Phillips O.L. et al 2002. Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests. Nature 418, 770–774.
↑ Francis E. Putz. "Vine ecology". Retrieved 2012-03-01.
↑ bine at Merriam-Webster
↑ Cone heads at Willamette Week
↑ Alan Weakley Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States (2010) p661
↑ "Japanese climbing fern". Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
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LA Phil picks major European principal
We hear that the Los Angeles Philharmonic has offered its principal oboe position to Ramon Ortega, principal of Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich for the past nine years.
If he accepts, he will be the first player from a European orchestra to take a principal oboe seat in a major US orch.
Ramon, 29, originally from Granada, has asked for time to decide.
His dilemmas:
Jansons or Dudamel?
Skiing or surfing?
Sauerkraut or sushi?
No habla espanol or habla plenty?
Hochschule teaching or Hollywood?
Tough call.
Phil McKenzie says:
Not exactly the first European. Labate, Gillet, Tabuteau (NY, Boston, and Philadelphia) come to mind. But it has been quite awhile certainly.
Ferenc Gabor says:
What about Erez Ofer as concertmaster of Philadelphia? He was previously also 1concertmaster of BR München!
norman lebrecht says:
I specified: principal oboe.
Malcolm James says:
The American oboe sound is quite different from the European sound and an American oboe reed is, to our way of thinking, a very peculiar animal. Historically, British and European principal oboes have had to put up with some quite cutting remarks from American critics and vice versa. Either he will have to drastically change the way he plays or the preferred sound in America is changing.
Arundo Donax says:
I was shouted down on a previous oboe thread for daring to express a preference for European oboe tone, exemplified by Holliger or Goossens, compared to Richard Woodhams’s which was extolled as the most beautiful tone ever.
NYMike says:
As a European?, you have a right to express your preference for the European oboe sound. As an American, I have the same right. However, calling one oboist’s sound or another’s as the most beautiful in the world (as you’ve done) is a stretch indeed.
It was Richard Woodhams’s sound that was extolled as ” the most beautiful tone ever” by an American poster on the other thread.
I never claimed that status for Holliger but purely expressed a preference. Please re-read what I actually wrote.
As noted previously, Tabuteau became the founder of the American oboe school through his teaching @ Curtis. I can’t think of any major American orchestra today with a principal oboe, not in that lineage.
Blair Tindall says:
NY Mike is correct. This is a notable appointment for oboe positions in US orchestras, all of whom are descendants of the American school founded by Tabuteau. I believe the other finalist was the remarkable Met proncipal Nathan Hughes — a phenomenal American oboist — so this is a big development.
William Safford says:
I can’t think of one either. Ray Still is the only one who comes to mind, who was in a major orchestra in the last fifty or more years without being in the Tabuteau lineage.
He was in the lineage of Tabuteau. He studied with Robert Bloom, a Tabuteau student, at Julliard. On a separate note, he was the first American school oboe principal who didn’t study with Tabuteau himself.
Ray Still studied with Robert Bloom, who studied with Marcel Tabuteau. Still’s style was very much in line with the Tabuteau school, even though it had a “darker” quality than what we associate with the so-called “Philadelphia” oboe sound.
Hm… Personally, I find Ray Still’s tone much thinner and nasal, as opposed to darker than many other Philadelphian oboists like that of Richard Woodhams.
And he would be the 2nd Spaniard to join the LA Phil as a Principal. David Rejano, Principal Trombone, hails from Badajoz, Spain! https://www.laphil.com/philpedia/david-rejano
MacroV says:
He’s a great player. I know the LA Phil is a great orchestra, and it may pay better than the BRSO, but LA vs. Munich? Jansons vs. Dudamel is now; Munich is forever.
Max Grimm says:
The LA Phil pays better, be you a principal or section player, no question about it.
The monthly salary – which is not individually negotiable – for a 1st principal position in the BRSO winds starts at just over €7.100* for the first twelve years and caps out at just under €7.700* after nineteen or more years with the orchestra.
*monthly salary does not include possible supplemental earnings (ie. extra services, audio-/video recordings, etc.)
Andreas B. says:
AFAIK the figures are slightly higher than that, according to the agreement starting from June 2016: around 7400,- and 7900,- respectively.
also, salaries are freely negotiable for concertmasters and “comparable soloists” .
Thanks for the updated numbers Andreas.
As far as I know, 1st Principal positions in the winds don’t fall under the “comparable soloist” clause. Even if they did, the BR (or any other German orchestra) could/would never match the salaries paid to principals in the biggest American orchestras.
I agree, the Big 5(+X) pay sums not matched by German orchestras.
there also is, of course, the question of living costs and quality of life …
regarding the “comparable soloists” clause: I believe to have heard that at least one principal wind player of the BRSO has indeed such a freely negotiated contract.
One of the senior players, such as Mr. Schilli or Mr. Boucly perhaps?
herrera says:
It just speaks to the universalization of the orchestral sound. Every orchestra sounds like every other orchestra and its players are interchangeable.
What used to really distinguish one national sound from another was the woodwinds, particularly the clarinets and the oboes, to such a degree that a German clarinet would sound out of place in an Austrian orchestra, and vice versa, and the Concertgebouw had the distinction of playing on hybrid French and German clarinets.
I think only French orchestras are still managing to keep the French sound.
What really used to differentiate orchestras from one another, or one country’s from another’s, was usually the different ways in which they were bad: Scratchy strings (English), out-of-tune woodwinds (French), tubby brass (German), and so on. (These are stereotypes, dating back to the early days of recording, and of course every country had orchestras that transcended them — or fit the stereotypes of other countries 🙂 )
As standards have risen across the orchestral world — intonation, ensemble, blend of sound — now the chief complaint is blandness & uniformity. Plus ça change…
Not to mention French bassoons vs. German bassoons.
An oddity of America: about eighty or so years ago, we standardized on French flutes, French clarinets, French oboes with a reed distinctive to America, and German bassoons.
He’s probably the best oboist in the world at the moment. He’s a level above being a principal in a symphony orchestra and should concentrate on playing concerto’s around the world and playing chamber music.
“He’s probably the best oboist in the world at the moment”
While tastes will vary, have you ever heard of Albrecht Mayer, to name but another outstanding oboist?
A matter of temperament, probably. Some people prefer to be part of a team, live in one place all the time, etc.
I feel compelled to take issue with the notion that soloists are better players than orchestral musicians, especially among wind players but perhaps string players, too; former Berlin CM Guy Braunstein (who then left to be a soloist) is as fine a player as any big-name violin soloist I’ve heard. There is no solo flutist I can think of who could be deemed superior to any number of orchestral principals (and the most famous modern-day flute soloist is probably Berlin’s Emmanuel Pahud), and I doubt any solo trumpet player ever considered him/herself superior to the likes of Bud Herseth or Phil Smith. Before his physical difficulties few Alex Klein was probably the best oboist in the world, and he clearly saw the best place to make music was the Chicago Symphony. The best oboist I’ve heard in recent years is Francoix Lelieux, who used to be in the BRSO (Ortega’s predecessor, I’m guessing).
Richard Stoltzman has said he became a soloist because he couldn’t win an orchestra audition – and said he did many.
In response to the opposition expressed on Norman’s facebook page about posting this before Ramon has decided if he’ll take the job – this is the thing:
Ramon won the audition. That is a fact. That’s what other LA Phil members are posting. “Congratulations for winning the audition”. Seems perfectly fine to me to be posting that, whether or not he accepts.
Another difference is that in Munich he is one of two joint principals, who are equals and do half the work each. This gives him plenty of time to do freelance work, such as concertos and recordings.
In LA, as in other orchestras in the US, he is the principal and has an associate principal, who is a no. 2. Whilst he can pull rank in LA in a way he can’t in Munich, he will presumably be expected to do major gigs, unless there is a good reason and I think that someone wrote hear that the associate principal tends to do the first half of the concert as a sort of warm-up act and the principal comes on fresh for the major work in the 2nd half. This means that the workload in LA may be more than in Munich and he may possibly prefer the flexibility of life in Munich.
You are correct. LA used to be unique among US orchestras in having a few co-principals (Michelle Zukovsky and Lorin Levee on clarinet; various combinations on flute), but now seems to have adapted to the standard US model of a single principal.
Certainly there are a few good oboe concerti and sonatas, but the body of this repertoire is no match to the clarinet or horn repertoire, let alone to the one for cello, violin, or piano. So being solely an oboe soloist is probably not an attractive proposition to somebody who holds a major principle oboe position and has already plenty of opportunities to appear as a soloist. After all, musically speaking the real top oboe repertoire is all orchestra music. In any case, congratulations to Ramón for winning the LA audition! Whether he really will go there, I expect, will depend greatly on the effort the BR Symphony administration will be ready to make. Since I’m much closer to Munich than to LA, I would be very sorry if they would fail to keep him here.
Thomasina says:
I hope his success, but l remember Mr.Fora Baltacigil who had left the section of double bass in the Berlin Phil. for the position of Principal in the NYP. He returned to Germany after just one(two?) season to join the Munich Phil. as Principal. (I really love his Rachmaninoff; Romance. The double bass absolutely romantic.)
If I recall correctly Mr. Baltacıgil is on record, having stated that he left the NY Phil because the bass section lacked “harmony and peace”, something he had found and come to appreciate in the orchestras he had played in before NY.
It seems that he found ” harmony and peace ” again in Munich? (and you can spell his name correctly! I wanted to do it, but I couldn’t with my phone…)
Having worked briefly with Mr. Ortega, he struck me as a consummate young European gentleman in his demeanor. Elegant, reserved but quite pleasant, with lovely manners. He had been living in Germany just a few years and he seemed more like a German artistocrat than a Spaniard from Granada. He’d assimilated perfectly to his new country.
I am trying to imagine him in LA. I know he’d fit in beautifully with the orch. – Denis Bouriakov, Princ. Flute, is another refined European gentleman – but I just wonder about him living in LA – loud, boisterous unrestrained LA Would he be happy there?
This will all certainly be a hot topic for the LA Phil blog “All Is Yar”. Can’t wait to see what CK Dexter Haven has to say!
Ravi Narasimhan says:
“– but I just wonder about him living in LA – loud, boisterous unrestrained LA Would he be happy there”
Yes, we are a simple and innocent people but remember he will be able to afford a quiet neighborhood and will be well protected from us commoners by the people he will also be able to afford. He may also be pleasantly surprised by the large number of paved streets and the availability of indoor plumbing in many of our buildings and homes.
The more interesting questions are about the identity that Los Angeles is seeking to develop. No doubt Ramon Ortega is a great player. But he plays in the German style. Will it be possible to create a unified sound within the oboe section and with the rest of the woodwinds in Los Angeles with this principal oboist? Will he change his reedmaking and approach to sound to match the style of the American school founded by Marcel Tabuteau? Does Los Angeles care? Are they going for something else entirely?
harold braun says:
Mr.Ortega is a fine player,and LAPO is a great orchestra.My question is,will he fit in an american orchestra?I personally prefer the American school of oboe playing,John deLancie and Richard Woodhams in Philly were my favourites.In LA,i loved David Weiss and,particularly,Barbara Winters in the 60s,70s,and early 80s,and Arianna Ghez,Mr.Ortega´s precedessor.But today,the differences are less marked,and quite some players perform a mixture from both styles.Ortega is way better than Mr.Schilli in Munich,his joint principal,whose vibrato heavy sound i never really liked,.
His dilemmas (continued):
A= 441 or 445?
Long scrape or short scrape?
American or European gouge?
Marigaux or Loree?
Bell down or up in the air?
Ignore the conductor and confuse other players with your exaggerated conductor like body movements, or do your duty and remain relatively still?
Only oboists would get most of this.
CutestFlutist says:
Actually I’m a flute player & I know exactly what you mean, having had to work alongside both US & European oboists. There are huge differences, which you’ve named. Totally different styles.
Bell in the air is what always gets me about the Europeans. It’s like having a permanent erection. What do they do when they finally get to Mahler and are SUPPOSED to have bells in the air?
This whole situation, while Mr. Ortega is a fabulous & deserving player, is kind of a slap in the face to the distinguished US oboe tradition.
Yes, it is. And also, there are no major principal oboes playing for European orchestras from America either.
Not for the moment, as far as I know, but there was for instance Bob Eliscu, who was already principal oboe with Munich Phil in the Seventies, a time when national schools played a much greater role among European oboe players than now. In any case I must admit that I have some difficulties understanding a mindset to believe that one’s own national oboe school is superior to every other one, and at the same time to begrudge it if it happens just once that an outsider unexpectedly wins an audition.
Mallory Jones says:
Greetings, Gerhard- Bob Eliscu was a truly special musician, but he by no means played in the “American style”. Perhaps there’s a reason there are no proponents of the American school in major European positions? Or a reason every country on earth except the US has embraced the European style? I have been moved by American school oboists, but not by very many of them. Previous few seem to get beyond their obsession with making a sound like whichever American oboist is in their ear. Maybe it’s just more difficult?
Hi Mallory – I believe it has something to do with the fact that the mainstream American oboe school has decided that everything has to come directly from Tabuteau. He certainly was for good reasons that influential, but his heritage is for many still the only acceptable one, which excludes a lot of potentially fruitful other influences, and nothing of it must be questioned or altered. I do appreciate a lot of things about the American approach. But I think every dogmatism has a stifling effect, and maybe this is what happened in America. It just seems that every oboe player has to sound exactly the same to have a chance of landing an orchestra job. The few who don’t fit that mould to 100% have to create niches for themselves like the wonderful Allan Vogel, or work abroad as Bob Eliscu did.
What I see standing in the way of many American oboists who seek a job elsewhere is the utterly “instrumental” sound production the American school emphasizes. There are very well planned and finely executed dynamic shadings coupled with a most homogenous and unchanging sound color. Of course there is nothing wrong with this approach, but it sometimes misses out on shadings the oboe could do, and which are perceived by many listeners as expressive and attractive. From a European perspective it seems that this musical language doesn’t like much to pronounce consonants and vowels. Strangely this is apparently an oboe speciality which is not shared by other American wind or string players. This might explain why there are more other American players in European orchestras than oboists.
“I believe it has something to do with the fact that the mainstream American oboe school has decided that everything has to come directly from Tabuteau. He certainly was for good reasons that influential, but his heritage is for many still the only acceptable one, which excludes a lot of potentially fruitful other influences, and nothing of it must be questioned or altered.”
Food for thought: Would European school oboists ever accept the American heritage of oboe playing? Probably not.
There are many different styles within the American school of oboe playing. (Philadelphia school, Cleveland school, to name some). Eugene Izotov of the San Francisco Symphony and Richard Woodhams of the Philadelphia Orchestra, both oboists of lineage from Tabuteau, don’t sound similar at all.
You are right, my formulation was not 100% accurate. I should have written: “It just seems that every oboe player has to use exactly the same general type of sound to have a chance of landing an orchestra job.” It just seemed overly complicated, sorry. But yes, I’m aware and I agree that Eugene Izotov and Richard Woodhams do not sound exactly the same. Yet I would maintain that they sound a lot more similar than for instance Albrecht Mayer and François Leleux (and on a side note let me say that I think that all four of them are great players!). Otherwise I believe it should be clear what I meant. But I have a feeling you underestimate the way in which the American school has influenced oboe playing in Europe, and you seem to believe that Europeans generally do not “accept the American heritage of oboe playing”.
When I started to study in the Seventies the different national styles in Europe played a much bigger role than today. But there was something they all had in common: the oboe sound, whatever it was, was very prominent, and it usually stayed that way in harmony settings as well. The one kind of players who seemed to care most and appeared to be best equipped to blend really well with other instruments were the Americans, and often their intonation was better, too. I can’t make the claim that every European oboist picked up these things directly from America, but I certainly took it as a model from there. In any case these aspects of the American heritage have set a common standard for Europe, too.
So I would say, yes, European oboists have accepted the American heritage, whether they are quite aware of it or not. What they have not done is adopting each and every detail of it, and questioning everything and everyone whether there is a sufficiently direct lineage back to Tabuteau. I also couldn’t imagine a similar outcry about not having the right pedigree, if an American player would happen to succeed Ramón Ortega or Albrecht Mayer. These are in my personal view the things we have and we have not in common.
“But yes, I’m aware and I agree that Eugene Izotov and Richard Woodhams do not sound exactly the same. Yet I would maintain that they sound a lot more similar than for instance Albrecht Mayer and François Leleux (and on a side note let me say that I think that all four of them are great players!).”
I feel that this is really a matter of perspective here. As a European not trained in the Tabuteau tradition, I am sure that there are many things that you overlook when comparing one oboist to the other. At the same time, as an American oboist not as familiar with European oboe playing, I can say that European players sound much more similar to each other than say, Eugene Izotov and Richard Woodhams.
