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Russell Crowe To Star as Roger Ailes In Showtime Limited Series
Following the success of their previous limited series adaptation, Patrick Melrose, Showtime is doubling down with another, this time based on the bestselling book The Loudest Voice in the Room starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes.
Based on the Gabriel Sherman book, the eight-episode series is set around Ailes and will focus on the last decade of his life, while also flashing back to key moments in his career, including his meeting with Richard Nixon on The Mike Douglas Show that both put him on the political path he became known for, as well as the sexual harassment accusations that would lead to his downfall.
“In many ways, the collision between the media and politics has come to define the world we live in today,” David Nevins, President and CEO of Showtime Networks, said. “We’ve seen this phenomenon depicted on screen as far back as the story of Charles Foster Kane, and it finds contemporary embodiment in the rise and fall of Roger Ailes. With Russell Crowe in the lead role, this limited series promises to be a defining story for this era.”
The series will be told through multiple viewpoints and aims to shed light on the psychology of Ailes and how the political process influenced him so much in his career. produced by Spotlight‘s Tom McCarthy and Jason Blum, the first episode was co-written by McCarthy and Sherman, who conducted over 600 reviews for his book.
Showtime’s limited series is not the only Ailes-centric project in the works as Annapurna is developing their own feature film on him. Director Jay Roach (Game Change) is set to direct the film which includes Charlize Theron as former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
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Hold Up: Is Ariana Grande Already Working on Her Fifth Album?
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It seems like only yesterday Ariana Grande was hyping up her fourth studio album, Sweetener, all across social media. And though that record only came out a little over a month ago, it seems the pop star is already on to her next!
Over the past few days, Grande has been coyly teasing her fifth studio album on Twitter and Instagram.
In a since-deleted tweet posted Monday (October 1), the singer wrote, "Can't wait for you guys to start being weird AG5 detectives," referring to her fans as her "lil private investigators."
In a series of Instagram stories, Grande shared photos from the studio, where she is apparently recording... something, as well as a cryptic photo of a whiteboard with nine numbered items blacked out—forthcoming song titles, perhaps?
"This is what happens when we hang out for three days, yikes," she wrote, tagging singer and previous collaborator Victoria Monet, hip-hop duo Social House, pop-R&B artist Tayla Parx, Grammy-nominated producer Tommy Brown and songwriter Kaydence Visus, who co-wrote Sweetener track "better off."
But wait—there's more!
When Ariana Grande fan account @thegranderoom mused about the possibility of a joint Sweetener and AG5 tour, Grande seemingly popped into the comments to confirm the theory.
"I showed this to [manager Scooter Braun] and he goes, 'Who is this fortune teller that's dictating all our movements?'"
Now, fans believe that Grande may hold touring for Sweetener until 2020, and will release a fifth album in 2019. See below:
Ari, can you give us a minute to breathe!? (Just keep breathin' and breathin' and breathin'...)
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Samsung announces Galaxy J6+ and Galaxy J4+ in Malaysia, both priced below RM 1,000
Samsung has been catering for various consumers depending on their budget, with their smartphones ranging from budget prices to high-end prices. Their current new products, the Galaxy J6+ and Galaxy J4+ are mid-range smartphones that are now available in Malaysia!
The Galaxy J6+ and J4+ have a few similarities, as both smartphones come in a 6.0 inch HD+ Infinity Display, and has dual-sim feature. In addition, both the phones run on 1.4GHz quad-core processor. In terms of battery, both come with 3300mAh non-removable battery.
Moving on to the differences, let’s begin with the Galaxy J6+, it has dual rear camera which consists of a 13MP sensor and a 5MP sensor, whereas the from camera has 8MP sensor. In terms of storage, the smartphone has 4GB RAM and 64GB internal memory.
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On the other hand, Galaxy J4+ comes with a single camera on its rear which has 13MP sensor. On its front, it has a 5MP sensor front camera. The smartphone possesses 2GB RAM with 32GB internal memory.
Other than that, the Galaxy J6+ comes in black, grey and red whereas the Galaxy J4+ comes in black, gold and pink. Needless to say, those who want better specs should opt for the Galaxy J6+ that comes at RM 999, whereas the Galaxy J4+ costs RM 699.
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Rep. Bass Statement of Concern Regarding the Appointment of Lana Marks as Unites States Ambassador to South Africa
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Today, Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), top Democrat serving on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement after the appointment of Lana Marks at United States Ambassador to South Africa.
“I’m encouraged that the Trump administration and the State Department are expressing interest in staffing important U.S. diplomatic posts in African countries. This is absolutely essential to bettering our relationship with the countries on the continent and the economic opportunities they offer.
“In order for our country to fully take advantage of these opportunities, it is imperative that people with strong backgrounds relevant to the countries they will serve are appointed to be ambassadors, especially to sensitive countries such as South Africa, where less than 70 years ago, the United States refused to stand with the rest of the world in opposing the Apartheid regime established there. South Africa is a key strategic partner and a key ally on the continent and I look forward to continuing our work to build capacity there.”
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California’s Folsom State Prison occupies a hallowed place in the history of country music. As the location of several Johnny Cash performances and the subject of his song “Folsom Prison Blues,” it has become a symbol of the “outlaw” element of outlaw country. Now, some 60 years after Cash first put it on the map, the California State Prison complex has had a transformational impact on another country roots musician: Canada’s Linda McRae.
After answering a call to host a song-writing workshop at New Folsom in 2011, McRae and her husband, James Whitmire, were moved to develop song-writing workshops for at-risk youth – to try and prevent them from ending up behind bars in the first place. Her new, Steve Dawson-produced album, Shadow Trails, is inspired by that work.
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Any updates on Stack Exchange 1.0 migration?
Now that several Area 51 sites are entering the beta phase, I'm wondering what the status is on migrating Stack Exchange 1.0 sites to 2.0, and what sites have already opted into the transition. I'm also wondering how many existing site proposals might be duplicates of these sites once they do transition, and how that will affect those proposals, whether they will be closed, merged, or left alone to create separate sites/communities.
I'm also curious about some of the demands that MathOverflow has made:
We have a set of 3 incontrovertible requirements for switching, all of which go against the rules for new StackExchange 2.0 sites.
Anton maintains personal ownership of the mathoverflow.net domain name.
We continue to have access to the full unsanitized database dumps.
Anton continues to have administrator privileges on the site.
(re: 2, all of the StackExchange 2.0 sites will have public data dumps equivalent to what we already provide here. At present, only Anton has access to the unsanitized dumps, and the main purpose of these is so that we can in principle jump ship to an alternative software base.)
I understand that they have a certain wariness about committing to Stack Exchange given the radical shift from SE 1.0 to 2.0, but points #1 and especially #2 seem directly in conflict with the network effect that SE 2.0 is trying to build by being prepared to tear itself away at a moment's notice.
On the other hand, MathOverflow was really the first site to prove the viability of Stack Exchange as a platform for Q&A topics outside the realm of computers, and so given this should they be 'grandfathered in' under SE 1.0 terms? What about other SE sites that make similar demands?
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Kyle CroninKyle Cronin
The thread you linked to was a brief recap of a much longer discussion on another thread. Perhaps reading that thread can avoid the misunderstandings that George had. meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/354/1/… – Noah Snyder Jul 10 '10 at 17:15
I hope Noah's answer and comments have clarified why it's reasonable for MO to make those demands. Think of them as a pre-nup. If all goes well between SO Inc and MO—I expect it will—these conditions should make almost no difference to anything. However, it's not unreasonable to plan for the possibility that there will be problems. I've left a slightly more detailed answer on meta.MO: meta.mathoverflow.net/discussion/454/… – Anton Geraschenko Jul 11 '10 at 5:15
I voted to close. This is an issue between SO incorporated and the MO community. The rest of us can do nothing but stir up a cloud of squid-ink here. – Rosinante Jul 11 '10 at 13:15
The reason for control of domain name and full data dumps are to allow for the possibility of moving to a competing similar platform if something goes bad with SO in the future (say they get bought by Elsevier). We academics have been bitten enough times by our journals being sold and turning evil after we'd already signed away all our rights to our work, we don't want the same thing happening to MO down the road. It's not that we don't trust the SO people, it's that we don't know what will happen in the future.
Anton as administrator is a separate issue from being just a moderator. My understanding (and Anton and Scott who are more involved can correct me if I'm wrong) is that there are two important things here: 1) Anton's ability to control certain aspects of the website's functionality (for example, how we display LaTeX) and 2) Benevolent dictatorship is a better model for keeping MO going in the direction we want it to go and for settling disputes about what the goals are and what is appropriate in terms of questions.
As for the funding issue brought up by George, by grants we mean money taken from professor's grants from the National Science Foundation. Such grants cover professor's travel expenses, fund graduate students, fund conferences, etc. The NSF likes its grants to include "broader impacts" which is a somewhat tricky concept, but MathOverflow clearly qualifies. When Anton originally started MO under the SE 1.0 model Ravi Vakil (a professor at Stanford) promised funding for several years out of his grant. Raising more money from other people's grants would be quite easy. The MO community has always been willing to pay SE (i.e. you give us x and we pay you y out of our grants), we'd also be open to certain other monetizing options (e.g. the SO careers thing seems fine to me), but we don't want ads because they'd make the site appear unprofessional.
Noah SnyderNoah Snyder
While I understand that you want to hedge against SE going in an unfavorable direction, I think the fact that a SE network site being capable and prepared to separate itself from the network is antithetical to the system SO, Inc is trying to create. As such, I think ownership of the domain should be transferred to SO, Inc. – Kyle Cronin Jul 10 '10 at 17:39
However, all the content on SE network sites will be released under Creative Commons and made available through periodic dumps of public data, so there's no possibility of SO claiming ownership or exerting control over the content against the wishes of its creator. The only things not available in the public dump are voting information, IPs, email addresses, passwords, etc, and these are excluded because they're private information. If MathOverflow joined the SE network, I don't think that access to this private information should continue. – Kyle Cronin Jul 10 '10 at 17:40
Also, the concept of 'administrator' does not exist on Trilogy/SE 2.0 sites, meaning that only SO, Inc can make changes to the markup. The position of Moderator allows access to everything except voting data and the ability to change the markup of the site, but I think the SE team is willing and able to make changes to the site based on the recommendation of the community, though they will likely have to review the changes to make sure that they don't break or compromise the security of the site. – Kyle Cronin Jul 10 '10 at 17:41
Finally, though I can't speak for the company, I don't think it would be a problem for SO, Inc to agree not to put ads on MO, so that's a bit of a non-issue. – Kyle Cronin Jul 10 '10 at 17:44
Right, we understand that what we're asking for doesn't exactly fit the SE 2.0 model. But our goals and desires aren't exactly the same as SO inc.'s. Hence: negotiation. We have to decide which is better for MO: migrating to SE 2.0, sticking with SE 1.0, or jumping ship to something like OQSA. There are upsides and downsides to each option, but what we'd prefer is moving to SE 2.0 but with some exceptions grandfathered in (which we're optimistic SO will allow). If that's not possible, then we'll need to make further decisions which will be made based on our needs and desires, not SO inc's. – Noah Snyder Jul 10 '10 at 17:49
@Kyle: The reason we want the full dumps is that the administrators on MO are pretty involved in the way the site runs. If you read our meta, you'll see that Scott and Anton often use the unsanitized dumps to find abusive voters or find out when the fraudulent voting detector is on the fritz. – Harry Gindi Jul 10 '10 at 18:13
The reason why MO is different in this regard is that we have a lot of professional mathematicians, who, if harassed by jerks on the internet, would leave and offer their expertise elsewhere. – Harry Gindi Jul 10 '10 at 18:18
@Harry I'm not sure I follow how vote fraud affects professional mathematicians differently than other people, but I suppose that's a legitimate use case. However, I'd rather see the voting fraud detection system shored up so that all the SE sites can benefit. There are also people on the SE team that have access to the data and can investigate vote fraud on a case-by-case basis. – Kyle Cronin Jul 10 '10 at 19:35
One reason why MO is likely to be different from other SE sites is that it's a site that couldn't have gotten through the Area51 process. It's a site aimed at a much smaller community of people many of whom have no interest in the larger SE 2.0 project. We want to be careful not to have the site turn into something different from what it is now, because we really like what it is now. – Noah Snyder Jul 10 '10 at 22:24
"but we don't want ads because they'd make the site appear unprofessional." - I thought the site was academical, rather than professional? – jjnguy Jul 11 '10 at 5:57
The academy is a profession! – Noah Snyder Jul 11 '10 at 6:02
@Kyle: The main difference is that the mathematical community is not nearly as web-friendly as the programming community. Most mathematicians communicate through e-mail or in person. This is a system that has evolved from the old system of communication via telegram or in person. For this reason, MO has to tread very lightly and try very hard not to piss these people off, since they can easily just go back to their old methods of communication and collaboration. – Harry Gindi Jul 11 '10 at 15:49
Hopefully Noah's answer and the two meta.MO threads (link and link) have addressed the part of the question specific to MO. I'll just add a bit about the first part of the question.
Now that several Area 51 sites are entering the beta phase, I'm wondering what the status is on migrating Stack Exchange 1.0 sites to 2.0, and what sites have already opted into the transition.
As an admin of an SE 1.0 site, I haven't heard anything about migration since the blog post Migration of SE 1.0 Sites. I assume other admins haven't heard anything either, in which case none of them could have opted into the migration yet. You may be able to find some posts on meta.SE by SE admins vowing to migrate when the time comes.
The blog post is pretty firm about what the terms of migration will be, but it's also been made pretty clear that SE 1.0 sites will be dealt with on a case by case basis. I'm at least as curious as anybody else is about what will happen to successful SE 1.0 sites, but it's just not possible to take the conversation further until SO Inc. is actually ready to start migrating sites, or at least start discussing in detail what the terms of migration will be. But that's okay. It doesn't need to go any further until then. When the time comes to decide whether to migrate, SE 1.0 sites and SO Inc will have to figure out if it's possible to make everybody happy with migration. If yes, great! If no, that's okay too; it just means that everybody's interests are better served by not migrating. It doesn't mean that one side or the other is being unreasonable.
Anton GeraschenkoAnton Geraschenko
I just (today) received an e-mail from Robert letting me know that one of the sites I set up wasn't going to qualify to remain (which was fine with me). That indicates that there may be movement as far as a decision on what sites should be migrated. – Tim Post♦ Jul 11 '10 at 13:31
Anton, any news? – Thomas Bonini Nov 8 '10 at 12:02
@Kop: I did have a short email exchange with SO about two months ago. I emailed them because it was grant application season and I wanted to know if there was some possibility that money could come up in the terms of migration--the SE 1.0 model was perfect for MO, so I'd really like to get terms of migration as close to that as possible. Joel got back to me, saying that they don't want any money, and briefly said which of our terms they would and wouldn't be happy with. I emailed back, clarifying some of our desires and asking for clarification of theirs, but never heard back. – Anton Geraschenko Nov 8 '10 at 19:31
I am an ordinary user of Mathoverflow. Here is my perspective.
MO is the personal initiative of Anton Geraschenko, a graduate student at Berkeley, in which he was helped by a team of graduate students and recent graduates from the same place. He appears to be a very nice person. I would trust him much more than I would trust a corporate entity. I do not know anybody in stackexchange and while they might be individually quite nice people, the control would be ultimately in the hands of the corporate house. It is much easier to trust the warm and familiar and live person Anton who is just like us in every way, rather than trusting an abstract entity. I suspect that you will hear the same from most other users of Mathoverflow. Not to mention that legally Anton is the owner of Mathoverflow. I think he will get strong support from the community if he keeps the site as his. Here of course we are trusting him that he wouldn't sell the site in future to Elsevier or Springer or other corporate houses. But as I said it is easier to trust him than to trust Fog Creek. I myself would strongly root for Anton's side.
Also, what Harry Gindi said:
The reason why MO is different in this regard is that we have a lot of professional mathematicians, who, if harassed by jerks on the internet, would leave and offer their expertise elsewhere. – Harry Gindi Jul 10 at 18:18
That said, to be fair, I must also mention the advantages of Fog Creek handling the site. For one, the (mostly Berkeley) team of moderators would not have access to our personal information, as mentioned by Kyle Kronin. Also jerks(senior or junior) could be dealt with more effectively if the control is in the hands of Fog Creek. I was very impressed with stackoverflow's handling of problematic users, for example the case of this user. It was dealt very effectively. So in that kind of matters the control by an impersonal external corporate agency may be better.
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We all fear the cold, unfeeling grip of the corporate entity, and recoil before its faceless visage. But some tasks are too distasteful for us, and so we grudgingly allow the shadowy figure in the executioner's hood to step forward and do our dirty work, praying all the while that the mask does not slip, lest we recognize our own faces behind it... – Shog9♦ Jul 21 '10 at 17:45
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From the Nov. 24, 2014 Horticultural Society meeting, compiled by Beatrice Milner Since Ken Orich started keeping track of the birds in his Lethbridge yard, he has seen the numbers rise each year, from 24 species in 2008 to 75 so far this year. The increase coincides with the addition of features that attract birds.…
Too cute to eat
by Penny Dodd My introduction to this little squash was a few years ago in southern France at the home of some gardening friends. Unfortunately, the only squash they had left was tiny and very shriveled up. But when it was cut open, its fragrance was irresistibly nutty. My French friends called it potimarron which…
Colour by the yard-full
by Richard Burke It’s one of those typical, ambiguous autumn days: sun shining but from an increasingly lower angle on the horizon, temperature 12 C, but wind so hard it seems to penetrate walls.  But, this is during the last week of October. What’s different about the scene is still-flowering sweet pea vines leaning…
Calgary Gardens Road Trip
Species Peony, cortusa matthiola and ornamental rhubarb By Penny Dodd After an early start, we arrived at Reader Rock Garden for our 90-minute visit enjoyed in brilliant sunshine. Many varieties of saxifrage, primrose, columbine, dianthus and clematis were all in bloom. Some rarely seen beauties included Cortusa matthiola (both pink and white), ornamental rhubarb, and…
Irresistible wildflowers
by Richard Burke Wildflowers are wonders of the Earth. That they exist at all suggests a force beyond man has been at work. The very definition of a wildflower – any flowering plant that grows without human aid – begs the question: how did they get there? It’s easy to credit divine intervention – God…
Have a short story about your garden, gardening, gardeners, plants? Send it to Backyard Blogger by Richard Burke Gardens are about more than plants. Many gardeners go out of their way to locate plants and other features in their yards to attract birds and butterflies. The past couple of days, we’ve had a flurry (not…
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Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos: Kaptur Magazine Founder Paul Melcher’s Take
Photos and videos are exploding online. Every day, new innovative content is capturing our attention. Marketers are taking advantage of the trend and investing in visual content. The majority of senior marketers say visual content is crucial to their business, and its importance will continue to rise in the future.
But what exactly does that future look like? How will user-generated content affect how brands communicate? Will we all be experiencing new destinations through VR headsets? How can marketing teams track their content and its performance? How will we manage all of this content, and can we avoid the content apocalypse?
These questions are exactly what we want to talk about at our upcoming event, Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos, hosted with Startup Socials NYC on November 2 at our office in NYC. To get the conversation started, we’ve asked the panelists to answer a number of questions, and we’ll be sharing their answers here on the Libris blog over the next few weeks.
First up is Paul Melcher, who has been named one of the “100 most influential individuals in American photography” by American Photo. Paul works with visual tech startups through his consultancy MelcherSystem, and founded Kaptur Magazine. We asked Paul to share what drives him, which trends have his attention, and where he thinks the visual web is headed.
Q & A on the Future of Photos with Paul Melcher
Can you tell us about Kaptur and how it relates to the visual web/visual storytelling?
Paul: Kaptur was born out of frustration and the need to fill a void. While working at a company called Stipple, which offered in-image interactive layers, I was constantly having conversations with marketers and publishers who were clueless about how to take advantage of the explosion of photography online. So I decided to write about it.
Kaptur has three sections, one for “breaking” news, one for stats and facts, and one for commentary, analysis and interviews. In the last 2 years, we have showcased many new startups, interviewed researchers from Google and Yahoo, as well as investors, professors and marketers.
We want to bridge the gap between those who create the next generation of the visual web and those who could most benefit from them.
What is your take on the visual web and how it’s changed over the last 5-10 years?
Paul: The web has always been primarily visual, at least since the launch of Netscape/Mosaic. What has changed is the understanding of the potential of visual content.
Before we had massive numbers of engagement around photography – as illustrated by Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest – it was seen as a secondary tool. Now, there is not one publisher, advertiser, blogger, brand marketing or e-commerce specialist that can or would ignore the power of visuals online. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Snapchat have whole departments whose sole role is to think about visuals, how they are consumed and what can be done with them.
The last 5 to 10 years have seen the visual web step out of its infancy and become a young turbulent teenager.
How has the prevalence of UGC and changes in visual storytelling affected photography?
Paul: The number one change is that we suddenly discovered that there is a lot of non professionals that are very talented. More than anyone ever thought. The presumption was that everyone that was good was a professional. Well, apparently not. This has allowed for the control of the messaging from professional to amateurs. No longer do pro photographers, art directors or photo editors have control of the visual grammar. It’s primarily in the hands of the crowd. It doesn’t stop anyone to have a strong style, but it has changed how the narrative is told.
For example, we are more and more edging towards telling a story in one frame. What a lot people call “authenticity.” In fact, what authenticity really means is that the one frame contains a beginning, a middle and an end, all wrapped in a believable context.
What are the biggest challenges that photographers face on the visual web?
Paul: Photographers face two challenges: monetization and attribution. While there is an explosion of photography online, there is, in a parallel, a rapid depression of compensation. Fees are dropping almost as fast as the usage of photography is growing.
As well, respect for authors is deteriorating, as if caught in a stampede. Images are being published, shared, reposted, without any attribution, forever breaking the umbilical cord between the image and its creator. In turn, it annihilates the chance for the photographer to ever see any compensation.
What’s one trend in visual storytelling that you see taking off? What about a trend that you see flopping?
Paul: For the trend I see flopping, I would say mutlimedia. While it was an exciting proposition to mix video, photos and sound, it required a too complex creation process for the author and too much time dedication from the viewers.
The trend I see taking off is the format. The antiquated rectangular (or square) flat 2 dimension image that was the only format during the print era is being challenged by new, boundless alternatives: Gif, cinemagraphs, 360, immersive, circular are just a few of the new available containers for photography. They offer a much wider, richer way to create and consume images. We are no longer restrained by a rigid frame, nor are we confined in static fraction of a second. The possibilities for visual storytelling are suddenly exponentially increased. The future of visual storytelling belongs to those who will master those formats.
Read More on Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos
Be sure to join us for Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos on November 2 for more on the future of the visual web.
In the meantime, brush up on visual storytelling and photography tips and trends with these posts:
10 Best Visual Content Marketing Ideas to Steal in 2016
How to Hire a Professional Photographer
The 21 Best Video Examples of Visual Content Marketing
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Countdown to UPAA: How Demand for Video Is Affecting University Photographers
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Unit 1: Foundations of Algebra
1.1 Classifying Real Numbers (20:24)
1.2 Algebraic Expressions (13:11)
1.3 Order of Operations (18:36)
1.4 Exponents (10:58)
1.5 Fractions & Decimals (11:11)
1.6 Writing Algebraic Expressions (12:05)
1.7 Properties of Numbers (12:54)
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Unit 2: Integers
2.1 Opposite Numbers (10:31)
2.2 Adding Integers (2 Negative Numbers) (7:08)
2.3 Adding 1 Positive and 1 Negative Number (14:48)
2.4 Adding Integers (Efficiently) (9:31)
2.5 Subtracting Integers (13:07)
2.6 Multiplying Integers (12:10)
2.7 Dividing Integers (10:34)
2.8 Adding Like Terms (15:40)
2.9 The Distributive Property (18:37)
Quick Review Integer Videos (17:54)
Unit 3: Basic Equations
3.1 Introduction to Equations (8:12)
3.2 Solving Equations by Addition (14:28)
3.3 Solving Equations by Multiplication (15:40)
3.4 Equation Time Savers (9:18)
3.5 Two-Step Equations (26:46)
3.6 Simplifying & Solving Equations (10:16)
3.7 Introduction to Inequalities (8:11)
3.8 Solving Inequalities (12:20)
3.9 Writing Equations (13:53)
3.10 Writing Inequalities (9:10)
Quick Review Basic Equations Videos (30:48)
Unit 4: Factors & Exponents
4.1 Prime Numbers (15:14)
4.2 Greatest Common Factor (20:25)
4.3 Least Common Multiple (22:28)
4.4 Fractions & Mixed Numbers (17:32)
4.5 Exponent Properties (17:15)
4.6 Zero & Negative Exponents (11:33)
4.7 Scientific Notation (17:20)
4.8 Operations in Scientific Notation (16:01)
4.8 Operations in SN Additional Examples (11:07)
Quick Review Factors & Exponents Videos (25:51)
Unit 5: Fractions & Decimals
5.1 Reducing Fractions (13:58)
5.2 Multiplying Fractions (13:12)
5.3 Adding Fractions (Same Denominator) (12:41)
5.4 Adding Fractions (Different Denominators) (13:38)
5.4 Adding Fractions Additional Problems (12:32)
5.5 Dividing Fractions (9:51)
5.6 Operations with Fractions (10:23)
5.7 Operations with Mixed Numbers (15:14)
5.8 Decimal Operations (11:56)
Quick Review Fractions Videos (35:52)
Unit 6: Percents
6.1 Ratios & Rates (10:56)
6.2 Proportions (17:14)
6.2 Proportions Part 2 (16:58)
6.3 Fractions, Decimals & Percent (14:44)
6.4 Solving Percent Problems (14:29)
6.5 Apply Percent (15:04)
6.6 Percent Decrease (Discount) (16:26)
6.7 Percent Increase (Markup) (13:02)
6.8 Tax & Tips (10:35)
6.9 Simple Interest (13:45)
6.10 Percent Change (14:13)
Quick Review Percent Videos (33:35)
Unit 7: Applying Equations & Inequalities
7.2 Equations With Variables on Both Sides (17:14)
7.3 Equations With Fractions (16:00)
7.4 Applying Equations (27:54)
7.5 Equations With Circles (16:45)
7.6 Multi-Step Inequalities (15:27)
7.7 Applying Inequalities (18:17)
Quick Review Applying Equations & Inequalities Videos (20:13)
Unit 8: Roots & Radicals
8.1 Understanding Roots (20:20)
8.2 Multiplying Radicals (8:22)
8.3 Simplifying Radicals (19:25)
8.4 Radical & Exponential Equations (14:55)
8.5 The Pythagorean Theorem (17:02)
8.6 Special Triangles (15:52)
8.7 Trigonometric Ratios (18:44)
8.8 Finding the Side of a Right Triangle (19:15)
Quick Review Roots & Radicals Videos (31:31)
Unit 9: Relations & Functions
9.1 The Coordinate Plane (13:28)
9.2 Functions (15:25)
9.3 Interpreting Solutions to Functions (17:04)
9.4 Graphing Functions with an X|Y Chart (15:44)
9.5 Finding X & Y Intercepts (8:14)
9.6 Finding the Slope of Two Points of a Line (17:14)
9.7 Graphing Using Slope-Intercept Form (10:42)
9.8 Scatter Plots (13:10)
9.9 Graphing Linear Inequalities (15:30)
Quick Review Relations & Functions Videos (32:54)
Unit 10: Relationships in Geometry
10.1 Angle Types & Relationships (16:44)
10.2 Perpendicular & Parallel Lines (17:27)
10.3 Identifying Polygons (20:56)
10.4 Quadrilaterals & Perimeter (10:54)
10.5 Congruent Polygons (14:31)
10.6 Transformations (11:56)
10.7 Similar Triangles (16:31)
Quick Review Relationships in Geometry Videos (25:02)
Unit 11: Area & Volume
11.1 Area of Parallelograms (20:01)
11.2 Area of Triangles & Trapezoids (18:08)
11.3 Area of Circles (13:27)
11.4 Surface Area of Prisms (22:41)
11.5 Surface Area of Cylinders & Spheres (17:24)
11.6 Volume of Prisms & Cylinders (18:33)
11..7 Volume of Pyramids, Cones & Spheres (17:08)
Quick Review Area & Volume Videos (33:19)
Unit 12: Probability & Statistics
12.1 Mean, Mode, Median & Range (13:10)
12.2 Box & Whisker Plots (18:36)
12.3 Stem & Leaf Plots (14:44)
12.4 Interpreting Graphs (20:48)
12.5 Fundamental Counting Principal (13:48)
12.6 Permutations (16:09)
12.7 Combinations (17:21)
12.8 Probability (16:49)
12.9 Independent & Dependent Events (14:49)
Quick Review Probability & Statistics Videos (27:40)
Unit 13: Polynomials
13.1 Classifying Polynomials (14:23)
13.2 Adding & Subtracting Polynomials (12:23)
13.3 Multiplying Monomials (16:53)
13.4 Monomials & Powers (12:40)
13.5 Multiplying Binomials (21:32)
13.6 Non-linear Functions (19:13)
Quick Review Videos Polynomials (19:46)
PA Bonus Lessons
Arithmetic Sequences (18:28)
Arithmetic Sequence Sums (18:08)
Base 10 & Base 2 (20:50)
8.2 Multiplying Radicals
**Click here to get the accompanying student notes, practice exercises, and assessments.**
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Even in the deepest depths of Winter its always Summer inside painter Dominika Majowicz’s Glasgow studio. Writer and film director Eleanor Yule talks to the artist about her work. Still in her twenties, and garnering a reputation as an innovative and respected portrait artist, Dominika (or Mika to her pals) explains how she arrived in Scotland, “I love Glasgow, it’s a city that gives you space. It seems so open to people”, she explains as she runs her hands through her long fair hair, her sharp blue eyes sparkling with enthusiasm. Polish by birth Dominika moved to Scotland seven years ago to study art: “After my art foundation in Oxford I applied for many art schools in the UK and got offers for all of them. I was told that Glasgow school of Art was the best, so here I am. I don’t see any other place to be now. Maybe I should now be called Mac -Majowicz !” Read More >>
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Key Flags a Clever Distraction
The National party has started 2014 with pockets full of cash, mirrors and a smoke machine. Their intention is obviously to wrong foot the opposition with a mix of left field initiatives and out of the blue distractions. The circus is in town and the flags are flying.
Key's State of the Nation speech included a substantial education spend of $359 million. Despite international assessments and most research indicating that that it is socio-economic factors that are the largest determiners of educational achievement, National have stuck fast to their neo-liberal roots and decided that providing financial incentives to teachers will make the most difference. They plan to identify top teachers and principals and pay them up to $50,000 a year extra to sort out failing schools and struggling teachers. National is sticking fast to National Standards and these are likely to be used to select those individuals who will be rewarded with the money and leadership roles. It is also likely that progress will also be determined by the PaCT tool that was to be mandated as a national test but was reluctantly left as optional when the profession refused to have one test dominating assessment.
National's education ideas may make some difference in some situations but putting all the eggs in one basket seems unrealistic when you put it in the context of a struggling child. According to Women's Refuge police attend 200 domestic violence situations a day and yet police estimate only 18% of domestic violence incidents are reported. Around 75,000 children and young people under 17 witnessed domestic violence situations attended by police and if these are under-reported it means well over 100,000 experience considerable stress in their homes.
The Children's Commissioner was so concerned that the Government refused to measure child poverty that he instigated his own report. He found levels of poverty had remained fairly static since 2008 but there has been an increase in hospital admissions of children, with asthma/wheeze, bronchiolitis and gastroenteritis being the most common causes. Those from the most deprived situations were 6.1 times more likely to be hospitalized and ethnic differences were more pronounced in 2012 compared to the year 2000.
The housing situation is worsening for many children and has probably contributed to the increase in hospitalization. According to the Salvation Army Auckland is short of 10,000 homes and up to 110,000 homes across New Zealand are leaking. Many more houses are poorly insulated and maintained and there is no warrant of fitness for houses that are privately rented. Despite variable quality, housing is actually too expensive for around 25% of households to afford without Government assistance.
According to the Government's own flawed National Standards results, decile levels fairly accurately predict levels of achievement, yet for some obscure reason this Government believes that all the thousands of children dealing with poor housing, poor health and struggling parents will have their needs met by a Change Principal or Lead Teacher with a substantial allowance.
After sorting out education the National led Government turned to the environment and promised to spend $20 million on eradicating pests from our conservation estate. Initially it sounded impressive until it was revealed that the money will largely come from DoCs current, and already stretched budget. Also the areas receiving the 1080 applications are still only a fraction of what needs to be covered if any lasting impact were to be achieved.
In a sneaky move to stop people looking too closely at National's plans, John Key threw in a highly effective distraction when he reintroduced the idea of a new flag. It is actually almost too late to include as a referendum attached to the election and the timing of the announcement seems strategic rather than genuine.
John Key and his government are skilled at putting on a great circus show full of hype, glitter and slick promotion, but with very little substance. Sadly it is costing us a lot to be the audience and many have been taken in by the illusions.
robertguyton said…
Clever?
Failed, I reckon.
We've become a teeny bit sophisticated after several years of this sort of crap and can see behind the smoke.
bsprout said…
Many of us can see through the drifting coal smoke, Robert, but I was surprised about all of those who eagerly jumped into the flag debate as if it was the most crucial issue of our time.
This lot have sold off all our most valuable state assets, given tax cuts to their mates and are well through loosening up employment and environmental legislation. They haven't got much more to do so I can see that they are just going to play with us this election with totally random stuff.
Shane Pleasance said…
I do not like the colours or the design of the flag you have provided at all.
Terrible.
Orange and red?
Next to each other?
Hardly creative, is it?
In what way, other than communist red, does it represent New Zealand?
If you are not going to take this seriously, then you should not get involved.
Who's involved, Shane?
We're commenting from the box-seats, like the two old Muppet curmudgeons. Or rather, three.
I agree, Shane, and I also don't like the clown who is waving the silly flag, I hope he is no one important.
No,I like the clown.
He is cool.
NZ now ranks at bottom of developed world
The latest Unicef report has us languishing at the bottom of the developed world in relation to the health and welfare our children and youth. This report was based on the data our government collects and concerningly, with regards to child poverty, a ranking wasn't provided because of a refusal to follow standard practice (an admission of failure?). In many documented areas we are seriously neglecting our young people (ranking numbers are determined by the data provided from a maximum of 41 developed countries):
Child Poverty (41/41?) I consider that we must be by far the worst in the developed world for child poverty when the Government refuses to use the same measures as other countries so that we can be ranked. Our Children's Commissioner and the Child Poverty Monitor currently state that 14% of our children suffer from material hardship. We have a much higher threshold to determine this and require 7 elements to recognise hardship, while most other countries use only two.…
The Destruction of New Zealand's Public Education System
In 2008 New Zealand was internationally ranked in the top seven for educational achievement, and when you compared us with other countries that were also culturally diverse and experiencing growing inequality, we were extremely successful.
At that time our Early Childhood sector had received a much overdue boost in funding from the Labour Government after being underfunded (as a % of GDP) compared to other OECD nations for years. The sector was working towards a target of having 100% qualified teachers in all centres.
We were also in the process of implementing a new National Curriculum and a complementary curriculum for Maori (Te Marautanga o Aotearoa). Teachers were excited about putting all their energies into the new ideas and approaches that were espoused in these co-constructed documents that had taken around seven years to review and write. Evidence, research and practitioner input had created something that would allow us to prepare New Zealand children to become resilient in…
The US is actually unique for not valuing life!
"...that’s what sets America apart from every other country; we value life. That is what makes us unique.” - Sarah Sanders
There is a high level of delusion operating in the White House. The stream of mistruths that come out of President Trump and Sarah Sanders' mouths are clearly blatant lies but millions of US citizens believe them. With daily diets of Fox News and living in a very insular culture, there is little that challenges these false perceptions of US "greatness".
When comparing the United States of America with most other developed nations it becomes clear that it probably places less value on life than most and doesn't compare well with many developing countries too:
If the US really valued life then it would abolish the death penalty, it is the only Western Country that executes people under law (23 people were executed in 2018). If the US really valued life then it would have an equitable and universal health care system. The current system is consid…
Green's Practical Response to Educational Inequiti...
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Shell and the Great South Basin
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Robot Wars: Series 8 (lost unaired pilot of BBC gameshow; 2016)
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Status: Lost
After a twelve-year hiatus, the popular BBC robot combat gameshow Robot Wars returned for a new series in 2016. A total of six episodes were commissioned for the series, which were filmed in March 2016.
Before filming of the six episodes began, however, a pilot episode was recorded in a single day, on March 1st, 2016. It was created so that the production team were able to practice handling the programme, such as testing camera equipment, prior to shooting the televised series.
A total of eight robots competed in the pilot, all of whom did not compete in televised battles in Series 8. This includes Basher, Ka-Pow!, Merlin, Monte, Reaper, Tanto, Turbulence and Wraith, the latter of whom would withdraw prior to the first battle due to internal fire damage. The remaining seven robots would compete in a battle format that would be used in the televised episodes. This would include four-way Group Battles, a second round consisting of Head-to-Heads, and a Heat Final whereby the two highest scoring robots in the Head-to-Heads would compete. However, only three Head-to-Head battles could be filmed in time, so Turbulence and Ka-Pow (who was actually outscored by Merlin), competed in the Heat Final, with Turbulence picking up the victory.
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Image of Ka-Pow! vs Merlin, showing Dead Metal cutting into Merlin
Footage and images of the pilot are scarce; an image of the battle between Ka-Pow! and Merlin, which sees the latter being attacked by house robot Dead Metal, as well as a behind-the-scenes video recorded by Team Tauron, remains the only recordings of the pilot that are accessible to the public.[1] No footage from the production team has yet been publicly released.
Behind-the-scenes footage of the pilot.
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Mapping Vice in San Francisco (1885) | Mapping the Nation | Susan Schulten
August 8, 2013 by John Krygier
Detail from a rare 1885 map showing vice in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Vice includes gambling (dark orange), Chinese prostitution (green), opium houses (yellow), Joss Houses (red) and White prostitution (blue). The map, from the Rumsey Map Collection, is an early example of detailed urban social mapping, in this case motivated by strong anti-Chinese sentiment. Click on the map (above) for more details from Historian Susan Schulten’s blog Mapping the Nation.
Schulten’s blog and website for her terrific book Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America contain a wealth of maps and graphics. The book itself looks at the pivotal 19th century – when mapping expanded to include a diversity of human, social, cultural, political and environmental phenomena.
Selected details of maps from the blog are below: click on the title or image to see the entire map.
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Emma Willard, “Introductory” Map of American History (1828)
“This map opened one of the first historical atlases of America, created by the noted educator Emma Willard. Note that she marked not just the location of tribes, but their migration over time.”
Emma Willard, “First” Map of American History (1828)
“Willard’s second map in the atlas marked the earliest voyages to America, and took pains to represent change over time. Note the inclusion of failed voyages and settlements.”
Diagram of the History of Political Parties in the United States (to 1880) (1880)
“Here is one of the many attempts to represent American history in graphic terms that flourished in the wake of the nation’s centennial, and which was updated in 1894.”
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Research | Open | Published: 04 June 2011
Malaria in Kakuma refugee camp, Turkana, Kenya: facilitation of Anopheles arabiensis vector populations by installed water distribution and catchment systems
M Nabie Bayoh1,
Willis Akhwale2,
Maurice Ombok1,
David Sang2,3,
Sammy C Engoki4,
Dan Koros4,
Edward D Walker5,
Holly A Williams6,
Heather Burke1,6,
Gregory L Armstrong6,
Martin S Cetron6,
Michelle Weinberg6,
Robert Breiman7 &
Mary J Hamel1,8
Malaria Journalvolume 10, Article number: 149 (2011) | Download Citation
Malaria is a major health concern for displaced persons occupying refugee camps in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there is little information on the incidence of infection and nature of transmission in these settings. Kakuma Refugee Camp, located in a dry area of north-western Kenya, has hosted ca. 60,000 to 90,000 refugees since 1992, primarily from Sudan and Somalia. The purpose of this study was to investigate malaria prevalence and attack rate and sources of Anopheles vectors in Kakuma refugee camp, in 2005-2006, after a malaria epidemic was observed by staff at camp clinics.
Malaria prevalence and attack rate was estimated from cases of fever presenting to camp clinics and the hospital in August 2005, using rapid diagnostic tests and microscopy of blood smears. Larval habitats of vectors were sampled and mapped. Houses were sampled for adult vectors using the pyrethrum knockdown spray method, and mapped. Vectors were identified to species level and their infection with Plasmodium falciparum determined.
Prevalence of febrile illness with P. falciparum was highest among the 5 to 17 year olds (62.4%) while malaria attack rate was highest among the two to 4 year olds (5.2/1,000/day). Infected individuals were spatially concentrated in three of the 11 residential zones of the camp. The indoor densities of Anopheles arabiensis, the sole malaria vector, were similar during the wet and dry seasons, but were distributed in an aggregated fashion and predominantly in the same zones where malaria attack rates were high. Larval habitats and larval populations were also concentrated in these zones. Larval habitats were man-made pits of water associated with tap-stands installed as the water delivery system to residents with year round availability in the camp. Three percent of A. arabiensis adult females were infected with P. falciparum sporozoites in the rainy season.
Malaria in Kakuma refugee camp was due mainly to infection with P. falciparum and showed a hyperendemic age-prevalence profile, in an area with otherwise low risk of malaria given prevailing climate. Transmission was sustained by A. arabiensis, whose populations were facilitated by installation of man-made water distribution and catchment systems.
A strong association exists between human uses of water, production of adult malaria vectors from aquatic environments containing the larval stages, and subsequent malaria transmission [1]. The societal requirements for irrigation, dams for electrical energy generation, for watering animals, and for other domestic uses can create a paradoxical intensification of pathogen transmission through vector habitat formation and subsequent production of adult stages of vectors [2–5]. This relationship becomes particularly important in arid environments where water often must be channelled and retained for domestic and agricultural uses and to avoid water loss. For example, a program of micro-dam construction in Ethiopia resulted in increased malaria prevalence [6]. Hunter et al[7] called for intersectoral negotiation when a conflict between water resource development and parasitic diseases such as malaria emerges, in order to predict, interdict, and alleviate the increased burden of disease that ensues as development proceeds.
Malaria is a major health concern for refugees living in camps in sub-Saharan Africa [8, 9]. Despite the long term presence of refugee settlements, there is little information on malaria in the camps, patterns of transmission, or effectiveness of malaria control [9]. Kakuma refugee camp was established in 1992 in an arid region of north-western Kenya near the border with Sudan, primarily to accommodate Sudanese refugees fleeing a civil war [10]. At the time of this study in 2005-2006, the camp hosted approximately 90,000 refugees, comprised of 78% Sudanese, 14% Somali, 3% Ethiopians, and the remaining 4% from seven other sub-Saharan African countries [11]. Kakuma refugee camp is administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), assisted by several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) referred to as "implementing partners". The main implementing partners in the camp included the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which was responsible for health and sanitation in the camp, the World Food Programme (WFP), Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), German Cooperative Agency (GTZ), FilmAid International, National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), and Lutheran World Federation (LWF).
As lead health implementing partner, IRC was responsible for malaria control interventions, including vector control and case management. The vector control activities in the camp included indoor residual spraying, larval control using a synthetic oil, distribution of insecticide-treated nets to pregnant women at first antenatal clinic visit and children under five years of age at maternal and child health visits, and intermittent insecticidal fogging of the premises of schools, hospitals and other institutions. Kakuma refugee camp maintains four free medical clinics, open Monday through Saturday, and a 90-bed, in-patient referral hospital with surgical capacity. The LWF had responsibility for the camp water supply including operating and maintaining approximately 255 tap-stands where residents collected water. In the early 2000s, the GTZ introduced a kitchen garden concept into the camp, whereby residents were encouraged to make small vegetable gardens within the compounds of the various service providers in the camp and around residential units. To facilitate irrigation of the kitchen gardens, GTZ staff constructed pits in the vicinity of each tap-stand where run-off water from the tap-stands accumulated. Each tap-stand in the camp had between one to three pits, referred to here as tap-stand pits, which were either cemented or not cemented (i.e., left with a natural soil lining). Small drainage channels - cemented or soil-lined - were created to capture run-off water originating around the tap-stands, and to direct the water into the tap-stand pits.
In June-August, 2005, the Kakuma refugee camp and its environs experienced a malaria epidemic associated with the annual rainy season [12]. In early July, the number of patients presenting to the clinics with clinically-diagnosed malaria increased substantially, with approximately 11,000 cases seen, corresponding to a 12.2% attack rate (D. Koros, personal observation; Kakuma clinic staff, personal communication). The case fatality rate was not determined but 13 deaths associated with malaria clinical diagnosis were observed by a staff physician [12]. Plasmodium falciparum malaria prevalence was investigated in febrile patients presenting to clinics in the camp in August 2005, immediately after the epidemic, and two months after the end of the rainy season. The malaria survey was followed by investigations on the sources of the Anopheles vectors in the camp with surveys conducted in February 2006, during the dry season, and in June 2006, during the rainy season. Entomologic surveys at these two time points were designed to understand the temporal dynamics of the local vector populations and the habitats that produce them to investigate transmission patterns in the area.
Study site
Kakuma refugee camp is situated near Kakuma, Turkana District, in the semi-arid north-west region of Kenya (Figure 1). The camp lies between latitude 3°42'N and 3°46'N and longitude 34°51'E and 34°49'E. Kakuma is hot and arid, with prolonged dry seasons and low rainfall (~200 mm per year on average). The climatic conditions are inhospitable for malaria vectors for most of the year; malaria transmission in the area occurs sporadically in phase with the arrival of the annual rains. The Kenyan population, living adjacent to the camp, consists of the nomadic and pastoralist Turkana. The camp is near a dry river bed that is prone to flash flooding after heavy rains in Uganda, even when Kakuma itself receives no rain. The local Turkana people often excavate wells along the river bed to water their livestock during dry season or frequently migrate across expansive geographical areas to find water and vegetation. Malaria distribution maps based upon climate patterns predict that this area has marginal to low malaria transmission with epidemic potential after excessive rainfall (Figure 1) [13, 14].
Google earth image and overlaid map of Kakuma refugee camp showing the divisions of the camp. Inset: MARA ARMA map of Kenya showing distribution on endemic malaria in the country, and the location of Kakuma.
Most residents of Kakuma refugee camp were housed in mud brick dwellings while some lived in temporary shelters, including tents. The camp was divided administratively into four large sectors, called Kakuma Sectors 1- 4 (Figure 1). Sector 1 was divided into six Zones (referred to as Zones 1-6), and Kakuma Sector 2 was divided into three Phases. Sectors, Zones or Phases were further sub-divided into blocks, and blocks into households. The population per block ranged from 500 to 4,000 people.
A total of three surveys were carried out; the malaria prevalence survey in August 2005, which is a dry period in the camp, the dry season entomological survey in February 2006 and the wet season entomological survey in June 2006.
Malaria prevalence survey
To estimate prevalence of clinical malaria (defined as laboratory confirmed Plasmodium infection plus axillary temperature ≥ 37.3°C) from patients presenting to the camp clinics, a survey was conducted over a 5-day period, in August 2005. All patients over six months of age presenting to any of the camp's clinics with an axillary temperature of at least 37.3°C were tested for malaria infection after obtaining a verbal consent. Demographic information, travel history and recent anti-malarial use were recorded for each febrile patient, and a blood sample taken for preparation of a blood smear and malaria rapid diagnostic test performed (RDT; ParaCheck®, Orchid Biomedical Systems, Vema Goa, India). Haemoglobin concentrations were measured using HemoCueR B analyzers (Ängelholm, Sweden). Patients with a positive RDT were treated by clinic staff. Blood smears were read at a later date by an experienced microscopist blinded to the RDT results. Parasite densities were estimated with the standard method by counting the number of trophozoites per 300 white blood cells in the thick smear and assuming a white blood cell count of 8,000 per microlitre of blood.
Larval habitat survey
For mosquito sampling, Kakuma refugee camp was divided into 13 clusters corresponding to the various land units as shown in Figure 1. Eleven out of 13 clusters during dry season survey and 10 out of the 13 clusters during the wet season survey. These selected clusters represented stable residences for the refugee population that excluded make shift tents or houses where new arrivals to the camp temporarily stayed during registration or before they were allocated a house. During the dry season survey, which was the first entomological survey, a field investigation revealed the presence of water sources configured as tap-stands (pipes with hand valves), often with associated water-filled, ground pits. Many contained Anopheles larvae. Therefore, all tap-stand associated and non-tap-stand associated water sources in each selected cluster were located and mapped by ground reconnaissance. Each water source was geo-referenced using hand-held differential global positioning system equipment (GPS, Trimble Navigation Ltd, California, and USA) which was also used for recording data at each habitat. The habitats were sampled for immature stages of malaria vectors by taking one standard collection of water (450 ml) with a mosquito dipper per linear meter of habitat edge, larval counts were totaled, and the average number per dip per habitat was calculated.
Adult mosquito survey
Adult vector surveillance was performed using pyrethrum spray collections (PSC) with 0.025% pyrethrum and 0.1% piperonyl butoxide synergist in paraffin (kerosene) as described elsewhere [15]. It was done with randomly selected clusters of houses as follows. Seven index houses in the dry season survey and 10 in the wet season survey were purposively selected, so that most of the residential areas of the camp were covered. Then, the 30 nearest houses to each index house were selected for PSC. Sampled mosquitoes were placed in labelled petri dishes and morphologically identified to species level. All Anopheles adults were kept in individual tubes and preserved using drierite for species identification by a modified polymerase chain reaction method [16]. Infection with P. falciparum sporozoites was determined on individual mosquitoes by the method of Wirtz et al[17].
Monthly rainfall data were obtained from the Lodwar meteorological station from 2000 to 2007. Data were averaged and the 95% confidence interval around each monthly mean calculated and compared graphically with the monthly rainfall in 2005.
Geo-referenced data were downloaded with differential correction into a GPS database (GPS Pathfinder Office 2.8, Trimble Navigation Ltd, California, USA) alongside the corresponding vector data. The database was exported as dbase files to SAS version 9.1 (SAS Institute 2000-2004) for statistical analysis and to Arc GIS 9.2 (ESRI, Redlands, California) for spatial visualization. Chi-square tests were used to determine the differences in P. falciparum positive rates between categories (age and location) of patients identified during the malaria surveillance and among the proportions of habitats and houses positive for Anopheles and Culex larvae and adults between the dry season and the wet season entomological surveys. Poisson regression was used to compare Anopheles larva density and Anopheles and Culex adult densities between the dry and wet seasons. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) with an exchangeable working correlation matrix was used to control for correlation at the habitat and house levels, respectively, in the Poisson regression models (PROC GENMOD in SAS). Poisson regression was also used to model adult mosquito density with the number of breeding sites. GEE was used to control for correlation at the site level. Maps were generated to depict the distribution pattern of both Anopheles larva and adult during the two seasons. To estimate the attack rate of clinical malaria among camp residents, we included all patients presenting to the camp clinics over a 3 day period when all clinics were open to the public. Because patient care is only available at these clinics, all cases of clinical malaria could be expected to be captured. Attack rates were determined using population denominators (total camp population, age structure and population of each locality) obtained from the UNHCR registration database and were estimated by taking the number of clinical malaria cases diagnosed at the clinics and dividing by the population within a particular age category over the three day period.
Ethical Consideration
This survey was a response to a public health emergency and was considered exempt from IRB review by the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clearance for this survey was received from the Kenya national malaria control program the Division of Malaria Control (DOMC), Ministry of Health, Kenya.
Malaria prevalence and attack rate
A total of 324 patients presenting with fever ≥ 37.3°C were tested for malaria infection. Of these, 303 patients were from the four camp clinics and 21 were seen at the camp hospital. Refugees comprised 276 (85%) whilst the remaining 48 (15%) were Kenyan nationals. The majority of the refugees surveyed (50.4%) were Sudanese (Table 1). Among patients of all nationalities, 21% were less than 2 years old, 18% were 2-4 years old, 36% were 5-17 years old and 24% were 18 years old or older. Of the 316 patients for whom gender information was available, 149 (47%) were female. Of the 324 febrile patients tested by RDT, 163 (50%) were positive for P. falciparum malaria parasites whilst of the 320 tested by microscopy, 143 (44%) were positive for P. falciparum; one patient had a mixed P. falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infection and one patient was positive for Plasmodium malariae. Because 99% (144/146) of infections were P. falciparum, the rest of the analysis is done on this species only. Comparing the RDT and microscopy results based on the 320 patients for which both RDT and microscopy were done, the RDTs had a false-negative rate of 4.9% (8 of 162) and a false-positive rate of 14.60% (23 of 158). The RDTs were 94.4% sensitive, comparing well with the performance of ParaCheck,® RDTs when tests were performed by study staff in Kenya [18].
Table 1 Number of patients with fever and positive by blood smear for Plasmodium falciparum infection at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, August, 2005 by nationality and by age group
Among patients presenting to the hospital, 10 (47.6%) were positive for P. falciparum infection while among patients presenting to clinics, 134 (44.8%) were positive. There was significant variation in infection rates among the different age categories in the camp (X2 = 45.3, df = 3, P < 0.0001) but no difference among the different nationalities (X2 = 9.1, df = 4, P = 0.059). P. falciparum prevalence was highest in children 5-17 years of age and lowest in those under 2 years of age (Table 1). Two specimens had only gametocytes. For the remaining samples, the median parasite density was 16,027 per microlitre of blood while the geometric mean was 10,723 parasites per microlitre (range 27-161,680).
During days 3 through 5 of the survey, when all camp clinics and the camp hospital were open and data from them aggregated, a total of 128 cases of P. falciparum malaria were confirmed among the 89,311 refugees, for an attack rate of 1.4 per 1,000 over the three-day period, or approximately 0.5 new cases per day per 1,000 population in the camp. Attack rate was highest among children aged 2-4 years (Figure 2A). Attack rate varied considerably by reported location of residence within the camp (X2 = 23.3, df = 7, P < 0.01), with the highest rates observed in Sector 1 Zone 3, Sector 2 and Sector 3 (Figure 2B).
Attack rates of Plasmodium falciparum in the Kakuma refugee camp per 1,000 population over a 3 day period by age group (A) and by location in the camp (B).
During both dry and wet season surveys, we sampled 82 of 255 (32%) tap-stands along with any other potential, ground water habitats for mosquito larvae (Figure 3). Of these, 26/82 (31.7%) tap-stands were not functioning and the pits associated with them were dry. A total of 93 potential larval habitats were encountered and sampled in the dry season, of which 23 (24.7%) were positive for Anopheles larvae, yielding 334 larvae and an overall average of 0.4 larvae per dip (Table 2). Morphological identification of the samples indicated that all were of the Anopheles gambiae s.l. species complex. Of the 334 larvae collected, 237/328 (72.2%) reacted in PCR and all were A. arabiensis. In the wet season, a total of 126 larval habitats were encountered and sampled, of which 56.3% were positive for Anopheles larvae, yielding 1,789 larvae and 3.1 larvae per dip on average. Of 883 larvae tested by PCR, 777 (88.0%) reacted and all were A. arabiensis. A categorization of habitats by type and summary of sampling results is shown in Table 2. All of the habitats encountered in the dry season were associated directly with tap-stands, and were either cemented pits, soil-lined pits, drainage channels, or run-off puddles whose water source was from the tap-stands. The habitats encountered in the wet season, including habitats that were primarily maintained by water from tap-stands, were mainly cemented pits, soil-lined pits, drainage channels, and run-off puddles (90% of all habitats). Other habitats were those created by rain water: small pools in dry stream beds, wet tire tracks, and roadside puddles (10% of all habitats encountered). The most productive larva habitats were tire tracks and rain fed puddles with densities of the late stages including the 3rd and 4th instars and pupae above 5 per dip, but there were few of these encountered (8.7% of the total habitats observed), consequently making the soil-lined pits (averaging three/dip) the greatest contributor to the local mosquito population when considering their number and density of the late stages (Table 2). The proportion of habitats in the camp that was positive for Anopheles larvae was significantly higher in the wet season (56.3%) compared to the dry season (24.7%) (c2 = 36.0, df = 1, P < 0.001). Larval density was also significantly higher in the wet season compared to the dry season (Poisson regression, Wald statistic, c2 = 57.8, df = 1, P < 0.001). Among the various locations sampled in the dry season survey (Table 3), Sector 2 Phase 1 had the highest larval density followed by Sector 1 Zone 3 (Figure 4A). Four of the locations did not have any positive habitats, namely Sector 1 Zones 1, 4-6. In the wet season, Sector 1 Zone 3 had the highest larval density, followed by Sector 1 Zone 2 (Figure 4B).
Examples of tap-stand pits in the Kakuma refugee camp. Above, cemented pit. Below, soil-lined pit.
Table 2 Distribution of positive habitats for Anopheles mosquitoes and Anopheles larval density* and habitat productivity* in Kakuma refugee camp by season and habitat type
Table 3 Distribution of positive habitats for Anopheles larvae and Anopheles larval density (mean larvae/dip) in Kakuma Refugee Camp by season and study site
Spatial distribution of Anopheles arabiensis in the Kakuma refugee camp. Larval density (A. Dry season and B. Wet Season) and indoor adult density (C. Dry season and D. Wet Season) indicated by circles from small circles with no vectors to large circles with more than 20 larvae per dip or 20 adults per house.
Of 142 houses sampled in the dry season, a total of 270 A. gambiae s.l. (86 males, 184 females) and 1,133 Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes (429 males, 713 females) were collected (Table 4). Of 264 adult male and female A. gambiae s.l. tested by PCR, 244 (84.8%) reacted and all were A. arabiensis. The mean was 1.9 Anopheles arabiensis per house, and the variance was 28.1. Of 177 female A. arabiensis tested by sporozoite ELISA, none was positive. Of 301 houses sampled in the wet season, we collected a total of 671 A. gambiae s.l. (152 males, 519 females) and 4,059 Cx. quinquefasciatus (1,972 males, 2,087 females) (Table 4). Of 715 adult male and female A. gambiae s.l. tested by PCR in the wet season, 532 (74.4%) reacted and all were identified as A. arabiensis. The mean was 2.2 A. arabiensis per house, and the variance was 37.1. Of 502 female A. arabiensis tested by sporozoite ELISA, 15 (3.0%) were positive for P. falciparum infection. The proportion of houses with Anopheles mosquitoes was 36% and 42% in the dry and wet seasons, respectively. Adult Cx. quinquefasciatus male and female mosquitoes were present in 78% of houses in the dry season and 82% of houses in the wet season. There was no statistically significant difference between seasons in proportion of houses positive for A. arabiensis (X2 = 1.4, df = 1, P = 0.23), or indoor density of A. arabiensis (Poisson regression, Wald statistic, X2 = 0.32, P = 0.57). There was no statistically significant difference between seasons in proportion of positive houses for Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes between the seasons (X2 = 0.0409, df = 1, P = 0.8397) and in number of adult Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes per house (Poisson regression, Wald statistic, X2 = 2.6, P = 0.1043). Among the various locations sampled in the dry season survey, Sector 3 had the highest adult density followed by Sector 1 Zone 3 (Figure 4C). In the wet season, Sector 1 Zone 3 had the highest adult density, followed by Sector 3 (Figure 4D). There was a significant relationship between the number of larval habitats in the site and the number of adult A. arabiensis inside houses during the wet season with a 14% increase in adult mosquito density for each additional larval habitat within a site (the 95% Confidence Interval is 6% to 22%, p-value = 0.0001). There was no significant relationship in the dry season.
Table 4 Proportion of houses with adult Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes and indoor resting density (no/house) of mosquitoes in Kakuma Refugee Camp by season and location
Monthly rainfall data from the Lodwar meteorological station revealed a bimodal peak of rain with a longer rain period from March to May and another period in November and December (Figure 5). Rainfall in 2005 (173 mm) was lower than average (216 +/- 119 mm) but within a single standard deviation of the mean. However, rainfall in May, 2005, was 83 mm and the second most for that month in the eight year period from 2000 to 2007.
Average monthly rainfall (2000 - 2007) with 95% confidence interval, Lodwar, Kenya, meteorological station. Monthly rainfall for 2005 is shown as a dashed line.
The Kakuma Refugee Camp is located in an arid environment that, without an exogenous source of water for mosquito larva breeding sites, is unlikely to sustain even intermittent malaria transmission. However, this study describes persistent, malaria attack rates among the refugee population living in the camp and among host nationals living near the camp, with prevalence suggestive of a hyperendemic malaria epidemiology. A subsequent entomological survey, conducted in the dry season, revealed adult anopheline mosquitoes resting inside homes in the camp, when none would be expected given the climatic conditions. Also surprisingly, indoor-resting adult anopheline mosquito densities were nearly as high during the dry season as they were during the wet season. Larval surveys revealed that the vast majority of larvae were found in man-made, tap-stand pits and their drainage systems during both the rainy and dry seasons, indicating that these pits supported mosquito production and, therefore, malaria transmission. They were most likely responsible for most of the malaria-related morbidity and mortality in the rainy season and all malaria in the dry season. Unfortunately, these pits served very little purpose other than as mosquito breeding sites, since the kitchen gardens they were meant to support were rarely implemented by the refugee population (only three such gardens were observed during these surveys).
Human malaria in the refugee camp was entirely due to P. falciparum infection albeit one slide was read as mixed infection with P. vivax and one was positive for P. malariae. P. vivax is typically not found in Kenya, but is a common infection in Somalia and Ethiopia, including the arid south-west region of Ethiopia bordering Kenya [5]. Overall results suggest a low level of malaria infection in the camp at the time of sampling (late August 2005), with an estimated attack rate of 0.5 cases per day per 1,000 of camp population. Attack rates varied by age of presenting patient, and were relatively low in the youngest age category (children under two years of age), highest in children and adolescents from two to 17 years old and lowest in the adult age group (age 18 years and older). Young children and pregnant mothers in the camps were provided ITNs, which likely protected these groups from infection. Older children and adolescents have been noted in other populations to be the group least likely to sleep protected by an ITN [19, 20]. There was no difference in infection prevalence between the different nationalities. The timing of the investigation was too late to gauge the true picture of the epidemic, to capture the epidemic curve, or to estimate the number of deaths due to malaria; thus, malaria data reported here likely reflect the post-epidemic transmission pattern more typical of the camp's endemicity, when the rains had subsided and the dry season had already commenced, and larval stages of vectors were supported solely by man-made habitats. In January 2007, the established early warning system in the camp reported another increase in clinical malaria cases in the camp (more than 2,500 cases per week) from a usual average of less than 4000 cases per month which subsided by the end of the month. This increase was linked to heavy rains and some flooding in the camp in November and December 2006. Hospital records indicated that there were 8 deaths (2 children and 6 adults) out of 4,800 cases though patients with malaria presented with a wide range of symptoms other than fever including running nose, cough and rash. These results emphasize endemic transmission in the camp with cyclical peaks and not a prevalence of malaria due merely to importation of cases as refugees arrived from other endemic areas.
The rainfall patterns observed from the nearby Lodwar meteorological station confirm a seasonal and modest annual precipitation, but do not indicate that the malaria epidemic in Kakuma refugee camp was due to excessive rainfall in 2005. Rainfall was more constrained seasonally and possibly more intense in that year, however, it did not fall outside of the 95% confidence interval for an eight-year average (Figure 5).
Entomological studies showed that transmission of P. falciparum in Kakuma refugee camp was entirely due to A. arabiensis as it was the only species of malaria vector found in the area. The lack of livestock animals in the camp likely directed most blood feeding of a relatively zoophilic vector to humans and facilitated parasite transmission. Bovine blood meal sources for vectors were unavailable in the refugee camp because residents were not allowed to keep animals in the camps due to lack of space and the risk of raids by cattle rustlers. The rate of malaria parasite infection in the vectors of 3% in the wet season is consistent with rates quantified elsewhere in A. arabiensis populations during the rainy months of the dry regions of northern, sub-Saharan Africa [21]. Indoor-resting densities were modest but probably reflected true population densities as outdoor resting habitat was minimal, due to sparse vegetation and high outdoor temperatures. Even male A. arabiensis were caught indoors, suggesting that the indoor environment was a favourable resting habitat for these mosquitoes; otherwise, adults of both sexes of this species commonly rest outdoors [22].
The vector populations were maintained in the camp by a constructed water delivery and catchment system, consisting of a series of tap-stands connected by piping to bore holes, with cemented and soil-lined pits provided to catch spill-over water. These pits had the well-intentioned function of providing irrigation water for kitchen gardens, but such gardens were few in evidence. The most abundant larval habitat was those small bodies of water associated with tap-stand pits, suggesting that the process of pit construction and maintenance underlies the man-made nature of malaria transmission in the camp, and underscores a fundamental conflict between water use and transmission of human malaria. The fact that higher larval densities were found in the much fewer rain-fed puddles and tire tracks is likely a consequence of the rapid concentration of these small environments due to evaporation of water from them, and not to any inherent property of those habitats making them better breeding sites. The similar indoor densities of A. arabiensis males and females from the dry (February) and wet (June) samples supports this conclusion; otherwise, rainfall would encourage larger vector populations in June than was actually observed. All available types of larval habitats within the camp were colonized by Anopheles vectors and all parts of the camps had at least one house with adult Anopheles mosquitoes. However there was aggregation of productive larval habitats in the dry season and houses with highest vector densities in both dry and wet season. This conclusion is supported by the variance to mean ratios of the sampling data [23], which were all much greater than 1, indicating extreme aggregation (i.e., non-random distribution) of larval stages amongst sampled habitats and adults amongst sampled houses. Camp zones and residential sectors with the highest vector densities also had the highest malaria parasite attack rate, suggesting co-aggregation of human exposure to infectious bites and spatial distribution of infected humans. Further analysis of larger data set with adequate spatial information on patients and vectors and habitats within the camp and the surrounding environment where such constructed water supplies systems do not exist would be required to fully understand these relationships.
The number of malaria vectors inside houses at the different sites was positively correlated with the number of habitats in the site. Due to the nature of the sources of these vectors, larval control either by larvicide application or by source reduction or both could be a useful and easily implemented tool for control of malaria in the camp. It could be targeted and monitored readily because of the distinct nature of the habitats. For instance, all pits that were not used for their intended purposes could be filled with soil or modified with a drain outlet to prevent water from accumulating in them. If this recommendation were not feasible, tap-stand monitors should be posted at every tap to manage the immediate environment of the tap-stand by draining pits twice weekly to interrupt the development of larvae, removing any drainage channels emanating from the tap-stand pits, and reporting the presence of any mosquito larvae to the camp authority for targeted larviciding.
Harvesting waste water from tap-stands makes practical sense given common water shortages in the area. If in use and emptied regularly, these tap-stand pits likely would not have had sufficiently stable water sources for the mosquitoes to complete their immature life stages. Because these tap-stand pits were numerous and remained filled with water at all times, there was a year round presence of vector breeding sites throughout the camp leading to a year round production of malaria vectors and the resultant phenomenon of malaria endemicity in an area with otherwise no malaria or at worst seasonal malaria. These findings underline the relevance of monitoring environmental impact of interventions; an old lesson worth heeding.
Blood smears were ordered during clinic visits for patient care purposes and were taken on verbal agreement with the patient. Non-identifying surveillance information from those blood smears are included in this report. Consent was therefore not required.
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The authors are grateful for the field and laboratory assistance provided by Samson Otieno, Ben Oloo, Martin Owaga and Joseph Nduati and statistical review by John Williamson; all at the Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya. This investigation was supported in part by the International Emerging Infections Program, U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; NIAID grant AI-50703 to EDW, and the International Rescue Committee.
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Kenya Methodist University, Meru, Kenya
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International Rescue Committee, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
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MNB participated in the design and implementation of the entomology surveys, laboratory analysis of mosquito samples, data analysis and presentation and drafted the manuscript. WA Secured clearances for the study and participated in study design and implementation, and data analysis. MO was involved in the implementation of the entomology surveys and data analysis including the development of maps and figures. DS was involved in the implementation of the entomology surveys. SCE was involved in the implementation of the surveys.
DK contributed to the design of both the malaria and entomology surveys and participated in the malaria data collection. EDW participated in study design, laboratory analysis of mosquito samples, data analysis and manuscript writing. HW participated in the design and implementation of the surveys. HB was responsible for the co-ordination of the study and also contributed to the study design. GA was responsible for the design of the malaria survey and contributed to data analysis and presentation. MC participated in the collection and analysis of the malaria data. MW participated in the collection and analysis of the malaria data. RB participated in study co-ordination, data analysis and manuscript development. MJH participated in the design of the surveys, and contributed to data analysis and presentation and manuscript development. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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A steep decline of malaria morbidity and mortality trends in Eritrea between 2000 and 2004: the effect of combination of control methods
Peter M Nyarango1Email author,
Tewolde Gebremeskel2,
Goitom Mebrahtu3,
Jacob Mufunda1,
Usman Abdulmumini3,
Andom Ogbamariam4,
Andrew Kosia5,
Andemariam Gebremichael1,
Disanayike Gunawardena2, 6,
Yohannes Ghebrat5 and
Yahannes Okbaldet2
Malaria Journal20065:33
© Nyarango et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2006
Malaria is a huge public health problem in Africa that is responsible for more than one million deaths annually. In line with the Roll Back Malaria initiative and the Abuja Declaration, Eritrea and other African countries have intensified their fight against malaria. This study examines the impact of Eritrea's Roll Back Malaria Programme: 2000–2004 and the effects and possible interactions between the public health interventions in use.
This study employed cross-sectional survey to collect data from households, community and health facilities on coverage and usage of Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs), Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS), larvicidal activities and malaria case management. Comparative data was obtained from a similar survey carried out in 2001. Data from the Health Management Information System (HMIS) and reports of the annual assessments by the National Malaria Control Programme was used to assess impact. Time series model (ARIMA) was used to assess association.
In the period 2000–2004, approximately 874,000 ITNs were distributed and 13,109 health workers and community health agents were trained on malaria case management. In 2004, approximately 81% households owned at least one net, of which 73% were ITNs and 58.6% of children 0–5 years slept under a net. The proportion of malaria cases managed by community health agents rose from 50% in 1999 to 78% in 2004. IRS coverage increased with the combined amount of DDT and Malathion used rising from 6,444 kg, in 2000 to 43,491 kg, in 2004, increasing the population protected from 117,017 to 259,420. Drug resistance necessitated regimen change to chloroquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. During the period, there was a steep decline in malaria morbidity and case fatality by 84% and 40% respectively. Malaria morbidity was strongly correlated to the numbers of ITNs distributed (β = -0.125, p < 0.005) and the amount (kg) of DDT and Malathion used for IRS (β = -2.352, p < 0.05). The correlation between malaria case fatality and ITNs, IRS, population protected and annual rainfall was not statistically significant.
Eritrea has within 5 years attained key Roll Back Malaria targets. ITNs and IRS contributed most to reducing malaria morbidity.
Malathion
Indoor Residual Spray
Case Fatality Rate
The success in malaria eradication achieved in Europe and North America during the 19th and 20th centuries has not been replicated anywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa and most tropical countries. This is despite better scientific understanding of the biology of the vector, treatment methods and other means of malaria prevention and control. Malaria causes one million deaths annually in Africa especially among vulnerable groups of pregnant women and children under five years of age [1]. This can be attributed to a number of factors including inadequate preventive measures for the groups at the highest risk of contracting malaria such as pregnant women and children under five years of age and drug resistance [2].
While, malaria eradication has eluded most tropical countries the use of conventional information sources often underestimates the true incidence [3]. Resurgences of severe malaria and in recent years, recurrent epidemics invariably involving falciparum malaria have been reported from many tropical countries [4].
Overtime, there have been several global initiatives to control malaria. The Roll Back Malaria [5] and the Abuja Declaration [6] are the recent attempts to coordinate efforts and provide more resources to reduce the malaria burden in the world. Mostly, the strategies used aimed at primary prevention through vector control or use of personal preventive methods such as bed nets, mosquito repellants, chemoprophylaxis and finally, through effective case management and medication.
In many developing countries there is variable success in vector control using ITNs, IRS with DDT and other agents [7]. The factors which influence the effectiveness of malaria prevention and control include national policies, community and personal prevention, community awareness, quality of health care, facility and health personnel competence as well as effective monitoring of anti-malarial drug resistance and timely change of drug regimen when resistance occurs [8].
In Eritrea, 67% of the population live in malaria endemic areas. Of this population 18% are children aged five years and below and 22% are women aged between 15 and 45 years. Falciparum malaria is predominant in Eritrea and is mainly transmitted by Anopheles arabiensis [9], which is known to be endophilic. Eritrea is inhabited by more than 13 different species of anopheline mosquitoes all capable of spreading the disease and with varying geophysical habitats [10]. Also, inoculation rates have a high seasonal variability, with peak inoculation rates during the rainy season and minimal or no transmission during the dry season [11].
Malaria is known to negatively impact on socio-economic development of Eritrea. About 7 to 12 days are lost per episode of malaria, thus having an enormous impact on the productive labour force [12]. The average cost for treating an episode of uncomplicated malaria is about 2.00 USD and about 7.00 USD for severe cases [12]. These treatment costs are significant for a country with a per capita GDP below 200 USD. Also, in 1999, malaria accounted for 31.5% of the total outpatient morbidity and 28.4% of all admissions. Malaria was responsible for 19.6% of hospital admissions among children under five years of age.
In view of the public health importance of the burden of malaria in Eritrea, in 1999, the Ministry of Health organized a national workshop on Roll Back Malaria to develop control strategies and to launch a 5-year Malaria Control Programme. The outcome of the workshop was a national resolve to control malaria as contained in the Mandefera Declaration and the plan of action for the period 2000–2004. The core objectives of the plan were to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality by 80% from the 1999 levels [13]. During the period 1995–1998, malaria control activities had succeeded in developing policies and guidelines, and the training of health professionals on malaria control and treatment resulting into 1200 active community agents, distribution of 81,036 ITNs and 76,209 houses were subjected to IRS [13].
Implementation of the plan of action commenced immediately at the beginning of 2000 with financing from the Eritrean Government, World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, USAID and later Global Funds. During the same year, the country adopted the Abuja Declaration targets and goals for the purposes of programme management. The Abuja targets aimed at reducing malaria burden by at least 60%, and ensuring that at least 60% persons suffering from malaria had access to prompt treatment using anti-malarial drugs. Further, at least 60% of persons at risk of malaria, particularly children under five and pregnant women will benefit from a suitable combination of personal and community protective measures such as insecticide treated nets (ITNs). Finally, the Abuja declaration requires that at least 60% of pregnant women who are at risk of malaria would have access to intermittent preventive treatment through use of SP [6].
This study is aimed at assessing the 5-year achievements of the Roll Back Malaria Programme in Eritrea, 2000–2004. The specific objectives of this study were to assess trends in malaria morbidity and mortality rates in the country, and the effectiveness of the various public health measures used in Eritrea's Malaria Control Programme. The assessment indicators were derived from Roll Back Malaria Initiative, the Abuja Declaration and Eritrea's Mandefera Declaration [12–14].
Eritrea is geographically divided into six regions or zobas. There are four lowland zobas, two of them coastal and to the east of the country (altitude: 0–1,000 m) and the other two in the west of the country (altitude: 600–1,000 m). The eastern and western lowlands stride the remaining two highland zobas that are centrally located in the country (altitude: 1,500–2,000 m). The country is stratified on the basis of malaria risk based on the underlying geo-physical stratification and seasonality, as well as yearly probability of cases [9] (incidence). Four zobas (Anseba, Debub, Gash Barka and Northern Red Sea) meet the classification for high malaria risk regions, representing 67% of the population and almost four-fifths of the landmass.
Programmeme strategies for NMCP 1999–2004
The foci of the Eritrea malaria control plan were: primary prevention through selective vector control and behavioural practices, mortality and morbidity reduction through effective case management and epidemic control, health systems strengthening, and implementation of an effective information and communication strategy. Primary prevention focused on vector control and personal behaviour change specifically through the consistent use of bed nets. Vector control was done at two levels of source reduction through larval control and through adult mosquito control using indoor residual spraying (IRS). The changes in behavioural practices to prevent mosquito bites and to control adult mosquitoes consisted of distribution, re-treatment and use of ITNs. For the high-risk zobas, the national policy applies equity weightings so as to bias resource allocation in the favour of these zobas. For example one free ITN is to be issued to every pregnant woman or child who is resident in any of the high-risk zobas. This is to target interventions and to guarantee access of an essential preventive tool to the most vulnerable groups who, while being at risk of infection, would otherwise not afford this intervention.
To strengthen effective case management, training of health personnel for community and health facility care, including technicians, continued throughout the plan period. Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) was subsequently adopted as a means of addressing malaria for children [15].
Malaria surveillance monitored four factors of monthly rainfall, the weekly number of new malaria cases in relation to the set epidemic thresholds, and resistance to insecticides commonly used for spraying or treatment of nets as well as resistance to chloroquine and the newly introduced first line combination treatment.
Case definition
Malaria is diagnosed using direct microscopy in hospitals or health centres and by use of Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit in lower level facilities. Clinical diagnosis is the method used for case definition by community agents, drug vendors and community members.
The study design was composed of a retrospective component and a cross-sectional survey. In the retrospective component, data was obtained from Health Management Information System (HMIS) of the Ministry of Health, quarterly and annual reports of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and reports of the annual assessment workshops by NMCP. The Ministry collects HMIS data from all health facilities in the country, and annually the HMIS data achieved over 90% completeness for the period 2000–2004 [16]. In addition, data was obtained from published reports of the midterm evaluation of the Roll Back Malaria programme 1999–2004 that was carried out in 2001. The mid-term survey and the end of programme survey used the same data collecting instruments and study design. Rainfall data was obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture, Eritrea. The monthly rainfall data was collected from 22 meteorological stations located in all the six zobas of the country. Lastly, interviews on programme design and implementation process were carried out and information obtained from the NMCP offices and zoba malaria coordinators.
