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E! renewed Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami for a second season today.
Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami is an American reality/spin-off television series, produced by Ryan Seacrest, which debuted on E! on August 16, 2009. A second season of Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami was announced on February 21, 2010 during the season finale of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
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Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate value increment.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Republic of Poland on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate and prevention of fiscal evasion.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Byelorussia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Hungary on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate and prevention of fiscal evasion.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Republic of Moldova on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate and prevention of fiscal evasion.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Sweden on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and prevention of fiscal evasion.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Canada on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Slovak Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Latvia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Kingdom of Denmark on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Kingdom of Norway on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Estonia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Armenia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Kazakhstan on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Kingdom of Netherlands on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Bulgaria on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate and prevention of fiscal evasions.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Romania on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Lithuania on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Ukraine and Republic of Uzbekistan on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Finland on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of the People’s Republic of China on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Turkey on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Government of Yugoslavia Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Indonesia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Kingdom of Belgium on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Croatia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Czech Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Austria on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the French Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the United States of America on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Georgia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Turkmenistan on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Russian Federation on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate and prevention of fiscal evasions.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Greece on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Ukraine and Republic of Portugal on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Islamic Republic of Iran on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Korean Republic and on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Serbia and Montenegro on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Azerbaijan on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Egypt on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Switzerland on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of India on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income.
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the United Arab Emirates on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between the cabinet of Ukraine and Government of Mongolia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Algeria on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to incomes and properties and prevention of fiscal evasions
Convention between Ukraine and Lebanese Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Kuwait on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of the United Arab Emirates on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Republic of Tajikistan on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Cuba on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital
Convention between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Government of South African Republic on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Socialistic Republic of Vietnam on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Italy on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Arabian Republic of Syria on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Thailand on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasions with respect to income tax
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of Israel on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Tax Evasions with respect to taxes on income and capital
Treaty between Government of Ukraine and Government of Republic of Macedonia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and estate
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the Federal Republic of Brazil on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasions with respect to income tax
Convention between Government of Ukraine and Government of the republic Slovenia on Avoidance of Double Taxation and Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on profits and capital
Treaties of the USSR on Avoidance of Double Taxation (which also binding for Ukraine):
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Treaty between Government of the USSR and Government of Spain on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of the USSR and Government of Republic of Cyprus on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate.
Treaty between Government of the USSR and Government of Malaysia on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income.
Treaty between Government of the USSR and Government of Japan on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income.
Treaty between Government of the USSR and the Member States of the CEMA on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate of individuals.
Treaty between the Member States of the CEMA on Avoidance of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and estate of corporate entities.
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME AND CAPITAL. (Download)
TREATY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA OF THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE PREVENTION OF FISCAL EVASION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME AND ESTATE (Download)
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3. History of the Indian Archipelago : containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of its inhabitants, vol.2 Page II-B
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Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1820, pg. II-B
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Bemmelen, J. F. van (Johan Frans van)
London, Amsterdam, T. Cook and son; J. H. de Bussy, 1903, pg. 67
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Mackellar, C. D.
London, Murray, 1912, pg. 260A
11. Come to Java: information for travellers, with two maps. Trips in the isle of Java Page 70
15. Scented isles and coral gardens : Torres Straits, German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies Page 268A
20. Java and her neighbours; a traveller's notes in Java, Celebes, the Moluccas and Sumatra Page 206A
New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1914, pg. 206A
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Campbell, Donald Maclaine
London, W. Heinemann, 1915, pg. 104A
26. Java, the wonderland : [Guide and tourist's hand book] This book describes one of the most beautiful countries in the world Page 66
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40. A journey to Java Page IIB
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42. Guide to the Dutch East Indies:Composed by invitation of the Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij (Royal Steam Packet Company) Page 56
London, Batavia, Luzac and Co.; G. Kolff and Co, 1897, pg. 56
43. Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra Page 73
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Batavia, Java, Distributed gratis by the Royal Packet Steam Navigation Co. (K.P.M.), 1912, pg. 73
44. Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra Page 120
Batavia, Java, Distributed gratis by the Royal Packet Steam Navigation Co. (K.P.M.), 1912, pg. 120
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FINRA panel awards five UBS clients $521,000 in damages over Puerto Rican bonds
Written by W. Scott Greco
Category: UBS Puerto Rico
An all-public arbitration panel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has awarded five clients of UBS Financial Services more than $521,000 in compensatory damages in a case related to the clients' investments in Puerto Rican bonds and closed-end bond funds.
The clients, all residents of Puerto Rico, claimed UBS violated the Puerto Rico Uniform Securities Act and engaged in securities fraud, common law fraud and constructive fraud, in addition to breaching its fiduciary duty and negligently supervising its personnel.
The clients originally asked for compensatory damages in the amount of $840,000 plus punitive damages, interest, costs, expert witness fees, Finra fees and attorneys' fees. All were denied by the panel.
Compensatory damages in the following amounts were awarded to the following clients: Hector E. Rodriguez-Lopez, $87,411; Myrna L. Rivera Marengo, $19,221; Angel M. Cruz Colon and Carmen Ortiz Nevarez, $181,989, as well as an additional $5,056 to Ms. Ortiz Nevarez; William Rodriguez Reyes and Betzaida Hernandez, $223,814, plus $3,575 to Ms. Hernandez.
Greco & Greco Wins Third FINRA Arbitration Award Against UBS of Puerto Rico
A FINRA arbitration panel issued an award of damages to Greco & Greco clients against UBS of Puerto Rico on February 23, 2018. The arbitration involved multiple Puerto Rico customers of UBS who had been invested primarily in UBS Puerto Rico Closed-End Mutual Funds and Puerto Rico Bonds.
The award, totaling $521,075.00 in damages, was significant because most of the damages were incurred in investments that UBS claimed were conservative (the Puerto Rico AAA Portfolio Bond Fund and COFINA bonds), and UBS further unsuccessfully claimed that the customers had not lost any money because of the interest/dividends they had earned over the years in the investments.
As set out in more detail at Greco & Greco’s website (http://www.securities-lawyers.net/ubs-puerto-rico) the UBS Puerto Rico Closed-End Funds (CEFs) were high risk investments which used leverage (a speculative investment technique) and which did not have a market (they were traded by UBS’s trading desk but UBS had the ability to stop trading of the funds at any time).
Greco & Greco provides free attorney consultations regarding potential cases involving UBS, Puerto Rico Closed-End Funds, and Puerto Rico bonds. Please contact us here: http://securities-lawyers.net/contact
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Investigation Regarding Terry Trenchard
Category: Investigation
Investigation Regarding Terry Trenchard (aka Teryl Lee Trenchard) of Capitol Securities in Reston, Virginia.
Greco & Greco is currently investigating possible claims regarding a Reston, Virginia financial advisor, Terry Trenchard. Mr. Trenchard was registered to sell securities with Capitol Securities Management from 2009 to 2015, with Aegis Capital from 2003 to 2009, and with Voss & Co. from 2001 to 2003.
According to FINRA's Brokercheck, Mr. Trenchard was discharged by Capitol Securities in March, 2017 while "under investigation for fraud."
Prudential Fined for Failure to Supervise Fraudulent Withdrawals From Variable Annuity
Category: Disciplinary Actions
FINRA fined Prudential Annuities Distributors $950,000 this month for its failure to detect and prevent the theft by its agent, Travis Wetzel, of almost $1,300,000 from a customer's variable annuity. The FINRA Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent may be found here.
Mr. Wetzel, who was a former registered representative of LPL Financial, allegedly submitted multiple forged wire transfer requests from the variable annuity, to be paid to a third party account in Mr. Wetzel's wife's maiden name.
Washington DC Investment Advisor Dawn Bennett Barred by SEC
As set out in this SEC Order from an Administrative Law Judge (https://www.sec.gov/alj/aljdec/2016/id1033jeg.pdf), Dawn Bennett has been barred from the securities industry by the SEC. Dawn Bennett was a Washington DC area advisor who was previously registered to sell securities with Western International Securities.
Judge Grimes also imposed over one million dollars of fines and disgorgement against Ms. Bennett. The findings in the above Order included the following:
"Respondents repeatedly overstated their AUM [Assets Under Management] by at least $1.5 billion in Barron’s magazine, on a radio show hosted by Bennett, and in various other advertisements and communications with existing and prospective clients to create the impression that Respondents were larger and more successful players in the industry than was actually the case."
UBS Puerto Rico Bond Funds Claims
(en Español) Reclamaciones de Fondos de Bonos de UBS Puerto Rico
UBSs Puerto Rico Closed-End Funds
Since 1995, UBS has been the underwriter of fourteen Puerto Rico closed-end funds (CEFs) with a total market capitalization of approximately $4 billion. UBS has also been the underwriter and dominant market maker for nine co-managed Puerto Rico closed-end funds with more than $1 billion in total market capitalization.
The UBS CEFs include the following funds:
Virginia Broker Andrew Corbman Suspended by FINRA
FINRA, a regulator of the securities industry, recently issued a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) regarding former FSC Securities Corporation broker, Andrew Corbman. Pursuant to the AWC, Mr. Corbman was suspended for one month from being registered with any FINRA firm.
Capitol Securities Censured and Fined for Reverse Convertible Notes and Other Conduct
Category: Arbitration
FINRA recently entered a Letter of Acceptance Waiver and Consent regarding Capitol Securities Management Inc. regarding various alleged sales practice violations. The AWC can be found here: http://disciplinaryactions.finra.org/Search/ViewDocument/63638 The issues addressed by the AWC involved supervision, its anti-money laundering program, and the alleged unsuitable sales of Reverse Convertible Notes.
Investigation Regarding Randy Watts of Winchester, Virginia
Greco & Greco is currently investigating possible claims regarding a Winchester, Virginia financial advisor, Randy Watts. Mr. Watts operated under the name Watts Financial Group, and was registered to sell securities with Lincoln Financial Securities until November, 2015.
If you believe you may have a legal claim regarding investments with Mr. Watts or Lincoln Financial, please contact Scott Greco for a free consultation: http://www.securities-lawyers.net/contact.html
SEC and FINRA fine UBS over Puerto Rico bond funds
The SEC and FINRA have brought charges and fined UBS relating to sales practices and supervision of their UBS Puerto Rico Bond Funds.
The SEC press release and Orders can be found here: SEC Press Release 2015-217. The SEC alleged that UBS Financial Services of Puerto Rico (UBSPR) failed to supervise its broker in relation to solicited loans used to purchase additional UBSPR closed end funds, while failing to disclose the risks of this strategy and misrepresenting the safety of the strategy. The SEC further alleged that UBSPR did not implement reasonable supervisory procedures and had inadequate systems in place to prevent and detect this wrongful conduct.
Success of FINRA Arbitration Claims against UBS regarding Puerto Rico Bond Funds
To date, FINRA Arbitration Panels have issued five awards relating to claims filed by investors against UBS and UBS of Puerto Rico regarding their Puerto Rico Closed End Bond Funds (CEFs).
H.D. Vest Charged With Failures Related to Supervision
The SEC entered a Cease and Desist Order pursuant to an Offer of Settlement by H.D. Vest Investment Securities Inc. The Order can be found here.
The SEC charged H.D. Vest with failing to implement proper supervisory procedures and policies that would have discovered and prevented a fraudulent scheme by one its brokers who wired monies out of customer accounts to an account controlled by the broker. H.D. Vest further failed to monitor and preserve investment related emails from its brokers.
H.D. Vest was fined $225,000 and ordered to hire an independent consultant to recommend improvements to its supervisory systems.
Greco & Greco regularly represents investors in broker theft cases such as this. Customers may attempt to recover their losses in FINRA arbitration and/or court by demonstrating firms’ failures to supervise, failure to follow up on red flags, and by arguing the firm is responsible for the acts of its agent under the legal theories of respondeat superior and vicarious liability. Federal and state securities laws also mandate liability of control persons (such as brokerage firms) if certain requirements are met. If you are a victim of broker theft, please contact one of our attorneys for a free consultation. Contact
Norfolk Virginia Financial Advisor Charged with Fraud
Category: Affinity Fraud
As reported by the Virginia Pilot, Joshua Abernathy was charged in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia with mail fraud related to his alleged unlawful conversion of funds from customers. Court documents filed by the government allege he defrauded and stole almost 1.3 million dollars from various customers in Texas and Virginia. The government further alleged that he had many customers write checks to Omega Investment Group and he then converted funds for his personal use.
According to FINRA Brokercheck, Mr. Abernathy was registered with Next Financial from 2007 to 2012 and with The O.N. Equity Sales Company from 2013 to 2014. FINRA barred him from the securities industry in February, 2015.
Greco & Greco regularly represents investors in “selling away” cases such as this where the broker sells unauthorized securities or converts funds away from his firm. Customers may attempt to recover their losses in FINRA arbitration and/or court by demonstrating firms’ failures to supervise, failure to follow up on red flags, and by arguing the firm is responsible for the acts of its agent under the legal theories of respondeat superior and vicarious liability. Federal and state securities laws also mandate liability of control persons (such as brokerage firms) if certain requirements are met. If you are a victim of Mr. Abernathy, please contact one of our attorneys for a free consultation.
Vienna Virginia Financial Advisor Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Customers
Ismail Elmas plead guilty on October 21, 2014 to a Count of Wire Fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office press release (which can be found here), Mr. Elmas worked at Apple Financial Services, an affiliate of Apple Federal Credit Union during the time of the offense.
FINRA’s Brokercheck Report for Mr. Elmas states that Mr. Elmas was previously registered as a securities registered representative with CUNA Brokerage Services and CUSO Financial Services, both FINRA Broker-Dealers. The Brokercheck Report states that he was terminated by CUSO because he “allegedly converted funds for personal use…”
The above press release references that Elmas admitted to misappropriating client funds given to him for legitimate investments, and that he defrauded more than 10 of his clients, many of whom were seniors and widows.
Greco & Greco is currently investigating and pursuing claims against the parties involved in the Elmas case. Greco & Greco regularly represents investors in “selling away” cases such as this where the broker sells unauthorized securities or converts funds away from his firm. Customers may attempt to recover their losses in FINRA arbitration and/or court by demonstrating firms’ failures to supervise, failure to follow up on red flags, and by arguing the firm is responsible for the acts of its agent under the legal theories of respondeat superior and vicarious liability. Federal and state securities laws also mandate liability of control persons (such as brokerage firms) if certain requirements are met. If you are a victim of Mr. Elmas, please contact one of our attorneys for a free consultation.
Virginia Regulators Require License Surrender and Fines over sale of 54 Freedom Products
Category: Fraud
A Settlement Order was recently issued by the State of Virginia (Bureau of Insurance and Division of Securities) against two insurance salespersons and their firm. The Order may be found here.
In the Order, the Virginia Regulators alleged as follows:
a. “The Defendants, on multiple ocassions, sold over $2 million in unregistered securities in the form of qualified charitable gift annuities (“CGAs”) issued by 54 Freedom Foundation, Inc. (54 Freedom”) and promissory notes…”
b. The brokers involved mischaracterized the investment risks involved with the investments and failed to conduct adequate due diligence.
c. “Ultimately, principals of 54 Freedom misappropriated funds obtained through the sale of both 54 Freedom CGAs and Notes… As a result, all of the Defendants’ clients who purchased 54 Freedom CGAs or Notes appear to have lost their principal investments totaling over $2 million.”
Pursuant to the Order the salespersons surrendered their licenses to sell insurance and were required to pay monetary penalties.
If you were sold these investment products and wish to discuss your claims with an attorney, please contact Greco & Greco for a free consultation.
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Teddi Gold – Figure It Out
By Olinger | Published June 28, 2019
Teddi Gold seemed to bust out of the gate a few months back, a fully formed pop anomaly, boasting the delightfully saccharine single “Video Games.” Her undeniable knack for crafting dynamic tracks with phat beats and ear wormy melodies could certainly place her amongst contemporaries like Charlie XCX and Dua Lipa, but Teddi seems less interested in regurgitating tried-and-true fluff, preferring to adapt the Top 40 format to fit her empowering agenda.
Gold’s newest single, “Figure it Out,” is packed with gorgeous, self-reflective hooks which elicit a feeling of elation and catharsis. The subject matter here could be interpreted as a ‘get over him’ content, but is much more about taking responsibility for your life and becoming a spiritual warrior. Regarding the meaning of the track, Gold says, “Figure It Out’ is my reflection on walking away from a toxic relationship. The pain of letting someone go, but also the celebration of finding your self worth.”
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Madeline – Birthday
By Olinger | Published May 31, 2019
Experimental female pop ambassador Madeline has been serving up delectably strange and empowered media since she arrived on the scene in 2017. It’s only fitting that, when attempting to appropriate the work of another artist, she decided to cover the fairy godmother of Alterna-Pop, Bjork, who wrote “Birthday” in her artistic infancy as a member of The Sugarcubes.
The new video boasts a joyful, simple, uncluttered vibe which is exactly what Madeline intended. “It’s a beautiful ode to the innocence of a young girl, and the beauty of a life. Sometimes I need to remember myself as a little kid. It helps me to have more self love and compassion when my anxiety starts to take over,” she asserts. Indeed, the unbridled performance coupled with the songs lighthearted vibe makes for a deeply therapeutic experience, even if it’s not your birthday, per se.
“Birthday” is lifted from her new EP, Then Her Head Fell Off, which is Madeline’s most left field project to date – brimming with weird, wild and unmistakably original songs.
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Pete Santos – Heroes
By Olinger | Published April 29, 2019
Finland-based MC Pete Santos creates a compelling hybrid of world, R&B, and hip hop. His anthemic single, “Heroes,” finds the artist in an uplifting mood, laying down a series of beautifully designed rhymes about his faith in humanity. In a strikingly creative move, the track begins with the original demo of the hook, which Santos and his producer Berat “Flos” Cimily had on the shelf for over two years before they busted it out as the fourth single from the 2019 release Fisherman. Hit play and hold tight for the bright, positive vibrations.
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Olivia Henry – Tear Me Apart
By Olinger | Published March 28, 2019
Hollywood songstress Olivia Henry produces sophisticated glam pop, influenced by her previous incarnation as a jazz starling. Her lush compositions often vacillate between zesty, confident swagger and deep-seated insecurity. “Tear Me Apart” falls into the latter category, with Henry detailing the drastic measures she undertakes in order to hold on to a dispassionate lover. Somehow she makes these desperate sentiments seems sexy as all hell.
“Tear Me Apart” is the sophomore single from Henry’s forthcoming release Part I—Expectations
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Amira B – Never Gonna Fall In Love
By Olinger | Published July 6, 2018
Channeling nostalgia from late 90s era urban pop, sultry NYC songstress Amira B combines raw lyrics with groovy funk vibes. Her latest single, “Never Gonna Fall In Love”, is a chilled out slice of R&B that draws inspiration from both Mariah Carey and Natasha Bedingfield and features a verse from rapper Rich G. who channels some serious Young Jeezy vibes.
Amira is celebrating the release of the single with an Artist Residency at Pianos on August 7th, 14th & 21st.
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THECLECTIK – I Found You
Hailing from a small town in Oregon, bedroom producer THECLECTIK boasts a big, bright melodic pop sound that was forged in the furnace of rave culture and new jack swing.
His bubbly debut single, “I Found You” ft. Ze Rox & Jay Tablet, calls to mind the sparse purple vibes of Prince, paying homage to his retro roots while pushing the R&B sound into poppier territory. The track’s simple yet alluring sense of space and rhythm evokes both THECLECTIK’s ties to the underground and his love for the glitzy sheen of early 90’s urban pop.
The resulting combination is deeply alluring, assisted by the gorgeous, layered vocals of Ze Rox and a supreme off-the-cuff flow from Jay Tablet. It’s a bouncy, earworm that will have it’s claws in you after one listen.
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Best New Songs of March 2018
By Jordan | Published April 9, 2018
Due to some technical issues on our end, we were not able to provide you the first two months to kick of 2018. Have no fear! We’ve returned with Best of March. First playlist is the current month, and second playlist is an accumulation of prior months.
Best of March 2018
Best of 2018 (So Far)
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Best Songs of 2017
By Jordan | Published December 31, 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, this marks another year that we’re able to share with you the music that hit home. The beauty of what’s been compiled lies within the tastes of each contributor. Some are rap heavy, while others lean towards indie. It’s a unique playlist that’s crafted by us in hopes that you expand your digital (or physical) library. Continue to keep your ears open for artists, or genres that you have yet to discover. Finding the ~diamond in the rough~ has never been easier, and spreading the love is one click away.
As you think about your goals for the upcoming year, pay it forward by sharing music with those you surround yourself with. I challenge you to find one song on this playlist that you’ve never heard before, and send it to someone you think would enjoy it. The feeling knowing that someone appreciates a song recommendation is unmatched. At the end of the day, there is an absurd amount of talent in this world. Some have yet to crack 1k plays on SoundCloud, and others have the first name of Aubrey. Why not share it? Spread the love.
The Sunset Fam would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. Stay safe, and have fun tonight.
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Jenna Lotti – Warning Signs
By Olinger | Published November 16, 2017
LA-based, Boston export Jenna Lotti crafts anthemic, hopeful pop bangers – ya know the kind that make a hectic day slightly more tolerable? Her dialed-in pop has been featured in American Songwriter and PopMatters with local buzz via Sound of Boston & Boston Globe. A move to LA this past year coincided with the recording of her ambitious new song “Warning Signs” for her forthcoming EP, and if this is representative of what we can expect on her new release, Jenna Lotti is without a doubt going to be a viable fixture in the singer-songwriter / pop landscape.
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Best New Songs of November 2017
By Jordan | Published November 6, 2017
The first playlist is our favorite picks from November. The second playlist is all of our picks from March-October (since the inception of our Spotify playlist). Be sure to subscribe to our playlists on Spotify as they will be continuously updated each month!
Also tagged Best New Songs Of The Month, Featured, Hip Hop, indie, rap
Best New Songs of June 2017
By Jordan | Published July 3, 2017
Celebrate your 4th of July with SITR’s Best of June playlist! Throw this playlist on as your soundtrack on your boat, at your bbq, in your backyard, wherever, whenever! Your friends and family will be impressed by how in tune you are with current music.
Young Thug, Calvin Harris, and SZA all dropped albums to round out June. Summer music is officially in full force.
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Emmit Fenn ft. Nylo – Oceans
By Jordan | Published June 11, 2017
Emmit Fenn is back with “Oceans” featuring Nylo, which will be the last featured single before his debut Prologue EP drops in two weeks. This is a slightly different vibe than what we’re used to from Emmit because it features vocals other than himself, and is a little more upbeat. All that does is show the range that he’s capable of as an artist.
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Las Vegas Sands Comes Up Short on Earnings
TOPICS:Las Vegas SandsMacau Sands
Posted By: David Stone April 27, 2017
Late Wednesday, Las Vegas Sands posted its earnings for the first quarter that were just below Wall Street expectations although it did say that operations in Las Vegas were strong while the market in Macau was improving.
Management was also optimistic during its earnings call related to the possibility of an approval windows10explained to open up a casino resort in Japan.
Following the miss on earnings, shares of Las Vegas Sands were down 1% in trading after hours but began recovering following the companies positive earnings call.
Following a challenging time, the market in Macau is expanding again and the growth rate had accelerated for three straight quarters said Sheldon Adelson the CEO and Chairman during the earnings call.
Meanwhile, operations in Las Vegas had delivered their best three-month period since 2008, added Adelson.
The Venetian Las Vegas as well as Palazzo properties, both owned by Sands, posted strong results.
On the basis of GAAP, per share earnings expanded 50% during the first quarter. That nevertheless was the second straight quarter that the EPS for the company missed expectations on Wall Street.
Net revenue during the quarter increased by 14%, while its EPS was 60 cents per share and analysts were expecting 61 cents and its revenue was $3.11 billion or in line with Wall Street expectations.
Overall, its EBITDA or its earnings prior to interest, taxes, depreciations and amortization was up 25% during the quarter in comparison to the same period one year earlier and above estimates on Wall Street.
Macau’s operation grew its EBITDA 20% compared to the same period one year ago, helped by growth of 17% in revenues from gaming.
In addition, overall results were helped from strong quarters for Palazzo and Venetian Las Vegas and a record quarter for its business of convention and group meetings.
Analysts asked Adelson about the growth plans for the casino giant in Asia. Beside the Macau operations, the company has a presence in Singapore.
Adelson said that Japan is what is being talked about by everyone and the company was informed by those close to the situation in Japan that it was far ahead of its competition in receiving the approval for an integrated resort.
In Japan last year, the government took steps in legalizing casino resort gaming similarWindows 10 Professional OEM Key to Las Vegas style, which could give the opportunity for space to be available for hotel and casinos along with retail space and convention facilities.
The government has yet to formally pick companies for developing casinos but Sands and MGM Resorts, its rival, are interested.
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Private Tales (out June 9th on Dine Alone Records)
If there's one thing we can all agree on in these dark, deeply uncertain days, it's humanity's latent desire to unplug from it all—to put our smartphones down, survey our immediate surroundings, and let the sweeter things in life rise to the surface.
Sleepy Sun get it. Now five albums and more than a decade into making their own elusive brand of bold rock music, the Bay Area band isn't interested in flooding our synapses with far too many ideas on their new LP, Private Tales. They'd rather let a grander vision unfold over time, rewarding anyone with the willingness to wait it out, to actually listen.
"When I hear Private Tales," says guitarist Evan Reiss, "I appreciate the spaciousness that is left for the listener. I like music that gives them an opportunity to breathe, as opposed to jamming ideas into someone’s ears at all times."
That approach is clear from the very beginning, a sustained drone casting a spell of clean synth tones, monk-like melodies, muted flutes, and riffs that ring out in the distance. It's as if Sleepy Sun's core quartet (Reiss, fellow guitarist Matt Holliman, frontman Bret Constantino, and drummer Brian Tice) decided to apply the album's brakes before they even got out of the driveway.
If only things were that simple. The glassy psych grooves of "Prodigal Vampire" eventually give way to the life aquatic licks of "Seaquest," a song that actually sounds like it's sailing straight towards the sun. Meanwhile, "When the Morning Comes" and "Crave" take the group down an entirely different path—one that's lined with thorny hooks and chaotic thunderclaps, as influenced by Swans as it is by Thin Lizzy.
Confused yet? Good.
"I always, always loved how no one knew what to make of us," says Tice.
"That means we're doing our job!" adds Reiss.
Or as Constantino puts it, "Creating original work is the most difficult part of writing anything. Often during the process, you think, 'Oh man, that sounds like The Stones,' or 'that lyric is way too literal or cliche'. I've found the less you pay attention to that critical voice and concentrate on what you're hearing in your head, you end up subconsciously reinterpreting everything you've ever heard or seen."
It helps to have a strong supporting cast, of course, including bassists Jack Allen and Owen Kelley, who held the low end down on this LP. The boys were also backed by two incredible singers throughout the album's two recording sessions: the New Pornographers' Kathryn Calder and Whitehorn Singers' Hannah Moriah. Colin Stewart also reprised the producer/engineering role he played on Sleepy Sun's breakthrough records, Embrace and Fever.
"Colin is our main man," says Reiss. "He ate more than 20 burritos while we were recording Private Tales, and believed in us throughout this two-year process. I cannot thank him enough."
"I am certain this record could not have been made without his support and sacrifices," adds Constantino. "There were times where he was the only person who believed we had it in us. He has a wonderful ability to bring out the honest truth in the musicians he works with. There’s no one I'd rather record with."
Well, no one except the rest of Sleepy Sun, a tightknit crew that kept its creative process going despite Constantino's decision to move to Texas during the making of Private Tales. (The band exchanged home recordings over email and fleshed songs out in the studio over the course of two trying years.)
"This is the longest relationship I've had outside of my family," says Constantino. "We've grown an incredible amount individually over the last 10 years, as has the 'Sleepy Sun sound'. This record, in particular, was the most difficult to make, by far, mainly for logistical reasons."
"Playing music with this group is second nature to me," adds Reiss. "Being in a band for more than a decade allows for an almost telepathic creative relationship. The hard part is finding the time to 'get in and let go'."
Mission = accomplished.
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At 16:57 on August 9, 2011, 68Gaz99mufc08 said…
I'm having some trouble uploading a couple of photos from the game on Sunday. I've tried doing it through upload files and they didn't show up properly and I tried to do it through the image button in the text box but no luck. Any suggestions.
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Enjoying the site mate, a lot more adult conversation than went on in 606...well, apart from Nohlman :)
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Could you put the U-21 thread up on the main page? It would be much appreciated because it would save us all from trying to find it each time we want to comment.
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Thanks for your message. I can't reply to it either!! Is there an issue with messages?
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Ah. I feel sorry for her now. I'd get quite excited myself if I thought I'd found somebody who looks like Paolo.
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I've added a discussion for the Champions League draw. I thought you could highlight it on the main page instead of having discussions by 2 or 3 different people.
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August 24, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Context-Driven Testing, Hardware, Software Testing
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WordPress Jetpack site_inaccessible Error on ICDSoft Host
August 17, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Blogging, Bug Reporting, Jetpack, WordPress
The WordPress Jetpack Plug-In
I recently installed the WordPress Jetpack plug-in, as part of a suite of plug-ins evolved by Vanessa Chau. Jetpack leverages WordPress.com infrastructure to provide much WordPress.com functionality to WordPress blog engine instances hosted elsewhere—like this one, which happens to be hosted by ICDSoft. Installation was so easy and fast that I don’t remember it! But when I tried to slip the Ring of Power on my finger, by clicking Connect to WordPress.com, I got the dreaded “site_inaccessible” error. Soon I learned how to modify the “.htaccess” file to fix this. Your mileage will almost certainly vary, but your experience may resemble what I describe here. » Read more
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Susan Farrell on Decreasing Mozilla Support Costs
August 5, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Help Authoring, Usability
A redesign of Mozilla’s online help system used input from user behavior (e.g. search terms) and forum questions. The effort paid off by greatly reducing the number of support requests in a short time, and by allowing staff to respond to almost all support requests within 24 hours. A post by Susan Farrell, of usability consulting firm Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g), includes nice graphs of both payoffs.
If you’re not familiar with NN/g, that’s “Nielsen” as in the author of Designing Web Usability and Mobile Usability, and “Norman” as in The Design of Everyday Things and Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles. In the spirit of under-promising, the partner roster also includes Bruce Tognazzini (ex-Apple, author of Tog on Interface and Tog on Software Design).
At the end of summer 2011, Mozilla staff received over 11,000 user questions per month. Why so many? Clearly because many users are asking these questions! But beyond that, why do users need to ask the questions they do? Farrell identifies several issues:
400 pages of online documentation were difficult to search.
Time spent fielding user questions took staff time from writing new help files, or improving old ones…
…But on the other hand, the accumulation of the new articles staff could write “caused more findability problems.”
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Thinking About What Smartwatches Can Do Well
June 12, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Hardware, Smartwatches, Wearable Devices
In other words, what are they good for? What’s the smartwatch killer app?
Let’s assume that the original killer app for the wristwatch (and pocket watch, and other, more obscure form factors thus far ignored by Apple and its ilk) was telling time. I think we can also assume that telling time is in the “been there, done that” rear view mirror view of smartwatch software development, and that the platform is searching for its killer app.
This may be parochial, provincial, a symptom of technical tunnel vision, but let’s go further and assume that the smartwatch killer app is not putting the Apple brand on wrists. Sure, that may be enough for some people.
I’m thinking of the friends who spent a great deal of money remodeling their kitchen. Six months later I visited, and preheated the oven of their six-burner Viking stove to make breakfast scones. The awful smell? A plastic bag full of Viking documentation melting in the oven. Turned out the oven had not been used once since the stove was installed.
But just to be perverse, let’s assume that once the Apple Watch is on a wrist, it should be capable of doing something. Something interesting.
If there’s no single, killer app, what would a small family of violent and felonious apps include?
In his presentation on testing smartwatch applications, Aaron Rudger made the development of conventions governing smartwatch applications sound too obscure and vague for my taste. I commented on this in the first published version of my summary of Rudger’s presentation. I added more comments later on, citing emerging frameworks of relevant thinking by Raluca Budiu and Bruce Tognazzini.
Still, the scope of this discussion is limited to emerging standards, or constraints: the smartwatch application developer’s style guide. This discussion shapes the vessel that will contain the best smartwatch applications.
“FunBITS: the Gaming Potential of the Apple Watch,” by Josh Centers, goes further. Centers doesn’t claim a Grand Unified Theory of the Apple Watch. He articulates the gist of what it’s good at—what it is—and then breaks trail in a particular direction. He does not assert that this particular direction excludes others; it’s just the way he rolls.
This direction is gaming. Centers cites a variety of gaming peripherals littering the side of the road, and several Apple Watch capabilities and extensions Apple should consider, supporting the Apple Watch’s utility as a gaming peripheral.
The future is so bright, and yet Centers has not put on this sunglasses. What’s the holdup?
If only…if only we could connect it to something besides an iPhone! If only—dare I say it?—if only Apple would open up its WatchKit and let developers do their worst with the system. (Apple promises access to sensors soon.)
If you’re looking for a partial theory of where Apple Watch apps are headed, Centers has something for you.
Better, if you’re looking for an example of a way to think about where Apple Watch apps are headed, Centers has something for you. Read this way, his article is less vulnerable to argument.
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Seth Eliot, “Your Path to Data-Driven Quality”
May 27, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Data-Driven Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Testing in Production
Another software QA video recommended by Gilberto Castañeda is “Your Path to Data-Driven Quality,” presented by Microsoft’s Seth Eliot. (This video is actually from an earlier presentation.) Eliot delivered this presentation at the April 1-3, 2014 Seattle ALM Forum. The slides Eliot presented are available as PDF and PowerPoint files.
I confess that I never heard of Eliot before Gilberto brought him up; but Eliot’s title commands respect! He’s Microsoft’s “Principal Knowledge Engineer, Test Excellence.” I’ll bet that looks nice on a business card. He works with services, cloud delivery, and data-driven products. Before his Microsoft gig, Eliot spent some time at Amazon.com. I can’t help but wonder if his stay there overlapped that of my late friend Paul S. Davis; but that was really some time ago.
Eliot proposes to give us a road map, but aphoristically points out that this will not be enough: we also need roads. He’s going to propose “a way to get there” which listeners can apply to their particular environments.
A general impression: This presentation owes much to Alan Turing. To Eliot, everything is data; code is data. And so are management dictates….
The lowest form of data-driven quality (soon to be abbreviated as “DDQ”) is “HiPPO-driven,” based on the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion. By the way, Eliot claims to have tested HiPPO-driven decisions using data gathered online, finding that one-third were wrong, one-third were right, and one-third had no noticeable impact.
Let’s go to a higher level of DDQ. You can use scoring engines to apply Bayesian analysis to historical data. Frankly, this is not Eliot’s forte. He’s more interested in a real-time approach: “testing in production” (TiP), using production data.
“It’s not as difficult as you might think.”
That’s good to know! Because guess what everyone in Eliot’s (small) audience, and I, were tensing up over!
Why would we want to test in production? Because real users are surprising: they do weird stuff. Environments can be chaotic and uncontrolled. Fine, but I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it’s got to be this: What’s implicit here is that a more structured, anticipatory testing approach will not encompass this scope of weirdness; and that this is the swamp from which things will crawl and bite you in the ass.
Like any good road map, Eliot’s is very compact. The bare outline on his slide (at 7:20) needs the context of his explanation and the following slides, so I won’t bother to reproduce its bullet items here. For novices, lack of familiarity means that the hard parts—the magic—will be in designing for production-quality data, selecting data sources, and using the right tools. There’s also a circular or cyclical quality to this, which the linear list can only enumerate as answering your questions and learning new questions. (Eliot adds a seventh bullet and graphical overlay to make the loop explicit at about 7:26.)
Next, Eliot shows a slide full of widgets, illustrating the kind of real-time production data available at Microsoft. Old school Mission Control fans will not be disappointed.
Eliot’s road map begins with something that seems easy: Defining your questions. Why not just plunge in? Why not just get data and try to draw correlations? Because they would be unhelpful, like the statistical correlation between using sunblock and being more likely to drown. Kids, don’t try this at home! Plunging into the data is for advanced users.
How about an example, Seth? What questions does Microsoft ask about Exchange Online? “Is the application available?” (Some of us may yet think of this as “dial tone.”) This is important, because when the application’s not available, it can stop the user’s work.
Note that the user’s perception of availability can be more subtle than the provider’s.
Eliot’s first example of this is an occasion when the Japanese version of Exchange Online silently failed and loaded labels in English. From the server point of view, the application worked; but most Japanese users were cast adrift.
Slow response may also make an application as good as dead to users, in a way that is not so clearly visible from the server end. Eliot shows a graph of user abandonment vs. time waiting to start a video stream (13:37). About five seconds of delay is enough to get rid of almost everyone.
Except mobile users, who have been conditioned to be much more patient.
Perhaps these users remember the ground crew members who did not immediately let go when a gust of wind caught the flying aircraft carrier USS Akron…and who can blame them? Let go while you still can!
The advantage of production testing in situations like these “is manifest.” And here’s where paradigm-shifting light bulb really began to turn on for me, as I began to understand how dramatically different Eliot’s approach is from what I’ve spent most of my testing time doing. Eliot wants to watch a dashboard showing distributed, real-time application behavior; whereas my peers and I explore the territory bounded by anticipating user behavior, and evaluating the consistency of database tables. (These intersect Eliot’s worldview as means of acquiring “active” data, as opposed to “passive,” real user data: a distinction he introduces at 18:33, discussed below.) When you click a box offering to participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program, you’re volunteering data for Eliot’s production testing pipeline, or perhaps for another one much like it.
A thumbnail sketch adapted from one of Eliot’s graphs sums up how active data—all the stuff you and your co-workers gather using your made-up test cases and jury-rigged fake data—yields to passive data as the application goes into production and, with any luck, as the users pile on like the Clampett family on Jed’s old truck.
Eliot’s “active”/”passive” semantics confused me at first. When you work at Microsoft scale, surely the application is hopping up and down in production in a way it never does in sterile testing environments. You can beat on it with load tests, but to get the noise level and surprises of real users and deployment environments that time forgot? But Eliot’s choice of adjectives is drawn from the tester’s perspective, as it really should be. Active data is what you go out and hunt. Passive data…you can catch that in drift nets.
By the way, Eliot’s schematic curves of active and passive tests are not mean to reflect the natural order of things: what happens when you sit back and watch nature take its course. “Staged data acquisition mitigates risk.” Of course! You’d stage a deployment of any large, outward-facing system, right? First the internal users, then maybe some friendly beta testers, and so on. Data acquisition goes hand in hand.
We knew that in our guts, right? Sometimes it’s important to make these things explicit.
Here Eliot begins to focus on the questions we might bring to testing in production; or rather, the kind of answer we’re looking for. How would we rank availability, performance, and usage. Or; Is there any situation in which availability does not come first?
Yes, Eliot suggests: Twitter and social platforms might value usage and feature adoption over availability, for example.
What scenarios are most important? Is it more important that a user should be able to send email immediately? Or that the product logo display properly? (The Marketing department may have a hard time with this, but I’m going to go with sending email. But maybe there’s some context in which I’d feel differently.)
In any case, think about these things, because they affect priority of your test scenarios.
I enjoy collecting buzz phrases, and wouldn’t consider ending this overview without recognizing Eliot’s linguistic contributions.
Most of us have heard of “eating your own dog food.” (If you haven’t, it means using your own products. Wikipedia’s got more depth.) Eliot takes this to the next level: “It worked in dog food,” “We dogfooded it.”
In Eliot’s world, these concepts are important enough, and thrown around frequently enough, to rate acronyms:
DDQ: data-driven quality.
HiPPO: highest-paid person’s opinion.
RUM: real user measurement (i.e. acquiring passive data).
TiP: testing in production.
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“Mark Twain” on Wearables
May 21, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Internet of Things, Smartwatches, Software Testing, Wearable Devices
While writing the post about Aaron Rudger’s wearables presentation, I summarized it for a friend, in an instant messaging encounter. That was enough to provoke my friend into a riff on the dark side. I’ve adapted it here.
Since my friend works in telecommunications, and some of his opinions could be interpreted as expressing less than total enthusiasm for any business venture his employer might conceivably undertake, we’ll call him “Mark Twain.”
[4/20/2015 10:25:53 AM] Mark Twain: I guess that’s why I have come to hate the “mediated experience” Neal Stephenson writes about in In the Beginning was the Command Line.
[4/20/2015 10:27:45 AM] Mark Twain: Most of that experience is advertising of one form or another. Or surrounded by it. Looking for a word here…suspended in it?
[4/20/2015 10:29:14 AM] Mark Twain: Like a decent movie is suspended in a bath of advertising, like the nutrient bath (or whatever it is) Neo wakes up to find himself immersed in, in the Matrix….
[4/20/2015 10:30:23 AM] Mark Twain: OK, back to making the world more capable of delivering it to all of us on more devices in real time….
[4/20/2015 10:32:16 AM] Mark Twain: But we could start dreaming up a good horror movie (too bad I don’t like those either) about what happens to the nascent amoral machine intelligence of the cloud once we’re all covered in “wearables” and all our appliances talk to each other on the web….
[4/20/2015 10:32:58 AM] Mark Twain: Think of the havoc that might be wrought by connected chainsaws and lawnmowers. I already know guys in Denmark working on the lawnmowers….
I was picturing Dalí-esque gelled (jelloed?) smartwatches devouring debutante wrists like pythons….
[5/9/2015 10:01:18 AM] Mark Twain: Now that would be interesting to test.
I agree! But I wouldn’t undertake such a project without competent legal advice.
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Aaron Rudger’s “Three Ways to Captivate Customers on Wearables”
May 8, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Smartwatches, Software Testing, Wearable Devices
This is how it happened, more or less: My colleague Gilberto Castañeda asked what I thought of the SQE/Techwell STAREAST Virtual Conference.
“Oops! I missed it! What was good?”
While I parsed his response to this question, I groped for an algorithm to choose which archived session or sessions to view myself. Since Gilberto hadn’t had much time for the conference, this suddenly got easy.
“Of the sessions you didn’t see, which interested you most?”
I thought I could feed the network by viewing that presentation, and providing a summary; hence, this post. Turns out Gilberto was most curious about Aaron Rudger’s presentation, “Three Ways to Captivate Customers on Wearables.” The synopsis:
Competing for growth is a game of seconds. Superior customer experience is the #1 differentiator for digital success today. Wearable devices and the apps that power them promise to change consumer life and employee productivity. Developers and Quality teams must meet the demanding needs of users whose expectations for a flawless experience are changing.
Aaron Rudger will discuss the three keys to success for delighting customers on smartwatches, smartphones, tablets or digital form-factors yet to be imagined. Aaron will share testing best practices to prepare your apps for a smooth and reliable experience now and in the future.
Buzzword alert! But what else would you expect from a presentation on wearables? Anticipate people who are racing to establish themselves at the forefront of an emerging technology composed of both agile and massive corporations racing to establish themselves…. A conference speaker on this topic will be surfing on someone else’s bow wave.
Rudger set the scene with rhetorical questions: How do you get high quality results from testing wearables? How do you ensure a high quality user experience?
Rudger equated three models of Apple watches with “Three Horsemen of the Testing Apocalypse.” Smart watches are not a new idea, but change the testing game. These will create a new paradigm for engaging with customers, Rudger said. (Really? There it is: the market for testing software on smartwatches boils down to those who want to use the watches to sell stuff. A friend shared his dystopian reaction while I wrote this.) There will be great pressure to deliver these new experiences.
But Rudger really isn’t here to talk about the scope of wearables. He’s not interested in sensor networks woven in fabric, for example. In fact, he’s drilling right down to the Apple watch. Why?
“It’s all about the money.”
Oh, right: that! Well, then! Let’s get to it.
720,000 Android watches (or “wear devices”) were sold in all of 2014. In contrast, an estimated 1.2 million Apple watches sold during the first weekend of their availability, with 2015 sales forecast at 20 million. Rudger forecasts linear growth, quickly leading to a multi-billion dollar market with concomitant pressures. He also cited a prediction that 2.5 billion smartphones will be active by end of 2016.
Building and running apps for the Apple Watch dependent on Apple’s WatchKit. Even if you don’t develop functionality specifically for the Watch, developers will take advantage of its functionality, and of WatchKit. WatchKit affects mobile developers “whether or not they’re in the…game.”
Rudger asserted that the Apple Watch has driving the doubling of iOS release velocity.
By the way, don’t expect Google to sit still and watch while this happens. Android will continue quick evolution.
Power management is critical to apps for wearables; functionality and performance blur in this domain. Quality is tightly coupled with performance.
Rudger said that conventions in this domain are not well-defined. Really? Is this an opportunity for someone with a big mouth? Can’t one work from first principles and by analogy to establish a good first draft? What does usability god Jakob Nielsen have to say? Or Don Norman? Bruce Tognazzini? Has the smartwatch caught people like these flat-footed?
With a perfect sense of timing, while I was writing this post, Nielsen Norman Group Senior Researcher Raluca Budiu weighed in with “The Apple Watch: User-Experience Appraisal.” Her article cites an earlier look at the Samsung Galaxy Gear. Budiu describes Apple Watch GUI successes and failures with reference to broader principles, easily translated to design guidelines. I think we can say that, no, the usability crowd has not been caught flat-footed. But they can’t tell us what the smartwatch killer app is, either. Budiu’s conclusion is to offer some guidelines for those with the nerve to believe they can actually create value for smartwatch users. She can’t tell them where this value lies; only what its delivery vehicle should look and feel like.
Not long after, I came across Nielsen Norman Group principal and usability god Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini’s current draft “First Principles of Interaction Design.” This document also addresses smartwatches.
There may be a cultural or psychological factor at work in not acknowledging these or similar resources, e.g.: “We’re a startup. We don’t have time for that.”
And that brings us back to Rudger’s presentation: How hard will it be to develop good smartwatch apps? What must designers and developers consider? “…The application and experience is going to be contextually based; it’s going to require an extreme amount of curation….”
Does that help you? Me, neither.
In fact, the thrust of this section of the presentation is to reiterate what people have probably been telling each other since at least the invention of written language: Everything is faster and more complex than it’s ever been before. Only the fleetest of foot, Mercury-winged, have a prayer of even standing still (in Jeremy Scott’s styling footwear, no doubt).
Or is it completely true, and I’m just bored with the sound of being swept into the crowded dustbin of history?
But wait: Here’s the plug, and the reason Keynote LLC was happy to have Rudger, its Director of Product Marketing, spend time on this presentation: All of this means we should test in the cloud.
Cloud? What cloud? What does this mean? That we should use email and FTP to work together? Or that we have emulators available online? Oh, good: Here comes a well-timed demo.
Yes, they’re emulators. Not just emulators: emulators developed by Keystone! Like the ones I collected a dozen or two of when developing wireless applications 15 years ago, except that these run on someone else’s hardware, somewhere out there. They’re controllable through a web client.
At least that’s what the naive viewer might believe. But wait! He would be wrong! These are not emulators; Rudger’s showing us an interface to real hardware! (A free trial is available at mobiletesting.keynote.com.) Having multiple devices available at the same time enables easy exploratory testing. One device can send a message to another.
Rudger suggests that a great virtue of this approach is that it does not burden developers with the need to learn new languages. However, it’s amenable to both manual and automated testing (presumably through approaches like Selenium). The approach immediately supports new operating systems.
After about 25 minutes of introduction and presentation, we segue to audience questions and Rudger’s responses. Participants can’t help but feel rewarded for their efforts: Rudger thinks every question posed is “really great.” One that stood out:
Q [paraphrased]: Are wearables a fad?
A: No, because Apple’s involved.
Is that the deepest Rudger can go, when he could assemble a position using components like Moore’s Law?
Q: How many users are on a particular hardware device?
A: Capacity is adequate, and continuously monitored. Keynote adds devices to accommodate contention. There’s a careful process at work here. Of course there is. With any luck, Keynote won’t be as investment-averse as some of its clients are. Don’t make that process too careful!
If you want to see for yourself, you can find Rudger’s presentation online until 8/7/2015. (You’ll have to register.)
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Open Lecture by James Bach on Software Testing
May 7, 2015 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Context-Driven Testing, Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing
This YouTube video was my recent introduction to James Bach, the enfant terrible of the “context-driven school of software testing.” (I thank my colleague Gilberto Castañeda, “El Águila de Tenochtitlan,” for suggesting I watch this video.)
When I write enfant terrible—which I guess means “terrible infant”—I don’t mean an upset child, fists clenched, face red, who stops screaming only to draw breath. We’re talking about an adult here, who on the strength of his reputation, has been invited to speak to students in Estonia. (Does anyone in Estonia even know your name? Not mine.) In this context, we’re talking about someone who upsets some established order by expressing himself enthusiastically and articulately.
I typically find these people quite compelling. Their presence tells us that a discipline has room for finding success without first enduring a Druid-like, decades-long apprenticeship. (Not that Bach advocates ignorance, some kind of Noble Savage approach, or barefoot and wide-eyed laying on of hands. He urges learning all the tools and technologies you can.)
I suspect that when Bach planted himself behind the podium in this college lecture hall, he had a very general outline in mind. In fact, he brought a few slides, which he seems to go through in order. However, he’s not afraid to range far and wide to make his points. The broad outline is defined, but the sentences are JIT. Something he does a lot of is telling stories. (This, too, is an approach that reels me in. The “story” is a way of encapsulating ideas which I can consume like M&Ms. Stories are brain candy.) Much of the presentation consists of Bach’s anecdotes about approaching a software testing situation and turning over rocks to reveal previously visible ugly stuff.
How does he do it?
This is part of what Bach tries to express with the “context-driven testing” label. He does it by recognizing that the testing context, the context of software or system success or failure, is an inclusive one. It generally covers a lot more territory than the problem description makes clear—where “generally” means something like “while pigs do not fly.” Bach zooms out, or looks at the system from other perspectives, to see potential vulnerabilities. It’s creative. It’s insightful. It provides the stuff of good stories.
One story which stands out as I listen to the presentation for the second time, in the background, is Bach’s summary of Miyamoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings. Bach summarizes the book as an account of how Musashi survived many duels. How? By using a particular type of sword? A technique? By training with a particular school?
In Bach’s telling, Musashi owed his survival to mastering many weapons (learn all the tools and technologies you can), and then doing whatever was necessary to win.
This will do for now as a metaphor for context-driven testing.
When you hear one of Bach’s stories, and feel that you laugh or thrill with him, this encourages you to believe that you, too, are capable of joining the context-driven brotherhood (a belief Back explicitly encourages elsewhere), and sharing in these penetrating insights. Bach encourages this perception. He begins with simple, clearly defined situations, giving his audience a chance to warm up and stretch before they hear about more complex situations. In his first example, he shows the students some simple code and then discusses all the situations not captured by the code’s logic. After a little stumbling, Bach has probably closely aligned his audience’s understanding of the example with his own. After that, each additional story reinforces their complicity.
There are many more trivial, discrete, and personal reasons I find Bach really compelling. There’s a whole body of shared memes surfacing in his discussion: The Book of Five Rings. Simulated annealing. Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, circa 1980s. To name a few.
On the other hand, I’ve bought some of my groceries as an advocate for various processes: the SEI CMMI, XP, and a few things in between. Bach is quick to express his disdain for “best practices” and methodologies which seek to eliminate human “squishiness.”
I’m very interested in how I can use the Selenium framework for some automated testing. Bach acknowledges that this approach has its uses, but belongs in the back seat.
As I write, I’m infatuated with Bach and what I understand of context-driven testing. Will this survive more exposure?
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Fiat Blog!
May 7, 2014 Jacob J. L. Dickinson Blogging, Writing
In which we contemplate:
the thrills, chills, and spills promised by all-too-easy online self-publishing
the prospect of actually writing, rather than just thinking about it
unwarranted and excessive use of the royal “we”
and attempt to comfort and encourage ourselves with mother’s maxim:
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
Self-Portrait, Chicago.
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Context-Driven Testing
Data-Driven Quality
Help Authoring
Testing in Production
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Adrienne Bailon Calls Rob Kardashian Disloyal, Talks About His Cheating Ways
July 30, 2014 by TattleTailzz Staff
Adrienne Bailon is on the September issue of Latina and she talks about her relationship with Rob Kardashian and how being on the show affected her career…. Let’s be clear, Adrienne has a mediocre career, and she is spending the majority of herinterview in a magazine talking about her ex? Check out some parts of her interview inside.
On Rob cheating:
‘It’s common knowledge that he cheated on me. It always bothered me that people were like, “Pero, why couldn’t you forgive him?”
‘Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, “You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.” But women, we’re supposed to be like, “He messed up. He made a mistake.
About having any regrets:
‘In my situation, it wasn’t like, “Oh my God! I made a mistake!”’ she admitted. ‘He strategically planned things out so that he could cheat on me, and that to me was so disloyal.’
Being stuck with the Kardashian label:
To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career,’ Adrienne revealed. ‘I probably realised that too late – not that it would’ve affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would’ve affected my decision to appear on the show.’
Adrienne explained that she didn’t think ‘anyone would even care,’ but is still getting grief.
‘To this day, people will still say, “You ruined Rob’s life!” and I’ll think, “Damn, I was still playing with Barbie dolls when I met him.”’
On being in love with Rob:
‘I was genuinely in love with him and thought, “If he’s going to do this, I’m going to do this, too.”’
Adrienne is dating Roc Nation’s own Lenny S and she’s been with him for five years… she says ‘I have not been in a relationship with Rob for six years,’ she told the publication earlier this month. ‘And I’ve been with my current boyfriend for five years. I think it’s time to remove it.’
If being stuck with the Kardashian label is hurting her career why didn’t she decline answering questions that was related to them? Isn’t this the same chic that pretended her laptop was stolen so she could leak her own nudes? I know he cheated but clearly she still needs him to stay semi relevant!
Filed Under: Celebrity News Tagged With: adrienne bailon, Celebrity News, Cheating, Lenny S, Movie Tailzz, Music Tailzz, Relationships, Rob Kardshian
I read online(Yahoo), that Kim said” Don’t kick my brother when he’s down”, I have to agree with her on that. I read that she also said” The whole reason that Adrienne even had the interview was because of being associated with a Kardashian” I’m usually not all “team Kim”, although I do watch the show because they make me laugh, but I have to agree with Kim this time. PEACE!!!
mb says
I like Adrienne, but don’t understand her constant discussions about Rob K. This is the second time in weeks, I’ve seen Adrienne in the headlines not about her upcoming talk show or other projects she is working on, but about Rob Kardashian.
Adrienne Bailon responds to Kim & Khloe’s twitter shade | Tattle Tailzz says:
[…] week between the Kardashian’s and Adrienne Bailon after a recent interview Bailon did with Latina magazine, in the interview she dissed Rob Kardashian and talked about his disloyalty and how “his […]
Khloe Kardashian Responds to Adrienne Bailon : “FDB” | Tattle Tailzz says:
[…] her brother Robert after Adrienne Bailon interview with Latina Magazine talking about Rob being Disloyal… And can’t get away from the Kardashian curse.. Well Kim Kardashian had this to say to […]
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THIS IS THE STORY OF A SAUDI WOMAN
WHO GRABS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK OUT
A film by Stefanie Brockhaus and Andreas Wolff
"Inspiring! Engaging!" VARIETY Selected for the European Film Awards 2018 "Entertaining! Competent!" THE GUARDIAN
The Poetess
The Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal made headlines around the world as the first woman to ever make it to the finals of “Million’s Poet”, an Abu-Dhabi based Million Dollar reality television show. It is the Arab world’s biggest poetry competition, and it is dominated by men. In her poems Hissa criticizes the patriarchal Arab society and she attacks one of the most notorious Saudi clerics for his extremist fatwas, live, in front of 75 million viewers.
Hissa Hilal is the voice from behind the veil: Her word is her weapon. We’ll never see Hissa’s face. Like the majority of Saudi women, Hissa is covered from head to toe. She is not allowed to drive a car. She doesn’t own a passport. And she requires consent from her husband for any sort of activity. But then, coming out of nowhere, Hissa is suddenly breaking news in the biggest Western and Arab media. How did she gain the knowledge and the courage to step on stage and risk her life?
Screenings / Upcoming Festivals
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>> Meet the Saudi woman who criticized the system through poetry
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Chanel Rouge Allure Ink: An evening with Alessandra Steinherr
Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
On behalf of The Voice Of London I was invited down to the launch where I was given an insight into the new products and what's available.. Written by: Grace Brown | Sub editor: Jessica Penfold Liquid matte has taken the lipstick world by storm, and more so since Kylie Jenner released her own line of lip kits. The reality star immediately sold out of her range and continues to do so every time she restocks. Due to the popularity of her kits, we have seen a huge rise in liquid matte lipsticks from other high-end beauty brands such as M.A.C, Huda Beauty, SmashBox, Lime Crime and now Chanel have released their own special formula fronted by Kristen Stewart. For the release of their range of liquid matte lipsticks Rouge Allure Ink, Chanel has opened a new beauty boutique in Spitalf
“I’m a completely different person today than I was on my first day,” Working at M.A.C Cosmetics and whether you really need experience..
In London there are currently 36 stores, which will no doubt continue to grow and expand, for anyone wanting a career at M.A.C Cosmetics this is an interview you will want to read.. Written by: Jessica Penfold | Sub-editor: Grace Brown M.A.C founded in 1984 and was originally only available to makeup artists and industry experts however beauty gurus and makeup fanatics have taken such a liking to the brand it is now available to the public, making it the billion pound company it is today. With its distinctive black packaging and motto of ‘All ages. All races. All sexes’ the aim of the company is to appeal to everyone. M.A.C is a well-known and much loved brand in London , I had an interview with one of the makeup artists at the Bromley branch to find out a little more of what a typical d
MCM Comic Con London: Cosplay 2016
MCM Comic Con is a convention that consists of memorabilia, anime, comics, merchandise and the latest games. Cosplay allows people of all ages to create and design costumes picked from a world of fictional characters. Reporter: Kat L'Aiguille | Sub-Editor: Pinar Djefar & Grace Brown Every May and October, MCM hosts Comic Con at the Excel centre in Custom House, Docklands, for the duration of three days. The event opens its doors to thousands of people. Each day the event features a variety of special guests from films and TV programmes such as Game of Thrones, Red Dwarf, The Big Bang Theory, Star Wars and Batman Vs Superman. Karen Willow, 41, a regular at Comic Con has dressed as Catwoman. She spoke with us at the event… Q. What brings yo
Laser Hair Removal: Is It Really Worth It?
Celebrities like the Kardashians, have created a recent buzz around laser hair removal. Voice of London tells all about our experience with the treatment. Reporter: Zynab Sandhu| Sub-Editor: Alma Fabiani Hair removal for many is a nightmare, whether it is through waxing or shaving. Sacrificing sleep in the morning just to take on the dreaded task of shaving your legs, only to be left with razor burns and ingrown hairs is not a pleasant experience. The same can be said about waxing, taking the dreaded trip to the beauty salon to go through the extremely painful experience of getting your legs waxed only to be left with burns and inflamed skin. All of this is the price we pay to have sexy smooth legs. There has been a recent craze with laser hair removal in the world of cel...
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The Austin Review Blog
Announcements, Interviews, Reviews
Shannon Perri
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A Trip to the Henry Miller Memorial Library
We were so thirsty.
Two of us had flown from Austin to San Francisco the day before, where our best friend picked us up in a Google-rented Chevy Impala. Three girls reunited, we drove for hours that passed like seconds, stopping for oysters and champagne in a tiny restaurant that floated off a dock in the middle of the Monterrey Bay.
After lunch I hung my body over the edge of the pier, looking straight to the bottom of the sea. The sun was warm, so we peeled off our jackets and screamed that we couldn’t believe we were here. What a California day, with children running like the sandpipers on the beach.
Tagged: Big Sur, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Memorial Library, Emil White
Events, Local Austin Events, Musings
Notes from the Typewriter
Photograph by Stephen Callender.
At The Austin Review launch party last Saturday, we set up a typewriter and encouraged guests to write whatever they liked with the knowledge that their words might end up on social media. As promised, here are our favorites from the evening:
"As I wailed past the rows of cubicles at the Livestrong Foundation and into the courtyard, I saw how attractively dressed were the ladies in attendance and regretted not wearing nicer pants."
"So this is what vintage feels like."
"Would you lie to save lives?"
"She smiled."
"Be aware of a book based on Austin women with straight bangs."
"But I love her."
"BLACK THUNDER
Young broke writer
to crash launch
Drinks free beer
eats hors d'oeuvres
Waits in lines"
This photo is by Ebb and Flow Photography, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-license.
Written by The Austin Review Staff
Prairie Lights is a lot of things. It's the color of bookstores I was dragged into as a kid in a town colored and weathered the same grey as Iowa City. It's also, like the town that holds it, at once charming (the walls feel close and there is something almost about everything) and well-worn (the stairs have clearly been climbed by a million (or, you know, all three) Iowa Writers Workshop students on the way to decades of readings).
A man in a peacoat and I dance the familiar dance of Middle Western politeness around each other, each struggling to get out of the other's way as we brush the books with our eyes and look for we-know-not-what. The way people stand in front of bookshelves everywhere in the world is reenacted here like ritual. Above my head, authors (who have been on my to-read list for a year) chat about the bar they're going to later, and I am looking at the books they wrote tucked in the Poetry corner of Prairie Lights' lower floor. It's surreal. It's a dream.
And this is the dream of every bookshelf spectator, staring at a row of un-cracked spines: Reading titles with the knowledge or hopeful expectation that their authors are making jokes above them. That when they get home and hold the object in their hands--some dollar amount worth of paper--that everything could be about to change.
The poet says: You can't turn a corner in this town without running into a poet. And I think about the cadence of the sentence, about the sentences surrounding me, about the coffee shop up stairs full of literary journals and coffee cups on antique saucers and unconventionally beautiful grad students falling in love with books and each other and writing papers or notwriting papers.
After a reading, writers stand around drinking rosé to celebrate. You know, celebrate writing; a celebrating that feels strange in this place only for its total lack of strangeness.
Tagged: Prairie Lights, Iowa City
New Orleans: A City of Literary Indulgence
New Orleans is more than just oysters, Sazaracs, and jazz. It is a city built on legend, history, and the art of storytelling. Some say the city is haunted. Walking through the French Quarter and Garden District, a sense of timelessness certainly haunted me. I could feel the stories told, and yet to be told, oozing from the cobblestoned streets and Mississippi River air. As Tennessee Williams put it:
“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour--but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands--and who knows what to do with it?”
I now see why this bohemian city attracts so many of the greats. Around every tight corner I expected to find writers Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Mark Twain, Scott F. Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Rebecca Wells, Anne Rice, Euroda Welty, and more. And not just the famous, but every local I spoke to had a story to tell, whether of the dead buried underneath the streets or of the time Bill Murray and Jessica Lange smoked cigarettes and sang from their mansion balcony.
Faulkner House Books
Just as the city loves stories, the city loves books. Amidst the bourbon bars and cafes, quaint independent bookstores are scattered throughout, like the old prints and books store, Librairie Bookshop. When purchasing an early edition of Catcher in The Rye for sixty-five cents, the storekeeper told me he’d been working there for over thirty-five years. I remarked: “Wow, you must really love books.” He gave me a sly smile and replied: “It wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t love books.” I also found Crescent City Books and the Garden District Book Shop to be lovely. Yet, I spent most of an afternoon stepping back in time at the historical Faulkner House Books. This small space now lined with wall-length bookshelves used to be the home of Faulkner himself. It was here that he wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Pay.
Walking on I came across the tribute statue of Ignatius J. Reilly, the lead character of John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces. The statue stood in front of where D. H. Holmes Department Store used to be, the very place the character has a commotion-causing fit in the beginning of the novel.
Carousel Bar
Before long the city brought me to the Hotel Monteleone’s Carousel Bar. While sitting at the slowly-revolving bar, I found myself pondering the world from various angles, like so many great writers before. In fact, Truman Capote was practically born in this place, as it was here his mother went into labor. True to his roots, Capote spent much of his life holding “high court” at Carousel Bar.
In the dim light of the evening, I took a leisurely stroll down Frenchmen Street. I saw a professional woman sitting behind a typewriter on the walkway. I inquired about what she was doing, only to discover she writes customized “smut” for $20 a piece. She was booked up at the time, so I was unable to make a purchase.
There is no place like New Orleans, and there is nothing like being surrounded by a world that celebrates stories.
True to form, the city offers an annual literary festival, known as the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. The 28th annual festival will be held in March 2014.
Tagged: New Orleans, Crescent City Books, Garden District Book Shop, Faulkner House Books, Carousel Bar, Tennessee Williams Literary Festival
What the Research Says about Austin
According to this study, creative types are likely to be narcissistic. And per THIS report, Austin is ranked one of the top three American (non NYC) cities for writers.
If you feel like everyone around you in Austin is a little self-absorbed, you’re probably right.
But then again, this study points out how literature boosts one's social skills.
In the end, we are a city of narcissists with fantastic social skills.
This photo is by Jessica Spengler, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-license.
Tagged: Austin
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Pick of the Geek: Sound! Euphonium
May 29, 2017 by Mark Reed in Animation
If you had to ask me what one of my favourite series of the past few years has been you would easily find Sound! Euphonium near the top of the list, a series not about epic intergalactic battles or being a sports superstar but instead about a simple school band. Yes, while anime is covering just about everything known to man from being a Train Station Attendant, A Theme Park Manager or even a Fisherman we go back to something quite simple in a school band, this isn’t a rock band or an idol group but simply a band made out of normal boys and girls.
The overall plot in Sound! Euphonium comes as Kumiko Oumae; a ‘plain’ girl with ordinary clothes and an ordinary backpack starts high-school and is convinced to join the band, unlike most protagonists Kumiko is actually more self-loathing as she feels she is swayed by others too much and struggles with getting her feelings across to others causing rifts between herself and trumpet player Reina Kousaka.
The first series comes across as Kumiko and her friends Hazuki Katou; a classmate who is only a beginner at music and Sapphire Kawashima; a timid girl who lacks self-confidence who join the band and the months after. Each character grows naturally among the series and looking back you can see just how much they’ve grown up and matured, something which a lot of series fail to manage.
The series is paced almost perfectly, as the characters build themselves up and improve their talents, and unlike other series, we begin to see gaps form between the friends, not on a conflicting nature but rather in talent we soon find them on different levels. This gives the series an interesting approach as some characters begin to feel left behind it only spurs them on to push themselves further. Rather than the happy-happy ending, we are seeing in other shows the series ends with a mixture of emotions. And that’s simply the main characters, to say this was only about them would be a crime, each of the band is unique in their own way and the series does go ahead and focus on a most of them giving them their own individuality.
Other parts come from the fact that real life just gets in the way of some things. From students having to drop out of the band due to studies to parents getting involved and questions are asked by the characters as they mature, wondering if they should focus on their future away from the band or keep trying because they genuinely love what they are doing. It’s a fact that everyone in the world has to face at some point and the series manages it perfectly.