“There are very well planned and finely executed dynamic shadings coupled with a most homogenous and unchanging sound color. Of course there is nothing wrong with this approach, but it sometimes misses out on shadings the oboe could do, and which are perceived by many listeners as expressive and attractive. From a European perspective it seems that this musical language doesn’t like much to pronounce consonants and vowels.”
From an American perspective, many European oboe players tend to play with very very exaggerated phrasing that can sound melodramatic at times.
Really, I feel like everything is a matter of perspective. As artists, musicians are bound to have different prioritized tastes and goals.
I agree. What we don’t have on this side of the pond is one father figure who has left us directives how everything has to be done, and the feeling that there is an “us and they”. European oboists might agree that we are all actors in sound, and that therefore melodramatic music requires a melodramatic rendition. But we are quite unlikely to agree when exactly this is the case, and what the right degree of it would sound like. We just don’t have such a set of strong common believes. This leaves us with less security to do things the right way, but with more choices and less pressure to conform. The pressure to perform is already enough for us 😉
In any case I want to thank you for this nice and civil exchange of different viewpoints. This is not a matter of course on this site, and I appreciate it a lot.
“What we don’t have on this side of the pond is one father figure who has left us directives how everything has to be done, and the feeling that there is an “us and they”.”
I feel like a critical misconception among some European oboists is that American oboists worship Tabuteau.
We generally don’t try to imitate Tabuteau’s sound. It is nearly impossible to know exactly how Tabuteau sounded like given the horrible quality of audio recording back in the day. Neither do we try to purposely try to go after the “perfect American sound”. As a American school oboe player myself, I have no idea what the “perfect American sound” is to this day.
Many (perhaps most) American oboists do not use the exact phrasing patterns/methods that Tabuteau advocated, for example, Tabuteau’s numbering system. I’ve met oboists who don’t use it all, and personally, I use it in a relatively limited sense.
I believe one of the lasting legacies of Tabuteau was the American/Philadelphian oboe reed, and the fundamental ideals behind it. The point of the American/Philadelphian oboe reed is to allow the player play up to pitch and with a decent tone while using minimal lip/jaw manipulation, so the player doesn’t have to focus on “fighting” his reed.
It is definitely my pleasure to have this conversation with you!
I would be quite surprised if you could name a single European orchestra which tunes to A = 445 Hz these days. How about another question:
Aiming for a more instrumental or a more vocal sound?
Berlin Phil??
A = 443 Hz, already since the previous millenium 😉
The BRSO tunes to A = 443 Hz and according to the LA Phil, they tune to A = 442 Hz.
Bratsche-scratcher says:
I’m a viola player and I get it all…
Rhondda May says:
I’d venture to suggest that if the music director and other principals and audition committee of the LA Phil DIDN’T think that his sound would blend – or that theirs could blend with it – he’d not have won the audition. Musicians adjust their sounds all the time. The sound one has in one’s ear as one scrapes a reed changes subtly throughout one’s career. A lot of variables go into the mix.
As an oboist i know this, but this will be a BIG change for him.
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Don Hohoho says:
I refuse to believe there was no American qualified for the position. Unless we have reciprocity abroad, this should not be allowed, he should not get a visa.
So, firstly, you have NO IDEA what his immigration status actually might be. For all you know he already possesses US work authorization. Secondly, he is probably eligible for a rather esoteric nonimmigrant visa (the same kind available to foreign actors and directors – even to Maestro Dudamel, for that matter, but presumably their creative presence in the US doesn’t bother you). And thirdly, “qualified” – w/r/t this job – means something very different from what you clearly think it means. There were probably a good hundred oboists who were *qualified* for this job. An audition like this is nothing like filling out a form at your local Home Despot. Unless YOU sat on the committee, you really have no room to talk on this point. And fourthly, there is a certain amount of reciprocity abroad for US citizens who can obtain an EU passport (usually through an immigrant parent or grandparent).
Full disclosure: I used to be a professional oboist, but now I work in immigration law.
Gustav says:
To Rhonnda: “A certain amount of reciprocity abroad”. Hmm. That reciprocity is quite limited in the world of professional orchestras.
Don Ho makes a very good point. There is NOT this type of reciprocity with European orchestras welcoming US players. There should be, but there is not. Every European player feels entitled to have a chance to work in the US but most European orchestras will always give preference to their own citizens.
Now 5 zillion people are going to come forward saying “What about such and such American in this or that European orch.?” Yes there are some Americans working in European orchestras. I am one of them. But it is not an easy path, believe me. I came in at an easier time. Now it is nearly impossible.
This is what kills me: every European nation thinks it’s so great when their citizens win a job in the US, that it’s their indelible right to be working in the US.But Don Ho is absolutely right. They are displacing qualified US musicians. When it comes time for those same European countries to consider a qualified American musician they so often pull the nationalism card and give preference to one of their own players.
This isn’t right. Someone should be watching out for the interests of US players. It sure isn’t going to be Dudamel. I first started noticing his favoring of non US talent in the LA Phil conducting fellowship program. Very few US conductors-in-training are ever chosen. It’s almost all foreign talent, Dudamel’s choice.
Similarly now with all the well qualified US born and trained orch. players why are the best paying jobs in the country going to foreign players?
Have you any numbers to back your claim that American orchestras hire more Europeans than the other way round? I’m asking because it contradicts my observations. Since I don’t know where in Europe you have spent your decades in orchestra jobs, I cannot really comment, but I’m very sorry that they have left you so bitter. Here in EU orchestras nationality seems hardly to be a concern anymore. Perhaps this may still trouble a few people with a similar attitude as yours, but it has been a very long time since last I’ve heard remarks about a candidate’s nationality in an audition, and I’m glad for it. This doesn’t go for EU citizens alone, but for other people as well. European orchestras have plenty of players from outside the EU, too. Americans as well as Canadians, Latin Americans, players from practically every Asian country, Australians, New Zealanders and players from Africa play here. The paperwork are the same for all of them, and in the end it seems to work out every time. Perhaps you noticed that Berlin Phil hired an American concertmaster fairly recently? The Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam now has two Russian principal oboists. So what? I personally am glad and proud to work in such an open and international community. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be stereotypes and clichés, but they are certainly nothing that Americans are singled out to suffer more than others. Don’t get paranoid!
Gustav, you are talking nonsense. There are many Americans hired by European orchestras. In my observation more than the other way around.
As a one-time consular officer I can assure he will get a US visa, and he certainly wouldn’t be the first. I assume he would apply (via self-petition) for an E-1 immigrant visa for aliens of extraordinary merit. There is a checklist of about 10 criteria he would have to fulfill, but as a principal of a major European orchestra, prizewinner in international competitions, and winner of another international competition (the LAPO’s audition), he can demonstrate that he is one of the most outstanding persons in his field, and that he can earn a living in the US. I issued such visas to far less deserving people.
I’m pretty sure an American seeking a job in an EU orchestra would be able to do the same thing. There are a couple Americans in the Berlin Philharmonic now, for starters.
Macrov, no, it does not work that way for US players wanting to work in the EU. Americans, always idealistic, assume that it does – that the generosity we show in offering employment to EU citizens in our orchs. will be reciprocated. But it simply is not the case.
If we are indeed able to win the job, to cut thru the red tape to be legal, we are not necessarily welcomed. Americans in Europe carry enormous baggage of stereotyping, high expectations professionally and more. Whatever a European player does at an audition or on the job, a US player must do “backwards and in high heels” and at a much higher level than any national in order to be accepted. And to counter all the stereotypes of loud, arrogant, overconfident Americans, an American trying to work in Europe must be understated, modest, extremely humble and always acquiesce to the way things are done locally.
The EU does not welcome non-EU workers in any profession. Unemployment is high and jobs are scarce. Non EU’s, especially Americans (actually Europeans love to point out that the term “American” is incorrect when referring to a US citizens. It’s one more way of making us feel smaller, less important.) are considered a threat to employment opportunites for EU citizens.
EU orchestras will often limit initial auditions to EU residents or those who already have working papers. In the EU country I live in, if a non EU is accepted for a position, the orchestra becomes responsible for the fees, paperwork and all the complications of making the person legal. That makes hiring non EU’s, esp. Americans, a very unattractive option economically.
And again, there is always this underlying paranoia by Europeans that every American is going to try and dominate any situation. I get so sick of this constant defensiveness. Often in social settings, we just say we’re Canadian to avoid conflict. Europeans, esp. in less sophisticated EU countries, seem obsessed with the fear that the US, and hence any American they encounter in a work situation is trying to achieve world domination.
So, no. Americans are generally NOT welcomed into European orchestras. There are many exceptions to that rule and I am one of them. But speaking from decades of experience I can tell you the the reciprocity expected when the US grants orch jobs to Europeans – the expectation that US musicians will be given similar opportunities in EU orchestras – simply does not exist.
Gustav,
Some theoretical American not being offered a job opportunity in Europe is not the LA Phil’s concern, nor should it be. They held an audition to pick the most qualified artist to fill their principal oboe position, and that artist ended up being Spanish. He was, by definition, more qualified than any American player, in the only opinion that mattered, the audition committee’s and Dudamel’s. Should they punish themselves and hire a lesser player because another country has some protectionist labor practires? Smells like jingoistic foolishness to me.
Hear, hear. There may be 100 people “qualified” to be your spouse, but there’s really only one you want…
Mallory, you’ve totally missed my point. Every point, in fact. It’s not “some theoretical American” it’s the entire species which, in principle, is not welcome in EU orchestras.
And at the level we are discussing, it’s not about “being qualified’ for the job. Someone mentioned that a MET principal was one of the finalists. You seriously think that person is “less qualified” than Ramon?
It’s about the best fit for the orch., musical style, the collective tastes of the committee and music director. It’s a subjective rather than an objective choice, and for that reason a candidate’s country of origin and training can and should be part of the conversation.
I’m afraid you’re the one missing the point, my friend. “Qualified” is, in this case, a term of art, so yes, we can unequivocally say the Met principal was less”qualified” for this job, if indeed he played the audition. It’s not a value judgement, it’s the simple reality that neither you, nor I, nor anyone else not on that committee has a vote in determining who’s”qualified” for that job.
As to your other point, I’m absolutely sure that the candidate’s training (country of origin is nationalist and potentially racist, also irrelevant) was discussed, and deemed to be what they were looking for. Do you seriously think it’s some sort of nationalist conspiracy that keeps American oboists out of European orchestras? Of course not, it’s just a very different approach, which is out of favor in virtually every non- North American orchestra.
Gustav, it sounds like you need some therapy.
Analeck Kram-Hammerbauer says:
Ramon should definitely stay! If not for the much better orchestra in München, then at least for the holy Weißwurst.
Alles andere ist Wurst.
Much better orchestra? A naïve statement. Better at some repertoire, probably. Just as the LA Phil is better in some regards. But a musician at Ramon’s stage of career doesn’t take an audition for fun- he’s obviously looking for something different.
And I’m afraid you’ve exposed yourself as completely clueless by suggesting that food of any sort is a good reason to pick Munich over Los Angeles, one of the great food cities of the world!
LA might be a great food city, but until you reached the restaurant, you usually have starved to death in traffic jams on the freeway.
We don’t know if he is looking for something different. He might just have looked for an opportunity to negotiate a higher salary in Munich actually.
Very funny, anon! Ok, the traffic in LA is definitely a bummer:)
I still contend that taking an audition on the other side of the world with the goal of squeezing the BRSO is a longshot. Time will tell…
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Review: Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-tacular
Poor Mrs. Smith (David Hanbury) has lost her dear cat Carlyle and in order to find him she’s put on a show titled Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-tacular in hopes that he will come back to her, and also to recruit some fellow searchers among the audience members. Upon appearing onstage accompanied by “The Broadway Boys” (Brandon Haagenson and Ken Lear) one of Mrs. Smith’s first requests to the audience is that we all turn towards the door and call Carlyle’s name in unison; perhaps he will hear us and show up. This is one of a few times in which the show calls for audience participation, but unlike other acts in which this seems like an imposition on the audience, Mrs. Smith’s plea is so urgent that one can’t help but want to assist her.
She tells us of how she and Carlyle first met when she was a little girl, and how the two of them went on to form one of the most exciting duos in all of entertainment going on to conquer Broadway and the nightclub scene. Then one day Carlyle decided to quit show business and disappeared mysteriously leaving very few traces behind. Desperate ever since, Mrs. Smith has traveled the world trying to find her dear friend and welcome him back into her world. The joy in Hanbury’s performance as the eccentric entertainer is that as she shares her outlandish stories (something about ending up drunk on grapefruit juice at Pat Nixon’s birthday brunch…) she becomes only more and more captivating, perversely seductive even.
Adding feline references to standards such as “The Man That Got Away” and “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart” shouldn’t be as hilarious as it is when done by Mrs. Smith, whose voice and awkward dancing make for a combination of Elaine Stritch, Liberace and Grandma Yetta from The Nanny. In numbers as “One night in Bangkok”, Mrs. Smith gets to bring out her inner disco diva and has the entire audience moving along with her. Conceived by Hanbury and directed by Andrew Rasmussen, who gives it a grand cabaret feeling, Mrs. Smith’s Broadway Cat-tacular is an unexpectedly delightful treat.
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Written by: Jose Solis
Jose Solis is the Chief Theatre Critic at StageBuddy.com. He has been writing about film and theatre since 2003 and his work has appeared in major film and theatre publications including The New York Times, American Theatre, and Backstage. He is a member of the Drama Desk, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and the Online Film Critics Society. When he's not at a show, a screening or writing about all the art he loves, you can find him singing along to any cast recording featuring Kelli O'Hara.
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Puzzle Muteson – En Garde (Vinyl)
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Folk music derives its origins from venerable working class traditions and its name reflects this. Notoriously difficult to define, the genre’s porous borders have helped to keep it fresh and ever relevant, with such a wide range of artists as Bob Dylan, Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake and Bonnie Prince Billy all falling somewhere within Folk’s purview.
This latest release, brought to us by the prestigious Bedroom Community can also be defined as folk music but, following in the tradition of the finest material in the genre, Puzzle Muteson’s latest full-length album throws a lot more into the pot too. Little seems to be known about the enigmatic artist based in the Isle of Wight, other than he is a singer-songwriter originally from London who has a penchant for melancholic guitar and a talent which is self-evident. Choosing to remain anonymous could be seen as an affectation to some, but so sincere are the songs within En Garde, that the lack of information on the artist forces us to focus solely on the music, which is probably for the best, since it would be foolish indeed to miss a moment of this carefully crafted masterpiece.
SKU: SG0022 Categories: Sale, Vinyl Tag: Bedroom Community
Puzzle Muteson’s label-mates Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson lend their arranging and producing talents to En Garde respectively, and the album was recorded in Reykjavík’s Greenhouse Studios, which has held host to artists like Björk, Bonnie Prince Billy and CocoRosie to name but a few. So, pedigree affirmed and beauty assured, what can we say about the songs contained within En Garde?
Opening with I Was Once A Horse, the troubadour plays beautiful, harmonic finger picking guitar, while singing in a voice which sounds quite unlike, yet in its confident use of range is reminiscent of, Nick Drake. The voice is of a timbre which is tailor made for lamentation and one feels that the artist could probably sing songs about the sweetest of life’s joys, yet they would still sound bittersweet. Backed at times by what is probably pretty xylophone chiming and strings, the song comes to a close riding out a wave of introspection.
Puzzle Muteson continues to further solidify his sound as En Garde progresses and a few of the album’s highlights include Water Rising, Medusa and Keyhole. Each track is composed with definite purpose and an iron grip cohesion, at times bringing to mind another contemporary Folk artist; Gravenhurst and, like Nick Talbot’s solo project, the man behind Puzzle Muteson is extremely skilled in raising his acoustic-guitar based songs to another level with subtle flourishes of beats and ambience.
En Garde is another essential work from the always interesting Bedroom Community and the music contained within has a commercial element which should see Puzzle Muteson gain many more fans. However this is without a hint of artistic compromise or fame-seeking. Rather, the themes of loss and hope, of despair and nostalgia, can be appreciated by anybody who has loved and has lived.
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Cam Deas – Quadtych Vol.2 (Vinyl)
Sale, Vinyl
As with Volume One, the record comes pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and packaged in deluxe pro-printed sleeves with fantastic artwork by Jake Blanchard in an edition of 500 copies.
Hush Arbors – Alive 2xLP (Vinyl)
‘Alive’ is the first vinyl outing from Keith Wood’s Hush Arbors since his split 7″ with Jerusalem and the Starbaskets on The Great Pop Supplement back in 2008… Hush Arbors is the project of Mr Keith Wood, a good friend of Blackest Rainbow, who has also played in Wooden Wand, Six Organs of Admittance, Zodiacs, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and with Thurston Moore. Hush Arbors ever evolving sound pretty much encapsulates everything he does with these other fine projects, but Keith has definitely got his own thing going on with his fine song writing skills, whether its delivered with his beautiful acoustic playing or wild electric shredding.
Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy – Splintered Visions (Vinyl)
BR worked with Adam Kriney of La Otracina and Owl Xounds on the Owl Xounds/Family Battle Snake split cassette back in May 2007, and its great to have this raging free jazz improv psyche out bunch back on Blackest Rainbow again for this awesome LP.
Rene Hell – The Terminal Symphony (Vinyl / CD)
CD, Sale, Vinyl
Includes a 40 minute bonus CD, The Hilton, featuring previously unreleased material: It might not have been so long since Jeff Witscher released his debut ‘proper’ album under the Rene Hell moniker, but he’s kept himself busy in the interim all the same…
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Hall County, Georgia Deputy Killed Trying To Stop Stolen Car
July 8, 2019 sytonnia Leave a comment
(Hall County, GA) — The law enforcement community is in mourning and investigating after a Hall County sheriff’s deputy was killed in the line of duty.
It happened late last night when shots were fired as the deputy was trying to stop a stolen car.
The alleged gunman was injured and taken to the hospital. Several suspects who reportedly jumped from the car got away and authorities are searching for them.
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IWillVote Gala Brings The Democratic Party’s Heavy Hitters To Atlanta
June 7, 2019 sytonnia Leave a comment
(Atlanta, GA) – The IWillVote Gala was back in Atlanta…and what an event by the Democratic National Committee. Vice President Joe Biden took charge immediately by putting his support behind Women’s Rights and condemning Abortion Laws as certain states move to try and control what a woman does with her body.
Biden stressed once again that it’s time for us to restore American Politics and even the playing field when it comes to education and economic opportunities. He also touched on voter suppression, infrastructure and foreign interference. Uncle Joe had to leave out early because his Granddaughter is graduating.
But, attendees were further charged by Rev. Al Sharpton who didn’t bite his tongue when he challenged citizens (primarily black) to be more cognizant about voter interference plots aimed directly at them and to be blunt..being a complete waste of space as a human being. As Sharpton kept it real… he encouraged people to brag less about their titles and material possessions and more about what they’re doing to help other people. Sharpton’s speech was so rousing, he received a standing ovation.
Afterwards, Sharpton mingled with an excited crowd that included Rev. Jesse Jackson, Representative Maxine Waters, DNC Chair Tom Perez, Representative Lucy McBath, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms and more.
The Honorable Stacey Abrams was the keynote speaker of the evening closing the Gala out with an impactful speech that focused on the influence Georgia’s population and underrepresented demographics have on elections. She highlighted Georgia’s Latino, lack and illennial involvement and what that could mean heading into the 2020 election.
The Honorable Beto O’Rourke also laid out parts of his platform; but like Joe Biden he let it be known that regardless of who would be on the Democratic ticket, he would be supportive of the party and the movement.
The IWillVoteGala also featured DNC Chair Tom Perez, Sonya Halpern, Dekalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, Congresswoman Lucy McBath, DNC Assistant Treasurer Lorna Johnson and Vice Chair Michael Blake and DNC Associate Chair Jamie Harrison. Congressman John Lewis was slightly ill and didn’t make it.
The DNC launched IWillVote in 2018 as an unprecedented new campaign with four initiatives: Commit to Vote; Voter Registration; Voter Education and Protection; and Get-Out-The-Vote. Under the IWillVote program, the DNC, in partnership with state parties and organizations, reached over 50 million voters during the midterm elections to engage, educate, and mobilize them to vote for Democrats up and down the ticket.
The party is certainly in a strong position as we move toward 2020.
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Near Atlanta: Boyfriend Kills Himself, Pregnant Girlfriend And Her Teen Son After Barricading Himself Inside Home For 17 Hours
April 5, 2019 sytonnia Leave a comment
(Stockbridge, GA) — A standoff that started Thursday morning around 11am ended with four people dead in Stockbridge. Authorities were responding to a domestic violence call in Henry County at the Eagles Landing Subdivision in Stockbridge.
When police arrived at the house, the suspect, 47-year old convicted felon Anthony Bailey opened fire shooting officer Keegan Merritt in the hand and another officer Taylor Webb in the chest and the hip. The officers were air lifted to Grady Memorial hospital and were in the Trauma unit at last check.
The two officers were shot after one saw blood on the driveway, running from underneath the garage door and a woman’s bloody lifeless body through the glass. They forced their way into the home. Upon entry, they were fired upon. Bailey then yelled, “Don’t come in here. Don’t come in here. Do not come in here. I got a lot of shots. I got a hostage. I got a hostage.”
Dozens of law enforcement officers from the Henry County Police Department had the home surrounded with heavy artillery.
Officer Keegan Merritt
Officer Taylor Webb
They were willing to wait and negotiate for as long as they could after family members informed them their 16-year old nephew, Arkeyvion White, was still in the home.
Photo Credit: John Spink
The nephews’ aunt is the one who called 911 after she was attempting to enter the home and found her pregnant sister, 39-year old Sandra White, dead in the garage. The shooter, who was the victim’s boyfriend, told authorities he would release the boy but as hours pressed on it seemed unlikely that he would do so.
According to some accounts, last night police decided to make a move and fired gas into the home where the boyfriend responded by firing shots once again at officers. He had threatened earlier to shoot at anyone who approached the house. But at this point, officers were willing to take that chance and started their attempts to enter the residence.
At 3 this morning, they finally entered the home and found dead Bailey and Arkeyvion in an upstairs bedroom. Sandra’s body was still in the garage.
Sandra White and her 16-year son Arkeyvion. (Photo Courtesy of the Family)
Family members say that all was well the day before the incident and that they, including the boyfriend, were planning a big baby shower for this weekend. Reportedly, the pregnant victim was due to give birth to a son named Antonio on April 29th. The pregnant victim’s sister said that she wasn’t happy in the relationship though and that yesterday the boyfriend had been asked to leave and he refused.
Sandra White was a nurse at WellStar Atlanta Medical Center. Sophomore Arkeyvion White was an honor roll student and football player at Dutchtown High School.
Bailey was a convicted felon who served two years in the 90s on an aggravated assault conviction.
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Lyft Giving Free Rides To Black History Museums, Memorial Sites In Atlanta
(Atlanta, GA-AP) — Ride-sharing service Lyft is giving out free rides to black history museums, memorial sites or black-owned businesses in honor of Black History Month. You can get a free ride of up to ten dollars to places in Atlanta, Baltimore, Charleston, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and other cities.
Lyft said in a statement that it believes in recognizing, celebrating and supporting the contributions of black men and women throughout history. The service us also celebrating the one-year anniversary of its partnership with Black Girls Code, an organization that provides African-American girls with coding skills to help increase representation of black women in technology.
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Atlanta Man Found Hanging Off Of MLK Bridge In The AUC
April 29, 2018 sytonnia 1 Comment
(Atlanta, GA) – Mystery surrounds the death of a man found hanging from a bridge near Atlanta’s historical black colleges.
Believed to be in his early to mid 20s, no other details have been released about the young black male found with a chain around his neck other than it is believed the keys to the chain were in his pocket.
Atlanta police were called to the 600 block of MLK Drive at about 6:30 p.m. Friday.
Atlanta police Sgt. John Chafee said the chain was locked in several places. Chafee also said investigators canvassed the area and located one person who said they overheard someone yelling “don’t do it.”
Early speculation points to suicide but a full investigation has not been completed yet.
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Carter, Bush And Clinton To Attend Former GA Governor’s Funeral
(Atlanta, GA) – Three former presidents are set to attend today’s funeral services for former Georgia Governor Zell Miller. Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are all expected to speak. Miller died on Friday at the age of 86 after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He will lie in state in the rotunda at the Georgia Capitol following the funeral services.
His funeral procession made its way through Atlanta this morning on the way to the Governor’s mansion.
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Off The Court: Hawks’ DeAndre Bembry Arrested For Speeding
(Atlanta, GA) – Hawks forward DeAndre Bembry is facing charges after being caught speeding in Atlanta early Friday morning. Multiple reports state Bembry was caught going 128 miles-per-hour in a 55 zone. Atlanta Police says it appeared he was racing and he was charged with reckless driving and speeding.
The first round draft pick and second-year player is averaging 4.8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 18 games for the Hawks this season.
The AJC Reports: About 12:20 a.m., Atlanta police saw a purple Dodge Charger driven by small forward DeAndre’ Bembry “traveling at a high rate of speed south of Buford Highway” along with another car, Officer Donald Hannah said.“Both vehicles were changing lanes and appeared to be racing each other as they traveled on I-85 approaching the Buford Highway exit at speeds visually estimated to be close to 150 mph in a 55-mph speed limit zone,” he said.
Bembry was booked and released on bond.
IN OTHER HAWKS’ NEWS
The Atlanta Hawks and guard Marco Belinelli are parting ways. The two sides agreed to a buyout on Friday, making Belinelli a free agent. The 31-year-old wing is averaging 11.4 points per game and is shooting 37-percent from beyond the arc. Atlanta had previously bought his name up in trade discussions before Thursday’s deadline. Belinelli has played for eight teams since being chosen 18th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft.
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Sytonnia LIVE Bounce TV Trumpet Awards Red Carpet Special
February 7, 2018 sytonnia Leave a comment
(SL) – If you missed our @bouncetv #TrumpetAwards Red Carpet Special tonight, watch it here! The evening’s festivities were hosted by actors Larenz Tate and Erica Ash as celebrities, notable and esteemed guests from far and wide gathered to honor the outstanding accomplishments of African Americans and those who have succeeded against great odds and inspired success in others!
Make sure you tune in to Season 3 of Sytonnia LIVE TUESDAY nights @ MIDNIGHT on the TST Network on Comcast/Xfinity CH 29 in Atlanta!
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Two Women Attending Dragon Con Injured After Someone Threw Chairs From Balcony In Atlanta’s Marriott Marquis
September 5, 2017 sytonnia Leave a comment
(SL) – How frightening. Two women have been treated and released after suffering injuries from chairs that were dropped from the 10th floor inside the Marriott Marquis.
21-year old Kelly McDaniel says she’s lucky to be alive and credits her costume helmet for saving her life. She was hit in the head and had to receive staples to hold the wound together.
Another woman, Jamie Temple-Thompson Amador was hit in the arm.
The Atlanta Police Department is currently investigating.
McDaniel has posted on her Facebook Sunday morning asking for anyone with information to come forwards. She said: ‘If anyone has any information about the inconsiderate jerks(s) that threw 3 chairs from the Marriott balcony and split my head open, please send it Cristóbal Esteban Poth (McDaniel’s boyfriend) or me.’
‘I was just discharged and we are headed home to recover from a horrifying experience. I have lost all faith in humanity, but I’m counting my blessings that I wasn’t hurt any worse. I could’ve died because of some drunk idiot.
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Travel the World But Be Home For Lunch!
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Travel is wonderful and exciting, but not always possible for many of us. So for those of us who prefer our excitement in comfort and peace Tacoma Library has these titles. Come fly away!
Around the World in 50 Years
My Adventure to Every Country on Earth
by Podell, Albert
"In 2003, Albert Podell realized that he'd been to 110 countries in the world. What if, he wondered, he could go to them all? He would set foot in no...Show more "In 2003, Albert Podell realized that he'd been to 110 countries in the world. What if, he wondered, he could go to them all? He would set foot in not just the well-known tourist destinations in Europe or the vacation spots in Latin America, but the little-known, far-off lands that most people don't know exist. In Around the World in 50 Years, Podell recounts the misunderstandings, detours, accidents, breakdowns, robberies, and even wars that he needed to overcome to visit every corner of Earth. He describes his encounters with voodoo rituals, fruit-bat pie, the Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon, Cuban counterintelligence agents, the New Guinea wigmen, camel caravans, the Lord's Resistance Army, and much, much more. With a wry, exuberant style, Podell's observations on the unusual and exotic places that lay beyond the usual tourist trails make this book a standout on the travel writing shelf" Show less
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At Home in the World
Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe : An Adventure Across 4 Continents With 3 Kids, 1 Husband, and 5 Backpacks
by Oxenreider, Tsh
"As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely va...Show more "As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the world--seeing, smelling, and tasting the widely varying cultures along the way--she discovers what it truly means to be at home. In her late thirties and as a mom to three kids under age ten, Tsh Oxenreider and her husband decided to spend a rather ordinary nine months in an extraordinary way: traveling the corners of the earth to see, together, the places they've always wanted to explore. This book chronicles their global journey from China to Thailand to Australia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, France, Croatia, and beyond, as they fill their days with train schedules, world-schooling the kids, and working from anywhere. Told with wit and candor, Oxenreider invites us on a worldwide adventure without the cost of a ticket; to discover people, places, and stories worth knowing about; to find peace in the places we call home; and to learn that, as the Thai say, in the end, we are all 'same same but different'" Show less
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An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Foer, Joshua
Get off the beaten path, and brush off your bucket list! Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, this volume celebrates the strangest and most curiou...Show more Get off the beaten path, and brush off your bucket list! Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, this volume celebrates the strangest and most curious places in the world. Covering natural wonders, architectural marvels, and mind-boggling events, you'll revel in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Show less
Atlas of An Anxious Man
by Ransmayr, Christoph
In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary--a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is...Show more In The Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr offers a mesmerizing travel diary--a sprawling tale of earthly wonders seen by a wandering eye. This is an exquisite, lyrically told travel story. Translated by Simon Pare, this unique account follows Ransmayr across the globe: from the shadow of Java's volcanoes to the rapids of the Mekong and Danube Rivers, from the drift ice of the Arctic Circle to Himalayan passes, and on to the disenchanted islands of the South Pacific. Ransmayr begins again and again with, "I saw ..." recounting to the reader the stories of continents, eras, and landscapes of the soul. Like maps, the episodes come together to become a book of the world--one that charts the life and death, happiness and fate of people bound up in images of breathtaking beauty. Show less
Eighty Days
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-making Race Around the World
by Goodman, Matthew
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to...Show more On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train - was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors' lives forever. Show less
The Geography of Genius
A Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
by Weiner, Eric
An acclaimed travel writer examines the connection between surroundings and innovative ideas, profiling examples in such regions as early-twentieth-century Vienna, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, and Silicon Valley. An acclaimed travel writer examines the connection between surroundings and innovative ideas, profiling examples in such regions as early-twentieth-century Vienna, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, and Silicon Valley. Show less
One Man, 150 Days, Eleven Countries, No Money!
by Wigge, Michael
The unbelievable feat of traveling 25,000 milesfrom Berlin to Antarcticawithout any money! Join Michael Wigge as he immerses himself into fascinating subc...Show more The unbelievable feat of traveling 25,000 milesfrom Berlin to Antarcticawithout any money! Join Michael Wigge as he immerses himself into fascinating subcultures, rides with Amish farmers in old-fashioned buggies, sleeps on the street with the homeless, and, with the help from alternative lifestylers, learns to nourish himself with flowers. Wigge had only 3 concerns during his travels: How do I get some food? How will I get to my next destination? Where can I sleep? all without money! This unusual travel diary combines adventure with humor and contains surprising revelations about when money is really neededand when its not. A must-read for every travel and adventure fan! Show less
No Baggage
A Minimalist Tale of Love & Wandering
by Bensen, Clara
"Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expect...Show more "Newly recovered from a quarter-life meltdown, Clara Bensen decided to test her comeback by signing up for an online dating account. She never expected to meet Jeff, a wildly energetic university professor with a reputation for bucking convention. They barely know each other's last names when they agree to set out on a risky travel experiment spanning eight countries and three weeks. The catch? No hotel reservations, no plans, and best of all, no baggage. Clara's story will resonate with adventurers and homebodies alike--it's at once a romance, a travelogue, and a bright modern take on the age-old questions: How do you find the courage to explore beyond your comfort zone? Can you love someone without the need for labels and commitment? Is it possible to truly leave your baggage behind?," Show less
Travel Writings
by Banks, Russell
The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russe...Show more The award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays. Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. In this compelling anthology, he writes that since childhood he has "longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery and intrigue." The longing for escape has taken him from the "bright green islands and turquoise seas" of the Caribbean to peaks in the Himalayas, the Andes, and beyond. Banks shares highlights from his travels: interviewing Fidel Castro in Cuba; motoring to a hippie reunion with college friends in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; eloping to Edinburgh to marry his fourth wife, Chase; driving a sunset-orange metallic Hummer down Alaska's Seward Highway. In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. In Everglades National Park, he traces his own timeline: "I keep going back, and with increasing clarity I see more of the place and more of my past selves. And more of the past of the planet as well." Recalling his trips to the Caribbean in the title essay, Banks dissects his relationships with the four women who would become his wives. In the Himalayas, he embarks on a different quest: "One climbs a mountain, not to conquer it, but to be lifted like this away from the earth up into the sky," he explains. Pensive, frank, beautiful, and engaging, this book brings together the social, the personal, and the historical, opening a path into the heart and soul of this revered writer Show less
The Yellow Envelope
One Gift, Three Rules, and A Life-changing Journey Around the World
by Dinan, Kim
"Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their liv...Show more "Plagued by anxiety and a persistent feeling that there was more to life than paychecks and mortgages, Kim and her husband decide to uproot their lives and travel around the world. Just before their departure, they're given an unexpected gift that will shape their adventures: a yellow envelope containing a check and instructions to give the money away to those they encounter on their journey. Through Ecuador, India, Nepal, and beyond, the pair encounter problems at every step, including major challenges to their marriage. But as Kim and her husband figure out how to give to the people they meet and to each other, they learn that money does not have a thing to do with the capacity to give. The Yellow Envelope is a vividly insightful look at how travel stretches and pushes the traveler, and it tells the tale of the transformative power of giving, not just of money, but also of ourselves." -- Back cover. Show less
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“…It’s true that few serious challengers have ever had so many powerful elements within their own party aligned against them. When WikiLeaks unleashed a trove of nearly 20,000 internal emails between Democratic National Committee staffers mocking Sanders and, at times, outright conspiring against him, it seemed to confirm the worst of his supporters’ suspicions that the game was rigged from the start.