The study was a three-part one composed of desk review, health facility and community survey. The health facility survey generated data on training, availability of equipment, drugs and other supplies essential for diagnosis and treatment of malaria as well as quality of care. Data for the cross sectional study was obtained during the final evaluation of the 5-year malaria control programme conducted during the period September-December 2004, which coincided with the peak malaria transmission period.
The desk review component assessed programme management and impact of interventions using data from the HMIS and the NMCP. In the community survey the information gathered included ownership and use of ITNs, health seeking behaviour and community participation in IRS and ecological interventions.
The methodology for the health facility and community survey is described below.
The health facility survey was conducted in 15% of health facilities in all the four malaria endemic zobas of the country (Gash-Barka, Debub, Anseba and Nothern Red Sea). A total of 28 facilities were randomly selected and included in the facility survey. Considering the seasonal nature of malaria, the survey was conducted over a period of two weeks during the months of October and November, which is the peak malaria transmission season in the four zobas. The target population was the general population with a bias towards children under-five years of age, pregnant women and children over five who report to health facilities with fever/malaria during the survey period. All children under five years of age coming to the health facility with fever, during the survey period were included in the sample. The sample frame was made up of a list of all health facilities obtained from the HMIS. Facilities were selected by type, i.e hospitals, health centers and health stations within each of the 4 zobas. At least one hospital in each zoba was included in the sample.
The object of the health survey was to assess the quality of care in the health facilities of the endemic zones through direct observation and exit interview. All individuals who presented to the selected health facilities with malaria or fever during the two-week period of the survey were to be observed at the stage of consultation and interviewed at exit time. During the observational stage trained research assistants, using a checklist, recorded the practice of clinical skills: whether clinicians asked caregivers or patients about fever, took temperature measurements, requested for blood tests for malaria, the drugs that were prescribed and if patients or caregivers received counseling.
The community component of the survey was designed to cover the population residing in the same four high malaria endemicity zobas. The sample size calculation was based on input from the National Statistics and Evaluation Office (NSEO) that aimed to generate reliable estimates on malaria indicators for the different segments of the population, (children under 5 years of age, persons aged 5 years and above, and pregnant women). The proportion of pregnant women who slept under the mosquito bed net on the previous night (7.6%) rounded to 8.0% (p = 0.08), based on the 2002 Eritrea Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS)[17], was used as the starting point of the calculations, with an assumed relative error of 20% (C.V = 0.20).
n = q/((C.V) 2 *p); where q = 1-p
n = 0.92/(0.2*0.2*0.08) = 288
This implies that the survey required a sample size of 288 pregnant women for the four zobas combined together. In the EDHS 2002, a household had on an average of about 0.2 pregnant women. This made the number of households to be selected in this sample to be about 1440 (i.e., 288/0.2).
Moreover, a response rate of 95% was obtained in the 2002 EDHS for the household survey. Adjustment for this response rate made the sample of households to be covered about 1,516 (1440/0.95) and rounded to 1,520 households. The total of 1,520 households (HHs) was allocated equally among the 4 zobas to get equal precision for each zoba.
The sample design adopted for the survey was a two stage stratified cluster design. At the first stage, clusters (rural/urban) were selected as Primary Sampling Units (PSU) and at the second stage households were selected as Secondary Sampling Units (SSU). The domain of the study was all the four zobas combined together.
In each zoba a total of 38 (i.e. 380/10) clusters (villages or urban areas) were selected. The survey aimed to reach 10 households in each cluster. The frame used for this purpose was the list of villages and urban clusters prepared by the respective zoba administration offices in 2004.
Malaria incidence rates and case fatality rates in the country were computed covering the period 2000–2004. The Time Series analysis was used to test for any association between morbidity and/or mortality being dependent variables and the intervention measures as independent variables. The aggregated data from all six zobas of the country was used in testing for the impact of the various public health interventions.
The data set on interventions, malaria morbidity and mortality covers only a five-year period, which is too short to generalise on long-term trends and provide adequate statistical power in all instances of regression analysis and for each of the variables of interest. However, on behaviour change, these shortcomings are corrected for through comparative analysis of cross-sectional data from the same study population and using similar tools, collected at two intervals in 2001 and 2004. The sample size calculation for the community and facility surveys was designed realise validity at the national level and not the zoba level.
Sample size coverage
All the selected health facilities were reached and a total of 231 patients or caretakers were interviewed. Direct observations during clinical management at the health facility were made on the same number of patients. Out of the estimated sample of 288 pregnant women, 238 (82.6%) were identified during the community survey (Table 1).
Expected sample sizes and samples size achieved per zoba
Zone (Zoba)
Sick children under five years
Minimum sample size expected
Sample size reached
Anseba
Debub
Gash-Barka
Northern Red Sea
Findings from review of HMIS data
Analysis of data from the HMIS, revealed that during the period 2000–2004, the incidence rate of malaria and case fatality rate in Eritrea declined precipitously. The overall outpatient malaria incidence rate dropped by 83.33% while the malaria case fatality rate decreased from 0.21% to 0.14% (Figure 1). An increase in case fatality rate trends during the period 2000–2002 was subsequently followed by marked decline to below the 1999 levels.
Malaria morbidity and case fatality rates 1999–2004.
The reduction in morbidity and case fatality rate varied across the different zobas with the greatest reduction occurring in Anseba (Table 2).
Trends in malaria incidence rate (IR) and case fatality rate (CFR) by zoba
G. Barka
Maekel
Southern Red Sea
According to the HMIS data, the number of breeding sites in the country eliminated annually by filling water pools increased by 70% (Table 3). Similarly, countrywide larvicidal control efforts were carried out with the proportion of sites treated annually rising more than fivefold. The number of houses covered through IRS trebled with the estimated number of people protected using this method rising to twice the number in 1999. Studies on vector resistance to DDT and other commonly used insecticides revealed high efficacy throughout the period. No resistance was reported.
Malaria control activities in all zobas of Eritrea, 2000–2004
Number of houses sprayed
Malathion used (kg)
DDT used (kg)
Population protected by IRS
Breeding sites filled (pools)
Breeding sites treated (pools)
Abate (Temephos) used (litres)
Population participating in treating and filling breeding site
ITNs distributed
During the period 2000–2004, approximately 874,070 free ITNs were distributed to pregnant women and children in the four high malaria transmission regions. Results from the community survey data revealed that 23.7% of the ITNs in the community were obtained through out of pocket household purchase. The rate of the annual increase in the distribution of ITNs is strongly correlated to the declining trend in malaria morbidity. The largest decrease in the incidence rate of malaria was during the year 1999. Thereafter, the decrease in malaria morbidity was a mirror image of the annual distribution of ITNs (Figure 2).
Distribution of ITNs and trends in malaria incidence rate.
During the period 2000–2004, there was a steady increase in the total number of personnel trained annually (Table 4). The role of community health agents played in case management gained prominence during the study period. The proportion of cases managed by CHAs rose from approximately 50% in 1999 to 78% in 2004.
Number of personnel trained in case management
Community Health Agents
Rural drug Vendors
Military health personnel
Between 1992 and 2004, there was increase in rainfall until 1997. This was followed by a decline in the annual rainfall dropping during the period 2000–2004 to a pattern similar to the one of 1992–1995 (Figure 3). No epidemics were detected during the study period. The last reported epidemic was in 1998.
Average annual rainfall (mm) in Eritrea 1999–2004.
In 2002, resistance to chloroquine as the first line single drug-treatment regimen reached 6% necessitating introduction of combination first line therapy using chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. In 2004 resistance to this combination of therapy rose to 4%, which was less than the threshold for changing this combination therapy. There was no resistance detected to DDT, Malathion or any of the insecticides used for the control of adult mosquitoes.
Findings from community surveys
In 2001, 80% of surveyed households owned at least one net of which 67.9% were ITNs and 87.7% of the ITNs had been re-treated. The corresponding proportions of ITNs in 2004 were 79%, 73% and 62% respectively revealing a significant reduction in the proportion of recently treated nets i.e. within 6 months of the survey. The use of nets was slightly lower than ownership. Although the overall use of ITNs was relatively high, utilization had slightly declined in 2004 compared to the practice in 2001(Figure 4). The ownership and use of ITNs varied by zoba with Anseba having the highest coverage and utilization rates (Table 5)
Proportion of children, adults and pregnant women sleeping under ITN.
Availability of ITNs in households by zoba
N =
% Households own ITN
% ITN Re-treatment
>1 ITN declared
>1 ITN seen
> 1 ITN in last 6 months
There was wide geographical variation in the usage of ITNs with Anseba recording the highest rates of use (Table 6). Children under 5 years of age attained higher usage of ITNs than that amongst older persons.
Proportion of persons sleeping under Net/ITN in previous night by zoba and age
Age < 5 years
Age > 5 years
Any Net
The use of malaria prevention methods by pregnant women was high in Anseba. About 81.3% of pregnant women slept under ITNs with 76.6% having slept under an ITN during the previous night (Table 7). In Anseba, attendance of antenatal clinic was also high for the first and second visits only. In all zobas the use of chemoprophylaxis for malaria prevention during the present or last pregnancy was very low reaching 18.2% in Gash Barka. This is compared to the use of drugs to prevent other illnesses reported by 54.5% of all pregnant women in the same zoba.
Malaria prevention indicators for pregnant women by zoba
Sleeping under Net/ITN
Receiving Antenatal care
Receiving specific chemoprophylaxis
Anti-malarial
ITN in last 6 months
At least 1 visit
Correct dose
Other illness
During the previous six months, IRS was carried out to a small extent mostly in Gash Barka where 42.2% of the households were sprayed. This was followed by Debub (25.8%) and Northern Red Sea (3.2%) giving a national average of 18.1%.
Community members actively participated in malaria control activities in the endemic zobas. More than 80% of the households in Anseba participated in such activities (Figure 5).
Proportion of households participating in ecological management by zoba.
Findings from facility surveys
At the facilities, health workers requested laboratory tests in 81% of the patients suspected to have malaria. The diagnostic skills of laboratory staff were high as they realised blood slide examination sensitivity of 99.1% and specificity of 95% when cross-checked for quality control by the national reference laboratory.
The quality of patient care did not show significant improvement within the facilities. Data from health facility survey shows that only 52% of patients with suspected malaria had a temperature measurement taken, 75% were checked for pallor while only 58% were managed according to the national guidelines.
Although all facilities surveyed had adequate supplies of the recommended combination therapy of chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (fansidar) 7% of the patients surveyed were prescribed chloroquine alone. At the same time, in 2001, only 7.2% of infected persons sought and obtained effective treatment within the recommended time of 24 hours. There was little change in this proportion, rising only to 7.5% in 2004.
Linear regression analysis results
Results of Time series model analysis (ARIMA) (Table 8) show strong negative correlation between the numbers of ITNs distributed (β = -0.125, p <0.005), and the amount of DDT and Malathion (in kg) used in IRS (β = -2.352, p < 0.05) with the overall reduction in malaria morbidity. The effect is sustained in model fit where these two factors are included. However this joint effect is not statistically significant. The data was inadequate to compute a model to which rainfall was added to ITNs, and IRS.
Time series analysis (ARIMA) of cases and deaths, against malaria control interventions
Univariate analysis
Effect on malaria morbidity (number of cases)
β coefficient
ITNs (number distributed)
Number of ITNs retreated
IRS (kg of DDT & Malathion)
Malathion (kg)
CHAs trained (number)
Population protected
Effect on case fatality (number of deaths)
Health workers trained
Abate (litres)
Case fatality
The correlation between the total number of health personnel trained and the trends in malaria morbidity and case fatality rate decline was statistically significant (p < 0.028).
There was an overall reduction in the average annual rainfall in the country during the study period. The observed association between the decline in rainfall for the period 1999–2004, and the reduction in case fatality and malaria incidence rates were not statistically significant (p < 0.441).
The negative association between case fatality and IRS, population protected, number of health workers trained and larvicidal activities was not statistically significant.
HMIS and cross-sectional survey data were used to assess the effects and impact of Eritrea's Roll Back Malaria Programme for the period 2000–2004. The goal of the programme was to reduce morbidity and mortality due to malaria to such low levels that malaria was no longer a public health problem in the country [12]. In five years, the programme exceeded the national targets of 80% reduction in malaria morbidity and mortality and surpassing the 60% objective of households owning ITNs. The achievements are also well above the Abuja targets for 2010.
The thrust of malaria prevention is to reduce human mosquito bites. This can be achieved through use of ITNs or reduction in either or both of the larvae and adult mosquitoes [1]. In Eritrea, the use of ITNs contributed most to the reduction in malaria morbidity and mortality. The number of ITNs distributed as a proxy for the reduction in human bites was strongly correlated to the observed steep decline in both morbidity and mortality for the period 2000–2004. Access to ITNs was rapidly increased by targeting pregnant women using the antenatal services and through freely availing ITNs to vulnerable groups of women and children below the age of five. Antenatal attendance in the country is estimated to be 70% for at least one visit during pregnancy. Free ITNs were distributed to the vulnerable groups and internally displaced populations, initially as a pilot project [18]. By 1999, free ITNs distribution had been extended to all the high-risk malaria zones and there was a sustained effort with a target of ensuring that in at least 70% of the population at risk, each household had a least two ITNs. The reported ITN coverage was in excess of 80% in most regions especially the high malaria endemic areas. In Senegal and Nigeria where the thrust is to encourage commercial supply of ITNs and creating demand among consumers and reaching vulnerable populations though targeted subsidy programmes, household coverage of ITNs was reported to be comparatively low at 43% and 10%, respectively [19].
Arguably the most cost effective tool in malaria prevention is the use of ITNs. Randomised studies have documented up to 30% reduction in the number of under-5 deaths through ITN use alone [20]. In a related report it was concluded that 6 deaths are averted for every 1,000 children age 1–59 months that sleep under ITN [4]. In Eritrea, ITNs use as a single intervention was strongly correlated to the 84% decline in morbidity and mortality. In view of the high effectiveness of this method three related issues needed to be assessed: usage of nets by children and pregnant women, re-treatment of ITNs, and sustainability.
It is also clear that the population is getting motivated to use the ITNs regularly. The proportion of children sleeping under ITNs in Eritrea is high compared to Senegal or Nigeria where only 25% and less than 5% children below the age of 5 years sleep under ITNs [18]. In other settings it has been shown that children are disadvantaged in resource allocation [21]. In Eritrea this does not appear to be the case. Although the proportion of pregnant women sleeping under ITN is only 50%, this is probably the highest in the continent.
ITNs re-treatment was equally high at 62% (done within the previous six months of the survey). This can be attributed to community involvement and token monetary incentives given to community health agents in return for increased ITN re-impregnation rates [22]. For each ITN re-treated, the CHA received 40 cents-Nakfa (3 cents US). The observed decline in the ITNs re-treatment may not affect the programme as the country is in the process of introducing Long Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets.
One important finding of the study in respect to sustainability was that in Eritrea, 23.7% of the households surveyed in 2004 had purchased the ITNs [22]. It is plausible that the perceived beneficial effect of ITNs freely distributed in the community has positively influenced some households to invest in ITNs. Moreover, in Eritrea one free ITN is considered cost-effective given the lifetime cost of treating malarial infections and the life-saving effect of ITNs. Therefore, the government has annual running budget-line for procurement of ITNs and their free distribution to high-risk population groups.
IRS was the next most important vector control method in the country. Approximately 13% of the population in malaria risk areas of the country benefited from IRS. DDT and Malathion were the two chemicals commonly in use. Effective community mobilization and involvement contributed to the observed increasing IRS coverage. Controversies surrounding the use of DDT, which was the mainstay of eradication and vector control, have tended to undermine success in the tropics [1, 23]. Recent shifts in favour of controlled indoor use of DDT have supported renewed interest leading to its re-introduction in some countries including Eritrea. The Roll Back Malaria programme in Eritrea advocates for the use of DDT for IRS alongside experimental preparations. Although the use of DDT is contestable given the environmental risks it poses, many of the poor countries cannot afford the alternative chemicals currently being tested, as their cost is prohibitive [24]. In addition tests in Eritrea on resistance to the commonly used insecticides do not show any evidence of resistance to DDT.
Although ecological management activities were statistically not associated with significant effect on either morbidity or mortality due to malaria, other studies have shown that trampled pools, rain pools, ponds, dams, swamps, drainage channels and communal water supply points are favorable larval habitats for anopheline mosquito in Eritrea [25]. In addition, there is strong correlation between adult mosquito density and larval density. Elimination of the known habitats was therefore an important primary preventive measure for malaria. The environmental control measures included covering of breeding sites for mosquitoes and using larvicides for water bodies that were not amenable to covering. The relatively large water collections tended to be reservoirs for the vector during the dry season. In 2004, more than 80% of the breeding sites in Southern Red Sea, Northern Red Sea and Anseba were covered through active community participation [18]. The remainder was subjected to temephos, a larvicidal chemical. In areas where it was not possible to cover the sites, use of larvicides was found to be a favorable alternative because the water bodies are relatively limited in Eritrea, especially in Gash Barka, Debub and Maekel. The role of the community was central to the success. Nearly 60% of the adult population in the four high-risk zobas surveyed, participate in environmental management activities.
Provision of early clinical diagnosis and laboratory confirmation, are other critical aspects of effective and efficient case management. The training given to laboratory technicians working in hospitals at the zoba referral hospitals and sub-zoba facilities on microscopy equips them with adequate skills. Malaria diagnostic acumen at the facility level is very high since at least 80% of the diagnoses are confirmed by laboratory tests carried out by well-trained technicians. The National Laboratory quality assurance check confirmed high sensitivity (99.1%) and specificity (95%) of these malaria tests. The thick and thin peripheral blood smear with Giemsa stain is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of malaria, achieving overall 90% sensitivity and specificity [26].
The quality of clinical case management did not change and could not have contributed to the fall in case fatality rate. These findings are consistent with earlier surveys in Eritrea [27]. This is probably related to the high attrition rates resulting from internal transfers of cadres of staff and insufficient training on integrated management of childhood illnesses (IMCI). In addition the health seeking behaviour of the population showed little change during the study period. In 2004 only 7.5% of the sampled sick children received treatment within 24-hours of the onset of fever reflecting 6% rise from 2001 level. Access to health facilities and information are some of the contributing factors to the slow change in health seeking behaviour. The NMCP developed a malaria communication strategy following KAP survey conducted in 2002 but implementation of the strategy only commenced in 2004 [22]. The observed decline in case fatality after 2002 following an initial rise between 2000 and 2002, may be due to the change of policy on the first line treatment from chloroquine alone to a combination of chloroquine and suphadoxine-pyrimethamine.
CHAs are increasingly diagnosing and managing malaria cases. The 50% rise in their contribution to case management in Eritrea is remarkable. CHA are locally based and trained people who are easily accessible and culturally accepted in the locality [18]. This cadre became a revelation and asset of the NMCP in terms of effectiveness through early diagnosis and prescribing of relatively cheap and safe management regimens [13, 18]. Training of CHAs and those at other health facilities was an ongoing exercise improving capacity and competence to manage simple cases of malaria and enable recognition of early warning signs for severe malaria for referral to better-equipped centres [13]. The CHA programme currently suffers from lack of standardization since the CHAs rely only on clinical diagnosis. The availability of reliable Rapid Diagnostic Kit, which is already in use in the country, is expected to become a useful tool in the services the CHAs provide within the community. The Rapid Diagnostic Test Kit has been found to be easy and cheap for on-site use and particularly so in countries like Brazil that have adopted aggressive active case detection [28, 29].
Surveillance for emergence of resistance to first line anti-malaria drugs particularly chloroquine and first line combination drugs (chloroquine plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine), is important for programme success and reducing case fatality and an adjuvant to improving quality of care. Drug resistance surveillance is also essential in order to increase the useful therapeutic life of a constituent drug [30]. However, for this to be effective strong systems and decisive management are required for timely and effective response. Eritrea has established twenty centres, which in 2002 enabled the NMCP to change the first line treatment to the combination of chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine. Chloroquine, until recently, the mainstay of malaria treatment, precluded its use as a single drug in Eastern Africa [4]. In Eritrea, resistance to the new first line regimen is still low.
Surveillance and epidemic preparedness systems are well entrenched in Eritrea's malaria control programme as a means of reducing morbidity rates and case fatality. The NMCP collects rainfall data daily, continuously analyses it and the results are fed into the national and the zoba coordinating office databases. During the decade, the initial decline in the amount of the annual rainfall in the country stabilised at between 300 and 400 mm. Although the extent to which this influenced malaria morbidity and mortality trends was not statistically significant, this finding is inconclusive, as the study period coincided with a persistently lower than normal rainfall averages for Eritrea. In many countries rainfall and temperature data are predictors of impending epidemic and serve as early warning system. In East Africa, climate variability has been shown to contribute to the likelihood of an epidemic [31]. The precision of rainfall and temperature data and lead-time can be enhanced by satellite based meteorological data [32]. Eritrea is not accessing satellite data as a routine source but uses data from weather stations spread all over the country.
For epidemic preparedness, Eritrea monitors the number of new malaria cases during each month. An impending epidemic is suspected once the reported number of cases per month in a health facility first rises higher than the third quartile of the number estimated for that facility. The last epidemic reported in the country was 1998 [9]. The absence of epidemics in the intervening period cannot be explained on the basis of climatic factors alone. In the case of Eritrea the resultant control of epidemics using the ecological management and household protection may be the mechanism through which epidemics were prevented. The sensitivity of the epidemic thresholds has been questioned leading to the proposed replacement of the quartile measure by the use of weekly averages. The occurrence of severe epidemics is to be expected with the dramatic decline in the malaria incidence in the country and consequent to the declining immunity in the population. Severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is known to occur in low transmission intensity [33]. Seasonal and unstable malaria transmission, attend to similar phenomena [34].
The final question to be explored was the role of each of the interventional measures in reducing morbidity or mortality. Within the limitations of the current study design it is evident that combining ITN use with IRS or other vector control measures did not confer added value to the outcome in malaria mortality or morbidity. This is not surprising since An. arabiensis is endophilic, and both methods act at the point of breaking the vector-human contact. This is supported by observations from elsewhere that DDT spray can eliminate up to 93–95% indoor resting density of a vulnerable vector [23].
In summary therefore, the Abuja Declaration targets for the Roll Back Malaria initiative were met on schedule because the government had set even higher targets for itself. There was extensive community and personal prevention measures which started as donations of ITNs, initially targeted at pregnant women and children and sustainable through community awareness. Both morbidity and mortality have declined to a point where malaria ceases to be a major infectious disease in this small African country. This is remarkable as no other country in the continent has similar achievements.
We are indebted to the Ministry of Health, the State of Eritrea for permission to carry out the surveys and publish this manuscript. We acknowledge the financial and technical resources provided by World Health Organization AFRO and WHO Eritrea Country Office, as well as the Public Health and Rehabilitation Programme for Eritrea (PHARPE) funded by the Italian Government through World Health Organization.
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How far is the journey before malaria is knocked out in Zimbabwe: results of the malaria indicator survey 2016
Busisani Dube1Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
Joseph Mberikunashe1,
Patience Dhliwayo1,
Andrew Tangwena1,
Gerald Shambira2,
Anderson Chimusoro3,
Munashe Madinga4 and
Brighton Gambinga4
Accepted: 4 May 2019
The Correction to this article has been published in Malaria Journal 2019 18:196
Zimbabwe conducts Malaria Indicator Surveys after 3 years and Demographic and Health Surveys to track the impact of malaria interventions. The last one to be conducted was in 2016 and had set an aim aimed to collect data to track malaria indicators as well as to save as the baseline source for the Malaria Strategic Plan (2016–2020).
Malaria Indicator Survey-2016 utilized the frame of enumeration areas (EAs) from the Zimbabwe Master Sample (ZMS12) created after the 2012 population census for each of the survey districts. The design for the survey was a representative probability sample to produce estimates at national level for the respective domains, which are the forty-four malaria-endemic districts. Survey teams comprised of Ministry of Health personnel who administered the standard questionnaire (adapted to country setting) to respondents within sampled EAs, performed RDT, anaemia test, prepared microscopic slide and collected DBS and data analysis of collected information was analysed. Microscopic slides examined centrally at the National Institute of Health Research.
The overall protection coverage by at least one major vector control measure, IRS and/or Nets, was 82.5%. Use of nets among high-risk groups 32.5% For children under five and 24.5% for pregnant women. LLIN utilization quite low taking into consideration the net ownership per household, which was 58% for the general population. Moreover, IPTp coverage has remained almost unchanged since the 2012 MIS, with only a third of pregnant women receiving at least two doses of IPTp. Malaria prevalence appears to be on the decline with 2016 MIS recording 0.2% compared to 0.4% as of 2012 MIS. Plasmodium falciparum remains the predominant parasite species in the country at 98%.
The results indicated that some progress has been made in malaria control although there is still subsequent low malaria risk perception that comes with the reduced prevalence. It has been shown that there is low use of interventions shown by the low use of LLINs by vulnerable groups like pregnant women and children under five.
Enumeration area
There are 60 rural districts in the country of which 51 are malarious with varying transmission intensity. Of the malarious districts, 45 are in the low-lying areas of the country characterized by high temperatures (up to 39 C). During the peak malaria transmission season, sporadic epidemics are reported in the high burdened districts. The population affected varies from year to year depending on the performance and coverage of the various malaria prevention and control interventions carried out by the National Malaria Control Programme. Apart from the routine health information system, Zimbabwe conducts regular surveys to measure some indicators whose data may not be sufficiently collected in routine health information. Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys (ZDHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) collect information on some malaria indicators. The first malaria indicator survey was carried out in 2008 and the second was carried out in 2012 on a national scale following the approach of the MICS and the ZDHS. The ZDHS 2011/2012 indicated significant progress in the coverage of LLINs and high IRS coverage.
The NMCP in collaboration with multiple partners sets high targets for coverage of interventions and reduction in malaria burden as outlined in the National Malaria Strategy 2008–2015. The major anti-malaria strategies focus on malaria prevention, case management, detection and control of epidemics, social and behavior change communication (SBCC) and surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and operational research [1]. IRS with insecticide and the distribution of LLINs are the major malaria prevention measures targeted at areas with ongoing malaria transmission. SP/Fansidar is given to all eligible pregnant women residing in high-burden areas, starting as soon as possible after the first trimester and continuing every four weeks thereafter until delivery [2, 3]. Case management is offered at all health facilities in the country. Treatment of uncomplicated malaria is based on artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT); the first-line treatment is artemether-lumefantrine (Coartem®), while the second line is artesunate–amodiaquine. An alternative second line treatment is oral quinine in combination with either doxycycline or clindamycin, or oral quinine alone in children under 8 years of age.
The data collection for these surveys does not necessarily consider the peak transmission season, hence the need for the country to carry out the malaria indicator survey to focus on the malaria transmission areas and collect relevant data on coverage of key malaria interventions and related results during the peak transmission season. The nationwide malaria indicator survey set to have malaria baseline data for the next 5-year Malaria Strategic Plan after the expiration of the current one. It also had an objective to collect data that will be used for the re-stratification of the country’s malaria transmission zones.
Survey organization
The 2016 Zimbabwe Malaria Indicator Survey was implemented NMCP in cooperation with the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) and other malaria partners in the country. ZIMSTAT was responsible for general administrative management of the survey, including overseeing the day-to-day operations, designing the survey, and processing the data. ZIMSTAT also assisted NMCP in the design of the survey, especially in the area of sample design and selection, where they provided the necessary maps and lists of households in the selected sample points. The NMCP took primary responsibility for organizing the Technical Working Group, developed the survey protocol in preparation of ethical review in preparation of ethical review, by the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe. Training was conducted by ZIMSTAT and NMCP while Provincial Medical Directors (PMD) oversaw the recruitment of field staff with support from key malaria partners. Medicines to treat under-fives who tested positive for malaria during the survey were provided by the MOHCC. Technical assistance was provided by various partners including NIHR, WHO, CHAI, PSI and ZAPIM. Financial support for the survey was provided by the Government of Zimbabwe Global Fund and U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) through the Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria (ZAPIM).
Zimbabwe is administratively divided into eight rural provinces (Manicaland, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Midlands and Masvingo) and two urban provinces, which are all in turn subdivided into districts. Each district is further subdivided into wards. For the MIS 2016, wards were subdivided into enumeration areas (EA), which is the smallest working unit in any census or survey operation that can be easily covered by an interviewer or team in 1 day. The 2016 MIS utilized the EA frame from the Zimbabwe Master Sample (ZMS12), created after the 2012 Population Census for each of the survey districts. The MIS only covered households in the 45 designated malaria endemic districts and these districts were further divided into moderate and high malaria transmission zones based on routine data from the NMCP.
The overall design of the survey was based on a representative probability sample to produce estimates at transmission level for the respective domains, which are the 45 malaria endemic districts in the survey [4]. All women aged 15–49 years, who were either permanent residents or were visitors present in the household on the night before the survey, were eligible to be interviewed. In addition, all children aged 0–59 months who were either permanent residents of the sampled household or visitors present in the household on the night before the survey were eligible to be tested for malaria.
The sample size was determined using 95% confidence limits and a design effect of 1.5 (established based on a similar survey), and 5% adjustment for non-response (from household refusals or abandoned households). To keep the design effect ref as low as possible while maximizing the feasibility of the survey, balance had to be struck between the number of households per cluster (trying to minimize this to reduce the design effect) and the number of EAs (trying to minimize this to reduce the cost, transportation, and workload of the survey teams. Taking both the cost required and the precision to be gained into account, surveying 25 sample households per EA was decided to be optimum.
Questionnaires and data collection
Two questionnaires were used for the MIS 2016 that is the household and a women’s questionnaire. These were based on the model questionnaires developed by MEASURE DHS + program and adopted and recommended for use by the Roll Back Malaria Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group (RBM-MERG) Task Force on Household Surveys [5]. They were further adapted for use in Zimbabwe by the MIS Technical Working Group. Both questionnaires were translated into the two main local languages, Shona and Ndebele. The household questionnaire was designed to list all usual members and visitors of the selected households. Some of the basic characteristics of each person collected included: age, sex, religion, education, and relationship to the head of the household. The household questionnaire also identified eligible women to take part in the survey and collected data on household characteristics and assets.
The household questionnaire included questions on IRS, ownership and use of LLINs at household level. The women’s questionnaire was used to collect information from all eligible women aged 15–49 years. The following topics were included:
Background characteristics, including age and education status.
Reproductive history and current pregnancy status.
General malaria knowledge.
IPTp during recent pregnancies.
Fever prevalence among children under five and treatment with anti-malarial drugs.
The data collectors used Android-based tablets with CSPro 6.1 based questionnaire, which is an open source application. Data was backed up on SD cards by each data collector periodically as they worked. The same data was then collected and backed up via external hard drives by the teams in the field. The server used was based on File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and server on a computer network. This local server for the MIS 2016 was setup at the Ministry of Health and Child Care office in Harare. All tablets were linked to the server and data was sent on a daily basis from the field. Data was synchronized at the end of each questionnaire to an FTP server for enhanced security and data protection.
Assets-based wealth quintiles
The wealth index is a measure that has been used in many Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and other country-level surveys to indicate inequalities in household characteristics, in the use of health and other services, and in health outcomes. The index was compiled from the detailed data collected on dwelling and household characteristics and assets using principal components analysis. Table 1 shows the percent distribution of the de jure population (the population that is lawfully part of the household) by wealth quintile according to residence in either moderate or high malaria transmission areas. The table shows that almost twice as many people in the moderate malaria transmission area live in the lowest quintile as those in the high transmission area (29% vs 16%).
Wealth status
Wealth quintile
Household members
Percent distribution of household population by wealth quintile, according to residence in malaria transmission level, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
Table 2 shows that information was collected for just over 33,700 people in the selected households. About 47.8% of the de facto population is male and 52.2% female. The size of the de facto population in the high transmission areas was 1.9 times that found in the moderate transmission areas, reflecting the greater number of high transmission districts in the survey. In general, the proportion of the household population in each age group declines as age increases, reflecting the relatively young average age structure of the population; 44% of the total population was under age 15.
Household population by age, sex and residence
Malaria transmission
< 5
Missing/don’t know
Percentage distribution of the de facto household population by 5-year age groups, according to sex and residence in high or moderate malaria transmission area, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
Net ownership
Table 3 shows that the percentage of the household population with access to an LLIN was only 13%. Meanwhile, access to an LLIN diminishes steeply as the number of members of the household increases. Those in the higher wealth quintiles also had greater access to an LLIN, but not by that much. Table 3 shows the percentage of the population with access to an LLIN as per the number of sleeping spaces in the household. At least 35–42% of households owned no LLINs at all, regardless of the number of sleeping spaces (Table 4).
Access to a long-lasting insecticidal net as per number of sleeping spaces
Number of LLINs owned by household
Number of sleeping spaces per household
Number of household members
Percentage distribution of households by number of LLINs the household owns, according to number of sleeping spaces in the household, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
Coverage of malaria testing and prevalence of malaria among children under five
Background characteristic
Children aged 6–59 months
Percent positive by species
Percentage of children aged
6–59 months with positive RDT or blood slide
Number of children aged 6–59 months tested
Percentage tested for malaria
Number eligible for testing
Percentage positive for malaria RDT
Percentage positive for malaria blood slide
P. falciparum
P. vivax
P. ovale
P. malariae
Transmission level
For children 6–59 months eligible for malaria testing, percentage who have been tested, with prevalence of malaria, by background characteristics, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
Table 5 shows that 62% of households in moderate and high transmission zones had had IRS in the 12 months preceding the survey. Slightly more households had been sprayed in the high malaria transmission areas than in moderate transmission areas—64% and 60%, respectively. According to the figures above, the government had undertaken the IRS in the overwhelming majority of households sampled (96%); less than 2% of the spraying had been carried out by private organizations.
Household availability of insecticide-treated nets and protection by IRS among all households sampled
Percentage of households with at least one mosquito net (untreated or LLIN), one mosquito net per sleeping space (untreated or LLIN), and households with at least one LLIN and/or IRS in the last 12 months, by background characteristics and malaria transmission level, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
Percentage of households with at least one mosquito net
Percentage of households with at least one net per sleeping space
No mosquito net
Any mosquito net
Any other net [untreated or insecticide-treated net (ITN)]
LLIN
Any other net (untreated or ITN)
Percentage of households with IRS in the past 12 months
Percentage of households with at least one LLIN and/or IRS in the last 12 months
Percentage of households with at least one LLIN per sleeping space and/or IRS in last 12 months
Sex of household head
Malaria transmission level
Knowledge of causes of malaria
The vast majority of respondents (85%) knew that mosquitoes spread malaria, and that sleeping under a mosquito net can protect against getting malaria (80%). But there were still some serious misconceptions about the disease, with 14% stating that they thought malaria was caused by dirty water, and 5% blaming watermelons and sugarcane.
When asked about the danger signs of malaria in children, once again, only 50% of respondents identified fever as one of the major signs. And only a very low 13% mentioned seizure and convulsions. There was some minor variation in knowledge with regard to wealth quintiles and age of respondent, but not much. Table 6 shows that only 35% of respondents identified high fever as a malaria danger sign in adults, and 18% seizures and convulsions.
Percentage who reported specific causes of malaria
Watermelon/sugarcane
Harmful spirits
Percentage distribution of household members who identified specific causes of malaria in the community, by background characteristics, Zimbabwe MIS 2016
IRS is the spraying of the interior walls of a dwelling with an insecticide and has been a mainstay of malaria vector control in Zimbabwe for many years. It reduces the transmission of malaria by killing adult female mosquitoes when they rest on the walls of the dwelling after feeding [6]. Households are considered to be covered by a vector control intervention if they own at least one LLIN and/or they have been sprayed by IRS at any time in the past 12 months. Malaria Indicator Survey 2016 found that 62% of households possessed a mosquito net, with 58% owning an LLIN. Slightly more households in the moderate malaria transmission areas owned an LLIN (62%) compared to those in the high malaria transmission areas (56%). Just under two-thirds of households had received IRS in the 12 months preceding the survey, with slightly more households sprayed in the high malaria transmission areas compared to in the moderate transmission areas—64% and 60%, respectively. Eighty-three percent of households had at least one LLIN per sleeping space, and/or had received IRS over the last 12 months.
There appears to be a general improvement in the overall ownership of LLINs from 2012 (46%) to 2016 (58%), although these figures are still below the target of universal access to nets [7, 8]. Similarly, there was a 55% increase in IRS coverage over the reporting period (2012, 49%; 2016, 62%) as shown in Table 7. The overall protection coverage by at least one major vector control measure, IRS and/or LLINs, was high 58%. Fifty-four percent of the sampled population had slept under a net the night before the survey. Only a third of children aged under 5 years had slept under an LLIN the night before the survey. However, protection by at least one vector control intervention was significantly higher, as 74% had either slept under an LLIN the previous night or slept in a dwelling that had received IRS in the past 12 months. About a third of women aged 15–49 years had slept under an LLIN the previous night, compared to only a quarter of pregnant women.
Progress on key malaria indicators to date
2010–2011 ZDHS1
2012 MIS3
Proportion of the population that slept under a net the night before the survey
Proportion of households that own at least one LLIN
Proportion of children under five who slept under an LLIN the night before the survey
Proportion of women 15–49 who slept under an LLIN the night before the survey
Proportion of pregnant women sleeping under an LLIN the night before the survey
Proportion of pregnant women who received at least two doses of IPTp, with at least one dose during antenatal care (ANC)
Proportion of households with IRS in the past 12 months
Prevalence of parasitaemia (by microscopy) in children 0–59 months
Prevalence of parasitaemia (by microscopy) all age groups
1406 EAs in all 10 provinces surveyed, including non-malarious districts
2400 EAs in all 10 provinces surveyed, including non-malaria districts
3MIS conducted in 327 EAs in 51 districts, collecting data on LLINs only in 30 targeted districts; on IRS only in 45 targeted districts; and on IPTp only in 30 targeted districts
4MIS conducted in 353 EAs in 45 moderate and high-risk malaria districts, without disaggregation by type of intervention (LLINs, IRS, IPTp)
Forty-two percent of women either had taken two doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP)/Fansidar or were on lifelong co-trimoxazole during pregnancy. This IPTp coverage has remained almost unchanged since the 2012 MIS, with only a third of pregnant women receiving at least two doses of IPTp. Microscopic analysis confirmed that Plasmodium falciparum remains the predominant parasite species in the country. Twenty percent of children under 5 years of age had experienced an episode of fever in the two weeks prior to the survey, with two-thirds of caretakers having sought treatment for their child when this happened. Also, 12% of women aged 15–49 years reported that they needed permission from someone else before seeking medical care for a child under five with fever. This parallel finding of the Zimbabwe DHS 2010–2011, in which 16% of the women respondents reported that they do not make their own decisions about their own health care.
Malaria prevalence was assessed in all age groups. Among children under 5 years of age, 0.5% were found positive for malaria by rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and 0.2% by microscopy; for children aged 5–14 years the prevalence rate was 0.8% by RDT and 0.2% by microscopy; while among those aged 15 years and above, 0.5% were positive for malaria by RDT and 0.3% tested malaria slide-positive. There was a notable decline in exposure to malaria messages despite relatively high ownership, among the households sampled, of radios, TVs, and mobile phones. This also correlates with a decline in knowledge of the symptoms and danger signs of malaria compared to respondents’ reports in the 2012 MIS. The 2016 Malaria Indicator Survey seems to suggest that there are still challenges in seeking treatment as less than half of the households sampled were within a 5-km radius of a health facility. Furthermore, the other concern is that some women still report needing permission from some other person to bring a child with fever to a health facility for treatment. Only a quarter of the women interviewed reported that they would stop treatment for malaria when the child had taken the full dose prescribed by the health worker. There is need for continued mobilization and advocacy to the communities to ensure that malaria is put as priority at family level, eliminating a need for permission which may continue to co complicate malaria symptoms [9, 10].
Prevalence of malaria declined from 0.4% in 2012 to 0.2% in 2016 for children below 5 years which shows good direction towards malaria elimination targets. The prevalence for the age group 5 years and above was 0.2% although no comparative figure was available for 2012. There has been a general improvement in the overall ownership of LLINs from 2012 to 2016, although these figures are still below the target of universal access to nets. This therefore pose a challenge in view of the investment in these interventions and the malaria elimination goals [10]. On the other hand, there was a notable increase in IRS coverage over the reporting period. This could account for the fact that protection by at least one vector control method, IRS and/or LLIN, surpassed the programme target in 2016. Of concern though is the reported low net utilisation among high-risk groups such as children under 5 and pregnant women, despite the general increase in net ownership. Moreover, IPTp coverage has remained almost unchanged since the 2012 MIS with only a third of pregnant women receiving at least 2 doses of IPTp.
There is a need to expand continuous net distribution so that nets are replaced between the mass LLIN distribution campaigns. This will cover the attrition gap and ensure sustained universal coverage of nets across the communities. There should be strengthened SBCC campaigns, especially for delivering messages that foster mosquito net use in high-risk populations such as young children and pregnant women. It is important to undertake regular, local assessments of net use and take necessary remedial actions to increase and maintain net use. Information, education, and communication on malaria and its prevention needs to be strengthened [11]. With the high mobile phone penetration of the country, the NMCP should consider using this cost-effective platform more often to increase dissemination of malaria messages. These messages should focus on the danger signs of malaria; the importance of seeking treatment early, as well as compliance with the full course of malaria treatment; and the importance of using an LLIN at all times, even in what is not supposed to be the malaria transmission season [12].
A correction to this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2823-x.
ANC:
CHAI:
Clinton Health Access Initiative
CSPro:
census and survey processing system
EA:
enumeration areas
IPTp:
intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy
LLINs:
long-lasting insecticidal nets
MICS:
Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
NIHR:
National Health Institute of Research
NMCP:
National Malaria Control Programme
PMD:
Provincial Medical Directors
PSI:
Population Services International
RBM-MERG:
Roll Back Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group
SBCC:
Social and Behaviour Change Communication
SP:
sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine
ZAPIM:
Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria
ZDHS:
Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys
ZIMSTAT:
Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency
ZMIS:
Zimbabwe Malaria Indicator Survey
ZMS12:
Zimbabwe Master Sample 2012
The 2016 Zimbabwe Malaria Indicator Survey (ZMIS 2016) was implemented by the National Malaria Control Programme of the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care from May to August 2016. The funding for the ZMIS was provided by the Government of Zimbabwe, Global Fund, and United States President’s Malaria Initiative. National Malaria Control Program Staff and the rest of the Ministry of Health and Child Care staff across the provinces and districts are appreciated for their unwavering support during data collection and report writing process.
The funding for the ZMIS was provided by the Government of Zimbabwe, Global Fund, and United States President’s Malaria Initiative.
The author was part of the tools design, training of data collectors and analysis. The author conceived the idea of the manuscript, drafted and shared with all authors for input. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Ethical approval
The survey was waivered by Zimbabwe Research Council of Zimbabwe. All participants ethics were upheld.
Permission was granted by the National Malaria Control Program Director.
National Malaria Control Programme, Harare, Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe
World Health Organization, Country Office, Harare, Zimbabwe
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Country Office, Harare, Zimbabwe
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World’s top steelmaker to cut output further in Europe LONDON (AP) — The world’s largest steel maker, ArcelorMittal, has announced further cuts to production at several plants in Europe due to weak ...
Europe lags behind in race to the cloud New research from O'Reilly Media has revealed that Europe is struggling to keep pace with global cloud development.The company's Evolving D...
Europe Is Reining In Tech Giants. But Some Say It’s Going Too Far. Bids to block harmful and violent content online in Europe are drawing criticism for limiting free expression and undercutting the ideals of an open ...
These toxic caterpillars are terrorizing Europe Beware the march of the hairy caterpillars. Large chunks of Europe are battling pesky infestations of oak processionary caterpillars, whose tiny toxi...
The tunnel that changed Europe forever In the 25 years since it opened, the Channel Tunnel has been hailed as wonder of the modern world and become a vital link between the UK and mainland...
Swiss men have some of the worst sperm in Europe Swiss men have among the worst quality sperm in Europe, a study shows. One in six have a concentration below 15 million per milliliter of semen, the ...
Qualcomm Hit by Second Antitrust Fine in Europe The EU is imposing a $272 million fine on Qualcomm, its second penalty on the chip maker in 18 months, and its latest move targeting top U.S. tech co...
DNA Shows Biblical Philistines Came From Europe New research on Philistine DNA reveals that the Biblical enemies of the Israelites were newcomers to the region in the 12th century BC. Where did the...
Europe holds "most important" EU vote Europeans start voting on Thursday in four days of elections to the EU parliament that will influence not just Brussels policy for the next five year...
10 of the best scenic rail journeys in Europe Nothing quite beats the romance of travelling on a steam train or shunting through mountains. These rides showcase Europe’s spectacular landscapesLen...
Highlights: Europe votes for EU parliament Following are early predictions of the results of the election to the European Parliament based on exit polls. Over 400 million people can vote in 28...
Bad Loans in Europe Tumble, but They Are Never Fully Gone European banks have cleared nearly half of the toxic loans off their balance sheets since emerging from a debilitating debt crisis. The only trouble:...
Why Europe just boosted 5G over Wi-Fi for connected cars Here's an easy way to understand why European member states shut down an EU effort to mandate Wi-Fi as the car connectivity standard of the future.Re...
EC's Donald Tusk: 'There is no Europe without the rule of law' Speaking at the EU summit in Romania, European Council President Donald Tusk has given a strong defense of the rule of law. He also said politicians ...
Hyperloop TT outlines how it should be regulated in Europe The European Commission is reviewing what could become the first set of industry-wide hyperloop guidelines. Today, Hyperloop Transportation Technolog...
For Europe, There's an Upside to Germany's Slowdown Germany’s economic slowdown, though no doubt bad for Europe in the short term, could be helpful over a longer period by easing a rift between the reg...
10 of the best easy cycling holidays in Europe While Geraint Thomas wannabes might tackle the Alps or Pyrenees, here are 10 less-challenging but equally scenic routes for families and newbiesIt is...
Netherlands pushes air travel tax for Europe The Netherlands wants the EU to place a tax on kerosene-based jet fuel to end what it calls the undertaxation of the aviation industry and to fight c...
US natural gas exports to Europe surge nearly 300% The European Union announced Thursday that its imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas have climbed 272% since 2016, with the steepest increases occurr...
How to Find Opportunity in a Fragmented Europe EWI Head of Global Research Murray Gunn wraps up his recent 8-part series on the recent E.U. elections. Murray is based in London, where he has a rin...
Hisense's OLED challenger comes to UK and Europe If you're on the lookout for a mid-priced OLED TV in the UK or Europe, Hisense may have you sorted. The Chinese manufacturer is on the cusp of b...
Salvini wants Italy to be 'first' US ally in Europe Italy's populist deputy leader was keen to highlight his "shared vision" with President Trump during a visit to Washington. Salvini met Vice Presiden...
Europe's Heatwave Consistent With Climate Change, More To Come: UN This year is on track to be among the hottest ever and would mean that 2015-2019 would be the world's hottest five-year period on record, the United ...
| Europe sizzles on sixth day of deadly heatwave Europe sweltered Saturday on the sixth day of a widespread, deadly heatwave that has fuelled record-breaking temperatures, huge blazes and pollution ...
Greece sees its future as the Florida of Europe Tourist chiefs ask for investment to build on success in doubling visitor numbersTourists in hats, cameras slung around their necks, crane them for a...
What's at stake for Europe Inc in a trade spat with Washington Europe's listed companies are expected to generate 1.2 trillion euros (£1.04 trillion) in revenue from the United States this year, highlighting what...
Two Russians convicted for coup plot in Europe Two Russian intelligence agents were convicted on terrorism charges for their role in an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016. They were among 13 oth...
‘Unprecedented’ 100,000 people hit by measles outbreak across Europe Measles is spreading at a terrifying rate across Europe with more than 100,000 people hit by the outbreak in the last year. Authorities are being urg...
Go behind the scenes of Spider-Man’s ‘Far From Home’ tour of Europe Spider-Man is swinging off to Europe. In this week’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” the web-head travels across the Atlantic on a field trip, but inste...
Can Yanis Varoufakis save Europe? – video The Greek economist is back battling the EU establishment, this time at the helm of a new movement, DiEM25. Backed by Pamela Anderson and the world’s...
France's Macron says Europe must renew itself or fall The European Union must focus on climate, security and growth after continent-wide elections in two weeks, or fall, French President Emmanuel Macron...
VW reveals name, pricing of electric hatchback in Europe Volkswagen revealed the name, pricing and driving ranges for its first mass-market EV, which will be called the ID3. The Golf-sized hatchback is part...
Germans living in Europe prefer Austria, UK According to a new report, almost 200,000 Germans have moved to neighboring Austria. The biggest surprise is that the UK is the second most popular d...
June was Europe's hottest ever, EU satellite agency says The continent's average temperature for June 2019 was the highest on record, according to the European Union's satellite agency. International resear...
What next for Valverde after latest Barcelona capitulation in Europe? "Ernesto Valverde\u0027s future as Barcelona coach hangs in the balance after presiding over a second shock Champions League elimination following Tu...
Russia Is Targeting Europe’s Elections. So Are Far-Right Copycats. Digital fingerprints link pro-Russian and anti-European websites, part of an online ecosystem that is sowing discord ahead of European elections this...
Fortress Europe: what happens to the refugees sent back to Libya? The EU’s efforts to stem the flow migration from Africa across the Mediterranean has meant assisting the Libyan coastguard to intercept boats. But wh...
France's Macron says EU nominations positive for Europe French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the nominations for the European Union's top posts were "positive and consensual" and offered a...
Going to extremes: the stark divides in Europe’s political map As we prepare to elect a new European parliament, the far right is riding high and threatening to reset the power balanceWhen Matteo Salvini last vis...
Measles Infects 34,000 In Europe, WHO Issues Warning More than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019, with the vast majority of cases in Ukraine, the World Health Or...
Google and Facebook Are Draining Brains From Europe It wouldn't be the first time that Europe's smartest and most promising tech startups have been gobbled up by the behemoths of Silicon Valley and Sea...
What Europe Can and Can’t Do to Save the Iran Nuclear Deal European countries were key to negotiating the landmark 2015 international accord that restricted Iran’s nuclear program in return for relief from sa...
Europe Sticks a Knife into Vegan Meat The EU wants to ban vegan food products from using terms such as burger and sausage on their labels. The region’s livestock industry could be smellin...
2020 Renault Captur Unveiled For Europe The new generation Renault Captur has been unveiled for the European markets. The popular-selling compact SUV is based on the new CMF-B modular platf...
The US wants to copy Europe's strict data privacy law – but only some of it Lawmakers, lobbyists and CEOs in the U.S. are looking to trying to pick out the best parts of the EU's privacy law called GDPR – and ditch what ...
You Can Kayak in Europe for Free, If You Pick Up Trash All over the world, our oceans, lakes, and rivers are full of trash. There’s a heap of plastic garbage swirling around in the Pacific Ocean right now...
Europe's Green Parties Grow New Support Left for dead on the political battlefield only a few years ago, environment-focused parties from Ireland to Germany made surprising gains in last we...
Rem Koolhaas video: 'I've seen Britain transformed for the better by Europe' The revered architect and theorist is on a mission to explain why being a part of Europe is good for the national interest - and lovers of coffeeI wa...
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Military sealift may need more help to get combat vehicles to Europe As the Pentagon accelerates its pivot toward great power competition and moves beyond 15 years of counterinsurgency, the US military continues to bui...
Europe says Spain’s economy is doing better than Germany’s. That’s absurd. The nonsense idea that Spain’s economy doesn’t need any more help is really just an excuse not to help it. Policymakers might be able to convince the...
Merkel warns of populists’ rise in Europe BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany has to be more vigilant when it comes to nationalist movements across Europe because of the count...
After Fed turn, Europe faces stimulus question The European Central Bank is weighing what to do about growth worries and sluggish inflation, just two days after the U.S. Federal Reserve opened the...
Europe Vows to Spend More on Defense, but U.S. Still Isn’t Happy Washington says it supports allies’ efforts to increase military funding and capacity, but has complained that the plans cut out American contractors...
Cocaine is on the rise in Europe, EU drug agency says LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The European Union agency that monitors illicit drug use says cocaine is becoming more widely available on the continent. The...
Cocaine use on the rise in Europe thanks to social media LISBON, Portugal — The European Union agency that monitors illicit drug use says cocaine is becoming more widely available on the continent. The Eur...
EU leaders agree to pick new 'Mr or Ms Europe' next month European Union leaders engaged in a first skirmish on Tuesday over who should become the next chief of the European Commission, giving themselves a s...
Sure, the Populists Gained, but the Real Winners May Be for Europe In a fragmented new European Parliament, President Emmanuel Macron of France’s pro-Europe forces and the Greens may have more leverage to influence b...
Seeking Stability in Europe, U.S. Firms Get Out the Vote Several big American companies are joining European peers and business associations in urging employees and the general public to vote in elections f...
Factbox: Europe votes - Timeline to handover EU citizens will elect a new European Parliament this week, the first step in a process that will change the leadership of major European Union insti...
'Prolific' criminal group in Europe busted One of Europe's most prolific crime groups involved in large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering, and assassinations has been dismantled, Europo...
Volvo CEO calls possible U.S-Europe trade war 'worrying' President Trump's decision to delay imposing tariffs on European's car industry comes as a welcome relief to automakers, but Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelss...
Factbox: EU vote - the domestic fall-out across Europe European Parliament elections not only determine the make-up of the next EU assembly and help decide who ends up running top European institutions bu...
As populists falter, Europe is sent a mixed message Europe's populist surge appears to have stalled. On Sunday night, as projections for the European Parliamentary election rolled in, Euroskeptic hopes...
Europe at crossroads as far right makes big gains in vote BRUSSELS (AP) — The traditional centrist leaders of Europe have been assailed from the nationalist, anti-immigration far-right and the environmental ...
From Poland to Portugal, election highlights across Europe Here's a brief look at the results of the European Parliament elections, country by country: GERMANY: Chancellor Angela Merkel's middle-of-the-road g...
Cooks, crooks and videotape: Europe's new lawmakers From a TV chef and stand-up comic to a man in jail and a former prime minister famed for raunchy mansion parties, the new European Parliament feature...
The far right may not have cleaned up, but its influence now dominates Europe | Cas Mudde These elections were no victory for democracy – upbeat responses to the results show how much the far right has joined the mainstreamElections are no...
Merkel and Macron spar in hunt for 'Mr or Ms Europe' German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron disagreed on Tuesday over who should be the next chief of the European Commissio...
Europe will 'die from inside' if far-right populists triumph, top EU figure says Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator and leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, speaks to CNN ab...
Social democracy's struggles and successes in Europe Germany's SPD isn't the only party of social democrats currently struggling in Europe. But while some suffer even more, others are ascendant. DW look...
Once Threatened, Europe’s Night Trains Rebound With growing concern over the environmental impact of flying, sleeper train service, long considered old-fashioned and nostalgic, is picking up steam...
Italy's Salvini says EU vote will lead to big changes in Europe This month's European Parliament election will shake up the continent, leading to a relaxation of budget rules and influencing the choice of the next...
Intense heat wave to hit northern Europe Record temperatures are predicted in northern Europe this week, with authorities in Germany and France on alert. Experts have said heat waves are on ...
Europe's Recovery Hinges on Fiscal Policy Will Germany, the lynchpin of the eurozone economy, take the lead with fiscal stimulus by raising spending and cutting taxes to bolster Europe's reco...
Russia in the Council of Europe: What does it mean for human rights? A controversial decision to restore Moscow's voting rights in the Council of Europe has been called a safeguard for human rights in Russia. But how m...
Neanderthals from Europe may have ousted their Siberian relatives DNA from 120,000-year-old bones sheds light on the ancestry of Neanderthals in Europe, revealing a remarkable 80,000 years of genetic continuity, int...
Ford to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe by 2020 Ford said it has ceased production at three plants in Russia, is closing plants in France and Wales, and has cut shifts at factories in Valencia, Spa...
AP Exclusive: Europe’s far-right wooing the young Europe’s far-right parties are fielding candidates in their 20s and early 30s to appeal to the young. And they are using aggressive social medi...
Ford to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe by end of 2020 Ford said it will have cut 12,000 jobs in Europe by the end of next year to try to return the business to profit, part of a wave of cost reductions i...
Europe’s populists rebrand but policies remain the same BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe’s far-right and populist parties are rebranding themselves as a new group dubbed Identity and Democracy in the European ...
1,000-pound birds once roamed Europe, researchers say If you’re going to pick a fight with a bird, the common ostrich should probably be near the bottom of your list. They’re tall, powerful, ...
Europe's heatwave consistent with climate change, more to come: U.N. This year is on track to be among the hottest ever and that would make 2015-2019 the world's hottest five-year period on record, the World Meteorolog...
10 of Europe’s best hostels near city railway stations Don’t go the extra mile for a bed in Europe’s great cities. From Rome to Vienna, Berlin to Barcelona, here are 10 great hostels just a short hop from...
Cheers and jeers as Europe's far-right rallies in Milan Nationalist parties from across Europe held a rally on Saturday, led by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, promising to reshape the contin...
Europe's plastic waste sent home in toxic row Europe’s sustainability practices are world-leading, but some believe that what has passed as recycling should actually be called liabilityshifting. ...
Europe's populists rebrand but policies remain the same Europe's far-right and populist parties are rebranding themselves as a new group dubbed Identity and Democracy in the European Parliament — but with ...
New Gene Therapy Priced at $1.8 Million in Europe The maker of a gene therapy for a rare blood disorder said it would sell the new treatment for €1.6 million ($1.8 million) in Europe, a sticker price...
Bitter Reality Is Setting in for Europe's Airlines So much for hopes that European airlines will finally put their house in order and rival the profitability of U.S. peers. A big profit warning from L...
As U.S. and Iran Face Off, Europe Is Stuck in the Middle European leaders want desperately to preserve the nuclear deal, which they see as critical to regional security, but are powerless to stop the escala...
No more Mr Europe: Macron forced to curb EU ambitions French President Emmanuel Macron wants this week’s European Parliament elections to be his shining moment to push his ambitions for a stronger Europe...
Europe’s far-right leaders unite with a vow to ‘change history’ Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen are joining with allies to create what may be the third-largest bloc in the European parliamentItalian deputy prime ...
Europe's small cars an endangered species Looming European emission rules may price small cars out of the market in Europe, and they're sending automakers back to the drawing board for a surp...
Libya intercepts nearly 200 Europe-bound migrants at sea CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted Europe-bound vessels carrying nearly 200 migrants, including women, off the country...
New-Generation Yamaha MT-07 Spied Testing In Europe The Yamaha MT-07 is a popular performance bike across the globe and Yamaha is now getting ready to replace the current model with a new one. Although...
Merkel calls for Europe to stand up against far-right parties German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for Europe to push back against far-right parties, saying populist movements wanted to destroy cor...
HTC’s Vive Pro Eye arrives in Europe and China for roughly $2,000 Making good on its promise at the 2019 CES, HTC has set a higher price for its eye-tracking version of the Vive Pro VR headset, intended for enterpri...
Europe should brace for U.S. tariffs, says German official The U.S. is "more likely than not" to impose automotive tariffs on the European Union in mid-November, German lawmaker Peter Beyer said after meeting...
Harrington named Europe Ryder Cup captain "Three-time Major champion Padraig Harrington was named Europe\u0027s captain for the 2020 Ryder Cup on Tuesday, less than four months after helping ...
Europe's GPS Rival Galileo Back After Six-Day Outage Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system, a rival of the American GPS network, is back in service after a six-day outage, its oversight agency sa...
Title tilts: more of the most nailbiting finishes around Europe The Premier League is not the only exciting title race in Europe with Ajax and PSV deadlocked and Istanbul Basaksehir leading a three-horse race in T...
How Russia contaminated $2.7 billion of oil exports to Europe It was a quiet Easter holiday at the offices of major European oil companies and refiners when an email in Russian landed. "What the hell does it say...
Cboe Europe Equities Ready to Go for MiFID II LONDON – 1 November 2017 – Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today ...
The last hurrah? USA have blazed the trail but Europe is closing in The US have won three World Cups, and also helped make the women’s game what it is today. Even if their reign ends, they should be praisedIt would be...
How Europe’s ‘Digital Tax’ Plans Will Hit U.S. Tech Companies France and Britain are hatching plans to tax the revenue, rather than the profit, of companies such as Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google that ...
The case for US stimulus just got weaker. Europe's is only getting stronger 1. America vs. Europe: The United States and Europe could both soon turn on the stimulus taps. The events of the past week have bolstered the case in...
Facebook Portal is coming to Europe and Canada The Facebook Portal was launched back in 2018, in the wake of a host of privacy scandals rocking the company. It seemed a curious time to ask co...
Visegrad Group: A new economic heart of Europe? After German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent meeting with the heads of government of the Visegrad Group, DW asks if Central Europe has the economic...
Clashes as May Day protesters march in cities across Europe Worst violence occurs in Paris but trouble also flares in Berlin, Gothenburg and St PetersburgPolice and protesters have clashed, sometimes violently...
Spain's El Corte Ingles wants to become Europe's next Amazon Europe's largest department store chain was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis. Now, with Chinese giant Alibaba at its side, it wants to take on o...
Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa? A study of some 8-million-year-old teeth found in Greece suggests a controversial idea: that hominins arose in Europe and then moved into Africa late...
RPT-INSIGHT-How Russia contaminated $2.7 bln of oil exports to Europe It was a quiet Easter holiday at the offices of major European oil companies and refiners when an email in Russian landed. "What the hell does it say...
Volkswagen Pact Helps Ford in Europe In working with VW, Ford hopes it can develop an electric car for Europe faster and at a lower cost than it could on its own, as tougher emissions ru...
Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought The first modern humans were not supposed to have reached Europe until 45,000 years ago, but a skull from a Greek cave turns out to be 210,000 years ...
Europe's sat-nav network crippled by 'technical incident' Europe's Galileo satellite network, freshly approved by the FCC for US smartphones, has suffered a serious outage. The system has been down sinc...
Greens Are the New Hope for Europe’s Center. For the Far Right, They’re Enemy No. 1. As climate change emerges as the latest front in Europe’s culture wars, can Green parties show that environmental policy is compatible with social ju...
Europe's likely next president may need far-right votes to win. Some see that as a 'catastrophic sign' Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is on the verge of succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker to become the European Commission's first female president on Tuesda...
Continental Europe braced for 'potentially dangerous' heatwave High pressure pulling hot air northward from Africa will send temperatures soaringA potentially record-breaking heatwave is forecast to grip much of ...
Europe Pushes for Commercial Drone Expansion, Possibly Using AI Aviation industry and regulators are eager to significantly expand commercial drone operations in coming years, including harnessing artificial intel...
10 of the best railway hotels in Europe: readers’ travel tips A friendly welcome and comfortable bed are just the tonic after a long journey: our tipsters know the best hotels near stations from the Med to the T...
Europe Broadens Support for Iran Nuclear Deal Several European Union countries said they were working with Britain, France and Germany to open up trade channels to Iran to cushion the impact of U...
Von der Leyen sets out greener, fairer Europe to EU lawmakers Germany's Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday sketched out her vision of a greener, fairer and rule-based Europe in a last-ditch effort to win the votes ...
Merkel: Europe must unite to stand up to China, Russia and US German chancellor also shares views on Brexit and climate crisis in interviewEurope must reposition itself to stand up to the challenges posed by its...
Scenic cycling routes in Europe: readers’ tips Our tipsters weave their way through mountain ranges and alongside rivers and the sea, mixing family-friendly trails with thrilling climbs and downhi...
Italy’s Salvini positions himself as Europe’s populist leader Salvini was joined by 10 other nationalist leaders, including include far-right leaders Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally party and Joerg Meut...
CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe 2016 CHICAGO, IL -- August 24, 2016 -- Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) will host the 5th annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC) Euro...
2016 CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe CHICAGO, IL -- April 18, 2016 -- Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) will host the 5th annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC) Eur...
Why Europe needs to monitor China's rare earths threat European manufacturers will need to keep an eye on China's "near-monopoly" on the extraction and supply of rare earth minerals as they move towa...
Stand up to far-right, Germany's Angela Merkel tells Europe The resignation of Austria's vice chancellor led German politicians to warn against alliances with populists. Chancellor Merkel spoke out against rig...
France's Macron forced to curb his ambitions for Europe French President Emmanuel Macron sees himself as Europe's savior and next week's European Parliament elections as a make-or-break moment for the bele...
Eel smuggling arrests rise 50% in Europe-wide crackdown Europol says about 15m of the creatures were seized last year in trade worth €3bn annuallyThe number of arrests for the smuggling of eels in Europe h...
CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe 2015 CHICAGO, IL, August 19, 2015 -- The Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) will host the 4th annual CBO...
Von der Leyen takes aim at U.S. tech giants' low tax bill in Europe Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, seeking to become the first female head of the European Commission, has said she wants U.S. tech giants to pay "fair ...
Facebook US data transfer case goes to Europe’s top court LONDON — An Austrian privacy campaigner’s long-running legal battle against Facebook over its data transfers to the U.S. has reached EuropeR...
Bosnia is close to the edge. We need Europe’s help | Aleksandar Brezar With the economy hobbled and ethnic nationalist sentiment rising, this is no time for complacencyIn the opening scenes of Danis Tanović’s Oscar-winni...
Wildfires in Spain as heatwave roasts Europe - but 'worst still to come' Hundreds of firefighters have struggled to contain a major wildfire in northeastern Spain on a day that has seen temperatures continue to soar across...
20 of the best lakes to visit in Europe: readers' travel tips Highland hideaways, glacial lagoons, alpine watersports and lynx-spotting … our readers have tested the waters and know where to stayThe bluest and c...
MLB scraps '20 Asia opener, eyes Europe return MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said it "wasn't the right time" to open the 2020 season in Asia as previously hoped, while saying he would like to have ...
2014 CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe CHICAGO, IL, May 9, 2014 – The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) will host the 3rd Annual CBOE Risk Management Co...
Domino's looks to replace CEO Wild with Europe chief: Sky News Domino's Pizza Group Plc is looking to replace Chief Executive Officer David Wild with the head of its European business, Sky News reported on Thursd...
How A Handful of Yamnaya Culture Nomads Became the Fathers of Europe The origins of modern Europeans are shrouded in mystery and wracked by controversy. Archaeologists and linguists have long debated the origins of the...
Dow Jones Chief Expanded Journal to Asia and Europe A former Wall Street Journal editor and CEO of its publisher, Dow Jones, Warren H. Phillips broadened the newspaper’s readership domestically and ove...
US, Europe condemn violence in Albania opposition rallies TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The U.S. and European Union lawmakers are calling on Albania’s center-right opposition parties to restrain from violence...
Montpellier melts under a 45C high as Europe hit by record heatwave The south of France is like August in Death Valley, officials say, but lessons have been learnt from the deadly summer of 2003“Where shall we put it?...
Vladimir Putin: Sanctions hurt Europe more than Russia President Vladimir Putin has fielded a string of complaints from Russian citizens during his annual televised call-in show. Western sanctions and fal...
Moscow chief rabbi: Europe is 'forgetting the past' Anti-Semitism and far-right extremism are rising, while minorities' religious freedoms are being limited, says Pinchas Goldschmidt, who heads the Con...
Iran Will Not Give Europe More Time To Shield It Against US Sanctions Iran said on Wednesday it will start enriching uranium at a higher level in July and won't give European powers any more time to prevent this move by...
EU top diplomat says Europe will try to make sure 'escalation is avoided' between US, Iran The European Union's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, insisted the world's largest trading bloc has a crucial role in the diffusing of mil...
Migrant Hides Inside Car Dashboard To Enter Europe A migrant was found hiding inside the dashboard of a car on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, trying to enter Europe ill...
U.S., Europe increasingly anxious about shortage of battery materials Key players in battery production including automakers are becoming increasingly concerned about future shortages of key materials needed for batteri...
Lonely Planet's top Europe destinations in 2019 Lonely Planet's annual list of top European destinations for this year is here, from Madrid, Spain, to Shetland, Scotland and more. ...
Acer's $20,000 Predator Thronos gaming chair is now available in Europe If you've been following the weird and wonderful world of PCs for the past couple of years, you probably remember the Acer Predator Thronos, the...
Europe says Iran trade channel operational: statement Britain, France and Germany have a special trade channel up and running with Iran that aims to circumvent U.S. economic sanctions, the EU said in a s...
Domino's Pizza Enterprises' Europe CEO says is committed to firm Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd's Europe head said on Friday he was "invested" in the Australian-based franchisee, after a media report said he could ...
Europe is ignoring U.S. pleas to take back their ISIS fighters Three months after the collapse of the Islamic State, about 800 Europeans are believed to be imprisoned in Syria and Iraq, not including wives and ch...
UK must decide next step on Brexit, says France’s Europe minister Amélie de Montchalin says EU 27 countries are not putting pressure on Britain over BrexitFrance’s minister for European affairs, Amélie de Montchalin...
Biologists name new rat snake species in Europe after little-known Iron Age kingdom Scientists have identified a new species of rat snake living in Eastern Europe. The team of herpetologists decided to name the snake after the often ...
Anderlecht miss out on Europe ahead of Kompany return "Anderlecht missed out on European qualification for the first time in 56 years on Sunday, dealing a blow to Vincent Kompany who will take over as pl...
| Council of Europe assembly authorises Russia's return The Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly has agreed to allow Russian representatives to return to the body, five years after it was stripped of...
Facebook’s Libra coin isn’t even out yet, but it’s already facing opposition in Europe Facebook on Tuesday announced the Bitcoin rival it has been developing for the better part of a year: Libra. From the start, Facebook insisted on how...
Council of Europe to discuss Russia’s voting rights MOSCOW (AP) — The Council of Europe has gathered for a ministerial meeting that could restore Russia’s voting rights in the continent’s m...
Trump heads to Europe at a time of remembrance, turmoil LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump is headed back to Europe, where on previous visits he has strained historic friendships and insulted his hosts. ...
Europe should brace for U.S. tariffs on several fronts: German official European Union member states should brace for U.S. tariffs on several fronts in the months ahead, a senior German official warned late on Tuesday, ju...
D-Day’s 24 Hours Changed the 20th Century, and Europe, Forever ON OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — All at once, Charles Shay tried to stanch the bleeding from a ripped-open stomach, dull the pain with morphine an...
Europe Shut These Migrants Out, Libyan Rebels Bombed Them A Times investigation shows that the African migrants killed by a July 2 airstrike in Libya were being detained near a weapons depot — a prime target...
D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever A dwindling number of D-Day veterans will be on hand in Normandy when international leaders gather to honor them this week on the invasion’s 75th ann...
NW Europe set for above normal temperatures in June - The Weather Company Northwest Europe can expect warmer than normal temperatures in June while lower temperatures are forecast across southeast Europe, The Weather Compan...
D-Day's 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever A dwindling number of D-Day veterans will be on hand in Normandy this year when international leaders gather to honor them on the invasion's 75th ann...
Intense heat wave to strike Paris and across Europe PARIS (AP) — Authorities in the Paris region have issued an alert for intense heat expected in the French capital and across Europe this week. The al...
NW Europe set for above normal temperatures in June: The Weather Company Northwest Europe can expect warmer than normal temperatures in June while lower temperatures are forecast across southeast Europe, The Weather Compan...
Messi finishes Europe's top scorer for third straight year "Lionel Messi has become the first player to win Europe\u0027s Golden Shoe award for the third consecutive year after his nearest challenger Kylian M...
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2017 CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe Chicago, Illinois -- April 26, 2017 -- CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE) will host the 6th annual CBOE Risk Management Conference (RMC...
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Fly to Europe and Back Starting At $226 With This Norwegian Airlines Sale Flying to Europe for your next vacation could be cheaper than flying to somewhere domestic. Norwegian Airlines is currently running a US-to-Europe sa...
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Reporters Without Borders head: 'Journalism in Europe has been weakened' Jamal Khashoggi, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Jan Kuciak: Their murders are among the most serious attacks on press freedom and a symptom of a deep-rooted...
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Europe Rejects Iran's Ultimatum on Nuclear Deal Europe rejected Iran’s ultimatum and said it viewed Tehran’s threat to abandon some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear pact with “great concer...
Baseball proves a big hit in London as MLB seeks new foothold in Europe New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was emphatic about the impact of his team's weekend two-game London Series against the Boston Red Sox on Sunday....
Ban Forces Trading Shift for Europe's Biggest Stocks Investors and traders moved quickly to shift trading of Europe’s largest stocks from London to Switzerland after a major diplomatic breakdown threate...
Europe’s voters elect new parliament as nationalism mounts SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians are voting in the European Parliament elections after a series of scandals overshadowed the debate on key issues of...
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On the edge: life in Europe's easternmost city - in pictures Since 1996, John Peter Askew has been heading 1,500km from Moscow to photograph the Russian city of Perm. His intimate shots capture family meals, fr...
Is Egypt using Syrian refugees as a bargaining chip with Europe? For Syrian refugees in Egypt, crackdowns from the state and racism in society are a part of everyday life. A migration expert spoke to DW about condi...
For Central Americans, Fleeing to Europe May Beat Trying to Reach U.S. A growing number of asylum seekers have found that the journey to the Continent is safer and cheaper than paying smugglers to get them through Mexico...
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Amazon Faces Probe in Europe Over Third-Party Selling Amazon will face a formal EU antitrust investigation into its dealings with third-party merchants, expanding a multipronged regulatory push that has ...
Bringing Europe's stone-age musical instruments to life "Look, don't touch!" is the motto of many archaeological exhibitions. But German Archaeological Institute's (DAI) 190th anniversary party featured hi...
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Far-right Facebook groups 'spreading hate to millions in Europe' Avaaz uncovers 500 accounts using fake news to spread white supremacy messageA web of far-right Facebook accounts spreading fake news and hate speech...
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Ford to cut 12,000 jobs in Europe amid struggling car market Six of company’s 24 European factories will close by end of 2020 under the plansThe US vehicle maker Ford plans to cut 12,000 jobs across Europe as i...
Libya rescues more than 200 Europe-bound migrants off coast CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s navy says it has rescued 213 Europe-bound African and Arab migrants off the Mediterranean coast. The navy released a state...
U.S. zeroes in on Europe's cars in battle to fix trade deficit U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said autos share equal blame with China for the U.S. trade deficit, an indication that European automakers could ...
Europe's heatwave burns on, but eases from record highs A four-day heatwave across western Europe that killed seven people began to ease slightly on Sunday, as temperature alerts were cut back and wildfire...
Iran will not give Europe more time to shield it against U.S. sanctions Iran said on Wednesday it will start enriching uranium at a higher level in July and won't give European powers any more time to prevent this move by...
Lonely Planet reveals Europe summer hot list Vevey in Switzerland and the Shetland Islands are among Lonely Planet's recommendations for summer travel in 2019. Find out which destination is the ...
My Europe: Balkan countries joining the EU — unwanted or unwilling? How serious are the Western Balkans in their stated wish to join the European Union? The issue of EU integration is frequently used by local elites t...
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Italian woman who was Europe’s oldest person has died at 116 MILAN (AP) — A 116-year-old Italian woman who authorities say was the oldest person in Europe and the second oldest in the world has died. The Italia...
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Transfer window: the key deals in Europe away from the Premier League Europe’s heavyweights have all been busy. Catch up on the big moves in La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1After an underwhelming title race and ...
Argentines return to Europe to escape economic uncertainty Academics, research groups and consulting firms agree there has been a rise in the number of people leaving the country, especially among young, educ...
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Europe wants to deal with China as a group: German minister Major European Union countries want to deal with China as a group rather than sign bilateral agreements as individual states, German Economy Minister...
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Michael Smith Biography
Updated On 01 Mar, 2019 Published On 21 Dec, 2016
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October 13 , 1966
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Chef Michael Smith, one of Canada’s best-known chefs, is a passionate advocate for simple, sustainable home cooking and an inspiration for families creating their own healthy food lifestyle. He’s the host of Chef Michael’s Kitchen, Chef at Home and Chef Abroad seen on Food Network Canada and in more than 100 other countries. His food media production company and test kitchen, Culinart Limited, is breaking new ground and his social media platforms are Canada’s top choice for foodie fun.
Michael Smith's Personal Life
Michael is a married man. He has his beautiful wife as a chef and are working together in many project. Chef Michael and his wife Chastity Fizzard are the proprietors of The Inn at Bay Fortune on Prince Edward Island.
They’ve re-launched the property where Michael gained international fame in the 1990s with a new spirit of five-star hospitality and an innovative dining experience, the FireWorks.
Chef Michael Smith with his wife
Recently, he celebrated Valentine's Day with his wife and posted an image of the duo on Instagram.
Michael Smith's Net worth
He amassed a net worth of about $30 million as of 2019.
Michael Smith's Wiki-Bio
Michael Dixon Smith was born on 12 October 1966 in New York City, New York.
He is the host of Chef at Home,The Inn Chef, Chef at Large, and Chef Abroad.
Michael Smith Married
Marriage with Chastity Fizzard
Married date: 2013 Married
He has been happily married to Chastity who is also a chef . They love working together and together they are parents of two children.
Michael Smith Children
SON : Camille Smith
Mother: Chastity Fizzard
He is the first son of Michael Smith.