Sound! Euphonium’s visuals are a delight to the eye and you can tell that Kyoto Animation (Amagi Brilliant Park, Free, A Silent Voice) are masters at their craft as almost every little thing is perfected. It’s rare you’ll find any dodgy pieces or lazily drawn sequences, each character is well put together and the animation surrounding any of the musical scenes is drawn, a lot of the time feeling that these were real people playing the instruments.
It covers the little details in each episode, from the city and classroom to even small details down to cleaning, tuning and maintaining the instruments, stuff which most series would skip over, or if they do focus on them they’ll be more of an afterthought than anything else.
Of course where this series absolutely shines is the musical scenes. Each and every one is lovingly crafted, from the dramatical performances as a band to the individual practise sessions you can see that this has been a well thought out series, even as someone who knows very little about music you could see when there was a slip up or an error made by the characters, this adds a nice extra touch that you, as the viewer can feel involved in and certainly something that cannot be attached to the Light Novel the series was based off.
While the series is incredible in so many ways there are a few small issues, mainly with the second season’s 2nd half focusing more on the drama between characters than the music itself however on the upside, this allowed me to appreciate other characters at the expense of the band itself.
Aside from that little niggle, I can honestly say that Sound! Euphonium is one of those rare series that manages to do so much right and if you’re a fan of slice of life series. This isn’t a series of happy endings where everything will work out because ‘we tried hard’ it slaps real life into the face of its series and does it perfectly. It’s one of the few anime I would seriously consider being a ‘must watch’ for people who want more from their anime than what most series will ever offer.
Sound! Euphonium season 1 and 2 are available on Crunchyroll.
Volume 1 of the Light Novel releases 20th June 2017
Tagged with: A Silent Voice, Amagi Brilliant Park, Anime, Crunchyroll, free, Keyframe, Light Novel, Pick of the Geek, recommendation, Slice of Life, Sound! Euphonium
About the author Mark Reed
Since encountering Treasure Island Dizzy on the Amiga all those years ago Mark has had a keen interest in most forms in the world of geekdom. A keen eye on Animation he never really grew up from the cartoons he used to love back when. Drag him away from a JRPG you might even find him Cosplaying at a convention. Or he'll probably just be watching some junk Anime.
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{{about|the acting unit|the ''[[All My Circuits]]'' character|Calculon (All My Circuits)}}
'''Calculon''' was an acting unit most famous as [[Calculon (All My Circuits)|the star]] of the hit robot soap opera ''[[All My Circuits]]''. He has also appeared in films, including ''[[The Magnificent Three]]'', for which he was nominated for an Oscar at the [[1074th Academy Awards]]. In [[3012]], Calculon was killed in the [[World Acting Championship]]. In [[3013]], he was resurrected for a brief period, before dying once more after he had delivered the best acting performance of his career. Calculon was raped by bender. He was also molested by Bill Gates. He was also raped by Sandra Bullock. He was also molested by Donald Trump. He was also raped by Britney Spears. He was also molested by Mace Window.
'''Calculon''' was an acting unit most famous as [[Calculon (All My Circuits)|the star]] of the hit robot soap opera ''[[All My Circuits]]''. He has also appeared in films, including ''[[The Magnificent Three]]'', for which he was nominated for an Oscar at the [[1074th Academy Awards]]. In [[3012]], Calculon was killed in the [[World Acting Championship]]. In [[3013]], he was resurrected for a brief period, before dying once more after he had delivered the best acting performance of his career.
== Biography ==
Throughout his career, he had lived a secret life unknown to the public. Then he had diarrea. Calculon claimed to be 27 years old, but he was actually almost 1000 ([[The Honking|2ACV18]]). He started his life humbly as a motorized service arm working on [[Project Satan]]. He was later offered acting talent through a deal with the [[Robot Devil]], who collected on that bargain in [[3004]] by asking Calculon to give up his ears {{et|4ACV18}}. He made his way to being many of history's great acting robots, including [[Acting Unit 0.8]], [[Thespa-mat]], and [[David Duchovny's head|David Duchovny]]. For most of these thousand years, he was also a [[Were-Car]], until [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] broke the curse by destroying [[Project Satan|the original were-car]].
Throughout his career, he had lived a secret life unknown to the public. Calculon claimed to be 27 years old, but he was actually almost 1000 ([[The Honking|2ACV18]]). He started his life humbly as a motorized service arm working on [[Project Satan]]. He was later offered acting talent through a deal with the [[Robot Devil]], who collected on that bargain in [[3004]] by asking Calculon to give up his ears {{et|4ACV18}}. He made his way to being many of history's great acting robots, including [[Acting Unit 0.8]], [[Thespa-mat]], and [[David Duchovny's head|David Duchovny]]. For most of these thousand years, he was also a [[Were-Car]], until [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] broke the curse by destroying [[Project Satan|the original were-car]].
At some point in his career he became acquainted with the works of [[Harold Zoid]], whom he came to idolize {{et|3ACV08}}. He was presented with the opportunity to work under Zoid's direction on ''[[The Magnificent Three]]'', with the promise that he would win an Oscar for his work on the film. When he was not nominated, he threatened [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]], [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]], and his idol Harold Zoid with death. Through Zoidberg's manipulation, he was nominated for Best Actor but ultimately lost to Zoid (again, through Zoidberg's manipulation).
Secondary character
Deceased character
Calculon in 3004 (4ACV06).
(at time of death)
Planet of origin
Actor, Director
"I, Roommate"
(1ACV03)
Voiced by
This article is about the acting unit. For the All My Circuits character, see Calculon (All My Circuits).
Calculon was an acting unit most famous as the star of the hit robot soap opera All My Circuits. He has also appeared in films, including The Magnificent Three, for which he was nominated for an Oscar at the 1074th Academy Awards. In 3012, Calculon was killed in the World Acting Championship. In 3013, he was resurrected for a brief period, before dying once more after he had delivered the best acting performance of his career.
1 Biography
3 Known filmography
4.1 Trivia
4.2 Quotes
4.3 Appearances
Throughout his career, he had lived a secret life unknown to the public. Calculon claimed to be 27 years old, but he was actually almost 1000 (2ACV18). He started his life humbly as a motorized service arm working on Project Satan. He was later offered acting talent through a deal with the Robot Devil, who collected on that bargain in 3004 by asking Calculon to give up his ears (4ACV18). He made his way to being many of history's great acting robots, including Acting Unit 0.8, Thespa-mat, and David Duchovny. For most of these thousand years, he was also a Were-Car, until Fry and Leela broke the curse by destroying the original were-car.
At some point in his career he became acquainted with the works of Harold Zoid, whom he came to idolize (3ACV08). He was presented with the opportunity to work under Zoid's direction on The Magnificent Three, with the promise that he would win an Oscar for his work on the film. When he was not nominated, he threatened Dr. Zoidberg, Bender, and his idol Harold Zoid with death. Through Zoidberg's manipulation, he was nominated for Best Actor but ultimately lost to Zoid (again, through Zoidberg's manipulation).
In 3004, he was invited at the Late Night with Humorbot 5.0, where he met Coilette from Robonia, winner of five gold medals. He fell in love with her, not knowing she was actually Bender who changed his sex. They dated, and he asked Coilette to marry him. On the wedding day, Coilette faked her death, having suffered of African Hydraulic Fever. Calculon then starred in Coilette: A Calculon Story to honor his old love's memory (4ACV13).
He is a member of the League of Robots and, for a time, was its president. Under his leadership the organization remained lenient on it's official human-killing plank. After Bender joined in 3008, and was caught helping his human friends escape during Yivo's universe-wide mating (despite his frequent anti-human tirades), Calculon and the rest of the League mocked Bender (TBwaBB). Bender challenged Calculon to a duel and won, vaporizing Calculon's arm. Calculon resigned his leadership in the organization.
In 3010, he was directing a disaster film, but most of the props and the actors were presumably destroyed and killed in a real disaster in shooting the first scene (6ACV08).
In 3012, Calculon consumed a bottle of food colouring, which is fatal to robots, in an attempt to defeat Langdon Cobb in the World Acting Championship. Despite his sacrifice, Cobb still won the championship.
In 3013, Fry and Bender set out to bring Calculon back from the dead, due to their mutual disliking of the inferior robot actor who replaced Calculon on All My Circuits. With help from the Professor, they were able to bring his software back from Robot Hell and successfully reinstall it back into his body, which Bender had previously dug up. Calculon 2.0 was hereby born. During the year that Calculon had been dead, everyone had forgotten about him and he was now classed as a bad actor. The network executives at All My Circuits refused to recast Calculon 2.0 back into the lead role he once had in the show. This shocked and deeply saddened Calculon, as he always thought he was the greatest actor who had ever lived. Even his star on the Hollywood walk of fame was removed. Eventually he was persuaded to audition in disguise for a bit part on All My Circuits, playing himself. After a wake up call from Leela in which she called him a "grade-"B" actor" who was "immediately forgotten", Calculon lost his strong sense of ego and became very sad. This newfound emotion set him up for his acting scene in which he delivered a moving performance, perhaps the best of his entire acting career. The cast of the show, Fry, Leela, Bender and the executives are hugely impressed and tell him he must take a bow. As he bends over, he pulls the prop rope, pulling a large lighting rig crashing down, missing Calculon narrowly. However, just moments after, another part of the stage above comes flying down. It crushes Calculon, and he is killed instantly, as the crowd looks on horrified. In honor of Calculon 2.0, his star on the walk of fame was reinstated. Calculon 2.0's wish of dying knowing he was a great actor who was adored again was fulfilled, and Calculon 2.0's spirit went back to Robot Hell to spend eternity, much to the Robot Devil's dismay.
Calculon was a skilled actor who is programmed to be very busy. He is idolized by many people, including Bender, and he can be extremely self-centered. Calculon's acting talent seemed to have infused itself into his everyday life, and he speaks very melodramatically. He could be driven to violence when he doesn't get his way, such as when he was not nominated for an Oscar after appearing in The Magnificent Three and threatened to murder Zoidberg, Zoid, and Bender. However, he is also incredibly gullible. He hired Bender as an actor on All My Circuits because he believed "the audience" was rejecting the actors trying out for the show, when it was just Bender right outside the casting room yelling and disparaging everyone who came before him.
Known filmography
Calculon in 3013, after his second death (7ACV20).
All My Circuits
All My Circuits: The Movie, 3001
The Magnificent Three, 3002
Coilette: A Calculon Story, 3004
Space Boy in Outer Space (cancelled)
Hydraulic Shaft, possibly 3006
Catastrophe Beach Party, 3010 (director)
Delayed and Over Budget 2, 3010
Stage work
Calculon Is HAL 9000, 3013, Shubot Theater (one-man show)
Calculon is one of the few non-primary characters who appear in every film.
He owned a big house in Hollywood.
He owned an enormous yacht named "Calculon's Talent" in the pool of which he sails a large yacht named "Calculon's Pride".
He enjoyed hot showers.
He tended to see life as a huge soap opera.
Bender once worked as his hot water boiler in Hollywood. Bender was also his Official Stalker at one point.
He ran over Judge Whitey some time prior to The Beast with a Billion Backs, and was sentenced to community service.
He states explicitly in Into the Wild Green Yonder that his operating system is Windows Vista, and hence encounters an error in his programming seconds later.
This suggests that his OS had remained the same since his days as an assembly arm to death, which would date his assembly between 2007 and 2009 when Vista was the current Windows OS. Moreover as Project Satan is a military project and the US Army switched to Vista in 2009[1] and with Windows 7's release, it is likely his assembly was in 2009 making his age 1010. Fans are further befuddled because of the television broadcast of Into the Wild Green Yonder. where the mention of Windows Vista was edited to say Windows 7.
Calculon is featured on a Pez dispenser that Bender once stole.
He seemed to be friends with the Robot Devil.
Calculon's acting style appears to be based heavily on that of the late real-life actor Charlton Heston.
Seeing as when he was killed during his performance against Langdon Cobb and was in hell ever since, Calculon either had the same missing part as Bender, in regards to immortality through body replacement, or since he is over 1000 years old it is possible that he was simply built before that was commonplace for robots.
Robot Devil: Calculon, old friend, I'm afraid I need your ears.
Calculon: Well I do owe you for giving me this unholy [melodramatically] acting talent!
Calculon: Oh, how cruel and melodramatic fate is. [shouting] Why?
Calculon: NOOOOoOO0O!
Coilette (Bender): But you always said you'd rather burn down a convent than give up show business.
Calculon: I always said many things.
Calculon: Honey unit, I'm home. [He gasps.] Monique!
[Monique is in bed with Boxy. She pulls the sheets up around her.]
Monique: Calculon!
Boxy: [beep]
Calculon: Oh, how I wish I could believe that. You may be my evil half-brother, but there's no law against murdering the other half!
Calculon: That was so terrible, I think you gave me cancer! I don't care how popular you are, you will never work on my show!
Fry: Yay, Bender!
Leela: We demand Bender!
Calculon: However, you've got the job.
Calculon: Nay, I respect and admire Harold Zoid too much to beat him to death with his own Oscar.
Monique: Calculon! But I thought you were.....
Calculon: Egyptian?!
Calculon: [thinking] I'd like to thank the Academy, my agent and most of all, my operating system, Windows Vista, for everything it-- [crashes] [mechanic voice] System error.
[Bender sings incoherently and haphazardly dances on a table.]
Calculon: I'm unfamiliar with the... type of thing I'm seeing.
"I, Roommate" (1ACV03)
(as All My Circuits counterpart)
"Fry and the Slurm Factory" (1ACV13)
"I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01)
"The Lesser of Two Evils" (2ACV06)
"Raging Bender" (2ACV08)
"Mother's Day" (2ACV14)
"The Honking" (2ACV18)
"The Cryonic Woman" (2ACV19)
"That's Lobstertainment!" (3ACV08)
"The Route of All Evil" (3ACV12)
"Future Stock" (3ACV21)
"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" (4ACV06)
"Crimes of the Hot" (4ACV08)
"Bend Her" (4ACV13)
"Spanish Fry" (4ACV17)
"The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (4ACV18)
Bender's Big Score
The Beast with a Billion Backs
Bender's Game
Into the Wild Green Yonder
"Attack of the Killer App" (6ACV03)
"Proposition Infinity" (6ACV04)
(mentioned in text only, unknown moment)
"That Darn Katz!" (6ACV08)
"Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" (6ACV11)
"The Mutants Are Revolting" (6ACV12)
"The Silence of the Clamps" (6ACV14)
"Yo Leela Leela" (6ACV21)
"Fry Am the Egg Man" (6ACV22)
"Reincarnation" (6ACV26)
"The Bots and the Bees" (7ACV01)
"A Farewell to Arms" (7ACV02)
"Decision 3012" (7ACV03)
"The Thief of Baghead" (7ACV04)
"The Inhuman Torch" (7ACV18)
(cameo, 11:33)
"Calculon 2.0" (7ACV20)
"The Owner of Mars Attacks!" (US#003)
"Fry Me to the Moon" (US#015)
"A Fit Worse than Death" (US#022)
"Rotten to the Core" (US#027)
"Attack of the 50-ft Amy" (US#033)
"Anthology of Interest II" (US#045)
"Son of the Sun" (US#035)
"Follow the Reader" (US#046)
"Dummy Up!" (US#049)
"Night of the Automated Dead" (US#073)
"Captain Zapp Brannigan in Purple Tentacle Tour" (US#052-mini)
"Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!" (US#054-mini)
"Slaves of New New York!" (US#X03)
^ Noyes, Katherine (04 June 2009). No title. (Technewsworld.) Retrieved on 12 July 2012.
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Secondary characters
Characters voiced by Maurice LaMarche
Articles that reference Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television
Articles that reference The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings
Articles that reference That's Lobstertainment!
Articles that reference Bend Her
Articles that reference That Darn Katz!
Articles that reference Calculon 2.0
Appearances at unknown moments
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Eiffel Tower shuts as workers strike over long visitor queues
By admin on August 1, 2018 Lifestyle
PARIS (Reuters) – Staff at the Eiffel Tower walked out on strike on Wednesday in a dispute over lengthening queues at the Paris landmark, forcing it to close during the peak summer tourist season.
FILE PHOTO: Visitors queue to visit the Eiffel tower in Paris, France, June 2, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo
Talks between the CGT trade union and the tower’s management over a new access system – which according to workers was responsible for “monstrous” lines of visitors – reached deadlock on Wednesday afternoon, and the site closed at 4 pm (1400 GMT).
It was not clear whether the strike would continue on Thursday.
The new system, which from July has reserved separate lifts for different types of ticket-holders, was exhausting staff who had to deal with the frustrated tourists, union officials said.
The site’s management has said the summer months were always busy. [nL5N1UR79E]
Each year over six million tourists go up the 342-metre (1,063-foot) tower, the French capital’s most famous attraction.
Reporting by Jack Hunter, Editing by Sarah White and David Stamp
Egypt opens museum commemorating Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz
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Finally ... a Sleep
Theory That Makes Sense
(an "escape" device based
on evolutionary adaptation)
This proposition is written for both scientists and laymen. It is based purely on Darwinian concepts and constructed on a solid scientific foundation. But just as essential, it is grounded on common sense and observation.
The text is easy to understand and is without technical or scientific jargon. It is of potential interest to all human life that has ever experienced the phenomenon of sleep. It will be of conceivable interest to every conscious and coherent person on earth with its population of six billion living specimens any one of which might have pondered the rationale for sleep. Sleep can be both a blessing and a curse and the gift must be used with care. This work is an original creation of its author, David Marshall Mooney, and was written without assistance from any person or coauthor.
This document is written in two parts. First is the original text. Second is a complementary or clarifying addition to the original. Both are notarized, copyrighted and registered in Washington DC, assigned ISBN identification and published in the copyrighted and registered book "One Came A-Rendering - Revised Third Edition" by Dave Mooney.
The phenomenon of sleep has baffled scholars since recorded history and remains one of science's major unsolved mysteries. Sleep, however, is not inherently complicated and I hope that the people of the entire earth will enjoy reading this explanation of "what is sleep and why do we need it?" and then decide if it doesn't make sense.
David Marshall Mooney
Baltimore, Ohio USA
dammink123@gmail.com
www.sleeptheory.com
AN EVOLUTIONARY SLEEP THEORY
A notion conceived by David Marshall Mooney at his home in Baltimore, Ohio
This proposition will argue that sleep is an early and profound evolutionary adaptation to cope with the trauma of surviving the lack of light that consumes at least a third of every 24 hour day and not as an innate need for a period of inactivity and loss of consciousness for whatever its alleged recuperative value might be. The act of sleeping changes absolutely nothing in reality but rather provides a merciful mechanism for making one unaware of the unpleasant or unbearable circumstances of a given situation. This document is complete within itself. There are no loose ends or unanswered questions and the purpose here is not to lecture but to reason.
Consider this Scenario:
One million years ago, an ancient ancestor sits alone in a northern European cave. Night is approaching with the promise of 14 hours of complete and utter darkness. No worthwhile task or activity can be performed in total darkness, No artificial light source is available. Our subject does not sleep. He has not yet evolved the miracle of sleep. He is conscious and awake during the entire period. Does he stand? Does he sit? Does he lie on the cave floor? Whatever he does, he is awake and conscious and sleep does not erase the agony of the inactivity of 14 hours of total darkness. Would the process of evolution be better served if the subject were to enter a harmless and merciful sort of stupor or unconscious state so as to safely and quickly pass through this worthless period of 14 hours of total darkness? Sleep is nothing more than an evolutionary adaptation to cope with total lack of light.
In reality, of course, our caveman subject had long before evolved such an escape mechanism of elective (elective only to a degree) "stupor" or "unconsciousness" and this, we contend, is the true genesis of the "sleep" phenomenon. Sleep, then, is an evolutionary "escape" mechanism and not a "recuperative" one.
a) Sleep is an evolutionary escape adaptation evolved as a mechanism to cope with the fact of equally divided dark and light, a universal truth that can never be changed.
b) Organisms can adapt; have adapted; and continue to adapt over indefinite years to suit and better cope with their particular environment.
c) The phenomenon of periods of light and dark is a natural law of the universe and can never be changed or modified in a manner that we presently understand.
d) It is not likely that primitive organisms without consciousness, would have evolved into the highly developed and "conscious" beings regarded contemporarily as "human" without having evolved an effective mechanism for coping with long periods of total darkness.
e) Argument is made that a current and "conscious" species of animal life simply cannot cope psychologically with long and enduring periods of total darkness without going berserk. Hence the evolutionary value for periods of unconscious mental states or "sleep" as we know it.
f) It is not an accident that the approximate and traditional 8 hours "sleep" period coincides almost exactly with the daily and approximate 8 hour period of total darkness with which ancient and "conscious" animals had to cope.
g) The hibernating bear and other similar animals prove that sleep is nothing more than an escape device to cope with an adverse environment. Darkness is no less an adverse environment than is one of bitter and prevailing cold.
h) Once evolution provided the miracle of sleep, it had to provide a strong inducement for contem-porary life to enter this state of unconsciousness. The answer was "pleasure". In normal animal life, sleep is clearly pleasurable. It is somewhat akin to taking food or engaging in the sex act. Animal life that did not correctly utilize this device to cope with darkness, did not survive.
i) Both the heart and brain (as well as other organs) evolved as continuous operation mechanisms that, if adequately supplied with oxygen and other nutrients, require no "sleep" or "down" periods.
j) Trees and other plant life do not "sleep" because darkness presents no psychological threat since plant life is not conscious and, other than a cessation of photosynthesis, darkness presents no evolutionary crisis.
k) Artificial light is a conscious evolutionary effort to cope with darkness just as fire is a conscious effort to cope with cold. Likewise, if ancients could not eliminate total darkness, the escape mechanism evolved to adapt to it.
l) To cope with long periods of utter darkness, primitive animal life, over long periods of time, adapted to the environment by entering into a sort of "stupor" or unconscious state.
m) Since no constructive activity can occur in total darkness, the "sleep" syndrome adapted into periods encompassing the total dark period, however long.
n) This initial "stupor" (possibly a result of mutation) became "refined" over eons of time and resulted in what is accepted now as "normal" sleep.
o) It is difficult to imagine how contemporary humans would psychologically cope with our 8-12 hours of night if our ancestors had not, millions of years previously, evolved the phenomenon of sleep.
p) The principle is simple. Time passes rapidly, safely, and without notice when one is in a state of unconsciousness. The all-encompassing and fundamental purpose of sleep is to serve as an evolutionary adaptation that functions as nature's way of blotting out unpleasant or unbearable stress over which the conscious mind has no control.
q) It is argued that contemporary animal species, including Homo sapiens, evolved as potentially continuous function organisms and only the regular and predictable lack of light necessitated the evolutionary adaptation referred to as "sleep".
r) This theory is in total conformity with, and encompassed by, the general principles as expressed in the 1859 Darwin Theory.
Notes and Observations
Traditionally, "sleep" has been considered as an "entity" within itself. In its more correct treatment, "consciousness" is instead the true entity with sleep merely being a "lack" of "consciousness". When, inevitably, scholarship determines the true nature of the enigma of consciousness, it will simultaneously have discovered what happens when we lose this most remarkable - and misunderstood - of nature's gifts. This loss of consciousness (sleep) can come in many degrees of intensity just as the anesthetist can adjust his dosage to suit the needs of the situation.
The normal individual "enters" and "recovers" from sleep almost instantly. Sleep is a mental process. In its simplest terms, it might be likened to something no more complicated than the turning on and off of a common light switch.
"Sleep" and "rest" can be concurrent but not synonymous acts. Rest can come without sleeping but one cannot sleep without resting if rest is what is indicated by the body's needs. Your doctor says: "Mr. Doe, I want you to go home and get three days of bed rest." Your lawyer advises: "Mr. Doe, the issues are complex. Sleep on it tonight and let me know your decision tomorrow." Sleep serves a psychological need and not a biological one. Rest is physical. Sleep is mental. Cultivate and encourage your daydreams. They are the only dreams you'll ever have that really matter. Some of the world's greatest achievements came when man learned to pursue and realize his daytime dreams. Sleep dreams would prove to be random and meaningless.
If "sleep" has "recuperative" value, why do people drink literally millions of gallons of coffee, and other stimulants, in a sometimes desperate effort to waken and "get going" in the morning? Why do they "party" at night and never in the morning after its so-called benefit of eight hours of sleep? Why do people seldom engage in sex in the morning? Sleep can destroy 75% of all sex drive and is therefore of no benefit in animal procreation and reproduction. With this theoretical value gone, it leaves little else to justify the need for sleep. Sleep serves no evolutionary purpose other than to cope with the plague of night. The paradox is that sleep is not necessary, yet we require it.
Birds, for instance, engage in a constant search for food. Only darkness stops this pursuit. They are geared for "constant activity" and only lack of light stops this normal and daily quest. Chickens are falsely induced to enter the "roosting" mode by a complete eclipse of the sun.
The reasons and necessity for sleep are simple. The forces of evolution have simply "allotted" or "programmed" an adequate duration for sleep - usually about eight hours per day (enough to get one through the night). To some degree, sleep is elective but if the "allotment" is abused or misdirected, there is the obvious penalty to pay. Those persons unable (for whatever reason) to utilize this phenomenon, simply did not survive. To induce this necessary function of sleep, the activity became "pleasurable" similar to the sex act or the taking of food.
SLEEP may be defined as a pain and time erasing phenomenon in which conscious brain function ceases giving a temporary mental release from reality.
Confronted with the phenomenon of long and unavoidable periods of total darkness, and as early animal life inevitably gained a state of evolutionary advance known as "consciousness", evolving and advanced organisms over countless periods of time adapted to these periods of darkness by entering into a form of "stupor". Since the light/dark pattern could never be changed, the subject organisms were obliged to adapt. This change came about possibly in the form of a mutation. Even today, we enter into a state of "unconsciousness" or "sleep" as it is known, as an evolutionary adaptation to cope with long periods of total darkness. Conversely, the miracle of sight (vision) is evolution's similar answer and adaptation to the phenomenon of sunlight with its inevitable display of brilliant light. Through these two instances of monumental adaptation, the forces of evolution have provided a mindless, but effective, answer to the eternal conditions of light and dark.
The phenomenon of total darkness has always been a plague to conscious and highly evolved organisms. One of our most effective and non-lethal punishments remains the combination of solitude, physical quarters of limited dimension, and total darkness with the "darkness" element being later banned by most civilizations as being overly barbaric.
The contention is that ancient organisms entered into a stupor or unconscious condition to escape the psychologically unbearable state of long periods of total darkness and not to "rest" the organs in a form of "recuperation". Then, once we adapted to the darkness by evolving "sleep", we now require it - but for reasons other than what we think.
"...And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep"
- Robert Frost
I, David Marshall Mooney, by my witnessed signature below, do attest that the foregoing document is an original work of my own inspiration and making. The maker further attests no knowledge of a similar or identical statement from any other source.
Prefatory note. This paper is an original work by the author, David Marshall Mooney, and is notarized, copyrighted and registered in the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington DC. This document is further identified as "Adjunctive Addition to An Evolutionary Sleep Theory" (ISBN-0-9678222-5-4) One of the "gold standards" for learning is the anciently honored axiom "the key to learning is repetition". Some words and expressions in these papers are repeated in excess. This is done purposely so as to more forcefully entrench the principle.
ADJUNCTIVE ADDITION
As a prelude to this paper, I present the following points as either "irrefutably true" or "true by common sense reasoning and observation". The fossil record tells us little and the inability to do other relevant tests is obvious. Like any biologist (which I am not) I cannot, of course, scientifically verify some of the views by virtue of a simple test. As an adjunct to my proposition, "An Evolutionary Sleep Theory", I offer the following list of facts and premises:
1) In this paper we submit that uninterrupted sleep is the first stage of a dying process (atrophy) and this general bodily "wasting" if not modified or attended in some beneficial way, is always terminal. The hibernating bear can "sleep" (atrophy/waste) for six months but cannot survive a twelve month period of this wasting inactivity.
2) As a consequence of the "Big Bang" (for want of a better explanation) an earth was created that would later prove to be both receptive and habitable to all of the adaptive organisms that would inevitably follow. Indeed, one is tempted to speculate that brilliant sunlight, blazing through an atmosphere of unknown composition, was the catalytic energy that spawned the first synthesis of life on our planet.
3) Irrefutable physical characteristics and factors would result. The new planet would rotate in an unalterable pattern; it would orbit a sun; and it would have a measurable tilt on its axis. These physical traits are innate and can never be altered in any manner that we comprehend.
4) The cosmic laws just described, by their very nature, created long and alternating periods of semi/total darkness and equal periods of semi/total light. This pattern was the first and one of the most profound environmental phenomena with which primitive and future organisms would be obliged to cope.
5) We begin with the premise that organisms initially evolved as "instant response and continuous operating organic mechanisms" without "consciousness" or the provision for perceiving or responding to light. This primitive organism changed (evolved/adapted) so as to survive in an hostile environment with its adverse set of forces and circumstances.
6) We must accept that the unchanging phenomenon of equally divided periods of day/night, light/dark would be the first and most profound challenge with which all later evolving organisms would have to cope. Temperature conditions could be modified and adapted to by myriad techniques but the phenomenon of the constant and predictable sequence of 12 hour dark and 12 hour light periods could not be changed at any place in the temperate zones of the earth. Evolving life would have to adapt to survive.
7) Equally daunting for the earliest life on the planet, was the elements of food and water. Since organic compounds were clearly not available, early life was forced to subsist on substances such as oxygen or simple elemental compounds such as water.
8) In its earliest life formation phase, the light/dark sequence is presumed to be of little consequence since early organisms in all probability lacked any mechanism for sight or any form of light perception. Sight was not a necessary function.
9) At this point there is no need to attempt to trace or knit together the exact sequence of the evolution of organisms. What is of profound importance is that when the rudimentary light-perceiving ability (sight) first appeared in primitive organisms, it represented a giant evolutionary leap forward.
10) I propose that the very ability to detect light (vision) came, in fact, as a direct evolutionary response to the constant and alternating phenomenon of total and utter darkness on the one hand followed by the equal phenomenon of brilliant sunlight that would inevitably follow. I contend that light perception (and vision as we know it) evolved as a natural evolutionary adaptation to the light/dark cycle. Of what benefit is light if one cannot use it? The tragedy of total blindness in humans (and other organisms) demonstrates the point.
11) However long it took to evolve the light perception (vision) process, when it did become viable, it represented a remarkable advance in evolution. This slowly evolved ability gave organisms the ability to seek food, avoid predators, choose mates, etc. However, when the phenomenon of vision did become workable, it brought profound new evolutionary problems with it.
12) When the twin elements of light perception and that state of animal evolution labeled as "consciousness" combined to form advanced animal life that could not only see but could analyze and comprehend what they saw, the spectre of 14 hours of total dark (night) in which no worthwhile activity could be performed, presented an agonizing and unacceptable evolutionary problem.
13) We again ask the obvious question. Would not the evolutionary process be better served if the subject were to be able to enter into a harmless and merciful state that might be called "stuporous" or "unconscious" so as to safely and quickly pass through this 14 hour period of worthless and utter darkness? Such a mechanism would be mandatory if higher life were ever to psychologically cope with the trauma of total lack of light.
14) In reality, of course, a condition exactly as described had already evolved in both higher and lower forms of life. Thus the forces of evolution had indeed provided a remarkably effective "escape" (sleep is an "escape" mechanism and not a "recuperative" one) mechanism but, by so doing, it presented yet another equally perplexing evolutionary problem. Could the forces of evolution provide yet another answer?
15) The profound question now arises. What effect does a constantly alternating 8/14 hour down cycle followed by an 8/14 hour up cycle have on an organism that initially evolved as a potentially "constant use organism?" (see item #5)
16) The answer is rather simple. It is well established that when a body or bodily component is subjected to periods of extended or total inactivity and food deprivation, it undergoes a process identified as "atrophy" or "wasting". Since "sleep" is clearly a condition of "wasting", evolution, then, must provide some form of regular cycle of "recuperation" or "rejuvenation" to counter this process.
17) Our theory will revise or "upend" a substantial amount of contemporary thinking on the subject but at the same time will, in answer, propose a set of truths that cannot be rationally disputed.
18) "Sleep", then, as we know it, represents the "escape" (from darkness) as well as the "atrophy/wasting" of which it is a natural part. The following day's physical activities represents the "rejuvenation/recuperation" phase of the process. In other words, the daily physical routine functions to counter or alleviate the "wasting" (atrophy) of the previous night's sleep. Rest and sleep are not synonymous functions.
19) In the normal and healthy individual, sleep is a pleasurable experience. It is similar to the food and sex drives but is vastly more potent and one over which the body has limited voluntary control. This sleep "pleasure" is an evolutionary device that serves to entice one into the "sleep/stupor/unconscious" state that, in turn, serves to lessen or nullify the nighttime period that constitutes the agony of 8/14 hours of total darkness. In cases where sleep has been wrongly or grossly denied, the urge to regain this lost sleep far exceeds that for either the food or sex drive. However strong, the sex drive remains "voluntary" or "elective" in nature.
20) The greater question now arises. Why would evolution (in its apparent wisdom) condemn an "evolving" organism to enter a cycle that, by nature, involves a full 1/3 to 1/2 of his whole life (the sleep cycle) to "wasting"? But, herein, we have what we feel is a rational explanation. During nighttime, there is simply nothing else to do. The body has no choice but undergo this worthless and endless cycle and adapt a device for coping. Our subject, then, spends the following daytime "recuperating" from the inactivity or "sleep/atrophy" of the night before. This entire animal life cycle is mandated, and made inescapable, by the cosmic physical laws that cause the planet to rotate on its axis.
21) However, if we hypothesize that the night part of the day/night cycle might abruptly and permanently end (that the earth could alter its spinning and we might be fortunate enough to be on the daylight side) and that we would then have the blessing of constant and everlasting sunlight, the forces of evolution would then evolve away (via adaptation) any need for the worthless phenomenon of sleep and we might thusly gain the obvious benefits that permanent daylight would bring. This evolutionary transformation would clearly take place over many centuries but there is absolutely no scientific or common sense reason to believe that this would not occur. There is no evolutionary need for sleep other than to avoid the plague of night.
Summary Notes
a) Argument is made that, initially, all organs of the body - if sufficiently supplied with oxygen - evolved for constant use. The human body, then, is potentially a "constant use mechanism". All organs of the body evolved for constant use. The heart is clearly geared for constant use and only a deprivation of oxygen can change its capacity. The so-called "sleeping" brain can be called into instant function and requires no prior conditioning or preparation. The brain, when adequately supplied with oxygen, is a "continuous function mechanism" and all other major bodily organs originally evolved with this innate ability. Do the kidneys sleep? Does the liver? Why is exercise so vitally important? Does it help to counter the effects of sleep?
b) In early animal life when "consciousness" became a factor, the primitive specimen did indeed enter into a reduced state of activity (sleep) in the nighttime. But did it originally evolve that way? Even contemporary (and wild) animal life is geared to respond in a manner to instantly and aggressively defend itself - day or night. If you disagree, try "petting" a wild and sleeping wolverine (carcajou). A "sleeping" carcajou is not "recuperating" but simply "escaping" the night. His "recuperation" will start the following day when his body is in a state of activity. Likewise, a hibernating bear is in a dying process until he exits his den in the spring.
c) But there is little point in pondering the sleep patterns in lower animals. They sleep for the identical reasons that make Homo sapiens sleep - to escape the unbearably long periods of total darkness. Total darkness is equivalent to total blindness. Even the keen-sighted nocturnal predators are utterly blind in complete darkness (with the exception of animal species like bats with different navigation systems).
d) Consider the apparently impossible performance of the long-distance endurance runner. He runs his "impossible" 28 miles. At the end he will probably just sit down to "rest". He will not require a nights time of "sleep" to "recuperate". His recuperation will continue while he is active and then "atrophy" the coming night. (all this is dependent, of course, on the subject being in good health with superb circulation). The medical community has found that patients recover best when active.
e) Why do some healthy and normal individuals feel more vigorous, active, and alert just before retiring at night than they do on arising and after 8/10 hours of "sleep" (rest)? And why does the "arthritic" feel far worse and more painful upon arising than he did the night before? Sleep serves no evolutionary purpose other than as an "escape" mechanism.
f) Doctors will often inject drugs for the purpose of inducing "sleep" in an effort to combat grief, pain, anxiety, depression, insomnia, etc. The purpose is never to induce "rest" and/or "recuperation" but simply provide "escape" with the hopes that the patient might recover otherwise. Sleep is both a time and consciousness erasing phenomenon.
g) Consider a bedridden hospital patient. His serious condition allows very little motion and expenditure of energy during the daylight. He has "rested" the entire day. Regardless, that night he will enter into a full 8/10 hour "sleep" period even though the "sleep" will provide nothing more than an evolutionary "escape" device for coping with the long and unbearable 10 hour period of darkness that inevitably follows day.
h) It is proper to repeatedly emphasize that sleep is evolution's device to cope with the situations of unrelenting stress by erasing the condition of consciousness - or mental awareness.
i) This paper will not address or even attempt to define the chemical/electrical nature of the "sleep/brain" phenomenon (consciousness) but will rather endeavor to explain the cultural - and devilishly complex - hows, whys, and whens of the phenomenon referred to as "sleep", a process which, in turn, is caused by nothing more complicated - in its simplest aspects - than an evolving organism's adaptation to a planet rotating on its axis.
The Phenomenon might be condensed and somewhat summarized as follows:
The first primitive and ancient organisms evolved on planet earth without any semblance of sight or light perception. In all due time - and undergoing whatever evolutionary influences - our specimen gained the enigmatic gift of "consciousness" along with the equally enigmatic ability to perceive and comprehend light (sight/vision). At this point, he became aware of the fact that his existence was composed of a period in which he could perform useful tasks (light) and other periods in which he could not (dark).
This early and "conscious" animal was obliged to cope with 8/14 hours of total darkness with no reasonable source of artificial light. How to cope physically? How to cope mentally? The forces of evolution would provide an answer, but an answer so complex that it remains essentially misunderstood to this day. The answer, of course, is "sleep" which, by extension, is some form of "stupor/unconsciousness".
To better appreciate the "escape" element of sleep, consider the following hypothesis: An inmate is sentenced to a period of five days of punishment that will entail solitude, limited quarters, and total darkness. Of the 120 hours, only 40 will be spent in ordinary sleep. The remaining 80 hours will be spent awake and in complete darkness. Let us suppose that the inmate is somehow endowed with the inherent nature of the hibernating bear and can sleep the entire 120 hours. There is consequently no punishment and the extended sleep just might result in mild pleasure for the inmate. Extended darkness without sleep is unbearable. Extended darkness with sleep can be mildly pleasurable. If sleep were "painful", how would mothers ever get their children into bed at night?
Evolution, in its mindless majesty, has therefore managed to transform the worthless black of night into an acceptable - even enjoyable - part of the human experience by not only evolving the miracle of sleep but endowing it with the additional element of pleasure.
The "sleep" phenomenon, therefore, evolved simply as an "escape" device and not for the purpose of "recuperation" or "rejuvenation". To encourage early life to accept this "sleep" thing, it became mildly "pleasant" as previously indicated. Evolution would then program an adequate duration.
It is also well established that inactivity and food deprivation results (to whatever degree) in "atrophy/wasting" and the following daylight activities "recoups" the previous night's loss to "atrophy". Consequently, what originally evolved as a "constant motion organism" is, in fact, still that but the routine is forever and inexorably changed due to the endless dark/light cycle.
It would appear that the clinical study of REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM has little relevance in sleep research since it is nothing more than a symptom of the unconscious state (sleep) and not the cause much the same as pain is a symptom of an injury but not the cause.
Adaptation is the single most important element in the process of evolution. Every single plant and animal species on earth is - or was, a product of its environment. Homo sapiens and other higher forms of animal life had to adapt to - and cope with - the two most profound and fundamental conditions that exist on our planet - the phenomena of utter darkness and the brilliant sunlight that would inevitably follow. We adapted to the light with the miracle of vision. Conversely, we adapted to the darkness by evolving an "escape" mechanism of unconsciousness (sleep). Thereafter, the light would forever manifest itself as a cherished gift and the darkness as a plague.
The act of deliberately sitting/standing/lying conscious and motionless in a totally dark environment for 14 hours is a maddening experience to contemplate and the evolutionary device for coping is the phenomenon we call "sleep". Sleep, then, evolved as an "escape" from the agony of 8/14 hours of utter darkness and serves no other evolutionary purpose. We evolved "sleep" for its "escape" value but now since it is so deeply ingrained in the animal life cycle process, we now believe that we require it for totally different and unrelated reasons.
A multiplicity of other factors entered the evolutionary mix, but now, due to the basic and somewhat chronological order previously mentioned, we are obliged to say that this eternal and unchangeable dilemma of the "light/dark" cycle - and our adaptation to it - is simply because our planet turns on an axis.
I am David Marshall Mooney. It was nice that we could ponder together one of the most remarkable and fundamental of natures gifts. For a new appreciation of the merciful nature of sleep, all we need is an open mind.
ADJUNCTIVE ADDITION TO AN EVOLUTIONARY SLEEP THEORY
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Columbus: Tanner Gone Wild!
Tanner Wild squared up with four seconds remaining and lofted a 23-foot jumper that snapped through the net.
The several hundred Tennessee fans seated behind the team's bench went berserk. After all, Wild -- a seldom-used sophomore reserve -- has logged just a handful of garbage-time minutes in nine games all season long. And those three points were his first of the entire season.
The seemingly meaningless basket -- which closed out the scoring at 121-86 -- had a historical significance as well. Tennessee's scoring total established a school record for points in a single game and were the most points in any NCAA Tournament game since Loyola Marymount hung 149 points on defending national champ Michigan in the second round of the '90 tourney.
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DHS Unveils Trusted Traveler Comparison Tool
April 24, 2017 North America , Opinion , OPINION/NEWS , Security , United States
Kanwal Abidi
Department of Homeland Security on Friday unveiled a new Trusted Traveler comparison tool. The tool helps prospective applicants find the DHS Trusted Traveler Program that best matches their citizenship and travel preferences.
More than 10 million low-risk travelers currently receive expedited clearance as members of one of the five Trusted Traveler Programs: TSA Pre™, Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, or FAST. U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration manage these programs, which are customized to fit a variety of travel needs. The tool can be accessed on DHS.gov.
“CBP’s Trusted Traveler Programs have successfully improved the international arrivals process—reducing wait times at airports across the country while maintaining our primary mission of security,” said CBP Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan. “Using this new tool, prospective Trusted Travelers will be better able to decide which program best suits their travel needs, so they can apply and, if approved, begin enjoying the benefits of expedited clearance that millions people currently do.”
Membership in DHS Trusted Traveler Programs has grown by 169 percent since FY14 from more than 4 million members to more than 10.8 million members. During that same time period, Global Entry membership, the largest DHS Trusted Traveler Program, grew approximately 141 percent—from more than 1.6 million members to more than 4 million members.
“We’re pleased with the launch of the DHS Trusted Traveler Programs interactive tool that ultimately will help travelers feel confident about their decision regarding which program is right for them,” said TSA Acting Deputy Administrator Gary Rasicot. “We will continue to focus on increasing participation in TSA Pre®, with the goal of providing expedited screening to a majority of the traveling public.”
Global Entry kiosks are located in 52 U.S airports and 15 Preclearance airports where members are processed in about a minute. U.S. citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents may apply for Global Entry as well as citizens of certain countries with which CBP has trusted traveler arrangements, including Colombia, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Global Entry members also receive the added benefit of being pre-eligible to participate in TSA Pre™.
NEXUS was launched in 2000 as a joint effort between CBP and the Canada Border Services Agency. NEXUS members experience expedited clearance into both the United States and Canada. NEXUS members enjoy the benefits of Global Entry at no additional cost by using the automated kiosks for entry at participating airports and also receive TSA Pre™ benefits.
With SENTRI, the first Trusted Traveler Program, members may enter the United States by using dedicated primary lanes into the United States at Southern land border ports of entry. U.S. citizens and U.S. lawful permanent residents also receive Global Entry and TSA Pre™ benefits.
The Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program is a commercial clearance program for known low-risk shipments entering the United States from Canada and Mexico. FAST enrollment is open to truck drivers from the United States, Canada and Mexico.
TSA Pre™ enables Trusted Travelers to enjoy a secure and efficient screening experience at more than 180 U.S. airports with 30 participating airlines nationwide. TSA Pre™ travelers do not need to remove shoes, laptops, 3-1-1 liquids, belts or light jackets. Last month, 97 percent of TSA Pre™ passengers got through an expedited screening lane in less than 5 minutes.
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Archive - Previous years Music Radio archive Second Year Archive
Production Week One:
After our team meeting last Thursday (3 November), I worked with the Production team (Lucy, Matt & Molly) on feature ideas for the show. I am one of the show’s presenters along with Molly, and we came up with the following ideas:
Dates for the diary of important Gospel upcoming events
Worship quotes
Topical Discussion; Are we losing touch with the true meaning of Christmas? (Vox pox package plus live interaction from listeners). I suggested getting my pastor aunt to record a mini-sermon on the topic to play out on show.
Get listeners to vote for their favourite Christmas films and possibly play a song from soundtrack.
Our next team meeting was scheduled for Monday 7 November. On this morning, I listened to the breakfast show on Premier Gospel and used the shazam app to identify some songs which I thought should be considered for our show playlist. I passed them onto the music team so they could put forward in the playlist meeting, which was due to take place on Thursday.
In the meeting, we came to the decision that our target audience would be 18-35 years old, predominantly consisting of young families. We also came up with some potential show names, Fresh Feeling or Just Blessed, but did not decide on which one we would use. Our next group meeting was set for Thursday 10 November.
In between the meetings I took the time to listen to Premier Gospel to not only identify more music but also check out the presentation style so I could get into character for our show.
When we met up on Thursday, our main purpose was to nail down 50 songs for the playlist. This consisted of listening as a group to the songs and deciding if they would be on the final playlist as well as how they would be classified. Classification went as follows:
A list – Contemporary popular
B list – Established coming down or potential to become A list
C list – New music, new sounds
Gold list – Classics
A few of the songs which I put forward to music team were placed on the A list so I was quite happy about that.
A new group meeting was set for Monday 14 November. Up to this point I intend to listen some more to the station and come up with more potential feature ideas.
Production Week 2:
On Monday we came together as a group to discuss where we are at. It was decided that the advertising team had a lot of work to get through so myself, co-presenter Molly and a few others were drafted in to help with the scripting of the adverts. I was tasked to script ads for Nandos, SAGIC Home Insurance (Salvation Army) and the Ice Skating at London Designer Outlet by the time we met up again on Thursday.
We met up on Thursday morning and had another progress report to see where we were all at. Myself, Molly, Sam and Faye went over the ads we had scripted and then started to work on putting them together. Myself and Molly voiced our show opener with Afia who had come up with a funny concept for it. This was a good exercise as it also allowed us to get to each other as co-presenters in preparation for the show. Afterwards I went away with the idea to source shows on Premier Gospel which consisted of male and female co-presenters. I found 3:
Gospel Breakfast, Tuesday & Friday mornings at 7 with Yinka and Selene Jordan
The Family Hour, Saturdays at 11am with Ibe Giantkiller & Esther Kuku
PG Saturday Breakfast at 7am with Nage & Ibe Giantkiller
I shall speak with Molly about listening to these shows specifically to prepare ourselves for our own when we meet on Monday 21 November.
This week the team spent a lot of time putting together the main elements of the show, ie adverts, trails, features etc.
We had a team meeting with Matthew on Thursday morning to go over what had been put together thus far. Unfortunately, I had an appointment so missed the meeting but was advised by the other members of the main areas that need work. One of the main issues was a lack of black voices on the adverts and branding we had created so far. I immediately contacted a few people to do some voiceovers for us.
The first was Mark Wilberforce who has previously done some voiceovers jobs for 1xtra amongst others. He came in to the studio with me on Friday afternoon and recorded the links which were scripted by Afia. The others are Amanda Star and Randy, both from The Beat London, who have confirmed to voice their scripts on Monday.
Myself and co-presenter Molly spent Thursday afternoon doing some practice links for the show so we could to get used to presenting together. Copies of the show clock and menu were provided by the production team and I think it was a positive exercise which we came out of with better on air chemistry. Lucy, Tommy and James helped us out with things to work on and Molly was to work on scripts for another practice which will take place on Monday evening.
Pilot Week:
Everything is now shaping up for our pilot show on Thursday. On Monday afternoon, myself, Molly, Lucy, James, Tommy and a few others from the group did a practice session. The main components we worked on were coming in and out of tracks and how myself and Molly would interact in the links. I think this helped us out as we now have a better understanding of when to speak and when to lead the links.
I arranged for my colleague Randy to come in and voice our Nandos advert on Monday. We recorded it using the script which I had originally written with some amendments from the advertising team. Once it was recorded I sent to Samantha to produce the final advert.
On Tuesday morning I listened to a show on Premier Gospel and heard about the stations transmission appeal to receive £470,000 by Sunday 4th December so that they can reach even more people. I did not catch the name of the female presenter of the show but felt that she went over the top with the appeal, asking for donations on almost every link. This led to me switching off after about 30 minutes as I couldn’t take anymore.
Later on Tuesday I went to the London Designer Outlet in Wembley to get some Vox pops for our question of the day feature: Are we losing touch with the true meaning of Christmas? I sent these to Molly who edited them for us to use on the show.
Thursday was our pilot show, myself, Molly, James, Tommy and a few others came in early to practice our links using the scripts which had been prepared by the production team. The actual pilot show began at 11am and then we had a feedback/de-brief session with Matthew and Tom straight afterwards at 1pm. I think the show went well but there are always things to improve upon. It was my first time driving the news but by the second and third bulletins I felt I had improved on the first. We all agreed as a group that it would help if we had the ‘out’ words for each bulletin so I would know when to dip the fader. We overused the phrase ‘welcome back’ on our links so we shall aim to cut that out for the live show on December 8th.
On Friday James, Tommy, Adam, Andrea and myself had a production meeting looking at what needed to be improved for the live show. We looked at ways to incorporate the Spirit Drive feature with the Question of the day. Once we had been through the main components of the show we went into the studio to make amendments to the music. We replaced a few tracks and changed the order of some others. We should have the final log made up once the new show clock is finalised and the features are all put together.
I reached out to Mr Vegas, one of the artists on our show playlist for a drop. He sent it to me on Saturday morning so I was really pleased with that.
On Sunday afternoon, I had an appointment with Reverend Hyacinth Young to record our spirit drive feature. We went through some bible passages and notes and put together a spirit drive that would link well with the Question of the day. We recorded the feature which I will present to the group on Monday for feedback.
On Air Week
So the final week of our show has arrived. All of the final bits and pieces are being put in place as ‘Blessed’ is set to go live on Thursday 8th December at 11am. We met on Monday to discuss what was left to do in preparation for the show. I presented the spirit drive feature which I had recorded with Reverend Hyacinth Young, we decided it was slightly too long so James edited it down. We also worked out the names of presenters/shows on Premier Gospel that Blessed would come be sandwiched in between so we could link to them in the live show on Thursday.
On Tuesday evening, we did another practice run for the show which included amendments to scripts, features and running order. I also arranged for another voiceover artist, Keecia, to come in and record an advert with Samantha.
On Thursday I came in just after 9am to do final preparations for the live show. When I arrived, James told me that we were set to do the show from studio 5 as opposed to 6 which we had done the pilot from. Both studios had an identical setup so I did not see it as a problem although I spent a few minutes familiarising myself with the desk especially as I would be driving the desk for the show. I also went through the log to ensure everything was in the correct order and James also asked me to replace some of the show idents with some fresh ones which had been made up.
I feel the show went well overall, it ran smoothly from beginning to end. We hit all of our news bulletins on time which I was pleased with as I was responsible for driving the desk for these. At times, we were a bit ahead or behind with timings but I feel that myself and Molly did a good job of making up or getting through stuff quickly enough to get back on track. Tommy and Lucy did an excellent job of communicating these timings and keeping us on track with the running order. I think this is a very important aspect of a live radio show as presenters and producers need always to be on point and able to adapt to changes in real time.
We had an 11th hour cancellation on Thursday morning from our live guest for the Premier Music Moment but I think the OB team of Matt and Fay did an excellent job of finding a replacement act, Dimmi Rayzu, at such short notice. Due to this the OB finished a bit earlier than planned so that left us with a gap to fill before the end of the show. Myself and Molly ended up extending our final link to make up the time but in hindsight think that we should have just played an extra song.
I am very proud of the entire team for the hard work which was put into building the Blessed show from beginning to end and think that overall the output of the final show was of a good broadcast standard.
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Talk Radio Blog- Sukmani Bhullar
Bee Line Radio
When it came to choosing what roles would best suit or radio show, myself and Billy decided to take on the Outside Broadcasting (myself being the producer and Billy being the presenter). I had never been a producer role before so it was quite nerve-racking but it is all a learning curve. At the start of our weeks before the show, myself and Billy were sent to locations around London and nearby to the University to practice our OB skills.
When it came to deciding what topic would best suit the show and what Billy and myself were interested in, as prior Billy and myself were given a sports segment and when you do not know anything about sports it is quite difficult to do. Therefore we both decided and researched what was going on. We decided that because when we do our as-live show, in April, we saw that it was National Pet Month. As my job role as the producer, it was just getting in contact with the right shelters that would be willing to talk to us about this event. I and Billy also got given the job of doing a vox pop, which I helped get a recording and Billy edited it together.
When it came to the pilot show, even though there were problems we still did great and we also got feedback that would help us progress to the actual show. This meaning me and Billy finding a focus point on the subject and why it is a segment. On our show day, I and Billy had an interviewer named Jenny at Spitalfields City Farm. Billy was a great presenter and when I realised we had more time left, and no more questions for Jenny, Billy improvised which helped fill out the rest of the time. I feel that we worked great as a team, even if there were some confusions on the way but otherwise the show went really great.
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#49: Semi-Final 2 Part 3 Johnny Bravo
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#42: Madness!
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Is there anything more EuroWhat? than the World Cup? How about World Cup songs performed by Eurovision Song Contest alumni? Yeah, that oughta do it…
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Eurovision 2018 First Semi-Final Predictions
The first semi-final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest takes place Tuesday, May 8 in Lisbon, Portugal. Will we go 10-for-10 in our guesses for who will qualify? After much number-crunching, YouTube watching, head scratching, and on-air disagreements, we have finally compiled our data and made our prediction for which ten acts we think will advance out of the first semi-final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. The 10 acts that we think will advance, presented in alphabetical order, are: Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Finland Greece Israel Let’s talk about our confidence levels, shall we? Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, and Israel landed in the top 10 across all metrics we use to compile our final prediction. We love them, the oddsmakers love them, and folks on YouTube love them. That’s full consensus in our mind. Austria, Bulgaria, and Finland are a little iffy, but we still feel pretty confident about those countries advancing. Austria’s rehearsal footage didn’t reveal much beyond a strong vocal, so we’re hoping there are some visual surprises in the broadcast to push the entry into qualifying. On the flipside, Finland has been improving in our scores since rehearsal footage came out, […]
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The EuroWhat? #11: First!
This week we begin our analysis of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in earnest. First up: the first half of the first semi-final! Which entries are locks for advancing to the Grand Final? Who might get help from the running order?
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Eurovision’s 2018 selection season is approaching the end, which means one thing: Sweden’s Melodifestivalen! Well, two things: lots of internal selections coming through the pipeline. No matter how you count it, we’re in the homestretch!
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We’re podcasting, y’all! Welcome to the EuroWhat? In our opening episode of The EuroWhat? podcast, our Eurovision News and Entertainment Research Division Specialists introduce themselves to our listening audience before sharing their first impressions of Albania’s entry. Then the crew hopscotches around Europe (and Australia) to chat about the seven artists already announced from internal selections. Who do we like? Who are we concerned about? Will there be jazz? Listen below and share your thoughts in the comments! Intro 0:00 Who are you? What are you doing here? 3:02 Albania First Impressions 11:02 Internally Selected Artists 23:02 Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Finland Georgia Netherlands Links Meet the Eurovision News and Entertainment Research Division Specialists Albania First Listen 2018 Calendar page [Read more…]
Eurovision 2017 First Semi-Final: Our Predictions
Will we go 10-for-10 in our guesses for who will qualify out of the first Eurovision semi-final? After much number-crunching, YouTube watching, head scratching, and consensus building, we have finally compiled our data and have made our prediction for which ten acts we think will advance out of the first semi-final of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. The 10 acts that we think will advance, presented in alphabetical order, are: Armenia Australia Azerbaijan Belgium Finland Greece Latvia Moldova Portugal Sweden Let’s talk about our confidence levels, shall we? Azerbaijan, Belgium, Portugal, and Sweden are the acts in which we are most confident, as they have all appeared in the top 10 of every single metric we have measured in this process. Armenia, Australia, Greece, and Moldova we also feel pretty confident about. Each had one metric that fell out of the top 10, but have otherwise strong records. Australia is the iffiest of the group, as Isaiah’s rehearsal footage was his low-scoring metric, which may indicate a slide in popularity. Moldova has been just making it into the top 10 of most rankings, though one of our gut predictions has “Hey Mamma” as 14th. The two acts that are gambles on […] [Read more…]
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The Great Rustling continues!!!
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My first solved crossword in the daily paper! Woot woot!
This page is about the god RusslieJimJams
RussleJimJams
Placid
the Way of Pathos
Guild Position:
Chief Master
1 Origin Story
1.1 The Three Teachers
1.2 Life of Alamax
1.3 Canptain Tapeball
2 From the Diary
Long ago, there was only peace and tranquility. The universe was one and whole with no fighting, no turmoil, and no suffering. As we all know, good things can't last forever. In the summer of 2010, the jimmies began to rustle. It was a quiet rustling. Most were not aware of it right a way, but their jimmies would discover this rustling soon enough. It started out slow; a picture here, a picture there. Later that year, The Great Rustling began! 4chan began talking about the rustled jimmies. Still, many were not aware of what was happening. Some disregarded it as another silly thread, but they'd soon learn their lesson. This lesson would be a beautiful, yet dangerous message delivered by none other than the three teachers. The three teachers did not know it yet, but they would be chosen as the saviors of the rustled jimmies. The first to be called from his place on the front of a cereal box was the Gorilla Munch gorilla. He spread the good word of the unrustled jimmies as far as he could, but he grew wary over his great task. Soon to join him were the Panda Puffs panda and the Koala Crisp koala. Together, the three teachers spread the word of unrustled jimmies, restoring much of the peace that was lost during The Great Rustling. With time the three teachers would soon discover the force behind The Great Rustling, RussleJimJams himself. In September 2016, RussleJimJams created a champion named Satirus and sent him to Godville. Although the power of the jimmies is strong with Satirus, he must first undergo many epic and less-epic quests to build his strength before he can finally confront the three teachers. It will be an epic fight and will determine the fate of jimmies everywhere.
The Three Teachers
The most prominent of RussleJimJams' enemies are The Three Teachers. After The Great Rustling, the three teachers were called by the users of the Internet to save our jimmies from being rustled. They began a campaign of posters, motivational quotes, videos, and memes to further their cause. The Gorilla was by far the most active and outspoken of the teachers, reaching thousands of people whose jimmies had been so violently rustled. One of the most influential of his works was a video of a flying lawn mower overlayed with a picture of his face. The Koala was not as outspoken on the Internet, but rather, spread his influence in grocery and convenience stores where his cereal was sold. The most elusive of the teachers is The Panda. He has been known to inhabit a small sanctuary in the dense forest outside Beerburgh with a small, but growing group of devout monks.
Life of Alamax
Below is the telling of the final days of King Alamax whose life was created and fatefully influenced by RussleJimJams:
It was a blisteringly hot day and I did my best to fake a sincere farewell to the Baron of the westernmost provinces, despite my animosity towards him. He finally climbed into his carriage and the coachman closed the door behind him, freeing me of his incessant nagging about the reconstruction in Glendale. My appointment to meet the baron took over an hour longer than expected. After the baron had made his leave, I remember entering the grand hall where a messenger was waiting for me with some terribly important news. I apologized for the delay then I beckoned him to tell me his news.
“Well, your majesty,” he stumbled over the words, “I come bearing troublesome news from the Count of West Ridge. It seems that they’ve found something of interest near the creek.”
“What was it?”
“It was the body of one of our scouts from along the western border,” he said quickly.
“We just fought a war,” I said, the words tasting foul on my lips. “There are people that we’ve yet to account for. Why is this scout noteworthy?”
“The scout passed through West Ridge shortly before the war began. On his corpse was a rough tally of the number of men and siege tools of the invading army before they had reached our borders. The scout was searching for your son, Prince Edward, who he knew was on his usual hunting trip in that area.”
“So the enemy may have had sympathizers among our people who killed him?”
“I should hope not, King Alamax,” he said trying to lessen the blow, “but Count Michael of West Ridge presented an idea of who the murderer might be.”
Nearly whispering, “He suggested that,” then gaining his composure stated, “RussleJimJams might have persuaded Edward to kill the scout.”
The idea hit me like a hammer as I felt myself unable to breathe.
Seeing the shock on my face he said, “But that’s merely a suggestion your majesty. It’s quite possible that he might have been ambushed by advanced scouts who found out about him.”
I did not hear his nearly pleading words as he tried to convince me otherwise or that Count Michael was mistaken. I could not believe what I had just heard. I couldn’t think. I raised my hand to have him be silent.
“Or...or perhaps there were sympathizers in West Ridge who--”
“Be quiet!” I shouted barely able to separate the angry and confused words from what I was saying.
His eyes dropped to the ground and he bowed his head silently like a wounded animal while I sat there thinking.
I couldn’t fathom the idea of my son killing a scout and allowing an invading army to raze two of our towns. I couldn’t imagine why he would allow such a fate to befall our people. I couldn’t comprehend how my son would betray his entire people and for what? Did he do it in an attempt to overthrow me? No. He could’ve done that in a number of other ways. Did he do it to become a hero of the people to win Eleanor’s hand in marriage? Did he do it out of spite for the people who he knew would be in the path? Did he do it out of sheer bloodlust? Why would he do such a thing?
After an eternity of whirling thoughts I realized that my silence was truly scaring the messenger who stood trembling before me. I decided that the matter was of no concern to him, so I said, “You’ve done well in bringing me this news. Rest up this evening for tomorrow I will have you return to Count Michael and have him begin a full inquiry if he has not already.”
Silently accepted his task with a smile and a bow, relieved that I was not angry with him.
On a final note I said, “Keep me informed of any new information as it arises,” and then waved him away.
To the guards I said, “Close the doors and wait outside. I need time to think on this matter.”
That evening I sent for Edward to return home from the nearby village where he was coordinating the reconstruction of roads whose stones were used as ammunition for siege weapons. Reluctantly, I addressed the subject with Eleanor, future mother of my grandchild. She did not accept the news and flatly insisted it was untrue. She insisted that she should inquire about it to Edward first rather than I, claiming that he would handle it better from her. I agreed and with nothing left to talk about, I left her to rest up and went for a stroll about the grounds. I wandered around for some time before finding myself in the gardens. How I loved the gardens. My father had the gardens planted as a wedding gift to my Alysia. She enjoyed walking and dancing through the gardens with me when we were still a young couple. In the sky I saw a white bird riding the invisible currents which flowed through the air. I felt as though RussleJimJams was bringing her spirit closer to me, beckoning me to follow her out of this world and forget all of its troubles, I could feel her radiance nourishing the very flowers whose aroma I could still smell. I could still hear the soft sound of her voice whispering in my ear. As if a great burden had been lifted from my soul, I returned into my world of imperfections and troubles knowing that everything was going to be alright.
I awoke the next morning with a stutter as if doused with frigid cold water. I knew not of what woke me or what I was dreaming of, but I felt a sense of urgency that could not be ignored. My body moved according to routine and somewhere along the way I remembered that I sent for Edward to return home. I made my way downstairs and inquired if Edward had arrived, but no one knew. I made my way back upstairs to ask Eleanor. As I walked down the hall, I saw Edward shutting the door to his and Eleanor’s room.
“Good morning, father,” he said cheerfully. “I see you’re up bright and early. Why is that?”
“I was just asking after you to see if you had arrived.”
“I see,” he said understanding. “Might I ask why you sent for me?”
We both began walking down the hall when I asked, “Have you spoken with Eleanor yet?”
“She was still asleep so I left her to rest.” Suddenly worried he asked, “Should I wake her now or can it wait?”
“I suppose it can wait for now,” I said with a sigh. “Do keep in mind when you speak with her that she loves you dearly.”
“Your words make me uneasy,” he said as we continued down the stairs to the main entry. “If it will bring her any stress, I insist that you tell me rather than her.”
“No. No. She was firm that she should tell you rather than I. Now quit being stubborn.”
Emerging from the top of the staircase in a plain white sleeping gown, Eleanor retorted, “He obviously gets his stubbornness from you your majesty.
“And you certainly get your droll sense of humor from your father Eleanor,” I responded.
“Father please,” Edward pleaded. “What is it that you two will not tell me about?” he asked in a desperate voice. “Is something wrong dearest?”
She laughed, “Nothing of that sort. Your father just received the most outrageous news yesterday from West Ridge.” Unable to contain herself she chuckled and said, “The count is trying to pin the death of a scout found nearby on you, claiming that you had reason to kill him.”
I looked at him as Eleanor continued to retell the news and saw the color of his skin drain away. I could see him recede further and further within himself with each words she spoke. Eleanor had finished her story and had fallen silent.
Placing a firm hand on his shoulder, I said, “Son...”
Turning to look at me he starred, not like a cornered animal, but a corpse whose eyes would remain forever open.
“Son, you know that you can tell me anything.” Reassuringly I said, “Son, I will always help you, but you need to let me know if you need my help.”
Long we stood staring at each other thinking, and thinking, and thinking. I stood there and pieced together the events in my mind to form a reason why my son would have done such a thing. Before the war started Edward and Eleanor were together but she had refused to marry because she was not sure she loved him and her father did not care for Edward since he had little influence and no noteworthy accomplishments to claim. RussleJimJams might have convinced Edward that this was an opportunity. If he let the invaders raze Willowbend and attain resources, he would have a seemingly formidable opponent to best. Once he had beaten back the invaders, Eleanor was so glad to have him return safely that they wed a few months later. He did it to earn her hand in marriage.
A crashing sound broke the silence as we heard Eleanor fall to the floor. “Eleanor!” he shouted, rushing up the stairs to her. I arrived shortly after. He was holding her in his arms on the top step. He tried shaking her and patting her cheeks. Running down the hall I shouted for someone to call the midwife. The rest of that morning was a frenzy as people came and went from the bedroom where Eleanor lay with Edward vigilantly watching over her.