“But Sanders’ campaign against Hillary Clinton was less a civil war within the party than an attempted hostile takeover. To argue that an anti-establishment candidate lost because the establishment was against him is to close off the possibility of ever successfully challenging that establishment—and that would be a deep disservice to Sanders, his supporters and all they accomplished. Instead, it seems worth asking why exactly he came up short, and what it might take, next time, for someone to challenge the establishment and win…
“Sanders came up short by more than 3 million votes—though not enough to prevent many supporters from claiming that it was a combination of election irregularities and voter suppression that cost him the election. But closed primaries are not the same as voter suppression. It’s true that our systems for voting—especially in primaries, which are built on the assumption that not many people participate—are habitually underfunded, understaffed and badly flawed, but there’s no compelling evidence that they’re rigged.
“Whether or not the mainstream media is rigged, on the other hand, is an altogether different question. In December, Media Matters reported that ABC’s World News Tonight had devoted less than one minute to Sanders’ campaign in all of 2015, and they weren’t alone in snubbing him. This despite the fact that Sanders regularly drew more support than the object of the media’s early obsession, Donald Trump.
“Major news outlets also spotted Clinton a 359-delegate lead before the first vote was even cast, by including super delegates in their official results. That helped create a false impression that endorsements from these party insiders are part of the delegate count that determines who ‘wins’ each state (they aren’t), and a false narrative that the race was never close.
“But it’s precisely because of Sanders’ success, against all odds, that the next challenger will face a much different set of assumptions going in. What Sanders did was pull back the curtain on a complacent Democratic establishment, revealing just how hungry people are—especially young people—for a more progressive and populist economic policy.
“Sanders’ supporters and volunteer networks are now part of every state, and their influence will be felt within state parties and progressive organizations for a long time to come. If they’re successful, in the future an establishment (including unions and issue-advocacy groups) that is less complacent, less compromising and more receptive to the wants of its members—a more small ‘d’ democratic establishment—may not be so quick to close ranks around a presumptive nominee.
“In that environment, a campaign that starts early, with a clear commitment to winning and focus on building a broad and inclusive coalition, could play out a lot differently. Sanders was right about the economic moment that we live in, but he somehow missed the larger social movements and forces—including the struggle for racial justice that is being waged in the streets every day…
“Bernie Sanders had a clear message, and he mounted an inspiring campaign that he used to communicate it. The political debate has forever been altered as a result. But winning campaigns are about more than just making a point. Naomi Klein, writing in The Nation, put it this way: ‘We didn’t win, but we could have. We came that close. That’s thrilling. It’s also terrifying. Because if we can win, it means that we must win. That’s a heavy responsibility.’”
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The Queen Sends A Tweet
October 26, 2014 11:28 pm by Joyce Grant
Image: Northern Ireland Office
The Queen of England is on Twitter.
She posted her first tweet recently, about an exhibit she had just officially opened.
It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R.
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 24, 2014
It was posted on the @BritishMonarchy twitter account. The “R” in her name stands for Regina, which is Latin for Queen; so her tweet is signed, essentially, “Elizabeth, Queen.”
Right after that tweet was sent, @BritishMonarchy sent this one:
The last tweet was sent personally by The Queen from her official Twitter account @BritishMonarchy #TheQueenTweets
Twitter is an online social media site, like Facebook or Instagram. People can publish tweets of up to 140 characters (letters and numbers) long and send them to people who follow their Twitter account.
The @BritishMonarchy twitter feed has more than 848,000 followers. Normally, its tweets are created and sent by palace officials (staff members who work at the royal palace).
This time, however, the Queen herself pushed Send on a tablet (for instance, an iPad) to get the message out, after first removing one glove.
There has been no statement from the Queen’s staff as to who wrote the actual tweet. It’s likely it wasn’t the Queen, at least not without assistance, since the tweet includes a Twitter handle (@ScienceMuseum) in the middle of it, which is typically something that people who are very new to Twitter would not do.
The queen, who is 88 years old, is no stranger to cutting edge technology. “In 1976, she became the first monarch to send an email,” said the museum’s director, Ian Blatchford, in a speech before the Queen sent her tweet.
Other members of the royal family are on Twitter as well, including Prince Harry (@Prince_Harry) and Prince Andrew (@TheDukeOfYork) and his ex-wife, Sarah (@SarahTheDuchess).
There likely won’t be a regular stream of tweets coming from the queen in the future. One representative for the monarch told Vanity Fair magazine that, “this was very much done because she was at the Science Museum.”
By Jonathan Tilly
Writing/Discussion Prompt
Writing a message using under 140 characters can be very challenging. Write a message announcing something that you’re excited about in under 140 characters. Add a hashtag ( # ) if you would like to identify your topic or subject.
Reading Prompt: Text Features
Today’s article contains a direct quote from Queen Elizabeth II. The author has centred this text and changed its font. Why might she have done this?
Identify a variety of text features and explain how they help readers understand texts (OME, Reading: 2.3).
Identify a variety of text features and explain how they help communicate meaning (OME, Reading: 2.3).
Language Feature: Parentheses ( )
Parentheses are punctuation marks that can be inserted into a text in order to provide additional information. The additional information included in parentheses is typically non-essential information. In other words, they include information that the author wants to share with the reader but is extra to their main idea.
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Research ArticleBioengineering
A technology platform to assess multiple cancer agents simultaneously within a patient’s tumor
Richard A. Klinghoffer1,*,
S. Bahram Bahrami2,†,‡,
Beryl A. Hatton1,‡,
Jason P. Frazier1,
Alicia Moreno-Gonzalez1,
Andrew D. Strand2,
William S. Kerwin1,
Joseph R. Casalini1,
Derek J. Thirstrup1,
Sheng You1,
Shelli M. Morris1,
Korashon L. Watts1,
Mandana Veiseh2,§,
Marc O. Grenley1,
Ilona Tretyak1,
Joyoti Dey1,
Michael Carleton1,
Emily Beirne1,
Kyle D. Pedro2,
Sally H. Ditzler1,
Emily J. Girard2,
Thomas L. Deckwerth1,
Jessica A. Bertout1,
Karri A. Meleo3,
Ellen H. Filvaroff4,
Rajesh Chopra5,
Oliver W. Press2 and
James M. Olson2,6,7,*
1Presage Biosciences, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
2Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
3Oncology Department, BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Seattle, WA 98125, USA.
4Celgene Corporation, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
5Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ 07901, USA.
6Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
7Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: rich.klinghoffer{at}presagebio.com (R.A.K.); jolson{at}fredhutch.org (J.M.O.)
↵† Present address: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road MS-977-225A, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
↵‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
↵§ Present address: Electronic Materials and Devices Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center, a Xerox company, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
Science Translational Medicine 22 Apr 2015:
Vol. 7, Issue 284, pp. 284ra58
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa7489
Richard A. Klinghoffer
Presage Biosciences, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
For correspondence: rich.klinghoffer@presagebio.com jolson@fredhutch.org
S. Bahram Bahrami
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Beryl A. Hatton
Jason P. Frazier
Alicia Moreno-Gonzalez
Andrew D. Strand
William S. Kerwin
Joseph R. Casalini
Derek J. Thirstrup
Sheng You
Shelli M. Morris
Korashon L. Watts
Mandana Veiseh
Marc O. Grenley
Ilona Tretyak
Joyoti Dey
Michael Carleton
Emily Beirne
Kyle D. Pedro
Sally H. Ditzler
Emily J. Girard
Thomas L. Deckwerth
Jessica A. Bertout
Karri A. Meleo
Oncology Department, BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Seattle, WA 98125, USA.
Ellen H. Filvaroff
Celgene Corporation, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Rajesh Chopra
Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ 07901, USA.
Oliver W. Press
James M. Olson
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
A fundamental problem in cancer drug development is that antitumor efficacy in preclinical cancer models does not translate faithfully to patient outcomes. Much of early cancer drug discovery is performed under in vitro conditions in cell-based models that poorly represent actual malignancies. To address this inconsistency, we have developed a technology platform called CIVO, which enables simultaneous assessment of up to eight drugs or drug combinations within a single solid tumor in vivo. The platform is currently designed for use in animal models of cancer and patients with superficial tumors but can be modified for investigation of deeper-seated malignancies. In xenograft lymphoma models, CIVO microinjection of well-characterized anticancer agents (vincristine, doxorubicin, mafosfamide, and prednisolone) induced spatially defined cellular changes around sites of drug exposure, specific to the known mechanisms of action of each drug. The observed localized responses predicted responses to systemically delivered drugs in animals. In pair-matched lymphoma models, CIVO correctly demonstrated tumor resistance to doxorubicin and vincristine and an unexpected enhanced sensitivity to mafosfamide in multidrug-resistant lymphomas compared with chemotherapy-naïve lymphomas. A CIVO-enabled in vivo screen of 97 approved oncology agents revealed a novel mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) pathway inhibitor that exhibits significantly increased tumor-killing activity in the drug-resistant setting compared with chemotherapy-naïve tumors. Finally, feasibility studies to assess the use of CIVO in human and canine patients demonstrated that microinjection of drugs is toxicity-sparing while inducing robust, easily tracked, drug-specific responses in autochthonous tumors, setting the stage for further application of this technology in clinical trials.
Attrition rates for new oncology drugs in clinical trials are higher than those of almost all other therapeutic areas, and survival rates for patients with advanced cancers are persistently low (1, 2). Currently, only 7% of agents that demonstrated anticancer activity in preclinical studies demonstrate sufficient efficacy in phase 3 testing to warrant U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals (3, 4). Meanwhile, costs associated with drug development continue to escalate, with the current estimate exceeding $2.6 billion per approved drug (5). The factors that contribute to cancer therapy failures are numerous and intertwined. One key issue is a heavy reliance on cell-based models that do not closely represent clinical malignancies (6–9). Conditions such as hypoxia or acidity in the tumor microenvironment can perturb the efficacy of drugs as compared to well-nourished cancer cells in culture. Furthermore, the time-dependent duration and extent of tumor exposure to drug in the clinic are very different than the homogeneous and static exposure tested in cell-based systems. Although three-dimensional (3D) cultures overcome some of the limitations posed by the 2D in vitro setting, such models are simply approximations of the true tumor microenvironment. As a consequence, assessments of the impact of potential new drugs are often flawed, and seemingly promising agents that kill cancer cells under standard tissue culture conditions translate poorly into effective treatments in human cancer patients.
To enable earlier and more predictive analyses of anticancer agents in vivo and ultimately in cancer patients, we developed a platform called CIVO (10). CIVO consists of a device engineered to introduce multiple drugs transcutaneously into discrete and mapped locations within a growing tumor in a living subject. The device is complemented by an automated analysis package for quantification of multiple histological biomarkers of tumor response to drug. An array of needles at the distal end of the device enables simultaneous delivery of microliter volumes of candidate therapies directly into localized regions in tumors. By delivering drugs in a localized fashion to tumors in doses that would not induce systemic toxicity, we hypothesized that we would be able to observe spatially defined tumor responses, discern the mechanism of drug action, and ascertain tumor responsiveness to each drug in a way that has potential to predict therapeutic response to systemically delivered therapy.
The CIVO technology essentially allows for medium-throughput screening of drug activity in living animals, evaluating up to eight drugs per tumor, greatly increasing the amount of data generated from each tumor sample compared with the traditional one drug–one animal approach. We tested the CIVO application in human xenografted mouse models, including a model of chemoresistant lymphoma, and in canine patients. We also describe the first-in-human testing of CIVO in four patients, representing an important step toward future, personalized clinical application of this technology, to compare and prioritize drugs in the ultimate context of validation—the cancer patient.
The CIVO platform consists of an arrayed microinjection device coupled with automated image analysis
The CIVO platform consists of a device that simultaneously delivers microgram quantities of test drugs into defined positions within a living tumor, coupled with automated, quantitative image-based analysis of specific tumor responses (Fig. 1). Drugs are co-injected with a chemically inert, visible injection tracking dye (ITD) to denote injection position (Fig. 1, A to C). Injections are performed so that a constant microliter volume of drug is delivered per millimeter extruded via retraction of each needle through the tumor. This design leaves a uniform, column-like track of drug through the z axis of the tumor (Fig. 1D), allowing investigators to sample multiple tissue depths to assess consistency of tumor response to drug. Furthermore, accounting for tumor heterogeneity observed in solid tumors, the drug column provides the potential to interrogate how different tumor microenvironments affect drug efficacy; for instance, normoxia versus hypoxia where a GLUT1 signal accumulates with increasing distance from the nearest endothelial cell as indicated by CD31 staining, then drops at distances greater than 250 μm as a result of tumor necrosis, a consequence of poor vascularization.
Fig. 1. The CIVO tumor microinjection platform.
(A) The CIVO platform consists of a handheld array of up to eight needles capable of simultaneously penetrating subcutaneous tumors and delivering microdoses of candidate therapeutics. (B) For preclinical studies, tumors were grown as flank xenografts in immunocompromised mice and injected while mice were anesthetized. A chemically inert ITD was co-injected through each needle. (C) A representative example of the ITD signal from a tumor injected using a five-needle array visualized with a Xenogen In Vivo Imaging System (IVIS). (D) A longitudinal IVIS scan demonstrating the column-like distribution of the tracking dye signal from a single needle spanning the z axis of the tumor. (E) Tumor responses were assessed after resection of the tumor via histological staining of cross sections (4 μm thick) sampled at 2-mm intervals perpendicular to the injection column. (F) High-resolution whole-slide scanning captured images of every cell from each 4-μm-thick tissue section. (G) A representative tumor response to microinjected drug at a single injection site. Nuclei, DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) (blue); ITD (green); a drug-specific biomarker (orange). (H) The resulting images were processed by a custom image analysis platform called CIVO Analyzer, which classifies the cells within each region of interest as biomarker-positive (green dots) or biomarker-negative (red dots).
Responses to drugs were assessed after resection of the tumor at a predetermined time point (typically 24 to 72 hours). Multiple biomarkers, including those for mechanism-based drug effects, target or pathway engagement, and apoptotic response, were tracked by sampling 4-μm-thick histological sections at 2-mm intervals along the injection column (Fig. 1E). High-resolution whole-slide scanning was used to capture images of every cell from each tissue section (Fig. 1F), and these images were then quantitatively processed by a custom image analysis platform called CIVO Analyzer, which comprises automated injection site detection, cross section registration, and biomarker-specific tissue and cellular segmentation to streamline analysis of induced tumor response (Fig. 1, G and H).
Spatially defined drug distribution enables multidrug analysis in tumors
CIVO platform performance and drug distribution were first assessed in xenografted human tumor models using a panel of radiolabeled compounds of varied physicochemical properties, including molecular weight, lipophilicity, and protein binding. Drug distribution was assessed by 14C or 3H count distribution within 2 mm of the injection epicenter and at an adjacent site microinjected with saline. Three different xenograft models [Ramos lymphoma, H2122 non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and H292 NSCLC] and three time points (15 min, 4 hours, and 24 hours) were evaluated. On average, more than 96% of each drug remained within the 2-mm radius around the targeted injection site and was not detected at adjacent sites (table S1).
Further characterization of drug distribution after CIVO microinjection was performed with the antimitotic agent vincristine. Vincristine distribution was directly tracked by microinjection of 3H-labeled drug into discrete positions of xenografted Ramos lymphoma tumors. Tumors were resected at 2, 8, 24, 48, and 72 hours after injection, and fixed cryosections cut perpendicular to each injection column were subjected to autoradiography. The resulting autoradiograms revealed spatially defined (with a maximum radial extent of about 1500 μm) and graded regions of drug distribution with respect to the injection site origin (Fig. 2A). Radioactivity, plotted as a function of distance from the injection, confirmed a monotonic drop in drug content with increasing radial distance. Within 400 μm of the injection epicenter, a rapid drop in drug content over time was observed (Fig. 2A). At radial distances between 500 and 1500 μm, the activity remained fairly stable over time, suggesting a steady-state drug concentration profile with diffusion into the zone balancing drug elimination, at least through 72 hours after injection. These data indicate that none of the drugs tested distributed beyond 2 mm of the injection epicenter.