SON : Gabriel Smith
The couple was blessed with Gabriel as the second child to this family.
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LISA UEDA Violin
“A passionate performer; yet works were polished with much attention to detail, musical shape and structure” (Ongaku-no- Tomo, Tokyo) Award-winning violinist Lisa Ueda works regularly in Europe and Asia, hailed with “exceptional playing” (Sir James Galway, BBC Music Magazine). Concerto and chamber music collaborations are at the core of her work; she has appeared as a recitalist at the Wigmore Hall and other international venues of this calibre. Recent recording venues include Abbey Road Studios and media appearances on magazines, TV and BBC Radio3. Generous awards received include the Kirckman Concert Society, Tunnell Trust, Solti Foundation, Carr-Gregory and ABRSM Macklin Bursary Awards, Bach Prize, Clumber Studio Scholarship, amongst many others. Lisa studied at the Royal Academy of Music on a full ABRSM International Scholarship, followed by a Masters degree supported by the RAM; with Richard Deakin. Great artists as Gyorgy Pauk and Tasmin Little have also been a source of guidance and inspiration during this time and since. Lisa plays on a 1775 Antonio Gagliano on kind loan.
www.LisaUeda.com & @lisauedaviolin
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Education and Public Outreach
The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies
New NASA Grant to Robert A. Pritzker Center Team
Thu, 01/10/2019 - 09:40 -- Anonymous (not verified)
Philipp Heck (Robert A. Pritzker Associate Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies) has received a grant from NASA’s Emerging Worlds program. Together with Resident Grad Student Jennika Greer (University of Chicago) and collaborators from Northwestern University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, the research will focus on “Underexplored aspects of the history of our solar system’s presolar starting material.” The knowledge of the origin of the starting material of our Solar System is an issue of fundamental interest in planetary science.
Read more about New NASA Grant to Robert A. Pritzker Center Team
FameLab USA: Exploring Earth and Beyond
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 06:43 -- pheck
On the weekend of June 13 and 14 the Field Museum's Robert A. Pritzker Center of Meteoritics and Polar Studies will be hosting FameLab USA. FameLab is something like American Idol for scientists. Sponsored by NASA in the US, it’s a fun-filled day of competition, coaching, and camaraderie that’s all about science communication!
Read more about FameLab USA: Exploring Earth and Beyond
Fossil Meteorites on Public Exhibit – Extended
Fri, 11/07/2014 - 10:55 -- pheck
The rare fossil meteorites are now on public exhibit at the Field Museum in the Main Hall (Stanley Field Hall next to Sue) extended until April 2015. After that they will be incorporated into a permanent exhibit that will open end of 2015. This is the first and only exhibit of fossil meteorites in the Western Hemisphere.
To learn more about the fossil meteorites watch the BrainScoop video and read the News article.
Read more about Fossil Meteorites on Public Exhibit – Extended
Fossil Meteorites on The Brain Scoop
The Brain Scoop host Emily Graslie talks with Philipp Heck about fossil meteorites. The Robert A. Pritzker Associate Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies Philipp Heck studies fossil meteorites with collaborator and fossil meteorite pioneer Professor Birger Schmitz from Lund University since 2002 with a variety of analytical techniques.
Read more about Fossil Meteorites on The Brain Scoop
First modern interstellar dust discovered: Science Article includes Field Museum Authors
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 10:47 -- Anonymous (not verified)
We may joke about looking for a needle in a haystack, but that’s nothing compared to searching for stardust in a foil! A new paper published in Science reveals that such work has led to the discovery of seven dust particles that are not only out of this world, they’re out of this solar system.
Read more about First modern interstellar dust discovered: Science Article includes Field Museum Authors
"The Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies' mission is to enhance our knowledge of nature through rigorous scientific studies in meteoritics, the planetary sciences and polar studies.
One of the main goals of the Center is to curate one of the world's largest meteorite collections and to provide the scientific community with samples for high quality scientific research. The Center strives to maintain a balance between serving current research needs and preserving the collection for the future generations.
The Center is engaged in educational outreach to the public, to educators at all levels, and to students at the undergraduate and graduate levels."
The Robert A. Pritzker Center was established in 2009 through a major grant by the Tawani
The current research focus at the Center is on presolar grains to understand our parent stars and the history of our Galaxy, and on the delivery history of extraterrestrial matter to Earth through the study of fossil meteorites and micrometeorites found in sediments, and terrestrial impact craters.
Since its beginnings in 1893 the Field Museum has a long-standing history in meteoritics. In 1933 the Meteoritical Society, the professional society for meteorite researchers, was founded at the Field Museum.
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Air Force Retiree Philip Inhofer Murdered by Nevada Escort for Money and 1975 Mercedes Convertible; Michelle Cummiskey Sentenced to 25 Years to Life (March 7, 1991)
Posted on March 7, 1991 by Jennifer Norris
Philip Inhofer, US Air Force Retired
Philip Inhofer was an Air Force retiree hired as a civil servant at McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California after retirement from the military. He was recently divorced from his second wife and enjoying retirement as a single man. Philip moved back to North Natomas in Sacramento to be closer to his family. He adored his grandkids and enjoyed being a grandfather. On March 7, 1991, Philip’s boss at McClellan AFB called Philip’s son Henry because he hadn’t shown up to work which was not like him and they were worried. Henry went to Philip’s home and found that his car was gone and his lights were off. He went inside the house, saw blood, and thought maybe he was hurt. Henry was frantic and as a result, he checked the entire house; he eventually found his dad in a closet. Philip was face down and naked with a plastic bag over his head. Henry called his wife who came right over and initially they thought maybe Philip killed himself; they called the police together. Henry took his father’s death hard. He admitted to feeling bummed and having no passion about anything after this tragedy. Henry was in the process of rebuilding his relationship with his dad because when he was young, he was a rebellious teen and Philip was gone a lot while he was in the military.
Henry shared that Philip had been to Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand in his military travels. Henry was using this chance as an opportunity to get to know his father and was looking forward to many more years with him. In retirement, Philip Inhofer loved square dancing and enjoyed his social life but he was getting bored so he bought a two-door 1975 Mercedes convertible. Henry found a list of escort services in his dad’s home and was shocked. He didn’t know anything about his father’s lifestyle. Henry assumed since Philip was recently divorced, he was looking for love in all the wrong places. Henry was embarrassed that his father was purchasing escorts. Apparently Philip did not like being alone so one night he called an escort service and asked for two women. One of those women was an escort by the name of Jade. Jade did not look like a prostitute and was very pretty although she was a prostitute at a Nevada brothel. After meeting Jade that first time, Philip was struck by her and asked for her by name after that because he only had eyes for Jade. In addition to paying Jade for her services, Philip helped her financially; he gave her money to pay her debts, bought her designer clothes, took her shopping, and paid all her expenses. He began spending more and more time with Jade and spending more and more money.
Meanwhile, Henry noticed that Philip would stop by briefly to visit with them but would not sit down and would not stay. He appeared fidgety. Philip was not depressed but looking back in retrospect, he was in love. Philip got rid of his dog for Jade after she complained about it. Then out of the blue he talked about selling his beloved car. We would later learn that Jade wanted his car and he needed another one to replace it. Investigators determined that Jade wanting Philip’s Mercedes became a problem in the relationship because Philip wanted to keep his beloved car. Jade also wanted to continue to shop endlessly but Philip had to put his foot down because he didn’t have the money. Despite Jade’s persistence about the car, Philip could not part with it. Regardless, Philip and Jade started making serious plans together. Philip wanted Jade to move in with him and on March 6, 1991, Jade left the Mustang Ranch in Nevada to move in with her new man in California. Jade and a friend drove through a snow storm to get to California and Philip was very happy to see her. One day later, Philip Inhofer was found dead in his home. First responders at the scene knew right away that Philip Inhofer’s death was no suicide.
A homicide detective was called to the scene to investigate what appeared to be a brutal murder. Detectives discovered a large blood stain on the carpet and found Philip lying on his stomach with a plastic bag on his head. They observed that Philip had suffered from numerous stab wounds and his throat had been slashed. Whoever killed Philip did so in a rage. Philip’s skull was fractured and his teeth were smashed in which was evidence tremendous amounts of blunt force were used. Philip’s shower curtain was shredded and there was blood everywhere including in the tub, on the walls, and on the shower curtains. Detectives found two pieces of paper in the home with Jade’s name on it, one of them was located on the bed stand. They learned Jade was an escort but Philip never told his family that piece of information. Using Philip’s phone records, detectives were able to track down persons of interest in an effort to find Jade. Detectives learned from a friend that Jade was going to Sacramento, California to pick up a Mercedes. The friend who gave Jade a ride to Sacramento informed police that Jade asked her to stop at a store so she could pick up some rat poisoning. She claimed she was going to use it to kill someone but her friend thought she was just kidding.
Investigators also learned that Jade or Michelle Cummisky was accused of electrocuting a previous husband; she threw a radio in his tub. But there was not enough evidence to charge her. Some of her friends said she worshipped Satan and Black Magic, and had tried to kill every man she was ever involved with. A previous husband thought she used rat poison on him because he got very ill when he was with her. Police were concerned that a beautiful, lethal woman was on the run so they called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist. And the media was contacted; they called Michelle Cummisky ‘Batgirl’ in reports. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a police officer pulled over two girls in a Ryder rental truck with a freshly painted Mercedes in the back. The police ran the vehicle identification number and it came back as a hit to the murder victim, Philip Inhofer. Sacramento detectives went to Mississippi. Michelle’s friend Crystal Woodruff was clueless about Michelle’s crimes so she was released but Michelle on the other hand admitted to the crime. She told investigators that she hurt the man she loved because she was high on a lot of LSD and didn’t know what she was doing. Michelle loved her LSD. She claimed she went to get in the shower with Philip but instead saw monsters and beasts. She described Philip as a dark force that she needed to get rid of.
As Michelle committed the murder, she was reminded that Satan would protect her. She started stabbing Philip through the shower curtain as he was taking a shower. He was completely vulnerable, defenseless, and taken off guard. He attempted to fight off the attack as evidenced by the numerous defense wounds on his body but would succumb to the multiple stab wounds. An autopsy revealed that Philip had been stabbed thirty-two times. After he collapsed, Michelle hit him in the head with a bat a few times to make sure he was dead then dragged his body to a closet. Michelle ate dinner and went to bed. She described to investigators that Satan guided her through everything. The next day, Michelle left North Natomas with the bloody rugs and stole Philip’s Mercedes. Michelle Cummisky was charged with murder. At her trial a couple years later, she used the fact that she had a horrible upbringing and difficult childhood as her defense. The prosecutors reminded the jury that the murder was a cold calculated crime and Michelle would go to any lengths to get what she wanted. On April 14, 1994, Michelle Cummisky was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison. In April 2011, Michelle Cummisky was denied her first chance at parole. Michelle Cummisky is a greedy, sociopath and her selfish actions altered the destiny of several people forever.
ID Go: A lonely ex-military man meets up with a much younger beautiful woman, and together they fall in love. Or so they think. Until a deadly combination of greed, worry, and secrets leaves one dead and the other on the run… wanted for murder. -Shades of Jade, A Stranger in My Home (S3, E8)
Michelle Cummiskey v. California Superior Court (1992)
‘Batgirl’ killer of Sacramento man denied parole
Ask Sacto 911 crime Q&A: What happened to woman investigators dubbed ‘Batgirl’?
Philip Inhofer, Michelle Cummiskey: ‘Bat Girl’ Killer Known as Jade was Sexy Escort, Story on ID’s ‘A Stranger in My Home’
Shades of Jade | A Stranger in my Home | Investigation Discovery (S3, E8)
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Title: Changes in the Prevalence of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy among Recent and At-Risk Drinkers in the NLSY Cohort
1. Bobo, Janet Kay
Klepinger, Daniel H.
Dong, Frederick B.
Changes in the Prevalence of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy among Recent and At-Risk Drinkers in the NLSY Cohort
Journal of Women's Health 15,9 (November 2006): 1061-1070
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes
Purpose: To support efforts to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), population-based data are needed on the prevalence of alcohol use at any time during gestation, particularly among women who were recent and at-risk drinkers. Methods: We used National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experiences in Youth (NLSY) files to estimate the prevalence of any drinking during pregnancy and to evaluate alcohol history risk factors among 6676 births reported by women with prepregnancy drinking data. Prevalence estimates were obtained for 2-year intervals for all 1982–1995 births and for subsets with prepregnancy recent and at-risk drinking. Results: Among all births, drinking during pregnancy declined from 38.3% in 1982–1983 to 23.0% in 1994–1995 ( p < 0.0001). Drinking during pregnancy also declined over time among recent and at-risk drinkers ( p < 0.0001), but the 1994–1995 prevalences were still high (39.3% and 29.0%, respectively). Adjusted logistic models confirmed both the decrease in risk for the later birth years and the persistent heightened risk for births among recent and at-risk drinkers. Conclusions: In addition to ongoing universal prevention strategies that have helped reduce the prevalence of drinking during pregnancy, selective and indicated prevention approaches are needed to encourage abstinence during pregnancy among recent and at-risk drinkers.
Bobo, Janet Kay, Daniel H. Klepinger and Frederick B. Dong. "Changes in the Prevalence of Alcohol Use during Pregnancy among Recent and At-Risk Drinkers in the NLSY Cohort." Journal of Women's Health 15,9 (November 2006): 1061-1070.
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JOBZ Program Loses Jobs, Tax Breaks Increase
Nancy Knoche
April 22, 2011; Source: Star-Tribune | Suzlon Rotor Corp., a wind energy company located in rural Minnesota, was one of the biggest job losers in a state program to encourage job creation. Yet it still remains eligible to receive $297,000 in tax breaks. Critics are wondering why.
JOBZ, which stands for Jobs Opportunity Building Zones, is a signature rural job creation bill started in 2004 by then governor Tim Pawlenty. The program touted creating 6,992 jobs since its launch. But a program publication released last week reported that only 6,366 jobs were created through the program through the end of 2009, a 9 percent decline. Yet as job creation has stalled, program subsidies rose to nearly $34 million to participating companies.
Since it began, 379 JOBZ companies received $144 million in tax breaks including 77 businesses that were booted from the program for not meeting goals.
“It is further evidence that economic development subsidies cannot defy gravity,” notes Greg LeRoy, executive director of the nonprofit group, Good Jobs First. Similar efforts in other states have produced similar results, he added.
Bob Isaacson, director of JOBZ and business finance manager for the state department who issued the report, emphasized that manufacturing companies in Minnesota suffered nearly 11 percent of job declines in 2009. Participating JOBZ companies expanded operations and added jobs because of the subsidies, he reports.
An analysis by the Star-Tribune reveals that many other job creation programs supported by local and state governments from 2004 to 2009 didn’t meet hiring goals.
At Suzlon Rotor Corp., their employee numbers fell from 500 in 2006 to 30 today. It is scheduled to receive the $297,000 property tax reduction because it met its JOBZ goal of 23 new jobs. Former employees of the company are frustrated because they believe a job goal so low doesn’t warrant such a large subsidy.
Jason Bush and his wife were both laid off from Suzlon in December. “What I don’t think was very good is the number they are required to maintain – 23 jobs – seriously,” says Bush. “McDonalds employs more people than that.”—Nancy Knoche
Is Doing Business with AARP a Bad Deal?
By Nancy Knoche
9/11 Charities Hope to Open Hearts and Wallets
Bloomberg Spreads the Wealth to Fellow Big-City Mayors
By Nancy Knoche and Rick Cohen
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Findlay Prep senior forward primed for even more attention from colleges
On two occasions in the second half Saturday, an exhausted Horace Spencer walked to a spot near the baseline, grabbed the bottom of his shorts and looked up at his teammate in anticipation of an inbounds pass.
Findlay Prep forward Horace Spencer (0) drives past Team Pennsylvania's Miko Jenkins (24) and Andrew Eudy (25) while playing for the Gymrats (N.J.) travel team during the Las Vegas Fab 48 basketball tournament at the Henderson International School on Saturday. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Findlay Prep forward Horace Spencer (0) dunks over Team Pennsylvania's Andrew Eudy (25) and Dejean Williams (5) while playing for the Gymrats (N.J.) travel team during the Las Vegas Fab 48 basketball tournament at the Henderson International School on Saturday. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Findlay Prep forward Horace Spencer (0) shoots over Team Pennsylvania's Miko Jenkins (24) while playing for the Gymrats (N.J.) travel team during the Las Vegas Fab 48 basketball tournament at the Henderson International School on Saturday. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Findlay Prep forward Horace Spencer (0) tries to grab a loose ball while playing for the Gymrats (N.J.) travel team against Team Pennsylvania during the Las Vegas Fab 48 basketball tournament at the Henderson International School on Saturday. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Seated about 10 feet away in a red T-shirt was UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice. And two of his assistants.
They were impossible to miss.
“Yeah, I saw them,” Spencer said with a wry smile.
Rice and his staff made sure to stay in Spencer’s sightline as much as possible during the travel circuit this spring and summer, and they left one final impression on the 6-foot-8-inch rising senior forward at Findlay Prep at the conclusion of the July evaluation period.
Of the five coaches seated along the baseline for the 9:40 a.m. game at Henderson International between Spencer’s Gym Rats (N.J.) and Team Pennsylvania in the consolation bracket of the Las Vegas Fab 48 tournament, three were from UNLV: Rice, along with assistants Stacey Augmon and Todd Simon. (Auburn and Holy Cross were the other schools present.)
The Rebels are actively recruiting a handful of big men from the class of 2015, but it’s obvious they’ve made Spencer a high priority.
“It feels like they really want me to go to their school. It feels good to be wanted by somebody,” Spencer said. “I can see myself fitting in, but as of right now I’m keeping that a secret.”
Spencer, who is originally from Warminster, Pa., is a four-star recruit and consensus top 100 player by ESPN.com, Rivals.com and Scout.com. Spencer admitted it was an adjustment coming to Las Vegas from the East Coast, and he endured an abbreviated junior season with the Pilots.
Spencer averaged 6.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.8 blocks before he suffered a broken thumb on his birthday on Jan. 31 and missed the rest of the season. Findlay Prep (31-5) bowed out in the semifinals of the High School National Tournament with only seven healthy players.
“It was painful being hurt to watch my teammates fight without another big man to fight with,” Spencer said. “I did what I had to do. I came back stronger, bigger, faster and hungrier.”
Jerome Williams was fired as the Pilots’ coach in April after only one season, and assistant Andy Johnson was promoted to take over the program. Spencer said he never considered transferring from Findlay Prep.
“I can’t speak for everybody, but me personally, it didn’t really bother me because I knew what I had to do for myself to get better,” Spencer said. “I was going to be at Findlay no matter what happens.”
Along with UNLV, Spencer has scholarship offers from several other schools, including Cincinnati, Georgetown, Louisville, Maryland, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, South Florida and Southern California. He previously made unofficial visits to Auburn, Seton Hall and Temple.
Spencer said he doesn’t have a timetable for selecting a school and will discuss it with his father before making a decision. The first day recruits can sign a letter of intent is Nov. 12.
“I don’t care where the college is at,” Spencer said. “It matters how the program is set up, how it fits me.”
Spencer is known for his energy, especially at the defensive end, and finished with 18 points, seven rebounds, three blocked shots, two assists and two steals as the Gym Rats were eliminated from the Fab 48 with an 81-55 loss Saturday.
Spencer blocked Team Pennsylvania’s first shot before he picked up three fouls and headed to the bench after the first 3 minutes, 11 seconds. He went 8-for-14 from the field and showed range out to 18 feet to go with two alley-oop dunks, but most of Spencer’s points came after the Gym Rats fell behind by double digits in the second half.
Spencer also suffered the indignity of having his name spelled incorrectly (“Spencr”) on the back of his jersey. Not that he minds.
“Everybody knows who I am,” he said.
Especially the members of UNLV’s staff.
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Fischli and Weiss: Surface Fun that Repays a Deep Dive
THE DAILY PIC: At the Guggenheim, a pair of tricksters do philosophers' work.
Blake Gopnik, March 7, 2016
THE DAILY PIC (#1505): I finally went to see “Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and even weeks into the show its pizza-eating art installers still hadn’t cleaned up the mess they left behind on the top floor.
Or rather, not.
What I’m showing in today’s Pic is actually a laboriously crafted simulation of such a mess, made entirely from carved and painted polyurethane. That kind of trompe-l’oeil work can always come off as fun and glib, which is an accusation that can be leveled at all the art made by the team of Fischli and Weiss, from The Way Things Go, their utterly irresistible Rube Goldberg video, to the 600 goofy clay sculptures of Suddenly This Overview, depicting whimsical world-historical scenes such as Mr. and Mrs. Einstein in bed just after conceiving Albert and Frankenstein’s monster sniffing a flower. But like the serious play of toddlers (a shout-out here to my sister Alison) the games at the Guggenheim have depths that approach the philosophical.
Herewith five deep-ish reflections on the superficial, simulated jumble seen in today’s Pic:
1) If the piece seems to represent the chaos of an artist’s studio, is it in fact deliberately re-presenting a cliché? Given the absurd level of detail in the simulation, isn’t the studio where it gets made more likely to look like the cleanest of labs? How many paint rollers were really used in the making of these minutely crafted objects? (Which of course include the paint roller itself.)
2) Even if the tableau at the Guggenheim really does reproduce the mess of the Fischli-Weiss studio, it can’t reproduce what was left behind from making this particular pile of trash– since that mess would have to exist beforehand in order for it to be reproduced. That means that there must have been some other mess produced in the making of this (simulated) one – a second-order mess that itself could then be reproduced, and so on ad infinitum.
3) The leftovers of art production are being presented as the goal of art production, apparently in celebration of pure aesthetic labor and in rejection of its fancy products. That sounds highly principled … except that what this “pure” labor produces is in fact a fake image of itself at work – an image which turns out to be the fanciest of fancy products. So does that celebrate the raw effort of making art, or take advantage of it?
4) There’s a long and glorious tradition of making visible the process behind works of art. But it’s hard to know if the Fischli-Weiss simulation of studio process belongs in that tradition or rejects it. After all, we get absolutely no clue about how the simulation itself was made.
5) Maybe, like so many artists in our end-of-days, post-postmoden art world, Fischli and Weiss are despairing at the prospect at making meaningful works of art. All today’s artist can do is toil in the studio for the sake of the toil, without hope of coming up with a final product that can take its place as the latest innovation in some proud tradition. Without hope, say, of coming up with an impressive, novel, philosophical contribution to the great tradition of trompe-l’oeil – precisely as Fischli and Weiss have done. (Photo by Lucy Hogg)
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Blue Light Special: Andre Wilson
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By: William Carroll
Andre’ Wilson is a Computer Information Systems Major in the
College of Business Administration at Alabama State University and will receive that degree soon, later in the Spring of 2018. However if that’s all I told you that’d be like just telling you that the Wright Bothers were bicycle mechanics or that Clark Kent was a journalist.
He’s also a very powerful and crafty Defensive Tackle who’s build is as thick, low-slung and sold as a safe. In 2016 he posted 32 tackles, including 13 solo tackles and tacked on 5.5 tackles for a loss of 19 yards. he racked up 4.5 sacks for a loss of 14 yards and recorded one forced fumble and one quarterback hurry. He followed up this past season with 13 solo tackles with 27 assists, 4 TFL with 18 yards lost, 1.5 sacks with 14 lost yards, 1 pass deflection, 6 QB hurries and 1 forced fumble. He is as kind, considerate and humble off of the field as he is ferocious on it.
Meet Andre Wilson.
1. I have had the pleasure of watching your career from your time at Alabama State University. What would you say are the 5 biggest and best lessons you’ve learned on your journey?
The five biggest lessons I’ve learned through my career was [sic] {were}:
1. Building up my confidence level
2. Playing with passion
3. Breaking down the game as a whole
4.Being dedicated to perfecting my craft each and every day because time is precious.
5. Lastly is having and keep faith in the lord the journey because he knows best for my life.
2. The next question, you played for Mark Stroud at Calvary Day High School, what was that program like and what kind of coach was he?
Being in a great football program at Calvary Day School built a solid foundation for me as a football player as a whole. Learning how to lift weights and also learning proper techniques on the field that I still carry to this day. Playing under Mark Stroud taught me a lot about football and life as well. “Discipline and Detailed” was his philosophy and he taught us to not only carry it on the field but to have it in life. Anything you want to do in life can be done with having discipline and paying close attention to the smallest details.
3. Who were your major rivals in High School and College?
In high school, our biggest rival was Savannah Christian Preparatory School. In college, our rival was Alabama A&M.
4. Your home area is loaded with talent Jalen Myrick and DeAngelo Brown to name a few who are some of the best players you played with or against while you were in college, high school or growing up?
There is always great talent that comes out of Savannah Georgia. Players like: Anthony Lanier, Milan Richard, Aaron Keene, and Tyrone Riley are all players that either played with in high school or played against in high school and college.
5. What was your recruitment process like, who was interested and how did you choose your school?
Coming out of high school my recruitment process was truly a blessing. Earning a full scholarship to play the sport I love and get a degree was the ultimate goal. I had interest from multiple schools such as Alabama State, Jacksonville University, Jackson State University, Coastal Carolina and Valdosta State. What made me choose Alabama State University was the love I had for the school. It made me feel comfortable as if I was home. I was also surrounded by some of the best coaches in the nation.
6. What was the best game and the biggest play you made as a high school player?
The best game I played in high school was my senior year when we played Eagles Landings in the game before the State championship. They score a go-ahead touchdown late in the fourth quarter with no time remaining which puts them down by only one point. Instead of going for the extra point they decide to go for two to win the game. They ran a QB power play up the middle and [I] tackle the QB before he reaches the end zone to win the game.
7. What was you big “Welcome to College Football” Moment?
Taking one [sic] {on}, the double team blocks my first day in pads during camp
8. What is your current height/weight and what are your testing numbers?
5’11 285. I will be expressing my testing numbers on my pro day March 8th[Results]-40: 5.1 Broad Jump: 8’8” Vertical: 31.5” Bench: 23 Repetitions, 20 Yard short shuttle: 4.6 3-Cone: 8.0
9. How have the systems and staffs at your school impacted your development?
It has played a major impact on my development as a player. Learning and playing in multiple different defensive schemes in the 4-3, 3-4, 4-2-5 taught me the game as a whole. Learning different techniques in playing the 0 tech, 4 tech, Shade, and the 3 tech.
10. Which coaches have had the greatest impact on you and why?
The three coaches that have impacted me the most are my defensive line coach Bob Dimmitt in high school. He gave the foundation of how to play defensive line. Learning how to read blocks that are given and doing my job. Demarco McNeil is another defensive line coach I play[ed] under my freshman and sophomore year in college. He taught me the aggression, attitude along with technique in playing defensive line. Osita Alaribe is also another defensive line coach I played under my senior year in college. He taught me pure technique and fundamentals of defensive line play. He also taught me the game as a whole in knowing what to expect from the offensive or offensive line.
11. How hard was to adjust to the verbiage, system and play-book and when did you feel 100% comfortable?
It wasn’t hard at all to adjust to verbiage. The only challenging thing there was to learn was the 3-4 schemes my sophomore and junior year switching from the 4-3. I felt most comfortable my senior year moving back to the four-man front.
12. Who have been your favorite teammates, and why? Brandon Watkins, Jaquez Boswer, Roderick Henderson.
They kept it real with me and I’ve also learned so much from them. Hey pushed me harder than I thought I could myself.
13. Who have been your favorite opponents and why?
Alabama A&M, Grambling State University, and also Jackson State University. They all put up a good fight when we played those teams every year.
14. If you could put together a list of your favorite players to watch or emulate, who is on that list and why?
Aaron Donald, Grady Jarrett, Mike Daniels, and Geno Atkins. They all represent the shorter defensive tackles and they also play Physical and fast
15. What NFL teams are your favorites and why?
[The] Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, Jacksonville Jaguars. These teams fit the schemes I would love to play in.
16. Which NFL players do you think your game most closely resembles and why?
Aaron Donald and Grady Jarrett. They both play with great pad level and also have great quickness attacking blocks.
17. When football is over what would you like to do with your education?
I would like to own my business in giving back to the youth and being a productive role model in life.
18. Finally if you could go back in time to talk to 17 year-old you, what would you tell him?
I would tell the 17 year old me that life is a journey and as you experience [it] you will grow as a person a truly find God and yourself.
19. And what would you do differently if you could do it all over again?
I wouldn’t do anything differently, everything I have done in my life has made me and has gotten to where I’m at today.
20. What [if any] is/are your nickname[s] and how did you get it/them?
My High School Nickname was ‘Big Sexy.’ I was just big and sexy {obviously!}. My college nicknames were: big daddy, Oxtail, Casper, and Tank. I got those names due to my big lower body and my strength and quickness
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Father of investment banker dodges jail for insider trading
By Kevin Dugan
May 4, 2016 | 10:55pm
Wall Street banker, dad used 'golf-related code' for insider trading: prosecutors
A Wall Street banker and his Long Island father teamed...
A Long Island dad of a Wall Street investment banker escaped jail time on Wednesday for his involvement in a four-year, $1 million insider trading scheme with his son.
Robert Stewart was sentenced to four years of probation, with the first year under house arrest, and to forfeit $150,000 in ill-gotten gains, according to Manhattan US attorney Preet Bharara’s office.
The father and son team used golf-related terms to try to disguise their plan to profit off upcoming health care company mergers, according to prosecutors.
“Might have an opportunity to play golf but would need to book the reservation as soon as the office opens Tuesday morning,” Robert Stewart said in one e-mail, according to the initial complaint.
Robert Stewart, 65, pleaded guilty in August to one count of securities fraud, for trading on the health care merger tips from his son, Sean Stewart, for about four years through last May.
“Robert Stewart received nonpublic mergers and acquisitions information from his investment banker son, and then used this illegal edge to earn substantial trading profits,” Bharara said in a statement.
Sean, 34, started the scheme in 2011, when he was an investment banker in the health care unit at JPMorgan Chase, and continued it when he moved to Perella Weinberg Partners, according to the Justice Department.
During that time, he had access to private information about upcoming deals.
The criminal charges, which were first filed last May, were notable for the lengths that Bharara’s office went to show that the son also received a personal benefit, since his father used some of his ill-gotten gains to pay for his son’s wedding photographer.
Sean Stewart’s trial to fight the charges against him is slated for the end of July in Manhattan federal court.
Martin Cohen, a lawyer for the Stewarts, declined to comment.
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Dan Dicker
Dan Dicker is a 25 year veteran of the New York Mercantile Exchange where he traded crude oil, natural gas, unleaded gasoline and heating oil…
One Player That’s Not Headed Off A Cliff
By Dan Dicker - Feb 20, 2015, 2:48 PM CST
EOG Resources, despite their first miss in 8 quarters, has proven again it is best of breed of the shale players with its declared strategy for 2015. As prices for the stock get hit in the next days and weeks because of its miss and dropping crude prices, it would be a great opportunity to start a long-term position in the company. They are ultimately going to outpace virtually everyone else in the space.
At the North American Prospect Expo, a conference for oil and gas players, KeyBank Capital used a slide proclaiming “Keep calm and frack on” – a jokey way to reassure the E+P’s that the downturn in crude is temporary and ‘staying the course’ on production is the smart response.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Virtually every E+P has cut capex to the bone, laid down all but the most efficient and productive rigs, turned the remaining rigs up to produce as fast as they can and guided for increased production for 2015.
That’s good business, right? If you are always and inexorably valued on the street by your production, by how many barrels of oil equivalent you’ve increased from last quarter, then only this breakneck plan of attack will ‘save’ you from this ‘temporary’ setback in crude prices.
Only that’s what everyone is depending on – and a collective hallucination has formed inside each E+P individually where ‘the other guy’ finally gets broken financially and stops pumping, but it’s never them. But here’s the hallucination: There IS no other guy – production targets continue to soar as do stockpiles as we saw again on Wednesday – and the glut will continue to worsen. Individually, it seems the only way, but collectively, this strategy is a group march to the gallows.
All except EOG – the one E+P who did NOT have to be smart, whose costs of recovery are the lowest and whose prime acreage in the Bakken, Eagle Ford Shale and Wolfcamp give them the kind of production optionality that other players can only dream of.
But what does EOG do? Instead of following the other lemmings over the cliff, they adjust. They drop Capex even further than the street expects, a drop of 40%, and announce a planned FLAT year of production at best, with a more likely drop in production to come for the next fiscal year. And - in a move that completely sets them apart, they are increasing their inventory of deferred development. That means that they are actually committing to spend some money on already contracted services to NOT drill, saying they will wait until markets make that drilling more profitable.
Smart – when every other E+P has burned through it’s best acreage on skinny margins with nothing on the horizon to take it’s place, EOG will be the lone player with ready production to ramp up, just as oil prices are recovering and other E+P’s are scrambling to find fresh financing and restart abandoned projects.
But EOG is hardly being congratulated by this strategy. In the premarket, shares are down more than 6%. That’s the expected reaction: Wall Street does not appreciate a revenue miss accompanied by a plan to reduce barrels.
Good. I hope they continue to miss the long-term point of EOG’s master plan. And give you and me a share price closer to $90.
For the long-term, that would be one of the best stock opportunities I’ve seen in quite some time.
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0x0 on Oct 29, 2016 | parent | favorite | on: Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3
And then there's this: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/28/macbook-pro-tb3-reduced-...
"MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) The two right-hand ports deliver Thunderbolt 3 functionality, but have reduced PCI Express bandwidth."
blumentopf on Oct 29, 2016
Yes, because the PCIe root complex in the CPU can only connect one other device besides the southbridge, and that's used for the Thunderbolt controller on the left handside. The second Thunderbolt controller is connected to the southbridge (as are all the other PCIe peripherals), so it doesn't have the same number of PCIe lanes available as the one directly connected to the root complex.
Apple could have solved this by connecting a PCIe switch to the root complex and attaching both Thunderbolt controllers below it, but that would have consumed additional energy. Alternatively they could have used a beefier CPU with more PCIe root ports on the CPU, but I guess those available would have been too energy hungry. Which kind of means this is Intel's fault for not providing a low-energy chip with enough PCIe root ports on the CPU.
I'm wondering what the situation is like on the 15" version with discrete graphics. This would require 3 root ports directly on the CPU to drive both Thunderbolt controllers and the GPU with full speed, I assume that's indeed the case since it's not mentioned in the document.
Another thing not mentioned in the document is that energy consumption will be suboptimal if one device is attached on both sides of the machine because it prevents one of the Thunderbolt controllers from powering down. One should connect both devices on one side to improve battery life.
Edit: On Skylake the PCH is apparently optional, the functionality is mostly integrated into the CPU, so the limitation is really the number of lanes provided by the CPU, and this wasn't sufficient to connect both Thunderbolt controllers with 4x. The CPUs used in the 13" model all have 12 lanes, the ones in the 15" model have 16 lanes. So for the top-of-the-line model this could be 4x for each of the Thunderbolt controllers, 4x for the GPU, 2x for the SSD, 1x for Wifi, 1x for HD Audio?
erik on Oct 29, 2016
Re:your edit, the PCIe lane configurations from the CPU aren't that flexible. There is no 4x+4x+4x+2x+1x+1x configuration.
4x Thunderbolt + 4x Thunderbolt + 8x GPU, with everything else on the PCH would make sense for the 15". Or maybe they connected the SSD (also 4x PCIe) to the CPU, and one of the Thunderbolt controllers to the PCH.
Hopefully they used the full set of CPU lanes. Most laptop manufacturers have a tendency to under utilize the CPU lanes and put things on the bandwidth constrained PCH for some reason.
tmzt on Oct 30, 2016
This feels like something Steve would not have let out the door, those kind of rules should never be the customer's concern.
Decade on Oct 30, 2016
Yes, he did. As nsxwolf commented, the 2010 MacBook Pro had USB 2 ports that ran at different speeds. And I remember vaguely that that wasn’t the first time.
It’s just not your problem because, really, how many people are going to be inconvenienced by the right Thunderbolt ports being slightly slower than the left Thunderbolt ports?
revelation on Oct 29, 2016
Full Thunderbolt 3 for all four ports on the 15"?
I mean, I'm not sure how you can get 40 GBit/s with 4x PCIE 3.0 in the first place, every quote I find says 32 GBit/s. Maybe there is that much overhead in Thunderbolt.
But surely 4x40 Gbit/s would require 16 lanes at least. I don't think Intel makes any consumer CPUs with more than 16.
The 40 GBit/s is definitely confusing.
My understanding is that that's total bandwidth across all protocols. So the mix of Displayport and PCIe 3.0 can't exceed 40 GBit/s. The 4x PCIe 3.0 on it's own is 32 Gbit/s, as you mentioned.
Each controller provides two Thunderbolt ports, which share bandwidth. For the 15", 4x PCIe to the left side Thunderbolt controller, 4x PCIe to the right side Thunderbolt controller, and 8x to the GPU would be a sensible configuration. Though who knows if Apple took this approach.
Klathmon on Oct 29, 2016
What do you mean by consumer CPUs?
I've got an ivybridge i7 with 40 lanes right now in my system.
danudey on Oct 30, 2016
4x PCIe 3.0 (~30Gbit) + USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10 Gbit) = the 40 GBit number quoted.
dewiz on Oct 29, 2016
Apple has a "long" history of differentiating ports by left and right (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12711127) which has been frustrating to me. For instance sometimes the left USB port "dies" after a sleep, while the right one keeps working. I agree it's going to be a mess for a long while, similar to HDMI cables that work or don't without any clear reason for the casual buyer.
colejohnson66 on Oct 29, 2016
Wasn't USB supposed to be the connector to rule them all? Now it seems we're going backwards where just because you have a connector doesn't mean it supports what you want.
stormbrew on Oct 29, 2016
That was always going to be the end result of a single connector standard. Not all devices are going to support all modes of use.
In the end, what's really going to dictate how this shakes out is what chipset manufacturers decide to do. And there aren't as many of those as there used to be. Most likely, eventually, all intel chipsets are going to do thunderbolt 3 over usb type-c and everyone else will follow.
Cyph0n on Oct 29, 2016
Exactly. Bluetooth for example is the same: there are loads of different authentication and communication schemes depending on the device used. The difference of course is that it's mainly the designer who has to worry about it.
user5994461 on Oct 29, 2016
We are not going backwards. Only Apple is.
cygned on Oct 29, 2016
> Things only Apple can do
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October 9, 2006 Nilanjana S Roy
(This essay on meat was written for Seminar’s Culinary Crossings issue–some lovely pieces in there.)
Here is a partial list of animals I have eaten over the last three decades.
Goat (legs, stomach, brain, sweetbreads, kidney, liver, yes; eyes and head, never); cow (usually in the form of steaks, but also the tail in soups, the tongue, the parts inside—liver, kidneys, even heart, brain, intestines, but of the head only a small portion of a calf’s head, to be sociable), the feet in a glutinous soup somewhat like nihari; pig (the legs, roasted, the cheeks, the flesh in diverse forms, from pork chops to sausages, the blood in black pudding, the stomach and several organs in the form of haggis, the liver, deliciously, in a sorpotel); rabbit, twice or thrice, liking and repelled by its strong tang and dark, earthy taste; snake, if I am to believe the lady who fed me this rich, musty stew at a street stall in Kuala Lumpur, but I fear she was lying and it was only, after all, chicken; deer, presumably an illegally hunted specimen, in my youth at the home of a friend whose family was gun-happy and uncaring of the country’s laws; ants, in a spicy, fiery chutney, crickets, fried. This list is heavy on feet, innards and offal, but low on eyeballs and faces.
Fish (the back, the stomach, the tail, always when available, caviare or humble but equally welcome fish roe, and in loyalty to my Bengali heritage, if reluctantly, the head, often—all of it, in fact); prawns, oysters, mussels, lobsters, crabs, with and without the shells, always with relish; baby jellyfish, sea urchins and the like, on occasion, but never sea horse. I don’t know if anyone actually eats sea horses; dried sea horse is used in some alternative medicine therapies, but I found no recipes for sea horse entrees on the Net. Snails, which should show up once in the meat section for their slight resemblance to marrow and once here for the oysterish texture, I’ve eaten whenever I can get them, their taste enhanced by those tiny, doll’s house forks you use to extract the flesh.
Chickens, entire, and severally: the feet in Malaysian and Chinese soup, the beak, once and never again, the comb of a rooster, once and ditto, the breast and legs and wings, too often to count; ostrich, as steaks, three or four times, as eggs, three or four times; duck, often, in tired orange sauce and equally tired Peking duck pancake specials, once, memorably, after a shoot, in curries and sandwiches, the taste of it robust, gamey, but marred by the memory of the dying light in the shot bird’s eyes; goose and turkey at Calcutta Christmases, often but not of late, once in Canada, once in the US; pheasant, once, an unpleasant experience for an Indian unused to the practice of hanging meat until it turns ripe, gamey, rotted to our senses; partridge, several times; tiny birds whose name I have forgotten but that were served whole on toast—it would be nice to speculate that these were ortolans, but they were probably just snipe; quail, often, despite those fidgety bones; frogs, legs of (I suppose these belong with the fish, but everyone insists that frogs’ legs taste of chicken, so they’re here), a few times, without either pleasure or repulsion.
Here is a partial list of animals I have never eaten and that I would be reluctant to taste: dogs (especially puppies), horses, cats (especially kittens), guinea pigs, budgerigars, humans (perhaps one might make an exception for babies, the kind that cry at high volume), monkeys, chimpanzees, apes and orangutans, elephants, owls, nightingales, whales and dolphins, ibexes, penguins (and especially puffins, with their comically sweet faces), lizards, from the ordinary house-and-garden variety to iguanas and monitor lizards, (though crocodile steak I might eat) white mice, vultures, hoopoes, ocelots, lynxes, foxes and wolves, albatrosses, jaguars, panthers, tigers (and cubs), lions, sharks, duck-billed platypuses, kingfishers, hummingbirds and sparrows.
These lists. How arbitrary they are, how illogical in their implicit acceptance of what I will allow into my body and what I will forbid.
For 31 of my 34 years, I have been the perfect omnivore, the harassed hostess’s best friend—I will eat anything. (Almost anything—see lists—but then, very few Indians serve hummingbird, orangutans, puffins or iguanas to their guests; I have seldom been tested on my taboos.) My strongest dislikes are vegetable, not animal—stewed tomatoes, waterlogged bhindi, frozen American corn—and these were relatively few.
Of all the members of the animal kingdom, it was the mosquito that did me in. Like many Indians, and like the stereotypical army colonels of the British Raj, I have an admirable malarial tendency—the year I turned 31, I had my 30th bout of malaria, a source of perverse pride for me. I emerged from episode number 30 in the longrunning Malaria and Me soap opera, thinner, marginally more prone to the very Victorian complaint of fatigue—and with a changed palate.
It took me a while to realize that I couldn’t stomach meat any more. For the sake of my family, emphatically carnivorous, I hid this bizarre side-effect, politely attempting to eat the fried chicken, the mutton curries, the lightly steamed fish in mustard, the robust home-made kababs that were staples of my mother’s table. For the sake of my husband and a host of cheerfully flesh-eating friends, I continued to cook meat and fish long after both had turned to ashes on my palate. I went to great lengths to conceal this inadvertent vegetarianism at first, and I waited, patiently, for my palate to cease its apostasy. I found I could eat a little bit of flesh—fish, fowl, animal—through an effort of will, though I would throw up afterwards; for some reason, my appetite for prawns remained unaffected.
India is an easy country for a vegetarian. The European or American table holds meat in pride of place, vegetables as adjuncts, and it shows in the number of meat substitutes available for vegetarians—poor imitations made in soy protein or wheat gluten. The Far Eastern table gives fruits and vegetables the respect they deserve, but is unconcerned with vegan purity. Fish sauce will lace Thai meals, Japanese “vegetable” dishes will often contain a smidgeon of pork or fish for flavouring, the light stocks that Chinese vegetables are often simmered in are usually prepared from fish or meat bases. Here, we place rice and dal, or rotis and dal, at the heart of the meal. Even the classic Bengali non-vegetarian feast will have a strong line-up of vegetable fries and mashes, vegetable stews, vegetable chutneys. To stay away from meat is easy in the practical sense—it’s only on the social front that drifting towards meatlessness creates problems.
So, I became an equal opportunity offender.
My carnivore friends saw the shift towards meatlessness as apostasy, even betrayal; many of them mentioned one of the world’s most prominent vegetarians, A Hitler, as the classic counter-example to that other prominent vegetarian, M Gandhi. The good or evil that men do may be interred with their bones, they implied, but it certainly wasn’t to be inferred in the flesh they abstained from.
Carnivores attempted cunningly to turn me back to the path of flesh, offering Lucknow’s tundey kababs, tender cuts of lamb cooked Chettinad style, fragrant biryanis richly layered with beef, pabda maach cooked with whole black cumin, Goan pomfret fried in aromatic spice pastes—in extremis, they would smuggle homemade chicken stock into the daal and declare an underhanded victory.
Vegetarians were annoyed by me, as true believers are by the half-hearted convert. Some were tolerant; they saw dietary preferences as a private, very personal choice, and if they disapproved of what was on your plate, that disapproval rarely took the form of interference, or moral judgement. Others had arrived at intolerance after years of fighting for animal rights or having to defend their own dislike of meat, which didn’t make their righteousness any more palatable.
In the first few months of turning away from meat, I faced a battery of Purity Tests. So I didn’t eat meat? How about eggs, cheese, milk? (Eggs and milk I can take or leave, but anyone who takes my Gorgonzola or Reblochon away from me will die, I promise.) Did I understand that prawns suffer (yes, but I don’t like prawns as creatures, so I don’t care), that fish die in agonies (yes, and I like fish as creatures, so I do care), do I wear fur (no), silk (yes), use leather (if I can’t find another option), use products that weren’t tested on animals (as far as possible, no), campaign against slaughterhouses (no), support chicken battery farming (no), use insecticide (yes, though it’s a homemade herbal concoction)?
I accepted my own inconsistencies, and found them mildly fascinating, as fascinating as the question of what dead flesh I would eat and what I would eschew. But after a while, every passionate vegetarian argument, every finetuned query, began to sound like the tired chorus of a worn-out song: Was I pure enough, good enough, clean enough? Was I pure or tainted, righteous or sainted? Was I slightly pure, mostly pure, potentially pure?
Malaria had made me a reluctant semi-herbivore; a bone-headed stubbornness now made me a reluctant semi-carnivore. Over the months, what had started as a disease of the palate, an inexplicable turning away from flesh, mellowed into the realization that given a choice, I preferred fruit and vegetables, the nectarine over the neck of lamb, the cauliflower-and-turnip pickle over the calf’s-feet-jelly, even, heresy of heresies, tofu over trout. Even so, I ate just enough meat—a kabab a month, a bit of maacher jhol every two months, a bite of sausage at six month intervals—to permanently disqualify me from the ranks of the pure-in-spirit vegetarian. It was childish, and from a personal point of view, distasteful: much as I missed the memory of enjoying meat, when it was present in the flesh, my stomach, my tongue, my gustatory soul rebelled.
I follow and often endorse the moral argument for not eating meat—what cow, or goat, or chicken, or flapping, oxygen-starved fish, comes willingly to the butcher’s knife, and what right do we have to take another creature’s life to satisfy our own appetites? But this, on its own, would not stop me from eating meat—when it’s been a contest between my conscience and my palate, the palate has won, every time. I understand the ecological arguments—the grain and grass it takes to feed sheep, cows and goats would feed far more people if we were all vegetarian. But that would not stop me, either. Most of us who eat meat do so for the simplest of reasons: we like the way it tastes. My body gave up on flesh, not my heart, mind or memory. Unlike Gandhi, I sensed no goats bleating in my stomach, pleading to be restored to life.
What do you do when the rebellion against flesh comes from deep within your own flesh? To have this choice at all is a luxury in India, where so many people live on the edge of starvation, where a single green chilli can be the highlight of a meal. I have always had this choice, though, and all I can do is examine its implications.
My inheritance was the secular kitchen, where forbidden food like pork and beef, and food off-limits to widows, such as onions, garlic and fish had equal space on the table with a yogi’s pavitra diet—honey, yogurt, bitter gourd, seasonal fruits. Given the insistent inclusiveness of this heritage, something I shared with only a thin layer of Indians, I felt that before I gave up meat entirely, or returned to its complex pleasures, I needed to look more closely at the nature of meat itself.
Smell, sound, sight: three memories
Smell. Ahmedabad, 2004:
Two years after the riots that tore Gujarat apart, I’m here to do an innocuous, tourist story on the state’s ancient and very beautiful step wells. I have not yet named my turning away from meat, merely registered it. The city is normal. The riot survivors have been tidied away, banished from memory, exiled from most of Ahmedabad’s busy, commercial streets. Navaratri is in full flow, and at night, the rhythms of the dandiya drive the city into motion.
The second morning in Ahmedabad, I’m up at dawn to see one of the oldest stepwells in the city. The bats are disturbed when I negotiate the steps downwards, and they flutter among the delicate stone carvings on walls like the black exhalations of sleepy ghosts. In the half-light of morning, this place is incredibly beautiful; I sit at the very bottom of the well for a long time, listening to the sounds of the azaan from the nearby mosque drift slowly downwards, breathing in the mossy air. And then I ask the driver whether he would take me to Gulbarga, the small, middle-class cluster of flats where Ehsan Jafri and a score of other Muslims were burnt alive or hacked to death as the riots raged across Ahmedabad.
To this day, I have no idea why I wanted to go there—I am no activist, just a book reviewer who does travel stories too, definitely not the kind of reporter who takes wars, riots, morgues and corpses in her stride. Perhaps this was just self-indulgent disaster tourism; but in a city that has embraced amnesia so effectively, I found myself wanting to pay tribute, if in the smallest of ways, to bear witness to what happened here.
Hardware shops are strung out in a line in front of the narrow alley that leads to the Gulbarga society. Many of them are open for business, and they look at me incuriously: they have seen too many riot tourists to care, there are no TV cameras accompanying us.
Gulbarga is approached through that narrow alley, boxed in by other societies and flats on three sides. There are no birds, no cats, no stray dogs, no humans here. The houses are small but must once have been cheerful; they were painted in different colours, lilac, apple green, bright blue.
The ground beneath my feet is spongy, and black, and still littered with glass, with shards of pottery from ceramic planters, with splinters of wood from cane chairs, fragments of paper from schoolbooks and magazines, with shreds of fabric. If there are other, more human remains here, they are not visible: if there was blood or bone or hair, it has been removed, or it’s hidden under that thick sticky coat of black, kerosene-soaked mud that I will later track into the halls of the heritage hotel where I’m staying.
It would be so easy to say that Gulbarga stinks of death, and pain, and fear. The windows of most of these homes are smashed; a broken swing hangs suspended from a chain outdoors and a black stain, denser than the rest of the tarry mud, spreads out under it. The people who lived here had no way out once the mobs came; nowhere to find shelter except in these fragile houses, and they were dragged out of there and set on fire, or beaten to pulp, some had their limbs hacked off their torsos before they died, some were burned alive, and none of that shows in the remains of Gulbarga.
The truth is that it does not smell of terror at all or of sadness. It smells of a havan; the scorched patches of oil-soaked earth are familiar to anyone who has attended that ancient Hindu rite of prayer and fire. It smells of the crematorium, yes, but it also smells the way a barbecue at a party smells the next day, ashes and the departed ghost scents of roast meat.
It is very silent here, so silent that I am first irritated when a gasping, snorting sound breaks the unnatural peace of the colony. And then I turn to see my taxi driver, the young Hindu boy who told me yesterday how the “Mohammedans” were ruining the city, is in tears, he can’t hold back his sobs, he crumbles handfuls of black, greasy earth between his fingers and he cries like a child, in great gasps. There is nothing to say; I sit there, looking at the dark brown fingers of soot on a pale pink kitchen wall, looking at the money plant still growing in a shattered Jaipur pottery planter, looking at the exercise book where there is nothing written after the words ‘A Picnic’.
Ahmedabad has incredibly delicate vegetarian food, and for the next few days, I try all the local specialties, from undhyo to patra to dapka kadhi, and behind every thali I can smell the charred, oil-soaked earth stink of Gulbarga. Then one day, several months later, I wake up to an absence, a smell that is no longer there. Gulbarga has left my olfactory memory, and will not return until I write these paragraphs, this sentence.
Sound. Kumaon Hills, 1998.
We arrive at the army cantonment up in the Kumaon Hills after a long drive, touted as a Himalayan Rally, through some of the loveliest landscapes in India. It is Durga Puja, and I have been silently missing the rituals, bustle and of course food, of this quintessentially Bengali festival. “We have arranged something special for you,” says the Colonel to our tired troupe. “A proper regimental puja.”
We shower with lukewarm, slightly muddy water; the women officers and I change into saris, salwar kameezes, the men into clean shirts, pressed trousers. Far off, a goat bleats, then another, widening into a chorus.
The “temple” is located inside a large tent, and we watch the priest go about the arti, those tiny flickering flames and the scent of camphor bringing a small whiff of comfort to the travelworn, the road-weary. Then we’re ushered outside, into a field. It is already dark, and all the stars are out, a light breeze plays up and down the hills. Even to an agnostic like me, the evening prayers have brought peace.
One of the women, the young wife of a young Captain, stirs uneasily. She is listening to the bleating of a goat, not so far-off any more. The goat—properly a kid—trots in eagerly, escorted in by two soldiers with very young faces and very old eyes. It bleats; off in the distance, other goats answer. It is very interested in the wooden structure—two poles decorated with garlands of leaves and flowers, and it tries to eat some of the flowers, as a burly man in uniform tests the blade of a long, curving knife, crouched down beside the kid.
It is only when the soldiers pull on the rope around its thin neck and force its head down onto the crescent-shaped piece of wood connecting the two poles that the kid starts to protest. It bleats, and the answering, distant bleats are more frantic. It bleats again, and again, wriggling, kicking its legs out. The burly man stands up and swings the blade easily, testing it, splitting a green coconut in two with no effort. The kid has been subdued, but its eyes are rolling and it piddles uncontrollably; I am close enough to see the froth forming at the side of its mouth. It bleats yet again, an animal, human cry, and the bleat is cut in two, severed as swiftly as its head by the blade as the burly man, having taken his stance, brings the knife down cleanly. In the distance, the other goats bleat continuously; the kid’s head bounces twice and lies still.
The young wife of the young Captain has fainted. She is a vegetarian, and she has never seen an animal sacrifice before. She eats no meat that night, but the rest of us do. The meat is warm, tender, steaming. I eat with pleasure, and my conscience is untroubled. But many years later, when my husband and I have shifted to Nizamuddin, where goats are still bought and kept in people’s gardens and homes before the ritual sacrifice on Bakrid, I hear the happy bleats of the goats, especially the young ones, and I think of the goat we met that night in Kumaon.
Sight: INA market, Old Delhi meat market, Sarojini Nagar Market, 2006:
I know these markets, I know the butcher’s shops, I have been coming to these blood-steeped alleys from the age of five, or six, accompanying my mother or my grandfather on ritual shopping expeditions. But one of the first lessons you learn as a flesh-eater who also buys and cooks meat is the art of selective vision.
We do not live at a distance from our meat, as you might in other countries; a few malls and supermarkets now offer neatly packaged frozen or fresh cuts, meal-sized portions that have none of the slaughterhouse feel about them, but this is still relatively uncommon. Most of us buy meat and fish in the flesh, up close near the blood and guts.
You learn very quickly not to look too closely at certain things. The gutters, running with blood, feathers, scraps of flesh, wattles and combs, fish scales, the plucked whiskers of prawns. The bucket of guts, gills and intestines at the fishmonger’s, the bucket of skin, feathers and innards at the chicken shop. You learn to look for certain things; redness in some cuts of meat, shading to voluptuous dark maroon in other cuts from other animals. You look for bright red gills and a firm skin in fish, but you ignore the occasionally flapping lips of a fish so fresh it still misses the water. You look for greyness in shellfish, which is bad; but in some specimens, an oceanic greeny-greyness indicates flavour. You look carefully at the leg of goat or lamb the butcher slaps down on his block, to check that the flesh is firm; you look closely at liver and kidneys, rejecting wrinkled and deformed organs; but it would be a mistake to look too closely at the butcher’s block, where years of hacking and chopping have blended the grain of the meat so thoroughly with the grain of the wood that the surface mixes animal, vegetable and mineral in one inextricable mass.
The meat market in Old Delhi is the wholesale market, and it has no time for niceties; the meat arrives often on the hoof, and while it isn’t slaughtered on the premises, it can come in so fresh that warm steam from the blood that poured out of the carcass still rises from the flanks, the legs, the chest of the dismembered animal. Three boys, apprentice butchers, squat and chat as they casually stick their hands up the rectums of goats and flick out the shit. Great masses of flies rise and settle, rise and settle, first on the blood of the carcass, then on the gleaming piles of black goat pellets. One of the alleyways is given over to heads—sheeps and goats, chiefly, some with their tongues neatly severed and tucked into the gaping mouths, and eyeballs lightly loosened from the socket. The morning I go, there are no horse’s heads on sale, though the butchers confirm that a few occasionally can be found—they are uncomfortable discussing who might buy a horse’s head, and what finished dish might be made from it, and they say it is not a frequently sought after item. It is, however, remarkably cheap.
I hope that if I look long enough at these corpses, the transformation of the living into the dead into dinner, I might experience a life-changing revulsion, be free of my ambiguity about meat and flesh, blood and bone, my reluctance to commit to one or another side of the vegetarian debate. A revelation would be wonderful, but even revulsion would be useful in this personal exploration of the sins of the flesh.
And so I look. At INA market, I notice for the first time how neatly the haunches of goat hang from the shop lintels, how cleanly the inverted hooks pass through the tendons, just above the trotters, how carefully the liver, sweetbreads, heart and kidneys of each animal has been inserted into the half-carcass so that you can inspect it for health, for the consistency and clarity of the fat, before you buy.
I notice how the fishmonger reserves his respect for the pickiest customers, the ones who understand that the best fish was breathing up to a minute ago, who will buy the small, unregarded, tasty fish with those deadly, hair-thin bones. If you lift the gills of carp at the right angle, you might spark an involuntary exhalation, a final, if illusory, sigh.
No fashion designer has yet claimed inspiration from the meat markets, but no fashion designer could improve on the beauty of the colour scheme—the gunmetal, silver gleam of fish brought into shining relief by the vivid reds, maroons and scarlet of blood and guts.
And I notice—have I been blind all my life?—how the worst position of all, if you’re a chicken destined for the table, is to be in the third row, the fourth or the fifth row, the bottom rows of the coop. The ones in the first row have just as little space, but their feathers are white shading to cream. They shit on the chickens below and the chickens below shit on the chickens underneath and in the constant jostling of chickens for living space, every now and then the dried shit on the feathers of the chickens above cascades down like dirty whitewash onto the chickens on the lower rungs.
I see all this, and my mind makes the automatic transition of all cooks everywhere in the world: I think of earthy dak bungalow curries and the aroma of chicken country captain, of chicken breasts tenderly braised with mushrooms, of spicy mutton curries fiery with red chillies, spiked with malt vinegar, of subtle fish coconut curries, of crisp-fried fish fillets with shallot. This is a strictly fleshly pleasure, the knowledge that you can take the stink and the mess of the marketplace and transform that into food that will fill the belly and make the soul hum with happiness.
One of the coops is placed on a bench; at the same level, there’s a tray of chicken feet. The butcher’s assistant adds two more feet to the tray from a freshly slaughtered bird; as he turns back, he jostles the tray a bit, bumping it closer to the coop. On the second level, getting shat on, but not so badly off as its counterparts on level three, a bird pokes its beak through the wires and discovers that it can peck at the chicken feet. It is a briefly disorienting sight, it looks like a Disney cartoon gone noir, as though the chicken is snacking on its own dismembered claws.
I have to step aside because a fresh bunch of goat carcasses is coming in; I watch as the butcher slams each haunch onto those hooks, and I wonder whether I would feel more horror if, say, those were skinned puppies being prepared for display, upside-down babies being skewered through their delicate, tiny feet. Perhaps, but what if I lived in a society where it was the custom to eat every third baby, to usefully dispose of the puppies in every litter that couldn’t be adopted? Revulsion wears off very, very quickly, as anyone who spends time in a meat market will know—it’s a question of what you’re used to.
I buy meat that I will cook, but not eat, making me an accessory to the crime in the eyes of all those good people who believe for very valid reasons that meat is murder. I could stop eating meat for the rest of my life, starting today, and still not atone for the sins committed during half a lifetime of meat-eating; I could be a vegetarian and still visit terrible harm on other people.
I have come to no useful conclusion about flesh; I know its pleasures, even if I increasingly abjure them. I know the vulnerability of the flesh, how easily it is penetrated by knife, skewer, fork. I know how close that dividing line is, between living and dead. I know that this ambiguity about flesh cuts deep and cuts close, too close to the bone.
Published by Nilanjana S Roy
Author, The Wildings, The Hundred Names of Darkness and The Girl Who Ate Books: Adventures in Reading. Books, hedonism, dimples. View all posts by Nilanjana S Roy
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Arthur Quiller Couch says:
Quite brilliant.Food and good prose. You mentioned a husband, or I might have proposed.
Nilanjana says:
Do you remember that exchange from the parody of Biggles?Ginger blushed hotly.Biggles returned the blush curtly.Oh well. Never mind the blushing, I’m at the age where all proposals are welcome. (Note to spammers: not propositions. Proposals. Big difference.) The only proposals from men that bother the husband are 1) the ones aimed at him 2) the ones from my old friend, General Abacha, explaining that for a very small outlay, I can have not only his hand in marriage, but all of his ill-gotten Nigerian millions to boot.Oh, and lovely Suzannesque post on your blog.
fantastic. so what if the list of meat-your-reluctant-to-eat is much too long, you are by far the best food writer in india. if not for my wife, i might have proposed. the self-crowned grand fromage, who is so not improving with age, is hereby deposed
Loved the post. Like all Bongs, food and meat hooks me every time, though since the last two months I have given up meat. Coming to exotic meats,you should try Dog. It’s very tasty meat and it’s considered lucky to have it on certain days in South East Asia. No wonder it’s known as a Man’s best friend. I tried it in Vietnam. A friend of mine, an American found it quite funny that I would eat Dog but wouldn’t touch cow. I wonder why?
What incredible stuff you write. Came here after googling you via a comment you left on the Economist blog (phew).Its very fortunate that I am curious to the point of making it a certified illness..
Deepa Krishnan says:
I’m propositioning you.- Deepa
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Asynchronous Programming - Easier Asynchronous Programming with the New Visual Studio Async CTP
By Eric Lippert | October 2011
Imagine what the world would be like if people worked the same way as computer programs:
void ServeBreakfast(Customer diner)
var order = ObtainOrder(diner);
var ingredients = ObtainIngredients(order);
var recipe = ObtainRecipe(order);
var meal = recipe.Prepare(ingredients);
diner.Give(meal);
Each subroutine can, of course, be broken down further; preparing the meal might involve heating pans, cooking omelets and toasting bread. Were humans to perform these sorts of tasks like typical computer programs, we’d carefully write down everything as sequences of hierarchical tasks in a checklist and obsessively ensure that each job was complete before embarking on the next.
A subroutine-based approach seems reasonable—you can’t cook the eggs before you get the order—but in fact it both wastes time and makes the application appear unresponsive. It wastes time because you want the bread to be toasting while the eggs are frying, not after the eggs are done and getting cold. It appears unresponsive because if another customer arrives while the current order is still cooking, you want to be taking his order, not making him wait at the door until the current customer has been served her breakfast. A server slavishly following a checklist does not have any ability to respond in a timely manner to unexpected events.
Solution One: Hire More Staff by Making More Threads
Making someone’s breakfast is a whimsical example, but the reality, of course, is anything but. Every time you transfer control into a long-running subroutine on the UI thread, the UI becomes completely unresponsive until the subroutine finishes. How could it be otherwise? Applications respond to UI events by running code on the UI thread, and that thread is obsessively busy doing something else. Only when every job on its list is done will it get around to dealing with the queued-up commands of the frustrated user. The usual solution to this problem is to use concurrencyto do two or more things “at the same time.” (If the two threads are on two independent processors, they might truly be running at the same time. In a world with more threads than processors to dedicate to them, the OS will simulate at-the-same-time concurrency by periodically scheduling a time slice for each thread to control a processor.)
One concurrent solution might be to create a thread pool and assign each new client a specific thread to handle its requests. In our analogy, you could hire a group of servers. When a new diner comes in, an idle server is assigned to the new diner. Each server then independently does the work of taking the order, finding the ingredients, cooking the food and serving it.
The difficulty with this approach is that UI events typically arrive on the same thread and expect to be fully serviced on that thread. Most UI components create requests on the UI thread, and expect to be communicated with only on that thread. Dedicating a new thread to each UI-related task is unlikely to work well.
To address this problem you could have a single foreground thread listening to UI events that does nothing but “take orders” and farm them out to one or more background worker threads. In this analogy, there’s only one server who interacts with the customers, and a kitchen full of cooks who actually do the requested work. The UI thread and the worker threads are then responsible for coordinating their communications. The cooks never talk directly to the diners, but somehow the food gets served anyway.
This certainly solves the “responding to UI events in a timely manner” problem, but it doesn’t resolve the lack of efficiency; the code running on the worker thread is still waiting synchronously for the eggs to cook fully before the bread goes in the toaster. That problem could be solved in turn by adding even more concurrency: You could have two cooks per order, one for the eggs and one for the toast. But that might get pretty expensive. Just how many cooks are you going to need, and what happens when they have to coordinate their work?
Concurrency of this sort introduces many well-known difficulties. First, threads are notoriously heavyweight; a thread by default consumes a million bytes of virtual memory for its stack and many other system resources. Second, UI objects are often “affinitized” to the UI thread and can’t be called from worker threads; the worker thread and the UI thread must come to some complex arrangement whereby the UI thread can send necessary information from the UI elements over to the worker, and the worker can send updates back to the UI thread, rather than to the UI elements directly. Such arrangements are difficult to code and prone to race conditions, deadlocks and other threading problems. Third, many of the pleasant fictions that we all rely upon in the single-threaded world—such as reads and writes of memory happening in a predictable and consistent sequence—are no longer reliable. This leads to the worst kinds of difficult-to-reproduce bugs.
It just seems wrong to have to use the big hammer of thread-based concurrency to build simple programs that remain responsive and run efficiently. Somehow real people manage to solve complex problems while remaining responsive to events. In the real world you don’t have to allocate one waiter per table or two cooks per order to serve dozens of customer requests that are all pending at the same time. Solving the problem with threading makes for too many cooks. There’s got to be a better solution that doesn’t involve so much concurrency.
Solution Two: Develop Attention Deficit Disorder with DoEvents
A common non-concurrent “solution” to the problem of UI unresponsiveness during long-running operations is to liberally sprinkle the magic words Application.DoEvents around a program until the problem goes away. Though this is certainly a pragmatic solution, it’s not a very well-engineered one:
Application.DoEvents();
Basically, using DoEvents means “see if anything interesting happened while I was busy doing that last thing. If something happened that I need to respond to, remember what I was doing just now, deal with the new situation, and then come back to where I left off.” It makes your program behave like it has attention deficit disorder: anything new that comes along gets attention right away. That sounds like a plausible solution to improve responsiveness—and sometimes even works—but there are a number of problems with this approach.
First, DoEvents works best when the delay is caused by a loop that has to execute many times, but each individual loop execution is short. By checking for pending events every few times through the loop, you can maintain responsiveness even if the whole loop takes a long time to run. However, that pattern is usually not the cause of a responsiveness problem. More often the problem is caused by one inherently long-running operation taking a lot of time, such as attempting to synchronously access a file over a high-latency network. Perhaps in our example the long-running task is in preparing the meal, and there’s no place to put the DoEvents that helps. Or perhaps there is a place where DoEvents would help, but it’s in a method you don’t have the source code for.
Second, calling DoEvents causes the program to attempt to fully service all the more recent events before finishing work associated with earlier events. Imagine if no one could get his meal until after every customer who came in got his meal! If more and more customers keep arriving, the first customer might never get his meal, resulting in starvation. In fact, it could happen that no customers get their meals. The completion of work associated with earlier events can be pushed off arbitrarily far into the future as servicing newer events continues to interrupt the work being done for earlier events.
Third, DoEvents poses the very real danger of unexpected reentrancy. That is, while serving one customer you check to see if there have been any recent interesting UI events and accidentally start serving the same diner again, even though he’s already being served. Most developers don’t design their code to detect this kind of reentrancy; it’s possible to end up in some very strange program states indeed when an algorithm never intended to be recursive ends up calling itself unexpectedly via DoEvents.
In short, DoEvents should be used only to fix a responsiveness problem in the most trivial cases; it’s not a good solution for managing UI responsiveness in complex programs.
Solution Three: Turn Your Checklist Inside-out with Callbacks
The non-concurrent nature of the DoEvents technique is attractive, but clearly not quite the right solution for a complex program. A better idea is to break down the items on the checklist into a series of short tasks, each of which can be completed rapidly enough that the application can appear to be responsive to events.
That idea is nothing new; dividing a complex problem into small parts is why we have subroutines in the first place. The interesting twist is that instead of rigidly running down a checklist to determine what has already been done and what needs to be done next, and only returning control to the caller when everything is completed, each new task is given the list of work that must come after it. The work that must come after a particular task is finished is called the “continuation” of the task.
When a task has finished, it can look at the continuation and finish it off right there. Or it might schedule the continuation to run later. If the continuation requires information computed by the previous task, the previous task can pass that information along as an argument to the call that invokes the continuation.
With this approach, the total body of work is essentially broken up into little pieces that can each be executed rapidly. The system appears responsive because pending events can be detected and handled between the executions of any two of the small pieces of work. But because any activities associated with those new events can also be broken down into small parts and queued up to execute later, we don’t have the “starvation” problem whereby new tasks prevent old tasks from completing. New long-running tasks are not dealt with immediately, but they are queued up for eventual processing.
The idea is great, but it’s not at all clear how to implement such a solution. The essential difficulty is determining how to tell each small unit of work what its continuation is; that is, what work needs to come next.
In traditional asynchronous code, this is typically done by registering a “callback” function. Let’s suppose we have an asynchronous version of “Prepare” that takes a callback function that says what to do next—namely, serve the meal:
void ServeBreakfast(Diner diner)
recipe.PrepareAsync(ingredients, meal =>
Now ServeBreakfast returns immediately after PrepareAsync returns; whatever code called ServeBreakfast is then free to service other events that occur. PrepareAsync does no “real” work itself; rather, it quickly does whatever is necessary to ensure that the meal will be prepared in the future. Moreover, PrepareAsync also ensures that the callback method will be invoked with the prepared meal as its argument at some time after the meal preparation task is completed. Thus, the diner will eventually be served, though she might have to wait briefly if there’s an event that requires attention between the end of the preparation and the serving of the meal.
Note that none of this necessarily involves a second thread. Perhaps PrepareAsync causes the meal preparation work to be done on a separate thread, or perhaps it causes a series of short tasks associated with meal preparation to be queued up on the UI thread to be executed later. It really doesn’t matter; all we know is that PrepareAsync somehow guarantees two things: that the meal will be prepared in a manner that doesn’t block the UI thread with a high-latency operation, and that the callback will somehow be invoked after the work of preparing the requested meal is done.
But suppose any of the methods for obtaining the order, obtaining the ingredients, obtaining the recipe or preparing the meal might be the one that’s slowing down the UI. We could solve this larger problem if we had an asynchronous version of each of these methods. What would the resulting program look like? Remember, each method must be given a callback that tells it what to do when the unit of work is completed:
ObtainOrderAsync(diner, order =>
ObtainIngredientsAsync(order, ingredients =>
ObtainRecipeAsync(order, recipe =>
})})})});
This might seem like an awful mess, but it’s nothing compared to how bad real programs get when they’re rewritten using callback-based asynchrony. Think about how you might deal with making a loop asynchronous, or how you’d deal with exceptions, try-finally blocks or other non-trivial forms of control flow. You end up essentially turning your program inside-out; the code now emphasizes how all the callbacks are wired together, and not what the logical workflow of the program should be.
Solution Four: Make the Compiler Solve the Problem with Task-Based Asynchrony
Callback-based asynchrony does keep the UI thread responsive and minimize time wasted by synchronously waiting for long-running work to complete. But the cure seems worse than the disease. The price you pay for responsiveness and performance is that you have to write code that emphasizes how the mechanisms of the asynchrony work while obscuring the meaning and purpose of the code.
The upcoming versions of C# and Visual Basic instead allow you to write code that emphasizes its meaning and purpose, while giving enough hints to the compilers to build the necessary mechanisms for you behind the scenes. The solution has two parts: one in the type system, and one in the language.
The CLR 4 release defined the type Task<T>—the workhorse type of the Task Parallel Library (TPL)—to represent the concept of “some work that’s going to produce a result of type T in the future.” The concept of “work that will complete in the future but returns no result” is represented by the non-generic Task type.
Precisely how the result of type T is going to be produced in the future is an implementation detail of a particular task; the work might be farmed out to another machine entirely, to another process on this machine, to another thread, or perhaps the work is simply to read a previously cached result that can be accessed cheaply from the current thread. TPL tasks are typically farmed out to worker threads from a thread pool in the current process, but that implementation detail is not fundamental to the Task<T> type; rather, a Task<T> can represent any high-latency operation that produces a T.
The language half of the solution is the new await keyword. A regular method call means “remember what you’re doing, run this method until it’s completely finished, and then pick up where you left off, now knowing the result of the method.” An await expression, in contrast, means “evaluate this expression to obtain an object representing work that will in the future produce a result. Sign up the remainder of the current method as the callback associated with the continuation of that task. Once the task is produced and the callback is signed up, immediately return control to my caller.”
Our little example rewritten in the new style reads much more nicely:
async void ServeBreakfast(Diner diner)
var order = await ObtainOrderAsync(diner);
var ingredients = await ObtainIngredientsAsync(order);
var recipe = await ObtainRecipeAsync(order);
var meal = await recipe.PrepareAsync(ingredients);
In this sketch, each asynchronous version returns a Task<Order>, Task<List<Ingredient>> and so on. Every time an await is encountered, the currently executing method signs up the rest of the method as the thing to do when the current task is complete, and then immediately returns. Somehow each task will complete itself—either by being scheduled to run as an event on the current thread, or because it used an I/O completion thread or worker thread—and will then cause its continuation to “pick up where it left off” in executing the rest of the method.
Note that the method is now marked with the new async keyword; this is simply an indicator to the compiler that lets it know that in the context of this method, the keyword await is to be treated as a point where the workflow returns control to its caller and picks up again when the associated task is finished. Note also that the examples I’ve shown in this article use C# code; Visual Basic will have a similar feature with similar syntax. The design of these features in C# and Visual Basic was heavily influenced by F# asynchronous workflows, a feature that F# has had for some time.
This brief introduction merely motivates and then scratches the surface of the new asynchrony feature in C# and Visual Basic. For a more detailed explanation of how it works behind the scenes, and how to reason about the performance characteristics of asynchronous code, see the companion articles in this issue by my colleagues Mads Torgersen and Stephen Toub.
To get your hands on a preview release of this feature, along with samples, white papers and a community forum for questions, discussions and constructive feedback, please go to msdn.com/async. These language features and the libraries that support them are still in development; the design team would love to have as much of your feedback as possible.
Eric Lippert is a principal developer on the C# Compiler team at Microsoft.
Thanks to the following technical experts for reviewing this article: Mads Torgersen, Stephen Toub and Lucian Wischik
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HO Scale MTH HO ES44AC Diesel Engine (DCC Ready)
ES44AC Diesel Engine (DCC Ready) - Ferrosur
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Murder Cases
Case Map
Murder On The Swan
Blood in the water, Perth: 1832 - 1947
Alexandra Hostel (centre) on Hay Street, two doors down from the corner of Milligan. Courtesy State Library of Western Australia (280019PD).
Alexandra Hostel in 1982. Courtesy State Library of Western Australia (b3799990_5).
Wedding of May Hennessy and Leonard Jackson (to the right of bride), 1941. Courtesy the Hennessy family.
Bob Hobson, Mirror, 15 February 1947.
Stella Farnworth formerly Wilton nee King, Mirror, 15 February 1947.
Mapped Location
The Ghost of Death row
SET IN: Perth, 11 December 1946
Leading Lady - Stella Farnworth; also known as Sadie King and Stella Wilton.
Born in Gloucestershire, Stella (53) is the daughter of a Bristol publican and comes to WA’s Goldfields as the bride of her first husband, Harry Wilton, in 1919. Widowed in 1941, she marries William Farnworth in 1946, but in September 1946 she moves in with a new lover and petty criminal, Bob Hobson. They take a room at the Alexandra Hostel at 932 Hay Street, a few doors down from the Melbourne Hotel, under the name ‘Mr and Mrs King’.
Stella is financially independent, well-groomed and elegantly clothed. She usually wears a man’s wristwatch and both sets of her wedding and engagement rings. She likes a drink and should not, probably, be considering investing in hotels.
Her Lover - Robert ‘Bob’ Hobson
Bob (41) is a violent, self-confessed habitual criminal with a drinking problem. He is no stranger to gaol, having spent most of his adult years there. He has even been held at the Governor’s Pleasure, once, and is still on parole. His relationship with Stella is volatile, fueled by booze and jealousy. Witnesses have heard him threaten to hit her over the head with a bottle. He is suavely good looking, has a lean swagger, and uses his dark blue eyes to disarm his victims.