The excitement of Eleanor fainting provided an excellent distraction which allowed me to spend the better part of the day silently contemplating what had happened and what it would mean for Edward’s future and everyone’s future. My only choice regarding Edward would be to punish him which will inevitably result in his imprisonment, exile, or death. I sat down and thought of what this turn of events might mean for the kingdom as a whole. It would likely cause enough discontent that the people may revolt against them, but only if I do not act in accordingly. I will have to reveal this news to the people to avoid seeming like I was covering for Edward. After I have revealed the news, I will need to pay close attention to how the people react. Edward was not particularly liked by the people before the war, but now that the war has striped his only achievement in the eyes of the people, they will surely demand he be punished.
A flash of lightning roused me from my thought-filled trance. I looked out at the beautiful gardens and the bountiful life the resided within, broken only by stone paths. The luminous grey-green clouds to the north and the smell of the impending rain was overwhelmingly magnificent. Behind a screen of golden and orange clouds to the west, lay the sun who would not be hidden only obscured and lend its light and colors to the clouds who sat in front of it. I am sure that RussleJimJams' meddling is the source of all of this. It saddens me that such a wonderful and generous god would also enjoy such death and destruction.
After watching the storm a while longer, I went back inside knowing what I had to do. I walked to Eleanor’s room and knocked on the door quietly. A hushed voice inside told me to enter. The room was gloomy and did not have the golden sunlight of a few hours ago to lighten the heavy mood. On a simple chair which was normally in the corner of the room, Edward sat next to the bed where Eleanor was laying. The door that led to the covered balcony was open to allow fresh air to flow in, but the curtain that partially covered it revealed that there was no breeze. The shadows of the room concealed any expression on Edward’s face, but the way he sat was that of a man plagued by troublesome thoughts of the future.
I walked to the bed on the opposite side of Edward on sat on its edge. Edward did not stir as I removed the cloth on Eleanor’s forehead, but I could feel his gaze like a mother bear eyeing her cub, as he softly held her hand in his. Eleanor was warm to the touch but not worryingly so. I replaced the wet cloth on her brow and looking to Edward I asked, “Any word as to what might be wrong with her?”
After a long silence Edward inhaled deeply as though he was holding his breath and said, “The doctor and midwife agreed that she is likely in shock.”
“Did you tell them of what we were talking about?” I asked.
“No,” he was silent a moment as if trying to remember his exact words. “I told them that Eleanor had heard some very troubling news and they asked no more.”
“Hmm,” I said. My mind was plagued with thoughts of what to tell him and how to tell him what I felt. With a sigh I said, “Perhaps we should give her some time to rest on her own.”
“I’ve not woken her the entire time I’ve sat beside her father,” he said without looking away from her face.
“I’m sure you’ve been as quiet as a mouse Edward, but I fear for your sanity since you’ve not left this room either.”
He sat silently staring at Eleanor who lay perfectly still in her bed.
“Son,” I said as I placed my hand on top of his, “Eleanor would not want you to sit around worrying for her when life is just outside those doors calling you.”
He shifted his gaze from her face to mine. His eyes unwavering as he looked at me.
“You would not want to sit around worrying about you rather than living your own life, would you?”
He looked back to her and said in a grave voice, “Outside those doors I will have to face the people who’ve lost their homes, their crops, and their loved ones, because of a decision I made to win over the one I loved.”
His words hung in the air as we both sat there silently contemplating the future. I stood up from my chair and looked at Eleanor who lay so peacefully in her bed. After a moment I said, “If it is death’s wish to take her, it shall do so just as anyone else. There are those outside who will inevitably find out what happened and wish to send you to death’s door themselves. We must not sit here idly, rather, we must convince them that you are simply a person who made a mistake.”
Turning towards me with a tear rolling down his cheek like a narrow stream he said, “Father, they will surely kill me once they find out what I’ve done and I may never see my Eleanor’s beautiful face again,” he said gently stroking her crimson hair. Then looking to her belly hidden beneath the covers, “And I may never see my child born or get to hold them in my hands.”
Walking back to the bed, I put my hand on his shoulder and said, “You may not get to do any of those things sitting here either, but at least you will have a say in your own fate if you come with me and try to right what has been wronged.”
After a minute of silence, Edward stood and turned to face me. Like the child I once knew he hugged me and asked, “Will you help me father?”
Wrapping my arms around him I whispered, “Always.”
That afternoon, Edward told just how critical his actions were to causing the entire war. To my great disappointment, he explained freely that killing the scout was not his first act of betrayal and that he was providing information to an enemy spy when the scout encountered the two and had to be killed. He told of how he supplied some of the plans of defense to the spy and let Willowbend be plundered under the guise that he wanted to rule these lands as a hero under their banner.
I raised my hand slightly and he paused in his story. I could barely stand to think that anyone could commit an act of treason of this magnitude and still be worthy of my forgiveness, but he was my only son and there was nothing I wouldn’t have done for him. Without looking at him, I lowered my hand and said, “Continue.”
“After the siege,” he explained, “the spy never returned to meet me again and I knew that I had been a tool to allow them to easily conquer Willowbend.” He continued to tell his story of how the war progressed as I had heard before, but now I had a whole new perspective of its narrator. He added towards the end, “After the siege and retaking of Willowbend, I found the corpse of the spy with his legs buried under one of the stones flung during the siege.”
His pause prompted me to look at him and see him smiling at the thought of the paver falling from the sky and crushing him like an act of God.
As he saw the grave look on my face, his smile and satisfaction melted away like snow in the face of the noonday sun. Edward was my Holy Grail and promise for the future, but whose pure waters had been tainted by RussleJimJams and turned into the blood which flowed from the bodies of those who had died and from the hearts of those who had lost.
Turning away from him, I looked out the window and into the distance. The world outside was so bright and peaceful in this moment, but was stormy and violent only a few hours ago. The clear window was the only thing that provided the illusion of safety away from the world and its ever changing mood. Nothing is ever as seems.
“Father,” Edward said, bringing me back from the precipice of my mind, “will you help me?”
Long I sat and looked at the man sat before me. I stared into the his eyes and tried to understand what lie in his soul. What lie just beyond my comprehension. I stared at a man whose fate was beyond my control. After a long while, I turned once again to look out the window at the world and said, “I cannot save you son. I can only help you save yourself and any dignity you wish to hold in your heart.”
“Can you not help me cover up this mess?”
His words struck deeper than any blade could. He was willing to forgo any dignity he could salvage in an attempt to extend his own time on Earth. “I will fulfill my obligations as your father, but I will not overlook my duties as the king in an attempt to help you. Your are my Edward and you hold a place in my heart that is forever yours and yours alone, but the people of this country are my children as well and must be looked after as such. I cannot allow anyone who is responsible for their deaths to go unpunished even if that person if of my own flesh and blood.”
Falling from his chair onto the floor and begging to me on his knees he said, “Please father, I only wish to see the birth of my child and to hold them in my hands. Please father, all I ask is that you help me convince the people to let me see my child.”
Placing my hand on his cheek, I wipe away a stray tear with my thumb and look into his eyes. Is this the final wish of a man who has accepted his fate or a feeble attempt to flee death just a little longer? “Those who have lost would only ask for the opportunity to see their loved ones one final time. It is fair that you should ask this of me, when you have denied so many of our people to see their loved ones another time?”
“It is not fair of me to ask, I know, but the question remains. Will you let me see my child?”
“I will always help you,” I said running my fingers through his hair, “but the choice is not mine to make.”
The commotion that ensued after Edward publicly announced that he had betrayed the people in order to become a war hero was incredible. An angry mob of people frequented the front gates of the castle demanding justice for the love ones they had lost. Many were angry and demanded his head. Others were reserved and felt betrayed by this act. Even Eleanor refrained from speaking with Edward because it had forever changed how she saw him. Knowing that she was the primary reason for his betrayal had stuck her the deepest. Convincing the people to allow him to see the birth of his child was a daunting task, but we succeeded.
When visiting the town of Lilydale, I spoke to the people about how Edward did it out of love for Eleanor and that his final wish was one derived from his love for his unborn child. After the speech, a young man in his early twenties asked if I would come to his farm for dinner and speak with his bedridden mother. I agreed and went to dinner that evening where they served a beautiful dinner which I knew was at least a few days wages worth of food. The conversation was pleasant and light over dinner as we discussed the expected marriage of a relative of the family. After dinner, the young man and I helped the mother to her bed where she insisted that her son allow me and hr talk in private.
She began by saying, “I am truly blessed to have had the opportunity to have such a fine man dine at my table since my husband Mathew died in the siege of Willowbend.” She was suddenly overwhelmed by a fit of coughing and struggled to overcome it since she was in his presence. After the fit subsided, she said, “Forgive me your majesty.”
“You’ve no need to ask forgiveness,” I said. “I understand the plight of being ill too well. I would argue that my nobility doesn’t make me illustrious.”
“It is not your nobility, your majesty, rather it is your unconditional and unquestionable love of your people and your son that makes you praiseworthy. You’ve been tested more than anyone should and yet you emerge unscathed. I can only imagine how difficult things must be for you, especially because so many people are demanding your son’s death.”
“I thank you for your understanding and only wish there were more in this world who possessed such wisdom as you. You are truly one of the kindest and most compassionate people I’ve met in a very long time.”
“Thank you, your majesty,” she said with another cough. “I only wish that my children were able to understand others better. They struggle seeing things from others’ perspectives and crying for the hardships they endure.”
“Surely they would have learned that from you,” I said.
She let out a laugh which turned into another fit of coughing. Once she was able to breathe again, she said, “It was truly a pleasure, your majesty.”
“The pleasure was all mine,” I said standing. I reached into my coin purse and drew a dozen coins.
“Forgive me, your majesty, but we’ve no need for any handouts.”
“Then consider these as a gift from a friend,” I said laying the coins on top of the covers.
“Very well, your majesty. Thank you. I wish you and your family the best of luck in all your endeavors.”
Walking outside I looked up to sky and saw a shearwater soaring on the gusts and updrafts. Looking back down, I bid farewell to the young woman washing in the kitchen and the man outside who’d began hauling split logs to the house. The man bid me to wait a moment and then set down the wood. He wiped any dirt from his hands onto his pants as he walked towards me. Extending his hand to me he said, “I’m glad that you came to dinner, your majesty.”
Extending my hand out to shake his I said, “The pleasure was truly mine.”
Shaking my hand, he drew me in close. As I was putting my hand on his shoulder, I felt a sudden, searing pain in my side. He whispered in my ear, “That was for my father who died in your son’s needless war.” He pulled his knife from my side and stabbed again. “That was for my friend.” Again he stabbed me saying, “And this is for his brother.” He withdrew the knife from my side and pushed me to the ground. He stood looming over with his heading blocking the sun from my eyes. The shadows danced across his face like demons as he told me, “I will see your son’s head roll if it means the death of me.” Crouching down he placed his hand behind my head and tilted me up to face him, “And I want you to know who sent him in the deepest pit of hell reserved for you two.”
I felt the warm blade slip between my ribs and gasped with sudden pain. I looked beyond the man and into the distance. I found myself staring at the shearwater flying about. Could that be RussleJimJams here to witness my end? The bird flapped its wings and rode the currents that flow like a river through the boundless sky. I left my spirits and my soul rise from my frail body as the bird was silently obscured by the light of the sun.
In the end, RussleJimJams had been the one to fatefully cause the demise of the king. Though RussleJimJams is a fairly kind and benevolent god, he occasionally gets restless. The war between the two nations was incited by RussleJimJams' as a small part of The Great Rustling. Before Edwards betrayed his country of Quakan, RussleJimJams wreaked havoc on the neighboring country of Plalet. RussleJimJams, like his hero Satirus, loves beer and good beer is cold beer. RussleJimJams left a lot of his beer in Plalet since he was going on vacation, so he turned the temperature down. By the time he got back, entire towns had starved because it was too cold for crops to grow. Since the people were distraught over the famine and losing faith in RussleJimJams, he decided that they needed to take their food from somewhere else. The easiest somewhere else was Glendale, so RussleJimJams got to work. He searched high and low for a way to get the riches of Glendale to the people of Plalet. Most traders wouldn't go to Plalet because the icy roads were treacherous and the people there had no notable goods to trade for. Eventually, RussleJimJams decided that if the people wanted food, they'd have to take it. In the king's court, RussleJimJams found Edwards, an unremarkable royal boy with an itch to prove his worth. He persuaded Edwards that by helping the Plalets invade Glendale, that he'd earn himself a glorious name among the people for reclaiming the city of Glendale from the foreign invaders. After the city of Glendale had been sacked, the Plalets' hunger drove them further. They drove into the town of Willowbend as well, this time killing many who refused to run away. Alas, the time came for RussleJimJams to turn the tide back against the Plalets. When Willowbend was retaken by Edward's forces, many Plalets saw this as the end of their conquest for food for their families and went home. Those who refused to give up entirely either died or retreated to Glendale. Soon, Glendale fell as well to Edward's forces. The war seemed to be over. After the war, word of Edward's betrayal got out and the people called for blood. In the end, King Alamax fell victim to his own people and prince Edward only days later. Princess Eleanor continued on to give birth to a baby boy, named Phillip, but died shortly after childbirth. The kingdom, distraught with feelings of betrayal, confusion, and hopelessness sunk into a pit of violence and chaos. Phillip was taken in by the baron of Arubature and was declared to become king on his fifteenth birthday. Unfortunately, Phillip fell ill to Typhoid Fever and died when he was seven. After his death, the country was divided and fought fiercely over who would succeed the throne. RussleJimJams, content with the episode of drama and chaos that had ensued, decided it was time to remedy the situation. RussleJimJams crafted the Execution Sword by downloading it from his web browser and declared that whoever should find it would be fit to rule. Since then, RussleJimJams has never returned to Quakan or Plalet and doesn't really care who found the sword.
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House elections for the 62nd U.S. Congress
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← 1908 November 8, 1910[a] 1912 →
All 394 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives[b]
198 seats needed for a majority
Champ Clark James Mann
Missouri 9th Illinois 2nd
172 seats 219 seats[c]
230[1][2] 163[1][2][d]
1[1][2]
Joseph Cannon
Champ Clark
Elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1910 were held for members of the 62nd Congress, in the middle of President William Howard Taft's term.
The conservative Taft contended with major factional splits within his Republican Party. Instead of using his position as president to bridge compromise, Taft alienated the progressive wing of the party, which had championed his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. While conservatives controlled the largest number of elected positions for Republicans, progressive politics had been what brought many voters to the polls. The clash of these units of the Republican Party, combined with the message of unity from the Democratic Party, was enough to allow the Democrats to take control of the House, ending 16 years in opposition. Also, this was the first time that a Socialist won a seat during the elections.
1 Election summaries
2 Election dates
3 Arizona
5 Florida
6 New Mexico
7 South Carolina
Election summaries[edit]
230 1 1 162
Democratic S PR Republican
Three seats were added for the new states of New Mexico (2), and Arizona (1).
Districts 9 9 0 0
Arizona[e]
At-large 1 1 1 0 0
Districts 8 1 1 7 1 0
+ at-large 3 3 0 0
+ at-large 5 1 1 4 1 0
At-large 1 0 1 0
Districts 11 11 0 0
Districts 25 11 5 14 5 0
Districts 13 12 1 1 1 0
Districts 11 1 10 0
Districts 11 9 1 2 1 0
Maine[f]
Districts 14 4 1 10 1 0
At-large 1 0 1 1 1 0
New Mexico[e]
Districts 37 22 11 15[d] 11 0
Districts 10 8 2 0
Vermont[f]
Districts 11 2 1 8 2 1 1
Total[b]
230[d]
House seats
House seats by party holding plurality in state
80+% Democratic
80+% Republican
60+% to 80% Democratic
60+% to 80% Republican
Up to 60% Democratic
Up to 60% Republican
Net gain in party representation
6+ Democratic gain
6+ Republican gain
3-5 Democratic gain
3-5 Republican gain
1-2 Socialist gain
no net change
Election dates[edit]
In 1910, two states, with 6 seats between them, held elections early:
September 6 Vermont
September 12 Maine
Two newly admitted states held elections late: New Mexico held its first Congressional election on November 7, 1911 and, Arizona held its on December 11, 1911.
Arizona[edit]
Main article: United States House of Representatives election in Arizona, 1911
See also: List of United States Representatives from Arizona
Arizona at-large None (New state) New state.
New member elected.
Democratic gain. √ Carl Hayden (Democratic) 54.1%
John S. Williams (Republican) 39.7%
John Halberg (Socialist) 5.9%
Eugene W. Chafin (Prohibition) 0.4%
California[edit]
Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1910
See also: List of United States Representatives from California
California 1 William F. Englebright Republican 1906 Incumbent lost re-election.
Democratic gain. √ John E. Raker (Democratic) 45.4%
William F. Englebright (Republican) 45.1%
William Morgan (Socialist) 8.8%
C. H. Essex (Prohibition) 0.7%
California 2 Duncan E. McKinlay Republican 1904 Incumbent lost renomination.
Republican hold. √ William Kent (Republican) 50.1%
I. G. Zumwalt (Democratic) 44%
W. H. Ferber (Socialist) 5.2%
Henry P. Stipp (Prohibition) 0.7%
California 3 Joseph R. Knowland Republican 1904 Incumbent re-elected. √ Joseph R. Knowland (Republican) 81.9%
S. Miller (Socialist) 15.9%
James N. Christian (Prohibition) 2.2%
California 4 Julius Kahn Republican 1898 Incumbent re-elected. √ Julius Kahn (Republican) 56.5%
Walter MacArthur (Democratic) 36.8%
Austin Lewis (Socialist) 6.5%
E. F. Dinsmore (Prohibition) 0.2%
California 5 Everis A. Hayes Republican 1904 Incumbent re-elected. √ Everis A. Hayes (Republican) 59.4%
Thomas E. Hayden (Democratic) 27.4%
E. L. Reguin (Socialist) 12.6%
T. E. Caton (Proh.) 0.6%
California 6 James C. Needham Republican 1898 Incumbent re-elected. √ James C. Needham (Republican) 47.3%
A. L. Cowell (Democratic) 44.2%
Richard Kirk (Socialist) 6.2%
Ira E. Surface (Proh.) 2.3%
California 7 James McLachlan Republican 1900 Incumbent lost renomination.
Republican hold. √ William Stephens (Republican) 58.7%
Lorin A. Handley (Democratic) 21.5%
Thomas W. Williams (Socialist) 16.6%
C. V. LeFontaine (Proh.) 3.2%
California 8 Sylvester C. Smith Republican 1904 Incumbent re-elected. √ Sylvester C. Smith (Republican) 50.5%
William G. Irving (Democratic) 33.9%
George A. Garrett (Socialist) 13.1%
James S. Edwards (Proh.) 2.5%
Florida[edit]
Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1910
See also: List of United States Representatives from Florida
Florida 1 Stephen M. Sparkman Democratic 1894 Incumbent re-elected. √ Stephen M. Sparkman (Democratic) 81.8%
C. C. Allen (Socialist) 18.2%
Florida 2 Frank Clark Democratic 1904 Incumbent re-elected. √ Frank Clark (Democratic) 78.5%
Thomas W. Cox (Socialist) 12.2%
Thomas C. Buddington (Republican) 9.3%
Florida 3 Dannite H. Mays Democratic 1908 Incumbent re-elected. √ Dannite H. Mays (Democratic) 89.6%
Eric Vonaxelson (Democratic) 10.4%
New Mexico[edit]
Main article: United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico, 1911
See also: List of United States Representatives from New Mexico
New Mexico at-large None (New state) New state.
Republican gain. √ George Curry (Republican) 25.0%
√ Harvey B. Fergusson (Democratic) 24.9%
Elfego Baca (Republican) 23.7%
Paz Valverde (Democratic) 23.5%
J. W. Hansen (Socialist) 1.5%
C. Cutting (Socialist) 1.4%
New state.
Democratic gain.
South Carolina[edit]
Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1910
See also: List of United States Representatives from South Carolina
South Carolina 1 George Swinton Legaré Democratic 1902 Incumbent re-elected. √ George Swinton Legaré (Democratic) 97.4%
Aaron P. Prioleau (Republican) 2.1%
William Eberhard (Socialist) 0.5%
South Carolina 2 James O'H. Patterson Democratic 1904 Incumbent lost renomination.
Democratic hold √ James F. Byrnes (Democratic) 100%
South Carolina 3 Wyatt Aiken Democratic 1902 Incumbent re-elected. √ Wyatt Aiken (Democratic) 99.9%
Others 0.1%
South Carolina 4 Joseph T. Johnson Democratic 1900 Incumbent re-elected. √ Joseph T. Johnson (Democratic) 98.9%
Thomas Brier (Republican) 1.1%
South Carolina 5 David E. Finley Democratic 1898 Incumbent re-elected. √ David E. Finley (Democratic) 100%
South Carolina 6 J. Edwin Ellerbe Democratic 1904 Incumbent re-elected. √ J. Edwin Ellerbe (Democratic) 100%
South Carolina 7 Asbury F. Lever Democratic 1901 (special) Incumbent re-elected. √ Asbury F. Lever (Democratic) 95.6%
R. H. Richardson (Republican) 4.3%
United States Senate elections, 1910
61st United States Congress
62nd United States Congress
^ Maine and Vermont held elections early, in September 1910. Two newly admitted states, New Mexico and Arizona, held their elections late, in November and December 1911, respectively.
^ a b Including late elections
^ Including one Independent Republican.
^ a b c d Including one Progressive Republican member, Theron Akin, of NY-25.
^ a b New state
^ a b Elections held early.
^ a b c "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
^ a b c Martis, pp. 164–165.
Dubin, Michael J. (March 1, 1998). United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: The Official Results of the Elections of the 1st Through 105th Congresses. McFarland and Company. ISBN 978-0786402830.
Martis, Kenneth C. (January 1, 1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989. Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0029201701.
Moore, John L., ed. (1994). Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (Third ed.). Congressional Quarterly Inc. ISBN 978-0871879967.
"Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, House of United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
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— Last updated: July 15, 2019
PSV Eindhoven vs. VfL Wolfsburg (friendly), Noon, ESPN3 (in English), ESPN Deportes (in Spanish) and Sling Orange (free trial)
Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich (International Champions Cup), 11pm, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, Sling Orange, Hulu Live and PlayStation Vue (free trial)
Seattle Sounders vs. Borussia Dortmund (friendly), 10:30pm, CenturyLink Field, Seattle [TICKETS]
Liverpool vs. Borussia Dortmund (friendly), 8pm, TNT, fuboTV, PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, Hulu Live and B/R Live
Bayer Leverkusen vs. Watford (friendly), 9am, ESPN3 and Sling Orange (free trial)
Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid (International Champions Cup), 8pm, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, Sling Orange, Hulu Live and PlayStation Vue (free trial)
Bayern Munich vs. AC Milan (International Champions Cup), 9pm, ESPN+
Borussia Dortmund vs. Udinese (friendly), 11am, ESPN3 and Sling Orange (free trial)
West Ham vs. Hertha Berlin (friendly), Noon, ESPN3 and Sling Orange (free trial)
Borussia Monchengladbach vs. Chelsea (friendly), 10:30am, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, Sling Orange, Hulu Live and PlayStation Vue (free trial)
Bayern Munich vs. Borussia Dortmund (German cup), 2:30pm, TV/streaming TBD
Bayern Munich vs. Hertha Berlin (season opener), 2:30pm, FS1, fuboTV, Sling Blue, Hulu Live and PlayStation Vue (free trial)
2019/20 Bundesliga season ends
FOX/Bundesliga TV contract expires
FOX Sports has the exclusive TV and streaming rights to the Bundesliga in the United States through until the end of the 2019-2020 season.
If you have any questions about the Bundesliga TV schedule, let us know in the comments section below.
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Borussia DortMan September 29, 2015
It’s an absolute travesty Der Klassiker between Munich and Dortmund is on FS2.
Ernie September 30, 2015
HORST NOCHOWITZ October 6, 2015
I LIKE TO PRINT THE BUNDESLIGA SCHEDULE,. BUT THE PRINT IS SO SMALL
THAT IT’S VERY! HARD TO READ. ANY SOLUTION? tHANKS
Frances McRann November 30, 2016
Get a magnifying glass
Horst Nochowitz October 18, 2015
How can I print the Bundesliga Schedule only
Christopher Harris October 18, 2015
If it doesn’t work to print on your computer, copy the content into Microsoft Word and print it from there.
Timm October 23, 2015
Gaffer,
Am I mistaken believing that Fox’s soccer coverage of Bundesliga matches uses announcers who are not at the matches? I’m watching Hoffenhiem v. Hamburg and it just sounds as if the announcers are in distant studio somewhere. I know ESPN used to do this all the time, but I was hoping this was a thing of the past.
Just wondering.
FOX Sports has been mixing up their commentating options. Some weeks they’ve included the feed from the UK announcers (I believe BT Sports). Other weeks they’ve used the English-language world-feed. But more recently they’ve been using their own announcers such as Keith Costigan, Brad Friedel, etc. So, for most of the games, the announcers are calling it off a TV.
Thanks for the update. I guess what always troubled me about announcers watching a match on tv and broadcasting is that they see the same things I see; whereas announcers at the grounds see other aspects of the matches developing off-camera, which may add a great deal to the broadcast.
I really hoped this type of announcing was from a bygone era. However, I guess there must be some rationale (financial, perhaps?) for Fox to use their own announcers in Los Angeles. Sadly, off-site announcers tend to offer so little, I end up watching the matches on mute.
OT October 23, 2015
FOX Sports used Los Angeles-based announcers to call Hoffenheim vs Hamburg “off tube”. Ross Dyer and Keith Costigan.
FOX Sports is using “low profile” soccer match telecasts (such as UEFA Europa League, Bundesliga, and women’s friendlies, all of which draw 100,000 viewers or fewer) to develop announcers and production personnel.
That’s what FOX Sports should be doing as it needs to have 4-5 good announcing teams for World Cup Russia 2018. Right now, FOX Sports really only has one good U.S.-based announcing team: John Strong and Alexi Lalas.
One “good” thing about Bundesliga coverage in Spanish:
Now that Chicharito is playing regularly for Bayer Leverkusen, FOX Deportes appears to me to have restructured its sublicense agreement with GOLTV.
Instead of alternating “1st pick” each week so that FOX Deportes and GOLTV would alternate having Bayern Munich, FOX Deportes has repossessed the “1st pick” EVERY WEEK so that it can air Bayer Leverkusen matches (with John Laguna and Mariano Trujillo calling the matches, usually from Los Angeles with the exception of last week when FOX Deportes sent them to Europe for a week.)
That means GOLTV can air Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund matches almost every week.
Chris November 5, 2015
anyone know where I can catch some 2. Bundesliga action? Is there a streaming option available? I would think FOX acquired these rights as well as the first division, however I would not be surprised if they decided not to broadcast even as an online option since viewership would be quite poor. Any help would be appreciated.
Christopher Harris November 5, 2015
None of the 2. Bundesliga matches are being broadcast on TV or online in the States, unfortunately.
Robert Norac November 21, 2015
How come Bayern Munich Vs FC Shalke is on Fox Soccer plus ??? Or GolTV??? When they usually show them on FS1 or at least FS2 ???
stinks because I don’t have neither of those channels
I’m assuming they got bumped out of the slot because of College Football?
Anyone else feel the same ?
Christopher Harris November 21, 2015
FS1 is showing college football, and FS2 is showing auto racing, so FOX bumped the game to FOX Soccer Plus. The only option where you can guarantee that you’ll be able to watch every Bundesliga game is on FOX Soccer 2GO.
Hey Chris,
Is Fox Soccer to go an App? And if so I assume it’s an extra charge ?
FOX Soccer 2GO is an app and online service. It’s $19.95 per month. Here’s more info http://www.foxsoccer.tv/?WT.mc_id=AFF_EPLTALK
I’m looking at the schedule above for Bayern Munich and the next few games aren’t on FS1 or FS2…even the Champions League game.
what’s up with that ?
It’s the busy time of the year for college football. And unfortunately the Bundesliga is a lesser priority for FOX this time of the year.
Yea I can see why. It’s all for the ratings and right now Bundesliga ratings aren’t close to College Football.
I’m surprised that they won’t even show Bayern Munich games with all the star power on that team.
What I find interesting is this is the first weekend where the Bayern game got bumped off of FS1 and 2.
Anyone else hoping the football gods bring us a “healthy” Bayern Munich vs a “healthy” Barcelona Champions League Final?
And I don’t wanna hear about last year. This year’s outcome will be totally different.
Richard Eck February 21, 2016
There is a lot of German Bundisliga fans out there,it was great watching German Soccer on fox sports 1 and 2 but as usual something good for the soccer fans does not last, so to make some more money or a way to make some extra bucks,they do not broadcast these games on fox 1 or fox 2 they are now braodcasting fox sports 2go for a payment of $19.99 a month .I am not paying 19.99 a month I will be watching free live streaming Bundisliga on my computer.so take your program and shove it.
Stephan Eckhardt March 19, 2016
Yes, it is a pitty that NASCAR racing and not even live events take priority over Live Bundesliga matches.
It was great while it lasted with Bundesliga matches on the generally available FS1after the College Football season was over but now NASCAR is taking its place. Ridiculous!
How good do the BPL fans have it on NBC and its affiliate channels showing every game live!
I hope FOX realizes and may do something about it and offer more Bundesliga coverage but unfortunately it is all about the money not about the football itself 😥
R.O March 20, 2016
I have Comcast and they don’t carry FS2 here in the Bay Area. That makes it even more frustrating as I don’t get to see many other games such as Europa League and many other CL games. I’ve e-mailed Comcast about FS2 steadily for over a year and no change.
I have the sports and entertainment package (extra cost) so Comcast should have FS2 and Goltv in that package. After all Comcast customers pay extra for the package so all football/soccer channels should be carried/included in the package.
I also learned that Fox has the rights to this year’s Copa American. I have a feeling that most of the games will be on FS2. Just not right for them to be able to do that. I hope regular Univision or Telemundo have the spanish rights.
For Bundesliga I would be happy if Fox would show replays on FS1 in the evening when they show useless talk show programing.
Craig May 23, 2016
This is helpful, thanks. Too many games on FS2 which Comcast (still) does not offer in most markets. Bundesliga is a tremendous product, but Fox’s coverage pales in comparison with what NBC is doing with the EPL. It’s too bad, b/c soccer is finally, truly, growing viewership in the States and the Bundesliga is missing out on converting boatloads of new fans (a la the EPL) due to a poor broadcast partner. Step up, Fox!
Philip July 24, 2016
Glad we can view Bundesliga games and like “Hockey Night in Canada” promote “Bundesliga Saturday Mornings.” A cup of joe and great soccer start the weekend right. Also use more Brit announcers on site and pre, half-time and post-game with theFox Team.
David K August 7, 2016
It was nice to see Chelsea and Werder Bremen on CBS Sports Net. Does World Soccer Talk know if CBS Sports Net plans on continuing to air professional soccer after the handful of preseason matches they have scheduled? It was a very bare bones telecast–no pregame show or studio analysis–but hopefully this is a sign that another US media group is interested in televising soccer.
Christopher Harris August 8, 2016
CBS Sports Network broadcasts NASL games. They also have 2 more friendlies that they’re broadcasting this week (involving German teams). That’s it, for now.
Stephan Kordt May 23, 2017
On what channels will the German cup final 2017 between Dortmund and Frankfurt be shown?
Christopher Harris May 24, 2017
As of right now, the game will only be shown live on ESPN3.com but will be shown live later in the day on ESPN Deportes on tape delay.
Jean B July 6, 2017
Fox is making a huge mistake as far as I am concerned. I have no interest in college football but love the German soccer matches. Just thought I would mention that I am a senior citizen and a female located in Georgia USA
Diane D October 1, 2017
Hi, Is it true that Dortmund will be coming to the United States? Any info on when they will be playing at Soldier Field in Chicago?
Christopher Harris October 1, 2017
Yes, that’s the rumor. We have it listed at http://worldsoccertalk.com/schedule-of-soccer-friendlies-in-us-this-summer/
No confirmation yet regarding date or tickets.
Thanks, if this match were to happen generally how much in advance are matches announced?
An educated guess based on previous announcements from other clubs, we should hear something official by April of 2018.
Diane D March 25, 2018
Any sneak-peak info about Dortmund playing in the U.S.?
Christopher Harris March 25, 2018
This is what we have so far – http://worldsoccertalk.com/schedule-of-soccer-friendlies-in-us-this-summer/
Catharine Turley February 2, 2018
Chris August 6, 2018
Any way to stream upcoming Bundesliga season with German commentary in USA?
Joey August 9, 2018
Is there a way to get a german-language feed of Bundesliga games? I don’t mind paying but it seems I’m stuck with Fox
Nick August 26, 2018
Really want to get into bundesliga. Fox picture on some games downright dreadful. This morning Mainz game was unwatchable through xfinity. Dortmund game looks a bit better
Charlie Marlow September 30, 2018
Early 9/30 game on Fox 1 not listed: Hamburg, St. Pauli.
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Ivan September 30, 2018
Not going to lie, Hamburg St. Pauli from the Zweite Bundesliga on FS1 on a Sunday morning is neat…local derby and all.
Plus, a lot of articles have been written about the supporters of St. Pauli in the last few years…
GJdevine October 10, 2018
Where can I find listings for friendlies like US v Columbia? Thanks
GJ, it’s on the homepage as well as the MLS page at http://worldsoccertalk.com/mls-tv-schedule/
Thanks again. Great site, BTW.
R.O February 17, 2019
Chris; you missed adding to the schedule: Monday February 18th – FC Nürnberg- Borussia Dortmund on FS1 at 2:30p ET (11:30 am PT).
Azer April 4, 2019
An excellent game of football today at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.
Fc Bayern Munchen 5-4 FC Heidenheim. What is wrong with FC Bayern receiving 4 goals at home from a 2nd division club. I thought FC Heidenheim would win. It would have been the last day for Niko Kovac at the club in my opinion.
Thanks to ESPN for putting the game on TV although Adrian Healy and Kasey Keller are not the best pair of commentators. It was James Thorogood on the world feed.
An equally excellent game at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on ESPN3. FC Schalke 04 vs SV Werder Bremen. The roof at the stadium was closed. Two impressive goals for Bremen by Milot Rashica and Davy Klassen. It was Rob Turner and Steffen Freund for commentary on the world feed.
David the Yank May 12, 2019
How does Fox handle simultaneous final matches for the Bundesliga? will the big 2 matches be on Fox and FS1?
nosferatu May 13, 2019
Carlos July 11, 2019
Just a thought: Wouldn’t on the eve of the season starting would Fox and/or Bundesliga put a statement out stating whether the current deal would be extended or whether they would part ways? There is a month remaining, is it too early? It seems Fox is just finishing up all their soccer contracts that aren’t US Soccer (UEFA, etc) and focusing on other possibilities. Nothing wrong with that, just wondering usually how soon do companies announce anything on the last year of a tv deal?
Christopher Harris July 11, 2019
We should know by the end of the year. Bundesliga has already started discussions with broadcasters about the next rights deal. Ultimately, it’ll be the Bundesliga’s decision to make who will be the best partner for them for the 2020/21 season onwards in the United States.
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Jacqueline Fernandez, Sidharth Malhotra, Anushka Sharma among others condemn the serial blasts in Sri Lanka
April 21 (AZINS) Bollywood celebrities are condemning the serial bomb blasts that rocked Sri Lanka amid Easter celebrations on Sunday. While expressing their grief, many Bollywood celebrities extended prayers for the people in Sri Lanka.
Anushka Sharma in a tweet wrote, "Our hearts go out to everyone affected by this tragic act of violence in Sri Lanka. We are praying with you in this painful moment of sorrow, grief and shock."
"Prayers for SriLanka," tweeted actor Vicky Kaushal.
Veteran actor Boman Irani tweeted, "Shocked to hear the extremely disturbing news coming in from SriLanka. Had stayed at the hotels & it's heartbreaking to even imagine the situation. My heartfelt condolences to the near & dear ones of those who lost their lives & praying for a speedy recovery of the ones injured."
The Sri-Lanka born Indian actress, Jacqueline Fernandez also took to Twitter to express her grief and tweeted, "Extremely sad at the news of bombings in Sri Lanka. It's unfortunate that one is not able to see that violence is like a chain reaction. This has to stop !"
"My heartfelt condolences & prayers are with the families affected in #Srilanka. Here's praying & hoping for a terror-free world!" tweeted Sidharth Malhotra.
"What a sad day !! To attack families and children going to church on #EasterSunday ??!!! This is terrible ... what is happening to our world ???" Huma Qureshi also grieved the blasts.
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Indian cricketers Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina also condemned the dastardly blasts in Sri Lanka and laid out their prayers to the people.
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Home | Chairman's Message
Mr. Ali M.Al-Dalaan
Chair of AHWP
To start off, I would like to thank Mr Zamane Abdul Rahman for the vote of confidence and nominating me to the position of AHWP Chair for the term 2018-2020. I would also like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude towards the AHWP members and all of you for the strong support and partnership with me during my terms as the AHWP TC leadership for the past decade.
AHWP has come a long way in more than 2 decades as a distinctive organization with 31 member economies spread across Asia, Middle East and Africa regions, where regulators and industry work collaboratively together in establishing harmonized requirements, procedures and standards. I believe nurturing stronger bonds with other international organizations is important towards fostering global cooperation endeavors and the expansion of AHWP’s presence and leadership worldwide. As an important pillar of our strategic framework, we will continue to expand our geographical coverage and work with international organizations such as IMDRF,WHO,OECD, APEC to optimize our effort on harmonization. Our Capacity building program and training has grown from strength to strength over the last few years with in-country trainings in various member economies. Last year in partnership with APACMed and Deloitte we have conducted survey with member economies regulators and is in the process of publishing the Competency framework white paper this year. Our Technical Committee and Workgroups has a resource of over 30 published technical documents and has current focus in the new development areas in Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, UDI, Software as Medical Device and more. Our team will continue to keep abreast of the latest technology and develop guidance documents to keep in pace with the regulatory development.
As the AHWP Chair, I am committed to continue on the strong momentum in Regulatory Harmonization and convergence. I will endeavor to work closely with the current leadership team and lead AHWP to new heights. I look forward to your continuing strong support and partnership as we bring greater regulatory harmonization and convergence.
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What’s in a Copyright? Java API Case Before U.S. Supreme Court
Institutional Investing, Technology, Intellectual Property 25 May 2015
Innovation is threatened by certain of the legal systems that were created to incentivize it. It is threatened because there are intellectual-property claims everywhere one turns, and if new innovations are not allowed to build upon older work, innovation will become impossible. Whatever is fenced in, the fencing in the plains cannot become so predominate a fact that there is no common intellectual grazing ground.
Nobody owns the standard arrangement of keys on a keyboard, an arrangement known as QWERTY, and one that has been in place since the early days of typewriting. It is likely for the best that nobody owns such systemic facts, because they underlie so much else. But it isn’t always clear where the line is to be drawn between QWERTY and IP. When aggressive litigants expand the fencing … well, one worries.
So now the world gets to watch Google square off against Oracle for very high stakes. In contrast to much recent litigation over software, the key issues here arise under copyright law, not patent.
Back and Forth Over Java APIs
About a year ago, Judge Kathleen O’Malley on behalf of a three judge panel issued a decision reversing a trial court judge. The decision has drawn a great deal of commentary over the intervening months, and the story by now has the twists and turns of a good airport-book-store novel: the jury verdict had gone for Oracle; the district court judge had eviscerated that ruling, adopting Google’s arguments; O’Malley supported Oracle; Google has now in reaction brought the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Oracle claims that Google is misusing its Java APIs. [An API is an “application programming interface,” and the APIs in question are written in the popular Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1990s.]
Google responds that the programming language Java is publicly available (that point is not in dispute) and that the Java APIs are really just a set of “basic shorthand commands” within the Java language, so the latter is as public as the former (that, of course, is the dispute.)
This isn’t simply a matter of what investments to make. Taking a position on the expected outcome of litigation is always a tricky proposition. But the underlying issues in Google v. Oracle go to how one makes investments at all, what are and will be the mechanics of trading. Parties have claimed intellectual property in such basic ideas as the hedging of energy commodities, or the management of settlement risk through a third-party intermediary. Yes, those were patentability issues, but any of them could without much strain have been framed in copyright terms.
Late in the Term
The Court of Appeals, in its sweeping ruling for Oracle, said that all elements of an original work, including a JAVA API, are entitled to copyright protection “so long as the author had multiple ways to express the underlying idea.” Google employed Java, and its APIs, in the development of its Android smartphone operating system.
What brings all of this to the fore just now is an impending deadline. The Supreme Court will likely issue its own opinion by the end of the term, that is, by late June. The Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli Jr., has not as of yet presented the administration’s view on this controversy to the Court via an amicus brief. Such briefs are often persuasive to the Justices, and the Obama administration has weighed in on the other big IP disputes at SCOTUS during its tenure. So it is likely to weigh in on this one. But on whose side?
It seems likely Verrilli wants to weigh in by the end of this month, to give the Justices a month to digest his views before formulating their own.
Consider this blog post a curtain opener. I hope to comment on the show as it unfolds.
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Larry Fay was anything but regular. The flashy dresser with a penchant for indigo blue shirts, loud neckties, and highly polished fingernails, was one of the most flamboyant Broadway personalities during the 1920s. It was his character that James Cagney portrayed in the movie “The Roaring Twenties.” Fay’s ambition to move beyond “gangster status” could be seen in the elaborate offices he maintained in a respectable office building off Columbus Circle in Manhattan. Surrounded by an attractive office staff, his well-groomed assistants met clientele at the door and handled business matters for Fay, as he stayed in the background, meeting daily with close friends only.
Little is known about Fay’s early years. He chose to discuss his life from the point that he became successful. Born in 1888, he had his first brush with the law in 1911 when he was arrested for disorderly conduct in Brooklyn. Before the decade of the teens was over, he would be arrested an additional 41 times. Most of the arrests were for traffic violations or charges against his taxi cab company.
Fay became one of the early rumrunners of the Prohibition Era. He got into the business after he picked up a fare who insisted on being driven to Montreal. Once there, Fay purchased several cases of whiskey with the money he received from the fare. Taking the liquor back to New York, Fay found he could sell a $10 dollar case for as much as $90. His trips back across the border became more frequent. By 1922, Fay had amassed a half million dollars from this venture, but was said to have little stomach for the perils of the trade. A year later he got out of the business.
Fay took his bootlegging profits and put them into his taxi cab company. His cabs were designed to be as flashy as he was. They had lots of nickel trimming, lights on both the top and sides, and musical horns. Fay’s drivers took many inebriated customers to “clip joints” that sprang up when prohibition started. Clip joints were elaborately concealed speakeasies where the drunken patrons were rendered unconscious by more liquor, or if necessary, drugs. They were then relieved of their money and driven a short distance from the area and deposited in the gutter.
Muscle was needed to maintain Fay’s dominance in the taxi cab enterprise. This was not one of the dapper Fay’s specialties, so he hired Owney “the Killer” Madden, recently released from prison, to handle this aspect of the business. With Madden’s strong-arm tactics, Fay soon had control of the two most profitable cabstands in Manhattan; Grand Central Station and the Pennsylvania Station. Madden’s muscle kept Fay on top until 1923 when he sold out to a competitor. Fay was then put on that company’s payroll to the tune of $10,000 a year.
Fay was close friends with “Big Frenchy” De Mange. When De Mange went into the night club business, Fay followed. Naturally Fay’s nightclubs were designed to match his flashy personality. They were “far more garishly ornamented than all rum parlors which were specializing in high-tune atmosphere.” As with his taxi cab business, it was rumored that his beginnings into the night club operations were bankrolled by Arnold Rothstein.
His first venture, the “El Fey Club,” which opened in 1924, was on West 47th. Fay got a copy of a social register and sent out impressive invitations to members of Manhattan society and was rewarded for his effort with a huge turnout. His real coup came when he hired Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan as his hostess and mistress of ceremonies for the club. “Texas” Guinan, with her trademark greeting, “Hello, Sucker!” made the El Fey one of the hottest night spots in the city and helped initiate Manhattan’s “Night Club Era.”
The money rolled in for Fay during the years from 1925 to 1929. With his flamboyant personality, Fay became one of the most recognized figures on Broadway. When authorities closed the El Fey Club, Fay moved a few blocks away and opened the Del Fey Club. In 1929, he tried his hand at producing a Broadway show. Before the production was due to open, the theatre burned down.
Also in 1929, Fay became involved in the New York Milk Chain Association. In the late 1920s, two dairy giants handled nearly all of the bottled milk in the city. Fighting for the scraps were 300 small independents of which Fay helped organize 94 into a competitive group. Fay, still riding high at the time with his Broadway playboy image, was uneasy in this new venture. He soon took to wearing bulletproof vests under his flashy clothes and rode around in a bulletproof automobile. Fay was making $900 a day by mid-1930 from this racket when the state attorney general began looking into his activities. An investigation resulted in an indictment of Fay and 71 others. Fay was acquitted and then bowed out of the association.
The dawn of the depression years took a toll on Fay’s wealth and operations. His nightclubs closed and he began working as a manager / partner in a new club called the Casa Blanca on West 56th. Fay had been asked in on the venture for the sheer drawing power of his name. Fortunes had changed for Fay. He had recently separated from his wife, Broadway actress Evelyn Crowell, and he was reported to be nearly broke.
At the new club, Fay was trying to make ends meet and manage the club’s payroll. In late 1932, the club cut employee salaries by 30 percent and were announcing “share a job” plans where hours were scaled back. On New Year’s Day 1933, Edward Maloney, a disgruntled doorman who had suffered both cut backs, showed up at the club around 8:30 p.m. He was drunk, angry, and armed. After exchanging words with Fay, Maloney pulled a revolver from his coat pocket and shot Fay four times at close range, killing him instantly.
Fay, who had made thousands of dollars a week during the 1920s and dressed in expensive colorful custom made suits, was wearing a conservative black business suit when he died. A police search of his body reportedly turned up cash in his pockets of just thirty cents in dimes.
Copyright A. R. May 1999
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Ａ Ｖ Ａ Ｎ Ｔ Fri Mar 8, 2013 11:13:13 PM #277442 Perm Link
(A new story! Woo! Please tell me what chya think or something ^^" . . .)
⚜~Ｃｈａｐｔｅｒ 1~⚜
A delicate heartbeat against quivering fingertips dwindles upon every waking second. Hazel orbs bug out as eyelids pull away and pale maw widens. Each attempt to catch at least a morsel of oxygen results in failure. The feeble woman tries to form words, but an unspoken phrase would forever rest atop her broken lips. And the man feels as she falls limp within his grasp.
The boy kneels on their basement flooring, each indigo iris filled with flecks of terror. His attention remains solely on his parents. And his gaze then follows his father’s movements. Burly fingers uncurl, separating from an elusive neck. Discolored indents reduce the value of once beautiful papery skin. His mother’s stunning eyes are no longer filled with a light of life, but instead glazed over with lackluster haze. Her petite figure wilts to one side before crashing down, hitting solid ground, causing the boy to wince.
“Mom. . .?” A single word in the form of a croak. The scarred child reaches out towards her, hands trembling. The humidity of the basement clings to him, but he only feels a desolate chill of loss. One tear after another plummets, creating splotches of darkened cement. Moonlight streams through the small rectangle of a window, striking the boy’s back.
“She’s gone now Vince, let’s go.” His father hisses between clenched teeth. Perspiration is visible above his dark brows and thin lips, trailing down the sides of his face and colliding with barely noticeable waterworks.
“Wh-why did you kill mom?” Vince asks, his tone pleading, snapping his round head towards the distressed man.
“I had to do it. Now let’s go Vince.” He urges.
“NO!” Vince screams, shaking his head repeatedly. “NO!”
The father goes to reach for his squealing son, but doesn’t get to such a destination. He drops to his stomach, a thud echoing throughout the empty basement. And the son is frozen, as if gawking at the knife that sticks out of his father’s back. Curious and contemplative. Wondering where such a thing had come from. He takes a glimpse around, only spotting the surrounding shadows as he sits within the moonlight.
Toes of two black boots appear within his spotlight, bringing forth an abrupt shriek and a sudden movement backwards. And as the child moves back, the silver barrel of a pistol is produced. Cross-eyed the boy looks at this shimmering object, preparing to give one last outcry.
But he can’t as the trigger is pulled and a bullet is driven between his eyes.
⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜~⚜
The sound of a phone being flipped open can be heard.
Complete darkness envelopes the space as bleak clouds wander in front of the full moon.
And a soothing voice flows through the obscurity.
“Mission complete. I’ll be returning to base now.”
Edited at Sat Mar 9, 2013 12:20:34 AM
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(No Title) Sat Mar 9, 2013 10:33:07 AM #277479 Perm Link
The sound of an alarm fills the naturally lit bedroom. Perfectly white, painted, walls seem to glisten with each touch of luminance. Pestering ringing draws forth a stirring in the farthest right corner, where a bed is placed – parallel to the doors of a walk in closet. Underneath the comforter and sheets is a lump of a form, which begins to uncurl with arms over head and legs straight. Fingers poke out, and sunlight dances against the tawny fingernails. One hand reaches over to the nightstand and silences the clock, whilst the other takes hold of the aqua covers and whips them aside, to reveal the young woman.
She sits up with legs pretzel style, and once more extends her arms towards the ceiling. Her lean jaw is forced down as a yawn crashes its way out. Slowly, her mouth shuts, and her arms lower so she can rub the sleep away from her sealed eyes. With her hands moving away, the thick lashes slightly part, collide, and then fully separate as she opens her eyes and scratches the back of her head through matted hair.
The young woman throws her legs over the edge of the bed, and lightly her toes touch the glossy wood flooring. She kicks aside the black combat boots, which were still somewhat bloodied due to last night’s job. Lethargically, she makes her way out of her room and around the corner, where the bathroom is. It was mornings like this that made her realize she needed to change the décor in her bathroom. Rubber duckies were no longer. . . wanted. Tonight she would find the time to buy items to redecorate her restroom. Hopefully.
Leaning over the marble countertop, she gazes into the mirror. A pair of heterochromatic eyes stare right back at her. The left is a sapphire, whilst the right is an emerald. Two gems filled with so many thoughts. Too many thoughts. Blinking, she scans the mess that seemed to be devouring her head. Just brushing wouldn’t be able to deal with this problem. She’d actually have to shower.
Rotating on the balls of her feet, she faces the square-shaped shower space, and starts it up. Almost instantly, a visible cloud of heat forms within the reasonably sized space. Her loose-fitting shirt hangs off her shoulders, and it doesn’t take much for her to slip it off, along with the rest of her clothing. She always preferred to sleep in something both comforting and. . . suitable. Pulling the sliding glass door aside, she steps into the pouring water, and then closes the door.
She doesn’t so much as flinch when the water touches her open cuts, which were beginning to close. Those were from a more difficult job. Something that she enjoyed more than ones like last night. That was much too easy. With a silent breath, she deals with her hair, washes away the blood on her hands, and then turns off the water.
As she steps out, she grabs a plush towel and wraps herself in it.
Today would be a good day.
She would make sure of it.
“Demetra Wynters is our top hunter here at Avant. She is at both the physical and mental peak, as well as an excellent leader. The cover of our work, every hunter at Avant looks up to her. You, too, shall one day be working beside this wonderful person.” The husky man’s thunderous voice carries throughout the large auditorium. Every maroon cushioned seat is taken by someone between the ages of 13-17.
At the front of the room on the massive screen is a picture of a gorgeous woman. Her facial features are sharp, with full lips and mismatched irises that gaze down at everyone in the room. A mane of plump golden curls cascades down her back and flows over the broad shoulders.
The image disappears as the man clicks a button on his remote, and then clasps his hands behind his back. Straightening himself out, a big grin forms on his face. Pearly whites blare as the lights of the room hit him at the right angle. He is an older man, in mid-40s. Yet, his towering figure is packed with muscle and covered by a pinstripe business suit. The only aspect that gives off his age is the graying hairs mixed with pure black strands.
With another click of a button, video footage of Demetra in action plays on the massive screen. The teenagers watch in awe as the woman twists and flips through the air with ease, pulling out twin pistols and shooting at the mangled monster, avoiding every strike. Her movements are captivating, almost inhumane. And it was this woman who they would place as their role model. Demetra is the one they would thank for wanting to be a part of Avant. For being a part of the movement to terminate all Unique.
He then continues to speak, his joy radiating: “She is actually in this room with us at this very moment. Demetra, could you please step up here?” He calls out.
The video comes to a pause, freezing the scene. A hulking bull-like beast has its head tilted up, with mouth wide open to reveal multiple rows of disorganized fangs. Beady eyes are locked onto its target – Demetra, who is stuck in the night sky, with both guns aimed down at the monster whilst in mid-flip, her tight leather outfit gleaming due to the full moon – which she is centered in front of.
And when the screen goes blank, the young woman rises from her chair in the back and makes her way down the center aisle and towards the stage. Her strides are long and effortless, as well as silent, as though she is gliding an inch off the ground. The tails of her coat billow behind her, as though they are a black cape. And her still bloodied combat boots make a quiet clanking noise as she makes her way up the short staircase.
The man on the stage takes a step towards her, shaking her hand with his free one. With a model’s figure, she is both stunning and intimidating. Her curvaceous and tall frame can clearly move with ease and speed. Though, there is also strength as muscles are visible. She could easily be mistaken as unreal. But, that overwhelming atmosphere of a lioness conjures uneasiness to declare she is a true physical entity. She then straightens herself out, causing her perfect chest to stick out even more than before.
“Everyone. This is Demetra Wynters.”
Edited at Sat Mar 9, 2013 9:09:18 PM
(No Title) Sat Mar 9, 2013 1:26:32 PM #277490 Perm Link
Demetra is surrounded by a group of male teenagers. They all ask questions, most of which don’t pertain to her job – but instead her personal life, such as: Are you single? She doesn’t provide any answers to these, and eventually shoves her way out of the crowd and exits the auditorium. Several disappointed groans follow, and the boys trudge back to their seats, where girlfriends scold and slap.
“Hello Demi~” A voice coos from behind. She sits in the cafeteria, alone. At this time in the morning, no one else bothered going to the cafeteria. Especially since they’ve come to deal with Demetra’s schedule. Well, almost everyone besides him. She glimpses over her shoulder to spot an athletic man. He looked nice and handsome, but his personality was something of the rotten sort.
“Trevor.” Demetra mutters in response, moving her attention away from him and over at the vending machine. The tone in her voice is a clear show of her distaste towards the 23 year old.
He sits beside her, and leans over to give her a kiss. She is instantly on her feet, scowling down at him. He beams up at her, a playful smile that she hated very much. It was nothing but a mask. From the shimmering turquoise eyes to the square chin, it was all a disguise for the hideous nature beneath.
“Come on Demi.” He purrs, patting the spot beside him, coaxing her to either punch him in the face or sit beside him again. Her hands form tight fists, revealing her intent. He tenses for a moment, a frown replacing the previous expression.
“I already told you to never do that again.” Demetra tells him, her eyes narrowing.
“Yeah, and you never explained as to why~” He smirks, arching a thin brow.
Her brows furrow at this. “Because I don’t have feelings for you, and you know that.”
“Uh huh.” He rolls his eyes.
“What happened between us was two years ago. I was a pathetic 18 year old girl.” Demetra firmly states.
“Scared, too. But remember I was there for you that stormy night, after your first kill. I comforted you~” His smile returns in a flash. With a slight hop, Trevor gets to his feet, standing several inches taller than her. He whispers through gritted teeth, “Don’t think I’ll ever forget. . . doubt you will, either. Trust me. You'll come to me again one of these days.”
Demetra’s fist meets his stomach, causing him to stagger back and double over. She glares at him as he coughs and gasps for air.
“Oh, trust me, I won't.” Demetra snorts before whirling around and leaving Trevor alone to try and catch his breath.
No missions. Not today. Not for Demetra, anyway. It didn’t bother her. She had already made plans at the beginning of the day to go looking for new bathroom decorations. And so that’s what she would use this free time to do. She is still on call though, just in case. There was always a ‘just in case’ scenario. Most days, Demetra wondered if she’d ever get a break.
She makes her way to her car, which is placed in an underground lot – where all of the Avant employees, or hunters, park. Demetra unlocks the 2013 Audio R8, unfazed by its sleek and beautiful design. The blue and black exterior nearly blends into the darkness of the underground lot, but then glistens as lights flicker on around her. Demetra tilts her head back, blinking once and then twice. She then lowers her head and slides into the driver’s seat, slamming the door shut, the sound reverberating throughout the large space.
Starting her car, Demetra puts it into reverse and then drive before gunning it. She exits the lot, and enters the world above, where her car splits the atmosphere. The lights from street lamps dance atop the vehicle as it passes by, one second within luminance and the next shrouded by night. She slides her hands up and down the steering wheel, her gaze moving from left to right and then forward. She was aware of being watched, not only due to her expensive ride, but also by Unique.
In the disguise of humans, they are everywhere.
And they can sense Demetra’s presence.
The presence of a hunter.
(No Title) Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:03:04 PM #277578 Perm Link
Demetra stands in the dimly lit aisle of the store, scanning the items before her. She was never one for this whole shopping thing. She remembered when she was younger and would hate going to the store with her mother. Her feelings for the chore only seemed to escalate. Because Demetra could easily confirm that she despises everything about shopping. From the people to the decisions that must be made. She couldn’t ever imagine being a mother. Too much work. Way too much.
“Excuse me, miss. Do you need help finding anything?” The voice that comes from several feet away is drawl, and the enthusiasm within each word would need to be found with some sort of map. Demetra glances over at the scraggly boy, his bronze hair is disheveled and his employee shirt hangs off his lanky body in an awkward manner.
After a moment, Demetra returns her attention to the items, and dryly replies, “No. I am fine. Thank you.”
She didn’t look, but she knew he had nodded before walking off. The pitter patter of his tattered tennis shoes slowly fades as he distances himself from her and travels to another part of the store. Demetra stands still for a minute, takes in a subtle breath, and then reaches out to grab two white towels. She places them carefully into the cart, and then starts on her way towards the check out.
The employee had been a Unique.
And Demetra knew he was fighting every urge to attack. . .
To kill.
To destroy.
The hunter who had taken his very own grandparents.
. . .And for the first time in two years. . .
Demetra felt sick to her stomach.
With guilt.
Edited at Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:04:57 PM
(No Title) Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:46:45 PM #277634 Perm Link
The petite child lightly steps through the doorway, his movements containing their own grace. His naturally rosy cheeks puff out as he holds his breath, a pair of tiny fingers whipping up to plug his frail-looking nose. Like this, he continues to walk down the dilapidated corridor. Peach floral wallpaper has begun to peel even farther than last week, revealing the mildew cement beneath. Several broken chairs rest within the hallway, toppled onto their sides or backs, but never upright. He passes by a dresser, that is pressed firmly against the wall, and even leaving an outline around it. Only one drawer remains and constantly juts out, but always remains empty. The hallway never seemed to be clean. At this point in time, tidying seemed pointless.
He continues to protect his sense of olfaction from a pungent aroma, which radiates from the man who leans against the wall at the middle of the corridor. He is the guard of this rundown motel – which has been claimed by a dozen Unique as their current home. The boy looks at the man, smiling with his nose plugged. The man, who appears to be in his mid-30’s, returns the expression. But, his teeth are replaced by all fangs. Silver coins for eyes rest within his triangular skull. Altogether, it’s no wonder as to why he was given the position as guard of the motel. He towers well over six feet, nearing seven, and is composed entirely of muscle.
“Hey there Declan! Glad to see you made it back safely.” The guard swiftly waves. His tone is light, and very friendly towards him. The boy uses his free hand to return the gesture, and he then continues on his way down the hallway, picking up the pace.
Declan leaps over one of the scattered chairs, and then removes his hand from his nose. Taking in two deep breaths, Declan runs a hand through his head of full hair. Each perfect curl seemed to be spun out of golden thread, which gleamed whenever the light would hit it. And Declan was always glad that a majority of the electricity within the motel was still fully functioning. He hated the dark. The musty air never bothered Declan, though. And he actually liked the way his red rubber boots would sink into the aged maroon carpet. Though the damp spots were another story.
His big blue eyes follow the movements of a small terrier, watching as the dog darts out of one room and into another. As well as Unique, strays have also made themselves comfortable here. His long lashes bat together as he blinks, and he gives a quiet chuckle. It was a sonorous sound, comparable to sleigh bells. In a way, Declan had this almost feminine beauty to him. At the age of 8, he could almost be mistaken for a little tomboyish girl. He never ceases to catch the eyes of women, who always fawn over him. But, it was alright with Declan, as he doesn’t mind the attention.
Fixing his fading jean, short, overalls and the mismatched socks, Declan stands before one of the rooms at the end of the hall. His gaze traces the cracks in the warping oak door, and his hand takes hold of the knob. Turning it, Declan uses his hip to push the door open. It gives a quiet groan of complaint to being moved, and once more as Declan steps into the dimly lit room and closes the door behind him.
And a big grin splits across his face, from one ear to the next, showing off the gap where a tooth had gone missing two days ago.
“Ivers! I’m home~” He chirps.
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Ivers was sitting down playing a video game Devil may cry actually the newest one, up until he heard the door open and knew who it was as it was the boy he was looking after the small and cute Declan. The boy called him Ivers as he calls him by his last name but in full its Tetsuhito Ivers, he was a Unique just like Declan which is why he probably had a soft spot for the boy as even for a Unique Declan didn't act like the rest you would be positive that he was a human boy maybe it was his spirit.
Tetsuhito on the other hand stood at about 6ft, a massive hulk of a man with large arms which looked as if he could get a bison in a headlock and snap its head off and he had a muscular frame and those who see him are usually intimidated as he has wide shoulders that remind people of a linebacker. Tetsuhito's face was almost always emotionless or in an iron clad scowl and it didn't help that he had a short Mohawk that was spiked up. Everything about his demeanor said that he is not someone for you to be around. His eyes were a cold black, and he wore nothing but dark colors which noted his need for seclusion.
He gets up towering over Declan to the point that just to speak to him Declan had to tilt his head up about 30 degree's.
"Declan where were you didn't I tell you that you shouldn't go running off, its dangerous there are bad people that don't like our kind you know and if they find you then i may never see you again." he said
Tetsuhito didn't tell Declan about the hunters per say since he was so young that's what happened to him when he was younger running with a group of Unique he saw humanity in a jaded way as everyone was an enemy and he had a chance to spare Declan the same pain
Tetsuhito looks at him and felt bad he didn't want to dampen the boys spirits as he looked at him he felt sad that he had interrogated him just now but it broke his heart that Declan wore such raggedy clothing, now they had to stay out of sight from hunters so he wasn't flashy himself. He wore a black t-shirt with the words "JESUS WAS BLACK" on it and ash grey jeans with combat boots. He had found the shirt humorous and decided to wear it, but his eyes rested on Declans clothing.
"Glad your home kid, i just want you to be safe, now stay here im gonna go get you some new clothes, and socks, and underwear" he says pulling him into a half hug
Edited at Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:30:56 PM
Neither Black or White I am the GRAY
(No Title) Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:18:02 PM #277662 Perm Link
(Imma try and get the next chapter up!! But it's a long one. . . so yeah >_< )
Declan watches with a smile on his face, his eyes following each of Ivers’ movements. The smile blooms into a full-fledged grin as Ivers exits the motel room. Now would be Declan’s chance. He dashes over to the bed and drops to his bruised knees, tilting his upper body to look under the bed. He squints, and then places his hand into the shadows, where he feared the big bad monsters were hiding. But, Declan was going to be courageous today!
He holds his breath as he rummages through various objects that he has been hiding over the bed, and then feels his fingers brush against something soft. Releasing his breath, Declan takes hold of the item, and pulls it out. A blanket that he had found four days ago. It’s yellow hue was fading into a white, but it didn’t bother him. He gets up and rubs the fuzzy material against his face. It was warm and very comforting, especially due to the subtle scent of lavender that clung to it.
Perfect for a night like this.
Returning his attention to the room door, Declan speeds out of the room, hearing Ivers footsteps moving down the hallway and towards the motel’s front entryway. He heard the guard’s voice giving a friendly good-bye, and then listens for the door to open and close. One. Two. Three. There it is. The sound of the door closing is Declan’s cue, and he sprints down the corridor at full speed, his scrawny and short legs carrying him farther and quicker than anyone would ever imagine. He leaps and bounds over the chairs, clutching tightly onto his blanket. The toe of his rubber boot gets caught on an area of carpet that juts up, causing him to nearly trip. With his arms flailing, he staggers to a stop at the motel’s main entryway. Declan takes two big gulps of air, his chest heaving. He stares at the metallic door for a moment before opening it.
And the guard’s low voice carries after him as he exits the motel, his intentions to secretly follow Ivers.
“See you later Declan!”
Edited at Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:42:21 PM
(No Title) Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:24:25 PM #277687 Perm Link
Ivers walks out the door and down the street, he was headed downtown to the shopping district, to get Declan some clothes. It was drizzling outside and his Mohawk was somewhat matted down but still was erect. As he walked people gave him weird glares as if he was a criminal but Tetsuhito didn't mind its what he wanted to be seen and immediately forgotten because if you stand out then it is easier for hunters to spot you.
It was dark and cloudy out but Tetsuhito's eyes were animalistic, the world became black and white the rain fell a little slower he had accessed some of his abilities to help him survey the area it was like he was x-raying everyone in his vicinity since it was raining it was messing with his enhanced smell as rain brings up a lot of odors into the air so he couldn't rely on that to see if he was being followed.
Tetsuhito was not poor he just wasn't flashy he had managed to accumulate some money at least enough to buy Declan some decent clothes but everyone who he suspected or was suspicious about he would turn down an alley or walk a different path.
"I hope he appreciates what im doing."
Tetsuhito says as he nears the downtown shopping area, but with bright lights that affect his vision he goes to his normal vision to deal with it so he decides to go into an alley and scale a building coming over on the other side just to make sure he's not being followed. Tetsuhito walks into a shop and the woman at the front counter gives him a seductive look with a slight smile.
"Hello im here looking for clothes for a young bloy something new that he would like" he says to the woman. "Oh a man who cares for his little brother..." she says at first and Tetsuhito nods as to tell her its not for his little brother and she smiles...."AWWWW OMG your a father, its for your son wow nothing hotter then a devoted dad where's his mom" she asked.
Tetsuhito was taken back by her assumption but then again Declan was the closest thing to a son really for him....so he replied..."Ummm no mother just me and him." he says
The woman flips her hair..."Oh...I understand" she says.
Then she shows him lots of clothes, and after he finally buys some he goes to look at one more near one of the fitting rooms and the woman pulls him into one and gives him a kiss ...."Oh im so sorry, its just that you a father, and muscular and sexy.... umm take my number" she says.
