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Antique Quilt History
Quilt Articles
Quilt Studies Blog
Children's Quilts of the 20th Century
Antique and Vintage Crib Quilts, Baby Quilts and Doll Quilts
Twentieth Century Children’s quilts 1900 – 1980
Redwork doll quilt, c1900.
The 20th Century brought great changes to quilt making and quilts.
Quilt making during the first few years of the twentieth century was at a low level of popularity. While some quilters were still making quilts, we find that the quilts made during this period were fashioned in the quilt making trends of the late 1800’s.
We see many red work quilts, as well as scrap quilts using shirtings, stripes, and plaids in simple patchwork designs. There were also dark crazy quilts made in cotton prints, differing from those crazy quilts made in the velvets and silks of the late 1800’s era.
Up until this time children’s quilts had looked much like adult quilts, made in the same patterns and using the same fabrics as other 19th C quilts (see my first article on Children’s quilts from the 19th Century). Except for the size, children’s quilts were not usually distinguishable from adult quilts (a rare exception to this would be late 19C children's quilts with appliqued animals or figures cut from printed fabrics or children's handkerchiefs.)
During this turn of the Century period this practice continued, with children’s quilts being made using these same fabrics, patterns and trends. We see patchwork crib quilts with dark colored fabric prints in navy, claret, brown, and striped or checked shirtings. But we also see a continuation of the redwork quilts with small squares embroidered with various themes, some with juvenile inspired designs, farm animals, or with Kate Greenaway type figures.
An interesting combination of random blocks in this scrap quilt from PA, c1900. 40" by 40".
Small doll quilt with turn of the century checked and striped shirting fabrics. c1900.
Marie Webster's new baby quilt designs as seen in the August 1912 edition of The Ladies' Home Journal.
New Designs in Quilts
During the second decade of the century there was a new interest in general quilt making. New appliqué designs began to appear, as well as a trend towards using lighter colored fabrics in quilts. This new trend resulted in many new designs being created specifically for children’s quilts, something we had not seen previously in quilt making.
Some credit Marie Webster’s article in the Ladies’ Home Journal of 1911, featuring her beautifully designed appliqué quilts, for bringing new inspiration to quilt makers. The new Webster designs were open and stylish, made in lighter hues, and very different from the bright and dark calicos in many of the older 19th C quilts.
Marie Webster wrote 5 articles for the Ladies Home Journal between 1911 and 1915, all featuring her newly designed quilts and pillow designs. She also offered patterns for her quilts through these LHJ magazine articles, as well as articles in other magazines and she soon had a successful business selling patterns, and expanded to offer quilt kits, and ready to finish basted quilt tops.
In 1912 Webster wrote an article for LHJ featuring 6 "Baby" quilts. All of the quilts were appliqued, with four of the quilts made in sophisticated floral designs similar to her full sized quilt designs. Two of the six quilts were made with more childlike designs featuring children's figures.
Morning Glory Wreath crib quilt, c1920. Measures 33 by 57 inches.
One of the crib quilts in the above LHJ magazine article is the Morning Glory Wreath. Designed in a more sophisticated style than most children's quilts, this quilt was quite a bit different than most crib quilts of the time.
May Tulips doll quilt, c1920. Measures 18 by 24 inches.
This small doll quilt seems to be made from one of the large blocks in Webster's May Tulips pattern. I don't know if Webster designed a small version for crib quilts or dolls, but I think it's more likely that someone used just one of the blocks for this small quilt.
The genre of patterns we now call Sunbonnet Sue may have been one of the first of the popular appliquéd children’s quilt patterns. Marie Webster 1912 article in LHJ featured a new appliquéd quilt calling it Sunbonnet Lassies. While similar to the Bertha Corbett girls and similar designs already being used in Redwork embroidered quilts, this new applique quilt featured little girls wearing gay pastel colored dresses and large hats that covered their faces. Rosalind Webster Perry in her book, A Joy Forever, documenting her grandmother Marie Webster’s quilt making and pattern business, comments about this design… “Countless appliquéd Sunbonnet Sues and Colonial Ladies may trace their ancestry to this design…”
Two additional quilts designed by Webster for children during this early period were the Bedtime Quilt (1912) and the Bunnies quilt (1914), both appliquéd quilts. Additionally, Marie Webster designed several other crib quilt patterns, some were specifically for children with juvenile themes, others were small versions of her larger applique quilts.
Interesting embroidered girls (or fairies?) at the center of the flowers in this applique quilt, c1925. 36" by 54".
Girl with kittens, or Pussy Willows, in this applique quilt, c1950. 42" by 58".
Stylistic basket of flowers in this kit quilt in crib size, c1940. 33" by 48".
Soon other designers followed in Marie Webster’s footsteps with new quilt designs. By 1920 quilt makers, attracted by the new modern looking quilts and the new softer palette of pastel hues in fabrics, were in the throes of a quilt revival that would last for over two decades.
Some quilters still used the older 19th Century quilt patterns, but now there were hundreds of new patterns becoming available from the new quilt designers and the new pattern companies. These pattern companies advertised widely in newspapers and magazines, with readers writing in for patterns or pattern catalogs. Patterns were available in small general stores, in large department store home arts sections, in fabric shops that sold fabric and supplies for quilting. There were shops that sold quilts in all stages of completion from patterns and fabric yardage, to stamped squares, quilt tops kits, and even finished quilt tops.
Lively circus characters perform in this crib quilt made with a Simplicity pattern. 33" by 48"
Alice in Wonderland captured in an applique crib quilt, one of many Alice patterns or kits. c1950, measures 44" by 66"
Close-up of the Bluework quilt, showing one of the fairies.
One of the benefits of this quilt revival was a myriad of new designs and patterns for children’s quilts.
Many old fairy tale stories and characters were incorporated into small sized quilts by designers. Some were composed of individual quilt blocks to be sewn together to make up the quilt top. Some were series quilts with patterns appearing weekly in newspapers.
While others were larger designs that covered the entire quilt top, giving the quilt a quite different and modern flair.
Fairies and other characters are embroidered in bluework on this small quilt, c1920. Measures 23 by 31 inches.
Alice in Wonderland in applique and embroidery in this crib quilt. Bucilla kit, c1960, measuring 35" by 56".
Quilt designers created new original designs in both embroidery and appliqué. Subjects were often kitties and puppies, rabbits and bunnies, circus animals and performers, and small children at play. The alphabet was a popular motif, using the letters paired with an animal or toy whose name started with that same letter.
Kids reading with scattered toys are featured on this crib kit quilt measuring 36 by 55 inches.
Bunnies, bears, kitty, and an elephant having fun outdoors in this crib quilt. A Paragon kit, c1957, measuring 38 by 55 inches.
Pre-tinted pieces with both embroidery and applique techniques on pre-colored crib quilt tops and spreads became available. These pre-tinted pieces were available in fairy tale themes like The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan. Others were new designs featuring bunnies, kitties, and bears, and many other themes.
Another Alice in Wonderland, this time in a pre-tinted piece. Girls spread with pink crochet trim around edge measures 48 by 70 inches.
Close up of the Alice piece showing the pre-tinting and embroidery work. This is a kit by the Royal Society, c1930.
The pre-tinted tops were made with the designs printed on, with parts of the designs tinted in to eliminate some of the applique work needed otherwise. The quilt maker would embroider the outlines, and smaller work like flowers or details. Sometimes larger areas like clothing were appliqued on. These pieces were sometimes finished as spreads or light weight blankets with no batting or backing. At other times they were finished as crib quilts with batting, backing and quilted as any other quilt would be.
Pinocchio and the pretty fairy in a pre-tinted crib sized spread, measures 34 by 52 inches.
A Kitty and Puppy play on a see saw on this pre-tinted crib spread, measures 31 by 46 inches.
One popular designer, Ruby McKim, designed and sold many embroidered children’s quilts. For years her designs were available through her newspaper columns across the country, and through her catalogs, like Designs Worth Doing. She designed new patterns taken from the older fairy tales like the Three Little Pigs, and many original patterns. Some of her quilts were designed using a series of blocks, like in her Bible quilt.
Another pre-tinted piece, this one featuring the Three Little Pigs, with the Wolf looking on. Measures 32 by 49 inches.
Ruby Short Mckim's pattern of the Three Little Pigs crib quilt. c1935, measures 35 by 50 inches.
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Laurette Carroll
Quilt maker and collector from California
Quilts from the collection of Laurette Carroll
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Pledge Programs for Wed December 5, 2018
1:00 amDoo Wop Generations (My Music)
Celebrate the new generation of Doo Wop performers as the original legends reunite to pass the torch. Performers include Kenny Vance & the Planotones, The Duprees, The Whiptones, Charlie Thomas' Drifters, The Modern Gentlemen and many more.
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Join the pop culture icon for the definitive concert of his career, the final night of his sold-out, 2017 United Kingdom arena tour, where he performed many of his beloved top hits, a range of popular classics and songs from his 60th album.
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6:30 amWild Kratts Sea Otter Swim
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An urban landmark
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) will be leaving London following the implementation of Brexit. The French city of Lille, a European centre of research, innovation, industry, and health, is being considered as a possible new location, to be decided by a competition launched by developer, SPL, in 2017. Arte Charpentier Architects and Eiffage Immobilier Nord constituted one of the eight groups selected to compete.
Situated at the heart of the Euralille complex, between the Grand Palais and the Hôtel de Région, the proposed project forms a new landmark for the city. A confident architectural language, both varied and homogeneous, coupled with the extensive use of vertical planting, create an eye-catching addition to the urban landscape.
The building is shaped by its urban context. Its U-shape plan shelters a south-facing elevated central garden, and its eastern façade is more opaque to provide acoustic insulation from the nearby périphérique ring-road and rail network. The west side on Avenue Président Hoover is the main urban façade of the building where the entrance is located.
The double-skin 8-storey facades around the perimeter of the building form a series of protective layers around its green heart, and act as a filtering envelope against the urban surroundings. The façade treatment suggests a wedding veil allowing glimpses of the interior, and providing shading from the sun, and the prominence of the floor levels is played down so as to heighten the impression of scale. Folds in this continuous envelope create openings framing views of the vegetation in the centre, and provide a series of ‘events’ which enrich the texture of the membrane. The inner garden, raised 2 storeys above street level, is lined with a wooden glazed envelope and lush greenery.
Arte Charpentier Interiors’ prime objective for the design of internal spaces was to provide a feeling of well-being and to encourage interaction and team working. The double-height entrance hall benefits from floor to ceiling glazing blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, creating an open yet enveloping space, with a convivial, outgoing feel. The whole of the interior is visible from the reception, and the different areas are discernable such as the main lobby, cafeteria, restaurant, meeting rooms and the central garden. The naturally-lit office spaces on the upper floors offer distant views of the city and provide optimum working conditions. The garden at the centre of the project is treated like a green oasis and the use of warm and natural materials such as wood reinforce conviviality and encourage well-being, not only among this building’s users but also those of the Hôtel de Région located opposite.
The lightweight structure and abundant vegetation filter the Summer sunshine, but allow a maximum of solar gain in the Winter with the absence of foliage. The use of timber on the facades reinforces the natural feel of the central space and provides a continuity with the installation on the adjacent Champ Libre. The series of accessible terraces at the heart of the site accentuate this effect. Hard landscaping interlocks with the planted areas and rooftops are sown with species attracting fauna and promoting biodiversity.
– Client: Eiffage Immobilier Nord
– Developer: SPL
– User: Agence Européenne du Médicament
– Architect team representative: Arte Charpentier Architectes
– Interior Designer: Arte Charpentier Architectes
– Landscape Architect: Arte Charpentier Architectes
– Architect partner: Fernaut / Escudié Architecture
– Building services – fluids: SETEC
– Stuctural: Eiffage Construction
– Façades: Goyer
– Restauration: Systal
– Environment: Le Sommer Environnement
– Car Parking partner: ZenPark
– Title: Euralille
– Postcode: 59 000
– Town: Lille
– Competition: 2017
– Programme: Bureaux de l’Agence Européenne du Médicament et hôtel.
– Floor area: 33 700 m²
Photo credits: DR Arte Charpentier Architectes
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restaurant reviews and foodie travels
Amsterdam food guide
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On embarrassing myself in restaurants (again), and Bluespoon
Sometimes people tell me that they’re intimidated by the idea of going to posh restaurants – that the more expensive a place is, the more likely they are to embarrass themselves. I think I might make it a personal side project to prove that even when you review restaurants for a living, it’s still possible to make a complete tit of yourself. And what’s more, it doesn’t really matter.
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about how I accidentally tried to walk out of Madelief without paying, and another about how I sat for several minutes by myself in Brasserie Bark while the rest of my friends were in fact at a table right behind me. The other night, on arrival at the Andaz Hotel – home to the Bluespoon restaurant – I remarked as I walked up to what I thought was the reception desk that it seemed awfully high. Still, we’re in Holland, I thought, people are tall! But no, it wasn’t the reception desk – it was two people sitting in a booth trying peacefully to eat their dinner, wondering why muppets like me were asking about table reservations.
Anyway, crashing on, I ordered a refreshing “Spring Garden” long-drink cocktail – only to spill half of it all over myself (the tragic waste of good alcohol!) and send the barman running over with a tea towel. And this was made even more embarrassing by the fact that the Bluespoon had actually invited me to dine there – people knew who I was. And now they knew that I was a complete clutz.
Still, they were gracious enough to ignore my utter ineptitude, while I struggled bravely to regain the composure that grown-up restaurant critics are undoubtedly supposed to exhibit. I hid gratefully behind the menu for the next ten minutes. Luckily, the menu was quite interesting: first of all you got to find out where the main ingredient in each dish came from (asparagus from Maastricht, crab from the North Sea, and so on); then you got to figure out that starters and mains were all offered in small and large portions (which surely somewhat defeats the object of listing them as starters and mains in the first place?) with prices to match.
I ordered two small dishes: red mullet to start and scallops to follow. The mullet was cute because it came with a little jar of delicious things: ratatouille, potatoes, olives; it was also served with a couple of slices of pickled carrot and some very delicious homemade aioli. The scallops were – umm – small but perfectly formed. The various squashes were delicious, as was the delicately creamy foam, but only two scallops for €22? That’s either over-priced or under-scalloped in my book. We ordered side dishes at another €5 each – the watercress mash was a brilliant green, buttery stamppot, but the fries were the skinny variety that remind me of Maccy D’s – never a good association.
Dessert was an accomplished pineapple crème brûlée with a silky passion fruit sauce – exotic and sexy. But I’d expect that from accolade-laden Swiss chef Julien Piguet. In fact, I’d expect a lot for €170 for two people, especially when bottles of wine start at around €45. I liked Bluespoon in many ways, but I’m not sure my dinner was entirely worth the price tag.
Still, for a canal-side location in a five-star hotel (designed and furnished by Marcel Wanders himself), an evening in the Bluespoon restaurant and bar may be just the right note of indulgence and exclusivity you’re after. It may have been no coincidence, however, that the people at the table next to us were German – they’re probably the only Europeans who can afford it right now.
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Uncategories Two Repaired Su-30MK Fighter Jets Ready for Shipment to Indonesia
Two Repaired Su-30MK Fighter Jets Ready for Shipment to Indonesia
maki catama 8:31:00 PM
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JAKARTA, -- According to Scramble Magazine, in early July, both aircraft (sn. TS-3001 and TS-3002) were seen at the site of the overhaul center of the aircraft repair plant in Baranavichy, presumably awaiting shipment to the customer.
According to the publication, the aircraft has been upgraded to the level of the Su-30MK2, although this information has not yet been officially confirmed.
As TSAMTO already reported, on December 9, 2015, the Indonesian Air Force in its press release reported that two multi-purpose fighter aircraft Su-27SK with tail numbers TS-2701 and TS-2702, produced in 2003, will be repaired in Belarus. As reported, on December 8, 2015, both planes were loaded aboard an An-124 Ruslan chartered plane.
In April 2018, the Tribune News edition, citing a representative of the Indonesian Air Force, announced that it would overhaul four Su fighter planes of the Indonesian Air Force (two Su-27SKs and two Su-30MKs).
Two repaired Su-27SK fighters were returned to the Sultan Hasanuddin airbase on August 3, 2017 on board the An-124-100M Ruslan transport aircraft. Earlier, on the March 15, 2017, two Su-30MKs also produced in 2003 were delivered to Belarus for maintenance and repair.
Following the meeting of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Indonesia Valery Kolesnik with the commander (chief of staff) of the Indonesian Air Force, Air Marshal Yu Sutisna on May 25, 2018 in Mabesu Chilangkap (East Jakarta), it was announced that Indonesia expects to receive two repaired Su-30MKs by September 2018 year. It is obvious that the return of the aircraft to the customer was delayed.
The 11th Squadron of the 5th Aviation Wing deployed at the Sultan Hasanuddin airbase is armed with 16 vehicles from the Su mixed fleet: two Su-27SKs (obtained in 2003) and three Su-27SKMs (2010), as well as two Su-30MK (2003) and nine Su-30MK2 (2008-2013)
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ante diem v idus februarias
249 A.D. -- martyrdom of Apollonia at Alexandria
::Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:32:59 AM::
Today's selection:
promulgate @ Merriam-Webster
gnome @ Worthless Word for the Day (not the one you immediately think of)
De provincia Aceh consultationes (4.2.2005)
Delegati Indonesiae et provinciae Aceh in Finniam ad triduum convenerunt, ut duce pristino Finnorum praesidente Martti Ahtisaari de bello componendo consulerent.
Difficillimae autem controversiae in proximum conventum dilatae sunt, in quem Ahtisaari delegatos invitavit.
Provincia Aceh, dives petrolei, ante quinquaginta quinque annos ad Indonesiam annexa est. Fautores motus, qui dicitur "Aceh libera", censent illam annexionem iniustam fuisse et regimen Indonesiae accusant, quod opes provinciae naturales sibi eripuerit.
De pace iam antea re infecta consultatum est. Duobus annis ante inter partes de ignistitio convenit, sed post sex menses bellum denuo susceptum est.
~ Colchester
Nice Reuters piece on Colchester ... some excerpts:
Formerly Colonia Victricensis, meaning "City of the Victorious", Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town and its first capital.
Famously Emperor Claudius made a trip to the city, complete with a cast of elephants and camels, to receive the surrender of the Celtic kings to found the Roman Province of Britannia.
The city is a living museum, complete with Roman wall and its Temple of Claudius. For archaeologist Philip Crummy, who has directed excavations in the city since 1971, the discovery of the circus was one of the most exciting finds.
"Imagine when it was race day at the circus, and you had a full blown 12-chariot race, complete with 48 horses," he says. "It would have been quite a spectacle."
The track dates back to around the second century, but Crummy says it is almost certain to be an upgrade of a circuit constructed years earlier.
"Perhaps some important official missed the action in Rome and had it built, or it was an attempt to emphasise the "Romanness" of the far flung province of Britain," says Robert Kebric, history professor at the University of Louisville in the United States and author of "Roman People".
"I suspect it was mostly used for the entertainment of soldiers and locals and because of the expense involved, there is no way of knowing to what extent they could copy the Circus Maximus in Rome in terms of quality of charioteers, factions (teams) and schedule," he says, referring to the world's most famous circus in the Italian capital.
Roman sports have been dramatically brought to life on the big screen, most memorably in the classic "Ben-Hur", with its thrilling chariot race.
"One guy would be aiming for the finishing line and the other two on his team would try to stop the others," says Crummy. "A lot of tactics were involved."
Usually, there were four teams of three chariots.
But Kebric says the win-at-all-costs mentality of the charioteers depicted in Ben-Hur, where they used blades on the wheels of their chariots, was exaggerated.
"In Rome, at least, chariot racing was closely regulated and since there was so much money (bets) riding on the races, fouls were not tolerated and races might even be rerun," he says.
But it was very dangerous. Kebric says the charioteers were professionals, rode for factions not as individuals, and usually died very young while racing.
"They were usually ex-slaves or low borns, who like many athletes today, used the playing field for social advancement. Some became chums of the emperors," he says.
"I would suspect in Britain, they'd have to take what they could get since there would be no incentive for the big time charioteers to come there. Perhaps even locals competed since the Celts had a tradition of chariots."
Chariot racing and the circus were a cornerstone of public life in Roman times. "As for the excitement, there was probably never anything like it, and the Circus Maximus in Rome was more than a racetrack," Kebric says.
"Astrologers even used its shape and the races to make their predictions, the emperors used it as a place to communicate with their subjects and every type of person under the sun -- coincidentally the patron of the races -- was there."
Off the track, emotions would have run high too. "There was more chance of being hurt in clashes between supporters then there was on the track," says Robert Masefield, an archaeologist in Colchester.
"As for the charioteers, they were a bit like gladiators ... but whether we had any heroes coming here we don't know." [the whole thing]
~ No Amnesty for Italian Artifacts
From Big News comes an important story that I haven't seen elsewhere (somewhat strangely?):
Italian officials have been forced to withdraw a measure that would have allowed those in possession of illegal archaeological objects to keep them.
The measure was in the form of an amendment to the 2005 budget, now under discussion in parliament.
The bill would allow those with illegal objects to keep them in exchange for payment of 5 percent of their value to the government, it was reported this week.
The rejection was disclosed to the Italian press by Gianfranco Conte, a member of parliament for Prime Minister Berlusconi's Forze Italia party, which introduced the amendment last summer. Conte said he was undeterred and would press ahead with legislation to liberalize Italian law as it relates to cultural goods despite the opposition of Cultural Minister Giovanni Urbani.
As the law stands, it is illegal for private citizens to hold any archaeological items discovered in the past century. Written in the early 20th century, the law was designed to discourage looting of historical sites and black market dealings in antiquities, but it is widely flouted by collectors and dealers alike.
Conte denounced existing laws governing archaeological objects, saying they are excessively restrictive, and have the adverse effect of penalizing dealers, honest collectors, and heirs while stimulating the black market.
~ A Career in Archaeology
Nice little item from the Evening Mail:
A DREAM career in archaeology beckons for a Barrow student who discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman artefact.
Budding archaeologist Charlotte Shaw, 18, is ecstatic about her offer of a place on a top archaeology and ancient history course at the University of Newcastle.
The Chetwynde School sixth former wowed university lecturers with her finds which include a Roman sandal and pottery which she found near Hadrian’s Wall.
The ambitious teenager, of Holyoake Avenue, painstakingly excavated the items at the Roman fort Vindolanda, while completing her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.
The pieces are now being researched by experts before going on display at The Vindolanda Roman Army Museum.
Charlotte will be one of the first students to complete the gold award through the Chetwynde School scheme this summer, along with head girl Hannah Williams.
Charlotte’s achievements have also caught the eye of the Duke of Edinburgh magazine.
She said: “I’ve been interested in ancient history and the Romans for a long time.
“It’s a dream course for me. I’m looking forward to the practical archeology. [more]
~ Valentine's Day
As expected, the Valentine's Day misinformation wave has begun. First we get this bit from the Daily Examiner (inter alia):
Although it is celebrated as a lovers' holiday today, with the giving of chocolates, flowers, or other gifts between couples in love, many believe it originated in fifth Century Rome as a tribute to St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop.
For 800 years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day, the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus.
The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box. The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his sexual companion during the remaining year.
In an effort to do away with the pagan festival, Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints. Both men and women were allowed to draw from the box, and the game was to emulate the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of the year.
Ah ... the oft-mentioned lottery. Source please! We'll put aside for the time being the attempt to connect V.D. to the Lupercalia. Next, we turn to Marketwatch, which has this as the origin:
The story of Valentine's Day apparently dates back to about the year 270, when Roman Emperor Claudius II cancelled all marriages in an effort to enlist more men in the military. Saint Valentine, a priest who believed in love and marriage, secretly continued to perform marriages and for that he was reportedly beaten to death and beheaded.
Not sure why Claudius would have to cancel marriages at this late date in Roman history in order to get more men in the army ... The Oregonian gets both tales in, sort of and somewhat vaguely:
VALENTINE TALES Some sources date the valentine to an ancient Roman festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture and fertility. It was the custom for boys to select a girl's name at random. They would become companions for a time and often fall in love and marry. One often-told story says Valentine was an early Christian priest who was martyred for performing weddings for young soldiers against the command of the Emperor Claudius II, who thought single men made better warriors.
In any event, I'm sure we'll be regaled with more misinformation in the next few days ...
~ Modern Iphigenia?
The incipit of a piece in the Guardian poses an interesting bunch of questions:
In Euripides's Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is faced with a gut-wrenching choice. He must sacrifice his teenage daughter, Iphigenia, if the gods are to grant his fleet the fair winds needed for victory against Troy. In Philip Ridley's latest play, Mercury Fur, there is a similar but far more desperate dilemma. It's set in a nightmarish contemporary England, a bitter place where memory and all sense of history have been so eroded that the young think the second world war was caused by Kennedy fighting Hitler over Marilyn Monroe. And it depicts a group of people in their late teens and early 20s desperately trying to ensure their survival by holding "parties", at which they supply the rich and influential with an opportunity to play out their most extreme fantasies of sex and death. The latest victim being prepared for the sacrifice is a 10-year-old child.
Ridley is prepared for the fact that some people will be shocked by Mercury Fur, but he is also keen to pose a question: "Why is it that it is fine for the classic plays to discuss - even show - these things, but people are outraged when contemporary playwrights do it? If you go to see King Lear, you see a man having his eyes pulled out; in Medea, a woman slaughters her own children. The recent revival of Iphigenia at the National was acclaimed for its relevance. But when you try to write about the world around us, people get upset. If I'd wrapped Mercury Fur up as a recently rediscovered Greek tragedy it would be seen as an interesting moral debate like Iphigenia, but because it is set on an east-London housing estate it is seen as being too dangerous to talk about. What does that say about the world we live in? What does it say about theatre today?" [more]
~ How to Wrap a Toga
Bella Online -- which somewhat hybristically dubs itself "The Voice of Women" -- has a little feature on how to wrap a toga ... If you need a piece with pictures, try the KET Togas, Tunics and Sandals page
~ Jesus and Julius Caesar
Break out the beer cuz this one's full of nuts ... I guess anyone can put anything in a press release:
- Carotta: 'Everything of the Story of Jesus can be Found in the
Biography of Caesar.'
The Italian-German linguist and philosopher Francesco Carotta proves in
his book Jesus was Caesar that the story of Jesus Christ has its origin in
Roman sources. In more than fifteen years of investigation Carotta has found
the traces which lead to the Julian origin of Christianity. He concludes that
the story of Jesus is based on the narrative of the life of Julius Caesar.
Carotta: ''The Gospel proves to be the history of the Roman Civil war, a
'mis-telling' of the life of Caesar-from the Rubicon to his
assassination-mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his
crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius
Caesar, and ressurected as Divus Julius.''
The cult surrounding Jesus Christ, son of God and originator of
Christianity appeared during the second century. Early historians, however,
never mentioned Jesus and even until now there has been no actual proof of
his existence. Julius Caesar, son of Venus and founder of the Roman Empire,
was elevated to the status of Imperial God, Divus Julius, after his violent
death. The cult that surrounded him dissolved as Christianity surfaced.
Carotta's new evidence leads to such an overwhelming amount of
similarities between the biography of Caesar and the story of Jesus that
coincidence can be ruled out.
- Both Caesar and Jesus start their rising careers in neighboring states
in the north: Gallia and Galilee.
- Both have to cross a fateful river: the Rubicon and the Jordan. Once
across the rivers, they both come across a patron/rival: Pompeius and John
the Baptist, and their first followers: Antonius and Curio on the one hand
and Peter and Andrew on the other.
- Both are continually on the move, finally arriving at the capital, Rome
and Jerusalem, where they at first triumph, yet subsequently undergo their
passion.
- Both have good relationships with women and have a special relationship
with one particular woman, Caesar with Cleopatra and Jesus with Magdalene.
- Both have encounters at night, Caesar with Nicomedes of Bithynia, Jesus
with Nicodemus of Bethany.
- Both have an affinity to ordinary people-and both run afoul of the
highest authorities: Caesar with the Senate, Jesus with the Sanhedrin.
- Both are contentious characters, but show praiseworthy clemency as
well: the clementia Caesaris and Jesus' Love-thy-enemy.
- Both have a traitor: Brutus and Judas. And an assassin who at first
gets away: the other Brutus and Barabbas. And one who washes his hands of it:
Lepidus and Pilate.
- Both are accused of making themselves kings: King of the Romans and
King of the Jews. Both are dressed in red royal robes and wear a crown on
their heads: a laurel wreath and a crown of thorns.
- Both get killed: Caesar is stabbed with daggers, Jesus is crucified,
but with a stab wound in his side.
- Jesus as well as Caesar hang on a cross. For a reconstruction of the
crucifixion of Caesar, see:
http://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/jwc_e/crux.html#images
- Both die on the same respective dates of the year: Caesar on the Ides
(15 th) of March, Jesus on the 15 th of Nisan.
- Both are deified posthumously: as Divus Iulius and as Jesus Christ.
- Caesar and Jesus also use the same words, e.g.: Caesar's famous Latin
'Veni, vidi, vici'-I came, I saw, I conquered-is in the Gospel transmitted
into: 'I came, washed and saw', whereby Greek enipsa, 'I washed', replaces
enikisa, 'I conquered'.
... it goes on with the reaction of "prominent European scholars and intellectuals" who, we are told, are "jubilant" at the news. Actually, if you go to the top level of the link mentioned above, you'll get four or five chapters of the theory. [I now note that Jim West has mentioned this press release as well in his Biblical Theology blog ...]
~ Roman Face Cream
That little tin of Roman face cream is in the news again for some reason, this time in Discover Magazine, which has this paragraph inter alia:
Richard Evershed, a chemist at the University of Bristol, analyzed the cream’s ingredients and recreated the ancient recipe, which consisted mainly of rendered animal fat and starch that was probably obtained from boiling grains. “It shows a surprising degree of technological sophistication,” he says, noting that the color came from a white tin oxide which was almost certainly synthetic. In Rome, a similar pigment was made by dissolving lead shavings in vinegar. The London cream, found at the far fringe of the Roman Empire, may contain tin instead because it was more locally available. Making this substitution required smelting tin, heating it at very low temperatures in open air to eliminate color impurities, and then cooling it slowly to obtain the pure white oxide. “It could not be all a home recipe because of the complex technology involved,” says Evershed. So the tin could have been obtained in from traveling merchants, or perhaps the cream was manufactured in large batches and then distributed.
~ Super Bowl Aftermath
Some Roman numeral followup in the Journal-News ... it was the result of some sort of quiz that I never saw (inter alia):
Most of the readers who took part in this played it straight, sending in their 10 answers and leaving it at that.
But a few knew an opportunity when they saw it.
Gary Tenenbaum of Bardonia composed this brief poem, which includes words composed from letters used in Roman numerals:
Your test wasn't MILD
Quite hard II figure
I worked IV a while
with VIM and vigor
These numbers of old
Fill me with intrigue
Now I've figured them out
Here I come IV league
He was perfect on the quiz, but wins a prize just for letting his mind go roamin' creatively.
Clarkstown Town Board member John Maloney, who is 81, said he learned Latin at Xavier High School in Manhattan. To prove he was a Latin scholar, he sent along a few phrases.
"Da mihi sis crustum etruscum cum omnibus in eo," he said, translates to, "I'll have a pizza with everything on it."
I'll take his word for it.
And Michael Frisbee of Campbell Hall, who teaches math at Washingtonville High School, posed a question of his own.
"Using the M,D,C,L,X,V and I properly, what is the highest number that you can represent?" The answer, which he provided, is 4,999 (MMMMCMXCIX). Larger numbers, he explained, are written by adding a bar above a letter to denote thousands.
But it came down to Roman Rodriguez, whose parents gave him the name when he was born on Aug. 9 — St. Roman's Day in the Dominican Republic — to pick one winner from among the perfect X for X scores.
So much for perfection. By far the toughest test in the quiz was converting the year 1854 into Roman numerals.
MDCCCLIV is the right answer.
That's M(1,000) D(500) CCC (with each C worth 100) L(50) and IV (4)
Almost LX percent got that one wrong. Go figure.
~ CONF: Portus
PORTUS: Liverpool Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar will be
hosting the following papers in Semester 2, 2004/2005:
Bob Cowan (Oxford)
'My Enemy's Enemy. Carthage's African Other through Roman Eyes'
Elena Teodorakopoulos (Birmingham): 'cacata carta: Writing and Performance
in Catullus'
Barbara Kowalzig (Oxford): 'The Aetiology of Empire? Hero-Cult and Athenian
Tragedy'
Barbara Graziosi (Durham)
'Migrant gods: Homer, Xenophanes and Herodotus on divine movement'
The seminars take place at 5pm, Lecture Room 1, 12 Abercromby Square,
University of Liverpool. All are welcome!
Further enquires to:
Dr Alexei V. Zadorozhnyy
avzadoro@liv.ac.uk
and/or Dr Bruce Gibson
bjgibson@liv.ac.uk
... seen on the Classicists list
8.00 p.m. |DISCU| The City Destroyer
The early fourth century saw the creation of a mobile armor-plated siege tower armed with the world's first catapults. This team of builders must recreate a 40-foot high "City Destroyer." Will they get the job done and defeat a local "enemy"?
8.00 p.m. |HINT|Greek Cities in Italy
Nearly 2,800 years ago, a group of Greek settlers landed on the coast of Italy, an event that marked the start of the process that created Magna Graecia--(Latin for Greater Greece)--Greek colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily. Explore the computer-recreated streets of the original Greek colonies as we walk through Cumae, Pasteum, Puteoli, and Neapolis, reconstructed using the most advanced computer graphics.
10.00 p.m. |HINT| Time Team: Cirencester
Around 1,700 years ago, Corinium--modern day Cirencester--was the second-most important city in Roman Britain after Londinium. By about 300 AD, it had developed into a bustling, wealthy city. Time Team was drawn to Cirencester by the opportunity to excavate in the gardens of a number of properties near the center of old Corinium. Though it has been said that you can't put a shovel into the ground in Cirencester without unearthing Roman relics, Time Team adds their 2-spades worth!
DISCU = Discovery Channel (US)
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Shahid Kapoor makes the wait for 'Kabir Singh' more difficult with the latest poster, check it out!
April 21 (AZINS) The makers of Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani starrer Kabir Singh have dropped the latest poster of the film, and it has definitely left the fans intrigued. Shahid Kapoor's tough, rugged look, donning a pair of shades with a stethoscope hung around his neck, is making the wait for the release of the film even more difficult.
While Shahid is currently holidaying in Spain with wifey Mira Rajput, his fans are eagerly waiting for June 21, when Kabir Singh will hit the theatres. The movie has Kiara Advani playing the female lead.
Kabir Singh is a Hindi remake of Vijay Deverakonda's Telugu hit Arjun Reddy. The film revolves around the love story of a hot headed medical student and a simple, innocent girl. Earlier this month, the makers had released a short teaser of Kabir Singh, which has already created a lot of buzz online.
The tagline of the film calles Kabir Singh, 'a rebel with a reason'. Directed by Sandeep Vanga, who also helmed Arjun Reddy, Kabir Singh is slated to hit the theatres on June 21.
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50 Most Iconic Football Shirts of All Time
For football fans across the world, a team shirt is not just an item of clothing worn by eleven players during a match, but a symbol of the team itself. ?
Having previously given a run-down of the ?50 worst football shirts at 90min, we take a trip down memory lane to look back at the most iconic shirts to have graced the beautiful game.
A singular rule applies to this list: a maximum of two shirts per club and one per country.
Let the countdown begin.
50) Getafe – 2009/10 ?
We kick things off with a kit that is downright hilarious on so many levels. Fast food and football are not exactly synonymous, but Getafe didn’t let that bother them as they chose Burger King as their main shirt sponsor.
49) Bolton – 2005/06
?This kit may not be one that will be remembered by many, but is certainly worthy of a mention given the success that Bolton, featuring the legendary Jay-Jay Okocha, enjoyed in the 2005/06 season.
After a sixth place finish the previous season, Sam Allardyce guided his side to the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup, where they were knocked out by Marseille, with a young Franck Ribery scoring the winner.
48) Rayo Vallecano – 2015/16?
Having to live in the shadow of the two much larger Clubs in Madrid I have always enjoyed the Rayo Vallecano shirts – especially with the support they have given to various initiativeshttps://t.co/T2goavHYzb
— Grant Maconachie ?????? (@GMacademic) June 27, 2019
Now this is a shirt that deserves to stand the test of time given the commendable statement Rayo made by including a rainbow strip on their away shirt in an effort to promote and support LGBT rights.
The diagonal rainbow stripe also fits in really well on a black background. Props to Vallecano.
47) Celtic – 1984/85
Though this season was not as successful in comparison to many others in Celtic’s illustrious history, it is one of the finer club strips to have been made.
The 100th Scottish Cup Final inscription, which The Bhoys won against Dundee United, is a nice vintage touch too.
46) Everton – 1984/85
This was the golden era for the Toffees as the men from the blue half of Merseyside won the league and European cup double that season.
What a kit to do it in too! What happened to white socks with hoops? They need to be
re-instated to modern kits urgently.
45) Romania – 1998 ?
A kit that wouldn’t immediately rack your brain should you see it as a stand-alone shirt, it played a key role in one of football’s most bizarre fashion statements.
Why on earth the entire Romanian team went for a bleach-blond Britpop look, like they had all simultaneously discovered Oasis for the first time, remains a confusing mystery.
44) FC Porto – 2003/04
A kit design that doesn’t get many mentions because all the focus from Porto’s Champions League tends to be on a certain Jose Mourinho, nowadays known as The Sacked After Three Seasons One.
A beautifully simple number that begs the question: What happened to regular colour schemes on modern football shirts?
43) Spain – 2010
The fact that Spain’s national anthem doesn’t have any words is unimportant for it was their players who struck fear into the opposition before kick-off.
A star-studded team featuring the likes of Iniesta, Xavi and Fernando Torres in their prime were no match for anyone else, as they won European Championships in 2008 and 2012 as well as the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
42) Mexico – 1994
This one is just a belter all around. Realistically, the goalkeeper kit could be a stand-alone feature here. Jorge Campos’ jersey is the sort of wavy garm that attracts tourists to Camden Town like bees to honey.
41) Fulham – 2009/10
Fulham beat some seriously good teams in this outfit.
On their run to the Europa League final, they beat the previous season’s Bundesliga winners Wolfsburg and Juventus. That’s right. *Fulham* beat *Juventus*. Not bad for a team that’s crashed back down to Championship mediocrity a decade later.
40) Manchester City – 2011/12
AGUEROOOOOO.
A standard sky-blue City kit that became steeped in folklore instantaneously after a wild ending in stoppage time. A historic ?Premier League moment that will never be forgotten.
39) Juventus – 2014/15
Trademark Juve. The stripes of the Bianconeri have been all-conquering in Serie A for the best part of a decade.
However, if you refer to our ?50 worst football shirts of all time, you will see that it is possible for black and white stripes to somehow go wrong.
38) Borussia Dortmund – 2011/12
Dortmund were a fearsome proposition under Jurgen Klopp. The pace of Reus. The finish of Lewandowski. Hummels and Santana provided power and pace at the back. Fearsome.
Bizarrely enough, the black-dotted scheme under a large but not too invasive EVONIK sponsor meant this shirt was a great sum of individual parts.
37) Leicester – 2015/16
A simple kit but this was far from a simple season.
It truly was a modern sporting miracle. After scraping Premier League survival the previous season, 5000/1 outsiders Leicester City proved that dreams can come true. An unforgettable fairytale.
36) Croatia – 1998
The man, the myth, the legend. Davor Suker.
Arguably one of the most underrated footballers of modern times, Suker won the Golden Boot at France 1998 to lead his country on a memorable run as they knocked out reigning European champions Germany en-route to the semi-finals.
35) West Ham – 1980
This is just pure brilliance from the good old Adidas days.
Three stripes everywhere to be seen. Nothing overly complex, proving that simple can also mean suave on a football shirt. It is therefore fitting that the Hammers won the 1980 FA Cup in this kit.
34) Chelsea – 2005/06
Here we see the ?recently retired Arjen Robben rocking one of the finer strips to grace Stamford Bridge.
This is the shirt in which Chelsea secured back-to-back Premier League titles under Jose Mourinho. The old Umbro logo will be fondly missed.
33) Leeds – 1995/96
The LUFC scripture here does it all. Superb innovation.
The blue ‘Thistle Hotels’ sponsor perfectly complemented Leeds’ classic all-white jersey that deservedly stood the test of time.
32) Nottingham Forest – 1978/79
These were the glory days for Clough and co. at Nottingham Forest.
As the first player to be bought for £1m, Trevor Francis really must have felt like a million-dollar man in this stunning strip.
31) Roma – 2007/08
Who else could be featured in this photo other than Mr. Roma himself?
Francesco Totti may have only won one Scudetto at his boyhood club but his unparalleled loyalty is something every modern-day football fan can admire.
30) Tottenham – 1994/95
The Lilywhites had a cracking selection of kits from 1994.
Their away strip deserved no less than to be worn by one of the greats. That luxury fell to German legend Jurgen Klinsmann after he was signed from Monaco.
29) Argentina – 1994
It was a World Cup to forget for Argentina as they were dumped out in the last 16 by Romania.
However, the sight of Gabriel Batistuta in his classic no. 9 shirt is one that will live long in the memory.
28) Inter – 2009/10
This kit begs the question: Whatever happened to Inter’s famous blue and black stripes?
Led by the old war-horse Javier Zanetti, the Nerazzurri achieved an unprecedented treble in 2009/10, the only Italian side ever to do so.
27) Bayern Munich – 1971-1973
HEUTE VOR 47 JAHREN –
UNSER ERSTES SPIEL IM OLYMPIASTADION
Am 28. Juni 1972, heute vor genau 47 Jahren, traf der FC Bayern als Tabellenführer am letzten Bundesligaspieltag auf den Zweitplatzierten FC Schalke 04…https://t.co/sk5kP6z7Yd pic.twitter.com/R5JGIq1uTW
— Kurt Landauer Stiftung (@Kurt_Landauer_) June 28, 2019
This squad featured club legends Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller at their peak.
Muller’s 40 goals that season, his most in a single campaign as a ?Bayern player, propelled the Bavarians to their second Bundesliga title.
This stripy blue affair was a dashing item that came at a fitting time after Chelsea were promoted back to the First Division in 1984.
The old ‘Le Coq Sportif’ logo on the chest of a fresh-faced Kerry Dixon is certainly a sight to behold.
25) PSG – 1995/96
These were the days before PSG spent more money on transfers than loaded tourists in Gucci on the Champs-Élysées.
However, Les Rouges et Bleu still found success in this tricolore-like strip, winning the 1996 Cup Winners’ Cup.
This shirt advertises Mini Discs. “What are they?!”, I hear the younger readers among you cry. Surely you’ll recognise a certain Alessandro Del Piero though?
It does not get more 90s than Mini Discs. Lest we forget those tiny hallowed relics.
23) Cameroon – 1990
Cameroon and Roger Milla, coming out of retirement aged 38, shocked the world in 1990.
The Indomitable Lions beat world champions Argentina en route to the quarter-finals, where they narrowly lost to England thanks to two Gary Lineker penalties.
22) AFC Wimbledon – 1987/88
If Carlsberg did football shirts, they’d probably be the coolest in the world.
This shirt is a fitting symbol for the Crazy Gang who might have been more hectic than the intro to Quantum Jump’s ‘The Lone Ranger’. If you don’t already get that reference, put the song on and you’ll immediately see what I mean.
21) Manchester United – 2007/08
This was potentially Sir Alex Ferguson’s finest time as ?Manchester United boss, as he staved off heavy investment from Chelsea to win three successive Premier League titles and a Champions League.
This was the Rooney and Ronaldo partnership at its potent peak. The photobomb from
Park Ji-Sung above gets a ten for effort, too.
20) Blackburn Rovers – 1994/95
The previous generation’s Leicester City story, Blackburn Rovers sent shockwaves across the land when they pipped Manchester United to the title by a point.
Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton formed a scintillating strike-force, scoring 49 goals between them to propel Rovers to Premier League glory.
19) Newcastle United – 1981/82
If you need a reminder of how much football can impact a city, look no further than Newcastle United’s 1981/82 shirt.
Featuring the city’s Tyne Bridge landmark inside a star on a kit that has black and white stripes was an audacious move but it certainly looked the part!
18) Arsenal – 1991/92
Our next one is certainly the Marmite of football kits.
Many of you will love it, many of you will hate it, but all of you have an opinion on Arsenal’s
so-called ‘bruised banana’ away strip that was worn by the Gunners in 1991.
17) Milan – 2002/03
A great kit for Milan in 2002/03, which they made the most of by winning the Champions League that year, defeating Juventus on penalties at Old Trafford.
Alessandro Nesta and Paolo Maldini must surely be regarded as one of the best centre-back pairings of all-time, too.
As mentioned above, Spurs had a seriously tasty selection of kits for the 1994/95 season.
The shirt almost led ?Tottenham to glory but they were knocked out of the FA Cup at the
semi-final stage in a humbling 4-1 loss to Everton.
15) France – 1998
The World Cup in France 1998 was the Zinedine Zidane show, which he ran, directed and produced from midfield.
His two headers in the final helped France claim victory against a vaunted Brazil side to win their maiden World Cup on home turf. Zizou truly was unplayable on his day.
14) Liverpool – 2004-2006
Steven Gerrard led ?Liverpool to two of the most unlikely comebacks in their history to win the Champions League and FA Cup in this classic Carlsberg kit.
His strike in the 2006 FA Cup final to level the score just as five minutes of injury time were announced is one that will be cherished by the Kop forevermore.
13) Barcelona – 1998-2000
Rivaldo at his peak in go-fast red and blue stripes is all that’s needed for the inclusion of this kit.
The Brazilian forward’s presence at the Camp Nou for five years made this jersey unforgettable. Unfortunately, he was never quite the same player after an unsuccessful stint at Milan.
12) The Netherlands – 1988
The Netherlands made total football a joy to watch on their way to winning Euro 1988.
Gullit. Van Basten. Rijkaard. Koeman. An eye-catching list of names that lived up to their billing with their on-field performances whilst somehow wearing three different shades of orange.
11) Napoli – 1986/87
So impactful was Diego Maradona at Napoli that his no.10 is now retired at the club.
Throughout an illustrious career, it is perhaps his spell in Naples that will evoke the most lucid memories, as the Argentine legend scored 81 goals in 188 appearances for the club.
10) Nigeria – 2018
Our top ten kicks off with a kit that would be described as an instant post-modern classic were it a Waterstones book review.
Taking inspiration from past designs, this electric green Nigeria shirt from last year’s World Cup was, understandably, an instant hit with football fans across the globe.
9) West Germany – 1990
This one won’t be popular with England fans but, whatever your allegiance, you have to tip your hat to the Warhol-esque design of this kit. It’s shimmering, smart and snazzy but most of all, it is a statement.
The goalkeeper kit is worth a mention too, bearing a close resemblance to the kaleidoscope effect on Photo Booth that makes you feel like you’re in an alternate reality.
8) Real Madrid – 2001-2003
The Galactico era. Zidane, Figo and Ronaldo in the same team? Almost unsportsmanlike.
Importantly, Zidane made the most of the excellent players around him with one of the greatest strikes of the 21st century so far, to secure ?Los Blancos’ ninth European Cup at the hands of Bayer Leverkusen.
7) Barcelona – 2004-2006
The Galacticos give way to the sexy samba magic of Ronaldinho. This man made David Seaman, one of England’s greatest ever goalkeepers, look like a sub-par Sunday League player with a game-altering free-kick at the World Cup in 2002.
The ?Blaugrana won back-to-back league titles and the 2005/06 Champions League, meaning this shirt will always be associated with Ronaldinho’s sumptuously skillful talent.
6) Liverpool – 1987/88
*You can’t go slow or fast but do it at the right time*. Here is the legendary John Barnes putting his lyrics into action in an even more legendary kit that was one of football’s most recognisable partnerships.
With Crown Paints as their sponsor between 1982 and 1988, Liverpool dominated the English game, winning four league titles, an FA Cup and a European Cup.
5) Arsenal – 2002-2004
Records were broken and history was made. So impressive was this ?Arsenal side that such heights may never be reached again in the Premier League. After all, the last team to go a season unbeaten before the Gunners in 2004 were Preston North End, in 1889.
When Thierry Henry pulled his trademark Nike gloves on, with long sleeves to boot, you knew the game was over if he was in the mood.
4) Manchester United – 1993-1995
Apart from the fact that this shirt featured in one of the most ugly moments ever to have graced English football, when Eric Cantona launched a kung-fu kick at Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons, who hurled abuse at the Frenchman after he was sent off for a reckless tackle.
The incident aside, it was a wonderful strip that Manchester United fans will have fond memories of, as the Red Devils won the double in 1993/94.
3) Brazil – 1970
Two legends of football celebrating a World Cup win in a plain, yet impactful kit. The kit made such an impression, for it was worn by a team that Pele himself has labelled as the greatest team of all time.
It is difficult to contest that statement, the team containing an unrivalled attacking quartet of Pele, Jairzinho, Tostao and Rivellino.
2) Italy – 1990
The 1990 World Cup was widely criticised for the negative defensive mindset that many teams employed which led to an average of only two goals per game, yet it is a tournament that many will still vividly remember.
However, the Italians inspired a generation with their fast, flowing and flamboyant attacking play. The Azzurri’s success on home turf led to an unseen level of interest in the Italian game for the next decade.
1) England – 1966
Could it really have been anything else to top the list?
In a list of iconic kits that showcase and complement equally iconic moments, it is only fair that England’s World Cup triumph of 1966 takes the coveted number one spot.
Now more than 50 years of hurt for English fans, which would have been 12 months of joy you wouldn’t have been able to avoid. If only ?Harry Kane had scored a sitter at 1-0. What could have been…
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Bishop Appoints College of Consultors and Clergy Appointments Board
Following discussions at last Monday’s Priests’ Assembly, the Bishop has made the following appointments:
College of Consultors (for a term of five years)
Rev Paul Devitt VG
Rev Laurie Beath
Rev Tony Hennessy
Rev Owen Gibbons
Rev Greg Kennedy
Rev Mark McGuigan
Clergy Appointments Board (for a term of three years)
Rev Joe Dooley
Rev Carl Mackander
Rev Garry McKeown
The canonical duties of the College of Consultors are (i) to advise the Bishop on the appointment or dismissal of the Diocesan Financial Administrator (c.494); (ii) to consent or not to acts of extraordinary administration (c.1277) or (iii) alienation of certain ecclesiastical property (c.1292§1). The Bishop also takes advice and consent from the Diocesan Finance Council, comprising experts from among the lay faithful, on these matters.
As the College does not cease with the death or resignation of the Bishop, it also takes on special responsibilities should the See become vacant (cf. cc. 272, 413, 419, 421, 422, 485 and 501).
The Consultors are also, according to the law of New South Wales, the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Bathurst.
The Clergy Appointments Board will advise the Bishop regularly on all matters formerly dealt with by the Consultors relating to all our seminarians, deacons and priests: not only with regard to making particular appointments, but also with regard to their circumstances and care, whether in full-time appointments or not.
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Home›Sports›BC Eagles›Basketball›BC Basketball Picks Up Much-Needed Win Against Pittsburgh
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BC Basketball Picks Up Much-Needed Win Against Pittsburgh
by Lillie Clifton
The neon green of the coaches’ ties illuminated the sidelines of Conte Forum as Boston College men’s basketball joined in Coaching for Literacy’s “Fight for Literacy Games” initiative for a second consecutive season in their Tuesday night matchup against the Pittsburgh Panthers. Following a tough loss to Syracuse on Saturday, the Eagles came back with a vengeance to end their four-game slide with a 66-57 victory over the Panthers.
Ky Bowman made his presence known on the court early on in the contest by getting the Eagles’ first points of the game after locking down Pittsburgh freshman guard Xavier Johnson in the opening minutes. However, without Nik Popovic and Wynston Tabbs, the Eagles’ second and fourth leading scorers, the Eagles struggled from the field in the opening minutes of the first half, missing six of its first seven shots.
Bowman hit another three-pointer with just under eight minutes left in the first half to give the Eagles a nine-point lead, their largest of the night to that point. The Eagles continued to claw their way up on the scoreboard, with Bowman scoring in double figures for the 32nd consecutive game. At the half, the Eagles held a slim 32-27 lead.
The game continued to be a fight for dominance as the Eagles and the Panthers went back and forth for the majority of the second half.
The injury bug bit the Eagles once again in the second half, as Steffon Mitchell headed to the locker room with an eye injury and Jordan Chatman suffered a lacerated finger. Chatman attempted to return to the game, but left the court again when his wound reopened. Mitchell would return to the game with around nine minutes left in the second half. When both players left the court, Boston College’s prospects became dim, as the Eagles were without four regular starters.
The Eagles briefly trailed by three points before gaining back a two-point lead with an elbow jumper from Bowman. Boston College started to heat up from the floor with two big time knockdowns from Jared Hamilton and Chris Herren Jr.
With just minutes left in the game, the Panthers’ offense became sloppy, turning the ball over multiple times and allowing for Jared Hamilton to hit another pull-up jumper to extend the Boston College lead.
The Eagles ultimately picked up a much-needed win, defeating the Panthers 66-57 behind Bowman’s 14 points and 8 rebounds. Boston College moves to 12-11 overall, 3-8 in the ACC, and 8-6 at home.
The Boston College Eagles will face off with the 10-13 Miami Hurricanes on Sunday night at Conte Forum, hoping to start a winning streak with time running out on this season.
Be sure to follow @BCGavelSports for the latest updates on Boston College athletics.
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Why Pope Francis will not visit Nigeria – Vatican
October 19, 2015 JimVeay 0 Comments AfrikMouth, Christians, homeless, Muslims, nigeria, Pope Francis, refugees
Pope Francis will not visit Nigeria, the west African country hit by the incessant attack of Islamist sect, Boko Haram, but will meet slum dwellers and refugees and call for dialogue between Christians and Muslims when he visits Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic next month, the Vatican said on Saturday.
The trip, his first to Africa, is fraught with security concerns and the pope will spend about two days in each country and visit only the capitals.
Since his election as the first Latin American pope, Francis has met the most needy on each of his 10 foreign tours. In Nairobi, he will visit Kangemi, a slum that is home to 650,000 people.
He will also hold an inter-religious meeting and say a Mass at a university in the capital.
The Kenya stop had been in doubt in the initial planning of the November 25-30 trip.
Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall was the scene of a four-day siege in September 2013 that left at least 67 people dead in an attack by gunmen of the Somalia-based Islamist group al Shabaab.
Last April, militants attacked the Garissa University College in eastern Kenya, killing 148 people, most of them Christian.
In Uganda, Francis is scheduled to visit a home for the disabled in Nalukolongo, a suburb of the capital Kampala.
The last stop is Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, where the centrepiece of his visit to a country plagued by inter-communal violence is a meeting with Muslim leaders in the Koudoukou mosque.
Violence surged in Bangui in September after the murder of a Muslim man, and 77 people were killed. Much of the violence in the capital has been driven by a militia known as anti-balaka, which is largely Christian, and a mainly Muslim group called the Seleka.
Thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been internally displaced since the Seleka briefly seized power in the majority Christian country in 2013. They later handed power to an interim government but still control swathes of the north.
Yours truly, AfrikMouth.com
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Winter 2017: PRESUMED PARENTS - The Born To and Holding Out Requirements of G.L. c. 209C
By Elizabeth A. Roberts
Marriage rates are at an all-time low, with the decline expected to continue in the coming years.1 Some would-be parents are going-it alone, becoming single-parents by choice, while others are having children with non-marital partners. The law moves more slowly than the family has evolved. There has been little guidance from the Massachusetts courts with regard to protecting a non-marital parent-child relationship where there is no biological connection between the child and parent. Who fits into this category of parent? Opposite sex and same sex couples who use donor egg and/or sperm most frequently fall into this category.
The provisions of Massachusetts General Laws c. 209C are easily applied to cases where both parents have biological ties to a child. Despite the increase in adults engaging in assisted reproductive technologies with partners outside of marriage, until recently there was a question as to the application of G.L. c.209C in cases where an alleged parent has no biological ties to a child. In the past, attorneys often advised that without a biological or adoptive connection to the child, the best one could hope for was visitation with the child on the basis that he or she was a de facto parent.
This changed with the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Partanen v. Gallagher, 475 Mass. 632 (2016), when the Court found that G.L. c. 209C2 presumes parentage, regardless of biological connections between a parent and child, when two requirements are satisfied: (1) born to; and (2) holding out. Put plainly, to establish parentage on behalf of a non-biological parent who does not have the benefit of the presumptions provided by marriage and adoption (also referred to as a “presumed parent”), a party must establish that:
The child who was born to an unmarried couple (G.L. c. 209C, §1); and
The parties/parents jointly brought the child “into their home and openly held out the child as their child.” G.L. c. 209C, § 6.
Born To Requirement
Karen Partanen (“Partanen”),3 who sought legal and custodial rights to two children, alleged that she was engaged in a long-term relationship where the parties chose not to marry. According to Partanen, both parties wanted children, and as a couple, the parties engaged in assisted reproductive technology that resulted in Gallagher giving birth to two children, several years apart. Notably, Partanen was unsuccessful at her attempts to get pregnant prior to Gallagher’s attempts.
Clients asserting a parentage claim should be prepared to allege specific facts relating to the “born to” requirement. To that end, the following list is not exhaustive but represents some compelling facts supportive of fulfilling the “born to” requirement when crafting a Complaint for Parentage:
A party’s presence at conception and birth, as well as at medical appointments during the pregnancy;
A party’s consent (or lack thereof) with regard to assisted reproductive technology;
How a party is portrayed to donors, cryobank, physicians and other professionals involved in the fertility process;
Participation in the selection of donor, medical providers and medical facilities;
Payments made related to medical care, including, but not limited to surrogates and/or cryobanks;
Steps taken to ready the home for the child prior to the birth;
Acknowledgement of the party as a parent to the child in advance of birth by family, friends and providers; and
Although unmarried, any other legal or non-legal recognition of the parties’ relationship (e.g. domestic partnership, emergency contacts, estate planning documents).
As with any litigation matter, it is important to consider evidentiary issues related to particular documents. In many cases, documents that may be needed at trial are from out of state entities and/or providers, and obtaining certified records can potentially pose a problem.
Brought Jointly to Shared Home
Establishing the presumption of parentage not only requires that the child be “born to” the person claiming the presumption of parentage, but also that the child was (a) brought by both parties/parents to a home that was shared by them; and (b) held out to the community as a child of the two parties/parents. G.L. c. 209C, § 6. Partanen and Gallagher, after each birth, brought the child back into a home they shared in Florida. Some considerations when evaluating whether the parties jointly brought the child back into a shared home are:
Presence at the discharge of the child from hospital;
Presence at the home after discharge from the hospital;
Ownership of home or parties to lease;
Length of relationship prior to birth;
Payments made by the party / parties for the home; and
Representations by both relating to relationship and who resides in home.
Held out to the Community as a Parent
The “holding out” requirement for presumed parents relates to facts occurring post-birth and is not dissimilar to the requirement for holding out in many states with regard to common law marriage or to prove a cohabitation relationship between significant others for purposes of alimony reduction and/or termination. The premise of the requirement is how the parties/parents presented themselves to other members of the community with regard to their relationship with the child. Did Party A tell others that Party B was a parent? Consider a presumed parent’s role relating to the following categories (again, not exhaustive) when drafting a Complaint for Parentage:
Name references by children and others (e.g. Mama, Mommy, Dad, Daddy, Papa);
Decision-making and division of parenting duties;
Forms for educational and medical providers and the treatment of each party on those forms:
Who completed;
Emergency contacts listed;
Access and authority granted to presumed parent; and
Execution of form;
Written messaging from the parties:
Holiday cards;
Birth announcements;
Emails from parties to family members and friends;
Social media posts; and
Family projects for school (describing make up of family);
Written messaging from third parties:
How is it addressed (i.e. to which party)?
What assumptions are made?
Caretaking roles of each party;
Payments made by each party for child-related and home related costs;
School;
Extracurricular activities; and
Daycare / after-school programming;
Participation in milestones:
Baptisms;
Religious ceremonies;
Graduations;
Recitals; and
School functions;
Special needs and/or considerations:
Activities in which a presumed parent is particularly involved (e.g. coaching); and
Expertise relating to a special need of a child.
Like in any other custodial matter, the best interests of the child are paramount, and many of the facts an attorney will want to present to persuade a court relative to parenting time and decision-making will be the same as in more typical custodial disputes. When representing a presumed parent, however, the “born to” and “holding out” requirements should guide all aspects of your case—from initial intake, to pleading the necessary elements to avoid dismissal, to discovery, to the eventual trial. As discussed, careful consideration of potential evidentiary hurdles and other issues earlier in the litigation process is important.
The focus in this article has been on litigating a parentage claim, but an important take away from the Partanen case is that presumed parents need not litigate. A voluntary acknowledgement of parentage may be executed regardless of a party’s biological connection to a child. Any parenting agreement reached by parties may be incorporated into a Judgment of Parentage.
Elizabeth Roberts concentrates her practice on domestic relations law. She assists clients in a wide range of family law matters, including divorce, child custody, prenuptials, postnuptials, adoptions, removal cases, and unmarried partners. Elizabeth also counsels clients in a probate law matters, including guardianships, conservatorships, will contests, and trust and estate disputes. Elizabeth was previously associated with Todd & Weld LLP, a preeminent Boston litigation firm, where her practice focused exclusively on domestic relations and probate matters. Prior to joining a private practice, Elizabeth was a judicial clerk with the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court. Elizabeth assists clients in direct negotiations to settle cases, as well as guides them through attorney-assisted alternative dispute resolution. While most cases in the Probate & Family Court settle, Elizabeth is a skilled litigator who is able to take a case from start to finish. For example, she persuaded a Massachusetts Probate and Family Court judge to award joint legal and physical custody of children to a same-sex, non-biological parent, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Massachusetts. In a related case, Elizabeth is collaborating with GLAD on an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court for a determination that the non-biological parent be granted the status of a legal parent. Elizabeth also mediates all types of domestic relations matters, assisting couples and families in privately resolving their disputes.
