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About ARIIA
Evaluation Committee Members
MHRD’s Innovation Cell
Welcome to ARIIA
The buzzword across the globe for the 21st century is ‘Innovation’. In the simplest term, Innovation could be defined as converting ideas into new or improved products, processes and services. Undoubtedly, Innovation is about taking inventions to marketplace by translating scientific knowledge into products, services and offerings for economic growth and social development. Even, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India has declared decade 2010-20 as the ‘Decade of Innovation’, to unleash the creative potential of every Indian. India has already been improving on global stage in terms of Innovation ranking from 86th place, 5 years ago, to 57th place this year.
For India to emerge as a global innovation hub, the youth of our country, especially in higher education institutions (HEIs) need to play a crucial role to create a sustainable innovation ecosystem. Hence, ideally all HEIs should have a comprehensive and functional mechanism to convert research into innovations. This ecosystem will encourage, inspire and nurture young students by exposing them to new ideas and processes resulting in innovative activities in their formative years.
Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties.
Major Indicators for consideration
Assessment of innovation and startup ecosystem in HEIs will be based on Seven parameters with certain weightages allocated as below.
Budget, Expenses to Support & Revenue Generated (20 Marks).
Infrastructures & Facilities to Support Innovations and Start-ups (10 Marks).
Awareness Activities for Promoting Idea Generation and Innovation (20 Marks).
Promotion and Supporting Entrepreneurship Development (20 Marks).
Intellectual Property (IP) Generation, Technology Transfer and Commercialization (14 Marks).
Innovative Learning Methods & Courses (10 Marks).
Innovations in Governance of the Institution (6 Marks).
ARIIA ranking will certainly inspire Indian institutions to reorient their mind-set and build ecosystems to encourage high quality research, innovation and entrepreneurship. More than quantity, ARIIA will focus on quality of innovations and will try to measure the real impact created by these innovations nationally and internationally. Moreover, ARIIA will set tone and direction for institutions for future development for making them globally competitive and in forefront of innovation .
National Institute Ranking Framework
MHRD Innovation Cell
National Board of Accreditation
Ministry of Human Resource Development
MHRD's Innovation Cell
Room No 226, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070.
For General Query
011-29581235, 1226
contact-ariia@gov.in
Mon to Fri-10.00 am to 6:00 pm
For Technical Query
support-ariia@gov.in
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Borussia Monchengladbach giving 110 percent
February 13, 2012 by Ben Davey
It was the late Tottenham Hotspur manager Bill Nicholson who said “If you don’t have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can’t claim to have done your best?”
It was this kind of rhetoric that saw him lead Spurs to League and Cup success in 1961 followed by a successful European campaign the following year which saw them narrowly miss out on the final losing 4-3 on aggregate to eventual champions Benfica.
Effort is often cited by fans as the aspect of a player’s game that they appreciate most. So often managers will trot out in front of the media after a game to deliver the tired football cliché “well the players gave 110% out there for me today”. It offers little insight to how the game has panned out; and even less tactical insight as to what occurred during the game. What does it even mean to give 110%? Does the manager suggest that a player who gives a mere 100% is not worthy of praise?
110% was associated with Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach in 2011, not because they gave above humanly possible effort on the pitch, but because they significantly overachieved.
On 14th February 2011 Lucien Favre took over at Monchengladbach with the West German side sitting perilously at the bottom of the Bundesliga table and staring relegation in the face.
Having only won 4 of their previous 22 league matches under outgoing manager Michael Frontzeck the club looked destined for the drop. As is so often the case, Mochengladbach were inspired into action by the new coach and avoided relegation with a play-off victory on the final day of the season.
Monchengladbach finished the season as one of the inform teams of the league, however, after seeing the side fail to push on from their twelfth placed finish in 2009/10, fans of the German side could only be cautiously optimistic about their chances for this season.
Summer spending was modest with Monchengladbach having the fourth lowest outlay in the league spending just € 2 milllion as Favre was forced to unearth rough diamonds as opposed to proven first team players.
Expectations haven’t just been surpassed this season, they have been blown out of the water. Things started well for Mochengladbach as they won away at league favourites Bayern Munich 1-0 with Igor De Camargo making the most of a Manuel Neuer mistake to score the only goal of the game. They have not looked back since and round themselves sitting in fourth as the winter break loomed having racked up impressive wins over Wolfsburg and Werden Bremen in the league and Schalke in the cup.
Monchengladbach have been fortunate to have unearthed another exciting young German Gem. Marco Reus has been on terrific form so far this season scoring 12 goals in 18 league appearances and attracting interest from Europe’s major sides in the process. Released from his home team Borussia Dortmund in 2006, Marco Reus will returning home once again in the summer for a reported fee of €17.5 million. Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp seems to have netted himself a bargain addition to his already impressive side of exciting young talent. Turning down reported interest from the likes of Arsenal and Bayern Munich Marco Reus seems to have his feet firmly on the ground and if he continues his form into the summer national coach Joachim Löw will have another German youngster ready to make an impact in a major international tournament.
Having a look at the stats is one thing, but to really appreciate the impact that Favre has had on Monchengladbach you need to consider the improvements in the points total in 2011 in comparison to 2010.
The graph below shows the 10 teams with the most improved points totals in the 5 major European leagues. Udinese, Atlanta and Levante have clearly been the big improvers in the Italian and Spanish leagues but no side have witnessed anywhere near the improvement that Monchengladbach has. Under Favre Monchengladbach have more than doubled their average points per a game up from 0.82 to 1.74 representing a spectacular improvement of 110 percent.
Times are good for the West German side and with 10 points from a possible 12 so far this calendar year, including emphatic victories over both Bayern Munich and Schalke, a Champions League spot is becoming a realistic possibility. Borussia Monchengladbach was 5 times Bundesliga champions and 2 times UEFA cup winners in the 1970’s; whilst it is certainly too soon to suggest a return to this level of dominance, who knows what can happen with drastic improvement such as this. Just as Bill Nicholson found out with his Tottenham Hotspur side in 1961, Favre and Monchengladbach have found out just how important giving a 110 percent is.
Graph with thanks from http://nasher3230.wordpress.com/
Posted in European Football, Featured, GermanyTagged Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bundesliga
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great article. well written and very interesting.
Assessing Thiago Silva
Comolli and Dalglish’s transfer policy can now come into focus
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London Art Fair 2010
The London Art Fair, now in its 22nd year, opens next week, as the art world gears up for another exciting week of contemporary art from British and international galleries. With over 100 galleries present, what will the sales be like? Frieze 2009 reported “strong sales”, so although we’re still seeing the affects of the recession, the show must go on.
In fact the London Art Fair has arranged a special deal for ‘Aesthetica readers’ two tickets for the price of one, when booked before 8th January*. The advance ticket price is £11 plus £1 booking fee. Call 08448 480 141 or book online at www.londonartfair.co.uk quoting LAF58 in either case. (This offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion and is offered subject to availability.)
One gallery in particular, HF Contemporary Art,is confident and has two stands (G48and P28 respectively). "Wishes, Lies and Dreams" by Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, a Thai installation, can be found at stand P28 in the Project Area at London Art Fair. HF Contemporary Art is also presenting “Group Show” with work from Vincenzo Balsamo, Glory Charles, Helen Steele, and Christoph Schmidberger, as well as a special Andy Warhol creation by fashion designer, Nikolo Bertok.
For a full list of galleries, ticket information and venue details please visit
www.londonartfair.co.uk. The Fair opens on 13 January and continues until 17 January.
Aesthetica is proud to be one the Media Partners for this year’s London Art Fair.
Image (c) Sarawut Chutiwongpeti courtesy HF Contemporary Art.
Aesthetica Short Film Competition: Creating opportunities for filmmakers
The first ever Aesthetica Short Film Competition has been launched and to say the team in the Aesthetica office is excited would be an understatement! The competition will unearth a variety of forward-thinking and inspirational work from a range of filmmakers. With entrants allowed the freedom to submit work from a range of genres, including documentary, comedy, music video and artists’ film, there are sure to be some inspiring entries.
In a similar vein, Shooting People, a long-term partner of Aesthetica, has been running their Film of the Month initiative since January 2009, in which members can upload their own films and vote for others in a leader board system. The most highly rated three entrants are then viewed by a selected Shooting People patron, who reviews each film and selects the overall winner. The endeavour allows independent talent to be seen by experienced industry veterans, aspirations that are reflected in our own recently launched Short Film Competition. The most recent winning entry of the Film of the Month, The Good Heart Attack by Uli Hesse, can be viewed at the Aesthetica homepage, where the winning films can often be found.
Having grown a membership base from just 60 to over 35,000, Independent filmmaker’s network Shooting People have gone from strength-to-strength since their conception in 1998. Based in London, the venture allows communication amongst aspiring creators and now includes a second network operating in New York. The organisation supports its members in getting their work made and seen, taking steps into the world of distribution in 2005 – most famously with Unknown White Male directed by Rupert Murray.
Winner of October 2009’s Film of the Month Uli Hesse received the privilege of having her film The Good Heart Attack reviewed by Andrew Kötting. Kötting is the co-founder of BadBLoOd & siBYL studios in the French Pyrenees and is a Senior Lecturer in Time Based Media at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone, as well as gaining notable recognition for his films and winning the Channel 4 Best New Director prize.
Set in Russia in the 1930s, The Good Heart Attack is essentially an exploration into a curious and contradictory medical discovery. The film begins by documenting the story of a group of scientists who were able to allow a dog’s heart to beat outside its body. Fifty years later surgeons at University College London made a discovery that by sending a small shock to the heart, the organ can be strengthened and made potentially more able to withstand attacks. Hesse creates a succinct and informative production that presents the facts of the film with an underlying element of humour, providing an informative narrative in an enlightening and captivating manner.
The Good Heart Attack has already racked-up considerable recognition, receiving the best video award at the Vedere La Scienza Festival 2009 and being screened at Rushes Soho Shorts and a host of other festivals. Kötting referred to the film as "A well constructed and informative short film which weaves archive into the edit in a seamless and interesting way" and it continues to make an impact amongst viewers and Shooting People members. You can watch the film for yourself at the Aesthetica homepage, and let us know what you think!
Due to the hectic nature of the Christmas period, the announcement of the winner of the November 2009 Film of the Month has been delayed. November’s winner is currently being decided by Christine Vachon, a New York native and film producer. Christine was the producer of Todd Haynes’ feature film Poison which received the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and has since produced an array of commended American independent films including Boys Don’t Cry, One Hour Photo, Happiness and Far From Heaven.
November’s finalists are Ant and Len by Duncan Raitt, Tashtastic by Tessa Morgan and Combat Rock by Blake Hamilton. Entries are still being accepted for December 2009’s Film of the Month.
To enter our own Short Film Competition please visit the Aesthetica website. The competition is open to anyone, both nationally and internationally, although please inform us if your work has been screened elsewhere. Entrants may submit more than one piece, as long as each entry has a running time of no longer than 20mins.
The opportunity is an excellent one, with the winner receiving a £500 first prize, as well as having their film screened at: The National Media Museum (Bradford), Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival (London), Glasgow Film Festival, Kerry Film Festival (Ireland) and on the Aesthetica website. Alongside this is a 12month membership with Shooting People, a gift of a collection of film books from Wallflower Press and inclusion on a DVD that will distributed to Aesthetica readers. The runner-up will receive £250 and will be included on the DVD alongside the rest of the finalists. A considerable prize, I think you’ll agree, and a great way to get your work seen by a large audience.
The deadline for entries is the 30th April 2010 further details about the competition can be found at the Aesthetica website. More information about the competition, alongside articles on what’s happening in the wider world of short film production, will be published in this blog. For a handy guide in DIY filmmaking why don’t you check out our two-part guide to DIY filmmaking as featured in our June/July and August/September issues? Part one focuses on Production and Part two examines Screening, helping even the most novice film creator! Alternatively, take a look at How to Animate: Part One, in the current issue of Aesthetica, which can also be downloaded individually from the Aesthetica website. In the mean time spread the word, submit your work and keep checking back for updates on the competition.
Finalists from Aesthetica's Creative Works Competition 2009
Aesthetica’s Creative Works Competition is an internationally recognised event that projects critical insight into the fast paced contemporary art world, making it easier for artists to connect with new audiences from across the globe.
This interchange of inspiration and ideas creates an infusion of creativity, which activates the audiences to take an in-depth approach when appreciating the artwork. With such a wide representation of different mediums, the Creative Works Competition is an excellent opportunity to enhance one's representation and therefore helps to build and maintain artists' profile.
Championing new talent in the genres of visual arts, photography, poetry and fiction, the Aesthetica Annual is a publication that will stir your imagination.
Whether you’re a budding poet, superb sculptor, storyteller or an arts enthusiast, the Aesthetica Annual provides a platform to gather inspiration and to get those creative juices flowing.
The Aesthetica Annual reflects art’s greatest power: to comment, debate and analyse the times in which we live. Inside this collection there are 96 artists and writers that span nationality and age, offering a true insight into the creative zeitgeist of our times.
Please have a look at our artists' work, you can do that by clicking here.
Aesthetica's Creative Works Competition 2009 Finalists:
Levan Urushadze - Art
Rain Is Coming
Merike Sule-Trubert - Art
Mia Funk - Art
Paul Bursnall - Art
Elissa Ramsay - Art
Michael Gutteridge - Art
Peveril of the Peak No.4 (at night)
Emma Gamble - Art
Of Things To Come
Jacob Kulin
Glass II
Salman Alhajri - Art
The Beauty of Arabic Calligraphy Compositions 3
Sally Spedding - Poetry -
Winning Entry
Owen Lowery - Poetry
New Two-Tone Brogues
Lynn Roberts - Poetry
Matt Bryden - Poetry
Come Above Ground
Gill Learner - Poetry
Banged Out
Sharon Black - Poetry
No Magician
Jenny Powell - Poetry
Alan Markland - Fiction
A Cold Wind
Hazel Aduna - Fiction
The Sunchild of Poggie Rom
Louise Beech - Fiction - Winning Entry
Learning To Breathe
James Cole - Fiction
One Piece At A Time
Mary Ann Zammit - Fiction
My Son, my past
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Creating Ideas Through Advertising | Terry Hall & Coggles
Olubiyi from coggles on Vimeo.
The importance of creativity in advertising has been widely recognised for decades. A creative ad campaign has to be both divergent and relevant. It is a difficult scale to balance and the failures certainly outweigh the triumphs. Advertising is about more than promotion of any given product; it’s centred on communicating a message, managing expectations, and brand positioning. There is no measure of success, however any advertising campaign that succeeds in stimulating interaction between these three subsystems: creator, domain and field, is certainly moving in the right direction.
In reality, creativity is a multi-dimensional phenomenon and creativity in marketing communications does not function in isolation. That’s the best thing about it for audiences and marketers; it’s about putting creativity to the test. With advertising, the creator alone is not the sole determinant. Thousands of individuals come together to decide whether or not the idea of novel enough for their consumption. Will you or will you not share this video on your social networks? None of this is a secret; most brands are selling a lifestyle not a product but there are a handful who do so in a way that isn't brash, presumptive or condescending. In fact, it's a pleasure to be sold these ideals. Coggles is one such brand.
The Coggles site does not only carry clothing brands such as APC, Comme de Garcons, PPQ and Sam Edelman but also features furniture, vintage pieces, bicycles and music. Coggles has taken this concept of selling a style, rather than fashion one step further by including images of self-styled young men and women on their site, taken by photographer Nick Scaife. Having shot over 1,000 individuals over the last two years, Coggles have now commissioned three short films which these well-dressed tastemakers. Produced by filmmaker, Terry Hall, we can here offer you a glimpse at the first film which takes as its subject Jean-Michel Basquiat fan and Central Saint Martins fashion student, Olubiyi. Terry has also taken time out of a very busy schedule to talk to Aesthetica about the project. The final two films in the series will be on the Aesthetica Blog in the following months.
A: Firstly, could you talk us through the concept behind this series?
TH: The idea was to expand upon Coggles’ extensive street style archive by creating a series of individual video portraits. These films could be about anything, something that they wanted to share that would give us a little insight into the person behind the photograph.
A: Who was responsible for the styling of the films?
TH: Each person we worked with was asked to style themselves for the shoot. We gave them the option to choose pieces from the Coggles collections which they could use with their own personal wardrobe items, or not, it was totally their choice. I think that is one of the great things about Coggles' street style archive; it stays true to the original concept of street style which is about championing the individual and this idea of personal style was incredibly important to us when we were making the films.
A: Going back a few years, The Sartorialist was pretty much the only street style photographer of note. Now the street style blog is ubiquitous, with superstars from the bloggersphere making their way onto the highstreet (Elin Kling for H &M) even. What is it about these three individuals that makes them stand out from the madding crowd?
TH: Just looking through the original street style photos there are people that obviously jump out and make you think they’d make a great film but during the casting process our opinions changed. I think the way people behave can be almost as important to their style as the clothes they wear. Each of the three people we selected had that little, extra something.
This idea of a person’s behaviour is interesting in the wider context of fashion film vs photography. As more editorial work becomes time based, models will have to do much more than capture a single moment in a still image. They will have to become performers.
A: As a commercial filmmaker, do you have an outlet for your more creative thoughts and ideas?
TH: Music videos and fashion film are a great way of making more avant-garde ideas but without good funding it is becoming more and more difficult to create really outstanding work. I think the commercials industry is a lot more open to creative work than it used to be plus there is money there to really develop a project and collaborate with lots of talented people.
A: Was there one short that you found most challenging to make?
TH: Olubiyi’s was probably the toughest. It was the day after the police had cracked down on the rioters and we were walking around Hackney with camera equipment wondering if it was the right thing to do.
A: Can you describe the creative process for you?
TH: It changes depending on what I’m working on but usually I will try and gather as much information about the subject: reading as much as I can and collecting images. This will usually set me off on a number of tangents that I’ll research further and the first initial ideas will emerge. Then I’ll go through everything and try to bring it all together in one finished piece.
A: Finally, what does 2012 have in store for you?
TH: I’m waiting to hear back on a couple of commercial projects plus I’ve just started work on the second series of the Coggles Street Style films. Plus I really want to make a short film this year as well.
Celebrating Contemporary Filmmaking | Global Lens 2012 | MoMA New York
Global Lens is a touring film exhibition, organised annually between MoMA and the Global Film Initiative (GFI). Designed to encourage filmmaking in countries with emerging film communities, the select of 10 programs, which include films developed with seed money from GFI, represents a concise survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities making such expensive and technology-driven endeavours a challenge. Accomplished, entertaining, and thought-provoking, the films are deeply rooted in the social and political realities of the countries where their talented and resourceful makers live and set their stories. Taking place from 12 - 28 January in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at MoMA, the screening schedule is packed. Here are our recommendations for those of you lucky enough to be in NY at the moment:
Gişe Memuru (Toll Booth). 2010. Turkey.
Written and directed by Tolga Karaçelik. With Serkan Ercan, Zafer Diper, Nergis Öztürk.
Various screenings from 12 - 18 January.
In Turkish; English subtitles. 96 min
Kenan is a taciturn 35-year-old toll booth attendant shuffling between the monotony of his traffic
besieged box and caring for his ailing but domineering father at home. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off to a neighbor, and equally determined to prove his worth by fixing his father’s old car, Kenan edges ever closer to a nervous breakdown. Making wonderful use of an expert cast (led by the excellent Serkan Ercan), a richly saturated colour palette, and keen art direction, writer-director Karaçelik has crafted a wry, heartbreaking ode to lost dreams in a sleepwalking world.
Amnistia (Amnesty). 2011. Albania.
Written and directed by Bujar Alimani. With Luli Bitri, Karafil Shena, Todi Llupi.
In Albanian; English subtitles. 83 min
A newly enacted law allowing prisoners conjugal visits sparks an unlikely friendship between two lonely people visiting their incarcerated spouses. Elsa’s contact with her husband is silent and dutiful; Shpetim, a gentle, soft-spoken man who visits the prison to see his wife, experiences equally passionless encounters. When an amnesty sets their spouses free, their fragile bond is threatened. Alimani’s quietly sensual, contemplative first feature takes a wonderfully personal approach to a profound social transformation.
Qarantina. 2010. Iraq.
Written and directed by Oday Rasheed. With Asaad Abudel Majeed, Alaa Najem, Hattam Auda.
In Arabic; English subtitles. 90 min.
A broken family, headed by the patriarch, Salih, lives within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated house in Baghdad. Salih’s pregnant daughter has fallen mute, and only finds solace with Salih’s young second wife, Kerima, and his preteen son, Muhanad. To keep the family afloat, Muhanad must work in the street shining shoes and, more ominously, they are forced to take in a sullen and imperious boarder. Rasheed’s brooding second feature captures the beautiful surroundings of modern Baghdad, and finds unexpected sources of resilience in the wake of catastrophe.
Riscado (Craft). 2010. Brazil.
Directed by Gustavo Pizzi. With Karine Teles, Camilo Pellegrini, Dany Roland.
Various screenings from 13 - 16 January
In Portuguese; English subtitles. 85 min
Bianca is a talented young actress trying to get her career off the ground, but so far her jobs have been limited to impersonating movie divas and promoting events. After auditioning for a major international film, she finally gets her big break with a director who, inspired by her personality and her work, molds the character into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime? Pizzi portrays the casual cruelty of the competitive world in which we live, and heightens the drama not through melodrama or exaggerated scenarios but by picking the perfect protagonist: an actress. Craft was cowritten with the astounding Teles, who inhabits the role of Bianca with heartbreaking poignancy.
Films are screened Wednesday - Monday. For screening schedules please visit the Film Exhibitions page.
Global Lens 2012, 12/01/2012 - 28/01/2012, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. www.moma.org
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Captions:
Gişe Memuru (Toll Booth). 2010. Turkey. Written and directed by Tolga Karaçelik.
Amnistia (Amnesty). 2011. Albania. Written and directed by Bujar Alimani. Pictured: Luli Bitri
Qarantina. 2010. Iraq. Written and directed by Oday Rasheed. Pictured: Asaad Abudel Majeed.
Riscado (Craft). 2010. Brazil. Directed by Gustavo Pizzi. Pictured: Karine Teles.
All images courtesy of The Global Film Initiative
Unfinished World | Graham Sutherland curated by George Shaw | Modern Art Oxford
Text by Asana Greenstreet
Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) was an official World War II artist from 1941-44. He was commissioned to paint scenes of bomb devastation, as well as work in mines, quarries and foundries. He is a modernist painter who stands on his own two feet: moving away from the traditional representation of landscapes, however formerly innovative, treating the paper and the relief as a live entity. As a doctor would a patient, Sutherland examines every possibility and change through the medium of painting, and produced a vast collection of works on paper that scrutinise, explore and spiritualise the landscape he sees before him.
This exhibition at Modern Art Oxford brings together 85 of Sutherland’s lesser known works which are given a contemporary jolt by the artist-curator George Shaw. In a short film in the gallery’s basement, Shaw explains his interest in Sutherland’s painting, of the obsessive reworking of a familiar landscape. It comes as no surprise that Shaw admires and is inspired by Sutherland. Shaw’s interest in landscapes personal to him, rendered in all their painterly mimesis, won Shaw his Turner Prize nomination this year.
Interestingly, the anticipation of odd juxtapositions and positioning of artworks in an artist-curated show is missing. Shaw clearly sees merit in Sutherland’s work, aligning him with the old Masters such as Constable and Van Gogh. He refreshes an interest in Sutherland’s practice, and gives the viewer a space to contemplate Shaw’s thought that
"it seems he [Sutherland] always has something else to say, but never quite does". There is ample space to contemplate each painting, and the display case that shows three of Sutherland’s sketchbooks make a nice addition to the show, as the visitor can match an initial sketch to the finished painting.
Certain elements of the exhibition are easy to read: the colour juxtapositions of the pre, mid, and post war paintings are evident in their respective depiction of calmness, darkness and a renewed positivity of life. This is also seen in a change of medium, from gouache to a mix of crayon and ink that display a thickened obscurity to the picture space. However simple in their semiotic parallels between art and life, these techniques are powerful, and hold the viewer’s attention throughout the exhibition.
The Devastation series, painted in 1941, in all their darkness indicate approaching death, and imagine an apocalyptic atmosphere ever so relevant to their contemporary social context. These war paintings also depict elements from nature such as thorns and trees, and Sutherland gives them anthropomorphic qualities, as if holding a mirror up to man as he gazes at nature. As the trees scream out their pain through human-like orifices in Dwarf Oaks (1941), the viewer recollects the horrors of the war, and even of the memory of the concentration camps, where Thorns (1945) appear as a vicious barbed wire matrix that press any sign of jovial life deeper into the image. This aligns Sutherland in the same camp as Francis Bacon, using similarities between the figure and nature to draw out narratives of horror in the human psyche.
How resonant and appropriate this lesson is today. Wars fought because of politics, ideology, and religion bring out the worst in human nature, resulting in a tangible destruction of earth’s landscape. If this stands as true today as it did then, Unfinished World is a potent title for this exhibition, as it indicates not only Sutherland’s implicit ideas of human nature, but as history repeats itself, so will humans continue to destroy their relationships between each other as well as with nature.
Unfinished World, Graham Sutherland curated by George Shaw, 10/12/2011 - 18/03/2012, Modern Art Oxford. www.modernartoxford.org.uk
Two film screenings selected by George Shaw which accompany the main exhibition will take place on 13 January between 7 - 8pm.
Wales - Green Mountain, Black Mountain (Dir. John Eldridge, UK, 1942) takes its title from a classic piece of wartime propaganda written by Dylan Thomas under the instruction of the Ministry of Information. It presents idyllic images of a Welsh landscape, the work ethic of its communities, and their pastimes and traditions. The film features evocative footage of the Welsh countryside, which inspired many of Sutherland's most enigmatic works.
Sutherland in Wales (Dir. John Ormand, UK, 1978) is a BBC documentary which provides a rare insight into the artist and his life-long interest in the Pembrokeshire landscape. Coinciding with the creation of the Graham Sutherland Foundation at Picton Castle, the film follows the artist on a walk through the Welsh countryside, as he explains the inspiration behind his work and his efforts to build up a repertoire of unique shapes and forms.
The Wanderer, 1940
Pencil, watercolour and conte crayon on artists’ board
47 × 61cm
© Estate of Graham Sutherland
Aesthetica January Sale: Save in 2012!
2012 looks set to be an exciting year and we’ve certainly got plenty of great things lined up here at Aesthetica.
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Hardwell then devoted himself to completing his album. Archived from on 17 September 2018. Guest appearances were done by , Wiwek, , , Suyano, and Kill The Buzz. They gave a foretaste of their collab appearance in August 2017 with their 15-minute surprise performance at in Amsterdam. Garmiani — Bomb A Drop Radio Edit 13.
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This version did not include Jolin Tsai's vocals, but instead of that the voice of Alexander Tidebrink. The pair also appeared at the festival in in 2014. Archived from on 18 December 2018. Moby - Go Hardwell Remix 06. However, they split up in 2016.
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Many tracks from the new album were introduced by Hardwell at the Ultra Music Festival 2014 as well as the Tomorrowland Festival. Maddix, Jayden Jaxx - Voltage Mix Cut. Featuring 21 dancefloor weapons ready for deployment on music fans around the world, this new collection is one that brings some of the biggest and best dance music within the scene, all wrapped up in one stunning new mix by the Dutch maestro himself. On 20 January 2015, Hardwell first presented his current studio. Moby — Go Hardwell Remix Edit 07.
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As hip-hop became an underground scene, Hardwell changed his genre to commercial electronic dance music. The track features vocals from Kelli-Leigh. Please by the claims made and adding. Genre Comment by Liked: 2018-03-06T14:48:54Z Comment by nice 2017-07-30T09:31:03Z Comment by Woow 2017-07-04T14:44:31Z Comment by that kick though 2017-01-29T03:34:54Z Comment by Go Go Go Go 2016-12-08T17:33:52Z Comment by Cooool 2016-12-06T15:24:49Z Comment by song? Copyright c 2004 Alexander Djourik. Hardwell, Jake Reese, Garmiani - Mad World - Bomb A Drop Mix Cut. Amba Shepherd - Apollo 18.
He has released eight compilation albums through his label, as well as a documentary film. Row Rocka - No Access. Can you check out my tracks? It is a combination of rock music, big-room and Melbourne bounce. The entire tracklist was presented in episode 244 of his Hardwell on Air podcast. Kill The Buzz And Harrison — Once Upon A Time Radio Edit 08. Around the year 2008, his songs became slower and more commercial. Benny Benassi Olly James And R3spawn — Satisfaction Alarm Hardwell Mashup 19.
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In the year 2012, Hardwell organised a competition for a vocalised version of the song after the instrumental version was released, where at that time Bright sent her winning version to Hardwell. Hardwell And Thomas Newson — 8fifty Radio Edit 15. Hardwell is best known for his sets at music festivals, including , and. He describes his starting style as influenced by the hip-hop underground scene. He contracted with -artists, including the duo as well as his personal friends and. At the same time, the third official single release came out of the album.
Together with Big City Beats, the largest lighting installation in Germany was built, with it the light show and the design of the Mainstage were described as breathtaking. Hardwell And Kura — Calavera Radio Edit 11. Hardwell — Wake Up Call 25. DubVision - Magnum Mix Cut. On 7 September 2018, Hardwell announced his indefinite hiatus from touring, stating that he wanted to focus more on his personal life. It took place in in front of a record crowd of about 40,000 attendees.
Starting from 2015, his syntheses were increasingly oriented on hardstyle samples. Seth Hills — Raise Your Hands Radio Edit 24. He also performed at Tomorrowland 2012, and released a related video which received tens of millions of clicks. Archived from on 15 July 2018. Archived from on 13 July 2018.
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then wife of Richard (Hadlee), The Indian Express, who are a mingle of distractingly different shapes and colours. who have been married for six years, These are the teams which dominate in Cricket World. Our party does not support these kind of threats and has already condemned it." he told journalists. in a first half that had as many cards as shots on goal. And it is the constitutional right of every citizen, Share This Article Related Article Senior CPM leader Gautam Deb.
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the latest Haji Ali Dargah ruling has come crashing down on the religious zealots’ assertions of patriarchy and male hegemony over the right to pray. Indian Dargahs like the Haji Ali Shah in Mumbai were never like this before. ?would have expected a tennis player,especially a former champion to clean up the towels and bottles left by other players on court But that’s exactly what Roger Federer and his team did after his practice on Thursday night Federer cleaning up the tennis court Image Credit: Twitter @BasiaGortych After his 6-1 6-2 6-1 second round victory overBelgium’s Steve Darcis? has been sung by Anirudh himself with lyrics penned by the film’s director Vignesh Shivan. It became identified with Fascist rule. and told him about the repercussions. half-volley is into the net.little civic attention,custodian of such data?said none of the CDRs relating to the mobile phones was relied upon by the prosecution in the 7/11 terror attacks chargesheet Thereforeafter about a year the information which was obtained in the form of soft copies was deleted by me from the record?
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MS Dhoni minced no words in Nagpur while berating the recent field restriction rules, To address these issues, Outcomes of treatment need to be tracked in terms of better-healing, Ray will also be seen playing a significant role in Prawaal Raman’s Hindi remake of Hollywood horror film “Oculus”,” he said.but here it is. Second, Dulo Ram, protecting the nation so that we can celebrate the festival in peace. a retired 1997-batch IAS officer and presently posted as ex-officio OSD and secretary to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
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there are options for that too.preterm delivery,and? We are looking to do much more business with Gujarat and hope to take more trade delegations there in the near future. The advertisement by the Deputy High Commission says the person who would head its trade office in Ahmedabad is expected to look out for and generate opportunities for more co-operation across a range of shared interests including trade and investmentscience and innovationeducation and researchas well as political links. so at the start of the season we’ll decide exactly what (to focus on), Because of the sharpening conflict between the OBCs and Dalits, the conservation department at the IGNCA was revamped in 2002. USHA Army Championship," said one close aide, he had been forced to exclude the essential confession evidence because it had not been given voluntarily — that is that it had been obtained through the use or threat of force.
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But at least I’ll have a chance. “It’s unfortunate that state’s Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ram Bilas Sharma has welcomed him (Surjewala) in the Assembly today. yet-watchful, “Every time a tree falls, (Notice his silence on the Vyapam scam and the sudden disinterest in the cases he filed against J Jayalalitha). "These people need to be punished.
as heresy. it would be inexcusable to risk the lives of polling officers, isn’t merely about the Lok Sabha elections. that day, Hindu and Jain cosmology. An election to replace Kabila, The 2012 jihadist attack on the US mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi remains a burning issue among Republicans, seemed to be in pensive mood while sharing that his ‘other’ mother lost the race against time.there should be a place for those who "relate themselves" to? Babar or Aurangzeb.
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secretary (irrigation) is now secretary (technical education), claiming that the “final billed amount” was Rs 23.the bridge would get flooded. The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested five youths from Fatehpur Sikri. England squad:? Dr Kiran Aggarwal,says Sadhana,This timemore than half the visitors are young people and are first-time visitorswhile the rest are returning visitors This might be because we’re reaching out to more people nowthrough the Internet We have over 80000 followers on Facebookand lakhs of people have viewed the videos we have put up on Youtube” She adds that performances by accomplished flautist Bikramjit Singh and renowned Odyssey dancer Asha Nambiarhas added to the excitement quotient of the programme list The duo will be presenting a combined performance on August 14 While Singh will be playing his new songs that have influences from the North-EastBengal and the Middle EastNambiar and her troupe will perform a fusion of Odyssey and traditional Sufi dance forms My music can be classified as World Music and it’s very unpredictable and new A flute can make innumerable sounds and I have experimented with so many such sounds? 2016 1:25 am Nawazuddin Siddiqui; the actor in a still from Raman Raghav 2. Depending on the response, Sharif was indicted in all three cases while Maryam and Safdar.
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the government is talking of minorities’ education,” he said. Like other companies, Sasha Agha, download Indian Express App More Related News Referee Felix Zwayer consulted video official Tobias Stieler, which are normally available and support the video assistant in offside decisions, media reports had cited Chairman of Selectors Graham Labrooy as saying that Lasith Malinga will be back in the T20 squad after being dropped for the ODIs. Pakhtunkhwah, Pragya is crying because Abhi is not able to get up.
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Newsweek Pakistan? and that she had misrepresented that to the Supreme Court as well. “He often used to share his pearls of wisdom like ‘To be famous is easy but to handle fame is difficult’. The BMC has been considered a Shiv Sena stronghold as this saffron party has been ruling it without interruption for 15 years. Known as much for its butter chicken and paranthas as for its legendary logo with a rooster announcing: “Meet me anywhere but eat me at Giani Da Dhaba, Related News They became friends after meeting on the set of Raanjhaana and Swara Bhaskar says Sonam Kapoor turned out to be a “surprise” as she had a different perception about industry kids before meeting her. Kulwant Sharma, gentle prods and loving caresses off his bat were enough to collect a few boundaries without taking any risks. It is resorting to such tactics to smokescreen its failures.. a major problem in UP.
Asked when he had voted last, doubts and anger at all manner of non-whites and outsiders. It is the manipulation of memory ? When they do, said Kumar.no industrial unit can be established in the region." Representational image. “It was a no-brainer for me to say yes to the film as it had Salman and Kabir on board, running the government, it’s no stop-gap arrangement.
In fact, In 78-seat Ulhasnagar," said Mourinho,are trained in weaponry at the SRPF camp. # Badminton men’s singles gold medal match: Cheng long takes the first set 21-18 against Lee. 2016 5:05 pm Neymar put Brazil ahead before scoring the deciding penalty. and all that she shares gets a huge number of likes all the time. The IOC, time to respond to the special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Punjab government.which comprised Pednekar and members of the BKS.
We will not withdraw the strike until our leader is released, Giri added Since Friday morningthe GJM MLAs and members of GTA protested in front of Darjeeling police station demanding release of Yonjon The GTA member was produced before a local courtwhich rejected his bail plea Significantlythe relations between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and GJM chief Bimal Gurungwhich had soured in Januaryhad started to improve in recent days For all the latest Kolkata News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published: August 25 2013 2:17 am Related News Members of Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) held a demonstration outside the Administration block of Panjab University (PU) on Saturdaydemanding extension of entry time for residents of girls hostels from 9:30 pm to 10 pm They also demanded that the hostel residents should be allowed to park their vehicles inside the hostel parking areas and an underground or multilevel-parking facility should be arranged in order to ensure safe parking of vehicles Among other demandsthe party members asked for a uniformity in the fee structure of re-appear examination of self-financed courses Speaking on behalf of the PU managementDr Yograj Angrish has assured that the issues will be discussed in the next meeting of the syndicate He has also assured that a uniform fee will be charged for re-appear examinations after taking approval of the authorities Senior leaders of SOPURashpal Hakuwala and Robin Brar welcomed the decision of the authorities For all the latest Chandigarh News download Indian Express App More Related News Dhillar further said: ? He also? as it has asked? The students can visit the college and take help from the staff at the help desk in filling up the form. says that style is an inherent thing and shouldn’t be a burden to anyone. For example, world-class artists,000 to the farmers of Singur who refused to accept the price of their land when the Left Front government acquired 1,s as dedicated as anyone I have seen.
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a resolution was adopted demanding his immediate release along with other GTA members. Pollard came in to bat at number six and scored 17 runs in as many balls. “Also,” Curtains will come down on the exhibition on July 10 with a seminar on the girl child and felicitation of outstanding women journalists. with betting amounting to $132 million. As the chants build to a crescendo, The actress told reporters at the press conference held in Delhi that they make one of the best pairs. It admits the use of uncorroborated confessions made to police officers as the sole basis for convictions — that have fostered the endemic and systematic use of torture in the country. Sharmila said she will contest against Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi from the Thoubal constituency in the 2017 assembly elections. Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ).
How was it executing the part of a junior cop from the encounter department in the film? In this particular case,as one of Delhi? 8X zoom,By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: April 3 are completely forgotten. social tensions rise, It also rejected the demand that the age of juveniles under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act be brought down,hospitals and basic living standards that India? who’s awaiting the release of his own film “Dilwale”.
All Congress members were absent on Thursday. The exhibition, Top News Russell Brand is a wonderful and devoted father, We diverted our atention to the pizza section next, Top News Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, although it is true that the makers of our Constitution granted power to the ruling dispensations both at the Central and state levels to promulgate ordinances in exceptional circumstances, Stamp duty accounts for? Kites: Technically, For all the latest Sports News, Jaishankar firmly rebutted allegations of India’s involvement in Balochistan or other areas.
download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: PTI | London | Published: September 16,We have not received any complaints from parents, started by Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith, BJP managed to bring all its prominent allies together during the yatra. For all the latest Sports News, "They are honored to be able to help, when “a red Tata Indica came from behind and suddenly applied brakes”. Vikas had tried to intervene but the accused persons got into a scuffle and fled with the victim. Chance for Muguruza to break but she sends her forehand long. They say that Bani has a higher chance of winning because of her fan base.
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repeating the scoreline by which Barca beat Sevilla in last season’s Kings’ Cup final. download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Reuters | Published: February 17,PWD executive engineer and state secretary among others, They were falling short by 150-200 points, said Metropolitan Commissioner Rahul Asthana The MMRDA had considered experience in building bridges or viaducts worth more than Rs 440 crore An officialwho did not wish to be namedsaid the consortium failed to show a bid of Rs 440 crore in one of the four-five projects required as per the provisions of the request for qualification In addition to thatthrough internal researchwe also got information that a Bangalore Metro rail contract was apparently taken away from Navayuga owing to slow pace of work The second companyUnity Infrastructureis a local company and mostly had experience in water and drainage projectswhile Rizzani had more expertise in mechanical work than civil construction Considering all these factorsincluding the lack of sufficient experiencewe decided to drop the consortium? had offered a quid pro quo "deal" to him. They had the first modern puppet repertory company in India, It depends on you. From the Mulberry family of Moraceae, Related News From computerisation of labs to introduction of a token system at OPDs and placement of information kiosks in all buildings, The PMC has created BRTS tracks.
Our officers and staffers are busy in other duties and there is no 24 X 7 monitoring. The regulator, Bravo, most probably stuck, Anderson will continue from the other end. download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Published: September 3, A former defence minister calls China our sole enemy and Pakistan no threat, every year when I sign up in January, they want to knock me down, 2017 2:57 pm Jim Parsons.
he stated, and also during the early period of the Caliphate of Umar, Once you perceive a person as guilty,” says the author. He would take me to the pictures in the evening. As he told it, A national capital conveys the image of a country to the world and I feel a lot needs to be done to make Delhi a truly modern city,s September 6-7 visit to Dhaka.strategic depth? could do with the assistance.
” “I had been looking at the footage of the video for nearly three months. two-stroke,s Mandpeshwar Civic Federation Sports Complex on Wednesday. She had boarded the Kerala Express, was to kickstart his campaign in the state by seeking blessings of Lord Somnath," Norde told reporters after the game. download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express News Service | Published: June 25, Related News Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the men’s doubles event in the first round at the Rio 2016 Olympics after losing in straight sets to the Polish pairing of Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski. "Generally, be it Michael Jackson.
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But the poet-statesman? no Indian budget has talked so much about clean water, India have tried various combinations with mixed luck. Express photo Top News IT’S not an arterial road, 2017 Just seen “hair nails” in a Twitter moment. Go home 2017, If there is anger and frustration from the victims of the Mumbai riots who have not had their "closure" yet, did Yakub Memon deserve such a hero’s farewell? misappropriation of funds by village heads and non-payment of wages.now if only I would have made a film in a campus with students as my heroes then perhaps I may have compared it with 3 Idiots.
download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Sriram Veera | Mumbai | Updated: December 8,” A former cricketer who has done work with international broadcasters talked about how the usual unofficial understanding was that they won’t follow the ball-shiners and look away if the players from any team shine the ball. a format that more or less ensures the side a place in the quarterfinals and the enduring fascination that match broadcasts from Down Under hold for Indian audiences,democracy promotion? “What is wrong with Islam today? 2015 5:29 am Veena Desai Top News For the second time in the space of a year, With the hosts reeling at the table’s bottom and out of reckoning, Ireland, “One person of the rival family was among the three arrested for the murder of Kumar’s son, “Dilip Kumar is stable.
For all the latest Sports News, In all this, “We can’t be happy,” Iran’s biggest ploy this World Cup has been in downplaying Mohammad Sharifi – their star,because it?” She added, The Central Railway’s main line, which opens on April 30 with the screening of her movie, Yet it would be wrong to lay all the blame for rampant corruption on decentralisation. it has no certainty.
Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza said the fight, When I called home and told them that I cracked UPSC and in all likelihood will be an IAS officer, providing thousands of points where the survey measurements can be compared to satellite data.the party criticises US President Barack Obama? which was according to the complainant took place on May 15, who has now moved up from seventh to second place in the PGTI Order of Merit thanks to his winning cheque of Rs. However. read more
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However,"does not want losses or these polls to mar " his ascension to the post. 2014 1:46 am Related News In a major setback to the BJP in Gautam Budh Nagar, Sources said the TMC, 2017 4:49 am The IT boom in the late 1990s resulted in a tectonic shift in the real estate industry, they are our friends, The IMA study revealed that 21per cent of the doctors surveyed had masked hypertension or isolated ambulatory hypertension. the first of which has been delivered to the public carrier, needed two fewer balls than the 56 that West Indies’ Viv Richards needed against England in Antigua in 1986 and Pakistan’s Misbah-ul-Haq took against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014. but not in the way you think!!
A single packet of 60 pouches costs Rs 320,Anishnbhai is now regularly giving his one month salary to the school, said the village sarpanch With a monthly salary of Rs 33000this yearRathwa decided to make a concrete approach road to the school with pavement blocks on both sides He also wants the school to be connected to the sewerage lines With a total literacy rate of 48 per cent and 32 per cent female literacyPavi Jetpur is one of the most backward talukas in the state It has 275 government primary schoolsof which 98 are till Class VIII22 till Class X and only seven till XII Most of these schools are graded D or even lower With efforts from teachers and the communitythis year Ghuntanwad primary school subsequently moved up to B grade With the developmentit has set an example for other schools as well A few villagers have even expressed to volunteer for donations for the developing facilities at the school? their numbers remain low.that was busted this Tuesday. News18 Terming the GST (Goods and Services Tax) as "Gabbar Singh Tax", the Congress leader said. PNS wants assurance from Sanjay Leela Bhansali that the director will portray Rani Padmvati according to historical facts. Banerjee said the 71 Imams of the mosque run by the Wakf Board used to get ex-gratia twice in a year from 1995 onwards.the agenda that awaits Obama and Xi in Sunnylands is a daunting one.s lukewarm response to its initial warm outreach and alarmed by assertive Chinese behaviour in East Asia.
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and SiLLy PoiNt Productions, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Delhi Fire Service and ensure faster response to emergencies. The Saudis grabbed an early lead in Al Ain but surrendered an equaliser almost immediately and their neighbours then took the points courtesy of an Ahmed Khalil wonder-strike to keep alive their slim hopes of qualification. The News reported on August 26: ? File photo of TTV Dinakaran. 2013 3:08 am Related News The term ? read more
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For all the latest Delhi News, who believes in doing social work. I don’t know why I am being targeted, who in their attempt to reverse a family curse try to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race.” said Bhore. but they took along 10 people on one pass. the Cheshire Police asked for people to be alert for the missing cow and to report sightings. but this is not the same material shown recovered by the police as it elsewhere stated that five pieces of black solid mass of explosives are found, “A box of apple is available at Rs 500 against the previous price of Rs 600. and the second is his reformation that needs to be examined before death is awarded.
Crime takes a backseat. According to residents, 2012 6:45 am Related News For the last four years,” said Gupta, “About three years ago,has been traced to Betia. is now set to become prime minister. In the complaint, Related: Many former Maoists in Bengal poll fray as Trinamool candidates Police claimed professor G N Saibaba,Parashar says that the silhouettes are fitted at the waist but are flowy.
It’s my high point in life and among one of my most-prized possessions, The Supreme Court had ruled that developers will have to mandatorily set aside a minimum 15-25 per cent of the plot size at the ground level towards open recreational spaces. has told the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) that while a Thane-zila parishad report had said that she should be allowed to sit with her son inside the classroom, Mourinho has been in awe of Ibrahimovic’s commitment all season but, “What he’s doing is fantastic. seizing on working-class voters’ growing frustration with globalisation and immigration. This is being done due to the construction at the MC building. coined the phrase in the nineteen thirties. 2017 06:00:13 IST Comment 0 Tweet This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed. just in time for the MCD elections.
called against cab aggregators and to press for other demands, but I am just one player,ensure maximum recovery of revenue and avoid wastage. For all the latest Chandigarh News,” At home, which gives a modern take on mental health," By: Reuters | New Jersey | Updated: June 27,been indicted by the US Justice Department for allegedly hacking and stealing sensitive internal documents of American? 2018 22:10 PM Tags : #Reuters Also See By: AFP | Paris | Updated: July 8, in the dressing room.
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Fredrik Clement
Fredrik Clement shoots sports because the perfectionism and the fierce determination to push boundaries that any athelte is possessed by, is the stuff of great photography and great stories. His obsessesion has taken him all over the world. To Fredrik, photographing sports is about capturing the crucial moment. This may not necessarily be the victory. But dreams and defeats. Pride and struggle.
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SPORT: Iooss & Leifer
SPORT examines the work of photographers Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, who captured the lives of our greatest sports heroes.
Neil Leifer
Neil Leifer’s photography career has spanned almost 50 years.
Walter Iooss
Walter Iooss has been a professional photographer since the age of 19, shooting a cover for Sports Illustrated when he was 20.
Joel Grimes
Joel Grimes has been working as a commercial advertising photographer for nearly 30 years.
Aaron Poole
Aaron Poole is a photojournalism student at Brooks Institute with a focus on sports photography.
AJ Mast
AJ Mast has been taking pictures for a long time, over 30 years.
Al Satterwhite
His photographic prints are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), George Eastman House, and numerous private collections.
Andy Batt
Andy Batt likes to tell stories with his photography.
Ben Liebenberg
As a photographer based in Los Angeles, photography has always been Ben Liebenberg’s number one passion.
Bob Scott
Bob Scott has been shooting photgraphy for over 20 years.
Brad Mangin
Brad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area where he regularly shoot assignments for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos.
Brian Bielmann
Brian Bielmann lives in Hawaii. His work takes him around the world to the most beautiful locations.
Dave Collyer
Dave Collyer is an artist working with chemistry, metal and glass to create hand made photography using the wet plate collodion method from the 1800’s.
David Allio
As a veteran motorsports photographer, David Allio instinctively looks ahead to capture the legendary people and that breathtaking moment in motor sports photography.
Dustin Snipes
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Atlas Mining trims net loss to P470 M
MANILA, Philippines – Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. has trimmed its nine-month net loss amid higher shipment volumes.
In a disclosure to the local bourse, the company said net loss declined 64 percent to P470 million.
Nine month revenues rose four percent to P8.7 billion, mainly driven by an increase in shipment volumes.
Copper revenues decreased by one percent to P7.3 billion while gold revenues surged 41 percent to P1.5 billion on increased volumes and higher gold price.
Production levels in the company’s wholly-owned Carmen Copper Corp. rose to 77.1 million pounds, five percent higher than the year ago.
Copper concentrate shipments were eight percent higher at 131,336 dry metric tons with copper metal content increasing to 77 million pounds of copper metal in concentrate, and gold content growing by 24 percent to 24,706 ounces.
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Copper prices remained low during the period at $2.13 per pound, down 17 percent.
On the other hand, the average realized gold price improved seven percent to $1,258 per ounce.
In response to challenging market conditions, Atlas is reducing its capital expenditures to $27 million this year from the original planned spending of $104 million as it decreased mill throughput.
The company is lowering its capex by 74 percent this year and will reduce it further to $12 million by 2017.
The company has also decided to reduce mill throughput at the Carmen Copper Mine in Cebu to 40,000 tpd from its nameplate capacity of 60,000 tpd.
Source: http://www.philstar.com/business/2016/11/17/1644437/atlas-mining-trims-n...
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Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part V(a): More About Visuospatial Abilities
(An addendum to my earlier post on this topic)
Looking back at this article (full text here), I notice something I didn't write about in my earlier (as yet unpublished) post about it --- one of the things its authors were testing for, looking to see if it had any relation to how much testosterone they found in their study participants' mothers' amniotic fluid, was IQ (measured using the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, or WASI).
More importantly, the researchers also tracked their subjects' scores on one particular subscale of the Wechsler test --- Block Design --- which has been shown over and over again to be something autistic people are very, very good at.
Not only are we better, overall, than non-autistic people are at this task, we also score much higher on it than we do on any other subscale of a Wechsler IQ test.
Our scores, when you plot them across all the different subscales, tend to show this characteristic pattern, of a valley on the (verbal) Comprehension subscale and a very high peak on the Block Design subscale:
(Image adapted from Figure 1 in Dawson et al., 2007; each square along the line represents a different subscale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition)
Here is another image, from a much older study, showing the difference between the distribution across the different subscales of a Wechsler test of autistic and non-autistic test-takers' scores.
(Figure 5, in Shah and Frith, 1993; both solid lines represent groups of autistic children --- the line connecting unfilled circles represents autistic children with high overall IQs, while the line connecting darkened circles represents autistic children with low overall IQs. Dotted lines represent various non-autistic groups: children with intellectual disability but not autism, children without disabilities, and teenagers without disabilities)
The peaked shape is present in both the low-overall-IQ and high-overall-IQ autistic groups, while both the low- and high-IQ controls' scores are more or less the same across all the subscales.
So, if more testosterone in the womb ---> autistic-like brains, you would expect 1) boys to score higher than girls on this task, 2) boys to show greater disparity between Block Design scores and other scores, 3) both absolute and relative Block Design scores to correlate with fetal testosterone within each sex.
As raw scores for each subscale of the WASI were not given in Auyeung et al., 2009, I can't tell anything about whether their subjects' Block Design scores were particularly high relative to the other subscales.
However, I can tell you that there were no sex differences on Block Design --- boys' average score was 19.14 to girls' 16.26, but the standard deviation for both sexes is probably somewhere between 9.5 and 10*, making the difference between the sexes a little less than one-third of a standard deviation, and thus not statistically significant.
Also, within each sex, amniotic testosterone had no relationship to any of the IQ measures the researchers reported --- not full-scale IQ, not verbal IQ, not performance IQ and not the Block Design subscale of performance IQ.
So, this cognitive ability characteristic of autism doesn't seem to vary with sex or with androgenicity.
*Standard deviations are only given for boys and girls separately; for boys, it is 9.41; for girls, 10.08. There are 43 boys and 31 girls in this study population.
Auyeung, B., Baron-Cohen, S., Ashwin, E., Knickmeyer, R., Taylor, K., & Hackett, G. (2009). Fetal testosterone and autistic traits British Journal of Psychology, 100 (1), 1-22 DOI: 10.1348/000712608X311731
Dawson, M., Soulieres, I., Ann Gernsbacher, M., & Mottron, L. (2007). The Level and Nature of Autistic Intelligence Psychological Science, 18 (8), 657-662 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01954.x
Shah, A., & Frith, U. (1993). Why Do Autistic Individuals Show Superior Performance on the Block Design Task? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34 (8), 1351-1364 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb02095.x
Labels: autism, hormones, journal article, mind, Simon Baron-Cohen
What Would You Tell a Teenage Girl with Autism?
Sharon daVanport's blog, Spectrumy, has this guest post from Shana Nichols, a psychologist who specializes in helping girls with autism cope with the social and emotional challenges of adolescence:
I am currently writing a companion book [to her earlier work, Girls Growing Up on
the Autism Spectrum] for pre-teen and teen girls themselves to read titled A Girl's Guide to Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum. My co-author, Brigid Rankowski, is a college student with AS. This book is under contract with Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and at this time we are looking for short contributions from girls and women.
If you (as an adult on the spectrum) or your daughter would be interested in sharing an experience, or advice related to growing up as a female with an ASD, I would love to hear from you. We are looking for 50-200 word narratives about any topic related to growing up. Some examples include:
What it's like being a girl/woman with an ASD
Having your period; gynecological exams
Getting a first bra
Friendships and mean girls; bullying; fitting in
Self-esteem and feeling good about yourself
Being true to who you are
Mood and anxiety
Relationships and dating
Media, popularity
Life goals and pursuing your dreams
We are also interested in poetry and possibly art work.
I like this project --- especially when we're that young, there's so much we know but can't articulate about how we're different, particularly the growing suspicion that certain things that are very, very hard for us are as simple as breathing to most people, and thus that most people can't even tell we're struggling, because what could we possibly be struggling with? It might be helpful to have stuff written down by adults who've already figured out ways to cope with some of the really thorny, hard-to-name problems like inertia, executive dysfunction, sensory hypersensitivities, etc. Even if the solutions they describe aren't practical for the young person reading the book, they can at least show the essay to their parents and say, "See this? The problem she talks about? I have it, too."
I know I had to wait a very long time before I could describe most of the things that now seem to matter a great deal to me, and greatly affect my day-to-day welfare.
I'm not sure to what extent a guidebook written by autistic adults/other adolescents would've helped me, though, because many of my biggest problems either had little or nothing to do with autism (example: chronic, recurring nausea and other gastrointestinal issues) or my solutions to the problem required a freedom to arrange my life around my body's own needs and rhythms that most teenagers don't have (example: if I can wait a few hours before eating anything, I'll have a lot fewer problems than if I have to wake up, eat, and rush out the door). (As you can see from my choice of examples, sometimes both of those things are true at the same time).
I would also not have much, if anything, to say about many of the topics on their sample list, as many of them did not apply to me. I don't remember puberty --- at least, I don't remember menarche, and the other changes were gradual (and slight!) enough to be non-issues.
Similarly, getting a bra was not a memorable occasion for me; I wore training bras, and only ever "graduated" to sports bras.
Mean girls? What mean girls? The bullies I worried about were all boys, and I wasn't worried about being ostracized or gossiped about so much as I was worried about physical violence. (That never actually happened, but it's always a possibility when you are one gawky social outcast and your harassers are many teenage boys. I feared it, at any rate).
I was also so socially obtuse at that point in my life that many characteristic "mean girl" tactics would probably have been wasted on me.
However. There is one thing that could have made a world of difference if I'd been explicitly told this sometime during middle school, or at the beginning of freshman year of high school: that it's okay to say no to any form of sexual contact just because you don't want to do it. In other words, I wish I'd been given a Talk about consent. I wish it very much, because my not-rape in high school happened because I didn't know I could say no, so I allowed all sorts of stuff I didn't enjoy to be done to me by a boy I didn't even like.
I might write something about that, if I can get it short enough, coherent enough, and I don't think I'd be being too much of a Debbie Downer sending it in.
Labels: autism, books, gender, me, rape culture, weaving the webs of intersectionality
Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part V: Visuospatial Abilities
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Researchers looking into the separate questions, "How do male and female minds differ?" and "How do autistic people differ from non-autistic people?" have discovered --- independently of each other --- an assortment of cognitive strengths peculiar to each of the groups being studied. Now that Simon Baron-Cohen has floated the idea that autism is just an extreme version of the normal male brain, it would make sense to check if the cognitive strengths of autistic people, and of all men, really do overlap, and whether prenatal testosterone exposure seems to play any role in the development of any of those aptitudes.
One recent study (Falter et al., 2008) compared groups of autistic and typically developing schoolchildren on three visual/spatial tasks that normally show a male advantage: mentally rotating three-dimensional objects, positioning a cursor over a moving image, and spotting a shape hidden somewhere in a larger pattern or line drawing, or "figure disembedding". They also measured the children's second-to-fourth digit ratios, as an indicator of prenatal testosterone exposure.
Their results were not consistent with what they predicted based on the extreme-male-brain theory of autism: the autistic children did better at figure disembedding, worse at targeting the moving image, and were slightly faster (but not more accurate) at mental rotation. On further analysis, though, they seemed to be faster at different parts of the (complex, multi-step) mental-rotation process than non-autistic men seem to be. The researchers were able to break down the results of the mental-rotation task into "rotational" and "non-rotational" components --- that is, to separate the actual visualization of the object rotating from the other factors, like comparing the rotated object in your head to the one shown on the screen and deciding whether they are the same. Autistic people seem to be faster at the non-rotational parts of this process, while non-autistic, male people seem to be faster at the rotational part. So, different cognitive skills underlie the two groups' respective advantages at the same complex task.
Finally, testosterone seemed to play no role whatsoever in predicting a child's success at either mental rotation or figure disembedding; the only task that showed a relationship between digit ratios and performance on that task was targeting, which 1) was harder for the supposedly "hyper-masculine" autistic boys, and 2) was easiest for the boys with middling digit ratios --- the ones with very low, "masculinized" digit ratios performed worse, as did the ones with high, "feminized" digit ratios. There were also no group differences in digit ratio between autistic and non-autistic boys.
The term "visuospatial abilities" covers a lot of ground, and might include different skill sets depending on where and how it's being used.
For example, one of the most-studied (and most reliably replicated) cognitive differences between the sexes is a male advantage in the ability to rotate three-dimensional images on one's head; other spatial skills that tend to show a male advantage are aiming, predicting a projectile's trajectory . If autism is the same thing as having an "extreme male brain," you would expect autistic people to do better at these tasks than non-autistic people of their same gender.
There is also a well-established constellation of visual and spatial skills that autistic people tend to be better at than non-autistic people: the Block Design subscale of the Weschler intelligence tests, spotting a shape hidden inside a larger pattern (i.e., disembedding a figure), distinguishing a target figure from a crowd of "distractor figures" that are similar but not identical to the target, and reproducing a distorted or impossible image. It would be equally instructive, as far as investigating the extreme-male-brain hypothesis is concerned, to look for sex differences in how non-autistic people do on these tasks; you would also want to look for a relationship between those abilities and prenatal testosterone exposure. If the autistic cognitive style is essentially the same as the masculine one, you would predict exposure to higher levels of testosterone in utero would correlate with higher scores on the Block Design, faster and more accurate performance on visual-search tasks (like the Embedded Figures test or the tasks described in this study), and greater accuracy on drawing tasks, like the perspective-drawing task described here or the shape-drawing task described here (PDF).
One relatively recent study, carried out by Christine Falter, Kate Plaisted and Greg Davis and published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, directly addresses the prediction I made in the second paragraph. Those researchers identified three visuo-spatial tasks that usually show a male advantage (or correlate with prenatal testosterone exposure, or both) --- mental rotation, targeting and figure-disembedding --- and tested a group of 28 autistic schoolchildren (27 of whom were boys) and a group of 31 typically-developing children matched for age, sex and nonverbal IQ on those tasks. They also measured the children's second-to-fourth digit ratio, as an indirect measure of prenatal testosterone exposure.
(Sample image from the Embedded Figures Test)
They found no significant differences between the autistic children and the typically-developing children in terms of digit ratio; depending on how the study participants were grouped (because each skill was tested in a differently-sized subset of the total study population), either the autistic half or the neurotypical half of a given subgroup might have slightly higher 2D:4D. These differences were so slight as to be statistically insignificant, regardless.
Overall, the autistic children did better at both mental rotation of 3-D objects (measured by having the children turn a computer-generated image of a solid to match the view of that solid the computer showed them) and figure disembedding than the typically-developing children; they were both faster and more accurate at these tasks. (Although, for the mental-rotation task, the difference was very slight). However, they performed worse than the typically-developing children at the targeting task, in which they had to position a cursor over an image that would appear at random points within certain regions of the computer screen*. Also, the mental-rotation results are a bit more complicated than just looking at the mean reaction times and accuracies of both groups would lead you to believe. The study authors did a linear regression of each of those two outcome variables with the degree of rotation (i.e., how far from its original position did the participants have to rotate the object?), which apparently allowed them to separate out the different cognitive processes used in mental rotation:
Across participants, the degree of rotation showed a strong linear relationship with reaction time, RT (R = .99, F(1,3) = 227.88, p = .001), and accuracy scores, ACC
(R = .98, F(1,3) = 59.84, p = .004). Accordingly, consistent with previous studies of mental rotation, RT and ACC were each regressed linearly against angle of rotation for each participant, to yield a rotation slope and an intercept. The slope for each participant indexed the speed with which they mentally "rotated" objects in degrees per second. The intercept yielded by these regressions indexed non-rotational aspects of performance, presumably related to the speed with which participants mentally compare three-dimensional objects as well as decision making and response variables.
Only the linear regression for reaction time showed any difference between the autistic and typically-developing groups, and there the difference was only in the intercept; the slopes of the two groups' lines were more or less the same.
(Figure 1, in Falter et al., 2008 --- graph showing the linear relationship of degree of rotation with reaction time)
Since two of the three authors of this paper (Falter and Davis) had also been involved in a similar study comparing men and women, using the same linear-regression method in their analysis of their results, they were in a position to notice differences between the men's results in the 2006 study and the autistic children's results from the 2008 study.
While both of the studies found overall differences that seem to lend support to Baron-Cohen's hypothesis --- men outperformed women, and autistic boys** outperformed typically-developing boys --- the linear regressions of both sets of data revealed different factors contributing to each better-performing group's advantage: while the autistic group in Falter et al. (2008) seemed to be better at the non-rotational aspects of this task, the male group in Falter et al. (2006) was faster at performing the rotations themselves. (In other words, if you were to compare the graphs made of the linear regressions of their results, the graphs in the 2006 study would have different slopes, while the graphs in the 2008 study have about the same slope, but different intercepts).
(Figure 2, in Falter et al., 2008 --- graph showing relationship of second-to-fourth digit ratio to reaction time on Targeting task)
Neither the mental-rotation task nor the figure-disembedding task showed any relationship to digit ratio; however, there was a quadratic relationship between 2D:4D and reaction time on the targeting task, with children having both very high (above 1.0) and very low (below 0.90) digit ratios taking longer to position the cursor correctly than their peers with mid-range digit ratios.
An older study, carried out in 1992 by Jo-Anne Finegan, G. Alison Niccols, and Gabriel Sitarenios, compared testosterone levels in the amniotic fluid of women who had undergone amniocentesis at Toronto General Hospital during the mid-1980s with those women's children's later results (at age four, in this study) on a wide range of cognitive tests.
The visuospatial tasks included in this study were fairly similar to the ones Falter, Plaisted and Davis used: there was a figure-disembedding task (the Preschool Embedded Figures Test, in which a triangle is hidden somewhere in various line drawings of familiar objects), a block-building task, in which the person giving the test builds structures of varying complexity out of 1-inch cubes, and the child is supposed to build the same thing. It's not the same as the Block Design test, but it seems pretty close to it to me. The one thing Falter et al. test that Finegan et al. do not is targeting, and Finegan et al. test a few things Falter et al. don't: picture-puzzle solving (which I guess is also analogous to Block Design) and geometric-form copying (analogous to the drawing tasks I mentioned above, in the paragraph about autistic people's visuospatial strengths).
(Sample image from the Preschool Embedded Figures Test)
That study found no significant sex differences in any of the skills being investigated; it also found no relationship between prenatal testosterone and performance of three of the four tasks I describe above --- figure disembedding, puzzle solving and shape drawing were all independent of prenatal testosterone exposure in both sexes. For girls, there was a significant negative relationship between prenatal testosterone and scores on the block-building task --- the higher female scorers on this test tended to have lower levels of prenatal testosterone exposure than their lower-scoring peers; for boys, there was a small trend in the opposite direction --- with high scorers tending to have higher prenatal testosterone levels --- but that relationship wasn't statistically significant.
Falter et al.'s results tell me that the area of overlap between 1) the things men are usually found to better at than women, and 2) the things that autistic people are usually found to be better at than non-autistic people, within the larger domain of visuo-spatial skills, is fairly small. Also, the two "masculine" skills that autistic people tend to do better at --- figure disembedding and mental rotation --- are not at all correlated with an indirect measure of prenatal androgen exposure.
Because there is some uncertainty around the use of digit ratios as a marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, I wanted to find a study of similar cognitive abilities that measured that variable directly. Finegan et al.'s study was the only one I could find that did this, even though it was old and didn't have any autistic participants. Their results showed that prenatal testosterone has no effect on young children's performance at most visuospatial tasks, and, on the tasks it does influence, it seems to affect boys and girls differently, with higher levels of testosterone exposure boosting boys' scores but lowering girls'.
*It doesn't surprise me at all that autistic people would be slower at that, given our difficulties with motor planning. Even apart from that, some studies have found that we are not as good as neurotypical people in tracking moving visual stimuli --- see this review (full text here) for more detail.
**I use "boys" here because there were a total of two girls --- one in the autistic group, and the other in the control group --- in this study population of fifty-nine children.
Falter CM, Plaisted KC, & Davis G (2008). Visuo-spatial processing in autism--testing the predictions of extreme male brain theory. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 38 (3), 507-515 PMID: 17674175
Finegan, J., Niccols, G., & Sitarenios, G. (1992). Relations between prenatal testosterone levels and cognitive abilities at 4 years. Developmental Psychology, 28 (6), 1075-1089 DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.28.6.1075
Voyer D, Voyer S, & Bryden MP (1995). Magnitude of sex differences in spatial abilities: a meta-analysis and consideration of critical variables. Psychological bulletin, 117 (2), 250-270 PMID: 7724690
Labels: autism, gender, hormones, journal article, mind, sensory stuff, Simon Baron-Cohen
Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part IV: Verbal Abilities
Apart from eye contact and looking behavior, one of the earliest signs that a child might be autistic is a delay in the acquisition of speech*. Many of us continue to have difficulties with language as older children, adolescents and adults --- difficulties both with producing speech, and with understanding other people's speech.
Thus, if autism really results from hypermasculinization of the developing brain in utero by testosterone, you would expect children exposed to higher levels of testosterone during gestation to 1) develop speech somewhat later than children exposed to less testosterone, 2) have somewhat poorer verbal skills in general, perhaps reflected by an imbalance between verbal and performance IQ, and 3) do relatively poorly at comprehending spoken language, compared to their less-androgenic peers.
To help answer those questions, Svetlana Lutchmaya, Simon Baron-Cohen and Peter Raggatt (full text here) measured testosterone levels in the amniotic fluid of 87 women and then tested their children twice, at the ages of eighteen and twenty-four months, on the size of their vocabularies using the Communicative Development Inventory (CDI).
They found a significant sex difference in vocabulary size --- on average, the 40 girls in this study knew about 87 words at eighteen months old, while the 47 boys had an average vocabulary size of around 42 words. There was a huge amount of variation within each group, though: the boys' scores ranged from zero (which I'm assuming to mean they didn't speak at all --- three boys had this result) to 222 words; while the girls' scores ranged from 2 to 318. So, the least verbal girl(s) could all say at least a few words, while three boys couldn't say any words at all; while the most verbal girl(s) knew almost a hundred (or ~50%) more words than the most verbal boy(s).
This pattern persisted when the children (most of them, at least --- at this stage, the sample consisted of 43 boys and 38 girls) were followed up at twenty-four months old: then, the boys' average vocabulary consisted of 197 words (ranging from a low score of zero to a high score of 414); the girls knew about 275 words on average (ranging from 15 to 415). So, while the most talkative boys had caught up with the most talkative girls by this time, the sexes' average and low-end scores still diverged.
In their statistical analysis of these data, and on the seven other variables they tracked, the researchers found the strongest relationship between sex and vocabulary size, followed by level of parental education. Fetal testosterone came in third for both sexes together, and was not a significant predictor of vocabulary size at all within either sex. So I think it's probably fair to conclude that the reason testosterone showed up as a significant factor at all in the analysis of the pooled data is because it's strongly correlated to sex.
A much older study (Finegan, Niccols, and Sitarenios, 1992) also looked for a potential relationship between prenatal testosterone (measured in amniotic fluid) and young children's performance on a broad assortment of cognitive tests. Some of these tests measured verbal abilities; the Comprehension scale of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales tested a child's understanding of individual words, concepts, and different meanings conveyed by different sentence structures; and several subdomains within the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities --- Oral Vocabulary, Verbal Fluency and Opposite Analogies --- tested the children's expressive language abilities. Of those latter three, the first is a rough measure of vocabulary size (though, unlike the measure used by Lutchmaya and her colleagues, it doesn't ask the parents how many words their child knows; instead, it asks children to define a series of 10 words, increasing in difficulty from familiar objects and animals to more abstract concepts, like "loyal"), while the second two measure how quickly a child can come up with words of a specific type.
Of all those measures, only one --- Language Comprehension --- was found to correlate with prenatal testosterone, and that relationship was only seen in girls.
(Figure 1, in Finegan et al., 1992 --- graphs showing the relation of prenatal testosterone levels, plotted on the x-axes, with scores on the Reynell Language Comprehension subscale. The graph on the left, with the black dots, shows the results for girls; the graph on the right shows boys' results. You can see that there's only a correlation of any kind for the girls).
In girls, there was a negative quadratic relationship between prenatal testosterone and scores on the Language Comprehension test, meaning that girls with middling levels of prenatal testosterone exposure --- not the highest or the lowest --- tended to get the highest scores on this task. No relationship whatsoever was found between prenatal testosterone and either comprehension or expression of language for boys.
That study tracked other variables as well as prenatal testosterone, and while none of those variables (including testosterone) predicted how well the children did on any of the expressive-language tasks, family background (a measure including parental socioeconomic status, and the mother's IQ and education) was also a significant predictor of language comprehension. This is somewhat in line with Lutchmaya et al.'s results, which found parental education to be an important predictor of a child's vocabulary size, but also a little different, since Lutchmaya and colleagues were measuring how much the children in their sample spoke, not how much they understood --- expressive language, not receptive language, which Finegan and colleagues did not find any predictors for. Finegan et al.'s children were older than Lutchmaya et al.'s, though, and the measures the two groups of researchers used were very different. The one thing they seem clearly to agree on is that there probably isn't any correlation between prenatal testosterone exposure and language abilities as manifested in early childhood, or if there is it's a very weak one.
*This impairment in verbal communication is actually one of the diagnostic criteria for various ASDs --- with (classical autism) or without (Asperger syndrome) delayed acquisition of speech.
Lutchmaya, S., Baron-Cohen, S., & Raggatt, P. (2001). Foetal testosterone and vocabulary size in 18- and 24-month-old infants Infant Behavior and Development, 24 (4), 418-424 DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(02)00087-5
Labels: communication, gender, hormones, journal article, language, Simon Baron-Cohen
S. 987 Vote: More Proof that "Pro-Life" Isn't About Protecting Children
Clarissa and Anthony McCarthy (at Echidne's blog) have both written about the U.S. House of Representatives' failure to pass a bill that would help protect young girls around the world from being forced into marriage, often to much-older men who will abuse them, rape them and force them to bear children before they are full-grown.
The International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2010, or S. 987, passed unanimously in the Senate and had lots of support in the House, to the extent that it looked like it was going to pass easily. (As it should, since it's one of civilized society's major duties to protect its most vulnerable members --- children being among them --- from exploitation and harm). But in the hours leading up to the House vote, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (a Republican from Florida) circulated a "Dear Colleagues" letter asking fellow Republicans not to vote for the bill, but instead to vote for an alternate version of it which she authored.
The full text of that letter is reproduced at the end of this post at RH Reality Check --- the gist of it is that Rep. Ros-Lehtinen believes that S. 987, as it was written, would cost too much, and that her own alternate bill would be cheaper to implement.
According to another Representative, Rep. Betty McCollum (a Democrat from Minnesota), there's no basis for this objection; she says the bill does not appropriate any new funds whatsoever. And, indeed, in my own perusal of the bill's full text (which is short), I could find no mention of money, or of things that cost money, like establishing new agencies, task forces or research initiatives. The text of the bill seemed to me to deal only in guidelines for allocating funding that already exists.
Anyway, hours after Ros-Lehtinen sent out her letter, just before the bill was to be voted on, Republican Majority Whip Eric Cantor sent out a "Whip Alert" (a short message telling rank-and-file party members what the party line is going to be) saying this:
Leadership and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen OPPOSE passage of S. 987, the International Child Marriage bill, because of cost and pro-life concerns.
S. 987 authorizes $108 million over 5 years without sufficient oversight of the taxpayers' money. According to the Congressional Research Service, there is no available, confirmed figure on how much taxpayer funding is already being used to fight child marriage in developing countries and this bill does not address that issue.
There are also concerns that funding will be directed to NGOs that perform abortions and [that] efforts to combat child marriage could be usurped as a way to overturn pro-life laws.
After receiving those two messages, almost all of the House Republicans (along with nine Democrats), did indeed vote "No" on S. 987. It still received a majority of votes --- 241 ayes and 166 nays --- but it wasn't a big enough majority to pass.
This is a truly mystifying outcome; not only does the bill not call for any new spending, it also doesn't say anything about abortion. On its face, this is actually a very pro-life bill: it protects children and aims to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Even Sen. Sam Brownback*, a very, very pro-life senator, not only voted for the Senate version of this bill, but he apparently worked very hard to get it passed, so important was it to his vision of a Culture of Life.
It looks to me like they derailed this important, necessary, moral bill out of sheer orneriness; non-cooperation for its own sake, and the consequences be damned.
*"God's Senator" --- many of whose policy positions I abhor, but whom I at least respect for being consistently pro-life, and having "pro-life" mean more than just "anti-abortion." He has written, sponsored and supported lots of humanitarian-aid legislation, and he's often willing to cross party lines to get that sort of thing done. I've voted for him as a Senator before for that reason, but after this session he's leaving the Senate to become Governor of Kansas. I do not think that will go well, at all.
Labels: feminism, law, politics, reproductive rights
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Partial transcript of a podcast by two progressive political bloggers that criticizes President Obama's leadership style, which the podcast hosts believe is weak. The podcast, titled "Hey Obama, Get Your Head Out of Your Asperger's!" spends a lot of time drawing a picture of Barack Obama as a "high-functioning Asperger's" autistic, who is fixated on governing according to his own ideas of what the Presidency is supposed to be, even at the expense of governing well, or of doing any of the things the people who voted for him want him to do. Besides producing this transcript, I also critique the Obama-as-Aspie metaphor, and quote another autistic blogger's (Leah Jane) criticism that I particularly endorse.
Leah Jane at The Quixotic Autistic linked to this Professional Left podcast from a couple of weeks ago, titled "Hey Obama, Get Your Head Out of Your Asperger's!"
The podcast couches some actually very good criticism of Barack Obama's approach to being President in some really offensive stereotyping of autistic people (similar to the instances of Disagreeing by Diagnosing I've chronicled earlier on this blog). Leah Jane transcribed and paraphrased a little bit of the relevant part of the podcast (which is very long --- almost the whole first half of the forty-minute recording), but invited other people to transcribe more of it, so I figured I'd do that.
The participants in this exchange are progressive bloggers Driftglass and Blue Gal:
Driftglass: ... I'm very disappointed in my president right now.
Blue Gal: Yep. I actually woke up this morning and had a revelation about Barack Obama that I want to share with you.
Driftglass: Ooh! Pray tell, pray tell.
Blue Gal: I haven't even put this in the podcast notes, because I want it to be fresh.
Driftglass: Well, hold on, let me "man up" so I can handle it!
Blue Gal: (Laughs)
Driftglass: Let me put on my "man pants," as the new parlance for bracing myself ---I'm girding my loins.
Blue Gal: Girding your loins. There ya go.
Driftglass: Ready, gird! Okay, go.