Tetsuhito is in shock but he lifts the woman off of him, "look umm thanks for pointing out the clothes but im not someone you would want to get involved with trust me...but i gotta go...and get back to my....uhh son Declan" he says
"Oh Declan...such a cute name...just come by sometime i can deal with rejection but i do want a chance" she says smiling a little upset but walks off. Tetsuhito waves and grabs his bags and he's out
Declan is wrapped securely within his blanket, quietly humming to himself as he walks down the cement pathway, enjoying the feel of the droplets against his skin. At this time, he is several feet behind Ivers. Declan couldn’t wait until his chance to scare Ivers! The thought makes Declan silently snicker, his shoulders bobbing up and down with the sound. But, he is silent as he hears something to his right. The quiet clicking of nails against a hard surface. Declan comes to a sudden halt, and turns his head to spot the same terrier from the motel. It’s scruff brown form stands out against the people who walk down the sidewalk, trying not to step on its petite paws.
“Spot!” Declan calls out, beaming with joy. He was quite “creative” with the name. The terrier’s main fur color is a chocolate hue, with several splotches of black and white thrown atop. The tiny dog’s large ears perk up to capture Declan’s voice, and it jolts around to stare at the little boy for a second.
As Declan takes a step towards the street, the animal dashes away. Declan giggles, very well knowing this game. And this time, Declan would win. He speeds across the two-lane road, narrowly avoiding a car. Declan reaches the other side and enters the alley way – where Spot had been absorbed by the shadows, and soon enough Declan had been, too. A cloud of stink lingers within the thick darkness, but Declan’s full focus is on the game, making him unfazed by the wretched stench of month old garbage and decaying rats.
But another noise does faze him.
Declan quickly skids to a stop before reaching the end of the alley, his head snapping to the side and his heart skipping a solid beat. It sounded like a gunshot, something knew well enough due to the location of the motel, as well as Ivers’ violent video games. Declan didn’t like violence. Not one bit. Declan gulps, but the saliva gets jammed in his throat. Spot prances up to the frightened yet curious boy, and sits at his side. . . tail no longer wagging in excited motions. The dog gazes up at Declan with large black orbs, as if waiting for something to happen.
And that’s when Declan whispers: “I’m going to go check it out. . .”
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Dear Mr. (or Madam) President Mr. (or Madam) President The President or the President of the United States
The Honorable John J. Jones
Dear Mr. (Mrs., Ms.) Jones Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones The Honorable John J. Jones
The Vice President
Executive Office Building
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Vice President Mr. (or Madam) Vice President The Vice President or the Vice President of the United States
Cabinet members
The Honorable John (or Jane) Jones
The Secretary of ____________ or The Attorney General
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Secretary Mr. (or Madam) Secretary The Secretary of _________________
Chief Justice
The Chief Justice
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Justice or Dear Mr. (or Madam) Chief Justice Mr. (or Madam) Chief Justice The Chief Justice
Associate Justice
Mr. Justice Jones or Madam Justice Jones
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Justice Mr. Justice or Mr. Justice Jones; Madam Justice or Madam Justice Jones Mr. Justice Jones; Madam Justice Jones
Dear Senator Jones Senator Jones Senator Jones from Nebraska
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Speaker Mr. Speaker; Madam Speaker The Speaker of the House of Representatives
United States Representative
Dear Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones Representative Jones from New Jersey
United Nations Ambassador
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Ambassador The United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Ambassador of the United States
American Embassy
Address goes here
Dear Mr. (or Madam) Ambassador Mr. (or Madam) Ambassador
The American Ambassador
The Ambassador of The United States of America
Consul-General
American Consul General
Dear Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones Mr. (or Mrs., Ms.) Jones
Foreign Ambassador
His (or Her) Excellency John (or Jean) Johnson
The Ambassador of ______________
Excellency or Dear Mr. (or Madam) Ambassador Excellency; or Mr. (or Madam) Ambassador
The Ambassador of _______________
Secretary-General of the United Nations
His (or Her) Excellency Milo (or Mara) Jones
Dear Mr.(or Madam) Secretary-General Mr. (or Madam) Secretary-General The Secretary-General of the United Nations
Governor of ______________
Dear Governor Jones Governor or Governor Jones The Governor of Maine: Governor Jones of Maine
Dear Mr. (Or Mrs. , Ms.) Jones Mr. (Or Mrs., Ms.) Jones Mr. (Or Mrs., Ms.) Jones
Justice, Appellate Division
Supreme Court of the State of ______________
Dear Judge Jones Justice or Judge Jones; Madam Justice or Judge Jones The Honorable John (or Jane) Jones; Mr. Justice Jones or Judge Jones; Madam Justice Jones or Judge Jones
The Honorable John (or Jane) Jones; His (or Her) Honor the Mayor
Dear Mayor Jones Mayor Jones; Mr. (Or Madam) Mayor; Your Honor Mayor Jones; The Mayor
His Holiness, the Pope or His Holiness, Pope John XII
Your Holiness or Most Holy Father Your Holiness or Most Holy Father His Holiness, the Holy Father; the Pope; the Pontiff
His Eminence, John Cardinal Jones, Archbishop of ______________
Your Eminence of Dear Cardinal Jones Your Eminence or Cardinal Jones His Eminence, Cardinal Jones
The Most Reverend John Jones, Bishop (or Archbishop) of ______________
Your Excellency or Dear Bishop (Archbishop) Jones Your Excellency or Bishop (Archbishop) Jones
Monsignor
The Reverend Monsignor James Harding
Reverend Monsignor or Dear Monsignor Monsignor Harding or Monsignor Monsignor Harding
The Reverend John Jones
Reverend Father or Dear Father Jones Father or Father Jones Father Jones
Brother John or Brother John Jones
Dear Brother John or Dear Brother Brother John or Brother Brother John
Sister Sister Mary Marshall
Dear Sister Mary Marshall or Dear Sister
Sister Mary Marshall or Sister Sister Mary Marshall
Protestant Clergy The Reverend John (or Jane) Jones* Dear Dr. (or Mr., Ms.) Jones Dr. (or Mr., Ms.) Jones The Reverend (or Dr.) John Jones
Bishop (Episcopal)
The Right Reverend John Jones*
Bishop of __________
Dear Bishop Jones Bishop Jones The Right Reverend John Jones, Bishop of Detroit
Rabbi Arthur (or Anne) Schwartz
Dear Rabbi Schwartz Rabbi Schwartz or Rabbi Rabbi Arthur Schwartz
King or Queen
His (Her) Majesty King (Queen) ___________
Address (letters traditionally are sent to reigning monarchs not directly but via the private secretary)
Your Majesty; Sir or Madam Varies depending on titles, holdings, etc.
Other royalty
His (Her) Royal Highness, the Prince (Princess) of _______________
Your Royal Highness Your Royal Highness; Sir or Madam His (Her) Royal Highness, the Duke (Duchess) of Gloucester
Duke/Duchess
His/Her Grace, the D ____________ of ____________
My Lord Duke/ Madam or Dear Duke of ____________/Dear Duchess Your Grace or Duke/Duchess His/Her Grace, the Duke/Duchess of Bridgeport
Marquess/Marchioness
The Most Honorable the M _____________ of Bridgeport
My Lord/Madam or Dear Lord/Lady Bridgeport
Lord/Lady Bridgeport Lord/Lady Bridgeport
Earl The Right Honorable the Earl of Franklin
My Lord or Dear Lord Franklin
Lord Franklin Lord Franklin
Countess (wife of an earl)
The Right Honorable the Countess of Franklin
Madam or Dear Lady Franklin Lady Franklin Lady Franklin
Viscount/Viscountess The Right Honorable the V _____________ Tyburn My Lord/Lady or Dear Lord/Lady Tyburn Lord/Lady Tyburn Lord/Lady Tyburn
Baron/Baroness The Right Honorable Lord/Lady Austin
My Lord/Madam or Dear Lord/Lady Austin
Lord/Lady Austin Lord/Lady Austin
Baronet Sir John Jones, Bt. Dear Sir or Dear Sir John Sir John Sir John Jones
Wife of Baronet Lady Jones
Dear Madam or Dear Lady Jones
Lady Jones Lady Jones
Knight Sir John Jones Dear Sir or Dear Sir John Sir John Sir John Jones
Wife of knight
Military Personnel For commissioned officers in the U.S. Armed services, the full rank is used as a title only in addressing letters and in formal introductions: one writes to Major General Sarah Miller, U.S. Army, and introduces her as Major General Miller. In greetings the full rank is shortened to General: "Dear General Miller." Similar acceptable shortened greetings follow categorized by full rankthen greetings :
Army, Air Force, Marines
Navy, Coast Guard
Fleet Admiral
For enlisted personnel, a similar principle applies. Sergeants -- whether staff sergeants, gunnery sergeants, or first sergeants -- are greeted simply as "Sergeant"; privates first class are referred to as "Private"; and, in the Navy and Coast Guard, chief petty officers are referred to as "Chief." Other noncommissioned officers are greeted by their ranks, although, informally, lower grades may be referred to generically as "Soldier" or "Sailor."
The universal terms of respect that lower ranks must use when addressing senior officers are "Sir" and "Madam." These terms are not applied to noncommissioned officers, however; the appropriate affirmative response to a sergeant, for example, is "Yes, Sergeant."
*If the cleric holds a doctorate in divinity, it is customary to add the designation D.D. after his or her name in the letter address.
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Kim Hollis: That Awkward Moment, a comedy featuring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan and Zac Efron, earned just $8.7 million this weekend. What do you think about this result?
Edwin Davies: It felt like a very confused film on a number of levels. It seemed to be pushing itself as simultaneously a romantic comedy that would appeal to women and a raunchy comedy for young men who would unironically refer to themselves as "bros". It might have been able to overcome that disparity if the ads were uproariously funny, but they seemed more obnoxious than anything else, and the toxic reviews and weak word-of-mouth only seemed to confirm that there was nothing new there for people to check out.
It also didn't help that while Teller and Jordan are supremely talented up and comers, they are hardly household names, while Efron's star has waned a little since the heights of the High School Musical days. I also don't think people were quite ready to see someone associated with squeaky clean comedies and romances trying to be dirty. Throw a film with so much working against it on one of the worst weekends of the year and you have a result like this.
Having said all that, this is not a horrible result since the film's budget was only $8 million, but I think they'll struggle to cover the marketing costs since it'll be all but forgotten by Valentine's Day, which would have been its last, best chance of getting a decent final total.
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In history, Japan, science
This recently discovered photo was taken from an elementary school about ten minutes after the Enola Gay delivered Little Boy and ushered in the Atomic Age.
From The Atlantic, where they’ve got more information.
In Russians, science
The Russian Phobos Grunt is Coming Home Early
The Phobos Grunt was supposed to have been a curse-breaker. The Russians have had a hard time sending probes to Mars since, oh, 1960. Everyone they’ve sent up has gone wrong in some for or fashion. Nineteen of them in total over the past five decades.
But Phobos Grunt was going to be different. It was going to work.
The Russians were going to be the first to put a probe onto a Martian moon, and then they were going to bring part of it home with samples for analysis. It was going to be the biggest Martian endeavor since the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It was going to break their curse and put them back on the bleeding edge of space exploration.
Notice how I’m talking about all of this in past tense? Was? Were? Yeah, there’s a reason for that.
See the area with the blue on that map above? If you live within any of those lines you might want to take care this Sunday when the Phobos Grunt comes burning back down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Four hundred plus pounds of the thing are expected to survive reentry, and while the Earth is mostly water, they can’t guarantee it won’t come down on your head.
Just what happened to the great Russian hope? No one’s really sure. The Phobos Grunt hit Earth orbit in November and then sort of stalled out and went dead. They weren’t able to stir the probe back to life, and the orbit’s been decaying ever since. I’m just glad it didn’t hit anything while it was up there. We don’t need any more debris up there.
So this Sunday, keep your eyes up and your head down. Michael Bay doesn’t need any reason to make an Armageddon 2.
In *punk, architecture, art, design, research, retro, spacepunk, world
Spomenik – Yugoslavian Monuments
Putting this here so I don’t forget about these beautiful things:
Via Yewknee:
This gallery of Yugoslovian monuments is a feast for the eyes but, even better, if you read through this thorough explanation of their past you will get a little treat for the brain. The diversity of the designs is impressive and the motivation behind their initial construction makes their neglect even more poignant.
In consumerism, cthulhu, Japan, movies, sex, stray thoughts, television, thisbrokenworld, zeitgiest
People are Putting Strange Things in their Bodies, and Their Bodies in Stranger Things
I’m sure by this point, you’ve all heard of the Cthulhu dildos. Boing Boing had them, and people were tweeting about them even before that.
I’m not sure what more you need to know beyond the phrase “Cthulhu dildo”, but here’s what I’m talking about if you are (luckily) in the dark.
That bit of eldritch sex toy plastic got me thinking about all the weird mass market tie-in sex toys that have come out lately.
Take the Hustler/Fleshlight alien-vagina-in-a-flashlight-case. It was part of a partnership between the two companies to promote Hustler’s porn parody of Avatar. Think of it this way – if Avatar took 3D filmmaking to a new heights of technology, the Avatar porno was going to take masturbation to new heights of technology as well. Which I guess is great for people that fantasize about watching adult film stars dressed like Thundersmurfs go at it while sticking their bits into the triangular orifice of a piece of molded plastic.
If you ask me, the real technical achievement of the Avatar porn parody was that they managed find body make-up that wouldn’t smear all over everything once the bow-chica-wow-wow started.
But, I digress.
Twilight fans of both sexes can also have their plastic genital needs seen to, as well.
Chief amongst them is what L and I laughingly refer to as the “sparklecock“. (We’ve named a band in ROCK! after it.) It’s a pretty standard dildo, except for the infusion of sparkle glitter to make it match the sparkle that Twilight’s vampires have. Yes, I know, vampires aren’t supposed to sparkle, but whatever, they do in Stephanie Meyers’ head. The other key feature of these things is their temperature retention properties. See, the vampires in Twilight are dead – their bodies are cold. And this plastic was designed to stay cold if you stuck it in the fridge for a while. For the “authentic experience”, as the seller promises.
For those with their genitals on the outside, there’s also the Fleshlight-esque “Succu Dry“, a plastic woman’s fanged mouth. It’s pretty much your standard plastic cavity, except this time the mold is of a mouth and not of lady parts. Branding-wise, the manufacturers are leaning more toward the True Blood angle than the Twilight kids. Probably a smart idea, since most of the male Twi-hards probably wouldn’t want a blowjob anyway, at least not from a girl. But, it is still a sex toy cash-in on the popularities of vampires right now.
It does make me wonder, though. I mean, teeth are a perpetual worry during the specific sex act the Succu Dry is designed to replicate. What sort of laissez-faire attitude must you take toward your sexual well being when you decide that not only are teeth OK, but that bigger more, dangerous teeth are BETTER. It makes me feel that the world is probably better off with that person sticking their penis into plastic that some one else, you know?
Not to be out done by American perverts, the Japanese also have their own versions of a Fleshlight. They call it the “ona-hole”. Yeah. Can’t make this shit up. Anyway. The “ona-holes” get branded just like Fleshlights do here. Except sometimes they go a bit…awry. Like when instead of making the internal part into something that would seem to fit what you’re putting into it, you instead make it into a negative space molding of a famous anime character. An underage, marginally pubescent anime character, at that. I can only assume that the Japanese are training their men to use their penises as lock picks. Because nothing else really makes sense.
“Ona-hole”.
Jesus fucking Christ.
EDIT: Oh god, my friend Katie just sent me a link to the sparklecock in full effect. It’s a plastic dong flying in mid-air, up to you how safe for work it is.
In drinking, FastFiction, me, Russians, writing
FastFiction – A Way to Die
Title: A Way to Die
Word: Frozen
Prompt by Kerry Crawford
200 words about the thing that really matters in life – booze.:
Baba-Yaga’s frozen tit it was cold.
He could feel his testicles pushing up ever farther into his gut – searching for any signs of warmth. He laughed at the foolishness of his balls.
For this was winter and they were in a Russian’s sac. There was no warmth anywhere to be found.
Passing by the church, he noted the orange light in the windows, curling smoke from the chimney, and hymns from the crack in the door.
He took a lantern from the church steps and continued down the road.
Trees rose up around him, blotting out the sky,
He felt the wolves before he saw their eyes. Dirty yellow asterisms, moving back and forth amongst the trees.
“Back, you pack of mongrels!”
He flung the lantern at them, sinking it into the snow.
“My mother was more a bitch than any of yours! She squatted me out on a night twice as cold as this! I am Russian! A bear fears no pack of wolves!”
They scattered into the night.
He recovered the lantern from the snow, relighting it.
After all, the church might be near, and the road dangerous. But tavern is far, so he will walk carefully.
Just a note about this one – That last line? That’s basically a paraphrasing of a real Russian proverb:
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I will walk carefully.
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In art, Japan, steampunk
La Machine took their Spider to Japan
La Machine’s website.
Via Dark Roasted Blend.
In advertising, design, environment, Japan, world
Japanese Anti-Pollution Poster
Anti-pollution poster (Kenji Ito, 1973)
Via Pink Tentacle.
And, yes, I know there’s a slight nipple. But, if you’re really worried about such things, you probably shouldn’t be visiting a place like this during your work day, should you?
In advertising, celebrity, consumerism, future, Japan, music, research, science, stray thoughts, tech, times are a changin, zeitgiest
More on the Idoru from Yesterday, Hatsune Miku
Now that we’ve been over the “What” of Hatsune Miku, let’s go over the “Why”. As in, why she’s important.
Pat commented yesterday that on stage Hatsune’s not that different from The Gorillaz live shows, and that her voice is still based on a real person’s voice. And he’s right about both of those things. The Gorillaz project animated performers onto a screen that masks human musicians, and Hatsune’s voice is built up from the phoneme recordings of a real person.
But her key difference from previous, similar things is that her plasticity, her artificiality, is COMPLETE. Absolutely nothing about her is real.
First, let’s think about her as an animated character.
Animated characters are tied to visuals and to voices. It can be argued that Mel Blanc was more key to popularizing most of the Warner Bros characters than their visual representations. The problem here is that Mel Blanc is a human, and humans, well not to spoil the end of your life for you, die. And when Blanc finally did expire, Warner had several years where they had to convince people that Bugs Bunny really sounded like this new guy, and not at all like that old, dead guy. Same thing with Kermit the Frog, or Tony the Tiger, or any character that’s deeply engrained in the social consciousness and voiced by a real human with an expiration date. Hatsune Miko has no expiration dates. Because her voice is created in a computer by the clever application of a few billions ones and zeroes, she’ll never get die. She’ll never get old, go through puberty, or ruin her voice with smoking and whiskey. A thousand years from now, she’ll sound the exact same as she does right now. She is the first voice of the future, because in the future she’ll sound exactly the same.
Now, let’s think about her as a commercial character.
Ultimately, Hatsune Miko was created as a bit of stunt by Crypton Future Media. They’re sound technology people. So, they made the apex of current sound technology. She was meant to raise awareness of the company that created her, and I’m sure her records sales are a nice bonus. Like Pandora and her box, Crypton’s unwittingly unleashed something on the world. There is no question that most Disney pop stars are trained and groomed from a young age to become billion dollar industries. There is also no question that Disney would probably love to not have said pop stars taking a chunk of their revenue and then spend it on things that get them plastered all over the front of grocery store tabloids. Making a pop star out of ray tracing and vocal synthesizers is one way to do that. And it doesn’t have to be Disney doing it, either. If a relatively small company like Crypton can do it, anyone can. Every new product or initiative could have a fake pop star attached to it, filling the air waves and fiber optic cables. And speaking as a guy in advertising who could pitch that to a client, this is fantastic and frightening
Lastly, let’s think about her as a musical character.
Touched on this a bit in the first one, but Hatsune and the future things like her, are fixed point in space. The point can be fixed as a 16 year old pop idol, or a 60 year old torch singer, or a 20 something folk-rocker. And since they are artificial, and built up by a team of people, they’ll never go off on some bizarre introspective tangent and make a record like Pet Sounds. Their music will be consistent, uniform across all of their releases. And if the people behind them ever get bored or want to try something different? They’ll just whip up a new vocaloid and create a new artist.
Hatsune Miko is important because of the simplicity of what she represents: The idea of an unchanging, easily replaceable commercial entity that you owe nothing to and will never do anything to embarrass or betray you.
While I could put money on their never being an indie-rock vocaloid success (ONLY because the hipsters won’t allow it, not because it couldn’t be good), I can’t put that same money on idorus like Hatsune Miko carving out a niche for themselves in pop music.
In celebrity, future, Japan, music, science, stray thoughts, tech, times are a changin, video, world, zeitgiest
The Japanese have done it. They’ve made an Idoru
I give you Hatsune Miku.
A teal-green haired Japanese school girl that’s apparently holding a leek or onion or something in this picture.
She’s fake. Completely not real. She’s the intellectual property of Japan’s Crypton Future Media. And probably the most crystal clear vision of the future that I’ve ever seen.
Crypton Future Media makes sound…things. Mainly digital libraries of sounds or programs to generate those libraries. They’ve sold their products to video game companies, software developers, and even Japanese government agencies. After looking over the list of companies they’ve done work for, I’d be willing to put money that everyone with a toe in the digital world has probably heard their stuff.
So what is a glorified MIDI card of a company doing whipping up an anime character with an apparent obsession with vegetables of the Alliaceae family?
The answer lies in a translation of her name.
Hatsune Miku can be loosely translated to mean “First Sound of the Future”.
And that’s exactly what Hatsune Miku is. She’s a completely artificial anime-esque pop sensation. In a world where pop stars are more often than not manufactured people with equally fake personalities and musical talents, Crypton Future Media has taken a visionary step and gone ahead and cut out the fleshy animal medium entirely.
Here’s the result, performing live in concert:
Hatsune Miku’s voice is created through the use of Yamaha’s Vocaloid voice synthesizer technology. Crypton took the vocal patterns of a young female anime voice actor, Saki Fujita, and through some technical wizardry and the Vocaloid synthesizer, created their most important product yet – a pop star.
God, I can’t tell you how surreal typing that line was. Anyway.
When she…err…it preforms, it’s a pre-rendered holographic projects done against a semi-permeable screen that lets you see the band behind her (featuring some of the crew from Crypton Future Media) and gives an illusion of depth.
Check out this longer video:
William Gibson, the Father of Cyberpunk, was speculating about creatures like Hatsune over a decade ago in his novel Idoru. But some how, I don’t think this is what he had in mind. While she’s not the first, she’s the biggest and most popular digital synthetic artificial whatever pop idol created yet. Hatsune Miku really is the first voice of the future.
Albeit a very, annoying, grating, saccharine future.
More on this tomorrow.
In advertising, art, design, Japan
Pink Tentacle – Posters by Kazumasa Nagai
Growth – Life Science Library, 1966
Prince Lighters, 1974
(This guy reminds me a lot of Jack Terricloth.)
From the best blog on the Internet, Pink Tentacle. There are more at that link. Do yourself a favor, go check them out.
In Japan, photography
Kawasaki industrial plant #7
Picture by Junigo via Grinding.be
In photography, Russians
Cherepovetz City – “City of Skulls”
From Dark Roasted Blend -
We’d like to call them “ghost towns”, but they are clearly not abandoned. Amazingly, people still live in them, go to work in harshest possible conditions (paradoxically making it the richest and mightiest industrial area in Russia) and then come “home” to relax in this inhuman weather, non-existing infrastructure, in dangerously dilapidated buildings…
In photography, Russians, stray thoughts
A Living Matryoshka Doll
Taken from a bit on English Russia about the vanishing culture of the Mari people.
There’s also a photograph on that page of what I think is a mother and her daughter. The mother has the fatted, leathery, burst-capillary face of the stereotypical Russian matriarch. But her daughter, maybe in her early teens, looks just like anyone you’d find anywhere else in the world. She’s young, she’s pretty, and that’s when it hits you. The line gets drawn from mother to daughter and you realize that the life these people lead changes them. Hard lives, Russian winters, all of it conspiring to turn a person into something completely different.
In Japan, science, tech
In a dark bar, after a few drinks – some one would try to hit on this
That’s the HRP-4C. Some kind of crazy Japanese robot. Sex robot, probably, considering the Japanese do everything they can to have sex with anything but each other.
Honestly, though, I can’t find a damn reason for them building this thing. They’ve been working on it for years, and so far they’ve taught it to walk like a model, and prance like a pop star.
Which considering both of those are completely pointless activities, gives credence to my sexbot theory.
Robots are a Big Thing in Japan. They’re so scared of dealing with an entire population of infirm elderly, they’re dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to build a robot that can change out grandpa’s bedpan. And so far they’ve really only succeeded in doing things like the above. Oh, and building tech that lets people control robots with their brains. Which, admittedly, is kind of cool – and also really fucking scary.
It’s always amazed me that they can’t get robots to move right. In animation terms, there’s no ease-in/ease-out. The motion curves are essentially straight lines, and their platforms are so unstable they wobble like palsy case every time they finish a gesture. With just a little bit of collaboration from some one who understands how to make motion look good, they’d be able to fix a lot of the Uncanny Valley problems they are running into.
I’m rambling now.
One last look at the HRP-4C, showing us some of her its emotional range.
I mean, who doesn’t love that freaky, pore-less, super Muppet face?
Via Pink Tentacle
In science, tech, world
Been waiting for something like this…
From Wired.com
Carribbean Island to Offer Rides Into Space – (note: that’s their typo, not mine!)
XCOR Aerospace is teaming up with the southern Caribbean island of Curacao to develop a space port for future suborbital tourist and scientific flights. The agreement is with the territorial government of Curacao and a group of Dutch investors with the hopes of offering flights in 2014.
The joint venture is known as Space Experience Curacao, or SXC. The group will lease one of XCOR’s Lynx spacecraft. The Lynx is a small two-seat spacecraft (pictured above) designed to launch to more than 100 kilometers (about 328,000 feet).
The pilot and passenger would experience weightlessness at the apex of the flight. And from that altitude they will be surrounded by the darkness of space and see the curvature of the earth with the sandy beaches and turquoise waters of Curacao 62 miles below.
The cost of a single ride is expected to be $98,000.
I’ve been wondering why it’s taken so long for a small nation to try something like this. You’ve got an isolated landmass, limited international treaty recognition, and not much else. They’ve got billions of dollars of investment money to try out some crazy tech idea. Why don’t you two get together and party like mad scientist from 1967?
Now, commercial space launches are nothing new. All sorts of developing nations partner with telecom companies to put communication satellites in orbit, but this is the first time I’ve seen such a small country partner with such a big idea.
My hope is that it leads to a hole in the dam. Maybe make some small nation realize they’ve got nothing to lose by taking partnerships like this even farther. Make protected enclaves for gray-market tech research.
Feel like studying human cloning for organ harvesting? C’mon down to Nauru! Want to develop new wireless technologies but don’t want to bother with all of those government licensing restrictions? The Marshall Islands are here for you! Want to offer quick turn around experimental medical treatments in FDA-free research environment? Tuvalu has everything you need, and miles of tropical beaches!
I’m being a bit hyperbolic here, but I’ve always wondered why a small island nation never just went and gave the rest of the world the finger then threw their doors open to bleeding edge, morally ambiguous research. I mean, in a lot of ways, it is their right. We’re causing the ocean levels to rise, fucking them over, so why should they give us any mind?
In environment, Russians, world
The Russians are Building Floating Atomic Reactors for the Arctic
From the BBC:
In a grimy shipyard in St Petersburg, an ugly hulk of red-painted metal sits floating in the dock.
On deck, workmen scurry back and forth, hammering, drilling and welding.
This strange construction, part ship, part platform, is unique and lies at the heart of Russia’s grand ambitions for the Arctic.
When it is completed in 2012, it will be the first of eight floating nuclear power stations which the government wants to place along Russia’s north coast, well within the Arctic Circle.
“These [floating nuclear power stations] have very good potential, creating the conditions for exploring the Arctic shelf and setting up drilling platforms to extract oil and gas,” says Sergey Zavyalov, deputy director of the operating company, Rosenergoatom.
“Work in the Arctic is very complicated and dangerous and we should ensure there’s a reliable energy supply.”
He says each power station, costing $400m, can supply electricity and heating for communities of up to 45,000 people and can stay on location for 12 years before needing to be serviced back in St Petersburg.
“We can guarantee the safety of our units one hundred per cent, all risks are absolutely ruled out,” says Mr Zavyalov.
Although Moscow denies it’s setting up special military forces or bases to protect its interests in the Arctic, it is establishing a new coastguard under the control of the all-powerful intelligence agency, the FSB.
The route along the Northeast passage from Russia to Asia which is now opening up, is many days quicker than the traditional route via Europe, the Suez Canal and around India.
Although the ships still need to be escorted by ice-breakers, it is a tantalising opportunity for Russia which wants to sell more oil and gas to energy-hungry countries like China.
With some scientists predicting that there may be no ice at all in the summer by 2030, Russian officials are confident the Northeast passage will become a major route for energy supplies to Asia.
Ah, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Nearly every day you give me another reason to believe that your legendary winters freeze out any common sense you might’ve had.
Remember those nuclear powered lighthouses you dotted your northern frontier with? Remember how well those turned out for you?
And now you think that by repeating that exercise, only in much hasher environments, on a much bigger scale, is a brilliant idea?
You can’t even keep your own infrastructure from destroying itself, for Christ’s sake, and now you’re setting the stage for a disaster that will make the Deepwater Horizon seem insignificant in comparison.
But, it is quite the image of the future, isn’t it? Ships the size of city blocks, powered by atomic fire, moored to the ocean bed, floating on near-freezing seas during the summer, frozen in them during the winter. Millions of parts working together, billions of people praying nothing goes wrong. The crushing weight of statistical odds saying that something will.
In animation, Japan, television
That’s the trailer for Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, the new series from Gainax, the studio behind such classic mindfucks as Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL.
Yes, this does look like they took something from the cartoon network and forced it through the seediest Japanese adult novelty store they could find. Yes, it does revolve around two female characters who are able to make their unmentionables into weapons. Yes, it will be cut down to 12 minutes episodes to give that extra bit of speed-freak pacing.
No, we have no idea when it’ll see this side of the Pacific. Or if it’ll be prosecuted for indecency the second it gets here.
Oh, and the soundtrack to all of this is little more than a techno-mashup of porn sounds, so be careful of that if you watch this at work.
In Japan, kaiju
Ultraman’s Kaiju Monsters
A pair of action-packed Ultraman Monster paintings by Toshio Okazaki were published in Shōgakukan’s 1979 edition of Ultra Kaiju (Shōgakukan Nyūmon Hyakka Series #97).
From the incomparable Pink Tentacle, which you should visit immediately to see these in full size and in detail with each monster named.
In animation, Japan, people
Requiescat In Pace, Satoshi Kon
Satoshi Kon passed away yesterday at the age of 46. He directed and created high concept animated feature films and television series.
His directorial debut was the beautifully twisted Hitchcockian thriller Perfect Blue in 1997. I saw it my sophomore year of college, and it’s stuck with me, like broken glass jabbed into my brain, since then. The way he dealt with the concepts in that movie, especially the creation and destruction of celebrity, are incredible.
He followed up his debut with award winning films like Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers. They’re less scarring, but still just as intriguing as his first film.
After those two, he took a break from the big screen to bring the bizarre Paranoia Agent to the small screen.
His last release was Paprika, which won him the most exposure for his mind bending works.
Kon was a visionary and an advocate of his medium. There were decades of work ahead of him, and the world is diminished by his passing.
In Japan, kaiju, movies, world
Death Kappa
Coming to DVD and Blu-Ray July 27th from Tokyo Shock!
The kappa, in Japanese folklore, are water goblins that are closely associated with a certain town in the country. Unfortunately, the area is also home to a militant splinter group of researchers dedicated to developing amphibious super soldiers based on the kappa of legends. When their experiments result in murders by some escapees, the appearance of an actual kappa, and the triggering of an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan’s defenses are helpless against it. Mankind’s only savior is an irradiated water goblin that is on the rampage with death in its eyes.
Yes, this exists. And yes, it is already sold out on Amazon.
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London: Banksy, the Street Artist
Since his birth, many have called him an urban legend. They were probably right. Up to this day this remains the best way to describe Banksy, as his identity is still concealed.
His cradle was Bristol, but the majority of his artworks has appeared in London. Walking through its streets you could catch a glimpse of a true masterpiece and not even realize it, because stuck to the pargets of the walls and to the orange bricks of this city there are graffiti generated by the most famous graffiti artist of this generation.
These artworks are all throughout the city, that becomes a true open air museum. You just have to know where to look. You don’t need tickets or tourists guides. Pure art is less hidden behind museum doors that you would have imagined.
However, it is fleeting, and it is at risk to disappear from one day to the other. With some paint, many graffiti have disappeared in the matter of minutes.
If you ever walk through the streets of London, feel free to be amazed before the artworks on its walls. You could be one of the last people to do so. Book your hotel in the magical London!
Tag:Art, Banksy, Culture, graffiti, London, Street Art, streets
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The next day was all bustle and preparation, made only a little more difficult by the fact that Darcy had mysteriously vanished.
Well, not vanished exactly. Everyone knew that he'd gone out of town, that he'd left early that morning after going over some things with Nathan and making a round of the makeshift hospital that had been set up in the church's basement. Someone rather nervously asked him if he was coming back, to which Darcy jokingly replied that there would be at least six guns coming after him if he didn't; therefore, yes, he was coming back, by the next afternoon. And then he'd left.
The town continued to sweep up, build and recover. Emmie was busily trying to decide what color to paint her new window, whether to maybe just paint the whole front of the store, and was very happy to receive a bundle of cleaned goods from Gloria, who'd carefully washed and ironed all of the young woman's ribbons that had fallen and been trampled in the looting. Most of them were fit to sell, and Emmie was so happy she decided to paint the whole front - pink.
True to their word, when the others met with Josiah in JD's room that morning they were acting as if the tense meeting in the church had never happened. Buck in particular seemed to act as if Chris did not exist, and laughed and joshed as he watched JD devour a large breakfast. JD seemed happy to be back in familiar surroundings, but not at all happy at the list of exercises that Nathan held up over his potatoes and eggs.
"I thought I just had to learn to walk." JD moaned as he looked in dismay at the instructions. Nathan smiled at his petulance, and glanced at Buck, who smiled also as he lounged against JD's bureau.
"You will, eventually," Nathan nodded, taking the list back and scanning it with his dark eyes. "But you got at least three weeks before that collarbone is healed up enough for you to put weight on it, and Mr. Thomas says you got to keep up the strength in your legs or they'll atrophy on you."
"Atro-what?" JD asked in confusion.
"He means they'll shrivel up and fall off." Buck joked as he shifted his weight.
JD's eyes bugged. "Oh my God! They will?"
"No." Nathan gave Buck a dirty look. "No, son, but they'll get weak if you don't use 'em. We'll get started as soon as you're done with breakfast."
"Okay," JD said glumly, pushing the eggs around on his plate.
"And you ain't takin' all day about finishin', either."
JD sighed hugely, and picked up another forkful of potatoes. He chewed them thoughtfully, then grumbled, "I don't get what my collarbone has to do with walking, anyway. Why can't I just start now?"
"Because," Nathan said patiently, smiling at his young friend's petulance. "You ain't gonna start off walkin'. You gotta get your walkin' back by learnin' to do it the way a baby does. That means first you gotta get on your stomach an' crawl for a while, an' to do that you're gonna be usin' that collarbone to pull yourself along. We do that too quick, before it's healed, an' it's just gonna sn- "
JD winced, indicating he got the message. But still he shook his head in disbelief. "On my stomach, crawling. That's really going to do it?"
"According to Mr. Thomas it is," Nathan replied.
JD sat still for a moment, looked at Nathan, then at Buck and Josiah, and all of the men saw the uncertainty there, the incredulity battling with desperate hope. "And I'm gonna get better."
Buck nodded, coming to stand behind Nathan with a wide smile. "That's what we're workin' on."
JD blinked, regarded the others in youthful wonder, his eyes shining beneath that angry bruise, those fading marks.
"I don't believe it," he finally said in a low, awestruck voice, shaking his head. "It's - it's almost too much."
"We know, son," Josiah said softly. "But it's true, and it's gonna happen."
"But not if you take all day with them damn eggs," Nathan said sternly.
The others laughed. JD gamely picked up another mouthful of food, looked at the instructions again, and sighed. This was going to be a long haul.
That same morning, Mary came out of her office proudly bearing the latest edition of her newspaper. TOWN SURVIVES ASSAULT, the headline read, SHERIFF ON ROAD TO RECOVERY. She felt the sunlight on her face, ran her hand over the black ink on the white paper, and decided she never felt so happy to be handing out a paper in her whole life.
She had just stepped into the street to begin handing the newspapers out when she heard a voice call her name, and turned to see Mr. Conklin.
"Good morning, Mrs. Travis," the old man said, with a smile slightly more sheepish than his usual sneering one. "Is that the paper?"
"Yes, Mr. Conklin," Mary replied, handing him one automatically. "You'll enjoy this edition. It's good news, for a change."
"Well, that's, ah..that's good, I guess," Conklin stammered, reading the front in a perfunctory manner. Then, suddenly, he folded it up and nervously adjusted his glasses.
Mary noticed this, frowned. "Is something wrong, Mr. Conklin?"
"No, well, I mean, there is, but - " Conklin stared at the ground a moment, then looked at Mary and said, "I just wanted to let you know, Mrs. Travis, that I'm...sorry...about some of the things I've said to you this past week." Conklin sounded as if someone was strangling him, but Mary respected his desire to speak enough to let him continue. "In retrospect, I'm willing to admit I might have been...wrong."
Mary smiled. An apology from Conklin was the last thing she expected to get. "Well, thank you for telling me, Mr. Conklin. I accept your apology."
Conklin nodded wordlessly, looked deflated and small in the morning light. Mary almost felt sorry for him, then reminded herself that like as not he'd be back at her heels in a week, nipping at them with some petty complaint, something about the world he didn't like. But this was nice. For now, this was enough.
"Oh - " Conklin said as he folded the paper up and put it under his arm. "Gerald's funeral is this afternoon, in case you want to come. Probably won't be big, he didn't have a family. Just thought I'd let you know."
"Well, thank you, Mr. Conklin," Mary said, and felt a little surge of sadness. "I'll try to attend."
Conklin nodded acknowledgement, and walked on down the street.
Mary watched him go, thought about how insane things had been the past week, and now it seemed that there were small miracles happening all around her. JD would walk again. The town was safe. And Conklin had actually said he was sorry.
Miracles. And maybe they weren't done yet.
With a hopeful glance toward the morning sun, Mary hoisted the newspapers on her arm, and went on down the street.
The day wore on, turned into afternoon, then night. Nathan got JD started on his exercises, much to the boy's dismay, and while they worked together the others went about the town, helping with repairs and patrolling the area. Orin oversaw the burial of the outlaws and the transport of the slain soldiers, and in the middle of the afternoon everythingstopped while Gerald Townsend was laid to rest. It was a grim reminder, nothing comes easy.
Nothing further was said about the meeting at the church, and Josiah could tell when he was around the others, helping with repairs or visiting JD, that they were trying to present a united front, and it seemed to be working, so far. A poker game was held that night in the saloon, to celebrate the town's victory over Concho and JD's imminent recovery. Everyone showed up, and the cards flew through Ezra's fingers as he smiled at the faces gathered around him. It was almost like old times, and Josiah knew they were really trying, for JD. Only time would tell if they would succeed.
The following morning Darcy came back, and not alone. A small girl was riding on his saddle in front of him, a girl of about fourteen with dark eyes and long black hair. The townspeople gaped at her, and rumors flew. She was his daughter, she was some kind of concubine, and a dozen other, more far-fetched tales. Only Chris, who glanced up and saw the Irishman ride by with the girl on his horse, knew the truth, and it stunned him. Stunned him and shamed him, because he'd totally forgotten about the little girl who'd put her too-practiced hand on his arm at the grubby wayside stop that awful first day and said in quiet tones full of submissive resignation, sir, would you like to go to bed with me?
He'd forgotten, in the middle of everything that had happened since. But Darcy had remembered, and gone and rescued her. Chris shook his head, wondered at Darcy's generosity, and his own pigheaded selfishness.
Darcy trotted the girl over to Josiah's, introduced her to him and turned her over to his care. Then it was another round at the hospital, over to JD's, and then it was night again.
The rest of the week saw the emergence of a kind of routine in the mens' lives: Darcy and Nathan spent their days taking care of the wounded, and JD; the other men helped repair the town; Josiah and Darcy sometimes went to see Chris, ignoring the dark looks of the others as they did so; Vin continued to rest up, and insist he was fine, although at Nathan's insistence he'd drank enough fluids and eaten enough red meat to make him never want to see either again; and then at night the men would gather in the saloon and play cards. And then get up the next day, and do it all over again.
By the end of the week the saloon seemed livelier than it had been in a long time. It was as if the town was loosening up again, feeling like its old self. Ezra was dealing poker to some of the bored soldiers, Josiah and Nathan were sharing whiskey and cigars with Darcy in a quiet corner, and Buck was busily sweet-talking one of the working girls and sharing laughs with the bartender as he lounged against the polished wooden counter, at ease with himself and the world.
The only person not at the saloon was Vin. The former buffalo hunter was feeling better, and had subsequently dissappeared. Josiah had hoped his young friend would go to see Chris, but several checks throughout the night showed no familiar-looking chestnut horse tethered outside the jail, and when Josiah checked once more before calling it a night himself he saw the jail dark, Orin gone home, but no sign of Vin.
He's not ready yet, Josiah realized, but tried to hide his disappointment as he bid his friends good night. Hopefully the time would come, and anyway he was happy that Vin was out of jail himself, and recovered from his wounds. As he made his way back to the church that night, Josiah mused that he should not have been surprised that his friend had vanished. Vin was a free man now, and no one expected him to stay in town for long.
The outskirts of Four Corners was quiet as Vin slowly guided his horse back on the road into town some hours later. For the first time in a week, there wasn't any trouble. Concho Charles was taken care of, the town was safe, and his shoulder and head no longer bothered him, except for occasionally. There was nothing to worry about. For the first time in a week, Vin Tanner could relax.
Vin let his horse walk at a leisurely pace as he unhooked his canteen and took a drink. He tilted his head back, gazed up at the stars as the cool liquid coursed down his throat. It was a clear night, and the stars were blazing like pinpoint diamonds, high above him. Vin recorked his canteen, but didn't take his eyes off the heavens above him until he was back in town, and the street fires made them difficult to see. It didn't matter. Vin knew they were there.
A lot to think about. A lot to take in, these last few days. Hell, the whole week. Their world was taken apart, then put back together again, but different. Made a man's head spin, the way things had gone. Need to get out, get to some fresh air and mountains, where things don't change, where a man don't have to reason on things to understand them. Breathe that clean, honest air and just don't think for a while. Feels good, don't it?
But, got to get back. Gettin' late, and the way things have been wouldn't be surprised if they needed me. Go on over to the saloon, see if anyone's still there. Ask on JD, see if he's still riled about doin' those exercises. He probably is.
The street was deserted as Vin rode on, his body slung casually in the saddle, his reins loose and low. Some of the street fires were out, and most of the houses along the dirt path were dark, their inhabitants long since gone to bed. There was a deep silence in the street, it absorbed sound like a thick blanket, and Vin wondered at the peacefulness as his eyes scanned the still-scarred evidences of the week's troubles. So much blood and noise then, the nick in his scalp still troubled him some, but now it seemed, in the darkness and the quiet, as if the town was holding its breath, waiting for something. Something to end, or begin, or continue. It seemed to call to Vin, as the mountains had, and almost unwillingly the young man let his eyes travel to the dark red brick of the jailhouse, and thought.
He'd been thinking on it since the day before, when they'd all stood in the jail together and he saw Chris for the first time in nearly a week. He wasn't sure what he'd expected, but whatever it was, it wasn't what he got. He figured Chris would be sorry, thought he probably would have a tough time facing them, but was unprepared for the almost submissive man who stood in front of Judge Travis and said in his Northern tones that he had beaten JD Dunne. And then walked over and locked himself up for it.
The jail was close now, and Vin slowly reined his horse to a stop, looked thoughtfully at the darkened windowpanes. The judge had locked the place up and gone home a few hours ago, but Vin knew without having to look that Chris was likely still awake in that tormented darkness. It was too early for the Chris he knew to sleep.
A guard sat dozing in the chair outside the door, and Vin was careful not to make any noise to wake him up. He simply sat in his saddle, the smoke from dying fires rising around him like filmy veils, and thought.
It was Chris' eyes. Vin hoped Chris hadn't seen how shocked he was when he looked into those eyes. They had an empty look about them, but not in a bad way; they weren't numb, or dazed, or beaten down. They looked...it reminded Vin of the Indians he'd known, how they looked sometimes after a strenuous hunt, or a wild dance. The eyes, like empty jars waiting to be filled with something better than what was cleansed out, a willing draining of the soul.
Exorcism, Vin thought suddenly, remembering his conversation with Josiah at the rock the night before. An exorcism.
Vin sat in his saddle a moment, regarded the locked and darkened jail as the mists of the street swirled about him. Then he quietly dismounted and tethered the animal, so silently the guard never stirred. Vin smiled to himself. He knew what he was doing.
The alley next to the jail was dark and narrow. Vin felt his way along the wall, thought sadly that if the sun were shining, he would see where JD's blood was caked into the rough brick, where it had seeped and stained into the mortar, the soft sand beneath. Smoke from the street drifted by, suffusing the air with a ghostly otherworldliness, and Vin felt oddly choked by it, could almost see Chris, staggering, drunk, and JD, his white shirt stained with blood, frantically trying to protect himself as Chris slammed him into the unyielding, jagged brick, once, then again, until the boy slumped to the ground and didn't move anymore...
Vin put his back to the wall for a moment, and ran his hands over his face, glad the darkness was hiding him. So much, it was so much to forgive. The man that hurt JD was no friend of his, no friend of anyone's, just a snarling, vicious beast, and the fact that JD would probably recover did nothing to ease the sickness in Vin's heart as he sat against the bloodstained wall, his hat off and dangling in his hands. The man that hurt JD deserved to die.
But maybe he had died. Vin studied the wall opposite him, its craggy surface only just visible in the dim moonlight, and remembered what he had said to Josiah. If Chris comes back, he's admitting he's going to have to live with this for the rest of his life. And now Chris was back, the empty vessel, no arrogant swagger, no denials or accusations, but words, I attacked JD. I'm responsible. And locked himself in jail, sleeping against the wall that was stained with JD's blood,and he would be in that cell for a long time probably. No longer a snarling beast, but not anyone Vin was sure he knew either. But he wanted to.
Vin tilted his head up, saw the stars shining above the narrow alleyway. Gazing at their crystalline brilliance, he put up one hand and fished around in his jacket pocket for a moment, found what he was looking for. And smiled.
He played softly, so as not to wake the guard outside the front door. He wasn't playing for an audience at all really, just felt somber and melancholy in that haunted alley where their miseries had all started, his and his friends'. So Vin played his harmonica for them, a nameless tune, sad and soft and low, and on the other side of the brick wall Chris Larabee sat up in the blue-black darkness, and listened, and also thanked God for the darkness. And wept.
The days passed swiftly, turned into weeks. Darcy declared his intention to stay in Four Corners for as long as it took to get JD well again, and took a room in the boarding house. This made the curious townspeople insane with speculation - who was this man? Why was he going so far out of his way to help somebody he didn't even know? And what was his connection with Chris? The answers were too common, too unexciting for the nosy folk, so before long a host of wild stories sprang up, including that Darcy was JD's uncle, and or maybe father. This Darcy laughed off with the comment that the only Dunnes he knew lived in Cork and were much too good for him, and that JD couldn't possibly be his son because he'd heard it from Buck Wilmington himself that the boy's singing voice was terrible.
JD continued to grumble and do his exercises, waiting for his collarbone to heal. A few days after Darcy's return, Nathan took the stitches from JD's scalp, declaring that the would could heal the rest of the way on its own. As much as JD squirmed and complained during the procedure, it was a significant occasion for the five men gathered around him - the first visible, undeniable sign that JD would get better, recover, and come back to himself again. JD didn't see the relief on their faces, only groused that his head hurt, but when Nathan grinned and turned to Buck, he saw a mist in the gunslinger's eyes, knew that he was looking at a youth who a short time before was broken, bruised, and unconscious. And now - the bruises were fading, the broken collarbone healing nicely, and the once-horrible stitches reduced to a neat red line just behind JD's hairline over his left eye. JD was pouting, but the others in the room knew the truth. It was very nearly a miracle.
The town continued to rebuild itself. The scars of Concho Charles' visit began to fade, and Mary noticed the townspeople treating her, and the hired guns, with a new kind of grudging respect. Even Mr. Conklin, their most ardent critic, kept his silence, which to Mary was an astonishment. And a blessed relief.
Chris continued to sit in the jail. The townspeople seemed to be even more confused about him than they were about Darcy, and the onetime leader of the Seven was the subject over many laundry lines and mugs of beer. Was he a hero or a monster? Did he think that saving the town from Concho Charles would erase what he did to that poor boy? He almost ran, you know. That Darcy just brought him in to collect the bounty. They're running a scam together, Chris Larabee would never sit in jail, he's too wild for that, he'll break out, you'll see. You'll see...
But Chris stayed in the jail, not once complaining or even speaking to anyone outside of Orin, Josiah, and Vin. Josiah was glad to see Vin talking to Chris again. It seemed to ease the gunslinger's loneliness tremendously, to have that calm, understanding presence to talk to, and Vin's straightforward, clear-eyed acceptance of Chris' guilt and sorrow appeared to strengthen Chris' resolve. The others knew about Vin's forgiveness of Chris, but it wasn't talked about, and in JD's room it seemed as if nothing had changed. But Josiah noticed Buck and Ezra keeping company with Nathan more, and Vin less. And worried about it.
Mary wanted to talk to Chris too, just for a few minutes, but Orin gently discouraged it, took her aside one evening and told her, the man's been through something that he's still dealing with. You just want to make sure he's all right, but he thinks he let you down, and you go to him too fast and you'll just tear his wounds open again. Give it time, Mary. He knows how you feel.
Three weeks after the battle, the last of the wounded walked out of the church, and the crisis was declared officially over. Satisfied that town would do all right without him, Orin gathered the remaining soldiers together and pulled out of town, leaving Vin and Josiah primarily responsible for watching the jail, and Mr. Dwight in charge of helping them if they needed it. He stopped by JD's room, where the men were lounging, and said his goodbyes, wishing JD a swift recovery. It was later agreed to by all that the boy was sure to get better now, just to impress the judge. Mary shed a few tears, and bid her father-in-law goodbye.
The townspeople began to notice that although Josiah and Vin talked to Chris, the others continued to keep their distance from their former friend. Nathan continued to look after JD, Buck busied himself helping out the townsfolk and JD, and Ezra had his poker games to keep himself occupied, and a cold eye for any conversation that hinted at Chris Larabee's name. It was generally agreed among the townsfolk that, if and when Chris was ever let out, either he or Buck and Ezra would immediately leave town, rather than share breathing space with him. If they didn't just outright lynch him first.
One afternoon, Mary was on her way over to pay the JD a visit when the stagecoach arrived, and a passenger disembarked that made Mary stop, and gasp in surprise. Finally she found her voice and stammered, "Mr. Worthington!"
The jeweler turned at her voice, smiled and tipped his hat as she approached. "hello, Mrs. Travis." He said politely, but his huge grin revealed how glad he was to have taken her by surprise.
"Well - how nice to see you again," Mary said, remembering their last conversation, when he was hurrying out of town before the approaching outlaws. "Are you here for a visit?"
"Oh, no, Mrs. Travis," he said, waving at the luggage the driver was tossing onto the street. "I'm back to stay. Got the good news from a neighbor of mine, said the town was doing all right again." He looked around, nodded in satisfaction. "Looks like he was telling me the truth."
Mary glanced around herself, at the new glass windows, the repaired buildings, and smiled. "Yes, Orin came with some soldiers, and the hired guns were quite a help. I don't think the town will be quite so quick to judge them again."
"Well, that's great," Mr. Worthington said, leaning forward a bit. "Say, I heard that the sheriff is going to be all right too, or is that just a rumor? "
"No, it's true," Mary said happily. "A doctor came, from Europe, who's going to help him walk again. In fact, I'm going to see him right now."
"That's splendid!" Mr. Worthington exulted, and seemed to mean it. "I heard about everything that happened, and me and Jennie just knew we had to come back. Any place that can get through everything that this town's been through has just got to be a survivor, don't you think?"
Mary nodded, felt her heart swell with pride. Survivors, that was a good word. The right word.
"Well, I have to run," Mr. Worthington said, reaching over to pick up his suitcase. "I told Jennie I'd wire her when I got in. I'll be by later, Mrs. Travis, I want to place some advertisements and talk about maybe doing an article about the store reopening. I've got a feeling things are really going to pick up."
Mary smiled. Mr. Worthington's confidence lifting up her own, making it soar. She waved him off and went to see JD, her heart as light as a child's.
Finally JD's collarbone finished mending, and Nathan removed the constricting bandage from the boy's arm. JD was exuberant at finally having two hands again, but his happiness was dampened when he discovered that his left arm was weak and stiff from being held in one place for so long.
"Don't worry about that," Nathan said with a reassuring smile as he balled up the last of the bandages to throw away. "You just got to get the strength back, that's all."
JD groaned, and threw the healer a weary look. "I gotta do more exercises?"
"Only if you want to ride a horse again," Nathan said slyly, and stood up to discard the bandages.
JD rolled his eyes in exasperation, but was happy enough about finally being free to invite everyone over to his room for poker that night. Everyone came.
By this time the town had renewed itself, fixed every shattered window and mended every broken door, and for the casual traveler it would have been impossible to tell that anything out of the ordinary had happened in Four Corners in the last month. Even looking at JD provided no clue, unless you looked very close. The bruises were gone, the broken collarbone reduced to mere soreness, and if he was sitting down there was no reason to think he wasn't completely well. Except for a certain weariness around the eyes that hadn't been there before, a few creases in the once-smooth face. And a small, almost unnoticeable scar above his left eye, right against his hairline. That was all.
While JD healed, Darcy set up a practice of sorts out of his rented room. When not at the hospital tending to the few remaining wounded, or helping JD with his exercises, the physician could often be found there or around the town, helping Nathan tend to the injured and sick, and sometimes taking on problems of his own. There were a few grumblings about the Irishman showing off and trying to push Nathan out of town, but they didn't come from any of the people Darcy helped, or from Nathan himself, who was pleased to have someone to lend him a hand. For his part, Darcy admired Nathan's easy manner and the trust he inspired in people, and only saw people himself if Nathan was busy, or deferred to his knowledge. They got along splendidly, and the objections dwindled, then ceased.
A week and a half after JD's bandaging came off, Darcy performed a final check of his collarbone, then made the happy announcement that it was high time to get the lad back on his feet. He had rented an unfurnished room down the hall from JD's, and in the time that the boy had spent getting strength back in his arm, the others helped Darcy turn the bare room into the place where JD would learn to walk again.
With Buck's help, Josiah brought over two pews from the church, which Darcy instructed them to place so their high backs faced each other, with a long passage down the middle. JD would use them, he explained, to help him balance when he was walking. Ezra and Buck went around asking the townswomen for spare blankets and quilts, to cushion the hard floor against the falls JD would inevitably take. When they found out what the donation was for, the women gladly complied. And they all joined in the construction of a short flight of stairs, four steps high, for the day when JD would need to learn once again how to navigate staircases and the now-treacherous flights of steps outside his own room. The work was completed the same day JD was pronounced fit to begin his therapy, and Darcy warned the excited JD to try to get as much sleep as he could. The following days would be the most challenging yet.
But sleep would be impossible that night, for the youth who wanted to walk, and run, and ride. Buck saw JD's skittishness, suggested another all-night poker game to get rid of some of that energy. Darcy was unsure, but Ezra took him aside and invited him to sit in too, and shuffled his cards with a wicked smile on his face.
Josiah heard of the invitation, wondered if his friends, who were still so at odds over Chris, could truly let loose and enjoy each other's company without tempers flaring, and possibly bottles flying, and all in front of JD. But as the sun was setting that day, he walked down the streets and heard everyone talking about JD's recovery, about how wonderful it was. He shared supper with Mary, and Buck and Vin, and saw it in their faces: JD was getting better, would be fine. Buck was too happy to resent Vin's renewed friendship with Chris, and Vin was too happy to care that Buck still harbored bad feelings. For one night, differences would be set aside. It was time to celebrate.
The poker game that followed would be remembered as one of the rowdiest, loudest, and most exuberant card matches the men had ever set down to. With a whispered warning to Darcy to 'watch your rings and lay low', Ezra let the cards fly with such speed that it was nearly impossible to keep up. Between the energetic card-playing and Buck's endless stream of non-sequitur ramblings and dirty jokes, JD was getting visibly foggy by eleven o'clock, and by midnight had played his last wretched hand and, yawning, curled up without even saying good night.
Without making a sound, the entire group picked itself up and moved to Buck's room, where the festivities continued until well past two. At least, Darcy thought that must be the time; he'd lost his pocket watch to Buck a half-hour earlier, and couldn't be sure.
When at last most everyone had lost their money and developed splitting headaches, the poker game broke up, and Buck at last made his way to his bed, exhausted but determined to hang onto his good mood. He had just brought his suspenders down when he heard a soft knock on the door, and went to see who it was. Thinking quickly, he pulled his gun out of its holster and held it at the ready, just in case.
He sidled up to the door, opened it a crack. A little wider.
Then wider, in surprise. It was Rita.
"Hello, Buck," she said, and smiled at him.
"Well - hello there, darlin'," Buck said softly, dropping his gun arm and opening the door wider. "How you doin'? Is Maria okay?"
"I'm fine," Rita purred, coming into the room and turning to face Buck, her long dark hair tumbling over her shoulders. "We're both very fine."
"I've been trying to find you, you know," Buck said as he set the gun down and pulled his suspender straps back up, "But you two were gone like a Texas whirlwind. I - "
"I know," Rita interrupted, stepping close to Buck and putting a finger on his lips, "We decided to lay low for a while. You were - how you say - "
"Busy?" Buck said around Rita's finger.
Rita smiled up at Buck and nodded, slid her arms around his neck. "I hear Senor Dunne is okay?"
"He's going to be," Buck said softly, shivering at the feel of Rita's arms around him. It felt like it hadbeen ages, but strangely Buck realized that he had not thought of lovemaking once in the past month. Not once. That had to be some kind of record.
"Yes, ma'am, he's going to be just fine." Buck smiled and embraced Rita, brought her lips to his and kissed her. It felt so good, to want a woman again, to be free of worry and anger, just for a night. He didn't even know how tight he'd been wound, till that moment. And then he felt like he could fly forever.
"This is happy, que?" Rita replied softly, holding Buck tighter and stroking his hair. "We going to have a fiesta?"
"Oh, darlin'," Buck said, and laughed heartily as they tumbled toward the bed. "You better believe it."
The following morning when Darcy met Buck outside his room, his only comment to the gunslinger's stiff walk and somewhat bruised neck was a raised eyebrow. Buck gave him a huge grin and genteelly handed the physician his watch.
"You can have it back," he said in a sore gasp as they made their way down the hall, "Didn't get all the way undressed last night. I don't think it works no more."
"Uh - huh," Darcy said knowingly. And pocketed the watch.
Despite the lateness of his retirement, JD was up when the two men knocked on his door, and eager to go to what he would dub 'the room', where Darcy had a good breakfast and a full day of therapy waiting for him.
"How is this stuff gonna help me walk again?" JD asked Darcy, looking dubiously at the pews as he sat on the floor in the large, bare room and ate his eggs and juice. Buck was looking out the curtained alcove windows in the front, drinking some coffee.
Darcy took a sip of coffee and said, "Well, we'll have to start at the beginnin', on the mats. Ye'll learn to walk as a babe does, by creepin' first, then crawlin'. After that, we'll get ye standin' on yer own, and then ye'll walk. It'll be slow, and ye'll need every ounce of patience ye have. But it can be done."
JD eyed the arranged pews, the spread-out quilts and the makeshift stairs, and nodded with a determined gleam in his eyes. "I'm ready."
Darcy took another sip, and smiled. "Then, Mr. Dunne, so am I."
And they got to work.
Buck would later tell his friends that he'd never seen JD sweat as much as he did the first day Darcy worked him out. The physician set JD on the floor, flat on his stomach, and slowly, carefully, patiently, instructed the youth on how to move his arms and legs so he would creep forward, the first stage toward walking. JD looked petrified, but when Darcy told him to try he pursed his lips and, with a glare of determination in his hazel eyes, JD Dunne pushed, and pulled, and concentrated, concentrated, concentrated -
-and finally moved forward, an inch at a time.
It didn't seem like it would be so hard, but from the look of intense concentration on JD's face, from the flush of his cheeks and the glistening sweat on his brow as he struggled to coordinate his legs and arms so they would propel him forward on the smooth floor, it was very hard indeed. The whole day was spent that way, Darcy urging JD on, JD on his stomach pushing forward, so slowly, his face stern and focused, his black hair hanging unheeded in his blank eyes, his whole body shaking with the effort. Buck hovered nearby, gave JD what encouragement he could, and handed the kid a towel and a glass of water when Darcy called a halt to his struggles. JD would rest for a little while, and then they would begin again. And then again, and again, each time the same movements, the same repetition, so it would become ingrained in JD's mind, as it had been before; not a thought of movement, but unconscious, unwilled memory. Struggle, rest, and then struggle. Again and again. Finally, Darcy glanced up after stopping JD yet again, and noticed the sun was slanting its way down the pale walls, and turning amber. "Well, that's it for today I think," he said, sounding as tired as JD, Buck thought as he poured the youth another glass of water, and handed him a towel to wipe the sweat from his skin. Darcy regarded JD with atouch of admiration in his eyes and added, "Ye've worked hard enough."
JD took the water, mopped off his face and shook his head as he sat up, gasping. "I wanna go again."
"Now, Mr. Dunne," Darcy said, accepting the drink Buck was handing him, "ye must take it slow, or ye'll be gettin' sick."
"No, I'm fine," JD insisted, even though his breath was coming in shallow heaves, and he was dripping with sweat. "I can do it again."
"Now don't you go arguin' with the doctor," Buck advised, taking the towel from JD and roughly drying the perspiration from the boy's hair. "He's as bad as Nathan, you ain't gonna win."
"I actually think Mr. Jackson is somewhat worse," Darcy offered plaintively, watching Buck with his arms crossed.
"I don't," JD mumbled, scrunching his eyes shut as Buck tousled his hair in the towel's folds.
There was a knock at the door, and a moment later it opened and Josiah stood there, his hands together and folded.
"Afternoon, gents," the big man said amiably, walking in and giving the weary JD an encouraging smile.
"Hi, Josiah," JD said, and tried to stretch the soreness out of his arms.
"Sorry to interrupt," Josiah continued, walking up to Darcy and looking at him expectantly, "but I got some folk in the saloon and the newspaper office who're mighty anxious to hear how the first day went."
"Splendid," Darcy enthused.
"Just fine," Buck added.
"I am so damn sore," JD groaned.
"Yeah," Josiah rumbled as he approached JD and helped him to his feet, keeping a tight grip on him so he didn't fall. "We figured on that. Now don't go tellin' the woman that runs the place, but me and Ezra smuggled one of the washtubs out of the bathhouse and into your room, JD, and Nathan found some nice hot water to go in it."
JD was wincing as Josiah hooked the boy's right arm around his neck, but now he was staring at the former preacher in amazement. "You got a bathtub in my room?"
"Yep," Josiah said softly. "Now all we gotta do is get you in it, and you'll be feelin' better in no time."
"Sounds great - ow," JD commented as Josiah slowly helped him out of the room. He was carrying him, really, but it was done in such a surreptitious way it wasn't obvious. And for that, Buck knew as he watched them go, JD was grateful.
Buck turned away from the doorway after the two left and gave Darcy a tired smile, picking up the pitcher and the discarded towels as the two prepared to leave.
"Well, a successful day I think," Darcy sighed, rolling his sleeves back down. "The first of many. Yer Mr. Dunne has a remarkable spirit."
Buck nodded, filial pride bright in his eyes. "He sure does. You comin'?"
Darcy shook his head, reached for his jacket, which lay discarded on the floor. "I have to pay some visits, but Mr. Jackson can look after Mr. Dunne's needs. I'll look in on him tonight, after I've finished."
A darkness flickered across Buck's face for a moment, and he looked down at the pitcher in his hands. "You goin' to the jail?"
Darcy shrugged the jacket on, eyed Buck a little warily. "Aye, among other places."
Buck nodded, looked down quickly, kept his eyes on the floor.
"I'm sorry." Darcy said, "I know yer feelings, but Chris begged me to let him know how Mr. Dunne is faring. I promised him that he would know."
Buck shrugged, looked up but not at Darcy, past him, at the reds and golds of the setting sun. "You're helpin' JD get better, Mr. Thomas, and I'm grateful. Don't suppose I got too much to say about what you do in your spare time."
Darcy paused, tilted his head. "There's room for more, if ye're interested."
Buck winced, shook his head. "Like I said, you're a good man, but you don't understand what's goin' on between Chris and me. I ain't like Vin, or Josiah, I can't just let it go."
Darcy finished pulling on his jacket, looking at Buck in a way that made the gunslinger uneasy, as if he was looking at Buck but seeing someone else.
"Of course," Darcy said apologetically. "I'm very sorry, forget I brought it up."
Buck tried to shrug it off, backed toward the door. "Ain't nothin' to say sorry for, just the way it is. Just got to move on."
Darcy nodded, didn't say anything.
Buck cleared his throat, tried to change the subject. "So - Mr. Thomas, JD's gettin' better?"
Darcy smiled. "Yes, Mr. Wilmington, thanks to yer kind encouragement and his spirit."
"And - he'll be ridin' soon?"
Darcy looked at Buck curiously.
The gunslinger shrugged, smiled apologetically. "Don't mean to push, it's just - it's kinda all the boy wants, you know."
"Yes, I do know," Darcy said wistfully as he looked down to pull out his cuffs. "He told me. He wants ye all t' ride together, the way ye used to. His heart is set on it, it seems - "
Darcy was unprepared for the look on Buck's face when he looked up again. For a moment, a shadow crossed it, full of anguish and a kind of helpless resentment. When Buck met Darcy's eyes again, his expression changed to one of simple resignation.
"Well, I reckon I'd better go help Nathan," the gunslinger said in a husky voice, and tried to smile disarmingly. "That boy's gotten so thin he's liable to squirt right out of the tub and fall through a hole in the floor. 'Scuse me."
With that, Buck backed quickly out the door and was out of sight before Darcy could open his mouth to protest. He looked at the empty air where the young man had been sadly, and with eyes that brimmed with the memory of another long-ago friendship, he looked down once more and finished buttoning up his coat.