1 Heidi Stevens, Marriage at 100 year low--and that's a good thing, Chicago Tribute, May 18, 2015, http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-marriage-in-decline-balancing-20150518-column.html (last visited Feb 4, 2017).
2 While G.L. c. 209C refers to a “man and woman” the statute must be read in gender-neutral terms.
3 Importantly, Partanen’s Complaint for Parentage was dismissed by a Probate & Family Court judge, and it was that dismissal that led to the SJC’s decision in Partanen. There was no trial that resulted in the Court making findings of fact. Instead, the SJC looked at the facts as alleged in Partanen’s Complaint in reversing the dismissal. The Partanen case is used as an illustration only and solely for the purpose of describing the born to and holding out requirements.
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Physical activity plays an significant function in community health and wellbeing. The use of questionable procedures in sports coaching organisations in the UK. Unpublished manuscript. In contradiction to the Popperian account of science as revolutionary, and characterised by ambitious attempts to develop and destroy theories, Kuhn portrayed science as an essentially conservative practice, ruled by potent paradigms and in which the context of study is vitally essential. With such duty handed to scientists and the scientific community, it is important that there is some powerful understanding of what counts as a proper science and, as opposed to pseudoscience and non-science.
There is a great deal scepticism among philosophers about the possibility of clearly distinguishing science from non-science, in aspect by unsuccessful attempts to offer such criteria in the past, and by the acknowledgement of the ever-increasing diversity of methodologies and techniques of these disciplines thought of scientific. Coaches and sports teachers are keen to obtain out if the newest research strengthens the case for activity. There is little doubt that the culture of sports coaching has changed over recent years.
In some countries, it is standard to speak of either sport science or sport and physical exercise science, although elsewhere folks use Kinesiology, Bio-kinetics, Human Movement Research, and other names. Pseudoscientific theories claim to conform to the methodological norms of science, but, when judged by non-believers, the claims are deemed to violate science and usually frequent sense (Koertge, 2013). A theory of science that could include things like physics, criminal behaviour and Bayern Munich’s team organisation is hardly adequate!
Social Capital: The outcomes that arise when networks in between people today, groups, organizations, and civil society are strengthened because of participation in group-primarily based physical activity, play, or competitive sports. Having said that, the central problems they discussed continue to occupy scholars, and are indicative of some of the central problems confronting everyone wishing to speak coherently about the nature of science. Science has traditionally been seen as the apex of rationality and important pondering.
Though science has been defined in lots of approaches, most people who have examined the topic agree it is in the end not a physique of expertise, but a way of establishing and creating a body of knowledge (Shneider, 2009). Falsification as the criterion of demarcation continues to be influential among scientists, but philosophers have usually abandoned it as a basic way of setting science apart from pseudoscience. In fact, the variety of techniques made use of by sport and physical exercise scientists is even wider than that, since several techniques regularly utilised have been imported from additional afield.
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Variables Affecting Well being & Security In Sport
By Geneva Goodman October 2, 2017, 3:33 pm December 21, 2016 affecting, being, security, sport, variables 0
Sports Medicine Australia offers a range of courses for all disciplines of sports medicine for athletes, coaches, trainers, doctors and allied health professionals to clubs, schools and the wider neighborhood. In maintaining with the broader aims of the seminar series, it aims to facilitate interdisciplinary understanding of sport, health and medicine, identifying how the bio- and social sciences can collaborate to facilitate the effective translation of knowledge into policy and practice. By minimizing prises you widen the desirability of the opportunity and due to retirement=lack of cash and funds…reducing prises tends to make sport a lot more economical and thus doable to senior members of society.
Additionally, the School’s Short Courses and CPD offers a range of vocational courses for members of the nearby neighborhood wishing to create careers in the area of sport, health and fitness. Each and every religion and belief comes with its person set of rules/guidelines / beliefs that followers should honor and for some religions such as Islamic there are a couple of guidelines which affect how women participate in sport.
There are a number of distinctive schemes that are place collectively to overcome barriers such as these, an example of this would be the 5×60 scheme, who are an organisation with the main aims of increasing mass participation with young men and women, they aid to get children involved in sport no matter what their background to encourage them into participating in sports.
As nicely as the above, national heroes such as dame Kelly Holmes, Paula Radcliff and Mary King are advertised and showcased in the world of sport to act as role models and inspiration to females everywhere. This module is made to present an introduction to the biomechanics of sport and workout as an area of academic and applied study. A further strong belief of the Muslim culture is exactly where вЂAllah’ has commanded the believing females to reduce their gaze, this meaning that it is an additional barrier for Muslim girls when watching sport. This sport can be relaxing for you simply because it causes your body to make endorphins, which make your mind really feel uplifted.
The are a number of unique economical causes that have an effect on young people in the UK, if the youngster comes from a not so privileged background where cash is a main problem, performing in sport can be an really complicated activity to full, Not getting adequate cash/funds to attend outside school clubs, afford right gear and uniform and so forth will prevent the young particular person from reaching a attainable talent.
Sport And Health Science
By Geneva Goodman September 30, 2017, 7:24 pm December 21, 2016 health, science, sport 0
The journal Sport Sciences for Wellness publishes reports of experimental and clinical analysis on the physiology and pathophysiology of physical exercising. This module is created to present students with a range of skills, understanding and the understanding to enable them and customers to participate safely in a range of sport and fitness activities. It has undergone speedy expansion in recent years, with the constructing of new facilities to assistance the programmes, and the employment of specialist employees in the a variety of fields of sport, health and physical exercise science.
It will supply the learner witht he background understanding required to operate as an SDO and raises troubles for SDOs and coaches in terms of meeting person demands, attracting funding and establishing their chosen sport. I think the most important purpose (apart from items as guidelines and wining or losing) to qualify as a sport is its institutionalisations and (international) recognition.
The sport helps develop their muscle tone along with bringing about a healthier attitude. In certain, Suits considers, what seems to be, the considerable connection in between games and sport. An example of where this is present would be the lc2 who by providing a discounted price widen the quantity of young men and women interested in sport increasing their motivational levels regarding participation.
A sport governing physique is noticed as ‒a sports organisation that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.” As quoted by () and come in different different types. The last few decades have shown a rise in levels of participation in existing places of sport. A further wellness benefit of playing basketball is improving self-esteem This extraordinary sport is seriously a fantastic confidence booster as the game comes with its own levels of accomplishment.
For this reason, it appears that the analytical method is useful but inadequate as there could be some situations which fulfil the necessary and sufficient situations but which we would not want to label as sport, and other people that do not fulfil these circumstances that we do want to contact sport. A private sector with regards to sport can be seen as a Corporation whose fundamental aim is to make income, but who also typically help to fund sports.
As my National Organisation and beneath will be facts on their accomplishments, aims, objectives and ideas with regards to sport. This 1-day seminar explores a choice of state of the art interventions in the field of physical activity well being promotion. Second and ultimately, that which we get in touch with sport and that which we dismiss as a game or other activity, is dependent on agreement in language. Historically it had been thought of and acceptable for sport to be connected with male domination which of course led to really serious discrimination towards girls in sport. This is a fantastic way in which to encourage elderly people to participate in sport.
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Home Finance Do you know where you are domiciled? Are you sure?
Do you know where you are domiciled? Are you sure?
For British expatriates, understanding domicile is an important element of estate planning. It is domicile, not residence, that determines your liability for UK inheritance tax. With rates at 40%, UK inheritance tax is one of the most expensivet axes facing British families - and living in Spain does not automatically protect you.
Determining domicile
Domicile is ac omplex and incredibly adhesive UK common law concept. The basic rule is that a person is domiciled in the country in which they have their permanent home - the country regarded as your ‘homeland'. However, you can remain UK-domiciled even after living abroad for many years.
There arethree types of domicile under English law:
· Domicileof origin - where a child takes their father's (or single/unmarried mother's)domicile (not necessarily their country of birth).
· Domicile of dependence - applies to women married before 1974 (whose domicile will mirror their husband's) as well as minors and other legal dependents.
· Domicile of choice - acquired by moving permanently to another country.
While changing your domicile is possible, this needs to be a carefully considered and planned process as there are no set rules - much depends on your particular circumstances and intentions. If challenged by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the onus is on you - or, rather, your family inheriting your assets - to prove you were non-UKdomicile at the date of death.
Changing domicile
To acquire a domicile of choice you must be physically present and tax resident in your new country, intend to live there permanently, and not foresee any reason to return to the UK. You need to sever as many ties as possible with the UK, as HMRC will look for any indication that you see Britain as your homeland and may return one day. Even stating in your will that you wish to be buried in the UK could work against you. Electing for UK succession law to apply over local ‘forcedheirship' rules could also be a tipping point in combination with other ties to the UK.
Even if you adopt a domicile of choice outside the UK, it can take up to four years to shed a UK domicile for inheritance tax purposes. HMRC may treat you as UK-domiciled if you:
· were UK resident for 15* (previously 17) of the last 20 tax years (*due to change imminently and be back-dated to April 2017)
· return to Britain for more than a year (if the UK is your domicile of origin and place of birth)
· move to a third country - until you can demonstrate you have established a new domicile of choice.
A recent divorce case involving an Irish national demonstrates the ‘stickiness' of UK domicile. HMRC determined that she had a UK domicile of choice, despite spending less than three years living in the UK - the longest run being 18 months - almost 20 years ago. But while an EU diplomat, she had cited the UK as her country of origin, given a ‘permanent' London address and registered on the British electoral roll. This was considered enough to make the UK her permanent home, while none of her overseas stays were sufficient to acquire a new domicile of choice.
The effect of domicile on taxes
Anyone who is deemed UK-domiciled is liable to 40% inheritance tax on their worldwide assets above the individual tax-free allowance of £325,000 - which is transferable to your spouse or civil partner. By 2020, the phasing in of a new ‘family home allowance' will add an extra £175,000 allowance per person, meaning a total potential threshold per couple of £1 million.
Many other countries have a version of inheritance tax, so as well as UK inheritance tax, you could be liable to Spanish succession tax.
However, in most cases the UK would give credit for the tax paid overseas to avoid double taxation on the same asset.
Non-UKdomiciles are only liable to tax on assets situated in the UK.
The best approach
Domicile is ac omplex area of law, particularly for inheritance tax purposes. If you are looking to claim change of domicile, or if there is a significant amount of UK inheritance tax at stake, you should take expert advice specific to yourcircumstances. Whether or not you have UK domicile status, there are tax planning arrangements available to reduce your liabilities to inheritance and other taxes. An expert in this area will help you establish your domicile status, how inheritance tax interacts with Spanish succession tax and what steps you can take to minimise unnecessary taxes for your heirs.
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CRA Centres Open Up Once Again Across All Three Territorial Capitals
Monday, February 11th, 2019 12:54pm
The new office location will be located in the Elijah Smith Building
MP Larry Bagnell, Grand Chief Peter Johnston and Mayor Dan Curtis were part of the Canadian Revenue Agency office opening in Whitehorse today.
All three territorial capitals officially have a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) Northern Service Centre once again.
The official opening of the CRA office occurred today in Whitehorse, and Director Tim Phillips, MP Larry Bagnell, and Grand Chief Peter Johnston were all at the opening of the territorial office today at the Elijah Smith Building.
The renewed service will ensure Territorial residents and businesses will have better consultation when it comes to discussing tax affairs and northern tax matters.
Bagnell says any Yukoner will be able to access the service, provided they come in to the office or call from a number with a 867 area code.
"There is going to be dedicated phone lines that can be accessed when people come through Service Canada or from home. The service will operate on Yukon, not Ottawa hours."
At the event, Bagnell highlighted the Northern Living Allowance as just one example of how northern agents will be able to help Yukoners on their tax issues.
Three employees will also be working at the centre, including two outreach officers and one liaison officer.
The outreach workers will also help provide and conduct tax clinics to Yukoners in Whitehorse and outlying communities.
The CRA offices were closed in 2012 under the conservative government but Yukon MP Larry Bagnell has been fighting since the 2015 federal election campaign to get the Whitehorse office open again.
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Weep Mothers Weep by Ian Winstanley
A documentary account of the explosion which claimed the lives of over 200 men and boys. In many ways the disaster was typical of many Victorian disasters in mines and stirred the interest of the public for weeks.
Landy Publishing
ISBN 0 9507692 4 X
OUT OF PRINT Text available as PDF file.
In Affectionate Rememberance by Geoff Simm and Ian Winstanley
Since the publication of 'Weep Mothers Weep', which told the narrative of the Wood Pit Explosion, Haydock, 7th. June, 1878 several interesting finds have come to light. A complete record of the Disaster Fund Subscriptions , diaries written in far away New Zealand, and perhaps the greatest find of all, a commemorative album of photographs taken at Wood Pit and in Haydock at the time of the explosion. These photographs are not just of local interest. They will interest and excite many historians and others who are interested in photography.
Picks Publishing
ISBN 0 9516843 5 3
With Hearts So Light by Ian Withstanley
A documentary account of the two events at Queen Pit that shook the village in 1868 and 1869. It was unusual in mining history that disaster should strike the same pit twice. What makes the Queen Pit Explosion unique is that they should come so close together. The book captures the mood of the village at the time from the point of view of the relatives of the victims, and the rescue operations at the pit are graphically described.
The Romance of Coal
In the nineteen thirties, Richard Evans commissioned a public relations document from the Albion Press, The result was 'The Romance of Coal' which gives information about the origins of coal, a historical review of coal mining, a short history of the Evans Company, methods of working coal at that time and how the coal was treated. The book provides a snapshot of a Lancashire Coal Company.
The Unfortunate Colliery
The High Brooks Colliery was situated at Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan. In the 1860's, accounts of accidents and dangerous occurrences appeared so often in the local press, that it was referred to as 'The Unfortunate Colliery'. During this time, there were two serious underground fires, an entombment of the men and two violent explosions. The book gives an account of these incidents and records the day to day life of a Lancashire colliery at this time from contemporary records.
Mining Memories
Mining Memories contains over a hundred and fifty illustrations of industrial interest and copies of documents that are related to the history of coal mining in St.Helens. Many of the developments and important dates in the coalmining history of the country are recorded.
ISBN 0 9511881 1 9.
The Compleat Collier
This is an illustrated reprint of an important document of the history of coal mining in Great Britain. it was first published in 1708 and reprinted in 1845 when it might have been lost forever had it not been for a printer in the North East who used the text to demonstrate the new printing technology. This new edition contains many illustrations depicting many aspects of mining.
ISBN 0 95164843 1 0
Hell Under Haydock
As pit explosions go, being measured in the number of casualties, the one which occurred at Lyme Pit, Haydock, between St. Helens and Wigan, wasn't a big one, but it happened within living memory, just seventy years ago. Here, a retired schoolteacher, Ian Winstanley, himself a 'Yicker' with pride in the Lancashire collier, tells the story of the explosion for the first time. He has searched contemporary newspapers, official reports and spoken to men and women involved in that day of Hell, complete with fire and flames which happened under Haydock.
ISBN 1 - 872895 - 54 - 9
Parkside Colliery by Geoff Simm
Parkside colliery was one of the last deep mines to be sunk and go into production in the Lancashire coalfield. It was also one of the last to be demolished. When the twin towers were brought crashing to the ground, it left a cloud of dust drifting across the Lancashire countryside that carried the memories of a once great and proud industry. Geoff Simm worked at the colliery for all his miner's life. The book was written as a personal tribute to the many miners who, like the author worked at Parkside Colliery.
The Leghs and Haydock Coal
A detailed account of coal mining in Lancashire in the early 19th. cent.
From the Landmark Collector's Library:-
Collieries of South Wales : 1 by John Cornwell.
Collieries of Somerset and Bristol by John Cornwell.
Other Mining Books
The Miners' Strike, Day by Day by Brian Elliot.
Collieries of North East Lancashire by Jack Nadin
Children of the dark by Allan Gallop
My Ancestor was a Coalminer by David Tonks
Yorkshire Miners by Brian Elliott
Yorkshire's Flying Pickets by Brian Elliott and Bruce Wilson
The Orrell Coalfield, Lancashire 1740-1850 by D Anderson
Balmaidens, A Portrait of Women in the mining by Lynne Mayers
Yorkshire Mining Veterans: Volume 1 by Brian Elliott
Lancashire History
The Diary of Roger Lowe - Ashton-in-Makerfield's Samuel Pepys
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History Of Lincoln Nebraska In Pictures
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These 15 Photos of Nebraska In The 1960s Are Mesmerizing. Here at Only In Nebraska, we love to look at our state’s history. Usually, we focus on the distant history from the early days of the state.
Nebraska, which was admitted to the union as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, contains some of the nation’s best ranchland and farmland.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Nebraska system, is the largest university in Nebraska, having 20,954 undergraduate, 4,606 postgraduate students and 519 professionals enrolled in 2017. Out of the 26,079 enrolled, 2,214 undergraduate and 1,142 postgraduate students/professionals were international.
Capitol in Lincoln The first two Capitols in Lincoln were poorly constructed of inferior materials and by 1915 there was interest in building a third State Capitol. In January of 1919, the Legislature passed the Mears-Tracewell Bill to provide for construction of a new Capitol.
Lincoln, NE Photo Album – All Pictures. Jump to a detailed profile or search site with . Business Search 14 Million Businesses in 12,000 Categories. Find: Near: Lincoln: Nebraska State Capitol building in Lincoln. Lincoln: Jazz in June @ Sheldon Art Gallery. Lincoln: The Sower.
A Brief History; Czech Language Program; External Links; Books & Articles. A History of the Czechs in Knox County Historical photos of Wilber and of other various places. University of Nebraska. Czech Heritage Project Contact Information. Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce Oldman Hall 1133 Lincoln NE 68588-0315 Tel: 402-472-1336 Email: msaskova
The following is a list of photograph collections in the holdings of History Nebraska. We have tried to make this a comprehensive list, however, new collections, manuscript collections with photographs, and museum collections with photographs may not be reflected.
“teens, if you want to vote…”: fraud, condescension, and voting rights in 1919 Nebraska 10/31/2018. Anti-suffragists reacted to Nebraska’s 1917 limited suffrage law …
Lincoln, NE (68508) Today. A mix of clouds and sun during the morning will give way to cloudy skies this afternoon. Powerful photos bring Lincoln’s history to life in new book.
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Joe R: B- | 12 USERS: A-
By Joe R | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.30.2013
Remember how J.J. Abrams would always say that the idea for Alias grew out of "What if Felicity were secretly a spy?" I'm kind of glad that Keri Russell finally gets to live that pitch a little bit. Meet Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings. They're KGB agents under deep cover for a division called Directorate S. This particular brand of deep cover -- twenty years in the states, married and raising two children despite not being a genuine couple, complete immersion, forbidden from speaking Russian in private, forbidden from even telling each other their own real histories -- is so intensive that folks at the FBI think it's an urban legend. But there they are, tracking down a KGB defector in D.C., in preparation for a drop-off that they miss because Phillip (the more softhearted of the two) stops to make sure their mortally wounded cohort gets to a hospital (he dies anyway). So they take the defector -- Timoshev -- home and keep him bound and gagged in the trunk of their car until they figure out what to do with him. Elizabeth (the more hardcore-as-fuck of the two) is harboring a secret: Back in KGB training twenty years ago, Timoshev raped her. So she's like extra motivated to choose the "cut him up into small pieces and dump him somewhere" option. The other option is pitched by Timoshev himself: he tells Phillip that he and Elizabeth should defect like he did. He got a cool $3 million for his trouble, so maybe they could too. Phillip's considering the option because his deep, dark secret is that he kind of loves America.
Living next door to the Jenningses is Stan, played by Noah Emmerich, who just so happens to be a FBI agent. There are a lot of "Is Stan really suspicious of them or is the show faking us out?" scenes, primarily one where Stan asks to borrow jumper cables and Phillip has to retrieve them without letting Stan see the tied-up KGB agent in his trunk.
The knowledge that a FBI agent just moved next door freaks Phillip and Elizabeth out significantly. He presents her with the defection option. She says absolutely not, partially because she's loyal to the motherland, partially because she's maniacally focused on their job, but also partly because she can't bear the thought of their children finding out the truth about them. Still, Phillip is resolute and he plans to defect on his own -- which effectively makes Elizabeth's decision for her -- and he retrieves Timoshev from the trunk to bring him in. But when Timoshev tries to apologize to Elizabeth for that whole raping incident, its news to Phillip, and his husbandly rage takes over. He snaps Timoshev's neck, and Elizabeth's moved/impressed enough that they do it in the car after disposing of the body.
Oh, and it turns out that Stan really is suspicious of the Jenningses, since he sneaks into the garage at night to inspect the car trunk. It's clean, but Phillip was hiding in the shadows ready to kill his ass if he found anything.
Oh, and also, Phillip has a wig drawer that he uses to craft disguises that allow him to, among other things, impersonate a CIA analyst and beat down a local statutory rapist. This show's going to be junky, but hopefully fun-junky.
First things first: to set the mood, throw on some "Tusk." Trust me -- it's a whole thing in this episode.
So we set our scene in Washington D.C. circa 1981, just as the Reagan era is dawning. We're in one of those D.C. bars you see so often on TV and movies, where political power-brokers (and, more often, wannabe power-brokers) take their hookers and try to seem more important than they are. One such hooker -- in an obvious blonde wig from the Vivian Ward collection -- is our pal Keri Russell. You'd think she'd be disqualified from any and all covert operations on account of that birthmark on her lip making her instantly recognizable. Also, Felicity with an awful blonde haircut was going to be that show's headline-grabber if it ever made a fifth season. So anyway, let's all be adult about this and not pretend like we don't already know that this show is about Soviet spies living in America and that Keri is one of those spies. She's obviously sexing up this mid-level Pentagon staffer (or whatever) to get information and his horny ass is obviously not smart enough not to fall for it. When are governments going to learn to start entrusting their state secrets only to eunuchs and castrati? It's the only way.
So Congressman Horndog or whoever turns out to work for the Justice Department, and Hooker Felicity actually fingers his ID badge because she finds that level of access just so sexy. "Harden My Heart" by Quarterflash is playing in the bar, because I guess this is one of those shows that's gonna be on the nose about music cues. Cut to the hotel room, where Congressman Horndog has Hooker Felicity's shirt off and yet he still can't stop talking about just how important his job is. I halfway believe she commences the BJ just to shut him up, which thankfully it does. Cue the steady drumbeat of "Tusk" and Keri striding out into the night, back to her car. She removes her wig in the car while still in full view of the hotel across the street, which I'm not sure is good ops, but if I get hung up on that kind of stuff on a show like this, we'll be here all day.
THREE DAYS LATER: our old pal Kevin Walker, a.k.a. Matthew Rhys (a.k.a. Philip on this show, if you want to be a grown-up about it) is standing near a fence in the dead of night, accompanied by a cute young comrade. They're talking nonspecifically about some guy, presumably the guy they're staking out, how he's got a reputation for being a ruthless killer. Cuteski is buying into the legend entirely, while Philip attempts to undercut the stories of this guy killing 17 Japanese judo fighters in a single bound. At the same time, Keri (who is Elizabeth on this show, so let's get used to it) is inside the building across the street, bribing one of the residents so she can look out his front window for a bit. Outside, Philip and Cuteski are discussing Phil's NHL fandom (the Caps suck, Phil… sorry) when they see Elizabeth give the signal that she's in. At street level, a man walks by with a briefcase. Presumably this is the badass the boys have been discussing. Elizabeth signals them again to tell them the guy is about to round the corner to them. Just before he gets there, Badass stops and looks up at the window that Elizabeth was in and gets suspicious. Suddenly, he sprints in the opposite direction and Philip and Cuteski give chase. TUSK! I mean, CHASE! Philip yells "IMMIGRATION! We just want to talk!" while Badass yells for help, since any and all intervention at this point helps him. Philip shouts to Cuteski not to get too close, but when Badass rounds a corner, Cuteski pursues and gets a knife to the gut for his trouble. Philip, in a telling detail, hurdles Cuteski's slumped body without even breaking stride and continues pursuit down an alley, up a fire escape, along a fence, down another alley. Badass finally decides this is pointless and turns to face Philip. Time for the hand-to-hand! Of course, Badass's hand has a blade wedged between two fingers, so that's a bit of an advantage. Philip turns out to be quite the skilled fighter, though, avoiding the blade and hip-tossing Badass into a brick wall. Undeterred, Badass lunges again and gets flipped once again for his trouble. "I know you're not supposed to kill me," Badass growls. Philip -- in perfect English, I should say, with not a trace of Russian anywhere -- informs Badass that he's unpopular enough that Phil could deliver him in a hundred pieces and get a separate medal for each one.
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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Royal City’ by Jeff Lemire
by Andy Oliver
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‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that we think should be on your pull list. Whether it’s because of its thematic explorations, its craft and presentation, or if it’s something altogether more frivolous, we’ll provide you with a trio of pointers as to why you should be checking each chosen book out…
Debuting in the first quarter of 2017, Jeff Lemire’s Royal City from Image Comics was advertised as possibly the most ambitious project of his acclaimed comics career and his “most personal work to date”. From Lemire’s breakout work in the Essex County Trilogy from Top Shelf a decade ago to his involvement with a number of Marvel and DC super-hero properties, the creator’s diverse portfolio of projects – including Sweet Tooth, Secret Path, Black Hammer, The Underwater Welder, Plutona and A.D: After Death – has consistently underlined his place as one of the most versatile storytellers working in the medium.
Royal City centres on the Pike family who are drawn together again after many years when ageing father Peter suffers a stroke and is hospitalised. Peter’s wife Patti is domineering yet wracked with guilt, eldest son Patrick is a novelist whose life is spiralling out of control and who is returning to his childhood home after years away, daughter Tara has carved out a successful career but is now faced with a moral quandary that could have serious repercussions for both her family and her town, while Tara and Patrick’s brother Richie is a slacker screw-up constantly getting himself into scrapes.
At the heart of the tale, is the youngest Pike child Tommy who, despite dying in mysterious circumstances in 1993, still appears to his family in a variety of incarnations…
#1 Beautifully realised characterisation
Perhaps Lemire’s greatest triumph in Royal City is how quickly he made us care about a group of largely unsympathetic characters. That’s because Royal City explores so many of those recognisable alternative rites of passage that aren’t celebrated or commemorated as landmarks. The sense of ennui as the years pass you by; being trapped by your own past; the feeling of being an impostor in your chosen vocation; and the realisation of the intangible nature of the concept of success. We see ourselves staring back at us in the Pike family’s frustrations and their weary resignation, and we cannot help but feel empathy with them.
Lemire’s quiet manipulation of his audience has ensured that connection has steadily grown across the two arcs, especially as the jump back in time to the last days of Tommy Pike in the second storyline has slowly revealed in increments exactly what made the characters the people they became. Despite its thematic gravity the drama in Royal City is understated and delicate, evolving more from our investment in this fundamentally flawed yet all too identifiable cast than in ostentatious set pieces.
And, of course, this is all so finely complemented by Lemire’s loosely rendered yet so expressive visual characterisation, careful muted colour choices and panel-to-panel pacing. All of which say so much about his characters’ emotional states and outlooks.
#2 Epic yet accessible
This is a book where past and present, environment and characterisation, theme and atmosphere, constantly reflect each other. It feels sprawling and epic, yet simultaneously incredibly down-to-earth and relatable. The collapse of the Pike family unit, for example, is metaphorically echoed in the deterioration of the failing industrial Royal City that they make their home in. The shifts across time in different story arcs give a sense of scope and yet we never forget the very human dramas that the comic pivots around. Time, place, motifs and characters don’t just interweave in Royal City – they mirror and almost embody each other.
With a careful employment of psychogeography and magic realism that never come across as intrusive as narrative devices or, in the latter case, otherworldly in delivery, Royal City feels like both an urban saga in the making and the most accessible of concentrated family dramas.
#3 The Royal City playlist!
Lemire has expanded the reading experience in a number of issues providing his own playlist for the instalment in question. It’s not the first time you may have come across this idea but it adds to the differing period elements and gives an extra cross-media layer to the book. You can access the list on Spotify here.
Jeff Lemire (W/A), Steve Wands (L) • Image Comics, $3.99
Royal City Vol. 1 collecting the first story arc is available in trade paperback. Royal City #10, completing the second storyline, is published by Image Comics on February 21st.
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Engaging Young People and Families in Research - Workshop 15 October 2016
Time & date: Saturday 15th October 2016, 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Venue: Mercure Hotel, Sydney
Location: 818 - 820 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Cost: Free registration (inclusive of catering)
This national workshop brings together young people, families, communities, and health professionals to learn and discuss how to engage young people with chronic conditions and their families in research. At this event, you will hear from Sally Crowe who is a world-recognised expert in patient engagement, a member of the British Medical Journal’s Patient Panel and former Co-Chair of the UK-based James Lind Alliance (JLA), which facilitates research priority setting partnerships globally. This workshop is hosted by BT4K, an initiative funded by the NSW Health (Office of Health and Medical Research), aimed to increase the number, relevance and quality of clinical trials in young people.
Who can attend? Young people (aged 11-18 years) with a chronic condition, adult family members (of children and young people aged 0-18 years), caregivers, patient advocates, healthcare providers, policy makers, and researchers.
When? 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Saturday 15th October 2016
Where? Mercure Hotel, Sydney NSW, Australia
Registration: Registration is free and limited to 80 participants. Please register your interest here http://www.thekaleidoscopeproject.com.au/national-forum-2016/and a confirmation email will be sent to you within three days of submission.
If you have any questions, email Dr Pamela Lopez-Vargas at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Finding available clinical trials has never been easier!
The Better Treatments 4 Kids Network (BT4K) has licensed an iOS and Android mobile device app, which will allow real time searching of available paediatric clinical trials in NSW, facilitating clinician and consumer access to currently recruiting trials which is envisaged to boost trial participation by increasing referrals.
This is an initiative of BT4K to support evidence-based health care in NSW and will be managed by BT4K Network Coordinator at no cost to the researchers and available for free download by all users.
One of the challenges of recruiting participants is lack of awareness about clinical trials (by both amongst health care professionals and patients), their availability and how to participate. BT4K is calling on researchers conducting clinical trials to support this initiative by providing activity data of paediatric clinical trials conducted at their premises.
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Clinical trials website aims to boost participation
Australian-first website to connect more patients with clinical trials
Australia’s first national website collating information about clinical trials aims to boost the number of patients who sign up as trial participants, Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says.
The website, http://www.AustralianClinicalTrials.gov.au, would be a “one-stop shop”, giving information about how clinical trials work as well as allowing patients to search for relevant trials in which they might be able to take part.
Ms Ley said the just under half of all Phase III clinical trials in Australia didn’t meet their patient recruitment targets ‒ a factor that contributed to a 7% decline in the number of trials conducted in 2013 compared to the previous year.
The website was launched as the BMJ announced that from 1 July, it would extend its requirement that study authors share anonymised patient data for trials, so that the requirement applied to all submitted clinical trials, not just those testing drugs or devices.
The WHO also recently released a statement on public disclosure of clinical trial results, defining reporting timeframes, calling for results-reporting of older but still unpublished trials, and outlining steps to improve linkages between clinical trial registry entries and their published results.
Media release availabe here:
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/media/releases/2015/australian-first-website-connect-more-patients-clinical-trials
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Medikidz is a children’s medical education organisation that works closely with healthcare professionals, families, children and patients to produce unique learning materials in an interactive, powerfully-visual comic book format, thereby helping to educate children about their health as well as the health of those around them. Over 3,500,000 Medikidz comic books have been distributed globally, involving over 400 leading specialist physician peer reviewers and 100 endorsing partners worldwide. The Medikidz mission is to create a global community of young people that is informed, empowered and health-aware.
The Medikidz comics have dozens of adventures, including ones about diabetes, cancer, eczema, and ADHD. And now there’s a comic book about volunteering for a clinical trial - called “Medikidz Explain Clinical Trials.”
The creators of these stories work hard to get the science right. Physicians write the basic stories, which comics writers and illustrators then elaborate and execute. The science goes through a peer review process, to verify the information that comes with the jokes and the action.
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Researchers currently planning a grant submission with a budgeted CTDMS components are invited to contact the Paediatric Trials Network Australia (PTNA) to discuss the possibility of using WebSpirit.
The PTNA’s WebSpirit data management system was funded through Therapeutic Innovations Australia to provide an affordable, regulatory compliant option for data management to Australian peadiatric clinical trial teams running investigator initiated clinical trials. WebSpirit is web-based and provides convenient but secure access for clinical trial data entry, management, reporting and export for analysis. Investigators from PTNA member institutions are able to utilise the system via a per project fee for use that is affordable comparative to other regulatory compliant data management systems. Investigators from non-PTNA member institutions can utilise the system via higher per project fees that remain affordable comparative to other systems. Network member institutions and researchers are committed to promotion of high quality and efficient multi-centre collaborative clinical trials and optimising effective delivery of health care by influencing policies, procedures and translation of research into practice.
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MB Farmers Market Celebrates 8th Anniversary
Jul 22, 2014 04:14PM ● By Jeanne Fratello
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Los Angeles Kings mascot Bailey was on hand to remind folks that his team is No. 1.
The Manhattan Beach Farmers Market celebrated its 8th anniversary on Tuesday with fruits, vegetables, train rides, live music, and a visit from a hockey-playing lion.
"It really was a nice family celebration," said market manager Cynthia Rogers.
The market opened with the official launch of "Breathe Free MB" - a campaign by the City of Manhattan Beach and the Beach Cities Blue Zones Project to inform residents of the new city-wide smoke-free policy. According to a new city ordinance, smoking will be prohibited in public places, starting next month.
As the crowd filled in at the market, the L.A. Kings' mascot Bailey the lion made an appearance, courtesy of Bella Beach and Bella Beach Kids. Pages, a Bookstore later sponsored a cooking demo with Chef Theresa Wahl. The day's celebrations also included live music by acoustic singer Yolanda, and the ever-popular Trackless Train Ride for kids.
The Manhattan Beach Farmers Market has about 50 stalls with fresh produce as well as prepared foods. It is held at 13th and Morningside Drive on Tuesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the summer (winter hours 11:00 am to 4:00 pm).
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Venture Capital Firms in India
Venture capital firms in India invest the shareholders’ money to start up a venture. The ventures in which the Indian capital firms invest may be risky but potentially very profitable in nature.
According to the study done by Venture Intelligence with the partnership of US-India Venture Capital Association, the venture capital firms in India invested $508 million across 92 deals in the country in the year of 2006. It was the IT sector and IT enabled sectors that lured the venture capital investors the most in 2006 in India. 64 among 92 deals contributing to $367 million in the total investment was from IT and IT-enabled sectors. Other business sectors that attracted the investors were – financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing and food and beverages.
It is believed firmly that the resurgence in VC investments was promoted by the strong return from the Silicon Valley VC firms. It can be said clearly that the IT and IT enabled sectors not only contributed in enhancing the economic scenario of the country but also ensured a good return to the VC firms. This trend is expected to sustain for next couple of years.
The new generation venture capital business in India is experiencing the new technology through immense mobile phone usage and broadband Internet access. The venture capital firms in India are now backed by experienced professionals. These firms are not only offering capital to the business but also offering necessary advices to the businesses.
Indian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (IVCA) is the national organization for the venture capital firms in India. The objective of the organization is to promote and encourage the industry in the country. It also encourages the members to invest in the high growth companies. The members of the IVCA are – institutional investors, incubators, banks, corporate advisors, angel groups, lawyers, accountants, academic institutions, government bodies and other companies or agencies that provide services to the private equity and venture capital industry in the country. The member firms generally provide capital for the early stage companies, seed ventures, later stage expansions and also for the management buy-ins and buyouts of the stable companies.
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ERASURE – World Be Gone
May 19, 2017 by Paul Browne
The classic synthpop outfit return with an album suggesting a more reflective outlook…
It’s surprising perhaps to realise that ‘The Erasure’ have been active for over 30 years. Clocking up such hits as ‘Sometimes’, ‘A Little Respect’, ‘Drama!’ and ‘Blue Savannah’, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have also powered through 16 studio albums, including their last studio outing on 2014’s The Violet Flame (a retrospective box set, From Moscow To Mars, was also released in 2016). Now their 17th album has just been released in the form of World Be Gone.
As with other notable musicians from the world of synthmopop, Erasure launched their new album project via PledgeMusic, the crowdsourcing outlet that, in recent times, has done wonders for the likes of OMD and Rusty Egan among others.
The album’s lead single ‘Love You To The Sky’ arrived with a thumping percussive beat and Bell’s distinctive vocal style. There’s a more subdued arrangement at work here than Erasure tunes of old, but that perhaps reflects a more mature approach for Team Bell & Clarke who consciously wanted to take a step back from the euphoric electropop for this album.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Erasure’s career is the catalogue of the tunes that the outfit have managed to put out over the years. Vince Clarke recently commented on the decades-long songwriting partnership in a recent interview: “The only thing that has really changed is that back in the day we would almost always complete the song in one go, we would write the melodies and then work on the lyrics. Now we tend to just concentrate on the melodies, and then Andy will go away and work on the lyrics and I’ll work on the musical arrangements”.
It’s clear that the troubling political climate that’s been in vogue for the past year has also had an influence on the themes and ideas behind the new album. It’s a popular well to draw from recently (see also Depeche Mode’s Spirit and Austra’s Future Politics album).
Much of the material on World Be Gone certainly points to a more reflective (and often darker) palette than previous Erasure outings. While there’s elements of classic Erasure at work on the album, of which ‘Love You To The Sky’ is one, the new songs on the whole demonstrate that as a culture we’re currently going through perilous times.
There’s certainly a poignant quality to ‘Be Careful What You Wish For!’ with its restrained electronic moods and an evocative vocal from Bell “Stars they will collide/lovers will abide” .
Meanwhile, the album’s title track has a languid quality to it, or as Bell recently described it: “New horizons, sailing off into another world and trying not to look back with remorse”. Certainly the sobering content of the lyrics, which alludes to “illusions shattered into glass” and “broken shadows on an empty screen” is a long way from the group that gave us the dance-pop of ‘Chorus’.
A charming melody opens up ‘A Bitter Parting’, which delivers a torch song moment for the album. The slow drum refrain gives the track a more robust arrangement and there’s even a Stylophone-esque element thrown in for good measure.
There’s a much more sombre tone to ‘Still It’s Not Over’ with a contemplative mood, apparently inspired by Bell’s experiences witnessing the gay community in 1980s America. “We were fighting for survival” offers Bell reflecting on a period when people were battling not just the devastating threat of AIDS, but also an equally threatening political climate that perhaps has some chilling analogies today.
Elsewhere, the gentle tones of ‘Take Me Out Of Myself’ present a song that offers up an intimate sketch augmented with an effective use of layered vocals. The organ-like melodies that burble beneath weave in with subtle bass notes, lending the arrangement an atmospheric quality.
‘Oh What A World’ opens up with an ominous electronic drone and as a track it drips with discord and uncertainty. There’s an unsettling quality to the lyrics at times: “It’s a crazy world a million voices go unheard” but at the same time there’s a powerful quality to the message that the song’s delivering.
The album turns again to political commentary on the stark soundscape that comprises ‘Lousy Sum Of Nothing’. There’s a wealth of melancholic electronic melodic elements on a track that suggests we’re living in “a world that’s lost its loving”.
The final track ‘Just a Little Love’, however, offers a beacon of hope in these uncertain times. Its certainly a much more uptempo number than its predecessors with its clarion call suggesting a more positive antidote to this “crazy world”. There’s some charming little arpeggios at work here for a song that’s clearly aiming towards the pop-orientated Erasure of old.
The end result is a much more sober Erasure album that’s born of its time. World Be Gone also demonstrates a more mature approach for a group that’s been writing and recording tunes for over 30 years. Older and perhaps wiser is the phrase that could well apply here.
World Be Gone is out now on Mute.
http://www.erasureinfo.com
Erasure will be touring the UK and Europe later this year. UK dates as follows:
27th May – Glasgow, O2 Academy [SOLD OUT], 28th Manchester, Albert Hall [SOLD OUT], 29th – London, Roundhouse [SOLD OUT].
Erasure will be also be appearing as special guests on Robbie Williams’ 2017 tour with confirmed dates as follows. More details via: http://www.robbiewilliams.com
2nd – Manchester Ethiad Stadium, 3rd – Manchester Ethiad Stadium, 6th – Southampton St Mary’s Stadium, 9th – Edinburgh, BT Murrayfield Stadium, 13th – Coventry, Riccoh Stadium, 17th – Dublin, Aviva Stadium, 21st – Cardiff, Principlality Stadium, 23rd – London, The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Salem Witch Judge
The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
The winner of the Winslow House Book Award and the
Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction
Author: Eve LaPlante
Publisher: HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins
Website: www.EveLaPlante.com
Available in: Hardcover, 352 pages. $25.95 (ISBN 0060786612)
Paperback, 352 pages. $14.95 (ISBN 0060859602)
E-book. $8.99 (ASIN B000W916MU)
About Salem Witch Judge
In 1692, in one of American history’s darkest hours, Judge Samuel Sewall sent 20 innocent people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. Sewall’s involvement in the Salem witch hunt would have doomed him to infamy, if not for his public acceptance four years later of the “blame and shame” for the wrongful deaths.
Remarkably, the judge’s story did not end there. Having realized his error, Sewall turned his attention to other pressing social issues. Struck by the injustice of the New England slave trade, a commerce in which his relatives and neighbors were engaged, he authored America’s first anti-slavery tract, “The Selling of Joseph,” for which he was ridiculed. While his peers viewed Native Americans as savages, Sewall advocated for their essential humanity and rights and encouraged their education, even paying for several Indians to attend Harvard College. At a time when women were universally considered inferior to men, Sewall published an essay affirming the fundamental equality of the sexes. That essay, composed in 1724 at the deathbed of his adult daughter Hannah, is republished for the first time in Salem Witch Judge.
In Salem Witch Judge, acclaimed biographer Eve LaPlante narrates the psychological journey of a man who personified superstition and discrimination but transformed himself into a forefather of equal rights and civil liberties.
Topics to Consider
1. Why did Samuel Sewall decide, as a judge at the Salem witchcraft trials, to condemn and hang people as witches? Had you been there, appointed by the governor to serve as a judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, what would you have done? How would you have justified your actions to your peers?
2. Consider this quote by the historian Frank Grinnell in 1942 at the dedication of the Sewall mural (“Milestones on the Road to Freedom: 1697, Dawn of Tolerance in Massachusetts: Public Repentance of Judge Samuel Sewall for his Action in the Witchcraft Trials”) in the Chamber of the House of Representatives at the Massachusetts State House: “[Sewall’s] repentance represents the greatest movement in modern history, not only in theory, but in its practical application … [It marks] the beginning of the recognition of the ‘quality of mercy’ in human affairs. No principle of Christ has been longer in obtaining whole-hearted acceptance than…the saying, ‘Be ye merciful even as your Father is merciful.’” Do you agree with Grinnell? What other people or movements in American history emphasize the “quality of mercy” in human affairs?
3. What sort of wife was Hannah Hull Sewall? How did her personality – what we know of it – complement Samuel’s character? Could Samuel have accomplished what he did without her?
4. Sewall’s final work, published in 1725, concerns his sense of a natural “right of women,” a revolutionary notion in English America then. That essay, Talitha Cumi, or “Damsel, Arise,” was ignored then and until now existed only in draft manuscript form at the Massachusetts Historical Society, inaccessible to the public. What life events contributed to Sewall’s late views on gender equality. How did his long repentance for the Salem witch hunt contribute to the ideas in Talitha Cumi?
5. Samuel Sewall once described himself as a “lover of music to a fault.” How did music affect him throughout his life? In particular, how did his daily singing of the Psalms inform him spiritually and emotionally?
6. Eve LaPlante compares the Reverend Samuel Willard to Nathan in the Old Testament, and Sewall to King David. Do you agree?
7. Given that Puritans left England largely to escape Catholic influences in the Church of England, it’s surprising that scholars find so many similarities between the devotional practices of seventeenth-century Puritans and Roman Catholics. Considering in particular Chapter 15 of Salem Witch Judge, “The Blame and Shame of It,” analyze these links between Catholic and Puritan devotional practices. Do you see similar links today among their spiritual descendants?
8. In his 1697 essay Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica, Sewall determines that Plum Island, in northeast Massachusetts, is a likely place for Jesus Christ to return to earth at his Second Coming. Perry Miller and other literary scholars consider this essay the first work of American literature in the sense of being conscious of itself as American. Do you agree?
9. What was it about Sewall’s character and experience that enabled him in 1700 to stand apart from his society, which was actively engaged in the slave trade, and write the first abolitionist statement in American history?
10. What aspects of the Puritan worldview do you see in modern American life? What modern figures or situations might benefit from a perspective like Sewall’s? How might someone today, following his example, experience a change of heart?
Eve LaPlante, a sixth great-granddaughter of Judge Samuel Sewall, is the author of Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother (2012), Salem Witch Judge (2007), American Jezebel (2004), and Seized (1993), and the editor of My Heart Is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa’s Mother (2012). LaPlante’s articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Gourmet, Ladies’ Home Journal, Country Living, and Parents. Visit her online at www.evelaplante.com.
“Salem Witch Judge upends popular stereotypes about Puritans…and reminds us how quickly the conventional wisdom can shift, forcing even the powerful to move … LaPlante’s touching biography of Samuel Sewall seems hauntingly familiar. Beneath the sensational title is a figure more familiar than we realize.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“LaPlante’s splendid biography brings a personal touch to Sewall’s story … Much as she did in American Jezebel, the marvelous biography of her 12th-generation ancestor Anne Hutchinson, LaPlante richly narrates his life.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Affectionate and affecting … LaPlante’s portrait of a man whose second act became one of atonement as well as contrition is finely drawn…”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“Well researched, readable, and engaging … Fascinating … Recommended.”
— Library Journal
“LaPlante’s insightful account is fortified with descriptions of…New England and its history (including psalms recited by Sewall), creating a vivid sense of place and context. A reformative, assenting spin on Salem’s hellfire and brimstone history.”
— Kirkus Review
“Salem Witch Judge offers an intriguing journey into a world as far away as colonial America – and yet at the same time as close as the human heart…”
— Christian Science Monitor
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Courtney Roulston first rose to fame after competing
in Series 2 of Masterchef (2010).
Prior to Masterchef, Courtney worked as a
barmaid in her local bowling club. She did this for ten years
before plucking-up the courage to apply for the show that
would change her life...
Born in Blacktown but raised on a farm in Kellyville,
Courtney is the youngest of six. As a child, she enjoyed
playing cricket, fishing, & something a little more uncouth...
studying Margaret Fulton's cookbooks! It was at this time-
the tender age of eight, that Courtney first realised she'd
taken a real liking to cooking. Her very first re-creations
included homemade pizzas & cheesecakes- a far call
from some of the dishes she so easily executes today...
In 2011, Courtney set-up her very own successful catering
company, with clients ranging from the 'Sydney Swans'-
with 60 hungry mouths to feed, to private catering jobs
scattered around Australia.
Aside from her own catering business, Courtney also acts as
an ambassador for Coles, participates in regular cooking
demonstrations for both Bunnings & Coles & has her very
own cooking segment on Channel 9's 'Mornings' with Sonia
Kruger & David Campbell. Courtney also features in
‘The Food & Wine Show’ (2014 & 2015), which takes place
all over Australia throughout the year.
In the past Courtney has created over one hundred recipes
for 'Shannon Ponton's 8 week challenge', featured in Harvey
Norman's 'Cooking in Style' TV commercials & also cooked for
former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
And if you haven't yet had a flick through Courtney's books,
'The Salad Kitchen' and, 'Salads In A Jar', make sure you grab
one- there's recipes for EVERYBODY jam-packed inside!
2016 looks set to be both a busy & exciting year for Courtney!
As well as running her catering business, Courtney will also be
doing some television work, playing judge to 'Chefs' Table',
Clubs NSW 2016 & will also be working on a few other secret
projects...
WATCH THIS SPACE...!
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Extremists hit hotel in Mali
Friday, Nov 20, 2015
BAMAKO, Mali—Islamic extremists armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital this morning, killing at least three people and taking numerous hostages, authorities said.
Malian troops, backed by special forces from America and France, reacted quickly.
As people ran for their lives near the luxury hotel along a dirt road, the soldiers in full combat gear pointed the way to safety.
Within hours, local TV images showed heavily-armed troops in what appeared to be a lobby area.
Malian state TV reported 80 people have been freed. At least one Canadian man reportedly was among them.
Malian special forces were freeing hostages “floor by floor,” Malian army commander Modibo Nama Traore told The Associated Press.
Still, Rezidor Hotel, the Brussels-based group that operates the hotel, said hours after the assault began that 125 guests and 13 employees remained inside.
U.S. special forces troops were assisting Malian forces in hostage rescue efforts, said Col. Mark Cheadle of the U.S. Army’s Africa Command.
President Barack Obama said he’s monitoring the situation.
A U.S. military official says at least six Americans have been evacuated from the hotel.
France’s national gendarme service said about 40 French special police forces were playing a support role.
The French defence ministry said French soldiers have arrived in Bamako to support Malian forces.
The guests at the sprawling, cream-and-pink coloured luxury hotel, which has 190 rooms and features a spa, outdoor pool, and ballroom, came from many countries.
But the attack was perceived by many in France, particularly in the government, as a new attack on French interests—one week after the Paris attacks.
The French military operation in Mali in 2013, against Islamic extremists who were holding the northern half of the country, was the first of several foreign interventions that President Francois Hollande has launched as president.
Those interventions have prompted increased threats against France and French interests from Islamic extremist groups from al-Qaida’s North African arm to the Islamic State group.
“This could be a strike at important French interests because the French government invested so much military energy in pushing the Islamic rebels out of Mali,” said Jens David Ohlin, an international law expert at Cornell University.
“While Mali might not have the same emotional significance to the French as Paris does, it is certainly an important part of the French military strategy,” he added.
French news websites and all-news television networks immediately switched from nearly non-stop coverage of the Paris attacks investigation and aftermath to nearly non-stop coverage of the Bamako stand-off.
At least one guest reported the attackers instructed him to recite verses from the Qur’an before he was allowed to leave the hotel.
It was not immediately clear which Muslim extremist groups might be behind the attack.
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Burton leapfrog Nottingham Forest thanks to Cauley Woodrow free-kick
Nigel Clough remained at Burton this season, rather than make an emotional return to his spiritual home in Nottingham because he did not want to leave his employers “in the lurch”.There would have been a sense of vindication at this victory, but he was in no mood to celebrate. That is not because of any sense of misguided loyalty. Clough is a football pragmatist and has built his Burton side in his own image. Leapfrogging over his former club and pushing Forest to within two points of the bottom three gave only a fleeting sense of pleasure, before the realisation that “we could have been in the bottom three if results had gone the other way”. Related: Ryan Sessegnon double takes play-off hopefuls Fulham past Newcastle Related: Football League: Josh Wright scores three penalties in nine minutes for Gillingham Continue reading. . read full article
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Former MSP trooper found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in teen's ATV death
(FOX 2) - The former Michigan State Police trooper involved in a teen's death on an ATV in the summer of 2017 has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Jurors deliberated for about an hour on Tuesday and again for a few hours on Wednesday before returning their verdict to the judge just before 2:30 p.m.
In a major shift in strategy, the former trooper Mark Bessner did not testify in his own defense at this trial. His first trial was last fall and ended with a mistrial being declared because the jury had become deadlocked.
Bessner was on trial for second-degree murder in connection with the death of 15-year-old Damon Grimes. Bessner shot Grimes with a Taser from a moving patrol car as he and his partner pursued the boy, who was on an ATV, at a high speed. Grimes crashed the ATV and died.
In his last trial Bessner said he believed Grimes was armed. The former trooper also told jurors that Grimes' behavior was "abnormal" while he was driving the ATV. He said Grimes was slowing down and looking back at the troopers, making him think the teen was taunting them or, worse, leading them into a trap.
Prosecutors argued there wasn't a "lick of common sense" in firing a Taser at a boy riding an ATV.
Assistant prosecutor Matthew Penney said Grimes was joy-riding in a residential neighborhood, a minor offense that didn't deserve such a tragic result. He said being shot with the Taser was like getting hit with an "electric baseball bat."
Bessner's attorneys tried to get his former partner, Trooper Ethan Berger, to testify, but Berger invoked his constitutional right to remain silent. Berger was driving the patrol car when Bessner fired the Taser from the passenger seat.
Bessner declined to testify in his own defense. It was a major shift in strategy: He had offered an emotional narrative at the first trial, telling jurors that he believed Grimes had a gun in his waistband . He said he was "shocked" to learn the boy didn't have a weapon.
By not sitting in the witness chair, Bessner avoided questions from the prosecutor about an audio recording of him wishing to use a Taser in a different ATV incident. It was a new piece of evidence discovered after the first trial.
Defense lawyer Richard Convertino said at this trial Bessner was assigned to a high-crime area in Detroit where ATV riders were commonly caught with guns. Bessner's use of the Taser was "perfectly reasonable" if he felt his life was at risk, Convertino said.
Bessner quit the state police job after the incident, which caused the state police to change its policy and stop high-speed chases for routine traffic offenses in Detroit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Part of overpass collapses on car near I-75/I-24 merger
Updated Apr 02 2019 07:21AM EDT
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - One person was injured after concrete from a bridge collapsed on a car in Chattanooga Monday.
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The collapse happened at a section of highway that merges Interstate 75 and Interstate 24.
The car was under the bridge when it collapsed but the driver wasn't seriously injured.
All lanes were blocked as crews clean up the concrete.
Workers also will need to inspect the bridge and figure out the full extent of the damage before lanes could be reopened. Repairs are expected to take weeks.
Police in DeKalb County have identified the man dead at a Lithonia gas station Wednesday morning.
William Stewart, 34, died from officials call blunt force trauma. The DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the case to be a homicide.
Bystanders made the disturbing discovery at the BP gas station in the 3800 block of Panola Road near Browns Mill Road around 6:30 a.m. Witnesses told FOX 5 News they noticed a parked car in the handicapped parking spot with its flashers on and what initially appeared to be a man asleep behind the wheel.
Police: Drunk driver without license hits, kills bicyclist
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It happened around 5 a.m. on Roswell Road near Trowbridge Road.
According to police, a woman who was driving without a license struck and killed Marten Bijvank, 29, as he was pedaling on Roswell Road.
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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Gwinnett County Police are looking for an armed man who robbed a family of their car.
The incident happened earlier this month near a car wash on Britt Road, according to an incident report obtained by FOX 5 News.
The father told officers a man ambushed him and three of his children while he waxed his vehicle. The victims were able to get out of the car. But the man told investigators the thief yanked one of the children from the car before he took off in it.
Georgia Sen. Isakson hospitalized after fall, four fractured ribs
Senator Johnny Isakson was taken to a Washington, D.C. hospital on Tuesday after suffering a fall.
A statement from the office of the 74-year-old senator sent to FOX 5 Atlanta Wednesday evening reads:
“ Senator Isakson was admitted to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night after falling in his apartment and suffering four fractured ribs. He is in pain, but resting and doing well. Senator Isakson looks forward to fully recovering and getting back to work for Georgians. ”
Police: Drunk driver involved in deadly crash previously arrest for DUI
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Antoinette Battle, 34, was charged by the Sandy Springs Police Department with vehicular homicide and DUI.
Investigators said she struck 29-year-old Marten Bijvank on his bike as he rode to work, then crashed on Roswell Road near Trowbridge Road around 5 a.m.
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MRI-compatible pacemaker with power carrying photonic catheter and isolated pulse generating electronics providing VOO functionality
An MRI-compatible, fixed-rate (VOO) pacemaker includes a self-contained power source housed at the proximal end of a photonic catheter in a first enclosure. Low energy continuous electrical power is delivered from the power source. This electrical power is converted into light energy and directed into the proximal end of the photonic catheter. The photonic catheter includes an optical conduction pathway over which is formed a covering of biocompatible material. Light entering the proximal end of the photonic catheter is transmitted through the optical conduction pathway, where it is collected and converted back to electrical energy at a second enclosure located at the distal end of the photonic catheter. The second enclosure houses a pulse generator that stores electrical energy and periodically releases that energy to deliver electrical pulses to bipolar heart electrodes. One of the electrodes comprises the second enclosure housing the pulse generator and the other electrode is provided by another enclosure that is spaced from the second enclosure. The electrical pulses are delivered to the electrodes at an amplitude of about 3.3 volt and a current of about 3 milliamperes for a total pulse power output of about 10 milliwatts. A 1 millisecond pulse duration and a 1000 millisecond period may be provided for steady state VOO operation. The foregoing arrangement permits the use of photo elements operating in the microwatt region rather than at the milliwatt level as would be required if the output of the electronic pulse generator were delivered directly to the heart itself from the first enclosure in conventional pacemaker fashion.
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Weiner, Michael (West Henrietta, NY, US)
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BRADFORD, RODERICK D
Law Office, Of Walter Duft Walter Duft W. W. (10255 Main Street, Suite 10, Clarence, NY, 14031, US)
1. An MRI-compatible implantable cardiac pacemaker, comprising: a photonic catheter; a self-contained electrical power source housed at a proximal end of said photonic catheter; electrically powered pulsing circuitry housed at a distal end of said photonic catheter; first power conversion means for converting the output of said electrical power source to optical energy for transmission through said photonic catheter; and second power conversion means for converting said optical energy transmitted through said photonic catheter to electrical energy for powering said pulsing circuitry.
2. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1, wherein said electrical power source and said pulsing circuitry are respectively housed in first and second enclosures that are hermetically sealed and made from non-magnetic metallic material.
3. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 2, wherein said material is titanium.
4. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 2, wherein said material is platinum or an alloy containing platinum.
5. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1, wherein said photonic catheter includes a fiber optic conduction pathway.
6. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1, wherein said fiber optic conduction pathway is a glass or plastic fiber optic conduction pathway.
7. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1 wherein said photonic catheter comprises a fiber optic conduction pathway covered by a biocompatible covering.
8. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 7 wherein said biocompatible covering comprises a material from a group that includes silicone rubber, polyurethane and polyethylene.
9. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1 further including a pacemaker tip electrode spaced from the distal end of said photonic catheter, and wherein said pulsing circuitry is housed in a ring electrode of said pacemaker connected to the distal end of said photonic catheter.
10. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 1 wherein said pulsing circuitry is partially housed at said distal end of said photonic catheter and also partially housed at said proximal end of said photonic catheter.
11. An MRI-compatible implantable cardiac pacemaker, said pacemaker comprising: a first enclosure adapted to be implanted in a patient's body at a location that is remote from the implanted patient's heart; a second enclosure unit adapted to be electrically connected to the implanted patient's heart; an optical conduction pathway disposed between said first and second enclosures; an optical power source in said first enclosure operatively connected to a first end of said optical conduction pathway; an optically driven electrical pulse generating system in said second enclosure operatively connected to a second end of said optical conduction pathway; and said optical power source being adapted to provide a steady state optical power signal through said optical conduction pathway for use by said pulse generating system, and said pulse generating system being adapted to generate periodic electrical signals to stimulate the implanted patient's heart.
12. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said first enclosure houses an electrical power supply and an electro-optical transducer adapted to convert the electrical signal output of said power supply to light energy for placement on said optical conduction pathway.
13. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said second enclosure houses an opto-electrical transducer adapted to receive said light energy from said optical conduction pathway and convert said energy to electrical energy, and a pulse generator powered by the electrical energy output of said opto-electrical transducer.
14. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said first enclosure comprises a hermetically sealed casing made of non-magnetic material.
15. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 14 wherein said non-magnetic material is selected from a group that includes titanium, platinum, and alloys thereof.
16. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said first enclosure houses a battery made from non-magnetic material, and an electro-optical transducer electrically connected to said battery and optically communicating with said first end of said optical conduction pathway.
17. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 16 wherein said electro-optical transducer comprises a light emitting diode.
18. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said optical conduction pathway comprises a fiber optic element.
19. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 18 wherein said optical conduction pathway further comprises a biocompatible covering over said fiber optic element.
20. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 19 wherein said covering comprises a jacket made from a group that includes silicone rubber, polyurethane and polyethylene.
21. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 19 wherein said covering has an outside diameter of about 5 millimeters.
22. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said second enclosure comprises a hermetically sealed casing made of non-magnetic metallic material.
24. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 11 wherein said second enclosure houses an opto-electrical transducer adapted to optically communicate with said second end of said optical conduction pathway and electrically connected to a pulse generator.
25. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 24 wherein said opto-electrical transducer comprises a photo diode.
26. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 22 wherein said casing is generally cylindrical in shape.
27. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 26 wherein said optical conduction pathway is a fiber optic element having a biocompatible covering with an outside diameter, and wherein said casing has an outside diameter which is substantially co-equal to said covering outside diameter.
28. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 27 wherein the outside diameter of said casing and the outside diameter of said covering are each about 5 millimeters.
29. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 28 wherein said opto-electrical transducer and said pulse generator are carried in a matrix disposed within said casing.
30. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 29 wherein said casing functions as a ring electrode of a tip/ring portion of said pacemaker.
31. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 30 further including a third enclosure adapted to be inserted in the implanted patient's heart and comprising a non-magnetic casing that electrically communicates with said pulse generator and which functions as a tip electrode of said tip/ring portion of said pacemaker.
32. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 31 wherein said optical conduction pathway is a fiber optic element having a biocompatible covering with an outside diameter, said casings of said second and third enclosures have an outside diameter which is substantially the same as said covering outside diameter, and said second and third enclosures are separated by a cylindrical length of the material used to form said biocompatible covering.
33. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 31 wherein said optical conduction pathway, said second enclosure and said third enclosure form a catheter extending from said first enclosure, said second enclosure and said third enclosure being generally cylindrical and being joined by a generally cylindrical length of a biocompatible material to form a catheter tip, and said optical conduction pathway being a fiber optic element having a biocompatible covering with an outside diameter substantially matching that of said second and third enclosures.