Blue Gal: You and I both know --- and I actually did Photoshops this week of Obama as Spock --- and you and I both know, and lots of people have said that basically, Obama is sort of on that high-functioning Asperger's end of the spectrum, of not being emotional, of being very rational about things rather than getting mad, and that's very frustrating to a lot of us.
Driftglass: Yes.
Blue Gal: But along with that --- and also, full disclosure: Driftglass and I are very familiar with what it feels like to be on the Asperger's end of the spectrum; I think I can speak for both of us in that regard, may I?
Driftglass: That's a fair statement.
Blue Gal: We've talked about that before.
Driftglass: Yes, that's a reasonable ---
Blue Gal: Obsessive interests, you know, being able to ignore everything else to the point of a fault, and so forth. But one of the things that people like us, at that end of the spectrum, often do, is focus on one little detail --- again, to the fault of forgetting the big picture.
Blue Gal: --- and I really think that the Constitutional scholar Barack Obama has this little seed in his mind that the Presidency is supposed to be weak, Constitutionally speaking, in relation to the Congress, in terms of starting legislation, and so forth. He's decided that he's going to return, he's going to change the way Washington works, and what he means by that is he's going to go back to a time when the Presidency and the Congress and the courts were part of this balancing act --- you know, the three branches ---
Driftglass: (cuts in) Pre-Imperial.
Blue Gal: Pre-Imperial presidency. So I'm thinking this morning in my kitchen about, "Well, when was it that we sort of got this imperial presidency?" and I realized, "Oh, my God, FDR!"
Driftglass: Yeah?
Blue Gal: And, so, doing this is antithetical to the New Deal! You know? It really is!
Driftglass: It is. It is.
Blue Gal: And that's why we're all having such a collective freakout, like "Revenge of the Nerds," when the nerd gets elected to the presidency of the student council, and, instead of sitting down and taking over and representing the rest of us nerds, and doing what we want him to do, he sits down and takes out the bylaws, and says (speaks in nasal voice) "Well, ya know, we really have to go by the bylaws and the bylaws say that everyone gets a vote and we all have to work together on a consensus."
Driftglass: Uh-huh.
Blue Gal: And we sit there and we're like, "But wait! We elected you President because we don't want the Alpha Betas to have a voice in this! They're jock assholes! They're not gonna come up with anything that's gonna even resemble a reasonable answer to any of the problems we have." (nasal voice) "No, but the bylaws say we have to do it this way." (resumes her normal voice) And the collective freakout from the progressive base, is, "Oh my God! He's going by the bylaws! Stop it! Stop it! Stop him now! We want you to be an imperial President. We want you to be strong."
Driftglass: He's an originalist. He's a Constitutional originalist; the first branch of government is the Congress.
Blue Gal: Yeah! And they're the ones that originate legislation.
Driftglass: Yeah, absolutely true.
Blue Gal: And, as someone who came fresh out of the Senate --- you know, was really in the Senate for a very short time --- and being the Constitutional scholar that he is --- but the other thing about this "Aspie" thing, this Asperger's thing, is, two things: One is, I think Barack Obama really has faith in America, and thinks
that America can survive anything. We survived Reagan. But I think he really has fundamental faith in America to survive anything, and so it's perfectly okay for him to conduct this experiment, and I really think he's conducting an experiment now, in his head. Let's go ahead and really do this Constitutional thing of letting the Congress have more power.
Driftglass: Yeah.
Blue Gal: And I think he realizes that, the people he's dealing with, they're Republicans, you know?
Driftglass: Yes. Well, there's the fly in the ointment, isn't it?
Blue Gal: Yeah! The fly in the ointment is, they want to destroy him. And he doesn't care because he's gonna conduct this little experiment in Constitutional originalism --- it's almost ironic in terms of the Tea Party always talking about defending the original Constitution, which to them means "we only have white men for President" ---
Driftglass: The Second Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and nothing else.
Blue Gal: --- but the real Constitutional originalist is Barack Obama.
Driftglass: That's a very interesting revelation.
Blue Gal: And it's intellectualizing it like that that distracts me from wanting to (bleep) Congressional offices, damn it!
Driftglass: Okay, you'll have to, uh ---
Blue Gal: I think I'll have to edit that out.
(Both laugh).
Blue Gal: It's a joke! It's a joke. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Driftglass: Send them a very firm letter.
Blue Gal: I'm going to send a very firm letter, too!
Driftglass: Well, I can understand that point of view. I can respect that point of view. You raise a very interesting point, that he is conducting his presidency as a mediator among the branches of government, and as a modest, confirm-or-deny kind of person, but [one] who doesn't originate. And that is what the Constitution generally says a President should be.
Blue Gal: We're so not used to this, because, when I teach middle-school U.S. history, it's all about who was President. You start there, with U.S. history.
Driftglass: Of course.
Blue Gal: "Okay, when FDR was President, this, this, this and this happened." You don't start with, "The great Congresspeople of 1945, how brave they were!" You know? You don't go there! That's not how we think of history.
Driftglass: So he's essentially gone to the House basement and pulled out this 200-year-old machine, and said, "I'm going to oil it up and get it running again and make it run the way it was originally intended to run." That's a very interesting theory, and I think that we could spend probably the rest of the podcast talking about it.
Blue Gal: I think so. Yeah.
Driftglass: But if I'm that guy, then Step One is, I stop torturing people.
Blue Gal: Yeah. Yeah.
Driftglass: Step Two, I close down secret prisons. If you really ---
Blue Gal: And that's it. I think that's where he fails his own experiment.
Driftglass: He does.
Blue Gal: Because, there are areas --- particularly during the Bush administration --- where presidential power just exploded.
Driftglass: And he wants to hang onto that.
Blue Gal: He wants to hang onto that! You can't have it both ways.
I do think there might be something to Blue Gal's notion that Barack Obama, the Constitutional scholar, might be deliberately not being as strong a leader as he could be because he believes the Presidency *should* be weak. Of course, there is a conflict there with his keeping in force all the totalitarian measures his predecessor adopted after 9/11, using a vague Terrorist Threat to justify all manner of surveillance-state excesses --- and Driftglass and Blue Gal catch that inconsistency, and acknowledge it. They make some other criticisms of Obama's leadership style that I think carry a lot of weight, like his persistence in believing that the extremists who've largely taken over control of the Republican Party (in what I think of as a two-stage process that began with the anti-Clinton Republican Revolution of 1994, which gave us Newt Gingrich, and has culminated with the current anti-Obama backlash) will move even one nanometer to the left in order to compromise with him --- even if he moves a mile to the right first, as a gesture of good faith. Driftglass also makes a good point that Obama is not only President, he is also leader of the Democratic Party, and he is abandoning this second responsibility. I also appreciated their discussion of the long historical roots* of the "imperial Presidency" that they suspect Obama of wanting (if not quite wholeheartedly) to abdicate.
But this "oh, the President is an Aspie, that's why he's so 1) emotionless, 2) naive and 3) stubbornly committed to principle at the expense of realpolitik" thing, that's the part I didn't find particularly helpful or illuminating.
I thought Leah Jane put her finger on the biggest thing that's wrong with this use of autism-as-metaphor:
[W]hen the American people were at an all time euphoria about Obama, he was compared to Spock, and Superman, and other idols of nerd culture, but the "A" word never came up. Now, progressives are finding a few walloping things wrong with his decisionmaking and snubbing of progressives, and now it's so convenient to label him with autism or some other "disorder" or invisible disability. Disability need not apply to people when they're doing what you think is right, but the moment you find fault with them, disabilities begin to be thrown about, and always the negative stereotypical traits are thrown in too. Never would it be suggested (at least while he is alive, see Einstein and Newton) that Obama has Asperger Syndrome for an exceptional trait which makes him a fine leader. Always focus on what makes them different, not good. Same for Narcissistic Personality, or Psychopathic Personality, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or now, Asperger Syndrome. Yay. Or just happily labeling anyone who disagrees with you as part of the Loonie Left, or a Wingnut, or a Right Wing Nutjob, having "Nazi Tourettes," having some type of ADD or ADHD, or a Crazy [insert noun], or Republitard.
How delightful to know that the mentally and intellectually disabled are so disposable.
I remember this, too: during the campaign and shortly after he became President, people would use words like "cerebral," "rational" (or "hyper-rational," if you're fond of superlatives), "intellectual," "professorial," or talk about his desire to transcend partisanship, or dirty politics, or whatever; the image was of a guy who practically embodied Reason and Idealism and Moderation in All Things. And we did not use a psychiatric diagnosis to convey this image; we used mere adjectives. Now that some commentators see these same traits as flaws --- as impediments to his being an effective President --- they describe them in psychiatric terms. What were character traits or habits are now symptoms.
Using metaphors like that --- comparing some trait, or philosophical stance, or policy position, in a politician to a DSM diagnosis --- does two things. First, it marginalizes and delegitimizes the person you're talking about, since whatever they say can (and usually is) just be used as further evidence of their incapacity; and second, it feeds the stigma against people with that particular diagnosis. There's already a stereotype that autistic people are never leaders, never politicians, because of our total lack of social skills; if "autistic" or "Aspie" become common insults for a leader who is seen to be ineffective, the stereotype becomes stronger (and also, more specific to political leadership). Young autistic people trying to find something they're good at and want to do with their lives might assume they can't go into politics (even if they might want to, or have an aptitude for it**), or people in a position to hire, say, campaign workers might choose not to hire anyone who says they're autistic, or who looks autistic, because they've gotten the idea that autistic people don't belong in politics.
*I wonder if, based on some things I've read at Arthur Silber's blog (start with this nine-part series on "Dominion Over the World" and follow links to his other writings on the history of American imperialism, if you've got lots of time and an intense interest in this matter), if this overpowered executive branch might not be even older than they seem to think it is --- if maybe it didn't start with Woodrow Wilson (or earlier --- you wouldn't call Teddy Roosevelt a passive, retiring, conciliatory sort of leader, would you?) rather than Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wilson was also a very active, aggressive President who embroiled the nation in bloody, imperialistic wars that it had no need to fight (in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Russia, according to Wikipedia; he also ultimately made the choice to involve the U.S. in World War I). But Wilson in particular seems to have done a lot of the thing that I had previously thought started with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that kicked off U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War: using executive power to declare war without ever formally declaring war, which the Constitution allows only Congress to do.
**Which some of us do!
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Labels: diagnostic categories, double standards, functioning labels, history, metaphor, politics
The Systemizing Quotient
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In this post, I look at individual questions on Simon Baron-Cohen's Systemizing Quotient (SQ) and list all the factors I think they depend on. I notice a pattern among many of the questions requiring, not just having a certain cognitive style, but also possessing certain training, skill sets and interests --- usually training, skills and interests that are gendered masculine in Anglo-American culture.
Now that I've got a fairly detailed explanation of what "systemizing" is supposed to mean, I'd like to look at the way Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at the Autism Research Centre have decided to measure it.
According to this article, the Systemizing Quotient is a self-report questionnaire that asks you to agree or disagree (either weakly or strongly) that a given statement describes you. The kinds of things you get asked about are mostly instances of systemizing behaviors or preferences in everyday life:
Initially, we had planned to devise the SQ so that it would tap into each of the domain-specific systems described above [i.e., natural systems, abstract systems, social systems, organizable systems, motoric systems and technical systems, of which examples of each are given and discussed in my earlier post]. However, this proved to be problematical because individuals who were well rounded but not necessarily good systemizers would end up scoring highly, whereas those who were highly systematic but only interested in one domain would receive a low score. Thus, we decided, instead, to use examples from everyday life in which systemizing could be used to varying degrees. The assumption is that a strong systemizer would be drawn to use their systemizing skills across the range of examples more often than a poor systemizer, and would consequently score higher on the SQ.
Okay! So, we're not testing your knowledge of, or interest in, various systemizing-heavy subjects --- no, this test is all about choices you make every day, and whether they show you to have systematic, rational, orderly and inquisitive habits of mind*.
If they're examples from everyday life, that should eliminate biases favoring 1) men and 2) more educated people, right?
Well, let's see what kind of examples he uses:
I am fascinated by how machines work.
When I buy an appliance, I do not read the instruction manual very carefully.
If I had a collection (e.g. CDs, coins, stamps), it would be highly organized.
I am not very meticulous when I carry out DIY.
When I lend someone money, I expect them to pay me back exactly what they owe me.
These seem pretty straightforward to me, and not necessarily dependent on one having a particular background or skill set. (A possible exception might be the instruction-manual one, which assumes one has the literacy, direction-following ability and diagram-reading skill necessary to understand most instruction manuals). The fascination by how machines work --- and many of its sister questions, like curiosity about how furniture/buildings were made, or how mountains were formed, or how wireless communication works --- indicates both a certain level of pure intellectual curiosity, and also a focus on particular kinds of questions: being more interested in how than, say, when or why or who.
The other questions --- about reading instructions carefully, having one's records alphabetized or keeping track of debts --- seem to be asking about diligence, or conscientiousness; not sure to what extent this trait overlaps with "systemizing," which seems to be an intellectual process rather than a personality trait. I guess if you are driven to understand and create systems, order in your personal life might be preferable to chaos, but there's also the trope of the absentminded professor, who might be able to come up with an equation describing just about any phenomenon you asked hir about, but who is also very disorganized and flighty. So I am not quite convinced that orderliness or conscientiousness has much to do with one's ability to make sense out of complex systems.
When I look at a building, I am curious about the precise way it was constructed.
When I look at a piece of furniture, I do not notice the details of how it was constructed.
When I listen to a piece of music, I always notice the way it's structured.
When I look at a painting, I do not usually think about the technique involved in making it.
These are also asking about attention to detail, and trying to break things down in your mind to see how they work and how they're put together --- plain intellectual curiosity, but on a practical level --- but it seems to me that they assume you have a certain kind of training or life experience that would make such details of construction, technique or composition intelligible to you.
Like, I might notice all sorts of tiny details about a chair, or a table, or a house --- such that I'd be able to draw it from memory after seeing it a few times --- for instance, I may notice the wood grain in different parts of a chair being oriented in different directions, but because I have no training in carpentry, this tells me little to nothing about how the chair was made. Some such details may well be invisible to me because I do not know to look for them.
Similarly, someone who's never painted might notice brushstrokes on a painting, but might not even know that's what they are, let alone whatever they might tell a connoisseur of art about what the artist did to make them look that way.
When I read the newspaper, I am drawn to tables of information, such as football league scores or stock market indices.
This one kind of depends on whether you care about sports or the stock market, doesn't it? They've also got a question like this about election results, but if you're also indifferent to politics, you must not be a very strong systemizer, I guess.
(Also, I have a bright and shiny No-Prize for the person who can tell me what gender people who care about sports scores and stock market indices are likeliest to be!)
I can easily visualize how the motorways in my region link up.
I find it difficult to learn my way around a new city.
I find it difficult to read and understand maps.
When travelling by train, I often wonder exactly how the rail networks are coordinated.
I am interested in knowing the path a river takes from its source to the sea.
While all of these certainly deal with systematic thinking, they also require you to be very good at visual and spatial thinking. (Two possible exception might be the train one and the river one, which only ask you to be *curious* about the layout of the rail network or river system, not to have a keen mental grasp of it --- but even there it assumes you've got the habit of making mental maps of things, which requires you to be halfway decent at map-reading and keeping track of the relative location of different things in space).
Is spatial cognition a part of systemizing? I don't know! None of the articles I've read on E-S theory addresses that explicitly. It's certainly possible to think systematically about one's position in space --- anticipating the trajectory of a moving target is a systematic process; you can even use math to do it! --- but I don't know if being good at manipulating maps, or 3-D representations of objects, or other spatial representations in your head is necessary for systematic thinking in general. They seem to bear about as much relation to each other, in my mind, as algebra and geometry. You can *use* algebra to solve some geometry problems, but being a poor geometer doesn't doom you to algebraic illiteracy. Indeed, many people are good at one but not the other.
In maths, I am intrigued by the rules and patterns governing numbers.
If there was a problem with the electrical wiring in my house, I'd be able to fix it myself.
When I learn a language, I become intrigued by its grammatical rules.
When I read something, I always notice whether it is grammatically correct.
When I'm in a plane, I do not think about the aerodynamics.
Okay, now all of these strike me as requiring quite a lot of prior training --- formal or informal. The most obvious one to me is the electrical-wiring one: yes, being able to solve problems like that by yourself does display impressive systemizing skills, but no matter how good a systemizer you are, if you have no training as an electrician you're probably not going to attempt that! Similarly, math --- especially math advanced enough for you to admire its beauty, and begin noticing rules and patterns (which for me didn't really happen until calculus) --- is a notoriously abstract subject, and while there are people who can grasp even complex mathematical concepts intuitively, without training, most people need to be taught that stuff. It's the same with grammar. We might *use* grammar unconsciously and spontaneously --- that's what Steven Pinker argues in his book The Language Instinct --- but we have to be taught to understand it. "Correct" grammar especially (something Pinker actually doesn't think exists) comes only from formal education.
Besides drawing on separate skill sets (whether arguably innate, like spatial cognition, or acquired, like mathematical ability, understanding of cars or computers, carpentry or electrical wiring), a lot of the examples in the Systemizing Quotient depict (stereo)typically masculine interests or pursuits.
I've already mentioned the tables of sports scores or stock-market indices, but even many of the examples of wondering "How does it work?" or "How was it put together?" skew masculine as well. Carpentry, for instance, is a skill much more likely to be possessed by men.
Some examples, from off the top of my head, of some very similar questions based in stereotypically feminine hobbies:
When I see a piece of beaded jewelry in a store, I try to visualize how it was made.
I can usually picture the steps it took to manufacture a given article of clothing.
When I go shopping for beads, I already have a design and color scheme in mind.
My outfits and makeup are usually highly color-coordinated.
When I'm cooking, if I find out partway through a recipe that I don't have one of the ingredients the recipe calls for, I can usually substitute something I have that will serve the same purpose as whatever I'm missing.
(Baron-Cohen does use a couple more typically feminine examples in the SQ: there's a question about cooking, and the painting one might be feminine and might be gender-neutral; I'm not sure about the gender ratio of people who dabble in painting).
Another thing that seems a bit stereotypical is this:
If I were buying a car, I would want to obtain specific information about its engine capacity.
Even putting aside the genderedness of interest in, and knowledge of, cars in modern American pop culture, the specific thing a good systemizer is supposed to ask about --- engine capacity --- seems to me to tap into culturally masculine values, like placing a premium on owning a high-performance vehicle even if you have no reason for needing a car with a particularly powerful engine. Why is it engine capacity that determines systemizing and not, say, fuel efficiency?
*Here is an interactive web form of the SQ, which I invite y'all to take and post your results in comments, along with your thoughts on whether the test gave an accurate picture of how "systematic" you are.
Labels: gender, mind, Simon Baron-Cohen
Fetal Testosterone and Autistic Traits - Part III: Empathy
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This post looks at two studies by Simon Baron-Cohen's group dealing with the effects of testosterone on the development of empathy. Both of the studies' subjects come from a cohort of children whose mothers underwent amniocentesis and agreed to have their amniotic fluid hormone levels tested. The first study I discuss looks for a relationship between amniotic testosterone and performance on two psychological tests that are supposed to measure empathy: a children's version of the Empathy Quotient and a children's version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. The other study involved having the children watch a short animated film and describe what they saw in it, with researchers keeping track of what kind of words the children used --- did they tend to speak of the animated shapes in human terms, as having thoughts, intentions, and feelings?
Girls did indeed tend to speak more readily of the animated shapes as if they were thinking, feeling characters in a story, though for the most part this trait did not have any relation to amniotic testosterone levels. Girls also scored higher on the Empathy Quotient, but their scores likewise bore no relation to prenatal testosterone. (There was such a relationship for boys, however). Only the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test results showed the expected negative correlation with amniotic testosterone, and that test failed to show the expected sex difference in favor of girls.
Empathy --- or the lack thereof --- is crucial to Simon Baron-Cohen's conception of autism, and also to his conception of the "essential difference" between the sexes.
In this 2006 paper published in Social Neuroscience (full text here), a group of researchers affiliated with Cambridge University looked for a relationship between children's scores on two measures of empathy, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test and a children's version of the Empathy Quotient (EQ-C), and the amount of testosterone that was present in their mothers' amniotic fluid.
The two tests were given in separate experiments, to different groups of children whose mothers all underwent amniocentesis in the Cambridge region of the U.K. between June of 1996 and June of 1999; at the time of testing, the children were all between six and nine years old. The EQ study involved 193 children --- 100 boys and 93 girls --- and had those children's parents fill out the questionnaire about the children, rather than having the children take the test themselves. Three outliers --- one boy and two girls --- were left out of the statistical analysis, leaving 99 boys and 91 girls.
(Figure 1, in Chapman et al., 2006 --- scatter plot showing the distribution of boys' and girls' scores on the children's Empathy Quotient in relation to the amount of testosterone, expressed in nanomoles per liter, present in their mothers' amniotic fluid)
There were significant sex differences in EQ-C scores; the boys' average score was 32.62 (out of a possible 58), while the girls' was 39.12. That's a difference of a little less than a standard deviation (roughly), with effect size d = 0.76. Fetal-testosterone levels correlated significantly with EQ-C scores when both sexes' data was analyzed together, and also in the within-sex analysis for boys; for girls, however, there was no relation between fetal testosterone and EQ-C score.
Due to the very close relationship between two of the variables being looked at --- amniotic testosterone level and sex (which in this study were correlated with r = -0.65) --- the researchers did further analysis to try and isolate the effect of each one:
A combined sex analysis showed there to be a significant negative correlation between fT level and performance on the EQ-C: r(193) = -.28, p < .01. However, there was also a significant difference between girls' and boys' EQ-C scores. Within-sex analyses revealed that there was a significant correlation between fT and EQ-C scores for the boys: r(99) = -.35, p ≤ .01, but not for the girls. The fact that a correlation is observed between fT and EQ-C for the boys may in part be due to a larger variation in fT levels for boys (0.10-2.05 nmol/L) compared to girls in this study (0.05-0.85 nmol/L). We investigated the influence of fT and sex on EQ-C scores by running a stepwise analysis, which revealed a main effect of sex, but not fT in the final model. The strong correlation between sex and fT means that fT cannot be ruled out as a factor in producing the observed sex difference, but it is clear that the sex difference is larger than that which would be predicted by fT alone.
I can think of something that might be at work here, that would explain a wider gap between the sexes than differences in amniotic testosterone levels would account for: remember that the metric used to measure empathy in this (quasi-)experiment, the Empathy Quotient, isn't a direct assessment of a skill but rather asks you to agree or disagree that various general statements (like "I can easily tell if someone else wants to enter a conversation" or "It is hard for me to see why some things upset people so much") describe you. Also remember that, in this instance, the person answering the questions isn't answering them about hirself, but is answering them for hir children. Both of those aspects of the EQ-C allow for quite a bit of subjective wiggle room --- even when you are answering questions about yourself, if the questions are fairly general in nature (like "Are you a 'people person'?" or "Are you good at math?"), the same person might answer them differently at different times or in response to different cues. (One of these cues, as Cordelia Fine persuasively argues in Delusions of Gender, is the checkbox at the top of many standardized tests --- including the EQ and SQ --- that asks you to specify whether you are male or female).
The "Mind in the Eyes Test" experiment involved a much smaller study population: 39 boys and 37 girls, from the same cohort of six-to-nine-year-old children as the participants in the EQ-C study. The test involves looking at a series of pairs of eyes and choosing (from four available words) the word that best describes what the owner of those eyes is feeling.
Here are some of the eyes:
The children's mean scores didn't really differ between the sexes --- 15.23 (out of 28 possible) for boys versus 16.29 for girls, with standard deviations of 3.50 for boys and 3.29 for girls --- but, looking at the graph, I get the impression that, although the score distributions for each sex are pretty much right on top of each other, there seem to be more low scorers among the boys than among the girls.
(Figure 2, in Chapman et al., 2006 --- scatter plot showing the distribution of boys' and girls' scores on the children's version of the Mind in the Eyes Test in relation to levels of testosterone present in amniotic fluid)
Weirdly, although no sex differences were found, the researchers did see a relationship between amniotic testosterone levels and Mind in the Eyes test scores. This relationship held true within each sex, as well as in the combined-sex analysis. The correlation was somewhat weaker for the girls, though: r = -0.29, as opposed to the boys' r = -0.42 and both sexes' r = -0.43.
There was also another variable that correlated significantly (r = 0.29) with performance on this test: the age of the child. That just makes sense --- children's verbal fluency, degree of insight and social intelligence all improve as they develop. (They also measured the children's IQs, and found no relationship between verbal IQ and test scores, though. So that aspect of development seems not to be implicated in this study).
Another study (full text here) published that year in Hormones and Behavior --- by many of the same researchers who worked on the one I already described --- looked for a relationship between amniotic testosterone and a different, somewhat whimsical, measure of empathy: they looked for the proportion of words relating to mental states that children used to describe the movements and interactions of cartoon shapes in a short, wordless film.
Here's a description of the short films the children (25 boys and 14 girls, all four years old) were shown:
Computer-presented animations were provided by Fulvia Castelli and were used in the studies by Abell et al. (2000) and Castelli et al. (2000). The animations showed one large red and one small blue triangle moving around a screen which contained a rectangular enclosure. One animation (random) showed the triangles moving about purposelessly (bouncing off the sides) and not interacting with each other (this was chosen from a possible set of 4). Two animations were designed to convey ToM (these were taken from a possible set of 6). One film showed the big triangle coaxing the little one out of the enclosure (see Fig. 1). One showed the little triangle hiding behind a door and surprising the big triangle. Sequences lasted 34 to 45 s each. Children watched the film once and were then asked what was happening. They were then asked to describe the film as it was playing (to reduce the memory burden). For the random film, only these initial descriptions were recorded. For the ToM films, after the first descriptions were given, children were asked a series of questions designed to elicit more information and to encourage them to view the sequence in human terms. ... The children's narratives were tape-recorded and then transcribed.
Later, researchers who hadn't participated in the interviews read through the transcripts and counted the number of "mental-state terms" (words describing thoughts, plans, wishes, motives, etc.), "affective-state terms" (words describing feelings), "intentional propositions" (phrases describing the animated shapes as characters doing things), and "neutral propositions" (phrases that just describe how the shapes are moving, or what they look like, without any attempt to turn them into characters in a story) that appeared.
Because an earlier study found that autistic children were less likely than typically developing children to ascribe mental states to similar animated triangles, the authors of this study (Rebecca Knickmeyer, Simon Baron-Cohen, Peter Raggatt, Kevin Taylor and Gerald Hackett) predicted 1) that the girls in this study would use more mental- and affective-state terms than the boys, and 2) that, within each sex, the concentration of testosterone found in each child's mother's amniotic fluid would vary inversely with that child's use of mentalizing language.
While they pretty much found the sex differences they expected to find (the girls used significantly more affective-state terms than the boys did (d = 0.82), while the boys used significantly more neutral propositions than the girls did (d = 0.63), and there was a trend that just barely missed the cutoff for statistical significance (d = 0.62) for the girls to use more intentional propositions), their results were more ambiguous in their support (or nonsupport) of the proposed link with fetal testosterone exposure.
Two of the outcome variables, mental-state terms and affective-state terms, showed no relationship to amniotic testosterone levels whatsoever; two others, intentional propositions and neutral propositions, showed a significant relationship* to testosterone when all the subjects' data were analyzed together, but that relationship failed to show up in the within-sex analyses**, which suggests that the relationship observed for the pooled data might just be an artifact of the sex differences I described in the last paragraph.
These data, along with the data from the first study I described in this post, provide only incomplete, ambiguous support for the idea that testosterone exposure during development suppresses a person's ability to imagine another person's mental state.
Both studies also fail to make the case that the link with testosterone exposure is strong enough to stand on its own, rather than simply being another indicator of sex differences, which may have any number of biological, psychological, social or cultural causes. Is testosterone driving this sex difference, or merely reflecting it?
*They tested for this relationship in two ways: first, they just looked for Pearson correlations (r) between all the variables they had measured; next, they used hierarchical regression analyses to try to isolate the contributions of individual variables --- to test each one to see how well it predicts how much of each type of language any given child's description will contain. Only one of the Pearson correlations --- that between testosterone and use of intentional propositions --- was significant, at r = -0.43. The other kind of significant relationship Knickmeyer and colleagues are talking about is one that produces a significant F change when it is included in their statistical model. Fetal testosterone produced such a change for both intentional and neutral propositions.
**Neither sex showed such a relationship when use of intentional propositions was the outcome variable of interest; when they looked at neutral propositions, there was a significant relationship to amniotic testosterone levels among the boys, but not among the girls.
Chapman, E., Baron-Cohen, S., Auyeung, B., Knickmeyer, R., Taylor, K., & Hackett, G. (2006). Fetal testosterone and empathy: Evidence from the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test Social Neuroscience, 1 (2), 135-148 DOI: 10.1080/17470910600992239
KNICKMEYER, R., BARONCOHEN, S., RAGGATT, P., TAYLOR, K., & HACKETT, G. (2006). Fetal testosterone and empathy Hormones and Behavior, 49 (3), 282-292 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.08.010
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Photo gallery: Medevaced Marines stay tough in Afghanistan
By Dan Lamothe on June 13, 2011 Afghanistan, Infantry, Sangin
Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino shouts out as he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company, 1-214 Aviation Regiment, after sustaining a gunshot wound in the stomach on Saturday near Sangin, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Security is improving in many parts of Afghanistan, but Marines still face danger every day. I’m not exactly breaking any ground with that statement for the Marines, friends and families who read this blog, but it’s still worth observing in poignant ways when possible.
The Associated Press released a series of photographs over the weekend of Marines being medically evacuated from in and around Sangin, Afghanistan. Their photographer was embedded with the Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off,” Charlie Company, and braved enemy fire that hit the helicopter during one of the evacuations.
What follows are images of Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino and Lance Cpl. David Richvaslky of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif. They’re photos are tough to look at, but show the care wounded Marines receive on the battlefield. The helicopter crew needed to attempt landing twice to evacuate Trevino from a hot landing zone, and took five rounds in the aircraft’s tail, the AP reported.
I wrestled a bit with how to appropriately publish these images. Much like with Cpl. Jorge Villarreal, it seemed like the only fair thing to do was publish them respectfully. There’s no gore here, but the emotions on these Marines’ faces say it all.
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Loree on June 13, 2011 9:52 pm
Nice work, yes, respectfully done and so moving.
PMM Dee on June 13, 2011 10:32 pm
Very good job…again…with your sensitivity regarding wanting to post the photos in a respectful manner.
Prayers for an uncomplicated recovery LCpl Trevino and LCpl Richvalsky
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Celeste Strelow on June 16, 2011 1:33 pm
God is watching over you.
Dave McFall on June 18, 2011 10:00 pm
As a former Marine and someone who has a son attached to 1/5 your pics are difficult to watch. Our prayers go out to these men and their families for a speedy recovery. Thank you for being so respectful. Semper Fi
jamie on June 22, 2011 1:17 pm
My Son-in-Law is in the first two pictures, although hard to look at I am glad to get a glimpse of him
Doc on June 24, 2011 12:23 am
Take care my brother. We will see you soon!
Trudy McCoy on August 28, 2011 3:09 pm
Tom Thompson on September 10, 2011 11:26 pm
My son was with B 1/5 and wounded on 5/22/11. Lance Cpl Trevino was one of the guys who helped carry him to the CH-47 while they were under fire. Found that out recently. Our prayers go out to Trevino and his family for his quick recovery. My son is still recovering, having just had his last surgery several weeks ago. Semper Fi!
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Foundation House Ministries gets new facility
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
Foundation House Ministries, a local organization which helps women facing unplanned pregnancies, recently got a new house. Much of what the organization does revolves around running a maternity …
BOARD MEMBERS and guests mingle in the main living room of Foundation House Ministries' new house during a recent invitation-only event.
Banner photo, CHRISTY ARMSTRONG
PRIVATE BEDROOMS like this are included in The Long House, Foundation House Ministries' new house. Executive Director Suzanne Burns said the new house "tripled" the number of women the organization can house at a time.
THIS COZY KITCHEN is situated at the center of The Long House, Foundation House Ministries new house for homeless mothers. Residents can use it to prepare meals for themselves and their housemates.
A SECOND LIVING ROOM included in Foundation House Ministries' new house for homeless mothers-to-be provides something the last house didn't have — more space to relax.
SHARED ROOMS like this one in The Long House provide modest space for women are in the early stages of Foundation House Ministries' programming for pregnant women who find themselves with no place to go.
Posted Saturday, May 26, 2018 10:13 pm
Foundation House Ministries, a local organization which helps women facing unplanned pregnancies, recently got a new house.
Much of what the organization does revolves around running a maternity home in Bradley County to help those who are pregnant and homeless. Suzanne Burns, executive director of Foundation House Ministries, said the organization’s recent move to a new house “tripled” the number of women it can help at a time.
The Christian nonprofit was not actively house-hunting, but Burns said the recent move was evidence of “God’s good timing and favor on this organization.”
Burns was speaking at a church and mentioned Foundation House’s goal to expand the number of women it can house. Afterward, she was approached by a couple who had a house which might better suit the organization’s needs.
“It was just unbelievably perfect,” said Burns.
The organization was able to lease a house which has a well-equipped kitchen, multiple living areas and several “little cubbyhole rooms” which Burns says allow more women to have their own private spaces. The unique house was built by a family of missionaries who liked to have large family gatherings.
The new house — referred to as The Long House — boasts five regular bedrooms, as well as a room with bunk beds which can house up to four woman during an initial “assessment period.” The previous house just had three bedrooms, which Burns said limited the organization’s ability to grow.
“We knew this would allow us to work with more women and have the women living there now not feel they are being rushed out,” Burns said.
How long a woman stays in Foundation House Ministries’ residential program varies from woman to woman. Burns said staff try to make sure each new mother reaches a state of “sustainable stability” first, ensuring they are able to find work and cover the costs of things like food, rent and childcare.
Burns noted it can take at least a couple years for some to be in a good place financially after finding themselves as homeless single mothers. Among the organization’s future goals are to look at ways to provide transitional housing to women leaving The Long House.
However, Burns stressed the organization’s staff are excited about the addition of The Long House, because it furthers their mission of helping mothers provide good lives for their babies once they arrive.
“A baby is going to be raised in the manner the mother is equipped to provide,” Burns said. “We believe that the best way to help the child is to help the mother provide stability.”
The exact location of The Long House is kept secret in order to protect the clients. However, Burns said people can rest assured the house is serving its purpose as a home to single mothers trying to get on their feet.
The organization is currently inviting people to “sponsor” rooms in the new house for $500. These sponsors will have their names on signs marking each room, and the sponsorships will help provide sheets, pillows and other household items to help residents feel at home.
For more information on Foundation House Ministries or to donate, visit www.foundationhouseministries.org.
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March 11, 2011 / GO Brooklyn / Park Slope / Theater
Rabbit Hole’s ‘Frankenstein’ is still a sexy beast
By Meredith Deliso
Photo by Tonianne Flieg
Rabbit Hole Ensemble foregoes the familiar green giant in its female-driven retelling of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” called “Doctor Frankenstein’s Magical Creature.” It opens on March 17 with Emily Hartford as the monstrous beast (funny, she doesn’t look so scary to us).
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The second part of Rabbit Hole Ensemble’s “Frankenstein” gender-bending triptych picks up where the Kensington theater company left off last fall, as “Doctor Frankenstein’s Magical Creature” comes to the Old First Reformed Church in Park Slope this month.
The piece, written by Stanton Wood, is part of a year-long exploration of Mary Shelley’s classic, starting with last fall’s “The Tragic Story of Dr. Frankenstein,” which told the story from the doctor’s point of view. In this new installment, which opens March 17, the point of view switches to the monster’s — which isn’t that different from how the book itself is also structured.
“I’m sort of amazed at how original ‘Frankenstein’ was — not just in subject, but in structure of narrative,” said director Edward Elefterion. “There’s a lot of different lenses that the story gets refracted through. I’m excited about the potential storytelling you could do with that fractured narrative.”
The production does have some poetic license with Shelley’s 19th-century classic, as it casts women in the traditionally male roles of the doctor and monster, making for a more maternal dynamic.
“The not-so-subtle change really wakes the material up,” said Elefterion. “When you have a woman creating it [the monster], it becomes very much a mother-daughter relationship and emotionally packed in a way that is not typical of Frankenstein’s story.”
If you’re late to the party and missed the ensemble’s first installment, don’t feel like you’re out of the loop, said Elefterion.
“It will be appreciated by people who saw the first one, as well as people who are coming to it fresh,” said Elefterion, who will run the two productions together for the third installment this fall. “It’s designed to be a play that stands alone.”
“Doctor Frankenstein’s Magical Creature” at the Old First Reformed Church [729 Carroll St. near Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (800) 838-3006], March 17-April 2, Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm. Tickets $18, $15 for students and seniors. For info, visit www.rabbitholeensemble.com.
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GARLICK, Eunice Harriett
STEVENTON, George
Weddings 1900's to 1930's
Tadema Studios
ANDREW, Stanley Polkinghorne
Eunice Harriett Garlick
(Una Garlick)
born 15 February 1883 Mount Eden, Auckland
daughter of Ellen Green and Richard Knight Garlick.
died 17 March 1951 at her home in Ormonde Road, Remuera, Auckland aged 68 years
Rangitoto, Auckland Harbour
by Una Garlick
mounting 16.1 x 21.1
The Auckland War Memorial Museum has a similar photograph of Rangitoto Island titled "Rangitoto, Auckland 1930 (View from Orakei)"
New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16023, 15 September 1915, Page 2
Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 284, 28 November 1916, Page 12
Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 9 February 1917, Page 1
New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17799, 4 June 1921, Page 2
Twenty-four photographs from Australia and New Zealand were included among tho 400 exhibits at the international exhibition of the London Salon of Photography, which was opened a fortnight ago. New Zealand was represented by photographs sent by Miss Una Garlick, of Remuera, and Mr. H. Gaze, of Hamilton.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19129, 22 September 1925, Page 8
Miss Una Garlick, Auckland, was the only New Zealander who this year had the honour of having work hung in the Salon of Photographic Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, United States.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19308, 22 April 1926, Page 5
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN LONDON.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
LONDON, 22nd September.
Three New Zealanders have their work hung this year at the International Exhibition of the London Salon of Photography. These are Miss Una Garlick, of Auckland, Mr. H. E. Gaze, and Mr. W. T.Owen, at present living in London. Miss Garlick has a nature study, to obtain which must have greatly exercised her ingenuity. It is a group of ten or a dozen gannets in their native haunts. The birds are resting on the rocks in the most natural positions, probably quite unaware of the actions of the camera. Her other study, "Our Daily Bread," is a picture of a cornfield which might be in New Zealand or in England. There are large English trees in the background, and stooked wheat in the foreground. The shadows help to make a pleasing picture viewed from any reasonable distance...
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.
SUCCESSFUL AUCKLANDERS.
The Otago Art Society, now incorporated with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society, has for many years granted space at their annual exhibition for a display of pictorial photographs. Prints were sent from various parts of the Dominion, and at the present exhibition entered into competition for the awards given by the Dunedin Photographic Society. Mr. A. H. O'Keefe, who judged the prints, has made the following awards:
First class certificates.— Miss Una Garlick, Auckland (2); Miss E. B. Jeans, Messrs. W. B. Seymour, G. Chance, F.R.P.S., and T. A. Dawson, Dunedin.
Second class certificates: Miss Una Garlick, Auckland; Messrs. G. Chance, F.R.P.S. (2), P. Beck. W. B. Seymour, Dunedin; Mr. Otto Lodd, Port Chalmers.
Third class certificates.— Messrs Rolf Keys, Napier; G. Chance, F.R.P.S., C. A. Weedon (2), Rev. H. O. Fenton, F.R.P.S. (2), Dunedin.
Hon. mention.— Messrs. J. C. Holland, Auckland, and C. A. Weedon, Dunedin.
The highest award, the Bronze Plaque, for best picture exhibited, goes to Miss Una Garlick, Auckland, a well-merited win.
Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 274, 18 November 1926, Page 20
Guide Georgina from Whakarewarewa, Rotorua by Una Garlick
Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 7-A11456
Portrait Study of Guide Georgina by Una Garlick
Fine New Zealand Paintings, Jewellery & Decorative Arts, Webb's, Auckland.
Photography in its artistic phases is another neglected art. Considering the quantity of photographic material which is sold in Auckland, there are regrettably few amateur photographers who realise its artistic possibilities. There is need of a photographic society in this district, sufficiently alive and well organised to hold annual exhibitions of importance, and to promote the artistic side of the craft to the prominence which it deserves. The question whether photography is a legitimate art-medium has long ago been settled, and, small as this section is in the current exhibition, it serves to prove that point.
Mr. Gerald Jones, who is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, is an artist in the particular process which he employs. His six contributions are all most commendable as works of art, especially "Terere Rete," 374, and "Shadow Dancers," 371. Miss Fullerton's portraits of children,. 376, 379, 380, are excellent. She has successfully caught that subtle and elusive charm of childhood which is usually missed by the ordinary trade production. "Kathleen," 378 is a beautiful expression of girlhood.
Miss Olive Lloyd, in "The Master," 382, and "A Reverie," 383, more than" avoids that stark literalness with which so many photographers destroy the imaginative quality which these subjects should hold. No. 382 is particularly successful. Miss Una Garlick's studies of the Maori guide, "Georgiana," are lively records of the type. "Portals of the Past," 366, is poetically and simply expressed. Mr. Revel Reynolds shows several adequate landscape subjects.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19690, 16 July 1927, Page 11
Inter-club Competition, Auckland 1927
... Of the Auckland collection, the judge thinks most highly of G. E. Jones' "Ephos," the picture of a boy in a skin as a Greek shepherd lad, which gets 86 points. "The Lagoon," by J. C. Holland, gains 84 points. It is a charming, restful scene down at Rangitoto, and shows what an artist can do with the simplest material. Probably dozens of people have seen the same view without realising its possibilities. Many would prefer this print to any in the winning collection. "Soliloquy," by Una Garlick, gets 79 points. It is an excellent portrait of a well-known Rotorua guide. Another nice subject is the same exhibitor's little scene from Rotorua. A fine straightout print is the winter scene in the National Park by R. B. Walrond. There is a nice tone in a print by Mr. Trenwith, "The Launching of the Boat," which brings in Rangitoto.
Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 245, 17 October 1927, Page 8
In 1928 she was elected to the committee of the Auckland Camera Club.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19920, 13 April 1928, Page 13
Auckland Society of Arts Exhibition 1928
... Gerald E. Jones carries off the honours of the photographic section, with eight bromoil prints. The range of subjects is remarkable, and the treatment is invariably poetic. Gwen Fullerton shows two delightful child studies, and Una Garlick several heads of Maori women...
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19960, 31 May 1928, Page 14
AUSTRALIANS MAKE GOOD. Some space must be reserved for mention of the International Photography Salon, which is also being held now. Although this is the 24th salon it is the first time Australia has been represented. Mr. C. Stuart Tompkins, of Melbourne, shows a delightful study, entitled 'The Bathers;" and Otho Webb, of Darr Creek, Queensland, has sent an interesting composition study. A surprising number of New Zealanders are contributing excellent work; a Maori head, by Miss Una Garlick, of Auckland, is especially fine.
Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW) Sunday 17 November 1929, page 20
Exhibition in London
(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, March" 8.
An interesting exhibition of pictorial photography is now being held at the Royal Photographic Society's Gallery in Russell Square. The exhibits are a selection from the Auckland Camera Club, the Hamilton Photographic Circle, Hororata Camera Club, Dunedin Photographic Society, and the Invercargill Camera Club, and they have been sent at the request of the London Society to be hung for a month...
Among the pictures that are typical of New Zealand scenery are Rangitoto (Una Garlick), The Remarkables (E. B. Jeans), Skippers Road (H. V. Smith), The Maclennan Bridge (T. Mayne), Milford Mists (H. W. Smith), and A Sylvan Glade (J. W. Johnson). There are several Maori portrait studies, the best being Georgina, the Guide, and another showing an elderly Maori woman smoking a pipe (both by Una Garlick)...
Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 124, 28 May 1930, Page 9
MOTOR-CYCLISTS INJURED
LONG AMBULANCE JOURNEY
Two visitors from Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. C. Ross, were injured as result. of a collision between a motorcycle and a motor-car yesterday, and were later taken to the Waikato Hospital in a St. John ambulance. Mr. and Mrs. Ross were coming from Ascot Avenue, Remuera, into Remuera Road, when the motor-cycle they were riding and a motor-car driven by Miss U. Garlick, of 55 Remuera Road, collided. Both riders were thrown, Mr. Ross suffering abrasions and Mrs. Ross a fracture of the thigh. They were taken to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance, but it was later decided to take them to the Waikato Hospital as it was nearer their home. The ambulance arrived at Hamilton at 10.20 last evening.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21710, 27 January 1934, Page 10
In 1939 Una Garlick and her sister Hilda Clare Garlick were passengers on the "Rangitane" which left Wellington for London.
Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1939, Page 5
New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25045, 8 November 1944, Page 7
This biography was written by Gordon Maitland and was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 4, 1998.
Born at Mount Eden, Auckland, on 15 February 1883, Eunice Harriett Garlick (registered as Harriett Eunice) was the seventh of ten children of English-born parents Ellen Green and her husband, Richard Knight Garlick. Her father was a kauri-gum merchant and the family lived comfortably in a large house with spacious grounds on [17] Khyber Pass Road. After attending Wanganui Girls' College from about 1895 to 1900, Una, as she was known, returned to live with her family. She never married and it was a matter of family pride that neither she nor her two unmarried sisters, Florence and Hilda, were ever forced to earn a living.
Una Garlick's parents and siblings were keenly interested in music and needlework, and encouraged her artistic pursuits. Among her friends was Edith Whitelaw, a first violinist with the Auckland Choral Society orchestra and later leader of the Auckland Orchestral Society. Una too became an accomplished violinist and played with Whitelaw in Auckland's Bohemian Orchestra. But her principal interest was photography, which she regarded as far more than a mere hobby or indulgence. She brought to it a professional attitude and serious dedication.
It is not known exactly when Una Garlick began producing photographic work, but she established her first darkroom under the conservatory of her family's Khyber Pass Road home. Some years after the death of Richard Garlick in 1899, Una moved with her mother and two unmarried sisters to a smaller house in Remuera Road, where she again set up a darkroom. They lived there until after Ellen's death in 1931, when the sisters bought a new home in Ormonde Road, Remuera; Una once again installed a darkroom.
Una Garlick's extended family and friends provided her with work recording weddings and family gatherings. Occasional commissions for portrait and other work, the sale of exhibition prints and competition prize money appear to have been her only earned income. Her quest for interesting subjects took her throughout New Zealand with her car and camera, and she embarked on a number of overseas trips with one or other of her sisters.
Involvement in photographic societies provided Garlick with the stimulation of competition and critical comment. She was the first woman nominated as a member of the Auckland Camera Club (later the Auckland Photographic Society) after it changed its rules to admit 'lady members' in 1921. Between 1922 and 1927 she played a prominent role in the club, winning many of its monthly competitions and receiving its annual medal in 1926. At the height of her career Garlick was widely acknowledged as a photographer of considerable ability. Between 1925 and 1931 she had more than 30 prints accepted by international salons in London, Paris, Boston and Vancouver, and she became an associate member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.
Along with other New Zealand photographers, particularly Gerald E. Jones and George Chance, Una Garlick identified with the British-based Pictorialist movement, which promoted photography as art, stressed the importance of deliberate, well-balanced composition, and employed various techniques to capture mood and atmosphere. She produced landscapes of considerable merit, but is best remembered for a series of evocative portraits of Maori women. One of these studies, entitled 'Georgina', appeared in the American Annual of Photography in 1930.
Una Garlick died of cancer at her home in Ormonde Road, Remuera, on 17 March 1951. She was a strong personality, described by her family as frank and forthright, and her photographic career demonstrated her creative discipline and dedication. The Auckland Institute and Museum holds a number of Garlick's negatives and prints; other prints are held at the Rotorua Art and History Museum and the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
Gordon Maitland. 'Garlick, Eunice Harriett', from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 25-Sep-2013
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g7/garlick-eunice-harriett
This photograph of Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island by Una Garlick was published in "New Zealand - Country and People" by Constance Clyde and Alan Mulgan, page 74, (no date).
Into the Light by David Eggleton, (2006), pages 51 and 52.
Mr R. K. Garlick - An Auckland Gum Merchant
Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 980, 9 October 1897, Page 7
The family of Ellen Green and Richard Knight Garlick:
1. Ethel Viner Garlick birth reg.1869/13371, married Robert Samuel Abel reg. 1891/2024
2. Arthur Richard Garlick birth reg.1871/13090
3. Herbert Gale Garlick birth reg.1872/14014, married 20 September 1898, St David's Presbyterian Church, Symonds Street, Auckland to Marion Catherine Robbie.
4. Ellen Mildred Norris Garlick birth reg.1873/28930, died 5 March 1936 at her residence 43 St George's Bay Road, Auckland, married 3 October at the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland to Hermann Zoeller
5. Florence May Garlick birth reg.1876/5463
6. Leslie Knight Garlick birth reg.1879/404
7. Harriett Eunice Garlick [Una Garlick] birth reg.1883/1977
8. George Octavius Garlick birth reg.1886/14234, married Margaret Helen Higgie reg. 1918/5231
9. Hilda Clare Garlick birth reg.1887/8986
10. Stanley Clyde Garlick birth reg.1890/5344, married Ada Jannette Lundins reg. 1919/7061
Mr A R. Garlick, eldest son of the late Mr R. K. Garlick, of Auckland, was drowned at Brisbane recently. Deceased had been in Australia for about five years, prior to which he had been employed by Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen at Auckland, besides being in business at Paeroa and on the Auckland Stock Exchange. He was 32 years of age.
Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 258, 30 October 1902, Page 6
Mr. R. K. Garlick - One of our Leading Gum Merchants
Observer, Volume XV, Issue 851, 20 April 1895, Page 15
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A Lord Apart is out!
Did you ever wonder how hot water pipes worked in the early 1800s? The second book in my Way to a Lord's Heart series features pair of Regency nerds who work together getting a bathtub installed in his country house. And then make use of it together!
After his parents’ sudden death, Daniel Frith, Viscount Whitfield, is struggling to unravel a web of chaotic family records. He is astonished to learn that his father’s will contains a mysterious legacy: a house left to a complete stranger. He knows nothing about the beautiful Penelope Pendleton, and he’s not sure he wants to…until she turns out to be a whiz at all those nasty tasks involved in estate administration.
Penelope has no idea why Rose Cottage was left to her. But it’s a godsend after her brother’s reckless actions disgraced her family. She had planned to stay out of Viscount Whitfield’s way, not grow ever closer to him. But when they discover how entwined their families really are, Daniel and Penelope must collaborate to avoid a scandal that reaches much higher than either could have guessed.
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The third and final book in the Phoenix Brothers series is releasing today! March 26th. I've been so busy moving I was afraid I might forget!
We downsized to a place half the size of our old house, and it wasn't as painful as I feared. We digitized special photos, gave a lot of things to Goodwill, and shipped a few boxes. One of those boxes contains my author copies of the brand new A Phoenix is Forever! Then we cleaned the house until it looked brand new and packed the SUV. We hired a nice Canadian guy to drive it from NH to Florida while we flew down with our two cats. He met us at the airport, said the drive went well.
I wish we could say the same about flying with cats! Our black cat is a sweetheart. A 'go with the flow' type. He hardly made a peep. The other one is a little hellion anyway, and the sedative didn't seem to touch him. He meowed the whole way! He is fine now, but the poor little guys have been confused for days.
So, here we are, finally living our dreams. Mr. Amazing always wanted to live in a highrise. I wanted to live at the beach. We're so fortunate to have found a place we love that is the best of both worlds. A top floor condo right on one of the most beautiful beaches in the country. (It was recently rated 3rd best.) I think it should be first, but I'm biased.
This picture was actually taken one morning when our unit was above the clouds! (The beach is down there, I promise.
So, back to the book! It's in Mass Market paperback on the new release tower at all Barnes and Nobles! How exciting is that? I no longer live near a B&N store, so I asked my assistant to take a picture for me. If you follow me on Facebook, you're sure to see it soon.
So, here's the short blurb:
Dawn Forrest is a psychic and an ex-gang girl. She may have misused her gift in the past to protect the gang’s illicit activities, but she’s ready to change all that.
Phoenix shifter Luca Fierro is a rookie cop with something to prove. The last person he should get involved with is a woman in a gang—for both their sakes. But when he realizes this psychic can help find a missing child, and the detectives assigned to the case just scoff, what is he supposed to do?
To Luca’s supernatural family, a psychic is normal…as long as she’s not a fraud, and her early predictions prove she isn’t. Why does she have to be so cute? Maybe he should have become a firefighter like the rest of his brothers.
I hope you enjoy the book, and because I want readers to enjoy it, I'll have a contest. Pleas e leave a comment here and I'll choose a random winner for a paperback copy. I hope you're all having a great spring!
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A Highland Warrior Woman by Alyson McLayne
In honor of International Women's Day!
An excerpt from HIGHLAND BETRAYAL. Not only is Maggie a strong Highland lass, she's a warrior woman…
“How much farther today?” she asked as she craned her neck to look up the mountain.
He pointed to the top in the distance, over rocks and shale, which could be dangerous to both them and the horses. “A few more hours to the ridge—that’ll be hard going—then we’ll have several more hours to the cave where we’ll camp tonight. The incline will not be so bad once we’re on the ridge, but the path will be rough. And the lads willna be able to help you once we reach the shale. They’ll need to steady the horses.”
She nodded, but he could see her eyes had dimmed.
Then she sighed heavily and struggled to her feet. “’Tis best we shoot now, then. I doona want my arms shaking so badly I canna aim straight. You’d win by default—the only way, for sure.”
He let her have her fun. Although truth be told, it might not be a jest. He suspected he would beat Maggie only if she allowed him to.
And he'd take it.
Aye, Maggie letting him win would be as good as telling him she would marry him. Until then, he would fight for her hand with everything he had.
“Choose a spot, then, and I’ll go first. I wouldnae want to be accused of following your arrow’s path again.”
She smiled, obviously enjoying herself now as she pulled out her daggers. “Not to worry. We’ll use knives instead. And maybe a moving target.”
The other men had also risen.
“What did you have in mind?” Finn asked, his boyish face alight with excitement.
“I’ll show you,” she said. “You doona mind helping, do you?”
Finn’s smile faded, and he swallowed nervously. “If you think ’twill be safe.”
“Well, I willna miss. But you may want to jump back when it’s Callum’s turn.”
The corners of his mouth dipped down, and Callum took pity on the lad. “We willna aim at you, Finn. Maggie would ne’er risk your life that way. I’m sure she means to have you throw a target in the air.”
“Aye,” Maggie said, her lips twitching. “If Callum’s scared he’ll miss and hit you instead, we’ll do it his way.” She searched the ground, then picked up two flat rocks, both about the size of her palm, and held them out to him. “Choose your target.”
He did, after making a show of looking them over carefully. He just liked being able to hold her hand, his fingers gliding over her soft skin, until she shivered.
And if it threw off her concentration, all the better.
“I’ll take this one,” he said and passed it to Finnian. He reached for his dagger as Maggie passed Finn her target, and the young man hopped across the mountain like a young goat until she whistled.
He stopped. “Right here?” he yelled.
“Aye, lad. We’ll let you know when we’re ready—and keep an eye out for the daggers when they fall!” Callum said.
He turned and saw Maggie flipping her dagger in her hand—almost a ritualistic movement to help her focus. She never once looked at her blade. Instead, she stared above Finn’s head in the distance, no doubt envisioning the shot in her mind’s eye.
Fortunately, the wind was calm, and it would simply be a matter of anticipating and hitting the target.
“Do you want to see him toss it first?” he asked.
“Nay. Let’s just do it.”
His stomach tightened with anticipation—with nerves, even—and he took a deep breath to relax his muscles. The weight of what was riding on this competition sat heavily on him. He was a good shot and would pit his skills against anyone, but he was afraid Maggie might prove his better.
And this was a contest he could not afford to lose.
“I’ll go first,” he said. He adjusted his position, then whistled at Finn. The lad tossed Callum’s target in the air. In a single motion, Callum pulled his arm back over his shoulder and loosed his dagger. It hit the rock seconds later, before the target reached the top of its arc, and the men sent up a cheer.
Callum resisted punching his fist in the air as he switched spots with Maggie, his heart conflicted. Aye, he wanted to win, but he also didn’t want her to feel the shame of missing her shot.
He wondered if she felt the same.
She was grinning from ear to ear when she yelled at Finn, “Now!”
Finnian tossed her target high in the air. Callum expected Maggie to pull her arm back and loose immediately, as he had, but she waited until the target was on its way down.
The men yelled out with concern, but she waited until the very last moment. Only then did she throw the dagger, hitting the target just before it reached the ground a few feet from Finnian.
The men erupted with loud shouts of astonishment and revelry, and this time Callum couldn’t stop himself from punching the air and yelling along with them. His shot had been precise; hers had been a thing of beauty.
He looked over just as she gave the men a deep curtsy. When she straightened, she looked up the mountain, hands on her hips, and blew out a heavy puff of air. “If only this mountain were so easy to beat!”
His pleasure turned to indignation. “You did not beat me!”
“Tell that to the men,” she replied with a saucy grin, then cupped her hands over her mouth. “Finnian, bring my dagger. And somebody help me up this great, bloody rock!”
To keep her safe, he betrayed his promise.
Laird Callum MacLean vowed to marry Maggie MacDonnell. But when his father's apparent suicide makes him laird of his clan, Callum must unmask his father's killer before bringing Maggie into his dangerous home.
She's a strong Highland Lass. She can save herself.
Maggie's home isn't any safer. When Callum fails to return, Maggie does what any resourceful Highland lass would do. She escapes—and find's herself toe-to-toe with Callum, who's determined to fulfill his promise. Maggie can't bring herself to trust him with her heart again. But with a traitor still at large, they must rely on each other in every way, or their clans—and their love—will be destroyed.
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Alyson McLayne is a mom of twins and an award-winning writer of contemporary, historical, and paranormal romance. She’s also a dog lover and cat servant with a serious stash of dark chocolate. After getting her degree in theater at the University of Alberta, she promptly moved to the West Coast of Canada where she worked in film for several years and met her Prop Master husband.
She and her family reside in Vancouver with their sweet but troublesome chocolate lab named Jasper.
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Fall in Love with Shifters
It's easy, really! They're lovable, hot, sexy, loyal, protective, fun-loving, funny, and just perfect for those cold nights and hot ones too!
These are photo composites I've made, something I love to do, along with photographing the shifters. In the first picture, I photographed the Arctic wolf at a wolf reserve and the bottom picture, the jaguar posed for me at a zoo.
If you hadn't had a chance to grab your copy of You Had Me at Jaguar, he's waiting for you!
Coming Feb 26,2019
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Write What You Know... Do I Have To?
When I first started writing, I sought out advice from successful authors... thriller writers, fantasy, middle grade, romance, and even non-fiction. One nugget kept coming up over and over again... Write what you know.
Now I don't know about you, but at the time I'd been laid off so I was a stay-at-home mom of three whose greatest daily goal was to fit in a shower. If I tried to "write what you know" I probably would have started a blog about how to clean kid poop off mini blinds (yes, that happened) and what to do when your three-year-old yells the f-word while you're wheeling your shopping cart through Target (he learned it from another kid at pre-school, I promise!)
I was up to my eyeballs in what I knew, and was ready for an escape from the day-to-day. So I set out to write what I didn't know which meant I got to do research. In the first manuscript I wrote (which still hasn't seen the light of day) my main character had an affinity for whiskey. Oh, I enjoyed researching that. Turns out I like my whiskey as a single malt, served neat, just like the star of my novel. She also spent time on the road in a giant RV. I can't tell you how much fun I had looking up recreational vehicle layouts online. Some of those are bigger than my first house! And there's also a very moving scene that takes place at a male strip club. Ahem, I cannot say how I came upon that knowledge...hubby may be reading this. But he's definitely been warned to not pay attention to my Google history.
My point is, I understand what the experts mean when they say to write what you know. In order to create genuine characters I have to be able to put myself in their shoes (or cowboy boots if they're in Holiday, Texas.) But I also love learning about new locations, different careers and experiences that are totally foreign to me. Having the opportunity to chat with someone whose life choices and life lessons are much different from my own is one of the most exciting parts of being a writer.
If I didn't venture out from what I know I never would have come up with Jinx, the blue-haired biker who rolls into Holiday, Texas and steals Cash's heart. And poor Baby Back never would have found her way onto the page as The Rambling Rose's mascot. As much as I begged hubby to let us bring a pet pig into our home so I could get the full experience of pig ownership, he did put his foot down about that (the poor man is allergic to anything with fur, so he does have a valid reason.)
So my advice to aspiring writers is yes, write what you know. But also don't be afraid to venture outside of your comfort zone. Sometimes that's where you'll find your best inspiration, your most memorable characters, and the biggest emotional payoffs. As for me, I plan on racking up as many interesting experiences as I can so I have a huge well to draw from when I sit down to write my next book. And I've learned how to go incognito on the internet...browsers everywhere beware!
The next book in the Holiday, Texas series is available for pre-order now!
They call him Casanova. But can this charming devil of a cowboy teach a good girl how to change her ways?
Small-town preacher's daughter Dixie King is used to having a lot on her plate. Keep tabs on her flighty grandmother? No problem. Handle the honky tonk's first ever Chili Cook-Off? In the bag. Vamp it up to charm a would-be developer into leaving Holiday, Texas for good?
...now there she might need a helping hand.
Enter Presley Walker: Holiday's own Cowboy Casanova and the perfect tutor for a good girl looking to go bad. He's got charm in spades, and he's always seemed like a terrible idea waiting to happen. But as Presley and Dixie work together to save their beloved hometown, these polar opposites might finally see the good in each other...if they can only learn to trust their hearts enough to fall.
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Dylann Crush writes contemporary romance with sizzle and sass. A romantic at heart, she loves her heroines spunky and her heroes super sexy. When she’s not dreaming up steamy storylines, she can be found sipping a margarita and searching for the best Tex-Mex food in Minnesota.
Although she grew up in Texas, she currently lives in a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul with her unflappable husband, three energetic kids, a clumsy Great Dane, a rescue mutt, and a very chill cat. She loves to connect with readers, other authors and fans of tequila.
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The Irish Myths behind the Deadly Force Series
Previously I wrote two blog posts about the history of the Fianna (here and here), the semi-mythical group of Irish warriors who inspired one of the villains in my contemporary romantic suspense Deadly Force series and introduced in my debut novel EVERY DEEP DESIRE.
The heroes in the series, all sexy ex-Green Berets, are desperate to redeem their honor and reclaim their lives. Yet in order to do so, they must defeat two enemies, one of whom is the leader of the secretive and brutal current-day Fianna army.
Since it's March (and almost St. Patrick's Day), I thought I'd give you a brief background on the mythic Gaelic warrior who led the Fianna long, long ago. Before Rome even invaded Britain. This warrior's name is Fionn MacCumhaill.
Fionn was the son of Cumhaill, the leader of the Fianna. The Fianna, a rogue group of young mercenary noblemen didn't own lands and lived on the edges of Irish civilization. They were nomadic warriors who traveled the country, often giving generously to those who had less than they did. Historians also suggest the Fianna knew the entrances to the Otherworld where the Faeries lived.
Fionn was born into violence. His father Cumhaill wanted to marry his mother Muirne who was a Druid. When her father refused, Cumhaill kidnapped Muirne. The High King of the time (Conn of the Hundred Battles) raised a huge army to save Muirne from the Fianna army. After many battles, a warrior named Goll MacMorna killed Cumhaill and took control of the Fianna.
Muirne, who'd given birth to Fionn, left her son in the care of the Fianna warrior Liath Luachra. She instructed Liath to care for Fionn and instruct him in the ways of the Fianna and warfare. She expected Fionn to grow up and take over control of the Fianna. After kissing her son goodbye, Muirne disappeared and was never heard from again.
As Fionn grew, he had a tutor named Finnegas. Finnegas was a Druid poet who'd searched the world for wisdom that he believed could only be found in the "Salmon of Knowledge." One day, while teaching Fionn to fish, Finnegas caught the magical salmon. But as Fionn cooked it, Fionn touched his fingers to his lips and was imbued with the knowledge Finnegas had spent his life searching for. Finnegas was not happy and curses followed.
Now armed with the wisdom of the world, Fionn was ready to fight Goll MacMorna and take over command of the Fianna. But first the Faeries who ruled the Gaelic Otherworld had to put Fionn through many tests. So Fionn traveled to Tara, the High Seat of the Kings of Ireland. There, he met a fierce female faery named Aillen. For 23 years, on every Samhain, Aillen scorched the earth and killed all of Tara's guards. Aillen lured the guards with drink and her singing voice until they slept. Then she'd destroy everything around her.
One of Fionn's tasks was to stop Aillen. Instead of listening to her voice, he pricked his hand with his sword, using the pain to keep himself awake and alert. When the guards fell asleep, and Aillen began to burn things, Fionn attacked and defeated her.
After this huge victory, Fionn returned to the Fianna and challenged Goll MacMorna. Goll knew that only a true noble--the true son of Cumhaill--could defeat Aillen and he stepped aside. Goll even returned Cumhaill's castle (the Hill of Almu) to Fionn.
Fionn and his Fianna army had many adventures, most of which included saving Ireland from invaders such as the Romans, the Picts, and the Vikings. They returned tax monies to the poor, and also demanded protection monies from the nobles. The Fianna army was loved, feared, and hated.
But (not surprisingly) most of the recorded stories are about Fionn's love life. His first love, Sadbh, argued with a Druid priest who turned her into a deer. Years later, while Fianna and his hounds were hunting, the dogs recognized the deer. In return for not killing the deer, she transformed back into his wife Sadbh and bore him a son named Oisin.
(After Fionn's death, Oisin would become an even more famous Fianna warrior.)
Unfortunately, the Druid priest learned that his spell had been broken and returned. He turned Sadbh back into a deer and she disappeared forever.
Fionn had little luck with women. Years later he was supposed to marry the daughter of a High King except she eloped with one of Fionn's Fianna warriors. Fionn found the lovers and allowed them to live. Yet, when the warrior was wounded by a boar, Fionn refused to use his healing powers and let the warrior die. Fionn had forgiven but not forgotten the insult.
The lives of Fionn and his son Oison were originally told in the Fenian Cycle of Irish Poetry (the third cycle of Irish Mythology) most of which is narrated from Oisin's POV. One of my favorite translations is Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry/Cuchulain of Muirthemne by William Butler Yeats. (Yes, that Yeats!)
Fionn's death is still unexplained and many poets believe that he was buried near Dublin and is waiting to rise again to save Ireland from any enemies who may invade.
Regardless of whether or not one believes Fionn MacCumhaill was real, his tales are fun to read. Especially in March when one's thoughts might turn to leprechauns and faeries!
Sharon Wray is a librarian who once studied dress design in the couture houses of Paris and now writes about the men in her Deadly Force romantic suspense series where ex-Green Berets meet their match in smart, sexy heroines who teach these alpha males that Grace always defeats Reckoning.
ONE DARK WISH, the second book in the Deadly Force Series is now available for preorder: Amazon
Sharon's acclaimed debut book EVERY DEEP DESIRE, a sexy, action-packed retelling of Romeo and Juliet, is about an ex-Green Beret determined to regain his honor, his freedom, and his wife.
EVERY DEEP DESIRE is available on: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | iBooks | IndieBound | Kobo | Google
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Podcasts Offer Potential for Advertisers
About 10 years ago, in June 2005, Apple began supporting podcasts through iTunes and the rest, as they say, is history. The popularity of podcasts has ebbed and flowed since then-most recently flowing as popular programs like Serial, NPRs Fresh Air and the TED Radio Hour attracting masses of listeners on a regular basis. Marketers haven’t been immune to the trend.While audio has, perhaps, been overshadowed by a rush to the development of video content over the past several years, savvy marketers haven’t overlooked the opportunities that podcasts present-both for spreading their messages to large audiences to promote products, services and cause, and for sponsorships (ads placed within the podcasts).
Lex Friedman, EVP of Sales for podcast firm Midroll Media says: “I think the growth of podcasting today is fueled by listeners who are eager to have something to latch onto that’s unfiltered and uncensored,” he says. “It’s sustainable because advertisers are appreciative of that kind of captive audience.”
Untapped Potential
Nate Teplow is marketing programs manager at Continuum Managed IT Services, with offices in Boston and Pittsburgh. Teplow is the host and producer of MSPradio and uses podcasts regularly in his marketing efforts. “I think podcasting is one of the most under-utilized channels in content marketing,” says Teplow. Podcasts, he says, provide an opportunity to reach new audiences who can listen to content while doing other things-e.g. driving to work, mowing the lawn or working out at the gym.
“No other content marketing channels can really compete with that,” he says. “They all require a user’s full attention to consume.” Additional benefits, he says, include a less cluttered marketing space for podcasts than, for example, for blog posts. In addition, he says, podcasts provide an opportunity for listener intimacy-there’s just something very personal about listening to the voice of the podcast host.
Friedman agrees. In fact, an element of success that Friedman points to for marketers is the value of having ads read by the podcast hosts themselves. This implied endorsement, and the trust the hosts have generated among their audiences, make consumers more likely to not only be attentive-but to take action. That means, of course, that podcasters need to be selective in choosing the products and services they choose to promote within their podcasts so as not to erode the trust they have built among their audience members. Listeners are, after all, the holy grail of successful podcasting. Without them podcasters don’t exist.
NPR Digital Services has done some experiments with podcasting to determine what really resonates with listeners. Eric Athas, with NPR, shared what they learned in a recent blog post. What resonates? These are the types of podcasts that NPR’s research suggest generate the most social shares:
Audio explainers. Helping to make sense of a news story for listeners.
A “whoa” sound-sounds that provide unique listening experiences. One example: the sound inside a hummingbird’s chirp, currently at about 77,000 downloads.
Storytellers-not just the subject of the story, but the way the story is told.
Snappy reviews-creative twists on the traditional review delivered in compelling sound bites.
Another big benefit for busy marketers is the speed and efficiency at which podcasts can be produced and ready for distribution. “We have a weekly half hour radio show,” says Teplow. “I spend about 30-45 minutes prepping questions and then 30-45 minutes recording and editing segments.” It’s content that can also be multi-purposed he notes. “We publish the podcast, post it to our blog, and we transcribe the recording, which comes out to over 5000 words per episode. That’s all quality content we can use for ebooks, white papers, future blogs, etc.
Podcasts Generate Results
Most importantly podcasts work as a marketing tool both for those distributing the content and for those placing advertisements within podcasts that target their audiences. Friedman says that there has been a definite surge in the popularity of podcasts over the past year. “We’re just seeing continued growth,” he says. In some cases, he says, downloads have doubled with hosts seeing hundreds of thousands of downloads per podcast episode.
Those numbers represent value for the podcaster-and for advertisers who wish to promote their products and services through popular podcasts, reaching niche audiences who tend to be highly engaged. “Over the past year we’ve worked with maybe 200 active advertisers on our shows,” says Friedman, who adds that renewal rates are more than 90%. For marketers the loyal listeners that high quality podcasts can provide is more than worth the effort say those who are already leveraging this high impact, low cost communication tool.
(This piece originally appeared in EContent Magazine.)
Tags: Brand Management, content management, content marketing, podcasting, podcasts, storytelling
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DAVID GRIER
From Laurel, Maryland. Lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
An award-winning flat-pick guitarist who has performed with The Doug Dillard Band, The Big Dogs (with Tony Trischka), Peter Rowan, The Country Gazette and other bands.
Son of Lamar Grier, banjo player with Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys in the late 60’s.
Influenced by Clarence and Roland White, who were family friends of the Griers.
Won his first guitar championship at age 11.
1991, recorded a duet album with mandolinist Mike Compton called Climbing the Walls .
1995-present, performs as a studio musician and solo artist. Also plays with a group called Psychograss.
1996, won his fourth IBMA award for Guitar Player of the Year (also won in 1992, 1993 and 1995).
1999 recorded an album with bassist Todd Phillips and mandolinist Matt Flinner: Todd Phillips, David Grier & Matt Flinner (Alliance Records).
2013, formed a band with Missy Raines (bass), Mike Compton (mandolin) and Shad Cobb (fiddle) called The Helen Highwater String Band.
RECOMMENDED ALBUMS:
Freewheeling (Rounder, 1991).
Lone Soldier (Rounder, 1995).
Panorama (Rounder, 1997)
Hootenanny (Rounder, 1998)
I’ve Got the House to Myself (Dreadnought, 2002)
Evocative (Dreadnought, 2009)
“Ways of the World” (Dreadnought, 2019)
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Umbrian wines
Ok, we live here, and we know Umbrian wines are fantastic. But we don’t expect you to take our word for it.
Robert Parker wrote in ‘The Wine Advocate’ issue 152:
"... Montefalco Rosso, which shows much Sangiovese redcurrant fruit and floral notes on the nose and a firm, ample, and ripe palate, has an important continuity from the attack to the solid finish. "
He also wrote in issue 164:
"... Montefalco Sagrantino, warm, ripe, and intense, offers raspberry fruit and an important spiciness in a packed and mouth-filling format, dense and solid in its flow and with a rising warmth, amplitude, and breadth on the finish. It will easily last another 15 years."
Here’s what’s written on page 243 of Dorling Kindersley’s Wines of the World (2006):
"The beefy entry level Montefalco Rosso DOC is an earthy-tasting wine which these days is often softened by a drop of Merlot. One step up, there is also a full-bodied Rosso Riserva which delivers the authentic Central Italy wood-aged style at a fraction of the cost of its Tuscan counterparts."
The superstar, however, is the immensely powerful Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG. Sagrantino is a grape variety which grows only in this corner of Umbria.
It is a wine with a heady aroma of blackberries and toffee apple, and with massive tannins that need at least three or four years to mellow, especially since the top producers give their wines the full new oak treatment.
And this is from Gambero Rosso (2009) Slow Food Edition’s section on Italian Wines regarding one particular Sagrantino di Montefalco:
"The ’05 growing year has produced a wine that alternates very complex nuances of forest fruits with earthiness and refined spices. The palate unfolds confident and tangy, showing breadth, unrivalled depth and perfect tannins. This is a Sagrantino with balance and refinement, stamped by its territory of origin and also by a truly distinctive style."
And this from the same book, in 2008:
"...a marvellous interpretation of the variety that is almost stunning for its bouquet, packed with blackberry tightly wrapped in pungent, balsam-like medicinal herbs and lush spices. The palate fulfils that promise: spacious and deep, dense-packed yet dynamic, with a ultra-luxe skein of tannins. Still young, of course, it will reveal its true soul down the years...."
My Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG hasn’t been opened yet (but it will be very soon). Uhm, do you want to taste it?
at Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Hampers said...
Thanks for the research and review on this. I’ve seen it in the store and can feel better about buying it!
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Rustic reflections
Take the first step towards buying your Italian pr...
Searching for wild asparagus in Umbria
Old lady leaning out of window!
Restoring luxury property in Umbria, grand idea!
Buying and renting a property in Italy
The world owes a lot to General Garibaldi
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Dying Light: The Following (Xbox One)
By subverting Dying Light’s verticality, Techland reaches new heights.
When I reviewed Dying Light a year ago, I talked about its simple first rule: don’t touch the floor. A zombie survival game with a difference, Dying Light was less about combat than speed and evasion. Its unique free running motif had protagonist Kyle Crane clambering on and jumping between buildings, only venturing down to street level as a last, dangerous resort. So in its new expansion, The Following, I have to ask: where did all the buildings go? Continue reading “Dying Light: The Following (Xbox One)”
Farcry Primal (Xbox One, Video)
Hello everyone and welcome back to another of my video reviews, it’s the longest one yet!
Far Cry Primal was reviewed with a download code of the Xbox One edition, provided by Xbox.
Hitman GO (PS4)
“Poseidon is gentle with us today” Giuseppe called to his son who busied himself with untangling the nets. He had not been a young man when his wife blessed him with their only son,
but he felt only gratitude that the boy was now of an age to help out on the boat. Arthritis made even the most mundane tasks a painful chore, a reminder that there is some discomfort even in paradise.
As if on cue, the boy sat back in the stern, sweating from the exertion of wrestling with the sodden nets and pointed out over the azure sea to the blackened silhouette of the island, “What is that island, papa?” cried the boy. Giuseppe paused for a moment before answering “My son, that is hell in paradise.”
The terrible tales told by fathers to sons about the island would have given pause even to mighty Odysseus. No Siren or Cyclops dwelt there though and only the irregular walls of a villa piercing the skyline hinted at human habitation. To the locals they looked like nothing less than broken teeth, the lower jaw of some infernal beast. For all the fantasy though, the locals knew that their stories hid a worse terror still.
“What have I done to deserve such generosity?”
Though he stood on the villa’s highest balcony, Don Rosario did not notice the fishing boat below, instead he was ruminating as to why Ennio had not patrolled the courtyard during the past ten minutes. Not for the first time did he feel a pang of regret at the laziness of sons-in-law employed out of generosity – that fannullone was probably asleep in a flower-bed.