Fig. 2. CIVO microinjections result in spatially defined, nonoverlapping drug distribution and quantifiable tumor responses.
(A) Intratumoral vincristine (VCR) distribution was directly tracked by microinjection of 3H-labeled drug into discrete positions of xenografted Ramos lymphoma tumors. After injection, tumors were resected at 2, 8, 24, 48, and 72 hours, and sections were subjected to autoradiography and quantified as drug concentration as a function of distance. Data are averages ± SEM (n = 4 tumors per time point). (B) Parallel tumors were microinjected with the same amount of vincristine (1.5 μg) or a vehicle (Veh) control. Tumor responses at 24 hours at various distances from each injection site were visualized by staining for pHH3 or CC3. High-magnification hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) images are from the approximate regions designated by the red and blue boxes in the middle panels. The fraction of biomarker-positive cells was plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site 72 hours after microinjection. Data are averages ± SEM (n = 6 tumors). *P < 0.05; **P < 0.001, Wald test. (C) Multiplexed microinjection of five different vincristine concentrations, each through a unique position within the array. Sections from resected tumors were stained and quantified. Data are averages ± SEM (n = 5 tumors at 24 hours, six tumors at 72 hours after microinjection).
The distribution pattern was compared with histological biomarkers of tumor response to drug in parallel Ramos tumors microinjected with the same amount of unlabeled vincristine. All injections of vincristine resulted in spatially constrained regions of tumor response, with a leading edge of phospho–histone H3 (pHH3)–positive cells arrested in mitosis (500 to 1500 μm) surrounding an inner core of apoptotic cleaved caspase-3 (CC3)–positive cells (0 to 900 μm) emanating from the site of drug delivery (Fig. 2B); these findings are consistent with the known mechanism of action of vincristine. In contrast, sites microinjected with vehicle were pHH3- and CC3-negative but exhibited variable evidence of modest tissue damage directly adjacent (≤200 μm) to the region where the needle passed through the tissue. The same distribution pattern of biomarker response to vincristine was observed upon microinjection into a patient-derived xenograft model of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (fig. S2A).
The graded drug distribution and corresponding response allowed each injection site to be evaluated as a range of drug concentrations, where the drug gradient is a function of distance from the original site of localized drug delivery. This concept is similar to that described by Patel et al. (11), where drug distribution and biomarkers were plotted as a function of distance to the nearest blood vessel to assess concentration dependence of tumor responses. Our data demonstrate an increasing magnitude of tumor response upon increasing drug (vincristine) input concentration at each microinjection site, observed as a dose-dependent increase in CC3+ cells when plotted against radial distance (Fig. 2C). Dose-dependent increases were also observed for the local pHH3+ cell population. However, in contrast to CC3, pHH3 staining revealed a parabolic profile with cells nearest to injection sites (<500 μm) no longer expressing the pHH3 antigen. Histological analysis suggests that pHH3 loss is due to extensive cell death in this core region, because loss of pHH3 directly correlates with increased CC3 and the appearance of morphologically damaged cells in a dose-dependent manner.
These experiments were repeated with mafosfamide (an active surrogate for the pro-drug cyclophosphamide), doxorubicin, and prednisolone (an active surrogate for the pro-drug prednisone), because these represent or simulate components of the CHOP [cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin (doxorubicin), oncovin (vincristine), prednisone] regimen, a first-line lymphoma therapy. All positions were co-injected with an ITD, except for doxorubicin, because the autofluorescence from doxorubicin interferes with detection of the dye (fig. S3). Similar to responses observed with vincristine, CIVO microinjection of either mafosfamide or doxorubicin resulted in dose-dependent, spatially defined regions of cellular response in Ramos lymphoma xenograft tumors (Fig. 3A). Tumor responses were specific to the established mechanism of action of each drug as shown in Fig. 3B and quantified in Fig. 3C. Of the four agents tested, only vincristine resulted in pHH3+ cells, corresponding with its antimitotic activity (Fig. 3, B and C). Consistent with their DNA-damaging activity, both doxorubicin and mafosfamide resulted in phospho–histone H2AX (γH2AX) expression in cells adjacent to injection sites (Fig. 3, B and C). Mafosfamide, doxorubicin, and vincristine all induced a measurable apoptotic response (CC3+) above vehicle control by 72 hours.
Fig. 3. In vivo tumor responses are mechanism of action–specific and concentration-dependent.
(A and B) Ramos lymphoma tumors were injected with arrays containing a vehicle control, mafosfamide (MAF), doxorubicin (DOX), vincristine, and prednisolone (PRED), each delivered from a distinct needle within the array, and tumors were resected 24 hours later. Tissue sections from multiple depths along the injection column were stained with H&E or antibodies recognizing γH2AX, pHH3, or CC3. (A) Representative whole-section images from resected tumors. (B) Individual injection sites from tumors. (C) Ramos lymphoma tumors were microinjected with varying concentrations of each drug, each concentration through a distinct needle within the array, and tumors resected 24 and 72 hours after microinjection. Tissue sections were stained with antibodies recognizing γH2AX, pHH3, or CC3, and the fraction of biomarker-positive cells was plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site. Data are average responses across multiple tumors ± SEM (mafosfamide, n = 5; doxorubicin, n = 15; vincristine, n = 8; and prednisolone, n = 4).
In contrast to the other agents tested, prednisolone exposure did not result in overt tumor responses at the time points and the concentrations of drug examined (Fig. 3, B and C). Consistent with a role as a chemoenhancer in some lymphomas, co-injection of prednisolone with vincristine resulted in a modest but significantly enhanced drug-induced tumor cell apoptotic response across a range of drug concentrations as observed by plotting response as a function of radial distance from the injection site (fig. S4).
Localized tumor responses predict response to systemically delivered drugs
To assess the clinical predictive capabilities of the CIVO platform, we investigated whether localized tumor responses correlated with responses to systemic delivery of drug in mice. Because most novel drugs are first tested in patients who have failed first-line therapies, we extended our analysis to include a new drug-resistant variant of the Ramos lymphoma line, called Res-Ramos, which is refractory to 500 nM doxorubicin in vitro, likely due in part to increased activity of the P-glycoprotein (Pgp/MDR1/ABCB1) drug efflux pump (table S2) (12). Nude mice bearing either parental Ramos or Res-Ramos tumors were CIVO-injected or treated systemically with one of the four CHOP agents. Short-term (24 to 72 hours) CIVO responses were compared to longer-term (up to 29 days) systemic responses to drug. Similar to previous experiments, CIVO microinjection of doxorubicin, vincristine, and mafosfamide all resulted in localized tumor responses in the parental Ramos tumors, with vincristine inducing the greatest apoptotic effect and prednisolone having no effect (Fig. 4A).
Fig. 4. Localized responses to CIVO microinjection detect context-dependent drug-specific resistance and sensitivity, which correlate with long-term systemic outcomes.
(A) Ramos and Res-Ramos tumors were microinjected with arrays containing vehicle control, doxorubicin, vincristine, mafosfamide, and prednisolone, and tumor responses were visualized by staining 4-μm sections from tumors resected 24 hours after microinjection (except for doxorubicin, shown at 72 hours). Tissue sections from multiple depths along the injection column were stained with antibodies recognizing γH2AX, pHH3, or CC3. The fraction of CC3+ cells was quantified using CIVO Analyzer, and the difference in response between the Ramos and Res-Ramos tumors was plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site for each drug. Data are average differences in response across a minimum of three tumors 24 hours after microinjection (except for doxorubicin curves, which are from 72 hours) ± SEM. (B) Ramos and Res-Ramos tumor–bearing mice (n ≥ 10 per cohort) were treated systemically with saline (control), doxorubicin (3.3 mg/kg), vincristine (0.5 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (20 mg/kg), or prednisone (0.2 mg/kg). Doxorubicin, vincristine, and cyclophosphamide were each administered intravenously once per week (q1w) for 4 weeks. Prednisone was administered orally (PO) 5 days per week for 4 weeks. Efficacy was assessed via tumor volume measurements, and data are means ± SEM. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were determined for the cyclophosphamide treatment groups (n = 10 per cohort); P value was determined by a log-rank test using vehicle control for the comparison. Tumor growth inhibition (TGI) was calculated (see Materials and Methods) at day 8 for each treatment condition compared to vehicle. P values were determined by a two-sided Student’s t test. (C) Cultures of drug-naïve and doxorubicin-resistant Ramos (Res-Ramos) cell lines were seeded in drug-free medium or medium with various doxorubicin, vincristine, mafosfamide, or prednisolone concentrations. Cell viability was measured 72 hours after drug exposure. Data are representative from three separate experiments.
Tumor cell response after CIVO microinjection mirrored tumor growth inhibition after systemic treatment of Ramos tumors (Fig. 4B). CIVO was also able to predict response in a tumor context–specific manner (both resistance and increased sensitivity). In our model of drug resistance, Res-Ramos tumors exhibited the expected reduced response to microinjection of doxorubicin, as well as to vincristine—also a Pgp substrate (Fig. 4, A and B). Failure to induce a localized response was mirrored by lack of tumor growth inhibition after systemic exposure to vincristine, doxorubicin, or prednisone (Fig. 4B).
In contrast to the other drugs, CIVO microinjection of mafosfamide induced significantly greater cell death responses in the Res-Ramos tumor model (Fig. 4A), which was confirmed in vivo after systemic cyclophosphamide administration (Fig. 4B). Res-Ramos mice treated with cyclophosphamide also demonstrated significant improvement in overall survival compared with Ramos mice treated with the same drug (Fig. 4B). At the end of the study, 70% of the Res-Ramos mice treated with cyclophosphamide were tumor-free (average tumor volume, ≤60 mm3) compared with only 15% of the Ramos mice, in agreement with the prediction drawn from CIVO microinjections in Fig. 4A.
Cell-based proliferation assays were also performed to assess the correlation between in vitro and in vivo responses to drug treatment. Drug sensitivity of the parental Ramos line in vitro approximated in vivo responses but did not register sensitivity to mafosfamide and falsely indicated sensitivity to prednisolone (Fig. 4C). Res-Ramos cells exhibited resistance to doxorubicin and vincristine in vitro (Fig. 4C), which was expected. However, in contrast, the increased sensitivity of Res-Ramos cells to mafosfamide, observed by both in vivo approaches (CIVO and systemic therapy), was not seen in the cell-based in vitro assay (Fig. 4C).
In vivo screening with CIVO indicates chemoresistant lymphoma sensitivity to mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors
To expand on the CHOP results and to identify candidate agents to treat chemoresistant lymphoma, we performed a pilot CIVO-based screen in the Res-Ramos tumors using the 97-compound Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP) version III set of approved oncology drugs from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In vivo assessment of all 97 drugs was completed within 2 weeks from the initiation of the screen by microinjecting 8 compounds per tumor into replicate Res-Ramos xenografts and resecting and staining at 72 hours (fig. S5A). Of the 202 injection sites (replicate DTP set plus vehicle controls), 195 resulted in clear detection of localized injection site dye (96.5% success rate).
Of the 97 drugs tested, 5 resulted in a measurable increase in apoptotic cells (>15% CC3+) around the site of injection (table S3). One of the five agents was the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) complex 1 (mTORC1) inhibitor rapamycin, suggesting a dependence of Res-Ramos tumors on active mTORC1 activity for survival (fig. S5B). To confirm that rapamycin was exerting its expected mechanism of action, down-regulation of the mTOR pathway, we microinjected Res-Ramos tumors with rapamycin and resected them for examination of mTOR pathway status after 2 hours of localized (CIVO-mediated) drug exposure. Local exposure to rapamycin led to a marked decrease in phosphorylation of the mTORC1 substrate eIF4E-binding protein 1 (4EBP1) (p4EBP1) (fig. S5C). Pathway inhibition occurred before observable increase in apoptosis (CC3) or morphological changes indicative of cell death. This suggests that mTOR pathway inhibition precedes rapamycin-induced apoptosis. These results also suggest that use of CIVO is not limited to classic cytotoxic chemotherapy agents but can be used to evaluate inhibitors targeting specific pro-oncogenic pathways.
Two additional mTOR inhibitors—ridaforolimus (mTORC1 inhibitor) and CC-115 [inhibitor of mTORC1, mTORC2, and DNA-PK (DNA–dependent protein kinase); ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01353625]—were microinjected into Ramos and Res-Ramos tumors, and p4EBP1 and CC3 staining was analyzed. Both ridaforolimus and CC-115 inhibited the mTOR pathway in the Ramos and Res-Ramos tumors (Fig. 5A). Like rapamycin, ridaforolimus induced apoptosis central to the region of mTOR pathway inhibition, and this activity was similar in both parental and Res-Ramos models. Whereas ridaforolimus exhibited no cell line preference, CC-115 activity was significantly increased in the Res-Ramos background within 24 hours (Fig. 5, A and B). Similar to the case of mafosfamide (Fig. 4), this apparent cell line–dependent activity was not detected in a standard 72-hour in vitro cell-based viability assay (Fig. 5C).
Fig. 5. CIVO predicts enhanced experimental mTOR inhibitor CC-115 efficacy in doxorubicin-resistant tumors.
(A) Ramos (n = 4) and Res-Ramos (n = 3 at 2 hours; n = 5 at 24 hours) tumors were microinjected with arrays containing vehicle control, ridaforolimus, or CC-115. Tumor responses were visualized by staining for p4EBP1 and CC3. (B) The fraction of CC3+ cells was quantified using CIVO Analyzer and plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site. Data are average responses 24 hours after microinjection ± SEM. *P < 0.05, Wald test. (C) Cultures of drug-naïve (Ramos) and doxorubicin-resistant (Res-Ramos) cell lines were seeded in drug-free medium or medium with various concentrations of CC-115. Cell viability was tested using the PrestoBlue assay after 72 hours. IC50, median inhibitory concentration. (D and E) Ramos and Res-Ramos tumor–bearing mice (n = 6 per cohort) were treated systemically with saline (control) or CC-115 (5 mg/kg) administered PO daily for 25 days. (D) Efficacy was assessed via tumor volume measurements. Data are means ± SEM. TGI was calculated at day 25 for each treatment condition. *P < 0.05 compared to saline control, two-sided Student’s t test. (E) Representative images of tumors from each treatment arm on day 25.
In vivo, CC-115–treated parental Ramos xenografts were overtly smaller than vehicle controls but continued to grow through the course of the experiment. In contrast, systemic delivery of CC-115 resulted in complete regression of Res-Ramos xenograft tumors (Fig. 5, D and E), consistent with localized apoptosis observed upon CIVO microinjection (Fig. 5, A and B). Regardless of the mechanism, these results emphasize the importance of efficacy testing in vivo, because the context-specific effect of CC-115 was not detected in a cell-based in vitro assay.
CIVO proves feasible and safe in cancer patients
As a first step to establish feasibility for use of CIVO in vivo in humans, we initiated a trial in lymphoma patients with a prototype device for arrayed microinjection. The primary goals of this trial were to assess the physician and patient experience during the procedure, to establish the choreography of using CIVO technology in the clinical setting, and to learn what aspects of the technology and methodology need to be improved. Four patients with enlarged lymph nodes were injected with microdoses of vincristine (1.5 μg) using the CIVO prototype (Fig. 6A). Although clear cell death was observed in cells surrounding the vincristine injection (Fig. 6B), the ITD indocyanine green (ICG) commonly used in human studies was difficult to detect (displayed as a separate image panel from the CC3 stain in Fig. 6C) owing to the loss of ICG signal during tissue processing. Technology modifications, including an improved method of tracking injection sites, were implemented on the basis of what was learned from pilot testing in humans (see Materials and Methods).
Fig. 6. Pilot clinical use of CIVO demonstrates feasibility of inducing localized responses in human lymphoma tumors.
(A) Microinjection procedure in a patient with a palpable cancerous lymph node using an early CIVO clinical prototype. The patient’s tumor was injected with microdoses of vincristine (1.5 μg) and ICG. Lymph nodes were resected 24 hours later, and tumor responses were visualized by staining 4-μm sections for CC3. (B) The fraction of CC3+ cells was quantified from one patient’s tumor using CIVO Analyzer and plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site. Data are average responses across three sections from multiple depths along the injection column ± SEM. (C) Tissue sections were stained for CC3, and the localized cell death response to vincristine was verified by evaluation of parallel H&E-stained sections.
Early data regarding patient and physician experiences were encouraging. No grade 2, 3, or 4 adverse events were reported. All patients experienced transient grade 1 events, such as mild erythema and swelling, that resolved without intervention. An external review committee evaluated the interim results and raised no questions or concerns. On a pain scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst possible pain, three patients reported 0.5, and one patient reported 3 (mild discomfort) (table S4).