34. An MRI-compatible pacemaker, comprising: a direct current voltage source housed in a first enclosure and adapted to produce a steady state electrical output signal; a pulse generating circuit housed in a second enclosure and adapted to generate periodic heart-triggering pulses; a cardiac electrode system adapted to electrically stimulate a heart in accordance with said heart-triggering pulses; and an optical system adapted to transport optical signals representing said steady state electrical output signal from said first enclosure to said second enclosure.
35. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 34, wherein said voltage source is electrically connected to an electro-optical transducer that is co-located with said voltage source in said first enclosure, said electro-optical transducer being adapted to produce a steady state optical signal that is fed into said optical system at a power level which is in the microwatt region.
36. A pacemaker in accordance with claim 35, wherein said pulse generator includes an opto-electrical transducer that receives said steady state optical signal and produces a steady state electrical signal having a voltage level of about 3.3 volts, said pulse generator further including an oscillator and an amplifier powered by said opto-electrical transducer and being adapted to produce electrical pulses of about 1 millisecond duration at a voltage level of about 3.3 volts and a current level of about 3 milliamperes for a total power output of about 10 milliwatts.
[0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/269,817, filed on Feb. 20, 2001, entitled “Electromagnetic Interference Immune Cardiac Assist System.”
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to implantable cardiac pacemakers. More particularly, the invention concerns an implantable cardiac pacemaker that is compatible with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Still more particularly, the invention pertains to an MRI resistant implantable cardiac pacemaker with VOO functionality.
[0004] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0005] By way of background, MRI diagnostic procedures are generally contraindicated for patients wearing implantable pacemakers. A conventional MRI system uses three types of fields that can adversely affect pacemaker operation and cause pacemaker-induced injury to the patient. First, an intense static magnetic field, used to induce nuclear spin polarization changes in the tissue being imaged, is generated at a level of up to 1.5 Tesla (T) in clinical MRI machines and up to 6-8 T in some experimental clinical situations. Second, a time-varying gradient field, usually in the Kilohertz range, is generated for spatial encoding. Third, a Radio Frequency (RF) pulse field in a range of about 6.4-64 MHz is generated to produce an image.
[0006] These fields, acting alone or in combination with each other, can disrupt the function of the pacemaker, or possibly damage its sensitive circuits, or even destroying them. Of particular concern is the effect of induced voltages on the sensitive semiconductors, and magnetic field-induced activation of the reed switch that is used in the pacemaker to temporarily disable pacemaker functions for programming purposes.
[0007] Tsitlik (U.S. Pat. No. 5,217,010) attributes much of the induced voltage problem to the pacemaker electrical leads and electrodes, which together with the tissue between the electrodes, form a winding through which the MRI RF pulse field can generate substantial electromotive force. Tsitlik reports that an MRI system operating at 6.4 MHz can produce voltages of up to 20 volts peak-to-peak in this winding, and that higher frequencies produce even higher voltages. Unipolar electrode systems are said to be worse than bipolar systems. Tsitlik notes that the RF pulses propagating through the pacing leads are delivered directly to the pacemaker case itself, and that once the RF is inside the case, the induced voltage can propagate along the pacemaker circuitry and cause many different types of malfunction, including inhibition or improper pacing.
[0008] A pacemaker's electrical lead system may also cause scarring of patient heart tissue. This scarring is produced by necrosing currents that develop in the electrical leads as a result of large magnetic inductive forces generated by the MRI static magnetic field. If the electrical leads comprise magnetic material, they may also be mechanically displaced by the MRI magnetic field, causing additional physiological damage to the patient. Further physiological damage may result from mechanical displacement of the pacemaker case itself, which is often made of stainless steel and can be torqued or otherwise displaced by a strong magnetic field. That the power of the magnetic field generated by MRI equipment is sufficient to cause pacemaker dislodgment is illustrated by one documented case in which a ferrous brain clip was fatally torn out of the brain tissue in a patient who was only in the proximity of an MRI machine.
[0009] Because of the inherent dangers of subjecting a pacemaker patient to the strong magnetic and electromagnetic fields generated by MRI equipment, a majority of medical practitioners prohibit any type of MRI scan for such patients. Of the minority of medical practitioners who do permit MRI scans for their pacemaker patients, most will only allow scanning under limited conditions with rigid safeguards in place. Those safeguards include disabling the pacemaker while the scan is in progress, performing only emergent scans, avoiding body scans, or requiring the presence of a pacemaker expert during scanning to monitor pacemaker operation.
[0010] It will be appreciated in light of the foregoing that a need exists for a pacemaker that is compatible with MRI scanning procedures. What is required is an improved pacemaker that is capable of withstanding the strong magnetic and electromagnetic fields produced by MRI equipment without operational disruption and without producing physiological injury due to magnetically induced mechanical movement and electrical current. A pacemaker with this capability would allow millions of pacemaker wearers who might otherwise forego potentially life-saving MRI diagnostic evaluation to receive the benefit of this important technology.
[0011] The foregoing problems are solved and an advance in the art is provided by an MRI-compatible implantable pacemaker that is characterized by a substantial absence of magnetic material and lengthy metallic lead wires, and which uses only a minimal amount of metallic material of any kind. In its most preferred embodiment, the pacemaker includes a photonic catheter, a self-contained electrical power source housed at a proximal end of the photonic catheter, and electrically powered pulsing circuitry housed at a distal end of the photonic catheter. Low energy continuous electrical power is delivered from the power source and converted to light energy at the proximal end of the photonic catheter. The light energy is transmitted to the distal end of the photonic catheter, where it is collected and converted back to electrical energy to power the pulsing circuitry. The pulsing circuitry delivers electrical heart stimulating pulses to a bipolar electrode pair that is also located at the distal end of the photonic catheter.
[0012] The foregoing arrangement permits the use of electro-optical elements operating in the microwatt region rather than at the milliwatt level as would be required if the output of the pulsing circuitry was co-located with the electrical power source in conventional pacemaker fashion.
[0013] The photonic catheter of the invention can be embodied in an optical conduction pathway having a biocompatible covering. Insofar as it must be capable of transvenous insertion, the photonic catheter is preferably very small, having an outside diameter on the order of about 5 millimeters. Advantageously, because the photonic catheter is designed for optical transmission, it cannot develop magnetically-induced and RF-induced electrical currents.
[0014] The housings that respectively contain the electrical power source and the pulsing circuitry may be embodied in a pair of hermetically sealed, non-magnetic metallic, or non-metallic, enclosures. A first enclosure housing the electrical power source is adapted to be implanted remotely from a patient's heart and a second enclosure housing the pulsing circuitry is adapted to be implanted in close proximity to the heart and in electrical contact therewith. The first enclosure, in addition to housing the electrical power source, contains an electro-optical transducer adapted to convert the electrical output of the power source to light energy for delivery to the proximal end of the photonic catheter's optical conduction pathway. The second enclosure, in addition to housing the pulsing circuitry, contains an opto-electrical transducer adapted to receive the light energy at the distal end of the photonic catheter's optical conduction pathway, and convert this light energy to electrical energy to power the pulsing circuitry.
[0015] Whereas the first enclosure may be of a size and shape that is consistent with conventional implantable pacemakers, the second enclosure is preferably a miniaturized housing that is generally cylindrical in shape and substantially co-equal in diameter with the photonic catheter. The second enclosure may also function as one of the pacemaker's bipolar electrodes, namely, the ring electrode. A third enclosure, mounted in closely spaced relationship to the second enclosure, can be used as the pacemaker's tip electrode.
[0016] The third enclosure can be constructed from the same non-magnetic metallic material used to form the first and second enclosures. Because it is adapted to be inserted in a patient's heart as a tip electrode, it is generally bullet shaped. Like the second enclosure, the third enclosure preferably has an outside diameter that substantially matches the diameter of the photonic catheter. Joining the second and third enclosures is a short cylindrical span that can be made from the same material used as the optical conduction pathway's biocompatible covering. Disposed within this cylindrical span is a short length of wire that electrically connects the third enclosure to the output of the pulsing circuitry in the second enclosure.
[0017] In a further embodiment of the invention, the pulsing circuitry can be distributed between the first enclosure and the second enclosure. In particular, a pulse generator oscillator can be housed with the power source in the first enclosure and a pulse generator amplifier can be housed in the second enclosure. The phonic catheter will then carry a steady state optical power signal and a pulse generating trigger signal.
[0018] In the detailed description that follows, embodiments of a VOO (ventricular pacing with no feedback sensing of cardiac function) implantable pacemaker are shown and described. However, it is anticipated that the features of the invention may be used to advantage in non-implantable pacemakers and pacemakers with other electrical configurations, such as VVI (ventricular pacing with ventricular feedback sensing and inhibited response). Similarly, it is expected that the inventive concepts described below will be applicable to other devices used for generating (or sensing) signals of biological significance in a mammalian body.
[0019] The foregoing and other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of preferred embodiments of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying Drawing in which:
[0020] FIG. 1 is a simplified plan view of an MRI-compatible cardiac pacemaker constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, with an intermediate portion of the photonic catheter thereof being removed for illustrative clarity;
[0021] FIG. 2 is a partially schematic view of the pacemaker of FIG. 1, also with an intermediate portion of the photonic catheter thereof removed for illustrative clarity;
[0022] FIG. 2A is an enlarged partial perspective view of components located at the distal end of the photonic catheter portion the pacemaker of FIG. 1;
[0023] FIG. 3 is a detailed partially schematic view showing one construction of an electro-optical transducer, an opto-electrical transducer, and the photonic catheter of the FIG. 1 pacemaker, again with an intermediate portion of the photonic catheter being removed for illustrative clarity;
[0024] FIG. 4 is a schematic circuit diagram of a first exemplary pulse generator for use in the pacemaker of FIG. 1;
[0025] FIG. 5 is a schematic circuit diagram of a second exemplary pulse generator for use in the pacemaker of FIG. 1, with the pulse generator incorporating a voltage doubler; and
[0026] FIG. 6 is a partially schematic view of an alternative MRI-compatible cardiac pacemaker constructed in accordance with a further embodiment of the invention, with an intermediate portion of the photonic catheter thereof being removed for illustrative clarity.
[0027] 1. OVERVIEW
[0028] Applicants have determined that in order to be MRI-compatible, an implantable pacemaker should preferably have no magnetic material, no lengthy metallic lead wires, and a minimum of metallic material of any kind. These limitations have resulted in the development of an improved pacemaker that minimizes the use of electrical pathways carrying electrical signaling information to the heart. Instead, another medium is used. That medium is light. The invention advantageously provides an implantable cardiac pacemaker with VOO functionality that is largely light-driven rather than electrically-driven. As described in detail herein, this challenge is not trivial, but applicants propose solutions herein to achieve the desired goal.
[0029] 2. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
[0030] To carry light through a medium such as the human body, an optical conduction pathway is required. A glass conductor, such as glass fiber optic cable, may be used to perform this function. Glass is an excellent conductor of light and appears to offer nearly limitless information bandwidth for signals conducted over it. It transmits light over a wide spectrum of visible frequencies and beyond with very high efficiency. Glass is comprised of silicon dioxide (SiO2), as is sand and silicone rubber. However, whereas silicone rubber is readily accepted by the body, both glass and sand are summarily rejected. The reason for this is that silicone has a negative surface charge, as do blood platelets. Like charges repel and thus there is no reaction between them (assuming the absence of infection). Conversely, glass and sand both have positive surface charges. Opposite charges attract and the blood platelets are attracted to glass or sand, resulting in a foreign body reaction and sand or glass particles are rejected in a “sterile puss.” This need not be a problem because the glass fiber light pipe can be encased in a tightly bonding silicone rubber coating, or any other suitable biocompatible material, thus providing mechanical protection and a reaction-free interface in contact with the pacemaker wearer's body.
[0031] As an alternative to glass fiber, an optical conduction pathway may be implemented with plastic optical fiber. Although not as efficient as glass fiber, plastic fiber is ideal for short distance power and signal transmission. In a pacemaker environment, it has an additional advantage in that plastic fiber optic cable is commercially available with a polyethylene outer jacket covering. Polyethylene is a well known biocompatible material.
[0032] Glass and plastic fibers do have one problem that metal leads do not have. Namely, a glass or plastic fiber catheter would not be seen by X-ray imaging while being inserted. Thus, additional marker metallic segments or threads may have to be included in the photonic catheter structure herein disclosed.
[0033] It will be appreciated that a pacemaker pulse generator is an electrical device and that only electrical pulses, not light, will stimulate a heart. As such, a transducer must be used to convert the pacemaker's electrical energy into light energy at the proximal end of the optical conduction pathway, and then another transducer must convert the light signal back into an electrical signal at the distal end of the optical conduction pathway. Light emitting diodes and photo diodes may be used in the transducers. The preferred approach disclosed herein is to transmit light energy at a slow, steady rate down a fiber optic cable, convert the steady-state light energy to electrical energy, and use that to power a conventional electronic pacemaker pulse generator inside a miniaturized, hermetically sealed non-magnetic enclosure.
[0034] Applicants are informed that light emitting diodes, fiber optic light pipes, and photo diodes are all commercially available at the 20 to 50 mw level. A voltage of about 3.3 volts for 1 millisecond at about 3 milliamperes should be adequate to stimulate the heart. This represents a power level of about 10 μW (average) and is easily achievable from presently available light emitting diodes and photo diodes. Moreover, applicants have determined that only low-level light energy needs to be transmitted on an optical catheter to the catheter tip to power the pacemaker pulsing circuitry. This permits the use of microwatt level photonics rather than milliwatt power levels.
[0035] 3. EXEMPLARY PACEMAKER CONSTRUCTIONS
[0036] Turning now to the figures, wherein like reference numerals represent like elements in all of the several views, FIG. 1 illustrates an MRI-compatible cardiac pacemaker 2 constructed in accordance with a most preferred embodiment of the invention. The pacemaker 2 is implantable and is readily implemented to operate in a fixed-rate (VOO) mode. It includes a first (main) enclosure 4 that is connected to the proximal end 6 of a photonic catheter 8. A distal end 10 of the photonic catheter 8 mounts a bipolar endocardial (or pericardial) electrode pair 12 that includes a second enclosure 14 and a third enclosure 16 separated by a short insulative spacer 18.
[0037] With additional reference now to FIG. 2, the main enclosure 4 houses a self-contained electrical power source 20 and an electro-optical transducer 22. The power source 20 serves to deliver low energy continuous electrical power that is converted by the electro-optical transducer 22 into light energy and directed into the proximal end 6 of the photonic catheter 8. The main enclosure 4 is preferably formed as a hermetically sealed casing made from a non-magnetic metal, such as titanium, platinum, a platinum-containing alloy, or any other suitable material, including non-metals. The casing is of a size and shape that is consistent with conventional implantable pacemakers, and is adapted to be implanted remotely from a patient's heart at the usual location within the patient's right shoulder area.
[0038] The photonic catheter 8 includes an optical conduction pathway 24 surrounded by a protective outer covering 26. The optical conduction pathway 24 may include one or more fiber optic transmission elements that are conventionally made from glass or plastic fiber material, e.g., a fiber optic bundle, as outlined above. As also noted above, to avoid body fluid incompatibility problems, the protective outer covering 26 should be made from a biocompatible material, such as silicone rubber, polyurethane, polyethylene, or other biocompatible polymer having the required mechanical and physiological properties. The protective outer covering 26 is thus a biocompatible covering and will be referred to as such in the ensuing discussion. Insofar as the photonic catheter 8 must be adapted for transvenous insertion, the biocompatible covering 26 is preferably a very thin-walled elongated sleeve or jacket having an outside diameter on the order of about 5 millimeters. This will render the photonic catheter 8 sufficiently slender to facilitate transvenous insertion thereof through a large vein, such as the external jugular vein.
[0039] The proximal end 6 of the photonic catheter 8 is mounted to the main enclosure 4 using an appropriate sealed connection that prevents patient body fluids from contacting the optical conduction pathway 24 and from entering the enclosure 4. The optical conduction pathway 24 may extend into the enclosure 4 for a short distance, where it terminates in adjacent relationship with the electro-optical transducer 22 in order to receive light energy therefrom. Light emitted by the electro-optical transducer 22 will thus be directed into the proximal end 6 of the photonic catheter 8, and will be transmitted through the optical conduction pathway 24 to the second enclosure 14. Advantageously, because the photonic catheter 8 is designed for optical transmission, it cannot develop magnetically-induced or RF-induced electrical currents, as is the case with the metallic leads of conventional pacemaker catheters.
[0040] The second enclosure 14 houses an opto-electrical transducer 28, which converts light energy received from the distal end of the photonic catheter 8 into electrical energy, and a pulse generator 30. The pulse generator 30 stores the electrical energy provided by the opto-electrical transducer 28 in one or more storage capacitors (see below), and periodically releases that energy to deliver electrical pulses to the bipolar electrode pair 12. Like the main enclosure 4, the second enclosure 14 is formed as a hermetically sealed casing made from a non-magnetic metal, such as titanium, platinum, a platinum-containing alloy, or any other suitable metal, or a non-metal. Unlike the main enclosure 4, the second enclosure 4 is adapted to be implanted via transvenous insertion in close proximity to the heart, and in electrical contact therewith. As such, the second enclosure 4 preferably has a miniaturized tubular profile that is substantially co-equal in diameter with the photonic catheter 8. A diameter of about 5 millimeters will be typical.
[0041] As can be seen in FIGS. 2 and 2A, the second enclosure 14 includes a cylindrical outer wall 32 and a pair of disk-shaped end walls 34 and 36. The end wall 34 is mounted to the distal end 10 of the photonic catheter 8 using an appropriate sealed connection that prevents patient body fluids from contacting the optical conduction pathway 24 and from entering the second enclosure 14. The optical conduction pathway 24 may extend into the enclosure 14 for a short distance, where it terminates in adjacent relationship with the opto-electrical transducer 28 in order to deliver light energy thereto. Light received by the opto-electrical transducer 28 will thus be converted to electrical energy and delivered to the pulse generator 30. Due to the miniature size of the second enclosure 14, the opto-electrical transducer 28 and the pulse generator 30 need to be implemented as miniaturized circuit elements. However, such components are conventionally available from commercial electronic component manufacturers. Note that the opto-electrical transducer 28 and the pulse generator 30 also need to be adequately supported within the second enclosure 14. To that end, the second enclosure 14 can be filled with a support matrix material 38 that may be the same material used to form the photonic catheter's biocompatible covering 26 (e.g., silicone rubber, polyurethane, polyethylene, or any biocompatible polymer with the required mechanical and physiological properties).
[0042] As stated above, the second enclosure 14 represents part of an electrode pair 12 that delivers the electrical output of the pacemaker 2 to a patient's heart. In particular, the electrode pair 12 is a tip/ring system and the second enclosure 14 is used as an endocardial (or pericardial) ring electrode thereof. To that end, a positive output lead 40 extending from the pulse generator 30 is electrically connected to the cylindrical wall 32 of the second enclosure 14, as by soldering or the like. A negative output lead 42 extending from the pulse generator 30 is fed out of the second enclosure 14 and connected to the third enclosure 16, which functions as an endocardial tip electrode of the electrode pair 12.
[0043] The third enclosure 16 can be constructed from the same non-magnetic metallic material used to form the first enclosure 4 and the second enclosure 14, such as titanium, platinum, a platinum-containing alloy, or any other suitable material. Because it is adapted to be inserted in a patient's heart as an endocardial tip electrode, the third enclosure 16 has a generally bullet shaped tip 44 extending from a tubular base end 46. The base end 46 preferably has an outside diameter that substantially matches the diameter of the second enclosure 14 and the photonic catheter 8. Note that the base end 46 of the third enclosure 16 is open insofar as the third enclosure does not house any critical electrical components. Indeed, it mounts only the negative lead 42, which is electrically connected to the third enclosure's base end 46, as by soldering or the like.
[0044] As stated above, the second enclosure 14 and the third enclosure 16 are separated by an insulative spacer 18. The spacer 18 is formed as a short cylindrical span of insulative material that may be the same material used to form the optical conduction pathway's biocompatible covering 26 (e.g., silicone rubber, polyurethane, polyethylene, or any biocompatible polymer with the required mechanical and physiological properties). Its diameter is preferably co-equal to that of the photonic catheter 8, the second enclosure 14 and the third enclosure 16. Extending through this material is the negative lead 42 that electrically connects the third enclosure 16 to the negative side of the pulse generator's output. The material used to form the spacer 18 preferably fills the interior of the second enclosure 16 so that there are no voids and so that the negative lead 42 is fully captured therein. Note that the spacer 18 is mounted to the end wall 36 of the second enclosure 14 using an appropriate sealed connection that prevents patient body tissue and fluids from contacting the negative lead 42 and from entering the second enclosure 14. To connect the spacer 18 to the third enclosure 16, the latter can be press fit over the spacer, crimped thereto or otherwise secured in non-removable fashion.
[0045] It will be appreciated that the electrical and optical components of the pacemaker 2 can be implemented in a variety of ways. By way of example, FIG. 3 show construction details of the electro-optical transducer 22, the optical conduction pathway 24 and the opto-electrical transducer 28. FIGS. 4 and 5, described further below, show construction details for the pulse generator 30.
[0046] In FIG. 3, the electrical power source 20 is implemented using one or more conventional pacemaker lithium batteries 50 providing a steady state d.c. output of about 3 volts. The electro-optical transducer 22 is implemented with a light emitting diode 52 and a current limiting resistor 54. The light emitting diode 52 is conventional in nature and thus has a forward voltage drop of about 2 volts and a maximum allowable current rating of about 50 milliamperes. If additional supply voltage is available from the power source 20 (e.g., 4 volts or higher), more than one light emitting diode 52 can be used for additional light energy output. The value of the resistor 54 is selected accordingly. By way of example, if the batteries 50 produce 3 volts and the desired current through the light emitting diode 52 is 0.5 milliamperes, the value of the resistor 54 should be about (3-2)/0.0005 or 2000 ohms. The optical conduction pathway 24 in FIG. 3 can be implemented as a fiber optic bundle 56. The opto-electrical transducer 28 is implemented with six photo-diodes 58a, 58b, 58c, 58d, 58e, and 58f that are wired for photovoltaic operation. The photo diodes 58a-f are suitably arranged so that each receives the light output of one or more fibers of the fiber optic bundle 56 and is forward biased into electrical conduction thereby. Each photo diode 58a-f is conventional in nature and thus produces a voltage drop of about 0.6 volts. Cumulatively, the photo diodes 58a-f develop a voltage drop of about 3.3 volts across the respective positive and negative inputs 59 and 60 of the pulse generator 30. Note that the photo diodes 58a-f could be discrete devices, or they could be or part of an integrated device, such as a solar cell array. As described in more detail below, respective positive and negative outputs 62 and 64 of the pulse generator 30 provide pulse signals of about 3.3-6.6 volts.
[0047] FIGS. 4 and 5 show two alternative circuit configurations that may be used to implement the pulse generator 30. Both alternatives are conventional in nature and do not constitute part of the present invention per se. They are presented herein as examples of the pulsing circuits that have been shown to function well in an implantable pacemaker environment. In FIG. 4, the pulse generator 30 includes an oscillator 70 and an amplifier 72. The oscillator 70 is a semiconductor pulsing circuit of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,508,167 of Russell, Jr. (the '167 patent). As described in the '167 patent, the contents of which are incorporated herein by this reference, the pulsing circuit forming the oscillator 70 provides a pulse width and pulse period that are relatively independent of load and supply voltage. The semiconductor elements are relegated to switching functions so that timing is substantially independent of transistor gain characteristics. In particular, a shunt circuit including a pair of diodes is connected so that timing capacitor charge and discharge currents flow through circuits that do not include the base-emitter junction of a timing transistor. Further circuit details are available in the '167 patent. The values of the components that make up the oscillator 70 are selected to provide a conventional VOO pacemaker pulse of about 1 milliseconds duration at a period of about 1000 milliseconds.
[0048] The amplifier 72 of FIG. 4 is a circuit that uses a single switching transistor and a storage capacitor to deliver a negative-going pulse of approximately 3.3 volts across the pulse generator outputs when triggered by the oscillator 70. An example of such a circuit is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,050,004 of Greatbatch (the '004 patent), which discloses voltage multipliers having multiple stages constructed using the circuit of amplifier 72. As described in the '004 patent, the contents of which are incorporated herein by this reference, the circuit forming the amplifier 72 uses a 3.3 volt input voltage to charge a capacitor between oscillator pulses. When the oscillator 70 triggers, it drives the amplifier's switching transistor into conduction, which effectively grounds the positive side of the capacitor, causing it to discharge through the pulse generator's outputs. The values of the components which make up the amplifier 72 are selected to produce an output potential of about 3.3 volts and a current of about 3 milliamperes, for a total power level of about 10 milliwatts.
[0049] The amplifier 74 of FIG. 5 is a circuit that uses a pair of the amplifier circuits of FIG. 4 to provide voltage doubling action. As described in the '004 patent, the capacitors are arranged to charge up in parallel between oscillator pulses. When the oscillator 70 triggers, it drives the amplifier's switching transistors into conduction, causing the capacitors to discharge in series to provide the required voltage doubling action. The values of the components which make up the amplifier 74 are selected to produce an output potential of about 6.6 volts and a current of about 3 milliamperes, for a total power level of about 20 milliwatts.
[0050] An advantage of the pacemaker 2 is that it permits the use of electro-optical elements operating in the microwatt region rather than at the milliwatt level, as would be required if the output of the pulsing circuitry was co-located with the electrical power source in conventional pacemaker fashion. In particular, where the optical conduction pathway 24 terminates at the opto-electrical transducer 28, the steady-state light energy is transduced into a steady-state electric voltage of about 3.3 volts. This drives the pulse generator 30 in the manner described above to produce milliwatt level pulses.
[0051] Turning now to FIG. 6, a modified version of the pacemaker 2 is shown to illustrate a further embodiment of the invention wherein the pulse generator 30 is distributed between the first enclosure 4 and the second enclosure 14. In particular, the oscillator 70 is housed in the main enclosure 4 and the amplifier 72 (or 74) is housed in the second enclosure 14. Thus, there is distributed pulsing circuitry in both enclosures. The photonic catheter's optical conduction pathway 24 continues to provide steady state optical energy to power the amplifier 72/74. Specifically, this energy is used to charge the amplifier storage capacitor(s) between pulses. In addition, a second optical conduction pathway 76 is provided in the photonic catheter to carry an optical pulse signal representing the pulse output of the oscillator 70. This pulse signal triggers the amplifier 72/74 in the manner described above. It will be appreciated that the electro-optical transducer 22 and the opto-electrical transducer 28 can be readily modified in view of the disclosure herein to accommodate the optical pulse signal.
[0052] Accordingly an MRI-compatible demand pacemaker has been disclosed that is largely light-driven rather than electrically-driven, and which is believed to offer a unique solution to the problem of MRI incompatibility found in conventional pacemakers. While various embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it should be apparent that many variations and alternative embodiments could be implemented in accordance with the invention. For example, although the development of an MRI-compatible cardiac pacemaker is a substantial advance, it is submitted that the use of light transmission to carry signals through the human body, as disclosed herein, will have additional applications beyond the pacemaker field, perhaps as an overall replacement for signal transmission through electrical wires. Indeed, the disclosure herein of device configurations for the conduction of power and signals through a mammalian body by way of light signals and photonic catheters may have significant impact on the manner in which active (self-powered) prosthetic devices are designed for implantable service. It is understood, therefore, that the invention is not to be in any way limited except in accordance with the spirit of the appended claims and their equivalents.
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Method for performing handoff from WiBro(WIMAX) service to wireless LAN service and terminal apparatus using the same title
Embodiments of systems (e.g., the terminal apparatus) and methods according to the application can perform a handoff from a WiBro (wireless broadband) service to a wireless LAN service or from a WIMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) service to a wireless LAN service. One embodiment can perform a communication according to a WIMAX or WiBro standard and, upon entering into an area where a communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard is available, perform a communication according to the wireless LAN standard.
Kim, Jeong Min (Seoul, KR)
Choi, Hyo Jin (Seoul, KR)
Jeon, Jin Hwan (Seoul, KR)
Kim, Dae Hong (Seoul, KR)
Lee, Kyeongho (Seoul, KR)
Shim, Sang Min (Seoul, KR)
Song, Won Hoeh (Seoul, KR)
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NGUYEN, STEVEN H D
The Fleshner, Group Pllc (P.O. BOX 1397, ASHBURN, VA, 20146-9998, US)
1. A handoff method, comprising: (a) communicating with a WiBro or WIMAX base station by a terminal apparatus; (b) informing the WiBro or WIMAX base station that the terminal apparatus will conduct a scanning by the terminal apparatus; (c) searching for a wireless LAN base station by conducting the scanning; (d) communicating with the wireless LAN base station by the terminal apparatus when the wireless LAN base station is found; and (e) repeating said communicating with a WIBRO or WiMAX base station when the wireless LAN base station is not found.
2. The handoff method of claim 1, wherein said informing the WiBro or WIMAX base station that the terminal apparatus will conduct a scanning comprises: (b1) transmitting a scanning request message to the WiBro or WIMAX base station to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station that the terminal apparatus will perform the scanning; and (b2) receiving a scanning response message for informing the terminal apparatus of a period when the terminal apparatus can perform the scanning.
3. The handoff method of claim 1, comprising: (f) informing the WiBro or WIMAX base station that t he terminal apparatus is entering into an idle mode or a sleep mode before said communicating with the wireless LAN base station by the terminal apparatus.
4. The handoff method of claim 1, comprising: transmitting a sleep mode request to the WiBro or WIMAX base station to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of entrance into the sleep mode by the terminal apparatus; and receiving a sleep mode response by the terminal apparatus including information on a sleep mode entrance time, a sleep period and a listening period from the WiBro or WIMAX base station.
5. The handoff method of claim 1, comprising: transmitting an idle mode request to the WiBro or WIMAX base station to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of entrance into the idle mode; and receiving an idle mode response by the terminal apparatus including information on an idle mode entrance time, an idle period and a listening period.
6. The handoff method of claim 5, comprising: receiving a signal transmitted from the WiBro or WIMAX base station during the listening period and checking whether there are traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro or WIMAX base station by the terminal apparatus.
7. The handoff method of claim 6, comprising: receiving a traffic indication message from the WiBro or WIMAX base station during at least one listening period, wherein the traffic indication message informs the terminal apparatus that there are traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro or WIMAX base station; and returning to communicating with the WiBro or WIMAX base station to receive said traffics.
8. The handoff method of claim 6, comprising: receiving a traffic indication message from the WiBro or WIMAX base station during at least one listening period, wherein the traffic indication message designates no traffic to be transmitted; and returning to said communicating with the wireless LAN base station by the terminal apparatus.
9. A terminal apparatus, comprising: an antenna; an RF circuit coupled to the antenna; a WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor coupled to the RF circuit; a wireless LAN baseband processor coupled to the RF circuit; a resource scheduler to determine a selected baseband processor for use among the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor and the wireless LAN baseband processor, and to control a frequency of a local oscillator of the RF circuit according to the selected baseband processor, wherein the resource scheduler is configured to control the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of intermittent scanning to conduct during a communication, and is configured to control the wireless LAN baseband processor to scan for search a wireless LAN base station.
10. The terminal apparatus of claim 9, wherein the resource scheduler is configured to control the wireless LAN baseband processor to communicate with the wireless LAN base station when the wireless LAN base station is found as a result of the scan.
11. The terminal apparatus of claim 9, wherein the resource scheduler is configured to control the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to communicate with the WiBro or WIMAX base station when the wireless LAN base station is not found as a result of the scan.
12. The terminal apparatus of claim 11, wherein the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor transmits a sleep mode request to the WiBro or WIMAX base station to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of entrance into the sleep mode by the terminal apparatus and receives a sleep mode response including information on a sleep mode entrance time, a sleep period and a listening period from the WiBro or WIMAX base station.
13. The terminal apparatus of claim 11, wherein the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor transmits an idle mode request to the WiBro or WIMAX base station to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of entrance into the idle mode and receives an idle mode response by the terminal apparatus including information on an idle mode entrance time, and idle period and a listening period.
14. The terminal apparatus of claim 11, wherein during the wireless LAN baseband processor communication with the wireless LAN base station, the resource scheduler controls the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to receive a scheduled signal from the WiBro or WIMAX base station, to check for data to be transmitted from the WiBro or WIMAX base station.
15. The terminal apparatus of claim 14, wherein, when there exists data to be transmitted as a result of the check, the resource scheduler controls the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to receive the data to be transmitted from the WiBro or WIMAX base station and then controls the wireless LAN baseband processor to communicate with the wireless LAN base station.
16. The terminal apparatus of claim 10, wherein the resource scheduler is configured to control the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of entrance into the idle or the sleep mode before the wireless LAN baseband processor communication with the wireless LAN base station.
The application relates to systems and methods for performing a communication according to a wireless standard (e.g., WIMAX or WiBro).
A WIMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) or a WiBro (wireless broadband) service, i.e., a communication service for enabling a wireless internet connection during movement by using a portable terminal apparatus, are being used. Since both of the WIMAX and the WiBro service have analogous objects, they are simply referred to as the WiBro, hereafter. The WiBro is advantageous in that it supports portability (e.g., maximum 60 Km/h) and a handoff between base stations like a cellular phone, and also supports a higher transmission speed per subscriber (e.g., a maximum uplink transmission speed of 1 Mbps and a maximum downlink transmission speed of 3 Mbps) than a conventional cellular phone. Further, since the WiBro has a larger cell radius than a wireless LAN, it can provide a service covering a larger area.
However, as described above, the WiBro has various disadvantages. For example, the WiBro has a lower transmission speed than the wireless LAN.
An object of embodiments of the application is to solve at least problems and/or disadvantages of the related art or to provide at least the advantages described herein in whole or in part.
Another object of the application is to provide a method for performing a handoff from a WiBro service to a wireless LAN service and a terminal apparatus using the method.
Another object of the application is to provide a method for providing a user with a service supporting a higher transmission speed and a terminal apparatus using the method by performing a handoff to a wireless LAN service upon entering into an area where a communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard is available.
Another object of the application is to provide a method for providing a user using a first service with a second service supporting a higher transmission speed and a terminal apparatus using the method by performing a handoff to a wireless LAN service upon entering into an area where a communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard is available.
Another object of the application is to provide a terminal apparatus that allows a wireless LAN baseband processor to share a RF circuit and an antenna with a WiBro baseband processor to reduce a manufacturing cost, and a method (e.g., handoff using the terminal apparatus.
Another object of the application is to provide a system for performing a handoff from a WiBro (wireless broadband) service to a wireless LAN service or from a WIMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) service to a wireless LAN service and/or a terminal apparatus using the same, method for performing a communication according to a WiBro or WIMAX standard and, upon entering into an area where a communication conforming to a wireless LAN standard is available, performing a communication according to the wireless LAN standard and an apparatus using such a method.
To achieve objects of embodiments of the application in whole or in part, there is provided a handoff method that can include communicating with a WiBro or WIMAX base station by a terminal apparatus, informing the WiBro or WIMAX base station that the terminal apparatus will conduct a scanning by the terminal apparatus, searching for a wireless LAN base station by conducting the scanning, communicating with the wireless LAN base station by the terminal apparatus when the wireless LAN base station is found and repeating said communicating with a WIBRO or WiMAX base station when the wireless LAN base station is not found.
To achieve objects of embodiments of the application in whole or in part, there is provided a terminal apparatus including an antenna, an RF circuit coupled to the antenna, a WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor coupled to the RF circuit, a wireless LAN baseband processor coupled to the RF circuit, a resource scheduler to determine a selected baseband processor for use among the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor and the wireless LAN baseband processor, and to control a frequency of a local oscillator of the RF circuit according to the selected baseband processor, wherein the resource scheduler is configured to control the WiBro or WIMAX baseband processor to inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station of intermittent scanning to conduct during a communication, and is configured to control the wireless LAN baseband processor to scan for search a wireless LAN base station.
Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention. The objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained as particularly pointed out in the appended claims.
The embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the following drawings in which like reference numerals refer to like elements wherein:
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system in accordance with an embodiment of the application;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a method in accordance with an embodiment of the application; and
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a terminal apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
Embodiments according to the application will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Such embodiments are exemplary and not to be construed as limiting. Many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
The wireless LAN conforming to 802.11g standards supports a maximum 54 Mbps transmission speed. Since the transmission speed of the wireless LAN is higher than that of the WiBro, a user of a wireless internet may prefer to use the wireless LAN rather to use the WiBro within an area where the wireless LAN service is available. Further, within the area where the wireless LAN service is available, a WiBro service provider may want to use the wireless LAN service without installing a WiBro base station to save the expense rendered in installing the WiBro base station. For at least such reasons, when a user moves to a wireless LAN service area, it is required to perform a handoff from the WiBro service to the wireless LAN service.
Although it is needed to conduct a handoff from the WiBro service to the wireless LAN service, there are not technologies related to the handoff between such a different kind of services in the WiBro standards and the wireless LAN standards. Thus, it is strongly required to develop a handoff method using both of a conventional WiBro protocol and a conventional wireless LAN protocol.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system in accordance with an embodiment of the application. As shown in FIG. 1, the system can include a terminal apparatus 10, a WiBro base station 20 and a wireless LAN base station 30.
The terminal apparatus (e.g., terminal apparatus 10) is a portable apparatus capable of performing both of a communication according to a wireless LAN standard and a communication according to a WiBro standard, and may be, e.g., a notebook, a cellular phone, a PDA (personal digital assistant) or the like. However, embodiments of the application are not intended to be limited by such an exemplary disclosure. For example, in the wireless LAN standard, the terminal apparatus 10 is referred to as a station. Further, in the WiBro standard, the terminal apparatus 10 is referred to as a PPS (portable subscriber station).
The WiBro base station 20 can be referred to as a RAS (radio access station) and can communicate with the terminal apparatus 10 according to the WiBro standard. For example, the WiBro base station 20 can conduct a communication by using a frequency band of 2.3 GHz.
The wireless LAN base station 30 can be referred to as an AP (access point) and can communicate with the terminal apparatus 10 according to the wireless LAN standard. For example, the wireless LAN base station 30 can conduct a communication by using an unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) frequency band.
As shown in FIG. 1, a handoff has to be performed when the terminal apparatus 10 located in a WiBro cell moves into a wireless LAN cell. For example, although a WiBro service is available within the wireless LAN cell, the terminal apparatus 10 can perform a handoff to a wireless LAN service to obtain a higher transmission speed. Further, if the WiBro service is not available within the wireless LAN cell, that is, if the inside of the wireless LAN cell is a shadow area in connection with the WiBro base station 20, the terminal apparatus 20 has to perform a handoff to the wireless LAN service to continuously receive an internet service.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a handoff method in accordance with an embodiment of the application. As shown in FIG. 2, the handoff method embodiment will be described using the embodiment of FIG. 1, however, the method embodiment of FIG. 2 is not intended to be limited thereby.
First, the terminal apparatus 10 can communicate with the WiBro base station 20 (block S11). Then, the terminal apparatus 10 can inform the WiBro base station 20 that it will perform a scanning (block S12).
For example, the terminal apparatus 10 transmits a scanning request message to the WiBro base station 20 to inform the WiBro base station 20 that the terminal apparatus 10 will perform a scanning. Although the scanning request message is usually used to measure a signal quality of an adjacent WiBro base station, the embodiment of FIG. 2 can use this message in order to measure a signal quality of the wireless LAN base station 30. The WiBro base station 20 preferably sends a scanning response message to the terminal apparatus 10 in response to the scanning request message. The scanning response message includes information on a period during which the terminal apparatus 10 can measure a signal quality of other base station, e.g., a period for use in a scanning.
Next, the terminal apparatus 10 can perform a scanning to search a wireless LAN base station 30 (block S13). In accordance with the wireless LAN standard, the scanning is preferably classified into a passive scanning and an active scanning. In case of the passive scanning, the wireless LAN base station 30 can broadcast a beacon signal periodically and then the terminal apparatus 10 can receive the beacon signal and determine whether it will connect to the wireless LAN base station 30 or not. In case of the active scanning, the terminal apparatus 10 can broadcast a probe frame and the wireless LAN base station 30 can send a probe response in response to the probe frame. Then, the terminal apparatus 10 determines whether or not it can/will connect with the wireless LAN base station 30 in response to the probe response.
Further, the terminal apparatus 10 can employ any one or both of the active scanning and the passive scanning in order to search the wireless LAN base station 30. If the terminal apparatus 10 fails to find the wireless LAN base station 30 as a result of the search, the terminal apparatus 10 can continue communicating with the WiBro base station 20 (block S11). If the terminal apparatus 10 finds the wireless LAN base station 30 as a result of the search, the terminal apparatus 10 can continue the handoff process.
Upon successful scanning, the terminal apparatus 10 can inform the WiBro base station 20 of a mode change, e.g., entering into an idle mode or a sleep mode (block S14). If the terminal apparatus 10 enters into the sleep mode, the terminal apparatus 10 transmits a sleep mode request to the WiBro base station 20 to inform the WiBro base station 20 of entrance into the sleep mode. Then, the terminal apparatus 10 receives a sleep mode response including information on a sleep mode entrance time, a sleep period and a listening period from the WiBro base station 20. If the terminal apparatus 10 enters into the idle mode, the terminal apparatus 10 transmits an idle mode request to the WiBro base station 20 in order to inform the WiBro base station 20 of entrance into the idle mode. Then, the terminal apparatus 10 receives an idle mode response including information on an idle mode entrance time, an idle period and a listening period from the WiBro base station 20. In addition, even after the terminal apparatus 10 changes mode (e.g., enters into the sleep mode or the idle mode), the terminal apparatus 10 can check whether there are traffics (e.g., data) to be transmitted from the WiBro base station by using the listening period. Then, the terminal apparatus 10 can communicate with the wireless LAN base station 30 (block S15).
The terminal apparatus 10 can receive a signal transmitted from the WiBro base station 20 during every listening period e.g., decided in the block S14, and then check whether there are traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro base station 20 (block S16). Specifically, the terminal apparatus 10 can receive a traffic indication message from the WiBro base station 20 during every listening period, where the traffic indication message informs the terminal apparatus 10 that there are traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro base station 20. If the traffic indication message indicates that there is no traffic to be transmitted, the terminal apparatus 10 can communicate with the wireless LAN base station again (block S15). If the traffic indication message indicates that there are traffics to be transmitted, the terminal apparatus 10 preferably receives the traffics from the WiBro base station 20 and then communicates with the wireless LAN base station 20 again (block S15).
FIG. 3 provides a block diagram showing an example of the terminal apparatus. As shown in FIG. 3, the terminal apparatus can be used as the terminal apparatus 10 shown in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 3, the terminal apparatus can include a resource scheduler 11, a WiBro baseband processor 12, a wireless LAN baseband processor 13, an RF circuit 14 and an antenna 15.
Although two baseband processors 12 and 13 are included therein, the terminal apparatus may employ the single RF circuit 14 and antenna 15. However, embodiments of the application are not intended to be limited by such an exemplary disclosure. For example, two RF circuits being one each for the baseband processors 12, 13 or even two antennas may be provided. Since two baseband processors 12 and 13 use the single RF circuit 14 and antenna 15 in FIG. 3, both of communication with the WiBro base station 20 and a communication with the wireless LAN base station 30 can not be carried out at the same time. Since a frequency band of the WiBro is different from that of the wireless LAN, the RF circuit 14 has to change a frequency of a local oscillator according to which one of the WiBro baseband processor 12 and the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 is to be used.
The WiBro baseband processor 12 can communicate with the WiBro base station 20 via the RF circuit 14 and the antenna 15. The wireless LAN baseband processor 13 can communicate with the wireless LAN base station 30 via the RF circuit 14 and the antenna 15.
The resource scheduler 11 can determine which one of the WiBro baseband processor 12 and the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 will be used, and then control (e.g., change) a frequency of the local oscillator of the RF circuit 14 according to which one of the WiBro baseband processor 12 and the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 will be used.
Moreover, the resource scheduler 11 can control the WiBro baseband processor 12, the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 and the RF circuit 14 to perform each portion of a WiBro communication, a wireless LAN communication or the method embodiment shown in FIG. 2. For example, the resource scheduler 11 controls the WiBro baseband processor 12 to inform the WiBro base station 20 that it will perform a scanning occasionally while performing a communication, and controls the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 to perform a scanning for searching the wireless LAN base station 30. If the wireless LAN base station 30 is found as a result of the scanning, the resource scheduler 11 can control the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 to communicate with the wireless LAN base station 30. Before the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 communicates with the wireless LAN base station 30, the resource scheduler 11 may control the WiBro baseband processor 12 to inform the WiBro base station 20 of the entrance into the idle or the sleep mode. While the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 is communicating with the wireless LAN base station 30, the resource scheduler 11 can control the WiBro baseband processor 12 to receive the occassional signal transmitted from the WiBro base station 20, to thereby check whether there are traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro base station 20. If there are traffics to be transmitted as a result of the check, the resource scheduler 11 controls the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 to communicate with the wireless LAN base station 30 after the WiBro baseband processor 12 receives the traffics to be transmitted from the WiBro base station 20. If there's no traffic to be transmitted as a result of the check, the resource scheduler 11 can control the wireless LAN baseband processor 13 to communicate with the wireless LAN base station 30.
One handoff method embodiment can perform a communication with a WiBro or WIMAX base station by a terminal apparatus, inform the WiBro or WIMAX base station that the terminal apparatus will search for wireless LAN communication capability, search for the wireless LAN communication capability, communicate with the wireless LAN communication capability or repeat the communication with the WIBRO or WIMAX base station when the wireless LAN communication capability is not found.
As described above, embodiments of methods and systems for performing a handoff from the WiBro (e.g., WIMAX service to the wireless LAN service and a terminal apparatus using the same have various advantages. For example, embodiments in accordance with the application are advantageous in that they can perform a handoff from the WiBro service to the wireless LAN service.
Further, embodiments in accordance with the application are also advantageous because they provide a user with a service supporting a higher transmission speed by performing a handoff to the wireless LAN service upon entering into an area where the wireless LAN service is available. In addition, one embodiment of a method and system for performing a handoff from the WiBro (WIMAN service to the wireless LAN service and a terminal apparatus in accordance with the application is advantageous because a wireless LAN baseband processor can share an RF circuit and an antenna with a WiBro baseband processor to use (e.g., conduct a handoff) a terminal apparatus manufactured at a low cost.
Furthermore, embodiments in accordance with the application are also advantageous in that the terminal apparatus performs a handoff to the wireless LAN service after informing the WiBro base station of a mode change (e.g., entering into the idle or the sleep mode), so that the terminal apparatus can receive information supplied to the WiBro base station after the handoff operation without a miss and can rapidly (e.g., immediately) return to the WiBro service.
Any reference in this specification to “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “example embodiment,” etc., means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the invention. The appearances of such phrases in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with any embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the purview of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other ones of the embodiments. Furthermore, for ease of understanding, certain method procedures may have been delineated as separate procedures; however, these separately delineated procedures should not be construed as necessarily order dependent in their performance. That is, some procedures may be able to be performed in an alternative ordering, simultaneously, etc.
Although embodiments have been described with reference to a number of illustrative embodiments thereof, it should be understood that numerous other modifications and embodiments can be devised by those skilled in the art that will fall within the spirit and scope of the principles of this disclosure. More particularly, various variations and modifications are possible in the component parts and/or arrangements of the subject combination arrangement within the scope of the disclosure, the drawings and the appended claims. In addition to variations and modifications in the component parts and/or arrangements, alternative uses will also be apparent to those skilled in the art.
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SLOT MACHINE INCLUDING MULTIPLE SLOT GAME AREAS AND PLAYING METHOD THEREOF
Multiple slot game areas are provided on a liquid crystal display. Among the respective slot game areas, the areas to be activated are determined in accordance either with a number of bet credits or with a number of inserted medals. Slot games are executed in the activated slot game areas.
Okada, Kazuo (Tokyo, JP)
Aruze Corp. (Tokyo, JP)
A63F13/00
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MYHR, JUSTIN L
NDQ&M WATCHSTONE LLP (1300 EYE STREET, NW, SUITE 1000 WEST TOWER, WASHINGTON, DC, 20005, US)
1. A slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to activate a slot game area corresponding to the bet read by the input device out of the plurality of slot game areas and to execute the slot game in the activated slot game area.
2. A slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to activate slot game areas in a number corresponding to a number of the bet read by the input device out of the plurality of slot game areas and to execute the slot games in the activated slot game areas.
3. The slot machine according to claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to randomly determine slot game areas to be activated out of the plurality of slot game areas in accordance with the number of the bet.
4. A slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to randomly determine a slot game area to be activated out of the plurality of slot game areas in accordance with a number of the bet when the bet is read by the input device and to execute the slot game in the activated slot game area.
5. A method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of a credit; activating a slot game area in accordance with the bet out of a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot game in the activated slot game area.
6. A method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of an arbitrary number of credits; activating slot game areas in a number corresponding to a number of the bet out of the plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot games in the activated slot game areas.
7. The method of playing a slot machine according to claim 6, further comprising: randomly determining slot game areas to be activated in accordance with the number of the bet.
8. A method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of an arbitrary number of credits; randomly determining a slot game area to be activated in accordance with the number of the bet out of a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot game in the activated slot game area.
This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-337277, filed on Dec. 14, 2006, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a slot machine and a method of playing a slot machine.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the related slot machine, multiple (three, for example) reels on each of which multiple symbols are drawn individually rotate when a player inserts a predetermined number of medals into a medal insertion slot and operates a start button. Thereafter, the reels are stopped after a predetermined period of time. At this time, if symbols satisfying a winning combination or a predetermined number of scatter symbols are stopped on a preset payline, a payout based on the number of inserted medals is generated.
Meanwhile, U.S. Pat. No. 6,855,052 discloses a configuration to cause multiple wheels provided above reels to start spinning sequentially and then to stop spinning in the case where symbols displayed on the reels being stopped satisfy a preset combination, and then to generate a payout of many medals in the case where stop positions of the wheels satisfies preset stop positions.
As described above, there is a demand for providing a slot machine where a player can possibly play multiple slot games instead of only one slot game per one operation of inserting medals.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem of the conventional technique. An object of the present invention is to provide a slot machine and a method of playing a slot machine capable of improving entertainment values.
The first aspect of the present invention is a slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to activate a slot game area corresponding to the bet read by the input device out of the plurality of slot game areas and to execute the slot game in the activated slot game area.
The second aspect of the present invention is a slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to activate slot game areas in a number corresponding to a number of the bet read by the input device out of the plurality of slot game areas and to execute the slot games in the activated slot game areas.
The third aspect of the present invention is a slot machine comprising: a display having a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; an input device configured to read a bet of a credit by a player; and a controller configured to randomly determine a slot game area to be activated out of the plurality of slot game areas in accordance with a number of the bet when the bet is read by the input device and to execute the slot game in the activated slot game area.
The fourth aspect of the present invention is a method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of a credit; activating a slot game area to be activated in accordance with the bet out of a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot game in the activated slot game area.
The fifth aspect of the present invention is a method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of an arbitrary number of credits; activating slot game areas in a number corresponding to a number of the bet out of the plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot games in the activated slot game areas.
The sixth aspect of the present invention is a method of playing a slot machine comprising: making a bet of an arbitrary number of credits; randomly determining a slot game area to be activated in accordance with the number of the bet out of a plurality of slot game areas for executing a slot game of rearranging a plurality of arranged symbols in each of the slot game areas; and executing the slot game in the activated slot game area.
According to the above-described aspects, which and how many slot game areas are activated out of the multiple slot game areas depend on how many credits are bet. Moreover, a slot game is executed in each of the activated slot game area. Therefore, it is possible to allow a player to play multiple slot games in one play session.
The preset invention is also useful for enhancing motivation of a player for playing games.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing ten slot game areas displayed on a liquid crystal display of a slot machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing procedures of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is another flowchart showing the procedures of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is an explanatory view showing slot game areas of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 11 is an explanatory view showing paylines in the respective slot game areas of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 12 is an explanatory view of a payout table showing relations between winning combinations and payouts applicable to the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 13 is an explanatory view showing the respective slot game areas displayed on the liquid crystal display of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 14 is another explanatory view showing the respective slot game areas displayed on the liquid crystal display of the slot machine according to the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 16 is an explanatory view showing relations of numbers of bet credits and bet areas which shows bets in the case when an area A8 is in the course of a bonus game.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENT
Now, characteristic features of an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to a display example shown in FIG. 1 and a perspective view of a slot machine 10 shown in FIG. 2. FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a display example to be displayed on a liquid crystal display (a display) 16 of the slot machine 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the liquid crystal display 16 is provided with ten slot game areas A1 to A10 (hereinafter simply referred to as “areas”) and a slot game is executed in each of the areas A1 to A10.
Specifically, nine display regions defined by three rows and three columns are set in each of the areas A1 to A10. Credits are bet by means of either inserting medals or pressing a BET switch 25, and symbols displayed (arranged) in the respective display regions are scrolled by pressing a start switch 27. Thereafter, a slot game is executed where the scrolled symbols stop at (are rearranged in) the respective display regions defined by three rows and three columns.
It is possible to bet credits equivalent to three medals at the maximum for a slot game executed in each of the areas A1 to A10. In each slot game, the number of paylines is increased in accordance with an increase in the number of bet credit.
When medals are inserted from a medal insertion slot 21 (an input device) or the BET switch 25 (an input device) is pressed down (i.e. when a bet of credits is read out by the input device), credits are sequentially bet on the ten areas A1 to A10. For example, a credit equivalent to one medal is bet on the area A1 when one medal is inserted from the medal insertion slot 21, and a credit equivalent to one medal is bet on the area A2 when another medal is inserted. However, as will be described later, a credit is preferentially bet on an area where a bonus game takes place. An example of relations between the number of inserted medals and the bets is shown in FIG. 16 and details thereof will be described later.
In another embodiment, credits are randomly bet on the areas A1 to A10.
When symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are stopped on a payline as outcomes of the slot games in the respective areas A1 to A10, a payout of medals in the number corresponding to this winning combination is provided or alternatively, credits in the number corresponding to the winning combination are added. By this configuration, the slot machine of the present invention allows multiple slot games to be played at the same time.
Although the case of playing each slot game by scrolling the stopped symbols and then stopping the symbols again has been described above as an example, the operation of the slot game is not limited to scrolling the symbols. For example, it is also possible to change the symbols displayed (arranged) on the respective display regions individually and then to display (rearrange) new symbols.
Although the maximum number of credit to be bet is set to three medals for each of the areas A1 to A10 in the above-described example, the present invention is not limited to this configuration.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the slot machine 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention. The slot machine 10 includes a cabinet 11, a top box provided on the upper side of the cabinet 11, and a main door 13. The cabinet 11 is provided with a liquid crystal display 16 on a face against a player. Various constituent components including a controller 40 (see FIG. 3) configured to electrically control the slot machine 10 and a hopper 44 (see FIG. 3) configured to control insertion, storage, and payouts of the medals are disposed inside the cabinet 11.
In this embodiment, medals are used as an example of game media used for playing the games, the game media are not limited to the medals. For example, coins, tokens, electronic money, and valuable electronic information equivalent thereto can be used.
The main door 13 is openably and closably provided on the cabinet 11, and the liquid crystal display 16 is provided near the center of this main door 13. As will be described later, the liquid crystal display 16 is provided with the ten slot game areas A1 to A10 (hereinafter simply referred to as the “areas”) and the slot games are independently executed in the respective areas A1 to A10. Although the number of the slot game areas is set to “ten” in this embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this configuration. At least two slot game areas have only to be provided.
Each of the areas A1 to A10 is provided with nine display regions defined by three rows and three columns, and various symbols are displayed in the respective display regions. Specifically, when a slot game is started, symbols displayed (arranged) in each of the display regions are scrolled and then stopped (rearranged) after a predetermined period of time. Then, a payout (an award) is generated according to the combination of the symbols stopped in each of the display regions.
A payout amount display region 48 adapted to display an amount of payout is provided in a lower left region of the liquid crystal display 16.
The medal insertion slot 21 for inserting medals used for playing the games and a bill validator 22 configured to validate whether or not bills are legitimate and to accept legitimate bills are provided below the liquid crystal display 16. Various operation switches are provided in the vicinity of the medal insertion slot 21 and the bill validator 22.
A cash-out switch 23, a MAXBET switch 24, the BET switch 25, a spin repeat bet switch 26, and the start switch 27 are provided as the operation switches.
The BET switch 25 is a switch to instruct the numbers of credits to be bet on the respective slot games each executed in the multiple slot game areas A1 to A10. As will be described later, a credit equivalent to one medal is bet on one of the slot game areas A1 to A10 every time pressing the BET switch 25. In the slot game areas A1 to A10 where the credits are bet, the executed slot games are activated and a payout is generated when the symbols satisfying the winning combination are stopped on a payline therein.
The spin repeat bet switch 26 is a switch for playing the slot games in the respective areas A1 to A10 by betting, on the respective areas A1 to A10, the same number of credits as those bet by use of the BET switch 25 in the previous game.
The start switch 27 is a switch for starting the slot games in the slot game areas A1 to A10 after betting a desired number of credits on the multiple slot game areas A1 to A10. The slot games are started in the respective areas A1 to A10 when this start switch 27 is pressed down after inserting the medals to the medal insertion slot 21 or betting credits by use of the BET switch 25.
The cash-out switch 23 is a switch for cashing out the inserted medals. The medals to be cashed out are discharged from a medal payout opening 28 provided at a lower part on the front face of the main door 13. The discharged medals are pooled in a medal tray 18.
The MAXBET switch 24 is a switch for betting the maximum number of credits that the player can bet in one game session (for example, credits corresponding to thirty medals) in a single operation.
A foot display 34 is provided on the lower part of the front face of the main door 13 and is adapted to display various images related to the games run on the slot machine 10. The images include characters of the slot machine 10, for example.
Lamps 47 are provided on both sides of the foot display 34 and are lit according to illumination patterns each preset for each of the play conditions on the slot machine 10. The medal payout opening 28 is provided below the foot display 34.
An upper display 33 is provided on the front face of the top box 12. The upper display 33 includes a display panel which displays information including each of the numbers of medals to be paid out for each of the combinations of the symbols.
The top box 12 is provided with a speaker 29. A ticket printer 35, a card reader 36, a data display 37, and a keypad 38 are provided below the upper display 33. The ticket printer 35 prints a bar-code on a ticket, the bar-code having coded data such as the number of credits, time and date, and an identification number of the slot machine 10, and outputs the ticket as the bar-coded ticket 39.
The player can play other slot machines by having the bar-coded ticket 39 read by the slot machines or change the bar-coded ticket 39 for bills and the like at a predetermined location in the game arcade (such as a cashier in a casino).
The card reader 36 is a reader into which a smart card can be inserted and is configured to read data from the inserted smart card and to write data into the smart card. The smart card is a card carried by the player, and stores data for identifying the player, data on a history of games played by the player, and so forth.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a controller 40 provided in the slot machine 10 of this embodiment and electrical configurations of various devices to be connected to this controller 40. The controller 40 of the slot machine 10 shown in FIG. 3 is a microcomputer which includes an interface circuit group 102, an input-output bus 104, a central processing unit (CPU) 106, a read-only memory (ROM) 108, a random access memory (RAM) 110, a communication interface circuit 111, a random number generating circuit 112, a speaker driving circuit 122, a hopper driving circuit 124, a display driving circuit 128, and a display controller 140.
The interface circuit group 102 is connected to the input-output bus 104 and this input-output bus 104 inputs and outputs data signals and address signals to and from the CPU 106.
The star switch 27 is connected to the interface circuit group 102. A start signal outputted from this start switch is converted into a given signal by the interface circuit group 102 and is then transmitted to the CPU 106 through the input-output bus 104.
The BET switch 25, the MAXBET switch 24, the spin repeat bet switch 26, and the cash-out switch 23 are connected to the interface circuit group 102. Moreover, respective switching signals outputted from these switches 25, 24, 26, and 23 are supplied to the interface circuit group 102, then converted into predetermined signals by this interface circuit group 102, and then transmitted to the CPU 106 through the input-output bus 104.
In addition, a medal sensor 43 is connected to the interface circuit group 102. The medal sensor 43 is a sensor for detecting medals inserted from the medal insertion slot 21, and is provided at a medal insertion region of the medal insertion slot 21. A detection signal outputted from this medal sensor 43 is supplied to the interface circuit group 102, then converted into a predetermined signal by this interface circuit group 102, and then transmitted to the CPU 106 through the input-output bus 104.
The ROM 108 storing system programs and the RAM 110 for saving various data are connected to the input-output bus 104. Moreover, the random number generating circuit 112, the communication interface circuit 111, the display controller 140, the hopper driving circuit 124, the speaker driving circuit 122, and the display driving circuit 128 are connected to the input-output bus 104.
When an operation to start a game is accepted by the start switch 27, the acceptance triggers the CPU 106 to read out a game execution program to execute games. The game execution program is a program to execute, by way of the display controller 140, slot games in the respective areas A1 to A10 provided on the liquid crystal display 16.
Specifically, the game execution program is programmed to execute a slot game by scrolling the symbols in the respective areas A1 to A10, then stopping the symbols, and generating a payout when the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are lined up on any of the activated paylines.
The communication interface circuit 111 is connected to an arcade server (hall server), for example, and transmits data such as a play history on the slot machine 10 to the arcade server. Meanwhile, the communication interface circuit 111 receives various data transmitted from the arcade server.
The random number generating circuit 112 generates random numbers for determining whether or not to generate winning combinations in the activated slot games executed in the respective areas A1 to A10.
The display driving circuit 128 performs control to display an amount of payout on the payout amount display region 48 defined in the lower left region of the liquid crystal display 16.
The speaker driving circuit 122 output sound data to the speaker 29. Specifically, the CPU 106 read the sound data stored in the ROM 108 and transmits the sound data to the speaker driving circuit 122 through the input-output bus 104. In this way, predetermined sound effects are outputted from the speaker 29.