Her Business Partner - Leonard ‘Len’ Jackson
Len (48) is a gentle giant - well over six-feet tall and very powerfully built. He has been married to May for four years. It is a happy marriage and he is a good stepfather to her son. He met Stella in the Goldfields where he and May run ‘The Bright Spot’ delicatessen.
In December 1946 he is selling his deli and plans to invest £2000 in a Perth hotel, in partnership with Stella. On 8 December he arrives in Perth, and is staying at the Globe Hotel on Wellington Street. Witnesses who see him with Stella say he is very polite.
Stella spends the day with Len visiting a few hotels and a home open in Mount Lawley. Stella is keen to buy the house and they spend about an hour there, joining the party that is underway. They’ve had a couple of drinks but Len is not a drinker. Witnesses say Stella is quite drunk.
Len drops Stella off at the Alexandra Hostel and heads to the Globe for the night.
At 8pm Stella arrives at the Globe and tells Len she’s had a row with Bob. Stella and Len go to the Melbourne Hotel for two light shandies. (Again, Len is not a drinker.) On the way out Stella buys a bottle of wine, and they run into Bob over the road, on the corner of Hay and Milligan Streets.
Bob says “Hello Jacko,” and to Stella, “You’ve been on the booze again.”
Stella replies “I don’t have to answer to you for anything I do, and if I want a ____ drink, I’ll have it!”
She hits Bob. Bob knocks her down. Len knocks Bob down. No one knocks Len down, the man is a giant. But Bob is simmering with jealousy.
They continue the short distance to Alexandra Hostel where Stella pours another drink. Bob says she has had enough for the night. He hits the drink out of her hand, smashing the glass. He then smacks Stella to the floor.
Len helps her up and hits Bob. Bob hits the wall and, on the rebound, picks up the wine bottle. Len, figuring Bob’s going to hit him over the head, puts his hands over his head just before the bottle comes down and smashes into Len’s hand. Len grabs Bob’s flailing left arm, with the bottle in it, and pins him to the wall. When Bob lets go of the bottle, Len lets go of Bob.
Len, saying, “this is no place for me,” leaves. Stella says she’s coming with him, but the door slams before she can follow.
Len is about to get into his car when Stella calls from the balcony, asking him to wait. She is more than halfway over when Bob punches her so hard she falls, landing on the kerb head first. Len picks her up, sees blood gushing from her right temple, and puts her carefully on the back seat of his car. He then goes back upstairs for a rug and a towel.
Bob is on the balcony, his head in his hands. Len gets him in the car, then drives to the Globe Hotel where he alights, telling Bob to take Stella to hospital. Bob refuses. Len insists, “you either drive her to hospital or I will take you to the police station.”
Bob drives away in Len’s car with Stella in the back. Len goes to bed. It is the last he sees of her.
The next morning Bob comes to the Globe and tells him Stella will be fine in a week or so, but he has left Len’s car near UWA as it has broken down. Len asks what he was doing so far away from the hospital, and Bob says he went down to Fremantle to let Stella’s family know she’d been in an accident. Len didn’t know the only ‘family’ Stella has in Fremantle is her estranged husband, and accepts the explanation.
Bob then holds out Stella’s watch and rings and asks Len to pawn them for him. Len refuses - he knows they are Stella’s. Bob swears they are actually his, but Stella often wore them. He insists Len take them, and Len’s hotel room-mate sees him put the jewellery in his cupboard.
Len then picks up his abandoned car and washes the blood off the back seat. There is more there than he thought, and glass is now embedded in the upholstery.
16 December, 4:15pm.
A woman’s body is found floating in the Swan River about 90m off the Como jetty. Wire holds a 25kg cement paver to her body which weighed it down until decomposition gasses brought her to the surface. She has been dead for five or six days.
She is soon identified, and Len is worried as he knows he was with her on what he now knows was her last day. But he is confident. He believes once he explains, everyone will know it was Bob who committed this foul deed.
Bob, however, has used his time to prepare. Time during which he has been charged twice, with being idle and disorderly and for drunkenness. He has already set Len up with Stella’s jewellery and, in the face of Len’s testimony, he denies the row Len recounts, denies his assault of Stella, denies the balcony incident - denies everything, with his wide blue eyes.
Sweating heavily, he swears he last saw his love at 7am on 11 December. She was sitting up in bed and reading the newspaper, gloriously happy and perfectly healthy. She told him, Bob says, she was going to Fremantle for business for a day or two and he didn’t worry when she did not come home that first night.
The next night, he says, he receives a telegram from Stella, sent from Fremantle, saying “Staying with good friends in]Fremantle. Best luck, see you soon, Stella.” This is followed by another telegram the next night, explaining her absence for another couple of weeks as she’s taken a job in Geraldton. Again, he explains, he’s not concerned by this at all.
The original telegram forms are retrieved, and a handwriting expert identifies they were written by a left-hander. Lawyers ask Len to write out the text, but his handwriting is loose, easy, confident... and right-handed. No match. Bob is left-handed, but this line of questioning is dropped.
Twice, over coming days, Bob says he called Albert Wilton, Stella’s son from her first marriage. Today we understand this is what a psychopath might do.
In stark contrast to Bob’s sweaty testimony, Len is cool, calm and confident. He never refers to any written notes, but relies on his memory of actual events, recounting them as they happened. He believes, poor fool, the truth will out, and the true villain will be revealed.
Of course he is not...
Blood experts have found spatter which indicates someone struck Stella 17 times in the forehead with a bottle, the top of her head pulped into a V-shape, before the bottle broke in the back seat of the car... Len’s car, in which Bob had supposedly driven her to hospital. Blood patterns also indicated a blood-soaked body had been dragged out of the car, afterwards.
Incredibly, the jury believes Bob and Len is found guilty. He is sentenced to hang on Monday, 21 April 1947. From Death Row on 16 April he writes to his wife, May:
“In my position I have nothing to fear and now nothing to gain in telling you lies. I did not kill or injure Mrs Farnworth in any way. Please God, let that truth penetrate your present decision. That is my dying prayer to you.
Please dear, don’t think any evil of what you may hear. It is your humiliation I want to mitigate in all matters ... God forever bless you, my poor darling, for what I have caused you to suffer. With love, forever yours, Len.”
POST-CREDITS
“While a warder sat outside the grille door of the condemned cell, his eyes glued on the apparently sleeping form of the prisoner ... Jackson hacked at his neck with a razor blade ... until his life ebbed away.”
“And all the time he took to perform this grisly operation to cheat the hangman he was apparently motionless. Apart from a few whining noises not unfamiliar to a person in a disturbed sleep, Jackson was silent as he wrote, with his life’s blood, the grim epilogue to one of the ghastliest chapters in the State’s criminal history.”
The Mirror, 19 April 1947
Roebourne, 14 June 1947
Having gotten away with murder, Bob Hobson is refuelling a petrol engine. He spills some on himself, so he cleans his hands and, reflexively, lights a cigarette.
He incinerates and dies, in agony, soon after.
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Right Hooks
Christie Pardons Mom Facing Stupid Gun Charge
Even though common sense prevailed when New Jersey dropped the prosecution of two individuals who ran afoul of its gun laws, the state’s broken laws need a change. Shaneen Allen thought she was in the clear when she drove into New Jersey with her Pennsylvania-legal handgun. Instead, she faced years in a New Jersey jail. The state dropped the prosecution, but Allen still needed to attend a pre-trial intervention class. On Thursday, Governor Chris Christie pardoned Allen, and the move possibly sets a precedent for other out-of-state travelers caught in Jersey’s gun laws. “It was quite a fight for her down there in Atlantic County, and it led to significant changes. Hundreds of folks were helped by her case,” Allen’s lawyer Evan Knappen said. “It’s a little absurd to take someone who’s a law-abiding citizen in their home state but then put them into a New Jersey state prison for a mandatory three- to five-year sentence and make them a felon.” In February, the Garden State dropped the prosecution of Gordon van Gilder, a former teacher who was caught with – the horrors! – an antique flintlock pistol. Some in the state realize there is a problem. But the problem now is that citizens only rely on the state’s benevolence, not a law that rules over everyone equally. More…
Thursday Short Cuts
Notable quotables from Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Joe Lockhart, John Kennedy, and more.
"They are relentless and use Gestapo tactics."
"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." —James Madison (1788)
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...rocks, rolls, and rules Christmas for SciFi fans.
Unexpected guests come bearing gifts. This interstellar Christmas will be one for the ages…
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PAKISTANI CHURCH WALLS HIT WITH SLOGANS HAILING THE TALIBAN
At least three Pakistani Christian men, who were protesting against pro Taliban and Al-Qaeda slogans written on their local churches, have been injured in a gun battle between law enforcement agencies and Pashto-speaking suspected militant Muslims on Wednesday (April 22, 2009) afternoon, reports Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan, special to ASSIST News Service.
Pashto language is spoken by people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan and also by the residents of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
Christian residents of Taseer Town awoke on Wednesday morning to discover the slogans, “Taliban Zindabad” (Long-Live the Taliban) and “Al-Qaeda Zindabad” (Long Live Al-Qaeda), which are thought to be have been posted by some unidentified people, on the walls of different churches in their town located in Sector 35 Lyari, in the port city of Karachi.
They were so upset that some of them set ablaze tires and blocked the roads, bringing the traffic in the area to a standstill.
Heavy contingents of rangers and police rushed to the scene to disperse the protesting Christians.
Michael Javaid, a former member of the Sindh Provincial Assembly, spoke to ANS from tension-ridden area of Taseer Town apprised ANS that three Christians were injured as firing broke out between law enforcement agencies’ officials and militants at 11:30 am Pakistan time on Wednesday.
He alleged that the police opened fire on protesting Christians instead of protecting them. The injured were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital in Karachi.
One of the injured, Imran Masih, received a bullet to his head and was rush to the hospital where his condition is said to be “critical.” The other two injured Christian men were later identified as Qudus Masih and Irfan Masih.
ANS has discovered that Qudus received an injury to his arm. Javaid, who visited the injured in the hospital, said the medics had plastered Qudus arm. He apprehended that the Christian man would have arm-disability all his life.
Three houses of Christians in the Taseer Town have also been burned. ANS could not ascertain what caused fire.
Javaid told ANS the police “manhandled protesting Christian men and women,” adding that the police removed the Christian women from the protest site by “pulling them from their hair.”
He claimed suspected militants also forced their entry into a church in the area and “desecrated Bibles.”
Javaid said he witnessed rangers removing slogans in favour of Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda from the walls of churches.
Asked if the police have registered First Information Report (FIR) against assailants, Michael said the police have instead arrested two Christian men and four workers of Pakistan Peoples Party, who he said had come to express their solidarity with the Christians from their nearby office.
Recent attack on Christians and churches by Islamists comes about three months as two churches in Karachi were attacked on New Year’s Eve.
The incident has sparked fear and uncertainty among the Christian residents of Karachi. The tense situation has prompted several Christian women to flee their homes.
Asked if this was beginning of the “Talibanization of Karachi,” he said that a sizable number of Taliban had entered the city “in an attempt to press their demands of enforcing Sharia Justice System in the Sindh Province.
He termed the sketching of walls of churches in Karachi with slogans backing Taliban and Al-Qaeda as a “conspiracy” to slap Sharia Justice System on Pakistani Christians.
When ANS drew his attention to Taliban’s taking control of Buner district which is only 96 kilometers (60 miles) from capital Islamabad, he said they (Taliban) were bent upon enforcing Sharia Justice System across Pakistan.
He pointed out that the Taliban in Orakzai, located at border of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, had already started demanding Jaziya (Minority tax) from Sikhs there.
“I fear the Taliban will start demanding minority tax from Pakistani Christians too,” he said.
He added: “Christians are not a ‘conquered community.’ They are not supposed to pay any minority tax.”
Javaid appealed to Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, and Prime Minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, to ensure protection of the lives and properties of Pakistani Christians
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PAKISTAN MINORITIES WILL CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR REPEAL OF BLASPHEMY LAWS
Reiterating his pledge to continue mounting efforts for a repeal of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Chairman of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) has assured the family of a blasphemy-accused that the APMA would not rest until release of Dr. Robin, a Pakistani Christian homeopathic doctor who was arrested in May 2008 after he was accused of blasphemy.
Dr. Robin was accused of passing derogatory remarks against the beard of Prophet Muhammad.
He is currently detained in Gujranawala jail. Dr. Robin’s family was forced to go into hiding as the family members of the accused cannot stay at their home after the stigma of blasphemy has been slapped on any of their family members.
The family of Dr. Robin and some 20 Christian residents of district Hafizabad had come to see the APMA Chief; Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti, after Dr. Robin was accused of blasphemy. They apprised him of the insecurity they had become exposed to after Robin was implicated in a blasphemy case.
The APMA has been extending financial support to the family as well as free legal aid to Dr. Robin since the occurrence of alleged blasphemy by Dr. Robin.
The family of the accused including Veenus, 50, Tariq 42, Waseem Bhatti, 32 and Francis Masih, a relative of Dr. Robin came to the APMA office in Islamabad on October 3, 2008.
Describing the fear and uncertainty that gripped the family members following leveling of blasphemy charges on Dr. Robin, Waseem told ANS that they felt as if a roof had been snatched from them.
“We felt secure after we met the APMA Chief Shahbaz Bhatti,” he said.
“We wanted our voice to be raised. We were desperately looking for someone to steer us out of the problem we were confronting. We were praying for some help. We prayed to God and we knew our prayers were heard when we met Shahbaz Bhatti”, said Waseem.
The young Christian man went on to say that fears of sorts were assailing the family’s mind after detention of Dr. Robin. They (fears) left us disturbed and helpless all the more, he said.
After incarceration of Dr. Robin, he said the family had lost the breadwinner and they were not in a position of hiring a lawyer.
“You need a lawyer to defend you even in a simple dispute. We knew we had to hire a competent defense counsel for Dr. Robin. It was again Mr. Shahbaz who extended free legal aid for Dr. Robin”, said Waseem as tears ran down his cheeks.
Waseem, who works as an animator in a local Non Governmental Organization (NGO) feared that it had become virtually impossible for Dr. Robin to run his clinic at the same locality.
He also ruled out possibility of any of his family members staying at the same place after leveling of blasphemy accusations on Dr. Robin.
“His (Dr. Robin’s) family members are living in hiding. They have been able to find a roof above their heads with the help the APMA Chief extended to the family but you still feel alienated. You take time to settle down at a new place. You continue to live a tension-ridden life”, he said.
“The children of Dr. Robin have been robbed of fatherly love. Michael Rose, the youngest of Dr. Robin’s children used to stay in a hostel. He does not feel comfortable staying at the hostel now”, said Waseem.
In response to a question he said that during this period of tribulation Dr. Robin had emerged as a strong Christian. He said his (Dr. Robin’s) belief in Christ had only become stronger.
Tariq, a relative of Dr. Robin told ANS that Dr. Robin wished to be released as soon as possible.
He said the incident had come as a big jolt to the children of Dr. Robin.
He said they had not been able to concentrate on their studies fully after Robin was arrested by the police.
Francis, brother-in-law of Dr. Robin called for repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
Citing his talks with a couple of Muslim friends, he said that they were of the view that the law should be repealed.
“My Muslim friends admitted that a thorough investigation should be made before lodging of a blasphemy-related Police First Information Report (FIR)”, said Tariq.
Tariq disclosed that he had been able to record a conversation between the complainant and some family members of Dr. Robin in which the complainant tried to do a “deal” with the family of the accused.
According to Tariq, the complainant said that he would withdraw charges against Dr. Robin if his family agreed to pay him money.
He claimed he recorded the conversation on September 19, a day ahead of the hearing of Dr. Robin’s case in a lower court.
Echoing a grave concern of Pakistani Christians, who like their fellow Muslim Pakistanis want their concerns to be highlighted on national and print media, Tariq said that Dr. Robin’s case only drew marginal coverage of the incident.
Lashing out at the police he alleged that the police failed to provide adequate security to Dr. Robin’s family.
“If the Police had provided security to Dr. Robin’s family and his vulnerable relatives then they might have decided to continue staying in Hafizabad but in the absence of any such security the family was forced to go into hiding”, he said.
In an apparent bid to support his disbelief in the police, he said that police did not take initiative for rescuing Dr. Robin’s family “rather some local Christians entered Dr. Robin’s home at about 3 am and rescued the family members who had become prone to attack by the angry Muslim residents of Hafizabad”.
“Do you want us to jump into fire”, he quoted a police official as saying, who Tariq and other Christian residents of the area wanted to rescue Dr. Robin’s family members.
Post-arrest situation
Tariq said when he and some other members of Dr. Robin’s family went to Dr. Robin’s place to collect some clothes, books and some other daily use items they saw a “shocking scene”.
“Not even a single thing was at its place. There were visible signs of human presence at Dr. Robin’s house. It was not hard to conclude that some people have been living at Dr. Robin’s house. We saw crumbs of bread, chicken bones, and unwashed dishes.
Dr. Robin’s house had been ransacked”, said Tariq, who looked scared while sketching the ransacked home of Dr. Robin.
He said that the lower court rejected a post-arrest bail petition, prompting the APMA to file a petition in Lahore High Court.
Asked who could have inhabited Dr. Robin’s house after his arrest and exiting of his family members, Tariq said that the fundamentalist Muslims of the area could have maintained their presence at Dr. Robin’s house. Nobody could have dared entering Dr. Robin’s home if the police had been vigilant, he said.
Tariq disclosed that a small but angry Muslim crowd took out a rally in a bid to pressurize the court.
He said that participants of the rally were holding placards, which were inscribed with slogans, “Give death to Dr. Robin.”
He disclosed that the witnesses at a court hearing had submitted their written version on legal papers that Dr. Robin did not commit blasphemy.
He said he learned that Dr. Robin’s lawyer also gave precedents of post-arrest bails granted to blasphemy accused in the past “but even then the judge did not grant post-arrest bail to Dr. Robin”.
Talking to the APMA Chief, Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti, Veenus said that recording of the alleged conversation between the complainant and some family members further angered the local Muslims.
Thanking Mr. Shahbaz, she said she was optimistic that Dr. Robin would soon be home due to the APMA’s efforts.
She said: “I urge the Christians across the world to pray for release of my husband from prison. I cannot give fatherly love to my children. We want him back as soon as possible”, she said while talking to the APMA Chief”.
The APMA Chief told ANS that he was going to urge authorities to do an in-camera trial of Dr. Robin for security purposes. An application in this regard would be moved soon, he said.
He assured the family of the accused that Dr. Robin would soon be with them.
“The APMA is concerned. It (APMA) has been since leveling of the blasphemy accusations on Dr. Robin. We stand by you at this critical juncture in Robin’s and your life,” Shahbaz told the family of Dr. Robin who had come to see him at his office in Islamabad.
“It is the case of entire Christian community. When children of Dr. Robin talk to me by phone, I could feel the agony in their voices. I understand what they are living through. The APMA will do all it can to ensure expedient release of Dr. Robin”, said Shahbaz.
“We understand that the Pakistan blasphemy laws are being misused to settle personal scores. Religious enmity, prejudice and intolerance have been found behind filing of blasphemy cases in the past”, he maintained.
“God will move in His own mysterious way. Dr. Robin will be with you soon”, the APMA Chief told Dr. Robin’s spouse, Veenus.
Shahbaz reiterated his pledge that the APMA would continue to extend free legal aid to the blasphemy accused.
He said the APMA would continue to struggle until the blasphemy laws are repealed.
A person is reduced to the status of a refugee in his country after blasphemy allegations are leveled against him, said Shahbaz implying to the threats the accused and his family receive after slapping of blasphemy charges.
Responding a question, he said the APMA had been providing free legal aid and shelter to the blasphemy-accused since the abuse of the law became rampant in Pakistan.
The APMA, he said, wants to see the controversial laws abolished. He disclosed that he wanted to table a bill in parliament in a bid to either get the laws repealed or see them significantly amended.
He appealed to the Christians across the world to pray for the APMA and Pakistani Christians.
“I thank you for your previous prayers and support. We need your prayers to be able to continue fighting for the rights of the marginalized and the down-trodden Pakistani Christians and other minorities”, he said.
Dubbing Pakistan blasphemy laws as a death warrant in the hands of extremists, Shahbaz called for the repeal of the law, which he said had done more harm than good since their introduction in 1986.
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YouTube: Caters Clips
in Amazing, Badass Women, Humanity Heck Yea
Grandma Spends A Whopping $38,000 On Christmas Decorations—And It’s Extra AF
by Jonna Ivin
A grandmother named Betty-Ann Jones, who lives in Pontardawe, Wales, has spent forty years and over $38,000 amassing a collection of over-the-top Christmas decorations. She has more than 2,000 pieces, to be exact, and it’s fabulous.
A YouTube video by Caters Clips gives us a chance to watch Jones living her best elf-like life.
But it’s not all for fun and giggles. Jones raises some serious cash for charities, too. She’s raised over $93,000 in five years, and part of the money goes to buy blankets and food for the homeless.
Jones says:
“As long as I am happy and I make other people happy. That is my aim in life.”
When we grow up we want to be just like Betty-Ann.
I've never wanted to be an old lady so much in my life - Ashley https://t.co/0myb2qDNkF
— B94.7 Fresh Country (@B947FreshCtry) December 3, 2018
'Mrs Christmas' who has spent £30,000 on decorations puts her tree up in AUGUST https://t.co/ZBJ1tDqNH6
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) November 29, 2018
People felt they could relate.
Now we feel a little better about our own Christmas stash.
H/T: Buzzfeed, Daily Mail
Written by Jonna Ivin
Jonna Ivin is the founder of STIR Journal and writer of the essay, I Know Why Poor Whites Chant, Trump, Trump, Trump. She has appeared on NPR, OPB, The Roland Martin Show and KCRW. Jonna is the author of the books Will Love For Crumbs, 8th Amendment, and, Sister Girl. Her writing has been featured in Good Magazine, STIR Journal, The Establishment, and xoJane. Twitter @jonnaivin
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Tag: Coming of Age
Book Review: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Author: Karen Russell
Title: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Narrators: Ariel Sitrick, Zach McLarty, Patrick Mackie, Nick Chamian , Jesse Bernstein, J. B. Adkins, Kathe Mazur, Arthur Morey, Kirby Heyborne, Deirdre Lovejoy
Previously read by same author: Vampires in the Lemon Grove
This collections of short stories deal with themes of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, loss and grief, and animal nature of humanity. They are deeply in the magical realism genre as these coming of age stories include fantastical elements. My favorite stories include “Haunting Olivia” about two brothers looking for their lost sister who sailed away on a crab’s exoskeleton, “Z.Z.’s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers” where a boy with prophetic dreams goes a camp for children with sleep disorders, “The City of Shells,” told from the perspective of an outsider girl who gets trapped in a giant conch shell, and “From Children’s Reminisces of the Westward Migration” which is an ordinary boy’s perspective on a pioneer journey when his father is a Minotaur pulling the wagon.
Recommended books: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill and Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Book Review: Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick
Author: Matthew Quick
Title: Every Exquisite Thing
Narrator: Vanessa Johansson
Publication Info: New York : Hachette Audio, p2016.
Not sure what to make of this book. Nanette O’Hare is a good student and star soccer player at her high school, but an outsider who spends her lunch time with her English teacher. When her teacher introduces her to an out-of-print book about a disaffected teen railing against conformity, Nanette’s life is changed and she finds and befriends the book’s author. While Nigel Booker refuses to discuss his novel, he does encourage Nanette to rethink her life, leading her to quit the soccer team and reconsider going to college. He also introduces her to a boy her age who is also a fan of the book and a tortured poet, Alex. Alex is kind of the manic pixie dream boy of the novel which is kind of a tragedy since neither Nanette nor the author seem to want to realize that he is a colossal douche. I won’t go into any spoilers but a lot of things happen that push Nanette to the edge of her sanity and increase her resentment against everyone she knows. I think the problem with this book is that so many characters are so one-dimensional and villainous, that it undermines the generally well-rounded and contradictory characterization of Nanette herself. Maybe I’ve just finally outgrown teenage rebellion?
Recommended books: The Pigman by Paul Zindel, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Rating: **
Book Review: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Author: Louise Erdrich
Title: The Round House
Narrator: Gary Farmer
Publication Info: HarperAudio (2013
Set on a fictional Indian reservation in North Dakota, this is the story of the teenager Joe who at the beginning of the novel learns that his mother has been brutally raped. What follows is a story of legal complications surrounding the crime, Joe and his friends rather naive attempts to play detective in finding his mother’s attacker, and a coming of age story in which Joe learns some uncomfortable truths. It’s a well-written but emotionally-challenging story about family, guilt, and place.
Recommended books: Waylaid by Ed Lin, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD
Finally, the “elder” 28-75mm F2.8 gets an update. Being the the last brand to have a 24-70mm F2.8 in the line up, this lens is long awaited by Tamron fans.
Tamron introduces world’s first*1 full-size, high-speed standard zoom with built-in image stabilization – SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A007)
– With class-leading resolution and Tamron’s proprietary VC (Vibration Compensation)
April , 2012, Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Morio Ono / Headquarters: Saitama City), a leading manufacturer of optical equipment, announced the introduction of the SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A007), the world’s first*1 full-size high-speed standard zoom lens equipped with VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilization and USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive)*2, with resolution at the top of its class. The Canon mount will be released in Japan on April 26, 2012, with the sales dates of Nikon and Sony*3 compatible mounts to be announced later.
SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A007)
World’s first*1full-size, high-speed standard zoom with built-in VC (Vibration Compensation). Even when shooting in low-light conditions with a slow shutter speed to render sharpness, Tamron’s acclaimed VC allows for stable handheld camera work, to more fully enjoy the benefits of this high-speed zoom lens.
Uses specialized high-grade glass in the three LD elements, three Glass Molded Aspherical Lenses, one Hybrid Aspherical Lens and two XR (Extra Refractive Index) glasses, delivering top-of-the-class quality images suited to this high-grade lens. Using a rounded diaphragm*4, the lens achieves gorgeous blur effects.
Features USD*2(Ultrasonic Silent Drive) to power a speedy AF drive together with a continuous manual mechanism.
This high-speed standard zoom lens has a wide-end focal length of 24mm that expands the photographic area.
The lens adopts the new technology including the latest optical design, VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilization and USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive), all in a lighter and more compact package.
Moisture-resistant construction helps prevent water from penetrating the lens.
*1 For high-speed standard zoom lens compatible with full frame size SLR cameras. Current as of April 5, 2012. (Source: Tamron).
*2 USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive) is Tamron’s proprietary ultrasonic motor drive.
*3 The Sony mount does not include VC, because the body of Sony digital SLR cameras includes image stabilization functionality.
The product name for Sony cameras is “SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di USD” without the VC designation.
*4 This rounded diaphragm retains a nearly circular shape even when taken two stops down from its fully open state.
Model: A007
Focal length: 24-70mm
Maximum aperture: F/2.8
Angle of view (diagonal): 84゜ 04′-34゜ 21′ (with full-size SLR cameras)
60゜ 20′-22゜ 33′ (with APS-C sized sensor digital SLR cameras)
Lens construction: 17 elements in 12 groups
Minimum focus distance: 0.38m (15.0 in)
Maximum magnification ratio: 1:5 (at f=70mm: MFD 0.38m)
Filter size: Φ82mm
Length*1 108.5mm (4.3 in)*
Entire length*2 116.9mm (4.6 in)*
Diameter: Φ88.2mm (3.5 in)
Weight: 825g * (29.1 oz)
No. of diaphragm blades: 9 (rounded diaphragm)
Minimum aperture: F/22
Standard accessories: Flower-shaped lens hood
Compatible mounts: Canon, Nikon, Sony
– Specifications, appearance, functionality, etc., may be changed without prior notice.
*Length, entire length and weight values given are for the Nikon mount.
*1: Length is the distance between the mount face and the tip of the lens.
*2: Entire length is the distance between the tip of the lens and the tip of the protrusion.
VC (Vibration Compensation)
VC (Vibration Compensation) is Tamron’s proprietary image stabilization system. Tamron’s VC is a three-coil system, whereby three driving coils activate the shake-compensating VC lens group electromagnetically via three ceramic balls. The VC lens elements are held in place only by contact with the ceramic balls, achieving smooth movement with little friction. This provides a stable viewfinder image with excellent tracking performance. And as the VC lens may be moved in parallel using only the motorized control, the mechanical structure has been simplified, enabling the creation of a more compact lens.
New VC system (moving coil method)
Tamron’s original VC image stabilization mechanism utilized a moving magnet system whereby a heavy magnet was positioned near the moving VC lens element. In the new VC unit the positions of the magnet and the coil are reversed, because of this the VC optical lens element is attached to the coil. The new VC mechanism employs a moving coil mechanism with a lightweight coil, and the lighter coil reduces the load on the drive system. Thus, the lighter, more compact new VC unit contributes to the lens’s overall light weight and compact size.
Because the 24-70 mm F/2.8 Di VC USD is a high-speed zoom lens with maximum aperture of F/2.8, its VC system must drive a lens that is larger and heavier than other zooms. Therefore, the shape, size and layout of the drive coils are all designed to obtain sufficient thrust. The result is a full-size, high-speed zoom that provides the same high level of compensation effect.
About the ultrasonic motor
In the ultrasonic motor, a piezoelectric element arranged in a ring formation generates ultrasonic vibrations in a metallic ring stator, and the vibration energy is used to rotate a metallic ring rotor that is attached to the stator. The rotation energy is in turn transferred from the metallic ring rotor to operate the focus lens.
Notice of Classification Code Change for Nikon Mounts
Since the introduction by Tamron of the first Nikon mount lens featuring an internal AF motor, the AF28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC (Model A20), all Nikon mount lenses with the internal AF motor had used the classification code “NII.” Lenses using a coupler system* without an internal AF motor were designated as “N.” Because future Nikon lenses will have the internal AF motor as a standard feature, Tamron has decided to simplify the designation and consolidate all Nikon mount lenses as “N,” eliminating the “NII” designation for future models. This classification code change will be effective beginning with the 18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD (Model B008).
The “N” classification lenses with coupler systems are: SP AF200-500mm F/5.6-6.3 Di (Model A08); and SP AF180mm F/3.5 Di (Model B01).
*Coupler system refers to a system that uses a shaft to harness the AF motor built into the camera body to operate the lens.
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Interactive crime map: May 24 – May 29
Pitt News File Photo
By The Pitt News Staff
8:51 a.m. Robinson St Ext, Pittsburgh, PA. Pitt police responded to an individual’s report of the theft of three traffic cones.
1:02 p.m. Nordenburg Hall 111 University Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police assisted county police with a warrant arrest.
1:24 p.m. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic 3811 O’Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police assisted UPMC security with an employee who wanted to report a terroristic threat.
12:38 p.m. Sutherland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213. Pitt police responded to a report of a stolen traffic cone.
3:13 p.m. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic 3811 O’Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested a non-affiliated woman for defiant trespass.
12:41 a.m. Tower C 3990 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police responded to a campus security report of a drug law violation.
1:14 a.m. Bouquet Gardens 300 South Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police responded to a report of criminal mischief.
10:43 p.m. 3300 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested a non-affiliated person for possession of cocaine.
12:02 a.m. 200 Atwood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested two non-affiliated persons for possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, retail theft and showing false identification to law enforcement.
2:45 p.m. Petersen Events Center 3719 Terrace St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Pitt police responded to a report of theft of a t-shirt from a mannequin.
2:44 a.m. 3354 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police issued a citation to a male student for public drunkenness.
3:12 a.m. 3425 Bigelow Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested a non-affiliated person with a warrant.
10:35 p.m. 398 S Bellefield Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police issued citations to one juvenile and two non-affiliated persons for disorderly conduct and underage drinking.
1:03 a.m. Hilton Garden Inn University Place 3454 University Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliated person for disorderly conduct.
9:17 a.m. McKee Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police arrested one non-affiliated person for burglary, simple assault, theft by unlawful taking and harassment.
3:41 p.m. 4498 Bigelow Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliated individual for aggressive panhandling.
4:36 p.m. 7-Eleven 3955 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliated individual for retail theft.
2. Featured
Police seeking public’s help in Oakland investigation
Police respond to attempted burglary on Oakland Avenue
Former Pitt professor now charged with kidnapping third woman
Pitt, Penn State Beaver professor charged with kidnapping Uber riders
Recent CMU graduate found guilty of sexual assault against female Pitt student
Pitt police identifies men involved in Tuesday incident as students from Denison University on ‘scavenger hunt’ who had to ‘scare someone’
Multiple reports of suspicious activity seemingly targeting women in Oakland
3. Breaking
Gunshots fired into office of Michael Rosfeld’s attorney
Pitt files response to Rose suit
Racial slurs found on car roofs in South Oakland
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Oscar-winning actress, Glenda Jackson, back on Broadway in “Three Tall Women”
Posted 12:39 PM, April 25, 2018, by Rebecca Millman, Updated at 03:36PM, April 25, 2018
NEW YORK—"I heard that Glenda Jackson was attached to it and I was like how do I get in the room."
Oscar nominee Laurie Metcalf is one of the dynamic actresses starring in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize winning play.
A portrait of his mother in different stages of her life.
Not so slippery , her recent return to prime-time in the reboot of “Roseanne.”
"It premiered. It did well and hopefully will do some more," Metcalf commented.
Glenda Jackson left the stage to become a member of the British parliament.
"Anything that I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher out, I was prepared to have a go at," Jackson said.
Known for her fiery speeches, she remained in politics for more than 20 years, till the right project called her back to the stage.
"I read it. It is so fascinating because it is so difficult and seemingly so simple," Jackson said.
At age 81, after a turn as Lear in London, she has returned to Broadway in “Three Tall Women.”
"The opportunity to work with other actresses is very limited, and I don’t understand why contemporary dramatists find women so dull. They usually are simply the object to the male who is the scandal dramatic ending," Jackson said.
She has a towering presence and doesn’t miss a beat.
"My major fear was that the part I was playing, I would have focal or physical energy for, but actually it doesn’t go away , and a friend of mine said don’t worry about it it’s like riding a bicycle. I said no, it’s slightly more difficult than riding a bicycle," Jackson confessed.
But, she makes it look that easy.
And, rounding out the cast is “Newsroom” alum Alison Pill.
"It's such a rare thing, not just to have three female parts of this kind, but three ages like this. To have our leading lady to be 81 is such a gift and to have her telling stories of doing New York theater, it’s pretty cool," Pill revealed.
Filed in: Backstage on Broadway, Entertainment, Manhattan
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Making history: For the first time, Miss USA, Miss America and Miss Teen USA have all crowned black women
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To WARN or Not? Contractors Get Financial Cover to Withhold Layoff Notices
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said yesterday that he believed Lockheed Martin's decision was "motivated by the same concern for their workers’ security as was their initial contemplation of WARN notices."
"It appears companies will bow to the threat implicit in last week's OMB guidance; withhold notices today or the government might not cover your court costs down the road," McKeon said. "Let me be clear, neither the OMB guidance nor the Lockheed decision will protect a single defense industry job if sequestration occurs in January."
GOP House leaders today went after the administration for the memo, especially as the cuts loom with no resolution in sight.
"For an administration that talks a lot about transparency, it is disappointing that they apparently think it is more important to protect their political interests than give hard working families any indication that they might in fact lose their job in 60 to 90 days due to inaction by the President and Senate Democrats," said Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blasted the "Friday evening news dump" that demonstrated "this is a White House in denial about the consequences of its own irresponsible actions."
“As Commander-in-Chief, President Obama owes our troops a plan that ensures they have the resources to carry out their mission," Boehner said. "If neither the president nor his Democratic majority in the Senate are prepared to offer an alternative, they should have the courage to act on the House-passed plan immediately and remove the threat of the looming cuts facing our armed services at this critical time.”
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires most employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days' notice of plant closings and mass layoffs. Graham noted Monday that as a senator, Obama wanted that lengthened to 90 days in the interest of workers' rights.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the prospect of political embarrassment days before the election was "absolutely not" the impetus for the OMB guidance.
"I think the WARN Act action has been thoroughly explained and described, and individual companies like Lockheed make the decisions according to their own interests," Carney said at today's news briefing.
In response to Boehner and Cantor, Carney reminded all that the repeal of sequestration is explicitly tied by Democrats to letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire for upper-income brackets.
"That has been the singular obstacle to a comprehensive deficit reduction plan passing Congress, resolving the fiscal -- so-called fiscal cliff," he said. "If Speaker Boehner is as concerned as he seems to be in this statement about the fiscal cliff, then he, as leader of the House of Representatives, should bring back the House and pass the bill that the Senate passed extending the Bush-era tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people."
Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki added "it shouldn't be lost that this is all happening during the backdrop of a presidential election happening in 34 days."
"And those statements sound remarkably similar to the comments that are being made by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan out on the campaign trail accusing the President of having a lack of details," Psaki said. "And that's a piece of it that certainly plays in -- is a factor in the back-and-forth at this stage."
McKeon accused Obama of issuing "politically motivated memos with dubious grounding in the law."
"In so doing, the President eliminated the very reason for having the WARN act in the first place. Notifications will not be sent to those at risk, even though we have heard directly from CEOs in hearings this summer that layoffs will occur," the chairman continued. "Further, even though the OMB directive purports to protect the defense industry against the costs of not complying with the WARN Act, they cannot guarantee how the courts would rule in such an action. Thus the President has pledged to compound the impact of sequestration by dedicating already scarce resources to cover needless court costs."
“These directives have not enhanced our national security and they haven't helped anyone's job security," McKeon said. "The only thing the President seems interested in securing is his own re-election."
https://pjmedia.com/blog/to-warn-or-not-contractors-get-financial-coverage-to-withhold-layoff-notices/
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Irene Eining
HURON — Irene L. Eining, 95, of Huron, passed away Thursday, April 27, 2017, at the Violet Tschetter Memorial Home.
Her Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 3, at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish with private interment in Restlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation with the family present will be from 5 to 7 p.m. with a scripture prayer service at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Welter Funeral Home in Huron or visitation one hour prior to the funeral mass at the church.
Irene was born January 20, 1922, in Artesian to Joseph and Ida (Moseson) Olson. She grew up in Artesian where she attended school. She was united in marriage to Carmen Eining on October 10, 1939, in Pipestone, Minn. and they lived on a farm in the Artesian area for a number of years. They lived in Vancouver, Wash. and Igloo, S.D. before returning to Huron in 1967, where they both worked for Raven Industries until their retirement. Irene and Carmen enjoyed riding horses and attending horse shows.
As a couple, they enjoyed tending to their acreage in Huron and walking at the Huron Mall. Irene enjoyed having coffee at McDonalds and socializing with her friends in Huron and at Countryside Assisted Living in Mitchell where she looked forward to exercise class and playing Bingo. She treasured spending time with her family and enjoyed going to her great-granddaughter Taylin’s soccer games in Mitchell and dining at the Pizza Ranch. She also enjoyed her grandson Chad taking her for rides around Mitchell in her 1996 Mercury Sable and receiving phone calls and visits from her grand-daughters Kelli, Sherry, and Terra that would make her eyes sparkle.
She is survived by her two daughters, Carol (Gene) Liudahl of Rapid City, and Char (Randy Brown) Barta of Huron; four grandchildren; Sherry Barta, Chad (Paula) Deckert, Kelli (Rob) Crawford, Riley Knippling; four great-grandchildren, Rory and Nolan Crawford, Terra and Taylin Deckert, and Tanya (A.J.) Blue; three great-great-grandchildren, Brianna, Anthony, and Micah Blue; many nieces and nephews; and her many special friends at Countryside Assisted Living in Mitchell especially Arlis Hetland and Gerry Oberembt.
Irene was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carmen Eining on July 29, 1998; two sisters, Alice and Edna Olson; and four brothers, Orlando, Otto, Victor, and Lyle Olson.
Irene was the best mom a family could have and her family will dearly miss her.
Visit www.welterfuneralhome.com
Ardis Price, 90, of De Smet
Lois Meyer, 93, of Silver Bay, Minn
Calvin Hinrichs, 68, of Wessington Springs
Alan Kahre, 75, of Wolsey
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How to Get Unclaimed Cash From Federal and State Governments
By: David Sarokin
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How to Find Unclaimed Money in the UK
Federal and state governments are sitting on billions of dollars of money that doesn't belong to them and that, odd as it may seem, they would rather give to its rightful owner. The money includes abandoned bank accounts, refunds from fraud cases, unclaimed pensions, tax rebates, insurance refunds and a quite a number of other sizable pots of cash. If you can demonstrate that you're the rightful owner, the money is yours.
Unclaimed Money and Property
Visit missingmoney.com.
This site, run by the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators, consolidates information from most states and a number of provinces in Canada. Unclaimed money and property includes funds from bank accounts, safe deposit box contents, stocks, uncashed checks, utility company deposits, escrow accounts and others.
Search for unclaimed money or property by entering your name in the relevant fields. Enter a single state or province to search, or type in "ZZ" to search all states and provinces at once.
Click on a record for more information if your search produces results. The process for recovering unclaimed funds is different in each state, so follow the instructions provided with each record to begin the process for your unclaimed property.
Search for your name at the "Unclaimed Funds" page at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for additional records of unclaimed funds from closed banks. If your name is in the records, fill out the "FDIC Claimant Verification Form" that is linked to at the site, and submit it to claim your funds.
Check the Unclaimed Deposits at the National Credit Union Administration. The administration maintains a list of deposits that have not been returned to the correct owners. Use the form at their website to file a claim if you find your name on the list.
Mortgage Insurance Refunds
Check the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's webpage, "Does HUD Owe You a Refund?"
Holders of certain government-insured mortgages are due a refund on part of their payments.
Search for your name in the HUD case files.
Call the HUD hotline at 1-800-697-6967 if your name is on the list, and the customer service representative will assist you in filing a refund claim.
Search for your name at the "Who are we looking for?" website of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation at www.pbgc.gov/.
This government agency holds pension funds from some companies that could no longer manage the pensions on their own.
Compile your records if your name is on the list. Along with providing your name, address and Social Security number, you will need to detail the dates you worked at the company that established the pension.
Contact PBGC at 1-800-326-LOST to claim your missing pension. You can also e-mail the agency at found@pbgc.gov or write them at:
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation P.O. Box 151750 Alexandria, Va. 22315-9923
MissingMoney.com
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Unclaimed Funds
National Credit Union Administration: Unclaimed Deposits
Department of Housing and Urban Development: Does HUD Owe You a Refund
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Who Are We Looking For
David Sarokin is a well-known specialist on Internet research. He has been profiled in the "New York Times," the "Washington Post" and in numerous online publications. Based in Washington D.C., he splits his time between several research services, writing content and his work as an environmental specialist with the federal government. David is the author of Missed Information (MIT Press, 2016), a book exploring how better information can lead to a more sustainable future.
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How to Find Unclaimed Money for Free
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How to Claim Unclaimed Dividends
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Oxfam GB
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Research from the United Nations has found that between 2014 and 2016, 4.2% of the UK population – almost three million people – were ‘severely food insecure’. This is defined as people skipping meals, reducing the amount they eat or even going without food at all. Statistics can sometimes detract from the human story, so this report features the words of those who experience food poverty to highlight what being too poor to eat in the UK is really like.
The amazing work being done by charities, community groups and individuals – as well as by businesses and local authorities – will not end hunger in the UK. The members of the End Hunger UK campaign coalition are united in the belief that to really tackle the root causes of household food insecurity we need a concerted effort by the UK and devolved governments. Only action at this level will ensure that everyone has enough money in their pocket to feed themselves and their families with good quality, healthy food.
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Columbia-lx1041-cax9809
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Title/Work Sonata No.18 in E-flat major Opus 31 No.3
Author(s)/Composer(s) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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Posts tagged ellipsis
Article posted 18 November 2008 Contrarium sequitur posted 2pm / revised 2pm
In logic, a non sequitur is the fallacy of asserting a conclusion which does not logically follow from the premises.
Usually when somebody commits a non sequitur, it happens because the conclusion somehow seemed to follow from the premises even though it does not — for example, if it follows only when some controversial but not-yet-mentioned auxiliary premises are added to the premises already on the table, or if the conclusion follows from a distinct claim which has been confused with the claims that the premises actually made.
But life and politics being what they are, sometimes a label like non sequitur just isn’t enough. For example, there’s an extremely common argument, supposedly a refutation of anarchism, which holds that anarchism may be ideal for a society of angels, but that, in the real world, people are nasty and untrustworthy and will relentlessly exploit and violate each other given half the chance. The conclusion the statist then expects us to draw from these premises is that we should all agree to give a small handful of these admittedly nasty and untrustworthy creeps monopoly power to force their will on other people without any significant outside constraints from the rest of the populace (!). Or consider Naomi Klein’s repeated recent efforts to point to the failures and massive government violence against free association and peaceable assembly that attend government outsourcing, government transfers of forcibly expropriated resources to legally-privileged monopolists, and other forms of government-backed privateering — and then to use these as evidence for an indictment of those who argue that the government should keep out of people’s peaceful economic arrangements (!).
In cases like these, just pointing out that the conclusion fails to follow from the premises is not really enough here. I’d like to suggest a new name for a certain sub-set: the contrarium sequitur, or perhaps contra-sequitur for short. It’s the fallacy of asserting a conclusion which is exactly the opposite of the conclusion you ought to draw from the given premises.
Examples aren’t hard to find in this modern world. Consider, for another example, the recent miserable failure of the Barr/W.A.R. ticket.
The Libertarian Party leadership hamhandedly foisted Bob Barr and his crew on the party because, as they saw it, the things holding the Libertarian Party back are the fact that many libertarians don’t have much practical experience in electoral politics, and the common perception that libertarians are weird, kooky, or extremist in their positions. So instead they decided to try a new tack of nominating non-libertarians. Their favorite, ex-Congressman Bob Barr, promised that, what with the benefit of his political experience, and with his attempt to repackage watered-down libertarian and smaller-government conservative views as mainstream, he’d be able to deliver millions of votes and tens of millions of dollars in fundraising. Of course, even if he had gotten that, his Presidential campaign still would have been a miserable failure, but a bit less miserable than the past several miserable failures by LP Presidential candidates, which in the world of LP internal politics counts as something like success. But, be that as it may, when it came down to it, Barr made no significant fundraising inroads and picked up just over 500,000 votes out of about 126,000,000 votes cast, coming in at 0.40% of the popular vote. That makes his miserable failure even more miserable than the miserable failures of Ed Clark in 1980 (1.06%), Ron Paul in 1988 (0.47%), and Harry Browne in 1996 (0.51%).
Thus, Barr, the mainstream libertarian and professional conservative politician, failed even more miserably than a gold-bug politician who ran on abolishing the Federal Reserve and unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from the Cold War, and who took time out of his campaign to give long interviews about the Trilateral Commission and the secret manipulations of the international bankers. And both of them failed even more miserably than an investment consultant whose main campaign planks were to completely abolish the IRS and to use the presidential pardon to immediately release nonviolent heroin and crack users from prison, and who spent the 1970s publishing self-help books about tax evasion, his unconventional sex life, and defending against invasion under libertarian anarchism.
When this miserable failure is pointed out, the response from the political realists and the Barrbarians has been to insist that libertarians need to do even more to sacrifice radical appeals in favor of making mainstream pitches and attracting professional politicians:
We can (and will, undoubtedly) yammer endlessly on about how and why Barr failed, but what did (and always will) infuriate me was that a pragmatic approach was asked for one friggin’ time, once!, and we couldn’t get the Church Members to stop howling long enough to give it a shot.
— The Angry Optimist, comment on Where the Libertarian Party Went Wrong , 17 November 2008, 3:40pm
The LP needs to start marketing and building the party. Part of this means they have to stop with their purity litmus tests. Stop scaring off voters by insisting on the right to own nukes. Sheesh. While I myself may be a radical minarchist, I am not so naive as to believe that anarchists/minarchists will ever be a sizable minority. But we can get significant buy-in on smaller less intrusive government. Let’s aim for that goalpost for a while…
—Brandybuck, comment on Where the Libertarian Party Went Wrong , 17 November 2008, 3:57pm
The Libertarian Party is a joke, and libertines are its jesters. It’s fun to navel gaze from the comfort of the parents basement, but out in the real world politics are the art of compromise.
—ellipsis, comment on Where the Libertarian Party Went Wrong , 17 November 2008, 3:58pm
The Libertarian Party insists on doctrinal purity and has no plans to open its tent. Given that reality, people who are fiscally conservative and socially liberal will continue to stick with the major parties. The LP doesn’t really represent them anyway. Until the LP becomes practical and realistic, it will remain a protest party. Having seen the last convention, it looks like a reasonable LP ticket is impossible, and as such, a strategy focusing on a few Congressional seats also seems unlikely.
— Lamar, Where the Libertarian Party Went Wrong , 17 November 2008, 4:26pm
Or, for another example of the contra-sequitur, consider this recent exchange at The Distributed Republic , where Kyle Eliason objects to some common feminist claims about male dominance in conventional heterosexual relationships, and insists that forcable [sic] rape is the only time women don’t control sex. When challenged, the evidence he uses to defend his claim that women, not men, control sex is that in his experience lots more women than men complain that they’ve been pressured into having sex when they don’t want to:
[How Many Men] Have you heard complain that a woman was pressuring them into having sex too soon or that a woman was just using them for sex?
— Kyle Eliason, comment on Where Do I Join the Women Approach Men At Bars Feminist Coalition? , 29 October 2008, 9:24
What does it say about the state of our society, and public debate, that you really need a name with which to pick out contra-sequiturs? Well. I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
GT 2008-10-20: Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian Party candidate for the President of the United States
GT 2008-05-26: Goodbye’s too good a word, babe
Dialectic ∙ Election 2008 ∙ Feminism ∙ Language ∙ Logic ∙ Philosophy ∙ Politics ∙ Power to the People ∙ Smash the State
Bob Barr ∙ Brandybuck ∙ Brian Doherty ∙ Ed Clark ∙ ellipsis ∙ Harry Browne ∙ Hit and Run ∙ Kyle Eliason ∙ Lamar ∙ Libertarian Party ∙ Libertarians ∙ Reason ∙ Ron Paul ∙ The Angry Optimist ∙ The Distributed Republic ∙ Wayne Allyn Root
Posted by Rad Geek, 2:40pm. TrackBack6 Comments on GT 2008-11-18:
Robert Hutchinson: It's not nearly at the level of its main contra-sequitur, but that last one has a bonus bogusness: some of… Read Moreof comment from 2008-11-19 1:15:49 pm
Robert Hutchinson: I was appearing to overusing my suffixing there. Read Moreof comment from 2008-11-19 1:17:43 pm
Powell Gammill: It is worse for Mr. Barr. John Buttrick, the Libertarian Superior Court judge of Maricopa County, whose rulings have… Read Moreof comment from 2008-11-21 9:56:15 pm
Josh Rhodes: "Contra-sequitur" is a great term. I'll have to pull that one out the next time I have that ridiculous… Read Moreof comment from 2008-11-24 5:34:35 pm
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-11-22 – View images tagged “I don’t even know where to begin…”: [...] GT 2008-11-18: Contrarium sequitur [...] Read Moreof comment from 2009-02-08 2:21:59 pm
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2011-01-13 – Contra-Sequitur Watch: the New York Times Op-Ed page wins again: [...] that that isn’t a strong enough criticism for some popular arguments; we need a new category, the contrarium sequitur… Read Moreof comment from 2011-01-13 12:32:29 pm
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Laverty at the double as Biaggi loses chance of first 2011 race win
"Pirelli returned to its home circuit just a half hour from its world headquarters with a special treat: a bi-compound qualifying tyre identified by tri-colored stripes and “150th Italy” label to commemorate Italy’s national unity. Superpole was thus more memorable when Biaggi (Aprilia) rode around the Monza circuit on his Diablo Superbike tyres with the fastest average speed (204.4 km/h) in WSBK history, setting also a new track record of 1’41.745. Pirelli furnished a total of 4600 tyres comprised of 3 front and 2 rear bi-compound tyres for the SBK class and 3 front and 3 rear tyres for SSP, with the premier class requiring bi-compound rear solutions to manage Monza’s high speed turns. Unfortunately, of the two rear tyre solutions based on previous years’ data, the softer (A) tyre was not suitable to perform entire race with the 40-45°C asphalt temperatures encountered this race weekend and were thus not utilized during either race. Superbike Race 1 saw 10 riders on the mid-soft (SC2) reference tyre, 6 on the soft (SC1), and 4 on the newer mid-soft. In a race filled with numerous and exciting passes, it was a three-manufacturer podium with Yamaha, Aprilia and BMW, seeing even the fastest lap go to Fabrizio on his Suzuki (1'43.275). The second SBK race and the Supersport race were dominated by Yamaha, with incredible performances from Laverty, Melandri, Davies and Scass. Both of the Yamaha Superbikes topped 332.5 km/h on the main straight, just a fraction off Biaggi’s (Aprilia) top speed in Superpole. Although Ducati had difficulty in Superbike, they still had their day in the Stk1000 with a track record for Giugliano, a feat also accomplished by Yamaha in the Stk600 class" Giorgio Barbier, Racing Director, Pirelli Moto Pirelli BEST LAP Awards: SBK Race 1 – Michel Fabrizio (Team Suzuki Alstare), 1'43.275 (Lap 3) SBK Race 2 – Max Biaggi (Aprilia Alitalia Racing), 1'43.023 (Lap 4) Total BEST LAP (SBK): Biaggi M. (Aprilia Alitalia Racing): 3, Haga N. (PATA Racing Team Aprilia): 1, Checa C. (Althea Racing): 1, Sykes T. (Kawasaki Racing Team Superbike): 1, Camier L. (Aprilia Alitalia Racing): 1, Fabrizio M. (Team Suzuki Alstare): 1 WSS – Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO Team), 1'48.526 (Lap 5) Total BEST LAP (WSS): Foret F. (HANNspree Ten Kate Honda): 1, Lowes S. (Parkalgar Honda): 1, Scassa L. (Yamaha ParkinGO Team): 1, Davies C. (Yamaha ParkinGO Team): 1 Stk1000 – Davide Giugliano (Althea Racing), 1'46.219 (Lap 4) Stk600 – Nacho Calero Perez (Orelac Racing), 1'51.557 (Lap 7) Monza lived up to its reputation for thrills and excitement yet again as a crowd of 116,500 watched Eugene Laverty win both 18-lap races in sun-kissed conditions. Laverty was a clear winner in race one, upsetting the pre-race form that had Max Biaggi down as a strong favourite for a double race victory. In race two Biaggi was on for the win at his home track but in making a misjudgment and cutting the first chicane he did not follow the rules about keeping to a certain line and re-entering the track only at permitted areas. For this infringement he was given a ride through penalty. His hopes of the win were over after losing significant amounts of time because of his ride-through, and he ended up eighth. Biaggi’s misfortune allowed the two Yamaha World Superbike riders Marco Melandri and Laverty to fight it out right to the flag, with Laverty winning and Melandri second after an audacious pass into the Parabolica. Michel Fabrizio was third in race two, on his Alstare Suzuki. World Championship leader Carlos Checa also had a dramatic day, as he scored points in each race, but was lucky to finish the second as he went from sixth to tenth when his machine developed a sudden technical problems and a trail of blue smoke was visible from its exhaust. He had been ninth in race one. Behind the podium places, Melandri, Fabrizio and Rea filled the top six in race one, with Noriyuki Haga, Troy Corser and a jubilant Ayrton Badovini inside the top six in race two. Sylvain Guintoli was seventh in race two for his Effenbert Liberty Ducati Team, the top single race Ducati finisher on the day. Checa is still the leader of the championship, but the riders immediately behind him also had changeable fortunes after Monza. Leon Haslam was a podium man in race one, but a faller in race two, along with Jonathan Rea and Ruben Xaus. Leon Camier (Aprilia Alitalia) was on course for a podium but fell at high speed in race two. In the championship standings Carlos Checa (Althea Racing Ducati) has 145 points, Melandri 118 and Biaggi 117. Rea is fourth with 89 points and Laverty is now fifth, on 85. Race 1 A close race at times was turned into a cool-headed race win for Laverty as he stretched his rivals to breaking point in the final laps. Biaggi and Haslam took the other podium places, after some tough passes and fights between that duo and fourth place rider Melandri. Fabrizio had a strong ride on his Suzuki Alstare machine and set the fastest lap on his way to fifth place. Jonathan Rea (Castrol Honda) held off Troy Corser to earn himself a top six finish, 12 seconds from the winner. Eugene Laverty: “That was a great race, definitely not one of the easiest but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I just kept pushing to the top and my first win couldn’t have come at a better place, the Yamaha team is based at Lesmo and everyone’s here to celebrate!” Max Biaggi: “Second place is better than nothing but I was hoping to do a bit better. I got a good start but made some mistakes and then I was bothered with Leon, Eugene started to go away then I made another mistake so at the end of the day I settled for second place.” Leon Haslam: “We didn’t get the best of starts and made a few mistakes. I felt like I could run the pace, and then I got into a battle where me and Max were passing each other a few times. We were holding each other up a bit which meant that Eugene got away. It was a tough race, the last part I was defending from Marco but I’ve got a lot more feel out of the BMW now and I’m actually looking forward to the races in the future.” Results: 1. Laverty E. (IRL) Yamaha YZF R1 31'09.584 (200,232 kph); 2. Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 1.575; 3. Haslam L. (GBR) BMW S1000 RR 3.078; 4. Melandri M. (ITA) Yamaha YZF R1 3.255; 5. Fabrizio M. (ITA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 11.812; 6. Rea J. (GBR) Honda CBR1000RR 12.371; 7. Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 13.280; 8. Camier L. (GBR) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 17.419; 9. Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 17.569; 10. Smrz J. (CZE) Ducati 1098R 18.420; etc. Race 2 Laverty won a last corner battle with his team-mate Melandri in the second 18-lap race at Monza but the bigger drama was the award of a ride-through penalty for long-time race leader Biaggi, for cutting a chicane in an incorrect fashion. He recovered to finish eighth. Third was Fabrizio, but only after a massive fight with Pata Aprilia rider Noriyuki Haga, who went fourth. Fifth with a strong ride was Corser, Badovini a brilliant sixth and only ten seconds from Laverty, with the luckless Biaggi eighth. Joan Lascorz recovered from a race one crash to give Kawasaki ninth in race two, the best result of the day for the guys in green. Eugene Laverty: “I can’t believe I got a double victory here today. My aim coming here this weekend was to get a podium and I came away with two wins. In race 2 I made an average start and two of the guys closed me in and I had to go back. There was a big crash in front of me, it was a hectic race, I was having trouble with the front tyre, but when it came to the last few laps it was between me and Marco and I just couldn’t believe it.” Marco Melandri: “It’s been a very tough weekend for me, we’ve been trying to find a good set-up to make the bike stable. In the second race we made a big step further but the bike was very nervous at the end so I couldn’t race for the win. I tried to do my best but at the last corner I struggled with the gearbox, the rear tyre locked and I lost.” Michel Fabrizio: “It was a battle with Haga like the ones of a couple of years back, I wanted the podium at all costs and we would surely have deserved it. Max had already gone away from the rest of the field, so I was settling for fourth place, but in racing it often happens that you can get a podium like that.“ Results: 1. Laverty E. (IRL) Yamaha YZF R1 31'19.948 (199,128 kph); 2. Melandri M. (ITA) Yamaha YZF R1 0.327; 3. Fabrizio M. (ITA) Suzuki GSX-R1000 2.466; 4. Haga N. (JPN) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 2.583; 5. Corser T. (AUS) BMW S1000 RR 4.502; 6. Badovini A. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 10.865; 7. Guintoli S. (FRA) Ducati 1098R 11.038; 8. Biaggi M. (ITA) Aprilia RSV4 Factory 18.724; 9. Lascorz J. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-10R 20.093; 10. Checa C. (ESP) Ducati 1098R 20.376; etc. Points (after 4 of 13 rounds): 1. Checa 145; 2. Melandri 118; 3. Biaggi 117; 4. Rea 89; 5. Laverty 85; 6. Haslam 84; 7. Fabrizio 74; 8. Camier 58; 9. Smrz 55; 10. Haga 47; etc. Manufacturers: 1. Ducati 152; 2. Yamaha 147; 3. Aprilia 139; 4. BMW 101; 5. Honda 93; 6. Suzuki 74; 7. Kawasaki 53. World Supersport Chaz Davies (Yamaha ParkinGO) won his second career WSS race in succession by leading home his team-mate Luca Scassa after 16 laps of the Monza circuit. Behind the flying duo from the Italian based Yamaha team, Fabien Foret (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) had an eventually lonely but impressive third place finish, some 7.9 seconds from Davies. Behind the podium places, a race-long fight between four riders saw Broc Parkes (Kawasaki Motocard.com), Sam Lowes (Parkalgar Honda), Roberto Tamburini (Bike Service RT Yamaha) and Florian Marino (Hannspree Ten Kate Honda) completed the top seven places. David Salom took an impressive eighth despite not having his best engine available, from another Kawasaki rider Massimo Roccoli. Results: 1. Davies C. (GBR) Yamaha YZF R6 29'05.363 (190,651 kph); 2. Scassa L. (ITA) Yamaha YZF R6 4.734; 3. Foret F. (FRA) Honda CBR600RR 7.977; 4. Parkes B. (AUS) Kawasaki ZX-6R 19.246; 5. Lowes S. (GBR) Honda CBR600RR 19.882; 6. Tamburini R. (ITA) Yamaha YZF R6 20.148; 7. Marino F. (FRA) Honda CBR600RR 21.090; 8. Salom D. (ESP) Kawasaki ZX-6R 31.595; etc. Points (after 4 rounds of 12): 1. Davies 70; 2. Scassa 70; 3. Parkes 60; 4. Harms 43; 5. Salom 42; 6. Foret 36; 7. Lowes 27; 8. Roccoli 26; etc. Manufacturers: 1. Yamaha 100; 2. Honda 68; 3. Kawasaki 60; 4. Triumph 14. Superstock 1000 Lorenzo Zanetti (BMW Motorrad Italia Superstock) took a close win by only 0.065 seconds at Monza in a stopped and restarted race cut to only five laps duration. Michele Magnoni (Baru Racing Team BMW) was third and Danilo Petrucci (Barni Racing Team Ducati) fourth. It was Zanetti’s first race win in this class. A blown engine in the first race start, from Sylvain Barrier’s BMW Motorrad Italia machine, saw several riders crash at high speed on the spilled oil, with none seriously injured, but Andrea Boscoscuro suffered a broken collarbone. Results: 1. Zanetti L. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 8'56.130 (193,957 kph); 2. Giugliano D. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 0.065; 3. Magnoni M. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 1.728; 4. Petrucci D. (ITA) Ducati 1098R 3.634; 5. Massei F. (ITA) BMW S1000 RR 4.750; 6.Reiterberger M. (GER) BMW S1000 RR 9.341; 7. Bussolotti M. (ITA) Kawasaki ZX-10R 9.418; 8. Antonelli A. (ITA) Honda CBR1000RR 10.734; etc. Points (after 2 rounds of 10): 1. Giugliano 45; 2. Petrucci 33; 3. Zanetti 32; 4. Antonelli 18; 5. Magnoni 16; 6. Barrier 16; 7. Baroni1 3; 8. Canepa 13; etc. Manufacturers: 1. Ducati 45; 2. BMW 41; 3. Kawasaki 20; 4. Honda 18; 5. Yamaha 4.
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Tag: most electable candidate
Why Bernie Sanders is the Democrats’ most electable presidential candidate
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has become one of the toughest tickets in America, and he backed that statement up once again by drawing several thousand people to a political rally in Portland, Maine, a city with a population of 66,194 people.
You might be asking yourself…why is Bernie Sanders gaining so much support? Well, long story short, Bernie is actually the most electable presidential candidate that Democrats could nominate, and there’s a number of reasons why:
Bernie is a progressive – When I say that Bernie was progressive before it was cool, that’s the truth. Bernie has stood up for workers’ rights, LGBT rights, progressive taxation, and other progressive ideals for decades. With America becoming more and more polarized politically, Democrats need someone who stands up for progressive values to be the party’s standard bearer.
Bernie talks about ideas – The political hallmark of Bernie is that, when he talks about politics, he talks about actual political issues. While far too many politicians and the corporate media view politics as if it were a sporting event or a soap opera, Bernie talks about actual issues that affect the American people, such as infrastructure, the environment, income inequality, and college affordability.
Bernie is consistent – Throughout his decades-long political career, Bernie’s views on most political issues have gone unchanged. Very few politicians can claim that.
Bernie is not a puppet for the wealthy – Bernie is for the people, not the billionaires. In fact, his campaign has received its financial support from people donating small amounts of money to his campaign, and his campaign message has reflected the fact that he’s not for the billionaires.
Bernie inspires people – Bernie has drawn large crowds to rallies in places like Madison, Wisconsin and Portland, Maine. That’s because his campaign message and platform resonates with a large segment of the American population
Hillary Clinton is too insular to win the general election – While I’m not a fan of the corporate media in this country, operatives for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign recently used a lasso to keep the media away from Hillary at a parade in New Hampshire. The fact that Hillary thinks that she can win a presidential election while her operatives treat members of the press like cattle gives you a general idea of how much of a trainwreck Hillary’s campaign is, and the fact that Hillary has run an insular campaign so far isn’t helping matters at all.
Berniementum has left no room for Democrats other than Bernie or Hillary to gain traction – The rise of Bernie’s presidential campaign has made Bernie the progressive standard-bearer against Hillary, the Democratic establishment’s candidate for president. That leaves other Democrats running for president without any ability to build a political base, and they don’t have any chance of winning the Democratic nomination.
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Test Drive: The AKAI DD-1000 Magneto Optical Disk Recorder
by Jerry Vigil
The DD-1000 is basically a 2-track digital recorder with some 4-track characteristics. It also resembles a sampler, a giant sampler. The DD-1000 also acts like a sequencer of sorts. As you get further into the DD-1000's many functions and capabilities, the enormous power of the machine becomes evident. In fact, there is so much the DD-1000 can do that we had to re-examine just how this review should be written, and it was decided this review should answer one question: What can the DD-1000 do for ME, the radio production person?
With that in mind, we won't get into the unit's extensive time code capabilities. We won't dwell on the comprehensive MIDI applications. We won't tell you how this machine is a must for someone who does re-mixes of songs and audio for video work. We won't bother you with a lot of the impressive technical data that is virtually meaningless to the busy radio production person. Instead, we'll plug the DD-1000 in and do some radio production.
But first, let's talk about what's at the heart of the DD-1000, the magneto optical disk drive. You've heard about, seen, and you may have used a digital disk recorder. However, most of the units you may be familiar with don't employ a magneto optical disk as standard hardware. As the name implies, magnetic technology is combined with optical technology in the form of a laser. While a conventional hard disk drive hovers the record/playback head over the rotating disk and reads and writes magnetic information, the MO drive's laser literally "melts" the digital information onto the disk. There are two major benefits to the MO method. Because the information is "melted" onto the disk, the risk of data loss due to external magnetic sources is virtually eliminated. In addition, the MO technology allows for greater amounts of data (650 megabytes) to be stored on a single disk the size of a CD.
The MO drive of the DD-1000 is a standard Sony magneto optical drive and will accept any 1024 byte/sector optical disk. These 5.25 inch disks are removable and are encased in a box not much larger than a CD jewel box. The disk has two sides and up to forty MINUTES of stereo audio can be recorded on each side for a total of eighty minutes per disk! You can record in mono and double that figure! Furthermore, the disks can be erased and used again and again. The DD-1000 has four sample rates: 32kHz, 44.056kHz, 44.1kHz, and 48kHz. The default sampling frequency is 44.1kHz which gives you thirty minutes of full-bandwidth stereo recording on each side of the disk. But again, if you use the 32kHz sampling rate (sufficient for broadcast), total stereo recording time per disk is eighty minutes.
While conventional hard-disk based recording systems limit your storage to the number of hard drives you have, the removable disks of the DD-1000 provide limitless storage capability. Of course, if you don't want to have to remove and insert disks all the time, you can always buy six more external MO drives and connect them ALL to the DD-1000 via the SCSI port on the back panel. That'll give you over nine hours (using both sides of each disk) of storage on line!
So, here you are with this digital recorder with a half-hour of full-bandwidth stereo recording available to you before you have to flip the disk over. What can you do with this recorder? Obviously, you can use it just as you would an analog reel-to-reel recorder, but there are many advantages over that old reel-to-reel.
A first look at the DD-1000's front panel might be intimidating to some, but much to our surprise, the DD-1000 is very easy to use. The unit has six basic "modes." They are 1) RECORD, 2) EDIT/CUT, 3) QLIST, 4) SONG, 5) PLAYSHEET, and 6) DISK. These modes are accessed from the six Mode buttons at the bottom of the front panel. Pressing any of these buttons places the unit in that mode and the large LCD display indicates your options for that mode. Six "soft" function keys below the display access the different functions for that mode. A PAGE key to the left of the first function key accesses additional menus available in any particular mode.
Let's say you're collecting voice tracks for a two-voice spot. Voice 1 is behind the mike and ready to go. Press the RECORD button to enter the Record Mode. The display shows you the name of the take to be recorded (all recordings are referred to as "takes"). The default name of your recording is "Take 1," but you can change that by pressing the LETTER key which turns the panel buttons into a typewriter keyboard, and you can give the take whatever name you please. The display also indicates the audio source, whether it's via the digital inputs or the analog inputs. The display tells you whether High Frequency Pre-Emphasis is on or off. It tells you whether you're in Mono recording mode or Stereo. It also tells you what the sampling frequency of the recording will be and how much free time is remaining on the disk.
Assuming your input levels are set, simply press function key six or F6 (which is indicated on the display as the RECORD soft key). Bingo! You're recording with only two key presses! Once you begin recording, the display changes to the "Record Screen" which shows you elapsed time of your recording and remaining time on the disk. Function key F4 becomes the ABORT key and F6 becomes the FINISH key. Aborting the recording stops recording without using disk space. Pressing FINISH ends the recording and commits the recording to disk. (The ABORT key is also used to delete recordings from the disk.) That's it! Now, you can play back your recording with one key press, the "R PLAY" function key or F3.
Now you have Voice 1 of your two-voice spot on disk. Let's say Voice 1 has three parts to it. Now you need Voice 2's three parts to complete the spot. Press LETTER to change the name of the take to "Take 2" or name it "Voice 2" if you prefer, just as long as the name is different than that of the first recording. Press the RECORD function key and you're off! Finish the recording in the same way and send your announcers away. Now the fun begins.
You have two "takes" on disk. Let's say we've named them "Voice 1" and "Voice 2." Each has three segments that must alternate between Voice 1 and Voice 2. Go down to the MODE keys and press EDIT/CUT. Place the cursor on the "Take" field and use the DATA + and - keys or the JOG/DATA wheel to select the first take for editing -- Voice 1. The display now shows the waveform of the entire Voice 1 track. Now, press the DETAIL function key (or F1). This places the unit in an edit mode that enables editing down to individual samples and also accesses the unit's "scrub" function. Place the cursor in the START field and press JOG/ON. Use the JOG/DATA wheel to scrub the audio and cue up to the beginning of the first segment of Voice 1. That marks the start point of the first "cut." (Segments of a "take" are referred to as "cuts.") Now, move the cursor to the END field and use the JOG/DATA wheel to cue up to the end of the first segment of Voice 1. When done, the first segment will be highlighted in the display. Now, move the cursor to the CUT field and press "2" on the numeric keypad. Mark the start and end points for the second segment and do the same for the third. Now you have a take called "Voice 1" with three "cuts" defined. Press the SAVE function key (F6). Now, place the cursor on the TAKE field and select the second take or Voice 2. Mark Voice 2's three segments or "cuts" and save them. While all of this sounds like quite a few steps, it can all be done in just a couple of minutes. Editing is fast and simple.
Now we want to assemble the two voices to get our finished voice track. This is where you enter SONG mode. (Why didn't they call it the ASSEMBLE SPOT MODE? You guessed it. This is yet another machine designed for musicians, but if you look at your spot as a piece of music consisting of several elements, you'll get the hang of things just fine.) This mode lets you "sequence" takes and cuts. Using the cursor keys and JOG/DATA wheel (or + and - data keys), your takes and cuts can be sequenced in any order you wish. Voice 1, Cut 1; then Voice 2, Cut 1; then Voice 1, Cut 2; then Voice 2, Cut 2; and so on. When all steps of your spot have been defined, the PLAY function key (F3) will play the spot back in its entirety.
The SONG mode also lets you repeat any cut up to ninety-nine times before going to the next step of the "song." That may do you no good in a two-voice spot, but imagine what you can do with music beds. Not only can you loop segments of music, but you can perform these loops within and around other segments of the same piece of music or a different piece of music altogether. The possibilities for creating long music beds from small pieces of a song are endless. What's more, moving segments around within your new "song" is very easy and fast.
We found the Song Mode especially useful in building beds for concert spots and promos for "artist" weekends. Various clips from a CD of greatest hits were first recorded into the unit as various "takes." These takes were then edited into "cuts" that could be moved around anywhere within the bed in the Song Mode. Intros were extended using the REPEAT or looping function. It was very easy to replace segments with others that flowed better. Experimenting with the bed was quick, easy, and non-destructive. The QLIST mode of the DD-1000 is a more complex version of the SONG mode. The primary purpose of the QLIST mode is to accommodate the triggering of takes and cuts via an external SMPTE/EBU time code signal. MIDI messages can be sent to external MIDI instruments from the QLIST mode. Fade in/out times and levels can also be addressed in this mode. Again, this is a complex area of the DD-1000 and probably wouldn't serve the average radio production person at all, so we'll spare you the details.
Getting back to our two-voice spot, there is yet another way it can be assembled. That is with the PLAYSHEET mode of the DD-1000. As you recall, we had two "takes" (Voice 1 and Voice 2) with three "cuts" each. In the PLAYSHEET mode, these six cuts can be assigned to any of the nine keys on the numeric keypad (1-9). Once assigned, your entire spot can be played by pressing the appropriate keys at the appropriate times.
The PLAYSHEET mode is a lot like having nine cart machines at your disposal. As most of you without a 4-track or an 8-track can guess, this is a real plus. You can assign all the sound effects, jingles, zips and zaps you plan to use to the nine keys and fire them up instantly as you need them. In addition, you can create and save up to three-hundred different playsheets (per disk side) and call them up as needed. For instance, you could have one playsheet called "Jingles" with nine of your most used jingles on it. Another playsheet might be called "Weather" with nine most used weather sound effects. Another playsheet might be "Theatre Tags" with all those "Starts Friday, Starts Tomorrow, Now Playing" tags we all get tired of reading. In fact, practically ALL of your production elements can be recorded to MO disk, categorized, and assigned to playsheets.
MIDI note numbers can be assigned to the playsheet keys so the playsheet can be triggered via a keyboard or sequencer. You can adjust the position in the stereo spectrum for any and all of the cuts in the playsheet. Cuts can be faded up or down, and you have a choice of fade curves to choose from. You can choose to have a cut played only while a key is being pressed, or you can have it play all the way through after the key is pressed. Though the PLAYSHEET mode is simple to use, it is very versatile.
So far, we've given you a brief look at the RECORD, EDIT/CUT, SONG, and PLAYSHEET modes of the DD-1000. As stated, the QLIST mode is a more complex version of the SONG mode and probably not much use to the radio producer. The DISK mode of the unit is where file management occurs. This mode will only be of use to you if you have a large number of files on the disk or if you have some external drives connected to the DD-1000.
The DD-1000 can only record two tracks at a time. However, it has four outputs and can play back four channels simultaneously, but the four channels can only be played back simultaneously as two stereo pairs, or two channels as two mono channels, or three channels as a stereo and a mono -- not four mono channels. This feature will let you do overdubs, recording one track while playing back another. A RETAKE function of the DD-1000 lets you merge two files thus "freeing" up a track for additional overdubs. The four-channel output will also let you playback two cuts from the Playsheet Mode at the same time.
About the only drawback to the unit's editing capabilities we could find was its inability to perform a simple splice edit in the EDIT/CUT mode without going to the PLAYSHEET or SONG modes. In other words, let's say you opened the mike and recorded, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" into the machine. Now let's say you want to cut out the "3, 4, 5" part so it reads "1, 2, 6, 7." You can't isolate and delete the "3, 4, 5" part. You have to isolate the "1, 2" and the "6, 7" separately, then go into the SONG mode or PLAYSHEET and "sequence" the two pieces together. Small inconvenience, but this is one thing that could be done faster on a reel-to-reel machine.
If you are an avid MIDI user or are involved in audio for video, particularly the syncing of audio to video, we encourage you to contact AKAI for more information on the DD-1000 or look for reviews in magazines more targeted to that industry. This review is for radio production rats, and though the DD-1000 primarily supports the music and A/V industries' needs, it is still quite a machine to have around the production room. We had six different tags that needed to go on three different spots. All six tags were recorded into the DD-1000 and were easily assigned in the PLAYSHEET mode. Afterwards, dropping the tags to cart was not only fast and easy, but fun. The non-destructive and versatile editing capabilities of the unit made it perfect for editing music beds. In the preparation of a winner promo, the listener's voice track was recorded into the unit and the segments needed for the promo were quickly isolated and easily and cleanly transferred to the multi-track. Music clips for a concert spot were easily retrieved and used again for a record spot that needed to be cut a week later. When jocks walked in with last minute voice tracks to be recorded, there was no need to load up a clean reel of tape on a reel-to-reel machine which was already in use; the mike was opened, the RECORD button was pressed, and the voice track was quickly recorded, digitally, and ready for use when the time came. When the last segment of that two-voice spot had to be changed, only the last segment was recorded and was easily placed into the "song" already created for that spot. As a sampler, the unit is fast in that there is no time spent loading files into RAM. All audio is read directly from the disk in real time, so there is no time spent loading files. Finally, it's worth mentioning again that we were pleased to find the DD-1000 quite easy to use with very little reference to the manual. Pressing the HELP key gives you on-line help with whatever parameter is selected. COPY and PASTE keys help speed up data entry.