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Tsonga Vs. Djokovic: A Rendezvous With Destiny
At 3:30 a.m. eastern time Sunday on ESPN2 (rebroadcast at noon), we should see one of the best tennis grand slam finals that has ever been broadcast. Both players, world no. 38 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and world no. 3 Novak Djokovic of Serbia earned the right to stand on the surface of Rod Laver arena in this 2008 Australian Open Final. What an incredible match this will be.
Here is the transcript of Tsonga's pre-final interview*:
Q. Have you gotten Nadal out of your mind by this time and moved on mentally?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, I think at the final, yeah. It's finished now.
Q. Did you watch last evening?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah.
Q. Did you watch the whole match or just a little bit?
Q. What are your thoughts on Djokovic being there tomorrow against you?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: I don't know. He won yesterday. He played well. It's never easy to beat Federer. We will play tomorrow at the final, and it's going to be a big moment of sports.
Q. What are the main differences between facing Nadal and facing Djokovic?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: It's the same, no? It's the same, because Nadal is 2 in the world and Djokovic 3, so both of them won a lot of tournaments and they have more experience than me.
I know it's going to be difficult, but I'm here and ready for that.
Q. Do you feel any differently now than you did before the first round playing Andy Murray? Are your nerves any different? Is your concentration any different? Is your composure any different?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: No. I try to keep the same way. I try to approach this match like the other one.
Q. Have you had much of a chance to see any of Melbourne or do any sightseeing? What's your opinion of Melbourne?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: My opinion of Melbourne? It's a nice city. I feel great here. I have a lot of good things in my head here. I'm happy to be here.
Q. Have your parents arrived yet?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: They arrive Sunday at the morning, tomorrow morning.
Q. Can we go back to that week at Surbiton just before Queens which your coach says was such a big changing week for you when you had to play the challenger tournament and get across and play qualifying as well. What do you remember about that week?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: About this week?
Q. No, at Surbiton.
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: When I played the challengers?
Q. Yeah.
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: It was not very different. It's all ‑‑ it's you. You're here, and when I played challenger it was not. So there is no difference play a final in challenger or here for me. I try to be the same.
Q. But that same week was the big week of Roland Garros and you were in a different country at a small little tournament. What did you feel like? Were you determined to maybe next year at the same time be at Roland Garros rather than Surbiton?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yes, it was special for me, because of course Roland Garros is big event for me and for all French guys.
I was sad to ‑‑ of this situation. But now I'm here and maybe I will be seeded this year, so it was a good choice for me.
Q. It's Australia Day today. Do you plan to do anything typically Australian: Have a beer, go to a barbeque?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: No, no, no.
Q. Since your semifinal win how have you stayed relaxed and stayed calm?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Just stay in my room at the hotel, practice, and that's it.
Q. You try not to think about all the media and the different things that people want from you now that you've reached the final?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: No, no, I don't think about it. It's normal. You have to write on me, and I know my life so I don't have to read it in the paper.
Q. What movies do you watch or music do you listen to to relax in your hotel?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Everything.
Q. What in particular?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Everything. I won't say something in particular.
Q. You seemed to enjoy the atmosphere the other night in the semifinal. Does a big crowd help your game a lot?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah. It help me because I like that and I'm good ‑‑ I feel good in this atmosphere.
Yeah, it does for me.
Q. Do you find it surprising how much the crowd got behind you the other night in the match?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Not really, because all match before the people was clapping for me. So, no, I was not surprised.
Q. And it helps you improve your game, to take it to another level, playing in front of such a...
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, I think.
Q. Do you feel that your life has changed in this last fortnight, the expectation on you and what you have achieved?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yes, of course, a little bit. It's not a chance for everyone to be in final at the Australian Open, so of course it change a little bit.
But me, I try to stay the same person.
Q. Do you have any sense of how France is reacting? I understand that in Belgrade they're going crazy. Are you getting any feedback that the French public are really into what's happening here?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, of course, of course. I'm just proud of that.
Q. Why have you played so well this tournament?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Why?
Q. Yeah, why? Clearly this is your best tournament. What's been the secret?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: I don't know. Because maybe I don't want to play bad.
Q. What happened last year?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Last year was different. It was a different year. It was my first year on the tour. This year's my second and I have more experience and, yeah, so I play better.
Q. Your nickname is Ali, and people liken you in looks to him. Have you ever watched any videos of his fights or have you watched any movies about him? Is it an ambition of yours maybe to meet him?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Yeah, of course, I watch some DVDs. My father was at the fight at Kinshasa because he's from Brazzaville. He took some photos, so I have some souvenir.
Q. So he's been an inspiration to you since you were a child?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: No, no, no. Maybe more now than when I was child.
Q. Can you believe you've made the final of a Grand Slam so quickly in just your second year on the tour?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: No, I not believe it, but I'm here and I have to do it.
Q. What do you have to do to win tomorrow night?
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Just play ‑‑ just do my best, and that's it. I will see what's happened on the court, but I will do my best. If I win, that's unbelievable. And if I lose, I did my best, so no problem.
Q. Sorry to get back on Muhammad Ali. But say in your words why Ali is an inspiration to you now.
JO‑WILFRIED TSONGA: Maybe his personality on the court. Maybe I think I have the same tennis as his box.
*Source
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Under the Arcade with Butch Husky
Ruminations on the San Francisco Giants and the game of baseball, written by someone who knows both
Who is Butch Husky?
113 down. 49 to go.
Go Bells. Seriously, I don't think I've taken full advantage of this space to express the sheer joy I get from watching a former Bellarmine classmate light it up for the team we both grew up idolizing. And now, three times in nine days, Pat Burrell has won a game for los Gigangtes de San Francisco — first with his epic 8th inning blast against the Hated Ones, then on a pair of desperately needed sac flies. One of those SF's produced the only win that SF picked up in the ATL. The other ended an 11-inning contest on Jerry Garcia Tribute Night yesterday at the Cove. My avid Tweeps will recall that I called for the Giants to sign Pat the Bat the very day he was DFA'd by the Rays, and I lobbied for the move over the week that followed before a deal was finally struck. To a one, the beat writers — I'm looking at you @HankSchulman — said it would be a pointless endeavor considering the team's apparent outfield logjam and the apparent decline of Burrell's career arc. What a difference a couple months make. His numbers over 170 plate appearances since joining the Orange and Black? .291/.388/.511, 10 2B, 7 HR, 20 RBI — and 4 sacrifice flies. And just yesterday, Bochy says Pat's the de facto everyday LF. So go eat another donut, Henry, and let the big boys like #Butchtrodamus do the prognosticating. When this season is said and done, I hope we can all look back and be happy that Sabes and the brass took a chance on that kid who used to sit behind me in Counterculture Lit with Mr. Benson. But even if he never swung a bat after that homer against the Doyers, he would've held a special place in the hearts of Giants fans for years to come. Go Bells, indeed...
BTW...
> This [lack of] offense is really starting to piss me off. I mean, for crying out loud, 7 BBs in 5 IP from Carlos "I Can't Help That I'm A Total Douche" Zambrano, and we score 2 whole runs — one of them on a WP? Yeah, it's odd to have a rookie catcher batting cleanup, but when you've only got three guys out of nine you can trust not to strike out feebly or bounce a two-hopper to short with runners on base, you've got to put them where they can make an impact. The good news? The boys picked up twice as many hits with RISP on Monday night as they did all weekend in Atlanta. The bad news? They still almost lost to a lesser team. Ah, the dog days...
> I'm certainly not the biggest Deadhead in the world, but I'm enough of a fan to appreciate last night's tribute to Jerry. As always, the team put on a wonderful pre- and in-game show, highlighted — for me anyway — by Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bill Walton leading 8,500 strong in a kazoo chorus version of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the stretch. There were plenty of heads in the crowd, and the lot before the game was reminiscent of my weekend with Phish at the Greek. I think I heard someone asking for a miracle for tonight's game...
> War Giants bullpen for coming home hard. Five and a third of shutout ball from six of seven available relievers, but I sure as hell didn't want this game getting to Santiago Casilla. Yikes! Thankfully, it ended with Chris Ray on the bump, as it has three times since he was acquired for Bengie Mo. Pretty good deal that...
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Bedhouse Games
Our Pandemic: 1918 Demo at Virginia Tech's ICAT Day, or how I got to thinking about using video games to build empathy between multiple players
by Meredith Wilson
On May 2nd Dr. Tom Ewing and I manned our table at Virginia Tech's ICAT Day to showcase our very first demo of Our Pandemic: 1918. The final release date isn't until 2018 but we figured ICAT day would be a good opportunity to gauge audience reaction to the game's concept while it's still in developmental infancy, so we cobbled together the opening scene game jam style and put it out there! The demo was well received and we found and solved a lot of bugs by rapidly prototyping solutions both in Unity and on paper as the day went on.
Thing that struck both Tom and me the most was the fact that the people who really got into the demo were those whose families were directly affected by the 1918 Flu Pandemic. There were about three people who had a great grandparent or great aunt or uncle that died in the pandemic, and one who had an aunt that was a doctor at the time (yes one of the first legit female doctors in the US). I myself had heard stories from my grandmother told to her by her mother, about how one of the families on their block lost ALL of their children during the pandemic (it was a big family, 5 kids in total I believe).
The whole thing reminded me of a conversation I had with Navid Khonsari, the creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, at the Games for Change Summit back in April. He said that one unexpected outcome of the game was how it served as a way for parents and grandparents who had lived through the Iranian revolution to talk to their children and grandchildren about what happened. Side by side. It's sometimes easier to talk about difficult subjects side by side rather than face to face, at least it's easier for me. Using video games to facilitate discussion between players in the same room on potentially tough topics is an angle on gaming that I hadn't really thought about before, as my focus had been on building empathy in solitary players through games but I now see that building empathy and understanding between multiple players is a natural fit. Games like 1979 Revolution: Black Friday as well as That Dragon, Cancer and Loving Life fit into this space and with luck Our Pandemic: 1918 will join their ranks.
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Finding my authenticity
Submitted by a professional musician
The story I wish to recount is of an experience drinking Ayahuasca during three sessions in Colombia. I was drinking in a ritual context with shamans who had worked with ‘Mama’ Ayahuasca their whole lives, in a ‘Malloca’ (traditional wooden hut for ceremonies) where great care was taken in how the ceremony was set-up and conducted – very slow, very respectful. Sometimes I felt a little like I as a tourist, but the welcome was warm, and they really wanted to show us how they worked with their spirits and their ancient earth medicines.
Although I had been a successful professional musician for 20 years I had never felt comfortable in calling myself a musician – it was strange, but I felt deep down that there was something missing in the way I made music which made me feel unable to describe myself as one. I had never dwelt on this too much in the past, but as I was reviewing certain things in my life, I had decided to concentrate on this as an intention during the ceremonies. In the first ceremony I played with the shamans (some were conducting the ceremony, and some were there as musicians), and it was a beautiful experience, but one that was quite like other musical experiences I had had. I found myself tuning in to what else was playing and going into a musical space I was familiar with, a kind of yearning lament. I had recently realised that the reason I chose my instrument at the age of seven was because I identified it with a certain kind of keening emotion that I had felt was not being recognised in me by my parents – as though music was the only way I was allowed to be sad. So it was a way to express something that I couldn’t elsewhere, but because this had never been conscious it was a kind of escapist musical knee-jerk reaction. This is very different (and in my opinion inferior) to a mature choice of how and why you play music.
On the second night I didn’t play, giving myself the possibility not to have to identify myself as a musician in any way. I wanted to let go of that need to make music in a particular way for that particular reason. I found myself in the middle of that ceremony lying face down on the earth, making a very deep connection to our dear mother! It was healing in its simplicity, and rich in its symbolism.
In the third session I played again. That night I found myself making up a piece that was so clear and simple that I could remember it all the following day, despite the length and power of the ceremony which lasted around 12 hours through the night. The music was of a different quality to anything I had played before – it had a freedom and purity to it that was gently exhilarating. More importantly I realised quite quietly that the experience felt like being a musician – it had been such a profound experience of music-making, in a context that was so ancient and natural, that it provided the missing link for me. As a creative artist, there are certain things that you chase, and one of the things for me was this depth of experience - an authenticity - that I had lacked before. Ayahuasca is seen as a medicine by the cultures that have been using it for thousands of years, and it has been observed that to drink this medicine is like plugging yourself back in to the earth. Much of the world of arts has turned into an industry, so finding that elemental connection is difficult, but drinking Ayahuasca for me provided the bridge that has made a lasting, and positive, change in how I regard myself.
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Appreciating Pacific Beaches: Where el Nino and la Nina Come to Shore
April 1, 2009 by jim.pickell
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By David Bear, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
David Bear
Playa las Palmas near the town of Todos Santos is one of the best beaches in southwest Baja Mexico.
TODOS SANTOS, Baja, Mexico — The great gray whale and her calf lolled and spouted in the white-capped swells barely 200 feet from where my wife, Sari, and I sat on the steeply banked, deserted beach. We had cruised 500 miles down the coast of Baja’s Sea of Cortez but witnessed more whales from this beach in an hour that afternoon than during the previous week. We watched enraptured until the setting sun told us it was time to go. The huge, wind-pushed, winter swells that roll in all along this coast from the deep, cold Pacific offer sure-footed surfers some mondo rides, but the ocean’s regular rip tides and rogue waves often make these long sandy beaches too risky for even strong swimmers. Situated on the Tropic of Cancer, the town of Todos Santos (All Saints) dates from 1723, when the first Spanish Mission on the Baja was relocated from bone-dry La Paz on the Sea of Cortez to this spring-fed valley on the Pacific coast 60 miles north of the peninsula’s tip. The mission’s church on the town square still retains its original statue of the Virgin of Pilar, a relic adorated at an annual October festival. The small farms that took root around the mission in the fertile lowlands between the ocean and dry hills eventually evolved into significant plantations that made Todos Santos the sugar cane capital of Baja during the 19th century. Decades of droughts ended those operations by the 1950s, but the fields still produce plenty of vegetables and chili peppers amid orchards of avocado, papaya and mango. Along with other traditional occupations such as small-scale fishing and ranching operations, these activities give the town its livelihood, as well as its agrarian authenticity. Tourism is a relatively recent arrival. Connected in 1988 only by paved road to the cities of Cabo San Lucas to the south or La Paz to the northeast, Todos Santos evolved relatively sheltered from the tides of tourism that have totally overwhelmed its Baja neighbors. The steady waves that wash its half-dozen magnificently wild beaches have long attracted serious surfers, and birding buffs have come to revel in the abundance of avian species. But since the two-lane Highway 19 that heads south along the coast to Los Cabos was situated 11/2 miles inland, all beach access involves finding your way down a long, dusty, unmarked lane through the dry brush and cactus scrubland. That distance coupled with the chilly, often treacherous Pacific, have discouraged major construction on the sand. As we discovered during our three-day visit of all six of the area’s beaches, there are no high-rise condos or big name hotels — only a few small beachside bistros, modest bungalows and campgrounds. We wandered freely along these scenic stretches almost by ourselves. Several times, there were more whales than people. That lack of development also holds true for Todos Santos itself, which still retains its rustic, authentically Mexican air. Other than a main road that bisects it, most of the town’s streets are still hard packed dirt, with dogs sleeping in lazy corners. Accommodations are limited. The largest is the venerable 11-room Hotel California in the center of town, followed by a handful of smaller inns, B&Bs, boutique resorts and rental homes. Drawing on its natural beauties, Todos Santos has blossomed as a community for artists and crafts people; there are more than 15 small galleries, local craft and jewelry shops that have some calling it the Santa Fe of Baja. A clutch of upish-scale restaurants and kitschy cafes have injected new color into several of the town’s well-worn storefronts. Film festivals, art shows, food tastings, dharma talks and other New Age events also have been fitted into the schedule of activities, along with hill hiking, sea-kayaking and other eco-adventures.
If you go: Todos Santos
• Official Todos Santos Web site: www.todossantos.cc • Another good site:www.todossantosguide.com • Posada la Poza:www.lapoza.com
The laid-back coastal ambience and redeeming summer breezes have also attracted an expatriate community of several hundred North Americans and Europeans who call Todos Santos home. Among them are the Wiesendangers, a colorful couple who arrived in southern Baja on a vacation from Switzerland in 1998 and fell under the spell of Todos Santos. Libuche, an artist, and Juerg, a banker, were looking for a change from their Alpine homeland. Over the next four years, they constructed a pastel-colored walled compound around a garden of cactus and palm trees, including a house for themselves, a small restaurant and a boutique hotel, Posada La Poza or House of the Spring. It has seven guest rooms in two buildings around a lovely saltwater pool and hot tub. Guests are able to access the beach where we watched whales by rowboat across a small, bird-blessed lagoon. In addition to armadas of pelicans and gulls, we saw cormorants, frigate birds, diving ducks, heron, snowy egrets, kingfishers, hummingbirds, willets and yellowthroat warblers. Juerg designed the handsome buildings and Libusche decorated the tiles and textiles in traditional Mexican styles. The result is an elegant, shore-side simplicity accented with European sophistication. Equally important, the enclave is run with Swiss graciousness and efficiency, overseen by the ever energetic and engaging Juerg, who both sets high standards for his staff and ensures every guest gets personal attention. Chef-prepared gourmet meals served nightly in the restaurant are an impressive blend of Mexican and Continental cuisines made with local organic produce, meats and fresh seafood. The posada’s accommodations are private and plush, with incredibly comfortable beds and verandas open to the garden, the lagoon and the ocean beyond. Suites are equipped with ceiling fans, air-conditioning and CDs, but they have no TV, telephone or Internet access, so relaxation and self-amusement are the primary activities. But with the sun by day and the stars at night, that is not an issue. Nightly rates, which start at $210, include a full breakfast. To be fair, reaching the posada requires negotiating a badly rutted mile route from Todos Santos that had us originally reconsidering our stay as we drove up. It is fortunate Juerg has done a good job of posting directional signs. But once we reached the apricot-colored compound with the blue Pacific as its backdrop, we soon discovered it difficult to come up with reasons ever to leave. And that’s a very good thing.
David Bear, Post-Gazette travel editor emeritus, can be contacted at[email protected].
First published on April 5, 2009 at 12:00 am
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Home > Reviews > Action > Stone
June 14th, 2009 by shuizmz
Director: Sandy Harbutt
Writer: Sandy Harbutt & Michael Robinson
Motorcycles, babes, and violence done up Aussie-style!
The Grave Diggers outlaw motorcycle club has a bit of a problem: someone is murdering members of their motorcycle gang, one by one. Stone, an undercover cop, has been assigned to the case. It’s up to him to try and find out who exactly is killing off the bikers.
Sandy Harbutt has directed and co-written a film reminiscent of so many other American biker films of the late ’60s and ’70s except for one thing: this film was extremely well-directed and full of excellent cinematography, almost reminiscent of the long landscape-filled shots of Easy Rider (1969). Stone has that kind of “free-for-all” vibe to it, especially as it is accompanied by a rocking soundtrack that covers so many different styles as befits the time period of the ’70s. Many biker films have atrocious acting and a plot filled with holes upon holes and really not too much structure, but I felt that Stone had a plot that moved along swiftly, had lots of action, really great editing and a fair amount of nudity (both male and female). The women in the film were not your stereotypical ugly biker chicks, which probably may not be that true to life as most biker chicks are not supposed to be that attractive, so I have read and heard.
Sandy Harbutt also plays the Undertaker, leader of the Grave Diggers. The titular Stone, the rebellious cop and lead character, was played by Ken Shorter. The rest of the motorcycle gang members had some classic biker names, such as Toad (Hugh Keays-Byrne who was also Toecutter in Mad Max), Hooks (Roger Ward who played Fifi in Mad Max), Dr. Death (Vincent Gil who also played Nightrider in Mad Max), Septic (Dewey Hungerford), and Stinkfinger (James H. Bowles) whose name is my personal favorite. Stone has been tagged an Australian cult film and I see why it has amassed such a strong following, for it was instantly unique.
Aside from the panoramic shots of bikers cruising the highways of the coast of the land down under (cinematography provided by Graham Lind), the film boasted this intense and extremely acid-trip style of hippie-funk experimental rock that really blew me away. The opening sequence had edits that paused as each credit appeared on the screen, showing a biker go through the steps of starting up his Kawasaki 9000 motorcycle until the title appears and the film instantly starts off with its first fatality via decapitation! We have Ian Berry to thank for the cool and crisp edits throughout the film. In the first 15 minutes, three bikers are already murdered, giving this film a sorta of early Dario Argento mystery edge to it, but it isn’t that type of film at all. Or maybe this is going to be an all-out kill-fest, one won’t know until completion of the film. Stone just crosses in and out of genres, taking the best parts of them and molding the story into a coherent and well-oiled machine, tying up any loose ends and completely taking me by surprise by the films’ ending.
One of the most breathtaking scenes involves a large shot of the whole gang riding with the coffin of one of their murdered mates to the grave-site, riding along the coastal highway and accompanied by classical music. One can almost forget that one is watching a gritty, rough, bad-ass cult biker film. The scene was actually quite beautiful and very emotionally evocative. As soon as one is accustomed to the lovely classical music, BAM!, the film switches gears and jumps into some laid-back funk with some heavy soul bleeding from it, pro vided by Billy Green. Edited with close-up shots of individual bikers, back to wide panoramic shots and back again to close-ups, I would say the editing of this film, done by Ian Berry, was top-notch for a biker film that I am sure many were dismissing at the time it came out.
But quite possibly the funniest use of music in the film or any film for that matter, was in a scene where the “pigs” come to crash the gang’s “satanic ceremony”, the guise used to grant the gang the freedom to conduct a funeral for their fallen brother, and the music written sounds like a smorgasbord of pig grunts and oinks, almost indescribable for words, and just fit so well in making fun of the police through the use of the films’ soundtrack. Stone just had so many unique and tiny bits and pieces integrated into the film that were extremely enjoyable, making the viewing of it a unique and almost shameful experience.
Why shameful you ask? Shameful to me because: 1. I had not heard of thi s film before and 2. that this may possibly be one of the best biker films I have seen to date, closely on par with Easy Rider. As far as films from Australia, the only ones that I can think of that really impressed me were the Mad Max trilogy and a few recent horror films. Now I know that I need to find out what other hidden gems the land from down under has to offer!
Do yourself a favor and go rent Stone. The film has character, excellent camera-work, and a solid cast of characters that all acted in some really believable performances. I am glad that Severin Films brought this dusty old flick out into circulation again for us in the States to check out.
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English is the primary means by which we communicate, and in the English classroom, our focus is on reading, writing, speaking and listening. To understand the rules of spelling, punctuation & grammar, and to construct an effective sentence on a page takes time, study and patience but once mastered these skills will enable you to become a strong communicator and will help you as you study subjects across the curriculum. Employers say that one of the most valuable things they look for in the people who work for them is good communication skills and this means writing and presentation as well as talking.
Such skills prepare us to become confident and successful in society, enable us to listen to others, and to have our own voices heard. However, English is about more than developing competence in these key areas; it is about fostering critical thinking skills and an understanding of the world around us that equip us to make sense of what we encounter in everyday life.
‘Getting better at English has made me a more confident person outside school as well as inside’
Students study and compose a breadth of fiction and non-fiction works across six half-termly units, with a view to developing a foundation of skills and knowledge required to succeed at KS4. Students are also actively encouraged to read and enjoy books for pleasure outside of the core curriculum.
A range of writing tasks about journeys and adventures. Including studying extracts from texts such as:
- The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- Kensuke’s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo)
- Alice in Wonderland
(Charles L Dodgson)
A range of writing tasks about Dystopias. Including studying extracts from texts such as:
- The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
A range of writing tasks on the Gothic genre. Including studying extracts from texts such as:
- The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Novel study
In-depth study of a whole text. Typical texts studied:
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (John Boyne)
- Skellig (David Almond)
- Private Peaceful (Michael Morpurgo)
- The Giver (Lois Lowry)
- Whale Rider (Witi Ihimaera)
- Brother in the Land (Robert Swindells)
- The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
- Jekyll and Hyde (Robert L Stevenson)
- Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Analysing and composing a range of identity and culture poetry. Typical poems/poets studied:
- Island Man (Grace Nichols)
- London (William Blake)
- We Refugees (Benjamin Zephaniah)
Analysing and composing a range of poems about the natural world. Typical poems/poets studied:
- Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
- To Autumn (John Keats)
- Fall Leaves, Fall (Emily Bronte)
Analysing and composing a range of war poetry. Typical poems/poets studied:
- Who’s for the Game? (Jessie Pope)
- Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
- Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Exploring identity and culture through the study and composition of non-fiction texts. Typical mediums studied:
- Letters
- Travel Guides
- Multimedia sources
- Posters/Adverts
Exploring the natural world through the study and composition of non-fiction texts. Typical mediums studied:
- Reports
- Debates
- News articles
Exploring war and conflict through the study and composition of non-fiction texts. Typical mediums studied:
- Newspapers
- Essays
- Speeches
A general introduction to Shakespeare, including social, historical and theatrical concepts. Typical texts studied:
- Julius Caesar
- Twelfth Night
An in-depth look at Shakespearean Comedies and their conventions. Typical texts studied:
- Much Ado About Nothing
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Tempest
An in-depth look at Shakespearean Tragedies and their conventions. Typical texts studied:
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Othello
Exploring dramatic performances of literature. Producing a dramatic treatment of a Shakespearean extract.
Exploring aspects of formal argument and debate. Producing/participating in a debate on Shakespeare.
Exploring aspects of formal presentations. Producing, performing and presenting commentary on their own tragedies.
Students studying the subject at GCSE follow the AQA English Language and AQA English Literature specification. During the course, the following topics are covered:
Paper One
Nineteenth century novel: A Christmas Carol
Paper Two
Modern text: An Inspector Calls
Past and Present poetry anthology: Power and Conflict poems
GCSE English Language
Reading and writing fiction
Writing with a viewpoint
Spoken Language Assessment
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Reading non-fiction
For more detailed information about the course content and assessment requirements, please refer to the examination board website:
A LEVEL – ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Students studying the subject at A Level follow the AQA specification. During the course the following topics are covered.
Students studying the subject at A Level follow the AQA specification which draws on the academic field of Stylistics in order to create an integrated English Language and Literature course bringing together literary and non-literary discourses. During the course the following topics are covered:
Paper 1 -Telling Stories
The aim of this part of the subject content is to allow students to learn about how and why stories of different kinds are told. The term ‘telling’ in the title is deliberately chosen to reflect the twin aspects of how stories are told, and why stories are ‘telling’, or valuable, within societies.
Remembered Places
Students study the AQA Anthology: Paris. The anthology includes a wide range of text types with a particular emphasis on non-fiction and non-literary material.
In this part of the subject content, students explore speech and other genres. They study a wide range of linguistic and generic features, as well as related issues around questions of representation and viewpoint in texts taken from a range of time periods. The anthology offers opportunities for detailed exploration of the ubiquitous nature of narrative and systematic study of the representation of place.
Imagined Worlds
In this part of the subject content, students explore the imagined worlds of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale which is characterised by unusual narratives, narrators and events. Students also consider key aspects of the texts which place them in particular contexts of production and reception. Students analyse the language choices made by writers in order to study the following:
presentation of time and space/place/narrative structure.
Poetic Voices
Students study poems from one of four poets within the AQA Poetic Voices Anthology:
This part of the subject content is concerned with the nature and function of poetic voice in the telling of events and the presentation of people. In studying the role of language in the construction of perspective, students explore and analyse:
• the presentation of time: understanding the past, reviewing past experiences, the manipulation of time
• the importance of place: locations and memories, the ways in which these are captured in voice(s), and their effect on individuals how people and their relationships are realised through point of view, attitude, specific registers, physical descriptions, speech and thought
• the presentation of events through the poet’s selection of material, the use of narrative frames and other poetic techniques.
Paper 2 – Exploring Conflict
This part of the subject content focuses on how language choices help to construct ideas of conflict between people, and between people and their societies. Drawing both on their everyday experiences of interaction in different modes and on published texts, students learn about how the language choices writers make are used to express relationships, drive narrative, and construct views about the nature of different societies. They apply their knowledge to the study of texts about individuals in situations of conflict.
Writing about Society
In this part of the subject content, students study ‘The Kite Runner’ by Khaled Hosseini
Students explore the ways that writers:
present people, their points of view and their relationships with others
shape the narrative structure and present events/time/places
reveal the speech and thought processes of the characters and narrator(s)
use situations of conflict to express ideas about societies and their values.
In addition, students develop the skills to adapt and shape the original material (the base text) to respond to different re-creative tasks.
Drawing on their studies in 'Writing about Society', students learn how to write a critical commentary to evaluate their writing. They explain their own language choices and analyse their intentions in reshaping the writer’s original material.
Dramatic Encounters
In this part of the subject content, students study ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams.
Students explore the ways that conflicts are presented, the meanings that can be inferred from the language use and the contextual reasons for these conflicts. As part of their study, students analyse areas relevant to the study of drama and dramatic discourse, including how playwrights:
*represent natural speech features
*use language to create distinctively different characters
*show characters asserting power and positioning others via their language and behaviour
*use the idea of conflict to create dynamic narratives and address the wider themes of the play.
Non-Exam Assessment – Making Connections
This part of the subject content focuses on language use in different types of text. It is called 'Making Connections' because it requires students to make active connections between a literary text and some non-literary material. The connections must be based either on a chosen theme or on the idea that particular linguistic strategies and features may occur in the different types of material. This area of the course provides an individualised experience for students, enabling them to demonstrate their ability to initiate and sustain independent enquiry.
The nature of the non-literary material to be collected depends entirely on the focus of the task. A wide range of everyday texts and discourses in different genres and modes is possible. The non-literary material needs to qualify on the basis of forming a good source of data for students to use in their investigations.
For more detailed information about the course content and assessment requirements, please refer to the examination board website.
A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE
Students studying the subject, English Literature, at A Level follow the AQA Literature B specification. During the course the following topics are covered.
Paper 1 - Aspects of tragedy
Students study the following texts for this paper: Othello by William Shakespeare, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
At the core of all the set texts is a tragic hero or heroine who is flawed in some way, who suffers and causes suffering to others and in all texts there is an interplay between what might be seen as villains and victims. Some tragic features will be more in evidence in some texts than in others and students will need to understand how particular aspects of the tragic genre are used and how they work in the three chosen texts. The absence of an ‘aspect’ can be as significant as its presence. There can be no exhaustive list of the ‘aspects’ of tragedy but areas that can usefully be explored include:
the type of the tragic text itself, whether it is classical and about public figures, like Lear, or domestic and about representations of ordinary people, like Tess
the settings for the tragedy, both places and times
the journey towards death of the protagonists, their flaws, pride and folly, their blindness and insight, their discovery and learning, their being a mix of good and evil
the role of the tragic villain or opponent, who directly affects the fortune of the hero, who engages in a contest of power and is partly responsible for the hero’s demise
the presence of fate, how the hero’s end is inevitable
how the behaviour of the hero affects the world around him, creating chaos and affecting the lives of others
the significance of violence and revenge, humour and moments of happiness
the structural pattern of the text as it moves through complication to catastrophe, from order to disorder, through climax to resolution, from the prosperity and happiness of the hero to the tragic end
the use of plots and sub-plots
the way that language is used to heighten the tragedy
ultimately how the tragedy affects the audience, acting as a commentary on the real world, moving the audience through pity and fear to an understanding of the human condition.
Paper 2 - Elements of political and social protest writing
Students study the following texts for this paper: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.
Students also respond to an unseen passage in this exam. The unseen extract can come from any of the genres of poetry, prose or drama and can include literary non-fiction.
Although it could be claimed that all texts are political, what defines the texts here is that they have issues of power and powerlessness at their core, with political and social protest issues central to each text’s structure. The political and social protest genre covers representations of both public and private settings.
All set texts foreground oppression and domination and they all look at the cultures we live in and have lived in over time. A crucial word in the title of this option is ‘Elements’ and students need to consider the specific elements that exist in each of their texts. The elements that might be explored, depending on each individual text, include:
the type of the text itself, whether it is a post-modern novel, science fiction, satirical poetry, historical and political drama
the settings that are created as backdrops for political and social action and the power struggles that are played out on them. Both places (real and imagined) and time settings will also be significant here
the specific nature of the power struggle, the behaviours of those with power and those without, those who have their hands on the levers of power
the pursuit of power itself, rebellion against those with power, warfare
the workings of the ruling political classes
corruption, conspiracy, control
the connection of the smaller world to the larger world
the focus on human organisation: domestically, in the work place, in local and national governments
gender politics and issues of social class
the structural patterning of the text, how political tensions are heightened and perhaps resolved
the way that language is used in the worlds that are created
the way that political and social protest writing is used to comment on society, particularly the representation of society at particular historical periods
ultimately how political and social protest writing affects audiences and readers, inviting reflection on our own world.
Non-Exam Assessment - Theory and Independence
This component is designed to allow students to read widely, to choose their own texts (if appropriate) and to understand that contemporary study of literature needs to be informed by the fact that different theoretical and critical methods can be applied to the subject. This area of the course provides a challenging and wide-ranging opportunity for an introduction to different ways of reading texts and for independent study. The title 'Theory and independence' highlights the important idea that, within a literature course, students should have the opportunity to work as independently as possible.
This process is supported by the AQA Critical anthology, which has accessible extracts on the following critical methods and ideas:
narrative theory
eco-critical theory
post-colonial theory
literary value and the canon.
In this component, students write about two different literary texts. One of the texts must be a poetry text and the other must be prose. Each text must be linked to a different section of the Critical anthology. Having explored their chosen text in the light of some critical ideas, students then demonstrate their understanding through their written work, comprising of two pieces of writing, one on each of the chosen texts. Students produce two essays of 1250-1500 words.
KS3 Suggested Reading
BICT
Creative Studies
DT: Product Design
PSHE and Citizenship
The Languages Department
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Dear Readers, It is impossible to understate this nations importance to the Gold market.
It seems a massive spending of scrip and lowering of interest rates is desired by the wizard elitist in charge who knows what's best for the unwashed mass of imbeciles that hoard gold. Their Central Bank has become as "independent" as ours it would appear.
The other nation of a billion citizens the world pays so little attention to compared to the other.
Dear Readers, Fellow Gold Bugs, There are still some citizens among us who understand what sound honest stable money is and what the adoption of bankster scrip has done to us and our beloved nation. While a small step and unlikely to garner much attention, it is always possible this documentary may reach people who can save us for the sake of our nation, children and grandchildren.
On this message of hope, I would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. Regards, Golden Oxen
'In Money We Trust?'
-Editorial of The New York Sun | December 22, 2018
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/in-money-we-trust/90509/
Coming soon to a public television station near you is a documentary favoring the gold standard. If that seems improbable it may be from underestimating the determination of Steve Forbes. He is the author of the book “Money,” on which the film is based. The book is about how, in the words of its subtitle, the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy and what we can do about it.
The book was first brought out in 2014. At the time, the Sun dubbed Mr. Forbes the “anti-Piketty” — that is, the best answerer of the economist Thos. Piketty, then in vogue for his complaints about inequality. Mr. Forbes’ brilliant book nailed the point that the inequality so many were complaining about had burgeoned after our government abandoned a stable, gold-based dollar.
At the time, it looked to us as if the idea of monetary reform might prosper in Congress. And it did, at least in the House (more on which in moment). It failed in the Senate. Not for lack of trying by Mr. Forbes. The significance of the new documentary is that it may restore some lift to this issue, as the film starts to make its way around the public broadcasting stations.
We certainly hope so. The genre of the t.v. documentary forces filmmakers to get to the pith. Mr. Forbes goes right to it in the title of the film, “In Money We Trust?” He and those he interviews on camera drill in on the consequences of the loss, after we delinked the dollar from gold in the 1970s, of trust in our national currency. It touched off a crisis of trust more generalized than money.
The documentary includes an illuminating interview with the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker. It strikes us as newsworthy, in that Mr. Volcker comes across as much more concerned about stable, honest money than one might guess from his public reserve in the years since he was at the Fed. He ridicules a goal of 2% inflation, worrying it could creep to 3% or 4% or more.
An astonishing array of the luminaries in the cause of honest money in the past generation are interviewed in the film. They include, to name but a few, Judy Shelton, Larry White, James Grant, Nathan Lewis, and Art Laffer. The film illuminates the fact that there is a full field of articulate advocates for a gold standard, come the day — or to hasten the day — when Congress is ready pick up this issue.
Which brings us back to the House. The day after we watched Mr. Forbes’ film, we watched the Speaker, Paul Ryan, deliver his farewell address. Covering him over the years, we’d come to appreciate his attention to the gold question. In 2010, shortly after the value of the dollar collapsed to less than a 1,200th of an ounce of gold, he put the gold question to Chairman Bernanke.
The leader of the world’s most powerful central bank hemmed about other commodity prices, then hawed about how he didn’t “fully” understand the movements in the gold price. He finally managed that “some people believe that holding gold will be a hedge against the fact that they view many other investments as being risky and hard to predict at this point.”
We suggested at the time that Mr. Ryan could make a presidential campaign out of such refusal to acknowledge the culpability of the Fed itself. In the event, Mr. Ryan ran for vice president with Governor Romney. Congressman Ron Paul teed up the monetary issue in the primaries. The GOP responded by putting a monetary reform plank in the platform. Mr. Romney failed to stand on it and went down to a historic defeat.
Mr. Ryan rebounded as Speaker in October 2015. Within weeks the House passed a major monetary bill, the Fed Oversight, Reform, and Modernization Act. We called it a monetary reform “trifecta,” in that it included a) a requirement that the Fed establish a monetary rule and make it known, b) Dr. Paul’s “Audit the Fed” bill to provide for full oversight by Congress, and c) a monetary commission.
Yet the FORM Act and subsequent improvements died in the Senate. President Trump stood on essentially the same monetary reform planks as the 2012 platform, but went further than Mr. Romney had gone. Yet once in the White House, even Mr. Trump dropped monetary reform. So Mr. Forbes’ film becomes an urgent reminder that this most fundamental of all issues awaits action as our economy is on knife edge and our leaders are desperate for signals they can trust.
http://www.youtube.com/v/uO-afylStAg
Dow Cracks ANOTHER 650 MAKING THIS THE WORST DECEMBER IN HISTORY SO FAR!
GOLD UP 14 BUCKS as Mnuchin Tells everyone that "All is Well" after an emergency Bankster Meeting
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Breakthrough: Chinese Scientists Turn Copper Into 'Gold'
A team of Chinese researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, has transformed copper into a new material “almost identical” to gold, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, and first reported by the South China Morning Post on Saturday.
Professor Sun Jian and his team of scientist blasted a copper target with a stream of hot, electrically charged argon gas. The fast-moving ionized particles smashed the copper atoms. The atoms cooled and condensed on the surface of a collecting device, producing a thin layer of sand.
South China Morning Post said each grain of sand measured a few nanometers, or a thousandth of the size of a bacterium.
The researchers placed the material in a reaction chamber and used it as a catalyst to turn coal to alcohol, a complex and intricate chemical process that only precious metals can handle efficiently.
"The copper nanoparticles achieved catalytic performance extremely similar to that of gold or silver,” Sun said in a statement on Saturday.
“The results … proved that after processing, metal copper can transform from ‘chicken’ to ‘phoenix’,” claimed Sun, who was not available for comment.
Copper has a similar weight and looks to gold.
The research paper notes that the new material based on copper can replace gold and silver in the manufacturing process of electronic devices, which requires significant amounts of precious metals.
This would be a game changer for the Chinese manufacturing complex.
Copper, alone, cannot function as well as gold in industrial applications, due to fewer electrons.
These electrons are unstable, so copper tends to react more efficiently when combined with other chemicals.
The procedure developed by Sun’s team can inject a large amount of energy into copper atoms and made the electrons more dense and stable, they said.
"The new material can resist high temperatures, oxidization, and erosion," according to the researchers.
It is “like a warrior with golden armor in a battlefield, capable of withstanding any enemy assault,” they said.
The new material will be of little use for counterfeiters since its density remains the same as copper, therefore making fake gold bars with it would be worthless.
However, the new material would revolutionize industries with readily available and inexpensive raw materials, adding to the deflationary pressures.
Hoarding gold is one idea that I think needs to be examined thoroughly
That's why I'm here. It's the one topic I feel most confident in explaining and am most knowledgeable about.
Feel free to ask. Seek and You shall find. GO is here to help. Clearing the fog about the precious metal is my specialty and a most difficult task that has occupied my time for over a half century now.
I listened already. You did not persuade me.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Quote from: Eddie on December 30, 2018, 09:03:23 PM
Quite alright. It's a quite common and expected reaction.
Keep in mind that persuasion is not my endeavour, it's teaching. As a Libertarian you could choose to hoard sea shells and it would be okay with me. Just letting you know that I'm a monetary historian, not a salesman, per chance you were thinking I were a Jim Blanchard or Howard Ruff type trying to sell something as you suggested in your defamatory comment earlier on.
Like Johnny Appleseed I merely plant facts about gold in the minds of those who have been brainwashed with lies and propaganda by the banksters and corrupted governments that profit mightily from their fiat credit scrip which is the antitheses of the precious yellow. Sometimes they flourish and grow but mostly my fact seeds lay dormant in the not very fertile minds of those having undergone a thorough brainwashing.
Surly1
Quote from: Golden Oxen on December 30, 2018, 08:42:02 PM
Was just wondering if you know offhand what the oldest discovered golden artifact is?
I found this regarding a bead found in Bulgaria: World's Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria, but that's Europe. And I expect Asia and China finds date much earlier but didn't find evidence.
Men have been storing up golden thingies since the advent of smelting, I guess. What led me down this line of thought was that people have been storing up golden objects from the time we started creating them.
"It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse." -Ezra Pound
Quote from: Surly1 on December 31, 2018, 11:22:48 AM
It's generally considered Bulgaria Surly, as you presented, but like you I don't believe it.
There is little doubt in my mind that a real gold artifact, one of a lot more substance and artistically involved work will be unearthed in Egypt. I also have a skeptical eye about the authenticity of the Bulgaria find but as you point out is interesting trivia but that's about all.
Amazing how gold has evolved from it's early status as the sacred flesh of the Egyptian god, to it's throne as the world's most revered and treasured money.
Chief Cook & Bottlewasher
Keep in mind that persuasion is not my endeavour, it's teaching.
Don't quit your day job.
Save As Many As You Can
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Re: Gold & Silver News - Goldman Predicts Gold Prices to Climb to $1,425 in 2019
Dear Readers, This is a headline that would normally send GO running for the hills and closing out his long trading positions. While expecting a pullback here after gold's major run the past few months I caution you not to read this with the usual apprehension about it's source.
Why GO?? As, we all know Goldman Suchs. It is because dear readers, GO has discovered through close reading of Mr Ted Butlers research and opinions the conclusion that Goldman Suchs is the major long on the Comex (CRIMEX) futures exchange.
Regards,GO
Quote from: Golden Oxen on January 13, 2019, 06:50:28 AM
One thing about price predictions by investment banks like GS...there is a record of those, and you can check it...so I did.
GS got it wrong in 2104
GS got right in 2017
Look it up for yourself.
So..based on silly things like data and history, Goldman predictions have about a 20% chance of being right.
One thing IS clear...the big banks are betting against the dollar, taking huge positions in physical metals. That tells us what they expect to happen...and they generally don't mind being early, since they've been pursuing this strategy for several years.
The question is...how can they be so sure they're right? And the assumption must be that the game is rigged, and that they have the inside skinny on when the card on the bottom of the house of cards gets taken out. Or they cause it to happen, when they get the word from above.
The dollar is weakening You can see that on the chart. But it isn't falling through the floor.....not at all. Maybe $1450 gold is reasonable.....it looks reasonable to me, just based on pure technicals. If so, that's a 12.5% gain for 2019.
Ho fuckin' hum.
Get some perspective. We still spend dollars, not gold coins. $10,000 gold is a 6.77X gain from here in the coin of the realm.
$25K gold would be less than a 20X in 2109 dollars. Many of the doom voices for the USD, like Dalio and others, claim the Reserve Currency status of the USD is worth 30%. If the dollar loses 30% and gold comes up that much, gold will be worth a whopping $1700, by my math.
If you have a LOT of wealth, gold is a fine way to store it (but hardly the only way) If you need to make money with your money, there are several better alternatives.
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Further evidence that Joshua Kaufman is lying about being Auschwitz prisoner 109023
Friday, June 3rd, 2016
Joshua Kaufman at the USHMM 2015 Los Angeles Dinner in Beverly Hills.
Just like Elie Wiesel, Joshua Kaufman’s claimed Auschwitz number doesn’t fit his own story of how and when he could have been assigned it.
At the end of my previous article on Kaufman, I asked readers to join me in demanding answers from him about his claim to be Auschwitz number 109023. He said to reporters in the courtroom in Detmold, Germany, as quoted by NBC News [See Comment #1 below]:
I heard nothing from Kaufman, but I did hear from Carlo Mattogno, the accomplished Italian revisionist. Carlo looked up the numbers and helpfully sent me the following information (my bolding):
Source: Archiwum Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu – Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej, Warsaw: AGK, NTN, 156, p. 66
A list of inmates compiled by the judge Jan Sehn reports the names of the inmates of a transport that arrived at Birkenau on March 15, 1943. The last number assigned was 108530.
The next number in this list is 109371 – a certain Jakob Zakar – who was part of a transport from Greece which arrived in Auschwitz on March 20, 1943.
This means that the number 109023 was assigned between these two dates.
According to Danuta Czech’s Kalendarium [a source used as official Auschwitz data -cy] the number 109023 was assigned on March 18th, 1943 to a group of 465 male (numbers from 108763 to 109227) and 114 female prisoners (they received the numbers 38469 to 38582) sent to Auschwitz from the SiPo [Security Police] Radom, in the General Gouvernment (now Poland).
Mattogno concludes from this that Kaufman’s story lacks either truthfulness or exact dates. The dates, however, are confirmed by the Kalendarium of Danuta Czech and by the judge Jan Sehn.
Since Kaufman is Hungarian, and came to Auschwitz from the Debrecen Ghetto in Hungary, which didn’t exist until 1944 (from mid-May to mid-June), he could not possibly be the person who was registered with the number 109023 on March 18, 1943. Did Kaufman just pick that number out of thin air? Did he perhaps know of the person who had that number and knew he would not say anything if he (Kaufman) used it? Is Kaufman going to deny he ever said that? If 109023 is not his number, what is? He has not shown his arm the way all those who have a tattoo are willing to do. Kaufman is like Elie Wiesel in that he never seems to take off his jacket.
So let’s see – gosh, do you think he could be making it all up? (blink, blink) How could he have the nerve to do such a nervy thing, is how most people respond. They can’t believe anyone would be so reckless and therefore try to “fill in” with some reasons that makes sense to them. Well, these holocaust surlievers get treated with such incredible deference that it encourages them to emerge out of the woodwork and tell stories out of whole cloth. They actually do it all the time, and get well-compensated for it. Only in a few cases do they get caught in a big enough way that it stops them. Plus, in Kaufman’s mind he’s doing it for Israel, for the benefit of the Jews of the world, and for “Never Again.” He’s going to die soon, so wants to help out the cause before he’s gone. He believes he’s on the side of justice. What are a few lies compared to that?
Media, which is more powerful than one single nation or the judges in a courtroom, is on his side. Reporters and editors of major news outlets present what he says to the public as believable … as news! They are the biggest criminals of all, in my opinion. Their crime is writing and encouraging false news; helping to railroad an innocent man like Reinhold Hanning by reporting lurid lies spoken by surlievers that they have to know cannot be true. It is NBC News and Joshua Kaufman who should be brought up on charges rather than Reinhold Hanning, who is innocent of any specific wrongdoing. But the law is not written that way – the law is written according to political power. Therefore, only political pressure can change it.
How about a lot of you write to NBC News and attach the NBC article above about Kaufman at Hanning’s trial in Detmold (the final judgement comes on June 9th), and inform them that Kaufman is lying about his number 109023. Include the evidence from Carlo Mattogno. Tell them they need to write an apology for printing information without checking its accuracy. NBC is the most far left of the network news outlets and they make it difficult to contact them. This is what I found:
To report an error or comment on NBCNews.com, please email [email protected]
The reporters are Andy Eckardt and Carlo Angerer, but no email addresses are given, only Twitter accounts.
https://twitter.com/@ameckardt – he has Kaufman’s picture on his page. Please visit him if you have a Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/@carloangerer – also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carloangerer
I’m still asking Joshua Kaufman or one of his daughters to answer for him. He demanded answers from Reinhold Hanning; he needs to give some of his own.
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About MLD
Connie and Joe’s story
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Up until the age of five Connie was a typical little girl. She loved the Disney Princesses, her favourite colour was pink and no amount of sparkle and glitter was too much. She was exceptionally bright and fiercely independent.
For me the biggest part of Connie’s personality was her sense of humour. She was witty beyond her years, her quick one-liners could leave you giggling for hours afterwards. Connie had a cheeky, mischievous streak and wouldn’t feel the least bit guilty for belly laughing at somebody else’s misfortune.
We became increasing worried about Connie after she started school. Initially we noticed her concentration levels were not what they once were. She stopped wanting to read and write, things she had previously enjoyed. She became forgetful and struggled to carryout simple tasks like putting on her shoes.
We originally suspected that Connie was having difficulty settling in to her new school. However it quickly became apparent to us as her parents that it was something much more serious. We had difficulty getting people to listen to our concerns, especially Connie’s school who had labelled her as the naughty child and us as neurotic parents.
Eventually somebody did hear us and subsequent tests revealed Connie had MLD and our world fell apart. Two short months after diagnosis and at the age of five and a half Connie took her last steps, just a few months later Connie spoke her last words.
Four years on and Connie is completely dependent on others for every aspect of her care. She takes a cocktail of drugs in an attempt to keep her as comfortable as possible. The condition has not only taken away everything she had previously learnt, but has also inflicted seizures, scoliosis, dystonia, blindness and there is still more this disease is able to dispense.
As MLD is a genetic condition Connie’s younger brother Joe was tested after her diagnosis. Approximately one month after Connie was confirmed as having MLD we were left reeling again when we received a phone call confirming Joe had also inherited the condition. He was just three and a half.
Doctors felt it was not in Connie’s best interest to offer treatment as disease progression had been swift and she was already struggling with symptoms. Joe was pre-symptomatic and he was offered pioneering Gene Therapy treatment being trialled in Italy. We all travelled to Milan in November 2014, Joe was admitted to San Rafaele and began chemotherapy straight away. Joe spent 50 days in isolation over Christmas and into the New Year and in total we were in Italy for four months. As the Gene Therapy treatment is a clinical trial Joe has to return to Italy every six months where he undergoes medical assessment.
We are nearly four years post-transplant and Joe continues to live life to the fullest and we encourage him to make the most of every opportunity that presents itself. He is caring, compassionate, thoughtful and takes everything in his stride. His positive ‘glass half full’ attitude makes us proud every single day.
Connie and Joe have taught us how to dance in the rain, make the most of what we have and cherish every precious moment. Even now Connie is able to light up a room with her smile and it is hard to put into words the overwhelming euphoria you are left feeling if you are privileged enough to hear her chuckle. Their bravery and courage inspire us to keep going.
MLD Support Association UK was set up to bring hope to families in the fight to eradicate Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD). Our aim is to provide support by way of shared information from people in similar circumstances who have already experienced the effects of the condition and/or any new research and treatments available.
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4. Vermicomposting
The term vermicomposting means the use of earthworms (Plate 9) for composting organic residues. Earthworms can consume practically all kinds of organic matter and they can eat their own body weight per day, e.g. 1 kg of worms can consume 1 kg of residues every day. The excreta (castings) of the worms are rich in nitrate, available forms of P, K, Ca and Mg. The passage of soil through earthworms promotes the growth of bacteria and actinomycetes. Actinomycetes thrive in the presence of worms and their content in worm casts is more than six times that in the original soil.
Types of worms
A moist compost heap of 2.4 m by 1.2 m and 0.6 m high can support a population of more than 50 000 worms. The introduction of worms into a compost heap has been found to mix the materials, aerate the heap and hasten decomposition. Turning the heaps is not necessary where earthworms are present to do the mixing and aeration. The ideal environment for the worms is a shallow pit and the right sort of worm is necessary. Lumbricus rubellus (red worm) and Eisenia foetida are thermo-tolerant and so particularly useful. Field worms (Allolobophora caliginosa) and night crawlers (Lumbricus terrestris) attack organic matter from below but the latter do not thrive during active composting, being killed more easily than the others at high temperature.
European night crawlers (Dendrabaena veneta or Eisenia hortensis) are produced commercially and have been used successfully in most climates. These night crawlers grow to about 10-20 cm. The African night crawler (Eudrilus eugeniae), is a large, tropical worm species. It tolerates higher temperatures than Eisenia foetida does, provided there is ample humidity. However, it has a narrow temperature tolerance range, and it cannot survive at temperatures below 7 °C. Vermicomposting is in use in many countries. Experiences from selected countries are described as case studies.
Close-up of worm culture
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Vermicomposting in the Philippines
The worms used in this study (FAO, 1980) were Lumbricus rubellus and/or Perionyx excavator. The worms were reared and multiplied from a commercially-obtained breeder stock in shallow wooden boxes stored in a shed. The boxes were approximately 45 cm × 60 cm × 20 cm and had drainage holes; they were stored on shelves in rows and tiers.
The bedding material comprised miscellaneous organic residues such as sawdust, cereal straw, rice husks, bagasse and cardboard, and was well moistened with water. The wet mixture was stored for about one month, being covered with a damp sack to minimize evaporation, and was mixed thoroughly several times. When fermentation was complete, chicken manure and green matter, such as ipil ipil leaves or water hyacinth, were added. The material was placed in the boxes. It was sufficiently loose for the worms to burrow and it was able to retain moisture. The proportions of the different materials varied according to the nature of the material, but the aim was to achieve a final protein content of about 15 percent. A pH value as near neutral as possible was necessary and the boxes were kept at temperatures between 20 and 27 °C (at higher temperatures, the worms aestivate; at lower temperatures, they hibernate).
Although the worms were able to eat the bedding material, the worms were fed regularly at this stage: every kilogram of worms received 1 kg of feed every 24 hours. For each 0.1 m2 of surface area, 100 g of breeder worms were added to the boxes. The feedstuffs included chicken manure, ipil ipil, and vegetable wastes. At one farm, water hyacinth was grown specifically and used fresh (chopped up) as the sole source of feed. Some form of protection was required against predators (birds, ants, leeches, rats, frogs and centipedes).
Composting procedure
A series of pits (the number depending on the space available) were dug approximately 3 m × 4 m × 1 m deep, with sloping sides. Bamboo poles were laid in a parallel row on the pit floor and covered with a lattice of wood strips. This provided the necessary drainage as the worms could not have survived in a waterlogged environment.
The pits were lined with old feedstuff sacks to prevent the worms from escaping into the surrounding soil and yet permit drainage of excess water. The pits were then filled with rural organic residues such as straw and other crop residues, animal manure, green weeds, and leaves. The filled pits were covered loosely with soil and kept moist for a week or so. One or two spots on the heap were then well watered and worms from the breeding boxes were place on top. The worms burrowed down immediately into the damp soil.
In order to harvest the worms from the boxes, two-thirds of the box was emptied into a new box lined with banana leaf or old newspaper. The original box was then provided with fresh bedding material and those worms remaining multiplied again. The worms emptied from the box were picked out by hand for adding to the heap.
The compost pits were left for a period of two months; ideally such pits should be shaded from hot sunshine and kept moist. Within two months, about 10 kg of castings had been produced per kilogram of worms. The pits were then excavated to an extent of about two-thirds to three-quarters and the bulk of the worms removed by hand or by sieving. This left sufficient worms in the pit for further composting, and the pit was refilled with fresh organic residues. The compost was sun-dried and sieved to produce good quality material. A typical analysis was: organic matter, 9.3 percent; N, 8.3 percent; P, 4.5 percent; K, 1.0 percent (water soluble); Ca, 0.4 percent; and Mg, 0.1 percent.
The excess worms harvested from the pits were then either used in other pits, sold to other farmers for the same purpose, used or sold as animal feed supplement, used or sold as fish food, or used in certain human food preparations.
Vermicomposting in Cuba
In Cuba, different methods are used for worm propagation and vermicomposting (Cracas, 2000).
Worm trough rows
The most common method uses cement troughs (60 cm × 180 cm) to raise worms and create worm compost. Because of the climate, they are watered by hand every day. In these beds, the only feedstock for the worms is manure. This manure is aged for about one week before being added to the trough. First, a layer of 7.5-10 cm of manure is placed in the empty trough, and then worms are added. As the worms consume the manure, more manure is layered on top, about every ten days, until the worm compost reaches to within about 5 cm of the top of the trough (about two months). Then the worms are separated from the compost and transferred to another trough.
Wind-rows
Another method of vermicomposting is wind-rows. Cow manure is piled about 90 cm across and 90 cm high. It is then seeded with worms. As the worms work their way through it, fresh manure is added to the end of the row, and the worms move forward. The rows are covered with fronds or palm leaves to keep them shaded and cool. Some of these rows have a drip system (a hose running alongside the row with holes in it) but most are watered by hand. Some of these rows are tens of metres in length. The compost is gathered from the opposite end once the worms have moved forward. It is then bagged and sold. Fresh manure, seeded with worms, begins the row and the process again. Some of the wind-rows have bricks running along their sides, but most are simply piles of manure without sides or protection. Manure is static composted for 30 days, then transferred to rows for worms to be added. After 90 days, the piles reach a height of about 90 cm. Wind-rows are also used to compost rice hulls and sugar cake (cake is what is left after sugar cane has been processed), but this too is mixed with animal manure. Food scraps are sometimes added to worm beds.
Vermiculture in India
This approach (Jambhhekar, 2002) uses the following materials: breeder worms, a wooden bed and organic wastes. The bed should be of the desired length and about 75 cm high × 120 cm wide. Worms should be applied for every part of waste. Other steps in the process are:
Sieving and shredding - decomposition can be accelerated by shredding raw materials into small pieces.
Blending - carbonaceous substances such as sawdust, paper and straw can be mixed with N-rich materials such as sewage sludge, biogas slurry and fish scraps to obtain a near optimum C:N ratio. A varied mixture of substances produces good quality compost, rich in macronutrients and micronutrients.
Half digestion - the raw materials should be kept in piles and the temperature allowed to reach 50-55 °C. The piles should remain at this temperature for seven to ten days.
Maintaining moisture, temperature and pH - the optimum moisture level for maintaining aerobic conditions is 40-45 percent. Proper moisture and aeration can be maintained by mixing fibrous with N-rich materials. The temperature of the piles should be 28-30 °C. Higher or lower temperatures reduce the activity of microflora and earthworms. The height of the bed can help control the rise in temperature. The pH of the raw material should not exceed 6.5-7.
The compost is ready after about one month. It is black, granular, lightweight and humus-rich. In order to facilitate the separating of the worms from the compost, watering should cease two to three days before emptying the beds. This forces about 80 percent of the worms to the bottom of the bed. The remaining worms can be removed by hand. The vermicompost is then ready for application.
Some entrepreneurs have made modifications, e.g. making the floor leakproof, and providing a covered shade in order to ensure temperature regulation and protection against accumulation of excessive water in the rainy season. Although this adds to the cost, the improved efficiency of vermicomposting and faster rate of growth of earthworms more than offsets this additional cost.
The excess water, which may be leached along with the earthworms extracts, is also collected from the concrete flooring and recirculated. This ensures high N content in the finished product and also better quality because of the preserved worm extracts. The steps in this process are:
Cattle dung is collected from cow shelters.
The dung is kept for about 7-10 days to let it cool.
Beds/rows of dung and crop residues/leaves, etc. are made about 1 m wide, 75 cm high and with a distance of 75 cm between two rows.
In the beds/rows, crop waste such as leaves, straw etc. is layered alternatively with the dung to thus make a height of about 75 cm. The beds are kept as such for 4-5 days to cool.
Water is sprinkled to let the compostable matter cool down.
Earthworms are put on the top of the manure row/bed. About 1 kg worms in a metre-long manure row are inoculated.
It is left undisturbed for 2-3 days after covering with banana leaves. Covering with jute bags or sacks is not recommended as it heats the manure bed.
The bed is opened after 2-3 days. The upper portion of about 10 cm of manure is loosened with the help of a suitable hand tool.
The bed is covered again. The worms feed on an upper bed of about 10 cm. This portion becomes vermicasted in about 7-10 days.
This portion (vermicasted manure) is removed and collected near the bed. Another upper portion of 10 cm is loosened and covered again with the leaves.
Moisture is maintained in the bed by regular sprinkling of water.
The loosened portion of the manure is vermicasted in another 7-10 days and is removed again.
Thus, in about 40 days, about 60 cm of the bed is converted into vermicompost and is collected on 3-4 occasions.
The remaining bed of about 10 cm in height contains earthworm mixed manure.
Fresh manure mixture/organic residues, etc. are again put on the residual bed containing earthworms of about 10 cm and the composting process is restarted.
The manure collected from the bed is freed of worms through sieving. Uncomposted or foreign matter is also removed in this way.
The screened manure is bagged and used or sold as required.
Enhancing vermicompost production
Vermicompost production using epigeic compost worms such as Eisenia foetida, Lumbricus rubellus and Eudrilus eugeniae can be enhanced effectively by supplementing the organic wastes used for vermicomposting with cow urine. Undiluted urine can be used for moistening organic wastes during the preliminary composting period (before the addition of worms.). After the initiation of worm activity, urine can be diluted with an equal quantity of water. No problems have been observed with daily use of diluted cow urine for moistening the vermicomposting bed. This simple technique can yield vermicompost with a higher N content. Moreover, worms have been found to become very active and vermicompost can be harvested at least 10 days early.
Integrating traditional composting and vermicomposting
Problems associated with traditional thermophilic composting relate to: long duration of the process, frequent turning of the material, material size reduction to enhance the surface area, loss of nutrients during the prolonged process, and the heterogeneous resultant product. However, the main advantage of thermophilic composting is that the temperatures reached during the process are high enough for an adequate pathogen kill.
In vermicomposting, the earthworms take over both the roles of turning and maintaining the material in an aerobic condition, thereby reducing the need for mechanical operations. In addition, the product (vermicompost) is homogenous. However, the major drawback of the vermicomposting process is that the temperature is not high enough for an acceptable pathogen kill. Whereas in traditional thermophilic composting the temperatures exceed 70 °C, the vermicomposting processes must be maintained at less than 35 °C.
A study has examined the possibility of integrating traditional thermophilic composting and vermicomposting (Ndegwa and Thompson, 2001). The work involved combining pertinent attributes from each of the two processes to enhance the overall process and improve the product qualities. The two approaches investigated in the study related to: (i) pre-composting followed by vermicomposting; and (ii) pre-vermicomposting followed by composting. The duration of each of the combined operations viz. composting and vermicomposting was four weeks. A comparison was made with vermicomposting alone (duration: 56 days). The results indicated that the combination of the two processes shortened the stabilization time and improved product quality. Furthermore, the resultant product was more stable and consistent, had less potential impact on the environment, and met pathogen reduction requirements.
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CHANEL SHORTS
No, this post isn't about a pair of shorts from Chanel.
I was browsing around YouTube when I came across one of Chanel's short film directed by Karl Lagerfeld called "Reincarnation":
The film features Pharrel and Cara Delevingne and I loved it! It features Chanel clothing (obvi) and offers a look into the birth of one of Coco Chanel's most signature looks: the iconic Chanel jacket. Apparently Chanel was inspired by a hotel elevator operator's uniform while she was in Austria! Its amazing how inspiration comes from the most unexpected places, and how that small spark of inspiration can become an icon/staple in fashion.
I loved the royal feel of Pharrel's outfit, and Hudson Kroenig was too adorable! Cara was stunning in that gown, but what was more shocking was that the song in the short was actually a duet between her and Pharrel!
After that I scoured Chanel's channel for more films and found out that Karl Lagerfeld actually had a few films. The one I watched next was "The Tale of a Fairy":
I didn't really get it, but I lived for one of the sister's ultra platinum blonde hair!
Next I watched "The Return":
Kind of a docu-drama, this film tells the tale of Coco Chanel "returning" to the fashion world after 15 years. Her comeback collection was received harshly by the French press but she worked hard and 5 years later was well received. It was a great film and it kinda showed me that behind the great big brand that Chanel is right now, she was a designer too. She faced criticism like any other designer does and worked hard to see her vision realized.
In the film, love was mentioned a few times. I searched it up and found out that she never got married. I'll be researching more about her but being in the centre of the spotlight without anyone in the end must have been quite lonely.
The last one I watched was "Once Upon A Time..." featuring Kiera Knightley as a young Gabrielle Chanel:
This film takes us even further back to when Chanel first started designing and selling hats. Although in black in white, I enjoyed the film and all the fabulous hats hahaha.
Overall these films have sparked an interest in fashion, particularly Chanel, in me. I've always looked up fashion related things and I've always known Chanel's aesthetic (through watching runway shows and...Scream Queens haha), but now I'm kinda interested in Coco's past and how Chanel became what it is today. So if you need me, I'll be at home reading and watching all I can about Coco.
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Welcome to the Southampton Steps to Wellbeing Service. We are an NHS service for people registered with a Southampton City GP offering evidence based treatment for people experiencing mild to moderate depression and anxiety based problems. We are a self-referral service which means you can contact us directly to access our services.
The Southampton Steps to Wellbeing Service comprises of three teams: Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), Cognitive-Behavioural Therapists (also known as CBT therapists) and an administrative support team. We are based at Grenville House in the centre of Southampton but have clinics throughout the city.
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Business Plans for an Air Conditioning Contractors' Equipment & Supplies Business
A common mistake for a small business owner is to launch your company without having written business plan for your startup air conditioning contractors' equipment and supplies business.
The key benefit of writing a business plan is that it defines the game plan. The absence of an effective business plan inevitably results in impulsive leadership, choosing short-term opportunities at the expense of long-term benefits.
Start by defining your business mission. The process of writing a mission statement doesn't have to be complicated. From there, it's time to initiate the hard work involved with writing the rest of your air conditioning contractors' equipment and supplies company's business plan.
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After you've evaluated your local competitors, be sure to learn from folks who are already in business. If you think your local competitors will give you advice, you're being overoptimistic. The last thing they want to do is help you to be a better competitor.
But, a person who owns an air conditioning contractors' equipment and supplies business in a different city can be a great learning resource for you, as long as they don't view you as a competitive threat. Indeed, many experienced entrepreneurs enjoy offering advice to startup entrepreneurs. It can take a while to find an entrepreneur who is willing to talk, but it's well worth the effort.
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FC Barcelona legend Patrick Kluivert has said that Real Madrid will have had a better season than Barca if they can clinch a third successive Champions League.
The former Dutch international striker said that a Champions League win would eclipse Barca’s domestic double ahead of El Clasico.
He had previously won Europe’s premier club competition with Ajax in 1995 and said that it is the biggest achievement in football.