The hopper driving circuit 124 outputs a payout signal to the hopper 44 when a cash-out becomes effective. Specifically, when a cash-out signal is inputted from the cash-out switch 23, the CPU 106 outputs a driving signal to the hopper driving circuit 124 through the input-output bus 104. Accordingly, the hopper 44 pays out the medals equivalent to the number of credits, which are stored in a predetermined memory region of the RAM 110, remaining at that time.
The display controller 140 performs display control for executing the slot game in each of the multiple areas A1 to A10 provided on the liquid crystal display 16. Specifically, the CPU 106 generates image display instruction signals corresponding to either states or outcomes of the slot games executed in the respective areas A1 to A10 and outputs the image display instruction signals to the display controller 140 through the input-output bus 104. When the image display instruction signals outputted from the CPU 106 are inputted to the display controller 140, the display controller 140 generates driving signals for driving the liquid crystal display 16 based on the image display instruction signals and outputs the generated driving signals to the liquid crystal display 16. In this way, predetermined images are displayed on the liquid crystal display 16.
Next, the images to be displayed on each of the slot game areas A1 to A10 will be described with reference to FIG. 10. FIG. 10 is a display example in the areas A1 to A10.
As shown in FIG. 10, each of the areas A1 to A10 is provided with nine display regions q11 to q33 defined by three rows and three columns. When a slot game is executed, various symbols are scroll-displayed on these nine display regions q11 to q33.
Five light emitting diodes (LEDs) 53a to 53e are provided on the left side of the display regions q11 to q33. The number of the LEDs 53a to 53e to be turned on is determined in accordance with the number of bet credit. To be more precise, the LED 53a is turned on when a credit equivalent to one medal is bet on this slot game area. The LEDs 53b and 53c are turned on in addition to the LED 53a when credits equivalent to two medals are bet on this slot game. The LEDs 53d and 53e are turned on in addition to the LEDs 53a to 53c when credits equivalent to three medals are bet on this slot game.
The respective LEDs 53a to 53e are provided in order to notify paylines in this slot game area. FIG. 11 is an explanatory view showing paylines in the slot game area. Among the nine display regions q11 to q33 defined by three rows and three columns, a horizontal line in the center is defined as a line L1, an upper horizontal line is defined as a line L2, and a lower horizontal line is defined as a line L3. Further, a diagonal line from lower-left to upper-right is defined as a line L4 while a diagonal line from upper-left to lower-right is defined as a line L5.
Moreover, the line L1 is set as a payline when the LED 53a shown in FIG. 10 is turned on and the lines L2 and L3 are set as paylines when the LEDs 53b and 53c are turned on. In addition, the lines L4 and L5 are set as paylines when the LEDs 53d and 53e are turned on. Therefore, only the line L1 is set as a payline when a credit equivalent to one medal is bet and the lines L1, L2, and L3 are set as paylines when credits equivalent to two medals are bet. Meanwhile, all the lines L1 to L5 are set as paylines when credits equivalent to three medals are bet. Further, when the symbols satisfying winning combinations are stopped on any of these paylines set in the above-described manner, a payout corresponding to the winning combination is generated.
An activated area notification frame is provided around the display regions q11 to q33. This activated area notification frame 51 is turned on when the slot game area is activated. The activated area notification frame 51 of a slot game area is turned on when at least a credit equivalent to one medal is bet on this slot game area. In this way, a player can easily find out the activated areas among the ten areas A1 to A10.
A bonus notifier 52 is provided above the display regions q11 to q33. This bonus notifier 52 is turned on when a bonus game (to be described later) is executed in the slot game executed in this slot game area. The player can easily find out the area where the bonus game is executed by watching the bonus notifiers 52.
FIG. 12 is an explanatory view showing arrangement of symbols constituting the winning combinations. As shown in FIG. 12, a bonus game is started when “7” symbols are lined up on the payline, or in other words, when three “7” symbols are lined up on the line L1 in the case where the line L1 shown in FIG. 11 is set to a payline. Meanwhile, a payout equivalent to fifteen medals is generated when “APPLE” symbols are lined up. Likewise, a payout equivalent to ten medals is generated when “BELL” symbols are lined up and a payout equivalent to two medals is generated when a “CHERRY” symbol is stopped on any of the display regions on the left side.
Next, actions of the slot machine of this embodiment will be described with reference to flowcharts shown in FIG. 4 to FIG. 9. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing procedures of an execution process of the slot game.
First, the player presses the BET switch 25 and bets a desired number of credits (Step S11). Alternatively, the player inserts a desired number of medals to the medal insertion slot 21 and bet credits equivalent to the number of inserted medals. The CPU 106 shown in FIG. 3 subtracts the number of credits bet by pressing the BET switch 25 from a current number of credits (Step S12). For example, if the player bets equivalent to “thirty” credits when the current number of credits is equal to “fifty”, then the thirty credits are subtracted from the current credits and the remaining number of credits becomes equal to “twenty”.
Subsequently, the CPU 106 determines the areas to be activated among the ten slot game areas A1 to A10 (Step S13). Details of this process will be described later with reference to FIG. 8 and FIG. 9.
After completing the process to determine the activated areas, the CPU 106 determines paylines in the activated areas (Step S14). As described previously, the line L1 shown in FIG. 11 is activated when a credit equivalent to one medal is bet in one area. The lines L1, L2, and L3 are activated when the credits equivalent to two medals are bet in one area, and all the lines L1 to L5 are activated when the credits equivalent to three medals are bet in one area. Among the activated area notification frames 51 provided around the areas A1 to A10, the activated area notification frames 51 provided around the areas on which credits are bet are turned on so as to notify the player of which areas are activated.
When the areas A1 to A6 are activated, for example, the activated area notification frames 51 for the areas A1 to A6 are turned on whereas the activated area notification frames 51 for the areas A7 to A10, which are not activated, are not turned on, as shown in FIG. 13.
In addition, as will be described later, credits are not always bet on the areas A1 to A10 sequentially in the case of randomly betting on the areas A1 to A10. Therefore, the areas A1, A3, A6, A8, and A10 may be activated as shown in FIG. 15, for example, and the activated area notification frames 51 for those areas may be turned in that case.
Thereafter, the CPU 106 judges whether or not the start switch 27 is turned on (Step S15). When the start switch 27 is turned on, the CPU 106 executes the slot games in the activated areas out of the areas A1 to A10 (Step S16).
Next, procedures of the slot game to be executed in each of the areas A1 to A10 will be described with reference to FIG. 5. Here, the slot game to be executed in the area A1 will be described as a representative example.
First, the CPU 106 judges whether a bonus flag in the area A1 is “0” or “1” (Step S21). The bonus flag is initially set to “0”, and is set to “1” when the bonus game is executed.
Subsequently, the CPU 106 determines which symbols to be stopped in the respective display regions q11 to q33 (Step S23). The symbol (such as “7”, “BELL” or “APPLE”) to be displayed on each of the display regions q11 to q33 is determined.
Thereafter, the CPU 106 scrolls the symbols in the display regions q11 to q33 (Step S24). Then, after a predetermined period of time, a symbol is stopped in each of the display regions q11 to q33. Here, the symbols determined in Step S23 are displayed in the display regions.
Then, the CPU 106 judges whether or not the “7” symbols are lined up, or whether or not the combination indicating a bonus trigger is displayed, on any of the paylines (Step S25). For example, when all the five lines L1 to L5 shown in FIG. 11 are set as paylines, the CPU 106 judges whether or not the “7” symbols are lined up on any of the paylines L1 to L5.
Thereafter, the bonus trigger becomes activated when the “7” symbols are lined up on any of the paylines L1 to L5. Therefore, the CPU 106 executes a bonus game starting process (Step S26). This bonus game starting process will be described later with reference to FIG. 6.
Meanwhile, when the “7” symbols are not lined up on any of the paylines, the CPU 106 judges whether or not the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are displayed on any of the paylines (Step S27). If the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are displayed, a payout in an amount corresponding to the displayed winning combination is generated (Step S28). On the other hand, the CPU 106 does not generate a payout if the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are not displayed on any of the paylines and terminates the slot game in this area A1 instead. When the payout is generated, the medals equivalent to the payout may be paid out of the payout opening 28 or the credits equivalent to the payout may be added to the current number of credits.
Next, procedures of the bonus game starting process will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. 6. The bonus flag is set to “1” (Step S31 in FIG. 6) when the “7” symbols are lined up on any of the paylines so that the bonus trigger becomes activated in the procedure in Step S25 of FIG. 5. At this time, the bonus notifier 52 for the area A1 shown in FIG. 10 is turned on so as to notify the player that the bonus game is executed in the area A1. For example, when the bonus game is executed in the area A6, the bonus notifier 52 for the area A6 is turned on as shown in FIG. 14.
Thereafter, the CPU 106 determines the number of bonus games T (Step S32). The number of bonus games T is set to fifty, for example. This number of bonus games may either be set as a fixed number or be determined randomly by the CPU 106 each time a bonus game is executed. The number of bonus games “T” is stored in the RAM 110.
Subsequently, a payout for the bonus trigger is generated (Step S33). In this procedure, either fifteen medals or the credits equivalent to fifteen medals are paid out, for example. Then, this process is terminated.
When the bonus flag is set to “1” in the bonus game starting process shown in FIG. 6, the bonus flag is set to “1” in the next slot game in the area A1. Accordingly, in the next slot game in the area A1 at Step 21 in FIG. 5 results in “1” so that the bonus game execution process is carried out (Step S22).
Now, the bonus game execution process will be described below with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. 7. When the bonus game is executed, the CPU 106 performs a process to determine the symbols to be stopped (Step S41). This process is similar to the process in Step S23 shown in FIG. 5. However, in the process in Step S41 settings are made such that the “7” symbols are not lined up on a payline and that the winning combinations are satisfied at a higher probability. That is, in a bonus game, the symbols such as “BELL”, “APPLE” or “CHERRY” shown in FIG. 12 are more likely to be lined up on a payline than a basic game.
Subsequently, the CPU 106 starts scrolling the symbols (Step S429. This procedure is similar to Step S24 in FIG. 5.
Then, the CPU 106 judges whether or not the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are displayed on any of the paylines (Step S43). If the symbols satisfying the winning combination are displayed, a payout in an amount corresponding to the displayed winning combination is generated (Step S44). On the other hand, the CPU 106 does not generate a payout if the symbols satisfying any of the winning combinations are not displayed on any of the paylines.
Thereafter, the CPU 106 decrements the number of bonus games stored in the RAM 110 from “T” to “T−1” (Step S45).
The CPU 106 judges whether or not the number of bonus games “T” stored in the RAM 110 satisfies “T=0” (Step S46). When “T=0” holds true, the CPU 106 turns the bonus flag to “0” (Step S47). That is, when the predetermined sessions of bonus games are consumed, the CPU 106 sets the bonus flag to “0” and thereby terminates the bonus games.
Next, a process to determine the slot game areas to be activated will be described with reference to a flowchart shown in FIG. 8 and a table shown in FIG. 16.
When the BET switch 25 is pressed down or the medals are inserted from the medal insertion slot 21, the CPU 106 firstly bets the credits preferentially on the areas where the bonus games are executed (Step S51). Thereafter, the credits are bet on other areas sequentially in the order of the areas A1, A2, A3, and so forth (Step S52).
For example, when the bonus game is executed in the area A8, the first to third credits are bet on the area A8, then the fourth credit is bet on the area A1, and then the fifth credit is bet on the area A2 as shown in FIG. 16. Then, the above-mentioned procedures are sequentially repeated till three credits are bet on all the areas A1 to A10 with the maximum of 30 credits.
The above case shows the example in which the area A8 is the only area where the bonus game is executed. When the bonus games are executed in two or more areas at the same time, the credits are bet preferentially on these areas where the bonus games are executed, and then the credits are bet on other areas where the bonus games are not executed.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing another aspect of procedures of the process to determine the slot game areas to be activated. In this process, when the BET switch 25 is pressed down, the CPU 106 firstly bets the credits preferentially on the area where the bonus game is executed as similar to the case shown in FIG. 8 (Step S61). Thereafter, the credits are bet randomly on other areas where the bonus games are not executed (Step S62). This process is performed according to arbitrary determination of the CPU 106 and the order of betting the credits is randomly determined in each game.
In this way, according to the slot machine of this embodiment, it is possible to play multiple slot games at the same time in one play session by providing the multiple slot game areas (ten areas are provided in this embodiment).
The credits are bet on the respective slot game areas A1 to A10 one by one every time inserting a medal from the medal insertion slot 21 or every time pressing down the BET switch 25 to bet a credit, whereby the slot game areas where the credits are bet are activated. Accordingly, it is possible to determine which and how many slot game areas to be activated by the number of inserted medals or the number of bet credits (the number of the bet).
By randomly determining which slot game area to be activated every time inserting a medal from the medal insertion slot 21 or every time pressing the BET switch 25 to betting a credit, it is possible to play the slot games in areas different from one play session to another.
Since the credits are bet preferentially on the slot game area where a bonus game is executed, a player can make sure to activate the slot game area in the course of a bonus game, where the player can expect a large payout therefrom.
Although the slot machine according to a certain embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiment is therefore to be considered in all aspects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than the foregoing description and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Moreover, the effects described in the embodiment of the present invention merely enumerate most preferable effects arising from the present invention. It is therefore to be understood that the effects of the present invention will not be limited to the effects expressly described in the embodiment of the present invention.
For example, the foregoing embodiment has described the case where the slot games are executed in all the slot game areas irrespective of whether or not those areas are activated. Instead, it is also possible to execute the slot games only in the activated slot game areas.
Moreover, the foregoing embodiment has described the case of providing the ten slot game areas A1 to A10 on the liquid crystal display 16, or in other words, the case of displaying the symbols used for executing the slot games in the form of images. However, the present invention is not limited to this configuration and may also be configured to employ rotatable wheels. In such a case, each of the slot game areas A1 to A10 is provided with three rotatable reels.
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YouTube misses its piracy protection deadline
The video distribution service now owned by Google has long been considered a likely magnet for lawsuits. Assurances made to studios and other content providers by Google last year, however, made it clear that Google intended to roll out an anti-piracy audio screening tool by the end of 2006 in order to reduce instances of piracy on the website.
Given that it's now 2007, YouTube has missed its deadline; a move that could potentially unravel positive content sharing relationships that Google worked to establish with studios following last year's acquisition.
It's widely thought that if Google doesn't make ammends within weeks, the service will act to attract countless lawsuits from unhappy content owners and distributors whose rights are currently being trampelled by the service.
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Why didn't YouTube already get those lawsuits or have them now? What stopped them before but soon won't?
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Its going to be one Smart A.I. Youtube is developing to figure out whats pirated or not in their database. Someone should tell them to outsource the filtering while they wait for it to be finished.
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YouTube has received a few lawsuits previously. Before Google's acquisition, they were still gaining traction and likely hadn't appeared as a serious media distribution threat, so many of the larger studios just kept them on the radar.
Once Google acquired the service, it gained a great degree of legitimacy and continued to grow, which has made it a major video delivery platform. The site has been hit with some small lawsuits lately (such as the suit from a French documentarian that was settled recently) and large cease and decist orders (such as the major pressure applied by a Japanese entertainment consortium that forced Google to remove tens of thousands of illegal clips from the service.
What has held back many more lawsuits is Google's assurance that piracy protection would be put in place before the end of 2006, which is what this thread is about. It's on the basis of that claim that many studios and content providers chose to provide legal content of their own to Google, on the assumption that Google would at least protect them against users uploading additional copyright content owned by the partner.
As such, not only could Google's tardiness attract new suits from major studios, it could undermine relationships the service has established with current content providing partners (such as the NHL and CBS).
Apparently it's audio filtering, so unless the system grabs snippets from the voices of popular performers and TV identities, it will be driven by one truly mammoth audio database.
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It sounds like YouTube won't be a sancuary for those without satelite anymore. If episodes were provided legally (as is starting to happen) illigal ones would no longer be used and therefore would be less likely to still be on the net.
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This double CD is not necessarily more impressive than Dimuzio's earlier and stellar Headlock (which was reissued in 1997), but in spite of its increased length, it is probably the more focused and coherent work of the two. Headlock had a bit of a kid-in-a-candy-store quality to it ("so many sonic possibilities, so little time"), while Sonicism is quite clearly in the ambient/industrial camp almost from start to finish, with a preponderance of long, muted drones -- some quite ethereal ("lift and spier," "happenstance," "resound") and others more abrasive ("contrition") and even occasionally confrontational ("vent"). What is remarkable about this overall body of work, though, is the attention to detail, and the fact that Dimuzio manages to get so much mileage out of superficially static sonic environments. Very little on either Sonicism disc is going to pick you up by the scruff of the neck and shake you, but Dimuzio's soundscapes invariably have a strongly organic, elemental quality to them, and they can be very compelling in their own fashion. Among other things, Dimuzio is a master at creating and sustaining tension, with several long tracks suggesting the agonizingly slow arrival of some inscrutable alien force, and another track whose uncharacteristically pure, ringing tones seem to trace the slow and momentous approach of a celestial host (without ever getting even remotely new-agey about it). Occasionally, Dimuzio gets a little cute; a few of the tracks on the second disc start at such a low level that it takes over a minute to confirm that your stereo system is still functioning. But for the most part, this release showcases a true sonic wizard at work. (4.5 stars) —William Tilland
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May 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: Patch Now to Avoid the BlueKeep Blues
Check Point’s researchers confirm multiple scanning attempts globally to locate systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep RDP flaw, which are likely to be attack reconnaissance
June 13, 2019 09:00 ET | Source: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
SAN CARLOS, Calif., June 13, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has published its latest Global Threat Index for May 2019. The Research team is warning organizations to check for and patch any systems vulnerable to the ‘BlueKeep’ Microsoft RDP flaw (CVE-2019-0708) in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 machines, to prevent the risk of it being exploited for ransomware and cryptomining attacks.
The BlueKeep flaw affects nearly 1 million machines accessible to the public internet, with many more within organizations’ networks. The vulnerability is critical because it requires no user interaction in order to be exploited. RDP is already an established, popular attack vector which has been used to install ransomware such as SamSam and Dharma. The Check Point Research team is currently seeing many scanning attempts for the flaw, originating from several different countries globally, which could be the initial reconnaissance phase of an attack. In addition to the relevant Microsoft patches, Check Point is providing both network and endpoint protections to this attack.
Maya Horowitz, Threat Intelligence and Research Director at Check Point, said: “The biggest threat we’ve seen over the past month is BlueKeep. Even though no attacks have yet been seen exploiting it, several public proof-of-concept exploits have been developed. We agree with Microsoft and other cybersecurity industry observers that BlueKeep could be used to launch cyberattacks on the scale of 2017’s massive WannaCry and NotPetya campaigns. One single computer with this flaw can be used to deliver a malicious payload that infects an entire network. Then all infected computers with Internet access can infect other vulnerable devices worldwide – enabling the attack to spread exponentially, at an unstoppable pace. So it’s critical that organizations protect themselves – and others – by patching the flaw now, before it’s too late.”
Other significant malware news in May was the developers of the GandCrab Ransomware-as-a-Service affiliate program announcing on the last day of the month that they were ceasing operation, and asking their affiliates to stop distributing the ransomware within 20 days. The operation has been active since January 2018, and in just two months had infected over 50,000 victims. Total earnings for its developers and affiliates are claimed to be in the billions of dollars. A regular in the Top 10 Most Wanted Index, GandCrab was frequently updated with new capabilities to evade detection tools.
May 2019’s Top 3 ‘Most Wanted’ Malware:
*The arrows relate to the change in rank compared to the previous month.
The three most prominent Cryptominers - Cryptoloot, XMRig, and JSEcoin continue to top the malware index, each with a global impact of 4%.
↔ Cryptoloot - Crypto-Miner, using the victim’s CPU or GPU power and existing resources for crypto mining - adding transactions to the blockchain and releasing new currency. It was a competitor to Coinhive, trying to pull the rug under it by asking less percent of revenue from websites.
↔ XMRig - Open-source CPU mining software used for the mining process of the Monero cryptocurrency, and first seen in-the-wild on May 2017.
↔ JSEcoin - JavaScript miner that can be embedded in websites. With JSEcoin, you can run the miner directly in your browser in exchange for an ad-free experience, in-game currency and other incentives.
May’s Top 3 ‘Most Wanted’ Mobile Malware:
This month Lotoor is the most prevalent mobile malware, up from 2nd in April. Triada drops from 1st to 3rd , while Hiddad climbs back up from 3rd to 2nd.
↑ Lotoor - Hack tool that exploits vulnerabilities on Android operating system in order to gain root privileges on compromised mobile devices.
↑ Hiddad - Android malware which repackages legitimate apps and then released them to a third-party store. Its main function is displaying ads, however it is also able to gain access to key security details built into the OS, allowing an attacker to obtain sensitive user data.
↓ Triada - Modular Backdoor for Android which grants super user privileges to downloaded malware, as helps it to get embedded into system processes. Triada has also been seen spoofing URLs loaded in the browser.
May’s Top 3 ‘Most Exploited’ vulnerabilities:
In May we saw a comeback of traditional attack techniques (probably caused by the decrease in Cryptominers’ profitability), with SQL Injections techniques leading the top exploits vulnerabilities list with a global impact of 49%. Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure and OpenSSL TLS DTLS Heartbeat Information Disclosure ranked second and third, impacting 44% and 41% of organizations worldwide respectively.
↑ SQL Injection (several techniques) - Inserting an injection of SQL query in input from client to application, while exploiting a security vulnerability in an application's software.
↑ Web Server Exposed Git Repository Information Disclosure - An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Git Repository. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unintentional disclosure of account information.
↓ OpenSSL TLS DTLS Heartbeat Information Disclosure (CVE-2014-0160; CVE-2014-0346) - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in OpenSSL. The vulnerability is due to an error when handling TLS/DTLS heartbeat packets. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose memory contents of a connected client or server.
Check Point’s Global Threat Impact Index and its ThreatCloud Map is powered by Check Point’s ThreatCloud intelligence, the largest collaborative network to fight cybercrime which delivers threat data and attack trends from a global network of threat sensors. The ThreatCloud database holds over 250 million addresses analyzed for bot discovery, more than 11 million malware signatures and over 5.5 million infected websites, and identifies millions of malware types daily.
* The complete list of the top 10 malware families in May can be found on the Check Point Blog: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2019/06/13/may-2019-most-wanted-malware-bluekeep-microsoft-rdp-cryptocurrency-malware/.
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India Remains Undefeated on Day – 1 in Table Tennis
20-01-2014: The Lusofonia Games have begun. Leading to an explosive start at the Peddem, Multipurpose Indoor stadium, the participant countries battled it out in the sport of Table Tennis. Round one of the battle ground started off with the Women’s teams at the 3rd edition of the Lusofonia Games between Portugal & Angola.
Portugal came out with a bang, which lead to a glorious win against the equally fierce Angolian offense. Angola’s Isabel Albino gave Portugal’s Marta a tough fight and almost managed to get the country back in the game by getting in to a nail biting tie in the 4th set. Final score: 3-0 with a Portugal win. The Men’s team came out guns ablaze and followed Portugal’s footsteps by beating them 3-0 as well.
The first Indian team to represent the country was in the sport of Table Tennis and the honour was done by our very own Women’s team, who did the country proud by an amazing team performance leading to a 3-1 win against Sri Lanka.
The Indian Men were not far behind in keeping up the bar which was set by the women. Our players did spectacularly well against their straight wins against Angola. Anthony Amalraj, Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh put on a glorious fight against the heavy Angolan intimidation. Group league round 2 men’s First set was played by Quebuco Elisandro from Angola versus Anthony Amalraj from India. First round was dominated by the Indians with the score of 5-11. The second set was also dominated by India with 7-11. The third set was yet again won by India with a score of 3-11. Set 2 was played by Neto Edvane from Angola versus Desai Harmeet from India. First set was dominated by India with 3-11.
Second set was a close match between the two competitors but India managed to win with a score of 10-12. The third set was yet again dominated by the Indian with a clean sweep of 7-11. Set 3 was played by Antonio Allesion from Angola versus Ghosh Soumyajit. The first set was opened by the Indians winning it with a comfortable 4-11. Angola fought back with a score of 11-8 in the second set. Coincidentally India came back in the third set with 8-11. India finished off the round with a winning score of 8-11 and concluding the match by finishing with a 3-0 win. The spectators were at the edge of their seats. The Indian Women’s team repeated the performance against Macau by making their position stronger in the qualifications. They beat Macau 3-0 in the final match of the day.
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Regenerative Practices
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Saturday APR 11, 2015: REGENERATIVE PRACTICES
Regenerative Practices: How can we make the arts more sustainable? What can we do as individuals to renew our energy and passion? What can we do as a network to support each other? What can we do as leaders of programs and organizations to encourage a healthier arts ecosystem?
Morning Session – MamaSita’s Tiny Tea House is an art, food, and storytelling project that speaks the language of cooking. In this workshop, we’ll collaboratively make fresh masala chai while connecting personal and public histories. Why chai? The artists’ Japanese Colombian and Indian grandparents lived together briefly in Orange County in the 1970s brewing as many understandings as misunderstandings over hot cups of tea. Through these family stories, MamaSita began to consider the opportunity of food in building and supporting communities. Her ongoing project now spans the US and Mexico through the handcrafted teacups of artisan Ines Leal and the dignicraft collective.
Facilitator – Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator born and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles to Indian and Japanese Colombian parents. Her work focuses on food as a strategy to connect personal and public histories. After receiving her B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College, Sita moved to the Bay Area where she holds an M.F.A. in interdisciplinary art and an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. She is currently a lecturer at UC Merced in the Global Arts Studies Program and has taught at RayKo Photo Center. Sita has collaborated with organizations such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Institute for Art and Olfaction, the Montalvo Arts Center, 826 Valencia, Stanford University, and the Future Food House in Rotterdam. An advocate for Asian American arts, she has been the art features editor for Hyphen magazine, a writer for Art Practical, and a board member at Kearny Street Workshop. You can find her work at sitabhaumik.com.
Sharon Price, Associate Director of Programs, Rockwood Leadership Institute
Sharon is Rockwood’s Associate Director of Programs. Her purpose at Rockwood is to support the personal growth and well-being of transformative leaders in order to build a unified progressive movement. She oversees several Yearlong and Fellowship programs, including the Cross-Movement Yearlong, special programs with SEIU, and the Fellowship for Human Rights and National Security Reform Leaders. Previously, she worked in international conservation building networks of local environmental leaders. Before that, she studied Religion and Anthropology in Washington, D.C. and Kathmandu, Nepal. Sharon is certified as an Integral Coach® through New Ventures West.
Kirthi Nath, Filmaker and Mindfulness facilitator
Kirthi Nath is an award-winning filmmaker who believes that ordinary people ripple extraordinary change. Kirthi is the creative director and lead filmmaker at Cinemagical Media, a media production company that focus on creating films and workshops that support individuals, communities and companies to ‘be the cause that creates the effect’. In addition to filmmaking, Kirthi teaches (in person and online) courses and delivers talks that focus on Creative Presence, Spiritually, Mindfulness and the Practice of Good. In 2014 she was a Made Grantee and taught a 4-session online course about Modern Day Mindfulness at Work. Kirthi has practiced meditation, been on numerous silent retreats and immersed into informal and formal Buddhist and Yogi studies since 2001. To learn more about Kirthi visit her at LinkedIn
Ramekon O’Arwisters, Artist
Ramekon O’Arwisters lives and works in San Francisco, California and was a recipient of a 2002 Artadia Award and he is a 2014 Eureka Fellow, awarded by the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco. He has exhibited at the Luggage Store, San Francisco, California and Kato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. His numerous group exhibitions include Past Forward: African Spirituality in Contemporary Black Art at the African American Art & Cultural Complex (AAACC), San Francisco, California and Decoding Identity: I Do It For My People, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, California. O’Arwisters was honored with his second San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant in 2011.
He has been actively involved in residences and guest lectures at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Vermont Studio Center, and Sonoma State University. His works are included in the public collections of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University and the Haley Charitable Foundation, Point Richmond, California. He is currently working on an exhibition about art and spirituality, Sugar In Our Blood: The Spirit of Black and Queer Identity, for a one-person exhibition at the African American Art and Culture Center (AAACC) in June 2013.
O’Arwisters is curator of photography and video art at SFO Museum.
Rebecca Ratzkin, Senior Consultant, WolfBrown
Rebecca Ratzkin is a Senior Consultant at WolfBrown, a national arts research and planning consultancy. Since 2005, she has helped non-profit organizations, foundations and public agencies in the arts sector to better understand how audiences engage and experience arts and culture, create effective strategies for engaging and building stronger relationships to existing and potential audiences, add addressing environmental and institutional change. Her interests and skills focus on bridging theory with practical and achievable solutions, and seeing opportunity in the midst of the deepest challenges. In her work with WolfBrown, she has led donor and customer segmentation studies, managed general populations studies of arts participation, and led capacity building initiatives around research methods and analysis. Rebecca is deeply involved in WolfBrown’s work on intrinsic impact – measuring how the arts experience affects audiences’ emotionally, intellectually and socially – and is committed to empowering arts organizations lo conduct and apply research independently. She has a Master’s in Urban Planning from UCLA, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Oberlin College with a BA in art history.
Rebecca started practicing Iyengar yoga in 1998 at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Los Angeles and was immediately hooked. Always able to touch her touch her hands to her toes, Rebecca found an unknown strength and stability from both the physical and mental practice. Since moving to San Francisco in fall 2005, Rebecca found her NorCal Iyengar community at IYISF (Iyengar Yoga Institute of SF), first through their Teacher Training program, and then through the numerous friendships and mentors she has met through the years. Rebecca taught alignment-based Hatha yoga both privately and at Yoga Garden SF since 2008, but has been taking a break from teaching for the past two years. She is currently the Board President of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California, and is dedicated to strengthening the Iyengar yoga community’s voice across the region.
Required Reading:
Music to My Ears by Akaya Windwood
The Busy Trap by Tim Kreider
Three ways to prevent burnout by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek
The Anxiety of Generosity and the Abundance of the Commons by Polly Carl
The Scarcity Matrix by David Dower
If you’d like to read further:
Work + Home + Community + Self by Stewart D. Friedman
Why We Walk by Adam Gopnik
From Fired up to burnout by Britt Bravo
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time By Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy
How to Meditate a guide to formal sitting practice By Tara Brach
Group Notes
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2010-11 Fellowship
Cultural Equity 2014-15
Art & Enterprise
Cultural Equity
Personal Vision
STATE OF THE ARTS/CULTURE
The Creative City
THE ROLE OF NETWORKS
2017–18 Fellows
2018–19 Fellows – Cohort IX
Cultural Equity & Regenerative Practices 2015-16
Arts and Enterprise
Creative City
State of the Arts & Culture
TEAM PROJECTS
Arts & Enterprise 2014-15
Green Room – Round VIII Cohort 2017–2018
April 7, 2018: The Creative City
Cultural Equity | Group Check-ins (including partners)
March 3, 2018: Art and Enterprise
May 5, 2018: Wrap | Personal Vision | Evaluation
Regenerative Practices | Group Selection Prep
State of Art and Culture | Inherent bias
Team Project Lab Time
The Role of Networks | Mapping
Welcome & Setting the Stage
Green Room 2016-17
Peer Coaching / Focus Area Projects
Arts & Enterprise
Personal Vision Revisited + Group Projects Working Session
May/June 2017: EMERGENCE
2013-14 EAP Fellows
2010-2011 Fellows
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England v New Zealand
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England v NZ, 1st Investec Test, Lord's, 4th day May 19, 2013
Southee's ten upstaged
George Dobell at Lord's
Plays of the day from the fourth day of the first Test between England and New Zealand
Tim Southee became only the second New Zealander to claim ten wickets in a match at Lord's © AFP
Milestone of the day
It may be an achievement overshadowed by the events that followed it, but Tim Southee bowled wonderfully well to become the second New Zealander to claim a ten-wicket haul in a Test at Lord's. He sealed the haul with the wicket of Graeme Swann, wafting outside off stump, but it was the wicket of Ian Bell, drawn into driving outside off stump and edging one that nipped away, that was more typical. That wicket also made Southee the fifth New Zealander to appear on the bowling honours board at Lord's for a five-wicket haul, following Sir Richard Hadlee (who appears three times), Dion Nash, Daniel Vettori and Chris Cairns. Nash is the only other New Zealander to complete a ten-wicket match.
It was a fairly regulation chance but Matt Prior, after a disappointing game by his standards, finally had something to celebrate when he accepted an edge from Peter Fulton. It was the 200th dismissal of Prior's Test career - 13 stumpings added to his 187 catches - and made him the 14th wicketkeeper to reach the landmark. He is the fourth England keeper, following Alan Knott (269 dismissals), Alec Stewart (241) and Godfrey Evans (219) ahead of him.
Wicket of the day
The word 'unplayable' tends to be overused in cricket. Dean Brownlie could console himself as most unfortunate, however, that he received a perfect delivery from James Anderson that bounced and left him off the pitch to take the edge of his bat. To compound Brownlie's difficulties, the previous delivery had swung in on him prodigiously. With Anderson masking the ball so well before delivery and moving it so sharply in both directions, he really does represent a tough proposition.
Injury worry of the day
Bruce Martin being unable to take the field raises obvious concerns about his availability for the Test at Leeds starting on Friday. Martin, who sustained a calf injury on day three, is the only specialist spinner in the squad. As a result, it is probable that Daniel Vettori, arriving in the UK as part of New Zealand's limited-overs squad, will be called up to join the squad. While BJ Watling is also an injury doubt for Leeds, New Zealand are well covered for keeping options within the current Test squad, with both Brendon McCullum and Tom Latham options.
Defining moment of the day
It was probably fitting that the New Zealand second innings was finished off in chaotic style. Neil Wagner pulled Anderson to long leg only to see the sub fielder, Adam Dobb, misjudge the catch. But Jonny Bairstow delivered a powerful throw back to Anderson who found Wagner and Trent Boult dithering in the middle of the wicket and comfortably completed the run out. It was the first time since 1936, when Bill Voce and Gubby Allen bowled out Australia for 58, that two England bowlers had bowled the whole way through an innings to dismiss a side on their own.
Sighting of the day
There was a familiar face on the England dressing room balcony after lunch. Kevin Pietersen, currently recovering from a knee injury, arrived at the ground to see the conclusion of the game.
George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo
Players/Officials James Anderson | Dean Brownlie | Matt Prior | Tim Southee
Matches England v New Zealand at Lord's
Series/Tournaments New Zealand tour of England
Teams England | New Zealand
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Djakarata Warehouse Project X (DWPX) announces next lineup for the December Bali festival
Rowena Leung | October 9, 2018 | Festival News, Music News, News, Uncategorised
New additions to an already stacked lineup have been announced as preparations are well underway for the landmark tenth edition of Asia’s #1 dance festival, Djakarata Warehouse Project X, or DWPX for short. Chosen from across the electronic dance spectrum from around the globe, organisers Ismaya Live have once again outdone themselves with their selections for the Bali event.
First up is EDM mainstay and all round party-starter, Afrojack. With over 10 years of DJing experience under his belt and countless top ten hits, the Dutch legend will be making a return to Indonesia this December and will be joined by Billboard Music award-winning artist Baauer. Having garnered worldwide attention with his viral hit ‘Harlem Shake’ back in 2013, the American beatsmith has since consolidated this fame with sold out world tours and collaborations with just about everyone from Pusha T to M.I.A. His supercharged set is not to be missed.
Coming from the other side of the Atlantic is producer extraordinaire and multi-instrumentalist, Mura Masa. Reaching the #1 position on Spotify’s worldwide viral chart with A$AP Rocky collaboration ‘Lovesick’, he’s since released his critically acclaimed debut album that boasts features including Charli XCX, NAO and Desiigner. Alongside him is tropical house trailblazer, Lost Frequencies, and the brains behind the worldwide hit ‘This Girl’, Kungs. Both will be dropping their catchy anthems to revellers at DWPX this year.
Flying the flag for trance are MarLo and Orjan Nilsen who’ve also been added to DWPX’s burgeoning lineup today. Having both released music under his label , the two up-and-comers will be playing alongside Armin van Buuren this December at Bali’s idyllic GWK Cultural Park.
Last but not least is Marshmello protege Slushii and rising future bass star Whethan, both will be looking to send DWPX’s crowd into a bass fuelled frenzy with their unique takes on EDM.
These acts join existing headliners The Weeknd, Alesso, Armin Van Buuren, RL Grime, Major Lazer, DJ Snake and Porter Robinson, and together make one of the most exciting lineups DWPX has had to date, with still more to come.
With tickets selling faster than in any previous years, Ismaya Live are urging those not yet committed to buying before they sell out.
DWPX is held in GWK Cultural Park in Bali on 7th – 9th December 2018. TICKETS are available here.
Stay up to date with all new announcements here:
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Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017
ILO-IFAD Taqeem Policy Roundtable: What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?
As part of the Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, ILO-IFAD Taqeem hosted a policy roundtable titled “What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?”. The roundtable presented evidence on rural women’s entrepreneurship promotion programmes and related policy measures in the MENA region.
Hurghada Governorate, Red Sea, Egypt
The Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation and the International Labour Organization in partnership with the Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship held the 3rd Annual Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit in Hurghada, Egypt from 16-18 November 2017. This summit brought together practitioners, educators and policy makers to explore concepts and guiding principles that support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt. The conference sessions discussed key themes related to the future of self-employment and entrepreneurship including rural entrepreneurship, the gender gap, the evidence base for “what works” as well as training and education policy.
The purpose of the gathering was to advance knowledge and ideas to support small business formation and growth. The summit, and the session of ILO-IFAD Taqeem in particular, contributed to the knowledge base on how entrepreneurship among women can be increased – responding to the large gender gap in labour force participation between women and men in Egypt and the particular challenge for rural areas where formal public and private employment opportunities for women are scarce. To date self-employment rates among women – and especially young women – in rural Egypt are low. However, promoting entrepreneurship among rural women has the potential to socially and economically empower a large yet underprivileged section of Egypt’s population.
Policy roundtable: “What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?"
Keynote speech: Dr Michael Grimm, University of Passau
As part of the Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017, ILO-IFAD Taqeem hosted a policy roundtable titled “What works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women?”. The roundtable presented evidence on rural women’s entrepreneurship promotion programmes and related policy measures in the MENA region. Senior representatives of the Taqeem Community of Practice discussed examples on how gender mainstreaming and improved results measurement is helping to close the evidence gap for effective active labour market policies and programmes.
The Taqeem Community of Practice is supported through a partnership between the ILO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) as part of the IFAD-financed project “Strengthening gender monitoring and evaluation in rural employment in the Near East and North Africa.” Through rigorous impact research, this capacity development and learning grant project aims to understand “what works” in the promotion of gender mainstreaming, with the ultimate goal of reaching gender equality in rural employment outcomes across the region. Three members of the Community of Practice namely RISE Egypt, the Alexandria Business Association, and the Population Council took part in this policy roundtable as panellists.
In his keynote speech Professor Michael Grimm (University of Passau, Germany) presented five lessons to be learned from the global evidence base on what works in promoting entrepreneurship for rural women:
Empowering rural women needed culturally and gender-sensitive interventions, for example involving local communities, working with female role models but also ensuring adequate access to training sites for women and target sectors such as agribusiness.
With regard to microfinance, the evidence suggests that effects of microloans on employment creation are small- in particular for female-led businesses. According to Prof Grimm this was in part because micro-loans were often too small (leading to smoothed consumption rather than investments in businesses) and not well-enough targeted to rural women who have the largest potential for becoming successful entrepreneurs.
As formal education for rural women has improved dramatically over the past decades, entrepreneurship programmes should focus on linking rural women to the labour market through specific knowledge and on-the-job training, such as development of business plans and mentoring schemes during implementation.
Business development services show promising results in several studies but that targeting of rural areas needs to be improved while ensuring that services are offered based on local and women relevant demands.
Stress the importance of embedding entrepreneurship promotion programmes in sectoral growth strategies, for example for rural women in post-harvesting and processing industries that are targeted at export markets.
Panellists (left to right): Dr Michael Grimm (University of Passau), Ibrahim Melouk (ABA), Perihan Tawfik (ILO, moderator), Rana Elmeligy (ILO), Eman El-Hadary (RISE Egypt), Dr Ali Rashed (Population Council)
During the following panel discussion, Ms Elmeligy presented results from a Taqeem supported randomized controlled trial which measures outcomes of women’s attitudes towards self-employment in Egypt. The study showed that discriminatory beliefs and strong gender differentiation in perceptions of women entrepreneurship are common among young people in Egypt. For example, over 80 per cent of women in the study believed that in Egypt it is possible for women to successfully run a business while only 50 per cent of men agreed. The evaluation then assessed the impacts of the popular television series “El Mashroua” (“the project” in English”), a reality TV show where 14 young entrepreneurs are tested on their business knowledge and acumen. Among the findings of the study was that discriminatory attitudes held by men regarding the success prospects of women’s entrepreneurship were reduced due to the edutainment TV programme. It more generally showed that TV programmes can change gender-related perceptions around entrepreneurship in Egypt.
Ms Eman El-Hadary explained how RISE Egypt supports social enterprises, 40 per cent of which are (co-) led by women, in upscaling their interventions and maximising impact. Through capacity-building seminars and linking entrepreneurs to national and international experts in the respective sector, RISE helps women-led social enterprises to increase their credibility and reputation in the market which facilitates-key challenges facing young women entrepreneurs- for example access to finance. Mr Ibrahim Melouk agreed on the importance of providing women-led enterprises with a combination of loans and training, an approach which Alexandria Business Association (ABA) has successfully been pursuing in partnership with UN-Women. He described that a modernized M&E system allows ABA to tailor loans to their 175,000+active female borrowers, constituting 49% of their loan portfolio.
Dr Ali Rashed showcased how Population Council Egypt implemented Neqdar Nesharek, a women’s empowerment programme in Upper rural Egypt. He emphasized the inclusive approach to empowerment the intervention adopted. The programme provided business, life skills and vocational training to young women and also involved relatives and small village-based associations. A rigorous impact evaluation showed that the programme significantly increased income-generating activities among trained women.
Finally, in a short discussion with the audience several participants underlined the importance of further decentralising entrepreneurship training programmes (such as Start and Improve Your Business) to increase access and coverage for and in rural areas.
Meeting document
Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2017: Agenda and Speakers Biographies [pdf 33653KB]
Tags: youth employment, youth unemployment, rural workers, education and training, vocational training, entrepreneurship, social integration, women, youth
Regions and countries covered: Global, Egypt
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Bios of Speakers [pdf 188KB]
Keynote and Panel Presentation [pdf 1132KB]
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DocuTap founder and former CEO Eric McDonald tells the local news in Sioux Falls, SD that the company’s merger with Practice Velocity and subsequent name change to Experity is bittersweet for him, personally, but a boon for employees and the 4,000 urgent care centers the new company will now serve. “We’ve had our best financial quarters two quarters back to back,” he says. “Our employee retention rates, our client retention rates in sales numbers have all been the best the company has ever seen. So I’m leaving on a high” McDonald will become an Experity board member, while Practice Velocity CEO David Stern will lead Experity.
May 21 (Tuesday) 2:00 ET. “Cloud-Based Data Management: Solving Healthcare’s Provider Data Challenge.” Sponsor: Information Builders. Presenters: Jeremy Kahle, manager of planning and business development, St. Luke’s University Health Network; Shawn Sutherland, patient and member outcomes, Information Builders; Bill Kotraba, VP of healthcare solutions and strategies, Information Builders. Inaccurate provider data negatively impacts revenue cycle, care coordination, customer experience, and keeping information synchronized across systems and functions. SLUHN will describe how it created a single version of provider data from 17 sources, followed by a demonstration of how that data can be used in reports and geospatial analysis. Learn how Omni-HealthData Provider Master Edition provides rapid ROI in overcoming healthcare organization provider data issues.
May 30 (Thursday) 2:00 ET. “ONC Data Blocking Proposed Rule: What Health Systems Need to Know.” Sponsor: Philips PHM. Presenter: Greg Fulton, industry and public policy lead, Philips. Proposed data-blocking regulations could specify fines, disincentives, and de-certification of providers who don’t provide an API for patients to extract all of their data. This webinar will describe who is deploying APIs, the scope of data and third-party apps that can be used, the seven costs that do not count as a data-blocking exception, and the health system protections that don’t involve using a vendor. It will also provide examples of data blocking and further exceptions.
Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre for information.
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Announcements and Implementations
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With help from six state-based medical societies, The Physician’s Foundation establishes a $500,000 interoperability fund to help practices connect to their local HIEs.
Delaware’s public health division launches a community health portal that includes reports on substance abuse and chronic disease using data on drug overdoses, air quality, asthma rates, and drinking water. Officials plan to add data on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, healthy lifestyles, education, health services utilization, among others, in the coming months.
AristaMD adds wound and ostomy specialists from virtual wound care management company Corstrata to its panel of experts available for e-consults.
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Company co-founders CEO Rishi Shah and President Shradha Agarwal stepped down from their management roles in January 2018 as part of a settlement with investors. Advertising executive Matt McNally joined the company as CEO six months later.
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I’m not the only one thinking about what to read over the long, hazy days of summer. Forbes contributing author Robert Pearl, MD has gotten a head start on his summer reading with the seemingly contrasting works of nonfiction pictured above. “Reading them back to back,” he explains, “ … reveals a shocking truth: Today’s medical practice bears a striking resemblance to the world of medicine two centuries ago.” Despite AI’s shiny promises of a doctor-less healthcare system with improved outcomes, Pearl believes today’s providers share at least three traits with their Victorian predecessors – clinicians still make needless mistakes; they still don’t wash their hands; and they still ignore how social factors impact health.
Given my love of history, I may add Lindsey Fitzharris’ account of Victorian medicine to my reading list. I doubt I’ll get around to Eric Topol’s third book, which Mr. H found to be a chore to read. (You can read his full review here.) When it comes to summer reading, I’m more likely to lean towards light, fluffy, and fun a la Mary Kay Andrews.
Reader comments: Hope offers up “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach as a great read if you’re looking to connect with nature. Published in 1970, she considers it to be “one of the most precious books I have ever read. It uses nature as an approach to encourage us to strive to soar higher and go farther. I highly recommend it!”
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In Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley, HealthShare Exchange becomes the data aggregator and portal provider for physicians participating in the Greater Philadelphia Comprehensive Primary Care Plus program.
DrChrono adds educational content from HealthFeed to the patient engagement capabilities of its EHR.
ONC will host a Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) Q&A webinar on May 15. Comments on ONC’s second TEFCA draft are due June 17.
Heads up IT staffers: New data shows that sleeping just 16 minutes less disrupts cognitive skills the next work day, resulting in impaired decision making, intrusive thoughts, and higher-than-usual work-to-family conflict.
Arizona State University students work with the US Office of Naval Research to turn a shipping container into a solar-powered mobile medical practices. The mobile clinic is expected to serve 12,000 refugees in Uganda this summer.
Nordic launches a video series titled “Consultants in Conference Rooms Getting Coffee.”
EClinicalWorks will exhibit at ASCA 2019 May 15-17 in Nashville.
Intelligent Medical Objects will exhibit at the Netsmart Connections 2019 User Group Meeting May 12-15 in Washington, DC.
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Emocha Mobile Health relocates from its Johns Hopkins innovation hub offices in Baltimore to its own 5,000 square-foot space nearby. The company, which offers app-based technology to help patients adhere to treatment regimens, got its start in 2014 using software developed by Johns Hopkins University clinicians.
The healing effects of nature have been well documented, and now, according to this article, some organizations are working with physicians to encourage them to prescribe outdoor activities to their patients as a preventative measure. Park Rx America, for example, is a nonprofit that connects physicians with 8,500 outdoor spaces in 34 states via their prescribing software. The idea, according to founder and pediatrician Robert Zarr, MD (a former National Park Service advisor) is to “think about nature not just as a place to recreate, but also as a social determinant of health.” Zarr was inspired to create the nonprofit after reading Richard Louv’s 2008 book, “Last Child in the Woods.”
Immersing ourselves in nature for the benefit of mind, body, and soul seems a timely idea as spring gives way to summer in the coming months. Several readers have shared their beach read recommendations – easy-to-read (and sometimes light and frothy) books that fit nicely into a beach bag or picnic basket. Caroline recommends Maeve Haran’s “An Italian Holiday” (which puts me in mind of Peter Mayle’s “Provence” series), while a little birdie tweeted praises for “Dark of Night” by Alice Arenz, calling it a great must-read mystery for those looking for a quick read this summer.
How has a good book helped you connect with nature? Email me with your recommendations and/or forest bathing anecdotes.
Blockchain-based health record app vendor Patientory hires Vince McGee (Ingenious Med) as CTO.
MedEvolve develops an RCM Scorecard to help practices uncover and implement revenue cycle process improvements.
The Connecticut Dept. of Social Services selects analytics software from HBI Solutions to help it better care for Medicaid patients.
Patient engagement company PatientPoint develops digital educational content for neurologists.
Ambulatory surgery center OrthoIllinois selects ASC management software from HSTpathways.
The Murfreesboro Medical Clinic and SurgiCenter in Tennessee selects precision medicine and pharmacogenomics software from 2bPrecise.
Care Compass Network in New York selects telepsychiatry and teletherapy services from Mynd Analytics subsidiary Arcadian Telepsychiatry Services.
New AMA data finds that there are now fewer physician practice owners than employees, and that physicians are shifting away from solo practices to larger medical group settings of 50-plus providers.
Comedians Stephen Colbert and Rachel Dratch reminisce on The Late Show about their “meet cute” moment at a pediatrician’s office in the mid-90s. Dratch, who was employed as a seasonal receptionist, didn’t remember Colbert, despite the fact that both were working at Second City during that time. Dratch joked that, “I guess I was too involved in my job to even notice that you came in. [L]ives [were] on the line, with me answering phones there.”
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EHR and practice management vendor CareCloud raises $33 million, bringing its total raised to over $150 million. Its last fundraising round, a Series C, came at the end of 2016.
DuPage Medical Group (IL) CEO Michael Page has died at age 46. He is survived by his wife and two children. Page joined the organization in 2010, overseeing its expansion to 100 locations while keeping it true to its independent roots.
DirectTrust reports several Q1 accomplishments:
Participating organizations increased 49% to 167,000 year over year.
Direct addresses capable of sharing PHI increased 13% to 1.9 million.
Consumers using Direct messaging increased 19% to 265,000.
Messages sent increased by 49% to 54 million, bringing the total messages sent and received to 164 million.
EMDs adds Alpha II’s clinical claim and encounter scrubbing software to its EHR, practice management, and RCM technology.
North Mississippi Health Services goes live on Epic across 85 facilities. The new system replaces Logician/Centricity software that had been in use for nearly 20 years.
OCR fines Touchstone Medical Imaging in Franklin, TN $3 million for potential HIPAA violations related to a May 2014 incident in which one of its FTP servers was left unsecured, enabling uncontrolled access to PHI even after the server was taken offline. OCR later found that TMI did not investigate the incident in a timely manner, nor did it do so thoroughly. OCR also determined that TMI didn’t have business associate agreements in place with its vendors, including a third-party data center and IT support vendor.
MedBridge adds patient adherence tracking capabilities to its app for home-based physical therapy. The Seattle-based company also offers app-based education and training for physicians.
A receptionist at the Ravines Medical Family Practice and Walk In Clinic in Nova Scotia posts statistics to highlight the number of missed appointments and no-shows during the months of March and April. Patients and staff alike were quick to call out the data as representative of the region’s “healthcare crisis.” I can only assume that already overstretched staff are frustrated by no-shows, while patients who’ve been waiting months to see a physician are equally as outraged.
Fast Company profiles CVS Health’s Health Hubs at select stores in Houston. First announced in February, the three hubs feature a store footprint with more space devoted to healthcare services like urgent care, nutritional counseling, exercise classes, a learning table with iPads, and a pharmacists panel for one-on-one support. Ultimately, says CVS Health Chief Transformation Officer Alan Lotvin, “We’re trying to build the first consumer-centric healthcare company. We want to use technologies to bring more services into people’s communities. And we define community as in your hands, in the store, and in your home.”
EClinicalWorks will exhibit at the 2019 AAOE Annual Conference through May 7 in Nashville.
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May 6, 2019 From the PRM Pro No Comments
Want to Get Patients in the Office? Talk to Them Outside of It
By Jim Higgins
Jim Higgins is the CEO and founder of Solutionreach in Lehi, UT.
Do you ever wish you could just “swipe right” and magically find happy patients? If so, you’re not alone. Developing strong patient relationships is almost as hard as developing personal relationships. That’s because these are real relationships that need to be carefully nurtured and grown. Strong patient relationships have a huge impact on the success of your healthcare organization. And just like personal relationships, putting time and effort into your patient relationships is crucial to success.
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for weeks, months, or even years (ouch!) to go by between patient visits. It is during these gaps that patients often decide to take their business elsewhere. In fact, the Patient-Provider Relationship Study found that one in three patients will change practices in the next couple of years. One way to help patients stay loyal to you is to reach out during that lull between visits. Email, phone, text message, social media, newsletters, patient portal, instant message …even old-school postcards. There are a ton of ways you can reach out to between visits. Of course, you want to use the most effective and time-efficient methods of communication.
What are those methods?
1. Personalized text messages — Texting has become pretty much ubiquitous. This means that it’s the perfect way to reach out to patients and feel confident that your message will be seen. Studies show that 98 percent of text messages are read. When using text for sending appointment reminders, set up messaging that feels more personal. Using dynamic appointment reminders can allow you to include information that is applicable to individual visits — reminders to fast before a patient arrives, for example. But think about using text messaging beyond just appointment reminders as well. Whether you send a birthday greeting, acknowledge a wedding anniversary, or congratulate a patient on their graduation, your kindness will go a long way toward cementing a real relationship with your existing patients.
2. Educational newsletters — In the Information Age, patients are out there searching for information on all sorts of health concerns every day. It’s no wonder that they appreciate it when they receive this information from their healthcare provider. Nearly all — 92 percent of patients — say that they feel more connected to a healthcare organization when they receive digital education. But, the hardest part about sending educational newsletters is consistency. To make it easy, put together a content library and deliver that information automatically over time. A tool that helps you create, schedule, and send your newsletters will make it even easier.
3. Social media — Americans spend enormous amounts of their time online connecting with other people. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube … the list of ways we connect goes on and on. Patients don’t just want to connect with friends and family. They also want to connect with their healthcare practices online. This means that social media is no longer optional. It’s where your patients are hanging out, just waiting to hear from you. Not only does social media have the potential to boost patient trust levels, but it can also do the opposite. When a patient seeks you out on social media and you are not available, the message they receive is that “We do not want to connect with you.” Set up a schedule to post regularly — at least two times per week — and stay abreast of what your patients are saying online.
4. Mobile payments—You may not have ever considered billing to be a way to build stronger relationship with your patients, but it is actually one of the things that impacts patients the most! By connecting with patients the way they prefer to address billing issues, you can make a potentially hot-button issue much smoother. What do they want? Well, they really want it to be a whole lot more like they find in the retail and service world. Unfortunately, 77 percent of providers still use paper-based patient billing methods … even though the majority of patients say they would prefer to receive their bill online. This is troubling, especially when you look at a recent study which found that a whopping two out of three patients say they would switch healthcare providers for a better payment experience. Make your billing experience one that is the most convenient and desirable for patients and you’ll see some of those frustrations disappear.
Staying in contact with patients when they are away from your practice can be the difference between having them show up in your practice at all! Fortunately, there are lots of ways you can connect with patients year-round. And through the use of technology and automation, creating regular patient touchpoints can be efficient and easy.
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It's The Nightmares You Wanted Before Christmas – Frightfest All-Nighter 2013 Update
Posted on Thursday 24th October 2013
Film4 FrightFest returns to the Vue Cinema, Leicester Square on Saturday 26th October 2013 for thier annual Halloween event full of festive fear, jack'o'lantern jolts and Samhain screams. They’ve gotten together a must-see list of all the best horror fantasy around at the moment - Soul Mate, Patrick, Discopath, The Station and Nothing Left To Fear - plus ace retro title, the ever controversial and iconic Mark Of The Devil. The team are delighted to welcome Patrick star Sharni Vinson (from You're Next), Soulmate director Axelle Carolyn and her executive producer Neil Marshall plus stars Ann...
Film4 FrightFest Announces Stellar Line-Up For Halloween All-Nighter
Posted on Monday 30th September 2013
The FrightFest All-Nighter 13 returns to the Vue in London’s Leicester Square on Saturday October 26 for the third year, with six killer titles including UK premieres of The Station, Patrick, Nothing Left To Fear and Soulmate. So climb aboard FrightFest’s Halloween Express, with guests including Neil Marshal, Anna Walton, Renaud Gautheir and Michael Armstrong, for th...
Interview With Weronika Tofilska Winner Of The 666 Short Cuts To Hell Competition
Posted on Tuesday 10th September 2013
Weronika Tofilska, director of 6 Feet Under was the winner of the Horror Channel, Movie Mogul sponsored 666 Short Cuts To Hell Competition bagging £6,666 courtesy of Horror Channel and the opportunity to develop a feature film under mentorship from Movie Mogul. Apart from the honour of being showcased at the UK’s biggest genre festival, all six finalists will also have their films screene...
FrightFest 2013 – The Ultimate Round Up
Posted on Sunday 1st September 2013
With 51 movies, countless shorts and a fine list of surprises both on and off screen, Film 4 FrightFest 2013 was the biggest and most varied one yet. Thousands of fans packed the Empire, Leicester Square for 5 days of the very best in horror entertainment from around the globe. Here’s some of the highlights from this awesome event. The whole event kicked off wit...
Interview With Joanne Mitchell Writer Of Shell Shocked
FrightFest 2013 gave us some incredible horror movie shorts. A real stand-out was Shell Shocked which was written by Joanne Mitchell. Here she chats about this and another piece she was involved with, the superb Before Dawn which is coming to the Horror Channel in November. HC: How nervous were you when Before Dawn was shown at Frightfest 2012? JM: I felt a mixture of overwhelming n...
And That, As They Say, Is That
Posted on Tuesday 27th August 2013
Well, that was Film 4 FrightFest for 2013 and what an incredibly varied programme attendees were treated to. It all ended with the much talked about new movie from the directors of Rabies, Big Bad Wolves. A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on collision course in the black comedy thriller sensation of the year. They are the father of the latest vi...
Interview With Jovanka Vuckovic Director Of The Guest
Last year at FrightFest we were treated to an astonishing short from Jovanka Vuckovic called The Captured Bird. This year she has delivered the equally impressive but totally different piece The Guest. Here this talented artist chats about her work and future plans. HC: We first chatted last year when your beautiful short The Captured Bird was shown at FrightFest 2012. You must be pleased how this piece has been rece...
Remakes are always a contentious issue with horror movie fans. We have had our fingers burned in the past with shoddy and un-inspired re-imaginings of true classics. We Are What We Are is a remake of the stunning Jorge Michel Grau’s superb Mexican shocker Somos lo que hay from 2010. Stake Land director Jim Mickle has taken the gritty storyline and planted it in an American...
Odd But Huge Fun
Big movie adaptations of acclaimed books rarely transfer to the big screen and retain their original flavour. Odd Thomas seems to buck that trend and thanks to smart direction form Stephen Sommers (he of The Mummy fame) the basic premise has apparently (as I’ve never read the Dean R. Koontz book) remained intact. Odd Thomas sees murdered dead people and feels it’s his duty to make the people res...
Interview With Paul Davis Director Of The Body
The world premiere of The Body has just finished at the Empire. We spoke to Paul Davis about this fabulous short and his plans for the future. HC: Where did the idea for The Body come from? PD: The Body was originally a screenplay written by my Producer Paul Fischer, based on an idea by film maker Mary Kerr (director of acclaimed documentary Radioman – also produced by ...
To Be In 3D Or Not To Be In 3D?
One of my favourite films of the festival has been Banshee Chapter 3Dwhich was shown earlier today. This eccentric movie is real gem of a chiller with some seriously creepy performances from a cast that includes the legendary Ted Levine. In 1963 the U.S. government began experimenting on unsuspecting Americans with chemical agents intended to induce mind control. The progr...
Interview With Dominic Brunt Director Of Shell Shocked
An integral part of FrightFest is the showing of horror movie shorts. These expose the audience quickly to the mega talents of those involved. One of the best this year is Shell Shocked, directed by Dominc Brunt and written by Joannne Mitchell. Here Dominic chats about this and his other horror hit, Before Dawn. HC: It’s been a year since Before Dawn, looking back did its success surpri...
And The Premieres Just Keep On Coming
It may be the last day of FrightFest 2013 but the celebrations show no sign of slowing down. There’s a world premiere and 4 European premieres on the big screen alone to look forward to and that’s not counting more short movies and special surprises for fans to look out for. First up is the much talked about movie Dark Touch (pictured) from Marina De Van, director of In My Skin. At night, an iso...
Shorts And The End Of The World...Possibly
Weronika Tofilska, director of 6 Feet Under was the winner of the Horror Channel, Movie Mogul sponsored 666 Short Cuts To Hell Competition bagging £6,666 courtesy of Horror Channel and the opportunity to develop a feature film under mentorship from Movie Mogul. Apart from the honour of being showcased at the UK’s biggest genre festival, all six finalists will also have their films screened on Horror Channel. ...
Who Is Watching Who?
The Dark Tourist powered its way on to the Empire screen today and left the audience with no doubt that director Suri Krishnamma is a major talent in the industry who can produce solid work in any genre. The next movie up tonight is one for lovers of the X-Files, The Conspiracy. Two filmmakers are shooting a documentary about Terrance G, a conspiracy theorist convinced all major world ev...
Interview With David Tillman Writer Of Hansel And Gretel And The 420 Witch
Stoner comedy movies are usually designed for a specific audience but Hansel And Gretel And The 420 Witch takes the genre to the horror audience thanks to an inventive script from David Tillman. Here he chats about this movie, which is showing this week at FrightFest and what else he is working on at the moment. HC: Are you a big horror movie fan? DT: Yes and No. I love horror movies that ...