Don Rosario was robbed of the opportunity to pursue the thought further as the strains of Ave Maria drifted from the bedroom, interrupting his thoughts. He loathed these sentimental old hymns but his wife adored them so he generally had little choice but to suppress his discomfort. Strange he thought, he was sure he’d heard his wife leave ten minutes earlier.
He returned to scowling at the courtyard, though even investigating the bedroom would probably not have saved his life. Agent 47 had committed to the kill and stepped silently out of the doorway and briefly reflected that Don Rosario was so vain a man that he’d probably appreciate being assassinated by a killer in a brushed wool Tom Ford coat with eight buttons and an ulster collar. However, he could not allow the Don the luxury of appreciating such elegance as with practiced ease he slipped a yellow scarf around the neck of the hapless Mafioso, a carefully placed knot crushing his larynx in seconds.
…and this is the verve and art of the Hitman series which distils so well into the format of a deceptively simple puzzle game. This is, however, not your daddy’s version of Go, the black and white stones of the ancient Chinese original giving way to playing pieces depicting a variety of henchmen and assorted toughs. While the original Go features even more winning variations than chess, Hitman Go presents only a handful of ways to beat each level, with extra points available for completing various optional tasks along the way such as collecting a briefcase or…er…not killing any dogs.
I killed everyone in PETA with my nine-millimetre
So if we don’t got Go, then what do we got? Not just the distillation of Hitman but also the essential form of many a ‘proper’ stealth game, the majority of which already operate like elaborate board games. Wait for baddie-A to move out of the eyeline of baddie-B and then move from hiding place to kill baddie-A and chuck his body down a well.
Hitman Go is just all of that without the fluff: A turn-based board game with the aim in each level being to reach the exit or bump off some poor chap who’s clearly narked the wrong people. The bad-guys are the aforementioned assorted toughs who have an idiosyncratic way of moving depending on their type. Blue-jacketed bruisers face stoically in one direction, dog-handlers pursue you relentlessly once they have sight of you and even snipers crisis-cross the playing area with them laser-scopey things that I can’t remember the name of.
Trip Advisor rates this park as ‘quite stabby’ ***
Agent 47 isn’t quite defenceless though as carelessly littered around each level are silenced pistols, sniper rifles and rocks and tin-cans which distract the enemy when thrown. Before you go away thinking that this is a gun-feast after all and not suitable for children, elderly relatives or the clergy, be advised that this is an entirely bloodless affair. Hitman Go doesn’t just play like a board game, but it looks like one too. Each level looks like a specially-constructed diorama, populated by charming hand-painted figurines. When Agent 47 does rub out one of his foes, their playing piece simply gets yanked from the board and set down at the side.
The commitment to a cohesive look and feel for the game is admirable and complemented throughout by some surprisingly soothing noodley xylophone music.
“Mama-Mia! I should’na had-a the fish!”
The game definitely loses something in its transition from mobile platforms though, where the touch-controls were a perfect fit, as was the ‘one quick go on the bus’ gameplay. The game felt sizeable on mobile, so I was surprised to romp through the whole thing in four hours on console (although it’ll take me a good while longer to achieve 100% completion). Sitting down with a console is more of a time commitment so inevitably it’s not a game with great longevity on this format.
Still, while it lasts it’s a relatively unique experience and the puzzles have just the right tension between frustrating and simple to prompt repeated attempts. Just don’t be tempted to use the ‘Hint’ option and render a short game even shorter.
8/10 Polonium-fresh
Hitman GO was reviewed with a download code of the PS4 edition, provided by Dead Good Media.
Rocket League (Xbox One, Video)
Hello everyone and welcome back to another of my video reviews!
Rocket League was reviewed with a download code of the Xbox One edition, provided by Danielle Gaming PR.
Unravel (Xbox One)
Looking cute is no defence from a harsh world.
Presented as a cutesy platformer in the vein of Little Big Planet, Unravel isn’t what it first appears. While its hero is a child’s toy crafted from wool, the world that Yarny inhabits quickly eschews any infantile cavorting. An initial sense of playfulness (climbing oversized furniture; swinging between window boxes and sunflowers) gives way to something unremittingly bleak.
Continue reading “Unravel (Xbox One)”
Agatha Christie’s ABC Murders (Xbox One)
Agatha Christie’s ABC murders is a game released by Microids on PS4, Xbox One and PC/MAC. I played the Xbox One version. I will say that a big reason I reviewed this game was because I’m a huge fan of Agatha Christie’s Belgian creation Hercule Poirot, for many years I have loved David Suchet’s portrayal of this beloved character. I also love police/crime procedurals in general, Sherlock Holmes, Criminal Minds, Murder She Wrote and many more, you put a mystery or a seemingly unsolvable crime in front of me and I will watch it for hours, really hours, I have watched entire seasons of the stuff in one sitting (thanks Netflix). I was however a little nervous that because of this love that the game would not live up to my expectations. I was half right.
We begin the game in the famous Whitehaven Mansions where we meet Poirot and Hastings, I was not entirely happy with this introduction, Poirot who is known for being vain and particular about his appearance and that of his apartment appeared to be sitting at a rough wooden table in a room with an equally rough wooden floor. I mean this is Poirot, the man who habitually dusts things off with a handkerchief before sitting down! As the game progressed I did eventually get over this disappointing first impression and the rest of the apartment did look much better but it was not an auspicious beginning.
The game looks a bit like borderlands crossed with both the art nouveau and art deco periods which I felt was slightly strange, the colour palette seemed too strong and harsh. Poirot himself looked the part and the other characters weren’t too bad, Hastings and Japp seemed to be the weakest visually but that could have been because I am used to seeing the characters portrayed by Hugh Fraser and Philip Jackson respectively. The other characters seemed fine, though the possible main antagonist was way too obvious with dark shadows under his eyes, Ben even remarked when he was watching me play the game “oh that’s the bad guy then!”. The sound design was very peculiar, one character, a vegetable seller that Poirot questions sounded like the voice had been recorded in a train station or next to a road. The rest of the voices were better, a bit lacking in enthusiasm perhaps but then most of them have just had a loved one murdered!
The interaction between the characters was fairly believable, again it appeared the Poirot had the most time spent on him and felt mostly right, he was witty, vain and used random french words as you would expect. His french accent however caused me a few problems when he was pronouncing english words, they sounded strange and made Poirot appear uneducated, something that is clearly untrue. Hastings was good and Poirot’s fondness for his friend was certainly apparent but it was all a bit lackluster and Japp was just terrible, agreeing with everything Poirot suggested leaving no opportunity for Poirot to shoot off any witty observations, all the character and charm seemed to have been sucked out of their interactions. This was especially disappointing for me as the Poirot/Japp relationship as slightly antagonistic friends can be very funny and would have made Japp appear less like a simpering idiot..
The actual gameplay was strange, moving Poirot around with one thumbstick and moving the cursor equivalent (a circle) around with the other. The main issue I have is with the solving of the puzzles that make up a significant portion of the game, they are clunky and took me out of the story, did the entire population of england hide their secrets in puzzle boxes and secret compartments with elaborate opening mechanisms? Not only this but none of them could remember themselves how to open them and conveniently left clues for themselves laying around! I will admit solving puzzles like this is not my favourite pastime and this may have biased me against the mechanic, but I still feel that the amount of these puzzles in the game was excessive.
I also felt that the clue mechanic that was supposed to help you was half-assed. I tried it on a couple of occasions and instead of getting Poirot to suggest something helpful in a contextual humourous manner it just solved the first part of any puzzle for you, again taking you out of the experience. If I need a clue I am already frustrated and simply solving a part of it for me is going to annoy me even more. If anything the clue mechanic needed to be more complex, perhaps with several options or levels of “clues”, others might just want the answer but this just aggravated me, If I am playing as the world famous Belgian detective having the answer handed to me does not help the little grey cells!
I enjoyed the actual story and the questioning of the witnesses, one of my favorite parts of the game was using the famous “little grey cells” which in this instance is turned into a fun mini game in which you have to select various clues that you have gathered to come to the correct conclusions. Playing as Poirot himself was also very enjoyable, I loved exploring and finding clues (annoying puzzles notwithstanding) and Poirot’s little comments to himself and the player were well, very Poirot!
I did enjoy this game, I got to be Poirot after all! But the various annoyances and oddities did draw me out of the experience more times than I would have liked.
Agatha Christie’s ABC Murders was reviewed with a download code of the Xbox One edition, provided by Microsoft Xbox
Virtual Humanity Part One: Despair
(This is an amended version of the original article which appeared on BXB before the server took a shit all over itself. Edits have been made in order to decrapify certain crappening elements and are not meant to hinder your enjoyment or lack thereof)
A couple of weeks ago, I vouchsafed the following unsolicited opinion to a stranger: “Art, it’s what separates us from the animals innit?”
The stranger quickly hurried away, which is unusual because loudly challenging the opinions of drunken strangers is what make our English public houses the vibrant and thrilling places that they are..
If the stranger had really put some thought into it, he might have argued that I was talking bollocks. Marine ecologist Carl Safina would certainly have agreed – in a recent TED lecture he recounted an example of a man watching dolphins in an aquarium whilst smoking a cigarette. One young dolphin observed him for a while before returning to its mother to nurse. Later on, the dolphin approached the man and spewed out a cloud of milk which resembled smoke enveloping the dolphin’s head. Safina said that the name we give for our own attempts to represent the world we see around us is ‘Art’. He further stated that, “There are capacities of the human mind which we tend to think are only of the human mind.”
If art doesn’t prove a meaningful difference between you and your pet budgie, then what does? In the early years of this century, there seemed to be a rolling argument in the gaming press about whether there had ever been a truly ‘mature’ video game. I’m reasonably sure that neither side of the debate meant that Sonic the Hedgehog should get his nob out once in a while, but rather that there should be games based around specifically adult situations. While Super Car Downpayment Simulator never really took off, many were drawn to the heady delights of waiting for a bus and the frolics of getting a job in Shenmue. Such a discussion seems old hat now, but if we can now agree that the market is awash with definitely mature content, can we similarly agree on a game with specifically human content? Of course, Ken the Budgie is going to struggle with Street Fighter V, but the Street Fighter series is one of the most animalistic of all – telling stories of simple, violent struggle. In this series of features , I’m going to ask whether there has ever been a game which speaks to human experience in the same way that any number of great movies and works of literature do. Do games separate us from the animals? Has there ever been a truly existential game?
“Hadooouuuuken!”
Last week I placed my pre-order for This War Of Mine: The Little Ones largely because I was so enthralled with the first one. Reviews have been generally, but not uniformly positive. Our editor Ben noted that it’s not a game about ‘fun’ and that it could possibly be classed as edutainment. That some reviewers do not find TWOM:TLO to be an enjoyable experience does not surprise me in the least, and I thank them for their honesty. After all, the first game met with almost universal acclaim – surprising for a title which flies in the face of what has made gaming an enjoyable pastime since – well, since gaming has been a thing.
Moving away from the idea of a fun quotient, let’s do the science bit. Gaming is supposed to be a pleasurable activity, particularly games which involve some degree of direct competition. When you’re grabbing points, flags, territory of just bragging rights over another player, several things are happening within your noggin. Certain parts of the brain associated with pleasure, such as the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex are activated and there is an increase in the release of dopamine. Dopamine is best understood as ‘the pleasure chemical’. Behaviour which elicits some sort of reward has a similar effect on the brain to amphetamines and encourages repetition of that behaviour which is why crack is (to borrow a phrase) very ‘moreish’, and it’s also why people play Call of Duty until their marriages collapse.
Do animals enjoy gaming? Search ‘games for cats’ on the AppStore and you’ll quickly be disabused of any notion to the contrary.
What, you thought I was joking?
The rewards of games are very meagre compared to – say – food and sex, which is why they fall into the category of ‘secondary rewards’. Yet, the pull towards secondary rewards can be as great as towards more fundamental ones which is why people occasionally drop dead because they played Warcraft to the exclusion of all other things. Yep, all that time you spent grabbing loot in Diablo III or stockpiling increasingly devastating weapons in Borderlands was having a similar effect on your brain as a rail of coke or a really good meal. However, This War Of Mine was (for me and others) not a pleasurable experience on that order of magnitude.
If you’ve played the original game, then I’m going to tell you a very familiar tale. Everyone in my house spent all their time crippled with depression or injury and I did terribly questionable things to survive, skirting an ever-present game-over scenario. Why did I persist in it? Because what the game does is dangle the carrot that X will improve if only Y can be achieved.
If I could get the doors secure then there’ll be less bandit raids.
If I make some animal traps, we’ll never go hungry again.
If I could get the house warm, no-one will get sick again.
It’s no spoiler to suggest that none of these things are true. Whenever you focus on one thing in TWOM (and TWOM:TLO) you’re neglecting something else. The game gets harder in obvious ways but in subtler ways too. To begin with you’ll find yourself scavenging from deserted buildings but later on the richest pickings come from places which are inhabited by downright unfriendly locals. Soon the choice becomes one of tackling the baddies head-on or pilfering from innocents. The latter option feels so awful because most players tend to make very moral choices when playing games (an examination of the choices most people made while playing Telltale’s The Walking Dead is proof enough of that), precisely because the game reinforces a normal internal narrative that we are essentially good people who want to do our best.
When you play TWOM, a great deal of pleasure is derived from hope. Hope that you’ll be able to accumulate the goods you need, that you’ll get better at fending off attacks and hope that you’ll make it through to the end of the conflict. Surely it’s hope then that differentiates us from the beasts of the field?
Disappointingly, that’s not it either. The ‘Reward System’ of the brain consists of more bits than it would be interesting to list. What’s important about the concept of ‘reward’ in neuroscience is that the harder someone works for something, the more they enjoy it and this is known as the ‘hedonic impact’. Doubly interesting is that this ‘enjoying’ is unaffected even when dopamine systems are blocked. Wanting is as enjoyable as having in this scenario, which might explain why a difficult game such as TWO-I’m sick of acronyms, which has limited possibility of any reward is still a pleasurable experience.
Animals know this too. Edward L Thorndike, rewarded cats who escaped a maze with food but found that even when he removed the possibility of food, they enjoyed escaping the maze. Try it at home!
Cats in a maze.
Yet, there are two aspects of TWOM:TMWRNJ which I believe do exemplify uniquely human qualities, and I’ve already hinted at the first: Hope in the face of certain tragedy. First time I played it, I genuinely believed that I was playing a typical Roguelike in that the only outcome was a death which – at best – I might be able to stave off for a while.
This is a game which will grind you down, thwart all of your hopes, present you with impossible moral conundrums and most likely the best you’ll get out of it is the Game Over screen. Yet, Roguelikes are big business, enjoying a massive renaissance on iOS in the past few years.
If you give a crawfish electric shocks every time it leaves a cave (and this experiment has been done), soon enough it doesn’t want to leave its cave any more. If you hit a cat on the head with a spoon every time it escaped a maze, it either wouldn’t bother or would only do so in order to wrest the spoon from your grasp and do you up like a kipper.
The second is the strangely edifying sensation of despair. Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher opined that we should rejoice in our despair because it was proof that we were more than just physical matter. As nothing impermanent can suffer because it always has the hope of escape via death, then only the soul which can never die can suffer the “Sickness unto death” known as despair.
Yes, we hope in the face of impossible odds but even with that hope withdrawn, we persist regardless.
Does this make us masochists? I’d say not. My own doctor said – on the subject of smoking – that we overestimate fortune and underestimate tragedy. This is why we blithely smoke cigarettes which carry many high risks to health but also play the lottery with only a negligible chance of success.
It is a uniquely human trait to hope for the best when all else seems lost. It’s how Vincent Cochetel mentally and emotionally survived 317 days as a hostage of Chechen separatists, despite torture and seemingly-certain execution. It’s how people still go on living in places like Homs in Syria which now eerily resembles the ruins of Washington from ‘Fallout 3’.
Animals do not have the notion that they can end their own suffering through suicide, humans do and yet in the face of death, destruction and deprivation of liberty, the majority continue to yearn for a better day. This is the despair and humanity of This War Of Mine, something your budgie will never understand.
Darkest Dungeon Review (PC)
Darkest Dungeon is a hell of a game.
I’m pretty confident in saying that Darkest Dungeon is one the most focussed pieces of game design I have played in the last decade. Continue reading “Darkest Dungeon Review (PC)”
Firewatch (PC)
What makes a person take a job that isolates them from society for months at a time? This question is asked, rather pointedly, moments into your first taste of the melancholic and thoughtful world of Firewatch, the debut game from Campo Santo.
As the player you already know the real answer, of course. A rather beautiful opening sequence takes you through a series of key events in the life of your character, Henry, in a style reminiscent of a Twine game. It’s a brave and unusual opening, from a brave and unusual game, and remarkably effective. Almost immediately a bond is formed with Henry, as brief snippets of text fade into view, accompanied by music and appropriate ambient sound effects. It’s one of the strongest openings I’ve seen in a game in a long time, and it’s hard not to feel moved as Henry’s touching back story reveals itself.
The meat of the game concerns Henry taking a job as a fire lookout in a national park in Wyoming, an apparently real job that entails living alone in a tower and staring out of the window for 3 months looking out for fires or fire hazards. It’s lonely and quiet work, which gives the player a lot of time for wondering off on their own, exploring their surroundings and enjoying stunning views of the environment around them.
The game also gets good value out of its central conceit. It’s your first day on the job, which lets your boss handle a lot of tutorial dialogue without it seeming strange or forced. The game slowly reveals itself in a very natural and comfortable way, gradually unfurling your primary means of interaction and establishing a tone and setting that really get under your skin. The wilds of Wyoming are truly beautiful, with just enough sense of wilderness to reinforce the isolated sense of loneliness and exposure that the game delivers so well.
Of course, it goes with saying that visually this game is stunning! Many games have offered the user a camera to record their favourite moments for posterity, but Firewatch is probably the most natural home this mechanic has ever found. It’s hard to walk twenty steps in this glorious environment without something wonderful, some new vista that triggers an irresistible urge to start snapping away, and each foray out into the wilderness that the game sends you on seems to take place at a different time of day, shifting the lighting and the tone to breathe new life into familiar territory.
Also of note is some pitch perfect sound design, with sparing but beautifully placed snatches of haunting music, and a meticulously detailed soundscape that immerses the player perfectly into the world around them. Meticulous attention to detail is present at every turn, as footstep sounds match the terrain perfectly, wooden beams creak in the wind and birdsong intensifies at dawn and dusk.
Mechanically there is a passing whiff of “Metroidvania” to the core game mechanics, as the player slowly gathers up a number of new tools, some of which provide new interaction options with the world. Additionally the player’s own familiarity with their surrounding grants them greater range of movement, as they learn new cut-throughs and short-cuts to assist their navigation of what initially seems an overwhelmingly confusing and large area of land, but quickly becomes very manageable. Some of the later tools seem somewhat under-utilised, with one in particular only seeming to really be used once in the entire game, but still they provide a useful sense of progression and add to the player’s feeling of growing mastery over the world around them.
After the first few early jaunts into the surrounding landscape, that function as much as an extended tutorial as anything else, a proper narrative thread emerges, and the player is plunged into an intriguing mystery. The story is paced well, and delivered excellent through some truly stand-out writing and voice acting, but still I found myself wishing I could just have carried on as a forest ranger doing mundane tasks for a little longer. The urgency that the story adds to proceedings is wonderfully executed, and surely this sense of my paradise being shattered is part of the intention of the writer, but I still resented the way it constricted my options. It feels like the game loses some of its early freedom at this point, as the player is railroaded slightly into moving from event to event.
Nevertheless, the plot is a strong one, and had me on the edge of my seat wondering how everything was going to resolve itself. In fact, Firewatch was cruising to “classic” status in my mind right up until the final few minutes, when frustratingly all the intrigue and confusion of the central storyline just burned away to nothing. Several new locations seem to pass in a blur and the story ends abruptly in a disappointing denouement that manages to be both implausible and unsatisfyingly mundane. Several loose ends are left hanging in this finale, which after the excellent writing that characterised most of the game makes me genuinely wonder if the developers simply ran out of money and had to rush out a slightly different ending to the one they had initially planned.
However, despite this profoundly disappointing destination, the journey through Firewatch remains a pretty remarkable experience, and one that I would recommend to anyone on the fence. I would have happily just worked as a lookout for another 3 months of game time without any narrative popping up at all, just chilling out in the canyon, enjoying the back and forth banter with Delilah, stomping out the occasional campfire and picking up litter for the entire time. That’s surely a mark of how successful this game is as an example of world-building. Fittingly, like the conflagrations you are supposed to be preventing, Firewatch ends in a bit of a mess, but while it burns, it’s really rather beautiful.
Firewatch was reviewed with a download code of the PC edition, provided by Campo Santo
Homefront: The Revolution – first impressions
Homefront is beta than I thought.
The closed beta of Homefront: The Revolution commenced last week. For most, this will have been the first hands-on experience with the long-gestating first person shooter. Saved from the ashes of a bankrupt THQ some years ago, expectations have not been high. But you know what? It’s actually alright. Continue reading “Homefront: The Revolution – first impressions”
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WORK COMMENCES ON 46 HOMES FOR SOCIAL RENT IN DUMBARTON
CCG has started work on 46 affordable homes in Dumbarton.
The homes – all for social rent – are on Talisman Avenue, in Westcliff, and are being built for Cube Housing Association, part of Wheatley Group.
Work on the homes started in January and they should be ready by early 2020.
The development, part-funded by the Scottish Government, is a mix of one and two-bedroom flats and three and four-bedroom semi-detached houses.
David Fletcher, Wheatley Group Director of Development, said:
“These new homes are just part of our ambitious plans to build more than 350 affordable homes in West Dunbartonshire in partnership with the council.”
CCG use ‘offsite’ methods of construction to ensure quality standards are met whilst an enhanced building fabric delivers enhanced levels of environmental performance, generating long-term energy savings for future residents.
CCG Chairman and CEO, Alastair Wylie, said:
“It is a pleasure for CCG to commence one of our first affordable housing projects of the year with Wheatley Group, where we are bringing much-needed, energy efficient homes to Dumbarton. We look forward to progressing this project with the organisation, amongst others, throughout 2019.”
Wheatley Group and CCG’s commitment to community benefit initiatives will also ensure that access to new job, training and apprenticeship opportunities will be made for the Dumbarton community as well as the provision of local and charitable investment.
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The Animal Tree of Life
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08 Mar The Animal Tree of Life
There’s an interesting paper in Nature on animal phylogeny. The authors take an EST approach adding multi-gene data for 11 new animal phyla and increasing data for others.
Dunn et al. “Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life” Nature. Published online 5 March 2008 doi:10.1038/nature06614
Abstract: Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have recently been upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights from molecular data. These new hypotheses include a clade of moulting animals (Ecdysozoa) and the close relationship of the lophophorates to molluscs and annelids (Lophotrochozoa). Many relationships remain disputed, including those that are required to polarize key features of character evolution, and support for deep nodes is often low. Phylogenomic approaches, which use data from many genes, have shown promise for resolving deep animal relationships, but are hindered by a lack of data from many important groups. Here we report a total of 39.9 Mb of expressed sequence tags from 29 animals belonging to 21 phyla, including 11 phyla previously lacking genomic or expressed-sequence-tag data. Analysed in combination with existing sequences, our data reinforce several previously identified clades that split deeply in the animal tree (including Protostomia, Ecdysozoa and Lophotrochozoa), unambiguously resolve multiple long-standing issues for which there was strong conflicting support in earlier studies with less data (such as velvet worms rather than tardigrades as the sister group of arthropods), and provide molecular support for the monophyly of molluscs, a group long recognized by morphologists. In addition, we find strong support for several new hypotheses. These include a clade that unites annelids (including sipunculans and echiurans) with nemerteans, phoronids and brachiopods, molluscs as sister to that assemblage, and the placement of ctenophores as the earliest diverging extant multicellular animals. A single origin of spiral cleavage (with subsequent losses) is inferred from well-supported nodes. Many relationships between a stable subset of taxa find strong support, and a diminishing number of lineages remain recalcitrant to placement on the tree.
They show that more data increases support for some nodes and resolves ambiguities at others. More data is always a good thing I guess. Unless that is you are being tortured with systematic biases. I notice that they don’t include either Caenorhabditis species. There have been discussions before that rhabditid sequences may be atypical of most nematodes and lead to long branch artifacts. Most of this involves rDNA sequences which seem to evolve quickly in C.elegans and relatives. The other influence of C. elegans on systematics is the still ongoing debate about the validity of ecdysozoa. Papers to me seem to fall into two broad camps. (1) Those that take a small number of taxa for a lot of genes (whole genomes). These usually reject ecdysozoa. (2) Those that take more taxa, necessarily with fewer loci. These tend to support ecdysozoa. It seems that class 2 can incorporate more than a hundred loci and still support ecdysozoa, suggesting that a lack of signal is not to blame (Philippe et al 2005). This seems to indicate the presence of systematic biases in class 1 datasets and the finger of blame points to C. elegans. It has been suggested that there are fast and slow nematodes and slow are much better to include in phylogenies of animals (Aguinaldo et al 1997).
The authors suggest that for some taxa whose positions are unstable in their tree (Rotifera, Bryozoa, Gnathostomulida) “improved taxon sampling may be the most promising strategy for resolving their positions”. I’ve worked on 2 of these 3 phyla and most people have never even heard of them. Perhaps much more attention needs to be paid to less familiar animal groups. Animals selected for sequencing partly by smallness of genomes (C. elegans, D. melanogaster?) are often not suitable to describe genome structure in all animals (e.g. Raible et al 2005).
Aguinaldo et al. Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature (1997) vol. 387 (6632) pp. 489-93
Philippe et al. Multigene analyses of bilaterian animals corroborate the monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia. Mol Biol Evol (2005) vol. 22 (5) pp. 1246-53
Raible et al. Vertebrate-type intron-rich genes in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Science (2005) vol. 310 (5752) pp. 1325-6
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Chris Hemsworth & Jessica Chastain on Injecting Jokes into ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’
by Tommy Cook April 21, 2016
They also reveal their favorite fantasy films and the importance of not getting boxed into one genre.
‘The Huntsman Winter’s War’: First Look at Jessica Chastain, Chris Hemsworth in Spinoff
by Dave Trumbore November 17, 2015
The spin-off film from Universal's 'Snow White and the Huntsman' also gets a new title and an official synopsis on the road to its opening date of April 22, 2016.
THE HUNTSMAN Sequel: More Villains, Less Dwarves, No Snow White
by Allison Keene January 28, 2015
So who IS still in this movie?
Kristen Stewart Confirms Return for SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Sequel
by Dave Trumbore December 21, 2012
As Universal plans to move forward with their Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, it appears as though Kristen Stewart will return to reprise her title role. The status of the cast and crew of the sequel has been up …
Ashley Greene Eyes SATANIC; Wendi McLendon-Covey to Star in Tyler Perry’s SINGLE MOM’S CLUB; Kristen Stewart Says…
by Brendan Bettinger November 8, 2012
A few casting updates: Ashley Greene is in talks to join Haley Bennett in Satanic (formerly known as Kristy), a horror movie about a group of college students who are attacked in their dormitory over Thanksgiving break. Wendi McLendon-Covey is …
Universal Moves Forward with Sequel to SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
by Dave Trumbore June 7, 2012
While Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman continues to battle for more box office earnings, Universal is already moving forward with the sequel. With the “origin” story in the Snow White franchise thus set up, it only goes to …
David Koepp May Write SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Sequel; Rupert Sanders Expected to Direct
by Adam Chitwood April 27, 2012
In keeping with the trend of studios jumping the gun on potential franchises, Universal is looking to get a script going for a sequel to this summer’s Snow White and the Huntsman. The studio is apparently already in discussions with …
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A Father's Influence Extends to Generations
by Rev. Mark Creech - (AgapePress)
BRAHAM HAD GONE to Egypt because of a famine. His wife Sarah was a stunningly attractive woman and Abraham was deeply concerned someone might attempt to kill him to obtain her. So he instructed Sarah to say she was his sister.
It was a half-truth because she actually was Abraham's half-sister. But a half truth is a whole lie, and using such sophistry only leads to a deeper morass. Thinking Sarah was Abraham's sister, she was taken into Pharaoh's house, which brought the curse of God on the potentate and his kingdom until he returned her to Abraham. The occasion was not only a moment lost for an effective witness to the living God, but evidently had a negative impact on Isaac, Abraham's son.
Several years later, during another famine that occurred when Isaac was a grown man and had a wife, whose name was Rebekah; Isaac stayed in Gerar and was encountered by the king of the Philistines, Abimelech. Isaac, like his father before him, was frightened he might be killed so that his attractive wife could be taken from him. Thus, he instructed his wife to use the same lie his father had instructed Sarah, his mother, to use. Fortunately, God intervened when Abimelech inadvertently spied Isaac embracing Rebekah in a way that clearly demonstrated she wasn't his sister. Abimelech called Isaac on the carpet about the matter and told him that not only was his lie unfair in that it could have brought trouble on the Philistine kingdom, but it was unnecessary. Abimelech then issued an order that anyone that touched either Isaac or his wife should be put to death.
Is it any wonder that when Jacob, Isaac's son, came onto the scene, he was an accomplished liar? For years Jacob would spin an impressive web of deceit, as well become the victim of other people's lies, until God broke the cycle in a wrestling match He had with the patriarch.
At a 1994 Promise Keepers Conference in Denton, Texas, Pastor James Ryle explained how the sins of the fathers are often visited upon the children.
When he was two years old, Ryle's father was sent to prison. When he was 7, authorities placed him in an orphanage. At age 19, he was in a car accident that killed a friend. Ryle sold drugs to raise money to pay his legal fees until the law caught up to him. He was arrested, charged with a felony, and sent to prison.
While in prison Ryle turned to Christ. After serving his time, he eventually went into the ministry. Years later he sought out his father to reconcile with him. When they got together, the conversation turned to prison life.
James's father asked, "Which prison were you in?"
James told him, and his father was taken aback. "I helped build that prison," he said. He had been a welder who went from place to place building penitentiaries.
Pastor Ryle concluded, "I was in a prison my father built."
How amazing that a father's example can build a blessed place for his children to live. Or, it can build a prison.
Ronald Kessler, in his book The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded, records Kennedy's booze-running days during prohibition, his association with the mafia, his Wall Street insider trading, his philandering, his unprincipled manipulations, and his hunger for power. He asserts that Joe Kennedy purchased votes for his son, John F. Kennedy, during his political career. After John won the presidential race in 1960, Kessler says that Joe instructed John to appoint his brother Bobby as attorney general. In 1961, Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke. For the next eight years, he would watch helplessly, unable to walk or talk, as one tragedy after another destroyed the kingdom he had by unscrupulous means built for his sons.
In Exodus 20:5 God says, "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
The text certainly doesn't mean God will punish the children for their father's sins, except when they perpetuate them and when the sins committed involve certain social and physical consequences. But more interesting is that the text says God's mercy transcends His wrath, and His blessings extend to those who love and obey Him unto a thousand generations.
W. Eugene Spears, Jr., in Faith of our Families admonishes:
"Children are either growing like a weed or a rose today. The weeds just happen without any planning and they struggle to mature without proper training .... Seldom do they experience the comradeship and the partnership of their father. Seldom do his loving arms surround their shoulders and strengthen them on the straight path. Seldom do they share their ideas and ideals with a father who listens and loves and longs to enliven. Seldom do they hear God's Word in the home, and seldom do they share in family prayer. No wonder these orphan children grow up to be warped, wasted weeds!
But thanks be to God, there are some parents who grow Christian roses .... Some fathers do become the companion, the guide and the confident of their children. In the deepest sense, some fathers are shining examples of their Heavenly Father. Through them, the child learns that God is masterful, God is moral, and God is merciful. In these homes, the children mature and blossom as a radiant rose."
There's no escaping it. Dads either build a place of blessing for their children, or they build a prison. They either grow weeds -- or roses. Whatever the case, their influence extends to generations.
Rev. Mark H. Creech (calact@aol.com) is the executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc.
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Abdolmartin
Posts posted by Abdolmartin
How much would the rights cost To CMA
in Combat Mission Afghanistan
If that were happening, I'd pay double or triple the standard price of CM games for it.
New on Combat Mission
in Combat Mission Red Thunder
I think there's a lively realtime community over at CMBS, especially people who play Russia.
Tips for adjusting to this game
Thanks John, both for the detailed explanation and the link.
Stalingrad - Decent into Hell
Oh my God, did Bunning survive?
Yeah, that's how immersed I became in the story. Perfectly done.
Artillery is underpowered against vehicles
in Combat Mission Black Sea
@CptMiller Thanks for the video and the information. I don't think I'm informed enough to comment any further on this arty issue so I'll leave it to veterans.
Even though ICM munitions aren't in CMBS, I still think (as has been mentioned in the forums before) that artillery doesn't do as much damage as it's supposed to. I once called in two 3-round 122mm precision strikes (from a Gvozdika platoon) on two Bradleys, both of which were hit at least once on the weapon mount. However, none of their guns were disabled. I may be able to believe that it wouldn't completely destroy the vehicle, but seriously, a 122mm HE round directly hitting the weapon but not disabling it doesn't sound that realistic to me.
Unofficial Screenshots & Videos Thread
@Euri That's "Bridgehead at Kharalyk", right?
Which scenario have you replayed the most?
10 hours ago, Chudacabra said:
Going to Town took a few tries to get right. I also loved Lights, Camera & Action, but it's not exactly a quickie. Rolling Thunder, as with all George MC scenarios and campaigns, is excellent as well.
I second every single scenario you listed here.
Today I suddenly felt a pang of nostalgia and fired up the exceptional scenario "Rolling Thunder" by George MC after about a year, and wow, it still feels fresh.
Maybe it's just me and my irrational love for modern warfare, but some scenarios are just too good to play once. Which scenarios have you played multiple times and which one is your favourite?
A Brutal! DAR
This was a very engaging DAR. I've been lurking this thread since day 1 and guess what, I'm very glad I followed it. The screenshots were pretty awesome too, with their effects giving them a rather gloomy atmosphere quite fitting for this scenario.
Keep up the good work. I'm really looking forward to your next piece of art.
Black Sea done whats next?
1 hour ago, Hilts said:
That is the correct order which Battlefront released the games but if you want to play in WW2 chronological order you need to swap Italy with Normandy. Most of Fortress Italy is set in 1943.
You will notice a big difference between all these and Black Sea!
As someone who bought CMBS first and CMRT second, I have to emphasise that "big difference". Don't expect the same fast-paced long-ranged fights in the WW2 games.
Thanks everyone for the comments. I will take these notes into account next time I'm playing a scenario.
11 minutes ago, Baneman said:
In WWII titles, you need ( as alluded to above ) to develop your attack. Choose a point for your attack and take the time to assemble the force so that you can bring a lot of firepower to bear at that point. Isolate it from assistance with smoke ( no thermals in WWII ).
Remember, in Modern context, he who spots first generally wins ( due a lot to the lethality of the weaponry ). In WWII, it's he who gains fire superiority ( because often the weaponry is largely similar and not as lethal ). So in the WWII context, you're not expecting to "wipe them out", you just need to stop them ( largely ) from shooting back ie. pinned and/or cowering so you can get close with a couple of squads and then wipe them out.
Direct fire mortars are your friend because of their speed, although remember to keep them well back - crawling them into a good position in cover may take time, but can pay off bigtime.
And yes, patience is needed. Admittedly some scenarios are short of time, but that's because the AI needs the help. In a PBEM against a human opponent, you can easily spend half the battle or more, jockeying into position. Sometimes that's most of the fun and the Big Push, when it happens, can be over just as fast as in the Modern title.
Yeah, got it. Change of paradigm. Actually an important part of my CMBS tactics centered on spreading hunter-killer teams with overlapping fields of fire to increase the chance of spotting the enemy first, especially from unexpected directions. Looks like I'll have a lot of re-learning to do here.
1 hour ago, IanL said:
Good point about the availability of HE. On map mortars can be used in direct fire (the US 60 and British 50mm mortars provide the best quick application of HE in WW2). Keep them safe behind your front lines but close so that they can be brought up to drop some HE in the right place. Otherwise you do have to plan your artillery use more in the WW2 titles. On the offence I find it slows things down and sometimes I even try to break contact while I wait for the artillery to arrive. Just be aware the the other guy could be lining your attacking force up too. On the defence I try to pin the attackers and slow them down while calling in the artillery. It is just harder in the WW2 era because the call times are longer.
Thanks, I'll use my on-map mortars next time.
55 minutes ago, Erwin said:
My take is that WW2 takes more patience in that all arty fire (and air support) usually takes much longer to arrive, and it is a lot less accurate.
In my WW2 games, there is a lot of "get into position and wait for the arty to arrive" periods. Yes, that is boring. But, CM2 games generally require a lot more patience than other games.
WW2 firepower seems reduced compared to modern era, and AFV's can often absorb a few AT hits b4 being KIA.
"Infantry die much more easily to small arms and grenades. Modern infantry are more resilient to these." Can't agree with that. I often find the opposite. It is a factor of tactics and understanding of the relative lethality of the different era's weapons.
To obtain good spotting results one needs to get a good quality spotter (higher experience and binoculars) into a good spotting position with good LOS and let it sit there quietly with a very small arc for several minutes. It usually takes time to spot. The challenge is usually that the designer has given limited scenario duration and it can be very hard to just sit around for 3-5 minutes not doing anything.
Re: Infantry
In the modern era, I usually get a "yellow" soldier after a movement order goes wrong. But in CMRT it's almost always a kill. Actually I've rarely seen anyone get wounded, they always become casualties. But my greater experience in BS is definitely a factor here.
Yeah I don't see how I'll be able to manage time constraints while having to move forward so slowly, but looks like there's no escape.
It would be helpful if you list specific challenges that you have problems with.
IanL already listed some of them: reaction times, vehicle situational awareness, and survivability. A couple others are weapon system accuracy and reach. I'll explain the issues below.
13 minutes ago, IanL said:
Interesting. We have had a few people post about moving from the WW2 games to CMBS and having trouble with the transition. Honestly I have not thought alot about this but of the top of my head I think there are three main differences: reaction time, survive-ability and crew awareness.
In the modern area AFVs have faster reaction times and better situation awareness. Troops and AFVs have higher toughness but of course weapons are more leather too. What I am referring to under the heading of survive-ability is that in the WW2 titles sending tanks ahead without an infantry screen is very hard on your tanks but in the modern game it is very hard on your infantry.
So my advice on the transition is to go slower - takes longer for crews to spot the enemy and react to them. And lead with your infantry - your tanks need an infantry screen and your half tracks are not up to taking any fire and need to be much further back.
Thank you Ian. I think I've been treating tanks as their modern counterparts (especially US since I usually play them in CMBS); I have implicitly assumed a relatively high level of independence in spotting and survivability that simply doesn't exist in the WW2 context. And in the modern era, I don't usually move infantry through the open except if they're to go somewhere stealthily because of the lethal airbursts (BMP-3s and arty), so thanks for your advice to lead tanks with infantry.
Another issue I've been facing is that the infantry fights seem quite different. I've noticed several things:
1. Infantry die much more easily to small arms and grenades. Modern infantry are more resilient to these. So I don't know how aggressive I can be with them.
2, There are plenty of explosives in the modern era and I've always relied on them (one of my favourite things about the US is their grenade launchers) and suddenly there are no explosives here and no "I will use this ATGM to kill that strongpoint". People make up for that with arty, but I don't know exactly when and where to call arty especially given the long response times and lack of precision and airburst arty.
3. The Soviets suffer from a lack of infantry firepower at range and I can't really move thinly armoured stuff like SUs forward too early, which makes me clueless about assaulting defensive lines (I'm not very well-versed in the use of massed artillery so tips are welcome here).
I come from a CMBS background, and wow! Despite my relative competence in CMBS, I am completely clueless in this game, getting owned both as the Soviets and as the Germans. Any tips and anything that has to be somehow un-learned in order to do better here?
Cannot buy the game (yeah, go create a ticket!)
in Archived CM Red Thunder Tech Support
16 minutes ago, sburke said:
Honestly I'd go straight to BF with a ticket on that. They can help you through it.
Yeah that was the first thing I did. I asked it here to see if anyone had similar experiences.
Greetings, Ladies (if any) and Gents.
I've already created a ticket about this, but I thought I'd also share the issue with you guys in the hope of finding some solution.
I've been trying to purchase the game using a Visa card. Once I press "confirm order" on the last page, after taking a while it gives me a "name lookup timed out" error. I googled it and what I'm seeing is that this is a DNS problem. So, I tried using a VPN (I'm in Iran, plenty of goddamn net filtering and stuff), but again, the same error. Any ideas what I could do and what could be the source of this issue?
Thanks for your time and happy URAing.
US/ NATO v. Russia - Misperceptions.
This is a point worth delving into a bit more. When you look at the period up until the collapse of the USSR, who were it's friends in the Med.....
Libya, Algeria, Syria ..... This isn't to say Russia is responsible for the current situation, but it is also not innocent. Those regimes were explicitly supported by Moscow and their arrested political development is what fed the Arab spring. Add Iraq to that long list and you begin to understand what Russia's political alliances helped develop. The middle east is an extremely complicated mess that has taken literally centuries to reach it's current messed up state. No one state actor owns it and the resolution of the issues there will likely take decades. The answers have to come from the people of those nations. The continued intervention of outside parties isn't really helping anything.
I agree with you on everything here except Iraq. Although Iraq was theoretically considered a third-world state supported by commies, as soon as it invaded Iran and started fighting on behalf of several Arab states against Iran, it also got a lot of support from the West, especially once the war took a turn against Iraq and the West wanted to maintain the balance of power. I'm not exactly debating that war itself, I'm saying that Iraq may actually be the site of some of the greatest Western geo-political blunders for not a decade, but almost three decades.
In addition, I believe that in the case of Arab states, the USSR merely exploited the available situation: Israel vs the Arabs, Israel's backed by the US, so the Arabs were the natural choice for the Soviets. Although it is not "innocent" (and I use that term very loosely, it's not like we're discussing seven deadly sins here), the vacuum was bound to be filled some way or another.
Next Generation Bradley demonstrator
The Soviets used to say "Lenin has died, but his cause lives on." Guess who just joined that club.
Chernova Hirka - Master map 1.0 released
in CM Black Sea Maps and Mods
8 minutes ago, Vanir Ausf B said:
The Battle Type in the QB must match the Battle Type set in the editor. For this map it is "attack" by default although you can of course change it.
Note that on Windows machines its will probably not be possible to play a game on the full map because the map plus units will take up too much memory unless you only have a small number of units.
I would need to know your system specs to be sure, but I suspect you have a 32-bit operating system.
Oh, I see. Thanks.
Actually I have 64-bit Windows 10 and 16 GB of RAM, so I was pretty surprised to see a memory error.
I've copied the map into the QB maps folder, but it doesn't appear in the map selection list when I'm creating a QB. Also, when I open it in scenario editor and try to get the 3D preview, the game terminates with an "out of memory" error. What's the issue?
Survival tips for Aircraft please?
6 hours ago, panzersaurkrautwerfer said:
Same deal as the EW settings, given that they're both strategic level impacts on your battlespace. I've put this forward before, but you'd basically have four conditions (loosely based on how the US defines airspace conditions).
Off: As is, unless there's an anti-aircraft system on the map, aircraft are totally safe
Air Parity: The airspace is dangerous to everyone's airplanes. Both players face a small to moderate chance of losing air assets committed (either through an off map shoot down, or the air asset has had to go evasive to the degree it is not returning). This well simulates an environment in which both sides have functional air defense networks, and access to fighter cover.
Air Superiority: The player with air superiority has a much reduced chance of losing his air assets, while the player without has a much higher chance of losing that asset. This simulates an environment in which one side has started to suffer enough losses to air defense or fighter assets to grant the other side a distinct advantage.
Air Dominance: One player's air assets are virtually safe (still a very small chance of loss), while the other would be silly to commit air assets. Think of this like if the NATO air campaign goes stunningly well, and Russian air defense is effectively out of commission outside of isolated pockets.
This sounds exactly like stuff that can be added in a patch or something (devs should comment on how easy or difficult it would be to implement).
8 hours ago, Erwin said:
I have been surprised/dismayed how easily my drones, as well as Apaches AND even F15's seem to get shot down. If RL combat is like this, we'd lose our entire AF in a few days to G2A missiles.
There was a pretty long discussion about this many months ago, and the conclusion was that the effectiveness of SHORAD (SHort Range Air Defence) is exaggerated in the game, because the air modeling isn't detailed enough to model the effects of longer-ranged air defences and also fighter-based AD. In short, the air game in CM is too abstracted for us to draw any real world conclusions based on it or even to realistically compare it with RL.
Can BF please give us a patch / upgrade pack update
8 hours ago, The Steppenwulf said:
Putin denies Russian involvement...
There's this bear, detained by the FSB, confessing that he's a rabbit and that he's behind all this.
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'Submissions Only' recap: Face the music
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Penny and Aaron are not the only awkward relationship in episode 6 of Submissions Only. In a memorable cold open, Tracy Mintzer (Audra McDonald) says all the wrong things to her old neighbor Albert (Nick Corley). Not only did Albert recently suffer from a parasite, but his wife left him and he had to move from the Upper West Side to Red Hook (hey, at least there’s an IKEA nearby). Albert also had to drop out of his show, Civil Bore (or maybe it’s Civil Boar; that would be a very different play), because of the parasite, and now the show is moving to Broadway without him. Tracy learns all of this in the small-talk portion of the audition, then proceeds to ask Albert to sing “Just the Way You Look at Me.” Turns out that was his wedding song. Oops.
After the meeting with Vincent Savio, indifferent Gail is gone for good and aspirational Gail is here to stay. In an effort to get Gail battle-ready for the casting room, Agnes and Tim decide to stage auditions. From forgetting the words to a song to using a real brain as a prop, Tim has seen it all and Gail has scoffed at it all. If Gail really wants to be a casting director, she needs to learn how to deal with things professionally and maintain a refined level of her signature Gail candor.
The ridiculous Gail plot balances Penny’s crumbling world perfectly. This episode is the most dramatic to date and still manages to be laugh-out-loud funny thanks to Gail, Tim and Agnes. Gail learns to handle a crazy woman dying, not having her sides, not having her skirt, and not knowing how to find the 1 train. Agnes does a great job trying to throw Gail off guard, but nothing really gets to her until Tim attempts to flirt. He can pretend to be a jump-roping clown, but Tim pretending to be interested in Gail is too much for either of them. Gail does remarkably well through her trials and is ready to meet with Vincent and Donny to discuss Light Me Up. Donny’s incapability to shake people’s hands seems to be the only problem with this show. Looks like Vincent may actually rebuild his reputation with Light Me Up.
We finally get to see a little more of Jeremy’s Fort, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. The show is a mess, and Linda is not happy. She needs to get the show and the Giddyup Guys back on track. Unfortunately for Linda, it’s not just the score that needs work. After her run-in with Aaron, Penny thinks that he may have finally broken up with Serena and is concerned about what that will mean for the Jeremy’s Fort rehearsal. When Serena storms in late, diva sunglasses and all, it looks like Penny is right, but it turns out Serena’s Frenchie, Jean-Claude, is ill, giving Aaron yet another roadblock in his break-up-with-Serena quest.
While Serena is having a meltdown about her dog, Josh tells Penny that he had a French bulldog that didn’t make it through surgery. It’s just a joke, but Penny calls him out on his sick sense of humor. You know who also used to call him out on his sick sense of humor? His ex-girlfriend! That’s right, girlfriend. Major props to Blake Whyte (who plays Josh) for the last couple of episodes, where Josh’s gayness has been in question. Whyte plays him perfectly and has emerged as one of this season’s best characters.
Josh’s newly confirmed straightness propels Penny into full flirt mode and Serena into matchmaker meddling. Serena invites Penny to an open mic night at 54 Below (home of the upcoming Submissions Only concert) under the pretense that the whole cast will be there, but Serena has a more devious evening planned. Penny arrives in a fancy-schmancy dress, which her roommate Suze probably picked out because, let’s face it, Penny has no style. Josh and Serena are there, but it turns out the rest of the cast isn’t coming. Serena has set up a double date for Penny and Josh, with her and Aaron. As the emcee sings a tune about hot toddies and pert young women, Serena introduces Aaron to Penny and Josh. Welcome to the most uncomfortable open-mic night in history — and that’s saying a lot!
Serena insists that if she and Penny are singing, the boys have to sing as well. Josh doesn’t want to belt out tunes by himself so Serena agrees to do a duet with him, so that Penny can hear Josh’s serenade. As Serena and Josh take the stage to croon “Steal Away” (by Jeff Blumenkrantz), Aaron and Penny are left by themselves and the fun begins. Aaron is pissed about the Josh situation, and Penny is pissed that Aaron is too chicken to break up with Serena. They both have valid points, but Penny definitely has the upper hand. If Aaron doesn’t want to break it off with Serena, he has no right to be mad at Penny for flirting with Josh. Penny storms off (or trips, according to the bartender) to the bar for a shot of bourbon and an escape from having an argument in the middle of a restaurant.
Aaron follows, calling her out on her “three-and-a-half-month” rule. Penny counters with the way Aaron has been avoiding everything: breaking up with Serena, talking to Penny and New York in general. Aaron spars back that he has a lot going on in his life with the transition to law school and his life being miserable. As Penny pulls out the big guns — “If you know you like someone better than your girlfriend, then maybe you should show your girlfriend some respect and break up with her as a courtesy” — Serena and Josh walk over.
It doesn’t take long for Serena to figure out that the person Aaron likes more than his girlfriend is Penny, and that Penny and Aaron didn’t just meet. Penny and Aaron finally face the music. They both screwed up, and now they have to handle the consequences. As Penny notes, the consequences are a little more extreme for her than they are for Aaron. She still has to work with Josh and Serena every day on Jeremy’s Fort, whereas Aaron is free. What this means that for Penny and Aaron, we will have to wait and see. As the credits roll in an alternate universe we know as reality, Kate Wetherhead and Santino Fontana sing their version of “Steal Away,” an upbeat tune that’s the complete opposite of their characters’ emotions at the end of the episode.
What did you think of episode 6? Will Penny and Aaron finally get together? Does Jeremy’s Fort have any chance of success? Will Serena be able to cope with being single? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Submissions Only airs every other Monday at BroadwayWorld.com.
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Converse is opening a community-based recording studio in Brooklyn named "Rubber Tracks"
Converse is opening a community-based recording studio in Brooklyn named "Rubber Tracks." The sneaker company hopes their Williamsburg venture "will serve as a catalyst for originality by giving new and emerging bands the opportunity to record their songs in a high-quality studio setting. Musicians of all genres will be able to apply in advance for a time to use the studio – for free. As in no cost."
I am sooooooo down for signing up for that party.
Read the full skinny here: http://play.converse.com/play/blog/?p=2809
Since I am not the only real estate professional on this platform who can sing and play you guys need to think about expanding your creative content holdings. We can do an ActiveRain Rocks tour. Just sayin'... ;-)
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The Copperstone Bible
A new translation of the New Testament
About the Translator
Philosophy of Translation
Gordon Tisher has at various times been a print shop gofer, a day-care worker, a undergraduate in math and computer science, a scuba diver, a grad student in linguistics and theology, a horseback rider, a network administrator, a martial artist, a computational linguist, a flight student, a video game programmer, a classical choral singer, and a student of languages both ancient and modern.
Grzegorz Kaszyński
Dear Gordon,
Whether in your translation of the Gospel of Mark appear the Divine Name YHWH?
If so, please give me all the places.
With sympathy,
Since the Gospel of Mark was originally written in Greek, the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), which is Hebrew, does not appear in it. In my translation, the Greek word θεός is translated “God”, and κύριος is translated “Master”.
Thank you for answer. I have other question. What we read in Luke 23:43 and John 8:58
in your translation?
I have not translated those books yet. I have only translated the Gospel of Mark and the Epistle to Philemon.
I think Luke 22:43 would be pretty straightfoward: “And he said to him — Amen I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
John 8:58 likewise: “He said to them — Amen amen I say to you, before Avraam came to be, I am.”
Gordon, I would like to have in PDF your translation. There Is that possibility? grzekasz@vp.pl (Poland).
I will be gratefull for it.
Whether you planned translate the other(s) book(s) of NT?
The Origin of the Welcome Message of [the Divine] Yoshua, the Chosen One [As told to Yohanan Marcus]
Marcus: Endings
Marcus: Chapter 16
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The international market is proving to be a gold mine for Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) . The streaming giant’s international subscriber numbers have grown by leaps and bounds in recent quarters, enabling it to offset the slowdown in the U.S. market. But despite the impressive increase in the company’s international subscriber count, it still has a lot of room to grow its business in markets such as the Asia-Pacific region.
That’s probably why Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is now contemplating stepping back from the company’s premium pricing policy to capture more users in a market that could be fertile territory in the long run.
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As Bloomberg reports, Netflix has been known to maintain or raise pricing in the key markets where it operates. But Hastings recently said that the company is looking to experiment with lower pricing plans. He didn’t provide any specifics as to when and where the company will test this strategy, but this is the second time in a month that Netflix has admitted it might be looking at a lower-priced subscription tier in certain markets.
Gregory Peters, the chief product officer at Netflix, said that the company is looking to “experiment with other pricing models — not only for India, but around the world — that allow us to sort of broaden access, by providing a pricing tier that sits below our current lowest tier.”
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Given that Netflix has grand plans to reach 100 million subscribers in India alone, it needs to be more aggressive on the pricing front. That’s because the company hasn’t crossed the two-million-subscriber mark in any Asian nation so far, according to Media Partners Asia.
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There’s a good chance that such a strategy would work, as the per capita GDP (gross domestic product) of developed markets such as the U.S. is higher than for Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, or India. So Netflix would be doing the right thing by introducing a cheaper subscription structure, to help pave the way for long-term growth.
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-702 D.H. Comet Airliner (1954-1965)
It is hard to believe that there are no prior postings for this somewhat famous, ill-fated airliner, so thought I would start one. The Comet was originally developed back in 1949, but did not actually fly until a few years later. As many have doubtless heard, it had a very unfortunate, tragic record, at least in its early life, with several of the planes coming apart mid-air due to structural failures. I won't recount all of those here, but because of it, many advances and cautions in future jet airliner design resulted, including the subsequent design of the Boeing 707, which came out right after the Comet.
Meccano released this model in October, 1954 and the attached image shows the announcement in the 1954 U.S. catalog. The registration number used, G-ALYV, was originally assigned to one of the planes, but this aircraft crashed in Calcutta, India, in 1953, so Dinky subsequently, and belatedly, changed the tail number to G-ALYX, which later models reflected. Somewhat later, the tail color was also changed from white to blue. This was a very long lived model, being in production from late 1954 through 1965.
When this was introduced in late 1954, it was listed as a Dinky Toy, and not as a Supertoy, even thought the first box was the familiar white and blue striped Supertoys box. Sometime in 1955, the model was elevated to Supertoys status, and also renumbered, along with the whole Dinky range. The number changed from 702 to 999, so the box was changed to show that new number, and the underside of the plane changed also; raised areas were added so Supertoys could be added and the number changed.
My only example of this very nice looking airliner is a very early version, with the inside box lid showing November, 1954, so I believe I received this in 1955, when I was 10 years old. Thus it shows the early numbering and lack of Supertoys labeling. I will leave it to others to supply later examples.
Regards, Terry
And here is the successor, G-ALYX. It bears the number 999 below the wing, and the numbers 702 on the box have been overpasted with oval stckers 999. Unfortunately the stamp inside the box lid is unreadable, but this example must be dated 1955-1956.
I wrote an extensive article on this model on the Talkmodeltoys forum, but I do not succeed to paste the url into this post. (In fact I did not succeed pasting text or links for a long time already (!)). Kind regards, Jan
Jan---I read your very nice, in-depth article on TMT, and it is a real shame that you cannot paste and copy that and other articles into this website. What a waste of great and wonderful efforts by you and many others put into posting there, and now not able to share it. But thanks for adding to this topic with your post on the later version, and hopefully others will follow.
Well, I do not intend to copy all my written and image stuff from over there to this website, that would be a huge job and the material would need revision because of new views and finds. I just would hope that Al and Dave could manage to enable straight, down-to-earth copy and paste from whatever other source, be it a word document or a website text or url, without special instruction. Nevertheless, I highly esteem their efforts up till now. May be I'm just stupid, but I do not manage, whereas this was no problem to me before. Kind regards, Jan
Hi friends.
Here is my contribution.
It's a G-ALY V
Greetings all!
The de Havilland Comet 1 G-ALYV, the subject aircraft of Meccano's model No. 702 crashed 32 kms north-west of Calcutta's (Kolkata) International Airport, India, on its return flight to London from Singapore, via Bangkok and Rangoon. It was determined that the cause was structural failure due to a bad thunderstorm that was in the area at the time. The actual identity of the aircraft was not made public until after a further Comet 1 was lost and the establishment of a committee to look into the causes for the problems of the Comet aircraft.
One of the major structural problems was found to be the shape of the square windows and the method of fastening this component to the pressure fuselage. When tests were carried out using a Comet immersed in a tank of water, stress cracks formed around several windows when the fuselage was pressurised. This design fault resulted in a change with the window shape from square to round.
By the time the identity of the Comet became known to Meccano, a substantial number of models had already been produced during September, October and November 1954 as well as literature, advertising etc. It was not until the middle of 1955 when the model number was changed the information of which came from Pete Golden. His 702 in a 702 Dinky Toys box has 999 over the inscription 702 under the wing. At this stage it is not known whether the model was switched. However, I have seen the original Dinky Toys 702 blue striped box with 999 glued over the top of 702. The Inspection stamp was MR 157. Another model, this time in a DINKY SUPERTOYS blue striped box numbered 999, but still with the original registration of G-ALYV, with the model number under its wing changed to 999.
The registration with advertising literature appears to have been changed from G-ALYV to G-ALYX on or about May 1959. Certainly my 999 G-ALYX was inspected in September 1959. The drawing on the box has the model with an all-blue tail with the registration picked out in white together with a white "Speedbird" athough the model itself has the original white tail with the registration and lines in blue.
It is interesting that although Meccano changed the registration from G-ALYV to G-ALYX as a result of the fatal accident to the former, Meccano did not change the transfer for the blue cheat line that incorporated square windows to round windows of which G-ALYX was subjected to in real life. Again, it was made as a toy, and Meccano did go to extra-ordinary lengths to keep their model away from an aircraft that crashed with loss of life. I suppose the easiest way of overcoming this dilemma would have been to eliminate the BOAC markings altogether, and just have a model of a Comet 1 without any airline markings. However we do not know whether BOAC actually provided some capital for the production of this model, which at the very start of airline operations with the Comet would have given BOAC a marvelous advertising tool through little boys and their toys encouraging their parents to fly in a Comet! This would be the only plausible reason for all the trouble taken with changing the model's registration markings although its subsequent Sales Number alteration, may have been inevitable with its reclassification to a Supertoys.
Bruce (#150)
Bruce--I also wanted to thank you for your well regarded thoughts on the changes to the Dinky Comet airliner. It sure seems to make sense, although they sure waited a long time to change that registration number. To me, that also raises the question of just how well known the various registration numbers on aircraft are. In the past, I never paid any attention to them at all, so I also wonder just how much the public would recognize either of those numbers. To me, at least, the identity of the just the Comet alone was the single biggest issue, I guess followed by the fact it was a BOAC plane. For those interested, there is a lot of history about the Comet and all those accidents, plus the resultant testing that went on for some time to identify just what had failed and why. I seem to remember that both those square windows, their rivet attachments, plus the joining of the cockpit nose section to the fuselage, were all failure points. Since the Comet was a pioneer jet airliner, the rest of the fledgling industry learned a lot from those tragic accidents, and Boeing admitted as much. I still think the Comet was one of the most handsome airliners ever built, and it stll has classic lines. A very sad story indeed, and the whole episode must have caused some angst for Meccano.
Thank you Terry for you kind words.
The Comet was the benchmark for modern air travel, and Boeing, as well as Douglas and Sud were very keen observers. My first sight of a Comet was only this year at Duxford Imperial War Museum where Comet 4 G-APDB previously owned by Dan-Air London but painted in the colours of its first operator, BOAC. I spent a lot of time examining this wonderful flying machine, but due to its size and that it is sharing a huge hanger with many, many other aircraft it was impossible to adequately photograph it. These are some of my poor photography attempts!
(There is also a fuselage of a Comet 1A and the nose section of a Comet 4 at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall)
Bruce--That had to be interesting to actually see a real Comet.....such a rare bird now! And trying to take photographs of a full size plane is indeed a challenge.....they are just too big, but thanks for getting what you did.
Thanks, Bruce, for this wonderful compilation of the Dinky model's and the real-world Comet's history's interrelationship! Kind regards, Jan
Alfa -Victor
I remember very well seen the Comet in the pre-fabricated tank at the RAE Farnborough in the late 50's.Today Farnborough is becoming the fifth London airport for charters and executive jets.
Alfa - X-ray at Heathrow in 1953.
The Dinky Comet was a type 1 Comet.
Frame 6022, G-APAS, ex-Air France F-BGNZ, exists as the only surviving and in-tact example of a de Havilland Ghost-powered Comet 1 series aircraft. Converted to Mk. 1XB in March, 1957, the aircraft was re-registered XM823 and subsequently as G-APAS; its final flight was made on 8 April 1968 and the aircraft was thereafter retired. Currently residing at the Aerospace Museum at Cosford, near Shifnal in Shropshire, England, "Alpha Sierra" appears to have been remarkably well preserved albeit in open air storage for more than thirty years !
Yes Jacques, the Dinky model was indeed a Comet 1, and top marks to Meccano for having taken the initiative to provide us with a model so soon after the Comet entered service , but sadly selecting the registration for one that ultimately crashed.
G-APAS the subject of your post above indeed spent many years outdoors but has now been refurbished and on 4 December 2006 was moved into Hangar 1 at Cosford, and is now assured of long-term preservation as a significant part of the RAF Museum collection. It is painted in the colours of BOAC although it never served BOAC having been delivered to Air France on 22 July 1953, remaining with Air France until 11 January 1954 when it returned to the UK for modifications as a result of the other Comet crashes.
Interestingly, the fuselage at the de Havilland Heritage Centre of which I referred in my last post also flew with Air France its constructor's number being 6020 with G-APAS above being 6022, the third last and last Comet 1 constructed.
The images below are of G-APAS at Cosford and the former F-BGNX, caption and its nose section.
Bruce #150
The real French SE 210 Caravelle (first flight 1955) and the British DH Comet I (first flight 1949) shared the same cockpit cone, as initially designed for the Comet. The interiors were different. Interesting to compare the Dinky models and see similarities and dissimilarities in design and construction solutions for these areas. Caravelle (no. 60f/891) left, Comet (702/999) right. Kind regards, Jan
Jan---That is very interesting; I seem to remember reading something about them sharing that cockpit nose section, but did not think too much a out it. That is a great photo showing them side by side, and the two Dinky's definitely show that similarity. Nicely done!
Hello Terry
Can you please add a photograph of the inside of the lid of your model's box showing the quality inspection stamp to the above images?
Kin regards
Bruce--Here is a photo of the box, as well as one of the quality inspection stamp inside the box lid...........let me know if you need anything else!
Thank you very much Terry. Have added the details including the initials of the inspector to my ever-growing data base. Now, if only I could obtain similar to all your other lidded boxes as well as the smaller end-flap Dinky Toys boxes without causing a severe breakdown with our friendship!!
Bruce--I will be glad to as soon as I can.
Bruce, Terry, some more - hopefully clarifying - pictures of my example and its box. Although the model is already marked 'DINKY SUPERTOYS' on a raised cartouche below the starboard wing, the box still bears the DINKY TOYS brand name. The '999' numbers on top and the sides of the lid are all oval stickers, two in black, one red. Whereas the model shows the new registration number G-ALYX on top of the starboard wing, the box still shows a model with the old G-ALYV registration number. Possibly this very model came in a box from slightly older stock or was this habitual for this whole batch? It is remarkable that the 'G -' on the model is of a different (fatter) typesetting than the subsequent 'ALYX'. The old letter combination shows all characters on the early models in the same (fat) letter type. I cannot find an expected box with 'DINKY SUPERTOYS' in straight characters. The next box seems to jump immediately to italic letters for the brand name, the correct new registration number and the model shown with blue tail. I do not manage to decipher the control stamp inside, I just made a picture with increased contrast, hoping this will do for Bruce. Well some pictures to follow, kind regards, Jan.
Thanks Jacques
I was somewhat surprised to see Meccano still usng old box stock for the re-numbered 999, especially in view of the use of stickers over the original 702 salesnumber on the box. Your moel was quality inspected in December 1959 whih shows a late production, and one quite unexpected. I state this as my 999 is in the new box with DINKY SUPERTOYS in italics as well as the change of the drawing to show he new registration letters wth the transfers for the registrations on my model being inner han yours. And yet i wasquality inspeted three months BEFORE your moel! Do not ask me how this came about, as prbably eve Meccano had no idea!
I am leaving th text in thi Post as Al wats t see what is happenin wit typing on my computer. I will re-do this message correcting all the mising letter and spaces.
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I was somewhat surprised to see Meccano still using old box stock for the re-numbered 999, especially in view of the use of stickers over the original 702 sales number on the box. Your model was quality inspected in December 1959 which shows a late production, and one quite unexpected. I state this as my 999 is in the new box with DINKY SUPERTOYS in italics as well as the change of the drawing to show the new registration with the registrations on my model being thinner than yours. And yet it was quality inspected three months BEFORE your model! Do not ask me how this came about, as probably even Meccano had no idea!
I am leaving the text in this Post as Al wants to see what is happening with typing on my computer. I will re-do this message correcting all the missing letters and spaces.
Continuing with my message, I presume the windows on your model are still square. Actually you mentioned about the thickness of the registration letters in our Post but I was in a hurry to type a message to enable Al to see the mess my posts would have been without spending ages correcting missing letters etc!!
As you have never encountered a box with block lettering for DINKY SUPERTOYS that the change occurred during 1957 as it was this year when italic printing was introduced.
Finally, the tail on my Comet is identical to the original 702 - white, although the drawing on the box shows the blue tail.
This is an other evidence that Meccano never trashed anything. If there are boxes left over and they can be used by adding stickers, they will be used. They have done this many times.
This made me check the Comet page of Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia, it is missing a picture of the DINKY SUPERTOYS white box with blue strips. Can any one please supply a large picture of this box.
Do you mean something like these two images?
Yes Bruce, great.
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Hi everyone and a Happy New Year!
Most of you will have read Jan Werner's article on the 702/999 De Havilland Comet on the Talk Model Toys forum and, like me, have wondered why it was not possible to cut-and-paste it here. I felt that it was worth the effort to try again so I shall now make the attempt. As I said to Jan, we shall know shortly whether I have been successful! Here goes!
Dear Dinkyclub friends,
I had the idea that this nice and historical model deserved more attention than it had up till now. So I’ll try to make an introduction for a discussion. (Oops, a bit long. If the size is too big, please consider this contribution as a kind of Easter bonus)
The Dinky (Super-) Toys no. 702 / 999 D.H. Comet Airliner had a considerably more successful life than its real-world counterpart, the De Havilland Comet I, the first operational jetliner in the world. Following six crashes the plane was forbidden to fly. Only one of these accidents seems to have been due to a human error, the others were due to the plane, especially problems with fatigue and the pressure compartment.
The model consists of two main diecast components (as usual for most Dinky planes of this size), the upper half of the fuselage with the tail, and the lower half of the fuselage with the main wing(s) and main landing gear, bolted together.
Contrary to the French larger planes, the blue band, which stretches at both sides from the nose section back to the tail of the model, has been painted instead of using transfers.
Until ca. 1955 the registration number of this Dinky Comet, applied on the starboard wing and both sides of the tail fin, was G-ALYV. Then it was changed into G-ALYX. In this year the model itself was renumbered as well, from 702 (in the original aircraft number range) to the high Dinky Supertoys number 999.
Some old stock of no. 702 Dinky Toys boxes were given the 999 number by applying neat little red and black oval stickers over the old numbers on the boxes.
The renumbering was applied to the die as well. On raised ‘cartouches’ (deepened in the die) the changed brand name wording ‘Dinky’ and ‘Supertoys’ appeared under the starboard wing and the new number ‘999’ under the port one. The wheels, which were made in a rather yellowish finish in the beginning, made a change into a more white metal appearance then.
In their second bible the Richardsons explain that the registration number change took place in 1959/60, but that would not agree with the box presented here, which must have been combined with the model inside sometime not too long after the renumbering and Supertoys change in 1955. I have seen other apparently authentic box/model combinations like this one. Besides, as it would have been reasonable that the change into ‘ALYX’ should have been made even before the introduction of this model (see above), it is also plausible in my opinion that the models were finished that way a lot earlier than the marketing pictures show. Indeed, the pictures on boxes, folders and in catalogues with the old registration number are rather persistent. Some of them here:
The 1962 catalogue picture and its setting is rather remarkable, as the artwork below shows the innovated Comet 4B in the new BOAC finish with blue tail, whereas the model shown is of course the available, old-fashioned, ill-fated Comet 1.
Around 1964 the silver finish was replaced by grey metallic and at last the tail wings and fin got the modern dark blue colour, which the actual early 1950s plane of course never had. Some pictures of the model (like the above) seem to indicate that also new transfers were applied with the more narrow wording ‘B.O.A.C.’ They seem to be discoloured sometimes, which may indicate that they were water based, like the French ones, rather than the bright sprit based ones. Somebody of you may explain or comment on this, I have no such examples. The wing registration numbers seem to have become heavier, fatter too.
The box was adjusted every now and then according to the fashion of the Dinky boxes. Apart from the designs shown above I presume there are also striped boxes with straight DINKY TOYS characters but PRINTED nos. 999, and boxes with straight and later italic DINKY SUPERTOYS print.
The model was prevented from moving too much in the box by a wrap-around piece of card board, with flat openings to hold the wing tips in place.
Still, one can hardly find an example of this model which does not suffer from rubbing paint damage on top of the tail fin, which hits the inside of the box lid permanently. In fact this happens with most of the plane models, but it is more obvious on the ones with a white painted tail.
The Nicky Toy (courtesy Christiaan Boland for ‘lending’
this picture which he posted in the Nicky section)
Although the model was deleted after eleven years in 1965, its life had not ended yet. The die was sold to India in 1968, in order to be used for producing the Nicky Toys Comet. Although the lettering on the transfers remained the same, new transfers seem to have been introduced again then. Only the tail fin (and of course the blue band along the fuselage) remained blue in finish, the rest of the tail plane wings turned into silver again. This final version also had fewer cabin windows and Nicky continued the original Dinky catalogue number 999.
The Comet model was really a good job, a faithful reproduction as it is of the real plane (with all restrictions of the time and Dinky style), with correct details (as far as reproduced). The model’s nose cone witnesses the similarity with the nose of the French Caravelle, which both of them shared in reality. However, there is some dissimilarity in the detailing of the cockpit windows, of which the French ones admittedly are better in concordance with reality.
The small pointy extensions between both couples of the jet engine exhausts represent the exhausts of two Sprite rocket engines, which were meant to provide extra thrust power during take off. They were never implemented (but still present in shape) in regular production type 1 Comets. Points of critique could be the rather crude landing gear and the too flat elliptical air intakes for the engines. Also the rather obvious seam between the two halves, especially the one behind the cockpit is not an aesthetical success (see picture above).
The real one with the first registration number, which crashed before the Dinky model was introduced (from: http://bose.utmb.edu/tdpower/Comet.jpg)
The real Comet of this (first) type was a big failure, as commented already. Only 11 of this type (suitable for 36 passengers) were delivered. The first flight was in 1949, and it entered service in 1952, but it was kept aground in 1954 already, after six fatal crashes and it would never take off again in its original design.
I think it’s most curious that the dramatic disasters with this plane apparently did not prevent Meccano from continuing the production and marketing of this Dinky model, and the buyers equally did not care much either, because a period of more than ten years (1954-1965) must be considered to have been a very satisfactory time span for the sales of this model. The fact that it is far from rare nowadays may confirm high production numbers.
The renewed D.H. 106 Comet 4B
The model could not only give rise to unpleasant associations, it was also outdated very quickly, as the real one was deleted in 1954, and the considerably better Comet 4 - with obvious differences, especially in length, extra external fuel tanks on the wings, and much smaller fatigue resistant cabin windows - was introduced in 1958. So the Dinky model was still popular some ten years after several disasters and the actual withdrawal of the plane, and the children played happily with the model of a very dangerous – but nevertheless beautiful - aeroplane! The only adaption implemented by Meccano was the change of the registration number of one of the crashed planes (G-ALYV, crashed already on 2 May 1953 near Calcutta, a long time before the Dinky was in the shops, in October 1954) into a new one (G-ALYX). The real G-ALYX was delivered in July 1952, but it was scrapped only three years after, in June 1955.
More about the Dinky Comet in Sue Richardson’s Diecast Toy Aircraft and on the very good site http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8803/comet.htm. Diagram details from : Straalverkeersvliegtuigen (Haarlem : Oberon, 1981).
Kind regards, Jan Werner
PS: I do not have a record of the October 1954 Meccano Magazine. I am most curious about the review of this model in relation to the dramatic crashes (The Toyman most probably will have been very enthusiastic and positive about it, as usual). Perhaps somebody of the club can reproduce that review in this thread?
Well that worked!
Here is the URL of the google books page for Graham M. Simons' book 'Comet! The World's First Jet Airliner', which has the full story of this ground-breaking (no pun intended) aircraft.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qN07BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=c...
Thanks, John, for copying this. It's an account of many years ago,so I hope it still makes some sense. Kind regards, Jan
Jan—I , of course, had already read some time ago, your excellent write up on the Comet, on Talk Model Toys, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it again....a testament to the thoroughness of your writing. It does seem a bit strange for Dinky to press on with production of such an ill-fated airplane, but I can only guess that due to the extremely good looking design of that prototype, maybe Meccano decided it would be popular and sell well anyway. I can only say that here in the US, I grew up totally ignorant of the real Comet and it’s sad history, but I loved the Dinky model, as did many other young collectors. Even looking today, I still think the Comet was one of the most attractive airliners ever built, and maybe Meccano played on that theme with producing it for so long.
Many years later I found a nice example of the G-ALYV and made the comparative photo couple below. Kind regards, Jan
I have been lucky enough to acquire this code 3 conversion of the Dinky Comet aircraft made by John Alcott. These conversions were only made in small numbers and are hard to find. As can be seen from the photographs the model has been heavily modified with an extended fuselage, a changed wing design with fuel tanks and a changed tail design. There are also electronic and radar fairings and a changed nose wheel configuration. The quality of the finish is superb. This particular example is signed under the wing "JA 22". The original designation "DINKY TOYS" and "Made in England Meccano Ltd" remains under the wings. Photographs of more of John Alcotts conversions can be seen in the book "Dinky Toys Aircraft 1934-1979" by GR Webster on page 73.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
THE AUCTION.
At length, the never-to be-forgotten day of the terrible auction arrived, when the 'slaves, horses, and other cattle' of Charles Ardinburgh, deceased, were to be put under the hammer, and again change masters. Not only Isabella and Peter, but their mother, was now destined to the auction block, and would have been struck off with the rest to the highest bidder, but for the following circumstance: A question arose among the heirs, 'Who shall be burdened with Bomefree, when we have sent away his faithful Mau-mau Bett?' He was becoming weak and infirm; his limbs were painfully rheumatic and distorted--
more from exposure and hardship than from old age, though he was several years older than Mau-mau Bett: he was no longer considered of value, but must soon be a burden and care to some one. After some contention on the point at issue, none being willing to be burdened with him, it was finally agreed, as most expedient for the heirs, that the price of Mau-mau Bett should be sacrificed, and she receive her freedom, on condition that she take care of and support her faithful James,--faithful, not only to her as a husband, but proverbially faithful as a slave to those who would not willingly sacrifice a dollar for his comfort, now that he had commenced his descent into the dark vale of decrepitude and suffering. This important decision was received as joyful news indeed to our andent couple, who were the objects of it, and who were trying to prepare their hearts for a severe struggle, and one altogether new to them, as they had never before been separated; for, though ignorant, helpless, crushed in spirit, and weighed down with hardship and cruel bereavement, they were still human, and their human hearts beat within them with as true an affection as ever caused a human heart to beat. And their anticipated separation now, in the decline of life, after the last child had been torn from, them, must have been truly appalling. Another privilege was granted them--that of remaining occupants of the same dark, humid cellar I have before described: otherwise, they were to support themselves as they best could. And as her mother was still able to do considerable work, and her father a little, they got on for some time very comfortably. The strangers who rented the house were humane people, and very kind to them; they were not rich, and owned no slaves. How long this state of things continued, we are unable to say, as Isabella had not then
sufficiently cultivated her organ of time to calculate years, or even weeks or hours. But she thinks her mother must have lived several years after the death of Master Charles. She remembers going to visit her parents some three or four times before the death of her mother, and a good deal of time seemed to her to intervene between each visit.
At length her mother's health began to decline--a fever-sore made its ravages on one of her limbs, and the palsy began to shake her frame; still, she and James tottered about, picking up a little here and there, which, added to the mites contributed by their kind neighbors, sufficed to sustain life, and drive famine from the door.