Follow-up patient interviews revealed outstanding patient satisfaction, with one suggestion to improve the experience (table S5). In response to feedback from the various stakeholders involved in the clinical procedure (oncologist, pharmacist, patient, surgeon, and pathologist), the prototype device was reengineered as follows: (i) inclusion of ultrasound-based guide needle placement for optimized targeting of CIVO microinjections to cancerous tissue, (ii) improved materials and associated methods for retaining tumor orientation and injection site identification after tumor injection, and (iii) increased needle density to allow more drug samples to be investigated per patient. (Details on each modification, adopted for the canine study, are provided in Materials and Methods.)
Post-pilot CIVO modifications result in performance improvements in canine patients with lymphoma
CIVO technology modifications made after pilot testing in humans were applied in canine patients with spontaneous lymphoma in a clinical setting. Anesthetized dogs were subjected to CIVO microinjection of vincristine along with a fluorescent tracking dye (Fig. 7, A to D). Ultrasound-based image guidance, the use of a guide needle combined with modified needle positioning, and use of the improved ITD increased injection success in the clinic from 42% (n = 20 observed/48 total injection sites) before modifications, to >93% (n = 15 observed/16 total injection sites) in lymphoma tumors. The responses to vincristine in native tumors, as detected by both pHH3 and CC3 staining around easy-to-identify injection sites, were robust and reproducible in two canine patients, with a radial CC3 response similar in extent to that observed in xenograft tumors in mice (Fig. 7E). No toxicity was observed according to the Veterinary Cooperative Oncology Group standards (13). These clinical studies in both canine and human patients demonstrate that tumor response to drug can be tested in a toxicity-sparing, localized manner in vivo with CIVO technology.
Fig. 7. CIVO performance in canine lymphoma tumors demonstrates spatially restricted responses linked to drug mechanism.
(A to C) CIVO microinjection procedure adapted for a clinic-like, veterinary setting (A and B) by incorporating the placement of a “guide needle” into the optimal injection site using ultrasound guidance, (C) which aligned the microinjection device to target all needles of the handheld device into the optimal location in the tumor, increasing injection success. (D) ITD signal seen beneath the skin with a blue flashlight and yellow filter glasses, from a canine tumor injected using an eight-needle CIVO array. (E) Cancerous lymph nodes in two dogs were microinjected with the same amount of vincristine (1.5 μg) or a vehicle control. Tumors were resected 24 hours after microinjection. The ITD (green) and tumor responses (CC3, red; pHH3, yellow) were visualized in 4-μm sections from multiple depths along the injection column. Individual injection sites are shown for each dog. The fraction of biomarker-positive cells for each dog was plotted as a function of radial distance from the injection site. Data are average responses across three sections at about 2-mm intervals along the injection column ± SEM.
Cancer drug developers face a fundamental challenge in the way new drug candidates are evaluated. Currently, novel cancer drugs are tested in preclinical, often in vitro cell-based models that poorly reflect human cancers. This discordance becomes evident when new agents enter human clinical trials: Nine of 10 drugs that exhibit promising antitumor efficacy in preclinical models fail to provide benefit to actual patients (3). This rate of failure comes at a tremendous cost to drug companies [10 to 15 years and >$2.6 billion per approved drug (5)] and an even greater cost to cancer patients. Despite advances in 3D tissue culture technologies and nonhuman models of cancer, meaningful modeling of human cancer has proven challenging (2, 14, 15).
In response to these insufficient models of drug efficacy, we engineered a platform technology called CIVO that enables safe, ethical, and efficient (multiplexed) testing of cancer drugs directly in human tumors. The CIVO technology intentionally bypasses bioavailability, biodistribution, metabolism, and excretion issues associated with systemic dosing, making it possible to focus to on whether a drug engages its target, how cancer cells respond to target engagement, and whether the ultimate fate of the exposed cells indicates potential for patient therapeutic response—all in the context of an actual tumor microenvironment.
Crossing the threshold into human studies required initial studies in the controlled environment of preclinical xenograft models of cancer. With an optimized device and protocol in place, we determined whether the short-term (24 to 72 hours) localized responses induced by CIVO predicted tumor response to systemic administration of the same drugs. The pair-matched set of Ramos and Res-Ramos (resistant) lymphoma tumors provided a simple model to test this correlation. Res-Ramos tumors were resistant to doxorubicin and had up-regulated Pgp drug efflux pumps; thus, the observed lack of responses to localized CIVO microinjection of doxorubicin and vincristine was expected and served as fundamental demonstrations that our technology could detect resistance to cytotoxic drugs. We unexpectedly observed sensitivity of the Res-Ramos tumors to microinjection of mafosfamide, which was subsequently confirmed in vivo with systemically administered cyclophosphamide; standard in vitro analysis in cell culture, however, failed to reveal this sensitivity, indicating the importance of localized in vivo testing of drugs for more accurate systemic therapeutic predictions.
CC-115 was identified as a new anticancer agent for Res-Ramos tumors after an in vivo CIVO screen of 97 compounds. CC-l15 indeed was able to shrink tumors in vivo in animals with the resistant tumors, further demonstrating the use of CIVO in identifying drugs that are effective in tumors already resistant to most therapies. Furthermore, in vitro cell-based proliferation assays did not detect the sensitivity to CC-115.
This observation is in line with previous studies demonstrating that in vitro tests have greater accuracy in predicting tumor resistance to drugs than sensitivity (16–20). The results presented here build on the body of literature emphasizing the limitations of anticancer agent assessment in vitro and provide additional evidence that cancer cells grown as a monolayer in tissue culture behave differently than those grown in the context of an intact tumor. Alternative in vitro and ex vivo technologies have been explored that are designed to predict clinical response to anticancer drugs, using platforms that conserve tumor heterogeneity and the native microenvironment, for example, using thin tumor sections cultured in wells coated with grade-matched tumor matrix in the presence of autologous serum (21). The authors established a correlation between the response of explanted samples and the response of corresponding xenografts, as well as the clinical responses to an approved cytotoxic combination of agents. Further investigation will be necessary to assess whether displacement of tumor tissue from the context of the host patient and, in turn, the immune system will affect the predictive accuracy of this approach.
In our study, CIVO was translated to the clinic for preliminary feasibility testing in four patients. None of the patients who received CIVO microinjections have exhibited adverse effects to date beyond mild grade 1 (transient erythema). From that pilot study, we further optimized the CIVO device and tested in canine patients. Similar to the responses observed in largely homogeneous lymphoma xenograft tumors in mice, we noted robust drug (vincristine)–specific cellular responses in heterogeneous, autochthonous lymphoma tumors. Although these results are preliminary, they support our expectation that CIVO will ultimately enable early drug discovery and treatment decisions in the clinic.
Several challenges remain to be addressed before widespread use of CIVO in the patients. CIVO devices are currently engineered to assess drug responses in lymphoma, melanoma, soft tissue sarcoma, and breast cancer, which, combined, affect about 500,000 U.S. patients and 4 million worldwide each year (22). Reengineering will be required to address tumors that cannot be accessed percutaneously (for example, colon). Another limitation of the current CIVO technology is the necessity to resect the tumor to use histological end points. This limits measurement of response to a single time point per tumor. Noninvasive imaging technologies and molecular or nanotechnology-based reporters may provide additional end point options in the future. Furthermore, clinical trials designed to demonstrate that CIVO-induced responses (or nonresponses) correlate with treatment outcome in individual patients must still be performed. Ongoing assessment of CIVO in human patients is the next step toward defining the potential capabilities of this technology (www.clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01831505).
Ultimately, determination of whether a cancer drug can be commercialized depends on demonstrating activity in human patients. CIVO technology has the potential for testing experimental drugs directly in a patient with their own intact tumor microenvironment, their own immune system, and unique oncogenomic profile without the toxicities associated with typical clinical exposures. In combination with traditional preclinical toxicology studies, drug developers may then focus resources on the agents that demonstrate superior efficacy in the context of the true human disease before advancement to conventional clinical trials. The quantities of drug required to induce localized tumor responses, both for cytotoxic chemotherapy agents and for targeted inhibitors represented here by the mTOR inhibitors, all fall under established FDA phase 0 guidelines for microdosing studies (23, 24). CIVO technology will further complement genomic medicine. Unfortunately, current genomic approaches cannot reliably predict ultimate resistance to a particular therapy or which drug combinations would circumvent such resistance. This leaves an enormous information gap faced by cancer patients and oncologists between the biology and pharmacology of solid tumors growing in the body and clinical outcomes. We therefore envision a future where the power of genomics and an empirical approach enabled by CIVO are used to bridge this gap created by tumor heterogeneity, microenvironment influences, and drug resistance and to treat patients in a meaningful way.
This work in mice and dogs was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and was done in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies governing the use of animals in research.
Preclinical. Proof-of-concept studies were conducted using the human Ramos and Res-Ramos lymphoma cell lines xenografted into immunocompromised mice to demonstrate the capability of the CIVO platform for simultaneous assessment of numerous drugs within a single solid tumor. Multiple tissue sections representing distinct depths along the injection column were stained for biomarkers with replicates of at least three tumors per condition per time point analyzed, unless otherwise specified. Studies involving systemic drug administration in tumor-bearing mice were designed as follows. The study end point for Fig. 4 was the time until tumor volume reached 2000 mm3, at which point the mice were euthanized for ethical reasons. Mice were stratified by body weight and tumor size once tumors reached 250 (Fig. 4) or 500 (Fig. 5) mm3 and then randomized into the individual study arms (minimum n = 6 per treatment cohort) (25, 26). Power estimates were made using a two-sided, two-arm t test for mean differences (http://stattools.crab.org) with a P < 0.05 significance level. Studies were designed with >90% power to detect a 40 (Fig. 4) or 50% (Fig. 5) change in tumor volume in either of the treatment arms compared to the vehicle control. No outliers were excluded from the data presented.
Clinical, canine. Feasibility studies were conducted in pet dogs with naturally occurring cancer that had presented to local area veterinary clinics. All dogs recruited into this proof-of-principle study remained under the custody and care of their owners and the participating veterinary specialists. Informed consent was obtained from owners. The goal of the feasibility study in dogs was to demonstrate the capability of the CIVO platform for simultaneous assessment of numerous drugs within a single naturally occurring solid autochthonous tumor. Histological analysis was conducted on injected tumors. No outliers were excluded from data presented.
Clinical, human. An observational study in human cancer patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent lymphoma was conducted to determine how cancerous lymph nodes in situ respond to precisely injected standard-of-care therapeutics. All human studies using the CIVO device were done under the oversight of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s (FHCRC’s) Institutional Review Board (IRB). The feasibility study of the CIVO platform in lymphoma patients is currently open and underway (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01831505). All patients provided informed consent for treatment protocols approved by the FHCRC IRB. Patients 18 years or older were eligible if they had an enlarged lymph node highly suspicious of lymphoma or had persistent recurrent, or progressive, lymphoma. At least one enlarged lymph node had to be considered accessible for percutaneous injection by the investigator and of at least 2 cm in the longest dimension. Patients were excluded if the delay of surgery until the lymph node resection date or other factors associated with the study were not feasible. In addition, patients were excluded if they had central nervous system disease, or any therapy that was potentially immunosuppressive or had anticancer activity in the 4 weeks before device microinjection. Patients with active fungal, viral, or bacterial infections and pregnant women were excluded.
Four patients underwent the microinjection procedure after signing informed consent. Volumes up to 8 μl of FDA-approved chemotherapy agents were percutaneously injected in a columnar fashion into an enlarged lymph node. The day after microinjection, the injected lymph node was removed by a surgeon for assessment of local cancer cell response to the injected chemotherapy. The injected portion was fixed and processed for histological analysis. No outliers were excluded from the data presented. Observations made during the study included a patient’s assessment of the pain he or she experienced, which was noted after the procedure using the Mosby pain rating scale, and adverse events related to the study procedures (microinjections or lymph node biopsy), which were captured up to day 28 after the microinjection.
Device design
The CIVO device is a handheld instrument designed to deliver multiple drugs into living tumors in an arrayed format. Devices contain between four and eight needles (25 to 26 gauge), which are connected to internal drug reservoirs, and range from 30 to 43 mm in length depending on the device model. The device was designed to avoid cross-contamination or drug mixing and to deliver drug with a constant flow rate. The device, once loaded with drug and trace amounts of ITD, is inserted percutaneously to the proper depth within a tumor using ultrasound guidance. Actuation of a lever allows all needles to retract from the tissue while an equal volume of drug is delivered simultaneously from each needle. Successful drug delivery is confirmed by visualization of the ITD.
Arrayed microinjections
Nude mice were inoculated subcutaneously with Ramos or Res-Ramos cancer cells; NSG [NOD (nonobese diabetic)–SCID (severe combined immunodeficient)–IL-2Rγ−/−] mice were inoculated with patient-derived tumors (LY0055F diffuse large B cell lymphoma), as described in Supplementary Materials and Methods. Tumor-bearing mice were anesthetized with vaporized isoflurane during all microinjection procedures. The arrayed microinjection device was inserted transcutaneously into flank tumors, and drugs were delivered from the needles (26 gauge) during their extrusion from the tumor. The typical column length was ~6 mm. ITD [previously inactivated VivoTag680-S, ICG, or a fluorescent tattoo dye] was added to each drug reservoir at a final concentration of 50 μg/ml or as a 5% solution diluted in vehicle, for delivery along with drug. Microinjected mice were allowed to recover from anesthesia and return to normal activity for 24 to 72 hours before euthanasia and tumor resection.
All microdoses were equivalent to or lower than what would be allowed under FDA guidelines for Exploratory IND (Investigational New Drug) studies and by solubility of drug into vehicle. For instance, on the basis of standard systemic dosing of vincristine in humans (0.4 to 1.4 mg/m2), 6 to 21 μg of injected drug would be allowed for microdose studies for this compound under Exploratory IND guidelines (23, 24). Independent cohorts of mice were administered drugs systemically for 4 weeks, as described in Supplementary Materials and Methods.
Whole-slide scanning and image analysis
Images of every cell from each tissue section stained were captured by digital, automated, high-resolution whole-tissue scanning, as described in Supplementary Materials and Methods.
Statistical analyses were performed using R version 3.0.2 (The R Project for Statistical Computing). Mean tumor growth inhibition was computed for each systemic drug and tumor line and compared to 0 using a Student’s t test with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to evaluate survival for mice treated with cyclophosphamide, and log-rank test was used to compare survival between the respective tumor lines. To account for different tumor growth rates in parental and resistant Ramos cell lines, the average tumor size for each line in the vehicle arms at day 8 was measured, and events were defined as the day on which a tumor exceeded the corresponding average. Comparison of histological results from CIVO Analyzer was assessed by a linear mixed-effects model, where each drug and tumor line (resistant versus parental) were modeled as an unknown fixed effect and each tumor was modeled as a random effect. Differences between drug effects and interactions between drug and tumor line were assessed by Wald test. All P values ≤0.05, adjusted for multiple comparisons, were considered statistically significant.
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Fig. S1. The inverse relationship of hypoxic and vascularized tumor regions quantified by CIVO Analyzer.
Fig. S2. CIVO outcomes correlate with long-term response to vincristine in primary, patient-derived diffuse large B cell lymphoma.
Fig. S3. Intratumoral doxorubicin autofluorescence is detectable with IVIS imaging after microinjection.
Fig. S4. Co-microinjection of vincristine and prednisolone enhances the cell death response induced by vincristine alone.
Fig. S5. A CIVO-enabled in vivo screen of oncology therapies identifies a dependence on mTOR signaling in Res-Ramos tumors.
Table S1. Drug biodistribution after CIVO microinjection of radiolabeled compounds.
Table S2. Drug efflux pump expression in Ramos and Res-Ramos cells.
Table S3. The top five CIVO drug-screening hits were determined using CC3.
Table S4. Patients’ pain experience.
Table S5. Stakeholders’ input on the early CIVO prototype.