On the technical side, the DD-1000 offers 16-bit stereo recording with eight times oversampling, 18-bit DAC, and 24-bit internal processing. Standard interfaces include balanced XLR inputs and two pairs of balanced XLR outputs. On the digital side you get an AES/EBU input and two AES/EBU outputs as well as an optical fiber input. Other rear panel connections include SMPTE/EBU time code input, Word/Video sync input, MIDI IN/OUT/THRU, RS422, SCSI, Centronics printer port, two footswitch inputs, and proprietary digital busses.
An optional DL1000 remote controller is available which allows for simultaneous control of up to seven DD-1000's. Macintosh users should also look into DD-MacRemote and DD-QMAC, the front-end software currently available for the DD-1000. The DD-1000 lists for $13,500.
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Featured work from interviewee Thom Streich of WBEN/WMJQ, Buffalo, NY; and commercials and promos from Don Lawler/WPYR Memphis, Troy Smith/WFNX Boston, Dave Dhillon/Q106 San Diego and ...
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40 Days for Life: What are you doing for Lent?
March 6, 2019 - April 14, 2019
What are you doing for Lent?
Please consider joining our peaceful prayer Vigil across the road from the Hardgate Road entrance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital . Our Vigil starts on Ash Wednesday at 8am.
To sign up email: Ogilvie2019@outlook.com
As we pray we stand in prayerful solidarity with those children, women and men whose lives have been taken/ damaged by abortion. Scotland now has the legislative power over abortion so think on these words when praying, ‘for what we have done , for what we have failed to do’ .
Abortion is the leading individual cause of death around the world. In his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (Gospel of Life) Pope St John Paul 11 wrote ‘To defend and promote life, to show reverence and love for it, is a task which God entrusts to every man’ EV para 42 ‘What is urgently called for is a general mobilisation of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life.
All together, we must build a new culture of life: EV para 95. To join the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil email Ogilvie2019@outlook.com . 40 Days for Life stands in prayerful solidarity with all of the women, men and children whose lives have been damaged/taken by abortion.
https://40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/glasgow/
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Moon Deeds
by Palmer Pickering
Phillip M. Feelgood And His Circle of Friends
by Marina Stephens
by William Hunter
Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles: 2000-2016
Driftwood Unmasked
by Gibbes McDowell
Pit of Vipers
by Millie Thom
Shadow of Doubt
by SL Beaumont
A Gift of Scars
by Gregg Norman
A Portrait of the Entrepreneur As a Young Man
by Bob Epstein
Confessions of a Film Investor
by Albert Sandoval
The Last Man
by Sean Williams
Ellie Everlasting
by Isabel Scheck
RESCRIPT the Story You're Telling Yourself
by Colleen Georges
by Brit Lunden
World Class Life Story
by BDL
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Trailer - Alexandria
BDL is a proud ordinary American who wrote this story to fulfill an inner need to finally have a say about the world, in the political fiction arena. To create and control the outcome of some grand narrative.
The Author would like to thank everyone for taking the Alexandria journey and welcomes honest reviews, either way and respectful discussion. You may also leave comments here, at the Author's other social media sites which includes a YouTube Video Trailer and by emailing AlexandriaWCLS@gmail.com. Sending love and blessings to all.
Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
Alexandria: World Class Life Story by BDL is a narrative with powerful religious and political themes and a conflict that is phenomenal. It is a story of an iconic celebrity pioneering a strong resistance against a Judeo-Christian culture. With a dystopian setting in the distant future, readers encounter the protagonist, a woman who has lived over 100 years and who isn’t a fan of POTUS Stuart, the faithless leader of the nation. Ruth knows that a president who doesn’t believe in anyone or anything above him spells disaster. To save her nation, she’ll need a biographer who can translate an invaluable legacy of faith into writing, and a message that can inspire a new generation of patriots.
In this novel, the author makes a powerful prophecy: the US might be headed for doom if it continues to drift away from the religious convictions of its founding fathers. The author creates a powerful setting in the future, an America that teeters towards perdition. The writing is fluid and I enjoyed the spiritual themes and how they are written into the narrative. Readers will love Ruth, the iconic runner of the twenty-first century, and to explore the dynamics of her faith-filled life. Her connection with God is powerful and this connection could hold answers to a world that is on the brink of collapse.
Alexandria: World Class Life Story is deftly written, filled with insightful passages, eye-catching descriptions, and texts that are spiritually uplifting. While the setting is in the future, the story has a strong relevance for contemporary readers, a reflection of where America could be headed if she doesn’t remember the faith of the founding fathers. The dialogues are natural and designed to enrich the plot, help in character development, and in the exploration of both spiritual and political themes. A visionary novel with a powerful and timely message.
Romuald Dzemo
Alexandria: World Class Life Story by BDL reads like a real life story, but it is a narrative that contains powerful reflections on contemporary dilemmas of American people, an inspirational story that challenges readers to go back to the core values of faith on which hinges the fate of America. Iconic runner of the twenty-first century, Ruth is disenchanted by the ungodliness that characterizes American society. The narrative follows her faith-filled life and journeys with her into the future, morphing into a tale of an impending apocalypse. The only way to save a nation from impending doom is to have her autobiography written and to inspire a new generation with a unique message of hope. What hope does she have in bringing light to a people that are already so comfortable in their darkness?
The prose is elegant, the voice upbeat, and the author’s unique way with words is one of the interesting things that make the narrative very enjoyable. The author weaves both religious and social themes into the story, enriching them with strong and realistic cultural and political commentaries. There is a visionary aspect of the story that provokes reflection on the destiny of the nation. One of the things I loved about the writing is that it is insightful, filled with reflections about life, faith, and connecting with traditional Christian values. While some of the reflections do not advance the plot, they definitely provide material for personal thought and reflection. For instance, in chapter two, the author reflects on the real moment that life begins and writes: “An old adage said that life begins at forty or after retirement when every day feels like a Saturday… Those from a faith background might say that it begins after a spiritual rebirth of some sort and definitely upon realizing a godly calling.” Alexandria: World Class Life Story is an inspiring story beautifully told, purpose-driven, and with a message that addresses the ills of contemporary American society.
K.C. Finn
Alexandria: World Class Life Story is a work of fiction penned by author BDL. This epic-length novel focuses on political and religious themes in a fictionalized dystopian America, which in truth is not too distant from our own reality. The novel centers on a champion sportswoman, runner Ruth, who attempts to save her beloved nation by finding a biographer to tell her story from a new, powerful perspective. What results is a backlash against the prospect of a Judeo-Christaphobic American future which threatens to end the concept of life and liberty for all. The question then becomes whether Ruth’s story can inspire the generations of the future to fight against total dystopian rule.
This is a heavy book to get through, but it has many important messages regarding the state of the world today and our attitudes towards one another, and other cultures and beliefs within our own countries. Author BDL writes well on the over-arching themes of the tale, from political discussions to riots, resistance and the power of celebrity as an influence in today’s world. The plot with Ruth herself is weaker by comparison, and this is not a fully character-driven tale but a conceptual one on a worldwide scale. That said, those intrigued and/or horrified by the prospect of new ‘race wars’ in the future can take a lot away from this story and the power that a single voice might have to overturn a generation’s opinions. Overall, Alexandria: World Class Life Story is a challenging but rewarding political read.
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Top Five Mark Commentaries
Introduction. Mark commentaries usually do not spend as much time worrying over the synoptic problem as Matthew commentaries do primarily because virtually all scholars consider Mark to be the first gospel written. While there has been some interest in the sources Mark may have used (see the intro in Vincent, for example), most recent commentaries find this layer of tradition inaccessible and therefore do not speculate excessively on Ur-Mark (the original form of Mark, Mark’s source, etc.) More important than sources is Mark’s literary style and the genre of “gospel.”
R. T. France, The Gospel of Mark (NIGTC; Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 2002). As with all the writers in the NIGTC series, France is an expert on the Greek text of Mark. The commentary has less background material that Evans, but is rich in exegetical detail. That is not to say that France is ignorant of the Hebrew Bible or other Second Temple Period literature, but only that his main interest is the Greek words in the context of Mark. France surveys the synoptic problem briefly, giving quite a bit of weight to John Robinson’s theory of cross-fertilization. In the end France concludes “I do not need a solution to the synoptic problem.” He approaches Mark as a storyteller who has created a long narrative in three “acts.” Like many commentaries on Mark, Peter’s confession in chapter 8 is the clear turning point of the book, dividing France’s first two “acts,” Galilee (1:1-8:21) and On the Way to Jerusalem (8:22-10:52). The third act in the drama of Mark at Jerusalem, beginning in Mark 11.
Craig Evans, Mark 8:27-16:20 (WBC; Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001). Evans finished the Mark commentary for the Word series after Robert Guelich died unexpectedly in 1991. Guelich’s commentary is excellent, but Evans’ work is even better. The commentary follows the general pattern of all WBC volumes (bibliography, translation and text, form and structure, commentary, explanation). Although Evans is contributing to a commentary begun by another scholar, he has included a 63-page introduction to Mark which covers a number of issues not covered in Guelich’s original commentary. Evans only briefly comments on typical introduction issues, preferring to up-date and extend the original introduction. His section on the theology and purpose of Mark is excellent. But what sets this commentary apart from the rest is Evans’ use of Second Temple Period literature to illustrate the world of historical Jesus. For example, his comments on the Parable of the Vineyard provides references to several rabbinic parables which may be considered as parallels Jesus’ own parable. The section of Jewish divorce practices is brief, but contains a wealth of secondary material (p. 84-6). Bibliographies for each pericope are extensive, there are five pages for the Parable of the Wicked Vineyard tenants!
Robert Gundry, Mark: A Commentary on his Apology for the Cross (Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1993). Unlike his original Matthew commentary, Gundry’s Mark commentary is more focused on the text of Mark alone. This would have to be the case given his interest in Matthew as an editor of Mark, there is no real “redaction criticism” possible for Mark. The result is an exegetical commentary which is sensitive to the text and aware of the broader theological issues at stake. What sets this commentary apart from the rest is the “notes” section for each pericope. In the main commentary section, Gundry makes scant reference to other scholars, he simply lays out the meaning of the text. After his section, he includes a section of “notes” in which he surveys the opinion of virtually every modern scholar on the topic at hand, including major German and French scholars. The type is smaller in these sections and he cites his sources only briefly, making these sections dense but rewarding.
James R. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002). Edwards’ commentary is in the Pillar series, edited by D. A. Carson. While the series is designed for pastors, most of the volumes will have an appeal to scholars as well. Edwards has an excellent introduction to the gospel of Mark, the highlight is his discussion of Mark’s Christology. Since the commentary is aimed at pastors, Greek is transliterated and text-critical issues are relegated to footnotes. I especially appreciate his use of the Hebrew Bible and other Second Temple Period literature. The result is a very readable and useful commentary which will serve the busy pastor well.
Vincent Taylor, The Gospel According to St. Mark (1952, second edition 1966). Originally published in 1952, this commentary was republished in the early 1980s by Baker as a part of their Thornapple commentary series. This is how commentaries used to be written for pastors – with the Greek text running across the top of the page and textual notes in two columns beneath. Vincent’s comments on the Greek focus on syntax, citing Blass, Moulton, Turner, etc. His 150 page introduction is a window into the state of Gospel studies in the mid 20th century, critical yet respectful of the text – Mark is “an authority of first rank for our knowledge of the Story of Jesus.”
I will mention one other classic commentary here, even though this violates my “top five commentary” rule. Henry Swete’s 1902 commentary on the Greek text of Mark is available from Google Books (now, Play Books) as a free download. This is an oft-cited classic commentary on Mark which is well worth consulting.
Conclusion. What have I left out? What commentaries on Mark have you found useful? What classic commentary on Mark should be read by all students of the Gospels?
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Jon Austin (@jonbaustin)
I appreciated Witheringtons socio-rhetorical commentary on Mark.
I almost always favor Witherington, but for some reason I do not have his book on Mark.
Have 3 of the 5 on my list:France, Edwards, Taylor. The other two on my top list is C.E.B Cranfield, Mark Cambridge 1959 and d. Edmond Hiebert, Mark: An Expositional Commentary, Bob Jones Press, 1994.
Abram K-J
What are your thoughts on Stein’s BECNT commentary on Mark?
I have found all of the BECNT volumes very useful, the style of the commentary makes for quick reading (ie., it is not as detail-rich as say, Green.) Stein is a fine evangelical scholar, and the commentary is an excellent pastors commentary.
Great–thanks! I’m new to this blog, but look forward to reading my way through this series.
I am new to the blog too, from Australia. Which would be better to buy for sermon preparation – Stein or Edwards (I have Lanes older NICNT).Both are on sale at the moment.I want something readable, goes into good background depth (theology and culture at the time) as well as has some application. Also can you comment on the strengths and weaknesses of each. What do you think of Graland NIV application commentary too, thanks
All things being equal, I think Stein. That might be because I have used Stein more extensively, both have good exegetical features, although neither has the sort of homiletical value that the Garland commentary you mention has. The NIV Application series wasn’t included in the series, more or less because I restricted myself to five per biblical book. The volumes in that series I have used are intended to help the reader “bridge the gaps” between the world of the Bible and today. That is something that is secondary in the other two books.
HiPhillip,
Thanks for the quick response. I had a read of a couple pages on line Edwards seems very readable and goes into the cultural/historical context which I love, Stein seem to discuss various views more with a bit more technical detail – Is that what you think?
On 1 corinthains I have fees commentary and the smaller theisleton edition which I love. Do you prefer garland or Rosner latest offering, do they both agree with each other generally. Is there really advancement with Rosners been a newer commentary. Again which would be better (positve and negatives). I like depth but not to dry. They are on sale too – I would like to choose one of them.
I am also choosing for Acts between Bock and Peterson (pillar), I have the old FF Bruce (NICNT) and (tyndale) I H marshall. Any thoughts there. On matthew I have keener smaller IVP is it worth getting the larger edition?
I wonder if Stein has more “synoptic problem” than Edwards. It has been a while, but I know Stein did alot with that issue years ago, so that might come through into his commentary.
I think that Thiselton on 1 Cor in the NICGNT series is just about the best thing going, although very technical at times. I do not have his shorter commentary, but I understand it is more “readable.” I like Fee, although (to be honest) I have just about the last copy printed in the “old” NICNT format, which is short and too fat. (some people say that about me, actually!) Fee has a couple of unusual ideas (women in 1 Cor 14, for example). Still, it is a very good commentary on grammar/exegesis, the historical and cultural is well done as well.
I commented on the Acts commentaries on the other thread….Keener is usually good, but his mammoth commentary is the one to have!
Hi Phillip,
Thanks for your response – much appreciated. I suppose Iam looking for a commentary that has depth but is very readable and good for sermon prep/bible studies etc. I find some technical commentaries very dry and I have limited greek. When you read Fee you can sense his passion when he writes. I find some schloars like keener and garland are great for sermon prep as they apply the text as they write from their perspectives. I was reading Leon morris on Matthew and you can sense his pastoral heart and warmth when he writes. I suppose that is what Iook for in a commentary depth with pastoral application or sense their passion for christ and his kingdom and for lost people. Sorry to waffle.
You have been a great help, I will check out Stein a bit more and Keener on Acts however I have heard it will be a four volumne work which maybe beyond my budget.
Mark has a number of good commentaries available now. I think France is excellent. The old standard by Lane still has something to offer. Rodney Deckers commentary in the baylor greek handbook series should be out this year and Voelz from concordia looks useful. Preachers will value Crane from wiff & stock and Kuruvilla preaching mark.
Steven Harte
For Mark, how could you not include the 2 volume Anchor Bible Commentary by Joel Marcus or the Hermeneia volume by Adela Yabro Collins?
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I just picked up Edward’s Pillar commentary and it’s surprisingly a joy to read. Thorough exegesis with a conversational writing style as if he were sitting right there in the room with you. I very much like the way Edwards puts things, such as Mark’s “sandwiching” stories. He’s inviting you to take a bite. I’m sure this commentary will make a nice companion to Yarbo Collins, Joel Marcus, and Robert Gundry. Good thing I don’t read Greek, or else I’d have French to deal with as well. Also, the Sacra Pagina Mark (Harrington/Donahue) is a solid introductory commentary for anyone who wants to test the water without getting bogged down in technical details. The series is generally inexpensive and about as “Catholic” as Brown, Fitzmyer, or L.T. Johnson.
Thanks for all your recommendations. They’ve been very helpful in rebuilding my NT library.
Just thought I’d throw this out there in case anyone is interested or listening.
I’m currently charging through The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ by Daniel Boyarin. This book provides excellent context for the commentaries of Marcus and Yarbo Collins (Lane even gets an honorable mention). The general thesis of the book (which Lane touched on in 1974 according to the footnotes) is that the foundations for a high Christology were already in existence 200 years before the birth of Jesus in Daniel 7. What that means, is that when Mark’s Jesus says the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath, for example (having sovereignty over the Sabbath), the Pharisees would know exactly what he is implying (that’s putting things simply). Secondly, the dual nature of Father and Son found in the Ancient of Days and the one like a son of man of Daniel 7 created a climate in which a man could assert divinity and be taken seriously by some and be rejected by others. This dual nature of God was already present in Israel, and not imported later from the Greeks as others think (or thought). I find it all fascinating, both in content and in the controversies it has caused. You may too.
I just took a look at this on Amazon, and yes, it does look good! I enjoyed reading Boyarin when I was prepping my dissertation, so I would like to see how he reads the Gospels. Thanks for the tip!
Boyarin’s discussion on Mark 7 (Jesus kept kosher) is quite an impressive bit of rabbinical argument. He argues that Jesus, in fact, did not do away with the Torah, but defended and re-instituted the Torah by exposing only the Pharisees’ addendums to the purity laws. He reasserts the parable of purity in 7:15 by re-inserting the missing verse 16: “If you have ears to hear”, making the parable about the Pharisees and not the Torah. Boyarin convincingly sees Mark as deeply Jewish (hardly the first to do so in Jewish Markan scholarship). I think the book is a must read for anyone studying Mark for it fascinating perspective and debate.The final chapter is titled The Suffering Christ as a Midrash on Daniel. It’s a biblical studies page turner!
Boyarin also talks about the North/South tensions and differences between the way people practiced Torah in Galilee and in Jerusalem, since the Pharisees came up from Jerusalem, which feuls the confrontation.
Hi Phil, or anyone else out there listening… Can you recommend a concordance for us non Greek readers, or a suitable NTGreek/English dictionary that might go a little further than some of the textual notes found in some commentaries, or that might provide an aid in reading a commentary such as France’s NIGTC? Thanks in advance for any and all recommendations.
I am always listening….I ran across this site recently. It has the Greek NT, every word (or nearly?) is clickable. The form is identified (verb, noun, etc) and parsed, then it lists the Abbott-Smith lexicon entry, the old Strongs’s and KJV translations.
http://www.gntreader.com/
Of course this really does not help much if you do not know what an Aorist Verb is…I often suggest Bill Mounce’s Greek for the Rest of Us: The Essentials of Biblical Greek. He tries to explain these kind of grammatical / syntactical nuances for people who cannot take a full Greek class.
Is that the sort of thing you are after?
That’s a sign post in the right direction, Phil. Thanks. I was looking at Mounce’s book online. And yeah, that Aorist verb does tend to pop up in commentaries. I find the English dictionary definition only confuses matters more 🙂
Your comment reminds me of another inexpensive tool: Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek by Matthew DeMoss, or the Hebrew version by Todd Murphy. Very handy and inexpensive.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Dictionary-Study-Biblical-Hebrew/dp/0830814582/
Thanks! All good.
Hey, Phil! I was at Toronto’s one and only remaining theological bookstore and came across Mounce’s Interlinear For Rest Of Us. I think that’s what I was looking for. Something that gives me the Greek text along with the English. From there I can employ the dictionaries et al and maybe follow along the NIGTC volumes. Thanks again for the direction.
I should have thought of that, although interlinear Bibles are not usually on my horizon. A guy in my church showed me the books maybe a month ago, otherwise I have not browsed it.
Having now surveyed a number of commentaries on Mark, here are my picks. I didn’t find a go-to commentary, rather I put together a team of commentaries to cross-reference (I’m still waiting for Eugene Boring’s NTL commentary to arrive from Amazon). I also remain open and objective when reading commentaries. I’m looking for a clarity in textual understanding, not confirmation of what I may or may not believe. I like to be engaged, challenged, and left to think on my own.
Center — Joel Marcus, Mark 1-8, Mark 8-16, Anchor Bible, Doubleday/Yale University Press, 2000, 2009 A solid technical commentary with excellent textual notes and exposition. Marcus favors a Syrian context which allows for dialogue with others who favor a Roman context.
Right wing – Robert H. Stein, Mark, BECNT, Grand Rapids, 2008
A comprehensive and scholarly detailed evangelical commentary with tremendous depth and readability. The blurbs on the back from Joseph Fitzmyer and Craig Evans are well warranted.
Left Wing – R. T. France, The Gospel of Mark, NIGTC, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2002 I don’t read Greek, but I can use an Interlinear, and so can you to navigate your way through this classic. See Phil’s comments above.
Right Defense: Francis J. Moloney, The Gospel of Mark, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, MI, 2002. This is a somber and deeply felt commentary, rich in depth and rewards. “A reading of this mysterious gospel challenges us to hope in the midst of ambiguity and failure.” (24)
Left Defense – Edwards, James R., The Gospel According to Mark (PNTC), Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 2002 If you just want the broad strokes, this is an easily digestible evangelical commentary that gives you the skinny with very readable prose. It does lack depth compared to Stein.
Goalie: A. Y. Collins, Mark (Hermeneia), Fortress Press, Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, MN, 2007 This is another technical commentary which I like to use as balance. Collins offers a wealth of secondary 1st Century literature to support her readings in placing Mark within its context.
On the bench with plenty of playing time:
Donahue, S.J., John R., Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., The Gospel of Mark, (Sacra Pagina), A Michael Glazier Book, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 2002 It seems 2002 was a big year for Mark commentaries. Like the Edwards volume, Donahue and Harrington gives us a respectful reading of Mark that doesn’t skirt the issues despite its relative brevity.
Sabin, Marie Noonan, The Gospel According to Mark, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 2006
_______Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2002
I like Sabin because she dares to go out on her own and does not return empty handed. Her Midrashic reading of Mark offers new ways to look at the text within its Jewish context and brings to mind A-list biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine. Her arguments for alternate translations of key words stimulates discussion and opens your eyes to new possibilities of interpretation.
I’ve left off a couple of heavyweights in Witherington and Gundry, which I have been reading, but I have yet to gel with those authors for personal reasons. Hope this is a help to some.
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Ghost (Track, Book 1) by Jason Reynolds. A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book / Atheneum, 2016
Castle Cranshaw, aka Ghost, stands out at his middle school for his too-big, ratty clothes, crappy knock-off sneakers, and a temper that gets him in trouble. But to the coach of an elite city track team, Ghost stands out for his speed. Ghost has had a lot to run from in his life, including a father, now in prison, who once went after Ghost and his mom with a gun. It’s a memory Ghost can’t run from. Even though Ghost thinks of basketball as his game—never mind he doesn’t actually play—Coach persuades Ghost to become one of four new runners on the team. Coach’s rules and his rigorous training regimen are challenging, but Ghost is determined to show how good he is, and sure he’d run even faster if he had fancy track shoes like some of the other kids. In a spur- of-the-moment act, Ghost shoplifts a pair. He calls them his Silver Bullets and they do seem to improve his running, but they also mess with his head. Fast- moving, funny, and realistic, this first in a four-book series features a winning protagonist and distinctive secondary characters, from the no-nonsense, give- me-patience, cab-driving Coach, who mentors the kids on and off the track, to Ghost’s fellow new team members, Lu, Patty, and Sunny, who also have stories to tell. (Ages 9–12) © Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Most chapters start with “World Record for…” What would you like to set a world record in?
In what ways is Ghost running in this book?
At the newbie dinner, the coach asks each team member to share a secret. Ghost shares that his father tried to shoot him. How does sharing secrets help people build trust?
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Phosfiend: Guilty Machines
Thank God there’s still originality in rap. Since it’s formation it’s always been highly contentious. Soul Train host Don Cornelius didn’t even regard it as a respectable form of art.
These days, it can be difficult to argue against that point. With thotcore and mumblecore dominating the scene, hiphop can seem to be leading the race to the bottom of the barrel, but that’s really an unfair and frankly ignorant stance to take.
Right off the bat, Phosfiend’s voice stands out as excellent. At first it seems like the type of voice that would fit perfectly in a metal band, so to hear that voice dedicated to rapping is a welcome juxtaposition. His unique vocal style give his songs an almost operatic tone.
The music varies wildly from a moog synthesizer, to heavy or reverbed out guitars, to bizarre sounding sitars. Everything is experimental, yet familiar.
The best way to describe his music that it is the 00’s sound. Not the mainstream sound that we remember, but the sound that we will nostalgically recall.
For example, everybody says that synthwave is the recreation of 80’s music. It’s not. It’s the nostalgic recreation of the ideal 80’s music, of those B movies that always promised a terrible, scary monster, accompanied by that infamous arpeggiated synth, but just delivered a guy in a rubber suit and overused stock music.
Phosfiend does that with the 00’s music; reconstructs the ideal, not the actual. For example, those rock-sounding vocals and the heavy guitars in Mad God seem like they could fit with any nu metal band of the 00’s–except that they wouldn’t. Nu metal offered a fusion of hip hop and heavy metal, but ultimately ended in a cringe-fest. Phosfiend– very much like synthwave–nostalgically recreates and delivers on the promises of the that scene, giving his listeners something they can’t help but feel they’ve been waiting for.
From the emo guitar in 2 Woke 2 Cope, to the lyrics of Guilty Machines discussing theology, every song is a fulfillment of what was 00’s aggressive music promised but never delivered.
When I think of that time I’ll always remember playing MK4 with friends late at night and listening to Papa Roach. Mad God (my favorite track on the album) seems to amalgamate these various sounds and invokes those feelings of nostalgia in a way that a lot of pop music can’t. It’s a sound that only somebody who lived and breathed in this century’s first decade can understand. It’s not something a studio hit-maker can produce on a whim. An excellent album worth checking out. I give it my recc
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The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
by Berthold Gambrel on November 25, 2015 November 27, 2015
Philip Eil, writing in Salon, has a good article on “the genius and repugnance of H.P. Lovecraft”. It’s an issue that I think every Lovecraftian author has had to face at some point: how can we reconcile admiration of the “cosmic horror” genre that Lovecraft did so much to pioneer with his horrifying racial views?
It’s the old dilemma of separating art from the artist; similar to having to come to grips with the fact that Richard Wagner could on the one hand be enough of a genius to write “Ride of the Valkyries”, and on the other be an anti-Semitic bigot. There are too many examples to count of cases where somebody is an absolute genius in their field, but a wretched person otherwise.
But there’s another, even more troubling question in the case of Lovecraft: what if the reason for his racism was also the reason for his talent for writing horror?
Racism, after all, is inherently based on fear of “The Other”. Lovecraft was afraid of any and all non-WASPs, and it was probably that same xenophobia that made him able to concoct weird and terrifying creatures like Cthulhu.
Before anybody decides to quote me out of context: no, I’m not saying you have to be a racist to write horror. I’m just saying Lovecraft’s racial fears and his horror often seem inseparable. “The Horror at Red Hook” is, technically speaking, a good horror story, but it also turns into one of Lovecraft’s most appalling racial screeds.
S.T. Joshi, the prominent Lovecraft biographer, is quoted in the Salon article as saying “There are perhaps only five stories in Lovecraft’s entire corpus of 65 original tales (‘The Street’ ‘Arthur Jermyn,’ ‘The Horror at Red Hook,’ ‘He,’ and ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’) that have racism as their central core.”
Well, let’s not forget that in Lovecraft’s best-known story, “The Call of Cthulhu”, the evil cultists are invariably swarthy, unlike the Anglo-Saxon or Nordic “good” characters. I don’t know how you define the “central core”, but racism is certainly present in huge swaths of “Cthulhu”.
However, while Lovecraft’s general fear of everything that wasn’t born and raised white and in Providence may have sparked him to be a horror writer, I do think his best stories (“The Haunter of the Dark” and “The Music of Erich Zann”) are the ones that don’t have racism. (“Haunter” has a little bit of condescension towards Italians, though they are ultimately proven right in their superstitious views.)
Whenever Lovecraft’s racial views crop up in his stories, it has the effect of bringing the reader “back to Earth”–sometimes literally, since it puts the focus on the transient prejudices of a 20th-century writer, rather than on the timeless, cosmic sense of alien fear Lovecraft sought to evoke.
So while it may be that Lovecraft’s xenophobic mindset put him on the road to writing horror, I take comfort in the fact that his most effective stories were the ones that he didn’t corrode with his racism, and stuck to exploring universal human fears of unimaginable and unearthly monsters.
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weirdmetalblog says:
Well argued. Lovecraft’s racism never ceases to jar when reading his work, but only as much as many of Fleming’s pretty racist comments do, for example, in the Bond books, not to mention his misogyny. We’re often made to justify reading Lovecraft, but not other authors writing at the same time and with similarly offensive views. I don’t mind having to justify reading Lovecraft to a certain extent, because – as you point out – there are some stories where the racism is not just ‘casual’ but endemic to the narrative, but this should not be allowed to overshadow his oeuvre.
Frankly, I don’t know if there are any classic authors who didn’t hold some sort of offensive, or at least controversial, view on something or other.
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Cinema Dispatch: Deadpool
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Directed by Tim Miller
Despite being 2010’s Sexiest Man Alive, Ryan Reynolds isn’t really your traditional leading man. The guy had a long string of successful comedies through most of the 2000s, but it wasn’t until they tried pushing him into a leading man position that everything started to go to hell. He’s been keeping himself busy with films like The Woman in Gold and Self/Less just to keep his name out there, but he has bet everything on this movie to finally put him back on top and as the comedic actor he wants to be. Was it a wise move to bank on this character making a splash with main stream audiences, or is this going to be the last straw before Hollywood finally gives up on the one time super star? Let’s find out!!
The movie begins with Wade Wilson (Ryan Rynolds) having finally tracked down the man who turned him into the un-fuckable immortal wearing the red onesie known as Deadpool. The man in question AJAX (Ed Skrein) seems to be heading somewhere with a caravan of tough guys that are dispatched with ease as we saw in the trailers. During said assault, we get flashbacks to Wade’s life before the super powers and learn more about his relationship with Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) prior to getting multiple terminal cancers. After being diagnosed, he’s visited by a mysterious man (Jed Rees) who offers him a chance at a cure which Wade eventually take him up on which leads to him being under the care of AJAX. Things go south however as it turns out the mysterious organization running horrifying experiments is not quite what you would call “ethical” and so Wade finds a way to escape but can’t bear to face Vanessa again until AJAX either fixes his face or is buried six feet under. Donning a snazzy outfit and a the moniker of Deadpool, he proceeds to cut his way through AJAX’s known associates which leads back to the boss and neatly lands us back at the beginning of the movie. Speaking of which, the commotion on the freeway doesn’t go unnoticed as a member of the X-Men Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and his student Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) catch wind of it from news reports and they go to see what the hell Wade’s doing. Will Deadpool get his revenge on AJAX before these two buzz kills get in the way? What will AJAX do now that Wade has resurfaced and is broadcasting his intent to kill him? What the hell is Ryan Reynolds gonna do if this ISN’T a hit!?
“Look, if this doesn’t work out I’m gonna have to star in my own porn parody. I know some of you want that, but I’d rather not go down that rabbit hole… so to speak.”
Now I’m not coming from this as a fan of the comics, the video games, or anything else we’ve seen him pop up in before. I like him as a character, but I’ve never had enough exposure to any of his previous incarnations to know much more than surface details and the running gags he has. Until this movie, my biggest source of information was Marvel vs Capcom 3 which means that I’m pretty much the perfect audience for this movie; interested in the character and ready to learn more. The character of Deadpool deserves a better movie, but the one we got here is good enough. After an INSANELY strong opening that brings the humor and the action, the movie just goes from fourth gear to natural for too long, and when it does get back into the swing of things, it’s diminished by not really upping the ante on what we saw at the beginning.
“Didn’t I kick your ass like an hour ago?” “Shut up! You sucker punched me.” “Well, then I guess that makes you the sucker! Do you feel any better about your odds now Mr. Sucker?”
What drags this movie down is what ended up happening to too many of the early superhero movies; the origin story takes up too much of the running time when it can easily be summed up in ten minutes. Now that’s not to say that we haven’t run into that issue in some of the modern super hero movies. All you have to do is look at The Amazing Spider-Man or Fantastic Four to see how a film can beat around the god damn bush for too long telling us what we already knew before walking into the damn theater. Marvel though kind of turned that around when they started making their cinematic universe (though I’d argue that the first Spider-Man movie does it well and the first X-men movie avoided going too much into it) and even DC tries to imbue some depth and meaning to their origin stories. Not always successfully what with Man of Steel being a decently made origin for someone OTHER than Superman and Green Lantern being… Green Lantern, but it’s certainly leaps and bounds better than what we had gotten in the past. Because of this (and despite priding itself on being self-aware), the movie feels way too old at times and is practically a throwback to when the early X-Men films was the pinnacle of what we could hope for from the super hero genre. Those movies are still fun to go back to except for two of them (you KNOW which two), but the genre has evolved since the mid-2000s and so have the X-Men movies for that matter. If this had come out around the time of X3 or Origins: Wolverine, this would have revitalized the franchise on the spot and we wouldn’t have had to wait for Matthew Vaughn to kick things back into gear and get everyone on board to fix the series. Today though, it just feels a bit rusty and out of place.
“Oh yeah! I remember when Zack Snyder started this slo-mo shit. Are people still doing it? Wait a minute… is that a butt-plug on my chest strap?”
So what’s so wrong with the origin story? Well, it just doesn’t manage to be all that interesting no matter how many snarky comments, gratuitous sex scenes, and T.J. Miller appearances they throw in there. My biggest concern going into this movie was that the trailer didn’t give us an idea of what the movie was about, but the trailer proved to be distressingly accurate as it really does take half the running time to explain that Wade Wilson has cancer, goes in to get it fixed by a shady organization, which leads to him ESCAPING the organization, donning an alter ego, and tracking them down to get his revenge. Oh wait. There’s ONE more thing that I THOUGHT was just going to be just a joke, but turned out to be a major plot point. The dude is super fugly and apparently that’s enough for him to NOT go see his girlfriend after escaping the bad guys and getting a clean bill of health. It’s played WAY too straight (especially in a movie that does such a good job of hanging lampshades) and it just brings the story to screeching halt for no apparent reason.
Playing Linkin Park right now (yes, that song) would actually make these scenes amazing but I guess the movie doesn’t feel like going there.
While the origin story takes a good third of the movie’s running time (and doesn’t get fully resolved until the end of the second act because we keep cutting back and forth between the present and the past), almost everything else here is top notch and what I was expected from a Deadpool movie… minus some clear budget constraints. The highway attack which is what we saw the most of in the trailers (and the entirety of that original test footage Fox made) is damn near perfect and a great way to start the movie. Ryan Reyonlds is absolutely on point as the titular anti-hero with his snarky witticisms and hilarious body language, and the whole sequence feels creatively unrestrained with a lot of ideas packed into it. Unfortunately, this is the peak of the movie as it doesn’t take long for the action to be constantly interrupted by the tedious flashbacks followed by a third act that is a bit of letdown. I wouldn’t say that it’s step down from what we saw earlier, but it’s not much of a step up. On top of that, the villains are completely unthreatening despite how hard Ed Skrein and Gina Carano are trying to come off as menacing, and they pull back on what makes Deadpool so unique (his irreverent humor with the filmmaking itself being an extension of that) to instead film a decent if somewhat uninspired series of action set pieces. One thing that REALLY bothered me and I feel typifies my issue with the third act is that DMX’s X Gon’ Give It To Ya (which played a prominent role in the trailers) is played BEFORE the big climax (a walking scene of all things) instead of during it. The music during the climax by the way is a noticeably generic sounding action score which feels out of place in a movie whose humor is it’s unique selling point. They do give us an AMAZING moment where he gets stabbed in the brain and Chicago’s You’re The Inspiration starts playing in his head while also hallucinating about cartoon characters, but this is maybe two or three minutes in a twenty or more minute finale that could have uses that kind of creativity throughout.
“Hey, you got any tunes on there that will help this along? Do the youngsters say tunes anymore? Is Spotify still a thing? How about… Bang Bang by Jessie J? That will work cuz I got guns… right?” “…” “Glad we had this chat.”
What DOES help this part of the movie are the two X-Men they could afford to put in this (Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead) who are both great foils here for Deadpool and do a lot to ground the world enough for his out there antics to have weight. Colossus is a big burly square who un-ironically believes in being a super hero is very well realized for humorous effect, but I also like how he isn’t really punished for this point of view. Sure, Deadpool is a thorn in his side constantly, but he’s never put in a position where he has to be the anti-hero himself or compromise on his principals, unlike some OTHER superhero movies I can think of (*cough* Man of Steel *cough*). In fact, despite the occasional offensive joke here and there, this movie isn’t really that mean spirited or insufferable (unlike a lot of Deadpool fans, OH YEAH I WENT THERE!) which is something that could have easily derailed this movie if they hadn’t been careful to ride that line instead of crossing it. It’s not something like Kick-Ass which felt the need to mock the idea of heroism entirely and punish people for not accepting the most cynical viewpoint about humanity. This movie is dirty, rough, gross, and occasionally offensive, but it also has a heart, especially with how well Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin play off of each other which was one of the saving graces of the origin story. I wish the movie had gotten into how Colossus and Deadpool initial met and became sort-of friends (you’d think with how much time they spent on the backstory that they could fit it in somewhere) but the chemistry between them is very solid. Negasonic Teenage Warhead isn’t all that interesting as the role she plays is intentionally reserved, but the actress does a great job portraying that kind of character, and her powers lead to some pretty great action scenes during the climax. Hopefully both of them will be a part of the sequel (and any subsequent X-Men movies) as they were definite highlights here despite not having too much screen time.
“You look different. Did you do something to year hair, or were you designed by a whole new effects company?” “Says the guy who got his mouth unsewn.” “Point taken.”
So what can we learn from all of this? First of all, there was almost NOTHING going for this movie and yet we managed to get a pretty solid super hero comedy out of it. It’s been languishing in production hell since BEFORE Origins:Wolverine, it’s based on a character that is very easy to screw up and go too far one way or the other (i.e. not irreverent enough or straight up obnoxious), and it’s the lowest budget feature in the entire X-Men franchise. Despite all these factors going against it and a shaky script about an uninteresting origin story, Ryan Reyonlds manages to shine and prove this character as a viable fixture in super hero cinema. The lesson here is that we might just be in an age (at least where Super Hero movies are concerned) where the merits of an individual movie holds less weight than the character that it’s about. We know that even if the next Guardians of the Galaxy or Captain America movie turns out to be dud that that one film will do little to slow down the forward momentum that the superhero genre has built up over the last decade or so. Hell, even if Batman v Superman tanks, it’ll do very little to tarnish the characters’ viability for future movies. Deadpool is probably gonna follow the same path which is very impressive considering he’s not part of the great behemoth known as The Marvel Cinematic Universe, or even that much of a recognizable name to the masses. Hopefully the next movie will be the REAL Deadpool movie we’ve all been waiting for now that the origin is out of the way (and the budget will no doubt be bigger next time). Until then, I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the character or just want a better comedy than say Fifty Shade of Black or Dirty Grandpa. It’s not perfect, but it will do.
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ArthurCrane February 14, 2016 at 3:08 pm
Short Version: Despite a few hangups, it succeeds at nailing the feel of Deadpool.
-If the movie is getting any kind of backlash, particularly from other comic-book film enthusiasts, is that stripped from the jokes and fourth wall breaking, this is just a decent-to-average action film that’s fallen victim to over-hype. However, taking into account its budget and the niche Deadpool (both the character and his own standalone ventures) fills in the grand scheme of the X-Men/Marvel universe, I can say that the movie succeeds in that account very proudly. He’s a comic relief character who hangs at the margins of the world he inhabits, doing his own, smaller thing and taking jabs at other more important characters that take care of more urgent/important matters.
-With any luck, this role will be to Ryan Reynolds what Tony Stark/Iron Man was to Robert Downey, Jr. The film had always been promoted as a passion project for Reynolds and that enthusiasm is right there on the screen. He absolutely nails the characters reckless, devil-may-care attitude and disregard for maintaining the illusion of film. The point of DP is that while his jokes aren’t great, what makes them funny is how everyone around him is playing their part completely straight and can’t really react to his humor the way the audience would. The movie could’ve gone too far with this, but thankfully it knows when it’s time to pull back and, most important of all, inject some pathos to the story. That’s what keeps DP from being just some asshole who quips at and kills people and makes him endearing beyond his superficial aspects. Combined with a great physical performance from Reynolds and a smart use of CGI enhancements to his mask to convey appropriate emotion when needed, he makes the movie shine.
-On a lesser note, I would like to point out how, despite being an “angry little boys” movie, there are few moments that felt like they could’ve been some kind “eww gay” punchline, but the movie stops itself from going there. I like to imagine this is some kind of tease to DP being (sometimes, I’m not sure) portrayed in comic as openly pansexual. Whatever the case may be, it feels refreshing. (I also want to point out how the only time we see his penis is in a scene that isn’t funny and isn’t supposed to be.)
-Speaking as someone who’s been losing interest in the X-Men films since First Class (I don’t think it’s gonna get any better after that), I’m glad how this movie sparks some new interest for me in this series, if only to hope for DP to show up in future X-Men films (in small doses), and hopefully get his own sequel with a bigger budget and see what happens when DP gets an even bigger chance to cut loose.
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The Five Best Harem Anime of 2016
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Cheeky Kid has been watching anime and reading manga for as long as he can remember. Doing so takes him to different worlds.
What did 2016 have for in store for harem anime shows?
A lot! But in all seriousness, they were mostly typical as expected!
No year comes and ends without any attendance-check from the anime shows of the harem genre. They are always present! In fact, in the past few years, they have had too much of a presence to the point of disappointment. It’s a good thing not all of them are bad. Some are actually pretty decent. And some transcend and offer something that has never been seen before.
So enough chatter, I say! Here are the five best harem anime of 2016!
If you know some other deserving titles from 2016, do everyone a favor and drop them in the comments. I’m sure everyone will appreciate the good deed. Thank you.
The 5 Best Harem Anime of 2016
1. Hundred
2. KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World
3. Masou Gakuen HxH (Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
4. Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?
5. Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle)
Hundred | Source
Earth is in danger and its survival lies in the hands of a guy and his harem. But, what’s a “Hundred?” Is it the number of girls flocking around the main guy here in this show? Nope? Then, is it a weapon? Sure, it is—and Hayato Kisaragi has the highest compatibility with it!
All while aboard a battleship serving as a military academy, Hayato tests his mettle as a warrior and garners the interest of many girls.
Wait, he does what?!
Oh yeah, this is an anime of the harem genre. I shouldn’t be surprised at all. But then again, this show is actually pretty decent. It is a notch above a lot of others. While it is not too good, it is also not too bad at all! It does ooze with tropes, however, but the fact remains that the show actually evolves into a romance anime. I had low expectations. But in all seriousness, I did enjoy this anime.
KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World | Source
How many anime titles are listed here again? That is correct—FIVE! And among the five of them is the one that I find the best. Well, this is no secret. The best harem anime of 2016 award goes to—KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!
So there’s this average guy—who’s a hikikomori N.E.E.T. (Not in Education, Employment, or Training)--who suddenly dies and ends up in a fantasy world. His name is Kazuma Satou, and what a lucky dude he is! Or not!
The world he ends up in is like a typical fantasy Role-Playing Game. Due to some unexpected twist, he gets an odd goddess as his first companion. And then a childish sorceress who only knows “Explosion” magic. And then a female warrior who’s way into masochism. And the list goes on!
What in the world is happening?!
I did say that this anime is the best harem anime of 2016. Unexpectedly, it is also one of the best comedy anime of 2016! Woah, this is huge! There’s nothing to complain about this anime. It made me laugh. It made me cry—from laughing, that is! And it made me feel pleasure and satisfaction. I absolutely have no regrets watching KonoSuba.
Masou Gakuen HxH (Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia) | Source
Boy, was Masou Gakuen HxH a gigantic surprise! I didn’t expect it to be this sensual. Woah, it actually also has a story! To put it in simpler terms, Masou Gakuen HxH is a borderline “H” anime (if you know what I mean) with a plot. Alternatively, it can also be considered a story with overwhelming amounts of borderline “H” scenes!
In Masou Gakuen HxH, the main character has this peculiar ability called the Heart Hybrid Gear. It’s an ability that allows him to level up girls by performing lascivious acts with them.
Did I hear that right? Lascivious...acts?!
With an ability like Heart Hybrid Gear, it is clearly obvious what this show wants to happen or what it all is about. It does have a decent story, and I like it. But that is not the point of this series! In terms of its themes, sound elements, and fan-service—it is phenomenal! As I have already said, Mahou Gakuen HxH was a truly surprising find!
Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? | Source
“Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?” roughly translates to “And you thought there is never a girl online?” and is about a teenage guy who got his heart broken online, rendering him unable to trust girls in the internet gaming world anymore. Why wouldn’t he? The girl he proposed to online turned out to be an older guy in real life! Talk about a double whammy! And so, the plot thickens.
What I like about this anime is that it is so refreshing. It doesn’t feel too generic—at least for me. And the art? It is kind of unique in my own perspective. While it certainly isn’t going to receive any award for anything soon enough, it did pique my interest. I find the circumstances of the main guy really amusing. Imagine, he doesn’t trust online girls anymore. But then, after some time, he unexpectedly discovers that his new party mates are actually all girls from his own school. Yet, it’s another twist for him!
I enjoyed this show, that’s for sure. For some reason, it scrabbled real close to my heart; and before I knew it, I was already charmed completely!
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle) | Source
This is one of the harem anime in 2016 that I watched purely out of curiosity. I didn’t expect much, so I did took some pleasure watching it. I kept on repeating to myself: “This is your typical harem anime. Watch it mindlessly and there won’t be anything to regret that much.” And I was right! Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut wasn’t really bad per se. Actually, it was mediocre—in a good way, that is!
This show is about a young man who accidentally trespasses in a female dormitory’s bathing area. Okay, it is not really about that, but you get the point. It is actually about Drag-Rides (ancient mechanical weapons of the kingdom) and their applications in duels and battles. But then, our main hero has his own weird title. He is the Undefeated Weakest! Somehow, after participating in a duel with the first girl he accidentally peeks at, he ends up in the school that’s supposed for females students only! Woah, what a story!
I did find the story of this anime quite interesting, but also severely lacking. What made up for the lack thereof, is the art. It wasn’t the best, but my eyes were pleased. As for the characters, I actually liked them all. No one was really annoying. This show may not be the best example for a truly noteworthy harem anime, but it is one of the best examples for typical ones. As a show of the genre in question, I must say that it is a jack of all trades, but a master of none!
Which of the titles listed is your favorite 2016 harem anime?
KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World
Masou Gakuen HxH (Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia)
Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?
Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut (Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle)
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PTTF
PACHISLOT
RE1 (2002)
アルバート・ウェスカー
c. 1960 [1]
Race/Nationality:
Caucasian/American
Umbrella researcher/security officer (1978-1998)
United States Army commissioned engineering officer (1991-1996)[5]
S.T.A.R.S. Captain (1996-1998)
H.C.F. operative (1998)
Rival company employee (1998)
"Organization" operative (2004)
TRICELL researcher (2003-2009)
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183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1][2][3]
190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[4]
84.5 kg (186 lb)[1]
90 kg (198 lb)[4]
Last appearance:
Voice:
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Richard Waugh (CV, RE0, RE4, Wesker's Report)
Peter Jessop (REmake)
D. C. Douglas (UC, RE5, DC, Mercs 3D, Rev2, RE0 HD Wesker Mode, MvC3, Wesker's Report II)
Jōji Nakata (Rev2 Japanese, REmake HD Japanese, RE0 HD Japanese, MvC3 Japanese)
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"Every day, humans come one step closer to self-destruction. I'm not destroying the world, I'm saving it!"
Dr. Albert Wesker (c.1960-2009) was an accomplished virologist notorious for his work with groups affiliated with the bio-weapons black market. As a senior researcher linked to the t-Virus Project as early as 1978, Dr. Wesker bore witness and in times shaped Umbrella's B.O.W. research. He officially left the company soon after the stall in the Tyrant Project, and began work as a spy, leading to a career in the US Army and eventually with S.T.A.R.S. Dr. Wesker ultimately chose to betray Umbrella and work with other groups to steal its research data, benefiting from a mutation brought on by a prototype virus. Dr. Wesker was ultimately killed in March 2009 during a BSAA operation which uncovered his role in a doomsday project dubbed Uroboros.
"The only thing that can defeat power is more power. That is the one constant in this universe. However, there is no point in power if it consumes itself. I will enlist the help of an old friend against our common foe; I will use one pawn to eliminate the other, and emerge with the spoils for myself..."
Early life and Umbrella Edit
Dr. Wesker with the members of the t-Virus Project staff at the Arklay Lab.
Little is known of Wesker's childhood. It is understood he inherited advantageous genes relating to intelligence from his parents.[6] He was, however, raised away from his parents, either as an orphan or through adoption, as part of a eugenics project led by an Umbrella researcher known only as Wesker, of whom the thirteen children assumed the surname.[6] The Wesker Project worked for the benefit of the Umbrella Pharmaceuticals CEO, Dr. Oswell E. Spencer, who had grand ideals of indoctrinating people into his ideals prior to their infection with the Progenitor Virus, which he believed would stop allow them to use their powers for what he saw as good. These children were later scouted by Umbrella and offered jobs, and intentionally made-unaware as to Umbrella's connection with their past.[7]
In September 1977, at the age of 17, Wesker, likely already having a degree, was indoctrinated at Umbrella's executive training center, wherein young adults were given education on biology and virology to become senior researchers for the company upon graduation, as well as being taught skills beneficial for a company executive.[8] The class of 1978 was criticised by the Deputy Director for being lacklustre, with the exception of Wesker and William Birkin, who showed a combination of talent and a ruthless character that would do well for the company. Dr. James Marcus, one of the co-founders of Umbrella Pharmaceuticals and the Director of the facility, took great interest in Wesker and Birkin, and earned his trust.[9] Following a series of company scandals that were covered-up, the training school was closed at the end of the year, with the two students being immediately offered jobs and transferred to the nearby Arklay Laboratory as senior researchers.[10]
Dr. Wesker's involvement in the t-Virus Project began immediately after his assignment to Arklay Laboratory began. The two arrived at a time when Umbrella was considering developing Ebola-based viral weaponry officially as part of a vaccination program.[10] The two were successful in splicing genes from Ebola onto the t-Virus strain in development at the lab, creating an altered virus which kept the infected victims alive as braindamaged mutants rather than simply killing them. This rejection of Dr. Spencer's idea of t-Virus being used specifically for killing paved the way for a wide array of future research.[10]
Wesker and Birkin participating in Marcus' assassination.
With the t-Virus Project progressing well, but only developing B.O.W.s of decent but sub-human intelligence, Umbrella began pressuring the duo to come up with newer research. At some point this year, Dr. Spencer ordered that Dr. Marcus be assassinated and his body dumped away; both Arklay researchers attended the assassination to immediately recover ten years of research data, which he had kept for himself.[11] The Tyrant Project, meanwhile, represented the next step in t-Virus weaponry, but due to the virus of the time only giving advantageous mutations to people with certain intelligence-regulating genes (statistically one in ten million), the project was stalled until a new t-Virus strain could be engineered which would make it easier to create Tyrant prototypes, which could then be cloned.
As a work around, the two were able to get a favour from Dr. Spencer to obtain an intelligent B.O.W. parasite engineered by Umbrella Europe; the parasite, dubbed Nemesis Alpha, could solve the problem by hijacking a B.O.W.'s body and follow complex orders from trainers. The parasite was inserted into the body of a mutant human test subject, Lisa Trevor, to observe its reactions. When the parasite was killed by Trevor's immune system, this led to the discovery of Golgotha Virus,[11] and Dr. Birkin's transfer away from the facility to NEST. Dr. Wesker also decided to leave the laboratory behind, confused about Dr. Spencer's motives in approving and funding Golgotha, as its was already seen as worthless for bio-weapons development. He took up employment with their intelligence bureau to find answers.[12]
Over the course of the 1990s, Dr. Wesker was able to gain new employment with other groups by officially being an ex-Umbrella employee. From around 1991 he served with the US Army, having been scouted for his usefulness in their own illegal bio-weapons project. The military was presumably unaware of his work as a mole. Around this time, Dr. Wesker entered into a sexual relationship with a Serbian woman, but lost interest soon after, unaware she was pregnant with his child.
Following his Army career, Dr. Wesker was re-assigned by Umbrella in 1996 to serve in S.T.A.R.S., a private-funded police special forces unit in Raccoon City. The Special Tactics and Rescue Service was effectively Umbrella's private army, nominally raised to deal with the increasing threat of right-wing terrorism in the American heartland, and earning them a direct source within the Raccoon Police Department should an investigation linger uncomfortably close to the company.[13] He was made Captain of the Alpha Team, and given seniority over Captain Enrico Marini.
Betrayal (1998) Edit
"I will follow my initial plan and lure the S.T.A.R.S. members into the mansion. Their superior combat training should make them perfect test subjects."
The Spring and Summer of 1998 saw considerable upset to Umbrella in Raccoon City. The new ε strain infected a number of staff at the Arklay Laboratory in May, prompting a quarantine of the staff while its guards made preparations to shoot all escapees. Drs. Wesker and Birkin personally visited the lab shortly after the alarm was raised to evacuate the cloned embryos of the T-002 Tyrant, one of Umbrella's most important assets. Wesker also gave orders to forbid phone calls in order to limit the spread of information.[14][15] Escaped Cerberus B.O.W.s did however escape their cages and began killing and attacking civilians in Raccoon Forest, with infected survivors going on to kill others. By July the number of killings had surpassed 20 in what the RPD theorised to be the work of a cult, but were unable to find suspects so,[16] after press backlash, assigned the case to S.T.A.R.S. No longer able to manage the situation from within,[17] Umbrella HQ produced the "X-Day" plans, giving Wesker a series of tasks to perform during the mission. He received orders to sacrifice S.T.A.R.S. to the mutants to provide combat data, eliminating them as witnesses; to collect the remaining B.O.W. embryos, and to finally destroy the Arklay Laboratory itself to wipe out all trace of the virus.[18] On 23 July, Wesker sabotaged the engine of Bravo Team's helicopter, which would prevent their escape and require Alpha Team's subsequent investigation.[19][20]
During the S.T.A.R.S. preparation, Wesker and Birkin also had other duties with the company, and were to oversee the re-opening of the executive training school,[21] possibly to make up for the loss of the Arklay Laboratory. An attack by a nascent mutant leech colony destroyed two armed investigation teams and infected the occupants of a private train taking key personnel to the school.[22] To prevent the outbreak spreading out further, the two made plans to blow up the training school. While there, Wesker encountered Col. Sergei Vladimir, the executive in charge of the UBCS,[23] after Umbrella HQ took notice of the incident.[24] Wesker escaped from the facility before its destruction, but his experiences in the night convinced him abandoning Umbrella was now essential,[21][25] and agreed to a rival company's offer of employment in exchange for giving them the embryo samples rather than handing them over to Umbrella.
Wesker shortly after waking up.
On the evening of 24 July, Wesker led Alpha Team out to the mountains as he had expected.[20] To better his chances of survival, Wesker was provided with a mutant t-Virus strain designed to mutate his body to further his strength and stamina. He also threatened Barry Burton with the nonexistent threat of his family's murder, forcing him to assist in the confiscation or destruction of incriminating evidence. Soon after arriving at Bravo Team's helicopter site, where RPD pilot Kevin Dooley's body was discovered, the team was attacked by the Cerberus pack and Joseph Frost killed, with pilot Brad Vickers abandoning the group.[20] The others fled to the nearby Spencer Mansion to seek shelter. Inside, Wesker separated themselves into groups and continued with his mission. During the night he discovered Captain Enrico Marini to be alive and having incriminating evidence against Umbrella, and promptly shot him in the underground tunnels before fleeing. In the lab, Wesker began preparations for waking up the Tyrant to kill the remaining S.T.A.R.S. survivors, infecting himself with the mutant virus strain shortly before doing so. He was cornered by his comrades while in the chamber and confessed his role in Umbrella's conspiracy before ordering the Tyrant to attack them. However, T-002 recognized Wesker as a participant in the Tyrant Project, and he stabbed Wesker first, impaling him through the chest before going after the others. Though Wesker was seriously wounded, the virus in his body had succeeded in mutating him to possess powerful regenerative abilities, and he woke up in an empty room.[26] With the self-destruct system prematurely activated and his computer access restricted by Col. Vladimir and the RED QUEEN AI,[26] Wesker was unable to recover the embryos or any important data to hand over to Umbrella's rival company. He narrowly escaped the destruction of the mansion after a fight with Lisa Trevor, but his improved speed ensured his survival.[27] Believed dead by Umbrella and S.T.A.R.S., Wesker was able to gain employment within the company despite his failure to provide the samples.
The Organisation (1998-2003) Edit
"Sure I'm not human anymore, but just look at the power I've gained!"
Still maintaining the illusion of death, Wesker avoided showing himself publicly and instead took to being the contact between the organisation and its spies.[28] When Dr. Birkin completed Golgotha, the organisation made plans to steal it, and Wesker played a role as the external contact between the group and their spy, Ada Wong, the other being a liaison based within the Apple Inn.[28] With the t-Virus outbreak slowing down Wong's investigation, the liaison killed himself to avoid turning into a Zombie. Through a computer feed, Wesker took over the liaison's role and waited for Wong's arrival on 1 October.[28] When she confirmed the retrieval of a Golgotha sample, Wesker directed her to an Umbrella helicopter ferrying Col. Vladimir and an executive out of the city,[28] which she hitched a ride on to escape the bombing.[29]
Following the acquisition of Golgotha, the organisation began sending their paramilitary group, HCF, out on raids to Umbrella bases to recover data and bioweapons samples. Wesker led a raid on Rockfort Island in December 1998. Remember Alexia Ashford's research on t-Veronica, the Ashford-owned island was a logical place to begin the search. Saboteurs arrived on the island ahead of the main assault and planted explosives within the military training center, which released a t-Virus strain into the ecosystem as well as releasing B.O.W.s. Much of the island's infrastructure was destroyed in the subsequent bombing by HCF's aircraft, followed by the deployment of special teams searching for the t-Veronica samples, of which Wesker took direct involvement. They were unsuccessful in locating samples on the island, though Wesker did discover Claire Redfield, Chris' younger sister, had been taken captive by Umbrella and imprisoned in its concentration camp. Chris arrived the following day, looking for her. Wesker was interrupted on both occasions when about to kill them, and soon after left the island for a submarine after discovering Alexia was alive and well at Umbrella's Antarctic Base.
Wesker's face is severely burned after his duel with Chris.
The facility had itself also fallen to a t-Virus outbreak after refugees from Rockfort Island fled there, but the team succeeded in entering it through a submarine pen. Finding himself in an underground mansion, Wesker met Alexia for the first time and demanded she hands herself over to prove him with a sample. She refused and began mutating into a more powerful form which even Wesker was unprepared for, and he was forced to flee the mansion. Not long after, HCF discovered the body of Steve Burnside, a teenager Alexia had recently used as a t-Veronica test subject, and they returned to the submarine. Having discovered Chris and Claire in Antarctica, Wesker finally took advantage of the opportunity to eliminate the two. Initially taking Claire hostage and dragging her to the submarine, he was persuaded to let her run on the promise of a fight with Chris. Though he was able to dominate Chris with little effort, Chris got the better of him by dropping metal girders onto him. With the facility close to self-destruction and his skin burnt by a fire, Wesker gave up and left for the submarine.
Wesker observing the capabilities of the V-Complex.
With the organisation now in possession of Golgotha; t-Veronica, and manufacturing modified clones of several Umbrella B.O.W.s, Wesker took a more senior role in selling these bioweapons to interested parties as Umbrella entered its long period of collapse. By August 2002, Wesker was negotiating the sale of weapons to Javier Hidalgo,[30] the drug lord running the Sacred Snakes cartel. An Umbrella customer for over 10 years, Hidalgo began to suspect he was being conned as prices began to increase from the Russian production plant.[31] Wesker convinced him to cease buying from Umbrella, and that a third party Asian broker asking Hidalgo for information was an Umbrella agent investigating him.[30][31] Not long after the sale of t-Veronica, Hidalgo entered a murderous rage over his daughter running away, and caused a viral outbreak as his Zombie army and B.O.W.s began destroying nearby communities. Wesker watched from a cliff as the US government's Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team, itself investigating the Asian broker, was forced to tackle the biohazard and, ultimately, killed Hidalgo. Soon after his incident, he was tracked down by Jack Krauser, an American soldier who had been injured during the mission and removed from active service, who believed Wesker could help him find a new purpose in life. He soon after faked his death in an accident to explain away his disappearance and entered service as an agent whom Wesker could trust.
In early 2003, the Organisation became aware of a series of unusual incidents in the Caucasus, which led them to believe a biohazard was responsible.[32] It was thereafter discovered that the region was the location of Umbrella's secret Russian base,[32] and Wesker traveled there in search of the U.M.F.-013, the Arklay Laboratory's supercomputer Col. Vladimir had confiscated shortly before Alpha Team's arrival at the Spencer Mansion nearly five years prior. Heading to a village close to Umbrella's oil plant base, he discovered it had fallen to the outbreak, and the Hunter Delta B.O.W.s they were bribed to keep in storage had escaped. During his search for development data, Wesker ran into Redfield and Valentine, who had joined an anti-biohazard force and were also alerted by the goings-on in Russia. Too busy to kill them, he retrieved the data and left.[33][34]
Wesker arrived at the Umbrella base when the outbreak had almost fully engulfed it, and Col. Vladimir one of the few uninfected staff-members left. Though he made his way into the facility before the anti-biohazard force arrived, he was slowed down by Col. Vladimir's Ivan bodyguards, and was forced to kill them to progress further. When he reached the control centre. Col. Vladimir was overseeing the T-A.L.O.S. fight with Redfield and Valentine. Rather than give up his allegiances to the sunken ship, the executive infected himself with a perfected t-Virus strain to match Wesker in a fight over the computer. Vladimir lost the fight, and Wesker downloaded the U.M.F.-013's entire data, the Umbrella Archives, before ordering RED QUEEN to delete everything on the server, denying his former S.T.A.R.S. comrades access to incriminating information to use against Umbrella. Soon after the raid, Wesker provided the Archives or, at least, excerpts of it, to the US government. Having been locked into a dead-end lawsuit with Umbrella USA over damages following the destruction of Raccoon City, the excerpts provided irrefutable proof they were the manufacturers of the virus that contaminated the town. After the verdict was made requiring compensation for victims, Umbrella Pharmaceuticals was forced to declare bankruptcy, and the US and Russian Federation collaborated in tracking down the whereabouts of Dr. Spencer.
Partnership with Tricell (2003-2009) Edit
Soon after the raid on the Caucasus facility, Wesker entered talks with Tricell. Although nearly all of the major pharmaceutical companies had their reputations damaged by the revelations that Umbrella performed the experimentation with their products, Tricell Africa under Excella Gionne was interested in the emerging bio-weapons black market as the emergence of dedicated anti-B.O.W. organisations necessitated better B.O.W.s for its customers, although she was physically interested in him and helped give him regular injections of PG67A/W which was a serum that was required to maintain his strength after the virus infection. Helping them to develop new B.O.W.s, Wesker was provided a cut of the profits and a laboratory was constructed among the underground ruins of the Ndipaya Kingdom where Umbrella first discovered the Progenitor Virus. Now with a powerful influence within the industry, Wesker began to develop the Uroboros Virus which he envisioned would cull the human population and ensure the survival only of the genetically pure in the perfect symbol of eugenics.
Wesker oversees Ada's progress in retrieving the Plaga.
While working with Tricell, under the codename "S", Wesker continued to work for The Organization and oversaw the 2004 operation to retrieve a dominant species Plaga sample from Los Iluminados which was a religious extremist group in Spain with access to a bio-weapons laboratory. Krauser was sent into the area first and took part in the group's kidnapping of Ashley Graham, the American First Daughter to obtain such a sample. With Krauser taking longer than expected to return, Wesker sent Wong in who returned the following day with a Plaga. Hearing of how U.S. Special Agent and survivor of Raccoon City; Leon Kennedy became involved with the sacrilegious terror sect's activities. Wesker implored Ada to eliminate him in order to better cover their tracks as they didn't need his kind of distraction. When Ada proved obstinate in her secondary assignment however, Wesker would revise his mission statement, saying it'd be best to leave him be as the distraction he causes can help further their own goals. After making it too the Plaga testing facility, Wesker informed his secondary that Krauser was assigned to dispatch of their rogue element. But was later informed the loyalist had been dealt with by agent Wong (secretly with her help). Ergo, Wesker would further opt her to wait out the battle to secure the Plaga sample, then eliminate whomever was left standing afterward. Ada completed her task and handed her handler the Plaga, this was revealed to not be a dominant Plaga as he was expecting and realized that The Organization became aware of his dealings with "S". He was forced to travel to Los Iluminados' island fortress in person to obtain such a sample, found within Krauser's body. This sample made it's way to Tricell who the following year also gained a sample of the t-Abyss Virus after Agent Jessica Sherawat infiltrated the BSAA which Tricell established as a propaganda tool to appear wholly against bio-warfare. In 2006, Wesker got a message from his dealer, Ricardo Irving by informing him that Spencer wished to meet him. Close to death after being betrayed by Alex Wesker, Spencer wished to see the only other remaining Wesker child. Wesker took Spencer's offer up, but killed his guards when arriving. Spencer gave Wesker his most secret information, revealing the eugenics project that ensured his rearing; career within Umbrella, promotions and eventual infection with the modified t-Virus to him. He also revealed that the creation of a loyal group of modified humans was Umbrella's true goal for the world with the B.O.W.s merely a means to this end rather than it's true form. With Spencer no longer a worthwhile source of information, Wesker impaled him through the stomach. He was immediately after greeted by Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine who are sent on a BSAA mission to arrest him and Spencer. In the subsequent fight with the two, Wesker was thrown out of a window by Jill. The two survived the fall and Wesker kept her as his prisoner for his use in his Uroboros research. Her use in the research ultimately saved Uroboros. Too potent to do anything, but kill the infected, Jill's t-Virus antibodies gave him new ideas to modify it and she was spared from the project out of gratitude and provided performance-enhancing drugs to serve as one of his agents.[35]
Spencer tells Wesker of his origins.
Over the next two and a half years, Wesker oversaw the completion of Uroboros as well as the advancement of three mutant Plaga species to be used on the black market. To test both after killing his entire Uroboros research staff, Wesker and Irving used the Ndipaya tribe for Type 3 Plaga research and later sold the Type 2 Plaga samples to the Kijujuan nationalists who sought it as a means of conscripting citizens for an army to fight for independence. Aware that the BSAA would eventually investigate, Wesker's moles within the group provided them with information on the Uroboros Project; the Progenitor Virus and Valentine's survival. Though realizing that they are walking into a trap, the BSAA sent the teams including Redfield in. The main body, Alpha Team was killed by a Uorboros test subject while Redfield was convinced to continue searching for Valentine after finding a digital photograph of her. Redfield and his partner, Sheva Alomar made their way straight to Wesker and Valentine as he hoped. Though unable to kill the pair after seven minutes of fighting, he left to a nearby Tricell oil tanker and left Valentine to continue the job.
Death (2009) Edit
"Uroboros is on the eve of its appearance. Six billion cries of agony will birth a new balance."
In the night, Wesker made the final preparations for his eugenics plan which required the dispersal of Uroboros in Earth's upper atmosphere so the winds would spread it across every populated area. No longer seeing use in Gionne, he also had her infected with Uroboros as a distraction for the BSAA.[36] This was only a mild setback, however and he was confronted while ready to disembark on a stealth bomber as the ship began to sink from the damage that was sustained in the Uroboros fight. Redfield learned from Valentine that an overdose of PG67A/W could harm him,[37] and in the ensuing fight in the sinking ship, Wesker was successfully injected.[38] It was not enough to defeat him, however and Wesker managed to board the bomber and began his departure by forcing Redfield and Alomar to follow. Continuing their fight on the bomber, the hatch was forced open, causing it to crash into a volcano and Wesker to be thrown out. [39] With his plan ruined, Wesker punched a hole in a missile that was storing the Uroboros samples, infecting himself with the virus in the process.[40] In the course of the fight, Wesker became stuck in the lava as a BSAA helicopter evacuated Redfield and Alomar. With his newly developed tendrils, Wesker tried to drag the helicopter into the lava, but this attack forced the pair to handle and fire two RPG-7 rockets at him, destroying him completely.[41]
Legacy Edit
Although Wesker died, he left a legacy behind. One of his fellow Project W candidates, Alex Wesker continued utilizing the Uroboros Virus until being killed by Barry Burton and Claire Redfield in 2011. In large part due to his attempt to infect the world with Uroboros, Wesker also gained a lot of notoriety.[42]
At some point in his life, he met a female immigrant from Edonia in her early twenties whose last name was Muller. They had a brief relationship and she eventually became pregnant with his child, but returned to her home in Edonia without telling Wesker about the fact. She soon gave birth to future mercenary, Jake Muller whose specialized blood type gave him protection against mutagenic pathogens such as the C-Virus, meaning that Wesker's immunity to viral infections was genetically passed down to Jake.
Later, when revealing Jake's lineage to him, Dr. Carla Radames mockingly referred to him as a "colossal imbecile" for his failure to destroy the world and attempted to do the same with the C-Virus. However, unlike Wesker's eugenics ambition with Uroboros, Carla simply desired to destroy civilization outright and govern over the resulting chaos.
Before his death, his H.C.F. group had a role in creating a Progenitor-enhanced mold, collaborating with The Connections in the 2000s. The mold would be later grafted to an artificially born bioweapon: E-001, also known as Eveline.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Official Resident Evil 0 website (Japanese). Capcom.
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↑ Resident Evil 5 library files, Albert Wesker
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↑ Resident Evil (2002), file: "Marcus' Diary 1".
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Wesker's Report II, part 1.
↑ 11.0 11.1 Resident Evil 5 (2009), file: "History of Resident Evil".
↑ Resident Evil 5 files, Albert Wesker
↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), file: "Albert Wesker Profile".
↑ Resident Evil (2002), file: "Researcher's Will".
↑ Matsuyama, biohazard, chapter: "Chris Redfield".
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↑ Resident Evil (2002), file: "Mail from the Chief of Security".
↑ Capcom. Resident Evil Zero. (Capcom). Scene: Opening cutscene.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Capcom. Resident Evil. (Capcom). Scene: opening cutscene.
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↑ Resident Evil 0 (2002), scene: "Entrance".
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↑ Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (2007), scene: "Beginnings 2 scene".
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Data center consolidation drives server availability at Columbia
Data center consolidation: Columbia University recently consolidated five data centers to one with the help of Collective Technology.
Joe Spurr, News Writer
Data center consolidation: Columbia University's molecular biophysics department recently consolidated its five data centers to one -- a move the school says increased server availability by about 30%.
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Hans-Erik Aronson, senior systems analyst/programmer at the New York City-based Ivy League school's Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (C2B2), said maintenance and latency were the main drivers for reining in the data center sprawl.
"With inter-node clustering, the more hubs -- the worse it is," Aronson said. "Having it spread-out makes it much harder to maintain. We were looking for high-bandwidth, low-latency networking. With one location, it's there, it's now a lot easier to maintain, it makes it that much more solid."
Plus, the new facility would offer better power and air-conditioning, yielding "huge improvements," Aronson said. All hardware now rests in a 28-foot by10-foot data center, on a six-inch raised floor, in 10 cabinets with 10 kW assigned power to each, with backed up UPS power.
Even though the 200 plus servers in question -- mostly clustered Red Hat Linux machines -- resided relatively near each other, navigating urban pitfalls and relocating successfully over the span of a weekend was a scenario fraught with potential peril, Aronson said.
C2B2 researchers need 24/7 computer access. Plus, high-performance computing programs could take weeks to finish processing. So the schedule was very tight. "No computers -- no work," Aronson said. "We're completely dependant on computers. If you log in on Christmas Eve, there's likely to be someone online."
Still, the benefits of change outweighed the risk of interruption. To get to there, though, would have been impossible on their own, Aronson said.
Before the move, Columbia shopped for outside help and found Austin, Texas-based Collective Technology, which steered every aspect of the relocation and spared the wits of a department wary of downtime, Aronson said.
"With our time window, we didn't want to risk it, we wanted a company who has handled data center relocations," Aronson said. "It wasn't that they were widely different [from competing vendors], it's just that Collective gave the right type of impression. They were trustworthy …We could never have accomplished this in 72 hours without them."
For Columbia, Collective provided site preparation, a walkthrough to make sure everything is in place, security, cable components and more. Then, Collective started the actual moving: wrapping the hardware, hiring union movers in New York City, transporting, reinstalling arranging the recertification process with hardware vendors who often monitor moves for reasons such as to track any damage that might be covered otherwise by warranty.
Ed Taylor, Collective's CEO, says much of the value of its relocation services lies in its ability to ascertain an organization's needs -- something that is mishandled at businesses with isolated wings, or at universities whose cross-departmental communication can resemble the bureaucracy of a conglomeration.
"There are the IT guys who own some of this stuff, the facilities guys who handle the space and the power and the heating, and the finance guys who have to pay for all of this at some point," Taylor said. "Oftentimes these three groups are widely distributed and don't communicate very well. And this is regarding data centers being built today, which likely will be the most expensive real estate [per square foot] that any company will ever own."
The other factor: Experience.
"We've made many mistakes over many years, and I would not like to relearn them every time," Taylor said. "There's a lot of 'gotchas' that you will encounter -- and you cannot encounter them at 2 a.m. That is not the time to find out that you've got an eight-foot rack and a seven-foot elevator. You're got to anticipate anything that's going to be a show stopper for you. These moves happen on such a tight timeframe. Any delay in the window will translate into a major outage during business hours on Monday morning."
Industry analyst Rich Ptak of Ptak, Noel & Associates in Amherst, N.H., says third parties have become a common and sound strategy in an industry returning to the data center.
"It's just not cost-effective to maintain the expertise when it's not part of your business," Ptak said, referring to the benefits of consultants to manage relocation efforts. "But there could always be an accident in transport. Or faulty construction. Substandard materials. Inadequate deployment. Or there's always the risk of having somebody wire things backwards and having something blow up on you. Even with someone like Collective. People make mistakes, they're human."
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How To Watch NBA Without Cable And Outside The US (The Complete Guide)
Zohair 0 Published: 5 April 2017 Updated: 12 July 2019
NBA is one of the most explosive sports league in the world. You need to see it in order to believe the action. Read on.
The current NBA season is without a doubt the most exciting in recent memory.
So where should we begin then?
Well, if you are hunting for a complete guide which will teach you how to watch NBA outside the US using every means possible then this is it.
We’ll show you all the best ways to watch NBA from outside the US and within the US.
You don’t need us to tell you that the most common way to watch NBA games is through the cable TV subscription.
A cable TV subscription is not only great for NBA games but for all sports in general.
The only problem is that it is expensive.
Cable bills can reach up to $100 or more per month.
Is that a price you want to pay to watch your favorite team play in the NBA?
We know that none of us wants to pay a fortune to watch NBA from outside the US.
And hence, we give you all the alternatives that you need to watch NBA from outside the US.
Most of these methods we’ll teach you to will enable you to watch NBA online.
So what are the way in which you can watch NBA from outside the US without a cable?
Well, it depends on what you want to do.
If you don’t want to watch the whole reason and are just an occasional follower of NBA then a live stream would do it for you.
Some online methods also allow cheap access to your favorite NBA team for the whole season if you are an NBA nerd.
Regardless, our methods will work for everyone and you’ll be able to watch NBA from outside the US via live streaming without the need for an expensive cable subscription.
How To Watch NBA Online
There are five main methods.
These are as follows,
sign up for a live streaming option such as Sling TV
Purchase the NBA league pass for live and on-demand NBA live streaming
Do it with an HD antenna
Watch NBA with the help of a VPN service outside the US
Live stream NBA with Kodi
We’ll go through them one by one and then, in the end, you can decide for yourself which one suits your needs the best.
Watch NBA Games Online Without Cable With Sling TV
The best way to watch NBA games via live streaming is through Sling TV.
Sling TV is great.
Because it is not a cable subscription.
That reason alone should be enough.
But seriously, Sling TV is a fantastic online service that offers live streaming of many prevalent cable networks.
We’re talking about networks such as,
And many other exceptional channels.
The best part is the price.
Sling TV packages are not expensive.
They start from just $20 a month.
You don’t need to sign a contract if that’s what you’re wondering.
All channels that Sling TV will offer will come with NBA regular season and also the NBA playoffs.
Sling TV Works Without Cable
Or cable subscription.
You don’t need to sign a long term contract.