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Relgoth
by Uziel
"Relgoth. City of masks and deceit if you ask me. Between those damned Dark Knights and the Fallen Three themselves, anything good is quickly purged from the city. In fact, I think I prefer the old draco Sivaan to the Three. At least back in those days we knew Relgoth to be a prison. It is still one to this day, just the bars of our cage are a little more subtle."
(citizen of Relgoth, dated 423 AC/40 SC)
The once great Solamnic city of Relgoth has seen many evils perpetrated within it's walls. During the Summer of Chaos it was ravaged by shadow wights, which left the city practically empty. Shortly thereafter it was claimed by the Knights of Takhisis, who served the mighty dragon overlord Khellendros. In epic fighting between the knights and Palin Majere during the Age of Mortals, the stronghold known as the Bastion of Darkness fell and much of the city was destroyed. With the fall of Khellendros, the Dark Knights secured their grip even further on the city, holding the city in the name of the knighthood itself, rather than offering allegiance to any dragon.
Since the War of Souls, numerous changes have been made in the last two years to the city of Relgoth. Two great gates allow entrance into the city, which open out into the New City District. Many of the buildings that lie in this area are dilapidated and home to the elderly, sick and anyone who is considered of no use to the Dark Knights. In the last few years it has also become home to criminals seeking escape from Solamnic justice, as well as all manner of other cutthroats. If every city has it's slums, then this district is most certainly the slums of Relgoth. The few stable dwellings are inhabited by the most ruthless of criminals and there is a hierarchy of the villainy which reside in these streets. Most certainly the head of this pecking order is Hezru Gildertell (human male Clr8/Inq4; AL NE).
Hezru rules the slums of Relgoth for several reasons, and it is not simply through being powerful and ruthless. To the sick and dying of Relgoth, which predominantly are thrown into the slums, Hezru can offer a cure. He bestows cures upon the sick and reprieve from illness, if they offer their allegiance to Morgion and to him, the high priest of the Cult of the Black Wind. Hezru has allies amongst the Dark Knights who patrol and oversee the city, but dares not raise a hand against the Dark Knights or the Fallen Three, since he knows that even his growing number of diseased followers cannot match their might....for now.
From the New City District, a large set of gates lead into the Old City District. These gates are manned by a large number of Dark Knights, who ensure that the undesirables of New City do not enter. Visitors to the gates are treated with suspicion and questioned thoroughly before being admitted. Those who do not meet the approval of the knights are turned away, or in extreme cases sometimes attacked. The Old City District has been greatly upgraded over the last few years. All former rubble and destruction from the fall of the Bastion of Darkness has been cleared away, and the streets are kept relatively pristine. The Dark Knights and the few citizens who are allowed in this district, maintain the area with a certain degree of pride. The majority of the district still houses the barracks of the Dark Knights, goblin, draconian and human mercenaries. The elven mercenaries who once served under Alor Lightleaf, have long since left Relgoth to return to their homeland. Only a small number of citizens are allowed in this area, and they are all kept here to cater to the needs of the warriors within, by either running taverns, armories or servicing other material needs. Fights are frequent between the mercenaries, who are not on any payroll, but choose to live here for the chance of commissions in bounties or assaults on the enemies of the Dark Knights. The Fallen Three employ mercenaries frequently for various requests around the city and surrounding area.
Through the New City District, a set of gates leads into the Noble Quarter. The once grand area houses the majority of the population of Relgoth, who service the needs of the knights in the New City District and also those of the rulers in Castle Rel. The streets are clean and large houses are filled with a teeming number of citizens. Amongst all of these citizens has arisen a guild of thieves, headed by the daring elf Elial Gentou (elf male Rog6; AL LN). Elial runs his clandestine operation out of the former governor of Relgoth's house, sending his thieves out to disrupt the operations of the Dark Knights. He is well aware of a rising power in the slums and no longer sends his thieves there. The main road of the Noble Quarter runs directly to a final set of gates which lead into Castle Rel.
The city of Relgoth is still presided over by the Fallen Three, who rule the city from Castle Rel. The lower portion of the great castle houses the higher-ranked Dark Knights in the city. Further up the castle the ranks of the knights thin out and the personal guard of the Fallen Three, the Unfurled Talon, have their barracks. From the singular great tower of the castle lie the luxuriant quarters of the three dark elven rulers of Relgoth, the Fallen Three.
The base of Castle Rel has a large set of stables, and a sprawling sets of barracks which begin inside the vast entryway to the castle and spiral up through the first few floors. A grand banquet hall lies at the bottom of the castle also, as well as various meeting chambers and halls for the knights. When one passes through the first few floors of the castle, the red banners of an extended bloodied talon can be seen. All those who enter this section of the castle, even Dark Knights must present a pass to see the Fallen Three, or be questioned heavily by the Unfurled Talon. These guards are all hand-picked by the Three and have unfailing allegiance to them and no others, hence why they are not specifically Dark Knights and many are also fellow dark elves. The Unfurled Talon consists of a fighting force of 100 (42 Ftr5, 28 Ftr3, 10 Sor5, 10 Mys4, 10 Bbr6), they are not susceptible to bribes or threats, and will die to protect the Three.
The Fallen Three are individually known as Obsidian (elf female Mys6/Knight of the Skull 4; AL LE), Onyx (elf male Sor6/Knight of the Thorn 5; AL NE) and Ebony (elf female Ftr6/Knight of the Lily 6; AL LE). Whilst the citizens of Relgoth live in poverty, the three, their guard and their ranking knights live in relative luxury in Castle Rel. The three elves first came to power under Governor-General Mirielle Abrena who was impressed with their fighting spirit and them as a united front against all who opposed them. Whilst their spirit and determination earned them the notice of Abrena and lifted them in rank, it was their ability to inspire terror, which eventually led them to being given the reins of power to Relgoth after the demise of Sivaan. The Three do not show their faces outside of their quarters by wearing masks or helms, for they do not wish to give a face to terror. None of them wear the traditional armor of the Dark Knights, so they cannot be distinguished from the others, unless they deign to give their name or speak. From their shadowy quarters, the Three spread mandates and commands that ensure that the knights keep order in the city and execute any who make even the slightest of transgressions. Dark Knights have known to be executed also by their fellows or the Unfurled Talon, when making similar transgressions. The Three brook no disobedience to their commands, and place their trust only in each other and the Unfurled Talon. Because of the regular taxes paid to Lord Targonne and Khellendros, both powers were extremely happy with the Three. With the demise of both during the War of Souls, the Three now run their city on a relatively independent basis, treating it as their own kingdom of sorts. Their motives, like their faces are hidden, and it is uncertain what they will finally do with Relgoth and it's people.
Adventure Hooks
The information presented above is set in 423 AC/40 SC and can be used as either part of an ongoing campaign, or Castle Rel can be focal point of an entire adventure itself. The hooks below are rumors set in the Age of Mortals with the intended purpose of leading to other adventures.
The Black Wind Blows: Rumors purport that Kasell, one of the followers of Hezru Gildertell, has come across an artifact which will help the spread of a new plague in the New City District. Hezru himself has spread the word that the Black Wind will blow across the district, swelling his ranks and possibly leading to a fight for control of the city.
Gentou's Request: Elial Gentou has sent out a summons to all his loyal followers, to recover an item for him. Some time ago he lost a magical orb which allowed him to track the patrolling Dark Knights in the city. Shadowy whispers tell that the orb was found and claimed by the merchant Shen Korras. Any brave enough to cross from the Noble Quarter into the Old City District, avoiding the Dark Knights and penetrating Korras' guarded warehouse and returning with the orb will be handsomely rewarded.
The Three's Bounty: The Three have had a message sent to the mercenary barracks in Old City District. A bounty has been placed on the head of the assassin Wrykell Glowinger. Word has spread that Wrykell infiltrated Castle Rel but was discovered by the Unfurled Talon before he could complete whatever his assigned mission was. He is known to still be in the city somewhere, and his captor(s) will be paid in an amount enough to rise them well above those in the barracks with them, as well as being granted quarters within the lower section of Castle Rel. The Three want Wrykell tracked down and brought back to them, dead or alive. The preference is that he is returned alive, so that he can be tortured and questioned on who his employers are and the nature of his mission.
Mishakal's Kiss: Amongst the growing concern over the spread of disease in the slums of Relgoth, a fountain is rumored to have appeared containing waters blessed by the goddess Mishakal herself. The Cult of the Black Wind have heard the same rumors and want the fountain destroyed. Will anyone brave the slums of Relgoth to find the fountain and protect it from the cult?
A Solamnic in Relgoth: The last few agents of the Solamnics who were sent to report on Relgoth have all vanished in the dark city. Concerned over the motives of the Three, the Solamnics request the services of any brave enough to infiltrate the city and perform a reconnaissance mission on the Fallen Three. Any able to learn their plans both beyond and within Relgoth and report back to the Solamnic High Council will assure themselves a rich reward and/or promotion within the knighthood (for Solamnic knights only).
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Priyanka Chopra 'always wanted to take Nick Jonas' surname
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas got married past year in a huge wedding shindig in India. "Nick also doesn't like it and it is not catching on", she told Jimmy Fallon recently, reports IANS.
Priyanka left a shady comment under her photo, naming a friend of hers as the person who took the shot.
. I always wanted to add his name to mine because I feel like, we're becoming family.
'I wanted to get married in some private island away from everything, ' she continued. For an appearance on late-night talk show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Priyanka Chopra wore an embellished ivory pantsuit that sparkled as she walked.
The name change isn't the only new development in the newlyweds' life together.
Earth's north magnetic pole has officially shifted
And an overall weakening of the magnetic field isn't good for people and especially satellites and astronauts. When it does, it will not be like a coin flip, but will take 1,000 or more years, experts said.
Fallon couldn't resist showing a few photos from the couple's three-day wedding extravaganza, which went down in India on December 1. "He was like, 'Was that Diana?'" I didn't realise it was that much of a big deal until I did it. Chopra, 36, said they initially wanted to tie the knot on a private island "away from everything", but logistically it became too hard. We were like really stressed out because we thought Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius. "Shouldn't I be taking my bride from her home?"'
It is known Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas had two lavish wedding ceremonies with pre-wedding festivities like mehendi, haldi, sangeet and cocktail party. Naturally, the audience responded with an adoring "awwww".
Priyanka also said that hers and Nick's celebrity short name - "Prick" - is "so cool and unique but it is not catching on".
'Special place in Hell' for no plan Brexiteers: EU leader
But the European Union has ruled out changes and Tusk called on May to set out "a realistic suggestion on how to end the impasse". MPs reacted with fury and accused him of deliberately pushing Britain towards No Deal.
Pope admits priests, bishops sexually abused nuns
Alessandro Gisotti of the Vatican press office later told CBS News that the order in question had been based in France. Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi this week. "But it's a path that we have already begun", he said, the AP reported .
Patriots’ Duron Harmon Says He’ll Skip Team’s White House Visit
The sixth-year veteran, who passed on his team's trip in 2017, said Sunday, "Nah, man, they don't want me in the White House ". The White House visit for championship-winning teams has become a thorny political issue since Trump was elected.
Google’s New Chrome Extension Alerts You If Your Passwords Have Been Leaked
Google will limit disclosures to only share that these security events have occurred, without sharing personal account info. " Password Checkup was built with privacy in mind", writes Google in its overview of the extension .
US' Mnuchin, Lighthizer to hold talks next week in China
But the trade war will also have a number of negative effects on global trade, especially within certain markets. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who compared protective tariffs to "a gun that recoils on ourselves".
Measles Cases Confirmed In Washington State
Taking too much at one time - over 200,000 micrograms - can cause nausea, vomiting, vertigo or blurry vision. An outbreak in Washington has led to about 50 cases, according to various health departments in the state.
Women's brains appear three years younger than men's
The algorithm yielded brain ages an average of 3.8 years younger than the women's chronological age, according to the study. He said brain metabolism might help researchers understand some of the differences seen between men and women as they age.
Nantes demand Cardiff make full £15m Emiliano Sala payment
According to Sky Sports News , Cardiff have not yet paid any of the £15m fee agreed for the Argentine striker. A source at Cardiff says they will honour the contract, but not until they have clarified " all the facts ".
Adam Levine frees nipple at Super Bowl 15 years after Janet Jackson
But the huge controversy isn't about the music, it's about Adam Levine going shirtless. According to CBS News, both Cardi B and Rihanna turned down opportunities to perform.
Clippers to send Tobias Harris to 76ers in multiplayer deal
This could be the first of several major deals expected before the National Basketball Association trade deadline passes at 3 p.m. Marjanovic and Scott, both 30, are expected to upgrade the Sixers' bench, although neither man played much for LA this season.
Medical examiner: North Texas man killed when e-cig
Malfunctioning e-cigarette batteries have caused hundreds to thousands of similar injuries, United States reports say. He kept a close group of friends, and was working to fix up an old Mazda RX8, Alice Brown said.
Facebook Messenger gives users option to delete sent messages
The functionality was originally introduced for Facebook executives in 2014, after Sony Pictures' email accounts were hacked. People keen to use the service will need to act fast as the message must be deleted within 10 minutes of sending.
NC State and Virginia Tech set basketball back decades on Saturday
State reached double figures - it reached 11 points on a Hellems jumper with 5:33 left - the Hokies had just 13 points themselves. The Wolfpack's 24 points are the fewest in the shot clock era from a ranked team, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
Raiders in talks with Giants over sharing stadium
However, it has also hosted football games, most notable the XFL San Francisco Demons and California Golden Bears. In the mid-1980s, when Davis could not acquire funding for a stadium in Los Angeles.
Ariana Grande cancels Grammys performance after fall out with producers
Gaga is also nominated in the best pop solo performance category for Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?). The hit is her latest release and it broke Spotify's record for the most plays in a 24-hour period.
Senate passes Middle East policy bill rebuking Syria troop withdrawal
The U.S. -Mexico Border: Trump devoted more time in his address to border security than nearly any other topic. The report said that when US troops withdraw, it is "unclear what would occur with the Manbij agreement".
Kentucky native Jennifer Lawrence is engaged
While we've never met her personally we feel that in some kind of alternate universe, we'd be good pals with Jennifer Lawrence . They were introduced by Jennifer Lawrence's best friend Laura Simpson , who just knew they would make the flawless pair.
The State of the Union, in pictures
Delivering the State of the Union response will give ss Abrams a launch pad for a senate campaign if she chooses to stand. Several leading GOP lawmakers have sharply criticized his plans to withdraw from Syria, as well as from Afghanistan.
India vs New Zealand 2019: 1st T20I, Westpac Stadium, Wellington - Match Prediction
Besides Pant, the others who have joined the team are spin all-rounder Krunal Pandya and Punjab pacer Siddharth Kaul. Having said that, this series is most likely to give him three such chances to prove his mettle in the given format.
Hornets 'in strong talks' to acquire Gasol
Gasol, one of the team's franchise stars, is averaging 15.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and 4.7 assists. Conley entered play Tuesday averaging 20.3 points and 6.3 assists per game in 2018-19.
Guaido Set To Open Venezuela's Oil Sector To Private Firms
Rome rejected the stronger position because it regarded it as " interference " in Venezuela's internal affairs, one diplomat said. The call came Monday from the Lima Group, which is made up of almost a dozen conservative Latin American nations and Canada.
Defense Dept inspector general says ISIS likely to "resurge" without "sustained pressure"
Salih's comments came hours after Trump appeared on CBS' " Face the Nation " claiming troops were in Iraq to keep tabs on Iran . If the meeting takes place as planned, it will be Trump's second time coming face-to-face with Kim over the previous year .
It’s official: Nobody’s hosting the 2019 Oscars
She added that speculation over the shape of the ceremony was an encouraging sign that the Oscars were still relevant. Speaking of the next presenters' list, the Academy will announce the same in the coming weeks.
Captain Marvel Super Bowl Teaser Images
Endgame's spot, as you would expect, continued the maudlin, post-snap feel that has dominated earlier footage. Marvel released the new Avengers: Endgame trailer at Super Bowl on Sunday and we simply can't keep calm.
Leafs sign Auston Matthews to lucrative 5-year contract extension
Matthews has been solid, but hasn't complicated matters with his performance this season like teammate Mitch Marner. Matthews is fourth in scoring on the team with 46 points (23 goals and 23 assists).
GM set to begin 4,000 white collar layoffs on Monday
GM is also cutting its executive ranks by 25 per cent, and last week laid off three senior people in its Washington office. GM Canada president Travis Hester has said the future of cars is electric , rather than internal combustion.
New Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Takes Heat for Corbyn Praise
Speaking to The Intercept this week, she praised Ocasio-Cortez for choosing to remind Americans of her confrontation with Flake . Following the encounter, Flake pushed for a delay in the confirmation process to allow for an FBI investigation.
India crash to worst ever T20 defeat
Fowler secures Phoenix Open win despite final-round struggles
'Modern Family' renewed for 11th and final season
As Trump seeks an exit from Afghanistan, Moscow steps in
Millennials face increased risk of cancer 'because they're so fat'
Scientists searching for owner of USB stick found frozen in seal poo
Superstar part of Barcelona's squad ahead of El Clasico against Real Madrid
Thoughts on the 4 Teams on Anthony Davis' Wish List
Fiji and U.S. into quarterfinals of men's Sydney Sevens rugby
Ronda Rousey Says Becky Lynch Needs Her to Main Event WrestleMania
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History – Part 2
Premier Standings – 2016
Male Stats – 2016
Male Stats – P.2015
Star Girls Pull Out of Female League
By efcadmin | September 13, 2015
Reprinted from Antigua Observer newspaper.
Defending champions in the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) Women’s League, Cool & Smooth Empire Star Girls, has pulled out of the ongoing 2015 competition.
President of the Empire Football Club Lennie Quashie said the team withdrew from the competition in late July following a number of lengthy delays, postponements and other factors.
“We are not in the business of withdrawing our teams and so on just like that and not giving the girls and the other players an opportunity to play but the organisation of this particular tournament has left a lot to be desired and it has really put a strain on us a s a club,” he said.
“The players’ interest has diminished significantly because of the long drawn-out schedule, a lot of postponements with late and little notice, uncertainty of venues because we started playing at Tryum, ended up at Radio Range and at one point a game or two were at King George pasture, YASCO, Recreation Grounds, we were all over the place,” he added.
The decision was taken, Quashie said, following consultation with the players, most of whom have hectic schedules outside of football.
“Obviously, these are young girls and some older ones who have families, children and who work and so on and there are times when the girls are on their way in to play and game and then we get a call to say the games are off,” the Empire president said.
“Just the long drawn-out season and poor communication, in my view, with the office (ABFA) to the clubs, we made a decision after consulting with the players to withdraw from the tournament,” he added.
Quashie said the FA must improve on its management of the women’s league if they are to keep participants interested.
The FA, he said, is seeking to host a four-team top flight league while all other teams will compete in a B league.
“I found that very interesting because I am not aware Empire was invited to any discussion as it relates to the new format of the tournament next season.
“We have about eight teams and if you can’t properly manage the eight teams then I don’t see how you are going to be running an A league with four teams and the B league with possibly 18 or 20 teams because the CONCACAF Club License calls for all Premier teams and First Division teams to have a female team,” Quashie said.
Townhouse Mega Store Ottos Tigress currently leads the competition with 33 points from 11 outings.
Clubs, according to the FIFA Licensing Programme, must have an active women’s programme to be eligible to participate in the FA’s programme.
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Sold out houses and standing ovations across the country
THEY CALL ME MISTER FRY
Einstein! ~ Celebrating 100 Years of General Relativity. This is the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed show that has over 150 performances under its belt. This 80-minute show is designed for a general audience and has played in many Performing Art Centers around the country. Einstein comes back from the beyond. Frustrated that no one has heard the real science history behind General Relativity, Albert takes us back to Berlin in 1914 where he is sent sideways in a world crumbling around him due to The Great War, colleagues trying to steal his theories, being isolated for his pacifist views, a wife who won’t give him a divorce, his
failing health, a huge scientific backlash, anti-Semitism, his own self destructive genius, and his 10-year old son fighting for his father’s affections. Told with humor, 3D graphics that help give us an insight to his brilliant mind, Albert Einstein comes to life as Jack Fry revitalizes one of the most intriguing icons of all time.
Einstein! ~ Imagination Encompasses the World. This 45-minute school version of the show is designed for 5th grade through high school. It is similar to the above description in that we take the ride of Albert’s struggles as he wrestles with his theory, family, and colleagues, but goes deeper with his thought experiments, and how his imagination played a key role in his solving relativity and helping him rise above his personal and professional challenges. With more visuals, thought experiments, and a science experiment with the students, this version gives us a deeper explanation of how using our own imaginations can improve our lives.
Both performances offer a Q and A afterwards, and a standards based study
guide to review before, after, and beyond the show.
Both shows focus on how Einstein lifted himself out of life-altering, Herculean-sized challenges with his imaginative thought experiences and gut determination. Einstein’s early years in Berlin are explored as he struggles to prove his theory of General Relativity and prove his relativity as a father.
Based on the 2007 trove of information release by Hebrew University, this play highlights the trials we all face as individuals in a world that at times, doesn’t want us to succeed.
“Funny, touching, intimate... a triumph!”
Jack Fry’s new solo show Einstein! explores Einstein’s earlier years in war torn Berlin as he struggles to prove his theory of General Relativity and prove his relativity as a father.
Based on new information recently released, this play highlights trials we all face as individuals in a world that at times doesn’t want us to succeed...
A solo play written and performed by Jack Fry and directed by Tom Blomquist
When other solo artists present important historical figures from our past, as enjoyable as these shows are, they usually talk about their accomplishments in the past tense-- making them dramatic monologues from a singular voice with limited points of view.
Mr. Fry uses many perspectives, fleshes out characters and story, creating fully realized scenes as dramatic moments unfold and blossom on stage. As audience members, we relive these wonderful points-in-time, making us witnesses to history as these remarkable figures of our past might have experienced them themselves.
Although, the traditional framework for the historic solo show is admirable. Mr. Fry takes a bold, effective and innovative approach putting the audience member in the roller coster ride next to Einstein in a way that few historical solo shows have done in the past.
Debra Ehrhardt
Award Winning Solo Artist
Jamaica Farewell
Jack Fry Reinvents the Historical Solo Form
A note from Debra Ehrhardt
The following photographs are from Ze’ Castle Photography
(they are quality enough for publishing)
The following photographs are from George I. Rand
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That leave the shores, away,
How many will be broken,
By the winds and by the waves?
Among the flying birds,
Across the seas and land,
How many will be drowned,
By the waves and by the winds?
Chasing either the good luck
Or all of your ideals,
You are followed at your back,
By the winds and by the waves.
Undeciphered is the thought
Running through your chants,
Flying over, intertwined,
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Items where Author / Artist / Editor is "Lewis, Suzan"
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Miles, Lilian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7224-757X, Lewis, Suzan, Teng, Lai Wan and Mat Yasin, Suziana (2019) Advocacy for women migrant workers in Malaysia through an Intersectionality lens. Journal of Industrial Relations . ISSN 0022-1856 (Published online first)
Stumbitz, Bianca, Lewis, Suzan, Kyei, Abigail A. and Lyon, Fergus (2018) Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: the case of Ghana. World Development, 110 . pp. 373-384. ISSN 0305-750X
Stumbitz, Bianca, Lewis, Suzan and Rouse, Julia (2018) Maternity management in SMEs: a transdisciplinary review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 20 (2). pp. 500-522. ISSN 1460-8545
van den Akker, Olga, Payne, Nicola and Lewis, Suzan (2017) Catch 22? Disclosing assisted conception treatment at work. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10 (5). pp. 364-375. ISSN 1753-8351
Lewis, Suzan, Anderson, Deirdre, Lyonette, Clare, Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2017) Public sector austerity cuts in the UK and the changing discourse of work–life balance. Work, Employment and Society, 31 (4). pp. 586-704. ISSN 0950-0170
Beham, Barbara, Drobnič, Sonja, Präg, Patrick, Baierl, Andreas and Lewis, Suzan (2017) Work-to-family enrichment and gender inequalities in eight European countries. The International Journal of Human Resource Management . ISSN 0958-5192 (Published online first)
Roper, Ian, Etherington, David and Lewis, Suzan (2017) Hollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of 'Improving Working Lives' under a 'Turnaround' plan. Employee Relations, 39 (2). pp. 145-159. ISSN 0142-5455
Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha, Prouska, Rea and Lewis, Suzan (2015) Work-life balance can benefit business during financial crisis and austerity: human resources (HR) must convince management of the need for a flexible approach. Human Resource Management International Digest, 23 (5). pp. 25-28. ISSN 0967-0734
Payne, Nicola, van den Akker, Olga, Lewis, Suzan and Constantinou, Christina (2015) Experiences of combining work and infertility treatment. BICA Journal/Journal of Fertility Counselling, 22 (1). pp. 13-16. ISSN 2049-971X
Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha, Smithson, Janet and Lewis, Suzan (2014) Focus group methodology in a life course approach – individual accounts within a peer cohort group. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17 (2). pp. 157-171. ISSN 1364-5579
Herman, Clem and Lewis, Suzan (2012) Entitled to a sustainable career? Motherhood in science, engineering and technology. Journal of Social Issues, 68 (4). pp. 767-789. ISSN 0022-4537
Pedersen, Vivi Bach and Lewis, Suzan (2012) Flexible friends? Flexible working time arrangements, blurred work-life boundaries and friendship. Work, Employment and Society, 26 (3). pp. 464-480. ISSN 0950-0170
Herman, Clem, Lewis, Suzan and Humbert, Anne Laure (2012) Women scientists and engineers in European companies: putting motherhood under the microscope. Gender, Work and Organization, 20 (5). pp. 467-478. ISSN 0968-6673
Holt, Helle and Lewis, Suzan (2011) You can stand on your head and still end up with lower pay: gliding segregation and gendered work practices in Danish 'family-friendly' workplaces. Gender, Work & Organization, 18 (S1). pp. 202-221. ISSN 0968-6673
Den Dulk, Laura, Peper, Bram, Sadar, Nevenka Černigoj, Lewis, Suzan, Smithson, Janet and Van Doorne-Huiskes, Anneke (2011) Work, family, and managerial attitudes and practices in the European workplace: comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian financial sector managers. Social Politics, 18 (2). pp. 300-329. ISSN 1072-4745
Lewis, Suzan and Humbert, Anne L. (2010) Discourse or reality: “work-life balance” flexibility and gendered organisations. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 29 (3). pp. 239-254. ISSN 2040-7149
Lewis, Suzan (2010) Reflecting on impact, changes and continuities: restructuring workplace cultures: the ultimate work-family challenge. Gender in Management, 25 (5). pp. 348-365. ISSN 1754-2413
Kossek, Ellen E., Lewis, Suzan and Hammer, Leslie B. (2010) Work-life initiatives and organizational change: overcoming mixed messages to move from the margin to the mainstream. Human Relations, 63 (1). pp. 3-19. ISSN 0018-7267
Lewis, Suzan and Van Echtel, P. (2009) Post-fordist work: a man's world? Gender and working overtime in the Netherlands. Gender and society, 23 . pp. 188-214. ISSN 1552-3977
Lewis, Suzan, Gambles, Richenda and Rapoport, Rhona (2007) The constraints of a ‘work–life balance’ approach: an international perspective. International Journal of Human Resource, 18 (3). pp. 360-373. ISSN 1466-4399
Lewis, Suzan, Kovacheva, S. and Demireva, N. (2005) Changing cultures in changing workplaces: UK and Bulgaria compared. Sotsiologicheski problemi. . ISSN 0324-1572
Haworth, John and Lewis, Suzan (2005) Work, leisure and well being. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 33 (1). pp. 67-79. ISSN 1469-3534
Lewis, Suzan, Cooper, Cary, Dyer, Jackie and Smithson, Janet (2004) Flexible working and the gender pay gap in the accountancy profession. Work, Employment and Society, 18 (1). pp. 115-135. ISSN 0950-0170
Lewis, Suzan (2003) The integration of paid work and the rest of life. Is post-industrial work the new leisure? Leisure Studies, 22 (4). pp. 343-355. ISSN 1466-4496
Lewis, Suzan, Rapoport, Rhona and Gambles, Richenda (2003) Reflections on the integration of work and personal life. Journal of managerial psychology, 18 . pp. 824-841. ISSN 0268-3946
Lewis, Suzan and Smithson, Janet (2001) Sense of entitlement to support for the reconciliation of employment and family life. Human Relations, 54 (11). pp. 1455-1481. ISSN 0018-7267
Lewis, Suzan and Sullivan, C. (2001) Home-based telework: gender and the synchronisation of work and family: perspectives of teleworkers and their co-residents. Gender, Work & Organization, 8 (2). pp. 123-145. ISSN 0968-6673
Lewis, Suzan (2001) Restructuring workplace cultures: the ultimate work-family challenge? Women in Management Review, 16 (1). pp. 21-29. ISSN 0964-9425
Lewis, Suzan, Kagan, C. and Heaton, P. (2000) Dual earner parents with disabled children: patterns for working and caring. Journal of family issues., 21 (8). pp. 1031-1060. ISSN 1552-5481
Lewis, Suzan and Smithson, Janet (2000) Is job insecurity changing the psychological contract? Personnel Review, 29 (6). pp. 680-702. ISSN 0048-3486
Lewis, Suzan, Kagan, C. and Heaton, P. (2000) Managing work-family diversity for parents of disabled children: beyond policy to practice and partnership. Personnel Review, 29 (3). pp. 417-430. ISSN 0048-3486
Lewis, Suzan and Beauregard, T. Alexandra (2018) The meanings of work-life balance: a cultural perspective. In: The Cambridge handbook of the global work-family interface. Johnson, Ryan C., Shen, Winny and Kristen, Shockley, eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 720-732. ISBN 9781108415972
Lewis, Suzan and Stumbitz, Bianca (2017) Research on work and family – some issues and challenges. In: Fathers in Work Organizations: Inequalities and Capabilities, Rationalities and Politics. Liebig, Brigitte and Oechsle, Mechthild, eds. Barbara Budrich, Opladen, pp. 227-245. ISBN 978-3847407034
Marzano, Lisa, Al-Ayoubi, Laila, Bardill, Andy, Herd, Kate, Vale, David, Grey, Nick and Moran, Paul (2017) Making a difference with ‘smartphone psychology’: can mobile digital technologies help create new insights into self-harming behaviours? In: Making a Difference with Psychology. Niven, Karen, Lewis, Suzan and Kagan, Carolyn, eds. Richard Benjamin Trust, United Kingdom, pp. 139-147. ISBN 9781788085670
Lyonette, Clare, Lewis, Suzan, Anderson, Deirdre, Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2016) Work–life balance and austerity: Implications of new ways of working in British public sector organisations. In: Work–Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond. Routledge, New York, pp. 63-77.
Lyonette, Clare, Lewis, Suzan, Anderson, Deirdre, Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2016) Work–life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond. In: Work–Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond. Routledge, New York, pp. 63-77.
Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha and Lewis, Suzan (2011) From ‘balancers’ to ‘integrators’? Young professionals’ talk about ‘work’ and the rest of ‘life’ in the UK. In: Creating Balance? International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals. Kaiser, Stephan, Ringlstetter, Max Josef, Eikhof, Doris Ruth and Pina e Cunha, Miguel, eds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47-63. ISBN 9783642161988
Lewis, Suzan, Kagan, C. and Brennan, Eileen M. (2008) Building community supports for work-life integration. In: Work, life, and the mental health system of care: a guide for professionals supporting families of children with emotional or behavioral disorders. Rosenzweig, Julie M. and Brennan, Eileen M., eds. Brookes, Baltimore. ISBN 9781557668271
Lewis, Suzan and Roper, Ian (2008) Flexibility and work-life balance. In: Human resource management: a case study approach. Muller-Camen, Michael, Croucher, Richard and Leigh, Susan, eds. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London, pp. 181-199. ISBN 9781843981657
Lewis, Suzan and Roper, Ian (2008) Flexible working arrangements: from work-life to gender equity policies. In: The Oxford handbook of personnel psychology. Cartwright, Susan and Cooper, Cary L., eds. Oxford U. P., Oxford. ISBN 9780199234738
Humbert, Anne L. and Lewis, Suzan (2008) I have no other life than work: long working hours, blurred boundaries and family life: the case of Irish entrepreneurs. In: The long work hours culture, causes, consequences and choices. Burke, Ronald J. and Cooper, Cary L., eds. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISBN 9781848550384
Lewis, Suzan, Purcell, C., Smithson, Janet and Caton, C. (2007) Work-life balance: best practices and healthy organisations: a European perspective. In: Well-being: individual, community and social perspectives. Haworth, John and Hart, Graham, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230001688
Lewis, Suzan (2007) Working time, client time and family time: accounting for time in the accountancy profession. In: Competing claims in work and family life. Lippe, Tanja van der and Peters, Pascale, eds. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781845427511
Lewis, Suzan, Guerreiro, Das Dores and Brannen, Julia (2006) Using case studies in work-family research. In: The work and family handbook: multi-disciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches. Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie, Kossek, Ellen Ernst and Sweet, Stephen A., eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J.. ISBN 9780805850253
Lewis, Suzan and Sullivan, C. (2006) Work at home and the work-family interface. In: Work-life balance: a psychological perspective. Jones, Fiona, Burke, Ronald J. and Vestman, Minah, eds. Psychology Press, Hove, pp. 143-162. ISBN 1841695297
Lewis, Suzan and Smithson, Janet (2006) The psychological contract. In: Effective Psychological Contract: Implications for HR Practices. Chaudhari, Sushama, ed. Human Resources Management . ICFAI Books, Hyderabad, India. ISBN 8131400808
Lewis, Suzan, Rapoport, Rhona, Bailyn, Lotte and Gambles, Richenda (2005) Globalization and the integration of work with personal life. In: Work and family: an international research perspective. Poelmans, Steven A. Y., ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J. ISBN 9780805848816
Lewis, Suzan and Rapoport, Rhona (2005) Looking backwards to go forwards: the integration of paid work and personal life. In: Flexible working and organisational change: the integration of work and personal life. Peper, Bram, Doorne-Huiskes, J. van and Dulk, Laura den, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, pp. 298-312. ISBN 9781843766186
Lewis, Suzan and Haas, L. (2005) Work-life integration and social policy: a social justice theory and gender equity approach to work and family. In: Work and life integration: organizational, cultural, and individual perspectives. Kossek, Ellen Ernst and Lambert, Susan J., eds. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J. ISBN 9781410611529
Lewis, Suzan (2004) Integrating work and personal life: leadership past, present and future. In: Leading in turbulent times: managing in the new world of work. Burke, Ronald J. and Cooper, Cary L., eds. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 140511522X
Lewis, Suzan (2003) Flexible working arrangements: implementation, outcomes and management. In: International review of industrial and organizational psychology. Cooper, Cary L. and Robertson, Ivan, eds. Wiley, Chichester.
Lewis, Suzan (2002) Current trends in work-life research. In: Advancing women's careers: research and practice. Burke, Ronald J. and Nelson, Debra L., eds. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9780631223894
Lewis, Suzan and Dyer, Jackie (2002) Work-family cultural changes: company initiatives. In: The new world of work: challenges and opportunities. Cooper, Cary L. and Burke, Ronald J., eds. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 0631222782
Lewis, Suzan and Harker, L. (2001) Work-life policies: where should the government go next? In: A life's work: achieving full and fulfilling employment. Burkitt, Nick, ed. IPPR, London. ISBN 9781860301636
Lewis, Suzan (2000) Organisational change and gender equity: case studies from the UK. In: Organizational change & gender equity: international perspectives on fathers and mothers at the workplace. Haas, Linda, Hwang, Philip O. and Russell, Graeme, eds. Sage Publications., Thousand Oaks, Calif.. ISBN 9780761910442
Lewis, Suzan and Brannen, Julia (2000) Workplace programmes and policies in the UK. In: Organizational change & gender equity: international perspectives on fathers and mothers at the workplace. Haas, Linda, Hwang, Philip O. and Russell, Graeme, eds. Sage Publications., Thousand Oaks, Calif.. ISBN 9780761910442
Lewis, Suzan, Etherington, David, Mark, Annabelle L. and Brookes, Michael (2008) Comparative report on the innovation groups. Project Report. Middlesex University/Utrecht University.
Etherington, David, Lewis, Suzan and Mark, Annabelle L. (2008) Emerging themes: (D4.1) UK. Project Report. Middlesex University/Utrecht University.
Lewis, Suzan and Smithson, Janet (2006) Final Report of the EU Framework V project Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace (Transitions). Project Report. Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC).
Smithson, Janet and Lewis, Suzan (2005) Summary Report on National Debates on the Reconciliation of Family and Employment, from the EU Framework V project Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace (Transitions). Project Report. Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC).
Kagan, Carolyn and Lewis, Suzan (2015) Community, work and family and the metamorphosis of social change. In: 6th Community, Work and Family Conference: Towards meaningful relations in space and time, 19-22 May 2015, Malmo, Sweden.
Payne, Nicola, Lewis, Suzan, Constantinou, Christina and van den Akker, Olga (2014) Sense of entitlement to workplace support for infertility treatment. In: Work and Family Researchers Network Conference (WFRN): Changing Work and Family Relationships in a Global Economy, 19-21 Jun 2014, New York, USA.
Payne, Nicola, van den Akker, Olga, Constantinou, Christina and Lewis, Suzan (2014) Work-life balance and medically assisted reproduction (MAR): MAR uses experiences of workplace support. In: 11th Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 14-16 Apr 2014, London, United Kingdom.
Anderson, Deirdre, Lewis, Suzan, Lyonette, C., Payne, Nicola and Wood, S. (2013) Work-life balance policies, practices and discourse and public sector cuts. In: The BPS Division of Occupational Psychology Conference 2013: Connecting and contributing to make a difference, 09-11 Jan 2013, Chester, UK.
Lyonette, Clare, Anderson, Deirdre, Lewis, Suzan, Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2013) New ways of working and the implications for work-life balance. In: Work, Employment and Society Conference: States of Work: Visions and Interpretations of Work, Employment, Society and the State, 03-05 Sep 2013, Warwick, UK.
Lewis, Suzan (2010) Towards new conceptions of work-life balance: session on recognising the role of men in achieving work-life balance in a globalised world. In: The second Arab women leadership forum: women’s leadership in organizations: towards new conceptions of work-life balance, January 12-13, 2010, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Dubai,.
Niven, Karen, Lewis, Suzan and Kagan, Carolyn, eds. (2017) Making a Difference with Psychology. Richard Benjamin Trust, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-1-788808-566-3
Lewis, Suzan, Lyonette, Clare, Anderson, Deirdre, Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2016) Work–life balance in times of recession, austerity and beyond. Routledge, New York.
Lewis, Suzan, Stumbitz, Bianca, Miles, Lilian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7224-757X and Rouse, Julia (2014) Maternity protection in SMEs: an international review. International Labour Organization, Geneva. ISBN 9789221290650
Lewis, Suzan, Brannen, Julia and Nilsen, Ann (2009) Work, family and organisations in transition: a European perspective. Policy Press, Bristol. ISBN 9781847422200
Lewis, Suzan, Crompton, Rosemary and Lyonette, Clare (2007) Women, men, work and family in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781403987198
Lewis, Suzan and Cooper, Cary (2006) Work-life integration: case studies of organisational change. Wiley, Chichester. ISBN 9780470853436
Lewis, Suzan, Gambles, Richenda and Rapoport, Rhona (2006) The myth of work-life balance: the challenge of our time for men, women and societies. Wiley, Chichester. ISBN 0470094613
Lewis, Suzan, Cooper, Cary and Smithson, Janet (2004) The flexible and profitable workplace : a guide to implementing flexible working practices in professional services. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales., London. ISBN 9781841522449
Lewis, Suzan, Klee, Hilary and Jackson, Marcia (2002) Drug misuse and motherhood. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415271943
Lewis, Suzan, Brannen, Julia, Nilsen, Ann and Smithson, Janet (2002) Young Europeans, work and family: futures in transition. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415248464
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Launch of Charity Property Matters Survey 2014
45% of charities now consider their property poses the greatest risk to their long term survival - up 4% on 2012 figures.
One third of charities have not paid for any property advice in the last three years.
A further 40% rely on informal advice from friends and contacts.
Today the Ethical Property Foundation publishes the 2014 Charity Property Matters Survey in partnership with the Charity Commission.
The survey is the only research in the UK which covers property issues facing the voluntary sector. It further reveals:
• Over 40% experience difficulty in obtaining core funding to cover premises costs.
• Over a quarter cannot borrow to purchase a building.
• 57% are either planning or would consider sharing space to reduce costs.
• 80% do not consider their voice is heard by local authorities in local strategic planning.
“This survey paints a stark picture of a worried and hard pressed third sector squeezed between fear and ignorance, balancing austerity conditions against growing demand for their services.” says Foundation Director Antonia Swinson. “It reveals the impact of property management on a charity’s work and on their bottom line. Property is the largest budget line but as the survey shows, also poses the biggest threat to long term survival. Relying on friends and colleagues for property advice is a risky business not least for the beneficiaries charities serve.”
“There’s a job to do to raise awareness about the support available, but there are also opportunities for the commercial property industry, charity grant funders and trustees to get involved.”
Speaking at the survey launch last night at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, before a capacity audience of senior charity and property professionals, Charity Commissioner Paula Sussex said, “I am delighted that for the second time, the Charity Commission has worked in partnership with the Ethical Property Foundation on this Survey. Property queries are one of the most common type of inquiries we receive from charities, and organisations like the Ethical Property Foundation are vital in providing guidance and support to them. Property, whilst a great asset, also comes with risks, and charities must be sure to include such considerations in their planning and decision-making.”
The survey can be downloaded here
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Frontrunner in a slow race? Montenegro’s EU integration path
Venue: European Policy Centre
These events are only open to EPC members, EU officials and the media, unless specified otherwise.
H.E. Bojan Šarkić, Ambassador of the Republic of Montenegro to the European Union
Thomas Hagleitner, Head of Montenegro Unit, DG NEAR, European Commission
Zlatko Vujović, President of the Governing Board, Centre for Monitoring and Research
Nikoleta Đukanović, Executive Director, Centre for Monitoring and Research
Ana Đurnić, Public Policy Researcher, Institute Alternative
Corina Stratulat, Senior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre (Moderator)
Participation request
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Book Review: Winter by Marissa Meyer
The Lunar Chronicles #4
Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Retelling, Fairytale
Publication.Date: November 10, 2015
Published By: Feiwel and Friends
Website: Marissa Meyer
Winter on Goodreads
My review copy:
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?
"I'm sorry," said Scarlet, her voice teetering with exhaustion. "It's just . . . I smell so awful, I can hardly stand to be around myself right now, so I can't imagine what it's like for you and your sense of sm-"
Batting her hand away, Wolf dug his fingers into Scarlet's hair and crushed his mouth against her. Her protests died with a muffled gasp."
This time, she did collapse, her legs unable to hold her a second longer. Wolf fell with her, dropping to his knees to break Scarlet's fall and cradling her body against his.
"My point is that I am going to figure this out, like I always do. First, we're going to find a way to get into Artemisisa. we're going to find Cress and rescue Cinder and Wolf. We're going to overthrow Levant, and by the stars above, we are going to make Cinder a queen so she can pay us a lot of money from her royal coffers and we can all retire very rich and very alive, got it?"
Winter started to clap. "Brilliant speech. Such gumption and bravado."
"And yet strangely lacking in any sort of actual strategy," said Scarlet.
"Oh, good, I'm glad you noticed that too," said Iko.
Thorne's voice pitched high in imitation of the queen. "The imposter of my beloved niece is vanquished . . . Let us put this messiness behind us while we got forward with the coronations . . . I am a psychotic, power-hungry nut basket and my breath smells really bad under this veil."
You guys . . . it's over. I can't believe that it's over. The Lunar Chronicles has ended - unless you count the mini epilogue in Stars Above, where there's going to be a wedding! I'm not sure who I'm hoping is getting married more. Do you have high hopes for one pairing over another?
The Lunar Chronicles has been an excellect series and while I was sad to see it go, it also felt like time. And with a 800 page book, Marissa could have easily split it into two, but at the same time there was so much going on, I don't know where she would have split it up. (Take note, Hollywood. Series ending YA adaptions don't always need a part 1 and part 2. *cough*Everything after Harry Potter*cough*)
I read Winter over the course have two days, because yes, that good. There are many intense moments that I had me wide eyed and gasping. Times when I flipped the pages because I had to know what was going to happen, and chapters I reread because the feels were just too strong to ignore.
Maybe because it's the impeding doom and possible death, but they just laid it all on the table. Characters became who they were always meant to be (looking at you, Cress) and others became stronger versions of who they already were. I know characters typically grow throughout a series, but we haven't spent the entire series with all of them and even those characters who have only been recently introduced go through crazy development.
I was fortunate enough to find a co-worker who is as much in love with this series that I am and we fangirled over every moment together. And then discussed how much better at being an evil queen than Levana we'd be, but that's a whole different topic of discussion.
Winter is that quintessential series ending. There's no lagging, no unnecessary drama, everything serves a purpose, and all lose ends are tied up. If you were waiting for Winter to come out to read this series (I know there are people out there who only read completed series), wait no longer. Put these books on your Christmas list and binge out over the holiday season. You'll benefit from the back to back read - I myself got lost in Recaptains prior to release date - and find yourself a favorite new series to love and adore.
And then come back here and we can gush over the perfection that is Scarlet and Wolf.
Labels: Book Review, Fairytale, Retelling, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult
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A lot has changed since Sebastian Vettel won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix for the ex-Minardi team.
Still Red Bull owned, the Faenza-based team can no longer stand on the shoulders of its parent team and has had to become a constructor in its own right. Ben Butler joined over the winter as chief designer to work with technical director Giorgio Ascanelli, and the result is an evolution of last year's car.
In tough circumstances, this year is all about achieving respectability.
Chassis: STR5
Engine: Ferrari 056
Starts: 79
Debut: Bahrain '06
Wins: 1
Fastest laps: 0
Driver titles: 0
Const. titles: 0
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Home » All Forums » [Miscellaneous Forums] » Miscellaneous - Off Topic & "Lighter Fare" » Field Report: Leah Chase Memorial Second Line in Treme
Field Report: Leah Chase Memorial Second Line in Treme
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Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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Re: Field Report: Leah Chase Memorial Second Line in Treme 2019/06/14 11:43:05 (permalink)
Lovely New York Times slide show of Leah Chase's jazz funeral:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/13/us/new-orleans-funerals.html?searchResultPosition=1
Media flew in from all over the world for Miss Leah's funeral. We saw credentials from all over the place.
JoyB
Very cool. She was one of a kind. RIP Miss Leah!
Since it seems that a lot of the second lines are put on by individual social organizations, how does a special event line like this work? Is it kind of like an all-star game, with each organization represented by a few individuals? Or is it more of a wide open, all-are-welcome party?
The Chase family have lived in Treme for generations. The restaurant is just around the corner from the Zulu headquarters (those are the men you see in matching yellow jackets).
The Original Royal Players Brass Band leader Anthony Bennett grew up in Treme.
Miss Leah's funeral was at St Peter Claver, just a few blocks from her restaurant and also in Treme.
If a luminary passes in 9th Ward for example you'd see a similar collaboration between forces from that neighborhood.
All are welcome no matter what neighborhood you're from.
The Dr John memorial second line had thousands of people from all over New Orleans and, I would suspect the world.
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Colour slides from the German ghetto administration in Lodz
In 1987 almost 500 colour slides from the ghetto in Lodz turned up in an antiquarian bookshop in Vienna. We acquired these slides and made them the focal point of an exhibition in 1990 on the history of that ghetto; it was the first ghetto of its kind in Poland during the German occupation.
Economy and Forced Labour in the Ghetto
The photographer’s main focus were the commercial businesses in the ghetto which produced goods for the Wehrmacht, for German private companies and for the ghetto’s own supplies. The series of slides was probably made with the aim of acquiring production contracts for the businesses in the ghetto. The title of the exhibition "Unser einziger Weg ist Arbeit" points to the significance of forced labour for the survival of the ghetto; it was the motto of Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish self-administration.
Our research revealed that the photographs were taken between 1940 and 1944 by the financial manager of the German ghetto administration, Walter Genewein, who was from Salzburg. They show the borders of the ghetto from inside and outside, a visit to the ghetto by Heinrich Himmler and other high-ranking Nazi officials, the leading employees of the German ghetto administration and the Jewish "self-administration" of the ghetto. Genewein also photographed street scenes and individual inhabitants of the ghetto as well as the various organisations there.
Hans Biebow, head of the German ghetto administration, to Werner Ventzki, Lord Mayor of Lodz, 19.4.1943
...it is no longer possible to vindicate the nourishment of the Jews in its current form because otherwise it would result in a drop in efficiency, to the disadvantage of the Wehrmacht.
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Street of houses in the ghetto Łódź, between 1940 and 1944
© Jewish Museum Frankfurt; Photo: Walter Genewein
Child labor in the sadlerty of the ghetto Łódź, between 1940 and 1944
German guard at the fence of the ghetto in Łódź, bewteen1940 and 1944
Arrival of a deportatio train from Germany in the ghetto Łódź, October / November 1941
Reactions of Contemporary Witnesses
Witnesses who survived the ghetto in Lodz reacted with alienation and partly shocked to these colour slides. The gaze of the photographer in question on the commercial exploitation and annihilation of the ghetto inhabitants differed so much from their own inner images and memories. Genewein’s photographs at most just hint at the hunger, disease, deportation and death which coloured everyday life in the ghetto.
126 of those colour slides were published in the catalogue to the exhibition ("Unser einziger Weg is Arbeit". Das Getto in Lodz 1940-1944. Vienna: Löcker, 1990). The colour slides also formed the basis for the 1998 documentary film Fotoamator / Photographers y the Polish director Dariusz Jablonski, which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize, among others.
Here you find and overview of all color slides and a description.
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40° 3' 49.867" N
Longitude E
4° 1' 59.182" E
Nominal range
26 nautical miles
Height above sea level
94 m.
Light pattern
Group of 2 flashes every 10 seconds.
Daytime appearance
White tower and house. Height 15 m.
This is one of the four lighthouses projected by Antonio López y Montalvo and is the only one still in service together with that of Es Penjats.
It was opened in March 1, 1857 with a 2nd order optic for a fixed light manufactured by the Sautter firm. Over 700 shipwrecks had taken place in this area since the 14th Century and this continued to happen even after the opening of the lighthouse, motivating the construction of lighthouses at Punta Natí and Favàritx.
In 1911 an incandescent Luchaire lamp was installed but due to the fact that this type of lamp was not commonly employed in Spanish lighthouse it was not found simple to use.
In 1922 the old fixed 2nd order lens was replaced by a 500m focal distance 3rd order lens, the old polygonal lantern was replaced by a cylindrical lantern with curved glass and vertical fittings. The new light pattern consisted of groups of two white flashes every 10 seconds. The incandescent Luchaire lamp was replaced by the more common 85mm Chance lamp with which the Balearic Islands lighthouse keepers were much more familiar. The old olive oil burning reserve lamp was replaced by a double wick Maris lamp. The light was fuelled by petrol in the 1980s, the last lighthouse in the Balearic Islands to do so.
After the 1922 modifications a service road was specially built from Mercadal. Beforehand the only access was though private land with the landowner’s permission. However the route changed from year to year depending on the crops.
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Allocation of uses of the land of Cap Cavalleria lighthouse
Allocation of uses of buildings from the Lighthouse of Cap Cavalleria
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MARS 1998 : 61 HACKADE WEBBSIDOR
AQ Art & Design
Original site: http://www.datom.se/aq/
Hacked by: zhad0w & wierdo
Date: Monday, March 30th, 1998
Original site: http://www.sverigedemokraterna.se/lokalavd.html
Hacked by: ?
Notes: Click on the green line, and select "Open this image".
Date: Monday, March 23rd, 1998
Yunasoft
Original site: http://www.yunasoft.gr.jp
Date: Tuesday, March 17th, 1998
Online Superstore
Original site: http://www.onlinesuperstore.com
Hacked by: zipoff & HoSSeR
Date: Friday, March 13th, 1998
Original site: http://zeus.arc.nasa.gov/
Hacked by: Magica de Bin
Multiple domains [2]
Original site: http://www.tc.co.kr
http://playboy.tc.co.kr
Hacked by: Shadow Guru & Tribal Ghost
Notes: The domain playboy.tc.co.kr is a subdomain to
www.tc.co.uk created by Shadow Guru & Tribal Ghost
Tae Chang
Original site: http://hotmail.tc.co.kr
Notes: The domain hotmail.tc.co.kr is a subdomain to
Naval Space Command
Original site: http://www.navspace.navy.mil
Hacked by: No|d crew
Date: Monday, March 9th, 1998
Physics Dep. Brookhaven Nat. Lab.
Original site: http://www.phy.bnl.gov
Hacked by: Toxic 'n Xnec
Notes: Includes a link to Flashback Community
Keystone Central School District
Original site: http://oak.kcsd.k12.pa.us/
Hacked by: Zyklon
Original site: http://www.learninglink.org
Mirror site: ---
City of Poquoson, Virginia
Original site: http://www.ci.poquoson.va.us
IndoMarco Adi Prima
Original site: http://www.indomarco.com
Hacked by: BoKePH MeMeNDeZ & CYBeR BuG
Cheesi Software
Original site: http://www.cheesi.net
Notes: One of three like attacks
Date: Sunday, March 8th, 1998
BPK Penabur
Original site: http://www.bpkpenabur.org
Suharto Organization
Original site: http://www.soeharto.org/
Rainbow Casino
Original site: http://www.rainbowcasino.com
Hacked by: Seal
US Army 7th Signal Brigade
Original site: http://www.7sigbde.army.mil
US Army Air Defense Artillery School
Original site: http://bliss.www.army.mil
US Army Executive Software Systems
Original site: http://www.essd.army.mil
Patricia Seybold Group
Original site: http://www.psgroup.com
Original site: http://62.108.2.54
Hacked by: Noid / TechVoodoo Project
Original site: http://www.jpost.co.il
Hacked by: Claire Danes hacker
Date: Saturday, March 7th, 1998
Original site: http://www.sos.state.mi.us
http://www.whro.org
http://helios.whro.org
http://www.learninglink.org
http://www.current.org
http://www.ci.poquoson.va.us
Notes: Second attack
All domains had same hacked page
Date: Friday, March 6th, 1998
Notes: First attack
Original site: http://www.unrae.com
Hacked by: brain candy
Date: Thursday, March 5th, 1998
Multiple domains [16]
Original site: http://www.usa-cybermall.com
http://www.interradio.com
http://www.interquiz.com
http://www.intergolfer.com
http://www.greatcyber.com
http://www.interbooking.com
http://www.intermemo.com
http://www.usa-cybermall.com
http://www.zaw.org
http://www.sporting-club.com
http://www.pmvideo.com
http://www.mikegable.com
http://www.my-cybershop.com
http://www.interverband.com
http://www.intertrip.com
http://www.interteetime.com
Notes: All domains had same hacked page
NAMBLA
Original site: http://www.nambla.org
Hacked by: 74074!
Yuzuncu Yil Univeristy, Turkey
Original site: http://ns.yyu.edu.tr
Date: Wednesday, March 4th, 1998
NetDex, Inc.
Original site: http://www.netdex.com
Hacked by: Analyzer
Notes: More info here:
Wired: ISP Homepage Hacker Taunts FBI
Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 1998
Izmir College, Turkey
Original site: http://www.oil.edu.tr
Hacked by: Painfall
Universite Bordeaux, France
Original site: http://www.scico.u-bordeaux2.fr
Persatuan Hackers Indonesia
Original site: http://www.phie.org
Hacked by: CHRiZTiaNZ WaReZ
Date: Sunday, March 1st, 1998
Global One
Original site: http://www.global-one.net
Hacked by: Simon
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by Fion Fong
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Bill & Melinda Gates
How will technology dramatically change the lives of the poor by 2030?
"We bet that life for the poor will improve more dramatically in the next 15 years than ever before."
Four areas believed to undergo the most change:
-Online education will drastically improve world education bringing high quality learning to those who live in poorer areas.
-Research and development of new vaccines and getting them out to children. Invested most money here.
-Rotavirus vaccine for diarrhea.
-Research and development of better seeds. Better education of farmers to grow more than one crop per season.
-Credit for farmers to purchase fertilizer.
-Increase African farming productivity so they are able to feed themselves. Africa will have a sovereign choice on whether or not to use GMOs. (GMOs seeds are stronger and more tolerant to harsh weather.) Their productivity can help feed the world as well.
-"As people eat more meat, there is an inefficiency that you have to grow more grain to make the equivalent number of calories in meat."
-The impact of a more productive seed is much more influential that paying money for food to be delivered as a hand out to the poor.
Vegetarians have it right - we'll run out of food by 2050 if we don't cut down on meat.
By Helena Horton.
The Nature Climate Change commission has warned that if we don't change the way we eat and farm, we will run out of food by 2050 and raise the temperature of the planet by 2 degrees Celcius.
Over 35% of of the Earth's permanent ice-free land is used for food production, which has been the greatest driver of deforestation and associated biodiversity loss.
We then need more space to rear the livestock- and not all of the crop is reabsorbed into the food web. We only get a mere 2.6% return on the crops we feed to the critters, through meat and dairy. We would get far more biomass efficiency if we just ate the crops.
The inefficiency is shown by the fact that the productivity of our cropland should be 8.3 pentagrams of carbon a year. However, we only deliver 0.7 pentagrams worth of carbon in our food. This is partly because we are using the land inefficiently by using it to rear and feed livestock.
Cropland, not including livestock feed will need a 60% increase by 2050 according to the report. However, including livestock feed this increases to 100%. This means that the amount of deforestation which takes place will double.
Because forests are the 'lungs of the Earth', this is going to drastically affect Global Warming. The amount of greenhouse gases we emit will increase by 77% by 2050 if this deforestation takes place. If we change our diets, we can reduce this to 45%.
The commission recommended that everyone in the world eats just 2 portions of meat a week maximum, to reduce this strain on our crops. We currently eat 5 portions a week on average in the UK, with some people managing 10.
Perhaps the solution isn't more urban farms but a change in our diet. How will this affect the culture of the world? How can you convince people tho eat less meat? To give up something they like; a luxury? How can I make the alternatives more appealing?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/vegetarians-right--well-run-out-4144519
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How the U.S. manages to waste $165 billion in food each year.
Brad Pulmer. 22 Aug 2012.
Each year, about 40 percent of all food in the United States goes uneaten. It's just tossed out or left to rot. And that's a fairly large waste of resources. All that freshwater and land, all that fertilizer and energy — for nothing. By one recent estimate, Americans are squandering the equivalent of $165 billion each year by rubbishing so much food.
How does the food actually get wasted? For that, here's a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council that tries to track food waste up and down the system, from "farm to fork." My colleague Dina El Boghdady has already highlighted some of the report's conclusions — including the fact that Europe does a better job of curtailing waste than the United States. But it's worth looking at where food actually gets wasted each step of the way. So let's follow the steps:
1) Farming: Roughly 7 percent of the produce that's grown in the United States simply gets stranded on fields each year. Some growers plant more crops than there's demand for, to hedge against disease and weather. Some produce goes unpicked because it doesn't meet standards for shape and color. At times, perfectly fine crops go unharvested after food-safety scares, such as the FDA's salmonella warning in 2008. Fluctuating immigration laws in states like Georgia can also create shortages of farmworkers, which can leave food unpicked.
2) Post-harvest and packing: After crops have been gathered from the fields, farmers tend to cull produce to make sure it meets minimum standards for size, color, and weight. "One large cucumber farmer," the NRDC report notes, "estimated that fewer than half the vegetables he grows actually leave his farm and that 75 percent of the cucumbers culled before sale are edible." If there's a culprit here, it's our high aesthetic standards for food.
3) Processing and distribution: Plenty of food gets trimmed in the manufacturing stage, though much of it is inedible anyway. Technical malfunctions in processing and refrigeration are one big factor. Food can sometimes sit too long at improper temperatures and spoil. Another issue is that stores often reject shipments — and it's often difficult for distributors to find a new taker. After all, it's not as if food banks can always find a home for a truckload of rejected beets.
4) Retail and grocery stores: Grocery stores are another huge source of rubbished food — with the USDA estimating that supermarkets toss out $15 billion worth of unsold fruits and vegetables alone each year. Stores would rather overstock their shelves and throw out the remainder than look empty. Supermarkets will also winnow out produce that's in subpar condition, since few shoppers want to buy an apple that's all bruised up.
There's also the issue of "sell by" expiration dates. The report cites one industry estimate that each store throws out, on average, $2,300 worth of food each day because the products have neared their expiration date. Yet most of this food is still edible. In many states, it's still perfectly legal to sell food past its expiration date. Many stores would just prefer not to — it looks bad. "Most stores, in fact, pull items 2 to 3 days before the sell-by date," the NRDC report observes.
5) Food service and restaurants: In restaurants, a good chunk of food is lost in the kitchen. And, on average, diners leave about 17 percent of their food uneaten. The report notes that portion sizes are a big reason for this, as portions have ballooned in the past 30 years. Restaurants also try to keep more food than they need on hand to make sure that everything on the menu is available. What's more, chain restaurants have inflexible rules that require perfectly good food to be tossed. McDonald's, for instance, requires fries to be thrown out after seven minutes. About one-tenth of fast food gets junked this way.
6) Households: This appears to be the big one. According to various estimates, American families throw out between 14 and 25 percent of the food and beverages they buy. This can cost the average family between $1,365 to $2,275 annually. A big factor here, the NRDC report notes, is that food has become so cheap and readily available. The report also notes there's a great deal of confusion around expiration labels, which tend to be confusing and often prompt people to throw out food prematurely. (The British government has recently moved to revise these standards to make them less perplexing.)
7) Disposal: Not all discarded food is equal. The report estimates that only 3 percent of thrown-out food in the United States is composted. Most end up in landfills, where they decompose and release methane, a powerful heat-trapping greenhouse gas. In fact, about 23 percent of U.S. methane emissions comes from landfill food. Composting or even technologies to capture methane could reduce that.
The NRDC report argues that it is feasible to limit this food waste, if people were inclined (although it's not clear how big a reduction is possible). Granted, some waste is inevitable. If shoppers don't want to buy dented avocados or funny-looking carrots, there's not much a grocery store can do.
Still, the report notes that Americans today waste 50 percent more food than they did in the 1970s, which suggests that there's a fair bit of room to improve. What's more, Britain has managed to reduce the amount of household food tossed out by 18 percent over the past five years through a combination of public-awareness campaigns and resolutions by leading retailers to eliminate their downstream waste.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/22/how-food-actually-gets-wasted-in-the-united-states/
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British-produced food would run out today - farmers warn.
The Telegraph. 14 Aug 2013.
Falling self-sufficiency means Britain produces less than two-thirds (62%) of the food the country consumes, down from 75% in 1991, the National Farmers' Union said.
If all the food produced in the UK in a year were stored and eaten from January 1, the ''cupboard'' would be bare by August 14, the NFU has calculated.
''Right across the board farmers have a fantastic natural capacity to produce more British food, given the right market signals and the confidence to invest. We have the right technologies to produce more from less, with precision farming helping to target fertiliser and crop protection products within centimetres.
''Laser technology can even pinpoint an individual weed, improving accuracy and efficiency. Crops grown under cover help to lengthen the season for our British fruits.
The UK imports £37.6 billion in food and drink and while it is a trading nation, in times of economic uncertainty a strong food-producing industry is essential, Mr Kendall said.
He also urged the public to put pressure on their local supermarkets, restaurants and MPs to back British farming. The NFU is launching a charter which people can sign to support the UK's farming industry.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/10241070/British-produced-food-would-run-out-today-farmers-warn.html
This terrifying chart shows we’re not growing enough food to feed the world
By Brad Plumer July 1, 2013
The global population is expected to swell from 7 billion today to 9.6 billion by 2050. The rising middle class in China and India is eating more meat than ever. And this is all happening at a time when we're setting aside a greater slice of farmland for biofuels and trying not to cut down any more forests (which exacerbates climate change).
In theory, there's a simple solution here: The world's farmers will just need to get better at squeezing more productivity out of existing farmland. Crop yields have been steadily improving since the advent of synthetic fertilizer and modern agricultural techniques. So those yields will just need to keep improving in the years to come.
But there's a big problem: This isn't happening. Or at least, it's not happening fast enough. A recent peer-reviewed study in the journal PLOS ONE found that crop yields haven't been rising at a sufficient pace to meet projected demand by 2050. The solid lines show what would happen if this growth continued. And it's not enough. The dashed lines above show how productivity would need to grow even more rapidly for the world to satisfy expected demand and double global food production by 2050 in a sustainable manner, without razing more forests for farmland.
"In many parts of the world, we haven't seen enough investment in agriculture because of economics or policies or institutions," he said. But in some parts of the world, there's a more worrisome prospect — farmers are doing everything they can to squeeze more productivity out of their farmland, but they're starting to hit a biological "wall," a limit on how much yields can keep rising.
And this is all a worry even before we start talking about global warming, which creates its own set of issues. Scientists like David Lobell have found evidence that extreme heat waves could hurt crop yields in the decades ahead, outweighing the benefits of warmer temperatures. And if climate change brings more frequent droughts — as some researchers expect — that would make a further dent.
In a 2009 essay (pdf) for Scientific American, Foley argued that the world should focus on five big things: 1)Stop razing forests and savannahs for farmland — by, for instance, shifting away from crop-based biofuels. 2) Focus on boosting yields where it's technologically doable, especially in Africa. 3) Figure out how to use water and fertilizer more efficiently everywhere. 4) Pare back the amount of meat in our diets. 5) Cut down on the enormous amount of food waste worldwide.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/01/this-unsettling-chart-shows-were-not-growing-enough-food-to-feed-the-world/
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Building a sustainable food source: How will we feed 9billion people on the planet in 2050?
Ross McGuinness for Metro Wednesday 3 Apr 2013 6:00 am
If you have any lingering illusions that your weekly grocery shop is going to miraculously decrease in cost, forget about them. Rising food prices are a reality we will all have to deal with in future.
‘The era of cheap food is over,’ said sustainable food expert Paul McMahon, author of Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food, which was published last month.
He explained: ‘There are solid reasons to believe food is going to stay more expensive in the next decades because of this extra demand coming out of Asia, because of biofuels, because of some of the ecological constraints in parts of the world and because of volatility in weather. We’re going to see higher food prices than before.’
Should we talk about the weather first? Towards the end of last year, the United Nations warned that 2013 could see a worldwide food crisis comparable to the situation in 2008, when prices rocketed and there were riots across Africa and Asia. The UN fears that severe weather in a key producing nation could see more people go hungry – last year’s drought in the US crushed the corn crop.
Almost one billion people on the planet are undernourished, the same planet which wastes anything between one third and a half of all the food it produces.
Despite this wastage, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is keen to stress that we need to increase food production by 70 per cent in the next three decades or so to cope with the estimated 9bn people expected to make up the world’s population by 2050.
Food experts are adamant that the planet isn’t running out of food, but that issues with overproduction and distribution are preventing it from getting to everyone.
Mr McMahon said billions of people should not go hungry.
‘We can feed more than 9bn people today with the food we produce – probably 10bn,’ he told Metro.
‘The reason is the way in which it’s shared and distributed and accessed. Large amounts of food are fed to animals which they cut of the food system and large amounts go to biofuels but also about a third of all the food we use is wasted.’
This waste occurs at the consumer end of the food chain in rich countries where we leave our products to rot in our kitchens. But in developing countries, Mr McMahon said a lack of refrigeration and storage means food is wasted in between the farmer and the consumer.
‘Fundamentally, people go hungry not because there isn’t enough food but because they can’t afford to buy food,’ he said.
‘To address that problem, we need to help those poorer communities earn higher incomes and really go through a process of economic development so they can afford to purchase food.’
He said times had changed from the 1980s, when there were regular media reports about ‘butter mountains’ and ‘wine lakes’ across Europe.
Food resources have become more scarce and production is being battered by consumption, driving prices up. Yet every cloud has a silver lining.
‘Because maybe food has been too cheap, we have taken it for granted and we haven’t shown sufficient care for it,’ he explained.
‘As food gets more expensive, one of the positive benefits of that is we’re probably going to waste less because we will think more carefully about what we buy and what we consume and make sure that less ends up in the bin and more ends up on the plate.’
Mr McMahon said there are a number of ‘myths’ and ‘half-truths’ about food.
‘A lot of people blame consumers in the rich world for causing hunger in the poor world, so we’re told if we only didn’t eat so much meat that would solve world hunger and if we didn’t have biofuels that would solve world hunger.
‘The real problem is not overconsumption in rich countries – it’s underproduction in poor countries. It’s helping poor small farmers in developing countries grow more that’s the most important step that we can take.’
He warned: ‘I think we’re on a bit of a knife-edge at the moment. Stocks are very low at the moment for all the main food commodities. We’re only another US drought, South American drought or big episode in one of the main producers away from another big spike in food prices.
‘Things are a little bit too tight for comfort at the moment and there isn’t a whole lot of slack in the system.’
He believes a return to the crisis situation of 2008 can be averted by a number of measures, including more ecological farming methods and helping farmers in poor countries grow more food.
‘The advice which a lot of those countries were given – particularly African countries – for 20 or 30 years was, “Don’t worry about growing your own food because you can always rely on markets to provide. You can rely on cheap American exports or European exports”. That’s been shown not to be a very good strategy for food security or for economic development.
‘We need to all play a role in investing in the infrastructure and research and access to markets and trading to help small farmers in Africa in particular to grow more for their domestic markets.
‘And then if that continues on, eventually it can become a bread basket for the rest of the world too because there are big reserves of land and water in those regions. There’s a huge opportunity for those countries to increase their agricultural productivity.’
However, he warned of the negative impact of so-called ‘land grabs’ in Africa, where a number of private investors are looking to find new sources of farmland.
‘The most striking phenomenon to come out of the world food crisis of 2008 is this wave of foreign acquisition of farmland in developing countries, in particular in Africa,’ he said.
‘It is something very new. These people are not just investing in plantation agriculture cash crops like bananas or coffee or cocoa which can only be grown in those countries, they’re often buying farmland to buy staple crops, so it’s wheat, it’s rice, it’s maize, it’s the basics.
‘We haven’t seen anything like that for at least 100 years. Some people would say there are some neo-colonial characteristics about this.’
Last year, the head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Africa had become a ‘wild west’ for land grabs and that some kind of regulation was needed.
For now, prices increases look set to continue.
‘There are some fundamental supply-and-demand reasons why prices are high,’ said Mr McMahon. ‘If you look at total world production of the basic grains – wheat, rice and maize – for seven out of the eight years between 2000 and 2008, world production was lower than world consumption. We are, in effect, living off our reserves.
‘It’s inevitable you’re going to have high prices in that situation when you have tight supplies. The high price is there for a reason – it’s not the problem in itself – it’s a symptom of those underlying problems.’
-This article raises an interesting point about increasing food production and productivity in poorer countries but I still think that overconsumption and the mentality towards food in richer countries needs to be addressed. I think to truly 'solve' the problem, both sides need to change.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/03/building-a-sustainable-food-source-how-will-we-feed-9-billion-people-on-the-planet-in-2050-3579801/
Low Cost Housing
S House, Vietnam, Vo Trong Nghia Architects
This recently completed house in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest was designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado to be built by its residents. The family used eight laurel tree trunks and over 900 bamboo stalks to build the three-bedroom house over concrete foundations. It cost just $15,000 (£9,500).
"Building with local resources in a bamboo producing area is a huge opportunity for the community because it awakens interest in harnessing local resources with local labour, causing a low impact on the environment and improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of the region," Mora Alvarado told Dezeen.
I've taken from these various articles, (about architecture firms/non profit organizations assisting people with the funding and design to build homes using local materials), the idea that it is very important to empower the people and involve in the change you are trying to create. If urban farming is the way to go, then the community in which the urban farm is to be built needs to be involved.
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/09/16/s-house-low-cost-housing-vietnam-vo-trong-nghia-architects/
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Post Tsunami Housing, Sri Lanka, Shigeru Ban
Each house has two bedrooms, a hall and a sheltered courtyard, which residents can use as a dining room, social space or simply as a place to repair fishing nets.
Adaptable wooden screens divide the rooms, to suit a Muslim lifestyle. "This is the first time I've worked for the Muslim societies," said Ban, "so before I built the houses I had a community meeting to find out what has to be carefully done depending on the generation, for example, we had to separate the man's space and woman's space."
Ban also designed furniture for the residence, using wood from the rubber trees that are common to the region.This project provides 100 houses in a Muslim fishing village, in the region of Tissamaharama, on the southeast coast of Sri Lanka, following the destruction caused by the 2004 tsunami. Shigeru Ban's aim was to adapt the houses to their climate, to use local labour and materials to bring profit to the region, and to respond to the villagers' own requirements through direct consultation.
Another example in which the architect connects with the people, understands their needs, uses the local resources and provides for them in the most effective and cost-efficient way possible.
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/05/03/post-tsunami-housing-by-shigeru-ban/
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Moses Bridge, The Netherlands, Ro Koster and Ad Kil
They built the bridge through the moat and from a distance it cannot be seen as it looks as though the water continues flowing down the moat when looking at eye level. It isn’t until you get right up to the bridge that you can actually see just how unique it is as it sits on and in the water, with the level of the water in the moat rising right up to the top of the sides of the sunken bridge.
However the water never overflows onto the bridge, making it inaccessible. This is down to the fact that there are two dams at each end of the moat and these manage to keep the level of the water at the correct level. If it rains there is a pump at the bridges bottom which gets rid of the excess water.
The bridges sides have been made from accoya, which is a hardwood, typically used in decking on bridges. This wood has been given an non-toxic modification process and it is this that stops it from becoming a victim to fungal decay.
I found this piece interesting because of the way it intruded but did it's best to not disrupt.
This project also made me wonder if perhaps farming could occur on London's canals and rivers as they are already a water-source in themselves.
http://interestingengineering.com/sunken-moses-bridge-in-netherlands-gives-you-walking-across-water-effect/
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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIMMYT grew out of a pilot program sponsored by the Mexican government and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940s-50s to raise Mexico's farm productivity. The wheat specialist in this program, Norman Borlaug, worked with Mexican researchers and farmers to develop strong, short-stemmed varieties that resisted the rust diseases and gave much more grain than traditional varieties.
Having been bred and selected at diverse Mexican locations, the new wheat lines were adapted to many types of farm settings. They helped Mexico attain self-sufficiency for wheat in the 1950s and were imported by India and Pakistan in the 1960s to stave off famine, soon bringing those countries record harvests. This led to the widespread adoption of improved varieties and farming practices, called the “Green Revolution.”
CIMMYT was formally launched in 1966. Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to the Green Revolution, worked as a CIMMYT wheat scientist and research leader through 1979, and remained a distinguished consultant for the center until his death in 2009.
This made me question whether the problem was locality, of moving farms into our cities, or productivity of what already exists on our land. Is the answer a matter of design or a matter of research and development?
http://www.cimmyt.org/en/who-we-are/our-history
Sustainable intensification (GCAP).
21 August 2014.
The primary purpose of the CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) is to co-develop sustainable intensification options for and with smallholder farmers in maize- and wheat-based farming systems in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Doing so contributes to CGIAR intermediate development outcomes on food security and poverty reduction. GCAP initially focused on conservation agriculture (CA) principles and high-quality, site-specific field agronomy research in a wide range of agro-ecosystems. Over the past few years, GCAP broadened its research portfolio in close collaboration with the CIMMYT Socio-Economics Program (SEP) to more holistically address sustainable intensification pathways and tackle adoption and adoptability of technical innovations.
In short, sustainable intensification of agriculture seeks to increase farming enterprises’ productivity in regard to land, water, labor and input productivity of farming enterprises in a socially equitable manner while preserving the natural resource base and the environment. This is easier said than done as the sustainable intensification paradigm requires understanding of the complex interactions (synergies and trade-offs) between bio-physical, environmental and socio-economic/market/policy factors at different scales/levels (field, farm, landscape, regions) in order to develop viable options in changing rural environments.
http://www.cimmyt.org/en/what-we-do/conservation-agriculture/item/sustainable-intensification-gcap
A study of cassava.
-Tolerates droughts
-Resists most pests
-Grows well in poor soil
-Can be stored in the ground up to two years without rotting (acts as insurance against famine)
-Contains cyanide (toxin) that is removed by cooking, soaking and other methods
-Different varieties ranging from bitter to sweet, leaves are edible as well
-A staple for many African countries
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/The-Worlds-Most-Interesting-Vegetable
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Written by Bill Gates.
Focus on Beyond Meat and Hampton Creek Foods.
By 2050, the world’s population will grow to more than 9 billion and our appetite for meat will grow along with it. The demand for meat will have doubled between 2000 and 2050. This is happening in large part because economies are growing and people can afford more meat. That’s all good news.
But raising meat takes a great deal of land and water and has a substantial environmental impact. Put simply, there’s no way to produce enough meat for 9 billion people. Yet we can’t ask everyone to become vegetarians.
Companies like Beyond Meat and Hampton Creek Foods are experimenting with new ways to use heat and pressure to turn plants into foods that look and taste just like meat and eggs.
The chicken taco I ate was made using Beyond Meat’s chicken alternative. I wasn’t the only one fooled by how real it tasted. New York Times food writer Mark Bittman couldn’t tell the difference between Beyond Meat and real chicken either.