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Acknowledgments: We thank J. Delrow in the Genomics Shared Resource at FHCRC for assistance with microarray expression profiling; Lund Engineering for their contribution in the design of the microinjection devices; S. Lundberg at FHCRC for assistance in establishing the choreography of the various clinical teams; D. Byrd, S. Schmechel, and S. Bowell at the University of Washington for their contribution in the feasibility clinical study and their valuable input toward the improvement of the clinical technology; and S. Miller and N. Abbasi-Shaffer from the Investigational Drug Services in the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance for the drug loading of the CIVO device and their valuable input toward the improvement of the technology. We thank the patients and owners of canine patients who participated in our early clinical studies. Funding: NIH NCI 5R42 CA144104 (J.M.O.) and Presage Biosciences; NIH 1R01 CA155360, NIH NCI 2R01 CA114567, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Neuro-Oncology Fund (J.M.O.); and NIH T32 CA080416 (to S.B.B.). Author contributions: Microinjection technology: J.M.O., S.B.B., M.V., R.A.K., A.M.-G., K.L.W., J.P.F., B.A.H., M.O.G., J.R.C., I.T., and S.H.D.; image analysis technology: W.S.K., D.J.T., S.Y., J.P.F., B.A.H., and A.M.-G.; staining protocols and image capture: E.B., D.J.T., and I.T.; performed microinjections in mice: M.O.G., J.R.C., and I.T.; microinjections in canine: K.A.M., J.R.C., and M.O.G., with assistance from A.M.-G., K.L.W., S.H.D., J.A.B., and J.P.F.; microinjections in humans: O.W.P., with assistance from A.M.-G.; tissue culture experiments: A.D.S., S.M.M., J.D., M.C., and K.D.P.; radiolabeled drug experiments: S.H.D., K.D.P., M.O.G., T.L.D., A.M.-G., and W.S.K.; microinjection experiments in mice: R.A.K., M.C., B.A.H., A.M.-G., J.D., S.M.M., J.P.F., and T.L.D.; microinjection experiments in canine: J.P.F., J.A.B., A.M.-G., S.H.D., J.R.C., M.O.G., and R.A.K.; systemic efficacy experiments in mice: S.H.D., E.J.G., I.T., J.D., M.C., A.M.-G., and B.A.H.; immunohistochemistry: E.B.; image analysis and quantification: B.A.H., A.M.-G., W.S.K., S.Y., and D.J.T.; statistical analysis: W.S.K., A.M.-G., I.T., and J.D.; provided investigational CC-115 compound: E.H.F. and R.C.; manuscript writing: R.A.K., B.A.H., A.M.-G., and J.M.O., with assistance from J.P.F., W.S.K., A.D.S., J.D., M.C., T.L.D., S.B.B., M.V., and E.H.F.; and figure assembly: B.A.H., A.M.-G., R.A.K., W.S.K., and I.T. Competing interests: R.A.K., S.B.B., B.A.H., A.M.-G., J.P.F., W.S.K., J.R.C., D.J.T., S.Y., S.M.M., K.L.W., M.V., M.O.G., I.T., J.D., M.C., E.B., S.H.D., T.L.D., J.A.B., and J.M.O. are employed by Presage Biosciences and/or hold equity in the company. E.H.F. and R.C. are employed by Celgene Corporation. Patents: 8,349,554; 8,926,567; 8,672,887; 8,475,412; 8,834,428; and 8,657,786. Data and materials availability: The microarray data have been deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and are accessible through GEO Series accession no. GSE61516. CIVO materials can be made available by material transfer agreement upon reasonable request.
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Handmade – hands on keys, hands holding bows and pulling strings, hands using sticks to strike skins and cymbals. This is music made by hand, with intention, devotion, and sweat. Three great musicians having fun playing! Enjoy!
Genre: Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
1. Don't talk crazy
2. A Xepa
3. Mil Saudades
4. Lorca
5. Too Much (for Charlie Banacos)
6. The Drums (Suite for Jazz Trio)
7. The Bass (Suite for Jazz Trio)
8. The Piano (Suite for Jazz Trio)
9. The Trio (Suite for Jazz Trio)
Coming to Brazil 14 years ago was a kind of adventure that I expected to last only a couple of years. But private plans and destiny very often do not agree with each other. Now I'm married to my beautiful wife Marta, have three great kids: Stefan, Luisa and Clara, and I have met many marvelous people here. I am lucky to play with many of the very best Brazilian musicians and I’ve been learning a great variety of new musical styles and ways to play. Zé Eduardo Nazario and Alexandre Zamith became my partners almost 10 years ago and we continue to find opportunities to maintain our musical and personal friendship. I'm very pleased we managed to document some of the artistic material we've created during these years. Here are some comments about the music . . .
1) Don't Talk Crazy - I wrote this for a friend who is obsessed with the end of the world. The melody is in 5/4 and it stays in this meter on the B section where drums and bass do a metrical displacement.
2) A Xepa - Zé Eduardo Nazario wrote this song in 1976 when he was in Hermeto Pascoal’s band. He composed the melody on a bamboo flute used in the Northeast of Brazil. The song uses a typical rhythm from the Northeast area, Baião – but Zé put his personal stamp on the tune by arranging it for jazz instruments. A Xepa, translated from Brazilian Portuguese, means "our daily bread."
3) Mil Saudades - is dedicated to my mum and my friend Jens Thurow who left us too early.
4) Lorca - Alexandre Zamith wrote this tune as homage to the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The melody unfolds over a series of odd-meter combinations, mostly 6/8 and 7/8. In the improvisational section, the grouping of 6/8 and 7/8 totals a measure of 13/8.
5) Too Much, Charlie – The title of this song comes from an expression used often by Charlie Banacos during our lessons. Charlie was a legendary teacher in the Boston area and I had the privilege of studying with him for almost 5 years. He passed too soon, and I miss him a lot.
6 - 9) Suite For Jazz Trio "Twelve Bars Down The Road I Met You” – is dedicated to my wife Marta. We met at Berklee College of Music and played a lot of blues together. The entire suite is comprised of 4 movements. All of the movements are based in some way on the blues, although sometimes the connection is loose and/or very re-harmonized.
6) The Drums The first movement features the drum set by starting off with a solo and concludes with a bass melody and counterpoint based on a 12-tone row. My idea was 12 tones = 12 bars = blues.
7) The Bass – This movement is a feature for the upright bass in medium tempo with lots of double-stops. Although this is the most typical blues composition in the suite, the melody is actually 13 measures long.
8) The Piano – This movement is a very re-harmonized bluesy ballad in 3/4 meter. I particularly enjoy the impressionistic intro that Alexandre created. The last four chords of the form extend for free playing.
9) The Trio – This movement concludes the suite and is an up-tempo minor blues that features all 3 musicians. It ends on a G7sus chord, a dominant chord, which leaves everything open…
Frank Herzberg São Paulo, Brazil 1st of September, 2011
It is my great pleasure to write a few words about the recording at hand. It is a product of the long-time artistic collaboration of three unique and special musicians. Each brings a lifetime of devotion and musical growth to their joint effort.
Alexandre Zamith holds a Doctorate in Classical Performance and loves to combine elements of jazz and contemporary classical performance. He inserts impressionistic flavors into his music, quoting Brazilian composers like Villa Lobos and Guerra Peixe (in A Xepa for instance), and is fusing his musical interests into a unique personal style.
Zé Eduardo Nazario has played with a veritable “who’s who” of great Brazilian musicians, has accompanied international stars touring in his country, and has travelled widely. He has acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of Brazilian rhythms and music styles, and delved deeply into Jazz, African, and Indian musical cultures. Both sensitive and powerful, Zé Eduardo has a wonderful, creative musical imagination.
Frank Herzberg is a native Berliner and an adopted Brazilian. He is old-world conservatory trained, has absorbed contemporary improvisation techniques at Berklee College of Music and with other legendary teachers in Boston, and is now knee-deep in the vast and fascinating Brazilian musical universe. Frank is organized, flexible, and loyal.
These are the musicians who have created the recording Handmade. An honest name, I think, Handmade – hands on keys, hands holding bows and pulling strings, hands using sticks to strike skins and cymbals.
This is music made by hand, with intention, devotion, and sweat. The ingredients acquired through life-long study, then added, subtracted, mixed, blended, refined, and aged like fine wine in special barrels until the right moment. Now is the time to taste the wine. Enjoy!
John Stein Boston, USA 1st of September, 2011
Special thanks to god for putting me into “trouble”, my wife Marta, my kids Stefan, Luisa and Clara for being always supportive and a source of inspiration, my musicians Zé and Alexandre for finding time to work together, Andrex for his outstanding artwork and friendship and Silvo Gustin for his suggestions and his support.
Produced, mixed and mastered by Frank Herzberg.
Recorded on November 26 and 27 by Frank Herzberg, São Paulo Brazil.
Fotos and CD design by Andrex Photo.
Meu prezado Frank:
Foi com grande emoção e alegria que ouvi o seu novo e refinadíssimo CD Handmade. Gostei muito das composições: os temas super bem construídos, demonstrando sensibilidade e profunda compreensão rítmica, melódica e harmônica.
Congratulações a você e à sua turma: Alexandre Zamith no piano, Zé Eduardo Nazario na bateria, e você, Frank, magistralmente no contrabaixo. Parabéns pela execução de todos os temas, aqui apresentados com muita maturidade e muito talento.
Tenho certeza de que as pessoas que irão desfrutar da audição deste seu novo CD também vão "curtir" todo este "swing", todo esse "groove" nos concertos "live", que com certeza irão acontecer.
Quero estar presente para ouvi-los e, com sua licença, VOU continuar ouvindo um pouco mais deste seu LINDO SOM!
Osmar Barutti
Gitarre/Bass Februar Ausgabe 2012
Frank Herzberg Trio HANDMADE
Der deutsche Kontrabassist hat in Berlin Klassik und in Boston Jazz studiert; er lebt und arbeitet seit 14 Jahren in Brasilien. Gemeinsam mit Pianist Alexandre Zamith (auch ein toller Fender-Rhodes-Player) und Drummer Zé Eduardo Nazário hat er sein neues Album eingespielt, in nur zwei Tagen. Und dass es sich hierbei um echte Live-Musik handelt, um ein hervorragendes Beispiel für swingende, pulsierende Jazz-Interaktion, macht diese Veröffentlichung besonders erfreulich. Denn ganz im Gegensatz zu manchen selbstverliebten Piano-Trios oder Cocktail-infizierten Berufs-Latinisten, steht hier ein weiteres, ganz wesentliches Jazz-Element im Vordergrund: ENERGIE! Diese Formation rockt den Jazz, und Frank Herzbergs knochiger Kontrabasston, übrigens hervorragend aufgenommen, zieht, treibt und führt den Zuhörer förmlich durch die Musik. Originell gestaltet wurde die zweite Album-Hälfte mit den Solo-Tracks "the drums", "the bass" und "the piano", um dann mit "the trio" das Finale zu bestreiten. Geschmackvoll und gekonnt! It
Fabricio Viera
Folha de São Paulo, 2 de Fevereiro 2012
Frank Herzberg
QuantoR$ 37, em media
Avaliação ***
Radicado no Brasil desde os anos 90, o baixista alemão Frank Herzberg demonstra já ter absorvido o melhor do instrumental nacional. Este novo trabalho de seu trio, que conta com Zé Eduardo Nazario (bateria) e Alexandre Zamith (piano), registra bem isso, com momentos de muito swing, sem perder o refinamento. "Don't Talk Crazy" e "Lorca" resumem muito bem a estética do baixista.
Lynda Weingartz
AIRPLAY DIRECT & POWDERFINGER PROMOTIONS ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNER OF THE
"There were a lot of great entries for the Jazz promotion contest, but Frank Herzberg's was a clear standout. We loved the original rhythmic melodies and the entire ensemble was outstanding." David Avery, President/Powderfinger Promotions.
“We are so happy with the response to our joint contest with Powderfinger Promotions on the WIN A JAZZ RADIO PROMOTION. The quality of the music and artists that entered the contest was exceptional. We had entries from several countries and with the winner from Brazil. AirPlay Direct is the global platform for radio and artists and this contest adds to that confirmation. Frank Herzberg Trio is an amazing group with a terrific new record that we believe all of our jazz station members will download and play it. I want to thank all of the artists who entered and this is only the first of many jazz contests to come. Michael Harnett, President/AirPlay Direct.
Arnaldo Desouteiro
best new jazz release 2011
Brazils most important jazz critic Arnaldo Desouteiro released his yearly BEST OF JAZZ list (since 1979).
Frank Herzbergs new album "handmade" received the 1º place (in a list of 15 releases) as best jazz album 2011.
Drummer Zé Eduardo Nazário was elected best drummer 2011, pianist Alexandre Zamith 3º best electric pianist and Frank Herzberg 3º best acoustic bassist, as well as 3º best instrumental group.
Here is Arnaldos BEST JAZZ 2011:
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2011/12/dec.html
Wildy Haskell
Handmade - Frank Herzberg Trio
German born, Brazil-based instrumentalist, composer and bandleader Frank Herzberg has built a career on dynamic change, flexibility, and being one of the best in the world on his instrument: the double bass. Working professionally since 1987, Herzberg has shown a distinct talent for classical, jazz and Broadway style musicals. Herzberg shines as part of an ensemble, and doubly so when he is out in front. After years of working in the background, Herzberg began his Frank Herzberg Trio in 2004. Their latest effort, Handmade, shows a distinctive style and ear for themes, while allowing the three members freedom to explore their own individual musical ideas in a shared, communal setting.
Handmade gets started with “Don’t Talk Crazy”, a wonderfully unkempt number with dark and vaguely disturbing undertones. The song opens with Herzberg’s double bass making the rounds in a bound prologue, like a villain’s theme from an old silent movie. The percussion and piano slowly overlay as a dual musical non-sequitur before the trio launch into a peppy yet dark modern jazz number with a mischievous spirit. “A Xepa” is a frenetic effort with great energy that gets caught up in a repetitive loop and never quite breaks free of its own form. The piano work here is catchy and driven, reinforces the spiral. “Mil Saudades” opens with a ostinato bass that gives way to a lyric bowed melody line accompanied by tasteful and reserved piano and percussion. There’s a sense of quiet beauty here; the song feels almost like something Vince Guaraldi might have written on a maudlin day.
“Lorca” teems with energy, cavorting in its own internal dance. Herzberg varies tempo and pacing throughout, building a sense of drama, but the songs own inherent energy can never be denied for long. “Too Much, Charlie” is built around a jaunty lick on the double-bass, but it’s the piano work that really shines here. The song itself builds from classic jazz structure and slowly morphs into modern jazz de-construction, eventually petering out in exhausted disarray, only to begin again and start over. “The Drums” is a classic, Buddy Rich-style drum solo. The word pyrotechnics, while not entirely applicable to the jazz ensemble, doesn’t seem entirely out of place here. The rest of the trio joins in before it’s over, but this is a messy transition that perhaps detracts from the pure percussion magic that the song starts out with.
“The Bass” features Herzberg getting his own groove on, and proving once and for all that the double-bass is so much more than just one-half of the rhythm section. The rest of the trio joins in to fill out the arrangement, filling in the spaces between Herzberg’s runs. It’s the snappiest number on the disc; you’ll have a hard time sitting still. “The Piano” opens with another seemingly Vince Guaraldi-inspired rumination, although with a slightly more progressive bent at times. The result is the perfect balm for a rainy Sunday afternoon: melancholy but full of life. Handmade closes with the peppy “The Trio”, going for a pure nightclub feel that’s a perfect close for the tour that the Frank Herzberg Trio has just taken you on.
Handmade is a breath of fresh air. Frank Herzberg and company pay homage to classic jazz while allowing their occasional progressive desires some reign to play. The result is a high energy jazz exploration occasionally tempered by a delicious melancholy. This is not supper club jazz by any stretch. Handmade can play in the background, but will quickly become the center of attention. Even on the rare occasion where The Frank Herzberg Trio gets a bit bogged down, they do so in interesting fashion, with enough talent and panache to pull through relatively unscathed. Handmade is an impressive effort, and very quietly, one of the better new jazz offering of 2011.
Review by: Wildy Haskell
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Out of 5)
Dan MacIntosh
Frank Herzberg Trio "Handmade"
Artist: Frank Herzberg Trio
Album: Handmade
Review By: Dan MacIntosh
Frank Herzberg is a Brazilian-based jazz bassist and Handmade is his adventurous, straight ahead jazz album. His trio also includes piano/Rhodes player Alexandre Zamith and drummer Zé Eduardo Nazario. Anyone that enjoys serious jazz, and seriously pleasurable jazz, will find plenty to like about this new CD.
One notices right off the bat what an unselfish leader Herzberg truly is. The opening track, “Don’t Talk Crazy,” which Herzberg says is inspired by a friend obsessed with the end of the world, prominently features Zamith’s Rhodes word. The very next cut, “A Xepa,” a sprightly, upbeat tune spotlights Zamith again -- this time on piano.
If all that altruism weren’t enough, the album includes three very simply titled tracks toward the project’s end. One goes by “The Drummer,” the next is called “The Bass,” and the last one is named “The Piano.” Can you guess which instrument each track features? (Asked rhetorically). Every composition is blues based, with each track highlighting a singular instrument from the trio. This three-part work is dedicated to Herzberg’s wife, Marta, as they played a lot of blues together after meeting at Berklee College of Music. Although this is not blues, played strictly in, say, the Muddy Waters manner, it is nonetheless a three-pronged examination of the form. It once again reveals how much Herzberg trusts his fellow musicians, and just how integral the each man is to his music.