Moreover, you can use Sling TV services right from your computer or your smartphone or even your tablet.
You can also use Sling TV from your gaming console and any other streaming device.
Count a smart TV in that list too.
Overall, Sling TV is a complete solution to all your live stream needs.
If you sign up for the right package you’ll have access to,
All games that are aired on ESPN via live coverage
Live coverage for all content broadcasted by TNT
For the true fans, a live coverage of post-game content from TNT
If you sign up for the Sports Extra package, then you’ll have access to NBA TV and everything on it via live coverage
Live coverage of each and every game that is broadcasted on ABC though ESPN3
Fox Sports Regional Network and access to all local games via live coverage.
Everything above and coverage from over twenty other awesome TV channels such as CNN, TBS, and others
All of that for just $20 per month and with no contract.
There is also a 7-day free trial available if you want to go that route.
More Content Than You Can Imagine
The NBA offers non-stop action throughout the year.
With Sling TV you get more NBA content per week than you can possibly watch.
And that too for the whole season not just for a month or a week.
For just $20 per month.
Again, the best part about it is that you don’t have to sign a contract.
Sling TV provides users will full access to more than thirty cable channels.
Without a big cable bill that is.
You can watch NBA via live streaming with Sling TV from your TV or any streaming device.
You could be using Roku, Xbox, or even Chromecast, it doesn’t matter
Sling TV works with them all.
It also works with smartphones.
In fact, for T-Mobile customers, there is a discount as well but you’ll have to get lucky in order to catch that within its expiration date.
If you sign up for Sling TV for one year, you only have to pay $14 per month.
The yearly package is called Sling Orange package and it is the best package Sling TV has to offer in terms of content.
Most new users don’t know that users may cancel Sling TV subscription at any time.
Any content that you watch on Sling TV will not count against your mobile data usage.
But only if you use T-Mobile Binge On feature.
So a combination of Sling TV and T-Mobile is really the cheapest way to watch NBA online without a cable subscription.
What About Sling TV Blue Package
The Sling TV Blue Package is pretty impressive as well.
It will cost you around $25 per month.
But most of all, it has local Fox Sports regional network.
If you support any of the following teams, you can watch NBA without a cable subscription.
New Orleans Pelicans (Fox Sports)
You can visit each of the above-mentioned team’s local Fox Sports version and watch everything you want to.
Do take note though that you’ll only be able to access networks that are local to your area.
So how do you avoid blackouts then?
Well, you don’t need to worry about that at the moment.
We’ll come to that part in our VPN section.
Right now you should be able to watch most NBA games.
More Complete Sling TV Packages
Sling TV has a lot of packages.
Some are more complete than others.
There are a few Sling TV packages that also allow access to ESPN live stream along with ESPN 2 and TNT streaming.
If you want to watch other channels then they will be available with Sling TV as well.
Additionally, all of this is available to all Sling TV customers.
Want something for the whole family?
Sling TV has got you covered.
Selecting TV shows or channels will never be a problem for you with Sling TV.
But we’re here to teach you about NBA.
Sling TV is great for NBA, right?
With Sling TV, users get access to everything that ESPN broadcasts.
By that we mean, that you get to consume all ESPN content.
Without any delays.
And as you already know, ESPN is the king of NBA games.
It broadcasts all NBA games every season.
ESPN even streams NBA Draft via live stream that takes place during the offseason.
Apart from that, there are games every Wednesday and Friday as far as the regular season is concerned.
Don’t forget the playoffs coverage either.
Sling TV will allow you to watch them all.
Every week.
All season long.
Just like with a cable subscription.
Without the additional costs though.
If you crave NBA TV streaming then you should sign up for Sling TV Sports Extra package as well.
Not satisfied with ESPN alone?
Well, there is always TNT.
TNT also offers great content.
You can watch NBA and NBA playoffs without any problem.
It broadcasts most of its content on Thursdays and Tuesdays.
Add to that, the live coverage of Opening Night games.
What about NBA All-Star game?
TNT streams that as well.
As mentioned before, you can also consume post-game coverage content which is pretty valuable for NBA insiders.
Yes, you can watch Inside the NBA as well.
Sling TV is like the nirvana of NBA games
If you subscribe to Sling TV, you get to use the exclusive WatchESPN app.
This WatchESPN app enables users to watch NBA games on the ABC network.
That is pretty much it as far as offers are concerned.
Which one should you go for?
It doesn’t matter.
All packages are worth it.
In fact, we’ll call them a bargain, they are that comprehensive and economical.
Is there anything more you want if you want to watch NBA games online without a cable subscription?
We don’t think so.
Neither should you.
Cable TV doesn’t belong in the 21st century.
Sling TV easily blows cable TV out of the water thanks to its free trial.
With Sling TV free trial you can watch NBA online for free via live stream for a full week.
If you don’t like Sling TV by the end of that period, then no worries.
Just cancel your subscription.
And you’re free.
How To Watch NBA With NBA League Pass
The best way to watch NBA is with an NBA League Pass.
NBA League Pass is another option for those who want to watch NBA online without a cable subscription.
What is NBA League Pass anyway?
In simple words, it is the official streaming service offered by the NBA.
NBA League Pass subscribers can watch all NBA live streams and more.
What do we mean by more?
Yes, we’re talking about on-demand replays of all NBA games.
For the whole NBA season.
Just take a moment to let that one sink in.
Is this heaven or what?
Well, it’s not heaven.
Because there is a huge catch with NBA League Pass.
What is that catch?
NBA League Pass has these NBA blackouts.
What happens during NBA blackouts?
You get nothing as far as local team streaming is concerned.
In other words, NBA League Pass blocks NBA streaming in certain areas. Mostly local ones though.
What is this arrangement?
It all has to do with some NBA streaming licensing issues.
All NBA streaming services can’t stream NBA games that belong to local teams.
What does that mean for you?
It means that you won’t be able to watch NBA games for teams that are considered to be local to your broadcasting area.
Just to take an example, if you live in the Chicago area and support Chicago Bulls, then NBA League Pass will blackout Chicago Bulls games for you.
Which is obviously bad.
In other words, you won’t get Chicago Bulls games with NBA League Pass because of these NBA blackouts.
But if you’re a fan of a team that is not local to your area, then NBA League Pass is golden for you.
The biggest reason to purchase NBA League Pass is convenience.
NBA League Pass Is Convenient
Using NBA League Pass is very easy.
It is the most time efficient way of keeping up with all the happening of NBA.
IF you want total non-stop NBA action then NBA League Pass is it.
You can stream up to 40 NBA games every week with NBA League Pass during the regular season.
What else does NBA League Pass get you?
Well, it goes something like this,
A facility to stream up to 40 NBA games every week
On-demand replays of every NBA game during the regular season.
On-demand classic NBA games via NBA stream
Multiple streams. Up to 4 at any given time.
Watch NBA games via streams on all possible devices such as desktop computers and smartphones along with streaming devices such as Roku, gaming consoles, and Apple TV
One-step live NBA game access via the internet through official social media posts
How Much Does NBA League Pass Cost?
NBA is not only popular in the US but also outside it.
NBA League Pass will cost you around $199 if you’re in the US.
Depending on your location on the map, you could get it for much cheaper.
We’ll cover that bit in the VPN section though.
Moreover, you can either pay $199 for the full year or $44.99 in a five stage installment plan.
The $199 package gets your access to all on-demand games and live games from all NBA teams, for the whole season.
There is also an option to buy NBA Team Pass.
NBA Team Pass is a bit like NBA League Pass.
But only for one team.
You get the same NBA stream and all the other content but only for one single team of your choice.
The NBA Team Pass can be had for $119.99 per NBA season.
It is also available in five easy installments of $26.99 each.
Want even more customization options?
Well, then have NBA Single Game Pass.
As the name suggests, the NBA Single Game Pass can be used to watch one single certain game.
The NBA Single Game Pass costs $6.99 per game.
Do take note that the NBA Single Game Pass is a one-time purchase only.
It will let you watch a live stream of any NBA game you choose.
Go Old School And Use That Antenna
This technique doesn’t work for all cable networks.
Moreover, you’ll need to have an HD antenna.
An HD antenna can stream several live NBA games.
And that too throughout the duration of the season, without any cost.
You don’t need any cable subscription.
Or any other type of subscription for that matter.
The only thing you need is an HD antenna.
With an HD antenna, a user may be able to watch several channels for free.
These channels are known as over-the-air channels.
One example is ABC, which is broadcasted over-the-air free of charge.
All ABC content without any additional cost? Sounds too good to be true right?
But it isn’t as great as NBA League Pass or Sling TV.
Because you can’t watch all NBA games.
ABC only broadcasts certain NBA games.
But it does so throughout the season so you might catch your preferred NBA game if you’re lucky enough.
Moreover, each weekend ABC usually airs a couple of featured NBA games.
Not bad considering you don’t even need a cable.
Of course, you can record games and then watch them at your own time for more time flexibility.
For that you’ll need a DVR though.
IF you don’t want to invest in that then read the next section.
How To Watch NBA Outside The US With A VPN Service
To watch NBA from anyplace in the world at cheap rates, you need a VPN service.
Not everybody lives in the United States of America.
But a lot of us want to watch what gets aired in the US.
To do what, we have to use some kind of service.
Without further ado, say hello to VPN.
A VPN is nothing but an online service that allows you to watch blocked or geo-restricted content from anywhere in the world.
It does that by changing your location.
More specifically though, a VPN service reroutes your internet traffic through one of its own VPN servers which are located in the country of your choice.
As a result, websites and streaming services think that you’re located in the country where the VPN server is.
Hence, with a VPN service, you can make it seem like you belong to any country in the world.
It also guards your privacy and maintains your anonymity among many other things.
So how does it help you watch NBA from outside the US?
Well, it is really simple.
If you want to watch NBA online without any blackouts then you must sign up for NBA League Pass International.
The NBA League Pass International is especially useful for users who live outside the United States.
The NBA League Pass International will give you, without a doubt, the best NBA streaming anywhere.
Moreover, remember that the NBA League Pass International is just like the NBA League Pass.
The only difference is that it works from outside the US as well.
It also does away with NBA blackouts.
In other words, users who subscribe to the NBA League Pass International will be able to watch all NBA games and all NBA teams, for all season long without any blackouts.
This is where things get murky.
There is no one single price for the NBA League Pass International.
It all depends on where you live.
Most countries have the same price for the NBA League Pass International, but there are some exceptional ones where it is priced slightly lower.
For example, you could live in any of the below-mentioned countries,
And pay the same amount of the NBA League Pass International.
The most economical package for the NBA League Pass International that we have found from our research is the one that is available for people in Canada.
How To Sign Up For The Cheapest NBA League Pass International
You’ll have to use a VPN service in order to change your location to Canada.
Of course, we’re assuming that you don’t actually live in Canada.
Because if you do then you don’t need a VPN service. Maybe you still do since regardless of watching an NBA game you might want to protect yourself from ISPs.
The process works like this.
You go to the homepage of a VPN service.
Then sign up for the VPN service package of your choice. To sign up for NordVPN right now, go to the official website by clicking here.
After that, you download the VPN client for your operating system
Then connect to the VPN server that is located in your required country. In this case, it should be Canada because it has the cheapest NBA League Pass
When that’s done, now go to the official website for NBA League Pass here.
Now, purchase the NBA League Pass as if you were in Canada.
Money in the bank.
One more point though.
The NBA League Pass International doesn’t have to be exclusive to people who are outside the US.
Maybe you live in the US but can’t go to the game physically.
And want to watch that NBA game from the comfort of your couch/office/home/friend’s place at the cheapest rate possible.
With a VPN service, all your problems will be solved.
But there are a ton of VPN service providers in the market.
Well, from our research, we have found that NordVPN is the best VPN service to watch NBA online from outside the US.
It has fast servers and supports all devices.
NordVPN is also the best VPN service when it comes to privacy protection.
The company does not keep logs so that’s an added advantage.
And it has a 30-day money back guarantee.
So if you don’t like the service, cancel the subscription anytime without paying for the service within the first week.
You can sign up for NordVPN by visiting the official website here.
How To Watch NBA From Outside The US With Kodi
There are a ton of ways to watch NBA from your device of choice.
Kodi is an open source media player.
But it isn’t just a media player.
It is a content universe on its own.
How can a media player become a content universe?
Well, Kodi does this with the help of Kodi add-ons.
Now, there are two types of add-ons.
Official add-ons and unofficial add-ons.
In short though, if you can’t find the matches you’re looking for, Kodi is the place you want to check out first.
Now, to actually watch NBA games from outside the US with Kodi, you’ll need to first install Kodi on the device of your choice and then install Kodi add-ons from within Kodi.
We’ll show you how to do that.
Right off the bat, you should know that there are a ton of Kodi add-ons available for users who want to watch NBA via Kodi.
In fact, the NBA games don’t even scratch the surface of what Kodi can do.
Plus, Kodi has the support of its vibrant community that keeps on upgrading Kodi with better features.
Kodi works with almost all platforms, some of which are,
If you want to know how to install Kodi on PC or Mac then read this handy Kodi guide.
Otherwise, you can watch the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVOMf9kpho
For Mac users,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz2-f-3lQQ
There Are Some Rules To Watch NBA via Kodi
You already know that NBA has some complicated broadcasting rights for some of its games.
When you have many networks along with cable channels and over-the-air channels competing against each other, problems can arise.
Each channel has secured specific games for its subscribers.
Hence, you have NBA blackouts.
Now, ESPN is the biggest TV channel for NBA games.
It currently has signed a nine-year deal with the NBA.
In other words, if you access ESPN, you access all NBA games.
To check out ESPN and ESPN 2 NBA schedule go here and here.
If you’re outside the US then Kodi broadcasts work for the following channels.
If you want more information about NBA broadcasting schedule then go here.
How To Watch NBA Games With Kodi (Step-by-Step Guide)
We’ll assume you have installed Kodi on your device.
If you haven’t then go to this link and download Kodi for your device now.
To live stream NBA games on Kodi you’ll need some streaming Kodi add-ons.
Here are the best ones we were able to find,
SportsDevil
Oblivion Streams
The procedure for installing these Kodi add-ons is the same.
Since we think SportsDevil is the best option of them all, as an example we’ll show you how to install SportsDevil on your Kodi and then watch NBA from outside the US for free.
What’s SportsDevil Exactly?
SportsDevil is a Kodi add-on that is used to watch Sports.
Some people love SportsDevil while other don’t.
If you’re after NBA games and want to catch up on NBA 2016-2017 regular season games, then SportsDevil Kodi add-on is your best bet.
But don’t leave out the rest of the options in case you can’t get the stream you want via SportsDevil.
SportsDevil always has a live working link to NBA TV.
For users outside the US, SportsDevil also has links for BT Sport.
Apart from these two streams, don’t waste your time with the rest.
To access these streams you’ll have to go to Sports TV section of SportsDevil Kodi add-on.
More SportsDevil Options
SportsDevil also has an ESPN 2 stream.
If you go under ShadowNet.ro, you can find these other NBA streams.
And remember, if you don’t find the required stream, don’t hesitate to try out other options.
The Pro Sport Kodi add-on is the one we like the best after SportsDevil.
Pro Sport add-on is considered to be one of the best when it comes to NBA games and streaming.
On to the step-by-step guide then.
How To Install SportsDevil And Watch NBA From Outside The US
SportsDevil Kodi add-on is one of the easiest add-ons you will ever install.
All you have to do is install it under Kodi add-on repository.
You can access Kodi add-on repository by going to Videos and then to Addons and then to Get More section.
Or just follow the simple guide below to watch NBA outside the US with Kodi.
Again we’ll assume here that you have Kodi installed and running on your preferred device.
First go here and download the SportsDevil zip file.
Then make your way to the System tab from the Kodi home screen.
After that click on Add-ons
Then hit Install from zip file
Now, navigate to the location of the downloaded zip file. And then install the zip file via the Kodi menu
The SportsDevil kodi add-on installation process should now be complete
But there is more. Head back to Kodi home screen
Then locate SportsDevil Kodi add-on by first going to the Videos section and then to Add-ons.
After that just click on live sports or whatever you want to watch on Kodi
Why You Should Always Use a VPN Service With Kodi
You should always use a VPN service with Kodi if you want to remain secure.
Because streaming via Kodi can be legal or illegal depending on where you live and what you watch.
Many Kodi users have received copyright violation notices in the past because they did one of the following,
Watched movies via Kodi add-ons and without a VPN service
Did not use a VPN service and watched sports
Watch tv shows
So, if you want to keep your online activities private and stop your internet service provider from spying on you, collecting your data and then selling your data, then use a VPN service.
For Kodi Users A VPN Service Is Even More Important
And not for the obvious reasons.
A VPN service encrypts your internet traffic and that action gives the VPN user a lot of benefits.
With a VPN service, you can spoof your location and unlock certain Kodi add-ons which are blocked in many countries.
SportsDevil is one of the many Kodi add-ons which is blocked in countries such as the UK.
So which VPN service should you purchase?
We always recommend NordVPN as the best VPN service provider.
Because it is the complete privacy solution for all online users not just Kodi users.
NordVPN is great are securing your privacy and encrypts your internet traffic to military grade standards.
Hence, it blocks your internet service providers from knowing what you are watching or doing.
The company does not keep logs and supports all types of devices.
You can sign up for NordVPN by going to this official link here.
On a side note, in order to get every feature and addon possible on kodi and to not get sued if you accidentally watch something pirated, you need a VPN. You can find the 5 best VPN’s for Kodi here.
Zohair
Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.
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She Got It Unholy and That ain't Sacred - Yew Erdri Ming
She Got It Unholy and That ain't Sacred
Sep. 6th, 2015 @ 02:31 pm
She's committed the perfect crime, Diana Dors tells us at the beginning of her 1957 film The Unholy Wife. I don't know about perfect but it's pretty clever considering directly admitting to the murder on the witness stand is part of the plan. The second of the two films Dors made in her brief American career, The Unholy Wife is a lot better than I Married a Woman but it's still a deeply flawed film noir and not half as good as some of Dors' efforts in Britain like The Long Haul and Yield to the Night.
The Unholy Wife was directed by John Farrow who had just recently made Back from Eternity, the remake of his own Five Came Back (which I talked about a few days ago). While the Five Came Back movies functioned perfectly well as mostly clever plot exercises, one of the main flaws with Unholy Wife is its attention to plot mechanics which become absurd the moment one starts to imagine real people doing these things instead of people in a movie.
Rod Steiger plays Paul, husband of the unholy one, Phyllis (Dors). In charge of a winery in Napa valley, an important part of the story is his bizarre family tradition of never locking the door (that could've been the tagline for promotions--"He didn't lock the doors and he couldn't lock--Diana Dors!"). This peculiar practice was clearly invented to fill a necessary link in the chain of Phyllis' plot which involved shooting either her husband or her lover and then claiming that she'd thought it was a prowler who'd come through the door. A gun is conveniently located in a drawer by the entrance. No-one stops to think about the contradiction of having a door always open to strangers and a gun next to the door at all times. Our doors are open to all, but we might kill you.
The worse thing is that characters get so caught up in figuring out the whys and what fors of who killed or didn't kill who that people seem to forget to feel very upset when family members or dear friends die. Method actor Rod Steiger remedies this a little with a characteristically great performance that sticks out like a sore thumb. Dors tells the story from a prison cell where her hair is put in a dowdy ponytail in a clear attempt to channel some of her performance in Yield to the Night but mostly she never really stretches her legs here. I saw an interview with Steiger who said he felt Dors was never permitted to be as good an actor as she could have been. The two supposedly had an affair, it might have been interesting to see a Diana Dors who took up method acting under Steiger's tutelage.
The film isn't exactly bad. There's a nice thought towards ruminations on fundamentally good or evil people that's sabotaged quite a bit by the mechanical quality of the story. And so it was back to Britain for Ms. Dors.
The Unholy Wife is another one that's just about impossible to find. I watched it on Daily Motion, which tends to be a bit more lenient than YouTube, but since the last time I posted a whole movie on my blog it was immediately taken down I think I'll avoid embedding another one here for now unless it's indisputably public domain. I wonder if I have a narc among my readers.
Current Location: The vineyard
Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: A coffee grinder
Tags: diana dors, film noir, john farrow, movies, rod steiger
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Ecology: from cells to Gaia
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Universidade Estadual deTomsk
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This course presents the principles of evolution and ecology for citizens and students interested in studying biology and environmental sciences. It discusses major ideas and results. Recent advances have energised these fields with evidence that has implications beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and educated citizens. Major topics covered by the course include fundamental principles of ecology, how organisms interact with each other and their environment, evolutionary processes, population dynamics, communities, energy flow and ecosystems, human influences on ecosystems, and the integration and scaling of ecological processes through systems ecology. This course will also review major ecological concepts, identify the techniques used by ecologists, provide an overview of local and global environmental issues, and examine individual, group and governmental activities important for protecting natural ecosystems. The course has been designed to provide information, to direct the student toward pertinent literature, to identify problems and issues, to utilise research methodology for the study of ecology and evolution, and to consider appropriate solutions and analytical techniques. Needed Learner Background: general biology and a good understanding of English. This course has the following expectations and results: 1) covers the theoretical and practical issues involved in ecology and evolution, 2) conducting surveys and inventories in ecology, 3) analyzing the information gathered, 4) and applying their analysis to ecological and conservation problems.
Aprox. 7 horas para completar
Sugerido: 4 weeks, 2-3 hours...
Legendas: Inglês
2 vídeos ((Total 6 mín.)), 5 leituras
About the university2min
About the course3min
About the course team10min
About the International Master's Degree in Biodiversity10min
Recommended literature for the course10min
Entering questionnaire10min
Let's mark ourselves on the map10min
Module 1. The Scope of Ecology
In this module, after an introduction about the meaning and a brief history of Ecology, we will see how plant and animal adapt and interact with their environment and how these interactions changes life histories and populations. Then we will focus on interspecific competition and we will understand that the avoidance of competition is a more common pattern in ecology than pure competition.
1.1 What is “ecology”?8min
1.2 Plant and animal adaptations and interactions with the environment6min
1.3 Environmental conditions and Earth’s biomes6min
1.4 Life histories and populations5min
1.5 Interspecific competition and the avoidance of competition5min
Quiz – Module 120min
Module 2. The Ecosystem
In this module, we will talk about agonistic and foraging interactions between species (such as predation, herbivory and parasitism) and mutualistic interactions (such as symbiosis, commensalism, endosymbiosis, etc.). Then we will see how these interactions influence the evolutionary ecology of species and their diversity. In the last lesson of this module we will analyse the energy flux and biogeochemical cycles that keep alive Earth’s ecosystems and the whole biosphere (e.g. Gaia).
2.1 Foraging interactions between species: predation, herbivory and parasitism4min
2.2 Mutualistic interactions5min
2.3 Evolutionary ecology5min
2.4 The ecology of biological diversity6min
2.5 Energy flux and biogeochemical cycles4min
Module 3. Energy in Ecological Systems
In this module, we will discuss some fundamental ecological processes, such as those must be present in any Gaian planet. We will consider the Gaian effects of parasites and predators, biodiversity and hypercycles and we will see how these processes regulates our planet. Finally, we will consider the global ecological role of biomass, photosynthesis and carbon sequestration.
3.1 Fundamental ecological processes5min
3.2 Parasites, predators and Gaian effects4min
3.3 Biodiversity, hypercycles and Gaia6min
3.4 Regulating ecological processes5min
3.5 Biomass, photosynthesis and carbon sequestration8min
Module 4. Population Ecology and Evolution
In this final module, we will explore the possibility of a new ecology by exploring the concept of sustainability, evaluating the human impacts on ecosystems and providing some solutions for nature conservation. Finally, we will see how to organise a citizen science event, called Bio-blitz, which can improve the scientific knowledge of our planet and, at the same time, rise the ecological awareness of citizens.
4.1 A new ecology5min
4.2 Sustainability5min
4.3 Human impacts on ecosystems6min
4.4 Conservation biology6min
4.5 You as an ecologist!9min
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
Ph.D., Associate Professor in Ecology and Biodiversity
Biological Diversity and Ecology Laboratory, Bio-Clim-Land Centre of Excellence, Biological Institute
Sobre Universidade Estadual deTomsk
National Research Tomsk State University is the largest classical university in the Asian part of Russia. For over 135 years TSU has been training the scientific and managerial elite, based on the integration of academic process and fundamental scientific research. It is a renowned center of education, science, innovations and attraction for creative talents, a generator of advanced ideas, and a paragon of adherence to the best traditions of Russian higher education. There are 23 departments and learning institutes, 1 University branch, Institute of Distance Education, Institute of Innovations in Education operating at TSU, and more than 17,000 students studying at the University, with 135 subject areas and specialties to choose from. TSU offers 136 Master’s programmes in 55 areas of academic studies and counting. The number of international students is constantly increasing, now with more than 1300 TSU students coming from countries such as the USA, UK, Germany, France, Australia, Italy, Poland, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Korea, Columbia, Turkey and others....
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O Cérebro e o Espaço
Universidade Duke
This course is about how the brain creates our sense of spatial location from a variety of sensory and motor sources, and how this spatial sense in turn shapes our cognitive abilities. Knowing where things are is effortless. But “under the hood,” your brain must figure out even the simplest of details about the world around you and your position in it. Recognizing your mother, finding your phone, going to the grocery store, playing the banjo – these require careful sleuthing and coordination across different sensory and motor domains. This course traces the brain’s detective work to create this sense of space and argues that the brain’s spatial focus permeates our cognitive abilities, affecting the way we think and remember. The material in this course is based on a book I've written for a general audience. The book is called "Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are", and is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or directly from Harvard University Press. The course material overlaps with classes on perception or systems neuroscience, and can be taken either before or after such classes. Dr. Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D. Professor Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology Duke University www.duke.edu/~jmgroh Jennifer M. Groh is interested in how the brain process spatial information in different sensory systems, and how the brain's spatial codes influence other aspects of cognition. She is the author of a recent book entitled "Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are" (Harvard University Press, fall 2014). Much of her research concerns differences in how the visual and auditory systems encode location, and how vision influences hearing. Her laboratory has demonstrated that neurons in auditory brain regions are sometimes responsive not just to what we hear but also to what direction we are looking and what visual stimuli we can see. These surprising findings challenge the prevailing assumption that the brain’s sensory pathways remain separate and distinct from each other at early stages, and suggest a mechanism for such multi-sensory interactions as lip-reading and ventriloquism (the capture of perceived sound location by a plausible nearby visual stimulus). Dr. Groh has been a professor at Duke University since 2006. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Princeton University in 1988 before studying neuroscience at the University of Michigan (Master’s, 1990), the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1993), and Stanford University (postdoctoral, 1994-1997). Dr. Groh has been teaching undergraduate classes on the neural basis of perception and memory for over fifteen years. She is presently a faculty member at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences at Duke University. She also holds appointments in the Departments of Neurobiology and Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke. Dr. Groh’s research has been supported by a variety of sources including the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program, the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, the John Merck Scholars Program, the EJLB Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Whitehall Foundation, and the National Organization for Hearing Research.
Legendas: Inglês, Italiano, Espanhol, Romeno
PsychologyCognitive ScienceBrainNeurobiology
Course Introduction and Vision (Part 1)
This module contains an introduction to the course as a whole (Video 1.1) and an exploration of how our eyes detect light and deduce the location light is coming from (Videos 1.2-1.6). You'll also learn about how scientists from Democritus to Alhazen to Kepler figured this out. The final video for the module involves an experiment to test what happens when special goggles turn the world upside down (Video 1.7). I'll show experiments frequently throughout this course -- they are how we know what we know. This module’s quiz is ungraded and available to both auditors and certificate students. Consider it a sample of the style of question in the quizzes for the remaining modules, and an opportunity to determine if you’d like to pursue a certificate for this course.
7 vídeos ((Total 48 mín.)), 5 leituras, 1 teste
Lecture 1.1 - (S) Introduction to the Course5min
Lecture 1.2 - (S) Vision: What Do We See?7min
Lecture 1.3 - (S) Vision: How Light is Sensed by Neurons, Part 16min
Lecture 1.5 - (S) Vision: How the Eye Forms an Image, Part 19min
Lecture 1.7 - (E) Vision: Movie Interlude - Turning the World Upside-Down6min
Getting Started10min
Grading and Logistics10min
Philosophy10min
Readings10min
Module 1 Quiz34min
Vision (Part 2), the Body, and Neural Signals
In this unit, we cover the visual scene in 3D - the many clues to depth. We then turn to body senses (position and touch) and how our brains detect the configuration of our own bodies. Along the way, we cover the resting membrane potential, the action potential, and how they arise. Finally, we bring vision and the body together, and throw some beanbags at a visual target while wearing prisms! This material is covered in Making Space, chapters 2 and 3.
Lecture 2.1 - (S) Vision: Binocular Cues for Depth Perception6min
Lecture 2.2 - (S) Vision: Monocular Cues for Depth Perception10min
Lecture 2.3 - (S) Introduction to Body Position Sensing2min
Lecture 2.4 - (S) Body Position Sensory Receptors3min
Lecture 2.5 - (G) Neural Signals: The Resting Membrane Potential7min
Lecture 2.6 - (G) Neural Signals: The Action Potential4min
Lecture 2.7 - (S) Converting the Mechanical to the Electrical4min
Lecture 2.8 - (E) Body Position Illusions and Experiments I: Pinocchio and Crossed Hands6min
Lecture 2.9 - (E) Body Position Illusions and Experiments II: Prisms6min
Brain Maps
In this unit, we turn to the brain and how it uses the spatial position of neurons within the brain to organize information about the spatial position of stimuli in the world (Making Space chapter 4). You'll learn about how we identify where one object ends and another begins, what a receptive field is, and how some neurons are sensitive to edges and the boundaries of objects. Maps occur in both visual cortex and body (somatosensory) cortex, and these maps may be responsible for various "phantom" sensations (examples from normal vision, patients with body part amputations, and electrical stimulation experiments).
Lecture 3.1 - (S) Introduction: Figures and Backgrounds3min
Lecture 3.2 - (S, G, E) Synapses and Center-Surround Organization9min
Lecture 3.3 - (S) Maps of Visual Space5min
Lecture 3.4 - (S) Orientation and Border Ownership9min
Lecture 3.5 - (S, E) Phantom Limb and the Blind Spot10min
Lecture 3.6 - (S, E) Motion Vision13min
Sound and Brain Representations
In module 4, we turn to the fascinating puzzle of how we deduce sound location--a process that requires quite a bit of detective work. Our brains piece together multiple types of clues, including subtle differences in timing, loudness, frequency content, and how sounds appear to change as we turn our heads. Because our ears don't form images of sounds, our brains don't have to use maps to encode sound location. The second half of the videos this module concern alternative forms of brain representation, how the brain translates between different types of representation, and what we know about brain representations for sound location. The material is covered in chapter 5, "Sherlock Ears" and chapter 6, "Moving with Maps and Meters", in Making Space. Be forewarned, there are about 70 minutes of video this module, as compared to previous modules' 50-60 minutes. After watching the full set, you'll see why these videos are grouped together as a unit. To make things more manageable, we've broken the quiz into two parts; that way, you can get feedback on one part before moving on to the next, if you like.
12 vídeos ((Total 69 mín.)), 2 testes
Lecture 4.1 - (S) What is sound and how is it sensed?5min
Lecture 4.2 - (S) Deducing the Location of Sounds7min
Lecture 4.3 - (S) Movements and the "Cone of Confusion"3min
Lecture 4.4 - (S) Spectral Cues and the "Cone of Confusion"7min
Lecture 4.5 - (S) Learning to Find Sounds3min
Lecture 4.6 - (S, E) Ventriloquism and Finding Sounds5min
Lecture 4.7 - (S) Determining the Distance of Sounds6min
Lecture 4.8 - (S) Brain Maps as Representations5min
Lecture 4.9 - (S) Brain Meters as Representations2min
Lecture 4.10 -(S) Brain Meters and Movements5min
Lecture 4.11 -(S, E) Translating Maps to Meters7min
Lecture 4.12 - (S, E) Brain Representations for Sound9min
Quiz2 exercícios práticos
Module 4 Quiz - Part I26min
Module 4 Quiz - Part II22min
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Principais avaliações do O Cérebro e o Espaço
por KS•Aug 12th 2016
Taught for beginners in a simple and concise way! I especially liked the real life examples given to help students understand the concepts being explained - made it a lot more engaging!
por RG•Jun 17th 2017
Great course !!! The information provided within the course was complete and easy to understand without oversimplifying the topics along with applicable to daily use concepts and work.
Dr. Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D.
Psychology & Neuroscience; Neurobiology
Sobre Universidade Duke
Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world....
Will I receive a transcript from Duke University for completing this course?
No. Completion of a Coursera course does not earn you academic credit from Duke; therefore, Duke is not able to provide you with a university transcript. However, your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile.
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Rising tides: Assessing habitat vulnerability for an endangered salt marsh-dependent species with sea-level rise
By: Jordan A. Rosencranz, Karen M. Thorne, Kevin J. Buffington, Cory T. Overton, John Takekawa, Michael L. Casazza, Jennifer McBroom, Julian K. Wood, Nadav Nur, Richard L. Zembal, Glen M. MacDonald, and Richard F. Ambrose
Salt marsh-dependent species are vulnerable to impacts of sea-level rise (SLR). Site-specific differences in ecogeomorphic processes result in different SLR vulnerabilities. SLR impacts to Ridgway’s rail (Rallus obsoletus) of Southern California (SC) and San Francisco Bay (SF), U.S.A. could foreshadow SLR effects on other coastal endemic species. Salt marsh vulnerabilities to SLR were forecasted across 14 study sites using the Wetland Accretion Rate Model of Ecosystem Resilience, which accounts for changes in above and belowground marsh processes. Changes in suitable habitat for rail were projected with MaxEnt. Under a high (166 cm/100 yr) SLR scenario, current extent of suitable habitat is projected to increase by 34% across the combined area of 14 sites by 2050, but by 2100, total habitat suitability is projected to decrease by 83%, with six salt marshes losing over 95% of suitable habitat. Under a high SLR scenario, SF’s suitable habitat is predicted to increase by 35% at mid-century, and SC’s current suitable habitat extent will increase by 24%. However, by 2100, SF is forecasted to lose 84% of suitable habitat and SC to lose 80% of its current habitat extent. If accretion rates cannot keep pace with SLR, salt marsh obligate species are in danger of being extirpated from their habitat.
Western Ecological Research Center
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Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference Vol. II: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops
Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Antologi › Forskning › peer review
Claus Bossen (Redaktør)
Rachel Charlotte Smith (Redaktør)
Anne Marie Kanstrup, Aalborg University, Danmark
Liesbeth Huybrechts, Hasselt University, Belgien
John Vines, Newcastle University, Storbritannien
Keld Bødker, Roskilde University, Danmark
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Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Center for Science-Technology-Society-studier
Participatory Design in an Era of Participation : Introduction to volume 2 Participatory Design is a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses and social institutions more responsive to human needs. A central tenet of Participatory Design (PD) is the direct involvement of people in the co-design of things and technologies they use and live with. This second volume of the conference proceedings includes Short Papers, and the Workshops and the Interactive Exhibitions submissions. The theme for Participatory Design Conference 2016 is ‘Participatory Design in an Era of Participation’. Over 25 years after the first PDC in 1990, participation and co-creation have become essential features of design and research into technology. Living in an era of participation prompts critical questions around the goals and practices of involving people in diverse aspects of developing, redesigning and using IT. The distribution and promise of information technologies cut across emerging societal challenges at various levels. Sharing economy, crowdfunding and participatory cultures create new forms of engagement that challenge traditional ideas of participation. Public engagement in radical social innovation is used to address shrinking finances to public services, which has resulted in citizeninvolving projects and labs in various domains. Maker technologies, notions of hacking and shared data, are promoting civic engagement with technology innovation that changes the material and socio-economic contexts of production. At the same time, centralization of the Internet, big data and large-scale infrastructuring challenge the core democratic ideals of PD. The Participatory Design Conferences (PDC) continue to be the main gathering point of the PD community and an important venue for international discussion of the collaborative, social and political dimensions of technology innovation and use. PDC is a premier venue for presenting research on the direct involvement of people in the design, development, implementation and appropriation of information and communication technology. Held every two years since 1990, PDC brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers and practitioners from multiple fields. These include, but are not limited to, Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (computer supported cooperative work), Co-Design, Design Research, CSCL (computer supported collaborative learning), ICT4D (information and communication technology for development), design anthropology, design psychology, design Industry and the Arts. The conference has helped to broaden participatory approaches in design around a variety of arenas including information and communication technologies, work, healthcare, learning, new media and digital culture, community settings, architecture and the urban environment, visual communication, interaction design and service design to mention some of the fields involved. The Short Papers programme captures the diversity and matters that concern participatory design researchers now and in the future by highlighting the various meanings, approaches and practices of participation in design across our community. For the 2016 conference, the submission and review process for the PDC Short Papers track was undertaken completely in parallel with the Full Papers and following the same procedure. Unlike previous conferences, the deadline for Short Papers was the same as its longer siblings, and the review process involved the same Revise and Resubmit process. A total of 61 papers were submitted, 32 of which were invited to be revised for the second round of reviews. following the final round of reviews, 15 Short Papers were accepted for presentation and publication. The 15 Short Papers are of course short (four pages in length) but full of ideas, energy and insight around contemporary issues and challenges facing participatory design researchers and practitioners. Our 15 Short Papers have been grouped into three themes related to the aspects of participation that they address. • In “Why We Do Participatory Design”, we have five papers that provide different perspectives on the motivations, assumptions and values inherent in participatory design research and practice. Here we have examples of papers that provide reflections on the early history of work presented at this conference series and how that has shaped the research community, through to novel ways of conceptualising participatory design and those engaged in its processes. • In “Expanding the ‘How’ of Participatory Design”, five papers provide insights into techniques and methods that support novel perspectives on how participatory design activities might be practiced or reflected upon. This includes examples that should benefit practitioners and researchers who wish to think through the interpersonal qualities and responsibilities within participatory processes, to explore more deeply the process of participation, and open up participatory engagements to include new forms of media. • Finally, in “Participatory Design With and Within Communities” we have five papers that provide insightful examples of ‘with whom’ contemporary participatory design activities are being undertaken. Here we have examples of participatory design being conducted at the scale of low income households, to neighbourhoods, geographically tied communities and distributed communities of practice. In different ways these papers evidence the growing diversification of the ‘sites’ where participation in design is taking place, and the ways in which the assumptions and practices within the participatory design community may need to be challenged and reimagined in these new contexts. In placing these 15 papers into these themes we hope to have provided an organising structure that allows for interesting reflections by and discussions between the PDC participants and, we hope, between the authors themselves. Of course these themes do only little justice to the richness and diversity of the works, so we encourage you to read and engage with each of these individual contributions in their own right. 14 workshops were selected from 31 submitted ideas for pre-conference activities, and they cover a wide range of topics. All the accepted proposals involve interaction and participation, but there is a variation in the demands being placed on participants and the expected contributions of the organisers. Thus the programme is divided into eleven ‘exploratory workshops’ where participants are expected to make substantial contributions (as a condition of inclusion) and the goal is to explore a space together, and three ‘learning workshops’ where participants provide less input to gain entry and can expect organizers to guide a collaborative learning activity. The workshops vary between reflective analyses of issues and discourses ‘within’ PD, to explorations of particular domains where PD is applied, to opportunities to explore our own practice and ways of being in PD. The workshops help to create a porous boundary to the community where people whose interests overlap with, but are not centred on, PD (e.g. practitioners and stakeholders in key domains) can engage with the community and learn more about the range of ideas and approaches that they might consider. Interactive Exhibitions is a new format at PDC and aims to enable the sharing of concrete participatory design experiences in an interactive format during the main PDC 2016 conference program. Submissions were divided into three tracks – Research, Industry cases, and Arts and Design – and the format involves the multi-sensory presentation of material (visual, audio, physical, etc.) that will be on exhibition for two full days during the conference. In addition, mini-workshops lasting 30 minutes are held where an audience of conference participants is invited into a concrete participatory design encounter. The Interactive Exhibitions received 13 submissions in the Research category of which 7 were accepted; 10 submissions in the Industry Cases category of which 6 were accepted; and 12 submissions in the Arts & Design category of which 6 were accepted. We hope this new format will provide for lively, engaging interaction and spur fruitful conversions around PD. The Doctoral Colloquium received 17 applications of mostly middle to advanced stage of doctoral studies. The accepted twelve submissions cover a range of core PD topics: from locality based community participation to digital sharing among peers, from designing with and for vulnerable user groups to augmenting maker movement initiatives, from the design of physical goods to design of services and digital infrastructures. The discussions in Aarhus focus on key doctoral research questions scoping a PhD project, planning and conduct of project ts in a way that helps to use them in PhD research, choice of theories, methods and analytical techniques, and how to work theory and empirical research together. We would like to thank all the people who contributed to making this conference possible. All the authors who submitted papers, the chairs of various committees, the program committee members, the workshop organisers, the local organizing committee, the student volunteers, and all of you who in one way or the other contributed to making this conference possible. Lastly thanks to all you who participate in the conference! Welcome to Aarhus – Welcome to PDC 2016 Claus Bossen, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Anne Marie Kanstrup, Liesbeth Huybrecths, John Vines, and Keld Bødker
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Udgivet - 15 aug. 2016
Participatory Design Conference 2016 - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark
Varighed: 15 aug. 2016 → 19 aug. 2016
Konferencens nummer: 14
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NMMU STUDENTS: YOUR UNIVERSITY NEEDS YOU!
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10 000 Dibas! That’s the call to action for supporters of the Madibaz rugby team for their final home game of the Varsity Cup season on Monday 18 March.
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s high-flying first XV is hoping attract 10 000 supporters or Dibas when they take on Tukkies (University of Pretoria) in what is their biggest chance to date of making the semi-finals of the university competition.
“The support we have received has been incredible, but we’d like to make it even better for the final home game,” says Madibaz coach Brent Janse van Rensburg.
NMMU has won three consecutive home games and is presently fourth on the log – their best performance so far in the six-year history of the student competition.
Various incentives all mirroring the 10 000 Dibas call have been initiated.
-R10 000 is up for grabs in the kicking competition at half-time
-R10 000 will be given to the best NMMU residence supporters
-10 000 is the number of fans the NMMU4U Facebook page is aiming for by 18 March
“Rugby is on the rise in our province. We know what support can do for our team,” added Brent.
The Madibaz players will be visiting various schools in the metro to garner support for the Monday 18 March game.
In the past few weeks, NMMU has beaten Wits (24 – 26), University of Free State’s Shimlas (14 – 10) and the University of Johannesburg (20 – 13). They drew 5 all against the University of Cape Town in the Mother City, and almost caused a massive upset in their narrow loss against Maties in Stellenbosch (13 – 8).
The game starts at 7pm at the NMMU stadium on South Campus. ENTRY IS FREE.
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Representation and interpretation of manual and non-manual information for automated American Sign Language recognition
Ayush S. Parashar, University of South Florida
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Sarkar, Sudeep
expectation maximization, relational distributions, space of probablity function, face detection and tracking, principal component analysis
Continuous recognition of sign language has many practical applications and it can help to improve the quality of life of deaf persons by facilitating their interaction with hearing populace in public situations. This has led to some research in automated continuous American Sign Language recognition. But most work in continuous ASL recognition has only used top-down Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based approaches for recognition. There is no work on using facial information, which is considered to be fairly important. In this thesis, we explore bottom-up approach based on the use of Relational Distributions and Space of Probability Functions (SoPF) for intermediate level ASL recognition. We also use non-manual information, firstly, to decrease the number of deletion and insertion errors and secondly, to find whether the ASL sentence has 'Negation' in it, for which we use motion trajectories of the face.
The experimental results show: - The SoPF representation works well for ASL recognition. The accuracy based on the number of deletion errors, considering the 8 most probable signs in the sentence is 95%, while when considering 6 most probable signs, is 88%. - Using facial or non-manual information increases accuracy when we consider top 6 signs, from 88% to 92%. Thus face does have information content in it. - It is difficult to directly combine the manual information (information from hand motion) with non-manual (facial information) to improve the accuracy because of following two reasons: 1. Manual images are not synchronized with the non-manual images. For example the same facial expressions is not present at the same manual position in two instances of the same sentences. 2. One another problem in finding the facial expresion related with the sign, occurs when there is presence of a strong non-manual indicating 'Assertion' or 'Negation' in the sentence.
In such cases the facial expressions are totally dominated by the face movements which is indicated by 'head shakes' or 'head nods'. - The number of sentences, that have 'Negation' in them and are correctly recognized with the help of motion trajectories of the face are, 27 out of 30.
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Bouldering on Fuerteventura
By Greg Chapman
Famous for black sands, strong winds and big surf, the island of Fuerteventura is the second largest and oldest of the Canaries. A volcanic remnant which rose from the Atlantic some 20 million years ago, its distinct wind scoured hills resemble piles of saffron, turmeric and cardamon, vast heaps of exotic spice overlooking endless beaches and barren planes.
When it comes to adventure sports the island has long been popular with surfers. Over 4000 miles of Atlantic fetch regularly serve up big winds and big waves - a prime destination for regular wave riders and kite/wind surfers alike. Of course regular doesn’t mean always, and on the occasions when a lull hits it's nice to have a backup. Climbers who surf or even surfers who climb have long visited the likes of Gran Canaria and Tenerife for this very reason, with both islands providing good sport climbing and bouldering options. A quick Google search and Fuerteventura appears devoid of such alternatives. Perhaps due to a geological quirk in its formation or simply down to the fact it is older and in a more advanced state of erosion than its archipelagic neighbours, but the rocks of Fuerteventura seem, on the face of it, poor in quality.
A Heart of Granite
Whilst loose, crumbling tuffs and conglomerates may dominate this island desert if you know where to look an oasis awaits. Between the small towns of Pájara and Ajuy, in the centre of the island, Barranco de las Peñitas (the Penitas Ravine) slices through a lone hill of golden monzonite. Here an underground river flows into small disused reservoir - which dates back to the time of the Spanish Civil War - creating an oasis dotted with native plants. Below this a narrow gorge cuts deep into the solid rock creating steep cliffs, terraced patios and numerous blocks, culminating in a compact cluster of boulders at the foot of the gorge.
We have Mother Nature to thank for this, but Man did his bit as well by building a road direct to the ravine. Accessed from the FV-621, the Camino Buen Passo takes you to a large unsurfaced parking area at the head of a dry riverbed. Here a coppice of date palms, clinging to life at the base of the gorge, draw the eye and make for a wonderful backdrop to the boulders. As well as the cliffs and blocks hewn by the gorge itself, you will also notice a handful of boulders just south of the parking. These offer a pleasant little circuit and are a good option for those with limited time and/or no crash pad. That said, these blocks are pretty exposed and do feel the full force of the midday sun, whereas the ravine provides partial shelter and on occasion a welcome breeze funnels along its length.
The gorge hosts the majority of the climbing. Short, butch sport climbs, long slab pitches, intense cracks and an array of boulder problems litter this golden gulch. Whilst what's on offer is good, there isn’t enough here for a trip exclusively dedicated to climbing, however there’s plenty to help pep up a family holiday or bolster a surf trip blighted by poor or unsuitable waves. The bouldering is certainly the main draw and over 100 problems, spread across the grades, have been developed by the locals. Visually the rock and setting are reminiscent of some areas of Hampi, whilst the constancy is not dissimilar to that of California’s Buttermilks.
Saintly Behaviour
Please be aware the area is both a nature reserve and historically significant site, once home to La Virgen de la Peña - the island’s patron saint. Visitors regularly trudge up a track carved into the north side of the ravine to visit the small white hermitage, once home to the saint, situated around half way up. Whilst climbing is permitted, it goes without saying leave the area as you found it, removing any trash and brushing off tick marks and excessive chalking.
Crash Pad Rental
There is a small company called Climbing-Fuerteventura who now apparently rent out bouldering pads.
Contact Info: Steffen Grade - 0034 670715154 | info@climbing-fuerteventura.com
Around 1km west of Pajara leave the FV-605 and follow the FV-621 towards Ajuy. After just over 3km take a right (FV-627) and follow this narrow winding lane (Camino Buen Passo) for just over 1km to the where the tarmac surface terminates at a slight fork. Take the short steep RH fork (gravel road) and after 500m you will reach a large parking area. Park courteously as this is well used by walkers, bikers and other climbers.
Hopefully this information along with the following topos (below) will help others enjoy this fabulous little climbing location.
> Bouldering Topo to the Las Peñitas Ravine V.1
*Update: There is an updated and improved version of the topo now available courtesy of James Turnbull and the guys at unknownstones.com, downloadable here:
> Barranco de las Penitas Topo V.1.2
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What role-playing games have good gamemaster advice sections? [closed]
Which RPG's, in your experience, have good advice for gamemasters in their rulebooks, both for novice and experienced gamemasters?
Please keep in mind that this question is not about good games for beginners. It is about good advice for gamemasters.
gm-techniques
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closed as too broad by LitheOhm, Oblivious Sage, Ernir, GMJoe, doppelgreener♦ Aug 13 '13 at 11:09
I suppose it would depend on what you're trying to accomplish.
For attempting to "referee" an old-school or classic-style RPG game (based on or close to Basic D&D, Castles & Crusades, Swords & Wizardry, etc.), I'd definitely give a look at Matt Finch's Primer for Old School Gaming. It does a nice job of explaining some of the differences in philosophy between newer gaming and the classical assumptions some use for the game.
For D&D 3.x/Pathfinder, you can't go far wrong with the Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide. It's a number of essays, pieces of advice, and world/campaign-building tips that build on more than 10 years' experience with a basic system, and many more years of general gaming besides. This is one of the higher-rated books I've seen come out of Paizo, and that's saying something.
If you're more interested in "tools" and charts, and count those as advice, I would submit it would be well worth your time to find a copy of the Hackmaster 4th Edition GM's Guide. This book is chock full of charts, tables, and items for every single occasion. I use it with other games all the time, although it was written for Hackmaster. Again, this is less meta "advice" and more a toolkit for use in the game.
As an overall pick, as a generic product, I feel I would be remiss if I did not mention Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering. Although not a system-specific product, it stands as an excellent resource of general GM advice, and is generally considered a classic treatment on the subject.
zacharythefirst
Apocalypse World. Hands down. Vincent has been refining the notion of teaching the players of his games how to actually play the game -- as opposed to just presenting a bunch of rules and then hoping the players get it. And thus far, Apocalypse World is his masterpiece. It is clear that it is teaching you one way to run games and then provides a ton of very specific things to do in order to run the game the way he wants you to.
Really, on reading this and thinking about it, it's kind of amazing that this is a new technology. But it is. And it's remarkable how different it is from most games in this regard.
clweeks
\$\begingroup\$ Each one of Vincent's games gets better and better at precisely this. I found In a Wicked Age to be a wonderful, concise, game that showed you how to play and taught you how to play. I'm still reading through Apocalypse World, but it seems to be, as you say, an even better example in this mode. \$\endgroup\$ – Viktor Haag Aug 31 '10 at 15:21
I personally think that Dogs in the Vineyard is not only some of the best "how to gamemaster" advice I have ever read, but it also has probably the best "how to play rpgs" advice.
I also think Burning Wheel is similar in this regard, once all of the supplements are combined.
Some of the best advice I've read has been from Robin D Laws in his book, Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering. It's one of the best PDFs I've ever invested in.
Also I'd agree that the advice in the 4e DMG2 is also very good. Unsurprisingly much of it was written my Robin D Laws as well.
Iain M Norman
The material in the D&D 4e Dungeon Master's Guide 2 is really good; it's full of concrete suggestions and examples. It's aimed at more experienced GMs who've run games before, rather than first-time GMs. Robin Laws wrote it, and he explains not just what you can do but why you might want to do it. This makes it a toolbox rather than a set of instructions. Most of it is good for any game. It does lean somewhat towards the encounter structure of 4e.
Over the Edge also has excellent advice. It's a more free-form game, to a degree that was really unusual at the time it was published, so the GM advice is great as an introduction to a more experimental style of play. For example, there's no skill or stat list. One of the examples is a character who abused that freedom to make an overpowered character, and how the GM can work with that impulse rather than quashing it. The advice about adlibbing adventures encapsulates a similar spirit and is equally useful.
Matthew Finch's Quick Primer for Old School Gaming is absolutely awesome for anyone who wants to understand or play in the old school style. It's not a game, but it's still very good. It'll help both players and GMs understand how to make decisions about PC actions when the rules don't cover a specific situation.
\$\begingroup\$ I definitely agree about DMG2. The 3E and 4E DMG2s were some of the best "how to be a good game master" books I ever read. \$\endgroup\$ – rjbs Aug 22 '10 at 22:16
\$\begingroup\$ I would add on DMG1 as well for its coverage of the different player types. \$\endgroup\$ – Popo Mar 12 '13 at 20:15
As someone noted above, anything by Vincent Baker has excellent GMing advice which, while certainly geared towards the game at hand, will always offer broader insight.
The sadly overlooked Prince Valiant by Greg Stafford is a treasure trove of clear, straightforward advice.
I would also include the supplement Sorcerer & Sword by Ron Edwards. While focused on the Sword & Sorcery genre in relation to his game Sorcerer, there's lots of great stuff in it about how to make play come alive for players.
\$\begingroup\$ Good call. Why not the other two Sorcerer supplements too? They're all three full of neat stuff. \$\endgroup\$ – clweeks Aug 23 '10 at 16:54
\$\begingroup\$ Indeed they are, though in my experience they're a bit further out to left field than some are comfortable with. Sorcerer & Sex, though, is possibly one of the most unique rpg texts I've ever seen... \$\endgroup\$ – kesher Aug 24 '10 at 13:54
\$\begingroup\$ I agree strongly with all your recommendations; they're all recommendations I would have made in my own answer. I'd add that the various incarnations of Pendragon (which Greg had a strong hand in) and HeroQuest (which Greg had a strong hand in) are also written with lots of good advice for everyone at the table on how to play the game (much of which can be extrapolated to games in general). \$\endgroup\$ – Viktor Haag Aug 31 '10 at 15:19
Spirit of the Century, a Fate-based game by Evil Hat, contains a lengthy and very useful section on how to run a game. It's broad enough that it applies to any genre and is helpful even if you're not running a Fate game. I re-read it from time to time to get inspired and to remember that more work doesn't mean better gamemastering.
Andy Kitkowski, creator of the Indie RPG Awards, said this about it:
Out of all the mainstream or indie books I’ve ever owned, no other company or designer has ever, EVER put as much time, thought and energy into making such a helpful section. The advice is universal (save for the one section on specific pulp games), it is solid, it is a MACHINE for producing GOOD GMs.
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\$\begingroup\$ It's a hidden gem. I owned SotC for quite a while without having read it fully (since I wasn't planning on running it any time soon), and only discovered the section after reading about it online. It's pure gold. \$\endgroup\$ – SevenSidedDie Mar 12 '13 at 19:55
\$\begingroup\$ Agreed. Spirit of the Century pretty much changed how I look at RPGs, both as a GM and as a player. And I don't even play it! \$\endgroup\$ – Steve G Mar 12 '13 at 20:05
Ken Hite's Gurps Horror (and its earlier renditions) is some of the best genre-specific game master advice out there for running Horror.
It starts by laying out exactly what is and what isn't horror, going over various tropes and stylistic elements. It then gives solid advice for how to run these, both mechanically and stylistically. It then ends with some very nice campaign frameworks (and even gives a format for campaign frameworks that ahs served me well to this day).
The only other gamemaster advice that I've felt has come close are the two 4e Dungeon Master's guides.
Not only is B1 In Search of the Unknown probably the best introductory module for Dungeons & Dragons ever published, it is one of the very few D&D modules that also has extensive notes for the fledgling DM. The sections "Notes for the Dungeon Master", "Preparation for the Use of the Module", "Time", "Computing Experience", and "How to be an Effective Dungeon Master" are one of the best five page tutorials for running ANY edition of the game. Some of the advice is really good for any type of RPG, not just D&D.
Some snippets:
"First, it is crucial to keep in mind that this is a game based on player interaction and player choice. The game generally follows the course of the player's actions—if not always their plans!"
"Although you may set up situations to challenge them, you must understand that you are not their adversary, nor are you necessarily out to "defeat" them"
"if your players abandon caution or make stupid mistakes, let them pay the price—--but be fair."
Good advice for any beginning gamemaster!
Badmike
I like Unknown Armies because it shows how to construct a relationship map and explains the value in doing so. I also found the information on the use of themes, plot development, hooks, motifs, descriptive language, and characterisation to be well-written, clear, substantive and practical. The GM material comes across as practical and usable, whereas I find many GM chapters in other games tend to be vacuous and too abstract. I would recommend it highly to a beginner, or someone without a background in some sort of literary study, and I would consider it very valuable to even an experienced DM as a refresher, reminder, and useful summation of certain points.
Pseudoephedrine
Mouse Guard is VERY well set up for the novice MG GM. It's highly structured, so it's easy to GM, and it has copious advice for the MG GM on how to build, use, and twist the structure.
Burning Empires also has excellent GM advice, and again, is a structured play style with a much more limited role than normal.
Both are written by Luke Crane. Burning Wheel, his magnum opus, is not as good on the accessibility score; BE and MG are written more carefully and with more advice, especially important because of their divergent play-styles.
The Gamemastery Guide published by Paizo does have a light amount of Pathfinder crunch, but it has a LOT of great material for GMs of any game with a slight preference for fantasy.
Mike Bohlmann
\$\begingroup\$ Agree with Swarm, it is by far the best one to come out in a while. \$\endgroup\$ – no thanks Aug 29 '10 at 15:17
\$\begingroup\$ Yes, I agree. The Gamemastery Guide is filled with things that I expect might prove useful to lots of PFRPG GMs: for example, the array of NPC writeups is very useful. \$\endgroup\$ – Viktor Haag Aug 31 '10 at 15:17
Unknown Armies has a great GM advice section, including some of the best advice about combat scenes in games that I've seen in print.
Jadasc
\$\begingroup\$ I think I remember hearing that once before---now I may have to go dig it up! \$\endgroup\$ – kesher Aug 24 '10 at 13:55
Call me an old schooler but the 1st edition Dungeons Masters Guide is a treasure trove ideas and suggestions for game mastering. Granted it is not laid out in one convenient advice section, but spread thought the text. Even today after over thirty years of gaming I can pick up the 1st edition DMG page though it and almost always find a new nugget of wisdom or wisp inspiration that can help make my game a better one.
\$\begingroup\$ A trove of treasures and blights, one could go on... \$\endgroup\$ – Alticamelus Nov 18 '10 at 13:59
\$\begingroup\$ It's certainly full of advice. Some of it is even comprehensible. How much of it is good is debatable! \$\endgroup\$ – Dave Hallett Nov 18 '10 at 15:58
I was very impressed with the GM's Survival Guide for "Legend of the Five Rings". It did a very good job of how to set tone, how to handle situations, etc. I would recommend it even to people who don't play Lo5R, simply because most of the advice is very system agnostic...it's just good GM ideas.
Beska
Over The Edge has one of the best description of how to run the game. It is an amazing game, full of story ideas (and not just for OTE), a gazillion NPCs, and locations. The "How to run a game" section is one of the best I have read. It is full of advise on how to make games more immersive, how to deal with players' unexpected antics, and how to run good multi layered games.
Sardathrion
Hero Quest II (Robin Laws, 2009, Moon Design publications; I think you can get it as a PDF) has, unsurprisingly, a lot of GM advice, including a fair few ideas not in Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering. I'm not a huge fan of HQ, the system, but the book has been well worth the price to me. HQ2 solves some issues from HQ1, btw, and has been made into a generic RPG with this book, together with a "Gaming in Glorantha" section that is, I think, mostly the work of Jeff Richard.
The new ideas here won't be a huge surprise to anyone who reads Robin's blog: the Playing Stories section, in particular, has a lot of the Beowulf saga that he had there. But the section is now a masterpiece, though.
Alticamelus
I think that the best rule book for game master I have ever read is The Book of Mirrors from Mage: The Ascension.
It goes from advising about how to make a good story and what is the objective of doing so to how to game master people with serious issues. Finally, this book it’s not about what you say during the game play, but how you focus so the game play is a good experience.
A lot of great answers here, but I also enjoyed the gamemastering advice in John Wick's Houses of the Blooded. Wick advocates giving the players some game narration abilities, and his supporting ideas and examples in the Narrator chapter are excellent.
okeefe
\$\begingroup\$ Houses is filled with great advice, but it's not readily accessible to novice GM's, IMO. \$\endgroup\$ – aramis Nov 19 '10 at 6:08
\$\begingroup\$ @aramis The question doesn't explicitly call for the content to be accessible to beginners, though would, of course, be a bonus. \$\endgroup\$ – GMJoe Mar 27 '12 at 5:59
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UPS, Pilots Reach Agreement to Avoid Furloughs
LOUISVILLE, June 8, 2009 - UPS (NYSE:UPS) and its pilots' union, the Independent Pilots Association, today announced an innovative agreement that averts the immediate furlough of 300 UPS pilots.
Earlier this year, following UPS's review of volume reductions and a stated need to furlough pilots, IPA's leadership offered to identify ways to cut operational costs. UPS and the IPA subsequently agreed on cost-cutting targets totalling $131 million over the next three years.
Using a variety of voluntary steps, the IPA to date has identified savings totalling approximately $90 million dollars pending final calculations. Although the full three-year goal was not reached by last week's original June 2, 2009, deadline, UPS and the union have agreed there will be no furloughs through April 1, 2010, and that the IPA will continue to work this year to produce additional savings.
Voluntary pilot savings generated later this year could eliminate the proposed layoffs entirely.
The savings identified by the IPA have been produced through voluntary programs such as pilots taking short- and long-term leaves of absence; military leaves; job sharing; reductions in flight pay guarantees; early retirement, and sick bank contributions. UPS and the IPA are confident they can achieve the total savings goal.
"This is another example of UPS's commitment to its employees and their families," said Bob Lekites, UPS Airlines president. "It also shows how a company and its union can work together to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. We applaud our pilots for making the voluntary commitments necessary to help us protect our business and UPS jobs in this uncertain global economy and we thank the IPA for their leadership in this process."
"This is a remarkable achievement," said Bob Miller, president of the IPA. "First of all I'd like to thank our pilots. None of this would have happened if they hadn't stepped up to volunteer from every fleet, seat and domicile. It shows tremendous solidarity and compassion for our fellow pilots. Second, I want to thank UPS. They didn't have to go down this road with us. We appreciate their openness to new ideas and their willingness to work with us in finding an alternative solution."
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Posted: 8:27 am, March 13, 2014 by Publisher Scott Brennan
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Simone F. Lagomarsino, President and CEO of Heritage Oaks Bank announced the appointment of Lonny D. Robinson as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the bank. Robinson will join the company on Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
“We are very pleased to have someone with Lonny’s extensive experience join our company,” stated Lagomarsino. “He has the strong financial background and leadership qualities that are important to us. He is a great addition to our executive management team.”
Robinson has more than 30 years of financial services industry experience, most of it at the executive management and chief financial officer level. He has been involved in all aspects of finance including financial planning, analysis, and reporting, mergers and acquisitions, accounting, budgeting, financial and management information systems, and corporate finance. He will serve as a key member of the Heritage Oaks executive team and will be responsible for directing and overseeing the company’s finance and accounting functions.
Prior to joining Heritage Oaks, he served as executive vice president and CFO at Banc of California and Private Bank of California with a combined asset base of $3.5 billion. Prior to this position, Robinson served as executive vice president and CFO at Hanmi Financial Corporation, a $2.8 billion bank headquartered in southern California. He also held senior financial management positions at Opportunity Bank, Western Community Bancshares, and Center Financial Corporation. Prior to his banking career, he was a CPA with accounting firm, Ernst & Young.
Robinson is a graduate of Westminster College with a degree in Accounting and Business. He also received graduate banking degrees from the University of Georgia and the University of Texas.
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מטבע זהב פנדה סיני משנת 1987 משקל 1/2 אונקיה
נוסף מטבע זהב פנדה סיני משנת 1987 משקל 1/2 אונקיה
Buy a ½ oz 1987 Chinese panda gold coin with certified .999 purity at a low price to secure your wealth in ounces. Your order may qualify for free shipping.
First minted by the People’s Republic of China in 1983, this official Chinese panda gold coin features a new reverse design every year, cementing its place as a must have collectible.
An S or Y mint mark reveals the lineage of its mintage: Y for Shenyang, S for Shanghai. This year’s design shows a panda drinking from a river in a bamboo forest. The obverse side shows the Hall of Prayer for Abundant Harvests in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing surrounded by Chinese lettering which translates to "People's Republic of China" in Chinese and the year of issue: 1987.
Highly sought after by collectors and investors. Purchase your 1/2 oz 1987 Gold panda coin today.
מדינה CN
צד אחד אולם התפילה לאסיפים טובים (המקדש השמיים), בייג'ינג
הפוך פנדה שותה מים
מטבע חוקי CNY 50
אולם התפילה לאסיפים טובים (המקדש השמיים), בייג'ינג
פנדה שותה מים
CNY 50
מטבע זהב פנדה סיני משנת 1987 משקל 1/2 אונקיה Buy a ½ oz 1987 Chinese panda gold coin with certified .999 purity at a low price to secure your wealth in ounces. Your order may qualify for free shipping. First minted by the People’s Republic of China in 1983, this official Chinese panda gold coin features a new reverse design every year, cementing its place as a must have collectible. An S or Y mint mark reveals the lineage of its mintage: Y for Shenyang, S for Shanghai. This year’s design shows a panda drinking from a river in a bamboo forest. The obverse side shows the Hall of Prayer for Abundant Harvests in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing surrounded by Chinese lettering which translates to "People's Republic of China" in Chinese and the year of issue: 1987. Highly sought after by collectors and investors. Purchase your 1/2 oz 1987 Gold panda coin today.
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Rye Pottery
Kitchen & Bathroom Tiles
New Lines & Designs
Vintage Rye Pottery
Tarquin Cole
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of a man very significant in Rye Pottery’s continued existence. Please follow this link to the Hastings and Rye Observer or click on the picture below to read a concise little obituary printed yesterday of Quin – a man we will miss dearly both as a family and a business.
Chuffed to have The LB1 Mid Century Modern ceramic lamp base picked for the Living Etc Agenda pages.
Do check out the June 2018 edition.
Country & Town House
Our thanks to Country & Town House magazine and The Insider team for featuring The LB1 – our Mid Century Modern Ceramic Lamp base in their May 2018 Edition.
Rye Pottery at White City House
We’re very pleased to see Soho House’s latest venture unveiled publicly and even more pleased to see our specially commissioned Mid Century Modern Lamp Bases in situ!
Their latest hotel and member’s club is in London’s Shepherd’s Bush, housed in the former BBC HQ that used to flash up on the telly.
You know – the iconic round 60’s “doughnut” building with the famous sculpture of Helios in the centre.
Shown here: The LB1 Medium in Black Tracery
Choosing our medium LB1, we were asked to create 92 table lamps, 2 for each bedroom. The Soho House interiors team of Daisy Bere & Linda Boronkay first picked one of our own revamped 1960’s patterns (Black Astrakhan) and then complimented it with 2 further mid century-esque designs alongside one specifically developed for the project – the all new Soho Stripe.
You can view our full range of lamps by clicking here, but for now here’s another pic of one of the cosy White City House rooms. Oh and did we mention there’s a swimming pool on the roof. With a bar…..
This picture: The LB1 medium in Denmark Green Cascade and Denmark Green Soho Stripe
All images courtesy of White City House
Food service now open at Gusbourne Vineyard
Anyone for Cheese?
We’ve just finished a great commission for one of England’s finest wine makers – Gusbourne.
They’re just over the border in Kent and on top of producing delicious booze they’ve now launched a new Discovery Tour & Tasting. So if you visit their new restaurant “The Nest” at Appledore, you may well find yourself supping something delicious, while nibbling something local … from one of our beautiful terracotta plates.
Do pop in to see us if you make the trip & check out Gusbourne and their wines by clicking here.
Prince Harry & Meghan Markle
Continuing Rye Pottery’s long tradition of marking significant Royal occasions, we’ve produced a limited-edition run of commemorative tankards to mark the upcoming wedding of Prince Harry & Meghan Markle.
Hand-thrown & hand-decorated in soft Cobalt Blue on a simple white glaze, they are 8-8.5cm high.
These little mugs have been designed to tie-in with previous pieces produced, particularly those made for the wedding of Prince William & Catherine and Prince Charles & Princess Diana, for whom we were official suppliers to St Paul’s Cathedral.
Available from stock or to order, or in our shop in Rye where you might like to emulate Princess Diana’s late Mum and snap any seconds we might have.
£ 24 each – Please CLICK HERE to buy one.
White City House
Our last few tweaks to the final of four majolica decorations chosen by the Soho House Interiors team for their Mid Century White City House project.
“Reload” Screen Printed Kitchen & Bathroom Tiles
New screen-printed tiles from our own archive designs.
These are some of Tarquin Cole RCA’s most notable past tile designs – albeit in a slightly different inglaze medium.
Suitable for kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces and worktops.
Currently available to order in Cobalt Blue on a White glaze, with minor variations and imperfections reflecting the tricky hand-made nature of the technique.
Repeat one design or use all 12, it’s up to you.
152x152mmx6mm
£8 ea – £288 per square yard (inc VAT)
Please CLICK HERE to see more.
Rye Pottery very pleased to meet Soho House
After a visit from the Soho House interior design team, Rye Pottery is looking forward to working with them on a grand new Mid Century Hotel opening for 2018.
Shapes agreed…Pattern Development pics to follow soon …
Mid Century Modern Lamp Base
Welcome to the formal unveiling of our Mid Century Modern LB1 Large Lamp Base.
An iconic shape from our archive redesigned with a contemporary decorative twist in six different designs.
Collection designed & conceived by Josh Cole.
Please CLICK HERE for more details
Jamie Oliver Magazine
Jamie Oliver’s foodie mag “Jamie” included Rye in their recent guide to the best Gourmet Getaways in the UK – and quite right too we say.
Many thanks to journo Claire Nelson for including Rye Pottery and a pic of one of our decorating team hand-painting one of our sheep.
It’s not the kind you can eat though Jamie…
We’re very pleased to say that Margaret Howell in London are stocking our Mid Century Modern LB1 large Lamp Base in two different decorations- All White Tracery & Black Astrakhan.
Do TAKE A LOOK at the full range of designs here.
Telegraph Magazine
The Telegraph Magazine. With many thanks to journos Jessica Doyle and Talib Choudhry for including us in their piece about three British, family-run ceramics companies.
Thanks to Country Living Magazine and Deputy Home Design Editor Alaina Binks for including our Cottage Stripe Little Bowls in their latest autumnal Emporium section. For more details click here
HM The Queen’s 90th Birthday
To commemorate Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations Rye Pottery are producing a limited edition hand-made & hand-painted 10 inch plate.
Designed by Tarquin Cole this piece is intricately hand-painted in our classic Blue-Green. The result we believe is an elegant plate that works well as a standalone piece but also ties in with all our designs over the decades for those of our collectors who have them all!
New Collectors do note that Blue Green is a traditional Rye Pottery colour that’s been mixed & by us for over 60 years. This colour produces incredible results & allows us to add immense depth and delicacy to the design using just a single colour. That also means each piece reacts differently in every firing of the kiln so all the plates we paint are guaranteed to differ slightly to this photograph!
These beautiful plates are £145.00 each with free p&p and will be painted to order for each customer. Our order schedule is currently running at an estimated 6-8 weeks until delivery.
Please email us at sales@ryepottery.co.uk or give us a call on +44 (0) 1797 223038 if you would like to order one.
Landscape Magazine
Landscape Magazine were kind enough to interview one of us for a feature in their January/February 2016 issue.
Our Dragonfly Tiles & Striped Pots Go Global & Local!
We’ve been very touched to hear from our Collectors around the world of sightings of our Dragonfly Tiles and Cottage Stripe Tableware – courtesy of telly show Grand Designs and James Strangeways’ simple but stylish new build on Romney Marsh. So far we know our work has been seen in Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, please do let us know if you spot us anywhere else – we’re small enough that keeping tabs is hard as we keep up with making pots. And our talented paintress Julia Catt is enjoying her global fame!
We’d also like to say we were very pleased to see a wonderful interview with James Strangeways closer to home – in Sussex Life Magazine. It’s well worth a read, not least because the interview was after the television programme actually went out on Channel 4. You can read the piece if you click here.
Grand Designs Magazine
Our hand-painted Dragonfly Tiles and striped bowls featured in Grand Designs Magazine as part of a wonderful feature on James Strangeways’ unique waterside house on Romney Marsh
Grand Designs & Channel 4
Channel 4’s Grand Designs
Rye Pottery & our Dragonfly Tiles were featured on an episode of Grand Designs on September 16th. It was a Godsmark Architects build for James Strangeways next to a Romney Marsh Canal. Our hand-glazed & hand-painted Tiles were used as a stylish backdrop for a woodburner in the living room. And yes, our Cottage Stripes Stripe Bowls were in the kitchen too.
Our thanks to Director Ned Williams & the team for beautiful sequences showing our techniques and talented paintress Julie Catt. And thanks also to Kevin McCloud Esq not least for describing our tiles as “charming”.
You can catch-up and watch Grand Designs Series 15 – Episode 2 on All4 by clicking here
Rye Pottery, Paddy O’Connell & the Beeb
BBC South East Today & Paddy O’Connell – 29 August 2015
Josh Cole was interviewed as part of a special series fronted Radio 4’s Paddy O’Connell for BBC South East Today. Our section was a pre-filmed part of a whole programme dedicated to Rye and the town’s wonderful Jazz Festival.
Jane Davies and Rebecca Rhodes from our painting team were also featured painting our Chaucer Figures and Cottage Stripes.
World of Interiors & our Mid-Century Modern v11 Vase
World of Interiors – April 2015 – The Mid-Century Modern v11 Vase by Rye Pottery.
Please click the image above to find out more.
Our latest 1066 figure – Bishop Odo
New for 2015 is Bishop Odo – the latest addition to our 1066 Battle of Hastings Bayeux inspired range.
William the Conqueror’s Half brother and the former, some say tyrannical, Earl of Kent, Bishop Odo was also Bishop of Bayeux.
He’s a key figure in the 1066 story.
In production terms Odo is one of the most complex and intricate pieces we’ve ever made, with almost 20 hand-made stages involved to bring him to life. Odo is also the first figure in this range commissioned by siblings Josh & Tabby Cole – the third generation of the Cole family to run the company.
Do click the photograph to see him in more detail.
Liniere (リンネル) magazine
Japanese women’s magazine Liniere リンネル has published an article suggesting readers consider a trip to Rye when visiting London. Thanks to Sayaka Hirakawa and Atsuko Chiba for including us.
Click here to read the Liniere article, in addition to great suggestions for places to visit in Rye, there’s also a great feature on places to visit in London
Rye Pottery christened “Best Stand” at Wealden Times Midwinter Fair
It’s fair to say that it takes something of a long time to put our Wealden Times stand up … and down!
So large thanks from all at Rye Pottery to Wealden Times Editor Lucy Fleming & Harpers and Hurlingham’s Jane Beard for naming Rye Pottery as this year’s “Best Stand” at the MidWinter Fair.
The Wealden Times MidWinter Fair is a hugely popular Christmas Market held at the charming Victorian Walled Garden at Bedgebury Pinetum. Visitors come from far and wide but it’s a “must” in the Kent & Sussex calendar for locals too.
Whatever the weather the event is staged in warm marquees with wonderful food and lunch stalls making it a great way to get going on your Christmas shopping.
It’s a huge compliment to win given such strong competition, so we’re all very chuffed indeed.
Rye Pottery named one of Coast Magazine’s Top Ten Potteries
We’re very pleased to say Rye Pottery has been selected as one of Coast Magazine’s “Ten Best Potteries” in the UK.
The team at the glossy mag have designed a stylish 4-page feature with evocative pics of life potting and showcasing, well yes us, but also nine other talented potters and firms, not least The Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. If you love all things ceramic it’s well worth a read and may well give you inspiration about other potters and potteries to visit while you’re out and about in the UK.
Many thanks to the journo Alex Reece and the rest of the crew at Coast. As soon as we get our hands on a PDF we’ll add it in here, but in the meantime, see if you can spot our paintress Karen in the screen grabs below…. she’s painting Cottage Stripes onto one of our mugs.
For more on this monthly magazine about the seaside click the following link http://www.coastmagazine.co.uk/
Finally, we’d like to introduce you to Miss Simplicity!
Those Collectors who visit the shop in Rye will know if they’ve been lucky, over the last 2 or 3 years they’ve been able to pick up the occasional one-off design sample of this Mid-Century Rye Pottery Classic as we worked out how, and indeed if, we could incorporate a contemporary version of this wonderful, popular figure from days gone by.
So, drum roll please, here is Miss Simplicity fit for the 21st Century, but retaining all her 1950s charm. Modelled by our post-war co-founder Jack Cole, this piece was originally designed as an oil & vinegar bottle. Now with her head firmly in place, and with totally fresh decoration and design, we gave her a suitably demure “soft” launch at the Wealden Times MidSummer Fair in June … and promptly sold out! So now we’ve managed to make a few more, we thought it was time to re-introduce her formally back into British Society.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’d like you to meet Miss Simplicity.
Our stand at the Wealden Times MidSummer Fair
We thought it would be fun to share a pic of our stand at The Wealden Times Midsummer Fair.
June 2014 was our first time at the show, which is staged at Hole Park in Rolvenden, and we’re pleased to say we had a fun and busy three days.