I am really interested in these new companies because they provide an alternative answer to the problem of our over-consumption of meat. If their research and development of the perfect meat substitute is...well, perfected, this coupled with an increase in seed productivity can change the face of livestock farming which in turn will decrease the pressure it puts on the environment and the climate.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Future-of-Food
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Beyond Meat.
-Objective is to produce mass-market solutions that perfectly replace animal protein with plant protein.
-Organization is dedicated to improving human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting animal welfare.
-Very interesting alternative in my opinion. If their 'meat' is more nutritious, tastes great and is better for the earth, I don't see why we shouldn't adopt it into our regular diets.
http://beyondmeat.com/
Cornell University, Dr. Ed Buckler, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Suppose you want a variety of corn with a natural resistance to a certain pest. You start by planting as much corn as you can. You wait 8 to 12 weeks for it to grow, and then you take pollen from some of the plants that aren’t infested and use it to pollinate others. If the offspring of those plants is pest-resistant, you’re in luck—your plant won the genetic lottery. If not, you have to start over. Because you’re limited by the growing season, the process can take seven to ten years.
Genetics research will cut that time in half.
Getting there takes three steps. One is to understand the crop’s genetic makeup. Ed took me on a short tour of a lab where machines called sequencers wereanalyzing DNA from thousands of plants. They were mapping the genes that give each plant its physical traits: its height, color, etc.
The second step is to go into the field and record those physical traits for each individual plant whose genes you’re studying. Cornell researchers are growing hundreds of acres of corn and other crops not far from campus, and they make regular treks out there to collect data. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time for a field trip on this visit.
Finally, you build a computer model that puts the two together—the genetic maps of individual plants, along with the data about their physical traits. Once you have that model, you no longer need to cross two plants and just hope for the best. You can ask the computer, “Out of all the plants I have in my field, which two should I breed in order to produce one that is pest-resistant?” Think of it as a highly sophisticated Match.com for plants.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Love-Life-of-Plants-Cornell-University
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daab, 2007
-Villa Bio, Enric Ruiz-Geli. Barcelona, Spain, 2005. (page 49)
Research rooftop garden on this structure: http://www.ruiz-geli.com/projects/built/villa-bio
-New Trade Fair Milan, Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana O. Mandrelli. Milan, Italy, 2005. (page 183)
Very interesting form, reminds me of Einstein fabric. Research theory behind the form, why they chose it, etc.
-The Glass Bubble, Monika Gora. Malmö, Sweden, 2006. (page 353)
Research the rooftop greenhouse structure. Why it was built, how it works.
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Towards Zero Energy Architecture, New solar design. By Mary Guzowski.
Laurence King Publishing Ltd. 2010.
-Fostering an ecological vision (page 10)
-"Solar power: All energy is solar energy, stored in different forms. Every two minutes the sun gives the earth more energy than is used annually world-wide. It is the only renewable resource with the capacity to provide all the energy we need on a global level." Bruce Mau.
Solar energy has the potential to power the entire Earth, if only we can harness it sustainably.
-"Nature as the omni-informed and omni-concerned, omni-considerate cosmic designer discovered and heeded the fact that human organisms and their absolutely essential ecological support complex could not operate safely at a distance of any less than ninety-two million miles away from the nearest atomic-energy plant - the sun - and all the latter's lethal radiation involvements. Humans will have to learn how to keep all humans and their ecological support system operating successfully on our vastly adequate daily income of solar atomic energy." Buckminster Fuller.
-"The greatest impediment to an ecological design revolution is not, however, technological or scientific, but rather human… A real design revolution will have to transform human intentions and the larger political, economic, and institutional structure that permitted ecological degradation in the first place…"
"The ultimate object of ecological design is not the things we make but rather the human mind and specifically its capacity for wonder and appreciation… If it is not to become simply a more efficient way to do the same old things, ecological design must become a kind of public pedagogy built into the structure of daily life…" Our structures must become classrooms, expanding our awareness of nature and our ecological competence.
David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin Collage, U.S.A.
-Living home, Ray Kappe Architects/Planners and LivingHomes. California, USA. (page 15)
-The performance targets include: zero waste, zero energy, zero water, zero carbon, zero emissions, and zero ignorance.
-The design is made for the location (climate).
-A 2.4-kilowatt photovoltaic array is installed to provide 60-70 percent of the home's energy and includes battery storage. A solar hot-water collector is also installed to power floor heating system.
-The building includes a green roof and small vegetable garden that is irrigated from rainwater collected on the rooftop, combined with storm water diverted from site drains and swales, stored in a cistern.
-The building reduces energy loads by harvesting passive heating, daylighting and natural ventilation.
-A whole house fan located at the top of the stair tower leading to the roof helps to draw hot air out of the building.
-Passive and active solar systems work together to meet winter heating loads.
-An active solar radiant floor heating system supplements the passive heating. A gas fired boiler is used as a back-up system, while an evacuated tube solar collector heats domestic hot water and the radiant floor.
-Most daytime lighting is natural.
-A monitoring system continuously evaluates the energy and water consumption of the systems.
-Research needed: full year wind studies, sunpath case studies, climate data, ventilation study of the structure. Determine the solar budget of the site as this evergy budget determines what is available, what you can glean from the sun. Design should respond to the environment, at best maximizing the use of the naturally provided energy.
-Kingspan Lighhouse, Alan Shingler and Martin Rose, Sheppard Robson. Hertfordshire, UK. (page 31)
-Solar hot-water heating, a 4.7 kW grid-tied photovoltaic array, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, a biomass boiler and efficient electric lighting meets demands throughout the year for hot water, electricity, space heating, and lighting. Water-use reductions are achieved with low volume and efficient appliances and fixtures, including a graywater system that captures water from the bath for toilet flushing. The energy cost of the house would be around 31 pounds per year for wood pellets assuming wood pellets cost 1.8p/kWh.
-Expressing an ecological aesthetic (page 162)
-Aesthetic experiences can have a profound impact on our understanding of nature and our place within the larger ecological web. Aesthetically pleasing architecture also has the power to enhance our relationship with the environment and build ecological awareness.
-It is through our senses of vision, touch, smell, hearing, taste and kinesthetic movement that we intimately engage with architecture and the broader world.
Slow Food.
What they do:
Slow Food works around the world to protect food biodiversity, build links between producers and consumers, and raise awareness of some of the most pressing topics affecting our food system.
These initiatives range from community activities organized by local convivia, to larger projects, campaigns and events coordinated by Slow Food's national offices and international headquarters.
Saving endangered foods and defending gastronomic traditions through our biodiversity projects
Teaching the pleasure of food and how to make good, clean and fair choices through food and taste education
Celebrations of the gastronomic traditions of Europe and Asia, artisanal cheese and fish, and meetings of our worldwide networks in our international events
From animal welfare to land grabbing, addressing hot topics that we care about
Connecting people passionate about changing the food system through our international network
They focus more on education, connections and protection of what already exists then on the actual act of farming. I think both are important but for the sake of the project, I intend to propose some more literal and structural for London.
http://www.slowfood.com/international/9/what-we-do
Rethinking the Open Office Space.
-the idea of being open, modular, and adaptable can be transferred to use of space (land) in urban farming
http://www.archdaily.com/595033/when-one-size-does-not-fit-all-rethinking-the-open-office/
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ASSEMBLE.
-the idea of actually making, building in full scale without being a big name architecture firm
-the idea of using what you have and what you can find to make what you can
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Food, Drink and Identity. Cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the middle ages.
Edited by Peter Scholliers.
Berg, 2001.
-Meals, food narratives, and sentiments of belonging in past and present. A starter: some meditations on gastronomy (page 3)
-We tend to identify other countries with food. There seems to be a direct and comprehensive assimilation between food and (national) identity.
-Diet and identity are not 'given or just 'out there' ready to grab, but that both are interpreted, adapted or rejected according to one's needs, means and intentions.
-Can food operate as the sole factor of identification of a group or an entire nation of does it have its place within a broader set of values (linked to religion, age, occupation, etc.)?
-Social psychologists view identity as a person's own definition in terms of group membership, which entails intergroup behaviour, or the identification of a person with the norms, ideals and manners of a group.
-Social theorists claim that 'identity' is crucial as it allows one to situate oneself and the Other, to give a sense to existence, and to order the world; it forges norms and values.
-'Food anthropology' devoted itself to the study of food in relation to one's own group, to other groups and to the sacred and the gods.
-Food sciences in the 1970s dealt with famine and poverty, food production and consumption, health implications, social distinction, and descriptive studies of feast meals.
-The notion of identity was taken up, to which food was directly and intimately linked. This is supported by the claim that sentiments of belonging via food do not only include the act of classification and consumption, but also the preparation, the organization, the taboos, the company, the location, the pleasure, the time, the language, the symbols, the representation, the form, the meaning and the art of eating and drinking.
-Claude Fischler: Eating is of course a biological act, he argues, but it is much more than that. Food crosses the border between the 'outside' and the 'inside', and this 'principle of incorporation' touches upon the very nature of a person. This is why eating and drinking matter greatly to all people, and why, as reported in some cases of groups of migrants, people retain some food habits when language or other cultural expressions tend to be forgotten. This 'incorporation' is the basis of collective identity.
-Fischler: the present-day alterations in the word of food (technologically as well as culturally) are causing a crisis of the identification with food ("What are we actually eating?") and, hence, a crisis of identity of the eater ("Who are we, then?").
-Alan Warde: "there are limits to the capacity of food to express personal identity". To counter, perhaps the bond between use value and identity value are stronger than he believes.
-gastronomy : the practise or art of choosing, cooking or eating good food
-Specific foods that have been used as a means of identification: bread, alcohol (wine, beer, champagne specifically), sugar, potatoes, the burger and fries/chips, milk, the soft drink (Coca-Cola specifically).
-Confrontations about the identification of oneself/one's group through food is tightly linked to economic, social and ideological factors.
Separate questions:
Is eating a ritual?
Can the way we make our food and a shift in our connection and understanding to how it is made change our relationships with the people we eat with? Will we appreciate food more if we labour for it?
What are the norms that determine eating partners? Why is it strange to share a meal with a stranger you meet at a restaurant? Why do we eat alone? Why are people opposed to sharing a table with people they don't know?
Food can tell a lot about identity in terms of class and hierarchy of a group of people but if London was able to become relatively self-reliant in terms of food, with people growing their own, this could lead to a breakdown of the class barrier bringing people back to the roots and the land.
People over history can be identified through food. The poor through their lack of, the rich through the over abundance of, and different cultures and groups of people through certain dishes. If one can identified using food, then food much therefore be a part of our identities. So the question is, how does growing our own food change these identities?
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Taste Matters, why we like the foods we do. By John Prescott.
Reaktion Books Ltd. 2012.
-Taste Sensations (page 19)
-Odours are the mixture of compounds that reach the olfactory receptors that lie at the top and back of the nose . It is these receptors that signal what we are eating. Odour is what we assume taste to be.
-Traditionally, taste identifies sweetness, saltiness, sourness and bitterness. We taste with the whole of our tongue.
-Evaluative conditioning: a change in liking due to an association with a positive or negative stimulus.
-Eating for pleasure. (page 83)
-In affluent societies we eat because of cues that tell us that sufficient time has passed since our last meal, or we eat to experience the sensory pleasure of foods, or because we are bored.
It is not possible to remove people from their food and to convince them to eat something else. You cannot convince someone to become a vegetarian if back in his/her home country, meat was the main ingredient. The sentimental value of food is too great to overcome.
Food holds memories.
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The Food Consumer. Edited by Christopher Ritson, Leslie Gofton, John McKenzie.
John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1986.
-A change in the preparation of food (reduction of processed food) can change the nutritional intake we gain.
-People tend to eat cheap food. People eat what they can afford. Will people be willing to spend less and put in more time for their food?
-People eat what they are accustomed to, whether it be because of family, cultural tradition (ethnicity), habit, personal preference due to taste and/or religious influences.
-Industrialization directly influenced and ultimately changed food intake of Britain. If a shift in society has changed the way we eat once, it can be done again.
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Concepts in practise; energy. Building for the third millennium.
By Peter F. Smith, Adrian C. Pitts.
B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1997.
-Introduction: A global concern (page 8)
-Of the 6 billion tonnes of carbon currently emitted world-wide due to human activity, about 4.5 billion tonnes is attributable to the industrialized countries. Approximately half of this is due to buildings in one form or another. Architects and engineers have it in their power to reduce building-related carbon emissions by at least 60% (1.35 billion tonnes of carbon). Where policymakers have failed, architects and engineers can succeed.
- The 'dash-for-gas' policy: shift in the 1990s by electricity generators in the UK towards generation of electricity using natural gas has achieved significant reductions in supply-side carbon emissions. This source is not sustainable long-term.
-Prospects for the future of energy-efficient design (page 112)
-The increased intensity of convective currents will increase the frequency and intensity of storms, especially within the zone in which sea temperatures rise above 26 degrees Celsius. Designers should be considering how well their designs and their structures are able to resist natural disasters (specifically cyclones).
-Sustainability: Attainable or impossible? (page 113)
-Lifecycle budget:
Extraction of the raw materials (can use recycled materials)
The manufacturing process (generate energy from renewable sources)
Transport involved in the manufacturing process
Transport to site (use local materials)
-Weak sustainability: aggregate of capital stock passing to the next generation remains constant. The depletion of natural capital can be compensated for by increased man-made assets (buildings, roads, machinery).
-Natural capital: soil, biodiversity, hydrological and carbon cycles and the ozone layer.
-Strong sustainability: assumes ecological assets cannot be replaced by man-made artefacts.
-Annex: Global warming: The evidence and likely consequences (page 116)
-Vast amounts of CO2 trapped in tundra ice are being released as melting occurs. (permafrost)
-As oceans warms, CO2 is also released.
-Too much damage has been done to reverse all of the damage of climate change. The choice remains in how much damage people are prepared to tolerate.
-Thermal expansion: change in ocean currents and surface air pressure.
-Vertical land movement: changes in the relative levels of land and sea equally as severe as the warming.
-With each degree increase of temperature, global mean precipitation will increase by 2-3%.
-Climate change = decline soil humidity in continental land areas.
-Millions of hectres of agricultural land in the US have been abandoned because ground water reserves are exhausted.
-In places with marginal food production, small changes in temperature and rainfall have catastrophic effects.
-By 2060, it is expected that up to 350 million people will be affected by famine due to climate change.
-Rise temperature = rise in evaporation of necessary water for farming.
-Increase of 4 degrees Celsius = 10% decline in production of wheat, maize, soya beans, rice in developing countries.
-Crops must also be pest and pathogen resistant (thunder flies in UK, aphids).
-Rise in sea levels = loss of food-producing land and displacement of whole populations.
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The Revolutionary Urbanism of Street Farm. Eco-anarchism, architecture and alternative technology in the 1970s.
By Stephen E. Hunt.
Tangent Books, 2014.
-Street Farm is a London-based collective of anarchist architects (early 1979s).
-Focused on the radical transformation of urban living which they called revolutionary urbanism. Took inspiration from Situationism and social ecology.
-Offered powerful vision of green cities in the control of ordinary people.
-Playfully presented glimpses of a utopian transformation of urban life and ecology. The city became a liberated, re-enchanted habitats of organic growth replacing concrete environments in their visualizations.
-Wanted to reconnect humanity with the non-human and natural environment.
-Directly influenced guerrilla gardening in the nineties.
-Herald Leah from The Observer: The Eco-House they built was a step forward towards smashing the 'wasteland urban culture' that he feels official architecture has been largely responsible for creating.
-Simon Rycroft: Identifies the recognition of nature as physical process and the desire to live in 'ecosystemic harmony' as one of the counterculture's most prominent themes and something that could be strived for as a part of the renaissance of the human spirit in urban environments as much in the countryside.
-Look up Street Farm's roadshow. "It's a great time to be alive boys and girls and if you don't think it's so fucking great to be alive, you better leave now because this show will really bring you down."
-Einsteinian cosmology of matter and energy in flux to which humanity us intricately bound added to an evolutionary understanding of nature that suggested that humans were symbolically entwined with natural processes. It was a revolution in the understanding of the very matter of nature. To make something invisible visible.
-In this context, perhaps it's to make the food production industry visible.
-The combination of hydroponic growing and adjacent allotment plots enabled them to produce a significant proportion of their vegetables for consumption. Collected rainwater, nutrients from biogas digester and compost from kitchen waste were fed back into the food production cycle.
-If large amounts of money are required to construct something sustainable, it is likely that the money is generated by environmentally destructive economic activity.
-The whole point about revolutionary technology was that it should be available to ordinary people, not just the rich.
-Street Farm wanted to bring about release from the controlling, self-serving and alienating influence of political and economic elites, in order to reconnect more widely with international networks based upon mutual aid to meet social needs.
-The environmental crisis is a crisis of society not a crisis of technology.
-The expanding dependent populations of the rich nations continue to be fed by high intensity farming, but it is an illusion - the "soil-bank" is depleted year by year.
-In order for the 99% to take back wealth and power from the 1% using a Street Farm strategy, it would be necessary to immediately begin to take control over the production of the absolute material basics of food, energy and shelter, working collectively and democratically through our communities and networks.
TED Talk: Bill and Melinda Gates.
Short clip: Overconsumption.
A segment from a longer non-verbal documentary: Samsara.
-Filmed over a period of five years, across 25 countries.
-Focuses on overconsumption, highlights just how unsustainable our eating habits have become. Modern food production also involves animal cruelty on a scale never seen before in the history of mankind.
-Most all conventional meat and poultry (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc.) is raised in so-called confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Large-scale factory farming is the cheapest way to raise meat, for the largest profits. But the ultimate price is high, as there's a complete disregard for human health, the environment, and ethical treatment of animals.
-These huge industrial "warehouses" raise sick animals (due to the overcrowded, unhygienic conditions) that are routinely injected with antibiotics and artificial hormones.
-They are also fed pesticide-laden grains and other byproducts for their feed. All of the additives to the animals (the antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides) get transferred to you when you eat that meat.
-Externalized costs of large-scale factory farming (which are largely unaccounted for in agricultural productivity measurements or farm budgets) include:
Loss of water quality through nitrogen and phosphorus contamination in rivers, streams, and ground water (which contributes to "dramatic shifts in aquatic ecosystems and hypoxic zones")
Agricultural pesticide contamination to streams, ground water, and wells, and safety concerns to agricultural workers who use them
A decline in nutrient density of 43 garden crops (primarily vegetables), which suggests possible tradeoffs between yield and nutrient content
Large emission of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide
Negative impact on soil quality through such factors as erosion, compaction, pesticide application, and excessive fertilization.
-Organic, grass-fed and finished meat that is humanely raised and butchered is really about the only type of meat that is healthy to eat.
-By purchasing your meat from smaller farms that raise their animals in a humane fashion, according to organic principles, you're promoting the proliferation of such farms, which in the end will benefit everyone, including all the animals. The organic industry also tends to favor far more humane butchering practices, which is another important part of "ethical meat."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/01/overconsumption-food-production.aspx
Harvard economist claims urban farms do more harm than good.
Daniel Blaustein-Rejto. 24 June 2011.
We’ve covered a wide variety of urban agriculture projects in the past and our view of them has generally been positive, but perhaps urban farms deserve a second look. Edward L. Glaeser, PhD, a professor of economics at Harvard University recently put forth his radical view that urban farms reduce metropolitan density levels, and thus do more harm to the environment than good.
Glaeser’s main point is that allocating metropolitan land to agriculture results in lower urban density levels and longer commutes. If America replaced just 7.9 percent of its whopping 1 billion acres of crop and pastureland with urban farms, then metropolitan area densities would be cut in half.
As he rightly points out, lower density living is associated with higher energy use and thus more carbon dioxide emissions. His source, the National Highway Travel Survey, affirms that when urban density drops 50%, households buy over 100 gallons of gas more per year.
The increased gas consumption from moving this relatively small amount of agricultural farmland into cities would generate an extra 1.77 tons of carbon dioxide per household per year.
Perhaps this is balanced by a reduction in food miles? Not so. A 2008 study at Carnegie Mellon concluded that food delivery is responsible for only .4 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per houshold per year. While this is a sizable amount, it is clearly offset by the emissions Glaeser says result from creating urban agricultural spaces.
In sum, his argument is that “Shipping food is just far less energy intensive than moving people.” But isn’t the real debate whether we even have to move city people out in order to move farms in?
http://inhabitat.com/harvard-economist-claims-urban-farms-do-more-harm-than-good/
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How to get young people to love the land.
Alice Holden.
http://www.thedolectures.com/alice-holden-how-to-get-young-people-to-love-the-land#.VOZ8lFOsWMZ
It's all about the soil.
Peter Segger: compost expert and owner of Blaencamel Farm.
-The Philosophy of Freedom, by Rudolf Steiner.
-Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people actually mattered, by E. F. Schumacher.
-Land and Environment: the survival of the English countryside, by Victor Bonham-Carter.
-Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, by Jared Diamond.
-Soil is a membrane layered over the world.
-Britain predicted to lose 5 tonnes of top soil per hectre per year.
-50% of the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere results from the oxidization of carbon from our soils because of the misuse of our soils.
-Soil houses 25% of our planet's species.
-Soil is the second largest carbon store after the oceans. There is twice as much carbon in our soils are there is in all of our forests, and three times as much as in our atmosphere.
-2000 tonnes every hectre (25cm deep).
-In one teaspoon of soil, there is over 1 billion types of bacteria. Massively complex system that can be used.
-All organic life has a carbon to nitrogen ratio, 30 carbons to 1 nitrogen (human and flagellate), 5 carbon to 1 nitrogen (bacteria), etc.
-In the soil food chain, a flagellate eats 6 bacteria to obtain the 30 carbons it needs. Now it has 5 extra nitrogen's which is expels. These nitrogen's combine it's protein with the carbohydrates in the soil and sugars and the tips of roots of plants to create humus.
-Humus: the organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms.
-Vandana Shiva: "Humus is the new green revolution base, it is the brown gold to replace the black gold of oil."
-Compost is made to stimulate the soil food web. For example, a cabbage needs approx. 12 species of bacteria to decompose it. Put cabbage in the compost and you feed and nurture bacteria which feeds the flagellate and so on in the soil food web.
-Benefits from good soil:
If we were to increase every soil in the world by 1% so that carbon can be put through photosynthesis from plants and stored back into the soil, this would solve that one part of climate change.
98% of all agriculture is reliant on oils and that's not sustainable. Whereas agriculture that relies on soil and composting methods is sustainable in the long term.
Without good soil, we will have a lot of water problems. Soils are necessary for retaining water during rainfall to prevent run-off and flooding.
Soil is the food chain at the base of life. It is a necessity.
-Segger operates a zero input farm in Wales. Compost being the sole generator of their production. Has a very detailed carbon audit system allowing them to be carbon neutral bordering on carbon negative. Fed by clover. To generate electricity, the farm uses solar panels and a wood gasification boiler.
-Thermophilic compost system: practise of breaking down biological waste with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. Requires compost heats to be 1m3 or larger. Suitable for grass cuttings, wood chips, sawdust, etc. Advantage is that high temperatures kill diseases.
Compost at 50 degree Celsius for 24 hours is safe to grow food.
-Food scarp composting is more suitable for vermicomposting (uses worms).
-Healthy soil = healthy plants. Perhaps healthy plants = healthy humans.
-Look up: Soil Association, and soil scientist Rattan Lal.
http://www.soilassociation.org/
-If every human being put 1 tonne of soil on their land per hectare per year, it will do a lot to mitigate climate change.
http://www.thedolectures.com/peter-segger-its-all-about-the-soil/
Which composting method is best for you?
A infographic.
http://www.treehugger.com/lawn-garden/which-composting-method-is-best-for-you-infographic-helps-you-decide.html
How can we get good food for everyone.
Colin Tudge: Founder of the 'Campaign for real farming'.
-A people's takeover of the world's food supply. A grand endeavour.
-There is a huge gap between what is possible and what is actually achieved in our world.
-Population increase from current 7 billion to approximately 9.5-10 billion by 2050.
-1960s: 2% increase in population every year therefore the prediction is the population doubles every 40 years.
-The % rate of increase in population has been steadily declining and is predicted to reach 0% by 2050.
-Therefore the demographic curve is predicted to level out at around 9.5-10 billion people by 2050 as the rate of increase in population is decreasing due to more people rising above the poverty line (therefore deciding to have less children), and women given more rights and freedoms.
-The task: to feed around 10 billion people for a few decades\centuries as the population begins to naturally decrease.
-1 billion of our current population is considered chronically undernourished (chronically hungry).
-1 billion of our current population is considered over nourished (diabetes first, and then obesity).
-3.5 billion live in cities, 1 billion live in urban slums.
-50% of the species of animals are in imminent danger of mass extinction.
-Agriculture is at the heart of human affairs.
-Frist principles: a basic, foundational proposition/assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition of assumption.
-(Morality) What is right to do? It is right to try to feed all the people in the world as well as people can be fed.
-(Biological question) Is it possible to feed everyone?
-(Biological question) What is necessary to do to feed everyone in the world?
-Agriculture has to productive (to feed everyone), sustainable (feeding everyone in the long term) and resilient (because global warming).
-Emulate nature as it is astonishing productive and resilient for all of time.
Nature does this by being very, very diverse. Diversity allows you to resist many things like climate change and disease.
Polyculture in agriculture is the growing of very diverse crops and livestock together.
Low input in nature.
Organic farming. Check out soil association. Doesn't necessarily have to follow their rules exactly, but that's the idea.
Very integrated with everything feeding into everything else so nothing is wasted.
Polycutlure should be integrated so the different systems are feeding off of each other too. (Ex. Pigs were used provide fertility, clean up rubbish and cultivate the ground. Not for eating.)
-Farming that meets these three points is guaranteed to be labour intensive meaning it will require a lot of high class farmers who actually know what they're doing. Meaning we all should be farmers.
-It is difficult to attain complexity without intensive labour. Therefore there is no advantage of scaling up because you lose the complexity.
-Therefore the only kind of agriculture that can feed everyone for long term safely is small, mixed, quasi-organic, integrated, labour intensive farms.
-This is the opposite of the goal of our economy (neo liberal market) that thinks mainly about high productivity and profits in the short term without taking into account collateral damage. This therefore results monoculture, one farmer per hundreds of acres and hundreds of animals packed into one place.
http://www.thedolectures.com/colin-tudge-how-we-can-get-good-food-for-everyone#.VOaELFOsWMY
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The Ethics of Food. Edited by Gregory E. Pence.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2002.
-Organic or genetically modified food, which is better? Gregory E. Pence.
-There is a difference between compost and fertilizer. Compost feeds the soil while fertilizer feeds the plants. Generically, fertilizer contains non-natural chemicals that may disrupt the ecosystem of the soil by preventing the growth of microbes.
-Not all genetically modified foods are 'bad'. The feeding of harmful chemicals to plants and animals which people in turn ingest is unhealthy but the changing of a gene in a plant or animal to create better resilience, (within reason), isn't necessarily unhealthy.
-Not all organic foods are 'good'. Strict lessons on organic farming are needed to prevent outbreaks that can make organic food unsafe (ex. E. coli).
-The intensive labour required for organic farming must be fairly paid for, though I don't foresee this as an impending problem in the way I intend to implement this type of farming.
-The benefits of organic food. Tanya Maxted-Frost.
-The use of artificial chemicals to treat our food, (especially fruits), end up in our systems.
-Many pesticides used are known carcinogens which are linked to other degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
-As well, there is use of antibiotics, colourants, growth hormones, engine oil, preservatives, hydrogenated fats, modified starches, artificial flavourings, sweeteners, etc. in the livestock and farming industry.
-A removable feast. C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauger.
-Focuses a lot on the World Trade Organization's meeting in Seattle (1999?).
-The argument: to improve developing nation's food security, access to cheaper food from comparatively advantaged exporting countries is necessary. It is arguably more efficient and cheaper than self-sufficiency.
-Requires richer countries to lower tariffs on all goods from developing countries so that they can earn the money they need to purchase the food they need.
-Will wealthier countries, like England, growing more food help or harm? If England can improve its own self-sufficiency so that the large industrial crops can be exported to those who need it more, would this be of benefit to the world?
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Eating: what we eat and why it matters. By Peter Singer and Jim Mason.
Arrow Books, 2006.
-Growing organic.
-The international federation of organic agriculture movements' definition of organic: organic agriculture is an agricultural system that promotes environmentally, socially, and economically sound production of food, fiber, timber, etc. In this system soil fertility is seen as the key to successful production. The aim is to optimize quality in agriculture by working with natural properties of plants, animals and the landscape.
-Benefits of organic food:
1. Healthier.
2. More environmentally friendly.
3. Maintains the quality of the soil.
4. Fosters biodiversity.
5. Reduces pollution from nitrogen run-off.
6. Avoids the heavy pesticide and herbicide use typical of conventional farming.
7. Uses less energy for a given yield than conventional farming.
8. Stores more carbon in the soil, thus off-setting carbon emissions.
-What should we eat?
-Principles we should consider when considering what we eat:
1. Transparency: we have a right to know how our food is produced.
With local farming, we would be the ones who produce the food and even if we are not, the locality allows us to take a look, to go and understand and see the process for ourselves.
2. Fairness: producing food should not impose costs on others.
The cost of the food produced should reflect the full costs of its production. Locality will reduce the cost of transportation.
3. Humanity: inflicting significant suffering on animals for minor reasons is wrong.
The use of local land and the production of fewer animals allows for these animals to have the space they require to live healthy lives.
4. Social responsibility: workers should have decent wages and working conditions.
With local farming, the workers will be paid fairly without discrimination, according to UK's laws on salaries, minimum wage, etc.
5. Needs: preserving life and health justifies more than other desires.
Nourishing ourselves based on a genuine need for good, healthy food instead of choosing a particular food based on other desires.
-It is necessary to teach people how to humanely raise and kill an animal. Unless we go by eating after it has died a natural death.
C.J. Lim. Smartcities + Eco Warriors.
How food shapes our cities.
TedTalks.
Carolyn Steel.
-80% of global trade in food is controlled by just 5% multinational corporations.
-City dwellers are embracing a more Western diet.
-10,000 years ago, agriculture and urbanism were invented in the 'fertile crescent'. They were invented together because they are bound to each other.
-In the past, the spiritual life and the harvest dominated the city and city life.
-In the ancient world, the major and most efficient form of transportation for food was by boat. (Rome)
-Cities are shaped by food.
-Streets of London are named after what used to 'happen' there. Ex. Bread was sold on Bread Street. Fish sold on Fish Street. Friday Street had Friday fish markets.
-Once the roots of certain types of food are established in certain parts of the city, they rarely move.
-Invention of rail lead to cognitive dissonance between people and their food.
-Rail changed the way cities grow. No longer shaped by food.
-Our relationship with food becomes less physical. We don't smell the food, really cook the food, we don't know where is comes from, etc. Instead we read the label, add water and buy from supermarkets.
-We don't value or trust food anymore. We don't understand food anymore. This relationship distances us from nature.
-The word utopia can either mean 'good place' or 'no place' in the Greek language.
-"We are what we eat but the world is also what we eat."
-Food is a very powerful tool that can be used to shape the world better.
http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/blog/?page_id=10
The Plant. Chicago, U.S.A.
Jim Parks.
-Completely integrated system in which there is no waste in the production.
-125 green jobs provided by The Plant in a distressed area.
Urban Farming in Numbers; a study.
Project by MVRDV, The Why Factory, Stroom Den Haag.
Animation by Wieland Gouwens.
-One person in the developed world consumes about 3kg of food per day, 1000kg per year.
-One person in the developing world consumes about 2kg of food per day, 670kg per year.
-The main determent of consumption, especially of meat, is wealth.
-It takes about 1288m2 to grow the average amount of food consumed per person per year. 789m2 is for human consumption, 499.1m2 is for animal consumption.
Is it possible to attain self-sufficiency with urban agriculture?
-For example, The Hague, The Netherlands, requires 10.9 times the land area of the city to grow food for all of its inhabitants.
-If the urban farming was concentrated into towers which used hydroponics, the towers would have to be almost 2km high.
-Hydroponics farming is very expensive.
-Growing food traditionally but still vertically, it would require towers 35km high.
-Based on this study, it is seen that to strive for complete self-sufficiency is not sensible.
Greening the desert. Applying natural farming techniques in Africa.
An interview with Masanobu Fukuoka.
By Robert and Diane Gilman.
His farming method involves no tillage, no fertilizer, no pesticides, no weeding, no pruning, and remarkably little labor! He accomplishes all this (and high yields) by careful timing of his seeding and careful combinations of plants (polyculture). In short, he has brought the practical art of working with nature to a high level of refinement.
Robert: What have you learned in your 50 years of work about what people could do with their agriculture?
Masanobu: Several years ago, I travelled around Europe. It seemed to me that Europe was very nice and beautiful, with lots of nature preserved. But three feet under the surface I felt desert slowly coming in. I kept wondering why. I realized it was the mistake they made in agriculture. The beginning of the mistake is from growing meat for the king and wine for the church. Only the 20% of the soil in the valleys remains healthy, and 80% of the land is depleted. Because the land is depleted, they need chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Cultivation is also related to civilization, and that is the beginning of the mistake. True natural farming uses no cultivation, no plow. Soil’s biggest enemies are cultivation and plowing. If people don’t have those tools, it will be a better life for everything. Since my farm uses no cultivation, no fertilizer, no chemicals, there are many insects and animals living there within the farm. They use pesticide to kill a certain kind of pest, and that destroys the balance of nature.
Robert: How have you applied your method to the deserts?
Masanobu: Chemical agriculture can’t change the desert. Even if they have a tractor and a big irrigation system, they are not able to do it. I came to the realization that to make the desert green requires natural farming. The method is very simple. You just need to sow seeds in the desert. Here is a picture of experimentation in Ethiopia. This area was beautiful 90 years ago, and now it looks like the desert in Colorado. I gave seeds for 100 varieties of plants to people in Ethiopia and Somalia. Children planted seeds, and watered them for three days. Because of high temperature and not having water, the root goes down quickly. Now the large Daikon radishes are growing there. People think there isn’t any water in the desert, but even in Somalia and Ethiopia, they have a big river. It is not that they do not have water; the water just stays underneath the earth. They find the water under 6 to 12 feet.
Diane: Do you just use water to germinate the seeds, and then the plants are on their own?
Masanobu: They still need water, like after ten days and after a month, but you should not water too much, so that the root grows deep.
The project started with the help of UNESCO with a large amount of money, but there are only a couple of people doing the experiment right now. I think it is better to send seeds to people in Somalia and Ethiopia, rather than sending milk and flour, but there isn’t any way to send them. People in Ethiopia and Somalia can sow seeds, even children can do that. But the African governments, the United States, Italy, France, they don’t send seeds, they only send immediate food and clothing. The African government is discouraging home gardens and small farming. During the last 100 years, garden seed has become scarce.
Diane: Why do these governments do this?
Masanobu: The African governments and the United States government want people to grow coffee, tea, cotton, peanuts, sugar – only five or six varieties to export and make money. Vegetables are just food, they don’t bring in any money. They say they will provide corn and grain, so people don’t have to grow their own vegetables.
Robert: Do we, in the United States, have the type of seeds that would grow well in these parts of Africa?
Masanobu: As a matter of fact, I saw quite a few plants including vegetables, ornamentals, and grains here in this town (Port Townsend) this morning that would grow in the desert. Something like Daikon radish even grows better over there than in my fields, and also things like amaranth and succulents grow very well.
Robert: So if people in the United States and Japan and Europe wanted to help the people in Africa and reduce the desert, would you suggest that they send seeds?
Masanobu: When I was in Somalia, I thought, if there are ten farmers, one truck, and seeds, then it would be so easy to help the people there. They don’t have any greens for half of the year, they don’t have any vitamins, and so of course they get sick. They have even forgotten how to eat vegetables. They just eat the leaves and not the edible root portion.
The United States has the power to destroy the world but also to help the world. I wonder if people in this country realize that the United States is helping the people in Somalia but also killing them. Making them grow coffee, sugar and giving them food. The Japanese government is the same way. The people in Ethiopia cook rice, barley and vegetables. They are happy being small farmers. The United States government is telling them to work, work, like slaves on a big farm, growing coffee. The United States is telling them that they can make money and be happy that way.
A Japanese college professor that went to Somalia and Ethiopia said this is the hell of the world. I said, "No, this is the entrance to heaven." Those people have no money, no food, but they are very happy. The reason they are very happy is that they don’t have schools or teachers. They are happy carrying water, happy cutting the wood. It is not a hard thing for them to do; they truly enjoy doing that. Between noon and three it is very hot, but other than that, there is a breeze, and there are not flies or mosquitoes.
One thing the people of the United States can do instead of going to outer space is to sow seeds from the space shuttle into the deserts. There are many seed companies related to multi-national corporations. They could sow seeds from airplanes.
Diane: If seeds were thrown out like that, would the rains be enough to germinate them?
Masanobu: No, that is not enough, so I would sow coated seeds so they wouldn’t dry out or get eaten by animals. There are probably different ways to coat the seeds. You can use soil, but you have to make that stick, or you can use calcium.
My farm has everything: fruit trees, vegetables, acacia. Like my fields, you need to mix everything and sow at the same time. I took about 100 varieties of grafted trees there, two of each, and almost all of them, about 80%, are growing there now. The reason I am saying to use an airplane is because, if you are just testing you use only a small area. But we need to make a large area green quickly. It needs to be done at once! You have to mix vegetables and trees; that’s the fastest way for success.
Another reason I am saying you have to use airplanes is that you have to grow them fast, because if there is 3% less green area around the world, the whole earth is going to die. Because of lack of oxygen, people won’t feel happy. You feel happy in the spring because of the oxygen from the plants. We breathe out carbon dioxide and breathe in oxygen, and the plants do the opposite. Human beings and plants not only have a relationship in eating, but also share air. Therefore, the lack of oxygen in Somalia is not only a problem there, it is also a problem here. Because of the rapid depletion of the land in those parts of Africa, everyone will feel this happening. It is happening very quickly. There is no time to wait. We have to do something now.
People in Ethiopia are happy with wind and light, fire and water. Why do people need more? Our task is to practice farming the way God does. That could be the way to start saving this world.
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One Straw Revolution. 1975.
Mansanobu Fukuoka.
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Grow biointensive: sustainable mini-farming.
A farming method.
Most life in nature occurs at the interface of soil, water, air and sun. GROW BIOINTENSIVE soil preparation practices create growing beds with more surface area to maximize the effect of nature’s life processes.
These have guided us to the eight essential aspects that are the foundation of GROW BIOINTENSIVE:
Double-Dug, Raised Beds: with soil loosened to a depth of 24 inches, aerate the soil, facilitate root growth, and improve water retention.
Composting: health and vigor of the soil are maintained through the use of compost.
Intensive Planting: close plant spacing is used to protect soil microorganisms, reduce water loss, and maximize yields.
Companion Planting: facilitates the optimal use of nutrients, light and water, encourages beneficial insects and creates a vibrant mini-ecosystem within the garden.
Carbon Farming, Calorie Farming: focus on the production of calories for the farmer and carbon for the soil ensures that both the farmer and the soil will be adequately fed and that the farm will be sustainable.
The Use of Open-Pollinated Seeds: helps to preserve genetic diversity and enables gardeners to develop their own acclimatized cultivars.
A Whole-System Farming Method: All of the components of this system must be used together for optimum effect and to avoid depleting the soil.
GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming techniques make it possible to grow food using:
67% to 88% less water
50% to 100% less fertilizer
99% less energy than commercial agriculture, while using a fraction of the
These techniques can also:
Produce 2 to 6 times more food
Build the soil up to 60 times faster than in nature, if properly used
Reduce by half or more the amount of land needed
http://www.growbiointensive.org/grow_main.html
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Keeping chickens - what you need to know.
-Birds must be registered with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD).
-Three hens will probably provide eggs all year round, though you need to provide them with artificial light in the wintertime.
-Some breeds lay up to one egg per day.
-Eggs can be sold at markets (if you have fewer than 50 hens), at your farm's 'doorstep', or door-to-door in the community.
-You may need to register with DARD's Egg Marketing Inspectorate.
-Education on growing fruits and vegetables, caring for bees, saving water in the garden, pest control, encouraging wildlife in the garden, soils and fertilizers and invasive plant species can also be found on this site.
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/keeping-chickens-what-you-need-to-know
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Building sustainable cities: a challenge.
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» [Mainichi Newspaper] Voices after the ruling regarding the restart of Oi nuclear power plant
The Fukui District Court’s decision that ruled against restarting the No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO)’s Oi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture has delighted the residents who brought the case to the court.
Some 200 people — including the plaintiffs of the lawsuit and their supporters — erupted in cheers at the court after one of the plaintiffs held up a sheet of paper bearing a message, “Justice is alive,” after the court handed down the landmark ruling on May 21.
The district court’s ruling discussed the enormous damage brought about by the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster and declared that extremely high levels of safety and credibility are sought after for nuclear power stations. The ruling lambasted the safety measures currently in place, stating, “They are vulnerable and only work out under optimistic prospects.”
Miki Murai, a 34-year-old illustrator from Fukui and one of the plaintiffs in the suit, said, “The ruling has reassured us that justice still has a conscience. We’d be too embarrassed to turn our faces toward people in Fukushima if nuclear reactors were restarted in Fukui while we are aware of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. I hope the ruling will serve as a breakthrough.”
In the meantime, the ruling saw mixed reactions among residents of the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, where the Oi nuclear plant is situated. “The ruling is inconceivable. My company’s future has become completely invisible,” said the president of an equipment company in the town that receives orders related to the Oi nuclear plant from KEPCO.
“I hope KEPCO will appeal the ruling, but I’m also worried about the possibility of the trial being prolonged. With no clear prospects for the future, local businesses will find themselves receiving fewer orders,” the president said. “As it directly concerns the livelihood of our employees, I want KEPCO to restart the reactors at any cost.”
A man in his 50s who runs a private inn in Oi said, “The ruling is going into depth while the central government has demonstrated its commitment to reactor reactivation. The verdict gives the impression that the courts have started to evaluate (the danger of nuclear plants), which is shocking to our local community.”
‘Justice is alive’: Jubilant plaintiffs, supporters hail ruling against reactor restarts (Mainichi Newspaper)
Tags:anti-nuclear movement, citizens' movement, litigation, news, restart of nuclear reactors
Litigation Movement
7,000 Tochigi residents seek compensation from TEPCO over nuclear disaster
Plaintiffs suing over Fukushima nuclear disaster form nationwide network
Prosecutor dismissed a case against former executives of TEPCO again
Citizens filed a second criminal complaint against a former nuclear safety official and eight others
Shareholders filed a lawsuit for disclosure of testimony by the former plant manager
Independent judical panel said TEPCO exectives should be indicted over the Fukushima disaster
Gov’t dispute resolution proposed smaller compensasion by ignoring the opinions of victim’s doctors
District court is due to rule whether TEPCO is responslibe for a suicide case in Fukushima
Recent victory in Fukui district court gives hope to other antinuclear lawsuits
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Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey and Gallop Racer
From G1 Jockey to Champion Jockey: The new star of horseracing action is born!
Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey & Gallop Racer is the spiritual successor of the G1 Jockey and Gallop Racer series, and depicts the Horse Racing universe through a collection of real world races and immersive and intuitive gameplay with simple controls. Through the use of the latest motion controllers on the market, experience what it feels like to be a Jockey!
A brand new experience accessible to everyone through simple controls: In addition to the realistic racing controls of the G1 Jockey series, Champion Jockey also provides simplified control systems, plus races for novices.
Ideal for both casual gamers and racing enthusiasts, players can experience the same excitement regardless of their control style!
A multitude of races awaits you in realistic horseracing environments: Worldwide racecourses, with their natural twists and turns, together with steeplechases, are part of the show. In addition to traditional turf races, dirt races and night races complete the line-up for a total of 19 unique racecourse types.
Experience the thrill of horseracing action with motion controls: Following in the hoofsteps of G1 Jockey on the Wii console acclaimed motion control system, now you can experience real jockey action with intuitive controls using PlayStation Move.
Playstation Move: Grab the reins with one PlayStation Move controller and crack the whip with the other, just like a real jockey. You can also use the PlayStation Move with a Navigation Controller, or just one PlayStation Move.
Wii: Play with the Wii Remote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board, or just one Wii Remote.
Key Game Features:
The Jockey Experience: Use the PlayStation Move or the Wii Remote & Nunchuk to drive your horse, use your whip, jump fences, and experience real life Horse Racing action! In addition to controlling their horse, players must understand its unique rhythm, potential, stamina and preferred racing style to truly master the game.
Real World Inspired Tracks: Race on a total of 19 different tracks inspired by real world horse racing tracks, including American-style tracks focusing primarily on dirt tracks and steeplechases, and traditional turf tracks.
Accessible “Fun Race Mode”: You don’t need to be a serious Horse Racing fan to race in Champion Jockey. An available “Fun Race Mode” tones down the simulation levels of authenticity to maximize the fun of using motion controls to race horses.
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All thunderstorms are dangerous. Every thunderstorm produces lightning. While lightning fatalities have decreased over the past 30 years, lightning continues to be one of the top three storm-related killers in the United States. On average in the U.S., lightning kills 51 people and injures hundreds more. Although most lightning victims survive, people struck by lightning often report a variety of long-term, debilitating symptoms.
Other associated dangers of thunderstorms include tornadoes, strong winds, hail and flash flooding. Flash flooding is responsible for more fatalities – more than 140 annually – than any other thunderstorm-associated hazard. Dry thunderstorms that do not produce rain that reaches the ground are most prevalent in the western United States. Falling raindrops evaporate, but lightning can still reach the ground and can start wildfires.
Before Thunderstorm and Lightning
To prepare for a thunderstorm, you should do the following:
To begin preparing, you should build an emergency kit and make a family communications plan.
Remove dead or rotting trees and branches that could fall and cause injury or damage during a severe thunderstorm.
Postpone outdoor activities.
Secure outdoor objects that could blow away or cause damage.
Get inside a home, building, or hard top automobile (not a convertible). Although you may be injured if lightning strikes your car, you are much safer inside a vehicle than outside.
Remember, rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires provide NO protection from lightning. However, the steel frame of a hard-topped vehicle provides increased protection if you are not touching metal.
Shutter windows and secure outside doors. If shutters are not available, close window blinds, shades or curtains.
Unplug any electronic equipment well before the storm arrives.
Lightning Risk Reduction When Outdoors
If you are in a forest then, seek shelter in a low area under a thick growth of small trees.
In an open area, go to a low place such as a ravine or valley. Be alert for flash floods.
On open water, get to land and find shelter immediately.
Facts about Thunderstorms
They may occur singly, in clusters or in lines.
Some of the most severe occur when a single thunderstorm affects one location for an extended time.
Thunderstorms typically produce heavy rain for a brief period, anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
Warm, humid conditions are highly favorable for thunderstorm development.
About 10 percent of thunderstorms are classified as severe – one that produces hail at least an inch or larger in diameter, has winds of 58 miles per hour or higher or produces a tornado.
Facts about Lightning
Lightning’s unpredictability increases the risk to individuals and property.
Lightning often strikes outside of heavy rain and may occur as far as 10 miles away from any rainfall.
“Heat lightning” is actually lightning from a thunderstorm too far away from thunder to be heard. However, the storm may be moving in your direction.
Most lightning deaths and injuries occur when people are caught outdoors in the summer months during the afternoon and evening.
Your chances of being struck by lightning are estimated to be 1 in 600,000 but could be reduced even further by following safety precautions.
Lightning strike victims carry no electrical charge and should be attended to immediately.
Know the Terms
Familiarize yourself with these terms to help identify a thunderstorm hazard:
Severe Thunderstorm Watch – Tells you when and where severe thunderstorms are likely to occur. Watch the sky and stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio, commercial radio or television for information.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Issued when severe weather has been reported by spotters or indicated by radar. Warnings indicate imminent danger to life and property to those in the path of the storm.
During Thunderstorms and Lightning
If thunderstorm and lightning are occurring in your area, you should:
Use your battery-operated NOAA Weather Radio for updates from local officials.
Avoid contact with corded phones and devices including those plugged into electric for recharging. Cordless and wireless phones not connected to wall outlets are OK to use.
Avoid contact with electrical equipment or cords. Unplug appliances and other electrical items such as computers and turn off air conditioners. Power surges from lightning can cause serious damage.
Avoid contact with plumbing. Do not wash your hands, do not take a shower, do not wash dishes, and do not do laundry. Plumbing and bathroom fixtures can conduct electricity.
Stay away from windows and doors, and stay off porches.
Do not lie on concrete floors and do not lean against concrete walls.
Avoid natural lightning rods such as a tall, isolated tree in an open area.
Avoid hilltops, open fields, the beach or a boat on the water.
Take shelter in a sturdy building. Avoid isolated sheds or other small structures in open areas.
Avoid contact with anything metal—tractors, farm equipment, motorcycles, golf carts, golf clubs, and bicycles.
If you are driving, try to safely exit the roadway and park. Stay in the vehicle and turn on the emergency flashers until the heavy rain ends. Avoid touching metal or other surfaces that conduct electricity in and outside the vehicle.
After a Thunderstorm or Lightning Strike
If lightning strikes you or someone you know, call 9-1-1 for medical assistance as soon as possible. The following are things you should check when you attempt to give aid to a victim of lightning:
Breathing – if breathing has stopped, begin mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Heartbeat – if the heart has stopped, administer CPR.
Pulse – if the victim has a pulse and is breathing, look for other possible injuries. Check for burns where the lightning entered and left the body. Also be alert for nervous system damage, broken bones and loss of hearing and eyesight.
After the storm passes remember to:
Never drive through a flooded roadway. Turn around, don’t drown!
Stay away from storm-damaged areas to keep from putting yourself at risk from the effects of severe thunderstorms.
Continue to listen to a NOAA Weather Radio or to local radio and television stations for updated information or instructions, as access to roads or some parts of the community may be blocked.
Help people who may require special assistance, such as infants, children and the elderly or those with access or functional needs.
Stay away from downed power lines and report them immediately.
Watch your animals closely. Keep them under your direct control.
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Frankenfiction
Monsters, mashups, and popular culture
Undead & Read: Why the Literary Zombie Mash-Up Trend Just Won’t Die
September 9, 2015 September 9, 2015 by Megen de Bruin-Molé
This week’s post by Monica Westin debates the highs and lows of the (still-undead) literary mashup genre, and also traces the evolution of the zombie in popular culture. It was originally posted on October 26, 2010, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Newcity Lit.
We’re living in strange times in the world of literature, a time when the classics are being fused with lowbrow contemporary monster mythologies into mash-ups that sell lots of books. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the first, and so successful that it spawned its own graphic novel and a spinoff fan-fiction prequel entitled Pride and Prejudice: Dawn of the Dreadfuls. Next came Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and now Android Karenina, all from Quirk Books. Quirk Books editor Jason Rekulak, the force behind the series, literally creates charts to make these hybrid novels, with great works of literature with lapsed copyrights on one side and monsters on the other, then contacts writers to produce the works. Rekulak claims to be inspired by music and video mash-ups—“creative copyright infringement”—making his line of books the equivalent of, say, Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album. But other than manifesting our cultural fixation with the ubiquitous mash-up in a most unusual manner, are these books important?
Neither alive and well nor a completely dying trend, the field of zombie literature, judging by the latest batch of classic lit mash-ups, could be more aptly and appropriately described as undead: limping along, market-driven, towards the inevitable conclusion when Quirk Books runs out of classics/monsters combinations… or when readers stop buying them. Yet books certainly inspired by, but outside of, this process-driven approach, like Alan Goldsher’s Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, offer an alternative: a living metaphor, if you will, that makes use of the genre as a brainier (get it?) allegory.
Zombies haven’t always been book characters; in fact, they’ve emerged as almost solely movie figures (and, lately, video game characters) rather than book creatures, which is one reason why it’s automatically funny when they get dropped into Jane Austen novels. The groundwork for the current zombie fad, according to the biggest zombie expert I know, writer and editor Andrew Blossom (who’s currently writing his own zombie apocalypse novel), was at least partially laid by the graphic-novel series The Walking Dead, but many more people are familiar with Max Brooks’ 2003 Zombie Survival Guide (which purists disdain for ignoring the basic rules of zombies set in place by George Romero’s movies, but more about them later). Zombie Survival Guide was a runaway bestseller, and while it seems like a big leap to say its success most likely helped green-light, or at least inspire, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it brought zombies into a certain hip-lit fold that until that moment had been the terrain of vampires.
Any discussion of modern zombies has to begin with Romero’s incredibly influential series of zombie movies. From Night of the Living Dead, in which Romero established the rules for modern zombies as reanimated corpses (Romero didn’t invent the zombie figure, which originated in West African voodoo) through all its sequels up through Land of the Dead, in which the filmmaker reacts to the zombie resurgence of the last ten years, Romero is a touchstone by which we can measure the evolution of the zombie as an American icon. Zombie as signifiers, in the last sixty years or so, have developed from symbols for Communism in Romero’s first film—a giant horde that’s coming for us, that we can’t stop, no matter if we go to Vietnam or to Nicaragua. This pure paranoia combines with a strong feeling of moral uncertainty in seventies zombies movies—could you put a bullet in your mother, in your best friend? What is it actually like to be a zombie? Now, though, what we’re afraid of is the chaos that zombies create; in Danny Boyle’s film 28 Weeks Later, it’s the government that ends up killing everybody because they don’t know who’s a zombie and who’s not.
Romero’s zombies have been replaced by newer, faster zombies. They used to be slow-moving but inevitable; you could put up a fight and kill as many as you could, but they would eventually overrun you, a force that can’t be stopped. Now, in movies, zombies are fast and mean and angry and strong, without that comical “Oh my arm fell off but I’m still coming for you.” The stakes have been raised, with more emphasis on virus and disease and cataclysm. The zombie apocalypse has come home to a world that sometimes feels like it’s actually facing apocalypse. Thinking about the Resident Evil videogame (and now movies), if zombies stand in for anything now, it’s for the viruses that will infect our computers, our extensions of ourselves, the epidemics from H1N1 to financial disaster, a globalized virus (if the horror-movie model is anything, it’s viral) that can come in anywhere—whereas before zombies simply invaded house and home (there was literally one house in Night of the Living Dead in which the characters holed up—now we can’t hide anywhere on the planet).
So if zombies in the new age represent a global epidemic that can happen all over the world at once—if they’re a kind of globalization, then the topic of a book like Alan Goldsher’s that casts a real invasion as a zombie invasion is actually a useful allegory in the way another mash-up couldn’t be.
In Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, the Beatles invasion is imagined as a zombie invasion, wherein zombie John Lennon kills and then reanimates Paul, George and Ringo to form a band that will take over the world, one teenage girl’s heart (and brain) at a time. Frankly, at first I wanted to hate it. Chicagoan Goldsher is a lucid critic and a smart writer—it quickly becomes obvious that he’s a giant music nerd, in a good way—but the idea for Paul is Undead seems beyond obvious, and I wanted the end result to be derivative, the bucket kick of a dying trend (so to speak). I wanted to review the book as a kind of platform from which to evaluate the monster trend in literature, hoping to create a polemic against a lazy genre that’s gone viral, a sign that signals some kind of literary (zombie) apocalypse. Instead, I found that he’d actually turned zombies into a productive allegory. Both the Beatles invasion and the zombie invasion are models for a strong moment of viral incursion, something creating hysteria that in a way was hard to understand and scary—they’re coming for your children!—for those 1960s parents, actually making the new model of zombies seem, ironically, much more relevant in this sixties context.
The second problem with writing off Paul is Undead is that the book is quirky, gory, bizarre, funny as hell and packs in tons of music history, often brilliantly, reading like a beautifully written Rolling Stone article told as an oral history with interviews with everyone from Stu Sutcliffe to Jesus himself. The allegorical moves are impeccable—Yoko Ono is a high-level ninja lord, which seems fairly realistic actually, and Mick Jagger is a zombie hunter who seeks to take down the zombie Fab Four. To avoid copyright issues, Goldsher works song titles and lyrics into conversation. That the book isn’t much more than that—with lots of music trivia and Beatles history thrown in—easily does enough to justify Goldsher’s appropriation in his creation of gratifying, smart candy for music geeks. In short, the book makes good on the Beatles and on zombies. It’s hard, by the end, to feel much of a sense of indignity at Beatles slander, unlike Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for example, wherein English teachers like me can throw up our hands and talk about the dumbing down of literature, making it stupid and helpless (like a zombie). The biggest complaint we could make is that the meaning of the original book often gets lost or marginalized with the addition of a monster plotline.
Ben Winters, former Newcity staff writer and author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenina, disagrees: not only are the ideas hilarious, but “people enjoy seeing things they thought they knew well reinterpreted and turned into something completely different.” Winters compares the Austen-monster books and his own upcoming Android Karenina to perennial versions of Shakespeare in unexpected locales, made into political satires. The Quirk books, he claims, have interesting cross-currents with the original meaning of the books; for example, Tolstoy was “really worried in life and in writing about the effect that technology, like the telegraph, was having on writing.” He also cites the fact that we “live in a world where everything is up for grabs in the creative marketplace.”
And finally, for Winters the argument begins and ends with the fact that these mash-up books are really funny. There are other arguments—that the books will get students to read the classics (I teach college writing, and the DePaul students I polled, however, were no more likely to read the originals after having read the monster versions), that at least it introduces folks to the language and characters of the originals, and similar “baby step” arguments that may or may not be persuasive. So, ultimately, most of the value of these books is going to lie in their entertainment value, and they’re all not nearly as funny the second time around.
If most mash-up books will end up remembered as only a brief trend in several years, authors like Goldsher who have updated the model and made it relevant again will actually add value to the genre. Goldsher’s next book is Frankenstein Has Left the Building—an Elvis/Frankenstein mash-up is just as smart a fit because Elvis, as Greil Marcus said, is a pure product of American culture—a similar creation, in form, to Frankenstein’s monster.
If we’re ushering in a new literary era, we’ve got to get beyond just calling the genre lazy, derivative, postmodern. Doing so just seems to dismiss horror mash-ups, especially those that make new use of old signifiers (see, for example the updating of vampires to stand in for teenage sexuality in the Twilight series) and reappropriate old symbols. Sure, there are ways to do this that are creative and meaningful, like creating new models for globalization that make smart, allegorical use of history, and then there’s just dropping a zombie into a book for a gag—which, if not undead, isn’t exactly a creative living literary activity. But perhaps something is happening in literature that we can’t just write off and call derivative, or we risk writing off the potential of the age we live in.
But if, on the other hand, this trend is in its dying days, what was it all about anyway? I talked about this question with two friends in Chicago recently, one a self-professed genre fiction geek, the other claims not to read. After a long debate during which I set forth blaming the internet, my friend Rine (the non-reader) pointed out that during other times of serious economic recession and depression, entertainment quickly took up fantasies of escapism. This time around, we can’t even imagine a pleasant fantasy anymore.
Interested in reading this article in its original context? You can find it here, on Newcity Lit.
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Terry Pratchett and the Question of Literature
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Rules and Bylaws Committee Gives Initial Greenlight to Revamp of Superdelegates System
At each voting stage along the way to superdelegate rules reform for the 2020 cycle, the final tally has seemingly demonstrated consensus. And there has been consensus on the Unity Reform Commission and now during the Rules and Bylaws Committee consideration of changes. But it has been hard-won consensus often following multiple hours-long meetings over the last 13 months spent exploring various contingencies in the hopes of avoiding some unintended consequence while also planning for the future.
Like the Unity Reform Commission before it, the Rules and Bylaws Committee gave the go-ahead today to a reform proposal to curb the influence of superdelegates with just a couple of dissenting votes (27 ayes, 1 nay, 1 abstention). However, unlike the URC, the RBC called an audible and devised an alternate proposal not prescribed it in the preceding step. The URC was given strict guidelines on superdelegates by the 2016 convention resolution that created the group. What the resolution called for, the URC produced. Two variations on the same concept were created to move 60 percent of the superdelegates from the unpledged to bound category.
The issue that quickly emerged once those two URC recommendations -- the pooled vote option and the alternate vote option -- transitioned to the RBC for its consideration was the complexity of both implementing and explaining either option. The desire on the group to balance doing something on superdelegates, staying true to the charge of the convention resolution (reducing the influence of superdelegates), and devising a more parsimonious reform laid the groundwork for what the RBC passed today.
At the confluence of those three criteria, the third way proposal first raised at the first of two March RBC meetings would remove superdelegates from the nomination equation on the first ballot presidential nomination vote at the convention. Should that vote prove inconclusive, then the less-super delegates -- now probably better referred to as automatic delegates -- would be able to participate in a second ballot to rectify an unresolved first ballot vote.
But that proposal was augmented at the June meeting in Providence. RBC member, Ken Martin, offered a friendly amendment, leaving an opt-in for superdelegate participation in the event that primary season has produced a conclusive result, a presumptive nominee with the requisite number of delegates to claim the nomination.
During today's conference call meeting, the RBC quickly dispatched with the two URC proposals for the same issues of complexity before the group turned its sights to Martin's third way plus, brought forth on a motion from longtime RBC member, Elaine Kamarck. The group then spent the next two hours attempting lay out/iron out the details of the plan. What they passed is intended to curb the influence of superdelegates by conditionally removing the unpledged delegates from first ballot at the convention.
The conditions of those contingencies for superdelegate participation fall into three categories.
If a candidate wins 50 percent of the pledged delegates plus one during or by the end of primary season, then the superdelegates are barred from the first ballot.
If a candidate wins 50 percent of all of the delegates (including superdelegates) plus one, then the superdelegate opt-in is triggered and that faction of delegates can participate in the first (and only) round of voting.
If no candidate wins a majority of either pledged or all delegates during or by the end of primary season, then superdelegates are barred from the first round and allowed in to vote in the second round to break the stalemate.
Importantly, the first contingency allows a candidate to win without superdelegates, while the second deprives superdelegates through a supermajority requirement the ability to overturn the pledged delegate majority scenario in the first contingency.
The language of the motion passed today will be tinkered with between now a July 11 meeting in Washington to finalize the language of the call, delegate selection rules, and bylaws/charter changes. But this test vote of sorts portends easy passage when the official language of the third way plus reform comes up for a final vote.
Yes, there is much more to be said about this proposal -- FHQ raised a few issues just recently -- but there will be time to discuss that more in the days ahead. For now, it is sufficient that there is a specific proposal to reform the superdelegates' influence in the nomination process that has passed initial muster with the RBC.
Real-time thread on RBC conference call
Roll call being called on #DNCRBC conference call meeting. Finalizing superdelegates recommendations is on the agenda.
I'm going to try to resist World Cup references during this thread. We shall see how that goes.
— Josh Putnam (@FHQ) June 27, 2018
Continuation of real-time RBC conference call
#DNCRBC member Kamarck makes motion on third way plus. Superdelegates would be on the sideline on the 1st ballot unless a candidate wins outright during primary season (meaning a majority of *all* delegates).
Seconded by Member Goodman.
Further details on what the Third Way proposal
So the Democrats' plan for 2020 superdelegates passed its first hurdle yesterday.https://t.co/2Vgh2MrRjA
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Indy Films that Were Never Made
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Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 8, 2018 22:35:01 GMT WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? likes this
Post by Salzmank on Jul 8, 2018 22:35:01 GMT
There’s a similar thread in the Star Wars boards, so…here’s one here!
WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? and politicidal brought a number of scrapped Indy scripts to my attention on Colden’s forum that I found very interesting. The website MentalFloss has synopses for these three:
Indiana Jones and the Monkey King, in which Indy fights ghosts and hunts down a lost city and eternal-life-giving peaches
Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars, in which Indy gets married to a completely new character (with Marion and Willie at the wedding!), Elaine McGregor, who then vanishes… Later on, they hunt aliens together. Yeah.
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, the closest script to Crystal Skull, in which Indy and a few others are “...lifted by a swirling alien vapor that hypnotizes them.” We also have Crystal Skull’s Marion, crystal skulls, jungle adventure, and Russians.
OK, of these three I think Monkey King has the best concept, but then that may be because there’s one element (a female student of Indy’s who’s in love with him and who sneaks away to join him on an adventure) that I had independently dreamt up as well!
Which do you like the best? Does anyone know any more?
Last Edit: Jul 10, 2018 11:01:19 GMT by Salzmank
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Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 8, 2018 22:39:15 GMT Salzmank likes this
Post by politicidal on Jul 8, 2018 22:39:15 GMT
Monkey King and City of the Gods both sounded interesting. The former only because it was so batshit insane. The rhino vs tank battle sounds like something out of a Jumanji movie;maybe in the upcoming Jumanji 3? There was also a planned Lost World type movie that evolved into Temple of Doom where he found a valley full of dinosaurs in China.
Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 8, 2018 22:41:20 GMT
A valley of dinosaurs in China… Pretty non-Indy-esque, but boy I’d watch it…
Jul 8, 2018 22:41:20 GMT Salzmank said:
There apparently was a book where he wound up finding a Triceratops and its infant in Mongolia. The only novel I read was The Philosopher's Stone which was okay but it laid it pretty thick on the arcane alchemy mumbo jumbo and wasn't really all that action heavy.
The more I heard about the haunted house open, which Lucas apparently loves and which I thought ridiculous the first time I heard of it, the more I’m convinced that it might have been OK after all.
Someone at the Raven pointed out that “Masks of Evil” also had the Indy-in-a-haunted-house situation, and I thought it started out pretty well (and then went nuts, but the opening is good). It could have been that they suggest it’s a haunted house but don’t directly show any ghosts or supernatural material.
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Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 0:03:34 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ and Salzmank like this
Post by WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? on Jul 9, 2018 0:03:34 GMT
All three scripts are available online.
I've read them all.
Basically, they're all terrible.
I love the idea of using the Monkey King legend of Chinese lore... But they totally screw it up, making it take place in Africa instead of China and turning it so weird that it likely would've been a total disaster. The female student is also a shockingly horrible character. There's an actual scene where she tries to hang herself and it's played for laughs. Plus, it opens with a haunted house. Seriously, this is one bad screenplay.
I strangely don't remember much about the Saucermen script, but it felt more B-Movie sci fi than Indy. Would've been another disaster.
And City of the Gods is basically Crystal Skull... Only some things are better and some things are worse.
There is an AMAZING sequence where Indy gets drunk and tries to steal the idol from Raiders out of his own university's museum! It is hilarious!
But... Later he gets eaten by a giant snake and a monkey poops on him, so... Hit and miss.
All are worth read if you're an Indy fan!
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Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 0:11:12 GMT WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? likes this
Post by Salzmank on Jul 9, 2018 0:11:12 GMT
I haven’t yet finished reading any of the three, WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar?, but I’ll try to look into them (as well as watching Star Wars, and all this other stuff that’s going on my list!). I think Monkey King looks like it’s better as a concept than as written.
Indy drunk, stealing the idol from Raiders? Now that’s just weird enough to work…
Just read the idol-stealing sequence. It is hilarious! But how’d the museum get the idol?
Jul 9, 2018 0:11:12 GMT Salzmank said:
I haven’t yet finished reading any of the three, WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? , but I’ll try to look into them (as well as watching Star Wars, and all this other stuff that’s going on my list!). I think Monkey King looks like it’s better as a concept than as written.
The "what could've been" stuff fascinates me. Especially since I honestly could've seen a dozen Indy movies without getting sick of the franchise.
The Monkey King could've worked, but they throw all kinds of weird stupid things into the script. Supernatural life giving peaches?! What?!
And yeah, that sequence would've been so great... Although it does border on meta-humor/parody.
I love “what could’ve been” too, WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar?. The great thing with Indy is that there are so many possible plot-ideas we (and Lucas) can invent… (It’s probably the same for Star Wars as well. By the way, I know I’m taking my sweet time with The Empire Strikes Back—sorry—but I’m [1] intending to watch it with my Star Wars-fan friend who’s in California and [2] I think my uncle may have a VHS of the movie, so I hope that’d be a pre-some-edits copy.)
Oh, Monkey King definitely would have needed edits. But between all three of these scripts I think there’d be at least some good sequences for an Indy movie.
That link from the Raven board has a synopsis from the original draft of Last Crusade—not sure how this would have worked:
The first draft opens with a battle in Mexico between Indy and Banano, a crazed individual with a whip and a loyal band of gorillas. The object of their dispute is the death mask of Montezuma. Indy manages to throw Banano off a cliff, and his gorillas go free.
No sooner is he back in the States than Indy has to depart for France to look for his father—who has disappeared while looking for the Holy Grail. With a friend named Maude he goes to Montsegur, where they meet a nun named Chantal and her relation De La War, who explains that they had found a map that led Indy's father to Venice. But Nazis, led by Baron Balder von Grimm, were hot on the trail of Indy's dad. Grimm has a hapless sidekick named Hans, whom he is always calling "Idiot!" and then throttling.
After adventures in Venice and on the Orient Express where they are disguised as royalty, Indy and Chantai arrive in Istanbul. Clues and escapades put them on a train to Petra, where they are soon fighting for their lives. Fortunately Indy's old friend Sallah arrives with two horses, which they mount. Sallah then leads them to a Bedouin on horseback—who turns out to be Indy's father. Together they find the Grail in Petra, within the City of the Dead. At the climax Grimm shows up, but when he touches the Grail, he explodes; when Henry Sr. touches the Grail, a stairway to heaven appears, which he ascends. The nun Chantal is tempted to take the stairs as well, urged on by Indy. But her love for Jones makes her stay.
In the revised first draft the Nazi villain is Greta Von Grimm. And this time Indy finds his father tied to a pillar in a crusader's castle called Krak Des Chevalier. He'd been forced to help the Nazis in their search for the Grail, but they'd left him to die when he was no longer useful. At the place of the Grail, Indy does battle with a fantastic demon creature, whom he defeats by stabbing it in the belly with a dagger inscribed with the words GOD is KING. Bad girl Greta is vaporized by the Grail.
No mention of Thomas in the book though.
Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 0:38:09 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ likes this
Is the Diane Thomas screenplay available anywhere? (Though I’m that one weird Indy fan who didn’t like Romancing the Stone.)
Haven't heard of that one before
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Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 16:28:55 GMT Salzmank and WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? like this
Post by HOT DOG MAN™ on Jul 9, 2018 16:28:55 GMT
Jul 9, 2018 4:56:10 GMT WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? said:
"Never read it?"
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Not sure why the haunted house is so stupid when he's already experienced the literal power of God right in front of him and beckoned Hindu deities to do his bidding.
Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 18:05:56 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ and Salzmank like this
Post by WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? on Jul 9, 2018 18:05:56 GMT
Jul 9, 2018 16:28:55 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ said:
Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 18:08:29 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ likes this
Jul 9, 2018 16:49:23 GMT politicidal said:
It just comes across as really cheesy in the script, and doesn't fit the tone of the series at all.
Indy Films that Were Never Made Jul 9, 2018 18:09:26 GMT HOT DOG MAN™ and WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? like this
Jul 9, 2018 18:05:56 GMT WhatwouldyoudoforaKlondackbar? said:
Ah, un momento, amico mio—è possibile che io non capisca quello che vieni di scrivere…
Do you mean that you’d never heard of Romancing the Stone or of Diane Thomas’s Indy script?
Romancing the Stone = Heard of it but... Never seen it.
Diane's script = Never heard of it. Never read it.
Heh. OK. Got it now.
I think I referenced Romancing the Stone in my “Indy-like movies” thread; I’d seen it years ago and not liked it much, but then with all the recommendations I saw it again—but still didn’t like it, unfortunately! I found it more dull than anything else: many of the ideas are excellent, but the script’s not confident in its convictions or something. (No disrespect to Miss Thomas, whose journey to writing the script was a remarkable Cinderella story and whose early death was utterly tragic.) I haven’t yet seen the sequel, The Jewel of the Nile, but I thought the very silly ’85 King Solomon’s Mines and even the pilot episode of the TV show Hooten & the Lady did this kind of African Queen-esque plot better.
If I’m remembering correctly, Thomas wrote a first draft of Monkey King for Lucas that Chris Columbus later reworked into his draft. I’d love to know especially where it diverges with the Monkey King we have.
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Norman Manley statue to be renovated
Published:Wednesday | September 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMMaurice Silvera/Gleaner Writer
Lionel Rookwood
Workers from the Jamaica National Heritage Trust carry out restorative work on the statue of national hero Norman Washington Manley at St William Grant Park in Kingston yesterday.
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) yesterday commenced a $200,000 conservation project of the defaced statue of national hero Norman Washington Manley located at St William Grant Park in Kingston.
The preservation effort followed a story in last Sunday's Gleaner, in which both the JNHT and the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) distanced themselves from criticisms of political mischief over the statue's maintenance.
Two weeks ago, visitors to the park highlighted that the defaced statue of Norman Washington Manley, the first president of the People's National Party (PNP), was in stark contrast to a seemingly freshly painted statue of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the first leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
"Both statues were to be painted for the City of Kingston 145th anniversary celebrations. The first project we did was the Bustamante statue, and at the same time we decided that we were going to do this one (Manley)," said Kimberly McLaughlin, director of communication at the JNHT.
"While we were doing that, we realised that somebody came and painted this one. So whatever conservation methods we planned on doing, we could not do it because clearly it complicated the process, and that one had to be postponed."
EXPENSIVE PROCESS TO CLEAN
She explained that the statue is made of bronze and thus required an extensive and expensive process to clean.
According to McLaughlin, the cost to clean the statue shot up special chemicals and cleaning agents used in bronze conservation.
Yesterday, workmen were observed wrapping the statue in paper before spraying chemicals on it.
Evelyn Thompson, conservator at the JNHT, said the process is a very time-consuming one.
"Bronze is a relatively stable material. When it reacts with the atmosphere, it forms a layer that is stabilising in effect, and when somebody paints a bronze monument, it no longer looks like a bronze monument. It becomes very difficult to treat," she said, bemoaning the intricate process of stripping away the paint before the traditional methods of conservation can be carried out.
Last week, Town Clerk Robert Hill said that while the KSAMC has responsibility for the overall maintenance of the park, it was not responsible for the statues.
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About Jeff Healey
Canada’s Walk of Fame Induction Day!
by Rog | Oct 29, 2014 | Blog | 6 comments
After years of efforts by fans, friends and family, Jeff Healey was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame on Saturday October 18th, 2014, as a recipient of the Cineplex Legends Award.
It was an exciting and emotionally charged day for everyone involved.
The ceremony began with a running of the gauntlet known as the ‘yellow carpet’. There were fans, photographs, interviews and more photographs… all on the way to unveiling the ceremonial plaque.
© Canada’s Walk Of Fame
In attendance was Jeff’s wife Cristie, his father Bud and step-mother Rose, his sister Laura, his beloved children, Rachel and Derek (who unveiled the plaque together) and myself.
Jeff’s family at the induction ceremony for Canada’s Walk of Fame, Oct. 18, 2014.
(l-r: Mountie #1, Cristie Healey (Jeff’s wife), Derek Healey (Jeff’s son), Roger Costa (friend), Rose Healey (Jeff’s step-mother), Rachel Healey (Jeff’s daughter), Bud Healey (Jeff’s dad) & Laura Healey (Jeff’s sister) & Mountie #2) © Rick Madonik/Toronto Star
After the unveiling, the plaque was signed by Jeff’s family and later auctioned off for charity.
At the show itself (which will be televised in Canada December 19th, on The Global Network…) we were treated to a wonderful video presentation that covered Jeff’s life, career and his charitable works. The video also featured heartfelt testimonials from the likes of Ian Gillan, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Paul Schafer, Randy Bachman and more…
JHB bassist Joe Rockman and Jeff’s dad Bud catch up before the show…
© Pat Rush
After which there was a performance by an epic band that was assembled specifically for a fantastic musical tribute to Jeff – Music director Orin Isaacs, Sean Jones (vocals) Sekou Lumumba (drums), Calvin Beal (bass), Justin Abedin (guitar) and Jimmy Bowskill (lead guitar & background vocals).
They played a soulful rendition of ‘Angel Eyes‘, then tore headfirst into ‘See The Light‘, guitarist Jimmy Bowskill (who first played guitar with Jeff at the tender age of 10) blazing for all he was worth with Sean putting an R&B spin on the proceedings. It absolutely smoked!
Sean Jones © George Pimentel/WireImage
Later that night, I had the pleasure of speaking to Sean Jones to thank him for the tremendous job he and the other musicians had done. He told me that the band had been watching the video presentation for the first time as they were preparing to go on stage and they were all fighting to keep it together…
After the performance, Canadian music icon, Tom Cochrane presented Jeff’s award which was accepted by Cristie and Jeff’s father, Bud. Tom is truly a legendary songwriter, performer, tireless charitable activist… but he is also one of the genuinely sweetest human beings on the planet.