“The Champions League is the biggest award any club can win but it is very hard,” Kluivert said. “Winning a double is good as well but winning the Champions League is better. I would prefer to play a UCL final and win it because if you lose it and you don’t have a double, it is not good either.”
“Real Madrid are playing well and they always do what they have to do. The Champions League is the most important title, but if Real Madrid don’t win it, it will be much harder next season.”
Ahead of El Clasico, Kluivert also spoke about the two teams and their star players.
“First of all, Messi is the best for me but he can’t do it all alone; let me think about it because I don’t want to say anything I could regret! Barcelona is Barcelona and Madrid is Madrid, one can win UCL and the other has a double, all of them play for victories.”
“Messi and Ronaldo are different players, both in the highest level and each one deserves good words from everyone. But Messi was born with an impressive talent; Ronaldo did too, but he had to work harder to reach that level.”
Cristiano Ronaldo El Clasico FC Barcelona Lionel Messi Patrick Kluivert Real Madrid
Valverde insists Clasico will not decide fate of La Liga title
FC Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has insisted the Clasico game away to Real Madrid next Saturday would not be a decisive point for the La Liga race this season.
Real Madrid, double winners last season have struggled in the first half of 2017-18 and sit fourth in the table, and earning all three points at the Santiago Bernabeu would be a huge boost to the Barca title challenge.
However, Valverde, speaking after his team’s 4-0 win at home to Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday, played down the significance of the eagerly anticipated clash and remains wary of another challenger to the title in Atletico Madrid.
“I don’t think a Clasico victory will give us the title,” he said. “Atletico are only six points behind. What we know is that this is a long competition, nobody will decide anything at this point.”
“We’re heading into the game happy; we have a week of preparation left and are confident. It’s a tough game against a huge rival, but we’re eager to face them.”
Against Deportivo, Valverde withdrew Andres Iniesta early in the second half to preserve the veteran midfielder for the trip to the Spanish capital next weekend. He was also delighted with the contribution of the veteran who contributed to the opening goal of the game at Camp Nou.
“What can I say? I’m very lucky to be able to count on him in my team,” Valverde added. “Today he started in a different position because of Deportivo’s qualities, (but) Andres played extremely well in that role.”
Valverde had also rested Sergio Busquets so that he would not miss next week’s Clasico due to yellow card accumulation, while braces from Luis Suarez and Paulinho ensured that FC Barca would arrive to El Clasico with an 11-point lead after a 4-0 win over Deportivo
Andres Iniesta El Clasico Ernesto Valverde FC Barcelona Real Madrid
Captain Ramos there to save Madrid again
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos pulled out his trademark habit of scoring late and crucial equalizers once again to settle the latest El Clasico in a 1-1 draw.
The match as heading into its last minute and Real Madrid were facing the end of a 32-game unbeaten run, when the man who rescued them in the 94th minute of the 2014 Champions League final leapt to head in another Luka Modric delivery and score another dramatic equaliser.
Ramos, 30, is establishing a reputation for scoring crucial late goals in big games socring the aforementioned equaliser against Atletico Madrid to send the 2014 Champions League final into extra time, which Real won 4-1. More recently, he forced extra time again with a stoppage-time equaliser in the 2016 Super Cup final, which Real also went on to win.
However, the latest fixture between Spain’s two biggest clubs appeared to slip away Real’s grasp after they dominated the first half, with FC Barcelona leading 1-0 through Luis Suarez’s own header albeit unable to add to it.
Even after Ramos’s vital equalizer, Casemiro had to clear off the line to defend a precious point which also extends Madrid’s steady run in La Liga and maintained a six-point lead at the top.
“In games like this, Sergio is always there,” Los Blancos coach Zinedine Zidane said. “(But) the thing that stands out, again, is this team’s heart. We believed right until the end and got a draw that is very important.”
It had been a big test of character for Zidane and his players, and they emerged from it undamaged by displaying steely determination and never-say-die spirit –something that was sorely missing before Zidane’s arrival.
His tactics are also proving influential in his team’s revival, as Real nullified Barca’s attacking threat in the first half, with Luka Modric influential in central midfield alongside Mateo Kovacic on the left and Isco on the right.
Real also claims a commendable 87 points from a possible 102 since the Frenchman took charge, which includes four from a possible six at Camp Nou.
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The celestial harmony
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Immanuel Velikovsky, in his Worlds in Collision book, asks questions:
If everything in our solar system has always been like Netwonian clockwork, so harmonious?
Was our solar system always basically the same?
Why are the planets and moons physical properties so different?
The celestial harmony is composed of bodies different in size, different in form, different in the velocity of rotation, with differently directed axes of rotation, with different directions of rotation, with differently composed atmospheres or without atmospheres, with a varying number of moons or without moons, and with satellites revolving in either direction.
Immanuel Velikovsky quote from Worlds in Collision
The theories about the chaotic nature of our solar systems planets has been quickly looked at in the initial part of the Velikovsky Worlds in Collision review/investigation. This seems to show that science is increasingly going towards space bodies and planets or worlds colliding but, as we will find out, not in the same time scale or as recent as Velikovsky's comparative mythology suggests.
Science theory again seems to be migrating towards Velikovsky's ideas, this time of planets orbits changing and our solar system not having been or is harmonious.
Ultra late-stage planet migration
The theory of planetary migration and late-stage planet migration is now also gaining ground. It is needed to explain the order of planets in our solar system and also for the crazy exoplanets that orbit amazingly close to their own sun/star in other solar systems (gas giant Hot Jupiter's orbiting in under 10 days!). Without planet migration the Nebular hypothesis (solar nebular disk model) can not explain these things and fails.
the Doppler discovery of extrasolar planets orbiting very close to their parent stars has raised a different problem. Many of the planets are so close to their stars (<0.1 AU), and so hot, that they cannot be supposed to have formed where we now observe them. By inference, they could have formed at larger distances (several AU) and then migrated inwards. ... Anyway, migrating planets are now in vogue. We need them to explain some of the dynamical structure we observe in the Kuiper Belt, and we need them to explain the unnervingly close-in planets detected around some other stars. Moving the Orbits of Planets | University of California
The heavily populated mean-motion resonances in the Kuiper belt strongly suggest that the orbits of the planets have migrated. In particular, it has been inferred that Neptune moved outwards by 10 AU or so.
... The mass now in the Kuiper belt (about 0.1 Earth mass or less) is orders of magnitude two small for the KBOs to have grown by binary accretion on timescales short compared to the age of the Solar system.
The Nice Model | University of California
This thinking follows from the recognition that ammonia ices would not be stable at Ceres' current orbit around the Sun. Such ices are rapidly lost above about 100 kelvin (-173C). So, for Ceres to have retained a lot of ammonia or nitrogen-rich ices, for long enough to be incorporated into the clays, it probably had to occupy a much colder location sometime in its past, argues the Dawn researcher.
"It's an amazing suggestion but there are dynamical models for the evolution of the Solar System that foresee bodies migrating inwards," she told BBC News.
Explanation for Ceres' mystery bright spots
Immanuel Velikovsky, later in the book, suggests a very much shorter time period for his Worlds in Collision version of planet migration, you might even call it ultra late-stage planet migration.
Jumping Jupiter scenario
The jumping-Jupiter scenario specifies an evolution of giant-planet migration described by the Nice model, in which an ice giant (Uranus, Neptune, or an additional Neptune-mass planet) encounters first Saturn and then Jupiter, causing the step-wise separation of their orbits.
Jumping-Jupiter scenario | Wikipedia
The orbit of Mercury has large values of eccentricity and inclination that cannot be easily explained if this planet formed on a circular and coplanar orbit. Here, we study the evolution of Mercury’s orbit during the in stability related to the migration of the giant planets in the framework of the jumping Jupiter model. We found that some instability models are able to produce the
correct values of Mercury’s eccentricity and inclination, provided that relativistic effects are included in the precession of Mercury’s perihelion. The orbital excitation is driven by the fast change of the normal oscillation modes of the system corresponding to the perihelion precession of Jupiter (for the eccentricity), and the nodal regression of Uranus (for the inclination).
Jumping Jupiter can explain Mercury’s orbit (direct link to pdf)
Worlds in migration collision
Planetary formation has always been considered in very long time scales, such as hundreds of millions of years or a billions years. Although just a mathematical model a research paper has suggested a worlds in collision merger producing a planet within a few million years.
The large number of exoplanets found to orbit their host stars in very close orbits have significantly advanced our understanding of the planetary formation process. It is now widely accepted that such short-period planets cannot have formed in situ, but rather must have migrated to their current orbits from a formation location much farther from their host star. In the late stages of planetary formation, once the gas in the protoplanetary disk has dissipated and migration has halted, gas giants orbiting in the inner disk regions will excite planetesimals and planetary embryos, resulting in an increased rate of orbital crossings and large impacts. We present the results of dynamical simulations for planetesimal evolution in this later stage of planet formation. We find that a mechanism is revealed by which the collision-merger of planetary embryos can kick terrestrial planets directly into orbits extremely close to their parent stars.
... It is believed that such short-period gas giants cannot have formed this close to their parent stars, and so must have migrated in, or been scattered in, from a more distant formation region
... In all these scenarios, the formation of short-period Earth-like planets is associated with the migration of gas-giant planets.
... we present a potential new formation mechanism for short-period Earth-like planets in the late stage of planet formation through a collision–merger scenario. In this mechanism, a planetary embryo is directly kicked to a close-in orbit after a collision with another embryo, and then the larger merged body is seized by the central star as a hot Earth-like planet.
... We have uncovered a new mechanism for producing short-period terrestrial planets via collisions-mergers in the late stages of planetary formation. In this mechanism, two highly eccentric bodies first undergo a severe orbital crossing and then form a short-period planet via collision–merger ... it is worth noting that close-in planets emerge from our simulations within a few million years. This is a significantly shorter timescale than the billion years over which the solar system is thought to have undergone significant evolution.
Forming close-in earth-like planets via a collision-merger mechanism in late-stage planet formation
The Thunderbolts Electric Universe theory and other EU theory variations of our solar system formation agree with Velikovsky that the solar system has not always been in celestial harmony, that planets migrate.
The other points raised Immanuel Velikovsky will be investigated in other following posts.
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Dearly Departed Tours is a three hour tour of hysterical proportions. 100 locations over 35 miles of murder and mayhem. See where Hugh Grant was busted, and reenact George Michael's most famous moment, with a complementary copy of his arrest report. Movie locations, Hollywood scandals, deaths... all in one tour.
Almost 3 hours of the most famous and infamous sights of death, murder and scandal in Los Angeles.
Visit the website for current tours, schedules, costs and departure information
PINK'S HOT DOGS
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UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE THEATRE
5919 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, 90028 323.908.8702 - The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Is The Home For All Things Comedy In Los Angeles. We Have Affordable, High Quality Shows Seven Nights A Week. All Shows Are $8, $5 Or Free And All Shows Are All A ....
THE HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM
1660 N. Highland Ave, Hollywood, Ca 90028 In The Historic Max Factor Building (323) 464 7776 - The Hollywood Museum Is Located In The World-Famous Historic Max Factor Building. The Magnificently Restored Hollywood Regency Style Art Deco Landmark Building Is Located In The “Heart Of Hollywood
CATALINA JAZZ CLUB BAR & GRILL
6725 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90028 Entrance Is On Mccadden Place 323 466-2210 - Supper Club And Jazz Venue In The Heart Of Hollywood. Full Bar And Menu. They Are Also Open For Lunch Mon-Fri. See Their Website For Current Performance Schedule.
6603 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90028 - - Dearly Departed Tours Is A Three Hour Tour Of Hysterical Proportions. 100 Locations Over 35 Miles Of Murder And Mayhem. See Where Hugh Grant Was Busted, And Reenact George Michael's Most Famous Momen ....
RED LINE METRO HOLLYWOOD/VINE STATION
6250 Hollywood Bl. Los Angeles 90038 60 Park/Ride Lot Spaces (Parking Fee) - What's There: Across The Street You'll Find The Pantages Theatre. Walk To Your Left As You Exit The Station To Vine Street. Walk Left On Vine Along The "Walk Of Fame" Toward Sunset Bl. At Sunset And
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Underneath The Hollywood & Highland Complex At The Corner Of Hollywood & Highland - The Metro Station Is Directly Below The Shopping And Entertainment Complex At Hollywood And Highland Where You Will Find Upscale Shops, Dining, Nightlife And The Kodak Theatre (Home To The Annual Osc ....
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DONSEED IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION NEWS SPECIALISTS AWARDS 2017
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – 11/12/2016 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Donseed has been selected by the judges as a finalist in the Technology Supplier of the Year category of the 2017 Construction News Specialists Awards, the only national awards that recognise the best specialist contractors from across the whole of the UK.
Donseed provides biometric time and attendance solutions, security solutions and workplace management for the construction industry.
To decide the winners, all finalists will attend face-to-face judging by members of the 56-strong jury, drawn from the UK’s largest construction firms and the leaders of the country’s major projects, including:
Cormac MacCrann, managing director, Canary Wharf Contractors
Richard Baldwin, head of development, Derwent London
Dave Sheridan, chief executive officer, Keepmoat
Jonathan Seddon, managing director, Seddon Construction
Ian Burnett, chief executive officer, United Living Group
Alan Robertson, chief executive officer, VolkerWessels UK
The Construction News Specialists Awards are the only national awards celebrating the very best specialist contractors in the UK. With 18 targeted categories, the awards ensure that whatever size or specialism there is an appropriate avenue to showcase the achievements of specialist contractors.
Construction News editor Rebecca Evans commented:
“Being shortlisted in the Construction News Specialists Awards is a huge achievement and a fantastic way to distinguish your business from your competitors – these are the only national awards recognising the hard work and fantastic achievements of specialist contractors.
Specialist contractors underpin the whole construction industry, and we are proud to be able to shine a light on the work they do, the commitment they show and the amazing projects they contribute to.”
The winners will be announced on 22 March 2017 at a glamorous ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel where over 1,000 of the industry elite will join together for a night of entertainment, celebration and networking.
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Mission impossible: Fallout - More like, RACE 4!
Hollywood just loves Bollywood potboilers. Naa Naa, not when we make it, but when Hollywood scriptwriters think like Bollywood ones. Look at Black Panther. It was a typical Bollywood plot backed by Hollywood budgets and technical superiority. Though it was extremely ordinary, it went on to become one of the biggest box-office successes of all time. Ofcourse, there was a political /racial angle to it, but then as a film it was ordinary. And now we have Mission Impossible: Fallout. This one is right out of the Abbas Mastan playbook! Maybe Christopher McQuarrie found the script in a Hotel room while visiting India, because what else could explain the inane plot?
So Ethan Hunt is given the task of recovering 3 nuclear bombs (if he chooses to accept it, ofcourse). A terrorist group is planning to acquire it and create havoc. If Ethan was half-intelligent he could have recovered them in the 2nd scene of the film, but then his brains lie between his legs; I mean distributed between them. He only likes to run! So he manages to lose the bombs and then keeps running, driving, biking, flying, jumping, swimming, helicoptering etc etc to diffuse them. Along the way he has to fight goons, tackle double agents, save 2 Exes, do jujitsu, parkour and age-defying (he is bloody 56 years old) stunts.
While the stunts make you go WOW because of the old-fashioned real, up-close and visceral style, there is much boredom because of the repetitiveness of it all. When will we move beyond simple plots of stolen bombs and terrorists. In the real-world Terrorists have found ingenious ways of delivering terror, but in these films it’s always the same shit. It’s predictable to the core. Plus, the writers make Abbas Mastan proud by giving a twist every 15 minutes. While the audience was utterly confused and bemused, I was half expecting Bobby Deol to make a surprise appearance. But then I guess, Henry Cavill was this film’s Bobby Deol!
If you are a fan of the franchise or Tom Cruise, this is a decent watch. But don’t go by the hype, it is not that good. So if you haven’t seen it yet, I suggest you go to watch the film only to see how a 56 year old man puts 20 year olds to shame. He certainly put me to shame. I am like “Waiter, give me what he is having. Except Scientology, ofcourse!”
If you have seen the film, do comment below and tell me what's your take on it.
Movie Review: Vishwaroop - Offensive to terrorists...
Ok, if you are a terrorist or a wannabe, I must warn you that this film makes a mockery of your techniques and sticks to cliches. So, bring out those bombs and blow away a theater, showing this film, near you. Others, well, don't worry. There's nothing there to worry. Except ofcourse if you are impatient. Then, you might feel like you are scraping Caesium off old nuclear bombs and die a slow, painful death due to over-exposure!
Thankfully, I am neither a terrorist ( Ofcourse Chickens think otherwise!!) nor impatient ( Ofcourse my wife thinks otherwise!!!). Hence I quite enjoyed the film. There is a lot of thought and effort put in every frame.
The film technically is world class in most standards. Be it visually or in terms of the action, everything seems a cut above the standard Bollywood fare. Kamal Haasan has spent a lot of money on the film and it shows. Afsos, he doesn't spend too much time on the story and screenplay, and that shows too!
The plot, though hackneyed, is quite interesting. Simply because Hasaan unravels them slowly. He plays the effeminate dancer Vishwanath teaching bharat-natyam (kathak???) in the US. His wife is cheating on him, so hires a detective to find if Vishwanath cheats on her too. Fortuitously, she finds out that Vishwanath is actually Muslim. And, then begins a series of revelations rather stylishly but tediously. Conversations, threats, jokes, scenes are stretched. But strangely, it didn't bore me. Simply because either someone went over the top in terms of acting or Kamaal remained awesome. His depiction of the effeminate dancer is superb.
Anyhow, things are not like they seem and Vishwanath is actually someone else. But who? You keep trying to figure this out while he trains Mujahideens in Afghanistan, alongside Rahul Bose. Is he a good guy or a bad guy? The heroin asks him this and all he has to say is, he has many facets. He does a lot of good things, but also some questionable things, so you can never say. The first half is quite entertaining, but the second half is rather stretched. The Afghanistan bit where Kamaal tries to show you behind the scenes life of Terrorists goes on and on. Some scenes seem irrelevant and remain so. Also, the end is as Phuski as the attempted Nuclear bomb attack on NY.
So, should you watch this film? I would say, go for it. Because it does have a lot of good things. Technically its superb. The action scenes are extremely well done and are rather graphic. There is no unnecessary jingoism involved. The Indian angle is very subtly pushed in and never labels a country as a villain. And that makes it even harder to digest the Ban. It's amazing how we get away with labeling a whole Country (Pakistan) as terrorists, but have to face a ban when nothing like this is said. Infact, Rahul Bose is the face of terror here and at no point in religion brought into the picture. There are no dialogues denigrating Islam. Infact Rahul Bose questions himself if this is really what his God wants from him, when faced with a personal tragedy. If anything, Kamaal says absolutely nothing! He neither empathizes with them, nor shows them as inhuman. Its left to you to make a judgement call.
The music is forgettable, but S-E-L do redeem themselves in the background score. Rahul Bose is kinda OK as the scarfaced terrorist, Pooja "perky" Kumar plays the bimbo quite well and Shekhar Kapur makes an ordinary comeback. It's left to Haasan to shoulder the responsibility of the film and he does it with aplomb. If anything, you can watch it for him. And I say, you should watch it for the effort he has put into the film. And don't worry, you won't be offended, unless you are a terrorist. Coz quite frankly the terror plot, is really harebrained!
Rating : 6/10 ( looking forward to Part 2!!!)
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Movie Review: SKYFALL --> James is great... Bond's lost.
People use the term GREATEST very loosely. It's as if with one effort, you have surpassed the good work done by everyone else. And that is my problem with today's verdicts. The verdicts are absolute, with an attempt to sensationalize. SKYFALL is one such example. The label of GREATEST EVER has been put on it, but as far as I see it, it's far from the greatest.
Now, if this was an independent film, without any BOND history, it would have been a VERY GOOD film. But as a BOND film, personally, it felt like I was watching a dressing down! You can bring Batman down to reality and humanise the hell out of him, but when it comes to BOND, there are somethings that should never change. But Sam Mendes attempts a Nolan and get's nowhere.
Since childhood I have associated Bond with hot girls, great style, great background music, some hard hitting but cheezy dialogues and out of this world cars / gadgets. And this BOND is nothing like it. Now, I have not read IAN FLEMING's novel, so I might be mistaken, but that is the perception built over the years in films. Even as early as Roger Moore or Sean Connery - they always had some amazing heroines and phenomenal cars/ gadgets.
SKYFALL has a very predictable storyline, there is absolutely nothing new about it, except the execution of the action scenes. Craig gives Bond a completely haggard look, instead of the usual suave one. He is like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4. He doesn't like technology, wants to go back to the basics, doesn't flirt with too many females, doesn't throw cheezy dialogues and is kind of a bore. Infact, not only is he like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4, the movie is like Die Hard 4! You'd know when you watch it.
Mendes also robs us off the opportunity to look at some sexy heroines - The movie is full of men and Judi Dench! Also, the story (like I said) is predictable and becomes monotonous after about half an hour. It's only after the interval *(forced one) that things get interesting. And that is because of the VILLAIN - Javier Bardem.
Javier takes the movie to another level. He is sensational in his brief, yet amazing portrayal of a psychotic/techno-genius/bisexual villain. Only, after he arrives, that you feel something is happening, and something's gonna happen. Ofcourse, what happens, is purely nonsensical - but that is what we expect from a BOND FILM. The problem is Mendes tries to intellectualize it. What he doesnt understand is, the DUMBER the better.
So, now that I have brought your expectations down from "GREATEST EVER" to "HO HUMM", let me say that you should watch it, but for the right reasons. Watch it because if it keeps going this way, Bond will be lost in a few years. Watch it for the phenomenal Bardem. Even while one JB -James Bond falls, other JB rises... Barden -- Javier Bardem...
But as far as nostalgia goes, forget it, it's gonna disappoint you. Coz quiet frankly, James is great, but alas - Bond is lost!
RATING : 6 /10 ( An additional 0.5 for ADELE's amazing theme song!)
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Movie Review: Agent Vinod – BORE ULTIMATUM !
_This may be my last review, so it’s a bit long. My life is in danger. I was kidnapped by unknown assailants just as I was exiting the theatre after watching AGENT VINOD. I was taken to a snazzy, colourful place, in a BMW. I was gagged, blindfolded, tied up and drugged. I remember being pulled into the car, but I don’t remember how I reached this colourful place. When I did wake up though, I realised where I was. I was on the sets of Agent Vinod. Sriram walked up to me and splashed a whole bucket of water on me. Saif gave me a smug smile and Kareena looked confused.
Sriram: “What is your name?”
Me: (a little confused) Vir..
Sriram: (Cutting in) Oh who cares. Tell me, how was the movie?
Before I could say anything, Saif took out a gun and shot Rajit Kapoor. Nobody was shocked. I heard some bad background music which made no sense. Sriram smiled.
Me: (Shocked) Why did you kill him?
Saif: Generally. Like many other actors, he decided to give a special appearance, travel to some exotic location, shoot for a day and die almost immediately.
Me: Oh! And he got paid for it?
Kareena coughed uncomfortably. Shifted in her seat.
Sriram: Answer me. How was the movie? … Kareena, give him that DRUG.
Kareena: Enough is enough, ok. I did the film, the scenes, the mujra MUFT KA, now the movie is over. OK. Could I look less interested?
Saif: What are you saying sweets. You did such a good job in the film. It was effortless acting.
Kareena: Effort daala hi nahi toh ghanta lagega!
Me: Madam, question. You are Pakistani, staying in London with Chaste HINDI accent. How come?
Kareena looked at me. Then Srreram. It was the maximum effort she had made in a long time.
Sriram picked up a knife and started cutting a mango (Dnt ask why), Saif meanwhile picked up a grenade and put it in Prem Chopra’s pant. Prem ran out of the building shouting expletives. His wailing ended with a BOOM!
Sriram: So tell me… Did you understand the film?
Me: (Trying to make sense of things) Well, yes. I mean a few Pakistanis want to set off a nuclear bomb in Delhi and Saif a RAW agent, is sent to follow the trail of this bomb across some 20 odd countries. He makes things look ridiculously simple, dodges Automatic rifle bullets with precision, kills randomly, keeps getting caught, escapes rather easily, blurts out daft dialogues, tackles actors with short lifespan and acting capabilities, does action over an oddly patched up background score and after 2 hours 40 long long minutes finally (Thank God) saves the day.
Sriram quickly removed a book and a pen, scribbled something, looked bemused and then turned to Saif. “See, I told you the movie meant more than we thought it did!”
Saif smirked, lifted his gun and shot Ravi Kisen in the liver (twice). Ravi was then pushed out of the window and I heard a loud THUD.
Me: (struggling against my restraints) But Sreeram, you had made Ek Haseena Thi and Johnny Gaddar. What happened?
Sriram: Dude. Did you see the SINGLE SHOT SONG, the technique in the action sequences, the different types of treatments I have given to the scenes labelled as “BOURNE”, “BOND” and “TINTIN”? So many flavours, so many techniques in one film.
Me: and what about the Story? The screenplay? The dialogues? The songs? The background score? Common sense? And if this is an action film, where is that one awesome-edge-of-the-seat scene? Why is the chemistry between Kareena and Saif (off screen lovers) so thanda on screen? Why is everything a blitz and nothing truly memorable? Why is everything so cold? Why doesn't a single character endear you?
Stunned silence. Sriram looked at me for a moment. Pritam quickly opened his laptop, googled for a song apt for the situation (or not), found some random Persian one, quickly dubbed it in Hindi and played it in the background. I thought to myself (Boy, he has talent!)
Me: And Saif, how come you got caught repeatedly, was not killed instantly and always managed to start a conversation with the villains, confused them, then somehow got out of the situation by BAJAOING pungi of most of them without as much as soiling or crumpling your white shirt?
Saif thought for a while, quickly went in and changed into a crisp black suit, walked up to me slowly and said with a smile “Coz baby, I am the producer!”
Before I could start clapping (By far the best dialogue of the day) Kareena got up. She started crying.
Kareena: “ You fooled me Saif. You said you were inspired from your LUX COZY baniyaan Ads. And said that the shooting will get done like those Ads “Bade Aaraam Se”. But you fooled me and I did everything MUFT KA.
She walked upto him and kicked his “CHOTE NAWAAB”! Saif crashed and Kareena walked out. Sreeram meanwhile said Action and all the others just randomly died.
I took this opportunity, jumped up, broke some chairs, did a summersault, grabbed an automatic rifle, lit up a cigar with a single shot, kicked it off a table, grabbed it with my lips, took 2 puffs, let out random shots at Sriram, did a couple of pushups, dodged 100 automatic rifle bullets, threw the gun, opened a suitcase, diffused a bomb while kissing a random firang, tore her dress, tied one end to a corpse, jumped off the window, dangled perilously, crashed into a bedroom, ran down the stairs, hot wired a Chevy, tore across the city while dodging 102 bikers, 15 helicopters and finally reached home to write this review. They are behind me. I may get shot anytime now.
But you can escape death. Yes. Simply don’t buy the ticket. Else, get ready for BORE ULTIMATUM.
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FollowMyRide
Munda Biddi Off Road Bike Trail
Munda Biddi Map 1: Mundaring to Jarrahdale
Munda Biddi Map 2: Jarrahdale to Nanga
Munda Biddi Map 3: Nanga to Collie
Munda Biddi Map 4: Collie to Jarrahwood
Munda Biddi Map 5: Jarrahwood to Manjimup
Munda Biddi Map 6: Manjimup to Northcliffe
Munda Biddi Map 7: Northcliffe to Walpole
Munda Biddi Map 8: Walpole to Denmark
Munda Biddi Map 9: Denmark to Albany
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I can not recommend this ride as a typical "Follow My Ride" trail ride.
To get the full ride gpx or the ride route summary, select the "Route Sheets" tab above, and click on the download buttons for each.
I had heard a little about this ride, but was not getting good info on exactly how long the Trail was, what it was like to ride etc. So on a cool Spring day I decided to find out.
Here is a short video of what you can expect on the ride:
In 1871, the Rockingham Jarrah Company was granted a lease of 250,000 acres of jarrah forest in the Darling Range. In 1872, the company built a sawmill in Jarrahdale, a jetty at Rockingham for loading the timber onto ships for export, and a railway line to connect them. The Jarrahdale to Rockingham train line was the second rail line in the colony and initially had wooden rails and a locomotive that averaged 20km/hour. The wooden rails were replaced with iron from 1878 - 1882, and they lasted till 1950. Jarrahdalewas the state's first major timber milling operation, and it played a key role in the development of W.A. through the exportation of jarrah around the world. In 1872, 8220 people leaved in Perth, and over 300 lived and worked in Jarrahdale. Between 1893 and 1899, four new mills were built in the bush around Jarrahdale and they were serviced by a network of temporary rail lines, some of which are now the Munda Biddi Trail.
The Mundijong to Rockingham line was in use till 1950. From then, timber was carried on the WA Government Railway line from Mundijong to Perth. The Jarrahdale line finally closed in 1962 when the new heavy haul bauxite railway was built.
I got dropped at the trailhead at the corner of Nettleton and Jarrahdale roads. The notice board had some good info, but even that said the Trail was only 4 km long. The single track trail from the trailhead soon joins the train line. There was initially a good gravel track that followed the train line, and I chose to ride that because all the rail items were still in place- rails, sleepers and lists of ballast (large stones). The track is far more undulating, and at times you are below the train line and other times below it.
After 3.4 km, I crossed Jubb Road (unmarked). The train line looked like the better option, as the track was definitely much more up and down, and it was now fairly rough. But 50 meters of riding down the sleepers had me trying the ballast next to the train lines. That was still too hard, so the rough track was the best option. All the hills were rideable unloaded, but could be tough with luggage.
The Trail often has sweeping views off the Scarp and can be very scenic in parts. I saw a small party of walkers and, unfortunately, a pack of 4-5 unlicensed off road bikes who were doing their best to tear up the Trail.
At the 6.5 km I could see the de constructed bridge across the South West Highway. Cross here with caution- the traffic on the highway is doing 90-110km/hr.
The next section was very sandy, and often unrideable. But it was only about 1 km to Watkins road (an unmarked sealed road). The train line continues along to the South of Mundijong, but I decided to follow Watkins road by the more direct route into Mundijong. There is a footpath along Watkins road, although it does swap sides of the road, and in some parts it was very windy as it weaved through the trees. By the time I got to Mundijong, this ride was just under 10 km. I stopped there at the train station, and used the public toilets, got some food at the shops and then got picked up for the ride home.
From Mundijong to the Freeway (and a cycleway to Perth) is about 15km ride, most of it along Mundijong rd (continues on from Watkins Rd). But It is a road with mainly 90km/hr speeds and not much room for cyclists, so try to avoid it unless you really need to get to the Freeway.
This page is the property of Follow My Ride, a website detailing off road cycle tracks near Perth and in Western Australia. This page is on the Jarrahdale Railway Heritage trail.
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Global Water Forum
The challenges of water governance in the 21st century
Part III | Sustaining Waters, Sustainable Cities: Urban climate change and SDG policy solutions
Climate change Urban Water Water Security
John H. Matthews, Maggie White, Aziza Akhmouch, Safaa Bahije, Frederick Boltz, Alexa Bruce, Paul Fleming, Mark Fletcher, Torgny Holmgren, Martin Kerres, Daniela Krahl, Franz-Birger Marré, Diego J. Rodriguez, Cees van de Guchte, Marion van Schaik, Niels Vlaanderen
Note on authors: Though all of the authors are associated with one or more institutions, we are writing here as individuals and members of AGWA: the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, an international network to develop, synergize, and promote the emerging best practices and policies for resilient water resources management.
This article is the third in a three-part series looking at how the objectives of the SDGs and UNFCCC can be synergized to develop effective climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability strategies.
Signposts of success: Aligning agendas and actions for urban resilience
Much work remains to be done for the successful alignment of policy and action for urban resilience. Part I and Part II of this series outlined the challenges of integrating the SDGs and UNFCCC agendas. Given that cities are where the sustainable development goal (SDG) targets and the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement will be implemented, we suggested that resilient water management could be a unifying focus for aligning policy and action for urban resilience.
Already this focus has been adopted in several contexts globally and resulted in some exciting developments. Four examples are now offered, which show how the alignment can begin to become a reality, with a view to providing inspiration for other states, organisations, and individual actors to drive similar change.
Linking climate adaptation, water management, and disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and actions. DRR and climate adaptation efforts both aim to prevent and reduce extreme event risks by diminishing vulnerability and increasing resilience but often focus on different timeframes and threat analyses. However, progress is happening. Working on developing a shared terminology for both DRR and climate adaptation professionals can mainstream water management even in the face of disaster.Some cities have already been effective in developing a common and actionable framework, such as the Rotterdam Climate Initiative 2013.1 The Netherlands has frequently suggested a formal DRR and climate change adaptation platform be established to share experiences and lessons learned, to define the synergistic interventions, and to embark on joint quests for innovative financing.2 The Sendai Framework DRR targets have been merged into the SDGs, specifically SDG 11.5 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13.1 (Climate Action).
Mainstreaming resilience into water investments. In 2015 with the support of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the World Bank published an innovative methodology that integrates a new generation of best practices for assessing and reducing climate risks in water-related investments.3 This approach — referred to generally as decision scaling — develops robust solutions for a wide range of investments, considering uncertainties associated with long-term impacts on the water cycle.More recent applications include basin scale planning, such as for the Valley of Mexico (inclusive of Mexico City and its surrounding region). Forthcoming decision support approaches include tailored applications of the methodology to urban utilities as well as energy systems, especially related to hydropower. Decision scaling also contributes to developing flexible, practical decision-making “pathways” given unfolding climate uncertainties to ensure that investments and interventions are timed and focused efficiently.4
Governing urban-landscape water at the appropriate scale. Managing water effectively at urban scales requires understanding that cities are not defined by their administrative frontiers and that many technical solutions exist and are well-known. The challenge is fostering good governance: articulating who does what, at which scale, and how.The OECD has developed and harmonized a common definition of “metropolitan areas” to increase international comparability of the economic, social and environmental performances of 275 cities with over 500,000 inhabitants – called “functional urban areas.” This definition is based on where people live and work and chooses functional urban area building blocks as the smallest administrative units for which national commuting data is available.
In addition, the OECD Principles on Water Governance, endorsed at ministerial level in 2015, provide 12 elements to effectively design and implement water-relevant policies across levels of government, spatial scales, and sectors.5 Some 42 countries and 140+ stakeholders have adopted these standards; indicators and best practices are underway to support their implementation. Principle 2 calls for integrated basin governance systems and multi-level stakeholder-driven engagement. These principles have also informed investment processes, such as water resilience criteria for green and climate bonds.
Coordinating resilience and sustainability landscapes. The global engineering and design firm Arup, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, is embarking on a project to develop the City Water Resilience Framework. This project will provide a common understanding of the characteristics of a resilient urban water system — a global standard for urban water resilience assessment.The framework will recognize the complexity and scale of any urban water system and build resilience against a wide range of risks in the face of an unknowable future. The approach seeks to leverage the influence of cities within their basin to act as a convening force – bringing stakeholders together to from across the basin to make more resilient decisions and deliver better outcomes. Hopefully, cities can use the City Water Resilience Framework to diagnose resilience vulnerabilities and inform a set of prioritized interventions to address them.
Across all three parts of this article, we have attempted to demonstrate that a new opportunity has arisen to foster urban resilience by linking the SDGs and the UNFCCC through resilient water resources management. Water can be a powerful binding agent — a glue — that can ultimately ensure that our global aspirations meaningfully alter the future of cities. By sustaining water, we can sustain our urban landscapes.
Rotterdam Climate Initiative. 2013. Rotterdam Climate Adaptation Strategy. City of Rotterdam: Rotterdam, NL. http://www.rotterdamclimateinitiative.nl/documents/2015-en-ouder/Documenten/20121210_RAS_EN_lr_versie_4.pdf
Vlaanderen, N., C. van de Guchte, J. Timmerman. C. Zevenbergen. 2016. Water and Delta Cities: Accelerating Urban Resilience. Contribution for High-Level Expert and Leaders Platform on Water and Disasters, HABITAT III. The Hague, NL: Ministry of Water and the Environment.
Ray, P. A., and Brown, C.M. 2015. Confronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design: The Decision Tree Framework. Washington, DC: World Bank. World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22544
Haasnoot, M., J.H. Kwakkel, W.E. Walker, and J. Ter Maat. 2013. Dynamic adaptive policy pathways: a method for crafting robust decisions for a deeply uncertain world. Global Environmental Change 23(2):485–498.
2015. OECD principles on water governance. Meeting of the Council at Ministerial Level, 3–4 June 2015. C/MIN(2015)12.
All authors have professionally worked on water and climate adaptation both in their “day jobs” and through AGWA: Alliance for Global Water Adaptation. John H. Matthews has been the coordinator for AGWA since 2010 and is a Courtesy Professor at Oregon State University and Senior Fellow at the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University. Maggie White is presently manager of international policies at SIWI and AGWA co-chair. Aziza Akhmouch is Acting Head of the OECD Cities, Urban Policies, and Sustainable Development Division. Safaa Bahije is the Head of the State Secretariat for Water in Morocco. Fred Boltz was previously Managing Director of Ecosystems at The Rockefeller Foundation. Alexa Bruce is a Water Engineer at Arup and Environment Lead for the UK National Infrastructure Commission. Paul Fleming is the Manager of the Climate Resiliency Group for Seattle Public Utilities. Mark Fletcher is the Director and Global Water Business Leader at Arup. Torgny Holmgren is SIWI’s Executive Director. Martin Kerres is currently working at the Sustainable Water Policy team at GIZ, advising the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development on water policy issues. Daniela Krahl is Senior Policy Officer Water, Division 312 “Water; urban development; mobility”, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Franz-Birger Marré is Head of Division (Water, Urban Development, Transport) in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Diego J. Rodriguez is a Senior Water Resources Management Specialist for The World Bank Group where he has worked for the last decade. Cees van de Guchte is the Director of Climate Adaptation & Risk Management at Deltares. Marion van Schaik is a Senior Policy Adviser Water and Environment in the Inclusive Green Growth Department at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Niels Vlaanderen is the Coordinator of International Water Affairs at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. John H. Matthews is the corresponding author for this series and can be contacted at johoma@alliance4water.org.
The views expressed in this article belong to the individual authors and do not represent the views of the Global Water Forum, the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance, UNESCO, the Australian National University, or any of the institutions to which the authors are associated. Please see the Global Water Forum terms and conditions here.
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Political Snapshot
Written Nov 6
The election process is evolving in the United States as the candidates are being shaped by the polls instead of the there efforts dictating the polls. You were told Hillary was helped as the number 2 Republican revealed Benghazi was used to tarnish her. The new world order and Hillary have come to an agreement as the politics of this nation is controlled by an outside force. Bush on the other hand is not like his father or brother. Jeb did not agree with the terms so his father told the truth in a book.
These were his people before being placed in his son’s administration and Papa Bush 41 knew all that they were capable of. He cast doubt on the axis of evil and stated a more muted response, but why, was 911 the terrorist or was it an inside job to create war? Knowing death is around the corner and the rumors among the elite the power of God is real, some are telling the truth as to amend their lives. But is was fear of the new world order that forced Bush to reveal what is seen to crush his son at the expense of outing Cheney and Rumsfeld. So sad, Bush you are true CIA operative and leader to the end. Without the influence of the new world order, funds have evaporated for the Bush campaign and are crushing him, along with this news that will not help. His campaign is dead and truly it is a blessing as he thought he could change the world. They will tell you sign a pact and the White House is yours as Hillary will be harvested. Such is your fate.
You were told there were the candidates the elite wants to crawl up from the depths of despair as if they earned it while facing the placebo opponents as if the American voter is in control of their government. Graham and Christi see how easy it is to control your future by a poll that is manipulated? Be careful as you will be approached and please walk away.
The elected Kentucky governor was down by 5 points and won by a land slide. The say Republicans came out in droves to support a man who is disliked by its leaders. The polls manipulated were supposed to move the vote towards the Democrat the choice of the elite as the American voter pulls the lever due to an ad instead of knowledge. The people voted with their hearts, thus the result. Check the numbers. This is the problem and it is this that needs to be addressed if the nation is to move forward.
You were told that Carson was pushed to reign in Trump, but outsiders have released information that may taint Carson, but the true picture as you hear in the halls of universities and the offices, Carson has no plan and certainly the demeanor to challenge Putin and the Chinese, smoke and mirrors. He is a diversion just like Fiorina 2016 and Cain from 2012 as if the Republicans at this time in history will elect another Black man or woman fired from corporate.
The new world order has settled on Hillary and there presently no one that will challenge her and in here lies the problem. If none you challenge her, then the truth will never be revealed. When the new leader appears on the world stage your rights will be given up by your choice. You will be led astray by your leaders, who already have an agreement. The advantage as of now, is that being a woman, Hillary if elected will be more cautious. This is the Truth.
Remember in America, the voter is given a choice. This is the primary basis of our 2 party systems. Recently a hard fought right has been compromised and is now controlled by money and the media. Now with unlimited PAC money, the needs of the people are ignored or pacified with a token bill from Congress. It does not matter the party elected as long as both continue the agenda of the elite. The Democrats appease the poor and the Republicans further those who think they are rich. It is a game and all of you have been used except the few hundred at the top pulling the strings of this world.
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Colour-coded world map produced by NASA showing where solar energy has maximum effect. Photo: Reuters
Australia's solar energy potential (NASA)
Greensborough house 2 1.98 kW array
Bass Coast Community Health Service, 4.2 kW array
Ivanhoe house 9.8 kW array
Knoxfield house 2.4 kW array
Greensborough house 2.5 kW array
Solar power is produced from the sun with zero carbon emissions.
Let’s face it, the sun has been producing energy for billions of years.
Here is the history of its use by humanity.
1 Solar Energy and Power
1.1 Solar Radiation
1.2 Solar Technologies
1.3 Solar Energy Basics
2 Sunnier Times Ahead
3 How can we use solar power?
4 How many solar modules do I need?
5 Purchasing Greenpower if you have solar panels installed
6 Feed in tariffs
7 Things to watch out for
8 Further information on sustainability ideas
9 Grants and funding
12 Other references
[edit] Solar Energy and Power
Solar energy is the light and heat from the Sun that has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar power technologies provide electrical generation by means of heat engines or photovoltaics. Once converted its uses are only limited by human ingenuity. A partial list of solar applications includes:
space heating and cooling through solar architecture
potable water via distillation and disinfection
thermal energy for cooking
high temperature process heat for industrial purposes
[edit] Solar Radiation
Solar radiation (along with secondary solar resources, such as, wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass) account for most of the available renewable energy on Earth. Only a minuscule fraction of the available solar energy is used. (Source: Wikipedia)
[edit] Solar Technologies
Solar technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight. Active solar techniques include the use of photovoltaic panels, solar thermal collectors, with electrical or mechanical equipment, to convert sunlight into useful outputs. Passive solar techniques include orienting a building to the Sun, selecting materials with favorable thermal mass or light dispersing properties, and designing spaces that naturally circulate air.
[edit] Solar Energy Basics
Sunlight—through photovoltaic technology—provides this building at Oberlin College with electricity. Get new photo
Solucar PS10 is the first solar thermal power plant based on tower in the world that generate electricity in a commercial way.The sun's heat and light provide an abundant source of energy that can be harnessed in many ways. There are a variety of technologies that have been developed to take advantage of solar energy. These include concentrating solar power systems, passive solar heating and daylighting, photovoltaic systems, solar hot water, and solar process heat and space heating and cooling.
Solar power is used in large and small scale applications and systems for homes.
Even the private sector (businesses and industry) are diversifying their energy sources, improving efficiency, and saving money by choosing solar technologies.
Homeowners can also use solar technologies for heating and cooling and water heating, and may even be able to produce enough electricity to operate "off-grid" or to sell the extra electricity to the utilities, depending on local programs. The use of passive solar heating and daylighting design strategies can help both homes and commercial buildings operate more efficiently and make them more pleasant and comfortable places in which to live and work.
Beyond these localized uses of solar power, utilities and power plants are also taking advantage of the sun's abundant energy resource and offering the benefits to their customers. Concentrating solar power systems allow power plants to produce electricity from the sun on a larger scale, which in turn allows consumers to take advantage of solar power without making the investment in personal solar technology systems.
Solar power technologies, from individual home systems to large-scale concentrating solar power systems, have the potential to help meet growing energy needs and provide diversity and reliability in energy supplies.[1]
[edit] Sunnier Times Ahead
A turbulent future of violent storms, devastating drought, increasing temperatures and rising sea levels is inevitable if climate change is left unchecked
"Human activities led by burning fossil fuels is “very likely” to account for most of the warming in the past 50 years" - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, February 2007
The need to address ‘climate change’ NOW is an opportunity to change direction and embrace a truly sustainable path.
Electricity produced from the sun emits no greenhouse gases. The sun is the only perpetually renewable source of energy which the planet possesses and should be around for another 4 billion years.
"The whole world in half a year uses about the same amount of energy as the solar energy that hits Australia in one summer day" – Professor Ian Lowe, 7:30 Report 31 January 2007
Solar power plants could power Australia Some of the largest investors and power companies in the USA have realised that solar thermal power is a probable replacement for coal, nuclear and oil - Professor David Mills, a world leader in solar research states. Professor Mills has left Australia for California, which has the target of 33% renewable energy by 2020. Australia’s renewable energy target is 2.5% by 2010.
[edit] How can we use solar power?
We do not have to wait for solar power stations. We can install our own solar modules, which convert sunlight directly into electricity.
A solar array cleanly produces electricity when the sun is shining and any surplus electricity can be exported to the grid. At night, when the sun does not shine, electricity is imported back from the grid. An alternative arrangement is the installation of batteries, which store the electricity generated during the day for use at night.
To use solar electricity which is generated as direct current (DC), we convert the DC to alternating current (AC). The device which converts DC into AC is known as an inverter and is easily installed.
The power from the solar module is proportional to the amount of light shining on it. The key requirement for a suitable solar site in Australia is a north facing roof or ground space that is not shaded during the day.
Solar modules, often referred to as PV (photovoltaic) panels, have no moving parts so there is nothing to wear out. It is estimated that they should last for 50 years or more. Solar modules can withstand a wide range of climatic conditions, including snow, frost, hail and high temperature.
[edit] How many solar modules do I need?
Consult your latest electricity account for your average energy use over the last 12 months. It is then a simple calculation to work out the number of solar modules required to meet your particular energy needs.
If your daily energy use is 10 kilo watt hours (kWh) = 10,000 watt hours (Wh)
Using the weather conditions in Melbourne where the yearly average hours of sunshine per day = 4.79 h
Modules are available in sizes from 2 – 250 Watts. If we choose 175 W solar modules,
Number solar modules = Daily Energy Use (Wh) / ( Module power (W) X Hours of sunshine (h) )
= 10,000 / (175 * 4.79)
= 11.9, therefore install 12 modules
Personal experience over a full year of use of a typical 1kW (6 x 175W polycrystalline panels - 1050 notional watts) installed system in suburban Melbourne has shown that 4.20 kWh per day is a more likely outcome. This produces a figure of 13.61 (14 installed panels).
[edit] Purchasing Greenpower if you have solar panels installed
When you install solar panels you create renewable energy certificates (RECS). You can keep the RECs for your panels as an investment and trade them when a carbon trading market is eventually established. They are increasing in value; the price as at March 2008 is $44 per REC. If however, you assign your RECs to a power company (that is perhaps subsidising the installation of the panels) then they get carbon credits for them, which will reduce the amount of greenpower they purchase from other sources. Essentially RECs are used by companies to offset their carbon emissions rather than reduce or eliminate them.
If you elect to also purchase greenpower, then you pay an additional premium for power. If you have solar panels it may be better to lobby for an increased feed in tariff rather than purchase greenpower.
[edit] Feed in tariffs
An increasing number of countries have introduced legislation to paying producers of green power (e.g. from solar panels) a feed in tariff which ensures you are paid a premium price (up to 3 to 4 times the retail rate) for your green power.
Legislation for feed in tariffs is about to be enacted in South Australia and Queensland in March 2008.
[edit] Things to watch out for
Solar energy companies processes
Solar energy companies are relatively new on the scene and often have poor processes and high staff turnover. Understand the installation and end to end process so that you can get in touch with them when things are taking too long. Try and get a direct number if you can.
Cosmetics - How will the solar cells look on your house
Get advice from the installation company regarding placement and size and mock up how they will look on your house - take a photo and photoshop the cells onto the roof. Show your wife/partner. This may save you 10 tonnes of grief.
Understand your electricity companies charges
They are all different and all seek to confuse charges to make comparison difficult. Some companies force you onto a different plan just because you have solar cells. This spreadsheet was up to date at time of writing and is an excellent comparison.
Don't underestimate how good it makes you feel to generate your own power
With the generous rebates its definitely a worthwhile investment - but the joy I get from checking the meter every now and then and seeing that I'm generating stacks of free power is gold.
[edit] Further information on sustainability ideas
ATA Alternative Technology Association http://www.ata.org.au
Purchase from your local newsagent:
Renew Magazine (ATA)
Sanctuary Magazine (ATA)
G Magazine http://www.gmagazine.com.au
Your Home-Technical Manual, Australian Greenhouse Office
Making your home Sustainable, Derek Wrigley
The Green Living Guy News Page About Solar Power shows relevant solar power industry news
[edit] Grants and funding
Sustainability Victoria
[edit] Credits
Issue 1, March 2007
Text by Margaret and Suzi Young
Photos courtesy RJM Sunpower Pty Ltd [email protected]
Solar Neighbourhoods Campaign
Smart power meter
Greenpower
Million solar roofs initiative
Large scale solar power
[edit] Other references
Booklet: Electricity from the Sun, Solar PV systems explained.
Solar Electricity: Plan your own electricity system
Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy
Wikipedia:Solar energy
Online calculators to help scale a solar PV system
Solar Power For Your Home by David Findley
Renewable Energies For Your Home by Russel Gehrke
Retrieved from "http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Solar_power"
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Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist
"Reeve remembered everything about that morning. He remembered the scratchy wool of his short pants. His stiff collar and bow tie making it hard to swallow. The branches of the willow tree whipping against the window. The women sitting in the parlor, the air around them saturated with their homemade herbal fragrances." Opening Paragraph
Synopsis: From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman”—the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel—and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World’s Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany—heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire—seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of which the world has never seen. But when Louis’s dream is threatened by a glassworkers’ strike months before the Fair opens, he turns to an unforeseen source for help: the female students at the Art Students League of New York. Eager for adventure, the young women pick up their skirts, move to boarding houses, take up steel cutters, and assume new identities as the “Tiffany Girls.” Tiffany Girl is the heartwarming story of the impetuous Flossie Jayne, a beautiful, budding artist who is handpicked by Louis to help complete the Tiffany chapel. Though excited to live in a boarding house when most women stayed home, she quickly finds the world is less welcoming than anticipated. From a Casanova male, to an unconventional married couple, and a condescending singing master, she takes on a colorful cast of characters to transform the boarding house into a home while racing to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world. As challenges mount, her ambitions become threatened from an unexpected quarter: her own heart. Who will claim victory? Her dreams or the captivating boarder next door?
Review by Mirella Patzer
Author Deeanne Gist takes readers back to the early 1900's when the world is preparing for the World's Fair and Louis Comfort Tiffany is earning a reputation for his brilliant glass works. Flossie Jayne is a young woman who leaves her family and home to forge her own way in the world. She ends up working for him as a "Tiffany girl" during the frantic preparations for the fair. The tale takes through troubles, love, and all the fascinating details of the time. Placed within the novel's pages were numerous historical photographs which definitely added to the story, giving me the opportunity to see the fashion, the characters, the items described in the novel. Poignant, funny, heart-warming, and emotion, this is a nice story with a good pace that held my interest from start to finish. Excellent writing!
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Study Shows Number One Killer of Teens is Motor Vehicle Crashes
By Super User / State News / الأربعاء, 17 حزيران/يونيو 2015 04:00
In half of fatalities, teens were not wearing seat belts; new study explores why
NEW HANOVER, BRUNSWICK, AND PENDER COUNTY, NC – More teens die in motor vehicle crashes than from any other cause of death, about 2,500 per year. Fatalities are split almost equally between teen drivers (56 percent) and passengers (44 percent). In half of the fatal crashes, the teen was not wearing a seat belt. To develop strategies to drive down the number of teens killed in cars (which claims fully 25 percent of all preventable injuries among children), Safe Kids Worldwide conducted a survey among teen passengers and drivers.
The report, “Teens in Cars,” was funded as part of a $2 million grant from the General Motors Foundation. It was based on a national survey of 1,000 teens ages 13 to 19.
One in four teens surveyed said they don’t use a seat belt on every ride. The top reasons they gave for not buckling up were that they forgot or it was not a habit (34 percent), they were not going far (16 percent), or the seat belt was not comfortable (11 percent). Asked why other teens don’t buckle up, one in three teens (33 percent) said that going to a party was a reason.
“We need to encourage everyone to buckle up on every ride, every time,” said Julia Histed, Safe Kids Cape Fear. “It only takes one time to forget to buckle up for a life to be changed forever.”
The survey also addressed the perilous practice of distracted driving. Thirty-nine percent of teens said they have ridden with a teen driver who was texting, and 95 percent said they think other teens have ridden with drivers who were texting. Teens who don’t always use seat belts are also more likely to report that they text while driving than those who say they wear a seat belt every time. About 43 percent of teens reported riding as a passenger with a teen driver who was talking on a phone.
These behaviors reflect the habits of their parents. More than half of teens said they have seen a parent talking on the phone while driving, and 28 percent have been riding in a car with a parent who was texting.
• Buckle up on every ride, every time. This is important for everyone, both drivers and passengers.
• Talk to teens and kids about ways to speak up if a driver of any age isn’t driving safely.
• Be a role model in all your driving habits.
Source: New Hanover County.
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Indian Lake Schools » Laker News » Indian Lake FFA Alumni Cow Pie Bingo
Indian Lake FFA Alumni Cow Pie Bingo
The Indian Lake FFA Alumni Association is holding its first ever Cow Pie Bingo Event at 5 pm on Friday, September 28th next to Laker Stadium at the home football game. Tickets are $20 and are available from any Indian Lake FFA alum or by calling April King at (937)844-2575. There are 4 top cash prizes for the event: $1,500, $1,000, $500 and $250. Winners will be announced at halftime of the football game and need not be present to win.
Proceeds from the event will be used to pay for OHP/Indian Lake FFA trips and activities.
Please see all official rules.
Indian Lake FFA Alumni Cow Pie Bingo Fundraiser
Official Rules and Regulations
1. The Indian Lake FFA Alumni will establish all rules and regulations for the Cow Pie Bingo Fundraiser. 2. The Cow Pie Bingo event will take place on the grassy area to the east of Indian Lake High School off of State Route 235. An 72ftx48ft field will be marked off with 4ftx4ft grid squares for a total of 216 squares. 3. The actual field grid will be clearly marked with all squares being of equal shape and size. The field grid (and cows) will be protected by a barrier fence. Spectators and ticket holders must not interfere with the progress of the event. 4. Up to 400 tickets will be sold by the Indian Lake FFA Alumni for this event for $20 a ticket. 200 tickets will be red and 200 tickets will be blue. 5. The square numbers will be computer generated and randomly determined. 6. Any unsold tickets by September 28,2018 at 4pm will become live tickets that will be available for purchase at the event. 7. For each ticket sold, the sold ticket stub will be placed in a specifically marked and secured container by the Indian Lake FFA Alumni. 8. At 5pm on September 28, 2018, two cows (one marked blue and one marked red) will be led onto the field marked grid by an appropriate handler and allowed to freely roam the grid area until there are four cow pies (not pee) on the grid. If all four pies are not placed within the grid by 7pm, then ticket stubs will be randomly selected by drawing and the winner will be notified. 9. There are 4 top cash prizes for the event: $1500,$1000, $500, and $250. The first place winner will be designated by the first cow pie dropped. Example: If the cow marked blue poops on the square labeled 52, then the holder of the blue ticket numbered 52 will win $1,500. Then, if the cow marked red poops on the square marked 6, then the holder of the yellow ticket numbered 6 would win $1000. And if blue cow poops again on the square marked 30, then the holder of the blue ticket numbered 30 would win $500. If the cows do not poop in the 2 hour time frame, tickets stubs will be pulled at random to determine winners. 10. There will be at least two Indian Lake FFA Alumni members judging the event. 11. If the cow pie lands on bordering squares, then the prize money will be divided equally among the two winners REGARDLESS of the volume on each square. Indian Lake FFA Alumni member judges will have the final say in winners. 12. If a cow pie lands on an unsold square, the winner will be the closest "sold" square or squares immediately adjacent to and at least sharing one full side with the unsold square. This could end up being more than one winner (up to, but not exceeding, 4 winners) who would share the prize money equally. 13. The winners will be announced during half time at the home football game. If the winner is not present, they will be notified by phone and/or email and will then have 10 days to claim their prize money. Unclaimed prize money will go back to the Indian Lake FFA Alumni and will be used to support the Indian Lake FFA Chapter throughout the year. Winners must present their ticket and proof of identification may be requested before prize money is distributed. 14. The event will proceed on September 28, 2018, rain or shine. If there is thunder/lightning then the Cow Pie Bingo fundraiser will be cancelled. The cash prize winners will then be established by a random drawing conducted by the Indian Lake FFA Alumni. Winners will be contacted and will have 10 days to claim their prize. 15. If there are questions concerning rules and regulations, please contact April King at (937) 844-2575.
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Federal Reserve keeps key interset rate unchanged while signaling future hikes
By Martin Crutsinger
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left its benchmark interest rate unchanged while signaling further gradual rate hikes in the months ahead as long as the economy stays healthy.
The Fed's widely expected decision kept the central bank's key short-term rate at 1.75 percent to 2 percent - the level hit in June when the Fed boosted the rate for a second time this year.
The Fed projected in June four rate hikes this year, up from three in 2017. Private economists expect the next hike to occur at the September meeting with a fourth rate hike expected in December.
The Fed's statement was upbeat on the economy, pointing to a strengthening labor market, economic activity growing at "a strong rate," and inflation that's reached the central bank's target of 2 percent annual gains.
Analysts saw all the comments about economic strength as a clear signal that the Fed remains on track to raise rates two more times this year.
"All signs still point to a September rate hike," said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. He said consumers should continue to pay down their home equity, credit card and other loans with variable rates that will rise further as the Fed keeps hiking rates.
"Refinance adjustable rate debt into fixed rates to insulate yourself from further rate hikes," McBride recommended.
There was no mention in the statement of what many economists see as one of the biggest risks at the moment: rising tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. exports and imports that have been imposed as a result of President Donald Trump's new get-tough approach on trade.
The Fed statement also made no reference to criticism Trump has lodged recently against the Fed's continued rate hikes.
The Fed's decision was approved on a unanimous 8-0 vote. The action was not surprising, given that this meeting followed a June session where the Fed took a number of steps including raising rates by another quarter-point and changing its projection for hikes this year from three to four.
The March and June rate hikes followed three hikes in 2017 and one each in 2015 and 2016. The Fed's key policy rate is still at a relatively low level. But it's up from the record low near zero where it remained for seven years as the central bank worked to use ultra-low interest rates to lift the economy out of the Great Recession.
The string of quarter-point rate hikes is intended to prevent the economy from overheating and pushing inflation from climbing too high. But higher rates make borrowing costlier for consumers and businesses and can weigh down stock prices. Trump has made clear he has little patience for the Fed's efforts to restrain the economy to control inflation.
"Tightening now hurts all that we have done," Trump tweeted last month, a day after he said in a television interview that he was "not happy" with the Fed's rate increases.
Over the past quarter-century, presidents have maintained silence in public about Fed actions, believing that lodging complaints would be counter-productive. That's because it could produce even faster rate hikes if the central bank feels the need to convince financial markets that it will not yield to political pressure and allow inflation to rise to worrisome levels.
At the moment, economic growth is strong, rising at an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the April-June quarter, the best showing in nearly four years. Unemployment is at a low 4 percent, and some analysts believe it will fall further when the government releases the July figures on Friday.
But there are worries as well, led by fears of what a Trump-led trade war might do to growth in the United States and around the world.
Many analysts believe that the possible harm from rising tariffs was a key discussion topic this week. While trade was not mentioned in the statement, it likely will show up in the minutes of the Fed's discussion which will be released in three weeks.
Delivering the Fed's semi-annual report to Congress last month, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell refrained from criticizing the Trump administration's effort to use the threat of tariffs to try to lower trade barriers. But Powell noted that the Fed was hearing a "rising chorus of concern" from business contacts about the harm a trade war could cause.
Powell hasn't publicly addressed Trump's criticism of Fed rate hikes. But the chairman had previously said in a radio interview that the central bank has long operated independently in making interest-rate decisions based on what was best for the economy and not in response to political pressure.
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Namibia welcomes USA and Cuba normalisation of relations
18 Dec 2014 18:10pm
WINDHOEK, 18 DEC (NAMPA) Namibia on Thursday welcomed the historic announcement of Cuba and the United States of America (USA) to bury the 50-year feud between the two countries and re-establish full diplomatic relations.
In a statement availed to Nampa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the decision has demonstrated political courage, statesmanship and foresight.
The normalisation of relations between Cuba and the United States has indisputably proven that the mighty tide of contemporary mutual relations cannot be stopped, it said, adding that the re-establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two countries closes a chapter characterised by cold war anachronism.
It also opens a new era of co-operation based on mutual respect for the independence and sovereignty of each country.
The ministry noted that the Namibian Government, like the overwhelming majority of United Nations member states, has consistently been calling for the removal of the economic, financial and commercial blockade on Cuba and the normalisation of trade between the two countries.
In the spirit of this historic decision, the Government of Namibia calls on the US Congress to follow the bold leadership of President Barack Obama and repeal all legislation on the economic and financial blockade on Cuba and any other forms of sanctions or restrictions against Cuba, read the statement.
It further said that the Government of Namibia expressed its admiration for and solidarity with the government and fraternal people of Cuba for their steadfastness and courage in the face of the economic blockade which retarded their development and created unnecessary hardships.
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MNO Credit River Métis Council community garden
Submitted by: Richard Cuddy, MNO Credit River Métis Council President
(Left to right) Rochelle Ethier, Stephanie Montague from the Knight’s Table and
MNO Credit River Métis Council Councillor Darlene Lent during the Council’s
Riel Day gathering where 250 pounds of food from the community garden was
donated to the Knight’s Table charity.
Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) Credit River Métis Council members embarked on a small venture which has yielded substantial rewards, a community garden.
The Métis Community Garden Project was created by Council members Rochelle Ethier and Councillor Darlene Lent. The Métis Community Garden grew over 450 pounds of fresh produce throughout the season. This fresh produce was donated by the MNO to needy Métis families and to charities such as The Knight’s Table and St. Leonard’s House. The garden also provided most of the vegetables for the Council’s Louis Riel Day gathering.
To highlight the project and its success, Ethier created the short film documenting the garden project that was shown at the Council’s Riel Day gathering. The documentary was created in hopes that it will inspire more volunteers for next season. After the viewing, there was thunderous applause from the audience for Councillor Lent and Either.
“This is a great way to promote one of the positive ways Métis give back to their communities. Not just the Métis communities but to the towns, municipalities and the province we live in,” said MNO Credit River Métis Council President Richard Cuddy. “We are excellent partners and collaborators. We care, we share, and our culture and traditions have so very much to offer.”
Regional Councillor for Wards 3 and 4 in the City of Brampton John Sanderson was in attendance at the Riel celebration and was so impressed with the project and its outcomes that he plans on personally donating to project.
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Lafayette Music Company
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Lafayette Musician
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3700 Johnston Street
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Lafayette Music Co., Inc. opened in the heart of downtown Lafayette on Vermillion St. in August of 1955 under the leadership of Mr. William C. "Bill” Peyton as "Lafayette’s Downtown Music Center.”
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Although it was a full line music store, the main focus was on pianos and organs. In the early ‘60s, after outgrowing its original location, Lafayette Music moved to 551 Jefferson St. Mr. Peyton and his wife Marie committed themselves and Lafayette Music Company to the development and growth of music in Acadiana.
In August of 1967, Mr. Raymond J. Goodrich joined the Lafayette Music Company staff as a salesman. From that time until around 1969, Mr. Goodrich focused on growing the band department. By traveling to schools all over Acadiana, Lafayette Music offered a more personalized service to the band directors of the area.
Because of Mr. Goodrich’s achievements with the band department, he was promoted to sales manager in 1968.
In December of 1973, Mr. Goodrich purchased 40 shares of the company’s stock to become part owner of Lafayette Music Co., Inc.
Later in July of 1976, Mr. Goodrich purchased an additional 40 shares, and eventually became sole owner of Lafayette Music Co., Inc. in April of 1977. At that time, the combo department was in a separate space adjacent to the main location and was sold separately to become Bud’s Guitar and Drum Shop, Inc. With the new ownership, Lafayette Music Company focused on piano, organ, and band sales as "The Friendly Music Store.”
As business continued to grow, Lafayette Music Company opened a second location in 1978 in The Boulevard Shopping Center at the corner of Arnould Blvd. and Johnston St.Wilfred Green joined the Lafayette Music team a year later in June of 1979 with Jamie Cappel following in January of 1981, both of whom are still with the company. After years of part-time accounting work for the company, Karen Goodrich sold her interest in a local accounting firm to join her husband Raymond Goodrich and Lafayette Music full time as the Chief Financial Officer.
With more growth and the success of the Arnould Blvd. location, the decision was made, in 1983, to move both the downtown and Arnould Blvd. stores in to Lafayette Music’s current home at 3700 Johnston St.
Lafayette Music Company continued its commitment to the advancement of musical skills and the enjoyment of performance for Acadiana’s young musicians in 1983 with the creation of the Lafayette Music Camp.
In 1989, Lafayette Music Company started the Louisiana Showcase of Marching Bands to give back to the community and fund scholarships for music education students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Looking to expand its business to sell guitars, drums, and audio systems, Lafayette Music Company opened another music store named Pro Sound in 1992.
Located at 2920 Johnston St. in the Winnwood Shopping Center, Pro Sound catered to a whole new customer base offering everything from acoustic guitars and sound equipment to traditional Cajun music instruments. After 8 successful years in that location and a remodel and addition of 4,000 sq. ft. to Lafayette Music Company, Pro Sound moved into the 3700 Johnston St. location. Although the Pro Sound name is no longer used, Lafayette Music Company remains a full line retail music store with 10,000 sq. ft. of space to serve all of Acadiana’s musical needs.
Lafayette Music Company was recognized as a Yamaha Piano VIP Retailer in 2006, and was awarded The Best of Lafayette 2009 by the US Commerce Association in the music dealer’s category.
More recently, in August of 2012, 2013, and 2014 Lafayette Music Company was ranked in the Top 100 largest music products retailers in the country by location in The Music Trades magazine.
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The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr.