Our tent was packed full of other stylish stands and we met lots of charming visitors, and from a selfish point of view the reaction to our pots, not least our new lines, shapes and colourways, was very uplifting.
So the next step will be planning the stand for the MidWinter Fair at the Walled Garden at Bedgebury Pinetum in November, once we’ve recovered from three days on our feet that is!
Etc magazine interviews the third generation of Coles who’ve just taken the helm …
The June 2014 issue of etc Magazine Click here to read the article
Dogs & Puppies now available in three new colours
We know lots of our customers like to group these little fellas together, so this spring/summer we’ve produced our popular Ceramic Puppies & Dogs in three (oh yes) new colourways. And collectors will be pleased to know this is the first time they’ve been painted in these colours.
They’re designed to compliment our focus this season on Flamingo Pink, Cobalt Blue and our fresh new Paris Green.
Mid Century vibe as RP featured by GPlan in their new vintage collection
These photographs show one of Rye Pottery’s 50s style little vases in GPlan’s latest collection of sofas, designed by Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemmingway. It’s a Mid-Century inspired collection, a period we’re very still proud of in our history, and one highly sought after by our collectors.
Rye Pottery was one of a handful of Ceramics exhibitors chosen to show several pieces in the legendary post-war design hall of fame that was the 1951 Festival of Britain. We’re not sure if G-Plan were there too …
This shape has just been brought back into production and is called the Mid-Century Modern v11 vase.
And now we’ll let the pictures do the talking.
Wealden Times picks Rye Pottery Jugs & little bowls
We’re very pleased to see two of our tableware lines featured in the latest issue of the Wealden Times.
Our stripey Jugs and Little Bowls have been picked for a “Get the look” feature to accompany a fab interiors shoot. We call this pattern Cottage Stripe and it’s been in constant production since the 1950s. The little bowls are the newest addition to the range. They’re a great size that we use at home variously for jam, cream, sugar, olives, tapas … and they also make charming little weaning bowls.
Thanks Wealden Times! www.wealdentimes.co.uk
English Tourist Boards’ “Best hand-crafted products in England”
The English Tourist Board – Visit England – has published a select list of some of the best hand-crafted products still being produced in England.
And we’re thrilled to say that Rye Pottery has been included. As a company we’re incredibly proud that all our pieces & Collections have been continuously Made in Britain (we’ve never “re-shored” because we never offshored in the first place) and it’s wonderful to have been chosen.
We’re alongside a handful of other great names, so do look them up:
Barbour – Wax Jackets,
Pashley Cycles – Incredible Bikes
Debbie Bryan Heritage – Lace
Norfolk Lavender Company
Do take a look at the list on the Visit England website here too.
The New All White Collection
New our “All White Collection”…
This elegant new colourway for Rye Pottery sees our “Sheep”, the Ram & Ewe, alongside the Billy & Nanny Goats sporting glossy, white textured coats accompanied by soft charcoal faces and detailing. Our classic Ducks are also available as part of the All White Collection, as well as the timeless ceramic Owls, originally modelled by our post-war co-founder Wally Cole.
As ever each individual piece is hand-made using traditional slip-casting techniques and then hand-painted, decorated and initialled by our talented paintresses. Click on the links above to see them all in more detail.
There are plans afoot to extend this range, so watch this space.
Farmers Weekly Christmas Gift Guide
Many of our customers are English countryside lovers, with a fair few involved in the land one way or another.
So it’s a huge compliment for us that the Friesian version of our Bull & Cow have been chosen for the Farmers Weekly annual Christmas Gift Guide.
The Bull & Cow part of our English Animals Collection and are also available in other colourways, including soft Jersey or Sussex, which are painted in our classic Chestnut Brown.
Click this link to see the full range of our hand-painted animals.
Jade & Pink and Fabulous Cockatoos!
Ok, so we’re singing our own trumpet, but if we didn’t love them, well, we wouldn’t decide to include them formally in the Rye Pottery Exotic Animals Collection now would we?
So, new for Autumn/Winter 2013, we’d officially like to introduce our new colourway for our Cockatoos – Jade with Pink Wing or, Pink with Jade Wing.
Like all our animals, while these are sold singly, we think they’re great fun as a “Mismatched Pair”. And of course they’re still available in Charcoal & Radiccio too.
Win a limited edition “Sussex Boar”
To celebrate Wild Boar Week in Rye, we have produced a limited edition run of our famous Sussex Pig – “The Sussex Boar”.
This new design has been hand-decorated in an exclusive colourway and the head features a unique pair of painted tusks. Each of this small batch will be numbered and signed by the paintress.
Extremely popular as both a collectors item and as a traditional Wedding present, Sussex Pigs have been hand-made in Rye for more than 200 hundred years.
We love Wild Boar Week and are expecting restaurants in Rye to come up with even more delicious dishes this year. So, to support this popular event we are offering one lucky person the chance to win a Sussex Boar by voting for their favourite dish via the contact form below.
The winner will be chosen at random on November 4th and will be contacted to arrange complimentary delivery of their prize, which retails at £46.50. A great opportunity for collectors to own a really rare piece of Rye Pottery! All you have to do is come to Rye and choose where to eat…
To see more of the planned menus & other events coming up during Wild Boar week visit www.wildboar.org.uk
To tell us your favourite dish from Wild Boar Week in Rye – fill in the contact form below.
Please be sure tell us the tastiest dish and importantly at which Rye restaurant you enjoyed it – the restaurant with the most votes will receive a certificate from Wild Boar Week organisers.
The competition is now closed.
Prince George it is then
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge – A great name choice from our perspective. Not only was it on our list of favourites, but it’s also short, which from a potting, lettering, design perspective is a jolly useful thing indeed!
So that means our beautiful hand-thrown tankards are now available. Our long-term collectors will spot that this latest Rye Pottery Royal Tankard features a design based on the pieces we produced to mark Prince William’s own birth back in 1982.
Our Prince George Tankards feature our two most popular colourways for our Royal Commemorative pieces – Cobalt Blue and Blue Green.
These charming little mugs are decorated with hand-printed (not digital) transfers and additional hand-painted banding and they are £18.00 each plus p&p
Do let us know soon if you would like to order one or if you pop into our shop in Rye you might even pick up a second.
Having said that our seconds don’t hang around long. Back in 1982, William’s maternal grandmother – Princess Diana’s mum – bought a second from our London shop in Connaught Street. So you see, it’s official, Rye Pottery seconds are fit even for a (future) king!
The Prince of Cambridge – Finally here but for us no name means …
We all send The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge our best wishes on the birth of their first son – The Prince of Cambridge.
But please may we beg the happy parents not to keep us all waiting too long to hear what he is to be called. We – alongside countless other British companies around the country – are all waiting primed and ready to fire our hand-made and hand-decorated commemorative ceramic tankards in the kiln, but, when, and only when, they reveal the last piece of the puzzle. Like many other British firms, we have the additional problem of summer holidays, as if they delay the naming for too long some of our talented but small team will be away on their well earned holidays. HM the Queen was not the only person wanting everything to be sorted before the holidays arrived!
In the hope of being as prepared as possible we’ve worked through a host of different designs to allow for different months, long names, short names and so on. Not that it’s useful to anyone but privately some of us reckon it won’t be a Richard (pre-Tudor), or even a William (too close to his dad), and definitely not Cnut! But we quite fancy George or possibly Albert. If it was a girl we were quite sure Alexandra, Elizabeth or Victoria had a very good chance – but alas, that’s for the next one, and fortunately our business is making pottery not bookmaking!
Our hand-thrown tankards will be produced just as they were when Prince William was born back in 1982. Featuring the two most popular colourways for our Royal Commemorative pieces, Cobalt Blue and Blue Green, these charming little mugs will be decorated with hand-printed (not digital) transfers and additional hand-painted banding. All very traditional and quintessentially Rye Pottery.
The waiting list for these limited edition tankards commemorating the Birth of the Prince of Cambridge is already growing from our band of dedicated collectors, so do let us know soon if you would like one. The mugs are £18.00 each plus p&p.
As soon as we have a name we’ll hope to provide a sneak peak here of the design.
VIVAT REGINA! – The 60th Anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation
Hand-painted Rye Pottery Commemorative ware to mark the anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation Click to enlarge
This year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation we have produced a very limited number of hand-made and hand-painted bowls and tankards.
June Woolley, who started work as a 15 year-old in 1953 and still comes in voluntarily to act as archivist and layout magician for us, painted some of the pots and bowls while Julie Catt, who came out of retirement to help us, has also produced one or two pieces not least the striking 12-inch bowl featured here.
We are planning to make a small transfer mug for William and Kate’s new baby when he or she finally makes an appearance; the timing looks as if it should coincide with the special Coronation weekend of celebration in mid July, which means we will hope to manage two Royal windows through the summer.
Close-up of the intricate, hand-painted crown – Click to enlarge
Searching for display material to help decorate our Shop Window here in Rye has produced all sorts of royal memorabilia. Tarquin, who was still in the Navy back in 1953, won 2 tickets to watch the whole procession from a very comfortable spot within Admiralty Arch.
All of which means we’ve had several newspapers from the period stashed away as well as 2 copies of the Official Programme. We’ve also saved a wonderfully evocative 1953 edition of British Vogue.
Do come and have a look at our window if you’re passing.
Rye Cricket Club celebrates 260th season
The Rye Cricketer – The Bowler James Lillywhite
Rye Pottery is delighted to share in the 260th year celebrations for Rye Cricket Club. There’s a whole season of events, not least the First Team hosting a special match against the LASHINGS WORLD XI on May 26th at 2.30pm on the Rye Cricket Salts.
We are very pleased that one of the prizes at this important fixture will be the presentation of a Rye Pottery Cricketer – The Rye Bowler – James William Lillywhite. As aficionados will know, he not only played for Sussex and England but Rye as well. Hence the fact that we paint him wearing the Rye Club colours! He was also one of the founders of the famous Lillywhites Sports store in Piccadilly.
The figure will be presented to the Man of the Match – but will it be a big-hitting former superstar or a local Rye hero?!
The internationally renowned LASHINGS XI always produce a very entertaining and exciting day’s cricket. The Harlem Globetrotter’s of the cricket world are picked from a squad of past & present greats – expect to see a host of star names including West Indian legend Gordon Greenidge plus Phil Defreitas, John Embury, John Lever, Saqlain Mushtaq and Yasir Arafat amongst others.
With a hosted lunch event in a marquee from 11.30 and live music after the game this promises to be a day not to miss.
If you are coming to see us in Rye, why not double up and catch some top class cricket too? Play starts at 2.30.
To find out more please contact Club secretary Martin Blincow or follow the links www.ryecc.play-cricket.com & www.lashings.co.uk
Edward Burra & Wally Cole at Rye Art Gallery
Wally Cole’s “Swan” – photograph courtesy of David Crew – Click to enlarge
Rye Art Gallery has a wonderful exhibition on at the moment featuring the work of printmaker Norman Ackroyd RA. Entitled The Furthest Lands – A journey round the British Isles, the exhibition runs until 30th June and is well worth a visit, with cheque book in hand!
We’re also very pleased to say that running alongside the main exhibition, Gallery 5 is featuring work from its permanent collection by renowned 20th century British painter Edward Burra and Rye Pottery’s own post-war co-founder, sculptor and potter Wally Cole.
Celebrating what would have been the Centenary of Wally’s birth in 1913, the show features Wally’s striking sculpture “Swan”, which the Cole family donated to the Rye Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection. There are a handful of other examples of Wally’s work on show at the moment, not least a powerful studio ceramic bowl which is on loan from painter David Crew. Wally was a regular exhibitor at the gallery during his lifetime and since his death in 1999 the gallery has also staged a number of retrospectives there too.
Do take a look at all the work on show at Rye Art Gallery whenever you’re visiting, there’s always a tempting array of contemporary arts and crafts to be seen and bought as well as work on show from the gallery’s permanent collection. Find out more on the Rye Art Gallery website here.
The English Home magazine
We’ve belatedly spotted a lovely shot of our Rye Vixen in the April edition of The English Home magazine.
Our popular ceramic foxy lady makes an appearance in a feature about Christine and Kevan Stevenson’s charming cottage in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District.
With the help of architect and local builders, the couple spent months combing two cottages and adding an extension, to charming effect.
Described as an “oasis of light and calm” by the magazine, the house features a calming, pale palette of colours.
Perched above the cooker in the Stevenson’s light, airy kitchen, our hand-painted Rye Vixen – decorated in a soft Coral sponge with gentle touches of Leaf Green and a Chocolatey brown – adds a subtle touch of colour.
Rye Pottery’s Sussex Pigs on the BBC
Sussex Pigs – ceramic pigs painted individually to order and waiting to be fired in the kiln
Now nearly the end of April and we’re still very busy hand-crafting, painting and packing our Sussex Pigs. We have been thrilled to find ourselves mailing our charming traditional Sussex wedding presents all over the country – and indeed the world – since our appearance on the BBC’s Flog It Trade Secrets back in February.
We’ve also been delighted by how many Sussex and Kent residents spotted Quin’s television appearance, and have snapped up pigs for their own mantlepieces or to give to friends and family for weddings and anniversaries. It’s been wonderful to have so many people so keen to support a 200 year-old tradition and a ceramics firm that still decorates AND produces in Britain.
Obviously the idea of one as a wedding present instead of a real live pig has reminded us all of the more rural and leisured way of life in the 18th century – though no doubt we’d all have been thrilled to be given a real pig 200 years ago.
In our Sussex Pig archive files we have some black and white pictures of two early 19th century Sussex pigs that are owned by the Museum at Williamsburg Virginia; unfortunately when visiting ourselves, the curator on the day was unable to tell us how they had acquired their pigs. So if any of our collecors on the other side of the pond ever visit the museum and can find out more we’d love to know.
Back in Rye it’s wonderful to still be talking to customers every day who spotted our appearance on the Beeb. Many of them it seems have been waiting for the good weather so they can not only visit us, but enjoy a full day in Rye, not least lunch in one of the many great places to eat here.
Click here for more information about our Sussex Pigs
Rye Pottery & Canterbury Cathedral go way back …
The Wife of Bath
Here at Rye Pottery we have a special interest in the enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, to whom we send our very best wishes. We’ve supplied the shop at Canterbury Cathedral with our ceramic figures and tiles based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales for more years than some of us like to remember!We also produce a special tile of the Thomas a’ Beckett Tomb for the Cathedral.
But what some of our collectors may not know, is that Rye Pottery’s figures from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were born from a request by Canterbury Cathedral for its gift shop in the early 1970s.
Mr Steele who launched the shop, introduced us to sculptor and painter Gordon Davies and suggested we should work together to produce something featuring one of the pilgrims – The Wife of Bath. Discussions and then work ensued, and lo the Wife become the very first in a what is now a series of 38 ceramic figures based on Chaucer’s Pilgrims. And the rest as they say is history!
Gordon went on to design our Rye Nativity too and in the year 2000, then Archbishop George Carey took a complete set of the Rye Nativity to Jerusalem as a gift to mark his Millennium visit. We recently heard from a Rye Pottery collector who had seen it on display out there but sadly his camera had failed him at the crucial moment.
So we’ll always be grateful to Canterbury Cathedral and its inhabitants, not least to Mr Steele for introducing us to Gordon, who did a great deal of wonderful work at Canterbury over the years, as well for us here at Rye.
Click here to take a look at the full range of Rye Pottery figures based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Exciting, nay award-winning, news from Crufts
Congratulations to our paintress Karen Wicking who’s become the proud wife and mother to an award-winning duo at Crufts! Karen is one of the brilliant paintresses who hand-decorates our figures, not least our animals and the recently returned Rye Pottery Hounds!
Karen’s husband Willie and the family’s 4 year-old Labrador Harvey scooped top prize in the the first ever BASC Chudleys Invitation Scurry at Crufts, after clocking up the fastest time in their class.
For the uninitiated, a Scurry is a time event for Gundogs and their handlers where the animal has to retrieve a hidden object as fast as possible. To make it even harder, the object itself is hidden and various distractions are then deployed to put the poor dog off the task in hand.
Organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC)14 dogs were competing, but fortunately there was no distracting Harvey or Willie and they secured the top slot.
Karen paints, among other things, our Rye Pottery Hounds
The pair are regulars on the Scurry circuit in Kent and Sussex – often winning we might add – and also competed in the Mitsubishi Motors World Series Gundog Championships in 2012. More than that, Karen and Willie’s 14-year-old daughter Alisha has amassed over 90 Rosettes working with Harvey at a host of country shows and fairs.
And it’s all the more impressive when you know that Harvey is the first dog either Willie or Alisha have ever owned or trained, and Karen says that if it hadn’t been for Alisha, who begged them to get a dog in the first place, none of this would have ever happened.
Next stop is a Cabinet to display all those trophies and Alisha’s Rosettes.
Well, after they’ve fulfilled all their media commitments that is, not least in the latest issue of the The Rye and Battle Observer (click here for more).
May we proffer a Mother’s Day tip?
Well what a busy a week – on all kinds of fronts! We hope half term has been good for all our customers who are parents, grandparents and other lucky ad-hoc child-carers.
So given many mums and grannies are already shattered, we can’t help but point out that Mother’s Day is fast approaching.
We reckon our sweet Naiive Mother’s Day figure has some pointers on what might go down well as a reward for all that hard-work that goes on during the year.
Tarquin designed this figure so we can attest that a bit of lie-in followed by breakfast in bed used to go down a treat with Biddy
– ‘specially with the family dog serving as hoover as all of us
piled in to their beautiful bed.
Well, back in the day when we were actually small enough for a morning cuddle that is!
Rye Pottery on BBC tribute to ceramics expert David Barby
Paul Martin with Tarquin Cole
In a new series on BBC2, Flog It Trade Secrets‘ presenter Paul Martin has been revealing the tricks of the trade and surprising things he has learned over his 11 years in television.
Rye Pottery was pleased to be picked for inclusion in the latest programme, which was a touching tribute to the late antiques expert David Barby who died in July 2012, and was a pioneering television antiques expert, not least on Flog It. In the programme presenter Paul reveals: “I didn’t know a great deal about Ceramics [when I started in television], but what I do know now, David taught me”. It was because of David that Paul says he was first introduced to Rye Pottery.
Interviewing Rye Pottery’s Tarquin Cole, Paul discusses the heritage, value and collectability of Sussex and Rye Pottery, not least Hopware, Sussex Pigs, and our Mid-Century Modern classics, contemporary versions of which are still produced by us today. Tarquin took over Rye Pottery from his father Wally Cole MBE in 1978 and is widely regarded as an expert in valuing and dating early Sussex Pottery.
In the programme Paul also discusses Rye Pottery’s Mid-Century”Cottage Stripe” pattern, which has been in constant production since 1950. Examples of this design are included in the Ceramics Collections of both the V&A and the British Museum’s Geffrye Museum.Finally Paul braves an attempt at painting another of Rye Pottery’s pigs himself – one of our Sows! We use a very difficult technique that our accomplished paintresses spend years mastering, as the glaze has only just been applied and the slightest touch of a finger or too heavy a brush and the piece can be ruined.
Flog It Trade Secrets featuring Rye Pottery aired on February 15th 2013 at 18.30 on BBC 2. You can watch the film on the BBC’s iplayer by clicking this link. The section about Rye Pottery starts at 42.15 and ends at 48.07.
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Roses are red …
To be honest most of the roses we do here at Rye Pottery are more pink’ish actually. But well, our point is that there’s no getting away from it now we’re in February, Valentines is officially fast approaching.
While we’re always prepared for the last-minuters among our collectors with Rye Pottery vouchers, we also have two charming themed window displays here at our base in Rye if you’re looking for inspiration.
We have pieces to suit all budgets – not least this charming little one-off dish…
Walter Cole
Walter Vivian Cole with Mid-Century pieces in hand!
We are celebrating our own little anniversary here, as one of the founders of the current Rye Pottery – Wally Cole – would have been 100 today January 21st 2013.
Whilst we reminisce, here are links to a couple of his obituaries so you can see how the national press remembered him in 1999.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1999/jan/29/guardianobituaries
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-walter-cole-1076687.html
And a picture that even some of us have never seen.
A sneaky peak of a new Rye Pottery design
Whilst you are wrapped up in your winter woolies here’s a sneak peak of a new design we are working on for 2013.
Part of our new all-white collection, this cosy coat is achieved with a decorating technique we call Tracery.
Now for a black face…
January already!
I simply cannot believe I am already writing about January 2013, whatever happened to last year? Tarquin and I thought we were about to retire and here we still are~ me in the office and him packing the kilns and painting tiles!
Still the good news is that officially Josh and Tabby have almost taken over. They do a huge amount of the hard work now, while their vitality and enthusiasm is visble throughout the building, the shop and shop windows have really taken on a new lease of life with all their fresh ideas and thoughts. Wonderful for us oldies ~ especially in this centenary year of Wally Cole’s birth ~ to feel the third generation’s vibes and energy pulsing through everything, from where we make the coffee to what colourway shall we try next!
KEEP IT UP BOTH OF YOU PLEASE!
Talking of anniversaries and special dates ~ January 4th was the anniversary of Harold’s accession to the English throne in 1066, see our Bayeux Tapestry figures for more information.
Well who’d have thought it? 143 years later – Rye Pottery is on Facebook.
Heads are spinning.
Go on click here and give us a “like”, it’s Christmas!
Rye Pottery is on Facebook!
Christmas Opening Hours & our very own “Pop-Up” shop
We’re extending our opening hours in the run-up to Christmas and we also have a guest appearance in the form of a stylish “pop-up” shop from Josh Cole and his successful online gift company – Green & Present. (Click here for more).
Everything in Josh’s shop is on its second life – Recycled, Reclaimed or Reused.
Why not “pop in” and have a look – we’re even open on Sundays at the moment for the first time in umpteen years!
Monday-Thursday 9.00am – 1.oopm and 2.15pm – 5.00pm
Friday & Saturday 9.30am – 5.00pm
If in doubt, do ring us on 01797 223038.
Christmas – it’s never too late at Rye Pottery
Our First Vouchers!
It is nearly Christmas and we are working our socks off to keep the kiln firing and make sure everything we have promised has gone out in time!
We have this year also been asked for Rye Pottery Gift Vouchers, which we think is an excellent answer to those folk who really have left it too late. Do please call us for one of whatever value you choose and we will be delighted to help.
Rye Pottery on BBC Radio
Well I fear we are not as quick as the Neapolitan Potter who already has his pregnant Kate & William figure on sale by Wednesday, but we are thinking hard of what designs we will decide on in due course.
First and foremost though I feel we should all wait a while and give the poor girl time to overcome the dreaded morning sickness. I have huge sympathy with that problem having suffered from it for all of my darling children!
Radio Sussex rang up on Tuesday morning to ask what we would be doing, which caught me on the hop a little, though I am sure we will do one of our collectable small transfer tankards when next June/ July actually comes!
Biddy Cole
We’ll hope to add the audio of Biddy talking to morning show radio host Danny Pike soon but in the meantime you can listen via the BBC iplayer here.
November and no Downton Abbey to watch!
So the third Downton Abbey series has finished, what are we all to do I wonder, on dark winter Sunday evenings? At Rye Pottery we are busy planning all the changes involved in the next Cole generation of Joshua and Tabitha taking over from Tarquin and me.
There will be lots of changes with all their new ideas and energy, but I am very pleased that they still want to go on making the lovely Neal French Country House figures, which fit so well with the Downton Abbey lifestyle.
Elegant and stylish the Rye Golfers, Gardeners and Cook all blend into the Downton story, perhaps in the next series they will even employ a Male Chef rather like our Escoffier Chef! I was pleased to realise that we already have 2 Rye Cricketers for the anuual Downton versus the village match, though our Batsman and Bowler are from a rather earlier cricketing period they make quite a good match for Mr Carson in his whites I felt!
The Rye Bowler: James Lillywhite played for Sussex and England, and also had a few games for Rye, before retiring and helping his family found the famous Lillywhites sportswear shop in Piccadilly.
The end of a lifetime!
On October 9th Eileen Cole widow of Wally, died in her hundredth year. Tiny – barely 5 foot tall – blonde and very feisty, Eileen was Wally’s strength and support over 30 years at Rye Pottery. They first met in 1930 as students at Woolwich Art School and never looked back. During WW2 Eileen, plus small son Tarquin, found digs wherever Wally was posted in England, ending up finally in Farnham while he was with Army Camouflage based at Farnham Castle working on deceptions for the D Day landings.
In 1947 Wally was teaching part time at The Central School & they moved into a small cottage in Winchelsea (by now with new baby daughter as well as teenage son), this allowed Wally with brother Jack to re-open Rye Pottery. Eileen soon found herself having to make pottery trugs, small vases and silk lampshades as well as manning the “Seconds shop”. After Jack’s retirement in the early 1960’s. they moved in to live over the Pottery and Eileen she took over most of the everlasting paper work as well. In 1978 although officially retired, Eileen stayed on to man the shop on Saturdays so that Tarquin and Biddy could have week ends with their young family.
Once retired Eileen was able to give more time to her other great love – gardening. She created a wonderful oasis of cool and calm behind the untidy Pottery development which had grown like Topsy over the years in Ferry Road. Active in Inner Wheel until well into her 90’s, Eileen always loved a visit from old friends & customers happy to have a cup of tea and discuss the good old days of Purchase tax and 3 day weeks! We wish her peace and rest.
Our local paper ran an obituary, which you can read here.
September and at last some real sunshine.
I know that here in the South East, we have been luckier than a great many areas this summer , at least since the beginning of August. We were fortunate to be close to London and obviously benefited from the Olympic sunshine and feel good factor; Napoleon always asked his prospective generals if they were lucky before he promoted them. We certainly were lucky to share in Lord Coe’s luck with the weather!
Now we we are all back at work painting pots, firing kilns and making changes and decisions about the future. Keep an eye on this space ~ when we know ourselves we will let you all know too!
Pamela Goddard 1933-2012
The late Pam Goddard, painting 1950s Rye Pottery Sussex Pigs
We are just back from a funeral, Pamela Goddard, who worked at the pottery from 1948 until she took early retirement in 1984, died at the beginning of June.
Pam was taken on by Jack and Wally Cole to help with decorating the ever increasing range of pottery they were developing in the early post-war years. The country had been starved of pretty things, but now as long as the pottery was for export they could put patterns everywhere! The home market was still restricted to decoration which only used different coloured clay slips, but export allowed total freedom of expression.Pam worked on the Cottage stripes and all their variations and was involved in the introduction of the very popular Multi floral range of tableware (click here fore more), which was exported both to the United States and to several Northern European countries throughout the 1960’s and 70’s. From the mid 60’s Pam moved from painting to throwing ware and, as more semi-automatic tableware making machinery was introduced, she concentrated mainly on thrown dishes, bowls and jugs.
Her thrown ware is identified by the pressed metal P on the base of her pots, identifying her painted work is more of a problem as Rye Pottery standard ware were patterns that were copied from a master original and pieces were not signed until the initialling of each piece was introduced by the younger Coles in the mid 1990’s.
Midsummer now past
Hard to believe half the year has gone and we are now running downhill until December. We seem to have one, or if we are amazingly lucky two,fine days followed by enoromously damaging winds and rain. A poor friend who runs a local nursery said after a while their customers just give up on gardening and decide to leave it all until next year. We are so lucky that pottery does not go off or turn brown in the wet and wind, and we have seen a lot of our regular summer visitors from overseas, though they won’t be having much fun looking at the gardens on the Kent and Sussex borders, in particular Great Dixter and Sissinghurst, both of which make great outings when spending a few days in Rye.
June but still raining!
So the Jubilee weekend is over but we are still receiving orders for our mugs so that should keep us busy for a while yet. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves despite the weather or maybe, like true Brits, because of the weather!
I was interested to hear another firm – interviewed on Radio Sussex on the same morning as we were – remark on the expense of trying to do anything to mark the Olympics. Like us they had decided NOT to risk any production that could possibly bring the power and wrath of the Olympic committee down upon their rather small and unprotected heads. We think we will not even draw attention to ourselves by continuing to fly the Union Jack after this week; luckily the sporting figures that we do make, are not exactly hugely popular Olympic sports anyhow.
So we can safely have a window of our Rye Pottery Golfers and Cricketers with no danger of a writ, I might even include the Rye Gardeners or the Rye Chef as so far I have not heard that either gardening or cooking are included in the 2012 line-up!
Rye Pottery in the Local papers
Hot on the heels of Biddy’s appearance in the Mail on Sunday, a great piece about our Royal Jubilee Commemorative pieces in our supportive local paper – The Rye and Battle Observer.
“Rye Pottery is the original and also the last remaining pottery in Rye, but it is also one of just a handful of English potteries to have consistently manufactured commemorative items for all the major Royal Events throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth II…
Biddy Cole, from Rye Pottery, said: “One long-established local family recently came to buy Rye Pottery’s Diamond Jubilee mugs for their grandchildren, because they had such fond memories of their own children being given Rye Pottery Silver Jubilee tankards while attending Rye’s primary school back in 1977.
“It was a wonderful symbol of support for both the Diamond Jubilee and our long-standing local manufacturing business, and particularly so in the current economic climate.
”The charm of a hand-decorated mug is still so great and so particular to Rye Pottery that yet again we are struggling to keep up with demand.”
>> Click here to read the whole article and to find out all the latest local news!
Rye Pottery will be on local radio tomorrow Thursday May 31st. We have been asked to join in a telephone chat about The Diamond Jubilee helping small Sussex firms in these difficult times. We should be live on BBC Radio Sussex 95.3 FM or 105 FM and also on DAB at about 8.40am.
It is always fun to be involved, but a bit nerve racking doing live pieces. Last year we did a live interview outside the Pottery as the reception was better, but the local train went through at the same time, which meant all the cars were stuck in the road behind us waiting to move while the Rail Crossing gates were shut!
More about our Jubilee pieces
CORONATION DESIGN TANKARDS 1 pt & 1/2 pt by RYE POTTERY
May seems to be rushing past and still we cannot catch up on our Diamond Jubilee orders! We are making the little transfer tankards as fast as we can, not helped by Bank Holidays of course when no kilns are firing ! We have been digging into our archives and have been pleased to find pictures of the colourways used to celebrate the Coronation back in 1953. So here are 2 sizes of hand painted Jubilee Tankards in the Coronation Pattern – the large is approx 1 pint size and the smaller 1/2 pint.
We have used the same charmingly cheerful colourway to paint both 8 inch and 10 inch diameter plates, not to mention the centre piece of our Diamond Jubilee display~ a large hand thrown bowl~ in the same striking colourway.
Country Homes & Interiors magazine
We’ve tiled more bathrooms than we can count in the last 40 years with our Rye Tiles Range, but we’ve just spotted a wonderful photograph from interiors magazine Country Homes & Interiors. You can see the beautifully styled shot on the magazine’s website here – Summer bathroom | Bathroom ideas | Image | housetohome.co.uk. It’s a classic straight jug in multifloral and serves as a good reminder that jugs are just as good for flowers as they are for drinks!
Biddy recently bought a Rye Pottery vintage Cadborough Brown glazed jug on ebay (yes we’re partial to a bit of Ebaying too) which she also uses as a flower vase. This though, is a glaze which we don’t currently make and we wanted an extra one for our archive.
The House to Home site is great, packed with ideas and inspiration, and it’s the online home for a diverse group of leading interiors magazines from Homes & Gardens and Country Homes & Interiors to Style at home and Living etc – take a look by clicking here.
Vintage Pottery Enquiries
I must apologise to the people who write to us hoping for information about items of pottery produced over the past 60 years by the other potteries in Rye – now ALL CLOSED.
We try to give you any information we do have, but as they were all separate businesses, albeit mainly opened by ex-employees of Rye Pottery, I am afraid it means we have only a limited amount of hard facts at our disposal.
Although this seemingly endless rain has prevented some of the regular April visitors from making the dash from London to Rye this year, we have been very pleased to receve a great many compliments from all the ones who have braved the April showers. So many people seem surprised that we have managed to avoid using the standard Royal photograph as decoration on our Jubilee Pottery, instead we have continued working with images from our very good collection of Royal Heraldry artwork to produce a souvenir that people really appreciate. We have let one customer down though, she really wanted a thimble and somehow Rye has never trodden the souvenir thimble path!
We have struggled to find out exactly how Rye Town plans to spend the Jubilee week end, but so far have found a rather large hole in the information available; however I am sure something will be happening then, and in the meantime we have looked out our Union Jack flag so it will be ready to fly from our flagpole on June 2.
At last we can feel that whatever the weather now does it will still be spring, the trees are all in bud and the birds are singing at least when they are not fighting. Rye is thankfully back on the railway map, and one set of roadworks on the East of Rye has been completed and we are promised the Western approaches will be finished by March 30th.
Here at Rye Pottery we cannot seem to make enough of our little Diamond Jubilee tankards, almost all the current batch we have in production are already ordered, but we are not grumbling about that!
I am often asked why we do not sell directly from our web site; this is because we do not seem to have a lot of stock or inventory, as its called in the USA, and rather than annoy customers by being unable to fulfil an order, at least if we are in personal contact with them I can explain the problems. I will always email a price list so please email me if that is what is needed.
We have finally managed to get round to taking a lot of hand painted tile photographs as we are planning a proper Rye Tiles page; so while we organise that here are some Rye Tiles to whet your appetites as the nesting and spring cleaning season really gets going.
What excitement! Not only is March 1 St David’s Day ~always a very special day in my life as I spent my childhood in a village in North Wales; but even more importantly for Rye Pottery, I have also discovered that March 1st 1360 is the day that King Edward 111 paid £ 16 ransom to free a young Geoffrey Chaucer then fighting as a soldier in France during the Siege of Rheims. It is difficult to imagine what English Literature would have been like today without the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, so we should all be grateful to King Edward for paying off this ransom so early in his career .
DIAMOND JUBILEE UDATE – We are gradually building up a small quantity of stock of our smaller Jubilee pieces, but it is good news to see how quickly things are selling as soon as we put some on display ~ GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Even more Diamond Jubilee.
COBALT BLUE JUBILEE TANKARDS
We are working very hard trying to produce lots of our popular little tankards, but as with all very special things it is quite a process to have one ready to display for sale in the shop.
All the tankards are hand thrown on the wheel by Steve Russeell, who works to carefully pre-set measurements, but of course with anything totally hand made there must always be room for a little variation in width and height!
This clay mug is then bisque fired and brought down to our decorating workshop in Rye, where Julie Catt glazes it, then paints the bands around the top of the mug and puts the dash onto the handle then it is back into the kiln again.
Finally Betty Sayer having printed up a folder full of transfers will apply the transfers carefully, including the Rye Pottery backstamp and it is ready for the final firing in the kiln. So as you will appreciate we really do sell a Diamond Jubilee Tankard which is both hand made and hand decorated here in Rye.
HAND PAINTED DIAMOND JUBILEE PLATE
Although the first week end of June will be the time for the main Diamond Jubilee celebrations, February 6th is the actual date of Her Majesty’s accession in 1952. We have been working hard to have some special pieces ready, we had already sold our first handpainted plate sample to a regular customer who is involved in various civic celebrations, fortunately we have painted a few more which we have now fired!
We are planning to have a display in our shop of some of our Commemorative Jubilee pottery which we will hope to change as and when new pieces appear! Our current problem is that somehow we have managed to only put one of the 2 relevant dates on the first trial batch of little tankards. At least this is a fault we can easily put right, just need to stay awake while putting the transfer onto the tankard; unlike the plate we painted for the Queen and Prince Philip’s Silver Wedding in 1972 when we managed to write PRICNCE (sic) instead of prince and did not notice it until it was fired and ready to go on display!
STOP PRESS correctly dated tankards with the right dates just starting to come through the system.
So we’ve just had a call from the folks at interiors magazine Living etc, asking for a number of our products for upcoming photoshoots.
All in all, three products are being dispatched as we speak, one of our charming Rye Rabbits in London Grey Sponge, a pair of our Charcoal Cockatoos and last but not least, William the Conqueror from our 1066 Bayeux Tapestry inspired series.
So keep those eyes peeled!
Rye Pottery gears up to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
This year we are, in total contrast to last year’s Royal Wedding, all geared up and raring to go with new Rye Pottery designs to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
We have planned and painted a sample of our hand-painted large plate, as well as designing the artwork for the much-loved little transfer tankards and small dishes. We hope to add some one-off pots throughout the next 6 months, which will be sold on a strictly first come first served basis.
Rye Pottery have produced Royal Commemoratives for over 100 years. Hastings Museum has a 1902 jug made for Edward VII and we’ve also seen trials and drawings for an Edward VIII 1936 mug designed by Robert “Bobby” Baker (later Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art while Tarquin was a student) who before WW2 was working for Rural Industries.
The post-war Cole dynasty at Rye Pottery made tankards and dishes for the 1953 Coronation and have never looked back, producing special designs for each succeeding Royal event. We even printed 2 miles of 6 inch square tiles during the 1981 Royal Wedding celebrations.
Recently we bought two lovely Royal pieces on ebay, one of which, a Wally Cole design, is we believe a one-off.
Noticed in the papers.
Last week we were saddened but interested to see an obituary of cartoonist Ronald Searle that used a photograph of him standing in his studio. Just behind him was a lovely 50s Rye Pottery Jug holding his paint brushes.
(You can see the picture here).
Spotting the Rye Pot is always a fun game – they seem to come up in Midsomer Murders frequently, though so far no piece has been the actual murder weapon!
Last week was also the anniversary of the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066 and the accession to the English throne of Harold the following day; so much for his promises to William, perhaps like many politicians the opportunity of holding power made it worthwhile jettisoning his principles.
For the next 9 weeks the railway from Ashford to Hastings via Rye will be closed for major repairs, so if you are visiting Rye it will be simpler to travel by car until the end of March.
A new year and some old friends.
The Christmas decorations are now all put away until next December, while we work our way through some large boxes of samples that had been stored away when we were moving out of the Ferry Road site 5 years ago this month.
We have found several figures in different colourways, some of which we may decide to repeat, as well as some very early lamp bases with charming hand painted designs which we may copy onto some other shapes.
Meanwhile we wish all our collectors a very happy and healthy 2012 and we look forward to hearing from you and hopefully seeing some of you during the coming year.
Christmas and New Year!
Small engraved Christmas dish by Wally Cole c 1960
So we have finally arrived, last parcels sent off and the last kiln fired!
Our shop will be open until 3.00pm on Friday December 23rd 2011 and then we are closed until Tuesday January 3rd.
We would like to thank all our Rye enthusiasts for continuing to support us, and we wish you all, wherever you are in the world, a happy and enjoyable Christmas and a healthy and peaceful 2012.
The Prince Regent or Prinny as he was sometimes known
Years ago we were asked by Brighton Pavilion to produce a pair of Regency figures based on some of their wonderfully vicious James Gillray cartoons.One of the figures was The Prince Regent and the other was Maria Fitzherbert.
Mrs Maria Fitzherbert
Their unrecognised morganatic marriage took place on 15th December 1785, but sadly, despite his genuine love for her, his increasing debts and extravagance meant he had to to agree to King George III’s terms and in 1795 he married his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
This royal alliance was a disaster from day one, resulting in an official separation a year later, and producing such dislike on both sides that as George IV in 1820 he even forbade her admittance to his Coronation.
>> You can find out more about them both by clicking this link which will take you to the Royal Pavilion’s website.
>> Or to see more pictures of the actual figures themselves, click here
STILL WORKING HARD
Our poor kiln here is working so hard it hardly has time to cool between being unpacked and repacked and switched on again.
For safety reasons the kiln is on the ground floor here, but the heat comes up through the floor boards and keeps my feet pleasantly warm. The other useful byproduct of firing the kiln is that over the years it has caused the floor boards to warp a little so that customers simply cannot come in and out without us hearing – so much easier than keeping a dog to bark at them!
Panic stations for December
So December has arrived and the cold weather with it, our fingers are well crossed that we do not have a repeat of the cold and snow of last December.
The general feeling of panic and chaos in our building would no doubt keep us warm however cold it was outside, as we frantically try and make sure that we have all the right figures for the last minute mail order customers, who somehow over the years, have never quite understood that in a small pottery it is not always feasible to carry large numbers of every single piece we produce. We hate to upset or disappoint any customer,so we work very hard to second guess all the last minuters, but sometimes it just is not possible. So if you are one of the unlucky would- be -buyers, we apologise in advance. Why not give them an IOU and we will send it in January as a pick-me- up for the post Christmas blues?
Rye has now switched on the Christmas Tree lights and on Saturday 10th Father Christmas is arrving at Rye Station with his reindeer and then will be driving around Rye to the Christmas Market on the Strand Quay to hear the Victorian carol singers !
It is the last week of November and we finally managed to remember where we had put the Christmas decorations last January! June & Betty had a very busy day sorting everything out and we are now as festive as the proverbial Christmas robin. As usual the moment we started to dismantle the previous window display we had a a run of customers all wanting to buy something fron the things we were carefully putting away. This had been a seaside theme, using our various donkey figures with or without riders, along with The Netmenders and The Fisherman’s Tale.
To add a little scale to the nautical scene, we had included some very nice nesting boxes made from reclaimed wood and modelled on the iconic Hastings black timber fishing sheds, which are sold by our son Josh via his on line shop www.greenandpresent.co.uk and suddenly from no sales of the boxes in 2 months we found we had sold all five of them as we tried to pack them away!
With our windows now shining and twinkling we are all set for Rye’s Christmas Festival which starts on December 3rd with the switching on of the Lights and the High Street Christmas Tree followed by a firework display.
More about the Rye Christmas Festival plans next week.
Rye’s weekend of classic cars
RYE POTTERY PLATE FOR THE CLASSIC CRUISE
Every November Rye hosts a spectacular Classic Car event.
This year in warm sunshine, the carefully preserved and polished cars with drivers and passengers similarly shining and glowing, processed around the town before lining up to be judged by the Mayor of Rye, the winners receiving a hand painted Rye Pottery plate to mark the occasion.
Potting as pain or pleasure
Listening to the Today programme this morning while potter/ author Edmund De Waal was being interviewed, we were delighted to hear him describe potting as “A tremendous art which we should all take seriously.” It is always amazing and indeed rather off putting to be told by a customer looking at a one-off hand painted pot or tile ” Ooh that is very expensive” while telling you of the lovely “art print” they have just bought for a much larger sum of money! We have always felt that not only is a pot just as beautiful as a painting, it often has the additional advantage that you can use it as well as look at it.
Here at Rye Pottery we produce a considerable number of one offs at, what we think, are remarkably low prices, especially when you have just opened the kiln to find that 3 or 4 pieces have decided to shatter during the firing cycle. The flip side of the coin is the joy and excitement that opening a good kiln brings to all of us. Better than Christmas – is how Wally Cole used to describe handling a newly fired perfect pot which had come through its ordeal of fire with the final result excelling anything you could have possibly imagined. De Waal perhaps should have added this morning, that Potting is also a disease for which there seems to be no known immunisation!
A Mid-Century Rye Pottey Cassic – Miss Simplicity
We’ve been looking on the web and spotted there’s one of our popular Mid-Century Classics for sale on ebay – a vintage MISS SIMPLICITY bottle. These bottles in 2 sizes were originally used for Oil and Vinegar.
They were designed by Wally’s brother Jack Cole in the early-mid 1950’s, not as stated in the text for the one for sale on ebay, by Marjorie Cole. Marjorie was Jack’s wife and she produced some very collectable Pottery dolls in the 50’s – just not this one!
A very, very few were made and production had stopped by the early 60s, but we have traced about 20 of these very charming one-offs. Sadly Marjorie in later years destroyed any she could lay her hands on. Jack did not really like his Miss Simplicity, (we have this in a letter on file in the archive) but despite his artistic misgivings she was without doubt a very popular piece at the time and still with collectors today.
We recently rediscovered the long-forgotten moulds for Miss S while trawling through our Mid-Century archives. We’ve been working on plans to revitalise and refresh some of our classic pieces and designs from this period, and Miss Simplicity is such a favourite for us that she’s certain to be part of that. So far, we’ve decided she will be reborn in the 21st Century with a fixed head that faces in a different direction! Next up is the decoration development stage. To the right you can see some samples we’ve been working on – absolute one-offs that a handful of collectors have been lucky enough to snap up in our shop in Rye.
But there are lots more decoration ideas we’re working on, so watch this space, because her outfit’s not finalised yet. When we decide on the first design to officially enter production we’ll be sure to let you know here.
If you want to be one of the first to find out when Miss Simplicity is available to buy, visit our shop in Rye every, single day … or alternatively just sign up for our newsletter at the top right corner of the site.
NOVEMBER BEGINS
Rye has a special feel in November, like a great many East Sussex towns and villages it has a thriving Bonfire Society whose hardworking members stage a flaming torch lit procession around the town, with a magnificent firework display and huge bonfire down on The Salts-this year’s date is Saturday 11th.
The whole day has a special excitement with the scent of smoke & darkness and members of other Bonfire Societies marching around the town most of the day in full costume. Rye’s tradition goes way back beyond Guy Fawkes to medieval days when our local fishermen and their opposite numbers across the Channel in France were continuously raiding each other and setting fire to the fishing boats. There is always a “ Burning boat” bringing up the rear of the procession to this day, though its more mundane task now is to collect the burnt out torches. Grown-up children who have long moved away from Rye make a point of trying to be back for Bonfire Night.
>> To find out more visit the Rye & District Bonfire Society website here!
Vintage Sussex Pigs
Today (31st October 2011) Tarquin has been asked to help identify an early 20thcentury “Sussex Pig” for a collector, but the consensus from all the local experts was that it was nothing to do with Rye. Too many things did not match up, colour of the glaze, the lettering technique and of course no basemark at all. It looked as if it was cast from a mould so beware there could be more about!
Note to the wary: Pre war Sussex Pigs were all thrown by hand & not made in a mould.
Here at Rye Pottery we do not reproduce pre-war pieces and any post-war designs we do introduce always have our current Rye Pottery mark, or “back stamp” as we call it in the trade, to make sure there can be no confusion.
>> We hope one day to add more about the various marks used to identify Rye Pottery in the future, but in the meantime, click here to find out how our backstamp and initialling systems work – both now and in years past.
More from October
We had a wonderful family outing yesterday. We went up to the King’s Head in Islington to see our son Josh Cole who is in Kvetch, which is running there until November 4. Lovely as ex-Londoners to be back there even if only for half a day, the weather was perfect, but seeing all the shops full of Hallowe’en things did make us quite glad that witches, ghouls and ghosties are all a bit spiky and not really suited to our sort of pottery! We think we will stick with October 25 marking 611 years since Geoffrey Chaucer died.
>> You can read some of the reviews and book tickets here.
OCTOBER IS A BUSY MONTH
OCTOBER seems to be a month full of important dates for Rye Pottery. First The Battle of Hastings to remember on the 14th while October 21st is the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, as a former naval officer Tarquin felt Rye had to have its own NELSON figure to mark the 200th anniversary in 2005!, Last but not least October 25 1400 marks the death of GEOFFREY CHAUCER. Chaucer should be remembered not only for his wonderful literature including THE CANTERBURY TALES, he was also Clerk of the Works to Richard 11 from 1389 and as such he is thought to have been responsible for the building of Westminster Hall; he is the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Today is the Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, I wonder how many figures in our Bayeux Tapestry series we will have to mark the 950th Anniversary in 2016!
>> This is an ongoing series with new pieces to be added in regularly, to take a look at the current beautiful figures in our Bayeux collection click here.
Japanese Television
I wish you could have seen us here last Friday, we had a Japanese TV crew making a travel documentary about South East England. They had already visited the Hop Farm and Museum in Paddock Wood and were due to take a ride on the Bluebell Railway later that day. They were all very enthusiastic and loved Rye and our Pottery
I spoke direct to camera in short sound bites, which could be translated later, ending by inviting their viewers to be sure to vist Rye Pottery and Rye. It took 3 takes for them to be happy while I felt more and more stilted with each retake so hope it will sound reasonable when it is finally shown. Fortunately they also took some lovely shots of Jane Davies glazing and painting a Rye Rabbit . Jane was of course lucky enough to have something useful to do with her hands while they filmed her, unlike me who was filmed just standing in our shop with our wonderful medieaval wall as a back drop.
They have promised us a copy once it is all edited. So fingers crossed!
More pages go live!
We are adding new pages in all the time and trying to ensure there is plenty of information about the Rye Pottery range for you to find without too much hassle. Please let us know what you think we love to hear from you.
New Website & an update of some of our latest pottings!
Some of you will have struggled to find us over the past weeks while we have been having our new website sorted out! We are here and working even if off the radar for a short while, so please contact us if you need us (click here). Meanwhile I am doing my best to put all our pottery back on to this lovely new site! I am sure you will eventually find it simpler to navigate and hopefully full of interesting things about all our Rye Pottery ranges. Update: end of September: with help from our daughter Tabby we have finally sorted out the cut off heads and now have put the complete Canterbury Tales pages up on the website. Please do have a look while we go on looking for all the other pre digital pictures for some of the other pages. We are getting very excited as we work through each group and hope you will enjoy the new-look Rye Pottery as much we as do
Vintage Rye Pottery Vases
During the long damp summer June Woolley who retired in 1998 after 45 years, has been back in the attics peering through our amazing archive, not least the from the Mid Century. The result of all this activity means that we have some really exciting one-offs in the shop – early 1950’s patterns painted by June onto vases and bowls.
So not only are we one of the few country potteries still in existence today who were selected to show in one of the pavilions of the Festival of Britain, here 60 years on are some of those same patterns.
Rye Pottery in the Mail on Sunday
Biddy has just been interviewed for a piece in this weekend’s Mail on Sunday about William and Kate’s imminent nuptials.
Rye Pottery has been producing commemorative pieces to mark every Royal occasion since the Prince of Wales’s investiture in 1969 – and the upcoming Royal Wedding is no exception.
While not everyone is lucky enough to have British manufacturers flurrying to produce a host of products to commemorate their special dates, here at Rye Pottery we produce beautiful one-off designs and pieces for personal and corporate special occasions – weddings, christenings, even just plain old Thank You’s! Every piece is individually hand-made, hand-lettered and decorated to order.
Click the following link to visit our shop and see some examples of our Bespoke Ceramics.
Or click here to read Biddy’s Interview with the Mail on Sunday
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SailGP global racing league unveiled at spectacular London launch
3 OCTOBER 2018News
SailGP set to redefine sailing with thrilling new fan-centric grand prix racing circuit
International league to feature six national teams, visiting five iconic, inshore venues starting with Sydney in February 2019
Teams will race identical wingsailed F50s – supercharged catamarans capable of breaking the 50-knot barrier
Season culminates with single, $1 million match-race final between top two teams
SailGP today set out to redefine sailing with the launch of its new global racing league: five grand prix events featuring six national teams on identical wingsailed F50s – the world’s fastest, most technologically advanced catamarans. Spearheaded by Larry Ellison and Sir Russell Coutts, in season one, SailGP will bring intensely competitive, high-speed inshore racing to fans in Sydney; San Francisco; New York; Cowes, U.K.; and Marseille, France, as world-class crews compete for the championship trophy and a $1 million prize.
Kicking off in February 2019, SailGP’s inaugural season will feature teams representing six countries – Australia, China, France, Great Britain, Japan and the United States. Each five-person crew will race on identical 50-foot foiling catamarans. A new boat class, the F50 is a redesigned, supercharged incarnation of the exceptional AC50 used for the 35th America’s Cup last year. Twelve months in development at the hands of pioneering technicians and engineers at Core Builders Composites in New Zealand, the F50s are expected to break the 50-knot (60mph/100kph) barrier.
" SailGP is the evolution of sailing. With equally incredible technology across our one-design fleet, we expect to see thrillingly close and competitive racing amongst national teams. And, with a modern, consistent format, SailGP will provide a new opportunity for talented sailors who want to race for their countries".
Larry Ellison, SailGP founder
" SailGP distills all of the most successful, exciting and relevant elements of high-performance, professional racing, while adding the extra edge that comes with nation-versus-nation competition. We are aiming to be pioneers of new technologies, boat design, commercial partnerships and global audience engagement. But with every crew on the same groundbreaking F50 catamaran, this isn’t a tech arms race, rather the ultimate test to establish the best sailing team in advanced foiling catamarans".
Russell Coutts, SailGP CEO
Sanctioned by World Sailing, each grand prix will comprise two competition days with five fleet races, culminating in a final match race between the two leaders. After SailGP’s Sydney inauguration in February (15-16), the league moves on to San Francisco in May (4-5), New York in June (21-22), and Cowes in August (10-11), before the Marseille final in September (20-22), which features a winner-takes-all, $1 million championship match race between the season’s top two teams to conclude three days of racing.
“World Sailing is thrilled to be working with SailGP to bring a new, exciting and fan-friendly elite racing league to life,” said World Sailing CEO Andy Hunt. “SailGP is an ambitious project that is spearheaded by an incredible forward-thinking leadership team. We’re excited about SailGP’s commitment to innovate and advance the sport forward and by working in partnership, we will aim to inspire millions more people to fall in love with sailing.”
SailGP was created by Ellison and Coutts, who have been instrumental in the commercial development of competitive sailing. The innovative new professional sailing league – featuring an ongoing calendar of premium global racing among national teams in the world’s most advanced catamarans – will engage the next generation of fans and create a pathway for future sailors. SailGP will be a commercially driven sports property, eventually maturing to a franchise model.
Renowned luxury house Louis Vuitton, which partners with the world’s biggest sporting events and packs the most legendary trophies; Oracle, industry-leading global provider of enterprise cloud computing; and Land Rover, the world’s leading manufacturer of premium all-wheel-drive vehicles, join SailGP as founding partners. Additional details and sponsors will be announced at a future date.
With a primary goal of growing global viewership and broadening its fanbase, SailGP’s broadcast plans focus on comprehensive live coverage complemented by centrally produced highlight programs, and cutting-edge screen applications and services. Whisper Films has been appointed as the league’s host broadcast production partner and will play a key role in delivering a personality-driven broadcast utilizing patented and leading-edge immersive media technologies, while Talisman Sports and Media is handling global media rights distribution.
The Great Britain SailGP Team was also introduced to home fans during the London launch. Skippered by Rio 2016 Olympian and world champion Dylan Fletcher, Great Britain’s vastly experienced crew includes Olympic bronze medalist Chris Draper as team CEO and wing trimmer, Olympic silver medalist Stuart Bithell as flight controller, and Olympic champion rower Matt Gotrel and Extreme Sailing Series winner Richard Mason as grinders.
“The concept of SailGP immediately excited me,” said Great Britain helmsman Dylan Fletcher. “This league allows us to compete with and against the best, and to challenge ourselves in every way possible while sailing the world’s fastest catamarans. We have the opportunity to push the limits of our sport, and this is a very proud chapter in my career. What Larry and Russell have created is truly unique, and I am confident it will capture the attention of audiences around the world.”
The launch event took place at Tower Bridge in London. Following the formal program hosted by ITV’s Ben Shephard and featuring addresses by Ellison, Coutts, Hunt and members of the Great Britain SailGP Team, a visual and sensory display on the Thames’ South Bank provided a first look at what SailGP will bring to audiences around the world.
ABOUT SAILGP
SailGP is sailing redefined. Established in 2018 and headquartered in London and San Francisco, SailGP is an annual, global sports league featuring bold, cutting-edge technology and awe-inspiring athleticism. The fan-centric, inshore racing takes place in some of the most iconic harbors around the globe and culminates with a $1 million winner-takes-all match race. Rival national teams from Australia, China, France, Great Britain, Japan and the United States battle it out in identical supercharged F50 catamarans, engineered for intense racing at electrifying speeds exceeding 50 knots (nearly 60 mph/100 kph)
SailGP: Christy Cahill, Director of Communications | ccahill@oracleracing.com | +1 617 777 4489
CSM Sports and Entertainment: Michael White, Communications Director | Michael.White@csm.com | +44 7552 289 239
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Laser Class Politics
New standard sail
Thread starter TonyB
Thread starter #141
sorosz said:
Does anyone have any numbers on how many knock-off sails versus class legal sails are being used around the world? How big a problem is it really? Is the problem widespread or is it just a big problem in some fleets and not an issue in others?
It's not a problem for my fleet. Everyone uses legal sails, and seems pretty happy to do so. I think the general attitude in the fleet is that a new sail would be nice, but in the meantime the old sail isn't as bad as its reputation implies.
Without wanting to generalise too much, I suspect that replica sails are a greater problem in fleets with a higher proportion of non-class members.
Der_Dude said:
If the new design is considerably more expensive than the old one it will hardly solve the problem of the replicas; we would probably only see different replicas.
I think it is about a balance between cost and longevity. If the class legal sail cost 3 times as much as a replica yet was fully competitive for 30 times as long then class legal would be the cheapest way to go (daft numbers to illustrate the point).
The issue with the current sail is not so much the cost but the cost in relation to how quickly it becomes uncompetitive.
TonyB said:
Over the last few years I have been a member of 4 different sailing clubs (I have been moving around a bit) and all have significant numbers of knock-off sails. One club (I am no longer a member of), 1st time I turned-up and rigged I was immediately told I should stop using the class legal sail, save it for important events and buy a replica sail. More recent clubs have around/over 50% knock-off sails (including class captains). It may easily be that non-class members are more likely to sail with knock-off gear - certainly at one club I have sailed at class membership is exceptionally low.
Once a new sail is available, I wonder if the Class Associations could start acting to revert the "anything goes" rules many fleets seem to have adopted. Maybe say to clubs that "next year if you want to be a Laser fleet you can only sail Lasers and clubs with "anything goes" will not have open events listed, not have any support from class association, etc." (with allowances for those who already have knock-offs).
powergroove
Deimos said:
I think you will run the risk of losing fleets who have lost trust in the Class, plus, what support do local fleets have from the Class or Builder? Im helping with a "Laser Only, One design, no knock-off sails regatta" at my club this weekend and havent seen any support.
Who should we ask for, and what kind of support should we expect?
powergroove said:
I have no idea. I was sort of hoping that somebody could do something to restore the class to being a one design - and that I doubt the builder would so only really leaves the Class Association. Of course that would only be after the new sail was available.
If they can do nothing is would seem that once a club starts "anything goes" that that is it for good = end of Laser class.
We contact our local dealer(s) and lean on them for support, in return for promoting them in the NOR, skippers meeting etc.. We also invite them onsite with their "regatta" van and then can do on site sales...
Eric_R
D10 Secretary
49208 said:
You don't do that anyway for events? Most regattas in the are usually have a local dealer come for support. I think that might be a reason you don't see many knock offs in my area, the dealers are close and always around.
gouvernail
Super Opinionated and Always Correct
The Austin fleet has only one sailor with an Intensity rag and he usually doesn't make it past the leeward mark by teh time the rest of the fleet has finished... and, unfortunatly, gets pissed if anyone attempts to help him..
Rob B
gouvernail said:
Sounds like a peach of guy. I would think with that attitude he won't be around long in the Laser. I'm hope you're not associating using a knock off sail w/being an a-hole....
I'm still taking the hopeful high road.
believing...
He believes singlehended boats and self sufficiency go together and he sees help as derision from those who can toward those who are not able to figure it out on their own...
Which could piss me off as it assumes some mighty insulting things about the rest of us but the beginner in any group is a fragile addition to the mix whose personality and social needs must be figured out by the group before the beginner's interaction with the group proves intolerable.
For some that takes about one second. Sometimes it never happens.
As long as I see no malice I try to avoid assigning blame or calling names...
even when the newbie is someone with whom my first 100 interactions totally suck.
drLaser
It surely has been a long time.
I definitely support this project. We did ask ILCA to push for a new Standard sail design. Not at all costs, though! For instance, would you like this 12-panel, bi-radial cut sail to render all current sails obsolete overnight, or to cost 970 USD, or to be required (or not required) for sanctioned events racing?
Why doesn't anybody even mention ILCA membership approval of the final design and introduction procedures? Or has your experience with the new Australian-built and "GRP infusion" foils conditioned all of you to sheepishly accept whatever the Builder pushes down your throats as "Builder Supplied"?
Love you all! Especially you, Fred!
Just sailing
I see this issue has become hot enough to draw you back from hibernation!
How about a $500 sail that shapes nicely and lasts.
Thats not too much to ask is it?
torrid said:
For those who don't know what this means. Visit the internet Wayback Machine
for thiose who don't know what the Wayback Machine is>>>
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBj14W5vY04&feature=related"]YouTube - Rocky and Bullwinkle - Minisode 05[/ame]
Merrily
Thanks for the R & B clip, Fred, but it didn't include any mention of the Wayback Machine! Loved the dragon bit with Professor Peabody and his boy Sherman, but it still didn't include the Wayback Machine!
drLaser said:
OMG. Dr. Laser LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wavedancer
Upside down?
Rob B said:
I want proof!
Dr._Loser
From 3# World
Hi everybody !!!!!!
(I will not fight anymore, i swear Merrily !!!!)
I send you a picture from my vacation !!!!!
It's me, horse riding ( with a life jacket !!! )
What are you talking about ???
A super big hug from the ass of the world !!
Flaco.jpg
Merrily said:
OK Here's a modern Wayback Machine story. It isn't really from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show but it is similar enough...>>>
OK... This one is a lot more appropriate to Lasers, bringing in different sails, and this thread>>>
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWhgyGWkgE&feature=fvw"]YouTube - The Bullwinkle Show "Mr. Know-It All"[/ame]
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Home Business City pushes pause on HDA idea for year-round lights, sound
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City pushes pause on HDA idea for year-round lights, sound
The Hollister Downtown Association’s proposal for the city to pay about $75,000 for year-round tree lighting and a sound system is on hold after the council voted unanimously to further study the matter and separate the two proposals.
The startup costs would include $71,658 for equipment and another $3,300 annual electrical cost.
Council members heard from a variety of speakers on the idea for Hollister to fund the HDA’s proposal for commercial-grade lighting system, and a sound system for announcements and music.
Initial setup costs were estimated at about $39,000 for the lighting and $32,000 for the sound, according to the agenda summary to go with the annual electricity expenditure.
Council members questioned some aspects of the idea, while speakers were both supportive and opposed to the agenda item.
Councilman Karson Klauer started the conversation by speculating that maintenance would bring on additional costs each year that the city would likely have to fund.
“My concern is anytime there’s maintenance involved, it’s never a one-time expense,” Klauer said.
He went on: “If we’re going to do this, we’ve got to play we’re going to be spending this money.”
HDA Executive Director Jeana Arnold, however, offered the organization’s perspective and said it came from the nonprofit’s design committee.
“This is something we felt would enhance downtown and we brought it forward,” Arnold said, noting how the group had worked with city staff on the proposal for six to eight months.
HDA Board President Dan Recht told the council the concept has worked in a lot of different communities. He said the HDA was willing to potential adjustments to the idea and would make sure the additions would not be disruptive.
Business interests were all in favor of the idea, though.
“We as business owners aren’t trying to battle with the HDA or anything like that,” said Jack Barbieri, owner of the Hollister House Bar & Grill, adding how a group of business interests got together to discuss the matter. “Nobody has come to us to ask us if we want sound.”
Peter Hernandez, owner of Ohana Shave Ice, said the focus should be on business and foot traffic. He said he’s not against the HDA or putting lights downtown.
“What we’re saying is listen to us. We have a voice. We have an opinion,” he said.
Property owner and manager Tony LoBue supported the idea and said the sound system wouldn’t hurt anyone as long as it’s turned off at a certain time. His business partner and sister Marie Peterson agreed.
“Anything that could help these downtown businesses survive and make a little bit of money, because they always say they’re not making money, I would fully support,” she said.
Future council members, meanwhile, will likely make the final decision on the matter.
Incoming District 4 Councilman Marty Richman spoke, saying he’s supportive of the lighting but wasn’t so excited about the sound part.
“Sound comes in,” he said of nearby homes and businesses. “It’s interruptive. I’m not convinced we should put a sound system put in.”
Richman noted how many of the downtown businesses already had decided to put up lights themselves and for less money.
“That’s a lot of money,” Richman said of the HDA request.
Another incoming council member, Rolan District in District 2, was critical of the cost and said there hadn’t been enough input from the public.
“Seventy thousand dollars,” he said. “Just let that sit with you for a quick minute.”
After several other speakers talked as well, Klauer said both sides should sit down and figure it out. Councilwoman Carol Lenoir like the lighting idea but thought the sound concept needed more discussion. Councilwoman Mickie Luna was concerned about a potential fire danger with lights on trees all year, pointing out the house fire that occurred two homes away from her houseon Homestead Avenue a week ago.
“I’m very concerned about those trees,” she said. “Those trees belong to the city. And so what kind of lighting is on them, is there any possibility the tree could catch on fire and the fire could catch a building?”
That’s when the head of public works, Mike Chambless, suggested the council re-write the proposals and break it into two items. The council unanimously approved further studying it and separating the ideas, with Mayor Ignacio Velazquez absent from the meeting.
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James Cameron, Terminator 2 3D 2017, Terminator 2 Judgment Day, Terminator 6
James Cameron talks “TERMINATOR 6” in Live Q&A at the Berlin Film Festival!
February 17, 2017 Skynet 3 Comments
During a live Question & Answer session with James Cameron at the Berlin Film Festival, which was also simulcast on Facebook, Cameron was mostly asked questions regarding the 3D conversion of his blockbuster film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”. (Note we learned that other than digitally fixing a falling windshield from the T-1000’s truck as it crashes into the drainage canal, no futher alterations were made to T2 3D.) Cameron did speak briefly however about the new Terminator film in development and this is what he had to say.
It started with a question from someone in the audience, where they acknowledged James Cameron would be reacquiring the rights to the Terminator franchise soon and wanted to know if he would ever consider directing another Terminator film again.
James Cameron jokingly countered that after all the Avatar films he’s creating, he would be too old to direct another Terminator film, but not before teasing fans that he hopes to be still creatively involved with “Terminator 6”.
The following was James Cameron’s response:
“I mean ah well look it’s a complex issue. The current rights holder is Skydance and they did the most recent Terminator film Genisys, “Terminator Genisys” and I’m in very early discussions with them because why wait till, till 2019, if we don’t have to. If we know that’s coming why don’t we get ahead of it, you know?
I won’t be able to direct it because I’m doing four Avatar movies back-to-back and they’re all written and we’ve already started preparation on that. So uh, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t be creatively involved, but I don’t really have anything concrete right now. But fingers crossed that we can bring Terminator back.
I think the bigger issue is, you know, how do we make it fresh, how do we make it new and as inventive for the twenty-first century as the first two Terminator films were, you know, 25 and 30 years ago.”
So if anyone previously had any doubts that the rumors were true or not that James Cameron is “godfathering” TERMINATOR 6, they can now put those fears to rest. James Cameron is indeed helping Skydance develop a sixth Terminator film and we can’t wait to see what kind of Terminator movie is coming next.
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A future war movie. Thats what we all want!
Deliriously Sane says:
I would not be shocked if Mr. Schwarzenegger is absent from this latest Terminator project. My instincts tell me that whatever story they tell, it will be far removed from what we have seen before.
steven irizarry says:
empire strikes back is a much better film than judgement day…because empire strikes back pushes the franchise in new directions. the direction of terminator is a well worn out theme of MAN VS MACHINE without any real nuance or deviation. thus to make terminator great is to push it to a new direction
Set after the future war
when man and machine combine for the greator good of both parties. the story could begin with jason conner the son of john conner deviating from john conners anti robot vision because he realizes that humanity has fallen into tribalism and continue to war against eachother as well as the earths ecology going downhill. realizing the infinite possibilities of machine human hybrids and the transhuman possibility of human immortality through a merger of the machines
he also has a deep resentment for his father. Decal red physically unfit for service, Jason always felt like a dissapointment to his father. Imagine a angry pale kid with a bad attitude and a cold intellect to which there is no equal. But he suffers from a rift with his father
John conner on the otherhand is shell-shocked from the war, has PTSD, and generally has trouble coming to grips with the fact that the war is finally over…you don’t need to know that he is john conner. This story will be a standalone as possible…creating a character that actually stands on his own merits to be compelling
jason decides to step out of his comfort zone and decides to desert from his fathers people with several followers as they decide to build a lab in the mountains to merge human and machine(using machines who are still around even after skynet defeat). this leads to a war between father and son and their ideologies
Jason wants to use skynet technology and merge with it to create a new race and end starvation and death…Jason isn’t a villian in his eyes
While john wants to preserve human values…
he is also frightened of his sons complete disregard for his own humanity as he watches his son become more and more robotic(no T-3000 bullshit something grounded yet powerful and all inspiring….t3000 felt like a stupid superhero film)
This story will stand on its own merits and won’t require previous films for emotional investment and info.
We need to move terminator to the future away from time travel rehashes and reinvent the mythos
This also involves Linda Hamilton sarah connor
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Main Page Risk Factors Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Screening Reducing Your Risk Talking to Your Doctor Living With Schizophrenia Resource Guide
There is no known cure for schizophrenia, but it is treatable. Treatment approaches are chosen based on their ability to reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia and the chances it will reoccur. Early, aggressive treatment often leads to better outcomes and may delay progression of schizophrenia to psychosis.
Different treatment approaches for schizophrenia include:
Possible hospitalization during severe episodes
Medications to control psychosis and conditions that occur with it
Psychosocial treatments to improve psychological, social, and occupational problems
Education and support for families of people with schizophrenia
Treatment involves the following:
Lifestyle changesMedicationsOther treatments
At this time, surgical procedures are not a treatment option for schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenia. Mental Health America website. Available at: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/schizophrenia. Updated . Accessed March 14, 2017.
Schizophrenia. National Institute of Mental Health website. Available at: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml. Updated February 2016. Accessed March 14, 2017.
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A powerfully progressive synthesis of electronic sound and Afro-Caribbean language, ÌFÉ is a bold new musical project from Puerto Rico based African American drummer/producer/singer Otura Mun. Mun, an Ifá priest or Babalawo in the Yoruba religion, has been a vanguard artist in the Puerto Rican music scene since his arrival there in the late 1990’s, producing critically acclaimed albums and songs for many of the islands most important musical voices.
ÌFÉ’s newest release, THE TEARER (Bembe) is a dark and twisting ode to sudden change, the night, the storm. Lead single from the group’s newest album, the song explores the energy of Oyá, the Yoruban goddess of storms and guardian of the cemetery gates. She brings the winds of change, reminding us that from chaos and destruction comes rebirth.
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“Vampyr” Review
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by Danreb Victorio | PC PlayStation 4 Reviews Xbox One | 0 Comments | 04 Jun 2018
Dontnod Entertainment is a modern-day example of a studio rising from the ashes to become a relevant name in the gaming industry. After Remember Me‘s mixed reception, the episodic teen drama stories in Life is Strange were met with monumental success, leading to a lot of growth for the French development team.
The developer’s latest project, Vampyr, is one that should inspire interest because of its intriguing setting and unique gameplay mechanics, but its pacing and bland combat woefully bring down the overall experience.
Created using the Unreal Engine, Vampyr is an action RPG set in London during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The game begins with your character running around the streets of London, fleeing people hunting you, until you run into a girl who’s actually your sister. After an embrace, you bite her in the neck, effectively injuring her.
You later find that you’re actually Jonathan Reid, a renowned doctor specializing in the new technology of blood transfusion, who gets recruited as a physician in the local hospital to help out with all the people being checked in as a result of the pandemic. The fact that you’re a vampire further complicates things.
Vampyr does have a central plot to it, but the bulk of your time will be spent talking to the locals, treating patients, and from there you’ll essentially be playing god and deciding who lives and who dies… the way a vampire would.
You have access to a chart showing all the important NPCs you’ve met and each of them has an indicator of the amount of experience you’d gain should you choose to suck their blood. They’re always amounts drastically higher than the experience you’d get when killing random enemies. Should you choose to bite these humans, not only will you have a whole lot more experience points to play with and upgrade your vampiric abilities, there’ll also be a fair share of repercussions both in the way characters interact as well as how “dangerous” the area you’re in ends up being.
A lot of effort was put into the many sceneries in Vampyr‘s version of 1900’s London, and the end result is quite the visual experience.
The temptation of feeding on your peers ends up being quite high because the game’s combat takes a bit of time to get used to, as some of the early bosses can be pretty challenging unless you turn your Dark Souls skills on–I found myself slashing enemies and running away a lot.
Like most RPGs, you’ll find loot that allows you to upgrade some of the weapons you come across, but the game doesn’t really make an effort to show you how some of these mechanics work. While all of this should be self-explanatory to veterans of the genre, the actual menus don’t really cooperate. I was already about 10 hours into the game before I really made an effort to upgrade my gear, but I didn’t realize I had to change gear from the equipment screen. If this function was also available in the inventory or items screen, it would’ve been less complicated, so it’s weird that it was done this way because aside from this, the menus are pretty easy to navigate and understand.
As far as actual combat goes, it essentially plays like a hack and slash, but you also have a stamina and blood meter to pay attention to in addition to your health. When you damage an enemy enough to stun them, you’ll also be able to bite them, which replenishes your blood as well as gives you enough time for your stamina to fill up to continue to use whatever melee weapons you have. The meta of creating your own combos with these abilities makes the combat more strategic. Bigger enemies and bosses will obviously require you to use more of your wits, as you’ll spend a lot of time running around the screen planning when to get your hits in and avoid getting hurt. Of course, as you get further into the game you’ll have more abilities at your disposal so you can diversify your combat style.
It’s worth noting that we also experienced quite a bit of input lag despite all the gameplay being offline, but that might just be pre-release hiccups.
Vampyr’s combat is unfortunately nothing too interesting, but its high points are definitely memorable.
The problem with the game’s action sequences is that they’re few and far between, and when you’re actually out killing things in your path, it’s not interesting enough to feel like any there was any real payoff.
The game’s ebb and flow typically follows Dr. Reid’s work as a doctor, researching blood from inhumans he takes out and socializing with the hospital staff. From there, you find that you have to go to some other town, interview the locals, go into a dungeon, and repeat. While there’s nothing wrong with this formulaic approach, nothing about any of this is particularly interesting, and all the conversations you enter into are just too long. The main thing you get out of these conversations are prompts to unlock even more pieces of dialog from other characters. As great as the writing may be, it just comes off as boring because of how long you’ll be sitting listening to the dialog.
What Makes It Worth My Time And Money?
Vampyr has a lot of great features and ideas, which is an impressive thing to say about any game in this genre, but it just doesn’t hit home on aspects that make a good action RPG truly engaging. The story was fine, but bad pacing highlighted by long-winded conversations bring down the enjoyment, and when you eventually get to the game’s action-based gameplay, the payoff just doesn’t feel like it was worth any of the grind.
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The reviewer was provided a review code for the PS4 version of the game.
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Traditionalists will tell you boxing was more staid in the old days. But between bareknuckle rivals posting challenges on the walls of 19th Century taverns and the press conference punch-ups of the present day, hype has never been out of fashion.
What is true is that in this era of pay-per-view television, in which punters sitting on their sofas are every bit as important as backsides on seats at the venue, hype is more crucial than ever.
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Carl Froch and George Groves have two more chances to bump up interest for their rematch at Wembley Stadium on Saturday - Thursday's final news conference and Friday's weigh-in. Stand by for nonsense.
BBC Sport wades into the murky history of fight hype and makes the following plea: if anyone finds boxing's moral compass between now and Froch-Groves II, please let us know where it is.
John L Sullivan, boxing's first gloved world heavyweight champion, liked to boast that he could "lick any man in the house". But it was Muhammad Ali who transformed boxing baiting into an art form.
Ali dubbed Sonny Liston the "Big Ugly Bear", Floyd Patterson "The Rabbit", George Chuvalo "The Washerwoman" and George Foreman "The Mummy". But it was Ali's poetry and one-liners that really got the tills ringing.
Before his first bout with Liston in 1964, when Ali won the world heavyweight crown for the first time, the challenger quipped: "I bet you scare yourself to death just starin' in the mirror." Before his first bout with Patterson, Ali said: "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."
Ahead of his third bout with Joe Frazier, Ali started experimenting with rapping: "It will be a killa and a chilla and a thrilla when I get the gorilla in Manilla." So it was, and millions tuned in.
Ali was the greatest PR man ever, but American promoter Don King is the master of hyperbole. "This is a grudge fight that goes beyond the realms of reality," was how King described the rematch between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank in 1993. "It is an atomic bomb waiting to explode."
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We can push back sexism
It's great to see so many out on Women's Marches (Pic: Guy Smallman)
A Fawcett Society report this week laid bare the scale of sexual harassment in Britain.
Half of all women have suffered sexual harassment at work and nearly two thirds in public places. A fifth of women over 16 have been sexually assaulted.
The findings follow a year-long review of sex discrimination law by the charity.
It said women who suffer violence, abuse and harassment “lack access to justice”. Women’s sexual history is being used inappropriately in court hearings.
And more than a third of people hold women’s behaviour totally or partly responsible for sexual assaults they suffer
The Unite union is surveying its members about their experiences of harassment at work.
It found that many women are made to feel that they are overreacting if they make a complaint.
Nearly half said harassment had affected their mental health. The Fawcett report recommends changes in the law to try and protect women.
Many laws, such as the Equal Pay Act, have been important steps forward for women.
But we will need more than legal changes to stamp out abuse and harassment.
That’s why it was good to see so many women, and some men, taking part in Women’s Marches last weekend.
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Our faculty examine issues related to patient safety and quality in health care, including new and emerging technological influences on safety, the effects of health care financing, relationship or pharmaceutical costs and treatments, social and behavioral influences on care, access and disparities issues and models of care delivery.