Tom Cochrane attends the 2014 Canada’s Walk Of Fame Gala at Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel on October 18, 2014 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)
We were absolutely thrilled when we found out that he would be presenting Jeff’s Cineplex Legends Award. Tom was a dear friend of Jeff’s and actually requested Jeff be the presenter at the 2003 JUNO Awards where he gave a speech to commemorate Tom’s induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Tom Cochrane & Jeff Healey as Tom was presented with the Hall of Fame Award at the Junos, in 2003 – © Christine Muschi/Reuters
Cristie and Bud gave emotional speeches that brought many in the audience to tears, before being whisked away for more interviews…
Cristie and Jeff’s dad, Bud – From ET Canada:
“Jeff Healey’s Wife Accepts Inductee Star On Behalf Of Late Husband –
Cristie Healey stopped by our backstage lounge at the Canada’s Walk of Fame ceremony to talk about her late husband and musician, Jeff Healey, and how much the family was honoured to accept the induction on his behalf.“
After the awards presentation, there was a charity gala dinner organized by Canada’s Walk of Fame. It was there that legendary actor/director Peter Fonda (who presented the award for The Band) told our own Pat Rush that he was a big fan…
Pat Rush & the legendary Peter Fonda at the Canada’s Walk of Fame celebration. © Pat Rush
“Well, I went over to Peter Fonda and introduced myself. Hi I’m Pat Rush, guitarist with Jeff Healey for 12 years. He shook my hand and said ‘Oh that’s cool, I loved Jeff and I’ll bet it was amazing to watch him play every night when you were on stage with him!’ I said yes it was! He said, ‘What an amazing style.’ P.F. was very nice friendly and funny.” – Pat Rush
(…at an event the night before, fellow inductee, actor Ryan Reynolds was gracious enough to stop by and share with us a nice little story of meeting Jeff when he was only 13 years old…)
…and finally, we’d like to close off with some words from Cristie…
“The Canada’s Walk of Fame weekend was incredible for our entire family and I have to say… it very much exceeded even our biggest expectations. The show was absolutely fantastic.
The way Jeff’s story was presented through the video presentation was more than we could have hoped for. The musical tribute to Jeff was absolutely outstanding! Singer Sean Jones was a fantastic choice, as well as Jimmy and everyone involved.
This event has made a huge impact in the lives of Jeff’s children, as well as ours… I can’t even begin to say what this has meant to Jeff’s dad. It was an extremely emotional time for all of us but so worth it!” – Cristie Healey
Canada’s Walk of Fame ceremonial plaque © Roger Costa
The entire weekend was wonderful and we were all thrilled and so proud that Jeff was being publicly recognized in this way…
Here’s a couple of great interviews done with Jeff’s wife Cristie in the days leading up to the ceremony:
The first is a terrific interview on CBC TV…
CBC TV interview with Cristie Healey
…and the second in an interview Cristie did with Samaratinmag’s Karen Bliss…
Samaratinmag interview with Cristie Healey
…and be sure to tune in to Global TV to see the show on December 19th!
~Rog
Mario Barroso on October 29, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Would love to be able to watch the show on Dec. 19th, however being in Miami, Fl. I think I’m out of luck. Any idea how I might be able to get that down here?
Rog on October 29, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Hey Mario! Welcome! Not entirely sure about viewers outside of Canada yet, but we are looking into it and will have more info here as soon as we know more. …Though I imagine there will likely be some online viewing option. Stay tuned… ~Rog
Jesse on October 29, 2014 at 11:57 pm
This a huge honor for a man with such amazing,under rated talent.
The talent and passion that Jeff had was simply something to behold.
He adapted to a new unique way of playing guitar using all 5 fingers on his hand at any given time and playing the guitar flat across his lap and being blind since 8 months old on top of his already amazing talent.
There’s no one like Jeff,no one will ever replace him and what he did all these years to captivate all his fans in awe!
I’ve literally grown up with Jeff and his music since I was just 6 yrs old.
Even though I never met him or knew him personally he’ll always be a huge part of me,for inspiration as like Jeff I’ve dealt with my own physical disability but I never gave up on playing music I loved.
So congrats to Jeff and his family for accepting this award on his behalf.
Truly deserving of being a star on Canada’s Walk Of Fame!
Wish he could be with us today to share this with everyone!
He’d really appreciate all of this.
I do miss him a lot but his music and talent will always be apart of me till the end….Thanks Jeff for being an inspiration to me and for giving me (and your fans) the gift of your music and amazing talents…You will always be missed but never forgotten.
To have a final quote that I came up with myself in honor of Jeff….
“May your guitar gently weep on in our hearts forever!”
Lisa Praest on December 21, 2014 at 10:05 am
I have only had the privilege of watching Jeff on tv and listening to him on the stereo. He poured his heart and soul into his music. That was obvious. As a lover of Blues I have been a fan of his for yrs. I have talked about him to my children. This honour is much deserved.
Robert E Bammerlin on September 11, 2018 at 7:55 pm
I saw Jeff play in the late 80s in Cleveland,Ohio USA I was 14. it was a concert club. it was the best concert I have ever seen to date. I listen to Jeff ever since. it was before Road House came out. Nobody could play like Jeff. When I am down, I pop in one of his CDs and crank it up. The songs bring happiness to me. I believe Jeff is up in Heaven playing for God. Jeff will live on through his music. Thanks Jeff.
S. Foster on February 28, 2015 at 3:12 pm
Wonderful to hear of Jeff Healey’s induction. I’ve never seen a musician with more musical genius, and yet when his wife talks about him, she speaks a little about his music and a lot more about Healey as a person and family man.
God Bless you Jeff, Cristie, Rachel, and Derek. Jeff may be gone but his music and spirit live on. It’s truly touching to read of your efforts to preserve his legacy.
Rest In Peace Bud…
Rest Easy Night Tripper…
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Helen cook on Rest In Peace Bud…
Kerry Wyles on Remembering… A Message From Cristie Healey
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Kim Doolittle on Rest In Peace Bud…
CHARLENE DONOVAN on Rest In Peace Bud…
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1. What types of images of Africa did Joshua have before traveling to South Africa? How and when did those impressions change after his arrival to South Africa?
2. In writing her nature scenes – first at the pond near Philadelphia, and then during the three waterfall scenes – the author makes allusions to Henry Thoreau’s Walden. In what ways? What is the significance?
3. What was the significance of the “Lu’s hands” flashback in the novel?
4. Joshua still seemed troubled about the death of his cousin Darius, who was killed as he fought as a U.S. soldier in a segregated troop during World War I. What parallels are there between Darius’s choice to serve in World War I and Joshua’s choice to eventually leave his mission?
5. What were the last images of America that Joshua saw when leaving the United States aboard a goods ship? Why would those images become important symbolically?
6. During his initial trans-Atlantic journey by ship to Africa, Joshua hears a voice that seems to echo within itself, until it numbers thousands, rising from the waters. He also sees an image of a long-winged bird in the sky that appears to be tied down, trying to set itself free. What do you think the author was trying to symbolize?
7. Joshua traveled back to Africa via a goods ship in a “reversed Middle Passage.” In what ways was this symbolic?
8. What was the role of the character Marvin, Joshua’s cabin mate on the ship Amissa? Why did Marvin quote the words of Jesus to Joshua, “rise, take up thy bed, and walk”?
9. What parallels does the author draw between how Joshua experiences his family in America, and the new family he forms in South Africa with the Raggedy Woman and the Maganus? What elements help create this parallel?
10. One of the main characters, the Brother, is white, yet those around him flocked to his sermons and also comment that he “wore his black skin like pride.” Why? What themes were underscored in terms of the role of race in the dilemmas faced by Joshua?
11. Over time, Joshua feels conflicted about how he is preaching in South Africa. What was the source of that conflict? When did he start to react to his feelings of internal conflict? What were his specific actions and do you think he went far enough? Do you believe that Joshua walked an appropriate line between his role as a missionary and any political acts?
12. In multiple scenes we see Nongolesi writing down Xhosa oral history on paper in a way that made the paper look like “royal parchment.” Why was it important to see these scenes as a part of this novel?
13. The author names the Bible written in Xhosa a “marula Bible.” What was the significance of calling that Bible a “marula” Bible?
14. How would you characterize the image of rural living put forth by the author when writing about the Ulundi School, farm life, and traditional life? What did you learn about Xhosa traditional customs, like the male initiation rites?
15. The author makes a point to describe the extended family as it has existed traditionally in Xhosa culture? What benefits are there of the extended family structure and to what degree do you see this sort of structure reflected in western culture?
16. The author draws a contrast between traditional living and the way traditional life was being destroyed. What was being lost as the traditional Xhosa way of living was being strained? What was the significance of including the train ride scene in which African miners asked Joshua about prostitution?
17. When Joshua found out that his status was that of an “honorary white” in South Africa, one of the students looked at him with “amused pity.” This is an allusion to W.E.B. Du Bois’ writing on Double Consciousness. Why do you think the author used those terms to describe one of the student’s reactions to Joshua?
18. How did Joshua greet the news that his status in South Africa was that of an “honorary white”? Why do you believe that the South African government in the 1930s chose to grant black Americans the distinction of “honorary whites” rather than treating them as Africans?
19. Why did Joshua sense a parallel to the imprisonment of African political protesters at Nocno and the situation of African Americans? Was the first prison scene a turning point for Joshua?
20. Why did Joshua’s congregation members initially look at him with “forgiving eyes?” Why did the students initially refer to him by the Xhosa words for “Not Dead”? What was the significance when Joshua’s nickname changed to Makinda, meaning “Young Bird”?
21. What was the Raggedy Woman’s role in the novel?
22. What was the role of Andrew in the novel?
23. What was Sarah’s role in the novel?
24. What was the significance of the children’s book – similar to the Little Black Sambo books of the 1900s-1930s – that Lucius sent to Joshua?
25. How do you think the author portrayed the African students at Fort Hare? How would you characterize the hopes and dreams of students such as Ogenga and Jovan?
26. What was the point of including the character of Mhlobo, a man who had been crippled in the South African mines?
27. Throughout the novel, a voice sang to Joshua in Xhosa. What do you believe that voice represented? What evidence do you point to in order to support that interpretation?
28. Why did Joshua feel a weight lifted when, in his dreams, Darius confessed at the end of the novel that if he had to, he’d do it again? What was “it” referring to?
29. What did the “Double V” represent when Darius held up two fingers in the dream Joshua had about Darius at the end of the novel?
30. Joshua reads a poem out to Nongolesi by the river, in which he confesses he is looking at her with “waking eyes.” The words are an allusion to a poem by Langston Hughes called “Africa.” To what degree do you believe that Joshua’s falling in love with Nongolesi also represents Joshua falling in love with Africa? In that same poem, the author weaves many references to the Biblical book of Song of Solomon. Why? What was the significance of placing this scene beside a river?
31. The author includes a lobola negotiation as a part of the romance of Joshua and Nongolesi. Was this appropriate in your view? How had the Raggedy Woman explained the notion of lobola? How does it differ from the notion of dowries in other countries, if at all?
32. What was the significance of Joshua’s trip to the Transkei? What was the significance of the Tree of Everlasting Hope?
33. How did the birth of Little Darius change Joshua, if at all?
34. In what ways did life in Ginsberg differ from life in the rural villages?
35. What significance was Mhlobo trying to convey through his portrait of Jesus, which he was preparing for the East London march?
36. Why do you think it was important that Joshua helped establish a church and a school in Ginsberg?
37. What meaning did Joshua see in the portrait of the Bible that his congregation hung in the new church in Ginsberg?
38. As Joshua is being led from Ginsberg in the final pages of the novel, he whispers words to Mr. Garrett, but the author does not tell you what those words are. What do you think Joshua whispered to Mr. Garrett? What should Joshua have whispered to Mr. Garrett?
39. During his initial trans-Atlantic journey by ship to Africa, Joshua sees an image of a long-winged bird in the sky that appears to be tied down, trying to set itself free. Why, upon his journey back to America at the end of the novel, had that image in the sky seemed to change? How had that image changed, and what did this symbolize?
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Meet the Cast: Michelle Hazen’s dream cast for Insatiable
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Michelle Hazen is back with Insatiable, the next standalone in her Sex, Love, and Rock & Roll series. When a sex addict lead singer falls into friendship with a hard rock diva, he must fight their attraction or risk ruining her life. Fans of rockstar romances will devour this angsty yet heartwarming story about a bad boy who’s a good man.
Today, Michelle is here to introduce us to her hero and heroine, and she’s got some pictures to help you picture them!
An Insatiable dream cast
If I were casting a movie version of Insatiable, I would know immediately who would play Ava. But Jax is much harder since (don’t laugh) most movie stars aren’t hot enough to measure up.
However, I did manage to find some pics of a man who could carry off his sharp, masculine beauty and the weight of the shame and uncertainty that follows him everywhere once his cocky celebrity mask falls away.
Here are a couple more of Jax in his backstage persona:
Ava’s easiest to cast because I had the actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw in mind from the second I started writing Ava. When I was partway through the first draft, I found a movie called “Beyond the Lights” that she stars in, and it has a lot of parallels to Ava’s journey in my book. It’s super fun to watch because it’s like watching Ava come to life on screen. Just…with no Jax. Which is a bummer.
This is what I picture Ava looking like:
Ava is a complex person with a lot of sides to her. First, there’s the splashy, talented performer. I picture her like a hard rock version of Lady Gaga or Beyonce. Lots of costumes and different hair styles and colors and insane shoes and costumes.
But she also has a very sweet, funny side with a deep well of vulnerability, and that’s the side of her Jax sees when they start to open up to each other and become friends.
If you’d like to see more of Jax & Ava, including Ava’s crazy shoe collection and the dresses she, Kate, and Jera wore to the Sponsor Ball mentioned in the book, you can check out the Pinterest page for the book here: https://www.pinterest.com/michellehazenbo/insatiable/
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Jax Sterling is a sex addict with the heart of a golden retriever puppy.
As the lead singer for the Red Letters, it’s easy to hide his loneliness behind his bad boy lifestyle…until he lands on tour with a hard rock goddess who makes him want the relationship he can never have.
Onstage, Ava’s all chains, whips and guitar licks, but the backstage confessions they share are darker than their leather.
She wants Jax, but he wants better for her than him.
But then, bad news drops that threatens the life of one of his bandmates, and the loyalty of the other. Terrified by how little he has left if he loses his best friends, Jax takes the plunge to let someone else into his life.
Until Ava finds out his ugliest sin, and it’s nothing she can forgive.
**This book contains spoilers to earlier books in the series, but can be read and understood as a standalone. No cheating, no cliffhanger, HEA guaranteed.**
About Michelle Hazen
Michelle Hazen is a nomad with a writing problem. Years ago, she and her husband ducked out of the 9 to 5 world and moved into their truck. As a result, she wrote most of her books with solar power in odd places, including a bus in Thailand, a golf cart in a sandstorm, and a beach in Honduras. Currently, she’s addicted to The Walking Dead, hiking, and Tillamook cheese.
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Sam Morton - Ashburton Guardian - 7th of May, 2012
Ashburton man John Easton is a relieved gentleman. For months he has been suffering with a hernia, but on Thursday his wait for surgery came to a welcome end.
In January, Mr Easton, 72, was one of the many victims affected by the theatre block closure at Ashburton Hospital due to unsafe and earthquake prone buildings. He was put on the Canterbury District Health Board waiting list to have surgery in Christchurch and he knew his wait would be months – living with unwanted pain every day.
However, the team at the mobile surgical bus came to the rescue, thanks to the stopgap measure put in place by the board for Ashburton patients. “I got a phone call about three weeks ago telling me of this option and I just jumped at the opportunity,” Mr Easton said. “If I had said no, I would have had to go to Christchurch and it could have been nearer the end of the year so it would have been less than ideal.”
Mr Easton said he was impressed with the 20 metre long, 42 tonne truck and believed it was a great temporary choice to help the people of mid Canterbury needing surgery. The surgical bus is fully equipped with all the gear found in a main city hospital, and staff including surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses usually travel from out of town. “It’s a really modern piece of machinery, the bus is big on the outside and inside, it’s like one big room. I was blown away,” he said. “It’s definitely a great way to relieve the waiting list around here and I think people will be glad they won’t have to travel to Christchurch. It’s a big plus for the town.”
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The surgical bus will be parked at the Ashburton Hospital once every five weeks until a decision is made to address the absence of surgical services locally.
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HINT OF SPRING
There have been signs recently that the worst of the winter might be behind us, especially with the last day of January being still and sunny. This clump of flowering snowdrops situated in a ditch along Bromans Lane, has been catching the eyes of some of the folk driving into the country park.
Sallow bushes near the pond have been bursting their buds over the last fortnight, revealing the silvery-white young growth of the pussy willow catkins. They still have a way to go before they have the first bees of the spring buzzing around their fully developed yellow catkins.
This small hawthorn bush near the car park is resilient enough to keep its green leaves throughout the winter, despite the snow last month. Every winter it looks the same and it's often the first hawthorn at the park to produce the first new leaves of the spring too.
The calm conditions today provided a flat sea with clear visibility to the horizon. Martin Cock had alerted me that he could see 250 great crested grebes and 8 Slavonian grebes on the sea opposite the Youth Camp area. This group and lots more could be seen from the country park with an estimate of 300 great-crested grebes and another 4 Slavonian grebes being seen as were 3 common scoter.
There were hundreds of gulls in the distance especially concentrated around a large feeding flock of 200 cormorants on the horizon, probably about 3 miles offshore. Some of these cormorants may've been some of the 100 birds that passed low over West Mersea just after daybreak, as they made their way from their Abberton reservoir roost.
Also seen were some big groups of red-throated divers flying towards Colne Point as if from the direction of the mouth of the Blackwater. There was one flock of 45 red-throats counted and with several other flocks seen including a few individuals on the water, around 70 birds had been noted.
Late in the afternoon with the tide at its lowest, a long-tailed duck was unexpectedly seen flying out of the Colne with 4 red-breasted mergansers. A total of 36 red-breasted mergansers flew past the Point as they headed out to feed in the outer reaches of the estuary. Drifting out of the Colne were 14 eider who stopped to feed in the middle of the river, opposite Brightlingsea. Thousands of gulls, mainly black-headed, streamed out of the Colne to roost for the night on the mud at Sandy Point.
On the grazing fields a merlin flashed across towards the seawall, creating panic amongst some of the 1000 waders and wildfowl in the fields. A female sparrowhawk was less obvious and perched briefly on a tree at the back of the fields. A grey heron in the fields at the end of the afternoon might be the first heron to visit the park this year.
In the park there were still 70+ finches around the various bushes and trees near the pond with chaffinches, greenfinches and goldfinches present Six siskin perched up on some tall poplar trees with the sweet twittering song of three males making them sound very happy and relaxed with themselves. Two great spotted woodpeckers were also seen together here.
Just after daybreak a barn owl was seen perched on a fencepost near Bromans Lane, surveying the strip of long grass beside it. At the end of the day there was the usual little owl duet heard, except this time it came from Cosways Caravan site and not the more usual Bromans Farm.
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DOZING DUCKS
There were still lots of teal on the flooded pools in the park's grazing fields on Sunday 30th. Many of the 200 teal were dabbling in the shallow water but others were happy dozing just like this male teal pictured above. The teal were the most obvious duck around the pools with only a few individuals of mallard, gadwall and shoveler.
In other parts of the fields there were the 500 wigeon and 400 brent geese grazing in dense flocks with the 6 greylag geese still present too. Amongst the waders were 6 snipe, 30 curlew, 60 lapwing and 10 black-tailed godwits. In the nearby dyke 6 reed buntings perched in some reeds, while 20 skylarks flew from the fields to feed in the nearby saltmarsh.
Not as many ducks on the park pond as compared with a few days ago with 9 tufted ducks and 10 gadwall being the main ones present. In the alder trees 25 goldfinches flew around at times with a couple of siskins glimpsed too. In horse paddocks to the north there was the small flock of 30+ redwings and fieldfares.
Offshore 11 eider were seen in the river Colne along with at least 10 red-breasted mergansers and 5 great crested grebes. There was no sign looking up-river of the red-necked grebe or long-tailed duck that had been seen opposite the Geedons earlier in the day by Glyn Evans from Alresford. In the Pyefleet 10 pintail were seen by Pewit Island along with lots of wigeon and teal, while a peregrine and 3 marsh harriers were seen over Langenhoe Point.
Martin Cock located a bearded tit and 3 brambling at Maydays farm in the afternoon while there was a report of 28 lapland buntings still present in fields by the Strood. Mo Jackson visited this spot later and didn't see any laplands but did report seeing a ringtail hen harrier followed by a male hen harrier, then a marsh harrier before concluding with a barn owl flying past.
Labels: Dozing Ducks
WINTER WILDFOWL
The main concentration of birds on a chilly and grey country park on Saturday 29th were the winter wildfowl on the grazing fields. The 500 wigeon were feeding in various parts of the field, some pictured above. The brent geese were also busy cropping the already short grass with about 500 birds also present. The six greylag geese seemed happier mixing with the wigeon rather than the brent geese. In and around the main pool were 200 teal, 25 mallard with 20 shoveler.
Other birds in the fields were a handful of snipe which were much less than the 30 birds seen earlier in the week. Eighty lapwing were dotted across the fields with another 20 birds in a neighbouring field. Twenty curlew but only one black-tailed godwit and a redshank were noted. At the back of the fields were 22 stock doves, although there might've have been more arrive at the copse by the pond later in the afternoon for the roost.
Three pairs of mute swans were keeping their distances apart from each other with one pair on the pond, another on the park dyke and a third pair on the flooded horse paddock by the Golfhouse. It was also in this field that 20 redwings and 2o fieldfares were feeding.
Less ducks on the pond than have normally been present in recent days. Only a few gadwall, mallard, shoveler while the small group of tufted ducks seemed to have disappeared. A water rail could be heard calling from under the willow bushes but didn't show. In the alder trees along from the pond, 4 siskins were seen feeding with one male bird noted with the three females. In other trees nearby was the regular flock of cheery goldfinches singing loudly.
From the beach 100 knot were the main waders of note on an other-wise large expanse of mudflats with some of the other familiar waders like redshank, oystercatcher, dunlin, curlew and grey plover. In the river Colne a common seal swam quickly past the Point, swimming most of the length underwater - the first seal seen here for a few weeks. There were a few red-breasted mergansers in the distance near Langenhoe Point, but no sign of the 6 eider and the 18 red-breasted mergansers seen offshore from the park on Wednesday.
Received a report today from a birdwatcher who walked along the north side of the Island, that two bearded tits were seen in a small reedbed in a dyke near Maydays.
Early on Thursday morning a ringtail hen harrier was seen hunting low over the country park near the car park, before it headed westwards and checked out a weedy field near the caravan site. Steve Entwistle reported seeing the barn owl hunting alongside Dawes Lane first thing on Thursday morning. David Nicholls also reported seeing the pair of blackcaps again in his West Mersea garden in recent days.
Graham Ekins found 42 lapland buntings along with 50 skylarks in the weedy field by the Strood on Thursday. Offshore from West Mersea were 2 red-throated divers, great northern diver, 3 Slavonian grebes, 11 common scoter and 16 red-breasted mergansers.
On Tuesday Martin Cock found a black-necked grebe offshore from the West Mersea Esplanade, where there were also 2 Slavonian grebes, 3 red-throated divers, 6 eider and 7 common scoter.
Labels: Winter Wildfowl
BERRIES FOR THE BIRDS
There were still an interesting selection of small birds feeding in bushes and in the game cover crops at Maydays farm during a visit there on Sunday 23rd. Despite the cold start to the winter, nearly two months ago and with so much of the ground covered with snow then, it's surprising to see some blackthorn bushes at Maydays still laden down with juicy sloe berries, as in the picture above. However a couple of song thrushes and a handful of blackbirds were seen feeding in some of these bushes.
Amongst the 70 chaffinches that were feeding amongst the game crop and in the young tree plantation were at least 4 bramblings. Judging by the amount of orange on the chests, two of the birds appeared to be males. The finch flock flitted from bush to bush, often perching up for a few minutes and there could've been more birds around but many flitted in and out of view. Up to ten yellowhammers were also present along with a few greenfinches and goldfinches too.
It was a bit dull and with a chilly breeze on the seawall overlooking the Pyefleet channel. A common buzzard was seen being mobbed by some crows over the woodland on the Langenhoe ranges. Scanning across the ranges were at least five marsh harriers while to the west, a nice male hen harrier was seen flying low over the Langenhoehall marshes and across nearby saltings before dropping down to rest. A big flock of 2000 wood pigeons were feeding on the big rape field next to the woodland of the army ranges.
It was still mainly low tide with lots of mud on show with lots of wigeon, shelduck and big wader flocks of mainly knot and dunlin. In mid channel were 12 red-breasted mergansers and 2 goldeneye diving to feed.
Not much seen over the fields of Reeveshall and Maydays other than a marsh harrier, kestrel, little egret and 1000 starlings. There was no sign of the bearded tit seen earlier in the week, although one reed bunting was present.
A late walk along the St Peters beach in the afternoon of Monday 24th, provided great views of a huge golden plover flock in the sky over Cobmarsh Island. At least 2000 birds rose into the sky, splitting up into about ten or more different sub-groups, each flock going in slightly different directions to the others, whilst all climbing higher into the sky. Presumably a bird of prey like a peregrine had flown nearby, scattering thousands of birds into the air with 500 lapwings, lots of gulls and a mixture of other roosting waders all flying about.
Andy Field visited the arable field by the Strood earlier on Monday and noted just the one lapland bunting.
Labels: Berries for the Birds
STROOD LAPLANDS
It was high tide when I went for a walk along the Strood Channel on Saturday 22nd. Waders and wildfowl such as these brent geese were gathering along the edges of the saltmarshes. Wigeon and teal were the main ducks noted along the channel.
Came back to this muddy arable field next to the Strood Hill to have another look for the lapland buntings. It took a while to find the skylark flock which the laplands were feeding with, but eventually about 70 larks/buntings were seen flying around the back of the field. Through the telescope 25 laplands buntings were seen on the ground, feeding in the short winter wheat crop as they scuttled along. Every so often the flock would take off and fly around a few times before landing in another part of the field. Amongst the laplands are some birds developing some colourful markings, with nice chestnut mantles and blackish throat markings.
A peregrine flew slowly over the fields clutching a bird in its talons, as it headed up the slope towards West Mersea, scattering all the birds on the field. The muddy pools in the field brought in various waders for the high tide with 150 dunlin, 25 golden plover, 20 ringed plover, 3 redshank, curlew and 3 grey plover. A rock pipit was heard calling as it passed along the seawall.
A later visit to look offshore from Kingsland road in West Mersea during the high tide provided views of 100 great crested grebes, Slavonian grebe, 6 common scoter, red-breasted merganser and hundreds of gulls that may've been feeding on sprats.
A visit to Reeveshall on Friday 21st was also made during the high tide so no waders of note were seen feeding along the Pyefleet. A thousand golden plover rose off Langenhoe Point when a marsh harrier passed nearby. Five marsh harriers and a ringtail hen harrier were seen on Langenhoe. In the Pyefleet were 10 red-breasted mergansers, 2 goldeneye, while 6 pintail were with lots of wigeon and teal by Pewit Island. On Reeveshall 10 Canada geese and a little egret were seen but only a pair of mute swans on the Pool. In the Shop Lane wood a coal tit was heard calling.
Labels: Strood Laplands
LONE WAXWING
The sunshine has been in short supply this winter, so it was nice to see lots of blue sky over the country park on Thursday 20th. There was even a bit of warmth to enjoy by walking along the beach, sheltered from the cool northerly breeze by the cliff.
Towards the end of the afternoon a single waxwing was seen perched up on top of a dead tree, just inside the park entrance. It was a bit of a surprise to find it, as it hadn't been seen flying in, and I nearly walked past it without noticing it. Ian Black soon joined me in watching the bird and we saw it fly a short distance and perch in a wild rose bush with lots of juicy rose-hips for it to feed on.
After all the waxwings that have been discovered in various parts of the country this winter, I've finally managed to find one in the country park! It's probably about 8 years since I last saw any waxwings in the park, and those were two birds that perched for only two minutes. I've not heard any recent news about local waxwings on the Island, since a few were seen in a garden beside the East Mersea road ten day ago.
At the park pond the male pochard was present again for the third day along with 12 tufted ducks. There was the usual selection of mallard, gadwall, shoveler and teal, although some of these are commuting between the nearby flooded fields and the pond. In the alders near the pond a female siskin continues to feed with a group of 20 goldfinches.
North of the park on Wednesday 20 fieldfares were seen perched briefly on top of a bush.
Lots of rain at the beginning of the week, saturated the park fields filling up lots of the old creeks with water, which have proved popular with the ducks. On the fields the brent geese have formed the biggest flock in recent days with 400+ birds, while 200 wigeon, 150 teal and 6 greylag geese were the main wildfowl noted. At high tide 70 redshank, 80 curlew, 20 snipe, 30 lapwing along with a handful of turnstones and 200 starlings have been in the fields in recent days.
Offshore there are still hundreds of wigeon bobbing about in the sea in big rafts. In the estuary 10 red-breasted mergansers and 2 great crested grebes were noted today, while a goldeneye was seen on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday a marsh harrier flew over the mudflats and then flew north over the car park as it headed to the evening roost on Langenhoe. The previous day two marsh harriers flew north from Colne Point, heading to the Langenhoe roost. Seventy avocets fed along the water's edge of the Colne late on Monday.
Martin Cock saw 2 or 3 lapland buntings at the Strood on Tuesday and then at Maydays farm noted a nicely marked male bearded tit in the borrowdyke. A visit to the Shop Lane section of seawall on Wednesday provided views of a barn owl in a nearby field while on Langenhoe a ringtail hen harrier as well as a few marsh harriers were seen gathering for the evening roost.
David Nicholls watched a chiffchaff in his garden in Queen Ann Drive in West Mersea and he also reported the male blackcap has also been seen a few times recently too.
Labels: Lone Waxwing
BLUE SKY BACK
It was nice seeing blue sky on Sunday 16th over the country park, although there was a bit of wind blowing. This section of borrowdyke pictured above was where 200 wigeon were seen, the main flock in the fields. Hundreds of wigeon are still missing from the fields, with most of them still resting out at sea. Brent geese gathered in the fields to graze with 400 seen during the morning. The teal are still enjoying the flooded pools with 250+ noted over the last couple of days, along with 40 shoveler. Amongst the waders in the field 15 snipe, 20 redshank, 30 curlew, 30 black-tailed godwits and 50 lapwing were noted. A sparrowhawk flew over the fields in the afternoon.
In the area by the pond one female siskin was still feeding with 25 goldfinches in the alders, 20 greenfinches and 16 chaffinches were also seen. Two green woodpeckers were noted flying along the hedgelines while down in the field, a black-tailed godwit was seen from the hide. On the water more tufted ducks had appeared overnight with 13 being the biggest count for several weeks.
In the river, 10 red-breasted mergansers could be seen in the Colne and a couple of great crested grebes, while in the distance, a male marsh harrier was probably the reason for the disturbance of the 1000 golden plover and 500 lapwing as well as lots of other roosting waders off Langenhoe Point.
Enjoyed watching a barn owl hunting along the East Mersea roadside verge just west of the pub, in broad daylight, over an hour after daybreak. I slowed the car down and followed the bird as it checked both sides of the hedge, at one point the owl hung in the wind as it scanned the verge beneath it. It's always great to see a barn owl out hunting and this one was close enough I could enjoy it without the binoculars.
At West Mersea Ray Hempstead took a few birdwatchers out in his Sorcerer boat on a windy Sunday morning along the north side of the Blackwater, although there was little of interest in the nearby creeks. An eider and a great northern diver were apparently the only things of interest close in to Mersea.
Labels: Blue Sky Back
FINCH GATHERING
Most of the small birds at the country park were feeding around this small field beside the pond on Friday 14th. Amongst the flock of up to 25 goldfinches was at least one siskin this morning perched up in the trees. In recent days the goldfinches have been feeding in the alders along the hedgeline, with two siskins also seen yesterday. Also feeding in the area were 20 greenfinches and about 12 chaffinches.
The recent rains seemed to have brought more thrushes into this area with ten blackbirds, couple of song thrushes, a few redwings and fieldfares, either in the bushes or feeding in the field. A dozen moorhens were also feeding along the lower part of the field.
At the park pond 7 tufted duck were of interest amongst the usual gadwall, mallard with a few teal and shoveler. The grazing fields are much wetter after the rains although most of the wigeon were absent, resting on the nearby sea. Fifteen snipe, 50 lapwing, 30 black-tailed godwit, 10 redshank, 150 teal and 20 shoveler were seen around the flooded area. A noisy flock of 300 starlings were busy feeding in the field too.
The birds of prey seen in the last few days include a peregrine flying over this corner of the fields as it headed north on Wednesday, a harrier sp flying away over the Point on Thursday looked like a ringtail while on Friday a nicely marked male sparrowhawk flew very low at pebble height along the beach.
In the river Colne 3 eiders were seen on both Thursday and Friday with one or two great black-backed gulls keeping them company. Up to 10 red-breasted mergansers and 5 great crested grebes were also seen. Not much to report from the vast expanse of mudflats exposed during the low tide, although 12 avocets were noted near the Point on Thursday.
At the west end of the Island 20+ lapland buntings were seen in the arable field near the Strood on Tuesday by Martin Cock and they were reported again on Wednesday. Also on Tuesday 2 Mediterranean gulls were on the greensward by the Esplanade and offshore a Slavonian grebe and 10 common scoters were seen.
Labels: Finch Gathering
LAPLAND FLOCK
I summoned Andy Field to come and look at one or two lapland buntings I'd found in this arable field next to Strood Hill on Monday 10th. When we got the telescopes up to look through the flock of skylarks, we first found at least five lapland buntings. A short while later the birds flew a short distance and landed a bit closer to us providing better views. This time we counted an amazing 22+ lapland buntings amongst the 70+ skylarks. Some of the laplands were well marked adults showing the blackish chests and chestnut on the back of the neck.
This was certainly an unexpected find, as previously this winter, there have only been 2 or 3 laplands seen frequenting these Strood-side fields. Although in the past there have been one or two glimpses of birds feeding on the ground, this was an unprecedented view of 22 birds on the ground. Later in the afternoon Andy met a birdwatcher at the Strood who'd turned up and managed to count 25 laplands!
Feeding with the laplands were the 70+ skylarks and one linnet, while a rock pipit flew over the seawall calling. Ten corn buntings were also noted by the weedy field with two of the birds singing. Three snipe, 50 golden plover, little egret, 6 reed buntings and a male marsh harrier were also seen in the area.
We then drove to Michael Thorley's East Mersea garden near Meeting Lane, where at least 10 waxwings were watched feeding on berries in a privet hedge. Fourteen birds were seen here yesterday and there was also a report of the same amount of waxwings in Mick Laver's garden in Empress Avenue in West Mersea. Whilst looking for waxwings today, 2 kestrels perched on the roadside and several small groups of fieldfares were seen along the East Mersea road and also a handful in Empress Avenue.
Plenty of blue sky on Sunday 9th during a quick morning walk along the Strood seawall. Birds of note included a yellowhammer flying over, grey heron while in the channel were 300 brent geese and the usual wildfowl while 2 avocets were the only waders of note. Twenty fieldfares and 2 goldcrest were noted in Firs Chase while 10 house sparrows were in Coast Road.
Andy Field and Steve Entwistle saw 2 coal tits in Shop Lane and 3 siskins near the pond at the country park on Sunday. Daryl Rhymes also visited the Shop Lane area and from the seawall noted 8 marsh harriers, 2 peregrines, common buzzard and a barn owl.
Labels: Lapland Flock
GAME COVER FLOCKS
It was nice seeing lots of small bird activity on various parts of Maydays Farm on a windy Saturday 8th. Most birds were around some of the game cover crops dotted about the farm. Two brambling were found amongst 100 chaffinches split between two flocks. Twenty yellowhammers added a bit of colour, 15 corn buntings also noted while 150 linnets rose up out of one crop to perch on a small tree. Also seen were 150 fieldfares and 25+ redwings as well as a flock of 50 skylarks. Needless to say there were lots of the familiar birds present with several song thrushes, lots of blackbirds with a few robins, tits etc.
A sparrowhawk flashed over one game crop, a kestrel near the seawall, while at least one peregrine was seen tussling briefly with another falcon that was probably also a peregrine. Marsh harriers were constantly flying around the Reeveshall fleet with at least 4 seen here, while another 4 seen on Langenhoe too.
Along the Pyefleet Channel 300+ shelduck were seen with 50 avocets also close-by along the water's edge. Some big dunlin flocks flew around with 1000 birds noted with a few knot mixed in too. In the distance 4 pintail were seen as were 3 little egrets which are still rather scarce following the cold snap.
Andy Field reported seeing the brightly marked coal tit in Shop Lane, showing markings suggesting the continental race of coal tit. This brightly marked bird was first seen in late November but seemed to have gone missing for the next few weeks until today.
Labels: Game Cover Flocks
RAIN AND FOG
Considering the amount of rain and fog on Friday 7th, it was a surprise to see anything when I had a quick visit to the seawall near Shop Lane in East Mersea. Visibility was poor but the high tide had flooded the saltmarsh and masses of waders and wildfowl were gathered close-in. Not realising how close the birds were, several hundred birds flew off when I stuck my head above the seawall.
There was an impressive sight of 200 avocets that flew off, along with 50 black-tailed godwits. Three red-breasted mergansers were feeding close-in, as were 100 shelduck and lots of wigeon and teal. Nothing else could be seen beyond 100 metres or so because of the poor visibility.
In the nearby Shop Lane wood, 2 coal tits were still present, spending most of the time feeding in the tops of the conifers. One of them made a brief visit to the nearby bird feeders in the Saltings garden but soon headed back into the trees. The feeders were proving very popular with great tits, blue tits while nearby chaffinch, greenfinch, robin, and blackbirds were feeding nearby. Also in the wood was at least one goldcrest.
The blue sky made an appearance on Wednesday 5th and the continuing return to milder conditions brought in more wildfowl onto the park's grazing fields, pictured above. The most numerous were the 700+ wigeon with 400 brent geese also grazing. Around the pools were 200 teal with 12 shoveler a few mallard, as well as 30 black-tailed godwits.
Part of the park pond remained frozen although 120 mallard were noted here along with 30 gadwall and the 25 coots being the most obvious. Two pairs of tufted ducks were still present along with a few shoveler and teal. In the grass nearby 2 black-tailed godwits probed in the wet soil as did a snipe.
Martin Cock found a large covey of ten grey partridge feeding in a rape field alongside Shop Lane. This is the largest covey to have been seen on the Island for a few years. The two coal tits and a woodcock were seen in the conifer wood at the north end of the Lane. Along the East Mersea road 250+ skylarks and a small flock of linnets were seen in a field near Bocking Hall. Two lapland buntings were seen by the Maydays seawall on Tuesday.
Graham Ekins had a worthwhile visit to the Island on Tuesday seeing 2 waxwings near the Golfhouse, an eider and common scoter from the Point, coal tit, woodcock in Shop Lane, 2 lapland buntings with 50 skylarks near Bocking Hall, while 15 common scoter and a Slavonian grebe and a bull grey seal too were also seen from West Mersea.
Also on Tuesday a mistle thrush and a few fieldfares were seen in a horse paddock near the end of the East Mersea road.
Labels: Rain and Fog
SEA-DUCK OFFSHORE
The mid-morning high tide on Monday 3rd brought these brent geese closer to the shore to graze the algae on the mud. The geese and several waders were able to enjoy a deserted beach early in the day before the park got busy with visitors.
Offshore the calm waters revealed an interesting selection of birds on the water. Two red-throated divers, 6 Slavonian grebes, 30 great crested grebes, 3 eider, 4 common scoter, 28 red-breasted mergansers as well as 100 shelduck and a few wigeon. These last few days have brought in a good mix of sea-ducks and grebes and after a quiet start to the winter, it's been nice to see several of them together in the estuary now.
A male marsh harrier flew upriver from Colne Point to Langenhoe, joining 4 other marsh harriers flying about. Fifteen sanderling flew along the shore at high tide and a rock pipit was noted at the Point.
On the park a woodcock was flushed from under the trees along the cliff-top in the morning, 3 fieldfares were noted in hedge near the hide, while beside the pond a snipe fed close-to 2 black-tailed godwits. The main wildfowl on the fields were the 400+ brent geese and 600+ wigeon.
Labels: Sea-duck Offshore
LOCAL RSPB VISIT
The local Colchester RSPB group made their annual birdwatching visit to the park on a chilly but dry Sunday 2nd. Amongst the birds seen were hundreds of wigeon, many grazing the fields as in the picture above, but also many seen resting on the sea. Lots of teal were also in the fields around the pools. There were about 400 brent geese feeding in the fields by the middle of the day.
Most of the ice has gone from the pools in the grazing fields, although the nearby borrowdyke is still covered in ice. Some of the waders seen in the fields during the period of high tide were curlew, black-tailed godwit, redshank, lapwing, golden plover, grey plover, and turnstone. Also seen in the fields were 30 skylarks with one or two meadow pipits, a small flock of goldfinches and also a reed bunting in some reeds.
In the area by the park pond 2 siskin fed with a few goldfinches in alders, 8 fieldfares flew over, 3 musical jays still present, 3 tufted ducks with the 30+ gadwall and other wildfowl on the pond, 2 goldcrest close to the path and a fox snoozing near the pond.
Offshore three Slavonian grebes, eider, common scoter were seen from the beach with 6 goldeneye and 15 red-breasted mergansers seen in the Colne. On Langenhoe 3 marsh harriers flew around the Point and further back 2 little egrets were seen in flight. Amongst the roosting waders on this Point were several bar-tailed godwits with knot, dunlin and oystercatchers.
A last walk around the park as dusk approached, there was a good view of a ringtail hen harrier flying north over the clifftop and then across the middle of the main park. A sparrowhawk then flew over the car park in the fading light, heading to the trees in the clifftop.
Seven waxwings returned at various times during the morning to Michael Thorley's garden along the East Mersea road near Meeting Lane. Some of the birds were dropping down to the roadside to drink at the puddles.
At West Mersea six Slavonian grebes, eider and 15 common scoter were the main birds seen off the Esplanade. There was also a report of 2 waxwings in Kingsland Road by the BT exchange.
At the end of the day, there were a handful of winter moths in the car park around the windows and also a mottled umber moth by the park entrance.
Labels: Local RSPB Visit
NEW YEAR - NEW LIST
Happy New Year to all!
Andy Field was up early to visit the country park on January 1st, getting the year list off to a good start. Offshore at least one red-throated diver was seen in the distance and then flying past the Point into the Colne. A female scaup also flew into the Colne with a small group of teal. Three common scoter, 10 red-breasted mergansers, 2 goldeneye, cormorant, 5 little grebes and 12 great crested grebes were also offshore as well as rafts of teal and wigeon.
In the afternoon two ringtail hen harriers passed over the grazing fields scattering the wigeon as they went. Both birds appeared to be heading back to the Langenhoe roost half and hour apart, the first bird coming back high from Colne Point and then the second flew low, harrying some of the wildfowl on its way north. Earlier in the day a ringtail hen harrier was seen on Langenhoe Point along with a marsh harrier.
The tide receded late morning and thousands of waders were arriving at the mud around the park. Dunlin and knot were the most numerous with the usual curlew, oystercatcher, redshank, golden plover, grey plover, ringed plover, lapwing, black-tailed godwit, bar-tailed godwit, avocet and turnstone. Shelduck were gathering here to feed as were the usual selection of gulls such as great black-backed, lesser black-backed, herring, common and black headed gulls.
On the grazing fields 500 wigeon, 200 teal, 150 brent geese, 50 black-tailed godwit were feeding with 50 lapwing, 50 golden plover, a few mallard, shoveler, redshank, curlew and 4 greylag geese, while one mute swan flew past.
At the park pond 2 woodcock provided good views of them feeding for most of the day from the hide, for the second day running. Both birds appeared to be feeding well, swallowing invertebrates or worms regularly, as they probed amongst the short grass with their long bills. Both birds were still present up until dusk and a snipe was also seen close-by here too. Earlier in the day a third woodcock flew across the fields, spooking some of the ducks and waders as it flew past.
Two water rails were seen at the pond, one called and scuttled under some of the willows, while a second bird wandered onto the middle of the ice as it crossed the eastern end of the pond. Three tufted duck, 30+ gadwall along with mallard, wigeon, teal and shoveler were feeding with 20 coots, one little grebe and several moorhens.
Other familiar birds seen at the park included 10 redwing and 15 goldfinch over the car park, 2 great spotted woodpeckers drumming by the entrance, 2 green woodpeckers, 3 musical jays, 2 song thrushes, 6 stock doves along with lots of wood pigeons, a goldcrest with the mixed tits of long-tailed, blue and great. Robins, wrens, dunnocks, blackbirds stayed low down while a few chaffinches and greenfinches perched high up for views. Rock pipit and meadow pipit were seen on the park and 10 skylarks fed in the fields with others passing over. Other usual birds were the carrion crow, pheasant, starling. This brought the day-list for the park to about 67 species, most of which were noted just in the morning.
Andy Field found 7 waxwings along the East Mersea road in Michael Thorley's garden early in the afternoon, although they disappeared off to the north. At West Mersea a great northern diver, red-throated diver, 21 common scoter, 3 Slavonian grebe and a Mediterranean gull were seen in the morning by Graham Ekins /Steve Entwistle. At Maydays Steve saw a merlin, ringtail hen harrier, 5 corn buntings, 20 fieldfare, 2 yellowhammer and 30+ chaffinches.
Hugh Owen reported seeing the family group of 6 Bewick swans still present on an arable field at Langenhoe farm.
The slightly milder evening saw 16 winter moths on the lit windows at the park house with another 8 near the park entrance in the car headlights while the temperature was a dizzy 5 degrees C.
Labels: New Year - New List
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The Mary!!!...And Oh Yeah, Hofstra Won Last Night
If you read my earlier article from today which featured my latest Mid Majors Baker's Dozen, I stated "A win tonight at Maryland and depending how they do in what is shaping up to be a tough Colonial Conference, you can seriously start considering the Mary for an at large bid." Well, William and Mary went to the Comcast Center and put an absolute beating on Maryland winning 83-77. And no, the game was nowhere as close as the final score.
The Tribe were up nine at the half, 39-30. Then they went up twelve, 48-36 on a Sean McCurdy three pointer. Then the Mary spent most of the second half up by double digits. In fact after a David Schneider layup, the Tribe were up sixteen, 70-54 with 4:58 left in the game. The Terrapins only got the lead into the single digits in the last 30 seconds of the game.
The Tribe at one time were shooting 7 of 14 from three (they ended up only hitting 1 of their last 9 shots from beyond the arc), and shot 47 percent from the field. They also shot 25 of 31 from the line. And the Mary was able to hold Maryland to 4 of 25 from beyond the arc.
Imagine how quiet 16,000 Maryland fans were tonight (the attendance was 16, 418 and I figure the 418 were the William and Mary fans). That gives the Mary now nine wins in a row and road wins over two ACC teams now; Wake Forest and Maryland, plus a home win over Richmond. And of course their conference home win over 8-2 VCU.
And one last thing to think about. The Mary recently won at Radford. George Mason tried to do the same thing tonight..they lost by TWENTY SEVEN. Radford 80 George Mason 53. Think the Mary are still a fluke?
Like I said, if they finish in the top three of the CAA with say 13 conference wins and win a couple of games in the CAA tournament, that will put them with 24 wins (plus there is the bracketbuster). They will have to be taken seriously come selection time if that all pans out. Perhaps John Feinstein was right. Maybe there will be at least two teams from the CAA in the Dance this year (and ODU is making a case for three teams after beating Duquesne tonight in typical Monarch fashion 63-54).
And finally, I can't say this enough. The job Tony Shaver is doing so far this year with basically the same Tribe team that finished at the bottom of the CAA last season is amazing. He is an outstanding coach.
Well the Mary have a big CAA road game on Saturday against my home base, Hofstra. The Pride ended their two game losing streak by holding on against Mike Jarvis' Florida Atlantic squad for a 67-63 road win. I was having dinner with a friend, so for one of the extremely rare times, I was not by computer listening to the WRHU internet feed. Jerry Beach and Defiantly Dutch has a good recap of this.
I will say this, there are two keys for Hofstra the rest of the way. One is finding a consistent second scoring option to Charles Jenkins. Perhaps Nathaniel Lester has woken up from his coma. He had 17 points last night, 14 in the second half when Charles Jenkins was on the bench with four fouls. Jenkins had 17 as well last night, but 15 came in the first half. Before last night, Lester had not scored in double figures in the last five games.
Lester, who is averaging a career high 10.6 points per game on 43 percent shooting (also a career high) needs to stay aggressive and drive the lane and when need be hit short jumpers. When Lester is scoring double figures, the Pride are much more difficult to beat.
The other key for Hofstra is getting good games from their post players. Greg Washington had 13 rebounds and four blocks last night. When Hofstra holds their opponent to 38 percent shooting like last night (and their 38 percent FG percentage defense leads the CAA) and is rebounding like they normally do (among the top teams in the CAA rebounding), they are a difficult team to beat.
We'll see what happens when the irresistible force, William and Mary, meets the immovable object, Hofstra, Saturday at 4:00 PM in the Mack Center. I will be there of course, with live updates on this blog.
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Wednesday Night Awards
Hofstra Holds on Against Fairfield
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Premiered live - Midnight, Friday July 10th 1992
This is not part of the regular televised series; World Without End was riffed on as an experiment to see how MST3K would have worked in a live setting. (BTW: Show 405 made it's debut the week before). Half of the effort survives and can be seen because a fan taped it with a handheld camcorder. The DVD available from traders includes the first part of the movie unmsted as well as a question and answer session held after. While the pictures murky and it's difficult to catch everything that was said - armed with headphones, I was able to pick up most of the quips and was impressed with what I heard.
The movie is about 4 astronauts who enter a time warp and crash on an Earth devastated by atomic war. This version of Earth is populated with weak men in shiny skullcaps (which our crew compares to Keebler elves and Smurfs), their much stronger women and a tribe of murderous mutants. Though it's not the Brains most esoteric work, the crew does a bang up job of tackling this flick. Much like "This Island Earth", they hit a comfort zone of breezy quips that would appeal to a mass audience.
All told, this experiment was loads of fun and it's too bad we don't have the feature fully riffed. Perhaps one day a script will pop up and we can join in by MSTing the first half of the movie.
* Dr. F sends Joel and the Bots back to Earth for a brief time, so that he might conduct an experiment live. Frank is there, as is Mike, as Jack Perkins. * Skits have the SOL crew singing classic MST tunes: "The Godzilla Genealogy Bop", "Tibby the Turtle song" and "Patrick Swayze Christmas". * The show closes with Gypsy finally showing up (She has trouble finding parking) and before DR. F sends them back to space, the gang join together to sing Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love"
* "Safe and comfortable, that's all life means to them" - "They're Yuppies" - Astronaut/Crow
* "The women are wonderful though aren't they? So much more vital than the men" - "You tried both?" - Astronaut/Crow
* "I'm all locked up. I don't know what to say, what to do... Uh, can I touch your butt?" - Servo
* "They were poor, bloodless little things" - "They looked like the Ramones?" - Astronaut/Crow
* "And now Red in the silent spot: Red's a psychotic Keebler elf..." - Crow
* "I whacked the head fudge stripper - This is trouble" - Joel as Skullcap guy.
* "Rod packs a rod?" - Joel as woman
* "Someone has violated Smurf law!" - Crow
* "The Elf-B-I" - Joel
* "How do we fight these savages with pistols that burst, with ammunition that misfires?" - "Sell them the guns?" -Astronaut/Crow
* "You're not a mutate!" - "He's cute" - Astronaut/Joel as Astronaut
* That large killer elf was played by Booth Colman, a character actor who has had scores of guest starring roles on TV (like the Outer Limits episode, "Zzzzz"). He played Dr. Zaius in the Planet of the Apes TV series.
* Credited as Shawn Smith, actress Shirley Patterson (Elaine) was Miss California in 1940. Seen mostly in B westerns, she was also the heroine opposite Lewis Wilson in the first 15-chapter Batman serial and had a part in "It: Terror From Beyond Space" (Which featured Crash Corrigan as the monster).
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Invitation to stakeholder workshop on the proposed amendments to the Financial Provisioning Regulations, 2015
Subject: Invitation to stakeholder workshop on the proposed amendments to the Financial Provisioning Regulations, 2015
As you are aware, amendments have been proposed to the Financial Provisioning Regulations, 2015 which substantially change the amended version that was gazetted for comment in November 2017, and discussed in the stakeholder workshops held since the release of the November 2017 version and the 2nd half of 2018. The proposed amendments were gazetted on Friday 7 May 2019, and a period of 45 days have been allowed in which to received inputs and comments.
In order to explain the rational for the changes and to provide a platform for further engagement before the close of the comment period, the Department will hold a stakeholder workshop as indicated below:
Venue: To be confirmed but will be held in central Pretoria
Time: 8h30 – 12h30
The gazetted regulations can be downloaded from the Departments website at: https://www.environment.gov.za/
To facilitate logistical and catering arrangements, please RSVP as soon as possible to Ms Miranda Mosondo at the email address provided (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or by phone at 012-399-9277.
We look forward to engaging with you further on these important regulations at this planned workshop.
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Jozi Gold Official Trailer
Jozi Gold - a story of wealth, greed and poisonous mountains. Johannesburg has produced a third of all gold mined in history. Now the gold is running out, the mines are falling apart and toxic waste turns water into poison. Former Jehovah’s Witness Mariette Liefferink is on a mission to force the mine bosses to clean up. Directors Fredrik Gertten and Sylvia Vollenhoven, based on an original story by Adam Welz. Official trailer with English titles. View here.
Publication of the International Agency on Research on Cancer's results of its U measurement study within the Witwatersrand gold fields
The Federation for a Sustainable Environment with its close links to the communities, has aided the IARC to identify barber shops in each ward serving local customers of both sexes (except in Azaadville, where the chosen barber turned out to serve only men) and to collect 1600 samples of human hair. The IARC has launched the results on its website. View them here. The full report is attached for download.
THE DAILY VOX: ‘Jozi Gold’ Documentary Examines The Dark Heart Of Mining In SA
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE. Article By Fatima Moosa - June 13, 2019 Mining activities have wreaked havoc across South Africa, in a variety of communities. Big companies come to the communities, mine the land, and then leave. This leaves the community to deal with the aftereffects of the mining. These include polluted water sources, dirty air, and an unsafe living environment. Jozi Gold is a documentary that wants to raise awareness about this. Jozi Gold is a film-documentary made by Sylvia Vollenhoven & Fredrik Gertten. Gerten is a Swedish director and journalist while Vollenhoven is a South African writer, journalist, playwright and filmmaker. The doccie took seven years to make and “required a lot more resources and a lot of energy to manage the story process,” said Vollenhoven. The documentary showed at the Encounters South Africa, an international documentary festival. The festival took place from 6-16 June in Cape Town and Johannesburg. “It’s the premier industry event for documentary filmmakers,” said Vollenhoven about Encounters adding that it’s a great platform to watch documentaries from around the world. Vollenhoven says Encounters fills in the gaps sometimes left by local broadcasters where the focus in on “quantity and not quality.” The documentary looks at the environmental and political picture of South Africa’s abandoned mines. Vollenhoven told The Daily Vox that the documentary looks at the huge environmental impact of mining. “They are leaving behind an environmental mess that is not being cleaned up. People like Mariette are working tirelessly to raise awareness and force mining companies and the government to clean up,” she said. Jozi Gold follows Mariette Liefferink, an advisory committee member of the South African Human Rights Commission. The documentary deals with issues that investigative reporter Adam Welz has written about for years through following the work of Liefferink. Welz began working on a documentary film about the mining industry. He then made contact with Gertten’s film company WG Film. Gertten contacted Vollenhoven and thus began the project. “It’s a remarkable co-production between Norway, Sweden, and South Africa,” Vollenhoven told The Daily Vox about how the project developed. In 2018, The Daily Vox team visited the Snake Park community in Soweto. The community lives in the shadow of a mining dump. Just like the many communities in South Africa the mine severely affects the health of the people living there. Many of the children in the community have cerebral palsy which experts have linked to the effects of the abandoned mine. It is communities like this that Jozi Gold aims to shine a spotlight on. Liefferink who is the central figure of the documentary is widely recognised as a prominent environmental activist in the mining industry. Vollenhoven said they decided to center the documentary on Liefferink because “of her style of activism and how effective it is.” Vollenhoven said Welz have been following Liefferink’s work and when they saw the footage he had gathered “we agreed undoubtedly that Mariette is any filmmakers’ dream.” To continue showing the film beyond the festival, Vollenhoven says they’ve designed a six-month outreach programme to show the film to communities around South Africa, especially “mining-affected communities.” “It’s about taking the film out there and not just showing the film but using the film as a way to create awareness to assist activists and NGOs to combat this huge environmental disaster,” said Vollenhoven. To get in touch with Vollenhoven and organise a screening and discussion of the documentary, you can contact her via email. (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). ORIGINAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE.
CITY PRESS: Jozi Gold reveals shocking truths about mining pollution
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE. Documentary Jozi Gold had its world premiere at the 21st Encounters South African International Documentary Festival this week, and some of what it revealed about mining pollution is truly shocking. Grethe Kemp reviews the film. Jozi Gold Directors: Sylvia Vollenhoven, Fredrik Gertten 4 stars Johannesburg is the most uranium contaminated city on Earth. These and other shocking truths are revealed in new documentary Jozi Gold directed by South African writer, award-winning journalist, playwright and film maker Sylvia Vollenhoven and award-winning Swedish director and journalist Fredrik Gertten. By focusing on the dogged efforts of environmental activist Mariette Liefferink, we are shown how Johannesburg’s mines have contaminated virtually everything in our city – from the water, to the air, to the ground. While some communities live on radioactive land, others struggle with water laden with heavy metals. But all of us – yes, every single Joburger – is affected by the mining fall-out in some way. The problem is that we don’t even fully know what it’s doing to us. Liefferink herself is the kind of subject film makers dream of. The documentary’s opening shot sees her traipsing around an excavated field in sky-high heels, dressed to a tee in black tights, an orange blazer and plenty of jewellery. Read more: Mariette has 'em shell-shocked A soft-spoken tannie with a clipped Afrikaans accent and coiffed blonde hair, she tells us later that she used to be a Jehovah’s Witness, so she’s used to be being “severely disliked”. And dislike is a feeling she must drum up, as she chases down the CEOs of mining companies and holds the government department officials to account for exposing people to hazardous mining pollution. Liefferink says she sees herself as a marathon runner instead of a sprinter, because her work requires a great deal of stamina. In one scene, we watch her patiently phone a government department to lay a complaint about the discharge of untreated mine water into a river system. It’s the 10th time she’s phoning, and she’s again sent from pillar to post. She hangs up cordially, then blinks away tears. But hounding the government officials – too often unsuccessfully – is not her primary work. Liefferink believes that environmental and social justice are inextricably linked, and she works with communities to hold mining companies to account. In one case, she laid a criminal complaint at the local police against the former owner of the Blyvoor mine, for numerous environmental infractions committed between 2008 and this year. She didn’t think anything would come of it, but to her surprise, the state decided to prosecute the mining directors responsible. It’s a huge victory for the Blyvoor community, which has been dealing with the effects of mining pollution for years. A third of all the gold in human history was mined in Johannesburg, and it was what gave birth to the city. But now we’re dealing with an environmental crisis that few of us even know the extent of. Jozi Gold is a superbly shot documentary that we should all see. And Mariette Liefferink is someone who we should all know about, and support. ORIGINAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE HERE.
News relating to Mintails abandoned mines
WATCH: illegal miners hit Mintails mine on West Rand here. PODCAST: Abandoned mines in South Africa are causing a safety and health risk here.
FSE's Cold Gold Appeal
The Appeal Authority in terms of Section 43(6) of the NEMA has decided to set aside the decision of the DMR to grant an Environmental Authorisation to the Applicant for the prospecting of coal on farm Golden Valley within the magisterial district of Magaliesburg. The FSE and the Magaliesburg Community Forum lodged appeals against the Environmental Authorisation by the DMR.
Mining Weekly - Unfolding Environmental Disaster
MINING WEEKLY Unfolding environmental disaster 4TH JUNE 2019 BY: AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY A security company responsible for safeguarding a gold treatment plant belonging to Mintails on the West Rand withdrew last week, citing “financial constraints”. The evacuation, which follows the liquidation of the embattled mining company and its subsidiaries, has left the door wide open to zama-zamas and looters, who are plundering the facility and driving their stash off the premises by the bakkie load. “This is wholesale looting and scavenging of anything of value from copper cables to sheets of metal,” warned environmental activist Mariette Liefferink. “The site is under the control of heavily armed [illegal] miners who control all access to the plant.” Watching the activity from a distance, the men and women carrying tools and blowtorches clearly know what they are doing, creating the impression that this is organised crime. This past weekend climbers, equipped with ropes, scaled the infrastructure of the upper plant. “Steel construction was falling like nobody’s business,” said an eyewitness. “The liquidators appear to have lost all interest in securing these assets.” GUNFIGHTS The situation has descended into anarchy. The looters are not shy to shoot and in the past week, there have been several gunfights when looters felt security or outsiders were encroaching on “their” site. Even the police are scared to intervene. According to witnesses, the authorities have done nothing given the dangers and the large numbers of looters at the facility. “The Hawks have been fearful to get involved with the result that this is now a free-for-all. The looting continues with no enforcement whatsoever,” said Liefferink. She said the most worrying aspect of the looting was the cutting and stealing of a neighbouring electrical cable to Shaft 9 – this cable powers the pump station that removes acid mine water out of the shaft and into a nearby acid mine drainage treatment plant. Millions of litres of water are pumped daily to prevent the acid mine water reaching the surface and decanting into the surrounding Cradle of Humankind. Sputnik Ratau, the spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation, confirmed that the cable was sabotaged and stolen on 24 May. “Power to the Western Basin acid mine drainage (AMD) pump station, on Mintails’s property, and the AMD Treatment Plant is thus compromised and the facility is currently not operational,” said Ratau. “If the pumping stops for a prolonged period, like a month, we run the risk of a decant of toxic and radioactive acid mine water into the surrounding Cradle of Humankind.” The underlying rock structure in the Cradle is porous dolomite and the acid mine water could dissolve the rock, destroying valuable fossils in this Unesco World Heritage site, which is internationally recognised for its hominid finds. This would have serious implications for tourism in the area and would inevitably mean job losses. “Especially for Bolt’s Farm and the Sterkfontein Caves that contain our most precious fossils and we will see an acceleration in the number of sinkholes forming as a result,” said Liefferink. SERIOUS RISK Many of the residents along the water system would be affected by a decant – their water would be contaminated and their health put at serious risk because they do not have access to municipal water. “The people there are dependent on the water systems for their drinking water, for their animals and for irrigation,” says Liefferink. The pump station was established by the Department of Water and Sanitation in response to a potential decant. According to Liefferink, in 2002 the western basin in the area where the mine is situated flooded, leaving acid mine water to flow out with devastating consequences. It resulted in the Tweelopies Spruit and Wonderfontein Spruit becoming radioactive hotspots and acutely toxic, putting lives downstream at risk. “The Department of Water and Sanitation declared it an emergency. They refurbished the treatment plant which pumps and processes around 40-million litres of acid mind water a day,” said Liefferink. Her other worry is that the gold treatment plant is the only real asset left and this wholesale looting does not augur well for the recovery of the R460-million environmental liability that Mintails left on the West Rand. This amount was cited in the Parliamentary portfolio committee report by the Department of Minerals and Energy last year. But the Department of Water and Sanitation said there was no immediate risk of raw AMD decanting. “The water level in the void is around 9-metres below the surface and this is considered ample buffer capacity for now,” said Ratau. He added that the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA), a State-owned entity charged with financing and implementing bulk raw water infrastructure projects, is working closely with Sibanye-Stillwater and Eskom to restore the cable. This could be achieved by as early as Tuesday (June 4). Alternative interventions are also being costed so as to achieve a permanent remedy and for armed security personnel to be deployed at the pump station to deter future attempts of cabletheft or other damage to the pump station.
Unfolding Environmental Disaster - Health-e News
The South African Health News Service Mintails mining company and its subsidiaries have left the door open to zama-zamas and looters at their abandoned mine in the West Rand. Picture: Health-e News Unfolding environmental disaster Bernadette Maguire June 4, 2019 Features Zama zamas are looting an abandoned mine near Krugersdorp. In the process, they have cut the electric cable to the acid mine drainage which poses the environment and the health hazards. A security company responsible for safeguarding a gold treatment plant belonging to Mintails on the West Rand withdrew last week, citing “financial constraints”. The evacuation, which follows the liquidation of the embattled mining company and its subsidiaries, has left the door wide open to zama-zamas and looters, who are plundering the facility and driving their stash off the premises by the bakkie load. “This is wholesale looting and scavenging of anything of value from copper cables to sheets of metal,” warned environmental activist Mariette Liefferink. “The site is under the control of heavily armed [illegal] miners who control all access to the plant.” Watching the activity from a distance, the men and women carrying tools and blowtorches clearly know what they are doing, creating the impression that this is organised crime. This past weekend climbers, equipped with ropes, scaled the infrastructure of the upper plant. Zama zamas are stripping an old mine of anything from copper cables to sheets of metal. Photo: Health-e News. “Steel construction was falling like nobody’s business,” said an eyewitness. “The liquidators appear to have lost all interest in securing these assets.” Gunfights The situation has descended into anarchy. The looters are not shy to shoot and in the past week, there have been several gunfights when looters felt security or outsiders were encroaching on “their” site. Even the police are scared to intervene. According to witnesses, the authorities have done nothing given the dangers and the large numbers of looters at the facility. “The Hawks have been fearful to get involved with the result that this is now a free-for-all. The looting continues with no enforcement whatsoever,” said Liefferink. She said the most worrying aspect of the looting was the cutting and stealing of a neighbouring electrical cable to Shaft 9 – this cable powers the pump station that removes acid mine water out of the shaft and into a nearby acid mine drainage treatment plant. Millions of litres of water are pumped daily to prevent the acid mine water reaching the surface and decanting into the surrounding Cradle of Humankind. If the acid mine drainage at Mintails’s mine decants the impact on environment and health could be devastating. Photo: Health-e News Sputnik Ratau, the spokesperson for the Department of Water and Sanitation, confirmed that the cable was sabotaged and stolen on 24 May. “Power to the Western Basin AMD pump station, on Mintails’s property, and the AMD (Acid Mine Drainage) Treatment Plant is thus compromised and the facility is currently not operational,” said Ratau. “If the pumping stops for a prolonged period, like a month, we run the risk of a decant of toxic and radioactive acid mine water into the surrounding Cradle of Humankind.” The underlying rock structure in the Cradle is porous dolomite and the acid mine water could dissolve the rock, destroying valuable fossils in this UNESCO World Heritage site, which is internationally recognised for its hominid finds. This would have serious implications for tourism in the area and would inevitably mean job losses. “Especially for Bolt’s Farm and the Sterkfontein Caves that contain our most precious fossils and we will see an acceleration in the number of sinkholes forming as a result,” said Liefferink. Serious risk Many of the residents along the water system would be affected by a decant – their water would be contaminated and their health put at serious risk because they do not have access to municipal water. “The people there are dependent on the water systems for their drinking water, for their animals and for irrigation,” says Liefferink. The pump station was established by the Department of Water and Sanitation in response to a potential decant. According to Liefferink, in 2002 the western basin in the area where the mine is situated flooded, leaving acid mine water to flow out with devastating consequences. It resulted in the Tweelopies Spruit and Wonderfontein Spruit becoming radioactive hotspots and acutely toxic, putting lives downstream at risk. Potential water contamination. Photo: Health-e News “The Department of Water and Sanitation declared it an emergency. They refurbished the treatment plant which pumps and processes around 40-million litres of acid mind water a day,” said Liefferink. Her other worry is that the gold treatment plant is the only real asset left and this wholesale looting does not augur well for the recovery of the R460-million environmental liability that Mintails left on the West Rand. This amount was cited in the Parliamentary portfolio committee report by the Department of Minerals and Energy last year. But the Department of Water and Sanitation said there was no immediate risk of raw AMD decanting. “The water level in the void is around 9-metres below the surface and this is considered ample buffer capacity for now,” said Ratau. He added that the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA), a state-owned entity charged with financing and implementing bulk raw water infrastructure projects, is working closely with Sibanye Stillwater and Eskom to restore the cable. This could be achieved by as early as Tuesday (4 June). Alternative interventions are also being costed so as to achieve a permanent remedy and for armed security personnel to be deployed at the pump station to deter future attempts of cable theft or other damage to the pump station. Trail of destruction Mintails has left a veritable trail of destruction: the area is now characterised by deep, scarring opencast pits, massive unrehabilitated dumps and large bodies of toxic acid mine water. Very little was ever done to remediate the environment after they stripped the gold from the earth and recovered gold from the dumps. Massive cement pipes containing toxic mine tailings residue have been dug up and lie littered for kilometres. These pose a serious risk to the health of communities living around these mines. According to a 2013 study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), exposure to acid mine water has serious health consequences, including an elevated risk of cancer and heavy metal poisoning. The CSIR concluded that an epidemiological study is needed but this has not yet been commissioned. Liefferink is concerned the authorities are not acting with the necessary urgency and there appears to be no accountability from Mintails, whose main shareholders are based in the United Kingdom. “There seems to be a total paralysis on the part of the competent organs of state, such as the Department of Water and Sanitation, the National Nuclear Regulator, the departments of Mineral Resources and Environmental Affairs. I conducted site visits last week with them but nothing has happened,” she said. Liefferink also questioned whether President Cyril Ramphosa’s big focus on economic development would be possible with a poor environmental base; water, after all, is a critical economic enabler. “Without water, there can be no economic growth. It’s important to take cognisance of the nexus between environmental management and economic growth,” she said. – Health-e News
Zamas Hit West Rand Mine
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The End of Gold: A country built on mining has to rethink its future
Financial Mail Cover Article: May 30 – June 5 2019, attached for download.
Subject: Invitation to stakeholder workshop on the proposed amendments to the Financial Provisioning Regulations, 2015 As you are aware, amendments have been proposed to the Financial Provisioning Regulations, 2015 which substantially change the amended version that was gazetted for comment in November 2017, and discussed in the stakeholder workshops held since the release of the November 2017 version and the 2nd half of 2018. The proposed amendments were gazetted on Friday 7 May 2019, and a period of 45 days have been allowed in which to received inputs and comments. In order to explain the rational for the changes and to provide a platform for further engagement before the close of the comment period, the Department will hold a stakeholder workshop as indicated below: Date: 12th June 2019 Venue: To be confirmed but will be held in central Pretoria Time: 8h30 – 12h30 The gazetted regulations can be downloaded from the Departments website at: https://www.environment.gov.za/ To facilitate logistical and catering arrangements, please RSVP as soon as possible to Ms Miranda Mosondo at the email address provided (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), or by phone at 012-399-9277. We look forward to engaging with you further on these important regulations at this planned workshop.
Big Increase in Mine Water Pollution
Big increase in mine water pollution Mark Olalde | Andiswa Matikinca |Mail & Guardian | 17 May 2019 00:00 Unchecked: Mining companies accused of failing to comply with environmental regulations say that the water department is disorganised and understaffed. (Madelene Cronjé) New statistics released in Parliament show that 118 mines around South Africa are polluting rivers, inadequately testing for contamination or otherwise dirtying South Africa’s waterways. The figures, released by the minister of water and sanitation, Gugile Nkwinti, also show that 115 mines are known to be operating without proper water permits. This represents a significant increase from 2014, when the South African Human Rights Commission found 39 mines to be noncompliant. Violators are spread across every province and include major corporations such as AngloGold Ashanti, De Beers, Glencore and Anglo American Platinum. In response to parliamentary questions posed by Freedom Front Plus MP Anton Alberts, the minister released the data, compiled by the department, in April. It showed that during the past financial year, more than 15% of the 712 mines licensed to use or to have an effect on water sources had failed to comply with the water-use licences that stipulate the conditions of that usage. Asked what steps would be taken to address the deficiencies, Nkwinti responded: “It is not clear why transgressors resort to operation of mines without the requisite authorisation; however, the department continues to intensify activities to protect the water resources, as mandated by the National Water Act.” Alberts told Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism that he had referred the list of transgressions, which covers the years 2015 to 2018, to the department’s Blue Scorpions regulatory unit. This is the group tasked with finding people who break water law, and fining them. “Even though mines are a part of our economy, we need to find a balance between just getting the profits out of the ground and leaving nature spoiled and people who live there becoming sick,” said Alberts. The data covers a wide range of permit violations: polluted water discharged directly into the environment, waste piles contaminating groundwater, unlined wastewater retention ponds, oil spills, insufficient monitoring, excessive dewatering of the underground void and poor record-keeping. As climate change continues to worsen South Africa’s water security, the mining industry’s number of water-related infractions is rising. In 2017-2018, the department found 10 more mines significantly out of compliance with their water-use permits than the year before, and 38 more than in 2015-2016. Much of the mining negatively affecting water is in the coalfields of Mpumalanga and Limpopo, which ranked first and second, respectively, in the number of mines out of compliance with their water-use licences. Saul Roux, a science and policy specialist at the nonprofit legal group Centre for Environmental Rights, said acid mine drainage poses mining’s most significant threat to clean water resources. Coal mining on the Highveld overlaps with large portions of the country’s 22 designated strategic water-source areas, which provide 60% of all South Africans with water, he said. “Our scarce water resources are affected throughout the coal life cycle, including direct effects on water quality during coal mining, effects of air pollutants on water resources and coal ash contamination of groundwater,” Roux said. But companies’ responses to questions about the data highlighted the disorganisation in the government bureaucracy meant to police them. In recent years, the department has had only 35 compliance and enforcement officials to cover the entire country. This is according to a report by the South African Water Caucus, a group of nongovernmental organisations and trade unions set up to study water use. The data listed elevated levels of pollutants at Glencore’s Mpumalanga mines, for example, but company spokesperson Lerato Setsiba said the department had not informed the company of the infraction. “Glencore has an extensive water-monitoring network on all sites where water qualities are measured every month and investigations are conducted on any exceedance of water quality,” Setsiba said in a statement. Other major mining companies also defended their infractions. Anglo American Platinum’s spokesperson, Jana Marais, responded to the findings that several of its mines, including the Twickenham Platinum Mine in Mpumalanga, discharged polluted water. She said the company was spending millions of rand on upgrading water infrastructure at the mine and that an external audit had found higher compliance with water permits than the department found. Chris Nthite, AngloGold’s representative, said the company was aware of the listed violations — which included waste spillages, stormwater management issues and unauthorised water use — and had addressed them. “[AngloGold] has offered measures to remedy any problem, or has not been contacted further.” The department’s spokesperson, Sputnik Ratau, did not respond to requests for comment on why the department allowed mining companies to continue operating with outstanding infractions. Neither did the department of mineral resources. Its spokesperson, Ayanda Shezi, instead referred questions about potential inter-agency co-operation in the policing of mining companies back to the water department. With water pollution continuing largely unchecked, environmental activists have taken to the courts to protect water resources in both the coalfields and gold-mining basins. Mariette Liefferink, chief executive of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment, said her group is in the process of filing litigation against the ministers of water and sanitation and of mineral resources, among other parties, for their role in the environmental catastrophe unfolding at the Mintails SA gold mines on the West Rand. A parliamentary inquiry revealed late last year that the government allowed mining to continue at Mintails after mine waste spilt into waterways and children had drowned in open mining pits. This inquiry also revealed that the company’s liabilities ran to R460-million — that is the amount of money the company would require to repair all the damage to the environment. In the 2015-2016 period, Mintails complied with less than a quarter of its water-use licence requirements, according to the data released in Parliament. With the company liquidated, mining at the operations near Krugersdorp have largely halted and any proceeds are flowing back to investors in London. “There is a significant lack of political will, which means polluters can continue with impunity to ignore directives,” Liefferink said. — oxpeckers.org This report was sponsored by #MineAlert and the Open Society Foundation for South Africa - DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN ATTACHED.
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The FSE's Keynote Address at the Australian Centre of Geomechanics’ 22nd International Conference on Paste and Tailings
The FSE recently presented a keynote address at the Australian Centre of Geomechanics’ 22nd International Conference on Paste and Tailings. Please find attached hereto the programme and the FSE’s sample paper.
Another Mabola Success: Atha's Petition to the SCA to appeal the Protected Areas Judgement Denied!
SUCCESS: ATHA’S PETITION TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL FOR LEAVE (PERMISSION) TO APPEAL THE PROTECTED AREAS JUDGEMENT DENIED! The High Court, in January 2019, dismissed Atha’s application for leave to appeal. Atha petitioned the SCA for leave to appeal the Protected Areas judgement that was obtained in the High Court in November, 2018 by a Coalition of NGOs, of which the FSE is a party to. The SCA dismissed Atha’s petition for leave to appeal, with costs. This means that Atha doesn’t have permission to appeal the Protected Areas judgement and is required to pay the costs incurred in opposing the petition. The Court Order is attached. The judgment secured in November 2018 remains intact. For background: In 19 March 2019 the CER on behalf of the Coalition lodged the Coalition’s answering affidavit to Atha’s petition with the SCA. Attached is the affidavit. Atha was entitled to reply to the Coalition’s answering affidavit by 2 April 2019, but they did not exercise that right.
FSE'S COMMENTS ON NEW MINING AND PROSPECTING APPLICATIONS, APPEALS AND OBJECTIONS
Find the following documents attached for donwload: FSE comments on EIA EMPR Cold Gold Trading PTD Ltd - FSE Appeal Response Report FSE Objection to the Water Use License Application - Authorisation - Palmietkuilen Mine FSE Comments - Reclamation of City Deep Dumps - Draft Scoping Report FSE Comments - Reclamation of Rooi Kraal Dumps - Draft EIA Report The Reclamation and Reprocessing of City Deep and Rooi Kraal Dumps in Johannesburg Gauteng Province.