The Quiz From Hell Meets The Dark Tourist
In just a few hours the winner of this year’s 666 Short Cuts To Hell Competition, run by Horror Channel alongside Movie Mogul will be announced and you could cut the atmosphere with a knife at the Empire cinema. All will be revealed very soon. Before all that the incredibly talented Andy Nyman will be on stage hosting the 4th Andy Nyman’s Quiz From Hell. Now a firm fan favourite fixture at...
Interview With Suri Krishnamma Director Of The Dark Tourist
The Dark Tourist (pictured) is a challenging, bleak and emotionally charged film that is getting a special preview today at FrightFest. It boasts an incredible script, bold performances and superb direction from Suri Krishnamma. Here Suri chats about this incredible movie. HC: What attracted you to The Dark Tourist? SK: What attracted me? When I read the script I ‘saw’ ...
Anything But Cheap
After the fun and rather expensive looking R.I.P.D FrightFest goers were treated to something a little more serious, Cheap Thrills (pictured). Directed by E.L. Katz, writer of the FrightFest favourite Autopsy, it’s a smart, inventive and damn good movie with a small cast that deliver some superb performances. Craig is down on his luck, fired from his job, facing eviction and a wife and ne...
Pleasent Surprises
No One Lives started off as a pedestrian sort of slasher flick but soon transformed into psychos Vs psychos bloodbath. It’s smart script and swift direction raises it above other hack n’ slash movies. One key sequence, where the main character actually hides inside the body of one of the group he’s battling is so well realised it had the crowd cheering and clapping. This sort of original...
Interview With Farren Blackburn Director Of Hammer Of The Gods
The best thing about FrightFest is the varied programme of movies the four guys create. This year has an exceptionally wide-ranging selection and one that stands out is Hammer Of The Gods (pictured). Here its director, Farren Blackburn chats about this and other areas of his career. HC: How different is directing a movie to TV? FB: At the lower budget end its not much differ...
All In The Mix
Frightfest 2013 seems to have more of a variation in movies than other years, there doesn’t seem to be a sub-genre that’s taking over the programming. Yes, we have plenty of sequels but that doesn’t really count. We have slashers, revenge, psychological, zombies, Ozploitation, silent classics to name a few giving ticket holders a vast array to choose from. Apart from a few Hollywood entries such as the much hy...
Rain Won't Stop Play
Leicester Square is, like most of the UK today, suffering from downpours that don’t want to stop. This is having no effect whatsoever as the FrightFest fans are a hardy bunch and have made their way to the Empire. Coming up is the much talked about Nazi zombie blood-fest, Frankenstein’s Army (pictured). In the waning days of World War II, a battalion of Russian soldiers f...
Interview With Eitan Gafny Writer, Producer And Director Of Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder is a powerful new zombie movie from Isreal. It deals not only with the horrors of a zombie outbreak but the emotional consequences of loyalty and politics. Here the multi-talented Eitan Gafney chats about this superb film which is showing at FrightFest today. HC: Have you always been a big fan of horror movies? EG: Yes, although I'm a "spoilt" horror fan - I give a lot of attention...
666 Short Cuts To Hell Trailer
FrightFest and Movie Mogul, in association with Horror Channel, challenged aspiring filmmakers all over the country to make a short horror film, but 666 Short Cuts To Hell was no ordinary film competition. Entrants had to follow a series of 'killer' restraints such as a maximum of 6 lines of dialogue, a maximum of 6 cast and crew members and a maximum budget of £666. A staggering...
Strewth, Didn't Expect That!
100 Bloody Acres, the last film to be shown on Friday at FrightFest and like many low budget horror comedies will probably build up a cult following. Reg Morgan runs a small organic bone fertiliser business in the outback with his bullying older brother Lindsay. They've recently taken the lead over their competitors thanks to a secret ingredient – liquidised human corpses! When R...
Arggh My Ears!!
Decent horror anthology movies are very few and far between and last V/H/S/ really did split the audience. I really don’t think there will be such a problem with V/H/S/ 2 which is far superior movies in many ways but is also one of the loudest so far. V/H/S/ 2 concerns two private investigators who break into the abandoned house of a missing college student, uncovering a collection of mysterious videotapes. T...
Splatter-tastic
Posted on Friday 23rd August 2013
Even though Adam Green isn't in the director's chair for Hatchet III his script brought the franchise to a fitting end with plenty of blood-splattered gross effects, in fact enough to satisfy any gore-hound. Carrying on directly from where Hatchet II finished, Marybeth uncovers the true secret to stopping the voodoo curse that has left the ghost of deformed maniac Victor Crowley haunting and s...
Love And Sockets
The best thing about FrightFest, apart from the atmosphere, is that they give time to horror shorts. James Moran’s wonderfully original Crazy For You is a fine example. A young man with a dark secret (Arthur Darvill) falls in love with a stunning blonde (Hannah Tointon). And that’s it, a very simple set up with a horror twist that works so beautifully. A real highlight so far and if you get...
Chills And A Considerable Amount Of Thrills
Director Renny Harlin’s name is usually associated with big blockbuster movies such as Die Hard 2 and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but The Dyatlov Pass Incident is a smaller, more subtle affair making it also one of his most affective. In February, 1959, nine Russians hikers ventured into the Ural Mountains on a trip that should have been manageable for a group with their vast experience. Two weeks later, a...
Discovery Is The Name Of FrightFest
Another day of contrasts at FrightFest with a huge and varied selection of movies including a couple of much anticipated sequels. The day stars with the welcome return of Renny Harlin and his movie The Dyatlov Pass Incident. In February, 1959, nine Russians hikers ventured into the Ural Mountains on a trip that should have been manageable for a group with their vast experience. Two weeks la...
Interview With Robin Entreinger Director Of Sadik 2
Sadik 2 is a smart slasher that takes themes first seen in Scream and runs away with them. Smart and funny it’s showing today on the Discovery Screen at FrightFest. Here director Robin Entreinger chats about this inspired shocker. HC: Who came up with the plot of Sadik 2? RE: First, you have to know that the original idea was to do a fun slasher, old school style. I got the idea th...
Zombies, Killer Doll, Animal Mask Wearing Killers - Day 1 Of FrightFest
The first day of FrightFest gave us three incredibly different horror movies. The Dead 2: India continued the idea of gut-munching in a hot climate but with more added drama than the first with some incredibly daring and inventive camera work from directors Jon and Howard Ford. Serious with an impending tone of loss hanging over it the film proved that the Ford Brothers can direct human emotionally engagi...
Brace Yourself For A Chilling Winter - Horror Channel Sizzle Reel
As promised, this is the Sizzle Reel we're showing at FrightFest showing you the tasty treats Horror Channel has lined up over the next few months. Be warned there are scenes of nudity, violence and gore that some people may find disturbing.
And We're Off
Posted on Thursday 22nd August 2013
FrightFest 2013 has started with an awesome introduction from Bobcat Goldthwait. The FrightFest crew promise us lots of surprises, loads of guests and plenty for every horror hound to enjoy! Showing first is The Dead 2: India from The Ford Brothers. The franchise moves to the hustle and bustle of India as the devastating zombie outbreak takes hold and British turbine engineer Nicholas Bu...
FrightFest 2013 - The Hot Ones!
Well FrightFest 2013 is almost upon us and its time to look at what frightful delights to look forward to. As there’s over 50 movies to choose from as well as some stunning shorts it’s a tough choice but here’s a selection of some of the ones that jump out from the line up. For starters Chucky is back on the big screen in the sixth film of the Child’s Play...
Shortcuts To Hell Anthology To Be Released
Movie Mogul, in association with FrightFest and Horror Channel, is to release an anthology of the 26 best short films from the 666 Short Cuts To Hell national talent search competition. An essential collection of shorts for anyone serious about horror and the directors of tomorrow, Shortcuts To Hell: Volume 1 is available ...
Film News (UK): FrightFest, Horror Channel & Movie Mogul reveal their top six finalists for 666 Short Cuts To Hell
Posted on Monday 5th August 2013
FrightFest and Movie Mogul, in association with Horror Channel, challenged aspiring filmmakers all over the country to make a short horror film, but 666 Short Cuts To Hell was no ordinary film competition. Entrants had to follow a series of 'killer' restraints such as a maximum of 6 lines of dialogue, a maximum of 6 cast and crew members and a maximum budget of £666. A staggeri...
The Dead 2: India - Poster Revealed
Posted on Wednesday 31st July 2013
The Ford Brothers, the British director, writer and producer team behind the Indian-set zombie road movie The Dead 2: India, have released the official poster ahead of its sell-out opening night world premiere at Film4 FrightFest 2013. The poster was designed by Luke Insect for FrightFest Originals and copies will be available to buy at FrightFest. Demand to see...
FrightFest And Horror Channel Announce World Premieres For Short Film Programme
Posted on Monday 22nd July 2013
FrightFest in association with Horror Channel, will be screening nine specially selected short films, at this year’s August event at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Sq. From James Moran's sickly slick serial killer tale and Dominic Brunt's ghastly vision of war time Hell, to Will Gilbey's hard-boiled noir cop thriller and Mike Mort's even harder pupp...
Coming Soon To DVD - Frankensteins's Army
Posted on Tuesday 2nd July 2013
Prepare to unearth the deepest and darkest secrets of World War II as Entertainment Oneannounce the arrival of the insanely suspenseful Nazi-horror Frankenstein's Army - unleashing it's terror at this year's Film4 FrightFest on 22nd August and then on DVD 30th September 2013. Whilst pushing into eastern Germany toward the end of World War II, Russian soldier...
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Announces Full Line Up
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins? A record 51 films, new FrightFest Xtra strand and films from five continents marks biggest genre global invasion ever make up Film4 FrightFest 2013. Film4 FrightFest 20...
FrightFest 2013 Poster Revealed
Illustrator Graham Humphreys has created another classic image with this superb poster for this year's FrightFest. The piece pays homage to the death of celluloid and pays respects to the passing of cinema's Peter Cushing and Ray Harryhausen. Think you'll agree that this is another stunning poster and one that will be seen on countless t-shirts this August.
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Announces Opening And Closing Night Films
This year's FrightFest opens with the world premiere of The Ford Brothers The Dead 2: India - the first-ever International production of a zombie film shot in India. Howard and Jon Ford, the British director, writer and producer team behind the acclaimed African-set zombie road movie The Dead said today: "It's truly an honour to be the opening film – mind-blowing! Being at Fr...
Ten UK Premieres Usher In A Knock-Out FrightFest Glasgow Programme
From Friday February 24th to Saturday February 25th, the UK's favourite horror fantasy festival returns to its second home at the Glasgow Film Festival for the 8th year with an impressive slate of the hottest new horror films, plus a hit Norwegian TV series. Some of the genre's biggest hitters take centre-stage this year, with UK premieres for Eli Roth's re-calibrated disaster movie, A...
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35 villages to receive reliable mobile network
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The Ministry of Information and Communication (MoIC) will soon implement the fifth phase of the rural connectivity programme (RCP) that would connect 35 villages in 18 gewogs with a reliable mobile network.
The minister, Karma Donnen Wangdi, assured this while responding to Chukha National Council (NC) member Sangay Dorji during the question hour session yesterday.
The lyonpo said that the ministry recently completed implementing four phases of the programme that began early 2018.
In phase I of the RCP, 204 villages in 51 gewogs were connected with a mobile network. In phase II, 307 villages in 56 gewogs were connected. Another 60 villages in 18 gewogs were connected in the III phase and phase IV covered 63 villages in 21 gewogs.
All RCP programmes were implemented through universal service fund, which the minister said was allocated to prioritise and improve mobile connectivity across the country. “After completing RCP V, we’ll work towards providing 3G service in all the villages,” he said. “All highways will also have mobile network coverage.”
He invited NC members to visit MoIC to discuss further in details of villages that need proper mobile connectivity. “That will enable utilisation of the fund effectively.”
Chukha NC member, citing examples of how poor mobile network connectivity is in remote areas, said that Gidaphu village in Bongo gewog has a mobile network in just one household. “In Toktogom village, villagers have to climb a hilltop to make a phone call.”
He said that telecom operators have informed that expansion and improvement of such services are based on business viability, which depends on the number of households and residing population in those particular villages.
“If such criteria are used, many villages and communities would not be connected for a long time,” Sangay Dorji said.
Meanwhile, the minister was also questioned on the plans government has to improve Bhutan Broadcasting Service television and radio coverage in the rural areas.
Lyonpo Karma Donnen Wangdi said that television and radio coverage is a priority of the government. “It is one of the main medium that provides news and information to the rural residents.”
He said the information technology and telecom department is installing a South Asia Satellite project in the Bhutan Broadcasting Service compound, which is on a testing phase at the moment. “Once the testing is complete and the implementation begins, television and radio network is expected to reach all places through a simple set-top box.”
Lyonpo Karma Donnen Wangdi, however, said that according to information he received, most of the villages and gewogs can avail television and radio services. “Please cross check again and let me know if there are places without the two services.”
Thimphu NC member Tshewang Rinzin said that more than television, radio is an important medium in the rural areas.
He said that during his constituency visit, he could hear people listening to radio frequencies of other countries because of unavailability of BBS. “This will pose a security threat,” he said.
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Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Reply to Mike Minnicino on Abortion and Natural law
On the letter you sent. The answer is very simple. The
question of abortion is a matter which arises in Jewish and
Christian doctrine and was generally accepted doctrine.
However, as to its relationship to natural law. It does not
have per se an axiomatic authority under natural law; but it has
a derived authority as a theorem and the question of the way in
which the theorem should be applied, is of course—that is, in
terms of the details of the interpretation—is something which,
of course, has been debated within religious circles, these in
particular, over a century.
So it's a question which became a practical question in
modern times, especially in the past 100-150 years, as medicine
made abortion possible, particularly in the first one or two
months, particularly in the first month.
Now, the problem, of course, is, that prior to that,
historically, abortion was practiced chiefly by witches, and it's
in England. These were professed witches, and they pushed
abortion as a matter of policy, rather than just as a matter of
individual choice, but as a matter of policy for individual
choice, as a matter of Satanic attack on civilization. Those are
the broad outlines of the situation.
Today, we have another factor which has come into play,
called feminism.
Feminism is actually a new disguise and consciously so,
developed by the Theosophist circles, as a form of Satan worship,
i.e., Satan-worship in the form of the worship of Isis, Ishtar,
Astarte, Cybele cults, which are the Gaia cults, which are the
original Satanic cults. Thus abortion as a tactic in the hands of
the feminist is literally Satanic, as was in large degree the
propaganda on the subject by the witches in the seventeenth
century, for example, and earlier, in which the witches were the
ones who aprovidedS a sort of negative assistance at birth,
negation, of the midwives; would perform this function, with
herbs and what-not.
So, as I say, the question of abortion is a theorem. It is
not an axiom.
What is axiomatic, of course, is the dignity of human life
as distinct from animal life; what is axiomatic with any
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Box Office: 'House With A Clock In Its Walls' & 'The Nun' Charm Theatergoers
By: LATF Staff | Sept. 24, 2018, 11:41 a.m.
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According to comScore, Warner Bros.' horror hit 'The Nun' scares up another $45.65 million at the global box office for a worldwide total to date of nearly $300 million. Notably, Jack Black in Universal's 'The House With A Clock In Its Walls' opened this weekend at number one in North America with $26.85 million and in just 22 territories for a global total of $35.58 million.
The top 10 worldwide weekend box office estimates:
Nun, The - Warner Bros. - $45.6M
House With A Clock In Its Walls, The - Multiple - $35.6M
Predator, The - 20th Century Fox - $24.0M
Golden Job - Multiple - $23.2M
Johnny English Strikes Again - Universal - $17.2M
Simple Favor, A - Lionsgate - $15.6M
Crazy Rich Asians - Warner Bros. - $11.6M
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Paramount Pictures - $9.2M
L Storm - Multiple - $9.0M
Great Battle, The - Next Entertainment World - $8.9M
The top 10 domestic weekend box office estimates:
House With A Clock In Its Walls, The - Universal - $26.9M
Predator, The - 20th Century Fox - $8.7M
Crazy Rich Asians - Warner Bros. - $6.5M
White Boy Rick - Sony - $5.0M
Peppermint - STX Entertainment - $3.7M
Fahrenheit 11/9 - Briarcliff Entertainment - $3.1M
Meg, The - Warner Bros. - $2.4M
Searching - Sony - $2.2M
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Box Office: 'The Nun' Scares Its Way To #1 Worldwide
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Construction Contract Info
Contractor: Wyman & Simpson, Inc.
Bid Amount: $3,379,844.00
Projected Completion Date: November 16, 2018
Dutton Hill Bridge
Project Scope: This project includes repairs to various bridges between Mile 45 and 67 of the Maine Turnpike and also includes the superstructure replacement of the Dutton Hill bridge in Gray. Below is a description of the work at each location.
Blackstrap Road Bridge, Cumberland
The project includes bridge repairs to the Blackstrap Road Bridge over the Maine Turnpike at Mile 58.3 in the Town of Cumberland. The repairs will include replacement of the bridge wearing surface, work on the bridge joints and repairs to the concrete deck and substructure. During the repairs, the Blackstrap Road Bridge will be reduced to one way alternating traffic with a temporary traffic signal.
Dutton Hill Bridge, Gray
This project consists of replacing the Dutton Hill bridge superstructure over the Maine Turnpike at Mile 59.9 in the Town of Gray. The rehabilitation of the bridge includes replacement and raising of the existing bridge structure to provide a minimum vertical clearance of 15’6”, and repair of the existing abutments and piers. The bridge will be closed to traffic for approximately 6 months during the construction of the improvements. Due to additional unexpected repairs to the bridge, Dutton Hill bridge will be closed for approximately three weeks in the spring of 2019. An updated project info sheet can be viewed here.
It also includes reconstruction of the bridge approaches to match the raised bridge structure and construction of an emergency vehicle access ramp to provide a connection to the northbound lanes of the turnpike for MTA maintenance vehicles. A ramp will also be constructed to access the turnpike southbound lanes from Forest Lake Road located opposite Cottage Road. This work will not require closure of the bridge and will begin this winter.
Running Hill Road Bridge, Scarborough
The project includes bridge repairs to the Running Hill Road Bridge over the Maine Turnpike at Mile 45.4 in the City of South Portland. The repairs will include replacement of the bridge wearing surface, work on the bridge joints and repairs to the concrete deck and substructure. During the repairs, the Running Hill Road Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction.
Weymouth Road Bridge, Gray
The project includes bridge repairs to the Weymouth Road Bridge over the Maine Turnpike at Mile 66.2, as well as the construction of emergency vehicle ramps to provide a connection to the southbound and northbound lanes of the turnpike for emergency and MTA maintenance vehicles. The repairs will include raising of the bridge to avoid future vehicle hits, reconstruction of the roadway approaches, replacement of the bridge wearing surface and repairs to the concrete deck and substructure. The bridge will be closed to traffic for approximately 8 weeks during the construction of the improvements.
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UPDATE 1-MOVES-Standard Chartered appoints CEO for Islamic banking business
Standard Chartered has appointed Rehan Shaikh as chief executive of its global Islamic banking business, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
Shaikh moves to Standard Chartered Saadiq from Dubai Islamic Bank, where he was senior vice president and business head, private sector and transaction banking. He previously worked for StanChart in Pakistan from 1998 to 2007, the statement said.
He takes over from Sohail Akbar, who was interim chief executive of the Islamic banking operation after the departure of Afaq Khan earlier this year.
StanChart remains committed to the business despite a period of hiatus across other parts of the bank as global chief executive Bill Winters moves to restore profitability. It announced plans this month to reduce costs by $2.9 billion by 2018 and cut 15,000 jobs.
"Islamic finance is an integral part of the business at Standard Chartered and we continue to see growing demand from clients in many of our markets," said Sunil Kaushal, the bank's regional chief executive for Africa and the Middle East.
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Two Games In: Some Quick Observations
Posted on October 10, 2011 by Michael Schuerlein
This post was published 7 years 9 months 8 days ago which may make its content inapplicable to the current Islanders roster and/or team news. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.
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The Islanders have completed their first two games of the season, suffering from a 2-0 loss to the Florida Panthers on Saturday and hanging on for a 2-1 win this afternoon against the Minnesota Wild.
While it’s entirely too early to accurately gauge what to expect in the remaining 80 games this season – I’ve seen, and heard a few things that are worth noting at this point.
Saturday’s game was disappointing, not only from the standpoint of it being a let-down for the fans that packed out Nassau Coliseum, but because the team looked flat and often misplayed the puck. The bar was raised really high by the organization (well, the players themselves really) – so it stung seeing the team struggle before a building filled to near capacity in their season opener.
The ice at the Coliseum looks horrible, like the players were skating in soup. At one point at the start of the second period on Saturday, the on ice officials spent about five minutes with squeegees getting the pools of water moved from the ice surface. You can only really blame the County for this one – as they are responsible for any repairs. I hope to have more on this in the coming days.
The Islanders came out relatively flat, often misplaying the puck or not making smart decisions with and without the puck. Andrew MacDonald showed plenty of rust, committed several turnovers – even though he wasn’t officially charged with any in the post game stats. Mark Streit played a decent game for someone who hadn’t seen professional action in over a year. Mike Mottau took three penalties – three too many.
The forwards were often unable to get things going, chipping the puck past Florida’s defense and just being stopped cold. Al Montoya kept them in the game though making 27 saves for the Isles. They need to do more offensively, which I’m sure they will once all cylinders are firing.
I don’t want to hammer the team with negatives, so let’s jump right to the positives.
Travis Hamonic threw down the gloves and jumped to the support of his teammate Al Montoya by fighting Scotty Upshall. When I asked him during the post game interviews if there was any words exchanged, or if it was just something he had to do to support his goaltender – I got one of the greatest answers one could expect from the budding defenseman.
Every time you fight, I say you fight for a couple of reasons. One is to defend a teammate, two is to change the momentum of the game and three is to defend yourself. I think that in that instance, it hit the nail on the head for all three of them. I was trying to defend Al, and you know next thing I know I turn around and he [Upshall] was in my face. That’s the part of the game that I welcome, I think it happens with the style of play that I play and at that point it was 1-0 for the other team and I felt it it was a good opportunity to change the momentum of the game, so that’s why I did what I did.
Every game the young Travis Hamonic plays – I become more and more impressed. He hits, he makes sound passes, he’s very physical and he plays big important minutes for his team. When he’s paired with Andrew MacDonald – the two of them compliment each other very well.
Fast forward to this afternoon’s game against Minnesota – the Islanders came out a very different team in the first twenty minutes. They skated, they passed and they moved the puck past the defense in a way they couldn’t manage against Florida the game before.
Andrew MacDonald played a much better game, and made up for the mistakes he committed in his first game back. At the start of the game I never would’ve pegged him to score the first goal of the 2011/2012 season – but score he did and it was a beauty. Take a look for yourself:
The Islanders second goal was even better. Mark Streit fakes a shot from the point and moves down the boards. Frans Nielsen is moving towards the Wild net and Streit executes a perfect shot pass – Nielsen redirected it perfectly to give the Islanders a two goal lead. This goal, you just HAVE to watch:
The rest of today’s game wasn’t as good – even though the Islanders managed to hang on and win 2-1. They looked fatigued as the game wore on, at one point not getting a shot for almost ten minutes and being held in their own zone for long stretches. Despite the negatives, the fact that the team held on is a testament to how far they’ve come since last season. Perhaps you can credit the veteran infusion, but you certainly have to credit Al Montoya for his stellar performance once again.
At the end of the day, the Islanders won, we heard the new Goal Song, the team moved to .500 on the season and improved their record to 1-1. It’s certainly a start.
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Good, objective summary. I think our power play looked decent, and our PK was excellent – something that seems to be overlooked by many covering today’s game. If the Islanders looked tired, much of it had to do with running around killing penalties in the 1st! Still, I agree that in the later periods, the Isles were flat and a bit fatigued – they lacked that spark we were all hoping to see. That same spark we saw late last season – that or nothing to get a win attitude. We need to remember (and they do to!) that with this team, there’s no guarantees. Every “W” will be a hard fought battle and this team can never sit back. Granted, we have more positives here than we’ve had in a long while, but we still have a lot of work to do. Let’s go Islanders!
You know, I meant to write a whole paragraph on the penalty kill – but I got sidetracked transcribing Hamonic’s quote from Saturday! LOL
I really feel like the team will need some time to gel, so that the new parts and existing parts have some time to work together. Goaltending was a huge question mark for this team, I think we are seeing the reasoning behind the three goalie rotation. If DiPietro and Montoya are able to share the load and Nabakov gets some playing time, he will certainly help Garth Snow out later this season.
I like how the team hasn’t sat back, they protected their lead today and need to continue to do that throughout the year. There were way too many games last season that could’ve and should’ve been one – but weren’t!
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Major Websites Reddit, Spotify And Twitter Knocked Offline By DDoS Cyberstrike
By Luis Fran , Oct 21, 2016 01:45 PM EDT
Major websites such as Reddit, Spotify, and Twitter crashed for a couple of hours on Friday morning, because of a cyberattack made to the server of major DNS provider Dyn. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which works by overwhelming targeted machines with malicious electronic traffic, affected many other websites as well, such as Wired, The Verge, Squarespace, Etsy, Box, GitHub, and Pinterest.
DDoS Cyberstrike Mostly Affected US
According to the Daily Mail, this outage mostly affected the east coast of the U.S., which was clearly manifested in the way that there wasn't any kind of problem with these sites in Europe. For some hours, this became a terrible situation in which users couldn't even post about the problems in Twitter since the social media was also inaccessible.
"Starting at 11:10 a.m. UTC on October 21, we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. This attack is mainly impacting U.S. East and is impacting Managed DNS customer in this region. Our engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue." Dyn stated through a security update on its website.
Top Websites Confirmed Targets By DDoS Cyberstrike
According to the International Business Times, GitHub confirmed its problems through a statement posted on HackerNews, in which the company explained that its services may be intermittently available at the moment, since there was an "incident" with its upstream DNS provider. For its part, Amazon Web Services also said it were having serious troubles, and that the company was working to resolve the root of the cause, which was effectively identified.
As reported by the Daily Mail, a Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) representative said she didn't have any immediate comment on the outages issue. Also, it was revealed that one of the main reasons why this situation happened is because DNS´ lack of security.
"DNS has often been neglected in terms of its security and availability from an enterprise perspective - it is treated as if it will always be there in the same way that water comes out of the tap and electricity is there when you switch it on," Richard Meuus, VP of Technology at EMEA at NSFOCUS, said.
"This attack highlights how critical DNS is to maintain a stable and secure internet presence, and that the DDoS mitigation processes businesses have in place are just as relevant to their DNS service as it is to the web servers and data centers."
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June 6, 2013 - Food & Drink, know-how, Videos - Tagged: Sweets
In Japan, it is getting hotter and hotter toward real hot and humid summer of Japan, which means the season of ice cream has come! There are many types of ice cream waiting for us; color fruit flavoured one, divine vanilla and classic choc mint and many more classics and new ones (o><o). But the ice cream I’m going to introduce today is a bit more special than them!
Ice cream with an edible bowl! 😯
Good thing about this special bowl is, it’s nice and tasty but surprisingly it doesn’t look too difficult to make one by ourselves!
Please have a look from the link below and see how easy and fun it looks.
See? You just need your favorite choc to melt, balloons to make the shape, and a little bit of courage to pop those balloons at the end of its making process. And ta da!! All ready for your to pur your favorite ice cream and topping into your bowls, and you can have a lovely desert with edible plate like this^^
It is a great fun dessert to have for parties and BBQ, isn’t it?
And if you have several ice cream topping like fruits sauce or choc flakes and stuff, topping will also be a good fun for your friends!!
Ah, let’s see if I can have some BBQ with friends soon so that I can ask one of my friends to bring ice with this choc bowls 😛
Job done!!
What do you think about today’s artilce?
If you try make one this weekend, let me know how it goes. I also would like to hear other pudding ideas for summer fun! 😉
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Strategy games that built to climactic endings
How does a strategy game provide a satisfying late-game experience?
This, I think, is a two-pronged problem. Part 1 is avoiding the things that actively drag on the endgame: micromanagement (see my previous post) and the snowball problem, when someone – usually the human player in a single-player game – runs away with the game early on, turning the endgame into a tedious exercise in mopping up. In this post, though, I’ll focus on Part 2, which is the reverse: designing the game so that it builds to a tense climax, much like the traditional three-act plot.
Here, I think the highly open-ended nature of Paradox games works against them. In contrast, I can think of at least three games that set the player a clear victory condition that could only be triggered during the endgame: the Civilization series, Emperor of the Fading Suns, and Rome: Total War (if you played a Roman faction):
The space race in the Civilization series: Probably the best-known example here. One of the victory conditions in Civ is to build an interstellar colony ship, which requires near-future technology and a powerful industrial base. If several advanced civilisations are left standing by this stage of the game, the net result is a frantic race during which you watch your rivals tantalisingly piling component after component onto their ships. Will you be able to first research, and then manufacture, new parts for your starship in time?
Rushing for the capital in Emperor of the Fading Suns: This game cast players as aristocrats vying for the throne in a Feudal Future (think a cross between Dune and Warhammer 40K). Each player had a certain number of votes, which could be seized in combat, and to declare yourself emperor, you had to win two elections: first when you claimed the throne, and again after ten turns. The catch was, you had to have a noble in the capital in order to cast your vote. And while the capital was a “safe haven” neutral zone for most of the game, that ended the moment someone grabbed for the throne. Once that happened, it was time to rush your troops and fleets to the capital and slaughter the rival nobles there. Your foes could be wreaking havoc across half the galaxy, but that didn’t matter just so long as you controlled the capital, and cast the deciding votes…
The Roman civil war in Rome: Total War. This one, I admit, I haven’t done myself (ironically enough, I never got far enough in a R:TW game due to the “micromanagement” and “game became a foregone conclusion” problems mentioned above). But the concept, as I understand, was that if you played a Roman faction, as your power grew, the Senate would eventually demand more and more outrageous things from you, culminating in an order for your faction leader to fall on his sword. When that time came, it was time to cross the Rubicon and fight your fellow Romans. Beyond the gameplay coolness of building up to this moment, it makes perfect thematic sense for a game about the rise of Rome to culminate in civil war between the Roman triumvirs. It’s too bad the campaign was single-player only, because similarly to Emperor of the Fading Suns, I imagine the dynamics between multiple human Roman players would have been great.
Author Peter SahuiPosted on September 22, 2010 April 14, 2011 Categories Games, PC Games, Strategy GamesTags civilization, emperor of the fading suns, endgames, games, rome: total war, strategy games
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Bristol, and the NASCAR haulers are rolling in....but filling 160,000 seats, now that's going to take a good marketing campaign
Talladega testing: pretty darned fast, with the new package
Hey, maybe Ford is finally back! But Sunday wasn't great for Dale Jr.
Kurt Busch makes the most of it with new crew chief Steve Addington, winning Atlanta
Jack Roush Jr.'s racing career, at 35, takes a leap forward with victory at Homestead
On the NASCAR medical front, some good news, and not-so-good....
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Jimmie Johnson: Once again he's both lucky and good
Kurt Busch gets crashed out, Chevy makes it 3-in-a-row...and in the Ford camp Kenseth shows promise
Posted Mar 7th, 2010
Dale Earnhardt jr. didn't have a great Atlanta 500 (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Well, it wasn't a very good Sunday after all for Dale Earnhardt Jr.
But Matt Kenseth is coming up roses, with new crew chief Todd Parrott clicking. And underrated teammate Paul Menard, now schooled by ace crew chief Slugger Labbe, is looking quite impressive.
Kurt Busch won in a Dodge, which new crew chief Steve Addington called vindication.
And if not for all that frantic scrambling in the closing laps Chevy's Juan Pablo Montoya might well have taken the win over Busch; he was closing fast in the final moments, when a flurry of late crashes changed up everything. And then Montoya might have gotten snookered on those last restarts...
So when the smoke cleared, while Busch was the big winner, a number of Ford drivers – Kenseth, Kasey Kahne, Menard, AJ Allmendinger, even hard-luck Greg Biffle – could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Just what to take away from Sunday's weird Atlanta 500?
Well, those new tires seemed to baffle and aggravate a number of teams and drivers, though Kurt Busch had no problems and said rivals should have been better prepared, given this track's abrasive asphalt and the new grippy tires. Drivers complained when the tires were too hard and had no grip...so Goodyear gave them grip and let the teams figure out how to use it. Too many, it appears, abused it.
The Hendrick guys perhaps: After winning two straight, Jimmie Johnson was generally off the pace, playing it conservatively, and then getting caught with a rubbing fender that doomed his bid, leaving him 12th. Jeff Gordon, never really in the game, grumbled about the tires after struggling in 18th (after dominating Las Vegas only a week ago). Mark Martin even blew a tire too, winding up 33rd.
And Earnhardt?
He started from the pole at 192-plus, but fell back early, lost two laps with an unexplained vibration, and struggled home 15th.
"We weren't very good," Earnhardt said.
"We got two bad right-side tires and right-rear tires....it felt like the wheels were coming off. We pitted, and the wheel was fine, but the car was vibrating so bad I couldn't hardly see.
"I should have not pitted, but I thought the wheel was loose, and I have had them come off here, and that isn't fun.
"I should have just stayed out there and waited for it to come off."
So perhaps it's little surprise that canny Kenseth was nipping at the victory in the final laps, coming up four lengths short.
"That is the best finish we have had here, ever," Kenseth said, somewhat in amazement. "We qualified really well (14th) and it translated to the race."
But those final miles, whew!, were rather confusing.
Montoya was charging toward Busch and within a couple lengths of catching him, when Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski crashed on lap 324 of the scheduled 325-lapper. That set up the first overtime....after most drivers pitted for tires but not Menard or Bowyer, gambling on track position. On that restart the difference between fresh tires and worn tires was clear – and clearly dangerous...when there was another crash.
Thus the second OT. For this one Busch had managed to get out front, so at the final green-white-checkered all he needed was a clean restart and let the men behind him flay away.
"It was easy to spin the tires...but there were some guys up there with (only) two and you knew they were going to have a much rougher time on four (getting around them), so it was interesting," Kenseth said.
"You watched everyone lay back behind you, and you know that it is going to be three or four-wide when you got to turn one."
The day, and the finish, Kenseth said shows "we are headed in the right direction. I couldn't be happier with the way season has started."
Menard was something of a surprise. Perhaps he has been way underrated during his NASCAR career and perhaps new crew chief Slugger Labbe can make things happen.
"The car was fast, and a top-five is a great way to start the year," Menard said.
"Slugger made a hell of a call there taking two tires at the end to get some clean track. We knew we probably weren't going to hold off guys with four tires, but it at least got us in front of the excitement.
"We dodged a bullet there at the end, with all the action out there."
To make the point even more clearly, Jack Roush's Kenseth-Parrott team gets honors, of course, but the three Richard Petty Motorsports guys – Menard, Kahne and Allmendinger finished top-six.
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Jr.'s day....
Submitted by on Mon 03/08/2010 - 17:15.
ALL, EVERYONE of Jr.s' teammates were having tire problems and had to pit. If he had stayed out with a vibration, & wrecked, he would be upset with himself for not coming in. DW said it sounded like the wheel hub. I remember when his tire came off in Atlanta in fall of '07, can't take that chance again. Great comeback on last 2 laps! :) From 20th to 15th, like Daytona's charge at the end, & after being 33rd and 3 laps down, and up 2 places to 13th in points! A great day!!! :) When he was 33rd and 3 laps down I was going to give my new "lucky shirt" to charity, but I will keep it." In case you hadn't noticed, none of his HMS teammates lead a lap either, not JJ, JG, Mark, or their extension team, Tony, or Ryan. How often does that happen? They all had tire problems. Someone screwed-up getting the cars set up. It happens and keeps life interesting. :)
Atlanta engine inspection!!!!!!!
Submitted by on Tue 03/09/2010 - 05:40.
Mike I heard that Nascar got engines for testing at Atlanta for some of the teams!
Was or will any of the prominent Chevy teams engines get checked?
Uh, no....wonder what that's
Submitted by Mike on Tue 03/09/2010 - 12:59.
Uh, no....wonder what that's all about. NASCAR took Kurt Busch's winning engine back to the R&D center, Matt Kenseth's engine too, and the engines from Brian Vickers and Michael McDowell. Sorry to miss that, in all the Edwards-Keselowski hoopla....wonder why they didn't take Montoya's engine? Good point; thanks for asking..
Junnnnniooooorrrr!!!!!
Submitted by WScott34 on Tue 03/09/2010 - 08:26.
I was about to stick a fork in Jr. till I read the comments from anonymous on Jr.'s day at Atlanta. I'm still holdin' on to my fork though. I expect nuthin' less than a top 10 finish from Jr (barring any accidents or mechanical failures) in the next 2 short track races at Bristol and M'ville. He's always been strong there.
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Mitre 10 Cup ready to kick off in 2016
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 allblacks.com Getty Images
One of the most iconic figures of provincial rugby – the Rugby Cup – returns to New Zealand’s national competition and will be the silverware presented to the winners of this year’s Mitre 10 Cup.
The newly-restored Rugby Cup, which was last presented in 2005 to the winners of the NPC, Auckland, took pride of place today as 14 provincial head coaches converged on Eden Rugby Club to mark the launch of the renamed 2016 Mitre 10 Cup.
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The Rugby Cup was reunited with Tuck J Waaka, the former Bay of Plenty captain, who was the first man to lift it back in 1976. It will now be awarded to the winners of the Mitre 10 Cup Premiership Final to be played on Saturday 29 October after an 11-week competition involving 76 matches across New Zealand.
New Zealand Rugby Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Nigel Cass, said the Mitre 10 Cup plays a vital role in the development of the New Zealand’s best sporting talent and continues to hold an important place in the rugby calendar.
“The Mitre 10 Cup brings out the very best in provincial rivalry and is unique because of its links to the past and strong focus on the future of the game in New Zealand.
“There are always plenty of surprises during the season, and each game will be fiercely contested and no doubt some exciting new talent will emerge during the competition.
“Each year we strive to improve the quality of rugby and the new breakdown laws we’ll be trialling are designed to make the game safer to play, easier to understand and more entertaining to watch.
“Our focus once again will be on providing fun, family-friendly entertainment, with at least one game in each provincial union giving kids the opportunity to eat for free. Our players of the future will run the ball onto the field at the start of every game and each home team will be available to sign autographs after the final whistle.
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“The rich history of provincial rugby is passed on through stories of great matches between fierce rivals and the Ranfurly Shield is integral to that legacy. The Log o’ Wood remains the most cherished trophy in domestic rugby and another chapter in its colourful 114-year existence will be written over the coming weeks.”
This is the first year that both the Cup and Heartland Championship competitions will be supported by the same title sponsor, Mitre 10. The partnership also includes sponsorship of the Women’s Provincial Championship – recently re-named the Farah Palmer Cup - and the Jock Hobbs Memorial Under 19 tournament. Mitre 10 is the first sponsor of all the major fifteens domestic competitions in New Zealand.
Valspar are the new sponsors of provincial rugby match officials across all four competitions.
Week one preview
The competition kicks off in Albany as North Harbour take on Counties Manukau at QBE Stadium on Thursday 18 August, with Northland hosting Manawatu at Toll Stadium the following day.
Saturday sees Bay of Plenty play Taranaki at Tauranga Domain, before the long-awaited rematches of last year’s Championship and Premiership Finals as Hawke’s Bay face Wellington at Napier’s McLean Park, followed by the evening clash between 2015 champions Canterbury and runners-up Auckland at AMI Stadium in Christchurch.
Southland and Otago renew their long-standing rivalry at Rugby Park, Invercargill, on Sunday 21 August, and the opening round concludes with the visit of Waikato to Blenheim’s Lansdowne Park, where Tasman will be looking to build on last year’s third place finish.
The Ranfurly Shield will go on the line for the first time in round two, when holders Waikato, who have successfully held off three challenges in pre-season matches, defend the Log o’ Wood against North Harbour on Saturday 27 August at 2.35pm.
Competition finals
The Mitre 10 Championship Final – to decide the promotion and relegation teams – will be played on Friday 28 October with the Mitre 10 Premiership Final taking place on Saturday 29 October.
Competition draw
For a full copy of the Mitre 10 Cup 2016 draw, click here.
2016 Law Trials
Click here for more on the 2016 Law Trials.
View team and player rankings, compare players and check out referee statistics throughout the competition at mitre10cup.co.nz/stats.
Mitre 10 Cup about to launch in Auckland! pic.twitter.com/RoBtu6QZNQ— Mitre10 Cup (@Mitre10Cup) August 8, 2016
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Israelis in Mokum. is a series of five portraits of Israelis who have settled in Amsterdam. In the series a theater coordinator, a conductor, an artist, a single mother and a businesswoman share with the viewer a glimpse look into their life in Amsterdam.
History’s Ultimate Nomads. Ever since their exodus out of Egypt, Jews have wandered through regions, countries and continents, emerging as history’s ultimate nomads. For centuries, Jewish communities have been prone to appear, disappear and reappear almost anywhere, belonging everywhere and yet nowhere. In a series of television documentaries, the audience journeys through the long and sometimes tragic, yet noble story of the Jews across history.
About Sugarcane and Homecoming About Sugarcane and Homecoming tells the story of a growing number of people in the North Eastern part of Brazil, on a quest for identity and faith. People born into Catholicism who are claiming they are a part of Judaism. They congregate and create a community that is becoming a sub culture of Judaism. A Jewish community that follows traditional Jewish religion and rites, practices Jewish family and communal life, but is not recognized by the Jewish establishment worldwide.
“I Read the Newspaper with Scissors” a portrait of Dr.Henriette Boas (1911-2001). This is the story of an uncompromising woman almost everybody loved to hate. Born in 1911 as the child of Marcus Boas, a Jewish professor who dedicated his life to science, Henriette Boas was considered a genius. At the age of 2 she would quote Homer to her father’s students. She graduated form the university with honors. But the woman widely considered a great mind “only” tirelessly wrote thousands of letters to the editor.
Between Revolution and Tradition Documentary about the struggle of the Jewish community in Cuba to preserve its identity, a successful struggle which reaches its climax with the famous visit of Fidel Castro to the Patronato synagogue in Havana.
Jewish Mysticism plays a central role in this film. Esther February-Roos give the audience an insight into Jewish kabalistic meditation and the artists Amos van Gelder and Joseph Halevy shows how did Kabalah influenced their works
The Druz in Israel are a distinct religious community based mostly in syrie Lebanon Jordan and Israel. The use the Arab language and follow a social patroon that resembles in the Arabs but often consider themselves not as Arabs. Today around 600.000 Druz live in the Middle East . Within the israeli society they form an Autonom minority with its own independent cultural and religiën institutions. The serve in the Israeli Army and their loyalty was never kiestonen. During the weeks they bring in their villages, the filmmakers try to gain an insight to their culture and their historical and present day Connection to the Jews.
Don’t accept me the way i am If someone 20 years ago would have said that the brain is elastic and as such is changeable he would be declared as madman. But that’s is precisely what professor Reuven Feurestein claimed. The brain can be influenced by the behaviour. According to that he developed his acclaimed methode called” “meditatieve learning experience” which treats the disabled. According to proffesor Feuerestein, hemzelf an Ortodocs Jew, his methode is strongly based on Jewish learning methode. The film follows Ella Yossef, a single mother who works with her autistic child Ronel according to feurestein’s methode.
About Marx and Moses examines the combination of religious and socialist ideals under one roof. When the religious socialist movement first presented itself, its members encountered resistance not only from the secular socialists which opposed religion, but mainly from their family and the old religious establishment itself. However, the religious kibbutz movement became a success that continues to the present day. But can the survival of the religious Kibbutz be insured? Do the youngsters still believe in the ideals of their parents or will they follow the general trend in Israel, that of far-reaching individualization and commercialisation?
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The Right to a Future
January 31, 2011 By: NCVeditor Category: Culture, Ecology, Family, Guest Author
A New Lens and Lexicon for Navigating ‘Climate Collapse’
by Raffi Cavoukian
Are we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of seven billion in a way that connects with the public and with decision makers?
The science on global warming is clear and compelling. Earth is in serious climate crisis. That’s why many writers have recently upgraded climate change to climate collapse, climate catastrophe, the long emergency. To convey the climate threat fully, we need a new Story.
In a well known Greek myth, the very rich King Midas, who loves gold above all else, is granted his singular wish that everything he touches turn into gold. The gift becomes a curse when his golden touch kills plants, food and even his daughter, who is turned into a statue. Bereft and repentant, forsaking greed, the king begs for deliverance. His curse is lifted by a wash in the river. All he holds truly precious is restored.
The modern version of the story is about a gold rush called globalization, a monetized world order that commodifies everything and poisons all that it touches: air, water, soil, whales, indigenous cultures, mothers’ milk and babies, now born with a body burden of toxic chemicals. Money as symbolic reward for goods and services, when elevated above all else, becomes a curse. The symbol turns tyrant and casts a plague on the living. We’re currently in the atonement chapter of the tragedy, praying we have time to write a happier ending.
“Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.” -James Hansen (2009)
“There is no historical precedent, however, for what we must do if we are to endure.” -David Orr, (2009)
“We’re screwed!” -David Letterman (2009)
For over two decades, there’s been a failure to effectively communicate the climate change crisis. Despite the best efforts of climate scientists and environmentalists to describe the dangers of inaction to policy makers and the general public, political response has been slow, most people have not sensed the seriousness of the issue and the rate of CO2 emissions, rather than falling, has accelerated.
Experts are using escalating phrases to describe climate change. James Hansen: “the coming climate catastrophe,” “our last chance to save humanity”; Gustav Speth: “system failure,” “looking into the abyss.” Lester Brown writes: “The signs that our civilization is in trouble are multiplying.” These are not doomsayers; they’re telling the truth of this pivotal chapter of the modern saga as they see it.
I propose a new lens and lexicon for conveying climate change as the greatest threat on Earth, a tragedy of epic proportions, especially for the world’s young.
Here are the main elements of the new story. The lens is Earth and Child – Child friendly means Earth friendly. The lexicon is a whole brain “linking language” of systems, not fragments. The frame is climate change as The Crisis, the compound threat to the human future. The story aligns present with future, connecting climate change to kids, health and behavior so families get that it’s about them and their future. Just as the loss of King Midas’s daughter melted his gold-worn heart, children may yet move humanity to bathe in a new river. The story’s protagonist is the Child, our conscience.
The moral of the new story is undeniable: We must not love money more than children. While there is time, societies must reorder priorities toward supporting life systems — what matters most — not maximizing monetary wealth, or else succumb to the Midas craze and kill what we love. The choice is clear: Gaia’s gift of life, or the Midas curse.
Urgently, we need to create a world fit for children, with social and economic systems that constitute a culture of respect for them and for their planetary habitat. A livable future for children and future generations depends on a stunning paradigm shift that stabilizes climate by reducing suffering and increasing joy.
Nobody can guarantee a future. But who has the right to steal it?
“Please, be bold. Be courageous. Be positive. Act and demand action.” -James Hoggan (2009)
As Gaia’s children, we’re in a jam.
Industrial activity of 250 years threatens the evolution of billions. The relentless commerce of just decades has assaulted planetary life supports and left our fractured commons in peril. Planetary physicians say the patient is ill, the prognosis is not good. In this time of downward and upward spirals, the wane of empire amidst the rise of something new, the heavily-armed global disorder makes things much worse in the short term, while a green revolution grows in the cracks, praying for time.
The climate alarm’s been ringing for a long time. Since1979, scores of scientists, environmentalists and diplomats have tried their best to wake people up to the issue. NASA climate scientist James Hansen outlined the “greenhouse effect” causing the planet’s warming in 1988. The following year, David Suzuki referred to global warming as “a matter of survival.” Maurice Strong, who organized the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio warned: “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse” (The Province, Vancouver, May 10, 1992).
From Rio’s Agenda 21 Report and Earth Charter declaration, to the 1993 Union of Concerned Scientists’ Warning to Humanity and beyond, we’ve had a long parade of warnings for twenty years. Yet we’ve lost ground. Recent books forecast a range of dire scenarios related to warming. None are anything to look forward to.
Lester Brown urges a worldwide green house gas reduction of 80 percent by 2020 in a comprehensive plan with an annual global budget for doing so. According to James Hansen, among the world’s leading climate scientists, delays on CO2 cuts will impose a heavy burden on our ability to meet climate adversity, let alone stay civil.
There’s still hope. If a child moved King Midas’s heart, the Child can move ours.
If our species could be granted one wish, what would that be? Wouldn’t it be to lift the Midas curse and restore what we have lost?
It’s essential to connect the climate threat to the present state of the world. Without global warming, the state of humanity on our ravaged planet would still be perilous. Humanity lives in profound inequity and hardship: A billion thirsty, another billion impoverished, yet more and more billionaires. Banks receive bailout billions, while families lose their life savings. Destitute children survive in refugee camps, favelas and barrios, while, in some affluent countries, children are sexually violated at pandemic levels, and large numbers are homeless. Synchronous failures threaten our life support in a long list of crises, including mass species extinction, desertification, deforestation, freshwater shortages, marine life depletion, coral reef die-off, nuclear weapons, war mongering and, not least, rogue and state terror. The fossil fuel gorging of wealthy as well as developing nations comes at a huge cost to their own citizens and to the world. Repeatedly, monetary concerns override wisdom at incalculable expense.
Any child can see how dumb this worldwide system is, how unjust and how suicidal it is. The globalized gold rush, despite its supposed benefits, is a disaster. “Business as usual” has failed its children. With global warming, the breadth of that failure becomes clearer.
Climate change is not one among many issues, it is THE crisis, the greatest threat on Earth.
It represents the cumulative damage done, the aggregate calamity for which there is no partial remedy. It can best be addressed with changes to systems, beginning with belief systems that are learned very early. The root cause of global warming and future loss is found in the belief systems that drive predatory commerce, relentless advertising and rampant consumption.
To change societal priorities and cut harmful emissions for good, change personal belief systems. Start young.
Earth and Child
Coming to grips with future loss, we must link Earth and Child, self-interest with group survival and child health to global health. Earth and child, mother and young. Earth harm becomes child harm and, seen the other way, child friendly means Earth friendly. In sustainability strategies, we can’t overlook the Child.
“This revolution has to transform the way we think … we can’t accept the greed, the denial, the short term thinking and the pollution.” -Alec Loorz, 16
“I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market… You grownups say you love us. But I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words.” -Severn Cullis-Suzuki, age 12 (Rio, 1992)
In Rio, young Severn’s voice scolded the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development delegates, saying she’d come 5,000 miles “to tell you adults you must change your ways.” Had world leaders heeded her message, we’d not be facing climate chaos 18 years later. (Severn is now 30, the mother of a baby boy.)
In 2006, a 12-year-old California boy, Alec Loorz, founded Kids vs. Global Warming, met with political leaders and gave talks in high schools reaching 100,000 kids. Now 16, he wants everyone to “live as if the future matters.” But in the global economy business is not conducted “as if the future matters.” Short-termism runs economic and political cycles, counter to Alec’s wisdom.
Children have the strongest moral claim on climate action. It’s their future at stake. The Earth and Child lens is key. To grow Earth stewards, steward the children. This is where the restoration must focus — strategically and morally — with children. Not only do kids get sustainability, they have the most to lose or gain.
No belief system is as important as a child’s need to believe in the love of family and community. This is what our societies must quickly learn and not forget.
In the midnight hour of history, how are we to stabilize climate? By caring. By loving our children enough to demand and co-create nothing less than a whole systems’ shift to the caring societies that would make our world “fit for children” and, thus, for all.
In our new story, we need to live in a synergy of systems aligned in purpose and toward an overall systems’ goal. Aligning present with future is a critical connection we need to make in all our institutions to support the enormous creative intelligence of our species’ developing geniuses, the children.
No faith tradition condones degrading Earth’s life supports, destroying indigenous cultures and wantonly exploiting children.
The antidote for climate change is systems’ change. That’s the new story message: about societies coming of age, coming to their senses and moving heaven and Earth for their children. It’s about growing a generation of Earth stewards on every continent devoted to reclaiming the stolen future.
“Could this not be the single thought that steers us through the dangerous passage — a world that honours all its children?” -Peter M. Senge, Senior Lecturer, MIT
With humanity’s survival at stake, we have to learn to live as if the future matters. That’s why “Educating for Sustainability” is gaining ground. Early on, students can learn connective, mind-expanding words such as biomimicry, ecoliteracy, consilient, multidisciplinary, systemic, fiduciary, feedback loops, synergy, holistic, and more.
I propose a moratorium on the term “the environment.” (It’s a cold term for our living spaces and the community of nature in which we are kin.) The same goes for the word “warrior,” which progressives use as they “do battle” for social justice or an end to war.
I propose we get excited about systems’ change and a new lexicon for engaging it. Let’s quiet the habitual brain and grow new neurons for an epic survival adventure. Systems’ change is good news!
Right to a Future. Climate collapse begs a new human right. I propose that “The Right to a Future” be added to the articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Indeed, the right to a future can be for systems’ change: humanity’s survival depends on children’s well-being and their desire to live.
Systems’ Goal. Civilization is a broken system that can’t be fixed. Urgently, we need to build a new civilization that is the antithesis of empire – an “Earth community,” as David Kurten puts it – one whose systems’ goal is sustainability and a level playing field for all children.
Communion. As Thomas Berry said, we are not a collection of objects, we are a “communion of subjects.” Can you imagine commerce in a spirit of communion? What economic rules would best further that intention?
Bionomy. This means “management of the biosphere” (from economy’s origin, “oikonomia,” management of the household), or, stewarding the planet. Bionomy embraces what ecological economists advocate: including full cost pricing and accounting, tax shifts, carbon tax, eco-subsidies and a well-being Index.
iMatter. Alec Loorz plans a global iMatter campaign for our future, featuring a multi-national kids’ march on Mother’s Day 2011.
Child Honoring. This is my term for an all-encompassing framework for simultaneously restoring communities and ecosystems. It is a positive vision with a unifying central organizing principle for creating peacemaking cultures.
With all it portends, the specter of catastrophic climate change may offer our best and last chance to work toward a unity of purpose, a massive green revolution worldwide. And children hold the key to both the messaging of this profound transition and for inspiring an emotional tipping point for action.
With systems’ change, we can embrace the rules of a new paradigm: to affirm the young, support the organic, favor the local, align present with future and design with Earth and Child in mind.
By whose authority, by what legal precedent, by what spiritual claim, by what moral right can business activities so foul the living Earth so as to foreclose the future? Ray Anderson of Interface, the world’s largest floor coverings company, rightly says that he’s never heard “the business case for unsustainability.”
Business leaders: Corporations owe the children of the world a makeover. Children need you to curb the abusive powers corporations legally hold. For the desecration of Creation is wrong, regardless of legality. Act now on the moral impulse of your fiduciary duty to the young. You have no higher duty.
Ask not how the market can serve you — ask how you and an ethical market can serve to rewrite this critical chapter in human history.
With great haste, strive to enact laws that set corporate ingenuity free to serve humanity as 100 percent shareholders of the commons and to serve the shared dream of all families to provide a bright future for their children.
Like King Midas, the corporate elite has a chance at redemption — by forsaking greed and embracing life.
We Rise Again
“We rise again in the faces of our children / We rise again in the voices of our song.” -The Rankin family, from the song “Rise Again”
“If a thing must be done, it can be!” -Eleanor Roosevelt
As long as sustainability remains remote from people’s everyday consciousness, this “seven generations” ethic will wither. But seen in the faces of children and heard in their voices, it can inspire us now as never before.
Governments and CEOs must act, but people aren’t waiting. The transition town network inspires all manner of folks to engage the power of community with local sustainability strategies. Organic farmers, slow food proponents, green entrepreneurs and low-carbon advocates abound. Local living economies, municipal eco-bylaws and innovative grassroots initiatives are blossoming everywhere. But neither fast enough nor with enough impact, yet.
Embracing systems’ change is not about economic hardship or personal sacrifice; it’s about making the systemic changes that will greatly improve quality of life for us, our neighbors and our nations’ children. It’s something to get excited about.
The loss of his daughter gave King Midas an immediate conversion experience, but our species has not yet conceived of global warning in such tragic terms. Remembering Midas, we just might. Litigate, legislate, liberate. March, write, act.
At the Kyoto Global Forum in 1993, I heard Mikhail Gorbachev say that the 20th century was “a century of warning,” and that the 21st would be “either the century of total crisis or the century of human recovery.” His idea of glasnost and perestroika — openness and restructuring — unraveled the mighty Soviet Union. Can these words help us now?
Fast forward to the digital age. Consider the Internet’s enormous reach and convening power. What if social media gave the global disorder a “glasnost and perestroika shakedown,” just as unimaginable as the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall? (WikiLeaks has made a start on the openness part.) What if the abusive, globalized money system unravels by the power of individuals connected and flexing their tech muscle to collectively demand “the right to a future”?
What if this is the tipping point – when humanity bathes in a new river?
We’re in THE moral moment. We either breakdown or breakthrough to something completely new — a chance to reverse the Midas curse, thoroughly detoxify our world and cool this planet down. With the Earth and Child lens, we can redesign societies to be systems smart: just and sustainable, for the greatest good.
Schools, religious organizations, media, NGOs and policy makers need to share the new story and heed its moral imperative. A strong grassroots campaign, inspired by youth and in support of their future, can be a vital asset to building a critical mass.
For Severn and her baby, for Alec — for your own children and grandchildren — and for those to come, let’s embrace systems’ change. With utmost compassion let us steer a course away from icebergs and toward a welcoming shore.
Ray Anderson, “Mid-Course Correction” (1999), “Confessions Of A Radical Industrialist” (2009).
Mark Anielski, “The Economics of Happiness” (2007).
Lester Brown, “Plan B 4.0” (2009), “World On The Edge” (2011).
Cavoukian, Olfman, Ed., “Child Honouring” (2006).
Gwynne Dyer, “Climate Wars,” (2008).
Riane Eisler, “The Real Wealth of Nations” (2007).
Duane Elgin, “The Living Universe” (2009).
Thomas Friedman, “Hot, Flat and Crowded” (2008).
Daniel Goleman, “Ecological Intelligence” (2009).
James Hansen, “Storms of My Grandchildren” (2009).
Hazel Henderson, “Ethical Markets” (2007).
James Hoggan, “Climate Cover-Up” (2009).
Elizabeth Kolbert, “Field Notes From a Catastrophe” (2006).
Mark Lynas, “Six Degrees” (2008).
David Korten, “The Great Turning” (2006), “Agenda for a New Economy” (2010).
Bill McKibben, “Eaarth” (2009).
Alanna Mitchell, “Sea Sick” (2009).
George Monbiot, “Heat” (2009).
David Orr, “Down to the Wire” (2009).
Gustav Speth, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World” (2008).
Andrew Weaver, “Keeping Our Cool” (2008).
Edward O. Wilson, “Consilience” (1998), “The Creation” (2007).
Raffi Cavoukian — known to millions simply as Raffi — is a renowned children’s songwriter, performer, author, and entrepreneur.
{This article previously appeared on Truthout, and is reprinted here under Creative Commons licensing.}
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Unarmed Empowerment
January 11, 2013 By: NCVeditor Category: Culture, Family, Robert C. Koehler
Establishing a New Consciousness About Gun Violence
by Robert C. Koehler
“But my instinct was that if someone is shooting at you, it is generally better to shoot back than to cower and pray.”
This is the hidden argument for guns as America’s primary peacekeepers — that the debate comes down to gun ownership vs. helplessness.
Jeffrey Goldberg’s 7,000-word essay, “The Case for More Guns (and More Gun Control),” which ran in the December issue of The Atlantic — just prior to the Newtown killings — came down, for me, to the above sentence.
He made a number of quasi-reasonable points, the main one being that there are 300 million guns in America right now and it’s simply too late for gun control to be effective: “Only the naive think that legislation will prevent more than a modest number of the criminally minded, and the mentally deranged, from acquiring a gun in a country absolutely inundated with weapons.”
While he called for a number of sensible measures, such as closing the massive gun-show no-background-check loophole, requiring stringent training before someone can be eligible for a conceal-and-carry permit and restricting the sale of drum-style magazines that can hold 100 rounds of ammo — all allegedly demonstrating his lack of fanaticism on the issue — he ultimately makes the big surrender to the gun lobby: “Could it be that an effective way to combat guns is with more guns?”
We’re stuck, America. The guns are out there and would-be mass murderers and every other sort of punk and gangbanger who wants one is going to get one — laws or no laws — and we’re all in danger. Maybe there’s a way to keep yourself and your children safe without a gun, but if there is, Jeffrey Goldberg doesn’t know about it.
“I have a daughter,” he even says at one point — commenting on what seem to be remarkably lame instructions at various “no guns allowed” universities to ward off mass murderers, rapists, etc. — “and I’d rather have her have the ability to defend herself.” Presumably he means he wants his daughter to be able to carry a handgun to class, though he doesn’t say this outright.
He could suggest that she take a self-defense class, which is the suggestion I made to my own daughter a few years ago — and she did, and gained sufficient self-confidence to handle a few troublesome situations. A good self-defense class first of all teaches presence of mind and awareness that one always has options in the face of danger — a topic I will continue to address in future columns.
But back to the poor sap who has no better option than to “cower and pray” as the mayhem is going off around him. First of all, whether one is armed or unarmed, finding cover is probably a sensible plan, but calling it “cowering” probably is not. And when one is not in immediate danger but merely writing about the generic possibility of danger in gun-saturated America, to imagine only two options for oneself, one of which is to cower and the other is to shoot back, is to regurgitate propaganda and lay the groundwork for perpetual fear.
Before we need a gun debate in this country, or on this planet, we need a sensible discussion about the nature of empowerment, and we need to wrest the concept from the hands — if necessary, the cold, dead hands — of gun-industry shills, who claim that unarmed means disempowered, and who forget, among much else, to warn us that it’s possible to be both armed and disempowered, and that this is perhaps the most dangerous state of all.