Herzberg’s pianist, Zamith, wrote one of the most beautifully exotic works on the album, “Lorca,” which was inspired by Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The song has an upbeat Latin feel to it. Ironically, Herzberg may well be the standout player on this particular track. (Apparently, there is karma involved in the Herzberg’s artistic generosity). It’s also obvious that the pianist created this one, as is quite percussive. At one point, Herzberg can be heard madly bowing at his instrument, which gives the track its most exotic flair of all.
If you’re looking for great blues, perhaps the kind similar to what Herzberg created with his wife Marta back in his Berklee College of Music days, look no further than “Too Much, Charlie.” Granted, it probably has just as much swing in it as blues. However, the song also clearly has blues written all over it. Zamith’s Rhodes once again shines like a lighthouse during this funky track. The tune is dedicated to Charlie Banacos, a music teacher Herzberg is proud to say he studied with in Boston. And if this excellent composition is any indication, Banacos must be a truly wonderful individual.
This album ends with “The Trio,” an upbeat, swinging tune. It’s the sort of song that sends audiences home smiling after a club gig. Once again, pianist Zamith leads the way with some lightning fast left handed playing. Herzberg’s solo is much more understated, yet no less effective. It’s a bright and happy melody, with a rhythm that truly allows the group to let loose and have fun.
After listening to Handmade, one is left with the overwhelming impression that the Frank Herzberg Trio is one well oiled music machine. Herzberg really knows how to strike a balance between smart compositional skills and inspired playing. There is also so much musical variety running throughout this CD. It’s the sort of album you would give to a friend that believes all jazz sounds the same. This is by no means stuffy and egg-headed, as some modern jazz can seem to be. Instead, it’s a delightful collection of original compositions, performed by three players that sometimes seem to be three parts of the same person. Jazz just doesn’t get any better than this.
Rating: 5 Stars (out of 5)
...the best jazz album of the year, "Handmade"...
***** (musical performance & sonic quality)
Produced & Engineered by Frank Herzberg
Recorded on November 26 & 27, 2010
Arguably the best jazz album of the year, "Handmade" was conceived, engineered & self-produced by the great São Paulo-based German bassist Frank Herzberg. Everything is impressive: the original material, the arrangements, the bright sound quality, the pristine mastering. And, specially, the soulful performances by this cohesive trio of giants: Herzberg on acoustic bass, Alexandre Zamith on acoustic piano & Rhodes, and Zé Eduardo Nazário on drums.
"Handmade" transcends any categorization. It's better and more creative than anything currently marketed as "contemporary jazz" in the USA and Europe. It's better and more creative than anything labeled as "instrumental Brazilian music" (argh!) or "Brazilian jazz." It defies limits, because this is music created by blessed souls, not simple musicians. They deliver a spiritual message through music, and they talk an universal language. There's a bit of Brazil, there's a lot of jazz, but above all there's originality everywhere. It's really a massive and challenging set, completely unpredictable, combining density and intensity in the highest possible level.
The expressiviness of Herzberg's use of the arco bass in the opening track, "Don't Talk Crazy," is just the first strong feeling the listener shall be prepared to experience. In the same tune, Nazário's extraordinary solo displays his stature as one of the world's top jazz drummers, in the same level of Roy Haynes, Jack DeJohnette and Chris Dave. The leader is a virtuoso, but he never shows off, remembering me of Richard Davis and Buster Williams. The keyboardist is a young master, Brazil's equivalent to Robert Glasper.
"A Xepa," composed by Nazário back in 1976, when he was a member of Hermeto Pascoal's band, reflects a time when Brazilian music was evolving so much that I believed it could conquer the world through Hermeto, Airto, Egberto Gismonti, Sivuca & Co. It's rhythmically a "baião," with its melody played by Zamith on Rhodes, and Nazário's performance evokes memories of one of his idols, our late friend Dom Um Romão.
"Mil Saudades," a haunting ballad, follows, with the leader using both arco and pizzicato. The interaction between Herzberg and Zamith is amazing, specially during a written section before the bass and piano improvisations. A very subtle samba-jazz comes to the surface, completing the trip. Zamith's "Lorca" seems more quiet in the beginning, but the mood changes as Herzberg's stunning arco work takes the tune to another dimension.
Zamith returns to the Rhodes on the funky-flavoured "Too Much, Charlie." The crystalline sound of Nazário's cymbals and hi-hat is schocking, combined with a killer bass-drum pulsation. And he starts the next track, appropriately titled "The Drums," in a trance. That's the first of four movements of a suite for jazz trio. Then comes "The Bass," on which the leader displays his tremendous dexterity (amplified by a fat & warm bass sound), followed by "The Piano," a lyrical voyage with Nazário's brushwork in an intimate dialogue with Zamith's long lines a la Chick Corea. The eagles land on "The Trio," defined by Herzberg as an "up-tempo minor blues." That's what comes closer to "mainstream jazz" in the album, once again allowing Nazário the chance to showcase his versatilty and complete command of the drumset. But words are not enough to describe the cathartic experience this CD provides. Try for yourself.
See Arnaldos blog:
http://jazzstation-oblogdearnaldodesouteiros.blogspot.com/2011/12/instrumental-cd-of-month-franz-herzberg.html
DAN BILAWSKY
Review at all about jazz
The letter "B" has played a major role in Frank Herzberg's life. The Berlin-born bassist, who spent time honing his craft at Berklee, relocated to Brazil in 1997 and has been busy performing and recording music there ever since. While Herzberg's career choices probably have nothing to do with adding alliterative qualities to his biography, they have everything to do with his efforts to broaden and sharpen his mind and music.
Herzberg and his trio work in a variety of settings here and with great sensitivity and creativity make Handmade into a jazz album born in Brazil, rather than a "Brazilian jazz" album. Though they aren't afraid to bounce along with baião ("A Xepa"), overt Brazilian influences are kept to a minimum though rhythm almost always rules the roost. "Don't Talk Crazy" begins with some sturm und drang arco work and is built around a groove in five, with some devilish displacement thrown into the mix. Zé Eduardo Nazário's buoyant drumming underscores the follow-up, "A Xepa," while the trio tightens and loosens the rhythmic reins over the course of "Mil Saudades." Odd meters abound again on "Lorca," which has a pronounced Spanish-tinge to it and Herzberg's bass sets things in motion on "Too Much Charlie," which moves from funk to swing and beyond, and features some stellar Rhodes work from Alexandre Zamith.
The last four tracks on the album make up "Twelve Bars Down The Road I Met You," a suite that deals with the blues in a variety of permutations. Of the three feature numbers, where each member of the band is given a solo spot, "The Drums" is the least fully formed with Nazário delivering an aggressive, unaccompanied drum solo and heavy beats beneath a 12-tone row-based section of blues music. "The Bass" is a short song built around Herzberg's solo lines, but "The Piano" leaves the strongest impression. This ballad in three gives pause to admire Zamith's ability to wed the blues with romantic and impressionistic ideals, while Herzberg and Nazario provide sensitive support below. The final movement—dubbed "The Trio"—ends things on a swinging note, as all three men predictably come together as a single, united musical entity.
While Herzberg's earlier work as a violin maker may have something to do with this album's title, it is more than likely that it also has something to do with how he carefully crafts and molds his musical thought patterns and ideas into one-of-a-kind compositions. Handmade wares are almost always more unique and of better quality, and this is no exception.
Track Listing: Don't Talk Crazy; A Xepa; Mil Saudades; Lorca; Too Much, Charlie; The Drums; The Bass; The Piano; The Trio.
Personnel: Alexandre Zamith: piano, rhodes; Frank Herzberg: acoustic bass; Zé Eduardo Nazário: drums.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=41295
Guitar Int'l
Growing up in Berlin, and Conservatory trained, bassist Frank Herzberg moved to Brazil 14 years ago. After living in the South American nation for four years, the bassist began a musical partnership with drummer Zé Eduardo Nazário and pianist Alexandre Zamith, one that continues to this day and can be heard on the trio's latest recording, Handmade. The album, a collection of eight tracks, is a mix of modern jazz, Brazilian grooves and American funk. No matter where the trio takes the music, one thing remains the same, the high level of creativity, musicianship and interaction that these three musicians bring to the table.
The members of the FH trio are all very accomplished individuals, but what makes this recording successful is their interaction as a group. Even when they are soloing, they make it a conversation rather than one person stepping forward into the spotlight while the rest accompany their lines or rhythms. This approach can be heard on tracks such as "Mil Saudades," where the group grows the track from a solo bass part, to an interactive rubato section with the trio, before finally coming together on the main groove in the melody section. This kind of interaction and communication can only come from spending years together in the rehearsal room, on band stands and in the recording studio, and it is a testament to the dedication these three musicians have to their ensemble, and not just to their individual performances.
While there are moments on the album that move into the modern jazz and Brazilian jazz realm, one of the highlights is the track "A Xepa." Written by Nazário in 1976, when he was a member of Brazilian legend Hermeto Pascoal's ensemble, the song features a traditional Baiáo groove that the band lays down with energy and conviction. Playing off of the light-hearted beat that underlies the track, the melody and improvised sections come together in a seamless fashion, growing out of and into each other in an organic fashion that goes beyond the standard head-solo-head formula. Not only is this a fun rhythm to groove along to, but the composition and arrangement come together to showcase the individual talents of the member of the trio without taking away from the overall fell of the ensemble.
Overall, Handmade is a strong release by this talented trio of Brazilian, and transplanted Brazilian musicians. The grooves are energetic, the improvisations conversational and melodic and the melodic focus is never lost in the shuffle, all ingredients of a solid jazz trio record." - Guitar International
Matt Warnock
By Matt Warnock, Published: February 27, 2012
Growing up in Berlin, and Conservatory trained, bassist Frank Herzberg moved to Brazil 14 years ago. After living in the South American nation for four years, the bassist began a musical partnership with drummer Zé Eduardo Nazário and pianist Alexandre Zamith, one that continues to this day and can be heard on the trio’s latest recording, Handmade. The album, a collection of eight tracks, is a mix of modern jazz, Brazilian grooves and American funk. No matter where the trio takes the music, one thing remains the same, the high level of creativity, musicianship and interaction that these three musicians bring to the table.
The members of the FH trio are all very accomplished individuals, but what makes this recording successful is their interaction as a group. Even when they are soloing, they make it a conversation rather than one person stepping forward into the spotlight while the rest accompany their lines or rhythms. This approach can be heard on tracks such as “Mil Saudades,” where the group grows the track from a solo bass part, to an interactive rubato section with the trio, before finally coming together on the main groove in the melody section. This kind of interaction and communication can only come from spending years together in the rehearsal room, on band stands and in the recording studio, and it is a testament to the dedication these three musicians have to their ensemble, and not just to their individual performances.
While there are moments on the album that move into the modern jazz and Brazilian jazz realm, one of the highlights is the track “A Xepa.” Written by Nazário in 1976, when he was a member of Brazilian legend Hermeto Pascoal’s ensemble, the song features a traditional Baiáo groove that the band lays down with energy and conviction. Playing off of the light-hearted beat that underlies the track, the melody and improvised sections come together in a seamless fashion, growing out of and into each other in an organic fashion that goes beyond the standard head-solo-head formula. Not only is this a fun rhythm to groove along to, but the composition and arrangement come together to showcase the individual talents of the member of the trio without taking away from the overall fell of the ensemble.
Overall, Handmade is a strong release by this talented trio of Brazilian, and transplanted Brazilian musicians. The grooves are energetic, the improvisations conversational and melodic and the melodic focus is never lost in the shuffle, all ingredients of a solid jazz trio record.
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Draw a Distance. Draw a Border.
by The Details
© Copyright - The Details / Parliament of Trees (830159000992)
Music that, with any luck, you will listen to. You might even enjoy it.
Genre: Rock: College Rock
1. Always, Always, Always, Never.
2. Reunion Souvenirs
3. Burns Much Brighter
5. I Asked What We Should Do. You Said, I Just Don't Want to Think
6. A National Anthem
7. Capture and Develop
8. The Height of Land
9. Demons/Heathens
10. Floor Plans
11. Hit Parades
12. Far Off Places
“Draw A Distance. Draw A Border” is the debut full length from Winnipeg’s The Details. The Details are Jon Plett (vocals/guitars/keyboards), Keli Martin (bass/keyboards), Sean Vidal (guitars/keyboards/vocals) and Shaun Gibson (drums, percussion, vocals). Since forming at the end of 2005 they have hardly gone a day without seeing each other and have quickly established themselves as one of western Canada’s hardest working bands. Produced in Winnipeg by Jack Shapira the album is the follow up to 06’s Marching Sound EP. “Draw A Distance. Draw A Border” also features Stephen Carroll (The Weakerthans), Allison Shevernoha (Paper Moon, The Hermit), Jay Churko (Chords Of Canada), Ashley Roch (The Western States) as well as Jonathan Bauch on cello, Kristjanna Oleson on viola, Raegan Elizabeth and Jeremy Pillipow.
From the beautiful scene setting opener “Always, Always, Always Never” to the irony laden and rocking “Reunion Souvenirs” this is an album about regret and celebration. With the slow building trumpet and banjo laden “Underground”, the small town trappings of “Height Of Land” it becomes apparent that “Draw A Distance. Draw A Border.” is a set of songs about looking back at choices and changes made and how they have lead one to the here and now. During the album you will hear a lamenting lap steel, the tinkling of a piano, the aforementioned trumpet and banjo as well the sound of a respirator and a heart monitor. With the final bittersweet goodbye of the album closer “Far Off Places”, the story closes but like any great story its song keeps playing in your head long after the music has stopped.
Having traveled the snowy highways of Canada on two winter tours, The Details spent July traveling from Vancouver to Halifax, and are now looking forward to doing it all again in October.
“You never know what you're going to get at the beginning of a bill, at the beginning of a long night of music. Winnipeg band The Details are the perfect example of that, having the honour/thankless task of kicking off the entire night as the first band on a bill that included Geronimo, Calgary's Woodpigeon, and The Constantines. The 60 or so people in the Grand were rewarded with a treat, as the four-piece pop band delivered a confident set of sweet, satisfying songs.” The Calgary Herald
“The Details, however, were the scene stealers of the evening. Former members of the 'peg's Home Team and Canadian darlings Sixty Stories, The Details brought a big, tight, danceable sound that few were probably expecting.” BeatRoute (Alberta)
www.thedetails.ca / www.facebook.com/thedetails
Richard Soos
The Details - Reunion Souvenirs
“I can’t wait to calibrate all the things we find have changed since the last time when the distance wasn’t greater than the connection that we had.” Sounds like a mouthful, but imagine this – it’s not just a poem, but a song. Yep, the narrator gets this out intelligibly. And, the story makes sense. There’s distance put between families and friends in this “modern” world. For what purpose? Ah, the question we all wish had an honest answer. The poets here have the ability to face these issues and put them into terms we can use to start our meditations with. No answers, but clearly stated questions. Nice work. Shoutouts include Underground (“I wrote a clever song. I always dreamt the crowd would sing along to my empty thoughts and kill the poets to save their dying art.”), Capture and Develop (“Only the boldest admit what they can’t defeat.”), and Hit Parades (“there are million dollar price tags that come with my million dollar friends.”) The music complements the intelligence of the poetry.
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MTV Unplugged (Live At Roundhouse, London) (Deluxe Vinyl)
Biffy Clyro held a special one off show in London in partnership with MTV late last year. MTV will be relaunching their iconic ‘Unplugged’ series in the UK and ‘Biffy Clyro Unplugged’ is the first to be recorded! The show was filmed in November and Warner Bros UK will be releasing the accompanying album on May 25 2018, coinciding with the MTV broadcast which will be across MTV Global.
Although their live shows are best known for their electrifying and explosive energy, Biffy Clyro have often demonstrated that their songs possess an added poignancy when stripped back to their essence. Now the band can announce details of their first acoustic album, ‘MTV Unplugged: Live At Roundhouse London’ on May 25th. Recorded at London’s famous Roundhouse venue on November 8th last year, the set represented the UK relaunch of the iconic MTV Unplugged series.
The set is rich with favourites from the Biffy catalogue. ‘Machines’ is already long established as a highlight of the band’s live shows as Simon Neil performs accompanied by a single acoustic guitar, while the likes of ‘Many of Horror’, ‘Re-arrange’ and ‘Medicine’ are all natural fits for an Unplugged performance. Yet the band also flourish with stripped-back performances of songs that were more aggressive and dramatic in their original form, such as ‘The Captain’, ‘Black Chandelier’ and ‘Bubbles’.
This deluxe vinyl package contains:
2x heavyweight black vinyl
12” double-sided art print featuring setlist.
DVD featuring the MTV Unplugged set
LP-size 6-panel booklet.
Custom gatefold sleeve.
The Captain (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Biblical (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Re-arrange (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Drop It (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Black Chandelier (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Folding Stairs (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Different Kind of Love (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Mountains (Live At Roundhouse, London)
God Only Knows (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Opposite (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Small Wishes (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Bubbles (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Medicine (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Many of Horror (Live At Roundhouse, London)
Machines (Live At Roundhouse, London)
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