In March, CHRP received funding of just under $500,000 from the AHRQ (P20 HS015816) for the highly competitive two-year Building Research Infrastructure Capacity (BRIC) grant. That award provided funds for the continuation and expansion of existing programs and the development of key faculty members associated with the project.
The combination of the HFF award and the AHRQ BRIC grant provided needed monies to help expand existing programs and offered future opportunities for new research initiatives through building across university, community and organizational relationships.
Health Future Foundations (HFF) bridge support was awarded to CHRP to continue the integration and development of core health sciences faculty and the respective ongoing programs. The award also strategically supported short-term sustainability of CHRP while faculty pursued external research funding and external sources to continue development of the health services research program.
On September 30, CHRP received funding of $1,500,000 from AHRQ (R24-HS18625-01) for the three-year Research Infrastructure Development Support grant. The award provided funds to continue development of faculty, expansion of CHRP to a Research Center and development of research management skills for project directors and interdisciplinary research teams.
In November, the Creighton Health Services Research Program officially became the Center for Health Services Research and Patient Safety.
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This course was developed by 17 faculty members from seven colleges and schools across Creighton University. The course educates health professions students about the fundamental core knowledge of patient safety. An interprofessional faculty team teaches content from a patient-centered focus within an interprofessional framework. Concepts of safe systems serve as an overarching principle to patient safety. By engaging in a series of modules complemented by case-based exercises, participants learn the scope of the problem of patient safety, and acquire the skills to foster a culture of continuous learning and incorporation of patient safety best practices and improvements in their own individual professional practices.
The course was recognized by the Institute of Medicine as the first interprofessional health care-oriented, patient safety course in the nation. CHRP faculty has continued to demonstrate the innovation and effectiveness of this course across various health professions students. View the research products.
A two-credit hour core is offered with a three-credit hour option for students who choose to complete a written in-depth evaluation of a contemporary issue in patient safety. IPE 410 is offered each spring and is open to all Creighton University students. For additional information about the course, please contact Dr. Kevin Fuji at kfuji [at] creighton [dot] edu.
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Russian Citizen Mingazov Transferred From Gitmo Prison to United Arab Emirates
The United States transferred a citizen of Russia Ravil Mingazov from the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the government of the United Arab Emirates, the US Department of Defense said in a press release.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Mingazov has been detained in Guantanamo since 2002 without any charges pressed. He is suspected of links with extremist group Tatar Jamaat and al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic movement of Uzbekistan.
"The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of three detainees: Ravil Mingazov, Haji Wali Muhammed, and Yassim Qasim Mohammed Ismail Qasim from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the government of the United Arab Emirates," the release stated on Thursday.
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Russian Guantanamo Inmate Asks for Release – Review Board
In addition, the Department of Defense announced that another prisoner, Jabran al Qahtani, would be sent from Gitmo to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The release noted that these were the final transfers to be completed during the administration of Obama.
Earlier in the day, the White House stated that the outgoing US President Barack Obama sent a total of 196 prisoners from Guantanamo, leaving just 41 persons in the facility.
Mingazov has been held at the detention center in Cuba for more than 14 years. In July 2016, the US government approved his transfer.
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Audiovisual Aids
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The communications methods that could be used in educational programs for venereal disease patients were examined as to their relative effectiveness: a programed learning guide, an audiovisual (cinematographic) technique, and an interview method. An experimental design was used to study three groups of patients at a venereal disease clinic; (a) persons who were pretested, exposed to an educational method, and tested again, (b) a control group whose members were pretested and post-tested but not exposed to an educational method, and (c) another control group whose members were exposed to an educational method and then took a post-test. Each of those groups exposed to the educational techniques was further subdivided according to the technique applied. Analysis of the data collected from 443 subjects led to the following tentative conclusions: 1. Representation in the nine groups was demographically uniform as measured by age, sex, marital status, and ethnic origin. 2. All three educational techniques significantly raised the subjects' level of knowledge about venereal disease, as measured by their test scores. 3. All three techniques were favorably received by the subjects. The majority reported that the techniques were the right length (10 to 15 minutes), interesting, informative, useful, and anxiety-reducing. The three techniques apparently accounted for an increase of more than 20 percent in subjects' scores on tests about venereal disease, and the subjects perceived all three techniques as interesting and beneficial. The interview method proved significantly more effective than the other two techniques in raising the knowledge level. It was also the technique most favorably received by the subjects. As expected, those persons who entered the clinic with a low level of knowledge learned much more when exposed to an educational techniques than persons entering the clinic with a high level of knowledge. Reaction to the three methods did not differ significantly by the subjects' age or sex.
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The separate and combined effects of participation in a health careers program and of parental support for a health career on young people's interest in a health career were examined. Twenty-seven eighth graders participating in a health careers orie...
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Gonorrhea control measures
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Proceedings of World Forum on Syphilis and other Trepanematoses : Washington, D.C., September 4-8, 1962
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Mysuru: Tourism and Sericulture Minister S.R. Mahesh will visit the Mysore Race Course, run and managed by the Mysore Race Club (MRC) tomorrow at 8 am to inspect the areas where horse stables and sheds existed earlier. Based on the Minister’s order, the MRC authorities cleared the sheds that were spoiling the beauty of the Race Course.
A communication from the Information Department said that the Minister will visit the MRC at 8 am and will hold a meeting with the MRC authorities. The Minister had imposed a deadline of June 30 (today) for the MRC to clear the sheds and stables. As per the Minister’s directive, the stables were cleared and structures put up for housing workers and storing materials were removed to meet the deadline.
Speaking to Star of Mysore, Mahesh said that he would inspect the Race Course to ascertain whether his directions had been complied with. “The land had been rented out for racing activities and not for keeping horses and the people looking after horses,” he said. “The 139.30-acre Race Course is lush green and the stables and temporary structures were a blot. Tourists atop Chamundi Hill and those who played golf could see the ugly structures and people roaming around half-naked,” he said.
At a ‘Meet the Press’ event held at Pathrakartara Bhavan yesterday, Mahesh said that he has been fighting for the custody of the MRC land owned by the government and leased out to the MRC. “The Revenue Department is demanding Rs.95 crore from the Tourism Dept. for a 30-year lease of 110 acres of land in Himmavu village of Nanjangud taluk. But here we have the Public Works Department (PWD) leasing out the 139-acre of prime land to the MRC for just Rs.2 lakh per year,” he said.
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“Following my intervention, the lease amount was fixed at 2% on the turnover of the MRC and it has crossed Rs.2.2 crore per year,” he added. The Minister pointed out that as per Court directive, the MRC must hold races by around 90 horses. “But the MRC is using the land for the stables of 600 horses. Each horse requires three caretakers and around 1,800 people are staying on the MRC premises. Most of them are migrants from North India,” the Minister said.
Reacting on the deadline to remove temporary stables, MRC Secretary K.G. Anantharaj Urs said that the sheds have been cleared as per the Minister’s directive. “We have demolished the sheds and have made temporary arrangements for the workers to stay within the MRC premises. Minister Mahesh has promised us to allot 20-acre land outside the city to establish permanent stables,” he said.
He said it was not easy to relocate horse stables. “We need to discuss the matter at the general body of the MRC and take a call,” he added.
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Terre Haute’s Rosselli making things happen for Chicago Dogs
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A combination of power, speed and confidence has carried Tony Rosselli through his athletic career and it’s now on display on the baseball fields of the independent professional American Association.
Rosselli, a graduate of Terre Haute (Ind.) North Vigo High School and Indiana State University, splits his time between left field and center field and bats from the right side of the plate for the Chicago Dogs. The team plays its home games at Impact Field in Rosemont, Ill.
“The best part of my game is my ability to make anything happen,” says Rosselli, a 6-foot-2, 220-pounder. “I don’t really have a cap on the limits on what I can do during a ball game. I don’t have a roof. I feel like when we’re down, I feel like I can be that guy every time (to pick the team up).”
Through games of June 13, Rosselli was hitting .284 with seven home runs, 20 runs batted in and 15 runs scored in 20 games played.
In four seasons at Indiana State (2014-17), Rosselli hit .290 and clubbed 22 homers, 16 doubles and stole 14 bases.
While playing for the summer collegiate Coastal Plain League’s Edenton (N.C.) Steamers in 2015 and 2016, Rosselli set a league mark for homers over a two-year period with 24 (10 in 2015 and 14 in 2016). Edenton won the league title in 2015.
Rosselli played 60 games with the Dogs in 2018 with a .240 average and eight homers.
A teacher of speed and agility classes who also works as a rehabilitation aide at Athletico Physical Therapy in Terre Haute in the off-season, Rosselli says his speed is displayed more in his ability to get around the bases and to track down fly balls than a 60-yard dash time or stolen base total.
“Baseball is really not a straight-line speed sport,” says Rosselli. “How much torque and power you have, that has a bigger impact.”
From a young age, Rosselli learned from parents Bruce (a former Indiana State track and field star who was an Olympic bobsled driver) and Cheryl (a former world-class table tennis player with 27 international titles for the U.S.) that to succeed you have to have carry yourself with certainty.
“They stuck that in my head,” says Rosselli, 26. “Know your the best, you’re going to perform at the highest level
“In any sport I’ve ever done, there’s never been a different message.”
Rosselli graduated in 2012 from North Vigo, who he hit .373 with eight home runs and 51 RBIs and was named the Wabash Valley Baseball Player of the Year as a senior for the Shawn Turner-coached Patriots. He redshirted his first year at ISU before playing four years for Sycamores head coach Mitch Hannahs.
The ISU coach emphasized the simple things.
“It is just a game,” says Rosselli. “But in order to play it, you have to grind it out every single day.
“We were blue collar baseball players that gave our best every time. In order to succeed, we had to put int he work. That gave us a mental edge on team’s we played. It allowed us to believe in ourselves.”
That’s why Indiana State was able to stand up to powers like Vanderbilt.
Among Rosselli’s talented ISU teammates were Austin Conway, Clay Dungan, Dane Giesler, Ethan Larrison, Triston Polley, Jeremy McKinney and Tyler Wampler.
Rosselli played for the Terre Haute Rex of the Prospect League (Bruce Rosselli is an owner/general manager of the Rex and league president) in the summer of 2014 and for a few games in 2017 before beginning his pro career with the Utica (Mich.) Unicorns of the United Shores Professional Baseball League. After that, he played in the Asia Winter Ball League (Taiwan).
Playing for the hometown Rex in 2014 gave the younger Rosselli another full season of swinging the wood bat.
He graduated from Indiana State with a degree in Sport Management. He minored in motorsports management and marketing.
With the Chicago Dogs, Rosselli plays for a squad managed by former big leaguer Butch Hobson. D.J. Boston is the hitting coach.
“The competition level is a lot higher than I thought it was going to be (in the American Association) last year and it’s even better this year,” says Rosselli. “It’s just a very competitive league, which I like.”
While the average age on the Dogs is 27, that number is brought up by Carlos Zambrano, a 38-year-old right-handed pitcher who played 12 seasons in the majors with the Chicago Cubs and Miami Marlins and is making a comeback.
“He’s had a really big impact on me,” says Rosselli of Zambrano. “He’s a pastor now. His life has changed around since he found God. He’s a new man. He’s brought that to the team.”
Tony Rosselli is single. Older sister Paige is in marketing sales for Embroidery Express in Terre Haute.
Tony Rosselli, a graduate of Terre Haute (Ind.) North Vigo High School and Indiana State University, is in his second year with the Chicago Dogs of the independent professional American Association. (Chicago Dogs Photo)
Tony Rosselli played four seasons at Indiana State University (2014-17) before beginning his professional baseball career — first with the Utica (Mich.) Unicorns and now with the Chicago Dogs. (Chicago Dogs Photo)
Tony Rosselli, a graduate of Terre Haute (Ind.) North Vigo High School and Indiana State University, brings a combination of power, speed and confidence as a player with the Chicago Dogs of the independent professional American Association. (Chicago Dogs Photo)
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Franklin College enjoys deepest playoff run in program history
May 22, 2019 stvkrh905 1 Comment
Franklin College came on strong at the end of the 2019 baseball season and the Grizzlies came within six outs of going to the NCAA Division III super regionals.
After a 13-10 start, Franklin finished 31-15 and forced a second championship game in regional play in Sequin, Texas.
“We’re just very of our guys,” says Grizzlies coach Lance Marshall of his student-athletes. “They did their best when it mattered most.
“It’s just a tough, resilient group. The seniors are great leaders and great players.”
Franklin went 3-2 in Texas, besting No. 4-ranked Trinity (Texas) twice and going 1-2 against No. 25 Concordia (Texas). The Tornados scored four runs in the last two innings to win.
“We got shipped to the toughest regional in the country,” says Marshall, noting that No. 16 Texas Lutheran was also part of the field.
It was the deepest run the Grizzlies have ever made in the playoffs. In their previous NCAA D-III playoff appearances (2011 and 2018), they went 1-2 in the regional with wins against Frostburg State (Md.) in Marietta, Ohio, and Thomas More (Ky.) in Sauget, Ill. Losses came to eventual national champions Marietta in 2011 and Texas-Tyler in 2018.
Marshall, who just finished his 22nd season as FC head coach, credited senior shortstop Sam Claycamp (Columbus East High School graduate) and senior first baseman Drew Naumovich (Roncalli) for their leadership roles.
“They led by example — on and off the field,” says Marshall of Claycamp and Naumovich. “They brought great energy, were positive and respected by teammates.”
Claycamp (.400, 4 home runs and 48 runs batted in) and Naumovich (.356-5-36 with 12 stolen bases) were offensive leaders in a lineup that also featured junior center fielder Quenton Wellington (.348-5-41 with 23 steals) and junior right fielder Ryan Bixler (.307-10-55 with 13 steals).
A deep pitching staff filled with right-handers had seniors Jordan Clark (4-0, 3.31 earned run average) and Aaron Leming (7-3, 4.19) as starters with seniors Nate Stonebraker (6-4, 8 saves, 5.36) as closer with strong contributions from senior Tanner Nicholson (1-0, 2 saves, 1.88), Ben Sprinkle (5-1, 1 save, 6.29), sophomore Krae Sparks (2-4, 4.88) and freshman Nick Elmendorf (1-2, 4.97).
On a roster with just four players with hometowns outside Indiana, Wellington (Bishop Chatard), Bixler (Lewis Cass), Clark (Connersville), Stonebraker (Cascade), Nicholson (Greencastle), Sprinkle (Franklin Central), Sparks (Greenwood Christian) and Elmendorf (Indianapolis North Central) all played high school ball on Hoosier soil.
Claycamp, Naumovich and Bixler made the all-HCAC first team. Sprinkle was named to the Christopher M. Ragsdale Sportsmanship Team.
And the cupboard’s not bare for 2020.
“We’ve got a really good group of underclassmen returning,” says Marshall. “They’ve got experience on their side going forward.
“We’ll keep working hard and do everything we can to get back into the postseason.”
Franklin earned an automatic 2019 NCAA regional berth by winning the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament. The Griz topped Anderson 6-4 and Rose-Hulman 7-2 and 9-8 at Art Nehf Field in Terre Haute for the championship. FC repeated as HCAC tourney champs on a walk-off Wellington’s two-out, RBI single.
“We were fortunate to come out with a tournament championship,” says Marshall. “Coach (Jeff) Jenkins runs a great program at Rose. They’re always a formidable opponent.”
Franklin went 12-6 in HCAC regular-season action.
Marshall’s two assistant coaches for 2019 were hired in January.
“They did a fantastic job in a short period of time,” says Marshall of Tim Miller (who came from Frosburg State) and Tyler Rubasky (who came from Waynesburg State in Pennsylvania).
Senior first baseman Drew Naumovich hit .356 with five home runs and and 36 runs batted in for Franklin (Ind.) College in 2019. The Grizzlies made their deepest run into the playoffs, reaching the second regional championship game and finishing 31-15. (Mike Lanke/Franklin College Photo)
Senior shortstop Sam Claycamp hit .400 with four home runs and and 48 runs batted in for Franklin (Ind.) College in 2019. The Grizzlies made their deepest run into the playoffs, reaching the second regional championship game and finishing 31-15. (Mike Lanke/Franklin College Photo)
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Spiceland, Sycamores form special bond
May 7, 2019 stvkrh905 Leave a comment
Dan Spiceland started out as the man that got Indiana State University’s baseball team to and from its games.
But he soon became much more and in a decade of transporting the Sycamores the man they call “Dan-O” has made many meaningful relationships while having a lot of fun.
“He’s the grandpa of this team,” says Indiana State head coach Mitch Hannahs of Spiceland. “He’s just a great person with a great outlook on life. That’s why it’s great to have him around.
“He picks these guys up on the bad days and it’s really nice to see. Every team should have a grandfather in the dugout. He talks to these guys about life and a lot of things around this game. He’s invaluable to our club.”
At 52, Spiceland retired after 35 years from Ford Motor Company, where he was in plan engineering and a millwright by trade. He went to Ford a week after graduating from Taylor (Mich.) High School and received further education at Henry Ford Community College (where he also played baseball) and Northwood University with the help of his employer.
“Ford was very good to me and my family,” says Spiceland. “I really never thought I would work again.”
Spiceland and wife, Liz, live near Poland, Ind., and worship at the North Meridian Street Church of Christ in Brazil, Ind. The couple moved from Indianapolis and became a regular with the congregation in 2003.
Dan is one of the elders at North Meridian and was told by one of the members and Terre Haute-based Turner Motor Coaches driver, Robert Hostetler, that the company was in need of drivers.
“Robert was always putting a bug in my ear,” says Spiceland of Hostetler. “I told him out of friendship with you I’ll go down and take a look at it.”
Spiceland had never driven a bus in his life, but showed an aptitude for its right away and was hired.
He began by taking some tour groups on shorter trips.
In 2010, the ISU baseball team was getting ready to go on its first excursion of the season from Terre Haute to Shreveport, La.
The law allows motor coach drivers to be behind the wheel for 10 hours a day and then shut down for eight. This sometimes necessitates a relay system with one driver taking over for the other at a given point along the route.
Two days before the trip, the driver that was going to take the team from Sikeston, Mo., to Shreveport for four days asked to trade places with Spiceland, who was going to drive the first leg from Terre Haute and hand off the team in Missouri.
“I drove them down to Shreveport and we had a great series,” says Spiceland. “We won all the games there against Texas Southern.”
On the way back to the relay point, then-Sycamores head coach Rick Heller made it known how much he appreciated Spiceland. The coach told the driver he wanted him to be the team’s full-time transporter, always taking them on the long end of trips if a relay was involved.
Heller contacted Turner and Spiceland took on the ISU baseball team as part of his driving duties, which now also includes the Indiana State women’s soccer team in the fall and tours of all kinds.
“I’m a people person,” says Spiceland. “I like to meet people. I like to reach out to them any way that I can.
“I’ve made a lot of friends driving this motor coach. I can’t say enough about how much fun it is.”
Getting to drive for and developing a bond with the baseball team came as a a twist of fate when the other driver wanted to swap.
Spiceland drove for Heller for four years. When Heller left to become head coach at the University of Iowa, Hannahs took over the reins of the Sycamores.
“Mitch and myself, we have a great relationship,” says Spiceland. “About four years ago, Mitch took me aside and said, ‘I want to talk to you. You have such a great rapport with the team. You would be much more valuable to me to be in the dugout than to be up in the stands cheering.’”
Donning a uniform and cap, Spiceland spends games in the ISU dugout.
“That makes me feel like a kid again,” says Spiceland. “I’m in the dugout and like a spark plug.”
If a player has a bad at-bat or shaky inning on the mound, Spiceland will approach them and offer words of encouragement.
“I go over to him and it’s authentic — it’s not fake — but I’ll stroke their ego,” says Spiceland. “I try to build up their self-esteem.
“I think of them as my sons.”
Dan and Liz have two biological sons — Dan (43) in Huntsville, Ala., and Frank (40) in Findlay, Ohio, and six grandchildren.
“I’ve been through this before when my sons were this age,” says Spiceland. “There’s peer pressure. These guys have challenges in their lives.
“It’s a relationship that pulls at my heart strings. In four years, I was able to have a small smidgeon in their lives.
“More than a driver, I try to mentor these guys.”
With the baseball team alone, Spiceland averages about 7,000 miles a year.
Dan-O and the team spend a great deal of time together between the bus, baseball stadiums, hotels and restaurants. Many times, players invite him to breakfast to discuss some matters.
“I always accommodate them,” says Spiceland. “We talk about a lot of things. They can bounce things off of me. They know it’s not going to go any farther.
“We really love each other. We can communicate with each other. We just bond with each other.”
When the schedule allows, Spiceland finds a church on the road and players have been known to come along.
“it’s an opportunity for me to share my faith with people,” says Spiceland. “That’s an important thing.”
Earlier this season, Spiceland took the team to the University of Michigan, an experienced he thoroughly enjoyed with his Wolverine State roots.
Indiana State (34-11) is coming off a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series against Illinois State in Normal, Ill. Dan-O and Liz celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary Saturday, May 4, and the Sycamores won Saturday and Sunday to takes 2-of-3 from the Redbirds.
The next trip is this Friday through Sunday at Dallas Baptist. Since it will be Finals Week, players can’t leave campus until Thursday. The plan calls for the team to fly down that night with Spiceland leaving Wednesday and meeting the team in Texas.
After a home series May 16-18, Indiana State goes back to Normal for the MVC Tournament, which is slated for May 21-25.
NCAA Regionals are May 31-June 3 at campus sites with Super Regionals June 7-10 at campus sites and the College World Series June 15-29 in Omaha, Neb.
Whenever the last trip of the season comes for Spiceland and the Sycamores, he will stand at the front of the bus and tell them the same thing he tells each team.
“Guys, this is the last ride,” says Spiceland. “We will never ever be together again as this group of men.”
As the senior disembark in Terre Haute, the seniors have real tears in their eyes and they give Spiceland a hug.
“They say, Dan-O, we may never see you again,” says Spiceland. “But you’ve been like a dad or like a grandpa to us and we’ll never forget that.”
Indiana State University baseball head coach says of team bus driver and mentor, Dan Spiceland: “Every team should have a grandfather in the dugout.” (Indiana State University Photo)
Dan Spiceland aka “Dan-O” has been a bus driver and mentor for the Indiana State University baseball team since 2010. He is employed by Terre Haute-based Turner Motor Coaches. (Steve Krah Photo)
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Abrell values life lessons while leading Plainfield Quakers baseball program
December 28, 2018 stvkrh905 2 Comments
As a coach and educator, Shane Abrell looks for teachable moments.
Abrell and his coaching staff got the opportunity to teach their players about dealing with failure and about momentum during Abrell’s first season in charge of the Plainfield (Ind.) High School baseball program.
“Life lessons are really important in coaching,” says Abrell. “If we’re not teaching them about life, we’re failing them.”
Facing a formidable schedule, the 2018 Quakers got off to a 2-9 start then went on an 8-3 run on the way to 12-16-1. Right-hander Sam Tackett (an Indiana University Kokomo commit for 2019-20) hooked up in a pitchers’ duel with Braydon Tucker (now at Indiana University) as Plainfield bowed to Northview 1-0 in nine innings in the first round of the IHSAA Class 4A Avon Sectional.
“Now they know they can play with those teams,” says Abrell. “It gives us a lot of mental toughness as time goes on.”
Abrell and his assistants spent much time talking about the team.
“We have some really great conversations,” says Abrell, who welcomes back varsity assistants Josh Morris, Noah Lane and Jaylen Cushenberry, junior varsity coach Brian Holsclaw and freshmen coach Mike Harper for 2019. “We demand a lot of time and effort. But hese guys don’t skip a beat. They make my job easy.”
The coaches were honest with their athletes and admitted when they made mistakes in 2018.
The lines of communication are kept open through that sincerity.
“Baseball is so mentally tough on people,” says Abrell. It’s not for everybody.
“Kids are more willing to come to us when they’re struggling. We’re seeing more players are consoling each other.”
Abrell, who teaches computer science at PHS, was a Plainfield assistant to Jeff McKeon (now head coach at South Putnam High School) for one season before taking over the program.
Prior coming to Hendricks County, Abrell was an assistant to Kyle Kraemer at Terre Haute South Vigo High School from 2001-14 and helped coach youth teams around Terre Haute including the Junior Sycamores and with the John Hayes-managed Wayne Newton American Legion Post 346 program.
Abrell played for Kraemer at South Vigo, graduating in 1998.
“Kyle is probably one of the most organized people I’ve come across in coaching,” says Abrell of Kraemer. “He is very meticulous. There was very little down time in practice. You were always moving.”
South Vigo has enjoyed continuity on the coaching staff with assistants like Brian Pickens, T.C. Clary, Todd Miles and Chad Chrisman serving for decades.
“(Kraemer’s) been a great mentor and friend to me,” says Abrell, who will take his Plainfield team to the 2019 Braves Bash at South Vigo. The event also features Munster and New Haven.
Plainfield (enrollment around 1,700) is part of the Mid-State Conference (with Decatur Central, Franklin Community, Greenwood Community, Martinsville, Mooresville, Perry Meridian and Whiteland).
The MSC plays home-and-home series on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to crown its champion.
The Quakers are part of the IHSAA Class 4A sectional grouping with Avon, Brownsburg, Mooresville, Northview, Terre Haute North Vigo and Terre Haute South Vigo. Plainfield has won eight sectional titles — the last in 1997.
While in Terre Haute, Abrell had the opportunity to coach A.J. Reed and become close T.J. Collett and his family while coaching his brother Doug with the Post 346 junior squad and then as North Vigo athletic director.
Both A.J. and T.J. were Indiana Mr. Baseball honorees — Reed at South Vigo in 2011 and Collett at North Vigo in 2016.
A walk-on at Indiana State University, Abrell’s coach with the Sycamores was Mitch Hannahs.
Abrell graduated from ISU in 2003 with a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems/Computer Science and worked various jobs, including web designer for Clabber Girl and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Reserve Deputy for the Vigo County Sheriff’s Department.
“That was an eye opener,” says Abrell of the issues he saw some students dealing with that have nothing to do with a baseball drill or home work assignment.
He makes a point of getting his players to give back by volunteering in the community at a food pantry or with Riley’s Children’s Hospital.
Gratitude is another life lesson Abrell teaches.
“We talk to the kids about thanking their parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents for all the time and money they spend,” Abrell.
He was a football, basketball and baseball coach at South Vigo. North Vigo, coached by Shawn Turner and Fay Spetter and featuring Collett, were 4A state runners-up in 2014 and 2015 with Abrell as AD.
Along the way, he attended Western Kentucky University (Master of Education & Kinesiology) and Indiana Wesleyan University (Education Administration).
Baseball has long been a big deal in the Abrell family.
Shane’s grandfather, the late John Abrell, was a long-time Connie Mack baseball coach and sponsor in Terre Haute.
Rick Abrell, Shane’s father, coached youth baseball at Prairie Creek, Prairieton and Riley and was president of Terre Haute Babe Ruth. He now tends to the baseball fields at both South Vigo and West Vigo.
The Abrells are close with Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famers Bob Warn and Steve DeGroote. Warn was head coach at Indiana State from 1975-2006. DeGroote assisted Warn at ISU and then led the West Vigo program.
Abrell says he took something from all the baseball men in his life.
“To be a good coach, you have to accept you’re not going to create something new in baseball,” says Abrell. “You take what you learn and you mold them all together.”
A love of tending the field was ingrained in Abrell. Kraemer had his team spend 30 minutes after each practice and game wielding shovels and rakes and Abrell does the same with his Quakers.
And there’s lots of time spent mowing and edging in the summer and fall.
“For every two hours practicing, probably another two hours working on the field,” says Abrell. “It’s therapy for me.
“We’re blessed at Plainfield. We have a beautiful complex and support from the administration.”
Principal Melvin Siefert and Assistant Principal of Athletics Torrey Rodkey are both former coaches.
The Quakers feeder system includes Plainfield Pee Wee Association, Plainfield Optimist Baseball League and Plainfield Teenage Baseball League (a Babe Ruth League) as well as a locally-based travel organization — the Plainfield Havoc.
“We’re trying to keep travel ball in the community,” says Abrell. “When they play together their whole life is when you have some of the better teams.”
When Abrell took over the program, he contacted Plainfield graduate Jeremy Kehrt. The right-handed pitcher was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 47th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft and pitched in independent ball in 2017.
“He stops by a lot,” says Abrell of Kehrt. “He works with our pitchers. When he shows up, their eyes get huge.”
Connor Mitchell, a left-hander who pitched in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2018, also visits to work on arm maintenance. His younger brother, Jackson Mitchell, was the Plainfield’s shortstop in 2018 and is now at Earlham College.
“It means a lot to have alumni reaching out,” says Abrell.
Current Plainfield outfielder/first baseman Jacob Sims is drawing interest from college programs.
A wedding is planned for Shane Abrell and Shannon Bormann in the fall of 2019. Shannon is a nurse anesthetist at IU Health Arnett Hospital in Lafayette.
T.C. Clary (left), Shannon Bormann, A.J. Reed and Shane Abrell meet at the 2018 Triple-A All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio. Clary was a baseball teammate and coached with Abrell at Terre Haute South Vigo High School. Bormann is engaged to Abrell. Reed played at South Vigo and was a Pacific Coast League all-star. Abrell is now head baseball coach at Plainfield (Ind.) High School.
Shane Abrell is heading into his second season as head baseball coach at Plainfield (Ind.) High School. He is also a computer science teacher at PHS.
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Coughenour stresses life lessons, competition for Eastern Hancock Royals
Teaching life lessons and emphasizing competition, Chad Coughenour is heading into his 13th season as head baseball coach at Eastern Hancock Junior/Senior High School near Charlottesville, Ind.
“My faith is a big part of who I am,” says Coughenour aka Coach Coke. “I try to teach the young men more about life than I do about baseball sometimes.
“We all live life.”
Coughenour talks his Royals about things like being on time, doing their job, learning from failures and successes, standing by their word and working hard.
“The things that make you a better man,” says Coughenour.
Recent Eastern Hancock graduate Clayton White is on the baseball team at Anderson University and other current Royals have college baseball aspirations. Coughenour is proud that he has sent more young men on to the military and to be policemen and firemen.
Among those going on to the service are Alan Clark (Army Reserves), Kris Cushing (Navy, Dwight Duzan (Navy), Dustin Pettit (Marines and Army), Steven Stunda (Army), Devon Wagoner (Army) and Pedro Wilkinson (Air Force)
Recent graduate Tyler Blattner (Charlottesville) and Easton Fields (Greenfield) are volunteer firefighters and going through fire school.
Jacob Low is a police officer in Terre Haute.
Coughenour graduated from the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown in 1996. Life lessons were taught to him by Mountain Cats head coach Ken Keiper.
“He was a very moral man,” says Coughenour of Keiper. “He made sure everybody had a fair chance. It didn’t matter if they were a freshman or a senior.
“He made sure everybody was a part. He treated everybody the same and give them the same opportunities.”
Eastern Hancock players constantly get opportunities to compete — in practice and in games. There are thousands of chances during a school year.
Coughenour splits his team into small groups and has them compete for points in doing certain offensive or defensive skills. The group winner gets a piece of candy. Those with less points have to run.
The top three for a month get T-shirts — gold, silver and blue.
“The same kids don’t always win it,” says Coughenour.
The season champion receives a plaque.
The Royals averaged 16 to 17 players at fall practices, where they divided into teams and scrimmaged. Coughenour was the pitcher.
Some of the advantages to working as a team and not just the coach with a few players at a time is that things like bunt defenses and pick-off moves can be covered early and not just in the few weeks prior to the season opener.
In the off-season, there is school-wide conditioning program and also one that baseball players can use through a cell phone app.
“I give my boys off until after Christmas to hit the weight room,” says Coughenour.
In 2018, the Royals got off to a 1-7 start before finishing 13-15 and tied for second place in its first season as a Mid-Eastern Conference member. Eastern Hancock was the lone MEC school to beat champion Wapahani (1-0 in nine innings in Selma).
The rest of the MEC consists of Blue River Valley, Cowan, Daleville, Monroe Central, Randolph Southern, Shenandoah, Union of Modoc and Wes-Del. Union did not field a baseball team in 2018.
Before joining the MEC, Eastern Hancock spent a few years as an independent. Before that, the Royals were affiliated with the Mid-Hoosier Conference. Eastern Hancock was in the Big Blue River Conference when it split in 1989.
The Royals are in an IHSAA Class 2A sectional grouping with Heritage Christian, Indianapolis Howe, Indianapolis Scecina, Irvington Prep Academy, Knightstown and Triton Central. Eastern Hancock mugged with the sectional championship hardware for the only time in 1976.
With the help of athletic director Aaron Spaulding, Coughenour builds a strong non-conference schedule.
“We try to find the best competition around,” says Coughenour. “Our sectional is not an easy one.
“We’ve got to be ready for it.”
The Royals play Greenfield-Central, Heritage Christian and Indianapolis Cardinal Ritter during the regular season and participates in the John R. Howden Memorial Tournament at Mooresville, which has also featured Indianapolis North Central and Valparaiso. Coughenour gave lessons to John Howden’s son Riley when the latter was in high school.
Eastern Hancock graduated 10 players last spring. Coughenour expects to have 31 in the program for varsity and junior varsity teams for the 2019 season.
“We’ve been growing,” says Coughenour. “My first couple years, we had 23 or 24. In lean years, it was in the mid-teens. The last three years, we’ve had around 30 kids.”
There’s also a middle school team of seventh and eighth graders that play close to 20 games in the spring.
Varsity, JV and middle school squads share the same on-campus field that was christened in 2010. The Royals played all of their 2009 home games at the Bandits Yard in Greenfield, Ind. (now site of Midwest Astros Academy), while the facility was being completed.
Coughenour coached the Bandits 17U team for five summers. He now coaches an Eastern Hancock summer team that plays in the Greenfield-based Babe Ruth travel league.
Those kids play their home games on the same field they occupy with the high school and middle school teams in the spring.
“We teach kids at a young age how to maintain it,” says Coughenour. “Taking care of the field is a habit. They have ownership in it. High school kids help the junior high kids.
“It becomes pretty seamless. It goes back to the service and building the tradition.”
Chad, who works as chief surveyor for the Hancock County Surveyor’s Office, has been married to Tiffany for 20 years. The couple have three daughters — Josie (16), Abigail (14) and Paige (9). Sophomore Josie and eighth grader Abigail attend Greenfield schools. Paige is home-schooled.
The Coughenours (from left): Paige, Chad, Tammy, Abigail and Josie.
The Eastern Hancock Royals pray prior to a game a few high school baseball seasons ago.
Eastern Hancock High School head baseball coach Chad Coughenour (left) gets xxx to slide into third base in a 2018 game against Cowan.
A.J. Muegge (left) rounds third base as Eastern Hancock High School head baseball coach Chad Coughenour points him toward home during a 2017 game against Knightstown.
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Free agent pitcher Storen exploring his baseball options for 2019
November 2, 2018 stvkrh905 1 Comment
Drew Storen can trace his love of pitching to front-yard wiffle ball games.
It was there in the Geist section of Indianapolis that the son of Mark and Pam and younger brother of Lindsay discovered he could make the ball do what he wanted.
“At a young age, I was just trying to spin the wiffle ball,” says Storen, now 31 with 470 mound appearances in Major League Baseball behind him. “It kind of worked out well. I learned to spin the ball.”
Once little Drew identified himself as a pitcher, his father took him to get help with his mechanics. The right-hander began working with pitching instructor Jay Lehr at 7.
“Jay taught me how to throw an effective breaking ball without the stress on my arm,” says Storen. “I was a really small kid. I respected the process. I didn’t force it at any point.”
With maturity came size and added velocity.
But it did take time and effort.
“If you’re at my level or a little league level, you need to respect the process,” says Storen. “My dad’s advice was to do one thing everyday to get better. You chip away at it. It does not happen overnight. You’ve got to put the work in.
“It takes a lot of mental strength, but that’s what makes it great.”
Drew came up through Skiles Test Baseball and at 11, his family moved to Brownsburg, Ind. That’s where his father grew up and went to high school and that’s where his son shined at Brownsburg Little League. Drew did his part for a state championship team in 2000. That came between Brownsburg’s appearances in the Little League World Series in 1999 and 2001.
Storen enjoyed a decorated career at Brownsburg High School. He won 30 games with a 1.55 earned run average and 319 strikeouts. He was 9-0 as a sophomore in helping the Bulldogs win an 2005 IHSAA Class 4A state championship. Drew played first base while future major leaguer Lance Lynn was the winning pitcher in the title game.
In Storen’s last two seasons at Brownsburg, future big league Gold Glove winner Tucker Barnhart was his catcher.
Recognition came with Storen’s pitching abilities. He was honorable mention all-state in 2005 and first-team all-state in 2006 and 2007. He was a three-time first-team on the all-Hoosier Crossroads and Indianapolis Star Metro West teams.
In 2007, he was the Star’s West High School Player of the Year and an Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North/South All-Star Series participant.
Summers from age 13 to 18 were spent traveling with the Indiana Bulls.
Storen was selected in the 34th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the New York Yankees but did not sign.
Instead, he took his pitching talents westward and played two seasons at Stanford University (2008 and 2009). He ascended the mound 59 times (all in relief) and went 12-4 with 15 saves and a 3.64 ERA. He struck out 116 and walked 23 in 98 1/3 innings.
As a draft-eligible sophomore, Storen was picked in the first round (10th overall) in 2009 by the Washington Nationals.
He made his big league debut in 2010 with Washington and appeared in 54 games with the Nationals that season.
In eight big league seasons with the Washington Nationals (2010-15), Toronto Blue Jays (2016), Seattle Mariners (2016) and Cincinnati Reds (2017), Storen is 29-18 with 99 saves and a 3.45 earned run average. He has 417 strikeouts and 132 walks in 438 innings (all in relief).
Storen performed a rare feat on April 18, 2017 in the ninth inning of a game against the Baltimore Orioles. With Tucker catching, he pitched an immaculate inning. That’s three strikeouts on nine pitches. The victims were Jonathan Schoop, J.J. Hardy and Hyun Soo Kim.
“As a bullpen guy, that’s our perfect game,” says Storen.
On Sept. 26, 2017, Storen underwent Tommy John surgery. Reds medical director Dr. Tim Kremchek operated to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in the pitcher’s right elbow. He missed the entire 2018 season.
Recovered from the procedure, free agent Storen has been throwing off a mound — usually to Tucker — for about a month. They often meet at the new Finch Creek Fieldhouse in nearby Noblesville.
“I feel really good,” says Storen. “It’s more than a year out. I’ve given myself plenty of time to respect the process. I was lucky enough to play as long as I did without a major break health-wise. I wanted to make sure I came back better than I was.”
Most of his career, Storen threw from a high three-quarter arm slot to deliver a slider, change-up, four-seam fastball and two-seam fastball.
“I’m able to throw any pitch in any count,” says Storen. “That’s what matters to me.
“That’s why I love pitching. I just play wiffle ball. That’s all.”
With the Reds, Storen did drop down and delivered the ball from multiple angles.
He took feedback from bullpen sessions with Barnhart into the game.
“I still throw to him now,” says Storen of Barnhart. “That’s been great.
“He shoots me straight and know what he’s talking about.”
When Brownsburg Little League moved from Arbuckle Acres in the heart of town to the outskirts, Storen and Barnhart donated a portion of their salaries to the cause and the Reds Community Fund also helped the cause.
“It’s nice to give back in that regard,” says Storen. “Brownsburg is near and dear to my heart. My dad grew up there. I take pride in that. I want to give kids an opportunity to enjoy the game as much as I have.”
A self-described perfectionist, Storen acts as his own pitching coach.
“I’d like to think I know what I need to work on,” says Storen. “I know what I’m not good at.
“I need to make the most of whatever situation I’m in.
“I know I’m not going to be the guy I was back in the day. I know I’m going to be better in a different way.”
While getting his arm back in shape, Storen is also exploring his employment options for 2019.
“With where I’m at, it’s finding your best situation,” says Storen. “I’ll showcase for certain teams and go from there.
“It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. My agent (Brodie Van Wagenen) became the GM of the Mets.”
Storen has been dealing with others in the CAA agency.
“Brodie can’t do both (be an agent and a GM). It’s a really great opportunity for him. He knows the game really well. I can’t knock it.”
Storen is the rare pitcher that was used exclusively in the bullpen in college, drafted as a reliever and has been used in late-inning situations in the majors.
In those high-leverage moments, he knows things can go very well or very bad.
“You’re only as good as the day before,” says Storen. “If I go through a whole year and I didn’t have an interview and not on (ESPN) SportsCenter, I had a very good year
“I would prefer not to be noticed. But I enjoy that challenge. I like perfection
“You have to respect the guy in the box, but not be scared by him and trust what you have. That’s the best scouting report you have.”
Besides a professional ballplayer, Storen is a husband and father. Carmel, Ind., residents Drew and Brittani will celebrate four years of marriage this month. The couple has a 2-year-old son, Jace.
Brittani Storen, who is from Brownsburg and a Purdue University graduate, is a pharmacist. That’s the same profession has Drew’s sister, Lindsay, in Asheville, N.C.
Drew’s father, who goes professionally by Mark Patrick, is a sports broadcaster. Pam Storen is a graphic designer.
While at Stanford, Drew studied product design and has put his knowledge of baseball and mechanical engineering into scheming up the look and performance of own custom cleats.
“I’d like to go back and finish my degree,” says Storen. “I can only be so good at baseball for so long.”
Drew Storen, a 2007 Brownsburg (Ind.) High School graduate, made his Major League Baseball debut in 2010. The Carmel, Ind., resident is now a free agent. (Cincinnati Reds Photo)
Drew Storen pitched for the Cincinnati Reds in 2017. He had an immaculate inning — three strikeouts on nine pitches — in an April game against the Baltimore Orioles. He had Tommy John surgery in September 2017 and missed the 2018 season. He is now a free agent. (Getty Images)
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LHP Herrin goes from South Vigo to IU to Indians system
October 19, 2018 stvkrh905 2 Comments
Just a few years ago, he was throwing touchdown passes in the fall.
This year, he’s going to college classes and looking back on his first professional baseball season.
Tim Herrin Jr. — he answers to Timmy — was an all-state quarterback at Terre Haute (Ind.) South Vigo High School where father Tim Herrin Sr. is a dean and head football coach.
Timmy helped the Braves win IHSAA Class 5A sectional and Conference Indiana titles in his final prep football season (2014).
Herrin was a three-sport athlete at South Vigo, earning four letters in baseball, three in football and two in basketball.
A left-handed pitcher, Herrin helped the Braves win the 2013 Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference baseball championship.
In the midst of Herrin’s prep career, there was a change from the MIC to Conference Indiana. He was an all-CI and all-Wabash Valley selection as a senior as he went 6-2 with one save and a 2.33 ERA. He fanned 50 batters in 42 innings while playing for head coach Kyle Kraemer.
A first-team all-stater and Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association All-Star for South Vigo in 1986, Kraemer went on to play at Purdue. He was the Boilermakers team captain and home run leader (10) as a senior.
After graduation, he began passing along his knowledge as a coach.
“It was good to have a high school coach who had an idea of what it took to make it to the next level,” says Herrin of Kraemer. “He prepared us for that.”
Herrin was attracted to Indiana University by former Hoosiers head coach Chris Lemonis (now head coach at Mississippi State) and worked closely with former IU pitching coach Kyle Bunn (now associate head coach and pitching coach at Middle Tennessee State).
The southpaw appreciated that Lemonis was a straight shooter during the recruiting process.
“He was straight up,” says Herrin of Lemonis. “Other coaches tell you what you want to hear.
“He did a good job of telling it how it is. You saw how genuine of a guy he is. I wanted to come play for him. I knew I could trust him.”
Herrin credits Bunn for molding him as a moundsman.
(Bunn) helped me focus on what makes somebody a pitcher,” says Herrin. “I was really raw coming into school. I had never focused on one specific sport. Until the end of my junior year, I did not think about playing college baseball. I was not recruited.
“I became a more mature pitcher faster (with Bunn). It was how he would explain things.”
In three seasons in Cream and Crimson (2016-18), Herrin made 41 mound appearances (23 as a starter) with a combined 3.44 earned run average. In 120 innings, he struck out 80 and walked 46.
He also played two summers in wood bat leagues — Amsterdam (N.Y.) Mohawks (Perfect Game League) in 2016 and Harwich (Mass.) Mariners (Cape Cod Baseball League) in 2017.
Herrin, a 6-foot-5, 225-pounder, was selected in the 29th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Cleveland Indians.
Assigned to the Arizona League Indians 1 team (college signees), the lefty got into 13 games (all in relief) with the rookie-level Arizona League Indians 1 squad and went 0-1 with a 6.16 ERA. In 19 innings, he struck out 22 and walked eight. His manager was Larry Day. His pitching coach was Joel Mangrum.
Herrin throws a fastball (mostly two-seamers with a few four-seamers mixed in), slider and “circle” change-up. During the summer, he touched 95 mph a few times and sat at 90 to 92 with his heater.
During the college season, he lowered his three-quarter overhand arm angle.
“The ball comes out easier,” says Herrin of the adjustment.
He might have gone to fall instructional camp or a developmental camp in November, but Herrin is back at IU taking classes toward his sports management and marketing degree. After this term, he will be just six major credits and an internship from completion.
Herrin does plan to attend a month of camp in Goodyear, Ariz., in January. He will come back to Terre Haute for a few weeks then return for spring training.
The next stops on the Indians minor league circuit are Mahoning Valley (Short Season Class-A), Lake County (Low-A), Lynchburg (High-A), Akron (Double-A) and Columbus (Triple-A).
Born in Munster, Ind., Herrin moved to Terre Haute as a toddler. His parents — Tim and Cathy — met as students at Indiana State University. His mother is a family consumer science teacher at West Vigo High School in West Terre Haute.
Timmy has three younger brothers. Carter Herrin is a freshman football player at Indiana State. Trey Herrin is a freshman footballer at South Vigo. Christopher Herrin is a sixth grader who plays football, basketball and baseball.
Travis Herrin, a Lebanon (Ind.) High School graduate who is now a pitcher in the Los Angeles Angels organization, is no relation.
The Cal Ripken Baseball-aligned Riley Recreation League in Terre Haute is where Timmy played his first organized baseball. He began playing for travel teams around 11. In high school, he was part of the Wayne Newton American Legion Post 346 program.
Timmy Herrin, a Terre Haute (Ind.) South Vigo High School graduate, played for three seasons with Indiana University before going into pro baseball. (Indiana University Photo)
Timmy Herrin, a 2015 Terre Haute (Ind.) South Vigo High School graduate who pitched three seasons at Indiana University, gets set to throw a pitch during the 2018 season for the Arizona League Indians. Herrin was selected in the 2018 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Cleveland Indians. (Arizona League Indians Photo)
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Flickr is deleting the number of Images
Fatima Bhutta
Image Credit: Flickr
Image and video hosting site Flickr is cutting down free cloud storage from 1TB to 1000 pictures. The company has already deleted pictures to make it easier for free users. Flickr is only allowed to limit free storage to 1000 photos only regarding the image size. Such awful news, right?
The company was formerly owned by Yahoo, users who have a free account will lose its access permanently. The users will need to think thoroughly what to do with the excess photos til January 8th, 2019.
The company stated only 3% of free users stored photos that are up to 1000 photos currently uploaded. They argued that the majority of the users are not participating in the site and it is not helping to build a friendly community for the website.
“The free terabyte largely attracted members who were drawn by the free storage, not by engagement with other lovers of photography.” said Andrew Stadlen, Vice President of Flickr.
The free limit was suitable for those Flickr users who hosted images that are presented offsite especially for newsletters and bloggers. As the company deletes images from its archive, viewers from other sites would question the blank spaces where images should be. In other words, viewers will be puzzled about the missing content where the imagery should be.
Back in 2013, the company offered 200 photos for free tier users with no limit of storing images that were stored privately. However, Stadlen stated this would yield negative consequences in the community, and the storage would be limited. The former owners increased the number of limits to 1TB to retrieve the prospect of the site.
“Yahoo lost sight of what makes Flickr truly special and responded to a changing landscape in online photo sharing by giving every Flickr user a staggering terabyte of free storage,” said Stadlen.
In 2018, a photography company SmugMug bought Flickr to pay the subscription and was retooled to focus on the advertising revenue.
“You can tell a lot about a product by how it makes money,” he said. “Giving away vast amounts of storage creates data that can be sold to advertisers, with the inevitable result being that advertisers’ interests are prioritised over yours.”– Andrew Stadlen
So if you are a Flickr user and are facing this issue. It is advisable to either upgrade it for $49 per year for Flickr Pro service and make arrangements to download photos or have your photos deleted immediately before February 9th, 2019. So you need to figure out the solution otherwise your pictures will be automatically deleted, starting with the oldest photos first.
The Flickr Pro tier costs $50 annually, and the company is offering a 30% discount until the end of November. Users who are on a free tier will be unable to upload a new content after January 8. So users, hurry up and delete your unnecessary photos! You do not want to get your needy photos removed first!
Hope the situation for Flickr is sorted out! Stay tuned to our updates!
Writer specializing in business, opinion pieces, and technology education. I’m also an avid reader with a degree in Business & Management from the University of Bolton.
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5 Amazing Technologies That You Must Know About
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It seems as if technology and biology are advancing hand in hand into the future as in both fields, there are significant advances in things like IT, medicine, and neuroscience.…
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Here’s a secret: the end is always the best part.
Art, Uncategorized
Photos by Sam Troilo
Check out more of Sam’s work on her website.
August 30, 2016 suckermagazine Tagged art, modeling, photography, sam troilo, samantha troilo, skate, skateboarding, sucker magazine Leave a comment
Harsh Noise: A Conversation with GRUTESK
Art, music, Uncategorized
Interview by: Jess Petrylak
“Harsh Noise” is a musical style that is entirely characterized by static used in an expressive state, and often times challenges what is thought to be conventional in terms of musical practices. Sucker Magazine interviewed GRUTESK, a rising star in the genre of harsh noise who’s based in a quaint town in Upstate New York.
SUCKER: Who is GRUTESK?
GRUTESK: Grutesk is a harsh noise alias I use to let out some steam and just to create.
SUCKER: Not an entirely expanded upon genre, what sparked your interest in harsh noise?
GRUTESK: I honestly can’t pinpoint what exactly sparked my interest, but I’ve always been interested in more experimental music. I always wanted to be different with my music taste while growing up. When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to more independent music. I could say that probably the band/group to get me into the genre would be a rap group by the name Clipping. If harsh noise interests you, you should check them out
SUCKER: What software do you use to create your music?
GRUTESK: Currently I’m using FL Studios to make this, but I want to expand my horizons and go with the traditional setup for noise music, which is with a mixer, and some guitar pedals.
SUCKER: Do you consider GRUTESK sort of an alter ego comparative to your natural self?
GRUTESK: I think I would, I would say I’m more calm and collective then Grutesk would be, I’d best say that Grutesk is more expressive of his emotions and does not take shit from anyone, a little on the chaotic side of things though.
SUCKER: How does the emotion of anger play its role within your music? Do any other emotions come out through this medium?
GRUTESK: I’d say if it hasn’t shown in the song titles of my latest EP “Violence”, it’d be my latest experimentation with vocals in some tracks and also the noise itself gives off an angry tone or feeling.
SUCKER: What are some responses you’ve gotten on your music? Good, bad?
GRUTESK: I’ve either have gotten “Oh that’s interesting” which usually means “This is terrible” or, (from people in the noise community) “This is some good stuff man keep it up.” I take anything as a compliment; I realize this genre isn’t for everyone it even took me a while before I was fully interested in it.
SUCKER: Do you believe truly anyone can be an artist (music, art, writing, etc)?
GRUTESK: I believe you if work hard at something you love, and you are putting in the effort then you can become an artist. If you go into anything either looking for money or trying to get famous thinking “oh this is so easy hahaha” you aren’t really going to get very far.
SUCKER: What would be on GRUTESK’s personal playlist?
GRUTESK: He would definitely have just a lot of variety of noise music, and extreme music.
SUCKER: You also craft your own album art, what are the benefits of being a completely independent artist that transcends many different creative mediums?
GRUTESK: I think that because I have somewhat of an idea with what looks good with art, it plays a big role into both noise and my digital art. I believe with each album cover it portrays the emotion within each album.
SUCKER: Does your creative process for visual art and music differ in any way?
GRUTESK: With my digital art I try to draw cute cartoon women and fandom related things as well, generally like a non impacting emotion with it. Grutesk is a way I can express myself when I get angry, upset, whatever. I mean, I have created something from emotions into my digital art, but for the most part I don’t, which I think needs to change.
SUCKER: Have you done any live shows, and if not would you consider?
GRUTESK: I haven’t yet, but I would love to! I have some crazy ideas of what to do for some live events which I would love to share with everyone.
SUCKER: What was the definitive moment that lead to you to create music?
GRUTESK: After I saw a performance at the Bundy Museum in Binghamton, I forgot the guy’s name or his groups name, but it was really interesting and it just went on from there.
SUCKER: In a genre that has a very specific sound, how do you separate yourself from the rest of the harsh noise scene?
GRUTESK: I think that with my vocals I add on tracks it definitely separates me from the others.
SUCKER: What influences your sound, other than other music/musical artists?
GRUTESK: Some of the current events or horror themed things really inspires me with Grutesk, I want to do something a little different someday where I incorporate spoken word, poetry, or whatever with harsh noise. I also would love to collab with anyone if they are interested, just write to me via email or on soundcloud or bandcamp.
SUCKER: What is some sound advice you have gotten as far as any creative endeavors?
GRUTESK: I have been just told to practice, experiment, and to keep trying new things.
SUCKER: Where can we follow you, listen/buy your music?
GRUTESK: You can follow grutesk on soundcloud, (where I post tracks, previews, and albums) and my bandcamp.
I would also like to shout out some really cool people in the noise scene I’d recommend anyone to check out : Writhe (Ruben), he has some intense tracks and he’s just an awesome friend, paper skin. (Taylor), he’s more power electronics but has awesome live shows and music, he’s who inspired me to add vocals to some of my own tracks.
August 29, 2016 August 29, 2016 suckermagazine Tagged art, grutesk, harsh noise, music, sucker magazine Leave a comment
hope this time
Art, poetry, talk, Uncategorized, Words
Poem by Alyssa Faye Campbell
Art by Jessie Petrylak
in the face of adversity the load becomes
heavy – as we strive towards so much
more. we arrived with words as keys,
discovering our strength from their
energy – “Black Lives Matter.”
forsaken chants – no remedy,
another hashtag. awaiting
brighter days; and there
will be.
even in
we grow – in
we glow.
so much pain –
still, there’s always hope.
where is heaven for a
angel –
August 5, 2016 Alyssa Tagged art, black lives matter, poetry, sucker magazine Leave a comment
Emma Magenta: Artist of the Month – July 2016
Art, artist of the month, Uncategorized
Interview by Jess Petrylak
Who is Emma Magenta?
I am an artist, author and now I’m heading into film making.
In your TEDx talk, you stated that with art and writing you attempt to map the terrain of the collective emotional landscape, and describe yourself as as a cartographer of the heart. What does this mean in terms of your artistic process?
I guess through my process of these two mediums, writing and drawing, I undertake my mission to base jump into my own darkness, collective unconscious and all matters to do with inner world to understand the invisible forces at play in us all. I imagine myself sometimes as a kind of Indiana Jones undertaking missions to find the treasures hidden are I’ve surpassed the challenges facing me as I look at at the unlovable, the painful and the destructive aspects in myself. I go to these places and my drawings and writings are landmarks i leave behind as possible help for those making the same journey. My process is basically this to help myself and maybe create something meaningful.
What is your first memory with art?
It was seeing my mum’s sketchbook in our foreboding floor to ceiling library as a kid. It blew me away that she had this secret talent, she was an exhibiting ceramicist, so I traveled a lot as a kid for her shows. Drawing was always something I always did and didn’t think about it except that it gave me freedom and pleasure to do so. I always poured over comic books and the tipped-in plates in rare books in my father’s library. I guess my first experience of drawing being “art” was when I spent my lunchtimes at school in the library and read every book there was on Modern Art and I felt that these artists were my people, I felt for the first time, understood. I never thought I wasn’t an artist until after I finished art school and saw how the contemporary art scene was the opposite of creativity and it killed my mojo.
When visually portraying an emotion, what are some indicators you utilize, other than text, that gets your message across? Are there any recurring symbols?
I have my own symbolic language that was born out of keeping my visual language as simple as possible while conveying as much as I could. I used a lot of math signs such as equations, plus and minus symbols to convey positive and negative emotions, division symbol for feeling divided or confused. The human body for me is the ultimate tool for me to convey emotion and body parts doing certain things to express what is happening internally, such as the hair taking on a life force of it’s own. The hair for me is about thoughts that we have not surrendered thought patterns, contained ideas and cosmic consciousness at it’s best. Cutting hair is often used to release such thought history and growing it long is nostalgia in a way. Feet for me are our unconscious steps and I often use bird feet to show fragility and not being grounded. Blood tears is about ancestral pattern release and may appear negative but is actually the essential process of transforming one’s own darkness. Animals as well are used to convey the symbolic meaning of the animal such as foxes being sneaky, wolves are the instinctive part of the masculine, birds are the higher aspects of the spiritual dimensions of the human, cats are intuition and dogs are loyalty. Nature is always for me the source of all metaphoric glory, I derive all my inspiration from nature.
Are there any emotions that are too hard to portray? Too easy?
The works that people respond to the most are my very hopeful pieces which is natural, people don’t want to be looking all the time at the darkness. I began to introduce the darker side into my work, because that was what I was experiencing and I make my work to understand myself, not to appeal to an audience. A lot of what I have been doing of late is confronting for some people who have enjoyed my more Anne of Green Gables era of drawing, but that is the price i have to pay for being authentically where i am at. Having said that, the work that I am doing of late is opening me up to a new audience who are prepared to accept that life is not just a feel good mantra on a Facebook meme. I don’t struggle to draw the darkness, of late I am finding it harder to draw the whimsical, the über hopeful, but I can only be true to where I am at if I want to call myself an artist.
Your work is composed of simple but confident lines, and primary colors. How do these add to your message?
I think the style is actually where the artistry resides and also is not separate from the message. Most people look at it and think a child could do that and I say thank you. It is not easy to draw unencumbered by years of adulthood should’s and should not’s. Some people view my work through a very conservative lens of “art should look like this, but not that” I think the simplicity shocks people sometimes and they miss the point. The point is that the simplicity is a juxtaposition of the deeper message. I am merging the best parts of the child and adult into the one moment, such as the innocence, playfulness, emotional honesty of the child and the wisdom, experience and insight of being an adult.
What other visual artists do you look to for inspiration?
Unfortunately Frida Kahlo has been hijacked by Art Capitalism and turned into a fridge magnet and shopping bag, but i have loved her since i was 15. Her independence, politics, style and honesty. I love Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Louise Bourgious, Bill Viola, but to be honest, I have stopped looking at other artist’s work for inspiration as i see them more with appreciation. I derive all my inspiration from nature, observing human behaviour, books, conversations and meditation.
During what part of the artistic process do you feel most yourself?
Drawing for me is when I come in to the true essence of myself. It is when the intellect is dissolved and the heart is in control. Writing is more of a skin shedding process like I’m trying to exorcise demons. The best part of me emerges when the space between the intellect and intuition merges and I am no longer myself, but everything. That is when I do my best work and am the happiest being alive.
What is your go-to art making song?
It used to be Arvo Pärt, but now it’s ambient electronic artists like Dead Texan, Steve Roach, Harold Budd or 1970’s over toning singer David Hykes. Some times, Kate Bush or Bjork, but that is only if I’m not trying to pull down new ideas.
How do you decide what phrase or wording represents the emotion you’re depicting?
I don’t think too much about it. I guess I just wait for the feeling of what I want to say and then I wait for the words to construct in my head and then I wait for the feeling in the belly of certainty. I am always writing, thinking and constructing ideas in my head so it’s just a matter of pulling something down.
Why is it important as a contemporary artist to share your work online?
I used to struggle with the online world as my process is so organic and non techno and being a nature lover and all, but the beauty of online is that you’re simultaneously connected to people all around the globe while never having to leave your studio. It is a great tool to share your work and also take out the middle man, the vampires all wanting a piece of your creativity and pushing you into a tight box of how your work should be seen. I’m tired of that shit. I became tired of not being the one in the driver’s seat of my own creations. I am interested in connecting with people not just dialoguing with other artists in a narrow world of “experts”. I am more interested in people honestly connecting with my work, being online as opposed to physical galleries is that it helps you reach a broader range of people. Also, no one cares about your work as much as you do, so you have to love it like a child and take responsibility for it’s path in the world and the online process is more autonomous…for now.
What is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you in the studio? What’s the best?
Commissions with a brief are the worst. The worst. Sometimes they can help you think about your process in a new way, but rarely. Usually it is someone trying to squeeze your style into their average concept and usually it is a very twee feel good creation that makes my dark side grow stronger. Magazine work is usually my top Never Again thing to do, no, wedding present drawings actually are my all time low. The best thing is being left alone with no concern of where the work is going to end up and creating without external pressure or deadlines, no exhibitions and just making work to unfold something I’m trying to understand about myself. Once in an old warehouse studio in the city when I was 23, I was so in the zone, of my work, I left my body but was still in the room and i was filled with such an indescribable ecstasy that I was timeless and I became everything that has ever existed or will exist. That was my best studio moment.
You speak about the connection between growing older and the progression of censoring emotions in your TEDx talk. Why is it important to shed that censorship? How can it help the artist?
I feel like have I kept my child self intact and always see the world through the child eyes, so adults have always seemed so unhappy and I could never figure out why. It’s like I saw that they were always lying to themselves or taking on false roles to fill someone else’s agenda. It never made sense to me, until I became and adult myself, I saw how we get sucked in by our generational attitudes to how we should be. I was in my 20’s in the 90’s so irony and sarcasm were like social cues to kneel before if you were to be included and I just never could. I was always like “we don’t have to be unhappy guys, come on”. Censorship creates a false self and therefore your work as an artist is false and is buying into the strict codes of whatever era you’re passing through. It is this fear of not being included by your peers, but a true artist must be brave enough to walk alone if they have to and not be concerned if they’re not adored by their peers, to not conform, to trailblaze into deeper and deeper truths and realities IF they want to create meaningful work. If they just want a career that leads to a show at MOMA, then sure, conform and fill out those grant applications and dwindle your creativity down into the criteria of a panel of experts.
Do you believe art school creates “anti-artists”?
It depends on the art school and what era you go there. It’s better to get technical skills than theoretical skills in my opinion. Because art schools are now becoming privatized or they are here in Australia, it will mean a diminished education and more hoops to jump through to fulfill government criteria agenda. Doesn’t sound like a good place for artists. But then sometimes yes, it will make you become a better more accurate artist because you have seen that even the art world has succumbed to the tyranny of the system and you’re basically own your own. This is very freeing and i hope art school creates more anti-artists but not to be cool. I just want to see integrity, honesty, talent and work that speaks to me. I don’t want to read a manifesto on why you are creating visual art unless it’s in book format. Academia has killed art, but has pushed the ownership of creativity back onto the artist if they’re willing to walk it with brave autonomy.
What is the best advice you have ever received as an artist?
It was actually from no one. Everyone around me was adhering to art history and academia so I was alone. The best advice was something I gave to myself and it was this: “Give up art, accept that right now you’re an athlete, draw for fun, draw what you want and feel. It is your world and therefore the only rules are the ones you give yourself, the flaw is the entry point for invention of new aesthetic combinations.” So I did and here I am.
What is your plans for future art and your future self?
I exhibit my work in this remote mountain gallery, but I just won money to write and direct my first film that will be a combination of live action, magical realism and animation. I made an animation a few years ago for The ABC called The Gradual Demise of Phillipa Finch and this is my first short film called Remembering Agatha. It’s about a mother of 2 in a flagging marriage who finds a portal through the dishwasher to the forest of her child self. I’ve been writing the treatment and script since August last year and it will showcase in October 2017. I’ve been working on an accompanying illustrated novella as well. It looks like the film world is opening up to me with this and another project afterwards, i’m just going to explore it as a new medium. My future self is creating work, making books, films, drawings, making a new straw bale studio in my backyard, camping, building my vegetable garden. I’m involved in a community garden project next year so there’s that to focus on as well, lots of bush walks and longer term: constructing a community multi-platform production studio under my company name Cellar & The Attic.
Where can we contact you, buy and view your work?
My website will be up this year, but for now you can view/buy and contact me through the following:
https://www.facebook.com/BrainPornNinja/
https://twitter.com/BrainPornNinja
https://www.instagram.com/emma_magenta/
http://www.hathillgallery.com.au
July 5, 2016 July 5, 2016 suckermagazine Tagged art, artist of the month, emma magenta, sucker magazine, ted talk, tedxtalks Leave a comment
Illusioned Solitude
Art, poetry, Uncategorized
Poem by Alyssa Campbell featuring artwork by Jess Petrylak
balled
The sky’s railroads hold clouds traveling in packs while gods hide drinking wine
Us puppets on strings dangling from their fingertips– Death, dead
our heroes, our legends, in silence they Live on. Words on a page- through rhythm
dancing on, in silence
AnswersAreBorn
Questions forever forming tears of longing hearts, railroads of chirping birds singing gay songs.
They’d change their tone if they knew what we have done if they knew
if they knew
The air stung my cheeks, voices nails on a chalkboard theheartiswrongtheheartiswrong gods drinking wine,
Us puppets on strings dangling from their fingertips–
Death, dead- our heroes, our legends- in silence they Live on, words on a page through rhythm dancing on. Words On a page– through rhythm they dance on
insilenceAnswersreBorn
Clocks pointing broken fingers, dead ends- Caged thoughts spillingfrom the ceilingburnt skin- black sun’s.nuns holding rifles, Dead ends- caged thoughts spillingfrom the ceiling
Hell’s portalHeaven’s illusionEarth’s Asylum
Wondering soulsWondering souls, voices bold holding signs screaming “Anti-voices” aknowingunknown gods
drinking wine
June 30, 2016 June 30, 2016 Alyssa Tagged abstract, art, poem, poetry, sucker magazine 1 Comment
Kill.Eat.Repeat.Kill.Eat.Repeat.
Art Submission by Joshua Thacher
June 20, 2016 jesspetrylak Tagged art Leave a comment
Selena Ruiz: Artist of the Month – June 2016
Who is Selena Ruiz?
Selena Ruiz is a 20 year girl born and raised in Riverside, California.
What was your first experience with makeup?
I would say when I was about 11 years old I would apply NYX black pencil liner all over my waterline and smudge it out. I wouldn’t dare try liquid liner back then, I thought winged liner would never happen for me.
Where did your inspiration first stem from?
When my mom died in 2012, I started wearing makeup way more than I ever had before. I felt it was a way of coping.
Your makeup style showcases and argues the theory that makeup truly is art. How do you believe makeup factors into the art world?
I don’t understand people who do not think makeup is art. How is it not? It takes inspiration, vision, structure, blending shades, product placement, etc. My face is a canvas.
Who are some of your favorite makeup artists?
I love many, but Roshar (@rosharofficial) is the only makeup artist I aspire to be.
How do you decide which design to create on a daily basis? Does color choice play into that as well?
I usually go based off the look I did the previous day. At the end of the day, I’ll look at my makeup in a mirror and think of other ways I could’ve done it, like what other lines/shapes I could’ve connected or drawn. I just keep building off what I do.
What are some of your favorite products?
Sephora’s Liquid Liner, Laura Mercier Loose Setting Powder, anything Sugarpill Cosmetics, and NARS Makeup Removing Water.
What makeup style do you feel most comfortable in? Empowered? Vulnerable?
I feel most empowered when I have sharp thick wings, over sized top/bottom eye lashes, some glitter highlight, and wearing my favorite brown lip gloss. I feel most vulnerable when I’m not wearing eyelashes, to be honest.
Do you think makeup companies look down on you or avoid you because of your lifestyle?
I honestly feel they do, I feel a lot of makeup artists and brands avoid me because I’m not strictly a makeup account, and because I post photos of marijuana. If they look down on me for it, that’s unfortunate but I know myself and what I am capable of despite what my Instagram portrays.
You’ve recently been experimenting with adding textures such as gem stones, taped brows, and spiked paper eyelashes. How do these products further your exploration with makeup and art?
Yes! I’ve been experimenting with different objects to apply to makeup because I get bored. Adding these objects to my makeup looks have really given me a lot of inspiration to find out how far I could take it and what could become.
What is the worst comment you have received on your makeup style? What is the best?
I don’t even consider the negativity I get. There’s a lot of people who think my makeup is trash, but not compared to how many people think my makeup is great. I think the best comment I’ve received was from @shrinkle (owner of Sugarpill Cosmetics); She told me how much her and her friends admire me, and how much she loves my creativity. Also, I have to add, when I went to IMATS this year, Kim Chi came up to me and complimented the hell out of my makeup. I nearly fainted. And, oh wait, once, Kat Von D liked a makeup photo of mine. I cried.
What does your makeup process look like?
Well after I smoke, I get started with my skin, brows, shadow, liner, lashes, highlight, contour/blush, lips, and then, whatever I feel like gluing on my face that day.
What is your go-to song to listen to when getting ready?
Bam Bam – Sister Nancy
Which decade of makeup do you take the most inspiration from? Why?
I take a lot of inspiration from 90’s editorial makeup. I admire the rawness. They would include props on already very intense looks. Very fearless. I find it badass.
What is your response to people inferring that women wear makeup to please men?
What is your experience with education and makeup artistry?
I’m a high school graduate and am currently attending My Beauty Mark Makeup Academy. The only makeup artistry experiences I have are from the courses I take at school, so far: prince inspired makeup, a full face makeup course, and a moodboard makeup course.
You are undoubtedly a pioneer of pushing graphic liner into another realm, changing how people view makeup itself, and truly creating a style unique to you. Have you noticed your influence on makeup artists on the internet and in real life?
Wow thank you. People do looks inspired by me often and will tag me in them on Instagram. I think it’s cool that people actually feel inspired enough to go out of their comfort zones and do some unusual makeup. I do notice other artists switch it up a bit and try something I would do, but I don’t blame them, I just get kind of irritated when I don’t receive credit.
What is next for you? What are your plans and your plans for your future makeup looks?
As of now, I’m just waiting to finish makeup school, and see what happens from there. Due to experience, I find it hard to plan ahead of time. Nothing is certain, but of course it would be my dream to pursue an actual career in makeup. I want to succeed. And as for makeup looks… stay tuned️.
Where can we follow you, stay updated and contact you?
I’m pretty active on Instagram: @anythingforselenaaas, and I also have a tumblr! Follow me at spock-ho.tumblr.com.
June 1, 2016 jesspetrylak Tagged art, artist of the month, makeup, selena ruiz, sucker magazine 2 Comments
The Story of May’s Missing Artist of the Month
Comic by Rhianna Grace Henson
Words by Madison Killian
All of our regular Sucker readers may have noticed that this month, our usual monthly highlight of underground kick-ass artists was MIA.
We had been in contact with a fairly well know Vine star and artist, Nicholas Megalis- whom we were all fans of and thought the world of. He had agreed to be our artist of the month!
After weeks of back and forth and getting jerked around, schedule changes, and still no interview- morale was low in Sucker Magazine’s art department.
Before we knew it- it was halfway through April and our artist of the month had still not given us the interview.
It was then that the dark haired online King went on a quite misinformed Twitter rant encouraging his followers to skip college- a viable option for some, but not the most opportune or informed decision for many.
We realized we may have been better off without said artist of the month- but in the spirit of being honest (and unmerciful), enjoy this comic strip.
We will always be honest with you guys, and we will also probably always be assholes.
May 20, 2016 May 20, 2016 suckermagazine Leave a comment
In Heaven, everything is fine
Art, Film, Uncategorized
Our Top 10 Favorite Movie Soundtracks
By Lucy F.R.
“Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you’d be dead.” -Gummo
What’s a great film without an equally as great soundtrack? (Hint: extremely fucking boring) Even the folks making silent film know that music can pull at your heartstrings more than any image could. Without further ado… Here are a few of our favorite film soundtracks.
Psycho; composer: Bernard Herrmann
Requiem For A Dream; composer: Clint Mansell
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); composers: Wayne Bell and Tobe Hooper
Insidious: Chapter One; composer: Joseph Bishara
Pulp Fiction; soundtrack by: Quentin Tarantino
Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2; soundtrack by: RZA
Eraserhead; composer: David Lynch (with songs by Fats Waller)
Natural Born Killers; soundtrack by: Trent Rezner
Lost River; composer: Johnny Jewel
Gummo; soundtrack by: Randall Poster
May 9, 2016 suckermagazine Tagged eraserhead, Film, gummo, kill bill, lost river, movie soundtracks, natural born killers, psycho, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, requiem for a dream, texas chainsaw massacre Leave a comment
Slamming Sexual Violence
Art, poetry, talk, Uncategorized
University of Oregon’s Student Poetry Slam Addresses Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Words by Alyssa Campbell
Illustration by Kayla Guttierez
Illustration by Kayla Gutierrez
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words are also weapons.
When saying “no” is not enough, how do you cope with the trauma of being violated?
On April 5, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Team at the University of Oregon held round three of their Anti-Sexual Violence Poetry Slam. The first round took place fall 2014, followed by the second round fall 2015.
It started as a release party, a way to get people in the same space to pick up the newest issue of “The Siren Magazine,” a feminist magazine on the UO campus.
Students and guests showed sincere respect and expressions of deep compassion.
It was a safe zone.
“If I lose my voice I lose everything,” said poet and member of UO’s Organization Against Sexual Assault Sofia Mackey. “You cannot protect yourself from isolation.”
This year the slam was geared towards SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month).
“There’s a lot of talking at people and informing them. Getting the word out and not a lot of survivors getting to stand up and say ‘This is my experience and I’m gonna talk about it the way I want to talk about it,’ ” said Sophie Albanis. “This is valuable in that sense, it lets people define themselves and their experiences.”
Albanis is the organizer of the slam event, a member of Associated Students of UO and an advocate for the UO student government.
“This is definitely the biggest turnout we’ve had for this event,” said Albanis. “This is the most overwhelmingly positive feedback we’ve gotten. I really feel motivated to do more poetry slams.”
These poetry slams have helped her become comfortable identifying as a survivor.
Albanis` experience is one that she has no memory of. Someone had to tell her about what happened the next day and although she doesn’t remember, she knows it happened.
“A lot of people feel because I didn’t remember it or because I didn’t feel the pain after it happened, I’m not a real survivor,” said Albanis. “This event is what enabled me to say ‘Fuck you, I am a survivor.’ ”
Through poetry, readers shared experiences of rape trauma, repressed anger, new love and generational trauma.
“I was suffering a lot, for me what really helped me figure some things out was writing,” said poet Vienna Soulé. “I didn’t have to keep that inside of me anymore. I could write it out on paper and that’s where it stayed.”
Vice President for the UO student government Claire Johnson works as a member of the Organization Against Sexual Assault.
“I strongly believe too often our society puts these ideas into survivors heads that it’s their fault or they deserve it,” said Johnson. “All of your stories really make a difference.”
It was her first time sharing a piece she wrote since becoming a survivor a month ago.
“Art expression is a super valuable way for people to release feelings and thoughts they may not be able to get out otherwise,” said Johnson. “Expressing myself definitely helps me one way or another.”
Working at past poetry slams and speak-outs inspired her to let her voice be heard.
“I really learned how important it is to have a safe space for people to feel comfortable to express themselves and their experiences,” said Johnson. “Without these safe spaces, it’s hard for someone to heal. I definitely resonate with that.”
The support she’s gotten from her coworkers, friends and other survivors she knows has given her the courage to share her story.
“I looked to them for strength and found courage within myself from the courage they had,” said Johnson.
Emma Sharp and Charlie Landeros, members of UO’s Sexual Wellness Awareness Team switched the mood up with rhythm and poetry.
The crowd responded back with praise as the duo rapped lyrics like “It’s my body and you’re not God motherfucker.”
Concluding the slam a man named Julius Alecsandre shared his story about being sexually assaulted and his family not supporting him.
“I’m very openly gay,” said Alecsandre. “Pertaining to sexual awareness, this is my story.”
The crowd covered their mouths and put their heads down as Alecsandre shared vivid details about his horrific experience.
“Even though I was fighting back his fists felt like bricks to my face. I felt him tearing me open,” said Alecsandre. “I remember waking up in the hospital surrounded by my family. They were embarrassed and angry.”
Dealing with the trauma of being sexually assaulted isn’t something that is easy to overcome, the scars never heal. But there are ways to help, you don’t have to suffer and isolate yourself. You don’t have to live feeling alone. There are people who care and you do matter.
“I want to challenge people to educate themselves on sexual assault. Go to events like this. There’s very real humans behind the stories, get to know them,” said Landeros. “Art is one of the last forms of magic we have in this world, especially poetry, it’s just raw emotion.”
According to the Bureau of Justice, “Sexual assault is a wide range of victimizations, separate from rape or attempted rape. These crimes include attacks or attempted attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between victim and offender. Sexual assaults may or may not involve force and include such things as grabbing or fondling. It also includes verbal threats.”
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network has reported that every year there’s an average of 293,000 cases of sexual assault.
Every 107 seconds another American is sexually assaulted, 44 percent of victims are under the age of 30.
Four out of five assaults are from someone known by the victim and 47 percent are a friend or acquaintance.
Sixty-eight percent of assaults are not reported to police, meaning 98 percent of rapists will never face jail time.
April 26, 2016 suckermagazine Tagged activism, art, feminism, poetry, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month, sucker magazine, university of oregon 1 Comment
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