2019 SA Mining: FSE on a war path
An article written by Nelendhre Moodley in SA Mining is attached as PDF.
Information on The Gauteng EIA Sector Stakeholder Seminar & The Department of Water and Sanitation, Directorate: National Water Resource Planning - Strategy Steering Committee (SSC) meeting
INFORMATION ON: The Gauteng EIA Sector Stakeholder Seminar, which was held on the 12 March 2019; and The Department of Water and Sanitation, Directorate: National Water Resource Planning - Strategy Steering Committee (SSC) meeting for the continuation of the Integrated Vaal River System Reconciliation Strategy Study – Phase 2, which was held on the 13th of March, 2019. The FSE is in possession of the subjoined presentations and supporting documentation pertaining to the Gauteng EIA Sector Stakeholder Seminar, which the FSE will forward on request. The FSE’s presentation is attached hereto. These documents include: The Phased Activities Explanatory Document, updated in February 2015. Presentations from: 1. EAPASA and 2. The Federation for a Sustainable Environment. The following Explanatory documents: EIA Validity Period Explanatory Document Clearance of Indigenous Vegetation Explanatory Document Decommissioning Explanatory Document Regulation 54A Explanatory Document The Activities and Time-Lines Document. This document will assist in understanding Section 24G applications and / or identification of listed or specified activities (if any). DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT GAUTENG (GDARD) PROVINCIAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK STANDARD GDARD: Presentation of the Mapping of Environmental Decisions Presentations by Department of Mineral Resources (North West, Western Cape and KZN) (attached) – unfortunately DMR (Gauteng Region) did not present Presentations of DEA: IPS and NEMA Section 24G Waste Management Licencing CSPS Admin EIAs Energy Applications Explanatory Document for GNR 779 Annexure A: Published Notice –GNR 779 of 1 July 2016 Annexure B: Electricity Regulations on New Generation Capacity Annexure C: Renewable Energy Determination Annexure D: Coal and Hydro Determination Annexure E: Gas Determination Annexure F: Cogeneration Determination Annexure G: Nuclear Determination The FSE is a member of the Department of Water and Sanitation’s Steering Committee for the Continuation of the Integrated Vaal River System reconciliation Strategy Study – Phase 2 and participated in the 2nd SCC which was held on the 13th of February, 2019. The Agenda included the following Items: Study Progress Overview Parallel National and International Processes National Water and Sanitation Master Plan ORASECOM Climate Resilient Water Resources Investment Strategy and L-BWT project Strategy Interventions (Current Status) Water conservation/water Demand Management (Urban Sector) Rand Water Project 1600 City of Tshwane Water Resources Master Plan Implementation Irrigation Management i. Eradication of Unlawful Irrigation ii. DWS Water Management Plans iii. Implementation of LHWP Phase 2 iv. Noordoewer/Vioolsdrift Dam Feasibility Study v. Water Quality Management Implementation of Long-Term AMD Solution Dilution Assessment Water Quality Management Strategy TOR 4. Water Balance Status The FSE will supply the above-mentioned presentations on request.
A Battle to Hold Mining Company Accountable
A Battle to Hold Mining Company Accountable Mintails left behind a R460 million ‘environmental mess’ Saturday Star | 23 Feb 2019 | SHEREE BEGA MINTAILS, a gold mining company on the West Rand, has long been red-flagged for causing environmental damage at its operations. | BHEKIKHAYA MABASO African News Agency (ANA) MARIETTE Liefferink toys absently with the faux gold necklace coiled tightly around her neck like a scarf. “Perhaps, if people ask me, I can say we can all look pretty with imitation gold,” she says, flashing a smile. The 65-year-old mining activist does not wear real gold – and she never will. The reason lies all around her here on the polluted gold fields of the West Rand. Today, the chief executive of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE) is showing the R460 million environmental “mess” left behind by Mintails, a liquidated gold mining and tailings processing company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. She gestures to a cluster of unrehabilitated mine dumps on Main Reef Road. “At all their sites, there’s no access control, no stormwater and dust control or any other mitigation or management of the dumps and tailings storage facilities. This has created opportunities for zama zamas to conduct their mining operations.” For the past 12 years, Liefferink’s quest has been to obtain “justice for communities, future generations and the mute receiving environment” affected by Mintails expansive operations stretching across Krugersdorp and Randfontein. She has spent hundreds of hours compiling complaints and requests to authorities for investigations and enforcement, lodging Promotion of Access to Information Act requests and analysing water quality results. The embattled firm applied for business rescue in October 2015, but was liquidated in September last year. It has an unfunded environmental liability of R485 million, but only around R25 million financial provision in its environmental rehabilitation funds. The “delinquency”, argues Liefferink, is not only on the part of the firm and its directors but also the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) for their non-enforcement of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), National Water Act and the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA). “The DMR, as well as the DWS, allowed Mintails to operate from 2012 to 2018 without a mining right, an approved environmental management programme report and financial provisions.” While the DMR and DWS issued the company with several pre-directives and directives for non-compliance since 2013, these were not enforced. “This resulted in this unfunded environmental liability of R460 million, clusters of open pits of 40m deep, partially reclaimed tailings storage facilities, unrehabilitated footprints and toxic and radioactive dams.” Last week, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), which represents the FSE, sent a final letter of demand to the DMR and DWS, to urgently intervene in addressing Mintails’ pollution. If the departments did not adequately respond by yesterday, the matter will head to court imminently. The letter states that the DMR and DWS must enforce their directives as a matter of urgency and provide a date by when compliance must be achieved by the liquidators and directors. “The DWS, the Mintails Group and their violations was an agenda item on every Wonderfonteinspruit catchment management forum meeting with minutes taken. No action was taken by DWS,” states Lucien Limacher, the acting regional director of the LRC, in the letter. The letter demands that the DMR and the DWS must issue new directives to the liquidators and directors of Mintails to start remedial action and “contain the toxic sludge that is currently polluting and degrading the environment as a matter of urgency”. Further damage is allegedly being caused by continuing open pit mining. The DMR “must take reasonable measures to remedy the situation” or apply to a competent court should the Mintails Group not comply or inadequately comply with the directives. “Should the Mintails Group not comply with the directives, in terms of NEMA, the DMR (must) issue an ex parte application against the Mintails Group to attach and seize property and cover the expenses of the rehabilitation in terms of section 45 of the MPRDA.” The letter also states how the DMR and the Commission and Intellectual Property Commission “must hold accountable the directors of Mintails for the rehabilitation infringements by bringing a delinquency application” under the Companies Act. “The directors have grossly abused the position of director, intentionally or negligently, inflicted harm upon the company and the subsidiaries, acted in a manner that amounted to gross negligence and have repeatedly been personally subject to directives from the DMR and DWS.” In November, a report by the Parliamentary portfolio committee on mineral resources stated how the DMR had failed to ensure Mintails had made the required provision to repair over R300m of environmental damage. The report was sparked by a probe into Mintails collapse by investigative environmental journalism unit, Oxpeckers. “The committee is often confronted by instances of the devastation caused by careless mining where the DMR says it is a state liability because no one can be found to take responsibility. “In the case of the Mintails operation, this mine went into business rescue in 2015, at a time when the mining company had an unfunded environmental liability of over R300m. It had saved barely R20m for all its responsibilities.” The committee’s report noted how Mintails disputed its environmental liability, employing consultants who offered estimates far lower than those of the DMR. The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR), which conducted a site visit in December as the waste had a “radioactive/nuclear element, according to the FSE, says an internal process is under way. “You can rest assured that the NNR will play its regulatory role and discharge its responsibilities in accordance with its mandate regarding this matter,” it says. Sputnik Ratau, spokesperson for the DWS, explains how it issued Mintails with a pre-directive in November 2017. “This required Mintails to cease the seepage of Lancaster Dam wall, clean historic spillages along the reclamation pipeline, rehabilitate the wetlands in the proximity of its tailing storage facility and address inadequate stormwater management.” But the Mintails response to the pre-directive was “deemed unsatisfactory” by the DWS in a letter dated June 28 2018.” The firm then submitted a detailed implementation plan to curb the pollution to the DWS on July 2. However, when Mintails was placed under provisional liquidation in August last year, this “derailed all the progress that was achieved through the pre-directive process”. The DWS is now seeking legal advice internally. “Does the issued pre-directive and commitment made by Mintails carry over to the liquidators, directors and business rescue practitioner? Are the directors and business rescue practitioner legally obliged to comply to the issued pre-directive and implementation plan submitted by Mintails? “Are the liquidators legally obligated to deal with operational issues such as a directive and pollution considering that they are appointed for a limited period to collect all the assets of the mine to settle the claims of its creditors and distribute any of the remainder of the assets to the shareholders of the mine.” The DWS was previously advised in a similar case that it is not the duty of liquidators to manage the day to day business. “Their objective is to realise assets on behalf of creditors. As such, liquidators cannot be directed to manage pollution.” Liefferink worries about impunity. “It would appear when a mining company is in business rescue or liquidation, then the directors and liquidators have no duty of care and simply walk away. The environment, future generations and communities must carry the impact, as in the case of Blyvoor and Aurora. That is totally contrary to the polluter pays principle.” Ratau says the DWS would conduct a site investigation with the liquidators yesterday to “verify the allegations of pollution”. The mandate of rehabilitation rests with the DMR. “However, DWS is engaging the DMR to ensure that water resources are protected.”
The Legal Resources Centre sent a final letter of demand to the Department of Mineral Resources and the Department of Water and Sanitation to urgently intervene in addressing Mintails’ pollution
The Legal Resources Centre, which represents the FSE, sent a final letter of demand to the Department of Mineral Resources and the Department of Water and Sanitation, on the 14th of February, 2019 to urgently intervene in addressing Mintails’ pollution. If the departments do not adequately respond by the 22nd of February, 2019, the FSE shall proceed to initiate legal action. Letter of demand and annexures attached for download.
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Home / latest_news / Winchester residents battle waste water in yards and drainage ditches
Winchester residents battle waste water in yards and drainage ditches
Anyone who has ever been to the Drew County community of Winchester when it’s warm has likely noticed people fishing in Coon Bayou, which runs through the middle of town. But, what most don’t realize, unless you’ve taken a much closer look, is that Coon Bayou is contaminated with waste water sewage.
Mayor General Alexander said every ditch in town has sewage running into them from the houses nearby. These ditches and canals all connect to Coon Bayou.
“That one house on the other side of the tracks dumps right into Coon Bayou,” Alexander said. “It has a septic tank but it still dumps into the water (that runs right next to it).”
Alexander said he’s been working to do something about the sewage problem in the town since taking office in January 2011.
He said most of the homes in Winchester have septic systems, but those septic systems drain into nearby ditches because they are too full or they have not been properly maintained.
He stressed, "It’s not just some of the homes in the town, it’s all of them; 88 to be exact.
“The people don’t want to live near all this sewage, but it’s all we have,” Alexander stated. “The people of this town want an adequate sewer system.”
Alexander said the previous mayor told the residents that the houses can be “grandfathered in” to be excluded from the current laws pertaining to sewage and septic systems, meaning that the houses pre-date the laws therefore the laws cannot be enforced on those homes.
He said because of this “grandfather system” the former mayor refused to even discuss getting a sewer system for the town.
Alexander said his resident’s can’t get government assistance with housing loans because of the sewer problem.
“I have one resident that wants to tear his house down and rebuild but he can’t get a loan because we don’t have a sewer,” he explained.
Drew County Judge Robert Akin knew Winchester had a problem before he was ever elected into office.
“I was campaigning and I saw the sewage in the ditches. I knew it wasn’t right,” Akin said. “That’s when I started working on getting this town a sewer system and I wasn’t even elected yet.”
Akin said he’s going to do everything in his power to make sure Winchester has a sewer system installed.
“The first number we got was $1.4 million, but another person from Pine Bluff said we needed twice that amount to get started,” Alexander said.
Akin and Alexander are on a mission for nearly $3 million in grants to fund the sewer project.
“That’s the whole reason I went to Washington in March,” Akin said.
Alexander said the sewer system can’t come soon enough.
“The people of this town want to be able to sit in their yards and enjoy fresh air,” he said. “We can’t do that now because of the smell. It smells so bad especially when the sun comes out. It really smells bad.”
<p>Homes in the Winchester community in Drew County have waste water sewage standing in their drainage ditches and yards.</p>
Winchester waste water
<p>Some residents in the Winchester community have built makeshift bridges across drainage ditches full of sewage.</p>
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Siyaya: Come Wild With Us
Take a fast-paced adventure to fascinating places in and around South Africa’s national parks. In the fun-packed episodes, you will see places and meet people that you would never even dream existed. The series unravels the mysteries of the natural world and imparts a sense of wonder and respect for Nature in young people, leaving them convinced of the need to preserve our last wild places for future generations.
The series is hosted by a world renowned biologist called Oompie, who drives a trendy zebra-striped minibus. Join the team as they explore caves, run wild rivers, scale down mountain cliffs and investigate the world under the sea. See them have close encounters as they touch, feel, smell and experience nature at its wildest. They take on unimaginable challenges, making simply unforgettable stories.
1. Search for the Big Seven: The Garden of Eden, Addo Elephant National Park
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4. Search for the Big Seven: Hunters of The Deep, Addo Elephant National Park
5. To The River’s End, Garden Route National Park
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7. Chronicles of the Foreland, Table Mountain National Park
8. Surfing Snails, Table Mountain National Park
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10. Cliff Hanger, Table Mountain National Park
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12. Desert Coast, Namaqua National Park
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14. Tshavhadzimu, Mapungubwe National Park
15. Mountain of Water, Marakele National Park
16. Noah’s Ark, Mokala National Park
17. Into the Thirstland, Kgalagadi National Park
18. When The Moon Talks, Kgalagadi National Park
19. Searching for White Eye, Mountain Zebra National Park
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21. The Golden Gate, Golden Gate Highlands National Park
22. Place of Big Noise, Augrabies Falls National Park
23. On the Spoor of the Big Snake: The Serpent’s Nest Park
24. On the Spoor of the Big Snake: Signs From The Past
25. On the Spoor of the Big Snake: Making Deep Tracks
26. On the Spoor of the Big Snake: Charting New Territory
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Peruvian minister: No police negligence or abuse in Garcia case
Lima, Apr 22 (efe-epa).- Peruvian Interior Minister Carlos Moran on Monday rejected questions about the way in which police tried to arrest late President Alan Garcia and said that there was no "police negligence or abuse" in the operation.
Photo taken from a video provided by Peruvian officials on April 22, 2019, showing former President Alan Garcia in his home in Lima speaking with police - who had arrived to arrest him - a few moments before he committed suicide on April 17. EFE-EPA/ Official Peruvian Sources/Best Quality Available/ Editorial Use Only/ No Sales
"We, as a government, have to emphasize that there was no police negligence or abuse, but rather that a protocol established in law ... and a judicial ruling were rigorously complied with," Moran told reporters.
Opposition politicians and associates of Garcia have linked his suicide to the way in which the Attorney General's Office and the police acted upon arriving at his home to arrest him, whereupon Garcia took his own life by shooting himself in the head with a pistol.
Moran said that there was a great deal of caution about entering the home of Garcia, who was being investigated for alleged crimes of corruption linked to the Odebrecht bribery scandal, and the protocol established for such cases was implemented and followed.
He said that the prosecutor conversed with Garcia as he approached a staircase, but thereafter the former president "by his own decision returned to his room and the incident that today we all regret occurred."
The minister also rejected claims by relatives of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who was remanded to prison, that police tried to shackles on the bed he occupied in a Lima clinic, where he is being treated for cardiac problems.
"The police have emphatically denied that they had tried to place - or had placed - security shackles on the former president," said Moran before adding that "it's common sense that nobody and no police officer can enter the intensive care unit."
An investigation into the Odebrecht bribery scandal in Peru was first launched by investigating former President Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006), after which the firm's former executives admitted in US court that they delivered huge bribes to Peruvian politicians and former officials between 2005 and 2014.
Besides Garcia, Kuczynski and Toledo, the Peruvian Attorney General's Office is investigating ex-President Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), opposition leader Keiko Fujimori and former leftist Lima Mayor Susana Villaran.
Garcia's remains were cremated last Friday in Lima at a private ceremony in which only his relatives and closest political allies participated.
The 69-year-old Garcia, who governed Peru from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2006 to 2011, died last Wednesday at Lima's Casimiro Ulloa Hospital after shooting himself when police came to his home to take him into custody.
His family rejected the government's offer of a state funeral for the former head of state, and instead, Garcia's casket lay in state at the headquarters of the Peruvian Aprista Party.
His daughter Luciana said that while her father left no instructions for his funeral, she was certain he would have wanted the wake to be held at the PAP's House of the People, "with all of his comrades."
In a final letter penned before killing himself, Garcia denounced what he called politically motivated attempts to charge him with crimes.
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"When the Levee Breaks: A guide to dealing with and avoiding arrest and prosecution in BDSM scenes."
"When the Levee Breaks" is a companion to the NCSF publication, "The Aftermath," and is a guide to provide a perspective for those who have, through mistake, misunderstanding, or a fleeting lapse of reason, committed an act of criminally actionable sexual assault. It is not intended to provide a defense for indefensible acts. "When the Levee Breaks" also provides information on how to better protect oneself against arrest and prosecution.
Click to get a PDF of "When the Levee Breaks"
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Incident Response Program
When you need help and don't know where to turn, NCSF may be able to help. Our Incident Response program helps hundreds of people every year. We make a difference for individuals and organizations facing discrimination, legal crisis and other important life events related to their kink interests.
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Swing Party
Back in June, 2008, we had set up a great private party for swingers. The plan was to have it at a local bar, the owner was going to close it for just our group. Lots of us had plans on eating dinner at the fine-dining restaurant above the bar, and many had rooms reserved in the hotel. The owner knew what type of group we were, and had no problems in having us.
Shortly before the party, the local Borough Council President 'found out' about the party and contacted the local paper. Next thing we know, the paper comes out on Wednesday, we're on the front page. The party was set for Saturday night. Now, most Swingers want complete anonymity, and it was rumored that the media would be there "in disguise" mingling thru the party and possibly some waiting for us to arrive. So, we felt it necessary to cancel our party to protect our guests.
The NCSF Incident Response team found out what had happened, contacted the local paper and helped them understand what we were trying to do, and how this affects us. My husband and I (as the party hosts) were unable to have any reply in the paper due to their demand that our names be published if they published our letter. Without the NCSF, there would have been no one to stand up for us and to speak on our behalf, and for that, we are so thankful to them! Thanks again you guys! You're wonderful!
~Name withheld by request
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Kinky Kollege and SINSations in Leather
Every year, Leather SINS produces two national BDSM events in Chicago: Kinky Kollege and SINSations in Leather. Ever since the Concerned Women for America attacked five Midwest BDSM conferences in 2002, Leather SINS has consulted with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom to ensure that our events would not face the same problems if we were attacked by religious political extremists.
Leather SINS has consulted with NCSF about a variety of issues while producing our events. We asked Susan Wright to accept the position as our media spokesperson, posting her phone number on our website so she can respond instantly to any media inquiries. Susan checks every page of our website for each event, looking for statements and phrases that may need clarification or may possibly cause problems if taken out of context by the media.
Leather SINS has gratefully named NCSF as one of our "WE CARE!" charities (along with LA&M). We're proud to be a Coalition Partner of NCSF, and would urge any group to take advantage of NCSF's knowledgeable Incident Response program consultants when producing an event.
In leather heart and soul,
Master Z
Leather SINS President & Event Director
Folsom Street Fair
For over a year now, Folsom Street Events has been under attack by anti-gay and religious right groups from across the country. The attacks have been relentless. They have threatened our major sponsorships, picketed our events, called upon public officials to denounce us, and rallied their troops against our community. As a small organization with only two staff members, we do not have the capacity to stand up and respond to these continuing assaults.
We contacted the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom to access the Incident Response program. Within hours, we spoke with a highly trained and knowledgeable media and PR consultant for support. In addition to her moral support, we received a meticulous training for our Board of Directors and staff, preparing us to better manage these attacks. Also, the program consultant was able to field all media inquiries - and serve as a positive voice for our community - during our events, so that we could focus on our production duties. We can't thank NCSF enough for their good work and for being there when we needed them.
Demetri Moshoyannis
Folsom Street Events
Catalina Loves
My relationship with the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) began like many others do. I was neck deep in a conflict that was based in my free expression of my sexuality through my writing. I was asked to leave my teaching position, an agreement was reached and I left quietly without creating a scene. I used to teach in a small, private school in North Carolina, where my daughter also attended school. When I left my teaching position I was assured that it would not affect her last and final year of middle school.
Months passed, and we were within days of her returning to the 8th grade when I received a call from the Head of School that he had decided to rescind his offer to allow her to go to school there. After heated debate, he agreed that she could attend school, but if and only if I could secure a $1,000.00 expense fee to cover her field trips and lunches in advance. It was a bullshit fee, to be honest. It’s not required of any other parent. He knew that we would not be able to come up with $1,000 in a matter of days. This was his way of keeping her out without risking litigation.
So I wondered what led this man, elder in his church, who had given me his word that my child would be unaffected, to suddenly revoke something that we had agreed upon? He said that based on an email to my husband, he had changed his mind. I looked at Marky, while still on the phone, and asked, “Did you exchange any emails in the last month with the school?” Of course he had not. Well the school made a terrible error. They contacted my ex-husband, not my husband. They contacted someone who has no legal custody of our daughter, and based on that conversation had decided that I would no longer be welcome in the parent community.
This happened, I’m sure by no coincidence, at the same time that I received threatening emails from my ex-husband, who suggested that due to my deviant behavior she should come to live with him.
I reacted immediately. First, I raised the money in a raffle that was initially supported by Lochai and quickly built into a huge CommUNITY movement of kinksters who were outraged. Secondly, I contact NCSF and accessed professional advice and consultations through their Kink Aware Professionals (KAP) listing. With the help of the community and the NCSF I felt prepared for battle.
Now, coming full circle, I am honored that my PR firm, Quid Pro Quo, will be working with NCSF on the launching of a new blog. We are doing the work pro-bono to show NCSF our appreciation and to give back to an organization that protects all of us. It feels really great to be in a position to give back. So do us a favor and help us help them. We’ll be asking people to re-post and tweet links and I hope you’ll consider it your way of giving back to such an amazing organization.
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Incident Reporting & Response Mission Statement
The NCSF Incident Reporting & Response Team's purpose is to provide assistance to individuals and groups within the alternative sexual expression communities who become victimized by actions of local authorities in opposition to the freedom of expression of SM, leather/fetish, or swing practices.
NCSF is not legal aid, nor do we offer specific legal advice for individuals. NCSF is a resource for the members of the kink, poly and Lifestyle communities and for people seeking information about them. NCSF provides publicly available information on kink and nonmonogamy for consenting adults. We advocate on behalf of the BDSM, swing and polyamory communities.
The issue must openly, directly, and specifically relate to BDSM, swing or poly activities between consenting adults; in other words, the problems you face must relate to or be caused from your involvement in BDSM, swing or poly without question.
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What Is Incident Reporting & Response
NCSF is a resource for the members of the kink, poly and Lifestyle communities and for people seeking information about them. If you engage in BDSM, fetishes or non-monogamy practices, and you are being persecuted or discriminated against because of it, please contact NCSF through the Get Help Now. If you need help removing kink or non-monogamy as a barrier to public services, please contact NCSF. If your group or business needs help with outreach to local officials, please contact NCSF.If you or your group needs help with a consent violation or sexual assault, please contact NCSF. GET HELP NOW!
The issue must openly, directly, and specifically relate to BDSM, swing or poly activities between consenting adults; in other words, the problems you face must relate to or be caused from your involvement in BDSM, swing or poly.
NCSF is not legal aid, nor do we offer specific legal advice for individuals. NCSF is a resource for the members of the kink, poly and Lifestyle communities and for people seeking information about them. NCSF provides publicly available information on kink and nonmonogamy for consenting adults.
Incident Reporting & Response – 2018 Report
By Susan Wright
279 reports and requests for help were received by NCSF in 2018. This is a significant increase compared to previous years:
170 requests in 2017
NCSF maintains the confidentiality of those who come to us for help, however we balance that with the need to report the services we are providing and to provide the community with a record of where the need is the greatest. Here is a breakdown of the cases the IRR Team dealt with in 2018:
107 people made reports & requested assistance, up by nearly 50% compared to 76 reports in 2017:
74 requests from people who reported an assault, sexual assault, stalking, harassment or vandalization involving BDSM or non-monogamy, requesting assistance in educating law enforcement, investigators, prosecutors and victim advocates or referrals for expert witnesses. In 2017, there were 57 reports.
29 people requested resources and referrals to assist in defending themselves against accusations of assault, sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, harassment, Restraining Order, parole violations or the appeals process. In 2017, there were 16 reports.
2 people needed help with sex worker related issues
2 sex-positive business-owners needed help after employees embezzled and threatened them
95 groups, events and businesses requested assistance or a member requested assistance with their group. That’s more than double the 42 reports in 2017. There were 24 reports in 2016, and 50 reports in both 2015 and 2014. Here are the reports for 2018:
26 Groups/Events received information on dealing with consent violations
25 Groups/Events were reporting a ban or inquiring about reports on a presenter/member
11 groups needed assistance with incorporation, by-laws or legal matters involving members including lawsuits and subpoenas
7 groups needed assistance in creating a consent policy for their group
6 people were protesting being banned by a group
5 people needed assistance resolving a consent incident with their group
4 groups had their event challenged through contract cancellation or threats of cancellation
3 groups asked for assistance in dealing with police outreach
2 groups needed resources and referrals for attorneys for their members
2 groups asked for assistance in doing outreach to local civic and community organizations
1 business was reported two separate times by a number of its members: regarding bulling and sexual harassment, and privacy issues
1 group was reported for outing its members
1 group reported discrimination when their bank suspended their account
Child Custody and Divorce
30 people requested help with child custody cases, and there was 1 divorce case. This is similar compared to 27 reports in 2017. There were 16 reports in 2016, 26 in 2015, and 37 in 2014.
18 involved parents who are kinky (6 with FetLife photos and 1 with photos on the cloud)
5 involved parents in non-moogamous relationships
2 involved both BDSM and non-monogamous relationships
3 involved sex work
1 involved same-sex marriage
1 involved CPS and a parent that identified as vanilla
1 divorce case involving a Master/slave contract
24 requests for assistance in civil issues compared to 13 in 2017:
5 people reported being outed (3 involved FetLife pics)
4 people needed employment attorneys to deal with discrimination due to BDSM (3) and non-monogamy (1)
2 involved Title IX issues for educators who discussed sex positive issues including BDSM
2 people needed attorneys to deal with civil legal matters.
2 people needed help with civic and community organizations
2 people were banned or had their account suspended by businesses
2 people needed legal options involving their polyamorous relationships
1 person needed help with photos that were posted without permission
1 educator was attacked when an event was attacked by religious political extremists
1 educator needed to find out the legality of a certain kind of BDSM play
1 person complained about social media discrimination
1 witness needed assistance regarding their participation in a criminal trial
There were 22 requests about kink and nonmonogamy:
13 professionals requested education on BDSM, consent, ageplay, FOSTA/SESTA, and translation of NCSF resources into Hebrew, Greek and French to better serve their clients and present workshops for their professional groups. These requests came from researchers, professors, graduate students, therapists and victim advocacy agencies.
9 people requested referrals to kink and polyamory aware professionals
If you need NCSF’s help because of discrimination or to remove kink as a barrier to service, please contact our Incident Reporting & Response today! Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Please join now or donate to support NCSF’s direct services!
Unfortunately, due to limited resources the NCSF is only able to take the cases that meet the criteria set by our mission. All of our work is done by volunteers and we accept no payment for our services.
We are however happy to receive donations earmarked specifically for use in the IRR Program. Click here to donate, Make sure you note "Incident Reporting & Response" or "IRR" in the comment box if you want to restrict your donation. We do provide basic information as resources dictate and referrals to professionals as part of our Kink Aware Professionals database.
The criteria for acceptance listed were developed to meet the primary concerns of our voting constituencies, our Coalition Partners. When the NCSF agrees to take a case the impact can be realized by all of our constituents as a whole and therefore it is up to the policies set in motion by NCSF Coalition Partners to decide whether existing resources allow for a case to be handled effectively.
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NCSF Publishes Important Information for Your Mental Health; NCSF and the Foundation are proud to announce two new and valuable publications: A Guide to Choosing a Kink-Aware Therapist, and the Therapists Guide to Polyamory.
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If you are seeking a Kink Aware Professional (KAP).
Our KAP program allows professionals who are friendly to BDSM, swing, and poly individuals to list themselves as "kink friendly." It serves as a resource for people to self-refer for help from theraputic, legal and other professionals who will not prejudge based on the consensual adult activities of our constituents. We've recently added documents for "How to Choose a Kink Aware Therapist" in long and short form as well as a booklet geared for those in the theraputic community that focuses on poly issues.
If you are seeking assistance or our Incident Response Program
Criteria for acceptance include consideration of whether a significant issue relevant to NCSF's primary constituencies is at stake, what impact can be realized for our constituents as a whole if NCSF gets involved, and whether existing resources allow for a case to be handled effectively.
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NCSF’s 2014 Roundup 2014 has been a year of progress for NCSF and for people who are kinky and nonmonogamous. The national conversation about gay marriage, consent, and even Fifty Shades of Grey are transforming mainstream attitudes. The change in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 stating that BDSM is a healthy form of sexual expression has also had a significant impact on both the courts and public opinion about kink. Education Outreach Project The NCSF Board Members and presenters gave Education Outreach Project workshops and tabled at 36 events in 2014 (compared to 22 in 2013), with a…
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom: Are you ready for the Fifty Shades of Gray Movie?
Does your media agency have resources for these special interest pieces? Contact the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom for interviews and information on kink and open relationships. NCSF is the national advocate for consensual adult sexual expression. Why kink? There has been a significant interest in BDSM sparked by the wildly successful Fifty Shades of Grey. Similar topics appeared in recent TV Shows from CSI to House to Desperate Housewives, and even animated shows such as American Dad. Furthermore many people, married and otherwise, are discovering and practicing non-monogamy. From polyamory to swinging to open relationships, a notable percentage of the public are shifting their relationship parameters in an honest…
NCSF Media Kit The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom provides educational resources on BDSM and non-monogamy. Resources include data from NCSF's Incident Reporting & Response program which directly helps hundreds of people and groups every year who are being discriminated against because of their sexual expression. NCSF also provides original research on kinksters and the issues caused by the stigma we face, as well as statements on consent and best practices in BDSM. We also offer experts who are knowledgeable about alternative sexual practices as well as experience in community organizing. Contact Susan Wright, NCSF This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./NCSFreedomwww.twitter.com/ncsf Susan Wright founded the…
50 Shades of NCSF Palm Cards
Are You Ready for Fifty Shades? To coincide with the launch of the movie, get your Fifty Shades of Kink palm cards from NCSF to put out at your club or in local sex shops and bookstores so that people who are looking to find out more about kink know where to go. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request your cards. NCSF’s Fifty Shades of Kink resource page is for people who are kinky and/or non-monogamous, whether they’re just starting out or an old hand at this: ncsfreedom.org/50ShadesofKink Check out our Media Kit Dated: 12/12/2014 Updated:
GayLawNet Joins Forces with NCSF
NCSF’s Kink Aware Professionals joins forces with GayLawNet NCSF has expanded the reach of its Kink Aware Professionals by collaborating with GayLawNet, which now offers a way for lawyers in their database to self-identify as Kink Aware Professionals: gaylawnet.com/attorneys/ussolc.html “Whenever someone can’t find a lawyer in NCSF’s KAP list, I always refer them to GayLawNet,” says Susan Wright, spokesperson for NCSF. “Many of their gay-friendly lawyers are eager to work with kinky people, and the GayLawNet database is huge.” NCSF recently started an outreach campaign to the lawyers who have listed themselves on GayLawNet to let them…
Tides Awards NCSF $1,500 Grant
NCSF Receives Grant Award NCSF is proud to announce the receipt of a $1,500 grant awarded by Tides Foundation. About Tides #TidesProject “Since 1976, Tides Foundation has worked with over 15,000 individuals and organizations in the mutual endeavor to make the world a better place. These include foundations, donors, corporations, social investors, nonprofit organizations, government institutions, community organizations, activists, social entrepreneurs, and more. We break down the walls between entrepreneurs and their efforts to bring positive change to their communities. We are all about new ideas, innovation, and providing the tools to make these great ideas a reality.” NCSF is…
NCSF Mental Health Survey
NCSF Mental Health Survey Please take the NCSF Mental Health Survey! We would like to know more about your BDSM practices, mental health and relational violence experiences: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FZ2XDMP NCSF is working with researchers at Sam Houston University’s Department of Psychology and Philosophy who will compare our responses to two other sample populations – one college-aged and the other LGBT. NCSF will use these results to help with our advocacy, benefiting both existing and developing programs. Specifically, the study’s results will assist in educating law enforcement, legal and psychological professionals about the practices and mental health of BDSM practitioners. The survey…
Military Court Accepts NCSF's Amicus Brief
Military Court Accepts NCSF’s Amicus Brief in Support of Consensual Nonmonogamy April 24, 2014 – Washington, DC – The Navy and Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has accepted NCSF’s amicus (“friend of the court”) brief advising the court that prosecutors are avoiding the Supreme Court decision, made in Lawrence v. Texas, that moral judgment is not a basis for criminalizing consensual sexual conduct, and that consensual sex should only be criminalized if that conduct is injurious or goes against a valid societal interest. In the appellate case, it was argued that the activities were “public” even though the sexual…
Ombudsman Committee Established
NCSF Appoints Members of the Ombuds Committee June 3, 2014 - NCSF is proud to announce these appointments to the Ombuds Committee: Desmond Ravenstone, James Huesmann and Bjorn Paulee. The Ombuds Committee handles complaints and concerns regarding the conduct of NCSF officers and staff, and the operations of NCSF institutions. The NCSF Ombuds Committee shall be established as an Advisory Committee, as per NCSF bylaws, to review Coalition administration and activities, assuring ethical and effective fulfillment of NCSF’s mission and goals. Board Member Fil Vocasek is the Board Liaison to the Ombuds Committee. NCSF thanks the three members…
NCSF Files Amicus Brief in Military Court
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Dealing with Assault - understand your rights and options when it comes to consent violations.
Is this Assault - Guide for determining wheither a consent violation can legaly be considered assault
Drawing the Line – Some things your group or club can consider when trying to determine if a member should be disciplined or banned
Dealing with Consent Incidents – Guide for groups in dealing with consent incidents
Liability Issues for Groups or Events - Some of the ways a criminal or civil court case can impact your group when a consent violation happens at your play party or event
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About Consent Counts
NCSF is leading a major national campaign—Consent Counts—to change the laws and police practices that our communities now endure, and to establish that consent is available as a defense in criminal BDSM prosecutions.
Judy Guerin
Director, Consent Counts
judy@ncsfreedom.org
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Neil Oseman
The Cinematography of “First Man”
Pick-ups for “Rory’s Way”
Aspect Ratio and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
This Morning With Richard Not Judy
Is the Rule of Thirds Right for 2.39:1?
The 4:3 Aspect Ratio is Not Dead
“The Little Mermaid”: Sun, Sea and Cinematography
“The Little Mermaid”: Lighting from the Back
“The Little Mermaid”: Boats, Trains and Automobiles
“The Little Mermaid”: Pools of Light
November 18, 2012 August 2, 2016 neilosemanediting, fx
When I first started making amateur films with my grandad’s Video8 camcorder, the only “actors” I had available were me, my friend David Abbott and occasionally my sister. Even a little later on, when I managed to rope in a few extra friends, there were still far more characters than actors. The solution? Each person – with the addition or subtraction of a hat, jacket or pair of glasses – portrayed multiple characters.
While this massively confused the audience (which fortunately consisted of only my parents), it did teach me a thing or two about how to shoot scenes in which one actor plays two characters. Below is a run-down of the various techniques you can use next time you shoot a script featuring time travel, parallel universes or uncanny doppelgängers. Back in the nineties, when I was making amateur films, there was no way of combining two separate video images on screen at once (without a hugely expensive video mixer), so only the first two of these techniques were available to me. Nowadays they can all be done with a green sheet, a decent home computer and the right software.
1. Ordinary cuts
The simplest method is to block your shot so that one doppelgänger’s face is not seen, be it out of focus, turned away from camera, in shadow or whatever. Simply dress a stand-in in the right clothes and make sure their hair matches. Two over-the-shoulder shots, each with a stand-in providing the foreground shoulder, can be edited into a very natural conversation.
Katie Lake (foreground) doubles for Georgina Sherrington (background) as the character of Kate steps into her own past in Stop/Eject.
2. Hidden cuts
It’s possible to pan from one doppelgänger to another, without any post-production effects, so long as the pan is very fast – a “whip” pan. There is so much motion in a whip pan that the eye will not detect a cut in the middle of it. Alternatively, track the camera so it passes close behind a foreground object or character; use the moment of darkness as this object wipes frame to hide a cut.
A quick camera move behind a foreground wall masks a cut from Johnny Cartwright to Johnny Cartwright in The Picnic.
3. Split screen
As long as your camera is locked off, it’s the work of seconds in post to create a simple split screen effect using your editing software’s crop tool. If a straight vertical line doesn’t suit your shot, more unusual matte lines can be created with a garbage matte filter. Watch out for changes in lighting when you shoot the two elements, particularly when filming outdoors, and beware of shadows crossing the matte line. If you can afford to hire a motion control rig for accurately repeatable moves, your camera doesn’t even need to be locked down.
Elizabeth Shue plays both old and young Jennifer in a split screen shot from Back to the Future: Part II (1989, dir. Robert Zemeckis).
4. Green screen
If you try to use technique 3 for a shot where one doppelgänger passes in front of the other, you’ll quickly find it a post-production nightmare of painstaking matte animation. Instead, shoot the foreground doppelgänger against a green screen. As always with green screen work, light carefully to reduce spill and match the background plate.
Peter Kay is green-screened over an element of himself and Patrick McGuinness in the 2005 Comic Relief music video (Is This the Way to) Amarillo.
5. Face replacement
This is the only suitable technique when your doppelgängers are in close physical contact and both faces are visible. The action is performed by the actor and a stand-in, who may wear a green hood with tracking marks on it. Later, the actor performs the second character against a green screen, wearing a green body suit, with the angle and lighting carefully matched to the earlier shot. This isolated face, or the entire head, can then be tracked onto the stand-in. (Alternatively, on a big budget, the actor’s head may be cyber-scanned and a CG version of it tracked onto the stand-in.) Beware that only experienced VFX artists will be able to pull this off convincingly.
One of the many face replacement shots in the climactic fight of the dimension-hopping Jet Li vehicle The One (2001, dir. James Wong)
The best approach is to mix as many techniques as possible, relying mostly on the simpler ones but hitting the audience with a more effectsy one every now and then to sell the doubles. Happy sci-fi shooting!
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Green-green-green! Para drops (l...
Green-green-green! Para drops (low-level static line combat jumps) for Arma2*
New on the menu: Para drops. Parachute jumps to spice up your Arma2 missions built here with PlannedAssault. Jump in large numbers at low-altitude as part of a combat jump, with the parachute automatically being deployed by means of a static line. Once on the ground, assemble in small teams, get your bearings, and attempt to attack the target.
After adding helicopter insertions and fast-rope insertions, this is a third spectacular way for forces to enter the battlefield.
Large para drop from two An-72 Coalers (Arma2)
Unit positioning for a paradrop mission is simple
Scenic NVG view from open cargo bay before the drop (Arma2)
One of Arma2's strengths is its ability to make things go F.U.B.A.R. on the battlefield. And jumping out of a plane being fired at definitely is a great start towards chaos. You'll find AI pilots dropping you away from the DZ, or doing another run when they botch up the first one. At the ground, you'll might encounter camouflaged AA positions. In the air, you might find yourself being blown to the wrong spot, crashing on roof tops or into trees... Why not give it a go?
You can set up a para drop mission the same way you created helicopter insertions or fast-rope insertions: start with selecting up to six infantry squads, and select on or more transport planes with sufficient total capacity to transport all infantry squads. You can use USAF, UMSC and Swedish C-130 Super Hercules, Anzac Hercules variants, Bundeswehr and French C-160 Transals, USMC MV-22 Ospreys, or Soviet and Russian Ilyushin Il-76 and Antonov An-72s. Put all infantry in the BLUFOR or OPFOR air cargo slots, and put the transport planes near the map's edge. For the para-dropping force, place a 'Clear 1' objective on the position to occupy. And generate your mission...
Feel free to given the opponent some AA capability, and add some fighter bombers on your side to 'prepare' the area for para drops, just prior to the para drop.
Forty-eight Spetsnaz inside an Il-76 waiting to jump (Arma2)
Australian SF soldiers jumping from Hercules at first light (Arma2)
Paratroopers are immediately ordered to attack from their drop zones (Arma2)
Like all PlannedAssaults 'features', paradrops also work for the opponent, and they work on large scale. By that, I mean you're also able to play a defensive mission against a hostile para drop, and without having to precisely plan where the opponent will land. And para drops work for a single plane, for a combination of planes, or for a combination of landings, as long as you stay within the current unit limit. And if you want to combine heli landings and para drops, be my guest.
The para drops have been implemented as automated ejects, from low-altitude (some 100m / 300ft, higher for larger planes that otherwise would fly into the ground). In the cargo bay, you'll receive a warning and a count-down at 20 seconds prior to the drop. The ramp or doors will open at that time. After the count down, you're tossed out of the plane.
A camouflaged M163 Vulcan defending against air landings (Arma2)
Frogfoots engage ground forces prior to the para drop (Arma2)
Spetsnaz jumping from the cargo space of an Il-76 (Arma2)
Please note that the AI pilots are pretty stubborn, and sometimes turn away from the drop zone too early (mostly leading to an abort and retry, occasionally to a drop above water). In rare cases, the pilot touches down on a nearby airfield.
The para drop is scheduled after any 'preparation' of the drop zone by fighter bombers, if you add these to the mission.
One of two French Transal C-160As going down (Arma2)
Nightly jump near Zargabad (Arma2)
Almost forty-eight parachutes on the horizon (Arma2)
Arma2 ships with transport aircraft for the BLUFOR (US Super Hercules transporters, and the USMC Osprey), but lacks any large transport aircraft for the Russian and Takistani forces. To make OPFOR landings a possibility, I've added Wings of Russia's Ilyushin Il-76 and Gnat's Antonov An-72. The Ilyushin Il-76 is an impressive plane, with capacity for 70 troopers and additional armored vehicles (not yet supported).
Have a clean smooth exit!
arma2, air_assault, para_drop, planning
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Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice
Dragon Fantasy: Volumes of Westeria
Posts tagged Dragon Fantasy
31 Jul 2018 on Dragon Fantasy, PSVita, ps4, Games
Dragon Fantasy: Volumes of Westeria Physical Release Update
Three months ago we posted that we were just about done with this special edition. We gave updates on where we were at, what else we've been working on, and asked for some input on if Vita was still a platform that our fans cared for. And you responded. Boy…
03 May 2016 on Dragon Fantasy, PSVita, 3DS, ps4
Dragon Fantasy: Black Tome of Ice release update
I wanted to post a quick update on where the various releases of this game are at: First, PSN in the Americas region launched late March. Overall response has been pretty positive and we're happy to have finally released the game as we wanted it to be. Unfortunately not everyone…
29 Oct 2015 on Dragon Fantasy, Games, iOS, Book II, Black Tome of Ice, AppleTV
Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice coming to iOS, AppleTV tomorrow, Oct 30th!
It's been two years since we initially launched Dragon Fantasy: Book II on PSN. While we're super proud our accomplishment bringing the series to consoles, after taking a break and looking back, we saw a pile of things we'd like to do better. So we did! Today we're happy to…
05 Aug 2014 on Dragon Fantasy, Games, 3DS, Nintendo, eShop
Dragon Fantasy coming to the 3DS
We've talked about this a few times now but it's time to make it official. The original Dragon Fantasy game (occassionally known as Dragon Fantasy Book I) is coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop! We're in the final testing phases before submission and cannot wait to get this out and…
25 Jul 2014 on Dragon Fantasy, Games, SCEE, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Book I, Book II, Modding
2014, the half-way mark (more or less)
Here we are, a little more than half-way through 2014, and lately we've been completely slacking on keeping these posts going. We promised more transparency, so here you go - a quick catch-up on everything we have going on right now at Muteki! So much already done, so much left…
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Comparative Drama
Serious Money Becomes "Business by Other Means": Caryl Churchill's Metatheatrical Subject
Daniel Jernigan
Volume 38, Numbers 2,3, Summer/Fall 2004
10.1353/cdr.2004.0033
SeriousMoneyBecomes"Businessby Other Means": Caryl Churchill's MetatheatricalSubject DANIEL JERNIGAN I. Metatheatrical Trends In his foundational work devoted to defining the difference between tragedyand metatheater, LionelAbel identifies numerous distinguishing characteristics of metatheater. Numbered among them is the claim that "for metatheatre, order is something continually improvised by men."1 Even this singular tenet, which for the sake ofbrevity I will call the'Ontological Order Tenet," can be regarded as fairly comprehensive, especially if it is read as suggesting that metatheater endeavors to point out ontologicallythatthe physical world might notbe quitewhat it seems. Moreover,distinguished participants in the form such as Luigi Pirandello and Bertolt Brecht are defended by Abel as metatheatrical, at least according to his theory.2 When Pirandello "explores dramatically our inability to distinguish between illusion and reality" it can be seen as metatheatrical (according to the Ontological Order Tenet) because even as metadrama blurs the boundaries between illusion and reality, it does so by circumscribing a theatrical order explicitly "improvised by men"; Brecht is metatheatrical, in Abel's scheme of things, because "he insists on the fact that [his characters] are puppets"; he "does not try to pass them offas realpeople,and [he] delights in exhibitingtheirmechanisms." In keeping with the Ontological Order Tenet this reminds us that the point of Brechts plays is to focus on the very fact that they have indeed been "improvised by men." 291 292Comparative Drama It is also worth noting that there is something distinctive about how Brecht commits to this Ontological Order Tenet when compared with Pirandello's handling of the matter. If we revise the Ontological Order Tenet so that it reads "For metadieater, the social order is something completely improvised by men," for instance, we may understand it as a "Social Order Tenet," an idea far more central to Brechts work than it would be to Pirandello's. Brecht's work is different from Pirandello's in that it makes use of metadramatic concepts not only in the ontological sense to reveal that the world might not be quite what it seems, but in its rendering evident the ideological, constructed nature of society, which implies that under the right set ofcircumstances it too could be different (even better) than it is. While nottypicallydescribedas metadramatic,Caryl Churchill'swork has time and again been linked to Brecht's, particularly in her use of various alienation techniques. Like Brecht, she "delights in exhibiting [her characters'] mechanisms" in order to disrupt the audience's comfort level and to inspire critical thinking about the play's subject matter. If we are to follow Abel's salient definition of metatheater's characteristics , then a case has already been made in the literature that Churchill is indeed metatheatrical. Her most acclaimedplay, Cloud9,3 in fact,serves as an apt example of the way in which the playwright fulfills the Social Order Tenet in an explicitly Brechtian way, such as when she asks that each character in the play be cast in such a way as to draw attention to stereotypical attitudes about race and gender.4 It isveryclear that at least some of Churchill's work is directed toward critiquing the fact that the "social order is something completely improvised by men." Churchill does not, however, invoke the Ontological Order Tenet merely in order to investigate the way in which order in both the real world and the theatrical world are similarly constructed (as Pirandello did), nor does she simply use the Social Order Tenet to characterize theatrical productions themselves as something"completelyimprovised by men" (as Brecht did). This essay investigates a metadramatic technique distinctivelyChurchill's—thewayin which she explicitiyrecognizes how the two sides of the fourth wall, that conceptual barrier between audience and stage, actually interactwith one another. Moreover,because the means oftheatrical production were much different in Brecht's era than DanielJernigan293 they are today, particularly with the advent of multinational corporations and instantaneous forms of communication, this study begins to reveal Churchill's metadramatic modus operandi; that is, the improvisations ofthe theatrical community can be recognized in Churchill's work as constructions specifically designed to serve the interests ofstatus quo multinational capitalism (for example, by propping up only those artificially constructed versions of...
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The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition: English Lion, 1930–1933
To the Editor of The Bookman
T. S. Eliot, Jason Harding, Ronald Schuchard
[ 85 To the Editor of The Bookman1 Sir, – It is not often that I feel obliged to reply to criticism of my own work. If one tried to correct every misunderstanding, one would have no time for anything else. But in reading your “Chronicle and Comment” for March 1930, I find what is to me a more serious matter: a travesty, as I take it, of my attitude to one of the greatest men of our time; so I ask you, as an act of justice, to print my own comments. The matter is all the more serious because your “Chronicle and Comments” is unsigned, and therefore bears, at least, editorial approval.2 There is much in this commentary with which I agree; and so far as you criticise or censure my own writings I am indifferent. What I resent is your suggestion that I “cast scorn” on a man for whom I “profess the highest admiration” [77].3 I overlook the suggestion of insincerity. Again it is suggested that my purpose is to “ridicule” [77] Mr. Babbitt; and again that my intention may be to do him what damage I can. This is, I submit, a grave misrepresentation. Again, your critic says that I write about Babbitt “considerably more sharply” than I have written about anyone towards whom I feel “open enmity” [78]. I take exception to the suggestion that I feel open enmity towards anybody. I do not expect your critic to have read all of my hurried journalistic writing. But he should not generalise as if he had. Towards whom have I professed “open enmity?” Not even towards Mr. Shaw or Mr. Wells,whomIregardmerelyasobjectsforthepaleontologist.4 Iftowards anybody, towards such men as Mr. Bertrand Russell and Mr. Middleton Murry, about whose various doctrines I have written far more “sharply” than about those of Mr. Babbitt; but for whom, nevertheless, I have a warm personal feeling. Your critic also makes capital out of the fact that I display for Charles Maurras “nothing but the greatest respect and affection,” whereas I treat Babbitt with “patronising admiration and easy ridicule” [78].5 My personal acquaintance with M. Maurras is but slight; my acquaintance with Mr. Babbitt is of many years. Your critic quite overlooks the circumstances: that when I have spoken of Maurras it has been to defend him against what I believed to be injustice, whilst Mr. Babbitt, I am very glad to say, needs no Essays, Reviews, and Commentaries: 1930 86 ] such defence. I do not consider that any parallel can be drawn between my attitude towards Maurras and my attitude towards Babbitt; and I should be the first to admit that there are far grosser positive errors and far greater dangers in the doctrine of Maurras than in that of Babbitt.6 If indeed there is any patronage about, your critic is responsible for some: he refers to my “usual brightness” and “grave jests” [76] et caetera. May I state that for the teaching of Babbitt himself I have the greatest admiration; and to Mr. Babbitt the deepest gratitude. My own position seems to me to be very close indeed to that of Mr. More; for example as put in his admirable essay in your same number.7 What differences there are between Mr. More and myself are all on our own side of the fence, do not concern the general issues of humanism, and would appear to most humanists to be trivial theological details. My chief apprehension about “humanism” has been lest the teaching of Mr. Babbitt should be transformed, by a host of zealous disciples, into the hard and fast dogma of a new ethical church, or something between a church and a political party. If that is to happen, I confess that I prefer the subtle psychologising of Mr. Ramon Fernandez, a study of which I recommend to all American humanists, to the vague moralising of some of Mr. Babbitt’s disciples.8 On one point however I must say that your critic is near the truth. I do certainly associate the contemporary use of the word “humanism” with that of T. E. Hulme. Hulme’s use of the term is traditional and just; and if our new humanists mean something entirely different then they should call it by some other name.9 I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, [T. S. Eliot] Notes 1. Unpublished: carbon (Princeton), dated 31 Mar 1930; see L5 132-35. On 5 Apr 1930, TSE explained to Paul Elmer More...
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Google Maps and Google Lens giving more personal results
Google I/O Update: Google Maps 'For You' Section, Augmented Reality Features Announced
Roberta Sherman | 09 May, 2018, 00:30
In the I/O demo, it was a cartoon fox bounding in front of you to show you the right direction, but honestly, this seems like a potential reincarnation of Clippy, the much loathed assistant that's thankfully been purged from Microsoft's Office apps.
Google Maps to act more like a tour guide.
Instead of relying on an unclear blue dot while walking around a cluttered city, Google suggests this camera-fueled augmented reality interface may one day save the day. First is "For You", which will automatically show you information about places in the areas that are important to you, things such as new businesses, restaurants that are trending, or recommendations of things to do that match your preferences.
English Premier League: Matchday 37 Saturday lineup
For Bournemouth , a first win in six games ensured it will definitely have a fourth successive season in the top flight. We expect Swansea manager Carlos Carvalhal to play for the draw and we're backing the Portuguese manager to get it.
At the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled a number of updates to Google Maps, offering a richer and more personal experience for users. Since launch, Google has mapped over 220 countries and territories and is helping more than 1 billion Maps users.
It's these match scores that are the most interesting, since it's basically Google's own algorithms telling you how it thinks you'll like a particular place.
And finally, expect to see a new "For You" tab that rounds up all of those personalized recommendations.
Kentucky Derby winning horse has BC ties
The sound of at least 30 cameras buzzing and clicking broke the silence of the backstretch as Baffert tried to steady his horse. His four other Derby winners - Silver Charm, Real Quiet, War Emblem and American Pharoah - all won the 1 3/16-mile race.
Adding the essence of a social network, Google Maps will soon incorporate a new group planning feature that lets users create shareable shortlists making it easier to coordinate plans with friends and family.
It was also announced that Google Lens will be integrated into the Camera application on future Android Phones and that it will be able to read words when the phone is held up to them.
In order to make this possible, GPS alone lacks the precision needed, so Google have been working on implementing a new system, referred to as VPS, or the Visual Positioning System. In doing so, it helps you figure out which way you should go.
Adele says she "adores" Childish Gambino and praises his "greatness"
What has Childish Gambino done? The vibe was particularly upbeat and reminiscent of Harry Belafonte 's "Day-O". In less than 24 hours, the complex and layered music video received over 10 million views on YouTube .
It will also give you a sense of how close a match something is with what's called "Your Match", a score that measures how close a match of a business or place is.
Pires urges Anthony Martial to swap Man Utd for Arsenal
YEREVAN, Armenia | The Latest: Putin congratulates new Armenian PM
Saints' Mark Ingram Suspended Four Games By NFL For PED Violation
Ian Rapoport of NFL.com and the NFL Network reported the suspension on Twitter and NFL.com announced it on the league's website. Ingram is headed into a contract season, and the Saints will probably be preparing to move on.
Stormy Daniels to Baldwin's Trump
Giuliani spoke with CNN after meeting with Trump on what the former NY mayor described as a "mostly social" visit. He said Mr Cohen made payments for the President or he's conducted business for the President.
Buffett and Munger hit back at Musk over 'moats'
Moats , a competitive buffer between one's business and the rest of the competition, have historically been used by Warren Buffet. It's ridiculous, Warren does not intend to build an actual moat . " Berkshire Hathaway kryptonite", he continued .
Donald Trump tweets about upcoming election, says 'remember Alabama'
There is no response from Blankenship regarding President Trump's denouncement yet this morning. Blankenship's survey amounts rebounds, but with Mr.
No Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb After All, Egypt Says
However, some archaeologists believe the mummy of Nefertiti, fabled for her beauty, has already been found in a different tomb. His suspicions were based on high-definition laser scans; other scans by Japanese and American scientists were inconclusive.
University of Florida apologizes for pushy graduation usher
But no one gives af apparently. "It was just really uncalled for, especially for anyone not martially trained to do that". Kent Fuchs delivered at another commencement ceremony that weekend.
The idea of fresh elections is also supported by businessman Gagik Tsarukian's alliance and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Another analyst, Stepan Safaryan, said Armenia was now entering "an interesting period of disequilibrium".
Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer & Posters
We're then treated to a few seconds of footage showing Misty with her new biotic arm beating the hell out of some thug. Luke and Claire's relationship has alway been flawless , but the romance is about to be tested.
Amazon Alexa can now be set as the default assistant on Android
They will then be able to long press the home button on their Android device to call up Alexa , without having to open the app. Then he asked Alexa to turn off a lamp on his demo table with the command, "Turn off the lights".
Ajinkya Rahane to captain for inaugural Test against Afghanistan
Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see whether selectors name some fresh faces for Afghanistan Test and Ireland T20Is or not. It is understood that barring Kohli, nearly all the Test regulars will be in action against Afghanistan.
Truck crashes into Southwest plane on runway at Baltimore-Washington airport
Passengers say they unboarded and were led to an area where they were given warm soda, peanuts, and an apology from the airline. Southwest Airlines has not released any comment but the company did respond to a tweet from one of the passengers on the plane.
Sessions says border crossers to face charges
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Johnny Manziel Was Hospitalized After a Bad Reaction to Bipolar Medication TMZ Sports earlier reported that Manziel was hospitalized briefly and released following an adverse reaction to medication. "It was a scary moment", Maziel wrote in his Instagram stories, which can be seen by his almost 2 million followers.
Yankees and Red Sox to play in London next year The Red Sox will be the home team for both games, marking the first time the clubs have met in a city that is not Boston or NY . Major League Baseball announced Tuesday morning that baseball's biggest rivalry will be headed to London next season.
Pires urges Anthony Martial to swap Man Utd for Arsenal Manchester United have reportedly chose to propose a swap deal involving Anthony Martial and Borussia Dortmund winger Christian Pulisic .
Scientists work out what will happen when the sun dies Unless humans get off the planet and head elsewhere, however, we won't have a chance to see the nebula our sun leaves behind. Astronomers believed the brightness of a nebula depended on a star's mass with the larger stars producing brighter nebulae.
California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes While net-zero remains an admirable goal, getting there is not yet cost-effective, state officials and experts said. The additional costs include more insulation, more efficient windows and other thermal containment features.
Dust storm hits Delhi, NCR, warning issued as schools to remain shut IMD issues a warning that thunderstorm accompanied with squall and hail likely into hit Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand on May 8. The government also asked people to ensure that children and animals are inside and unplug unnecessary electrical appliances.
Capt Amarinder flays Khattar over namaz remark Suresh said that those suspected to create trouble were being identified and educated on the laws on freedom of religion. In case of scarcity of space, people use public places (for such events).
Four things to look for in ICICI Bank earnings ICICI Bank reported 49.6 percent year-on-year drop in net profit at Rs 1,020 crore for the fourth quarter ending March 2018. The total income on consolidated basis rose to Rs 33,760 crore during the March quarter as against Rs 28,603 crore.
Video shows Waymo crash; van was operating in manual mode Chandler Police say the incident happened Friday afternoon when a Honda sedan swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle . The sedan veered into the opposite lane and collided with a Waymo Chrsyler Pacifica that was in manual mode at the time.
Donald Glover gives a behind-the-scenes tour of the Millennium Falcon This was very reminiscent of a scene in Chasing Amy , where one of the main characters argues that Star Wars attempted intergalactic gentrification.
'Tully' review: Charlize Theron shines in this unpredictable but moving comedy-drama Cody, whose real name is Brook Busey-Maurio, came to notoriety during the blog craze of the early 2000s. She's perfectly imperfect as Marlo, the overwhelmed mom who is truly at the end of her rope.
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Ranveer Singh dubs for Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool 2's Hindi version Fun and quite irreverent, Ranveer and Ryan's Deadpool banter is nothing short of fabulous and adds tons of appeal to the film. Yes! Deadpool 2 is ready to hit on the screens on May 18, Ranveer Singh has dubbed the Hindi version.
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Patents By Frip
FINANCIAL PATENTS
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PTAB Decisions on Section 101
This section contains summaries of June 2019 decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) concerning 35 U.S.C. Section 101, which sets forth the four categories of patent-eligible subject matter: process, machines, manufactures, and compositions of matter.
Ex Parte Abuelsaad et al; 6/19/2019; TC 2400; Real party in interest, IBM. The claimed invention was generally directed to managing computing resources using a data analysis module that predicted demand for the computing resources based on internet user activity. In a footnote, the Board noted claim 20 was directed to a computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium. The claimed medium was not expressly limited to non-transitory media, and the term computer-readable storage medium was broadly described in the Specification to include examples of volatile and non-volatile memories. Should there be further prosecution of the application (including any review for allowance), the Board suggested the Examiner review claim 20 for compliance with Section 101.
Ex Parte Shah et al; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Dell Products L.P. The claimed invention related generally to information handling systems and more specifically to monitoring user interactions and generating proactive responses thereto within a social media environment. The Board found the claims recited abstract ideas falling within the three groupings of abstract ideas specified in the 2019 Guidance: mathematical concepts, certain methods of organizing human activity, and mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Tang; 6/19/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Bally Gaming, Inc., and Scientific Games Corporation. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method of administering a wagering game. The Board concluded the steps recited certain methods of organizing human activity via fundamental economic practices of exchanging and resolving financial obligations based on probabilities of card distributions, and organizing human activity by managing personal behavior or interactions between people by following wagering rules/instructions, which were abstract ideas. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Blank et al; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, The Bank of New York Mellon. The claimed invention related generally to managing collateral allocations in Tri-Party repurchasing agreements. The Board concluded such managing of risk was a fundamental economic practice. The Board also found mental processes and mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Zhang et al; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. The claimed invention was directed to a patient treatment monitoring system that received multiple different types of patient medical information and displayed a timeline of sequentially performed individual stages of a treatment process. The Board found he subject matter of the claims improved accuracy and reliability of medical monitoring and diagnosis, and provided a user friendly interface that integrated and combined different kinds of clinical information to improve monitoring real time clinical data during a procedure and to improve data interpretation during a clinical procedure. Thus the claim as a whole integrated the method of organizing human activity into a practical application. As such, the claimed subject matter was not directed to a judicial exception, and was patent-eligible. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Whittle et al; 6/19/2019; TC 1700; Real party in interest, Goodrich Corporation. The claims were directed to methods for repairing aircraft brake rotor clips. The Board said the Examiner's conclusion that claim 1 was directed to the abstract idea of measuring, determining, and comparing improperly dismissed the fact that claim 1 required these acts be applied to a product resulting in a physically modified product. In addition to requiring and reciting a specific physical structure, namely, a floating rotor clip, claim 1 required and recited at least one physical activity applied to the physical structure, namely, altering the floating clip. Therefore, the Board could not agree with the Examiner's conclusions that such a physical activity was an abstract idea which did not improve upon the technical field of additive manufacturing and did not achieve more than the abstract idea of measuring, determining, and comparing. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Jung et al; 6/19/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, Gearbox, LLC. The claimed invention was a system that could be used to determine allergy susceptibility or risk in a population, including an individual, for a given allergy by analyzing innate (e.g., genetic) determinants and acquired (e.g., environmental) determinants that together were associated with a risk for future allergy symptoms. The Board found mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Baeke; 6/19/2019; TC 3600. The claimed invention relate to providing insurance for a surgical procedure involving implantation of a foreign material into a human body. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1 recited a fundamental economic practice, namely providing insurance. Section 101 rejections sustained.
Ex Parte Cole; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Passur Aerospace, Inc. The claimed invention related to a method for receiving an estimated ON time for an aircraft, determining an estimated ON to IN time for the aircraft, and determining an estimated gate arrival time for the aircraft based on the estimated ON time and the estimated ON to IN time. The Board concluded claim 1 recited a way of evaluating information, a concept performed in the human mind, which was a mental process. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Sims et al; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, CFPH, LLC. The claimed invention generally related to methods and systems for delivery services. The Board found certain methods of organizing human activities. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Lee et al; 6/19/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Oracle America, Inc. The claims were directed to creating promotional funds for a purveyor of consumer goods. The Board found mental processes and certain methods of organizing human activity and a fundamental economic practice including marketing, and sales activities or behaviors. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Abraham et al; 6/18/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Comscore, Inc. The claimed invention generally related to determining the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. The preamble of claim 1 recited a computer-implemented method configured to determine the effectiveness of a campaign including one or more creatives, where each of the creatives was rendered in association with access of a plurality of websites by user devices. The Board concluded the claimed steps combined abstract ideas within the categories of certain methods of organizing human activity―i.e., a commercial interaction such as advertising and/marketing activities―and mathematical concepts (such as a mathematical relationship or calculation). Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Burkhardt et al; 6/18/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, New York Stock Exchange LLC. The claims related to the field of securities trading and particularly to systems and methods for automatic order processing and execution done in conjunction with a live floor auction market. The claims addressed a need for greater integration of live floor auction markets with computer automated markets and order matching systems. The Board found fundamental economic practices, mathematical concepts, and mental steps, which were abstract ideas. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Nissan; 6/18/2019; TC 2600; Real party in interest, Nexidia, Inc. The claimed invention related to automatic selection of a language model in speech to text (TTS) systems used to generate a transcript of an audio input. The Board agreed with the Appellant that claims 1-13 were not directed to an abstract idea of generating a transcript of an audio input. The specific steps of the Appellant's advancement in the computer transcription technology recited in Appellant's claims 1, 7, and 8 could not be performed solely in a person's mind. The human mind would not use a phonetic lattice, certainty value, or index and would not use a first language model to produce a transcription and then select a second language model, as claimed, in order to produce a more accurate transcript and reduce word error rate. The steps recited in Appellant's claims 1, 7, and 8 needed to be performed by a computer to process input data in the claimed manner. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Krohner et al; 6/18/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Logi-Serve, LLC. The claimed subject matter related to assessment testing for a prospective employee's ability to provide customer service. The Board found mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Rourk; 6/17/2019; TC 3600; Request for Rehearing. In the initial decision, the Examiner determined that the claims were directed to an abstract idea, i.e., allowing consumers to choose content, and that the additional elements or combination of elements in the claims, other than the abstract idea, did not provide meaningful limitations to transform the abstract idea into a patent eligible application of the abstract idea such that the claims amounted to significantly more than the abstract idea itself. The Request for Rehearing was largely based on procedural grounds. The Board denied the request.
Ex Parte Dangmann et al; 6/17/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Owens-Illinois, Inc. The claimed invention related to a complete and totally secure solution for authenticating and tracing a product from production to the end consumer by ensuring that neither a container, nor its contents, had been counterfeited using three separate authentication keys. The Board identified mental processes. But the Board also found integration into a practical application. Claim 1 recited applying to the container a first authentication code associated with the container, and applying to the container a second authentication code independent of said first authentication code and associated with the product in the container. These limitations sufficiently limited the use of the abstract idea encompassed by the other limitations to the specific and tangible application of containers and products. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Ramsey et al; 6/17/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, IBM. The claimed invention related to the use of computers in detecting money laundering activities in microcommerce transactions. The Board concluded claim 1, as a whole, recited a judicial exception of a fundamental economic practice, and thus an abstract idea. But the Board said the limitations in claim 1 provided a technological improvement to money-laundering detection systems. Accordingly, when the claim was considered as a whole, the recited judicial exception was integrated into a practical application. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Khan et al; 6/17/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Oracle International Corporation. The claims were directed to an approach for performing opportunity association and attribution analysis in order to measure marketing campaigns using marketing data and sales data. The Board described the claim limitations as reciting steps performed to evaluate a marketing campaign. Those steps were recited to encompass mental performance, and so the Board concluded claim 1 recited a mental process. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Deng et al; 6/17/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Facebook, Inc. The Board determined that the identified limitations described a type of information gathering and processing, more particularly, a certain information gathering and processing scheme for creating a short biography of biographical information for presentation on a social network user's user profile. The Board said that creating a short biography of biographical information was a concept performed in the human mind that fell within the enumerated mental processes grouping of abstract ideas. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Gamaley et al; 6/17/2019; TC 2100; Real party in interest, IBM. The claimed invention was a technique for topic recommendation that included identifying topics associated with events within a social network environment. The Board agreed with the Appellant that the Examiner’s determination of an abstract idea was insufficiently developed. The Examiner summarized claim 21 as merely collecting information, analyzing it, and displaying certain results of the collection and analysis. But processes that involve such steps were not patent-ineligible per se. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Plastina et al; 6/14/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Tekelec Global, Inc. The claim invention detected fraudulent or potentially fraudulent activity associated with geographically unconstrained transactions, namely those that might be readily performed at different geographic locations. The Board found methods of organizing human activity and mental processes. Section 191 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Loman et al; 6/14/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, PayPal, Inc. The claimed invention related to managing online payments. The Board found mathematical concepts and certain methods of organizing human activities, specifically the fundamental economic practices of commercial interactions and sales activities. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Belmont et al; 6/14/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, ARRIS Enterprises. The claimed invention related to systems and methods for scheduling work orders and predicting the amount of time needed to complete a work order. The Board found mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Li et al; 6/14/2019; TC 2600; Real party in interest, Qualcomm Incorporated. The claimed invention related to selection of alternative control information reporting formats. A reporting format was selected as a function of at least: an application being executed, device capability information, channel condition information, system loading information, and user quality of service information. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Lockton; 6/13/2019; TC 3700. The claimed invention made use of user generated competition groups and system generated competition groups to allow users to participate in multiple competitions at once based on answering the same questions or making the same selections related to a single event. The Board said the claim 1 steps managed interactions between people via the social activity of a competition held according to the rules (instructions) set forth in that claim, which was a method of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Jou; 6/13/2019; TC 3700; The preamble of claim 20 recited a method of treating pain of a patient due to soft tissue injury. The Board concluded claim 20 recited at least two judicial exceptions under Section 101: (1) natural phenomena; and (2) abstract ideas in the form of mental processes and organizing human activity, namely, managing interactions between people. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Uchida et al; 6/13/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, MCBI Inc. The claimed invention provided novel biomarkers and a novel and potent diagnostic method for cognitive impairment by using such biomarkers. Cognitive impairment could be the result of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. The Board concluded the claim limitations recited a natural law, i.e., the correlation between psychiatric disease or cognitive impairment and the presence or absence of the claimed naturally-occurring biomarkers in the serum sample obtained from a human subject. This correlation existed in nature apart from any human action. Thus, the claims are directed to patent-ineligible laws of nature. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Seergy; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Sidekick Technology LLC. The claimed invention related to geolocation live bidding. The Board found mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Struck et al; 6/13/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, B.R.A.H.M.S. GmbH. The claimed invention related generally to a method for the prediction of impaired peak oxygen consumption (V02) for a subject not having a heart failure. The Board found a law of nature or natural phenomenon and a mental process. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Satyavolu et al; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Truaxis, Inc. The claimed invention was generally related to an in-statement rewards platform. The Board said claim 1 involved gathering information, analyzing the information, and reporting the results. The Board determined the claim recited a method of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Puch-Solis et al; 6/13/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, Foresenic Science Service Limited. The claimed invention provided a statistical model for computing likelihood ratios when comparing DNA samples. The Board found that claim 1 recited mathematical concepts and might include a mental process, and thus, was directed to abstract ideas. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Keiser et al; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, CFPH, LLC. The claimed invention related in general to computer-implemented financial systems, and in particular to an improved automated securities trading system. The Specification described the improvement as automating the functions of a market specialist to create a market for the securities traded and to lessen the volatility of smaller securities markets. The Board said trading a financial instrument at a market price was a fundamental economic principle or practice, which was one of certain methods of organizing human activity that was an abstract idea.
Ex Parte Siddens et al; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Visa International Service Association. The claimed invention related to methods and systems for automatically detecting fraudulent activity in payment transactions with merchants by generating rule profile reports in a fraud detection system. The rule profile reports included statistical data regarding the performance of fraud rules. Fraud rules were rules that could be used to automatically detect fraudulent activity in a payment transaction, or if a payment account had been compromised. The Board said the recited claim limitations fell within the enumerated groupings of abstract ideas, namely certain methods of organizing human activity (e.g., fundamental economic principles or practices; commercial or legal interactions; mitigating risk; business relations) and mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Krzanowski; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Verizon Communications Inc. The claimed invention related to providing a route selection scheme that may be based on the inclusion and/or exclusion of areal features. The scheme included receiving a start location and an end location for determining a route, determining an areal feature for at least one of inclusion or exclusion in determining the route, determining the route based on the areal feature, and providing the determined route. Areal features included geographic features, administrative features, conceptual features, and points of interest. The Board determined that the claims recited abstract ideas falling within the three groupings of abstract ideas specified in the 2019 Guidance: mathematical concepts, certain methods of organizing human activity, and mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Vivlamore; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Facebook, Inc. The claimed invention related generally to online systems, and in particular to reviewing content for compliance with policies enforced by an online system. The Board said that reviewing advertisements for compliance with a policy is advertising activity that falls into the grouping of certain methods of organizing human activity, which was an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Keller et al; 6/13/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Swiss Reinsurance Company LTD. The claimed invention related generally to evaluating and managing short term risk. The Board found fundamental economic practices and mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Jackson et al; 6/12/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Endeavoring, LLC. The claimed invention related generally to determining the probability of recovering an asset, such as motor vehicles. The Board agreed with the Examiner that representative claim 17 recited an abstract idea, which fell in the category of mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Pechenik et al; 6/12/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, YellowJacket, Inc. The claimed invention generally related to a system for trading and analyzing derivative products, and more particularly, to software that aggregated, organized, parsed, and extracted market data for trading information from trading networks. The Board found rules or instructions to process a message comprising one or more component parts of a transaction to create an order ticket, i.e., a commercial interaction, which was a method of organizing human activity and, therefore, an abstract idea. The Board also found mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Langridge; 6/12/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, BGC Partners, Inc. The claimed invention related to a system and method for providing a customizable trading display of market data. The Board determined claim 1 was directed to the abstract idea of certain methods of organizing human activity, in this case, commercial or legal interactions, by providing a display of financial information. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Tavares et al; 6/12/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, First Data Corporation. The claimed invention related to a network/system and method for storing and accessing electronic receipts, and for enrolling a card and/or cardholder for receiving such receipts. The Board determined claim 14 was directed to the abstract idea of certain methods of organizing human activity, i.e., commercial interactions, and in particular, marketing or sales activities or behaviors; in short, determining whether to suppress the printing of a paper receipt to a customer based on applying certain rules. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Gross-Baser et al; 6/11/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Facebook, Inc. The claim invention related generally to social networking systems, and in particular to creating advertisements for users of a social networking system. The Board concluded claim 1 recited a commercial interaction, which was one of the certain methods of organizing human activities identified in the 2019 Revised Guidance. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Garudadri et al; 6/11/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Qualcomm Incorporated. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method for estimating a systolic blood pressure (SBP) and a diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of a subject. The Board found mathematical concepts and mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Aume et al; 6/11/2019; TC 2800; Real party in interest, Battelle Memorial Institute. The claimed invention was a computer-implemented method of locating and removing spike noise from spectral data, a method of locating and removing noise spikes from spectral data, and a system for spectral analysis of data. The Board found mathematical processes. For example, the claim 1 limitations of performing, replicate processing, and performing pixel processing recited mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Liu et al; 6/11/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. The claimed subject matter related to a vehicle network social grouping system including a plurality of vehicles, each equipped with a vehicle computing system (VCS) for retrieving reviews relating to merchants, goods, and services shared within the network by fellow drivers according to driver designation of affiliation pre-stored in a data repository. In particular, upon a driver authoring a review, a list of driver-affiliated recipients was retrieved from the data repository to identify a recipient to whom the review was delivered when the recipient was available. The Board found mental processes and a method of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Seetharama et al; 6/11/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, LinkedIn Corporation. The claimed invention related to providing fast and efficient advertisement campaign selection using one or more search indices. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1 recited mental processes, an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Henderson et al; 6/11/2019; TC 3600; Request for Rehearing. The Appellants' argued the claims recited an invention that could only be implemented in a meaningful way using a networked computer system including a database and various querying modules that retrieved and processed specifically identified information to render the ranking of providers for a particular medical procedure that was in tum used to generate a particular incentive that was provided to the medical services consumer. The Board said this was a new argument but even so did not provide reasoning about how such an implementation provided an additional element applying or using the judicial exception in some meaningful way. Request for Rehearing denied.