“Most assailants work from a definite set of expectations about how the victim will respond, and they need the victim to act like a victim,” theologian Walter Wink wrote in The Powers That Be. And, he said, the best way not to “act like a victim” is to respond to a threat from outside the expectations of the attacker — not with flailing fear or paralyzed surrender, not with prayerful cowering, but, sheerly, with presence of mind. In such a state, your self-defense options multiply.
Several years ago, I wrote a column called “Presence of Mind,” in which I relayed several stories told to me by friends about how they (in one case it was my friend’s mom) diffused dangerous situations without a weapon. In both cases, the key was maintaining eye contact with the assailant and, as Wink said, refusing to act like a victim. I then invited readers to email their own stories to me about defusing a threat with unarmed presence of mind.
The idea was to start piercing the myth of unarmed helplessness that is the invisible companion of the gun discussion. I agree with Goldberg that the 300 million guns in this country aren’t going to simply vanish, and any attempt to ban or, good Lord, confiscate them will set off a “Prohibition effect” that will surely make matters worse. I also agree that occasionally armed civilians thwart or curtail dangerous situations. For good or ill, I have no choice but to coexist with the gun culture.
What I don’t want is to see the gun culture or its sidekick, the fear culture, spread. I don’t want to see guns become as common as cell phones. The only long-term antidote to the plague of violence that’s consuming us is a culture of empowerment, which is a “pre-armed” state, you might say.
Please send me stories of unarmed dispersion of danger. I plan to relaunch a clearinghouse of such stories and contribute to the establishment of a new American consciousness about violence.
Robert C. Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer, and a Contributing Author for New Clear Vision. His new book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound (Xenos Press) is now available. Contact him at [email protected], visit his website at commonwonders.com or listen to him at Voices of Peace radio.
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You’ve hit the bullseye of the issue. Even Gandhi said that violence in self-defense was preferable to cowardice. But he also spent a lifetime teaching that non-violent courage was preferable to all other forms.
“I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence…I want both the Hindus and Mussalmans [Muslims] to cultivate the cool courage to die without killing. But if one has not that courage, I want him to cultivate the art of killing and being killed rather than, in a cowardly manner, flee from danger.”
We are a fearful nation, and we are susceptible to the illusion that standing behind a gun gives us courage, when it merely offers a more lethal outlet for our fear and an invitation to retaliation in kind.
It is said that the greatest Samurai is one who never unsheathes his sword, because he has so much presence that none dare confront him.
We must learn how to cultivate presence, rather than promulgate fear. That is, perhaps, our greatest challenge.
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Space Dimension Controller
In early 2008, age 18, Space Dimension Controller (R&S, Clone Royal Oak) made his first album in his bedroom in Belfast, now set for a release this March. Crunchy, tattered and enjoyably odd - Orange Melamine is a lovingly produced and deeply personal album that laces supernatural sounds and translucent synths with a sense of overflowing harmony. Washed in reverb and draped in hiss, the album draws influence from the old VHS tapes handed down to...
In early 2008, age 18, Space Dimension Controller (R&S, Clone Royal Oak) made his first album in his bedroom in Belfast, now set for a release this March.
Crunchy, tattered and enjoyably odd - Orange Melamine is a lovingly produced and deeply personal album that laces supernatural sounds and translucent synths with a sense of overflowing harmony. Washed in reverb and draped in hiss, the album draws influence from the old VHS tapes handed down to Space Dimension Controller from his older brother and cousins, as well as artists like Boards of Canada, Brian Eno and William Basinski. The album is also steeped in audio and visual references from 80’s and 90’s sci-fi films and animations; from The Guyver, Short Circuit, The Gobots, and Ghostbusters through to The Fifth Element, Escape from New York and Power Rangers.
The recording process involved Space Dimension Controller (real name Jack Hamill) using a batch of unopened pyral cassette tapes from the 70’s, some of which were so old they had degraded, he claims: “A lot of the drum sounds were created from scratch in some granular programs and putting them onto the tapes really changed the sound of them. Every track in each track was recorded separately onto one of these tapes at double speed and 200% pitch then the tape was recorded back into the DAW at half speed. Looking back at it now, I can’t believe how patient I was when making this album, it really took a long time.” The use of these tapes creates a rough prettiness and incessant buzz beneath the stuttering beats and glitch-heavy techno effects. On tracks like “The Bad People” and “West G Cafetaria” Hamill, like the best producers of his ilk, has made something just short of pop music without compromising the album’s essential strange qualities.
The title refers to Hamill’s memories of living with his grandparents when he was younger; the orange comes from the 80s style tiling in their kitchen, and the melamine from the snake enclosures his grandfather helped build for him. About the album he explained that: “it definitely means a lot to me as it really shows a very specific time in my production and life. I feel very nostalgic thinking about the period when I was making it all.”
On Orange Melamine Hamill skilfully displays his early ability to make electronic tracks there are intricate and futuristic but also imbued with personality. Original without being difficult, enjoyable while being distinctive; that Orange Melamine triumphs without compromise is testament to a distinctively creative artist.
Gullfire
The Bad People
Leader-1
Adventures in Slime and Space
Multicoloured Evolving Sky
Orange Melamine
In early 2008, age 18, Space Dimension Controller (R&S, Clone Royal Oak) made his first album in his bedroom in Belfast, now set for a release this March. Crunchy, tattered and enjoyably odd - Orange Melamine is a lovingly produced and deeply personal album that laces supernatural sounds and translucent synths with a sense of overflowing harmony. Washed in reverb and draped in hiss, the album draws influence from the old VHS tapes handed down to Space Dimension Con...
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My research on the representation of coal in British theatre comes out of a longstanding interest in culture and climate change. I was drama critic of the Independent on Sunday (1995-2000), wrote five books for the National Theatre (2000-2006) and edited the Methuen Student Edition of Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" (2003). Since 2007 I have worked for The Economist's Intelligent Life magazine as the "Going Green" columnist, online editor (nominated for a British Society of Magazine Editors award) and associate editor. I have co-edited - with Dr Joe Smith and Dr Renata Tyszczuk - "Culture and Climate Change: Recordings" (2011) and "Culture and Climate Change: Narratives" (2014). For 25 years, I have been a trustee of an environmental charity, the Ashden Trust, editing publications on air pollution, aviation and renewable energy. I also co-edited the website, the Ashden Directory of Theatre and Environment (2000-2014), where I wrote a daily blog, Ashdenizen, on culture and climate change. Many of these blogposts appear in "Landing Stages" (2015).
Gathering around stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions (2017-07-28)
Smith, Joe; Butler, Robert; Day, Rosie; Fyfe, Hamish; Goodbody, Axel; Llewellyn, David; Rohse, Mel; Smith, Bradon; Tyszczuk, Renata; Udall, Julia and Whyte, Nicola
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PCDU Episode 51: Pig Out!
By Grant (Falcon124), on January 21st, 2011%
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (107.4MB)
In November 2010 the PCDU team were invited to attend the Media Day at RAAF Amberley where members of 6 Squadron were gathered to give us one final look at the F111 before it was retired from service. We have gathered the interviews we recorded during the Media Day and combined them with a couple of discussions to present our tribute to the F111 and all those who helped to keep them in the air.
This is our longest episode to date so you may want to make use of the PAUSE button to get through it all. Like the PIG, it’s big, but we think the content is just too good to leave any of it out. The F111 has been a major part of our lives over the last 30 years in Australia and New Zealand and anyone who has experienced the RAAF’s trademark “Dump & Burn” display will have some idea why we’re so sad to see them go.
From seeing an F111 doing 4-point hesitation rolls, aileron rolls and a loop at Avalon to watching them racing past while sitting on the beach on a summer’s day, the F111 became an icon of Australia’s military as they provided us with a long range projection of power. They leave a large gap in our force structure now that they have been retired and a hole in the hearts of many who kept them flying.
So long, pig and remember: That’ll do, Pig. That’ll do!
The contents of this episode include:
The Media Day’s opening press conference (starts at 06:08)
A discussion with David Vanderhoof about the history of the F111 including its inception and service with the USAF & RAAF (starts at 32:06)
We talk to Wing Commander Terry Deeth about his time as a bombadier/navigator (or Weapons Systems Officer) with the F111 while on rotation to the USAF (starts at 51:33)
We visited the F111 simulator on the base and got to meet:
Steve Clark, an ex-RAAF F111 pilot who has more hours in an F111 than almost anyone else in the world (starts at 1:05:40)
Brett Denton, a computer technician who helps to keep the simulator operating (starts at 1:11:29)
While everyone likes to focus on the guys in the cockpit, an F111 needs a lot of maintenance between flights so we managed to catch up with a few of the techos:
Flight Lieutenant Adam Firth & Sergeant Chris Walker (starts at 1:15:32)
Corporal James Morton (starts at 1:30:19)
Corporal David Bash, an American now living in Australia (starts at 1:35:50)
We talk with Flight Lieutenant Vlad Bismark about flying the F111 (starts at 1:47:25)
We have a chat with Brendan Cowan from ADF Serials about the history of the RAAF’s F111s and with Chris Daley from the Save the F111 page on Facebook about how the page developed and where it’s going now (starts at 1:55:28)
We interview Wing Commander Al Curr who ejected from an F111 on take off from RNZAF Ohakea in New Zealand (starts at 2:14:12)
Our final chat is with Wing Commander Michael (Micka) Gray, officer commanding 6 Squadron and the world’s last F111 unit commander (starts at 2:20:42)
We also have a couple of “Shout Outs” in this episode:
Flight Lieutenant Skye Smith for her tireless efforts in making the Media Day run smoothly, not to mention herding us about the base and ensuring we didn’t wind up where we shouldn’t be (wonder if there’s a “Keeping media on track” medal in the ADF??? :)
Listener Chris Whyte who we met at RAAF Amberley has produced an F111 tribute video called “RAAF F-111 tribute feat. TV Rock – ‘In the Air'” – you can find it on YouTube and it’s well worth watching a few times
Adam Firth, ADF Serials, Al Curr, Amberley, Brendan Cowan, Brett Denton, Chris Daley, Chris Walker, Chris Whyte, David Bash, David Vanderhoof, F111, Facebook, James Morton, Michael Gray, Micka Gray, Pig, RAAF, RNZAF, Save the F111, simulator, Skye Smith, Steve Clark, Terry Deeth, USAF, Vlad Bismark
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PCDU Episode 128: Unprecedented
By admin, on October 30th, 2016%
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:15:05 — 135.2MB)
From Grant’s collection of ballooning interviews to a chat with Owen Zupp about his latest book and our tribute to Hannes Arch, this episode is our biggest yet (yes, even bigger than Episode 51, our tribute to the RAAF’s F-111s!). We’ve even captured Anthony “The Infrequent Flyer” Simmons’ first ever viewing of the movie TopGun (in IMAX 3D no less :) ).
Balloons and Tiger Moths. Gotta love old school flying :)
The episode unfolds as:
00:00:00 – Our tribute to Hannes Arch, the Red Bull Air Race champion pilot who tragically died in a helicopter crash in September, 2016.
00:04:54 – Show start & introduction.
00:14:12 – We talk with Owen Zupp about his new book: Without Precedent. It’s the biography of his father that covers his time as a commando in World War 2, flying Meteors during the Korean War, flying Constellations with QANTAS and later flying in General Aviation. It’s a fantastic read and highly recommended.
We started by discussing Steve’s recent Tiger Moth flight with Vintage Airways at Lilydale and how much fun he had finally flying an aircraft he swore he’d never go in.
01:05:22 – Grant talked with Phil Kavanagh back in 2013 about the early days of sport ballooning in Australia in the 60’s & 70’s, manufacturing balloons in Australia, teaching themselves to fly, setting up Kavanagh Balloons, sourcing materials, new developments and the future of ballooning technology.
01:27:09 – After talking to Phil, Grant caught up with Sean Kavanagh about his career in aviation ranging from being an aircraft engineer with QANTAS through to flying & making hot air balloons. Sean has flown in competitions and also been a commercial pilot flying at various locations around Australia, including the challenging city of Melbourne. In 2013 Sean was designing new balloons and burners for the company, including producing the inevitable paperwork and dealing with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). We also discuss in some detail the effort that has gone into designing the new Series IV Crossfire burner.
01:52:50 –
Owen Zupp’s “Without Precedent”
John Wallington is the Flight Director of the Canberra Balloon Spectacular, an annual event which has been running since the 80’s. He talked with Grant in 2015 about the experience of flying over Canberra and keeping the flying side of the event running smoothly and safely.
01:55:37 – Don Whitford is the meteorologist of choice for ballooning events in Australia and he spoke with Grant about his career of more than 40 years in aviation weather forecasting. They also talk about the impacts of the changing weather patterns that are being experienced recently.
02:05:06 – Frank Wechter was at Canberra flying the Angry Birds special shape balloon.
02:06:53 – SQNLDR Damien Gilchrist used to be with the RNZAF flying Strikemasters, Macchi 339s and A-4 Skyhawks before transferring to the RAAF about fifteen years ago and in 2015 & 2016 was the primary pilot of the RAAF hot air balloon.
02:10:33 – Richard Turnbull is back from the UK flying for commercial operators around Australia and returns to the show to briefly talk about what he’s been up to lately.
02:12:56 – Grant chats with Ruth Wilson, Australia’s first female commercial hot air balloon pilot who has been flying balloons for over 40 years and also has a fixed wing license. She was also the first Australian hot air balloon champion and represented Australia at events around the world. They talk about flying over Canberra and being involved in the Women Fly It Forward event by taking young ladies for their first flights.
02:17:01 – Grant flew with Kevin Cooper in his Thunder & Colt Chariot balloon which is essentially a two seat chair lift hanging under a small balloon that is a LOT of fun to fly. They also talk about his career flying balloons around the world and the experience of flying over Canberra.
Cameron’s “UP” Balloon was designed to look like a collection of small helium balloons.
Jeff Vella is an ex-RAAF pilot who currently flies airliners for Cathay Pacific and is based out of Hong Kong. He’s also one of the pilots flying the RAAF hot air balloon as well as flying the Cathay Pacific hot air balloon.
02:32:58 – Nick Purvis is the Sales Director of Cameron Balloons and he talks with Grant about the “UP” balloon on its “Up Down Under” tour and the new 250kg RAAF special shape balloon. They also talk about building special shape balloons including printing graphics on envelope, the interior gusseting & supports that help to keep the shape and the “dead air” that doesn’t contribute to lift but helps pressurise the shape of the balloon. Nick also gives us a quick history of the Cameron Balloon company.
02:46:05 – SQNLDR Damien Gilchrist returns to talk about flying the new RAAF special shape hot air balloon.
02:49:24 – Grant, Ms Kitt and Steven Pam took Anthony “the Infrequent Flyer” Simmons to see TopGun in 3D at the giant IMAX cinema in Melbourne. They chat about their expectations before going into the cinema and then perform a debrief after the movie. We’ve got the need, the need for speed! Oh my!
03:04:06 – Steve & Grant wrap up the episode and discuss Grant’s recent commentary at the Wings Over Macleay air show at Kempsey in New South Wales plus the upcoming Angel Flight charity event at Lake Macquarie on November 6th with Matt Hall, OzRunways and AOPA. Steve will be MC for the event and Steven Pam will be there shooting stills and video.
The boys also discuss how Steve’s trying to get used to flying a Cessna with a glass cockpit along with how Steve recently dobbed Kathy Mexted in as a guest host for the Plane Talking UK show. Finally, Grant’s getting his notes ready to do the commentary for OzKosh at Narromine. It’s all go especially as Steve’s getting ready to move into a new house that’s almost finished being built and will include a cool new studio for future recording.
Kevin Cooper about to take a friend for a flight in his Chariot.
Angry Birds with the Dodo balloon
Ruth Wilson took two young ladies up for their first flights as part of Women Fly it Forward.
The new RAAF “Flying Helmet” special shape hot air balloon
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Beck: Ted Cruz ‘Was Truly Raised Up For This Purpose At This Time’
By Kyle Mantyla | November 4, 2015 3:58 pm
On his radio program today, Glenn Beck revealed that a documentary about Ted Cruz was being filmed for the GOP hopeful’s presidential campaign at Beck”s television studio in Texas last week and Beck was so moved by what he saw that he simply had to interrupt its production so that he could tell everyone involved that Cruz has been supernaturally raised up at this moment in time to save this nation.
“I interrupted the director,” Beck said, “and I looked at the audience and I said, ‘Maybe this is me, but is anybody feeling what I’m feeling?’ That this man was born at this time — it was with him and his dad — was born at this time and the parallels between Barack Obama and his father, who shaped him and shaped him as a Marxist, and Rafael Cruz, who was a Marxist … but then he raised this boy up?”
“Is anybody else feeling this?” he continued. “That this guy was truly raised up for this purpose at this time? Everybody in the audience said yes. There is something to Ted Cruz way beyond, and when you get to know his story and his father’s story, there is something really unique and special about that story.”
Gee, we imagine that the other GOP candidates must just be clamoring to attend an “unbiased” presidential debate hosted by someone like Beck while he is openly proclaiming that one of their rivals was “raised up for this purpose at this time.”
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Khaama Press, August 2, 2016
Taliban publicly execute 19-year-old girl in North of Afghanistan
He said the girl had taken shelter in a safe house after she left her home around two months ago but was brought back to home by her brother
The Taliban militants have publicly executed a 19-year-old girl in northern Sar-e-Pul province on charges of abandoning her family due to a domestic issue.
According to local officials, the girl, identified as Azada, was first tried in a desert court and was then shot dead by her brother and Taliban militants.
Provincial governor’s spokesman Zabiulllah Amani said the incident took place on Monday in Kohistanat district.
He said the girl had taken shelter in a safe house after she left her home around two months ago but was brought back to home by her brother.
Amani further added that the girl was taken out of the shelter after her brother promised to ensure her safety.
The latest involving public execution of a girl by the Taliban militants and her family member comes amid growing violence against the women across the country.
Earlier a 22-year-old woman was shot dead by her relatives on charges of having relations with an stranger over the telephone.
The woman was identified as Gul Jan and was allegedly been killed by the family of her husband in Pashtunkot district.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said “statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases.”
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.
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Fedotov said Afghanistan continued to be the worlds leading grower of opium poppies accounting for 74 percent of global production in 2010, a 14 percent drop from the year before. But he said this was due to a blight [plant disease] that wiped out half the countrys poppy crop, and that production is likely to bounce back this year due to better yields.
VOA, June 23, 2011
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Scott Marlowe
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2010 50 Book Reading Challenge Wrap-up
25. January 2011 Reading and Writing Miscellany (0)
Last year, I decided to take LibraryThing's challenge of reading 50 books. I got pretty close, but didn't quite make it all the way. I think I was mostly on track until about the last three months of the year when I started getting a lot of consulting work. Still, I did read 43 books, which I think was a lot more than I had read in previous years. That in itself makes this exercise a win for me. I think I settled into a nice rhythm, and started to recognize that when my reading slowed it wasn't always because I was busy doing other things. Sometimes the book just wasn't that good, and reading it was bringing me down rather than exciting me. Those times I stopped reading and moved on to the next book.
Looking at the complete list of books I read in 2010, all but one were fantasy. The loner in the group was Marley & Me by John Grogan, which I highly recommend, especially if you're a dog lover like I am. This was actually the first book I ever bought after having seen the movie of the same name starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. The movie was surprisingly good, and the book was even better. We have two dogs, one which is beginning to get up there in years; watching the movie and reading the book gave me a sneak preview of sorts concerning what to expect once 'my girl' finally does go to doggie heaven.
Other notable books included novels in the Overworld series by Jack Vance, The Gunslinger by Stephen King (which I thought was good but gave up on the series after reading the second book), a lot of the Tor.com free eBooks (which were mostly forgettable), as well as a number of books by Dave Duncan, all of which were excellent.
So, what's next?
First off, I'm dropping LibraryThing. I was trying to maintain accounts with both LibraryThing and GoodReads, but since the latter is by far the better site and I'm starting to build a book list as well reading relationships there, I'm 100% GoodReads now. Stop by and add me as contact if you want.
As for reading, I'm again going to engage in a reading challenge for 2011, but with a more modest goal of 35 books. I'll track this through GoodReads on my 2011 Reading Challenge page. I've got 3 books down already, with more to follow.
Last, I'm going to scale my book reviews down a bit for this year. I wrote a lot of reviews last year, so many that they were becoming a major consumer of my time. So, this year expect a lot less reviews. I'd entertained thoughts of starting my own f/sf review web site, but it's hard to add anything else to my workload right now.
This segues into where that time is going to get reallocated, and that is towards the sale and marketing of my two novels as well as what is looking more and more like a sequel to The Five Elements. More on that in another post.
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Honour of the Grave by Robin Laws
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Honour of the Grave by Robin Laws is another book that didn't do it for me. Unlike the last couple of books that I gave up on fairly early on, though, this one had me until one of the characters did something that I felt was completely out of character. Unfortunately, this event was jarring enough that I had to put this one down.
This novel is part of the Warhammer series of novels. I haven't read enough of them to know what order this might fit into or if there is any order to them at all, but the novel seems to stand alone. This is actually the second Warhammer novel I've reviewed.
So where did Honour of the Grave go wrong? It's when Angelika, who is a grave robber by trade, betrays her very nature by saving a young noble whom she knows will be killed once she hands him over to his rival brothers. Rather than taking the bounty, leaving the lad to his fate, and riding off to her next adventure, she snatches the young lord from the clutches of death and so makes herself some very powerful enemies, not to mention causing herself to stand out in a way you wouldn't think a grave robber would relish.
I wasn't alone in this opinion of Angelika as evidenced by the reviews on Amazon.
Unfortunately, what started as a fun fantasy romp fell flat when stood up against Angelika's bizarrely shifting personality.
Starfish by Peter Watts
I couldn't put my finger on it, but something about Starfish by Peter Watts just didn't do it for me. Perhaps it was the flat characters. Or the proliferation of dialog with little descriptive text or explanation as to what's going on. Or maybe it was the droll story development. Whatever the case, I didn't get very far in when I started to feel thoroughly unenthused about going on. I've found through personal experience that when I'm not excited about reading a book that it then becomes a chore or requirement that I continue reading. In my younger days I would accept this but soldier on anyway. Nowadays, my time is too valuable; there are too many good books out there to spend time on one I have to force myself to read.
That aside, Starfish was well-written, and I wonder if the author had jumped into the central story (whatever that may be) sooner then maybe I'd be writing this review giving the novel if not a thumbs up, then at least a more thorough review.
Wit'ch Fire by James Clemens
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Wit'ch Fire by James Clemens is one that I just couldn't finish. In fact, I didn't get very far at all with it.
The story begins with a foreword; never a good sign. Info dump (i.e., background story of a bygone era where bad things happened) ensues. The problem with a forward like that is that the reader isn't invested in any way: not in the world and certainly not in the characters. I'll admit I skimmed through most of it.
Then the story begins. The writing is competent enough, but, ah, the story. It's your basic farm boy girl who discovers she's the heir to an ancient power that if she learns to control will no doubt save the world. Someone is after her, too, which I suspect means she'll have to flee and will probably meet some nice people who will help her not get killed, or something.
Wit'ch Fire was published in 1999, which is about the time when these sorts of tales were beginning to go out of style. Perhaps if I'd read it back then, I wouldn't feel so detached from it. Perhaps it would have grabbed me and not let go. Perhaps, or perhaps not.
In any case, chalk Wit'ch Fire up as a "not finished."
Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb
Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb concludes the story begun in Dragon Keeper, book one of the Rain Wilds Chronicles. Word is that Hobb wrote this series intending it to be a single novel, but given it's length the publisher decided to split it in half (Robin Hobb informed readers of her blog that she is, in fact, working on a third book in the series). The result is that Dragon Keeper doesn't exactly leave us hanging or wanting to rush out to buy Dragon Haven (I didn't, but that was more about the then eBook price of $14.99; I finally bought it for $9.99). But, all that aside, I still was looking forward to getting my hands on this one.
The Rain Wilds is something Hobb has delved into more and more in each successive series of hers. These two novels delve deeper still. Whereas Dragon Keeper was about stunted dragons choosing keepers for themselves and the beginning of a journey to find the lost city of Kelsingra, Dragon Haven is about the continuing angst and trials between the dragons and their keepers and the conclusion of their quest.
I'll leave it to the reader to discover if they find Kelsingra or not, but I would like to comment that Hobb, in her own way, finally explains the acidity of the Rain Wilds River, something that has played into many of her novels and defines the people who choose to make their homes at its banks.
In terms of writing, it's hard to complain or find fault with Hobb. She's a wonderfully competent author who has a knack for developing rich characters dwelling amongst a richer world. As is mentioned often about Hobb's writing, pacing is an issue. If you're looking for the latest Abercrombie-type novel, go elsewhere. Hobb leads the reader on a slow walk down a meandering path, tantalizing with hints of something more and just enough contention and challenges that when presented, you tend to want to see how the characters involved make out. Sometimes they win, sometimes they don't. The conclusion of the Farseer Trilogy still stops me in mid-thought sometimes and sends me into fits of melancholy. It's powerful stuff.
If I were to say anything bad about Dragon Haven it's that we never get the level of tragedy I was expecting out of Hobb. It just seemed to me there were multiple points where certain characters could have come to serious harm or made to sacrifice, but those opportunities were passed over.
While Dragon Haven is a complete tale, I couldn't help but feel that it is only a stepping stone leading into Hobb's next series. There's a lot of setup here, with some aspects of the Rain Wilds and dragons in general finally explained, but we're left looking into a horizon that is not darkening, but becoming brighter and wider. In any case, Dragon Haven will be going on my Favorite Reads of 2010 list.
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[2011-04-15] Pun Action Scene
[quote="NeatNit"]Massive chase scene - Car A is chasing after Car B. Suddenly Car B crashes and is immediately wrecked. "Fuck", the guy says, as he gets out of the car and starts running, with Car A still chasing after him. And boy, can he run! The man can sprint faster than you can imagine! As Car A chases him, he doesn't try to evade, he actually [i]outruns the car![/i] The car does 50, so does he. The car does 100, 120 - so does he! But after a few minutes of full-speed chasing, suddenly the man slows down... And the car runs him over, flattening him on the road and literally driving over him! And the car just keeps going... The passenger in the car asks the driver: "What happened?" and the driver replies: "I guess he got tired." A few minutes later, the two guys in the car look behind them and see the same man - now bloody and injured - actually chasing them! He's somehow managed not only to survive, but also to get up, start running after the car and actually catch up to it! But just a few seconds after they notice him, the man starts coughing... Coughing and coughing, and coughing! The man can't stop coughing! Soon after that, he slows down, and the car loses sight of him once more. "What was THAT about?", the passenger asked. "What do you think?, replied the driver, "He was exhausted."[/quote]
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Re: [2011-04-15] Pun Action Scene
by NeatNit » Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:05 pm
Massive chase scene - Car A is chasing after Car B.
Suddenly Car B crashes and is immediately wrecked. "Fuck", the guy says, as he gets out of the car and starts running, with Car A still chasing after him.
And boy, can he run! The man can sprint faster than you can imagine! As Car A chases him, he doesn't try to evade, he actually outruns the car! The car does 50, so does he. The car does 100, 120 - so does he!
But after a few minutes of full-speed chasing, suddenly the man slows down... And the car runs him over, flattening him on the road and literally driving over him! And the car just keeps going...
The passenger in the car asks the driver: "What happened?" and the driver replies:
"I guess he got tired."
A few minutes later, the two guys in the car look behind them and see the same man - now bloody and injured - actually chasing them! He's somehow managed not only to survive, but also to get up, start running after the car and actually catch up to it!
But just a few seconds after they notice him, the man starts coughing... Coughing and coughing, and coughing! The man can't stop coughing! Soon after that, he slows down, and the car loses sight of him once more.
"What was THAT about?", the passenger asked.
"What do you think?, replied the driver,
"He was exhausted."
And boy, can he run! The man can sprint faster than you can imagine! As Car A chases him, he doesn't try to evade, he actually [i]outruns the car![/i] The car does 50, so does he. The car does 100, 120 - so does he!
by NeatNit » Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:46 pm
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-04-15
I came across this one via Random, it's brilliant!
[img]https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110415.gif[/img]
[img]https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20110415after.gif[/img]
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Texans Coming Back for Saints Game
November 12th, 2007 Matt Loede Posted in News
WR Andre Johnson and QB Matt Schaub will be back for the Texans-Saints game in Houston. Johnson, who sprained his knee in week 2, returns to an offense that desperately missed the Pro Bowl receiver’s playmaking abilities. In a way, Johnson led the Texans to their first two wins, but his absence has dragged the Texans to 4-5 and last in the AFC South Division. The loss of an important WR leads to more defensive opponents stopping the rush while still being able to cover the 2nd or 3rd string WRs on play action or designed pass plays because the receivers behind playmaker, like Johnson, do not have the abilities worth game planning around to stop the Texans. Schaub could still be accurate but he couldn’t expand his talents with Kevin Walter and Andre Davis catching his passes. Besides Walter and Davis’ spurts, the Texans have not had a receiver who can be counted upon like Andre Johnson. In the Texans first two games this season, Johnson had 14 receptions for 262 yards. WR Kevin Walter currently leads the Texans today with 43 receptions for 545 yards and only 1 TD. That’s in 9 games.
Johnson will definitely help the Texans offense against a weak Saints secondary that ranks 29th in the NFL while their opponents average over 250 yards per game in the air. And the Saints haven’t exactly played top offenses, the only one being Indianapolis in week one. There, Manning put up 288 yards and three passing touchdowns. Kubiak should have his offense, and especially Matt Schaub, ready for an aerial assault on the Saints secondary. So far, in 8 games for Schaub, he has7 interceptions and 5 touchdowns. These numbers should even out and improve as the season goes on with healthy receivers.
Furthermore, it looks as if Fred Bennett will be starting at CB opposite to either DB Von Hutchins or DB Petey Faggins. Hutchins has done well for the Texans, registering a sack in their last game against Oakland’s Josh McCown. Faggins has had a rollercoaster season, but can’t seem to peak as the Texans’ opponents have been striking against his questionable coverage. S Will Demps will most likely beat out S Michael Boulware for the safety spot that Hutchins leaves open as he takes a CB spot.
Ahman Green will most likely be on the injury report, and there are no reports about his meeting with Dr. James Andrews on his knee.
The Saints lost last week to the Rams but Reggie Bush still put the Rams to the test all game long. He had one touchdown and scored two 2point conversions. Brees will need to be rushed in the pocket to keep him from running outside and/or finding an open receiver, and that means the TE’s too. TE Eric Johnson is progressing well, while ex-Texan, Billy Miller scored a TD against the Rams.
One Response to “Texans Coming Back for Saints Game”
Green aka Batman will be limited in practice on Thursdays and Fridays, and Kubiak says Green’s meeting with Dr. Andrews gave them what it is. He’ll be bothered with this injury this season.
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Global Security Exchange adds to keynote lineup
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ASIS International recently announced that Air Force Major General Bradley D. Spacy and former Trump Administration Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland will join the keynote lineup for Global Security Exchange. In the first year of its rebrand following a 63-year history as the ASIS International Seminar and Exhibits, GSX will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 23 to 27.
“Our keynote lineup—featuring recognized experts in global affairs, technological innovation and industry transformation—delivers on our new brand promise to host a truly comprehensive global event,” Richard E. Chase, CPP, PCI, PSP, 2018 president of ASIS International, said in the announcement. “These speakers provide diverse perspectives that will set the tone for each day and bring to light both the risks and opportunities facing the profession and businesses at-large.”
As Commander of the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, General Spacy is responsible for mission support capabilities to 77 Air Force installations, nine major commands and two direct reporting units with an annual budget of approximately $10 billion. His Sept. 26 keynote, kicking off Military and Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, will examine the changing security landscape, both in the U.S. and around the world, ASIS said.
Spacy will also provide details on the new AFWERX innovation and tech hub in Las Vegas and how the Air Force is looking to collaborate with the private sector to bring new security product ideas to market. Attendees will also learn about the evolving AFWERX/ASIS partnership and will be the first to hear a special announcement about the AFWERX Challenge.
McFarland will close out the conference on Sept. 27 with her address, which will cover geopolitics around the globe. As the first deputy national security advisor in the Trump Administration, she will share an insider’s perspective on critical foreign policy and defense issues. McFarland’s presentation is open to all GSX registrants—including Expo-Only registration.
Spacy and McFarland join the GSX keynote program, which includes CNN Host Fareed Zakaria and futurist Scott Klososky.
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ADT announces senior leadership succession plan
Paul Ragusa
BOCA RATON, Fla.—ADT announced today that Jim DeVries, currently president of ADT, will be promoted to chief executive officer to succeed Tim Whall, who will be retiring on Nov. 30, 2018 after a decades-long career in the security industry.
“I am honored to have the opportunity to lead this talented team as we continue to drive operational excellence with the customer as our true north,” Jim DeVries said in the announcement. “Together, we will execute our strategies to innovate the customer experience, enhance our service capabilities, and deliver value for all stakeholders. ADT, including our dealer partners, has an exciting future ahead and I am energized by the opportunity to further establish the Company as an innovative leader. I look forward to working closely with Tim to ensure a seamless transition.”
DeVries will be appointed to the company’s board of directors following the transition, and Whall will remain on the company’s board and serve as an advisor to the Company.
“The Company has strengthened its core operations and is successfully executing on its strategy, and both the Board and I believe that now is the right time to initiate this transition of leadership responsibilities,” Whall said in the announcement. “Jim DeVries has led many of the Company’s recent operational and strategic improvements as Chief Operating Officer and President, making him well-positioned to succeed me as Chief Executive Officer. Today the fundamentals of our business are strong and I am confident that under the leadership of Jim and the current management team, ADT will continue to perform and deliver on its long-term growth plans.”
“As President, Jim has demonstrated his deep understanding of the dynamics of our business and what it takes to win in the marketplace,” Marc Becker, chairman of the ADT board of directors stated in a prepared statement. “Leveraging his strengths, including developing strategic partnerships, Jim is well suited to lead the Company’s efforts to drive innovation, expand market share and create shareholder value. The Board expects the transition to be seamless and efficient, and with a world-class leadership team in place we will continue to build on our efforts to grow the business in a disciplined manner.”
He continued, “On behalf of the Board and the Company, I want to thank Tim for his many contributions to ADT. Tim is a thirty-year pioneer in the security alarm sector, and over the past two years, has led the effective transformation of ADT operationally and allowed the Company to deliver an enhanced customer experience through faster service delivery and higher quality customer care, while reducing costs and customer attrition. Through this laser focus on customer service and retention, as well as a more disciplined and robust customer acquisition strategy, Tim and the ADT team have positioned the business for continued strength and value creation.”
DeVries, who joined ADT as chief operating officer in May 2016, has served as President since September 2017. Prior to joining ADT, he held senior leadership roles at leading companies in the insurance, financial services and telecommunications industries, including most recently as executive vice president for Allstate Brand Operations.
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Securing New Ground names keynotes
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the keynote speakers for its annual executive conference, Securing New Ground (SNG), where more than 250 senior-level industry leaders and financial partners will gather at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, Oct. 25-26.
Jerome Pickett, senior vice president and chief security officer at the National Basketball Association (NBA), and Valerie Thomas, executive information security consultant for Securicon, will give remarks at the event, which brings together industry leaders and key players for two days of information sharing, networking and business analysis.
Thomas, also an ethical hacker and author, will speak at 11:15 a.m. on day 1 of the conference about securing the future of physical security, and Pickett’s remarks at 4:00 p.m. that afternoon will share global lessons from the NBA’s security program, how he’s handling disruptive technologies and using intelligent security solutions to prepare for threats and more.
“Each year, SNG attendees get to dive deep into the security trends that matter to them, and this conference helps them clarify business strategies and drive their business forward,” Don Erickson, SIA’s CEO, said in the announcement. “We are excited to welcome Jerome Pickett and Valerie Thomas to SNG 2018, where attendees will gain top insights from these distinguished security leaders.”
In addition to the keynote addresses, SNG 2018 will feature many engaging discussions and events, including:
• The View from the Top: Challenges for Today’s Security Industry Leaders
• Harnessing Cyber-Physical Security Technologies
• Securing the Future Generation of Security
• The Smart City of the Future Will Be Conscious
• Investment Insights: Perspectives from Wall Street and Private Equity
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SSN features leaders
Leadership is a big topic around the Security Systems News office right now.
We have our Leadership Talks series. Through this series, we get the chance to talk with notable professionals throughout the industry about their distinct leadership approaches and styles.
This series inspired our currently News Poll, which you can find by clicking here. We’d like to hear from all of our readers about the styles of leadership you respond best to, as well as what best suits your company. Feel free to weigh in and we always appreciate extra comments.
On top of those two items, we have chosen (but are not yet announcing) the 2018 class of winners for Security Systems News’ annual “20 under 40” awards. Through this annual recognition, we get to speak to a whole group of promising young professionals that stand as the current and next generations of leaders for the physical security industry—both in the dealer, integrator and monitoring side, as well as the end user side.
We are now in the beginning phases of reaching out to and congratulating this year’s honorees. In the process, we are hearing about how they lead teams, groups, or entire companies, and the leaders that mentored these “20 under 40” winners when they first started in the industry.
Keep an eye out in future months for the whole collection of feature articles on this year’s “20 under 40” class. Be sure to also take note of the leaders you see in your company and, if eligible, nominate them for next year’s awards.
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Yale and Comcast team up
Yale Locks & Hardware announced that smart locks from its Assure Lock line can now be connected to Comcast’s Xfinity Home service, its home security and home automation solution, when purchased with a Yale Zigbee Network Module.
“We’re delighted to partner with Xfinity Home and have our Assure Lock line play a critical role securing front doors across the country,” Jason Williams, president, ASSA ABLOY U.S. Residential Group, which includes Yale Residential, said in the announcement. “Xfinity Home customers can now connect an Assure Lock that’s right for them and control access and secure their homes from the Xfinity Home mobile app.”
The Yale Assure Lock line is an extensive series of smart locks that offers homeowners the choice of key-free or keyed locks in both touchscreen and pushbutton versions, all in a choice of three finishes. Four compatible Assure Locks with a Zigbee Network Module (available for purchase separately or with the lock) can be added to the Xfinity Home mobile app. Xfinity Home customers who already own a compatible Assure Lock can purchase a Yale Zigbee Network Module separately and easily add the device onto the Xfinity platform.
When Yale’s smart lock is integrated into an Xfinity Home system, the door locks can be controlled and monitored from anywhere using the Xfinity Home mobile app (iOS or Android). Users can remotely lock and unlock doors, check lock status, and create rules such as receive a notification if the door is unlocked after 8:30 p.m. Additionally, Xfinity Home customers with the X1 voice remote can say, “Lock the front door” to lock their compatible Yale Assure Lock.
“Smart door locks can be a meaningful home security addition, especially when combined with other IoT devices like cameras,” Patti Loyack, vice president, IP services, and home automation, for Comcast Cable, said in a prepared statement. “Xfinity’s platform gives consumers the ability to manage and control all of their smart devices in one unified experience and we’re excited to give our customers even more choice by integrating the Assure Lock line from Yale.”
Yale Assure Lock line with Zigbee is now available to Xfinity Home’s more than 1.2 million subscribers through the Works with Xfinity program.
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Security at the 2018 Little League Baseball World Series
Five manufacturers of security technologies have teamed up to provide safety and security at the 72nd Annual Little League Baseball World Series (LLBWS) for the players, coaches and fans. For the first time, BriefCam and Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS Company are joining Axis Communications, Lenel and Milestone Systems to provide video surveillance systems, access control and network connectivity for the 10-day tournament.
These five technology providers have come together to develop a comprehensive security strategy for the 16 Little League Baseball teams and worldwide fans participating in the World Series from Aug. 16 to 26, 2018, held in South Williamsport, Pa.
“Each year, hundreds of thousands of people come out to Williamsport to enjoy their time at the Little League Baseball World Series,” Jim Ferguson, Little League assistant director of risk management and safety, said in a prepared statement. “Along with the safety of all of 16 participating teams, our top priority during the Little League Baseball World Series is to provide a safe and secure facility for visitors from all over the world to enjoy. Thanks to these providers, we can continue to offer all of our fans, players, and volunteers a fun and safe location to create lifelong memories and exciting experiences during their visit.”
BriefCam, one of the newest contributors, is providing the company’s latest video content analytics platform to this year’s Little League Baseball World Series security solution. BriefCam’s groundbreaking video content analytics platform detects, tracks, extracts and identifies people, objects, their attributes and behavior from raw video feeds. By presenting objects that have appeared at different times within the video simultaneously, BriefCam enables security operators to review hours of video in minutes.
For the LLBWS, this means if children and parents are accidentally separated during the event, the security team will be well equipped to potentially locate and reunite related parties more quickly, the announcement noted. Additionally, BriefCam’s solution can be used to optimize operations such as attendee and vehicle traffic flows to ensure a safe and positive guest experience. The company’s video content analytics platform aligns with Axis IP-based digital video surveillance cameras and Milestone’s XProtect video management software for a comprehensive video surveillance, management and analytics solution.
“As this global event draws families from far and wide, it is important to further enable comprehensive safety, security and operational efficiencies,” Stephanie Weagle, CMO for BriefCam, said in a prepared statement. “Our technology will be on-hand to support the Little League in their endeavor to extract actionable intelligence from their video surveillance in the event that parents or family members need assistance in finding each other or streamlining operations to ensure that all involved have a great experience.”
Ruckus Networks, the second newest technology contributor, is providing a wireless mesh backhaul to deliver connectivity to both the scoreboards and surveillance cameras. Ruckus is deploying its T300 access points (APs), along with its SmartZone™ 100 management controller, to help ensure seamless connectivity for the outdoor environment. The T300s—the Ruckus flagship outdoor APs—allow high-definition video over Wi-Fi, enabling every video stream to be captured. For the LLBWS, this capability allows all the video cameras in the stadium to be constantly streaming, helping to ensure maximum safety and security at all times.
“In a digitally connected world, safety and security are critical elements that need to be part of every network,” Bart Giordano, vice president, worldwide business development and cloud for Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company, said in the announcement. “We are teaming with other companies to bring the most innovative security capabilities to the games so that every family can feel safer onsite. Our robust wireless technologies ensure every video stream is captured from all cameras, at all times, helping make this annual event fun and secure.”
Axis Communications has provided technology for the Little League for nine years and is providing AXIS Q6128-E PTZ Network Camera, a compact, outdoor-ready PTZ dome, offering 4K resolution at 30 frames per second, 12x optical zoom and autofocus. The 4K resolution provides four times as much detail as the standard HDTV 1080p resolution, improving the video quality significantly. Both of these cameras will be integrated into the scoreboard in Lamade Stadium.
"Each year we look forward to evolving the security system by leveraging the newest technology in the industry," Robert Muehlbauer, senior manager, business development partner ecosystem at Axis Communications, said in a prepared statement. "The total solution provides a comprehensive system to help keep players and fans safe so they can enjoy America’s favorite pastime, baseball. We are proud to collaborate with all of the companies involved and to continue our work with Little League Baseball.”
For the 20th consecutive year, Lenel, a leading provider in advanced security systems, will provide its OnGuard access control platform. Players, coaches, officials, staff and vendors are all enrolled in the system and receive a photo identification badge providing access to predetermined areas. The system is integrated with the Axis surveillance cameras so when someone presents a badge at one of the access card readers, live video and the cardholder’s photo are displayed on a nearby monitor, allowing a guard to authenticate the identification.
Milestone is providing its XProtect Corporate video management software, which is installed along with a Milestone Husky™ M500A NVR as one of the recording servers. The XProtect Smart Client interface includes advancements in system performance by leveraging the processing power of NVIDIA GPU cards for measurable hardware acceleration, enabling more concurrent High Definition or Ultra HD video streams on high-resolution monitors. The LLBWS is also using the XProtect® Smart Wall for viewing and sending pertinent video to monitors around the facilities, including a mobile command center. BriefCam is embedded in the XProtect Smart Client with a dedicated screen tab for easy access to search hours of video in just minutes.
“It’s truly inspiring to see the open platform community of partners coming together for this great international family event, ensuring safety through ongoing technology innovations,” Jeremy Scott, strategic alliances manager, Americas for Milestone Systems, said in the announcement. “Every year brings new winners — on the field, in the stands and behind the scenes.”
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NMC hires Grant Graham as VP of dealer relations
LAKE FOREST, Calif.—National Monitoring Center, part of the Netwatch Group, recently welcomed Grant Graham back to the team as its vice president of dealer relations. Graham will be responsible for the leadership of dealers and dedicated to their success.
Graham previously served as NMC’s operations manager from 2001 to 2016. As operations manager, he skillfully and successfully oversaw all daily aspects of NMC’s multifaceted, nationwide operation.
Most recently, Graham served as Brinks Home security’s senior director of monitoring operations where he oversaw many elements of the company's operations, was responsible for reducing costs, and increased service level for alarm response by over 10 percent and inbound calls by 24 percent, NMC noted in its announcement.
“NMC has a long history of dedication to ahead-of-industry technological solutions and valuable partnerships which lead to the formation of Netwatch Group, and we apply that same dedication in our efforts to build a powerful, synergistic team at NMC. This is why we are thrilled to have Grant Graham on the team. Grant has a proven record of building long-term business relationships and has been instrumental in facilitating growth on numerous levels. His knowledge, drive, and winning attitude are assets that will complement and enhance NMC’s ability to meet the needs of our dealers as we continue to provide more attractive services,” Woodie Andrawos, NMC President, said in a prepared statement.
Graham’s combined experience and understanding of NMC culture and mission make him an excellent fit for this role, NMC said.
“I am excited to be taking on this new role as VP of dealer relations at NMC. It is wonderful to partner with a company focused on organizational growth and constant improvement. I look forward to having an impact on dealer success and helping them successfully navigate the market, acquire new agreements, deliver new products offerings, and leverage the wealth of dealer support available at NMC,” Graham said in the announcement.
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ACaaS and mobile access adoption growing
Access-control-as-a-service (ACaaS) market revenues will increase to $950 million by 2022, and global mobile credential downloads are forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) exceeding 100 percent from 2017 to 2022, according to recent findings from IHS Markit.
The London-based research firm found that small and medium-sized businesses are the leading adopters of ACaaS solutions, accounting for 21 percent of market revenues in 2017, with around 20 percent of the current installed base of access control readers will be mobile capable by 2022.
“Demand for ACaaS has grown rapidly over the past five years, and this growth is expected to continue,” Jim Dearing, senior analyst, security and building technology, IHS Markit, said in the announcement of the findings. “While there have been relatively few attempts to combine ACaaS solutions with mobile access, despite their apparent synergies, this type of integration will become more common over the next five years.”
Dearing pointed to following key benefits of integrating ACaaS and mobile access:
• A significant segment of ACaaS end users opt for fully managed solutions. Providers of managed solutions would benefit from the ability to issue and decommission credentials remotely, allowing them to lower management costs.
• Both mobile access and ACaaS are typically sold via subscription, or using recurring fee-based pricing models. Adding mobile credentials to an ACaaS contract would not be an issue for an integrator, and as mobile access becomes more popular in the traditional access control market, end users and installers are likely to become more familiar with the recurring-fee pricing model, which should generate additional interest in ACaaS.
• Like ACaaS solutions, the majority of access control solutions are cloud-based. As both become more popular, end users are likely to become more comfortable deploying cloud-based security solutions.
• ACaaS is increasing the penetration of access control systems in buildings, and many end users are owners of small and medium-sized businesses who have never owned an access control system before. This situation poses an excellent opportunity for mobile access, as providers can ensure that mobile-capable readers are installed from the outset.
In terms of overall adoption, Dearing said that, so far, early adopters of each solution are based in different industries. “Mobile access has seen its strongest adoption in the education and hospitality sectors, while ACaaS is gaining traction with small and medium-sized businesses and the property management segment,” he explained. “Due to the large number of smaller projects, a significant portion of ACaaS end users value affordability over advanced feature sets and functionality. ACaaS providers may struggle to convince end users to install readers that are mobile-capable but also more expensive.”
Despite both solutions typically being billed on a monthly or annual basis, the pricing models vary slightly, Dearing said. “ACaaS solutions are priced according to the number of doors, while mobile access is priced according to the number of credentials or users,” he noted. “Creating an intuitive but optimal pricing model for the combined solution could prove tricky for suppliers. If both original metrics are kept, suppliers are likely to encounter difficulty as end users scale their solutions.”
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FIBARO starts North American training initiative
FIBARO, a manufacturer of wireless intelligent home automation and control devices which was recently acquired by Nice, today announced that it is growing its installer base in the US and has built a new training program for security professionals, such as residential and commercial AV installers, electricians and practitioners within the construction industry.
“The certified Fibaro system installer training can be completed in one day and has been designed to provide attendees with practical knowledge of the design, configuration and implementation of the Fibaro smart home system,” the announcement read. “The program begins with a 101 training and evolves into hands-on training provided directly from Fibaro or by a specialized Fibaro Distributor.”
“Fibaro’s installer training provided the perfect mix of product training and a detailed introduction to the smart home, as well as the Z-Wave platform,” Justin Lee, a recently certified Fibaro Installer from Ergo Structures Inc. located in Toronto, Canada, said in a prepared statement.
Participants who complete the training earn an individualized certificate verifying that they are a Fibaro system expert. Certified Fibaro installers can also access the Fibaro Academy portal, which includes training and video materials as well as sales and technical support during the installation and design of the newly certified installer’s first customers. “Successful completion of the certified installation training is also the first step to becoming a Fibaro dealer and the ability to buy directly from one of Fibaro’s certified distributors,” the company said.
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New guide on securing intelligent buildings available
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA), in partnership with the ASIS Foundation and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International, jointly released guidance for practitioners in the security and building management fields. Intelligent Building Management Systems: Guidance for Protecting Organizations provides a framework to help decision makers assign a risk-based criticality or impact to their building and asks relevant security questions to develop appropriate mitigation strategies. It also serves to establish a common language between the many intelligent building stakeholders.
The guidance is based on original research, Building Automation & Control Systems: An Investigation into Vulnerabilities, Current Practice and Security Management Best Practice, by David J. Brooks, Michael Coole and Paul Haskell-Dowland of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. The research provides an exhaustive overview of identified intelligent building critical vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
“The ASIS Foundation is delighted to work with our partners BOMA and SIA to support such critical research in a rapidly developing but insufficiently understood field,” Sandra Cowie, CPP, director, global security and business continuity, principal, and 2018 ASIS Foundation president, said in the joint announcement. “Building automation invokes cutting-edge issues and technology such as the Internet of Things and advanced video analytics, as well as traditional concerns such as physical access control and proper procedures. The integrated whole undoubtedly poses challenges that are still emerging. This research is indispensable to helping our members get a handle on both the challenges and the opportunities of this fast-growing market.”
According to the report, the intelligent building market is growing 31 percent per year and is expected to exceed $59 billion by 2023. These systems are increasingly embedded into the contemporary built environment due to the demand for reduced operating costs, government regulation, and greater monitoring, control and operability. However, this growth comes with a substantial set of security vulnerabilities that many security and facility professionals have not accounted for. Importantly, the research finds a significant disconnect between security and facility professionals’ perceived understanding of intelligent building threats and risks versus actual dangers. In addition, the report revealed that a lack of common terminology and practices can result in misunderstandings and siloed views of associated security risks.
The report findings emphasize the need to:
• Take a multidisciplinary proactive management approach to intelligent building vulnerability mitigation
• Fuse multidisciplinary participants into an intelligent building security team
Additional findings include the recognition of intelligent building integrators and cybersecurity experts as partners who can help organizations better understand threats and risks and more effectively achieve intelligent building security.
“The research developed by the ASIS Foundation provides insights that should be leveraged by our members and the industry to better understand and identify vulnerabilities within intelligent building systems," Don Erickson, chief executive officer, SIA, said in a prepared statement. "An essential outcome from this project is the recommended guidance and checklist that will help security practitioners and security technology solutions providers work together to implement strategies to mitigate against potential risks.”
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Results of 6th Annual Semaphore PE Industry Confidence Survey
Confidence at All Time High
By Mark S. DiSalvo
Is irrational exuberance on the horizon? Will the Merry-Go-Round ever stop? Can the Masters of the Universe continue to rule? Notwithstanding the recent February Dow swoon the 2014 Semaphore Confidence Survey suggests No, No and Yes.
Extraordinarily, 91% of our over 500 respondents were confident in their own businesses, fully 50% higher than a year ago. 94% were confident in themselves, an all-time high, growing from78% last year. In contrast only 31% of respondents expressed confidence in the President with 49% stating a lack of confidence in him, significantly above last year’s 37% number. As miserable as that may be it is decidedly better than the leader of the other branch of government, Speaker John Boehner, who has an 11% favorable v 66% unfavorable rating. As dreadful a rating for sure but it is far better than Congress as an institution with 87% expressing no or little confidence in our elected officials and only 1% offering an expression of confidence in the House or Senate.
In contrast some 80%, nearly double last year’s 43%, remain confident in the PE/VC Industry, while 6% express confidence in the US economy and less than half at 22% enjoying confidence in the International economy. This is expressed in the near wild enthusiasm around expected deal number and size. 96% reported completing between 1 and 4 deals and a similar number expecting to do the same. More surprisingly is that over a quarter of us completed more than six transactions and fully a third anticipate exceeding that plateau in 2014. And the deal sizes are growing. Across venture and PE the average initial investment size is expected to be 50% larger in 2014 than last year.
So what will all this prospective deal effort be in? Health Care investing shot to top in expected activity, up from fourth. Enterprise Software got bumped to #2 and Energy oriented investing rocketed to third place and last year was not even in the top ten. With Business Services ranked fourth in prospective deal making with Digital Media and Financial Services tied for 5th place. Agriculture investment broke the top ten for the first time and came in a close 6th. Gaming was not only out of the money but also failed to make the top twenty. Social/Community Technology, On-line Consumer Retail and Food rounded out our top ten deal hopes.
And where does all this enthusiasm and confident take us. 77% expect to earn more than they did in 2013 with only 6% expecting to earn less. This on top of the fact that 65% earned more last year than they did in 2012 and 23% reported earning less.
For the second year in a row my industry colleagues continue to see the prospect of more income, more deal flow and high confidence in themselves, their peers, and industry. This clear read comparing the raw highlight data from the 6th annual Semaphore Confidence Survey with last year’s results suggests that our industry remains on the rise. Too much more enthusiasm and consequent riches and our seemingly hated colleagues in Congress might find it more politically palatable to eliminate capital gain rates on carry.
The distribution of respondents in the US remained nearly the same from past years - the top five were 29% California, 16% Massachusetts, 11% New York, 6% Connecticut and 5% Texas with only New Jersey dropping out of the mix (guess the GW Bridge traffic might have been too heavy to get our usual Garden State respondents to reply). DC 4% and Illinois came in at 3% and no other state represented more than 1%. Our US respondents had reasonable confidence in their state governments with 26% expressing confidence - at least in comparison to the US Congress.
International responses were quite different. We had our widest ever distribution of respondents with only the UK remaining on top with 37% of all international survey-takers with (10 points higher than last year) followed by 9% Canada, 7% China and 3% France rounding-out the top four just as they did the prior years. We received multiple respondents from Germany, the Philippines, Brazil, Russia, Japan, Ukraine, Viet Nam and single responses from14 other nations including our first ever from Bora Bora (must have been a PE partner on vacation!). International respondents had depressingly poor opinions of their governments with 5% expressing confidence in their countries leaders, down from 7% in 2013.
The 563 of us who did reply this year, up from 470 last year, was over weighted by third party professional participants compared to past years. The mix this year compared to the last year was VC (24% v 39% ), Buy-out pros (25% v 24%), Limited Partners (6% v 13%) operating executives (7% v 6%) and third party professional (38% v 18%). Hmmm…charting this back to the income responses, perhaps the continued increase in income levels is attributable to the transaction fees and expenses associated with our explosion of deal numbers and values.
Comments this year were more muted in tone than past years and can be viewed on the survey highlights link below. Perhaps the tight bandwidth contributed to the lack of wit expressed. Here is one none-too-pleased respondent commenting on the survey itself:
“Well done, like an overly charred steak forgotten on a summer BBQ grill. Terrible survey.”
I hate when that happens as I like my steak very rare.
Hope everyone’s expectations are indeed met in 2014. See you next year.
To see the highlights of the results of the 2014 Semaphore Confidence Survey please click here. If you want to do your own comparison, the 2013 Semaphore Confidence Survey results are here.
Mark S. DiSalvo is the President and CEO of Sema4 Inc., dba Semaphore (www.sema4usa.com), a leading global professional services provider of troubled Private Equity and Venture Capital funds under management. Semaphore currently holds fiduciary obligations as General Partner for six Private Equity and Venture Capital funds, is a New Markets Tax Credit lender and advises General and Limited Partners as well as corporations around the world. Semaphore's corporate offices are in Boston with principal offices in New York, London and Dallas.
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On Davis Islands, cool new dual pools to open after makeover
The wait is nearly over after the Roy Jenkins complex's extreme makeover.
The old Roy Jenkins Pool building, across from the Marjorie Park Yacht Basin, will feature a second-floor pool with 75-foot lanes and another for children with a sloped entry.Photos by DEMETRIUS FREEMAN | Times
Landscaping takes shape at the 85-year-old complex for the reopening Aug. 22. A $2.5 million renovation includes two pools, new decking, a new entry and handicapped-accessible perks.
By Amy Scherzer
Published August 6 2014
Updated August 6 2014
DAVIS ISLANDS — Six years after unsafe conditions caused the Roy Jenkins Pool to be drained and locked up, a $2.5 million renovation is about to make a big splash on Davis Islands.
On Aug. 22, swimmers and sunbathers will find two sparkling new pools, one with five swim lanes extending 75 feet, the other kiddie-sized with colorful, interactive features and a sloped entry.
An elevator and wheelchair lifts, along with refurbished restrooms and showers, bring the 85-year-old building at 154 Columbia Drive, opposite the Marjorie Park Yacht Basin, into compliance with federal accessibility laws.
Only the walls remain of one of Davis Islands' original amenities, built for $75,000 in 1929 as part of the community's grand design. What was a two-deck layout, with steps between the pool and bleachers, is now a single level.
"Getting it back online is herculean," said Greg Bayor, Tampa's parks and recreation director. "It's quite a saving of history."
Most outdoor aquatics facilities have a 20- to 30-year lifespan, he noted.
"This far exceeded that," Bayor said, reeling off plumbing, ventilation, drainage, fire and accessibility problems that were addressed.
Two other city pools were also closed in 2008 for not meeting a new federal antidrowning law requiring drain covers. Interbay Pool in Culbreath Heights reopened in July 2011 after about $25,000 in repairs. Williams Park Pool in East Tampa reopened in July 2013 after a $1.3 million renovation.
Mayor Bob Buckhorn will officiate an Aug. 22 ribbon cutting to reopen Jenkins Pool. Its hours will be 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. weekdays, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday through Oct. 31. Jenkins and other seasonal pools reopen on Memorial Day weekend.
Access requires an annual Rec Card, which is $15 for city residents and $30 for nonresidents. On Aug. 23, the city will co-host an open house and ice cream social from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"We made it fun, functional and (handicapped) accessible," Bayor said.
Pillar Construction Group and FleischmanGarcia architects created a new, shaded entrance that opens to air-conditioned offices for a receptionist and lifeguards. A new pool was poured in the existing shell on the second floor, and a new filtration and operating system, textured cement decking, lighting and landscaping were installed.
Maintaining the exterior facade, the original steps topped by concrete cupids and much of the lobby earned the city's architectural review board's blessing.
The renovation was paid for with community improvement tax money and $500,000 from the Davis Islands Park Improvement Fund. The park improvement money came from the $1 million received in 2005 from Tampa General Hospital to appease residents when the city leased nearly a half-acre of waterfront property for a hospital parking garage. The Davis Islands Civic Association raised another $11,000 from private donors, including $5,000 from the F.E. Lykes Foundation.
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Effectiveness Of Straffing Aircraft Against Ships
Started by 17thfabn , May 09 2019 2118 PM
#1 17thfabn
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Posted 09 May 2019 - 2118 PM
How effective were straffing runs against ships?
It seems like this mostly happened in World War II.
Straffing aircraft could easily take out unprotected personnel. This would include personnel manning light AAA weapons.
Could straffing aircraft do any structural damage to ships? I would think cruiser and up would not be very prone to this type of attack on their structures. But destroyer and smaller ships not being as well armored, how much damage could straffing attacks do to them?
#2 shep854
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Strafing with heavy MGs and aircraft cannon can be devastating against most ships, which dont have armored hulls or superstructures.
Read up on the Battle of the Bismark Sea and British anti-convoy rais in the North Sea; merchies and light escorts up to destroyers were shredded.
#3 JasonJ
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During the Battle of Guadalcanal, ISTR that US fighters strafing reforcing Japanese troop transports were effective. As a response to the loss of transports, the Japanese resorted to use destroyers for transporting troops. Destroyers were of course better armored and faster but they couldn't transport heavy weapons. Japan was still able to use troop transports again later in the campaign which delived a few Chi-Ha tanks on island Those would be destroyed by US 75mm half-tracks. But yeah, strafing by the fighters had fairly good result, unless I'm getting mixed up with the fighters sinking the transports with bombs rather than strafing.
Edited by JasonJ, 09 May 2019 - 2203 PM.
#4 rmgill
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B25's with the 75mm and 8+ forward firing .50s.
I would rather suspect the barrage of MG fire would suppress the crew and damage the ship enough to make DC efforts difficult and the damage by the 75 to make enough holes to put the ship at risk. Then the bombs that they'd hit the ship with would spell doom.
#5 sunday
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.50 cal AP ball was very effective punching holes in water tubes of propulsion boilers, rendering merchantmen dead in the water.