Jump to page: in: Volume 1Volume 2Volume 3Volume 4 Newspapers & Pamphlets Index
Collection Outline
Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4
Newspapers, 7 January 1765 to 26 December 1767:
Front matter (provenance information) Index Newspapers, 7 January 1765 to 26 December 1767
January to June 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 7 January 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 14 January 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 21 January 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 4 February 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 11 February 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 4 March 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 11 March 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 25 March 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 1 April 1765
Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser, 8 April 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 15 April 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 29 April 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 6 May 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 13 May 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 13 May 1765
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter, 30 May 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 3 June 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 10 June 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 10 June 1765
July to December 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 1 July 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 15 July 1765
Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser, 22 July 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 22 July 1765
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter, 1 August 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 5 August 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 12 August 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 19 August 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 19 August 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 2 September 1765
Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser, 2 September 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 9 September 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 16 September 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 16 September 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 30 September 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 7 October 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 7 October 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 14 October 1765
Boston Evening-Post, 14 October 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 21 October 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 28 October 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 4 November 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 4 November 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston Evening-Post, 11 November 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 11 November 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 18 November 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 2 December 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 16 December 1765
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 30 December 1765 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 6 January 1766
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 13 January 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 10 February 1766
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 17 February 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 3 March 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 7 April 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 14 April 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 5 May 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 12 May 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 2 June 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 16 June 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 7 July 1766
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 14 July 1766 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 3 November 1766
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 9 February 1767 (includes supplement)
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 2 March 1767
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 1 June 1767
Boston Evening-Post, 3 August 1767
Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, 5 October 1767
Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser, 7 December 1767
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Sequence Number 742 of 796; Volume 1 of 4.
Funding from the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati and the Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation provided support for this project.
Funding from the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners enabled the Boston Public Library to create the images of the newspapers as part of a digitization program for Digital Commonwealth members.
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Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11 [32:02]
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 “Scottish” [38:40]
NDR Radiophilharmonie/Andrew Manze
rec. Grosser Sendesaal des NDR Landesfunkhaus Hannover, Germany, January 2016
Reviewed in stereo and surround
Booklet notes in English and German
PENTATONE PTC5186595 SACD [70:48]
To date, my reference versions of Mendelssohn’s Scottish symphony have been those of Peter Maag (review) and Otto Klemperer (review ~ review). Maag’s is simply a lovely performance in the finest of Decca early stereo, while Klemperer’s is a sterling and slightly surprising example of his great strengths in structure, clarity, and expressive power. Both recordings are notable for their treatment of the finale’s almost tacked-on, feel-good coda. Maag takes a deep breath and plays it for all it’s worth - a resplendent and stately peroration that might send a Victorian audience home feeling smugly righteous. Klemperer, however, disliked the coda so much that he had to be dissuaded from omitting it for his EMI recording, or substituting one of his own. Knowing this now, it’s hard not to hear the Philharmonia’s rather blowsy rendition without imagining Otto’s contempt! If you don’t take it too seriously, though, it’s a real hoot.
Those, like me, with such ingrained memories may therefore find the coda of Andrew Manze’s Scottish a little anti-climactic. That’s not to say he’s in any way remiss in his interpretation, and ‘tradition’ as we know it may be entirely misguided, but Manze has Mendelssohn sending his audience home at a fair canter. It might be his way of saying he doesn’t much care for the coda either, or perhaps he’s bringing his early music credentials to bear on an old warhorse, but among recent interpreters he’s not alone – Andrew Litton on BIS, for example, is also on the sprightly side. Much ado about nothing? Possibly, but those geared up for grandiloquence may be underwhelmed.
The more general observation though is that Manze’s Mendelssohn, while otherwise splendidly committed and vibrant, is perhaps lacking some affection; his apparent impulse to keep the music vital and surging forward robs particularly the Scottish of some of its charm and warmth. With Mendelssohn there’s always a fine balance between vigour and sentiment - too much of the latter and can result in the worthy and turgid, while too much of the other can sound merely efficient and superficially stirring.
But leaving all conventions aside, this release is of a Romantic composer played with buoyant classical purity and style by a mainstream symphony orchestra, in cracking form it appears. Manze’s approach is eminently suited to the 15 year-old Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, bursting out of the blocks with the opening Allegro molto, purposeful to a fault, but underscoring the precociousness and maturity of its composer. The throttle is relaxed for the middle two movements, but without losing momentum, limpid woodwind bringing a liltingly sweet Andante, and if the Menuetto seems a little po-faced, it only serves to clarify the young Mendelssohn’s gift, and his schooling in the models of Mozart and Haydn. The Allegro con fuoco finale fairly fizzes along, the energy, passion, and fire all that are asked for, and driven to a rousing conclusion by Manze and his charges.
As noted earlier, the same approach informs Manze’s Scottish, the last-completed of Mendelssohn’s five symphonies, although numbered as the third. If not as genial a reading as, say, Maag’s, Manze still provides an aptly amiable Andante con moto opening, rising to an invigorating Allegro un poco agitato as the movement progresses. The cheerful busyness of the following Vivace non troppo is all that you could ask for, with delightfully sprung woodwind, segueing gently into the mellifluous Adagio. The funeral march-like second subject is suitably imposing, perhaps foreshadowing Mendelssohn’s intention for the finale’s coda which, even according to the Pentatone liner-note, “shines forth almost hymnically”. Still, I’ve laboured that point enough, and Manze otherwise proceeds chirpily and energetically through the finale’s opening Allegro vivacissimo, decelerating to the pause which precedes the concluding, and perhaps ambivalently indicated, Allegro maestoso assai.
The Pentatone sound from the NDR Radiophilharmonie’s concert venue is full and detailed, albeit with an empty-hall acoustic, which is only emphasised when listening in surround. On this occasion, I found stereo preferable. There is also a hardness to the ambience which becomes increasingly intrusive above mf. Despite some edginess also in the 1959 Decca sound for Maag, it still sounds amazingly good by comparison.
I enjoyed Andrew Manze’s traversal of Mendelssohn’s first and (chronologically) last symphonies, appreciating their classical rigour, energy and drive, and the superb playing of the NDR Radiophilharmonie. If the Scottish didn’t ultimately challenge my existing choices, I wouldn’t hold that against it, given that it’s paired with a fizzing performance of the first, and delivered in the same vein. If I think Manze misses the opportunity to ham it up a bit, that may be my shortcoming. If, however, he plays a little more to the crowd next time, I’m quite sure Mendelssohn wouldn’t mind.
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I know that the 'Big Five', the Mountain Gorillas and Whales are sacred cows, as it were, but encounters with the world's most charismatic creatures often leave me disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, the trips to their habitat are invariably rewarding, but it tends to be the way locals cope with their mega fauna or 'package' them to tourists, or even the way tourists react or behave when wildlife viewing, that interests me most.
So whether it's the Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, the last wild lions in India, or the Lemurs of Madagascar, I'll try to explain what it did for me...
The following article first appeared in the Sunday Times
A 32 stone silverback is 7ft away from me. It's majestic and magical - and, to prove it, I'm giggling uncontrollably. My shoulders are quivering, my eyes are streaming and all the lip-biting in the world can't stop it.
I'm in trouble. Big, hairy, gorilla-sized, 7ft 6in arm-span trouble. Just a few moments ago, this giant ape was gazing benignly over his family and the lush landscape of Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, but not any more. He turns his enormous head towards me, slowly and purposefully, like the turret of a tank swivelling to select its next target. And now he's staring right at me.
The small part of my brain that's not finding him funny starts to wonder what it'll feel like when he rips my head off and my windpipe squelches in two. And all because, right here, right now, I've hit a stupid seam of mirth. I just can't stop laughing.
A Silverback's silver back is a saddle of silver hair that displays sexual maturity. Photo Volcanoes Safaris
This is not what I'd expected. In fact, the day had started seriously enough, at 5am, when a super-friendly member of the lodge staff bounded up to my bungalow and rapped on the door. With a chirpy "good morning", he handed me a Thermos and was away. After I'd taken a reviving hot shower and a slurp of some tea, I was raring to go too.
Not only was I one of the day's fortunate 56 people who would be allowed to spend an hour with Rwanda's gorillas, I was staying at the brand-new Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge. It's only a mile from the park entrance, enabling trekkers to stay in real comfort for the first time.
One of the eight cottages at the lodge, with Mount Sabyinyo in the background. Photo Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge
It's one thing to be cosseted by a smart new lodge, but is it really possible to relax in Rwanda? There may be gorillas in the jungle, but what about that elephant in the room: the genocide? It's just 14 years since almost 1m people were killed in 100 days of bloodletting.
You might think that the ministry of tourism has beaten a safe path through to the gorillas, but not to anywhere else. In fact, the whole country, from the stunningly beautiful Lake Kivu to the southern Nyungwe Forest full of chimpanzees, is remarkably safe. Even in Kigali, the rather appealing capital, it's fine to walk about at night.
Landing at Kigali, you'll have to swap any duty-free bags for locally produced home-woven affairs made from banana leaves, as plastic ones are banned here. And on the two-hour drive to the lodge, you'll see not a single Coke can or juice carton of litter. Just smiles and waves all the way.
The lodge itself occupies a clearing halfway up the extinct Sabyinyo volcano's 12,000ft cone. Each of the eight bungalows has a large open fire, a dressing room and a giant bathroom, but in daylight hours it's impossible to sit inside. The veranda front-rows the most magnificent slice of Africa imaginable - the fabled Mountains of the Moon, vast equatorial peaks that are the suitably peerless habitat for the world's only mountain gorillas.
Comfy cottage bedroom at the lodge. Photo Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge
The low-rise reception building has a fine terrace, perfect for breakfasts and sundowners; inside, there's an attractive dining room, adjoined by an embryonic library and a cosy lounge.
This location comes at a price. You have to stay full-board, which, thanks to the miracles worked in the kitchen, is far from a hardship, and all drinks (including alcohol) are complimentary. At a rack rate of £347 a night in high season, however, they would need to be.
It's revolutionary luxury as, previously, visitors had to make do with the nearby Mountain Gorilla's Nest hotel - an unsympathetic mishmash of a place, robbed of views by a ring of eucalyptus - or the Virunga Lodge, which, though enthusiastically run and overlooking Lake Bulera, meant battling with bucket showers, long-drop loos and an hour's drive to the park.
An unusually clear view of Mount Sabyinyo, part of the Parc National des Volcans. Photo Volcanoes Safaris
After a quick briefing, we entered the thick jungle in single file, the imminence of the gorillas' appearance heightening our senses to every cracking twig and crash of the tracker's machete. Trackers stay with the animals all day to guard against poachers, while others lead the groups; at the back comes a soldier escort, which does the same, but with machineguns.
After a steep but short climb of less than 30 minutes, we sidled round a clump of greasy bamboos, and there they were - 22 gorillas, dotted about like hairy black Buddhas. Several of the animals were hugging themselves, keeping warm with the same exaggerated "My, it's chilly" gesture humans use. Wow.
Old hairy arms surveying his domain
I had David Attenborough's reverent whispers to camera firmly in mind, but as we slid right into the heart of the group, the atmosphere seemed altogether tamer than when he was filming: mesmerising and wonderful, yes, but not threatening. The trackers spoke at normal volume and even chuckled, not when the gorillas did something cute - they'd seen all that before - but at the antics of us tourists. A Belgian girl tripping over her boyfriend set them off. Then a mobile phone rang and a camera bleeped. Then, amid the sound of bamboo crunching under clumsy people, someone - possibly a gorilla, possibly an Australian - farted.
So I didn't whisper. It felt library-like naughty, but nobody told me off, and the gorillas didn't seem to mind. They didn't seem to mind anything, which made sitting with 22 of the world's last 700, well, rather odd. They appeared less fearsome and more lummox-like than I could ever have imagined, parodies of themselves, even. All I could think about was the Cadbury's drummer, and a sweaty guy I'd met at a fancy-dress party.
A group of Cadbury's drummers - I mean mountain gorillas - relaxing in a jungle clearing. Photo Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge
Soon, I slid my way to within a few feet of Agashya (the silverback) and sat down to stare. He was playing with a yellowy-brown paste, concentrating on it in the way a child does when sculpting mashed potato - except that he was rubbing it into the pad of his foot. It looked to me as though he were massaging a cut.
Amazed, I turned to the nearest guide: "Is that paste a natural remedy that the gorillas find in the root of plants?" I imagined our nearest genetic neighbours fashioning a pestle and mortar from bamboo, grinding the potion from leaves and roots.
The guide leant in close to me, our raincoats colliding with a rubbery squeak. "No," he said. "He's playing with his poo."
Which is when my giggling fit began. I didn't mean to laugh, but really. Agashya soon saw, though, that my buffoonery was no threat to him or his family, so he just scratched his ear (with his poo-covered fingers) and went back to rubbing his foot.
One more thing...Paradoxically, when you think of Rwanda's recent history, is that after a few days in the country's capital, backroads and jungles, the calm, friendly and safe atmsphere there lead me to drop my guard. The country never once felt threatening - silverback encounter aside - and I grew relaxed enough to allow myself to be robbed of my camera when changing planes in Nairobi. So alas the many hundreds of photos that I took of the gorillas, and more importantly of the scenery, villages and people, are lost.
Fitting the Volcanoes National Park into a holiday: Most visitors to Rwanda head straight to see the gorillas, and then head home. But a great loop is to include a wild chimpansee safari in the Nyungwe National Park and a a day or two at Gisenyi on the tranquil shores of Lake Kivu. Plus the Akagera National Park (just 110 kilometres from Kigali) has great game viewing,
Getting there: Kigali International Airport handled around 600,000 passengers in 2015, and is just five kilometres from the city. Rwandair destinations include Accra, Brussels, Dubai, London Gatwick, Johannesburg, Kilimanjaro, Mombassa, Mumbai and Nairobi. Other useful flights include Brussels with Brussels Airlines, Kenya Airways to Nairobi, KLM to Amsterdam, Qatar Airways to Doha, and Turkish Airlines to Itanbul.
When to visit: slightly south of the Equator and at altitude, Rwanda has a very pleasant climate. The long dry season is from June to September, with a short dry season from December-February. The long rainy season is March-May, when rain can be torrential and prolonged, and then there is a less deluged short rainy season October-November. Although the jungle and mountains ensure mists and the chance of showers at any times of the year, gorilla trekking is best during the dry seasons, when the steep dirt paths are easier to negotiate and there is a better chance of sunshine. However the best time to see the chimps in Nyungwe is in the rainy seasons when the apes are easier to see owing to their abundance of food.
More info: see Volcanoes National Park and Rwanda Tourism. I travelled as a guest of Audley Travel, which can tailor-make trips to Rwanda. Other UK based tour operators include Tribes Travel and Rainbow Tours, with Volcanoes Safaris being a good local tour operator. The Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge is still the closest lodge to the park, which is just three kilometres away, but there has been a big improvement in accommodation option - like the Virunga Lodge, and due to open in June 2017, the Bisate Lodge.
Visa and safety: always check your government's travel advice before booking, and ensure that your travel insurance is valid in this part of the country. See the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice.
It wouldn't be my first thought on seeing a gigantic crocodile in a tank of water, to get my swimming trunks on and jump in. But then I haven't been to the Crocosauras park in Darwin, Australia, where the star turn is the chance of sharing a pool with a fearsome 5.5m long Saltwater crocodile.
And this bonkers adrenaline thrill isn't the only one of its kind either; there are other caged wildlife viewing experiences too, offering the opportunity of cowering behind bars while a creature - usually large and dangerous apex predators - is kept at bay by the bars.
All of the encounters look like accidents waiting to happen to me, and with crocs having a biting force of up to 5,000psi, being dunked like a Rich Tea Biscuit into their aquarium sure isn't my idea of fun. And small scale accidents have happened - Australia's Crocosaurus Cove 'Cage of Death' had a snapped chain in 2011 that led to the cylinder containing two people falling further into the tank. Nobody was hurt, and failsafe safety systems kicked in, but even so.
We humans choose how we get our kicks, but it does seem cruel to goad animals in this way. It's like a kiddie or a kitten being teased with a sweet or a ball of wool that remains denied them; which usually ends in tantrums and tears. And in all cases except for the shark cage diving, the animals have only the illusion of being more free than the caged humans, as of course they are just trapped in a somewhat larger enclosure.
Even with sharks, It's argued that 'shark baiting' - where chum (fish poarts, bone and blood) is thrown into the water to encourage the sharks to approach the cage - can significantly change their behaviour. Usually these animals are shy of humans, but the large quantities of bait used to lure them towards the cage makes the sharks bold, excited and aggressive.
There have been several accidents too - with sharks in such a frenzy that they have damaged the cage, and themselves. Perhaps over time sharks will fear humans less and come to view us and our boats as places to find food. It could upset the finely balanced feeding patterns too.
But wildlife watching is big business, and supports jobs and local communities. And while pretty much every park or operator offering caged wildlife experiences claim they are doing so (at least in part) to increase our knowledge and awareness of endangered species, there surely must be better ways of achieving that goal.
Where to be caged from wildlife...
Parque Safari, Chile. The park uses converted jeeps and trucks to give visitors the chance of seeing lions close up as they jump onto the roof and sniff around for food. Lions of course aren't native to Latin America, but to Africa, and these animals have been rescued from circuses. Along with most other animals at the park, they can no longer fend for themselves, and enjoy better conditions than in the circus and an element of rehabilitation - the lions have lush vegetation and a lake where they can cool off. Parque Safari has six lions in a five acre enclosure and is in Rancagua in Central Chile.
Crocosauras, Australia. The Cage of Death is an acrylic cylinder that holds two people at a time and is partly lowered into the Crocosaurus Cove aquarium, home to a 90-year-old, 800 kilo saltwater croc. It's the world's largest reptile, is native to Australia, and of all the sub species of croc is the one most likely to chow down on a human. Accidentally step into its territory and chances are you'll be devoured in short time. So we probably know how the animal views a couple of semi-naked thrill seekers in it's pool. The Crocosaurus park is in Darwin.
Lehe Ledu Wildlife Zoo, China. Here low-tech looking lorries with a green mesh cage on the back, and live chickens and chunks of meat help to encourage the animals to approach the cage. The vehicle drives through various enclosures so that the captive tourists can see lions, tigers and bears up close. Never has the oft-repeated fairground mantra 'keep your fingers and hands inside the car at all times' been so urgent. The Lehe Ledu Wildlife Zoo is in Chongqing.
African Croc Dive, South Africa. In the winelands region, is Le Bonheur crocodile farm, which uses a large narrow-meshed cage that can hold up to 10 divers, to view several of its 1,000 crocodiles. The farm Is 55 kilometres east of Cape Town. African Croc Dive
Orana Wildlife Park, New Zealand: the country's only open range zoo is spread over 80 acres. It offers a 'Lion Encounter' where guests trundle through a lion enclosure in a large cage on the back of a flatbed truck that holds a keeper and around 20 visitors. The lions often climb on top of the vehicle and paw at the top of the cage in order to get food. One of its selling points is that being in a cage gives guests 'the opportunity to interact with our specialised keepers who care for the animals'. The Orana Wildlife Park is on the outskirts of Christchurch.
Cango Wildlife Ranch, South Africa: this is the oldest Cheetah 'contact centre' in the world, but these days is more famous for its Croc Cage Diving. The metal-barred cylinder is lowered into the croc tank. Cango Park is 68 kilometres east north of George, in the Western Cape.
Crocodile Cage Diving, Zimbabwe. In the centre of the Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe, is a cage encounter outfit that offers the chance to '...experience crocodiles in their own environment. (and to) Get a unique underwater look at their short legs, thick tails, scaly scutes along the back and impressive jaws.' The Nile Crocodile is a much feared predator along stretches of the Zambezi River and there - its thought that they kill around people a year across Africa - are three large examples here. They were born into captivity in central Zimbabwe and were rescued. Crocodile Cage Diving
Sharks in Mexico, Australia, the USA and South Africa. There are perhaps hundreds of outfits offering the chance to watch sharks from inside a semi-submerged cage. Expeditions last from 2 to 8 days - and the first cage diving experience for tourists was organised by the Australian filmmaker, conservationist and shark expert, Rodney Fox in 1976. Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, Great White Shark Tours, Shark Diver, Shark Dive New Zealand, Guadalupe Island, Mexico, double decker.
One more thing...Jacques Cousteau was first to use a cage in the water for protection while filming sharks, back in 1948. Made from strong bars, the cage was lowered into the water with divers inside in order to better observe the creatures in their natural habitat.
And more recently his grandson Fabian, who carries on the family tradition of exploring the oceans and making films, has been working on a submersible from which to take footage of Great White sharks from. He says he was inspired by the Tintin comic book, 'Red Rackham's Treasure', in which Tintin and his dog Snowy journey to the bottom of the sea in a submarine that looks like a large shark.
The result is 'Troy', as the sub is known. It's 14 feet long and made from 2-inch thick steel rib 'cage' covered in an elastic material more often used in animatronics. It doesn't make bubbles either, owing to the fact that it is a closed circuit design, it's very quiet and mimmicks the tail movements of a real shark.
The idea is that this stealthy submarine resembles a great white shark enough to fool the real sharks into a more natural form of behaviour that when confronted with regular divers and their cameras. In the case of Troy, there are three cameras hidden at the front, including one ingeniously concealed inside a fake sucker fish on the sharks head.
Kicking back at the Irhana Bush Camp. Photo My Bathroom Wall
I saw my first lemurs in the Amber Mountain National Park. There were maybe ten in the troop, swaying on branches right in front of me. But it wasn't the thrill I'd expected after travelling 9,000km to the impossibly exotic-sounding island of Madagascar.
They looked like toys made from leftovers and they're as timid as squirrels. Yes they can peel fruit quickly, but they're not as entertaining as Orangutans, as exciting as Chimpanzees, or as humbling as Mountain Gorillas.
Madagascar's star turn is its lemurs, but as with Disney's now-famous animation, perhaps both have obscured an island that has drifted from our consciousness like it drifted from the African continent some 165 million years ago.
Its sprawling capital is Antananarivo - an edgy crumbling city of two million people. Few locals looked African, and my guide Laliana explained that most Malagasys are descended from Indonesians who sailed across the Indian Ocean hundreds of years ago, and so the Malagasy language is in the Malayo-Polynesian group.
Madagascar got its independence from France, but in the north it was the Portuguese who arrived first, way back in 1543. I took a two-hour turboprop flight to Antsiranana, which is still known locally as Diego Suarez after the explorer (or more commonly, just 'Diego'). It's a ramshackle town with stout colonial buildings, a lighthouse, a tuna-canning factory, tremendous energy and more than a little charm.
Most tourists stay along the giant bay for the kite surfing, but I was driven 25 kilometers south to Joffreville; a colonial era outpost of houses on a hillside by the Amber Mountains National Park.
Strolling the cobbled main street - actually the only street - I heard sweet singing floating from a church, and was greeted with "Bonjour Monsieur" by lads returning from the fields. In a shack selling eggs, tomatoes and beer, I was asked to dance by an elderly lady. I fear my efforts not to offend made the royal tour gyrations of Prince Charles look hip.
The homely Lichi Lodge. Photo My Bathroom Wall
The five-room Lichi Tree Hotel tops the town and is owned and run by a pony-tailed Frenchman called Herve. A former NGO worker, he told me over home-cooked beef stew that it was built in 1902 as a summer residence for the colonial governor, Marshall Joffre. Herve lives on site and opened his dream project in 2008, with lush gardens, lots of local carvings in the rooms and a Moroccan themed lounge/bar area off the dining room.
It's only four kilometers to the national park's entrance, but the dirt road is in a shocking state. I saw one cattle cart being helped by villagers to escape the worst crater, and even our Land Cruiser was strained.
On the humid rainforest walk, leaves drip-drip-dropped with moisture and the air smelt of wet soil. My naturalist guide Philippe showed me an adult Stump-tailed chameleon the size of a kidney bean, the astonishingly effective camouflage of a leaf-tailed gecko, and a downy Madagascar Scops Owl asleep in a tree.
He told me that locals threaten their misbehaving children with nighttime kidnapping by lemurs, and that the ones I had seen were Sanford Browns. He also explained that Lemurs lived across Africa; then monkeys evolved with bigger brains and powerful bodies and wiped them out - except on Madagascar, which sailed (slowly) into the safety of the Indian Ocean to preserve many unique species.
"Eighty percent of Madagascar's flora and fauna are endemic," said Philippe, who then told me all about his wildlife documentary filming with Martin Clunes, ("a very good man, very kind, very generous").
A Renault negotiating the N6 'highway'. Photo My Bathroom Wall
The National Road N6 sounds reassuringly M1-like, but it's not. It took three hours to cover 120 kilometers to the Ankarana Special Reserve, as the road hasn't been repaired since it was first laid in 1999, except for villagers who fix the worst potholes with loose stones and beg passing drivers. The going rate is 500 Ariary - about a penny.
Closer to the reserve the scenery grew dryer; with sweeping plains and brooding hills that resemble South Africa's Highveld grasslands. We turned off onto a dirt track and passed palm-thatched villages where everyone waved enthusiastically and children yelled "Bonjour Vazaâ" (hello white).
Arriving at the delightfully chilled Iharana Bush Camp was a treat. It's a rambling wood-built lodge beneath a fat thatch, scattered with carvings and large cushions. It looks across a lake to 200-meter high cliffs, rock walls that blaze in fiery oranges and reds at sunset. Best enjoyed with an icy bottle of THB beer.
Next morning we drove to the 'tsingy cliffs' a high ridge of stone pinnacles that were once coral formations on a prehistoric seabed. Guide Arthur took me into a gash in at the base of the rock.
He was perfectly insouciant; wearing a T-shirt with FBI on the front, translated as 'Fabulous Bachelor Inside' on the back, and a flimsy head torch - frankly I was nervous. No garishly illuminated stalactites, no classical music or gift shop. In fact there was no lighting or pathway at all, and nobody else. Just me, Arthur, two pathetically underpowered torches and eight kilometres of interconnected darkness.
I wound my torch frantically and babbled, following along the sandy floor, gingerly squeezing through clefts, inching along ledges and clambering over boulders. We found stalagmites and stalactites, rock ceilings 35 meters above us, and cooking pot shards from tribes that hid here during times of fighting 200 years ago.
When Arthur said it was too difficult to go back the way we'd come, I stopped babbling and tensed further.
Thirty exhilarating minutes later we emerged into a canyon where orange-whiskered Crowned Lemurs were performing arboreal acrobatics. Seeing them unexpectedly, they seemed more suited to their otherworldly home.
Hell I even liked them for a moment.
The whole lemur themed adventure was real and raw, like everything in Madagascar. There are decent small hotels enough for touring, but out in the countryside it's visceral and at times difficult, but it makes for cracking frontier-feeling experiences.
Despite the grinding poverty in much of the country, Madagascar feels a safe place to travel through, providing you keep your wits about you. Travelling with a tour operator will ensure a level of quality in your local guide and accommodation.
If you chose wisely there are some super places to stay in the country, but I can't overemphasise the shockingly poor infrastructure. It pays to be patient and flexible in Madagascar, and not to cram too much into one trip. Road journeys are long and bone-crunching, with the exception of the more heavily touristed routes closer to the capital.
I travelled as a guest of Rainbow Tours and Kenya Airways. Other UK-based tour operators to try include Cox & Kings, Cazenove+Loyd Wild Frontiers, and Intrepid Travel.
The main gateway airport to the country is the Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo. Air Madagascar flies to Guanzhou, Johannesburg, Marseille and Paris. Other options include Air France to Paris, Air Seychelles to Mahe, Air Mauritius to Mauritius, Comores Aviation to Moroni and Anjouan, Ethiopian Airlines to Addis Ababa, Corsair to Paris and Saint-Denis de la Reunion, Kenya Airways to Nairobi, and Turkish Airlines to Istanbul. Air Madagascar also flies domestically to 10 destinations, including Nosy Be.
Always check your government's travel advice before booking, and check that your travel insurance is valid in this country. See here for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice.
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This case study follows the 5 step process for accessing and using evidence in response to a request from commissioners to identify strategies for referral management to reduce unnecessary referrals.
The Clinical Commissioning Group wanted to look at strategies for referral management to reduce unnecessary referrals. They were especially interested to know if a report from the Kings Fund was still relevant – Referral Management: Lessons for Success (2010).
The question that the evidence would help answer was worked out between the commissioner and the evidence reviewer: How effective are referral management strategies at controlling the demand for referrals, and reducing unnecessary referrals?
Using PICO, the scope of the evidence search was defined:
Problem: High number of patient referrals
Intervention: Referral management strategies
Comparator: Usual care
Outcomes: Controlling the demand for referrals (reducing unnecessary)
It was agreed that the evidence review would aim to swiftly identify the post-2010 evidence for the effectiveness of referral management strategies – a ‘good enough’ review to inform decisions.
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The commissioners chose not to carry out the search themselves, but had already discussed the topic area with Public Health colleagues who linked them to the Evidence Assistant. This person already had an NHS Athens login.
The search involved the following websites and databases, using the term referral management:
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (including CENTRAL)
CRD DARE (including NHS EED and HTA)
NICE Evidence (EMBASE, Medline, BNI, CINAHL, HMIC)
Google and Google Scholar search engines
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The Evidence Assistant knew not to accept what they found at face value, so they critically appraised the evidence from the search to identify the higher quality and more reliable pieces.
They summarised each piece of evidence for inclusion into a report, to support a conversation with the commissioners. Evidence from four studies were found to be relevant – ranging from low-moderate quality evaluations to observational studies – and appeared to support the findings of the King’s Fund report.
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The Evidence Assistant met with the commissioner to discuss findings, presented in an easy-to-understand way to help their decision-making.
It was explained that the evidence base had not increased since the publication of the King’s Fund report. Ideally more research was needed to test the effectiveness of referral management strategies. However, in the absence of this, the Evidence Assistant made some recommendations that would strengthen the application of this level of evidence. These included:
considering the role of GP education to improve referral requests to ensure they are appropriate.
devising a reliable means of recording outcomes of GP referrals to support better understanding of practice variability, and number of referrals that are appropriate and/or complete.
Building in evaluation of the individual components was recommended to ensure that they are achieving their stated aims and the findings ad to the evidence base.
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The report produced and discussed with commissioners, was saved within a repository so that it could be used by others as necessary.
The report included a summary of findings, a brief overview of the evidence findings and some recommendations. Currently access to the repository is not open, but requires contact to be made with the Evidence Assistant; this allows any caveats relating to its use to be explained before it is used to inform decision making elsewhere.
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Super Ichiban Travel Blog Part III: Play Ball! [II]
Sep 6th, 2009 by Dan
Jet lag is always a bit difficult to overcome, but when you’ve flown to the other side of the world, the body really doesn’t know what to do with itself. So it came to pass that I wrote the whole second half of Part II of this travelogue at 0600 after a half hour of tossing and turning, despite being on almost no sleep. This third part comes straight from my exhausted fingers to you, starting before the first Giants game and continuing after getting back to the hotel.
Our bright morning begins at 0830 for a quick pre-trip briefing. Dave and I quickly learn that we are most definitely the youngest members of the group. There are maybe four or five people on the tour younger than 30 and certainly none in their early twenties like us. Bob thankfully runs a rather loose ship, allowing us to mostly do what we want throughout the day instead of being forced to do one thing at all times. We meet up for trains and ballgames and that’s about it. Once the main tour departs, I won’t even have that, since Bob and Mayumi plan to head off on their own.
Mayumi offered to head to Sensō-ji Temple, the oldest temple in Tokyo, and Dave and I decided to go along. Our hotel is near private railway lines and the Tokyo Metro, so we hopped aboard, allowing me to experience the metro firsthand. It most resembles the DC Metro, since it requires you to pay a fare based on how far you travel, which is rather unfortunate, but the trains arrive almost 800 times faster and more regularly, so the comparison clearly only goes so far.
Sensō-ji’s main features are the iconic giant lanterns that adorn the center of each of the gates of the temple. In between the two gates, the area is packed to the gills with vendors and stalls selling food, typical Japanese souvenirs, toys, clothes, and video games. The temple itself is a rather loose compound with shops flanking it on all sides along with a Shinto shrine. Dave and I explored the area a bit, but decided not to get souvenirs right away since it was still early in the trip. The temple was also fully populated with hordes of schoolchildren, all in uniform visiting the shrine on class trips. Even very small children were on trips to the temple, carried by hilarious carts like children on hand-pushed buses. Apparently they do this in other big cities in America, but I’d never seen it before so Dave and I quickly took to accusing the cart pushers of kidnapping all the kids in the carts.
The outer gate has a huge lantern
After our temple visit, we had free time until the game, so Dave and I decided to go eat lunch and hit up Akihabara again. Since CoCo Curry is on the way to Akihabara and it’s so good, Dave and I had yet another lunch there that I thoroughly enjoyed. Since we were visiting in the daytime, Akihabara looked a lot more like it should complete with alleys bursting with electronic components. In the distance I spotted Pac-Man ghosts chasing an 8-bit Mario and assumed that it had to be some sort of retro-game store. Since I was looking for a copy of Mother 3 to validate a translated ROM, Dave and I headed toward it to check it out.
If this doesn't scream retro game shop, I don't know what does.
Once we got closer, it became immediately obvious that we were standing at the door of a Super Potato, Japan’s most famous video game collectors store. The interior is divided up loosely chronologically, with early systems like the Famicom, MSX, and PC Engine situated on the first floor of the shop, Super Famicom and Mega Drive on the second floor of the shop, and Playstation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, GB and GBA at the top of the games sections (game soundtracks also lived on this floor). The topmost floor was a retro-game arcade that had some seriously old arcade cabinets and some seriously awesome decorations and all of the floors had collectibles and toys from famous franchises.
My hunt for Mother 3 did not go so well at first, mostly because it seemed that there were no used copies sitting around the shelves. I walked up to the counter on that floor, said “Mother 3” in the most inquisitive way possible, and just looked confused. At first I didn’t think they understood what I meant, but they helped me look a bit and didn’t find it. Before I could get too dejected, the other guy behind the counter pulled out a new cartridge in the Japanese-style GBA box. My wallet was lightened by about ¥3600, but I was now the owner of a brand new Mother 3 cart. Mission Complete! S-Rank!
I was able to find a new copy of Mother 3 at the Super Potato
I can’t forget to mention that we also found a pretty sweet capsule machine that sold keychains that made noises from the Mario series. I got a coin keychain for ¥200. Dave became less enthused by my antics by the end of the day, but that coin sound is just spot on and super fun. BONUS FACT: I believe they use one of these during the 4-Minute Warning section of Listen Up! on 1up.com.
Our quest for games satisfied, we decided to go into a music store next. My goal was to find the one Sambomaster CD I couldn’t import into the states. Unfortunately, the Japanese system of organization eluded me. We thought that maybe they adopted a Roman ordering based on sounds because we seemed to see bands with English names clustered around each other if they had the same letters, but our theory was quickly dashed and we were left wandering the store confused. My next idea was to walk up to a sales clerk, show her the entry for Sambomaster on my iPod (it’s written in kanji or katakana, I don’t know which), and pray that she could lead us to it. It turned out that the Sambomaster section was literally right behind us on the shelf and they also had the album I was looking for. Another successful mission.
Dave and I decided to try to head into a Sofmap again and climbed our way to the top floor to check out some video games. The selection was pretty enormous, complete with Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3, PSP, Wii, and DS games. Some of the DS games had way cooler boxart than the ones we’re used to. The worst part about the music store was seeing the games I most want to come out in the states, the Powapuro series, sitting in the store mocking me. Both the NPB edition and MLB Power Pros 2009 were sitting right there. I will be investigating ways to play Japanese games at home while I’m out here, since I know I can manage to play a Japanese baseball game with no knowledge of the language.
Please come to the states!
Our walk back to the hotel passed by a Shinto shrine, which housed a much smaller, single shop just outside. At this shrine I did not drink any water, but I did wash my hands and I took a picture of the board with all the ema. On our way out we noticed a tanuki statue. Not sure if you readers are aware, but tanuki in folklore have famously large testicles in Japan. It’s insane.
He's got large...tracts of land?
We got back to the hotel room and noticed that the “Do not clean” sign we put up was gone and the room was clean. I wonder why we even bothered…
It was in and out time for our first baseball game. The matchup was the Yomiuri Giants vs. the Yakult Swallows in the Tokyo Dome. The Dome itself is located in a giant entertainment complex in Tokyo with an amusement park and a mall right across the street. Bob took us to the top of a nearby building to get a good view of the surroundings and then set us loose until game time. We had about an hour to kill and Dave and I noticed that there was a roller coaster that spiraled through and around the buildings that composed the amusement park. We decided to investigate, along with our new travel buddy Susan.
You can see the coaster crossing through the ferris wheel here. Great thrill or accident waiting to happen? You decide!
When we got to the coaster, heretofore known as Thunder Dolphin, we saw that it cost ¥1000 (~$10) to ride, but we weren’t going to let that discourage us. Susan opted not to ride, but we barreled up the steps, hoped we bought admission (the machine was in Japanese), and queued up. The coaster had lockers on the other side for passengers to pack their belongings in, so we headed over and emptied out and got on the coaster. If you check Dave’s pictures, you know by now that this coaster was built with extreme in mind. The first drop is at a 72° angle, for heaven’s sake, and everything is very tight and compressed since it’s in the city. It’s an intense roller coaster that was tons of fun! I just wish we could have gone on it again for free.
What is a Thunder Dolphin anyway?
The coaster put us at just the right time to enter the Dome, which, unlike other ballparks in the states, had restaurants and shops on the outside. We queued at our gate, got to the rotating glass doors, and awaited the attendant-allowed opportunity to walk through the doors. Turns out, they keep the dome tightly sealed, because our ears all popped upon entering the dome, which is also kept at a Tokyo-warm 77-80°F, but there we were, within the Tokyo Dome, home of the most famous baseball team in Japan.
The outside of the dome is Giants-themed.
It’s said that the Giants are rather like the Yankees of Japan and I can kind of see that. The ballpark has a stateliness to it and their team has a low-frills, dignified approach that does away with too much craziness. Their mascots, for some odd reason, are rabbits from space, but we’ll let that slide. Even before the game, a steady stream of concession stand girls were wandering all the aisles, offering coke to the fans. Once the game started, they were joined by the famous beer girls. I once confused the tanks they carried on their backs for hot water for noodles, but the reality is that they’re tasked with roaming their sections all game with a heavy tank of beer strapped to their backs. As they empty out, they head back to their HQ and refill the tanks to go at it again. It’s impressive, considering the size of these girls.
Getting ready to pour us some "bieru"
Also immediately obvious were the ōendan (cheer) squads that sit in the outfield bleachers representing both teams. I learned from other members of the tour that admission into those sections is strictly limited by membership in the fan club. To gain membership, you must be willing to travel with the team on a set number of games, know every fight song, know every player-related cheer, and be spirited. They are intense. They started cheering before the game and they continued to cheer with the same intensity to the bitter end (which Dave and I missed…more on that soon).
The dome is a nice primer on Japanese baseball, but why does it have to be so hot inside?
The ballgame began and after a half-inning of awe at how the Swallows cheer section was going nuts, the Giants were set to come up. We quickly learned that the aura of “bad-assery” that most ballplayers in the states cultivate doesn’t seem to be as necessary out here in Japan, especially since some of the players were coming up to bat to bubbly J-Pop or slow, Japanese ballads. It was bizarre, especially when a foreign, Hispanic player came up to bat and it was not salsa, merengue, or reggaeton.
The game itself is played with small ball in mind a lot more than in the states. We still saw a home run that night, but most of the players were shooting for base hits. Baltimore chops were a common sight to ensure safe baserunner advancement and they bunted freely. Very rarely did they swing for the fences and if they did, it was probably an American player doing it.
The cheerleaders and the fans doing their routine.
In the 7th inning I learned that there is no stretch out here, just a communal rendition of the Giants fight song along with dancing mascots. The balloon thing was strangely absent, so I have no footage of that either.
It being the first full day out in Tokyo, Dave and I didn’t do so well at staying up through the game. By the 8th inning, we found ourselves sleeping through most of the at-bats and the cheers. Only the roar of the crowd at a great play would rouse us, only to return us unconscious. With the Giants down 3-1 in the top of the 9th, we went back to the hotel to sleep, but it turns out that we made a mistake there. The Giants caught up that inning and tied up the game. Two hours later, the game ended in a tie in the 12th and both teams were pooped. By the way, Japan baseball ends after 12 innings, no matter what. They allow ties.
So that was our first day of baseball. We are headed for Kyoto next and we will use the bullet train to get there and to the Orix Buffaloes game in Kobe. I’ve got to pass out now, I’m dying of exhaustion.
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The making of Welsh history
This module explores themes that have shaped the British Isles, from medieval lordship and conflict, through the spread of Protestantism and the industrial revolution, to political protest and the rise of nationalism in an era of globalisation. By studying this module you will gain the skills you need to write a final 6,000-word dissertation, in which you will carry out an in-depth investigation of a topic that you select. Throughout this online module you will work together with other students to form a tight knit ‘learning community’, sharing ideas and sources and helping to improve one another’s work.
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The first half of this module provides an introduction to Welsh history from the twelfth to the twenty-first century. The second part then gives you the chance to research and write a dissertation on a Welsh history topic of your own choosing.
Throughout this module, the issue of national identity will be a major theme (and a topical one in the wake of devolution and Brexit). Some of the key questions it seeks to address include:
What factors led to the formation of a distinct group of people who thought of themselves as Welsh?
By what stages, and to what degree in different periods, did that formation of a Welsh identity occur?
In order to explore these issues and to lay the groundwork for the dissertation, the first part of the module consists of the following five study blocks:
Block 1: Conflict and coexistence in medieval Wales
Block 2: Religion and society in early modern Wales
Block 3: Wales in flux: industrialisation and migration
Block 4: Class, protest and new identities
Block 5: Making identities in modern Wales
National identity is the theme that ties the module together, but it also acts as a jumping off point for a much broader engagement with the past. You will be looking at some of the events, trends and movements that have shaped the history, not just of Wales, but of Britain and in some cases of Western Europe as a whole. Indeed a central question that this module asks is the extent to which Wales constitutes a microcosm for those wider issues. So while this module is focused on Welsh history, it also serves as a case study for examining bigger issues.
The five topics listed above do not represent a full coverage of Welsh history. Instead they are intended to provide opportunities to explore how Welsh identity has changed over time, whilst simultaneously giving you a springboard for your own research. This is a really important point because in the second half of the module you will be researching and writing a dissertation on a question of your own choosing.
Examples of dissertations written by previous students can be seen on Open Research Online.
By studying this module you will gain:
a broad knowledge of selected aspects of Welsh history between the thirteenth and the twenty-first centuries supported by the use of relevant sources, concepts and theories.
an informed understanding of historical research methods and approaches, and from that an appreciation of history as a systematic and reflective discipline producing bodies of knowledge which are constantly subject to debate and refinement
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critically evaluate a range of historical sources (whether textual, visual, or audio-visual) as well as the work of other historians.
the ability to summarise, analyse and synthesise historical knowledge and arguments obtained from a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, and from that to develop lines of extended argument
study and learn independently, including planning, structuring and executing an extended piece of historical writing
discuss a complex subject in an appropriate manner, articulating your knowledge in clear prose using the language and concepts associated with the discipline.
improve your work by building on feedback from tutors, tutorials and fellow students, both by reflecting on your performance and by acting appropriately on advice
identify, access, use and critically assess a range of relevant sources, including those accessed from internal and external online resources, and to reference them appropriately in writing.
work effectively with others in order to improve your own work and that of others through peer support mechanisms and constructive commentaries on other students’ work
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You will have a tutor who will help you with the study materials, mark and comment on your written work, offer guidance on the dissertation-writing process, and whom you can ask for advice at any point in the module. There will also be structured tuition in the form of online tutorials held in a web-conferencing room as well as numerous opportunities for discussion in online forums between you, your tutor and your fellow students.
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This is an OU level 3 module, which builds on study skills and subject knowledge acquired from previous modules at OU levels 1 and 2. For that reason you must have successfully completed one of the following modules before you register on this one: A200, A218, A219, A223, A225, A229, A326, A327, or A340.
This module is intended for students who have already studied history or classics at OU levels 2 or 3, and who wish conduct an extended piece of independent research.
If you have any doubt about the suitability of the module, please speak to an adviser.
Students are not required to do any formal preparatory work before the module starts. However, we recommend reading Geraint Jenkins’ A Concise History of Wales (2007), which offers a scholarly yet highly readable introduction to the history of Wales from before the Romans to the present day. If you have the time, you could also read John Davies’ A History of Wales (1994 or 2007) which traces the political, social and cultural history of Wales from prehistoric times to the modern era.
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Born: Oct 11 - 1931
Raphael Diaz
Shoots ► Right
Birth Date ► January 9th, 1986
Birthplace ► Baar - Switzerland
Number(s) ► 4
Acquired ► Signed as a free agent for 1 year - $700K
2011-12 Montreal Canadiens NHL 59 3 13 16 -7 30 0 0 1 61
2012-13 Montreal Canadiens NHL 23 1 13 14 +4 6 0 0 0 34
2013-14 Vancouver Canucks NHL 6 1 1 2 -3 0 0 0 0 9
2013-14 New York Rangers NHL 11 1 1 2 +5 4 0 0 0 18
2014-15 Calgary Flames NHL 56 2 2 4 -3 10 1 0 0 52
NHL Totals 201 8 41 49 -8 62 1 0 1 215
Ranger Totals 11 1 1 2 +5 4 0 0 0 18
2012-13 Montreal Canadiens NHL 5 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 0 10
2013-14 New York Rangers NHL 4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 8
2014-15 Calgary Flames NHL 3 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 1
NHL Totals 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 21
Ranger Totals 5 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 0 10
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Apr 23 PIT 3-6 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Jun 4 LAK 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
May 29 MON 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
May 7 PIT 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
May 5 PIT 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Totals 0 1 1 -2 0 0 1 0 0 0 10
03.05.2014 Received via trade from Montreal Canadiens for 2014 5th Rd Pick
07.01.2014 Became Unrestricted Free Agent
07.01.2015 Signed as a free agent for 1 year - $700K
10.03.2015 Reassigned to Minors
04.17.2016 Called up from Minors
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Pope Goes Digital by Joining ‘Click to Pray’ App
發布于：2019-01-23 08:00:00 來源：51VOA
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By Bryan Lynn
Pope Francis has joined a technology tool designed to permit people to connect spiritually.
The pope spoke about the "Click to Pray" app during his weekly Sunday religious address at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
Pope Francis, who is 82, once said he considered himself a "disaster" with technology. But he demonstrated the app to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square. After launching Click to Pray from a tablet, he asked the person assisting if he had done it correctly. His helper confirmed that he had.
The app was first launched in 2016, but the pope announced that he was now adding his own personal prayer profile.
"Internet and social networks are a resource of our time," he told followers gathered for his message. "A way to stay in touch with others, to share values and projects, and to express the desire to form a community."
Today, he added, the internet can also provide a way for people across the world "to pray as a community, to pray together."
Two priests pose for a selfie before the opening ceremony and mass of World Youth Day Panama 2019, in Panama City, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
The announcement came as the pope prepared to visit Panama for World Youth Day 2019. The international Catholic gathering is expected to draw more than 150,000 young people from around the world.
The pope said he believes the app is a good way for young Catholics and others to share their prayers through the internet and electronic devices. "I above all invite you, young people, to download the app," he told the crowd.
The app will inform users what the leader of the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics is praying for so they can join him. "Here I will put in requests for prayers for the Church mission," the pope said.
Users can also learn what other members of the social network are praying for and join them in prayer as well. The Click to Pray website also lists worldwide prayer campaigns users can join. It said that so far in January, more than 1.4 million prayers had been added to Click to Pray.
During his address, Pope Francis spoke of one world event that could unite users of the app in prayer. Last weekend, 170 migrants were feared lost in the Mediterranean after leaving in small boats from Libya and Morocco.
"They were looking for a future for their lives and perhaps they were victims of human traffickers," Pope Francis said. "Let us pray for them and for those who are responsible for what happened."
The Click to Pray app is currently available in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and German. Versions will be launched soon in Chinese and Vietnamese. The app is available for both Android and iOS devices.
I'm Bryan Lynn.
Bryan Lynn wrote this story for VOA Learning English, based on reports from Reuters, Agence France-Presse and online sources. Kelly Jean Kelly was the editor.
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network – n. website or computer program permitting people to communicate and share information through the internet using a computer or mobile phone
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Meadrow Acoustic Festival Farncombe Surrey 2015
The Three Lions Charity Festival
There will be 14 acts on 2 stages alternating throughout the day, one featuring bands and the other featuring solo artists.
The festival is a celebration of acoustic music of all types on Sunday 3 May Noon to 11pm.
I’ll be doing my singer songwriter set on the solo stage of course, at 7.50 and it will be a great chance to catch up with some of my great music mates, like Bemis, who are on stage just before me. Sarah and Graham, the landlords at The Three Lions, always put on a good show and Farncombe has a rich heritage in live music events and it is certainly one of my favourite pubs to perform at.
All proceeds will go to The Three Lions chosen charity for 2015, Farncombe-based Skillway.
Headline at The Cellars at Eastney with guests Bemis
The Cellars at Eastney headline – love this place!
Wednesday, January 25th 2012
with special guests bemis
The Cellars
56 Cromwell Road
PO4 9PN
** Tickets £6 Adv.
It is hard to recall how many South of England gigs and Festivals have featured Bemis and Pete Christie or Pete Christie and Bemis; enough times for Pete to be known as the ‘unofficial 5th member of Bemis’ and to appear on their recent albums.
It’s an easy relationship with a shared love of great music and beautiful harmonies, and totally natural stage chemistry.
The Cellars is home turf for Bemis in Southsea – (one of the best venues on the circuit, with a superb sound and a listening and appreciative audience), and Pete has appeared not only as a “guest” with them, but also with Derrin Nauendorf and most recently, Rory Ellis.
The Cellars has been an oasis for musicians over the years, and some great collaborations have been formed backstage, as this performance will no doubt prove!
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Listen on-line www.bbc.co.uk/dorset
Bemis, Pete Christie, New Rising are in Encyclopaedia Britannica :-)
Magazine article published in Maverick
available online in Encyclopaedia Britannica
The article reviews the musical performance “A Night of Acoustic Music,” by Bemis, Pete Christie and New Rising at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth, England on March 14, 2010.
Wedgewood Rooms: guest at Bemis CD Launch
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PEUGEOT SHAKES UP CLASSIC SALOON SILHOUETTE WITH REVEAL OF ALL-NEW 508
PEUGEOT reveals all-new 508 with radical ‘Fastback’ design for the first time at Geneva Motor Show
Showcases new low and compact 5-door silhouette, injecting stylish design and exceptional drive into the D-class segment
Comes equipped with the latest generation PEUGEOT i-Cockpit® technology and efficient range of PureTech and BlueHDi engines
Follows in the wake of the multi award-winning PEUGEOT 2008 SUV, 3008 SUV and all-new 5008 SUV
All-new PEUGEOT 508 will be available to order from summer 2018
The Geneva Motor Show will see PEUGEOT raise the bar in the D-class segment with the world reveal of its all-new 508, sporting a radical new aerodynamic design.
Breaking the mould of the traditional, four door saloon silhouette this exciting new model combines a bold new low coupé design with the enhanced practicality of five doors.
Its striking new look takes inspiration from a sports coupé, with sharp side window design, elegant frameless doors and alloy wheels designed to fill the wheel arch housings. It showcases a beautifully integrated rear hatch, offering a significantly larger aperture to the generous 487-litre boot whilst carrying all the hallmark features of the latest PEUGEOT vehicles, including the full LED ‘claw-effect’ rear lights.
With its sharp exterior design, beautifully appointed, premium interior and the very latest generation of the PEUGEOT i-Cockpit®, the all-new PEUGEOT 508 delivers a whole new driving experience to D-segment car buyers.
Inside, it contains the three main characteristics of the PEUGEOT i-Cockpit®, including the compact, full grain leather trimmed steering wheel, a large 10-inch capacitive touchscreen angled towards the driver and a 12.3-inch head-up digital instrument panel. It also features i-Cockpit® Amplify, which enables the driver to choose between two levels of ambience – “Boost” and “Relax”.
Available with a range of six highly efficient petrol and diesel engine / transmission combinations, covering 130 to 225hp, the all-new PEUGEOT 508 offers an exceptional driving experience.
The new flagship model comes equipped with class-leading levels of advanced driver assistance systems, including a new night vision system, which is new to the segment and uses an infrared camera with the ability to detect pedestrians at night and in cases of reduced visibility.
Jean-Philippe Imparato, CEO of PEUGEOT, said: “The all-new PEUGEOT 508 is finally here. After the success of our latest high profile launches and our SUV offensive with the multi-award winning PEUGEOT 2008 SUV, 3008 SUV and all-new 5008 SUV, with the all-new PEUGEOT 508 we carry the exact same ambition; to shake up the market with an outstanding new car that can compete with the best. And, for the D segment, we are talking about the best car manufacturers in the world. The all-new PEUGEOT 508 is a perfect example of the ambition that we embody in everything that we do; continuing to establish PEUGEOT as the best ‘high-end generalist’ car manufacturer in the market.”
The all-new PEUGEOT 508 will be available to order from summer 2018.
Since 1810 PEUGEOT has been producing durable products of excellence, since 1858 all are branded with the Lion logo – chosen to demonstrate strength, suppleness and swiftness to personify the durability of its products. As one of the earliest automotive producers, the PEUGEOT brand can trace its roots back to 1889 when it began producing automobiles and since then over 65 million vehicles have been produced, advancing technology with style and efficiency to enhance the customer experience. PEUGEOT is present in 160 countries, has 10,000 franchised Dealerships and is recognised the world over for the quality and design excellence of its products.
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Is This Lady Gaga’s Motorcycle Father?
In promotion of their new (and pretty damn great) Cloud Drive streaming media service, Amazon was offering Lady Gaga’s new record Born This Way for just 99 cents. Now, I’ve never been the biggest fan of her music, but I thought I may as well own a complete record to give her a fair chance — you know, seeing as how she’s one of the most popular artists in the world.
Disappointingly, I wasn’t won over by this record. Instead, I found it even more cloyingly campy and difficult to listen to than I anticipated. It seems I’m just not cut out to be one of Gaga’s Little Monsters.
In disproportion to my interest in her actual music, it is telling that I have now written three posts on Gaga. In fact, I have always admired Lady Gaga as an art director and performer. I think that she and her team come up with some of the catchiest, strangest, most referentially brilliant props and performance conceits in modern memory (her meat dress and cigarette sunglasses come to mind). Now, I don’t find the becycled cover of Born This Way to be brilliant, exactly, but I was pleased that it recalled one of my favorite old pinball machines, Centaur. Back when I first saw the straight-out-of-the-80s Centaur machine at a bar in Seattle, I remember thinking the concept of a centaur being half-man and half-motorcycle was funny but strangely compelling. Would this form factor be a gift or a curse? It’s difficult to tell…
…and now I’m thinking the cover just might be kinda brilliant — an aptly odd metaphor for the whole pop-machine Gaga identity whirlwind… Damn! She got me again!
Perhaps the only question that remains is: who wore it better?
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There is a whole lot of product placement going on in the new long-form music video for Telephone from Lady Gaga and Beyonce. Virgin Mobile, Diet Coke, Beats (by Dr. Dre) Headphones, Chanel, Polaroid, Wonder Bread, and Miracle Whip(???) are all featured prominently within the Quentin Tarantino-styled narrative. Oddly enough, most of these product placements make a bizarre sort of sense in an artistically contextual kind of way. Let’s review:
POLAROID – Polaroid has hired Lady Gaga as a Creative Director for the company — so the fact that we are treated to Gaga taking a bunch of tiny instant photos of Beyonce (contractually) follows. However, the appearance of a full-screen Polaroid brand logo on a photobooth outside the diner at the end of the video was less gracefully implemented. As an aside, this partnership has the potential to be rad. Nice one, Polaroid execs!
DIET COKE – This was my favorite brand placement in the video. The appearance of empty cans of Diet Coke as impromptu prison-style hair rollers in Gaga’s hair is one of the most creative and inventive examples of product placement in recent memory. It’s sort of a classically feminine version of a shiv. Since we never explicitly see the Coke logo, I wonder if Gaga got paid for this one – but in a just world, she certainly would have been.
VIRGIN MOBILE – I get that Gaga has (rightfully) built up a cache of credibility in the realm of music videos and concert appearances (if not with her actual music) – but I am impressed that this cache is strong enough that Virgin Mobile would acquiesce to their logo being in the same shot as Gaga stroking the crotch of a butch lesbian in the yard of a prison. My guess is that Richard Branson and his millionaire buddies are just out to prove they’re down to party, after all.
(A side not on this one… ha ha… Virgin Mobile = virgin = ironic = good joke. Too bad that Twilight: New Moon beat them to it. )
CHANEL – Ooh! Lady Gaga is wearing Chanel sunglasses! Meh. The Haus of Gaga-designed actively smoking cigarette glasses were cooler.
WONDER BREAD – This is one of those WTF!? moments in advertising. I get that Wonder Bread is associated with lower income individuals, who are associated loosely with criminal acts, which is associated with whipping up a batch of poison, but I wouldn’t imagine that the Gaga image would do much to sell Wonder Bread, and the brand’s appearance in this video in the same kitchen with food that kills people doesn’t seem like a smart PR move, from where I’m standing.
MIRACLE WHIP – All my misgivings about the appearance of Wonder Bread in this video also apply to Miracle Whip, only double. It just doesn’t make sense. The only saving grace, in my mind, is that Miracle Whip strikes me as a great name for Gaga’s next record. Now that I think about it, maybe I’ll steal it for one of my projects.
BEATS BY DR DRE – Lady Gaga also has a partnership with Beats. She designed her own line of jewel encrusted in-ear ‘phones with them that she can be seen sporting in the kitchen scenes (they just look like triangular earrings). However, the way that the Beats logo is featured in the video, arbitrarily stuck to the back of the guard’s laptop, seems like a little bit of a disconnect. Brand white noise is worth something, though, I suppose.
After beating the viewer over the head with all this product placement, you would think that the project would have lost it’s spark as it tripped over itself to sell out. However, given the many instances of blatant sexuality, ever-present lesbian undertones, gratuitous violence, group homicide, swearing, and near total frontal nudity that are keystones of both the style and narrative of Telephone, the most surprising element of all this is that the brands were willing to be associated with the project at all. In a way, Gaga seems to have subverted the selling-out process. Her popularity has forced corporations to bend to her wonderfully strange, freaky, and dirty vision of the world instead of the other way around. It obviously isn’t for everyone (Kraft, I’m looking at you), but one has to bet on any company that figures out a way to really hang with Gaga – the reigning master of brand ingenuity (sorry Bjork/Barney).
Here’s to the weirding of media!
Advertising, Fashion, Movies, Music Advertising, beyonce, Fashion, lady gaga, Music, music videos, video
The ad man in me can’t resist posting a link to the well-done Oscar-nominated animated short, Logorama. French art/video direction collective H5 made what is essentially a shoot-em-up action sequence set in a world constructed entirely of logos. Watch the whole thing here (until it inevitably gets taken down due to copyright violation).
The film features some amusing dialogue, a lot of clever moments, and a generally irreverent feel — but the best thing about it is that it demonstrates how much of the physical world has been captured into corporate logos. This same line of thinking makes me wonder if one could reconstruct any anecdote, film, or book solely using clips from episodes of Seinfeld — a show that perhaps only came to an end because it had exhausted all the narrative possibilities known to man.
Yeah, I bet a works-of-Shakespeare-as-acted-by-Seinfeld-characters mashup channel would be a hit on YouTube.
Advertising, Design, Movies Advertising, Design, h5, logos, oscars, video
Friday Fun: Holiday Road
I’ve inexplicably had this song, from Chevy Chase’s National Lampoon’s Vacation, stuck in my head all day. Watching this music video totally scratches my itch sonically, but the video itself seems so at odds with the spirit of the song as it is presented in Vacation, that I had to minimize my browser so that the song wouldn’t be spoiled. Nevertheless, enjoy. I hope it inspires a Chase movie marathon.
PS – I never knew Lindsey Buckingham sang this song. That seems weird for some reason.
Movies, Music Movies, Music, songs, vacation, video
The Compromised Man & Superbowl Ads
The commercials during the Superbowl have become tiny cultural vignettes at least as entertaining as the game itself. These marketing one-liners are cooked up by teams of ad creatives most often made up, from my experience, of the same 20-to-30-something males that, in theory, the Superbowl is most popular with. However, also judging from my experience, many of the men that work in these agencies are anything but the type of men that are most likely to watch the Superbowl. They are pop cultural anthropologists whose goal it is to identify stress points in the culture that they can take advantage of. They are salesmen dramatists, putting their heightened intuition for human needs in service to creating stories that help corporations sell more product.
This may explain how we ended up this year with a large group of commercials that the New York Times and many others are calling misogynistic. However these ads may signal anything but a trend towards male dominance. If most expressions of aggression come from a place of insecurity, then ads that lash out at the world in the name of Men most definitely indicate a weakness in the squarer sex. I have read countless articles lately about how more women than men go to college, how it is becoming more common for women to earn more money than their husbands, and how young men are increasingly without ambition in general. If I were working in an ad agency eager to channel the minds of young men and identify where they are feeling vulnerable, I suppose the realm of gender dynamics might be a good place to start.
Does our gender really feel this compromised, though? Should we all be worried? The problem clearly isn’t that women are feeling more empowered to pursue their interests, but that men somehow feel divested from wanting any sort of responsibility at all. What happens when people follow their dreams, as they’ve been encouraged to do their whole life, and their dream is to hang out and watch TV? Even worse, do modern men feel like they are sleepwalking through a life of job, family, and responsibility, only to be temporarily reinvigorated by recreation, sex, and spending? I can only hope that these advertisements are off base — that they don’t really resonate with their intended audience — because they truly paint a bleak psychological picture of the American male. This first ad, for Dodge, presents what is perhaps the most depressing of all messages: life is one giant sucking compromise, but at least you can drive a fast car.
Dodge: Man’s Last Stand
Bridgestone: Your Tires or Your Wife
Budwieser: Women’s Book Club
Cannonball, St. Louis
Dockers: Men Wear the Pants
Draftfcb, San Francisco
Dove For Men
Ogilvy & Mather, New York
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Opposing Forces. Photo courtesy of Nate Watters.
Field Guide: Amy O’Neal
With Guest Faculty Omar Willey
$32 Member / $40 General (includes admission to Amy O'Neal on Thursday, Sept. 17)
Thu, Sept 17, 7:00 PM
New Expressive Works
810 SE Belmont St., Portland OR
PICA’s signature public engagement program continues to cross disciplines and explore new thematic territory with five Festival Field Guides facilitated by leading local and visiting artists and scholars. Each small-group session creates context around contemporary performance and a particular artist’s social, political, cultural, and aesthetic influences through a pre-show workshop with lecture and lively discussion; group viewing of a TBA performance; and post-show conversation over food and drink. For this session, join Seattle-based dance, theatre, and performance critic Omar Willey in exploring artist Amy O’Neal’s Opposing Forces. Online artist interviews and media supplement learning and engagement. Anyone curious about contemporary art welcome. Bring a friend!
For a compiled PDF of optional supplementary reading on Amy O’Neal, click here.
Pre-Show Workshop: 7:00 PM at Studio 2 (810 SE Belmont St)
Amy O’Neal Performance: 8:30 PM at The Redd
Post-Show Conversation: 9:30 PM at The Redd
NOTE: Originally scheduled to facilitate this conversation, renowned artist, curator, and educator Marc Bamuthi Joseph will present a not-to-be-missed performative lecture, “A Seeker’s Guide to Black Joy“, on Wednesday, September 16th, 6:00 PM at PICA (free).
About Field Guide: PICA’s education and public engagement series, Field Guide helps audiences discover and feel more informed about contemporary performance. Through facilitated workshops with visiting and local faculty, focused explorations of artist’s work, and connection with other festival-goers, Field Guide sessions include various combinations of pre-show workshops, social outings to performances, post-show conversations, and online interviews and media to more deeply contextualize the art and artists of our time.
This Field Guide is part of the TBA Festival Flight: Identity & the Body, which reflects a range of artists from diverse disciplines who work across dance/choreography and interdisciplinary performance to engage the embodied politics and poetics of race, ethnicity, gender, culture, and their intersections.
PICA’s Field Guide program is generously supported by a Community Grant from the Oregon Community Foundation.
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Stamp duty surcharge ‘could impact couples’
A planned increase to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) for non-UK residents may affect certain couples planning to buy a home, the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) has warned.
The proposed change, outlined in a HMRC consultation, says non-UK residents buying a home in England or Northern Ireland will be charged an extra 1% SDLT surcharge.
It is intended to discourage purchases of property by foreign investors, who the Government believes are pushing up house prices in the UK.
However, the ATT says it is concerned the measure may also affect couples where one person lives in the UK, but the other lives or works abroad.
As the surcharge would apply to joint purchases where at least one individual lives outside of the UK, couples in this situation who want to buy a home together or move house would be required to pay the extra charge.
Michael Steed, co-chair of ATT's technical steering group, said this was "not in line with the policy aim of helping UK residents to get on the housing ladder".
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) also raised concerns about the proposed charge, arguing it would introduce further complexity to property taxes and cause more confusion for some homebuyers.
Brian Slater, chair of the CIOT's property taxes sub-committee, said:
"SDLT has been the subject of technical change in virtually every year since its introduction in 2003.
"We urge the Government to refrain from making further changes before the impact of recent changes to the taxation of residential property are assessed."
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Poland’s founder honored at Peterson Park
A couple dozen local and state officials were on hand Feb. 4 to celebrate the birth of the person for whom Poland is named. The group gathered at Peterson Park as members of Polish Youngstown paid tribute to the birth of Revolutionary War Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
According to a brief talk given by Andrea Cika, director of Polish Youngtown, Gen. Kosciuszko joined the Continental Army in 1776. He is credited with building forts near Philadelphia and had even devised a plan for the Battle of Saratoga, which was a turning point in the war. He also drafted blueprints for West Point that Benedict Arnold later tried to sell to the British.
After the war, Cika said, the general donated his salary to buy and free Thomas Jefferson’s slaves.
She went on to state that Poland Township was once called Fowler’s Place after the first settlers, Jonathan Fowler and his family. They settled on Yellow Creek. After the Revolutionary War, the township, like so many throughout the east, was named after Kosciuszko and Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, a calvary officer who became known as the “the father of the American calvary.” Both men were of Polish decent and thus to honor both, Fowler’s Place was named after the two heroes’ country of origin.
“That is why we see both generals here, side by side,” Cika said. “This is the only location in the country where they are together.”
The statue of the two heroes at Peterson Park was completed in bronze by local artist Tom Antonishak, who was in attendance for the event.
Following the short speech and a presentation of proclamations from U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan and Sen. George Voinovich, township and village officers took center stage to receive a Polish flag.