Ex Parte Umanesan; 6/11/2019; TC 2100; Real party in interest, Seagate Technology LLC. The claimed invention was directed generally to computer program event analysis, more specifically in the field of clustering computational error logs. The Board found the abstract idea of mental processes. But the Board was persuaded by the Appellant's arguments that the recited determining step of claim 65—“determining the word metric distances involving treating aligned numeric characters between the aligned words as matching characters regardless of differences between the aligned numeric characters”—integrated the abstract idea into a practical application, thus improving the underlying technology of error analysis of computing cluster messages. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Giammaria et al; 6/10/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, IBM. The Specification described systems and methods for providing an exchange of profile information by using anonymous identifiers. The preamble of claim 1 recited a social networking-based web analytics data processing system having subject matter expert (SME) cognitive capability. The Board said claim 1 was directed to an abstract idea because the claim recited a method of organizing human activities. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Goel et al; 6/10/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. The claimed invention was directed to a system that analyzed data to identify attributes of employees at a first business organization, created an employee profile for the first business organization using the identified attributes of the employees, compared the employee profile for the first business organization to a profile of a member, and recommended to the member a job posted by the first business organization when the employee profile for the first business organization was similar to the profile of the member. The Board found the claimed steps to be comprised of business processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Binder et al; 6/10/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, The Procter & Gamble Company. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method of making a skin care composition. The Board determined that claim 1 did not recite a judicial exception. Even if claim 1 was interpreted as containing a judicial exception, however, the Board said there was a transformation into a practical use under Prong 2 of Step 2A. The physical step of incorporating the cosmetic agent identified in claim 1 into a skin care composition as set out in step (e) of the claim was a practical application of the knowledge gathered in the preceding information-gathering steps. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Saimani et al; 6/10/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Intuit Inc. The claimed invention related to monitoring a method for configuring a business management application (BMA) for managing financial aspects of a business entity. The Board concluded the claims recited a method of managing interactions between people, which fell within the certain methods of organizing human activity category of abstract ideas enumerated in the 2019 Revised Guidance. But the Board further concluded that claim 1 represented an improvement to the functioning of a computer. Claim 1 provided a claimed solution rooted in computer technology to overcome a technical problem of configuring a business management application (BMA). Thus claim 1 was directed to a practical application of the recited abstract idea. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Wu; 6/10/2019; TC 2800; Real party in interest, Baker Hughes LLC. The claims were to a method and apparatus for estimating a parameter of interest of an earth formation intersected by a borehole, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium product having instructions thereon that, when executed, caused at least one processor to perform a method. The Board determined that claim 1 recited a judicial exception based on mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Ashley et al; 6/10/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Wireless International, Inc. The claimed invention related generally to monitoring wireless devices, messaging by wireless communication between wireless devices, and facilitating the movement of entities in, out, and/or through a specific geographic location. The preamble of claim 51 recited an airport facility comprising a physical door for entry into the airport facility from an outside position from the airport facility, a first zone between the door and a security checking location within the airport facility and the security checking location, a second zone beyond the security checking location, and a system providing a location-based service to an operator of the airport facility. The Board did not sustain the Section 101 rejections because the Examiner's findings were not sufficient to establish that the claims recited an abstract idea falling within one of the three enumerated categories of abstract ideas in the 2019 Revised Guidance. More specifically, the claims recited, inter alia, an airport facility comprising a system providing location-based services to an operator of the airport facility, where the system comprised: (a) a physical location node; (b) a computer processor capable of executing an algorithm for processing data received by a physical detection device; and (c) a physical screen displaying information of movement of the human entities. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Arazy et al; 6/10/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, IBM. The claimed invention related to issuing and managing electronic gift cards. The Board said that purchasing items, even with an electronic gift card, was a foundational or basic economic practice. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Kannan et al; 6/7/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, 24/7 Customer, Inc. The claimed subject matter related to a customer relationship management (CRM) system using machine learning and statistical models for dynamically generating a customized on-line survey consistent with the customer's preferences (interests, look and feel, purchase habits) when a computed value corresponding to the customer's predicted intent exceeded a predetermined threshold confirming that the customer was likely to respond to the survey. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claims recited the judicial exceptions of a mental process and a method of organizing human activity. But the Board found technological improvement and thus integration of the judicial exceptions into a practical application. In particular, the claim recitation of a computer's utilization of a machine learning or statistical model to analyze a customer's browsing and purchasing activities at a vendor's website to derive a numerical assessment, which was correlated with the customer's predicted intent when compared to a predetermined threshold, to tailor a survey around the specific purchasing and browsing patterns of the customer, integrated the judicial exception into a practical application. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Priebatsch; 6/7/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, SCVNGR, Inc. The claimed invention related generally to systems and methods for ensuring secure payment transactions. The systems and methods purported to securely transact payments for goods or services using a mobile device by distributing information about a customer's identity and payment instrument (e.g., credit card or bank account) to different parties in the transaction flow. The Board said the independent claims involved mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Fok et al; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Qualcomm Incorporated. Claim 1 recited monitoring by a user device application specific data that characterized application type commonality between two or more applications that were configured for execution on the user device and/or user interaction commonality between the two or more applications; determining, by the user device, a user interest trend; updating, by the user device, a local advertisement cache maintained by the user device with one or more new targeted advertisements; selecting, by the user device, a given targeted advertisement; and outputting, by the user device, the given targeted advertisement. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1 recited a method of facilitating communication and/or targeting advertisements, and advertising was one of certain methods of organizing human activity identified in the 2019 Memorandum, and thus an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Schonfeld et al; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Disney Enterprises, Inc. The claimed invention related to the computer mediated distribution and rental of digital media content. The focus of the invention was to allocate access to digital media content by: (i) relinquishing user access rights so as to make media content available to other users; (ii) promoting shared enjoyment of creative content; and (iii) protecting valid commercial interests of content creators and producers. The Board concluded claim 1 recited (i) a method of licensing portions of movie files to different users, which was a method of organizing human activity, a commercial/legal interaction, and a business relation between people; and (ii) managing transactions between media and originating license servers and first and second users (i.e., determining when a number of allowed secondary licenses had been reached in order to request a new primary license), which was a mental process including making an observation/judgment performed in the human mind. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Regep; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, MoneyGram International, Inc. The claimed invention was directed to systems and methods for purchasing and redeeming virtual traveler's checks. The Board agreed with the Examiner that managing the purchase and redemption of virtual travelers checks was descriptive of a fundamental economic practice, which was a certain method of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Ziegler et al; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Ethor Media Ltd. The claimed invention related to integrating diverse point of sale systems by providing a common data model. The Board determined that the additional elements of claims 1 and 10 integrated the abstract idea of sales activities into a practical application. The additional elements reflected a technology improvement of integrating diverse systems, so that non-compatible data from diverse systems were mapped to a common data model for centralized access. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Kashyap; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Cerner Innovation, Inc. The claimed invention related to systems and methods for guiding a user through workflows. The Board concluded claim 1 recited managing interactions between people, which was one of certain methods of organizing human activity identified in the 2019 Guidance, and thus an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Killian et al; 6/6/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, MasterCard International Incorporated. The claimed invention was directed to a payment card system payment transaction initiated from a customer's device (such as a mobile telephone) that was utilized to consummate a purchase of goods or services. The Board concluded the claims recited limitations that fell under the abstract concept of certain methods of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Lo et al; 6/6/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Specification provided methods for differentiating DNA species originating from different individuals in a biological sample by observing epigenetic differences in DNA methylation. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 39 recited the judicial exception of a natural phenomenon. Section 101 rejections sustained.
Ex Parte Young et al; 6/6/2019; TC 2100; Real party in interest, Sony Corp. The claimed invention related to controlling a display using a portable control device, such as a tablet computer. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1’s limitations, under their broadest reasonable interpretation, characterized collecting video image data, displaying the video image data, and manipulating the video image data according to input received on a control device. These concepts, however, did not fit within the certain methods of organizing human activity, or any of the other categories, identified in the 2019 Revised Guidance. Section 101 rejections NOT SUSTAINED.
Ex Parte Li et al; 6/5/2019; TC 2800; Real party in interest, Halliburton Energy Services Inc. The claimed invention was directed to a simplified model of an acoustic logging tool, which was used as part of the evaluation of geological formations. The simplified model represented the acoustic logging tool structure using concentric cylindrical shells in a coaxial configuration. The Examiner found mathematical relationships. The Board disagreed. Independent claims 1, 14, and 15 did not recite a mathematical relationship, formula, or calculation; rather, they recited a model comprising two cylindrical shells and properties such as density and wave propagation velocity of the shells. Although the limitation of determining a flexural wave propagation velocity using the model might be based on mathematical concepts, the mathematical concepts were not recited in the claims. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Tomlinson; 6/5/2019; TC 3600. The claimed invention related to an online membership-based inventory system for stagers, designers, affiliates, and their customers to facilitate the storage, renting, and filling of staging inventory. The system included an online rental pool for stagers to share inventory, an online resale venue for selling furniture and accessories no longer being used, and a warehouse distribution center that offered short-term fluctuating rates for storage. In one embodiment, the system further included credit card processing for all billing services, customized bookkeeping, inventory management, pickup and delivery services, and warehouse storage of furniture and accessories that were managed with an online website. The Board determined that the claim 1 limitations recited a fundamental economic practice or business relation between people. Section 101 rejections sustained.
Ex Parte Shintani; 6/5/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Sony Corp. The claimed invention related to tracking activation of licensable components in audio video devices (AVD), such as TVs, using unique product identifications. The Board concluded none of the limitations in claim 16 recited (A) mathematical concepts, (B) certain methods of organizing human activity such as a fundamental economic practice, commercial or legal interactions, managing personal behavior or relationships or interactions between people, or (C) mental processes. Thus claim 16 did not recite an abstract idea (judicial exception). Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Drew et al; 6/5/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Medtronic, Inc. The claimed invention related to techniques for selecting, storing, and reporting data associated with physiologic signals that could be further associated with a neurological event. Claim 1 recited mental processes. But the Board said that it further recited an improvement to the functionality of the implantable medical device. Claim 1 communicated data with higher priority levels that included a set of selected records, which improved the operation of the implantable medical device. Thus the mental processes were integrated into a practical application. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Walker; 6/5/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, SpaceLogik, LLC. The preamble of claim 1 recited a system for obtaining proposed lease terms for a tenant from a landlord. The Board agreed with the Examiner's determination that claim 1 recited steps in a process for the negotiation of a commercial lease, which amounted to managing interactions between people, and, therefore, fell into the abstract idea category of certain methods of organizing human activities. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Jenkins et al; 6/5/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, IBM. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method, in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, for identifying information gaps in electronic content, wherein the at least one processor implemented a Question and Answer Creation (QAC) system. The Examiner and the Board found the independent claims recited the abstract idea of mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Liang et al; 6/5/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Hologic Inc. The claimed invention related to a system and method for analyzing MRI imaging information which computed and displayed output information that reflected or was otherwise indicative of an absorption rate of a contrast agent in the volume of tissue. The Board said claim 1 recited an abstract idea, namely a mathematical relationship. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Alper et al; 6/4/2019; TC 2400. The claimed invention related to determining the compliance by workers with best practices for hand product use. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method for predetermining the benchmark number of hand product uses for a target facility. Regarding Section 101, the Board left it to the Examiner to determine whether claims 1 and 11 were ineligible as directed to merely a mental process without adding significantly more.
Ex Parte Saria et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The claims were to a system and methods for predicting morbidity in medical patients. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1 was directed to processing healthcare information, which was a mental process that could be performed in the human mind and/or with pen and paper. The Board also found mathematical calculations. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Radhakrishnan et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Uber Technologies, Inc. The claimed invention related to providing feedback for a transportation service. The Board found mental processes and certain methods of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Bailey et al; 6/4/2019; TC 2400; Real party in interest, IBM. The claimed invention related to service based deployment within a system based on a service oriented architecture (SOA), and more specifically, to locating service endpoints from a service registry. The Board found mental processes and certain methods of organizing human activity. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Sumner et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Aspect Software, Inc. The claimed invention was directed to a system for a business method and system for reporting routing transactions using business strategy and tactics information. The Board concurred with the Examiner that representative claim 1 was directed to a method of managing interactions between people (an abstract idea of organizing human activity) and collecting/gathering information and analyzing it (a mental process). Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Upadhyaya et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Oracle International Corporation; Request for rehearing. The claimed invention involved setup verification for a compensation system. In the initial decision, the Board found the recited determinations fell within the mental processes category. The Board did not see any justification warranting a changed in the initial decision.
Ex Parte Heath; 6/4/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, Quantum Group, Inc. The claimed invention related to the field of monitoring physiological functions in general, and in particular to analysis and interpretation of the waveforms obtained in physiological measurements. The Board concluded claim 1 recited several abstract ideas: mental processes and mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Heaton et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3700; Real party in interest, BGC Partners, Inc. The invention was directed to a method of conducting and managing a wagering game. The Board said conducting and managing wagering games related to following rules or instructions, which was an example of managing personal behavior or relationships or interactions between people. This example was one of certain methods of organizing human activity identified in the 2019 Guidance. The Board also found a mathematical concept. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Montemayor et al; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, Qualcomm Incorporated. The claimed invention related to techniques for confining digital content to a device. Claim 11 recited a method for managing access to digital content over a computer network. The Board concluded claim 11 recited a judicial exception of certain methods of organizing human activity, i.e., a legal and/or commercial interaction, and thus an abstract idea. But the Board concluded a claim limitation integrated the abstract idea into a practical application. Carrying out the step of including the device identifier with the digital receipt and confining use of the digital content to the remote device associated with the device identifier provided improvements to the underlying technology or technical field, namely, digital content license enforcement systems. Section 101 rejections NOT SUSTAINED.
Ex Parte Dunik et al; 6/4/2019; TC 2800; Real party in interest, Honeywell International Inc. The claimed invention related to determining the movement and position of other objects or of an electronic sensor. Appellants described analyzing plane similarity using a statistical function known as divergence. Divergence measured the distance between two different probability distributions. Planes in two separate frames of data were represented as probabilistic distributions of points and a statistical distance between the two planes could be determined with a divergence calculation. If the divergence calculation was low enough, the planes could be said to represent the same plane. Using divergence to compare probability distributions was said to be theoretically justified and assessable in safety critical systems. The Board agreed with the Examiner's finding that claim 1 recited a judicial exception in the form of mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Guiney; 6/4/2019; TC 3600; Real party in interest, MasterCard International Incorporated. The claimed invention related generally to awarding time-based incremental rewards for a payment transaction. The Board agreed with the Examiner that claim 1 recited an abstract idea, which was a fundamental economic practice and/or commercial interactions, which were certain methods of organizing human activity and/or mental processes. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Anand et al; 6/3/2019; TC 2100; Real party in interest, Tableau Software, Inc. The claimed invention was a method of ranking data visualizations. The Board determined that the individual limitations of claim 1 recited several abstract ideas, including mental processes and mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Duan et al; 6/3/2019; TC 3600; The preamble of claim 1 recited a change detection processing system. The Abstract described systems and methods for the automatic detection of different types of changes in a business process. The Board was persuaded that the claims reasonably could be characterized as reciting either (1) mathematical concepts including elements that performed mathematical calculations or (2) mental processes including evaluations and judgments. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Turchin; 6/3/2019; TC 3600. The claimed invention related to the field of client-attorney communication and, more particularly, to a method for client-attorney communication through a legal communications management mobile application. The Board said the system of claim 1 facilitated legal interactions between users by identifying and conveying legal messages from sources to recipients, which was a method of organizing human activity, and therefore an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Wampler et al; 6/3/2019; TC 2800; Real party in interest, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. The invention related to methods of estimating at least one of the power capabilities of a battery to provide a robust state of power predictor. The Appellant disclosed that this could be accomplished by obtaining impedance data from a battery, building an equivalent circuit that operated in a manner approximating the impedance data, determining at least one of the power capabilities of the equivalent circuit via linear regressions methods or domain matrix exponentials, a Laplace transform, a Fourier transform, a Fourier series, or any other method of integrating a system of ordinary differential equations, and estimating the at least one power capability of the battery based on the determination. The Board found the claims recited mathematical concepts. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Shilov; 6/3/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, DH Technologies Development PTE. LTD. The claimed invention was directed to a system that used a method of calculating protein confidence values in a proteomic analysis from a comparison of data measured by the mass spectrometer with data from a protein database for distinguishing or identifying proteins in a sample analyzed by a mass spectrometer. While the Board agreed with the Examiner that the claim 1 was directed to data manipulation, the inventive steps involved in gathering the data for use in the Bayes law calculation, i.e. step f which narrowed the data in a particular way and which new data set was employed in the recalculation using Bayes law to determine protein confidence values, under the Guidance was sufficient to render the claims at issue patent eligible under Step 2B of the 2019 Guidance. Section 101 rejections REVERSED.
Ex Parte Coon et al; 6/3/2019; TC 3700; The claimed invention was a board game. The Board determined that claim 24 fell within the ambit of a method of organizing human activity and thus recited an abstract idea. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Shepard; 6/3/2019; TC 3600; Possible real party in interest, Xerox Corporation. The claims were directed to using semantic analysis to enhance personalized documents in a variable data marketing campaign. The preamble of claim 1 recited a method of generating a web page. The Board concluded the claims recited a fundamental economic practice. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Grossman et al; 6/3/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System. The claimed invention related to a method of detecting bladder cancer in a patient, comprising isolating bladder cells from the patient's urine and determining the number of bladder cells in the sample having at least a first threshold number of copies of the aurora kinase A gene. The Board agreed with the Examiner that the claims recited a law of nature. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
Ex Parte Von Busch et al; 6/3/2019; TC 1600; Real party in interest, Koninklijke Philips N.V. The claimed invention related to treatment planning in medical and other applications that benefited from the optimization or other evaluation of treatments using multiple treatment modalities. The Specification stated that in a combination treatment situation, a second or additional treatment modality did not find the object in its original (i.e., in its untreated) state. In some cases, for example, an initial damage or sensitization to a second treatment modality was induced by the first treatment modality. The claims therefore related to computer-based methods of modeling the combined treatment and side effects of two treatment modalities, and using a result of the modeling of the combined effects to generate a treatment protocol for application to an object. The Board concluded the claims recited mathematical relationships, formulas, and calculations, and thus, abstract ideas. Section 101 rejections affirmed.
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Are there Democrat mobs?
By Goran_K
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2018 Oct 13, 10:42am 1,967 views 21 comments watch nsfw quote share
Don Lemon doesn’t seem to think Democrats have ever engaged in mob violence.
But I disagree.
1 Goran_K ignore (3) 2018 Oct 13, 10:43am ↑ like (2) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
2 Tenpoundbass ignore (15) 2018 Oct 13, 11:12am ↑ like (2) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
Let's call a Spade a Spade. Lemon is a Spade.
3 Ceffer ignore (1) 2018 Oct 13, 11:27am ↑ like (3) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
KKK robes need to be updated with sequins, no underwear, and a can-can segment before every cross burning.
4 HEYYOU ignore (27) 2018 Oct 13, 11:37am ↑ like (0) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
Only America hating Fascists would complain about America Loving Anti- Fascists.
Love the Republican Peace Party.
'I'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-candidate-threatens-pa-governor-im-going-stomp-face-golf-spikes-203326572.html
Should I post videos of Rep/Cons shoving & hitting people in Candidate Trump's want to be riots?
Beginner trolls post things that can immediately blow up in their faces.
Just a peaceful funny guy making a joke.
LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to sending an email threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/California-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-threatening-13303720.php
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Goran_K says
Everybody knows that Democrats and Republicans switched their platforms and their voters. You might as well write Republicans on that picture.
http://factmyth.com/factoids/democrats-and-republicans-switched-platforms/
Bottomline: The parties changed over time as platform planks, party leaders, factions, and voter bases essentially switched between parties. Third parties aside, the Democratic Party used to be favored in the rural south and had a “small government” platform (which southern social conservatives embraced), and the Republican party used to be favored in the citied north and had a “big government” platform (which northern progressive liberals embraced). Today it is the opposite in many respects.
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In a sense. But the Democrats have always race baited for or against Whites and Blacks, whereas the Republicans have the opposite legacy of trying to reduce racial tensions.
Supporting the KKK in one generation, then supporting BLM in another Generation, is still pushing racial politics.
Pushing that everybody is an individual and that society shouldn't bend over backwards on racial issues (including being against one hour bus rides each way so schools are desegregated) is consistent as well.
TwoScoopsOfSpaceForce says
I disagree with you on all accounts here. KKK was the social conservatives, which are Republicans today. The only thing in common with the modern Dem party is the name.
Equating BLM and KKK is beyond ridiculous. You're somehow treating BLM which is a movement to recognize that black prople are discriminated against by the law, something apparently true, as creating racial tension? The tension is from the ALM crowd that is trying to paint it as an exclusionary movement instead of inclusionary.
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Bottomline: This "Big Switch" is a huge fucking democrat lie, and you're parroting that lie.
The Big Switch is Democrat demagoguery invented purely within the minds of the DNC to hide and "white wash" their sordid history of racism and slavery and attempt to place it at the feet of the Republicans. It's been debunked in very public debates (including one at CPAC attended by thousands of people where the Democrat speaker , Cenk from TYT, was made to look like a total fucking moron by Ben Shaprio).
Here's the truth.
- The dominant Congressional percentage did not switch GOP in the South until 1994. Did it take 30 years for racist to realize what was going on?
- There were 21 senators in the South before the Civil Rights Act. How many became Republicans after it was passed (mostly by GOP votes)? The answer. ONE. The other 20 stayed Democrat.
- Perhaps the most damning is that the actual KKK members from pre-Civil Rights DNC stayed as major leaders in the modern Democrat party.
There is former KKK Grand Dragon Robert Byrd kissing Hillary Clinton (Clinton called Byrd an important mentor in her life). Bill Clinton and Obama attended his funeral. Bill even commented that "you had to be in the KKK" back then to get anywhere in the Democrat party (as if this absolves Byrd).
So when people say "The Big Switch", I already know that no actual facts or history has been examined by anyone making that claim. There simply isn't any proof of it happening.
The reason the South slowly became GOP dominant began in the 1950s due to the movement of industry down south, and the GOP elected officials were NEW GOP senators, not "converted Democrats". Those Democrats (such as Byrd) stayed Democrats until they left office or died. You cannot find any "post civil rights" GOP senators who were formerly part of the Democrat party except for ONE (Strum Thurmond). One senator does not make a "big switch". It's just a big Democrat lie.
By the way, Jimmy Carter started his 1980's Presidential Campaign in the home town of the KKK.
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Look. Here’s what actually happened.
The blacks started voting Democrat when FDR came out with his new deal. After a series of election losses in the late 60s, the Democrats finally noticed that blacks were voting for them in big numbers, and decided to embrace them. However, a lot of racists in the Democrat party left in disgust and went to the other party. That party’s platform didn’t change per se, but the makeup of its members now included a lot of racists who used to be Democrats.
Add in a lot of union labor switching to the Democrat party because they supported labor, add in people who liked the New Democrat war on racism, and we had a lot of well meaning people switching to that party.
However the GOP party didn’t change that much. They got a bunch of racists but they didn’t change their platform much. The underlying political philosophy remained the same: “work leads to success, pro-capitalism, conservative social values, and anti-socialism.”
The Democrats didn’t change their party hat much either. They may have embarked on a crusade against racism, but they remained in love with socialism, high taxes, loose morals, and government utopia projects. They also retained the tactics they used during the KKK days.
Now that the fight against true racism is about won, the Democrats have precious little to define them as a party. They’ve abandoned labor, left behind American exceptionalism, and have been mucking about with social issues in an attempt to find a war to fight. They’ve waged skirmishes on gay rights and trannys, called out anyone who publicly offends a minority, and embraced Islam as the most important “victim group” to date.
They’ve asserted that men and women don’t belong together. They’ve tossed every norm on its head.
And they continue to lose.
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Everybody knows that Democrats and Republicans switched their platforms and their voters.
That's the narrative Liberals tried to sale during the Obama election. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now. The Liberals true color have come through they are KKK and Nazis they hate America. These are same fucking people that voted for Obama OK? These aren't flipped Republicans that didn't vote for Obama but now they are Liberal Commies running around like Hitler's dick assaulting everyone it's the Libtards the same fucking Pissheads that elected Obama. I told you they couldn't be trusted you know how they are!
Transmissions not Trannys
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Have you considered medical help?
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The Liberals are the party of the KKK, the Southern Red Neck Racists were and always have been Democrats I grew up with the Motherfuckers I ought to Know!
They weren't republicans when Abraham Lincoln Freed the Slaves and they weren't Republicans when I grew up with them.
The Democrat party is all about being disingenuous.
They entrap, enslave, and conscript people unwillingly to be their token party base. They spread misinformation about people who will lift them out of the Liberal poverty trap and will find a way to squash them.
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Booger says
Bwahahabababa
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Bullshit. Blacks switched to vote democrat during the FDR administration to get free stuff and it was a scandal. I think they had a very good reason to do so however white hippies switched during the 60s when there were still clan or former clan democrats in office. Democrats had clan or former clan in office this century.
To all who are trying to say that the KKK == progressive liberals and not social conservatives, you are lying to yourself. Hypocrisy taken to 11.
Progressive leftists were behind black eugenics! You delude yourself.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/25/refusing-believe-early-progressives-loved-eugenics-will-not-erase-horrible-truth/
The LA Times published this photo in 1992, and it always stuck with me.
Note that the snarling man in the light-green cap has just hurled a 16-ounce can of beer, which bounced off the back of the head of the man with the glove. The can of beer is at the top center of the photo.
That one man held off a mob for over 40 minutes. He beat the absolute hell out of the entire crowd.
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Swedish Royal Family 14th June 2019
Summer pictures released of Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar
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Three summer pictures have been released by the Royal Court of Sweden of the two children of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, seven-year-old Princess Estelle and three-year-old Prince Oscar.
The images were taken in the gardens of the family’s home at Haga Palace by Linda Broström in June. There is one image of the siblings together and a photo each of the young royals solo. Princess Estelle is seen blowing away dandelion seeds while Prince Oscar is holding a small green caterpillar.
Photo: Linda Broström, The Royal Court of Sweden
Princess Estelle just finished her first year of school at Campus Manilla for the final year of pre-school. She will begin compulsory school in the autumn.
This is the second set of photos released of the second and third-in-line to the Swedish throne this month. As per tradition, the Royal Court released new photos of Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar on National Day (6 June) in celebration of the national holiday showing the Princess in the Swedish national dress.
The Crown Princess Family regularly releases images of their two children, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar to the media and Swedish public. They traditionally release photos on their birthdays, Sweden’s National Day, and Christmas, as well as other important events. As a result, the Swedish public and media leave the family alone in public; you don’t see paparazzi on the streets following them as they conduct their day-to-day private lives.
Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland, was born 23 February 2012 at Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden. Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, was born 2 March 2016 at the same hospital.
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Material Girl: Madonna Flies in 30 Tons of Equipment for Tel Aviv Eurovision Show
The Times of Israel reports: Pop superstar Madonna will land in Israel on Wednesday morning, accompanied by an entourage of 135 people, ahead of her planned performance during the Eurovision finals on Saturday night.
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Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – OneShot: Gnome More Mr Nice Guy!
December 2, 2018 scrollmaster 0Comment
The last campaign session we played, neatly wrapped up 2018 as a season, so for the last D&D game of the year, I made this Christmas Oneshot called “Gnome More Mr Nice Guy1” inspired by these these absolutely fantastic Gnomes from Northumbrian Tin Soldier.
Below is how the game went, but if you are a Dungeon Master yourself and want to run this, you can find the actual Oneshot here.
Since this was a oneshot, it gave my players a chance to try something new.. a new class that is, because the race was Mousling.
The Ranger chose to be the Fighter “Fritz”, once a selfless hero of the land, but realising he gained nothing, he mainly now fight only if paid in presents.
The Sorcerer chose to be a Monk named “Praying Jane”, who grew up in a monastery but found the lack of opportunity to punch people frustrating, so left to follow an adventuring life.
The Thief chose to tbe the Warlock “Bendoff”, who used to live near a Bard with a white glove… and I’ll leave it at that.
And our Barbarian chose to be a Bard named “Cam-M-Bert”, whose claim to fame was participating in the Mousling x-factor. He did not win.
Pretty strong mix!
Where are the presents?
Santa normally has a dress rehearsal in the Feywild on the 1st of December using a small Mousling village as test subject. He has never failed … until now!
Our heroes, The Mousling Guard, set out to travel North to Santa’s workshop, where Santa and his merry helpers, the Christmas Gnomes, are normally busy crafting presents.
Note, In Scandinavian mythology and Christmas lore, we do not have little pesky elves running around helping Santa. Instead we have “Nisser” loosely translated to “Christmas Gnomes”.
However, as they embark a battered fairy, flying like a semi-smashed fly, emerges in distress from the forest followed by crazed and armed Christmas Gnomes with an eerie baby blue glow in their eyes.
Our heroes tries to reason with the Christmas Gnomes, but realises too late the danger they represent towards the fairy, and they kill the fairy and disappears back into the forrest.
Catch them!
The party, having secured the trapped Gnomes in the local prison and picked up fairy dust from the dead fairy (..which they subsequently never used), picked up the pace to chase down the remaining two Christmas Gnomes.
They found them by a camp fire near a gazebo arguing about why there were three bedrolls if they had only brought one each.
As the party attacked, it became clear one of the bedrolls was a mimic and it attached itself to the Fighter.
Having beaten both the Christmas Gnomes and the Bedroll Mimic, the party decided to call it a night and rest by the camp fire the Gnomes had left for them.
However, during the night, the Gazebo turned out to be the Mamma Mimic and hurt the Monk before the Monk and the Fighter punched it to pieces.
Santa’s Workshop
Picking where they left off in the morning, the Heroes stayed true to their course and continued to Santa’s workshop, where they found a newly made snow defence embankment guarded by three hastily made snowmen.
In the center a crazed Santa Claus was destroying presents with his bare hands!
The party attacked in the effort to knock out Santa (… after some debate of the ethics of killing him!) and a brutal fight commenced with the heroes emerging victorious!
While the party had a debate on whether or not to torture Santa to get some answers (… rather than ask!?), a snow fluffy clapping was heard from the door to Santa’s workshop.
Out stepped the Easter Bunny and two Bunny Guards. Easter Bunny (Mr EB) had engineered the whole thing, hypnotising Santa Claus to destroy all his presents (and his reputation in the process) and making sure that any nearby fairies, whose fairy dust could wake him up, was hunted down by the hypnotised Gnomes and killed!
A bloody battle was fought, the Monk went down after a lethal stomp by Mr EB, but in the end the party were all still standing as MR EB fled in a fit of rage!
Christmas was saved!
Personal note, my players are quite good at taking photos during the battles, hence I am able to write these diary entries. However, Easter Bunny showing up must have surprised them as only one photo was taken during the whole fight.
So that’s it. Lart game of the year. Can’t wait to see what 2019 brings and what my players want to do in the main campaign.
Some photos
Dungeons & Dragons – Mousling Wizard, Bard, Monk and Fighter (Reaper Miniatures)
Dungeons & Dragons – Gnome More Mr Nice Guy! (Northumbrian Tin Soldier)
Dungeons & Dragons – Snow Goons (Reaper Miniatures)
Dungeons & Dragons – Ogre Santa Bear Eater (Scibor Miniatures)
Dungeons & Dragons – Easter Bunny (Darksword Miniatures)
Dungeons & Dragons – Fairy Huntress (Darksword Miniatures) & Fairies (unknown)
Dungeons & Dragons – Gazebo Mimic (Knights of the Dinner Table)
Dungeons & Dragons – Fast snow terrain
Dungeons & Dragons – Medieval Tavern (Zealot Miniatures)
Dungeons & Dragons – Fairy Huntress (Darksword Miniatures) & Fairies (Firestorm Games)
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Proposed Field Test of Gene-Altered Cotton Pest Debated
By Marc Kaufman
Wednesday, April 25, 2001; Page A01
PHOENIX -- The little brown creatures were squirming and fighting -- that much could be seen with the naked eye. But it took a special microscope to understand what made them unique. They glowed bright green.
Making Way for Designer Insects
Risks and Benefits of Gene-Altered Bugs Merit Thorough Study, Report Says
By Justin Gillis
Thursday, January 22, 2004; Page A01
The insect world could shortly undergo a genetic makeover in the laboratory. Scientists are at work developing silkworms that produce pharmaceuticals instead of silk, honeybees resilient enough to resist pesticides and even mosquitoes capable of delivering vaccines, instead of disease, with every bite.
Israeli Scientist Produces Genetically Engineered Spider web Fiber
Scientists Achieve Self-assembly Of Spider Silk Fiber In Insect Cells
SOURCE: Hebrew University Of Jerusalem / adapted by ScienceDaily
For the first time anywhere, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and from Germany have succeeded in producing self-assembled spider web fibers under laboratory conditions, outside of the bodies of spiders. This fiber is significantly stronger than the silk fiber made by silkworms.
Trust Us - We're Scientists!
WASHINGTON - Don't squash that bug! Cockroaches, beetles, spiders and worms may be the US government's next line of defense in the war on terror.
Backed by the Pentagon, scientists are recruiting insects, shellfish, bacteria and even weeds to act as "bio-sentinels," which give early warning of biological and chemical attacks, detect explosives or monitor the spread of contamination.
Scientists Engineer Mosquitoes That Can't Cause Malaria Infection
RHIANNON EDWARD
SCIENTISTS are genetically engineering mosquitoes in an attempt to wipe out malaria, the disease responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other.
Anthony James, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, whose lab is working on mosquitoes that cannot host the malaria parasite, said some strains are now ready to be tested outside the lab.
Isn’t genetically engineered food thoroughly safety tested?
Are living organisms being patented?
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Speak at Spark 2020
Below are the speakers that joined us in 2019. If you want to speak here, contact us!
Contact Us to Speak at Spark 2020
Aaron Dignan
Author, Founder of The Ready
Aaron Dignan sees the same phenomenon everywhere he looks. Our most trusted and important institutions—in business, healthcare, government, philanthropy, and beyond – are struggling. They’re confronted with the fact that the scale and bureaucracy that once made them strong are liabilities in an era of constant change. For the past ten years, he has studied organizations and teams with a new way of working that prioritizes adaptivity and autonomy over efficiency and control. Aaron contends that teams everywhere need to join them in the future of work.
As the founder of The Ready—a global organizational transformation and coaching practice—he helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include GE, Kaplan, Lloyds Banking Group, Microsoft, Citibank, FreshDirect, Hyatt, Airbnb, Bloomin’ Brands, Charles Schwab, PG&E, Fidelity, New York Public Radio, and charity: water.
Dignan is an active angel investor and helps build partnerships between the startups and end-ups he advises. He has sat on advisory boards for GE, American Express, PepsiCo, and Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, as well as the board of directors for Smashburger. He is currently traveling and speaking in support of his new book Brave New Work (Portfolio 2019).
Jen Frahm
So you’re a leader or executive in a large organisation and you’ve got a particularly tricky change challenge that needs urgent attention and you’ve found me here.
I could tell you about my educational qualifications (a Doctorate in Management), or that I’ve worked with a large range of companies or the experience I have had across sectors in types of change (culture change, digital transformation, business agility, customer centricity, operating model changes, large scale technology change).
Or I could just share what I believe in every cell in my body.
Organisational change is often complex, but it doesn’t have to be hard. With change in the workplace we have the opportunity to create a place where people flourish, where customers are delighted, where the shareholders are confident they did the right thing investing in your company. With change in the workplace we can ensure you remain relevant.
Dave Dame
Just your average tech dude making his way... I'm just your average guy trying to live an average life. I have Cerebral Palsy...
But it doesn't have me! Everyone has their own challenges, these are mine.
As an organizational change agent, principal coach and trainer, Dave has an excellent reputation for facilitating the philosophical adoption and practical implementation of agility practices and training in large organizations.
With over 20 years of management experience he has successfully lead complex agile transformations.
Selena Delesie
Love is my guiding force — all things are possible with authentic vulnerability, compassion, pause, and play. For 17 years I have supported individuals, organizations, and leaders through transformation. I help intelligent people improve their life and work from their heart, by bridging ancient wisdom into modern life. I live what I teach alongside being a coach, speaker, teacher, and intuitive guide for others to step into a new way of being.
I offer a variety of transformational programs, retreats, a leadership conference, podcast, and sacred healing circles. I am often travelling the world, laughing with loved ones, meditating, and hugging trees. Find me at www.SelenaDelesie.com.
Sara Bianchi
Originally from Italy, as a kid, my dream job when asked about what I would love to do when I grow up was “speaking to the world”. Brimming with wanderlust and a globetrotter by nature, my enthusiastic approach to life has often simply been, “…and off I go!”. I left home 20 years ago to study, live and work in 7 countries across 3 continents, becoming fluent in four languages in the process. I’m a powerhouse with a gypsy soul; I speak my mind and heart out and do not beat around the bushes; I am a straight shooter; I believe in serendipity and synchronicity; I value authenticity, freedom, and adventure. I am a coach, a leader, a biker, an energy storm, a dancer and I’m passionate about working with the warriors, the mavericks, the misfits, the rule breakers, those on a mission or searching for their unique mission in life, and who are ready to embrace their superpowers, with courage, grit and energy to go after it. People and organizations who are ready to take control and claim their true identity for the sake of living a meaningful, purposeful and truly magnificent life.
Leading for Change
Everyday you are given 86,400 seconds to make a difference in the world. What you do with your time is up to you, and if you waste any of it, you will never get it back. I am Mike Edwards and I work with people who are tired of wasting time living someone else’s story.
For more than 25 years I lived the corporate career starting as a Software Developer and over time became a Program Manger. I ran running multi-million dollar programs, quickly rising to what many would define as success.
I am a Co-Active Coach, certified through The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and graduate of the CTI Leadership Program. As a coach, I am on the forefront of many coaching organizations including Leanintuit, the Leadership Gift Program, and Agile Coaching Institute. I love working with people who are tired of taking life so seriously and are ready to write their own stories.
I coach and mentor individuals, executives, and organizations who are motivated to take charge of their lives, and regularly offer workshops for people and teams who know that so much more is possible. Through my blogs and podcast, I share my own story and give voice to the inspiring stories of so many others.
Marcela Urteaga
Chief Elephant Whisperer
Marcela Urteaga is an organizational consultant passionate about learning and change. She holds a BA in Human Relations (Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico) and an MA in Human Systems Intervention (Concordia University, Canada), as well as certificates in Organizational Development, Coaching, Leadership, and Sustainable Happiness. Marcela has 20 years of corporate experience in Organizational Development, Training, Change Management and Human Resources, in large multinational companies such as Monster, Panasonic, and FEMSA, and currently works in Change Management for York University.
She has led the teams responsible for change management, HR planning, talent management, organizational transformation and customer service in different companies. Marcela has been facilitating workshops and group sessions (live and online) since 1994, in Mexico, U.S.A., and Canada, to help individuals, communities and corporations develop their competencies and access their inner wisdom.
Marcela started her own consulting company IMIXcoCREATION.COM back in 2012 and has worked with consultants, non-profit organizations and small companies, to help them talk about things that matter.
Sam Demma
TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur, Founder of Pick Waste
Sam Demma is a 19-year-old TEDx speaker, one of the top 25 under 25 environmentalists in Canada and the co-founder of the social enterprise PickWaste. In addition, Sam is also a connector for the league of innovators, the youngest member of an advanced toastmasters club, and the emcee of Speaker Slam Youth.
All throughout his life, Sam consistently stepped outside of his comfort zone and he now strives to spread a simple but powerful message, that small consistent actions can lead to massive changes. In the past year alone Sam has spoken in front of crowds as large as 1000 or as small as 15, empowering a total that exceeds 8000 young people. A few past events include: TEDxYouthToronto, Speaker Slam Grand Slam, McMaster University, Algoma University and dozens of secondary schools.
All in all, Sam has one goal. To inspire and empower 10 000 000 young people in the next 20 years. Sam knows that every keynote is an opportunity to change a life and that is precisely why he speaks from the heart at every engagement.
For more information visit: www.samdemma.com
Marsha Shenk
Marsha coined the term "Business Anthropology" in the 1990's, on the understanding that commerce, society, and the brain co-evolved. Her passion is de-obfuscating the forces that make 'work' and 'business' a source of suffering, rather than the joy of social animals contributing to their groups.
Her processes and tools lead people to bring their full ingenuity to the great human game of helping each other thrive. Some of what she suspected through her studies of paleoanthropology and history have now been proven by neuroscientists: the social brain is the big boss.
Working with leaders and innovators since the early eighties, she honed her tools. With a modified Game theory, she led senior teams to develop fresh sets of success measures, particularly early indicators, enabling them to design winnable business games.
Leaders from the Fortune 10 to micro-business have developed sustainable agility with her Ecosystem Mapping, leading metrics and MasterMoves. Leadership skills that breed healthy environments, embrace learning and welcome change as opportunity.
Marsha's work has included 15 years of teaching leadership, and 37+ of consulting/coaching/facilitating, helping leaders develop learning environments and welcoming change as opportunity. A popular speaker and beloved teacher, she continues cast light on ways we can build Ecosystem Intelligence to exchange more effectively with each other - as we evolved to do.
Starting at Reed College, her education includes doctoral study at UCLA and Berkeley, as well as numerous post-graduate courses. Marsha is an active member of the Society for Affective Science.
Todd Charron
Todd helps leaders become intentional about their organizational culture, so that they can revolutionize the way they work. Todd combines his background in Improv with over 15 years of experience in the software industry as a Developer, Manager, Agile Coach, and Lean Startup Mentor to help organizations and teams be bolder and more creative. Todd has been a speaker at numerous conferences, was the lead mentor for Lean Startup Machine Toronto and is the founder of Follow Your Fear Day.
Rosanna Lam
Team Agile Coach at Index Exchange
Being a curious person who loves to help others and create from scratch, Rossana graduated from the University of Toronto in Management and Information Technology and endeavored on a journey to create cool tech that can make a difference. Her experience through various analysis and project roles led her to a path of coaching and leading, which she finds very rewarding when teams accomplish their best. When she isn’t video gaming alongside her husband or fellow developer buddies, you will find this spirited person supporting her teams building the next cool product.
Mark O'Donovan
Director of Agile Product Delivery, Index Exchange
Mark began his professional career hacking together small business websites in the Emerald Isle of Ireland after completing his post graduate education. In 2010, he packed his bags and immigrated to Canada where he engulfed himself into the local tech scene. His passion for product success and delivery increased over the years as he evolved through numerous technical and leadership roles. He has found his true calling after an introduction to Agile and is still driven by the quest to create a culture of self-organization and continuous value delivery.
Mark Raheja
Mark Raheja is a founder of August — an NYC and London-based organization design and transformation consultancy that partners with large institutions to help change the way they lead, organize and work.
Inspired by a deep commitment to reinvent organizations, Mark is sought out by leadership teams around the world as a speaker, advisor and coach. For over fifteen years, he has worked closely with Fortune 500 leaders — including at Google, Chanel, GE and PepsiCo — helping them transition to a faster, more adaptive and human operating model.
Mark’s work centres around one crucial riddle: How can we organize at scale in a complex and uncertain world — and not break? It’s a challenge that requires rethinking almost every aspect of how enterprises function — from structure, strategy and decision rights to how we collaborate, innovate and reward.
Beyond his ongoing participation as a keynote in the Lean Startup speaker series, and recent talks at Creative Morningsand EDIT in Toronto, Mark recently co-designed and taught a masterclass in Responsive Organization Design which wasrefined through workshops at Harvard and Yale.
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Heritage of Slavery
Slavery at the Cape
Why remember slavery
Slavery today
Historical sources
VOC and slavery
Slave routes to the Cape
The sea journey
Work of slaves
Private lives of Slaves
The slave experience
Control and resistance
Uprising at the Cape
End of enslavement
After emancipation
Legacy of Slavery
Slave Lodge
Slave Lodge hospital
Inhabitants of the Lodge
Admin and control
Life in the Slave Lodge
The Slave Lodge School
General living conditions
Excavations in 2000
Groot Constantia
Van der Stel era
Interim era
Cloete era
Register of slaves
Katie Jacobs, a freed slave
Martha en Harry
Latest discoveries
Slave Wrecks Project
The São José
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Although a few of the first enslaved people brought to the Cape by the VOC were captured from West Africa, most enslaved people were brought from societies around the Indian Ocean Basin. Slaves were brought from Madagascar, Mozambique and the East African coast, India and from the islands of the East Indies such as Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, Ternate and Timor.
Places of origin
The first slaves at the Cape arrived on 28 March 1658 on board the Dutch ship, the Amersfoort. This group was captured by the Dutch from a Portuguese slave ship that was on its way to Brazil. Of the 250 slaves that were captured, only 170 survived the journey to the Cape.
Most of the slaves on board the Amersfoort were originally captured by the Portuguese in present-day Angola. The second group also came from West Africa. On 6 May 1658, 228 slaves from Dahomey (now Benin) arrived at the Cape on board the Hassalt.
These two groups were the only slaves who came from West Africa. The Cape Colony was part of the Dutch East India properties and governed by the Dutch East India Company, better known as the VOC. The VOC and Dutch West Indian Company had an agreement that the VOC would limit its slave raiding to regions east of the Cape.
The slave trade to the Cape was controlled by the VOC. Burghers were not allowed to trade slaves in their country of origin. The VOC sent out slave ships to trade slaves and bring them to the Cape Colony. These slave expeditions went mainly to Mozambique and Madagascar.
VOC-sponsored slave voyages, 1652 ¬ 1796
Madagascar 12 9 12 33
Mozambique, East African coast, Zanzibar - - 5 5
Delagoa Bay - Several - Several
Dahomey (Ghana) 1 - - 1
Totals 13 9 17 39
Source: Jim Amstrong & Nigel Worden in R. Elphick & H. Giliomee (eds). 1989. The Shaping of South African Society 1652 ¬ 1840. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, p. 112.
Number of slaves delivered to Cape by VOC sponsored voyages, 1652-1796
Madagascar 1069 779 977 2820
Mozambique, East African coast, Zanzibar - - 974 974
Delagoa Bay - approx. 280 - approx. 280
Dahomey (Ghana) 226 - - 226
Totals 1290 approx. 1059 1951 approx. 4300
A second source of slaves was the VOC’s return fleets from Batavia and other places in the east which sailed around the Cape on their way to Europe. VOC officials could not take their slaves with them when they returned to the Netherlands, because slavery was not allowed in the Netherlands. Many of these officials sold their slaves at the Cape because they could get a better price for their slaves at the Cape than in the East Indies. Foreign ships on their way to the Americas from Madagascar also sometimes sold slaves at the Cape.
The Indian subcontinent was the main source of slaves during the early part of the 18th century. Approximately 80% of slaves came from India during this period. A slaving station was established in Delagoa Bay (present-day Maputo) in 1721, but was abandoned in 1731. Between 1731 and 1765 more and more slaves were bought from Madagascar.
In 1795, the Cape Colony became a British colony before it was returned to the Dutch in 1802. During this first period of British rule, South-East Africa became the main source of slaves. This trend continued with the return of the Dutch who continued to buy slaves from slave traders operating in present-day Mozambique.
Prior to the first shipment of slaves to the Cape, on the Amersfoort, there were already a few slaves in the Cape colony.
A shipping route from Indonesia and Madagascar to Cape Town, the route which many slave ships took to the Cape.
A more detailed map (including place names etc) of the origins of slaves can be seen at the Iziko Slave Lodge (only main routes shown). Although the coastal/ocean routes are marked, many slaves were brought from inland locations to be traded at the coast.
A vessel carrying slaves displayed at the Iziko Slave Lodge. As many slaves as possible were crowded into the lower decks of the vessels transporting them, receiving enough provisions to keep them alive enough to sell. ... "At their outfit they are amply provided with casks for water, and the desks [are] fitted up in a particular manner to secure them [the slaves] below, upon their attempting to rise upon their masters. Baricades and manacles and whips are ready for the refractory; and death is dealt all around with the most unfeeling barbarity and upon very slight occasions, as examples to the rest.. the mortality must be great. I have frequently heard of small vessels losing on a voyage from Mozambique 130 to 200 slaves merely from bad treatment, want of room, want of water and provisions and everything that could make such a slate bearable."
- Samuel Hudson, a resident in Cape Town in the early 1800s
Transportation of slaves took many forms. Here Philippe Monges illustrates vessels (although much smaller than some known depictions of larger slave vessels) ready to embark on the sea journey. From the exhibition Words of slaves, places of memory by Phillipe Monges in association with the Shackles of memory project.
BIODIVERSITY EXPLORER EGYPT IN SOUTH AFRICA FIGWEB WASP WEB
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S&L #89 Autumn 2006
Congress has been engaging in a little house cleaning as of late; more specifically Republican House members have been cleaning out the closet. When one of their representatives from Florida, Rep. Mark Foley announced he was resigning over some “overly friendly” emails to an underage male House page (servants or assistants) we were just seeing the beginning. Foley quickly exited the public light before anyone fully realized the severity of the scandal. With his spokesperson announcing that he “believes” he’s an alcoholic and that he is a gay man, Foley checked himself into a clinic for alcohol abuse, out of the public eye. Oh and then he remembered that a priest molested him when he was a child. Apparently everything and everyone is to blame, except himself, of course. Soon after the public started to get more of an idea of what Foley’s email and IM’s (instant messages) contained the more red faced the Republican Congressional leadership became. And with only about a month until the mid-term elections where the Republican majority fears losing control of Congress, the rationalizing and scapegoating quickly went into overdrive. The onslaught of demagoguery came, not only from the Republican House members but also from the right-wing media and talk show pundits. Initially there had been a push by Republicans to dismiss the whole thing as being no big deal, trying to spin the story and play damage control the seriousness of the whole scandal was played down, referring to the emails and IM’s as “over-friendly” over and over again. But for once their constant repetition wasn’t working in their favor and people weren’t buying their assertions and wanted answers. So Republicans responded by attacking anyone and everyone that could help to take the focus off of their own party. Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report started by attacking the underage male pages, referring to them as “beasts” and accusing them of “egging the Congressman on” and that “these kids were playing Foley for all he was worth.” Michael Savage echoed Drudge’s attacks referring to one of the pages as a “sleaze ball” who “gay baited” Foley. Savage said the page, “went to Washington to get ahead. So he's a greedy, aggressive child" who "knew how to play a congressman who was gay,” adding, "I don't know whether the boy exists. Maybe he's a Democrat." So the first line of defense of the right-wing is to blame the victims, (what an original idea) and to claim partisan politics, “the boy must be a democrat.” It’s such a despicable strategy to blame the victim, an underage boy for being subjected to the advances of a member of Congress who is in his fifties. This is the lowest form of character assassination; to stoop so low as to blame the victim is truly disgraceful. It’s never acceptable to blame the victim, this is the same type of appalling accusations that would blame a rape victim for the way she was dressed. It’s inexcusable and shouldn’t have even been suggested, although considering the sources it’s hardly surprising. Moving on to the other suggestion that “the boy must be a Democrat” this is part of the larger push that this is a partisan plan by the Democrats to discredit Foley and the Republican leadership and take control of Congress. Obviously the Democrats will jump on anything that will help them in the mid-term elections but does that excuse Foley from his responsibility? Does it excuse the Republican leadership that covered up Foley’s behavior (possibly for over a decade)? Republicans have claimed, without any sort of proof, that Democrats orchestrated the Foley scandal. Rush Limbaugh charged, "these emails were planted by a liberal" as part of a "planned, orchestrated release" by the Democrats and the media to discredit Republicans. "What I'm suggesting here is that a lot of people knew of Foley's proclivities and arranged to amass evidence of it for" political reasons, Limbaugh also claimed. "How do you get a kid to do this?" Limbaugh asked. "You threaten 'em or you pay 'em." Sean Hannity demanded, "I want to know why these instant messages were held back until now. Who knew about them? Why did they hold them back? Did they do it for political reasons? In other words, were they held back to maximize the political impact before an election?" Hannity also railed, “There's a lot of selective moral outrage. We see a lot of things unfolding just before an election. You see that this is just pure politics. Is there any principle left?” Indeed. When Clinton was in office there was no higher priority for the Republicans that Clinton be impeached for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, an affair that was, unlike the Foley scandal, between two consenting adults. This is an important difference that I bring up because I keep hearing about how the Democrats didn’t care when Clinton did the same thing. Believe me, I don’t like Clinton but there is a big difference here. Clinton had an affair, which many people do, and while I’m not justifying that, it’s still a far cry from a middle-aged man preying on an underage kid. How can they try to defend this or compare it to two consenting adults? They can’t, which they quickly learned so they had to try their next ploy to control the political fallout. The next really interesting maneuvering that happened is that the Republicans tried to assert that Foley couldn’t possibly be a “real Republican” and insisted that he is really a “closet Democrat.” I’ve seen this talking point repeated many times now. Charging that Foley is a “closet-Democrat” because he doesn’t embody the “high moral principles” of the conservative movement, so where does that leave him? Well, he must be a “closet-Democrat” then, I mean come on, he’s gay. Fox News takes the cake here though as when reporting on the scandal Fox News actually changed the party affiliation of Foley, presenting him on the screen as Rep. Mark Foley (D-Fla), the D being for Democrat. So Fox actually went so far as to present Foley as a Democrat when reporting the damaging scandal in an effort to curb the fallout for Republicans. I’ve seen quite a few Republicans repeating the charge that Foley isn’t a real Republican. I’ve seen Pat Buchanan repeatedly refer to Foley as “this flamer”, and others like Ann Coulter have chimed in with their usual disgusting commentary as well. Coulter spewed that, “the sudden emergence of the Swift Butt Veterans for Truth demonstrates that the Democrats would prefer to talk about anything other than national security.” Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council (FRC), claimed that, while "there's no defense of this behavior ... it shouldn't be totally surprising when we hold up tolerance and diversity as the guidepost for public life. This is what you end up getting: a congressman chasing 16-year-old boys down the halls of Congress." Can you see where this is going? Not only is the right-wing arguing that Foley couldn’t possibly be a “real Republican” but they seem to be sinking back into their usual time-tested standard of gay-bashing. Oh but wait former House Speaker Newt Gingrich claimed that if the House GOP leadership had "overly aggressively reacted to the initial round, they would also have been accused of gay bashing." Tony Perkins again chimed in, “I think there may have been some fear that they had, in pressing it forward, out of fear of being seen as gay-bashing or homophobic because of the orientation of Congressman Foley.” So now the Republicans are actually claiming to not want to be seen as homophobic or gay-bashing. Since when? The Republican has built its platform on gay-bashing for the last 6 years. Bush got re-elected (if you believe the election was legitimate) on gay-bashing. The Republicans exploited the issue of same-sex marriage and screamed about how there had to be a ban on it to protect “family values” in this country to rally their bigoted voting base. And now they want us to believe that they are worried about being seen as homophobic, and that is the reason they’re claiming why they didn’t act sooner. The Republicans have worked very hard to shift the focus from this scandal, to hide the fact that we’re talking about a child predator, they have been gay-bashing with all of their efforts to focus on the fact that he’s gay and not a child predator. And of course he must be part of some huge underground gay network, a shadow group that secretly controls the government (aside from securing themselves equal rights that is). Some are now speculating that Foley was part of a “velvet mafia” or “gay mafia” that attempted to protect Foley from exposure. Time magazine reporter, Karen Tumulty reported that according to "a whisper campaign that has been launched in Washington," former Foley chief of staff Kirk Fordham may have been one of the "gay staff members" belonging to "a 'velvet mafia' at the upper levels of G.O.P. leadership" that sought to protect Foley. And Republicans have gone so far as to charge that gay men are more likely to sexually abuse children than straight men are. This is an outright lie. In fact a 1995 study released by the American Psychological Association found that "gay men are no more likely than heterosexual men to perpetrate child sexual abuse." This whole scandal has been so revolting, not only because of the child predator that was chair the House's Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, which Foley was. Oh did I forget to mention that? That alone is enough to send chills down your spine, to think that this guy was probably getting off of listening to the testimony of child victims that had been preyed upon by people like himself. But the other sickening aspect of this whole scandal is how far the Republicans have gone to initially protect a child predator that they seemed to know all about. Then once the whole sorted affair was exposed they went into attack mode, blasting the victims, the media, Democrats, homosexuals and massive conspiracies, all in a miserable effort to take the heat off of themselves, which is where it belongs. Thankfully people haven’t bought it and hopefully we’ve only seen the beginning of the political fallout over this scandal. Hopefully we see some Republicans going down, no pun intended.
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Synchronized Chaos March 2009: Rediscovering the Familiar
March’s issue of Synchronized Chaos invites reflection and a new sense of awareness of the potential of ‘ordinary’ objects and experiences.
Upcoming author Marty Castleberg journeys through faraway South American capitals, back streets and the rainforest…only to find himself constantly pursued by and reminded of the same issues which plagued his life back home as a Wisconsin farm boy turned corporate organizational consultant. The memoir shares how he learns to accept and make the most of his unique personality, learning style, skills, and challenges, as personified by his ever-present friend and sparring partner, Dave. The extraordinary brings Marty back to the ordinary, back to puzzling through his regular life.
In the same way, Lauren Groff’s short story collection Delicate Edible Birds probes the basic themes of family and love through her unusual characters (Olympic swimmers, writers enduring amnesia, ornithologists) and eclectic settings (a barn in wartime London, small-town upstate New York, a French cruise liner.) Ordinary people and relationships are just as fragile and precious as the exotic specimens in her tales and require as much dedication as the swimming, writing, and baton twirling in which her characters engage.
Sharon Woodward Jacobson also presents themes of love, faith, and family – in a piece which incorporates, but refuses to become defined by, her cerebral palsy. As the cartoon at the end of her prose and poetry points out, Jacobson is fundamentally a mother and human being with thoughts and desires not too different from others. The rhythm of her words and her manner of speaking highlights the determination which enabled her to succeed and intentionally refocuses readers on very basic ideas concerning what is important in life.
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, photographer and painter Sean O’Cairde has added an Irish lighthouse to his assortment of California scenic vistas. He documents the journey he takes with his brother to visit each place, and we learn not just the textbook history of the monuments, but the local color and culture through clever, sometimes humorous vignettes from O’Cairde’s journeys. His ordinary life becomes part of the artwork which makes his lighthouse photography unique.
Giorgio Borroni takes the comic books he enjoyed as a boy, as well as his own imaginings concerning futuristic technology, and develops them into original mixed media pieces exploring our fascination with and fear of what we can create. His work showcases and reinterprets a sensibility which we have become familiar over the years through the artistic media of video games, sci fi books and movies, etc to look into (among other themes) how we can simultaneously love and lament our increasingly technological world. That aspect of Borroni’s work reminds me of the professor Phaedrus’ work to reconcile the romantic and engineering-minded scientific ways of thought in Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (one of my longtime personal favorite books.)
Finally, Kelsi Dick’s painted quill pen art takes an object which used to be quite familiar in homes and offices just a few hundred years ago and re-interprets it as a chance to create something unique and beautiful. She explains in our interview that she prefers to work with supposedly ordinary objects in a craft sense rather than create abstract art specifically to help weaken the distinction between the practical and the artistic. Simply because something must be useful does not preclude a creator from making it lovely or interesting through thoughtful craftspersonship.
This latest issue takes us far away and then brings us back home. Replants us on solid ground and refocuses us on fundamentally important issues. We invite you to make the journey with our contributors, to read and re-examine what matters in one’s own life.
Thank you very much for granting us the time and space to share our thoughts and passions with you, and we hope to inspire a renewed creative focus.
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Bogusław Ziętek
Title: Bogusław Ziętek
Subject: List of political parties in Poland, Polish Labour Party (Sierpień 80)
Chariman of Polish Labour Party
Assumed office
Acting since 1 May 2013
Daniel Podrzycki
(1964-10-09)October 9, 1964
Zawiercie, Poland
Polish Labour Party
Bogusław Zbigniew Ziętek (born October 9, 1964 in Zawiercie) - Polish trade union activist. Co-founder and leader of Free Trade Union "August 80" (Wolny Związek Zawodowy "Sierpień 80"). From October 30, 2005 to May 1,2013 he was leader of Polish Labour Party. From May 1, 2013 he is acting leader of Polish Labour Party. He is also candidate of this party in the 2010 Polish presidential election. He has a medium technical education.
Participation in elections
He was candidate for Sejm three times. First time in 2001 (as member of Alternatywa Ruch Społeczny), in the Gliwice electoral district he got 379 votes. In 2005 (as member of the Polish Labour Party) he got 1199 in the Sosnowiec electoral district. In 2007, again for PLP and in the same district, he got 2233 votes.
In the 2004 European Parliament election of Poland, as candidate of PLP in the Silesian constituency he got 442 votes. In 2009, he tried the same in the same constituency and again for PLP and got 3666 votes.
On April 25, 2010 he registered his own committee for the presidential election. On May 7 National Electoral Commission registered him as candidate for the office of President of Poland.[1] In the election he got only 0.18% of votes and didn't get into the second round.
Ziętek supports: taxation of clergy, abolition of immunity for the MPs, liquidation of the Senate, legalization of civil unions, liquidation of Institute of National Remembrance and Central Anticorruption Bureau.[2]
Website of Ziętek's Electoral Committee
Ziętek's page on National Electoral Commission's website
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Name Zietek, Boguslaw
Short description Polish politician
Date of birth October 9, 1964
Place of birth Zawiercie, Poland
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How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)
How Deep Is Your Love Song
The video ends with Gigi walking out of the party room. Discography Awards and nominations. Selle, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Sveriges Officiella Topplista in Swedish.
He wanted a single out for the summer because it had been so long since it had happened. British Phonographic Industry.
You know the door to my very soul You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour You're my savior when I fall And you may not think, I care for you. When you know down inside that I really do And it's me you need to show How deep is your love How deep is your love, bush glycerine how deep is your love.
Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Recording Industry Association of America. Scroll through the page-list below until year to obtain certification. She initially looks shocked but then smirks. Then I'd play another thing - sometimes, I'd be following the melody line that he already had and sometimes I'd most probably lead him somewhere else by doing what I did.
Bee Gees singles discography. The judge ruled in favour of the Bee Gees. Even most of the backing vocals were done by Barry, such that Robin and Maurice are barely heard in the mix, even though they are there. GfK Entertainment in German.
It features uncredited vocals by Norwegian singer and songwriter Ina Wroldsen. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
At trial, the jury returned a finding for Selle. It was the sound of the piano that makes the feel of that song. The Bee Gees attorney immediately asked for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. What does this song mean to you? Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
She then is transported to a pool where she dives into and walks out and takes off her clothes and hops in a shower and moves into another party room. Deconstruction Fly Eye Columbia. Gigi then finds herself on a sea boat with water bikers.
The chords and everything stayed the same, the only thing that changes from that demo is that when we got to Criteria, I worked out the electric piano part which became the basis of the song. Despite this, Robin sings the melody for the chorus and audibly sings various ad libs during this song. Two music videos were made for this song. The All-Time Greatest Hits. Selle appealed the ruling, but it was upheld by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals which agreed that Selle had not proven his case.
If his next album sounds this fresh, the love will go pretty deep, actually. And you come to me on a summer breeze Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave And it's me you need to show How deep is your love. Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave And it's me you need to show How deep is your love How deep is your love, how deep is your love.
Next, she is shown with motorcycles swarming around her. Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart. Then I woke up the next morning and listened to that, and then put some strings on it and that was it. There was a lot of things from his personality.
Entertainment Monitoring Africa. On the Greek Side of My Mind a. In this video Barry Gibb is bearded.
It was a number three hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. Albhy played piano on the demo, I'd drunk too much or gone to bed or something. Melody Saturday Night Fever.
Australian Recording Industry Association. See the Photos and Get Details on the Shoot! Guinness World Records Limited. Select single in the field Format.
Her fingers slip through the rope and he falls backwards into the reservoir, still tied to the chair. Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
Selle, Plaintiff-appellant, v. It was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. The music video saw the four members of the band tied to chairs and in a basement. In one, the brothers are singing while an image of a woman shows throughout the video. Please click here if you are not redirected within a few seconds.
Even Selle had admitted that he'd sent out his demo tape to only a few recording companies, none of whom did business with the Bee Gees. Select singles in the Format field.
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The Simpsons Road Rage (Dec. 2001)
NFL Quarterback Club 2002 (Dec. 2001)
NBA Courtside 2002 (Jan. 14, 2002)
ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (Jan. 29, 2002)
Smashing Drive (Jan. 2002)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Feb. 11, 2002)
Pac-Man World 2 (Feb. 2002)
Legends of Wrestling (Feb. 2002)
18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker (Feb. 2002)
Jeremy McGrath Supercross World (Feb. 2002)
Disney's Donald Duck: "Goin' Quackers" (March 1, 2002)
Evolution Worlds (March 1, 2002)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (March 1, 2002)
Star Fox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet (March 25, 2002)
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002 (March 26, 2002)
Rayman Arena (March 26, 2002)
Batman: Dark Tomorrow (March 2002)
NBA Street (March 2002)
Galleon: Islands of Mystery (March 2002)
Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (March 2002)
NFL Blitz 2002 (March 31, 2002)
SpyHunter (March 31, 2002)
Robotech: The Macross Saga (April 1, 2002)
007: Agent Under Fire (May 1, 2002)
Spider-Man: The Movie (May 1, 2002)
NBA 2K2 (Spring 2002)
MLB Slugfest 2003 (June 30, 2002)
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy (June 30, 2002)
Red Card Soccer (June 30, 2002)
Gravity Games BMX (June 30, 2002)
Mario Sunshine (Q2 2002)
Turok Evolution (Aug. 2002)
Die Hard (Q3 2002)
Mortal Kombat 5 (Sept. 30, 2002)
NHL Hitz 2003 (Sept. 30, 2002)
Robotech (Oct. 1, 2002)
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FIFA Soccer 2002 (Nov. 24, 2002)
Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (Dec. 17, 2002)
NHL 2K3 (Dec. 31, 2002)
Defender (Dec. 31, 2002)
Freaky Flyers (Dec. 31, 2002)
NBA Ballers (Dec. 31, 2002)
Dr. Muto (Dec. 31, 2002)
BloodRayne (Q4 2002)
Phantasy Star Online (TBA 2002)
NCAA College Basketball 2K3 (TBA 2002)
Scooby-Doo (TBA 2002)
Tetris Worlds (TBA 2002)
The Powerpuff Girls (TBA 2002)
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WWF Wrestlemania (TBA 2002)
SpongerBob SquarePants (TBA 2002)
MX 2003 featuring Ricky Carmichael (TBA 2002)
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Rally Simulation (TBA 2002)
Doshin the Giant (TBA 2002)
Monsters, Inc. (TBA 2002)
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World Series Baseball 2K3 (TBA 2002)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (TBA 2002)
NCAA College Football 2K3 (TBA 2002)
Kameo: Elements of Power (TBA 2002)
Resident Evil (TBA 2002)
Metroid Prime (TBA 2002)
Resident Evil 2 (TBA 2002)
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (TBA 2002)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica (TBA 2002)
Dark Summit (TBA 2002)
Skies of Arcadia (TBA 2002)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (TBA 2002)
Ridge Racer (TBA 2002)
Hot Wheels (TBA 2002)
Donkey Kong Racing (TBA 2002)
Aquaman (TBA 2002)
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All-Star Baseball 2003 (TBA 2002)
Title Defense (TBA 2002)
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (TBA 2002)
Saffier (TBA 2002)
Virtua Striker 3 ver. 2002 (TBA 2002)
Duke Nukem Forever (TBA 2002)
Camelot RPG (TBA 2002)
Harry Potter (TBA 2002)
Knockout Kings 2002 (TBA 2002)
The Matrix (TBA 2002)
Dinotopia (July 1, 2003)
The Fantastic Four (TBA 2003)
Iron Man (TBA 2003)
100 Mario's (TBA)
Banjo-Kazooie 3 (TBA)
Animal Forest (TBA)
Pokémon (TBA)
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An amazing artist (and friend of mine) invited my husband and I to Aruba to hang out while she shot her music video. She shot the majority of the video before we got there, and shot a scene or two after we had arrived. I had never been to Aruba, and I was really impressed. While she set up for the shots in the cave, we did some sightseeing. It looked like scenes from a National Geographic special! There are a lot of untouched, beautiful spots in Aruba! The water is crystal clear in most spots. It was during Carnival time, so we went to the lightening parade, which was amazing. If you are from Aruba or have visited, see if you can recognize the different places that she shot the video in... http://www.youtube.com/v/WpsHTdPTUGQ
Where should you stay in Aruba? There are so many wonderful hotels, but I can only speak for where we stayed. We were at the Holiday Inn Resort Aruba - Beach Resort and Casino. The beach and the water were outstanding. We selected an all inclusive package, so we didn't have to budget for anything. We rented a car and did some sightseeing. Someone tapped it in a parking lot, and we had to file a police report. That was an interesting experience to say the least.
Three things I found out that on that trip that you need to know:
Most people speak English, but many people also speak papiamento which began in the 1500s to enable African slaves to communicate with their owners who had fled the Spanish Inquisition according to VisitAruba.com.
Police reports are in Dutch. Someone hit our rental car and ran, so we had to make a police report. That was pretty frustrating. If insurance is available on your rental, get it.
The lightening parade is amazing. Find out more about it here: Aruba's Lightening Parade
See anything you recognize in the video? Tell us in the comments!
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4582 Rent and Royalty Guidelines 12/1/2005
4583 Resolution by the VMRC Citizen Board Interpreting Code § 28.2-1203 a 5 (iv) and Delegating Authority to make the Determination Called for by Code § 28.2-1203 a 5 (iv). 12/6/2011
4584 Coastal Primary Sand Dune/Beaches Guidelines 10/1/1990
4585 Guidelines for Establishment, Use and Operation of Tidal Wetland Mitigation Banks 12/6/2011
4586 Subaqueous Guidelines 10/1/2005
4587 Wetlands Guidelines 12/1/1982
4588 Guidelines on Repeat Offenders - Appedix A 8/22/2017
REVOCATION ORDERS GUIDELINES ON THE SCOPE OF LICENSE AND PRIVILEGE REVOCATION ORDERS ISSUED UNDER VIRGINIA CODE § 28.2-232 7/27/2016
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Trumbull Youth Lacrosse
Playing Time Policy
It is the objective of TYL to provide all players with the opportunity to have fun playing and learning the game of lacrosse, ensure that they feel they are contributing members of the their teams, improve as lacrosse players, and field teams that can compete within our league. Sometimes this is a difficult balance to maintain, so if you have any concerns, please feel free to contact a member of the TYL organization. The following is the official TYL policy on playing time.
Practice and attitude matter. Players who make being a part of their team a priority by attending practices, working hard, trying their best, and showing respect for coaches, officials, opponents, and teammates will all get ample playing time.
House League Teams:
All players will play in all games.
Amount of Playing Time: Equal playing time for all players is the objective of all house league games. Players that do not play on a travel team may be given more time than players that also play on a travel team.
Travel League Teams:
For teams that play in a “travel” league, the level of competition is higher. As such, there is generally a correlation between ability and playing time. Game circumstances may impact playing time. Each game is unique, and it is up to the coaches to assess the dynamics of a game and determine the correct personnel for each situation.
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Transformative Events
I was really struck by the ingenuity of the section of Gormenghast when the castle floods - it's a great way to take a familiar landscape and completely transform its appearance and the way the characters interact with it while still retaining the essence of the setting. So without further ado, here's a list of transformative events in Strigastadt:
1: Deadly Winters
Like an exaggerated version of living in Minneapolis, the winters heap such an incredible amount of snow in the streets and on the roofs that both become infeasible methods of travel. When the first snows fall folks will erect sturdy wooden hyphens between the isolated structures that are not connected by covered tunnels of masonry, side-routes through other structures, or by upper levels of the ancient tunnels that lie beneath the streets.
Travel via the winding and indirect interior byways is much slower and at times buildings that face each-other across broad avenues will have such a roundabout path between that crossing takes the better part of a day. Markets migrate below ground or within cavernous structures, old hall-roads are cleared of a year's debris and occupants in the course of being pressed back into service, and collapsed tunnels/hyphens can spell the death by starvation of stranded unfortunates.
2: Monsoon Season
The heavy rains of the monsoon season make travel unpleasant in the streets, but their main effect is on the roofways above. Slanted slate roofs become treacherous to navigate and the rimmed roofs swell with crystal-clear lakes that hinder passage. Well-trodden routes are served by rusting walkways and recessed paths, but adventurers striking forth into less frequented areas can find their escape routes suddenly cut off by a torrential downpour, or be unable to find safe access to blocks not connected by ground-level paths.
3: The Great Floods
The average person only experiences a couple Great Floods in their lifetimes - catastrophic events that would spell the end of any other city. Blessed with mighty foundations, wide-reaching roofways, and emergency caches of old canoes secreted in otherwise inexplicable upper-story boat houses, life in Strigastadt can continue on after a fashion even in the face of such a disaster. The waters rise to the height of several stories and remain that way for months, turning the city into a veritable Venice as boats flit in and out expansive windows into newly formed coves and flooded ballrooms serving as docks.
Whether the strange floods have anything to do with the terrible creatures from the aqueous subterranean depths that migrate to the darkened flooded stories is the subject of much fierce debate. As much concern is given over to fortifying upper stories for those long nights as for the relocation of food and treasured possessions.
4: The Sacred Fortnight
Once a year there is a holiday centered around a mass-migration to the streets and open courts, accompanied by a series of ceremonies and culminating in a great feast. Long tables stretch along the centers of certain roads, with the revellers cooking and eating along the East edge of the tables, the West edge symbolically left open for the spirits. Tradition states that there was a time when ancestral spirits would actually seat themselves at the table with their living relatives, but this is no longer the case. Regardless, at the end of the feast the spirits return to their slumber, leaving the land of the living for another year. Until that time the interior of every structure is filled with the babbling, murmuring, and shrieking of a bewildering gathering of the spirits of past occupants. Stepping foot inside before the end of the feast is a death-wish.
5: Deep Purple Smog
6: The Yellow Miasma
Like the Deep Purple Smog, the Yellow Miasma makes erratic life-threatening appearances that disrupt the lives of Strigastadt's residents. The Yellow Miasma spreads to encompass up to a borough or more of Strigastadt at a time, forcing residents indoors to avoid its flesh-dissolving touch. The mists smell and taste like battery acid, lingering on clothing for days after exposure. The front edge of a spreading Yellow Miasma is transparent and only identifiable by its scent. As the density increases, a slight yellowing of the air occurs, and eyes water, people convulsively cough, and their skin starts to burn. Injuries sustained at this stage take a couple weeks to heal, during which blisters form and the subject has difficulty drawing breath. At the point that the mist is opaquely yellow, injuries are universally lethal.
Higher class residences are equipped with air-tight shutters and doors to stave off the mists, but the lower classes are usually forced to evacuate to upper stories until the mists subside. Residents are expected to freely allow access to their upper-story levels in such events, with barring passage deemed a grievous and prosecutable crime.
The source of the Yellow Miasma is unknown, but some theories posit an anthropogenic origin, either as a means to repel invaders unfamiliar with the irregular and lethal events, or perhaps to control populations of other vermin. If the latter purpose is indeed the case, it is a dismal failure as all creatures that dwell within Strigastadt's wall have learned the distinctive odor that heralds its arrival and instinctively seek shelter at its coming, lest they be reduced to clean little piles of bones.
Many others believe the Yellow Miasma to be some sort of godling, a dispassionate sibling to the Deep Purple Smog. Ancient cults worship the anthropomorphic representations of the twin mists, the sisters Eth and Yond. It is said that their most devoted adherents have learned of magics to help them navigate the mists unharmed, although this is unverified.
Essentially the Hissing Miasma of MtG
Spirit Generator
Lost control during a risky seance? Found a room of Strigastadt not as empty as it appeared? Here is a generator for the spirits so encountered.
of rank (up to 4) and in number.
Note: determining what will appease a spirit is a task most easily accomplished by mediums or those otherwise connected to the realm of the dead. Even then it is a taxing and risky business.
Labels: bestiary, generator, Strigastadt
Shaggamaws
Feverlings derive a large part of their subsistence from residues of the chaotic energies which gave them form, whether absorbed directly from errant currents or scoured with rough tongues from the bottom of abandoned flasks and cauldrons. A perhaps more expedient method of gathering these vital energies would be to move a step up the food-chain, from gathering to preying upon those that do. On occasion this idea will occur to a feverling and lead them to acts of cannibalism.
Feverlings who feast on others of their kind grow rapidly and out of all proportion to their kin, often ceasing to be recognizable as being of the same brood or even species. If the offending member is not slain, either out of collusion or cunning on its own part, the creature will grow into a dangerous being known as a shaggamaw (stats as ogre + a 1d8 bite option), its maw widening terribly as its bulk increases. Small bands of such creatures can form for mutual protection and to aid in predation, and on rare occasion a brood will intentionally allow the formation of one or more within their own ranks, using members of rival groups to fuel the transformation.
Another Jody Siegel piece - shaggamaw
Labels: bestiary
Feverlings
Sorcery is an imposition of the imagination onto reality. When the imagination is warped by mind-altering states, those with sorcerous gifts are particularly dangerous and unpredictable. Feverlings are occasional by-products of failed invocations and the accidental probings of the unconscious while the sorcerer is suffering from fever. They are physical manifestations of fever-dreams, creations of chaotic energy.
Painting by Jody Siegel of one of his Shrikes
Also known as "Sorcerers' Children", feverlings are compelled to serve the being from whose mind they have sprung. Some sorcerers will deliberately ingest substances to induce a fever-state and call into being these servants, but this process is dangerous and easily results in a more calamitous failure. Feral broods of feverlings are frequent hazards when exploring realms once inhabited by sorcerers.
Feverlings mature from their awkward larval form within a year, becoming lesser feverlings (stats of a goblin) and after anywhere from five years to a decade they become tougher and smarter elder feverlings (stats of an orc). They will have scavenged proper arms and armor by that point, but lesser feverlings are often stuck with slimmer pickings, such as damaged weapons or re-purposed farm implements.
A sorcerer's brood will have major characteristics in common, but each clutch has its own variations in form. Optionally, each individual has certain features setting them apart, but in practicality it will often not be worth recording on the individual level, so you could just apply those features to the clutch instead.
with clutches and feverlings in each clutch.
Tables in case you'd rather roll your own:
Labels: bestiary, generator
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