#6 Josh
Location:New York City
Posted 10 May 2019 - 0035 AM
It wouldn't be super effective against a battleship, but if you read First Team, which covered the first six months post Pearl Harbor in the Pacific - they might have hated Wildcats for being slower and less maneuverable than zeros, but the one universal compliment was they felt the .50s could carve out anything a Wildcat could find to shoot at, airborne or surface borne. Top decks aren't armored and a destroyer doesn't have much between its deck and its machine spaces. At the least, everyone above the hull is going to have to duck.
#7 Nobu
I would not want to be the target of a strafing run on a destroyer, but the returns are going to diminish rapidly if the DD has functional AA armament and trained gunners relative to the expertise and training cost of the fighter pilot.
Marseille taking the water route back to base to strafe British DDs would probably get him court martialed.
The challenge with warships and being strafed is that it's a VERY tight space and sheet metal isn't cover from things like .50 AP. The crew are bunched up which is bad.
From the accounts of well placed rifle fire during ARA Guerrico's transit of the S Georgia Island harbor, multiple aircraft putting fire into a single ship would be bad news for the ship.
From what I understand of Pappy Gunn's operations methods, the Top Turret was arranged forwards so 10 MGs firing foward with the tail gunner used to fire Parthian shots as they flew past the targets.
I've seen more footage of this stuff, let me see what I can find...
Here's a video on operations and issues.
Looks like the waist gunners also get in on the firing as they fly past.
Edited by rmgill, 10 May 2019 - 0147 AM.
#10 rmgill
Here's an account:
http://sunsetters38b...nn-and-the-b-25
As we were filing a clearance to return to our station, Col. Gunn walked into Operations and asked for the crew of the 38th Bomb Group B-25 parked nearest to Operations and due to leave that day. We identified it as our aircraft and Col. Gunn stated in no uncertain terms he expected that airplane, 2500 pounds of gun mounts. 12 mechanics from the 38th BG, their baggage, tool kits AND us to be off his base before noon. We protested the airplane could not hold all that stuff, but Gunn ignored our comments, and Base Operations personnel assured us "What Col. Gunn wants, Col. Gunn gets--and we had better "git".
With a frantic effort, transportation was found for 10 mechanics and their baggage on a C-47. The rest of the material and our crew had to fit into that B-25. When the last tool box was squeezed on board, the tail of the aircraft started down as the nose wheel lifted from the parking ramp. The crew was certain the plane could not get off the ground with that load, particularly since because of runway repair the last 1,000 feet was unavailable. We were again reminded everything HAD to go and that "Pappy" often flew with a tail heavy aircraft--just loaded the back end while engines were running which kept the tail from going down. We were also informed EVERYONE used the shortened runway with heavily laden air-craft, and as we had a wind in our favor, no problem!
As I taxied out for take-off, the airplane seemed heavy, the runway extremely short and my position in life most perilous. On the bright side, here was a chance to emulate Jimmy Doolittle's aircraft carrier takeoff. With full throttle, flaps up and cowl flap cracked open a little, I released the brakes for a "Tokyo Raid take-off"--but we didn't fly off the runway as expected--we just rolled along. I called for flaps as we approached the break in the runway and pulled the airplane into the air to avoid the broken spot; however, the plane settled back down on the runway and it took the last 1,000 feet to get airborne again and we slowly gained altitude. At Pappy Gunn's insistence, we pulled a "hot pilot" stunt and had lived through it.
Stories about Gunn were legion. He liked to work on airplanes, often as boss mechanic on a repair or modification job. Having broken his right little finger, he had it set at the hospital with a splint. The splint got in the way as he worked on an engine, so he removed it. The finger healed crooked and bothered Gunn's holding the throttle of an airplane or a wrench or putting his hand in his pocket. He had the finger re-broke and reset, again with a splint--and again it proved so troublesome, he removed it. Back at the hospital he asked that the finger be removed. The staff agreed to fix the finger but would not amputate, whereupon Gunn reportedly cut it off with a pocket knife and had the hospital tidy up. (Legend?--perhaps--but the finger WAS missing.)
Gunn's contributions to the war effort were exceptional. It was he who installed 4 forward firing 50-caliber guns in the nose plus 2 in packets on each side. He also tried 30 water cooled 30's in the bomb bay pointed down to strafe troops in slit trenchs, vibration loosed the skin around the bomb bay dictating abandonment. The first package guns were belt fed from racks inside, barrell ends behind the props. Test fire peeled skin from the fuselage around the guns, the under wing and inner portion of the engine nacell--Gunn corrected that by extending blast tubes beyond the props. First used in the Bismarck Sea , it was a spectacular sucess. Half of the B-25s used as low level bombers, (first called "masthead" later, "skip' bombing) were modified with 8 forward firing .50 caliber guns, but the 38th planes had only one flexable gun in the nose (navigator manned), and a few with a 50 cal pilot- fired. With such a limited armament, the B-25s followed Aussie Beaufighters for strafing pass protection on their bomb runs.
The strafing configuration made the B-25 a most formidable weapon giving it a new lease on life despite it's relative short range. Again Gunn came to the fore-since25s were now low level strafers/bombers, he reasoned they did not need a lower turret. It was removed and a large steel fuel tank was hung from a bomb shackle fixed to the ceiling. The main tanks were refilled from this auxillary source and that tank jettisoned just before reaching the target area. This made possible the Wewak raids in mid-March "44, breaking the back of the Jap air force in New Guinea--they had not anticipated B-25s could reach Wewak and most of their planes were caught on the ground. The system was messy with fumes permeating the fuselage as the tank tore away from the hose fittings, and it was breezy with an open hole in the floor, but it was a spectacular sucess, as witnessed by Gunn installed cameras in B-25 tails, turned on by the pilot after dropping his bombs, resulting in some of the war's most dramatic strike photos.
As a strafer with 500 rounds of ammo per gun in the nose, the center of gravity shifted forward. Gunn reportedly received a wire from Wright Field stating the modification was dangerous and the planes should be grounded. Legend has it Pappy wired back, "Put center of gravity in storage for the duration--we have a war to fight" However some precautions were necessary including keeping the nose wheel on the runway to 120 MPH instead of the usual 80 or 90, and making turns at 170 instead of 120.
Gunn was the first to put the 75 MM in the nose of a B-25. He flew the modified cannon on a raid with the 3rd, his old Group and hit the fire control unit of a Jap destroyer which required it's guns to be controlled individually and ineffectively. The ship was then sunk with a 1000 pound bomb altho Gunn insisted in all official proclamations that he had sunk it with an airborne 75MM. In any case, the incident sold the army on developing the B-25G.
A special purpose weapon, the G was particularly effective against small boats, barge traffic, buildings and fuel depots. Even with an inexperienced navigator as a loader, 3 or 4 rounds could consistantly be put in an 8' circle during a 4000 yard run, altho the manual loading in a rocking airplane was not an enviable task. ( On a test with an army ordinance specialist, Grover got nine shots away on a simulated run emphasizing how crucial was loader ability.)
When Pappy put a 75 in a P-38, his test pilots all disappeared . However he test fired it on the ground and found the P-38 could not take the recoil--even B-25s lost 5 mile per hour momentarily when the gun was fired and an a crew member with his arm on an open side window ledge would have arm hair singed.
The B-25G's capacity as a strafer was more limited than other models since it had to fire at a greater distance from the target . In a strafing run, the regular strafer presented a 3-dimensional target until the nose was pointed at the target when it could out shoot the target with it's huge gun cluster. With a 75Mm, with in range to start firing at a destroyer, the destroyer had more guns than the attacker. As a special purpose weapon, the G could not serve general strafer purposes as could B-25cs and D'.
B-25 strafers destroyed sea traffic, stopped barge traffic and destroyed a large segment of the Japanese Air Force on the ground during the battle for New Guinea--a "loser" that turned into a great success thanks to Pappy Gunn's ingenuity and the diligence of the crews and support echelons.
http://sunsetters38b...-mission-review
Mission #219-A-3 at briefing we were told our target would be enemy shipping in Pusan harbor, Korea, and all hopes for a milk run vanished - missions against enemy shipping could expect heavy gun fire. We would be the lead ship in the second element, Lt. Vandewier as our pilot, and carrying four 500# para demo bombs. The mission would take 8 hours. As you scan the sky from the top turret, your thoughts turn to the war ending and and returning to your loved ones. Then you get that feeling you get on every mission as you approach your target. Lt Vandewier makes his run at low level, bombing and strafing a destroyer escort and from the top turret as I strafe the D.E., all I could see was a wall of gunfire. As you go through that wall of fire you feel like you hit paydirt. On the way back we find our wing man is not with us. we learn later F.O. Bennett and his crew of F.O. Robert Maxon, 2nd Lt. Abraham Rangman , Sgt Lloyd Martin and Pvt Jack Hornback were all K.I.A.
When we landed at Yontan we found numerous holes in our nose section. At debriefing we were told that the mission was a success - the D.E. and other shipping was destroyed. You look forward to seeing the Flight Surgeon to get your alcoholic tranquilzer. After you come to your senses, you realize it could have been you - so close to the war ending. You go back to the tent and await another day and another mission.
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Orland F. Gage
The Japanese never again attempted to reinforce New Guinea from Rabaul
BATTLE OF BISMARCK SEA
The month of March saw the 38th settled into 17 mile Airdrome, but still operating with only two Squadrons. It was to be a very busy month for both the 71st and 405th. The Japanese had lost the battle of Buna and were running short of supplies due to the incessant raids by the 5th AF on supply dumps and harbor installations at Lae and Finchaven.
The harbor at Rabaul was crowded with shipping and search planes were constantly monitoring the sea lanes for Japanese convoys attempting to re-supply Lae and Finchaven. On the 1st of March a B-24 located a large convoy of eight to eleven large merchant vessels being escorted by eight destroyers. The 2nd of March the convoy was located and attacked by B-17s and B-24s and two freighters were claimed sunk or damaged. The survivors were picked up and taken to Lae by destroyers. When the battle results were in after the 4th of March, they were the lucky ones.
The third of March found the planes of the 38th armed and ready to join the largest combined group of B-17s,B-24s, Australian Beaufighters, a-20s and B-25s that had ever been organized by the 5th AF. The Heavies were to bomb at 8500 feet , the 71st was to bomb from 5,000 ft and the 405th and four squadrons of A-20s and B-25s of the Third Bomb Group plus Beaufighters of the Royal Australians Air Force were to strafe and skip bomb the flotilla. The Third Bomb Group had A-20s and B-25s that had been converted to Strafers by Pappy Gunn and they were to prove their worth with a vengeance.
The first day of the month shows the 405th flying a 2 hour and thirty minute photo mission to Morobe and 90 photos were taken. The same afternoon the 405th launched one plane on a search mission. No missions were flown on the second day of March. The morning of the third the 71st and 405th each launched seven (7) B-25s each loaded with four 500 pound bombs, each fused with 5 second delay fuses.
One of the 405th planes had to turn back, but the remaining 13 planes flew the Owen Stanley’s without mishap and the 38th joined the armada attacking the Huon Convoy. The P-38’s were flying top cover and kept the Japanese Zeros away from the bombers for the most part although the B-17’s were attacked and two planes were lost.
The Australian Beaufighters led the low level attack strafing the antiaircraft positions on the destroyers and merchant vessels. Major Cheli led the 405th in their skip bombing attack followed by the Third Attack with their modified A-20s and B-25s. The A-20s had been modified with eight forward firing .50 caliber machine guns in the nose. The B-25s had four package guns and four more .50 caliber machine guns in the nose. These planes created havoc when they strafed their way in and then skip bombed their targets.
The 71st bombed from medium altitude and scored well before leaving the scene of the slaughter and heading for Durand. The planes were hurriedly rearmed, and Col. O’Neill again led the group back to the area and the 38th continued to sink anything that was floating. Pittman and Middlebrook found a Jap Destroyer leaving the scene of battle and sunk it with a mast high run from bow to stern right down the middle of the destroyer. Garrett Middlebrook’s account follows:
The explosion was so great that I was startled in disbelief. Two bombs penetrated below deck into the interior of the ship and exploded a fraction of a second apart. The entire ship seemed to rise several feet, almost out of the water, while a series of other bombs, dropped by our wingman, exploded just along its hull on the opposite side from us sending up water geysers higher than the superstructures, and, at the same time, splitting the outer platting of the vessel with tremendous concussions.
The following day on the fourth of March, the 5th AAF returned sinking lifeboats, rafts and anything that the Japanese soldiers or sailors were using to stay afloat. The sharks were numerous and fed well for the next few days. Two more missions were flown by the 405th on 5 March looking for any Japanese who might still be afloat. Sherman stated it best when he said “War is Hell.”
The records show that in the period of 1 – 4 March 1943, the 38th in conjunction with other elements of the Fifth Air Force, participated in an attack on a Japanese convoy spotted in the Bismarck Sea. The entire convoy of transport vessels, cargo ships and escorting destroyers, was completely annihilated; the official score of the 38th in this battle of the Bismarck Sea was four destroyers sunk or damaged and six cargo vessels destroyed or damaged. For this outstanding performance the group won the commendations of the theater commander, General Douglas MacArthur and General George C. Kenney, then the chief of the Fifth Air Force.
(The following eyewitness account of an air attack on the Japanese convoy at the entrance to New Guinea’s Huon Gulf was written for the AP by Capt. W. S. Royalty of Peoria, Ill., navigator in a Mitchell bomber which scored a direct hit on a transport. Three Japanese light cruisers, seven destroyers, a dozen transport and cargo ships and 102 planes were destroyed during the battle of which he presents one phase.)
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, March– We took off as No. 7 in a flight of B-25s about 8:30 a.m. We had heard several reports as to what the convoy consisted of. Naturally everyone was a bit nervous in anticipation.
We knew from previous experiences, that there would be Zeros protecting the ships, but we also knew we were to have some P-38s for top cover. After the way these P-38s have shown themselves in the past two or three months, it made us feel fairly safe from the Zeros.
Our planes were the first flight over the rendezvous point, which was some distance from the convoy’s last reported position south of Finschafen. We circled around, waiting for the rest of the planes in the coordinated attack.
Planes Swarm Out
As we made the first circle we could see coming from the mountains an almost unbelievable number of planes. A number of B-17s were getting into formation slightly above us. Below us three separate flights of B-25s were already in formation and beginning to circle. Below also were a great number of Beaufighters, A-20s and P-40s, all in formation more or less.
A few thousand feet above, I counted a number of P-38s in formations of twos, threes and fours. It was the most concentrated flight of aircraft any of us had ever seen. After we had circled twice, all the planes started for the convoy at once. Our flight followed two flights of three B-17s each.
Cruiser Opens Fire
About 30 miles out, we saw some ships of the convoy. Nearest to us as we came closer were what seemed to be two cruisers and three destroyers? These ships were making violent maneuvers and their wakes were stringing out 10 to 12 times their lengths. I counted six transports and cargo vessels on the other side of these warships and at least two more warships still farther on. The
warships were moving fast, but the cargo ships seemed to be almost at a standstill.
We followed along behind the B-17s as they flew parallel to the line of warships and the nearest cruiser threw three broadsides at us – it looked like the whole ship was lighted up. As we got opposite this ship, the B-17s turned off to go over the convoy.
Our flight went on for a minute or more and then turned in also. As we turned, another broadside left the cruiser and immediately afterward, one of the bombs from a B-17 hit that ship at dead center and huge clouds of smoke billowed out.
I didn’t have the time to watch it anymore. Below I saw almost an endless stream of planes strafing and bombing every ship in the convoy. A B-25 scored a direct hit on a large transport – and the whole stern blew up and burned fiercely.
We lined up on three transports and started a bombing run and then I saw seven or eight Zeros at about 12 o’clock (straight ahead) along them. They started some good dogfights, but other things happening attracted my attention.
We were just dropping our bombs at the middle transport of three. Pictures showed later that we made a direct hit and some near misses.
As we turned to leave for home, we saw at least five ships smoking and three of these flaming. A-20s, Beaufighters, B-25s and B-17s were still strafing and bombing all the ships I could see.
The Rest of March
The rest of March was relatively quiet, several photo missions were flown to the Trobriand Islands and Dobodura .Weather recon missions and patrol activity we flown on almost every day. On the 28th and 30th of March the 405th attacked Lae, Salamaua and Finchaven.
The 38th continued to fly a few medium altitude missions but were also flying more minimum altitude missions without nose guns. This continued into May of 1943 when the first planes were rotated south to have nose guns installed and the air crews took on a more optimistic view of skip bombing because they could strafe their way into the target. The use of Parafrag Bombs was experimented with and would soon be added to their arsenal of weapons. White Phosphorous had been used but napalm was also being developed and would see wide use in the coming months.
http://sunsetters38b...of-the-strafers
38BG Stories From The Front
TOKIO SLEEPER, QUEEN OF THE STRAFERS
By: Orland F. Gage
136 missions, 9 Zekes, 3 Ships accounted for in Almost Two years of CombatThe pride of the 405th Bomb Squadron “Green Dragon” strafer, the aptly named “Tokio Sleeper” has already compiled enviable combat record of 136 missions in slightly less than two years in the Southwest Pacific area. This is believed to be a world’s record for B-25 Strafers. During this time, she accounted for 9 Jap Zeros destroyed in aerial combat, and definitely sunk two large transports and a destroyer; besides destroying innumerable barges. It all started on a dark, murky night in early August, 1942 when the Tokio Sleeper first landed in Australia. She was one of a Group of B-25s which had just completed the long Pacific hop from the United States. This was the first time that the planes had been brought over with their own combat crews. Little did Captain Bob Herry of Sequin, Texas, realize that he had just brought in the plane destined to become the most famous B-25 in the history of the battle against Japan in the Southwest Pacific?
After a month of transition in Northern Australia, the Tokio Sleeper: officially known as B-25C-1, 41-12905, winged her way out of Horn Island on 15 September, 1942 on her first combat mission against the Japs. Buna was bombarded and 905 was successfully starting on a long and glorious career. During the next several months she compiled 42 combat missions as a medium bomber against Buna, Lae, Salamaua, Gasmata, Soputa, the famous Wairopi Bridge, Kokoda, Mambre, Gona, Finschafen and Malahang. Her first bid for SWPA fame came on New Year’s Eve of 1942, when she was the only plane to get over the Owen Stanley Range through very bad weather and bomb strongly defended Lae. Four Jap bombers were destroyed on the ground there by the lone attacker.
Shortly after this, all B-25 medium bombers were being converted into Strafers: a minimum altitude bomber fitted with 8 fixed .50 cal. guns in the nose. Before the Tokio Sleeper had a chance to become a strafer, a large Jap convoy was reported to be sighted in the Bismarck Sea. All 5th Air Force planes were alerted for action; and mast high bombing and strafing were to be used for the first time in the Pacific theater. It was firmly believed by General Kenny that the guns in the nose would sufficiently protect the low level Strafers against heavy machine gun fire. However the Tokio Sleeper had no guns in the nose for protection. But still and all, when the command came to attack the huge Jap convoy, she was right in the front line of the Mitchell Strafers. Her feats that day are among the most famous in the Green Dragon history to date. Captain Bill Brandon of Fort Worth, Texas, and his crew skip-bombed direct hits into a Jap-laden transport, a big destroyer and a large oiler. The transport and the destroyer sunk shortly afterwards, while the oiler was listing badly.
The sensational luck of the Tokio Sleeper held out until the memorable raid on Lae, 26 June, 1943. The Japs tried hard to even up the score against old 905 that day. The Nips succeeded in hitting her with everything but the kitchen sink. They shot out her rudder and elevator cables, smashed the turret gunner’s dome and literally riddled her fuselage and right stabilizer with bullets and ack-ack shrapnel. During the ensuing attack by Jap Zeros, her crew shot down in flames two of the attackers. The Tokio Sleeper barely limped home over the Owen Stanleys that afternoon and the pilot, Captain, Ed Adkins of Bakersfield, California, made all of the other crew members bail out despite their strong protests. Captain Adkins then brought her in at 170 mile per hour and saved her for further combat, in one of the prettiest crash landings ever made. Technical Sergeant Clyde A. Gillenwater of Saltsville, Va.and the rest of his maintenance crew immediately started repairing her for another crack at Tojo. After several days, the Tokio Sleeper was raring to go.
The Fifth Air Forces’ first devastating raids on Wewak began a few weeks later. On 17 August, 1943, a large convoy of Jap ships was reported in the harbor at Wewak. In the attack that day, the Tokio sleeper really did herself a masterful job. Lieutenant Roy Grover of Salt Lake city, Utah and his crew laid two 1000 pound bombs right into the side of a large Jap transport which exploded and sunk within two minutes. In pulling up over the stricken ship, Lieutenant Grover had to fly right between the masts and he brought back a long piece of the Jap radio antenna imbedded deep in the right wing of 905 to verify his startling account. The finest set of pictures ever taken by this squadron showed the Jap transport exploding and sinking out of sight within a few minutes.
Shortly after the Wewak successes, Yank Magazine conducted a contest to determine which bomber in the SWPA had the most missions to its credit. So the Tokio Sleeper had 77 bombs representing 77 missions painted on her side and was entered in the contest. She was awarded third place, just 7 missions short of the prize-winning entry, a B-24. This publicity stunt almost proved fatal to the career of old 905. The very next day while attacking Wewak again, Lieutenant Grover in the gaudily decorated Tokio Sleeper was picked out and savagely attacked by Jap Zeros. Two Zeros were shot down by the turret gunner in the furious battle that followed. Once again, old 905 limped home badly riddled. Needless to say, the bombs were hastily painted off her side that very same day.
The Tokio Sleeper has worn out seven engines so far, and has had many of her parts replaced several times. She has been shot up very badly on ten different occasions besides the many minor damages she managed to pick up along the way. She has hit all of the major targets in the SWPA, including Lae, Wewak, Rabaul, Cape Gloucester, Momote and Hansa Bay.
This morning she is winging her way to Hollandia as part of the first minimum altitude bombing-strafing attack on that strong Jap base. It may well prove to be another famous chapter in the astonishing career of this aptly-named Tokio Sleeper.
JOHN F. McCARTHY, Jr.
Captain, Air Corps,
Statistical Control Officer,
405th Bomb Squadron (M).
#14 Markus Becker
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Location:Westphalia, Germany
As the others said, .50 is rather effective.
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This author says a Japanese DD was immobilized, so was a merchant in the Adriatic. Both ships were lost.
#15 Adam_S
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Fighters were used on strafing runs against the Tirpitz IIRC. While they didn't do much damage to the ship, it was reckoned to have caused considerable casualties to AA gun crews.
#16 shep854
During the Battle off Samar, Wildcats strafed the Japanese cruisers and battleships in desperate attempts to distract them from the jeep carriers of Taffy 3.
I believe strafing to suppress AAA was a rather common practice; if nothing else, it gave fighters a chance to get a few licks in.
#17 RETAC21
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Location:Madrid, Spain
Interests:Military history in general
Fighters were effective against S boats in the Channel, which were a difficult enemy for other boats and larger ships due to their speed and size.
Especially when the U-boats armed up to slug it out with ASW patrol planes, shooting down several.
#19 Chris Werb
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How would 8 or 10 x 0.50s compare to 4 x 20mm Hispanos + 6 x 0.303 or 4 x 0.50 in the anti ship role?
#20 Stuart Galbraith
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Location:Eloiland
I remember when I built the Airfix RAF Rescue launch (a very fine model btw) that they fitted what looked very much like plastic armour on the cabin. Supposedly some of them had been strafed at dunkirk and suffered casualties.
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These two terms—oligarchy and imperialism—define the problems faced by Maduro’s new government.
Oligarchy
Despite 10 years of governance by the socialist forces—first led by Hugo Chavez and now by Maduro—the Venezuelan oligarchy remains firmly intact. It dominates large sections of the economy, holds immense amounts of the country’s social wealth and controls the main media outlets. A walk through the Altamira neighborhood in eastern Caracas is sufficient to gauge the resilience of the wealthy, most of whom have homes in Spain and in Florida as well. Pelucones is the name used to define them—bigwigs, a term with aristocratic connotations. They have resisted all attempts by the socialist Bolivarian movement to expand political and economic democracy in the country.
This oligarchy, through its media, controls the political and social narrative, defining the nature of Venezuela’s crisis to its advantage. For this small sliver of the population, all of Venezuela’s serious problems are blamed on the Maduro movement. None of the problems are laid on the doorstep of their long domination of Venezuela nor do they cast an eye at the United States, which has tried to suffocate the Bolivarian revolution since 1999.
Imperialism is a word that is rarely used these days. It is relegated to histories of colonialism in the distant past. There is little understanding of the suffocating way that financial firms and multinational businesses drive their agenda against the development aspirations of the poorer nations. There is even less understanding about the muscular attitude of countries such as the United States, Canada and the Europeans against states that they deem to be a problem.
The gunsights were once firmly on West Asia and North Africa—on Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran—but now they are focused on Latin America—on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. These countries face economic sanctions and embargoes, threats of annihilation, covert operations and war. The definition of imperialism is simple: if you don’t do what we tell you to do, we’ll destroy you.
Pressure on Venezuela has been intense. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the overthrow of the Bolivarian government, led by Maduro. Sanctions have been ratcheted up. Economic warfare has become normal. Threats of a military invasion are in the air.
Source: Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
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The move marks a significant escalation of the political crisis in Venezuela, as Maduro called on the people to defeat this “coup attempt.”
Venezuelan Armed Forces Recognize Maduro as President
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said the armed forces won’t recognize Juan Guaido, an imposed interim president.
Venezuelan Top Court Calls for Probe into Illegal Actions of Suspended National Assembly
The opposition president of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaido has unconstitutionally sworn himself in as President to push a “transitional council.”
New Coup Attempt In Venezuela Led by Juan Guaido
Venezuela Cuts Relations with United States Over Coup Support
US VP Pence Urges Venezuelans to Oust Maduro, Caracas Says ‘Yankee Go Home’
The comments from Trump’s number two come as Venezuelans of both political bands are set to stage demonstrations on Wednesday, January 23.
In Images: Venezuelan People Mobilize In Support of Maduro
During a hectic day in Venezuela, the mainstream media coverage focused on the mobilization of the opposition and the opinions of a select group of international figures, ignoring the thousands who took to the streets in defense of democracy, national sovereignty, peace and the Bolivarian Revolution.
Why Is Canada So Hot Under the Collar About Venezuela?
Columnist Thomas Walkom examines Canada’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy towards Venezuela.
Washington Has Appointed A President For Venezuela
After listening since 2016 to the American presstitutes complain, without providing a mere scrap of evidence, of Russia meddling in US elections, a person would think that the last thing Washington would do would be to meddle in other countries’ elections.
Repeated History, US Backs Another Coup in Venezuela {AUDIO}
Eugene Puryear interviews VA’s Lucas Koerner about the US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela and the illegitimacy of Juan Guaidó’s claim to the presidency of the Caribbean nation.
Washington orchestrates coup in Venezuela, incites civil war, in name of ‘democracy’
The dramatic events in Venezuela have “US-orchestrated coup d’état” written all over them. Washington is also giving itself license for military intervention which could spark a proxy war involving Russia.
US Initiates Coup Against President Nicolás Maduro
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I think we have not really grasp the enormity of this crisis at Trinbago’s doorstep.
After reading a statement from the Russians.. it came to reality..
Is this WW3?
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An Interview with Chico MacMurtrie
An Interview with Chico MacMurtrie by Suzan Sherman, NYFA Current:
Chico MacMurtie’s Red Hook studio, otherwise known as Amorphic Robot Works, was formerly a church used by Norwegian sailors at the turn of the century, when this section of South Brooklyn was a vital fishing industry. Filled now with plywood boxes, plastic coils, various machines, works in progress, and the remnants of his previous projects, MacMurtries’ studio initially appears to be the messy, albeit inspired, interior of a garage monkey. Since founding Amorphic Robot Works in 1992, MacMurtrie has collaborated with over 20 artists and scientists in making over 100 robots to populate his elaborate performances and interactive environments. Most recently his work has shifted away from literal robotic depictions for which he became known into more abstract sculptures which when inflated with air directly interact with humans. While giving me a tour of the space he showed me the makings of Inflatable Architectural Growth, comprised of various plastic tubes suggesting intestines, which he was prepping to be shown at the San Francisco Art Fair.
Call for Art in Times Square [ NYC]
TIMESSQUAREARTS :: Request for Letters of Interest :: Art Projects and Art Events in 2010-2012 :: Deadline: July 15, 2010
The Times Square Alliance seeks letters of interest from arts organizations and artists across disciplines to present contemporary art projects and art events in the public spaces in and around Times Square. In a one-page letter, applicants can propose a single project or series for anytime between September 2010 and December 2012. Artists and arts organizations are encouraged to propose projects that address the unique nature and rich history of Times Square. Projects should be able to have an impact in a space defined by dynamic activity and continuous, competing visual stimuli. Organizations, curators and artists are encouraged to consider how their projects will change or effect the space during the presentation and how the 350,000 people here every day (as well millions of virtual viewers) will interact with the presentation. Continue reading
Live Stage: GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK [ Rotterdam]
Sculpture International Rotterdam is proud to present: GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK by Paola Pivi :: Opening: April 23, 2010; 5.00 pm :: Coolsingel 63 @ Stadhuisplein, Rotterdam + GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK may also be experienced on a daily basis at www.grrr.nu :: Free concert by Spinvis at 7.30 p.m.
GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK is a new public artwork by the Italian artist Paola Pivi (1971, Milan) created for the city of Rotterdam. Located at the Coolsingel-the city’s heart and most important street, GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK is a fully functional music recording studio, attended by sound engineers, available to everyone, for free, to play music along with the sounds of animals. This new work by Pivi is not only a joyous and generous gift to the city, its inhabitants and its visitors; it is also an engaging, publicly operating machine that redefines the idea of public art. Continue reading
Syzygryd: Public Sculpture
Syzygryd Software Preview from nicole aptekar on Vimeo.
Syzygryd is a town square for the collaborative creation of music. It’s a public space, it’s a sculpture, and it’s a professional musical instrument. It’s the most beautiful expression we can imagine of the joy we take in community, music, technology, fire, sculpture and architecture.
Three large custom hardware grid sequencers. Each controls a single instrument and they share a clock, so they’re all synchronized. By controlling time, pitch, and harmony, these devices make it easy for people with no musical training or talent to create melodious compositions. Continue reading
Susan Philipsz’s When Day Closes [ Helsinki]
IHME 2010: Susan Philipsz’s, When Day Closes — a sound installation at the Helsinki Central Railway Station :: March 12 – April 11, 2010.
IHME is an annual Contemporary Art Festival in three parts: the IHME Project, a new, commissioned work in a public space; the IHME Days discussion forum; and the IHME Editions.
The IHME Project 2010 is a sound installation in Helsinki designed by Scottish sculptor Susan Philipsz. She creates sculptures using sound, and is interested in the values associated with space and in how sound can define architecture. Among the key elements of Philipsz’s approach are the psychological effects of songs and the way that songs can evoke immediate emotions and memories. Continue reading
Live Stage: Sewing Sonifications [ Seattle, WA]
art + science
Carrie Bodle: Sewing Sonifications Performance :: October 10, 2009; 2:00 – 6:00 pm :: Westlake Park, Seattle, WA.
Visual and sound artist Carrie Bodle will create a five-channel sound installation and sewing performance sonifying data from an ecosystem model developed by UW oceanographic scientist Dr. Neil Banas. Sound is translated from data, then visualized and made tactile by the artist embroidering the combined waveform into a continuous sound wave.
This computer model simulates the growth and consumption of plankton in the ocean ecosystem along the Washington coast during summer 2005. The five sound channels broadcast five dimensions in this data: Continue reading
Live Stage: Eric Leonardson + Sonic Playground [ Chicago]
Sonic Playground with Eric Leonardson — an interactive music performance using the new Lake Crescent playground :: August 25. 2009; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: Lake Crescent #532, 1061 E. 41st Street, Chicago, IL.
Join Eric Leonardson in sonically activating the Lake Crescent Playground. This event is a part of the Park District’s “Concerts in the Parks” series, offering Chicago families a fun, affordable way to spend an evening in their own community. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, but prepare to play and listen to the playground in a totally different way. Curated by Inferno Mobile Recording Studio.
Live Stage: How to Make Music with Police Cars [ NYC]
How to Make Music With Police Cars and Get away with It — An Artist’s Talk by Lázaro Valiente :: August 26, 2009; 8:00 p.m. :: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St., Queens, NY ( Directions).
The Police Car Quartet was the first of nine public happenings by acclaimed Mexican artist, Lázaro Valiente, including the Tamal-Car Orchestra, muchos Mexican barrel organs, visual concerts at red lights, public radio Interventions, and many others. Each is a suggestion on how to control traffic in public spaces. Please join us to hear Lázaro speak, perform, and distribute works of art. Continue reading
Live Stage: Philipp Geist [online]
VisualContainerTV presents Philipp Geist – Monography — an overview of live performances, multimedia installations, festivals … :: July 30 – September 15, 2009.
A self-taught artist based in Berlin since 1999, Philipp Geist (VIDEOGEIST) works internationally through the media of video, performance, photography, and painting. In 2008, he projected his video installation Time Fades across the Piazzetta open space of the Kulturforum in Berlin. In 2007, he screened his video installation Time Lines on the facade of the museum for contemporary art Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the center of Rome. Continue reading
Public Radio Making Public Radio Obsolete?
paidContent.org is running an interesting “article” on Public Radio in which it says that Public Radio is Dangerously Close To Making Public Radio Obsolete:
The Public Radio Exchange has just released the 2.0 version of its iPhone app, which aggregates almost all the public radio stations in the U.S. This tuner is a collaboration by some of the biggies in the public-radio space: NPR, Public Interactive, American Public Media, and Public Radio International (PRI). The 1.0 version of app has already gotten some rave reviews, but the 2.0 version, released this weekend, goes a lot further: besides streams, it has started showing what’s on right now on those stations, a seemingly small but game-changing move.
Read more about this, the addition of podcasts/downloads and various search and directory listing options to 2.0 here
and learn why the authors thinks the 2.0 app is one major step to making public radio listening on radio obsolete.
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Robert Loerzel's blog on music and the arts
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Big Ears: Photos from Day 2
Photos from Day 2 of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 24, 2017.
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Maya Beiser
Performing Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives (Private Parts)
Robyn Hitchcock
Richard Teitelbaum
Ståle Storløkken and Arve Henriksen
Jóhann Johannsson
Drone Mass featuring ACME and Theatre of Voices
Michael Hurley
More Big Ears Festival coverage:
Read my main blog post about Big Ears Festival 2017.
Photos from Day 1 (Carla Bley with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, Emilia Amper, Matana Roberts, Anna Meredith, My Brightest Diamond and Blonde Redhead)
Photos from Day 3 (Lisa Moore, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks, Musica Elettronica Viva, Joan Shelley, Colin Stetson Performs Sorrow, the Magnetic Fields, Henry Grimes, Jem Cohen: Gravity Hill Sound+Image, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Supersilent, Dave Harrington Group’s live improvised score to No Country for Old Men)
Photos from Day 4 (Pauline Oliveros’ “Rock Piece,” Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Coates, St. John’s Choral Evensong, Colleen, Henry Threadgill’s Zooid)
Photos of Wilco (plus Jeff Tweedy with Chikamorachi, On Fillmore and Dustan Louque with Nels Cline)
Photos of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble
Photos of Nils Økland
Tortoise and Ryley Walker concerts, in one night
Aug. 25 felt like a quintessential night of live Chicago music: seeing Tortoise at Millennium Park, followed by Ryley Walker’s late concert at the Empty Bottle. Tortoise’s instrumental music resonated beautifully in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, with the band members constantly shifting around the instruments, playing intricate patterns with almost astonishing precision. The show also featured a nice opening by Homme (a duo I’d seen recently at the Pitchfork Music Festival).
Ryley Walker
Ryley Walker’s music seems quite different from Tortoise at first glance, and yet, there’s some similarity, especially when he is playing live with his excellent band. Like Tortoise and other Chicago bands — like Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society — Walker and his collaborators know how to stretch a song out, to revel in grooves, to explore a chord progression or melodic motif in ways that are hypnotic and enchanting. Walker’s new album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, is terrific, but its jammy folk-rock songs only hint at how jammy the group gets in concert. I recommend buying the deluxe 2-LP version, which adds a record containing a 41-minute live version of “Sullen Mind,” a song that is a mere 6 1/2 minutes in its studio version.
Walker’s set on Thursday at the Empty Bottle was a marvel. And it was particularly special because it offered a rare chance to see Leroy Bach — who produced the album — sitting in with the band. And it’s uncertain how many more times we’ll get a chance to see the fantastic drummer Frank Rosaly playing with this band, as we did on Thursday; I’m told that Rosaly has moved from Chicago to Europe. That’s a loss for Chicago, but Thursday night’s wonderful sets by Tortoise and Walker showed that the city’s independent music scene — where rock, jazz, country and experimental music often overlap — is as vibrant as ever.
Posted on December 22, 2012 May 27, 2013
Thrill Jockey’s 20th Anniversary
Time flies. It doesn’t seem like five years have passed since I attended the Thrill Jockey record label’s 15th anniversary celebration. (I posted photos here.) But on Thursday (Dec. 20), somehow it was already time for Thrill Jockey’s 20th anniversary. The Chicago label has maintained a defiantly independent streak over its two decades of existence, an achievement well worth celebrating. Thursday’s concert at the Empty Bottle was free, though not everyone waiting in the long line outside managed to get in.
There weren’t any speeches from the stage — just three bands, playing the sort of out-of-the-mainstream music Thrill Jockey is known for. It would’ve been impossible to represent the full range of Thrill Jockey’s musical spectrum in just a few hours, but this was a good sample. Man Forever, a group led by Oneida drummer John Colpitts aka Kid Millions, started the evening with a single piece of music featuring four percussionists playing polyrhythmic patterns as guitars and bass provided a wall of drone. Then came The Sea and Cake, a long-running Thrill Jockey band, playing its alternative-universe version of what pop music might sound like. And finally, two of the musicians from that outfit (John McEntire and Doug McCombs) stuck around for a performance by one of their other bands, the so-called post-rock (sorry!) instrumentalists Tortoise. One of the band’s members, Dan Bitney, was ill and unable to attend, so the band played as a quartet — which made for a scrappy and rocking, if somewhat abbreviated, set.
Kudos to Thrill Jockey for a terrific 20 years, and here’s to … the next 20?
Man Forever
The Sea and Cake
Pitchfork Fest, Day One
My photos are up from day one of the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival.
The night was a cool start to the one summer festival I’ve been eagerly anticipating — cool in more than one way. Temps were unseasonably low for Chicago in July, though that was fine with me. And the music was cool all night, too. It turned out to be a great idea to let fans vote on the set lists for this “Write the Night” section of the festival. Predictably, fans picked mostly older songs by the four bands playing Friday: Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, the Jesus Lizard and Built to Spill. (Well, all of the Jesus Lizard’s songs are “older,” since the band hasn’t played in a decade.) I wouldn’t want these bands to play this sort of sets all the time, but it was nice to hear some songs you don’t always hear in concert.
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Yo La Tengo played a set loaded with many of its best songs, including “Autumn Sweater,” “Sugar Cube” and “Tom Courtenay.” When Ira Kaplan moved from organ to guitar, the music became more fierce, as he really dug into those strings for some sharp, almost atonal solos. At one point, Kaplan announced, “We’re going to deviate from your requests a little bit,” and then Yo La Tengo played a track from its forthcoming album. The song was called “Seeing Double and Triple,” and Kaplan dedicated it to Ron Santo. It featured a bouncy organ riff as well as key-banging organ solo. This was one of the better Yo La Tengo sets I’ve seen in the last few years, with more emphasis on the rock than on the mellow lounge-y stuff. (But hey, I wish they’d played “My Little Corner of the World.” I can’t complain too much, since I didn’t vote.)
Within about two seconds after the Jesus Lizard took the stage, lead singer and general all-around crazy guy David Yow had leaped into the audience for some of his trademark crowd surfing. And he kept up those antics throughout the show, whenever he wasn’t pausing to get back up on the stage to spit on the floor. The band sounded loud and intense, and the fans loved it. Yow made a few very foul jokes I won’t repeat here… I did laugh when he introduced one song by saying, “This is a dance song. Everybdy, get at arm’s-length distance so you have plenty of room to dance.”
After that sort of performance, Built to Spill was bound to seem a little sedate. As much as I love Built to Spill’s records, the group has seemed less than lively during the two previous concerts I’ve seen. Well, this time, they were pretty darn good, even though leader Doug Martsch and his bandmates seemed like zombies compared with David Yow. (Most human beings do.) It was a strong set of most of Built to Spill’s best songs, coming from several albums — maybe not all that different from a typical Built to Spill concert, but when the three guitars were talking to one another in those epic solos, the sound was magnificent.
Photos from day one of the Pitchfork Music Festival.
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Religious Leaders, Youth to Meet in ‘Generations of Faith’ Interreligious Encounter
WASHINGTON (November 2, 2010) — Religious leaders and young adults from Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh traditions will meet for a day of dialogue and interreligious exchange at the John Paul II Cultural Center, November 19, at “Generations of Faith—an Interreligious Encounter.” The day will feature intergenerational dialogue in a variety of formats and concludes with a reception and presentation at 6 p.m. at the John Paul II Cultural Center. The evening event is open to the public and members of the media.
Religious leaders participating in the event will include Archbishop Felix Machado of Visai, India, and former undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; Bishop Tod Brown of Orange, California; Anuttama Dasa, International Center for Krishna Consciousness, Hindu; Dr. Manohar Singh Grewal, past president, World Sikh Council, American Region; Rev. Dr. Ohun Chung Lee, Won Buddhist International; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, Islamic Society of North America; and Rabbi Jeffrey Wohlberg, senior rabbi emeritus, Congregation Adas Israel.
The event is being co-sponsored by the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the John Paul II Cultural Center.
Media interested in covering the event are asked to contact the USCCB Office of Media Relations at 202-541-3200 or email media-relations@usccb.org.
Keywords: ecumenical, interreligious dialogue, John Paul II Cultural Center, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Generations of Faith – An Interreligious Encounter
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - Secretariat for Interreligious Dialogue
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
3900 Harewood Road, NE, Washington, DC 20017
John Paul II Cultural Center
6:00- 9:00 pm Introductory Session and Dinner
Religious Leaders and Young Adult Program
8:30 Reception with light refreshments
9:00 Keynote address- Felix A. Machado, Catholic Archbishop of Visai, India
10:30 Discussions by groups
1:00 Plenary session
3:00 Discussions by group
4:00 Concluding remarks
Capstone Event (open to the general public)
6:00 Reception
7:00 Presentation
8:30 Adjourn
* A prayer room will be available for participants of all faiths.
* Refreshments will be available throughout the day.
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Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century
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Jo Cope at YKK London Showroom
Tuesday, May 08, 2018 - Jo Cope’s window display at the YKK London Showroom is an official part of London Craft Week, with an opening night party and live performance to be held on 9th May. Exploring the complex subject of love and its parallels with addiction and relationships, Cope’s collection will be on display until 25th May 2018.
Cope's installation narrates the journey of love as a means of self-help through a series of extraordinary handcrafted leather shoes and objects each carrying symbolic meanings and messages. With a creative process at the intersection of fashion, art, and craft, Cope goes far beyond conventional shoe-making aesthetics and techniques, developing new processes and functions all the time to redefining the boundaries of footwear. The original collection 'The Language of Feet in the Walk of Life' is an evolving piece of work, reflecting Cope’s visionary approach. With new pieces continually added to extend its meaning; as new life lessons are learnt. Constant throughout the collection is design that embodies real human experiences and a self-therapeutic approach. In a testament to the high craftsmanship involved, the ‘Looking for Love’ double ended relationship shoes took five months to create and are over one metre in length. Audiences are encouraged to look, think and reflect upon their own relationships with others, and more importantly their own selves.
She seeks to redefine fashion’s potential future as something that has a deeper language, value and purpose. The opening night at the YKK London Showroom will also include a performance. Entitled 'Lessons in Love', a new collaborative work where Cope partners with Antonio de la Fe, a Spanish born choreographer based in London. The work seeks to bring the shoes to life through a four part written score. The live performance has been inspired by their joint interest in working with both words and body, and to explore the relationship between conceptual footwear and dance as progressive practice. London performance art partners Antonio Branco and Riccardo Tarocco will conduct the performance.
Cope said: 'The pieces on display at the YKK London Showroom and the performance as part of the opening night have been developed specifically for this collaboration and the London Craft Week event. I think the subject of Love is something that everyone can relate to and the performance is highly experimental, I am so excited to see it come to life on the night as not even the performers will know what to expect until they pick up the score on the night, their responses and actions will be truly live.'
With a BA Fashion Design degree from Nottingham Trent University, Cope recently returned to education after working with galleries and running her own studio for the last decade, to complete an MA in the prestigious Fashion Artefacts course at the London College of Fashion. This developed her high-end craft skills alongside conceptual practice. Cope is a part time lecturer and guest speaker at a number of universities, delivering modules and directing courses and workshops across art and design disciplines.
YKK London Showroom
E1 6NU London
Opening Times: Monday – Friday: 9am -5pm Saturday – Sunday: Closed.
More information and shoes by Jo Cope at the VirtualShoeMuseum.
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June 17th Shoe, Jewelry and Fashion design show by SASK
Monday, June 12, 2017 - On Saturday, June 17th, the Fashion and Shoe Designing Academy of Fine Arts Department of Sint-Niklaas presents it's annual sensational and spectacular fashion show for the 20th time and the shoe show for the sixth time. For this presentation the Techniekhuis will be transformed into a show location.
The fashion and shoe designs of part-time education in Sint-Niklaas, Fashion Design department: led by Ellen Monstrey and assisted by Maureen Declercq and Rey Pador. And shoe design by Anne Poesen & Hans De Clercq has manifested itself for many years as a professional and very inspiring department looking far beyond the borders of Sint-Niklaas. What makes this program so special is that it is a part-time education program. The students combine this training with other part-time studies or with their full time or part time jobs. Motivation and enthusiasm is the driving force. For some people it means finally realizing their childhood dream. It requires huge commitment and only who is passionate enough gets to the finish line. Because the program sets its goals very, academic, high.
Focus on both fashion and shoe design on the design, structure, craft, form study , chart and study of historical and ethnic costumes. The programs of both directions are similar and personal vision and authenticity are encouraged from the first year.
The Shoe Design department was created out of passion for the craft. For shoe design there are 30 candidates. The show is the culmination of an academic year and gives students from the first year on a platform to show their work, their vision and creativity. That every year 1.200 people, not just family and insiders, come to visit this show is the best form of appreciation for this department and it's students. So make sure you will also join this dazzling, exciting, inspiring show!
SASK show Academie Sint Niklaas
Date: June 17th 2017
Time: Shoe and Jewelry design 20.00, Fashion show 21.00
Tickets: in advance 18 euro/at the door 20 euro
Location: Techniekhuis, Industriepark Noord 6 Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Our open days are Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th June from 2 till 6 pm, location SASK Boonhemstraat 1, 9100 Sint Niklaas, Belgium.
Shoe design by Alice van Opstal, 2016.
Registration for the course starts saturday 25th. e-mail academie sint-niklaas
Previous articles about SASK and the shoe selection by students.
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At your feet
Sunday, May 29, 2016 - Do you know that your shoes are talkative and say a lot about the person wearing them? To better understand what these objects reveal, the exhibition takes you step by step to discover pairs stemming from every continent, from the 16th to the 21st century, from delicate lotuses for bound feet in China to trainers nowadays. This exhibition, in co-production with the Musée international de la Chaussure de Romans, on show at the wonderful new Musee des Confluences. From June 7 2016 till April 30 2017.
Whether they be sandals, boots, moccasins, slippers or something else, from here or elsewhere, from yesterday, today or the future, shoes are intimately linked with human history. It is therefore not surprising that they are so close to us, whether we are aware of it or not. They act as witnesses to various life styles, as objects of desire, and often indicate belonging to a group. Under the gaze of whoever knows how to decipher them, they reveal codes and symbols. These multiple facets thus reassure us with the idea that there is nothing anodyne in the shoes we chose to wear. At the heart of the exhibition, you will be led to ask questions about your own shoes and what they say about you. The museum invites you to leave your comments and to contribute in this way to reflexion.
Shoe performance by Xavier G-Solis
At the opening 7th of June there will be a shoe performance by Catalan artist Xavier G-Solis at 19.00.
His work specially conceived for this exhibition'L’ÂME DANS LES CHAUSSURES' a 4 x 3 m photography on paper, that sheds a contemporary light on our intimate relationship with the shoe will be part of the exhibition 'At your Feet'.
The exhibition presents nearly a hundred pairs from museum collections, from the International Footwear Museum at Romans, loans from institutions and private collectors.
86 Quai Perrache
From June 7 2016 till April 30 2017
More shoes Xavier G-Solis by at the Virtual Shoe Museum.
© Poster Quentin Lafont, musée des Confluences
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - Allow me to present you a banquet full of aesthetic flavors and tastes. An artistic feast in footwear presented by Chu-Ting Lee from Royal College of Art Womenswear Footwear. Tuesday 15 september at 10.30 at the Gallery Mess Bar, Saatchi Gallery London, UK.
Tuesday 15 september at 10.30- 18.00
Wednesday 16 september at 10.30- 18.00
Thursday 17 september at 10.30- 18.00
Gallery Mess Bar, Saatchi Gallery London, UK
Performance Model: Evelyn Yang
Ceramic Artist : Christina Liu
Fashion Designer: Naoya Nakayama
Product Designer: Li- Hsin Liang
For information visit Gallery Mess Bar, Saatchi Gallery
More shoes by Chu-Ting Lee at the Virtual Shoe Museum.
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Why shoes? Retrospective Xavier G-Golís
Sunday, May 03, 2015 - Why shoes? An invitation to bring a whole new perspective on the common and ordinary object 'the shoe'. A Retrospective exhibition from Catelan artist Xavier G-Solís, from Barcelona at the Musée international de la Chaussure de Romans in France. On show from 10 April till 25 Oktober 2015. With a special performance by Xavier G-Solís 16th of May during the Museum night (Nuit des Musées).
This exhibition traces the evolution and the work of Catalan artist Xavier G-Solís, philosopher and training sculptor, visual artist. For 15 years he led a reflection on the concept of the object 'used footwear' considering it as the symbol of the relationship between people and the world.
Xavier G-G-Solís has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a degree in advanced technique in sculpture from the Las Palmas Gran Canaria School of Arts. He currently lives in Barcelona were he fully dedicates himself to contemporary art. Over the last 10 years he has developed a collection of shoe works and projects of the 'used shoe', using the shoe as a paradigmatic symbol of the history of modern man. His work reflects the way in which the shoe G-Golis transforms worn shoes and puts them in a situation in installations and performances that really challenge. Shoe cars, shoe veils, shoes engraved... his work is visual, graphic and consists of photographs, videos and sculptures. This exhibition offers an approach that is aesthetic, poetic, playful and critical.
Musée international de la chaussure de Romans
The museum invites you on a journey to discover the world of this timeless, universal object - the shoe. Ilts collection is kept in a prestigious setting, the former 'Convent of the Visitation', allowing it to display shoes in all its forms, from the oldest to the most contempory and the most classical to the most extravagant or exotic. Situated in Romans, a town that owes its renown to leatherworking and shoemaking, the international Museum is both a place of endless inspiration for professionals and an exceptional showcase for the famous boot and shoemakers of yesterday and today.
Why Shoes? Retrospective Xavier G-Solís
Musée international de la chaussure de Romans, France
10 April – 25 Oktober 2015
This exhibition has a catalogue written by Adriana Herrera.
16th of May during the Museum night (Nuit des Musées) there will be a performance by Xavier G-Solís at the Museum.
For more information Musée international de la chaussure de Romans
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Session Update - Feb 1, 2019
I want to take a moment to update you on a few topics as we start this year’s Maryland Legislative Session.
Joint Committee on Federal Relations
I want to thank Speaker Busch for assigning me to the Joint Committee on Federal Relations. With so much of our area dependent on the Federal Government, this is a great opportunity to address concerns that impact our area.
On January 28th, the Committee heard from Senator Cardin regarding the Federal shutdown and his plans to avoid the next shutdown.
Caucus Press Conference
The House Republican Caucus held a press conference identifying our top legislative priorities. These issues are important to all citizens and I believe will have support from constituents on both sides of the aisle. These include legislation to give Maryland taxpayers a much-deserved tax break by cutting the state income tax, creating a “violent offenders registry” for repeat violent criminals, requiring legislative districts all become “single member” districts to protect voter rights and representation, and finally the Secure our Schools Act, which is my bill, making an adjustment to the law to allow for the hiring of Special Police Officers to provide security on school property.
You can find some of the news coverage here:
Tax cuts, election reform and school safety top list of House Republican priorities
Maryland House GOP to push for state income tax cut, violent offender registry, single-member districts
Video: Maryland House Republicans are calling for tax cuts
Secure our Schools- SPO
I’m very pleased that this bill has received the strong support of the House Republican Caucus, St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron and St. Mary’s County Schools Superintendent Scott Smith. This legislation allows a government entity such as the Sheriff, to request a special police officer (SPO) and allows them to be placed at other government-owned property with the written consent of the managing entity; in this case the school system. The beauty of this legislation is that SPO is a category of Police Office that already exists under Maryland Law and will continue to have very limited policing powers. This is enabling legislation for each county to enact upon its own choosing. By making some small changes to the existing law, we believe this could have a strong and meaningful effect on the ability to achieve our goal of having a qualified armed officer at every school that wants them. Solving the tragedy of school shootings is complex, but having more good men and women on school grounds is definitely part of the solution.
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Quique Dacosta Restaurante – creation
There is something about the Spanish restaurant scene that keeps us returning over and over again. Is it the tapas heritage, the Mediterranean flavours, the creativity, the delicious local wines or the terroir-based cuisine? Or all of these together?
Spanish restaurants have conquered a firm spot among the best restaurants in the world and Quique Dacosta Restaurante definitely is one of them. Quique Dacosta Restaurante opened its doors in 1981 under the name of El Poblet and slowly developed into one of the world’s most creative restaurants.
Chef Patron Quique Dacosta arrived at El Poblet in 1988 and took over the restaurant ten years later. Quique was born in Cáceres, but has lived in Dénia since the age of fourteen and considers this area of Valencia as his hometown. Quite remarkable and unlike many top chefs, Quique is completely selftaught. The chef is known for his innovations, his modern cooking style, his ecological research, his creativity and his business talent. Besides Quique Dacosta Restaurante, Quique also manages three restaurants in Valencia (Mercatbar, Vuelve Carolina & El Poblet Restaurante).
Quique Dacosta Restaurante is located in a street facing the beach of Dénia, a small beach town near Valencia. The white building with its church-shaped tower oozes mystery and after entering the doors, a trendy loungy atmosphere welcomes the guests. Modern art is combined with humorous accents and the traditional Spanish atmosphere is well kept on the whole property. Guests start with the aperitif on the sunny terrace or in the veranda, where the first nibbles are served. Once inside the dining room, you will be welcomed by empty tables which are slowly built during the meal. All unnecessary items are removed to optimise the dining experience.
Two tasting menus are available at Quique Dacosta Restaurante, both offering an extensive dining journey to the guests: ‘Local Universe’ is a menu that consists of dishes that have been consolidated over time and represent the restaurant’s baggage in the form of tradition, evolution and modernity. The menu ‘Fronteras’ offers a view on the chef’s current innovations, his culinary vision today, his research and his passion for creativity. Both menus consist of around 30 snacks which are served in five or six ‘acts’. The menus tell a story that is provocative, surprisingly creative and mainly based on the local terroir kitchen. Quique tries to use ingredients from within 75 kilometres of his restaurant and focuses on minimalistic, high flavoured dishes. His preparations are sometimes complicated, technically challenging and incorporating many ingredients, but some dishes consist out of a few or even one unique ingredient. The famous preparation with the Gamba Roja de Dénia is a good example of the latter: the juicy, sweet gamba is served on its own in one of the servings – pure and delicious.
The passion for creativity is reflected in snacks and mignardises such as the ‘Petals of roses’, which are in fact red dyed apple slices; ‘Stones of Parmesan cheese’, which are edible stones with parmesan cheese; and the ‘Carbon of Pericana’, where a crisp in the shape of charcoal is served with a delicious Pericana sauce. Quique Dacosta loves to deconstruct certain products and of course, fish and seafood from the coast nearby play an important role in the menu. An impressive serving and equally impressive tableside preparation is the degustation of some unique fish parts: dry octopus, roe of mullet spooned at the table and served on a crisp, “Torta” of Ling roe, and the red tuna belly rested between sugared kombu and mechoui. The living forest is another spectacle at the table and brings the best seasonal mushrooms, edible soil, asparagus heads and other delicacies from the forest. Beautiful!
The dining rooms at Quique Dacosta are managed by the charming Restaurant Manager Didier Fertilati, who can easily be considered as one of the best restaurants managers in the world. He welcomes guests as his friends and is assisted by Maître d’hôtel Giovanni Mastromarino. The wines are selected by Head Sommelier Jose Antonio Navarrete, who will surprise you with excellent wine choices and his broad knowledge of wines and liquors. The kitchen is managed by Quique Dacosta himself, Ricardo Tobella (Head Chef), Juan Valiente (Head Chef of the creativity department) and several ‘Jefe de Partida’ chefs. The team is now creating new dishes in the creativity studio, a new space at the restaurant where innovation and creativity fuse, using state-of-the-art elements and materials. The impressive team at Quique Dacosta consists out of 35 - 40 staff members who will guide you through one of the most remarkable gastronomical experiences in the world.
It is truly impressive to experience the journey throughout Quique Dacosta’s kitchen and, surprise after surprise, guests become more and more astonished. Extreme creativity is showcased in menus where each preparation is bursting with flavour coming from some of the most remarkable ingredients from the region. This restaurant definitely offers one of the best retakes on the Spanish tapas cuisine and guarantees one of the best culinary experiences in the world.
Quique Dacosta Restaurante scored 92 points of 100 points in our rating system. View our Top 60 of the world. Back to the reviews.
By Sven & Frank
Quique Dacosta Restaurante
Carretera Las Marinas, Kilometers. 3. Urb. El Poblet
Phone +34 965 784 179
www.quiquedacosta.es
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Ian is single, in good health and has two non-financially dependent children. He lives alone and owns his own home and has no mortgage. He is 62. Ian has built up a Scottish Widows personal pension worth £250,000. Apart from his £150,000 home, he has no other assets and he has surplus income of £250 per month after taking into account his regular monthly outgoings which goes towards a ‘holiday fund’. His parents are elderly and as the only child he is likely to receive an inheritance although wanted to exclude this from any recommendations. He is concerned about not having much capital to call on in case of emergency and needed to change his car within the next few months due the high mileage he had built up. The flexibility of his consultancy job means he is likely to keep working for the next 5 years.
To give Ian access to £5,000 of emergency capital which will form his emergency fund.
To provide Ian with the £12,000 he needs to change his car.
To keep paying into his pension fund until he retires.
We discussed the ability for Ian to borrow against his property or take out a personal loan but he was averse to borrowing any more money due to his experiences about paying off previously held debt. He said that he had started with nothing and whilst he would like the kids to have something when he is gone, they are not expecting anything from him and want him to do whatever he needs to in order to have a comfortable retirement.
Since the only asset apart from his house was his pension, we discussed the multitude of options available. We provided Ian with a Retirement Options Report and ensured that before we made any recommendations he was able to make a fully informed decision.
Once Ian felt comfortable with his newly gained pensions knowledge and having considered his attitude to investment risk and his ability to absorb a certain degree of capital losses over the next 5 years, we recommended Ian transfer his Scottish Widows personal pension to a new Flexi-Drawdown plan (available from April 2015) with another provider; his existing provider didn’t offer this plan.
We recommended Ian withdraw £17,000 from the £62,500 tax free cash element available from his Flexi-Drawdown fund. We also recommended a suitable investment portfolio which was aligned to the agreed risk level and set up a half yearly adviser review process at which stage we would update Ian on the progress of his pension plan and take into account any changes in his circumstances at that time.
Ian was really happy with the advice he received, that he introduced his best friends shortly afterwards.
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We were held inside a press pen made of bicycle rack style gates designed to keep us in our place. At the White House, we are given a very detailed schedule of events to be covered. We always know if and when we will see the President. And now 11 years later, the pair took to the stage together and displayed the same bonhomie that they enjoyed while opening the innings for their country. The occasion that brought them together was the book launch ceremony of Sourav Ganguly autobiography Century is not Enough at Taj Lands End on Wednesday evening. Also accompanying them on the stage was the current Indian opener in limited overs cricket and Mumbai Indians skipper, Rohit Sharma.
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Hybrid fitness
Fans of ESPA Life at Corinthia’s new fitness service, BodySPace, are calling the concept “revolutionary”. Lauretta Ihonor speaks to its founders to discover what sets it apart from the competition – and how it fits in with the flagship spa
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BodySPace is the brainchild of co-founders David Higgins (left) and Stephen Price
David Higgins is behind the London brands Ten Pilates and Bootcamp Pilates
BodySPace, ESPA Life at Corinthia
BodySPace uses technology from Firstbeat to provide personalised insight
Since its opening in 2011, ESPA’s flagship ESPA Life at Corinthia spa in London has shown a distinct commitment to combining fitness with innovative holistic therapies. Last summer the spa added mindful fitness sessions to its mindfulness services. And earlier this year, it upgraded its fitness centre with the installation of a new, state-of-the-art Technogym.
In a further step, ESPA Life at Corinthia has now partnered with the new UK company BodySPace to offer a bespoke hybrid fitness concept that combines exercise, nutrition and innovative technology to help guests improve not only their physical fitness, but their overall quality of life. “Clients often say ‘I want to lose 15 pounds,’ but when you dig deeper, this evolves into ‘I want to be fitter, feel better, have more energy and have more time for my partner’,” says BodySPace co-founder Stephen Price. “Once you nail it down, it’s really all about quality of life.”
ESPA founder Sue Harmsworth agrees. She says the concept’s focus on maximising quality of life through technology and multiple treatment modalities perfectly complements ESPA Life’s “philosophy of creating next-generation experiences.”