The event ended with the release of balloons representing the Polish national colors. Community outreach coordinator Marianne Poprik said, “This balloon launch symbolically spreads the word about Kosciuszko’s influence far and wide.”
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7.25.08 Pawtucket Red Sox @ Toledo Mud Hens - one more hit ought to do it
3-2 Pawtucket in a Very Exciting Game. In many ways it was the perfect baseball game.
David Pauley got into the eighth inning. The Mud Hens had not scored a run. But with one out, Dusty Wathan tripled, bringing home Max St Pierre. Pauley then got the next batter, Freddy Guzman, to pop out. Michael Tejera stepped in to face the lefty and got the final out.
So Pauley went 7 2/3 and got it done in 99 pitches. He walked a guy and struck out nine batters. What a great start. What a great athlete. One run on five hits. YES.
Chris Smith came into the ninth to close the game out, but bingo-bango there were runners at the corners with no outs. And SMASH MACHINE Mike Hessman at the plate. Yikes. The outfield was deep. Holdzkom (!) was warming in the pen (!!). The crowd was singing 'Who Let the Dogs Out?". Suddenly, the maid screamed. And Smith got Hessman to ground into a double play, which brought a run home. But who cares? The bases were empty and it was 3-2 and a guy named Clete as standing there with a bat in his puny hands. But Clete Thomas singled so Smith had to face Mike Hollimon but it was cool because Hollimon flew out to left.
Toledo's Yorman Bazardo also ad a pretty good night, but chances are his teammates didn't high-five him in the clubhouse. Bazardo was responsible for all three runs in his seven innings of work. He walked three batters and struck out six. Left-handed Ian Ostlund pitched innings 8 & 9.
Chris Carter continues to mash the shit out of the ball. Carter hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning, which proved to be crucial. Joe Thurston also hit a home run right out of the box in the first inning.
Keith Ginter made a serious error in the ninth, when he fucked up a double play ball that left runners on first and third. David Pauley made a throwing error in the fourth as he was trying to pick off Timo Perez, but come on. We've all done that.
Derek Wathan, who seriously has to be Dusty Wathan's brother, hit a triple. I said that already. But it bears repeating, since triples are like four-leaf clovers and like hitting all green lights on the way to work and like a NL pitcher hitting a home run. Beautiful, precious and rare.
toe the line or blow. and that was all she wrote:
1. Keith Ginter has 8 errors this year in 67 games as a third baseman. He has ZERO errors in 22 games at second base. So maybe in important games have Gil Velazquez over there? Then Chris Carter can jump in at short! OMG!!!
2. Keith Ginter had six errors all year for Buffalo in '07. Ginter spent 2006 in the PCL, where he ended the year with 15 errors. Maybe he'll end the year here with 10-12. This is important for the thousands of people on message boards who give a crap about Keith Ginter and his fielding. I'll post this under a thread titled "Wily Mo Pena: What Went Wrong?"
3. Brandon Moss is back in town. I'll bet he has quite a few new gold chains. That's a major league parting gift!
4. The Mud Hens pretty much just left McCoy. You know, when Ortiz was there. I heard it was nutso.
5. Mike Hollimon is Grade-A. He's been called up once already. Detroit's probably pretty sweet compared to Toledo.
Mike Bowden tomorrow night. Check the radiocast. YES.
Posted by Jenks at 9:59 PM
Take a hike, son!
Brandon Moss was wicked nice.
Michael Bowden is talented.
7.30.08 The Rochester Red Wings Have Had Enough.
save my life i'm going down for the last time
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THE END... Of High Prices!!
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July 8: Charlie Zink - Brian Lawrence RICHMOND!!
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All the way from Denmark come
Trio to perform traditional Danish music Friday in Port Townsend
by Diane Urbani de la Paz
Monday, January 18, 2016 12:01am
PORT TOWNSEND — They’re coming over from Denmark, one of the three happiest countries in the world: Lydom, Bugge & Høirup, bringers of traditional Danish music.
The trio, which played the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes at Fort Worden State Park last summer, is back with its signature polkas, jigs, waltzes and reels, all to start at 7 p.m. Friday at the Quimper Grange Hall, 1219 Corona St.
Admission is a suggested $10 to $15 donation at the door, while more information can be found at www.QuimperGrange.com.
Denmark has enjoyed top positions on the U.N. World Happiness Report for years now.
The country was No. 1 in 2013 and 2014 and No. 3 last year, following behind Switzerland and Iceland.
And this trio of music-makers is known for celebrating this with joyful Danish songs and dance tunes, all spiced with humor and stories from home.
Sonnich Lydom on accordion and harmonica, Kristian Bugge as fiddler and Morten Alfred Høirup on guitars and vocals are three of the best traditional musicians from Denmark, said publicist Devon Leger of the Seattle-based Hearth Music.
For more about Lydom, Bugge & Høirup, find the band’s page on Facebook or visit www.trad.dk.
Features Editor Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5062, or at [email protected]
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The Associated Press, April 17, 2010
Afghans blame troops and Taliban
"I blame the Afghan government and NATO forces entirely for the insecurity, because our government is weak and corrupt," said Hajji Abdullah
Kathy Gannon
Afghans walk by a house destroyed in a suicide bombing the previous night in Kandahar, Afghanistan (Photo: Rahmat Gul-AP)
With a U.S.-led offensive only weeks away to clear the Taliban from this key southerncity, many residents blame foreign troops and the Afghan government as much as the Taliban for pushing Kandahar toward the brink of chaos - the very thing the military hopes to reverse.
The goal of the operation by U.S., NATO and Afghanforces is to shore up a local administration that nominally controls the city and break the grip of warlords and influence peddlers, who are thought to have allowed the Taliban in.
Kandahar is the largest city in the south and the spiritual headquarters of the Islamist movement when it ruled most of Afghanistan before the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Ineffectual government has allowed the fighters to slip back.
"I blame the Afghan government and NATO forces entirely for the insecurity, because our government is weak and corrupt," said Hajji Abdullah, who sells air conditioners in downtown Kandahar. "Everyone knows that the Taliban are against the government. They are bringing their explosives from Pakistan. Why isn'tNATO working to stop these people?"
The task of securing Kandahar will be formidable. Apart from military challenges, the mission requires redressing nine years of public griev ances and winning the trust of the 500,000 inhabitants, who are deeply skeptical of Western promises.
"Ten percent of the people are with the Taliban, 10 percent are with the government, and 80 percent of the people are angry at the Taliban, the government and the foreigners," said Mohammed Ishaq Khan, a leader of the powerful Achakzai tribe, which dominates an area that has been the scene of bitter battles between NATO and the insurgents.
In advance of the NATO offensive, expected to start this summer in residential districts on the edge of the city, the Taliban have stepped up their own campaign, planting more and more bombs and booby-traps around Kandahar and elsewhere in the south.
"The Afghan National Army and the police cannot provide security, and this government cannot provide good governance," said Karim Khan, a tribal leader from nearby Panjwai district, where NATO and Afghan operations have failed to dislodge the Taliban. "Warning of the [coming] operationonly gives the Taliban a lot of time to plant bombs that cause problems for everyone."
With both sides preparing for a summer showdown, anxiety is running high among Kandahar's people.
"When the Taliban were here, I could get a job," said day laborer Abdul Ghani. "Now I can get a job, but the difference is today there is no security. We are not politicians; we are not soldiers. We just want peace."
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According to official figures, 2,000 families in Samangan province alone had resorted to prostitution over the past 10 years.
IWPR, Jan.16, 2008
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How GPs can help diagnose HIV earlier
Letter from Dr Jonty Heaversedge
HIV is a key public health issue in the UK. Currently, two in five people diagnosed with HIV are diagnosed late, and one in six people living with HIV are unaware of their infection. Late diagnosis carries significant consequences, with those diagnosed late facing poorer health outcomes and increased risk of death. In fact, those diagnosed late carry a ten-fold increased risk of death in the year after diagnosis compared to those diagnosed earlier. Importantly, by diagnosing people earlier, not only can we can improve health outcomes, we can also help reduce onward transmission. Nowadays, HIV can be managed almost like any other long-term condition, and with early diagnosis and prompt treatment, people living with HIV can lead normal lives.
With one simple blood test, we can make all the difference
Late stage HIV is often picked up in secondary or emergency care settings, and often at the point where the individual’s health status has significantly deteriorated. However, retrospective mapping shows that those diagnosed late have often presented to primary care in the years running up to diagnosis with HIV-related signs or symptoms. This means that crucial opportunities to diagnose HIV in primary care are not only being missed, but that in our role as GPs we have a real opportunity to help reduce the rate of late diagnosed HIV, improve health outcomes, and tackle this important public health issue.
GPs often worry about a patient’s reaction to being offered a test. But in reality most patients are happy to be offered an HIV test in primary care. HIV testing is also relatively straight forward and shouldn’t take up much time. There’s no need to take a sexual history or to conduct any lengthy pre-test counselling - verbal consent is all that is required (as with any other diagnostic test).
By raising awareness of HIV, and routinely including an HIV test when investigating people with signs or symptoms that may be associated with HIV infection (such as shingles, oral thrush, persistent diarrhoea, weight loss, or glandular fever-like symptoms) we can diagnose more HIV in primary care, and ultimately save lives.
We’re currently piloting this new approach to HIV testing across NHS Southwark CCG, using a suite of behaviour change materials developed by GPs, for GPs. The aim is to reduce the rate of late diagnosis in the borough, through raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of HIV and empowering GPs to include HIV testing as part of their differential diagnoses when consulting with patients. The approach has been positively received by our GPs so far, and we aim to recruit more localities to adopt the approach in 2017.
There’s no doubt about the role we can play as GPs in tackling the issue of late diagnosed HIV through more frequent testing as part of our routine consultations. With one simple blood test, we can make all the difference. So I am urging you all to consider HIV when you are unsure of a diagnosis and to include an HIV test more often when you are arranging blood tests. Together we can make a real difference so, don’t think twice, think test.
For more information about HIV testing in primary care and to watch the #ChangeTheFaceOfHIV film, click here.
Dr Jonty Heaversedge is chair of Southwark CCG and a GP in South East London. He is also a member of the HIV Awareness in Primary Care. For more information about the Southwark pilot or to access the materials being piloted, you can email him here.
If you would like to write to Pulse, please email letters@pulsetoday.co.uk
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'Apologia': Theater Review racebroadway August 7, 2017
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Stockard Channing stars as a tough-minded radical intellectual in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s drama, directed by Jamie Lloyd.
Prolific theater director Jamie Lloyd (Doctor Faustus, The Maids) returns to Trafalgar Studios, his eponymous company’s home venue, with a new production of British playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 contemporary kitchen-sink drama Apologia, achieving an only partial victory. Although this production was presumably arranged in part as a bejeweled opportunity for Stockard Channing to give a diamond-hard turn as an eminent 1960s radical at odds with her grown sons, the star seemed a little off her game on press night, out of sync with the rest of the cast, even if you allow for the character’s much remarked-upon self-absorption.
Things improved in the second act, but ultimately the performances that impressed most were those from Laura Carmichael as an earnest Christian outsider and Joseph Millson in a dual role, playing the central character’s sons. Although the text by Campbell (best known for The Pride, which Lloyd also directed, and the screenplay for Simon Curtis’ Woman in Gold) is studded with wry, crowd-tickling one-liners, the by-the-numbers study of cultural clash often feels clunky, like a mid-market riff on a David Hare theme, but with a slightly camper, younger sensibility.
All the action unfolds in the wood-and-wicker countryside kitchen of Kristin (Channing), an American (“by birth, not by choice,” she explains) who has been living in the U.K. since the ’60s. Known as much for her academic study of early Renaissance painter Giotto as for her outspoken leftist views, Kristin represents a certain type of feisty public intellectual that a British theatergoing audience would immediately recognize, sort of a cross between feminist Germaine Greer and art historian John Berger. On this particular day in 2009 (Obama is in the White House), it’s Kristin’s birthday, age unspecified, and she anticipates the arrival of her two grown sons Peter and Simon (both played by Millson), with their respective partners, Trudi (Downton Abbey’s Carmichael, who appeared in The Maids for Lloyd) and Claire (Freema Agyeman).
As with The Pride, which compared and contrasted gay identity in the 1950s with the contemporary era, Campbell takes pains to acknowledge both the good and bad sides of different generations. Clearly, we’re meant to admire the intellectual rigor and passionate idealism of Kristin and, to a lesser extent, her zinger-dishing gay best friend Hugh (Desmond Barrit), while sharing their despair at the materialism of kids today, like Peter with his job at a bank and soap actor Claire with her £2,000 white dress.
On the other hand, the Baby Boomers’ devotion to their own self-actualization came at a price, the drama argues. Both Peter and Simon, the latter on the verge of a nervous breakdown, are riddled with anger and bitterness at what they consider their mother’s “abandonment” of them, especially her failure to try and regain custody when their late father stole them away from her in the 1970s. Moreover, Kristin may despise American Trudi’s Christian values, but even Kristin can see that the young woman has kindness in her heart, and predicts she’ll be a good mother one day.
Carmichael, who nearly nails the American accent (despite a little regional wandering), serves up a just-so portion of chirpy optimism, innocence and barely stifled judgment; she adroitly hits the marks each time in moments when her golly-gee-whiz interjections are meant to punctuate Kristin’s endless monologues of withering disdain and sarcasm.
Channing, always a dab hand at this sort of patrician hauteur, sculpts her delivery well and underplays the cruelty, almost to the point where she seems excessively stiff and not as at home in her own skin as one would expect from the character as written. She projects Kristin’s intelligence with ease, and there’s no gainsaying the power she brings to a scene where she simply reacts with dread and horror to a long monologue from Millson as Simon in Act Two. Nevertheless, a vague sense lingers that she’s not a perfect fit for the part, and looks just a little too made-up in the middle of the afternoon for an aging hippie.
Likewise, the casting of Agyeman is also slightly problematic, not because the actor isn’t perfectly competent and credible as a glamorous TV star in a show about fashion. But the fact that Agyeman is a woman of color undermines some of the dialogue, making the bitchy asides Kristin lobs in her direction seem borderline racist and classist in a way the author probably didn’t intend. And like all the characters in play, she’s given to excessively highfalutin turns of phrase, for instance when she explains that for “much of my life, I’ve been running away from unpaid bills and stifled sobs.” Now that’s a soap opera-worthy line, although it’s played entirely for pathos here.
While it feels like the text and production are straining to put the women center stage with their showy lines and declamatory suffering, the male characters are more credible and complex, if less obviously sympathetic. Barrit could dish out Hugh’s withering patter with his eyes closed, but he provides a nice steady baseline for the rest of the ensemble to work against.
Millson shines, however, as the troubled Peter and the downright broken Simon, blood-stained and battered to the core. Since they’re not meant to be twins it’s not exactly clear why Lloyd has chosen to cast just one actor in both parts, but Millson makes the choice work and seem like more than just a cost-cutting exercise.
Venue: Trafalgar Studios, London
Cast: Stockard Channing, Freema Agyeman, Desmond Barrit, Laura Carmichael, Joseph Millson
Playwright: Alexi Kaye Campbell
Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set & costume designer: Soutra Gilmour
Lighting designer: Jon Clark
Sound designers: Ben Ringham, Max Ringham
Presented by Howard Panter for Trafalgar Entertainment Group, DB Productions, The Dodgers
Published at Sat, 05 Aug 2017 11:44:34 +0000
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PROCURE will actively participate in the advancement of research through:
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Doctors Chamber
DOCTOR'S CHAMBER
Ratan Jyoti Netralaya has a well furnished and fully air-conditioned conference hall on 1st floor of the building which has a capacity to accommodate about 200 participants. This has been constructed with a view to organize conferences at national and international level and share knowledge of the experts in various fields of medical sciences.
Such conferences are of paramount importance as these keep on updating knowledge of the professionals and prompt the doctors and surgeons to use the latest technology with its advantages.
The process of development in any field is associated with the research and it is beyond imagination to fancy development without research. Viewing this, Ratan Jyoti Netralaya has a separate Research unit headed by Dr B. Shukla who has more than 40 years experience.
Recently, Dr Shukla attended an international symposium in Germany on Ocular Trauma and presented two papers and chaired one session. He also received Dr D.N.S. Chaudhary award and a gold medal for his research paper on keratoplasty.
He also presented scientific paper in IMA conference at Gwalior and in international conference on stress management which were highly appreciated by the participants. Over the years, Dr Purendra Bhasin has done a lot in the field of research by developing new technique and surgical skill and demonstrating the same in national and international conferences.
Recently in the month of Nov. 2008, he was invited by Delhi Ophthalmic Society for live surgery and previously in Patna by Bihar Ophthalmic Society. As a part of research & development, we are planning to continue research and development work in Ocular Trauma and Goniometry.
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* Mua’s trials awaits Witness’ health status
* Illegal Casino file with prosecutor
* Naurua’s ruling delayed
Mua’s trials awaits Witness’ health status
PROSECUTION will be updating the court tomorrow on their position regarding the health status of their final witness in the trial on the matter of the outgoing Member of Parliament (MP), Dickson Mua.
Mua is standing trial for one count of conversion for allegedly diverting $3million shipping grant intended to purchase a ship for his constituency in 2013.
It was alleged Mua converted the $3million meant for the ship, for other uses.
The court was informed yesterday that prosecution’s final witness, whom is the supplier, is currently overseas for medical reason.
Prosecution had so far called 10 witnesses who testified in court while they tendered by consent the statement of one of their witnesses.
The matter will be brought back to the court tomorrow where prosecution will be updating the court on their status regarding the issue of their final witness.
Lesley Kwaiga of L & L Lawyers represents Mua while Public Prosecutor Sirepu Ramosaea is appearing for the Crown.
Illegal Casino file with prosecutor
THE file of the man accused of operating an illegal casino at the Capital Park, East Honiara last December is now with the prosecutor.
Public Prosecutor, Patricia Tabepuda confirmed to the court recently when the matter was mentioned in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court.
She appeared with the file in court but added that the file is yet to be allocated to a prosecutor.
On a previous court mention, she appeared without the file and asked for more time to allow the police investigators to hand over the file to the prosecution.
The defence counsel was handed only partial disclosures as investigation into this matter is still ongoing.
The matter will return to court again on February 8.
Ngie Kwong Pau, of Malaysia is facing one count of unlawful possession of instruments of gaming, was mentioned in the Honiara Magistrates’ Court this week.
Police arrested Pau following a raid conducted on the night of 22 December 2018.
This was for allegedly operating an illegal casino at the Capital Park, East Honiara.
Police last November applied for a search warrant based on a formal complaint from the Solomon Islands Gaming and Lotteries Board on 30 November 2018.
The L & L Lawyers is representing Pau.
Naurua’s ruling delayed
THE ruling on the no case to answer submission on the matter of a man accused of the murder of the former beauty contestant at Noro, Western Province has been further moved to today.
This was because the presiding Judge, Justice Leonard Maina is busy hearing cases.
Deputy Public Solicitor, George Gray had made the no case to answer submission at the end of the prosecution case.
The trial was held in Gizo, Western Province during the High Court circuit there.
Joshua Naurua is accused of the murder of the former beauty contestant on the early hours of 1 March 2015 at Back Way settlement in Noro.
Prosecution alleged that Naurua earlier met the deceased at a nightclub in Noro.
It was alleged that afterwards, the deceased, her cousin sister’s friend and the accused went in a taxi and dropped off nearer to a construction site.
The alleged deceased was allegedly intending to return home, to Back Way Settlement.
It was then alleged that at that time, it started to rain and not long after, there was a heavy down pour.
The deceased’s cousin and their friend allegedly ran to the security tent manned by security personnel while the accused allegedly walked the deceased on the road that passed the construction site, towards Back Way Settlement.
The body of the deceased was found further down on a slope at 1pm on 1 March 2015, at the location where she was allegedly last seen with the accused.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Ronald Bei Talasasa is prosecuting.
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by: Jane Austen
Anne Elliot
Sir Walter Elliot
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
News comes that Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, estranged cousins of the Elliots, have arrived in Bath. Lady Dalrymple is considered nobility, and Sir Walter is extremely excited about the prospect of renewing his acquaintance with her and moving with the Dalrymples among the very finest social circles in Bath. Anne is disappointed that her father and sister have so little pride as to be in awe of their cousins. Sir Walter writes the Dalrymples a letter of apology for their estrangement and receives a forgiving note in return. Anne is ashamed that her family talks of their high relations to everybody; she sees little of merit in her awkward, unaccomplished, and uninteresting relatives.
Anne talks with Mr. Elliot and finds he agrees with Sir Walter that the acquaintance with Lady Dalrymple should be pursued. Mr. Elliot believes that in a relatively small city like Bath, one's social circle is extremely important. He implies to Anne that he also worries about his uncle's connection to Mrs. Clay. He thinks such a potential attachment dangerous and he hopes to do everything possible to draw Sir Walter's attentions elsewhere.
Here, Austen introduces the issue of place, meaning one's position both geographically and in society. The two are highly connected. Mr. Elliot points out that Sir Walter's family may be relatively insignificant in London due to their 'present, quiet style of living,' but in Bath they are able to move within prominent social circles. Anne takes offense to the idea that one's social worth is dependent on one's location. She has a more nuanced and complex vision of social standing, in which value is placed not only on birth and wealth, but on one's accomplishments, manners, and interests. In Somersetshire, the Elliot family is considered the very best; here in Bath, they could be understood to be socially beneath their cousins, the Dalrymples. Anne has pride, and she is offended at the thought that such unaccomplished and uninteresting people could be ranked above her.
Austen does not believe that the class system should be discarded. Anne is extremely conscious of class, which explains the offense she takes at the prospect of having Mrs. Clay for her step-mother. Anne is unaccustomed to being thought beneath anyone, and in some ways, she has more pride than her father and sister. She cannot bear the thought that such a respected, landed family such as hers must live in rented rooms in a city, while their home is inhabited by others. Anne is further dismayed at the small degree to which her father and sister seem to be upset by this. Austen is expressing that a certain amount of pride can be a good thing, if it is based upon true merit and not false appearances.
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Home / Feature / News / Startup News / Union Budget 2019: Expectations from Indian Organizations including Startups
Union Budget 2019: Expectations from Indian Organizations including Startups
July 03, 2019 Feature, News, Startup News
New Delhi, July 03, 2019- India's much awaited Union Budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 will be presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 05, 2019. This budget is expected to lay focus on start-up eco-system in the country and announce various incentives for the next few years.
Here are some of the organizations in India including start-ups with their expectations from this year's budget (Fiscal 2019-20)
Karan Ratti - CEO & CSO, Ratti Corporation & Melblok: Startup incentives are key in this Budget if Jobs & Economic vibrancy has to be created. Startups are new and unestablished business entities with little operational stability and a lot of uncertainty, but they are also the fastest job creators not just directly but also through acquisitions which enhance the capabilities of larger established businesses. Incentivization for Startups acts like a cocoon for them to mature and create economic prosperity.
The government is to be appreciated for bringing focus on Startups and should now plow ahead to amplify this focus and relax several regulations that limit their growth. Elimination of Angel Tax, GST post cash realization v/s post invoicing, unburdening startups from numerous GST compliances, are some areas we would like to see happen. But focus now on the Startups that involve Manufacturing is Key. Issuing an Online platform for startups in the Manufacturing sector to utilize for obtaining & renewing various Licenses, NOCs, and Permissions is necessary to prevent wastage of the limited time and resources that startups have as well as eliminate bribery & corruption that despite efforts still remains at large. I am sure that startups would be happy to even pay for such a service if it helps keep startups clear from commissioner/inspector raj in any department.
Abhishek Deshpande, Co-founder of Recykal: "In the next budget, Government should provision grants, create impact funds targeted at startups working in the sustainability development areas like Waste management, Air Pollution, Climate change etc. This will not only encourage new ideas, new entrants in the space but create social, environmental, economic impact in the long run"
Rakshit Desai, Managing Director, FCM Travel Solutions – Indian Subsidiary of Flight Centre Travel Group: “According to the interim budget that was announced earlier this year, India is poised to become a $5 trillion economy in the next five years and is aspiring to become a $10 trillion economy in the next 8 years thereafter. The interim budget had offered some promising initiatives that will definitely augur well for the Indian Travel & Tourism industry. Initiatives such as UDAAN, Eastern Peripheral Highway and several other measures will boost not just domestic travel but also augment inbound tourism. For example, increased connectivity in the North-Eastern region of India, through rail, road and air (owing to projects such as UDAAN and Bogibeel Bridge) and further proposed allocation of INR 58,166 crore will provide much needed impetus to travel and tourism in the region.
Additionally, the fact that domestic passenger traffic has doubled during the last five years shows that there is phenomenal growth expected in the travel industry. On the whole, we expect that the Union Budget 2019-20 is promising for the travel industry, complemented by further tax rebate for the middle-income group – more savings, more travel! A review of GST is needed as GST on hotels varies according to room tariffs (18 % to 28%). Tax on premium hotels in India is amongst the highest in the world, higher than even hotels in New York, London or Paris.”
Vipul Jain, CEO, Advancells: "We are eagerly waiting for the first budget of Modi 2.0 Government. Over the last couple of years of the last administration, the government had shown some serious commitment towards healthcare with Ayushman Bharat and such schemes. We are hoping the new government will take these agenda’s forward and there will be a push on new innovations in then healthcare sector under Make in India and Startup India programs."
Dhruvan Barar, Co-founder, Boingg: "This budget will be a marker of the government's assessment and vision for the economy. Union Budget 2019-2020's allocation will determine whether E-commerce and tech startup will work in sync with the government's policy & Digital India initiative. We believe that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget will incorporate and allocate resources for various initiatives announced in the Interim Budget presented earlier this year. The abolishment of angel tax is one step towards it. Expecting the budget to go easy on credit loan processes and further provide a rebate in loan interest."
Gautam Thapar, CEO, Thapar Builders Pvt Ltd: "On July 5th 2019, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present 2019-2020 budget. It is expected that the government should bring stimulus to boost the real estate/construction industry. To further promote the sector incentives should be given to buyers to buy 2nd home which will definitely promote the real estate segment in the long run bringing smiles on the faces of the people associated with it. In coming budget we expect the applicable GST on the real estate to come down and should also bring down interest rate on home loans. Also, as proposed remove income tax from rental housing - ensuring builders to lease unsold inventory and hence it will help the government real it's target of housing for all."
Satanik Roy, Co-founder, HyperXchange: “The growing use of the internet and increasing dependency on smartphones has brought cheer to the internet startup sector in India. However, rural areas of India still demand better infrastructure to promote the penetration of smartphones. As the Indian economy moves towards creating its global digital footprint, it is expected that the Indian government will further promote penetration of smartphones by incentivising refurbished and introducing schemes which will include installing more wi-fi hotspots in rural and semi-urban areas. The UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) scheme can also be given a boost, which will enable companies and startups to set up operations in smaller towns which will then indirectly lead to bridging the urban-rural divide.”
Ruhan Swain Rajput, Co-founder & Director, EINFOLGE: “While 2018 Budget at least acknowledged the issues of angel tax provisions and bring transparency into the process, saying that ‘Venture capital funds and angel investors need an innovative and special developmental and regulatory regime for their growth,” the Interim Budget from February 2019 steered clear of the issue.
But there’s more work to be done to boost the ecosystem. The major concerns range from incentive programmes for electric vehicles and cleantech, issues pertaining to Section 56 (2)(viib) and Section 68 of the Income Tax Act, lack of healthcare or defence-related innovation fund, GST issues, tax breathers for eCommerce and FDI in e-pharma have remain neglected owing to the General Elections 2019.
However, after a massive victory, the Modi government has a plethora of issues to deal with including unemployment, economic crisis, US-Iran sanctions implications and the trade war within WTO. Given this Sitharaman will perhaps have very little room to stamp her authority while presenting her first budget as the finance minister. In such a scenario, it’s time to prioritise the start-up ecosystem’s demands from the finance minister and the new government. Whether it is the budget allocation for Start-up India’s fund of funds or prioritising tax reforms that directly affect the start-up ecosystem.”
Vishal Shah, Founder & MD, Storia Foods & Beverages Pvt. Ltd: “Five months post the interim budget; consumption & rural demand has witnessed a steep decline. Rural demand which was about 1.3 times urban demand has petered down in the FMCG & Agriculture sector. Over 50% of our agriculture is still rain fed, hence, there is an associated uncertainty leading to reduction in growth. There is thus a need to increase the coverage of irrigation. Farmers in drought-hit areas suffer the most in the absence of rain.
With the new government, we seek a boost to the ailing sector and look beyond short-term measures such as loan waivers and cash transfers for the farmers. We should move away from consumer to producer-centric price policy. Agricultural markets have witnessed only limited reforms. Resolving GST issues related to Farmers Producers Organisations, incentive for agro processing units and enhancing investments in the R &D in the agriculture sector should be focused. The government should consider investing in technology that could make water management more efficient. Government’s focus on improving agricultural productivity with an emphasis on organic food forms will further strengthen the ambitious vision of a healthy India. This will promote F&B manufacturers, food service providers, and consumers to embrace natural and healthier products and lifestyles.”
Email: startupterminal@gmail.com
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Minister's Meditations
Gladness Gallery
The Spiritual Intellect of Your Heart
Captain America: The First Avenger....
As we continue with our story, Steve Rogers is sent off to basic training. He struggles as the uncoordinated small guy. He does not have the strength of anyone else in his group. The other soldiers bully him. But he pushes on doing his best.
During one run, the sergeant tells them that whoever can get the flag off the flag pole gets a ride back to base. “No one has gotten the flag in 15 years.” None of the strong soldiers can do it. They all do their best to climb the pole, but slide back down.
The sergeant ignores Steve calling for everyone to get back in line.
Steve however walks over to the flagpole, pulls a screw from the bottom of the pole, the pole falls over. He retrieves the flag, hands it to the sergeant and gets in the car to take his ride back to base.
I laughed out loud. Marvel enjoys having fun with their movies, bringing in moments of lightness and humor.
Your Spiritual Intellect
Here’s the thing: Steve Rogers uses his intellect to win the prize. He does not try to use his braun (he doesn’t have any). He uses his personal strength to succeed.
In the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Dialogue One: Jesus invites us to use our spiritual intellect as we seek to align ourselves with our true Image, our highest selves.
Cynthia Bourgeault suggests that one’s spiritual intellect is our heart. She reminds us that in Near Eastern thought the heart is the organ of spiritual perception. The heart is not the emotional center. It is the moral center, the place from which all spiritual work is done; space of transmutation and transformation; center of insight, wisdom and spiritual intellect; the residence of the Sacred.
Captain America: The First Avenger continues...
When the Dr decides that Steve Rogers is the one whom will take part in the experiment, he explains why to Steve:
The doctor explains that his serum creates superior men. He then explains about the head of Hydra (the bad guys) and how that bad guy took the serum. The serum made him stronger. But there were other affects.
“The serum amplifies everything that is inside, so good become great; bad become worse. This is why you were chosen. Because a strong man who has known power all his life will lose respect for that power, but a weak man who knows very little of strength and knows compassion will not. Whatever happens tomorrow you must promise me one thing, that you will stay who you are, not a perfect soldier but a good man.”
Steve Rogers makes a toast, “To the little guys!”
Using our Spiritual Intellect, our Heart
When we use our spiritual intellect, our hearts, as the lens to perceive the world through, to make decisions, to live our lives, it amplifies the goodness that is within us — compassion, grace, mercy, justice, Love.
When we use our brains, our minds without our hearts, those are the times when we fall short, when we, as humans, create injustice. We are not our best selves unless we live from our hearts.
We can only be aligned with the Image, our truest highest self, if we live from our hearts. When we live from our hearts, from the spiritual center of our being, from the space which the Sacred occupies within us, then all that we do is amplify the Sacred. Good grows. Love expands,. Compassion is experienced and known. Justice reigns down. Economy of God is fully present.
It takes a different kind of strength to live from the heart. You can not live from your heart by shear will, by physical strength, by academic intellect. These are not the qualities that bring you into your heart.
To live from your heart you must find strength in your vulnerability, humility. It is through prayer and meditation that you learn and gain insight. Living from the heart requires a willingness to let go of your will power and trust the Guidance of the Sacred.
Living from the heart is not about perfection. It is about amplifying all that is good within you. Living from the heart allows the Sacred to extend your inner goodness out into the world. It is about an inner strength that relies upon vulnerability. Compassion.
When we live from our hearts, all that compassion is amplified in the world.
What will you amplify in this world?
Are you willing to embark upon the spiritual journey into your heart?
Will you take the time to align to the Sacred’s transformative spiritual intellect?
We need the little guy... Captain America
.Captain America: The First Avenger
Steve Rogers continues his quest to join the army, giving it another try.
This time, someone notices…
As he is preparing for his exam, the office asks him to wait. Then a MP shows up to make sure he does not leave. Then someone walks into the room, looks at Steve’s folder and says, “so you want to go over seas and kill some Nazis?”
Steve is confused. He asks, “Excuse me?”
The person who entered the room introduces himself and explains that he works with the Strategic Scientific Reserve. They have conversation. the Dr is sizing Steve Rogers up, discerning whether or not he would be good for the experiment he is working on.
In the midst of the conversation the Dr says, “You didn’t answer my question. Do you want to kill Nazis?”
Steve is silent for a few seconds and asks, “Is this a test?”
Dr replies: “Yes.”
Steve answers from his heart, “I don’t want to kill anyone. I don’t like bullies. I don’t care where they are from.”
Dr replies, “Well there are already so many big men fighting this war, maybe what we need now is the little guy….I can offer you a chance.”
This is before Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. This is the moment the Dr begins to think Steve is the one. It is his answer, “I don’t want to kill anyone.”
He stays true to this statement after he becomes Captain America. Unless he has to, he does not kill. He values life.
He recognizes that bullies don’t value life. Bullies values themselves, their desires, their power, their wealth over anyone else. Bullies don’t share. They don’t feel compassion and mercy. They work for their benefit, their greed, their corrupted view of their world.
Present Day Bully
We are currently living in a time where a bully is the President of our country. He bullies everyone around him, all who work for him, the leaders of other countries, his opponents. He upholds the values of dictators and white supremacists.
This President says he values life, but he does not. He gives orders to create refugee camps that have no dignity, that tear apart the lives of those seeking helps and safety. Death after death in those refugee camps on our southern border have brought no sympathy from the President, no change in policy.
This President says he values life, but he does not. He celebrates homophobia and sexism. He encourages bad behavior at his rallies. Then he abdicates responsibility when someone at his rally acts on the hatred he is spewing.
He does not value life. He is a bully.
Steve Rogers values life. He is a small guy, always overlooked. His life journey has taught him compassion for all around him. He has an inner strength that has developed as he has worked to overcome the challenges and obstacles in his life.
This scene asks us a question: Who do we uphold as our heroes?
The Dr., without saying it, is suggesting that it is not the big guys that are our heroes. No, it is the little ones, the ones that understand compassion and mercy, that value life.
Who do we uphold as a hero?
Who do I uphold as heroes?
Martin Luther King, Jr, a man who valued life, equality, justice. A Pastor who gave his life in a movement that called us as a country to be better, to be compassionate, to create the Economy of God in our midst.
Saint Mother Theresa: a Sister whose life work was to care for those untouched, those left to die, those ignored by society — to bring dignity, care and respect to a population that has never experienced dignity, respect and care. A Sister who valued all life, who believed that no life was unworthy.
Saint Monsenor Oscar Romero: an Archbishop who spoke truth to power; who put his life on the line to minister to the disappeared and disappearing in El Salvador — who reminded those without political power that they have tremendous spiritual power, that they are the “hands and the feel of Jesus,” bringing hope in the place of despair.
Rev David Lawrence: my youth pastor who lost his life helping an abused woman leave her abuser.
The women of Standing Rock Tribe: these powerful women stood in the face of injustice, prayed for the rights of their people, their Land, their health. Even as the governments ignored their plight, they stood their ground, praying for life: Water is Life.
These are just a few. Each of my heroes value life! They offer respect, dignity, compassion, mercy; seek to create justice; and truly desire to be “the hands and the feet of Jesus” in this world.
How are you being a hero in this world?
I can do this all day -- Your Soul's Purpose
We meet Steve Rogers before he becomes Captain America. He is a small, skinny, nobody who can not even get into the army because of asthma and other medical conditions. He tries and tries and tries. (To view this scene, click on the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCVXiNvQaxI)
We meet him after his fourth attempt to get into the army. After being denied he goes to a movie. Back then movies began, not with the slew of previews we are used to, but something about the war happening in Europe. Through this news-reel there is a voice that keeps asking to “Start the movie.” This voice is disrespecting the soldiers who are fighting for their lives, for justice, for freedom.
Steve Rogers becomes so upset that he calls it out. We see him next getting pounded by the guy in the corner of a back alley. The line that Steve Rogers is known for throughout the many Captain America and Avengers movies is said for the first time: “I can do this all day.”
Each hit, each time he is knocked to the ground, he pops back up. He will not give up. Something inside him is driving him. Something we can not see.
“I can do this all day!”
That line has been reverberating around my heart and soul since last week, asking me one question: What is it in your life that brings forth this statement: “I can do this all day!”? What can I do all day?
I would like to say, fight for justice.
But the reality is:
eat chocolate
watch the beauty of the New Mexican skies
listen to the birds sing
notice the beauty of the plants and flowers around me
Then there are the rough days when, if I am being truthful, when what can I do all day means:
watching Netflix or Amazon Prime
with plenty of sugary yumminess (Ben and Jerry's really)
so as to numb myself from the challenges, the struggles that are in front of me (whether it is spiritual, emotional, physical, civic etc)
I admire the archetype of Steve Rogers, that inner confidence and strength that knows and can “do this all day!” in order to accomplish his soul purpose.
So I invited Spirit and my Soul to bring forth for me an answer to the question, "What can I do all day?" What is my Soul inviting to ‘do all day…’ even when it is hard?
A line from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene’s Dialogue One came forth: “It is for this reason that I told you to find contentment at the level of the heart, and if you are discouraged, take heart in the presence of the Image of your true nature. Those with ears, let them hear…” (Cynthia Bourgeau, The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, chapter 4)
Those who have ears, let them hear…
The Image that Jesus is talking about is that purest, highest reflection of the Sacred that is in the center of the center of the center of our hearts. This Image is our Highest Selves, it is our Soul’s purpose.
As I sat with this: What can I do all day?
My Soul said, “Your Soul’s Purpose”
Why can Steve Rogers take being beaten up again and again and still say: “I can do this all day”? Because, as you watch his character develop through the many Marvel movies, you begin to notice that the Image that is Steve Rogers is one that has a greater purpose than himself. His Image invites him beyond himself to make a difference in the world. Over the arc of the movies he struggles with what that difference is, always being grounded in the moral center of Life, Compassion and Justice — the Image of the Sacred that shines forth from him and each of us.
What can I do all day? I can be a Beacon of Light that offers compassion.
At my recent continuing education conference, CREDO, my mission statement came forth more clearly than ever, like Spirit was saying, “Jocelyn, you can do this all day!”
It is to companion others in their spiritual awakening and soul-volution toward unification (Oneing) with their Soul, Source, and the Sacred grounded in the mystical desert spirituality.
When I sit with that, my heart, my soul, my whole being says:
I can do this all day!!!
What can you do all day?
What is your Soul purpose?
Pastor Jocelyn Emerson weaves together her training as a Light and Energy worker, Reiki master, spiritual director, and Pastor with her life experience as a mystic and contemplative to offer a space of trust, safety, and honesty to support you on your life's journey.
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I would like to kick of a discussion on a designer who has been quietly working away, doing his own thing, in a very cool way, since the 80’s. He was one of, if not the first to do recycled, and although Margiela also did it very well, I believe that Geoffrey did it in a more honest way. He has been making environmentally concessions clothing since way before it was fashionable and when designers like Yohji and Comme were expanding their production he was shrinking his, so that he had more control over it. He is not just a designer, but a tailor, a pattern cutter and machinist, so he really does understand and have control over the every detail of his clothing. He even works with a local fabric weaver to produce just what he needs for each piece. I understand that the there are many who do this now, but in combination with the fact that he personally oversees and works on pretty much every garment which he produces, I think that this makes him pretty special.
You may not be into Geoffrey B. Smalls design because, like Poell and Harnden, he designs from his own special place which is not really influenced by the fashion world. He is far more interested in history and socio-political issues, and how they affect the way we cloth ourselves. When I first saw his work, it scared the shit out of me! But after speaking to him in great depth, I began to understand his attention to rapidly disappearing values and to the details which are becoming less and less important in modern clothing, and the journey which had brought him to this place from where he produces his art. To me this involvement is very important.
Although seen in a very different light he has a lot in common with Altieri and did indeed showed with him in Paris in the very early days of Carpe Diem. Although he never exploded onto the scene, creating the impact that Altieri did, he has been working in a similar way for much longer and has probably, in a far more indirect way, had an equal impact on the way that the likes of Grandma, Luca, and this whole wave of new-school craftspeople who have emerged in the wake of Carpe Diem.
Ps. when I can post images I will let you see some of my collection of his work.
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zamb
Kingston/ New York
Thanks for the thread Hobo
was also looking at somw more of his work lately, also saw a T-shirt by him on Yoox that I am considering to buy.
think somone already started a thread on him here, maybe both threads could be merged
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Just had a read through his website.
Rather amazing to say the least! I really appreciate his use of fabric and keeping his work in house so he can overlook everything.
When i was at university this is how i had imagined for me to work also.
I found this list of his innovations incredibly interesting
1. the use of inserts,
2. the 2-piece recycle twinset
3. themed recycle collections based upon a particular concept or garment type
4. inside out,
5. metamorphosisizing garment types (changing the original use of the garment into a different type or use)
6. half&half
7. tape bands
8. mesh
9. camouflage
10. plastic
11. metal
12. electronic components (applying solid state computer components into recycled clothing designs)
13. graffiti tagging
14. painted leather
15. painted jeans
16. zippers
17. the pinch seam
18. inside pinch seam
19. inside exposed overlock seam
20. laser and silkscreen prints on pants, jackets, button-down shirts, leather and knitwear
21. chiffon over jersey
22. holes
23. label outside
24. intarsia stitching
25. convertibles (2-in-1 or 3-in-1 garments that can be changed into bags, backpacks or alternative garments)
26. slashed knitwear
27. antique patches
28. ergonomic cutting and stitching
29. overdying
30. denim and khaki
31. refitting menswear into womenswear
32. customizing repairs
33. developing the world's most comprehensive standards and methods for production of recycled clothing.
For other members here is his website with images of previous collections and much more.
Well worth spending some time looking and reading everything within it. Incredibly inspiring.
Cheers Hobo for bringing him back to my attention!
http://www.geoffreybsmall.net/
merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.
lowrey
ventiundici
aaak, second topic in a few days about GBS with no pictures!
like discussed in some other thread (shit is so mixed up right now), Geoffrey is a very cool guy and does some very nice stuff. His work really can't be compared to anything else, he has such a different approach to making garments and his style, while utilizing some rather classic styles, is quite a unique combination of different elements. Also, he is probably one of the nicest people I've met.
There will some more up to date content on him in the near future, which is why I was holding back with the thread start but perhaps I will make a third one soon
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There are many pics on his sight, i try and upload a few in the next few days so we have some visuals at hand!
I sense you are cooking something up mr.lowrey!!!! hmmmm
Originally Posted by wire.artist
it seems he shares several innovations with other sacred cows
the question is... who was first?
Convertible garments > junya
painted denim > MMM or helmut?
ergonomic cutting > altieri
menswear into womenswear> yohji
inside out> rei
My money's on the Small guy! Innovation is his middle name (or maybe it's Boris!).
Seriously though, I don't know about these particular ones but Geoffrey has come up with so many interesting innovations, for which he is not generally credited!
I don't think the innovations should be taken too literally, he didn't obviously invent denim or use it for the first time in the world, I think some of the concepts are just elements which weren't that commonly used at the time and have since become more popular.
always thought the website was quite funny, its a bit out there with all the manifestos, randomly sized images, slightly messy lay outs and all but then again I'd imagine him to be the type that doesn't find it necessary to have the most elaborate online presence, the site has probably been close to the same for a decade.
SunshineSometime
Originality is undetected plagiarism
Love his "principles":
1. respect for the individual
2. service to others
3. strive for excellence
4. strive to have fun
5. loyalty & trust
Chinorlz
Originally Posted by SunshineSometime
I have to disagree. That's quite a negative statement.
Of course you can nitpick the argument down until one agrees that we all pull inspiration from somewhere be it nature, a book, an idea etc. but it certainly may not constitute plagiarism in the dictionary-defined form of the word.
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2nd that Albert. It's important to stay honest with your work and true to your own inspiration. Do this, and I would be challenged to call any work unoriginal. We all take our inspiration from somewhere... it is our perception of these influences that determine our fate as an artist.
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I think that Geoffrey's principals and manifestos can be seen as comical if you don’t know him or understand how serious he is about them but they are an important part of what he does because it's this intellectual process that leads him to the end product which is so beautiful (and, I admit, sometimes, a little out there!). For some designers, it's a purely visual process, but for Geoffrey, it's the opposite, it starts with ideas and principals! For me that makes is more interesting than something which is just art for art’s sake.
As far plagiarism, I suppose that it depends what you consider to be copying and what you consider to be inspiration. When I was in Venice with Geoffrey he took me to the church on St Marco's square and while everyone-else was looking up at the frescos and ornamentation, he was down on his hands and knees looking at the broken mosaic tiles on the floor and telling me how this was the inspiration for some of his best patchwork pieces. This is inspiration. It's also inspiring! However, he also takes original patterns which are hundreds of years old and incorporates them, in their original form, into his collection. He usually chooses fabrics which would never have been used for that particularly garment. I think that it could be argued that this is plagiarism, but I would disagree. I understand that the history is an important part of his collection and I understand why he doesn't want to tamper with the patterns. He is also very honest about the fact that he uses these patterns as an integral part of the collection; in fact he is very proud of the research that has gone into them and the part that they play.
kitsch killer
Long hard road out of hell
I think in this day and age the whole plagiarism discussion is kinda overwrought. The myth of the purely original is dead. Everyone is inspired by something/one that came before, and mixes things to his own heart's content, and that's fine. Originality in its original sense is nearly impossible. People forget that genius is an incredibly rare phenomenon.
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Don't really know how we got on to this one. No one said that Geoffrey was a plagiarist. I think it was more about his innovations, whether they are in fact his and whether he has been credited with the ones that are his.
Outside of the context of Geoffrey Small, as I see it, plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of some previous work one is aware of in one's creations. This leads me to three points:
One cannot plagiarize nature.
If someone in Porous, Jamaica, designs a pattern on a dress, and three years later Missoni or DVF puts the exact same pattern on a dress, unaware of Porous (as many people are) or the previous designer, it is not plagiarism. The coincidence simply suggests that the designers drew inspiration from similar sources.
Third, so what if Small was inspired by previous work? Isn't "inspiration" one of the prerequisites of creation? And with millennia of human creation preceding us, is it really reasonable to expect someone not to be influenced by others?
An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler
Originally Posted by BBSCCP
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I think that we've talked ourselves around in a circle!
The original conversation was not about whether Geoffrey plagiarised, but quite the opposite. It was about whether or not his early experimental work constituted innovation, and if so, whether he should be more widely credited. I simply used the example of his use of authentic patterns as an example of what, in my opinion, is not plagiarism.
Originally Posted by SombreResplendence
Although I do agree with everything that you have said here.
Don’t get me wrong albert, I don’t meant anything negative by what I said. I respect the man and what he is doing.
Faust said it best “Originality in its original sense is nearly impossible.”
Coming where I’m from, I’m a design grad and I’ve seen most of my classmates creating utter replicas of existing designs with a minor tweak in certain areas. Then there are those that genuinely pursue an idea that strikes them to create something in which they believe to be original. I would classify the 1st as bullshit and the latter as being honest.
I’d like the state that originality does not lie with your product do but in your conscience. At the end of the day, if you genuinely create something that you’ve never seen before (but may already be out there). However all these are intangible when the final product is out.
Everyone has their own opinions to this but I’d like to say as a design standpoint it is the integrity to say that you are not original but honest to your ideas.
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There's a very good good book from 1999 by Mieke Bal
on the subject of influence:
Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, preposterous History
I'll highly recommend it.
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A long, long time ago, when unicorns still roamed the forests and the merfolk still dwelt in the shallow waters frequented by men, there ruled in the kingdom of Daventry King Edward and his lovely Queen. The people of Daventry were prosperous and happy, and everywhere peace reigned. But the King and Queen were sad because they were childless. They had no son to inherit the throne, nor daughter to gladden their hearts.
One bright, sunny day King Edward the Benevolent (for so he was called) and his Queen were walking in the castle garden when suddenly before them appeared a powerful sorcerer. “I know your problem and I can cast a spell that will bring you a child,” he said.
“Oh, great sorcerer, if you can help us, we will be everlastingly grateful,” said the Queen.
“We will bestow upon you many honors, and great riches,” said the King.
“I have no use for honors or riches. My payment will not be so great. All I ask in return is the mahogany-framed Mirror that hangs in your private chamber.”
The sorcerer’s words gave them pause, for that Mirror was priceless. It had the power to read the future, and helped Daventry prosper. The royal couple used it to foretell the weather for planting and harvest, as had the kings and queens before them.
It had been hundreds of years since a crop had been planted before the last frost, or had been ruined by autumn rain. What the sorcerer desired was indeed valuable. The King and Queen retired to their chamber to consult the magic Mirror.
King Edward and his wife gazed into the Mirror’s depths and saw a young princely figure with a gold crown upon his head. Imagining the youth to be the son they yearned for, the royal couple gladly bestowed the Mirror upon the sorcerer. He took it to his dwelling, where he set one of his beasts to guard over it.
The months passed and the Queen did not conceive a child. For the first time in four hundred years, Daventry lost the harvest to an early autumn rainstorm. The King and Queen wept, and everyone tightened their belts. Instead of having excess produce to sell to neighboring kingdoms, the people of Daventry had to supplement their stores with food bought elsewhere.
With famine came the dreaded Plague, and the Queen was stricken. For three days she lay in the grip of a great fever, with Edward maintaining a constant vigil by her side.
On the fourth day of the Queen’s illness, a diminutive figure pushed his way beween the legs of the castle guards. “I have a cure for the Queen,” he claimed. Quickly the courtiers ushered him into the Queen’s chamber, where the King despaired.
“I have traveled a great distance to bring relief to your dear wife. This powerful root known only to dwarves will cure any plague.”
The dwarf leaned over the Queen and touched the root to her lips. Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled at Edward. The Queen’s attendants looked at each other in wonderment. “Only a touch revived her,” they whispered. “Imagine how fast she will recover when given the whole root!”
“Ask any reward for this miraculous gift, oh small one,” exclaimed King Edward.
“I ask in repayment the Shield left you by your father when he died,” said the dwarf softly.
The King paled at the thought. The Shield, made of titanium and set with emeralds, was traditionally carried in battle by the ruler of Daventry. Legend held that he who bore the Shield was invincible, and his army always victorious. Thus there had been no successful attack on the kingdom of Daventry for over five hundred years.
“Ask again, little man. I will give you your weight in gold, but please do not ask for the Shield,” said the King.
“You do not appear to value your wife’s life, your Highness,” said the dwarf. “I will take no other reward than that which I have requested.” Haughtily, he turned to go.
“Come back,” Edward called. “I’ll give you the Shield.” The Dwarf took the Shield, and secreted it away in a hole in the ground, in the way of the Dwarves.
The Queen partook of the root, but to no avail. She worsened and died. Daventry’s church bells tolled in mourning, and the King vowed vengence against the false dwarf. Years passed, and the news of the loss of the Shield spread. Armies attacked the weakened Daventry, and the King went out to lead his armies without the Shield. Never before did they have need of the Mirror to foretell enemy moves. Now, that protection too was gone.
Many years passed, and the King was very lonely. One day, while out riding with his courtiers, Edward came upon a pack of wolves tearing at the lower limbs of a big tree. When the group approached, the wolves scattered to reveal a beautiful young woman perched in the tree.
She descended regally. “I thank you for the rescue, kind sirs. I am the Princess Dahlia, of Cumberland. I was traveling through this land when that pack of wolves fell upon my group. My bodyguard fled in terror from their fangs, leaving me quite alone. I owe you my life, and my heartfelt gratitude.”
The King was charmed with Princess Dahlia, and brought her back to his castle to visit. He felt new life coursing through his veins, and knew it was because he had met someone who might fill the loneliness left by his late Queen.
In due time Edward asked Dahlia to marry him, and she accepted. The people of Daventry were wildly excited at the prospect of a new Queen (and hopeful of an heir), and made preparations for a glorious wedding celebration.
On the night before the wedding, when the air resounded with toasts and merriment, Princess Dahlia bid Edward good night. He never noticed her hand stealing up to his belt and extracting the ring of keys handing there.
Much later, the Royal treasurer approached the King with alarming news. He had discovered the treasury door standing open, with the King’s own key in the lock. Princess Dahlia had been inside, holding a small Chest of gold.
The treasurer stood frozen to the spot. The Princess’ bright laughter changed to a witch’s crackle as her form grew old and withered. She grasped the Chest and mounted her broom to fly out the open window. The treasurer watchd with horror as she swooped up through the clouds and disappeared.
When the King heard the news, he wept in despair. That Chest was magic, and the last great treasure remaining in Daventry. No matter how much was taken from it, the Chest always remained brimming with golden coins. Without the Chest, Edward could buy no more food, pay no more soldiers.
Many more years passed, and Daventry grew poor and weak. King Edward was old and feeble, and saw that his end was near. Fearing that the country would fall into even greater disorder when he died, he sent for his favorite knight, Sir Graham.
“You are the bravest and truest knight in my kingdom, Sir Graham. Long ago I envisioned your form in my magic Mirror, and thought I was seeing my son and heir. The years have proven me at least half wrong. But the prophecy may yet be fulfilled.
“To prove yourself worthy of my crown, I command you to journey out into the world and retrieve the three great treasures taken from Daventry by treachery and stealth. Fail, and our beautiful Daventry will grow ever weaker until it is invaded and conquered by an unfriendly nation. Succeed in this great quest, and you shall become King up on my death. This I promise by all that is honorable and right.”
“May you return victorious, Sir Graham!”
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Sex Hormones and Gender Effects following Trauma-Hemorrhage
Posted By Irshad H. Chaudry, Fariba Moeinpour, Wen-Ke Wang, Shaolong Yang, Raghavan Raju, William B. Hubbard On September 7, 2010 @ 11:00 pm In Reviews,Volume 5 Supplement 1 | No Comments
Trauma is the leading cause of death in the industrialized world between the ages of one and 40. A number of risk factors including age and gender have been implicated in this regard. It is therefore not surprising that the majority of trauma victims are young males. Their mortality rate following trauma is not only higher compared to females, but they are also more prone to subsequent sepsis. Age and gender are therefore important factors in the prevalence of traumatic injury as well as in susceptibility to subsequent septic complications.
Key words: trauma, mortality, age, gender, sex hormones, sepsis, cardiovascular/immunological alterations
The late Roger Bone noted a preponderance of morbidity and mortality in males compared to females in four major sepsis studies. (1,2) Experimental studies have shown that following the induction of sepsis (as produced by cecal ligation and puncture), the survival rate in females is significantly higher than in age-matched males. (3) It should be noted that the survival advantage is only conferred in females in the proestrus cycle, i.e., cycle with high estrogen and progesterone levels. (3) Subsequent studies showed that even if the animals underwent trauma-hemorrhage and induction of subsequent sepsis, the survival in proestrus females was significantly higher than in age-matched males. (3) This advantage the proestrus females have in tolerance to trauma-hemorrhage and sepsis disappears post-menopausally or following ovariectomy. In this regard, the ovariectomized females were also found to be extremely susceptible to sepsis following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation as compared to females in the proestrus cycle. (4) Thus, our hypothesis was that the prevailing hormonal milieu at the time of injury (and not hrs or days later) dictates whether there will be immune and cardiovascular maintenance or depression of those parameters after injury. The results, in fact, indicate that proestrus females tolerate trauma-hemorrhage and sepsis better than males and females in the other estrus cycles.
Sex Hormones and Gender Effects
In attempting to understand why the proestrus females tolerate trauma-hemorrhage and sepsis better than males and ovariectomized females, studies examined cardiac index in males, estrus and proestrus females 24 hrs after trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation. (5) The results indicated that cardiac index was depressed even 24 hrs following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation in males and estrus females, but not in proestrus females. (5) Likewise, hepatocellular function, which was measured by the clearance of indocyanine green, was also markedly depressed in males and estrus females following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation, but was found to be normal in proestrus females undergoing trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation. (5)
Subsequent studies examined whether decreasing female sex steroid levels due to aging or ovariectomy would cause cardiovascular depression following trauma-hemorrhage, and if so, whether 17β-estradiol (E2) administration has any salutary effects, and whether the effects of E2 are mediated via estrogen receptors (ER). The results indicated that cardiac index was markedly decreased in ovariectomized females following trauma-hemorrhage; however, administration of a single dose of E2 following trauma-hemorrhage in ovariectomized animals normalized the depressed cardiac index. If, however, the estrogen receptor antagonist ICI 182,780 (ICI) was given along with E2, the cardiac index was depressed and was found to be the same as in vehicle-treated animals. (5) These results therefore suggest that administration of a single dose of E2 in ovariectomized animals restores the cardiac index following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation, and the effects of E2 are mediated via the ER, since blocking the ER by using ICI totally abolished the salutary effects of E2 on cardiac index. Similarly, hepatocellular function, which was depressed following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation, was also normalized by administration of a single dose of E2 following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation, (5) and as in the case of cardiac index, hepatocellular function was also depressed if ICI was given along with E2. (5)
Cardiac function following trauma-hemorrhage and sex hormones
Since cardiac function following trauma-hemorrhage was differentially affected in males and proestrus females, studies examined whether there was any correlation between cardiac function and cardiomyocyte intracellular IL-6 levels and/or IL-16 expression. Cardiomyocyte IL-6 mRNA expression and intracellular IL-6 production increased following trauma-hemorrhage. (5) Moreover, cardiac IL-6 protein levels increased after trauma-hemorrhage in freshly isolated heart. Furthermore, there was an inverse correlation between cardiomyocyte IL-6 levels and cardiac function following trauma-hemorrhage. (5) These results therefore suggest that the salutary effects of E2 on cardiac function following trauma-hemorrhage may be due, in part, to decreased IL-6 synthesis in cardiomyocytes. (5)
Studies also examined whether administration of flutamide (androgen receptor (AR) antagonist) in male rats following trauma-hemorrhage influences cardiac function, and if it does whether it does so by blocking the AR or by modulating the ER expression. The results indicated that cardiac contractility (+dP/dtmax) was significantly depressed in males following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation; however, administration of flutamide significantly improved the depressed myocardial contractility. (5) Of significance is the fact that ER-α and ER-β protein expression in the myocardium were significantly depressed in males following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation; however, administration of flutamide normalized the expression of not only ER-α but also ER-β protein expression. In contrast to ER, there were no alterations in AR protein expression. These results therefore suggest that the mechanism of the salutary effects of flutamide on cardiac output following trauma-hemorrhage appears to be mediated via the upregulation of ER-α and ER-β mRNA and protein expression.
The results also indicated that although splenocyte proliferative capacity (an index of immune function) was depressed in males following trauma-hemorrhage, it was found to be unaltered or enhanced in proestrus females under those conditions. Similarly, splenocyte IL-2 productive capacity was also markedly decreased in males but not in proestrus females following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation. (3,4) This depression in splenocyte functions was correlated with a marked increase in plasma corticosteroid levels in males following trauma-hemorrhage; however, the corticosteroid levels in proestrus females were significantly higher than in age-matched males in shams but the levels decreased following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation. (3,4) Thus, opposite responses in the plasma corticosteroid levels were observed between males and proestrus females following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation.
Since proestrus females had maintained or enhanced immune functions following trauma-hemorrhage compared to males, studies examined whether changing the hormonal milieu in females to mimic that of males would also cause immunosuppression following trauma-hemorrhage similar to males. The results indicated that female mice, which had slow-releasing 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) pellets implanted, showed marked increase in plasma DHT levels; those levels were similar to corresponding age-matched males. Furthermore, these females with the DHT pellets had significantly lower plasma E2 levels, which were again similar to the age-matched males. Under these conditions, the splenocyte proliferative capacity which was increased or unaltered following trauma-hemorrhage in proestrus females was markedly decreased in females with DHT implantation, and the decrease in splenocyte proliferation was similar to age-matched males. (3,4) Likewise, females with DHT implanted had decreased splenocyte proliferative capacity, which was again similar to the age-matched males.
Another question was whether androgens contribute to the immunosuppression that is observed following trauma and hemorrhage. For these studies, castration of the animals was carried out two weeks prior to trauma-hemorrhage to decrease DHT levels. The results indicated that splenocyte functions were markedly depressed in sham castrated animals; however, they were not decreased in animals which underwent castration two weeks prior to the onset of trauma-hemorrhage. (3,4) Similarly, splenic macrophage capacity to release cytokines following trauma-hemorrhage was decreased in sham castrated animals but was not decreased in pre-castrated animals under those conditions. In additional studies, flutamide was administered following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation in males and the results showed that the depressed splenocyte proliferative capacity and IL-2 release capacity (which was observed in splenocytes following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation) were normalized by administration of flutamide following trauma-hemorrhage. Furthermore, the depressed macrophage functions were also improved by flutamide administration following trauma-hemorrhage. (3,4) Additional studies indicated that the salutary effects of flutamide administration on splenic T lymphocyte functions were associated with increased expression of ER in male T lymphocytes following flutamide administration. Flutamide administration following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation also decreased the susceptibility of animals to subsequent sepsis. (4,5)
Studies have also shown that administration of E2 in males following trauma-hemorrhage was effective in restoring the depressed splenocyte and macrophage functions following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation. (3,4) Additional studies suggested that increased synthesis and decreased catabolism of DHT are the reason for loss of T lymphocyte functions and cardiovascular functions in males following trauma-hemorrhage and resuscitation as evidenced by decreased synthesis of IL-2 and depressed cardiac functions. (5,6,7) The converse occurs in proestrus females, i.e., increased synthesis and decreased catabolism of E2 as the reason for the maintenance of T lymphocyte and cardiovascular functions under those conditions. (3,4) Additional results indicated that in addition to E2 and flutamide, the depressed immune and cardiovascular functions in males and ovariectomized females following trauma-hemorrhage can also be improved/normalized by administration of prolactin, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), or 4-hydroxy androstenedione following trauma-hemorrhage. In addition, administration of three different doses of DHEA following trauma-hemorrhage also decreased the mortality from subsequent sepsis. (3,4) In addition to experimental studies, epidemiological studies have suggested that the physiological pattern of pre-menopausal adult female sex hormones provide a survival advantage. (6) A recent prospective study from Germany indicated that the incidence of multiple organ dysfunction and failure after severe trauma was significantly greater in young males than in females, and was also the same with regard to proinflammatory cytokines. (7) Another prospective study involving over 4,000 patients showed that hormonally active women tolerate shock-trauma better than males. (8) Although studies have also reported a lack of gender difference in the outcome following sepsis, the differences in the results may be due to the genetically diverse nature of patient sets analyzed, significant variation in post-injury care at different centers, preexisting co-morbidities, different injury severity and hormonal milieu of female patients at the time of injury (which was not measured). (9) Thus, hormonal milieu immediately after injury should be measured in clinical studies of trauma.
Studies have also shown that the salutary effects of E2 on cardiac function are mediated by ER-β and ER-β-induced upregulation of several heat shock proteins. (3) Furthermore, ER-α as well as ER-β have also been shown to have salutary effects on organ functions following trauma-hemorrhage. (3) An additional study has shown that administration of E2 (1 mg/kg BW in a very small volume) after removal of 60% of the circulating blood volume permitted the animal to remain in a state of permissive hypotension even in the absence of any additional fluid administration for 3 hrs. (10) The results showed that survival in the E2-treated group was 75% versus 6% in the vehicle-treated group. (10) Thus, E2 administration after major blood loss markedly prolongs permissive hypotension for 3 hrs and increases long-term survival if fluid resuscitation was provided 3 hrs after major blood loss. This hormone may therefore be a novel adjunct for preserving life under conditions in which fluid resuscitation is not possible after major blood loss for an extended period of time. Thus, the use of agents such as 17β-estradiol, flutamide, DHEA, metoclopramide, prolactin, 4-hydroxy androstenedione, which are readily available clinically, appear to be safe and novel agents for the treatment of cardiovascular and immunological depression following severe blood loss and for decreasing mortality from subsequent sepsis in males and females, and their use should be evaluated in future trauma studies.
Supported by USPHS grants RO1 GM37127, RO1 GM39519 and DARAP W911NF-06-1-0219.
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Twitter is soaring today as its stock hits a high for the year
Twitter is finally having a good day on Wall Street as it heads into the final weeks of the year, and this time around it may be a result of a little bit of optimism from investors.
There were two big moves for the company today: first, Twitter said it would begin enforcing new rules related to how it handles hateful and abusive content on the platform, which is a problem that has been hounding Twitter for years (and has been increasingly salient in the past year). But the second, which is more likely to be the bump for the stock, is an upgraded rating for the stock from a big Wall Street Firm. JP Morgan issued a note that showed some positive sentiment for the company, which as it has struggled on Wall Street is something it likely sorely needed.
Twitter’s stock jumped nearly 10% this morning — adding a few billion dollars to its market cap. That’s put it within striking distance of Snap, a similarly vulnerable social (or communications) network, which has also faced significant issues selling itself to Wall Street with limited user growth. Here’s a look at what happened:
If things keep going the way they are, Twitter may finish the year up around 30%. Since going public, Twitter has struggled to show Wall Street that it can grow at the same clip as Facebook and keep its abuse problems under control. The growth problem is also one Snap has faced when trying to sell itself to investors. Getting that stock price up does a number of things for the company, including helping it pitch potential candidates with better compensation packages and keep activist investors away from agitating change in the company.
Shares of public companies like Twitter, which can be incredibly volatile and subject to major swings on reports like their quarterly earnings, can see some significant shifts as a result of rating changes from Wall Street firms. Twitter has seen some significant swings throughout the year, but it looks like it may be ending on a positive note. Twitter can live and die by those changes in its monthly active users, but the company has tried to pitch Wall Street on alternative growth stories like video.
As of this morning, Snap had a market cap of around $19.5 billion, which Twitter is now within shooting distance. Twitter’s product updates have been a kind of drip-drip-drip, with major changes looking more like expanding its character count to 280 for Tweets — and it’s faced issues with not keeping up with harassment on the platform. In response to all this, Twitter is adjusting its approach to its policies that are focused on curbing problems like abuse and hate speech, including the updates today.
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