“BodySPace is bringing a new, highly evolved fitness and nutrition offering, which fits flawlessly within the existing ESPA Life offering,” says Harmsworth.
The birth of BodySPace
BodySPace is the brainchild of wellness consultant Price and David Higgins, the man behind the London Pilates brands Ten Pilates and Bootcamp Pilates. Price, who founded the health, fitness and medical wellness consultancy SP&Co in 2001, has worked in wellness consulting for 16 years. Prior to that, he oversaw the development of luxury hotels in Africa and Asia. Higgins began his career as a Pilates trainer, and has also worked as an exercise rehabilitationist for film studios.
The duo say it’s this amalgamation of expertise that sets BodySPace apart from anything else on the market. “David and I have consulted in the hotel industry for years and we wanted to put our experience together and launch BodySPace,” Price says. “We brought in health technologies from medical wellness clinics and the sports world and added them to David’s Pilates and body movement experience – and it works perfectly.”
The BodySPace brand was created in early 2017, and its first project, Kingwood – a state-of-the-art gym and wellness complex in a residential development in Knightsbridge, London – opened in June. ESPA Life at Corinthia is the team’s second project, and serves as their flagship hotel concept.
While traditional fitness services focus on metrics, such as fat percentage, weight and VO2max, BodySPace is centred on heart rate variability monitoring, which Price says is “probably the biggest physiological marker for those interested in reaping the benefits of personalised training for fitness and overall wellness. It’s a great marker of things like hydration and sleep, as they all affect variability.”
BodySPace uses technology from Firstbeat, a physiological analytics company, to provide guests with personalised insights on stress, exercise and recovery – all calculated from heart variability data. “This technology times the heartbeat,” explains Price. “We then look for the time between the beats and use this information to personalise the effect our training is having on you.”
Heart rate variability data is also used to determine clients’ heart coherence – a measure of the pattern of the heart’s rhythm. Research by the US HeartMath Institute has shown that coherence is an indicator of harmony between the cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous system, and as such, the ultimate measure of total body health. “Sometimes how you feel and the condition you’re truly in are disjointed, so having an objective measure is useful,” says Price. “We want to help clients gain a better idea of their current state of health and wellbeing, measuring how this improves as they progress through programmes.”
These bespoke programmes – which cost anywhere from £750 to £4,400 and last between 10 days and 12 weeks – combine tailored fitness training with gut health and nutrition services, recovery, regeneration and compression treatments, and myofascial release therapy, alongside the other therapies on offer at the 3,300sq ft (307sq m) luxury spa.
Price and Higgins plan to open more BodySPaces around the globe, but they’re firm in their vision. “It’s very important for us to create a platform where a positive evidence-based message is used to promote long-term health and wellness,” says Higgins. “We aim to deliver this to clients so they understand their bodies and minds better, and function at their most optimal across all aspects of life.”
About ESPA Life at Corinthia
• Located in the heart of London, ESPA Life at Corinthia is spread over four floors, covering 3,300 sq m.
• The spa, which opened in 2011, offers lifestyle programmes that incorporate complementary and alternative medicine, targeted fitness and injury rehabilitation.
• Offers include treatment pods, sleep rooms, Technogym's Artis range, a spa lounge and large thermal floor area that features a swimming pool, vitality pool, glass amphitheatre sauna, steam room and heated marble loungers.
• In June 2016, ESPA Life launched a suite of six mindfulness therapies for the restoration of mental and emotional wellbeing: mindful breathing, mindful meditation, mindful sleep, mindful fitness, mindful facial and mindful massage.
•lIn November 2016, the Corinthia Hotel and ESPA Life launched a year-long Neuroscience in Residence programme, led by US leadership coach and MIT lecturer Dr Tara Swart. Its aim is to examine the mental resilience of the spa and hotel’s staff and guests. The resulting data will be used to to create a special brain power study at the end of 2017.
ESPA Life at Corinthia is the brand’s flaship, covering 3,300sq m and four floors
The Corinthia Hotel London is located near the city’s West End and the River Thames
The spa lounge is one of several areas for relaxation at ESPA Life at Corinthia
Originally published in Leisure Management 2018 issue 1
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Directed by Michael Dougherty.
Cast: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ziyi Zhang, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, David Strathairn, Aisha Hinds, CCH Pounder, Anthony Ramos, Elizabeth Ludlow, Jonathan Howard, Alexandra Rachael Rabe.
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Reviewed by Dustin Putman for TheFrightFile.com, May 23, 2019.
Viewers who complained there was not enough monster mayhem in 2014's "Godzilla" get their wish in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters." The trade-off, alas, is a sequel altogether busier, more bombastic, and decidedly less personal. In its best moments, director Gareth Edwards' predecessor approached the haunting, exhilarating heights of awe and suspense found in 1993's "Jurassic Park." Even as the picture methodically took its time, it retained an enrapturing vision which ultimately paid off in spades. This follow-up, directed by the talented Michael Dougherty (2015's "Krampus") and co-written by Dougherty & Zach Shields, shaves away the previous film's sense of intimacy and tightly wound tension in exchange for two-plus hours of militaristic maneuvering and increasingly wearisome fire and brimstone. The creatures no longer carry with them an aura of daunting mystery; they are right there, front and center, in an unsubtle, less textured, less imaginative onslaught of CG-centric action.
Coexistence vs. extinction. It's the quandary faced by cryptozoological organization Monarch, who sees giant unearthed titan Godzilla as a possible savior for mankind against the wrath of other ancient adversaries lying in wait beneath the Earth's surface. When Monarch paleobiologist Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga) and 13-year-old daughter Madison (Millie Bobby Brown) are taken hostage by eco-terrorist Col. Jonah Allen (Charles Dance) and transported to an Antarctic outpost where Monster Zerothe three-headed King Ghidorahis being studied within a block of ice, their estranged husband and father, animal behaviorist and former Monarch specialist Mark (Kyle Chandler), joins forces with the agency to rescue them. Not all, however, is quite as it seems, with the broken Russell familywho tragically lost their son, Andrew, five years ago during the destructive San Francisco creature invasiontaking different sides in the debate over whether unleashing these monsters could ultimately save the planet from ecological collapse or mark the very end of civilization.
Restraint is in short supply in "Godzilla: King of the Monsters," a more-is-less enterprise rushing from moment to moment with little care to logistics, coherence, or even storytelling fluidity (full cities are glimpsed in their apocalyptic aftermath with little to no concern for how they got that way or what has become of their populations). If precursor "Godzilla" was a fantastical thriller nonetheless anchored in what felt like the real world, this continuation strikes as pure fantasy that happens to take place on Earth. It also feels like a direct reaction to the small but vocal naysayers who claimed there wasn't enough of the title character in the earlier picture. While Godzilla remains a supporting (albeit pivotal) player here, the incorporation of King Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra ensures this is a titan bonanza. Certainly, there are extravagant visuals within, head-spinningly majestic effects work, and superb creature designs. What these isn't is any sense of warmth, wonder or genuine thrills. Onscreen chaos does not equate to viewer involvement, and what was once nerve-jangling and broodingly riveting in the former film now simply comes off as overbearing and decidedly detached.
Uniformly strong actors are at the mercy of thankless roles in the often dopey screenplay, with only Kyle Chandler (2018's "First Man"), Vera Farmiga (2016's "The Conjuring 2") and Millie Bobby Brown (Netflix's "Stranger Things") given anything of note to munch on (sole carryovers Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins and David Strathairn are treated as afterthoughts). As Mark and Emma Russell, Chandler and Farmiga ably exhibit the pain and grief of losing a child, both believing they are doing the right thing while staunchly standing at a divide on how to protect the planet. That they achieve this is particularly impressive considering so little time or attention is dedicated to it. Mostly, they, too, are pawns in a production so big it threatens to swallow them whole. The best performance comes from Brown, capturing the apprehension, astonishment, and confusion of a child caught between parents in crisis and worldwide cataclysms. One of the few emotionally resonant moments in the film is a devastating question Brown's Madison poses to her mom, casting everything Emma has been fighting for in a new consequential light. More attention to the people in the story who stand to lose everything rather than empty disaster spectacle might have made all the difference.
Director Michael Dougherty, a master of crafting darkly whimsical tales, could have used a little more of that magic touch while developing "Godzilla: King of the Monsters." In interviews, he has likened this film to James Cameron's action-oriented "Aliens" and Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla" to Ridley Scott's scarier, more deliberate "Alien." It's a comparison that makes a lot of sense, with one exception: "Aliens" might have been working on a grander scale, but its solid screenplay still kept Sigourney Weaver's Ripley as its focal point while devising a host of rousing, edge-of-one's-seat sequences. Considering the sheer quantity of creature battles here (most of which aren't given the chance to properly play out without getting interrupted by the other twenty things going on at the same time), it is telling that none come close to approaching the crowd-pleasing satisfaction of the gangbusters San Francisco-set fight during the third act of "Godzilla." After a while, its repetitive cinematic fireworks begin to forgettably blend together. "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" loses its way by trying to do too much and, consequently, not doing enough, gravely assuming loud noises, freneticism, and lots of crashing and bashing is all audiences need to get their money's worth. Without making us care, though, what's the point?
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Mandi's Thoughts on RHONY Reunion Part 2
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No reason to hold back here at Three Ice Cubes because that is no fun and let's face it; on reality TV, no one holds back their feelings, hence why it has become one of the biggest guilty pleasures to take the world by storm. Part one of the RHONY Reunion was full of "she said/she said" but it was so delicious, of course we were bursting at the seams for part two. Sadly, it was a snooze fest until Bethenny (HBIC) and Carole finally went at it and Carole told host, Andy Cohen, what was up!
Bethenny has been pretty much controlling this reunion and Andy had by no means stepped back. He has let her have the floor and even when she was wrong or condescending or it was someone else's turn to speak, he seemingly did not care. I believe that is what fueled even more anger from the ladies, primarily Dorinda, Carole, and Ramona. They just wanted to be heard but Andy made sure that would not happen. For the first part of the second part of the reunion, the focus was on what Dorinda was doing to overcome her "drinking problem." As they say on "Mom," alcoholism is a self-diagnosed diseased and Dorinda was very honest about being depressed during this past season. She also made it clear that all of the women drink and are not Saints so the biggest trigger was Luann trying to school Dorinda in Colombia right after she had left rehab and to add insult to injury, Lu is back in rehab.
It seemed that Bethenny knew all. She knew why Luann drank, she had tried to help her get a lawyer (her now late boyfriend, Dennis) and she seemed to want to say that she knew it all. It was the Bethenny show and finally, we got to see Carole stand up with the texts she had and attempt to set Bethenny straight but with Andy's bias towards B, he did not seem to care. So, Carole said what we all wanted to say: "you're so full of shit, Andy." Yayyyy Carole. It was like when Aviva threw her prosthetic leg! And it will continue onto next week when the reunion concludes on Wednesday a 8p.m. on Bravo.
Other things we learned: Sonja says nothing because she is so up Bethenny's ass; Tinsley and Scott see other people when they have their breaks but plan on getting engaged and that is that! What did everyone else think of the reunion? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter @3icecubes!
*Word has it that the B will officially be back for season 11. No thanks!
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Geely to Redefine the Connected Automotive Experience with Baidu
July 3, 2019 | Geely Auto Group, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, 浙江吉利控股集团
•The Geely and Baidu strategic cooperation will be based on mutual strengths in automotive and technology sectors.
2019 July 03, Beijing, China. At the “2019 Baidu Create”, Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence Development Conference, Li Shufu, Chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) and Robin Li, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, announced that Geely Holding and Baidu will strategically cooperate in the fields of intelligent connectivity, smart mobility, smart home, e-commerce and in other areas related to AI technology. The two parties will jointly explore the development AI applications in the automotive ecosystem, with the long term aim of accelerating the large-scale popularization of intelligent connected vehicles in China and internationally.
At the conference, Robin Li and Li Shufu interacted on stage with Geely Auto’s latest intelligent SUV; the Bo Yue PRO. This new model is equipped with Baidu’s AI system through Geely’s GKUI19 Smart Ecosystem. The Bo Yue PRO is Geely’s most advanced vehicle to date and is effectively a highly integrated mobile terminal with the ability to connect people, cars and homes. Geely Auto will begin implementing the Baidu AI-equipped GKUI19 system throughout its product portfolio in due course.
At the conference, Robin Li, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, said, “The major advances in the history of mobility are accompanied by new changes brought about by cutting-edge technology. Geely Holding, through their years of achievements and innovations have become a leader in China’s automotive industry. This strategic cooperation between Baidu and Geely, focusing on AI technology empowerment, will not only bring about more natural and convenient human-car interaction, but also accelerate the intelligentization of the automobile and mobility service industry, helping the Chinese automotive industry become a leader in the era of smart mobility.”
Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Holding Group, said, “China’s intelligent connected vehicle technology is now at the forefront of the world, bringing consumers a safe and convenient travel experience. Baidu is a leader within the AI industry in China, and also a pioneer in promoting industrial intelligence with their globally leading AI R&D capability and deep technical insight in the field of intelligent driving. Through strategic cooperation and resource collaboration, the two sides are committed to jointly building an intelligent mobility ecosphere to lead the future, and create a brand-new experience for users.”
In recent years, Geely Holding has taken the initiative to accelerate the modernization of the automotive industry, with Geely increasing its digital development capacity. Its ultimate goal is to transition from being a traditional automaker to a mobility service provider.
Geely released its GKUI Geely Smart Ecosystem (GKUI) in 2018, which has rapidly grown to having more than 1 million active users. GKUI is the fastest in-vehicle user interface and most actively used in-vehicle connectivity system within the automotive industry.
Baidu’s experience in smart vehicle and AI is extensive. Baidu officially released their Apollo platform in 2017. Currently, 156 partners have joined Apollo to cooperate on R&D and product application including the world’s top OEMS and top tier companies, and mobility service providers. The platform has grown into one of the world’s most powerful autonomous driving platform and AI ecosystem. Apollo has two editions; an open source platform and the Apollo Enterprise Edition. Apollo Enterprise aims to provide intelligent production, smart car, customization, and security solutions for OEMs, as well as for cities. The Apollo open source platform has released 7 versions so far, with over 15,000 developers worldwide.
The first Geely model equipped with the GKUI19 system, the Bo Yue PRO will be available on the Chinese market in the next quarter.
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Book Review-How To Entice An Enchantress
How to Entice an Enchantress by Karen Hawkins
Also in this series: How to Capture a Countess
Series: The Duchess Diaries #3
Published by Pocket Books on September 17th 2013
Genres: Historical Romance, Regency Era
The third sizzling novel in New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins’s Duchess Diaries series, featuring three unruly sisters and their headstrong godmother with a penchant for matchmaking.
Reclusive Viscount Kirk, horribly scarred by a tragic accident that stole the life of his beloved first wife, is a man defined by fury. For years he’s eschewed society, growing abrupt and curmudgeonly. But now, when he’d given up on life, he’s fallen madly in love with the refreshingly naive daughter of his neighbor, dainty and charming Dahlia Balfour. Desperate to win her attention, Kirk calls in a favor from the Duchess of Roxburghe and asks that she transform him into a fashionable suitor for Dahlia’s hand. But what’s easy to change on the outside, isn’t as easy to change on the inside…
Dahlia’s always dreamed of a fairytale romance. Although Viscount Kirk is only seven years her senior, because of his cantankerous ways and lack of social graces she thinks of him as her “older neighbor,” and is blissfully unaware that he sees her as anything other than an acquaintance. She is shocked to see him at the duchess’s grand house party, trying to fit with the very societal rules he so frequently mocks. Surprised by his attention, irritated at his bald honesty, and intrigued that he finds her worth the effort, Dahlia regards Kirk as the opposite of Prince Charming. Without the pretty words and grand gestures she yearns for, can true love find its way into her unwilling heart?
Kirk has spent the past seven years mourning his wife and staying far away from society and manners. Now he feels he is ready to marry, and the one woman he wants is Dahlia Balfour. He knows that it won’t be easy, considering she refused his proposal a short time previous, but he is determined. He knows that they would be a good match. So he goes to the Duchess of Roxburghe, and gains her help. For two months, they transform him into a gentleman (somewhat). When Dahlia sees Kirk again she is outraged and hurt and furious and lets him know it. Kirk knows he is in for a battle, and he will have to use every weapon available to him. Dahlia is still hurt from Kirk’s past actions, especially in his dealings with her father. She finds him despicable and she once cared for him, but then he hurt her. Now when she sees him at the house part the Duchess is hosting, he has transformed into a man she doesn’t recognize, until he speaks that is. A turbulent battle begins…but who will win and who will lose, and will the prize be true love?
How To Entice A Enchantress is the third installment in the Duchess Diaries, and even though I quite enjoyed this one, it was probably my least favorite. If I had to choose my favorite it would probably be the second one, which involved Dahlia’s sister. However despite that, I really had a fun and jolly time reading this story. The main focus was Kirk trying to convince Dahlia to marry him. This story is all about second chances. From the beginning you see how right these two are for each other, if they just let differences be put aside. Kirk is very stubborn and prideful and a touch arrogant, and doesn’t believe in love anymore. Dahlia is determined to find true love, after seeing her sisters find it, she only believes that she is worthy of it too. It was fun seeing these two clash against one another, and once they really kissed, all bets were off. There isn’t a very strong plot line here or conflict much. Its the kind of story you can just sit back and enjoy and not stress too much about the events that are taking place. There is quite a bit of witty dialogue and cute scenes that engage the reader.
Overall a sweet yet enticing love story that has a certain magical charm that is perfect for any kind of reading time. A delightful romance that will make the reader go weak in the knees!! A SIMPLE PLEASURE!!!
My Grade
4 Blossoms
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Alternative Right, Anti-Fascism, Internet Racism
The White Stuff: An Open Letter to The Right Stuff and the Daily Shoah
As many people saw, a quick blog was posted less than a week ago covering the recent #cuckservative hashtag. The goal of this was really just to provide a little context for those who are not up on the clashes between GOP traditionalists and the far-right. The main focus of this was The Right Stuff and their podcast, The Daily Shoah. This quickly got to the attention of the neoreaction themselves, and was shared widely amongst The Right Stuff supporters. This allowed us a night of entertainment where pop up messages came accusing us of being “dirty Jews” and having a strange chain of the regular alt-right comment types. The strange thing we noticed about these comments were so many of them seemed to want to make friends with us, and a lot of them seemed to believe that things like “you are the real fascists” and “how can white supremacy exist if all the leaders are Jews” were substantive intellectual fodder. The comments were relatively the same on The Right Stuff’s own forum, except they mixed in videos of black face, mentions of the Third Reich, and the kind of vicious racial hatred and language that deserves a brick, not a response.
This then led to The Daily Shoah dedicating us a full fifteen minutes on their podcast, a period that was apparently too long to refrain from using the n-word. We appreciate the promotion, and we wanted to go ahead and both address some of the things mentioned and to shine a light on what it really means to be a “shitlord.”
One thing that they picked up almost immediately is a couple mistakes we made, which we will gladly correct. First we mentioned that they referred to black men as “Dingos,” which is actually “Dindus.” This was something that was incredibly important to them, and was even in the glossary of silly words that they use to “class up” their podcast. I also referred to their host as Goy, and their main hosts are actually Seventh Son and Enoch (though the person I did refer to now goes by Goy, not sure if that is because he wants our fandom).
They then went on a rant about the article and all the mistakes, though we really do beg them to mention any mistakes that were beyond things like who the main host was and word mistakes. The key issue in the article was not about whether or not the alt-right is racist, that is clear from the get go, but exactly what the motivation is. As you go through Radix, Counter-Currents, American Renaissance, Traditionalist Youth Network, Council of Conservative Citizens, and oh so many more there is their own type of coded language. Unlike traditional conservatives that try to use “dog whistle” racialism to signal their base while accusing the left of “real racism,” the alt-right conventionally hides behind a similarly obvious series of symbols and easy-outs.
Let’s start with a few phrases that are common on the alt-right (though, for reasons I’ll get to later, not common on TRS or TDS). Ethnopluraism, ethnonationalism, pan-Europeanism, and many others that essentially have similar etymology. What most of these idea represent is the notion that racial nationalism, or even more specific ethnic nationalism, is the main function of a radical alt-right movement. The argument goes then that ethnic nationalism is the right of all peoples, and it literally has nothing to do with the inferiority of or hatred towards people of color. The Human Biological Diversity issues brought up in places like American Renaissance are often couched as “group differences” as a way of saying that perceived difference in IQ or criminality is only an example that black people (or whoever the target racial minority is that week) need their own homeland because their genetic make-up doesn’t allow them to fit correctly in white culture. Many of these groups go even further than this, often times even using language that celebrates minority cultural organizations, and anti-Semitism is often on the back-burner of most of these websites and justified using very marginal ideas in evolutionary psychology. On the majority of these websites you will never see a Klan robe, swastika, 14:88, holocaust denial, and other hallmarks of the vanguardist far-right. Even Stormfront bans racial slurs and swastikas at this point. These are the politics of respectability, and they really are making an argument for racial nationalism as being separate from the racial violence we saw for centuries with colonialism, genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, the Holocaust, etc.
Then there is The Right Stuff.
On their podcast you will hear open racial slurs, incredibly vile racial insults, jokes about the holocaust (as well as what appears to be denial, though that is not a main target of discussion), deep hatred of Jews, discussion about how women manipulate men and make false rape accusations, and basically reinforce white supremacist orthodoxy that many of these alt-right sources would say are a caricature of nationalist that no longer exists.
So then, we could easily say that these are two separate movements, two different ideological positions. Except they aren’t.
As they acknowledged when playing fanboy to our website, their members have gone on Radix Journal podcast. They do host Greg Johnson from Radix. They do attend American Renaissance, and they are generally tied to the broader pseudo-intellectual racist movement. Their ideas are functionally the same while the value judgments and crass nature are different. They actually do think that people of color, especially people of African decent, are inferior. They actually do think that Jews control the world and deserve the violence that has been inflicted upon them. They actually do think that people of color benefited from colonialism because they cannot govern their own affairs. (Or have agency, as they like to say)
They even lamented the fact that the infamous /r/CoonTown subreddit network was taken off of Reddit. This is where you had forums to share videos of black people being murdered and to discuss general hatred against African Americans.
You say that we did not do our homework, but we actually have listened to your entire first season of The Daily Shoah, so maybe we are actually your most committed followers.
The real question that they raise, however, is about the functioning of Anti-Fascist Action. While throwing out the same ad hominem that the far-right likes to do that it is a middle class movement (it has predominantly been the British working class left that founded antifa), that we are Marxists (it is predominantly an anarchist-driven movement), they went after their very core argument: that we are the “militant” wing of the “system.”
This is one that antifascists usually ignore because, on its face, it is completely meaningless. Our decisions to be opposed to or inside “the system” has little to do with anti-racist and antifascist inclinations. Likewise, there is this notion that we side with the police. Antifascist Action has traditionally used “physical resistance” to confront and eliminate fascist organizing, which is inherently illegal. Likewise, those organizing with Antifa are, usually, of a political organization opposed to the state. That said, the final intention of antifascist organizing is to stop fascists. Period. There is no moral function here since the decisions about why we want to eliminate fascist organizing was made before entering into discussions of tactics. We will feel absolutely nothing about police smashing up a fascist gathering and suppressing your speech because you are seen as an enemy. Period.
This does, however, present a real concrete issue for antifascist organizers who do not actually want to empower the police in general. The alternative that is presented is to create a militant community response that, whenever possible, does not engage with the police. The majority of large racist rallies in the U.S. have police protection because of the inflammatory nature. Look at recent rallies by Traditionalist Youth Network, the KKK, League of the South, and many others all rely on police protection to be able to speak. Likewise, recent statistical research from the FBI show a higher than average percentage of racialist organizational members inside the police force. Not much of a shocker there. We do not care what the police’s intentions or goals are with busting up fascist organizing because they have little connection to our own. We do not care about your illegality, about your silly gang culture, or if you are running drugs. We confront you because you are violent blast from the past, the direct inverse of radical organizing.
The argument then that we are on the side of the “status quo” is one that is actually true to a degree. We do stand with the vast majority of working class people that see we have much more to gain by coming together in solidarity than we do by dividing ourselves by arbitrary phenotypes. There is nothing that bonds a white person biologically to another white person over a person of color, and to say that there is has been one of the most long-standing misreading of science by those with racial anger and fear as their motivation. While we see that conscious racism is no longer a dominant paradigm, due directly to the long-working anti-racist organizing of the last 200 years, institutional racism is still alive in well. The antifascist movement, however, is only targeting a specific subset of the reactionary white population who is desperately trying to hold onto the illusionary benefits of white privilege. Anytime you see a revolution happening that challenges the hierarchy that the ruling class benefits from, you will see some try to hold onto the meager superiority they have. This is true white white nationalists, as well as Men’s Rights Activists in regards to gender equality, the Religious Right in regards to queer rights, and so on. In a period of social upheaval, there will always be a vanguard of the fascist movement, and as working-class organizers that is one of the greatest enemies of mass social transformation in the direction of democracy and equality. In a funny way, we assume you would agree with this.
At the same time, what is the status quo? For most of American history there has been a mass white on color genocide and enslavement. Millions of Native Americans murdered, black people turned into livestock, and, today, literally locking up an entire generation of African Americans. What is the status quo here? Those working to eliminate the most glaring examples of conscious racism, or those wanting to reinforce the implicit racism that defines American institutions? We are aware that from your standing point you are oppressed by multiculturalism. I’m wondering if a black man being lynched by the Klan would agree that you are oppressed because you might be reprimanded at work for using the n-word. Yeah, you certainly are a victim class.
So what is the threat of fascism? This is actually something we have answered on this website at length. We will direct you to the first two articles in a series that explains why we oppose fascism, which includes the variants you prefer such as New Right, Alt Right, neoreaction, Dark Enlightenment, etc.(What is the Real Threat of Fascist Organizing? and Anarchism vs Fascism) The third will be out shortly dealing with the lone-wolf violence that your rhetoric inspires, and we will gladly send it over. These fascist ideas, rooted in traditionalism, racialism, and hierarchy, are the functional opposite of what drives our organizing. You could say that we literally have nothing in common.
You were right about one thing, however, you did drive a ton of traffic to the website! This website and Facebook page are literally just a couple weeks old, so it is still getting moving. The reason we will continue to talk about you is, for one, you are the plainest and simple example of your ideas. There is no nuance here. You say exactly what you mean, and so you make counter-organizing that much easier.
So thank you TRS, keep up the work. We’ll be listening.
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Herr Schmidt says:
I’m still not sure what you’re “exposing” here. Your argument seems to be that white nationalists are white nationalists. No shit. TRS is a bit more vulgar than the rest, sure. But it’s not like Radix, Amren, Counter-Currents etc deny being white nationalists, they’re fairly open. You’re basically just saying you don’t like the tone of TRS.
Clearly, we are showing that this notion that “peaceful nationalism” or respect for “real diversity” is just coded language for the cowardly. These fascists are better represented by TRS, and that is something that anti-fascists will need to remember when confronted with the coded language.
scoutingtheend says:
Why would they? They are nigger-pet keeping faggots. And we don’t THINK niggers are inferior, we know it and can objectively prove it. Niggers are hazardous to human health. After all, black “men” – 6 percent of the population- commit 60 percent of the violent crime in the US (actually THREE PERCENT, apefricans 15-45- the ones we haven’t got locked up yet). In a sane world, any country that had that kind of problem with such a small demographic would immediately shoah that demographic… but you racecucks eat that nigger dick up. After all, it’s AAAAALLLLLLLLLLL whitey’s fault. And it is. They never should have been brought here, then idiots like you guys should never have been allowed to pretend they are human. Repatriation, not reparations, is the only solution, and whites are indeed waking up. 2016 YEAR UB BE HABBENINGS, WHITEY! TRUMP 2016! THEY HAVE TO GO BACK. … fucking anarcho fags
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Mark Mac Cuill says:
I dont really think anyone believes that those who call for segregation are not racist, it implies racism to do so. They may not all have a huge hate-on for blacks, but they sure don’t like them much which is their right, but this is the problem: they dont want them to be able to live around their precious white areas. To me theres not that much of a difference in the two ideologies, to say that you love blacks but they should live elsewhere… please! You will pretend to respect them and their culture to get them to agree to leave but behind their backs you’re snakes… Whites brought them here, whites have already uprooted them once and should be the ones to leave if anyone leaves. I am white, proud of my Irish Celtic heritage, and see no reason to have segregation, but I do see a huge need to treat the impoverished classes with a whole lot more respect and thats what Anti Fascist organizing is all about
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Colts claim 2 players off waivers, add 5 to practice squad
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts have brought back five players to the practice squad and claimed two players off waivers.
Tight end Mo Alie-Cox, receivers Reece Fountain and Steve Ishmael, quarterback Phillip Walker and cornerback D.J. White all were re-signed after being released Saturday.
Fountain was a fifth-round draft pick in the spring and was the only player of the 11 selected by the Colts not to make the 53-player active roster.
Syracuse inks 15 players in early signing period
By The Associated PressDecember 20, 2017
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Dino Babers reached deep into Florida for four players and also inked four from New York as the Orange strive to become more competitive in the Atlantic Coast Conference's tough Atlantic Division.
Syracuse's early class of 15 players was ranked 44th by 247sports.com, putting the Orange on pace for their best showing in the past decade. Still, it was behind six other ACC schools, half of them in the Atlantic Division.
Dillon Named to All-ACC Team
The Lowell SunNovember 28, 2017
Boston College running back AJ Dillon was a unanimous selection to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team, which was released on Monday following a vote of 14 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
Dillon, a freshman who played at Lawrence Academy, has rushed for 1,432 yards and 13 touchdowns for BC (7-5).
Lamar Jackson, 5 Clemson players lead all-ACC team
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson and five players from top-ranked Clemson headline the all-Atlantic Coast Conference first team.
The ACC released its all-conference teams Monday following a vote of 14 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
Jackson, last year's Heisman Trophy winner, was selected as the all-conference quarterback for the second straight year after averaging an FBS-best 411 total yards.
Syracuse looks for another upset, visits No. 8 Miami
The Associated PressOctober 19, 2017
Syracuse (4-3, 2-1 ACC) at No. 8 Miami (5-0, 3-0), Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)
Line: Miami by 16.
Series Record: Miami, 15-7.
Miami can stretch its winning streak to 11 games, which would be the program's longest since the 34-game streak spanning the 2000-02 seasons. Syracuse, which knocked off defending national champion Clemson last week, will aim to become the first unranked team since Auburn in 2003 to beat AP Top 10 schools in consecutive weeks.
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On the Beat: Dabo Swinney makes a point to congratulate Syracuse players in locker room, visits Alabama on Saturday
Grace RaynorOctober 15, 2017
CLEMSON — The cameras likely did not catch it and Dabo Swinney did not say a word about it himself.
But when it was all said and done Saturday night, Clemson's head coach weaved his way through the Carrier Dome, sought out the Syracuse locker room and walked in. He wanted to congratulate the Orange players first hand. Despite his No. 2 Clemson team losing 27-24 and despite it being close to midnight before the Tigers boarded a plane home, Swinney made it a priority to make one final pit stop.
Dungey, Franklin and Hofrichter named Syracuse captains
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly halfway through its season, Syracuse finally has picked its team captains.
Orange coach Dino Babers announced Wednesday that junior quarterback Eric Dungey, senior linebacker Zaire Franklin, and redshirt sophomore punter Sterling Hofrichter were elected by a team vote prior to last week's game against Pittsburgh.
Senior receiver Steve Ishmael, senior linebacker Parris Bennett, and junior snapper Matt Keller were voted co-captains of their respective units.
ACC’s early surprises include Marshall, Ishmael, Etienne
By CHARLES ODUMOctober 4, 2017
ATLANTA (AP) — Much has changed in one year for some of the early surprises playing significant roles in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
At this time last year, TaQuon Marshall, who began his career as a running back, was no higher than third on Georgia Tech's list of quarterbacks.
Steve Ishmael was playing in the shadows of other Syracuse wide receivers for the third straight season.
Travis Etienne was Clemson's final commitment in the 2017 signing class.
Syracuse vs. NC State
Doug Green College Football WarehouseSeptember 28, 2017
Who: Syracuse (2-2, 0-0 ACC) at NC State (3-1, 1-0 ACC)
An early look: Scouting Syracuse, LSU’s next opponent on Saturday night
SHELDON MICKLES | smickles@theadvocate.comSeptember 17, 2017
KICKOFF: 6 p.m. Saturday in Tiger Stadium
TV: ESPN2
RADIO: WDGL-FM, 98.1; WWL-AM, 870; WWL-FM, 105.3; KLWB-FM, 103.7
SERIES: LSU leads 2-1
LAST MEETING: LSU 34, Syracuse 24 (Sept. 26, 2015 in Syracuse, N.Y.)
ON SYRACUSE
RESULTS SO FAR: Defeated Central Connecticut State 50-7 on Sept. 1, lost to Middle Tennessee 30-23 on Sept. 9, defeated Central Michigan 41-17 on Saturday
OFFENSIVE LEADERS: Quarterback Eric Dungey, wide receiver Steve Ishmael, running back Dontae Strickland
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September 19, 2018 | Published By Jordan Commandeur
WateRR’s Rhymes Are Most Refreshing When Served Over Ice Cold DirtyDiggs Beats (Video)
Chicago has been getting plenty of attention in the last couple years due to a new generation of artists like the Save Money crew (Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, Joey Purp, etc.), Mick Jenkins, NoName, Saba, and more. However, the Windy City also has a rich vein of new wave boom-bap that is starting to garner significant attention. This scene includes names like Vic Spencer, Chris Crack, Tree, and WateRR. The last in the grouping is a gravelly-voiced MC who may be imposing in size, but make no mistake, he’s even more of a threat on the mic. WateRR spits with precision, catching the snare perfectly with every line. He dropped an album midway through the summer titled Foundation Of Life, but it went under the radar for many. So, like any hungry artist, he has re-upped and is back with a new offering.
WateRR made a pilgrimage out to L.A. to link with blood-brother production duo, DirtyDiggs (Planet Asia, Rah Digga, Bambu). The outcome is Wizard Of The Crystal, some of illest music to come out of either entity. Known for bringing the best out of underground artists, Diggs’ JR and Noy One lace this Chitown rapper with just the right tempos and vibes. The lead single “Da Vinci” is the perfect example as W-A-T-E-Double-R effortlessly rides a simple organ loop and groovy bassline. The way his words fit together and the timbre he kicks them are guaranteed to draw listeners in. “I’m about a dollar, you pocket change / You don’t want no problems, so don’t bother my profit lane / Raking in the moolah / No Jacob but got a jeweler / Forsaken, that’s how they do us / Say grace and yell hallelujah.”
On top of fly, soulful production, DD are also well-known for filming fresh videos. So, the visuals here capture WateRR kicking it at the beach and on the boardwalk; soaking in the sun while letting off missiles. Diggs’ angles and the way they frame shots deserves high praise.
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New on Amazon Prime Video: All the Movies and TV Coming in August
By Lena Wilson | July 17, 2018 | 4:01pm
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As we roll on into August, Amazon Prime is giving us even more to sweat over. With a number of classics debuting across multiple genres and a few choice recent releases coming to the streamer, there really is something for everyone. So crank up that A/C and turn one of these great picks on while you fantasize about the sweater weather to come.
Prime’s strongest August additions come in the movies section, with the streaming giant bringing a little something for everyone. Geeky fave Watchmen joins delightfully cheesy sci-fi franchises like Teen Wolf and Species for the monster lovers in all of us. Meanwhile, if you’re in the mood for a nostalgic, royal teen romance, A Cinderella Story and The Prince and Me will be right up your alley. Blair Witch fans will be delighted to see the pioneering found-footage film coming to streaming, as well. Critically acclaimed recent arthouse releases like Mother!, Disobedience, and Woman Walks Ahead that are sure to entice any movie buff round out this fantastic collection.
Things are a bit more scant on the TV front, but Prime’s original John Krasinski-led Tom Clancy series closes out the month and is sure to draw buzz. There’s also the scarily relevant #MeToo: Now What? debuting at the beginning of August and a few other exciting prospects like Prime’s original Agatha Christie series.
Scroll down to see our complete list of all of Prime’s August arrivals.
New in August – Available for Streaming on Prime Video
A Cinderella Story (2004)
American Gigolo (1980)
American Ninja (1985)
American Ninja III: Blood Hunt (1989)
Be Cool (2005)
Black Mask (1996)
Black Rain (1989)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Boomerang (1992)
Cold War (2012)
CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008)
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
Double Whammy (2002)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Fled (1996)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Freedom Writers (2007)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Heartbreakers (2001)
High Noon (1952)
Hoosiers (1986)
I Went Down (1997)
In & Out (1997)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
Joe (2014)
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker (1997)
King Corn (2016)
Nick of Time (1995)
No Way Out (1987)
Original Sin (2001)
Out of Time (2003)
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)
Species II (1998)
Species III (2004)
Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming (2007)
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Prince and Me (2004)
The Soloist (2009)
True Colors (1991)
Tunnel Rats (1968)
Vegas Vacation (1997)
America Divided: 201 (2018)
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Having Our Baby (2017)
It Takes Guts (2016)
All I See Is You (2016)
Blood Ties (2014)
I Am Not Lorena (2014)
Gringo (2018) (Prime Original movie)
Ambassadors of the Sky (2016)
Disobedience (2017)
The Escape of Prisoner 614 (2018)
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Mother! (2017)
#MeToo: Now What?, Season 1
Agatha Christie, Season 1 (Prime Original series)
Avoiding Apocalypse, Season 1
The Stinky & Dirty Show, Season 2B (Prime Original series)
Billy the Exterminator, Season 1
Hangar 1: The UFO Files, Season 1
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Season 1 (Prime Original series)
True Tori, Seasons 1-2
August TBD
All or Nothing: Manchester City, Season 1 (Prime Original series)
New in August – Available to Rent or Purchase on Video
August 7 (Purchase) August 21 (Rent)
New in August – Available for Streaming on Prime Video Channels
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, HBO
Murder on the Orient Express, HBO
Darkest Hour, HBO
Ballers, HBO, Season 4
Insecure, HBO, Season 3
Frankie Drake Mysteries, PBS Masterpiece, Season 1
UFC 227 (PPV) – Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2, UFC
AVP Gold Series – Manhattan, Prime Video (8/17-19)
AVP Gold Series – Chicago, Prime Video (8/31-9/2)
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A 75-year-old woman has died following a collision near Salisbury yesterday (29 November).
Emergency services were called shortly after 9.30am to the single vehicle collision on the A30 at Compton Chamberlayne.
At this stage, it is believed that a large tree fell into the road and on to the car – a Ford Fiesta, which was travelling northbound from the direction of Fovant.
The 75-year-old passenger, who is from Dorset, sadly died at the scene. Her family are being supported by specially trained officers and our thoughts remain with them at this time.
The driver, a 74-year-old woman also from Dorset, suffered serious injuries to her leg, believed to be life-changing, and was taken to Southampton Hospital where she remains in a serious condition.
Due to the complexities of removing the tree and restoring the power infrastructure, the road remained closed until approximately 11.45pm.
Anyone who witnessed the incident who has not already spoken to police should call 101 and quote log number 103 of November 29.
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Cutey Honey (OVA)
[series:152]
Title: Cutey Honey (OVA)
New Cutey Honey
Shin Cutey Honey
Overall: Watch
1994, Action, Artificial Girls, Fan Service, Fantasy, OVA, Romantic Comedy
IWAO Junko
MATSUMOTO Rika
NEYA Michiko
Original Concept - GOTOU Keiji
Original Concept - NAGAI Go
R1 License - ADV (Renamed)
TACHIKI Fumihiko
TOMITA Kousei
A female android named Cutey Honey has the power to take on the physical attributes of any persona she wants. She uses this power to fight against evil in the dark future.
8 OVA Episodes (25~28min each)
[edit] The ↗Cutey Honey franchise:
(1973) Cutie Honey (TV) (original story, 25 TV ep.)
(1994) Cutey Honey (OVA) (sequel, 8 OVA ep.)
(1997) _ Cutey Honey Flash (alternate retelling, 39 TV ep.)
(1997) _ Cutey Honey Flash Movie (sequel, movie)
(2004) Cutie Honey (Live-Action Movie) (retelling)
(2004) Re: Cutie Honey (adaptation of Live Action movie, 3 OVA ep.)
(2007) Cutie Honey The Live (alternate retelling, 26 Live Action TV ep.)
(2018) Cutie Honey Universe
Watch 4 7 6 7 6 5 5 Ggultra2764 [series:152#1552]
Cutey Honey (OVA) New Cutey Honey features the typical stuff you would find in a Go Nagai work: over the top villains, female characters getting in various states of undress or nudity, a number of perverted male characters, nods to earlier Go Nagai works such as Mazinger Z and the original Cutey Honey series, villain of the day plots. The first half of the OAV series features an ongoing plot with Honey dealing with Dolmeck and his forces while the second half features episodic fodder. The series is far from being the worst anime I've seen, but it has nothing that really sticks out from the norm for me. If you like all things Cutey Honey or Go Nagai, then you're likely to enjoy this series. As for me, this series doesn't interest me enough where I would want to even bother looking into more titles in the Cutey Honey franchise.
Last updated Wednesday, November 23 2011. Created Wednesday, November 23 2011.
Buy 4 10 9 10 10 10 8 Anonymous #1148 [series:152#1148]
Cutey Honey (OVA) To those out there who gave Shin Cutey Honey a bad review; I have a few comments. The first of which is that those who are obsessed with pointing out Honey-chan's breasts or breasts in general are mostly likely hentai perverts who couldn't enjoy art if it were two inches from their nose. Some people apparently have the anime watching capability of pre-schoolers.
First let's look at the creator and producers. Go Nagai, one of the youngest anime masters. Created series such as Violence Jack, Devilman, Go Getta Robo (sp?) and Cutey Honey as well as sixty other series. Achieved Japan's highest art award for his work. The original cutey honey tv program ran on television for syndication for about 15 years. For those american audiences that's the equivalent of the original Star Trek. Second to only I love Lucy. That would mean that it's pretty popular in the country and amongst fans don't you think? Second the producers of Cutey Honey were some of the hottest new talent in Japan at the time, and still mostly are. Don't believe me? Take a producer or crew member's name who woked on Shin Cutey Honey and do a search for what anime they did after Shin Cutey Honey.
Let's move past the cast and move onto the actual story for a second. Cutey Honey (Honey Kisaragi) is a created android who protects the world from the evil forces of the panther claw and mother zora. She possesses the most powerful artifact in the universe, which is why panther claw wants to kill her. The artifact is called the atomspheric element condenser. This artifact allows the user to transform the atoms of one thing into something else. Air into a sword for example.
Honey-chan uses this to transform her body into all sorts of forms. Each form possesses it's own unique skills. The change sequences are really quick unlike shows like sailormoon. As for the nudity there's very little. The first few episodes have some nudity but afterwards it tends to become rare. Even in the change sequences. By today's standard's there's nothing wrong with Cutey Honey. You'd find worse watching Inu-yasha, Ranma 1/2 or Evangleon(Sp?).
How about the message of the series?
That girls can be beautiful, smart, strong, and kind. That in order to be human you must feel everything humans feel, including pain.
I think people wrote bad reviews of this because they were told by someone that it was hentai and went to go check it out, when they found out it wasn't they got mad.
Watch the series, listen to it, examine the deeper meanings. Don't just look for hentai in anime.
It's only when you examine anime from a deeper psychological and spiritual level that you enrich your life and soul.
=Warning=!!!
Do not watch the dubbed version of Cutey Honey, It's horribly done by adv. They've ruined the story. Jessica Cavello (Voice of Cutey Honey) is the worst voice actress ever.
Last updated Tuesday, January 13 2004. Created Tuesday, January 13 2004.
Avoid 4 MasterYoshidino [series:152#598]
Cutey Honey (OVA) I will not rate this but review it only.
This is because if it is one thing it is not anything. It tries to be hentai, but its not, it tries to be ecchi, but its not. It is not either. Do not expect much from it either. This thing was sold for the boobs only. If you wanted to look at a cuter woman go watch Ai Yori Aoshi. At least there are some cute but dumbfound characters in that anime.
Last updated Saturday, September 13 2003. Created Saturday, September 13 2003.
Rent 4 8 8 9 9 7 7 Stretch [series:152#628]
Cutey Honey (OVA) This is a show which is so outlandish, so bizarre, that I can't help but enjoy it. Where else would such priceless charachters as the "Peeping Spider" or the "Virtual Hacker" appear? Was I the only viewer who noticed that there was more to this show than fan service? The villains are freakish, inhuman, and quite powerful, so you'd think they would adopt a patronizing tone when they speak, only to hear lines like "Don't F--k with me!" (somehow seeing such lines appear as subtitles really cracks me up). The bantering between Honey and her opponents was better than usual--for example, after seeing one female transform into a hideous monster, she comments "Finally your body matches your inner beauty!". As for the nudity, I think the creators of Cutey Honey made a conscious decision that they weren't just going to go a little overboard with the "fan service", instead they were going to gather up every ounce of it they could find and shove it in our faces! Eventually we become so saturated with it that it becomes ridiculous and we can't help laughing at the absurdity of it all. Ironically, for all the flesh she exposes, Honey is ultimately so pure at heart, so determined to ward off evil, that Cosplay City would be in dire straights without her. In a way, the makers of Cutey Honey are teasing male viewers by including all the change-of-clothing scenes, since it's only too clear that if any man ever tried to do anything more than sneak a peek at her, he would get his ass kicked! (maybe this is one of the reasons why I have heard that, contrary to what you would expect, this series is quite popular with women, too). There's nudity and there's pornography, and while this series may be overflowing with the former, there's little, if any, of the latter. If nudity bothers you, that's your problem, not Honey's. I don't know where the idea that Honey is a dimwit came from--my impression is that though she is initially confused because she didn't know she had awesome powers, she turns out to be the brightest charachter in the series. I was heartbroken when it was revealed that she is in fact an android, since I had assumed she was a flesh-and-blood superheroine. A clever touch was the revelation that Honey was intentionally designed NOT to be invulnerable, but rather to be capable of feeling pain, so that she could sympathize with ordinary humans (and vice versa). Some critics claim that although episodes 1-4 are OK, episodes 5-8 are not worth watching at all. I wouldn't go that far, though perhaps I would demote them from the "Buy" category to "Rent". Finally, I love the opening song, at the end of which Honey winks at you and declares "I'm going to change!" (precious...)
If you still think I'm full of it, take a look a Carlos Ross' review at THEManime--or Mike Toole's one at "AnimeJump!".
My favorite line: "I f----d up. How embarassing."
Last updated Sunday, February 10 2008. Created Sunday, April 13 2003.
Rent 4 Robbie [series:152#192]
Cutey Honey (OVA) Wow, those are some pretty bad reviews. I guess that's understandable though, because everyone does have their own opinion.
Cutey Honey is an interesting series to say the least. Ok, let me rephrase that: Cutey Honey is so weird and different that I actually started to enjoy it. The plot line may be kinda way out there, but it is pretty original. The problem most people have with this series is the nudity. While that is a major problem with the series, that's not what it's all about. Sure there are the ocational ecchi jokes, but those just add to the plot line of the show. Cutey Honey is an android that can take any form to fight the forces of evil, in this case Panther Zora.
I'll be honest and say this is definately not for everyone. You have to acquire a taste for it, and not let all the nudity bother you (especially if that's your beef with it). If you're looking for something different, try watching this with an open mind and you may actually like it.
Note: Sorry but this has to be cleared up. Cutey Honey is not a Sailor Moon rip off. The original TV series aired in 1973, years before Sailor Moon existed. In fact, producers of Sailor Moon actually thought it wouldn't be very good, thinking it would just be a Cutey Honey rip off!
Last updated Monday, November 12 2001. Created Monday, November 12 2001.
Avoid 4 2 4 3 2 Midnighter [series:152#94]
Cutey Honey (OVA) Okay, this one is quite abismal. This is an example of why anime has a bad reputation, because Cutey Honey embodies every negative stereotype in anime.
To put it bluntly, this show sucked. Completely tasteless, don't waste your time with shit like this, go watch Evangelion or Grave of the Fireflies. And there is no humor, just vapid, infantile attempts at it. If the producers would have known enough not to take this seriously (Like Devil Hunter Yohko), it might have been watchable, but they seem to have been trying to make a "sexy action film." The "drama" is pathetic, the animation sub-par, the characters are nothing more than breasts with a voice to spout bad dialogue, and the story is almost non-existant.
This is best avoided.
Last updated Tuesday, March 06 2001. Created Tuesday, March 06 2001.
Watch 4 10 Barry [series:152#122]
Cutey Honey (OVA) Come for the tits... stay for the tits. That's about it here, folks.
I give it 10 in Art for the tits, but if you don't happen to like lots and lots of tits, you may wish to add a -10 to that. There ya go.
Last updated Sunday, April 29 2001. Created Wednesday, January 17 2001.
Watch 4 3 4 2 5 1 2 Luke [series:152#91]
Cutey Honey (OVA) this is my first review so please be kind ^__^
i dunno why all you people mark this serie as "crap", cause i bought the first 4 episode and i found myself not disappointed at all with the serie.
ok, the plot is dull and Cutey Honey is just another bimbo-girl-all-tits-and-no-brain but still there are some funny (truly funny) moments to enjoy, first of all the opening tune which is very nice.
So, if you're lookin for an anime with a lot of breast shots and you're not disappointed with kitch stuff, Cutey Honey is definitively the title for you... otherwise, go and put into the vcr a random Neon Genesis Evangelion episode ^__^
Avoid 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 Kaneda [series:152#87]
Cutey Honey (OVA) This is one of those lame anime's whose producer realise that it was lame and decided to make up for that with having the character go nude way to often, the plot is awful, the fighting is retarded the animation is meek at best. A cheesy sailor Moon rip off.In summary this is one of those animes i call the 'rock bottom' of anime. Its awful.
Last updated Friday, November 03 2000. Created Friday, November 03 2000.
Avoid 4 Jenn-chan [series:152#31]
Cutey Honey (OVA) I've never seen anyone put Cutey Honey under the category of "magical girl", but I decided it was quite fitting. Think of it as a magical girl anime gone horribly WRONG. Or in the words of Anime Passion...."a kiddie show gone terribly wrong...".
I'm sure most of you have at least heard of this title. The only reason why I decided to check this out was pure curiousity. Any review (any LOGICAL review that is...) that you read about this show you will probably see this word:
You will probably see it mentioned many times....and ya know why? BECAUSE THAT IS ALL IT IS! The only part in the show that doesn't have a hint of breastage is the ending sequence. (the above picture by the way) Literally every scene we the viewers are treated to a boob or two, and maybe even an occasionally crotch shot....eeeehhhh...
Why am I making such a big deal about the nudity? Lets just say I'm a bit puzzled at what the creators were aiming for. A sexy comedy with endearing characters and intriguing plotline? Heh...more along the lines of slapstick goop that tries to be sexy and fails horribly. Everyone episode (well..I've only seen 2 but I can see where the whole thing is going) has blond and perky Honey and her friends going up against some hokey villian. Think Sailor Moon, only much more tasteless. Human Honey (refer to the picture above) gets into her fighting outfit in which her clothes rip away from her body, and others get shrink wrapped back on. And since Honey's main power is transforming, she gets UNdressed and REdressed about 100 times in every episode. Hence, every other scene there's nudity and we see more of Honey than we really every want to. She's so butch for heaven's sake! It would be a little more forgiveable if Honey was at least good-looking.
Needless to say, this sucked. I'm not sure if this wants to be hentai or just a risque comedy or what.....but it failed in EVERYTHING it aimed for. The only thing I remotely liked was the opening Japanese song for the original series. It's quite catchy, but no song is gonna save this crap.
Last updated Thursday, May 11 2000. Created Thursday, May 11 2000.
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/ Knowledge Bank / Pig Industry Matters / 2018 / February / EU: Danish chickens in a class of their own
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EU member states have backed plans to allow Denmark to introduce strict new Salmonella controls on poultry products.
The EU has recognised that Danish broiler chickens are salmonella-free and have therefore approved Denmark’s application for special status for poultry meat. This means that imported broiler chickens must be tested as free from salmonella.
For years, Danish Chicken meat has been salmonella-free owing to Danish poultry farmers’ long-standing battle against salmonella. The EU recognised this achievement when, on February 1st, it approved Denmark’s application for special status for poultry. As a result, the Danish authorities can now demand that imported Chicken meat should be salmonella-free.
“The poultry industry has worked systematically to control salmonella, and this is now paying off. Thanks to a sustained effort, particularly by the Minister for the Environment and Food and the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Denmark has now been awarded special status - a significant victory for Danish consumers,” says Martin Hjort Jensen, Chairman of the Danish Agriculture and Food Council Poultry division.
Whereas salmonella bacteria were found in 14% of all tested samples from Danish broilers in 1992, the figure was down to just 0.3% in 2017. Moreover, the number of human cases fell from 1,581 in 1988 to just nine in 2016.
“The application for special status was submitted to the EU 12 years ago. It has been a very long process, which now finally proves that Danish broiler production is in a league of its own,” says Me Nielsen Blom, Chief Consultant, Food Safety, Veterinary Affairs and Risk Analysis.
“Throughout this period, Danish broiler producers have complied with the rules and have, as a result, been granted special status. This means that we cull all flocks containing any type of salmonella. In fact, Denmark is one of the few countries in the world to do so. Other countries only use these measures in the case of very few types of salmonella.
Martin Hjort Jensen points out that this could only have been achieved through close collaboration between farmers, government ministers and the Danish and EU food authorities.
“I feel proud on behalf of Danish broiler farmers”, says Martin Hjort Hansen. “An enormous amount of work has been undertaken at production sites to control and reduce the prevalence of salmonella, which has ensured a higher standard of food safety for Danish consumers.”
The poultry industry began to monitor the presence of salmonella in broilers back in the 1990s. The first public salmonella action plan for poultry was drawn up in 1996 and has been expanded several times since. The salmonella action plan for broiler chickens covers all stages of production.
Denmark now joins Sweden and Finland as the only other EU countries to be awarded special salmonella-free status. The two countries retained their status when they were admitted as members of the EU.
Facts about salmonella control
The salmonella action plan is the most stringent of its kind in the world and includes continual monitoring of all poultry flocks, heat treatment of all poultry feed, rigorous audit schemes focusing on high bio-security standards as well as rules specifying which animal materials may be used in Danish broiler chicken production.
By 2007, the prevalence of salmonella in Danish broiler chickens had been reduced so much that Denmark applied to the EU for special status for salmonella in Chicken meat. This means that from now on Denmark is entitled to demand that imported Chicken meat must have the same low level of salmonella as Danish Chicken meat.
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NBA player faces four years in jail for insulting Turkish president
Turkish prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Turkish basketball player for the New York Knicks, who could face up to four years in jail for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, centrist newspaper Hürriyet said.
Enes Kanter has been a vocal supporter of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based cleric Turkey accuses of orchestrating the failed July 2016 coup, on Twitter.
The criminal charges prepared by Istanbul Press Crimes Investigation Bureau included insulting and offensive messages by Kanter about Erdoğan on his social media account as evidence.
After the news broke, Kanter responded by taunting Erdoğan.
“I wish I had said more about that scoundrel, give me four more years,” he wrote.
While Kanter could face four years in jail for the crime of insulting the president, prosecutors also requested the punishment be increased by one-sixth, as the crime had been committed in public.
Kanter already faces terror charges over being a member of the Gülen movement and was stopped on entry to Romania in May due to his Turkish passport being cancelled and an Interpol red notice issued for him by Turkish authorities.
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MK Embarks on His Worldwide Tour
Detroit dance music legend MK (aka Marc Kinchen) talks to 5 Mag's Czarina Mirani ahead of his gig April 8 at The Mid.
Czarina Mirani
On the heels of his upcoming show at the Mid in Chicago, MK (aka Marc Kinchen) is riding the wave of his BBC Radio1hit “Piece of Me” with Becky Hill.
With over 20 back to back tour dates that kicked off in April, Marc Kinchen will be busy playing across North America and Europe for his AREA10: The Warm Up Sessions Tour. Considered one of the most prolific producers of his time, he has left his indelible mark on artists such as Lana Del Rey, Sam Smith, Hot Natured, Rudimental and the Pet Shop Boys…
It looks like you’ve been keeping really busy with your remixes, your group and now your AREA10 label. How was performing with your group PLEASURE STATE been for your artistically?
I’ve had to turn a lot of remixes down over the last six months, because I have been on album lockdown. I did manage to fit in a few though like my remixes of “Say A Prayer” by RUFUS DU SOL, my remix for Diplo & Sleepy Tom’s “Be Right There,” “The Pop Kids” for The Pet Shop Boys, along with a few others that are coming out soon – I might play them this weekend.
Pleasure State is my project with Anabel Englund and Chicago’s own Lee Foss, we haven’t played all that much as we try to keep it special, but when we do its always great to be with them.
I didn’t realize the story of how you initially hooked up with the Hot Creations guys was that you spun for them at a party in 2010, they gave you stems for a song that you initially just sat on for several months and then realized it was a song you had been playing a lot of! I guess from then on the working relationship really moved forward?
It was a very different way that we met, for sure. Lee hit me up on Facebook, he and Jamie Jones invited me to DJ at their annual party in Miami we hit it off immediately, and have never looked back.
I know it was only recently that you started really really DJing, probably what…5 years? What things have you observed and learned from that time in terms of what to play and what the crowd responds to? How much of your own productions do you play in a set?
I have not been DJing as long as most of the other guys, but its fresh and new I am really enjoying the process. I play a lot of stuff on the fly, using my own mixes and tunes in with other productions from artists I like, but I change what I am playing if it does not feel right in the moment.
Tell us in your own words about your AREA10 label and your new album that you’re working on.
AREA10 is the name of the label I had in the ’90s, I recently decided I wanted to relaunch it and put my new album on it, as well as showcase some of the artists that I’ve worked with on the AREA10 stages we’ve done at festivals all over the world.
The album is almost finished, the latest single with Becky Hill, “Piece of Me” is out now. Anabel is featured on the album, as are Camelphat and a bunch of other surprises that will be revealed very soon.
MK will be playing at the Mid on Friday, April 8th 2016
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Czarina Mirani is the editor-in-chief of 5 Magazine. You can contact her at czarina@5chicago.com, via twitter and facebook.
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Serena ousts Konta to set-up Lucic-Baroni reunion
January 25, 2017 SportsSharif Nouman
25 Jan, 2017 3:50 pm
MELBOURNE – Serena Williams remained on course for her 23rd grand slam title by quelling the challenge of in-form Briton Johanna Konta 6-2 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the eighth time on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old American served up 10 aces and thumped 25 winners over 75 minutes on Rod Laver Arena to join sister Venus in the last four, where she will play Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
Ninth seed Konta, who reached the semi-finals here last year and won the Sydney warm-up tournament, managed a single break in the second set but was unable to cope with the power of the world number two.
Williams succeeded in finding the target on less than half of her first serves but cleaned up the points on 88 percent of the occasions when she did.
Furious with herself at times because of her inaccuracy, Williams channelled the anger to overcome 25-year-old Konta and reach her 34th grand slam semi-final without having given up a set in five matches.
“I missed a lot today, I got a little frustrated, then I told myself ‘Serena, stop complaining don’t be a Baby-rena out on court there’,” she said.
“I admit I complain a lot… but I said to myself, ‘just have fun and try to enjoy the moment’ and I did.”
Williams is seeking her seventh Melbourne Park title, which would assure her of a return to world number one in place of ousted champion Angelique Kerber.
She started the match reasonably slowly, feeling out an unfamiliar opponent desperate to force her out wide to the wings of the court.
Williams saved a break point to hold on her second service game and pounced to go 3-1 up when the Briton dumped a backhand into the net after a long rally.
Another Konta error, a forehand long, gave Williams the set and the American was immediately applying pressure on her opponent’s serve at the start of the second.
Konta rallied from 0-40 to hold, however, and then broke Williams to go 2-1 up when the six-times champion overcooked a crosscourt forehand.
The pressure on Konta’s serve was unrelenting by this stage, though, and Williams raced around the court like a teenager to break back before a sizzling backhand winner gave her the chance to serve for the match.
Williams said she was delighted to be facing 34-year-old, Lucic-Baroni, some 18 years after their only two previous meetings in 1998.
“It’s really amazing, 30 is the new 10,” Serena added. “I’m so proud of Mirjana, she has been playing so well.
“We played over a decade ago, nearly two decades ago. She’s been playing two decades. No matter what happens, someone 34 or older will be in the final, so that’s great.” -Reuters
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Deggs Named New Cajuns' Baseball Coach
Matt Deggs, who helped the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns to their best record in school history as an assistant, has been named the Cajuns' new baseball coach.
Jay Walker
Former Ragin' Cajun CB Sean Thomas Passes Away In Car Accident
We are very sad to report the passing of a Ragin' Cajun football alum.
Scott Prather
VIRAL: Man Who Fell While Running On Beach Mistaken For Coach O
A video circulating on Twitter shows a man racing a kid on a beach and many thought that it was LSU Head Football Coach Ed Orgeron.
U.S. National Softball To Play Exhibition Games At Lamson Park
The U.S. National Softball team will play a three-game series at Lamson Park this summer.
Greg Larnerd
Maggard Pens Letter to Cajun Nation
The AD says the search will move "quickly, but not hurried"
UL Honors Coach Robe With A Beautiful Tribute Video
The athletics department has put together a moving video tribute to fallen coach Tony Robichaux.
High School Football Coaching Legend James Waguespack Dies
A high school football coaching legend, who guided one local school to a state championship, died on Monday
Steve Peloquin
Tony Robichaux in One Word - From the Bird's Nest
If you only had one word...what would you choose
Sitting Down to Remember Tony - From the Bird's Nest
KATC invited me to sit town and talk about the impact of Tony Robichaux.
Tony Robichaux Services Set
Visitation/funeral services are set for Louisiana Ragin' Cajun baseball coach Tony Robichaux
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